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Speaker 1: Everybody. Chris Hary with you on the Chargers Training Camp Podcast. Today,

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by tight end Hunter Henry. Henry and I

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Speaker 1: discuss his upcoming second season in the NFL, playing with

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, and his family's football legacy at the University

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Speaker 1: of Arkansas. This guy's class personified. I really enjoyed the conversation.

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Speaker 1: So without further ado, here's Hunter Henry. Hunter. Henry joins

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Speaker 1: me on the Chargers Training Camp Podcast. Hunter. How you doing, Bud?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. How are you? I'm good? Unofficial end

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Speaker 1: of training camp today, last public practice and it was

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Speaker 1: your second training camp in the NFL and this one

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Speaker 1: in a new city. How has the transition been for

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Speaker 1: you from last year to this year? It wasn't bad

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Speaker 1: at all. It was pretty cool. Um. There was a

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Speaker 1: was kind of crazy for all of us to just

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Speaker 1: to get used to because it's just just something new

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Speaker 1: and something fresh, and you know, I can't even imagine

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Speaker 1: for the guys that have been here a long a

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Speaker 1: long time. So um, it was easy for a guy

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Speaker 1: like me that's this is only my second one. So

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Speaker 1: it was nice to be up here. It's it was

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Speaker 1: good to kind of, you know, get a feel for

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Speaker 1: excited to be here. Have you been to the whole

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Speaker 1: performance center yet? This will be the first time for

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Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, I haven't even been. I'm driven by

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Speaker 1: later in the week, right, you guys all get there

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Speaker 1: under one roof? H Yeah, we'll get there, um, I

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Speaker 1: check it out, have our meetings and everything over there

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Speaker 1: finally and uh, kind of getting Darrel locker room and

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Speaker 1: see how it's going to be. I spoke to Philip

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Speaker 1: his brothers and his dad back home about you and

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Speaker 1: how awesome you are. And I guess for him, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's one of the best to ever do it.

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Speaker 1: So it's cool to I mean, it's it's really special

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Speaker 1: he's special to be around. He's fun to be around

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Speaker 1: as a person, and he's an amazing, amazing quarterback and

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Speaker 1: he's incredibly smart. So he does he does a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that people don't really let people take for granted.

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Speaker 1: But he's he's really really good hunter. What specific way

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Speaker 1: way that, for instance, a younger quarterback or rookie quarterback

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Speaker 1: Minnesota in February, right, But but for you personally, what

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Speaker 1: to be ready once September eleventh comes. You had a

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Speaker 1: great year last year, man, eight touchdowns and really limited snaps.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you get this all the time, man,

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Speaker 1: these these fantasy football heads, there's probably starting to talk

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