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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Tory McLay, Tarren Walk and Scottie Miller here for the

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Speaker 1: Now, before we get into the nitty gritty of this

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Speaker 1: entire interview, it's gonna be fun. Tarry and I have

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Speaker 2: dot com slash Falcons. Okay, Scottie, well this is did

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Speaker 2: you breathe in that?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so?

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go, Scottie, I, Tarin and I were

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Speaker 2: talking and we're trying to figure out ways to make

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Speaker 2: this intro a little bit more fun than what it

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Speaker 2: normally is.

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Speaker 1: Normally, we just hop right in really start with some

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Speaker 1: hard hitting questions.

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Speaker 2: But today we're actually gonna start out with something a

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Speaker 2: little different with you. It's a new game we're calling

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Speaker 2: explain yourself. And basically, we have compiled five stories about

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Speaker 2: you that we need to know the backstories of, and

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Speaker 2: we also need to know, like I don't know just

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Speaker 2: what about these things you enjoy or the truth in

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Speaker 2: some of these stories.

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Speaker 1: So we have we're a wide selection of stories. So

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Speaker 1: are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Okay, She's like, I don't want to just to put

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Speaker 2: you a little bit at ease, tarn Tell Scotty and

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Speaker 2: also the viewers, the listeners kind of where some of

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Speaker 2: these fun facts came from.

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Speaker 3: We've talked about this before.

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Speaker 4: Being from the same area in Illinois. So it's a

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Speaker 4: small world because my neighbor in Carrie, Illinois was Scotty's

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Speaker 4: high school football coach, or at least one of them,

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Speaker 4: Dan Young at Barrington High School. So I didn't go

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Speaker 4: to Barrington. I went to Carry Grove, but you went

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Speaker 4: to Barrington. And so being able to make those ties

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Speaker 4: and connect over to these small suburbs of Illinois, it

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Speaker 4: was really funny. Lifeguarded at your public pool Barrington Park District, like.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't me.

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Speaker 4: Like stressed me out out there, And so I was

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Speaker 4: able to text his daughter Lindsay who sold you your

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Speaker 4: first house too? Here in La so really small one,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, we're doing a podcast today with Scotty,

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Speaker 4: what are some things I should know?

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Speaker 3: Like do you know anything? Ask your dad? There we go.

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Speaker 2: So the first one I actually did know this about

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Speaker 2: you because we did this whole video series over the

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Speaker 2: summer with a couple of you players, and it was

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Speaker 2: a ping pong tournament. And for years, I will say

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Speaker 2: for years, Yung Waiku has been the king of ping pong.

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Speaker 2: They have a ping pong table down in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: It's always Young Way on top. However, you actually gave

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Speaker 2: the question is, we know you're good at ping pong,

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Speaker 2: but what's the origin story of how you got into

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Speaker 2: ping pong and kind of what tips and tricks you have?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well this, yeah, this story is definitely true. Ping

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Speaker 5: Pong's probably my best sport. Football is maybe two or

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Speaker 5: three under that. But I grew up with the ping

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Speaker 5: pong table in my basement, so really I would go

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Speaker 5: he would never let me win, no matter how young

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Speaker 5: I was. He always beat up on me. But then

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Speaker 5: I always maybe want to come back and get better.

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Speaker 5: Just we kept playing all night, all night, and then finally,

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Speaker 5: when I was maybe ten, eleven, twelve years old, I

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Speaker 5: beat him. Wow, And I haven't looked back since. And

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Speaker 5: then I just when I got to college, I got

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Speaker 3: Dedication to the pond.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, Yeah, Yeah, worked very hard at my ping

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Speaker 1: Who's the toughest competitor that you faced.

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Speaker 5: In the old pungh Coup is probably the best dude

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but we playing a lot in the locker room

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Speaker 5: a bunch. He's unbelievable. We go back and forth. But

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Speaker 2: Who's someone on this team who thinks they're really good

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Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, you're gonna be challenged by whoever you

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, there's a couple of those. We call it

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Speaker 5: the junior varsity. The spokesperson for the junior versity maybe

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Speaker 5: Jesse Bates. Okay, you know he's one that probably thinks

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Speaker 5: he's on varsity. But you know sometimes when you me

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Speaker 5: or cool playing, we'll let it, keep him close and

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Speaker 5: then beat him at the end. Avery Williams another one,

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Speaker 5: Kyle Pitts. You know that whole lump of guys is

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Speaker 6: Junior vsy did you ever beat your dad? Did you

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Speaker 5: I did? I did, Yeah when I was yeah, early teens.

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Speaker 5: Maybe beat him. Haven't looked back since. I don't know

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Speaker 5: if he now when I play him, he doesn't stand

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's the first one. Second one, Terry, you this

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Speaker 3: The one one?

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Speaker 1: No, the one that you really fought to keep it

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Speaker 4: I wanted to keep this one in here because your

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Speaker 3: With sixty five Harrington.

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Speaker 4: It was online, and in it she said, if you

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Speaker 4: wouldn't want to be a professional football player, you wanted

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Speaker 4: to be a night at medieval.

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Speaker 2: Times like going back in time, are we talking about

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Speaker 2: the one off around for me, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Right off the highways and big castle.

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Speaker 1: Wait what, there's a public castle.

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Speaker 2: I thought you meant like going back in time, and like.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 4: No, that's why it's so amazing because everywhere grown apparently not.

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Speaker 6: I never went, but I always wanted to go.

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Speaker 5: Wait, you found that's that's crazy. That is true. I

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Speaker 5: medieval time. It's like you watch people they like joaous,

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Speaker 5: It's like bigger than a restaurant. It's like a whole

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Speaker 3: The floor like on pillow.

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Speaker 6: So it's like you eat like you're in the medieval times.

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Speaker 5: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 6: You were not reacting earlier when I said this and

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Speaker 3: Well that's what she was like, a big deal.

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Speaker 5: No, she told me.

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Speaker 2: She was like, oh, this is really funny. We should

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Speaker 2: definitely ask about this. And I'm like, wow, it's just

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Speaker 2: a kid like wanting to be a night. I was like,

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he has sisters, like maybe his sister.

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Speaker 5: Football didn't work out it maybe run out my horse.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing.

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Speaker 5: It's like in Shrek and I think the first strike

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Speaker 5: they go to he goes to Lord Farquad's low Castle

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Speaker 6: It's Strek, but in real life it is Strek but

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Speaker 1: I was not expecting that.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad that we kept that because that was not

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Speaker 1: So, yes, if a ball doesn't work out, you know

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Speaker 1: where it finds, Scott.

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Speaker 3: Still go work at medieval times.

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Speaker 5: I'm disappointed I get to stay down here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, honestly, Well, this sounds like something that

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Speaker 1: This sounds like something that's on that strip there.

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Speaker 4: So I'm also all surprised if it was only off

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Speaker 3: It's hidden in the woods too.

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Speaker 2: If anyone listening has ever been to medieval times, let

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Speaker 2: us know where and if it's still open, because Scotti.

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Speaker 1: Will make sure and be there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is fun fact number three, since we now

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Speaker 2: This one's actually really interesting and this was one that

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Speaker 2: Tarreen got and you can, yeah that you can say

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Speaker 2: whether or not this is right or wrong, because I'm

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Speaker 2: really curious. So you supposedly ran unattached in a track

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Speaker 5: bout seventy. But no, I wanted. I really wanted to

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Speaker 5: offer I got for football was Bowling Green. They didn't

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the last race I ever ran.

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Speaker 3: You put it all out there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: For people who haven't seen, just like google Scottie Miller

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Speaker 2: and just put like Scotty Miller track because that video

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Speaker 1: It's like the other guy was running backwards. It's really cool.

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Speaker 2: How did you did you run track? Like I guess

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Speaker 2: was it something you just did to kind of stay

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think speed is something like is one thing

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Speaker 5: that's really hard to work for and get better at,

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Speaker 5: something I was just blessed with. And there's things you

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Speaker 5: He's like, you're running track this year? And I ran

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Speaker 1: Where's your Super Bowl ring?

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Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to get too I

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Speaker 2: You don't have to tell us exactly where it's.

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Speaker 5: In a safe place somewhere, you know. I don't want

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, right now, right now, Okay, one day it'll

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Speaker 1: Tell you right yeah, yeah, no, it's all good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my dad is always ever since high school, he's

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Speaker 2: It's such a cool and I you know, you have

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Speaker 3: It's not an original joke.

445
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Speaker 1: I just watched the original job. But so he goes to.

446
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,800
Speaker 2: He goes to Tampa Bay and you know, says we're

447
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 2: gonna win a Super Bowl. And you're a young player

448
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,320
Speaker 2: in the league. What did it mean to you that

449
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,399
Speaker 2: Tom Brady, someone who a lot of us considered to

450
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,520
Speaker 2: be one of the greatest football players of all time,

451
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 2: if not the greatest football player of all time? What

452
00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,680
Speaker 2: did that time mean for you, not just like as

453
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 2: a fan of the game, but also as a student

454
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,360
Speaker 2: of the game to get to work with somebody who

455
00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:47,240
Speaker 2: knows the game so well.

456
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was an unbelievable experience. I mean,

457
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Speaker 5: I remember in that offseason after my rookie year when

458
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,399
Speaker 5: it kind of came out that Tom was coming to

459
00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,399
Speaker 5: Tampa Yeah, and it was I couldn't leave it with

460
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 5: someone I'd watched my whole life growing up, you know,

461
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,040
Speaker 5: every Sunday and the Patriots are on and you get

462
00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,520
Speaker 5: to watch him play, playing all those Super Bowls. And

463
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 5: I remember the first time I met him, just being

464
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,160
Speaker 5: super nervous. We were throwing at Berkeley Prep High School,

465
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 5: this this private high school in Tampa, and it was me,

466
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 5: Chris Godwin Cambray and then Tom getting together with one

467
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,680
Speaker 5: another and just being nervous, but then just kind of

468
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,880
Speaker 5: like the way he was when I first met him,

469
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,960
Speaker 5: just super down to earth, super humble and just wanted

470
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Speaker 5: to get to work, wanted to get out to the

471
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 5: field and start throwing routes. And we threw probably two

472
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,439
Speaker 5: or three times a week that entire offseason. And I

473
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,240
Speaker 5: think that year was COVID maybe or maybe that was

474
00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,040
Speaker 5: the next year, but we just had so much time

475
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 5: together that offseason to get together and run routes and

476
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,680
Speaker 5: kind of build our connection and just great to be

477
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 5: able to learn from a legend like that. If anyone

478
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 5: has the excuse like not work very hard, it would

479
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,919
Speaker 5: be him. For winnings. He's done everything you could possibly

480
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 5: do in the sport. Yeah, but yeah, he continued to

481
00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 5: show up and outwork everybody and just just prepare like

482
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,679
Speaker 5: he wanted to win the Super Bowl every single day?

483
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Speaker 4: Did that surprise you? Just like how humble and like

484
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Speaker 4: under Earth the Moor horse he.

485
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Speaker 5: Was a little bit Yeah, I mean he just don't

486
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,640
Speaker 5: know what to expect for a guy like that. He's

487
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 5: so famous and just done so much in the sport.

488
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 5: So you see, you don't know what to expect. But

489
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,440
Speaker 5: I guess that's what you probably should suspect, because expect

490
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 5: because no one's going to be that successful and you know,

491
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 5: have continued success unless they have that mindset.

492
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Speaker 3: That's true too.

493
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Speaker 2: Do you have any I don't know, was there ever

494
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,959
Speaker 2: any advice that he gave you that you still to

495
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,120
Speaker 2: this day you think back on and you're like you

496
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Speaker 2: live by it or you remember.

497
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Speaker 5: I think it was more so just like nothing he's

498
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 5: like specifically said. I mean there, like there's a lot

499
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 5: of stuff he would talk about, but just like I

500
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,919
Speaker 5: think one thing is doing everything with a purpose, especially

501
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 5: on the football field, Like we're not just going to

502
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,360
Speaker 5: be aired to practice just to practice, like and we're

503
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 5: not just gonna run rouster run routes. Let's do him purposely.

504
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 5: Like if we're going to run a stop route, let's

505
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 5: purposely try to make them believe we're running a go route,

506
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 5: put our head down, run as fast as we can,

507
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 5: then snap down and stuff like that. And when we're

508
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 5: gonna have meetings, we're not just gonna sit there and

509
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,199
Speaker 5: meet for thirty minutes just to meet and just tell everyone, Oh,

510
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 5: we've met for thirty minutes, look at us. We're gonna

511
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:11,959
Speaker 5: do it for a purpose, and we're gonna get better,

512
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 5: We're gonna get some out of it.

513
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel like that probably aligns with your

514
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 2: mindset too, because as we're doing research and for all

515
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 2: of this stuff, and just from talking to you, it's

516
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 2: I feel like looking at your history, you have really

517
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,199
Speaker 2: always had a purpose in the purpose of you was

518
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,879
Speaker 2: like almost believing in yourself when not a lot of

519
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 2: other people did. I think just from looking at your story,

520
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 2: and you know, you you don't get a lot of

521
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 2: playing time, like early in your high school career in

522
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 2: terms of playing football, and then you know, you go

523
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 2: to Bowl and green and then you don't get invited

524
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 2: to the scouting combine and then you know your six

525
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: round pick. But then you go and win a Super

526
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 2: Bowl and it was like every opportunity that you had,

527
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 2: you made the most of it so for you. And

528
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 2: this was a quote that I actually found.

529
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Speaker 1: That you said it, but it was it was probably

530
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Speaker 1: right after the Super Bowl. But you're like always being overlooked.

531
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 2: I always thought I was deserving a more and not

532
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 2: getting recognition. So that's why everything means so much to me.

533
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 2: Getting that Super Bowl ring, every catch, every play, everything

534
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 2: means so much to me because of where I came from.

535
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?

536
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 5: I just think it's been so hard for me to

537
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 5: get to where I am today, just like you said,

538
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 5: just getting overlooked at every level you go back to youth,

539
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 5: There's just been so many different instances where people haven't

540
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 5: believed in me and my abilities on the football field.

541
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 5: But always having that belief in myself to come through,

542
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 5: to come out, to come out on top, to make

543
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 5: the play when it's come my way has kind of

544
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 5: allowed me to make it as far as I have

545
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 5: because I've met so many guys throughout from youth football

546
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 5: to high school to college that are so talented that

547
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 5: don't end up making it, probably because they don't have

548
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 5: that belief, They don't have that confidence when you have

549
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 5: people trying to take you down. So like that quote, says,

550
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 5: every little thing does mean so much to me, whether

551
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 5: it's a five yard catch, and you know, because as

552
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 5: a kid, that's all I ever wanted to do, is

553
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 5: you know, meg it to the NFL. So every every

554
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 5: little thing is just I'm appreciative of it, and I

555
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 5: just want to keep working for more.

556
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Speaker 2: There's also a quote from your dad that said he

557
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 2: failed every eye test at seventeen years old.

558
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 5: I'm still found that. It's okay, nothing's changed.

559
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you still have a super Bowl, which we won't

560
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 2: say where this or the Super Bowl ring is, but

561
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 2: it's still there.

562
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: You have it somewhere.

563
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 2: So in the end, I think it all worked out

564
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: for you, just to wrap everything up. So we do

565
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 2: this with every single person on the podcast. It's a

566
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 2: rapid fire that sometimes doesn't end up being too rapid

567
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 2: because we get to talking. But everybody gets similar five questions.

568
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 2: So are you ready you get to dictate how these

569
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 2: ones go? Ok, yeah, yeah, don't worry you don't yeah, yeah,

570
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 2: don't worry about it.

571
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: First question, what is your favorite play.

572
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 3: Of your career?

573
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 5: Green Bay touchdown? And then she Chevy ship there's one

574
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 5: I think one of my one of the one of

575
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 5: the best catches I've had was against the Broncos in Denver.

576
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 5: I caught a deep ball, probably my best catch in

577
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 5: my career. The championship one wasn't super difficult, but that

578
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 5: would be.

579
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite for sure. Yeah.

580
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 2: I also wanted to asking This is not a question,

581
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 2: it's just it just came to me. The catch you had,

582
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: the long ball you had in Tampa Bay this year

583
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 2: with the Falcons.

584
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: What did that catch mean to you?

585
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 2: Because I know you get excited, but that was probably

586
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 2: the most excited that I've seen you this season, was

587
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 2: making that catch.

588
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 5: For sure, that one meant a lot to me. That

589
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 5: one probably rivals all of them. Green Bay probably still

590
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 5: has it by a bit, but it wasmionship. Yeah, right,

591
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 5: So right to go back to where I played the

592
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 5: last four years, Uh, I mean it didn't end exactly.

593
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 5: How would have loved it to there. I mean, I

594
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 5: signed elsewhere, so to go back and kind of, you know,

595
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 5: I felt like maybe they didn't want me there. To

596
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 5: go back and kind of make that play on those

597
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 5: guys and everybody over there. I mean, I still love

598
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 5: all those guys, but it's definitely definitely meant more. Uh.

599
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 5: And yeah, a lot of passion and energy just came out,

600
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 5: and I was just so grateful for that opportunity in

601
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 5: that moment. That was like my first big play of

602
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 5: the year here as a Falcon, So it definitely meant

603
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 5: a lot to me.

604
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you all got the win, so we did.

605
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 5: Which which also was huge helped.

606
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 3: All Right, tear in your next who is your favorite

607
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: athlete growing up and why Lebron James.

608
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 5: Of course I have a couple, but Lebron. I mean

609
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 5: I watch I do not miss a Laker game, like

610
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 5: every single Laker game, and it's tough because they play

611
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 5: out West. They started like ten thirty eighty two games.

612
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 5: I'm not missing one. Wowan, that's education.

613
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen him play in person?

614
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 5: I have, or when I was in Tampa, they would

615
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 5: come to Orlando to play the Magic Oh yeah, and

616
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 5: Mike Evans is a huge Lebron fan as well, so

617
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 5: he would get like a bus and take all the

618
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 5: receivers and put us in a box. Was really cool.

619
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Speaker 5: So I got to see him like two or three times.

620
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Speaker 1: Sweet, Okay.

621
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Speaker 2: Now, Scotty Miller is a brand new dad. I did

622
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 2: ask him when we were walking up here. I was like, so,

623
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 2: how old's the kid now like three four months? And

624
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 2: he was like seven weeks and I was like, oh, okay,

625
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 2: still fresh young, Yeah, fresh out the womb. What is

626
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 2: the best new dad advice that you got and from whom?

627
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good question. That's tough.

628
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: Don't drop the baby.

629
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, like like the phone in the water, Like Chris

630
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 2: God wouldn't say where the ring was.

631
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 3: I was like, did you lose that in the water too?

632
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 5: I sure, hope not help.

633
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 6: But still he's not sure where it is.

634
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 5: We'll find seasons one.

635
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: We asked his wife, she'll know exactly.

636
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 5: Where it is. She's probably wearing her best dad. I mean,

637
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of people like a lot of

638
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 5: my buddies in Tampa. Black Gabbard just had a kid,

639
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 5: and I think he said just cherish, like the moments

640
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 5: when you come home from work. Yeah, and you get

641
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 5: to see your kids and stuff like that and them

642
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 5: and just hang out with them.

643
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 1: So that's good, all right?

644
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 3: Ter What TV show or movie would you recommend right now?

645
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything you're particularly binging that you think the viewers

646
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 2: and or listeners would enjoy.

647
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 5: A couple of embarrassing vander Pump.

648
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: Rules, Yes, this is the first time.

649
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 6: That we.

650
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 5: More my wife, Well, she would probably tell the truth,

651
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 5: and it's usually me turning it on.

652
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: But nice, So your thoughts on scanned of all? Just kidding,

653
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: We won't. We won't delve into that.

654
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 2: I'm sure every listener of the Falcons and Focus podcast, like, I.

655
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 3: Have no idea what you're talking about them.

656
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk when we when we wrap, we'll talk.

657
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 2: We'll talk Scanda all Okay, So vander.

658
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 5: Pump rules, Yeah, I guess, I guess, so I love.

659
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: Okay, last one, If you could have a superpower, what

660
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: superpower would you want?

661
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 5: And why I go to super speed?

662
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 6: Okay, but don't you already have that?

663
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 5: Close? Not quite. One of my favorite movies also is

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Speaker 5: Incredibles and Dash when he's running around, running away from

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Speaker 5: the bad guys running him too. Yeah, little dad, he

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Speaker 5: gets it done every time.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's great. I think that's a great note to

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Speaker 2: end on. So you guys, thank you so much Scottie

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Speaker 2: for oh yeah, nickname Scooter who calls your scooter?

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Speaker 5: Still? People brought us to I hit it after I

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Speaker 5: scored what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, now y'all know. Now you'll have to bring

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Speaker 1: it back.

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Speaker 3: He's like, shoot, I didn't want to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like it all right. Well, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: You guys, you can check out the Falcons and Focused

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Speaker 2: leave us a five star rating and review. This is

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Speaker 2: brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm Torri. That's tearing that, Scottie.

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Speaker 2: We'll see y'all next time.

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Speaker 3: Thanks,