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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the fourth episode of

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Speaker 1: Falcon's In Focus. I am joined by Michael Walker, aka

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Speaker 1: the Pride of Fresno State, as he's wearing his Fresno

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Speaker 1: State football shirt. Also twenty twenty draft pick, also starting

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Speaker 1: inside linebacker. Also also I would say the person who

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Speaker 1: has the most consistent hat game on this team. I

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Speaker 1: do love your your hats, your number three hats. Were

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Speaker 1: those chance the rapper hats or like? Were those? You're like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, that's my number. That's what I'm gonna use.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely the number. I mean, it's really for the number. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that sounds good. Now, I was you were recently miked up,

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Speaker 1: and I was watching your miked up and something that

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Speaker 1: struck me as being very interesting. And I've seen y'all

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Speaker 1: do it do this a few times. It's your inside

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Speaker 1: linebacker like huddle break where y'all slide and then you

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Speaker 1: do a jump shot. How did that come to be?

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Speaker 1: What's the story behind? I'm not all right? So the

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Speaker 1: original break? But I don't know, I can't cuss on here,

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Speaker 1: but there is in a break. Uh it's called a

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Speaker 1: BMF you know bad, you know so? But it also

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Speaker 1: stood for bow bow micafoe. So that's really where it

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Speaker 1: came from. You know. So, um, you know, we do

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Speaker 1: our little break and we'd always break off of that,

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Speaker 1: and so one day I'm just kind of messing around.

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Speaker 1: I just did like a slide with it, and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like that. So then they just kind

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Speaker 1: of evolved and the next thing, I know, we would

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Speaker 1: like slide and then Foyer thinks he's the next you know,

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Speaker 1: Jean Rondo basketball player. So you know, he had always like,

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Speaker 1: you know, do a little jump shots and stuff. We're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what if we just put it all together,

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Speaker 1: So we'd always break off of that, we would slide

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Speaker 1: and then you know, act like we're doing a little

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Speaker 1: jump shot. Nice, And that's just kind of where it

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Speaker 1: came from. Okay, who's the best basketball player on the

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Speaker 1: team right now currently? I mean I would normally I

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Speaker 1: would save myself, but looking at Drake, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: probably maybe if this is twenty twenty one, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's you. Yeah, that's definitely Drake. I've definitely seen

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Speaker 1: his like three sixty dunk. It's it's all over the internet.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad that you actually brought up Foyer because

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Speaker 1: I think y'all's relationship was something that I loved witnessing

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Speaker 1: while he was here. Now he's with Jacksonville went and

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Speaker 1: got that bank, So good for him. But for you,

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Speaker 1: what was it like coming into this linebacker room in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty with Foyer and Debo and kind of who

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Speaker 1: they were to you in that first year that you

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Speaker 1: were here? Yeah, I mean just my whole time being

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Speaker 1: the league. Those guys like my brothers, you know, they

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Speaker 1: took me in immediately. I mean, dan Quinn called me.

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Speaker 1: It was like yeah, like you know, we're looking for

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Speaker 1: you to take his job. You know, we're looking for

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Speaker 1: you to be the next starting linebacker here. You know.

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Speaker 1: And Foyer like when I first got here because the

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Speaker 1: COVID restrictions, like he helped me little train like he

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Speaker 1: like that, Like he didn't care that I was here

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Speaker 1: to try to beat him out, Like he wanted me

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Speaker 1: to be the best I could beat because he had

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Speaker 1: that confidence in himself that doesn't matter how good I am,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna start. And that's something I took, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: no matter who it is. I think I'm going to

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Speaker 1: start without that confidence, but I like those guys built

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Speaker 1: that in me, you know, just just of how I

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Speaker 1: saw them operate every day, and I try to do

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Speaker 1: the same that they did for me. Yeah, it's funny

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Speaker 1: because Fresno State bulldog Foyer, I think also a bulldog,

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Speaker 1: Yale as someone who's also a bulldog. Georgia go dogs

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Speaker 1: d A W G S. What I'm sure you're gonna say,

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Speaker 1: Fresno State is the superior dogs. Definitely, Yeah, definitely, I

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Speaker 1: mean Yale is not. I mean I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: Yale was a bulldog. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you know, Georgia they got a good, good case. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Fresen State. So this is um something that I get

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Speaker 1: so I know the answer to this before I ask you.

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Speaker 1: But something that I get asked all the time by

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Speaker 1: the fan base in general is why you spell your

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Speaker 1: that I get asked all the time. They're like, that's

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Speaker 1: an interesting way to spell the name Michael. So please

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Speaker 1: tell people so that they can stop asking me. Please

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Speaker 1: tell people why your name is spelled m y K

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Speaker 1: A L. So the reason why my name is spelled out.

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Speaker 1: That is because I have a twin brother, and his

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Speaker 1: name is spelled m A l y k, So you

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Speaker 1: m y k a l or m A l y k.

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Speaker 1: The name is Malik, so it's Malik and Michael, and

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Speaker 1: that's why my name is spelled like that. Thank you everyone,

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Speaker 1: you've heard it here. I do not have to repeat this.

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Speaker 1: I'll just play this clip back for everybody now. I

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Speaker 1: love that you have a twin brother, and please tell me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's it. What was it like growing

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Speaker 1: up with a twin Because I have sisters, but there

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Speaker 1: going through life together. What was that experience? Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're never by yourself. You know, we always you know,

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Speaker 1: we shared a room for the longest time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: play her and I mean even though you guys have

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Speaker 1: different likes and stuff like that, you guys are together.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven so I mean just mutch, me

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Speaker 1: and my twin brother couldn't be closer. I mean, callet

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Speaker 1: it on the phone like six times a day. So

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Speaker 1: like we talk all the time. Um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: still we still hang out talking, you know, later in life,

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Speaker 1: we still want to live next to each other. So

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Speaker 1: I think just having a twin for me was so

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Speaker 1: good because he just pushed me in different ways, you know,

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Speaker 1: like he's super smart school and everything like that. And

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Speaker 1: we've just been battling and pushing each other our whole life. Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: is twin celepathy a real thing? I think when you're

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Speaker 1: you're two different people. At this point, Okay, I understand that.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys get into trouble a lot? I mean

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Speaker 1: both getting in shouble. What's your what's your favorite story

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Speaker 1: y'all used to do? Maybe you still do. I mean, heck,

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Speaker 1: I mean they always separated us, you know, growing up

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Speaker 1: Just never worked out. I love it now. It's really

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Speaker 1: interesting because I think when I was sitting down to

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Speaker 1: All the questions that I wanted to ask you were

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Speaker 1: the thought of like family was woven together through all

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Speaker 1: of the questions that I wanted to ask. And one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite stories that I think you told it

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Speaker 1: was like I think right after you'd gotten drafted to

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Speaker 1: essentially like you're very special. And I'm not just saying

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Speaker 1: But he said to you when you're very very young.

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Speaker 1: the eight months? Okay, oh wow, So how has that

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Speaker 1: us like, oh, hey, like Parker Hessey, he just had

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Speaker 1: But for you, it was like I never remembered, like

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Speaker 1: you not being there. Yeah. I literally went to practice

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Speaker 1: tell you I was so out of it. They're just

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Speaker 1: like Matt, Matt and Bush like hey, Mike, come come

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Speaker 1: You've had You've had a long, a long day for you.

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Speaker 1: What's it been like to to kind of enter into

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Speaker 1: to kind of I don't know, like I know you

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Speaker 1: talked about your father before and being like a role

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Speaker 1: a son on your own. It's incredible. You know, I

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