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Speaker 1: what I mean, and just uh working with the church,

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Speaker 1: and I was, you know what I mean, doing all that,

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Speaker 1: but I felt like God was like when I just

427
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Speaker 1: watching practice that day, was like, hey, dude, I think

428
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Speaker 1: this is your calling here and go play some ball,

429
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then I just started

430
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Speaker 1: playing ball and it was just natural for me. I

431
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Speaker 1: felt really good at it, and I think that's why

432
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Speaker 1: I like, this is my year fourteen. But I didn't

433
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Speaker 1: have any years as you know, as a young kid,

434
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Speaker 1: like putting all the extra miles on me. So that's

435
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Speaker 1: why I feel like I'm you know, and my man

436
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Speaker 1: up stairs giving me the strength and step. But I

437
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Speaker 1: feel like, you know, still young in the game, you

438
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, just playing one year in high school.

439
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Speaker 1: So you have a tattoo of the NFL shield on

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Speaker 1: your hand, just so when did you when did you think?

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Speaker 1: All right? Then felt is happening for me? And yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: I got the I got the tattoo. Uh year ten,

443
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Speaker 1: my tenth year in the league. Once I got to

444
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Speaker 1: double digits, I'm like, it's part of my life now.

445
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Speaker 1: Probably not gonna get another job after this. Yeah, But

446
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Speaker 1: also I did it and one of my friends, he

447
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Speaker 1: was on the Bangles, he passed away. His name was

448
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Speaker 1: Chris Henry. He had the same tattoo, so I just

449
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Speaker 1: didn't memory him. And also for my career, so I

450
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Speaker 1: remember that was tragic. It was man, it's just as

451
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Speaker 1: memorial was just I think yesterday so crazy. And for you,

452
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Speaker 1: what you were to on me before we started taping,

453
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Speaker 1: what you're kind of into what's your hobbies? Like we

454
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Speaker 1: like to introducing you guys and fans kind of get

455
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Speaker 1: let him get to know you a little bit. Yeah. Man,

456
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Speaker 1: For me, man, I'm all about family and I have

457
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Speaker 1: three kids. My wife and her name is Anna Pecco,

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Speaker 1: and then I have three boys. Don't want to Junior,

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Speaker 1: Joseph and Samson. But uh, I like to send my

460
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Speaker 1: time playing instruments. Man. I love playing guitar. I love

461
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Speaker 1: playing the ukulele, and I play a little bit of drums.

462
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Speaker 1: But yeah, anytime I'm hanging out, man, I always have

463
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Speaker 1: like a little guitar with me and just jamming. Do

464
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Speaker 1: you ever do you ever bring it in the locker

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Speaker 1: room or anything like that? Yeah, I used to have

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Speaker 1: my guitar in my locker room since and uh in

467
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Speaker 1: in Denver, but uh yeah I haven't. I didn't bring one.

468
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Speaker 1: This time, I might just go to guitar centers somewhere

469
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Speaker 1: over here and just pick one up, just to have it. Well,

470
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Speaker 1: I know, your Christmas present this year. I know, Yeah,

471
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Speaker 1: just just play. I try to let the guitar singing

472
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Speaker 1: for me, you know what I mean. That's one thing. Uh.

473
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Speaker 1: I wish I had a better voice, you know, but

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Speaker 1: I try to make it work. That's awesome. One other

475
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Speaker 1: thing I want to ask you about is I understand

476
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Speaker 1: that growing up you really kind of idolized Troy Paula Mala. Yeah. Man,

477
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Speaker 1: it's a the goat man, one of the saw more

478
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Speaker 1: really and and uh, just what was it? Was it

479
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Speaker 1: just the guy basically where you're from and where you

480
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Speaker 1: grew up, that he was sort of kind of the

481
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Speaker 1: idol that a lot of people look to. Yeah. I

482
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Speaker 1: remember being younger and watching him at SC were all

483
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Speaker 1: started for him, and then him getting drafted to Pittsburgh

484
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Speaker 1: and then seeing the flowing hair, you know what I mean.

485
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, I want to be like that,

486
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Speaker 1: but only Troy. But also I was a big fan

487
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Speaker 1: of say, you know a lot of Polynesian players, uh

488
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Speaker 1: kind of look out to, you know, other Polynesians. So

489
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Speaker 1: junior say. I was also another person I looked up

490
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Speaker 1: to as well, well, Troy palum All who got hair commercials.

491
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Speaker 1: So that's the next time I know. I hope he

492
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Speaker 1: come on some shampoo out there. How about the big OOSO, Well,

493
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Speaker 1: we appreciate thank you, thank you so much, man. Thanks Ryan.

494
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Speaker 1: I love good stuff from just I mean, one of

495
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Speaker 1: the nicer guys on the team. And I gotta, you know,

496
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Speaker 1: I gotta. I meant to bring us up during the

497
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Speaker 1: interview when I got him, He's like, what happened earlier? Man?

498
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Speaker 1: And I was like, what ran? He was camped out

499
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Speaker 1: there for half an hour? Ryan. I was like, Ryan said,

500
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Speaker 1: he was looking for you. He was like, I was

501
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Speaker 1: looking for him. I'm like, I don't know, man, this

502
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Speaker 1: is the last time I trust make to do anything.

503
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Speaker 1: You know. Here, here's the thing, another example. If you

504
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Speaker 1: want the job done right, you gotta do it yourself.

505
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Speaker 1: You were in charge of getting connecting with him and

506
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Speaker 1: bringing him down. Fail to do going down there. I

507
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 1: was waiting right outside locker. You get down there late,

508
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Speaker 1: you miss him and so and so, then what what

509
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Speaker 1: has to happen. I've got to take matters in my

510
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Speaker 1: own hands. I track him down. Luckily, he's a nice

511
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Speaker 1: enough guy to you know, overlook your laps. Uh, you're

512
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Speaker 1: in charge of sending T shirts from now. Since you're

513
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Speaker 1: saying you don't do it, you don't do that either.

514
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Speaker 1: Since you're so good at it, you don't do that either. No,

515
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Speaker 1: I'm too busy. You don't have anything. You don't write anymore. Yeah,

516
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Speaker 1: you don't do anything. You don't write stories. And let

517
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Speaker 1: me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question.

518
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Speaker 1: Are there more stories that go up? Or more social

519
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: plus pott? Pretend? All right, So we got a game

520
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Speaker 1: obviously on Sunday. I think real quick, it's going to

521
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Speaker 1: be a efficient business like win for the Ravens. Yeah.

522
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Speaker 1: I've been on I've been on the Browns prediction correctly

523
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Speaker 1: over the course of this entire year. I remember when

524
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Speaker 1: we were having this discussion back in August and you

525
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Speaker 1: were like, oh man, the Browns are gonna the defension.

526
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Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I thought the Browns are gonna

527
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Speaker 1: be a lot better than they have been this And

528
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't really buy it. I'm not buying it.

529
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Speaker 1: So I just jaded Cleveland guys. I'm just correct. I'm

530
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Speaker 1: just corrected it turns out, So I think that's what

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Speaker 1: what the case is gonna be. They've got they've got

532
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Speaker 1: a lot of issues, and I think the Ravens are

533
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Speaker 1: gonna have jump up issues all year, jump out early

534
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Speaker 1: and uh and and win big. I'veen big. I'm a

535
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Speaker 1: digit victory. Yeah, okay, the little Lamar of the bench.

536
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it'll mean. I'm not going to

537
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Speaker 1: predict the Lamar of the bench and sunglasses the fourth quarter,

538
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Speaker 1: but I expected double digit victory. It is interesting peck

539
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Speaker 1: O even you know, he says, I feel like we

540
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Speaker 1: got a whole I think it's gonna be very different.

541
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Speaker 1: We all feel like it's gonna be very different whole,

542
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Speaker 1: different team out there, totally different Ravens are rolling. Uh.

543
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Speaker 1: It would be so beneficial to be able to do

544
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Speaker 1: your conversation earlier, rest of starters Week seventeen, get Lamar

545
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Speaker 1: and co and some of those vets two weeks off

546
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Speaker 1: going fresh into divisionals. That would be pretty awesome. Right now,

547
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Speaker 1: we're also, I gotta bring this up. We're in fantasy

548
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Speaker 1: football championships. You and I are both in our champ

549
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: I'm in both my league's title game. I know nobody

550
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: likes to hear about people's fancy football team, but this

551
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 1: does have a little interesting Ravens wrinkle. We're both putting

552
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Speaker 1: in waiver claims for Brashad Perryman this week. How do

553
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: you feel about maybe, well, you didn't get him. I

554
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: didn't in that much. I was like, this is a

555
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Speaker 1: this is a slam doc. But it's just funny to

556
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Speaker 1: me that championship fantasy were Ravens fans are back banking

557
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Speaker 1: on Perryman. Now we both tried it. I didn't get him.

558
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Speaker 1: You're gonna start him. I'm not positive if I am.

559
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of pain inflicted there. I'm not

560
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Speaker 1: sure if I and just swallow that and go for it. Yeah,

561
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Speaker 1: it's it's a good decision. So good luck to all

562
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Speaker 1: the other people out there who were in their fantasy

563
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Speaker 1: championships this week. Do you have how many Ravens do

564
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Speaker 1: you have on your team? I have mark Ingram, That's it.

565
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: That's it, Lamar, mark Ingram and Mark Andrews. For me,

566
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good trio. Yeah, and you wonder why

567
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Speaker 1: I'm the best team in the league by three of

568
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Speaker 1: the twelve Pro bowlers. Pretty seen this year, so uh

569
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Speaker 1: as always. You love to hear from you guys. Send

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Speaker 1: us your emails at the Lounge at Ravens on NFL

571
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 1: dot net. You send an email and we read it

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Speaker 1: on air. Ryan will send you a teacher. Ryan will

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Speaker 1: send you a T shirt. All right, let's get ready, bro,