E435 George Kittle
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Summary
Today's guest is an NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers, George Kittle. He's an all-pro, four-time Pro Bowler, and a savage masseuse. He also happens to be a master of the ice plunge.
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Today's guest is an NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers.
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Now that's kind of the negotiable part, I think.
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I think if you're under like 50 degrees to like 40, I think you're doing a really good job.
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Yeah, because some guys, it's like they want to get as cold as they can.
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They like want to like, they just want to be so cold and they want to just like be like,
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Like you're not, yeah, if you want to be that cold, then move to like the North Pole or something.
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But don't just pretend you're like the, you're fucking Santa, you know, just because you're in your garage.
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Do we have, at San Francisco, we have two ice tubs and one's at 39 degrees.
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The other one's at like 45 and I'm in the, like the 39 degree.
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But like my pool in California, it's, it's not heated.
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And so by mid-October, it's like, it's like 52.
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And then by the time you get through halfway through November, it's like 46.
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You're in there for, I mean, I usually do like three, three to five minutes.
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Like there's days, like if I have like a recovery day, cause like most of the time, like I have
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And also I don't make it to meetings and stuff like that.
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So, and I don't really want to wake up at, I mean, six, I don't like to wake up before
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Cause as soon as you see like a five on your alarm clock, it sucks.
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I think that makes you be like, Oh, what's going on here?
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He was like, yeah, my workout started at 5 a.m.
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Especially if you're just going to get hurt every year and not even play.
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Some of it I think is his attitude gets stuck in his knees to him.
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There's something about when you get hurt, you definitely overthink about it.
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And then once you get back onto the football field, like that's all you can think about.
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And the second you start thinking like that, that's when it happens again.
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And then I, so I was, I came back in five weeks and then the next like five practices,
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all that's all you could think about and it's sucks.
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And then you go through a whole off season and then you kind of forget about it, but still
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And then like, after a while you just get comfortable and you just forget about it.
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Were there routes and stuff that you would adjust and not do because you just to take
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It kind of just freaked me out a little bit because the way I broke it too, didn't really
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I just kind of got hit when my foot was in the ground and it just kind of gave out.
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So I was just kind of more cautious, more careful, like picking up my feet when I was
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But then like, it's a bone, it heals, take a lot of collagen, drink a lot of milk.
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I think getting in that ice plunge, it does, it alters my perception.
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That's what I'll, it's like, I notice if I'm in like kind of a rough mood or I'm kind
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of like, I want to feel a little bit more kind of in my body.
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If I'm just too much in my head, I'm like, I want to get in my body and I want to, and
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So it's like, let me do something I don't want to do.
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My thing is, I, so I like to do it the first, I wake up, go downstairs and I just jump in
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And it's just like, the first thing I do to start my day is something that's not really
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But like now I enjoy doing it because I feel great when you get done with it, but like you
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just, you accomplish something that really sucks.
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And then the rest of your day, like, yeah, you can be dealing with other stuff, other issues,
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but like, you're doing one thing that's difficult to do that not a lot of people like to do.
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And she's like, all right, I'm going to start my day off by accomplishing something.
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I think it's like, yeah, how can I do something today that I don't want to do?
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It does make everything else a little bit easier then.
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It's even like going, like going with, with going and working out.
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Cause like, um, I work out down there with Jeremy holding those guys, you know, I J holes at my
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Oh, he's unbelievable, but he's also like, he like dresses, like he's trying to get molested.
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But I think that I think is in the urban community, there's a lot better.
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Sometimes we always tell him that he needs to brush his teeth once in a while, which he does,
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but it's just, it's a fun way to talk shit to somebody.
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Cause not really much you can do if your breath smells like shit.
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Cause there's not really much of a comeback to that.
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And you're like, Hey, do I really need my breath really bad?
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The, the, the worst thing is, is when somebody does have horrible breath and especially like if they're
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at like a nightclub or something and somebody's breath is bad.
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A lot, a lot of times, bro, I won't tell them, dude.
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You got to be honest with like, if it's a buddy, I'll definitely tell them.
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So if you've got a friend who has something in their teeth, do you tell them?
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I was at the pro bowl two years ago and one of the reporters there, I'd like, I was kind
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You have to talk to a certain amount of people.
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And, uh, I, she probably interviewed like six people before she got to me.
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And she just had a huge, like piece of spinach in her front two teeth.
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And I was like, you were just on air with six people and no one told you, you have a camera
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I told her right when I started the interview, I was like, you have something in your teeth.
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I would be so embarrassed if I just said something in my teeth the entire time.
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Oh, it's almost like telling them that they don't even exist.
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I know that sounds crazy, but you tell a woman, cause it's like, for some reason, it
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They're always like, um, speaking of women, man, your sister taught me yoga.
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Cause I think you guys didn't live very far away.
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We live out, uh, like West of Nashville now, but yeah, we lived there for two years.
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She was like very, she's like very like, like kind of like ladylike and motherly, but
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like very like sent, like a sensei kind of she's, she, she vibes.
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Like, you know, she's like the female Laird Hamilton of vibes.
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And she, um, dude, she had me do this thing one time.
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It was like wearing these things between my toes.
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I mean, it's just like this thing you wear at night.
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They were, uh, well, I tried the fricking blue ones, dude.
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The blue ones I see you could probably do, but can you pull up those toe spacers?
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Whenever I take my Netflix, this Netflix special that I did, um, she had been teaching
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So if you see me walk, I'm walking out like this cause she taught me how to walk like a
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Yeah, no, I know exactly what you're talking about, dude.
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I felt like a whore with the bigger ones in.
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I would guess if you are, I don't think it's a lot of American money.
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I think it's like a lot of yen that people spend on it.
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Those guys like it because I think they're Japanese feet are very little.
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And I think for context, that makes sense to me.
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It's like going to wing stop and getting a 10 piece bone in or bone out, man.
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Oh, I think if you're going Japanese feet, dude, I'm keeping the bone in.
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I want all the fricking, you know, the gifts of the Orient, I feel like.
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It's almost like, you know, it's so they don't get to see it.
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So I think for them seeing like a long foot with toenail polish and stuff, it's very fantastical
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My, uh, Emma's a fiance, Cody, he's a pitcher in Japan.
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And he says that the next closest person hardly goes to his chest.
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So then you think about feet, like he's a size 14, 15.
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That's, that's, that's a lot for, that's a lot out there.
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He should, we'll get the picks up there for him.
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And I think this, yeah, I don't know if there's a market for it for men.
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I'm going to call into your show and ask you that question.
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Oh, one researcher proposes that the fetish is due to sensory input in the brain.
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And the neuroscientist Vilayaner Ramachandran suggests that the part of the brain that processes
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the sensation people get from feet is next to the area that perceives genital stimulation.
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So if people want to see that foot, they want to see it.
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He hit me up like four years ago and he made it for me.
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We'll have to, we'll put his info up actually right now.
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So I'm going to make sure that we put it on the screen right now.
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There's nothing like a cool wooden American flag.
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Like Nick Bosa has, I'm pretty sure that exact same one in the back of his locker.
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I think he got shipped there and he was like, this is cool.
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But yeah, I guess that makes sense about a foot because I think also if you think back
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into maybe, I wonder if like in old times you could, but if people were like cave
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people, then you saw the foot all the time, you know?
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They weren't really pretty back then though, were they?
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I mean like, cause you see the photos like indigenous people and their feet, they're literally
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And then everyone's like, that's the healthy way.
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Your shoes make your, you know, they close your toe box in all that.
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Well, it's kind of hard for me cause my profession, I have to wear cleats that are small and.
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Well, to an extent, like I tried, like I wear the toe space.
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I try to spread them out and keep my feet as healthy as I can.
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But like, once you get to training camp and you're, I mean, you're taking like a couple
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hundred reps a day, it doesn't really help too much.
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It's like your feet just got to get, you got to build a callus to it basically is what you
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But then now I'm out of cleats right now for a couple of weeks and it's like your feet
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Like my feet feel significantly better a month after the season than they do the entire
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Like I don't, this was a, I learned this cause I like pedicures.
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But like in the season, I don't get a pedicure for the entire season cause I don't want to
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Like on the bottom of my feet, I don't want any of it scraped off because your feet basically
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just become these, these thick blocks and you just gotta, especially like where I am,
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I'm in the interior office, I'm in the office of line and basically all the time.
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So like, I like having tough feet, but then as soon as the season's over, I'm back getting
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So you want to keep whatever you can, whatever a little extra you can get.
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It's like, I, I, hopefully I, my skin is thicker about halfway through the season.
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Do y'all take stuff that can make your skin thicker?
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Like, I mean, like we have a lot of supplements, uh, um, are like our team provides us and I'm
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And then any type of calcium I can get, like, those are my two big things, but that's
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I mean, like you see like my shins right here, that's just all cleats.
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Like my shins are just permanently cut up for like my, the rest of my life.
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Cleats aren't really fun to get kicked by.
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So the only guy that ever did that, I'm pretty sure it's like Cam Newton did that for a little
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I, I contemplated doing that, but I like football is a really weird sport where you just kind
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Like I could be blocking somebody and then the running back could miss me by like an
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inch or he might kick me in the calf when he's going past me.
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And it's just like, you just got to get lucky sometimes.
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And I got really lucky this year where like, yeah, my shins were getting beat up, but like
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And so I don't know if I want to be that guy that's out there with the double elbow pads,
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And I just, I can't bring myself to wearing shin pads yet.
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Does it, um, are there, but there, Cam Newton was the guy that did it.
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I think that's what, cause I brought it up and like one of my equipment managers told
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And I was like, if the only other person where shin guards was a quarterback, I just don't
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Cause it kind of puts you on a different level.
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You know, it's, it's for the, the, it's just for the sport, man.
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I think sometimes, yeah, you want to wear, like I won't wear like a turtleneck, you know?
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I think there are guys that pulled off really well.
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And I think a lot of people that sell jewelry wear it.
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You might see one like on a cool night in Miami.
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I think it's kind of like also like Europeans or Middle Easterners wear it.
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Now that definitely looks like diapers on the front of his fucking.
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That's basically what like basketball players wear.
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Like I was picturing wearing like the actual soccer shin guards that are like hard plastic.
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If it doesn't affect how I run, which hopefully it doesn't.
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Because I mean, the name of the game in the NFL these days is speed.
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So whoever's fastest is, you know, who makes the most plays and who gets paid.
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And it's also, I think, um, it could be become a mental thing.
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Like sometimes you feel like if you have something on your body, then it's weighing you or it's
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like, and if it starts to become a little bit of a hinge and it's not even worth it,
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Cause like I had to get used, I play with the shoulder sling on because was it my second
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And so like to come back and play and not miss any time I had, like, I wore the shoulder
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sling and now I'm just like, uh, superstitious about it.
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And like, I still like my shoulders are a little messed up, but like, I don't need to
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wear it, but I literally just do it because it's helps me like just not totally get out
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And, but for that, that, that took a lot of getting used to just wearing something else
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Cause at first I was like, well, I can't lift my hand above my head.
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And then after a while, you just get used to it.
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Cause you know, like, uh, the football, like the girdles that come with like the built-in
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pads and like your thighs and your hips and stuff like that.
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And like, they have these thick pads and I'm in, I wore them in high school and then
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I didn't wear them again until I tried them on the NFL and it felt like I was wearing
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And so I just do like the little, like those high school white little pads you put into your football
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Cause like it is, you just, you don't want to wear a lot cause you're just trying to be as fast
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You know, one thing that was interesting, even when your, when your sister was helping
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me do yoga and I just bring that back because we, we would talk about you sometimes.
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And, um, and she was always really interested in like the next, like staying on the pulse
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You think like, would you ever have like one of those of yourself and then like somehow
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I did a bobblehead thing like in 2018 or 2019 and I still have like 30 of them in a box
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I don't know if you can find it, but yeah, I did.
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I got to start getting, you know what I should start doing for guests that we have on?
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Have you seen a, you, you like the Preds, right?
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Well, so Phil Forsberg's like one of my best friends.
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When I first opened it, I was like, that boy's faded.
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That from the backside, man, that's aggressive.
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I thought that was like between two ferns with Zach Galifianakis.
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This looks like you, I feel like in like 15 years.
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That looks like George, like if you were in like Pink Floyd or like, like if you were
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I mean, some of the windows had curtains because you were also living in it.
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I think it has that kind of like, oh, we're following the Grateful Dead or we're following
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And so I met him through one of the guys and now he just cuts me and all my buddy's
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This girl, Whitney cuts mine here in Nashville.
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Um, have you ever had anyone mess up your haircut?
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One time my fricking friend's dad, first of all, never get your haircut in, um, Mississippi.
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I don't even if it's at the mall, the casino, it doesn't matter.
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One time, bro, dude, I'll tell you what, this is crazy.
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So one time, Chris Pratt, actually one time, this is, and I'm kind of name dropping, but
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So I went through all these things and got like, got the, got the, he helped me get the
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And then I got this horrible haircut and it made, and we're just about to like start taping.
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And I also didn't, uh, I didn't like the part was very small and it was going to take
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Oh, and I was like, man, this is just, it's a lot.
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And, but what capped it off was that day I'd gotten, I'd had a show that weekend somewhere
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and I got my haircut in a casino in Mississippi and it was so fucking bad.
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I was like, I don't, yeah, I definitely want to be on camera.
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And this lady just gotten out of like, she went through like this haircutting rehabilitation
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program through prison or whatever, which I'm all about.
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I should have gone to prison on that, on that lady.
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And if I ever see that fucking lady again somewhere, you want to go to Casino Mississippi with
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I was like, I gamble, I gamble with my most valuable asset too.
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I had one, uh, so my hair got to a point where it was getting caught in my shoulder pads.
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And so I just went to a barber and what I've realized now is that when you have long hair,
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you need to go to a salon and like work with someone who knows how to cut long hair.
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I just went to a barber and I swear to God, he gave me a bowl cut without putting a bowl on my head.
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He let my hair down and he just cut a circle around my head.
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And I looked at it and I was like, that's tough for me.
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And I had to go to a salon literally like an hour later and they had to like fix it for him,
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but it was still a brutal, he just went scissors in a circle.
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My wife looked at me, she was like, what is wrong with you?
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People don't know once you've grown, like, like there's something about like why I could see
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why Native Americans would go and take the scalp of a man.
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Cause it was like the most powerful fucking thing you could do.
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Like, uh, like during COVID, like did anyone, like I had a guy, I had a traveling barber
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who I met through a person, through a person like in Nashville, he showed up and I asked
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And then he was on the back of my neck and he was talking to me and he was a football
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So he was talking and you know, like when you know somebody messes something up and they
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tried to hide it and like, it was like, and I was like, he stopped for like two seconds.
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And he's like, yeah, yeah, no, nothing's wrong.
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And I go in and I show my wife and he basically put a lightning bolt as my neckline.
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You complete, he was just not paying attention.
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He was asking me a football question and he just got excited.
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Just thank you for the time and I'm going to call it a day.
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There's nothing worse than getting a bad haircut, man.
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You know, a lady still likes you when you fucking get home.
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Imagine you get a shitty haircut, then you go home and it's just you there.
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It's just, but no, one thing that I was interested in that was interesting about, and I keep going
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back to your sister, but I keep distracting you.
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One thing that was interesting was she's like, she helps train.
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She's always like, but she's like, yeah, we stay on the, just try to stay on the cutting
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I think about, I think it was some type of new yoga or something.
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Has your family always been like, cause I got to meet your father and your mother at
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My wife's mom, she was in town for, she does, she works with, uh, the NFL hall of fame
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And so like, she works with, uh, like former NFL players who are retired, who need help
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with medical stuff, which is, it's really cool stuff.
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But, uh, yeah, I brought my, my sister, my dad and my mother-in-law cause my, my sister,
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But they were, uh, we're there in, um, Scottsdale for, uh, an event up there and I just, I happened
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Because yeah, I'd always heard about y'all's dad and then, um, and then to get to see her
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Has y'all's family always been like, like super health conscious or like, what was that
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Were people just throwing like, like Molotov cocktails through your windows?
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So like not true vegetarian, but like now I would say, uh, I'd say like the last 10
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years, my family's become like super health conscious.
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Well, like my dad's 60, my parents are both, my dad's 64, my mom's 63.
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But, uh, my dad, like his side of the family has like health issues.
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And so he's like, I'm not going to let that happen to me.
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And so I'm going to be as healthy as I possibly can.
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So my dad's basically vegan now for like the last five years, I'm going to fight it.
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What's his name is, uh, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce Kittle.
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And this had me, he's a little zinned out in this picture, but he's definitely a tough
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So was he, oh, look at that hair photo of him in college.
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He's been, he's been bald since probably like 40, 45.
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Oh, I know that when I cut the hair, I don't know if it's going to come back very well.
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So I'm going to keep it as long as she likes it.
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We thought about cutting off some of like, whenever I get my hair cut, saving it and selling a little
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20 sacks of it at the, uh, you can probably just walk down Broadway.
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Well, we want to sell it after comedy shows.
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We want to have a special thing where there's like a limited edition, 40 of them.
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And they're just little 20 bags and like little drug baggies.
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That's like, that's like the dude selling the sand from where Tom Brady did his retirement
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I was like, are you like, who's going to buy that?
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Cause you, uh, your, your whole family's very fit.
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Was there like, like, do you have to like do chin ups to get seconds and stuff?
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No, my, uh, my mom's a two sport hall of fame athlete in Iowa high school.
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Um, my dad was a football player and a wrestler.
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She was like, I don't know, like she's volleyball, right?
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She did basketball and volleyball in high school.
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I think she was like first team all state and all her stuff.
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Uh, so we've always just been athletic, but no, like it wasn't a, my dad was always big
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on like, there are dads out there who are like very strict on their kids about stuff.
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So my dad just gave me like a template, like, Hey, these are things that are going to lead
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I'm going to help you like make the right decision.
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Like just doing these things a little bit better.
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But his biggest thing was like, Hey, work hard, try to get better and have fun.
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I mean, there wasn't too much strictness with it.
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Like my parents are just, they're always, I mean, I was a pretty good kid.
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I played football, basketball, and then I came home and I played Halo three.
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My sister wasn't, but you know, you can have her on the podcast to discuss that.
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Um, oh no, there was one more question I wanted to ask.
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Um, I went to like, I went to like 15 different schools, school districts, basically growing
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Cause both my parents, their families are from there.
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And so I would have loved to live next door, dude.
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Um, was it Mount union, Iowa is where it's like Mount pleasant.
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It's an hour South Iowa city where the university of Iowa is.
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Then we just kind of moved around a lot with my dad.
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Didn't like the house we lived in, just moved around a bunch.
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It's, they got some really neat hotels and stuff right there along the river.
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It starts with, uh, did you stay in the room where, uh, Al Capone, Al Capone was in it,
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I would like to Julius or Juliet, something like that.
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Mark Twain, I think would write a lot about that area and stuff.
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Well, it's right on the, Dubuque's around the corner.
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So like you cross a bridge into Illinois or Wisconsin.
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It says, read it, read it about Al Capone.
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No, like it, there was a room that he stayed in that he put like, um, I don't know if it
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It was a hidden door that you'd hide in if like cops ever came to the hotel.
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And so they just leave it permanently open now.
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Hotel Julian Dubuque became known as one of the finest hotels in the Midwest and hosted many
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But all the personages said to have stayed at the hotel.
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Local lore alleges that when things got hot in Chicago, Capone would travel with his honor
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There's like a hidden room and there's a hidden room in that hotel room and they leave it open.
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I just, even just walking around the little, the, the downtown, I really enjoyed it.
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Dude, you have like this, do you start to feel like you have like this almost like,
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And people have said that you're a wrestling fan.
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Do you start to, do you like, do you feel like more of a character when you're playing
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Um, maybe I think football is a place where like I authentically get a, I mean, I think
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I'm authentically myself all the time, but the great thing about football is it's one
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of the only professions where you get to beat the shit out of someone, not get arrested
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And like, except Memphis, maybe I think you can do it these days, but yeah, I don't think
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So like, I just get to go out there and I get to hit people.
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I mean, I'm playing a kid's game, dude, and getting paid a lot of money to do it.
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So like, I'm going to work my tail off, but I'm going to enjoy it every second that I'm
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There's only so much tread on the tire and you got Tom Brady who can play for 20 years,
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And then like, you know, but the average, you know, lifespan is like three years.
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So it's like, Hey, I'm going to play as long as I can.
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I'm gonna play at a high level as long as I can, but I'm going to have a great time every
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And do you feel like it's a, uh, it's easier for guys now?
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Is there more of a, like the aspect of it now where, let me think of exactly what I'm
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So it seems like you want to stay in it longer now, right?
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Everybody's always wanted to stay in it longer, but now it's obviously a, it's a, it's a bigger
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I mean, there's significantly more money in it.
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I mean, you just saw like two quarterbacks just got paid over a hundred million dollars
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I love it when guys in the NFL get paid because it's really hard to get paid.
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And so once you're like, I love everybody getting paid.
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If I think they're a good player, if I think they're a bad player.
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What do you mean when you say it's hard for guys to get paid?
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Well, like you have to, the NFL is full of like every NFL player college is you have
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high school, which is like, you have hundreds of thousands of kids playing high school.
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And you just think about like the number you have millions of kids playing high school
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You have hundreds of thousands of people playing college football.
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Like just like the percentage is just so small.
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And then when you get there, like every team has all Americans in college, Heisman trophy
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winners and just like, you have to figure out what you do better than everybody else
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and how to do like, how to do that for as long as you can.
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And that's kind of what the NFL is like surviving NFL is really hard.
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Like there's fantastic players and athletes out there that should be in the field and
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It's like a lot of guys don't take advantage of that opportunity.
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You have to take advantage of that opportunity.
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Are there any players that come to mind when you're like, man, that player, it's just,
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it didn't pan out or they got, or there was a injury that happened or.
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Oh, I mean like, uh, one of my, I don't, let's see.
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One of my favorite football players of all time was Bob Sanders.
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He won defensive MVP one year, but like, he just had an assortment of injuries and
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he would have been in my, he was a first bout hall of famer.
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And then he just had all these injuries that he couldn't stay healthy.
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He was with the NFL MVP for defense, like amazing football player as a safety, which
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And, uh, yeah, he had like a back injury, he had leg injury, shoulder injuries.
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Cause he hit people so hard that made me be hurt.
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And it's just like, instead of being a first bout hall of famer, like he'll always be
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remembered as a really good football player, but like injury kind of took that away.
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And so he could have gotten paid a lot more money too.
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You have to make a lot of plays and you have to get into those.
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Like when are the, what are the years you kind of get paid on?
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It's like, uh, after the most of the time is like, I got paid after year three.
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Most of the extensions happen after three years.
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Um, or you can, after your four year free agent is what you're seeing now.
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Cause like everyone's bidding on you and that's where the good stuff is.
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If you're a first round draft pick, like teams have a fifth year right to you.
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And so those first round draft picks might not get paid till after year four.
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Um, but they already got a, you know, first round signing bonus.
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Do you think it like, as a player gets into that year where it's like, okay, the next
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year they're going to get paid, is it common where a guys will kind of, and maybe this is
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an overall question I was trying to ask earlier, where you'll, do you feel like, Oh, as overall
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as the league that the players, everybody's almost like, all right, let's don't go too
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crazy here today so that we could all play again next year.
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There is a, I would say a majority of the NFL, like a high majority of the NFL is not
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I think you have a couple of crazy guys that don't care if they do.
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Like, I don't think their intention is I'm trying to blow your knee out.
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I don't think that's a thing really anymore, but I definitely like there, there are some
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guys who are more conscious about it than other guys.
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And like, there's hits that you can't avoid and it is what it is.
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But, um, yeah, I think I was like, I've had a time I was, my third year is like week
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15 and I've been healthy the entire year and I'm literally, I'm, there's a pile right
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behind me and a guy and like, my legs are pinned.
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And if a guy wanted to, he could have like literally just thrown me backwards.
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It said, like he grabbed me and pulled me out of the way.
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And he's like, dog, you're worth too much to do that.
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And so like, that happened to me and I was like, you know, I like, that's kind of how I
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Like I cut block, you know, I have to, like, how do you expect?
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You just dive at a dude's ankles, put your head through his kneecap.
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Like, and there's like, there that's football, right?
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Like, and people want to outlaw certain things.
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Like I like the, try not to hit them in the head.
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Like, I don't want to get in the head a lot.
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Um, concussions aren't fun, but, um, yeah, just getting ahead and hitting the head, but
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I like the protection of the house, but like there's certain jobs, like there's certain jobs
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like, Hey, I'm going to cut block you and I'm going to hit in the knees.
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And, you know, I, I don't like try to hurt anybody through it, but like, just, it's
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So it's kind of weird, but like I said, it's violence that's, um, appreciated by everybody.
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So you have to, does it almost start to feel like wrestling then at some point late in the
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Like, or like to an extent, like there's, there's a lot, like there's, yeah, I would say to an
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extent, like I would say there's a handful of us out there who are treating it like wrestling
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to, and like, you know, having fun out there like that.
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But, uh, yeah, I mean, everyone's just, everyone's out there.
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Everyone wants to like, everyone's goal is to win a super, I mean, I hope everyone's
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And then whatever comes with that, but like, I'm not going to go out of my way to like,
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you know, inflict too much pain on somebody, but enough.
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Cause I think, yeah, I wonder if it used to be different, you know, I think back in the
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day they cared less about each other, but there's a lot more going on back then.
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Like a lot of, do you, did you ever see the clip of, it was on Instagram, but it was like
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the 1980, maybe like 1990 highlight for like MB or CBS month, like a Sunday football or something
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And like the whole highlight video is just like guys getting their knees taken out guys
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getting thrown onto their heads, like just getting smoked.
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And like every, every highlight in that, like cut up is illegal in today's game, which is
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But guys used to get messed up back in the day, but then you have to take in like, are the
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guys that played in the, if you played in the NFL, you're a fan, like good for you.
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You were good at the, like you played at a high level, you played with the best, but like
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the game in the eighties and even the nineties is way different than it is today.
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Like you got guys out there running four, two forties, like left and right in the eighties.
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I, you might've had one guy in the whole NFL that could do that.
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And now like, look at like, you guys see guys like miles Garrett, that dude, six, five,
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Like he just didn't, like, that wasn't a thing or like you might've had one in the entire
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NFL, but like now the, like guys that look like that are everywhere.
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I have like five guys in my locker room that if they wanted to, if they punched me in the
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I got, I'm just like, oh my, like his fist is the size of my entire face and he could kill
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It's kind of weird to go to work with people like that.
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Like they do with like with the raisin, uh, you know, somebody that's raising like Skittles
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I'd give them probably a decent meat or something.
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Hey, Ron, calm down on this next play a little bit.
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You were talking about having a, I read something somewhere you were, you were thinking that
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So we, we, the NFL, it starts in, let's see, I leave for training camp July 24th.
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But so you report in July 24th and my season technically ended on January 29th.
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But like we have spring football that starts April 15th and that's two months.
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Uh, it's not like, it's not as much contact, but you're just like,
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just the first like two weeks is just working out, like getting you into shape and you have
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Um, some guys have workout bonuses in their contracts so they can only miss so many days,
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If you're a vet, like there's going to be like Trent Williams probably won't show up,
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Cause like he doesn't really need to get better at football.
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Like he's probably the best football player in the NFL.
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It's our office of lineman, our left tackle, but like there's certain guys that don't
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It's kind of like, uh, if you haven't really been in NFL too much, it's kind of like a,
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And like, there's a, there's one week that's mandatory at the end of it that everybody
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has to go to, or you can find, but it's not mandatory.
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I always go to like the, um, I usually show up like May 1st.
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Usually just because my, like I didn't get yesterday was my first day in Nashville.
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And so like the entire month of February, I was doing stuff, whether it was pro bowl,
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I was at the super bowl doing some like gigs, um, working with some of my marketing partners.
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And then after that, I did like a 10 day vacation with my wife.
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Cause I was like, I haven't gone on vacation in seven months.
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I wish it wasn't as expensive as it is, but like, I get it, but like, I don't know.
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Like there's a beautiful place in the world that I haven't been, but that's one of my favorite
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Like you're in the ocean and there's just massive islands that look like they could move at any
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I'm like, wow, that's some cool stuff, but I wasn't, I wasn't living like damn breath
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Is that going to stand up and come over here?
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Like, that's what I think about when I'm out there.
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It seems like you're just kind of like living in these crazy adult, like dream worlds of a child,
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but that you're actually getting to navigate through them.
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Like the season, like January, let's say July 24th.
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And like you're like fully practicing, let's just say July, like the first couple of days
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are pretty easy, but like by August 1st, you're going full speed.
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You'd go from August 1st until if you're in the playoffs or like a Superbowl, like it's
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So like your body's just rolling and getting beat up.
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And so, and then last, well, two years ago, they added a 17th, a 17th game.
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Uh, well, so there was like, it was a new CBA, uh, the bargaining agreement and they
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And how it was explained to me is like, they kind of just put the 17th game out there.
00:49:36.040
And as players are bored or like the player voted reps, we're like, no, we're not going
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And then when they finally gave us an offer, it was kind of like, you're going to accept
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And it somehow passed the voting process and then went to the players and it wasn't, um,
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And I, that was like zoom, zoom was just kind of getting along too.
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So like, it was difficult to, you know, get a lot of people on a phone call.
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They were trying to do like league wide meetings.
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And so like, it was difficult to get all the information out there.
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So we voted and I, however many people voted, like there's a possible of like 1500
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votes, only like 800 people voted out of the 1500 or something like that.
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And so this is all my theory is if you're going to add a game, so the week, the season's
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18 weeks long because there's one bi-week for every team, right?
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If you just add another bi-week and you give everybody two, it'll be a 19 week season.
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There's more, there's more weeks of football, more money to be made and your best players
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It makes simple sense to me because, and you can just, I don't think any player right
00:50:54.020
now, if the NFL announced, like we're going to give everybody a second bi-week, I don't
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And like, okay, that makes our season one week longer.
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Now we're getting done the third week of February.
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Like maybe take out a week of OTAs and just give us a week on the back end, you know,
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let guys, you know, go on vacation or give another guy's week to train.
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It's like, once you're in the NFL and it's your job, like everybody wants to play football.
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It doesn't really take me a lot to get motivated to play football.
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So it's like, and there's like young guys, you have to keep them like in line kind of
00:51:25.620
But if you get the, there's NFL guys are wanting to show up and they're going to play at a high
00:51:32.080
You feel like a gladiator when you stand in the new Raider stadium and it's straight
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up and there's whatever, 70,000 people looking down on me.
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Oh dude, it's one of the coolest feelings ever.
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Like you literally look up, kill somebody at halftime.
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So my whole thing is just like at a bye week, I don't think anyone's going to get upset
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And your best player is going to stay healthier longer.
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How tough is that turnaround on the body, honestly?
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And like I said earlier, there's a part of luck to it.
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I've had games where I hyperexcend my knee and that's going to affect your season.
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And if you get lucky, you don't have to deal with that stuff.
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Like Monday, I have to do like a big lower body lift.
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Otherwise, you get really stiff and like you get more sore.
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Like it's like the second day afterwards, you kind of feel everything.
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And especially like if we play on the East Coast, we have a five-hour flight back.
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And like it takes like Thursday to Friday is when I start to feel like myself again.
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And then like the longer end of the season you get, the more like your body, it's wear
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So like really now, like how I see it is if I'm not doing football, I'm doing recovery.
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Whether it's tubs, whether it's BFR workouts, whether it's just movement, yoga, red light
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therapy, saunas, like whatever it is that can make my body...
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I get home at like, let's just say on a Wednesday, I'll be home at like 6, 6.30.
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And like you can do a lot of stuff at the stadium.
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I can afford to have a lot of that stuff in my house now.
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Because it's like my first two years and my first three years in the league, I was at
00:56:40.120
the facility from like, I think our meeting started.
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Let's say if our meeting started at eight, I'm there from 6.15 until like 7.30, eight
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And so it's just like, I've purchased those things to have in my house.
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And so I can just, I have a couple extra hours, but like literally that's all you do
00:57:05.660
Like some guys, like they don't have to do all that stuff, but that's something I'd
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I mean, like the football window is, like I said, the average lifespan is three years.
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So, I mean, like the window in the grand scheme of my life, my college, my rookie,
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sorry, my freshman year, I had a coach, David Wright told me this.
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He was like, he drew on a board is like, if you line here and lie here, let's just say
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And like, so here you are, you're 18 years old.
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Why not take advantage of that small ass window, right?
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Do everything you can to be the best you can do those four years.
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So now after college, now you get a chance in the NFL and now you're getting to the,
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now it's this big, it's a bigger window, but it's still like a sliver.
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And so like, why not put all your effort into being available and being the best player
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And like, like there are guys like, I don't touch, I don't ski.
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Like I don't even play pickup basketball anymore.
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Maybe I was a big freeze tag guy back in the day.
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Like you have one, you play at night and like one person and like you have to hide.
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And the whole point of the game is if they tag you, you're a ghost, but you have to make
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it back to the home base, which is where the ghost counts from.
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And they give you like, you like to go around the clock one time and then it strikes midnight
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And that's like, that's what I played when I was like four or five, six.
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Like that was, that was some of my favorite playing.
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Dude, they had so many pedophiles in our neighborhood.
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Or if you do get found, it's by some grown man who has cable or whatever.
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It's always just some fucking lie or something.
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You can just look at the other one, you know, just some bait.
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What were you just talking about right before that, though?
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Yeah, I was talking about like the window of your career and stuff.
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It's like, I know when I get back off the, like when I'm on the road, it's like I know
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that I have to do yoga right before I go on stage, right?
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I'll finish yoga literally probably about nine minutes before I go on, and then I'll get
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And then I'll get out, and it's just, that's my pattern, right?
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It's like, if I'm up late, I'll make sure that I get eight hours of sleep.
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So like football on our game day, right, Sundays, depending on whenever you kick off
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at 135, 125, whatever it is, the schedule is perfectly adjusted for, they'll tell you
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when you should wake up, and like breakfast is here.
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The bus leaves at this exact time, and it's, you know, in accordance, but it's always the
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exact, like it's two and a half, it's three hours before kickoff.
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It's two and a half hours before kickoff, and everything is regimented perfectly.
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And so like I have the, every Sunday, I do the exact same thing from like, literally,
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I mean, I usually, I'm very, I like my routines, like to get into the mindset and to flip the
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And so like from about, yeah, I mean, from Saturday morning until after the game Sunday, like
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And, but like, so like you were saying, like you do yoga and you go shower that habit.
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That's kind of interesting to hear like how yours is different than mine, but you still
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have something like that before you go on stage.
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And when I get home, it's like, I'll have to like, I make sure I go to the, I make sure
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I go to the workout with the trainer guys whenever I'm home.
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I make sure I go get the NAD and like, uh, I'll get the NAD and the, uh, extra fluids.
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And if I don't get an AD every time, I'll get at least the extra fluids every time just
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Or yeah, they keep changing the name of it, but they, um, but yeah, it's nice in there.
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The women in there is good with the needle in there.
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They're, they're, they're know what they're doing, which is wonderful.
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You ever have, you ever have a bad like IV experience?
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This fucking lady put like fucking nine holes in it and never got it in.
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You can't find a fucking vein on this guy.
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I don't, I'm not a big needle guy by any means.
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I had my first IV I ever got was cause I had to get, uh, I had to get ankle surgery
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And, uh, the first time she missed my vein six times and then she got, and then she called
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someone else in to do it and they did it and I was fine.
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A month later, I had to go back and do the other ankle.
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And my blood just started squirting out and I just passed out.
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And so I, I'm kind of shook with them, but I do it like I, you need the liquid, you need
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the hydration, like the benefits that they have outweigh my mild uncomfortableness.
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What I'll do is when I'm to make them do one, two, three, four, they put the needle in
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and then I'll like jab my fingers into the side of my head to give an opposite pain.
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So next time I see you, you just have eaten your whole lip off.
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Oh, no, I bite the hell out of my tongue if I'm doing something uncomfortable.
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I'll like, I'm sure the women in there are.
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They must think men are just the whip because they're like having to give birth or whatever,
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But like men, men are like, you know, we can't even take the, take that needle from
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I noticed with the NAD, I'm able to just go from one, like this exercise, this exercise,
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You're not like, I, I, I don't do it all the time.
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Like I think I was just, I wake up with more energy.
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I just, that's what I'll always do it like in the afternoon and it kind of makes me sleepy.
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Like I'm not gonna lie, but like the next day I feel fantastic.
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I know some guys that like do a thousand milliliters.
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Like I was doing, I got up to like 500 and I was doing about 22 minutes.
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I'm just like, Oh, this is the worst experience of my life.
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Like, no, I was doing, I was doing 500 milliliters, like two to three years ago.
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I feel like it's just kind of become popular amongst just like, I just, I'm just a pretty
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Like people are just under maybe six months ago.
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I think it just gets promoted a little bit better.
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Like there's are things out there that, well, one for athletes, it's legal and it's healthy
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So it's just like, well, why would I not do something that's going to help my body and
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I guess if you want to read, you're going to fucking pay for it, you pussy.
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But, um, so if you got into wrestling, dude, say after this, cause that's what I, I think
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I could, you start to become some, some guys, they become some players or some, some athletes,
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they are also able to become like a character in a way.
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I feel like you have like the enough energy and like, just like this kind of psycho charisma,
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I would call it where you can also be like a character.
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And it's like, I do mean it as a compliment, but it's like, so I could almost see you doing
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Uh, it was actually right after I got drafted by the Niners.
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My buddy was doing a, um, like a local, it was like an hour away from my, from my house
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He was doing a show and it's actually, uh, Seth Rollins, WWE wrestler.
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I've been to where the plane crashed, where, uh, Richie Valens died and the big bopper.
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I can't remember the town name, but anyway, good for you.
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I like some grandmother fucking forcing some cookies in you.
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You're going to, you're going to eat and you're going to like it.
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And the roads, the tar on the roads, we get all hot in the summer and it would bubble.
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And your bike tire would just get all caked up in it too.
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So first of all, you went to Seth Rollins, you had a school in Davenport.
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So they put on a show and I got in the ring right after I got drafted and I did a, I got
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to pull a stone cold stunner on somebody that was exhilarating.
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Um, they were like, I want to say there's between 40 to 60 people in this little arena.
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I mean, and it was like, it was like, um, literally it was like just, it was a building
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So it was like just an open space, like a rec center.
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And there's literally like 40 people in there, maybe.
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And the pop, everybody standing up and cheering.
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Like that was one of the most exhilarating feelings I've ever had in my life.
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So like literally from that moment, I was like, I get why people wrestle.
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And so, yeah, like I, I can't wait till I have the opportunity to get thrown through
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Do you think who, who from the NFL would, if you had to do tag teaming, if you had to
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have a tag team partner from the NFL, who would you pull in?
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No, like from like an athlete standpoint, like just football player, I'd pick Trent
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Williams because he could, he's one of the, yeah, he's incredible.
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And bring him up and see if you can get him topless or whatever.
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He's one of the guy, one of the five guys on my team that could kill me with a punch.
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I mean, he's, he's like fully tatted now up top.
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That's young Trent Williams right there, but he's a stud, but I would pick him.
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Now, if I was going to pick someone who I think would do like, be a good WWE character,
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Um, I think, I mean, Travis Kelsey, like we'd have a pretty fun, uh, like tight end, tight
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The tightest ends y'all could be called ends that are tight.
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I mean, I think you'll get a new type of fan in the arena.
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I love women's, but I think that there is a, there's, I think, yeah, you could get a
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My current profession, I play in tights as it is.
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I'm used to it, but no, like there are some great characters in the NFL who I think could
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Gronk, I feel like gets, he, he like, he, he gets put in all like everything, you know,
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I saw him on a, um, somebody had him in a, uh, somebody was doing animals, selling puppies
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So I think, you know, he's almost does so many things.
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Like I could see you maybe becoming a member in it.
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Do you feel like you would just do it as a fun thing or do you feel like it could be
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something you would actually, I think I would have really enjoyed doing that right now.
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Like I will say like after meetings, like I've got an awesome opportunity.
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WWE is a fantastic company, like how they organize and run their stuff.
01:09:14.720
Like I've got, I've gotten able to go, I've been able to go to like three WrestleMania.
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And this literally this last one, like the way that it's ran, pick this up, pick me and
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my dad and one of my buddies up and my wife, we got to go backstage.
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I got to hang out with the undertaker, stone cold, Steve Austin.
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I got to meet all these like people that I'm a huge fan.
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And then also rest wrestlers were like when they're behind the scenes.
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Like I'm an NFL football player and people see me like, oh my gosh, some, like, some
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like kids are like, oh my gosh, it's George Kittle.
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But as soon as you get them off the stage, they're just normal people like the rest of
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So just like, just have a conversation with them.
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Like multiple guys are just hanging out with my dad, talking about random stuff.
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And like being able to have that access is so much fun.
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And so like, that's part of the other reason that makes me really want to, you know, try it.
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I was going to say is like their schedule, like they're on the road 320, 40 days.
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They don't get enough credit for their schedule.
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Like if they're doing the, cause you see everyone, you see Monday night raw, you see, I think
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AEW is on Wednesdays and then you have Friday night Smackdown.
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And then you have, if there's a pay-per-view it's on Saturdays or Sundays.
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And then you don't even count the ones that aren't on TV.
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There's like two non, non televised shows a week.
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There's like AEW is a couple of other ones, but like, no WWE puts them on.
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And they'll do like, they'll go to like the Dubuque, Iowa, and it won't be on TV, but
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it'll be in that area, whatever arena that is selling tickets and they're just selling
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And so it's a much smaller production than like the live TV ones, but I've gone to a
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couple of those and they're still really fun, but it's just like this, they're, they're
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Like I perform once a week, they're in the ring and we're at, yes, there's a script to
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it, but like, you can't fake falling off, like getting thrown through a table and you
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can't fake jumping off the top rope to the ground, which is a 10 foot.
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It's like, even if you went to Phantom of the Opera, but what if people are beating
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Like, it's going to hurt that you can't fake it.
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So like, that's why I've decided I have appreciation for wrestlers.
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One of my buddies, like he's been doing it since like he stopped playing football.
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So like, let's just say six years he has driven, like he lives in Davenport, Iowa, and he's
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He, I mean, he goes to Maryland to wrestle, Florida to wrestle, California to wrestle,
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Arizona to wrestle, Nashville to like, and he just drives.
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They get to a lot of these guys, they get, they land, they go to Avis, they go to the
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It's on you to show up and be available to wrestle.
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Like then you have like, and like the superstars in WWE, like they probably, they fly and they
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do stuff, but like a lot of people learn to just drive, match to match week to week, year
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Like I'm friends with the Miz who's a wrestler, right?
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You guys a little bit remind me of each other a little bit, actually.
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He, um, but he would talk about how like you had to like pay your, I mean, you would,
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he's like, you get there, there's fans that are excited about the airport, but then you
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Then you have to go, uh, run through the script in the ring.
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Like, think about like, you have to put oil on your body.
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Y'all do like get the, like you, like us, like you'd have to wet your hair back.
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And then some of those guys are out there performing.
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Like not every match is like super long, but like there are guys that go out there and do
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Like being an orange theory, but people are beating the fuck out of each other in it.
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Just like the time that it like the time and then like the physicalness and like, they
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don't get time to rehab and like do all that stuff.
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Like I have a facility I get to go to every day.
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Hopefully it has a bathtub so I can take a hot bath tonight to warm up my legs.
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You go to like the ice machine and you open it up and, uh, you know, half of the Hardy
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I think it's a tough, it's a really, really tough gig.
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I just think there's a lot of things that are a little bit behind the scenes of a lot
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of performances that you just see the, the show and you don't see like a lot of the other
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Um, do I, I like, I always enjoy whenever I'm backstage and you can like catch someone
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like a, like a tag team with the other tag team fake going through the match.
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Cause I'm like, wow, like there's a lot of intricacies to this.
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And like, there's a, cause there's always a buildup to the match and then like, you just
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And cause it's not memorized, but like they're out there trusting each other that the guy's
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And if you have to memorize something and you're dumb, it's fucking hard.
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I've, I've was, you know, I wouldn't say I'm, yeah, I'm like kind of, you know, but
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I've definitely been dumb and had to memorize shit and not done it.
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There's like, there are some things that are just hard and it is what it is.
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And remember studying in high school and you'd be like, you close the book and like, I have
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Like, I'm like, okay, where I just, there's two hours.
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I was a big, I had to highlight everything and then I'd have to go back and then read
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And then sometimes I'd be like, why did I highlight the whole page?
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I might as well not have a fucking highlighter.
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You're the only one refilling your highlighter.
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I'd be sitting there and like, the only that wouldn't be highlighted is like the, like
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I skipped that word and I was like, well, the other things are pretty important.
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You'd like draw like a highlighter around the picture.
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Oh, I just, well, it creeps me out being around somebody that has a, somebody has a full bladder
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and they, and they're just staying like to be talking to someone and they're knowing
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that they're full of pee at the same time.
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What's like, if you're don't like close, like tight spaces, cluster phobic, cluster phobic.
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So like airplane bathroom, airplane bathrooms, I don't do well in those.
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So like I go five hour flights without going to the bathroom.
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But you could probably hold a lot more urine than a regular person.
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But like, I mean, like there are guys that go two to three times on a flight and like, I'm
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Like I go through like two of those big Essentia bottles, stuff like that.
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And it's just like, nah, I'm just uncomfortable.
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And like, there are times like, and luckily in the last like two years, like we've like
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So I feel less bad about it, but like, it's still like, it's, it's not my favorite thing
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Like you, I don't think you could pay me an amount of money on a submarine.
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Can you imagine going down like a thousand feet underwater?
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And if anything happens, you just implode and you die.
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How many, how many people got into a submarine and went down 500 feet, like in the prototypes
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Also, you put like seven guys in a fucking tank, right?
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And if they pop up in another country, they're going to get, like there's seven of them.
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And then lying to your wife the whole time.
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Like, so yeah, like I'm mildly claustrophobic and it's just like, I don't.
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No, it's just, it's where my body, like I've been in a lot of MRI machines, like just in
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I had, um, at the combine before my rookie year, I had to get like six MRIs in one night.
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But one of them was I had to do both my shoulders because I've, I, both my labrums, I tore them
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And so like, I've never really had shoulder problems.
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Um, but, uh, like the NFL teams wanted to see MRIs of them.
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And so they put me in this, a smaller MRI machine and I had to sit like this and it
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And that was, that was a very difficult time for me.
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For some reason, the noise like knocks me out, but I woke up with about 45 minutes left
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and I like, you know, like, have you ever been an MRI?
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But like, you know, like you can squeeze the panic button basically.
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Like it was, that was, that was one of the most clusterfogicals I've ever been.
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I was like, Oh my, getting out of that was one of the best moments of my life.
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Would you rather drown or get buried alive?
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Like you're in a wood box, 10 feet underground.
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You ever see kill Bill when she breaks out and climbs out of the hole?
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I don't know which one that is, but there's a scene where she's literally in there and
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she's like punches the box, breaks through and she climbs out of a grave.
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Well, the more feet you give me, the scarier it is for some reason.
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But at least just put me at two feet so I feel like I can.
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So these are conversations I have with my friends.
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But you're going to be able to, first of all, you'd be able to convince yourself, okay,
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No, like a guy literally just looks at you and goes, you're going to go in this box.
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I mean, who knows what the fuck they're doing now?
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Well, so like you have to be prepared for anything and then you got to like, you have
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to save your teammates life, shit like that.
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And so, but sorry about what you're saying.
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And so like, I would rather, I think just go underwater and pass out from not being
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I thought you meant like one of those Aaron Rogers drug boxes that he was in.
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Wouldn't it be aggressive to do like a, like a hard psychedelic in that area?
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Well, I think it was, I think it was like a nice enough room.
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So I think it was like, no, like, Oh, I don't know, man.
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Like I appreciate him for like, you know, good for you for wanting to try that.
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I think it was about like a site depravate or like, just like what would happen if you
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don't, if you're not without the stimulus, you know?
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And like, there's no phone, there's no communication with anybody else.
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Like you're literally alone with your thoughts.
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Like, I don't know how old Aaron is, but he's been in the league for a long time.
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So like, do you want to continue to play football?
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So it's like, do you, do I still want to do this?
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Like, do I still love the game that I, you know, that I grew up playing?
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And so, and I don't know if that's what his reasoning was, but like, I think that's what
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And so like, if that's what you want to do to like, to get along with your thoughts, I
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Like, I don't need that in my life right now, but Hey, maybe when I'm 35, like maybe that's
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And I'm like, well, I have that in my back pocket.
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If I ever just want to disappear for four days.
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And it's brave of him kind of in a way to do it because a lot of guys are afraid to, I think,
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you know, I know he's friends with Aubrey Marcus and,
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uh, they, Aubrey's big into like, uh, psychedelic medicines and like, um, just like templates
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Like, like muscle, like, like even like being under the influence of certain things and
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then like doing certain things to your muscles to release like memories, like, and this is
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like all, I'm paraphrasing, but Aubrey's like deep into that world.
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And I think a lot of guys would be, especially at Aaron's level of popularity, he's famous,
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Would be embarrassed to not embarrassed, but would probably feel uncomfortable talking about
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Especially he brought me, he brought it up and he talked about it.
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Like on the Pat McAfee show to the boys love them, but like they, uh, they just to bring
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that up and like, and it's Aaron Rodgers, like everything that he says on into the media,
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like everybody, it's all they got, everybody it's a clip.
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Like any, if he says anything out of like out of line or kind of controversial, like
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that's a headline on hundreds of newspapers or like online, online newspapers.
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So it's just like for him to go out and say that.
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And like, that was the only thing anyone talked about for the next three days.
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Like the meme pages, everyone making fun of him for, but like for him to go out there
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and talk about it, like, I didn't even know that was a thing.
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Like I just, again, not for me right now, but, but in the future, who knows, who knows?
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Like there's like a camp you can go to where no one talks for like a week.
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And then I think you can do like, but you still interact with people.
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So like, if you know sign language, is that cheating?
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Ooh, I don't know, but you'd have to bring someone that also knows it.
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Otherwise you want to think you're into some fucking, you're like, just like in a bunch
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I bet it would be something really cool to do probably with a friend or your wife or something
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Like, Hey, let's just go have this weird experience.
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We're going to be around each other, but we can't talk for a whole week.
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I don't know if my wife would like that too much.
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Um, but I think like I would bring like one of my buddies on that.
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Like, just, I think I would try to make him talk and try to make him laugh.
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He's fucking tickling some dude in the distance all the time.
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I mean, you can, if you want, man, that's your call.
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People are just staying away from you the whole time.
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You're just the guy that kind of got to try to get people to squeal.
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Like who's this fucking silence anarchist over here.
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It kind of seemed like he's just, he seemed like he's definitely kind of a searcher kind
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I will like, I think at his point in his, I mean, again, like I have no idea, but like
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at some point football is not the only thing in my life, right?
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And I think he's been playing football since he was probably five, seven years old for the
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I bet you he wants to find out like who else, like what other parts of me, like what else
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I think that that's, I think that probably happens for a lot of guys who get stuck into
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one or who start so young in something, because then you're like, at some point you're like,
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Did I really, obviously I've loved this at certain points and it's been a great big part
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I don't even, I'm so been so stuck in this vein that I don't even know what they are.
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And like, granted, like, I don't know if he would, like, I wouldn't trade my opportunity.
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Like there could be something else that like, I might've loved to do it.
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I mean like, what if I did that or like, what if I wanted to be the Brittany Griner of fucking
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I think dude, you'd have been a fucking gangster.
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Oh dude, you would have been insane in lacrosse.
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So like, maybe he's like, at some point you want to figure out what else, what else you
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So, you know, I think that a lot about like some of my friends that are athletes that
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are black guys, actually, sometimes I think, cause a lot of young black men, they didn't
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have any other opportunities except for athletics.
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So I start to wonder sometimes like if that's even a bigger thing in their sometimes community
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or that you'll start to see like, because they didn't have any other choice or there
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So it's like, damn, I wonder how many of those guys start to feel like, man, is this
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something that I even wanted to even not wanted to do?
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Was it more like, do I love the game or is it like more of my only choice I had?
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And I think, I think, well, one, like football is really hard if you don't love it.
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Like it's really, cause like what you put your body through, what you put like the
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stress levels through, like we put our, like, I know every, like our professions, like
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when you're out there, you know, for like to perform and like, that's
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It's like, there's a stress that comes out because you could make one bad play.
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And like, that's the only thing everybody on Twitter is yelling at you for and
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And so like, there's a, there's a mental stress to it.
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Like I just said, like I, I have my nationals, my home.
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I haven't, this is my second day back since July 24th.
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Um, and I live in San Jose, California for seven months out of the year.
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So it's just, it's wild because it's just, yeah, it's just, it blows me away.
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I love being here and I feel like I kind of get to know it in increments because I'm always
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It's very hard for me to start a relationship with someone that I know I'm going to be able
01:28:52.520
You know, it's like, um, I've already kind of written off that I might even be able
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to, you know, I would like to have a spouse, you know?
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And so it's like, I think maybe there's a possibility in the next year and a half I'll
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meet somebody, but I know for the next year and a half, I'm probably going to be touring
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And so it's like, I haven't written it off, but it's like, I know it's going to limit my
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If I'm in the same place, being able to like, um, have a commitment that I'm there with all
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And it's also, but like, you have to be kind of selfish because this is your window of
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Like if it's, it's out there for you and like, you could say no, but like, will that opportunity
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And like, you know, it's that you don't like, not everybody has to do that.
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And like, it's, it's a life choice if you want to do that and you're making sacrifices,
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but it's like, I mean, dude, like it's, if you like, if you enjoy doing it, go do it.
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Like you're still, like, you're still going to be here.
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So if I said George Kittle, won't you take a year and a half off, right?
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Oh no, that, no, that's what I was talking about dating, taking a year, year and a half
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I thought you meant to take a year and a half off of doing comedy and stuff.
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Like I'm saying, take advantage of your opportunity, dog.
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It's like, yeah, you have to look at that and kind of figure that out.
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It's just, it's like has a little bit of caffeine in it.
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I'm involved with PFL, the Professional Fighters League.
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So like, it's like they have, so if you win the first round, you just move on the second
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That's how they, that's how they decide who wins the belt.
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That seems a lot more almost realistic in the, what the value of the belt is.
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Like, and I'm not like, I'm not huge in the UFC stuff.
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I don't follow it religiously like a lot of people do, but I, I mean, I have the utmost
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Like they, like when they go into the ring, like when they flip the switch, there's no
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Like in football, like it's, it's a little bit like you have that mindset to an extent,
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but like they're actually in there until someone pulls them off of them.
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There's a, it's a different level of, um, of violence that you're willing to do.
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He's like, he reminds me of like, he reminds me of, uh, mankind a little bit.
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Um, my senior day in college, he played fullback with me in Iowa.
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And so also then like I was number 46, he was number 45.
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And so our lockers were next to each other for like three or four years.
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And I, when they, and we got a new locker room, our old locker room, it was like, you
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And then like every other number was 51 through 99.
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And so like, it'd be one and then it'd be 51 to 52.
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It was literally like one started here and it just kind of went around.
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Uh, so my fifth year senior play in Nebraska and we beat the shit out of him.
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He always talks about that or something like that.
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But he looks like a premature baby on fucking pre-workout.
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Like his eyes don't open all the way or something.
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You went to Nebraska and you look like that.
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I wouldn't say, I mean, I didn't say any of that.
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My very first play, we're running an inside zone.
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He's at fullback and I'm blocking somebody and I just hear a snap and I turn around and Drake's
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No, he like, he, he hits, he hits somebody and then someone landed on it and just snapped
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But there's a cool, we have a cool photo where it's like, he's getting carted off and
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he's basically like telling us all to beat the shit out of him.
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It's a fun photo, but I was saying like, he spent this entire last off season.
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He lived, he moved to Nashville to train with me.
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Cause he invited me out a couple of times to your barn out there.
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There's us three right down there in the middle.
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I'm just saying he, I'm just saying thick boy out of Iowa.
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And it was always true that he's such a, he's a great dude to have around too, because he's
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very aware of his surroundings and also being around someone that knows like jujitsu and
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It's really, I enjoy that having someone that he could just flip a switch at any moment.
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Like if someone tried to fuck with me, he would a hundred percent have my back at any
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Like the, that value of knowing that skill and your friends with you, it will, but also
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it changes the game of like, if it's a big dude versus a little dude, sure that
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We went to, uh, in Scottsdale for the super bowl.
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Uh, I had tickets to, uh, the Drake concert up there.
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Those concerts, they have, they tried to, they pack like 20,000 people into a place that
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fits 5,000 and like, there's, it's just, it's, it's, it's crazy.
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Um, but like, there's like TMZ and all this paparazzi outside waiting for people and like
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two guys kind of put my camera in my face and he just kind of goes up and throws an elbow
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And the dude just kind of drops, clears a path for me.
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I get into a car and he's hopped right behind me.
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Not three under the bus, Drake, but that was awesome.
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Um, no, he would help me at when I would go to, uh, the national MMA, he would help me
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And just like, always like just a good teacher, but yeah, he has a great energy, man.
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Like he, his, so like, yeah, I keep talking about like the switch that you have to flip
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his switch, like his football switch is still flipped on.
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And it's just kind of always, so he just kind of has this, like this anger and like this
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And I like, I really, cause not everybody's, there's not a lot of people like that.
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And so being around someone that has that kind of that energy to them, that's just violence.
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But like, like there's not a lot of people that are triggered like that or like wired
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I like people that are just, I like people that are wired differently.
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Not even high energy, but he's just like controlled anger and he's just kind of like ready to
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It's hard to just fucking have all the fire inside of you, but it's just like burning it
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So you got to fucking just walk around like a furnace.
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And so like you either have to put it out or keep it super low, but like his is like
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Did you like have any, did you have like crazy Halloween costumes and stuff?
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And so, and it was like the dad that had nine kids, 10, 10 daughters, 10 daughters.
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And I don't know if you say anything to your mom.
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And we had like, I would say like, let's just say like six of the, six of the daughters
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And so like, we'd have Halloween parties and like, we'd have like 30 to 40 people show up
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And so we would just basically go through these small Iowa towns with like all these,
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But Batman was a good, that was one of my top characters to be.
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Or like I had the, like the nylon mask you'd pull on your face and I just walk out with
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He didn't get, people don't dress up like the Grim Reaper very often.
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I don't think I've ever seen anybody be the Grim Reaper.
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That was like my number one costume from like five to nine, probably.
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Maybe, maybe like, like four to seven, but like.
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I don't know any, I've never heard anybody say there.
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Dude, you just had a, you had like a skull for a face.
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You wore a cool robe and you just got to carry a big scythe.
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Now I'd hit my cousins with it all the time.
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When you have that many fucking cousins, you can, if you lose a few, you lose a few.
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Yeah, if someone falls behind, they fall, they fall behind.
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Oh, we got a, but my dad was like a senior citizen.
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So he would always pick us up shit at the last minute.
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So we had, me and my brother were both Raggedy Ann one year.
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Just two Raggedy Ann's beating the shit out of each other.
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Two young male children dressed in fucking drag, dressed in Halloween drag, beating the shit
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So my day was, he was in charge of getting us ready for Halloween and stuff like that.
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We wanted like white face paint and to do, to do like skeletons or whatever, you know,
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And so I remember he poured us like a little bowl of like, I want to say, no, it was like,
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he poured us like a little bowl of, of like half and half cream or whatever.
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So I remember me and my brother, like trying to get this shit.
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And he's like, no, you're not using enough.
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And I remember fucking just like, then I remember we go outside and like all the neighborhood
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Like just, just everything was just so retarded.
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So it was like, it was always like this weird Halloween.
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Um, and then Halloween's a crazy concept anyways.
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Oh, what about, uh, what about like, so with that big of a family, did you guys do like
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Every year it was literally up until, um, what was that?
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Like summer, summer 2019, I think it was, we did, uh, we had the Crager family reunion.
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And so they, uh, we'd have a family reunion and we used to have it like in Iowa at like
01:41:30.280
this kind of, not, it was like, I can't remember what it was called, but it was like this small
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town and it's like out in the woods was like this, um, just like big building that it was
01:41:40.380
like a little hotel, I guess, but they, they had like 80 rooms.
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And so like each family would get a room and we literally, we'd like, I think we had
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Like we had like a hundred and like 12 people there one time and like, we do wiffle ball
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tournaments and then like kind of, and I usually did when I was a kid, like, but you'd have,
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I mean, I'd say like 80 of the people, 80 out of the 120, 80 out of the 110 would play.
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And you'd have these huge wiffle ball tournaments.
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We do kickball, a lot of card games, but like that was the most fun.
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Cause I went to those when I was like between the ages of like seven and 14.
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So I was just out there having the time of my life, playing in the woods, getting food.
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And then you just get to hang out with all your best friends all the time.
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So we were all like, I've lived with some of my cousins before, like throughout my life.
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And so like those family reunions were really fun.
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And like people would like, we had family that lived in Indiana, family that lived in Colorado
01:42:39.180
But like literally, yeah, I'd say like from age like nine to probably 16, like we had
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like a seven year window there where like over a hundred people would show up every time.
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I think about a lot of, a lot of the Midwest, there were some big families, you know, especially
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You'd see a lot of church families and they'd roll up, they'd always had that church van, you
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Cause he is like, I think they have, what do they have?
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Well, it was just like, oh my gosh, they have so many kids and it's like, Hey, I love
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It's fun, but it's just like, that's a lot of, that's a lot of people.
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Do you guys, will you think you guys have a big family?
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I mean, I'd say like, uh, my wife has one brother.
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I have one sister, but like we both want to have, I would like three to four kids.
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Especially if you can, I think these days, especially too, if you can afford to have them, that's probably
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Um, and then you're like my wife, she's six foot tall and she, she played basketball at
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So like, I think my kids will be good for college.
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So like year two, but for sure, like NIL deal year two, I mean, two years old, two years
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But yeah, no, I, I would prefer a bigger family.
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Cause this was what I was thinking about this too.
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Cause like I said, so she's in a family of four, I'm in a family of four.
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If me and her have four kids and we're a family of six, neither one of us has ever interact.
01:44:37.880
Like we've had friends that have families like that, but like, I've never been responsible
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And so like, that'll be a whole new interaction for me.
01:44:44.260
Like I've never been like, I've never, I never had a brother.
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So like, I know like I had cousins that are brothers.
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I have friends that are like brothers to me, but like, I never had an actual brother.
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So like, if I have two sons or can you imagine three sons, like what that was interaction
01:44:56.480
to be like, I've never experienced that before.
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So like, it'll be a completely new experience for me too, which is, I think that's really
01:45:02.760
Yeah, dude, that'd be, Oh, I think the family dynamics totally different than what I was
01:45:08.760
Like, I think that's just going to be really interesting.
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Like she, like she's taught, she taught me a bunch.
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Um, I definitely like, I didn't fight my sister.
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But like, I didn't really have an opportunity to fight her because she was, she was like
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five, 10 at the age of 10 and just whooped up on me.
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She was a, like, she was a stallion back in the day.
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Like, like when she played high school basketball, like she could fight me and beat me up pretty
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So like, I was like, yeah, what do you need to see some of that footage?
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I think if she did an only fans as just that you want to see my, my 17 year old
01:45:45.080
I'd watch a 17 year old girl beat up George Kittle.
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Honestly, it's not that weird when you say it like that.
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I'm not saying like, and I don't need re-enactments or any lingerie.
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I'll send you a video of my sister's beating the shit out of me in a couple of weeks.
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Um, when you look at, uh, when you, how long does it take you to forget about the season
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I can only imagine, especially if you're a very competitive person and you have such
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Um, honestly, it's like kind of like waves, dude, in the ocean.
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Like when, right afterwards, like it hits you a lot and then like the farther away you
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And so you just kind of like, it kind of goes away, but like, it's still like I lost
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Like I said, and when you get close, we've lost two NFC championships games back to back.
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But like, the great thing is, is I made it out.
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And so like, yes, it sucked, but Hey, I'm still very confident that we have, like, we have
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So yeah, it really, it sucks, but like you get on with it.
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And like, there are other parts of your life that, you know, like kind of pick you up.
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And like, I have a great support system, whether it's my family or my wife, like I have a great
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I have a lot of friends who like deal with the same stuff.
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And so it's just like, I have a lot of football friends who like, so like, it's not a support
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group, but it's just like, you have people that go through similar stuff.
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Like at the end of the year, there's only one team that wins.
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So 31 other teams are all dealing with some of the same shit.
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So like, yeah, if you want to talk about it or stuff like that now, I don't think you
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It's just kind of like, you just got to get, you get, it just takes a couple of weeks
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really like, like the first two to three weeks afterwards really suck.
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But like now that I'm back in Nashville and like, I'm, like I said, I'm healthy and I
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But like the perspective probably starts to switch to the future a little bit.
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And also, but like, if, and like, so my first two years, our team wasn't very good.
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So like when your season ends in like December, it's, you're kind of like, all right, well,
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yeah, it kind of, we sucked this whole year, but like, you're also like, when you know
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you're not in the playoffs, it's you're, you're, you're like, you're playing for yourself
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And like, you want to, like, you got to put good stuff on tape.
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Like you can't just give up, but like, there are, there's a, the energy changes, the energy
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And it's, it's harder to get, you know, like eating during the middle of the game and
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Like, even like, so like, if you're like an O and nine team, like my rookie year, we
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Not very fun, but like, and I was just, and I was learning, right?
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It was dialed, it was wild, but it was really fun.
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But like, once the season ends, cause like you kind of like, all right, we're not going
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So like three weeks before, like your wife or like you're like, you're planning a vacation.
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So you're like, then you have something else to look forward to.
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It's just, it's different than, than went and going in the playoffs and like, Hey, we
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Seven teams that make the playoffs on my side of the conference.
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Like we have a shot to win and then it gets taken out from me.
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Um, but like, if you know, you're not going to be like, it's, it's just, it's two different
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And I think it's eat, like, I'd rather win a bunch of games and then lose a heartbreaker.
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Honestly, like winning 12 to 13 games is a lot more fun than losing 10 straight.
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Like, and yes, but does it suck to lose at the end?
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I'm just going to continue to grind and continue to be a good football player.
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Did you think when, when Brock Purdy came in, um, what it would be like, and there's a
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bee in here or something, not bee, it's just a safe animal.
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It's probably if I hit it, will PETA get mad at me?
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Somebody said Travis Kelsey can do that with a falcon.
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Did you see the clip on Instagram of the dude that hunts with a falcon, bro?
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Like you, and you see, you see something, you just go, wow.
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Oh, I haven't seen, I don't know if I've seen that.
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These guys are driving with like a, a hawk or a falcon and they're in a car.
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We're like, I think it might've been an ATV and like, they get off and they see something
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and they, guy like starts running through the snow and they think there's a fox like
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a hundred yards away and he literally throws a falcon and it's like perched on his arm
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Like it's like a swimmer diving out and he just, and you just see him like coast along
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this like snow bank and just claws, pick it up and it brings it right back.
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I saw, I've, I've seen that clip a ton of times.
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But yeah, those, those clips are, have you, do you fall like nature is metal?
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You're having like a nice evening, you know, you're out fucking to a nice dinner.
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You pick at the phone and it's a raccoon just eating its young and you're like, whoa.
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Dude, like that, that page, like one of the, one of the craziest things I ever saw on that
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page was, have you ever seen like the moose run through snow?
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Dude, I was looking, moose are massive animals.
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And like, there's a clip of this thing running like 30 miles an hour just through six feet
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I don't know, this isn't the one I've seen, but like.
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And look, there's a white guy eating a sandwich.
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I think he just runs right past him here in a sec.
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Oh, we picked the worst video where it's just a guy.
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It's just two guys eating a sandwich watching a moose.
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Can you imagine if he just like chested, like if you just got chested by the dude?
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Go right for the thing's knees and it's probably going to, it's going to knock my wind out,
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Like if I was a safety and that's the tight end crowd across the middle field, I'm going
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to take a creative angle and try to hit its back two legs right at the ankles
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Remember that you've seen people like stiff front, like, you know, there are just highlights
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I would do some other way to get him, you know?
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Now, what if you put lice in your field in the grass that got in his hair at halftime,
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I know, but even maybe as a defensive player, I get that.
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Dude, he's like six, four, six, five, 245 pounds.
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Christian McCaffrey plays running back and he's five, 10, like 210 pounds.
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Like they play the same position or how about Robbie gold's a kicker.
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And then you have guys like Trent Williams and they play the same sport.
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Those comparison photos always like freak me out.
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You have like, you have the six foot six guys who could, you know, kill somebody easily.
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And then you have the dad of four who's just kicking footballs.
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Just like how different everybody is in the NFL.
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And then you also have a lot of Samoan players.
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Do you guys have a lot of Hawaiian or Samoan players?
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He had a great season in his second year, but like, yeah, he throws it whenever he makes
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He has, he just, he's, it's just a different energy and people are wired differently.
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You, yeah, well like think about like, you have people who come from great family backgrounds.
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You have people who were all Americans in college and people who are undrafted free agents
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It's like, like everybody has like such a different story.
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So like, this is the crazy, like if you just, if you just take the time to listen to somebody
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talk and like, you understand them, like, and you're just open about it, dude, it's the
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amount of stuff you can learn from people is amazing.
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Like it's, it's really fun to sit and talk to guys.
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What's the culture like over there at, with the 49ers?
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You hear that they have a really great culture over there that John Lynch, right?
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So yeah, Lynch and, uh, coach Shanahan, they've brought in a lot of really good guys, but
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like what it was, was like, I had a really good rookie class.
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Um, and like, we were like, we had, we had a great rookie class and a lot of our rookies
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around the team, but like about, and we had some really good vet, like Joe Staley, uh,
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Garrett Salkley, those are two vets that we had that were amazing people.
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Um, and they knew how to play the game the right way, but they were both like father figures
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And so they're all learning from like these guys.
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So guys learn like what matters and how to treat people with respect.
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It's kind of crazy, but like in a locker room, you kind of have to, um, cause you're
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But like, so we have a, we have a solid group of guys and it's kind of elevated to
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like, so our best players, our captains are all very high character guys.
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And so you better be a good person, do your stuff that you're supposed to do and then play.
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We hit people really hard and Hey, we're a very violent, violent football team, but
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Is it a pretty selfless environment over there?
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Does it feel like, because, cause like you don't even get a ton of balls, right?
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Like you don't get a ton of balls, but you have, but you have a lot of great assets on
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And there's a lot of people that need to get the ball.
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Like, so it's a point of like everybody, you want individual success.
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Um, and so, but like to do that, you do need a certain amount of statistics to get there.
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So there's a, there's a certain type of selfishness like you, cause there is like, you want to,
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You want to, you want to play, you want to do stuff.
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Um, so what's awesome about our team is like, we all like, whether it's Debo, um, Christian
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McCaffrey, Kyle use check, uh, I use fantastic.
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I love I use he's, he's just a different energy, but like you have these guys, like they are,
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It's like, if we're winning the game and, and like, they're playing too, like they're
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playing at high, like they're running great routes.
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They're, you know, blocking at a high level too, but like they're doing everything.
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So like, whether it's Christian McCaffrey or other running back like Elijah Mitchell, like to
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get them into the end zone, that's all I care about.
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And so like, yes, I love the personal accolades.
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Like you, you want to build that resume, but I mean, I would, I would trade about, yeah.
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I mean, I would, I'd rather win a Superbowl than I think this is an argument I've had in
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Like, would you rather win a Superbowl or be in the hall of fame?
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I think it would have to be the Superbowl as a fan.
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I'd rather win a Superbowl than be in the hall of fame.
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But like, if I had to pick one, like, Hey George, would you rather win this or do that?
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Do you think there are players that would rather get the ball more than win the game?
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Like, I think there are certain players that like, you have to have the mindset that when,
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like when you get the ball, like the more, like you have to have a mindset.
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If they threw me the ball, dude, I'd throw it back.
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I feel like you just toss a ball out of bounds.
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Um, there might be some guys that are like more like stat hungry, maybe, but they're
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I've never really been with a guy that was like that, which has been awesome.
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Um, but like, and there's, there's guys who have contracts who are like, Hey, if I get
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Like we had a guy who, um, we had a guy who he, he was a backup.
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But he's resigned because his rookie deal was over and he had an incentive in there.
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That was, if he got over, he had to break his receiving yards from last year and he only
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had like 150 receiving yards, but he doesn't play a lot on offense.
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Cause he got, he got like a multiple a hundred thousand dollar bonus because of it.
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And so like, yeah, like there is a selfishness to it because who doesn't want to get paid
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Whatever it was, I'm not entirely sure, but like, that's awesome.
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And like, I'm encouraging like, Hey, Jimmy, throw him the ball.
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Like, so like when it is like, so there's, there's selflessness, but there's also a
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But I'm luckily beyond a part of a team that, Hey, like Debo is a superstar.
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And he had a game where he had like 20, he had 20 receiving yards and 20 rushing yards.
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Like we have another opportunity to play next week.
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When I get my opportunity, I'll be ready for it.
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He had a 74 yard touch here and he had like 120 yards receiving a touchdown player of
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It's just like, we have those guys capable on our team, but we have six of those guys
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And then it's just, it's fun to be a part of a team like that.
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Was McCaffrey pretty excited when he got to go to your team?
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A change of pace I'm sure is exciting for anyone.
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And also you're getting to go to a team that has a chance to move forward in the league.
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And like, he, I talking to Christian, like he loved Carolina.
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Like that's where he thought he was going to be for his whole career.
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And they traded him and getting to come to San Francisco where, especially it was fun
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And so we've kind of been talking about like, Hey, it'd be really fun to like play together
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And at the bottom of my jersey, I said, see you soon.
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And now he's a Niner, which is pretty sick.
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I'm big into that, but you got to, um, so sorry, but like he came into this offense that we
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Like a lot of guys, like a lot of offenses, you kind of see big guys waddle.
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We're running as fast as we possibly can to try to make the, like, we're trying to move
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So it's like, it's a lot more movement and it's, if you're a good running back and you
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It's like, it's more difficult to run that way.
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You have to have an opposite line and like tight ends that are built for that.
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But when you have an O-line tight end fullback, like combo that is talented and like, and
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We're one of the, like the best run offenses in football.
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And so like for him to be a running back in that offense, it's a really good opportunity.
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I felt excited when he got, cause even after your quarterback went out in the, in the championship
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I, I down block on the defensive tackle, which happened to be Fletcher Cox.
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And sometimes when you push in a large man, do you feel their stomach or where do you
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Like the only way to move big people, you have to hit them.
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So like when I'm blocking, so like, I don't know, do you know what, you have any idea what
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The tight end, everyone blocks down and you pull a guard from the opposite side to kick
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But on that, the entire coaching point is if there's, all right, real quick, if I'm the
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right tight end and this is the offensive tackle, like this is the offensive tackle right
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I'm aiming Mike, my, my left shoulder pad is aimed on his hip.
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Cause if I can hit that hip, his feet will move.
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And then the right tackle will pick them up and he'll move him for me while I go up to
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So you're creating a wall and the running back's going to go right behind us.
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And so like my target is that hip and I'm trying to hit it as violently and as like hard
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Cause it doesn't matter if you're 200 pounds or if you're 300 pounds, if I get you in
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And then if you're off your base and getting hit by another big guy, you're screwed.
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And if it's that, it's that fast and it's that fast and like, they don't know that
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And so I have to like, I'm like a coiled spring just as soon as they say hike and I'm diving
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through that guy's hip to go up to the second level.
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Cause we were talking about like, I don't get the ball every play and like, I don't want
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Like you, like running with a football in open space and not getting hit is one of
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the coolest things you can possibly do as a human being.
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What did you feel like just driving real fast, dude?
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I'm just like, this is like, cause it doesn't happen very often.
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Cause everyone's such good athletes, but when you're just running through the space, man,
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Like, I feel like I'm a kid who just like, I just stole something.
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And it's, it's such a, it's such a thrilling feeling.
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But so in the, I don't get to do that all the time.
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So like running routes is fun, but when you don't get the ball running routes, isn't
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And so when you're in the run game and the whole thing is like, it depends on me.
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Like the running backs to help me has to set me up, but like, I have to hit this guy as
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And then there's all these fundamentals, whether it's your first step, your second step, your
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inside hand, where your outside hand goes, but like, there's just art to it.
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And people that are really good at it, you see their technique and like what it looks like.
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I watch a lot of, I like, I love watching offensive line, like run the football and like hit
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And so like, I put, I like, I'm the best run blocking, run blocking tight end in the
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And I've been doing it differently for like my entire career.
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And I, like my first year, maybe not so much, but like second year on, I kind of like figured
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So then what's great about the tight end position, I can affect every single play.
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I can, I can have a huge impact on every single play in the football game.
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Like a wide receiver who's on the backside of an outside zone going away from him.
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If he doesn't block the corner, it might not be a big deal.
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Every play that I'm in on, I have, uh, I have the opportunity to have a huge impact, whether
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So like, I love playing tight end because I have that opportunity.
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And because I get to do all those things, I'm going to do everything I can to be great
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at all those things, whether it's pass blocking, run blocking, or running routes and catching.
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So like, I'm the only position gets, you really get to do everything.
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Like we had a tight end throw touchdown in the Superbowl a couple of years ago, the Eagles
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guy, um, but like, you got to do a little bit of everything.
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So like, I don't want to be an average run blocking tight end.
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I like Mercedes Lewis is six foot six, six seven.
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Like we do two different, like we hit people differently, but like, I'm trying, I want
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I'm just like, I want to be great at everything that I'm asked to do.
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So then I don't have to get taken out for anything.
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I mean, I, I played the most snaps of my career this year.
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And I missed the first two games, which was crazy.
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I mean, I play like 98% of the snaps every single game.
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It's well, like I said, your window is only so big.
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So like you might as well make the most of your window.
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I like, and also I only get to hit people for 17 weeks.
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And will you dress it up like certain players or anything?
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I have thought about that, but no, I don't know who I would, I don't know who I'd set
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Like there's not, I don't really not like very many people in the NFL.
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There's a couple of guys that, you know, I don't care about or I might not care for.
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There's not too many games that I completely circle the calendar.
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There's a couple just like based on a player that I get to go against, but I don't have
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Like what's one of those teams where you're like, I'm going against this team this week.
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Like, because they play us, they play us the exact same way every time.
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And then at the end of the day, they have Aaron Donald who's, I mean, yeah, besides Trent
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Williams, sorry, Trent Williams and Aaron Donald are the two best football players in the NFL.
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Like, I mean, sorry, Patrick Mahomes is really good.
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Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, like there are other good players, but like for dominance at their
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position, every single snap, Trent Williams, Aaron Donald and Nick Bosa is getting there
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But like Aaron Donald, like eight time, all pro, like that's insane.
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But so when you play the Rams, you have to game plan for Aaron Donald, because if you
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only put one guy on him, the likelihood of him blowing up the play and hitting the running
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back or the quarterback in the backfield and making them fumble significantly increases.
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So you have to, so you have to completely game plan for him.
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So like, and then like the way they play their defenses, they just try to bottleneck us as
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So it makes our outside zone a little bit more difficult.
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Um, and then they kind of played in this, like kind of a quarters thing where like they
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keep everything in front of, like it's kind of bend, but don't break.
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Like you can give up some small step, but you're not getting anything past us.
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Um, and so it's just like playing a team like that where they're, so like I'm in my
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three point stance, Theo, and line of scrimmage is like right here.
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They have an outside linebacker who's wider than you are and like a tilted stance and
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And the second we say hike, he's trying to run through my face as fast as he can that
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And they're like, not every team does that, but it's very difficult to go against because
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at that point, it's just kind of me saying, all right, who's going to hit who harder
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And like, we've like, and like, there's different ways that we, we sometimes put a
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guy in motion and we'll like, we'll double team that guy because like having to hit
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somebody and anchor, I think is easier than having to hit somebody and then move.
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Cause if I anchor the window, doesn't everyone, he runs into my back.
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Feel me like, so if like, if I go to block you and the office lines coming this way
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and I stopped my feet, I'm gonna get ran up on it.
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So like, I have to hit you and then keep my feet running.
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So I'm running like the people behind me are also moving people towards me.
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Like if you're at the point of attack, you have to run.
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If you, do you think, say, if you coach, you coached me, you trained me, right?
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I'm saying anything on the field and you were my trainer, man.
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But I mean, you'd have to, how much do you weigh right now?
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Well, you have to hold some weight because like in the NFL, when there's a small long snapper,
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they'll just put like a defensive lineman on them.
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Yeah, so like there's a, you have to have a little size to you at least.
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I just want to have to wake up and eat at night, like in the middle of the night, like
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Dude, so in college, I had a really difficult time.
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And so in my third year, I drank eight Gatorade protein shakes a day.
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And like literally I had, so like, let's just say I wake up at 6 a.m. for my lift.
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And before I get, before I start the lift, before I start the warmup, I drink another
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I go to the warmup, come in, drink a protein shake before I get on the scale.
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I take three, I think I'm at four, I think I'm at four there.
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Is your truck just full of dirty protein shake containers?
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Like do you, do you ever see the old Gatorade cans?
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Look up Gatorade protein shake can, aluminum, like metal can.
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And then I would set an alarm if I was really struggling.
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If I would set an alarm for 3 a.m. or no, 2 a.m. and then 4 a.m.
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You know how bad a product or how something off about a product has to be that's not available.
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I didn't even know Gatorade did protein until I got to Iowa.
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No one knew it until just now when you told us.
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So that's a number one thing to even be able to play.
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Like I said, if I weighed 225 pounds right now, I wouldn't be in the NFL.
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I have to be at least 240 for me to be able to move people still.
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but I got to see Brandon Marshall at the Super Bowl.
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I was like, Brandon, why don't you just play tight end, dude?
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But I was like, I mean, you could have played another couple of years.
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I'll call in, and you're going to figure it out.
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So Travis Kelsey, this guy, 1,300 yards, 10 touchdowns a year
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But he gets more balls thrown over than you.
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But my point is that if he was a wide receiver, his contract,
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he'd be the 26th highest paid wide receiver in the NFL.
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He should probably be making, if like there's wide receivers out there
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making over $25 million that don't get his stats.
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I mean, like I was, I think I was third in the NFL in touchdowns this year.
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And yeah, I mean, there's 20 receivers that make more money than me.
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I'm happy for them that they're making their money.
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Like our franchise tag is like $10 million, which is like, if a team doesn't,
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like Evan Ingram tied in for the Jackson drivers, he was franchise tag,
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which means like, they don't want to do a new deal yet,
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And it's based on the average of like the top couple contracts of your position.
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And then the quarterback franchise tag is $30 million for that one season.
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And I get the quarterback is the most, that's the most important position.
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But like wide receiver franchise tag is, I want to say like 20 something.
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Especially now when you're getting all these hybrid, you have like Taysom Hill,
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you have a hybrid player that could possibly do it all.
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And like, no, now the thing, when you get an, you, you have to be great at all those things
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for it to be a value of you in a contract negotiation too.
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Like if you, and if you can just, if you can just do several things,
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but you do them averagely, I'd rather have like a guy that does this great
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and a guy that does this great than having a guy that doesn't both average.
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So like, that's a part of it too, but it's just like, yeah.
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Is there, is there a position that we don't know that you could possibly play
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on the field that people wouldn't really realize maybe?
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Oh dude, I would love to play like outside linebacker in a three, four defense.
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Kind of like, I know I'm not going to say like, I'm not going to say off,
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I'm going to be amazing at it, but I think I would have a real shot at it.
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If I could get up to like 260, 265, maybe 270 and set an edge, I think I'd do that.
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I'm a really good athlete and like, you don't have to run as much, which is really nice.
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I've had to pause it and fucking get water.
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If you ever watch, like I, I put the oxygen mask on almost after every drive.
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I don't know if it does anything, but I do feel better.
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Like I'm just like, oh, well, even if it's a placebo effect, I'm big into placebo effects.
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I was listening to a couple of your podcasts.
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I can't believe Jay played quarterback that long in the NFL.
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Like, he would have games where he'd throw for, like, 350 yards and four touchdowns.
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It was really fun to watch and fun to be a Bears fan.
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The memes of him, like, having a cigarette in his mouth at the podium.
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Like, those are some of my favorite football memes.
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Because he was the first person that they made those memes about.
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Are there still players that smoke cigarettes, you think?
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Like, you've ever been out there and you're like,
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Jesus, somebody's been fucking smoking at halftime.
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I had a teammate my rookie season who, after practice and after games,
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Aaron Rodgers did, like, a 30-second drive to kick a field goal to win the game.
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So, like, we almost went to Lambeau and won as, like, my rookie class.
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And they were a much better team than us, but we somehow kept it close.
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And I had a good game, too, but, like, it was a heartbreaker.
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And, like, I said, I grew up a Bears fan, so, like, playing in Lambeau for the first time
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And, like, I go to the shower, and he's in there smoking a cigarette.
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And I was like, hey, man, I'll take one of those if you don't mind, man.
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Like, that's probably illegal, but I'm sorry, NFL.
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But I did do that one time, and that was a really fun one.
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And, like, one of the coaches walked in and, like, looked at us, and he just walked out
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So, I was like, yeah, dude, just give us a sec, man.
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Yeah, look, it's two probably nude men smoking cigarettes in a shower.
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Yeah, like, dude, will you give me a sec, please?
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Oh, there should be eight minutes where you should be allowed to smoke a cigarette after the game,
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Are there quarterbacks that you wouldn't be excited to play for, do you feel like?
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See, the only way, it would be as a teammate, for him to do that, that would piss me off.
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Like, I don't care who the, like, I don't, like, if you put your effort in, and you show
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up, and you play, and, like, you did everything you could to be prepared, and you have a bad
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But, like, if you go out of your, like, if you don't, like, try.
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Like, in college, you have to do classes, and, like, you're a very, you're testosterone
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Like, you have other things in your life that might, at that time, matter more than football.
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If you're in the NFL, like, yes, your family matters, and, like, there's certain things,
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And you're, you have all, you have 60 other guys in that locker room who count on you to do
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So, that's, that's something that I would, that would piss me off.
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Yeah, something like that would really upset me, I think.
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I, like, proven in the NFC Championship game, I can't help much if I can't get the ball thrown
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Could, should somebody, who, who was the last quarterback to go in?
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You guys lost your whole quarterbacks all year.
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So, fun fact, I've played six years in the NFL, and four out of the, I've had one quarterback
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2019, I had Jimmy G for one season, and we went to the Super Bowl.
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So, we played five years together at Iowa, and then four years together at San Francisco.
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But he, so, like, my second year, I had three quarterbacks.
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And this past season, I had four quarterbacks.
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Oh, dude, I never knocked wood on an American flag.
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And then, so after that, who was there, was there any talk that somebody else could go
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So, like, you, like, you, you tentatively game plan for, like, an emergency quarterback.
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And Kyle Juszczyk, our fullback, was our emergency quarterback.
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But, like, he's only, like, he doesn't know all the footwork stuff for plays.
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Like, the playbook was, like, four play, like, four to eight plays.
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Because Coach Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan, he's been in NFL, like, I want to say, like, 15 to 20 years.
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His dad, Mike Shanahan, never, never seen it in his career.
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Right, so he can't even text his dad at halftime and ask him.
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And so, it's just, like, it doesn't happen often.
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And everyone's like, well, why aren't you more prepared?
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But were you guys, like, looking around the sideline?
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Like, who's even lean enough here to even throw?
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Like, because at that point, it's also, like, a stat.
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The only thing that I would have wanted to see just for, like, even at the point, like,
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I think at that, when Josh got hurt, where I think we were only down set.
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And so, at that point, you're like, okay, we can't throw.
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So, we, like, the next couple of minutes, like, you're like, okay, we might have a shot
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And you're just like, we can't physically throw the football.
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And they're just going to put 11 people in the box.
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I know Jawan Jennings, one of our wide receivers, he played at Tennessee.
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He was, like, a top five quarterback recruit in high school, which was kind of.
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But, like, at the end of the day, like, you're not going to.
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It's not high school where you just put your best athlete at quarterback or college where
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you can just put a really fast guy at quarterback and you just run around
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But, like, A, if you would have gotten him in and, like, we would have thrown the ball,
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Like, we're, like, you're trying everything you can to not, like, oh, we're going to
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But it's, like, the most important position we don't have.
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Like, I mean, the only other team I've seen do is the Denver Broncos during COVID.
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And so, you put a wide receiver in, but they had a week to prepare, at least, or a couple
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But it's just, like, what are you supposed to do?
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And, like, A, if you're an Eagles football player or an Eagles fan, probably loved it.
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I think if you love something like that, then you're sick, too.
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But, like, winning in that way is, like, it's not exciting.
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Like, there's nothing, like, there's not really anything exciting about that.
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It's like, sure, like, hey, you guys are scoring.
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Like, they're winning the game and they're beating, like, yeah.
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You're beating somebody who's, like, hands are tied behind their back.
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Like, at least it would have been an entertaining game.
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Do you think it's fair that the overtime team just goes to kick that field goal?
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So, then it went to, like, you had to, if you score a touchdown, you automatically win.
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And then this past season in the playoffs in overtime, both teams get a chance.
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Because I remember the Bills-Chiefs game from last year.
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And everyone's like, well, if the Bills, like, the offenses were so high-powered, if the Bills would
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have gotten a shot, they would have gone out and scored.
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And so, they changed the rule for the playoffs.
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If that happened, that both teams get an opportunity at it.
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I think, I mean, I think college has overtime perfect.
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And then, also, like, for the people watching, like, those touchdowns count.
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So, it's like, a guy could go and, like, what was, like, there was, like, an LSU Ole Miss
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game that it was, like, tied, like, 17-17 and it ended 53-48 or something like that.
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But it's like, a guy in that game, a wide receiver, like, at the end of the game, he
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had, like, five catches for 60 yards and a touchdown.
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At the end of the game, he had eight catches for four touchdowns and 100 yards.
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So, I think the NFL should just start at the 35-yard line because then if you go
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I mean, just, like, you're just taking shots for touchdowns at that point, man.
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Like, fantasy football players, fantasy football guys would love that because, hey, now
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Devontae Adams, at the end of overtime where he has 10 catches for 122 touchdowns,
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Like, they'd never, yeah, fantasy football guys would be crazy if they'd never even talk
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Do you think, and we'll get you out of here in a second, what was you were talking about,
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like, oh, do you think that, who do you think will be all's quarterback next year?
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Brock will get a fair shot at it, do you think?
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Like, he got hurt at his fifth play of the game.
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And so, like, he hasn't really lost a game yet.
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But it's also a very competitive room over there, huh?
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Well, right now, we don't, Trey Lance, I think he just got cleared.
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Like, because he's a very, he's a very special talent who has the ability to be a very good
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Yeah, so, but, like, what I, like, I think it's a.
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If Brady came back, would he be able to go to y'all or not?
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Anyways, but, um, Purdy, I, like I said, like, Purdy won eight games.
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You can't, like, bench, you can't, you can't bench him.
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So, I think it's a, it's a, it's a quarterback competition, I think, when you go into, and
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Dude, I can't win eight games doing, just even betting money a lot every week.
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But, like, and I, and again, like, he's hurt right now, right?
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So, I think he just, I think he got surgery today, maybe, on his UCL, which is, like,
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Um, but, so, like, he has to recover from that, so, like, it's gonna be, it's gonna be
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an interesting training camp to see how the reps are split and stuff like that.
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And that's my entire, my entire career, I've had QP controversy, so let's ride, dude, another
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You, you, you, one last thing for you, Liv, I wanna get, you were talking about, like,
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Yeah, because you kind of talked about it, too, man.
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It's interesting how little we, like, speak out into the world what we want.
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Like, how, like, how often do, like, I'll sit and complain in my head or think about
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But rarely will I say, this is what I fucking want, you know?
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Yeah, like, I'm big, like, I don't know if you journal very much, but I got big into
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that this, literally, like, the last 12 months.
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I met a former player who, uh, who kind of talked about how he did it, too.
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And, like, just writing down, like, what you expect the season to be, like, what your goals
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are, or writing about them in the past tense, too.
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So, like, you could talk about winning the Super Bowl.
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Yeah, and then you talk about confetti fall, and you talk about, like, and you speak it
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into existence, like, there's a creativeness to it.
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And so, like, it's kind of wild, because then once you see it, and you've...
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And so then by the time I get to them in practice, or whether it's the game, I've already
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So when you call the play, I have nothing to worry about, because I've already done it.
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And so it's, like, speaking into existence, too.
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And then so, like, I don't know if you speak it into existence, or you're, like, once the
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So EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy is a mental health treatment
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Goal is to help you heal from trauma or other distress.
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So anyway, what's interesting about EMDR is they take you back to times in your life.
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And they, you, you, you talk through with a therapist to, to put a new experience into
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So then when you come out of the, the, the, like, modality or the, the experience of doing
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Then the past part of your life that was hurting you, it's now filled with a different
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So where you are at now currently will eventually start to feel different because the past,
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So it's almost like a reverse of doing that, which you're saying.
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Like you're creating those right in the future.
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And so then by the time you get to them, it's like, well, you're looking back on your
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You're writing into your own past that hasn't even happened yet.
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You're writing your own past and saying these things happen.
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And like, I, yeah, like, and I, I did it every single day for the entire season.
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And whether you're writing, like, whether your goals are personally for the season,
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whether it's goals, like whatever it is, but like kind of talking about it in a
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Like it's like to get used to writing like that.
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It's because I've never done anything like that before.
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And so like, that was a different experience for me.
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Um, but you're talking about like that type of therapy.
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That's like, let's just say you have like, you go to therapy right now and like
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everyone has certain traumas in their life and the theory, I can't remember exactly
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what it's called, but it's like, like, so 10 year old, you something happened.
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And like that version of you, like that version of you, like the state that you went into,
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you'd like to recover from that is still a part of your personality and right.
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So like, whether it's like, and like how you manage with it.
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So like, okay, let me, let's just say you're 10 years is bad.
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Let's say like you're a 25 year old and some bad happens and you turn to drinking or something
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And whenever something bad happens to you, you kind of go back to that, right?
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So like this goes into, you've kind of revisit, you have a conversation with that 25 year old
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And you're like, and then you try to get them to accept it because like you have these different
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parts of you inside of you, like for these different experiences, whether it's like you
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have like that type of experience or like, I don't know, I'm trying to explain it the
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best way I can, but it's like, you have to have these conversations with this old past
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So you're going back to like an injured part of you or an injured part of you.
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And you're trying to help them get through it because like, you can't talk to it.
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Let's say you had a really bad experience in college, like with a coach or something like that.
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And like, so you go to therapy, you talk about it, but like, if you just kind of hold onto
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it, that part of you is always still kind of like at this dark anger.
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And so you have to kind of go back there and talk to them and like, talk to that 18 year
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With your, or like guiding them to the light, maybe sort of, but like, just kind of let
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Cause if you never talked about it, just kind of holding on.
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Like you can push stuff down for so long, but like at some point you got to address it.
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It says trauma can freeze your emotional response at the age you experienced it.
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When you feel or act emotionally younger than your actual age, this is known as age regression.
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And I was like, cause I don't know my dad talked to me about that.
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It's just like a type of therapy you can do like to overcome like traumatizing events
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And I was, it was a very like, I thought about it and I was like, that actually makes sense
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I've seen some of the episodes where he's like doing, um, hidden pearls.
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You said it's hidden pearls where he'll do like, he's like doing, uh, his mindful
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Just like kind of like taking you through an experience.
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Um, you can just see how it's part of his, you guys, his whole world, all that stuff.
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He's big into that, like breathing, visualizing.
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Like when you just can take a second to yourself and like, just kind of breathe and like, just
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be one with whether it's your breath or just like your own thoughts or something like that.
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Cause most of the time we're like, we're all, man, we're like this, you're on your phone,
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you're watching TV, you're looking at opinions of other people, but like not too often are you
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just kind of sitting there like, ah, and like just having that conversation with yourself.
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Like if you, if you, if you don't like, then you're not really progressing as a human.
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You're just kind of absorbing everyone else's information.
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And it's, what's really interesting, George, is that they've created.
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They've mastered the art of taking our attention.
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Like Tik TOK videos, man, you can go to rabbit hole for two hours and not even blink.
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You come out, you're fucking child's in the middle school.
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I was watching, uh, Chris Rock's new special last night.
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I didn't watch all of it, but he's, he talks about your attention.
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That's the number one thing that, um, that people are after these days.
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Whatever you put your attention into is how your life changes.
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So it's funny when I think of my, when I think of my head that I'm always, I'm constantly overwhelmed
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by different thoughts and I feel sporadic and I can't keep, uh, my attention span on anything.
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But then when I look at what, uh, uh, uh, uh, tick tock is, it's literally what, oh, this
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It's all in one place, but it's fucking feels, I mean, if you saw tick tock, you would give
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Like this, this is how social media, like in captures you.
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Like, I mean, wife always yells at me, like, I'll go sit on the toilet and you won't come
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But it's just like, you can just get lost in those things.
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So like, I refuse to get an Apple watch because why do I need a phone on my wrist if I have
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I watched somebody have a fight the other day with their son on an Apple watch through
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It took them like an hour and a half to even have the fight.
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I've seen guys on my team that wear Apple watches out to like walk through practices
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and like, you're not in helmet, you're not like, it's like, it's just learning like
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But like, they'll have it on and like, I'll be in the huddle and guy next, he'll be
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Why do you need to track your heart rate right now, dude?
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You're jogging, like relax, like take your Apple watch off, disconnect for a little bit.
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I bought an Amazon and I, I, I've worn the entire season.
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I like kind of, I talked about like on a podcast one time I went back to Amazon to buy
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So I don't know if I'm just hyping them up for some reason or something like that, but
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So it's 80 bucks, but it's still like, that's a pretty good price for a gold watch.
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But still, I feel like it, it almost seems sometimes I feel like it knows what you've
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been shopping for and if you shop for something expensive recently, it will make tickets more
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I mean, like I'll talk, you'll talk about, Hey, I need deodorant and $70.
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I scroll through, I scroll through Instagram and the third, there's an ad and it's for old
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Or if you even think about killing your cousin or something and the fucking next thing, you
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So it's like, it'll tell you now, like you just coughed and you're so the dude's like,
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Do you need day quill lunch belch in 30 seconds?
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I didn't get an Apple watch, but I wore the Garmin watch that like tracks a lot of your
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stuff and like, like a lot of triathlon runners run it.
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Cause like they have to know all their stuff all the time.
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And I was just like, after a while, I was like, you know what?
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The only thing I really care about is like, I like seeing my sleep.
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So like I have that, the aura ring stuff and I like seeing my sleep because I either there's
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So like, whether if I get like green in one of those areas, Hey, I'm going to have a good
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Cause whether if, let's say I got seven hours of sleep and that's red, but I, hey, 90% of
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You're like, okay, I'm gonna have a great day today.
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Or if they're both in the red, my mindset is now, all right, I didn't give myself a
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So I got to try a little bit harder today because it's going to be a harder day.
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Cause I didn't sleep well and I didn't get a lot of hours.
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And so like, that's like, people are like, well, I don't like to see them.
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It's just another challenge that you get accomplished today.
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Well, that's a, I mean, I think that almost sums up just your entire approach, man.
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I mean, obviously, you know, a lot of it comes from your own family experience and some, maybe
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But cause a lot of people, I get that number, I'd see that 60 out of 100 or whatever.
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I'd start texting, fuck you to everybody right out of the gate, you know?
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But then I would let it ruin me as opposed to me saying, okay, today's gonna be a little
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It's uphill, like, so, I mean, when you're in, like, like right now I'm in the off season,
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So like one, my competitive, my competitive switch is much lower than when I'm in season.
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Um, but like when you're in season and it's a Tuesday night and I have to wake up and I
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have like, I have six hours of meetings before I go do a walkthrough.
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And then I have to go do a practice of plays that I learned at 8 AM that morning and have
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Like that's, I can't be, like, I can't let my guy, I can't let the guy next to me down.
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And I'm, I, my expectation for him is that he's doing everything he can to be as prepared
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So like, you don't have enough, you don't have an option to be off.
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And so like, that's how I, that, so you have to find different ways to encourage yourself.
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And then the last one's like, all right, well, I'm just going to kick my own ass today.
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And like, it's like, that's, that's what my mind is.
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I might bitch him on a little bit more, but like, it is what it is.
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Like I only have so many off days as like, I only have so many days anyways.
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So like, I'm going to, I'm just going to keep going.
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I think you got to give yourself some breaks here and there.
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I mean, even if you don't, even if you have a job that doesn't really even allow that
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many, you know, and you know, you're going to take them when you can get them.
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You got to take them when you can get them, man.
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Well, I'm going to, um, say thank you for coming and I appreciate it, dude.
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And it's, uh, it's, it's been exciting just to hear about just some of your thoughts and
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And, um, yeah, I'm so happy for you and your success.
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Cause last year I heard tightening you was going on.
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And I fucking wanted to meet everybody, but Jeremy Holt didn't text me back.
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So I literally parked in the parking lot where you guys were practicing.
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So yeah, I'm like, you could have showed up, man.
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Honestly, dude, I may have been outside of some other conference because I was there.
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They said we were in a place where they couldn't get good reception.
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But I was outside of a group of men who were like just stretching.
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And I was like, just kind of being sad in my truck outside of Lipscomb.
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But, um, cause I wanted to come up and just like, just be around and just see what was going on.
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Uh, it's just literally, it's just getting no guys that are around.
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And then Wednesday, Thursday is on the field stuff at Vanderbilt.
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And then Wednesday night, we have like a function, uh, somewhere on Broadway and then maybe
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We're working on the details and then, uh, Thursday is a work day and then, but it's like,
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But yeah, if you want to swing through for, you know, Wednesday, the Tuesday night thing
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So there was, uh, I told my mother-in-law, she works for the NFL honor, uh, NFL hall of
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fame health and they have an event and it's at the 1230 club and it's there again this year.
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So they were auctioning off footballs and there's like, I think there was like six to 10 NFL guys
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that were there, but, uh, one of the footballs that got auctioned off, he bought it and it was
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It's probably the only football ever signed by us too.
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But the fact that his last name is my first name, I just, you don't see that very often,
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That's, I guess that's kind of interesting, I guess, but.
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It doesn't excite me too much, but it has nothing to do.
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So when I see other people with it, it excites me.
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George isn't that popular of a name anymore, is it?
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Everyone's like, when I was George and I was eight years old, I was like, you're an old
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George is most popular in the Western industry.
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He was ranked in the top 200 most popular name since its origin.
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Both of my great grandpas were named George, and that's why I'm named George.
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My parents told me that if I was a girl, they would have named me Georgia.
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Nothing against those people out there named Georgia.
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Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
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Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.