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Inside The Charge - EP 5: Buffalo Bills A.J. Epenesa & Greg Rousseau Talk Anime, Video Games & Fashion! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into this week's episode of Inside the Charge Medic
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  Speaker 1: Glab alongside two of our defensive linemen, Greg Russo and
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  Speaker 1: aj Epinesso. We're talking fits, We're talking their relationship and
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line. It's gonna be a really fun episode.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, Aja, thanks for being on this week.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. We're fresh off of a bye week
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  Speaker 1: and into the final five games of the season, a
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  Speaker 1: really exciting stretch ahead. You guys have been looking good
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  Speaker 1: so far this season, though. That's where I would like
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  Speaker 1: to start here, before we get into you two and
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line. You've put on some pretty good fits.
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  Speaker 1: So I've pulled a couple. There's a couple more we
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  Speaker 1: want me we might talk about Aj. I'll start with you.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to describe one of your favorite looks
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  Speaker 1: so far this season. We've got two that we've printed out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what do we want to start with here?
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  Speaker 2: I'll start with this first one. This is a it's
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  Speaker 2: a sweatsuit. I'm pretty sure it's from the Alchemist.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the army green colored sweatsuit almost looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Going through it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure these are like they have some kind
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  Speaker 2: of it's like a texture to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of a weird feeling. But my favorite part
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  Speaker 3: of them is the shoes.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're the the Easy boots, so the Easy
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  Speaker 2: seven hundreds or something like. I forget the numbers, they
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  Speaker 2: get so complicated, but but yeah, the Easies are probably
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  Speaker 2: my favorite part.
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  Speaker 3: Of the fit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that that was really nice. Do you remember what
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  Speaker 1: game that was?
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  Speaker 2: For this?
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 3: Off it was a night game, as I can see. No,
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: That's all good. I was just curious. Really nice looks,
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  Speaker 1: so like a tracksuit kind of sweatsuit fit. You got
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  Speaker 1: the sweatshirt, you got pants on.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a little players coming off the sides too.
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  Speaker 1: And is that a Louis bag that you're carrying? A
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  Speaker 1: Louis backpack? That is describe that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, guess how much?
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  Speaker 1: Greg? What was one of your favorite fits this season?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: For me, I like this. It's a it's a simple one,
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  Speaker 4: but it's like this.
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  Speaker 5: Ivy Park green sweatsuit with like a cool texture, and
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  Speaker 5: they had the shoes on and then the gallery department
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  Speaker 5: had it was simple, but sometimes you got to go
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  Speaker 5: just smooth and simple. I feel like in the game
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  Speaker 5: it was four was. I think it's definitely a night game.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's Monday night. First Denver, I think so
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  Speaker 5: some shoes, Ye shoes, Ivy Park, which is like you
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  Speaker 5: Park is pretty much Adidas. Yeah, I think it's like
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  Speaker 5: Beyonce's line or whatever. And then Gallery hat and then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the material of it looked really cool.
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  Speaker 5: It was really comfortable, but it was like obviously you
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  Speaker 5: see how the light kind of reflects off it.
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  Speaker 4: It's a cool It's a real different look.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it was a look and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I've seen you both in Gallery and I've seen
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the defensive linemen and Gallery department. Do
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  Speaker 1: you guys like that that Brandeah, that's real comfortable to wear.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, all right? AJ next for you, what's another
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  Speaker 1: one you like?
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  Speaker 3: This is one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the start with the glasses because I went
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  Speaker 1: through every game this season arrival photos and you were
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  Speaker 1: rocking those glasses for like the beginning half of the
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  Speaker 1: season when it was nice outside. What are those glasses?
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  Speaker 3: These are those are?
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  Speaker 2: I want to say they're your basic ray band.
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  Speaker 3: Just rounded edges nicely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I just was able to find a
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  Speaker 2: pair that just fit this big old.
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  Speaker 1: Melon right here, movie star in them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I tried to get my my inner Tom Cruise
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  Speaker 2: vibes coming out. But the second look, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like it because I'm a huge cargo pant guy.
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  Speaker 3: I got a lot of things on me.
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  Speaker 2: I like to have my pockets, to have your pocket
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  Speaker 2: plain white tea with the with the Louis jacket and
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  Speaker 2: some Louis shoes.
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  Speaker 3: On as well. Try to throw some designer in there,
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  Speaker 3: a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit shoes and the Louis jacket.
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  Speaker 2: But I would say, I mean, I love the jacket.
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  Speaker 2: But these are one of my favorite pair of pants,
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  Speaker 2: Like they can go with any anything. Cargoes, they're probably
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  Speaker 2: they're the cheapest part of the outfit by far.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah you know.
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  Speaker 1: Brand of cargoes. Those are H and M H and
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  Speaker 1: M everybody.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, this is definitely one of my favorite look.
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  Speaker 1: Solid look because it's not like Louis in your face.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you have to get up close.
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  Speaker 4: To realize its real subtle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta get real.
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  Speaker 4: Louis.
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  Speaker 3: That's definitely the boy.
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  Speaker 1: Greg. What's been another favorite look for you? For me?
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  Speaker 4: I had this little fit.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is from when we play the Jets,
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  Speaker 5: I'll start the shoes, just some land and shoes. They
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  Speaker 5: kind of got that oversize look to them. The laces
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  Speaker 5: are like the shoes with the really big laces.
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  Speaker 1: You can wear the oversized stuff because I wear a
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  Speaker 1: lot of overseted stuff because yeah, it makes sense to
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  Speaker 1: them tall and what.
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  Speaker 5: And then I had these jeans I got from Feature
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  Speaker 5: in Las Vegas. I know who brand they are, but
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  Speaker 5: they're cool cause they kind of have like it looks
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  Speaker 5: like I'm wearing tights that are like Leopard printed if
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  Speaker 5: you look closely.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like it was a cool little change up.
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  Speaker 5: And there's like patches, like almost as if like like yeah,
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  Speaker 5: like pieces of it was like were ripped out or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: and then like you put a.
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  Speaker 3: Patch on it.
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  Speaker 4: And then I had a Supreme hat.
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  Speaker 5: And then I had this young thug little sweater from
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  Speaker 5: Haunted and then my, uh, it's pretty much it. And
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  Speaker 5: I had a little bit of jewelry on is to
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  Speaker 5: give a little subtle flex ag was talking about. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: one of my one of my face for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh are you a young fan?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's one of my favorite artists. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I had to give him a little shout out real,
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  Speaker 5: he doesn't know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: But the Supreme hat, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Supreme hat was a little just cherry on top?
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: And you got some jewelry on a jewelry guy, or.
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  Speaker 2: The jewelry I've had guys try to convince me. I've
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  Speaker 2: I've never been here, jewelry guy. It's never I thought
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  Speaker 2: things on my wrist felt funky. I've never had my
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  Speaker 2: ears of hers. I've always had a little tiny chain.
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  Speaker 2: And I just am not one of those kind of guys.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe one day, but it's not my priorities, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I feel you. I feel you so how far in advance?
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  Speaker 1: I love asking this question. Do you guys plan out
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  Speaker 1: these outfits? I'll take these sheets from you.
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  Speaker 4: Here you go. Me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like a last like first next couple of days
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  Speaker 2: or a couple days before the I'm not like thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be like the night before or maybe the day
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  Speaker 3: before or that.
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  Speaker 5: Really kind of how AJ said, I might have like
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  Speaker 5: a loose thought in my mind during the week, like
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  Speaker 5: oh I still haven't worn this or that. But there's
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  Speaker 5: been times like when we play like a night game,
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  Speaker 5: I literally go home that day and go in my
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  Speaker 5: closet for like thirty minutes and be like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: let me put some stuff together. So sometimes I plan
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  Speaker 5: it before a couple of days before, but a lot
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  Speaker 5: of times it's like in a moment. But if we
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  Speaker 5: have an one o'clock game, I usually do it like
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  Speaker 5: a day or two before, because it's no time in
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  Speaker 5: the morning.
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  Speaker 1: When we have on the clugg So are you guys
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  Speaker 1: buying stuff throughout the season in terms of what you're wearing,
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  Speaker 1: or are you doing a lot of stuff purchasing wise
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  Speaker 1: in the off season.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say a little mix of both.
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  Speaker 2: There's you going the off season, maybe buy a few
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  Speaker 2: things here or there, but.
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  Speaker 3: It's just they just start.
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  Speaker 2: To kind of I guess accumulate or like you start
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  Speaker 2: to figure out your style and so you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to go to these certain stores to get these big
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  Speaker 2: expensive things.
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  Speaker 3: It's more so like what you put together collectively.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to the Louis store in Toronto every
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  Speaker 1: every other weekend buying enough stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, trust me, it's fun to go in there
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to do stuff, but yeah, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it feels like a burden. Sometimes I hate
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  Speaker 2: I hate going in there.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you're not a shopper. Yes, I'm not sure for
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  Speaker 1: sure you a shopper, not.
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  Speaker 4: Really a shopper.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like kind of what A said, like it
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  Speaker 5: kind of accumulates, like you'll go, you'll travel here and
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  Speaker 5: you'll grab this jacket, and you'll travel here and grab
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  Speaker 5: the sweatsuit or this par of jeans, like that par
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  Speaker 5: of jeans that have to Las Vegas. But I didn't
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  Speaker 5: try to put it together. It's just in my closet.
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  Speaker 5: So things kind of build up as you travel, or
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  Speaker 5: at least for me in the off season and then
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  Speaker 5: during the season, I don't really buy much unless I
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  Speaker 5: really see something I like. I guess by it's usually
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  Speaker 5: like online because when we're here obviously it's more like football,
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  Speaker 5: and it's not like we don't have like a crazy
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  Speaker 5: mall around here.
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  Speaker 4: The nearest is probably, like you said, Toronto.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never even been there, so yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Age, do you feel like you've stepped up your your
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  Speaker 1: your game this year in terms of what you're putting
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  Speaker 1: on Rocket?
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  Speaker 2: I think I've stepped I think I've stepped it up
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  Speaker 2: at I think I've stepped it up a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and that's just uh, that's just me growing up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Yeah, Greg and who else has been influencing Kwanne.
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  Speaker 1: I love the I love the group pictures that you
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  Speaker 1: guys tay for home games.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I do look forward to those.
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  Speaker 4: It's always fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How do you guys coordinate? Is it like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: meet here at this time, walking out at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: It's natural, It's kind of everyone kind of gets there organically,
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  Speaker 2: but then we kind of wait for each other leave
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  Speaker 2: so we can all grab the picture.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Well, you guys have looked good throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. I know you're going to continue to do
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  Speaker 1: this as we push to the final five games and
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  Speaker 1: then the playoffs as well. Fingers crossed for that. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in you guys. All right, let's get into a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about the position group, your relationship with
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  Speaker 1: each other, and a little bit more in a segment
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  Speaker 1: we like to call talk about it. Okay, you guys
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  Speaker 1: were drafted a year apart from each other. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're drafted in the same draft class, just
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  Speaker 1: because I know you guys are tight, just being a
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  Speaker 1: season apart. You were draft during COVID, So I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that kind of is a the COVID years is
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  Speaker 1: easy to forget about just because we were doing the
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: same thing over and over and over again. Everybody's at home.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, you guys have been working together for a
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  Speaker 1: few seasons now, So how has your connection grown since
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  Speaker 1: you first since you had that first year together, which
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  Speaker 1: was twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: I would start off by saying, like, yeah, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: was definitely a crazy year. I was the lone rookie
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of older guys, and I think Ed
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  Speaker 2: was the exception. But Ed had been here and established
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  Speaker 2: himself early, so he was treated like a vet, and
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  Speaker 2: so I felt like I was the only young guy
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  Speaker 2: in the room. And then when Greg came along, kind
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  Speaker 2: of I don't even know how to describe it, like
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  Speaker 2: similar pains, I guess, where like we're both the young
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  Speaker 2: guy in the room kind and we're both earning our stripes,
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  Speaker 2: learning the way, and I mean we were able to
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  Speaker 2: obviously bond because we're good buddies, but I mean similarities
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  Speaker 2: and things like that as well just kind of also
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  Speaker 2: push you to learn more about each other.
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  Speaker 1: What similarities do you guys have with each other, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: what are some things that you guys like?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like we both we both love anime for sure.
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  Speaker 5: We both obviously were on the same team play defensive end,
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  Speaker 5: and I feel like we're both kind of got similar
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  Speaker 5: body type, so I feel like our game is similar
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  Speaker 5: to it. A lot of times, me and AJ like
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  Speaker 5: and meetings were always constantly bouncing ideas off each other's
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  Speaker 5: mind and whatever we see our practice of seeing the game,
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  Speaker 5: we're like, oh, you saw this, you saw this, So
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  Speaker 5: we always kind of try to help each other grow.
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  Speaker 5: And I feel like my success AJ's and vice first.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure he feels the same. So I feel like
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  Speaker 5: that kind of helped our relationship, just being able to
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  Speaker 5: always grow together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's start with the anime first. Have you
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  Speaker 1: guys always liked anime? Is this something you started like
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  Speaker 1: more once you came to Buffalo. I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line as a whole enjoys anime. There was that
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  Speaker 1: TikTok that just came out and you guys were all
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  Speaker 1: huddled around each other names and anime, and you guys
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  Speaker 1: are doing a great job in it. So, Greg, how
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  Speaker 1: long have you liked anime?
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  Speaker 4: Since I was a kid kind of.
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  Speaker 5: I started lik with Dragon ball Z then like got
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  Speaker 5: on the Naruto tap On tight End and it's kind
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  Speaker 5: of like it kind of feel like anime is kind
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  Speaker 5: of like a like a trying to I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe maybe a cultural thing like where you're from. People
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  Speaker 5: some people like it. Some places they don't watch it
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  Speaker 5: as much. But when I got here to Buffalo taught
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  Speaker 5: the AJ big Field all them they all love the anime.
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  Speaker 5: So I was like, dang, this is amazing, Like I'm
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  Speaker 5: with you. Two are kind of just like me, because
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  Speaker 5: in some places you don't see a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: who watch it. So to find people who actually are
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  Speaker 5: interested in it, it's it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Aj, how long have you been watching anime?
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  Speaker 2: I say basically the same thing as Greg. Like I
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  Speaker 2: started when I was real young, Saturday Morning Cartoons dragon
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  Speaker 2: ball Z was on and I'd wake up real early
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  Speaker 2: to watch the two episodes they got of the story,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'd have to wait till next week for
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  Speaker 2: that back. Yeah, two episodes, and that just got me
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  Speaker 2: in it, like right then and there. And I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's such a boys show, like little kids for boys,
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  Speaker 2: Like they're out there screaming and fighting and just drew
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  Speaker 2: me in. And so then from then on I've checked
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  Speaker 2: out other animes and the storylines and character development stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's just so fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's like hard to put down, Like it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to stop binging.
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  Speaker 3: This addicting, Yeah, really addicting.
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  Speaker 5: It's crazy, like you feel like you're you're watching the
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  Speaker 5: anime you really like, whether it's like jiu Jitsu, Kaisen
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  Speaker 5: or Death No, whatever it is, you feel like you're
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  Speaker 5: in that world when you're watching it.
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  Speaker 4: So it's kind of like video games. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like.
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  Speaker 5: You escape from whatever you're doing, whatever you're worried about,
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  Speaker 5: and you can just focus on what you're watching and
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  Speaker 5: what's happening.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's a whole other world.
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  Speaker 1: So it's do you have a favorite anime show?
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  Speaker 3: I like aj Go first.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite of all time is dragon Ball because it's
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  Speaker 2: my favorite I grew up watching it. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of really good new, like new ones that have
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  Speaker 2: come out. I mean still throwing it back to one
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  Speaker 2: of the Big three. Bleach is probably one of my favorites,
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  Speaker 2: but like the new ones like jiu Jitsu and Demon Slayer.
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  Speaker 2: They've taken the world by storm, so it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of cool to see, but it's really fun to watch,
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  Speaker 2: like what they've progressed and like how they've done.
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  Speaker 5: I got a super similar answer to a J dragon
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  Speaker 5: Ball for sure, because that's kind of like one of
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  Speaker 5: those animes that kind of paved the way I feel
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  Speaker 5: like for all the other ones. Kind of it's like
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  Speaker 5: an og it came came out like maybe the eighties
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  Speaker 5: or nineties, eighties, so it's a classic. It's like kind
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  Speaker 5: of I feel like I kind of put anime on
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  Speaker 5: the map more than anything. So got to pay my
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  Speaker 5: respect to DBZ and then like AJSN also love tap
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  Speaker 5: On tight End NTO, I got to get into Bleach.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody's telling me about AGC and telling me about a DQ,
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  Speaker 5: so I gotta get into that. But I mean, we
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  Speaker 5: can go on for days, we can talk about anime
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  Speaker 5: for hours.
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  Speaker 3: Literally.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like it's unique to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of a position group that you have multiple guys that
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  Speaker 1: follow and watch anime. Is that happened to you before
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: with college teams or in high school or is this
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: something that you have kind of experienced for the first
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: time coming to the Bills, Aja, I've.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Never had anybody other than my siblings because I watched
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: them with it, And like the other day, maybe less
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: than a month ago, we had a watch party at
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Greg's because the final episode dropped and we all went
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: and we had at Greg's sick. You never did that
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: for an anime in college or high school. Was like
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we did it for Game of Thrones and stuff, but
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: like we didn't do it for like animes twenty minute episodes.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: People about that, people going crazy over twenty minutes.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's a lot of fun, is it?
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Would you say? The Bills for you, Greg is like
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: the first place where you've had multiple guys in your
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: same position.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: Like in high school, it wasn't really there wasn't really
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: a lot of people who watched it, and then same
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: thing in college, nobody watched it for like I would
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: have been the weird one of us if I was
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: talking about it. So here like we're all comfortable because
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: we literally are like a lot of us watching in
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: the rooms.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: So it's pretty cool.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Okay. So that has led to activities outside of the facility,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: like watching anime together. What else do you guys do
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: outside of the facility.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: When it's warm out. A lot of the guys like
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: to get out in golf this time of the year.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's kind of restricted, but we have some pretty
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: golfers on the d line, Big Phil in particular, for
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: being a big guy. He can freaking smack the ball
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: and he hits it pretty straight too, but no, like.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: It's straight the arrow. It's pretty impressive.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: A lot of guys like to play basketball, video games,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. I feel like a lot of us
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: are like, especially in our position. We have a lot
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: of similarities and I think that's why we kind of
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: mold together.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So well, yeah, Greg, do you like to golf as well.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not a big offer. Yeah, I'm trying to get
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: trying to get more into it, but I'm more of
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: a gamer. And yeah, probably Madden, Madden Call of Duty,
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: what else, Fall guys, those are all games that we
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: kind of get on there. We'll play together, like war Zone,
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: So that's kind of like my number one hobby. I
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: don't really do too much, especially when it gets called out.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I'm more like, I mean, it's like hibernation.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: When UFC has become a big topic for the for
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: d line. I actually can't believe you forgot about that though.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: UFC we got a belt and everything, like a big
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: UFC championship belt.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: You guys play the video game UFC and then you
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: have a belt.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: That goes around who ever wins. Yeah, like the Champions
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: of the day or whatever it is, you get the belt.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: So do you guys go over to each other's houses
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and player? You playing at your own play?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: We've we've played here in this building and then we've
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: played at home online. Yeah, you can play against each
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: other and all that stuff and talk to each other
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: and do all that stuff.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Who got everybody in the UFC?
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I think we've had a lot of people that play
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: like I played it a lot, growing I've played Greg
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: played it a lot, and guys have just kind of
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: all played it and it just took one of us
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to bring the system in.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: And just kind of light the fire, light the fire.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Get ready going.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I love that. So it seems like you guys are
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: similar in what you like to do. You're similar in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: how you are on the field. Let's talk about that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit too. You guys do have very similar
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: makeups in your body. You're tall, you're lanky, you've got
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: arms that can bat down passes. Then you've done that
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: seven times this season, both of you. So how have
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you guys been able to help each other on the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: field throughout the last few seasons.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Just getting to know Greg and like who he is
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: as a person and as a player, I'm able to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: see like what he's what he's done dominantly, what he's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: done that's not as dominant, or things that he could
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: improve on, and to me being a good teammate, you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like when I see things that aren't out
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: of character or things that aren't up to his standard
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: that I know he keeps himself to like such a
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: high standard, then I feel like not obligated to say something,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: but like like just kind of give him a little
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: not points and bits because he knows what he's doing,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: but like he's doing this and doing that, and then
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: let him make his own adjustments and stuff like that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: But it's more so like whispers in the ear to
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: kind of give you yourself an idea rather than kind of
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: like telling somebody what to do.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Right, what about you, Greg?
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I feel like kind of how Aga said, we both
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: know we could be such great players that have that
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: standard for ourselves and we look at ourselves as elite,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: so and everything we do, we're always trying to push
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: each other and like like whether or could we could
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: do this better? We could do that better, and whether
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: he's doing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Or I'm doing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: We know we're both trying to get to that mountain
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: top and be the best rushers that we could be,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: in bestketball players we could be. So I feel like
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: it's that disrespect and then just us just being driven
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: and knowing that we got to play a best ball
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: to help the team win. And I feel like that's
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: what we've been doing. I feel like that's what we're
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: gonna keep doing.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: You guys have both had really productive seasons too, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's exciting, you know, being not in the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: same draft class, but being a year apart from each
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: other and being close on the team and then also
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: each going out there and having great seasons. How has
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that been just from you guys are our friend's standpoint,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and seeing somebody that you care about go out there
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and post good numbers this season? Greg, what has it
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: been like to see AJ just like shot out of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a cannon?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, No, watching AJ go crazy is being great,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: you know because AJ he works at every day obviously
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: a great person. But you know, like I said, just
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: having them goals and it's beatings driven and just putting
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: the work it out there every day, putting the work
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: in the meeting rooms, is talking about it, talking about
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: what we're gonna do, how we're gonna do, how we're
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: gonna have success, and going out there and execute it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It means everything.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: So that's what we do it for.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: UH. And it's always a great time whenever we either
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: of us has that success.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And AJ, why do you think this year is the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: year that everything has really come together for you?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like it's it just falls under
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: my category of that confidence and swagger, you know, like
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: just playing with that confidence plan knowing that you're capable
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: of making plays and uh, and when you do make
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: those plays, kind of have that swagger about you to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: to build that confidence to keep going next play, like
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: do whatever you gotta do to keep yourself in that
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: go mode. And that's been kind of something I've been
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: taking mental notes up for myself and just trying to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: hammer on and like maintain.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Where does that confidence and swagger come from? What if
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: what how do you get it from your teammates? How
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: do you get it for yourself?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: A lot of it, Yes, a lot of it comes
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: from my teammates and the energy around me as a
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: person or as a player. I try to not rely
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: on other people's energy to get me going, and so
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of that, I feel like is internal. Just
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: want to you know, I want to be the best
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: or I want to be great. So that's really all
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: it takes.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Speaking of other people's energy, you can look on the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: field almost every single game and see Big Phil with
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: his arms just like hyping up the crowd. It is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: so funny watching it, and he is successful at getting
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the crowd going when he tries to. What is it
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: like when you guys turn around and you're like, oh,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he's at it again, Greg, what's that like to watch?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Les?
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: It's become normal because it's kind of like a standard
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: for him standing for us. So, I mean, it's great
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: to see him out there getting the crowd hype. And
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: he's kind of like one of those like big bros
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: in our room, so you know, Big Feel's gonna bring it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: He has an edge to him, as everybody knows. I mean,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: it's it's awesome having to do like that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Why is it important, though, to celebrate each other on
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the field when things are going good.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's important because it shows it shows
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: that love you got for one another. And I feel
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: like when you're in it together and you're not focusing
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: on individual goals, like everything's gonna come so like you're
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: happy about the other.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Person's success, you're gonna get yours too.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: So you just gotta have that mindset of like we
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: if we get if we make this player and make
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: this play, like we're all bringing each other up, it's
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: all positives for the whole entire groups. And then it's
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: just us taking turns making those plays. Like there's one
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: game AJ had a sack and I had a sack,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: like back to back play, so stuff like that. It's
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: kind of just us just building each other up and
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: us just knowing we gotta make us play top the
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: team win.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: That's the D line and then the D line as
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a whole. I mean, you guys have been eating this year,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: from sacks to quarterback hits to pressures. The numbers have
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: been some of the best in the NFL and at
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: times ranked number one, and you continue to do that. AJ,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Why do you think this year this group has just
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: been on another level.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think this group we have they just
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: are a bunch of one two guys, you know, a
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: bunch of guys that are like not half two guys
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: that get to, like I have the opportunity to get
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: to come into work day and they appreciate being in
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: this building and they appreciate the relationships that we've all
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: built with each other, and it makes it really enjoyable
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to come into work every day. So having that and
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: then having just guys around you that are all high
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: talent guys, you know, that pushes you to try your
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: best every single day, pushes you to try to be
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: great or improve on something.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: And I think just.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: That every guy in our room has that mindset, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: it makes it really easy to go to practice and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: really easy to go to work because guys want to
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: get better and guys want to improve daily.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: We got a couple YouTube questions from our YouTube fans.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: What's the nickname you guys would make for the defense
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: as a whole, Got any off the top of your mind?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Defense defense for the overall defense, that'd be.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Funny defensive line If that's easier d line.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: We'd be nicknames theyakotsky. It's an.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say it has to be something anime.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Explain what is.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: That is a group of evil people and they they
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: just do bad.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: And they're in their world.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're in there in their universe that they take
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: place in. They're just a group of people that cause
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: problems for everybody.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: And you guys do that on the field every single
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: game to oppose the quarterbacks like that. One more, how
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: does height affect your game? Uh? The person says, both
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: of these dudes are giants, and how have you both
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: learned to stay low on pass rushers? So we'll go
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: with hype first. How has hype been able to affect
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: your game?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Guy, you see all the time. Let us get our
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: hands up and like age your head of interception. Uh,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: you can get your hands up and cause an interception,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: like from one of the linebackers and DB's in the
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: back end, So that's big to and also just being
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: able to see see stuff, see stuff, being able to
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: see over to alignment if you're if you're rushing and
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: you have the calendar, you can kind of peek over
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: and do that sometimes.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: So I feel like it goes a long way.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: It's cheat code being tall. I don't have that cheat code.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not an NFL player. AJ, how have you both
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: learned to stay low on past rushes? Which is not
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: something that I want you to do with your heights.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I would say you learn pretty quickly to stay low
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: on pass rushes because if you don't, then it's not
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: always very good for you. So I say, at a
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: young age, you know, you kind of like when you
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: start football, you're always taught to stay low and it
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: just kind of I feel like naturally happens, and once
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: you're conscious about it, I feel like that makes it
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a lot easier.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna finish off with a game of
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: how well do you know? Your teammate? Got two questions
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: for you each. Greg will start with you. What is
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a Jay's hidden talent? Is it juggling, skateboarding or playing
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the ukulele?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Ukulele, He's a ukulele assassin, can do all those things.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I haven't heard, but locker room.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: It's in my apartment.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's something you should have in the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: locker room.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised. Yeah, I I've thought about it, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: then I thought against it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of things going on. I feel like
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of energy in that locker room, you
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: know what. A lot of energy in the locker room
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and a lot of craziness. I'll leave that at home,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: all right, a J.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: What is Greg's favorite TV show? Is it The Office?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Walking Dead or New Girl?
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: It's The Walking Dead?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: You still is this still going on?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I think it just ended.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: But they got one with Daryl now like his own
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: spin off.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I haven't checked it out. I loved Daryl. Yeah, they
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: love Daryl. Well my favorite? Why is he a fan favorite?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Because of the I think this thing is part of
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: this crossboy cross built thing, but also just like it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: just cool, it's dope.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I only watched season one back when it first came.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: He got way cool.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: He got a lot cooler than he is in season one.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: He's the one he's like, but he's like, he's the dude.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, you guys might have to binge it together.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I might have to get back on and Walking Dead
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: right now?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Why not? Okay? Greg? What is A J's favorite video game?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That should be easy because we already talked about it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: UFC Fortnite or g T a UFC easy easy too
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: easy easy, Okay, all right, one more a j What
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: is one of Greg's favorite hobbies? Is it reading comic books,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: collecting Pokemon cards, or painting?
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: It could be any of those.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: That is tough.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: It's really common.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: It's phrase different because manga is.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Like like mango gave it away, Yeah, gave it away.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah we are.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I can see actually, I can see you paint. I'm
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: actually gonna start. They got you know, coach is paint
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: by the numbers sometimes where it's like it's not paint
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: by the numbers. They got this paint by the numbers
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: thing where it's like the the picture comes with numbers
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: on it and then you like you dip the paint
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: in the number, and the paint has the number in
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: it too, So it's like if it's two, if t
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: is red, and it's like red paint with a two
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: on it, and it's like you could paint the picture
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: and finishing and they've got some cool stuff.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, like how the total picture ends up. Paint something
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: like that exactly.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you paint all the threes blue, all the fours yellow.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna try it actually make like a window exactly.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Adding painting to hobbies.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not my favorite yet, but I never tried it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: You know you should add archery. Yeah, you come out with.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your free times. I just picked it up because
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: E does it got me out to a range, It's okay.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Either got me out to your range, and I I
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: got me a new recurve bo so I'm gonna get
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: out there and get shooting.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Dang.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna be an iguana hunter down.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's awesome. Before we finish off, do you want
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to tell the people any any holiday gifts? You guys
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: are getting the defensive line.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Hmmm, I got my gift yet, I haven't needed We can't.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: It's secret, and it's.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: A secret secret.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Can't you know who you have to buy for? And
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: then you do an exchange in the locker room. That's awesome.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I'm well, I'll be excited to hear about and see
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the gifts because their next level always for the regular
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: world of people over here. That it's fun to watch.
• 29:46
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