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Kicking Off The Season with Thai Floyd | Born To The Game Podcast · Born To The Game Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Mariah and I'm Tamara, and welcome to Born
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Speaker 1: to the Game podcast. Today we have a special guest
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Speaker 1: in the house with us.
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Speaker 2: And it's our season open, Episode one, Episode one.
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Speaker 1: How are we feeling? I'm excited, excited.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's always excited for kickoff?
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Speaker 2: Right, Oh yeah, you heard the patient, you know, for
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Speaker 2: the football terminology kickoff.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all y'all pet.
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Speaker 2: That I'm excited. Everybody do a little anxious. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's all good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's always some butterflies before game, I would.
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Speaker 3: Think, right, yeah, So we just say a prayer and
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Speaker 3: keep it moving, and keep it moving.
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Speaker 1: We are.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to introduce our first guest, the daughter
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Speaker 2: of William Floyd. I got to read his accolades because
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Speaker 2: there's so many. He was a college champion, super Bowl champion,
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Speaker 2: ACC Hall of Famer, Florida State Hall of Famer, and
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Speaker 2: All Madden Team. Ty Floyd is in the building.
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Speaker 1: He was getting busy, cool or whatever.
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Speaker 3: He did he did. So we have some questions you
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Speaker 3: want to ask you, which want to, you know, get
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Speaker 3: to know you a little bit better. I'm excited. Is
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Speaker 3: that Okay, Yeah, that's that's good.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: So we talked to you the other day, to me
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Speaker 3: and I, and we asked you to describe what.
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Speaker 2: Being born to the game was to you in three words,
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Speaker 2: and you told us God's invisible strength things. Can you
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Speaker 2: just talk to us a little bit why you chose
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Speaker 2: those three words, like what that means for you.
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Speaker 4: The reason why I chose those three words is that,
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Speaker 4: you know, kind of as believers, we know that our
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Speaker 4: life plans were made for us before we stepped on
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Speaker 4: this planet. God's purpose for me was to utilize my
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Speaker 4: voice to uplift others, to use the experiences that he
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Speaker 4: gave me, to use the gifts and talents that he
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Speaker 4: gave me to ultimately, you know, connect people's voices to
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Speaker 4: good on a huge scale in athletics. And had my
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Speaker 4: dad not done all the things that he'd done, or
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Speaker 4: you know, accomplished all of the accolades that he'd accomplished
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Speaker 4: and then been so intentional in taking me with him,
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Speaker 4: or you know, just kind of putting me up on
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Speaker 4: game when I finally realized this is what I wanted
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Speaker 4: to do, then my career wouldn't be the same. So
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Speaker 4: God definitely was very intentional on making sure that you know,
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Speaker 4: he used those strings. He wove those strings in as
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Speaker 4: my god. Mom Darby would say, God winks.
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Speaker 1: Oh, God winks. I love that. Can you explain that
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Speaker 1: a little bit? Like, yeah, God winks.
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Speaker 3: God winks.
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Speaker 4: Is like when you have that moment of realization of
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Speaker 4: what his plan is or what his purpose is for
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Speaker 4: your life and you kind of look up at the
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Speaker 4: sky like all right, og, I like that, he looks
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Speaker 4: down at you and he's like, m So, God wins.
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Speaker 1: It's a purpose thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So talk
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Speaker 1: to us a little bit about your life early, like
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Speaker 1: you have this this great granddad that has a great game,
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Speaker 1: and he's he's making a mark on the world and
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Speaker 1: you are his kid, So what is that like? Growing up?
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Speaker 4: I didn't really understand the magnitude of who he was
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Speaker 4: and what his contributions to the game were until we
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Speaker 4: went to like Tallahassee, to the Florida State games, and
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Speaker 4: you would see how much people loved him, like he
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Speaker 4: was somebody's face for something.
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Speaker 3: And people would come up to me and be like,
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Speaker 3: you know, in Florida, the more the more north you go,
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Speaker 3: the more south you get, so people would come up
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Speaker 3: to me and be like, baby, how does it feel
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Speaker 3: that your dad your daddy is you know, he's so great.
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Speaker 3: And I remember back when you know, he was your age.
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Speaker 3: That is very real, back when he was your age
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Speaker 3: and you know, your little your older brother was running
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Speaker 3: around and you know, how does it feel?
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know, and you know they take
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Speaker 2: sports seriously. Oh in Florida, Florida State.
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Speaker 1: He's a big deal.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so it was. It's kind of crazy.
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Speaker 4: But as I continue to grow up and especially being
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Speaker 4: in this career, I mean, what he has done and
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Speaker 4: accomplished is amazing. My dad is the last fullback to
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Speaker 4: get drafted into the first round and that was like
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Speaker 4: thirty years ago.
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Speaker 1: Wow. What year did he get drafted?
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Speaker 3: In? Nineteen ninety five? I'm dad, I'm sorry if I
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Speaker 3: messed that up, right, nineteen nineteen ninety four or five?
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Speaker 1: Okay, ninety four or five?
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Speaker 3: I think ninety four because he won the Super Bowl
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Speaker 3: in ninety five.
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Speaker 2: Okay wow yeah, wow, So like thirty years so you
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Speaker 2: traveled with him every team? So how many teams did
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Speaker 2: he play for? Did you travel with him? How was
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Speaker 2: that experience?
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Speaker 1: Like? Moving?
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Speaker 4: Well, I was born in California and Colorato. I stayed
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Speaker 4: there for about a year and then we moved to Charlotte,
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Speaker 4: North Carolina. So that's where like my little kid memories are,
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Speaker 4: you know, starting school. I do remember Charlotte, and then
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Speaker 4: after he retired, we moved to Florida. And basically the
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Speaker 4: bulk of my experience of being like an athlete kid
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Speaker 4: comes from right born to the game is more so
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Speaker 4: with his job at Florida State University as a color
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Speaker 4: commentator working alongside the team, and then the booster stuff
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Speaker 4: that he's done or the stuff that he's done within
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Speaker 4: his former teams.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's where I kind of started to see things.
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Speaker 2: For like, you got to experience I guess you you
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to say it, but you felt
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Speaker 2: the impact.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, more after he left the NFL. Yeah, my older
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Speaker 4: brother Drew would probably be able to speak more to
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Speaker 4: what it was like the moving and all of that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but the transition, but the transition is still yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's still the significant yeah oh yeah, yeah definitely. So
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Speaker 1: how did all the moving impact you? You have all
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Speaker 1: these different places you have to get to know, So
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Speaker 1: how did that impact your expriends?
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Speaker 4: One of my god given abilities. I don't know how
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Speaker 4: to meet a stranger. And I knew that very early on,
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Speaker 4: so it didn't really affect me or bother me.
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Speaker 3: But I would say that.
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Speaker 4: When people ask me where I'm from, my mind always
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Speaker 4: wants to stay North Carolina.
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Speaker 3: That's where I remember, you know, going to school, starting school.
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Speaker 3: I have friends there.
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Speaker 4: Those are like my early childhood memories that I remember vividly.
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Speaker 4: But because I've lived in Florida for so long, went
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Speaker 4: to school in Florida, I would say Florida. But I
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Speaker 4: think that that's kind of why I want to relocate
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Speaker 4: back to Charlotte, because it does feel like home to me.
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Speaker 4: So when I finish my masters, that's where I'm going.
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Speaker 1: Okay from my lips, let's just park it right you
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Speaker 1: you throughout the word masters, tell us more, tell us
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Speaker 1: more about that. What are you studying.
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Speaker 4: I'm studying communications at Alabama A and M University almost
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Speaker 4: two time HBC.
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Speaker 1: You graduate.
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Speaker 4: I'm very very proud of that, very very proud to
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Speaker 4: matriculate at the same place as my people who opened
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Speaker 4: these institutions because you know.
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Speaker 3: We couldn't go to other schools.
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Speaker 4: But I just ingest because of my career, I've got
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Speaker 4: to meet so many amazing people. HBCUs is where I
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Speaker 4: got my start. You know, it meant a lot to
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Speaker 4: me to cover these guys, especially since you know, nobody's
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Speaker 4: beating down the door. Unfortunately now things have changed, but
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Speaker 4: back then a lot of people weren't beating down the
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Speaker 4: door to provide coverage for HBCU athletes. So that's where
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Speaker 4: I drove my lane, got my shot, and it's I
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Speaker 4: met so many great people. So one of the people
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Speaker 4: that I met is Jason Maye. He's the director of
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Speaker 4: football operations at Alabama A and M. And I said
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Speaker 4: something in Jess like, yeah, coach, if you want to
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Speaker 4: add a woman to your staff, diversify the staff, you know,
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Speaker 4: let your girl.
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Speaker 1: Create a table for yourself. I love it.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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Speaker 4: I was so surprised when he called me two weeks
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Speaker 4: later and he was like, well, so, yeah, I talked
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Speaker 4: to the ad and he said, yeah, school stipend room
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Speaker 4: aboard and I said wow. I said, okay, let me
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Speaker 4: think about it. And I thought about it for like
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Speaker 4: five months.
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Speaker 1: You were like, let me let me Actually.
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Speaker 4: I thought about it for five months and at the time,
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Speaker 4: you know, in Orlando. I'm working two part time jobs,
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Speaker 4: like waking up at three to get to work at four,
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Speaker 4: clocking out at twelve, taking a break driving my other job.
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Speaker 4: And I I remember one day, I don't know why,
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Speaker 4: I was just so aggravated and I was like God, like,
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Speaker 4: please please allow me to do this and be in
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Speaker 4: my career and get out of here.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready.
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Speaker 3: And God was like, girl out and gave you an opportunity.
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Speaker 3: And you said you want to sit.
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Speaker 4: And that's when it clicked for me, like, oh, this
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Speaker 4: was it, This was this was God winking, this was guys,
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Speaker 4: this is guy's. That's how I ended up at Alabama and.
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Speaker 2: M okay, So, which you say that your dad influenced
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Speaker 2: your career and what you want to do with your life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, because you're doing all this hustle's and when
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Speaker 1: you talked about get up early in the morning and
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Speaker 1: doing all this, it sounds like, I mean you do
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Speaker 1: a lot. So does that work at the company of
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Speaker 1: your dad? Oh?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: He has given me what he calls the head bust
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Speaker 4: of mentality, and that for a running back, you know,
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Speaker 4: for them, and they hiked the ball the offense of line.
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Speaker 4: They create gaps so that they can just and you
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Speaker 4: you know, sometimes.
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Speaker 3: That gap.
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Speaker 4: And so that's the mentality that I have embodied, just
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Speaker 4: for me and just for my whole life, is just
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Speaker 4: to have that mentality.
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Speaker 3: And then when people talk about my dadd you know again,
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Speaker 3: oh my god, I remember your daddy. I mean, he
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Speaker 3: was just one of those hard Florida He was one
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Speaker 3: of those hard guys. I mean, you know, hey would
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Speaker 3: knock himself out trying to get him.
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Speaker 1: Himself out.
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Speaker 3: So that's like the.
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Speaker 4: Mentality, the mentality that I have. But I remember, you know,
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Speaker 4: my dad, he did a show called The Gridiron Greats
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Speaker 4: and it was a guy from UF guy which guy
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Speaker 4: from you I don't even remember, Okay, okay, okay, I
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Speaker 4: know that it was a guy from the University of Florida,
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Speaker 4: a guy from the University of Miami, my dad, who
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Speaker 4: was the Florida State guy. And then Mike k was
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Speaker 4: a journalist in Orlando. And it would be at Universal Studio.
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Speaker 4: So I literally go with my dad to the studio
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Speaker 4: and watch him get his makeup done and watch him
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Speaker 4: talk sports. And you ever listened to my dad on
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Speaker 4: a broadcast. He's such a firecracker. Yeah, So He's very
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Speaker 4: passionate about it, and so it was always so cool
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Speaker 4: to me. And growing up, I was an athlete, so
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Speaker 4: I was basketball. If I could go back and do
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Speaker 4: it all again, I would have played like soccer, something, volleyball, volleyball, play.
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Speaker 3: Something, you know. I just I was not a good
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Speaker 3: basketball It's okay.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't.
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Speaker 4: I'll be honest, Like, I'm five foot ten. When you
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Speaker 4: go and you look at these girls that are playing
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Speaker 4: now like.
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Speaker 3: Six foot eight seven, like six ft eight.
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Speaker 1: They're tall.
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Speaker 3: So I was literally a five foot nine center.
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Speaker 4: Come on now, I was playing against like this girl
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Speaker 4: named Iana McKenzie.
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Speaker 1: She ended up.
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Speaker 3: Girl went to Texas Tech.
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Speaker 4: And I remember like one time she came down with
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Speaker 4: a rebun and got me run the trust.
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Speaker 1: I was like, never again. I couldn't even.
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Speaker 3: I was like, man, I'm over this.
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Speaker 4: But I was deciding on whether I wanted to do medicine, okay,
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Speaker 4: sports medicine, and at the time, I was like super
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Speaker 4: intrigued by like all of the Harvard Studies chronic trauma
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Speaker 4: into fallab like the movie with had just came out,
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Speaker 4: and I was like, man, I'm trying to decide. But
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Speaker 4: I just was like no, I think journalism is my lane.
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Speaker 1: I like it, like, let me go in here and
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Speaker 1: get this pin out.
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Speaker 3: Like journalism.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and shout out to my TV production teacher in
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Speaker 4: high school, Timothy Blazic. I mean he really believed in me,
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Speaker 4: Like after hours, he would go to the different sporting
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Speaker 4: events and games so he could be my camera guy
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Speaker 4: and teach me kind of like what he knew about
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Speaker 4: the business.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and yeah, pick up.
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Speaker 1: To teachers that really you know again for us, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think they really realized how big of an
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Speaker 1: impact they have on kids. But yeah, if you got
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Speaker 1: a good teacher that believes you, it's like it's everything.
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Speaker 4: He's whenever I win my first Emmy award, he's going,
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Speaker 4: he's going with me. It's coming coming, it is, it's coming.
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Speaker 5: Is.
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Speaker 4: He's got to see that. And we'll put him in
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Speaker 4: like an ox blood suit.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll have money back then, like well like.
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Speaker 1: Bigger money, bigger money, okay, okay, bigger money. So we
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Speaker 1: can tell that you're the apple of your dad's I
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Speaker 1: can tell you, guys are close just just from here,
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Speaker 1: and you speak and the passion and your eyes light up,
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Speaker 1: we know that you are you guys are close. What
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Speaker 1: about the challenges, like, what were some of the challenges
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Speaker 1: that you had just just going through growing up as
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Speaker 1: a teenager, as a young adult in the life.
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Speaker 4: I would say, you know, just how busy they are,
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Speaker 4: and it doesn't stop at retirement, which I think a
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Speaker 4: lot of people, a lot of people don't understand that
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Speaker 4: it really doesn't stop at retirement. I mean, he is
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Speaker 4: like just on go quite frequently, and even to this day,
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Speaker 4: like we have to compare, we have to compare schedules
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Speaker 4: to see like when we can you know, visit each
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Speaker 4: other or you know, just what one another is doing.
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Speaker 4: But I would say that is just the biggest challenge.
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Speaker 4: And then also, you know, when you're an athlete and
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Speaker 4: you play a sport, and more specifically football, age a
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Speaker 4: little bit faster than most with age. So you know,
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Speaker 4: he's only like fifty, But.
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Speaker 1: Dad looks good.
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Speaker 2: So we're gonna we're gonna say that, mister Floyd, you
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Speaker 2: still look good.
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Speaker 1: She's not. She's not saying.
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Speaker 4: No, no, I promise no. And I literally I tell
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Speaker 4: him because he does. He's a very handsome guy, and
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Speaker 4: he he got this like swagger to him. It's kind
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Speaker 4: of crazy, like you know some kids, like some parents
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Speaker 4: would have to ask.
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Speaker 3: Their kids, you know, just kind of what's trending, you
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Speaker 3: know whatever. No, like he he.
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Speaker 4: Pulled out we were going somewhere, and he pulled out
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Speaker 4: a pair of I believe I'm not a snigger head now,
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Speaker 4: but I think there are concords Jordan's.
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Speaker 1: I said, like, what do you like? What you know
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Speaker 1: about this?
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Speaker 3: He said, oh, baby, girl, you know, I just keep
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Speaker 3: him in the class. I got a lot of stuff,
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Speaker 3: got super Bowl Sea literally like it's kind of crazy.
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Speaker 4: And then like, I'll post him on my story and
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Speaker 4: I'm guaranteed at least one or two.
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Speaker 1: Oh girl, your daddy. Look, say my mom will fight.
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Speaker 4: But she will though, But my mother is from Polk
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Speaker 4: count Flora is in between Orlando and Tampa.
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Speaker 1: I don't exactly.
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Speaker 4: Ain't nothing to do down there but get in trouble.
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Speaker 4: I said, Mom, what did you do for fun back
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Speaker 4: in the day? She said, we would just you know,
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Speaker 4: get the boom box and park in the parking lot
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Speaker 4: of the dairy queens.
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Speaker 1: She got time simpler times.
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Speaker 3: Actually, I wash stuff like that, parking the parking lot
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Speaker 3: of the day queen and all that, And yeah, she
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Speaker 3: don't play her. She don't. She don't play them games.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't test her.
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Speaker 1: You're watching, don't test Miss Floyd.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, those those I would say are are some
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Speaker 4: of the challenges. But now that I'm kind of in it,
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Speaker 4: I see it from a different perspective, and now I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: I completely get it. Because there are times where I
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Speaker 4: feel like so bad.
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Speaker 3: Why if, like.
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Speaker 4: I don't call a friend for their birthday, I have
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Speaker 4: by texting because I'm so tired, or like I have
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Speaker 4: all of these things to do, and people invite me.
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Speaker 1: Somewhere and I'm like, I don't want to go.
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Speaker 4: I want to sleep right now, yea, and vibe out
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Speaker 4: in the house because I know tomorrow I'm going to
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Speaker 4: have to be around a lot of people are don't
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Speaker 4: want to go outside?
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Speaker 3: Is that what I want to do?
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Speaker 4: And you know, more oftentimes than not, I'm just taking
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Speaker 4: my time to chill and relax. And so I understand
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Speaker 4: why my dad did that. You know now, Back then
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 3: Like, you never want to do nothing, But now I
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Speaker 3: get it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely get it. They are tickling me. So
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Speaker 1: you have this budding career as a journalist, and we've
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Speaker 1: heard about challenges, and we've heard about just you growing up.
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Speaker 1: What about like where you're going, where your career is going,
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Speaker 1: and how you're using the challenges to fuel yourself forward
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Speaker 1: and what you're doing. I mean, you have a what
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Speaker 1: I want to call it wedding career. I mean you are,
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Speaker 1: you are established. So I want to talk more about
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Speaker 1: that and who in the industry influenced you. Oh wow, because.
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Speaker 3: I know, like you being a woman, a woman of
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Speaker 3: color in the space space.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not it's not easy. It's not easy.
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Speaker 2: So tell us what that experience is like, and anyone
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Speaker 2: who wants to follow your footsteps in this off rip.
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Speaker 4: When I was a freshman, incoming freshmen, they were doing
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Speaker 4: an unveiling at a Florida A and M the Pam
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Speaker 4: Oliver like Hall where our studios for our campus new
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Speaker 4: TV news station was going to be shot every week.
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Speaker 4: And she came and they allowed me to go and
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Speaker 4: listen to her speak, and I just got so many
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Speaker 4: gems from her and got to really just understand everything
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Speaker 4: that she went through and how she didn't even start
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Speaker 4: in sports journalism. Now we know her to be the
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Speaker 4: best year I was tenured, right, but she was doing
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Speaker 4: an agriculture beat when she came out of Florida A
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Speaker 4: and M, because the A is agricultural mechanical. So they
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Speaker 4: just thought like, oh, like you know that and having
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Speaker 4: to start, you know, in smaller town Georgia, and just
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Speaker 4: how she ascended and how she is able to kind
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Speaker 4: of take the brunt end of all of those, you know,
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Speaker 4: just the things that people saying. So when you talk
18:25
Speaker 4: about challenges that I'm trying to navigate, I often think
18:28
Speaker 4: back to me watching her and her giving us that talk.
18:33
Speaker 4: And somebody asked her, you know, they said, they talk
18:35
Speaker 4: about you and they say this, and they say that
18:36
Speaker 4: she's had the people.
18:38
Speaker 3: Don't pay my bills. And I was like, you know what,
18:41
Speaker 3: I like that.
18:41
Speaker 1: I like that a lot.
18:42
Speaker 4: And she was like, you have to develop thick skin
18:44
Speaker 4: and have an overwhelming like love and sense of stelf
18:46
Speaker 4: because this career will eat your throat, it will eat
18:49
Speaker 4: you up.
18:50
Speaker 3: And so I often remember that.
18:51
Speaker 4: And then when I was an athlete in high school,
18:54
Speaker 4: I must have been I must have been kind of
18:55
Speaker 4: nice because like I interviewed by that because I got
19:00
Speaker 4: Tiffany Green, who is the first black woman to call
19:03
Speaker 4: college football.
19:04
Speaker 3: Games play by play on it as wow.
19:05
Speaker 1: Okay.
19:06
Speaker 4: So her mentorship and her guidance has helped me and
19:09
Speaker 4: now I'm trying to go into the realm of play
19:11
Speaker 4: by play, So it's their mentorship has meant the world
19:16
Speaker 4: to me. And then Laura Oakman, she has an organization
19:20
Speaker 4: of women in sports in which I'm a part of,
19:21
Speaker 4: and that has really opened up the door and everything for.
19:25
Speaker 3: Me and what I'm doing now.
19:26
Speaker 4: But right now I'm doing good. I'm doing really, really good.
19:31
Speaker 4: I kind of going into this year, I told myself
19:35
Speaker 4: that this stage of life that I'm in, in this
19:38
Speaker 4: era that I'm in and being in Alabama and having
19:40
Speaker 4: the full capacity to be able to focus on myself,
19:43
Speaker 4: I have to really do the things that I need
19:45
Speaker 4: to do to get myself to the next level. And
19:48
Speaker 4: that's not just in journalism and getting reps in experience.
19:52
Speaker 4: It's more so about making sure that my attitude is good,
19:56
Speaker 4: that I stay in good heart posture when things do
19:58
Speaker 4: or don't go by way, that I get better with
20:01
Speaker 4: my finances.
20:03
Speaker 1: Come on, finance said finances, good for you.
20:07
Speaker 4: I just met with the financial advisor and these are
20:10
Speaker 4: things that honestly, I was going to say someone.
20:12
Speaker 2: Your age talking about the financial literacy I think is
20:15
Speaker 2: very important, so good for you just.
20:17
Speaker 1: Leave generational well creating that. Yeah, just being more knowledgeable
20:22
Speaker 1: about it.
20:22
Speaker 4: I think when I hopped on the zoom with her,
20:25
Speaker 4: she said, I don't get many twenty seven years. She said,
20:28
Speaker 4: I get one or two of you a year, and
20:29
Speaker 4: right now you're my second this year.
20:31
Speaker 3: Wow, Like we don't get many of those.
20:34
Speaker 4: But working on my mental health as well my physical
20:37
Speaker 4: health because being on the road a lot, not eating property,
20:41
Speaker 4: all of those things start to add up in a
20:44
Speaker 4: certain kind of way. So right now it's just me
20:47
Speaker 4: planning and doing all of those things. But I did
20:50
Speaker 4: a tournament at play by Play last month. It was like, really,
20:53
Speaker 4: my first time doing play Where were you? Baltimore, Maryland,
20:56
Speaker 4: ciaa basketball tournament?
20:58
Speaker 3: Okay, I must have kicked some some but some booty some.
21:02
Speaker 1: But don't keep we won't give.
21:04
Speaker 3: But I must have kicked some butt because now.
21:09
Speaker 4: Tomorrow I'll fly out to San Antonio to do the
21:12
Speaker 4: first ever HBCU Women's All Smart Game.
21:18
Speaker 3: I'll do the first one.
21:20
Speaker 4: And then you know they're their agents that are like, hey,
21:24
Speaker 4: you know, we would love to talk to you.
21:26
Speaker 3: We heard you the next girl.
21:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, and oh and we had her here on born
21:31
Speaker 1: to the game. You see, that's right. Yeah.
21:36
Speaker 4: So now it's just kind of like somebody told me
21:39
Speaker 4: back when I was stressing about where my life is
21:42
Speaker 4: going to go or what was going to happen, that you.
21:44
Speaker 3: Know, it happens gradually and all of a sudden.
21:46
Speaker 4: She was like, look back at your life and like,
21:48
Speaker 4: look at the things that you have been able to
21:49
Speaker 4: accomplish within the past few years. And then next year,
21:52
Speaker 4: each year you're doing things that you're doing new things.
21:55
Speaker 4: So it happens gradually and then it happens boom, all
21:58
Speaker 4: of a sudden.
21:58
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's what I'm That's what I'm doing.
22:01
Speaker 1: Isn't that what it is? We put out prayers, we pray,
22:03
Speaker 1: we pray, we pray, and then we don't say anything,
22:05
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you look up and
22:06
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, it's I'm here. It's actually happened.
22:12
Speaker 2: But I love how you talk about it being a
22:14
Speaker 2: gradual progression and this isn't something that just happens overnight,
22:20
Speaker 2: because a lot of people I think would, I mean,
22:22
Speaker 2: I'm that person.
22:23
Speaker 1: I'm impatient. You know, I work with your daddy's daughter.
22:26
Speaker 1: I work.
22:26
Speaker 2: I started doing sit ups on Monday and expect a
22:29
Speaker 2: six fact by where are they these abs?
22:32
Speaker 1: Where are gradual process? It is?
22:35
Speaker 3: And especially because I took the road, let's travel a
22:38
Speaker 3: lot of people.
22:38
Speaker 4: Like when you're in journalism school, typically they train you
22:43
Speaker 4: to get your mind right so that when you graduate,
22:45
Speaker 4: you're going to a small market, okay, And that can
22:48
Speaker 4: be anywhere from like San Angelo, Texas to like Huntsville, Alabama,
22:54
Speaker 4: where I am. It's a bigger market. There's a lot
22:56
Speaker 4: of great sports there, but it's still in the one hundreds.
22:58
Speaker 4: And then when you say the one hundreds, what does
23:00
Speaker 4: that mean? There's like the markets they're range from like
23:04
Speaker 4: your higher markets, what would be like your New York's,
23:07
Speaker 4: your LA's, your Orlando's, stuff like that, and like Raleigh
23:11
Speaker 4: that's like a top twenty market. Just to give you
23:14
Speaker 4: like an ig Atlanta would be a high market.
23:17
Speaker 1: Then you go you know, lower.
23:19
Speaker 4: And lower to your smaller, smaller. Yeah, so that's how
23:23
Speaker 4: it works. The money in local news is sometimes it
23:28
Speaker 4: just it just depends on where you are, what company
23:30
Speaker 4: you work for. And I can't really speak to it
23:32
Speaker 4: because I didn't go that route. I have a lot
23:36
Speaker 4: of friends that did. But for me, it was just freelance,
23:40
Speaker 4: got out of got out of school, and COVID hit.
23:43
Speaker 4: So that was largely part of the reason why I
23:45
Speaker 4: started to freelance. But that's that's how my journey has gone.
23:51
Speaker 4: There are people that I look at my resume and
23:52
Speaker 4: be like, oh, you don't have enough experience because you
23:54
Speaker 4: didn't go local news. There'll be some people that be like, oh,
23:56
Speaker 4: you do have a lot of experience, but you.
23:58
Speaker 3: Know, you didn't get the local news training or pay
24:00
Speaker 3: your due.
24:00
Speaker 1: So you're like, but but I got training other ways.
24:03
Speaker 1: And I hate that because it's like everybody's journey is
24:06
Speaker 1: not the same. Yeah, don't compare mine to whatever you're
24:08
Speaker 1: used to exactly. Yeah. That bugs me. So you just
24:11
Speaker 1: have to prove them all wrong.
24:12
Speaker 3: Right, So that's what I mean. Let's travel right right?
24:16
Speaker 1: Yeah?
24:16
Speaker 3: So, so what advice does your dad give you? Oh, man,
24:21
Speaker 3: this journey that you're on, because I know, I know
24:24
Speaker 3: he has a lot of wisdom like yourself.
24:26
Speaker 1: The wise.
24:27
Speaker 4: My dad has been very intentional on just making sure
24:30
Speaker 4: that I know how to conduct myself in the workplace.
24:32
Speaker 4: That's the biggest thing because he's been around a lot
24:34
Speaker 4: and he's seen a lot, and not only him, but
24:37
Speaker 4: my mother have said, the easiest thing to get but
24:40
Speaker 4: the hardest thing to get rid of is the reputation.
24:43
Speaker 3: Not that they got to.
24:44
Speaker 4: Worry about me going out and doing all doing things
24:46
Speaker 4: all Wally Kney, because I don't get down like that,
24:49
Speaker 4: but it's just the fact that the littlest things can
24:52
Speaker 4: be misconstrueding.
24:53
Speaker 3: You always want to make sure you conduct yourself proper.
24:55
Speaker 4: Then another thing that he wanted me to do again
24:58
Speaker 4: is just to embody that mental tough especially now with
25:01
Speaker 4: the realm that I'm going into a play by play.
25:03
Speaker 4: I'm going to be a part of the handful that
25:05
Speaker 4: are black, but I'm gonna be probably in a lot
25:08
Speaker 4: of different rooms and a lot of different games only
25:10
Speaker 4: black women. So it's important for me to kind of
25:14
Speaker 4: have again that headbust mentality, that mental toughness, the mental
25:17
Speaker 4: fortitude to keep going despite the circumstances. And then when
25:21
Speaker 4: we get into the nitty gritty of it all, he's like,
25:23
Speaker 4: you know, I think you need to drop your voice
25:26
Speaker 4: down a little bit when there's a big play. Don't
25:29
Speaker 4: go high so you don't get excited, you know, make
25:31
Speaker 4: sure that you are keeping it level.
25:33
Speaker 3: We need to work on your terminology. Let's hop on
25:35
Speaker 3: zoom and go through all of these different formations. We're
25:38
Speaker 3: gonna put the game on mute and you're gonna be
25:40
Speaker 3: the play by play and I'm gonna be the color
25:41
Speaker 3: and we're gonna run through the whole game.
25:45
Speaker 4: That's the type of training that I'm getting. Or like,
25:48
Speaker 4: we went to a spring game last year and he
25:51
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, right now, what they're doing is situational football.
25:54
Speaker 4: So they're running all these different plays so that one
25:56
Speaker 4: is in the game time, they know exactly what they're
25:57
Speaker 4: gonna do.
25:57
Speaker 3: Are you're paying attention?
25:58
Speaker 1: Okay?
25:59
Speaker 3: So basically what the quarterback is doing right here doing
26:01
Speaker 3: the three drops up, he's gonna throw the ball, and
26:03
Speaker 3: they're creating their gaps, the gap, the be gap, and
26:05
Speaker 3: I'm like.
26:06
Speaker 1: I told you, hers are on point. So was there
26:11
Speaker 1: every time where you were like dag Man like back off?
26:15
Speaker 2: Or were you always someone who accepted the advice that
26:17
Speaker 2: he was giving you.
26:18
Speaker 3: I always accepted it to his face. And then I
26:21
Speaker 3: go to my mama.
26:22
Speaker 1: And be like, man, your husband, girl, your husband, So
26:26
Speaker 1: you mentioned her, so I'm going to ask about her.
26:28
Speaker 1: Talk to us about your mom.
26:29
Speaker 3: Benita Timmins, Oh.
26:31
Speaker 1: The government name.
26:32
Speaker 4: Okay, I love and I'm glad that you asked me
26:36
Speaker 4: because a lot of times I feel like and I'm
26:39
Speaker 4: sure your mom can relate as well as that it's
26:42
Speaker 4: kind of like a fade into the background of who
26:43
Speaker 4: your husband is, right and then now it's kind of
26:46
Speaker 4: like that my siblings and I are becoming She's kind
26:50
Speaker 4: of it's Jaden's mom or Floyd's mom or.
26:53
Speaker 3: Tie his mom.
26:54
Speaker 4: But I want to tell her, like Benita, you did
26:57
Speaker 4: your big one girl. First of all, let's start with
27:01
Speaker 4: the fact that none of your kids are ugly period.
27:04
Speaker 3: None of your kids are. But no, there were times
27:08
Speaker 3: when she had so.
27:09
Speaker 1: You know, listen that ugly period chairs.
27:18
Speaker 3: None of your kids's gens.
27:24
Speaker 4: There was a lot of times where she had to
27:25
Speaker 4: be you know, alone and raising us and getting us
27:29
Speaker 4: to practices, sitting out at games.
27:31
Speaker 3: And Drew my older brother, he played baseball.
27:33
Speaker 4: So she did all of the things that she could
27:37
Speaker 4: do to contribute to our growth and evolutionist people, and
27:39
Speaker 4: she doesn't often get the praise. So I'm glad that
27:42
Speaker 4: you asked me about her. I mean, she definitely be
27:45
Speaker 4: getting me together. It's kind of funny because my dad's
27:48
Speaker 4: more of the nurturer and she's more of the like,
27:51
Speaker 4: I don't know why you crying. Don't be crying. You
27:55
Speaker 4: can cry after you get to degree. Don't be crying.
27:57
Speaker 4: Or who cares another to find another? Men are likes
28:02
Speaker 4: you need foreign a spear. That's what my mom has said.
28:04
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, please please say that again. Are you
28:08
Speaker 1: going to see into that?
28:12
Speaker 2: Because she said men are like tires you need you
28:16
Speaker 2: need foreign a spare.
28:17
Speaker 4: And I'm glad that she gave me that advice. Honestly,
28:20
Speaker 4: I'm very lovely girl. So I begin in my heart broken.
28:23
Speaker 4: I'll be putting on my eggs in one basket, and
28:26
Speaker 4: I mean, she'd be telling me like you need to
28:33
Speaker 4: get your thug up a little bit, like you know,
28:35
Speaker 4: get your thug up.
28:37
Speaker 3: But you know, did she come on the show?
28:38
Speaker 1: I have to meet her. Please come on our show
28:43
Speaker 1: and we call her. Do you think she lands?
28:45
Speaker 3: I do think?
28:46
Speaker 1: Please please call her? Okay, we have to call her.
28:51
Speaker 2: We need to get some dating advice, like why don't
28:53
Speaker 2: you tell the young Okay, like listen, I'm scared, you know,
28:58
Speaker 2: and I I'm married.
29:00
Speaker 1: Smara is about to be married. You know we're not single,
29:03
Speaker 1: but I still need.
29:05
Speaker 3: You're on speakerphone. Hello, Hello, she ain't go's you today?
29:16
Speaker 3: She's laughing because she already knows. Hi, Miss Fanny.
29:20
Speaker 1: Mom, you're on board to the game podcast. How are
29:23
Speaker 1: you hi?
29:25
Speaker 3: That's my mom. She's a baddy.
29:29
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, she is stunning. That's what I'm saying, Like,
29:33
Speaker 2: don't hi.
29:34
Speaker 1: We're talking about you.
29:36
Speaker 3: We're talking about you.
29:37
Speaker 4: I told them about your famed advice of men are
29:39
Speaker 4: like tyres need for in a spare right period.
29:44
Speaker 1: So when it comes.
29:45
Speaker 4: To me as your daughter, as you've seen me go
29:48
Speaker 4: through dating, especially as a young adult, what have you
29:52
Speaker 4: noticed about me and what do you wish I would
29:55
Speaker 4: do differently?
29:58
Speaker 5: I noticed that she is we gotta be living with
30:01
Speaker 5: us for the rest of her life.
30:03
Speaker 1: She has very high expectations. Mama always would.
30:12
Speaker 3: You your potential son and I could be watching this.
30:17
Speaker 1: He is gonna watching and we'll get around to that too.
30:19
Speaker 5: Did you tell me to tell the truth or because
30:21
Speaker 5: like ty used to come home and be like, oh
30:23
Speaker 5: my feet hurt until my husband would rub her feet.
30:28
Speaker 1: Do that you spoiled?
30:30
Speaker 5: She's spoiled. She has her expect he has a great dad.
30:35
Speaker 5: She tells her what she wants to hear, and let's
30:39
Speaker 5: be realistic. She's not gonna I don't think because he
30:43
Speaker 5: was giving you that daddy love.
30:45
Speaker 3: Do you see what I'm talking about?
30:46
Speaker 1: How she is like she's keeping.
30:49
Speaker 3: Like dougast Rugg's bone, That's how she is.
30:52
Speaker 1: He's giving me that daddy love.
30:53
Speaker 5: But you need a husband love and you got to
30:57
Speaker 5: separate the expectations of the two.
30:59
Speaker 3: But I do.
31:00
Speaker 2: So what's the what's the So what's the main thing
31:02
Speaker 2: she should be looking for? So we're about to, you know,
31:05
Speaker 2: do our about to shoot our shots? So what should
31:08
Speaker 2: we be saying or what should be on the top
31:12
Speaker 2: of the pilot?
31:13
Speaker 1: Time?
31:14
Speaker 4: They have significant we're married, so for time, what should hear.
31:19
Speaker 3: That she needs to Jackson and trying ugly?
31:22
Speaker 5: I try you.
31:25
Speaker 1: What you mean?
31:27
Speaker 3: I can hang up on home. She don't have the
31:30
Speaker 3: media training.
31:31
Speaker 4: You know what you you have? You have got to
31:36
Speaker 4: go And what's crazy is my type is just a
31:38
Speaker 4: little what's wait girl?
31:43
Speaker 1: Wait what girl? She said five foot and shorter? Wait no, no, mom.
31:50
Speaker 3: Said correctly correctly to and period job than you so
31:57
Speaker 3: still sound hands?
32:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it did. We're gonna be looking at my
32:05
Speaker 1: mom said the same thing.
32:06
Speaker 3: Anyway, mother, we I'm gonna hang up on you because
32:09
Speaker 3: you are showing out.
32:10
Speaker 1: But listen, love.
32:11
Speaker 4: They asked me about you, what they asked me about you?
32:15
Speaker 4: And I told them a little bit about you. But
32:19
Speaker 4: now that I have you on the phone, I just
32:22
Speaker 4: want to say that you're a great mom and you
32:25
Speaker 4: don't get a lot of the shining praise, but you
32:27
Speaker 4: really are.
32:28
Speaker 1: You get my nerves.
32:29
Speaker 3: You get my nerves a lot, but you know, but you.
32:33
Speaker 1: Know, and we're gonna have to have you on miss
32:35
Speaker 1: Banana on the couch, we really do.
32:38
Speaker 3: Then I throw a punch for your mom.
32:40
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we love you, Miss all One.
32:49
Speaker 3: You got.
32:52
Speaker 2: Look and she said, she said, you're saying that were
32:56
Speaker 2: too high.
32:57
Speaker 3: You're raising your mom.
32:58
Speaker 1: You don't, do you feel you're raising I feel like
33:00
Speaker 1: we're in I.
33:01
Speaker 4: Don't know if I'm raising her, but I've come to
33:03
Speaker 4: the realization that she's living life for the first time too.
33:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything that she does or.
33:08
Speaker 3: That she says, it's not gonna always be what people
33:13
Speaker 3: would correct. But she's she's hilarious.
33:17
Speaker 1: As you can see.
33:17
Speaker 3: We can see she's Sometimes.
33:19
Speaker 1: I just be sitting there like, okay, girl.
33:26
Speaker 3: And it's funny because.
33:26
Speaker 4: She'll be like, you need to lower and you needed it,
33:29
Speaker 4: and my dad will be like, don't you ever lower
33:30
Speaker 4: your standards?
33:31
Speaker 1: So do you think it's hard for men?
33:33
Speaker 3: Though?
33:33
Speaker 4: I think it can bet that standard. It just depends.
33:38
Speaker 4: It depends on the kind of on the kind of man.
33:41
Speaker 4: I feel like, like a real man, you're whoever your
33:44
Speaker 4: man is, so I'm sure you can speak to him. Yeah,
33:46
Speaker 4: they don't care. They're like, I got it, I got it.
33:49
Speaker 4: But that's my dad's main requirement. He don't care how
33:51
Speaker 4: he looks. He don't care none of that might my
33:54
Speaker 4: dad said, you find someone who could do it like that,
33:57
Speaker 4: that's it. Yeah, I don't think I'm off from that.
34:00
Speaker 4: I don't know what that lady's talking about. Did you
34:02
Speaker 4: lower your standards or are you?
34:05
Speaker 3: Are you?
34:05
Speaker 6: Do?
34:05
Speaker 3: You drive a Mercedes and got to never fool on
34:08
Speaker 3: your shoulders?
34:08
Speaker 1: But do you know what I love? Though? There is
34:10
Speaker 1: literally someone, Yeah, there literally is. They just come out
34:13
Speaker 1: the sky. This is the craziest thing, But there is
34:16
Speaker 1: somebody out there.
34:17
Speaker 4: I'm learning that now, and I think that as women,
34:20
Speaker 4: the biggest like the big thing is always like the
34:23
Speaker 4: man and what the man is going to do and
34:25
Speaker 4: how the man is going to blah blah blah.
34:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when you get a good man.
34:28
Speaker 4: That is of God, that is noble, you have to
34:30
Speaker 4: make sure that you're the woman equipped to handle him
34:32
Speaker 4: as well. So that for me is where we talked
34:36
Speaker 4: about how I'm putting in all these power plays in motion,
34:39
Speaker 4: planting all these seeds. That's one of those things like
34:42
Speaker 4: really focusing on myself and making sure that I'm prepared. Yeah,
34:47
Speaker 4: that is going to be prepared for that kind of
34:49
Speaker 4: love and then what comes with that kind of love, because.
34:52
Speaker 1: You definitely want to find be found prepared, you don't.
34:55
Speaker 1: You don't want to be found not ready, especially when
34:58
Speaker 1: the right one comes.
34:59
Speaker 3: Along, because you could sabotage it.
35:01
Speaker 1: You absolutely can. Yeah. Absolutely.
35:03
Speaker 2: Do you think it's important for you to focus on
35:07
Speaker 2: your career now as you are trying to find your person,
35:14
Speaker 2: like still making sure that you have your own.
35:16
Speaker 1: Absolutely what I'm trying to ask.
35:18
Speaker 4: I think that because I connect my like what I'm
35:23
Speaker 4: doing and like my purpose so closely to my like
35:27
Speaker 4: faith in my diffnity, like it means something to me
35:33
Speaker 4: and I just again we talked about God's invisible strings,
35:35
Speaker 4: like when it's meant to happen. It's going to happen
35:38
Speaker 4: for me and someone very wise. His name is Mike Cagrity.
35:41
Speaker 4: He's actually Laura Oakman's husband. He said, whatever's going to
35:45
Speaker 4: happen is already happened, so just enjoy it. And it's
35:47
Speaker 4: the truth, like whatever's going to happen in life has
35:49
Speaker 4: already happened, so just enjoy it. And I've spent so
35:53
Speaker 4: much time, like I've spent so much time, like when
35:56
Speaker 4: I look back at my twenties now, but when I
36:00
Speaker 4: look back at my twenties, and I look back at
36:02
Speaker 4: the things that like the time that was wasted when
36:06
Speaker 4: I could have been focused on like me elevating and
36:09
Speaker 4: all the things that I like to do instead of
36:11
Speaker 4: trying to force love.
36:13
Speaker 3: And God been looking at me from this guy like
36:16
Speaker 3: I'm gonna.
36:16
Speaker 2: Say the whole time, you are still young, so young,
36:19
Speaker 2: so twenty seven, you are still Let.
36:21
Speaker 3: Me say it one more time because I know that
36:23
Speaker 3: I know.
36:25
Speaker 4: My football kids, and you know my all of the
36:29
Speaker 4: students that I work with at Alabama A and M.
36:31
Speaker 3: I'm aunty around there.
36:33
Speaker 2: No twenty seven, baby, auntie, God you and don't feel
36:39
Speaker 2: like so to put into perspective. I got married and
36:43
Speaker 2: had my first baby at thirty two.
36:46
Speaker 3: That's the ideal for me. And when I say that, people.
36:49
Speaker 1: Are like, oh, no, I promise you, you're doing it right.
36:52
Speaker 3: The baby situates, you're gonna be sixty, I'm like, God,
36:56
Speaker 3: you know.
36:56
Speaker 1: You are so out of control.
36:58
Speaker 3: You we're still very much in your prime. All the
37:01
Speaker 3: lessons that you've learned.
37:02
Speaker 2: And again you're still in your twenties, so you still
37:05
Speaker 2: got some more lessons to But you are on the
37:08
Speaker 2: right path, babe, I promise you and your husband he's
37:11
Speaker 2: out there. We about to We're gonna start and we're
37:14
Speaker 2: gonna talk about your dating life. We're gonna talk about
37:16
Speaker 2: what you're looking for, green flags, red flags.
37:20
Speaker 1: But before we do, before we get into that part,
37:23
Speaker 1: let's let's tamara. I'm gonna ask this one more question,
37:26
Speaker 1: and I think this will segue into our dating life somehow,
37:28
Speaker 1: but we're gonna make it. Yeah, So what would you
37:30
Speaker 1: say to younger self who is just starting in her
37:33
Speaker 1: career in sports media? What advice would you give to her?
37:37
Speaker 1: And then, if you want to, what advice would you
37:40
Speaker 1: give to other girls? You talked about your mentors, the
37:43
Speaker 1: people that have pushed you forward? What will you do
37:45
Speaker 1: to push those behind you forward?
37:48
Speaker 4: So to start with that question first, what I definitely
37:51
Speaker 4: would love to do since I am getting my masters,
37:54
Speaker 4: it would be a dream for me to be an
37:56
Speaker 4: adjunct professor somewhere teaching journalism or sports journalism classes that
38:01
Speaker 4: they would love to add that to their curriculum, specifically
38:03
Speaker 4: at a historically black college and university. I feel like
38:06
Speaker 4: being able to utilize my connections and call my dad
38:11
Speaker 4: or my uncle Derek Brooks or Uncle Karol, Uncle Teo
38:14
Speaker 4: to like come talk to my kids that I'm teaching
38:17
Speaker 4: would be amazing. And then also the guys that I
38:19
Speaker 4: know within the league currently, to give them that resume
38:23
Speaker 4: building experience would be something that is a dream for me.
38:26
Speaker 4: And then if that is not in my cards, definitely
38:30
Speaker 4: going to do boot camps at different schools throughout the
38:33
Speaker 4: year again more specifically HBCUs and being able to just
38:38
Speaker 4: just teach them and give them insight into what I
38:41
Speaker 4: have done. And I just got to do that with
38:43
Speaker 4: the Morgan State University creatives. They invited me to come speak,
38:46
Speaker 4: which was a really insightful experience and I love to
38:49
Speaker 4: give them the real because.
38:50
Speaker 3: I don't have it all together.
38:51
Speaker 4: If you scroll down on my page, you only see
38:54
Speaker 4: what I will allow you to see, y'all, Like people
38:57
Speaker 4: haven't seen, like the fact that a lot of times
39:01
Speaker 4: I was paying my own money to go to these places,
39:03
Speaker 4: the fact that I worked those two jobs, the fact
39:06
Speaker 4: that you know, it hasn't been easy, but it's always
39:10
Speaker 4: been worth it, And so I always try to keep
39:12
Speaker 4: it real with them. But that's what I plan to
39:15
Speaker 4: do to get back and contribute. And then what I
39:18
Speaker 4: would say to my younger self who is just starting
39:23
Speaker 4: out her career, I would tell her that when you
39:29
Speaker 4: focus on yourself and what you're supposed to be doing,
39:32
Speaker 4: that's when everything falls into place for you. And then
39:34
Speaker 4: I would reiterate the gradually, and then all of a.
39:37
Speaker 1: Sudden, Yes, beautiful, thank you, You're so amazing with today.
39:46
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here.
39:47
Speaker 4: I really am, and especially like you and I have
39:50
Speaker 4: just met, but your energy and just how warm you
39:52
Speaker 4: are has been has been so special and amazing. It's
39:56
Speaker 4: great to be around women who are like that. And
39:58
Speaker 4: then Mariyah, Oh my god, I remember calling you like,
40:02
Speaker 4: oh my god, can you give me advice on this?
40:05
Speaker 4: But I don't know what to do and talking about
40:08
Speaker 4: my you know, my and all of that, just the
40:12
Speaker 4: growing veins of being someone who was in college and
40:14
Speaker 4: like fresh. You definitely made sure that I was okay,
40:20
Speaker 4: And even as you were figuring it out, that meant
40:23
Speaker 4: a lot to me because I don't have a big sister.
40:25
Speaker 4: I have an older brother whom we met through and
40:29
Speaker 4: it's he's he's he's good at giving advice. But you know, yeah,
40:37
Speaker 4: so I really appreciate you, and I appreciate you for
40:40
Speaker 4: allowing me to be here. Yeah, I've been amazing to
40:43
Speaker 4: get you know, the lay of the land on this side.
40:46
Speaker 1: It's easy for me. You're so good, You're so good.
40:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, you talk about our energy. Your energy is amazing.
40:53
Speaker 3: It's amazing you are. You are such a joy to
40:55
Speaker 3: be around.
40:56
Speaker 1: That's why I immediately thought of you.
40:58
Speaker 2: Yes, when we were putting this together, Tie, where is Tie?
41:02
Speaker 2: Her energy is beautiful? You're stunning, I said, Yes, it's
41:06
Speaker 2: so much going on in your life. You're so wise
41:09
Speaker 2: twenty seven, you very wise. I will say that you're very.
41:13
Speaker 1: Wise and so and so focused on this and just
41:17
Speaker 1: hustle twin your hustles. You really are. I mean, I
41:21
Speaker 1: love that.
41:23
Speaker 2: And we love it, you know that. But what we
41:26
Speaker 2: are going to do, We're going to segue into it's
41:30
Speaker 2: time to get tie a husband. Let's get tied a
41:33
Speaker 2: ring on my finger.
41:34
Speaker 1: Listen.
41:35
Speaker 4: So I thought about this since the planning, okay, and
41:38
Speaker 4: I realized that I cannot throw that hail Mary in
41:43
Speaker 4: the world of football, just because I'm like one assignment
41:48
Speaker 4: away from being like their colleague, you know what I mean?
41:51
Speaker 1: Okay?
41:51
Speaker 4: True, So that kind of scares me a little bit.
41:54
Speaker 4: This is just my journalism mind speaking. However, I will
41:57
Speaker 4: be shooting my shot today.
41:58
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, okay, but let's let's not shoot our shot.
42:01
Speaker 3: Let's throw a touchdown on the I don't have to
42:04
Speaker 3: shoot my shot for this one because he's NBA.
42:09
Speaker 2: Okay, So can we get our dry erase board marker,
42:13
Speaker 2: I mean board, so that we can.
42:15
Speaker 1: Guess who it is?
42:16
Speaker 2: I feel like we should turn into a game, right,
42:18
Speaker 2: Like guess who it.
42:19
Speaker 1: Is has to be a game. It has to be
42:21
Speaker 1: a game, right our friends they're gonna grab our d
42:24
Speaker 1: So here's this is what I always say, is like,
42:26
Speaker 1: you have to be able to say what you want.
42:28
Speaker 1: If you can't say what you want and verbalize what
42:30
Speaker 1: you want, then you're never going to get it. So
42:32
Speaker 1: be the boat, okay, and say what it is you want.
42:35
Speaker 1: If you want a six' five, man don't don't listen
42:39
Speaker 1: to your, mama then you need to say.
42:41
Speaker 4: That you know, What like, Okay so like ideally for,
42:44
Speaker 4: me they would be, yeah so they would be six
42:50
Speaker 4: five six four, five six, seven anywhere in that. RANGE
42:57
Speaker 4: i really do. Love and have you ever seen like
42:59
Speaker 4: an old line lineman or like defensive lineman body? Type,
43:03
Speaker 4: yes so they're anywhere between like six four to six,
43:06
Speaker 4: seven like two hundred and sixty.
43:09
Speaker 3: PLUS i like.
43:10
Speaker 1: That, Okay so that's what we're gonna talk. About but
43:13
Speaker 1: that just.
43:13
Speaker 3: Looks you have to be a man Of.
43:15
Speaker 4: God you have to be a. Nurture you have to
43:17
Speaker 4: be a provider and a. Protector you have to be emotionally,
43:20
Speaker 4: intelligent and you have to be. Kind Because i'm watching.
43:22
Speaker 3: This so if you talk to the housekeeper mean and, rude,
43:28
Speaker 3: yeah cut. OFF i don't do. That, YEAH i don't
43:30
Speaker 3: do that type of. Stuff you have to be humble as.
43:32
Speaker 1: Well just treat just, yeah it treats, me. Right it's
43:35
Speaker 1: so hard to be, kind do you, think? RIGHT i
43:38
Speaker 1: just have no. Idea thank. You, okay you've been. HERE
43:42
Speaker 1: i act like you've been. Here thank. You, Okay so
43:46
Speaker 1: then let's we'll pick it back. Up is this for?
43:48
Speaker 5: Me?
43:49
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah that's well because she need, one she doesn't need.
43:51
Speaker 3: One, Okay so we are doing the shoot your shot
44:01
Speaker 3: and you, guys and we have to guess who it. Is,
44:04
Speaker 3: no BUT i think we should do let's do two to.
44:07
Speaker 1: Two and we made up a. Game we made up
44:10
Speaker 1: a game usually truth and a, lie but we just
44:13
Speaker 1: we made up our own. Game and it's called two
44:15
Speaker 1: lies in the. Truth so you can tell us two
44:17
Speaker 1: lies and then the. Truth we're supposed to guess the.
44:19
Speaker 3: Truth about this person or just in so give us
44:23
Speaker 3: so give.
44:23
Speaker 1: Us three different.
44:25
Speaker 2: Names, yes one of them is the crush the guy
44:29
Speaker 2: that you want to shoot your shot, at And tomay
44:31
Speaker 2: AND i have to guess who it. Is, Okay, okay
44:34
Speaker 2: you want to like you, know do you need a?
44:36
Speaker 1: Second do you need a? Second? WHY i?
44:39
Speaker 3: KNOW i know them, OFF i know the top of.
44:42
Speaker 1: PLACE i don't need any type Of, okay let's see
44:44
Speaker 1: if we get.
44:44
Speaker 4: This, OKAY i didn't tell you it was, Basketball so
44:47
Speaker 4: DO i need to stay in that? Realm or CAN
44:48
Speaker 4: i just name a whole bunch of different names.
44:50
Speaker 1: As long as you tell us one that's the actual.
44:53
Speaker 2: Basket, well since we know it's, basketball give us, Three SO, nba, right,
44:56
Speaker 2: okay give us OVERSEAS.
44:58
Speaker 1: Nba, okay let's DO.
45:00
Speaker 2: Nba, okay so give us THREE nba, players but one
45:03
Speaker 2: of them is? His, Okay SO i would.
45:07
Speaker 4: Say why AM i nervous like?
45:14
Speaker 1: That Oh?
45:16
Speaker 3: God what DID i get myself? INTO i don't really
45:20
Speaker 3: watch THE nba like? That to give you guys? Lies
45:23
Speaker 3: can they be? Former?
45:24
Speaker 1: SURE i mean, yeah because we don't know and thought
45:28
Speaker 1: You i'm.
45:28
Speaker 3: Bad Diamond stone.
45:31
Speaker 1: Oh, Okay, Okay, okay.
45:33
Speaker 3: Diamond Stone, okay that's a funny.
45:37
Speaker 1: Story Diamond. STONE i, mean are you'all gonna share it or?
45:41
Speaker 3: WHAT i? DON'T i don't.
45:42
Speaker 4: KNOW i don't know from Diamond Stone Hachi mura, okay.
45:48
Speaker 4: Okay and dang he just he just got traded from
45:56
Speaker 4: The hornets to somewhere. ELSE i forgot his.
45:58
Speaker 1: Name that. Sucks.
46:00
Speaker 3: Okay so Diamond stone.
46:05
Speaker 6: And Mobomba mobomba, Yeah, OKAY i feel like this.
46:16
Speaker 1: One was kind of. Obvious, okay did you get you
46:20
Speaker 1: have an? Idea? Okay are you gonna let, me let,
46:24
Speaker 1: me let me erase very easy to. SPELL i just,
46:30
Speaker 1: okay okay ready what oh is that how you spell?
46:36
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46:37
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46:41
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46:46
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46:48
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46:54
Speaker 3: i am THE. Fbi actually, No Like i'm not gonna
46:58
Speaker 3: get into, it BUT i really BE i did terrible.
47:02
Speaker 3: THAT i really gave that. AWAY i should HAVE i should.
47:04
Speaker 4: Have said like a whole like just different because, dang,
47:07
Speaker 4: YEAH i don't know THE nba that.
47:09
Speaker 1: WAY i kind of. Like so he plays for The.
47:10
Speaker 4: Lakers he plays for The tall he's, tall he is Half. Japanese,
47:15
Speaker 4: okay call him The Black. Samurai so AM i shooting my?
47:18
Speaker 3: Shot?
47:18
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47:19
Speaker 3: Girl you know which cameras in the middle on the. Look,
47:24
Speaker 3: okay you're tiny, now, Honey i'm, okay you do your? Thing, okay, Ready,
47:30
Speaker 3: Roy but touching on In Maiwa. Thai i've never been
47:35
Speaker 3: to L a, before AND i would love if you
47:36
Speaker 3: could show me around.
47:40
Speaker 1: Period.
47:41
Speaker 3: Period that was really, Good LIKE i was, like oh my, gosh,
47:48
Speaker 3: OKAY i like this.
47:49
Speaker 1: Game tell us another two es and a. Truth it
47:55
Speaker 1: could be Any it could be anything though it doesn't
47:57
Speaker 1: be about a. Guy it could be about it could
48:00
Speaker 1: about any experience About, okay this is a good.
48:03
Speaker 4: One, Okay, OKAY i have a pocket. Pharmacy what a pocket?
48:09
Speaker 4: PHARMACY a pocket?
48:10
Speaker 3: Pharmacy, yeah you don't have? One oh my, god you
48:12
Speaker 3: gotta get. One one pocket pharmacy AND i take it
48:16
Speaker 3: with me on every.
48:16
Speaker 4: TRIP i would take my pocket pharmacy with me on every.
48:18
Speaker 4: Trip two lies and the, truth, right?
48:20
Speaker 1: Yeah.
48:24
Speaker 3: Hmmm what we're trying to?
48:28
Speaker 1: STUDY i don't. Know i'm, LIKE.
48:32
Speaker 4: I want to relocate To, Atlanta. Georgia, okay and then
48:39
Speaker 4: for my third. One my favorite athlete of all time
48:48
Speaker 4: is my.
48:49
Speaker 3: Father OH i feel like this About shady because if
48:54
Speaker 3: it is, Not.
48:58
Speaker 1: I'm going To.
49:01
Speaker 3: These are so random and. Weird i'm Not i'm not
49:06
Speaker 3: good at this.
49:07
Speaker 1: Game and What I'm i'm not gonna. Do, Okay i'm
49:11
Speaker 1: gonna you. KNOW i don't trust your. GAME i don't tell.
49:15
Speaker 1: Me don't trust. You we don't trust.
49:17
Speaker 3: Me why would you not trust? ME i wonder why
49:21
Speaker 3: AM i not?
49:22
Speaker 1: Trust AM i not? Trust? Okay you? Ready why she played,
49:28
Speaker 1: me she's about to play ready, one two.
49:33
Speaker 2: THREE i, said daddy is a favorite, athlete because if he's,
49:37
Speaker 2: NOT i need to explain to me who is your favorite?
49:39
Speaker 1: Athlete he's.
49:40
Speaker 3: NOT i love you, will but you're. Not and then
49:45
Speaker 3: that is the.
49:46
Speaker 1: Truth? Wait DID i do this? Wrong did you do
49:50
Speaker 1: two lies and the truth to? Truth which one was the?
49:54
Speaker 1: Truth this one was the? Truth?
49:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, YEAH i did not want to relocate To.
49:59
Speaker 4: Atlanta you want to go To charlotte to my at.
50:03
Speaker 1: Aliens, Okay so who is your FAVORITE?
50:06
Speaker 4: A that's that's my? Namesake, actually, yeah my. Dad it's
50:12
Speaker 4: my dad's middle name as. Well oh, yeah it's my.
50:15
Speaker 4: Grandfather he was really like he Loved Muhammad ali and
50:18
Speaker 4: everything that he. Embodied and so my great grandfather Is William.
50:23
Speaker 4: Alfred my granddad Is William, alfred my dad Is William,
50:25
Speaker 4: Ali my older brother Is William, andrew and then my
50:28
Speaker 4: nephew Is William. Alexander but my name was originally going
50:33
Speaker 4: to Be willow and then because that's because my older
50:38
Speaker 4: brother Is, william so that's he had a part of
50:40
Speaker 4: my dad's, name and so they wanted to give me
50:41
Speaker 4: a part of my dad's, name but because my dad
50:44
Speaker 4: was so just enamored With Muhammad ali because you, know
50:47
Speaker 4: his dad wasn't. Everything they got to meet him when
50:50
Speaker 4: my dad was in The National Football league and my
50:52
Speaker 4: mom was pregnant with, me and so when he found
50:55
Speaker 4: out that she was, pregnant he like came over and
50:57
Speaker 4: rubbed her belly and he prayed over the, baby.
51:01
Speaker 1: And the baby is. Me that's a, Dope.
51:04
Speaker 4: Champ thank you for The thank you for the. Prayers
51:09
Speaker 4: they have come they have come, True. CHAMP i appreciate.
51:12
Speaker 3: That so that's why my name is Ty.
51:15
Speaker 1: Ali.
51:16
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah that's my favorite.
51:19
Speaker 2: Athlete it's, amazing. Amazing, okay one more. Game let's do
51:24
Speaker 2: one more game and then we'll hopefully you're better at this. One,
51:28
Speaker 2: well let's do one more two lies in the. Truth,
51:31
Speaker 2: okay we'll do start bench because can you guys.
51:34
Speaker 3: Give me a theme for this, one because let's do.
51:37
Speaker 1: Food oh, yeah mm hmm okay.
51:44
Speaker 5: For.
51:45
Speaker 3: FOOD i enjoy spicy. Food, OKAY i love. Tomatoes and
51:53
Speaker 3: my favorite restaurant Is Oil.
51:58
Speaker 4: Traffical where is that In? Florida it's like a y'all
52:02
Speaker 4: have never heard of. THAT i Saw My, GOD i,
52:06
Speaker 4: say you gotta go where is?
52:08
Speaker 3: It?
52:08
Speaker 1: Like what part Of.
52:09
Speaker 3: Florida it's all over all Over florida. Tropical it's like,
52:13
Speaker 3: chicken like ch, chicken and it's like it's very like
52:18
Speaker 3: A Puerto rico kind. OF i.
52:21
Speaker 1: Used to eat it BEFORE i became. Began, yeah, okay.
52:26
Speaker 3: So i'm just had the mental fortitude to Be it
52:29
Speaker 3: takes some.
52:30
Speaker 1: Discipline, okay.
52:33
Speaker 2: All, Right so it was you like spicy like tomatoes
52:36
Speaker 2: and then dropolate.
52:37
Speaker 1: Cat all, RIGHT i need to get one, right no.
52:44
Speaker 2: IDEA i got the first one, RIGHT i got to,
52:45
Speaker 2: Right i'm, winning you are. Winning, okay, READY i got
52:49
Speaker 2: to get this one.
52:50
Speaker 3: Right TOMATOES i hate, them dang. It wait that would be.
52:57
Speaker 1: My you're right, right? Right so which? One which was the? Truth?
53:05
Speaker 3: Thai, oh the spicy, food the spicy, FOOD i do love.
53:10
Speaker 3: It chappacala is not my favorite. Restaurant, Wait, yang yeah it's.
53:14
Speaker 3: NOT i feel like the tomatoes are so. Random i'm,
53:17
Speaker 3: like because she SAID i LOVE i LOVE i don't
53:22
Speaker 3: you love spicy?
53:22
Speaker 1: FOOD i? Do so what kind of food do you?
53:24
Speaker 4: Like, well my grandma's From. Thailand that's why my name Is. Thai,
53:27
Speaker 4: okay so, yeah her like i'd be like a little
53:31
Speaker 4: kid like three or, four and she'd be, like you.
53:33
Speaker 3: Want some, Baby it's not, Hot it's, okay.
53:35
Speaker 4: It's you, know, Fire like.
53:41
Speaker 1: Did you ever put hot sauce on your popcorn potato?
53:45
Speaker 4: Chips that that's that's a very older brother thing like
53:49
Speaker 4: and does that?
53:50
Speaker 3: Everything and did everything you did hot?
53:53
Speaker 1: Sauce are you the person who carries hot?
53:55
Speaker 3: Sauce and your person was, like, yeah a little, mini
53:59
Speaker 3: a little Mini.
54:00
Speaker 1: Sabasco, yes that's. You, wait so what's The Pocket farm? Then,
54:03
Speaker 1: yeah OH i Have.
54:05
Speaker 4: Yeah so it's like all of the medications that you would,
54:08
Speaker 4: need and it's small and it has like different LITTLE.
54:11
Speaker 1: I have heard of. THAT i saw.
54:13
Speaker 3: THAT i like small tom so you have it with.
54:17
Speaker 3: Gees it's at the. Hotel, yeah we.
54:20
Speaker 1: Have to get a little thing up of yeah that's
54:23
Speaker 1: what we should.
54:23
Speaker 4: Have But i'm that friend, Though like when we went
54:26
Speaker 4: To nashville and my homegirl was like, OOH i, said,
54:29
Speaker 4: GIRL i got you hold.
54:31
Speaker 3: Out The Pocket farm and she was. Ready she was
54:33
Speaker 3: ready to go On broadway that. Night yeah that's really.
54:37
Speaker 3: Good you got to get. It and it has like
54:39
Speaker 3: the little stickers with the different france is really.
54:40
Speaker 1: CUTE i saw THAT i saw that on.
54:42
Speaker 3: TikTok i like that kind of.
54:43
Speaker 1: Stuff, okay start. Suspense so we're going to give.
54:51
Speaker 2: You four different things, okay, okay and you're either going
54:55
Speaker 2: to start, it bench, it cut, it or suspend.
54:59
Speaker 5: It.
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Speaker 2: Okay so we Got Valet, parking you want to write
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Speaker 2: it down, Okay, Okay Valet parking, okay housekeeping, okay room
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Speaker 2: service and with room service that Includes, Postmates Uber, eats
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Speaker 2: Stor dash or twenty four hour.
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Speaker 1: Concierge she, said, start bench, cut suspend is your? Category which?
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Speaker 1: One are you going to?
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Speaker 2: Start bench cut and then Suspend Valet? Parking we need
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Speaker 2: some like, dude, right Maybe, Andrew Maybe andrew can edit
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Speaker 2: that in. There, housekeeping room, service twenty four hour. Concierge all,
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Speaker 2: Right i'm, Ready, okay so what are we? Starting we're
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Speaker 2: gonna start room. Service MAYBE i can't live without.
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Speaker 1: IT i love.
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Speaker 3: IT i literally door dashed last. Night, YEAH i door
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Speaker 3: dashed the most craziest thing, Though Maria, WIBBY.
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Speaker 1: I WILL i.
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Speaker 4: Have i've done that LIKE i was about to DoorDash
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Speaker 4: some pimple patches last. Night i've door dashed an. Umbrella
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Speaker 4: WHEN i went to a city AND i was completely.
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Speaker 4: UNPREPARED i feel like that's. Valid, Yeah i've doordashed, Headphones.
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Speaker 3: I've door dashed a singular. Sprite it doesn't. Matter i'll
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Speaker 3: do it. Obnoxious so, YES i GOTTA i gotta start.
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Speaker 5: That.
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Speaker 3: Okay next one is. Cut, yep what are you?
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Speaker 4: Cutting i'm gonna cut valet because typically WHEN i, TRAVEL
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Speaker 4: i don't take my.
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Speaker 3: Car, okay so there's no. Need you know that's.
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Speaker 4: True, Okay i'm gonna bench housekeeping and need housekeeping Sometimes
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Speaker 4: i'm gone for like a couple of.
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Speaker 1: Days, yeah SO.
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Speaker 4: I love the the room refreshing and then like you,
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Speaker 4: know the cute little towel ART i need.
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Speaker 1: That they turned into like a. SWAN i need.
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Speaker 4: That but you know that was one of my hustles.
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Speaker 4: Though no back in the oh, yeah Girl benita and my.
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Speaker 4: Mom she used to work for The rosen The rosan
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Speaker 4: hotels and resorts IN. Hr so WHEN i would come
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Speaker 4: home for college in the summer or from college in the,
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Speaker 4: SUMMER i would be an on call worker AND i
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Speaker 4: would work wherever they needed me at in the. Hotel
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Speaker 4: SO i would be like a cashier one. Day The
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Speaker 4: Rosan hotels reststel and it's like a it's a chain
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Speaker 4: so or not a.
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Speaker 3: Chain it's just they have a number of different.
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Speaker 4: They have a number of different, uh like resorts from
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Speaker 4: like their leisure properties to like their big convention resorts
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Speaker 4: and all. That so so, YEAH i, WOULD i would
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Speaker 4: work a like as.
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Speaker 3: A, cashier bell, hop house.
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Speaker 1: Keeping so she's not lying when she said. Hustle twin
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Speaker 1: was a. HUSTLE i.
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Speaker 4: Love he loved housekeeping, though Because i'd go And i'd
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Speaker 4: turn all all my rooms over and like you, know
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Speaker 4: clock out for the day and go enjoying my. Time
57:58
Speaker 4: but it's, like so it's so funny how life, works
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Speaker 4: BECAUSE i have hosted a consortium. Luncheon so basically The
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Speaker 4: Florida classic gets With Thune cookman And florida and m
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Speaker 4: my alma, mater and they have this big luncheon at
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Speaker 4: the hotel And i'm, like, WOW i was literally cleaning
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Speaker 4: rooms and you and making beds in, here and Now
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Speaker 4: i'm hosting A how Now i'm hosting a whole consortium
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Speaker 4: luncheon circles whole circle. Moment but this, CLAIMER i, MEAN
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Speaker 4: i really, Like I'm i'm not going to sit here
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Speaker 4: and make it seem LIKE i was like in the
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Speaker 4: trenches or anything like.
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Speaker 3: That it just was a summer you, know summer.
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Speaker 1: Lords yeah discredit what did you still? Worked? Yeah, yeah still.
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Speaker 4: Works so housekeeping is a bench and then suspending the
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Speaker 4: concierge just because you Know i'm Not i'm, there But
58:51
Speaker 4: i'm not, there if you know What i'm trying to.
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Speaker 4: Say So i've never even, WELL i have experienced, that
58:55
Speaker 4: but it's not.
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Speaker 1: Necessary that's not.
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Speaker 3: Necessary party of life. Style, yeah that's not necessary for
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Speaker 3: me right.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Perfect that would be.
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Speaker 2: The only difference between us is ballet, parking because why
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Speaker 2: WILL i will not park my, car will park the.
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Speaker 2: Car SO i used to, call like some of the
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Speaker 2: guys like IF i IF i needed to parallel park
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Speaker 2: AND i, COULDN'T i would call, like, Hey, jason.
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Speaker 1: Can you come out and park my car for? Me,
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Speaker 1: like oh my, GOD i. CAN'T i failed my my parking,
59:30
Speaker 1: Tests like you, know if you can't parallel, park they
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Speaker 1: don't pass. You SO i didn't pass, it and he was,
59:36
Speaker 1: like WELL i, CAN'T i can't give you the. LICENSE
59:38
Speaker 1: i just started crying and he felt sorry and he
59:41
Speaker 1: was just like, Okay he's like please stop, crying, Please
59:43
Speaker 1: And i'm LIKE i can't tell my. Dad he was,
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Speaker 1: like he was, like please stop. Crying he was, like
59:48
Speaker 1: if you promise me to learn how to parallel, PARK
59:52
Speaker 1: i will pass. You AND i was, LIKE i. Promise
59:54
Speaker 1: how many times do you? Really? Like why is that?
59:57
Speaker 3: Even because it's?
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Speaker 2: Useless that said on the, FLOOR i can count the
1:00:03
Speaker 2: amount of times on parallel parks in my life BECAUSE
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Speaker 2: i don't do.
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Speaker 1: IT i have someone else do.
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Speaker 4: IT i do, it BUT i like screaming holler like
1:00:13
Speaker 4: WHEN i do.
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Speaker 3: It but there's cars now that like do it for.
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Speaker 3: You oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: We're not even gonna mention the. Cars but, anyways.
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Speaker 2: So we're gonna close this out because we Are oh
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Speaker 2: they're telling. Us you, know we we got a.
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Speaker 3: Ride so before we have, both we have to do
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Speaker 3: all but we have to toast and then we got
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Speaker 3: to ask you one more.
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Speaker 1: Question we gotta do like a few little. Things that's
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