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Tank Bigsby On Significance of #4, Joining The RB Room | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Oh soon.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit
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  Speaker 2: Union with Jaguars senior writer John Oser. All Right, welcome
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  Speaker 2: to it this week's Ozone podcast. I'm senior writer John Oser,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm joined by one of the rookies in this
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  Speaker 2: year's draft class. I'm excited to talk to him because
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  Speaker 2: I get the sense he is very excited to be
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  Speaker 2: in Jacksonville, Tank Bigsby. I appreciate you joining the ozone podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: So tell me about uh. I know fans saw your
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  Speaker 2: excitement this weekend when you got the call. What's that moment?
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  Speaker 1: Like the moment is ah is very special? You know
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  Speaker 1: you don't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like I keep thinking about it when I
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  Speaker 3: wake up every morning. It's so special, Like it's a
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  Speaker 3: moment where like you just you'll never forget. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when I got that call, my heart dropping. It was
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  Speaker 3: just it was just special. You know, it's a very
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  Speaker 3: special moment, in life changing moment. You know, it was
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  Speaker 3: it was special. Like words can't explain the feeling that
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  Speaker 3: you get on drafted.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you know it's coming, but when it actually comes.
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  Speaker 2: It's different, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It's sir? It is it is.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about h my understanding is and I hope
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  Speaker 2: this is correct information. You're gonna wear four? Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Now I've heard that means something to you. What's the
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  Speaker 2: significance there for you?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you you you get three chances in life,
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  Speaker 3: and not too many people get a fourth chance.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I just go by that like that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for you know, you.
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  Speaker 3: Can mean it means so much to me because you
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  Speaker 3: you know, like you get three stripes, you out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all right, let's how about that one more stripe?
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  Speaker 1: That fourth? Is you?
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  Speaker 3: Is you gonna make up for that like you're gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: Like I just feel like I'm before. It can mean
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  Speaker 3: so much. And I always had the number since I
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  Speaker 3: was in rec league, so I always just I rock
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  Speaker 3: with it. You know, it means a lot to me
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  Speaker 3: because like I was saying, you get three strikes, how
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  Speaker 3: about you have a warm heart and give somebody another strike?
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  Speaker 3: And that's the fourth stripe, you know, And that's how
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  Speaker 3: that's how I rock with for and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: In your Auburn career, you went through quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: with the program in terms of just overcoming a lot
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  Speaker 2: and not everything was easy for you at Auburn. What
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  Speaker 2: did you learn from that and how will that help
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  Speaker 2: you moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: The things we went through at Auburn, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it made me a better man.
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  Speaker 3: It made me a better person. It grew me as
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  Speaker 3: an athlete, you know, just being around guys. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to overcome adversity, overcome what we what we
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  Speaker 3: was going through, but it's nothing. There's nothing too much
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  Speaker 3: that we couldn't get over. So we got together and
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  Speaker 3: it taught me a lot about family. It taught me more.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a family guy, but it taught me way more
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  Speaker 3: about family. Teammates coming together to play a driven team,
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  Speaker 3: and it's what it.
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  Speaker 1: Did for me.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they'll do for the next level, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just get me ready for adversity. You know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys don't go to adversity and college everything be smooth.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of bomps in our roles, and
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  Speaker 3: I feel like one time, firstally coming the league, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I'd be easily overcome because all the adversity
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  Speaker 3: that went through it all.
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  Speaker 2: Now we live in a world of college sports where
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  Speaker 2: guys can leave if they want. You stayed.
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  Speaker 1: Why Because I'm a lawyer guy. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I promise Arburn when I signed with them in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty that They're gonna get everything out of me, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be the best athlete.
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  Speaker 1: I beat every week and every weekend. So I want.
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  Speaker 3: There was a time where I was finna leave, but
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  Speaker 3: I had looked myself in there and said the grass
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  Speaker 3: may not be greening on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: So I just stayed down.
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  Speaker 3: And I had told myself, we're gonna overcome this and
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  Speaker 3: everything in my power to make the university proud of
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  Speaker 3: me and my teammates. So I'm very proud that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't leave because it made me a thrown young man
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  Speaker 3: that I am today.
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  Speaker 2: That's good stuff. What do you know about Travis et.
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I know he played at Climps and I know he
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  Speaker 3: was a great running back there. I watched him. He
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  Speaker 3: was at Climpson with Trevor Lawrence. Bass guy, quick twitch,
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  Speaker 3: he can move around. I like his game. He's very
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  Speaker 3: he can hit home runs. He's a good guy. I've
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  Speaker 3: heard that he's a great guy. Cool, relaxed guy, so
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  Speaker 3: ready to get around him. And I learned from get
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  Speaker 3: you know, just just make the running back running back
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  Speaker 3: room better, you know, do we have to do? Compete
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  Speaker 3: our butts off and just and just go go do
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  Speaker 3: got to do for the team con win.
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  Speaker 2: And football has changed since I was growing up. In
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  Speaker 2: the past, there was one running back who is the
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  Speaker 2: main guy. But these days you need more to pull
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  Speaker 2: guys who can play that position. Or are you looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to that? It's a combination of competition and camaraderie, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, sir looking forward to it, getting in their
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  Speaker 3: competing with guys on the highest level, working the hotails off,
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  Speaker 3: and just just competing, you know, work hard, That's all
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  Speaker 3: I know. So it'll be fine, just getting in, working
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  Speaker 3: seeing how they do things.
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  Speaker 1: And bringing my juice to the team. That's what I do.
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  Speaker 3: So I can't wait to get around those guys, and
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  Speaker 3: can't wait get around the team, just to compete, to
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  Speaker 3: work hard and try to get the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: This shit now the hope for this. I hope fans
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  Speaker 2: get to know you a little better than they knew
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  Speaker 2: you before out of this. So I got ten quick
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  Speaker 2: questions for you. It sounds like a lot, but it
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  Speaker 2: should go fast. What's your first football memory?
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  Speaker 3: First football memory was when I seven and my him
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  Speaker 3: it came off and I got the nickname Tank. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I was running and came off red, scored touchdown, still
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  Speaker 3: came to the sideline. Mom said, hey boy, you're running
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  Speaker 3: like a tank.
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  Speaker 1: It just went all with it. So that's my first
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  Speaker 1: football So.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your first team you've played on? That's another question.
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  Speaker 2: Was that your first team?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, the Lions, the Lions.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about that team. What do you remember from it?
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  Speaker 3: I remember that coach just had me a quarterback, and
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  Speaker 3: it was it was more like a running back.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback, you know, just say said hi and run. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I did.
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  Speaker 3: So I had some guys around in college like DeAndre
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  Speaker 3: Jones he was on my team, Jacob Freeman, DJ Bird.
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  Speaker 3: So those guys, we we all we all cleaned up
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  Speaker 3: and we had made it to college and still working.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a special team and had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talent.
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  Speaker 2: How many touchdowns did you score that year?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was a lot. I used to
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  Speaker 3: score like five six touchdowns a game.
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  Speaker 1: I got you.
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  Speaker 2: What position other than running back would you have played?
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  Speaker 2: Have you always been a running back?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? There always been a running back. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of played defense in high school. Just go down
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  Speaker 1: and hit somebody in they nose. But I always played
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  Speaker 1: running back, running back, always been in a position.
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  Speaker 2: What's the best individual opponent you've ever played?
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  Speaker 1: He's the best.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the best individual one that I played
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  Speaker 3: would be that's a good one. We're Anderson and then uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, of course I like practice on Papo. We
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  Speaker 3: compete at all but the same team, but we'll Anderston
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  Speaker 3: on the other side. We won't say that name, but
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  Speaker 3: it's the other side.
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  Speaker 2: What's the best advice you've ever received?
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  Speaker 1: Never quit?
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  Speaker 3: Always continue to fight, you know, And that's that's the
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  Speaker 3: advice I use college, and I'm gonna use life.
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  Speaker 1: Never quit, just keep fighting.
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  Speaker 2: Favorite show of all time?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my favorite show? I would say Martin. Okay, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't know what that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's your go to food that the trainers wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: you to eat?
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  Speaker 3: I'll say probably I grabbed some wings here and there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: some wings. They probably hot wings. They probably say, you
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  Speaker 3: probably eat too many wings.
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  Speaker 2: Got you your best sport other than football?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I never played no other sport like that.
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  Speaker 3: I ran track, but I played basketball, but I fouled
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  Speaker 3: all the time, so that's not my other.
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  Speaker 2: Guy's name. Don't play basketball, Huh, I got you.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't play mall, so I just played football.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes you different than everybody else in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room because everybody else will tell you they ought
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  Speaker 2: to be in the NBA. You know how that goes, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I know how they get out there missing.
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  Speaker 2: What person or people are most responsible for you being here?
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  Speaker 1: A god for one? And my mom.
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  Speaker 3: You know people I surrounded myself, my coaches, and my mom.
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  Speaker 3: She's she's my back mom. She's my wife and everything
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  Speaker 3: everything I do is for her. She's so she's a
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  Speaker 3: special special lady in my life. And you know suggests
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  Speaker 3: she's everything you know, strong, positive, you know she always
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  Speaker 3: never quit and anything she did even do the tough
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  Speaker 3: times in life. So my mom, you know, just saying
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  Speaker 3: her do it. I know a man can do it.
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  Speaker 3: So that was my motive all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Give me her name so people know it. Shaquana bus
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  Speaker 2: fantastic tank. I appreciate you taking the time. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's a busy time. I know a lot's going on
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  Speaker 2: for you. So for you to join us and give
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  Speaker 2: fans a chance to get to know your means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I would forward to meet when you get down here,
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  Speaker 2: and I look forward to working with you. And thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining me O Young Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me