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Eagles Rookie Diary With Micah Morris: "I Got Ran Right Over. That Was My Welcome To The NFL Moment" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You also talked about consistency with that. So how would
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: you grade yourself?
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: I'd probably say like a B or a B-. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's way better improvement. Just all of that goes into,
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: you know, it all starts in Indy. But the fundamentals,
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: just understanding coming off the ball, kicking on the proper angles,
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  Speaker 2: avoiding up kicks, avoiding flashing hands, just trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep taking.
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  Speaker 3: Out the bad habits. And I feel like I was
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  Speaker 3: pretty productive at it last week.
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  Speaker 4: Are you someone who writes things down, whether it be
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  Speaker 4: motivational or just things to reinforce in a notebook, like
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  Speaker 4: each day?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I write notes.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as motivation, I mean, I just go
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  Speaker 2: through me and my dad's message thread. He sends me
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  Speaker 2: motivational videos, like whether it's little YouTube shorts or something
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  Speaker 2: he finds, he sends me that every day, if not
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  Speaker 2: multiple times a day. So I'm definitely big on it.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as note-taking, I'm a big, heavy note-taker.
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  Speaker 2: Just even from high school, I would say starting just
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  Speaker 2: Because you retain more when you write it physically and
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  Speaker 2: not just listen.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not that I'm just listening. It depends
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  Speaker 3: on how you work, how your mind works.
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  Speaker 2: But me personally, I feel like writing it down helps
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  Speaker 2: me retain it and remember it more because I physically
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  Speaker 2: have to write it down.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that helps me the most.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: You said you went through like four notebooks and you
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  Speaker 4: might have transitioned to a tablet.
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  Speaker 1: Have you done that yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm probably going to wait until after this week.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's my one, two... That's the fourth one right here.
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  Speaker 2: I got another one that's at home.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, that's the fourth one right there.
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  Speaker 4: You got your first taste of regular season NFL action.
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  Speaker 4: What do you remember most from that day, even the
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  Speaker 4: lead-up to that game and pregame and everything else?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was surreal.
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  Speaker 2: It felt good, you know, seeing my jersey with the
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  Speaker 2: pads on and just pregame, just going.
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  Speaker 3: Through a warm-up.
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  Speaker 2: I got a little taste of it in preseason, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being out there in the regular season, Monday
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  Speaker 2: Night Football, you know, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was an honor. It was a great experience.
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  Speaker 4: I know you had family out there. Did you get
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  Speaker 4: a chance to spend any time with them? I know
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  Speaker 4: there might be time constraints with your schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you didn't have family. Oh, no, no, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have family.
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  Speaker 3: That was in Tennessee. Yes, sir, it was in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get a chance to explore? After the game?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: After the game in Tennessee, yeah, I saw them. I
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  Speaker 3: saw them.
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  Speaker 1: But in Chicago, did you get a chance to explore?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to, I think, Carmon or.
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  Speaker 2: It was an Italian restaurant.
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  Speaker 3: It was really good.
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  Speaker 2: I had the chicken parm. I thought the guy was
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  Speaker 2: exaggerating about how big it was. It was literally like
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  Speaker 2: the size of a personal pizza.
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  Speaker 3: It was huge. It was good, though.
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  Speaker 5: It was really good.
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  Speaker 4: I went to downtown at this Australian cafe.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I had a kangaroo burger.
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  Speaker 3: Really? Did you like it?
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  Speaker 1: It was actually really good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. How'd you get it cooked?
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  Speaker 1: With an egg on it.
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  Speaker 3: Medium.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was really lean, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So you mentioned that you got a chance to
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  Speaker 4: check out that food and everything like that, but you
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  Speaker 4: also mentioned last week that the movers in the guest row,
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  Speaker 4: you had a 4 o'clock appointment, but it wouldn't work
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  Speaker 4: with the schedule here.
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  Speaker 1: Did they end up coming.
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  Speaker 3: Through for you?
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  Speaker 2: No, they're supposed to be coming this Friday at 4,
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  Speaker 2: so it should be good this week.
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  Speaker 3: This Friday? Tomorrow, yeah, tomorrow at 4.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we get that knocked out, and I'll be good
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 4: One thing we haven't talked about is what's an average
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  Speaker 4: day like for you when you get to the facility?
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  Speaker 4: What time do you get here and kind of what's
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  Speaker 4: your day-to-day process like?
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  Speaker 2: Well, depending on what we have first, whether it's 8.30
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  Speaker 2: meetings or 8 o'clock lives, I try to get here
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  Speaker 2: about 30, 45 minutes prior just to get comfortable. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: if I don't cook at my apartment, I'll grab something
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  Speaker 2: to eat, just come here, talk to Kel for a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, just watch some stuff on YouTube, just relax
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  Speaker 2: before the day gets going, a little relaxation time, a
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  Speaker 2: little calm before the storm, so to speak, and then
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  Speaker 2: get my loop on. If it's workouts, I'll go in
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  Speaker 2: there and stretch. Theraguns get loose before, depending on his
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  Speaker 2: upper body or lower body. And then if it's just meetings,
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  Speaker 2: just have my notebook ready and grab a Gatorade or water,
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  Speaker 2: just have something to drink while you're ready for those
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  Speaker 2: meetings and make sure I'm taking notes.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned doing the Wolverine Claw, I believe, last week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I finished it.
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  Speaker 1: You finished it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: How long did that take you?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit under an hour, because I think it
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  Speaker 2: was one and a half episodes of.
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  Speaker 3: Different world, so a little bit under Alex, yeah. So
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  Speaker 3: you had that on in the background? Yeah, I had
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  Speaker 3: it on in the background.
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  Speaker 4: So far, what would you say is the most noticeable
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  Speaker 4: difference for you personally.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL and college? What's the biggest difference?
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  Speaker 3: As far as my game? No, just anything.
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  Speaker 4: Anything about it, like the biggest contrast.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest difference I would say is just realizing that
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's a man's game up here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and college is seven, 17 year olds. I was 17
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  Speaker 2: when I first went to college. But up here, I'm
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  Speaker 2: the young guy now. So just understand that it's grown
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  Speaker 2: as people in their 30s, grown men out here.
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  Speaker 3: So just you got to be on it. You got
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  Speaker 3: to bring it every day for sure.
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  Speaker 4: They say, you know, football is a fraternity and you
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of Georgia teammates in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Do you keep in touch with any daily? I know
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  Speaker 1: Monroe and.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I talk to Monroe, Dylan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I talked to all the guys I was
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  Speaker 2: at Georgia with here and there, whether it was just
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  Speaker 2: a text message or we swiped one of each other's
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  Speaker 2: Instagrams or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we all keep in touch.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a brotherhood for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking back, whether it was in the spring or even
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  Speaker 4: sometime this summer, what was your welcome to the NFL moment?
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  Speaker 2: My welcome to the NFL moment probably happened last game,
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  Speaker 2: field goal. I didn't get my foot down in time,
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  Speaker 2: and I got ran right over. Luckily, they didn't block
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  Speaker 2: the kick, but that was definitely my welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: NFL moment. I hadn't been on my butt like that
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  Speaker 2: in a while.
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  Speaker 1: That was on Monday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You majored in learning design and technology?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I majored in sociology. And they got it wrong. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I majored in sociology. My mind was criminal justice.
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  Speaker 1: What inspired you to undertake that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, initially I was going to be a double
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  Speaker 2: major with criminal justice and sociology, but at Georgia, you
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  Speaker 2: got to do internship hours. And with football, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have time for that. But I guess the main thing
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  Speaker 2: was wanting to help people. And then I grew up
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  Speaker 2: watching like Criminal Minds, Law and Order, Blue Bloods, like
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  Speaker 2: cop shows growing up.
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  Speaker 3: I always thought it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: So I knew I wanted to help people in some way.
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  Speaker 2: And then with sociology, it's such a huge pathway. Well,
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  Speaker 2: such a huge, I guess, degree, like just multiple pathways
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  Speaker 2: that you can veer off to.
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  Speaker 3: From that degree. So I feel like that was the
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  Speaker 3: best way.
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  Speaker 2: And then criminal justice as my minor just understanding some
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  Speaker 2: of the law and understanding how people work and how
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  Speaker 2: the judicial system works, how the world works pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: And then having that sociology as my major, understanding people
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  Speaker 2: and how people work, I feel like it's a great combo.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, small world.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, when I went to college, my first major was sociology.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to help people.
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  Speaker 1: I like interacting with people. And I remember I took
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  Speaker 1: a class, I don't know if you did cultural anthropology.
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  Speaker 3: Anthropology? Yeah, yeah. That was a wild class, man. Not
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  Speaker 3: my best.
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  Speaker 4: So the food spots that we talked about last week,
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  Speaker 4: did you get a chance to try any? I think
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  Speaker 4: you said Saturday you were going to try to last Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me the names again.
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  Speaker 1: I think I mentioned Old Brother, Villa de Roma. Angelo's.
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  Speaker 3: I went to Angelo's. Yes, that's where I went. I
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  Speaker 3: went to Angelo's.
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  Speaker 2: I had the upside-down pizza, and then I had a
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  Speaker 2: Philly with extra Cooper shark cheese, and.
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  Speaker 3: That was it. Like, all the stuff that came on it.
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  Speaker 1: So how was it?
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  Speaker 3: It was good. It was fine. It was fine.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I recommend something, I'm always nervous.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was fine. The pizza....
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  Speaker 3: So my mom's from Beaver Falls.
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  Speaker 2: There's a pizza shop called D & G in Beaver Falls. Like,
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  Speaker 2: the thick crust like that, that's kind of what the
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  Speaker 2: upside-down pizza reminded.
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  Speaker 3: Me of at Angel's.
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  Speaker 5: It was good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really good. I like that.
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  Speaker 4: I think they now built a second spot because the
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  Speaker 4: first one is so successful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the line just.
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  Speaker 3: No, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: All day long, the line just.
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  Speaker 3: I think I might have went to the new one
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  Speaker 3: then because I went to the one.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a train station back there or something. Or
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  Speaker 2: a railroad track, and it's like by a car wash.
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  Speaker 2: I got a membership at the car wash over there.
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  Speaker 1: So you were able to, like, you didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: problems parking?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Then you might have went to the second one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably went to the second one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I went to the second one.
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  Speaker 1: Because the one, I always had to.
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  Speaker 3: Park and then walk blocks to get to it. Oh, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go to that one. I went to the
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  Speaker 3: second one. Okay, yeah, I went to the second one.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good. You like that one.
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. So I think you can check that
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  Speaker 3: To the theater? Not yet.
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• 11:45
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• 11:51
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  Speaker 3: You can find one of those. Yeah, for sure, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I don't know. I would like.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Big Mike to play him.
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Denzel Washington is my favorite actor.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: Go with that? Yeah, Denzel.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Go with that. What's one or two things that you
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: have on your bucket list? Traveling, anything? Accomplishments?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, traveling and getting out of the country because I
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: was When I graduated high school, I wasn't going to
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: cruise to Jamaica, but it was COVID, so it got canceled.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: So going to London again would be great. I'll be
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: able to mark that off for sure. So going to
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: see the world.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Have you given any thought about how you're going to
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: pass the time on the flight?
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  Speaker 3: Sleeping and watching whatever movies they got.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: What's one or two things that you're working to achieve
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: this week?
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  Speaker 2: Just harping on, keeping my feet on the ground, and
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: pass pro, and then It goes back to the run game,
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: just getting my second step in the ground and coming
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: through on contact with force, just making sure that second
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  Speaker 2: foot's in the ground so I'm grounded and have a
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  Speaker 2: good base. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate the time, Mike.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.