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Tyrice Knight "I've Been Waiting For This Call My Whole Life - Seahawks Draft Conference Call · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Congratulations series. What does it mean to be a Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: and to.
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  Speaker 2: Get that cold today?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? You know everything to me. You know, I've been
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  Speaker 3: waiting for this call my whole life, so to finally
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  Speaker 3: get it, you know, you never thought that how the
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  Speaker 3: Mumba said it could have happened. But you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: blessed to happen. I'm blessed to be here. I'm ready
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  Speaker 3: to be a Seahawk Tyrese.
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  Speaker 4: You had an opportunity to meet with the Seahawks on
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  Speaker 4: one of your official visits. How did that go and
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  Speaker 4: what was it like getting to work with Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 4: and his staff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that visit to the sea, you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: really great. You know, it was a good atmosphere. It
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  Speaker 3: was a good facility all around, all the coaching style
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  Speaker 3: of nights and you know we had good advies, good
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  Speaker 3: connections off really really everything. I ain't had nothing to
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  Speaker 3: say bad about him. I tall about on the food
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  Speaker 3: was good, to training, area of the wait run, everything
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  Speaker 3: to look up a part. Really enjoyed us.
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  Speaker 1: You've done You've done a lot in your career. What
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  Speaker 1: have you learned about how your skill set best fits
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  Speaker 1: on the field and in a scheme.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like I'm very versatile. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I can play good in the run game, good in
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  Speaker 3: the past game. I'm just all around the back side,
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  Speaker 3: out of the side line. I think I could do
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  Speaker 3: anything a coach. You asked me the dude, well in
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  Speaker 3: the hesitation or right and then like downward or anything.
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  Speaker 3: Don't as as you know, I fell on the purple
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  Speaker 3: linebacker to see how I'm glad I made this decision.
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  Speaker 2: Did ha?
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  Speaker 1: Did they tell you at all what specific spot they
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  Speaker 1: might wanna start you at?
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  Speaker 3: Nah? They didn't, But I felt like, oh it matter,
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  Speaker 3: I feel out my start or wherever it's at.
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  Speaker 2: Did you play we were inside or outside the U tabo?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Well, my last three years I Usedalel. The first
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  Speaker 3: two I played outside backer, but last I played inside.
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  Speaker 3: But we ran a four two five, so he kind
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  Speaker 3: of side both of our backers. It was the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you what'd you find? The difference was in your
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  Speaker 2: style of play and how how you play inside versus outside?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for sure, I know inside, you know, I was
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  Speaker 3: always over the ball. They couldn't really run for me
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  Speaker 3: like that, and just you know, I was able to
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  Speaker 3: make all the players that came my way or they
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  Speaker 3: went left or right. You know, I played outside of
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  Speaker 3: two years ago. Seems able to skin against me. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just go two about two and put into the fielder
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  Speaker 3: to the bound. You just came in the ball at
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  Speaker 3: a little but last chap might you know? Is to
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  Speaker 3: put them in better positions to showcasing my business. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad I made a choice.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the number of tackles that you have,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a trick question how much
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  Speaker 1: of that is your tenacity versus how well the scheme
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  Speaker 1: played into allowing the linebackers to make those plays.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like that more of my tenacity because for sure,
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  Speaker 3: I know I had one hundred plus the last two
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  Speaker 3: years include this year, but it's on forty. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's really just how do you know the game that
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  Speaker 3: transformed for me? And I prepared myself front of spring
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  Speaker 3: in the off season, had.
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  Speaker 2: Three losses four years youtub. Were you allowed to get
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  Speaker 2: into the backfield on your own quite a bit? Or
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  Speaker 2: was that part of the scheme or were they sending you
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit?
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  Speaker 3: Really? That that was all me? We blitched a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but we ain't really bits like that. So that is
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  Speaker 3: really most of my instincts. They're really most of my instincts.
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  Speaker 3: Is just you know, just God noticing the ball and
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  Speaker 3: just turned some what I see is triggering.
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  Speaker 2: Began your career at.
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  Speaker 4: A junior college and then ended up in utub It
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  Speaker 4: sounded like you didn't have a lot of offers, I
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  Speaker 4: guess out of high school. Just just can you take
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  Speaker 4: us through real fast kind of that road and and
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  Speaker 4: you know what it means like now to be in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL after doing that.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I was always under recruittered coming out
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  Speaker 3: of high school, and it you know, it stayed with
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  Speaker 3: me while I got to junior college. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I always took the hard route of the long route
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  Speaker 3: since I was young. So you know, the way things
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  Speaker 3: kept unfolding, I really got used to and just you
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  Speaker 3: know that this around meant.
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  Speaker 2: To take it.
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  Speaker 3: So really just a whole little process. You know, it
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  Speaker 3: just blessed. But God just you know, everybody got their
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  Speaker 3: own clock, so I just know my cloud with God
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  Speaker 3: just slow thing everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Else's Tyreeza, What was that?
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  Speaker 4: What was the toughest adjustment for you going from playing
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  Speaker 4: off the edge to going back to that off broad
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  Speaker 4: linebacker position. Where do you feel like you grew the
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  Speaker 4: most in that first full season playing that role?
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  Speaker 3: I just felt like mostly just you know, the game
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  Speaker 3: just started slowing down from me from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 3: So that took a bit of stuff of me just
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  Speaker 3: suggesting they're playing better. Really, I just think everything just
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  Speaker 3: you know, just my preparation and just doing everything the
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  Speaker 3: right way and just coming to work every day. And
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  Speaker 3: so I felt like it was a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: from a disease that prepared me to you know, be
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  Speaker 3: my best in your path.
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  Speaker 2: Tyree, When did you start realizing the NFL was realistic
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 3: I honestly say it probably my tune in two the
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  Speaker 3: one season just name just started looking good and just
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  Speaker 3: the way I per performing was just getting about the attention.
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  Speaker 3: So I know, from that year, you know, there was
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  Speaker 3: a perige of possibility, and I'm just glad my last
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  Speaker 3: two years, you know, just better than my first as
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  Speaker 3: made scouts and people just realized that I deserve to
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  Speaker 3: have a chance like everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Who did you talk to from the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to uh head of course, Matt MacDonald, but
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  Speaker 3: that was you know, we had a good conversation and
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  Speaker 3: our meeting. Everything that went good. We had a good connection.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking before we met with it on your
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  Speaker 1: path to the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: How important was getting that invite to the Senior boy
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  Speaker 4: and being able to show what you can do against
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  Speaker 4: top competition coming from U Town.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just know it was a blessed you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was on a not powerful linebacker there, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: it just blessed me. You know, just really just go there.
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  Speaker 3: It just showcased my ability. It just you know, deserve
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  Speaker 3: say about deserve to be there. You know, it was
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  Speaker 3: just a blessing me to do that. I took full
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  Speaker 3: advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Have there been any Seahawks that you have watched over
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  Speaker 1: the course of your career, either to emulate or just
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  Speaker 1: that that jumped out that you enjoyed watching.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, for sure watching Baba and his whole
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  Speaker 3: career there. So you know, it'll be blessed if I
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  Speaker 3: just go there and you know, con see what he did.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just make the defense played the right way.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to your meeting with the coach, what connected
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  Speaker 3: with you when you were talking to him?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Yeah, yeah, Well going back to your meeting with
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  Speaker 2: the so S.
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  Speaker 4: What with Mike McDonald, What is it that c that
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  Speaker 4: connected that resonated with you?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Just you know, he was just a straight forward men.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't show the coat none. He showed me what
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  Speaker 3: I felt he felt like I was good at. He
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  Speaker 3: showed me the things I need to work on. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I really respect that, cause you don't. You don't really
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  Speaker 3: want no coach not to they know, getting on you,
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  Speaker 3: or to show you or just really pulling out the
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  Speaker 3: bad things. So with him just doing all that, it
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  Speaker 3: just maybe you know, felt like he really respecting me.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you at right now? And who's there with
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  Speaker 2: you all?
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm in consuming right now. It's like forty minutes
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  Speaker 3: my home, but I got a lot of family here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry, you're aware.
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  Speaker 3: I mean consinging right now. I s a lot thirty
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  Speaker 3: minutes from my home, but I got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: family here.
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  Speaker 2: How many are with you right now?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not after right now, but it you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was loud. I had to walk out and get some difference.
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  Speaker 3: Just talk.
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  Speaker 2: How many family members and friends do you have with you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Show over thirty five? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? A whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about Seattle?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I f I don't know a lot, but for
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  Speaker 3: sure when I took my visit, you know, it were
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  Speaker 3: a good vibes different talk to Ball, and I ain't
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  Speaker 3: had none an bad to say about it. I just
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  Speaker 3: wish I would have stayed longer than that. One day.
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  Speaker 2: Now you get to Now you get to take congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, uh, thank you so much