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Beard Laws Episode 05 - Interview With The Thunderhawks · Stay Outta My Fridge

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  Speaker 1: Beard Law Number five. Hi five's are cool and all
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  Speaker 1: but us bearded men. We don't high five We Beard five.
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  Speaker 1: What's up everybody? This is Beard Laws Podcast, Episode five.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't your first time here? Thanks for coming back.
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  Speaker 1: If it's your first time, how exciting this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a great episode. Should be thankful you started here.
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  Speaker 1: But if not, go back see what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: Check out episodes one through four. Social love to the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: On this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with
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  Speaker 1: Brandon from the Thunderhawks, which is a semi pro football
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  Speaker 1: team out of Indiana. Also had urine my thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: was sent over to Logan, our sports guy. He had
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  Speaker 1: some technical difficulties. Wasn't able to make the episode, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to record it. Probably gonna sound better anyways,
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  Speaker 1: let's be honest. Going to give a Beard Laws update.
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  Speaker 1: Let you guys know where we're at with that. I
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  Speaker 1: have a special project coming up that I want to
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about and I want to see
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  Speaker 1: if there's anybody out there that may be wants to assist.
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  Speaker 1: That would be great. Have a couple of great other
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  Speaker 1: ideas and some new things that's going to be happening
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  Speaker 1: to the podcast. Have a lot of episodes that are
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  Speaker 1: being lined up, a lot of people that are getting
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  Speaker 1: excited for the podcast that want to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast. So fifth episode, We're starting to get better.
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  Speaker 1: We're starting to figure this out, but this guy's a limit.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to continue to get better. Also have our
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  Speaker 1: beer news and our featured Beard of the day. Without
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  Speaker 1: further ado, here is the interview with Brandon from the Thunderhawks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so, ladies and gentlemen, we are joined tonight
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  Speaker 1: by a member of the thunder Hawks. I can't say
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  Speaker 1: the first name, so I'm gonna let you do the
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  Speaker 1: team introduction here in a little bit because it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a kind of a hard name and uh two
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  Speaker 1: one one two on some social media apps as well
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  Speaker 1: as twitch, TikTok and the follow So welcome obviously to
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  Speaker 1: Beard Laws Podcasts. Fine, appreciate you taking some time out
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  Speaker 1: to talk with us to just kind of have a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to learn more, not only about yourself, but
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about your team. So if you want to,
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  Speaker 1: what I know so far is you guys are semi
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  Speaker 1: pro team out of Indiana. What it looked like you
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  Speaker 1: guys pablished about twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you guys are around there.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have had some success already, whether it be
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  Speaker 1: from you know, divisional rounds of the mlf A, the
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  Speaker 1: interstate championship in twenty sixteen, and just sounds like it's
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  Speaker 1: it's great success in a in a small time, which
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  Speaker 1: which is great for any program. Right, So, how the
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  Speaker 1: hell you say the name Michiana?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it threw me for a loop too, because whenever
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  Speaker 3: they whenever I first moved up here and joined the team,
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  Speaker 3: because I was already big in the football down in Texas,
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  Speaker 3: whenever I moved up here and they kept saying Michiana,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, where's michianat?
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  Speaker 2: Where's michiganat?
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  Speaker 3: And Michiana is isn't just a like a town or anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's Michigan and Indiana combined. And they just kind of
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  Speaker 3: threw it out there. So it threw me off too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's some like Northern US type ship
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  Speaker 1: right there. We're just going to take a couple of names,
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to put them together and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a new thing, right, So let's let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about So what's your role on the team.
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  Speaker 3: I am actually a safety and I played mostly special
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  Speaker 3: teams like kickoff hunt.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of a support.
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  Speaker 3: Role because I chose to step back from being like
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  Speaker 3: trying to compete as a as a starter. The guy
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  Speaker 3: that that came in came in this year, really great
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  Speaker 3: athlete all around.
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  Speaker 2: I chose to step back because.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting up there in age, so I'm constantly getting hurt.
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  Speaker 3: And this guy came out and was like a rocket
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  Speaker 3: and really proved that he deserved the spot.
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  Speaker 2: So I stepped back and let him have it and.
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  Speaker 3: Focused on special teams where a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of people don't want to play. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this guy, I think it was the championship game
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  Speaker 3: for our league.
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  Speaker 2: I think he had like four picks in one.
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  Speaker 3: Game and maybe a fumble recovery. Yeah, he right now
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  Speaker 3: leads the league and intercept with I think telve.
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  Speaker 1: So how many games is typically a season for you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Last season, I think we had eight, and I think
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  Speaker 3: this past season that we just finished, I think we
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  Speaker 3: had those fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry it was fourteen because we.
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  Speaker 3: Played out of league games against two teams from Chicago
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  Speaker 3: and one team from Southern Michigan. One of the teams
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  Speaker 3: from Chicago was ranked i think number five in the
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  Speaker 3: nation in semi pro and we came out and I'm
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  Speaker 3: almost positive score was thirteen to twelve and we ended
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  Speaker 3: up winning.
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  Speaker 1: That's great for the organization, right there.
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  Speaker 3: Is it is unfortunately with us being such a backwoods
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  Speaker 3: team and league, we don't we really don't get the
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  Speaker 3: respect that we deserve or that we're working for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's too bad. And hopefully, you know, with taking
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  Speaker 1: some time to do this, I mean, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to all of a sudden be like, oh shit, you're
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  Speaker 1: on Bear Lost podcast, your team's going to national. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like, start to incorporate some
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  Speaker 1: social media. You keep having success, you're beating national teams. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have to start getting from recognition.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And what was crazy about you mentioned TikTok. Whenever
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  Speaker 3: I first started TikTok, I had like six or seven
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  Speaker 3: videos out and then our first game came out. I
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  Speaker 3: were coming out of the tunnel and I.
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  Speaker 1: Pulled out my phone.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, I'm gona take a video, and
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  Speaker 3: I took a video of the guys walking out and
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  Speaker 3: threw a sound on there. It just like skyrocketed first
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks. I think right now that one video
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  Speaker 3: is sitting at four hundred and sixty five thousand views
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  Speaker 3: and like forty six thousand hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh shit, I'm gonna make it big. This AP's great,
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  Speaker 1: and then and then it just they stall out.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've been adding videos here and there of the team.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I try not to do anything too personal,
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  Speaker 3: like one individual guy making plays or something.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I want to let that be up to them if
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  Speaker 3: they get exposed. I can make the video and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I can add a down to it, and I can
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  Speaker 3: you know, forward it to them, but I want to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let them be the deciding backer if that
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  Speaker 3: gets published or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading to Battleground Football League. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: there's what two divisions of North and the South league. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: total of eleven teams. Was that right? Yes, that's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid league. What funds it? I saw that there
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  Speaker 1: was you know, some players and it's like a it's
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  Speaker 1: a league ran by the league itself. A typical leagues
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  Speaker 1: where there's a couple of people that are in charge,
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  Speaker 1: which is is a pretty cool concept and it seems
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  Speaker 1: like something the league really takes pride in. So how
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  Speaker 1: is this league funded? Because, I mean, football is a
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  Speaker 1: expensive sport. There's a lot of travel, is it. Is
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  Speaker 1: it just out of your guys pocket?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually out of our pocket. It's a pay
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  Speaker 3: to play every year. It varies from.
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  Speaker 2: Team to team. I was on a team a.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of years ago that we had to pay like
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  Speaker 3: three hundred and eighty dollars or three hundred sety five
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  Speaker 3: dollars to play.
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  Speaker 2: Some teams can go low as.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred dollars and it all depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the quality of the uniforms, where you're playing at and
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  Speaker 3: the place that we play at. We actually get a
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  Speaker 3: really good deal Union Grove Church, which is actually built
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  Speaker 3: out like the middle of nowhere. If you go out there,
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  Speaker 3: there's literally nothing but cornfields out there, and so we're
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  Speaker 3: playing right next to Farmers. We just we we have
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  Speaker 3: to pay for everything. We don't have sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: This is just all on.
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  Speaker 1: Up and that shows even more of the passion of
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  Speaker 1: the players, you know what I mean. If you're petting
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  Speaker 1: up the money and not getting paid to play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just that you want to be there and promotes a
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  Speaker 1: better attitude. Right say, I'd say the clubhouse, but there's
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  Speaker 1: in this situation, there's not really much of a locker
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  Speaker 1: room or clubhouse, I guess. So right now, we we
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  Speaker 1: all just meet up in a little classroom close the door.
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  Speaker 2: We get changed and that's where we meet.
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  Speaker 3: They'll go in there and they'll do their their prayers
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  Speaker 3: and the little pregame meeting and role assignment. But it
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  Speaker 3: really is crazy because we have guys coming from Indianapolis
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  Speaker 3: to drive all the way up here just to play,
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  Speaker 3: and that's like a two and a half hour drive.
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  Speaker 2: So that's dedication.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you've already you're already paying team vs. And
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  Speaker 3: then on top of it, you know you're spending a
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  Speaker 3: tank of gas every Thursday and Saturday just to come
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  Speaker 3: practice for you know, every Saturday, to play a game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it is a lot of dedication.
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  Speaker 3: It's not enough exposure on the guys that are playing
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody's interested in the area for trying out and
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  Speaker 1: want to play with you guys, how do they do this?
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  Speaker 1: How do they get ahold of whomever and and get
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  Speaker 1: a tryout or get a chance to play for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and the first time that I ever decided to
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  Speaker 3: play semi pro football.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen an article on the news about it about.
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  Speaker 3: Some I think it was fifty five years old, still
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  Speaker 3: playing football and a linebacker, and I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: You know they got Simmi Pro in the area. Let
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  Speaker 2: me let me check this out. So googled Timmy.
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  Speaker 3: Pro and this was in Texas, and long list of
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  Speaker 3: teams popped up. So I clicked the closest one to me.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty much how I got my start. And there's
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  Speaker 3: actually Facebook pages for Simmi Pro teams, Like if you
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  Speaker 3: if you google Simmi Pro football, you know a number
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  Speaker 3: of number of teams will pop up up here in
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  Speaker 3: Northern Indiana and the South Bend area, there's only one team.
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  Speaker 2: There's one team in Port Wayne.
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  Speaker 3: There's a laundry list of them in.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in Indy teams easy enough. So anybody interested in
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  Speaker 1: the area google it up, hit the Facebook page, or
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  Speaker 1: why don't you just check out the thunder Hawks. Another
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  Speaker 1: another good question here is there was sponsorship on the page,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was sponsoring the team sponsoring a player. How
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  Speaker 1: does one go about that if they want to help,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the thunder Hawks, either in a sponsorship
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  Speaker 1: or you know, sponsoring even a player, if that's possible.
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  Speaker 3: A player, I'm not I'm not too sure. That would
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  Speaker 3: have to be an individual thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we have a.
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  Speaker 3: Rule. Again, but as far as sponsoring, like my team,
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  Speaker 3: you would have to reach out to Larry Fisher, who's
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  Speaker 3: the owner of the team. Reach out to him. He
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  Speaker 3: has some paperwork that he would have to do and
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  Speaker 3: send out to you and and then just determine a price.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, I believe the offer still stands that if
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  Speaker 3: if anybody donates a certain amount of money, he would
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  Speaker 3: actually rename the football field for that organization.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's a great thing. I mean, I was
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  Speaker 1: just trying to think I'm gonna have to hit him
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  Speaker 1: up and be like, hey man, how much is it
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  Speaker 1: gonna cost? Put a beard lost sticker on every helmet?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Every time you make a big play like Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: and the Boys, you get a little beard lost sticker.
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  Speaker 2: Right that Actually, that would be pretty legit.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of guys on the team that love
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  Speaker 3: the beards, but some people just can't have them or
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: they just don't grow.
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  Speaker 1: Right speaking of that, who's got the best beard on
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  Speaker 1: the team?
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  Speaker 2: I do? I do without a without a doubt.
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  Speaker 3: I've often been referred to as as a little weddle.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what popped in my mind. I saw your
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  Speaker 1: picture and as soon as you said safety, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh shit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nowhere is near as good as him.
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  Speaker 3: But I have the same number as him, and I've
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  Speaker 3: won that number for a few years. Last year I
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  Speaker 3: didn't get to play it because a guy named King
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  Speaker 3: Taylor had it and I tried to say that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I fired him for it, but.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that he could take me.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, you know what, man, I'll give
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  Speaker 3: it a rest. I'll take Deon Sanders number this year.
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  Speaker 3: You can, you can have thirty two. So I gave
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  Speaker 3: thirty two arrests.
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  Speaker 2: For a year.
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  Speaker 3: King ended up leaving to go play in on a
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  Speaker 3: team in Indy and then he's coming back and he's
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna let me keep the number.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe maybe he's a little slower, maybe he's afraid.
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  Speaker 2: He is now no, no, King Taylor is it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: King getn't afraid of anything. He by far one of
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  Speaker 3: the best linebackers that I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: He's very he.
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  Speaker 3: He has hands, he can catch, and he just he
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  Speaker 3: has that Marshall unglynch attitude of running through somebody's face.
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  Speaker 1: No ship. Does he eat a lot of skittles too?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I think he eats a lot of candy, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's skittle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you eat anyways, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So I gotta ask why a thunder Hawk. Were you
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  Speaker 1: around for the original start of the naming of the team?
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  Speaker 2: I was not.
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  Speaker 3: This happened, you know, many years ago. And whenever you
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  Speaker 3: create a team, you want to be original. You you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to take something like the Patriots or or
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks or something like that, which a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams do have. And I'm not gonna buy any means.
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  Speaker 3: You want to try to find something original, something that
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: you you know, if it goes to it to an extent,
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: you know you can you can copyright it, you can
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  Speaker 3: market it, and you know, uh like that as as your.
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  Speaker 2: Funding for absolutely, because the last thing that.
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  Speaker 3: You want is to to put you know, a logo
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  Speaker 3: and a name on jersey and a helmet and then
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: you know, get caught up by like you know Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: and say hey, you know some assists or we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: take you the court.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're gonna have to buy all new helmets,
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  Speaker 1: all new jerseys, new logo, you would you.
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  Speaker 3: Would really have to rip off the logo off the helmet,
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  Speaker 3: but the jerseys, Yes, you would have to buy new jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know what a thunder Hawk was. I
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  Speaker 1: had to look it up. I thought it was like
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  Speaker 1: a helicopter or something. Apparently, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you if you look up the pretty badass bird from
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  Speaker 1: see apparently is where they originated.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so is there like a big rival, like a
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  Speaker 1: game where you guys are just a little extra jacked
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  Speaker 1: up to play?
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  Speaker 3: This team, the Allen County Lions, has always been the
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  Speaker 3: Thunderhawk's rival. They are a great organization, They're they're really phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: They're led by a great coach, really stand up guy,
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  Speaker 3: and they just they come with everything that they have.
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  Speaker 3: Another team that entered the league this year was the
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  Speaker 3: Lake County Warriors, another phenomenal team, and that team has
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  Speaker 3: like a ridiculous amount of talent and even from the
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: smaller guys they they're just they're so fiery and they
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: just you know, come off the ball with with nothing
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  Speaker 3: but hate and the pure will to to want to
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  Speaker 3: destroy everything. With those two teams, Yeah, with those two
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  Speaker 3: teams there, they would have to be the rivals. Lions
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  Speaker 3: I think have maybe one or two more seasons in them,
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  Speaker 3: and I think the owner wants to to put it
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  Speaker 3: on the back burner and and kind of retire the team,
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  Speaker 3: And so the rival is going to be coming to
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  Speaker 3: an end within the next few seasons.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I hope not. I hope he changes his
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  Speaker 2: mind too.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta have this rival going on the
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  Speaker 1: bigger you guys are gonna get that's what the league needs,
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  Speaker 1: a nice rivalry does.
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  Speaker 3: And with the Lions and the Warriors, it's that's exactly
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: how it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's going to be smashed football.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you were were you around when
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: you guys switched leagues from the mlf A to the BGFL.
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  Speaker 1: I was not, And I was just curious or even
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  Speaker 1: if you know the history of like what made the
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: switch to the.
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  Speaker 3: There was as far as I know, there was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of finger pointing and drama, and the owner wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: speak too much into it other than you know, he
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  Speaker 3: he got tired of a lot of stuff that.
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  Speaker 2: Was going on.
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  Speaker 3: So they they came out and started their own league.
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  Speaker 3: I know one thing that he did mention is that
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: teams were getting.
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  Speaker 2: Kicked out of out of the fields.
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  Speaker 3: So whenever we whenever we schedule a field, like some
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: teams will schedule a high school football field.
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  Speaker 2: We have to hold up to a certain standard.
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  Speaker 3: And whenever you play in football, there's a lot of egos.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: So whenever you're getting beat like fifty to zero, your
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: ego comes out and and crap talking starts happing. Well,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: if a fight breaks out on a high school football field,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: the school district can and will eliminate you from using
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: the field ever again. And so teams were losing deposits
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: for fields, and the field aren't cheapd I know of
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: one in Dallas that cost fifteen hundred game.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's no joke. And that's and again guys, that's
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: all funded by.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Layers average Joe's average shows paying for it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: And so is there any like kind of big names
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: or any guys that played collegiate other places that were
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: part of big programs had had a fairly good fear
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: didn't work out at a higher level that are in
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the league. Were in the league. You know how every league,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: whether it's even a softball league or something, was like, shit,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: this guy was in our league.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: There was I know on our team, there's a guy
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: named Alex Smith.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I know a couple of other guys I think dabbled
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: in in college football, but I know for I know
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: for a fact that Alex Smith.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: And it's crazy that that's his name.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Alex Smith played for college called Franklin, and whenever he
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: was in high school, he was a really big name,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: so big that buddy of mine that went to a
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: completely different school knew of him. So whenever I brought
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: up his name to my buddy, he was like, oh,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I know that guy. He was, you know, phenomenal in
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: high school and went on to play college football and
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: just destroyed everything.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, you know who's joining our.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Team, and you know that's cool, And this guy is
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: so talented. The first first first practice that he came out,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: he ran a go route just straight down the field.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: And he's not the fastest player by any means, but
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: me and my corner. Both went up to stop him
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: from getting the ball, and he just reached out one
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: hand and grabbed it like it was a tennis ball. Wow,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: just grabbed it out of there, pulled it down, turned
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: and took off runt. And me and him just kind
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: of looked at each other like, what the hell just happened?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Unreal?
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: And he's he's always making making plays like that. Right now,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: he's trying to break a record for the longest pass
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: caught behind.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Your back, No shit, Yes, And he does that.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: A lot to show off because he won't like somebody
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: will throw a football at him and he'll just jump
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: up in the air, turn around and catch.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: It like it's nothing. And there's kind of like an
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: utter awe that that just happened.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, you just throw the football downfield and
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: you have to catch it behind your back.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And he wants to break that record.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: What is the record? You know?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I think it's I think he said it was like
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: fifty something yard and he's trying to push for like
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: eighty or ninety yards.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Might as well go big, right, right.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: And that's the kind of mentality everybody has, which is,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: you know why we're playing and what we're playing right
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: now with this tournament. We want to go to Florida.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: We want people to know who we are. We're trying.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: We're tired of getting getting stepped on, and I think.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: We're up and we've had enough of it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's talk about this tournament. So is this
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: is it a tournament where you know it comes from
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the league play championship type style or is it a
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: whole separate tournament to go into something bigger.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Well, certain teams will get what they call auto big Florida,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like the Marion County Crusaders, which is out of Indy,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: a completely different league. Something happened in their championship game
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: and they had to cancel the game. Well, the league
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: decided to give the win the championship win to another
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to the other team instead of the Crusaders. Well, whoever
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: runs the whole Florida gig gave the Crusaders an automatic bit.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: And I'm not knocking the Crusaders by any means. We
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: won our championship. We went fourteen to zero throughout the season,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: beat a nationally ranked team. We have to play in
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: a tournament with four other teams just to get to
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: just to get a shot to play in Florida, so
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: two games. So this Saturday we played the Indie Tornadoes.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: We didn't get to play them throughout the season. From
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: what I know of them, they do have a good secondary.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I think they have a couple of good alignment and
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: then with the actual season being over, they could actually
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: legally pick up players. So I think that's what they've
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: been doing, is it is recruited players to come play
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: for them to run for a national championship, which is legal.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: That's pretty intense though it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Is, and some people would would kind of worry about it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: But with the guys that we have, we're we're not
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: not even shook in the little like the slightest bit.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Everybody's fired up about everybody's ready. The team that we
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: played in the championship was supposed to just blow us
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: out the water, and we came out and I think
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: the score was twenty one to nothing in the first quarter.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, came out swinging.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: And their quarterback actually is I really hate saying this,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: but he's kind of the blame because during warmups he
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: came out and was at the fifty yard line yelling
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and screaming at us, saying it's a bad day'd be
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: a thunder Hawk. And our lineman, one of our main linemen,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: LB Smith, came running out of the locker room because
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: he had arrived. Blake came running out of the locker room,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: not even completely.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Dressed in uniform.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Came running out of the locker room yelling and screaming
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: at him and the rest of the team, talking trash,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: and it got everybody fired up and we came out swinging.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, guys, win this game. I got confidence in you.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Then that gets you into this tournament in Florida. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this is is this the national tournament or no?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: If we win, if we win Saturday, and I'm confident
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: we'll win too. If we win Saturday, we'll have to
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: play another team from either Chicago or Michigan. I don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: remember what the other other team was, but we'll have
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: to play one of those the following Saturday.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: So next Saturday, gotcha.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: And if we win we went on on that game,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: then we'll get to go to Florida in January to
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: play for a national time.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: So we have in our eyes we have.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Three more three more games before we're a nationally ranked team.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Technically we are nationally ranked by the Florida Standards. We
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: are ranked I think number fourteen right now. We are
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: ranked where our name has been put out there, and
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: you know, we're just going to keep smashing people in
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the mouth until for number one.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's the only way to be pretty wild. That's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a that's a hell of a layoff though in between
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: gate you know, I mean if when when you guys
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: win this one, win one.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: More and then you got a couple of months, which
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: you know gives everybody time to uh to heal up
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: and rest and you know we can we can go
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: over game plans and everything and a new.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Playbook or whatever.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I know, our our main receiver throughout the season, our
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: main receiver got hurt.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: The game before the championship game.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I think he fractured his ankle or his foot or something,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: and uh so he had to miss the championship game.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: So it's it's like, uh, it's like losing Antonio Brown
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: before the Super With the guys that we have, they
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: uh they stepped up and they were just they were phenomenal.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: We had guys making plays left and right that if
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: you looked at them on the streets, you would never
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: think that that they would be able to make the
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: plays that they made, but they they made them. The
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: old don't judge a book by its cover, right, judge
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: a man without pads and a helmet.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how big you are. It's something about you
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: throw on some equipment. You are instantly feeling like a badass.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: You look like a a.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: What's that all saying? It's it's not the size of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the dog in the fight. Is the size of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: fight and the dog the.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Guy that that that makes perfect, that fits perfectly. John Robin,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I think I just pushed his last name, but John
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: he if you look at this.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Guy, he's like six.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Foot one, he's probably one hundred and fifty pounds, so
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: he's he's a toss leindard.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: He he has.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: No problem lowering his shoulder against massive guys, like just
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: ridiculously sized guys that you know, that's pretty much the
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: mentality of everybody on the team is that you can't
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: be afraid of.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Anything, especially when you guys want to be nationally ranked
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and you guys come in. It's there's a lot of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: leagues in the summertime league this and that. This is
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a semi pro league with a bunch of guys the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: passion to play, and you guys aren't coming in just
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you know, accepting mediocricy. You guys are coming in with
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a goal to not only be the national champion, to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: maintain these national ranks and put your name in there
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, you guys continue to do well
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna maybe We started getting these guys from
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: other teams that are like, you know what I want.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this program. How
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: can I try out? How can I try to get
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: a spot on this.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And that's actually what happened this season. We didn't we
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: never recruit, so we had a couple of guys come
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: over from another team, three guys and specifically, and they
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: took our our line to a whole new level, along
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: with our offensive line coach who came in and just
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: completely like ripped it was almost like a remodel of
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: our offensive line. He done such a phenomenal job with the.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Change in our line.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And I think our line is averaging at like three
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: and twenty five to three and forty pounds.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Wowoy.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: So yeah, we have we have a massive line and
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: a running back that can match it. Actually, a couple
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: of running backs. But our main running back is just
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: he's so fiery and that line just makes so many
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: holes for him to push through and gain all.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: The yards he can.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Is there a place that you can listen watch yet
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: coming up? Not yet?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Not yet?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: That isn't the worst by myself, I am actually looking
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: to build a box right now for the football field,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: because whenever I tell you that, you know, we're out
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: in the middle of nowhere. We're literally out in the
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: middle of nowhere.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I know that feeling. Man, I come from a small
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: ass town and.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: So we I'm looking into building a press box right now.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: And mad House is actually based off of my kids.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: So I'm taking mad House and turning it into a
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: media company and it'll cover my gaming, It'll cover the
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: sports events for the thunder Hawks, and eventually I'm hoping
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: to make it a league white thing. That way, you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: it's not just us being uh being spotlighted. That way,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I could have all these guys, you know, having game
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: film and you know, moving up to the next level
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: playing arena football, you know, getting drafted by the by
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: the NFL.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great thing, man, That's that's a good vision.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: It's it's a good thing. And so what I'm gonna
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: have to say is, once you guys win, maybe next
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: week we can have another conversation. You can come in,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: tell us about the game, give us a little recaps.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: You know, I actually wanted to do something for the
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: guys on the team that had served in the army. Yeah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: and I reached out the sheep Dog while back and
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: was trying to get something set up on the podcast
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: to interview them. Uh As, you know service members playing football,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: and you know what kind of a brotherhood that that
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: start or you know, rekindles.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely and you always hear articles, you know what I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: mean where you know, guys that you know leave the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: service and they're so used to the brotherhood, you know,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: tend to try to find a sports team because a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: sports team, whether it's professional, semi pro or club teams,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's another brotherhood that a lot of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: people rely on and that's good for the mental health and.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: That that that's where where I'm at with it. You know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I've gotten a lot of backlash from from relatives over
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: playing football because you know, they think that, you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I'm spending all this time just going out and having fun.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: But This is is almost like a getaway, Like it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: it's not a getaway from from what I've got going
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: at home, It's a getaway.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: From from you know, real world stuff.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Like whatever I step out on the field, I don't
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: have PTSD anymore. Ye rush step out on the field.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: You know, nothing that happened in my past matters. As
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: long as you know I've got me and my brothers.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: That's that's all that matters.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know what I mean, you see a
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: lot of people that same scenarios instead of turning into
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: something positive. That's you know, a football team. Hell, you're
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: mad house media, you know what I mean. Like you
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: have so many plans and visions for it, and there's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that just can't take that energy
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and turn it into something positive. And like you said,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it's a brotherhood. So it's an amazing thing.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: And you know it's last year.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I can't I don't feel like we had the same brotherhood.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: But this year we we came out and we were
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: lent by by Alex Smith, and we had egos at first,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: but ultimately we came together and we grew as a family.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: And anytime you hear us for the work era before
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the game, we'll break it down and we'll you know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: go one two three, family, or Alex does this this
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: little chance it goes to victory. Better than better is
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: one than all by myself one two three, and everybody.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Says as one.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's really crazy that whenever.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: You have fifty something guys just powered together to where.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: You can smell each other's on our pits, and you know,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: everybody just chanced family, and you know that no matter
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: what that the guy you know to the right or
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: left to you is going to fight, you know, the
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: bone for you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: And it's it's.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Really humbling, it's awesome. And you got brothers for life.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You've got fifty something brothers that you can turn on
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: turn two for anything, and they can turn to you
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: for anything. It's it's a great thing. So many people,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: as much as they might not like sports, even whether
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you're in youth, whether you're in high school, whatever it is,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it's a great thing. It teaches you more than just
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a certain game, like it's a life experience.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Right discipline, because you can't, you know, you can't go
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: out there and cry about everything. You can't punch somebody
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in the mouth anytime they disrespect you or anything like that,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: you just you know, you have to get back up
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: and keep going.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Absolutely one quick thing, because you know, on TikTok, I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: do my beard laws and I would you rather or questions.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Of the day. Yeah.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: So you know a lot of times you don't always
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: have to respond on TikTok, and a lot of people don't.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: But now that I got you on a podcast, you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: have to answer. And I've made sure to make sure
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they were pretty decent. They were respectable ones, you know.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: All right. So first one, you're stuck on a deserted
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: island for one year, who do you bring with you?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: My wife?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the smart answer, my wife.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: I I honestly, even even outside of the or outside
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: of an island, if if I did anything without my wife,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I would be lost.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I would ultimately be lost.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: She handles everything, the kids, the bills, everything. You me like,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I wanted to buy a boat like three weeks ago,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and she's like, no, we don't have the money for
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: that right now. You know, we we got a car
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: payment coming up, and I'm.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Like, damn, you know, I really want that boat. But
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: ultimately she keeps me in check. She she keeps me.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Going down, you know, the right right path, And if
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I'm stuck on an island, I don't want anybody.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: There but her.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: That's a solid answer. She's you know what I mean.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: You guys are a team, hasn't been a team. You'll
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you'll get off that island somehow.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Right, all right?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So would you rather make a penny every time you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: took a breath or ten cents every time you blink?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Ten cents? Because I can.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I can blink a lot and not get hyperventilated. But
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: those pennies aren't gonna rack up quickly whenever you're passed
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: out on the floor.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but those pennies could those You're not gonna blink
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: in your sleep, and how often do you sleep in
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: your life?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: You're still gonna breathe, that's true. That's true too, But.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Nope, you're you're going blinking, So you're gonna get the ten.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna try the breathing. Although Beard Blass
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: is not going to sponsor this event because it sounds
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: like a terrible investment.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it is. It is a terrible investment.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: You're gonna have a lot of people hyperventilating and blinking
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  Speaker 3: themselves to dead.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, what's the fiercest animal that you think you
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  Speaker 1: could take in a fight.
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  Speaker 3: The fiercest animal I would probably have to say.
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  Speaker 2: A mountain lion.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you think you could take a mountain lion?
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  Speaker 3: I I think I could because I'm I'm decently quick
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  Speaker 3: on my feet, I'm pretty pretty good with my hands.
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  Speaker 3: I know it would be stupid for me to go
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  Speaker 3: up against a beer for a gorilla. Yeah, with the
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  Speaker 3: mountain lion, you know, they do have agility. But if
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  Speaker 3: if I've got to use my bear hands, you know
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  Speaker 3: I can. I can at least, you know, hold its
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  Speaker 3: jaw back and you know, poking thighs out or something.
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  Speaker 2: But I think I could. I think I could take.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd have to go like like coy dog or something.
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  Speaker 1: Is a mountain lion a little tougher than an actual dog?
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  Speaker 3: Plus, uh, I did a little bit of jiu jitsu,
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  Speaker 3: so I learned a couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: There's that. Yeah, you could probably maybe take like a cheetah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like if you've got a cheetah in there,
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  Speaker 1: as long as they don't run away, and if they
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  Speaker 1: run away, the hell, well you're not going to catch them. Anyways.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's not much you can do. Try
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  Speaker 2: to climb up a tree, climb up there with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would That's well. Like I said, I I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time. I think I think it's
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  Speaker 1: get in touch. We'll talk after you, guys, big win,
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  Speaker 1: the best of luck and uh we'll chat soon. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, thank you very much, and uh, thank yeah absolutely. Man.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's town time for beer news.
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  Speaker 1: Typically we'll speak of beards in the news for you know,
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  Speaker 1: positive things, great things. But unfortunately, this is a tragic article.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a very good one, but it's a very
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  Speaker 1: big headline. Texas officer who made headlines for his turbine
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  Speaker 1: and beard was killed in a traffic stop. Sand Deep
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  Speaker 1: sing de Lee Wall was a sheriff's deputy in Harris County,
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  Speaker 1: which also included Houston. He had made national headlines being
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  Speaker 1: granted permission to wear a turbine and a beard is
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  Speaker 1: part of his uniform because of his religion in the
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  Speaker 1: sheriff's department. And you know, obviously there was some positive
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  Speaker 1: feedback from it, there was some negative feedback from it.
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  Speaker 1: But regardless, you know, he was able to wear his
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  Speaker 1: turbine and his beard, which clearly wasn't infecting his job.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it was the right, right decision. But unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he was doing a routine traffic stop, just like many
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  Speaker 1: he's done for several years. I think the article said
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  Speaker 1: that he was an off twenty years. Robert Solis, forty
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  Speaker 1: seven decided that, for whatever reason, he just got out
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  Speaker 1: of his vehicle after the officer was walking back to
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  Speaker 1: his car, came up with a gun and shot the
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  Speaker 1: officer in the back, and unfortunately the officer did not
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  Speaker 1: make it from his from the injuries. Solas, forty seven
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  Speaker 1: was arrested in charge with capital murder, which in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Texas could lead to the death penalty. Just
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  Speaker 1: a tragic article, just a tragic story of you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just an act of violence that didn't need to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's keep his family, his community, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody that's in fault in your thoughts and prayers, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully his family his I think the article
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  Speaker 1: said he had three kids. Hopefully they'll be able to grieve,
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  Speaker 1: move on and you know, somehow find some positivity and
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  Speaker 1: just a shitty, shitty tragedy. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: it's now time for one of my favorite segments of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, the featured here to the day. It's a
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: wedding this weekend. It was a bunch of people I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: didn't quite know, very very great, amazing people. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people just kept saying, Hey, it's Billy Gibbons. It's
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Billy Gibbons. Obviously I'm a much more younger, better looking,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: less talented individual, but I said, huh, featured period of
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  Speaker 1: the date, Well, it just makes sense. Billy Gibbons. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: z Eezy Top is celebrating their fifty years of touring playing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Feature Beard of the Day, Billy Gibbons. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: know who Billy Gibbons is, I feel feel really bad
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  Speaker 1: for you. I'll break it down pretty real quick. William
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  Speaker 1: Frederick Gibbons, who's professionally known as Billy Gibbons and the
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Billy F. Gibbons, is an American music singer, songwriter,
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  Speaker 1: record producer, actor. But he's best known for being the
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  Speaker 1: guitarist and lead singer of the American rock band zz Top.
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  Speaker 1: I know recently, I did a TikTok video for a
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: beard contest that featured the song Legs had some amazing
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  Speaker 1: beautiful women send me videos of their legs for the
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  Speaker 1: for the video obviously likes awkward as fuck trying to
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  Speaker 1: ask a bunch of women like, Hey, this is going
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to sound a little weird, bear with me, but do
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you mind sending me like a video of your legs?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Most of them were like yeah, whatever. Some of them
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: are like for what. So I explained it and they're
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: like absolutely so thank you to you ladies for that.
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  Speaker 1: It did get me into the finals of the Beard contest.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So cez Top coming through. What a great song. What
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  Speaker 1: a great band. I mean, it's a three piece band.
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  Speaker 1: They've been together forever. If you don't know them, check
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  Speaker 1: them out. If you don't feel like checking them out,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I got your back. So Billy Gibbons was in a
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: couple of other bands other than zz Top. He was
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: in The Moving Sidewalks, Kings of Chaos, and The Revolting Cocks.
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  Speaker 1: He was also in the TV shows and movies Bones
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  Speaker 1: You're Gonna Miss Me More. Just a beautiful bearded man
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  Speaker 1: known for his beard, but just an amazing guitar player,
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest, arguably one of the greatest. He
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: can be seen all over the internet in videos, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's on YouTube or anywhere else, just playing with so
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  Speaker 1: much amazing talents. Everybody wants to be a part, everybody
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: wants to collaborate. Just have him play music. Hell, most
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  Speaker 1: people just want to be in the same room as
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  Speaker 1: this guy. We could sit here and go on and
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  Speaker 1: on and on of what he's done, what he's accomplished,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: but we're not going to Billy Gibbons. If you don't know,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: If you want to learn more, just google him. The
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: guy is a legend. He's the featured Beard of the
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  Speaker 1: Day Billy Gibbons. If you get this, anybody knows Billy Gibbons.
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  Speaker 1: I say it on the show all the time, hoping
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  Speaker 1: that someday someone's gonna listen and be like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: can make this happen. So if anybody could put me
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  Speaker 1: in the same room as this guy so we can
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  Speaker 1: get a picture too, with our great beards, that'd be
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  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. If not, it's understandable. So Billy Gibbons feature
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  Speaker 1: Beard of the Day, the fifth one could be one
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  Speaker 1: of the best ones. To see who the next featured
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  Speaker 1: Beard of the Day is. Check out Beard Lost podcast
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  Speaker 1: episode six. We do the featured beard of the day
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  Speaker 1: in every podcast episode again Billy Gibbons beard on my
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  Speaker 1: bearded brother. It is no time for You're in my
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: thoughts by Logan Umpires always getting pissed on good call,
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  Speaker 1: that was easy. The kid stuff in his face with
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: ice cream fifteen rows up in the second deck would
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: have made that call bad call. Everyone in the stands
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and watching at home know you were standing and just
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: sitting there staring at something other than the play, possibly
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: a cute girl, a rock shit, maybe even that kid
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  Speaker 1: with the ice cream, Possibly thinking of sharing a Rocky
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  Speaker 1: Road ice cream with a cute girl when you were
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  Speaker 1: a kid at a ballgame. Close call, replay, closer call, replay.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Even your bosses never believe you. They've it set up
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: so you have no authority. Were a destined to fail
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: or at least look like a chump? Hell, I bet
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  Speaker 1: their wife said at home, fixated on the TV strike
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  Speaker 1: zone box and just berate the shit out of their husbands,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: well in the company of the other umpie wives. See Joan,
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  Speaker 1: I told you he was fucking blind, can't focus to
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: save his own job, let alone a sex life. Fucking
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: chump pissed on that Ladies and gentlemen is an actual
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: thought that Logan has while he's urinating. Hence, you're in
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: my thoughts. You like you're on my thoughts. Please let
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: us know Matt at Beeard Laws dot com, any social media,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: let us know what you think, and there's gonna be
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: some merchandise coming up based just on You're in my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts by Logan. Now time to give everybody a little
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: bit of an update of where Beard Laws is. With
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the donation recently, you have totaled six and seven dollars
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: that has been donated to the foundation which is going
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: to support the TVs at the Richard E. Winter Cancer Center.
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  Speaker 1: Little video on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: If you get some time go check it out. We're
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: pretty close to our goal, have a couple of businesses,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: local businesses that just waiting for the checks to come
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: in process. We're going to hit that goal of seventy
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and we're going to get these TVs upgraded soon.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: There will be a lot of media coverage, some interviews,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and lots of pictures and videos to kind of capture
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  Speaker 1: the moment. I'm excited for it. It's been a long
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: time coming, and I just again want to thank everybody
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that has donated, everybody that is going to donate, and
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: just thank you guys and know that you guys are
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: amazing and absolutely awesome. I also want to say that
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: there is a benefit up in Harrisville on October twelfth,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: starts at three o'clock at the Harrisville Fire Department to
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  Speaker 1: benefit just an amazing man, Dustin, who has battled cancer.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in the area, you want to check it out,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: you want to do a donation, you want to do
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: a basket, you want to do anything like that, feel
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: free to message me Matt at beard laws dot com.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Also feel free to check out on beard laws dot
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  Speaker 1: com edition fuck Cancer with a pH. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just swearing at you guys, Fuck Cancer pH limited edition
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  Speaker 1: Dustin socks. They're green with his beautiful mug all over them.
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  Speaker 1: Ten dollars shipping. A tax obviously is going to be
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  Speaker 1: applied to that. Any bit of profit that is sold
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: from the socks is going to go directly towards Dustin himself.
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  Speaker 1: So check it out beard laws dot com, hit the
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: store up look for those beautiful green socks with his
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: beautiful mug on it. Another thing I want to mention
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  Speaker 1: is I'm looking for any artist, anybody that wants to
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: do illustrations. That's you. If that's what you're into, please
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  Speaker 1: hit me up on any social media, shoot me an email,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: met at Beard laws dot com. I don't really want
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: to release to everybody what the project is and what's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: going on, So if you don't mind hit me up directly,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: you can be a part of something special and be
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: a part of something amazing and I would very very
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: much appreciate it. Afford to hearing from you guys. All Right,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. That's a wrap. That's the end of
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: episode five. What a great episode. Hope you guys liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Know what you guys think. I'm already looking forward to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: episode six and episode five is not even done yet. Again,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: thank you to everybody that was a part of it.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody for listening. I hope you guys have
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: an amazing day, amazing night morning. I don't know whatever
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: time it is that you're listening to this, it's always
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: remember Beard.
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  Speaker 2: On great six four.
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  Speaker 3: Now you say you.
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  Speaker 1: On the cross until separate Those guys ever said our out.
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  Speaker 2: What now you there so right, you own.
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  Speaker 1: You don't show me how when you went out.
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  Speaker 3: Want your way, one time away for America, America.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: And be okay, not alone the SIMI times the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's time, but I say, I called Heil.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Were handing me the same.
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  Speaker 3: Someone said I'm blast.
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  Speaker 1: I went on as I couldn't sad, I couldn't find
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  Speaker 1: turn my friend.
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  Speaker 3: I take my life