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Laviska Shenault: "This Receiver Room Has No Drop-off" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Right a couple of games now seeing the kick return
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  Speaker 1: and games speeding all out?
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  Speaker 2: What have you thought about that? Plus far?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's fun uh uh, Like I've been saying, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a lot of opportunity there.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just looking forward to it. What's different for
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  Speaker 2: the returner?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think with what it's it been so
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  Speaker 3: uh so condensed. I feel like there there there's there's
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  Speaker 3: holes to hit and you just gotta hit it.
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  Speaker 2: See a block the other night, where is that fru
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  Speaker 2: opening kickoff? Where is that ranking or blocks and games before?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that was a little crazy. I probably did I
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  Speaker 3: probably was doing too much. I probably could have stayed
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  Speaker 3: on my feet and actually like like did more.
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  Speaker 2: But you know that was fun.
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  Speaker 3: That was that was a a very great uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: g uh way to start the the game or you
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  Speaker 3: Oh I got a plus, I got a couple plus
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  Speaker 3: for that figure for sh for Shure.
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  Speaker 2: We seen de Never a couple of times after return
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  Speaker 2: on what he thought it was so far. Oh, he's great,
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  Speaker 2: He's great.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be a you know, uh a great player
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  Speaker 3: if he keep keep doing he doing. The coaches love him,
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  Speaker 3: we love him. He got a lot of ability to
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  Speaker 3: be something great.
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  Speaker 2: He started with you guys have receiver and then move
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  Speaker 2: over to a quarter what. I guess what what's he
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  Speaker 2: been like as a quarterback when he discovered you. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get to see him much, but I guess
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  Speaker 3: he's an athlete. He he can, he can Like you said,
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  Speaker 3: he was a receiver at first. Now he's at DV.
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  Speaker 3: He he can do it all.
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  Speaker 1: Could you feel like the coaches are getting to learn
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about your game and how to
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  Speaker 1: utilize your strengths.
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  Speaker 3: Most definitely, most definite. I'm'a keep that one short, but
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  Speaker 3: most definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed like the last two years in Carolina, the majority
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  Speaker 1: of your targets where the they heat the ball behind
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, And like you do you think,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think it is about your skill set
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  Speaker 1: that makes.
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  Speaker 2: Me shuit you for that kind of Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, you just come on the tape and
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  Speaker 3: you see see what I do when I get the
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  Speaker 3: bottle in my hands. Unfortunately, though you know everybody knows, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's about to come. So but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: like you know that's my niece, that's I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 3: a yacht player. So I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
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  Speaker 3: take it, take it another step.
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  Speaker 2: Along those lines that you I'm guessing you feel like
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  Speaker 2: you're not just oh, most definitely, Nah, yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I think I can do I can think I I
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  Speaker 2: think I can do a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm just doing what uh When I'm being aksed, though,
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  Speaker 3: you can just you just start to try a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about the competition that you could describe how how
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  Speaker 3: it's been like.
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  Speaker 2: The DBS and rest Oh it's it's oh you said, what?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's been. It's been crazy. It's been crazy,
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  Speaker 2: like this receiver room is no drop off.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, all all all uh, all
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  Speaker 3: of our guys is is I would say like that.
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  Speaker 3: So going against the DVS, you know, we we shoppingly
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  Speaker 3: sharpening each other. It's been a real battle, and I
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  Speaker 3: think I think we we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Was that ye was death? What was free agency like you?
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  Speaker 2: If I remember correctly, it wasn't it Tom that you
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  Speaker 2: signed here? What was recess like you?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't too crazy? You know, I didn't have I
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  Speaker 3: didn't have you know, a lot of teams trying to
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  Speaker 3: get me. The the commanders was trying to get me,
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  Speaker 3: but they they wanted me to move to a running
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  Speaker 3: back full time. Uh, that was that's something if I
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  Speaker 3: do do that, something that I want to do on
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  Speaker 3: my own time. But it wasn't too much going on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad they gave me the opportunity to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised by that? Giving your resumes over? It
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  Speaker 2: is what it is, But I am surprised.
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  Speaker 1: But it is speaking of that you followed for Derrick
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  Speaker 1: Patterson's career and his similarities with your skill set.
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  Speaker 2: And has uh you said, do I see it similarities
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  Speaker 2: between you?
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  Speaker 3: Most definitely, most definitely see similarities. He's he's a He's
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  Speaker 3: faster for sure, but you know he's a he's an athlete,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: That the joker what he called himself.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I definitely, you know, have the abilities
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  Speaker 3: alone that same type of you know, type of style
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  Speaker 3: of play.
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  Speaker 2: That was that the kind of role.
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  Speaker 1: But the commanders were talking to you about because he's
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  Speaker 1: obviously transitioned to be more of a wordy back in.
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  Speaker 3: H I guess, so we didn't really go into much
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  Speaker 3: in depth about it. Once I first heard that was
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  Speaker 3: the the what they wanted, and I was like, nah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm good to.
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  Speaker 2: That battle with the dbs out there. What are your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on prequel?
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  Speaker 1: When you see from him and you ever gone to
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  Speaker 1: scoring a quite nine coments you're playing from Spema.
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  Speaker 3: I've actually played against him in the games, so I
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  Speaker 3: know exactly what he brings to the table.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, very tall, lengthy, corner fast. It's hard
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  Speaker 3: to be guys like that. He's gonna be real, real special.
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  Speaker 1: You'll all take on your afion back without thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Must actually that you take Gary Black Job fans and
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  Speaker 2: hype you guys in there. Uh, it's it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be special. It's gonna be specially.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, we got no drop off in the
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  Speaker 3: receiver room, so we got so many guys that can do,
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  Speaker 3: you know, different things. So and then with grub uh,
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  Speaker 3: he he puts he puts guys in in in great
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  Speaker 3: position to go be theirselves and and and go make
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  Speaker 3: the play that they're wanting.
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  Speaker 2: That's like to receive the room. Just talking about that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, DK.
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  Speaker 3: You Yeah, it's just it's it's just versatile. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I I don't know what uh too much, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what else to you know say about that. But
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  Speaker 3: you know those guys got history, those guys got a resume,
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  Speaker 3: like you.
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  Speaker 2: Was talking about like so like it's just it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't got too many words
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  Speaker 3: for you know, like I said with Grub, he's gonna,
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  Speaker 3: I know, he's gonna do a great job of putting
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  Speaker 3: us in a great position.
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  Speaker 2: Do you talk about how deep the receiver room it is?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's not room for everybody on the roster. It's
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  Speaker 2: that kind of work.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta see if you guys and it, it's it.
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  Speaker 3: It can be very mentally, you know, stressful, but you
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  Speaker 3: gotta trust yourself. You gotta trust what you're putting on
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  Speaker 3: the tape every day come out an A and at
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  Speaker 3: a hundred and ten percent. But I think the main
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  Speaker 3: thing is just staying in the moment. You really can't
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  Speaker 3: do anything about, you know, the decision they make. But
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  Speaker 3: what you come out and put on film is is big.
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  Speaker 2: You guys talk about that or is that left up
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  Speaker 2: to say?
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  Speaker 3: It's talked about, but it it's not too much, not
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  Speaker 3: too much you know really to say about it. You
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  Speaker 3: know it it is what it is and it's it's
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  Speaker 3: either you're doing y, you're maxing out, you know, or
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  Speaker 3: you're not.
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  Speaker 1: So A lot of people talk about receivers, it's skill positions.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think your group can also be physical and
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  Speaker 1: help wear down set the tone.
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  Speaker 2: For the offense. Uh? That's uh, that's another thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this offense.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Coach Grubb, he talks about physical, physical guys on
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  Speaker 3: the outside and you know, of course physical and the
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  Speaker 3: inside and the trenches gotta be physical. But receivers that's
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  Speaker 3: super physical. Those dvs don't like that. And grub he he,
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  Speaker 3: he expresses that a lot. And I definitely think we
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  Speaker 3: had the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Decan you know what I'm saying. I'm gonna ask you
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  Speaker 2: about that. Man. I'm not sure what you call.
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  Speaker 3: Any degree, whether it's no really story to it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: always in that mode and you know, keep keep the
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  Speaker 3: face smooth. I feel like, you know, the sun and
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  Speaker 3: stuff and you know everything else.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you didn't have a lot of Nashville joint practically,
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  Speaker 2: I did, did you? Yeah? I did? Oh yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't hot. Okay, that wasn't hot. I've been you know,
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  Speaker 2: I got drafts of Jacksonville. That's hot.
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  Speaker 3: But we practiced early, early, so you know, you don't
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  Speaker 3: get that too much of the heat. But it's very
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  Speaker 3: a lot of humanity.
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  Speaker 2: When did you start wearing that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Jacksonville, I wore you know in Colorado. Now you
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  Speaker 3: you got a real purpose around in Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: It get cold.
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  Speaker 3: But Jacksonville, I don't think I missed the day wearring it.
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  Speaker 3: If I did, it was probably because, al right, it
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  Speaker 3: was too hot.
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  Speaker 2: It's too hot. I gotta put on one of these.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Guys. Thank you, thank god, thank you.