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HoW Ep.2 The Price Is Right · The Wesley Word

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Wesley World.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Bailey Meehan, and on this episode of Humans of Wesley, I'm joined by Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matthew Price.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matt, welcome to the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Bailey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matt, can you introduce yourself?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, I'm Matthew Price, like Bailey said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm a junior financial management major from Florence, South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just quickly off the top of your head, um, if you could instantly master any one skill, what would you choose?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's tough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, I think woodworking would be pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you want to make?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, like anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you can do anything with wood.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like like tables, instruments, like craftsman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is your favorite breakfast food?
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, that's tough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I I like a bowl of oatmeal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I do, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: With some fruit cut up in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, so you put anything in it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Some apples, some cinnamon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you could have dinner with any famous person, who would you choose?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um probably I mean, it'd be kind of cool to have dinner with like one of the old presidents that are dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Abraham Lincoln would be cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um if we're going past, if we're going present, I think it'd be kind of cool to have it with with Kanye.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just because he he's just a character.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I'd definitely be entertaining.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, you just you'd be entertained.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you could learn something from one of the dead people, like like Abe, but Kanye, you'd you'd have some entertainment at the table.
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  SPEAKER_00: What what a squad there, Abraham Lincoln and Kanye West.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you had to choose a different major at Clemson other than finance, what would you choose?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um if you know I could put in more work and be an engineer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I mean I could go the easy round, say accounting, but yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean it's that was that throwing shade at accounting?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, it's just closer to my major.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I see.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm basically an accounting major too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So So you just turned 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what is your favorite bar downtown on first impression?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh first impression.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I will say the food at Backstreets was was very good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I think the portion sizes were way bigger than I expected to.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think Backstreets is my favorite as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you are from Florence, South Carolina, you said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we have quite a few Wesley members from Florence these days.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's there's a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh what do you think brings all the Florence people to a Clemson Wesley?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I yeah, I I really don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and it's funny because you know, we I went to high school with just a couple of them, but we didn't really necessarily interact in high school.
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  SPEAKER_01: So seeing seeing different faces, that's what's what's amazing about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, how did so many different people from the same town who don't really associate with each other end up in the same place?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So which do you think is the best restaurant?
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  SPEAKER_00: Townhouse, 301 drive-in, or jump and jays?
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  SPEAKER_01: Jumpin' Jays.
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  SPEAKER_01: Although am I the first one to say that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been told that's the wrong answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to defend yourself then.
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  SPEAKER_01: If Emma Rivers said that, uh she's biased.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um Jumpin' Jays is the way to go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why is that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Their food is just I mean, it honestly, if I'm gonna be honest, I haven't eaten at the townhouse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but jump and jays is where my family goes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if they say it's the best, I'm gonna I'm gonna say it's the best.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we we did some work for the owner a while back, so I'm also a bit partial.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what's the thing you miss most about Florence while you're here in Clemson?
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  SPEAKER_01: Not much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Probably my family.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um that's yeah, that's about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Family, friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really close with your family?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh you know, I like I like to think that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all live on one street, so even like even the grandparents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um parent like parents, grandparents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, I'm pretty close with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what brought you to Clemson University?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh um there was so my brother came here, uh, he's an alum, class of 04 with Steve.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh they didn't know each other, but um yeah, he so like I've been I've raised a Clemson fan, uh, even through the bad years.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was right there with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, you know, um, so it was tough being a Clemson fan back in the day, but I just wanted to go here and uh didn't get here quite the way I wanted to, but it happens and I'm here today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you had a uh a little bit of a atypical freshman year?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was I did the bridge program.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um you know if anybody is questioning whether they should come to Clemson because they got bridged, do it 100%, just do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's worth it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I I would say do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know anybody that did bridge that would tell you not to do it, so do it, it's worth it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh what uh drew you to uh finance?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh um I've always money man.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've always I've always liked numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um finances like personal finances have always like intrigued me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so that was part of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: My brother majored in finance.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't say that that was like a major part of me choosing it, but like coming in, I knew I knew that I didn't want to do engineering.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I knew that I'd be a little above my head.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um I was next best thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is personal finance what you want to do after college?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that you know, I'd I like uh corporate finance, um, the the business side of finance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but like for me personally, it's cool to know about my own personal finances in an in-depth way.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you could give me one piece of financial advice, what would it be?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um probably don't don't go into too much debt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so finance bros and trumpet players, of which you are both, have uh quite the reputation of uh maybe not being so humble, but I think Matt Price is maybe one of the most laid back and humble people I've ever met.
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  SPEAKER_00: So how do you manage that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh first of all, thank you for the compliment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I think it just has to do with my upbringing, um, maybe some circumstances that have humbled me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I I don't know if I've always been like this, but here here I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, you get get pushed back a little bit and you're like, oh, maybe maybe I'm not that good.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um that's that's probably I saw it stay pretty chill.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh speaking of playing trumpet, you're an active member of Tiger Band.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what drew you to play the trumpet get started in the first place?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um back in elementary school, I was I did sorry, I keep hitting the table.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um but uh I started my granddad played clarinet or uncle or something, so my mom was like, Oh, you should play clarinet.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I like tried, I played the clarinet for a year and absolutely hated it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I'm gonna play trumpet because I wanted to be in band because there was nothing else to do in elementary school.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, you guys had band all the way back in elementary school, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh fourth we started in fourth grade.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can start until middle school around here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's pretty it's it was pretty neat because our elementary school was the one that started the earliest.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, I'm a little biased, but Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Graham was was the best band director in the elementary schools.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh but um yeah, so I switched to trumpet and stuck with it from fifth grade until now, so I don't know, quick maths, a lot of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so you you marched in high school as well?
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  SPEAKER_01: I did, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I started ninth grade um and did did marching band.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was it was fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really liked it for the football games, but same same thing here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what's your favorite experience you've had with Tiger Band so far?
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  SPEAKER_01: Tiger Band, um, getting to travel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um they you know they let us go pretty much anywhere with with the team.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's fun to see in different places, you know, places I probably wouldn't have seen by now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh definitely wouldn't I wouldn't have gone to Phoenix or New Orleans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and then to get you know a three, four-day trip to New Orleans, you get to see some sites, like there's responsibilities that you have, but but you get you get a little mini vacation as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's really fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you had a a new student coming to Clemson who marched in high school, would you recommend that they join Tiger Band?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd say at least do one year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh don't let other people make decisions for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um like try to manipulate your decisions because they didn't like one certain thing about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'd say give it a shot.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're thinking about doing it, do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't regret, don't regret not doing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really, really anything in college.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's great advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know you're quite the outdoorsman yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what's your favorite hike in the Clemson area?
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, hike.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that's a tough one.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's so many.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of hikes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what's your favorite?
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  SPEAKER_01: I just trying to get trying to get some.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I maybe maybe just general.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's like so many.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's like so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um there's a lot of stuff in up near like Wahala that's nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um Yellow Branch is is like nice little hikes.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a little waterfall at the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and Raven Rock loop at Kiwi Talksways.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a great one.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's really pretty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um have you ever been in the summer where you can jump off the rock?
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  SPEAKER_01: I have not been in the summer.
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  SPEAKER_01: We in the fall and the the colors were really nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like seeing seeing seeing little fall colors.
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  SPEAKER_01: Football season kind of put a hindrance on that this year, but last year was a all game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and what draws you to the outdoors?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you like about being outside?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so peaceful.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have any stress, you don't have you don't have to look at your phone every two seconds.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can just sit there and or walk there and you know, hang out with people, get your mind off of life for a couple hours and get some exercise while you're at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so what's your favorite activity to do outdoors?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, hiking is really fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh camping, I like to camp.
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  SPEAKER_01: Backpacking is a little bit of both.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um hopefully gonna try to try to go backpacking sometime this semester.
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  SPEAKER_01: That'd be fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um just find finding people to do it with me is the tough part.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this uh podcast will help you out with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope so.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what brought you to Clemson Wesley?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so my sister was did the Wesley Foundation at the university she went to, Francis Marion, and she came to one of the winter retreats um with the the whole state.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she was like, Yeah, you know, Steve's a cool guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I'm like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I come to Clemson and I started going to C UMC in um second semester freshman year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I'd been going CMC all the first semester, and Emma Rose was like, Hey, you should come to Wesley tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, why not?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I came.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh there was a I then I came, it was like the welcome back night.
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  SPEAKER_01: We didn't really do anything, kind of like met people.
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  SPEAKER_01: So saw some familiar faces from Florence, um, met some new people, uh, namely Austin Wagner, Blake Burrell, and uh Peel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, I'll come back, I'll give it a try next week.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I came back the next week and uh message really hit me, really hit home for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I kept coming back and here we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're glad you did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, about two years later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exact almost exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know during your uh talk you gave it even tied last semester, um, you referenced something that your uh pastor at home had said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um did was church uh a big part of your life growing up?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was a it was a weekly thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I wouldn't say that it was a priority in my life uh like it should have been, but it was something that you know it was it was a habit.
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  SPEAKER_01: You you went to church on Sundays.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and you know, the the thing that kind of set set it apart for me was like youth group wasn't wasn't that good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And something uh we said it freshly on Monday night.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a someone said that you know they were expecting Wesley to be like sort of like youth group, it's like uh blah blah blah blah blah and less of like a family atmosphere, and I think that I found the to be the opposite, like they did.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's cool that Clemson Wesley is you know a family instead of just an activity on Sunday nights.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you mentioned Freshly, so you're a leader for Freshly, which is our freshman small group here at Wesley.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what has you know been your favorite part of being a Freshly leader so far?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um learning something every week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I like I like to look for something that we're all trying to do this semester as Fresh leaders is look for the the growth in everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um take every experience that that we have and learn from it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, common misconception is you know, when you become a leader, you stop learning.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I like to I like to learn something every week and really listen in on the the discussions and uh whoever's given the the devotion that week to just focus in on it and and learn something and try to take something from every everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: So learn the learning, the growth is my favorite part.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you were the last class to have a I guess somewhat normal freshman year before the COVID pandemic hit or hit right in the the middle of the second semester of year.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got some yeah, we got some of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got some of a year, which is um do you notice the pandemic uh being something that freshmen are struggling with?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think so.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um maybe not as much this year, because you know all intents and purposes last semester was weird at the beginning, but kind of mellowed out at the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, it kind of COVID wasn't as big of a concern um towards the end of last semester.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's good that they got a few a few weeks of of normalcy, but um I think that the the the big part was the freshman last year and maybe coming into this semester as well, seeing all the cases that are jumping.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you had to give one piece of advice to a new freshman at Clemson, what would it be?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh um I'd I'd probably go back to say that do if you think you want to do it, just do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give it a try.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you don't have to stick with it if you don't like it, but no point in regretting doing something that you wanted to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you mentioned um how you have great discussions in Freshly and you like learning from the freshman as much as they're learning from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what's been the best discussion you guys have had this uh year?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there was there's they're also good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I can't put my finger on one um just because you know every week something new.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um but it yeah, I don't I don't know, that's tough.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't I can't think of one right off the top of my head that that that's really standing out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um have there been any other um Wesley activities that have been especially impactful for you that you've enjoyed a lot?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the retreats are always so much fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um you learn a lot, you get you grow closer with people.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're you're always you're always growing growing those relationships.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that's that's like I said, what makes Wesley stand out is it's not just an activity you do one night a week.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean it can be if you want it to be, but if you want it to be your family, you know, here it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: It they're they're standing here with welcome, open arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks, Matt.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was some great uh insight into who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: If uh people like what they've heard uh on this episode, how can they get in touch with you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um uh I'm on Instagram, Snapchat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we'll put that stuff in the comments.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can't we can put it in the the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the description um show notes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can put my number.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um you can reach out, contact me if you want to get coffee or lunch or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um more than welcome to you're more than welcome to reach out to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and uh if you want to go backpacking, map up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if you want to go backpacking camping, uh short hike on the weekends, uh be my guest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Me and me and Blake will gladly welcome you into our hikes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Matt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Wesley Word is a production of the Clemson Wesley Foundation.
• 17:20
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, get out there and love your neighbor.