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Ep. 61 - Talking Ball with Ronan Hanafin · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Paw. Today,
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  Speaker 2: we welcome Ronan Hannafin onto the show, where he talks
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  Speaker 2: about faith, family, and cereal. This is a super exciting one,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go Beyond the Paw. Hello, everyone. Welcome back
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  Speaker 2: to another episode of Beyond the Paw. I'm Grace LaCrosse,
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  Speaker 2: your host, alongside Ashley Pearson. And we are super excited
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  Speaker 2: for today's episode.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: We are.
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  Speaker 1: Great guests coming on our episode today.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited about this guest.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into that, though, how are you doing, Grace?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I would say.
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  Speaker 1: It's mid-September. Well, early-ish. We're in September.
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  Speaker 2: We're in September.
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  Speaker 1: Which is like beginning of school is over.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Things are rolling. Starting to ramp up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling good about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling good about it, but I do want to
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  Speaker 2: pick your brain a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. If that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, I'm a senior and I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 2: life after college a little bit. I feel like the
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  Speaker 2: hard thing about this point in my life is feeling
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  Speaker 2: like I need to be the finished product or the
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  Speaker 2: finished version of Grace LaCrosse in this moment in order
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  Speaker 2: to move on to my next chapter. Like I have
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  Speaker 2: to market myself to jobs and all these things. And
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about leadership and doing all these things and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, I know realistically that I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: have it all figured out right now. But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, I have this constant feeling of I need
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  Speaker 2: to be the best leader. I need to have my
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  Speaker 2: life figured out. I need to know where I'm going next.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm running out of time. All of
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  Speaker 2: these pieces.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have any advice for me?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thanks for sharing that. It can be a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I think coming into your senior year, too, is just
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  Speaker 4: a whirlwind in general. Like you're entering college. probably the
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  Speaker 4: last year of one of the, really when you reflect
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  Speaker 4: back to this point, probably one of the greatest experiences
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  Speaker 4: that you've been fortunate to have.
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 4: I think something I've learned too is that we're never
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  Speaker 4: finished and we're always changing and we're always growing and
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  Speaker 4: we should be. And that doesn't take away from the
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  Speaker 4: excitement and the anticipation and the stress of what comes next.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the fact that you're even thinking about
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  Speaker 4: those things Probably means you have more of it than
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  Speaker 4: you think you do. And I think something you do
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  Speaker 4: really well, and I think that everyone can always work
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  Speaker 4: on doing, is just being authentic to who you are
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  Speaker 4: and knowing your strengths. All the things that you've done
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  Speaker 4: and that you work on day to day create this
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  Speaker 4: beautiful picture of who you are. And that's who shows
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  Speaker 4: up in those spaces. And I think if you can
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  Speaker 4: focus on those things and what you've done and think
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  Speaker 4: about how they will transfer into what comes next for you,
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  Speaker 4: that's half the battle. is being able to name them
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  Speaker 4: and identify them. I think sometimes we think more about
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  Speaker 4: ourselves naturally than maybe others are thinking. And it's easy
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  Speaker 4: to critique ourself in that way. But sometimes you've got
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  Speaker 4: to take a step back and just look at all
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  Speaker 4: the amazing things that you've done. Look at where you are.
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  Speaker 4: Look at what you've participated in. Leadership academies, internships, competing
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  Speaker 4: at Clemson, all that stuff. It's really unique and it's
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  Speaker 4: really special. And so I would say We're never done.
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  Speaker 4: There's always, you know, with a growth mindset, there's always
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  Speaker 4: something you can get better at. And because you are
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  Speaker 4: a student athlete, like that's always going to carry over
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  Speaker 4: to everything you do for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to be trying to figure out how you
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  Speaker 4: can do it better and be the best version of yourself.
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  Speaker 4: But I think if you remain authentic to who you are,
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  Speaker 4: what you believe, and you show up that way, the
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  Speaker 4: way that you do for anyone at this time in
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  Speaker 4: their life, that's what's going to carry you, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You can do all these things, but that job you get,
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  Speaker 4: you have to show up to it. you're going to
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  Speaker 4: show up and you're going to be grace. You're not
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  Speaker 4: going to be someone else.
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  Speaker 1: So be true to that.
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  Speaker 4: I always tell students when I meet with them, your
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  Speaker 4: greatest advantage in any room is that you are grace.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not grace. You're grace. And you should want to
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  Speaker 1: be grace. You shouldn't want to be Ashley.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Be you. No one else is you. You get to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't there just some like, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: a Dr. Seuss quote, but it's like, there is nobody
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  Speaker 2: you are than you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what that reminds me of.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's so true.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we live in a time where everyone
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  Speaker 4: just compares themselves to other people and they want to
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  Speaker 4: be like everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Else, which is cool.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you have trends and this and that, which
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  Speaker 4: is great. And what makes you special? I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to walk in the room and be like anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be me. And I want to be
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  Speaker 1: a little different.
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  Speaker 2: And there's two about a person. There's certainly things that
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  Speaker 2: cross over.
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  Speaker 4: Like we have... we're wearing the same shirt and leggings.
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  Speaker 2: It's not coordinated. Clearly we have similar styles or might
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  Speaker 2: have similar values, but it's the combination of those things,
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  Speaker 2: of all the things that you bring to the table
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  Speaker 2: that makes you so unique. Because somebody might have something
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  Speaker 2: that's a little bit similar to you in terms of
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  Speaker 2: personality traits.
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  Speaker 4: And that's great.
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  Speaker 2: That's something to bond over. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: there's certain things that you also bring to the table
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  Speaker 2: that they don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There's a quote that one of my friends sent me recently.
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  Speaker 4: But I love it and I think about it often.
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  Speaker 4: And it's that we are a museum of all of
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  Speaker 4: the people that we know and love.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like you're made up of those experiences from those people,
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  Speaker 4: things that.
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  Speaker 1: You like about those people.
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  Speaker 4: And then you add it to who you are and
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  Speaker 4: then you are kind of a reflection of.
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  Speaker 1: All of those things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Which is really cool to think about. It's so true.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen this reminded me of have you
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  Speaker 2: ever seen those Museum of Us things?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like this is like a little artistic creative thing.
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  Speaker 1: You are creative.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like they have little mini figurines of people
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  Speaker 2: and then it's a shadow box and they'll have little
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  Speaker 2: picture frames like mini and they'll be pictures of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you and your family or you and your friends. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like there's little people looking up at the museum
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  Speaker 2: of us.
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  Speaker 4: I really like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's a little segue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like that? Did I answer your question?
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  Speaker 1: Does that feel better?
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot to process.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, too, in the difficulty of figuring out
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  Speaker 2: who you are and what you want to be and
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  Speaker 2: where you're going in life, if you can always come
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  Speaker 2: back to yourself and remember your values and remember these
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  Speaker 2: are my strengths and reflect on those things... That will
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  Speaker 2: help keep you grounded.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And so everything beyond that, as long as I stay
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  Speaker 2: true to who I am right here, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 4: And nothing's permanent. And things take time. Your first job,
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  Speaker 4: probably not going to be your dream job.
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  Speaker 2: If it is, that's kind of sad.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I want something to work for.
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  Speaker 4: Work towards it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's such a good perspective to have for anything
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  Speaker 4: in life.
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  Speaker 1: You can change it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can see what makes sense and works
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  Speaker 4: for you and then adjust accordingly if you know what's
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  Speaker 4: important to you and you know what your values are
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  Speaker 4: that you come back to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're ever growing, ever changing.
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  Speaker 1: We really are.
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  Speaker 2: The sun rises again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And the sun will rise every day.
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  Speaker 4: And it does.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And how special is that?
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  Speaker 2: It's so special, especially in Clemson where the sunsets and
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  Speaker 2: the sunrises.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: Are incredible. Also, the sun is starting to set a
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  Speaker 4: little earlier. I'm not the happiest about it, but.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this already. Just fall. It's coming. It's happening.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a good little Reminder.
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  Speaker 4: The days are getting shorter.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: But I do like when I wake up in the
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  Speaker 2: morning and the sun is rising and I'm driving to
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  Speaker 2: practice and it's beautiful because the colors and just all
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  Speaker 2: of it, the sun reflecting on, we have like the
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  Speaker 2: side of our facility has kind of a reflective material
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  Speaker 2: when the sun reflects on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I love my morning routine too.
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  Speaker 1: Love a morning routine.
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  Speaker 4: They're crucial.
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  Speaker 1: They're crucial. We actually talked a lot.
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  Speaker 4: About that with our guest today, and I'm really excited
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  Speaker 4: to just pick his brain and hear more about what
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  Speaker 4: he talks about with his morning routine.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So let's welcome Ronan Hannafin onto the show.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Today's guest is Clemson Safety, Ronan Hannafin. Ronan made the
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  Speaker 2: transition from wide receiver to defensive back in 2024, and
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  Speaker 2: just one year later, he emerged as one of Clemson's
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  Speaker 2: key defensive contributors. In 2025, he recorded 72 tackles, third
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  Speaker 2: most on the team, along with an interception, two forced fumbles,
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  Speaker 2: and four pass breakups across 13 games. Off the field,
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  Speaker 2: Ronan is a three-time All-ACC Academic Team Selection and a
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  Speaker 2: three-time ACC Honor Roll Selection. Welcome to the show, Ronan.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Super excited to have you on here.
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  Speaker 1: So excited to have you. Welcome.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to get started today with a two-word check-in.
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  Speaker 4: Just to get a pulse check on how everyone's doing,
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  Speaker 4: how we're feeling today before we hop in and get
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  Speaker 4: to chatting. So they can be any two words you
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  Speaker 4: want them to be. They don't need to make sense.
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  Speaker 4: You can elaborate on them. You don't have to. Whatever
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  Speaker 4: two words you think fit how you're feeling today, we're
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  Speaker 4: all going to share.
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  Speaker 1: Love it. Someone want to go first? I can go
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  Speaker 1: first if that's helpful.
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  Speaker 3: Do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling....
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  Speaker 4: I feel rested today, which is good. It's always good.
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  Speaker 1: Really good.
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  Speaker 4: I also feel productive. It's like one of those days
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  Speaker 4: where it's just going to get done.
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  Speaker 2: The grind is happening.
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  Speaker 1: We're in it, and it's going to get done. I
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  Speaker 1: feel rested and productive. I'm putting productive out there like
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  Speaker 1: it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's like your manifestation for the day.
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  Speaker 1: Mindset. Yeah. Good.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to go?
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  Speaker 3: Sure. I might still rested because I just said that
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  Speaker 3: before this. This is the one day I get to
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  Speaker 3: kind of sleep in. So feeling good. I don't have
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  Speaker 3: to wake up at four 30 today. And other word,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go excited, just excited for the season. And I
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  Speaker 3: guess stress of the day. I like Thursdays. Um, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those two words. Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think, This might be a hot take, but I
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  Speaker 1: think that Thursday is the best day.
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  Speaker 3: Of the week. That's not crazy, though. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it might be a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: hot take, Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Well, tomorrow's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: So all day, it's like the excitement of Friday is
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  Speaker 4: coming because Friday itself is magic.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But the lead up to anything in life sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Is the best part. I also don't have class today. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. So Thursday is for Ronan.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm more of a Friday girl myself. I do
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  Speaker 2: like the anticipation. I love having things to look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: But nothing's better than when it hits and you're like, man.
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  Speaker 2: And you have the weekend to look forward to on
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  Speaker 2: a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Valid.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad about it. There's that. I do still disagree,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm with you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: We can agree to disagree. I respect your opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I would say excited for Ronan to be
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  Speaker 2: here and to film another episode. And I am also
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  Speaker 2: feeling very grateful today for my friends and my family
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  Speaker 2: and just everything.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Those were great.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, everyone. I love this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, I want to hit you with some rapid
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  Speaker 2: fire questions now. This has turned into one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite segments. Just go as quick as you can.
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  Speaker 1: Top of the brain, whatever comes to mind.
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  Speaker 2: Top of the brain, whatever comes to mind.
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  Speaker 4: All right. If you could live anywhere in the world
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  Speaker 4: for a year, where would you go? Italy.
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  Speaker 1: That was.
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  Speaker 3: I'm off the coast.
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  Speaker 2: That might have been the fastest rapid fire we've gotten.
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  Speaker 2: Your biggest pet peeve.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, left lane, slow drivers. Worst thing ever. And, um,
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  Speaker 3: and when someone has like the, this car clan, Mount Washington,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's as like prevalent down here, but.
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  Speaker 3: Up north, a lot of people have that. It's really annoying.
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  Speaker 3: We get it. A car drove up a road. I'm crying.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Another one. When people put the toilet paper on backwards,
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  Speaker 3: it's supposed to go over the top, not.
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  Speaker 2: The other way around. That's correct.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you there.
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  Speaker 3: I probably have more, but that's... I'll stop.
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  Speaker 4: Just to keep the list short.
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  Speaker 2: One song you could listen to forever.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: Um....
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  Speaker 3: Something by probably like Chris Stapleton.
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  Speaker 2: That is a great shout. Have you seen him in concert?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, actually in Greenville.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 4: I've also seen him in concert.
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  Speaker 3: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Magical.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. He's a great performer. Yeah. For sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I've heard.
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  Speaker 2: Bucket list item.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh. Um, skydiving, um, skiing in like, like the Swiss
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  Speaker 3: Alps or something. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like a big,
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  Speaker 3: like adrenaline rush kind of guy. Like I like doing like,
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  Speaker 3: I guess dangerous things that are also like super fun. Um,
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  Speaker 3: so like that kind of stuff, like really gets me excited.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know, it's, that's like my favorite thing
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  Speaker 3: to do. And like my off time is like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: go cliff jumping or go like jet skiing or something
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  Speaker 3: like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: Love it.
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  Speaker 3: Swiss Alps.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: What celebrity would you want to have dinner with?
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  Speaker 3: Um, Tim Tebow, probably.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I always looked up to him. He was always like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, one of those guys that like I read
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  Speaker 3: all his books when I was younger and, um, he's just,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, a cool guy and obviously very faithful
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  Speaker 3: and cool guy. I would be able to just sit
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  Speaker 3: and talk to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I talked for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Good, good advice.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Death row meal.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I got asked this last night.
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  Speaker 4: Perfect.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Uh, I'll go, um, so like there's these two, probably
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: a couple of places besides my, my mom's meals. There
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: are obviously like tens, but there's like three places that
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: I would. Yeah, I love you, mom. That I would
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: rate like 10 out of 10 food. One was totally
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: eating ragu in Italy. The other one was this cinnamon
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: French toast in Cabo. Wow. And the third one was
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: this Japanese A5 wagyu that I had up it. Hall,
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: shout out Tommy Hall in Greenville. So one of those.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: And then for dessert, I'd go probably brownie sundae with
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: mint ice cream.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: With mint ice cream?
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Mint and Oreo ice cream.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: My next question was favorite ice cream flavor.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: Is that?
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: Mint Oreo.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Mint Oreo. Yep. Best probably two things in the world. Yep.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Wait. 100%.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I've never had mint Oreo ice cream.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Never in your life?
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: I've had mint, like, with chocolate chips in it, which
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: I love.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Mint Oreo. Oh, or Green Monster.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: Well, what is that?
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: It's like mint Oreo with fudge, basically.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Green Monster is giving more chocolate.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: The more chocolate, the better, too. It's like, yeah, it's
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: like a hood, which is like ice cream. Like, they
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: make ice cream and different things. Hood flavor, I guess.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I need to lock in on mint Oreo.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Yes. Okay.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: On top of a brownie, I'm gone.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah all right best movie.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Of all time.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Um i can't give a best i'll give a top
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: five okay i'll go i'm a big movie guy um
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: are you yeah do you re-watch well or no me
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: and my roommates like you know me and k did
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: it and then now me and will do it um
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: we always watch movies together and stuff like it's just
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: i don't know some like one of our pastimes um
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: So I'll go Interstellar. I'll go Godfather 1 and 2.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I'll go The Dark Knight. I'll go.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Good Will Hunting is really good.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: That's my favorite movie.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Great movie.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: That's a really good movie. Great movie.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: And then, I don't know if that was 5, but
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I'll name another one. The Departed.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: It's really good.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Of that list, I've only seen Good Will Hunting, so
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: I do agree. It sounds like I need to watch them.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: So my best friend, Hannah, on the gymnastics team, we
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: have a thing where we have a list in her
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: notes app of different movies that we have to watch, and.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: None of them have been watched.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: It's been growing and growing for the past maybe couple months,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: and we have not watched a single one. Interstellar was
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: on there.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Some of them are just re-watches.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: We want to re-watch... Yeah. High school musical too.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I have that same list on my phone. Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like you start having movie nights like
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: they do.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: There we go.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Accountability.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Um, one more question. Three things you can't live without.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Ooh.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Um, I'll go my faith cause that's my number one priority. Um,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I'll go my family. Um, those are, you know, my parents,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: my four brothers and then, My extended family, I'll put
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: in there, too, because we have a big extended family.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: And then three, I'd go just other relationships, friends, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, friends and I guess probably those.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Relationships are important.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Family is important.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: And faith is important.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: All great things.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Well, let's jump into some questions, and I want to
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: ask you about your family because you brought it up,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: and I know you have a large family, right? So
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: we were talking a little bit before this. We went
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: to Boston for the power trip, and when we went
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: to the Nordstrom there, there was a woman who was
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: asking us about you. She was like, do you guys
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: know Ronan? She heard Clemson, and she immediately... And I mean,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: we were... Boston's a big city, and this woman... knew
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: you like and i'm sure that has a lot to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: do with your family and just being so large in
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: their involvement in the area what is that like for
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you um.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah it's like you know like i said like one
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: of my my my priorities up there is um all
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: the family i have and just being able to like
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: you know get raised around all my brothers and my
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: parents doing a great job raising all us boys um
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you know we take care of my mind people say
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: like oh you're a poor mother but you know, we,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: we take care of her and, uh, that's good. Yeah.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: She has six bodyguards.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Sounds like she raised you, right?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, but yeah, it's fun. Um, you know, all the,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: there are always like holes in the walls around the
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: house from fighting or hockey pucks or something. And that
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: along with, you know, my whole extended family, I have
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of cousins. My dad's one of 11. So
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I have I think like 65 first cousins. And then
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: we just hit like 75 or so second cousins. It's
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like family parties are great and awesome. And that's like
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: my favorite thing in the world is going home and
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: hanging out with all of them. And, you know, like
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: my little, I like to call my nieces and nephews,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: but they're really not. They're my cousins' children. But, you know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: just going out and hanging out, playing with them. And,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: you know, they love. One of them loves trucks and stuff,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: so I love playing trucks with him. I was a
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: huge truck kid when I was a little kid, so
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I would go to the nearest construction site and just
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: watch all the big trucks.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: That's genius.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Kids will love that.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: It's like when you give them a box and they'll
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: play with it for like, an hour. Like, you just
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: have to find that one thing that gets them going.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: And then it's like, just let them go.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Just have it as a truck.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: That was me when I was a kid, for sure.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hands on. Definitely.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So, four brothers. What's the age difference between you all?
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: So, my older brother is, we're, like, Irish twins, kind of. We're, like,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: a little over a year apart. Okay. And then my
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: younger brother is two years younger than me. And then
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the fourth is two years younger than him. And the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: fifth is two years or three years younger.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Than the fourth.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: So all still relatively close in age.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah. Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that helped your relationship with them.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great growing up with them. My older
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: brother Shane, he was at Boston College and played QB there. So,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: you know, going back home and playing them last year
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: was really fun. just being able to play on a
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: different team than him was a little different. Cause you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: we grew up playing all the same teams when we
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: were kids and through high school and all that. Um,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: so that was really cool. And then, uh, my younger brother,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Charlie's at West Virginia now he's a wide receiver. Um,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: so he, we are really close. And then obviously like my,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: my two younger brothers, Dan and Eli, um, Daniel's probably
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the funniest. Um, just always, he's probably like, I think
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: we have most like similar personalities. Um, And Eli is
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: just like the fan favorite of everyone.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Just the youngest. It's like the typical.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, the youngest always.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the best.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I'm a proud youngest child too.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: There you go. Okay, you talked about your brother Shane
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: in the game, Boston College last year. Can you talk
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: a little bit more about that? There was, I think, what,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: over 200 people from your team?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: 300, I think.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, 300.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: They came in on buses to the game, right? I
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: saw photos of that when that happened, and I loved
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: every second of it.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: What was that like? Who planned all that? How did
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that happen? what was that like?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Um, I mean, honestly, I don't know how it got planned.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: My parents kind of like, I think handled it and
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: we're planning it for a while. Um, my whole mom's
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: side of the family, my mom's side is from, um,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: my grandparents are from Pennsylvania and then my aunt is
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: from Connecticut and my uncle is from Colorado. Um, so,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: you know, having all them there and then, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: my grandparents, sisters and Her siblings were all there, so
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: it was, like, crazy to have them in Boston just because, like,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: they don't really come there. They're from Pennsylvania, and it's
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: not often that they're in Boston a lot. Like, my
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: grandparents come all the time, but just being able to
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: see them there was funny. It was cool. It was different,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: you know, because my Uncle Bob, he's like a mountain man,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: you know, and just having him there was awesome. Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: He was joking around. He was like, he calls us
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: yuppies because we're like from the city, even though we're
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: really not. That was funny. And then, yeah, my other
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: cousins and families and aunts and uncles and all that,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: having all them there. My parents like set up buses
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: from we had a big, you know, they had a
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: big party before. And my uncle, they're all at my
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: aunt and uncle's spot. house and then bus from there
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: and there was like you know however many buses that
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: came in with all those people and they're all on
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: we have like our tiger walk wherever we go and
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: they're all there for that so that was a pretty
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: cool experience and just after the game seeing a lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: of them there and stuff and all the kids and
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: all that was it was pretty cool and then just
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: being able to obviously play against my brother was awesome
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: in that sense Were you like trash talking to each.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Other the week before?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Was your family like picking sides at all?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: No, they actually had a split hat. My mom made
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: a split jersey with BC. My brother's 15, so it
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: was like kind of easy with like the one and
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the five. And split jersey, split team. And yeah, it
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: was really cool. And just being able to like, you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: kneel down and say a prayer with my brother before
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the game was, that was like a really cool experience. Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: That's so special. And I'm sure it just felt like
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: it meant more in some way.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's lovely.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So with such a big family and you've mentioned kind
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: of having a lot of get togethers, family parties or
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: whatever it might be, do you have a favorite memory
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: from your childhood of one of these family get togethers?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Um, I feel like there's just a lot of them,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: you know, it's like, We were playing all these, like, games, like,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: we'll play, like, spout in the pool. I don't know if, like,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: everyone calls it spout or what. But, like, where you
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: basically just put a golf tee in the pool, put
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: it at the bottom, it rises up, and people drive
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: in and, you know, bash heads trying to get it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Me either.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Very fun. We'll play, you know, like, Manhunt is a
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: fan favorite for all of us. Obviously, like, wiffle ball
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: games with all the cousins. Funny story about that, you
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: had to have, like, armpit hair to play, basically. So...
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: That's how, like, you know, so, like, it was more so, like,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: the older kids were, like, you know, stop us from
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: playing because we weren't old enough yet because we didn't
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: have armpit hair. And one of my cousins, JP, put
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: doll's hair and taped it on.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: So we'd be able to play. So that was funny.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Such a cousin thing.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: That and street hockey and just all the games you
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: play when you're younger and all the family parties or, like, even, like,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: You know, we got boxing gloves one year, and my
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: cousin Kyle punched my tooth out.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: And we, like, he started crying, and I was just like,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: it's fine. My tooth's right here. So we walked upstairs,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: and it was, yeah, a whole thing, because we always have, like,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you know, wrestling matches that we're not supposed to have
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: in the basement. And we make, you know, the two
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: youngest cousins fight or something like that.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Right, right.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's a good time.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Just casual.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Your poor parents are probably, yeah, it's like.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: here they come someone doesn't have a tooth you just
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: gotta let them figure it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Out themselves ripped dress shirts or something yeah yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: It's fun so a lot of competition it sounds like
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: who would you say is the most competitive.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Um I like to say me okay um but I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: mean all of us because I mean we would start
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: fights over you know the smallest little things um especially
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: like me and my brothers like you know, sometimes you
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: get like donuts after church on Sundays and we would
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: be in fistfights over, which is like a dumb thing,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: but it's just like, I guess shows our competitive nature and, um,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: just every little thing we do and just being raised
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: in that household. And, um, you know, a lot of
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: masculinity is easy to, you know, get in fights, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: at the all end of the day, it's, you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: we love each other and we're just, compete and trying to,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: trying to hold our spot, I guess. Yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Be the best. Yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Well, you speak, you speak really highly of your family,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: which I love. Is there like a value or a
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: tradition that has, that was instilled in you as you
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: were raised that you have carried with you into college,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: into young adulthood?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Like what would you say that is?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Um, I mean, there's a bunch of like, like little
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: sayings that, you know, my dad has, And, you know,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I guess a lot of them he got from his dad,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: my papa. And he was just, you know, an inspiration
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and a role model for everybody. My Nana and Papa
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: were like saints, you know. So one of them was,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: you know, the harder you work on this side of 25,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the easier it would be on the other side. So
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: that's like one thing that's very prevalent. And I guess
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: what I do now is, you know, obviously in college, school-wise,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: but also football-wise is– You know, I could set myself
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: up for my future by what I do right now.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: And that's like obviously a really prevalent one that I
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: have in my life right now. Yeah, yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: It's so relatable and so transferable to anything in life too,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: which it's really awesome that you have that perspective now. Definitely.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Speaking of perspective, you're a senior, right? Is there anything
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: about yourself that you've noticed changed since your freshman year
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to your senior year now?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Um, I guess my communication, I mean, I was never
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: like the biggest talker and I'm still kind of not, um,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I kind of just always kind of just sit back
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: and quiet and more so like observing everything. But, um,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I guess just being able to like communicate and, um, yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I don't really know. Uh, just communicate with others and
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: not so much just be quiet. But like, I guess,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: you know, if there's, I mean, if there was something
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: to say, I always said it, but it's more so
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: now like having those little conversations, building relationships with people
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that I didn't do as much before that I'm kind of,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I guess, better at now, I'd like to think.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: That's a great thing to get better at. I think
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: so too.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I feel like there's a lot of opportunities for growth
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: throughout college, whether it be through communication, whether it be through,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: leadership whatever it might be and so communication is a
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: great one that's something we talk about a lot is
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: like over communicate there's never never too much communication yeah
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: and like.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: You said like now being um in that leadership role
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: like you know these past couple years it's been um
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: obviously you know super important that i'm able to communicate
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: to you know like the younger kids and um other
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: people in my position group and on the defense and
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: that kind of thing so I mean, it's obviously very
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: important what I do and being able to communicate on
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: the field, whether it's just the smallest little things, is
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: very important in a leadership role.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: What do you feel like, who do you feel like
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: has been your greatest leadership influence?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Um, definitely my dad. Um, he's been, you know, like,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I guess my rock and my, my mom too, but
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: my dad is, um, you know, everything I do, I
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: kind of just like look to him to get his, um,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: you know, just like, okay. Um, and yeah, Yeah, I
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: don't know. Just being able to have him as a
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: role model and obviously a great father and a great
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: husband and, you know, I guess what I try to
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: strive to be one day. And just trying to have
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: him be, I guess, a role model in that sense. Yeah.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: What does he do?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: What does your dad do?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: He's a police and SWAT officer near Boston in my town. Yeah. Wow.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. And has that been his whole career?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, before I was born, he was in med device sales,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I think. And then like the year, I think it
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: was a year or two before I was born, he
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: switched over to be a police officer and then eventually
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: got into SWAT and SWAT team leader and all that stuff.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: So that's a pretty important role, I guess, these days.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: What was it like growing up?
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: That can be scary, you know, when you have a
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: parent or a family member or someone who has a
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: job like that where they're serving others and serving the
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: community in that way. What was that like?
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Um, it was crazy. I mean, he doesn't like come
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: home and talk about like stories all the time, but like,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes like we, he tells us stuff and
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: just to, you know, be aware of like, you know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: what's going on around us. And, um, I guess just,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: you know, so we're thankful of how we were raised and, um,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I guess just the life we have and all that stuff.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: So it's, it's definitely interesting and, um, pretty cool, but, um,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: also like very dangerous and all that stuff too. So.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: So do you have a routine that you follow every
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: day that keeps you aligned with your values?
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Let's hear it. What do you do?
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Eyes open.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: What do you do?
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Morning routine, I guess.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: The whole thing.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: What you got?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Um, so every, every morning I wake up, I have
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: the same, like, it takes like probably 27 minutes.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Same morning routine.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Have you timed it out or you just know from
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: like at a clock?
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I know just cause like, you know, if I'm
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: waking up in the morning and I have to be,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I have like a six AM workout. I know like
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: what time we need to get up. And then I
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: try to be there like, you know, 45 minutes, 30
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: minutes early just so I'm not like rushing and I'm
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: able to like stretch. So I have like the same
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: morning process and I had it for probably like six
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: years at this point.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Okay. wherever I'm at like hotel or, you know, obviously
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: at home here in Clemson or at my actual house,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: I think I'm doing the same thing every morning. So it's,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I wake up, um, and I kind of just like
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: sit up and like stretch a little bit, I guess.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: And then, um, I get in the shower, shave, and then,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: you know, I get out and brush my teeth and
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I read my, I have like to use two devotionals
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: that I read, um, just to like, you know, I
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: guess be thankful and get my mind in the right
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: space every morning. Um, and then get dressed, brush my
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: teeth and make my bed. And yeah, it's pretty much,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: pretty much it. And it takes like this right about
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: the same amount of time every single time. Yeah. And
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: I have it down to the science, I guess at
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: this point. So it's just like, I don't know. It's just,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I think good to be able to start your day
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: off on like the same note and yeah, just having
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: like a process every morning, I guess. And that kind
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: of like sets the tone for the day. Yep. And yeah, Um,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: there's like this one, uh, I think it was like
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: a graduation speech or something that Admiral McRaven, I think
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: it is. Um, and he just talked about like the
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: importance of making your bed. Yep.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking about that.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: So real. And, um, I've always been just like a
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: type A person, I guess. And just having, I liked
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: having things like very in line and orderly and like
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: to have my day planned out and, and that kind
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: of thing. So just being able to have like that.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: that security every morning of just doing the same thing
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: over and over again. And then, you know, I think
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: every weekday during the season looks the same every weekday
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: during the off season looks the same. So. It's just
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I like to have that process.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: And there's something so grounding about it for me, too,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: as well. It's like when you start your day the
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: same way, you always have that comfort of knowing, like,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: today's going to be a great day because I'm feeling good.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I made my bed. That's a little success to start
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the day right with the wind.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: And you have your devotional that you do. I'm sure
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: that sets you up for just feeling good throughout the day.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Mind clear, everything.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: So that's great. Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: We are going to talk about your faith here in
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: a second, but you mentioned being type a in kind
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: of needing a routine or a structure. How, when things
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: don't fall into that structure or you have to adapt
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: and maybe the day doesn't look exactly like you thought,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: how do you navigate that?
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Um, like, I would like to say it doesn't really
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: affect me all the time. Like, I mean, sometimes it's, like,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: just annoying, like, something that I wouldn't think, like, pops
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: up and kind of, like, messes, like, the schedule up for, like,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: other things. But, like, you know, that's just life. It's
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Like, things are going to pop up. So,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: you know, you kind of just learn to adapt to
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: different things. And, yeah, you have a plan, but, like,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: you know, you just got to be able to, you know,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: just adapt to whatever comes during the day and kind
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: of just, you know, change.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: A flexible plan.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: There you go. I like that, too.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's real and okay.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I think the older I get to, I realize we
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: have to adapt and we have to be flexible and
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: we do, but it's okay also to be frustrated for
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: a second, but like feel it, do it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: All right, now I've got to keep going, you know? So,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: but it is hard.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Like if you're used to a structure and you need that,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: humans need routine. And that is such a huge part
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: of how people, how you build, how you grow and
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: create strength and like set yourself up. So when you're
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: used to that and something truly shakes it, it can
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: be jarring.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Like, okay. Well, and it's definitely tough too when you
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: have so many obligations and so many things to do
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: as a student athlete, as a friend, as you know,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you have your schedule all planned out of, I have
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to be here at this time. And then one thing
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: slightly messes up. You're like, oh crap, I don't really
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: have so much time to adjust or to add that
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to my schedule or to shift here. And so it
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: becomes a little bit more difficult for sure.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Especially like during the season. Obviously like we have,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: like a lot more going on. So, um, you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: like today for instance, is more like, I guess I
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: don't have class today, but you know, I'm, I'm filling
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: that time with getting more treatment, watching more film, um,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: you know, just getting recovery and that kind of thing
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: and just getting my body right for the practice today.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: And then obviously this weekend. So just everything like, I
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: guess has like a slot and you know, I have my,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: treatment in one spot and i have my recovery and
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: then obviously school work um on top of that and
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: then you know film for practice film for the game
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: that kind of thing is huge so just trying to
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: just be able to have that all in a very
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: organized schedule and then you know once it deviates from
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: that you kind of just got to be able to
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: you know adjust and adapt and you know just create
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: a different plan from there i.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Guess yeah now if you were to open up your
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: teamworks or schedule And see that you had the day
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: completely open.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: This is maybe in another lifetime right now.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: In another lifetime.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Or post-college.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: What would you do with that time?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Tell us about the day. Feel the day.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Obviously, same morning routine.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Period.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: There you go. Keep it going. I would have to, like,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: one of the first things I feel like I have to,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I have to, like, earn my day. So I have to, like,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: work out or do something, like, productive in, like, the
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: beginning of the day so I can, like, I guess
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: have the rest of it.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I've never heard that.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: And then I guess if this was, like, not in
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: football where I don't have to, like, go recover or
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: do anything. Yeah, nothing. Because, like, any free day now,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm just, like, doing, like, I should just,
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: you know, get my body right or watch more film
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: or something like that. Yeah. But if I don't have
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: any of that, then I don't know what I'd do.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: It's been a while.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: This is exciting. You could do anything.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I know. I don't know. I guess I like being outside,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: just go do something. fun like I.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Guess did your adventure like yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Or find someone that has a jet ski or a
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: boat or something just go be on a boat go
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: wake surfing or something I don't know.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Who's there who are you with in this day uh if.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: It's like at home obviously like my family my cousins
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: if it's down here then um my roommates will and
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: uh will help and you know Gideon are fun to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: be around and uh Jeremiah and you know obviously if
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: it was last year then like you know Cade and
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Adam were were my guys too and I don't know. Yeah.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: It's been a while since I've had a free day
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: to just not do anything.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: It's almost crazy to think about.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: There's a whole world out there. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Do you have hobbies or certain other things that you
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: like to do with your time?
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like to like me and my brother kind
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: of in the past couple of years have been trying
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: to like learn instruments. Oh, wow. Um, I'm not great
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: at it in any sense, but, like, I don't really
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: know how to play. I just kind of memorize songs.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Which instruments?
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Uh, so it started off with, like, piano, because we had, like,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: this little, I guess, keyboard in our house. Um, so
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: just memorizing different songs on there. I wish I could
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: actually know how to play, but, like, I don't really
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: have the time to learn how to play. So I
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: just memorize songs, and then I have, like, a ukulele,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: and eventually kind of move to guitar, I guess. And,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just, I feel, like, cool to
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: just be able to, like, you know, go somewhere and
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: hop on a piano or something.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: It's the coolest thing ever.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: When people do that, when I'm hanging out with people
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: and they just on the piano or guitar and start singing,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is the coolest thing ever.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: It's incredibly impressive.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I'm picturing you at some restaurant up in Boston, kind
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: of swanky. The piano's in the corner and you just
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: get up and you start playing.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: That's, I guess, the plan one day, right?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: In all your free time.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in all my free time that I have. That's
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: so funny.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I see it. I do see it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: But it's definitely like a fading talent. Like you got
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: to like kind of use it.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't imagine.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: It's so true.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Use it or lose it kind of thing.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a language, speaking a language. You
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: have to keep doing it in order for it to
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: stay fresh.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's really neat.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to keep checking in because one day
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you're going to play a song.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pick one. You're going to pick.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: I will.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I'll actually learn how to one day too. Yeah. Not
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: just be able to like memorize songs.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: You're helping. You're, you're. That interrupts?
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: What songs have you memorized thus far?
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of, like, I guess.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Like a hot cross buns on the ukulele?
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: No, it's more so, like, just songs. Like, I feel
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: like a lot of songs have, like, four chords. It's, like, C, G,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: A minor, something like that. I don't even really know.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: But it's, like, these four chords that are, like, kind
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: of easy to, like, interchange. And then off of those,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: you could just, like, do them in a different pattern,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: a different way. Hmm. And then, you know, just throw
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: some other ones in there to make a song. And like,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: it's like majority of songs I realized are not that
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: like different from each other, like chord wise.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Um, at least not ukulele because there's only like four strings,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: but like a piano. Uh, I feel like I do
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: a lot of like, like movie score, like soundtrack kind
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: of things.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I don't even know. Um, we found like a one
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: that sounds cool and like, all right, I'm going to
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: learn that today. Yeah. And like, if I'm like at
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: home and it's like during the off season, um, my
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: little brother daniel learned fear release and it's like you
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: know cruise on and obviously like i've i'll memorize one
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: and i'm like really good at it i get good
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: at it like the interstellar one for example like i
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: learned that and then i could play it and then
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: i go back home and i'm like all right how
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: do i start it again and i totally forget so
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: it's like you know i guess once i have time
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: to actually have one and sit down and use it
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: a lot yeah.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah This is just another opportunity for you to compete
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: with your brothers. That's what it sounds like, yeah. Who
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: is going to be the best musician? Right. Yeah, definitely
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: not me right now. He's like, so far.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I know mine. I know what's true.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I was like sitting on crutches right there. Yeah.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: They're injured.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Hope they're well.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh. Yeah.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, you've talked a lot about your faith. We've
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit. But just tell us
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: More about that and what role that plays in your
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: day-to-day life and how you carry yourself and who you are.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: It's obviously very important. My number one priority and just
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: having people surrounding me that obviously from growing up in
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: my family, I think my Catholicism and my faith is
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: just very important and just raised in that environment and
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: all the family and just going to church on every
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Sunday and weekdays during that to go to Mass is
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: obviously very important and just whenever you can, trying to
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: make time because obviously God gives us everything we have.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: So I think an hour a week isn't enough. And
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: just being able to try to say a car prayer
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: to help you go in there safely. And like a
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: meal prayer and different things like that. Thank God for
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: your day. And just even little things like when I
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: wake up and I'm just kind of stretching a little bit,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I'll just try to be thankful for my day. And
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, I don't know.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. How does your faith change
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: the way that you approach success or failure?
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: I think it's all a gift. I mean, anything that
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: I get is obviously a testament to what God gave me.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: And I just try to glorify him with like my
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: talents that he gave me. And obviously, you know, just
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: for the people that got me here, too. It's like
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't do this by myself. Like my parents had to,
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: you know. get me into school and like that kind
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: of thing and bring me to these different like football
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: camps and all this other stuff that that it's just
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: like it's not my doing alone it's obviously like other
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: people that help you get there and obviously like through
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: a faith-based perspective it's very important to realize that what
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: you have isn't like just because you know you just
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: worked hard or whatever else it's like you know God
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: gave you these gifts and you just have to maximize
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: them for for his glory and like that's I guess
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: my gift and I have to, you know, use it
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: to my best of my ability. And yeah, it's like,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: you know, we're put on these platforms and stages to
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: try to glorify him in everything we do. And I
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: guess I try to do that daily and just be,
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I guess, a light in everything I'm doing, I guess, yeah.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: You are a light. You're definitely a light.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: I really liked the word maximize that you used. Like
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: if you maximize your joy or you maximize... your gifts
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: that you're using and utilizing them to their fullest potential.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: I think that's lovely.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: It's a great perspective to have.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: When you think about your faith in terms of you've
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: been in college now for a few years, you're coming
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: further along in life and had more life experiences. Is
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: there anything about your relationship with your faith that you
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: understand differently now than maybe you did growing up?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit. It's just like, you know, just
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: being able to keep it priority. I feel like a
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: lot of, you know, some people like fall away from
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: it when they get into college. I feel like there's
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: two ways you can go. You can either get close
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: with it by like, you know, the people you're surrounded with.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: So I've always, I was blessed to have, um, roommates
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: and stuff with the same, same faith base, like priorities, um, and,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: and Cade and Will and, um, Gideon and all of
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: my other roommates before. And just being able to have
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: that is, has pushed me to be, I guess, a
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: better man and, um, Yeah, I guess it's just really
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: important to surround yourself with the right people and to
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: have the same mindset in that sense that what you're
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: given is not all your own doing. It's a gift.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about that, honestly, with all of
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: our guests so far this season. This idea of who
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: you surround yourself with, how much it matters. And you
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: become like those people. What values do you share and
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: how do you show up for and with one another?
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: It's so important. It's so important to think about and consider. Yeah, definitely.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: And I think too, even in college, when you're in
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: a new place and you have the opportunity to find
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: new friends, um, it can be hard and scary at first.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: It's easier when you're on a team for sure. Cause
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: you almost are planted in a spot where you automatically,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have to be friends with everybody there,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: but you know, when you're next to them every day,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: you learn a lot about them and you are able
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: to surround yourself with, with good people. But, um, What
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: are some of your favorite things to do with your buddies?
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: Um, I just kind of like my, we have similar hobbies. Uh,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: you know, we like go out on the boat, you know,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: during the summertime. Um, you know, I'm not like, I
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: don't really go out much. So like I said, we'll
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: sit and we'll, you know, watch movies and stuff and, uh,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: go get dinner, you know, just random places. Cause I
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: like to think I'm, like, you know, a little food critic.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I kind of think you are. I like to think
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that too, actually.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: No, I like, you know, just rating food. Me and
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: my cousin, we have this group chat, and we'll just, like,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: rate different things we try. And, yeah, I don't know.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I just, I like just being able to eat good
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: food and we'll watch movies together and go on the boat,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: go jet skiing. I like to, like, I don't know
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: if there's anything. Probably are good mountains and stuff like hike.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: I haven't been, but I'm always super sore. So maybe
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: if I get a day where I'm not super sore,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: then we'll go to, you know, hike or do something.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: And we'll drive down to Charleston, you know, walk around
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: because that's a really cool spot.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Love Charleston.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Just do different things like that. Yeah.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Let's get on the topic of food.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: We're gone.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Wait, real quick. Yeah.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: What'd you got?
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Me and my roommate, Will, we took the paddle boards
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: out and I don't know if it's still there. But
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: we built this huge, like, you know, like the rocks
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: on the other side of like the wide beach or
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: whatever it's called.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: We took the paddle boards out and we just built like,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: it's probably like 11 or 12 feet tall. And we
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: built this huge rock sculpture thing. It's like a rock tower.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: Whose idea was this?
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We kind of just went over there
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: and saw the ones and we were like, we kind
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: of just looked at each other like, yeah, we got
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: to make the best one.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: How did you get it that tall?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Well, Will is like 6'8, so that kind of helps.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: So I guess three more feet or whatever he can reach.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Wait, I got to find this.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: So if you drive across the bridge, it might still
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: be there. It might not.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Check it out, everyone.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I hope it's still there. Just had to throw it
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: out there.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: I'll give a shout out to my rock job.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Literally.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: Should have named it. I would have named it.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: And she might.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: I might.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: If I see it, I might.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I have to see it before I can feel out
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: the vibes, you know?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: So Ronin's free date, they're going out paddling and they're
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: building a rock tower.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: And they're building a rock tower. I like that.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: That's great.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: That is hilarious.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Food. I think that every, every episode so far, we've
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: talked about food in some context. We do.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: I'm a huge foodie. I have a grill. I've talked
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: about that. do you cook I do you do what's
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: your favorite thing to make.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: I don't really get super fancy I kind of just
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: like I'd make a lot of chicken rice I like
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's crazy to say that I've had
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: that 500 times a year and I'm being totally serious
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: like I have chicken rice every day and usually twice
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: a day yeah and either a chipotle for him or
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: whether I make it at the house or I eat
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: that facility Yeah. Um, so I just, you know, I'll
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: throw some, some stuff on my chicken and then I'll,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: we have a Blackstone grill and I'll use that and
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: I'll make some rice and then I throw some, uh,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: what's that sauce called? Um, from Texas. I got it
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: in Austin. I don't know if Kate showed me it,
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: but really good sauce. I just put on the top
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: of it and it's just like a great meal that
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: I like to have. And it's, um, I make a
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: lot of pasta. Um, vodka sauce meat sauce whatever and
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: then i'll just throw some chicken on with that for
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: protein that's i guess my two main dishes i make.
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: Did you do you have any recipes you mentioned earlier
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: that when your mom cooks it's 10 out of 10
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: every time were there any recipes you ever kept or
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: cooked with her that.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: You keep doing or you let her do that and
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: you just go.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Um i feel like i'd mess it up so i'll
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: let her do her thing yeah uh you know i'll
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: try to like Once in a while, we make banana
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: bread because we have a ton of bananas. And then
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: if we just don't use them, at the end of
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: the week, we'll make banana bread. Yeah. So that's a
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: thing that we like doing.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I'm at the point in my life.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: I just buy bananas so they will go bad so
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: I can bake them.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: You know what I've.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Seen is people are doing like a little butter in
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: the pan.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Slice of banana bread. You toast it a little bit
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: on both sides.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Peanut butter. Okay. Oh, not a peanut butter guy?
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I do like peanut butter, but it doesn't belong
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: in banana bread, I don't think.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be good, but banana bread is great
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: by itself.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Do you do pumpkin bread? It's pumpkin season.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. My mom makes pumpkin cookies that she brought for me. Oh, yum.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: So I have a big thing of pumpkin cookies that
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: are probably my top two favorite cookies ever.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: What's number one?
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Either that or my aunt's chocolate chip cookies. Yeah. Those
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: are top two. And then Oreos are number three.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Because those are amazing.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: They just never miss.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Oreos.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: With peanut butter. Parent Trap. Have you seen this? Remember,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: she pulls it out of that little chest.
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: You're still now on that?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Just for me, try it one time.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Oreos and milk. Oreos and milk. I haven't had Oreos
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: in a while just because it's kind of horrible for you.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Terrible, but there it is.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you need to treat yourself. A little sweet treat.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Put them in mint ice cream.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: Once in a while, I'll have a little treat and
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: it'll be good.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's hilarious.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, you said Chipotle. What's your Chipotle order?
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: I go brown rice. I go double chicken. I go...
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Protein mix.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I was going to say the same thing.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: I always ask for extra rice, too.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: And then queso, two scoops of corn, lettuce, and then.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Any hot sauce?
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: No.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: You a sauce guy?
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Nah, I kind of keep things plain. I guess queso
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: is the closest I'll get.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, queso and sauce.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Because you need something to glue it together.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Like, I'll drink the hot sauce. Like, I don't know.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: That's weird.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: You can't do that, Ashley.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: That's weird.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: And you know what? That's okay.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the honesty.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: This is a safe space for me.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, Ronan, shifting a little bit from food here, what
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: is something in your life right now that you're really
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: excited about that maybe people.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Don't know or they're not tuned into?
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: That people don't know? Yeah.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Or they wouldn't know or assume just by maybe.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: I have no idea. Okay. I guess I'm not the
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: most interesting person. I don't know. I don't know. I
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: beg to differ.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: I beg to differ from this entire.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Episode so far.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'd choose, though.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe that is just your sign that you need to
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: find something.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: I do. I need to find something.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Work on that piano. Those pianos.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Okay, that's fair. I respect it.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: And you know what?
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: If it's like you look forward to your morning routine
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: every day.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: I do, actually. That's great.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: It's the little things. That is what gets you out
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: of bed in the morning.
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: It does.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: The little things are really the big things.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Yep. True.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: If you break it down.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: I totally agree with you. Anything in life, it's all
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: the small stuff. The big things are great. They're awesome
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: and exciting. But when I reflect back on stuff, I'm like, oh,
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: it was all the things that got me there were.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: The small moments before.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: Coming home to a clean room at night is, or, like,
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: everything is all right. We're supposed to be in a spot.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: That's where, like, my roommates used to pull pranks on me.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: This is kind of getting away from the question. So, like,
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: I came home one day. I was in Notre Dame,
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: and I flew home. And it was, like, 2 in
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: the morning, and my flight got delayed and everything. It
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: was kind of, like, perfect storm yeah and i got
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: home it was like 2 a.m and um you know
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: i i obviously have to put all my stuff away
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: and make everything like nice and organized before i go
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: to bed so at that point it's like 2 30
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: and i call the bed i'm like all right i'm
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: a little hot so i realized my fan wasn't on
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: i'd get up to turn on the fan um kate
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: and my other roommate josh put m & ms on
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: top of the fan Oh, my gosh. And there were
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: the mini ones, not, like, the big ones. Oh. And
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: when I put it on, they flew everywhere. Everywhere.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: What did you think was happening?
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: I was kind of confused.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can't even imagine.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: For a second, I thought I was getting, like, you know,
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: shot by, like, a BB gun. Right. Or a self-gun
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: for a second. And then I look up, and there's
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: just M & Ms all over the place. So I
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: turn on my light, and then, you know, they always, like, just, like,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: I have, like, picture frames and, like, different things that
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: they just, like, shift a tiny bit. And, like, it just.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Burks you.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I have to like, that point is three
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: in the morning when I get all that fixed and
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: all that is cleaned up. Eminem's cleaned up. So, and yeah,
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: and then they pulled another prank on me, which is, um,
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: this one Cade told me at his wedding that he
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: was in his, like his reception or not his reception,
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: his whatever, like pre-wedding. Yeah.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Rehearsal dinner.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: And so when he was here, he was moving my
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: car around all the time. Like, I'd park one spot,
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: I'd wake up, it would be at a different spot. Oh?
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: And I was really confused at first.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: So he stole your keys in order to?
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I was really confused. And then I was like,
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: all right, dude, I know it's you. Stop doing that. It's, like,
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: kind of really annoying. Because I would get up and, like,
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: it just, you know, it would get, like, further away.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: And I'd have to walk, like, I'd have to, like,
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: you know, where I live we have, like, a circle.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: And then so it wouldn't be in a circle. I'd
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: have to look down the road. Half the time it
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: would be down the road. Half the time it would be, like.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: the next circle. So I'd have to like kind of
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: search for it.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: And so that was really annoying. And I kept going
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: on and on. I was like, all right, stop it.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: So he had, I didn't know this at the time,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: but he had his, um, his now wife, uh, Macy,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: she texted me. I didn't have her number, I guess
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: that point. And she texted me saying that this is
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: the collective. And, uh, I guess I just told us
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: wherever we live, but This is the collective and you can't,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: you can't park there or whatever spot I was in.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, what do I do? I
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: have a parking pass. Right. And I'm just parking all
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: these different spots. I'm parking a guest spot, parking like
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: the normal resident spots. And so I was like, it
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: gets moved every single time. I'm super confused. I was like,
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: all right, maybe it's not him. Maybe it's like, cause
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: they like tow at night and stuff. So they always,
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: you know, tow you different spots. And I was like,
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: all right, I don't know what I'm doing, but I
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: just kept parking like And I would wake up, and
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I'd be in a different spot. Oh, my gosh. Eventually, like,
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: it just stopped happening, and it kind of makes sense
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: that that's when Cade moved out.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: And he didn't tell you until his wedding?
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I kind of figured it, but, like, I didn't
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: know 100% because I was getting, like, text messages from
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: the collective. Right, who you thought was. So then on
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: his rehearsal dinner day, he told me that, like, in
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: front of everybody, that, They are waiting till now to
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: tell me this prank. And so this was like.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: A long, long planned.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: So playing the long game.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: And I guess I texted Macy one day because it
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: was like her birthday. And I asked Kate for her
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: number and he sent me the collective number. You know,
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: so I was like, why did you send me the
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: collective number? And he like, he forgot about it. And like,
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: he was like, realized that he slipped up. And it
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, my fault, wrong number. Whatever. And then,
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: so I, for some reason, didn't put that together. Right.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: And then he told me on his, the day before
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: his wedding that they had been doing this prank on me.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: So that was a little.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: Did you get some closure?
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay. I was really confused and kind of mad. Right, right.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Wait, except the car's not there?
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: These are just some mind games they're playing here.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Anyways, what was the question?
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: I actually don't know how we got here. I don't remember.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Follow-up question. Have you ever pranked them back? Have you
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: gotten them back for this?
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll do little things. I'll totally flip their bed
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: upside down or something like that.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Just little.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: But we'll have to plan something and make.
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: It very serious. there you go he's ready that's your
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: cue he's been plotting don't tell anyone oh that's funny.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: So you have a lot of personality um i'm very
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: curious to hear what this answer is what's something you
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: believe that people could argue with you about all day
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: and you're still not changing your mind um.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Uh, I would probably be like something like food wise.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: Like me and my cousins, we'd have like cereal drafts.
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: Drafts.
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  Speaker 3: We'd draft cereals.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: I love doing these things.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: So we would do like, like this full, like we'd
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: said the pledge of allegiance and we had like a
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: bunch of us and we had like a draft order
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: and all this different stuff. And yeah, so I guess
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: I could argue about like, I guess like cereals. Cause I, we've,
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: eat cereal like religiously.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah it's a food group on its own.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: My parents would get like we would get like 10
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: gallons of milk every week and a bunch of cereal
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: like for for all us boys in the house and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: that's incredible we'd have a lot of cereal like morning
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: and night yeah.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: It's a good thing a night time cereal is underrated
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: it's different it never misses actually doesn't matter what kind
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: actually yeah 10 p.m.? Yup. So, yeah, I guess maybe that.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: So, like, what hill are you dying on? What is
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: the best cereal.
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  Speaker 4: Of all time?
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes. I really like Wheaties. Those are
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: really good. And then, like, I guess Honey Nut Cheerios. Classic.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Underrated, honestly. We don't talk enough about them.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: Frosted Flakes would probably be, like, the Desert Island one, though.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: You just can't go wrong, yeah.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: It's true. Go Tigers.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: Go Tigers, yeah.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: Blood.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Frosted Flakes are good.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: They're really good.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Someone recently made, not Rice Krispies because it wasn't
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: that cereal, but they made essentially Rice Krispies, but with
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Oh, wow. Are you not a Cinnamon
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: Toast Crunch guy?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: See, one of my cousins is the biggest Cinnamon Toast
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: Crunch lover. And I mean, they're good, but I just
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: can't get behind it. It's like, it's not top 10
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: for me.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Not even top 10.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: Not even top 10. At all.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: No, I could probably name 10 cereals right now. They're
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: better than, which I'm not going to do, but yeah, it's,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: it's just, I don't think it's as, as good as
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: hyped up to be. Okay. Yeah.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Um, if you, you don't give me the vibe that
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: you like.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: Spend a lot of money, but if you were going
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: to splurge on something and you're like, this is what
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: I'm putting my money on.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: What are you buying?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: Car.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: Really nice car.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Do you know, do you have a specific one in mind?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: Um, I really like, like, the Bronco Raptors or, like,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm a really big car guy, so, like,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: some sort of sports car. Okay. But I like looking
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: for cars that are outside my price range. Yeah. Like,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: multi-million dollar cars.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: It's like scoring through Zillow and creating houses.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really spend money, so we're not going
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: That right now.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: But a car. That's good. That's so responsible of you.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: I can appreciate that.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: All right. When you think about this chapter of your life,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: we've talked a lot about like your upbringing, what things
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: are important to you, who you are, and what.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: You do day to day.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: When you think about this chapter of your life, if
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: you had to name it something, what would you call it?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Chapter 22. Chapter 22.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that was classic.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: That was good. I don't know.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: Okay, there you go.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, keep it simple. Yeah. I guess I'm a
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: very simple guy and, you know.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. This is what it is.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: It makes sense. You're not going to have to guess
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: what chapter it's in. You know it's in chapter 22. Yeah.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Okay.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: So at the end of this chapter, when you turn 23,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: that sounded a little morbid when I said it that way.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: Probably change to 23.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Just your next birthday.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Just your next birthday.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: What do you hope to look back on and feel
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: like you accomplished? Or, like, what do you feel like.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: You want to find meaningful for you?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: I guess look back and just say that, like, I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: didn't leave anything. In football terms, I didn't leave anything
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: on the field. Whatever I do, I just gave everything
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: my all. I like to think I'd be a good leader,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: a good role model for people. That guy was like
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: T-bone for me last year. He was a great leader
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: and was you know helped me learn the defense and
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: he's one of the kids that when I came over
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: from wide receiver helped me learn the defense and just
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: put me in a spot to be successful and you
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: know I hope I could be that for for one
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: of the new guys because you know that like helped
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: me out a lot and I really look up to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: him in that sense and you know not not only
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: him but other guys like You know, RJ and Wade
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: and my coach right now, Nolan, all those guys were
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: super helpful in my, you know, going from wide receiver
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: to safety. And I just hope I can, I guess,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: be that for somebody else.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: To kind of bring it a little full circle, right?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: It's that idea of giving, giving back in a way,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: like having your gifts, utilizing them to their fullest potential,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: as we talked about earlier, and then giving them back.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: Leadership is service to service to others. How do you,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: you know, have enough humility to recognize this is where
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: I can grow. These are my teammates. How do I
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: serve them and lean on them for strength, too? So
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: I really love that.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Awesome.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: So Ronan, to wrap this up in one sentence, who
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: would you say you are beyond the paw? Can be
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: more than a sentence if you really want it to be.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: I think I'd say I'm a faith-based individual. My Catholic
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: faith is very important to me. I like to, I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: don't know. My family is very important, and my friends
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: and my relationships are probably number two in just all
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: my relationships, whether it's teammates, obviously family, friends, anything like that.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: And then, you know, I play football. Yeah.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: I think those things are all so evident in who
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: you are and how you show up and even just
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: the relationship I've had with.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: You and in knowing you.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: And so I think those things are all true. And
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: I think you live them out authentically every single day.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming on.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: It was so fun chatting.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: This was a lot of fun.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: Thanks for talking.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: I hope you had as much fun as I did.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: We're always having a good time on here. We appreciate you.
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  Speaker 4: Join the party.
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  Speaker 1: It's good stuff.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: Thank you.