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Faith, Family & Football with Nicki Meyer Dennis | Born To The Game Podcast · Born To The Game Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Mariah and I'm Tamara, and welcome to Born
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  Speaker 1: to the Game podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have a fun episode for you. It's about
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  Speaker 2: to be good, right, Yeah, we have the daughter of
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  Speaker 2: a Legends Urban Legends Urban Legends football champion have three
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  Speaker 2: times right, three times three? University of Florida, Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: Urban Meyer's daughter, Nicki Meyer is here. She's joining us virtually.
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  Speaker 2: She could not make it in person, but she's here
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  Speaker 2: virtually and we're gonna get this conversation going.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get it going. Hi, Nikki, Nikki, Hello.
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  Speaker 2: We're so happy and excited to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for sitting down with us today. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: ask you some fun questions, get to know you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit better. But I do want to start off
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  Speaker 2: by saying, Nikki and I are teammates. Yes, at Georgia Tech.
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  Speaker 2: So we met each other. How long it's been?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: How many years has we played? Almost what?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell on yourselves now it's almost fifteen fifty Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been told.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know how old are you. I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: thirty four?
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  Speaker 2: Like you graduated a year ago and it's been a decade.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Nicky and I played volleyball together at Georgia Tech.
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  Speaker 2: We we'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we'll get into that. So firstly, howse Hou's Las Vegas? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How's it going? How are you feeling today?
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  Speaker 3: I love Las Vegas. My soul is home, Like I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I've been meant to live here my whole life.
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  Speaker 3: I love it here. We we just moved here. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's been over a month now and everyone is thriving.
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  Speaker 3: We are so happy. We love it.
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  Speaker 2: You moved there from Tulsa, right, Oklahoma, because Corey got
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  Speaker 2: a coaching job with U N l V. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into now. You're you are a coach's wife, following
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  Speaker 2: the footsteps of Miss Mama Shelley. We're gonna get into
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  Speaker 2: into that later, but we wanted to start off by
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  Speaker 2: asking you if you could describe being born to the
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  Speaker 2: game in three words? What would those three words be?
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  Speaker 1: This episode?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Mom and Dad raised me better than this.
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  Speaker 3: Buts are what the? What the?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So why?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just that every scenario in this business,
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  Speaker 3: there's so many twists and turns, highs, lows.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so what the We're gonna bleep it out,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry. Yes, there's so many highs and lows. So
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  Speaker 2: walk us through your dad and his coaching journey. Did
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  Speaker 2: you guys move together? How was that experience?
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  Speaker 1: Like moving?
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  Speaker 2: How many cities did.
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  Speaker 1: You move to? Like, kind of walk us through your upbringing,
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  Speaker 1: walk us through the why why? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why? Why?
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  Speaker 3: I guess yes. So I was born in Colorado, and
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  Speaker 3: earlier in his career we were in like five year stretches.
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  Speaker 3: So five years in Colorado, five years at Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: he was an assistant and assistant, and then he got
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  Speaker 3: his first head coaching job, and we were little like
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  Speaker 3: back in those days. I don't even think my brother
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  Speaker 3: was born yet. He was born in Indiana actually, so
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  Speaker 3: we all just moved as a fan. Little kids, it's easy,
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  Speaker 3: puck them up. Move. He got his first head coaching
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  Speaker 3: job at Bowling Green. I was ten years old. Still
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  Speaker 3: like was okay with moving, was fine. We all went together.
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  Speaker 3: And then it got a little more complicated when he
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  Speaker 3: took the job at Utah two short years later. My
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  Speaker 3: parents Actually I threw a little bit of a fit
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  Speaker 3: for that one. For the first time, really was stubborn
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  Speaker 3: about the move. My parents let me stay in Bowling Green,
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  Speaker 3: Ohio for like six more weeks or something to finish
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  Speaker 3: out school. I stayed with my best friend and her family,
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  Speaker 3: and then I moved to Utah when school was over.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the first time we were not all together. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we were at Utah for two years, and then he
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  Speaker 3: took the Florida job, and I think we moved pretty
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  Speaker 3: quickly then two But the mean, you know, it's never immediate.
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  Speaker 3: There are always like a few weeks maybe a mon
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  Speaker 3: where you know, he would go on without us. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but my parents were so good when they when we
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  Speaker 3: were moving, like they didn't give a ton of air,
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  Speaker 3: a ton of space for it to be this huge
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  Speaker 3: like thing. Like they they were like, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go see different parts of the country. You
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  Speaker 3: guys are awesome kids. You're gonna make new friends. You're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have friends all over when this is all said
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  Speaker 3: and done, and and so there just wasn't like a
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  Speaker 3: ton of space for us to complain or have anxiety
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  Speaker 3: about it. It was just the way it was life
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  Speaker 3: as we do.
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  Speaker 2: They hyped it up to be this like exciting journey
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  Speaker 2: that you guys were almost preparing them probably for what
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  Speaker 2: they knew was to come.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, Yeah it was great. I enjoyed
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  Speaker 3: it as a kid, and I think it built just
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  Speaker 3: a lot of you know, good characteristics. And me and
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  Speaker 3: my siblings, like, we're pretty adaptable, We're pretty comfortable with
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  Speaker 3: people we don't know. I think that just helped grow
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  Speaker 3: us and who we are today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So when was the last time that you moved?
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  Speaker 2: How was it when you were leaving friends? Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like it made you come closer together as a
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  Speaker 2: family unit each time you moved. How was that experience?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely did. My siblings to this day are
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  Speaker 3: my best friends. We talk almost every day. Our family
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  Speaker 3: unit is extremely tight knit, and I think moving had
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  Speaker 3: a lot to do with that. You're thrown to a
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  Speaker 3: new atmosphere, you don't know anybody but each other, and
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  Speaker 3: like just navigating that together really bonded us. We built
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  Speaker 3: a lot of trust with each other. We've been through
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  Speaker 3: a lot together. I think coaching is such an extreme
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  Speaker 3: way of life, it is so I think that in
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  Speaker 3: itself just really has bonded our family for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So your dad has coached five different teams, four college
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  Speaker 1: teams and one NFL teams. So every time you moved
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  Speaker 1: together and it was a new adventure, what were some
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  Speaker 1: of the challenges, Like, yes, you had to move, but
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  Speaker 1: what are some things in the dynamic from the family
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  Speaker 1: that that caused challenges from all the moving and the separation.
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  Speaker 3: His career path was very interesting. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 3: probably pretty unique in the sense like it was pretty
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  Speaker 3: it was a it was a pretty steady climb uphill.
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't a lot of this during that initial climb,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think what was interesting about that is
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  Speaker 3: we started just you know, as an assistants family, which
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  Speaker 3: is great. Like that you don't have the full spotlight
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  Speaker 3: on you, and so coming into the spotlight it was gradual,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, because we started at Bowling Green, which
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  Speaker 3: is an amazing place. We loved living there. But then
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  Speaker 3: it's obviously not the same stage as like Florida. Its yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we moved. That spotlight just got really, really, really big,
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  Speaker 3: and I think adjusting to that was probably I remember
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  Speaker 3: seeing him on commercials on drinking like orange juice, promoting
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  Speaker 3: orange juice, So why would they have you no offense
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  Speaker 3: orange juice? Wow?
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  Speaker 2: So well, you do you think in that moment you realized, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: dad is a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: I remember being at a press conference. I can't remember
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  Speaker 3: if it was Utah or Florida, but I just remember
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  Speaker 3: people like catering to my mom, like just surrounding her,
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  Speaker 3: being like what do you need? What do you need?
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  Speaker 3: Like can I do anything? Can I take your coat?
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  Speaker 1: And I just was like, that's weird.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought that was very extreme.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was.
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  Speaker 3: My first taste of that. And then seeing my dad
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  Speaker 3: on TV and like watching people interact with him, like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that started to change. And so and I was probably
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  Speaker 3: fifteen fourteen, like so I was, I was young, and
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  Speaker 3: so that was just all very weird.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your dad is gaining fame. Did that change your
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  Speaker 2: relationship with him? How was he as a father during
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  Speaker 2: this process? And as he's getting more and more famous
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  Speaker 2: and everyone's catering to him, Like, how was that dyna
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  Speaker 2: between you guys?
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  Speaker 3: I feel that I was my parents like intended for this.
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  Speaker 3: But I became more and more aware each time we
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  Speaker 3: were about to move. I was overhearing certain conversations and
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  Speaker 3: I started to understand what his dream was to go
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  Speaker 3: win a national championship, which to me was so big
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  Speaker 3: that was such a big dream. I think he knew
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  Speaker 3: in his heart his whole life that he could do that.
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  Speaker 3: I think like he wanted that, but I never even
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  Speaker 3: thought of that, And so I became just his biggest
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  Speaker 3: cheerleader along the way, like realizing like when you look
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  Speaker 3: at your parent and you're like, I want them to
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  Speaker 3: go achieve their dreams. Like that's just such a unique
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  Speaker 3: dynamic as a kid because usually that's them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: But when you when you think that about your parents,
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  Speaker 3: I just I just we all just kind of rallied
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  Speaker 3: behind him. I think that was really what changed the most.
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  Speaker 3: But my parents, again, like their style is I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not like promoting this necessarily because it worked very well.
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  Speaker 3: Don't give a bunch of space for negativity. So of course,
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  Speaker 3: like with fame comes a lot of challenges. There comes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the spotlight's bigger, and like the criticism is louder.
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  Speaker 3: And my parents just said, like, hey, your dad is
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  Speaker 3: he's got a really good opportunity in front of him.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna win some games, we're gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: do some really fun things. But people might be mean
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  Speaker 3: to you after we lose, or people you know, might
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  Speaker 3: fay some things about your dad that aren't true, and
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  Speaker 3: that's just that's just part of it. And that was it.
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  Speaker 3: That was like the only conversation we had about it.
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  Speaker 2: So when she said that, and it came right because
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  Speaker 2: the negativity does come, was that something that was easy
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  Speaker 2: for you to just like maneuver and you just were
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  Speaker 2: able to like use those words and go with it.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't allow any of the negativity to bother you,
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  Speaker 2: or did it bother you at some point?
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  Speaker 3: It so bothered me, okay, for in the early stages,
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  Speaker 3: I know, and so many people have asked me this
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  Speaker 3: over the years. I think with each trial or with
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  Speaker 3: each thing that we went through, and they kind of
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  Speaker 3: come in waves, like you kind of like go and
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  Speaker 3: just ride a wave with everybody else, but then he
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  Speaker 3: ends up in the spotlight. Yeah, and it just gets
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  Speaker 3: piled on. I think every time that happened, I built
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  Speaker 3: just another layer of skin, and so I have like
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  Speaker 3: a hundred layers again by now to where I could
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  Speaker 3: read anything and I don't care. I don't care. But
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  Speaker 3: that came with just a lot of refuge.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of experience. Look, Nikki, you could have rubbed
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  Speaker 2: off on me the last couple of years I was
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the Indiana fan base because you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, I could.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into that because I mean you could.
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  Speaker 1: You could write a book, to be honest, just on
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  Speaker 1: how because I would imagine that you use the skill
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  Speaker 1: that they're teaching you, this thick skin that they're they're
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  Speaker 1: they're allowing you to grow into that you use it
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  Speaker 1: in life as as a woman, as a mother, as
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  Speaker 1: a wife. Now, so talk about that. How has being
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  Speaker 1: brought up in this nucleus, in this ecosystem of fame
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  Speaker 1: and sports and you know, fans and just craziness. How
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  Speaker 1: does that help in your everyday life as a person
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  Speaker 1: that you're not your dad, you are a totally different person.
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  Speaker 1: How does that impact you? And how does it help you?
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  Speaker 3: I think it just gives me a lot of perspective.
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  Speaker 3: I think perspective is something that like I have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Like I fall short in like a million ways,
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  Speaker 3: like so many ways, but one thing that I think I.
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  Speaker 1: Have a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I just have a lot of perspective. And it allows
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  Speaker 3: me to just take a step back, like consider the source,
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  Speaker 3: Like who you're saying it, why, Like what does it mean,
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  Speaker 3: in this little exercise that I used to do is
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  Speaker 3: I was building my armor of my thick skin. I
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  Speaker 3: would look at the person's profile and if you just
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  Speaker 3: scroll through, all I do is tough to people all
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  Speaker 3: the time. It's just like when they troll it.
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  Speaker 2: And most of the time it's fake accounts.
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  Speaker 1: It's and honestly, they really just want you to respond.
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  Speaker 1: So Nikki, tell us how the Urban Meyer is as
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  Speaker 1: a dad? I know this is he's your best friend,
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  Speaker 1: So just tell the audience just how he is just
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  Speaker 1: as a fond You know, he's a great coach, so
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  Speaker 1: that's been proven, So how is he as a dad?
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  Speaker 3: He I seriously, it's funny because I've been I've had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of really young coaches lately that are starting
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  Speaker 3: families and growing up in this industry. I feel again
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  Speaker 3: perspective I am lucky to have because people worry as parents,
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  Speaker 3: They're like, is this okay for our kids? Like we've
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  Speaker 3: moved twice and in two years, and like you know,
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  Speaker 3: their dad's always busy. And I just feel so moved
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  Speaker 3: to tell people like you can be such great parents
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  Speaker 3: and be great in this industry. And my was just
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  Speaker 3: he should write a parenting book. I swear as the
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  Speaker 3: coach because he's he was the best like he I
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  Speaker 3: that man. I am loyal person ever to him. He
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  Speaker 3: was such a ke. He is such a good father. He
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  Speaker 3: and the way he did it. His time was so minimal,
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  Speaker 3: but he was so overly intentional with every minute that
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  Speaker 3: he had with us. He still is and I just
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  Speaker 3: think it was so not about quantity, but like the
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  Speaker 3: quality was unmatched. Our time with him was so good
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  Speaker 3: as kids, and he put a lot of work into that.
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  Speaker 3: And we would have like mailboxes or I specifically, I
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  Speaker 3: think I was the only one old enough to like
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  Speaker 3: read at that point. I would have like a little
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  Speaker 3: mailbox outside of my door, and he would write me
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  Speaker 3: letters every night because I was usually asleep when he
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  Speaker 3: got home. Or I would write one back about like
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  Speaker 3: what I was, how I was doing. I still have them.
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  Speaker 3: I have them like stored away. He was so intentional,
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  Speaker 3: he was excellent. He was so good.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, now that you are in the same industry your
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  Speaker 2: husband's coaching, I know that's something that Corey, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you've told your husband about and some of those traditions
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  Speaker 2: he may even want to pass along to y'all's children.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. What life lessons has your dad taught you?
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  Speaker 2: You also played sports. What's the best advice your dad
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  Speaker 2: gave you?
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  Speaker 3: Just he his whole message test was if you work
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  Speaker 3: as hard as you can, everything else is fine, Like,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what happens, as long as you were working
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  Speaker 3: as hard as you could, there's nothing that you could
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  Speaker 3: have done wrong. So if you play, if you're off, like,
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  Speaker 3: as long as your effort was good, like, then you
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  Speaker 3: can go to bed at night feeling like you did
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  Speaker 3: all you could. And I feel like that can translate
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  Speaker 3: into life too. And that was it. He was all
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  Speaker 3: about effort and just work ethic and I think that
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  Speaker 3: that was just something I'm really glad that he instilled
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  Speaker 3: in all of us young and we weren't allowed to
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  Speaker 3: do anything like as kids. He was like, you can't
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  Speaker 3: do anything until you're great at one thing. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if you're great at working, you know,
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  Speaker 3: going to work, but like you're not just gonna sit home.
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  Speaker 3: You're there, gonna be great at a sport, You're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be great at a job. You're gonna go do something
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  Speaker 3: right now. And they were and you know, as parents.
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  Speaker 3: It's so hard to just reinforce rules all the time
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  Speaker 3: because it just takes a lot of time, and like
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it's just easier to be like I forget that
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  Speaker 3: I even said that because it's just taking too long,
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  Speaker 3: Like my parents kept their foot down. Wow, And as
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  Speaker 3: a parent, I'm like, wow, that was a lot of effort.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so you you brought it up, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask I got two words for you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Shelly Meyer go.
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  Speaker 3: Icon. She she's maybe tougher than my dad. And they
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  Speaker 3: are just such a like they're such they were the
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  Speaker 3: perfect force for that industry. She was the perfect level
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  Speaker 3: of toughness for us, training us to be tough and
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  Speaker 3: like learn how to just deal with the criticism. But
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  Speaker 3: she was also like such a nurturing like just breathing
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  Speaker 3: in like just calmness to him and to us as well.
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  Speaker 3: He I like will never forget, like even until he
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  Speaker 3: was I don't know out Ohio state. For sure, I
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  Speaker 3: saw it with my own eyes. She would walk him
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  Speaker 3: to the car every single morning with a bagel like
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  Speaker 3: wrapped up in foil so it would still be warm
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  Speaker 3: when he got to work. Social coffee Like she just
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  Speaker 3: would walk him out there every day to the car,
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  Speaker 3: see him off, and then just deal with the home front.
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  Speaker 3: So he didn't even have to think about it. Like
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  Speaker 3: she I fall short every day because I'm like, how
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  Speaker 3: I can never live up to that? Like, but if
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  Speaker 3: I'm like fifty percent, then I'm doing really good.
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  Speaker 2: So when we spoke to you the other day, you
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: referred to Michelle as the silent assassin.
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  Speaker 1: M hm, yes, why is she the sis that?
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  Speaker 2: Why why did she choose those words from Michelley?
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  Speaker 3: I feel that like my dad would he would say
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  Speaker 3: this too, like he just couldn't have done it without her,
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  Speaker 3: Like she was just she was the one like in
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  Speaker 3: the background dealing with all everything that comes with this,
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  Speaker 3: all the stress, all the drama, and she just is
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: a rock. Like she was such a rock when we
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: were growing up, and but she was is she like
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: pushed him and like he was always the one like
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: in the light, like you know, getting all the credit
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: for how great, But like she just was in the back,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: like handling her business, ready to protect, ready to defend,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: and ready to nurture, and she she just somehow handled
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: it like such a beast every day.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: So now that you are a coach's wife. What's one
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: thing that you've seen her do that you're currently doing
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: as a wife in this industry.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I think she embraced the industry for what it is.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I think there's so many wives like myself in particular,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: like just try to fight it sometimes, like you put
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: up resistance when your husband's like, all right, I have
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to go on the road for four weeks recruiting, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: it's all like you're on your own and sometimes you're moved.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I'm in Las Vegas and I don't have a village here,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like so I'm like, who is you to help me?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Like I will fight and I'll resist the industry. I
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: never saw her do that. She just was like, no,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: it is what it is, and your dad's gonna be
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: gone for six weeks and it's just that, so what
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: do you guys do you guys want breakfast for dinner?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Like it was just like.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Like you never really saw her stressing about anything.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Wow, No, even when things were bad, she was like,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you just have it great all the time, Like, of
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: course we're gonna do this is lose. Of course people
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: are gonna say mean things like it's not fair unless
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: you deal with this part too.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It sounds like she has a really she had an
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: understanding of the weight of the assignment. And even though
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it looks like a job, but it's really a purpose
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: thing because now you know, she has raised these children
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: in this crazy life with all this extra stuff that
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the everyday person doesn't even begin to understand. And now
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: she has kids who know how to navigate life. I mean,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and I think that's just the biggest thing, because so
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: many people they don't have those skills, they don't have
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: coping skills, they don't know how when change happens, they
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: don't know how to how to maneuver. So I think
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: what she was doing was just was just raising up
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a whole nother generation of people.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Strong foundation that you now use for your church.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you talked about because your children have moved
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: quite a few times already in a few years, and
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you say that your children are also very resilient, they
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: adapt well. So you know, Michelle, she laid out the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: foundation for you and now you just are able to
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: grow off of that. And so that's she's she is iconic,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: she's a silent assassin, she's the real MVP and all
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: of this, and that's what a lot of people and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: understand it really is it's the wives that are holding
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: it down at home so that our dads can have
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the careers that they've had for as long.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to write a playbook. She needs to
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: write a playbook. Herd A bunch of these other wives
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: yell you, she needs to write a playbook.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I wish she would. Yeah, yeah, I mean she really.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I really think the one thing that I took from
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: my parents is to not give too much space for
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: just then.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I want my.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Kids to feel hurt. I want them to feel their
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: feelings are valid, like of course, but also like okay,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: like get it out there, but what are we gonna do?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Like how are we going to do?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Kid it and like make this good and embrace what
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: it is and like grow from it. She just we
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: didn't like sit around and let a bunch of it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: DI weren't allowed to do that, and so I just
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: have tried to carry that too. I think it's helped,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: definitely helped.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Now that I think back, I don't think I've ever
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: really seen you upset Nikki ever, so like so hearing
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: this it makes sense because we played together for what
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: three years two three years at Georgia Tech. You've always
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: been extremely positive and extremely nurturing. So your husband's coaching
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: young players, how have you been able to, I guess,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: pour back into some of your husband's players the same
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: way that you've seen your mom do it with you
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: guys and hurt your dad's players.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think sports has changed so much so fast.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: There's so much money and there's so much weight, and
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: there's social media and it's just getting so big that
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: now more than ever, I just, first of all, I
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: want their moms, our players' moms to know me and
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: to know that, like they can call me at any
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: hour and ask me to put together an Easter basket
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: for their little stuff like that. Like I just be
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: like a small version of like them that's close to
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: their sons while they're away from home. And I just
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: feel I feel like kids are there are so much
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: weight on their shoulders, and I just I just feel
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: moved to just help. Like look what people have said
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: about my dad, Like look what people have said about
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: my family, and like it doesn't matter. I feel like
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I can relate to them, drawing up Christ to them,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: but also just being and they're around men all the time,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: they're around their teammates and they're around our husbands and
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the other coaches. I'm like, it just feels good to
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: have a female walk in the room, you know and
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: tell me like if my husband being mean to you,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: can vidce like whatever. And so I just want them
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: to trust me, and I want the moms to trust
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: me utilize me. And that's just like that's what I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: feel like I try to do.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And I can tell you're so passionate about it. It's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: so beautiful to see your passion behind people's kids, because
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I think people don't look at these athletes as kids.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: There are no people look at them as like, you know, adults,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and it's like, I mean, they are adults, but they're
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: young adults and they're in school like they're there to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: learn and to play and to and to you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: learn and to grow to be young men, to be
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: men out here, and so they I don't think they
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: think about that. They don't.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: The players were so blessed too, because they are so
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: good to my kids, Like it's like the very least
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I could do is to be there for them in
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: any way. But the way they treat our kids, like
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: those dynamics are so special like it just it just
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: like it's the gift that like we all give each other.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I think like it's just like a family unit that
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: just somehow like tries to be there for everybody and
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: and it's just special. Like I it's funny, like a
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: tough rap. I don't want to say bad rap, but
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: it's tough. But I'm married into this industry like knowing
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: full well like what comes with it, and I just
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: think it's so great. I think it's so great as
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: a family. I think it's great for kids. The players
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: really do make it like such a good experience. We've
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: got like every NFL jersey now that they all play
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: for and wear them and root for them. It's just
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: and you watch them go through their own turns too,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: like if you're not in a storm like someone you
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: know is, And I just.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Would you say that your passion in life right now
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: is to pour back into the game the way that
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: it's poured into you.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: If I could like get organized, like I so like
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: would I just am like I'm just all over the place,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: but like yes, and I try and like small ways
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: to like show up and like be there and do
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: the things that make a little difference. But this industry
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: is like it's like the deep blue speed. There's like
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: nothing I don't think, like formally in place that's there
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: to you know, support. I think people try to do
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: their best, but it's like a wild West too, Like
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: thinks are changing so fast and I think they're so new.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: But yeah, if I could ever like get my life
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: organized in a sense that I could do something like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: there's just such a space for it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: There's such a need. Yeah, you need to do a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Ted look Ted talk talk.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You really need to do.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Because you because your story again, because you talk about
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you want the moms and the players to trust you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: There's no better person to to talk to these guys
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and to share their testimony than you and your family
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and how you guys have always rows above anything that
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: came to destroy you and you and you carry yourself
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: with such grace and dignity and you've always been like that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I think a Ted talk would be a Ted talk.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I think what's interesting too, is like my my perspective again,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: perspective is like the word of the day. I feel like,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: wouldn't be fair for me to sit here and be like, oh,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: coaching is so great, if like all that ever happened
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to us was like national championships and like winning. It's
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: fair because the things that like our family has had
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: to go through has been like probably some of the
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: it's been like bad, like relative to like other coaches,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: like I would rank us like up there in the
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: drama column. And so I feel like we've seen both sides.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Gives it like a just a very fair evaluation of
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: like the full picture really and being in our own storm.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: So when people reach out, it was like such like
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: the timing wasn't on accident. Like I truly believe that
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: people are prompted to like check in on someone, or
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: they're prompted to say something or just to be like, hey,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm praying for you, I'm thinking of you, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: and there are so many times in my life that
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I've been prompted or I felt that I need to
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: reach out and I just don't because you're like, oh,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I don't want to, Like I just don't want to,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: you know. But what I've learned is every single time
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: someone has sent me something, it has mattered, and it
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: has been sometimes like a really critical moment where it
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: was just what I needed to hear and whether I
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: respond or not, like it might have been the difference
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: for its strength, like another day to like get through
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: whatever it was that we were going through.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So didn't you guys use to call each other tits?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, this is because I want to get
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to this to Georgia Tech a little bit, we did.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: We called each other tis.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But why why?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Corey, I was like, I don't remember.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I think it's because we used to like chest bump
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: each other, maybe like before practice and games and like,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: you know, the chest tits used to you know, okay,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: and then just has it just to be like, oh
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: hey tits, smack the booty and keep going. Very natural.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys do it. They slap each other's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: It's a very very.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Natural thing for us to do. So let's talk about
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: what you're doing now, Like Nikki Meyer, Dennis, what are
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: you doing now with your life?
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I feel like now I'm like managing logistics of
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: moving three times in like a year. I'm like utility
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: companies all over the country. I have accounts and I'm
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: probably still paying for all of them. I don't know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: but no, I think raising my three amazing kids. Troy's
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: eight Gray is six, Sad is three, savannahs sad and
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: so that's obviously my priority. And then I've worked. I've
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: been with the company for eleven years or like family
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: to me. It's based out of Columbus, Ohio, So I'm working.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: They were gracious enough to let me keep working, even
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: remotely with all the moves. But yeah, I feel we
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: stay busy. We've got sports all over the base and
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Corey's that we're trying to support Corey. And yeah, so
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: it's just constant, go go.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Go busy.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: She does it all. You work in corporate, you're a mom,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you're a wife, you travel all the time, you and
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: you still do it with such grace and you can
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: we can all learn.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Some budding public speaker. I'm saying it. I'm calling it today.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I don't know. Can you drink champagne?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You can? You can, but you can if you put
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it in a water bottle. You know what I mean.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: That doesn't that's not You can put whatever you.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Wanted that a liquor company sponsor you boom.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Then it has to be out there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: It has to be out there. Get a wine company
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to sponsor, which I'm sure plenty would so.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: We want to play some games. Let's before we let
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: her go.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like we've we've covered it. You know, we
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: wanted to move through this quickly. Well, I guess, Nikki,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Like what are your eyes set on in the future,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Like where is it staying in Vegas? And you know
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Corey can stay at UNLV for the rest of y'all's days,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Like where do you see yourself?
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: God is so mysterious, like the most mysterious ever, and
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: like that has been I've always, by the way, like
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: believed there's a plan, Like I've always believed that my
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: whole life. I was raised to believe that. I've never
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: experienced it, I don't think until this last year and
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a half. And so like what I hope what my
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: eyes are set on is just the scenario where our
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: family is thriving, Like where we're happy, where we're around
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: good people, where Corey is in a position that he's
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: valued and that he's happy, that he loves his players
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and his staff, Like I don't even care other than that,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Like there's no place, there's no person like and I
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: will just let God take that and like do his thing,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: because he did that here we prayed for gosh, like
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: a year where like we just want to end up
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: in the place. And I was thinking, like in my mind,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: like I had places. I'm like, well, this would be great,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: or this scenario would be great. All of a sudden,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: you and I'll be popped up. And we looked at
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: each other and we were like, that's it. And if
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: you gave me a patent paper and said write it out,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: where do you want to be twenty twenty five, I
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have come up with it this good of a plan.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Like it's just love. I'm my hands are up and
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I am just trusting that like wherever we are be
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: are going to be or just fitted to that it's
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: on purpose. So that's that's kind of where my mind
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: is at.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: And as long as you're with your family, yeah, I
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: guess nothing else really matters. Like your family's healthy, you're happy,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: you're thriving, you guys are together. Family. I know family
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: means a lot to you. So I know, just have
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: your family together. At the end of the day, you
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: can make home anywhere. And that's one thing you do
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: learn being born into this industry is that home isn't
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: necessarily a place. It's the people it's your family, it's
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the memories that you make together. It's not necessarily a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: specific location, because even for myself, what's home for me?
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Like I've bounced around as well. I went from Houston, Atlanta,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: New York, LA. I'm in New Orleans now, So it
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: really is about my family being together no matter where
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: we are. So I love that you set that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Cause I would imagine creating family that's not family, that's
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: not blood family, but created those families as you every
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: every location, You're at.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Such a good point too, Like you meet people along
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: the way, and Mariah, like I remember meeting you in
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: college and like, without knowing anything about you, I knew
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: like we were going to understand each other more than
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: like most people. You find good people in this industry,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: and it's rare that you stick together. Like people just
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: end up on their own path. Yeah, but you just
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: you always root for them, like you like you just
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: always you remember them, you pray them, you root for them,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: you want the best for them, You stay in touch.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: It's just special in that way, you know, and the
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: bond is real and distance is real. But I just
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: really cherish the relationships that we've been able to make
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: in this industry for sure.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Well, Nikki, we are going to transition into some games
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: because we know we don't have a lot more time
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: with you. Yeah, you play start bench cut before, right?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Or no?
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: What is it? Okay?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: So it's called start bench cut. So I'm gonna give
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: you three different scenarios and then you tell me which
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: you can start, which one, which one do you want
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: to bench, and which one you want to what.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: About to spend?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: No, let's just start, okay, Okay, all right? So seeing
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Zach star.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Like start like like like start like in a game,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a starter player like.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: A start You're gonna start it in a game. You're
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: gonna either bench it or you're gonna completely.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Cut it, get cut from the team.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be cut from the team. So you're I'm
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: gonna give you three different scenarios. Seeing Zach Bryant in
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Vegas at a show, Okay, that's one scenario. You're gonna
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: be eating sushi in Japan that's another scenario, or skiing
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: in Europe. So which one are you gonna start?
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Which one you get in? Which one.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I'll bench Zach in Vegas? I'll bench it. I would
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: love it. But those other I'm like a huge bucket.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: I'm like not a super like star person, like I
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: like love people and like I'm very starstruck all the time.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: The experiences like I just those are gonna take the
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: cake every time. So like I'm gonna start, I'm gonna
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: ski in Europe. I'm like going a ski vibe. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: just did two ski trips like the bench Zach, and
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: then what was.
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  Speaker 1: The other one?
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  Speaker 2: Sushi in Japan?
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm cutting, Zach, Okay, cut, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So so who are you starting now? You're still starting skiing?
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna start seeing. I'm gonna bench Tokyo because
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna get there, Okay.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry zak Zach, if you're listening, we still love you,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: but sorry, I do love you, yes, love you? Sorry? Okay,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: do we have any how much time do we have left?
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  Speaker 1: Five minutes?
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  Speaker 2: Five minutes? So let's you know what, let's talk about.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Let's listen to our outro. Out Okay, let's stare for
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: some time to the outro. That's so your dad, the
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: urban Meyer has left his mark in his industry football,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: How will you legendize your world? And I think because
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: we didn't we didn't get to talk about it early.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: But talk about if this is part of your answer,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: even the journals that you gave your players and the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Bible versus, because I just think like you, the way
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  Speaker 2: that you pour into people, at least to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like answering the question for you. That's part of
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: how I see you legend legendizing the world.
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  Speaker 3: I think, gosh, yeah, that is such a It's like
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: a family tradition. First, my dad always gave each of
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: us a journal. I mean, I like, literally have it
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  Speaker 3: right here, like I have. I don't even know. I
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: probably like twenty of these I totally filled out. But
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Corey and I got some for we get some for
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: our players, and we put we put in a Bible verse.
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  Speaker 3: Usually it's like Joshua one nine or like something like that,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: just like the strong, courageous, brave like those ones. And
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: then we also put in the quote man in the arena.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: I actually think I might have it right here. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: actually have a big screamed picture of it. Yeah, I'll
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: send it to you. Yeah, but it says I'll read
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: just a couple of lines that are my favorite. It's
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: not the critic who counts, not the man who points
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  Speaker 3: out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: of deeds could have done them better. Let's see, I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: trying to There's one line in here that's just like
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: so good.
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  Speaker 1: I love that you could read it if you want.
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  Speaker 3: He who at work, he fails at least fails while
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: daring greatly. That's so good, like because I feel like
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: people who are the loudest, like they've never attempted, never,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: they've never put in work their life into anything, so
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: they just don't just like I do. Whereas like these
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: people like they're whether coaches or players, they put in
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: their entire lives into something and then they fail. Anyway,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: sometimes that's the hard part address but at least they tried.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that the man in the arena, a Bible
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: verse in journals are like like something that we just
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: really try to do. Especially quarterbacks are such a small group,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: like you can do like so many things with them
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: because you don't have like twenty But yeah, that is
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: that's something that I will try to make a tradition
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  Speaker 3: every single year.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, And honestly, I'm going to take that
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: quote and put it in my notes as well, because
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: again that's something that I know personally I need it
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: to hear, even on my own journey. So I love that.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: It's just such a mic drop. It's just like it
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: just ends like whatever. It like, Okay, come at me.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I fail, It's fine, but at least I'm out here
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: doing something. It's just it's just like conversation is just over.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Definitely no.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: But that's that's literally it, Like, I mean, that's.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Something that's it.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, yeah, your words can't affect me.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And so that's that's for you. I mean I started,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: really and I mean there you might get negative, negative comments,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: but at least you're doing it. At least you're starting.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: This is episode two and this is how thatitude is
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: what we need to do moving forward forward. So I
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: think you just ended our episode beautifully, which drop drop moments.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Thank you for just taking can we do it? Cheers and.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Were amazing.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: This is for Pink for being part of our season opener. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we love your family again. You are such a gym.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: You've you just you are walking light, you you just
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: you exude light. Your family, We just we love you
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: and thank you for being part of this with us
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and I.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you for people to just hear you.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: You're more of you, more of you again, get a
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: different perspective that most people, your average person just wouldn't
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: know about you and your family and this lifestyle. So cheers,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: s Nikki cheer.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: We want to give a special ship out to Chef Blake,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: a good family friend of ours. He was so gracious
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: and decided to sponsor all of our meals today, So
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: shout out to you, Chef Blake.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Jef Vagabonds Catering, did you guys enjoy?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: It was good? It was good? Thanks good. I'm ready
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: for mine because I haven't had money.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Like we haven't had it yet. But shout out to
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: you Chef Blake. Thank you and we love you so much.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Thank'll for doing this.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: This is you.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: This is what people need to hear. So this is
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: really powerful that you guys are starting this and thanks
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: for having me. But thank you so much just for
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: doing this in general. I think you're going to humanize
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: this industry and that is like what it's needing. Yes,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: so is important.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Our best to Corey and the team you NLV. We
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: will be rooting for you n l V definitely, and
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: best of wishes to you. Next time, we got to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: get Gigi and your brother on so that we can
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: have a family sit down with Myers.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much. Cheers, Thanks, cheers, guys,