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Inside The Charge: Comedian, Former NFL Player Lou Young on Josh Allen, Bills Mafia, Sean McDermott, And More! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Inside the Charge. Matty glab
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  Speaker 1: here is your host, and in today's episode, we've got
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  Speaker 1: an amazing guest joining us. His name is Lou Young.
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  Speaker 1: He's a comedian, a former NFL player, content creator and
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  Speaker 1: host of The Lou Young Show. Stick with us because
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  Speaker 1: it's a good one. Lou, thanks for taking the time
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  Speaker 1: to join us on this awesome podcast set today.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you having me.
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  Speaker 1: I love the outfit, I love the jersey. Uncle Shlu Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna start there. For people who are like,
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  Speaker 1: who is Uncle Shlu? Tell us who Uncle Shlu is?
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Shlu is A. It's a It's a character made
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  Speaker 2: up of like my dad, different different like uncles I had,
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  Speaker 2: different coaches I've had who play like father figures in
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  Speaker 2: my life, and I build them. I put them all
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  Speaker 2: in the one and I've taken bits and pieces of
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  Speaker 2: knowledge or game I've got from them. And it's just
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  Speaker 2: that uncle that's gonna support you no matter when lose
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  Speaker 2: a draw. I'm here, baby, Uncle Shlu got you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: right to die. I don't care what it is if
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  Speaker 2: I'm your unc I got you. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you know teams or players in the league.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they say, uh, I could be younger than them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's older there's veteran players who call me
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  Speaker 2: unk pushing thirty six, thirty seven. But my presence gives
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  Speaker 2: that unk that sense of security. So that's that's where
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  Speaker 2: that derived from.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you had to lose social media channels,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see Uncle Schlu in a lot of different ways.
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  Speaker 1: So awesome sketches, some awesome videos out there that you
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  Speaker 1: just make the people laugh. Do you have a favorite
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Shlu video Uncle schlu moment?
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, it's bittersweet because my nephew's not here no
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  Speaker 2: more Stefan Diggs, right, But I I really the the
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Shlu character took off because I did a I
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  Speaker 2: went to the Chiefs Bill's game, but it was in
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City, so it's like twenty twenty two. And then
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  Speaker 2: I was doing uh, I was doing stuff for Bleach Report.
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  Speaker 2: They just wanted to get the tailgating stuff, so I
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  Speaker 2: did that for them, knocked that out. I said, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I wanna go to the game and get some stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I was starting to do this Uncle Shlue character
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  Speaker 2: pulling up to the games right, yes, And I'm like, alright, cool,
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, we can get some tickets. But
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  Speaker 2: I look at the tickets it's like nosebleeds. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get that action. I hit up Steph
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  Speaker 2: and Steph I tell people he's my nephew. But Steph
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  Speaker 2: went to high school with me, okay, so we we
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  Speaker 2: wanted a championship together. Like as when I was seeing
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  Speaker 2: he was a talking, it was like my little bro.
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  Speaker 2: I said, hey, man, I'm coming to the game. Can
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  Speaker 2: you can you hook you? Can you hook your uncle up? Right?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, I got you. He had me
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  Speaker 2: right behind the the stuh bitch the Bill's side. I said, look,
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  Speaker 2: the camera's gonna be rolling. You do your thing. Let me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm gonna be there. I'm hollering at him.
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  Speaker 2: He's just acknowledging me, like we playing off each other
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  Speaker 2: the whole game. He gave me his cleats. At the game,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking trash to the fans and literally they're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, this is Stephan's uncle. Little do they know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just in character. So I've stayed in
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  Speaker 2: characters that whole day. Pretty much so that after that game,
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  Speaker 2: that's when.
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  Speaker 1: Everything took yeah, for that character. Yeah, and now when
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  Speaker 1: you're out and about and you're around people, are people
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  Speaker 1: calling you Uncle Shlou more than or Uncle more than Lou?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean they'll call me. They'll call me
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Shlu, Coach Schlu, Coach Prime, sometimes Steve Harvey, whatever
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  Speaker 2: character they can think of, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Or I've done like a Magic Johnson like in person,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll just be like like they'll that'll be
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  Speaker 2: the bird called to me. It just happened while we
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  Speaker 2: were going through the tailgate here people cooking up you know,
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  Speaker 2: buffalo wings and sausages, and they he hey, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what's up? You know what I'm saying? So they know.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes my characters get more recognition, sometimes more than Loup.
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  Speaker 2: But it's all one person, So I'm not tripping.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite character that you play that
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  Speaker 1: you think you know, I excel at this. I get
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  Speaker 1: the most love when I post these videos. I know.
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  Speaker 1: You just had an awesome Coach Prime video that I
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  Speaker 1: mean yeah social media, which was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Coach Prime that that character definitely it
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  Speaker 2: took me to another level because just his you know,
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  Speaker 2: presence and impact. I mean you see it. I mean
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  Speaker 2: since he was coming out of Florida State to now,
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  Speaker 2: he's always had that media attention like when he walks
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  Speaker 2: in the room, you stop and you look, oh that's
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  Speaker 2: oh that's Prime. Right. So I kind of I like
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  Speaker 2: that persona and I use that for my own personal
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  Speaker 2: you know, for my own personal game and like just
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  Speaker 2: how I go about my day to day. So Prime,
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  Speaker 2: like that's a character that definitely has taken me to
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  Speaker 2: another level to where people literally like, oh, man, like
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in Colorado? Like if Colorado loses, people
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  Speaker 2: get mad at me, but they think I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room right there. But but yeah, so shout out
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  Speaker 2: to Coach Prime like that's probably And we just put
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  Speaker 2: out that that recent one. So yeah, that that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the ones where I'm like, when I go with Prime,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it takes me to a whole other level.
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  Speaker 1: Has anyone reached out to you that you've played and
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  Speaker 1: said like that's you do a great job impersonating me,
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  Speaker 1: or hey you need to try this next time when
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  Speaker 1: you post a video.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So I started the Coach slew is from
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  Speaker 2: when I play with Carolina, right and Coach Wilkes Steve Wilkes.
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  Speaker 2: So Coach McDermott was my defensive coordinator in Carolina went
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  Speaker 2: to the super Bowl, and a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 2: know my rookie year. I was on four different teams, right,
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  Speaker 2: So as a rookie, you gotta do a t rookie
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  Speaker 2: talent show. Yes, I had a talent show every month
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  Speaker 2: cause I got cut every month.
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  Speaker 1: You had four talent shows.
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  Speaker 2: I had four talent shows, right, So I had to
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  Speaker 2: just I had to get new material every time. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: damn another one, another one, another show. So get to Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: And I used to make fun of Coach Wilkes behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes. I was quiet, but I was just that
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  Speaker 2: was my piece, or like how I coped with getting
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  Speaker 2: cut so much. And then the ogs like Roman Harper
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  Speaker 2: and Charles Tillman p and they were like, hey, look
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  Speaker 2: we need that right, So I would do it on
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  Speaker 2: spot on key, so doing him like then, I was
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  Speaker 2: doing that then when I was playing so like that
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  Speaker 2: first character that like I really built up was Coach
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  Speaker 2: schlu But I was taking everything from Coach Wilkes, like
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  Speaker 2: even I mean, I was still wearing old Panthers gear
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  Speaker 2: and just his sayings, his walk, his talk like and
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  Speaker 2: guys that were playing, I mean, they can relate to it,
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  Speaker 2: so I related. But even if you're a little league,
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  Speaker 2: you know, middle school, high school, college pro, whatever, semi pro, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you can relate to a coach, Slou. Everybody's got a coach, Schlou.
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  Speaker 1: You spoke about getting to play alongside of Sean McDermott
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  Speaker 1: was defensive coordinator. What type of coach was he back then?
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  Speaker 1: He's now been the head coach of the Bills for
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  Speaker 1: this is his eighth season and they've won the AFC
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  Speaker 1: East the last four years. But what was a younger
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott like.
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  Speaker 2: He was a guy who like he really cared about
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  Speaker 2: the underdogs, and I was like an underdog, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. So he always checked on the guys
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  Speaker 2: like he knew, like the Luke Keekley's or Thomas Davis
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  Speaker 2: or Cam News they were good, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But the LIU youngs that were like you know, coming up, undrafted,
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  Speaker 2: practice squad guys on the roster, off the roster, he
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  Speaker 2: would like check in and make sure those guys were good.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the difference with him.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a defense here in the Bills that they've
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries this season, So you've had
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  Speaker 1: the sixth rounders, the seventh rounders, the undrafted kids come
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  Speaker 1: up and have some starting experience, playing big games and
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  Speaker 1: do a great job. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that is because of the defense that they've installed here
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  Speaker 1: and that have had since Mick Dermott walked through the doors.
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  Speaker 1: It's a defense in a system probably similar to Carolina
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  Speaker 1: in ways where if you understand it, you've played in
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  Speaker 1: it for a few years, it doesn't matter where you're drafted.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a talented guy, you're gonna shine in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I definitely he's big on that, like they
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  Speaker 2: don't even care about well, I know, he never really
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  Speaker 2: cared about like first round, second round, third round. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you're undrafted, you can get the defense and make plays.
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  Speaker 2: They I literally just for me getting the defense. I
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  Speaker 2: stuck around years and there's guys who was drafted. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, how did y'all cut him? You know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. But at the same time, he was just
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  Speaker 2: big on like detailed details and assignments. And stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't care where you came from. As long
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  Speaker 2: as you could understand what he was doing, you was
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  Speaker 2: gonna play.
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  Speaker 1: You played for I think six total teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You said four during your rookie season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Four, Yeah, your rookie season. I think six total, you
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  Speaker 1: have that, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of NFL players in this league who
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  Speaker 1: are like journeymen. But to do six teams you get
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  Speaker 1: to experience the business side of the NFL. What did
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  Speaker 1: you learn from just hopping all around and going to
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  Speaker 1: four places during your rookie season. I feel like people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have this idea of what the NFL is.
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  Speaker 1: You get into the league and maybe it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different, but as you're hopping around, you're probably also
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  Speaker 1: learning a lot of great things too.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, like from the NFL me as a journeyman, right,
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  Speaker 2: And I wasn't a high paid journeyman, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. I was just a journeyman. So me being
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  Speaker 2: a journeyman, I learned. I just learned like the business side,
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  Speaker 2: like to never take certain things personal, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. It is a business. They have families to feed,
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  Speaker 2: it's certain things that the numbers, this, that and the
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  Speaker 2: third and it's things have to make sense. So I
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  Speaker 2: think the business side of it is like I'm always
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm never like getting too attached to a place
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  Speaker 2: or thing or a person, you know, especially when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to business, because anything can happen. So I take
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  Speaker 2: that and what I do now. So when I walk
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  Speaker 2: in rooms, or I walk in the office or or everything,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm like, oh, okay, this is I'm near the
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  Speaker 2: GM office or you know what I mean, Like it's
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  Speaker 2: a difference between the locker room yes and upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right. A lot of people don't want to go upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: If you go upstairs, you you want to get a
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  Speaker 2: new contract or you know what I mean, Like that's it,
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  Speaker 2: like you don't really want to when they get it.
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  Speaker 2: There's one year I got cut and I did not
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  Speaker 2: answer my phone. They had to come get me out
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  Speaker 2: of my apartment. I just didn't want to. I knew
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  Speaker 2: I was getting cut. I was like, hey, you want
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  Speaker 2: to cut me.
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  Speaker 1: Find me, come get me.
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  Speaker 2: So that I would say, like I took that from
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  Speaker 2: just the business side of it, so I use it
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  Speaker 2: day to day, just even like having an itinerary, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, going to away games or home games, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got meetings here, we got this, we got breakfast here,
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  Speaker 2: we got free time here, this, we're gonna meet about this,
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  Speaker 2: go over it again, come together. Like I take that,
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  Speaker 2: I take the formula and put it into what I
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  Speaker 2: do now. So I'm very militant and what I do
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  Speaker 2: So I think football for that.
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  Speaker 1: And then also, how have you taken whether it's the connections,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's the relationships, whether just understanding life in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: taking those things and have used them in the lou
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  Speaker 1: Young Show and the content that you produce and create
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  Speaker 1: that shows off. I've been there. I know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about. And I can also I can also make
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  Speaker 1: fun of it too in a way that guys can understand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's just me being in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Like if I was like, guys would get so serious
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  Speaker 2: and I just be like, hey, man, like we got
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  Speaker 2: to break it up. Break the what is it the monotony?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what it is. I like to break
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  Speaker 2: the ice. Like we look, we can sit around here
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  Speaker 2: and walk around all stiff with the brick up our tails,
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  Speaker 2: but like we gotta we gotta like relax, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? That was all I've been like. That's
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  Speaker 2: as a kid. So when I give you, like on
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  Speaker 2: my show or I'm basically everything I give you on
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  Speaker 2: my show is like how if I had a locker
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  Speaker 2: mate next to me, whoever's my locker mate? Really got
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  Speaker 2: to know? Oh man, it's due cool, right, But I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't you know, for the most part, I'll try to
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  Speaker 2: stay quiet so I wouldn't get cut. I was just
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  Speaker 2: trying to be as quiet as possible. So everything I
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  Speaker 2: do on my show, now, that's just what I would do.
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  Speaker 2: I'd just talking to my locker made or people around
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  Speaker 2: my locker. And then when I give you, when I
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  Speaker 2: I can talk about certain day make fun of certain things,
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  Speaker 2: like I know what it's like to get cut, I know,
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  Speaker 2: like when I say I know, I know, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know the smell of it, I know the I
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  Speaker 2: know the posture of the hey man, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: when they you know we love you, when the coach
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  Speaker 2: says that we know we you know where we love you? Alright,
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  Speaker 2: you love me? But what I gotta go right like
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: so and it's an insight and people can relate to it,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And like I had a
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  Speaker 2: Cam Newton on my show and hey was my QB
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  Speaker 2: right obviously everybody knows Cam right, Yeah, big personality. Guys
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  Speaker 2: like that never got really experience getting cut, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: like I had at a young age. He didn't get
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  Speaker 2: it until he was like, I don't know, year nine,
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  Speaker 2: eight nine whatever when he went to New England and
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  Speaker 2: then he was just like, man, that hurt. That hurt
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  Speaker 2: my feelings. So me, I'm like, hey, man, tough en up.
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this since really year. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: different experience. So I can give you this side and
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  Speaker 2: that side. I've played on both, Like I played here,
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  Speaker 2: I played on the field, then I've been on the
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  Speaker 2: sideline just cheering, just making sure everybody know I'm cheering,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So as long as I
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  Speaker 2: my thing was, look as long as I get to Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting a check on Monday. That was just don't
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  Speaker 2: come to me before Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: And what better way to use those experiences and turn
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  Speaker 1: it into something that people find super entertaining, something that
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  Speaker 1: people can laugh along with, and something that athletes can
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  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, there's common ground here.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think for me, like there's guys that
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  Speaker 2: I've played with or guys are not I've never played
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  Speaker 2: with or played against, you know what I mean, And
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  Speaker 2: for them to know me we were at the UH
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  Speaker 2: at the draft, at the super Bowl, just past your
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  Speaker 2: NFL honors. I mean, it's random, like Tory Hope like
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  Speaker 2: called my name. I grew up watching Tory Hope, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, what do you want from me?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, oh man, Well when you do that, the
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  Speaker 2: coaching and the players, man, oh man. But it's like
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: or like Champ Bailey is what does Champ balle want
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  Speaker 2: for me? I watched Champ but he played for the Redskins,
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm from DC. I used to watch Champ Bailey
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  Speaker 2: like Champ Bayley Dion. I was like, oh what. But
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  Speaker 2: to know that I'm able to, like I'm I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room more so now than I ever been
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  Speaker 2: in my career, you know, And that's a weird thing
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  Speaker 2: to say, but you know what I mean a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people would like to still be in the life room,
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  Speaker 2: playing or have some sort of presence. I'm able to
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  Speaker 2: kind of those guys probably be frustrated during the week
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  Speaker 2: and they can look at my look at their phone,
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  Speaker 2: see my face, or see a video like, man, you
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  Speaker 2: see Lou bro LOUI Lou just did. Or there's guys
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  Speaker 2: on the team, like what's my boy name? He's played
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  Speaker 2: Dion Dalkins. It's my guy. He DM me something from
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  Speaker 2: Prime before I did the PROMP. Just reached the video.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I know you got to cook it up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I did, jameis No, I did, James. He said, Man,
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  Speaker 2: We've been waiting on this one. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like it's it's a hell of a experience
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  Speaker 2: now and it's a good honor. Yeah, to know that
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  Speaker 2: I can kind of be that sense of like peace
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  Speaker 2: in a combative type of atmosphere and you.
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  Speaker 1: Never know what pathway is gonna lead to another. Gonna
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  Speaker 1: open up this door, open up that door. What can
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: people expect from the Lou Young show that they're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna get anywhere else?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? You get, you get a raw, uncut, unfiltered, Uh
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: a walk of life. You know what I mean. I
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: take you, I take you from my child. I'm openly
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: and uh I guess I'm openly and like just unfiltered
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: about everything I've been through. I'm honest, you know what
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. I tell you about my struggles as a
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: single father. You know what I mean, going through things
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: with like trying to get to co parenting. That's that's tough.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: That like as a there's guys that play in the league.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: They probably know, Oh, man, I know how that be. Boy,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, but I had OG's
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: and and and vets that were able. I remember when
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: my daughter when I first got the text message that
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I had a daughter on the way, it was a
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: super Bowl Wow, he.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Believed that and other There's very few people who have
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: shared that, but I'm sure there's there are people in
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: this league who have shared something like that know exactly
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: how that feels.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Got a text message, didn't say I'm pregnant, notice that
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: it was two pregnancy sticks said positive. That's it. So
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I said, Oh, it's trying to buckle up right to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: really put a big boy paths. Yeah, like life is hitting.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: So it's just like, and I tell I take them
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: on that walk of life as a as a single dad.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Managing that with you could still be you know, presidenting
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: work and present in your personal life or whatever. My
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: person experienced my pain of what I went through. It
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: hurts getting cut, it does. It does not feel good.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: It's like the least favorite day out of you know
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that that day of the year comes where it's cut
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: down day and the people working in the facility absolutely
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: hate the day. It's like there's two terrible days. It's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the day that your season ends and it's the cut
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: down day. So you don't want to see guys go
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and you don't want to see guys leave the facility
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: unhappy about how the season ended, right, And.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: That's and and so I give them the Lou Young
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Show shows them. I don't know, it just gives people hope.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It gives people It's like you're not alone. Yeah, you
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, because it gets lonely when you're
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: when you get cut, when things don't go your way,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: when you any type of loss, it feels lonely. But
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I let people know that in order to win, you
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: have to lose, So just be prepared for the wins.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: This fan base has under totally understands that. I mean,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: they went through the playoff drought, but now they're now
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: they're in a bright spot. They've got Josh Allen as
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: their quarterback. They're winning games. They've got a great record
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to start this season, hopefully going for five straight AFC
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: East titles. You got to walk through the lots on
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: your way here. Yes, what's your take on Bill's Mafia today?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I love Bill's Mafia. Like I said, I'm go Bills.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I'm blue Blues Clues, Uncle shlu. I'm really in the field,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: like I embraced it. I was dancing with a lady.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: She had a red, white and blue fur hoodie jacket. Yes,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I said, good, it's gracious, like like it's it's about
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: embracing the culture, the energy. I had some Buffalo chicken tenders,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like I'm if it wasn't
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: for the call time, I was trying to jump through
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the table. They wouldn't let me jump through the table,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But I'm all about the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Bill's Mafia, the atmosphere my like, I embraced it because,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: you know, in school, I went to Georgia Tech, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Georgia Tech is in downtown Atlanta. Beautiful, beautiful school. I graduated.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Shout out to them. It's good education. But never really
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: got like that tailgate atmosphere, you know, what I mean, Like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I used to love playing away games out right here.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: So when I see like tailgates like this, it minds
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you of like, oh this that college type, yeah atmosphere,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? This Diehart. Literally the plane
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: we flew in today, the plane ride, it was probably
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: eighty percent bills for ever had a jersey on. Yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, and say go bills. Everybody's
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: like go bills. So it's it's yeah, I'm I'm with it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a crazy sense of pride with our fans,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and rightfully so. They've been through the Ringer, They've been
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: through the nineties where the team was making the Super
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Bowl multiple seasons in a row, they went through the drought,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and now they've got they've got the right people in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the building to be happy about it. It's super prideful
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of you know, the product that is put on the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: field on Sundays. The guy at the helmet that is
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. You've watched him play quarterbacks since he's been
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. What impresses you about the way he
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: plays the position.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I just think he's like his toughness is really like unmatched.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's unappreciated, you know what
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, the way he finds a way when it
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: when it when it looks weary, he finds a way
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: to make a way. And I think I think he's
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: playing like I would say the top three qbs in
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the league right now are Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes and
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen. Like week in and week out, those three
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: guys colehearted, wholeheartedly, single handedly when it when it, when
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: it counts, when it matters, they put their foot down,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: they say, okay, follow me, you know what I mean,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Like that's at the end of the day. That's the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: type of that's the type of leader in QB you want,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I think he reminds me
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: of a Cam Newton. I compare him to Cam Newton
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a little bit. They start of play that the way
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: they they just make stuff happen. But his arm is
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: is uh he got a cannon and I and I'm
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan. Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: A lot of our staff who came over from Carolina,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: our scouting department and our coaching staff. I mean, you
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: talk about Cam Newton in the same sentence, and like
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen is brought up as well because of the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: style that they play with, and I think there are
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: some of them. It's so cool to have. You know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I got to work alongside Cam Newton and now I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: get to work alongside a quarterback like Josh Allen, two
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: guys who sometimes played the position like their defensive linemen
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: or linebackers.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: But they're built like like a d lineman, yes, like
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: a linebacker, so they can take that type of punishment.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I like people will be like, man,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you know, Cam takes so much, he would he would
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: do so much, take so much punishment or whatever. I'm like,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: he looks like Lebron James in past, you know what
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I mean. That's a that's a superhuman And like I
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: think people under people underestimate how strong and much of
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a presence Josh Allen has on that field. Yeah, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I think this year, I think this year is really
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: showing the type of guy he is, because you know,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think people expected with the roster changes and everything.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think people expect it for him to stand
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: ten toes down and deliver like this. So it's showing
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: a lot. It says a lot about his character and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: his work ethics.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of great personalities in the NFL at large.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite NFL personality, favorite player who
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: just has that vibe on the field off the field.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean so basically, okay, well coach, well Prime,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: He's He's he's you know, he's legendary, Hall of Fame,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: so he's. But currently I would say currently, the I
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: say the funniest person, hands down in the NFL is
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Jameis Winston. James Jameis went like even his his pregame speeches,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: how he just you know, like he he's funny without
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: even trying to be funny. Like I think that even
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: his his I think his first game starting when when
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson went down, and and he's just all he said,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: overwearing faith over Overwhearing's faiths, you know what I mean,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: glory to God's trusting it in our holy spirits. They said, James,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: who was the game who was the game plan? I'm
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: wavering faiths? Like who? Like? But he he literally is
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: like being dead. Seriously. Then I think the next week
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: he's talking to uh, oh, what's my gud Nate Burlson
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: face to the camera. He's said, Jameis, so, how are
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: you feeling? Oh, glory to God. I woke up this
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: morning feeling unpowerful, feeling feeling powerful and powerless, and and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: was just like, well amen, Jameis like good luck, you
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like that's it's I don't know.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: He there's very few like sport or athletes that I
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: think people cheer for Jamis just because people love him.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: It he could play it. He's playing in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: No direspect to Cleveland, but it is tough. Yeah, it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: been thy. How many keybies that they have who know right,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But but Jameis Winston to be there and just have
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: people who not even Browns fans, it's just like, h
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I want.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: You to do good on Sunday. But I A yeah, yeah, It's.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Like I'm telling you, like God rest my name assault.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: She just passed away, but it's God. It was like
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: she loves Lamar, she loves Josh Allen and she and
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: she loves like Tom Brady and and Peyton Manning. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: James Winson. She just said, I just I just wanted
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: to look. I want the boy to do well. Yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: it's something by his spirit, you know, what I mean.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So it's just I say, Jamis is one of my
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: favorite uh just just people. I've never even met him,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: but he's just one of my favorite people to just
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: watch it. I'm just like, man, I just want him
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: do well.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Wa A couple more for you. Which NFL player do
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you think needs his own podcast because he's got an
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: interesting life, because he's fun to watch on the field,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: because he's got a big personality. Currently yeah, currently playing well.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Jameis Winston needs his own podcast, he needs his own church. Uh,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: that's a fact. I would say. After that, As far
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: as you know who has a good personality, what's the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: He's a rookie here, Kean Coleman. I think as he
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: goes and grows, he's gonna he's gonna be one of
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: those guys where it's like, oh, man, I like that guy.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He is like Jamis where he is funny, but he
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is just Kean's just being himself and he's not Kian's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: not trying to be funny. Ke On just being who
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Keon is. And with that you just get a lot
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of laughter because he's just got such a great personality.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: He he he won't stop talking. It's so funny to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: watch him interact with some of our older guys when
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: some of our older guys are like me and you
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: don't stop.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I think I've seen it's something he did a he
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: had like an ad or Niagara Falls or something. He said,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: book with me if you want to cut to the fall,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: like what like what is he? He said, oh, man,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it's what else? Like so his? And then I think
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: he did his interview when he it was the cookies.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: He said, you gonna eat them cookies? He said, nah,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I want to cook like like just he just being
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: himself like you you like when people are unapologetically themselves.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: That's I think that sales. I think for me, I
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: think once I took my helmet off from playing football,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I was able to be more of myself. That's why
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I tell like guys who going to the league or
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: whatever sport they play, I'm like, don't ever, like, you know,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: waiver from being yourself. Like I think being yourself keeps
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: you in more rooms and just than trying to be
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: somebody else.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And it's it's gonna make you more money at the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: end of the day because brands are going to reach out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: This is an era where social media is huge and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: people are wanting to partner with athletes because if so
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and so speaks about this, then I want what they're
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: talking about or I'm interested. So yeah, I think if
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you show your personality and I know it's you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you got to play the game too, and you got
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: to be focused on what's going on. But that doesn't
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: mean that you need to shy away from being yourself.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And I think going back to Sean McDermott, he does
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a great job of saying no, we want you like
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: we want who you are, and it's we can fit
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: it into who we are as the team. One of
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the offenses mantras is like be you with us. So
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you see a lot of guys coming in here, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you see a lot of great personalities like Deon Dawkins
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: is another one, and they don't change their strikes.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Dion comes in here with no shirt on. He walks
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: freezing cold, no shirt like, but he him but he's
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: himself and he performs as himself. He's comfortable with himself.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I always tell people Coach mc dermott, he's DC in
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Carolina right And at this moment, I'm you know, I'm
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I was frustrated because I'm like, man, I'm doing everything
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: on the field, Like why can't I can I get
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: some playing time? Like what what the hell? Like what
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: do y'all want? What else do I gotta do? I'm
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: making plays, I'm doing this. Come on. And he was
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: just like he could. It was just one day, he said, Lou.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: He said, listen, your energy. Your energy's off. It's showing
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: and it stanks. He said, the reason why you're in
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: this room. Yes, you're talented, you can play ball, but
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: your energy. If you don't have your energy, you're not
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: gonna be you. You have to be And I was
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: just like, damn, you know what I'm saying. So I
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: was like, well, I'm gonna get my energy back, right,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I need to get this check. But it was more
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: than that. It was like and now years later, I'm like,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I just had to be myself. I was trying to
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: be like, no, you gotta be me. And that's why
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I tell people just being you is better than being
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: some Okay, so being you.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Let's finish off with what does Uncle Shlu have to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: say about the bills or about the game today?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, you want to turn it on for a second.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: No, Uncle Shlu would just be like listen, man. Uh,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: there's there's times in life where you got look, you
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: gotta look yourself in the mirror, right, And and like
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Uncle Shou would basically say, look when I played right,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: we didn't have all this, all this glitz and glamor
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: and this that green street and all this stuff. You spoiled,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. We didn't have Rodell's. We
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: at one bar, you know what I mean, one strap,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, all this pregame meal. The
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: meal was on the field, right, Go eat, go hunt.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: You got all dirts, you got avocado toast. What is this? Huh?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: The problem with the generation today is this my camera?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Where we're at the problem with the generation today? You know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: not a hunt. You don't know how to get your prey,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: kill or be killed, Eat a beat eaten. The real
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: will survive. The eye in the sky has never a lot. Huh.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: One plus one equal two. Multiply times two. You get four.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: If we get four, we get a little more. We
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: put it in the pot. We put it in the
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: pot and stir it up. Let's see what we can make.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Let's make lemonade today. Know what I'm saying?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I loved it. That's a winning speech right there.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all the top. I never heard that. That's
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: all the dome. So, uh, they want to use that
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: copyright it to me.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: We'll be playing in the locker room before the game.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I don't even need a big percentage. I just need
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: we'll talk. We'll talk, we'll talk, we'll.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Talk, we'll talk. Lou thank you so much for sitting down,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: getting us pumped up for this game and telling us
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the Lou Young Show and life
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. We appreciate it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Make sure tune in to the Lou Young Show. Uh,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: what's my all my things is at l you you? You?
• 33:25
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• 33:33
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• 33:36
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• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Lou Young Show on the go. Hey, tune in or
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: tune out.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I say tune in.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, everybody appreciate it, No problem.