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Sataoa Laumea: "This Is A Great Feeling" - Seahawks Draft Conference Call · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How's it going on this Chris Wayer, SEAHAWKSPR. Welcome to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the media here.
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  Speaker 2: But first things first, would you mind pronouncing your name
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  Speaker 2: just so we can make sure we're saying it right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my name is sab Twa ma'a. Okay, wait say
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  Speaker 1: that one more time. Yeah, saw Tower Maya. How many
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  Speaker 1: times have you been asked to pronounce that over the years? Shoot? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to bring it down for most people. So
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  Speaker 1: was it my first name? You say? My nickname is Tawa,
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  Speaker 1: So it's like tower like slang. That's all. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I tell people like Tower the old my name. You
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  Speaker 1: just had to treat it like as a w Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we can do this.
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  Speaker 3: We can do this.
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  Speaker 1: What did it mean to get the call from the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks this afternoon?
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  Speaker 2: Shoot?
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  Speaker 1: Man, it was a great feeling. It's such a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot about their program. I met some
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  Speaker 1: great people from interviews and stuff. I know they just
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  Speaker 1: picked up a really great on line coach, so it
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  Speaker 1: means a lot to me. It's an opportunity to prove
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  Speaker 1: everybody that didn't drive me wrong and proved you guys right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: Well along those lines, you got to see the Washington
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  Speaker 3: offense play within the conference the last couple of years
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  Speaker 3: to know that Ryan Grubbs here is offensive coordinator and
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  Speaker 3: Scott helps the on line coach. What are you looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to joining what they seeing? What they did in
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  Speaker 3: joining that that kind of scheme.
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  Speaker 1: Trure, I'm excited to learn. I've been following Washington for
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  Speaker 1: years and their online has been great. So Dorp with
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  Speaker 1: Huff That'll be just a great opportunity for me. And
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  Speaker 1: he has two pass players that I'm really close to,
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  Speaker 1: so they speak highly of him, and I'm just excited.
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  Speaker 3: You started at.
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  Speaker 2: Least fifteen games at both right guard and right tackle
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  Speaker 2: at Utah. In the discussions you had with the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: did they share any insight where they plan playing you
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  Speaker 2: or could see you playing at the next level.
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  Speaker 1: I think they are looking at me more inside at guard.
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  Speaker 1: I know they have a solid right tackle Abe Lucas,
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  Speaker 1: who I've met for and I think talking to them,
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  Speaker 1: they want me more inside, which I would love because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I am inside offensive lineman. Why is
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  Speaker 1: it that you have familiarity with the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: You said you know a lot about the program I have.
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  Speaker 1: I have aunts other in Seattle and the fans, so
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  Speaker 1: I know good amount. What is it The twelve player
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  Speaker 1: on the field is the fans, and I know they
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  Speaker 1: are a strong fan base over there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of excitement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got these kids around here running. I gotta.
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  Speaker 3: So what what is it about your game that you
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  Speaker 3: think trends fits best at the guard spot for?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh? What does it mean to like what I
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  Speaker 1: mean by that? But yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What what aspects of your game do you think play
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  Speaker 3: best at guard?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot? I feel like I'm a stout, physical offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm pretty powerful. I was a guard
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  Speaker 1: three years before I moved out to tackle my last two.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it more because of contact and physicality. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: Why did it Utah move me to right tackle?
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  Speaker 3: That was a need thing or personatility thing?
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  Speaker 1: It was a need thing. It was definitely any thing.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have another tackle, so they moved me out.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you talking to us from SA?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 3: Where are you talking to us from today?
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  Speaker 1: From a conference center in Fontana?
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  Speaker 3: Did you have a draft party there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: How many people.
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  Speaker 1: Like twenty to thirty? But it sounds like one hundred. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's why you hear these cases. But nah, it's like
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  Speaker 1: a few of us. That's great.
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  Speaker 3: Did you say you know a few Seahawks players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Abe Lucas, I know of something from the Pac twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're running back Clay from UCLA. Ucla. Yeah, Lucas, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: ab Lucas were in the same agency those forty four
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  Speaker 1: straight starts that you made in college.
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  Speaker 2: At what point did you prioritize staying on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And being able to do that from the beginning when
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  Speaker 1: I was on scout team, Like I'll say, probably when
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  Speaker 1: in my before my first season starting, I got rotations
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  Speaker 1: with the one and ones first team, so I knew
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to stay there. So a bust
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  Speaker 1: of my ever since then, and I just ended up
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  Speaker 1: staying on the field from just keep doing that.
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  Speaker 3: See in your first impression, what do you think of
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  Speaker 3: Scott Hoff as a coach?
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  Speaker 1: You said, my first impression?
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  Speaker 3: What is what my first impression of Scott Hof.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Huff the line coach you said you knew from
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  Speaker 1: Washington days. What they tell me, they speak out to them.
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  Speaker 1: They say he's always willing to learn and improve on
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  Speaker 1: the ways to teach us. So that means a lot
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  Speaker 1: because there's always waste for all of us to learn.
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  Speaker 1: So the game changes, so why not the coaching changes.
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  Speaker 1: So I like that about him. He's pretty flexible. I
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  Speaker 1: know he's a good ass coach because two of my
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  Speaker 1: boys got drafted first and second round, the Rocker and Troy,
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  Speaker 1: so that's a he did help them in that way.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: When you heard Seahawks on the other end of the line.
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  Speaker 1: What was the first thing that went through your mind?
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  Speaker 1: What do you associate Seahawks with? When I picked up
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  Speaker 1: the phone.
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  Speaker 3: Call, Yeah, you got to call and they said call
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  Speaker 3: him from the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: What what went through your mind? Immediately? Shoot, I just
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  Speaker 1: thought that it's a great opportunity for me to for
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  Speaker 1: me to just do my theme, help the team and
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  Speaker 1: help myself. So that's that's the first thing I went
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  Speaker 1: to my mind. And honestly, the first thing I went
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  Speaker 1: to my mind is my interview with you guys. You
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  Speaker 1: guys had a guard, a Hall of Fame guard on
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  Speaker 1: your that place of the on your staff. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he's a coach, but Steve understand that that's
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  Speaker 1: what popped up to me because he's all the same
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  Speaker 1: guard and she I want to have a great career
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  Speaker 1: at guard. So that's like literally the first time I
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  Speaker 1: came up to my head.
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  Speaker 3: How much contact did you have with them through the
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  Speaker 3: pre draft process?
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  Speaker 1: Not much. I literally just met him at the senior ball.
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  Speaker 1: We had a really I feel like we had a
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  Speaker 1: good interview. His interview stood a lot. Stood out to
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  Speaker 1: me a lot because he would ask me questions and
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  Speaker 1: there's a phone staring right at me, but Bro's like
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  Speaker 1: staying around my soul. So they really just stand out
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  Speaker 1: to me. And when I looked him up, yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: was a Hall of Famer and he like he showed
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  Speaker 1: us his Hall of fam ring, which is pretty sick too.
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  Speaker 4: So so going back to the physicality, can you elaborate
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  Speaker 4: on that, Like, what is it about that you like
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  Speaker 4: about finishing the play, the dominating the opponent in front
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  Speaker 4: of you? Can you elaborate on that please.
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably say moving a person from point A to
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  Speaker 1: point B is the most fun part. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: mean about physicality, because you know, we got to move
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  Speaker 1: grown in and they're not gonna let us, So I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I don't care and I'm wanting to do
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  Speaker 1: my job. So I want to do my job. And
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  Speaker 1: you said about finishing. I do finish. I need to
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  Speaker 1: be better with being more consistent with that. But that's
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  Speaker 1: what I want to show him Seattle. So yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 1: say I am a pretty physical in that way, trying
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  Speaker 1: to move people off the ball and trying to finish him.
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  Speaker 4: Where does the drive to see the scene come from?
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  Speaker 1: That drive?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I drive. Shoot, you know, I just want to play
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  Speaker 1: good football. That's what it is. I want other people
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  Speaker 1: to watch when they watch film, be like, damn, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Some good old line played right there. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: I want to do. I just want to be great.
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  Speaker 1: So and I feel like if I got to be great,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it takes. I got to be nasty sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: So so that's where that drive comes from. What was
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  Speaker 1: it like growing up with nine siblings? Very competitive?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot? Getting getting food is competitive. That they were eating cereal,
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  Speaker 1: finishing the box before I even grab my bowl and spoon.
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  Speaker 1: So it was very competitive. Uh you know, like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so let me to they're cleaning up right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so uh yeah, I'll say that being a bit toffect
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  Speaker 1: that's very competitive.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you among the nine oldest youngest.
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  Speaker 1: Of number eight, I'm the youngest boy.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, so you did have to wait in the pecking one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah so I didn't. I didn't get gibs on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So how old is the youngest and how is the
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  Speaker 3: oldest of your siblings?
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  Speaker 1: My oldest brother is like thirty six and the youngest
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  Speaker 1: like twenty one.