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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football's Oliver Straw Visits (Episode 558) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Oh yeah, oh yeah. I have been waiting for this one. I've
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  been waiting for this. You've been waiting for this one, yeah, for
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  months, years, year, over a year, it's over a year,
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  a year in the making. We welcome you in everybody. Three Guys Before
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  the Game Summer series continues. This is episode five point fifty eight and we're
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  delighted. We're honored to have the seconds, the second Australian in the history
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  of Three Guys Before the Game in the studio with us. And who would
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  have thought just a mute. I know you're gonna tell a story, but
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  just a few years ago, would have not thought this possible. We've come
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  a long way, We've mended fences, traveled a lot of water. Where
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  we are to come a long way. Don't put me wi in. This
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  is not a weave. Come a long way. You've come a long way.
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  I've always been a proponent. Yeah, all right, we'll get into
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  that. Oliver Straw is our guest mountaineer punter extraordinaire and we're delighted to have
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  him here with us. Appreciate you for having me. Thank you. This
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  is the best. I love this, I love this. That's gonna be
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  it well. Matter of fact, after Oliver does this today, he's going
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  boating. He's going Pontuning. Seems that the head football coach has some watercraft
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  is an armada. Though we've hit that stretch warmer weather he hit, we've
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  hit the right in the heyday of boating. Now take advantage. Yeah,
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  all right, brother, good to have you in here. Man, Thank
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  you, You're you're interested in so many different ways. I can't wait to
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  jump all over this. I love it. I call it so number one.
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  I've got incredible respect for people who come out of their comfort zone.
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  And to say you're coming out of your comfort zone, Like it's one thing
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  to come to school here if you're from Ohio, right, yeah, Brad,
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  that'd be about a couple hours away. I mean, and you're here,
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  let's say you take it. Let's say you take it even longer,
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  like, hey, he came all the way from the West Coast. Like
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  even that takes at guts when you come from different continents and it's a whole
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  different world to me. I always have like great respect for you guys,
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  So thank you for doing that. You also are an interesting makeup because you
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  have a background of having been family been in the United States, but you
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  were raised in Australia. So let's kind of like jump in chronologically. I
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  kind of know the story, but I don't know the story, Okay,
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  So give me family connection to the United States. When you went back,
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  how it all happened? How'd you get here? Sure? So, essentially,
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  my dud's from Australia, moms from England and then they both decided to
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  come over to the States college. Dad went to a school in New Jersey
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  Trenton State, used to be called Mom went to a school in Massachusetts.
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  So they don't know each other. One's in Jersey, ones in matcha.
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  Okay, got itself far, I keep going, and you know, both
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  went through school here, and you know, one night they both happened to
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  be in Vegas and now that's not near New Jersey or okay, go ahead,
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  they're in Vegas not Yeah, So they're in Vegas separate you know,
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  separate trips and met each other, you know, got introduced, went got
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  along really well, and then after that they went separate ways actually, and
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  then Dad realized that he, you know, was missing something in his life
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  and he found it in Vegas that one time, so he oh this is
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  good. Yeah, he went to try and get my mom back, and
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  you know, got her back, which was, which was spectacular, and
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  they both moved to New York, New Jersey, actually in Hoboken, and
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  Dad worked in New York for a while and Mom was with him and they
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  you know, got pregnant and had May and shortly after that we you know,
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  moved away, moved to England, first Thailand after that, and then
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  headed to Australia where we settled down a little bit. This is this is
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  as international as a story as you get. This is unbelievable. This is
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  a movie. So wait a second. If you don't and if I'm going
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  too far here, you just let me know, of course. So they
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  just like they meet in Vegas. They're just there for like a little weekend
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  or something, and they stay here, let's stay in contact. So I
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  think it was separate, separate bachelor and bachelorette parties actually, And then you
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  know, someone gets a number, someone gets his number, and I want
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  to call you about and he says, like, I really like her,
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  I want to and so they they they have a relationship, and then eventually
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  it ends up that they come back East. They're finished with school and what
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  kind of businesses your dad into what was he doing in the works? He
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  used to work in the Diamond district in New York. He used to do
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  personal security and things like that, wait, wait a second, time out,
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  just give me, give me and this is just getting better. This
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  is good insecure wid Yeah. So you know, obviously the diamond districts are
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  very you know, high high end business in New York and they've got a
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  lot of money in that, and so his job was essentially to you know,
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  make sure one thing got safely from one place to another. And you
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  know, he worked in that realm for a little while. And now he's
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  on the more on the business side of that instead of the personal side of
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  that. So he's still in diamonds, he's he's more he's more so in
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  insurance and he's he's expanded a little bit now. But yeah, he used
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  to be in you know, working in the diamond district, cash assets things
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  like that. Big guy is like was he was he must be? Yeah,
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  so he was must like he was like, don't touch the diamonds.
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  We're moving from here to hear. Yeah, big Australian, you know,
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  early Australian guy. So how big how doll is he? How big is
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  he? He's he's around six to one yeah, okay, yeah, and
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  just a burly dude. Yeah, he used to be pretty big. So
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  okay, and so this is good, This is really good. This and
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  this is good. I knew there was something here and so mom, So
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  his mom's in Hoboken. You come along, okay, And how old are
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  you before you moved to England? Would have been like six months? Okay,
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  yeah, barely anytime? Give me this Thailand. How long do we
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  stay in England before we got to Thailand? Honestly, stayed in stayed in
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  England for the good part of my infant years, and then moved to Thailand
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  briefly for I think it was around a year and a half. And the
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  reason to go there would be dad's work. Just dad's work. I couldn't
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  even tell you want to see, he had an opportunity to work in Bangkok,
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  and you know, we got settled, settled there for a year and
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  a half. And yeah, so started my schooling off in Bangkok, in
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  Thailand at an international school. This is awesome. So you're five, then
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  you're five years old? Five years old? Yep? So finished up my
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  my, what do you call it? First grade? Yeah? Finished up
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  first grade in in Bangkok and then headed to Australia after that. So,
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  yeah, how are the accents in the house. That's a lot going on
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  there with it speakers. Yeah, so Dad's got a pretty strong Australian accent,
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  Mum's mums kind of in between a little bit of the English. Still
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  has a lot of the English accent. And then my younger brother who actually
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  his first language was Tie. Oh wow. So he because obviously he was
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  after me and you know, I was younger at the time and starting to
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  you know, speak and everything. So he started learning Tie is his first
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  language. And then yeah, he's got the English accent. Now he's got
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  an English accent, not an Australian developing, it's developing more Australian as he's
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  getting older. But yeah, he started he started with a really strong English
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  accent. We both did, actually, But yeah, so you used to
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  have an English accent. I did when we were in England and then probably
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  until like fourth grade in Australia. What's the biggest difference there? How do
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  you how do you know that videos? Home videos? Honestly, like when
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  I like, we have a couple of Christmas videos from you know, back
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  in you know, two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, and
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  I'd get a gift and I'd be like, oh, mummy, I love
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  this, like just really really posh, really you know, the typical English
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  accent and you know that that that went away pretty quickly when I moved to
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  Australia. But yeah, that's how it started off. Your brother's how how
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  much younger than you? He's three years younger than me? Three year So
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  what's he doing now? He is taking a gap year. So he just
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  graduated high school. He got the opportunity to travel all over. He started
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  in Asia, started in Thailand, went to Cambodia. Then he met me
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  for the climber's trip that we took. He met me in Germany with my
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  dad and got to spend some time with him there, and from then on
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  he's gone all around Europe. He's been in Italy, he's in Switzerland right
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  now, he's been in England. He's traveling all over, which is really
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  cool. Do you guys have twelve grades in your high school or do you
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  go yeah, twelve, you go straight twelve. So when you graduated high
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  school, how old were you? I was eighteen, your great conventional eighteen
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  eighteen? Yeah, yeah, okay, I got you. So you're five
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  years old ish and you moved to Australia and you do school there, so
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  pretty much second grade all the way through. What was it that led your
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  parents to Australia. I think, you know, Dad obviously having a lot
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  of his family there. It was a big, big part of why we
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  moved back. And then you know, the fact that we found they found
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  a really good school that they liked for us to go to, and well,
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  you know, they wanted to set us up educationally, and so we
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  just thought that the quality of life that we could have had in Australia was
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  really good. And it worked out with Dad's job that he had at the
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  time, and so you know, he'd built up a really good relationship with
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  the people that he was working with, and it was just, you know,
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  it was a bit of a change from you know, hopping around you
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  know, different countries over a few years. But it was it was good
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  to finally, you know, get a house and get a home where we
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  could actually stay and not have to move you know every every couple of years.
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  High school sports as you were coming up, list them, yea Australian
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  football, basketball. I did a little bit of swimming, and that's about
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  it. Yeah, he loved basketball. I did. I'm a huge basketball
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  fan still to this day. Could you play? I can shoot the ball,
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  I can't play. I can't do a whole lot else. Honestly,
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  I would have loved to have thought I could, But you know that that
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  dream had to be, you know, put away in the back seat when
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  I decided American football was to go. But that basketball is first love,
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  first left. Yeah. Really basketball was your first live still, so you
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  still follow it? You're into it? Yeah? Love it? Yeah,
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  love it. Love going to games, you know, the WVU games whenever
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  I can, and then you know, an NBA game occasionally. It's always
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  good fun. Yeah yeah. Okay, So then how did American football come
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  into your purview? When did you decide to dive in that, Hey,
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  this is something I could do. Yeah, So in my sophomore year of
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  high school, I decided to do a exchange program. So I came over
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  to a school in New Jersey on the Shore and spent six months there,
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  played a little bit of basketball and then played football as well. And whilst
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  I was in New Jersey, I went to see a friend who lives up
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  in Buffalo who used to work for the Bills, and he took me to
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  the Bills organization, showed me around, took me into their indoor you know,
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  put me in front of a coach, and the coach essentially said to
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  me, look, you've got a strong leg and if you want to,
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  you know, pursue hunting, it's a thing you're gonna have to put a
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  lot of work in to change. But you know, if you want to
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  come to college, then that's how you're going to do it. So that's
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  that's pretty much what's what inspired me, and it's been at it ever since.
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  Rewind they had a couple of five up there too. Dude, like,
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  you travel around the world like like? He like yeah, And then
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  we went over to target. He's going to start sitting, like I'm going
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  to I went over to Target and then then he went over there and got
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  a jelly roll and I just came back over there through the mountain leer and
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  he goes across continents. Yeah, so start there. What why change program?
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  Why why do you lesion to do an exchange Why do you go to
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  Jersey for an exchange program for a year? Honestly, I've always been drawn
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  to college over here. I don't know if it was just the sporting aspect
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  or if it was just you know, the lifestyle of college over here,
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  because it's it's very different to college in Australia. It's in Australia, it's
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  very commuter based, so you can live in you know, your town that
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  you grew up in and then you know, maybe you take a train in
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  an hour, go to the city, do your classes for the day,
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  and then you'll come home and there's no on campus living. There's no you
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  know, it's not it's not there's there's no culture to it. Whereas you
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  come here and you know, people are moving cross country, cross states to
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  you go to a different school and you know, build an education, build
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  new friends, and that was something that just always really enticed me, similar
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  to my parents, I guess. So yeah, that was that was the
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  whole motivation for me coming on that exchange. And then obviously the basketball part
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  two one of the tests how I was and then got discouraged when I got
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  over here. So yeah, that that too. They were a little bit
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  more advanced, a little bit yeah yeah, and added a bit longer.
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  So who did you just stayed with someone's family? Yeah, stay with a
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  stay with a family, and yeah, I just did that for six months.
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  Headed back to Australia was like yep, committing to punning full time and
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  then take again. So you're in Jersey, how do you get to Buffalo?
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  Who knows somebody? My dad, my dad, my dad's my dad's
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  friend used to work for the Bills in marketing. Okay, yeah, he's
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  you know, very very close with the Bills organization, lifelong fan and they
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  still live there. So yeah, okay, so that's where I'm from.
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  That's where really? Yeah so he so your dad's buddy says, yeah,
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  go up there. Do you think at that point do you think I might
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  want to see if I could become a good punter? Did you have that
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  in your head or what was the what was the reason to go visit the
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  Bills? I think, you know, I've been an NFL fan, like
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  Okay Madden a little bit growing up every now and again. But I think
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  the big thing for me was, like I always knew I had a strong
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  leg in Australian football and you know, kicking the ball. It was always
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  something that I was good at. It may not have been good at,
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  you know, the whole game overall, but I could always kick the ball
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  far. And so you know, I picked up a you know, American
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  football while we were there, started kicking it around and said, you know,
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  I didn't I didn't even know punter was a position at that point,
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  honestly. And then yeah, so at that point, you so, I
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  was just gonna ask because the path of Australians punting and college football is certainly
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  well known and well documented, but at that time it was it. You
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  weren't aware of that. You just knew that you kick. Yeah, I
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  mean I knew there was a couple of guys that had done it before,
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  like in the in the nineties and stuff, and then there was obviously guys
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  over here at the time that I didn't know of. But as soon as
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  I got home, my dad's friend of the bills, he said, you
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  know, if you can find someone over there that's going to train you and
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  you know, get you to where you need to be, then do that,
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  like sign up for it, do whatever's necessary, and you know,
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  do it. And that's remarkable And here comes the baron. All right,
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  So for those that don't know, there is an entity in Australia called Pro
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  Kick Academy and they have become the source and the lifeblood of training Australian punters
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  to come to the United States. And then obviously if you follow this,
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  you know the Australians have just had this unbelievable impact on the game. So
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  you get back home and you say, someone says pro kick is where you
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  need to go? Is that? What is that the gene that you got
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  it? How did you know where you needed to get trained? Social media?
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  Honestly, I went straight to Google. I was like American football in
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  Australia. Nothing came up, and then I was like punting in Australia and
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  then they came up and started reading into it showed my dad. My dad
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  was a little bit you know, suspect at first and thought, you know,
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  what are these guys doing, Like how do they know what's you know,
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  what's right from wrong? Essentially? And good question. Yeah. So
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  I was like, you know, I'll go down for a training session,
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  see how I go, see if they think I have the talent at all,
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  and see how it goes. So yeah, that was that was that.
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  How far How close was that to where you were living where you went
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  to tray out? So they were based pretty close to where I was living,
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  about a forty minute drive, so I didn't have a car back then,
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  so I had to you know, dry, I had to catch the
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  bus or get my parents to drop me off. So it was always a
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  little bit of a thing at the start, you know, getting to training,
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  getting to practice, and also managing my high school at the time,
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  you know. So they pretty much told me that if you want to you
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  know, train, you've got to be able to try and you know,
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  three four days a week with us, and I couldn't do that because because
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  of high school. And so I did a lot of like part time work
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  once or twice a week with them, maybe on a weekend. And then
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  when I graduate went when I graduated, I started going more often and more
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  often and getting more film and doing all that kind of stuff. And that's
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  what really propelled me forward. Yeah, so that's that's what they did.
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  So they hand you this American football and they say, okay, unlike you've
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  been kicking it, We're going to change some things and this is how you
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  have to do this. And so it's a repetition based and the gentleman that
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  that runs it, who's got the brand, is the baron. So is
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  he the dude, Like, he's the guy that says, okay, this
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  is how you do this, right. So there's two guys that run.
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  There's two main guys. So there's Nathan Chapman who works more so on the
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  technique side, and because he came over and played in the NFL for the
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  Packers and played Australian football professionally, so he has, you know, a
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  knowledge of both games. And then there's the Baron who you know he he
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  used to kick a lot more like placekicking, so he we've started to you
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  know, get place kickers in the program and he's he's he's teaching them,
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  developing them. But he's also really really good with the academic side, getting
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  making sure that everyone's academics are in place, they're eligible, making sure all
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  of that's in order, while Nathan does the more so of the you know,
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  the physical development, you know, the technique. So yeah, they
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  work pretty well together. Yeah, the Baron much discussed on this program.
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  Yeah, we had a situation. I don't know if you knew we had
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  a young No, you had a situation. Stop, Yeah I had nothing.
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  I had a situation. He had a situation. I had a situation.
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  Where the kid committed from pro kick to come here, and we needed
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  a punter, and then all of a sudden he turned yeah, went one
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  eighty, fell through, fell through. I might have been having a bad
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  day, and so basically I may have said, we're done with Australians,
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  don't want any of them. Just stay there on your own continent, don't
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  need you. I may have said, that's kind of exactly what you said.
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  That's exactly what he said. I shut I shut that, shut down
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  the whole content, shunt down the continent and through time. Luckily the Baron
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  didn't pay any attention to that. The baron, the Baron did not heed
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  my advice. They sent another young fellow over, Josh, Josh Croden.
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  Josh Croden. He was unbelievable and did a really great job. And then
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  I mended that fence. I opened the door back real quick. To your
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  credit, when you first saw him at the facility, when Josh arrived at
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  the facility, you went straight in and took the hit. Yeah, I
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  did, and just said I was wrong. Here's what I said. I
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  polished, so I give him credit. He screwed it up, but he
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  did make amends. You said, Josh yeah, and I did. And
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  I think I think Josh, if I'm not mistake, I think Josh were
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  supposed to coordinate a trip. Baron was supposed to bring us over. I
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  think they were going to do a show over there. Yet at some point,
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  maybe Josh and Baron can still get together. Hey Baron, we're here
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  for you man, just just too tickets will take you to pre big supporters.
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  Yet absolutely well we'll do a whole. But now things are great thanks
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  to Josh. Josh was very welcoming, understanding of your faux pas, welcomed
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  back in. So now very very good. Yes, so the relations now
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  relationship was mended. West Virginia said, okay, we'll give another kid a
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  chance. It's it's Josh. And then you come in. How did West
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  Virginia become a possibility for you? When did you first hear of West Virginia
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  as a possibility? When did they say we think you can kick d one?
• 20:33
  Honestly, like it just happened one day out of the blue. I
• 20:37
  was getting film at a park in Australia and you know, Baron calls me
• 20:41
  up. He's like talking to school right now. They want, you know,
• 20:45
  a certain type of film you know, just get me this, this
• 20:47
  and this, and so essentially went out, did that you're in a park,
• 20:52
  you just go out of a park, just start banging the ball,
• 20:55
  and essentially texted him back afterwards. I'm like, you know, can I
• 20:59
  know, can you tell me who it's four? And he's like, just
• 21:00
  wait a little bit. I'll let you know a bit later on in the
• 21:03
  process. And then you know, he let me know a little bit later.
• 21:07
  He was like, it's West Virginia University. I'm like, okay,
• 21:10
  I know the song, you know, take Me Home Country Roads. And
• 21:11
  I'm like, okay, I know the big d V. And then I
• 21:15
  was like, you know that you knew the WV. I've seen it before
• 21:18
  a lot. Yeah, Tavor on Austin Highlight Reel, I've seen that before,
• 21:21
  tavan Asen getting punners in Australia and still recruiting in Australia. Yeah.
• 21:26
  So saw that and then didn't know much else really, to be honest with
• 21:30
  you, and did a lot of research and you know, figured out what
• 21:34
  kind of place it was and what I was going to be getting out of
• 21:37
  it, and you know, fell in love with it pretty quickly. Who
• 21:41
  talks to you first from WV who makes contact. It was coach Coons the
• 21:45
  Special Teams he made the contact first, and then Coach Brown. I only
• 21:52
  spoke to when I got my scholarship offer from WVU and then I came and
• 21:57
  took my official visit in December of twenty twenty one and got to meet him.
• 22:02
  And you know that was just after COVID was you know, stopped the
• 22:06
  restrictions. So you committed before you came. Yeah, you said, I'm
• 22:10
  in, say the unseen yep? What was he worried about? He'd been
• 22:15
  to a thousand countries by that point. He after, wherever I'm going,
• 22:18
  he needs two passports. He's got too many stamps in his other passports.
• 22:22
  Just like, yeah, were you watching Did you watch a lot of American
• 22:25
  football? NFL or college growing up or now? Growing up? You know,
• 22:29
  I watched the big games like the Super Bowl pretty much whatever whatever was
• 22:33
  on ESPN because that's all we can, you know, really see in Australia.
• 22:37
  But when I started to really watch, it was like junior year when
• 22:41
  I when I had the desire to come over, I'd start streaming games.
• 22:42
  I'd start you know, really looking at things and you know, trying to
• 22:47
  learn the game as best I could. And then obviously when I committed here,
• 22:49
  I started watching, you know, all the games I could. And
• 22:52
  I was in London one day my grandma excuse me, what did you say?
• 22:56
  I went to I went to visit my grandma in London and he just
• 23:00
  said, listen, he just said, I was in London like we were,
• 23:03
  just like we were down Stonewall this weekend. He just gave it a
• 23:06
  week I was in London just like we would have said that. Go ahead.
• 23:08
  And anyway, so I wanted to watch the Bowl game when the team
• 23:14
  played in Arizona. Yeah, so I stayed up till like four am streamed
• 23:18
  it. Obviously not a great result, but you know I got to,
• 23:21
  you know, see the players, see who was on the team, and
• 23:22
  just see what you know, it was all about. And yeah, that
• 23:26
  was that was it for me. Okay, So you said something interesting there,
• 23:27
  because this is always fascinating to me. You said, learn the game.
• 23:30
  What do you feel like your knowledge of football rules were when you arrived
• 23:34
  here, scale of one to ten, one being nothing, ten being you
• 23:37
  understood it completely. So four, yeah, three or four? Yeah.
• 23:41
  My first ever game was against pitt in twenty two. So that was my
• 23:45
  first time ever being on a field like out in a game. How nervous
• 23:48
  were you first first punt? I was? I blacked out. I don't
• 23:52
  remember the first punt, I kindly don't. You just don't remember it.
• 23:56
  I don't. I looked over the skyline and at Afroshore and it was you
• 23:59
  know, could see the sunset coming in a little bit. And then from
• 24:00
  that on that was it. I couldn't. I don't remember. I remember
• 24:03
  everything from them. It was a good one, right, was a good
• 24:06
  one. First one? Yeah, the first one. I think he caught
• 24:08
  it like the ten or eleven. Yeah, but yeah, that was that.
• 24:11
  I don't remember it at all. I do remember that going into that
• 24:15
  game, they said, this kid has never put it in a game.
• 24:18
  Yeah, that's a good. Welcome to college football. To pack stadium,
• 24:21
  it's loud, it's crazy, huge rivalry. And also I also had no
• 24:23
  idea that I was starting up until maybe four days before the game, and
• 24:29
  that was a big pressure because obviously my family was coming over and everyone was
• 24:32
  excited and everything. They were here, they came over. Huh yeah,
• 24:34
  so why wouldn't Why wouldn't they? I mean, what's just a regular,
• 24:37
  regular Saturday afternoon for them, they probably drove. Okay, so, so
• 24:42
  level of knowledge of the rules is for But football is a super complicated game.
• 24:45
  Oh yeah, how comfortable were you with the role of the punter?
• 24:48
  I mean you had an idea of what you were what you were doing there,
• 24:51
  right, Yeah, I mean I understood the majority of it. I
• 24:53
  mean, catch the ball, kick it down the field, and if they
• 24:56
  run it back, just tackle the guy who's got the ball and then U
• 25:00
  don't make it too much more complex than that. But yeah, I was
• 25:03
  confused the whole first game about what the flags are for. And I had
• 25:07
  no idea what was going on when they caught a flag and then I was
• 25:10
  just looking around like is this good for us? Is this bad? I
• 25:12
  had no idea. Oh wow? And that only that probably only got better
• 25:15
  at the start of last year. Honestly, how about that? That's crazy?
• 25:18
  Yeah, it's nuts when you think about it. You go to West
• 25:25
  Virginia, pitt is your first game, the backyard brawl is your first game.
• 25:30
  That stadium was absolutely just jammed, right. It was one of the
• 25:33
  biggest, the the the biggest in the history of that stadium and the place
• 25:40
  is just electricity. And you're on that field and there's ten guys in front
• 25:45
  of you and eleven ready to run at you. Yeah, and here comes
• 25:49
  that ball. What a moment. It was nuts, It was Honestly,
• 25:55
  it was a lot of There was a lot of hard work put in for
• 25:57
  three years that I didn't really take it in in the moment because I was
• 26:00
  just so focused on, you know, what I had to do. But
• 26:03
  you know, when I look back on it now and I want to look
• 26:06
  at the videos and things that you know, my parents send me every now
• 26:08
  and again, like it's just for that to be my first game was just
• 26:12
  like unreal. Honestly. It was something that you know, I never really
• 26:17
  thought would have happened, you know, playing in front of seventy thousand people,
• 26:19
  your first game in one of the biggest rivalries in college sports, like
• 26:23
  especially at an NFL stadium too. Yeah, Like it was pretty much like
• 26:26
  a fairy tale for me. Yeah, I want to say, it's like
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  right. So the thing about you is like, as you said, first
• 27:19
  time you're punt in the game is the pit game. My view of you
• 27:25
  is like you've been strong and solid ever since your first kick, and you
• 27:32
  just keep getting better and better and better. So now as you look back
• 27:36
  at this thing, do some self scout, watch yourself. Then where are
• 27:41
  you now? Where do you think you are now? On your level of
• 27:45
  improvement? How much more is left that you need to do? Yeah?
• 27:48
  I mean I think I think that I'll have, you know, a long
• 27:52
  way to go in terms of where I want to be. I feel like,
• 27:56
  you know, when I first got here, I had, you know,
• 27:59
  a strong leg. I wasn't in great shape, you know, I
• 28:02
  had a strong leg, kicked the ball far could you know, locate it
• 28:04
  pretty well. But now given that you know, I've played you know,
• 28:10
  two full seasons, like my confidence level and you know, trust in myself
• 28:15
  and the system and everyone that we've got on the team and the coaching staff,
• 28:18
  like it's through the roof. And so I feel like I just have
• 28:21
  two years of like solid work that I can put in to become, you
• 28:25
  know, one of the best punters in the country. You want to be
• 28:26
  an NFL game, don't you Yeah, for sure. And so you know
• 28:32
  last year obviously hurting my ankle and in Duquine that kind of that kind of
• 28:36
  put a damper on my ear just never getting back to what I was before
• 28:40
  that. But you know, having a full you know off season off and
• 28:45
  being being healthy for once again was It's a great feeling. And it's in
• 28:48
  the spring. It was just awesome to go out there and you know,
• 28:52
  be able to punt pain free. And so I feel like now I can
• 28:55
  just you know, have the ability to really just show my potential off and
• 28:59
  you know punt ball as best I can tell me about the Duke Cane injury,
• 29:02
  because there's a lot of injuries that happened in the season, and we
• 29:04
  don't talk about them because you guys don't talk about them, but you play
• 29:08
  through them. So tell me the actual when it happened. What did you
• 29:15
  know instantly, what did it feel like, and what did that hinder you
• 29:19
  from doing during the season. Yeah, there was another blackout moment for me,
• 29:23
  honestly. You know, it's a game that we didn't expect to have
• 29:27
  to pun in, honestly, and so when I got there, yeah,
• 29:32
  I was like, you know, they're not gonna you know, they're not
• 29:33
  gonna rush me. You know, they'll just take the ball back and the
• 29:37
  offense can get on the field. But you know, they brought a little
• 29:40
  bit of pressure and then you know, one guy got snagged unfortunately, right
• 29:44
  into my ankle and pretty much took me off my feet. And as soon
• 29:48
  as I felt him hit me, I just kind of, you know,
• 29:49
  winced in pain. Was on the ground and I knew it was it was
• 29:55
  pretty bad. I was hoping it was just like a stinger or something that
• 29:57
  I could you know, shake off and it was gonna be okay. But
• 30:00
  as soon as I got off to the sideline and they checked me out,
• 30:03
  like it was pretty swollen already, and they said, you know, can
• 30:07
  you play? So I tried kicking a football and as soon as soon as
• 30:10
  my foot hit the ball, it was just straight, you know, like
• 30:12
  kicking a brick almost And tried tried kicking and didn't work. So they took
• 30:18
  me back. Obviously we had that long, like lightning delay in that game.
• 30:22
  They put me on you know, they put me on ice, elevated
• 30:25
  my ankle and stuff, and I've got some pretty gruesome photos from what it
• 30:29
  looked like back then now they look back at it was pretty It was pretty
• 30:32
  big. It looked like a balloon. So it was it was a tough
• 30:34
  one, especially especially that early in the season. But you know, it
• 30:41
  took a lot of It took a lot of thinking to think, like,
• 30:44
  am I gonna let this ruin my season? Am I going to let it,
• 30:47
  you know, be something that makes me work harder to play the whole
• 30:49
  season out rather than you know, just miss games for no reason. Almost,
• 30:53
  So, how did the impact you going forward? What do you have
• 30:56
  to alter? A lot of rehab pretty much was in the facility all day
• 31:02
  every day, probably extra three hours a day, doing balanced stuff, doing
• 31:07
  strength stuff, doing icing, you know, then staying off it for a
• 31:11
  while and coming back onto it and doing more and more, and so it
• 31:15
  was pretty much just a constant battle against my body just to get it right,
• 31:21
  especially going into Pitt as well, because obviously, you know that's a
• 31:23
  game that you don't want to miss. And I was saying to my coach
• 31:26
  like, I'm playing this week, Like I don't care if I have to
• 31:29
  take seven ibprof and I'm you know, I'm strapping up and I'm playing.
• 31:32
  That may have been excessive, but go ahead. Yeah, And so got
• 31:36
  to the game and he was like, you know, we'll put you on
• 31:38
  the track man, which is the thing that you know, tracks are kicking,
• 31:41
  and if your numbers are what they need to be or what they were
• 31:45
  previously, then you know, I'll let you play. So I went out
• 31:48
  there, you know, heavily strapped, probably had three layers of tape on
• 31:52
  my foot and couldn't couldn't flex it down straight and just hit it as hard
• 31:56
  as I could, pretty much just to you know, show him that I
• 31:59
  was ready, and you know, got through it, and he kind of
• 32:01
  gave me like a stale face, didn't say anything. And I went up
• 32:06
  to him like five minutes later, I'm like, so am I good to
• 32:07
  go on no, and he's like, yeah, you can play. So
• 32:09
  it was I was just happy that I could, you know, make it
• 32:12
  through day by day. And then from then I was a week by week
• 32:15
  basis and just making sure that I could, you know, get through,
• 32:16
  and took a lot of taping, a lot of rehab. But yeah,
• 32:20
  I'm glad I got through for sure. And you cleaned yourself up in the
• 32:22
  off season, had had a piece of cartlete removed from my knee, got
• 32:27
  my ankle fully healthy, and so yeah, feeling feeling pretty good, feeling
• 32:30
  the best I felt, honestly since I've been here brand new. You said
• 32:34
  that you weren't in good shape when you first arrived. Define what that means?
• 32:37
  Overweight? How much did you weigh to forty excuse me forty? Yeah?
• 32:43
  I lost What are you now? I'm I did not think you were
• 32:47
  that big? Yeah I was. I was very overwhel COVID didn't do me
• 32:51
  well. I'll say that I didn I didn't didn't utilize my time well in
• 32:54
  COVID, ate a lot of food that I shouldn't have, didn't work out
• 32:58
  as much as I should have. But yeah, gained a lot of weight
• 33:00
  over that period. And yeah, I got here, coach Mike, coach
• 33:05
  Mike Joseph, got me in, got me in shape in summer lost.
• 33:07
  I think I lost twenty twenty five pounds that summer. So there was a
• 33:10
  big, big turning point for me, you know, realizing what it takes
• 33:14
  to be a college athlete and the shape that you have to be. And
• 33:16
  so you're two ten right now, right now? And how tall are you?
• 33:20
  Six? Two? Yeah? So you have prototype prototype favorite food in
• 33:25
  Morgantown food are we talking about like a wide open however you want to address
• 33:30
  now? Wait, let's do it this way. Okay, you're on death
• 33:32
  row. Last meal, I'm going to have to go an Australian style chicken
• 33:38
  palm giana with chips and salad. We called fries and salad chips in Australia.
• 33:45
  You probably don't know this. A lot of Italians in Australia, a
• 33:49
  lot of Australians, Greeks, a lot of Italians. Yeah, a lot
• 33:52
  of Greeks, sle of Italians, and so that's probably pretty good there.
• 33:55
  Oh yeah, it's pretty close to a pretty Australian staple. Really chicken first
• 34:00
  I've heard of this. Yeah, you go to a pub. You go,
• 34:02
  I'm getting a chicken palm. You call it chicken palma in Australia parma.
• 34:07
  I'm getting a chicken palma and I want chips and salad. That's strong.
• 34:10
  See, we got Baron's got to hook us up here because a hundred
• 34:15
  times out of one hundred, that's awesome. So the unique thing about that
• 34:16
  then is so you're going basically what you're saying is I'm having chicken parmesan with
• 34:22
  French fries and a green salad. So like here, you wouldn't get the
• 34:27
  you wouldn't do the French fries with us because it would be the it would
• 34:29
  be the extra starts that wouldn't be there. Yeah, okay, and it's
• 34:32
  served on bread. Are we serving it on bread? We're just going right
• 34:35
  over the top with cheese. So it's the like the bread and chicken.
• 34:39
  And you got a layer of cheese yeah, and you got a slice of
• 34:43
  ham. Oh, and then you've got I'm little Cordon blue yeah, and
• 34:50
  then cheese on top, and then you got the fries and the salad.
• 34:53
  Company, I probably should move to Australia. That's perfect. Well, the
• 34:55
  fries with the chicken palms right at my alley you have, you have a
• 34:59
  couple of those, and you will be two forty exactly. That's not a
• 35:04
  health meal right there. Okay, so what was the what led to the
• 35:07
  two forty? What were you What were you at? Junk food type stuff,
• 35:12
  fast food type stuff, or just quantity? Just a lot, quite
• 35:15
  a lot. I thought I was eating the right things, but I was
• 35:16
  eating too much of the right things, I guess you could say. So
• 35:20
  give me an idea of what's quantity? Do you? Like you said down
• 35:23
  and you house something, what would it be? Give me a quantity size?
• 35:27
  So I'd make myself a fried egg, two pieces of bacon in a
• 35:32
  sandwich. So that's two pieces of bread, an egg, two pieces of
• 35:36
  bacon. Yeah, I'd make two of those. Yeah. So overall,
• 35:38
  what that's four pieces of bread, two eggs, four pieces of bacon.
• 35:42
  Yeah, eat that pretty easily. Have a coffee, wait a little bit,
• 35:45
  probably snack on some probably snack on some chips every now and again,
• 35:49
  and then you know, I'd have lunch. Should probably go get a pie
• 35:52
  like an Australian pie, which is like pastry, and then the mince meat
• 35:54
  in the middle. Okay, time out. That's another staple. That's a
• 35:59
  nice hair. And now we're going to get into this stuff because we have
• 36:01
  an Australian who watches listens and he sent us a package of stuff. It
• 36:08
  was really nice, right, it was like a big Australian care package.
• 36:12
  Remember when we tasted that vegemite. It couldn't do it, all due respect,
• 36:15
  couldn't do it. Holy hell, dude, I can't do it any
• 36:19
  hate it. I mean it was disgusting. It was really not good,
• 36:25
  really not good. It's Australian pie though, that's in here. I hear
• 36:30
  the word, miss me, what is that? It's like, I don't
• 36:34
  even know how you describe what meat? Is it? Are we beef?
• 36:36
  Are we it's beef? And how do they prepare that? I have no
• 36:39
  idea how you make it? Is it? Is it tangy? Is it
• 36:42
  salty? Is hot pie? Is it cut? Like the meat is in
• 36:46
  chunks? Are stripped? It's in chunks, but yeah, it's it's in
• 36:50
  chunks with like a sloppy Joe type. Yeah, sort of that's how I
• 36:53
  compare it. Yeah, you like it? I love it. I love
• 36:55
  it. It's also it's like when you go to Australian football game, in
• 37:00
  the winter and you getta you getna meat pie on the side. That's that's
• 37:04
  that's heaven right there. Yeah, so how do you you're sitting in the
• 37:07
  stands, how do you to pie? It's a it's a handheld it's literally
• 37:10
  probably that big here, and so you pick it up, take a bite
• 37:15
  out the side, and then in the inside is just pure pastry. Is
• 37:19
  it like the pepperoni roller? Is it? Yeah? Sort of kind of
• 37:21
  like sort of kind of pepperoni instead of pepperoni. Yeah, so you can't
• 37:23
  see pepperoni obviously, right, and then once you bite inside, you see
• 37:28
  that you have the meat inside it the same deal meat pie. Yeah,
• 37:30
  it's it's it's a bread. It's it's a bread. It's a it's meat
• 37:34
  wrapped around bread and bread. That's that's a win. Yeah, that's a
• 37:37
  win. Dessert wise, that's a great question. I can't go past a
• 37:43
  really good brownie though. Brownie and ice cream would be my favorite dessert ever.
• 37:45
  Like a scoop of vanilla, Yeah, vanilla, straight, straight,
• 37:49
  plain vanilla, and then like a warm brownie. When you go to two
• 37:52
  forty, I bet you were crushing some ice cream. I was crushing.
• 37:54
  I was crushing everything was crushing everything in the wrong way. Yeah, that's
• 37:58
  not good. When you walk in here and you meet this guy named Mike
• 38:00
  Joseph, he's got two first names, yep uh. Instantly you go,
• 38:07
  this dude's serious and that had to be a holy heck? Where am I?
• 38:15
  If you were gonna run? You were gonna run? Then? Yeah?
• 38:17
  What was that like? When you walked in? You see these dudes
• 38:21
  that are just like elite level size, mean, you know linemen are you
• 38:25
  know, three bills some d lineman or three bills And you're walking around her
• 38:30
  and you're going like you're a soft two forty and going like what am I
• 38:34
  doing? Did you get? Did you have any trepidation? I was?
• 38:37
  You know, I was. I was scared, honestly, just purely because
• 38:42
  of the I didn't like to run because of my previous knee surgery, so
• 38:45
  I always found like a way out of it and doing some type of other
• 38:49
  cardio like biking or you know, like the rowing machine or anything like that.
• 38:52
  So when I got here and I realized I couldn't get out of it
• 38:54
  because that's never gonna happen here, I was a bit nervous, but obviously
• 39:00
  you know, it takes time, and he's he's accommodating as much as he
• 39:02
  is scary. He's accommodating and you know he understands that it's not you know,
• 39:07
  Rome wasn't built in the day. It's it is. It is scary
• 39:09
  when you get here and you see guys like Zach Fraser, Bryce Ford Wheat
• 39:12
  and Sam James like freak of freak of nature athletes and you know, two
• 39:15
  forty soft from Australia just sitting here kicking a football around and you know,
• 39:20
  I'm around these guys every day and you kin't you know, it pushes you
• 39:22
  to get better though, because obviously you know you're in the building with them.
• 39:25
  You know you've got to you've got to get their respect somehow. You've
• 39:28
  got to get the trust. And that was a big emphasis from you know,
• 39:31
  the coaches, like specially coach Koons and coach Thompson, the Special team's
• 39:36
  analysts. They were like, if you're going to get there, trust that
• 39:38
  you know you can play and you can do your job, you have to,
• 39:42
  you know, show them you can do it in one way or another.
• 39:45
  And the weight room is the first way to do that for me.
• 39:45
  So when you look at what you were lifting when you first got here to
• 39:50
  what you're doing now, you probably go like, WHOA, yeah, it's
• 39:52
  a it's it's crazy how much Like honestly, like Mike Joseph is probably the
• 39:57
  best strength coach in the country, and like, and people always say that,
• 40:00
  why do you think what what's his magic? Honestly, he just he
• 40:05
  wants the best for you. And that's something that I think sometimes people players
• 40:10
  included, sometimes forget about like he's there to help us and make like he
• 40:15
  honestly cares about us as much or more than the coaches, because he wants
• 40:20
  to see you put work into yourself every day and wants to hold you to
• 40:23
  a standard that you won't hold yourself to. And so I think the way
• 40:28
  that he pushes people and the way that he holds them accountable, and he
• 40:30
  expects the same thing every day because he does the same thing every day and
• 40:34
  he brings the same energy every day. It's it's something that it's contagious and
• 40:38
  he just he sets up a great program, pushes us to the limit,
• 40:42
  not past it. And you know, he understands sports science pretty much better
• 40:46
  than anyone I've ever met before. So yeah, that's that's that's how I
• 40:50
  see it with him. The nutrition is such a big part of that working
• 40:52
  out as well. So let's walk through that for a minute. Because just
• 40:55
  great resources over there at the building, snacks from everyone, smoothies when you
• 41:00
  need him. So favorite food that's served over there one and then two?
• 41:05
  How do you take advantage of that? Are you multiple smoothies? Do you
• 41:07
  eat three meals a day over there? Like? How are you doing this?
• 41:10
  Yeah? So, as you said, diet, it's a massive part
• 41:13
  of you know, losing weight and you know, recomping your body and making
• 41:15
  sure that you're in good shape, you have enough muscle and minimal fat.
• 41:20
  And for me, that was a big thing in summer of twenty twenty two.
• 41:22
  And to your question, my favorite thing that I get from the facility
• 41:28
  is probably an omelet in the morning from Andy's one of the chefs. He
• 41:30
  makes a phenomenal omelet. What do you put in there? I go egg
• 41:35
  whites, Yeah, I go tomato, I go spinach, and I go
• 41:37
  feta cheese. Give you a tomato too, which is awesome. I like
• 41:40
  that tomato? Okay, daily? Is that a few times a week and
• 41:45
  season only? Or is that every every day out of season. So someone
• 41:49
  that's a routine thing in the morning after workouts or before workouts, depending on
• 41:52
  the time. So that's a that's a routine thing. A cup of fruit
• 41:55
  on the side, and then maybe an English as well, just to get
• 42:00
  some cabs in there as well. But yeah, that's my that's my go
• 42:02
  to for sure. How often are you doing smoothies? I honestly don't.
• 42:07
  I'm not a big smoothie guy. I'm not a big smoothie guy. A
• 42:09
  lot of the guys on the team, you know, I have to drink
• 42:10
  smoothies to you know, game work. So I've got, you know,
• 42:14
  two roommates. I've got an no lineman and a tight end roommate who needs
• 42:16
  to you know, eat four or five thousand calories a day, and they're
• 42:19
  smacking smacking down smoothies all the time. But I'm just sitting there, you
• 42:22
  know, drinking a small little protein shake after a workout. But yeah,
• 42:27
  it's it's It's not my favorite thing, but a lot of the guys on
• 42:30
  the team have to get after the smoothies for sure. Who you living with?
• 42:34
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• 43:44
  just saying things are going to get shorter, So enjoy every take every you
• 43:47
  gotta look at them. The just begun. Honestly, I know you're you're
• 43:50
  by the way weather over there in Australia Like, Hi, give me so
• 43:54
  winters when when summer? Like, how's that whole thing work? Yeah?
• 43:58
  So I went back over into souton May for nine days and it was right
• 44:01
  as winter was starting. A so yeah, it's flipped. So as soon
• 44:06
  as you as soon as you leave the warm Morgantown summer gone straight into the
• 44:10
  Australian winter. So so what's winter? What? Yeah, when you got
• 44:14
  their temperature wise, what was it doing, it's probably like sixty excuse me,
• 44:17
  sixty degrees that's winter. That's winter. Yeah, it doesn't get below
• 44:21
  it doesn't get below forty in Australia or where I live anyway, then get
• 44:25
  pretty good and get below forty and you do fries with chicken parm. I
• 44:28
  might be out, I might be in the portal, we might we might
• 44:30
  have yeah, and someone it's winter and just not nice here. It's summer
• 44:37
  there. Yep. It's so the one thing that every American I've ever met.
• 44:42
  Struggles to grapple with is the fact that on Christmas Day we're usually spend
• 44:46
  it by the poolar at beach summer. Yep, it's usually a pretty hot
• 44:51
  one as well. How often have your parents came over? You mentioned they
• 44:53
  came to the pit game. They come last year at all. Yeah,
• 44:55
  So their their routine now is that they want to try and make the first
• 44:59
  four games of every season. Agreed, So they'll be here again this fall
• 45:04
  for the first four and then hopefully for my senior as well for the next
• 45:07
  four. You think we might be able to meet your dad? Maybe he's
• 45:09
  always he's always active in the blue lot, meeting, going around meeting people,
• 45:14
  and he loves talking to everyone. So I'm sure, I'm sure we
• 45:16
  can make that happen. Does he wear a lot of jewelry since he's in
• 45:20
  the diamond business, Like, would we know he's a jewelry guard? You
• 45:22
  would never know. You would never know. Your promise you if you meet
• 45:24
  him, you would you would understand what I'm talking about. He is quite
• 45:27
  the opposite, quite the opposite. You see, that's not a jewelry gay.
• 45:30
  No, he's not a fashion guy in general, not a fashion guy
• 45:34
  in general at all. Describe Australians, I'd say honest and to the point
• 45:43
  for a lot of things. I think that the biggest thing coming to America
• 45:47
  was you know, being able to talk to people more and being able to
• 45:52
  just you know, go up and say hello and say like to a stranger,
• 45:54
  because in Australia, I mean, people just go about the day and
• 45:57
  so it's not a whole lot of you know, to chit chat going on.
• 46:00
  It's if you're talking to someone that you don't know, it's usually a
• 46:02
  transactional, you know, conversation. So when you're talking to someone that you
• 46:07
  do know, you do talk to them for a while and you talk to
• 46:09
  them, you know, pretty deeply. But that was one thing coming over
• 46:13
  here is just talking to a lot of people that you know, maybe I
• 46:15
  don't know that well, you know, on a day to day basis,
• 46:19
  and just being a more friendly guy in general, because Australians are to the
• 46:22
  point. And yeah, great personality, I mean great, very funny people,
• 46:27
  very they banter, Yeah, they enjoy laughter. What do you find
• 46:30
  peculiar about Americans? What? What what makes you go like that's kind of
• 46:35
  weird peculiar? I don't even know what to say. It's peculiar about amount.
• 46:39
  I've got to answer this carefully, don't. I know. I'm just
• 46:43
  saying, like, did you find like, is there something just the way
• 46:45
  that we deal with things on a day to day basis that's pretty opposite of
• 46:49
  how they're dealt with back home. I wouldn't say it's opposite. It's the
• 46:53
  one thing that does stand out to me. That was the patriotism that America
• 46:58
  has and the you know, the love for the country and everything like that.
• 47:01
  I think that's really prevalent here. And obviously, while you know in
• 47:05
  Australia, it's not that it doesn't exist, it's just not as displayed.
• 47:08
  And so that was something that you know, when you come over, you
• 47:12
  know, the national anthem, everyone's taking the hat off set right, you
• 47:15
  know, paying respect to the troops and everything. And I think that was
• 47:19
  one of the biggest things that I you know, came over and I was
• 47:21
  like, wow, I didn't like expect that, but yeah, I think
• 47:23
  it's I think it's really cool and I like it though. Yeah, and
• 47:27
  that's even more heightened here because the state of West Virginia has produced, you
• 47:31
  know, per capita military it's just an extraordinary number. So it's even it's
• 47:37
  even more so here for sure. What about West Virginians, Are there any
• 47:40
  similarities between like just common West Virginians and OSSes or is there a difference.
• 47:46
  Do you notice there's a certain folksiness about people here? Yeah, for sure.
• 47:51
  You know, I think that West Virginia is very similar to Australia,
• 47:54
  you know, obviously boiled down to a nutshell, because the people in Morgantown
• 48:00
  are a bit more. You know, you've got a bit of everything in
• 48:02
  morgan you don't have you know, the college. Yeah, you've got a
• 48:06
  lot of you know, a lot of people. And so once you travel
• 48:07
  out and you get over to you know, Famont and you get down to
• 48:10
  you know, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, you start to meet like the real West
• 48:15
  Virginians. They've got the southern kind of accent, you know, they've got
• 48:17
  they got a really good routine of a certain way of doing things. And
• 48:21
  I think that's the same in Australia. When in the city it's very you
• 48:23
  know, multi multicultural, multinational. And then once you get out a little
• 48:28
  bit three four hours, you know, you start meeting people that are real,
• 48:32
  real, true blue Australians, right, and so the accents become thicker,
• 48:36
  and you know, they live more out in the countryside and you know,
• 48:39
  like hunting and things like that. So yeah, that's that's probably the
• 48:43
  biggest similarity that I would say. I was just going to ask you about
• 48:45
  your comfort level here, which I will, and then you bust out named
• 48:47
  six towns here in West Virginia. So you've you understand where you are,
• 48:52
  You've taken some time to understand about West Virginia. Your level of comfort though
• 48:55
  living here? Do you still feel like an Australian that's living somewhere else or
• 49:00
  is that is that starting to switch over to this is home. I'm totally
• 49:04
  comfortable here. Where's that? Where's that in the matrix? Yeah? I
• 49:07
  mean obviously, you know, I feel Australian all the time, like I'm
• 49:09
  not, you know, I'm not going to pretend like I'm an American,
• 49:13
  you know, like I wasn't born, oh, I wasn't raised here,
• 49:15
  so I can't pretend that I'm you know, this is you know where I'm
• 49:17
  from or anything. But I think the more that I've spent time here in
• 49:21
  West Virginia, the more that it's feeling like home. Obviously I had roots
• 49:25
  in Northeast, like you know, New Jersey and New York and stuff.
• 49:29
  But the more that I spend time here, the more that i'm you know,
• 49:30
  around the people here, spend time with the college students, spend time
• 49:35
  with the football guys. It's feeling like my second home. And you know,
• 49:38
  I've got a West Virginia driver's license, my addresses where I live now
• 49:42
  in America, so I think it's you know, it's the second thing I
• 49:45
  have in terms of home all over the world. Really. So yeah,
• 49:49
  if you were out, if you were in Las Vegas and someone said where
• 49:52
  are you from, you still answer Australia. Would you say West Virginia,
• 49:55
  I'd say I'm originally from Australia, but I live in West Virginia. Kay,
• 49:59
  you've come along way. That's that's you've come a long way. This
• 50:00
  is feeling my home then, if that's that's a good answer. Yeah,
• 50:02
  for sure. Now this is a bad question because of the way that your
• 50:07
  family bounces. I'm going to ask you, like, where do you see
• 50:10
  yourself living? Do you have any idea where you would ever see yourself Saddling
• 50:15
  after after the NFL after a twenty two year NFL career. Two years,
• 50:19
  Yeah, that'll be nice. I definitely want to stay here for a bit,
• 50:22
  Yeah, for sure. I don't know how long that'll be, but
• 50:24
  I want to stay stateside for a while for sure. I mean, I've
• 50:29
  got you know, great friends here that you know, I've known for two
• 50:32
  and a half years. And you know, I've got my friends back home,
• 50:36
  and I'm always going to you know, go back to my friends home
• 50:38
  because I grew up with them. But I definitely think I'll live here for
• 50:42
  a while. I've got I've got, you know, I've got a girlfriend
• 50:44
  here, I've got her family that support me. I've got, you know,
• 50:46
  I've got just a massive support system of people that I know here.
• 50:50
  So it would be pretty tough for me to just, you know, quit
• 50:52
  that and you know, leave straight away because I've had, you know,
• 50:54
  I will have had either four or plus more years spent in West Virginia.
• 51:00
  So I think I'll definitely stay here for a while. What's next on the
• 51:01
  packing order? If you took Australia and the United States out of it,
• 51:05
  where then is the next place you love the most? Where have you been
• 51:07
  that you really love? I love. I love Europe. Honestly, Italy,
• 51:12
  Italy or England would be my would be my top place to live after
• 51:15
  this if you took those two out of the equation, to be England or
• 51:17
  Italy for sure. I don't know what it is. I think Italy just
• 51:21
  because of the lifestyle. I love coffee, you know, love good food.
• 51:24
  Obviously can't get back up to two forty, but yeah, I think
• 51:28
  Italy's Italy is a really nice place. And then London just because I've got
• 51:30
  family there, and yeah, come from the go ahead, ask because I
• 51:34
  know you want to. You just perked up when he said it. So
• 51:36
  when you just recently went over with the Chambers Elite group, did you go
• 51:40
  into Italy? Was that your bounced? Did you? Did you get into
• 51:44
  Italy at all? I didn't. Actually I want a different route. So
• 51:47
  me, Nico and Eddie Eddiev we all decided we want it because Eddie's obviously
• 51:52
  from Finland, he has been to a lot of a lot of countries in
• 51:55
  Europe, and Nico was Nico was excited to go somewhere else considering he's got
• 52:00
  family ties in Italy, and so we'd all kind of come together. We're
• 52:04
  like we don't want to go to the you know, the stereotypical vacation kind
• 52:07
  of spot. So where are we going to go? And we got recommended
• 52:10
  Prague, So we went to Prague in the Czech Republic, which was an
• 52:14
  outstanding time. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Like the buildings
• 52:17
  were crazy, like crazy architecture of crazy churches, different food, good food.
• 52:23
  But it was a great time. Honestly, I wouldn't I wouldn't have
• 52:27
  gone anywhere else. You've mentioned coffee on more than one occasion. I thought
• 52:30
  you were going so feel free. I don't know if you know, but
• 52:34
  Three Guys has its own coffee really called game Day grind. I think I
• 52:37
  did see that actually on the Instagram the other day. Oh yeah, I
• 52:39
  have to get him to get you. We'll take by the way, by
• 52:44
  the way bad on us. Oliver's appearance is sponsored in part by Daniel's Menstorf.
• 52:52
  Someone was supposed to remember named Brad. Actually, Oliver, you can
• 52:57
  attest that I gave it to him before the show. I see take care
• 52:59
  of you said, you said, talk about Daniels after you mentioned it.
• 53:01
  You're driving here anyway. See how he does He tries to shake it off
• 53:06
  on other in all seriousness thanks to thanks to our guy, fine looking Phil
• 53:09
  at Dan. You know fine looking filled, don't you? Oh yeah,
• 53:12
  Phil, Phil fils the best. He always he always does this right,
• 53:15
  Yes he does. He makes you look quite sporty. He'll do everybody right.
• 53:16
  There's some nice new West Virginia stuff that has just arrived. We got
• 53:20
  over there. I can't give it all away, but there's different designs,
• 53:24
  right, some Peter Malar stuff you come in, unique stuff that no one
• 53:28
  else has, a totally different unique like soup, like one piece that's like
• 53:32
  super unique. You gotta go see it. I don't gonna give it away
• 53:35
  here, you gotta go see it. Stop. I love that store at
• 53:38
  pretty nice. You know that. Here's the thing too, that his West
• 53:42
  Virginia stuff and then the Peter Mallar stuff is super unique and good. The
• 53:44
  sport coats are flying off that side of the store right now. He's got
• 53:47
  some A plus sport coats in there. So if you dressed up, we're
• 53:52
  a sport coat, have wear one to a wedding, an event, you're
• 53:54
  going to visit family sport coats A plus right now. So he dresses the
• 53:59
  entire Mountain your team, so you get everyone gets a suit and you get
• 54:02
  a couple. By the time you're done, what did you go with last
• 54:05
  year? What colored you go with? Because some of you guys, I
• 54:07
  saw some guys would go on maroon maroon was where'd you go with that?
• 54:10
  I want to closs you little class here? I went the uh the old
• 54:14
  black on the exterior with a white T shirt and a gold tie. Yeah.
• 54:17
  Yeah, it's nice, just as nice. Keep it simple. Yeah,
• 54:22
  so Phil final looking Phil and the crew there, they dressed them outine
• 54:24
  hears. They can dress you and make you look special, but the nicest
• 54:28
  thing is like, for example, I'm wearing this thing here today and this
• 54:30
  is a one off that he designs. And so you go around and go
• 54:36
  where can I get that shirt? Where can I get that? I get
• 54:37
  a lot of texting people same way. Just go to find looking Phil's Daniel's
• 54:39
  Men's store sponsoring Oliver's appearance here. That's a yes it is, Yeah,
• 54:46
  by the three guys that I'm wearing that be in the store here soon.
• 54:52
  Okay, awesome, Hey, uh coffee walk me through? What do you
• 54:59
  what do you lo? I don't know, honestly, So I started someone
• 55:02
  that hated coffee from a from a young age. I hated, hated the
• 55:06
  smell, hated the taste. Same with him, or could bringing him along
• 55:08
  the road? Okay, go ahead? And then I was on my weight
• 55:13
  loss journey didn't work out, and started drinking uh, straight straight black coffee.
• 55:17
  Here you go. So I started with the most harsh of harshes.
• 55:21
  And then I decided that since the straight black took too long to be able
• 55:25
  to drink it, I was like, why don't I add some ice to
• 55:28
  this and some cold water? So I was like, all right, let
• 55:30
  me try it out. Tried it out, and I loved it ever since,
• 55:34
  and that's my go to coffee order. Everyone looks at me sideways whenever
• 55:37
  I order it, So it's kind of an Americano, asked Americana. Yeah,
• 55:39
  that's it. No cream, nothing, no sweetness, nothing added,
• 55:45
  nothing, no chocolate sauce, zero chocolate, no cherryo. Just on hot
• 55:52
  black coffee with ice, no pomp of sugar, free vanilla, nothing zero.
• 55:59
  How much that's stuff you truck down on the course of a day,
• 56:01
  doesn't around pretty good. I try to keep it minimal because obviously, you
• 56:05
  know, caffeine can show up on a drug test. Really, yeah,
• 56:07
  it can excessive. It mounts if you know, okay, but I try,
• 56:12
  I try and keep it below three. I'm trying to be from your
• 56:15
  last cup comes at? What time do you have a do you have a
• 56:19
  cut it off self and pross cut off? Three pmf pretty good? Well?
• 56:22
  Yeah, how late do you stay up normally? I got a bit
• 56:25
  early. I got a bit at like nine o'clock. Excuse me, you
• 56:30
  got a bed before ten o'clock was night? Yep? Not just in season?
• 56:32
  What time you up? Depending on my lift, like six six,
• 56:37
  seven o'clock even off season, Yeah, that true deal. I just I
• 56:40
  don't have any reason to stay up late. Thank you? Pretty good.
• 56:45
  I mean, well, get up early, spend the morning and that's about
• 56:49
  it really, except if I have a tea time then I'll you'll get up
• 56:52
  a bit earlier. But he liked golf, Yeah, I love golf.
• 56:54
  Yeah, he's he's a student athlete, academic, All Big twelve comp first
• 57:00
  team. Yeah, thank you. You don't get jacking around. Nothing good
• 57:04
  happens after eleven o'clock atn't he needs to be in a bad at tent.
• 57:07
  Got to study. You gotta keep the grades up for the family back home
• 57:10
  to keep them happy as well. Coffee or water is the first thing you
• 57:13
  drink. I'll go water first. I usually wait at least half an hour
• 57:16
  for a coffee. I try to unless I'm exhausted for whatever reason. Then
• 57:21
  I'll So you get the water in fast, right, get right, get
• 57:22
  gone. Yeah, you ma, you make this drink over at the building
• 57:25
  because they got that, they got that Starbucks coffee. It's freaking sweet.
• 57:30
  So you just put you just you're just going ice and you're putting it right
• 57:31
  in there. Just grab some ice from the making. Yeah, I'm making
• 57:36
  myself at the facility and then I'll go to Starbucks or dunkin and grab a
• 57:39
  But also there's a couple of places around Morgantown that I'm a huge fan of,
• 57:43
  Like that reminded me of Australian coffee. Really have you heard of the
• 57:45
  Grind downtown? Sure you know him well? Know him well? Stone Tower,
• 57:52
  Sure know him well. Mountaineer Roast and Roast over there. Yeah,
• 57:54
  that's love that. I love that one. Okay, See that's the guy.
• 57:58
  They're the ones that make our cough Rusty has our coffee over there.
• 58:00
  Game Day Grind yeah, next time you're in game day grind. Yeah,
• 58:04
  we need to get him like a big bag. He can just walk in
• 58:06
  the facility with there and just put it right in the coffee maker. Yeah,
• 58:07
  yeah, for sure. I don't think Neil drinks coffee. You ever
• 58:10
  see him banging a car? Seen him drink? He does not. We
• 58:13
  just talked about I talked about the other day and we went our little trip.
• 58:15
  I talked to him about that. He does not do coffee. But
• 58:17
  he doesn't even do power. I mean, he doesn't do Red Bulls.
• 58:21
  He doesn't do any of that kind of stuff. He's got a he's got
• 58:22
  a little drink. The guy. He's got a little drink that he uses.
• 58:25
  It has a little caffeine in it. Okay, so something he gets
• 58:29
  all caffeine a couple of days, he says. Okay. So this young
• 58:34
  lady, yes, she from West Virginia. She's from Butler, Pennsylvania.
• 58:37
  Oh Butler just up? Did she graduated West Virginia though? So she was?
• 58:40
  I met her here? Yeah? So yeah, you know that's how
• 58:45
  your parents, I mean, that's that's how worked. That's how it worked
• 58:50
  and the way things work. Right. You guys went home for your dad.
• 58:52
  But I mean you could be up in Butler exactly. Then you have
• 58:55
  to learn a whole different accent. You have to learn Western Pennsylvania. That
• 58:59
  could be that could be a struggle for me again. But sure I can
• 59:01
  conquer it. And I can conqure it. That's a okay, that's a
• 59:05
  good deal. It is wild, isn't it? Man? When you think
• 59:07
  about it, how you come here sight unseen, it's it's it's it's a
• 59:14
  it's a great story. Silence. Think of your life, man, and
• 59:17
  you're so young into it right now. But these experiences that you have are
• 59:22
  just they're with you forever, their life changes. It makes you mature at
• 59:27
  such, You're like you're twenty five years ahead of everybody else as far as
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  experience. It's like nothing will nothing will daunt you going forward because of what
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  you've already done. Like some things get stressful. You're like, eh,
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  all right, took my first ever snap in front of seventy thousand people.
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  I put it a football down the field. I'm good. It does help
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  on us. I've been to Bangkok, I've been to England, I've lived
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  in Jersey, I live in Australia. Like, what do you got for
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  me, bring me something. I got it where a lot of people never
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  get out of their shell and they're just flipped out of their mind. They
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  get all anxious and everything because they just won't cross that threshold. You know,
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  we kid Nathan Adrian a lot who played basketball here, was a great
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  player, and he he we always said, well, he'll never go play
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  pro because he he won't get off the Grafton Road, right but in yeah,
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  grew up. But instead he does a complete one eighty and he goes
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  over in the first place he plays is Ukraine, and you think, like
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  he'll run back from France. Then it was Ukraine, France. I think
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  it was Ukraine, France, France, pretty sure anyway, whatever either way,
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  France, Ukraine, I think it was Ukraine. Anyway, Nathan,
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  he goes over and he goes back again, and he did Ukraine, and
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  he does France. He does Italy and like he says, now now he's
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  a dual he got dual citizenship in Italy because his grandparents. And now he's
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  like, but like that changed his that changes his whole life because he had
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  that took the leap. Yeah, it's yeah, it's definitely something that I
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  try and stress to my teammates, you know, getting out of the country,
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  and a lot of them, you know, they say they'll do it,
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  but I mean, no one. It takes a lot for someone to
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  actually do it and you know, take the courage to go somewhere that they
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  haven't been before. But yeah, as you said, it can change,
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  It can change your life, and it can change perspective like leaps. Oh
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  my godness, you could have expected. Well think about you guys in the
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  Chambers Elite program, which doesn't get talked about enough. So as sixteen dudes
• 1:01:30
  went over, right, those are unbelievable experiences, like we had Jaquean here
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  earlier this season. You just mentioned, Nico was there, Eddie V was
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  there. I know Garrett's gone in the past, but those are opportunities to
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  make contacts with people and network and see different worlds. It's like it just
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  yeah, it opens you up for sure. Yeah, it's it And that's
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  one of the things that I'm most grateful for being in you know a WVU
• 1:01:55
  players, the Chambers Elite Climbate's program, just because of how it you know,
• 1:02:00
  attacks different angles of business. Instead of you know, going to class
• 1:02:05
  learning about finance, learning about business. It's a bit different. It's a
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  different approach, and I think it's something that's really beneficial for us as a
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  team and for us as individuals. You know. I think it's been something
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  that's helping open me up, and it's been something that I've really benefited from.
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  And so I think that every single guy on the team should apply for
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  it, and whether or not they get in, I mean, just keep
• 1:02:27
  applying because it's just something that's so impactful and beneficial. Do you see yourself
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  doing business someday? Yeah, I'd love to. Yeah. I'm a finance
• 1:02:35
  major, so I'd love to get into some sort of business, whether my
• 1:02:37
  own or someone else's. And you know, obviously I'm not exactly sure what
• 1:02:42
  that'll be at some point, but you know, I'm excited for it.
• 1:02:45
  Damon's maybe yeah, maybe what do you think? Yeah? Does I do
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  like it? You do like it? Yeah, we'll see. So you
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  like the wheel and Deal? Yeah, I don't see myself on in New
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  York in the streets, you know, No, I get that part,
• 1:02:59
  like you would. You would like to be moving a lot, Yeah,
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  moving things and making sure they get from place to place safely, and there's
• 1:03:06
  no crime happening to the assets. Yeah, that's what I like to think
• 1:03:09
  about. Yeah. A couple last points. Yeah, team chemistry, Yep,
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  it has changed since you arrived. Give me your perception of what it
• 1:03:20
  was when you got here, how it has morphed, and where is it
• 1:03:23
  right now. It's funny you say that. Actually, I was having the
• 1:03:27
  same conversation with I think it was Chique the other day. We were talking
• 1:03:30
  about how different it is, honestly, from twenty twenty two to even last
• 1:03:36
  year mid season. The fact that we had so many We had such a
• 1:03:39
  talented team in twenty twenty two and a team that probably could have gone and
• 1:03:43
  done really spectacular things, but we had a lot of guys that weren't bought
• 1:03:47
  in, or a lot of guys that were thinking of themselves, or certain
• 1:03:52
  things weren't going right, and it caused a big issue. Whereas last year
• 1:03:55
  and this year especially, we have personalities that well together. We have guys
• 1:04:00
  that are all bought into the same program, guys that want to win,
• 1:04:03
  and guys that want the program to win. So I think that we've taken
• 1:04:09
  massive leaps in the leadership in the culture that we've built, and that's something
• 1:04:13
  coach Brown stresses a lot in team meetings and stuff is culture and so it's
• 1:04:16
  something that obviously has taken a couple of years to do, but I feel
• 1:04:20
  like we've done it well and we put ourselves in a position to, you
• 1:04:25
  know, instill that culture for the next you know, four or five six
• 1:04:28
  years as well. Yeah, which is awesome. I agree. How fun
• 1:04:31
  was that bowl game for you? That was awesome? Yeah. I loved
• 1:04:33
  it. First time in North Carolina, so that was a good time.
• 1:04:36
  And got to play against one of my pro kick friends as well, so
• 1:04:39
  it was good to see him. Yeah, yeah, it was good.
• 1:04:42
  You know, the thing is that when you win a bowl game here,
• 1:04:44
  that team's always remembered. Obviously we've had big ones, but those teams,
• 1:04:48
  like if you win a bowl, just you're that team's remembered. That's always
• 1:04:53
  going to be. Yeah, that's the team to beat North Carolina and mail
• 1:04:55
  Ball. So those are good. So just you need to stack those.
• 1:04:59
  Stack two more of stack more, a couple more. All right, good
• 1:05:01
  deal. So you're going you're going over to Neil. You're going over to
• 1:05:04
  Neil's house now and just riding the boat heading over to Nails. Ride the
• 1:05:06
  boat, get to get a bite into eat note chicken Palmegan. Unfortunately,
• 1:05:12
  he's an interesting dude. Yeah, Yeah, he's awesome. He's kind of
• 1:05:15
  like he's kind of like his own little security camera system, Like he's got
• 1:05:21
  ninety two cameras. He knows everything that's going on, right, You ever
• 1:05:25
  noticed that? He says always nice? What's going on? Nice? What's
• 1:05:28
  going on? He's like, yeah, hey, what about this? What
• 1:05:30
  about that? Doesn't miss much now he doesn't. He knows, he knows
• 1:05:32
  what's going on and makes a good point of that as well. All right,
• 1:05:36
  good deal. Listen, man, did you have fun? I loved
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  it? Is there anything anything that you wanted to ask us? I mean,
• 1:05:43
  you have any questions? I mean, I mean honestly, I was
• 1:05:45
  just hoping to get a bag of the coffee and maybe one of those polos
• 1:05:48
  to go go for the time because now and we're not working on it's done.
• 1:05:54
  Hey, Phil, he needs a shirt you know his size, you
• 1:05:57
  know what he likes to wear. And we'll get you to coffee as well.
• 1:06:00
  That'll be awesome. You gotta grinder, Yeah, we've got to got
• 1:06:01
  a the drip one actually, oh you do? Yeah? Weedman, drink
• 1:06:06
  coffee. He's a big one as well. He is Dick. What about
• 1:06:09
  Dixon? Not as much and we got to get him going to He's tall,
• 1:06:13
  he needs cough exactly. He needs needs an energy kick. Awesome,
• 1:06:16
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• 1:06:24
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• 1:06:28
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