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3 Guys Before The Game - Ed Vesterinen (Episode 645) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: It's a first. Yeah, six and forty fifth episode and
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  Speaker 2: It's episode forty five. Mountaineer football player epic Edward vest
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  Speaker 1: value beyond numbers. All right, let's jump in. Eddie V.
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  Speaker 1: Edward Vester Rinnan is our special guest Mountaineer football player.
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  Speaker 1: His appearance here on three Guys before the Game is
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  Speaker 1: brought to us by our good friend, fine looking Phil
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  Speaker 1: at Daniel's Men's Store here in Morgantown. They not only
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  Speaker 1: outfit three guys They also outfitted Eddie V when he
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  Speaker 1: was at media day. Nice last week, you looked special.
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  Speaker 1: You look good, didn't you?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, and that shirt he wore there is of course
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  Speaker 2: down check it out.
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  Speaker 1: So when you went into you went into you go
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  Speaker 1: into Phil to get fitted over there, a film comes
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  Speaker 1: over right, he does it either way, like what do
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  Speaker 1: you tell him that that you're looking for? Like what
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  Speaker 1: suit did you go like last year? What suit did
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  Speaker 1: you go with when you guys got suits?
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  Speaker 4: When we get suits, especially for the media day, I
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  Speaker 4: just walk in and I mean he has I for
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  Speaker 4: for what people like, and usually I just go with
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  Speaker 4: whatever he wants because I do too.
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  Speaker 1: Sam.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm myself. I'm not a very big
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  Speaker 4: you know, but I just trust Feel's hands.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's basically the whole thing for Phil right there, right,
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  Speaker 2: I just go in and trust what Phil says.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's he just nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: The best way to approach it is like, let Phil
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  Speaker 1: dress you. Most guys don't have that gene in them
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  Speaker 1: that they just let fill and me makes people look
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  Speaker 1: better than they're supposed to look. Yeah, it's an honor
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  Speaker 1: to have you here.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that, I'm not I don't say that to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And here's here's why I say that. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: one of the all time great stories in Mountaineer football.
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  Speaker 1: I truly believe that, and I've got incredible respect for
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  Speaker 1: anyone who even plays football at this level. But in
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  Speaker 1: your case, you did so many things that don't happen
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  Speaker 1: in order to get where you are. You come from
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  Speaker 1: a different country. Obviously English is not your first language.
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  Speaker 1: You were completely raw as a football player when you
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  Speaker 1: got here, and I remember they had to tea literally
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  Speaker 1: start from like the from zero in teaching you how
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  Speaker 1: to play this game. And you get through that to
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  Speaker 1: the point where you are a contributing regular member at
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  Speaker 1: the highest level of college football.
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  Speaker 2: All Big twelve designation. Yeah, he's got all Big twelve
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  Speaker 2: honorable mention honors and academic honors.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say. And then academically, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: this is again as I said, this is not you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is not your first lane. And you get all
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  Speaker 1: academic honors. You've already got your bachelor's you're working on
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  Speaker 1: your masters, so to me, like you become one of
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  Speaker 1: the all time great stories. You define what this is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be, this being collegiate sports. So I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: That means a lot to me, you know, definitely, I'm
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  Speaker 4: so proud to be part of the mount of your
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  Speaker 4: football team, and especially being here in Morgantown for four
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  Speaker 4: and a half years, you know, and the Morgantown feels
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  Speaker 4: like a home to me, and I'm just very happy
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  Speaker 4: to be in this position.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd love to go back to figure out exactly
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  Speaker 1: how in the world you got here. So you get
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  Speaker 1: here and we hear Eddie v he was in the
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  Speaker 1: Finnish Army, like, so let's go, let's go all the
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  Speaker 1: way back. Let's go, little guy Eddie. Were you ever
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  Speaker 1: little guy Eddie or were you always big kid Eddie?
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was a little big kid, yeah, maybe a little chumpy,
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  Speaker 4: a little chuppy may when I was thirteen years old,
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  Speaker 4: twelve years old, I mean I was into music, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I was in a part of a church choir and
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  Speaker 4: played my little saxophone. Yeah, and I was a little
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  Speaker 4: choppy kiy until really I found sports.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're singing in the choir.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, singing a church choir at bit a lot of
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  Speaker 4: young boys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good singer, maybe not the best.
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  Speaker 4: They never put me as a solo, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: I figured I might not be the best.
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  Speaker 1: You're just kind of a girl team player, and you're
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  Speaker 1: you're enjoying that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's times, you know, you know, especially during
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  Speaker 4: Christmas when you're part of a church choir, you have
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  Speaker 4: so many, so many concerts, like my Christmas time December
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  Speaker 4: was booked like every weekend and practice every week, you know,
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  Speaker 4: twice or three times a week practice, and I mean
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of hard to describe, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: there's a discipline too. You know, there's there's our conductor.
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  Speaker 4: You know, uh, he ran the whole thing, and he
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  Speaker 4: held discipline on us.
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  Speaker 1: You know what do you mean by discipline? Will he
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  Speaker 1: hit you?
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  Speaker 4: No, he wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I just discipline.
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  Speaker 3: Your house, like immediately my dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was discipline for me. You didn't do something
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  Speaker 1: righty whack you?
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  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't like I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's your feeland, I didn't know, yeah, feeling.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we know, we don't really do that they don't. Don't.
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  Speaker 3: They don't beat their children.
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  Speaker 1: What what countries over their heads? Answer that, don't answer that.
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  Speaker 1: He was going to tell me what country was.
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  Speaker 4: Just maybe maybe more the southern European.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't let him get you off the rails.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ignore that. Ye all right, I'll strike that from
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  Speaker 1: the record. So so were you did you always do
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  Speaker 1: well in school academically? Academically?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, uh, not the best, but you know I
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  Speaker 4: was hanging in there, and you know, I went there
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  Speaker 4: just to see my friends and you know, have fun
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  Speaker 4: at that time.
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  Speaker 1: So academics became more serious later in life? Is that
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying, when you got here became more well focus?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they didn't really. I mean the school in Finland
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  Speaker 4: is pretty hard. Ah, and you know, once I got here,
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of prepared.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That's a nice way of saying like it
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  Speaker 1: was more difficult there back.
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  Speaker 4: Home, definitely, high school was a little more difficult for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Interesting, So you're a chubby twelve or thirteen year
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  Speaker 1: old kid when you're doing this choir or is that
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  Speaker 1: is that outside of school or is that a part
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  Speaker 1: of school?
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  Speaker 4: So everything is outside of school? We don't have many.
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  Speaker 4: We don't do clubs within schools. It was outside of school.
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  Speaker 4: It was part of the It was a big church
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  Speaker 4: in Finland. It was a it was a known boys choir.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of famous singers came from that choir.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do any shows at the famous Helsinki Cathedral?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that was our cathedral every Sunday usually we had
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  Speaker 4: our Sunday meth at the hell.
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  Speaker 3: That's a famous cathedral and famous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very famous cathedral. Yeah, so I bet you
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  Speaker 1: it's big and the sound there is probably wow.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, when we used to do this tour around
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  Speaker 4: Finland to gout these different cathedrals and like sing and
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  Speaker 4: then we used to have like we used to know
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  Speaker 4: how some cathedrals had a really like echo. It was
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  Speaker 4: really long, so really hard to sing when you can
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  Speaker 4: like hear your own voice coming back at you. It
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  Speaker 4: was really hard sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sometimes we have that at the stadium. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when the very rarely it's happened at the football stadium
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  Speaker 1: where someone sings the anthem and it bounces back at
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  Speaker 1: him and that can flip you out. So you're a
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  Speaker 1: twelve thirteen year old chubby kid in the choir. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about sports. What are you playing if anything when
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  Speaker 1: you're twelve thirteen as a club.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was playing tennis with alongside saxophone and church
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  Speaker 4: you know boys choir. So I was playing tennis for
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  Speaker 4: maybe eight years. I did the choir for maybe ten
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  Speaker 4: saxophone probably eight years. Okay, so singles, doubles both in
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  Speaker 4: ten I did singles. Yeah, singles pretty good. I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: the best, but I know how to play definitely.
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  Speaker 1: So you could get on a court right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I could definitely get on court right now. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: my start, you know, the slam is not maybe perfect,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll definitely give you a fight.
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  Speaker 2: You can serve.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was I was the serve, you know. That's
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  Speaker 4: the hardest part for me. And the tennis is serving right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Could you beat every current Mountaineer football player in tennis?
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  Speaker 1: All of your teammates? Could you beat them all? I
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  Speaker 1: would say so, yeahah me too, I.
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  Speaker 3: Would say.
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  Speaker 4: Probably.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's get into where does this football thing
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  Speaker 1: start for you? So the football things in a second,
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  Speaker 1: this is before give me give me the army. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know about the army, the army. So was
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  Speaker 1: football before the Army.
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  Speaker 4: Football was before Army Army was after high school.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so when was the first time you were introduced
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  Speaker 1: to American football.
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  Speaker 4: The first time I was introduced to American football was
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  Speaker 4: probably thirteen years old, right, maybe it was maybe I was.
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  Speaker 4: It was probably like The Blue Mountain State, the Netflix series, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: but I think before that maybe I saw some It
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  Speaker 4: was really I remember just this highlight, this compilation, a
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  Speaker 4: big hit compilation that was really that started everything. I
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  Speaker 4: saw it on YouTube. We had a great song and
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  Speaker 4: a big hits and I was like, wow, you know
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  Speaker 4: this is like this looks fun. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying dudes just crashing the other just big
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  Speaker 1: hits in American football, and you're going like, I like that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and what's that about? You know?
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of like the just getting into puberty,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt like maybe I needed something more handsy
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  Speaker 4: or something you know, more physical.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, something you know yeah bang people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and like maybe I had a lot of frustration
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  Speaker 4: in me that I needed to get out. And well, well, also,
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  Speaker 4: you know I haven't told you this. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: had a brother. I had a fourth brother, okay, and
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  Speaker 4: he passed up. He passed away when I was thirteen
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  Speaker 4: years old, and I think, you know, that's probably what
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  Speaker 4: really got me started playing football, is because I had
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  Speaker 4: a lot of frustration that I had to deal with,
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  Speaker 4: you hat, a lot of anger, a lot of anger.
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  Speaker 4: You know, why why now?
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  Speaker 1: Why me?
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  Speaker 4: You know why my brother? You know a lot of
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  Speaker 4: questions and you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's a that's a difficult time when you're thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Just if you're thirteen when you lose someone like that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was just a horrific time for you.
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  Speaker 4: He was, I mean, he was my best friend, to
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  Speaker 4: be honest, and it was he had an alcohol problem
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  Speaker 4: and that's what that's what led him, you know in
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  Speaker 4: the pass right right?
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  Speaker 1: And so that takes you into the world of football.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that was around you? How did what
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  Speaker 1: was the club level like there? How were you introduced
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  Speaker 1: to it?
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  Speaker 4: So after the video, I kind of I went on
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  Speaker 4: the internet Google looked up the team on Helsinki and
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know it was the best team in the nation.
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  Speaker 4: So I just texted him, the junior head coach, and
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  Speaker 4: he told me to come to this practice the other
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  Speaker 4: at this time. And remember my first practice, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they put me in an O line. I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: what I was doing, and you know, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was there.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of met the guys that I made friends
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  Speaker 4: with the people, and you know, that's it was a
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  Speaker 4: group of a good group of people that I met.
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  Speaker 2: So at that point, you had not seen an entire
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  Speaker 2: game or even parts of a game, or by the
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  Speaker 2: time you went to the first practice, you'd seen some games.
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  Speaker 4: Well I've never seen a live game before that, or
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  Speaker 4: I've never even on TV, not even I mean they
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  Speaker 4: hit the highlights were Yeah, I never had I probably
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  Speaker 4: did not know that they had four downs, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So when you say zero, you started for zero?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was completely zero. Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And how long did you do that at a club level?
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  Speaker 4: So club level, I think I did the first year
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  Speaker 4: I did juniors it was maybe like fourteen fifteen year olds,
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  Speaker 4: and then after that I kind of got bumped into
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  Speaker 4: the men's team very very early. I was starting in
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  Speaker 4: the men's team when I was seventeen years old, and
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  Speaker 4: like we were are my team, Like we were they
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  Speaker 4: were winning the national championship every year, like the men's
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  Speaker 4: at men's level, so it was like the highest level
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  Speaker 4: of American football in Finland.
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  Speaker 1: So are you still playing offensive line at that time?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I was playing both sides, offensive line and defensive line.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was very much a team team first guy.
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  Speaker 1: Is the coach from Finland or was it an American
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  Speaker 1: person that came over to coach the team?
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  Speaker 4: So the the Helik Roosters is my hometown team, and
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  Speaker 4: they have impoor players. They usually have four Americans that
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  Speaker 4: they bring in every year. And usually they there's at
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  Speaker 4: least maybe one American coach somewhere, maybe a position coach,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes a head coach, you know, and that's really what
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  Speaker 4: you know, Americans come in.
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  Speaker 3: So how did you get to West Virginia?
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  Speaker 4: So how did I get to West Virginia? So I
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  Speaker 4: came in to see everyone was telling me, you need
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: to go overseas. You know, you're really good at this naturally,
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  Speaker 4: and so okay, and I go to football games one year,
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  Speaker 4: maybe like twenty nineteen or eighteen, no, seventeen, probably, Well
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  Speaker 4: it didn't work out for me. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I came in in bad shape, not conditioned. So when
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  Speaker 1: you went to these camps, were they home or were
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  Speaker 1: they over here in the United States? They were in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. Okay, so they ground up a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of guys from Europe, right, yeah, and they bring you
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  Speaker 1: guys over yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: For two weeks and then you take busses from from
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  Speaker 4: all over the East Coast, you know. And then that
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  Speaker 4: didn't work out for me the first year, but then
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: two years after, I was posting a lot of videos
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  Speaker 4: on Twitter, and that's how I was posting every day
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  Speaker 4: videos on Twitter, and that's how I got recruited by
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  Speaker 4: West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, first, for.
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  Speaker 2: You, go back to the first time you came through
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  Speaker 2: camp here. Did you walk away saying, oh, no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a long way from this, or did you say I
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: can see the path there, I've just got some work
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 4: So I didn't specifically come to West Virginia, but I
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  Speaker 4: went to like big schools, you know, Big ten or
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: you know big schools, and well, my first thinking was like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: like this competition is different. You know. I didn't think
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: it was gonna be this hard because man, everyone's out there.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like a free for all. And then
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I realized, you know, you have to skip lines, Like
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  Speaker 4: I was skipping lines and people are mad at me,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: and I was just like, I don't know what you're saying, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, going through drills, you made Yeah, going to a drill,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: you're jump you're jumping ahead, yes, yeah.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: And that was like you you might have to do it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: It was like you had to or you're not even
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: being being looked at if you didn't jump lines. I
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: see what you're And then I was like, I didn't
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: go yet, even though I did go like three times,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: you know, I didn't go yet. But that's the only
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: that's it's very brutal, like from all these camps, you know,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: it's I was like, man, I got to put in
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: some extra work and I really started working harder.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: You you have something that the finish call se Sue Yeah,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: ccil s s I s U C Sue yeah, which
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: is about grit and determination, which I think fits right
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: in with Brad. What a mountaineer is grit and determination.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Do you see the parallel between ce Sue and the
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: mountaineer spirit?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Definitely?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I see it. Yeah, the relation, big correlation. Yeah, in
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: what way I mean, CISU. It's hard to describe. I mean,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: it's like not giving up ever. It's kind of like
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: if you say something, you do it, you know, and
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: just going all the way, even though if you have
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: some you know, it's kind of like just never giving
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: up and it's uh, it mean, it's great everything. And
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: you know that's what finished people are. They're very stubborn.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: That's what also cis is like you're stubborn. You don't
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: listen to anybody else. You know, you have your own
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: anything you want to do and you want to finish it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Then isn't that doesn't that fit perfectly?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Brad with us with West Virginia. Yeah, we should adopt
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Finland as our sister country. We should. Yeah, that's a
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: lot of.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: A T shirt we might take.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That is very good. That could be. So this is
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: really fascinating. So you get over here the first time
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: and you go like, I can't play with these dudes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: You go back when you say you do more work
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: when you go back? Is that lifting? Is that drills?
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Is?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: What? Is that? What made you better?
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: What made me better is working out every day? I
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: increased a double amount of work workouts. I did, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: late night workouts, running out the hill. You know, it's
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: just I figured, you know, I've kind of like found
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: out that there's a lot of people, thousands of tens
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: of thousands of kids that I'm racing against like right now,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: you know, like the time is running out. You know,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I'm getting older, just increased a lot of workouts.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: You know, you just turned on your You maximized your CISUS.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Is what You're definitely maximized. Yeah yeah, well clip.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: That and send that out to some kids. Right that
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: right there is the key realized he was competing against thousands.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: You had to.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Step it up.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, not entitled.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Not entitled. So when you said, Eddie that you started
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to put post on Twitter each day? What were you posting?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: What were you showing on your videos that caught the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: eye of West Virginia.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: So I was posting I mean football adrills, weight room workouts,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: single lenks, squats, you know, walking on my hands anything.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: You know. It was kind of like I was trying
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: to sell my brand and I had to figure out
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: something every day, Like if I didn't have content today,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: like I had to figu something so I didn't have
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: like handwalking you walked on my hands for ten yards?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Because you know, I had to post every every day
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: was the thing. Like I was posting every day so
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I knew somebody was seeing it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Wow, where'd you get those ideas? Were you following people
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that were doing that or you just thought of that?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I just thought of that, really, you know, I mean
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: walking on my hands?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: This is all you've been doing that for.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I mean I haven't been I didn't do it a lot.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I just did it just for the videos. Okay, yeah,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: like so we couldn't get you up here today and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: start walking.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Done in a couple of years. But yeah, give me
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: a couple of days, dude.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: No, I know, I don't want to get you. Last
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: thing I want to do is get you hurt. Go
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: back to the Finnish army there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's so you come over here. It doesn't work
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: out as far as getting any offers. You go double down,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you go full mode, see sue, you start putting out
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: things on Twitter. Where does the Finnish Army come into this?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: So after I finished high school, every male in Finland
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: has to do it before they they're thirty years old.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: So I figured, you know, I might as we'll just
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: do it right after high school so I don't have
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to think about it anymore.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: How long do you have to commit? So I did
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: six months of army.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I was in a I got into this sports academy
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: which is kind of like the best athletes from Finland
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: that got you know, we're basically trained as urban recon
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: like soldiers, and and kind of like they give us
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: a little more free time to like during the day
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: maybe like you can go to your workouts or your
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: team practice, or they give you a little like they
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: also had a nice weight room. You know, they had
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a little more thing like a snack room for you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: they had a little better things, a little better for
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: the top athletes. Yeah, Finland urban what was that urban
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: area reconnaissance?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, give me an example of what that would how
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: would learn? What would you need to do here? What
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: could you do?
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: So my uh so, my wartime assignment is to be
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: in this group of maybe ten people and we're basically
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: basically going to be up maybe close to the enemy.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: And it's kind of like just uh, I mean, I mean,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: we're we're supposed to recon recon the urban areas kind
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: of like the suburban city areas, and I mean it's
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: kind of I mean simplifying. It is kind of like
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: looking on roads, like writing down what kind of equipment
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: do you see and then just like giving the information forward.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: That's a that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Is a that is significant and maybe hard for some
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: in this country, ex of those observed in the military
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: to relate to, because you share a long border with Russia,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: and Finland is now a NATO member, So if push
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: came to shove, you guys would be on the good
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: guy's side, on NATO's side, right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. I mean the current uh, you know, the
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: status of you know, there's a lot of things that's
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: been going on with the Russia and Ukraine, and especially
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: when they attacked Ukraine, you know then and you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: we understood like we might be next.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: That's why we joined NATO.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: And I mean throughout the history, we were always trying
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: to be neutral, were always trying to play both cards,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: you know, the West and the Russia. But now with
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: the Ukraine, we had to design and we decided to
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: all with the West.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So you could be called back in to military service.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm I'm in the reserve, so anytime, you know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: they could ask for me to come back.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's a while. Yeah, yeah, who reaches out to you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Three? I think if I'm really hungry the first three guys.
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  Speaker 2: So we're getting those barbecue sauces in is that what
• 24:36
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  Speaker 3: So Eddie, if given the choice between a big old
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  Speaker 4: Big biscuits please, okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, on the Karlan pie, I don't know what. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't say. How do you say it right? Karelian? Karelian? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Karelian pie. Okay, I don't know about.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That now you so, what's in that?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: It's it's a rice pie, rice around like a bread. Yeah,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: it's it's a traditional finish.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: What else is it's? What's in there?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: What goes with the rice?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Anything?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Butter and some yeah, rice, bread and butter. Yeah, it's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in like bread.
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  Speaker 4: Then then put the rice in the middle and it's cooked, baked,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: and then you put some butter on it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Korea Karelian pie.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: It's uh, Karelia is the area right next to Russia.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: You know it's Oh, so it's the name for a town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: A favorite meal, favorite meal, like finished meal.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll do both.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: We'll do finished meal, then we'll do an American meal
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: finished meal, favorite.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Finished meal, smoked salmon with potatos and some sour Korean
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: gravy with some deal lemon squeezed in there?
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Big deal?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: How do the what form of the potatoes?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: And just like a small golden pato, small.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Roasted You guys like that deal? Yeah deal, You guys
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: are big because it goes with the fish relishes. You
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: guys are in the relishes a little bit too or
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: that more? Yeah?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fish dessert a dessert go with that blueberry.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Piece vanilla sauce?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: What about over here?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Have you.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Have you had a food? Have you had a food
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: over here that you hadn't had back home that when
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you ate it for the first time, you went like,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: holy goodness, what is this? You fall in love with?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Any of our food? Barbecue?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Good? Uh baby wreck ribs, some good barbecue sauce, like
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: really like I don't like some smoke, you know, good
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: smoked ribs.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: That some really good stuff. I mean, we got a
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  Speaker 1: guy that does that for us.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we'll have to get him fall We'll get
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: some of those. What's your favorite training table meal? What's
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: your go to over there?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Chicken?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Just if they have chicken wings, like chicken thighs whatever, Yeah,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: whatever chicken is whatever chicken.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you could crush some chicken thighs. Man,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and you do eight, you can probably do eight to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: ten to twelve chicken thighs.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Probably if I'm really hungry, if you gets what
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: about you?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: What about you? You're really hungry and you they put
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: down a whole chicken.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Whole chicken?
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Easy, yeah, easy?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: If it's if I'm really hungry, you know, the whole chicken.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: The whole chicken.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Will breakfast? What do you go with with breakfast?
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Have to get the old meal every morning, every morning?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: You start with that, started with that and then some
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: egg omelet?
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: What do you put in the omelet?
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Omelet? Everything they have?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you that's bulls.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Hams, pepper, tomato, onion, ham, mushroom, every Finich mushroom, cheese, cheese, cheese, whatever.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you ever like walked into the training table
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and said to yourself, I cannot believe what I am, where
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I am and what I get here every day? It's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: got to be I mean you, dude, you've been in
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the Finnish Army.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Finnish Army used to get these packs. They
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: sent you for like a week into the forest, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: they gave you these packs. You gotta put boiling water
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: into the packs and then like training tables. Better than that,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: you're a lot better. Yeah, training table man. I you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: sometimes you forget in what kind of position I am.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: You know, you kind of get used to the routine
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: and you kind of have to stop sometimes and kind
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: of like realize that, hey, this is not normal. You
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: know you're getting You're getting everything, you know, breakfast, dinner.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: They take care of you.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: You know, we have the doctor you can see in
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: the morning, whatever you have, Like, everything's you know something
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: I was gonna appreciate those things.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like it's like football Disneyland. Yeah, like they're
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: always there to take care of you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: to win. You went through an injury last year, my friend,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: first time you ever got significantly hurt?
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: First time, Yeah, like a major injury. Yeah, with the
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: knee definitely.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, University of Albany. It's early in the season. You
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: went through the whole off season trying to get ready
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to go and then boom. What do you remember about
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the play? What do you what are your lasting memories
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: about the rehab?
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Well, uh, the play, I remember it was in the
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: second quarter. You know, I was mad at they They
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: were taking talking trash. The old line was talking trash.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I was kind of talking trash. They're talking trash to.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: You, yes, David talking trist to me. And I was,
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: you know, very angry or you know, and I really
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: wanted to, you know, show them and then give them sue.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: And then one play I kind of like showed them
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: a little too much because I kind of torqued my
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: upper body and then when I got out from the
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: pile something, you know, my knee kept locking up and
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: jamming up. I mean, it wasn't painful, it was just
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: a you know, it wasn't working right, and you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I just went to the hospital. I was in the
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: hospital the second half, you know, and when I was
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: in an MRI machine for forty minutes, and definitely was
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: a rock bottom for me because you know, I understood that,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: you know, this will not take you. This won't be quick,
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: and this will take a lot from me and me,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I'm very I appreciate our training staff. They you know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: they've helped me a lot. And you know, injuries are
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: not easy.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: It's definitely I've grown a lot, you know, mentally and physically.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: You know, it's you definitely get something of it too.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Freaking Albany, did you learn so mentally?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: All due respect, did you learn that you can't lose control,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: because maybe if you didn't lose control, you wouldn't have torqued.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, perhaps you know not not to get so emotionally,
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: you know, you know, to too visibly emotionally, you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: just just do my thing, you know, trust my technique.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: I got out of my technique. You know, that's what
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: cost me.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: You said you grill out. Mentally? Was that harder with
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the injury the mental part of not being out there
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: every day with the guys than it was the physical?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Definitely? You know, seeing my guys run off the field,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: like out the tunnel into the field, and my body
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: was also getting ready to play because I heard you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: the you know, it was hard, you know, and you know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: watching everything from a sideline was terrible. You know, I
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: couldn't do anything. All I could just they you know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: just hype up them, hype them up. But you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: just being not being able to participate contribute was definitely terrible.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you grow up a ton, You grow up a ton.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You've gone through a coaching change. Now Coach Brown and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: staff are gone. Whole new staff comes in. Obviously for us,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: we've been here once before when Rich was here, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: this is your first taste of Rich. I would imagine
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he's unlike anything you've ever had to deal with when
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: it comes to a coach.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It was a learning curve during the spring.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: But you know, now it feels like they've been here
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: longer than six months. You know, it's definitely a difference
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: from last year.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: What has changed. Their style is different. What is your
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: noticeable difference of how the game is played and introduced
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to you guys?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Well, I could start off with intensity, you know, I
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: didn't know you could crank up intensity. I practice like that,
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: you know, and intensity is definitely you know, everything matters.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: You know, it's there's a very vocal, you know, very yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: very well, but you know it's it's good. You know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: he kind of brings the best out of you when
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: you're put into those situations every day. You know, they
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: make practice hard and so games will feel easier, you know. Definitely,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I'm very excited too. I didn't think I was going
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: to be in this position. You know, like when the
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: last season ended, I had uncertainties everyone had. I didn't
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: know what was going to happen. And you know, I'm
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: so glad that I made the right decisions, you know,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad, so glad to be part of this team.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Zach Ally was here with us and talked about how
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: aggressive he likes to be defensively. You're seeing that, right,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: You guys get after it and come from everywhere, right.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we get after it so much. He can present
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: so much to the offense. And I mean, I mean
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: he's a best of mind. He can He's a lot
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: He has a lot of plays, a lot of me
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: definitely maybe doubled, maybe triple the amount of plays we
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: have from last year. There's a lot of learning too.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: You know, you got to make sure you're on top
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: of your playbook.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Have you reached that point where you've played enough now
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: that you're totally comfortable with anything that comes in from
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the sideline. Are you good? Like are you just I
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: guess the question is this are you playing? Instead of thinking.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, I think now I am. I mean
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: that used to be something you know I thought about
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: previous years. Maybe I'm thinking to him much instead of
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: just like you know, people like to make it, make
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: football a little harder than what it did. At the
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: end of the day, it's just a kid's game. You
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: gotta go fight the guy in front of you. You
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: get him out the way, and find a ball. At
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: the end of the day, people make it really very complicated.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Perfect fight the guy in.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Front of you and get the ball.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: That's what it is you have since the day you
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: got here. The oftentimes the phrases that you have an
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: incredible motor that doesn't stop, which fits right into you
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: know what, what you're going to be asked to do anytime?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Where Where did that come from?
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: So where the motor comes from? I mean, I would
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: say the way people back home play the game. You know,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: we have grown men playing the game just for fun,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Like we have to pay to play the game. You
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: have to buy your own pants, helmets, like you're not
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: you know, there's a different motivation to play the game,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: and I think I just like to present represent where
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I'm from and the way they play there.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Speaking of where you're from, here's a quote from you
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: about the difference between Finland and the United States, especially
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: a place like West Virginia, which you said going you
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: said here, there's just a culture of speaking more and communicating.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Back home, we don't talk to strangers much, so truly different,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: just maybe more like word, everybody just talks to everybody
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: and not like that in Finland. That was an adjustment definitely.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: You know, I wouldn't be this talkative if I hadn't
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: been here for four years. In Finland, you know, it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: kind of like stay to your friends, do you know.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: It's really people don't like to open up. In Finland.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: It's a very cold climate and the people who are
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: also very cold.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: So you're saying, like you Elsinkie might be walking down
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: the street and nobody's making eye contact or speaking, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: here everybody's talking everybody all the time.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's the biggest difference.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, which do you prefer?
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I like this, you know, and people chatting,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: you know, just to talk how you doing good?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: It gives a little more something, you know, Finland is
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: just maybe you get a little more lonely. I don't know.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm stunned to hear that, because you, when it
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: comes to personality, are one of the more outgoing people
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: that we've come across in the football program. So to
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: come from a place that isn't necessarily warm and bubbly,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you're on the opposite side of that, which means that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you have to stay here, you can't go back. Yeah,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: what do you think you think you might stay here for?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: I think I might stay We'll see. I have a
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: little time, a little more time to think about, you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: see how my career goes, and I think I let things,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: you know, figure out themselves.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: So what is that? What are you thinking about a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: path next? Try to make it in the NFL.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: First, definitely, you know number one NFL be the first
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: finished player, an NFL active player.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what would you be doing if you had not
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: come here to play football?
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: What would I have been doing? I would probably be in.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: The forest defending Finland.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to say. I would probably just be
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: in Finland right now doing some studies in the university,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: probably like engineering or just living my life in the
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: happiest country in the world, Finland.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So you had to say that, so they let him
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: back in. Yeah, otherwise getting.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: It's interesting because that is true about obviously what Eddie said,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: but also it gets consistently rated as one of the
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: happiest countries in the world.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Definitely.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's because of all the metrics they
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: account for, like healthcare, academics and all that, you know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: but they don't account for you know, social talkativeness and
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Sitting in the coffee shop and steering into your.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: If you ask to be finished people, they wouldn't agree,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: as they say.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've americanized you a little bit.
• 38:42
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• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Do you ever go out of the on the boat
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: in Cheat Lake at all? I've been to the b Yeah,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I haven't been out there a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Well over here in that in Saint Albans, West Virginia,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: which is just outside of Charleston, there's a marine place
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: sell boats, pontoon stuff, been in business for over forty
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: years called lou Wendell Marine Sales. You ever see James
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Bond movies? Yeah, Lott Chance, Yeah. Anytime you see a
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: James Bond movie and there's a pontoon in it comes
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: from lou Wendell Marine Sales in Saint All.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: That's you don't know that, that's true, So don't tell
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Eddie that. Then he'll think that that's not You don't
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: know that or work in the time that firm.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: But I do know this. I do know this that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: lou Wendell Marine Sales has been in business for over
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: forty years.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: That is that's true. You can visit them at lou
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Wendellmarne Sales dot com. That happen now, this is true too.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: The number one p tune boat dealer in the state
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: of West Virginia is also They sell avalon boats that
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: are made in Michigan, made in the United States, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: anything like. If you want to get a raft to
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: pull Eddie along on Cheat Lake, you can get it there.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Big rubbers say, get an anchor, get a booie, get
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: it whatever you need. In the marine world, visit lou
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Wendellmarine Sales dot com. They've been doing it for four years.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Sure you're a depth finder. Yeah. At nylon rope. They
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: got a lot of nylon rope there at those boat places.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. That's you just can't get
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that at Lows it's got a good nylon.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Both think they're choices of the things you can pull
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: behind your boat. Yeah, looking for a rat, not rafts,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: but things yeah, right that you can ride on.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly. Yeah, those things in the bast.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Inner tube some inner tubes tubes better than the choices
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: that you have at Chuck's garage that you tried to
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: put off on men't even.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Mentioned Chuck and you brought it up. Chuck stuff. Shunk
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: has good quality stuff. Anyway, we need a truth meter
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: on Tony. But you were about your about four to
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: five that time.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying I think it's true. We have
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: been able to confirm that. But anyway, so you like
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: James Bond. I love James b movie. You said you
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: were watching Netflix and you saw some football stuff as well. Yeah,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: so do you have an opportunity now to watch much
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: television or stream What are you watching now?
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: What am I watching right now? I watch a lot
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: of YouTube documentaries?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Oh? Really? What? What kind of topics?
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: The latest I watched yesterday it was it was a
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: YouTuber who uh it's a very weird topic. But it's
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: like the immigrants, the immigrants who come from South America, right, Yeah,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: they have to go through the jungle in Panama. Yes,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Panama and separates the Panama and Colombia.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: It's called the I know what you mean.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, So I watched a YouTube documentary about this guy
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: with his one camera walking the same route that the
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: immigrants were walking through to get to Panama from Colombia,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: and it was just it was amazing to see how
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: like it was straight jungle, but it was so much trash.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: There's people, hundreds of people walking it every day.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: And that's the path.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it does the path And it was like, you
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: know there's the dairyen gap. Yeah, it's it's supposed to
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: be very dangerous because it's there's no law, like you're
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: in the middle of it takes six days to walk
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: through the Darian jungle and families and with little kids.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: You know, there's no help. If something happens, you're done.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: You know. I like to watch some documentary, No, I understand,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: what about like true crime, like uh, you know guys
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: guy murderers this, and they go and they find them.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: That's not that's kind of intriguing to us. Yeah, I.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Think he would like your Somali pirate videos.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Wat you ever see those Somali pirates try to take
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: over those ships.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had the upper hand early. That kind of changed,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I know, that kind of changed out. They went like, okay,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: you want to go, we'll go. Yeah. They get on
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: there with those machine guns through.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Hours in the evening watching smally pirate videos.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I mean I would I would't mind watching little boats
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: get blown up.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. You know what that is. I mean that's
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: the classic you know, blank blank and find out. I mean,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: that's what they're that's what they're learning.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Do you watch football games? I watched football games, Yeah,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: of course, not games. Not I don't mean game film
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: like film that you're studying. I mean just regular other
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: college football games or NFL games. Now do you watch?
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: Was definitely the NFL once you get to the playoffs,
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: and I watched calling college game games when they're on
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: the same day if I have time, Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Who on the defensive line that's in your room? Is
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: going to surprise people? Good question? I think i'mond Russell.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: He's coming in.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: He he's coming and I think people are definitely gonna
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: know his name after the end of the season.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's coming along there.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: He's coming alone. I've seen him grow so much throughout
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: these four years. Man. Yeah, I'm so happy I got
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: to share this of him, you know, the journey with him.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Good guy, good guy.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: You ever heard of the moth Man mosth Man? Yes, yeah, yeah,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: the West Virginia.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a month man.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: There's a statue somewhere in Yeah, yeah, thank you.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Why are you asking about mothmn? Nothing to do with
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the moth Man today, just what.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I wanted to know. I know him. But anyway, that's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: besides the points that story later. But here's what happened
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: earlier today.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I know I know he's doing.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Here's what happened earlier today. Like I said, we went
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: over to Gomart out there just off seventy nine in Whitehall,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: and so my boy, look at.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Hen't tell him what it says.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Those don't see it. Those are moth Man potato chips
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: from mister B.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: And you can get those chips mister Parker's great chips.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Look at him like that, look at his face over
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: their eyes. He didn't. He wasn't real happy that he
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: saw that, because he's scared of it, Eddie. He's scared
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: of the Mothman, like the Mothman is gonna come over here, Yeah,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and then Scared's not right.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying you should respect the moth Man and
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: not taunt the moth Man because I don't need the
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: karma of the Mothman.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: This is what made him happier though. So when he
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: got the bag that said the Pepperoni roll potato chips
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: from mister V. But the smile.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: So it's not a store, but they have the Pepperoni role.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: No matter what you need, Yeah, no matter what you need.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: They got from potato chips to uh recy cups. We
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: had a lot of fun in there and I, uh, well,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: maybe you'll see here. In the next couple of months,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: we did get the six foot slim gym you know
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: slim gym is. Yeah, yeah, we went. They got a
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: six foot in there. Yeah, about a five ft cup.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: To the recy cup thing's massive. Yeah, there's probably twenty
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: seven cups in there.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: What's the most popular motor vehicle in Finland? What are
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: people driving over there? Lovos? Really Volvo Sweden?
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, I think it's maybe Chinese nowadays, but
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: it's from Sweden.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: What do you and your car of choice?
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: What?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: What will you down the road? What would you like
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: to drive?
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: Probably a nice Mercedes. I think Mercedes kind of like
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: a status symbol back home.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well here too, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: Maybe more in Finland everyone just says that people who
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: drive Mercedes are just hire people.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: I understand he'd be good in the Ford truck though,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: you put truck have a big truck, yeah one.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Do you see those back home? Do you see many
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: pickups at home in Finland?
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of trending to I've seen more,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: but not really. You don't see as much trucks back
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: home at all.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: So when you're in the parking lot at the pushcar center,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: and it's all pickup trucks. You gotta like giggle a
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: little bit and go like, this is America. This is
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: America people.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: I mean I can see people have a lot of
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: stuff to carry around, like move around, a lot of
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: moving around.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we move a lot of stuff.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Plus gas is more expensive.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. What do you find what do you find?
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Just we're just what do you find comical about Americans
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: that you didn't that you didn't know.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe just saying Surrey all the time at the store
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: when somebody just walks by and says sorry.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: They bump into eye.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Like by home, it was just nothing, you know, well,
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: they wouldn't communicate, right right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: People are polite here. People are polite. This is a
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: unique plate this state. The state is different. There's fifty
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: obviously this state's different. These are very friendly people. Like
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: your name will be remembered long after you're gone. Wow,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Like people will always remember Eddie Vesterrin and the kid
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: from Finland. The kid was in the Finnish army. Like
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: they'll always remember and you know how else they're going
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: to remember you. Let me tell how els are going
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: to remember you. They're going to remember you because the
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: six hundred and forty five episodes of Three Guys. You're
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: going to be the first one that plays a musical
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: instrument during the show.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: So you said that you sang in the choir. Yes,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: when did you pick up the musical instrument?
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: It was the same time. I just started at both
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: the same times. So you're saying ten years old or
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: younger around Yeah, then maybe not eights. I think choirs
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: started at eight. Maybe a saxophone like ten.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: And who encouraged you? Mom? Dad, mom?
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: Of course my mom?
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: She said, Eddie, what does she what does she call you?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Do you haven't or a two? Yeah? At two?
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Two? Okay?
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: The finished name at two? All right? Do they watch
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: your games?
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: My mom watches the game sometimes at four am? It's
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: so six are you six hours seven hours or your seventhead?
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, you're seven hours ahead. So we got an
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock game. Mom's at three am? Yes, finished time? Yeah, wow,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: And she watched you. Do you think she understands? Uh?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Does she get in some understanding or feel for the game?
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: I think so, not very much. She doesn't know very much,
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: but she knows the fourth downs and you know, on
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: a basic level, what maybe a average audience member would do.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: She knows when she sees her son throw the quarterback down.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Good good day, yeah, you know, a good day. Yeah.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: So she encourages you to play the saxophone. You enjoy it.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed it. Yeah. But I had so many hobbies
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: when I was a kid, you know, from choir to
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: the saxophone. And I remember I used to have these
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: really awkward situations where so I had to do these performances. Right.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: It was it was just all the students who would
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: play saxophone, and it was like let's say this auditorium
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: of fifty parents and all the kids were playing, you know,
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: one song at a time, and it was my turn
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: and I hadn't like practiced at all, and it was
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: I remember, it was just very humiliating, you know experience.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: So after that, I never do anything unprepared ever.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Oh I see, okay, so that's your Okay, that's an
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: interesting life life lesson, right, Like you took the pain
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and went like that ain't happen.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: An it's terrible feeling when like you were in front
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: of the spotlight. Then you didn't practice like you were
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: supposed to practice. And yeah, and it was kind of
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: easier to like. I thank god it happened like at
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: that setting, you know, kid's parents.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Sure exactly.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: So speaking of practice, as in preparation for your big
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: moment here playing, where'd you just practice this week?
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: So this week I practiced that. So I leave an apartment,
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: so I didn't want to bother on my my people
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: who live next to me. So I went to the
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: music school parking lot over the yeah, next to the colors.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, see yeah, I just pulled into the parking.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Lot, pulled in the parking lot to go under the
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: trees play those saxophone.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I drove by the other day. The drum guys
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: were out there. Yeah they were.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: I saw then, That's why I went through the same place.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: You didn't hear him playing the saxon.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I know, I just heard, but not respectful.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: He didn't want to bother people in his apartment.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: So so would you could you play for us?
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Yes? Can play? I can play?
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: This is this is fantastic.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: So he's got to get suited up here.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: H Eddie Vester in In is going to be the
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: first ever musical performer, and I think it's the beginning
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: of something here on three guys we may bring, we
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: may bring more and more musical performers in now.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Well, even the great Charles Wesley Godwin was here and
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: didn't know.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: He didn't form, Really, he didn't play.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: He didn't play.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Chuck didn't.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: We'd have to pay him if he's I think, how.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: About a duet? How about to do it with Charles
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: and uh, Charles on the guitar and Eddie V on
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: the on the solos? He said it was a solo
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: sex Is that what that was? That what he called it? Soprano?
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, soprano soprano sax at your at your legion.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. We're we're good to go. Three
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: guys before the game making history as we speak, how
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: many episodes as we do? This is forty five six
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: four five six four six four five sixty five, and uh,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Eddie V is about to become the first. Go ahead, Eddie.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: The state age is yours, ladies and gentlemen. Let's give
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  Speaker 1: a big three guys, welcome to Eddie vest Rinnan. Please outstanding, fantastic,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: you give him a standing no.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: You know he was practicing a little bit before before
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: the show, and Brad and I said that sounds like
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Simple Gifts, right, Brad. But it's not. It's called prelude
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: to the t E d e U M t DM
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: t DM, which is a French tune from the sixteen hundreds,
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: and Simple Gifts is from eighteen forty eight.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Weddings. That's a big wedding song right there, very big wedding.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: But it sounds similar to Simple Gifts. Yeah, that was outstanding, wonderful, wonderful.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: You're very You're a talented god.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Let's think about this, dude, talent. That's why I told whim.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I started to show what my guy plays a musical instrument.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: My guy's been in the Finnish army. He was a
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: chubby kid in the choir. He comes here, he gets
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: all academic Big twelve, he gets honored by the Big
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: twelve for his football. He's playing high level college football.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Are you kid me?
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Universal Man, you over sell a lot.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you did not over sell that.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: It's one of the great stories in West Virginia football.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: He did not over sell that, which is unusual for Tony.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: It is unusual.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: You got balls, right, you know what I love?
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: You got balls. You got balls. You got to have
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: balls to come to a different country and just say like,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I'm want to play a game at the highest level
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: and I don't really know how to play it, but
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it and I'm going to get
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: a degree and I'm going to be successful. Like, we
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: have people that are scared to leave their house that
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: are from here, and you're my man, you're going like, Okay,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: let's freaking go to labor.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: To labor the right right, well said perfectly.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: To belabor the point, see Sue, Yeah, yes, that's what
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: it is. It's grit determination. I'm gonna do it, but
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: it will not fail, which is again equal to what
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: we like to think is the mountaineer spirit. Correct.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: See what you what you've done in your life is
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: a throwback to what people used to do. That's what
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: people used to do. They used to come to this
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: country and just start from absolute zero scratch and they
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: made themselves that and that doesn't happen unfortunately as much.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: And you did it.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: So I give a guy like, well, that's why his
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: fan favorite. How many West Virginians have that story? Oh yeah,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: right now, especially from Italy. A lot of them from
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Italy coming over have that exact same story.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why he's popular. My dad did the same thing.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: He was thirty two years old, didn't speak a word
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: English and came here.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: It's hard, really hard, Yeah it is.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: That's yeah. You gotta have guts very yeah. See Sue,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Sue a lot of moy and seasue my two new
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: finish words. Happy.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: You got listen during your play by play when Eddie
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: makes a big play, you gotta work, see Sue into.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: I think I can I think I can do that.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I think I can do it. Okay, Yeah, yeah, this.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: Is fun, Jeff fun.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I had very much fun.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: So actually I haven't played taxophone in a year until you.
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: I talked to you about it and you had me
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: bring in so I had to practice, yes, yesterday last night.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: That wasn't too much pressure, right, that was okay?
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: We don't want to take time away from the playbook,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: of course.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's a great time for me to actually,
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: you know, get on it. If someone doesn't tell me
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: to do it, you know, it's hard for me to
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: get out.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He keeps me accountable, you know.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: Do I actually play saxophone, you know, yeah?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Because I don't get him too much.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: We were on the field there in Dallas.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: And oh, what did you did? You bait him?
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: No? I just said, is it true? I said, I forget.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I said, is it true? You play goes? Yes, I said,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: would be willing to come out of the podcast. Our
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: guy Daniels, Right, finally can film. Finally can film makes
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: it possible for him to come. Thanks to Phil for
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: doing that. Daniels men story dresses the Mountaineers, he dresses
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: you know, everybody in the free world. And he said, yeah,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I'm in And he had heard about the podcast already,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: so I said, yeah, let's do it.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: We had Ren Baker in here. We had Ross Hodging here.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Rich, Zach Alley and Zach all
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: was here. Rich was here, by the way, real.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Quick on Daniels, he just got that throwback logo in.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Excuse me what the throwback logo stuff just came in
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: that stair step WVU with the light blue state behind it.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: But Jerry West blue, No, not to Jerry westbou the light. Yeah,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: it's the football throwback uniforms that are coming this year.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: The logo that goes with those, right, that's on the
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: gold helmet with the side of the diagonal WVU and
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: the light blue state. A lot of discussion, whether it Wasoise,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: whether it was Tea.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: You saw it when you had your shift out there.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've worked on folding some had to fold some
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: of the garments. Put him out for sale force.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: I was here yesterday too with Daniels. At the same
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: time when they.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Were working, he was just walking around. I was over
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: there working folding Sony.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: You know, you know they're not giving you guys any
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: love for what you guys are supposed to do this
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: year when it comes to wins and losses. You know that.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I know that. You know you guys talking about that
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, It's it's like we have he posted on our
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: walls mayer d Line room. Yeah, they were talking about
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: us having the least saxe in a big twelve exactly
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: the locker room.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: This is a perfect opportunity for a West Virginia setup, right, perfect. Yeah, yeah, because.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: When people think West Virginia can't do it, When when
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: you think it's a slam dunk, watch out. But when
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: you think they can't do it, it's opportunity.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: You know, the great boxer Muhammad Ali fought this guy
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: named Oscar Bonavena, and he had just changed his name
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, and Oscar Bonavena wouldn't
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: say his name Muhammad Ali. So Muhammad Ali went out
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: there and just absolutely just beat him, but wouldn't knock
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: him down on purpose. And he kept saying into him,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: say my name, and he'd punch him in the face.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Say my name and he'd punch him in the face,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: or knock him down. Say my name, he punch him
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: in the face. That's what you guys have to do.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: You see, all right, you're gonna learn a little mountaineer
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: back football right here right say our name, say our name.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: You don't want to say our name. Now you're gonna
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: say our name. You're gonna say our name. So post
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: game this year, that's good.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: You got to work that in at some point this year.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: When they say like they didn't respect us, and at
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the end of the game they had to say our name.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, buddy. You've been as
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: good as advertised. We appreciate it very much. Number one
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: in our heart. Eddie Vester f the first ever, the
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: first ever musical performer on three guys before the game,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: don't want be the last. I'm gonna get any of
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: your other teammates playing the instruments that you've heard of.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: Nobody to like, He tells the teammates, they will probably
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: make chokes them.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: You got a lot of guys over there that think
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: they're rappers, right, They think they go in that little
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: thing and they go yeah, yeah. They'll tell them you
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: can play the instrument all right. Outstanding episode six forty
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