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Devon Witherspoon: "I Just Want To Hit" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So do the throwback you and needs to fit your
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  Speaker 1: sense of style.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I would say yeah, but they just they just
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  Speaker 2: dope in general though, so they could feed anybody's down.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't really matter who put 'em on, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they feed me for sure.
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  Speaker 4: A lot being made of that big hit.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you're not the biggest guy.
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  Speaker 1: How where did the physicality come from for you that
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  Speaker 1: you go out there and hit like that when you're not.
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  Speaker 3: You know, big two hunder out safe.
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  Speaker 2: Uh that's always been me since I was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: But I went to college in the Big ten. So
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  Speaker 2: if you know that, if you know about the big team,
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  Speaker 2: you know you gotta tackle, so fiscal, that's just something
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  Speaker 2: you gotta wanna do.
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  Speaker 3: So now I just like to do what I like
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  Speaker 3: to do. So I just wanna hit people.
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  Speaker 4: Where were you him like that as a kid?
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  Speaker 2: My teammates in practice and then of course the uh
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  Speaker 2: the opposing team on game day. But y'all always been uh,
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  Speaker 2: don't read nah, it's oh, that's always been me though.
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember the first type of coach or somebody
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  Speaker 4: pointed out that you just hit stronger, harder than than
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  Speaker 4: other guys.
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  Speaker 3: Nah, that was that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember the first time, but uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: remember my coach telling me about it, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember the first as that first time.
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  Speaker 1: What what are you thinking in the middle of that
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  Speaker 1: play that hit but specifically kind of hit with your
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  Speaker 1: shoulder like that kind of take your head out of it?
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  Speaker 1: What is that just come with reps and experience or
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  Speaker 1: is that intentional you're as you're in the moment as
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  Speaker 1: you're making that play.
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  Speaker 3: Uh Nah, that come with reps.
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  Speaker 2: We practice on tackling my majority like every day, so
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  Speaker 2: you once you keep repping it that so many times,
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  Speaker 2: that just becomes who you are. So we practice that
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  Speaker 2: all the time. So that's why the hit was like that.
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  Speaker 2: I was really kind of mad cause I, uh hit
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  Speaker 2: him with the wrong shoulder. I was supposed hit him
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  Speaker 2: with my right shoulder, but he was able to get
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  Speaker 2: outside my friend work, so I had to switch to
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  Speaker 2: the left cause he was.
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  Speaker 1: Like a Almost every time somebody delivers a hit that
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  Speaker 1: hard in today's NFL, it draws a penalty. Were you
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  Speaker 1: a little worried even if you knew you got your
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  Speaker 1: head out of it?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, I won't really worry about the penalty. I was
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  Speaker 2: really more so worry about the fine. So but I
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  Speaker 2: ain't get no fine. Okay, I ain't get no fine.
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  Speaker 2: So even we don't talk about.
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  Speaker 3: It, and I don't want to review and anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: So we good energy that does with your teammates. You say,
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  Speaker 3: what are you coming over?
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  Speaker 1: What does that do for your team when you do.
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  Speaker 3: Something like that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just think they bring a team more juice. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and that just gets everybody pumped. So that makes everybody
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  Speaker 2: wanna go out there and make the next play. So
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  Speaker 2: that's what we Definitely you could just trust one another
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  Speaker 2: even more than we already do. But that just makes
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  Speaker 2: the game so much more fun. Like everyone, I just physicality.
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  Speaker 2: You just run a hit. That's what we uh preach
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  Speaker 2: every day. Just run a hit and that's all it is.
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  Speaker 4: So what do you think it does for your teammates
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  Speaker 4: when they see you willing to run up and run
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  Speaker 4: defense and stick your head in the back field and
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  Speaker 4: drive on a hit like that, just to kind of
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  Speaker 4: show that physicality to everyone else back there too, that
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  Speaker 4: you're willing to chum pump to do that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what I think it shows my team? I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I showed them that they can trust me. I
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  Speaker 2: don't do it when I'm what I'm doing what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm just go out there and be myself,
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  Speaker 2: so they just can trust me encount on me that
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there for him.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of hits have talked about while he and I
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  Speaker 1: one say, Jama.
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  Speaker 3: Just that you paid punted, that you were not afraid
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  Speaker 3: to ask questions or one of the things about you
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  Speaker 3: that they admi was you willing.
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  Speaker 1: To ask questions and learn.
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  Speaker 3: When did that start for you?
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  Speaker 4: And can you talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Your drive to be the best?
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  Speaker 3: That starts for me back in college.
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  Speaker 2: Once you realize you have a shot at you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing in this league, you just gotta everything about you
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  Speaker 2: starts to change and you just try to be the
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  Speaker 2: best football player every day. So you got to ask
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  Speaker 2: questions so you can know the answers to those scenarios
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  Speaker 2: in the game, especially like once you don't typically see
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  Speaker 2: like every team has they they stick to what they run,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's gonna be a lot of players out
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  Speaker 2: there that we didn't see. Uh, we didn't scout, So
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  Speaker 2: you gotta make those adjustments on the fly. So you
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  Speaker 2: always gotta ask questions just the case if those players
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  Speaker 2: can come up.
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  Speaker 3: In a game.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I just like to do, so I
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  Speaker 2: get a sense of what i'm'a do so and if
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  Speaker 2: the players changed in the game.
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  Speaker 4: So y, you ever had a game where you had
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  Speaker 4: a sock and an interception wiped out by a penalty before?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, that's the first time that happened to me. I
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  Speaker 2: was mad though, I was really mad.
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  Speaker 3: I was mad though.
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  Speaker 2: You know, things like that happens. So you just gotta
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  Speaker 2: keep him over head and just play the next play.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like most about playing nickel On? What
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  Speaker 4: have you learned in four or five weeks when it? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: What I like most about playing nigas that you you
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  Speaker 2: involved the whole game plan, you get the blitch, you
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  Speaker 2: get to cover, you get to do 'em really majority
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  Speaker 2: of everything.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what the m what I like most about nickol.
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  Speaker 1: You remember what your reaction was when they first told
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  Speaker 1: you that they wanted to give you a.
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  Speaker 3: Shot in there? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I told him, I think I believe, I told Coach Hurt,
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  Speaker 2: I just let's do it, like, let's try it. Like
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  Speaker 2: anything anything you need to do, i'm'a be able to
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  Speaker 2: do it cause I'm a fast learner.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I said you had done a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of it in college, right or Nah, I ain't do
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  Speaker 3: none over it in college for real?
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  Speaker 4: What are your er h what if your first impressions
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  Speaker 4: of Frank Clark?
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  Speaker 1: Then?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know cause I really haven't get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to like sit down and really talk to him
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  Speaker 2: and really meet him and to understand like what he's
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  Speaker 2: about before what I'm a here and around up with
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  Speaker 2: the guys in the locker room. He's like he's a
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  Speaker 2: great person and they glad to have him back. So
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  Speaker 2: if a lot of other guys are saying that, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he that that's gonna hold up. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready can't get a chance to play with him
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  Speaker 2: and see what he's about.
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  Speaker 4: Sure your blood sacked last weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: When the blocker steps out the block you changed your
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  Speaker 1: action like a slot.
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  Speaker 4: Car to still get around it. What's your aid point there?
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  Speaker 4: What in that particular play, how you had to change
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  Speaker 4: that and and like wh what your target was on that.
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  Speaker 3: Olden Well, my ain point was to just to get
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  Speaker 3: up field.
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  Speaker 2: Once the center pulled around, I knew I had the
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  Speaker 2: left side wide open, and plus the quarterback was rolling
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  Speaker 2: that way, so I'm thinking he's gonna roll out. We
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  Speaker 2: seen on the table he l he likes to have boots,
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  Speaker 2: and then the sai like a shot play. So once
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  Speaker 2: he rolled out, I have I was able to beat
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  Speaker 2: the center around his face and then I just went
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  Speaker 2: I made a play.
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  Speaker 3: So did you do much blood sing in college? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: We blessed a lot in college too, so but you were.
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  Speaker 1: Playing inside all so you would you come from like
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  Speaker 1: the outside?
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  Speaker 3: We bis point.
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  Speaker 2: We we blessed corners, savet these niggas. We were blessing everybody
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  Speaker 2: in college. We rent a lot of cover zero, so
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  Speaker 2: blissen was like our DNA.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else. Thank you,