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[Assistant] Probably better on a typewriter, with the uh, just the indexes.


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[Assistant] That's Gronk's whole thing too. When he was getting traded or considered to to the Lions, he said, no, I'm not playing for anyone else. Tom is my quarterback. It wasn't the Patriots are my team, Bill's my coach. It was Tom is my quarterback.


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[Assistant] IG too. Instagram came out with videos right around then.


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[Assistant] I love Jesus, like I said, but I'm just sayin'. They chant together, they sing together, it's very cultish. I mean, that's okay, every-


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[Assistant] Uh, with potential informal skates in May and then possibly reopening training camps in June and then so on and so forth to get the ball rolling. You can roll from there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the plan would call for a couple exhibition games just to get people used to being back in the arena, get the TV folks used to it, set up and everything. Then they, they, the Batman came out and said they're fine with pushing next season back to start in December. So they're letting to roll this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he goes back every summer and he loves it, but the team basically sat him down like you're signing another year contract and you're not fucking leaving.


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[Assistant] To the Tampa Bay Buccaneers makes them an unstoppable offense.


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[Assistant] Before we've ever seen them take one snap. They haven't done a virtual snap on that offense. They don't know Bruce Arians offense. I'm not sure they've met Mike Evans or Chris Godwin yet. But does that offense become unstoppable with the addition of the greatest tight end to ever play whenever he was healthy and playing again?


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[Assistant] Which doesn't get talked about enough because you see his spectacular catches and his, his gronk spikes in his demeanor. But he's an animal on the line, takes a lot of pride in that. A lot of people are saying he's washed up because he retired. He's 30 years old. I would say that he's almost rested as opposed to washed up. It feels like he's probably rested and revitalized to get to a new place alongside Tom. Anybody in New England that's talking about that is spinning the narrative that Tom's old, gronks washed up. This means absolutely nothing. A fourth round draft pick is good enough.


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[Assistant] I think that's insane. I think Gronkowski's maybe gonna play his best football he's ever played and with Mike Evans helping him out. I mean, that's like having Randy.


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[Assistant] And Gronk on the same team. You can't have a safety on top of Mike Evans, which I assume they had to do a lot of because he's a deep ball threat. But now that Gronk's there, they have to have a safety cover in there.


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[Assistant] How do you cover everybody? This is like the Kansas City Chiefs, but instead of Travis Kelsey in the outright speed, they got just physical specimens in Mike Evans, Godwin, and Gronkowski. I mean it feels as if


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[Assistant] I don't know what defensive setup it could be, because if you bring the pressure, then that's a quick dump to Gronkowski, isn't it? So there's a, it's like a live by the sword, die by the sword. I don't know how the hell you're going to stop.


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[Assistant] Down to Tampa Bay sending O.J. Howard and probably some other things to the Washington Redskins. That fell through. That could still be cooking. Nobody knows what's happening behind the scenes. But it feels like these super teams, Kansas City Chiefs are like a super team. I mean that's...


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[Assistant] They are, especially if they're looking to get another weapon in the draft, like everybody's saying they're thinking about getting old rugsie or whatever, the fastest guy out there.


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[Assistant] Then you look at the 49ers, that team's loaded. And now you look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they are loaded. I mean, this is just a place that free agents, retired players, Percy Harvins running up parking garages. I mean, this is a place that people are going to try to flock to, kaka.


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[Assistant] To get down to the Buccaneers. That old conk call that Tom Brady did and it was to Rob Gronkowski.


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[Assistant] That is to everybody in the NFL that's a free agent and potentially retired, like hey,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'll take that. You get a fourth runner. Okay, sounds good. I think for a guy who's known to be a ruthless businessman.


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[Assistant] A savage businessman. Bill Belichick here just did not give a damn about this deal and just said as long as we don't have to deal with it, get him the hell out of here. Have him and the little Tommy boy go have their little fun down in Tampa Bay. The Grunkineers will be a lot of fun to watch. That's what people are calling it by the way.


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[Assistant] And then like spike a Lego of Schefter's head or something like that.


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[Assistant] Do you think NFL's, uh, I believe Verizon's their sponsor, the NFL's sponsor for whatever, do you think that they contacted Verizon after maybe some potential bandwidth issues to start the mock draft and said funnel all of the wifi to these places?


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[Assistant] Probably. He has been in the past years.


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[Assistant] Well, it also prevents the zzzzz during the night if you hear it from like your bedside table or something like that. Well, I put the moon on. Well, this is the moon.


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[Assistant] But also when it goes off in the morning, when it goes off in the morning and you hit stop, it says good morning and then it gives you the weather and like your stuff that you're supposed to do for the day.


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[Assistant] Can they find you for that? Like if you did do something like that, could the league find you?


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[Assistant] What's up man, so did we get to the bottom of it of why everything was just instantly shut off yesterday?


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[Assistant] I'm waiting for you. I thought, I thought there's like a karaoke. I'm going to tell you I'm suggesting songs.


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[Assistant] I hope it's good, man. There's super high expectations for it. It's not, not helping that they get it bumped out. They had to move it out of the summertime, I guess, but it's Christmas is a big summer time.


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[Assistant] Do you believe that same thing? I absolutely believe the over is the right here. Like they could, they could sleepwalk their way into 10 wins this year. Like they, when Aaron, you have the guy like Aaron that's that good and your defense is actually approved. Yeah, they're going to, I would absolutely take the over here.


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[Assistant] Wait, I took it from a different perspective, thinking alright, Caesar's the sportsbook, sportsbooks all around the world are getting crushed right now. There's not a whole lot of things to gamble on. Maybe they're trying to get some, some cash infusion, trying to get a bunch of people to kill that over, and they're saying hey, we're gonna deal with what we can right now, try to bring some cash in.


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[Assistant] Hopefully something happens and it works out for us in the end, but right now we need some cash. So it's like a gift card from the sports book.


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[Assistant] Get above eight wins is if Aaron gets hurt. If Aaron's healthy, they're winning more than eight and a half games.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, like if you said eight and a half for the over and under for the Detroit Lions, I would have a hard time picking over under. I would be, I would think yea, maybe under, but I would, I would feel more comfortable picking the over for something like that. There at six and a half.


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[Assistant] I'm taking the over on that then. Me too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know Foxy's on board. Six and a half you think? I think if Matt Statt, if the quarterback is healthy, I mean, who knows what happens at the third pick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and he played through it, and so hopefully this time off will help him heal, but I, six and a half, I feel like I gotta take the over on that too.


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[Assistant] Funny that they're not, they don't have the worst odds? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.


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[Assistant] I think Ron, they gave Ron Rivera a lot of credit. I really do. I think he carries a lot of respect wherever he goes and they think he's good enough to get him better than last place.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they might not be, but I think it's going to be one way or the other. Either he's going to have a fall where you're watching. You're like, are you kidding me? And then you go down the list and you start looking at teams or say, well, they don't need a quarterback. They don't need a quarterback. Like that's what happens. That's why these guys fall. It's going to either happen that way or it's going to be like, bam.


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[Assistant] Somebody jumped up and took him at number three or something. I think it's going to be one way or the other.


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[Assistant] I'm sure he is off Lombardi's board, and guess what too? I'm sure he's off multiple teams board, but it doesn't matter. What's the old cliche? Oh, it takes one team to fall in love with them, to jump up and try to snatch them if they felt like, oh wow, the draft happens and Tua didn't get picked in the first 10 or 12 slots. There's going to be some teams trying to get in there and pick Tua up. All you need is one.


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[Assistant] There's no way to predict it, especially at quarterback play. Like you can't really predict who's gonna be a stud at the next level, especially at the quarterback position. But with this year, with all of these quarterbacks that look to go in the first round, that's why I feel like we're gonna have some, some crazy trades possibly happening because


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[Assistant] Everyone's searching for a quarterback, they want their next franchise guy, and teams are desperate, they're willing to take a chance. If it's a guy like Tua, yea, a lot of teams may be very scared of his medical history and his durability, but there's gonna be someone that's saying, hey man, I'm gonna be the hero, it's gonna be kind of a value pick if I got him in the middle of the first or something.


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[Assistant] I find a way to get him and he's our next guy, then I can sit back and laugh at everybody that told me to point and do his medical records on how this guy's not gonna hold up.


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[Assistant] No, especially if you think about a guy like- Well, something was a little different. What? Something funny? No, I didn't say something was funny. Why?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, unless you're telling me you're getting back in the testing protocol and you're making a comeback, then it doesn't really matter because it didn't happen.


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[Assistant] That's very well possible that it could have still happened. If D. Podesta comes out and says it's false. Of course, if it's known.


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[Assistant] If it's known publicly that a team is trying to trade you, don't you think a guy like Odell Beckham is never going to look at that organization the same after they brought him in and did all this and now he finds out after one year they're trying to trade him. Like it's not a great thing and relationship to have between the top brass and your biggest star pretty much on the team. Wow.


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[Assistant] When, when I guess did you lose hope in the Browns last season?


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[Assistant] Weren't you on board with Freddie though when he got hired? It didn't seem like, oh man, they're bringing the coach, like all the players love him. He seems to do everything. Like people were, he has a good balance of holding guys accountable, but he's also like a fun kind of country dude. And then all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] You don't really hear anybody talking about Odell and how he handled it, how well he handled it. I guess they're trying to actually...


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[Assistant] Dive in more and they show clips of him. They say, Oh, reportedly Odell said, come get me to other teams during games and stuff.


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[Assistant] First off, stuff is said all the time from players to sidelines to coaches that they may have had in the past or players that ex teammates. Like stuff is said all the time, joking back and forth between even head coaches assistants. So I put nothing into that when people like try to make that a big deal. Who leaked that information? If I'm Odell, by the way, I'm never


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[Assistant] You should have told him, nah, I'm gonna quit before I'm cheap. You don't know my plan. Yea, you have no idea.


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[Assistant] When I first watched it, I started getting nervous for him. I'm like, oh, I'm thinking about, I'm telling his wife, all right, turn the camera off after this one. He's going to miss one.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, well, he's down at this place in Texas. I think it is much bigger than it looks in that, in that, uh, video.


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[Assistant] I have not been there, but I know plenty of people that have been there.


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[Assistant] I'm married to the person that has been down there and helped him put that place together.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, pretty much. Heartbreaking playoff loss, no question. You were on that team?


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[Assistant] Now that, that part guys may want to, uh, may have a little regret over that celebrating in the tunnel when the game wasn't over. What happened? They probably don't. The problem was we fumbled. We got the ball back to running out and we fumbled. You guys fumbled and kneeled down?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say the whole defense, I'd say four or five players.


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[Assistant] What happened AJ? Tell us what happened. It was, I think it was Jeremy Hill who fumbled later. He just wanted to know if we could run play in the middle somehow. I think Shazir did cause that one though, but he, he put a nasty hit on Gio Bernard, I believe, earlier in that game. Oh, Pison. Shazir by


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I've seen him a decent amount over the last year or two, and man yea, pretty amazing story. And he's still, like the cool thing is the Steelers are taking care of him, he's still around all the time, like on the sidelines, so I think it's good to keep him involved.


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[Assistant] Does the million, does the million dollars, is that for everybody? Anyone, like, if they choose anyone?


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[Assistant] I get, and I want to know what the, what does the contract look like? Is it just one scene or one night of work or is it something they want you to do every day? Like if it's like, Joe should really think about this if it's only like a one-off deal, one million dollars.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wish Joe Buck wasn't with the network right now. I think that's the biggest thing holding him back. If he wasn't working for Fox and the voice of the world series and doing some of the biggest sporting events ever, maybe he'd give this a second look. You think Lou Holtz would ever do that?


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[Assistant] Rudy's a bunch of shit. Rudy's not a real story. Do you know that? Oh yeah. Have you ever talked to anybody that played on that team?


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[Assistant] I haven't, I would like to hear it. I mean, they don't, they don't view Rudy like as this godlike character like most people that are fans of the movie do. Oh, they hate him.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, but some people don't have that part of their brain where they care.


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[Assistant] If you try to get into it a little bit or ask it, they just kind of shut down. Who was it? Cool. Watch the movie. Yeah. Who was it? His name's Tom Clements. He coaches for the Cardinals.


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[Assistant] I think he's a QB coach now for the Cardinals. He was the quarterback coach in Green Bay for a while. But he was a stud quarterback in Notre Dame and then like a CFL legend. Was he at the Packers when you were there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and he didn't tell, he didn't openly say that he doesn't like Rudy, but that's when he said, no, Rudy played with me.


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[Assistant] It turns out most likely anyone that went to Notre Dame, likes Notre Dame, they get so many questions about Rudy. Can you imagine if you played on the same team as Rudy and people find that out? Like, you'd probably get peppered with questions all night.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think maybe once everything clears, clears up and things get back to somewhat what, what they were before, maybe some of that can carry over. I don't know. I mean, you were already on that train though. You only FaceTime it seems like.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, always at the most inopportune time, but yea.


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[Assistant] Believe it or not, I don't sit there and walk around on my phone all day, but I'll put it on a charger.


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[Assistant] Sometimes if I can see you FaceTime and I'm like, I'm not gonna pick this up right now and subject you to hearing kids in the background and all that stuff. Like, so that's partly why I can't answer the phone at certain times. Are you a little scared of Uncle Pat coming into a FaceTime and really dropping a truth bomb on those?


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[Assistant] Hey, good for your coach though that the West Virginia coach trying to bring you guys back. That's a big, like, that's a huge thing. I think it helps with everybody when you get all the old guys to come back together and then they, your current players can see how tight the older players are and they come back. Well, this is kind of a special thing. We should really try to invest in this whole program.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean coach Jim Trestle was great about that. Urban Meyer was good about that as well. He always would tell me he wanted me to come back to the facility and try to invite people and do like, they like cookouts for alumni right after the spring game I believe. I actually never went to one. Oh, is there a problem between


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[Assistant] Oh, zero, zero problem at all, and I think I was just out of town or doing something else during the spring game. More important golf tournament, yeaah. And I can't go watch the spring game in person. Me neither. It's on, they played on Big Ten Network, I'll watch some of that there.


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[Assistant] Uh, but now they're great at that. Ryan Day, yeaah. They're always trying to...


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[Assistant] Keep alumni guys around. I think it's a good thing. It was fun seeing the older dudes come back when I was in school.


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[Assistant] And wouldn't, if you were head coach at a university, wouldn't you want to try to do that too? Because it's not good if a coach tries to alienate some of the, uh, the alumni, then all those alumni are all tight and then they all collectively hate the current head coach and want them out of there. There was a lot of slander.


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[Assistant] If you're the head coach though, what do you do when, say you have like this open door policy for some of your, for your former players, where does that cut off? Like, what if you have a dude that walked on


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[Assistant] Never played, was always battling to even stay in school. What if it was Rudy? Say that guy comes back, he's living in town and he's coming through like bringing tours of people through the facility everywhere.


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[Assistant] You think you're gonna do it again? Can you, uh, put a zoom together for your high school squad?


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[Assistant] Pushing a guy out and hijacking the AD job, how is that giving back?


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[Assistant] I will, I will send you some great references for people that could be a great coach for you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we just gotta go pilfer and recruit the greatest guys in this state and put them in this apartment complex and say this is their new residence so they can go to school here and hopefully get a scholarship.


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[Assistant] You look kind of like a Southern Hoover High kid mixed with like an emo Seattle musician.


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[Assistant] Uhm, anything else happen? Yeah, I want to met you. What do you think about some players missing virtual off season? I saw Jamal Adams. It was like a headline. Jamal Adams safety for the Jets. He won't be participating in the virtual off season this year.


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[Assistant] That would be good only if we got screenshots from other guys on his team of the whole screen of all the 24 guys on screen and you just see his sign right there in the middle or something. That would be well worth it.


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[Assistant] For everybody, the coaches want to keep tabs on their players. They want to try to give them installs, make it as normal as possible with, you know, try to make it work. But then yes, players have these $250,000 off season workout bonus that you have to have like 85% participation. So yeah, I guess what constitutes participation in these zoom meetings though?


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[Assistant] The virtual meeting, so the coaches, and you know, you explained the football guy to a tee. And those football guys, they take pride in all of that. They always have to push back on it. Like, what do you mean? Yeah, I know my kid's names. Like, they don't do that too. They don't say, now what? Oh, that's mine, I guess. Yeah. So I think the best part though about all this, I can't, you mute when you talk over me. I couldn't hear you. What'd you say?


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[Assistant] Blinders, they got blinders on at all times and they're super, a lot of them are super anxious and nervous 24 hours a day and on the verge of a heart attack. But think about an old D line coach, Pat. They, they could deliver them a computer fully loaded with all your stuff.


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[Assistant] Normally, all these coaches, there's always a guy they're yelling for when their clicker breaks, when the film won't pull up, like, Billy, bring my stuff over, get my...


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[Assistant] Get my third down sheet. What's going on? They freak out and go crazy. If it's not there in three seconds now, there's no one there to lean on for that guy. So he's going to have his players actually all chimed in. No, no coach, go to settings, go to setting, turn your mic on. You got what? Like that's what's going to happen. What? Oh, fuck it. I'll see you tomorrow. That's what's going to end up happening. If head coach asked, tell me this thing was


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[Assistant] From watching the HBO thing, it makes you wonder like, how this guy, who was Al Pacino that played Paterno? Yeah.


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[Assistant] No, we got, we got beat by Penn State my senior year at Penn State.


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[Assistant] I got a green screen I can do, if you guys can do a live green screen.


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[Assistant] You can change on, like Zoom, I know I've been on Zooms, you can put any backdrop you want. Be on the beach. But I mean, on FaceTime we can't. Yea, let me know Zito if you can do it, I can take this thing down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. I mean, I don't... We could talk about it when the time comes. I gotta get the invite first. You weren't invited!


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[Assistant] You were saying that all day yesterday. I don't know if it was the pod or the YouTube show before we got taken down, but, uh, I thought for sure you were saying Shaq the whole time.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, then it- it be- afterwards I- I realized what you guys were doing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would say, yeah. If you shorten it, it becomes- Mike Hawke, you could, maybe.


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[Assistant] That would be, yea. See, that chant is a lot better than the others that you do.


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[Assistant] Look good, feel good, feel good, play good


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[Assistant] Alaska opened up restaurants and stuff like that, but you have to, only for reservations and you can only go to dinner with people who live in your household and the restaurant can only be 25% full because you have to be like 10 feet apart. So that's- How do they know if those people live in my house?


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[Assistant] Well, good coons, pack your shit and get out of town, okay? Cause everyone who's a Packers fan fucking hates you right now, pal. If you're a Packers fan, you know where that guy lives. Show up and pitch for him. Maybe throw a couple bricks or rocks in the window. Let them know we're not fucking happy about this.


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[Assistant] Oh yea. Javon Walker, last fucking receiver the Packers took. 0-2


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[Assistant] It's 49 cases of beer. Think about that.


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[Assistant] 49 cases of beer. I've tried to, I've tried to, cause you can't just put in 1,100 pounds, you're like, okay, that's heavy as hell.


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[Assistant] And I remember like trying to carry three at one time and having almost thrown out my back. That is outlandish what this dude has been doing. It has been said by a lot of people on the internet that he does eat every single possible supplement you could possibly need to eat. But I'm happy that a human is capable of doing the things that the mountain does. That's good for our species.


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[Assistant] Did he break any? Oh yeaah. He Usain Bolted it too. You know, Bolt lifted out his hands with 10 yards left to slow himself down so he could re-break the record. This dude stood up with it and basically like shrugged it and did the shoulder shimmy and then he put it back down. It was like, he's going for probably 1500 by the time he said and done if I had to guess.


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[Assistant] I'm probably at like 250 right now, 245. You don't look that big.


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[Assistant] Oh, thank you. I got big ass thighs, you know. And heavy organs. I got heavy organs. Have been in my entire childhood. Yeah, I'm dense. I'm a dense guy and I'm built like a barrel.


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[Assistant] And I assume you do too. I've been wearing like size 38, 40 since high school basically. So like that's how I got to get in there. And then you got your pants when I was smaller.


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[Assistant] The top was just dangled down, so I had, you have to tuck the pants back underneath the belt while walking down the hall and it looks like you're just, you know, adjusting yourself the entire time. It's like, no, these thighs are making my hips look like they got a boner.


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[Assistant] No, I did buy about one time where you could, uhm,


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, it's on right now if you want it. I think the brothers have combined together of like 35 mil or 40 mil as of right now.


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[Assistant] No, uh, we're, we're basically lagging a lot. The internet's uh, going up and down, up and down.


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[Assistant] That's why I always said we should have the invention where we- which side is the worst side.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like a live view. It was for like, so they basically go to different cellar towers, right? That's what you're talking about. The cell towers. Yeah, but it collects, it collects them and uses them all in one. I don't know. Seems illegal.


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[Assistant] I'm bad, I'm bad. You want a quick question? Sure do, pal. Alright, uh, do owners have the option of an auto-drafting if the internet goes down? From, uh, Dunton Watkins.


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[Assistant] A lot of people in the comments section are asking for us to respond to Big Ben Roethlisberger. Uh, what has happened to Big Ben Roethlisberger? There must be some Big Ben news. Excited to hear about this from the boys. What's going on with Big Ben?


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[Assistant] You remember he went after Jay Glazer, uh, a little bit ago for going after his off-season workout routine. He said, hey Jay, I do more than just yoga and drink beer, pal. I'm coming back from Tommy John and here's me slinging a rock to old Switzer and Juju. And then I go into a barber shop while they're wearing gloves and trim down the grizzly Adam's beard. And I look like a brand new man.


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[Assistant] Ben Roethlisberger looks like he's 25 years old. He looks younger and thinner and better than ever. Is Ben Roethlisberger coming back to the Pittsburgh Steelers next year? A better Ben? It sure looks that way. In order, Pittsburgh Steelers


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[Assistant] Most injured. He has a broken elbow in that video, the part where he looks his best there. He looks his absolute best. His elbow is broken and he said he's not shaving or cutting his hair until he's throwing a football again in this particular scene. Is that accurate? Yes.


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[Assistant] Okay, so perfect. So then he shows, you know, the beard and the rehab and the entire process. Now he's playing catch with Juju and Ryan Switzer and then he goes and gets his haircuts. Big Ben Roethlisberger's all the way back and he's probably feeling himself if I had to guess.


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[Assistant] Painstaking rehab of Tommy John and had to watch Mason Rudolph and Ducky Hodges last season. I think the Steelers are in a good spot all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] Yeah, then Odell Beckham Jr., uhm, I believe reacted to a Miles Garrett tweet. How OBJ thought spanking the cop was gonna go was when Rodman, after he got into a Carl Malone, smacked him on his ass. Malone smacks him on his ass. Little horse play, keep it moving. Odell Beckham says, wait a minute, Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] That wasn't even the worst part. The worst part was I got charged with assault and you somehow didn't. Only in America, what he's referring to, Miles Garrett taking off Mason Rudolph's helmet on national television and playing whack-a-mole with Mason Rudolph's


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[Assistant] Head in Mason Rudolph's helmet. No charges were pressed there. He was suspended, got re-upped, signed a new deal. Welcome back, Myles Garrett. Can't wait to see you on the football field. Odell Beckham Jr. is like, excuse me, we're smoking some cigars, we're celebrating, little ass slapping, hand clapping, and all of a sudden I get a charge pressed against me. So what are we doing here? I mean, he has a point, doesn't he?


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[Assistant] Well the thing about this is, I don't think America is the only place, uh,


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[Assistant] And talked about how everybody in the league knows that if he was in different situations as opposed to being at the Houston Texans, he'd be the number one receiver in the league. He said, Michael Thomas knows that if I was with Drew Brees my entire career, he knows what would happen. Julio Jones knows if I was Matt Ryan,


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[Assistant] My entire career, he knows what would happen. And as soon as I read it, I was like, damn, is that a shot at Deshaun Watson right there? That sounds like a shot at Deshaun Watson. And then you find this stat right here, and it's hard not to understand why DeAndre Hopkins is like,


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[Assistant] I haven't had a single motherfucking quarterback until Deshaun Watson got here. So you want to talk about stats and stuff like that. Let's talk about TJ Yates, Tom Savage, Taylor Heinke, Deshaun Watson, Brock Osweiler, Tom Savage, Ryan Mallett, TJ Yates again, Brandon Whedon, Ryan Hoyer, Ryan Mallett, Tom Savage, Case Keenum.


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[Assistant] T.J. Yates, Matt Schaub, K. Scanham. So aside from Deshaun Watson there.


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[Assistant] He has got a point. Not that there's anything wrong with those quarterbacks, they just for some reason didn't fit in Houston when DeAndre Hopkins was running around. So maybe it was a scheme, maybe it was something else, whatever the case, those particular quarterbacks did not have fantastic careers in the NFL. And DeAndre Hopkins is like, hey, listen,


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[Assistant] They know, I know, we know. Let's hope Kyler Murray can continue what Deshaun Watson was doing for him, which was putting him in a position to showcase his dominance, because damn, he is unbelievable when he's playing. That's why when he was traded for a bucket of balls, nobody understood what was going on.


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[Assistant] They, they show his highlights or whatever, and the catches are just outrageous. And his hands might be 7X. His hands might be 7X. Do you think he, do they, does, like, does Jordy Nelson


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[Assistant] Have something that's stretched out his hands to make him a better water. Is there something that can make-


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[Assistant] His hands are ginormous. Yeah. And I think Odell Beckham Jr., I think he has a massive, and these guys make these catches that are just next level. It's like they were, they were built to do it. It's like they were built, it's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Two. There's only two? One more next week, yeaah, so four total hours.


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[Assistant] They talked about like how uh, brutal it was to be around him when he was younger too because he was so damn competitive. Every single thing they did, he would make it a competition.


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[Assistant] Uh, get another 100,000 from meals from Russell Wilson, but also Russell Wilson standout Yankee and Seahawks said that he wouldn't mind seeing Antonio Brown become a Seattle Seahawk. And from Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, there's an entire report coming out that nobody in the NFL has a clue.


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[Assistant] Uh, could he miss- be suspended an entire season because there's a lot of allegations against him.


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[Assistant] Nobody knows because the NFL hasn't even started looking into it yet because the NFL won't start looking into it actually until a team shows real desire to sign him. He had a workout with the Saints.


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[Assistant] A massive benefactor for the Seahawks. He is...


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[Assistant] Such a good football player, which is why it's so sad all the shit that's happened off the field. He is immediately target number one, whatever field he goes to. And not only in the receiving game, but in the return game and with what defenses will have to do with him. Every single person that's ever been around him says he works his ass off.


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[Assistant] Be yourself, do your thing. They don't have a lot of weapons other than locket, right? Mechaft too. Okay, Mechaft. Locket and Antonio Brown automatically makes Russell Wilson


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[Assistant] That would be a hell of an offense. So Pete Carroll's just got to call in. I don't know how that works. AJ, I don't see, like, cause when Sean Payton worked him out, did he call the NFL first and say, Hey, if we were to sign him, how many games would we have to miss him? And then did the NFL just say, we're not looking into that right now? I don't know how that whole process goes. I don't know if there's ever been a situation like this before where it's a guy who by all accounts,


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[Assistant] Number one or top three wide receiver in the NFL. Top three at their position in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Has a waiting suspension that nobody knows about what it is. And who decides that? Do they project what they think it would be? Like, how do they get an accurate projection if it doesn't do the full investigation? I don't know how it works out, but I know that the Seahawks immediately become a much better team if they get old AB on that squad.


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[Assistant] Friend, he told, he said that AB has to get mental help for him to go back to help him or something like that. I think Rosenhouse set out a...


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[Assistant] Uh, thing like, hey, you need to do this before we continue to work together. And I believe that was in the middle of AB's.


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[Assistant] And I know it's only been a little bit of time and you can't judge somebody just off of one or two weeks or three weeks or a month of action. It feels like Antonio Brown has.


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[Assistant] Quieted down all the off the field noise that he was in chaos that was following him there for a little bit. I mean, when he came out of the court in those cowboy boots and with the ankle bracelet on and sprinted and then rap song and I mean it was a wild time to be alive there for AB.


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[Assistant] What will the NFL say? Well, we gotta see about all these allegations that you have because they're pretty large. If these allegations come to fruition in the courtroom, then whatever we decide to suspend you now is going to be subject to change from that.


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[Assistant] And then he didn't pay him so they said it was robbery and battery or something like that. But I feel like that one could get settled because that sounds like the truck driver was.


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[Assistant] Where the NFL was like, we have no idea what's going to happen with this. We can't accurately tell you how many games you're suspended if you're ever allowed back in the league by the way.


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[Assistant] Well the question is, let's say he did have some sort of mental health thing going on.


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[Assistant] Which we cannot rule out with the way everything was rolling. He didn't seem like a man who was making good decisions, right? If you see a doctor and they figure out how to level out your chemicals, like it very much is like a...


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[Assistant] I don't want to say like an overnight thing, but it is like a, oh, this much, this person becomes a sane person and a healthy person. I'll be interested to see how much the NFL looks into that. Like, okay, whenever he was doing all of these.


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[Assistant] You know, not only alleged terrible things, but actual terrible things on his IG live and stuff with his kids and his wife who was back with his lady and he's back with his kids. It feels like he's really trying to get back into that whole thing. I wonder how much Goodell in the NFL is like, we don't know enough, but if you're the agent, you're a hundred percent right. You're calling. You're like, Hey,


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[Assistant] We need to know what it's going to be. So whenever we talk to the Seahawks or when we talk to another team, yeah, we get that we'll be out for whatever, eight games, whatever it is, 10 games, however many it is.


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[Assistant] But whenever that happens, we gotta have some sort of goal because if not, we got no shot in this whole thing.


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[Assistant] But we don't know if it was just marijuana cause whenever it came out that he


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[Assistant] I tried Adderall, that was the new one, you know, the new one was, oh, I tried Adderall because I was, uh, studying the playbook or something. And then the NFL, by the way, never comes out and says, well, that's full of shit or not because the NFL does to the NFL's credit, they do very much not say anything. They let everybody else kind of control the narrative on what they don't want.


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[Assistant] I did think it was pretty telling though that he decided to pull it down and run it instead of making a throw. You know, just pretty telling to see that.


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[Assistant] The story that I heard on Steve Austin's show, uh, on the WWE network about you putting Cypress Hill to sleep is probably my favorite story that I have ever heard when it comes to legendary, you know, part, go ahead.


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[Assistant] But I guess, I guess old Mr. Taker here, sitting next to us here, uh, Mr. Taker was a pretty legendary drinker. Legendary drinker. And there was this one tour they were on, and uh, he was gonna go to bed because I guess he had a long night before it. Stop me if I'm ever wrong on any of this, please Mr. Taker.


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[Assistant] Just gonna take one night off, you were heading to your room, walking through the lobby, and I guess Cypress Hill was either there with the WWE or not, and they kind of gave him like, uh, oh, you're going to bed? Like, like, uh, like, oh, are you tired? Like, oh, is that kind of how it went?


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[Assistant] And that, and if I'm not mistaken, that night ended with you and Xbox in one of their rooms. And then once you saw the final Cypress Hill member fall asleep, you woke up Xbox and was like, Hey, our job is done here. Let's go to bed.


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[Assistant] Understood, hey, the wrestlers, the hotel lobby, after the work is done, a good time is gonna be had. Was there any legendary part of yours that you ran into, whether it was in the WWE business or outside? Cause the way Stone Cold was talking about, you were the guy that the WWE was like, hey, this is our guy. If we have to have somebody drink against somebody,


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[Assistant] I have this quote that, you know, cause nowadays with nutritionists and scientists and all this shit, there are, everybody's like, I always had this quote that a team comes together a lot better around a keg.


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[Assistant] Then they do kale. Those moments though, where you're sharing a beverage with each other and kind of learning more about each other, that carries into your workplace. And football teams, that carries into the locker room. The chemistry is higher. Whenever you're talking about a wrestling locker room, that chemistry has to be very high, I'd assume, for the show to go on every single week. Is that accurate? Is it, has there ever been a time where somebody in a locker room was like kind of,


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[Assistant] Was a moment of inflection for everybody, you know, kind of learn a little bit more. Maybe if you're ignorant to something, how do you learn about it a little bit more? How can we help potentially? And the idea we landed on was, uh, so.


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[Assistant] There's only 80 train owners in the history of this country. 80. So what we thought we could do is become the 81st train owners.


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[Assistant] And through this process we learned that there's a guy named Patrick Henry who owns a lot of trains. The Amtrak really has the entire business in a monopoly, but what we thought we could do


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[Assistant] We'll buy a couple of our own train cars. Okay, everybody gets their own train car. It's your room. We'll buy a train car that is a studio. And we'll go town to town.


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[Assistant] And we'll introduce these tiny towns that have never met maybe somebody from somewhere else. We'll do interviews, we'll do town halls, and we'll live in this train for a couple months while we bounce around on the back of Amtrak trains, which is the only way you can travel at this point because you can't just go your own destination because Amtrak


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[Assistant] When tour buses are moving, it actually stinks because when they're shut,


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[Assistant] You, you have a chance to move and live. That's what I would like to do. I'd like to move and live. The buses, they just don't have enough room to do anything. There's, you're stuck in the back, so you might as well just put yourself in a, in a jail cell and move it down the road. Traffic. Don't have to deal with traffic on the train tracks? No traffic on the train tracks.


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[Assistant] You get it and then to work all the way down. You understand Orlando middle of the pack there, but you still have to work your way down there. And then if we want to get to Orlando to let's say,


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[Assistant] But to get to the places you need to get to, boy, you gotta go straight in one direction a lot of different times. So it's not efficient. That's what we learned.


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[Assistant] Not a single person in this office thinks it was a bad idea. If it wasn't for the trains.


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[Assistant] The way they are operated. Like if we could get our own 2-2 and just hire somebody to be our engineer and everything like that and we didn't have to attach it to the back of other trains that are already moving.


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[Assistant] We heard that too. We're gonna be the leading, we're gonna corner the market on private train travel.


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[Assistant] You know, the pieces of America who maybe have never met somebody not from their part of time. Middle of America.


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[Assistant] I got a boat in Pittsburgh one time, it had a casino in it, and they told us, by no accounts, do not jump in the water. A body was dragged out of here the other day.


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[Assistant] Well then you wanted us to go down to Florida anyways. You were looking for us to die.


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[Assistant] You think they've successfully done that? Was it uh, was it Huber who got kicked?


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[Assistant] She got jump kicked. No, that was Cleveland's punter. His name was Spencer. Spencer Groove. Someone that Alex.


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[Assistant] Is Spencer Lanning. Good punter by the way from South Carolina, I think if I'm accurate. I don't know. He was a good punter, but that was a bad, bad, bad


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[Assistant] I later in the year sent said image to Antonio Brown on Twitter telling him that my family will be at the game, so none of this shit. Okay, please. And he responded, I got you or whatever, which was very nice of him. And then he shook me and he didn't step on my face. So that was very, very nice of him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. He, every, every single time I would try to


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[Assistant] Butter up the returner before the game, warm ups. And by butter up, I just want to talk to them. You know, I want to let them know that they're the best returner I've ever seen. And I think more people should see your film because it's the little things that you do that don't get noticed. You know? Yeah. Can you leave this particular move at home this weekend? Boss at Antonio Brown 84, obviously. Yeah. Spencer Lanning. I'll talk to him.


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[Assistant] If you get there early enough though, you can see if a punter wants to line up directly next to the other punter and just give a little bit of a, uh,


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[Assistant] Hey, let's do a little ball check here cuz, you know what I mean? Every once in a while, if I didn't, I saw Cyphers did this to me whenever I was young.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, he was just standing next to me and then I would punt a ball and then just as that one was perfectly landing, he would launch one into fucking orbit and then I would have to look at that and then he would stand there and then I had to punt and then he would do it again and I was like, oh, he's


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[Assistant] He's fucking with me right now. Like that is exactly what he's doing. Let's go to the other side. Then he would follow you down. You know what I mean? So I, I put that into my bag of tricks once I learned how to kick a ball later. You know what I mean? If there's a guy who potentially is on his way up.


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[Assistant] I would like to see what happens here. Let's stand right next to each other. Leckler and I did this one Thursday night game. It was quite a moment actually. Very cool moment between me and Leckler. But normally, other than those moments there, where you're just bombing balls next to each other, you're punting opposite way. So the returner would be around me.


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[Assistant] You know, heads up, ball coming in, I would have to watch. They catch a ball right in front of me, they throw it back, and that's when I would start. You know, that's when I would, oh, good gra- I wouldn't have.


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[Assistant] I would have dropped that one. You're so good. You know what I mean? Like, just, oh thanks. And then some people catch on to my game. You know what I mean? They knew, oh.


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[Assistant] Okay? Didn't even move. Didn't even talk to me. He took one back to the house and then I had to tackle him on the next one. And then the next game we had a chance to conversate. But I always wanted to let him know.


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[Assistant] Okay, if we get in the open field, congratulations, you've done your job. You're really good. Just shake the shit out of me. Don't, don't run me over. Like I, I need not be run over. Just shake me. It'll be easy. It'll be good for both of us. Just don't run me over. Josh cribs. I had that conversation with him.


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[Assistant] He returns a kickoff down the sideline and he tries to get to the edge or whatever. I tackle him.


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[Assistant] So I was always politicking not to get my face stepped on, which I think Spencer should have done. And also all the other punters from this point forward should also be pitching because that's a bad day for the brand when somebody's a returner ends up on top of the punter. That's just not good.


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[Assistant] For me, the things that I went through at USC, uhm, you know, when I look back on it, uhm, and I look where we are now in 2020, uhm, I appreciate


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's about to happen? I appreciate the fact that these young kids are gonna make money off their name, image, and likeness.


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[Assistant] Because I know what it's like not to be able to do that. I know what it's like.


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[Assistant] To, to, to kind of still be hamstrung, uhm, you know, at the college level where


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[Assistant] You can't make any money off of you. And what that does now, you know, what I, what I, the way I see it is now,


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[Assistant] We're going to allow people to be able to make money at a very earlier, at an earlier rate and also.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be able to take care of their families, right? They're gonna be able to eat a little better, right? Their life is gonna be just a little bit more comfortable, and that's the way it should be when you're in college. There's this narrative and this misconception that you're supposed to be broke in college, right?


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[Assistant] You're supposed to be broken and you're supposed to still be struggling. You're supposed to still be trying to make it and figure it out.


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[Assistant] Right, but at the same time, somebody else is benefiting off of your name, image, and likeness.


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[Assistant] And so all we asking is just for a little peace, you know what I'm saying? Y'all making millions off of us, so just let us make a little bit of money off of us at the same time.


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[Assistant] You know, I honestly, so for example, Matt Liner at that time period, I think Matt could have made millions. Millions. Cause he won a Heisman Trophy. Uhm, we had won a national championship. We had been to two national championships. I don't know, just one, sorry. Uhm, and, no sorry, two. I apologize. We had been to two national championships.


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[Assistant] You know, I think he could have made millions and millions of dollars, you know, in LA, in Hollywood. Uhm, you gotta think, Los Angeles brings a different culture that no other city can really offer, you know. Uhm, maybe New York, places like New York City, you know, have that.


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[Assistant] You know, I think Matt Liner could have made a lot of money. Obviously Lindale White, um, Brian Cushing, Clay Matthews. Um, I mean, we had so many guys that, you know, went to the next level.


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[Assistant] Upset, I was confused, I was also sad, depressed.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, you name it, just about every wave of emotion, I went through it. Uhm, and I went through it.


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[Assistant] You know, while I was in New Orleans, you know, unfortunately, because


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[Assistant] The reason I say unfortunately is because, you know, I wish when I go back, I wish I could have just


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[Assistant] Enjoyed that ride with a little less stress. You know what I mean? Because that was such a magical ride for us. It was such a magical run for us.


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[Assistant] Uh, while we were down there and we got a opportunity to be a part of history. We got an opportunity to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this was a city that welcomed me with open arms, right? And, and, and I'll never forget the first time I went to New Orleans and, and uhm, I went to Chef Emma's restaurant.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we walked in, the whole restaurant stood up, applauded, and I thought the coaches had set that up, but, you know, it was, the fans were truly, truly embraced.


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[Assistant] And so when I look back on my relationship with the people there in the city, they,


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[Assistant] That was a place that I needed to go to because they welcomed me with open arms at a very, very vulnerable time in my life and, and they gave me this renewed strength, this renewed passion that, okay, I'm wanted again, right? And, and, and now,


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[Assistant] And so New Orleans is very special, very near and dear to my heart because uhm, you know, while


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[Assistant] They viewed us as, you know, kind of their saviors. Uhm, I was viewing them as my saviors.


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[Assistant] AJ, Tony Dungy, I got there after Tony Dungy. I was with Jim Caldwell his first year. But the, the effects of Tony Dungy ran through that entire building for years and years. I've never seen anything like that. I mean, that guy was, everybody talked about him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, legit. He came on our show whenever the, uhm, it was a couple of weeks ago. It was after Drew Brees. It was after Drew Brees had come. So he was scheduled to come on our show the day after Drew Brees made his comments, but he was already scheduled. So he didn't, I assume because he works at NBC now, right? So in Drew Brees supposed to work at NBC, it was just.


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[Assistant] Everybody could have, it was, he's an impowerful man. I'd never met him before that though. That was my first time.


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[Assistant] And there was just such a vast difference of the culture. And I think, I don't know, I, I, Grigson,


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[Assistant] It was his first time getting put in power, right? So I think he wanted to put his stamp on everything. And in doing so, it was just like,


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[Assistant] He changed a lot of what was great about Indianapolis and that, that team.


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[Assistant] Man. That, those were some of the best times I've ever been a part of because you've got a lot of people that probably don't have that good of a time anymore, right? They're, they all got families, they're all dedicated to their craft. But those trips home, you're kind of stuck.


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[Assistant] And they were try- and there was a couple of speeches that were like, we're trying to change the culture here, cause we just went 2 and 14, it was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you look just one year before that, it was the winningest decade in NFL history. So it was like, I don't know if the two and 14 year kind of.


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[Assistant] A lot of people just acted as if that 2014 year was a normal thing for the Indianapolis Colts. And then the people that stuck around, it was just, and then he brought in a lot of free agents who didn't really, I don't know. It just, whenever you just bring in a lot of people that don't love the team that you're on yet, I'm not saying that they won't at some point, but it was just like a turnover of the entire roster, the building.


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[Assistant] Cause AB was one of like the leaders of the locker room. So whenever those decisions get made, you can see how some people get a little, and then whenever you get a bunch of people that come in there, they don't know any better about what the coats are. And then they started looking at people that haven't been around. It's just that it was a very.


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[Assistant] It just, everything got flipped and I guess that's going to happen with transition always, but that's that thing, that special ingredient that that first thing mad, you, you can't replicate it, but you can get rid of it is what I learned that you can.


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[Assistant] Leaving the bubble in Orlando to attend a family emergency. Now, obviously, T's and P's to whoever he is going to see or whatever has happened, but I feel like a lot of the decisions around the bubble were made to see if they can get Zion into the bubble and playing.


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[Assistant] And now if he comes back, he has to be quarantined, I think for 10 days, unless they make an adjustment to that rule. Feels like Zion's probably out of the bubble, which is massive news for the NBA.


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[Assistant] In safety, but boy, when you talk about the bubble, no Zion is tough. But if he does get back quick, I think they'll be able to make it still, AJ.


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[Assistant] Lonzo. Oh, Lonzo Ball. The guy couldn't even shoot a basketball when he was in Los Angeles. He goes down to New Orleans, stud. He's like the mailman. He's delivering stuff to Zion on a daily basis on the internet. I mean, the guy is maybe a point god. Huh?


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[Assistant] Would make a lot more sense if you're the mailman, if you're the one delivering the ball.


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[Assistant] I didn't wear a mouthpiece, felt like a real G. What you have, just one of those basic little tiny ones?


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[Assistant] Also, you do not, you're not required to wear a mouthpiece in the NFL. It is advised due to the ability levels and strengths of NFL players. So when quarterbacks are sacked, they may clinch their teeth together and knock them out. I didn't know that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I was told that mouthpieces, it saves my jaw from biting into each other and potentially causing a concussion.


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[Assistant] College, I forget who we were playing, it was freezing. Absolutely freezing outside though, and I didn't wear a mouthpiece in college or whatever. And my hands had gone numb at this point. It was, I think it was third quarter. I kick off, since it's so cold, isn't a touch back. Returner comes out, okay.


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[Assistant] Ball gets bumped out, I go dive in cause I think I can get it, okay. Somebody hits me, top of head, helmet, I get in scrum, okay. I end up not with the ball by the way. Okay, so everything could go wrong, does go wrong, and I, I feel a little pain in my, on my tongue or whatever, and I go to grab it and I can't feel anything. I thought I had no tongue.


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[Assistant] Like I thought I lost my fucking tongue, so I was like, oh my god, like I get to the sideline, I go to my friend, I'm like, do I have a, do I have a tongue? And they're like, oh, you're bleeding, my tongue was bleeding, I had an entire...


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[Assistant] On the field, as I was jogging off, that's all I thought of was that kid with the big thing stuck on his, I'm like, oh my god, oh my god, is this my life now? It was not.


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[Assistant] Uh, thankfully. But that was tough. My thing did swell up though. So I was talking with a little bit of a list for like 3-4 days. That's alright. Looked good on film, I bet.


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[Assistant] Full scrum after a kickoff, same thing, fumble, full scrum. I come in late to the pile, but I start working my arm in and I get my hand on the ball. So I was like, Oh shit. Like I came in late and I did it strictly for, I don't want to say like comedic purposes.


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[Assistant] And I start, like, moving my hand around the pile, and I get my hand on the ball. And I'm like, fuck, now what am I supposed to do, right?


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[Assistant] So there's like two people potentially laying down in between us and I have a ball and all of a sudden I start getting like


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[Assistant] I thought they were gonna try to break my fingers in there, but I almost got it. I felt like I almost got the ball.


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[Assistant] So sorry to interrupt. If you're a man watching this, you deserve to have long, great,


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[Assistant] Every time you get in the sack. Now let's get back to the fornicating action.


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[Assistant] Were you the guy that was doing the finger breaking in those scrums? I would assume that was you.


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[Assistant] I opted out, dog. I think that one's already long gone, but the fact that I got to


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[Assistant] But the horse call, I think whenever it started, they tried to make the game safer, player safety. I think that's when it happened. They were like, we can't, and you weren't even allowed to dive in the pile anymore. Remember like, cause you're taught as a football player, if there is a scrum,


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[Assistant] He's from Hershey, Pennsylvania. He's from PA. He's 22 years old or 23 years old. He's a guy that a lot of the people in the national system for the United States have been talking about for a long time. Like, we got a guy, this Christian Polisic kid, he's a good guy, we got a guy, we got a guy. So now he's gone overseas. First he played for, uh, Dortmund.


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[Assistant] Two games ago he goes in, scores a goal within his first minute. This game, first half,


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[Assistant] Blows by two dudes. Scores another goal. He's got, he should have had a third goal actually, got screwed on the line. This dude has two goals and two appearances for Chelsea. Should be three goals and two appearances for Chelsea within the last week. And he's gonna potentially be the greatest soccer player on earth. We got a guy!


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[Assistant] He's only 21? He's only 21 years old. We got 10 more years of this kid being great. He's got Jets too. I think he might be 5'2", but he's got Jets. He's a player. I'm very happy for him, but congrats to Liverpool. You never walk alone.


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[Assistant] Whoa. No, no, no. Way better. Freddie Hadoo was this age when he was playing against me when I was 12.


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[Assistant] Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. I'm not Hermson Shor. But Christian Polisic is, he had the same hype as Freddie Adu coming up through the systems, by the way.


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[Assistant] The way they talk about Americans over there playing soccer is the same way that Americans who don't like soccer talk about soccer over here. It's like, they were like, you know what? The American pretty good at kicking the ball around with their English acts. Like the way they were talking as if they were so surprised that this dude was having success.


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[Assistant] Cause he's probably not yet, but he will be, and when he is, I'll do that whole, I fucking said it long time ago. Told you.


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[Assistant] I just found it right here. He spent 137,000 for the, uhm, Prince thing. It was originally worth 30,000 so he put another 100,000 on top so he made sure he could get it.


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[Assistant] I would, I would definitely rather be down, down in the South Island. I would say for, for that, but, um, no, we're based in Auckland. So I grew up in Auckland.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, so I pretty much landed, uhm, 6 hours ago, 7 hours ago, something like that, so uhm, yeah, basically flew straight directly the next morning after the race, uhm, there was a whole bunch of us trying to make different flights going different places in Dubai, uhm,


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[Assistant] And I would say there's a good portion of us that didn't make their flights. I was lucky that I made mine. Uhm, but it was all quite delayed.


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[Assistant] There's a couple of options from what I understand, right? There's like two options of surgery. One's quite a long recovery time and one's a shorter recovery time. And I don't actually know what, how Carlos's surgery, I guess it was quite good because obviously he was at the track on sun, on Saturday. So, um, but yeah, it is short.


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[Assistant] I would say maybe I would say it's becoming more clear. It's hard because obviously I don't want to just speak for myself, but as using Oli as an example, I think how potentially accessible Formula One is, um, for even for the younger sort of generation and sort of us trying to step into it. I think, um,


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[Assistant] In my experience, it's not so much driving the car, but everything else that comes with Formula One, the pressure, the, the, the, uhm, obviously the media side of it, the atmosphere, it's very, very different to what anything else we've raced, but the driving part of it, how sort of accessible it is, and I think from the simulator work and preparation that we do,


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[Assistant] That, you know, somebody like Ollie, uhm, is able to jump and step into the car and, you know, relatively quickly be on, you know, on the pace, uhm, and do, do such a good job.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a lot of, basically you're running through, your brain's running through scenarios very, very quickly about sort of what is about to happen.


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[Assistant] And for me, at least at first, it was really hard to believe because you dream of obviously driving a Formula One your whole life. It's, um, what you sort of, and you're always trying to sell yourself to obviously whatever, you know, for Ollie's with Ferrari, for me it was with Rebels. I'm always trying to sell myself as being ready for Formula One and that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, whenever that challenge comes that I'm, I'm ready for it and then once it's there, you basically realize very quickly, now I have to


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[Assistant] Uhm, all of the stresses I would say, and before you know it, you're basically sitting in the car, ready to go out.


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[Assistant] Well I think every scenario is different, so it's hard, obviously it's hard to compare, you know, in exact situations, but for me it was, it was wet, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they sent me out on a, on a, basically a full wet because the insert is a tire that you need to be basically pushing it straight away to keep the temperature, and if you're not, then basically you lose temperature and it becomes like a slick, so uhm.


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[Assistant] I basically went out on a full wet and had the first part of the session, uh,


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[Assistant] Basically get a bit of a feeling with, with the car, um, and then went on to the insert and did the rest of the session basically. So, um.


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[Assistant] I think, yeaah, it's every situation sort of, sort of difference, but I, that's pretty much what they did with, with Oli. They sent him out, uhm, and from when I was watching it sort of looked like they just sent him out without even a warm up procedure. He just basically pushed straight away to get a feeling.


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[Assistant] Didn't worry too much about what state the tyre was in in terms of, you know, the perfect build up procedure and the perfect cool down and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And uhm, and get used to the car because the biggest thing with any car and I think the faster the car, especially with Formula One, the main thing that you need to have and what sort of I think affects drivers performance is if you're not 100% confident with what you have underneath you,


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[Assistant] Every time you're entering a, especially like a track like Jetta, uhm, a really high speed corner and you're basically at 99% of confidence, you lose so much lap time in Formula 1 that you just need to be


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[Assistant] At that sort of, at one with the carve, if anything, uhm, and that's the hardest thing to basically get used to and that's just what takes a bit of time.


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[Assistant] We basically have, I guess every team probably does it the same. We do a seat at the start of each year, uhm, a full basically driver, uh,


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[Assistant] Position set up so they have your pedals everything your positioning sit and they measure it all and they have a basically I guess written down and then when you when you step in there basically just set it up to exactly how you're sort of comfortable that's the other thing is.


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[Assistant] With anything, with any car that you step into, whenever you make a seat, at least in my experience, you make a seat, you feel really comfortable, you got on track and there's always something that's not quite right that you have to then further adjust when you drive.


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[Assistant] So I think that's normally what happens and it's what happened with me. And I would say it's probably what happened with Oli as well, that he would have done a session and been like, all right, you know, we need to adjust this and, but then you're just stepping in and qualifying.


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[Assistant] Every s- I mean, I guess probably teams have different procedures, uhm, but the initial form of the seed is done with, uhm, basically, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] So you sit and you hold yourself in your ideal driving position.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, over 10 or 20 minutes, uhm, that foam basically expands, grows around you and then hardens into a, into a seat. Uhm, and then you basically cut it to exactly how you want it so you have enough arm room and everything like that to move and where you're comfortable and then normally it'll get scanned.


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[Assistant] Uhm, normally it's after you drive because, you know, if, if you do have those sort of things that you need to change, you're not gonna know until you drive.


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[Assistant] And then once you're comfortable, uhm, it gets basically turned into carbon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's rock hard and it probably sounds really uncomfortable, but, but it is super, super comfortable. So when you have a good seat, it's the best, the best feeling in the world. When you have a bad seat, it's absolutely horrible. And it's something that can really affect every drive is different. But, um, if you know, in my experience, if I don't have a seat that I'm a hundred percent confident with,


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[Assistant] You, you lose feeling of what the car is doing, you lose like performance, you lose, uhm, what your, sort of the connection that you have with the car and how it's moving, uhm, it can really affect it.


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[Assistant] This is really funny because when I saw him say what he basically complained about it, and they took it out, I knew.


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[Assistant] Very quickly, he would probably want to back in and if you look after the race, his head risk because his neck is so sore. So basically in Formula One, you have extreme G force and


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[Assistant] As a comfort thing, you want, you're basically, if your neck is strong enough to cope with the, all the G that you pull, which is really hard to achieve, and it's something that you, realistically, you can't achieve until you drive full time 411. Even if you do all the neck training in the world, you can help it.


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[Assistant] You're just not adapted to that kind of, um, G-Force in a race car. So, and it's exactly what I had. I had the same. You can basically have different options for some of it. It's a little bit of aero, but it's basically your sort of head support and it means that if your neck's giving out, you can just touch the headrest a little bit. It's not ideal because you actually lose a bit of feeling of the car.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's there just for that little bit of support if you need it. But what happens is when you, sometimes you hit a curb and your head bounces into one of the,


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[Assistant] One of those sort of things. It bounces, your head just bounces in the headrest and you can't, there's nothing you can do about it. You can't stop it. And it's really irritating but it's because your neck's not strong enough. So I guess, I don't know if Carlos had it in or if they just put it in for Oli.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but he complained about it very quickly, but at that point he hadn't done enough laps to really feel the sort of the effects of the G. And I think he probably in the race, I don't know if they put it back in or not, but he probably wished that he had it in there.


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[Assistant] I sort of feel like you mail a little bit when you see that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Arguably that's the toughest part about stepping into Formula 1. I would say for, uhm, one of the hardest things for me, and I'm sure for Oli as well is, is exactly that, the attention that comes with it, the driving part is one thing.


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[Assistant] We are basically, we spend our whole life preparing and driving cars, go karts into race cars, and then obviously preparations for Formula One that the driving part itself is not really the hardest part about it. It's everything else that comes with it. And one of those things is basically the media attention that you get and there's no.


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[Assistant] Maybe struggled with and I'm sure Oli probably had this feeling as well as the realisation that you have won race.


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[Assistant] And you're going to be very heavily judged. Your whole future is going to be judged on this one race. And obviously I was lucky enough to have five, but each race I was told was my last at that time. I didn't know I was going to do more than that. So each weekend was basically


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[Assistant] This, you know, this is the one shot that you're going to get to prove yourself in Formula One. It doesn't really matter what you've done in other categories. At the end of the day, all Formula One teams want to know is how you drive a Formula One car.


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[Assistant] And your whole future is basically based on, on how you perform.


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[Assistant] It really was, uhm, obviously it depends on your sort of situation. For me growing up, uhm, you know, my family, my whole family, my dad, my parents, but also my siblings have made massive sacrifices for me to be able to, uhm, go and compete overseas and sort of, you know, chase my dream and it sort of,


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[Assistant] You know, my dad's dream as well, I would say is, uhm, something that he, uhm, obviously sacrificed a lot for, you know, for, for me. So to, uhm, have him there in that, in that, in that moment and have basically my, both my parents there was, uhm, was very, very cool. But Singapore was also a bit, a bit tough because honestly all of those moments were, uhm,


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[Assistant] They were really special, but in the back of my mind it was really hard to enjoy them because uhm, it was that Saturday right before qualifying that I was told I wasn't going to be driving this year. So uhm, obviously I was informal when I was trying to.


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[Assistant] Prove myself and uhm, I knew in the back of my mind that I, that they were probably gonna pick Daniel and Yuki for this year. But I still felt like I had an opportunity to maybe change that decision. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And I got told right before qualifying that that was not going to be the case. So uhm, that whole weekend was amazing because I, you know, had a good qualifying May Q3 and then we had points in the race.


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[Assistant] And the team was all really, really happy and everyone was celebrating and obviously my family super happy, but I knew that, you know, at the end of the day, the whole goal is to try and get a Formula One seat. That's what I'm doing this for. And you know, I knew that wasn't going to happen this year. So it honestly took away from that a little bit.


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[Assistant] I think, uhm, the sit-down interviews, obviously they're interviews, you know, they're interviews.


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[Assistant] Quite often you do little pieces where they'll stick a mic on you and sometimes they won't


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[Assistant] So uhm, it's, it gives a very good, you know, insight behind the scenes, I guess more real, uhm, sort of behind the scenes of what's happening, uhm, which is, which is probably really, really cool, uhm, and the,


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[Assistant] So for me, the questions were, you know, really about the seat and why I wasn't getting chosen and how it made me feel and, um, and, and things like that, which, uh, they use some of it, obviously, um, in, in the episode, the sections where I sort of basically told, you know, I said that I felt like it should have been me, but, um,


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[Assistant] That stuff there, they were, yeaah, sometimes, you know, you don't get asked that sort of direct question.


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[Assistant] I think yeah, I think obviously to a certain extent where, you know, over the years you sort of get media trained and you learn, you know, the right things and wrong things to say in most cases. But uhm, you know, obviously I'm fighting for my, my career at this point and uhm, they somehow


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[Assistant] Figure out the right questions to really get those, those, um, those answers out of you.


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[Assistant] I think the thing that was hard about, about our situation is because of where we were, because of where Alpha 3 sort of were in the championship, you know, to even score a point at that point, they had three points, uhm, to basically the team's name. They were actually, uhm, last in the, in the constructors, so it was,


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[Assistant] If you, if I was a little bit off, if I was just a couple of tenths away from Yuki, I was last.


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[Assistant] And, and the standings. So that was probably the hardest part about that hole.


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[Assistant] Experience is each, you know, practice sessions and things like that was, you know, I really needed to be completely on the limit. There was no, I couldn't, if I made a small mistake here and there, it would basically really affect, which is sort of what you see with the, with more of the midfield teams is what sort of happens.


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[Assistant] So, but what I, what, what's clear with Formula One is, is, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's so much more that you have to do operating the car. It's not just in Formula 2 and in most categories outside of F1.


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[Assistant] We have performance settings in the car that we can change corner to corner to try and help things out and that's the bit that I think uhm, what's really really cool about it and is uhm, maybe something that relates to more the cars sort of driving you because there's so much you have to, to do.


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[Assistant] You know, it was going to be competitive this year, you know, in a way like almost like last year. Uhm, obviously there was a lot of...


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[Assistant] There's always a lot of talk and hype over the off-season about, you know, potential teams coming closer and obviously everyone's always developing, but at the end of the day, when everyone's catching up, Red Bull are also.


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[Assistant] Developing and almost, you know, moving away at the same time. So uhm, it's more last year when we did some of the development for the car that I spent quite a lot of time in the simulator and I sort of knew the performance gains that were coming end of last year.


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[Assistant] That obviously, I knew that the car was already winning at that point. So if we're, you know, finding lap time in the sim for next year's car, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be even quicker. So, uhm, I think I had a pretty good indication that it was going to be very good. Maybe honestly not this good. I think this, the, the,


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[Assistant] The team are, uhm, are doing a, obviously a fantastic job.


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[Assistant] Yeah, obviously it's a great opportunity to be, obviously if I could choose any team to be with, I would definitely choose this one because I have basically direct access to, uhm,


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[Assistant] To all of the information and, and I guess almost exactly how he, how he does it and how the team of he does it as well. Uhm, so I think the main thing is really, it's basically, I'd say what I said at the start about the confidence level, Max's confidence level with that car.


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[Assistant] Is, it's, it's gotta be higher than anybody's. You know, if you look at, if you look at Lewis, for example, he's obviously not 100% happy and hasn't been with, with that car. You can imagine that every time he approaches the start of a qualifying lap or, or any lap really, he's not.


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[Assistant] He's gonna be 100% confident with what he's got underneath him and know exactly what it's gonna do. Whereas with where Max is at right now with the Red Bull, uhm, the car is in such a good window and he's so comfortable with it that basically, the best way to see it is when you look at his qualifying lap from Jetta, he doesn't


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[Assistant] So close to the wall in players' turn four, I'm pretty sure he touched it on the inside, which is extremely, uhm, you know, extremely difficult to do, to be that precise.


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[Assistant] But it's not just turn 4, it's turn 10, it's turn, uhm, 22 as well. It's, it's everywhere basically. He's so precise with it and it's because he's so confident with, with the car and it's those things that really make up lap time as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you basically, I try not to have too many things sort of like routine like because I don't want to basically have too many things to hold, you know, to remember and hold myself to. And if I forget one, what that's going to do. Um, so I probably have one, one thing that I consistently do, um, before a race, um, that basically I've been doing since I was,


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[Assistant] Since I was getting into go karts and it's the reason I do it. So I only get in the left side of the car. Uhm, because when you're in a go kart, the engine's on the right hand side. So when I'm a six year old kid, I always go on the left. So I kept doing that. Uhm, and I listen to music. Everybody has their own thing, but I listen to music before races, which, you know, you have plenty of time in F1 to do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're kind of forced to because when you're on the grid and they've obviously normally have like a DJ or somebody playing, uhm, before you're getting in the car, it's obviously in the background. And...


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[Assistant] I, at least in my experience, I was more nervous and more stressed about the qualifying day than the race. I remember waking up on race day and actually feeling.


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[Assistant] But the other thing that I've learned is no matter what you're racing, whether it's Formula One or whether it is go-karts, the second that the lights go out and that race starts, it's just, it's a race and like any other race, you're basically, uhm,


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[Assistant] Honestly, whatever you're feeling, uh, before those lights go out, as soon as they're gone, it snaps out and you're basically, uhm, in, you know, that zone that you fall into when you're in


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[Assistant] I would, yeaah, I would say that maybe the difference is our sort of development, the access that we have now maybe compared to what they used to have.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that we're doing a lot of this preparation from such a young age that we're in the simulator and we're doing this, this sort of prep stuff. I know Oli's been in a Formula One car obviously before as well, and we have the opportunity to do that, uhm, with free practice sessions and things. So, I think, yeaah, we have access from maybe a younger age.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it hopefully does show that it's more accessible and that it's definitely achievable for younger people to get in and hopefully mix it with. Obviously I'm arguing for myself, but hopefully both of us sort of show that it's more or less possible.


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[Assistant] Well I would say our role has more of an effect honestly away from the track than it does at the track. It's more basically back in the UK with Red Bull simulator work. Um, simulator work basically for the team, sort of developing the car.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Max and Checo will basically come in for the simulator sessions, but they have only so much time they can spend in the sim because of all the other things that they have to be doing. So most of it is very much based on the weekend they're about to go into, the performance, the items that they're going to run on the car. Uhm, but obviously,


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[Assistant] You know, they probably don't have as much time to test those actual items, which is where our role comes in. We have a lot more time to be there, basically develop, test all these parts. This works, this doesn't, ends.


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[Assistant] In the paddock, maybe commentary, honestly. Maybe something to do with commentary because I used to, when I was a kid, uhm, and I would play like 4-1-1 games and things like that, I would commentate myself racing. So uhm, it's something that I enjoyed doing then, so maybe I would enjoy doing it now, but honestly I really struggle to watch.


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[Assistant] I see you walking around with all your kit all the time and honestly sometimes depending on what the weather's doing it doesn't look overly pleasant sometimes.


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[Assistant] Well, at the end of the day, I want to, I want to be, uhm, obviously my dream is to drive with, with RID, but I've been with them now over, over five years now. Uhm, and believe it or not, when I was a kid, they were the, they were the team that, uhm, I, you know, sort of dreamed of driving for when I was first going to Europe, I saw.


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[Assistant] Other junior drivers at that point, I wasn't a junior, but, um, I always thought it was so cool that there was, you know, these younger kids that I was racing that were kitted out in Red Bull gear.


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[Assistant] You know, at the end of the day, my, my dream is to drive from Formula One. So uhm, yeah, it's a tricky one to answer.


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[Assistant] In the morning I obviously shower, I, uh, I do blow dry my hair, uhm, so, which obviously to, to put it into shape and then I have hair product that I put into my hair, uhm, and yea, I've probably tried many different ones over the year and I'm pretty set on the one that I have now, so.


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[Assistant] Those are the best, those are the best stuff. That's pretty, pretty similar to what I would use as more of a pasty clay, you know, sort of look.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if I was, if I was driving it would be obviously, it would be, it would basically be the home race. It would be the one that I would say most New Zealand fans would, would be able to get to.


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[Assistant] Um, so, and, you know, I raced in Australia as well a few years back before coming to Europe. So, um, it's definitely one that I'm, I'm excited for. I've, I actually didn't go because I had super formula stuff last year. So I didn't actually go last year, but I went the year before for the first time. I didn't even, I didn't go when I was younger.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it was a really, really cool race. I enjoyed it. I thought the paddock was really, really cool. Obviously the walk-in, you have sort of direct access with all the fans on the sides where, uhm, you can see everybody.


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[Assistant] And I think the track now, especially with the changes that they've made to it, it's super, especially with Formula One, it's super cool. Like being almost even a higher speed, uhm, at least on the sim, it's, it's really fun. Uhm, and I'm sure it would be super cool to drive in real life.


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[Assistant] I'm not Daniel Ricciardo, but uhm, I'm sure it'll be one of the busier ones for sure, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, be good, good to go. These are, these, these, you know.


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[Assistant] Adjusted to a time zone and be comfortable is virtually impossible.


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[Assistant] Please break the news to anyone who doesn't know it. Hola!


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[Assistant] You would think you'd have to go restructure like 10 guys deals to try to work things out when you do want to pay Kelsey or Tyree Kill or whatever you have to do in the next year or two.


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[Assistant] Knowing that I wasn't going back to the kind of day to day of, you know, the highest level that you can get, uhm, was, was pretty tough. But then, uhm, yeaah, I managed to settle into kind of a normal life, a new life, uhm, and, and yeaah, I feel good. Uhm, it's, it's actually really nice watching from afar and,


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[Assistant] Was everything from running his training programs to looking after him from a pain and injury perspective, from a medical perspective, looking after his nutrition, his hydration.


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[Assistant] For an individual who's going for a world championship and needs clarity of mind to, you know, drive at the speeds that he does around the track, little tasks like that can make a huge, huge difference.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, so yeaah, you know, you don't really kind of wear an under top and a suit once because a lot of the time we're racing in hot countries and, uh,


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[Assistant] Firstly, he is champion and winning is just ingrained into his makeup, uhm, and that kind of relentlessness to,


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[Assistant] You know, not even think about records, but just want to win, uhm, is a, is a real kind of testament to him, real credit to him, but also to, you know, the way that him and his dad, you know, built up through the, through the years and, and, uhm, the way they kind of saw the sport and, and sport in general, you know, it's,


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[Assistant] A very good ability that we had is to just build around each race weekend as it comes and see each one as, you know, a final that we went out to win. And he always had that in him and actually 2021 was a,


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[Assistant] A shift that we had to make in terms of it was okay to come second and score points, because we needed the points. But, you know, take last year for example, we took every race weekend as it came, and we worked through the race weekend individually.