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Baltimore Ravens Cornerback Marcus Peters Represents for Oakland on Sway In The Morning
Feb 14, 2022
Marcus Peters of the Baltimore Ravens stopped by the Sway In The Morning Super Bowl booth to talk some town bizness!
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way in the morning on shade 45.
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oh okay listen man this is this might be
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we've done this super bowl thing for
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years now heather being tracy
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this is my proudest moment hands down
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this is no gas this is no helium right
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here okay this is my proudest moment
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right here tracy let me explain to you
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like um
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damn i might tear up on this one [ __ ]
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when i look at this young man um and all
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that he's accomplished
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uh
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it's deeper than rap you know what i
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mean hb this is it it's legacy that
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we're talking about right now this dude
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to be doing what he's doing right now
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he's with the baltimore ravens um he's
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one of the most celebrated cornerbacks
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in the league one of the most feared
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cornerbacks in the league they hate
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throwing to his side
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because even if you catch the ball it's
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going pain it's going to follow that
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catch and they know what it is and they
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cannot tame him this man is just like
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someone i knew that came before him his
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father was the same way
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his father and i grew up together and we
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went through a
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track aau track program called 1980 that
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kept us off the streets right and helped
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us recognize our gifts and our talents
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through discipline of uh physically as
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we were track athletes but also mentally
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psychologically and emotionally we we
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cried as kids together and we celebrated
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as uh as kids and we were victorious as
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kids i'm talking about his dad michael
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peters
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michael peters antonio davis and me were
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all on the same
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track team in the same relay team you
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know antonio davis heather you know nba
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player come on i just feel like this is
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a moment for receipts for him and that's
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really why he wants to cry but i have to
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take it all right now and it's killing
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me citizens he's in his purse right now
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he just sways first
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it's actually a knapsack he's in a big
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bag
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so so when i played for the oakland
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dynamites and i played cornerback
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we went undefeated and then i moved to
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linebacker and nobody could run on my
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side because i ran track just like his
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dad who was fast as hell so when i see
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him on the field and he took it to a
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whole nother level that none of us
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taking it to
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man i can be nothing more than proud man
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i'm proud to call him nephew that's okay
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if i call you nephew yes sir man
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one of the most celebrated people in the
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nfl we got marcus peters here citizens
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marcus peterson
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oh i'm done i'm retiring i'm beautiful
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though
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no because i think too what you're
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saying to what you're speaking to
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citizens is that it's a full circle
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moment for you
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to a lot of levels and then for marcus
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i'm sure you know you having your dad
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and hearing the stories and you sitting
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here too it has to be unbelievable y'all
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are from a particular place in this
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world where you don't oh it don't always
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end good you know you don't always get
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these golden opportunities so i'm happy
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for the moment i'm happy for this moment
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welcome to the show man town business we
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up in here somebody makes some noise
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oakland is up in here
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[Laughter]
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we just disrupted howie how we got
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we said oakland in the building he
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almost took off
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marcus man what did what does it feel
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like for you you went to mcclimate's
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high school the mack house the mack
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house man and you you you're living your
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dream man and in oakland that doesn't
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always people don't always feel that
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that can happen
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right when you go home what how do the
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kids respond to you man you know i'm
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bleeding the block i'll go straight to
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my granny house 2-6 and chestnut yeah
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y'all still here right behind him you
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feel me my granny man you know i wish he
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was here still but uh
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you go right to my granny house yeah man
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we bleeding the block and kids gonna
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know that you know i'm i'm able to be
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touched and you it's it's possible
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so you know i'm riding my bike i'm doing
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everything i can do you know
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to keep oakland in me
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you're a straight-up oakland dude too
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and that means many things you know that
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means you smarter than your average
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person you got more game than your
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average person right your style is
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always going to be a little more
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different than your average person a lot
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of times we face a lot of adversity and
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we think we can't reach places because
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we didn't reach certain goals i wasn't a
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straight a student you know what i mean
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i went i went to college i ended up
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having to leave college i couldn't
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afford and went to mary college for a
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minute then i went to san francisco
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state and i still made it to where i am
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what can you tell kids who may not be
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straight a's i don't know if you were
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straight were you straight man i was bad
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as hell okay
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ninth and tenth grade man i was flunking
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out to be honest with you like you said
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i was just trying to find my purpose man
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i was into everything that can be be
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offered into the streets
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um
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and just football was just my gift man
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once my really once my granny got sick
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with cancer man that's when i had to hit
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the switch you for me because my older
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brother was had a scholarship to sac
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state and then some things didn't work
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out that he couldn't go and you know i
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had to put put my foot down man somebody
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had to do it you know i'm in the middle
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so you know i get all the pressure from
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both sides you feel me so um
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just have to get you're pushing so you
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know for us you know we we got them
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streets man you know that
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town boy it's vicious man so i just man
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just really just trusting myself man
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yeah make sure i can do something for
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myself man because
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ain't nobody well nobody gonna do it for
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me in oakland for real man cause i ain't
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you know it's too easy to be a killer
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too easy to be a drug dealer [ __ ]
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i was trying to do something else you
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know i ain't really had no two big two
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bigger role models man until marshland
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got to the league to be honest like real
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[ __ ] gave us hope like you know like you
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say antonio david that's my godfather
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yeah you feel me what about alonzo
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that's my that's my uncle your family
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you know um coach d you know coach lloyd
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and all the rest of the family here back
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in oakland man you know uh i was blessed
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you know to be with those those men you
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know and watch those men go through
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their process and and for me to be on
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this stage right here i mean it's a
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blessing it's crazy right come on yeah i
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know it's a blessing man like you say
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you you tell me you tearing up but like
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man make me feel some type of way man i
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sit back and watch all the time and just
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collect the game and just be proud of
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the product hell that's you from oakland
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it's just it's beautiful man
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yeah we're looking at the trace you got
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to see it we just looking at each other
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like for me well i don't know
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a lot of people personally from oakland
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but when you mention marshawn um sway
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antonio dame i i want to and i'm that's
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why i'm bringing this up because a lot
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of them i've been paying attention to
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what they've been doing off the court
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and off the field you know but to me
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that's a choice like people don't always
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go back to give back what is it for you
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that
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you feel like you have to a friend of
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land where who ep newton from man
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people got to come first you feel me
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that's all i know is take care of my
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people man i've been seeing my pops work
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at mac for 30 plus years man and it was
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never about just his kids it was always
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about taking care of everybody in this
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and we're stoking you feel me wow it
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takes a village to raise a child and
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we've been living by that and we're
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going to die by it i love that man man
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marcus peters is here
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is it okay if i cried you haven't had it
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crying and trying to get to the club
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man your dad was really your dad was an
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emotional uh
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young man yeah yeah michael peters man i
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i learned
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man i could tell you so many stories
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about alonzo carter coach carter yeah
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michael peters antonio davis man but one
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of the things that happened for us is
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through track and field we got to travel
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outside of oakland yep we used to go to
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oregon new mexico all these different
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places your pops up your pops will tell
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you you know um all the different things
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we we used to do but can we talk about
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your pops man yeah i mean that's what
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that's all it is man i wouldn't be here
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if it wasn't for my past like you say
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those trips man my pops did that with us
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when we was young kids man and he put us
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in the car man packed us up 13 that was
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in advance wow look young dudes from me
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taking us to these colleges and making
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it happen k.p it started with him he was
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that cow you feel me and you know just
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just showing us that it was possible man
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and all the stuff that they was doing
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for us
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it was keeping us out of the streets for
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sure so what do you mean when you say
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your father was working at mac what's up
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okay
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he um my proposal was in the streets and
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stuff you feel me so he couldn't really
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be on staff at first so he was just you
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know half-assed and he was in the
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streets and he would come come to
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practice when practice was due and then
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you know finally well i want to say
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maybe 10 years now
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he got the head coaching job i mean
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climb is high yeah man is high school in
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oakland 2607 myrtle street yeah
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and they're doing well yeah also carter
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too doing well and so um my pastor you
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know he's just been a stable in our
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community for a long time man he didn't
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even bend it
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i love to hear my pops talk about how
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when the kids his older his kids come
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back and and he sees them with taking
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care of their kids and those type of
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stories and stuff because
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it's like damn to look at them doing
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what they doing and then they they be
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really more proud of me because they're
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like damn i remember you as this little
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bad little boy terrorizing listening and
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doing x y and z
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yeah man i possibly won four out of the
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last five state championships in
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california and four different uh classes
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uh he just got um he was a finalist for
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the don schuller award and uh at the
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football
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is amazing you know i love to hear
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people talk about their fathers like i
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just do i love to see men with their
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kids i love to hear
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folks talk about their parents and just
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especially men we have wildo and gilly
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up here and wallow was telling gilly
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like yo man i woke up every day for 20
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years looking at a thousand fathers that
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meant they were away from their kids
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every single day and nobody thought
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about that impact you know so i love to
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hear these stories thank you for sharing
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man marcus peters is here man man um i i
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used to see you get like a little
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perturbed on the field sometimes and i
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still feel scared for the other team man
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what's the biggest conflict you got in
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on the field that you can recall
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probably the one me and more shawn with
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big pen when i hit their car late
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marciano ran up on the field and i had
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kalechian them up on me that was
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probably the biggest one
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i was straight cause i was in the town i
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was going to win that fight
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man what do you think is is there any
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misconceptions or you know
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misunderstandings about who you are yeah
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what do you think
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they are man let's address them i beat
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tripping yeah i do because that's just
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in me
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i never hit that switch fast man but i
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think the beautiful part about me is
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that i've i've accepted my growth man uh
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marcus peters is way different than
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marcus peters when he was a rookie yeah
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marx peters in second year and all those
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things because
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i got kids man i got a family that i got
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to take care of um
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i'm growing in business man i can't go
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on these meetings and acting a certain
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way and having that persona on me and
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stuff like that so i just started to
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change it man i didn't like for people
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you know i got kicked out of school
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coming into the draft and but i still
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went top 20 ephemerian people was
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questioned about that and
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when i got to kc it was rocky and people
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don't really understand what i was going
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through out there but you know
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it is what it is
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i stand tall in everything that i go
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through and i show that like i say i
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show the kids that it's it's the growth
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that's that that it's gonna be uh it's
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gonna ah [ __ ] you just like your dad bro
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yeah yeah i got a lot to say man
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sometimes like you know and i'm working
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on that a lot you know because i want to
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express to these kids man that you know
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the growth process for me has been
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amazing and i've been loving it i wake
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up in it and um i smile every day
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because i can see myself getting you
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know going through this process man and
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my switch going to happen you know i'm
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gonna get my leg back right and then you
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know everything that's gonna be giving
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me is gonna be gay absolutely
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let me tell you bro you you you are the
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key
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you are the key to the change bro
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you are truly the key don't worry about
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don't change nothing about yourself
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evolve or everything about yourself yeah
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you're perfect how you are you're going
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to be able to communicate with any of
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these kids better than some of these
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professionals because you're more
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relatable yes they're going to feel you
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none of us are perfect i'm imperfect you
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know i know it look like it yeah
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i'm not i swear but
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like you say you man you're perfect to
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me though man the perfect example of
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what for me what a man should be right
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now mm-hmm maybe a man come from oakland
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california man you stood on your toes
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and you you went through your sacrifice
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morning the moments the hardships man
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you might look where you at now man we
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watch you man we we praise you every day
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oh that's love man marcus
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we had to take it away he's gonna make
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me cry
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well let me jump in real quick before
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barking speeches out especially on the
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subject of all this crying because he's
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in brooklyn yeah
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[Laughter]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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i'm enjoying this conversation
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and
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you know when it comes to football um a
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lot of masculine qualities are obviously
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necessary for winning the game you know
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what i'm saying but as you know the way
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this conversation started with both you
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and suede just that bromance has been
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brewing and then like the conversation
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around tears what does your soft side
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your feminine side look like
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because you know just as me as a woman
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has a masculine style all men have a
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feminine side as well how does that show
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up for you what does it look like
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well
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like you say man my pops is emotional
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man so i'm an emotional guy i mean i
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express my feelings you know
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i go through my moments when i need to
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call my folks and you know i get my
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crying moments out i express myself
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um
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you know um
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i'll just be happy sometimes and i'll be
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tripping something
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but for the most part man i just be just
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i don't know and he got to come out with
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the kids though because the kids don't
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care how famous you are
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nothing the beautiful thing is i got two
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two boys man i have to be the the prime
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example you know for them
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you know i have a great father man and
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just being there and seeing those
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moments and growing growth with my
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children man it's it's amazing i try not
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to miss no moment everywhere my
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everywhere i go my kids go
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i'm pushing hard lying on them
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i remember when you came in the league i
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sent you a text man told you i was proud
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of you man and uh even though you went
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to the chiefs
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um
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that was different bro we got to get
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used to that one but that worked out it
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worked out well for us it worked out
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well for us that showed that we could be
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planted in many places
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how soon do you think your injury will
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be fully recuperated um i'll be back
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like june july june july okay so all
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right um are you part of any
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organizations right now we need to know
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about i'm just found first family
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foundation right now you know pushing
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that with marshawn and josh you know and
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doing we can do get back to you know
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oakland around the world and to be
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honest with you we're trying to see
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what's playing rc everywhere we go okay
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you know we did multiple things in
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different countries and all that and
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just got to keep pushing for the people
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man everything you said about me i want
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to reciprocate to you
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i get chills about it man
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and i'ma continue to stay on my square
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and be that inspiration that you're
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telling me about and uh i'll try not to
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let you down no and then i could tell
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you ain't nothing you could do to let us
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down man everything everything you've
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done has been enough so and continued
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success to you
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um and man when i look you in your face
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brother you look so much like your dad
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man it takes me that man i don't know
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what to do with this man i almost want
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to take the baton and say stick mike
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take it man
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your father was fast i know man
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he tell you stories yeah he told me a
15:46
lot of stories man you know um about you
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know my pops was a great athlete my pop
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swam it and dove and did all those type
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of things man
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that's why i get everything in my
15:54
athletic abilities in front of a show
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natural though
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wow my granny had all her boys diving
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right across the street at west ugland
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at the oh at the uh at the swim right
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there
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on
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they had the best pool because they got
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13 feet all the way through
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oh wow okay i didn't know that oh yeah
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so swimming was one of our little
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hobbies that we did growing up breaking
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that stereotype yeah black people
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swimming
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belts and all that yeah yeah man hey man
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marcus peters man congratulations much
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success who you got to win the game um i
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i played for the rounds like you know i
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got love for uh mcveigh and i you know i
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love my teammates and stuff like that
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zach was our quarterback coach when i
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was here man so
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um i want my teammates to get one but
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you know joe mix in front from the bay
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and stuff too so you know i think if joe
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have a nice day then the bengals can win
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the game but you know you hear that
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heather it's the year the tiger
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but i'm gonna go rams
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just like you know
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i love cooper cup man i love a.d man i
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love a big wig love everybody you know
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over here you know who show me love
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mm-hmm um
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[ __ ] they gotta get the job this time
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for me because
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we didn't get it done in atlanta that's
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right man y'all didn't but man you got
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time you got time marcus love you
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brother i love you too
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man come on every time man come on man
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we connected right oh man go ahead man
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somebody give me some tissue we got
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marshall faulk up next man he's been on
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the show before man we broadcast it live
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lah sirius xm super bowl 56 sway in the
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morning save four five come on man hey
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hey hey
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[Music]
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you
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