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Domino's Pizza worked there for a couple
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you know the whole time I was working
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I'm like man I need to get out of this
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find me something else I was hired not
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making enough money I mean I went on
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tons and tons of interviews yeah I mean
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I interviewed with some of the biggest
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accounting firms in in the world and you
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know but nobody hired me you know so
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they are so let me we'll take a
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sidetrack real quick on that I never
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asked you this before but I was thought
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about him you told that story so this
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was what 88 when you're trying to get
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accounting jobs Oh see I graduated in 86
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86 87 88 yeah so where were you trying
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to get the accounting jobs in Louisiana
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no no it's you yeah yeah so I graduated
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I left I love lose my job but a buddy of
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mine he had a job right out of college
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my ex my roommate actually okay I'm John
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ecology yeah job here in Dallas I'm like
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a I guess I'm going to down me all the
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time so won't that look at you yeah so
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that's what I ended up doing so it's so
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it's Dallas in the you know late 80s 87
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well see we we graduated in December 86
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so I came here in January right sorry
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right yeah okay so let me ask you this
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at that time in this country especially
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myself do you think that they didn't
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want to hire a black guy to be an
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accounting form big buyback yeah big
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time okay so I don't question I was kind
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of intimidating yeah these small skinny
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guys that's the name of you it's not
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norm right nope
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you got nobody like me yeah coming in
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from doing interview do you think that
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that was 50% of the time
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oh yeah I'm gonna say all of the time
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yeah you know I manage being with the
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same type of guy right right now working
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a Big Eight big TN accounting firm
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yeah and they see me big ol gal like me
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I'm out I was pretty much go back in old
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age I went to 225
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you know I had 22 a charm and we got the
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old pictures yeah yeah so how's the
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sound big and fairly muscular in those
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days they were like no yeah so then they
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never seemed right for you know a they
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used to you know the normal yeah come in
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their interview yeah okay so that's
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that's you know I've heard you'd tell
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that before we never really got into
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them that's interesting okay so let's go
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back to the call you've done with
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college you had that injury there you
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thought you're gonna get drafted you
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know didn't really work out so you said
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hey look I got a good degree in
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accounting I'm gonna go - yep Texas and
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then you know take us to you know so
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fast-forward you ended up doing you know
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I can odd jobs here and there just to
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just to make ends meet yet into the
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police department finally actually my
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odd job would work for the Domino's
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Pizza right and then that that wouldn't
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make enough money so I got me a job
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throwing newspaper right I'm doing odd
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jobs
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yeah just whatever you can do to make it
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roll yeah and then you your buddy
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said the police were hiring or yeah yeah
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somebody got that got a dude Academy for
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a couple months got except they got a
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job right so we're all good you're
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getting what a lot yeah to be with you I
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got a little dirt on that you know okay
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let's do it I used to get the newspaper
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every single week right and I know it's
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like counting was always hiring code you
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notice you know it's a good feel
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yeah so I'm doing all these interviews
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but you know they always said you had to
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have experience right
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and yeah so a buddy of mine amy-jo work
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for me they say there are you know they
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hire you're gonna have no expand I like
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dude that's the last job where I work
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for a network apartment yeah I got a
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degree in accounting I want to do
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something like in account absolutely
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so buddy you go by you know same old
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thing you're still strongly the county
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interview
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nothing happening two years go by and
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I'm like okay it's getting desperate
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sorry I'm like okay that please job they
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look too bad after all
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yeah yeah so I go in you know Tesla
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pitch Department fail the test easy just
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reading comprehension you know and I'm
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thinking you know I'm going in just HD
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cuz i'll i'm just accounting stuff
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there's pretty complicated I'm sorry and
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so I'm thinking out please test and
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it'll be nothing yeah so the first one I
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failure okay I was in Richardson second
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when I go to with in Irving Texas I'm
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sitting there I'm doing the test all of
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a sudden I'm like bathroom no I can't go
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bathroom because it's time right now
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yeah you can't you're on you only have
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so much time to finish everything yeah
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so I'm sitting there I'm thinking I got
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a good bathroom real bad it's not gonna
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wait yeah a workshop break man you know
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the bathroom your bag give me a little
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more time I know yeah yeah I got I gotta
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take it just in the bathroom bro yeah a
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little extra time like no out yeah like
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okay well I guess I'm done I'm like well
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it's not miss me the beam right so I'm
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not giving up so I go to Arlington and
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you know everything was right nearby and
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I was living in Irving at the time so
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all this rain is just right down the
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street so I'll go to Arlington then take
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the test
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I mean breeze right through across
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everything crushed thirteen yeah yeah
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weird yeah third time's a charm
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I mean I hate tests and so that is cool
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yeah for Ted
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that's how I got in getting higher than
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all its okay so we're so okay
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interesting I didn't know you failed the
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test twice hey we made it so so you're
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now you're working the police department
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all good gotta get I got a job finally
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relieved about that right and then you
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know you've always been doing lifting
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just for fun as a Hobbit's been a home
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since you're a little kid right so where
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were you going right little saved up
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money buy your own little set yeah so so
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now we're at the Arlington Police
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Department and you're still lift them
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for fun downtown at police station ed
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station every day everybody knows the
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story you know you some guy said hey you
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gotta come check out Metroflex to get a
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lot more Batman the whole thing's
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history after that dogs and Brian you
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don't forced you or pretty much well
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tell me give me a free membership yeah I
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mean yeah first four or five time you
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ask me I like nope
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thank you I'm working please department
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I'm happy yeah yeah so I'll take no
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drugs now like I don't want to die cuz
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back in know that I eat pizza alright
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peace the peace thing you know
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cheeseburger fried chicken was my favor
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you actually when I work with Domino
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without but I got tired of a pizza after
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about two years you know
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Burkina a yeah I didn't Bertha yeah
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let's trade trade mom yeah got that
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Edinburgh's for a while called classy
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guy y'all you chicken just trade yeah
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yeah so they have food courts are as
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resourceful yeah exactly
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okay so yeah I think you know everybody
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knows that that little story of how you
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kind of got into the body boom yeah yeah
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world the whole thing happens of Brian
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you're in you got the free membership
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then you did one show and you want it
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you're like okay let's keep this thing
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rolling exact it's not yeah you're good
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to go
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good and it's the thing you love to do
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it's what you're gonna do it anyway
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right so might as well do something
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competitive with it so short now you're
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working for the police department you're
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doing that and feeling pretty good at
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that time physically like not no issues
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no instruments no they take is no engine
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thing after the next said you know
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injury the be honest with you I think we
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did miss out so what I started going the
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contractor right back in my my freshman
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year in college yeah I never quit yeah I
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went my whole four years kept that so
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when I got out when I got out and
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colosseo training every single day or
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whatever so and you know I still had
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this back pain you couldn't go in the
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car I know I had I picked up with
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chiropractic right here in Texas Tonka
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so I just we can local guy you know hey
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you know I was doing chiropractic when I
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was in in Louisiana and this is what I
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was doing there okay we got all those
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machines yes you couldn't get back on
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the same joke I never stopped through to
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the police department through the police
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department dominoes everything I've
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never quit going it works it worked
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yeah it was very beneficial same thing
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I've done it too I know it definitely
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relieved and it helped out a whole lot
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yeah without that you know that pain was
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yes murders yeah no joke I've got copy
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like probably like all of that to a
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tenth of where you've been and it's bad
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yeah yeah so I know for sure so I've
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never stopped wanting contract okay so
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then we get to the police department
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you're good you're you're in Metroflex
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you you you want your first show you
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kind of rolling your bodybuilding career
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in from that point on when's the next
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step in the time line that there was a
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significant kind of you know back injury
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or something that happened where that
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you know the next the next thing that
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really is this whole line of well
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question most people know by now it all
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it took me a year to turn pro I started
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bodybuilding 1990 turn pro in 1991 did
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my first pro show in 92 we end up
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getting 11 so did my sec one week later
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yeah getting 14 not a champion did my
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next one was a mr. Olympia I'm in my
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first year
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you know I've qualified by winning them
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you know the universe my first one they
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didn't get a call out glad we're best
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best seat in the house big fans birthday
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on stage yeah sure
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watching the door Union you know Kevin
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you know keV got said yeah sure so I
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think it's going great for me yeah you
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know it was elder probably one of the
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the highest points of my life you know
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go on my first Olympia sure cuz I never
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thought in menus that make it to miss
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Olympia
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so that I only got into the sport just
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you know for a free membership to Vienna
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last thing I'm thinking about is turning
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pro and right the money and all this
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kind of stuff being in competing on
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Olympia stayed yeah I mean I never
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thought you know that I'd make it that
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far because like say you know I had this
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job police department I'm making good
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money I had like two or three part-time
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job making as money I worked I got free
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rent in my apartment complex did it
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security well yeah what the Denny's you
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know making making $80 a night money so
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it you know I didn't need bodybuilding
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for showing any kind of money yeah you
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but you know the more the merrier
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