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Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

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Good morning, God's people.

[gentle instrumental music] Hope you're having a wonderful morning.

And they make sure to let everyone know that Jesus is for them, too.

I've heard Buda comment on it, but what does it look like from your position? Is there a lot going on? It seems like Michael Flores is kind of a mad scientist out there.

Yeah, it's a lot going on.

I mean, throughout camp, the first few weeks was tough on us because we were just starting to see it.

There was a lot of different shifts and motions and routes we haven't really been used to playing that most offenses don't really do.

So I think it'll be a good thing for us because there's a few different offenses in our division that run the same kind of system.

So going against that and practice every day I think will put us in a good position to be successful this year.

Does that help as far as just your preparation, do you think?

I think it does because it keeps it consistent when you go into the year.

What does a great year look like for you

individually in 2026? I think doing that, getting my hands on the football, helping my team win games.

I feel like turnovers is a direct correlation to winning a football game, so taking the ball away more this year.

Yeah, just doing whatever my team needs for us to be successful.

I feel like if we're winning games and we're all clicking on all cylinders on defense, the plays will come our way when they're supposed to.

But what does it look like from your position? Is there a lot going on? It seems like Michael Flores is kind of a mad scientist out there.

Yeah, it's a lot going on.

I mean, throughout camp, the first few weeks was tough on us because we were just starting to see it.

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They're spotted us, so just FYI.

Will, did you notice that? Not a single cop out here.

They're shutting the streets down.

They're letting the protest, the activists, control the entire city right now.

Shutting streets down.

They're

What's been, like, maybe the most important to, like, keep motivated? I mean, we've talked about a couple factors so far, like teammates, mentors, coaches, you know, even, like, parents, just from within, like, "I just have to do better." Like, for each of you, what's been maybe, like, the, the biggest factor to, like, keep pushing, keep grinding?

grinding?Um, I think for me I've always just wanted to, like, improve myself however I can in every way possible.

So that's always, um, it's always just been, like, a driving factor for me to, like, sign up for as many things as possible, um, in, in multiple areas of my life.

Not just athletics, but, like, music and academically as well.

And when, when you kind of build your life around that, and then you just try and, like, remove distractions, it, it leaves, like, very little room for error.

So, like, even if you fall back, you're still in this routine of, like, always doing something to, like, try and improve.

So, like, you can take a break, but, like, it's really easy once you have that routine down to just keep going.

[laughs] Uh, on kind of a similar path, um, what advice would you maybe give the incoming freshmen, you know, having gone through the high school program, now you're looking at college and kind of the next step in your life? What have you learned?

Do you, do you have any, any memories, any experiences from when you were middle school, high school age and your interaction with youth ministry back then? Yes.

Yes.

No, I have, um, I have a story that was prompted by just running this VBS.

We ran last week and there's a couple of students who needed a little extra love.

We'll A thing that gave me a little bit of mercy was like, oh, I was once that student myself.

And the story that came to mind was we actually took in – so the youth group I was a part of had kind of this three-year rotation of service.

And year A was – local we're gonna do kind of like a lock-in at the church with like some soup kitchen serving yep uh year b was like a domestic trip one year went to south dakota and we were like working with painting houses and stuff one year is to dc xyz and uh year c though every three years was this road like this annual no tri-annual trip to guatemala so it's this international like thing that your older siblings would go on and then you would go on.

Mm-hmm.

Why?

"Tell me what part of your identity you don't feel seen and supported for.

Is it because perhaps the way you've shown up in some spaces has been hurtful or harmful to other people? Because if you're hurtful or harmful to people, I'm gonna stop you right there," right? But if you can see someone...

And again, as I mentioned, what you can do is not be a barrier to them having access to what they need.

Let them live their lives.

I think the sky's the limit.

For sure.

And I just wanna add, too, to really even look at the whole continuum, because when I visited our juvenile justice system, there were just a h- there were a handful of kids who were there, and I didn't get a chance to interact with any of the youth that were there.

And I don't think they realize that there's that level.

Yeah.

You know what's actually so for me in my practice, though? I will go back and forth between those.

Like when I first sit down to, frankly, to surrender to this current of the light force, it's almost like I'm saying, okay, This body, it's yours.

I submit.

Use me.

And, oh, you want to move me this way? Okay, I'll do this.

how do you suggest that people start with this

How is that different from the way that breathing is usually taught and approached both in Buddhism but also in other meditation styles?

Yeah, okay.

Let's start here.

If people examine how they're breathing right now, listening to a show or whatever it is that we're doing, we're reading a book, we're interacting, if you really examine the air that's coming in through your nostrils, it ain't very much.

There's hardly any air coming in or going out of the nostrils or the mouth.

And, you know, it doesn't really even constitute sniffing.

Now, and then we're completely unconscious of that.

What is that great open and how do you get there?

Mm-hmm.

It's just been a pile of songs and let's sift through 'em and put the puzzle together and see what works as a record.

However, with, um, with Diamond City, I was really trying to make a collection of the, the, the best recorded four-tracks that I could make at that time.

And so I kind of, it's a conversation Bob Mould and I have had just when writing comes up, but it's like, "You know what? I'm gonna go into that room for nine straight days and I'm not coming out of that room until I've got the record written." And so I treated Diamond City like that kind of session, where I was like, "You know what? I'm gonna just, I'm gonna assemble what I think is gonna be a fitting batch of four-tracks for a fully, a full multi-track record." And so I did that.

It just so happened that the four-tracks had a feel to 'em that I, I started to feel like, uh, was pretty cohesive and pretty complete as a record.

And my friend and my bandmate, Britton, little by little over the course of that summer just started adding bass and keys and synth and various...

Uh, he rounded the, the record out just on his own in his own time, and every week or so I'd get a new recording from him and a new mix.

Yeah

Yeah,

poetry and myths and story and image.

I hated poetry at school.

It was just awful.

I hated it.

There was something intellectual about it.

You know, read this poem by Wordsworth and tell me what it means in two paragraphs.

But I'm curious as to what your thoughts are in terms of language in relation to all of that as well and whether that's a theme that you see, you know, is getting almost stuck with the words and how you manage that in terms of the work that you do if that presents itself differently.

Have, have you seen anything from him defensively that either sticks out or you think that he can hang, uh, even though he is thin and probably people will try to go through his chest and stuff like that?

Yeah, I mean, obviously there's the weight factor and so, you know, when you switch on to guys like LeBron, even at LeBron's age, he's gonna take you to the cup.

I think that'll be, you know, we'll see how he has to adjust on that front.

And like I said three times, I mentioned the thinking of the game.

You know, I think he's one of those guys, and I saw, like, Donovan Dent would do it even though he wasn't the best defender.

You know, these guys can see the plays before they happen.

They're a step ahead in the rotations.

I mean, with Wagler, do you think he can be able to do that, and what would you say is his best NBA skill is? Would you say it's his shot, his handle, the pace he plays at?