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As a stunt coordinator you're in from the beginning

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you're in

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with a pre-conceptual

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meetings,

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you'll turn the page on the script and they

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will say and they fight

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and so it's my job to make that

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fight,

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you know

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work with the parameters that we have.

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For example,

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they fight on

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on the bridge will what can we use their

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that will make this fight,

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you know

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good

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or what

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and so what we'll do is as a coordinator

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a lot of times will create will choreograph the

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fight for instance.

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With the falls with anything with all the action.

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It's nice to be a part of that

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creation.

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And that's what I enjoy about.

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I also like to the execution

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also still like to get in front of camera

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every once in a while.

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I still do that

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occasionally today.

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That's all part of the excitement.

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I love the excitement

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stunts are very exciting

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element of risk.

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I'm not a daredevil, but I like

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the I like that edge.

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I enjoy that

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adrenaline

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and

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when I

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did my first step when I was 19

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89

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18 or 19.

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I loved it.

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I loved the feeling of love the the

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the cheating of

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getting away with it and walking away and feeling

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good and

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and

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you know,

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it was a kick.

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I was very fortunate to double Michael Douglas for

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long.

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We did Romancing the Stone together which one before

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stun Awards

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back in

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85

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and then

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we didn't see

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the sequel Jewel.

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Denial Romancing.

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The Stone was wonderful to work on

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a lot of people remember the mudslide

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with Michael and Kathleen and

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the waterfall with the

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Kathleen and Michael jumping over the

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waterfall with the car between

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which was pretty dangerous.

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Did MacGyver for seven years.

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I

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worked with Jeff Bridges.

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I've been with him now for eight movies.

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We did

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Blown Away Arlington Road Big Lebowski.

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Oh gosh Wild Bill, which was fun so much

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fun working with vulture Hill.

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Jeez.

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What else L white Squaw

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numerous shows we've done together and then a really

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he's a terrific guy

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the great double form

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and

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now here in my third season.

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So it's been fun.

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I had a lot of great memories

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a lot of great movies

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worked.

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Like I said worked on Titanic

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and a blast

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That's frustrating.

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Yeah

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with episodic especially

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with regards to

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you know,

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sequence for instance of fight

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and you have something choreographed written out and planned

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and rehearsed

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and then yes time restraints

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you're behind schedule and you have to simplify

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I get that occasionally simplify

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and

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then we'll have to knock down and that's frustrating.

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You know,

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you were shooting

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an hour show or 40 minutes show in seven

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days.

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And so yeah

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time is

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You know

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SSO

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one thing about my job, but I try to

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do

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is

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be prepared for them.

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I'll come in a day early and prepare prep.

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We have a big sequence with Connor or trip

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on the next episode on this episode that LeVar

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Burton's doing

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where he gets ratcheted over the engine

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warp

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engine

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and it's going to be a huge stunt.

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And so we're prepping it tomorrow all day

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rehearsing it and videotaping it and getting it all

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set.

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So on Monday

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are actually no we film a

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Say we'll just hook them up to our stunt

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double to a keel

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you know, and go

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and so that's why it's always good to be

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prepared

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ready.

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It's all in the prep.

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As far as I'm concerned.

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There's a t-shirt.

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It's all in the prep.

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If you can get that you can be ahead

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of the game and you can get

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most of the stuff you want to get.

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Yours back on a show called shooting stars with

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Billy Dee Williams and Parker Stevenson

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used to double Parker we had to do a

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jump from roof to roof was 15 feet

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and

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the ramp that they built was

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little bit of an angle

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my purchase my takeoff ramp

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and I

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couldn't and I

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mapped out 15 feet in the alley just to

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see if I can make it.

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This is 50 feet straight down though airbag

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and I was only getting 13 9 14 feet.

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So I was a foot shy

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and the ramp that was meeting up this way

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was limiting my

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run as well.

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So I

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refuse to do this.

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Not

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until we fix the ramp

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and I'm glad we did because we fixed it.

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We leveled it and

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I made it by two feet and

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you know back then

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they were big and wide and didn't want any

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air bags or

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they just want to see the whole thing.

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So

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the way we used to do it

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and

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today I think what we're going to do.

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We may have a

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safety cable on

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the double

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when he jumps from roof to roof

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just to

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keep because they can

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easily remove that subjects a little safer.

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I actually had my daughter double Britney Spears

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on a show over Nickelodeon that I was running

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a couple of years ago

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the script a while.

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I wanted to

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Britney double to go through a window backwards

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and

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Tara.

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My daughter is

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Right height weight and everything looks

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quite a bit like er,

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so I worked with her over a

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buddy of Mines house who has a stunt school

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and we work with our honor backward falls

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into the pads and she did great I said,

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you know what

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you've got the job so I put her to

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work

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and she had a ball.

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A great time

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and it got a great picture to shot of

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the two of them, which is

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how many kids had that

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my and she also one of her first dance.

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I had her

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another kid shows working on we needed a

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girl to get hit by a car while

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on Rollerblades

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and was a comedy sketch sounds

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ugly, but it was actually a comedy spoof

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and she's great on Rollerblades and I had the

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opportunity to use my child

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Tara

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to

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get hit and I was the driver of the

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car so it worked out real well and we're

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terrific they loved it.

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Well,

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I took my father

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and he

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you know

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coming from him and seeing all the injuries that

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he's incurred over the years.

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He said Vince wear your pants,

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you know, and

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as it is

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today stop man, you know, it's a good career.

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You can make a good living at it and

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is for everyone that is doing well.

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There's probably 15 or 20 that aren't

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it's a tough competitive business.

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So

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when you're doing it,

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you want to stay safe you want to stay

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healthy

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you want to

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be able to

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not only hit the ground but be able to

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get up.

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I work tomorrow.

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So yeah, we

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protect ourselves.

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We try and watch ourselves because our bodies are

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our job,

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you know.