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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

Welcome to Move the Sticks.

I'm Bucke Brooks, your host.

And I am with Adam Thielen, the winner of the 20, 24 Walter Pate Man of the Year Award

presented by Nationwide, would be announced during the NFL honors, a primetime award special to air nationally on Fox and the NFL Network on Thursday, February 6th. But Adam, I'm really excited to talk to you about all of the things that you have going on. But first, how are you doing? I'm good. Yeah, thanks for having me on. It's always good to talk to you. But yeah, all good. Just in that prep week as we, you know, have this kind of finished part of the season. So it's always a grind the last four weeks of the season. You know, you're tired. Your body hurts. But once you get to Sunday, you're just ready to go and play and compete, which is always fun. Yeah, that part is always fun. But before we even get to talking about the fun stuff that you're doing on the field,

let's talk about off the field and your work in the community with your foundation and those things. Tell us a little bit about what you're doing and how you impacting the kids around. Yeah, well, my wife and I, we felt like we've been given a platform. And it wasn't, it was really to give back to others.

We felt like God gave us this opportunity and these resources to, to not just hold to

ourselves, but to give to others and to provide resources, opportunities for others.

And the way that we decided that we felt like was our biggest calling was youth.

And our mission statement is to help youth reach their full potential. And over the last six

years of starting our foundation, we've really kind of tried to find the best way that or

the biggest impact that we've seen through some of the giving back we've given. And a lot of it,

the most impact we felt was through sport. Really, we call it our initiative change through

sport, right, giving resources, opportunities to youth to help them, you know, really be proud

of going and working out and providing a really beautiful

workout space for high school athletes in these, and in areas that they don't have a lot of

resource. So it's been really cool to be able to do that. Stuff that, you know, maybe I had taken

for granted when I was growing up, having those great facilities, or not even

necessarily great facilities, but just having some resources and something that to be proud of.

And so it's really cool to be able to go in there and see the faces of these kids and see

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