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We got a special guest here in the studio.

He's a kicker on the Chargers, and he's got a great nickname. Cameron Dicker, Dick in the studio. He's a kicker on the Chargers and he's got a great nickname.

Cameron Dicker, Dicker the Kicker. How are you, man? I'm fantastic. It is a good nickname, huh?

It's not bad, yeah. By the way, who gave you that?

A science teacher in seventh grade. Kind of wild. It was Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. G. He was a beast.

I had him for six, seventh, and then eighth grade they gave me a different science teacher. But he moved into 8th grade with our class too, and I could have had him for three years straight, but they screwed me at school. So you were being, you were like a kicker from like seventh grade? Yeah. Wow. So I started playing football in China in fifth grade. So I was from, I grew up in

China, moved the U.S. in sixth grade, didn't play football that year, just played soccer. And

seventh grade, everybody in Texas plays football. So I was like, we're playing some football here.

Was that kind of culture shock, China to Texas? It was weird. I thought I was going to be like

riding horses to school. Like very genuinely, it was like, this is what I'm doing. And it turned out that I wasn't. I was just living. So this was, you're so young. I mean, this Friday night lights a TV show. Are you familiar with it or no? To be honest, I've never watched it. It's really sad. I've been told I need to watch it all the time. My girlfriend's on my butt to get watching it.

But yeah, I've never watched it. It's really sad. I've been told I need to watch it all the time. My girlfriend's on my butt to get watching it. But yeah, I'll watch it now.

Yeah. I mean, apparently Texas high school football is everything there. Growing up, like, I mean, was it pretty much?

It's wild. Yeah. It's crazy. So in high school, so when I was 16, so my sophomore year, our state championship game was in front of like 40,000 people. Oh, God. And I was like a 16 year old and was like, this is crazy. Yeah. Like every home game is about 10,000 people and you're just like, what are we? And so normally, even in the TV show and the movie, it's, you know, the quarterback is a star and all stuff. What's life like as a high school kicker in Texas? Are you being celebrated?

Oh, no. You know, like, you're the homecoming king and everything. Like, are you the man? Not at all. I was loving life as a soccer player. Oh. Barely showed up to football things. I'd show up for games, show up for the practices when I needed to kick. Everything else, I was like, I'm going to be at soccer practice, I'm going to be doing my own. I never, so they have like, I don't know if in California and stuff, you have like football period in school, but we would do A, B, schedule, so we had four classes a day. One of the classes was a sport class, so you'd really have three classes a day. Okay. And I never was in the football period. I was only in soccer period, even through football season. It was all soccer. And then... So you were soccer first. What position in soccer? Center back. And then some outside back, my freshman year. So an enforcer. Big foot at the back. I kind of like to be a dick on the field.

That kind of works.

It's like...

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