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Welcome back to episode 40 of Inside the Bus.

This is actually my episode because I was number 40 growing up in all of my sports.

Why?

Not entirely sure.

We can get into it a little bit.

But yeah, that was my number in football and baseball, everything. Are there any legends that are number 40? Mike Allstate. There you go. Just died. The one and only. I was a running back. He was a fullback, so we're both white. So just kind of felt like it fit is that oh so he's why you did it

no so i think the way we actually did it i i picked it was my first year of playing football

and my mom was like okay you need to pick your number i'm like okay larry johnson's number 27

jamal charles number 25 and then then I think like Priest Holmes was 31.

So I picked like those three.

And then if then you could pick like if those three aren't available, just randomly assign me one.

So I just got randomly assigned 40.

And for whatever reason from the time I was six, seven years old playing tackle football, I was number 40 all the way up through high school.

So I was number 40 as a wide receiver in high school.

So 14 at Susquehanna was your first time not 40.

So 14, they didn't have 40 in baseball.

So I was 14 in baseball in high school.

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