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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Mark Henry and Mike Horse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, this is a special segment where some things happened
that probably shouldn't. We made a bet last week, made
a deal with the devil, and now the devil is
coming to you know, get his flowers. We are Oh, Lord,
have mercy. We are joined by Titus Old Neil Thallius
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butter Butler as he is excited about his victory. And Mark,
you brought this upon us man by by accepting the wager.
And now we got a whole helmet looking at right.
Welcome to this once again, Hey, can we get this
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over with?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, good people of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And all around the world.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I am Thaddeus Buller aka w w E legend, Titus
O'Neil proud, University of Florida Gator football alumnus, and last
week I came onto this show and spoke with my brother,
my good friend, my royal partner, mister Mark Henery, and
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he had so many things to say about how the
outcome of the game between the University of Texas Longhorns
and the Florida Gators was going to happen in the
swamp of all places. I mean, I could see if
he had this confidence going on, and we were playing
in Texas, but we were playing in the swamp. And
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I know we've had our issues and as of late
when it comes to the grid iron glory that we're
trying to return to. But man, oh man, oh man,
if you guys watch my Instagram story, you would have to.
I mean it was almost like I mean I was
on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I was there.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I was giving everybody a front row seat of the
devastation that Florida created on the college football landscape. In
the top ten, by the way, I mean, Texas is
a really good, solid football team. I told mister Henry
that they haven't been very successful on offense, and Florida's
offense has been struggling as well, but the defense have
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been playing lights out all year, all year. And I'm
not gonna jump on the bandwagon of media personalities that
are trying to throw mister arch Manning under the bus.
I think he's an extremely good talent. I watched him
since high school. Actually, my son can proudly say that
he's never lost to a Manning as well, because he
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beat him in high school and then he beat him
again on Saturday. I never lost to a Manning. My
son Titus never lost to a Manning. And uh and
and just so happens that the colors that both Mannings
wore in college happened to be a variation.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Of orange burnt orange for.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The University of Texas and you know, uh, citrus orange
for the University of Tennessee. So I've never been beaten
by Manning. I've never had to come on to a
radio show, and I've never had to come on to
a radio show and seemingly be so boisterous about something.
But when it comes to something as passionate as I
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am about my university, as much as mister Henry has
always been passionate and told me.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
He sure you know, sports radio is bagging forth.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's back and forth, man, So you might have anything
to say except for man I'm all here, though, I'm
all in.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All I'm gonna say is congratulations. Last week.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I told you last week on the interview there was
a lot of back and forth. There ain't no back
and forth. Do you take this mark, you take this
what you earned?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You earned this, you.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Know, like my grandma used to say, I'm gonna show
you better than I can tell you. And Davin we
showed you. We showed you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Mark, Hey, I'm gonna tell you this. I'm I'm gonna
tell you this.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We we came in on Monday, and that was the
first thing that was said, is we gotta pay the
piper on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
My wife, my wife, get it out of the way.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He tried to get He say, hey, can you come
in on Tuesday or Wednesday? He wanted to get it
over with. I say no, brother, we agreed to Thursday.
I'm gonna let this thing marinate for a little bit,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So here we are. Here, we are both hard man.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well, congratulations, congratulations. I really do see the fact that
Florida is gonna turn their season around. I've seen the
light and I don't want no more smoke. I learned
my lesson. That's why my mama told me not to gamble.
That Henry's Henry got Henry's got horrible up gambling, so
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don't do it. And I went against it. And my
mama is right looking down on me and shaking her
head like, damn, food.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Told you, with your heart, Mark, I can't, she can't.
She won't be upset. You went with your heart, Mark,
You know, that's how he gets down.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
He's always with his heart, as you can see on
his shirt. Right now, he's talking about he's been sleeping
on the couch because he's got a son that's playing
at Oklahoma and he's got his Texas Longhorn on there,
and he said he will not go against the Longhorns.
I hope my son plays well, but he is Longhorn
all the way.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's a good father, that's a great father, excellent, and
more importantly, he is a loyal I mean, the guy's
been loyal to the Texas Longhorns ever since I've known him.
Uh and and and that you know obviously shouldn't change.
I mean I feel the same way about my son
that's at UCF. When they played UCF played Florida, I'll say, hey,
I hope my son has an excellent game, but I
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hope Florida beats the breaks off of him. I mean,
that's the reality of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's how we built, That's how we built. I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I do want to ask you this because obviously the
swamp is the swamp, and we had Danny Davis, one
of our local guys, UH talked about being in there,
and he said, it was deafening in there the entire game.
Is that what you're you used to hearing obviously because
you played there, but more importantly now being on that sideline,
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you get a chance to hear it all.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It was pretty intense, right, Yeah, it was definitely one
of the loudest games I've ever been to. Uh, even
as a player. Uh, you know a lot of that
a lot of times. And Martin knows he's been major
crowds of WrestleMania, et cetera on the football field. As
a player, you don't really hear it that way because
you're so tuned into the game. But sitting back and
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watching you as a fan and and and and seeing
the hearing the responses, it's it's almost like being at
a w W E show, you know. And I think,
uh that that crowd that night definitely contributed to, uh
that the the outcome of the game. Uh. It caused
a couple of false starts in crucial moments and in
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the in my opinion that that was the major the
major difference of the game was was that we effectively
ran the football. Like I said, I can't. I think
arch Manning is a tremendous talent. You know, I don't
know that. I honestly, in my opinion, I feel like
he's the most athletic of all the Manning namesakes. But
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I feel like they probably need to move him around
a little bit more. Uh. They're trying to sit him
back in the pocket and just having to be a
pocket passer, and I think that that's kind of putting
him in an awkward position for right now, for him
being young. Let him move around, let him use his athleticism,
because man, when he took off a few times, just
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as loud as that stadium was.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It got quite real quick, like, oh my god, they
tight as you. You got to see it firsthand. Being
an alum of Tim Tebow.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I can see Manning playing out of the pistol more
and being able to be a running quarterback.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
And but.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
What do you think that against that, Like Vince Young
was kind of more of a spread running quarterback when
Tibo was in that pistol. Which which option do you
think will work best with what his skills? Say is
I think arts can do both. To be honest with you,
like I say, the kid is like really athletic and
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and he's got a really good hormonent. I think he
you know, from a from a passing standpoint, he's better
than both of those guys which you just talked about
as far as accuracy is concerned. But I feel like
he he's got the the athleticism to to run the
pistol and run the spread offense effectively, and he'll I
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think he'll be more of a threat in in a
in a different offense. That way, him sitting back and
just doing five three five steps seven step drops every play,
I don't feel like it's the best offense for him.
I don't personally, And even if I think he's more
Josh Allen type football players, yeah, yeah, So I want
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to saying the quick game would be the best for him.
You you you think that the quick game would be
better like three step and uh maybe five step at
the most.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I would say, I mean, yeah, a quick game
would work for him. But moving him around where he
has options that if it's not that, if it's nothing
there go you know that to me is what would would.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So he froze up like you y'all both over there.
What y'all got cricket? Y'all got cricket on y'all's internet.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well, I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I'm at this hotel in Beaumont, dec And bou Mine
is not known for a lot of things except for
good food.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Everything else is something.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
And I'm at my school, so I like, you know,
you might hear a bell or something out here.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Can you tell us quickly about the school, please, because
I think that's one of the more interesting things about you.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, So there's a public school here that's the resides
in the six Highes zip code for kids living in
poverty in the entire state of Florida. It's in the
East Tampa. The high school graduation rate at this area
was twenty four percent when I first started at the school.
I started originally coming here during birthday parties for kids
that couldn't afford to have birthday parties because I didn't
have a birthday party as a kid. And then that
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morphed into Champions of Character program we started, and and
then essentially me working with the school district here on
changing the narrative of this school without costing the school district.
But I did my own fundraising. I put a turf
field here, I got a street hockey rink out here
in the back, in the middle of the hood. But
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more importantly, I put them on a house system, which
is a derivative of a school in Atlanta called the
Ron Clark Academy, and his house system is based on
Harry Potter. My house system is based on the word pride,
because there was no pride.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
We have five houses.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Everybody on the staff and every student positivity, respect, innovation,
determination and excellence. In the first year that we put
this into place, we had a sixty seven point increase
in our school grade, which was the highest in the
state and sixth in the nation for demographic of kids.
We're one hundred percent free and reduced lunch kids here
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at this school. Many of them come from the same
background that I come from, same background.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And Mark comes from.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And we're changing changing lives here and in a powerful way.
The school was about to get shut down by the
state along with the elementary school behind it, and you know,
the school district gave me a shot and took a
chance on what we were doing, and we're creating.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Something really special.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I mean, if you walk on campus now versus how
it looked for we got a whole academy on the
other side that has a TV production studio, ATIT music studio,
an entire room dedicated to mental health and wellness. We
do art therapy, equine therapy, dog therapy, music therapy with
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these kids and these families throughout here. We do wellness
days that bring out the entire community. And I built
a prosperity center that actually services the entire zip code.
So we do everything from remsol assistance to job seeking opportunities.
We do pre legal aid all except for criminal people
that have tended issues. We have a lot of veterans
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that lived in this area that were homeless and they
could not find their benefits, So we have attorneys that
work with them to get them housing, to get them benefits,
to get them medical services. The list goes on and on,
but that's a very small time capsule of I started
coming here in twenty fourteen. UH put up a post
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which they actually when they renamed the school after me,
they printed out this post and within a year of
what I had posted, seventy five percentage of stuff that
I said I wanted to do here was done. So
why didn't you leave with that rather than talking about Floyd?
Because everybody liked you that see how.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Everybody loved you, Mark, Ye, back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I was originally brought on this show because we made
an agreement that I would talk to you about the
outcome of the game. So how a direction this question?
You say, Hey man, it look like you at your school.
You know that's a miss.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
On your part. I never got a chance. You never
gave me the opportunity on my show. You put him
it in front of the screen.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I had that for at least you say, I had
that there for at least ten seconds. You could have
easily said, hey man, move at it seems like you
might be.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
You could have derailed it. You know psychology, Mark, you
know how you gotta flipped the script real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We saw your retirement speech robbing.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
You had a whole world thinking you about to retire, bro,
So you could have had the whole world completely forget
and me included, completely forget why I came on this show.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't think I am.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I don't think that I ever apologized for lying to
you and Fred for a year.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
In the car spread you was crying to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You was crying too.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Don't be trying to put.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It all on public.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You know what I'm saying, Fred asked me.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He said, did you know It's like no, Man, I
ain't know, Bro, I ain't know at all.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, that is we're up against it, buddy. I appreciate
you jumping on with us and congratulations on your victory,
but more importantly, congratulations on all you're doing in your
community and continue the success. We will not talk to
you again until next year, so you can forget about it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, you can have You can have me on any
time we next year.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Hey, man, make sure your internet go out real quick.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I'll see you. Appreciate you, Amen.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Tell them kids, I love them, man. Yeah, save to
the yards, bro, save to yours