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The Shlyn Show: Mrs. LaTricia - James Robinson's mom · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Let's end our first episode of the office that I
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Speaker 1: drooled on my soap non stop. He's a doll, I
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Speaker 1: love my sink. Pick here musty at the shop. If
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Speaker 1: I say everything wrong, I'm reading me. And it was
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Speaker 1: the best day of my life. Welcome to the Slim
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Speaker 1: Show Podcast presented by by Star, where we're not afraid
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Speaker 1: to mess up, We're not afraid to have a little fun.
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Speaker 1: Come on. This time, we have Mr one thousand yards,
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Speaker 1: but no even better than we have his mama, his
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Speaker 1: number one fan, Miss Latrisa, is not near as relaxed
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Speaker 1: as James is about getting the credit he deserves and
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Speaker 1: we're here for it. Okay, So, Miss Latrisa, if you
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Speaker 1: could try to summarize this year of James Robinson. I
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Speaker 1: go back to training camp and he's definitely started to
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Speaker 1: make a splash and we started recognizing him. But like,
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Speaker 1: all right, you know, it's probably gonna makes the team.
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Speaker 1: And now when people ask me about him, like, if
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Speaker 1: you would have told me that this is gonna happen,
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Speaker 1: you would be lying because no one saw this coming,
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Speaker 1: at least from our standpoint. But I'm sure you have
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Speaker 1: a different story. M H. Well, I can say that um,
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. I mean, James is someone like you know,
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Speaker 1: he's quiet, everybody knows he's quiet. And then here it
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Speaker 1: goes like we've all we actually just been waiting for
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Speaker 1: this moment. It's kind of like it's more or less
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Speaker 1: like we're not surprised. We knew it was coming, we
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Speaker 1: just didn't know when. So rewind back to the draft,
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Speaker 1: it was almost like, Okay, we were the type of
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Speaker 1: family that had all the names of the running backs
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Speaker 1: that was going, going, going, and then James name is
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Speaker 1: up next, and then they don't get caught. We're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: well let's just see what happens that someone's gonna call.
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Speaker 1: And then fast forward to training camp. I know James,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna go in. He's gonna do what he has
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Speaker 1: to do. I'm not worried about it, not even to it.
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Speaker 1: Like he's the type of person that tells us, well,
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Speaker 1: don't get your hopes to you know, because he he
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Speaker 1: doesn't think like we think. But seeing him playing from five,
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Speaker 1: we knew it was just the waiting. It was a
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Speaker 1: winning game for us. And you mentioned the draft and
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Speaker 1: we always asked James about this, like, ah, the chip
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Speaker 1: on your shoulder has to be huge. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: you break all these records in high school and then
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Speaker 1: you don't get the college offers you want, and now
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Speaker 1: you're going to your setten record records at Illinois State
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Speaker 1: and you go undrafted and no one gets why now
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Speaker 1: when you see success. But we asked him, is the
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Speaker 1: chip on the shoulder, like how big is He's like,
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Speaker 1: oh no, it's okay, I don't have it? Is he lying?
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Speaker 1: Is it? There? Um? The only thing that's a chip?
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Speaker 1: I think that's just James is like he's a person
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Speaker 1: to letting things roll off the shoulder and you know
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Speaker 1: it all and going on to the next thing. That's
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Speaker 1: how he's always been. He doesn't do well, he just
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Speaker 1: moves on. And I guess that's just has been his life.
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Speaker 1: Like when you say that, you know he's been passed over,
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Speaker 1: passed over. That that's been james story for as long
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Speaker 1: as I can remember. So for me as a parent,
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Speaker 1: I've always told him, you know, hey, moving on, Like,
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Speaker 1: just continue to do what you're doing and continue to perform.
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Speaker 1: That's that's all they can do. You know, someone's gonna
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Speaker 1: recognize when somebody's gonna see and here we are now,
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Speaker 1: so man, this is I mean, if if you guys
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Speaker 1: I have Doug up takes from I'm talking about Peewee
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Speaker 1: Pop Warner, James have been it since then. So I
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Speaker 1: love it and as a mom is not frustrating though,
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Speaker 1: Like we can say, okay, James, he doesn't have the chip.
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Speaker 1: But for you, like, do you want to go to
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Speaker 1: some of these NFL teams and be like, hello, what
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Speaker 1: were you missing? Yeah? I have, I've said it, but
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that James is a person that keeps
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Speaker 1: the family low profile, don't you know, because we know
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Speaker 1: how he is. He just like whatever, you know, moving
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Speaker 1: on and we're like like, mom, just chill, it'd be okay.
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Speaker 1: And I have to trust you know. It's been a
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Speaker 1: story from day one, so it's kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna trust you on this and I
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Speaker 1: trust them and I've been trusting them and the things
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Speaker 1: come so m hmm it's paid off since all right,
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Speaker 1: So if it was up to you it definitely some
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Speaker 1: NFL scouts would have gotten a call by now probably
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Speaker 1: fair to same. So what do you think I mean?
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Speaker 1: You say his story going back to Peee is he's
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Speaker 1: always had it but he's over we always been overlooked.
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Speaker 1: Why do you think he has been overlooked? And maybe
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Speaker 1: what does that taught him? You think now going into
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Speaker 1: being a professional, it definitely seems like some of those
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Speaker 1: values have carried on. I don't know the reason behind it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just, for the life of me, I've
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Speaker 1: I've I've sat down, I've wrote, you know, like daily
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Speaker 1: journals about things that's happened with James, and I'm asking guy, like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: why why is it that James story is this? You know,
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Speaker 1: like he's one of the greatest kids that apparently even
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Speaker 1: Max for you know what I mean, like even after
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Speaker 1: so he's just a great kid period. I've never had
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Speaker 1: trouble out of him. So for me, it's like, why, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe this is teaching him that, you know, just keep working. Stay.
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Speaker 1: Of course, things will happen, maybe not when you want
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Speaker 1: them to, but they will happen. And it's taught us,
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Speaker 1: not him, because he's always had patients, but it's taught
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Speaker 1: us to have patience and say, just have that faith
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Speaker 1: because it's going to happen. You know, when you're you know,
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Speaker 1: that close with God and you you continue to have
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Speaker 1: their relationship with God. I understand that he has already
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Speaker 1: said this back and we have to just follow it.
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Speaker 1: And that's the same thing with James. I've seen him.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen James cry much. I mean even I've
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Speaker 1: never cried or anything. I don't care. He broke his
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Speaker 1: arm when he was little, and hey, guess what, he
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Speaker 1: didn't cry. Yeah, So it's this is kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 1: he moved, he let things roll off his shoulder and
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Speaker 1: keep moving. That's just how it is, you know. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just believe that this is bad
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Speaker 1: packed and that this is what he has set for him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a tough kid very much. So we
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Speaker 1: have seen that because he'll go run someone over and
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Speaker 1: come right back and do it again and no problem attitude.
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Speaker 1: I remember, I'm I'm I wish, I just wish you
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Speaker 1: guys knew like it to us, Will will be screaming
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Speaker 1: and he's like mom type down over there. I love
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Speaker 1: it well, sadly, it's it's awesome he's having the successful
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Speaker 1: of the year. But I'm sure to you guys, it
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Speaker 1: makes a little more difficult because we're in this pandemic
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Speaker 1: and he has all the success. So I wonder where
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Speaker 1: do you watch his games? Are you able to travel
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Speaker 1: some or are you stuck on the couch? How are
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Speaker 1: you living this season with him? Anybody knows James Rup
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Speaker 1: some family and they're going where James. So um, in
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, we were flying back and
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Speaker 1: forth from Rockford to Florida, and then um, like that
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Speaker 1: second game, I think it was like three something like that,
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Speaker 1: we were moved there, like we moved to forward because
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Speaker 1: we needed to be close to James. James wanted us
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Speaker 1: close to him. So you know, we just moved here,
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Speaker 1: packed up, moved here, and we're here. So when it's
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Speaker 1: away games, because if we don't know, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have fans, he really we really can't see
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Speaker 1: him after the game. So the best thing for us
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Speaker 1: to do is grab a spot on the couch and
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Speaker 1: watch from home. So that's what we do for away games.
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Speaker 1: But we are at every home game tailgating and I
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Speaker 1: love it. So what kind of what kind of fan
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Speaker 1: are you? Mom fan? I guess I should say, because
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Speaker 1: that's a different level of fanner. Are you calm, cool, collected?
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Speaker 1: Are we going to hear you from the field? Oh,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna hear You're going to hear me. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to just sit and it doesn't have As far as
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Speaker 1: I can remember, I am a loud as ever does
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Speaker 1: James like that? Are you like, mom, I hear you
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Speaker 1: from here? Actually, he's so used to it. It's like
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Speaker 1: we have a thing we call it. Well, when he
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Speaker 1: was playing in high school, it was like, okay, so
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Speaker 1: today it's gonna be yelling Fridays and no boys Saturdays.
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Speaker 1: Got the college is called screaming Saturdays, no voice Sundays.
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Speaker 1: So now it's Saturday screaming, no voice mondays. Yes, it's progressed.
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Speaker 1: I love that. So UM coach Moron always jokes about
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Speaker 1: Santa offensive coordinator Jane Gruden. They say that they try
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Speaker 1: to get under a skin and they'll take on my
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Speaker 1: practice purposely. And nothing frazzled him. But I know moms
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Speaker 1: get under skin better than anyone. So is there something
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Speaker 1: that has rattled James that you can tell us, because
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Speaker 1: as of right now, we have found nothing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you can call ma any thing, you can do anything
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Speaker 1: to him. Josh Allen throws water bottles at him during
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Speaker 1: press conferences. Don't even flinch. Nothing problems him has to
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Speaker 1: be the person, because I mean, I can get under
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Speaker 1: skin with anything, but he's when he's just out and
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Speaker 1: about and endorsed things nobody gets and he's just like, oh,
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Speaker 1: just keep it moving. I don't know. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what someone could do, because that's just who he is.
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Speaker 1: For me, I'll ask him the same question over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again, and then it gets irritated. So
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Speaker 1: maybe that's the secret. All right, it's very mom of you.
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Speaker 1: I get that. I get annoyed when my mom does
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Speaker 1: that too. Just asked me the same question for two weeks.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll start that with press conference. Dosn't see how
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Speaker 1: it works. They mom already asked it, Okay. I always
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Speaker 1: I've had a few moms on Michelin Show podcast, and
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Speaker 1: I always give them the opportunity because my mom, especially
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Speaker 1: when boys are around, he always tells embarrassing stories. And
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Speaker 1: there's like three that are her go to Is there
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Speaker 1: like go to story for James or James is gonna
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Speaker 1: cringe hearing this And you're allowed to tell us without
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Speaker 1: him being mad he for the rest of his life. No,
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Speaker 1: because he's I'm telling you, he's that person, Like, do
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Speaker 1: you really have to keep prying to get to him.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise he's just like okay, if that's what you want
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Speaker 1: to do and moving on. He's not I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't have any stories like that. Like that's just a
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Speaker 1: good kid. Yeah, like overall, like just a good kid. Now.
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Speaker 1: I have two other kids now my girls are something different.
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Speaker 1: But Jane, he was just like straight focus. I've never
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Speaker 1: had a problem, not with anything. He was just just
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Speaker 1: like a mad temper, does what he's supposed to do. Kids.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That girls are a different story. I can
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Speaker 1: attest to that. I was talking to James back in
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Speaker 1: August and I have just met him, and he came
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Speaker 1: on one of our videos. And obviously you know about
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Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew and the Minshew magic and Gardner always rocks
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Speaker 1: a bandana. That's his look. Um, James comes on the
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Speaker 1: video and he's rocking a bandanna. I'm like, wait a second,
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Speaker 1: you're copying Gardner Minshew, aren't you. He's like, I swear
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Speaker 1: the bandana is my thing. So can you attest to
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Speaker 1: that or or was he copying Gardner this whole time?
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Speaker 1: That's James thing. He wears a bandana every day? Why
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Speaker 1: every day I do? It's here so I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: every day I can just finish his hair, he's putting
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Speaker 1: a bandana. If he leaves out of the house, he
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Speaker 1: has a bandona. And this has been going on for years.
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Speaker 1: Like why is that? I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: If it's a comfort thing where he just liked the
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Speaker 1: way it looks and he has to have He has
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Speaker 1: every color bandana you could possibly think of. He had. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we had to. James has a clothing line our brand
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Speaker 1: now and we had to incorporate bandannas with that. Like
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Speaker 1: he's you don't get that guy. He's not much he'll
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Speaker 1: wear at every now and then, but a bandanna guy. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So I meant to ask you about that clothing line.
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Speaker 1: I've seen some of it on social media. So what
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Speaker 1: was the thought behind on it? And are you involved
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Speaker 1: some and getting it going? Oh yeah, I'm heavily involved,
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Speaker 1: like the person the director. Yeah, it's it's more or
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Speaker 1: less to you know, Phil James is a brand behind him.
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Speaker 1: He's an easy one guy. We try to follow that.
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Speaker 1: But um, we have lots of products coming. We're but
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Speaker 1: he's opening We're opening a store in Jacksonville. Actually, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I love that. We're looking to open up in the avenue.
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Speaker 1: So we're still working on a couple of things, but
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Speaker 1: that's where we're gonna angle everything to go and avenues.
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Speaker 1: That is awesome. Okay, that's a whole different ball name
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Speaker 1: now that I know that, I'll have to visit the store. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we have online psyche too as well, so you can't
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Speaker 1: order online, so cyber Monday Deals. It's interesting. I've only
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Speaker 1: covered the league a couple of years to my fourth year,
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Speaker 1: but I've noticed such a shift these last four years.
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Speaker 1: Is yes, they're athletes on the field, but especially now
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Speaker 1: these up and coming guys, they've recognized that there is
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Speaker 1: this platform that they can use for their brand. And
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Speaker 1: it seems like all these guys, whether it's their social
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Speaker 1: media presence or a clothing store like James, there's this
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Speaker 1: off the field thing that everyone wants to pursue and
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Speaker 1: it's definitely an incredible business opportunity. But what needs you
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Speaker 1: guys want to go that direction? The direction knowing I'll
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Speaker 1: just say this, so coming from where James and I
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Speaker 1: are from, in Rockford, Illinoy, there's a lot of talent
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Speaker 1: there and a lot of that talent gets overlooked because
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Speaker 1: don't come there and that's the reality of it. So
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Speaker 1: for us, it was always helping UM. You know, kids
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Speaker 1: that are don't have the resources to get to where
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Speaker 1: they need to be, you know, as far as sports goes,
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Speaker 1: as far school goes, as far as getting things that
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Speaker 1: they need on a day. We work with the organization
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Speaker 1: UM called Beautiful Beginning's Community Outreach, and James has been
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Speaker 1: a mentor to some of the kids their way before
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Speaker 1: you know this, been a mentor, did some UM conditioning
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Speaker 1: like cants, those kind of things, came in and spoke
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Speaker 1: to some of the kids. UM. A lot of the guys,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the boys there are really really you know,
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Speaker 1: they love James. He's a big inspiration for them. So
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Speaker 1: they love to see him come and you know, sign things,
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Speaker 1: give them things, give them advice on how they should
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Speaker 1: start conditioning, how they should eat, those type of things.
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Speaker 1: It's been a great journey. I mean, as far as
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Speaker 1: I know, we'll work with we're trying to we're actually
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Speaker 1: looking for UM nonprofits in Jacksonville as well in Florida
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Speaker 1: to work with to continue that, you know, because he's
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Speaker 1: here and not in Radford anymore. But we do hate
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Speaker 1: a lot of things kind of virtually to try to
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Speaker 1: keep it going in Rockford. That's incredible, especially just his
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Speaker 1: rookie year and you guys already getting started with this.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool to see. Yeah, alright, I have one
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Speaker 1: more for you because well, I guess I have two
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Speaker 1: more because I've been told by our pr staff that
15:22
Speaker 1: James doesn't share much, but he does share his love
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Speaker 1: for his two pups, Benji and Lenny. I mean, though
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Speaker 1: they are spoiled what I'm talking like, they're it's almost
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Speaker 1: like you're talking to a child and they know, like
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Speaker 1: they're very smart, beautiful dogs. Like you can walk in
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Speaker 1: the house and you'll say, hey, how you doing Benji?
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Speaker 1: How you doing Laddy? And they're like, oh, like hey,
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Speaker 1: how you doing? Or um I recall a time where
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Speaker 1: in Radford before James left or whatever or for Florida, Um,
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Speaker 1: they learned how to open our doors. And so Benjie
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Speaker 1: is more he's the guy. He's the real, like the
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Speaker 1: real guy, Like I move with I want to move
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Speaker 1: the letty. You can tell her to go do something,
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Speaker 1: She'll open the door and go do it, bring it
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Speaker 1: back to you, you know, like they're they're those kind
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Speaker 1: of dogs. But he's in love with those dogs. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you he's he's that guy. He's he's a
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Speaker 1: dog lovel for sure. Kid. They don't want him going anywhere.
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Speaker 1: He don't want them going anywhere when he's at home
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Speaker 1: there right next to him. That's great, all right. So
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Speaker 1: he is, uh, he's a Pro Bowl dog guy. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give give you the platform because we're
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Speaker 1: starting the conversation, you know, offensive Rookie of the Year
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl votes. And it's a little different this year
16:47
Speaker 1: obviously with her no being Pro Bowl Game, but it
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Speaker 1: was up to his mom. How would you pitch why
16:53
Speaker 1: James Robinson should make the Pro Bowl this year? Let's
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Speaker 1: see I never see her. I believe that James is
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Speaker 1: that he should be the Pro Bowl pick because he's
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Speaker 1: that guy that you can always depend on. He's consistent,
17:11
Speaker 1: he's hard work, he's you know, he works hard. He's
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Speaker 1: diligent about everything that he does. He is always always
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Speaker 1: in a game. He always moves on from the next
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Speaker 1: play whenever a play is played. So if you're looking
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Speaker 1: for someone that's all about football and all about football
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Speaker 1: on and off the field, is James. He has i Q.
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Speaker 1: He has everything you need. If you're looking for a back,
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Speaker 1: a great back and a great person, he has James
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Speaker 1: has it. Yes, you have my vote. That was a
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Speaker 1: great spiel. We'll send that to everyone. And he sounds
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Speaker 1: like he's a Pro Bowl son as well. He is.
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Speaker 1: He's James, is it? I mean, I don't even I
17:53
Speaker 1: don't even want to sound bias, because I can tell
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Speaker 1: you this. When people ask me years ago about you know,
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Speaker 1: I heard just that is good or you know, I
18:01
Speaker 1: never was like, yes he is. I'll tell them this
18:04
Speaker 1: because I'm of course they're gonna think I'm biased. So
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Speaker 1: I will say, you know what, come to a game
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Speaker 1: and I'll let you be to do. And every time
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Speaker 1: I said there, it was like, wow, he is amazing,
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Speaker 1: even at a young age like James, I don't know what,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just say he's a chosen me
18:22
Speaker 1: because a lot of football, a lot of learning, learn
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Speaker 1: how to protect uself, learning how to take care of
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Speaker 1: his body. I mean, he's done it all. He's been
18:33
Speaker 1: underrated forever and he still comes out on that. You
18:36
Speaker 1: have a great, humble approach to the game. It's definitely
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Speaker 1: refreshing and very fun to follow. I feel like I
18:43
Speaker 1: know him so much better now. So thank you for
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Speaker 1: sharing that with us. You are very welcome. Thank you
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Speaker 1: guys for having me. Of course, we'll talk to you soon.
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Speaker 1: And let's hope that Field gets jamed in the Pro Bowl. Hope.
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Speaker 1: So all right, I'll talk to you soon. Okay, thank
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Speaker 1: you for feeling I told you if she was fired
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Speaker 1: up for her son. Don't mess with a mom talking
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Speaker 1: about her pride and joy son. I know this because
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Speaker 1: my mom likes my brother Patrick way more than she
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Speaker 1: likes me. It's fine, I don't even care. Thank you
19:14
Speaker 1: Audio Joseph for making this sound pretty and we will
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Speaker 1: see you next time on the Slim Show. H