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The Shlyn Show: Myisha Hines-Allen · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Let's end our first episode of the off save it
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Speaker 1: druled on my ship. Nope, stop, he's a doll. I
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Speaker 1: love my sink. Pick your musty at the shop. If
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Speaker 1: I say everything wrong, I'm heading me. And it was
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Speaker 1: the best day of my life. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: Schlin Show podcast presented by Vicestar, 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, and where you'll have your stories about your
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Speaker 1: favorite Jaguars from the people who know the best. This week,
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Speaker 1: very excited for you all to hear from Myisha Hinz Allen,
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Speaker 1: who is a forward for the Washington mystics in the
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Speaker 1: w m b A. But it's also the older, much
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Speaker 1: more athletic, much more sophisticated sibling to defensive end Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen And yes, I know what you are thinking. They
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Speaker 1: are a much more talented family than yours. Check her out,
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Speaker 1: you guys just wrapped up playing in the playoffs. And
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Speaker 1: that which is very interesting called the Wobble. I see
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Speaker 1: what the w n b A did there with that nickname,
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Speaker 1: and I'm liking it. And Brandon to Florida, Smisha one,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us through just a few
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Speaker 1: days removed from being in the playoffs. So I guess
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Speaker 1: you could say you could use a nap right now.
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Speaker 1: I could. I actually woke up pretty early thinking I
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Speaker 1: still was playing basketball today. But um, I could definitely
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Speaker 1: use a nap Lott vacation maybe, yes, for sure, So
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Speaker 1: take me through that process. You and Josh are kind
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Speaker 1: of similar right now, both trying to do your job
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Speaker 1: and be a professional athlete and this crazy life of
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Speaker 1: COVID that we're living. Yeah, like you mentioned, it's a
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Speaker 1: crazy time right now. But I'm just thankful that I
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Speaker 1: was able to get the opportunity to continue to play
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Speaker 1: basketball when a lot of people are out of job
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Speaker 1: right now. Um, So I'm just thankful that, you know,
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Speaker 1: got the opportunity to play. And then also, uh see
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Speaker 1: my brother starting his season up is a great too,
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Speaker 1: So happy. And you guys were pretty close Brandon ten
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Speaker 1: to Jackson. So were you able to see each other
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Speaker 1: or what was that bubble life like? Yeah? Um, now,
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Speaker 1: we weren't able to see each other for the bubble
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Speaker 1: or bubble as people call it. Um, we were kind
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Speaker 1: of secluded from the outside world, so we weren't allowed
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Speaker 1: to leave campus unless we were going to the UM
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Speaker 1: the game, or we had UM team outings a couple
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Speaker 1: of times, but it all had to be approved, so
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Speaker 1: we weren't really allowed to leave uh campus, the IMG campus,
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Speaker 1: So I didn't get to see my brother. Uh. But
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Speaker 1: hopefully I'll have a chance to go down back, go
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Speaker 1: down back to Florida and a see him play. And
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Speaker 1: now that you have a little break from basketball, what
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Speaker 1: is life like for you? Like, is there ever a break? Not? Really,
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, UM, when you play professional basketball,
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Speaker 1: unlike other sports, UM, we have you know season here
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Speaker 1: and then we still play overseas, so it's kind of
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Speaker 1: like back to back seasons. But for this this year,
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Speaker 1: for me, I'm gonna take the first half off, so
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Speaker 1: I'll be playing. I'll go back overseas in December, um
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Speaker 1: the end of December, UM to start up again. Uh
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Speaker 1: So right now, this is the first break, um that
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Speaker 1: that I'll have in a while. So I'm just gonna
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Speaker 1: enjoy it, UM to take time off, rest my body,
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Speaker 1: um and just work on on some things I just
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Speaker 1: need to work on. Let's talk about old Josh. He's
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Speaker 1: one of our favorites here with the Jaguars. He definitely
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Speaker 1: already in his short time, has made a great impact.
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Speaker 1: For example, today we were on a press conference with him,
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Speaker 1: and it's so funny. After every press conference, he thinks
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Speaker 1: every single member of the media on the zoom call
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Speaker 1: and it it'll all be in aligns, like all right, Gary,
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Speaker 1: John Mark, Ashland, Bill, Like he goes down the list
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Speaker 1: of names and says thank you. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: what's so unique about Josh. It's he knows everyone's name.
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Speaker 1: He wants to know how everyone's day is going, the
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Speaker 1: mail man, the cafeteria workers. And I've never seen a
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Speaker 1: football player like that. So has he always been like that,
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Speaker 1: just a normal guy who plays football. Yeah, definitely. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's nothing that makes him so specialist. He's
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Speaker 1: just so down to earth. Um, great person. You want
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Speaker 1: to get to know him, and he actually wants to
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Speaker 1: take time out to get to know you too. So Um,
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Speaker 1: he's definitely a people person, always been a people person. Talkative,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Growing up, he just you cannot get
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Speaker 1: him to stop talking. Um, It's always been how he
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Speaker 1: he has been. So I'm glad that he's still doing
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Speaker 1: it and still being himself and never going to change
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Speaker 1: because it's what makes him special. So ye, like he'll
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Speaker 1: sit down and be like, ash, like, how's your day going?
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Speaker 1: What'd you do today? And it's so intrigued by like
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I'm like, Josh, like do you even care? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I love that about him and you guys are and
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Speaker 1: incredibly I feel family to say the least. So where
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Speaker 1: are you guys credit this competitive nature from? I mean, like,
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Speaker 1: how where is it that you have a brother and
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Speaker 1: a sister who are both professional athletes in a family. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: It's it's not often. Um, I think we just credit
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Speaker 1: to our our our you know parents for one, UM
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Speaker 1: and then their brothers and sisters all played sports to UM,
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Speaker 1: so it's kind of in our bloodline, you know, to
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Speaker 1: to play sports and be athletic. Are two older sisters
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Speaker 1: played basketball too, but we were the ones that you know,
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Speaker 1: continue to play after college. Uh So, I mean it's
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Speaker 1: pretty cool that you have two professional athletes in the family,
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Speaker 1: and UM, we definitely take pride in it. We definitely
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Speaker 1: take pride in it. And you know, what more can
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Speaker 1: you ask for? You know, especially when you when you
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Speaker 1: look back and you see all the sacrifices your parents made, Um,
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Speaker 1: your family members made to get you where you are.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm speaking for him too right now,
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Speaker 1: but I think that, um, we try to do our
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Speaker 1: best to make our family proud and and where our
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Speaker 1: name you know, heinz Alan from me, but Alan for Josh,
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Speaker 1: you know, proud and and make sure people know where
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Speaker 1: we come from and what we stand for. I love
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Speaker 1: that you guys definitely seem extremely proud Josh too whenever
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Speaker 1: he talks about you. There's also that competitive nature that
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Speaker 1: definitely comes out whenever your name is mentioned. He's always
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Speaker 1: going back and before, like, oh, she's the world champion,
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Speaker 1: but I was drafted higher and like all right, Josh,
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Speaker 1: Like it sounds like you're twelve, but they're like you're
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Speaker 1: the two of youse competitive nature. You gotta say he's
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Speaker 1: a little more like he's a little more competitive than
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Speaker 1: I am with that type of stuff. UM, to be
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Speaker 1: honest with you, but you know, I think it also
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Speaker 1: just shows when he steps on steps foot on that
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Speaker 1: field how competitive he is to you know, off the
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Speaker 1: off the field, when he's when he just acts like
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Speaker 1: that towards us, you know, it's only right that he
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Speaker 1: plays with so much aggression on on the field too,
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Speaker 1: So I mean, he's definitely more competitive in that since
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Speaker 1: than than I am. I can you know, I could
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Speaker 1: care less kind of, but um he's always that one up.
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Speaker 1: I've seen the interview that he did and he's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I have the one upper at the one upper. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can beat the world champions,
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Well, unless he makes one
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Speaker 1: super Bowl, but that's gonna be that's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: tough one. That's gonna be a tough and even if
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Speaker 1: he wins the super Bowl, you guys are just tied,
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Speaker 1: like he's up. Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever, like, besides the world champion thing, which obviously
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Speaker 1: that's a win in your calm, have you ever beaten
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Speaker 1: him at something like even something dumb like a thumb
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Speaker 1: wre like you can say you have bragging races? Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: So I remember I think we're probably in high school
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Speaker 1: when we went down to Glenfield, this is a little
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Speaker 1: park down the street from where we live, and it
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Speaker 1: was me and my sister, older sister, and we played
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Speaker 1: him and um My his his twin brother Isaiah, and
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Speaker 1: we beat them and pick up, you know, two on two,
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Speaker 1: but he still he sells a different story. But we
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Speaker 1: all know who won. And that's so that's my one
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Speaker 1: up story on Josh, you know. But I want to
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Speaker 1: take that one because he really thinks he beat us,
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Speaker 1: but I just I don't know. He didn't. So it's weird.
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Speaker 1: He really made up a story that he won all
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Speaker 1: the way back in high school. Yeah. Man, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to talk to him about that. That's not cool.
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Speaker 1: What happened. It happened, but he didn't. That's the crazy part.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it's on record now so everyone can hear
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Speaker 1: that you actually did win. I read that you played
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Speaker 1: Pop Warner football with him eight or nine years old. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I'm so. I'm not a big fan of football,
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Speaker 1: so it's a little weird, but not a big fan
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Speaker 1: of football because of that reason. Um, I got hit
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Speaker 1: like hard, and I was just like, all right, I'm
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Speaker 1: done with football then like everything. Then, like I don't
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Speaker 1: even like watching it unless it's my brother. Like that
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Speaker 1: is the only reason why I would watch a football
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Speaker 1: game or even go to a fooball game. It's just
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Speaker 1: because of my brother. And then I remember in uh college,
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Speaker 1: because you went to Kentucky and I'm from Louisville, and
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Speaker 1: there's that rivalry right there is crazy. So um, like
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Speaker 1: people would always say, oh, well, um, who are you
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Speaker 1: rooting for? I'm like, I don't like football, Like I'm
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Speaker 1: not remember anyone but fort one on on Kentucky's team.
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Speaker 1: So now, I mean you say you're not a fan
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Speaker 1: of football, But do you catch yourself like checking scores
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Speaker 1: watching the game. I don't blame it, like when you
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Speaker 1: have to remove yourself from sports, like I didn't know
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Speaker 1: when I watch hd TV because I'm like, get me
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Speaker 1: away from this. So I don't blame you. But how
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Speaker 1: much are you able to keep up with what he's doing?
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Speaker 1: Actually keep up with He's a lot. So again I
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Speaker 1: only focus on Joshua when anything involves around football. It's
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Speaker 1: only Joshua. So that that is it. Like I really
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Speaker 1: do not like football. It's a bad time in my
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Speaker 1: life growing up, Um getting hit the heart but hard.
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Speaker 1: I hate to bring it up, yeah, but I just
10:19
Speaker 1: try to keep up with um whatever he's doing, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, on and off the field. So it's just
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Speaker 1: Joshua that that is the only football player that I
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Speaker 1: will ever watch. It's safe to say, that's fair. You
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Speaker 1: call him Joshua. I never heard someone call him Joshua.
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Speaker 1: Is that what your family calls him? Oh? Yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I really ever called him josh before,
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Speaker 1: like even growing up Joshua, like like I feel like
10:45
Speaker 1: when he when he went I would probably say, like
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Speaker 1: to college, that's when like the josh started, So people
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Speaker 1: would always say Joshua or you know, his his nicknames
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Speaker 1: or whatever. The kids maybe, but you don't. I didn't
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Speaker 1: really hear josh a lot. It's strange to hear I
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Speaker 1: never heard anyone call him that. That's interesting. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: in college obviously very well known player in the SEC,
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Speaker 1: and then being drafted so high in the first round.
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Speaker 1: Was it crazy to watch that progression, Like and your
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Speaker 1: people start talking about him, you knowing it's Joshua, your
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Speaker 1: brother that they're talking about. Yeah, So it was crazy
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Speaker 1: because first him even going to Kentucky was a huge
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Speaker 1: thing because he wasn't, you know, highly recruited. So for
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Speaker 1: him to go to Kentucky and play in that conference,
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Speaker 1: which is a power, powerhouse conference for football, and to
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Speaker 1: excel like his first year, I think he was second
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Speaker 1: string his first year and then you know, after that
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Speaker 1: just took off, and you know, for him to do
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Speaker 1: what he's doing now, it's just amazing because again, growing up,
11:47
Speaker 1: I just I just remember him as a little kid,
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Speaker 1: the goofy kid, and now he's like this massive grown
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Speaker 1: man like muscles, so it's just like you know, and
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Speaker 1: a beard too, So it's just like, what, like it's
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Speaker 1: crazy to even to even think about how how far
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Speaker 1: he's how far he's come. So I'm just happy for
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Speaker 1: him to be honest with you, m And you mentioned
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Speaker 1: the beard and the muscles, and how about him being
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Speaker 1: a dad, Like I see Josh in the stadium and
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Speaker 1: I see him when he brings Wesley to the facility,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, that's crazy that, like you
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Speaker 1: are such a goofy person and also a dad as well,
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And he takes so much pride in
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Speaker 1: being a great father. Uh. And I think that's all
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Speaker 1: you can ask for is for him to you know,
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Speaker 1: try his best, and to to do anything and everything
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Speaker 1: for him for his two sons, um and be a
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Speaker 1: great and be a great husband too. Uh So, you know,
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Speaker 1: just again just so proud of everything that he's been
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Speaker 1: able to do like on and off the field. You are.
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Speaker 1: We talk about on the field Joshua all the time,
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Speaker 1: but the things that he's done off the field incredible.
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Speaker 1: And just to see him grow into this man, you know,
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Speaker 1: a husband, father to your sons, and you know, and
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Speaker 1: do it with such dignity in respect. It's just like
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Speaker 1: you don't see it often. You don't see it often,
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Speaker 1: and you know, for him to do a great job
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Speaker 1: and and be that that role model he is is
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Speaker 1: it's great. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm sure he's told you
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Speaker 1: about Calais Campbell And when I first got to the team,
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Speaker 1: they're like, all right, like you're never going to cover
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Speaker 1: someone like Calais Campbell in your life, And like I
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Speaker 1: had that in my head and the warm around josh
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Speaker 1: I'm like, dang, Like he's just like them, someone he
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Speaker 1: looks up to too, you know, just hearing stories and
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Speaker 1: how he took him, he took josh under his wing.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's good when you have veterans who've
13:38
Speaker 1: been in the league for a long time and want
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Speaker 1: the best for you and once to see you succeed
13:43
Speaker 1: um and and that are in your corner too, makes
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Speaker 1: your job a lot easier, your transition a lot easier
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Speaker 1: into that professional world. Um, so I'm glad he was
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Speaker 1: there and to help Josh his first year. And you
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Speaker 1: mentioned that transition, you being there, doing that, going college
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Speaker 1: to protity. Ever reached out about, you know, doing that
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Speaker 1: being a professional athlete, that transition. Yeah, so we talked
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Speaker 1: once about it for for a very long time of
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Speaker 1: how it was, you know, tough. You just gotta keep
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Speaker 1: grinding it out, keep grinding out. Things aren't gonna be
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Speaker 1: perfect your first year, your second year, maybe even your third.
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Speaker 1: But if you continue to grind it out and you
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Speaker 1: you see progress within yourself and then it starts to
14:21
Speaker 1: trickle down throughout the system and the football team. Say, um, yeah,
14:26
Speaker 1: we we've talked about it before. You know, I'm glad
14:29
Speaker 1: we've we've gotten a chance to step away from really
14:32
Speaker 1: when we talk, step away from sports, dive into other
14:35
Speaker 1: things other than sports. But when I was able to
14:37
Speaker 1: talk to him about, you know, the transition life, you know,
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Speaker 1: just hearing the stories and hearing what he had to say,
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Speaker 1: I commend him for getting through it and you know,
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Speaker 1: continue to work, continue to work at it because because
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Speaker 1: it isn't it isn't easy just to just to see
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Speaker 1: him continue to continue to keep pushing, see him as
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Speaker 1: a captain already to his second year. I mean, kudos
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Speaker 1: goes to him. It's cool that we always asked him
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Speaker 1: about this newfound leadership this season because he got voted
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Speaker 1: a captain, and he always says that you can be
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Speaker 1: the loudest guy in the locker room, you can, you know,
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Speaker 1: be a great example off the field. He's like, if
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Speaker 1: I don't make plays on the field, no one's going
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Speaker 1: to listen to me, which I think is a very
15:19
Speaker 1: realistic way to look at it. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: want to, you know, talk loud in the locker room
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Speaker 1: and oh, listen to me. And he's like, I get it.
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Speaker 1: If I'm not good on the field, no one's gonna
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Speaker 1: listen to me. Yeah, And I totally agree with that too.
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Speaker 1: When you work on yourself and you're putting your best
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Speaker 1: foot forward and you're trying your hardest and you're making
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Speaker 1: things happen. I think, especially also in a league such
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Speaker 1: as NFFL, if you aren't really doing much and you
15:42
Speaker 1: don't you're not a veteran yet and you know you're
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Speaker 1: not making plays, but you're not doing what the coaches
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Speaker 1: are saying and this and that. It is kind of
15:49
Speaker 1: hard to be a leader and and have people look
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Speaker 1: up to you and follow you speaking for like to
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Speaker 1: see how he is now and being a captain, I'm sure.
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Speaker 1: I guess he is making a lot of plays. People
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Speaker 1: are listening to him and voted him to be a captain,
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Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool. He wants to make the super
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Speaker 1: Bowl and and this, like you know, big big accolades
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Speaker 1: and things like that. But I think it's every year,
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Speaker 1: just get better. Continue to get your team better too.
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Speaker 1: I know, again not a football expert, just read the
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Speaker 1: I read things. Um, the team, you know, losing some pieces.
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Speaker 1: You gotta work with that. So just continue to get
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Speaker 1: better and continue to grow as a team and you know,
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Speaker 1: fight for to be a reason why people are proud
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Speaker 1: to say, you know, Dovall and and have more people
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Speaker 1: um shout shout that out too. I think you continue
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Speaker 1: to keep it up, um do what he's doing now
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Speaker 1: and and have more people on board, you know, and
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Speaker 1: great things to lappen here you go, you're up to date.
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Speaker 1: You're doubting yourself. You're's biggest fan. Gosh was fan? All right?
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Speaker 1: Mike said thanks so much for joining us. I know
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Speaker 1: you're so busy and probably want to take a much
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Speaker 1: need of nap, So thank you for joining The Schlen
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Speaker 1: Show and telling us all about our guy, Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for having me. Thanks so much
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Speaker 1: for listening. I hope it's nothing else. You learned what
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Speaker 1: a baller Misha is during this episode. Pretty cute how
17:17
Speaker 1: supportive she is of her little bro Josh Allen. Next
17:21
Speaker 1: up on The Slynn Show, we have Shantell Baker soon
17:24
Speaker 1: to be Shan tell Chark DJ Chark's fiance joining us
17:28
Speaker 1: as stay tuned for that. Joe Fortunato, thanks for making
17:32
Speaker 1: this not sound like crap. As always, if you didn't
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Speaker 1: like this podcast, do not talk to me. M