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The Shlyn Show: Chantelle Chark · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Let's in our first episode of the off save that
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  Speaker 1: drooled on my solf. Nope, he's a dog. I love
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  Speaker 1: my sink. Pick your musty up the shop. If I'd
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  Speaker 1: say everything wrong, I'm leaving me and it was the
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  Speaker 1: best day of my life. Welcome back to the Slim
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast presented by Vicestar, where we're not afraid to
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: week we have Sean tell Baker, who is an Elix
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  Speaker 1: to alumni, a dog mom, and it's also the fiancee
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  Speaker 1: of wide receiver d j Art. Welcome. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: first this crazy NFL pasing, what happened so far and
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  Speaker 1: how you guys have been handling it. I know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the players handle it obviously so much more, but it
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  Speaker 1: also is a grind for you guys at home because
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  Speaker 1: you have to change up your life as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been different. Um. I will say that the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: have been doing such a good job about making sure
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  Speaker 1: that they've been safe, so it's been relatively easy for
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  Speaker 1: us to just kind of continue what we were doing
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year with quarantine and isolation
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot. But it's different. The games are different. Um,
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  Speaker 1: not really being able to go to the away games
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  Speaker 1: is different. But we're glad football is back, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the big thing that we even have football
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  Speaker 1: at all. Were you someone that went so i'll be
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  Speaker 1: away games before? No? I didn't. So it's not really
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  Speaker 1: like I'm missing much that I had before, but it
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  Speaker 1: would have been nice to have the option, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right especially, I'm super bummed. I've always wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: to Green Bay exactly. They're not bringing the broadcast crew
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  Speaker 1: this year, and that was like the one, like Milestone
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  Speaker 1: Stadium I wanted to go to. So I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: It would be cool to like kind of pick and choose,
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  Speaker 1: like I really want to go still to Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: and see it. Yes, acts absolutely, and yeah, yeah you
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  Speaker 1: get it. I get it. Yes, indeed. So take me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start at the beginning. Let's go away on back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, how did you? Indeed? J Meat, We're like,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a love story I'm hosting right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's um okay, So well, he actually first messaged me
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter before I had even gotten to l s U,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll give him those credits. Uh. And then there
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  Speaker 1: was one day where we were walking on campus and
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  Speaker 1: we had walked past each other after having communicated online,
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  Speaker 1: and we both awkwardly looked at each other and we're like,
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  Speaker 1: I think I need to give him a hug. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think I need to give her a hug to
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  Speaker 1: beat like awkwardly hugged each other in the quad at
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  Speaker 1: l s U. And it started everything. Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we started meeting up on campus and doing things together
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  Speaker 1: like getting pizza, little things. Um. That sparked our dating
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  Speaker 1: freshman year at seventeen, which is insane, is insane, and
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  Speaker 1: it's so unheard of. I feel like like like we
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  Speaker 1: asked like dating college, but like be together this entire
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  Speaker 1: time and like stick with him, Like he began obviously
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  Speaker 1: as a huge, big time athlete at l s U.
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  Speaker 1: But did you ever like, did you know this was
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  Speaker 1: going to happen? No, I don't think either of us
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  Speaker 1: could have predicted this happening this way. We're excited, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and I think at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 1: had those dreams and the belief that he would go
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  Speaker 1: on to be great because I do believe hard work
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  Speaker 1: pays off, and I've never seen him work anything less
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  Speaker 1: than incredibly hard. So he's you know, it's it's it
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  Speaker 1: was given and the way that was expected per se
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  Speaker 1: but not necessarily expected. I don't know if that makes sense,
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  Speaker 1: but it okay. I mean, like everyone says, like, you
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  Speaker 1: have a dream of playing in the NFL, but especially
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  Speaker 1: for DJ, he succeeded so quickly. Also, yeah, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: give him a lot of credit. He's worked really hard.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. So what did you major in a
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  Speaker 1: l s U? Like? What did you go to l
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  Speaker 1: s U For? I started going UM as an English
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  Speaker 1: major because I thought I wanted to go to law school.
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  Speaker 1: UM that quickly turned into kinesiology because I was a
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  Speaker 1: gymnastics coach all through college, and that quickly turned into
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  Speaker 1: Communication studies, which is all left field. So um here
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  Speaker 1: I am. Now I'm major in communication studies and minored
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  Speaker 1: in Spanish. Don't actually speak it, but I understand it
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. Very nice. Okay, So how does that lead
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  Speaker 1: to Jackson? I saw you were you were coaching UM
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  Speaker 1: gymnastics here in Jack's right, Yeah, I do. I still
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while pop in and coach, which
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  Speaker 1: is so awesome. I just love the little ones. It's been.
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  Speaker 1: It made college a whole lot more joyful for me,
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  Speaker 1: and um that was something that DJ has also said
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  Speaker 1: was he's been able to enjoy the the energy that
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  Speaker 1: children bring a little bit more because we were always
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  Speaker 1: around kids. So yeah, it's just nice to do. It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: I just I can't hold it in any longer. You
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  Speaker 1: have to tell everyone because DJ is so great with kids.
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  Speaker 1: Every community, the event, he's sitting down playing with them.
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  Speaker 1: We all remember when he taught that little boy to
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  Speaker 1: swim at the y m c A. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: so cute. So tell everyone the good news. Well, we
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  Speaker 1: are expecting our own little person coming twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And that's honestly right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: So perfect plan. Or what's going on with with the
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  Speaker 1: baby not exactly, not exactly the plan, but in incredibly
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  Speaker 1: exciting surprise instead. So you know, we uh did have
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  Speaker 1: plans on getting married next June. I'm not gonna force
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  Speaker 1: myself into a wedding dress after having a baby. So
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  Speaker 1: here we are, but we were problemed. We're he's so
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  Speaker 1: excited and it's so exciting to see him transition over
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  Speaker 1: into becoming a dad. It's so cool. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be an awesome dad. And you were saying, he's basically
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  Speaker 1: telling the entire city of Jacksonville, right, Yeah, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: He's told way more people than I've told, which is hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't even blame him. He's just excited. We
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  Speaker 1: were talking. I want to say it was like two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. We were talking about your engagement process, and
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  Speaker 1: I was asking him if he was nervous because he
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  Speaker 1: did it so well, like he had the photographer ready,
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  Speaker 1: get everything ready to go, and he said he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: more so nervous, like he knew you were going to
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  Speaker 1: say yes, but he wanted to be so extremely perfect
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  Speaker 1: that it was like everything the way you wanted, so
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  Speaker 1: it was it was exactly the way that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: it to be. I don't think he necessarily remembers me
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  Speaker 1: telling him before that I wanted to get engaged on
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  Speaker 1: the beach because you know, the first half of my
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  Speaker 1: life was spent in Hawaii, and so I love the
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  Speaker 1: beach and I we talked about it afterwards, and he
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh no, I didn't really remember that, but
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  Speaker 1: worked out great. It was it was absolutely perfect. I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea it was happening, and lots of tears
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  Speaker 1: were shad but the happiest of tears. So he didn't
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  Speaker 1: He did a great job. I love that he posted
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  Speaker 1: the crying pics. It's like, you guys look all sweet
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  Speaker 1: and nice and it's like the the ugly cry that
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  Speaker 1: every girl has. Of course, of course, um and Rick
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  Speaker 1: Wilson actually took our pictures, so thanks to him for
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  Speaker 1: doving a phenomenal job on those. So you are a
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  Speaker 1: casually you're from Hawaii. Yeah, that's where I was born,
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  Speaker 1: um and spent like the first half of my life
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  Speaker 1: and military child, so I bounced around a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I did spend a majority of my time bouncing
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  Speaker 1: around in Hawaii, and then we really ended up in
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana for pretty much the second half of my life.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice and l s U Man, that is such
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  Speaker 1: an incredible school. DJ seems so so passionate about it,
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  Speaker 1: So it probably is awesome that you guys share that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one being alumni, but he seems like above
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  Speaker 1: alumni level. Yeah, it's really cool getting to share that
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  Speaker 1: with him, like, you know, being an l S U
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  Speaker 1: student was cool, and seeing L s U football was
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  Speaker 1: an experience that I still can't necessarily put words to.
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  Speaker 1: But seeing the way that they look at him and
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  Speaker 1: they view him, especially now in the league, is so cool.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's awesome being able to go
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  Speaker 1: back and feel how different and how wonderful it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, reminiscing in things of course, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he reps it. This this new dance that's going on
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  Speaker 1: that he was telling me about. Touchdown dances are absurd sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: where did you even think of that? Like, tell me
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  Speaker 1: he practices at home and that's where he gets it from.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say I've seen him physically practice, although he
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  Speaker 1: probably does what I'm not looking. But he does enjoy
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, so he'll let me know, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about this this weekend? I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do it? Go for it? Why not? So he that's fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one thing you'll do. Yes. I always when
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  Speaker 1: you describe DJ, at least around the facility and with
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  Speaker 1: the team, always happy, like always smiling, never a bad day,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like, so how do you describe him? Like,
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  Speaker 1: is he different at home than he is at the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: You say, that's really him. He's got such a good
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  Speaker 1: he's so calm, he's very even tempered. Um and he
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, is really excited. I'm actually way
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  Speaker 1: more bubbles than he is. I have a lot more um,
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  Speaker 1: just energy, I guess. So it's an even bouncing off
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  Speaker 1: of each other where he's able to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: happy and energetic at work and then come home and
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  Speaker 1: kind of relax a little bit more while I'm just
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  Speaker 1: kind of bouncing off the walls for him. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: guys seem like kind of like a chill couple, like
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  Speaker 1: you're both so young, but like at least what what
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  Speaker 1: DJ post on Instagram, Like, you guys are like cooking
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  Speaker 1: at home a lot, watching SpongeBob. Of course DJ always
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  Speaker 1: talk about that mutual love for SpongeBob. You guys just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like seem like old souls almost. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: guess could say that maybe Louisiana has something to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, you know that slower paced just kind of
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  Speaker 1: hanging out in chilling. But we just we we enjoy
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  Speaker 1: each other's company, We hang out and have a good
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  Speaker 1: time all the time. Yes, and of course the dogs
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  Speaker 1: are there. Bam bam. Forgive me. I do not know
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  Speaker 1: the new one's name, but there was yes, Dundee. How
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  Speaker 1: can I forget that? He was telling me about the office.
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  Speaker 1: Like they seemed like the two most love dogs in America.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's such a part of your guy's life. They
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  Speaker 1: are a hot mess, but they are the sweetest babies
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  Speaker 1: on the planet. We couldn't have asked for any better
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  Speaker 1: of dogs, although we had no idea that as an
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  Speaker 1: Australian shepherd, Dundee would be so high energy. Um, he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty a d h D. But they're the best. Oh gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I love that. So tell me what you do in
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  Speaker 1: your spare time here in Jack, Like I'm always seeing
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  Speaker 1: your your around Jack's going to coffee shops, doing yoga,
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  Speaker 1: So what fills your time. I've been doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that. Um, you know, less of that with having
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  Speaker 1: to be aware of who I'm around and um, what
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  Speaker 1: crowds I'm in. So I haven't been out and about
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  Speaker 1: too much. Um. Coffee shops are always nice because you
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  Speaker 1: can sit outside. I'll take the dogs out for walks,
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  Speaker 1: We'll go to the park, will run around. The dogs
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  Speaker 1: are a good portion of the time that I spend
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  Speaker 1: doing anything. So, yeah, hanging out with some people and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just relax and trying to get through this
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  Speaker 1: odd time as best I can. I know what, man,
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  Speaker 1: I can say, crazy crazy time. But do you it
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  Speaker 1: seems like you guys really enjoy Jack's Like did you
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  Speaker 1: always foresee like not coming here, but like do you
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  Speaker 1: foresee yourself maybe staying here? And like in calling this
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  Speaker 1: home for a while. We could totally call this home
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  Speaker 1: for a while. It's one of those things that a
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  Speaker 1: time will tell. But as of now, we do love
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  Speaker 1: being out here. Like I said, the beach being twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes away is a major plus. So and you know,
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  Speaker 1: once we have our little one here, it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: whole different experience. So we'll really have to see then. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like everyone, at least players that have
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  Speaker 1: kids always talk about what a great town Jacks is
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  Speaker 1: to raise a family, and that was a big proponent
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  Speaker 1: in them coming here. Yeah, I've definitely seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that m hm. And with that, I'm always talking
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  Speaker 1: to players about you know, family, kids, And it seems
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  Speaker 1: like you've gotten to know some of the wives, the girlfriends,
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  Speaker 1: the fiances, like having that support system of kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a family unit here when you guys are so
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  Speaker 1: far away from home. Has that helped. Yeah, it's actually
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  Speaker 1: been really great being able to reach out to other
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  Speaker 1: women who understand what we're going through. Because it is
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  Speaker 1: a it's a different life. It can be a little
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  Speaker 1: weird sometimes and not everybody necessarily gets where we're coming from.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always great to have other people that are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just on the same page and get where
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  Speaker 1: you're coming from. M and you guys seem like a
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  Speaker 1: very family oriented group a couple. I will never forget.
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  Speaker 1: My biggest TV mess up of my life was my
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  Speaker 1: first sideline hit in two thousand when was it two
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  Speaker 1: thousand night? I went up to the stands to meet
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  Speaker 1: DJ's parents because I was gonna put them on TV
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  Speaker 1: and I was going to interview them, and they told
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  Speaker 1: me their names and it was all great. They were
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  Speaker 1: so nice, and I said on live TV that their
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  Speaker 1: names were Darryl and Cheryl. Yeah, I'm here, we're Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: Shark like, oh yeah, I remember that. But it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: it happens. Talking about that. Thanks, give it dope. It's okay,
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  Speaker 1: it happens. It does. Yes, Um, Darryl and the Shirley
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  Speaker 1: are awesome, but you tried Darryl and Cheryl. I like
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  Speaker 1: the guys at work. Never let me live that down. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a good one. Though. I will say if
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  Speaker 1: they were Darryl and Cheryld that would be a hoot
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  Speaker 1: of a couple. And there's such nice people. She just
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  Speaker 1: kind of looked at me and I was like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not your name, stand your name. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: smooth on. So tell me about DJ is so involved
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  Speaker 1: in the community, always like seems to genuinely enjoy going
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  Speaker 1: out and doing things, and he always is really involved
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  Speaker 1: with like Night to Shine with the Tim Tebow Tim
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  Speaker 1: Tebow Foundation and Special Olympics. And I know there's a
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  Speaker 1: connection there with your family that I had no idea about,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes sense why he's super passionate about that. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: my older brother, who is a year and a half
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  Speaker 1: older than me, actually has autism. It's mild, but we
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  Speaker 1: grew up understanding that he had special needs, and he
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  Speaker 1: was my best friend growing up because we were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right there with each other and so um growing up
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  Speaker 1: and seeing that life being a little bit different than
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you grow up without those special needs
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  Speaker 1: UM put a special place in my heart, of course.
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  Speaker 1: So when I got to college, they actually offer these
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: UM events called Friday Night Out where you get to
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  Speaker 1: go hang out with other high school and college aged
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  Speaker 1: individuals who have special needs such as autism, down syndrome, etcetera.
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  Speaker 1: And DJ would join me in those events and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was good fun. We would just go and
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  Speaker 1: play Monopoly or you know, and just have a good
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  Speaker 1: time with people who wanted to have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And it's yeah, it's it's it's it's a very special
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  Speaker 1: place in both of our hearts. I love that. That's
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  Speaker 1: so cool that he would do that, even with you
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  Speaker 1: in college. Yeah, he's awesome. Definitely speaks to his character,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. He's awesome. So what's it like with
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  Speaker 1: away games? I guess you could say, because I know
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  Speaker 1: you go to all the home names like what kind
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  Speaker 1: of fan are you? Are you like jumping up and down?
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  Speaker 1: Like going nuts? Are you more chill? Are you nervous?
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  Speaker 1: Like DJ has been playing incredible this year. You get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to watch many touchdowns, So what's that like?
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  Speaker 1: I am all over the place, UM, I not to
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  Speaker 1: surround myself with too many people on game days just
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want to scream anyone's head off, but
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  Speaker 1: totally in front of the TV losing my mind. Um,
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  Speaker 1: this season is a little bit different. I have my
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  Speaker 1: Haneken zero next to me while I'm watching the game.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I definitely love going out there and watching
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  Speaker 1: him play. So yeah, and then away games, are you
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  Speaker 1: just like chilling on the couch where you can like
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  Speaker 1: freely scream, Then, yeah, chilling on the couch. Both dogs
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  Speaker 1: noggling up under me. They have their jerseys on and
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  Speaker 1: they're looking at me like I'm crazy because I'm yelling
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  Speaker 1: every two minutes. But yes, that's that's the best Sundays
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I love that. Well, here's the hoping DJ
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  Speaker 1: keeps up with the success he has. He's been killing it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining the Shillin Show. Yeah, thanks, Ashlynn,
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  Speaker 1: of course, all right, I will be a big congrats
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  Speaker 1: to the Chart family on their pregnancy. That song they
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  Speaker 1: see start to Do to Do to Do ready to
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  Speaker 1: take on a whole new level. John Tell Baker, you're fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining the Shlynn Show, Shoe dude, and
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  Speaker 1: thank you to everyone who keeps this fine program up
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  Speaker 1: and running all the time. We'll see you next time
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  Speaker 1: on The Shlund Show. See