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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: 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: it's been different. Um. I will say that the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: and whatnot. But it's different. The games are different. Um,

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Speaker 1: away games before? No? I didn't. So it's not really

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Speaker 1: and see it. Yes, acts absolutely, and yeah, yeah you

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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: so I'll give him those credits. Uh. And then there

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Speaker 1: freshman year at seventeen, which is insane, is insane, and

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Speaker 1: But did you ever like, did you know this was

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Speaker 1: Very nice and l s U Man, that is such

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining the Shillin Show. Yeah, thanks, Ashlynn,

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