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Speaker 1: What's Good Command is Stanley.

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Speaker 2: Up Podcast. We have a very very special guest for

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Speaker 2: you all. As usual, it is wide receiver Curtis Samuel.

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Speaker 2: Curtis talks about growing up in Brooklyn, being the hometown hero,

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Speaker 2: his go to corner store order, and how he makes

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Speaker 2: football fun for the kids in his community. All that

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Speaker 2: and a lot more starting right now. What's Good Command

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Speaker 2: is Family. Brian Cooper Junr here and this is the

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Speaker 2: Next Man Up Podcast where we don't really talk exit

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Speaker 2: and those what's your favorite command's players, We dive into

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Speaker 2: what makes the man behind the hell Man. We got

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Speaker 2: a great man here today as a guest. All Rob

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Speaker 2: Receiver Curtis Curtis, Are you doing good?

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Speaker 1: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Man, I'm blessed, Man, I'm blessed to be here. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you were here.

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Speaker 2: Man, fun season so far, But I got to start

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Speaker 2: off the number one thing right now.

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Speaker 1: Man, we just talked about it before we got on air.

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Speaker 2: You change your number to number four, Now that could

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Speaker 2: be a very expensive move, man. Talk about that and

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Speaker 2: talk about like what made you decide?

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Speaker 1: You know what? Man, I'm going back to no before.

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Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie. You gotta drop a little bag,

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Speaker 3: but you got job a little bag. But like it was,

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Speaker 3: it was worth it to me because I mean I

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Speaker 3: whole life. So I kind of felt like me like

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Speaker 3: I felt like I fit in that number. I felt

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Speaker 3: like I could be myself. I feel like I'm just

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Speaker 3: like a little kid playing the game all over again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, let's talk about Curtis Sammon as the kid.

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Speaker 2: Right, you grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and this

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Speaker 2: is not the Brooklyn you will go see today. This

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Speaker 2: is a different Brooklyn because Brooklyn has changed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, white a lot grew up, right, it ain't the same. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Once s they doun dropped that that Brooklyn, that stadium

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Speaker 3: and got real different, lot, I got real different.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Brooklyn you grew up in, right,

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Speaker 2: talk about you know that borough and what it did

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Speaker 2: for you and how it kind of molded the man

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Speaker 3: It did a lot for me. The crazy part is

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Speaker 3: is I always say this is like a lot of

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Speaker 3: It's just so many distractions, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: And the great thing about my life is I had

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Speaker 3: a great support system. I had a great family, and

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Speaker 3: group of people in my community that never wanted me

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Speaker 3: to go down the wrong path. You know, you got

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Speaker 3: a lot of people in your community that like, hey,

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Speaker 3: come do this. They were telling me like, nah, you don't.

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Speaker 3: You don't need to be around this, you know what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying. So, like I always say, I'm here today

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people will see that talent before

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Speaker 2: you even see it, right, Like you said, as a kid,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll be.

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Speaker 1: Here with us. Go back to the crib, do your homework.

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Speaker 2: When did you see that you was the man that

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Speaker 3: Oh, I actually seen it high school when I got

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Speaker 1: That's a big time and that's different. Clearly a big

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Speaker 2: But it's funny because you mentioned your high school, Rasmus

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Speaker 3: And I feel like my head coach, all my coaches

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk about all the support you had, right,

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Speaker 2: You've got a lot of people in your corner. And

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Speaker 1: Lot to you. You had a youth camp ye this

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Speaker 2: Talk about that and talk about why it's so important

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Speaker 3: The youth camp was fun. It's not your ordinary regular

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Speaker 3: for everything football, football, football. I wanted to be. It's

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I try to talk to them.

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Speaker 3: I have guys that I've played with. They don't play

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Speaker 3: And I have them talk to the kids, and I

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Speaker 3: because it's not enough of us that's probably doing that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of times people will call you

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Speaker 2: because of your work with the youth, because of your

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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of pride that comes from being

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Speaker 1: Y'all chest always.

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Speaker 3: I'm from Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: You're very, very proud of where y'all from. What are

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Speaker 3: I'm really just proud that I was able to, you know,

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Speaker 3: just because I feel like I'm not one of those

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Speaker 3: I did more than that. I'm going on your seven,

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Speaker 3: So it's not only the kids saying that's from my area,

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Speaker 1: And longevity is such a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Before we move on because we got some football to

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Speaker 2: For those that know, you hit the corner store, local

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Speaker 1: Man, tell people what you order.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So that's that's interesting though, because like as

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Speaker 2: a year. Now, I know that wasn't your childhood team

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Speaker 2: for a fag you say to yourself, they broadcast the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are those games like?

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Speaker 2: What does it like to be able to put on

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. You know the guard there and just you

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Speaker 3: know most of Potland step on that field, you know,

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Speaker 3: have everybody see you, but have a great game. I

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Speaker 3: feel like it speaks a lot. I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 3: I want kids after they watched me play, Oh, they

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Speaker 3: want to go outside to play football.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I want them to go outside and just like feel

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Speaker 3: good about themselves was and just work harder, you know,

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Speaker 3: to try to get to the NFL or college or

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Speaker 3: something like that. I just want to spark some positive

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Speaker 3: that drive to want to keep going.

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Speaker 1: That's why, man, that's well, let me tell you, bro.

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Speaker 2: Seven years you said it, man, we jevity is a

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Speaker 2: big deal, and you've been in it.

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Speaker 1: And now we're in year seven and man and.

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Speaker 2: You had actually your first touchdown of the season this

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Speaker 3: Quarter, right, you know that was that was my second one.

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Speaker 3: Second one, no o, I scored in Philly. That was

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Speaker 1: Sir, man, and versatility has been the name of the

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Speaker 2: You know it was running back or wide receiver, you

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Speaker 3: Haul work and God, I'm gonna go out there each

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn's fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Commanded family, This is the next Man of

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Speaker 1: Man. We can't wait to see what the season holds

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Speaker 2: And I got no doubt it's gonna be nothing but successful.

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Speaker 1: You my brother, thank you.

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