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Speaker 1: M m m m m. Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers

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Speaker 1: Unscripted from Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, sitting

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Speaker 1: alongside my trusted colleague West Hodkowits were coming to you

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Speaker 1: here from our studios at Lambolefield in a belated Happy

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day to all the moms out there. I neglected

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Speaker 1: to mention that last week when we signed off, but

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Speaker 1: along those lines, West, you had a really nice piece

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Speaker 1: on our website over the weekend in celebration of Mother's Day,

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Speaker 1: to talking about the really poignant and well told story

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Speaker 1: of Kenny Clark and his mother Nicole and everything that

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Speaker 1: she went through to uh to raise her children, one

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Speaker 1: of whom is now a rising star in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: A really nice piece. If you haven't had a chance

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Speaker 1: to check it out, be sure to go on Packers

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Speaker 1: dot com and click on that. But just your overall

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Speaker 1: impressions of getting to talk to Nicole and talk to

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Speaker 1: Kenny about his back story and everything and how it

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Speaker 1: all came together, well, I just want to put this

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Speaker 1: reason why I wanted to do a story like this,

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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to write a Mother's Day story for years,

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Speaker 1: going back to my time at the Press Gazette. But

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Speaker 1: I wanted I didn't want to do it just to

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Speaker 1: to find the right story. And this thing with Kenny

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Speaker 1: worked out great because actually I was thinking about doing

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Speaker 1: Well then obviously he ended up having the elbow injury.

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Speaker 1: He ended up missing the last three games, and then

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Speaker 1: once the season got done, I went up to him

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Speaker 1: your mom, because you know, if you know anything about

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Speaker 1: Kenny in in where he comes from in San Bernardino,

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Speaker 1: um it's not the best area. And obviously he lost

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Speaker 1: his father when he was nine. Uh, Kenny Senior still

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Speaker 1: And that story has been told a lot. But the

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Speaker 1: story we didn't really hear about it, at least I

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Speaker 1: hadn't seen before, was how Nicole managed that as a

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Speaker 1: these children. Not only did she provide in the monetary sense,

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Speaker 1: do that in an environment that sometimes can pull your

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Speaker 1: You know, she was not raised by her parents. She

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Speaker 1: she was sixteen. If she ever got to that point

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Speaker 1: And I thought her building that foundation for Kenny Jr.

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Speaker 1: And her other three children was really set them up

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Speaker 1: for success. His brother, Kian now is actually at forty

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Speaker 1: it sounds like she's certainly done her share of traveling

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Speaker 1: those who don't know, um, he was convicted of second

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Speaker 1: And hopefully if you checked it out, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: perseverance and you know the kids that she's raised today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: looking to see just where Kenny Clark's football career goes

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Speaker 1: I was actually out of grad school with then I

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Speaker 1: Kyler Facral that was Facrol's job. That's right, That's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: too much longer, But with that we will call it

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Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure

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