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Speaker 1: Welcome to the forty Niners that You've Got Male podcast,

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Speaker 1: and this is the West Virginia edition of the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by wide receivers Brandon Ayu and Juwan Jennings,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna learn a little bit about them and

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Speaker 1: their take on being on the road with the team

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Speaker 1: for about ten days. Uh so, you guys have both

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Speaker 1: been here before during COVID times. How different is West

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Speaker 1: Virginia this time around? A lot different? Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: for when that comes to mind, there's no there's no

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Speaker 1: connects ons and so it's like walking in the building.

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Speaker 1: I'm just so used to seeing people just right there,

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Speaker 1: just ready, you know, to swap your nose and give

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Speaker 1: you your connection. And now it's just like normal, normal

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Speaker 1: way of life. It's cool. It's cool. I like it.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody gets to experience the unique decor of this place.

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Speaker 1: What is the inside of your rooms look like? Crazy wallpaper,

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Speaker 1: canopy beds, What did you guys get? It's just like

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Speaker 1: walking into like a museum or something like like an

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Speaker 1: old museum, like this would be an old hotel museum

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Speaker 1: or something. I'm fly just like when you walk into

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Speaker 1: into Granny's house and she got the plastic on the

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Speaker 1: couch and she got the roses on the wall paper.

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Speaker 1: All right. So the goal of this podcast is to

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Speaker 1: get to know you guys better on the field, better

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Speaker 1: off the field. You want. A friend of yours told

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Speaker 1: me to ask you about this, man, Um, you didn't

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Speaker 1: always start off as a wide receiver. He told me

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Speaker 1: you actually played quarterback at Tennessee at one point. That's

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. Yeah, why did you tell us

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Speaker 1: about that? It was a quarterback at one point? I

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Speaker 1: was I thought I was gonna be Lamar Jackson and

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Speaker 1: I'm not more of a Yeah. Yeah, a quarterback was fun.

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Speaker 1: But I like the new challenges that come with Robert

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Speaker 1: Saver and uh the new relationships built that come a

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Speaker 1: long way. And uh, I wouldn't change it for nothing.

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Speaker 1: What brought about the change? Like, was it your decision

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Speaker 1: or coach had you switch positions? It was kind of

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Speaker 1: both of us. Coaches were just like you could you

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Speaker 1: could read shirt and I didn't want a red shirt.

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Speaker 1: I was stubborn. Um, young kid, fire fire my soul

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Speaker 1: ready to you know, go three and out to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And uh, um we ended up making the decision just

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Speaker 1: you know, we go to receiver, so you I didn't

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Speaker 1: have to red shirt, and that's where we are now.

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Speaker 1: Never looked back at b A. You were running back

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Speaker 1: at one point too, right, he talking about talking about

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Speaker 1: that change. Well, So growing up I played I played.

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Speaker 1: My first position was running back. I was sorry. I

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Speaker 1: was like, I was like really sorty my whole life.

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Speaker 1: Like when I first started playing football, I was smaller

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Speaker 1: than everybody, but I was fast out so that was

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Speaker 1: my that was really only position I could play. I

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Speaker 1: was just I wanted to play. I liked la Danian Thomlinson.

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Speaker 1: So I was number twenty one, just a little dude

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Speaker 1: running around playing running back. And then I got to

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Speaker 1: high school and I was feel small like I was,

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Speaker 1: I was way too small, so I had to play. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I had to play corner. I went to play corner,

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Speaker 1: and I played corner all my like, all through high school.

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Speaker 1: I never played receiver to my first year of college.

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Speaker 1: So similar situation. Just it's kind of I feel like

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Speaker 1: everybody got different situations on how they end to end

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Speaker 1: up at the position that they wanted to play. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of natural, like he like, he's obviously a

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Speaker 1: everybody has a different story, but everybody most A lot

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Speaker 1: of people, I would say, play different positions and kind

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Speaker 1: of ended up where they are. What did you take

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Speaker 1: The Yeah, everybody talks about it, the yack transitioning back

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Speaker 1: into the young running back after I cast the football.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you guys are both very physical wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Is it Do you get enjoyment out of just breaking

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Speaker 1: You gotta love that part of the game. You try

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Speaker 1: after the kids, it's like a challenge. I love challenges.

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Speaker 1: If you can't tell do you want? You had that

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Speaker 1: thirty two yard catching run in the last game, He

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Speaker 1: How are you guys feeling headed into week six? Ten

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Speaker 1: days away from home leading up until that, two games

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Speaker 1: a midpoint where we're starting to figure out who we are, UM,

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Speaker 1: starting to figure out, UM, how to best prepare each

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Speaker 1: and every week and go out there and put the

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Speaker 1: best thing on that the best players and the best

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Speaker 1: game possible on film. UM. But you started to get

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Speaker 1: to feel for playing football again because you know, UM,

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Speaker 1: training camp and preseason it's really not the same. You

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Speaker 1: gotta get into a rhythm. You gotta a certain feeling.

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Speaker 1: I think every player feels a certain way when they

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Speaker 1: really just only a feeling. You can only feel it

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Speaker 1: and continue to come out here and work, UM to

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Speaker 1: chase after that. So I think we're all in a

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Speaker 1: just wanted to continue to get better. UM. So guys,

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Speaker 1: take us inside the receiver room. John, You're always like dancing,

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Speaker 1: I don't always have to be, you know, so loud,

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Speaker 1: but I do like music, and so I'm always thinking

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Speaker 1: I feel like balance, Like when you talk about everybody

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Speaker 1: feel everybody balances each other around. We got a whole

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Speaker 1: He's always vine Ma. You know he's gonna he's gonna

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Speaker 1: of right, but he's a funny It's just funny dude.

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Speaker 1: Um and the and the young guys, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: So we just got a room with a bunch of

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Speaker 1: So this is kind of a perfect way to start

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Speaker 1: our fan questions. Seeing me from Tecoma asked, if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get a raise from a parent in your allowance,

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Speaker 1: what's the best way you would pitch that idea. I

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Speaker 1: think I had a similar situation when I was younger

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Speaker 1: and I used to get Um, I didn't get allowance,

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Speaker 1: would give me like five for the for the week.

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Speaker 1: I'll get twenty five dollars for the week, so pretty

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Speaker 1: much five dollars a day. Yeah, like California, you're not

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Speaker 1: Like just act like I'm starving every single day, like

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Speaker 1: So I need at least seven to eight dollars. Well,

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Speaker 1: I said nine because I knew I wanted seven and eight,

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Speaker 1: So I said I need nine dollars. And then you

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Speaker 1: I got right to work more than you actually want,

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Speaker 1: all right. I would definitely use grades, like if I'm

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Speaker 1: a kid back in the day, Mama, Look, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say bees too, as is too tough, but

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Speaker 1: as and bees. Let's go. I need some bread, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next one Nick from San Jose. We've seen some cool

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Speaker 1: handshakes on the field. How often do you guys practice those?

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Speaker 1: just debo coming up with him. I like Ray raising

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Speaker 1: the game. So we got one more. Michael from Sunny Veil.

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Speaker 1: You get to know your teammates pretty well on trips

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Speaker 1: like this. Who would you not room with and why?

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Speaker 1: personal I would definitely not one room if I had to,

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Speaker 1: b I got one specifically for for you. Ethan from

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Speaker 1: Long Beach wants to know. Since you're a gamer, will

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Speaker 1: you rank your teammates in Madden I play normally like

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Speaker 1: the Madden copriates that I had to whip on our

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Speaker 1: demo Dirty eight Baby Money, Charles um Sam Wo Max

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Speaker 1: Mooney Charles and then demo are you the best? All right?

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Speaker 1: So what is one interesting fact that maybe somebody doesn't

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Speaker 1: know about you. I just got big into photography, so

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Speaker 1: like a lot of camera and I'm like, I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to get into it, like editing, taking pictures because I

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Speaker 1: want to like have like a whole photo book, like

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Speaker 1: kind of like how my mom did of me and

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Speaker 1: my sigmas when we were younger. So I want to

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Speaker 1: just have like all digital pictures of my son and

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Speaker 1: my family like throughout the years and just see how

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Speaker 1: been big. That's really cool. We give you a disposable

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Speaker 1: a disposable before? No, so I've seen one before. I

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Speaker 1: like I used to have. I would have one in

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