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Speaker 1: the best day of my life. Welcome to the Slim

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Speaker 1: Show Podcast presented by by Star, where we're not afraid

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Speaker 1: to mess up, We're not afraid to have a little fun.

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Speaker 1: Come on. This time, we have Mr one thousand yards,

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Speaker 1: but no even better than we have his mama, his

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Speaker 1: number one fan, Miss Latrisa, is not near as relaxed

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Speaker 1: as James is about getting the credit he deserves and

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Speaker 1: we're here for it. Okay, So, Miss Latrisa, if you

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Speaker 1: could try to summarize this year of James Robinson. I

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Speaker 1: all right, you know, it's probably gonna makes the team.

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Speaker 1: And now when people ask me about him, like, if

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Speaker 1: at least from our standpoint. But I'm sure you have

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Speaker 1: a different story. M H. Well, I can say that um,

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. I mean, James is someone like you know,

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Speaker 1: And then fast forward to training camp. I know James,

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Speaker 1: Like he's the type of person that tells us, well,

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Speaker 1: we always asked James about this, like, ah, the chip

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Speaker 1: And that's the same thing with James. I've seen him.

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Speaker 1: But we are at every home game tailgating and I

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Speaker 1: I have two other kids now my girls are something different.

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Speaker 1: But Jane, he was just like straight focus. I've never

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