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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit

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Speaker 1: Junior with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome

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Speaker 1: to this week's Ozone podcast. Is ended by by Star

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Speaker 1: and nex week's guest. I'm I'm excited about because I

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Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to talk to him yet. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of Jaguars fans know who he is

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Speaker 1: and know a little bit about him. It's fascinating off

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Speaker 1: the field as well as on the field, but I

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Speaker 1: don't think they quite know much about him. Hopefully we

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Speaker 1: take care of that today with our guest Marvin Jones. Marvin,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, Thanks for having me here,

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Speaker 1: and uh, there's a lot to get to and hopefully

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Speaker 1: we'll do this three or four times so we can

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Speaker 1: get everything about you, because I don't think we can

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Speaker 1: do it in a fifteen minutes. But first of all,

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Speaker 1: how is your adaptation going to Jacksonville? How do you

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Speaker 1: like it so far? And how far into that are you?

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Speaker 1: I think it's great. You know, obviously we've been um,

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Speaker 1: we've been here training and that's just a testament to

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Speaker 1: everybody that's that's here. Um, you know, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: obviously it's voluntary, you know what I'm saying. So, Um,

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Speaker 1: the whole team has been here and everybody's been working, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting bigger, stronger and faster. And obviously this

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Speaker 1: is you know, the first you know, big week of UM.

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Speaker 1: You know us being together, UM in a little a

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Speaker 1: slight o t a mode. UM. You know, I just

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Speaker 1: like the buzz, you know, I like the feeling that

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Speaker 1: everybody has, um, you know, towards each other and towards

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Speaker 1: you know, this organization. UM. Obviously you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: you don't know what happened in the past or how

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Speaker 1: the feeling, how the feeling was in the past. But

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Speaker 1: I know the energy is here. UM. You know, the

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Speaker 1: buzz is here, you know within you know us, UM,

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Speaker 1: and you know it's it's been It's been great. It's

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Speaker 1: been amazing to be out there, UM. You know, with

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Speaker 1: everybody you know running around, you know, seeing everybody fly around.

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Speaker 1: It's been great. Give me a short impression of Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: but do it in espaniol and okay, Um Jacksonville. Uh

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Speaker 1: in villas as won, I see what see without defend,

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Speaker 1: didn't they um? Um ad in Miami? Um, and it's

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Speaker 1: uh defenditt defendant battle. Um you know muya mile e

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Speaker 1: um megen. So I'm gonna give you a hint. My

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Speaker 1: four years of high school Spanish did nothing for me.

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Speaker 1: And that's not just because it was thirty years ago.

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Speaker 1: But tell me about that. You obviously didn't grow up

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Speaker 1: speaking Spanish. This is something that you have learned over time.

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Speaker 1: Why the passion um I had? I was about to

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Speaker 1: start speaking Spanish? Okay, the death of the passion? Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: I grew up or you know, I grew up in

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Speaker 1: around like Latinos, but um, I think it was um.

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Speaker 1: I went to Costa Rica with with my wife and

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Speaker 1: her family, and UM, I was, you know, trying to commune,

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Speaker 1: came with the people, and I like, I like to talk.

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Speaker 1: I like I'm a social you know, I like I

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Speaker 1: know when I was over there, I couldn't talk to

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Speaker 1: understand them. So I was like Jasmine, I got it.

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Speaker 1: I woke up in the middle of the night, I

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Speaker 1: was like, I gotta go to Spain, you know, just

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Speaker 1: because I thought, you know, I didn't I thought that

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Speaker 1: everybody spoke the same Spanish. But you know, when I

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Speaker 1: I mean Spanish and Spanish, you know. So I went

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Speaker 1: of all I do. All I do now, it's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Now there's a lot to get to in terms of

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Speaker 1: the fields of hit everything. But you've been on American Idol.

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Speaker 1: You and your wife started Nothing but Cakes in Michigan

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Speaker 1: and he plans to have that here. My wife wants

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Speaker 1: to know. But there is one, there is one actually

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Speaker 1: very close. Um, but no, I think I think we're

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Speaker 1: we're that that's good with the franchise out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's doing good, so you know, we'll we'll keep that

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Speaker 1: one there. Then tell me about your clothing lot still

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Speaker 1: a big deal. Yeah, well my clothing line I started

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Speaker 1: it probably it's it's more like a life brand busy

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Speaker 1: like my life friend. You know, I gotta tat, I

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Speaker 1: I do have a clothes clothing line, but it's it's exclusive,

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Speaker 1: of like high end clothes. Um for myself to wear

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Speaker 1: and my families and friends and stuff like that. But um,

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Speaker 1: at some point it'll at some point it's gonna come out.

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Speaker 1: And I have other things that that will come out

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Speaker 1: though eventually come out whenever I want. Now, I'm not

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Speaker 1: how did that happen? Have you always sung? Is that

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Speaker 1: always been a passion? Yeah? Well, Um, they reached out.

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Speaker 1: you know, so stay so them partnering with ESPN. They

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Speaker 1: So bye week. You know, you wanted to do it before.

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Speaker 1: What can you do? Ken? I was like, no, I

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't do. I don't. It's probably easier, Yeah, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: Why not keep going? You know, just because I feel

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Speaker 1: And there's still a lot of a lot for me

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Speaker 1: just gonna keep going. Always your first love football, Oh yeah,

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