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Speaker 1: It's Megan O'Brien joined by Patriots running back Brandon Bolden

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Speaker 1: and Brandon it doesn't feel appropriate to conduct this interview

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Speaker 1: solely on football. With everything that's going on in the

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Speaker 1: world right now. How have these social justice issues impacted you?

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Speaker 1: These issues have impacted me a great deal. And it's

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Speaker 1: to appoint now to why I can't even be selfish

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Speaker 1: and say it's just me, because I have three children

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Speaker 1: and I'm raising a young man myself, and it's very

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Speaker 1: hard to explain not only what's going on, but with emotions,

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Speaker 1: with emotions he can and can't feel. Again, this is

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Speaker 1: a child. Is a child is not even tenue And

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Speaker 1: then you have to explain things that my grandfather had

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Speaker 1: to explain to me, what he went through in the

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Speaker 1: sixties and seventies when he was coming up. And ironically,

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Speaker 1: he was in the NFL while all this was going

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Speaker 1: on too, so I have those stories to kind of

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Speaker 1: go off of. But um, it's a it's not right.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very frustrating being as this isn't the first second,

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Speaker 1: third time, um let alone in the past decade. This

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Speaker 1: is a this isn't the first, second, third, fourth time

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Speaker 1: this year and for it to be televised, and you know,

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Speaker 1: people are just angry. UM, people want justice. What types

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Speaker 1: of conversations have you had with your teammates in the

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Speaker 1: locker room to raise light on this issue and raise awareness? UM,

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Speaker 1: things we can do. UM, But I've talked to a

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Speaker 1: few guys, and there's a million charities everyone can donate two. UM.

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Speaker 1: With all the protests and everything going on. The day after,

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Speaker 1: there is stuff to go clean up, its stuff to help. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot, you know, and it just takes a

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Speaker 1: few clicks of a keyboard or your phone. Everybody has

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Speaker 1: it in their hand, you know, pick it up, find

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Speaker 1: you a nice organization to donate to research at first

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Speaker 1: if you don't believe in it right away, it's plenty

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Speaker 1: of things you can do. More hands we have one day.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this transition will be a lot easier for everybody.

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Speaker 1: And at the same time, when all of these issues

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Speaker 1: are being brought to life and protests are going on,

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Speaker 1: we're in the middle of a global pandemic and you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get to know some of your teammates and

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Speaker 1: conduct these virtual meetings. How would you describe the way

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Speaker 1: this offseason has gone? This is new. It's new me

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Speaker 1: and my son. He's actually in school right now, online classes,

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Speaker 1: and so me and him will see each other briefly

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Speaker 1: in the morning. We'll both walk into our rooms. I'll

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Speaker 1: get out of meetings earlier, earlier than he does, of course,

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Speaker 1: but he's still in school, so we're both kind of

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Speaker 1: comparing notes. So, how was your meeting? Was the Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi signal strong enough? And so it's been kind of

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Speaker 1: cool because I'm not in the house doing it by

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Speaker 1: myself like a few of the other guys. It's me

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Speaker 1: and my son. You don't know how long this is

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Speaker 1: going to be, so it's kind of one of those

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Speaker 1: I'm going to study everything because I don't know when

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Speaker 1: this is going to be over, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: when they're gonna call us back to work. So just

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Speaker 1: just trying to stay on top of everything. But it's

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Speaker 1: it's a load, I would say this, it's a load

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Speaker 1: off your body not being there for the spring. When

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Speaker 1: you look at this Patriots running Back group, you see depth,

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Speaker 1: you see experience, you see versatility. How would you describe

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Speaker 1: your group as a unit? I was talking to Rix

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Speaker 1: about this the other day, Jellybeans, you're just reaching the pack.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what you're gonna pull out. You don't

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Speaker 1: know what you're going to get. You might have an

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Speaker 1: exploding pack one day. You just never know. I'm actually

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Speaker 1: the oldest one, so it's kind of weird for me.

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Speaker 1: I've never been the oldest guy for this long in

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Speaker 1: the room, so it is refreshing. They keep me young

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Speaker 1: as well. They keep me on my toes. I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see how the season goes. Typically

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Speaker 1: when we're out at training camp, the running backs coach

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Speaker 1: Ivan Fierce is one of the most animated coaches. You

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Speaker 1: can typically hear him from across the field. What's he

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Speaker 1: like during these virtual meetings? The same, it's the same.

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Speaker 1: I can still hear him, like downstairs, I've coming up

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Speaker 1: the stairs and the meeting him be on and you

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Speaker 1: can hear him, so you can hear him yell everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I love I have the Death. He's that grandfather that

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Speaker 1: you really don't see often, but when you do see him,

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Speaker 1: it is the best time you've ever had. So love

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Speaker 1: the Death, Brandon. You've given me and a lot of

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Speaker 1: Patriots fans a lot to look forward to. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to the running back group, I want to wish

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Speaker 1: you and your family nothing but the best, and I

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Speaker 1: hope we see each other in person sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time. Thank you covid

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Speaker 1: seecho