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Speaker 4: Welcome to another edition of the Giants Total Podcast, brought

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Speaker 4: York Giants. My name is John Schmeil. Fun episode with

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Speaker 4: you Today, our very own Brandon London had a chance

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Speaker 4: to sit down and talk to Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton.

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Speaker 4: They covered a wide range of topics little wide receiver

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Speaker 4: on wide receiver talk, a lot of good conversation, a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun. They started out with Brandon talking to

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Speaker 4: Darius about what he remembers from two thousand and seven

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Speaker 4: and the Giants Super Bowl that he was a part of.

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Speaker 1: So, my rookie year, you were in elementary school, yes,

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Speaker 1: oh seven, Yeah, So from that point on, what did

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Speaker 1: you know about the Giants from that point on? Like

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Speaker 1: lead us to this point.

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Speaker 2: I knew nothing about the Giants except for that that

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, like the helmet catch one though I

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Speaker 2: don't even remember you know who.

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Speaker 1: Made that helmet care ye, David tyreeie year.

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to make sure I don't want to make.

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Speaker 5: Sure I'm from Georgia, Like you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: We had Vic at the time. That was you know

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Speaker 5: him work done.

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Speaker 3: So you grew up dirty Bird Central.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. That was kind of after me.

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Speaker 1: That was that was before you before because my mom

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Speaker 1: she she moved to Atlanta when I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: so I spent my summers there limon pepper wings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Dirty Birds, I know. But now it's

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Speaker 3: just New York.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta and New York two completely different cities. I guess

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Speaker 1: what's the difference on playing down in the South compared

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Speaker 1: to playing up here in New York.

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Speaker 2: Shoot, first of all, you don't got to worry about

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Speaker 2: sub zero weather. You don't got to worry about whipping

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Speaker 3: Man a lot. Is it easier though? What had it?

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Speaker 1: Have you gotten acclimated to New York a lot easier

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Speaker 1: than what you thought it was going to be.

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Speaker 2: I have definitely, because I hate being cold. I still

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Speaker 2: I got here, and I was just suffering my rookie

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Speaker 2: year and then like these past like two to three years,

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Speaker 2: I've slowly like it used to be for me, like

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Speaker 2: under fifty, I was like under fifty football man, listen,

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Speaker 2: when it got under fifty, it was real spooky. Oh

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Speaker 2: but now like now I could tolerate, like until it

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Speaker 2: gets like under forty.

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Speaker 5: Long once it gets under forty.

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Speaker 2: It starts getting real spooky the further wee get down

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Speaker 1: So now you're going You're in your fifth year with

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants. You've been through it all with

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Speaker 1: this organization. Can you call yourself or will you call

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Speaker 1: yourself like a true New York or a true New

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Speaker 1: York Giant.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a New Yorker, but I'm a New York Giant,

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Speaker 2: true New York. But you've been here for five years,

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Speaker 2: so I don't think.

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Speaker 3: I'll ever be in New York.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's the biggest like myth or like what's the

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Speaker 1: biggest Like you were like, oh, I'm going to New

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Speaker 1: but that it wasn't what you thought it was going

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Speaker 3: I feel like.

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Speaker 5: People make such a big thing about like it's a

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Speaker 2: And there's so much to do. There is and there

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Speaker 2: is there is, but there isn't.

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Speaker 3: What boroughs? Have you been to?

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Speaker 2: Manhattan and Brooklyn?

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Speaker 1: You've never been to Queens. You've never been to Staten Allen.

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Speaker 1: I only been there like twice.

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Speaker 3: No one goes there like that. You have only Brooklyn?

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Speaker 3: So what do you do? Like? What?

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Speaker 1: What does Darius Slayton do not only off season but

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Speaker 3: How do you get away from Where's the zoo? Bronx?

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Speaker 3: I've been there, Bronx Yankees game two or A Yankees?

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Speaker 1: Never been to a Mets game either? Have you been

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Speaker 1: to Rangers, Devil's Islanders game? Nycfc red Bulls? So how

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Speaker 1: you've been here this time? What have you been doing

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Speaker 3: I'm a big crib guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're one of those crib I live in the

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, though, if you want to this is

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Speaker 2: the thing. If I'm back home right and I don't

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Speaker 2: want to go do anything in Atlanta, I hop my

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Speaker 5: If I want to do something up here.

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Speaker 2: I really got an uber for real, which is in

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Speaker 2: bad so off the rip. If you cross that bridge,

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Speaker 2: I'm down eighty dollars off the rip.

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Speaker 5: This is without even doing anything.

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Speaker 3: That's just the breathing. Get over there.

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Speaker 2: I'm down eighty bucks. Then whatever you do over there

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Speaker 2: is expensive. Food is expensive. Then to get home. It's

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Speaker 2: like you spend five six hundred dollars just to do

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Speaker 3: You're paying for experience, though you're not.

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Speaker 1: You can't look at it. It's an investment. It's an

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Speaker 1: investment on one's mental health.

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Speaker 5: Do I really go home that happy though?

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Speaker 3: Yes, you do.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot to do in New York City. We're

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Speaker 1: gona hashtag get Sleigh out. We got to get you out, man,

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Speaker 1: we got to get you.

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Speaker 3: Out about all right. Let's talk the football aspect of it.

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Speaker 1: We're talking three in twelve days now, you've got eleven

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Speaker 1: days in between games your fifth year. What is the

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Speaker 1: vet side of you, like the three and twelve or

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Speaker 1: one game every eleven days.

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Speaker 2: This is actually the first time that I've experienced this though,

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Speaker 2: Thursday night. Not something that I'd love to do a

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Speaker 5: In my career, but.

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Speaker 2: Obviously it's more advantageous for us as players, you know,

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Speaker 2: having the eleven day break to get ready for a

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Speaker 1: So now you get this eleven days though you're at

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Speaker 1: the crib, you're your happy place as you call it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, does it mess with your mind? It's like,

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Speaker 1: all we're coming off of a Thursday night loss. Now

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Speaker 1: we got this long period of time until a Monday

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Speaker 1: night game. When do you get over it? Like, or

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Speaker 1: how do you get over it? With so much downtown.

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Speaker 2: I've tried to adopt like the forty eight hour rule.

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Speaker 2: You know, like you obviously the next day is like.

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Speaker 3: The worst day.

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Speaker 2: You wake up you just lost, especially in our actually

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Speaker 2: like you pretty much like went to didn't even really sleep,

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Speaker 2: after that, and you obviously you know after rehash again

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Speaker 2: and then kind of after that is time to me,

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Speaker 2: it's time to like flush it, you know, put it

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Speaker 1: When you guys watch as a receiver room, you guys

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Speaker 1: watch the second half of the Arizona game and then

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Speaker 1: you watch the Thursday night football game with San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: When you're walking out of that meeting room after breaking

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Speaker 1: Paris Campbell, a Jalen High at Sterling Shepard, what are

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Speaker 2: I think for us, receiver is a very like you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not like running back where like they just hand

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Speaker 5: Breaks it up, whatever it is. It was very easy to.

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Speaker 2: Walk away from a game and feel like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I had no chance to impact the outcome. You know,

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Speaker 2: I feel like maybe I should have more or whatever,

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think you always have to have

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Speaker 2: whether you know you felt like you could have had

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Speaker 1: Not to maximize it is there, Like there's different ways,

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Speaker 1: like do you go to a Kafka and you're like

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Speaker 1: a coach, you know, I want this route, or coach,

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Speaker 1: can we put this in this week? Like how do

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Speaker 1: you guys kind of lobby or how do you guys

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Speaker 1: kind of market yourself for for more throws, for more opportunities?

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Speaker 2: You know, our coaches are very open and receptive. So

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Speaker 2: if you're like, look, I feel like I can win

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Speaker 2: I feel like I can win this. You know, our

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Speaker 2: You're winning, it doesn't may matter if you're winning. If

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Speaker 1: Man, you ball out on the field, you can you

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