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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants Huttle on Giants

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Speaker 1: dot Com, the Giants Bubble, the Giants Podcast Network. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the newest edition of The Giant Subtle Podcast. John

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Speaker 1: Schmelk with you today's guest, Giants Defensive Back Julian Love. Julian,

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Speaker 1: good to see him, and how are you. I'm doing well?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing great? All right, I have to

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Speaker 1: start with the very serious business first. Can you tell

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Speaker 1: me about your ventriloquism training while you worked at renaissance

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Speaker 1: fairs during your youth? And I thought I told him

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Speaker 1: that in private. Uh, you know, I'm surprised because Judge

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Speaker 1: revealed kind of that secret about me. Um. But he's

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Speaker 1: a good guy. We have good talks all the time.

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Speaker 1: And what I respect about him is just you can

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Speaker 1: have that fun with him as a person. You know,

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, you know, friend, the cameras you don't

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Speaker 1: usually see that, Um, but behind the scenes you don't.

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Speaker 1: Heal crack does who want to play games with us? Um?

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's a disciplinarian. Uh, you can see that, but

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Speaker 1: overall he's just trying to bring the group together. Um.

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Speaker 1: What's a special He's a student of the game, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's special. I think not every coach does that.

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Speaker 1: He was telling me a story where after his fourth year,

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Speaker 1: I think with that team in New England, UM, he

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Speaker 1: wanted to continue learning how to be a better coach.

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Speaker 1: UM kept building in his career. Uh, And so he

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Speaker 1: took that off season he flew out to Southeast Asia,

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Speaker 1: I think, he said, and he looked for a philosopher.

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Speaker 1: I think it was in myan mar from to be

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Speaker 1: suspected I want to mess that up, UM of philosopher

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Speaker 1: who was well versed in bringing people together, relationship building,

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Speaker 1: connecting people. And so then he was there training for

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Speaker 1: like weeks, he said. Uh. And when he told me,

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Speaker 1: I picked it like a karate kid type of like

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Speaker 1: you know, type of montage type of scene, but instead

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Speaker 1: of karate right though, like with coaching techniques, UM, how

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Speaker 1: to yell, inflection of his voice, all those little details

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Speaker 1: that matter. UM, I was. I was surprised he took

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Speaker 1: that much initiative in this UM. And so he got

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Speaker 1: back and now he always tells us that's like his

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Speaker 1: number one quote. UM in the locker room. He says,

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Speaker 1: you know, a good team is like the game of monopoly,

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Speaker 1: you need all the pieces to play correctly, and so

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Speaker 1: that's what he does and it's pretty special, I think, Uh,

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Speaker 1: And we say that all the time, and I really

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Speaker 1: try to live off of that mindset um of just

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Speaker 1: being well connected to having all of our pieces of

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Speaker 1: a team together. Absolutely, and who doesn't like Monopoly? And

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Speaker 1: by the way, if the folks out there a little

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Speaker 1: bit lost, just do Google starts. I think you'll figure

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Speaker 1: out how the game's continuing here, Julian. But let's talk

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Speaker 1: about what's going on on the field and we'll talk.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about some stuff off the field too towards

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Speaker 1: the end here. Talk about your role. I mean I

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Speaker 1: how are you preparing for this season given how you've

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Speaker 1: kind of become there do everything guy in the secondary? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you know. I was excited to come into

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to change who you are. I

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Speaker 1: don't want you to you know. Uh, pig yourself into

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Speaker 1: all encompassing. I know it's asking a lot of you,

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Speaker 1: a lot of things. UM. I grew up that way.

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Speaker 1: I've never shot down from anything. UM. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: I obviously played corner in college, I played strongh was

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Speaker 1: But for someone that's in your role, is it almost

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Speaker 1: So now I'll come my routine I was I was

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Speaker 1: long time. Those things are very important to him. And

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Speaker 1: disciplinarian as a drill sergeant, and we see, you know,

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