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Speaker 1: A Huddle is a production of the NFL in partnership

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. Oh like, gal, what is up everybody? This

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Speaker 1: is the l Huddle podcast. I am merely will Salva

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Speaker 1: alongside my Ermana, my prima mi prima Ermanais. You know

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Speaker 1: it's funny. Well, I think if anybody outside of the

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Speaker 1: Latino community is like, m how could she be here?

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Speaker 1: But like we inherently understand what that means. Right, We've

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Speaker 1: got so many and a lot of primas that are

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Speaker 1: not actually my primas, but they are. Yeah, well I've

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Speaker 1: got yeah, oh yeah, for sure. I totally thought of

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Speaker 1: you because I took my son to get his haircut

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Speaker 1: and it's really cash barber shop right where they have

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Speaker 1: a small little fridge. They've got adult beverages there, etc.

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Speaker 1: And so this this nice man, he came in there

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Speaker 1: he's Panamanian and and and he's also Nicaraguan. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: it right, Well he does he does some form of

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Speaker 1: organizing planning something in the entertainment industry that has to

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Speaker 1: so really nice casual vibe. And I was telling him

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Speaker 1: and you know, was telling him about about you going

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Speaker 1: to the beaches, etc. And what his drink of choice

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Speaker 1: was and he's like, oh, rum and coke. That's that's

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Speaker 1: what we were right, right, that's the drink of choice.

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Speaker 1: a very They sort of catered to whatever you're in

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Speaker 1: adult beverages in Panama. Okay, they are served in like

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Speaker 1: a goblet, a chalice sized pup. Like I was like,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted a cocktail, Honey, I don't want a

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Speaker 1: picture picture of whatever this. But you know, Pina Cola

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Speaker 1: is like wow, I was like, how many did we order?

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Speaker 1: And so at first we thought it was just okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's just like this particular restaurant everywhere we went

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Speaker 1: in in Peru they have pisco sour. I don't know

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Speaker 1: It's like literally like it was like I poured motor

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Speaker 1: for you. Have you ever had mamahuana from Dominican Republic? No?

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Speaker 1: What is that? What is that? It is made? If

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Speaker 1: in mamahuana and might take you back a little bit

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Speaker 1: because it's in a bottle. There's like bark and like

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Speaker 1: it is a lot so needless just to have stayed

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Speaker 1: auntie Mikea Susi. Yeah, it's not that's not her name.

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Speaker 1: would have been Guadalupe. That would have been my name.

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Speaker 1: my grandmar You know, I'm I'm always stirted with, I'm

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00:24:36,166 --> 00:24:38,806
Speaker 1: always tagging along. So, um, you know, being able to

417
00:24:38,886 --> 00:24:41,606
Speaker 1: go through that with him, I was definitely something that

418
00:24:41,686 --> 00:24:43,926
Speaker 1: you know, there was a lot of life's lessons. Um.

419
00:24:44,406 --> 00:24:47,446
Speaker 1: But if you ask anybody who knew who my grandpa was,

420
00:24:48,086 --> 00:24:50,166
Speaker 1: I mean, they have nothing but good things you say

421
00:24:50,206 --> 00:24:53,126
Speaker 1: about him. Well, just based on what you've told me,

422
00:24:53,286 --> 00:24:56,726
Speaker 1: I don't have any doubt that anybody would say anything

423
00:24:56,726 --> 00:25:00,606
Speaker 1: other than great things about him. Um, were there were

424
00:25:00,606 --> 00:25:04,446
Speaker 1: there particular things like just from a cultural standpoint where

425
00:25:05,326 --> 00:25:09,086
Speaker 1: you know, he talked about his background, about being Latino.

426
00:25:09,326 --> 00:25:13,166
Speaker 1: Didn't like what sorts of things did you you clean

427
00:25:13,246 --> 00:25:15,526
Speaker 1: from him or did he tell you about maybe customs

428
00:25:15,646 --> 00:25:19,246
Speaker 1: or or things that he did when he grew up. Yeah,

429
00:25:19,286 --> 00:25:21,846
Speaker 1: there's there's definitely a lot of things that he did,

430
00:25:22,006 --> 00:25:23,646
Speaker 1: you know, the stories that he would tell me. But

431
00:25:23,846 --> 00:25:25,646
Speaker 1: with him and his siblings, how they you know, they

432
00:25:25,726 --> 00:25:28,366
Speaker 1: walked everywhere they would go in the mornings to go

433
00:25:28,446 --> 00:25:31,846
Speaker 1: work with with his dad and my great grandpa. UM.

434
00:25:31,846 --> 00:25:33,886
Speaker 1: They would go out there, work in the fields all day,

435
00:25:34,006 --> 00:25:36,526
Speaker 1: come home, you know, and it was kind of like

436
00:25:36,566 --> 00:25:39,406
Speaker 1: the same routine. So I think you're just hearing that stuff.

437
00:25:39,446 --> 00:25:42,006
Speaker 1: And you know, from a Latino background, you you see

438
00:25:42,046 --> 00:25:45,246
Speaker 1: that work that they bring UM, and I feel like,

439
00:25:45,526 --> 00:25:48,286
Speaker 1: you know, everything that they that he did, um, you know,

440
00:25:48,326 --> 00:25:50,806
Speaker 1: he worked very hard for it. UM to you know,

441
00:25:50,886 --> 00:25:53,406
Speaker 1: be able to provide food for our family, UM to

442
00:25:53,566 --> 00:25:56,646
Speaker 1: write you know, shout roof over our heads and everything

443
00:25:56,726 --> 00:25:59,006
Speaker 1: he did, you know, he did it with his best effort.

444
00:25:59,086 --> 00:26:01,486
Speaker 1: And you know it wasn't only him. You can tell that,

445
00:26:01,566 --> 00:26:04,806
Speaker 1: you know, in the Latino culture, UM, this is very

446
00:26:04,846 --> 00:26:09,086
Speaker 1: very you know, very very similar to how everybody's mindset

447
00:26:09,166 --> 00:26:11,766
Speaker 1: is and it's always you know, work for everything you have.

448
00:26:11,966 --> 00:26:14,446
Speaker 1: And I feel like that was definitely something that you know,

449
00:26:14,646 --> 00:26:17,046
Speaker 1: I took from him because you know, obviously going to

450
00:26:17,126 --> 00:26:19,606
Speaker 1: a smaller school at Freson State, you know, you gotta

451
00:26:19,886 --> 00:26:22,166
Speaker 1: work a little bit hard. But everything that you do,

452
00:26:22,246 --> 00:26:24,446
Speaker 1: you know, you understand the work that you have to

453
00:26:24,486 --> 00:26:26,406
Speaker 1: put into it to get to the places that you

454
00:26:26,446 --> 00:26:28,526
Speaker 1: want to do to you know, achieve the goals that

455
00:26:28,606 --> 00:26:33,326
Speaker 1: you have. Obviously Fresdel has a big Latino community there.

456
00:26:33,966 --> 00:26:36,686
Speaker 1: What did they think when you did the name change

457
00:26:36,686 --> 00:26:39,566
Speaker 1: and how did they embrace you even more than they

458
00:26:39,646 --> 00:26:43,446
Speaker 1: probably did? Yeah, it was It was definitely cool scene.

459
00:26:43,526 --> 00:26:45,766
Speaker 1: You know, all the little the things that the fans

460
00:26:45,766 --> 00:26:48,126
Speaker 1: would say. You know, I would really like Twitter posts

461
00:26:48,126 --> 00:26:50,166
Speaker 1: of people saying, you know, Jayleen Cropper and then and

462
00:26:50,206 --> 00:26:53,486
Speaker 1: then you'll see like fans, no, it's morntal Cropper. So

463
00:26:53,566 --> 00:26:56,446
Speaker 1: you know, just seeing little things like that, Seeing things

464
00:26:56,486 --> 00:27:00,166
Speaker 1: like you know, people going around and actually remember you know,

465
00:27:00,886 --> 00:27:03,606
Speaker 1: uh talking to me. You know all that's merintal Cropper

466
00:27:03,726 --> 00:27:06,206
Speaker 1: like things like that. When you hear those things, that's

467
00:27:06,246 --> 00:27:08,406
Speaker 1: like okay, like they approve of this. You know, they

468
00:27:08,486 --> 00:27:11,006
Speaker 1: like what, you know, what what's going on? Um? And

469
00:27:11,046 --> 00:27:12,886
Speaker 1: then you see all you know the things that you know,

470
00:27:12,926 --> 00:27:16,126
Speaker 1: these kids are you know, making little pictures or you know,

471
00:27:16,286 --> 00:27:18,446
Speaker 1: edits and stuff like that and it says marenal Cropper.

472
00:27:18,566 --> 00:27:20,366
Speaker 1: So you know that was that was kind of like

473
00:27:20,366 --> 00:27:23,006
Speaker 1: one of the cool parts. Um, just knowing that, you know,

474
00:27:23,366 --> 00:27:25,646
Speaker 1: the vision that I had going into that season, you know,

475
00:27:25,726 --> 00:27:29,486
Speaker 1: it was coming full circle. Well do you feel like

476
00:27:29,526 --> 00:27:32,886
Speaker 1: the weight of that in some sense? Because you have

477
00:27:33,046 --> 00:27:36,006
Speaker 1: the name and then everything that comes with it, do

478
00:27:36,006 --> 00:27:39,046
Speaker 1: you feel like a little extra pressure or it's not

479
00:27:39,126 --> 00:27:41,726
Speaker 1: even that. It just feels like it's it's a natural

480
00:27:41,766 --> 00:27:44,726
Speaker 1: thing and that's just something that's that's guiding me. I

481
00:27:44,966 --> 00:27:46,686
Speaker 1: would definitely say, you know, it's kind of like a

482
00:27:46,766 --> 00:27:49,126
Speaker 1: natural thing. Um. I don't think it ever brought, you know,

483
00:27:49,166 --> 00:27:51,646
Speaker 1: too much pressure upon me. Um. I think it was

484
00:27:51,806 --> 00:27:54,246
Speaker 1: very you know, everything that I did. You know, I've

485
00:27:54,286 --> 00:27:58,006
Speaker 1: always moved, you know, knowing that whatever the decisions I make,

486
00:27:58,046 --> 00:28:00,206
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna affect my family. So I think,

487
00:28:00,246 --> 00:28:02,886
Speaker 1: you know, just moving with knowing that now it's not

488
00:28:03,046 --> 00:28:05,246
Speaker 1: you know, just my my dad's side of the the family.

489
00:28:05,246 --> 00:28:07,206
Speaker 1: Now it's you know, the rental side of the family.

490
00:28:07,246 --> 00:28:10,206
Speaker 1: So knowing you know, I'm I'm standing for a lot

491
00:28:10,286 --> 00:28:12,566
Speaker 1: more now, UM, knowing that you know, I had the

492
00:28:12,646 --> 00:28:15,486
Speaker 1: last name my grandpa in my bag on his family, UM,

493
00:28:15,766 --> 00:28:17,926
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody that knows that last name. So

494
00:28:18,366 --> 00:28:20,006
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of there's a lot of

495
00:28:20,006 --> 00:28:22,486
Speaker 1: people around here with this. You know, I have a

496
00:28:22,486 --> 00:28:25,046
Speaker 1: lot of family out here, UM, a lot of family

497
00:28:25,126 --> 00:28:27,486
Speaker 1: Texas that you know, that's where my grandpa grew up.

498
00:28:27,486 --> 00:28:29,806
Speaker 1: So you know, just knowing that you know this, I

499
00:28:29,886 --> 00:28:32,646
Speaker 1: have a lot of family everywhere. Um, in the support

500
00:28:32,686 --> 00:28:34,886
Speaker 1: of everybody. That was definitely something that really helped me

501
00:28:34,926 --> 00:28:38,086
Speaker 1: a lot. Now, we were talking this podcast a lot

502
00:28:38,486 --> 00:28:41,566
Speaker 1: m J and I about you know, looks well, so

503
00:28:41,726 --> 00:28:46,566
Speaker 1: live where Elita or growing up and and taking part

504
00:28:46,646 --> 00:28:49,966
Speaker 1: in the food, right, that is such a part of

505
00:28:49,966 --> 00:28:54,366
Speaker 1: our you know culture, right, Yeah, good. So what were

506
00:28:54,446 --> 00:28:58,206
Speaker 1: some of the dishes that you remember growing up and saying,

507
00:28:58,646 --> 00:29:01,846
Speaker 1: yeah that that's my goal too. It's my jam my

508
00:29:02,006 --> 00:29:04,126
Speaker 1: go too, man, there's there's a lot of go to.

509
00:29:04,486 --> 00:29:07,566
Speaker 1: Um My number one is the number one thing I

510
00:29:07,606 --> 00:29:10,046
Speaker 1: always asked for m I think when I first got

511
00:29:10,086 --> 00:29:12,766
Speaker 1: back from Florida, I was training down to Florida. When

512
00:29:12,806 --> 00:29:14,806
Speaker 1: I first got back home, the first thing I asked

513
00:29:14,846 --> 00:29:19,606
Speaker 1: my grandma to make was chila veda. And that was

514
00:29:19,606 --> 00:29:22,486
Speaker 1: the first thing. Um. That has always been something that

515
00:29:22,966 --> 00:29:25,126
Speaker 1: if I go to a Mexican restaurant, that's the first thing.

516
00:29:25,246 --> 00:29:28,486
Speaker 1: I'm not ordering nothing else but that. So that'll definitely

517
00:29:28,526 --> 00:29:33,726
Speaker 1: be high high number one. Um, there's no close second. Well, so,

518
00:29:33,726 --> 00:29:37,126
Speaker 1: so that's the chila Veda. That's that's your thing. That's

519
00:29:37,166 --> 00:29:40,526
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's my thing right there. Okay, okay, And

520
00:29:40,566 --> 00:29:46,006
Speaker 1: then when you go around to Fresno restaurants, it's Mexican restaurants,

521
00:29:46,606 --> 00:29:49,486
Speaker 1: Like what do you order there? Is that is that?

522
00:29:49,566 --> 00:29:53,046
Speaker 1: It same same thing everywhere. That's the same same thing.

523
00:29:53,646 --> 00:29:56,246
Speaker 1: That's so that's the that's always the thing I get.

524
00:29:56,566 --> 00:29:59,526
Speaker 1: Even like growing up, we had like little fundraisers for

525
00:29:59,646 --> 00:30:01,606
Speaker 1: you know, the kids, for sports and stuff like that.

526
00:30:02,046 --> 00:30:04,566
Speaker 1: Um that we would always make like chilla Veda, like

527
00:30:04,606 --> 00:30:06,966
Speaker 1: the lunch plates. So you had the rice, you have

528
00:30:07,046 --> 00:30:09,686
Speaker 1: the beans, you had your you know, your your flower

529
00:30:09,726 --> 00:30:11,726
Speaker 1: to your tears or quarantin tis you know a dream

530
00:30:11,806 --> 00:30:14,006
Speaker 1: And it was always, you know, that was something I both.

531
00:30:14,166 --> 00:30:16,486
Speaker 1: I always had like at least two places every time

532
00:30:16,526 --> 00:30:21,006
Speaker 1: we went, Hey man, you're you're a growing boy, right yeah,

533
00:30:21,246 --> 00:30:25,086
Speaker 1: I'll have a couple of plates myself. Uh so, beans

534
00:30:25,126 --> 00:30:28,606
Speaker 1: and rice? What else do you have in there? Because

535
00:30:28,686 --> 00:30:31,966
Speaker 1: we've asked our guests before. We had, for example, Malcolm

536
00:30:32,086 --> 00:30:34,926
Speaker 1: Rodriguez linebacker for for the Lions, and he has a

537
00:30:34,966 --> 00:30:38,726
Speaker 1: certain particular type of burrito that he eats and they

538
00:30:38,846 --> 00:30:42,126
Speaker 1: threw out like like in California, especially down in San Diego,

539
00:30:42,406 --> 00:30:48,446
Speaker 1: southern California, you got fries in the burritos. What do

540
00:30:48,486 --> 00:30:51,766
Speaker 1: you think fries in there? Um, it depends what kind

541
00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:54,126
Speaker 1: of fries you put in there. That's really I think

542
00:30:54,166 --> 00:30:56,526
Speaker 1: that it depends what fries you get in there. There's

543
00:30:56,566 --> 00:30:59,726
Speaker 1: a place out here. Um they had the solid fries. Um,

544
00:30:59,766 --> 00:31:02,286
Speaker 1: and they use like the creakle the crenkle cut the

545
00:31:02,406 --> 00:31:06,126
Speaker 1: fries in the burritos, in the brits in the potos.

546
00:31:06,566 --> 00:31:09,446
Speaker 1: So that's probably the only fries that I'll eat Man burrito.

547
00:31:10,486 --> 00:31:12,486
Speaker 1: But but it's it. It's it's not a meal that

548
00:31:12,526 --> 00:31:16,606
Speaker 1: you would have, say game day, would it? Um? No,

549
00:31:16,766 --> 00:31:19,166
Speaker 1: if I had to choose game day, definitely, mind you

550
00:31:19,286 --> 00:31:23,926
Speaker 1: lots you had to have that, right yeah, has if

551
00:31:23,926 --> 00:31:25,486
Speaker 1: I had to choose something for a game that I

552
00:31:25,486 --> 00:31:28,526
Speaker 1: had to have that Yeah, yeah, No, That's that's what

553
00:31:28,646 --> 00:31:30,806
Speaker 1: it's all about. I mean, you just come from such

554
00:31:31,006 --> 00:31:34,406
Speaker 1: a cool, unique background. Just from talking to you, it's

555
00:31:34,486 --> 00:31:37,886
Speaker 1: it's just clear you're so proud of who you are,

556
00:31:38,606 --> 00:31:42,446
Speaker 1: what you came from, and the the Fresno community and

557
00:31:42,486 --> 00:31:46,166
Speaker 1: how they've embraced you. Um, you know, we we like

558
00:31:46,326 --> 00:31:49,526
Speaker 1: keeping an eye and all the the players that have

559
00:31:49,766 --> 00:31:52,846
Speaker 1: you know, Latino heritage in them and and and we

560
00:31:52,886 --> 00:31:54,966
Speaker 1: always like keeping taps. You know, it's like I grew

561
00:31:55,006 --> 00:31:57,166
Speaker 1: up my parents were like, oh meta, it's it's it's

562
00:31:57,286 --> 00:32:00,086
Speaker 1: Latino and they're gonna say the same thing about Jumna

563
00:32:00,246 --> 00:32:03,686
Speaker 1: yest or then a cropper or yest Uh what what

564
00:32:03,806 --> 00:32:06,486
Speaker 1: does that mean to you that that's a that's a

565
00:32:06,526 --> 00:32:09,406
Speaker 1: big deal that that we do on this podcast. But

566
00:32:09,406 --> 00:32:11,886
Speaker 1: but I know it's like my my parents they were

567
00:32:12,006 --> 00:32:14,846
Speaker 1: very much like that. My family, you know MJ's family

568
00:32:14,966 --> 00:32:18,686
Speaker 1: parents are like that. I mean, it's a big deal, man, Yeah, no,

569
00:32:18,806 --> 00:32:21,686
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a big deal. Um. I think when

570
00:32:21,686 --> 00:32:24,126
Speaker 1: it really hit me when that I had went to

571
00:32:24,166 --> 00:32:27,326
Speaker 1: the swap me with my with my grandma, Um, and

572
00:32:27,326 --> 00:32:28,766
Speaker 1: it was you know, it was it was it was

573
00:32:28,806 --> 00:32:30,926
Speaker 1: a couple of little kids with you know, the families

574
00:32:30,926 --> 00:32:33,046
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and you know they were asking

575
00:32:33,126 --> 00:32:35,646
Speaker 1: for pictures and stuff like that, and you know, obviously

576
00:32:35,726 --> 00:32:38,806
Speaker 1: you know, being able to you know, understand what they're

577
00:32:38,846 --> 00:32:41,126
Speaker 1: saying with my grandmo and things like that. It was

578
00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:43,406
Speaker 1: definitely you know, like a kind of like a dream

579
00:32:43,406 --> 00:32:46,166
Speaker 1: country because you know, obviously you know, growing up, um,

580
00:32:46,206 --> 00:32:48,326
Speaker 1: you know you were once that that little kid you know,

581
00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:50,646
Speaker 1: asked you for a picture with somebody or same mom. Look,

582
00:32:50,766 --> 00:32:54,046
Speaker 1: you know that's that's DeVante so Um. That was definitely

583
00:32:54,046 --> 00:32:55,926
Speaker 1: something you know for me, that was just like a

584
00:32:55,926 --> 00:32:59,686
Speaker 1: full circle moment um obviously, you know, definitely, you know,

585
00:32:59,886 --> 00:33:03,526
Speaker 1: very very blessed to just being this this moment, be

586
00:33:03,606 --> 00:33:05,406
Speaker 1: able to go through this opportunity, be able to have

587
00:33:05,486 --> 00:33:08,846
Speaker 1: this opportunity. Um. But you know all those things, all

588
00:33:08,886 --> 00:33:11,606
Speaker 1: those little things, you know, they definitely add up, and

589
00:33:11,686 --> 00:33:14,726
Speaker 1: you know, I'm extremely blessed, you know, any bit of

590
00:33:14,766 --> 00:33:18,846
Speaker 1: Spanish or just so like the bad words and uh,

591
00:33:19,646 --> 00:33:23,126
Speaker 1: I know quite a few I'm able to understand more

592
00:33:23,166 --> 00:33:25,686
Speaker 1: than I'm I'm able to you know, speak it. Um.

593
00:33:25,766 --> 00:33:28,206
Speaker 1: That was definitely something that you know, my mom grew

594
00:33:28,246 --> 00:33:31,966
Speaker 1: up her first language of Spanish. Um. You know, my grandparents,

595
00:33:32,046 --> 00:33:34,966
Speaker 1: my grandma, you could tell you can tell my grandma,

596
00:33:35,126 --> 00:33:37,806
Speaker 1: my grandma. You know it has you know Latino and

597
00:33:37,926 --> 00:33:40,966
Speaker 1: her just the way you know she she sounds um.

598
00:33:41,326 --> 00:33:43,966
Speaker 1: But you know she's definitely she definitely helped me out

599
00:33:44,046 --> 00:33:46,566
Speaker 1: a lot. We're definitely so my little brother, we're trying

600
00:33:46,566 --> 00:33:49,366
Speaker 1: to teach him Spanish right now. My little brother nice

601
00:33:49,566 --> 00:33:53,206
Speaker 1: four years old, so hopefully he's able to grow up

602
00:33:53,206 --> 00:33:55,606
Speaker 1: and you know, do better than me and my other siblings.

603
00:33:56,286 --> 00:33:59,086
Speaker 1: Hey but listen, Jail, you got time, my friend. And

604
00:33:59,206 --> 00:34:02,486
Speaker 1: once you're in the league, you know, I mean, who knows?

605
00:34:02,486 --> 00:34:05,486
Speaker 1: I mean, what would you consider making a trip, say

606
00:34:05,606 --> 00:34:09,006
Speaker 1: to Mexico and staying there for like a couple of

607
00:34:09,046 --> 00:34:12,046
Speaker 1: months or doing something like most most deffint I've talked

608
00:34:12,046 --> 00:34:15,686
Speaker 1: to my grandma about She's she's from Guadalajada. Um, so

609
00:34:15,726 --> 00:34:18,126
Speaker 1: I have been. You know, I've talked to them about,

610
00:34:18,166 --> 00:34:19,926
Speaker 1: you know, being able to go out there and you know,

611
00:34:20,006 --> 00:34:22,726
Speaker 1: be able to just see everything, um, and you know,

612
00:34:22,886 --> 00:34:24,966
Speaker 1: be able to see where you know, she grew up at,

613
00:34:25,606 --> 00:34:28,006
Speaker 1: where her families and things like that, just you know,

614
00:34:28,126 --> 00:34:30,966
Speaker 1: definitely you know, coastal change. Um. But also you know,

615
00:34:31,046 --> 00:34:33,486
Speaker 1: being able to go out there and and actually see

616
00:34:33,526 --> 00:34:36,926
Speaker 1: and explore, you know, these different cultures you know, and

617
00:34:37,126 --> 00:34:43,246
Speaker 1: guard Laha've been there before. The people incredibly nice, very cosmopolitan.

618
00:34:43,806 --> 00:34:48,766
Speaker 1: It's it's very different, very unlike anything that if somebody

619
00:34:49,086 --> 00:34:51,966
Speaker 1: has a certain image of Mexico, they go there and

620
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:55,766
Speaker 1: they say, oh wow, okay, wow, look at the vibrancy here.

621
00:34:56,366 --> 00:35:00,286
Speaker 1: Very very different. Uh. What did she tell you about,

622
00:35:00,326 --> 00:35:04,126
Speaker 1: like the upbringing and what it was like there, she says.

623
00:35:04,166 --> 00:35:06,926
Speaker 1: She she she enjoyed it. Um, you know that. She said,

624
00:35:06,926 --> 00:35:09,366
Speaker 1: it was definitely different than you know out here in

625
00:35:09,446 --> 00:35:12,526
Speaker 1: Fresno area. Um. You know, I'm it's a small town.

626
00:35:12,566 --> 00:35:15,886
Speaker 1: It's called parler Um, not too big, you know, a

627
00:35:15,966 --> 00:35:19,246
Speaker 1: huge schools. So that's where I grew up. Um. She said,

628
00:35:19,366 --> 00:35:22,046
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of similar, but it's not, um

629
00:35:22,086 --> 00:35:24,926
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, everything that's around. Um. She

630
00:35:25,046 --> 00:35:27,326
Speaker 1: said that, you know, growing up, it was kind of

631
00:35:27,366 --> 00:35:29,846
Speaker 1: like her and her siblings. You know, what they did

632
00:35:30,006 --> 00:35:32,326
Speaker 1: was all with them, So it was like her. She

633
00:35:32,526 --> 00:35:36,646
Speaker 1: I believe she has eleven siblings. Wow, so I don't.

634
00:35:36,646 --> 00:35:38,606
Speaker 1: I don't think all eleven were born at the time

635
00:35:38,646 --> 00:35:41,526
Speaker 1: when when she was out there, But she said she,

636
00:35:41,566 --> 00:35:43,406
Speaker 1: you know, she would definitely go back. She loved it

637
00:35:43,446 --> 00:35:46,286
Speaker 1: out there, Um, and she was she definitely wants to

638
00:35:46,366 --> 00:35:48,726
Speaker 1: you know, being able to bring us all back over

639
00:35:48,726 --> 00:35:51,526
Speaker 1: there to see you know, everything out there. How do

640
00:35:51,526 --> 00:35:53,326
Speaker 1: you think that experience would be like if you were

641
00:35:53,366 --> 00:35:56,246
Speaker 1: out there to visit and see it through her eyes?

642
00:35:56,926 --> 00:36:00,006
Speaker 1: I think it definitely definitely be cool. Um. You know,

643
00:36:00,046 --> 00:36:02,006
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do that. I always wanted to

644
00:36:02,006 --> 00:36:04,566
Speaker 1: you know, travel the world. Um, but obviously you know this,

645
00:36:05,046 --> 00:36:08,166
Speaker 1: you know that you know that experience to experience, you

646
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:11,006
Speaker 1: know what she did, um see you know how her

647
00:36:11,086 --> 00:36:14,086
Speaker 1: upbringing things like that because obviously you know I've seen

648
00:36:14,166 --> 00:36:16,246
Speaker 1: you know, the way I've had an upbringing. So you know,

649
00:36:16,246 --> 00:36:18,286
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different out there. So you know,

650
00:36:18,366 --> 00:36:20,606
Speaker 1: she told me, you know, being able to go out there,

651
00:36:20,646 --> 00:36:23,206
Speaker 1: you know, she's definitely willing to you know, show me

652
00:36:23,646 --> 00:36:26,486
Speaker 1: the ropes out there. Yeah. Well m J and I

653
00:36:27,086 --> 00:36:29,406
Speaker 1: I was telling you it's like we talk about, you know,

654
00:36:29,446 --> 00:36:34,046
Speaker 1: our grandparents or our parents, and there's there's dech us

655
00:36:34,086 --> 00:36:37,846
Speaker 1: you know the sayings. What are some of the sayings

656
00:36:37,886 --> 00:36:39,606
Speaker 1: if you remember off the top of your head that

657
00:36:39,646 --> 00:36:45,486
Speaker 1: your your grandmother would say anything. Man, she would always

658
00:36:45,526 --> 00:36:48,566
Speaker 1: show like growing up, she would always because me and

659
00:36:48,686 --> 00:36:52,726
Speaker 1: my me, my siblings, UM, and my my cousins and everybody,

660
00:36:52,726 --> 00:36:55,646
Speaker 1: like we were always all crazy. So she would always

661
00:36:55,646 --> 00:36:58,206
Speaker 1: you know, tell us. She would always tell us like

662
00:36:58,206 --> 00:37:00,246
Speaker 1: like stories and stuff like that. And that was like

663
00:37:00,446 --> 00:37:03,046
Speaker 1: the number one story I've always remembered her talking about

664
00:37:03,086 --> 00:37:06,526
Speaker 1: is the your don And that was she was always

665
00:37:06,566 --> 00:37:08,206
Speaker 1: trying to scare us with that, and that was the

666
00:37:08,286 --> 00:37:12,046
Speaker 1: old number one thing. Every time she would like we

667
00:37:12,086 --> 00:37:13,886
Speaker 1: would do something bad, she would say that, and it

668
00:37:13,966 --> 00:37:16,526
Speaker 1: was just like everybody would act right, everybody sitting down

669
00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:21,166
Speaker 1: on the cows, all nice and stuff. So it just

670
00:37:21,206 --> 00:37:23,686
Speaker 1: took that and then you guys were in la. Everybody

671
00:37:23,686 --> 00:37:25,966
Speaker 1: we were all terrified of that growing up like that

672
00:37:26,326 --> 00:37:28,646
Speaker 1: shoes he would just tell the stories. So we were

673
00:37:28,686 --> 00:37:31,166
Speaker 1: all just terrified of that. So like every time she

674
00:37:31,206 --> 00:37:33,246
Speaker 1: would bring it up, like we would act right. We

675
00:37:33,286 --> 00:37:35,926
Speaker 1: would change everything the way we talked and stuff like that,

676
00:37:36,006 --> 00:37:38,486
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody would just act right. Now. Just

677
00:37:38,726 --> 00:37:40,326
Speaker 1: you know, she knew how to she knew how to

678
00:37:40,326 --> 00:37:44,886
Speaker 1: handle us. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it's all about, right, Yeah,

679
00:37:44,886 --> 00:37:49,166
Speaker 1: she's she's leading things. Um, you know what you've done

680
00:37:49,286 --> 00:37:53,246
Speaker 1: in your career at Fresno State nothing short of remarkable.

681
00:37:53,366 --> 00:37:58,406
Speaker 1: You improved every single year. And you had said in

682
00:37:58,446 --> 00:38:01,886
Speaker 1: a quote that you are like a ticking time bomb

683
00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:07,366
Speaker 1: ready to explode. Love is that quote? Why did you

684
00:38:07,406 --> 00:38:10,886
Speaker 1: say that in particular? I just think that, you know,

685
00:38:10,966 --> 00:38:13,366
Speaker 1: whenever I get the ball in my hands, Um, you

686
00:38:13,366 --> 00:38:16,406
Speaker 1: know there's always something like you have to have your

687
00:38:16,406 --> 00:38:19,886
Speaker 1: cameras out because something you know, special, something crazy might happen.

688
00:38:19,926 --> 00:38:22,686
Speaker 1: You know, I might take a fly sweet for eighty yards,

689
00:38:22,766 --> 00:38:25,966
Speaker 1: I might take it hits for seven yards. Um. So

690
00:38:26,006 --> 00:38:28,086
Speaker 1: it's it's always, you know, no matter of one play

691
00:38:28,126 --> 00:38:30,046
Speaker 1: with me, and I feel like, you know, being able

692
00:38:30,086 --> 00:38:33,166
Speaker 1: to when I you know, growing up, every single year

693
00:38:33,206 --> 00:38:36,046
Speaker 1: I played football, Um, that was just something that I

694
00:38:36,086 --> 00:38:38,206
Speaker 1: lived by and I feel like, you know, it was

695
00:38:38,246 --> 00:38:40,846
Speaker 1: always just one play, one play way, one play way

696
00:38:40,886 --> 00:38:43,126
Speaker 1: of seven points. And you know, I felt like, you know,

697
00:38:43,206 --> 00:38:46,086
Speaker 1: that was definitely something with me. Um, just how you

698
00:38:46,126 --> 00:38:48,726
Speaker 1: know I practice and things like that. Um, the things

699
00:38:48,766 --> 00:38:51,446
Speaker 1: that I do for my craft. Um, definitely, you know

700
00:38:51,646 --> 00:38:54,446
Speaker 1: on Saturdays. You know, That's why I said on Saturdays.

701
00:38:54,446 --> 00:38:57,086
Speaker 1: You know, you never you never know whenever I'm gonna feel,

702
00:38:57,126 --> 00:38:58,766
Speaker 1: you know, if the ball goes my way, you never

703
00:38:58,806 --> 00:39:02,246
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. I love that confidence. What what

704
00:39:02,326 --> 00:39:05,806
Speaker 1: do you get more excited about? And in the jet

705
00:39:05,886 --> 00:39:10,726
Speaker 1: suite for eighty or catching a bomb for eighty h man.

706
00:39:11,606 --> 00:39:14,486
Speaker 1: Definitely definitely catching the bomb FA I think you know,

707
00:39:14,646 --> 00:39:17,086
Speaker 1: we know, just show your speed cast the ball down

708
00:39:17,086 --> 00:39:19,406
Speaker 1: there and you're already eighty yard down the field by

709
00:39:19,446 --> 00:39:21,886
Speaker 1: the time you get the fly steady. You know about

710
00:39:21,926 --> 00:39:26,526
Speaker 1: three yards behind the battlefield. So, um, I think definitely,

711
00:39:26,726 --> 00:39:29,566
Speaker 1: I would say definitely, you know, catching a long eighty

712
00:39:29,686 --> 00:39:32,606
Speaker 1: ar bomb form. Yeah, it feels like the deep balls

713
00:39:32,926 --> 00:39:35,686
Speaker 1: a little sexier, right, Yeah. Yeah, you could sell at

714
00:39:35,726 --> 00:39:37,966
Speaker 1: the con why everybody was going crazy for the deep ball.

715
00:39:38,086 --> 00:39:40,446
Speaker 1: So I think that was definite. That would definitely be

716
00:39:40,566 --> 00:39:44,646
Speaker 1: something that you know, I would definitely like, what did

717
00:39:44,726 --> 00:39:47,846
Speaker 1: you What did you make of your experience at the combine?

718
00:39:48,206 --> 00:39:51,526
Speaker 1: Because here you are, you coming from Fresno State. I'm

719
00:39:51,526 --> 00:39:53,806
Speaker 1: sure you felt like I've got something to prove. You

720
00:39:53,886 --> 00:39:57,686
Speaker 1: even mentioned it earlier to me about having that chip

721
00:39:57,806 --> 00:40:00,966
Speaker 1: on your shoulder. What was that experience like? Because you

722
00:40:01,086 --> 00:40:04,126
Speaker 1: ended up running the forty at four to four I believe,

723
00:40:04,526 --> 00:40:06,926
Speaker 1: so you showed up and you showed out. You didn't

724
00:40:06,966 --> 00:40:10,966
Speaker 1: run the forty in your pro day, but still you've

725
00:40:11,006 --> 00:40:14,926
Speaker 1: really impressed a lot of people from the performance. Yeah,

726
00:40:15,006 --> 00:40:17,366
Speaker 1: I think that was definitely something where I always, you know,

727
00:40:17,526 --> 00:40:19,966
Speaker 1: believe in my speed, Um, believe you know what I

728
00:40:20,046 --> 00:40:22,686
Speaker 1: can do with my with my feet or my legs.

729
00:40:22,766 --> 00:40:25,206
Speaker 1: I always knew that I was fast, So um, I

730
00:40:25,206 --> 00:40:27,286
Speaker 1: always I felt like, you know, I heard a lot

731
00:40:27,326 --> 00:40:29,646
Speaker 1: of things about all you're gonna run the four or five.

732
00:40:29,646 --> 00:40:31,526
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in the four or five. Five rain

733
00:40:31,686 --> 00:40:33,926
Speaker 1: for me at four or five. So I was just

734
00:40:34,046 --> 00:40:36,446
Speaker 1: definitely something where I was just like, like, there's no

735
00:40:36,566 --> 00:40:39,486
Speaker 1: way I'm ever gonna run four or five. So, you know,

736
00:40:39,606 --> 00:40:42,846
Speaker 1: I think during that whole process, Um, it was just

737
00:40:42,966 --> 00:40:45,286
Speaker 1: definitely something where you know, always trying to get better

738
00:40:45,326 --> 00:40:47,846
Speaker 1: every day. UM. And obviously you know, when the lights

739
00:40:47,966 --> 00:40:51,126
Speaker 1: come on, you gotta you gotta show out. Um, you gotta,

740
00:40:51,206 --> 00:40:52,966
Speaker 1: you know, go out there, do whatever you need to

741
00:40:53,006 --> 00:40:56,286
Speaker 1: do to get to showcase your challenge. So I feel like,

742
00:40:56,406 --> 00:40:58,806
Speaker 1: you know that day to combine um, being able to

743
00:40:58,846 --> 00:41:00,966
Speaker 1: go out there, you know, the lights are on, you know,

744
00:41:01,006 --> 00:41:03,366
Speaker 1: it's very quiet when I'm on the line about to

745
00:41:03,446 --> 00:41:05,766
Speaker 1: run my forty. So it was just you know, something

746
00:41:05,846 --> 00:41:08,686
Speaker 1: that you know, going back to your your your technique,

747
00:41:09,286 --> 00:41:10,926
Speaker 1: going back to your training, you know, being able to

748
00:41:10,966 --> 00:41:13,326
Speaker 1: trust in you know, everything that you did, trust in

749
00:41:13,326 --> 00:41:16,526
Speaker 1: your preparation. UM, And I feel like leading up until

750
00:41:16,566 --> 00:41:19,246
Speaker 1: that point, you know, I prepare very well for it. Now,

751
00:41:19,326 --> 00:41:23,446
Speaker 1: if it's the battle of two Fresnel State Bulldogs former

752
00:41:23,606 --> 00:41:28,246
Speaker 1: Fresnel State Bulldogs, let's just say it's DeVante Adams on

753
00:41:28,366 --> 00:41:32,206
Speaker 1: the one side, then it's you on the other side.

754
00:41:33,006 --> 00:41:36,126
Speaker 1: Who's going to be who's going to be the one

755
00:41:36,166 --> 00:41:38,766
Speaker 1: that's gonna be making that ADR touchdown bond that we

756
00:41:38,846 --> 00:41:45,126
Speaker 1: were talking about. Man, I think you know, I mean

757
00:41:45,246 --> 00:41:48,166
Speaker 1: Devant he does that every week, So you really don't know,

758
00:41:48,366 --> 00:41:51,126
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, just obviously, you know, being

759
00:41:51,166 --> 00:41:53,246
Speaker 1: able to play on the same team as him, being

760
00:41:53,286 --> 00:41:55,726
Speaker 1: on the other side of him, that would definitely, you know,

761
00:41:55,926 --> 00:41:58,566
Speaker 1: be something where it's like, you know, it don't matter

762
00:41:58,606 --> 00:42:00,886
Speaker 1: who catches the ADR bond, We're all going to celebrate

763
00:42:00,926 --> 00:42:04,006
Speaker 1: in the zone. Yeah. Well, how much has he been

764
00:42:04,086 --> 00:42:07,366
Speaker 1: an influence on you, whether he's giving you advice or

765
00:42:07,486 --> 00:42:10,686
Speaker 1: you just growing up and watching him play. Definitely, you

766
00:42:10,766 --> 00:42:12,646
Speaker 1: know a lot of you know, growing up, Um, that

767
00:42:12,846 --> 00:42:15,526
Speaker 1: was definitely, you know, one of the main receivers, main

768
00:42:15,606 --> 00:42:18,446
Speaker 1: football players that you know, I really idolized. Um. I

769
00:42:18,526 --> 00:42:21,286
Speaker 1: mean I remember going to the games with my grandpa. Um,

770
00:42:21,646 --> 00:42:24,086
Speaker 1: you know, Derek Carr and him were out there breaking records.

771
00:42:24,126 --> 00:42:26,806
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was definitely something you know growing up.

772
00:42:26,926 --> 00:42:29,566
Speaker 1: You know that was that this is our only you know,

773
00:42:29,686 --> 00:42:32,006
Speaker 1: this is our professional team on your Freson State Bulldog.

774
00:42:32,126 --> 00:42:34,886
Speaker 1: So you know, growing up, you know, every Saturday, you

775
00:42:34,966 --> 00:42:37,246
Speaker 1: don't do nothing now but up to the Freson State game.

776
00:42:37,326 --> 00:42:39,646
Speaker 1: So that was definitely you know, growing up and being

777
00:42:39,686 --> 00:42:42,566
Speaker 1: able to you know, watch him play, UM and obviously

778
00:42:42,606 --> 00:42:44,726
Speaker 1: you know, playing this in the same jersey that he

779
00:42:44,806 --> 00:42:47,126
Speaker 1: did play in the same state and that he did. UM,

780
00:42:47,286 --> 00:42:50,206
Speaker 1: was definitely know a dream come true to me. Well,

781
00:42:50,366 --> 00:42:54,646
Speaker 1: what what would be right now your message to talent

782
00:42:54,726 --> 00:42:59,006
Speaker 1: evaluators that are out there who maybe they are a

783
00:42:59,246 --> 00:43:02,126
Speaker 1: listener of hours here, like, what would you say to

784
00:43:02,366 --> 00:43:08,246
Speaker 1: them that they're getting And I would definitely say, you know,

785
00:43:08,646 --> 00:43:10,806
Speaker 1: if you know, if you choose to draft me, you're

786
00:43:10,806 --> 00:43:13,686
Speaker 1: definitely gonna get somebody that comes to work every day, UM,

787
00:43:13,806 --> 00:43:15,886
Speaker 1: with the mindset, you know, to be the best player

788
00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:19,366
Speaker 1: on the field. UM. Obviously, you know, going out there

789
00:43:19,446 --> 00:43:21,086
Speaker 1: and your your rookie year, you know you have a

790
00:43:21,126 --> 00:43:23,646
Speaker 1: lot to prove. UM. But I always felt like, you know,

791
00:43:23,726 --> 00:43:25,766
Speaker 1: I've I've had a lot to prove, So that was

792
00:43:25,846 --> 00:43:28,686
Speaker 1: not really you know really you know, that's not it

793
00:43:28,766 --> 00:43:30,686
Speaker 1: don't bring a lot of stress to me, UM, but

794
00:43:30,806 --> 00:43:33,606
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, just always always trusted in

795
00:43:33,766 --> 00:43:36,726
Speaker 1: you know, the technique, the preparation that I've had my

796
00:43:36,806 --> 00:43:39,366
Speaker 1: abilities to play the game in football. UM, and I

797
00:43:39,446 --> 00:43:41,966
Speaker 1: feel like you know, every year, um, when you get

798
00:43:42,046 --> 00:43:44,726
Speaker 1: to that next level, um, from high school to college

799
00:43:45,086 --> 00:43:48,166
Speaker 1: and you know now it's college the NFL. UM. I

800
00:43:48,326 --> 00:43:50,326
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, I put myself in a position

801
00:43:50,406 --> 00:43:52,686
Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and just be

802
00:43:52,766 --> 00:43:55,566
Speaker 1: a winner. Um. You know that's definitely something that you know,

803
00:43:55,646 --> 00:43:58,566
Speaker 1: I've always been a part of, you know, winning programs. UM.

804
00:43:58,646 --> 00:44:00,446
Speaker 1: And I definitely you know, want to come to a

805
00:44:00,486 --> 00:44:04,366
Speaker 1: program that that that wants to win. Hey, sign me up,

806
00:44:04,806 --> 00:44:06,726
Speaker 1: sign me up. I mean, Jalen, you are a cool

807
00:44:06,766 --> 00:44:11,126
Speaker 1: customer out there, my friend, you say, really appreciate it.

808
00:44:11,246 --> 00:44:15,406
Speaker 1: Before before I let you go, any any questions that

809
00:44:15,526 --> 00:44:19,606
Speaker 1: you have received at all from teams that made you

810
00:44:19,686 --> 00:44:23,846
Speaker 1: scratch your head a little bit, um, believe it or not,

811
00:44:24,006 --> 00:44:27,526
Speaker 1: I have not. There's there's been no you know, crazy questions,

812
00:44:27,566 --> 00:44:31,206
Speaker 1: but are no they're asking anything crazy. Um. It's really

813
00:44:31,286 --> 00:44:34,446
Speaker 1: been all you know, business questions, you know everything, you know,

814
00:44:34,566 --> 00:44:36,846
Speaker 1: trying to get to know each other, trying to be

815
00:44:36,926 --> 00:44:39,126
Speaker 1: able to tell my story, UM in a matter you know,

816
00:44:39,686 --> 00:44:44,046
Speaker 1: cam five ten fifteen minutes. So speed dating, baby, speed dating,

817
00:44:44,326 --> 00:44:47,966
Speaker 1: That's what it is, but I haven't. I haven't got

818
00:44:48,046 --> 00:44:51,526
Speaker 1: any crazy questions where I have to like like, uh yeah,

819
00:44:51,526 --> 00:44:55,046
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. Hey,

820
00:44:55,486 --> 00:44:58,886
Speaker 1: Jalen Morino Cropper, it has been an absolute pleasure talking

821
00:44:58,926 --> 00:45:02,086
Speaker 1: to you, my man. I hope that a team is

822
00:45:02,126 --> 00:45:06,606
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to select you and everything that comes with

823
00:45:06,886 --> 00:45:10,966
Speaker 1: you and your background and your heritage. Just know here

824
00:45:11,006 --> 00:45:13,206
Speaker 1: at the l Huddle Podcast, man, we are rooting for

825
00:45:13,366 --> 00:45:17,046
Speaker 1: you and happy for you and appreciating taking the time.

826
00:45:17,606 --> 00:45:20,086
Speaker 1: And make sure don't be a stranger, all right when

827
00:45:20,126 --> 00:45:22,286
Speaker 1: you when you get when you get that first deal

828
00:45:22,446 --> 00:45:24,446
Speaker 1: going and you and you get on the team, But

829
00:45:24,606 --> 00:45:26,726
Speaker 1: don't forget about us little people there all right, never

830
00:45:26,926 --> 00:45:32,126
Speaker 1: never never can't do that jail and you're the best man. Hey,

831
00:45:32,206 --> 00:45:34,846
Speaker 1: good luck. Really appreciate it, man, Thank you, Thank you

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Speaker 1: you can relate and it resonates with all of you guys.

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Speaker 1: So that's been one of my favorite parts of doing

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Speaker 1: also talking to people like Jalen, who is yet another

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Speaker 1: and and hope he has success, you know, just as

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Speaker 1: and we've said it at the beginning of this podcast,

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Speaker 1: that's what this podcast is about. Celebrating latinos and really everything,

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