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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast, powered by the

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Speaker 1: Arthur Mallett joining the pod this week. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: So we were just talking about gumbo. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: gumbo later on in the in the podcast. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I was reading some stuff online and I was watching

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Speaker 1: actually some of your high school highlights. You were a

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Speaker 1: punter in high school all districts. Yeah, man, I was

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Speaker 1: a punter. I played soccer whatever that had a ball,

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Speaker 1: I really did it. I tried to see what I

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Speaker 1: was best at. What do you what were you averaging

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Speaker 1: as far as gross and then I honestly couldn't tell you,

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Speaker 1: but I definitely had like five or six inside the twenties,

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Speaker 1: like only two or three yard Okay, And does does

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Speaker 1: Boyer know that you were a punter? No, he doesn't know.

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Speaker 1: I try not to, you know, try to take anybody's job.

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Speaker 1: You think I'm pretty good. Yeah, I definitely could a

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Speaker 1: little trickery too. That's they saw that. Yeah, I saw

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Speaker 1: I fake punt run for first down in your school.

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Speaker 1: That is interesting. The soccer background, Well, what got you

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Speaker 1: going in that direction? Um? Actually, man, I didn't play

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Speaker 1: football to my senior year in high school. Senior year, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I was a basketball soccer guy. Um, and

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Speaker 1: then it kind of translated perfect to the football field

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Speaker 1: because with soccer I need the endurance to footwork. I

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Speaker 1: played striker and I played goalie. And then the basketball

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Speaker 1: was a real defensive guy and I played points. So

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Speaker 1: it just worked hand in hand with football as being

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Speaker 1: a defensive back. So it kind of like helped me

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Speaker 1: out a lot. But that's late in your career. That's

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Speaker 1: got to give a lot of people hope out there

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Speaker 1: who are young athletes, aspiring scholar athletes, maybe on the

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Speaker 1: collegiate level, But what made you make that transition? Senior

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Speaker 1: year of high school, I was a senior. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to try everything. Me and my friends were sitting down

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Speaker 1: on the bench. One day, He's like, man, come play football.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, let's do it. Yeah. I did it, and

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Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. It's nothing's like football.

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Speaker 1: You have to take all eleven to be able to

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Speaker 1: be successful. And other other sports I played, like soccer

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Speaker 1: and basketball, one individual can get hot and you can win.

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Speaker 1: With football, everybody has to be on the same page.

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Speaker 1: To win. So that's your brotherhood and his camaraderie. So

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Speaker 1: I love it, and you loved being a dB from

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Speaker 1: day Wanner? Is that something that I play safety and

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Speaker 1: defensive back and I did punt return, So I mean

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Speaker 1: I loved it. I mean I wasn't getting hit, so

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Speaker 1: that was the great part about I was doing the hitting.

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Speaker 1: And it was high school Like, if you're an athlete,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna be successful. So were you a

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Speaker 1: physical soccer player? Because I don't think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people give soccer players enough football without passed To be honest,

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Speaker 1: yea it is. Um, Yeah, I definitely was. Um that's

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Speaker 1: why they had me at striker than forward and it

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Speaker 1: was pretty dope. How about using your head? Almost got one?

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Speaker 1: What were you running in high school? I ran a

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Speaker 1: fo or four, But it's crazy when I went to

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Speaker 1: the combine, I ran a four six. Nobody would ever

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Speaker 1: guess when I tell them, like, all my teammates be like,

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Speaker 1: what you're run your forty four six? But the real

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Speaker 1: like what so how this? Well maybe that goes. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's why the reason I didn't get because that reason

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Speaker 1: like four six five, four six six. How much did

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Speaker 1: you prepare for the forty yard dash itself, because to me,

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Speaker 1: it's all about technique, right, it's not necessarily about speech,

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Speaker 1: it's about your Yes, it's about the start. And then

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Speaker 1: I had horrible starts as soon as I it was

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Speaker 1: my first time running the forty at the NFL Combine

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Speaker 1: on the laser, Like, like, how would you prepare for that? Right? So, uh,

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Speaker 1: first two steps I popped straight up and that was

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Speaker 1: a wrap. All right? So I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: about this. I just wanted to check the name before.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to. I didn't want to mess it

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Speaker 1: up here. You said you're basketball player. I was watching

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Assistant basketball coach Mike Hagan said that your

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Speaker 1: senior year you weren't shooting too hot. You worked on

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Speaker 1: your shot, and then you made a buzzer beater in

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Speaker 1: the state championship. Uh three for the win? Is that true? Yes? Yes?

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Speaker 1: All right? So I want to know more about that

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Speaker 1: moment where you probably like two point three seconds left. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're like, oh crap. So uh, we get somebody else

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Speaker 1: for so long. So I wrap around the key and

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Speaker 1: I'm opening the corner. He throws it to me. Susan

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Speaker 1: and Swiss. Where do you guys play that? We played

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Speaker 1: it was pretty dope. What was it like for you

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Speaker 1: growing up in New Orleans? A lot of people go

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Speaker 1: down there, a lot of tourists. Obviously in New Orleans

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Speaker 1: has been through a lot over the years. For someone

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Speaker 1: who comes from there, Um, how would you describe that area?

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Speaker 1: It's one of a con man. The culture there's is

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Speaker 1: haven't been, definitely go. Man. Um, the food is great,

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Speaker 1: the people are nice. Um, there's so much that you

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Speaker 1: and I haven't been to all the restaurants there. I'm

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Speaker 1: I love a culture there. People are great. Food is great,

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Speaker 1: and that's all I need. I mean, I love it.

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Speaker 1: What are must do is for people who go down there,

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Speaker 1: because you just said your foodie, So give a couple

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Speaker 1: of restaurants. And also what about some history. What are

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Speaker 1: they taking? Um? So seafood definitely, that's uptown New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: you got like Neo's is a great spot to go.

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Speaker 1: You got your best creole cuisine, you have like a

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Speaker 1: like seafood platters, you go to Mr. Eds and anything

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Speaker 1: It is popados in the south too. Yeah, but that's

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Speaker 1: like more like fast food. Yeah, but that's more like

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Speaker 1: about your gumbo, your recent seafood only guy or trending

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Speaker 1: that way. First of all, tell us about the gumbo. Ok,

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Speaker 1: a lot of like Zadaran stuff, uh, keen crabs, Crawfords, tales,

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Speaker 1: he made land the other week. It was really good.

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Speaker 1: seventy five, one year, two years there before Memphis comes calling.

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Speaker 1: How did that all work out? Um? Actually? Man? Uh yeah?

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Speaker 1: Two years of Juko transfer to University of Memphis. But

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Speaker 1: stories of undrafted free agents have come and there are

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Speaker 1: Did you ever? How big is Elvis down in Memphis?

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Speaker 1: because I'm a foodie, like I already, you know what

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Speaker 1: I try anything, man, anything, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm all game.

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Speaker 1: So everybody, yeah, you're the you're the oldest, that's right,

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Speaker 1: So we're like, we're all close because like it was

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I do this little thing, uh every year.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what I could do it up here.

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