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Speaker 1: All right. It's a privilege for me to be joined

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Speaker 1: by the Chargers nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man

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Speaker 1: of the Year Award, presented by Nationwide he Chenna in

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Speaker 1: his second NFL season. Such a well deserved, Dinor Man, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Before we get into all the amazing work

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Speaker 1: that you've done over the last two seasons, Man, just

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Speaker 1: take me through how you found out, because I think

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Speaker 1: if fans go to social media, they can see that

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Speaker 1: video of how you were a little bit surprised with

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Speaker 1: Thomas Davis by your side. Yeah, that's basically how I

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Speaker 1: found out. You know. They say, Chenna, you want to

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Speaker 1: come in and do this interview. We want to show

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Speaker 1: you something. I'm like, okay, what is it? So I

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Speaker 1: go in there and then Thomas is in there. I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking he's about to play a joke on me or something,

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Speaker 1: because he's like a jokester on the team, and so

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Speaker 1: I'm like smiling and like, okay, what's up. And then

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Speaker 1: he starts explaining and telling me that I've been nominated

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Speaker 1: for the Walter Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.

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Speaker 1: And I get shown a video of my family and

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Speaker 1: friends and It's just exciting. It was your family, it

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Speaker 1: was your friends, it was Coach Lynn, it was Coach Helton. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: To see all those faces, the kids that you've worked

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Speaker 1: with on the flag football team. To see all of

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Speaker 1: those people in one video saying congratulations to you, that

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Speaker 1: had to have been special. It was very special. It

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Speaker 1: was very special, all right, Channa. Thanks to our partners

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Speaker 1: in nationwide, we're excited to tell your story. You're an

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Speaker 1: Ellen native, You're from Carson where the Chargers play their

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Speaker 1: football games, and you've made a concerted effort to give back,

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Speaker 1: whether it's on your own or with the Chargers. Where

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Speaker 1: does that spirit of helping out this come from? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I guess it's just in in my DNA.

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Speaker 1: You know, my family, we've always been a very you know,

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Speaker 1: helpful family. You know, we give back a lot. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's the way I was raised to be kind and

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Speaker 1: help others and put others first. And you know, just

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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of people happy, you know, just seeing

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Speaker 1: a lot of people joyful and happy to be able

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Speaker 1: to have experiences that others, you know, never really grew

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Speaker 1: up having and they never really thought of having. So

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Speaker 1: to be able to provide that for people. It was

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Speaker 1: just very heavy on my heart and with the It's

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Speaker 1: just a wide range of events like the Bike for

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Speaker 1: Kids event this week. You participated food distributions, NFL Play

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Speaker 1: sixty camps, the Chargers Coach of the Week, the Summer

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Speaker 1: night Lights program. It's an initiative to reduce gang activities,

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Speaker 1: to work with all sorts of different folks in this area.

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Speaker 1: It's not just one specific group of people or some

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Speaker 1: specific initiative. You're working with everybody. Yeah, I've done a lot,

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Speaker 1: you know, worked with everybody. Even went out to Denver

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Speaker 1: for a little bit to you know, spread awareness for

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Speaker 1: children's diabetes. They flew me out there, had a great time.

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Speaker 1: So I've been all over and doing different things. So

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Speaker 1: it's all great. The Children's Diabetes Foundation, that's one of

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Speaker 1: the causes near and dear to your heart. And you

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Speaker 1: have the might cause my cleats, those cleats are going

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Speaker 1: to represent children's diabetes. Correct. Yes, what does it mean

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Speaker 1: to get involved with them? And why did you get

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Speaker 1: involved with them? You know, just I chose diabetes. I

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Speaker 1: just chose diabetes as a as a general concept because

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Speaker 1: you know, members of my family struggle with diabetes. So

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Speaker 1: it was it was close to my heart and so

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Speaker 1: why not start, you know, young with the youth. You know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's where it really matters. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody matters, but I feel like the youth. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're kids, they're young, so for them to go stuff

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Speaker 1: for the youth is good. What was it like to go,

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Speaker 1: I know, you went to Colorado to was it a

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Speaker 1: experience like for you? It was great. You know, people

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Speaker 1: when people think of diabetes, they think of kids who

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Speaker 1: very happy. You know, they did play sports just as

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Speaker 1: they're just very thankful, you know, very thankful you know,

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Speaker 1: So it was good to see another thing you're doing.

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Speaker 1: You coach a coed group of middle schoolers, the Boys

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Speaker 1: and Girls Club in your backyard of Carson. What's that experience.

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Speaker 1: I know look up to you each Yeah, it was tough,

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Speaker 1: how much were I was able to teach them about,

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Speaker 1: you know, just camaraderie and families. It was just great

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Speaker 1: just growing up, you know, growing up. And then also

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Speaker 1: your dad, Henry, he's worked at UCLA Medical Center fourteen years. Yea,

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Speaker 1: Harbor UCLA Medical Center one of countless examples made. You

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Speaker 1: donated gaming consoles, television speaker systems to Harbor UCLA Medical Center.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be cool because not only are you

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Speaker 1: helping others, but you're also giving back to a place

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Speaker 1: where you're dad has done great part. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: my dad he tells me every day how it talks

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Speaker 1: about his patience and how and how they're just like,

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Speaker 1: just they're just sitting there with nothing, you know, board,

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Speaker 1: no television, no music. So I thought, hm, you know,

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Speaker 1: why not use my platforms be able to give back

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Speaker 1: to them. And I was able to, you know, donate

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Speaker 1: some electronics for them to enjoy. We had an interview

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Speaker 1: very first day as a member of the Chargers, the

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Speaker 1: day after you had drafted. Could you imagine being in

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Speaker 1: this position? Less than two years later, you're nominated for

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Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man of the Year. No, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: think about it, to be honest, Like all this stuff

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Speaker 1: I was doing, I didn't even know there was an

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Speaker 1: I was just doing it, you know, just because that's

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Speaker 1: realize there's not an award, and people recognize you, recognize

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Speaker 1: you for it, and it's just like dang, you know,

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Speaker 1: but that's just who you are. Yeah, it's pretty cool, man. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's an honor to share this building with you

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Speaker 1: and everything you guys do, and it's not just you,

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Speaker 1: it's your teammates as well. What you guys do on

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Speaker 1: Tuesdays and how you give back outside of your schedule

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Speaker 1: is amazing and you are the goal standard for it

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Speaker 1: this year. In man, congratulations, Thank you