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Speaker 1: Welcome to the forty Niners You've Got Me a podcast

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Speaker 1: presented by Manscaped. I'm your host, Lindsay Polaris. Today we

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Speaker 1: have a special alumni edition of the pod, and joining

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Speaker 1: me for this episode is former U C l A

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Speaker 1: and forty Niners wide receiver J J. Stokes. J J.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by, Thanks for having me. This is

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Speaker 1: actually I'm excited. This is the first for me. Oh awesome.

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Speaker 1: And I also want to say I'm a fellow Bruin,

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Speaker 1: so I love having a fellow Bruin on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: so I'm really exciting. It's always nice to hear that.

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Speaker 1: Since it's your first time on the pod, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you a quick rundown. We'll talk a little playoff football,

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Speaker 1: and then the faithful have kindly submitted some questions for you.

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Speaker 1: Do you still pretty closely follow the forty Niners. I

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Speaker 1: should start off with that I watch every game either

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Speaker 1: in person or at or at on my couch at

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Speaker 1: the house, So yeah, I do follow and watching. I

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Speaker 1: got my I got my fourteen year old daughter watching

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Speaker 1: with me now, and I'm trying to influence my six

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Speaker 1: year role to watch a little bit longer with me, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we love to hear that. So how is your heart

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Speaker 1: rate after that Sunday game against Dallas? You know, I

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Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be a long drawn out game.

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Speaker 1: I actually watched the entire Dallas game previous week, and

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Speaker 1: I know that their defense played extremely well and it

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Speaker 1: was something that was different from the weeks before. But

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Speaker 1: that just meant they were becoming playoff already, So I

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Speaker 1: knew it was going to be a dogfight. Um, I've

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Speaker 1: seen our consistent defense all year long and the fact

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Speaker 1: that Brock parties come in and I felt like it's

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Speaker 1: even continued to elevate this offense by spreading the ball around.

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Speaker 1: I felt like we had good opportunity to win if

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Speaker 1: we perform like we have been. And like you said,

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Speaker 1: no playoff wins are easy wins. The team's only get better.

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Speaker 1: What did you learn about this San Francisco forty Niners

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Speaker 1: team with that very gritty win over the cow Boys?

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, the thing that really stands out

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Speaker 1: to me is that they don't lose focus, that they

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Speaker 1: stay in the moment, and they play really hard, and

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Speaker 1: it always gives you an opportunity to win games, and

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Speaker 1: and and here's the thing. You never know who's going

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Speaker 1: to make the play, whether it's offense or defensively for

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Speaker 1: the forty niners. And that's the beauty of it. And

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Speaker 1: I think when you have people, you have certain people

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Speaker 1: good game from them, but you're always going to have

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Speaker 1: that unsung guy that everybody kind of says he's really good, uh,

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Speaker 1: and he makes plays at times. Those are the guys

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Speaker 1: that are stepping up and making plays in this playoff

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Speaker 1: series so far. And uh, I really appreciate that because

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Speaker 1: you never know where greatness is coming from with this team.

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Speaker 1: That's very true. There's a ton of playmakers on this

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Speaker 1: team and you just never know who's going to shine

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Speaker 1: in what game. Absolutely, in your time with the franchise,

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Speaker 1: your team made six playoff appearances if I'm correct, and

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Speaker 1: just one trip to the conference championship. Can you just

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Speaker 1: speak to how difficult it is to get to this

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Speaker 1: point in the season. You know, it's definitely tough and hard,

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Speaker 1: But what we used to do is we used to

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Speaker 1: play the whole season in in in quarters. Like our

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Speaker 1: first four games, four games, four games. That's when I

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Speaker 1: we had sixteen games. Now they have seven team. But

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Speaker 1: we tried to win each quarter of the season and

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Speaker 1: continually grow and so by the end of the year, Uh,

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Speaker 1: we really self evaluated as we went into the playoffs

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Speaker 1: what we did good, what we did what we didn't

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Speaker 1: do so good, And those are the things that we

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Speaker 1: the playoffs hit, everybody's tired, everything's growling. It's how can

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Speaker 1: you take care of your body, get your mind right,

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Speaker 1: be able to mentally and physically perform at your best

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Speaker 1: the grind just continues the following week. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: some of the coaches and or even some of the

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Speaker 1: players after the game, we're looking at Philly film that

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Speaker 1: and focus that it's gonna take, so that you're mentally

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Speaker 1: So you you have that time in the air. Are

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Speaker 1: the ball is kicked off, Absolutely right so you now

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Speaker 1: work as a broadcaster and spent many years on the

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Speaker 1: college football scene. I'm curious to know what did you

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Speaker 1: know about brock Purty prior to him being picked number

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Speaker 1: This had to be like week through his third week playing.

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Speaker 1: course I'm a Pack ten, Pack twelve guy, and I

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Speaker 1: out today brock Purty is one of three finalists for

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Speaker 1: He remains undefeated. What's the best thing you've seen from

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Speaker 1: is great is that he ad lives really well because

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Speaker 1: at the bigger picture here, the Eagles and forty Niners

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