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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Faithful, Welcome to the forty nine Ers You've

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Speaker 1: Got Mill podcast presented by Delta Dental. I'm Lindsay Polaris.

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Speaker 1: For today's episode, we are getting you better acquainted with

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. Walter Payton NFL Man of the

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Speaker 1: Year nominee linebacker Curtis Robinson. He was announced as the

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Speaker 1: team's nominee in early December for the league's most prestigious honor.

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Speaker 1: The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award recognizes

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Speaker 1: players to excel on the field and demonstrate a steadfast

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Speaker 1: commitment to creating positive impact beyond the game. Robinson is

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Speaker 1: a regular at the forty nine ers weekly Community Tuesday

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Speaker 1: events throughout the season, and for a second straight year,

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Speaker 1: led overall player Volunteerism ours. While Robinson has showed support

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Speaker 1: to many causes through forty nine Ers Community Tuesday events,

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Speaker 1: education is a consistent theme in his community efforts. Here

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Speaker 1: is my one on one with Robinson.

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Speaker 2: Curtis, congratulations on your Walter Peyton NFL Man of the Year.

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Speaker 3: None.

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Speaker 2: I know the news is still pretty fresh. What was

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Speaker 2: your first reaction to the nomination?

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Speaker 4: It caught me off guard, for sure, but it was

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Speaker 4: super exciting. It's something that I've definitely wanted and it

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Speaker 4: means a lot coming from this organization specifically, but I

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Speaker 4: mean for it to happen this year, I know the circumstances,

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Speaker 4: just me it means the world.

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Speaker 2: This nomination is an honor that only thirty two NFL

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Speaker 2: players across the league. Yet you couple that with the

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Speaker 2: fact that you're coming from an organization filled with players

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Speaker 2: that pour into the community.

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Speaker 3: What does this say about how the forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: view your impact?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm appreciative that they that they view it

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Speaker 4: in a positive way. Like you said, That's really why

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Speaker 4: it caught me off guard, because I think there's so

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Speaker 4: many other guys who are just deserving, if not more,

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Speaker 4: of the honor, But I think they do value it.

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Speaker 4: I think I placed a really big importance on the stuff,

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Speaker 4: especially that the Foundation likes to focus on with education,

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Speaker 4: empowerment and stuff like that. So for me, it means

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Speaker 4: the world that they think highly of me.

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Speaker 2: For the people that don't know your story, you signed

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Speaker 2: on to the practice squad in twenty twenty one, earned

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Speaker 2: a rough spot at the start of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: fourth season. Throughout that whole time. The community service has

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Speaker 2: been a really big priority for you. Why was that

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Speaker 2: so important as you're chasing your NFL.

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Speaker 3: Dream as well?

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Speaker 4: It's just something that's been important to me since I

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Speaker 4: got here. My mom is a Bay Area native and

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Speaker 4: grew up loving the Niners in the eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 4: So for me, once I signed here, it was always

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Speaker 4: important from the day I stepped in the building to

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Speaker 4: have a positive impact, whether it was on the field

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Speaker 4: or off the field, and I kind of found that

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Speaker 4: niche within the community service. Luckily, we have some good

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Speaker 4: mentors with Sion Michelle that have really helped me kind

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Speaker 4: of find my way. But it's always been really important

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Speaker 4: to me just have a positive impact.

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Speaker 2: Even now as you are rehabbing from a season ending injury,

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Speaker 2: you are a regular.

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Speaker 3: At the forty nine ers community Tuesday. You hardly ever miss.

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Speaker 3: How does that ground you throughout this time?

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Speaker 4: It's funny because even after the injury, I didn't really

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Speaker 4: think about missing. I was disappointed even missing the few

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Speaker 4: when I was in LA for the surgery, but it's

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Speaker 4: just something that's been grained me. Now it doesn't it

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Speaker 4: just seems like that's part of my Tuesday routine, so

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Speaker 4: it doesn't seem super out of the ordinary for me,

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Speaker 4: but it has kept me grounded. It's nice to be

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Speaker 4: around other teammates all the time, especially out of the building,

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Speaker 4: with the also to be around the people of the

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Speaker 4: Bay area. I love being a part of this community,

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Speaker 4: and I've built relationships with people both in the South

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Speaker 4: Bay and even out in Oakland now and in the city,

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Speaker 4: so it's cool to be, you know, immersed in their

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Speaker 4: lives to kind of distract me from my day to day.

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Speaker 2: The focus of your community outreach is education and helping

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Speaker 2: support educators and the students that they serve.

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Speaker 3: Why did this cause become a passion for you?

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Speaker 4: It's always been really important to me because my mom's

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Speaker 4: a professor, my dad was a coach most of my

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Speaker 4: life growing up, and so for me, I always saw

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Speaker 4: how they were able to give back in that sense

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Speaker 4: and how important education was to them, and then naturally

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Speaker 4: just became important to me. And I also saw just

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Speaker 4: how tirelessly they had to work to give me the

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Speaker 4: access to resources and opportunities to achieve my dreams, go

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Speaker 4: to the school I wanted to go to and then

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Speaker 4: eventually make it here. So for me, being in this

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Speaker 4: position now, it's really important to use my platform to

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Speaker 4: help you kids in this area who may not have

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Speaker 4: the economic background to allow them those resources.

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Speaker 3: What's the best thing your mom taught you about giving back?

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who you can affect, but if you

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Speaker 4: are able to give one person a chance that allows

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Speaker 4: them to have the potential to change their life, then

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Speaker 4: that's really all that matters.

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Speaker 2: There's still a lot of chapters yet to be written

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Speaker 2: about the Curtis Robinson's story.

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Speaker 3: But what is the legacy that you hope to build

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Speaker 3: as an NFL player.

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Speaker 4: It's a really good question. I think I would love

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Speaker 4: to continue to have a really positive impact on the

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Speaker 4: Bay Area as long as I'm here and wherever I'm at.

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Speaker 4: But on the field, I just want to continue to

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Speaker 4: grow as a leader. I think this year I took

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Speaker 4: a huge step in that realm, and I think that

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Speaker 4: I can continue to work on that as well. But

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Speaker 4: I really just want to have a huge positive impact,

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Speaker 4: both in the locker room and off the field as well.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Curtis. I know everyone here at the

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Speaker 3: forty nine ers is carrying you on.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

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