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And we are here at the Double R event
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I got two special guests right now live with Law Nation Sports
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We're going to start with the lovely lady to the far right and then work ourself to the middle
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I am Jazz Monet. Yeah, come on with me. With Cowboys Wire of USA Today and Yahoo Sports
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And I am also the host of es Love Sports. eslovesports.com if you want to find any of our content
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Yes, it did. Now, the infamous, beautiful lady in the middle. Tell people who you are
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I'm Cherise Parsons, Michael Parsons' mother. Michael Parsons' mother. And what brings you out to this wonderful occasion event tonight
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I came out to network. You came out to network? Meet some new people, hang out, get out the house a little bit
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Let me fix you a little bit. There you go. Thank you. Yeah. All right. So are you enjoying yourself right now at the moment
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Yes. It's a nice event. A lot of people here. Good food, good music, you know, the old school music
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Old school. I punch them in the nose when I hit them in the hip. You know, none of that rap music like that, right
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But with that being said, name me one of the people that you were shocked to meet tonight
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I don't even know the name. Oh, you met the shelf a few seconds ago, right
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The shelf? They met me. Yeah, you met Jazz. Nice to meet you
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Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah, yeah. And it's always good to see you out at these types of events
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It's networking. It's putting a face to a name and all of that great stuff
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And we are in front of some beautiful cars. Yes. I told my son to buy me that Bentley over there
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He said I got dementia. You got dementia. I got dementia. You know
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He said I lost my mom. He said, Mom, come on down
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Just wait for that new deal to come through. That new deal
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Ask again. You said, I ain't spending that much money on no car. That's good discipline
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I read that there's 82 to 84 percent of football players, four years after they retire, become flat broke
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Have you heard that statistic? Yes. Yes, you heard it. Well, let me tell you
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Break it down. Break it down. That would not be Micah Aaron Parsons. Come on. He is, I guess, I ain't going to say tight because he do, you know, do stuff
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He do spend money, but he's very particular what he's spending his money on and how much money he's spending
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Right. And on top of that, he's always on his grind. Yeah, always on his grind
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He's like his mom. I was grinding. Grinding. He learned that principle from mom
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Mama said, and that's where I go by it. What mama say is what I would do
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Jazz, what you have for Mama Parsons? I'm just going to call you Mama Parsons
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Is that okay? I'm from Mississippi, so y'all got to understand my southern drawl here
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Mama Parson said what she said. I mean, I'm from Louisiana. It's Mama Parson for me too
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Come on with it. Speaking of Micah's grind, I'm just curious, like
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when he got this role with Bleacher Report, because I think the athletic side everybody saw coming, you know
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but him having this role with Bleacher Report not just as a podcaster but having a role in how they roll out their podcasts
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and conduct their social media. Like, was that a surprise to you? Like, is that something that you're particularly proud of
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Yes. I didn't even know it was even coming. He told me, like, I think maybe like a couple days before they actually announced it
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He was like, Mom, I got something big coming out. I was like, what is it? And then he told me, but I'm proud of him because, you know
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he's the first one to ever be able to do something like that. So, you know, that's huge. That's a big deal
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Did you see him as a talker growing up, like as somebody who might have his own podcast
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No. And actually, he's still not really a talker. People think he's a talker, but... What
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No, he's not. When he's, like, home, he don't really like to talk too much
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He just likes to just chill, play on his Xbox, play with the kids, stuff like that
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He's not really a big talker. You could ask me questions and just be like, Mom, I don't play talker right now
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I don't want to talk about work. So here's why that's hard to believe
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Because I follow both Micah and Terrence on Twitter. and it seems like they both have a knack for clapping back at people who have a particular opinion
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So I'm just like, it feels like there's something in the Parsons DNA, like a clapback gene or something
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Yeah. I don't know. Was that not a thing growing up? Well, Terrence, he's always been combative
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Okay. That's how he is. But Micah, he's not combative. Wait, he's like the speaking truth
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No. He's not competitive though. He's competitive in everything, but he's not combative
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He ain't gonna keep arguing with you about anything. Okay. That explains a lot. Yeah
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He just speak whatever he feel his truth is and he just let it go Can I ask you about a personal situation Sure I was interviewing Terrence this morning and you said this is live Law right
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No, no, no. We just pre-recorded right here. Okay, because this part hasn't come out yet
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He was talking about how him getting into trouble put a strain on his relationship with Micah
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because he didn't realize Micah looked up to him. Yeah, he did
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And I was just wondering what you remember from that time period and what it was like having your two boys
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And, like, did you observe that? And how did you handle that as a mom? Well, one thing about it was when Micah saw, like
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Terrence was doing dumb stuff, getting in trouble, and he was like, Mom, I do not want to be like that
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Fair enough. So I think, you know, he learned from watching, like, his brother make the mistakes that he made. Right
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And he knew that what he wanted for his life and his future, that he wasn't going to make those mistakes that his brother did
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Did you encourage them to reconcile, or did they kind of find their way back to each other on their own
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No, they wasn't ever, like, separated. You know, they still talked. But, you know, when Terrence was, you know, incarcerated and things like that
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So he wasn't like when Micah first went to Penn State, he missed that whole season
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He missed Micah's whole rookie season because he was in trouble. So, you know, he missed a lot of, like, good football time
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Okay. I can understand that. But I kind of like the fact that they reconciled on their own
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and kind of, like, renewed that connection. Now, when it comes to Micah and situations like what happened with D-Long
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and social media, does that get back to you? Oh, I see everything. I'll be watching it
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Mama knows all. She sees all. I'll be all this morning. Grabbing that mic right there
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The mic, yeah, yeah. Underneath. Yeah. Yeah, you can be an observer
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You can listen in. Come on, get in on this. Get in on this, too. But I'll be leaning
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I'll be seeing it. Come on with it. I'll be like, I'll just be laughing because it's like
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It's funny how people can criticize somebody and don't even know them
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or even know their intentions of what their comments are. Because his comments can be coming from a good place
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but people turn it into negativity a lot. That does happen a lot with Micah
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I've seen that. Because it's like a lot of stuff that I was like, I'll see, and I'm like, that's not a big deal
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But then it turns into like whole headlines. And I was like, people could talk about his podcast, but let me tell you
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The podcast don't affect nothing that he does. Trust me. He don't really have to do a lot with the podcast
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The only thing he's got to do is go on and talk. Bleacher Report comes and set everything up
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Oh, they do that? They do everything. Did you see what I had to do? He don't do nothing
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Tell Bleacher Report, just give me $5 and $5 and hit me set up over here
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Come on with it. You see me sweating and putting this stuff together, it's good
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We just need a little bit of the budget. Just a little bit of the budget. You don't want to do none of that. They fly a girl in from Atlanta
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Yeah. Wow. Every day, she comes in two hours before Mikey would do his podcast. Get out of here
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He sets up everything, do everything. Only thing, when she say, I'm ready, he just go and sit down
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He do his little conversation. He get up and she do everything else. You know what the good thing about all of this is that two things
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One being his first take or ESPN, they reached out to him
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and they wanted him to be on the show. And we revolted. We were like, no
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No, it was FS1. FS1. Okay, FS1. Let's get it right. Because it was Skip, and everybody was like, nah, we don't mess with Skip
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Cowboy Jesus does not mess with Skip. I'll take Parsons Show over him being on that, excuse my friends, mess any day, right
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Yeah. The other side of it, this Mama Parsons, is that I would take the fact that he's doing podcasting
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versus being out there on the streets. Me too. racing cars out there in the clubs, throwing money and wands at them
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that go down the pole. You know what I'm saying? So I love the fact that, and by the way, there's nothing wrong with that
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I'm not casting excursions. I'm not trying to hurt the strippers' money or the pockets over here
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but I just glad that. Tip your dancers. Yeah, tip your dancers, man. Double tip them, by the way, and throw some wands at them and say
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that's on me, Law. But what I'm getting at is basically I like that
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Yeah, me too. Yeah, but I'm not used to it, but I would take it
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You get what I'm saying? Yeah, I mean, I'm not mad that he'd get home. I'm telling you, besides him being out there working, he's coming home. Yeah
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Because, like, people don't understand, like, an athlete, first of all. Right. A lot of times he leaves the house, what, 6 o'clock in the morning
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Correct. He's gone. He come back, well, like, around 5, 6 o'clock at night
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It all depends on the day. By the time he get home, he gets some food, some hours, you know, play with the kids a little bit
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He get therapy, he got a massage person come to the house and get a massage he got the IV lady coming Okay No but I like that he takes care of himself He goes through a lot of these games Taking care of your body is so important
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I got Parsons right here. Let's go, man. I got him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got him right here
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that. Because, you know, I see the headlines
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People are like, oh, he need to focus on football. Well, he do get some downtime afterwards
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but by the time he gets home during the season, and he do his treatment and everything
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it's sometimes 8, 9 o'clock at night. He go to bed, get up and start all over again
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So it's like you don't have a lot of extra time to do all the extra stuff
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I'm greedy. I went and got two of them. Now, Terrence was telling me that all the siblings like to stay close to one another
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so that they can kind of help each other. What he said was it takes a village because they all have kids
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Is that something that you encouraged or is that something that they kind of figured out on their own that it's a good thing to stay close to each other
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Well, as soon as Micah got drafted to Dallas, Terrence, he was the first one down here
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He moved down here. We ended up moving down. My daughter moved down
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My brother moved down. His kids moved down. So, hey, we got like a whole village down here
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So it makes it nice that we're able to get together, have a good time, spend a lot of time with our family and stuff
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So I really like that. No doubt. No doubt. That's good stuff. Oh, look how disrespectful I am
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I got the infamous, the diehard cowboy, fan of the year, fan of the decade
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fan of the century, James Superman in the building. Come on with it
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What's going on, people? What's going on? How you living? Man, give me some, man
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Yes, sir. He even got one of the rings on right now. I just realized you were right
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We did meet before. You know where we met? Training camp, 2023
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Look, 2023. Yeah. She's got a good memory. Good recall. She had to reach back in that
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In Oxnard, 2023, that's where we met. I was like, we met before
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I just couldn't remember where. Couldn't remember where. So how are you enjoying the event today, my brother
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I am enjoying the event. It's very eye-opening and very nicely organized
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I like it. I like it a lot. Which one of these Bentleys are you going to roll out tonight with
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Well, you know, my birthday is coming up. It's coming up, so the light blue one
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The light blue. Yeah, all the way at the end right there. And when I saw it, I started singing
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I don't know. I feel like light blue is more of like a Detroit Lions kind of thing
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That's okay. It's cowboys. We need to find a Navy. A Royal
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They got like a McLaren way down there. Oh, yes. Yes. That was beautiful
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Yes. So any blue that I wear, they're automatically associated with cowboy boots
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Any blue. Automatically. Is that your favorite color? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely
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Blue is my favorite color. And when is your birthday again for those who need to listen and know about that
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Look, July 9th, this year, 2025. So we're going to have. 60 years
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We're going to have. How many years? 60. Come on with it, man. Come on with it, man
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Oh, I'm telling you, God has put flavor and favor all over your life
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So I'm going to tell you this, bro. What are we doing? We're going to do whatever we need to do
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Are we going to be here or are we going to go to an island or something for your big 60
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What are we doing? I'm trying to go on the cruise. Oh, you're going to go on the cruise. Y'all are going to let y'all grow on
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I thought he was going to do something. I thought he was going to do something here
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You know what I'm saying? He's going to do it big, B-I-G. He got a whole schedule going on
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I don't have no one planning My 60's So I said I'm just going to do all
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Mojo transportation all year So plane, train, car Automobile, RV, truck Everything
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And you and I we working on something too Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Let them know what's going on Mobile podcasting Mobile podcasting We're going to be in the RV law
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In RV suit bank You know, we're going to be rolling, rolling, rolling
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And we're going to be talking about these Cowboys rolling into some W's, man
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Yes. These victories. Wait, where are y'all going? In the RV? Oh, we can go anywhere
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As long as there ain't no across no water, we can go. Yeah. As a matter of fact, we're thinking about getting the yacht, too
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Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! All right, Charlotte. Come on over here. Jerry definitely got to hook up with the yacht
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I know Stevie don't like us, you know. But Jerry and Charlotte. But how do you feel about this season coming up
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I excited about it You excited I talked to Schottenheimer Schottenheimer And I talked to Matt Eberflue Yeah Eberflue I talked to the last bit
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I've seen him with the grandbaby and everything, you know. Yes. So, you know, they talk a good game
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So, hopefully, the things that they're looking forward to, it comes to fruition. Right
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It's coming to all the more soon. Did they tell you what they're looking forward to? Uh-huh
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Not really. They didn't give him no specifics. But I can tell you, I think the world of Micah Parsons
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and any time you throw in an event and you got the head coach and the defensive coordinator who's pretty much
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But it was a lot. Offensive coach. Yeah, it was offensive coach there. It was some D-line coaches
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Clayton Adams came too? Yeah, it was a lot of people. It was a linebacker, D-line coach
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I missed the opportunity to speak to that. Yeah, it was a lot of the coaches. Almost all the defensive coaches was there at the both of them
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No, for real? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They blend in. They be quiet
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They be quiet. They was on the other side. They talked about trying to develop more relationships with the players
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and the families and stuff like that. Let me ask you this. Moving on from coaching, how often do you talk to Michael Parsons' agent, David
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Not that often. Not that often. Let me talk to Mama right quick
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Mama. The hell, Michael Parsons, don't do that deal. Tell him I got his best interest
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Did he try to do that until you try to rub that in on you
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Not to me. Okay. Okay. It was worth the shot. But in the party, we've been live for a long time
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Well, recording for a long time, so I don't want this to be too long. We're going to start with you, Jazz
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Any final words to the panel right here? I'm just curious. Just building off my interview with Terrence
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I asked him how he would describe himself to people who only see him as Micah's brother
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So for you, if you had described Terrence to people as something besides Michael Parsons' brother, how would you describe Terrence Parsons
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Well, Terrence, actually Terrence was one of my smartest kids, even though sometimes he'll act like he is
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I can see it. He was one of the smartest ones. You know, he's very compassionate about the cowboys
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He's always been compassionate about his cowboys, his family, his children. So, you know, I mean, he's a good guy, and he loves Cowboy Nation
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Okay, so intelligent, compassion, well-intentioned Cowboys fans. I like it. And he's always been a Cowboys fan
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Always. He stayed in Cowboys. Blue. Cowboys blue. Yes, indeed. And what about you, James
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So, for me, the one thing that she didn't mention was Mike has only been hurt once in his career
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That's a good point. One time in his whole career. With that wood. He's only been hurt
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Yeah, right. Last season. Dang. And he got rolled on. Yeah. And he missed four games out of his college and professional career
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And the crazy part about it, he's been playing football since he's five
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Yeah. Yeah. So, are you saying since he was five, he only had one injury
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One injury, yeah. Wow. He was five. Yep. And he played football every year except for seventh grade year
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Because you know when seventh grade year he had you know he played in the light directly
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He was too big. Too big. He got to tone it down you know
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Yeah the weight limit was like I think like 160, 165. He came in like almost 170 something pounds
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And they was like oh you too big to play. So then that year he played softball
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So has he already always taken care of his body the way that he does now? No
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So that's just natural resilience when it comes to his physicality. Yeah
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Since he stepped in college. Because before, he used to hate working out. Hated
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He hated working out? He hated working out. And it was funny because, you know, game day, oh, he was always going
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Workout, practice, he hated it. That's what I'm saying. I'm like, how did he get there and not work out
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That is wild. He was just naturally gifted. But now I have to admit, he worked out every day
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Every day. Man, that's amazing. Hey, this was a great show. I cannot believe all of the great energy we have here at this event
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And the next one's going to be even grandiose. Grandiose tomorrow. Hey, we going to the Super Bowl
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We going to the Super Bowl. I don't know if we going this year. Let's go. But we going. Let's get it
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Now we see where Micah gets it from. Dow shit and the Crea thing. We're being a pessimist
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Let's go, man. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah, here we go. Here we go
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Oh, that's Dak. That's Dak. Hey, there goes Dak