JD in a duffel bag podcast here. I'm Chuck E on line. Calvin Phillips. Wow, my brother. How are you? Yeah, good. Yeah, you warm still. I know you just come straight out of training. Yeah, I'm here when you were doing free kicks and whatnot. Yeah, trying to.

Trying to. Yeah, not this season, but I've scored quite a few last season. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How's your free kicks going? No, they're all right too bad. We don't really get many free kicks off. Yeah, Dr. F for

Yeah, not on the edge of the box anyway. We can shoot what you know when we do on, you know, try to mess it up. I get you. Listen, I feel like there's so like

there's so many different things I want to talk to you about. Yeah, but I feel like there's so much things happening in and around football at the moment. Yeah, it's like such a weird time for

footballers and for football. Yeah, first thing I'm going to ask you like, how is it? How is it being a footballer in this era right now?

Um, it's good, man. Obviously, you know, we've lead especially we didn't start too well. Um, you know, we've not been doing too well as of, you know, the last few years and then, you know, my cell

are coming in and I manage a new manager and you're on a and then we just started playing well. You know, we've got a lot of good players, new players in like we're feeing new

Rodrigo. Right. Um, and yeah, man, it's just, it's good, man, it's good. It's good. It's just you got to keep. Obviously, I know like years ago, the used to be, you know, a couple of football players that used to grow on the

drink. Yeah, yeah, that's not like, no, no, not as much. Not as much. If it is, it's just smoke cigarettes. Yeah, yeah, like go out for beer and all of that. Yeah, and if it is, you, you got to do it on a little private. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what, see, like, okay, mad one, yeah,

birthday's in that. Like, how, how are you, how are you celebrating birthday? Depends on the game is to be fair. Yeah. So if I have a game on a Saturday, maybe early on a Saturday or maybe Saturday night and then I've

sundale. Um, just depends when the game is, we're trying to fit in around the game, but it's just interleads or wherever you want to go and, um, yeah, just to club all

whatever. Yeah, just enjoy. But it's just hard because, you know, there's a lot of spotlight on obviously us now, because we're in the Premier League and stuff like so. It's

hard to, you know, go out and enjoy yourself as much as what, you know, people used to do and, you know, a few years back what it's still a story, right? Yeah.

That, you know what, that's interesting to me. Yeah. Reason being you've been here, like a large part of your life, right? And leads is known for having a real strong foot willing community. Yeah.

So I would always assume that even in championship days, it would be difficult. If you're playing in the first team, or you're in and around it, it would be

difficult for you to just be outside enjoying things or whatnot. I know that you're in a in the Premier League in terms of popularity to like being in the championship.

Yeah, I think, you know, when, when in the championship, we want to play them well, and there might be a few of us that go out, you know, just on an out trying to enjoy yourself.

You know, you begin, you know, if you're not playing well, you're beginning to stick from that fans when you're going out and stuff that out. But, you know, recently the last three, four years, it's been, it's been fun.

Obviously, getting to Premier League as well, everyone knows, you know, when you go out and tell everyone knows you. So it's all, I don't mind it. I don't mind people coming up and asking for pictures and stuff like that.

It's just when you try to enjoy yourself, you want to try and, you know, stay out. Sometimes I just want to eat some food. Yeah. And you just want to just chill out.

Yeah, you know, I'm saying, you've got to stop the thing and then I like it. Yeah. But it's all right. Man, I don't mind it. Yeah. It is right. It's not. It's all.

I feel like we in life, yeah. We adapt to things really quickly. Yeah. The whole COVID thing and happen or whatnot. Those of us weren't able to go outside and do all of that. Just like live life, how we usually live life.

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