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"Whats up, and welcome back to my Player Edition fam."

"I'm just Justine Brown, your host, storyteller, football, sneaker aficionado here in LA. Today, we have a very special guest, like I said, Super Bowl LVI here in LA. I'm going to bring him out the man, the myth, the Quad God."

"Saquon Barkley. Saquon, what's going on? Thank you for joining us. Before we get started, one thing we always do with our Player Edition fam is polls, and that first question is..."

"What is Saquon's favorite cake flavor? And we're asking that because it was just your birthday. There was two choices and A, the choice is Banana Duper and B is Confetti."

"It would be banana. What is Banana Duper? Banana Duper is is banana cake, I would say. Maybe I made that up but happy birthday."

"So to get started, we are doing a segment we've never done before called 'Gotta Have It'. What are three you've got to have for game day?"

"Three things I gotta have for game day, headphones. Obviously, cleats. A Graston tool. It's like a tool that massage therapy and physical therapy."

"Well, we have a must have that you gotta have for today, and that's why I asked what your favorite cake flavor was. A big surprise. So we brought you a cake and the candle went out, so can you just pretend, I'll sing. Do you want me to sing?"

"We got to talk about the shoes, the air trainers, they're new. You got your own shoe with Nike. That's obviously every athlete's dream. Can you speak on that experience a little bit."

"It still hasn't hit me that I have my own shoe with Nike. But as a kid, that's something you dream about. It was cool to be able to sit down there and go through all the different concepts and come up with a great idea and put up a shoe that I love and my family and friends love and a lot of fans love."

"I did a little unboxing on my Instagram and everybody was like, 'Those are fire. What are those? Need those. The color way is insane.' Did you pick that yourself?"

"Nike did a great job. Obviously, I was heavily involved, but like I said, there was so many concepts and there was so many dope ideas. I wanted to grab them all and release all of them."

"Well, there was obviously also a million silhouettes to pick from. You picked this one for a specific reason. Can you speak on that a little bit and why you chose what you did? Two reasons, Bo Jackson, big Bo Jackson fan and the other reason would be just the throwback style."

"Yeah. I actually, back as a little kid, I was such a little tomboy, if that's any surprise. And I always saw the Zoom Turfs and the Zoom Speeds and I was like, 'I need that velcro.' So like these, the velcro detail to me is like, yeah, that's ode to all of those people you just mentioned to."

"It's like, there could be a little kid watching you right now who grows up and gets a shoe and he's like, I want that. We’re going to pivot a little bit into your cleats and we have a very special one right here. It says, 'You're a sunflower.' This one was designed for who? My daughter, Jada."

"I was able to sit down and talk to Nike and they helped me come up with this great concept, this great idea. For that to happen in Nike, to be able to make that idea and that concept come to life just showed you how spectacular they are."

"Has having a daughter affected your work and your mindset and how you go into football? Just having a kid in general, it's mind blowing and just make you realize that, hey, I have something I'm working for, for someone else too. It's not just for a selfish reason."

"You've spoken in some detail about it before, but not everybody's super familiar. What exactly is the Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation? The Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation is just a place where give back and inspire hope, ran by my mom."

"We just try to go back, whether it's Turkey giveaways, it's just giving presents to the unfortunate, going back feeding homeless people, anything. Anything where I can go back and have an impact."

"25, you're getting really old. So I don't know if you have a lot of time to get to all the things you want, but I wish you nothing but the best in your future and in next season. No problem. Thank you."

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