WEBVTT - LaDanian Tomlinson 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John and this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.600 to it. Good do it, Good do it. They're getting 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.919 down to do it. Good do it. We asked the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.880 questions you always want to know, but no one ever asked, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.600 let's cut to it. You ain't heard them about it? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:39.640 Then we're about to let you know. It's all Mary. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.080 This has been a couple of weeks when I said 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:48.880 coach Law was not correct. Yes, gee, how you doing 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:54.920 this afternoon? Brother? I am doing fantastic, man? How about you? Why? Man? 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.880 It's just man. Had a good had a good week, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.480 had a good weekend. Just try to get some had 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.600 to get some cool downtime, had some time to just 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.440 sit down and watch a movie. And I got a 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.080 chance to watch Remember the Titans. And for me, Remember 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.720 the Titans is my favorite, your favorite, your favorite football movie? 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.680 I love that, your favorite. It's my favorite. I say 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.679 that one and maybe that and maybe any given Sunday, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.760 but definitely, definitely I think I may give the not 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.680 to remember the times. It's it's special to me shine 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.480 when we were when I was in high school, we 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.240 had a field trip to go see Remember the Titans, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.400 so we were in the whole movie theater. So even 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.560 even when you remember the very last play when they 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.119 put Red back in the game, they do the they 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.759 do the option play and he scores a touchdown like 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.000 all of us going crazy in it. So that one 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.600 is probably why I say it is my favorite, because 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:50.400 because it brings back memories for me. I loved the program. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.320 I saw that when I was when I was in 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.320 whenever came out, I think high school man my dad went. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.920 So that was pretty cool. I like the The Longest Yard. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.040 That was good. I like that one. They got a 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:04.640 couple of them, though. There's you like the newest one, 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.760 of you like the old one. Um, I like the 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.800 newest one, old the old one. So the remake I 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.200 like the old one was a little bit slow. You 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.760 know what else is a slow movie? But everybody loves 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.600 North Dallas for you, that's like an old school movie. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.840 That's a football movie as well. Um. But the only 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.720 problem I have with like, what's my best football movie? 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.280 Little Giants? There's one part that I loved. I love 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:40.520 that one annexation Puerto Rico, right, and I love that 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.440 one when um, what's his name, Johnny until there in 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.120 the huddle, he never get the ball, He never get 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.760 the ball. We're gonna give it to John Johnny and 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:55.520 Johnny Johnny Johnny. Right, So I like that one. But 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.959 for me, I really don't like football movies, to be honest, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.400 because sometimes either you watch shows or movies, you gotta 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.040 understand some of those movies sometimes take the one off 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.280 story that just like comes out of nowhere that everybody's like, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.760 does that really happen? And people believe that that's how 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.920 it goes. Not accurate. It's what's the most accurate football 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.480 movie there's there's not one, not even any giving Sunday. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.560 You didn't believe Bill Bellamy was a wide receiver. M 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.079 that's a great question. L col J isn't running back? 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.600 T was in it in any given Sunday. I think 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.320 he was. I just here's what I say. They don't 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:45.880 really portray it because even some of the craziest football stories, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.000 you don't hear them repeating themselves. So people think that 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.200 that's how it goes all the time, like every school 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:58.080 gets the punishment, every school is cheating. That's not the case. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:05.160 And so and because we so much economics and financial 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.080 so much as given to the colleges and everything is 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:13.200 around football that they believe, you know, the dumb jocks scenario. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.760 It perpetuates some sterios, too many stereotypes. So that's why 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.520 I don't like it. So if if if there was 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.680 a movie and Steve Smith needed to be in it, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.880 who who would play Steve Smith? Off top of your head? Oh, oh, 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.640 I'm kind of picky, So I don't know. You got 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.760 you gotta name one. I mean, obviously he's not athletic, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.719 but why not Denzel? If I don't if I'm gonna swing, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.000 if I'm gonna swing, if I'm swinging for the fences. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.799 Can you imagine Denzel Washington trying to do Steve Smith quotables? 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.920 I think it'd be awesome. Actually, now that if you've 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:56.080 seen this face, I believe it. I guarantee. All right anyway, Um, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.520 so let's move on. Yeah, I probably won't have Denzel 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.080 too serious. Hey, who's like us for today? Coming up 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.960 on the cut to a podcast, We've got legendary running 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.719 back La Dainian Tomlinson a K A L T, A 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.440 five time pro bowler and two thousand six is m 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.360 v P. LT played for the Chargers and the Jets 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.640 and has had a statue in Canton since seen l 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:26.600 T Well, l T, thanks so much for joining Cut 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.080 to a podcast My pleasure. Man, it's it's uh, it's 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.800 good to be on with you guys. Excited about it. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.120 He appreciate you. So hey, our first segment it's called 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.479 get Iced Up. Their random questions. Smitty has compiled super random, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.200 super random. You don't know that to be a follow 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.960 up anything. So it's just our version of an icebreaker. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.640 So LT, get ready to get iced up Smitty, go ahead, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:55.159 all right, here you go, LT. Your favorite fruit druice 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.800 drew pints of course. Okay, that's like ten pursue juice 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:06.280 in there. So it's a whole bunch of all right, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:13.520 what is your favorite season and why? Like the season summer, winter, fall, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.320 that that type of season. I had to I had 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.479 to have it open ended because you never know what 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:24.200 kind of guests we're gonna have and what the education is. Yeah, man, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.280 and I love basketball season. I don't know what we 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.280 were talking about, but we appreciate it. Bro Uh Man, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:36.159 I love fall season for a couple of reasons. Um, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.520 you know, football guys have been defined as the guys 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.920 of fall. Steve, you have heard that, and you know 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.880 it's a certain smell in the air about fall. Like 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.400 for me. You know when you when you play football 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:55.120 and play ball your whole life pretty much twenty plus years, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.120 like you do the same things over and over. You know, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.560 you have the same smell when it comes to a 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.880 certain time of the year. You know, a certain field 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.200 that you get in a certain time of year. Fall 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.000 from me is always football season. All that smell, you know, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.000 comes back to me that field that I get. Even now, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.440 not the field anymore because I'm old now I'm not 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.240 playing anymore, but the smell. Sometimes I go outside in 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.000 the grass, the way it smells in the fall, it 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.400 reminds me of game day sometimes. And so that's one 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.200 of the reasons. The other reason is I live in Texas, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.200 and y'all know it gets real hot in Texas, man, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.480 especially in the summertime. So right after the summer is 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.440 what it's fall. And so it's perfect golfing season for 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.840 old guy like me. Now I get to play a 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.920 lot of golf in the fall. So fall is my 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.320 favorite season. Okay, what is the first thing you thought 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:56.280 of this morning when you woke up. What I'm gonna 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.080 feed my kids for breakfast in the full school? Okay, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.800 that's that's that's the first thing I thought about, because 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.200 that's the first thing I do. Okay, So what did 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.320 you feed him? Did you cook? Because I actually I 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.720 fed my my, my, my one of my boys who 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.320 was in school the rest of the too in college, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.640 one graduate college, ones in college. She's living on her own. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.040 So what did you What did you make? Egg? Whites 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.840 ed whites um, scrabbled with a little sausage in there, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.280 with some fruit on the side. My daughter loves toast. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.119 My son doesn't like bread, so one had toast one dinnit. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.880 What's funny? I And this is wasn't even time correctly, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.120 I was going backwards when my wife got up this morning, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.400 she gets up and we have this whole little dialogue. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.640 It's been going on since the virus has hit. My 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.360 wife is making sure that everyone has their their vitamins. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.680 So she's all in organic holistic West Coast, which is 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.000 you know, vitamin c uh, you know, having so many 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.720 and me in B and write him in D and 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.559 uh and and she makes her own uh elderberry uh, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.680 and just all this stuff. And so so we do 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.280 this thing where when she gives me vitamin C. Her 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 name is Angie. So I say, I ain't taking vitamin 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:23.520 C till I get that vitamin every morning. And she 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.160 she literally she says, shere's your vitamins. I said, well, vitamins. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.400 I don't see no vitamins. And she rose eyes and 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.520 she gave me a kiss. I said, oh, those vitamins. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.160 Oh yeah, let me take them right and so but 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:40.319 she gets up, and so I've had the blessing like you. Um, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.720 I have my oldest son, Peyton is twenty two, who's 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.760 actually running our social media for cut to It social 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.640 media manager. My daughter's nineteen years old, she's off of 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.680 college and working. And then I have Boston, who's fifteen, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.920 and then Douce, who six, and so Deuce is still 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.120 sleep but I got up this morning. I made him 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:03.760 a cheese omelet um hoasts and chicken sausage, and I 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:10.120 was remembering that I have made breakfast for my kids, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.880 you know, obviously an off season, but now that I retire, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.720 I made breakfast for Peyton Bailey, and then I make 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.440 it for Boston, and Boston is gonna be driving next year. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.560 And I kind of looked at him and said, you know, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.320 next year, you'll be driving, and I don't have the 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.760 honor of getting up and make you breakfast anymore. He goes, well, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.720 yeah you do. I said, no, you're driving yourself. No, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.920 I don't. If you could drive yourself, your own breakfast, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.800 make your own breakfast. I am not getting up at 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.679 six o'clock because you know, to make breakfast. You it's 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.480 you can't. Just you can't. You can't have bookers in 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:53.040 your eyes and be making toasts like that's nasty. I 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.400 hope you wipe your face first. Yeah, so just doing that, man, 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.720 I just have, like you, I have the honor to 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.520 just sit there man, and and make breakfast for my kids, 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.199 to sit there. Man. Then we hop up, we hoppen, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.160 get in the car, put the dog in the car, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.520 um because wife sleep and the dog, you know, whimper, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.840 and so just hopping the car and you know, and 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.199 just do that. And it was just an honor show man. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.040 You you may remember, and I was thinking about that 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.000 that probably this is the last year that I have 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.240 the honor of making the breakfast because I get the 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:32.120 sleepy and you're lucky but it is an honor, Steve. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.760 You're right, man, And you know I do the same 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.880 thing every morning. I get up and I made my 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.040 kids breakfast before school. Is just kind of it's kind 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.240 of what I do. And I remember my my dad 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.880 doing those little things like that, um and so I 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.320 don't know, it's like it becomes like a tradition, right, 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.280 you know. And I think it's the appreciation that you 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.520 see from your kids. Um. And then the other thing 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.400 is helping out around the house. You know, now that 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.840 I'm retired, being able to do things like that around 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.960 the house to help my wife out. You know, she 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.079 don't have to get up all the time because I'm 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.920 gonna be honest. You know, my kids right now their 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.920 online class, they're not going to school, so they get 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.800 up in their own computer. Well when when they have 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.920 a question about their work, their school work, they're not 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.320 coming to me, They're coming to their mall. So the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.880 least I can do is cook breakfast in the morning. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.440 Be the pe teacher though. I'm oh, yeah, I'll do that. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:38.520 I'll do that. We're playing golf and enjoying them. So 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.440 all right, last one, would you rather put a stop 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:50.160 to war or end world hunger. Um, in world hunger. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.199 For people to be hungry, that's something that I can't 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.600 stand by and watch. It's hard for me even to see, um, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.560 you know people you know saying you go to a store. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.760 There's people sometimes you see out there or the homeless 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.280 and they want something to eat. It's hard for me 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.840 to go into that story and come out with what 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.400 I have in my hand and I give them something 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.679 like I just that always has gotten to me. One 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.199 of the things that I do it at Thanksgiving time 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:25.280 is I feed you know, families. Um, everything's given. So 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.800 it's something that's always been on my heart. All right, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:34.000 we appreciate that man that was breakers there. That's that's 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.400 that's the that's textbook right there to see me. But 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.480 I'm patting myself and yourself. So he gave us some 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.160 bread crumbs, and I think it's going to lead us 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.720 to some to some other stuff. You gave us some 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.480 bread crumbs. Where are you from and the place you 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:54.559 call your hometown? Wow? Where I consider you know where 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.000 I'm from and my hometown to different places. So where 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:03.240 I'm from it's actually a small country town. Marlon Rosebud 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.800 and I say, Marlon and Rose Buds because that's where 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:13.320 my parents originated from, you know, and so obviously I 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.600 originated from there as well. And so my mom was 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.120 born and raised in a small town of Marlin, and 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.240 my dad was born in small town and Rose But 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.280 those two towns are about ten minutes from each other, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.800 right up the street, right small country towns, and so 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.480 as a kid, I was raised um in those towns, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.800 running around on those those dirt roads and feeding pigs 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.880 and you know, doing all those things. When I turned 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.320 about I think it was about seven, I moved to 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.320 Waco and for the rest of my life, I grew 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.560 up in Waco. So I considered Waco my hometown because 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.160 that's where I went to high school, that's where I graduated, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.600 that's where I kind of made my name at I 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.600 as you know. And so yeah that I was say, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:05.520 I'm from Marlin and Rosebud, but my hometown it's Waco. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.920 What would those experience like for you growing up? Yeah, well, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.560 early on I think it was, you know, it was 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.080 real humble beginnings. You know, because when you think about 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.040 small country towns, man, you know, everyone in the town, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.720 they know you. Um, it's that whole mindset of you 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.200 getting raised by village, right, you know, because your neighbor 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.400 may discipline you sometimes if they see you doing something wrong, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.600 they're gonna die. Yes, Oh it's old school, no doubt 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:39.800 about it. And so, um, you know, Wayco was more 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.840 like you know it was, it was bigger, you know 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.040 it was it was. It's a small city, but it 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.800 was bigger. And so I hold on. Explain to us 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.640 when you say humble beginnings. I'm a city boy, you know, 0:15:54.000 --> 0:16:00.320 from so concrete Jungles is considered humble beginnings. Explain smith 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:06.200 what is you know, Smithy but humble beginning, city folk? Right, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.320 you got a city folks, Steve, and then my boy Gerard, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:16.080 he's uh, I's from North Carolina, He's from X So 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.320 his humble beginners. And you know my you know uh 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:24.560 other boy and and and booking backstage Joe he's from 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.080 Vegas and Nashville and he actually went to Long Beach State. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.200 So his humble beginners a city too, right, So I 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.680 don't I need to understand because right now you're slaying 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:42.000 something in there said feeding pigs. Yeah, I see, I 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.880 thought you. I thought you missed that those early years. Man, Um, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.960 you know, one through like I think from the time 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.280 I was one through a problem about ten years old. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.480 When I say humble beginners, I mean, you know, really 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.400 like living the life of feeding pigs, going in the slop, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.040 you know, going into mud, pigs living a bunch of mud, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.440 and you know it's just a bunch of it's nasty 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.960 out there, right, and so everything you eat now you 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.840 save it, and that's what they eat. You go out 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.280 there and you you feed the pigs. And then obviously 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.119 where you think we get baking and pork chops and 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.399 all that stuff. Bro. So there was times, man. I 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:28.159 remember my first time saying my my dad and my 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:33.520 uncle's like, you know, slaughter or goat. Man, it almost 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.280 traumatized me, dude, Like I remember the vision like it 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.120 was yesterday. So me and my younger brother, my dad 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.880 called us around to my uncle's house and we went 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.199 around there and I saw the goat hanging up in 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.920 the tree, and I'm thinking to myself, what are they 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.600 for to do with this goat? You know, you skipping 0:17:54.680 --> 0:18:03.960 over a lot of kiss Keep it simple, Steve, I 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.080 have no idea. You asked the about humble beginners. Yeah, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.960 but I want you to walk me through these humble 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.120 beginnings because you said it's traumatized. You went from their 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.840 hanging from the I want to know, like, how did 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.920 he say, Dany come on over there? Hey, boy, get 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.280 over here. We're about to go over Uncle Luke house 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.239 and we're about to get we're about to eat and 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:28.960 you're gonna work. Hey. It was like this, Uh my mom, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.160 my dad was already over there, and my mom comes 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:32.840 to me and my brother and said, hey, your dad 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.240 wants you over your uncle house. Y'all going to walk 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.679 around there for what? He didn't tell me why? You 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.359 just get over there? Yeah, you don't get Yeah, you know, 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.240 because I know I know he's gonna ask why. And 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:48.960 she probably popped them upside of the head too. I 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:54.359 told you by asking me why. Hey, So you know, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.520 we're going around there and the first thing I see, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.280 of course, is this goat in the treat and my 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.560 dad and cools there standing around drinking beer of course, 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:11.880 um and so old milwakee. Y'a don't know no about 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:17.600 that mist it's two for one with a sticker. That's 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.359 the cheap. That's that cheap next to the bag of 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:26.959 cheap chips. We're acting a cigarette at the gas station. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.280 So you know what I'm talking about. Slightly, So Steve, 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.520 I had to be about man. I had to be 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.320 about seven years old. And my dad comes over and 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.960 he says, all right, I'm gonna show y'all what well 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.080 we're gonna eat this goal tonight. But I'm gonna show 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.040 y'all how we processing, how we're gonna kill it. We're 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.160 gonna get the meat out and then we're gonna cook 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.720 it later on. So this is what you're gonna eat tonight. 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.080 This is how you survive. I'm seven years old, man, 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.240 I'm like, Dad, don't kill that. Go. I'm like, Dad, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.359 don't do it, man, don't don't care to go. I 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.320 felt bad for the goal. You know, it's it's yelling. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:14.280 It's yelling like those type of experiences they never leave you. 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.080 He didn't say nothing. He said wash this basically, and 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.920 they went over and they they did at me in 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:26.560 let me just say that, and I cried. I started crying, 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:32.240 and my dad, you know, he he was just like this, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.080 this is what being a man is about. This is 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.600 what being a man is about. Stop crying. I'm asking, 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.440 But I assume you didn't eat that goat for dinner. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.960 I did not know, sir, I did. No, sir, I 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.440 did not eat that go I couldn't. You got a 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.879 whooping for either, Yeah, I probably so. I don't remember 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:01.040 the whooping. I just remember the goat probably got mad 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:05.560 that you did. You didn't tough enough. And and he 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.600 saw it. Not when he was doing it, because you cried, 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.679 but he was also doing it. But then that afternoon 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.400 he probably had in his mind, like me and you are, 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.840 that boy better eat that goat. I saw him crying. 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.040 He better suck up them tears and eat that goat. 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:24.280 If he don't eat that goal, he probably had a 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.360 conversation with your mom. If he don't eat that goal, 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.400 I'm telling hoping his ass and he going. We're going 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.320 straight to his room from the from the dinner table 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:34.880 to his room. He going to bed. And don't come 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.399 up there and try to help him. Either don't and 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:39.560 don't get him nothing else. I've been asked for no 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.840 McDonald's cause we ain't got no McDonald's money, no chills, 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.840 not at at that time McDonald's, please man, McDonald's was 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.680 there wasn't no McDonald's within thirty miles of us. That's 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.800 so you didn't eat the go because you was traumatized. Yeah, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.439 I don't remember what I ate that night either, but 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:00.600 I ain't eat that go May about eight. You know, 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.119 I probably ate the vegetables. I'm sure we had like 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.720 greens and mashed potatoes and you know all that good stuff. 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:10.080 I probably ate the rest of that, but left to 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:16.040 go a long, I've never eaten a goat mhm this 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:20.280 day forward, I would never eat to go You know 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:25.800 some things, man, something's just as a kid. As I said, 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.760 it traumatizes you. You know where you you won't you know, 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.960 I didn't want to mess with any goats. But you 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.000 know the crazy thing now, Like I'm a I'm a hunter, 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.720 Like I love going hunting for deer as I call 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:43.880 it buck. I love buck hunting. You know, I love 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:49.119 hogs going hunting for hogs. But goats, I just you know, 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:51.879 I leave him alone, man, Let I let him make it. 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:56.520 We have to take a break and the morning a thing. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:23:05.000 We gotta patient bills. I love cut to it, and 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:09.080 I love it even more when you download us and subscribe, 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.280 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.480 where where at that's at? Cut to it? 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You know, 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:07.560 they they school was was better than ours. They were 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:10.639 able to build a brand new school during my time 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:13.960 in high school where we still had this old school 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:16.520 on my side of town. They were able to build 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:19.280 a brand new football stadium while I was in school 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.360 where we played on the football field that we had 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:25.879 to share with another high school. You know. And you 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:29.800 don't realize these things until you get older and you 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:34.760 see the disparity sometimes in different communities. Um, but you know, 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:38.800 when you're growing up, you you you you may do 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.240 with what you have, as you guys know, you don't 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:45.040 complain about none. You you know, you work for everything 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:49.800 you you get, and you earn everything you get. But 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:52.879 when you get older and you're able to see some 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:56.480 of the disparities in these communities, it shapes you because 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:58.880