1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: What's going on everybody? 2 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: Tory mclaney here for the Falcons and Focus podcast that 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 2: I have been so excited to bring you guys. 4 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: Justin Simmons, Welcome to the podcast. 5 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining me. 6 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. I'm pumped. 7 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 2: Okay, So, as everyone knows, this is a podcast about life, 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 2: not really about football. There's some football questions here and there. Yeah, 9 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 2: but thanks to our sponsorship by Ticketmaster, we get to 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: really dive into who you guys are off the field. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: Let's do and what I want to start with. We 12 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:32,599 Speaker 1: normally don't. 13 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 2: Go in chronological order a lot of times with this 14 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: we just kind of like let it flow. But for 15 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 2: your story, I actually want to go a little bit 16 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: in chronological order. So I want to go back to Stuart, Florida. 17 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,639 Speaker 1: Let's see what was Martin County Tigers. 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 3: Martin County Tigers. 19 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 2: And what I find to be so great about your 20 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: story's start is how integral your high school years. Actually, 21 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: I think we're for save you up for your future 22 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: because one you met your high school sweetheart there first off, 23 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: which she's fantastic. 24 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 3: I honestly I agree. 25 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: I agree, right, No, I hope you to do but she. 26 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 2: Why I know this is because I looked at it. 27 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: I found a photo of you guys, you and her. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: You want to tell me about this thing called the 29 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: Final eight Dance? 30 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 3: Oh no, did you? Did you happen to find footage 31 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 3: of this? 32 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: I didn't find footage of it. Photos of it though? 33 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, the photos you photos are okay, but it's okay. 34 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: So for those that don't know what the Final eight 35 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: Dance is and your role in this, can you please 36 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: tell the people? 37 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:47,919 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so I can't. I can't remember exactly which 38 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 3: I want to say it's I wanted to say it 39 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 3: was homecoming. I do it was it was homecoming, okay, 40 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 3: because it was either homecoming or you know, there's the 41 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 3: end of the year, like I forget which one it was, 42 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 3: but anyway, okay, So it was homecoming. So there's a 43 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: homecoming and a ballot that goes around the school, and 44 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 3: obviously all seniors can be voted, and so once the 45 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 3: initial vote goes in, there's a final eight, four boys, 46 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 3: four girls, and so both Tarn and I were on 47 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 3: the final ballot, and so what happens is there's a homecoming. 48 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 3: I almost said parade, but that's pep rowley, thank you, Yes, 49 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 3: that's exactly what it is. There's a homecoming pep rally, 50 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: so the whole school goes in there. Everyone knows when 51 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: they did high school pep rallies looked like and then 52 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 3: all that happened was like the four guys choreographed to 53 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: dance and the four girls choreographed to dance. 54 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 2: Okay, so tell me the process of Chorea graphing this 55 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 2: dance and who won it? Was the one that all 56 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 2: came did y'all like dance together? Or was it like 57 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: a competition like boys versus the girls? 58 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: Yeah? So what so what ended up happening was we 59 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 3: paired up like two and two. So there's there's two 60 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: guys with two girls and two guys with two girls, 61 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 3: and we kind of we kind of did like a 62 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 3: we did it like like the hood versus like the nerds, 63 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like that's that's that's that's 64 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 3: kind of how we set it up. So I had 65 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 3: like a hat hoodie, you know, like we were trying 66 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 3: to like break dance and they were trying to be 67 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 3: like at first it started for them being like they 68 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 3: had better posture. They came out like really like over exaggerating, 69 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 3: yeah yeah, and then as the dance went on, we 70 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 3: just tried to have fun with it, engage the crowd, 71 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: you know. Then, like you know those dances all they had, 72 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 3: all those pop. 73 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: Dances, like, well I saw that yours was like teach 74 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 2: me how to dog Yeah you know what. 75 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 3: I mean, Like those are the ones, you know, lean 76 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 3: with it, rock with it, like you were just doing 77 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 3: all like the staple dances that you should know. And 78 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: so yeah, it was a great time. I can remember 79 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: that vividly, like I have the picture printed in my head. 80 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 2: Do you think you could do the choreography like today? 81 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: Is it that ingrained in your brain? 82 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, you want me to know I could. 83 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 3: I could. 84 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: There's you just see me like roll out of the seat. 85 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 3: Yeah right now, there's absolutely no way I could do it, 86 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: uh choreographed right now. We spend a good amount of time. 87 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 3: Oh I'm sure, like practicing for that. Oh yeah yeah, 88 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 3: we're afraid. We're nervous front of the whole school, like 89 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So it was good, so great. 90 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: So taren Is I thought that it was really cool 91 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: because I figured she was like pretty awesome. But I 92 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 2: guess I didn't realize like how awesome she was. Like, 93 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 2: wasn't she like in the one thousand club in basketball? 94 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: She was like prom queen. 95 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: She was like yeah. 96 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, prom queen, like homecoming court, Like yeah, she was 97 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: the business. Yea, she sounds freaking awesome. How I guess 98 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: kind of like how are y'all together? Like same but 99 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: even different as you wear back then? 100 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 2: Because it's one thing I think, to like fall in 101 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 2: love when you're super super young, but then to like 102 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 2: build a life together and to change and evolve with 103 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 2: each other. 104 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: I think it's so special. 105 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, we're and we're still learning and evolving 106 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: as we go. You know, it's crazy because I would 107 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 3: say we're very similar. You know, we both grew up 108 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 3: in like Christian households, and then we both are you know, 109 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 3: the general mass of our friends would say, like we're polite, 110 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 3: we're genuine, we're kind right like, so like we kind 111 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 3: of have like these same traits going on. I'm I'm 112 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 3: a little bit more reserved, she's a little bit more outgoing, 113 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 3: and so yeah, yeah, I mean we met through like 114 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 3: mutual friends. My travel basketball coach was her high school 115 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 3: varsity basketball coach, so he put on a camp. We meet, 116 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 3: we're just friends for a couple of years. Yeah, actually, 117 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: like I mean she pulls it from three, it's it's 118 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 3: going in. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, go watch a couple 119 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: of her game. And then she had an opportunity to 120 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 3: go play in college and we did long distance. Then 121 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: we get married, and then you know, we have kids, 122 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 3: and you just like you're just indifferent. You're just figuring 123 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: out who you are as life goes on. Kids adds 124 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 3: a whole another dynamic. But yeah, all in all, you know, 125 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 3: doing life with someone that you know is like in 126 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: your corner and is for you, whether you succeeds, for you, 127 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 3: whether you fail. It's just like the ultimate like stress reliever, 128 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 3: you know, like the weight's off your back. And she's 129 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 3: just been my rock, you know, here on earth, just 130 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: from the beginning. So it's she's she's just been. 131 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: Awesome, a true partnership. 132 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: And I think it's cool too because I found when 133 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 2: I was doing some research, I found the poem that 134 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: you wrote her when you asked her to prom. 135 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: And I think, no, it's so no, it's so cute. 136 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 2: You said, I hope you say yes because I'm not 137 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 2: good at rhymes. But one thing's for sure, I'll be 138 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 2: yours for a lifetime. Snaps for me on that way, Bars, bro, 139 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:03,799 Speaker 2: you're spending bars. 140 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 4: No, it's crazy though that you know people say that 141 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 4: like oh, seventeen sixteen eighteen, like young Love, but like 142 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 4: this turned out to be true, Like at what point 143 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 4: did you and I guess, like your story with Taren, 144 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 4: were you like, oh, no, this is it? 145 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, you know what's crazy even when right in 146 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 3: that I don't know if I was one hundred percent 147 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: sure young Love. Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. And so I 148 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 3: think I I really have to pay just like huge 149 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 3: homage and testament to like my parents, and I think 150 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 3: also even to obviously Tarn and the way that she 151 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 3: was raised. I think having the understanding, like I said, 152 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 3: growing up in a Christian household and having an image 153 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: of what like a healthy marriage should look like and 154 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 3: what that emulates. I think for me knowing that, like 155 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 3: if I'm getting into this sounds really old school, I'm 156 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: about to say, but if I'm getting into like courtship 157 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: with someone, you know what I mean, Like, this is 158 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 3: not something that I'm like, ah, maybe it works, maybe 159 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 3: it doesn't. I'm just kind of feeling this out it's like, hey, 160 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 3: I'm I'm in this, you know what I mean? And 161 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 3: so I'm committed. No, there's no ebb and flows there 162 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 3: up and downs, but there's there's no deterring from us 163 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 3: picking each other and choosing each other every day. And 164 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 3: I don't think, ah, you know, for us then, like 165 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 3: you know, we didn't have the the visual representation of that, 166 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean we're not committed, whether that was 167 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 3: there or not. You know, I think that just is 168 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: the solidifying term, you know, the same way when you 169 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 3: know you get now not to make this like a 170 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 3: like a Christian podcast, like when you get saved. Yeah, 171 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 3: you know, just because you know, you get baptized, that 172 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 3: doesn't mean like, oh, now a sudden, all of a sudden, 173 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 3: I'm saved. Like it's a heart posture thing, you know 174 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 3: what I mean. So like for us it was a 175 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: heart posture thing. Getting married and having the symbolism of 176 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 3: being married was like, you know, kind of the cherry 177 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 3: on top, yeah, and solidifying that. 178 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: But no, that's beautiful. I love that. 179 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 2: And I'm glad that you brought up your parents because 180 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: as I was kind of going through research when you 181 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 2: were coming up into high school. Your dad was actually 182 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 2: a pretty big deal from a football standpoint at your 183 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: high school, and there was a prevailing comment, I think 184 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 2: that you got a lot. 185 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: Is that like your Victor's kid? 186 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: When you think back to that time, what what kind 187 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 2: of sticks out to you about you know, I want 188 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 2: to make my dad proud. I want to live up 189 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 2: to that Moniker, but I also want to kind of 190 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 2: carve my own path. 191 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, one hundred percent. I Uh. I sat 192 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 3: down and did something with him. It was like a 193 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 3: It was like a homecoming deal and we got to 194 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 3: sit down and talk. Like now that I'm in the NFL, 195 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: and you know, he was a really good high school 196 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 3: athlete and college athlete. You know what that looked like. 197 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 3: How was it being raised in the same hometown he 198 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 3: was in where he was looked at as the star 199 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 3: and the whole nine. Yeah, and it was it was different. 200 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 3: It was it was challenging. You know. My dad was. 201 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 3: I always tell people he was like the LeVar Ball 202 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 3: all before LeVar Ball became, you know what I mean. 203 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 2: Now, obviously, like very I saw the quote he said, 204 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 2: I do all the yelling, hollering in the bragging, in 205 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 2: the bragging, so that like, but they have to be humble. 206 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 3: That's him. That's literally him. You know. Now obviously you know, 207 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 3: not even you know, close to the same situation as 208 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: the Ball family. But what I'm what I mean is like, yeah, 209 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 3: I mean he would just throw me into the fire, 210 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 3: and everyone's like, oh, this is a big kid. He's 211 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: gonna be the exact same. And we just played different, 212 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 3: completely different styles of football. You know. He was hard hitting. 213 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: That old school safety style of play is kind of 214 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: like how he played. And I was just fascinated with 215 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 3: like going to go get the football, Like I'm like, oh, 216 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 3: I can play defense and go get the interception. 217 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: I was like a little bit more cerebral. 218 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, why wouldn't I do that? That seems better 219 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,719 Speaker 3: for me. Yeah yeah. And I just think that threw 220 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 3: people off at first, like they just it just wasn't 221 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 3: the same thing as when they saw my dad play. 222 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 3: And so but I just stay true to what I did. 223 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 3: And in the thing about my dad was like he 224 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 3: empowered me in that was like, you don't need to 225 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 3: be me, be you. I believe in you. You believe 226 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 3: in yourself and just go with that and trust that. 227 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 3: So yeah, it's paid dividends thus far. So I'm very 228 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 3: thankful for him. 229 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have a favorite story from your dad 230 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 2: when you were maybe in high school or even younger 231 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 2: years that that kind of encapsulate this this where he 232 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 2: was like I'm the one who's going to be the 233 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 2: vocal leader, Like I'm the one that's gonna get like 234 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 2: super excited when you make a plane. I'm going to 235 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: be the one to tell people around town like that's 236 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 2: my boy. Do you have like a memory that that 237 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 2: sticks out to you? 238 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've mold I probably have too many. 239 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: I just have so many. I'm just like all the time, Like, 240 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: can I talk about my dad? 241 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, I could go on a whole like soap 242 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 3: operapy spree about him, but yes, I would say there's 243 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 3: one that sticks out to me, and it's it's it's 244 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 3: when I knew like, oh, I got to trust the 245 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 3: process with him because he sounds crazy, but he knows 246 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 3: what he's talking about. So we just moved to South 247 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 3: Florida and he's taken me to his stomping grounds, Like 248 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 3: I mean, like we get off, we get out of 249 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 3: the car, we put our bags in like our apartment 250 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 3: that we're like staying at part time, and he's like, justin, 251 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: come with me, and I'm like okay, and he like 252 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 3: grabs my basketball shoes and we go to Salerno and 253 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 3: we go into like pretty much like the middle of 254 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 3: the hood, and we're playing basketball like broad daylight with 255 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 3: everyone in Salerno, like Saturday afternoon, everyone goes there to 256 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 3: go play basketball. And I'm playing with like grown men, 257 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 3: like grown men at the time, like twenty somethings. 258 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like yeah, yeah, guys, like 259 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 2: a what like fifteen sixteen year old grown men. 260 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I don't know. I don't know any better 261 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 3: grown men, high schoolers and then like some kids my 262 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 3: age because I was in middle school then, and so 263 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 3: he's like my son's gotten next, you know, Like I'm like, 264 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 3: oh god, come on, man, I get your from here. 265 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 3: And ever he's dapping everyone up, and you know, so 266 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 3: then like we play, I'm getting elbowed, shoved to the ground, 267 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 3: you know, like the tough love like he's introducing me 268 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 3: to like nah, go get it, and I'm like I 269 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 3: don't even want to play anymore. I'm embarrassed. I didn't 270 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: make any shots, I didn't play well, you know. Then 271 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 3: a couple weeks later, Oh, I'm sorry. A couple weeks 272 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 3: with a couple of weeks later, I try out for 273 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 3: the Murray middle basketball team. And I'm a sixth grader 274 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: and I was only sixth grader to make the team, right, 275 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 3: And so I was already and I was already athletic, 276 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 3: like I could do, you know something, But like just 277 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 3: the when I was going through tryouts and I had 278 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 3: to play with some older guys, like I wasn't playing 279 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 3: with the seventh and eighth graders right like I was 280 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 3: in the tryouts, but a couple weeks prior leading up 281 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 3: to it, I was playing with twenty year olds high schoolers, like, 282 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 3: so he was already prepped. And I didn't see that 283 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 3: when I was in sixth grade and I get into 284 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 3: the car so excited to tell my dad. I'm like, Dad, 285 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 3: I made the team. I made the team. And he 286 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 3: looked at me and he's like, what the mind can 287 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 3: conceive and believe it will achieve and he just like 288 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 3: that was like his motto, you know, for me on 289 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 3: my life. And so yeah, he was awesome. But I 290 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 3: remember that story vividly, like I'm like, oh, this dude, here, 291 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 3: this is going to be. 292 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 2: Trouble honestly, Like, I think that's like parents putting their 293 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 2: kids in situations that will like help them grow and 294 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: learn is like all you can you can ask for. 295 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 2: And I found this quote and I can't remember who 296 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 2: said it now that I'm thinking about it, I think 297 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 2: it was somebody within the Broncos organization, but they were. 298 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 2: They're giving you a compliment that that you have an 299 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: ability to connect with people that's very rare. Do you 300 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 2: think that comes from your dad because kind of hearing 301 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 2: you tell this story where he's going around DAF and 302 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 2: people love like he knows everybody, He's talking to everybody, 303 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: He's very personable. Do you feel like you got that 304 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: from him? 305 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 3: I do? I do. I always tell people like I'm 306 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 3: an introvert at heart. I like to just I just 307 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 3: like to like to have my hood on, like keep 308 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 3: to myself. 309 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: Okay. 310 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 2: I tell people that I'm an introvert with an extrovert 311 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 2: like shell, like I can turn it on when I 312 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 2: need to, but I need to turn it off to 313 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: like recharge. 314 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 3: Yep, yep, one hundred percent. And I think he's he 315 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 3: just always put me in positions where like I've had 316 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 3: to be the leader, and I've had to do X, 317 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: Y and Z. I love leading by example, like I'm 318 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 3: going to do my job. I'm gonna do it at 319 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: a high level. And then you know, sometimes you just 320 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 3: get this overwhelming sense of like I need to speak 321 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 3: up here, and then you have the the hurah speeches. Uh, 322 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 3: and then but I think in general, like, yeah, watching him, 323 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 3: seeing how he operates, because he's an extrovert at its 324 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 3: highest level, it made me so uncomfortable. But he just 325 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 3: slowly was breaking me out of my shell. And so 326 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 3: I obviously know how to operate like at an extrovert 327 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 3: level and need to when you're playing football anyways, with 328 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 3: the communication aspect of it. But yeah, so I think 329 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 3: I did, you know, learn that from him. And also 330 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 3: you know, you just never know, like I was always 331 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 3: raised with, like you never know how much like looking 332 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 3: someone in the eye, saying hello and just having a 333 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: conversation does for someone, It really does matter. And just 334 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 3: little things like that that my parents kind of taught 335 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 3: me and raised me with and it just stuck with me. 336 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 3: So it's like it's like second nature now, not just 337 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 3: passing by like a quick you know, like look someone 338 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 3: in the eye, talked to him, have a conversation. It's okay, 339 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 3: It'll be all right. 340 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like your head's not going to fall off, 341 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 2: it's going to be okay. I want to stay in 342 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: this kind of realm of thought where you're talking about 343 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 2: like your hometown and the connections that you may do it. Now, 344 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 2: is it true that you had a sandwich named after you? 345 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 3: Oh, Mike Ranaldi. Yes, they're great sandwiches, by the way, 346 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 3: he ever in Porcela Stuart, Florida. His shops in Jupiter now, which. 347 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 2: Is close Rinaldi's is a sandwich shop. It is, And 348 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 2: you had a sandwich called the Jasions. Can you tell 349 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: people what? 350 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 3: How? 351 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 2: Okay, first off, I have a few questions about sandwich. 352 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: One. 353 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: This was like a place that you would go to 354 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: frequently in high school. 355 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, how did. 356 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: You How did the process go along? 357 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: Like did he just come out to you and like hey, man, 358 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: like I know you get this every time you come 359 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 2: in here, Like what's the process. 360 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 3: So, so Mike's the man, first of all, he's got 361 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 3: to be one of the like jolliest humans I've ever met. 362 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 3: Like he's just some pure joy mode twenty four to seven. 363 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 3: So Bernaldis was a sandwich shop that was close to 364 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 3: our high school. And I don't know if it was 365 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 3: like this at every high school, but we literally lived 366 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 3: like our high school was positioned like right down the 367 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 3: street from like a like a super shopping mall spot. 368 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 3: So like there was restaurants everywhere. So like when it 369 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 3: was time to go to lunch, and you have an 370 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 3: off campus pass and you could drive, you just popped over, 371 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 3: you know, forty five minute lunch break, so you pop 372 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 3: over grab something. So a lot of us would go 373 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 3: to Mike's. And I say all this to say, like 374 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 3: I used to go to Mike's all the time. And 375 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 3: it used to be for some reason, it was called 376 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 3: Row three. That's the sub that was what it was called. 377 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 3: So I used to get the Road three all the time. 378 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 3: It's like I'm one of those guys that like I 379 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 3: don't really switch up. I go to a restaurant, I 380 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 3: find yeah, yeah, I find something. I like, yeah, I'm 381 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 3: getting I'm gonna try something different, and I get there, 382 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 3: I get the same thing. So I just kept getting 383 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: the Road three, the Road three. And I couldn't even 384 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 3: tell you, to be completely honest, like all what it's 385 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 3: like bacon mayo. It's like toasted. I think there's lettuce, 386 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 3: there's chicken. 387 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 2: I think I saw it was like like a little 388 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 2: bit of buffalo chicken. 389 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it's buffalo. Yeah yeah. And he toasts, 390 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 3: he toasted it, and it's just like it's so good. 391 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 3: It's so good. I don't know how he does it. 392 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 3: And then so what you do is like he's always 393 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 3: like you get a you get a sub and a handshake. 394 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 3: That's like his thing. So he hands to your sub 395 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 3: and he's like thank you so much and firm handshake 396 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 3: and so so after a while, like I got that 397 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 3: for I don't know, like two years straight, junior and 398 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 3: senior year. I went off campus two years straight, almost 399 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 3: like every day, I'm getting the road three sub, go 400 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 3: off to college. I would come back occasionally go see him, 401 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 3: go to the pros, come back on the off season, 402 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 3: occasionally go see him. And then one off season I 403 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 3: come back and he's like, I'm gonna change the sub 404 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 3: to your name, and I'm like, sweet, I'm still I'm 405 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 3: gonna come get it. So now it's number thirty one 406 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 3: on the list. There's a hundred and plus subs on there, 407 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 3: and it's called the j Sims. Oh, I love that. 408 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: Sorry, honestly, if I ever get down. 409 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 3: There, it's great, you'll love it. 410 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 2: So I I'm really kind of I want to give 411 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 2: you an opportunity to talk a little bit about your 412 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 2: faith because I know that's such a huge part of 413 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: your life. And is it true that you and your 414 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 2: dad were actually baptized together? 415 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: I love that. 416 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: I the reason I asked because my grandfather was like 417 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 2: Bramstone Fire Baptist preacher and this suff like in the South, 418 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: and like he baptized me. So I relate to the 419 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 2: like having the family connection to your faith and everything 420 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:46,479 Speaker 2: like that. But what role did your father play in 421 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 2: establishing your faith? And also, even now that he's no 422 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 2: longer here physically, how does he continue to shape that? 423 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so good. That's a great question. So my family, 424 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 3: my mom and my dad. If you can't tell, my 425 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: mom is white, my dad is black. And so you 426 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 3: know they were when they were dating and they were 427 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 3: in courtship, there there was a lot of tension on 428 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 3: both sides of their families, like now, we don't really 429 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 3: agree with this, and so that's that's a tough place 430 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 3: to be. And so you know, they didn't have family 431 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 3: to fall back on, so like naturally, they kind of 432 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: just fell into a relationship with the Lord as like 433 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 3: their rock and foundation. And that's how I was raised. 434 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 3: I'm the oldest. I have two younger brothers, so that's 435 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 3: kind of how we were raised. And then once I 436 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 3: became of age and I kind of understood like what 437 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 3: a relationship with the Lord looked like, I understood the 438 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 3: basics of of my faith, and I you know, told 439 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 3: my dad, I'm like, man, I would love to get baptized. 440 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 3: Excuse me, And he was like, I would love to 441 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 3: get baptized with you, because he had been baptized, but 442 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 3: then he had like walked away and then like refound 443 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 3: his faith when he was with my mom and the 444 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 3: whole nine, but hadn't got like baptized for it because 445 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 3: you know, like I was saying earlier, you know, baptism 446 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 3: is just an outward expression from an inward decision, right, 447 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 3: And so he's like, man, I would love to And 448 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 3: so we got baptized in my grandma's church, Southern Baptist 449 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 3: Church in Tallahassee, where you know that on on the 450 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 3: sheet it says from eight to ten, but you're there 451 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 3: from eight to twelve thirty. 452 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're there. 453 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 3: All the time. 454 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 2: And like they have my grandfather's church had what they 455 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 2: called supper Night, which was like every. 456 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 3: Like you're there all day, you're there all. 457 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 1: The time, and you're eating content. 458 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, yes, you're eating all the time. You're 459 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 3: there all day. And so that was what I grew 460 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 3: up with at church. So then we got baptized together, 461 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 3: and you know, I'm in to get to your question 462 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 3: about just like how he shaped like kind of like 463 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 3: my life and I learned so much from him. There 464 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: are so many things that I did even know about 465 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 3: my dad until he passed, about like generational curses that 466 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 3: he was breaking a lot of because he didn't have 467 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 3: a dad when he was growing up, and like just 468 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 3: the way that he operated. Nothing was perfect in our house. 469 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: Nothing. 470 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 3: He's a hard he was he was he was, he 471 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 3: was my coach, my whole he was a hard. He 472 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 3: was hard on me all the time. But now, like 473 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 3: as I'm older, I have young children and just like 474 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 3: seeing how he operated, man, I'm so beyond thankful for him. 475 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 3: I said it in like, uh, pretty much like my 476 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 3: eulogy to him when when I was at his funeral. 477 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 3: I was like, man, I'm just I'm so thankful for 478 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 3: you for like saving my life, introducing me to life 479 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 3: with Christ. I'm thankful for the generation generational curses that 480 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 3: you broke. And you know, I promise to continue like 481 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 3: the legacy of passing this down to my kids and 482 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 3: from our kids to theirs and then so on and 483 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 3: so forth. And so he's just been, i mean, an instrumental, 484 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 3: solid foundation in my life from day one, and I'm 485 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 3: just beyond thankful for him. And obviously all that starts 486 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 3: with being baptized, but having him as a as a 487 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 3: fi year in my life for so long, I've learned 488 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 3: so much from them. And yeah, like you said, I'm 489 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 3: still learning things as I go to of course. Yeah. 490 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 2: And it I saw you had posted or something something 491 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 2: along the lines of like what I do in my 492 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: life is to not prove haters wrong. It's to prove 493 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: my dad right and what he believed of me. How 494 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 2: do you feel like you live that out at this 495 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 2: juncture in your life. 496 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's good. It's like that that to me 497 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 3: is like a constant reminder of like what you're filling 498 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 3: your head with and who you're allowing to like have headspace, 499 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 3: you know, in your own headspace and who you're having right, 500 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 3: your narratives for you and things like that. And I 501 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 3: think everyone says that, right, Like my haters are my motivators, 502 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 3: and I'm always always I've always like questioned, you know that, 503 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 3: not that that's a bad thing. I think For me though, 504 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 3: I'm just like, I don't I don't really want to 505 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 3: listen to like my haters, because you know, they're always 506 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 3: going to have them, like, like no matter how good, 507 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 3: like like Lebron has haters, right, you know what I mean, 508 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 3: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, like there's there's there's always gonna 509 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 3: be haters. So I don't need to listen to the 510 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,239 Speaker 3: hate to know that I have haters, Like I know 511 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 3: that you're gonna have haters no matter what you do, 512 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 3: playing professional sports, doing podcasts like whatever you. 513 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 2: Do, especially in this day and age where everybody has 514 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 2: the opportunity to voice. 515 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 3: Their opinions, you're gonna hear it, right, And so for me, 516 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 3: I'm like, my my motivation, man, I want to prove 517 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 3: the people that are in my corner, right, And my 518 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 3: dad was always I mean, like from the loudest of 519 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 3: loud people like in my corner, like my son's gonna 520 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 3: get this done. He's the he can do this, he 521 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 3: could do that. Da da da da da da. And 522 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I'm gonna proven right. He believes in 523 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 3: me this much. I'm proven right. So that was like 524 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 3: always like, yeah, I always wanted to manifest that in 525 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 3: myself right, and I want to I'm going to pass 526 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 3: out on you know, like to my kids and and 527 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 3: you know, so that's always been a huge blessing too 528 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 3: to me, having that as like my you know, like 529 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 3: my motivational factor. And in terms of like how is 530 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 3: it going now, I think it's still going. I think 531 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 3: it like I like all things, nothing's perfect. You always 532 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 3: wish you could have, like even a football a playback, 533 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 3: a series back, you know, whatever the case may be. 534 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 3: But I would say like just being written off pretty 535 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 3: much like my whole career, my whole life, and you know, 536 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 3: being where I am now, not at all satisfied, but 537 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 3: knowing that like I'm proving him right each day you 538 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 3: know that I get to step in and play on 539 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 3: the field and and I'm having a successful marriage. I'm 540 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 3: having you know, I have kids, Like there's so many 541 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 3: factors in my life that he was just supportive and 542 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 3: there for me when a lot of people weren't, and 543 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 3: it's just proven him right. Oh. 544 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: I love it. 545 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 2: I think there's so much power in that. And thank 546 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 2: you for sharing that, because I know it's not easy 547 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 2: to talk about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I truly appreciate it. 548 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,959 Speaker 2: And I know we need to wrap up the podcast. 549 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: So what we do to end on a fun note? 550 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 2: We have a game that we play its rapid Fire Questions. 551 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: Everybody gets kind of the same general question. The first 552 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 2: four everybody has the same questions. The last one is 553 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 2: kind of tailored to you. 554 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so four general questions, last ones tailored to me. Yes, correct, 555 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 3: all right, I'm ready, rapid fire. First thing that comes 556 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 3: to your mind. 557 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: Okay, favorite play of your career the. 558 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 3: Blocked punt or I mean blocked extra point against the 559 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 3: Saints my rookie year and we returned it for two 560 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 3: to win the game. 561 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, Okay. Favorite athlete regardless of sport 562 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. Okay, yeah, Kobe for sure. 563 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. We've talked about Leron and Kobe in the same podcast, 564 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 2: which I think is like pretty that's pretty crazy. Come on, 565 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: what does a TV show and or movie that you 566 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 2: would recommend to the people. 567 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 3: Oh, I have so many Dark Matter I just watched 568 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 3: it recently. It's on Apple TV. 569 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: I was about to say, I don't know what that is. 570 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's it's about time travel. If I had 571 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 3: to say movie also in the time travel range, I 572 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 3: would say Tenant blows your mind. It's an unbelievable. 573 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 2: Movie that leads of into our next one. If you 574 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 2: could have any superpower, what superpower would you be? 575 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: Would you have? 576 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 3: My mind's easy, I would. I'm always been a flash guy, 577 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: so I'm speed. I want to ask, Yeah, super speed? 578 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 3: You know, no speed? I can even time travel? You 579 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 3: know that that type? So it get ties in a 580 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 3: little bit. It does. 581 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 2: That makes sense deep because technically the Flash does time 582 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 2: travel multiple times. 583 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's jumping through many dimensions. 584 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 3: It's crazy the whole thing. 585 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: No, I love it. 586 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 2: And then last question, who on the team who doesn't 587 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 2: have kids? I feel like that's an important one. Who 588 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 2: on the team who doesn't have kids? Would you allow 589 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 2: to babysit yours? And I've seen your kids. 590 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: They're adorable. 591 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 2: Justin showed me their Halloween costumes a couple of weeks ago, 592 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 2: and they were they're inside out and they're so cute. 593 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 3: Yeah. Ye oh, put me on the spot. Okay, doesn't 594 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 3: have kids? Wow, to watch my kids? Because I was 595 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 3: such a tough I know. 596 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 2: It's hard because I would say, like normally, I would 597 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 2: feel like, oh, I'll. 598 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 3: Just say Jesse because that was my first one. I know, 599 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 3: but he has a kid, I know, little boy. 600 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, like in the dB rooms, guys who 601 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 2: don't have kids, like Clark. 602 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: But Clark, I know he's about but he's not there yet. 603 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 3: Does that count? 604 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: I feel like he's not he's not a father yet, 605 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 2: so he doesn't have practice yet with his own children. 606 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, just to be safe, I would I would 607 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 3: have said Clark, right, okay, But if I had to 608 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 3: absolutely give like a different answer, i'd probably say I 609 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 3: probably say Zach Harrison really would. 610 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 2: Okay, I've had a conversation with Zach Harrison about how 611 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 2: much he doesn't like kids. 612 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 3: Oh that's never mind. 613 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: I would I will say babies. He was like, I'm 614 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: a little afraid of babies. 615 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 3: He was like, I'm really big and small. Yeah, he 616 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 3: could just hold him like that. Maybe on like two fingers. 617 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 2: Actually, now, Zack, that's a great answer because I think 618 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: I feel like Zach can handle himself and he's a 619 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 2: big enough presence that they won't mess with him. 620 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 4: Yeah. 621 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he have the authoritative presence about him. Yeah, 622 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 3: he'll get stuff done. He's a good time, he's a 623 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 3: good dude. 624 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 625 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 3: I love that. 626 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my gosh, I love it. This has been 627 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: such a great conversation. 628 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,479 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me and for chatting 629 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 2: with the people as well. 630 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: The guys. 631 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 2: You can check out our entire podcast channel on YouTube, Spotify, 632 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 2: Apple pod, anywhere that you can get your podcast. This 633 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: has been the Falcons and Focused podcast, brought to you 634 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 2: by ticket Master Justin Simmons. 635 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me. 636 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. Until next time.