1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: I'd love to be rooted here, but at the same time, 2 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: like it's out of my control. So why are worried 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: about one song turned me in the country like it was? 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: It was ridiculous Tray Sacken's honky talking donkey in life 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: and the job, like sometimes you gonna get little poop 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: on you know it is. Welcome into the lounge. I'm 7 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: Ryan Mink and I'm Garrett Downing, and we have the 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: pleasure of being joined today by one of our favorite 9 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 1: guys in the locker room, Brandon Williams. Before we get 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: to Brandon, though, keep sending in those reviews ratings, we're 11 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: almost two hundred. I don't think we've topped it yet, 12 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: right Garrett, We haven't yet, but it's by the time 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: this podcast goes live. My hope is that we have 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 1: by I'm gonna get all my friends all that it's 15 00:00:58,280 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: time to get on the friend band wagon, just to 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: watches over the hump once again. Can I just read 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: this email real quickly? This one actually just came in. 18 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 1: Is from Steve. It's a picture of Steve with a 19 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: picture of him holding a case of pump king and 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: he says, and it says, any chance you guys won't 21 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: reconsider the policy of fan guests. Have them in. Bring 22 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: him Steve knows the way to our heart. That awesome. 23 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: That is fantastic. And like we said last week, we 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: haven't gotten any yet, but please do record your questions 25 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: or comments or whatever you want recorded on just your 26 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: audio device and email it to us here at the 27 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. So, Garrett, let's 28 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: just jump right into it. We are happy to be 29 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: joined by Brandon Williams, a K. Big Big is Okay, 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: we call you big bab? Is that only the players 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: can I don't think we'll get you don't want to 32 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: call full player baby. I mean any sense of the work. 33 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: It's good, but I mean it's just more of a 34 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: I got who called me that spears and Chris Canny 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: started calling me that and then just I mean that's 36 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: my The thing is like big baby is like I've 37 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: been called big baby since I've been little. So it's like, 38 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: actually I was like a normal I think eight pounds, 39 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: Like that's like normal. Yeah, So I mean I'm no 40 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: near what my kids are today. Was so seriously, your 41 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: kids what was projected to be like eleven three but 42 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: he came out like ten three. It's still a big yeah. 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: My first one was nine one and they're both like 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: twenty two inches long. So these are gonna be future 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: football players. What did you get big? Were you a big? Yeah? 46 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: I've always been a big kid, and then I started 47 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: playing football and found the weight room. So that's kind 48 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: of I mean, it's just kind of I guess exploded 49 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 1: it a little bit. You mean, I've always been big. 50 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: I've always had kind of like the structure, but just 51 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: never the actual equipment to do it. Okay, so so 52 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: you're a pretty strong zeed would you say that? Well, 53 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: usually we're on the lounge couch. This question was intended 54 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: for us being on the couch. Could you pick up 55 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: a couch with GARYT and I both sitting on at 56 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: the same time, like get it above your head? Like 57 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: could that happen? Um depends on much of ways. I 58 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: mean I used to be able to press over my 59 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: head over like four pounds. So what do you you're about? 60 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: I mean it feels like even on the bar maybe, 61 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: I don't know, couch might be awkward. You'll be able 62 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: to do it the weight wise, but when we started 63 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: having all sad That's where it gets from tricky. You've 64 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: got Yonda Steve Smith and to all sugs, you're gonna 65 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: wrestle one of them? I always say, fight, you're gonna 66 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: wrestle one of them? Who you picking? Mm hmm, I 67 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: would say, well, me and sids always wrestle like it's 68 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: kind of like just like not like wrestle wrestle on 69 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: the ground, but like lock up and like mess around. 70 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: I wouldn't pick Yonda just because I want, you know, 71 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: because I feel like, if you're gonna go get somebody, 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: might as well go against like one of the toughest 73 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: guys in the team, So right, might as well you 74 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: want to to toe with you and Yonda. Yeah, I 75 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: mean you and Yanna go to toe to toe on 76 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: the practice field all the time, right, don't you all 77 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: in channing camp? So baby, yeah, I mean, not wrestle, 78 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: but like just like pushing shot like but it's Yonda 79 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: at the same time, So it's like there's a respect factor. 80 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: So on the field, like I'm not going like a 81 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: full speed like I would go at like Alex Louis 82 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: or Herschel or something like that. Yeah, but in the 83 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: wresting match, we want to throw the respect thing out 84 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: the window. Yeah, it's going down. So is it fair 85 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: you're probably the strongest guy on the team. Is that 86 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: fair to say? Who would who challenges you the most 87 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: for that title? I would say probably now. I mean, 88 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: if I to think about it, I would say Pierce. 89 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: Really yeah. I mean he's short, stocky, little bone buys, 90 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: got you know, big legs and all that stuff. You know, 91 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: he's kind of squatty. So I think, you know, he 92 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: could I think I'm thinking he could beat me. But 93 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: he's close young buck buck. You know, he's gotta wats go. 94 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: You got ways to go. But I mean, did you 95 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: never do one of those strongman competitions? Because I feel 96 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: like I could see you as one of those guys 97 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: that pulls the you know, or something like that commercial 98 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: where he was wearing the flannel and being like the 99 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: trucker guy. I used to actually watch those as growing 100 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: up as a kid, and I was like, man, I 101 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: want to do that. I'd be cool to do that. 102 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: And I've always I've said this before, I'm like, Mandy, 103 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: that's football, you know, depending on how my body feels 104 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: and all that stuff, obviously, but why not, you know, 105 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: why not do like a strong man competition or a 106 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: local just to see, you know, just to have fun. Right, 107 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: have you ever thrown like one of those huge like 108 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: treat like logs, you know, like that, like the one 109 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: like the Scotland kind of game kind of things like that. No, 110 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: I haven't. But one of the gyms I work out 111 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: at over like the break and like summer, I'll season 112 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: stuff actually has a room who has Atlas stones and 113 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So they actually like have like a 114 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: little set up like for a strong man. So you're 115 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: kind of into some of the weird training stuff and 116 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: not just like weight room like, yeah, stuff, My job 117 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: is moving, Like that's my job. I moved, So what's 118 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: better than for me the actual move like sleds and 119 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: or like grab flip tires and all that stuff. So 120 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not stationary when I when I work out. Right, 121 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: So before you were wrestling football players, you were wrestling 122 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: porta potties. So we got to talk a little bit 123 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: about this. Uh, you understand, first had a job haul 124 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: and beer for Miller. Yeah right, and you quit that 125 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: job to work for contractors equipment kind of delivering and 126 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: cleading porta potties. Yeah, why would you, why would you 127 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: ever quit as a college kid. You're delivering beer. It 128 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: doesn't get better than that. But the thing is, I 129 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: had a bunch of jobs, like sorry, so not really 130 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: a bunch, but I mean I had the willing beer 131 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: and that was cool, you know. I'm especially when I 132 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: turned twenty one and I got get free beer on 133 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: the weekends and stuff like that. Um, but going from 134 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: it being scorching hot hundred and something the grees and 135 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: going to a cold freezer like back and forth, like 136 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: about to catch the money in there, and I'm never 137 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: like the worst were like we had to like a 138 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: thirty pack Keystones, but it was horrible. But at the 139 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: same time, like on the weekends when I was done 140 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: at night, I was a bouncer, so I was already 141 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: like in that scene anyway. So I mean the extra 142 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: beer or whatever, Yeah exactly, I can just go and 143 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: have a body buy it for me and I'm just 144 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: like whatever, So, yeah, did you ever have how many 145 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: people did you throw at the club? Like I'm not 146 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: messing anybody when you're the bouncer, Yeah, I few, I mean, 147 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: but the thing is, like it's it's rarely the big 148 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: dudes that kind mess with you. It's still exactly like 149 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: a small you know, the attitude and got the little 150 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: liquid courage and them things they can you know, push 151 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: your shove around, you know, And I'm like, you know, 152 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: it's just one of those things. Is like the thing 153 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: is I would I wouldn't say I was like the 154 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: toughest one. I mean, definitely, I'm like a tough guy. 155 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: But we had this little guy like Steve Smith's eyes 156 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: who would like knock you out in the heartbeat like 157 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,119 Speaker 1: he was. He was the one you have to worry about. 158 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: Like it was the craziest thing I've seen him. Literally 159 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: knocked two people out in the same motion. Oh yeah. 160 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: We had yeah, Like we had like a like serious 161 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: like we had like a block. When the Black Party, 162 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: it was like, you know, we were at the bar, 163 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: you know, I was bouncing all sup. We was closing time, 164 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: trying to push people out, like guys still trying to 165 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: get my drink, let me get the left one. And 166 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: the guy was like, no, get out. So we finally 167 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: get everybody out and he's like, hey man, gotta go, 168 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: Yetta get out. You know, you gotta leave the premises, 169 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: leaves parking lot. Let's go, come on, get out. This 170 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: dude's like, no, I'm not gonna got weird. I'm gonna 171 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: do this. I'm like, dude, no, you gotta get out. 172 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: So a little guy's name was Jason. The little guy 173 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: comes out. He's like, man, you gotta go. Dude. The 174 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: guy swung on him. Jason like he moved back and 175 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: missed him and liked tipped his like ticked his hat 176 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: a little bit. He had a hat on, and then 177 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: like from the same motion he went back and just boom, 178 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: his buddy came up and then the left hand boom, 179 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: just like and they're both sleep. Abuls had to come 180 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: and literally ambulance had to come. And the dude finally 181 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: woke up and he's like, dude, what happened? And I 182 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: guess like one of his other buddies like, dude, you 183 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: got knocked out, you got knocked out. You looked at you. 184 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: He's like he did it like a little guy. I 185 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: mean the worst I think, the worst thing I do 186 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: through the guy through a taxi window. We got to 187 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: hear this story. I mean, he's one of those things, 188 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: like I think maybe the same night it was just 189 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: like guys like trying to get out and the guys 190 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: trying to get back in or do whatever. I'm like, dude, stop. 191 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: So I'm like I kind of like hem them up 192 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: and then like you know how you like push your 193 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: guy against the wall. It's like chill out. I guess 194 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: they're just a taxi there and just boom and just 195 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: went through the taxi window. Like I don't want to 196 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: hear something else that like unexpectedly happened because you're stronger 197 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: than you even realize, Like like I don't know, you 198 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: got open a cart in the milk and it just goes. 199 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: You're thinking of the old Superman potato chip bag and 200 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: just like you just have to pull dainty and just 201 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: strips all over and stuff like That's what's something that 202 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: happens all the time, like that or one story that 203 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: you can remember. I think it's just like messing around 204 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: with even guys on the team or buddies, and I'm 205 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: just like they're like tapping planes ha ha, like pushing 206 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: a little just like you're not coming around, they fly over, 207 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: Like dude, whoa, you just can't be coming around hit 208 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: people like that, Like I barely touched. He was like nah, No, 209 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: your touch is a different touch than Angel Levine does 210 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: all the time. I come up like it's Anthony Bowman. 211 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: He's like, man, dude, gonna be at me like that. 212 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: It's fun. So it would be one of those things 213 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: like you really don't know your strength until when I 214 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: guess someone tells you. It's one of those things. With me, 215 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: it's like like you know, like real like I'm talking 216 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: about like just I know, like a real brawl, Like 217 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: it's one of those things that I've never been like 218 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: real brawl, nothing like bouncing, but like to get like 219 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: a real bral with somebody and to me to just 220 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: like unleash and go crazy like I'm scared like because 221 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: of what people tell me when I'm barely even touching, 222 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: Like well if I was just like haul off and 223 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: just like literally like punching the face and like what's 224 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: gonna happen when everybody kills somebody, I could would you 225 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: ever do it? And stuff? Because really, actually I was, 226 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: I was about to. I was about to. Football didn't 227 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,239 Speaker 1: work out. I had a gym ready to go, Okay 228 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: I did, So I was just one of those things 229 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: that is like you know what, football don't work out, 230 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: then I can just you know, d M M A 231 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: I'm a decent wrestler. I think, you know, I wrestled 232 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: a little bit in like middle school and whatever, and 233 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: but I was like, you just football worked out, so 234 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: never know, first career strongman contests and m m A, 235 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: seriously gonna be busy. So we got on the jobs, 236 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: you know, the college job. The other college job Brian 237 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: brought up is the portero. So we got some good 238 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: bouncing stories. You got to tell us a good story 239 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: about holding around these porter parties. Oh man, oh there's amember. 240 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: We had like a camera crew follow me around one 241 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: day and we were at this place called d Day, 242 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: which is like a huge like world like it's like 243 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: a pay ball tournament, and literally they got the tank 244 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: set up and all that stuff, but we had the reporter. 245 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: It's like porty porter parties out there. You had to 246 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: go back and clean them all and all that stuff 247 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: and refill them. So we got a camera crew with 248 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: me and people throw You have no idea what in 249 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: these porter parties. Like you suck up some stuff and 250 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: it gets clogged and then you have to like literally 251 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: go in there and reverse it and have it blowback out. 252 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: So you like you're trying to not get so yeah, 253 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: it was one of those times where the blowout kind 254 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: of didn't get contained by the door I was behind 255 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: and you kind of like get stuff on you and 256 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So yeah, I remember, and I wiped 257 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: down and all that stuff and you know Sands hand 258 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: sanitizer and soap for whatever. And I looked in the 259 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: camera was like, man, sometimes you gotta get a little 260 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: poop on you like and then like it came became 261 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: like something because like in life, like in life and 262 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: the job, like sometimes you gonna get little poop on 263 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. So I think 264 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: that was like the worst times. And like usually I 265 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: treat chat the porter parties like offensive linement, you know 266 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: sometimes when we prom on the trailer, like you get 267 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: in the stance and just like him set up where 268 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: it's leaning like pretty nice and just say that phone 269 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: and just throw them over. So it was pretty fun. 270 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: Also I did like some ninja stuff was just like 271 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: if it was like sometimes you gotta go to the yard, 272 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: like straighten up the porter potties, clean the mouth they've 273 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: been sitting so long, and like dust them off and 274 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: all stuff. So I'll be running around like doing running 275 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: jump kicks in the porter and stuff like that. So, 276 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: I mean it was fun. It was a good time. 277 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: And then like when my football buddies got on with me, 278 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: so it was me and him in the summer, and 279 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: then after that we bounced at the same club too, 280 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 1: so it was like it was a great time. We 281 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: were getting Hey, I thought it was like richest man ever. Yeah, 282 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: I was like, weren't like making like and then I 283 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: bounced and make another ten bucks an hour, so the 284 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: beer plus the free so it's oh, construction sites for 285 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: the worst. How did But I think it's crazy that, 286 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: like you quit that job getting up on you eight 287 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: what was eight months before you were drafted? Like you 288 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: had that job up until basically you were playing in 289 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 1: the NFL. H What did it feel like to quit 290 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: that job and be like, all right, you know what, 291 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: now I'm an NFL football player. That's why I'm gonna 292 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: quit my job. It was I mean, it was nice, 293 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: I guess, I mean it was great. It was a 294 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: great feeling because it was one of those things. It 295 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: humbled me a lot, you know, just be like, this 296 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: is why I never want to go back to I mean, 297 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: I missed, but don't worry. But the weird thing is 298 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: I kind of miss it. It's fun, like, but it's 299 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: like I've done like one of the dirtiest jobs and 300 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: having a chance to come to like this high profile job, 301 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: you know, it makes you look at this job and 302 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: never want to look back. I'm gonna take this and 303 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: roll with it as far as I possibly can, because 304 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: I never want to go back and doing that right, 305 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: you know, And I don't want my kids to go 306 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: up and do that right. And I mean, you came, 307 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: you come from really humble beginnings, and your mom worked 308 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: your tail off as well, kind of support you and 309 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: two siblings, right, and so can you talk a little 310 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: bit about the day that she packed everything up in 311 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: the Bonneville and you guys became officially homeless. How much 312 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: My mom is my biggest hero for sure, because as 313 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: much as she worked her butt off, she always had 314 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: smile on her face, and you never knew things were 315 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: going wrong. Like even though you're like, you'd be like, well, 316 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: why do we gotta do this? Why are we eating 317 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: you know, dinner by candle light? You know, and she 318 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: just like, oh, you were just camping, you know, like 319 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that, Like she just like make 320 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: it to where you can still be a kid and 321 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: I have to worry about the real life of her 322 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: adult problems. And she always has smile on the faces, 323 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: which and I take it to account every day when 324 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: I wake up. It's like, I'm just like, you know, 325 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: even if things are going bad, don't let them take 326 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: your smile away, because I mean, you're gonna get through it. 327 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay, you know. So and in that 328 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: saying like it was that day we uh actually came 329 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: home from her game or like football practice, and I 330 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: just saw a U haul truck in front of the house, 331 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's going on? And she was like, 332 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: we gotta go, And I'm like, what happened. I'm like, 333 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: she just said, we gotta go, and I was like, 334 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: all right, cool, we gotta go. And we got to 335 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: the point where, you know, we weren't like technically homeless homeless, 336 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: but like a home of our own, you know, like 337 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: having our own place, like we stayed at my grandparents house, 338 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: you know, we stayed at you know, cousin's house and 339 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: stuff like that. But other than that, I mean, it 340 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: was one of those things where you know, I was 341 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: just I was still being a kid as playing sports. 342 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: I was in football and under the basketball, and then 343 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: after that was track and field. So I mean we 344 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: did that for a while, moving around, and you know, 345 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: it just kinda made me work even harder to know, 346 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: like to see what's going on. Like I mean, I'm 347 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: a kid, but at the same time, I'm not stupid, 348 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: you know, to see what's going on and be like, 349 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: you know what, one day my mom has never had 350 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: to work again. One day, my mom, you know, we'll 351 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: never be in this position. Will I'll never had my kids, 352 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: you know, wonder you know, why isn't anything in the 353 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: refrigerator or when where in the next meal coming from. 354 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, my mom worked her 355 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: butt off, and you know, you know, sometimes you gotta 356 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: work your butt off the have room over your head, 357 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,959 Speaker 1: you know. I mean sometimes you have to give, you know, 358 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: give and take a little bit, you know, all but 359 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 1: we don't have lights this week, but we have roof 360 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: over head or you know, go to your buddy's house 361 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: to eat, but you know we still have you know, 362 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: cable or roof roof over your head. You know, stuff 363 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: like that, Like you kind of have to be all right, 364 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: what's better you know, you know this or that. So 365 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: I remember talking to your mom too, and she was 366 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: like the worst part of the situation then was that 367 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: Brandon was hitting a gross fur right when money was tightest, 368 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: So she's eating us out of house. And that's how 369 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: you Yeah, like the thing is, my friends were so 370 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 1: cool because some of them were in like a similar 371 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: situation as me, but they just had a little bit more. So, 372 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: you know, when we finally got a place, you know, 373 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: we gotta finally got an apartment out to where my 374 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: school district was. I'd still sometimes go over to my 375 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: buddy's house and have dinner there or eat lunch over there, 376 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: but sometimes I was always with him anyway, So is 377 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: just like a you know, continuing thing. It always just happened. So, 378 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,239 Speaker 1: I mean, but that definitely brought me up to you know, 379 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: just to be humble, you know, like knowing where I 380 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: came from and knowing what I'm doing right now and 381 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: having the luxury of never having my kids to do 382 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: that and also still working towards my mom never working again. 383 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: It's you strike me as someone who genuinely kind of 384 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: the point you're talking about, you genuinely love being an 385 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: NFL player. I still remember the day that you're for 386 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: first year. I think you we showed up in a 387 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: shirt and tide and you were excited to be here. 388 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: And I don't think the smile on your face is 389 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: left since you've been here. I mean, is that something 390 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: that you because of those because of that upbringing, the 391 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: experiences that you've had, you are someone that wants to 392 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: just cherish kind of every day that you have in 393 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: this league. I mean definitely why not? Because this is 394 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: you know this, I love doing this. I mean I 395 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: mean not many people can play a game, you know, 396 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: for work all day. I show up and cut off 397 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: T shirts and shorts if I want to. You know, 398 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: I never are you back in that shirt and tiger 399 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: you know on Saturdays on Sundays, you know, still like um, 400 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: but I mean coming coming in, you know, to just 401 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: win the super Bowl, you know, coming into an organization 402 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: like this, I mean, I'm just up to the nine 403 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: because one I want to spot on the team. You know, 404 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to look my best, let them know I 405 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: mean business as much as they do, you know. Um. 406 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: And then I'm walking in, I feel kind of overdressed 407 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: because everyone's in sweatpants and t shirts and something. I'm 408 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: just walking around like, you know what, I'm rocking this. 409 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna rock this because I mean, 410 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: they just stand out and like people notice that and 411 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: you gotta still talk about today, and you know, it's 412 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: just kind of who I am. I mean, I'm gonna 413 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: dress and do what I need to do to get 414 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: where I want to be. And so far, so good. 415 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: Fake it till you make it, baby, Nothing nothing was fake. 416 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: It was all earned for sure, for sure. So where'd 417 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: you Where'd you learn how to sing? Was that from 418 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: your mom? Also? Um, my mom always likes to joke around, like, man, 419 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: since I had kids, my voice just went out the window. 420 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: Y'all sick it. My brother can sing also, and you 421 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: know she she tries a little bit every now and again. 422 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: I'm just looking at her and I'm like, we're not 423 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: doing anything. Yeah, Like this is in Destiny Shoblem, strictly Beyonce. 424 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: I got this, you know, but it was I grew 425 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: up in church, in church choir, so that's kind of 426 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: where I guess I learned and honed into my singing 427 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: and never been coached or teach taught him or nothing 428 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: like that. Just could sing one day and there you go. 429 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: I leave that now now at anytime, it's like O 430 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: J's birthday to celebrating somebody's birthday. So it's brand where's 431 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: Brandon front? Let's go? You think like exactly like Tiger 432 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: can sing too. I mean I can sing and Tucker anyway, 433 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: but whatever you were, we gotta wrestling match from you 434 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: and Yonda. We gotta sing off between We've done the 435 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: sing off, not in team meetings, but what's the story. 436 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: And I can't do opera or nothing like that. I 437 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: mean I could probably try and maybe get it, but 438 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: I mean, just like regularly just singing a song on 439 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: the radio, Yeah, I think I think I got it. 440 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: More power in that voice. Yeah, I think he had 441 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: a radio show we did and we kind of sang 442 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: on the radio show a little bit. And yeah, if 443 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:26,120 Speaker 1: you're singing one song in karaoke, what song are you picking? Um? 444 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: I would say, I mean the R and B or 445 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: country just like a man. That's difficult because I like 446 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: a lot of songs. But I would say Rascal Flash, 447 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: Broken Run. That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. 448 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,719 Speaker 1: Your country country fan? Yeah, I like country. I mean 449 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: I like I like R and B. I mean I 450 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: grew up r and B. I didn't. I didn't even 451 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: I hated country growing up. I mean I just didn't 452 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: like get it. But the weird thing, like, it's funny 453 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: because one song turned me into country, like it was 454 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: ridiculous trays like a female friend showed showed it to 455 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: me in high school and I was like, what I 456 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: like replaying it over and over. I'm like, I love it. 457 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: I love it so so I guess that's when it started, 458 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: like the New Age start coming in and Rascal Flash. 459 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: I started listening to a lot oh Man like it was. 460 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: It was nice. So all right, so we should probably 461 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: talks to football. Eventually, we're gonna get the story time, 462 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: which I want to hear the story of your first 463 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: career sack on a certain guy. You might see this Sunday, 464 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: Ben Rossberger. But before we get to that, I gotta 465 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: roll up Garret a little bit. Here. Did you know 466 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: that Brandon was there's interest between he and Ohio State. 467 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know this because I'm big Ohio State guy. Apparently, Yeah, 468 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 1: I didn't know untill I saw this on the sheet here? 469 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: Did they have they had interest in you? Recruiting interest 470 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: from what I understand, not Ohio State. That's how I 471 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: coach to come talk to me. No, uh uh. Coach Lightner, Um, 472 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 1: he was an offensive court offensive coach, office line coach. 473 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: He wanted me for offensive guard. Um. I was at 474 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: prep school at the time, and at the prep school, 475 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: I could play both because growing up, you know, when 476 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: I first started played football is playing both sides of 477 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: the ball. But they needed an offensive guard and I 478 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: was the best one that they had, So I was 479 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: playing guard then entire time I was at the prep school. 480 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: So coach Liner came worked me out and offered me 481 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: a scholarship, and I was like, thank you, but rather 482 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: play defense? Yeah, Like I was like, I was like, man, 483 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: I could play it. Yeah. I was mess with one, like, 484 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: I'm the best guard you've never had. You But why 485 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: did you put Pearson on goal line packages? You gotta 486 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: be in on that package. I had a package in 487 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: the college called it Big Cat, and I just go 488 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: as guard like pool and then just blow it up 489 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: and we get touched out. So yeah, we gotta talking 490 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: to party. Yeah, party upstairs. But so HI would have 491 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: actually been a halfway decent football program. Brandon going, yeah, 492 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: what's that there's plenty of bars there for you to 493 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: bounce that. And that was one of the other reasons. 494 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: It was like one of the top party schools too, 495 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I don't know if I'll 496 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: make it, like because like I got rookie coming like 497 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: a freshman coming in at one of the top party schools. 498 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I hear it is beautiful here, like having 499 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 1: a good time and all stuff. I'm just like, I 500 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,239 Speaker 1: need to focus. I think a little bit more than 501 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: like it's probably one of those decisions like first of all, 502 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: I don't want to play office line and I want 503 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: to I need to focus, like I need to actually 504 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: get you know, somewhere where there's not a lot to do, 505 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: but I still have fun. You know, I don't know 506 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: anything about the party school. I was in the library focus. Yeah, 507 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: I bet you were. So what led to Missouri Southern State? 508 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: You are? You the only player from there in the NFL. 509 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: Alan barber Um from the from Philly. He's an offensive guard, 510 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: Rod Smith, James Frash went there there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 511 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: got a few a few guys. So what led you 512 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: to go there? Um, that's story itself. I got you know, 513 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: D two after I figured I didn't want to go, 514 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: you know how university then like pretty much, offers I 515 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: got were like D two, D one double a um. 516 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: But I was just one of those things. It's like, 517 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: you know what, like when ill can be close to home, 518 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: when my mom's still coming my games kind of thing. 519 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: So I was looking at you know, Missouri Western, Northwest, Central, Missouri, 520 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: all the other teams, all that stuff, and I started 521 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: to you know, start those trips, you know, started you know, 522 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: going those trips and visits. And I was staying with 523 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 1: my grandpa at the time, or had my clothes at 524 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: my grandpa's house coming from Pratt from prep school, and 525 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: my grandpa was like, hey, take your stuff, man, And 526 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: I was like why. He was like, because if you 527 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: like it, you ain't coming back here. They said, I 528 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: don't want you to come. I want I don't want 529 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: to see you back here. I want you to go 530 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: off and be in college. You know. So I'm like, 531 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 1: all right, but i'll see you tomorrow, I guess. So 532 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: my first trip visit was to Missouri Southern, and I 533 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: went out there had my stuff. You know, Like the 534 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: biggest thing is that they weren't the best team in 535 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,120 Speaker 1: the Division of the conference or whatever. But I looked 536 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: at their schedules and I see how much they lost 537 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: by and all that stuff like three points, seven points, 538 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: stuff like that, the real close games. I'm like. And 539 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: then I get Northwestern Missouri who goes to the championship 540 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: in the playoffs every year, and you got Central who's 541 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: also up there too, and they got great and I'm 542 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: like the first I'm like, why would I go here? 543 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the things I was like, I 544 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: started thinking to my head, I'm like, what if, like 545 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: I could have been that guy to stop that they 546 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: make that sack and we won that game, or what 547 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: if I was that guy who blocked that field goal 548 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: and we won that game? And I started thinking, I'm like, 549 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: I think anybody can go to a good team and 550 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: just still be good. But it takes a different kind 551 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: of player to go to uh, you know, to go 552 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: to an average team and make them better, you know, 553 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 1: or below average team and make them better, you know. 554 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: So I went there, met the coach, and the coach 555 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: is the really reason I went through Coach day there 556 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: all day UM talked to him on the phone. He 557 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: was like, man, what comes wait wait, wait when you 558 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: come down here. I got a little um Louisiana accident. Hey, man, 559 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: can't wait for you. You come on down here, And 560 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna take a shower until you get down here, 561 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: and all and stuff like like, oh, coach, make sure 562 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: you're take a shower before I get there. I started. 563 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: Then I started, you know, actually talking to him, and 564 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 1: he started talking to me, and we clicked, and I 565 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: can tell that he was genuine about his players. Well, 566 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: you don't take showers either, so it's perfect I take 567 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: I take a shower about Yeah, I got that swagger, 568 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: you know, but but yeah, man, he uh, he we 569 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 1: connected and I can tell you really cared about his players, 570 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: and he really, you know, knew he was talking about 571 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: and he was like, man, dude, I'm telling you like it. 572 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: I could you could do great things here and I could, 573 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: you know, take it to the league. I'm like, all right, cool. 574 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: And I was like and that was on a Friday 575 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: or Saturday, and I was like, I talked to you know, 576 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: the guy came and recruited me, Nick Williams, and he 577 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: was like, dude, man, dude, like we love you up here. Man, 578 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: you got facility, this, that and the other way. I'm like, yeah, 579 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: you got some got a good facility. I mean, like 580 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: it's not like the way where we have here at 581 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: the Ravens or nothing. But it was well workout where 582 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: you can get work in, like you don't need all 583 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,719 Speaker 1: the new bells and whistles to get a good workout. 584 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, well it's cool, you know. 585 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: And I told him I was all right, I'm here, 586 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: and he was like, all right, well we're gonna take 587 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: you home. I was like, no, I'm here. So I 588 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: was was there on Friday, Saturday, started school that Monday. 589 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: That's incredible. So you really didn't go back and get 590 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: you know, called back and like hey, um, I'll be here. 591 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: I'm here. That's awesome. When did it become clear to 592 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: you that you were going to make it to the NFL. 593 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: Was it until later senior year? Junior? Yeah, I would say, uh, 594 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: junior year, Um, after my second All American. Um, I 595 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: was started getting people coming in, seeing me just starting 596 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: you know, seeing people here, seeing people here. Have the 597 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: coach called me from class and like hey, um, come 598 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: talk to this team you know or whatever, and I'm like, okay, 599 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: this could be a possibility, you know, And you start 600 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: seeing you know, you know, seeing stuff online and you've 601 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: got people in your ear like, so I'm like, all right, 602 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: whatever could we had some recruiter here before. Oh that's 603 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: the story I want to tell you. I was a rookie, 604 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: not rookie, a freshman, and we had two guys getting 605 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: doing tryouts and a guy from the St. Louis Rams. 606 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: Um it was the St. Louis you know St. Louis 607 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: Rams and the Cardinals. They were there to kind of 608 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: try out one of our quarterbacks in Bowl linebackers. And 609 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: then the coach like brought me over to the side 610 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: and was like, hey, I want you to meet these people. 611 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: The hell you doing, Brandon Williams, nice to meet you, 612 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: and he was like Coach is like, hey, um, you'll 613 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: be seeing this guy later. That's cool and it's crazy. 614 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: One of the visinitess I went on was the Panthers. 615 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: Yeah before you know, we come here. But it was cool. 616 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: So it's really ka came full circle, so um, but like, yeah, 617 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: it was. It's a crazy time just being here. From 618 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: coming to that point, it's just three days. I remember 619 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: talking to coach Day and he said, and I quote that, 620 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: Brandon is when you were there a young big butter ball. 621 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: And I think what he says, what he's referencing is 622 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: your personal Like you're like the nicest guy, always with 623 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: a smile. How do you flip that switch on game 624 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: day to play like the most aggressive position on the field. 625 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: It took a while, it really did. I mean, because 626 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: of my just being my size and how other people 627 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: kind of just I'm bigger than everybody, so I really 628 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: didn't have to like really no switch to term, so 629 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: I can just like boom, all right whatever right here, 630 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: you know kind of thing. And I guess, you know, 631 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: he kind of looked at me. It's like he looked 632 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: at me. He's like, yeah, a good game. But like 633 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: once you get piste off, like once you like it'll 634 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: see me. Like sometimes I just get piste off and 635 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: then it's just like I'll start wrack and stuff. He's like, dude, 636 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: you get piste off, like you know how great you 637 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: can be? Right And I was like, what are you 638 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,719 Speaker 1: talking about. I'm making plays all time. I had like 639 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: three sacks of this, you know, And he's like, dude, 640 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: like you don't understand, Like that's cool, but like once 641 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: you like buckle down and focus up here, you can 642 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: like move like he's like pretty much moved my you know, 643 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: I'm just like all right whatever, you know. But then 644 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: like I started thinking, and I don't think not until 645 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: I would say, I mean based on I'm talking about 646 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: like god given talent to where it like I wouldn't 647 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: say until I probably, like I would say, my junior 648 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: year when it actually finally started to click, when I'm 649 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: actually starting to like visualize and like get to the 650 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: point where I'm actually coaching the defensive line, like I 651 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: knew like every position, um like where it was like 652 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: this is what we need, this is what we gotta 653 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: do this blah blah blah blah blah blah. And I 654 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: was like I started actually like going out there and 655 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: just playing just like playing like giving everything I had 656 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,479 Speaker 1: and like focused and like to because I mean, we 657 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: weren't the best team, like some seasons we were three 658 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: and seven, we were four and five, like we didn't 659 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: have a winning season to my senior year, you know, 660 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: so um but it was just one of those times 661 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: it's just like you kind of just buckled down maturing. 662 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: A bunch of mature have to happen, and then that's 663 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: my family got it? How do you get piste off. 664 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: Now before you take the field, how do you piss 665 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: yourself off? I don't. It's not it's not like getting 666 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: piste off. It's just getting I guess in a zone. 667 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: And sometimes I'm listening to my headphones and listening to 668 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: some pump up music, and so sometimes I'm just sitting 669 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: there quietly I think. And mostly when I'm sitting there quietly, 670 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: which I usually do, I just start thinking of everything. 671 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: You know, what it took to get here. You know 672 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: who I got, you know who I'm going home to 673 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: after this, you know, like my my boys, you know, 674 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: you know my fiance also, but you know my kids. 675 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: You know, just like who am I doing this for? 676 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: And you start thinking, I'm like, what am I going 677 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: out on the field to, you know, create otter chaos? 678 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: You know what am I doing? What am I doing 679 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: it for? Who am I doing it for? And I 680 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: started thinking about all that stuff in my head. And 681 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: then he said bringing up to prey, and I'm just boom, 682 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 1: let's go. It's just one of those things that just clicks. 683 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: That's cool. It's kind of along those lines. And when 684 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: you talk about how much it took for you to 685 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: get here, you put yourself in a situation now with 686 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: the way that you've played over the course of your career. Here, 687 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: you've set yourself up. You know, you've set yourself up 688 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: in such a great position, obviously being in a contract 689 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: year that you're gonna get a big payday, and the 690 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: things that you're talking about, you know, your family, your mom, 691 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: not having to work again, those things you put yourself 692 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 1: in position to accomplish that. What is that feeling knowing 693 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: that you were carrying porter pies and throwing guys out 694 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: of bars and now you're going to be in a 695 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 1: position where you can say, Mom, you know you're never 696 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: gonna have to work again. Right? It feels great? But 697 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 1: I mean I'm one of those kind of guys. I'm 698 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 1: never at that point until I'm there, you know, Like 699 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,840 Speaker 1: I'm never get excited about anything prematurely until it happens. 700 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you could tell me, like tomorrow we're going 701 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,879 Speaker 1: to Disneyland. I'm like, all right, cool, until I start 702 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 1: seeing Disneyland. As we pull up, I'm like, oh, like, actually, 703 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: be really your real reaction to Disney World. I feel 704 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: like you get really pumped, Like I would get like 705 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: so jacked up for Disney World, but like only when 706 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: I'm there, Like, like even my fiance now, she's like 707 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: she she'll tell me things. She's like, oh my god, 708 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,280 Speaker 1: I can't believe we're about to go to this place 709 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: in April. I'm like, yeah, it's really cool. She's like, 710 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: aren't you excited. I'm like yeah, but I mean we're 711 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: not there yet. I mean, I got I got a 712 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff to do before April comes or whatever, 713 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: you know, So I'm not worried about that right now. 714 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: I'm worried about right here, right now, and then once 715 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,799 Speaker 1: that comes, I'll be excited for that. So you don't 716 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: even that's not even something that kind of enters your 717 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: mind really thinking like oh, I'm gonna get paid or anything. Yeah, 718 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean until I mean, you're not set up until 719 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 1: you set up, you know, like you you until it's 720 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: in the bank account and I'm seeing a bunch of zeros. 721 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna play. Is if I played something the 722 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: field for the first time as Ethie, what's the first thing, 723 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: I'd say, house, house, cart start. That's pretty nice. You 724 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: bought your mother's house, right cardboard box. But I feel like, 725 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't because you see some guys, I 726 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: mean those are like first round stuff like but you know, 727 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: like right now, like I haven't, like I fully, I 728 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 1: mean because you got safe, you know, like I mean, 729 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 1: NFL not for long and me, you know, coming from 730 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,359 Speaker 1: a small school and not knowing how how things are 731 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: gonna play out. You know, there's people get traded or whatever, 732 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: let go every day. So it's like one of those 733 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 1: things is like most people like all right, I'm getting money, boom, 734 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: ship it out, and I'm like, I kind of gotta, 735 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: you know, make sure I'm set up first, you know, 736 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 1: before I can start making sure everybody else's foundation has 737 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: to be there exactly exactly. I have to build something 738 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: in order to you know, move people in or do 739 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know. So and it gets to 740 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: the point where, like where this is getting close to 741 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 1: the point, but at the same time, I'm still like 742 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. Once I get there, then we 743 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: can talk about that. But as of right now, I 744 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: still have a job to do. I still have somewhere 745 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,760 Speaker 1: where I want to go. Are nervous about that process 746 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: at all or not, you know, just how things go 747 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: because out of my hands. I'm nervous about it because 748 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: if he leaves, it's gonna suck seriously, like one of 749 00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: our favorite dudes in locker room Baltimore, and I love 750 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: to stay here and I love to be here. I mean, 751 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: my family's here. I mean I would love to be 752 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: rooted here. But at the same time, like it's out 753 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 1: of my control, So why worry about it. I'm not 754 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,359 Speaker 1: you know, I can't you know, be like, oh, yeah, 755 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: I want to stay here. So I'm stay here. I 756 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,239 Speaker 1: want to do this and the other. It's whatever they 757 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 1: want to do. So I mean, if I'm not gonna 758 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: worry about something that I have no control over. All right, Well, 759 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: before we let you go, uh, it's Steelers week, and 760 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: so I want you to tell the story of your 761 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: first career regular season stack first career regular season sack. 762 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:39,439 Speaker 1: Good old big Ben. I don't remember this little big 763 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 1: Ben um Man like that that one was. It was 764 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: a big time one because you know, it's my rookie year. 765 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: Had turf toe, so like I still wouldn't move in 766 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,719 Speaker 1: the way I wanted to so and then just so 767 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,520 Speaker 1: happens he breaks out, you know, trying to do his 768 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: backyard football thing. He breaks sout, and I get off 769 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,880 Speaker 1: the block and I come around He's right there and 770 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: I'm just grabbing. I'm just like holding as time as 771 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 1: I post became, you know, I'm just pulling. And then 772 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: like I finally get him down and I get up 773 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: and then here comes Art Jones hitting me off him 774 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: trying to see if he got the sack or whatever. 775 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,879 Speaker 1: I'm like whatever, I'm just like jumping up and like 776 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,239 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do right now. I don't 777 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 1: know what to do. I'm just like, yeah, let just 778 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,399 Speaker 1: go back to the like goack to the hell, because 779 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 1: this is just like one of those things. Is like 780 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: you know, growing up, you know, not until two thousand, 781 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: not until you know, nine six Ravens here, so like 782 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 1: before it was just like the Cowboys, Steelers and all 783 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So like and then like you're watching 784 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 1: them on the field, you know, you see know who 785 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 1: they are. I mean, I grew up. I loved drum 786 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: beattist because I was a factor who want to run 787 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 1: the ball, but we never could, you know. So so 788 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: it's one of those things, just like I sacked be Rolsburger, 789 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: you know, like I watched him play, you know, see him, 790 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: you know as I see you know, the bus, you know, 791 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 1: toting the thing, rumbling, bumping and stumbling up the field. 792 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,880 Speaker 1: So it's like, I think that that was the moment, 793 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 1: Like it's real, Like it's real, you know, like, um, 794 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,279 Speaker 1: it wasn't like my aha moment, I'm in the NFL moment. 795 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 1: But I'm like, man like, like it happened, you know, 796 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 1: like I got my first sack against one of the 797 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,280 Speaker 1: toughest guys to bring down, you know, first regular season 798 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: sacs and I'm like, wow, like this is what it 799 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 1: feels like. Let's do it again. And for some reason, 800 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: steals week. I've always got nice on that coming off 801 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: a huge game against the Jets. Now going into the Steelers, 802 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: gonna get him some more. Thank you so much, Brandon, 803 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 1: Thank you so As Brandon walks out, I just want 804 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 1: to thank him again. And I think people really had 805 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,319 Speaker 1: a chance to get a sense for who he is. 806 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,840 Speaker 1: You know, we always talk about how he's one of 807 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: the most fun loving guys and he's a great person 808 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 1: and a great personality and all that he it was 809 00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 1: on display today. For sure. He gets telling stories, man, 810 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 1: He's he's a good storyteller. I really too. He had 811 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,200 Speaker 1: to adjust the circumstances we're not in the usual spot. Yeah, 812 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 1: we had to adjust the lounges mobile just to describe 813 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 1: this to people, usually were on a nice couch, you know, 814 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,880 Speaker 1: Like I was saying to Brandon, now we're on like stools, 815 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,759 Speaker 1: a little like swivel computer chair in a glorified closet. 816 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,040 Speaker 1: Right now. Brandon walked out and he goes, is that's 817 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 1: a mop bucket over there? Serious? Can we get a 818 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,040 Speaker 1: sponsor on this? We need these little weeks, We need 819 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: to move on up in the world. But really fun 820 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,920 Speaker 1: interview and Garrett, can we just beat the Steelers? That 821 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: would be very nice. I think there would be a 822 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: lot of people listening to the podcast and in this 823 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 1: building who would very much appreciate it. We got and 824 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: beat the Steelers and no one else. We appreciate emails 825 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: and reviews on iTunes, so go ahead and write those 826 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: reviews on iTunes. With trying to cross the century mark, 827 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: so we'll make one more push for that. And also 828 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,440 Speaker 1: if you have questions or comments, or if you want 829 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,880 Speaker 1: to send us pictures of beer and try to get 830 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,640 Speaker 1: on the podcast, that's what you can do it as well. 831 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 1: The email is the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. 832 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. Hopefully we'll be back 833 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: and won't be ranting after the Sunday's game. We'll be 834 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,919 Speaker 1: back with you on Monday or Tuesday. Thanks a lot,