Speaker 1: We're gonna shit and ask Slate some questions and we're
Speaker 1: going to determine what kind of dude Slate is off.
Speaker 2: The questions that we're going to ask questions.
Speaker 3: This is our very first time having a guest on
Speaker 3: the show, So we appreciate you coming here, be impatient
Speaker 3: with us, just going along with us. Your your two
Speaker 3: favorite teammates as you've ever had in the lot of
Speaker 3: being another great teammate once again, but this time in
Speaker 3: the nuthouse locker room here at the dude's house.
Speaker 2: So we appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: We want to figure out what kind of dude you
Speaker 3: are with the questions that we're going to ask you.
Speaker 2: See, all right, all right, let's do this. Let's do
Speaker 2: this first off, you yes, I do. I'm taking notes.
Speaker 3: There we go, and I'm gonna probably, you know, spit
Speaker 3: some facts out there that we should probably listen to
Speaker 3: in life as well, because this is Slater.
Speaker 1: Let's just start off. Let's start off with a hard one.
Speaker 1: What kind of dude do you think you are?
Speaker 2: Who that is tough because you want to be humble? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or you don't want to be yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like to think the team do. What was the
Speaker 4: descriptions like to be a dudes, dude the vie.
Speaker 3: I see that positive influence time, positive influence.
Speaker 2: I never really seen you as a negative influence.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: We I mean, Jewels did a lot of negative things
Speaker 3: in his roommates. So what were you doing inside that house?
Speaker 2: What was going on? Was he a negative influence?
Speaker 4: He made it out?
Speaker 2: We were good. He was not your roommate. We don't
Speaker 2: know what you would.
Speaker 4: Be on the on the giants. You got him to
Speaker 4: the holidays?
Speaker 2: All there? All right, so that's what you think. All right? Well,
Speaker 2: it's like, did you wear flip flops in the shower?
Speaker 4: You have to wear flip flops? You have to.
Speaker 2: You have to. Why is that? Why do you have to?
Speaker 4: Because I've seen some of them feet in there.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I guess bad feet rant a lot of route see
Speaker 1: my own feet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we gotta have.
Speaker 2: So have to do all right.
Speaker 1: Who's the most famous person in your phone?
Speaker 4: Most famous person in my phone?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Most famous?
Speaker 4: I mean, I would say one of you guys, but
Speaker 4: TV probably.
Speaker 2: TV TV, pretty famous TV, pretty famous TV. I would say,
Speaker 2: he's up there, he's up there, I mean, and TV anyways,
Speaker 2: most famous. This guy, this guy, we wish we had
Speaker 2: his number.
Speaker 4: You guys got all five of his cell phone.
Speaker 2: Cell phone numb that so TV? Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: What was your college g p A three point one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3: That's why you didn't make it into the IV makes
Speaker 3: sense now. I was just I'm disappointed with that one
Speaker 3: won your your g p A and the Special Teams world.
Speaker 2: I would say at least a three point eight.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that video extracurricular video game?
Speaker 2: What video game did you play?
Speaker 4: Oh, we're playing in C double A football?
Speaker 2: Making sure you were crazy maniac in college. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: had an issue with the video game. Okay, we useduld
Speaker 2: play as a team.
Speaker 4: We played each other, had a pot circulating.
Speaker 5: Some of those guys may be watching, they know who
Speaker 5: the best was, and it was me, Slate, you're the best?
Speaker 4: Three point one?
Speaker 1: Did you play? Who'd you play with? What was your
Speaker 1: team on n C two A?
Speaker 2: I would go you Ohio State with what year was?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 2: An? We go four wide?
Speaker 5: Spread it out and then you had Troy Smith running quarterback.
Speaker 4: See I can still remember my roster.
Speaker 2: We were good.
Speaker 1: We had that thing he's hitting four verticals looking get
Speaker 1: it out us your coming run with out runs from
Speaker 1: here get the edge.
Speaker 2: All right? So n C two A played that?
Speaker 1: Okay, what was the song on your college highlight film?
Speaker 2: Ooh h hmm, I cannot recall. You can't recall.
Speaker 4: I can't recall.
Speaker 2: Pay too much football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I've been hitting the head. I've been hitting
Speaker 4: the head.
Speaker 2: No recall. Let me put that on that could hurt you.
Speaker 3: How many college offers did you get out of high school?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, like fifteen were you?
Speaker 2: I was at three schools. I was not.
Speaker 4: I was not rob coming out and funny enough.
Speaker 2: Four star I had a fifteen.
Speaker 4: I committed to go to Dartmouth out of out of
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 5: I was gonna go to the Ivy League route when
Speaker 5: I was taking my studies seriously in high school. And uh,
Speaker 5: you know I chose to stay at home and go
Speaker 5: to eat l A and play at home play D
Speaker 5: one obviously, So.
Speaker 2: I mean was a great choice.
Speaker 4: You see it, all right?
Speaker 1: Top five Public Universe, number one, top five, number one,
Speaker 1: top five cow Bears out.
Speaker 3: ARISONA look at the last Division one.
Speaker 1: Now you're number two, all right, Slate, let's get back
Speaker 1: into this. U determine what kind of guy you are?
Speaker 1: What was your first car?
Speaker 5: My first actual car was a Lexus X sixty fancy
Speaker 5: and I got that my third year in the league
Speaker 5: was writing my dad's car.
Speaker 2: First ever car. What was your first ever?
Speaker 1: It was my dad's Lexus Family, Lexis Family.
Speaker 4: Tell you what it makes a good product.
Speaker 2: They make a good product. Okay, what do you drive now?
Speaker 1: Right now? I'm then I'm in an Audi Audi Electric Tron,
Speaker 1: one of the people for the Earth.
Speaker 2: Let's see, I determine what kind of duty is good good?
Speaker 1: Note I got to put in parenthesies electric Electric put
Speaker 1: that in parenthesase slate.
Speaker 2: What was your first endorsement deal.
Speaker 5: My first endorsement deal Rebok Rebadbod told this before Rebok
Speaker 5: cut me loose. Rebok cut me loose, cut you loose.
Speaker 5: They cut me loose. After my third year, well, I
Speaker 5: think they went on the ten Pro Bowls and Nike.
Speaker 2: Yeah that thanks Rebok.
Speaker 3: Oh oh we never you told Reebok to kick kicked
Speaker 3: me in the curve.
Speaker 1: But I think Rebok kicked everyone to the curb.
Speaker 2: They left the NFL.
Speaker 4: JJ JJ was still wearing rebox j J Watt.
Speaker 5: He was still wearing he had his own line to shoot,
Speaker 5: which probably would have chosen JJ over.
Speaker 2: Me JJ Rebok. Let me see that Rebok. All right,
Speaker 2: kind of like a throwback type of guy.
Speaker 4: The old pumps, you know.
Speaker 3: Shoes, good old Jim Wall and you walk in the
Speaker 3: trail room, coach, I'm hurting.
Speaker 2: Just pump your shoes. Get out of here.
Speaker 4: Pump those ship I stay out of there with jimbo early.
Speaker 1: All right, what what's the square root of one forty four?
Speaker 2: Oh? I know, but I can't give him the answer.
Speaker 3: Oh, friend, on this, that's easy.
Speaker 2: Just like, come on, man, you're committed the dartment. It's
Speaker 2: all right, we got it. You're just you're just us.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I thought I'm not a math guy.
Speaker 2: Didn't know. You really don't know that it's twelve. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you didn't know it's twelve. No fast, not fast enough.
Speaker 2: Describe your locker. Was it messy?
Speaker 3: It was me?
Speaker 2: Oh messy? It was okay, Yeah, it was bad. Man.
Speaker 2: We been here for so long. It's hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I got I got all this stuff
Speaker 4: in there. I got sixteen years.
Speaker 5: One of the stuff so many people say in bibles
Speaker 5: and stuff to slate.
Speaker 3: I mean, jerseys in the uniforms to Nike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of sixteen years in one spot, a lot.
Speaker 4: Of a lot of stuff, A lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, I got one.
Speaker 1: If you weren't a pro athlete, who would you work
Speaker 1: for or what would you do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: You know, I've always had a passion for ministry, so
Speaker 5: I think you know, my plan before I got drafted
Speaker 5: was become a youth pastor.
Speaker 4: So that would have been the.
Speaker 2: Road I would have taken a pastor.
Speaker 1: Put that down, all right, that's p s a t
Speaker 1: o or.
Speaker 2: As a pastor.
Speaker 3: Now and a fight breaks out at practice, what do
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 5: Oh, we gotta I'm gonna do the same thing I
Speaker 5: did when Rob fought Michael Bennett at the end of
Speaker 5: the Seattle explain that fellas, you know, like I don't
Speaker 5: you know, I don't want I don't want guys fighting
Speaker 5: out there, but you know, that's part of the deal.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's football. This is a gladiator sport, So it happens.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: What's the most you've ever bench pressed?
Speaker 2: Oh? You know, yeah, you were. You were in that
Speaker 2: mind that that was maybe pre the four shoulder surgery.
Speaker 1: So acted like he didn't know, but new mm hmm,
Speaker 1: three seventy five.
Speaker 3: That explains a lot. What type of guy is a trickster?
Speaker 2: Have you ever been fined? And for how much?
Speaker 4: I have been fined from NFL or from coach.
Speaker 5: From the NFL face mask my rookie year in the preseason.
Speaker 4: I go my entire career, don't get fined.
Speaker 5: In my last year, I get fined twice for you know,
Speaker 5: illegal crackback blocks because I'm trying to hustle and block
Speaker 5: for the returner.
Speaker 2: He didn't sed it.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't say it. I went head hunting forearm
Speaker 4: shiver up hot. No, James thrash.
Speaker 5: I'm just getting James stretched, James trash. I'm just kidding
Speaker 5: that I was not head hunting. I'm just that was
Speaker 5: no illegal crackback blocks. So you're just running towards the
Speaker 5: other side.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to finish.
Speaker 1: My box, which is completely understandable for a guy that
Speaker 1: played in the era where it was okay to do that.
Speaker 4: That's real.
Speaker 1: It's hard for him to change his mindset in the
Speaker 1: latter part of his career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, change your mindset once you get fined. But
Speaker 3: I'm kind of taking it there. He's kind of a
Speaker 3: dirty player, dude. Yeah, face like.
Speaker 1: He's freaking playing hard, playing hard, whistle to whistle rob
Speaker 1: getting fined twice.
Speaker 2: That's not that much. Yeah, I know, I'm just messing.
Speaker 2: What's your fastest forty times?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I mean, well know how this goes?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: You're fast?
Speaker 4: At one time ran When I was training, I ran this, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the one.
Speaker 1: I ran up four to eight for too eight four.
Speaker 1: When I was training, I had a second. What was
Speaker 1: your fastest one hundred meter? It was your high school time?
Speaker 4: High school? I ran ten six two, ten six two seventeen.
Speaker 1: Now how fast do you think you could have got
Speaker 1: that if you were training as a man, if you
Speaker 1: put on a man hours, I mean, you put it
Speaker 1: into your specials. I don't like to talk about what
Speaker 1: I could have done on this, but I ran when
Speaker 1: I ran in high school.
Speaker 4: I did not live weights, I didn't live anyways. In
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 2: You know, seventeen faster.
Speaker 4: I was seventeen my senior year.
Speaker 5: So I think I could have you know, I think
Speaker 5: I could have touched ten three ten two, ten three two.
Speaker 4: Then I ran over twenty three miles an hour with pads.
Speaker 2: With pat twenty three?
Speaker 4: So fast?
Speaker 1: Was that your last year as well?
Speaker 4: Oh, I wouldn't run twenty three last year?
Speaker 2: Okay? And then last I was like fifteen to six.
Speaker 1: It was bad right back got he had it, He
Speaker 1: got up and got it. Wait, last speed question? Could
Speaker 1: you beat Randy Moss in a two hundred? Now we
Speaker 1: have this debate. Oh, I know we have this debate.
Speaker 4: We argue this.
Speaker 1: I mean, look in my prime, in Randy's prime.
Speaker 4: I could have I could have been ten meters behind
Speaker 4: him in my prime.
Speaker 5: Slay up against Randy Moss, speed man, that's an all
Speaker 5: time speed.
Speaker 2: All right? So we did what was forties going.
Speaker 4: On like a four to one?
Speaker 2: No, you're in four to two. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he rund, but we used to mess with he floats.
Speaker 5: He does floats when because Randy was what like thirty
Speaker 5: two thirty three, we were spry and chatt O'Shea used
Speaker 5: to mess with Randy all the time, slack and beat you,
Speaker 5: slack and beat you.
Speaker 4: Randy didn't like hated it. I didn't like that, but
Speaker 4: that was fun.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, oh, chattyo, oh.
Speaker 2: All right, when was the last time you cried? Besides
Speaker 2: when you heard you were coming. Last time I.
Speaker 5: Cried, you know, I was at a I was at
Speaker 5: a funeral for Don Hasselbeck Don hassel a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago. Funeral, great man, great mentor for my wife
Speaker 5: and I and uh yeah.
Speaker 2: Great football family.
Speaker 4: Yeah they really are.
Speaker 2: They're great people.
Speaker 3: Whenever I see uh hassleback just always a great Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're just tremendous family.
Speaker 2: Really good on TV too. Yeah, they are a knowledge
Speaker 2: sharp guys, sharp man. What's the first date with you?
Speaker 2: Look like? First date? First date?
Speaker 5: I like to go somewhere quiet where we gonna actually
Speaker 5: or we can talk, walk and talk. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: you go to a movie you're not really talking. You know,
Speaker 5: Dinner is a toss up. You know, maybe you just
Speaker 5: go hang out at the park or My wife and
Speaker 5: our first date was a cheesecake factory, beautiful with Gary Guy.
Speaker 5: Gary he was third willing it. But you know, give
Speaker 5: us an opportunity to talk. You got to talk on
Speaker 5: a day.
Speaker 4: You gotta get to know.
Speaker 1: One to really important question to follow up on that,
Speaker 1: what cheesecake did you guys order?
Speaker 2: Reo cheese?
Speaker 5: Kid?
Speaker 3: Come on, so good quick story about Gary guy and
Speaker 3: he was when I was a rookie. He was a
Speaker 3: linebacker here for the Patriots, and he made me feel
Speaker 3: like I couldn't play, you know, at this level in
Speaker 3: the NFL, because he jammed me on my very first
Speaker 3: route and I didn't get off the line of scrimmage
Speaker 3: for about five seconds, and then he finally backed up
Speaker 3: and the ball was already thrown. I was one yard
Speaker 3: off the line of scrimmage one time threw that boss.
Speaker 2: So, Gary, you made me feel really uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I think it worked out.
Speaker 2: All you need that you need l me off like
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta really focus off this last that's right.
Speaker 2: In the light of where we're at.
Speaker 1: Someone would call that a an FL baptism.
Speaker 4: Some would we gotta we gotta wrap this up.
Speaker 2: Okay a little longer. You didn't do with your four kids?
Speaker 2: What's that? He said?
Speaker 3: We got to wrap it up? I said, what you
Speaker 3: didn't do with your four kids? It's getting out of control.
Speaker 3: Multiple that's what you shall do that questions about it?
Speaker 2: I shall do my job. What's the last book we read?
Speaker 2: Last book?
Speaker 4: The Psychology of Money?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's a lot to you.
Speaker 5: It talks about, you know, how our perspectives sometimes shift
Speaker 5: once we start making money and how greed really plays
Speaker 5: a huge factor and a lot of people experiencing financial ruin.
Speaker 5: And I think, you know that is very true, especially
Speaker 5: in America.
Speaker 2: So I gotta read that.
Speaker 1: But what is it called the psychology that's pe why?
Speaker 2: Okay? Just making sure? Wow, slate learning.
Speaker 3: I told you it's gonna be a great He's gonna
Speaker 3: keep us, you know, straight edge.
Speaker 2: That's what he's doing. We're learning from him, that's what
Speaker 2: we're learning a lot from him. And we already knew
Speaker 2: a lot about him. We knew everything about him.
Speaker 4: But now we're learning more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got one more question and one more question?
Speaker 3: All right, all right, this is a good one one
Speaker 3: because we really haven't talked about this category with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did you prepare your steak? Yeah? Were you
Speaker 2: like an absolute dog animal outside? Just a wild one's
Speaker 2: going rare now here.
Speaker 4: Here's a here's an inside track for you guys.
Speaker 5: If you ask ten black folks how they prepare their state,
Speaker 5: seven of them are going to say, well done, Okay.
Speaker 2: Are you in?
Speaker 4: That came up a well Ton guy.
Speaker 5: And then I started hanging out with my brothers from
Speaker 5: the other and I realized that medium, maybe medium, rare.
Speaker 1: I'm a medium medium medium guy converted me. And then lastly,
Speaker 1: how do you eat that steak?
Speaker 2: Depends on who's around by yourself. I have to go
Speaker 2: hands for no, No, you're by yourself.
Speaker 3: I like that when you get down to the hand,
Speaker 3: you pick it up with your hand, the hands when you're.
Speaker 2: On that bomb.
Speaker 5: Me and my sons were going bone okay, wife around,
Speaker 5: I'm using I gotta.
Speaker 4: Use the form gun.
Speaker 2: You're teaching the boys.
Speaker 1: That you gotta get all the meat you gotta go
Speaker 1: meet left behind.
Speaker 5: Me close to the bone is some of the best
Speaker 5: meat on that on that stak.
Speaker 2: Well, I think we got all our stuff. Let's once
Speaker 2: we're gonna let's let's go review this, Ernie. Shall we
Speaker 2: go to the going to the booth, Ernie. We gotta
Speaker 2: look look this over?
Speaker 4: He see yeah, he I think he's three point I
Speaker 4: thought he was gonna be too.
Speaker 2: So he's really not a whiz.
Speaker 1: That's freaking that's freaking academic read about money. Oh and
Speaker 1: he likes his steak medium and also eats with the
Speaker 1: hands of around, but preferably.
Speaker 2: Uses Okay, all right, you know what I got? Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: definitely mm hmm.
Speaker 1: On three, what do we think he is?
Speaker 2: One? Two three whizz?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we wiz.
Speaker 1: We think you're whizz. As as we we kept on
Speaker 1: saying throughout this interview, we kept on learning about new stuff.
Speaker 1: I I I learned that greed is the route to
Speaker 1: people losing their money. Yes, I learned that if you're
Speaker 1: six foot five and a dog, you could play special
Speaker 1: teams for twelve years.
Speaker 2: I learned so much about Ozgood.
Speaker 4: I mean, yes, I mean I was a.
Speaker 2: Little disappointed with your GPA, but there's a lot of.
Speaker 3: Factors out there that you were committed to Dartmouth because
Speaker 3: that smart. But you were doing so many other things
Speaker 3: as well, like being an all star in the video
Speaker 3: game world and out there, and that was helping you
Speaker 3: out on the field, and you knew that was your
Speaker 3: real master of your life. Still a three point one
Speaker 3: you got by and you didn't even care about what was.
Speaker 2: Going on in the school world.
Speaker 3: You still got a three point one, but you were
Speaker 3: a master with a four point zero on the field
Speaker 3: and then video games that made a lot of money
Speaker 3: doing that to take care of your family.
Speaker 1: It is, you know what, and also smart. You have
Speaker 1: to be a wizard to be a teamer for sixteen
Speaker 1: years in this fucking league. It's really like, that's what
Speaker 1: people don't understand. For you to constantly innovate yourself each year,
Speaker 1: to bring value to a team where they're literally giving
Speaker 1: up a roster spot for you to just play special teams.
Speaker 1: That's unheard of. Sixteen years, pro bowler, thirteen years, all Pro,
Speaker 1: eleven years whatever. That's that's that's that's a wizard. That's
Speaker 1: a wizard. It's freaking It's like some Harry Potter shits.
Speaker 2: Late.
Speaker 1: I know you're religious and you don't read that stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's like Harry Potter's magic.
Speaker 4: I'll take you. I appreciate you, Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, Late, we appreciate you coming on the show, being
Speaker 3: our first guest here on Dudes on Dudes. We weren't
Speaker 3: really sure how I was gonna go, but I can
Speaker 3: tell you that you took it, you know, to a
Speaker 3: whole nother level with us. Man, we felt really comfortable
Speaker 3: with you, and not just on top of it that
Speaker 3: you're a whiz man.
Speaker 2: You're a dude's dude as well.
Speaker 1: You bring the team, you're.
Speaker 2: A dude's dude, you're a docter's on the field.
Speaker 3: But the main aspect of your life is that you
Speaker 3: are a wizard man.
Speaker 2: That's why you are a whiz.
Speaker 4: And can I just say something, Yeah, go ahead, let
Speaker 4: me just say one thing.
Speaker 5: I'm very proud of it to you guys for how
Speaker 5: you transitioned out of the game and how successful this
Speaker 5: next chapter is for both of you guys.
Speaker 4: Keep keep killing it.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, thank you. I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: a single tear. I'll shed a tear.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a time back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and.
Speaker 2: You know something, your stud as well. Now, that was
Speaker 2: touly what you just said.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.