1 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to our latest edition of Falcons in Focus. Today, 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: Tory mcelhaney and I are joined by Matthew Judon. Welcome. 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: The flap shows excitement. And before we can get this 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: party started, we got to give credit where credit is 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: due for our beautiful studio. As the official ticket marketplace 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Falcons and the NFL. Ticketmaster has a 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: wide selection of tickets available for every game. Whether you're 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: cheered on the Falcons and drew down at home or away, 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: Ticketmaster has you covered. Download the Ticketmaster app or find 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: tickets today at ticketmaster dot com slash Falcons. That's ticketmaster 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: dot com slash Falcons. And now we get to get started. Yes, 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: and I'm kind of disappointed already in you. 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: Oh dang, were the red sleeves? 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I don't wear red all the time. 15 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: Okay, you have to tell the people, because Tara and 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: I know the story, because we've done a bunch of 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 2: search on you. 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: We've digitally stopped you. We've digitally stopped you, and. 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: I promise in a non creepy way, just for research purposes. 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: And there are a couple different stories about the origins 21 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: of the red. 22 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: Sleeves, and I found one. Tearn found one. 23 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: So we're here. We brought you in too. Honestly, start 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 2: us off by setting the record straight for the people 25 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: that maybe don't know. 26 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: Why do you wear the red. 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 3: Sleeves because I used to get cut up and be 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: bloody on my sheets. It's not like a crazy story. Yeah, 29 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 3: you know, doing football, we're playing on turf. You get 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 3: turf burn all that stuff. Some people wear the half 31 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 3: sleeves or the little tape on the back. I just 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 3: the one some sleeves. It was. The weather didn't really 33 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 3: bother The only time it ever bothered me for real 34 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: was when we opened up in Miami. Yeah that was hot, 35 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 3: but it don't bother me. And it saved my arms 36 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 3: from plenty more scars. My legs still get beat up, 37 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 3: so I gotta figure something out with that, but my 38 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: arm straight and so, uh, the kind of saved my 39 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 3: sheets a little bit. 40 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: There you go. I read something that you also said 41 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 2: at one point that your mom was like worried that 42 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: you were getting cut up on your arms, and so 43 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: if you wore red, she wouldn't be able to see 44 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 2: that you were bleeding. 45 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, she did not be worried about. 46 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: I also read that Terrell Suggs used to wear the 47 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: sleeves and that you were, like started wearing sleeves too, 48 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: and you can if this is wrong, this is wrong, 49 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 2: but like start wearing sleeves too to kind of pay 50 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 2: homage to him in his career as well. 51 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 3: No, he uh seas wore like a half sleeve on 52 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 3: one arm and all the arm was he was. He 53 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 3: was like a stiffler, like we're not wearing So I 54 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 3: didn't wear sleeves my whole time with the Ravens. 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 4: That was like his thing. He got everybody got one 56 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 4: sleeve and you got to wear it. 57 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean it wasn't like it was like 58 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 3: a shooter sleeve. He a big, a big hooper. So 59 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 3: his was the shooter sleeve. Mine's just sleeves. Because so many, 60 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: so many fields and so many stadiums got turf. Now, yeah, 61 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: so I mean. 62 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: You just saving the body, I mean right. 63 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: Saving some skin too, like you know, got a couple 64 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 3: of tattoos. 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't mess that up. An investment in this. 66 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, why red? 67 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: Uh? The Patriots was red, white, and blue. I tried 68 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 3: blue for the second preseason game. I didn't like it, 69 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: and I didn't want to wear a white or black. 70 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: So did red fitting go into your consideration when looking 71 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: for another? 72 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: They did not. I got traded too, So what if. 73 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: It didn't match? Would you have still done red? Or 74 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: what do you have switched? 75 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 3: No? 76 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: I mean you're known for the red. 77 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 3: I'm known for the red. Yeah, I know it just 78 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: it just caught on and click. But I mean other 79 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: teams are often in colors and stuff that you can wear, 80 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 3: so it just got to be, uh, how to rule reads. 81 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: It got to be the three uh primary colors. 82 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: So I forgot about I forgot their rule. 83 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. 84 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's for that too, it's outfit rules. 85 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,679 Speaker 3: So it got to be the primary colors. 86 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: That makes sense though. Yeah. And then Miami was it 87 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: pure stubbornness at that point where you're like, I'm keeping 88 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: the sleeves on. This is me even though it's one 89 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: hundred and well, well, I was. 90 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 3: Like, we went out there, I warmed up, and I 91 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 3: was like, okay, all right, it's not that hot. We 92 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 3: came back with the pads on. I'm like, oh man. 93 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 3: And then so with so we're playing, I'm like, i 94 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 3: gotta like, I gotta take the sleeves off, like I 95 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 3: can't do it, and then so I was about to 96 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 3: like take take the sleeves of. It was kind of 97 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 3: going into halftime and then uh so I just had 98 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 3: like took the gloves also, like something can breathe, and 99 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 3: I just I just ended up keeping them. Well, I 100 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 3: just ended up keeping well. 101 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: So it's like at that time, it's like I have 102 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: to do this. Yeah, that's stubborn. 103 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, I mean it worked out. It worked out. 104 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: How we know it's you on the field if there 105 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: aren't red sleeves, I. 106 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 3: Mean, hopefully just make some plays. 107 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: Great answer. It's funny because you completely discredited the story 108 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: I was going to use as a transition into our 109 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: next topic with like your mom being the backstory behind 110 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: the sleaves and when I was big so family that's no, 111 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: that wasn't true, and it's. 112 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: Like, well, let's find a new trans family anyway. 113 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we're going to ask about your family, big, 114 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: big family, nine siblings correct and you make ten? 115 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 3: Yes? 116 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: Where do you was that? 117 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? 118 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: First off, where do you fall in? 119 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 2: I'm the sixth child, the six okay, so you're kind 120 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 2: of a middle child. 121 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 3: I mean everybody middle except for one in ten. Yeah, 122 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 3: unless you the book ends everybody in the middle. Uh. 123 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 3: But it was fun. It was cool, a lot of love, 124 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 3: a lot of interesting things. You know, everybody's always had 125 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: just a different set or point in life. You know. 126 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 3: So from you know, watching my older sister, you know, go, 127 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: I really remember like middle school, high school graduation and 128 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 3: didn't leave and then just watching everybody keep kind of 129 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 3: going through that transition. Then I got an older brother. Uh, 130 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 3: he's a one year older than me, and then so 131 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 3: we kind of did it together, you know. So I 132 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,559 Speaker 3: was really only in school by myself my senior year 133 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: and then my what a eighth grade year, So in 134 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 3: middle school by myself and then my senior year by. 135 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: Myself, and you know, we're friends in school because I 136 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: know one year my sister and I overlapped. It was like, 137 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: don't look at me. She's younger, so it was don't 138 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: look at me. Why she was a freshman. I was 139 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: a senior. I'm over here, I'm over here, yelling like 140 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: which was her nickname. And she didn't appreciate that either. 141 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: But yeah, no freshman's sister did not want to deal 142 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: with senior older sister. 143 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: Why all your Frenchman's sister didn't want to deal. 144 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: With And I was a senior. So she was so 145 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: cool for you because she's younger. I thought older. 146 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: Was no, like you're you're saying that I was the 147 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 2: older one. Yeah, but you were making fun of her 148 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 2: because you'd yell at. 149 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: Her and she ignored me. Okay, so she was cool 150 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: for you. Sorry. 151 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 2: So I read something that it was like y'all were 152 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: like ten kids deep in like kids. 153 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: Just the person, ten kids deep. And your mom. 154 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: You have a great relationship with with your mom, and 155 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: I imagine that she obviously being the matriarch of a 156 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: family that big, how did you see her in her 157 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: parenting style? Translate maybe now to you that you're a father, 158 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,239 Speaker 2: you have your own family. 159 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 3: My mom was a rock star. I mean she she 160 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 3: did everything to get us what we needed and uh 161 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 3: put us in situations toff, you know, just better ourselves. 162 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 3: And uh she was she was just and she's so 163 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 3: soft too. Oh my goodness. She'd still to this day 164 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 3: like if you ever want to come home, like my 165 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 3: I mean year nine, Like I mean, I'm probably I'll 166 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 3: go come back. Yeah, I got kids, Like, but you know, 167 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 3: she she always gonna be you know Karen and lookout 168 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 3: you know for her, you know, for her cubs. So 169 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 3: she she a real mama beer. So she she did 170 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 3: very very well raising us and taking care of us 171 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 3: and just doing what she could do with ten kids. 172 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: Yeah said, how many you have? Okay, so these are 173 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: just gonna be big families in general. 174 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's only six, only six more. 175 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: But did that just give you a bigger appreciation for 176 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: how your mom was able to handle more than double 177 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: what you currently have. 178 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 3: Uh, just you know, the feeding scale, getting us all 179 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: through graduation, getting us you know, uh, thank god we're 180 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 3: all still alive. Uh, actually giving us you know, morals 181 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 3: and you know, keeping us around the church and everything 182 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 3: like that. And so you know, she, uh she did 183 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 3: like she did the best she can. Like I don't 184 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 3: think everything was perfect, you know, everything never gonna be perfect, 185 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 3: but nothing ever, Yeah, yeah, we all we all, we 186 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 3: all healthy in our right minds. Nobody you know, went 187 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 3: off the deeping and did nothing crazy. So that's a 188 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 3: that's a big kudos to her. Shout out there. 189 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: Reunions are probably great. 190 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of all the siblings, who was the troublemaker 191 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: and who tattled. 192 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 3: Dang I don't think nobody was really snitching. No, I 193 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 3: used to hit and run. I got too older brother, 194 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 3: so like I was hitting and running my mama room. 195 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: But uh uh and then I mean, if if anybody 196 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 3: was a troublemaker, it was probably it was probably me 197 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 3: or really or my sister Monica. Yeah, Monica, for it 198 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 3: was my troublemaker. 199 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 2: Because I read something where your mom said like you 200 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,079 Speaker 2: were you were her baby and you actually were pretty 201 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 2: easy going on her. 202 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I was always like doing some type 203 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 3: of sport of playing a video game or out the way. 204 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: You're busy. Yeah, as a kid, I mean I had 205 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: things to do. Yeah, so you basically grew up in 206 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: your own football team short of one player. How did 207 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: you get into the sport itself? 208 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 3: My older brother, you know, uh uh, he's seven years 209 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 3: older than me. So just watching him play, and he played, 210 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 3: he played literally every sport. Uh. He was good. He 211 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 3: had lefty too, so he was good at baseball, Uh 212 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 3: be good at basketball, real good at football, and so 213 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 3: just watching him just kind of uh trying to be 214 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 3: better than him growing up. You know, it's kind of 215 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 3: idolizing him because it's like, oh man, he doing he 216 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 3: doing this like he driving, he doing this either, like dang, 217 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 3: Like that's what I want to be when I grow up. 218 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 3: So watching all that just uh, trying to be trying 219 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 3: to be like that. And then when I kind of 220 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 3: was like, okay, what is what is football? Watching like 221 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 3: Ricky Williams and some of the good running backs. I 222 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 3: used to be a running back. 223 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 2: You know, I was about to say, I'm pretty sure 224 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 2: that there's some clips out there of you as a 225 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: running back. 226 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, probably not when I when I was good trying 227 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 3: to be a running back back in the day. And 228 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 3: so just just watching those guys as I grew up 229 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 3: and then and then just learning more about the sport 230 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 3: and then you know, you play, you play, pick them up, 231 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 3: mess them up, sideline rules. You know. I used to 232 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 3: go over one of my friend's house, Aaron White, the 233 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 3: White House. We used to be in a street from 234 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 3: probably like ten to eight pm just playing, just playing 235 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 3: football or doing something kick the can or something. And 236 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 3: so it was just that just kind of was grooming 237 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 3: me for this what I'm doing right now. But my 238 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 3: really like interest in the sport came from my older 239 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: brother Michael. 240 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: What position did he play? 241 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 3: He was a dB? He was a dB. It was 242 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: a safety a corner. 243 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: And so it's interesting because, you know, sitting with you 244 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 2: right now and knowing the career that you've had, I 245 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: don't think people maybe even know the humble beginnings of 246 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: which you came from, because you were a kid coming 247 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 2: out of high school that didn't have any offers. 248 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 3: Now I had I had some offers. 249 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: Okay, did not have I didn't have anything. 250 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 4: I didn't I personally had no offers whatever. 251 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 2: But that was something that I think it was a 252 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: really interesting part of your story. And I was going 253 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: back and I read something along the lines of your like, 254 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 2: you know, I didn't understand at the time why those 255 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 2: offers kind of for D one schools like weren't coming 256 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 2: in looking back on that time period, how did that 257 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 2: shape who you are and kind of the chip on 258 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: your shoulder mentality that maybe you brought with you through 259 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 2: your career. 260 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 3: I mean it was some I think it was just 261 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 3: some people I needed to meet and have experiences with 262 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 3: in Grand Valley, and that's that's what I did. You know, 263 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 3: I met my kids mom out there. Uh, you know, 264 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 3: I met some great people that I still got connections with. 265 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 3: Uh friends, Uh, turning into family, and I just needed 266 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 3: some more experience and to learn a little bit more. 267 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 3: And so that's I think that's what happened. I just 268 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 3: I just that was my path. That was my path. 269 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 3: God sent me on that path. And you know, obviously 270 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,479 Speaker 3: I wasn't good enough in high school or something, you know, 271 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 3: I was. I was a late bloomer, and I needed 272 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 3: to learn more about the game instead of instead of competing. 273 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 3: And so I got to Grand Valley and I got 274 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 3: to kind of sit down because I got red shirted instantly, 275 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 3: and then uh, you know, I met some some cool dudes, 276 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 3: Justice Isaiah, some people I'm still really close with to 277 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 3: this day. And so just going through that, it was 278 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 3: just that was just my path. I don't I don't 279 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 3: think I had to go D two, But that was 280 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 3: just my path and that's how God had me to 281 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 3: go and chose me to go. And so I lived 282 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 3: through it. I grew through it, and then when it 283 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 3: was my time and opportunity to actually come to the stage, 284 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 3: I was ready. 285 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 2: When you look back at that time, and you know, 286 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 2: you talk about it being kind of very fundamental in 287 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 2: terms of you and your knowledge of the game. What 288 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 2: is something that you learned while you were at Grand 289 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 2: Valley that still even now, so many years into your 290 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 2: NFL pro career, do you still go back to uh dang. 291 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 3: Probably probably just like the love of the game, you know, 292 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 3: you know back then I had like ACL surgery, So 293 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 3: just watching the game and just knowing like kind of 294 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: what everybody do and that kind of helps you to 295 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 3: make plays. It's like when can I take this chance? 296 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 3: When I can I take this ritz? Who who's like 297 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 3: backing me? And then like, you know, what kind of 298 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 3: level are they backing me from? So just that just 299 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 3: just knowing, like knowing the kind of denuances of the 300 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 3: game sounds. 301 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: Like a greater appreciation in general, for sure. 302 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure, especially when it gets taken 303 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 3: away from you. Yeah, that's that definitely. It doesn't help, 304 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 3: but it makes you more hungry, It makes you it 305 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 3: makes you more willing to like just say skip it. 306 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 3: I'm gonna just gonna go out there and let the 307 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 3: chips fall with me. 308 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 2: When you are kind of nearing the end of your 309 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 2: career at Grand Valley and you know you hold a 310 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 2: D two record in sacks and you know it's this 311 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 2: name coming out of D two and what's interesting. 312 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: Is your draft process. 313 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: I read where you didn't like it, like you didn't 314 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 2: like the process leading into the draft at all? No 315 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: that or not maybe at all, but it just like, 316 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 2: wasn't your favorite thing to do? 317 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 3: No that well, I mean it was hell lokay. 318 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 4: Okay, I wasn't gonna put words in your mouth. 319 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 3: I think it's just very it's very stressful. I think 320 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 3: that's that's when you first get introduced to the NFL. 321 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 3: Stress It's like like you don't know where you're going. 322 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 3: You you have no control over it. It's if a GM 323 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 3: wants to give you opportunity, and it's if like this 324 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 3: person like and then and then coming off was like, okay, 325 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: WI should I wait? And then my ages don't know 326 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 3: their life. You know, the bigger you weigh, the faster 327 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 3: you run, the more impressive it look. Or you know, 328 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 3: the smaller you are, the faster you run, that looks 329 00:17:54,960 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 3: impressive as well. And that's that's kind of one. You 330 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 3: don't really got too much guidance. And then for me, 331 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 3: it's like it's like, well, you could go number one 332 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 3: overall or you could be undrafted. It's like in anywhere 333 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 3: in between, anywhere in between and so it's just real 334 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 3: stressful because we we got to I mean besides college, 335 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 3: but a lot of a lot of athletes get a 336 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 3: lot of offers and stuff and you get to pick. 337 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 3: It's like your pick of the letter. It's like, Okay, 338 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 3: who do you want to take the problem? And then 339 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 3: at this point is the other other one on the field. 340 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 3: It's like you're just waiting and you're waiting for You're 341 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 3: waiting for a phone call. And then you got to 342 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 3: keep your line open. It's like it's like nobody can 343 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 3: call you for three days and then when those random 344 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 3: numbers pop up, you answering like hello, hello, and so 345 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 3: uh it's and then the traveling to Combine Combine, they 346 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 3: just put a lot of you know, stress on you 347 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 3: to see if you can handle it. And then for 348 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 3: me pro day, I was the only one there. I 349 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 3: was the only one there a couple of people I 350 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 3: didn't do. I didn't retest to test I did at 351 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 3: the combine. I was just like, let those stand. Uh, 352 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 3: And I didn't have like a long enough time it 353 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 3: was we it was like a week and a half. 354 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 3: I was like, just let them stand. And I'm glad 355 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 3: I did because I mean, after they did all the testing, 356 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 3: it was only me and we worked out for almost 357 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 3: two and a half hours. It was it was D 358 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 3: line drills, uh, dB drills, linebacker drills, like like I 359 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 3: did everything. I'm like, bro, I'm not a corner wid 360 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 3: my flip. It was like it was like you might 361 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 3: have to drop, like in the NFL system, you might 362 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 3: have to drop. I'm like, yeah, but I'm not doing 363 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 3: W drill Like I'm not doing that, but I'm not 364 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 3: saying this in my head. 365 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: I'm like behavior addition. 366 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 3: And then uh, before before I worked out, I had 367 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 3: two interviews, and after I worked out, I had like 368 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 3: three interviews, and then uh then I'm flying around. I 369 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 3: mean it was cool. 370 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 2: It was it was cool, but it was it was 371 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 2: definitely I think the word that I saw you used 372 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 2: before was like mentally taxing, Like it was one of 373 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 2: those things that you're you're in it and maybe honestly, 374 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 2: even like looking. 375 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: Back, it's like, dang, that was a lot. 376 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 2: And you don't know exactly to your point, there is 377 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 2: such a huge mental battle in terms of the unknown, 378 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: Like you're battling mentally, I don't know what this is 379 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 2: going to turn out to be. 380 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 3: Exactly. And then and then I mean, once you get drafted, 381 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 3: all that stuff alleviated. It's like or when when you 382 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 3: get to a team, all that stuff alleviated, it's like, Okay, 383 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,719 Speaker 3: what do y'all need from me? And then and then 384 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 3: you can handle it accordingly. You can handle what you 385 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 3: want to do accordingly. But if if before it's just like, 386 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 3: you know, this team might see us a three technique, 387 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 3: this team, my CEO here, this team I have you, 388 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 3: you have your hand in, this team might have you 389 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 3: standing up. We just don't know. 390 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: Gosh, it's crazy to think it's not a mutual process. Really, no, 391 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: definitely not. Sorry, Like I was undersutstanding that, So I 392 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: almost like was thinking about like recruitment, which is very 393 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: very different, but at least that's slightly mutual. You go 394 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: through like a week of miserableness essentially, and then you 395 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: find like what house you're in, which is all similar 396 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: except for the fact it's mutual. So the fact that 397 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: you went through all of that, You're. 398 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 2: Talking about recruitment for sorority. 399 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought you meant recruitment foot ball. 400 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 4: I was like, where are they going in the house? 401 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: I got you caught up? Yeah, it's just like a 402 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: week of a long time of build up, build up, 403 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: builds up. But at least that was mutual to think 404 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: like you could end to keep this analogy, which is 405 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: apparently a terrible one. You could have ended up at 406 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: your least favorite house and have nothing to say, nothing 407 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: to say, yeah, I'm turning red. 408 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 3: It's kind of like we'll say, Harry Potter. 409 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, are you a Harry Potter fan? 410 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: What house are you? 411 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 2: Griffindor Slytherin? You think so, okay, that makes sense. I 412 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 2: could see that. 413 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: I wouldn't know how to take that. 414 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy. 415 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: No, some of them you might give me Slytherin vibes. No, 416 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: I don't. Necessarily. 417 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,719 Speaker 2: I'm under the firm belief that you're not evil if 418 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 2: you're Slytherin. 419 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: Like, that's not she said the evil word. We did it, 420 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: that's what yeah. 421 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 3: Brought who brought that up? 422 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 4: No, that's why you're saying, like, I don't know if 423 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 4: I like that. 424 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. 425 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 4: I know, but not everyone in Slytherin is evil. 426 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 2: I think that it's like it's all about who, like, 427 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 2: what your motives are? You know, Innately, they just didn't 428 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 2: like Harry that's. 429 00:22:58,359 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. 430 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 4: I'm hufflepuff, so I kind of suck. 431 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: Compared to everything else. I mean, it's jealous, honestly, is 432 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: what it is. You're not a Southern. I don't know 433 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: what I am. I think southern. You're probably Raven Clough. 434 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: I had to guess. 435 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, probably that's not bad. 436 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: I know what that means. So thank you question Mark. 437 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: All Right, I'm most excited about this topic though. Yes, 438 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: nine to nine in Dallas, Texas. 439 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nine kitchen the lungs. 440 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, is it just nine? Is number nine? 441 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 3: Yeah? 442 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: I went back and forth between ninety nine, nine nine, 443 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 1: and then I went with nine to nine your restaurant. 444 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: I know, but I just wanted to say it. I'm 445 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: an eager looked at the menu fire, but one what 446 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: behind wanting to open a restaurant in Dallas, Texas? 447 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 3: My partners and stuff. I just kept convincing me, like, 448 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 3: let's do it, let's do it, like I s I 449 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 3: finally gave VM. But just serving people like you know, 450 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 3: always had uh, you know, want to serve and make 451 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 3: people feel like at home. And then I just be 452 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 3: feeling like you kind of go to a lot of 453 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 3: places and it's kind of like this kind of same 454 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 3: food around and I kind of like the same same 455 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 3: environments and stuff. So we just wanted to put a 456 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 3: different play on the environments of restaurants, the food, the 457 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 3: quality of it, and just making them just a little 458 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: more lively. 459 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw there's like bands Friday, Saturday, Sunday, except 460 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: when there's an NFL or NBA game on a course. 461 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Now a love band's gonna have to chill out. 462 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: It's about to be a lot of football basketball. 463 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 464 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 2: So what's the process of creating and creating a menu? 465 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: How much? Say, did you have and do you have 466 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: a favorite? I have the entrees listed. 467 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 3: It's actually a lot, and then it's I believe that 468 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 3: there's a lot of R and D. And then you 469 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 3: got to see who you want to supply the food, 470 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 3: and then how it tastes when it cooks, Like all right, 471 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 3: not not that one, but you know a lot of 472 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,959 Speaker 3: people came in it's like, okay, this this is the 473 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 3: type of beef we offer, this type of meat, this 474 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 3: type of chicken, this is the quality of this is 475 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 3: this is how you can get it. Drinks. I don't drinks, 476 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 3: So a lot of people taste it. We had a 477 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 3: lot of different people taste the drinks. 478 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: And do you have mocktails. 479 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 3: Then mocktails and lemonades. But a lot of people just 480 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 3: came in, tried to tried to drink, tried like Okay, 481 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 3: this is what I think, this is what I think. 482 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 3: And it's a lot it's a lot of behind the 483 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 3: scenes work on this. There's a lot. 484 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 2: Was there anything that surprised you about that, Like the 485 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 2: process of going through and being like, this is what 486 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 2: we're creating. We're creating a restaurant. We're doing this for people. 487 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: We have a mission and values that we want to uphold. 488 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 2: But like things that we wouldn't think about that surprised 489 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 2: you about getting to the point of like opening the door. 490 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 3: Oh, it's a lot of it's a lot of like 491 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 3: handshaking and stuff like, Yeah, it's a lot of it's 492 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 3: a lot of papers behind But I think everybody know 493 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 3: that open up a restaurant, open up a business. It's 494 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 3: it's just a lot. It's just a lot of behind 495 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 3: the scenes work and you know, finding the right people. 496 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 3: That's that's in the restaurant industry. You gotta find the 497 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 3: right people, Like in a restaurant people be stealing, so 498 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 3: you gotta you gotta make sure that you find the 499 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 3: right people. Uh, try to have at least amount of 500 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 3: kitchen turnover it's possible, because that's that's a big thing 501 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 3: in restaurants, just the turnover in the kitchen. And then 502 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 3: you try to get the people to understand, like, you know, 503 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 3: they're not the only person in the restaurant. So when 504 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 3: we kind of get busy, like, uh, we gotta get 505 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 3: like tables move, tables turning and stuff like that. So 506 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 3: you know, it's a it's a money making business, but 507 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,719 Speaker 3: it's fun. And then I love like when my friends 508 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 3: come through and they just sit at the bar, try 509 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 3: the food and we just kind of talk about the 510 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 3: experience and how they liked it. 511 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: Didn't you bring some Falcons teammates there in the preseason? 512 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 3: Uh? 513 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 1: No, was I missed. 514 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 3: A couple of guys went out there in the off 515 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 3: season for the past Rush retreat and then we went. 516 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so a couple of Falcons did step inside 517 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: this building. Falcon I wasn't fullys. She's like, I'm not 518 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: completely out of left field, and I might be again, 519 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: but is it true when you are there, you try 520 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: to like help out serving. 521 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 3: I'll be serving. 522 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I saw you serving at James 523 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: Smith Williams and Lorenzo Carter's like community dinner, so I've 524 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: seen the talents. 525 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll be serving. It's uh like, why not 526 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 3: do everything? Are you? 527 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: Yeah? No question? 528 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 2: Are you the type of waiter and or server that 529 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 2: doesn't have to write down everybody's orders and can just 530 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 2: remember it? 531 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 3: Well? We No, No, I'm not. 532 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 4: Okay, I think that's crazy behavior. 533 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't like that. But we got tablets 534 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 3: and I just pushed it in right there. 535 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: I wish I had a tablet when I was a server. 536 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. I was just pushing it in right there, right 537 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 3: then and there, like drinks or in everything. So I'm 538 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 3: not too skilled on the tablets. 539 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: Though, right yeah. 540 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 4: Either I just got this thing and I'm like, I 541 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 4: don't really know. 542 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 3: And then and then another I don't know which tables 543 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 3: are whitch the number. I wasn't there for. 544 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 2: That, Okay, you didn't. You didn't pick the table the 545 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 2: map the amount of times. Because I was a server 546 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: in college. That was one of my jobs and I 547 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 2: know you've been. You did the same thing, and along 548 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 2: with our seven other jobs that we were trying to 549 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 2: get into sports journalism. 550 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: But it was always really. 551 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: Funny because they're not funny because I was getting in 552 00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 2: trouble when I would do it, but I would like 553 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 2: and I would send it to the wrong table, or 554 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 2: I would put things in at the wrong table. 555 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: And we didn't have to run the food. We just 556 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: took the order. 557 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but if if you don't list a table, yeah, 558 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 3: then it goes. 559 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: To the wrong oars is the diagram, So I got 560 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: to just like click what table. 561 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 3: I think that's easier. 562 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: Just map weird, you ordered a burger, here's chicken tenders? 563 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: All right? Should we do rapid fire? Yes, we close 564 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: out every falcons and focus with the section called rapid Fire. 565 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: We have five quick questions for you. 566 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 3: I have to answer them quick. 567 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: No, I mean you can think about them. It's more 568 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,719 Speaker 1: it's car. Some of them do you know the first answer? 569 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 2: Some of them, though, I will say, probably do need 570 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 2: to be explained. 571 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: All right, He's just gonna want to answer all of them. Car. 572 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: First one is what is your favorite play of your 573 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: career at any level? Uh? 574 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 3: Sackphone sack, and then I ran it to the tunnel. 575 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 3: H That was twenty eighteen Versta Raiders. When I was 576 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 3: on a raven, I got three sacks in a row. 577 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 3: It was my last. It was the last sack. I 578 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 3: ran too. 579 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: How much it did? Say tunnel? I was like, tunnel, 580 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: I know, yeah, how did you keep from falling? Because 581 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: that's one of my definitely almost shout out that's the thing. 582 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 3: It's like on a clip. If y'all pull up the clip, 583 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 3: you're gonna see me. 584 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: No, that's legit. 585 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 2: Like every single time I see any of y'all like 586 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 2: runn into the tunnel, I'm like, oh God, like they're 587 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 2: going to slip on a banana, Like that's what it 588 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 2: looks like. 589 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: And I get so scared every. 590 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 3: Time almost did. 591 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: It was a bit the dust is all right? 592 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 2: Second question, who is your favorite athlete of all time? 593 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: Regardless of sport. 594 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 3: Athlete all time? I got three day all hoopers. 595 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: Thought, okay, no, that's great. Who are they? 596 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 3: Vince Carter, Durting Winsky and Kevin Duran. 597 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. 598 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 2: Have you met Vince because he's in Atlanta. Guy, he 599 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 2: spent some time in Atlanta. 600 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I never met I know Kevin uh never 601 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 3: met Dirk. 602 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you'll have to if. 603 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 3: It's football, damn Ricky Williams too. 604 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: Right, Yes, yes, I love it. If you could have 605 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: any superpower of choice, what would it be and why? 606 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 3: Teleportation? 607 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 2: Yes, good one that you're now like the fourth or 608 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 2: fifth person in a road that said teleportation. 609 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 3: Because like that's the best super power. It is, that 610 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 3: is the best super power, like like you can't get hit, 611 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 3: just be there and you know, like like the movie 612 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 3: what is the movie called, I don't know, Jumper Jumper? Yeah, 613 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 3: oh yeah, i'd be him live wherever I wanted. 614 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: That'd be pretty soon and poorly for him. 615 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 3: Huh. 616 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: I don't know in a minute since I've seen that. 617 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 3: No, he was fine. 618 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: I love the actor. 619 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 3: Oh well, I don't know about that. 620 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: But here's the actor. You know, I'm bad with the name. 621 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: I know. We'll skip. We'll look it up on im media. Yeah, 622 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: that's okay. 623 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 2: Speaking of movies and TV shows, do you have one 624 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 2: that you would recommend to the people movie. 625 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 3: Or TV movie or TV Grandma's Boy. 626 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that sound's hilarious. Wait, week, I haven't seen this. 627 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 3: What I know it's normally like. 628 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: That's why randomly on MTV probably, Yeah, a TV shirt movie. 629 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 3: It's probably on VHS VHS. 630 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: Okay, movie, Okay, maybe i'll find it. I'm sure it's 631 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: on like Amazon is. 632 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, it's another movie. It's like it's like freak. 633 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 3: He was like, he was like, what's that song called? Uh? 634 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 3: When they say the grandmother got ran over by reindeer, 635 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 3: it's like grandmother got rained over here. No, that's not 636 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 3: it's not it's not like. 637 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 2: People in the comments tell us, I know y'all probably 638 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,479 Speaker 2: know what it is. 639 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was when he was he was trying to 640 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 3: be a stunt mane. Now I can remember that moving. 641 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 2: It's okay, people will come to the rescue. 642 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, now I want to know what it is. I 643 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: can watch it, I know. 644 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 3: Right, and he failed down he failed down the heel 645 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 3: and then he like he was having like a singing 646 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 3: like monologue and stuff, and then he failed. 647 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: You're not thinking of a Christmas movie. 648 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 3: I don't think it's a Christmas. 649 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: I'm just picturing some guy rolling down a snowy hill. 650 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: Now it was not a snowy okay, so not a 651 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 1: no longer Christmas. 652 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 2: We'll get there eventually, it'll be fine. 653 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: Our last question, the fifth one, is what is your 654 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: favorite Bill Belichick memory, Bi. 655 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, teams, for sure, what did he do? 656 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: It's probably a favorite for swas. 657 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,399 Speaker 3: Team and for sure well, oh no, my favorite Bill 658 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 3: Ballicheck moment is one day, one day, and this was 659 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 3: the accident. I was might have been not an off 660 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 3: in the team either. I might have been not an 661 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 3: off in the team either. Right, he yelled at me. 662 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,399 Speaker 3: He yelled at me. Twenty minutes later, somebody else got 663 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 3: up to present he was not an off in the 664 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 3: same team. I'm like Bill Bill, but now Bill Bill 665 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 3: a great guy, a great coach, but better person. 666 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. I've read like some things that he said. 667 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 2: About you over the years and just like always like 668 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 2: a super super complimentary and I. 669 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: Feel like y'all had a good relationship. 670 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah we did. 671 00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,359 Speaker 2: Except when you're not off and him too, you call 672 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,240 Speaker 2: him out, were you, like, of course not, you don't. 673 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 3: You probably didn't know. 674 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: If Bill Belichick is listening, he calls you, and it's like, 675 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: I remember that he gonna. 676 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 3: Be like, I wasn't. I wasn't. 677 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 1: He was listening with my eyes closed. Can you get 678 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: an impression of him? No, we love it. Well, this 679 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: has been a joy. Thank you so much for joining us. 680 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: I hope you had a good time too. We got 681 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 1: to come back on that movie when you think of it, 682 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: though not on the spot right now. The ending will 683 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: last ten minutes. We will be like trying to get 684 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:45,319 Speaker 1: out up. All right, We're going to wrap this up 685 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 1: in case your internet is slower. We'll put it once 686 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: we figure out what the movie is. 687 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 2: We'll put it in the title and description in the 688 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 2: YouTube comments. 689 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 1: Sounds good. 690 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, just to make sure that every we ever like 691 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 2: Ducks in a Row bases covered all the analogies. 692 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, Thank you? 693 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 2: Are you just like googling the like actual quote like 694 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,760 Speaker 2: the what was the quote like about the rank grandma 695 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 2: got run over by raindeering. 696 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 3: I'm telling you that song. It's hilarious. 697 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,359 Speaker 1: He's invested, and I feel bad, just like cutting it off. 698 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 3: I know, cut it off. 699 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 1: I will find it, but it'll. 700 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 2: Be in the title in description. We will find it. 701 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: All right. Make sure you like subscribe to Atlanta Falcons 702 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,759 Speaker 1: podcast network. Leave comments to help toot On find out 703 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: what his movie is, and thank you for listening. That's 704 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,240 Speaker 1: all for today.