WEBVTT - Sam Acho 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John and this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.600 to it. Good do it, Good do it. Let's getting 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.919 down to do it. Good do it. We asked the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.880 questions you always want to know, but no one ever asked, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.600 let's cut to it. You ain't heard them about it, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:39.880 then we're about to let you know. It's all tell man, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:47.480 don't tell me how the hamburgers made already already good, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.640 We're good. What up? What's up? Man? What's up? Man? 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:58.920 Did you see that ass whooping the other night? I'm 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.400 not Shelly Shalli. I'm not dancing around it. We were 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.040 texting back and forth. We're supposed to hang out, but 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.120 we didn't get a chance to because with everything going 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.120 on with with with the pandemic, so we didn't get 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.600 a chance to. But we're texting back and forth. We're 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.959 talking about getting the fight. So we were both watching 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:17.160 simultaneously as you have to do now, and so, um, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.920 I was excited just about seeing Mike Tyson fight, seeing 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.480 Roy Jones fight. Hold on, but why did Roy walk 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.560 in that thing like he had a hip hip replacement. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:36.600 Roy was built like the appliants manager at like like, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.680 of all the I don't know how much leaves they 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.960 had from the time that they announced this to the 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.520 fight that happening. But my mind is I don't know. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.080 Both these guys in their fifties. Tyson's fifty four, Roy's 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.760 fifty one, so I understand that, and Roy looked fifty. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:59.840 Look about here's what happened to Roy. Roy's like, I'm done. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.000 They got this fight, and Roy try to use every 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:11.840 water peel, a golden seal, clean you up, and it 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.160 still didn't want that boy had he got hit with 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.480 the bad body pillow something like that's what you show 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.119 after all these weeks that we had from the time 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.760 that we announced the fight until now, that's that's the 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:28.200 body you show up with, Bob, Like what comes you 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:36.000 Catt now throws. But anyway, that's not even what we 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:43.280 really wanted to get into your card. Before Tyson and 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.839 we had Nate Robinson who was going against YouTube star 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.200 care what Jake Paul, I don't care where he was. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.440 He could have been a YouTuber, he could have been 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.760 a drive through two fights. According to According to Paul, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.000 he broke his nose and rolled out of bed and 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.760 whooped this ass. Well, the proofs in the pudding because 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:10.200 he definitely did listen. Here's the problem I have with Nate, right, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.160 I think I'm mad Nate. I don't know. I'm not 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:22.960 in the business. I've squawped. But but we know everybody's like, oh, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.760 Nate's trainer needs to be fired. Let me tell y'all something, people, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:33.480 when did they start announcement? Nate did not listen or 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:39.080 at here to any of the training. Once that bell roll, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:48.280 he was lungeon. He threw everything out through m what's 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.640 that bell rung? He just continued. Any type of advice, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.000 any type of training, anything that he got from his training, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.360 he didn't use. It. All went out the window, lunched in, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.480 hands down, and unfortunately he got hit with that two 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.760 piece and and that Popaye's biscuit. You can't even you 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.640 can't even chew that thing. I heard she want to say, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.200 what that eat? Twenty three nerves? That's what he got. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.600 Hit in the back of the head the first time 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.800 he went down, and then he was frustrated. O refree, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.640 you didn't stop. He was too knocked up to be frustrated. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.600 That second that second one he got, he got a 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.000 he got a five finger dose a Nike will He 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.400 is going to have to leave the country. Even Steph 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:38.000 Curry got on, bro, did you see how bad? I 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.960 feel bad? But then I don't. He got his ass whooped. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.800 You know how, You know how back in the day, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.919 like your grandma and your mom say, I knocked you 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.480 in the next week, Nate got knocked into Nate next Tuesday, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.280 it was, it was, it was bad. He'll be back 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.640 next Friday. No, he won't. You know where natives right 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.479 now currently after that fight, Nate is waiting for all 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.240 of us to catch up with him. That's where he 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.640 got nothing. The next year. What's that terminator? You go back, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:13.159 you go back? You got the T two And he 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.760 had on. The funny part is is head on blue 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.280 and orange on the Knicks colors. So he was dressing. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.520 He was dressing the official attire. Did you hear what happened? 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.960 Did you see what Adam Silver did? He took away 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:32.560 his three times swam dun championship. He show us, he 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.200 stripped him of all honors. We cannot even be associated 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.440 with you. He got his ass whooped. And then every 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:46.240 time you see Nate. What you think about by the YouTuber, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.000 I don't care you got knocked out on TV. Somebody 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.520 got to get somebody, don't you see? You gotta get 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.880 his He was sitting in the chair and he was 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.919 just like, here's I'll tell you what he was thinking, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.440 because I was thinking, yeah, what what? What? What? Give 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.640 me the in sequence of from the time that Nate 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.880 got into the ring, you want me to be Nate. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.000 Be Nate as as a professional squad, but as yourself. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.920 I've heard you got into a couple of rumpers before. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.120 I don't know. Give us the Steve Smith breakdown of 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.480 how you would how you would have came in first. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.040 You gotta pick what would you come into the ring? 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.920 It don't even matter because you got your ass. Uh, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.719 it doesn't matter. Something something hype. All right, are you 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.920 come in too? And you know they come in Oh yeah, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.279 picturing me rolling? Okay, all right, there you go. Yeah 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.200 you can't do ice cube today. It was a good 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.240 day because that was a bad day. Oh yeah, yeah. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.200 So you go you go in there and bang you 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:50.600 in there and he gets in there. You're boxing. I'm 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.680 about you better watch out right, they're gonna have to 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.520 get this dude to Scooby Snacks. When I'm finished with him, 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:06.560 think Bay round one. Now what happens you're nervous, there's 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.960 a whole two minute round. You realize her. Now I 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.400 prepare for this, but I don't know if I'm ready. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.760 Mans own right, here's what he says. I'm about whoop 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.680 his ass? Is that Snoop doing commentary? Yes it was, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.640 it's that Snoop. They got Snooper. Yeah, And so he's lungeon. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.280 He's gonna look, I'm gonna rush him. I'm a that 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.720 ain't part of the rules. I'm gonna hit him. I'm 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:35.440 gonna hit him with a flour reason. The only problem 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.800 his hands down the old time. So he just left 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.320 himself over. I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get him. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.920 I'm gona get him. About a minute in that boy 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:50.720 is painting. And here's where it gets really interested. So 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.800 now he calms down. But yet he still has that athleticism. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.880 If I can knock for sure, Oh yeah, he's an athlete. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.400 If I can knock this dude, I'm good lay basketball, 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.760 played football, he can box. He played a lot of things. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.440 Game playbox. Know what that brother did not play. He 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:13.040 did not play a good box here custom motto could 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.640 have been arrested, so could have been his trainer. He 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.800 didn't use any of his training tips. Anybody was saying 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.000 that he trained twice a day. That was the issue. No, 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:29.080 the issue as his brother did not adhered anything, no guides, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.720 no DC nothing. No, he didn't social distance. You don't 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:40.040 wear his mask. He didn't did not social distance Robinson's 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:45.280 face and then it just went down. Did you see 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.679 his eye? He laid that when he put him to sleep. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.520 That's how you know he was sleep. He wasn't sleep 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.240 faced down in the mat. He had his head to 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.640 the side. You know what happens when you have your 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.360 head to the side, You and what they call rim 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:11.400 sleep ut the s your body is recovering from a 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.160 long day. The Navy had that shot of Nate when 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.720 his eyes was all big and he knew he was 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.000 going down, and his arm was already down, his arms 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.520 already down. It was terrible. It's like when you see 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.320 a dude catch the ball and get hit and he's 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.880 stuck in that position and they had to pry the 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:32.640 ball away. Nate was he is how you know they 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:37.040 got hit His ass was up, ass up, face down. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.560 Everyone was even funny with snoops coming to you. Man 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.200 was awesome. Got knocked out the second time. Oh lord, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.400 look at my two uncles. Look grandmother, that I got 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:56.160 the fighting boy Nate got knocked out. And then what's 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:02.120 even worse when they woke him up, he was like convulsive. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.839 So you know he was in a deep sleep. He 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.040 was he was sleep always toy story when he was 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.240 sleep like this. I'm gonna go through several things that 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.199 I experienced when he was sleep. One five more minutes, Mommy, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:28.439 I am Batman, Donna Tello Leonardo. He went back several decades, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.720 Mighty Mouse, super Friends, the one he was dreaming about, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.200 all that he was dreaming about, all of that, he 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.120 was dreaming about playing in the NBA. Man winning the 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.120 Slam Dunck contest. But you know what, he did not 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.640 really not. He did not win his first did not 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.240 in his last. I hope this is I hope this 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.000 is grand, open and grand. He gonna have to he 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.320 gonna have to keep fighting. I pray that that's not 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.040 his decision. No, he gotta keep fighting, because you can't 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.080 take that. It's not a pivot to another sport like 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:09.600 let's let's try, and it's something else like Jack's badminton, solitaire, anything, domino, spades, chess, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.760 jen Remy. I don't care. You know, it's something else. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:19.440 I just wanted yacht sie. I don't care. Uh Uno 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.840 flip flip is I don't think he could be mother 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.840 made talk. You're doing something, you know, some old school 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.679 anything that he can get it dubed. I'm with electronic 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:37.720 black Jack. Well, so let's have a moment of silence 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:43.120 for Nate. Alright, cool? So, hey, who do we have next? Alright, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.200 come out the cut to a podcast. We've got Sam Ao, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.880 an NFL linebacker that's played with the Cardinals, Bears, Bills, Bucks, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.080 and Patriots, and the author of Let the World See You, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.600 How to Be Real in a World Full of Fakes. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:08.760 Sam Acho, want to cut to a podcast, man, I'm 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.240 glad to be here. Thank you all for having me, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.240 Thank you for joining us. So our first segment is 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.160 called get Iced Up. It's our version of Icebreakers. Smithy 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.400 has some random questions. I have no idea what order 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.560 there in? You have no idea what order they're in. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.600 I don't know if he's gonna follow up. We'll get 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.280 right into it. Smitty, have no idea what order they're in. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.040 Oh he does. He got them written down. Listen, just 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:35.240 because you're doing a few games. So I don't get 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:40.520 a twist. We do the run, we all collectively do 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.760 the rundown. But the ice up questions no one really knows. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.800 I have like three or four pages of questions that 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.800 I just randomly he picked, he got, he got book pages. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.000 He came in here next owners quick, and I got 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.080 questions like I'm like, I don't know about this one, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.120 or oh I may ask a question, I'm like, uh, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:06.480 that individual may be too stupid to answer. So let 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:11.000 me simplify it. You know those football players, those jocks, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.720 those dumb linebackers. All right, he go, you ready, ye, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.480 all right, buckle up, butter Cup, here we go. You 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:24.400 just finished a book that we'll discuss. Let the world 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:30.200 see you. Are you a pen or pencil person? Oh, 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.400 I'm a pen I'm a pen person all day. That's easy. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.520 And but that's it has to be the right pan though, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:40.640 something what kind of ballpoint? Ballpoint? Ballpoint? It's like the uniball, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:45.040 the uniball pan ballpoint. Ideally, you like the two I 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.520 know what it looks like when I write with it. Okay, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.280 do you like spicy food? No, not even close, not 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.240 at all. What does it? What does it do to 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.880 make you sweat? Well? Why don't you like spicy food? 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.720 Because when I leave that restroom after this spicy food 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:04.920 is it's a problem for my body. He said, it 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:11.839 feels white love. So what was your favorite book as 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:18.040 a child? Mm hmm, that's a great question. So oh, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.840 I know, thank you. I'm patting myself on the as 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.840 you speaking. So my favorite book, I'm gonna give you 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.880 this one. The only reason. And in our reality, like 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.480 when I was growing up, I wasn't reading all the books. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.280 I was usually doing the synopsis is and you know, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.040 trying to let me get the first couple of chapters. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.520 But there was a book called Things Fall Apart by 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:42.320 an author named China Cheban who Chin. He's a Nigerian author, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.000 and the book was called Things Fall Apart. The reason 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.920 I loved that book wasn't because of its contents, which 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.240 is probably not the greatest thing to say, but this 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.880 dude was a Nigerian author, and I'm Nigerian. We're reading 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.880 about reading a Nigerian dude's book in my pretty much 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.680 all white school. So for me that was dope. It 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.560 was like, oh wow, like we're in here, you know 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.640 what I mean? And so things fall apart was probably 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.320 probably my it's the most memorable at least book that 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.680 I read growing up. I'll do that now. I can't 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.160 tell you what it was about. But I did have 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:18.320 to read that book. Really no flex, no cap As 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.280 the younger generation said, I didn't. I noticed my support 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.960 may my he who cares. I didn't read a lot 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.280 of books when I was I was growing up. It 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:32.720 just was not something that was that was offered. Uh. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.520 But I love reading books today, and I'll read a 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.960 book and I'll stop reading a book in a heartbeat, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.640 like if I if I get enough information, I'll take 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.800 notes and say, well, don't make you stop reading it. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.920 Well not not not flextion or you know, not trying 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:54.160 to be you know, prisoner of the moment. But I 0:15:54.360 --> 0:16:00.200 stopped your book, Sam three times mm hmm, because as 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.360 it really spoke to me, it broke me down. I 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.760 had to go in my office when I was reading it, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.760 talking about your mentor and we'll we'll dive deep, but 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.960 asking the permission to pass away that that really spoke 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.520 to me and I have to stop. I literally start 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.280 tearing up, and I walked in off. I told I 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.440 was reading you. I told wife, I said, I'm gonna 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.760 go in my office and do some work. And I 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.080 was wiping a little little tears out of my eyes. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.560 So I know, we you know this is cut to it, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.400 and we we got a pretty good following. But I 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.600 cut everybody in the room. If y'all tell anybody that 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.920 I was all right, last one, last one, and this 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.320 one tell me everything. Now, I'm gonna joke around with you, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.280 you know, defensive guys and offensive guys. We always bantering 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:46.280 back and forth. But I think you look like um, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.720 you know you from you just dark skinning, you play linebacker. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.320 You're ugly, so so you you. I'm gonna ask you 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.960 what your favorite ice cream flavor is because you look 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:04.080 like you're like butter. But calm, first of all, I 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:05.639 don't I don't know where it's starting. Man, he just 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.879 racially profiled you. He just just basically profiled you. He 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.320 profiled me by my race, my taste buds, by my 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.719 position group. That's a problem right now. All the profiles 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.800 Steve Smith's fault what's your flavor, Soucker. It's hey, I'm 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.720 a cookies and cream guy. Every day of the week 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.880 that ends up, since I've been, since I've been five 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.200 years old until thirty or whatever. I will eat. I will. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.520 I don't care where I go. Give me cookies and 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:38.359 cream and it's not it's not I'm probably just not 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.440 eating ice cream. Just give me cookies and cream. That's 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.159 just that's my thing. So vanilla bean, I'll do with 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.720 vanilla bean. I'll do vanilla bean every now and again. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.200 You were winning with the cookies and cream. I'm definitely 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.560 definitely with Sam. I'm definitely big cookies and cream. But 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.720 I don't eat a lot of ice cream. I am. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.560 I'm that black dude who is who is lacto? So 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.520 I can't eat ice cream. I'm bad business when you're 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:04.159 not supposed stupid. But sometimes I have always loved it. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.960 I don't know why Rocky roll with a with a 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.040 nasty I don't even think I've had that before. That's 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:16.080 much with a nasty cake. Yeah, with a cake cone. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:20.520 You know the styrophone comb. If I eat ice frome, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.199 I gotta get like the kids size. I can't just 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.479 can't do it bro, you know it won't do it. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.320 You know what I hate though, because my dad used 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.520 to eat it, and I think that's the worst flame. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:35.399 Butter ber cons that's all he would eat is. But 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.520 it is so nasty. It's I don't really I pick 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.159 out the depends where you from. I didn't want to 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.400 say that, we say. I didn't want to say that. Nothing. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.720 All right, let's move Hey we have digress. But it's 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.639 been fun. Sam. I appreciate you coming on again. You 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.120 could get Sam's booked. Let the world see you. It's 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:07.800 a fantastic read. Um. It's true. Your transparency is also 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:12.919 which which lead me to having you asking you to 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.520 come on here, because you give us a different perspective. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.320 I also want your faith to come out in this. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.000 I got some faith questions I really think you are 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.520 super qualified um to talk about and I think you're 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.040 gonna appreciate it too, because at times, you know, when 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.200 we talk about faith people, a lot of times it 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:31.879 gets turned off. But I want to ask you some 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.880 faith questions that really resonate in how you have been 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.960 able to maneuver through the game of football and then 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.320 also the game of Let's just be honest. The game 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.439 of judgment of of of of Christians. At times we 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.359 can be amongst ourselves, you know. Um, A number of 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.720 times I've had people come up to me and say, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.440 how do you call yourself a believer? If you're working 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:03.040 on Sunday? What I've Yeah, I mean I thought so, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.560 but I'm not sure they've. I mean some of the 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.600 churches I've been to. In current church I go to 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.760 now on that Sunday, they do a pastors off. All right, 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.560 so let's start off. So what was your favorite team 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:21.919 growing up? Any sport? Oh, any sport, any sort? And 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.159 with the questions today, okay, oh you we ain't even 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:34.479 got started. Brother, My favorite team? My favorite team. I 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:40.280 like the Rockets growing up because a chem was part 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.080 of it. But also so I'm from Dallas, so I'm 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.760 not from Houston, but I liked the rock The mass 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.720 were weren't great back then. I like the Rockets terrible 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.280 in in the in the nineties coming up, they were awful. 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.560 Hell is black Man and then and uh and um, 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:56.760 but then they got they had there was a period 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.520 there they had Steve Nash, they had Michael Finley, uh, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.960 and they had but then they let Nash and Philly 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.680 go and I'm like, okay, what are we doing? But 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:11.960 but so the rockets, but also the Houston comments whatever reason, Yes, 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:18.960 and that was the that was pulled three back. Yeah, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:20.520 that was a big three back in the day Anthea 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.439 Tina Thompson and uh yeah yes, cool, okay, so that 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.880 would be those are probably my team's took you long enough. 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:34.119 But like a linebacker trying to dissect the run, play stop, 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:41.000 the offices are easy to boom. The tackle gives it away, 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.399 the tackle past walking on the look like what you 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:50.000 doing the tackle? Yeah, big hog my lace and it's 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.399 pause for a little bit. We'll be right back after 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:59.360 this break. I love cut to It, and I love 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.520 it even more when you download us and subscribe and 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.160 you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, where 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.159 where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? What 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:14.399 about Twitter? At? Cut to It Facebook? Cut to It 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.320 featuring Steve Smith singr. What about online? And you can 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.040 follow us at cut to It podcast dot com where 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.159 you can buy merch and you can subscribe to us 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:29.360 wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my answers questions, Um, yeah, 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.760 I got all my questions answered. That's what I'm here 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:37.520 for a brother? Cut to a podcast dot com Where 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.919 are you from in a place you call your hometown? 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.240 Great question, I'm from I was born in Dallas, so 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:48.160 I'm from Dallas, but I called Chicago home right now 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.080 and I'm a little bit of a transition. But well, 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:51.879 well I played for the Bears for four years and 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.040 this city really embraced me. Right maybe for you, I 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.520 don't know if that would have been Baltimore, Carolina that 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.480 really embraced you, but shaka, yeah, I played in Arizona 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.760 and y'all play in tap but Chicago really embraced me. 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:03.680 Like I go a lot of places. Where I go here, 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:05.720 people know me, and you know, I just feel like that. 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.720 I feel like I fit in this city when it 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:10.680 comes to like a need basis right, trying to help 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:13.760 build the people up, but also just from uh the people. 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:17.200 I love the city. For me, Charlotte is the place 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:19.560 now call home. It's only taking me about seventeen and 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:23.240 a half years to say that. Um, but my football 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.440 home actually is Baltimore. UM. I can go that city 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.359 right now and say we're gonna do a charity event 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:30.920 and people will come in droves. I can I can 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:32.680 go to I can go to Baltimore and say, hey, 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.560 we need ten thousand dollars for this. People do it 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:38.159 a little bit in Charlotte. Sometimes it's like, well we 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:43.960 gotta see, let me see what my savers in my 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:49.280 checking is doing. But you know, but both cities have 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:55.600 embraced me. Is just I think Baltimore in a football sense. Um, well, 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.760 they're just a different city, right in the football sense. So, Sam, 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:02.600 you born in Dallas, growing up in Dallas, how did 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:08.040 it shape your view on the world today? Growing up 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:10.000 in Dallas? How did it shape my view? Well? I 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:14.399 grew up in Dallas, yes, but my parents are from Nigeria, 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:17.080 so we spent a lot of time at Nigerian events, 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:21.400 if that makes any sense. So every every first Saturday 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.480 of the month, there was something called African Christian Fellowship. 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:30.879 All the Nigerians from the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, almost 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:32.639 a lot of them, maybe all of them would get together, 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:35.200 you know, these young parents and their kids would get together. 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:37.600 We almost grew up together in a lot of ways, 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:40.520 and so that those were once a month. But then 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:42.639 also there will be events, whether it be weddings or 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.119 parties or whatever. Not even not like a party, like 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.399 going to the club, but like this get together gatherings 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:50.760 where we all kind of together. Go ahead. I had 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:54.440 a family event, a family event, but it was extended family. 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:56.840 So now, like like a lot of these Nigerian people 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.040 you see in the NFL, a lot of us know 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:00.560 each other in some way. And if we don't know 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:02.119 each other, our parents know each other. Right, We'll be 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:04.480 watching the draft. My dad would be like, some random 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:07.920