Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman A one hand effect.
Speaker 1: Boom boom boom out go the lights. This is Lights
Speaker 1: Out with Sean Merriman. What's up? Guys? Were back again
Speaker 1: with another Lights Out podcast with me Seawan Merriman. Um,
Speaker 1: And we got just a stone colde be somebody who
Speaker 1: played the game the way it was supposed to be
Speaker 1: played every day, day in day out, just went at
Speaker 1: it hard in Houston, Texas. Brian Cushing, Um, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was watching Cush since he was a lineback at USC. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll ask him coming up. I've seen him do the
Speaker 1: Lights out dance man, and that's my first time really
Speaker 1: and I watched me in college, but that's my first
Speaker 1: time where I was glued to this guy because he
Speaker 1: played the game away it's supposed to play. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask him about the seventeen game season, how he
Speaker 1: feels about that his career and with also what he's
Speaker 1: looking at doing. I know he was a strength conditioning
Speaker 1: coach for some time down at the Hughes In Texas organization.
Speaker 1: Then is he looking at coach and do things? More
Speaker 1: things after that? So Brian Cushing, what I'm doing? What's
Speaker 1: going on man, not much. Man, are you doing? I'm
Speaker 1: good man, busy but good, busy but good. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't complain. So you you out there in Texas steal
Speaker 1: right now, right that's where that's where you look at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're in We're in Houston, man, We're we're here for
Speaker 1: a little bit foreseeable future. You know, we got the
Speaker 1: two boys in school, the young baby, So kind of
Speaker 1: tough to move right now unless unless, uh, an opportunity
Speaker 1: came up. But I'm I'm in no rush to find
Speaker 1: anything right now. Yeah, what's what's that opportunity make? Make maybe? Um,
Speaker 1: you know I was with the team last two years. Um,
Speaker 1: I would go back on the on the strength of
Speaker 1: conditioning side, and I was helping linebackers a good amount too.
Speaker 1: Good deal, you know, good experience you back in the NFL,
Speaker 1: especially with the team I played for. But you know,
Speaker 1: it'd also be cool to get an experience with with
Speaker 1: a different organization or just a different league altogether, college,
Speaker 1: high school, whatever. Um, you know. But the main thing
Speaker 1: that was just boys are getting bigger again older. I'm
Speaker 1: coaching the baseball and coaching their football, so right now
Speaker 1: that's just just the priority. Yeah, just can you do
Speaker 1: you see yourself getting back in because you know how
Speaker 1: those coach and I was are crazy and you know
Speaker 1: we go there and normally our Wednesdays and Thursdays are
Speaker 1: crazy long. But think of how long the coaches Wednesdays
Speaker 1: and Thursday you get back into that. I don't know, honestly,
Speaker 1: can't answer that. But I tell you what one thing
Speaker 1: is is the I always had respect. I always had
Speaker 1: respect for the coach. I always had respect for the
Speaker 1: time they put in. But there was a new found
Speaker 1: respect for all staff members going back. Cafeteria workers, equipment guys,
Speaker 1: I mean strength, strength, conditioning, sports medicine, that they are
Speaker 1: there all day just trying to ask the best team possible,
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of thankless jobs of of
Speaker 1: people that you know, you kind of take for granted
Speaker 1: while you're playing, because the only thing you see is
Speaker 1: the time you're there, right, So is that short that
Speaker 1: short span, that short window of the hours that you're
Speaker 1: there during the day and then you go live your
Speaker 1: normal life. But there's another six eight hours that you know,
Speaker 1: all those people are still at the stadium, grinding to
Speaker 1: put a great game plan, a great child light tannery
Speaker 1: together for you. Um So, there's just there's so much
Speaker 1: work that goes into it. Um it was. It was
Speaker 1: a real good opportunity to go back and kind of
Speaker 1: see all that in a different light, dude, because people
Speaker 1: ask me all the time when I get back in
Speaker 1: the coach and I said, you know what my son's
Speaker 1: tend Yeah, maybe I would coach one of his teams.
Speaker 1: I'll go back and coach high school because the hours,
Speaker 1: you know, isn't the same. But going to that college
Speaker 1: level or going to that pro level, and probably more
Speaker 1: so pro than college, because pro it's it's that's your job.
Speaker 1: You're doing it all day. You don't you're not You're
Speaker 1: not in the facility and stuff like that. You're there
Speaker 1: all damn day. I said, that's that's the only thing
Speaker 1: that's stopping me from getting back into two coaches. I
Speaker 1: can't do it now. The hours are crazy. The hours
Speaker 1: are crazy. It's a full commandment, and it's it's all
Speaker 1: year round. You know. There there is no off season
Speaker 1: for coaches, man Like they get a couple a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks off broken up here and there, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know you that's the one thing about the NFL
Speaker 1: and especially coaching like you truly have to love it.
Speaker 1: You have to be all about it all the time
Speaker 1: because if you're not, it'll expose you, man, and you'll
Speaker 1: you'll be miserable. And another thing is I said, I
Speaker 1: gotta go back and coaching me. If I come across
Speaker 1: another me that's talking shit, talking ship, and it will happen,
Speaker 1: not not not standing in your gap. If I see
Speaker 1: a play, I'm going to make it. I'm going under
Speaker 1: the block for the damn and I'm going to make
Speaker 1: the play. I said, I would go crazy if I
Speaker 1: got to deal with that, no doubt, no doubt. As
Speaker 1: long as he makes the play, that's that's my rule, right,
Speaker 1: That's it. So so what else makes I know you
Speaker 1: don't post this, but I know we talked about it,
Speaker 1: um and your you know, your jiu jitsu and how
Speaker 1: long that How how did that happen for you? Man?
Speaker 1: Because not when I started. I started with Jay Glazer,
Speaker 1: like back in two thousand five, two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: and they were just telling me, say, you know what,
Speaker 1: just go get better with your hand dot coordination you
Speaker 1: have being able to open up and and and do
Speaker 1: that and get better with your hands. I said, Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I'll try it out. Yeah, I'll walk in the gym
Speaker 1: one day and let's say, I know Jay Glazers right there,
Speaker 1: and then Randy Gators there, and so I'm like, yo
Speaker 1: and I and me. I'm thinking that he's bringing me
Speaker 1: in there to spa with Randy cot And I said,
Speaker 1: this is the guys. Look, this ain't going down today, right,
Speaker 1: So how did you what? What made you get into it?
Speaker 1: So I actually had a real similar experience to UM.
Speaker 1: After my first year in the NFL, went back to
Speaker 1: school at USC and I finished up my degree and
Speaker 1: while I was there, Ja invited me out to come train.
Speaker 1: So we we had trained that offseason just a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was a bunch of sparring and at a bunch
Speaker 1: of grappling takedowns. Um Chuck Chuck was there, chuckle dell.
Speaker 1: You know, I had an opportunity to roll with him.
Speaker 1: It was a miserable experience, but it was a learning experience.
Speaker 1: It was it was humbling, but it was awesome at
Speaker 1: the same time. And then around two thousand and fifteen,
Speaker 1: my son, my oldest son was about three years old
Speaker 1: at the time. UM, and I've been talking to my
Speaker 1: father in law who wrestled all throughout college. I was
Speaker 1: a national champion at b y u. My wife's dad
Speaker 1: and uh, he had mentioned jiu jitsu as far as
Speaker 1: getting my kids into it. Um. My my three year
Speaker 1: old was hyperactive, um, all over the house, very aggressive,
Speaker 1: you know. So we had looked up some places in Houston.
Speaker 1: My wife found a Gracie Baja out here, um, and
Speaker 1: we took him over there. I had no idea what
Speaker 1: to expect. I had no idea what to expect, but
Speaker 1: you know, just see the transformation, his attention, his discipline,
Speaker 1: and just this kind of overall body control. It was
Speaker 1: the perfect combination. Um. So I watched it for a
Speaker 1: couple of years with both my boys. Then my younger
Speaker 1: one got into it. He was about two and a half.
Speaker 1: They led him on the match a little bit earlier,
Speaker 1: but he was more than ready with having their older brother.
Speaker 1: So he was excited to get out there. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't until I was officially done playing about six months
Speaker 1: after the head professor over there, Opiana Mala. She has
Speaker 1: asked me, you know, why don't you come out and
Speaker 1: try this like I I see he could see there
Speaker 1: was something missing from my life. Um. It was that
Speaker 1: kind of that awkward gap after done, you're done playing,
Speaker 1: and there there's there's just a void right that you
Speaker 1: have to feel that you have to you have to
Speaker 1: fulfill again. And it was it was the perfect transition
Speaker 1: for me. Um. It was so much more technical than
Speaker 1: I had ever realized. I just thought, you know, the
Speaker 1: bigger guy, strong guy would always win. Um, more athletic
Speaker 1: guy would always win, or tough UM until I It
Speaker 1: wasn't until I got out into the mats and realized
Speaker 1: just how every single detail was so important. UM. Losing
Speaker 1: to a hundred eighty five pound hundred ninety pound guys
Speaker 1: and and and being a little annoyed but mostly humble. Um.
Speaker 1: And it kept me coming back. It kept me one
Speaker 1: to me to learn more, to to get better, to
Speaker 1: get more technical, to to get on the level of
Speaker 1: these guys. So UM. In a crazy way, it was
Speaker 1: almost also a therapeutic for me. You know, I know
Speaker 1: a lot of guys at football like to go play
Speaker 1: golf and relax. It just wasn't me. I tried a
Speaker 1: little bit. It's fun, but it didn't give me that
Speaker 1: same sensation ful film that I got from playing football. UM.
Speaker 1: And I think as linebackers. You know exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about right now. Um. So it was just one
Speaker 1: of those things that once I gotten to jitsu, I
Speaker 1: just went full speed into it. Um. I'm about two
Speaker 1: and a half almost three years in blue belt, working
Speaker 1: on a purple belt, maybe eventually start competing, but um,
Speaker 1: I would like to continue to get better before I
Speaker 1: really go out there and you know, going at guys
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Speaker 1: listen live. So you're talking about compete more of the
Speaker 1: kind of the flow grappling or jiu jitsu tournaments on
Speaker 1: nets on that part of it, right, not full limment, correct, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so, um, And I'm not completely ruling
Speaker 1: out out ever. I just have no experience doing it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, so that's kind of the last sport you
Speaker 1: just want to jump into and think that you know,
Speaker 1: you can just roll it out there. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: as a guy who's taking enough hits to the head,
Speaker 1: that's uh, I probably need some more preparation before I
Speaker 1: step out there. But that's the thing I like about
Speaker 1: grappling too. Um. It's a lot safer than people kind
Speaker 1: of make it out to be. UM. In jiu jitsu, obviously,
Speaker 1: you need to know when to tap um. You know,
Speaker 1: an ankle and knee or anything can go at the
Speaker 1: wrong time, and have to know when you're in real
Speaker 1: vulnerable situations and where you are in truth danger um.
Speaker 1: So that just comes as more experience as well. But
Speaker 1: as of right now, I would probably tailor it more
Speaker 1: towards grappling slash jiu jitsu. I tell everybody is especially
Speaker 1: when you get done playing that it's good to maybe
Speaker 1: even why are you playing? Pick up that discipline right
Speaker 1: what this jiu jitsu was, there's some kind of grappling.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember the first day we went and
Speaker 1: I was just pumbling, right, and I was just I
Speaker 1: was tired of hell. Just the first day I was
Speaker 1: in there and I was exhausted. We didn't get on
Speaker 1: the ground, we didn't do anything. We were just pumbling
Speaker 1: and kind of moving around, and I was exhausted. So
Speaker 1: I try to tell those guys, especially you know, when
Speaker 1: you're done and you got that free space, pick up
Speaker 1: some kind of combat sport, if it's boxing, if it's
Speaker 1: you know, light sparring, rolling, grapp whatever that that other
Speaker 1: discipline is. Because that's to me, and you just spoke
Speaker 1: on it, it starts to fill a void of having
Speaker 1: that three d and thirty pound offensive linement of right
Speaker 1: across from you and he's trying to compete and get
Speaker 1: you on the ground or throw you around or whatever
Speaker 1: that is. Like that to me, it it started to
Speaker 1: to wake me up again in the morning. I had
Speaker 1: a reason to get up when I was going to
Speaker 1: spar and I was training, and I just felt better
Speaker 1: about everything else. Absolutely absolutely. I mean it's it's just
Speaker 1: you know why we well in in in the first night.
Speaker 1: It did something to us. Um it was a physical
Speaker 1: additive for and as you know, Chris doesn't like us
Speaker 1: saying and you're preaching the guys and I've tried to
Speaker 1: pull more guys and even though they are currently playing,
Speaker 1: because it's one thing that I wish I did while
Speaker 1: I was still playing. So you said that you wish
Speaker 1: that you were playing, like doing it what you were
Speaker 1: trying to jiu jitsu or doing some kind of combat
Speaker 1: for while you were playing. I do I do, you know?
Speaker 1: And I thought more about it um as I've started training.
Speaker 1: I think that there's so many relatable things that transition
Speaker 1: so well, especially from a linebacker position, from from resting
Speaker 1: in jiu jitsu, body control, double ag takedowns that translate
Speaker 1: directly into tackles, UM, just separation of getting people off you,
Speaker 1: understanding hand and risk control, understanding momentum, and um you
Speaker 1: know whether you're still playing or done playing. I really
Speaker 1: truly believe it is. It is the if your transition
Speaker 1: from one sport or another. And on top of it,
Speaker 1: obviously that the cardiovascular load that you just take on.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is nothing, there is nothing to me
Speaker 1: harder than graphic when you're going as hard as you
Speaker 1: can in an individual sport verse another person for time,
Speaker 1: and you know that everything depends on you or you'll
Speaker 1: be on the bottom getting choked out. That's a brutal
Speaker 1: workout right there. You know it's crazy you said that,
Speaker 1: So I had when I first started. I had a
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pound guy that I could not
Speaker 1: get off the ground. He had me on to go
Speaker 1: help you about a one nine. He had me on
Speaker 1: the ground and I could not get up. Every time
Speaker 1: I try to get up. People take me right back now.
Speaker 1: And so when I tell people, I was like, it's
Speaker 1: the most humbling ship did you ever dealt with? Like
Speaker 1: you're looking at this, do you see me? Like man crushes,
Speaker 1: I'm a crushing and he's taking you down. He's doing
Speaker 1: whatever he wants with you because he just has that
Speaker 1: discipline he does he does. It's it's super frustrating, um,
Speaker 1: but it's it's awesome motivating at the same time because
Speaker 1: that that's ind of stuff that got me keep to
Speaker 1: keep coming back, Like how does you know exactly what
Speaker 1: they're do in that situation? Hey, so you don't. One
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to bring up. So when you were
Speaker 1: in college, man, and this was this was crazy. I
Speaker 1: was at my locker and we that you guys game
Speaker 1: was on and you hit the lights out there, and
Speaker 1: so Vincent job I was in front of my locker.
Speaker 1: Vincent Jackson came running over to me and said, Yo,
Speaker 1: lights look a little Uh. This linebacker Brian Cushi just
Speaker 1: did the lights out dance. I said, get the hell
Speaker 1: out of here. And I've run over to the TV
Speaker 1: and I'm watching they replayed it and I think you
Speaker 1: got a flag on that play. And so yo. I
Speaker 1: mean we went everybody Darren's, Darrin's, we all went crazy
Speaker 1: in the locker room. We've seen that. Man, what what
Speaker 1: happened at that? Like did you did you planned at
Speaker 1: what you watch and saying I'm gonna get a cycle,
Speaker 1: get a big head and do it, or just happened
Speaker 1: absolutely man, Me, Clay Matthews, all the guys were huge fans. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously we were right in Los Angeles. You
Speaker 1: guys are in San Diego at the time. Um, you
Speaker 1: guys were just steamrolling people on defense. And it was
Speaker 1: one of those things that I think it was. It
Speaker 1: was my third sack in the rose ball and it
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta do it now and we were
Speaker 1: winning in the game, We're going to win, and uh,
Speaker 1: I just had had a letter loose. I had a
Speaker 1: letter loose and show the celebration and I was I
Speaker 1: was a big fan, and uh it was one of
Speaker 1: those moments I knew it was a national spotlight and
Speaker 1: how to do it? Dude? It was it was next level.
Speaker 1: We were crazing the locker room watching the game and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, no, that that was. Who were some of
Speaker 1: your other guys that you watched because you played the
Speaker 1: game man like it. I look at it like a
Speaker 1: handful of guys, and obviously people saw you on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but I think for me personally it would kind of
Speaker 1: change everything. Watching you play was the hard knocks you
Speaker 1: guys had and we got I got a chance with
Speaker 1: everybody seeing you in practice. We saw this intensively every day.
Speaker 1: So who did you kind of mold your game? Who's
Speaker 1: some of the guys that you watched growing up? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think growing up, I was a huge
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor fan. Um, growing up right in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Uh was was a I guess you can say, a
Speaker 1: Giants fan of time, more of a fan of football. UM.
Speaker 1: And then I slowly trans transitioned over to Ken Norton Jr.
Speaker 1: Who then was my linebacker coach at USC. Just the
Speaker 1: surreal opportunity to get kind of be able to play
Speaker 1: with him, be coached by him, be with him every
Speaker 1: single day. And then as I got older, it was
Speaker 1: you know, it was you, Patrick will As, Bryan R. Lacker,
Speaker 1: Lance Briggs, just guys that played hard man guys that
Speaker 1: that that demanded respect. That was the thing as a
Speaker 1: linebacker was just in position it was. It was about
Speaker 1: an attitude as well, like you had to be felt
Speaker 1: like you had to be feared. There was nothing like
Speaker 1: hitting someone and and and seeing the whole other team
Speaker 1: just staring at you like, thank God that was him
Speaker 1: and not me, right, because it's one of those positions
Speaker 1: like you have to you have to from the start
Speaker 1: of the game the instill yourself and um, I love
Speaker 1: playing the position. I love playing it aggressively. But it
Speaker 1: was the one thing which was I think I'm most
Speaker 1: proud of. It was also my downfall in my career
Speaker 1: was how hard I went every day because I think
Speaker 1: eventually just wore me down mentally and physically. But I
Speaker 1: could not stomach someone getting the better of me, even
Speaker 1: in practice. So and I knew, you know, as a
Speaker 1: linebacker and one of the alphae and the defense, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be tested every single day. You're gonna be every
Speaker 1: best running back, You're gonna every best tight end every
Speaker 1: single I want to take you out when he was pulling,
Speaker 1: but I could not be okay with taking a playoff
Speaker 1: and landing get the best of me. So you know,
Speaker 1: whether it was practice, and you can ask coaches, players
Speaker 1: in the team, anyone I would knock myself out in
Speaker 1: practice because it was that important to me, where probably
Speaker 1: I should have you know, tailored it a little bit.
Speaker 1: Taking it down saved for the games. But I just
Speaker 1: felt every time I went on the field that was
Speaker 1: my name, now is my reputation. There was no more
Speaker 1: important people to impress in my teammates. And I feel
Speaker 1: the same thing. I played through stuff that I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have played through. Maybe I should know something was
Speaker 1: gonna take two or three weeks to heal. I should
Speaker 1: have took all two or three weeks and came back
Speaker 1: and got better instead of you know, having them mentality
Speaker 1: to go, go, go go, And I'm not sitting down
Speaker 1: and I'm playing for everything You've become, this war you
Speaker 1: and sometimes they come back and bite you an ass.
Speaker 1: And it did. And while I stopped playing earlier, do
Speaker 1: you think now and today's game and I'm going to
Speaker 1: that seventeen game season, do you think you're going to
Speaker 1: play a whole entire the whole entire year. Possibly I
Speaker 1: think it would be hit or miss, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it is. It is just one more game. But
Speaker 1: I think you know you and I can personally attest
Speaker 1: to how how hard every single game is, especially later
Speaker 1: in the year. Um and and then and my my
Speaker 1: biggest thing in my concern is what is does it
Speaker 1: take away from the importance of the in conference rivalry games?
Speaker 1: You know, if a team is twelveone or they're gonna
Speaker 1: sit there guys last three games. I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: But as physical as a game as it is already,
Speaker 1: I'm not not a big fan at all about adding
Speaker 1: another one. Especially we're talking about the same pay for
Speaker 1: these guys, right, you want to add a game, add
Speaker 1: another paycheck, And I'm not really shure. I can't personally
Speaker 1: say how many guys I've talked to that are still playing,
Speaker 1: that even agreed to this in the first place. So lives, senses,
Speaker 1: and decisions are made, and it seems like no one
Speaker 1: ever had to say about it how to percent and
Speaker 1: and I say this, man, like we all know, especially
Speaker 1: when you get down in the game, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a shoulder, You're gonna have a knee, finger, risk, lower back, ankle, something,
Speaker 1: something is gonna be disfigured on you for life. That's
Speaker 1: just a part of it. But as long as I'm
Speaker 1: compensated appropriately for it, when I can take care of
Speaker 1: my family, I can take care of things, and I'm
Speaker 1: putting my body in the line. I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with it. So when I sat back and saw that,
Speaker 1: I had to go back and look at and see
Speaker 1: the pay structure. It's something different, And I saw that
Speaker 1: there really was no different, And I said, hold on,
Speaker 1: who voted for this? Who who had their ind and
Speaker 1: this because anybody that played the game like we playing
Speaker 1: the game, isn't agree it's gonna be on board with this, right,
Speaker 1: That's the thing? You know, Uh, you talk with guys
Speaker 1: that are still playing all the time. I talked with
Speaker 1: guys are still playing all time and former guys unless
Speaker 1: you are, you know, head of the NFL p A.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who really has to say. I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not really sure. At the end of day,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many guys actually have a staying
Speaker 1: if they're vote really really matters. I feel like lives
Speaker 1: decisions already pree made. So what's next? Made you get
Speaker 1: the right opportunity, whether it's a college pro the right
Speaker 1: opportunity to come and coach. Yeah, that that's something you
Speaker 1: direction you're looking at going in. I think I can
Speaker 1: see myself getting back to the coaching eventually. Um, I
Speaker 1: think a lot is going to be determined on the
Speaker 1: future of my boys at home, what they want to do,
Speaker 1: how involved they want to be, and how many different sports.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of these schools down here again
Speaker 1: real selective with these one sport athletes, where I'm pushing
Speaker 1: multi sports. So that's that's making it tough run us
Speaker 1: as we're busy year round. But you know, there's nothing
Speaker 1: I'd rather do. But I'm not rolling out coaching somewhere else.
Speaker 1: If if the write opportunit, he was to come up, cool, cool,
Speaker 1: cool thing, man, Wall, Hey, I appreciate you coming on,
Speaker 1: and then I'll be down there. Man, I'm gonna come
Speaker 1: and get some work. That's one thing. I just started
Speaker 1: getting on the ground this year. I've been standing up,
Speaker 1: you know, most of my time in training m Mayo,
Speaker 1: training combat sports in general, and during the pandemic was
Speaker 1: the first time when the gym, the private gym's open
Speaker 1: back up that I started getting onto the ground. And
Speaker 1: like you said before, it's fun as hell for me
Speaker 1: because every day I'm learning something. Um, it gets me
Speaker 1: out of the bed as soon as I get off
Speaker 1: right now. I'm gonna go roll and get me some
Speaker 1: work there. So I'm coming down there, man, getting some
Speaker 1: work for sure. Let me know, man, I'm excited. I'll
Speaker 1: be looking forward to it. Okay, my dude, due appreciate it. Man.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys for listening in to another lightsop
Speaker 1: podcast of me saw Merriman and uh, Man, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that, uh that Kush was and that into jiu jitsu.
Speaker 1: I know we talked about it at some point in time.
Speaker 1: I'm in a little bit, but I didn't know that
Speaker 1: he was doing on a daily basis. But he agrees.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I said, I believe that all athletes,
Speaker 1: I don't care what sport, football, basketball, baseball, rugby's track,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, soccer, that when you're done, you should
Speaker 1: pick up some kind of combat sport. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: most people are just kind of look at it as
Speaker 1: going to get punched in the face, and it's not
Speaker 1: like that at all. You have many forums, many disciplines
Speaker 1: with combat sports, um, and it's something that you can
Speaker 1: compete in when you're done playing lights out extreame fighting.
Speaker 1: But um, I had to drop that nugget. But anyway,
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