WEBVTT - RICHARD SHERMAN 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.640 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.920 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.720 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John, and this 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.000 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.479 Let's get down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.920 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:29.080 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:34.720 about it, then we're about to let you. Now it's 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:43.680 all man. I'm I'm a pleasure to walk into Los Angeles. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:51.160 Native graduate of Stanford University, proud, proud husband and father, 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.440 and led the Seattle Seahawks in this part of a 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.280 legion of boom. Welcome to the cut to a podcast. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:07.840 Richard used to get on my nerves corner Sherman. Of 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.600 course we gotta jump straight in there while you get 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:14.120 on your nerves right right right, because it was good, Okay, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.160 Like I studied so much film on Sherman. I just 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:23.960 couldn't get him. He wasn't necessarily fast. Um, he wasn't 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:30.920 slow either. He knew his technique. Um, it was just difficult. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:36.240 That sounds pesky as hell. That is a great word. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.440 And and this pet bowl doesn't take kindly to pet 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.800 so it didn't go well. Sometimes just boom right right, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.400 right right. It was it was like a fleet and 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:53.280 sometimes he would just you know, after play real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.960 I've seen it. I've seen it right right right right 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.960 after the game fits. It was like, why are you 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.360 let him do it like that? He's like, what you 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.000 mean many but I have had a chance. I think 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.119 it was when we were in Baltimore and you were hurt, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.440 and I saw y'all meet up right on the sidelines 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.080 and there was nothing but love. So I think that 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.520 was really really dope to where both of y'all are 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.400 amazing competitors, but there was nothing but love between y'all 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.239 two even between the lines. I know it's it's it's harsh, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.320 but I know off of it like mutual respects. So 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.839 that was really dope to see when I saw y'all 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.480 embrace in Baltimore, when when you were hurting and y'all 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.640 were coming in from Seattle. Man. One of the things 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.959 though I always respected, love about Sherman's you know, Sherman went, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.360 Sherman doesn't know we're right down the street from each other, right, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.480 Because I grew up on a hundred and six and avalon. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.080 Yeah at exactly see a lot like a lot of 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.320 the lot of the A lot of guys don't know 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.160 how you know, just you know where I grew up, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.400 especially you know some of other players like yourself. But 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.839 then even some of the young Bucks, like the young 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:04.560 Bucks is from Calabasas and Sherman Oaks and yeah, we's 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.040 goes here, Man, I'm from l A. And then I 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.160 tell them I'm from l A too, because I've been 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.480 in Charlotte so long, right, And then then when I 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.280 tell them, they go, oh, and then they have that 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.840 face like they connect the dots. They're like, oh, now 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.800 I get it. It all makes sense. So let's we 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.000 we let's get into that um later. But man, we're 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.280 gonna start off with some little ice breakers. These are 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.240 random questions that I thought up and thought up for 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.560 each each guest because I I want to poking proud 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.960 and also just kind of seeing this one. I particularly 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.960 picked out for you because I know, uh, you're a thinker, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.320 but I also know you get lazy sometimes like myself. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.320 That competent comes out right. So if you were a 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.400 time traveler, would you go in the past or would 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.520 you go forward? I think having the knowledge I have now, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.400 it's always go back, you know, I don't know what's 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:06.080 the future or so so unknown. Um, and I feel 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.760 like I have more like I'm more excited to see 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.280 the surprise than I am. You know, I want to 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.640 go up there and make sure stuff is whatever. You know, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.440 i'd have impacted out. Now I'm going back and I 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.560 can do something. I'm just going back to see it again. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.120 And this is your time trouble, Okay, that's why I asked. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.120 I knew he was gonna go down this rapping right right? 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.960 How can I mean, you don't know what to say time, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.560 And if you go back and do something and change something, 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.520 isn't gonna change something from when you catch up. See 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.360 my mom will go down that rep. Oh yeah, Butterfly, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.240 I think we're gonna we're gonna be We're gonna be 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:45.279 here six days. So so if I could go back 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:50.760 and change something, you know, I you know, I guess 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.680 you know, it makes me feel limited because it would 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.400 always have to do with sports and always have to 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.599 do with that. Because for the rest, for the most part, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.960 you know, I accept the good bad and indifferent from 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.880 everything else. You know, I felt like that kind of 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.719 made me and built me into who I am. Um. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.520 But in sports, you know, it's always a play here 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.480 and play there that you wish you could have back. Hey, man, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:11.800 I wish I would have did this. I wish I 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.359 would have Man, I wish I wouldn't have guessed on 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.600 that that double move. I wish I would have wished 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.360 I would have made that tackle or you know, and 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.280 so you second guess yourself all all day. So I 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.240 think I go back into the past and and and 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.600 play a few of these games over and do a 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.960 few different things different. I go forward, Man, that the 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.880 past bumped bumped the past, I go forward. I really would. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.320 I think, you know, the past is what it is, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.839 good batter or indifferent. But I'm I'm intrigued of what's 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.680 coming up, what's coming forward? You have all of the things, um, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.960 more than anything for me. While I would go forward, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.480 I won't see my I wouldn't see my kids, what 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.160 what has happened and the things that I've talked tom 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:58.279 right like at like at like forty five years old, Peyton, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:04.159 my oldest at thirty seven, my daughter, you know, my 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.920 youngest is seven. What what is you know, what is 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.200 he doing? Right before graduation? Right where am I? Right 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.640 before graduation? Did I make it? I would go. I 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.400 would go forward completely and just and just be a 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.000 fly on the wall. Like I'm getting emotional just thinking 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.839 about it, just because that's why I wouldn't go in 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:28.920 the future. But see, but I want to because if 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.480 we just jump right into it, man, you know this 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.039 is the first. Like you know, I always ask where 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.039 you from? What your own town? Man? You you're from 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.560 me from the same hotel in l A. And we're 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.120 not supposed to be here. We're not supposed to I'm 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.520 not supposed to be forty three years old, right, I 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.280 got a podcast, just got just got off a flight, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.320 right and seeing the world in a in a way, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.680 in a place I wasn't supposed to make it past one. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.479 That's that's that's that's a people always ask why we 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.000 say that. It's because that's what you see. You're not 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.919 your reality every day. Like the guys I the guys 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:11.240 I grew up with on Womanton and Komp m hm 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:17.640 m hmm. It's about three of us left, kah and 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.640 when I was my one of them is my cousin 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:25.600 dion Um, who's a police officer in Memphis. Like one 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.720 of the other dudes, Mark Mark got Mark got caught 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:37.280 before we're sixty years old. Yeah, that's it. That It's 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.800 just it's just heartbreaking because you know, like there's very 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.600 few people that make it out that ever go back 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.280 and not be successful. You know what I mean that 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.240 that that ever go back, because usually when you make 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.240 it out, you go blossom somewhere else. You know. We 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.320 we end up having eleven dudes go be one from 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.920 my high school, and majority of them stay where they're at. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.640 You know, they stay in Utah, went to Utah, University 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.960 of Utah there in Utah, they went to Oregon. It's 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.960 still in order. They and and they graduated. They did 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.440 everything they were supposed to do. But on the other 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.720 side of the coin, a lot of the dudes that 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.800 stayed it's like a weekly text of like bang such 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.320 and such got hit. My best friend my freshman year 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.960 in college, Um got hit on some random bs in 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.360 the neighborhood. He stayed in his holding probably half of 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.720 his life, and walking across the street there had been 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.560 a shooting in the neighborhood. They actud me warriors from me. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.720 Wasn't he wasn't from nowhere. I don't bang. I'm walking 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.280 to the gas station. Just get some some chats, snacks 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.360 and chips and stuff. Bro, I don't want no problems. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.600 They catch him on the way back home, a bullets 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.360 in his chest to in the head, and the dudes 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.240 are like forty years old, like you know, and it's 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.400 like bro like like for some people, that's the only lifestyle. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.480 So it's like in the box that we were we 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.360 were raised in. It's a very dangerous place. And some 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.000 people never leave that box and the things they take 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.319 serious and value and will lose their lives over seem 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.520 trivial to everybody else. But inside that box, everything that's 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.559 that's the whole box. You know, it's it's it's it's crazy. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.640 So you know, man, where are you from in the 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.280 place you call your home town? Um? Well, should I'm 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.520 from Compton, Watts. I mean we're either one. You know. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.240 I was born I should. I was born in near 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:23.280 king Um at Cincinnella in Inglewood, and we were raised 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.920 in Watts till I was ten, and then we moved around, 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.200 got to Compton to go to high school, and then 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.800 when Stanford went up to Stanford, but my parents lived 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.600 in Compton all the way until like my third year 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.280 in the league, and I moved him out to Orange County. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.719 And so that's that's been a you know, been a 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.800 blessing for them, you know, because it's just just peace 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.480 of mind. You know. People have so much pride in 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:44.880 the city. They're like, man, I don't want to leave, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.240 you know, I mean, you don't want to be a sellout. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:51.559 It's like, I feel you. But on the other hand, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.839 on the other hand, y'all go back and drive and visit. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.640 You know, we're gonna we're gonna put you on, you know, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.320 move you on up to the east side. It is different. Man, Mom, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.439 when I first got to probably about third or fourth 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.400 year in the league, off for the um bring her 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.880 out in the short ships, like for what you know, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.720 and and and Moms is like she said, ain't nobody. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.120 Then she goes, ain't nobody in North Carolina. I know. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.160 I was like, oh, okay, damn all right, my bad 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:29.240 one person. We you know, we had we had two 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.080 kids at that time, right right here, come to your 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.040 grand baby. You know what is so attractive about the 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:45.320 high prices, the terrible traffic that you're unwilling unwilling to 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.280 go somewhere else. This is like this podcast, but just 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:58.240 because it's ridiculous. It's like, Bro, look, I'm telling you, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.360 for the money I'm within to pay for your house, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.560 you could have a castle somewhere else. You are really 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.400 willing to take this small house versus the castle you 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:15.000 can have somewhere else, minus the traffic, minus the craziness. Oh, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.680 my family, the family that gives you all this brahma 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.880 all the time. Those are the people that you want 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.800 to stay close to, even though you ain't gonna see 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.080 that when you're close to him, Why are you talking 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:30.160 about my family? You know, it looked the same everywhere. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.000 It looked the same everywhere. And that's the it's the 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.160 frustrating part, because you know, as soon as you pop 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.320 that bubble for him, as soon as they find out 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.080 like what the other side looks like, and they'll love it, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.840 but they ain't willing to take that risk to see. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.240 And I think we we have taken risks our whole careers. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.760 You know, playing sports, being ambitious is a risk in itself. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.440 The first time I really left the city was was 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.680 a college visit. You know, and as soon as you 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.240 get out there you're like, bro that the that'st of 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.760 the world is a real place. I went to. I 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.640 went to Starkville, Mississippi and watch Mississippi play Old miss 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.480 which was interesting. It was interesting because my dad wanted 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.199 me to see every black head coach and Chroom was 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.040 one of them. And so and I'm there, you know, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.600 I'm there with my quarterback and it was it was wild. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.200 It was it was like it was in the fifties, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.199 but it was a story for a different day, but 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.079 it was. It was an eye opening experience because it 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.040 really just proves me like the rest of the world 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.080 wasn't like a figment about imagine that It's not just 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.439 what you see on TV. You know what I mean. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.680 It's tangible. I can touch it. And it sounds stupid 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.679 when I say it now, but in reality, back then, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.640 it almost was like the rest of the world was 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.600 a fairy tale outside of my box. Like cool, I 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.720 see it on TV. I know people are out there, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.360 but it don't exist to me until I touched That's 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.320 how my first we played in a Blue Gray game 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.120 and I was first of all when I went off 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.280 to the universe of Utah. That was my second plane, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:04.240 right second plane ride ever in life. Okay, got there 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.040 now the first time, so so so the first time 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.840 we go play Washington Wazoo, we play them. Uh. I 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.200 got off the airplane. I threw up because that was 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.880 like my fourth time. That was like my third or 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.840 fourth time being on the airplane. I was not I 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:26.439 just I've barfed right after. I mean we got after 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.240 right and so it just but we played in uh 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.560 the Blue uh uh Blue Gray All Star Game because 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.360 we didn't make it. That was a Christmas game. Man 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:47.960 Mobile Alabama, who I remember. I got on a continental 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:54.120 flight that airlines and just seeing the other part of 0:13:54.160 --> 0:14:04.080 the world. It was. It was crazy, just seen all 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.360 the things that I saw. And the crazy part is 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.920 I didn't see a whole bunch of craziness. I just 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.760 saw a different part of the world that I thought 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.720 I'd never see. Hell. I got drafted by the Carolina Panthers. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:23.120 I had never been that far before in the United States. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.000 Before that, the closest places I've ever been from l A. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.280 Drove to San Diego, took a Greyhound bust to Vegas. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:37.880 We drove to see my great great grandparents in Arizona. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.840 And that was it. That was the furthest and the 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.520 extent of my travels ever in my life. Until I 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.440 was nineteen years old, I went on a trip and 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.920 it's it's it's mind blowing. It's really mind blowing because 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.600 because if people don't understand how scary that is, Like 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.760 people think, oh man, you got drafted, that's your dreams. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.840 It's it's the unknown again, Like I don't really know 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.200 how this is gonna go. I don't know how the 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.640 heat is, I don't know how anything is. And Carolina 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.800 is a whole different climate than what you used to 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:18.000 and so yeah, it just changed. It just changes, and 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.320 you gotta relocate. And then you gotta put on a 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.560 brave face tact like hey, there's none of this. Don't 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.080 bother me. I'm good. You know what I mean. It 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.000 is what it is on me. I'm in Carolina. They 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.600 got me, they know what they're getting. I'm the man. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.720 And it's like in your head, you're like, man, we 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.640 gotta figure out what this is gonna look like, you know. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.200 And and then I was thankful I always stayed on 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.200 the West Coast. I was blessed, you know. I went 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.640 to to you know, from Compton, went up to Stanford. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.680 Then went to the Seahawks. You know, in Seattle. I 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.160 never left the West Coast, so it was always I'm 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.320 pretty much staying in my comfort zone. This year in 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.960 Tampa was the weirdest for me in my career because 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.880 I had to leave m I had to leave the 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.480 comfort zone. I have to leave what I knew. I'm 0:15:55.480 --> 0:16:02.640 in Florida, Tampa, Tampa, Florida. But you're so intelligent, you 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:07.640 you've you see the game and you see life so differently. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.520 But yeah, you were. You were kind of weirded out 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.840 by going to Tampa, no question, no question. It was 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.040 the times. It was also my family didn't come, you know, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.120 the wife and kids didn't come. So it's totally different. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.640 You know, it's you got the three hour time difference. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.240 You want to see your wife and kids. You can't 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.080 just call whenever you want to call. You got practice, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.960 and that made it different for me. Just being able 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.600 to watch my teams, you know what I mean, Simple 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.600 stuff like that, like the Lakers. I gotta wait till 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:39.200 Tim thirty. The Lakers watch your college Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:45.680 they were watching you play, right watch my so growing 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.520 so growing up though, growing up in Compton, what was 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:54.920 your experience as young Richard Sherman, Well, you know, I 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.320 mean it was it was what you expected, you know. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.680 I mean, I guess you've never known nothing different than 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.680 what you get, um, so growing up and starting in Watts, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.520 it was just, you know, it was you what I 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.960 recognized as normal wasn't normal. You know, crack fiends walking 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.359 down the street, you know. But but my parents made 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.239 everybody seem like people, so I never thought about like 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.280 the person we help and giving giving our leftovers too, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.440 is a crack fiend in a homeless person, you know 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.440 what I mean. It's just her name was Silver. It's like, oh, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.520 that's just miss Silver. You know, she's coming there get 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.760 some some food. We we ate steaks, are we ate 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.560 pork chops last night? She's coming to get something. Give 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.479 them to her and and and say thank you, and 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.280 YadA YadA YadA. And it's like the homeless dude who 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.320 lives across the street and then the drug next door. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.880 You know, you see the small little plastic ziplock bags. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.760 You don't never I didn't. I've never seen one since 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.600 and I didn't even know they made him that small. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.440 And I ain't gonna tell you what was in them. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.960 But as a kid, you know, we plut putting dirt 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.760 in them, you know, playing games because I'm not knowing 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.919 what's going on. I didn't I didn't see the environment. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.560 That's a bad place, you know, I didn't see. It's like, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.520 oh man, you're in a terrible You're in a hood, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.679 like like she can go back at any time. You know, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.680 my dad's trucks getting stolen, getting robbed, people getting shot 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.200 all the time. It's like, oh man, it's just where 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.159 you from. And so so as I grew up, you know, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.880 my parents shielded us from that by making it a 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.600 welcoming neighborhood. You know, they they sitting there, you know, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.240 we haven't we go to we go play baseball or 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:24.119 play football at at will Rogers Park on ninety nine um. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.160 And we we come home and it's freaking twelve kids. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.879 And first off, I don't know how my parents was 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.440 doing that. We didn't have no money, you know, we 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.800 had no fool and we're bringing home all this. I 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:38.560 wouldn't bring home twelve kids right now. But my parents 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.399 made it a community. You know, kids would start spending Christmas, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:42.640 you know what I mean, because they didn't have their 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.680 parents so they spend Christmas at our houses like that's 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.280 how comfortable people were. And so the neighborhood became like 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:53.000 a family. And so we run into situations where it's 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:59.000 like just sticky, it got dicey. It's dicey right now, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.920 and and do to I can not my parents, you know, 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:03.960 I mean me for my parents and be like hey, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.919 get up out of here, like like this ain't for 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.480 your for you, we're about to deal with this, and 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.479 be like all right, you know what I mean, like cool, 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.320 and like a lot of times I wouldn't get to 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.760 make bad decisions. I'd be about to make a bad decision, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.520 so I can't give myself credit like that where I 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.119 was like, man, I just made every right decision. No, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.600 I'm about to make a bad decision. And somebody said, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.199 now you ain't go over there. It's like no, I 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.080 think I'm with y'all, like no you ain't, but all right, 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.480 I ain't. And then you go home. But I think 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.600 that's that's why I gotta give a lot of parents. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.439 Credit to my parents. You know, my dad drove a 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.600 trash truck for thirty years. You know that's that's that 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.280 job sucks, Like he did it and he only got 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.160 one eye, and so you know, you have a fair 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:45.840 share of accidents. But that's the story for a different day, 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.640 hiring the man with one eye. But he did it. Um, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:52.359 But my mom worked mentally and physically disabled kids. And 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.760 it's like I went to work with him one day 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.760 one time, bring you something to work day, and I 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.960 never go again because I was like that, I don't 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.000 know how the hell you sit in at this stinky 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.600 trash truck and pick up trash all day long. It's hot, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.840 it's traffic, people being rude, you can't even drive fast, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.200 like what is this? And you did it for thirty years. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.399 But it helped me recognize his sacrifice, you know what 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.760 I mean, like what he was doing for us and 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.399 so so a lot of times that that like pushed 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:19.919 me over the edge, you know what I mean. Anytime 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.159 to ship you're tough with with sports, are at school 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.600 or missing meals or it's just like bro, bro, he grunted, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.040 he doing what you gotta do for us, Like like 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.440 one day I'm a paying back. There's a a myth 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.560 or legend tells it is true back home and said 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.040 when your pops came home from work, when that trash 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:42.200 truck was there. Nobody was leaving the house, no question, 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.800 no question. That was your story. So that was your 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:51.480 stories like Sharon's pop drove a trash truck and when 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.520 you can do whatever you want, but when when Pops 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.640 came home, the boys is in the house for the night, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.320 in the house and your friends don't even come asked, 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:10.320 may come to ask now, you know? You know I 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.480 love cut to It and I love it even more 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.920 when you download us and subscribe and you can follow 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.120 us on social media too, Smithie, where where at that's at? 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.359 Cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.240 to It Facebook? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.800 What about online? And you can follow us at cut 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.960 to It podcast dot com where you can buy merch 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.320 and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.440 I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.800 all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother, 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.480 cut to a Podcast dot Com. You go backwards and 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:55.880 you look at everything you've accomplished, how you've gotten there. 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:04.320 You know, what what is something you know talking about 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:08.439 time travel? What is something you can go back that 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.560 you think you would. I think you would have taken 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:17.159 more time with not change, but just kind of sitting 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.160 taking more time with. For me, I'm a numbers guy, 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.080