WEBVTT - Listen: Kelvin Beachum (11/26) 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Welcome back to the Official Jets podcast. Eric Allen is there, 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.840 Ethan Greenberg is here. Calvin Beachum, don't worry, nobody could 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.200 see that. Calvin, thanks for joining us here in the 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.759 bet MGM Casino Studio. Thanks for having me. We're powered 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.600 by Amazon Web Services. You can find us on YouTube 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.120 or you can listen to us on Apple Podcast. Rate 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.800 us review us. We need some ratings, so if you 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.040 click on the button says review, UM five stars is 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.720 what UM we here desire, right, So make sure that 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.080 after you listen to this podcast, go clip the five 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.760 stars write a raving review. Um. You know, and I 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.959 talked to the Jets about maybe sending you something that 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.600 he's just gonna send you feach of you are natural. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.640 He's always provide giveaways. He is a man of the people, 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.959 and now he's gonna give some Jet skires up, sir. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.000 If you don't know what, if you don't know anything 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.720 about Calvin, he's Mr Community and we're gonna talk about 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.959 that obviously. But first things first, Happy Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving? What 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:12.360 is Calvin Beecham's favorite Thanksgiving food? Favorite Thanksgiving food? I 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.800 love sweet potato pie. I love sweet potato pie. Love 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.400 people love yams and sweet potatoes, but I love sweet 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.080 potato pie. Now do you are you okay with pumpkin pie? 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.640 Are you never? I've never really been a fit. I've 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.360 never really had it. I'm not going to say that 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.000 I don't like it. It's just i've never really had it. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.520 Like my my family we cooked sweepotatoes, So I really 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.280 didn't know what a pumpkin pie was until I got 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.200 up here Northeast sweep potatoes. See, I've never really had 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.640 sweet potato pie. You gotta try it, I know, I know. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:47.559 I just think it's the same family as pompkin same family. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.480 So where do you stand between sweet potato and pumpkin pie? 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.200 I like them both. Uh. You know. My thing with 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.360 Thanksgiving is I don't eat much during the day up 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.680 until the meal. We have the meal around four o'clock 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.600 for thirty right, So I don't eat breakface, I won't 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.040 eat launch. I'll have a couple of maybe crackers things 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.520 like that. But but so my stomach is ready and 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:16.519 then yeah, the meal itself. I'm not a huge turkey guy, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.360 huge turkey guy, but I do like the dessert some Thanksgiving, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:26.079 so kelvin stuff. Let let me ask you this as 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.600 a football player, you guys typically have practice on Thursday? 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.680 Is thanks what's Thanksgiving like in season for you? Like? 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.799 Are you able to remove yourself and enjoy Thanksgiving for 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.760 when you're in the moment or is it almost it 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.960 just feels like another day and you get something to do, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.000 Like is it weird as a player and Thanksgiving? You know, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.240 I've answered this question a couple of times lately, um, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.160 And I tell folks I hadn't been able to celebrate 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.440 Thanksgiving or into the holidays since I live for college, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.120 you know, back in oh seven, So I don't know 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.640 what a traditional Thanksgiving day would be like. You know, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.680 it's been so long. I know, I know how it 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.360 was when I was younger, but you know now it's like, 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.600 you know, you're practicing on Thursday. You got a game 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.600 that possible? You know that that Sunday I've played on 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.640 Thanksgiving a couple of times as well. Um, So sometimes 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.880 Thanksgiving has been the day before Thanksgiving, and sometimes it's 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.440 been the weekend other Thanksgiving. Um, And you know, it's 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.520 it's kind of hard to say this is is you know, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.440 we're so rismatic and we're so we're in a routine 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.160 all the time, where you know, there is no routine 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.760 for Thanksgiving. Like it's like you know, well, what we're 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.400 gonna have it at this year? Who's who's cooking this year? 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.440 All right? Well whose house do we want to spend 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.400 spend thans Giving? That? So it kind of just a 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:43.560 very year to year. Did you like playing because and 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.320 the other thing is on the back end, get that 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.640 weekend off, You get that weekend off and especially if 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.600 you win. Uh, it's an amazing feeling. Um. So I've 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.640 had had my shut of Thanksgiving games. I enjoy them. Um, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.920 you know, it's it's a it's a fun it's a 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.600 fun so fun feeling because I think is growing up, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.600 everybody watches football on Thanksgiving Day, you know, everybody watching it. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.040 I mean, I don't know anybody that can say on 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.560 things Giving because I think is everybody's sitting around, you're eating, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.280 you're spending time with family and friends. At some point 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.360 you're gonna cut the TV on and most likely if 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.039 there are men in the room, they're disrespecting women. But 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.680 they're most likely it's gonna be a football game that's playing, uh, 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.760 and people are just gonna be gathering around doing what 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.839 you what you do, but most people are gonna be 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.240 watching some type of some type of game on Thanksgiving Day. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.679 I like the triple header approach the NFL STA because 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.800 we got the early game with Detroit. You always gotta 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.640 tell us in the late afternoon and now we have 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.599 a game to end the night. And there's college games 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.880 as well, if you want to take her with that. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.440 True And this Thanksgiving or two days before this Thanksgiving 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.240 Calvin again in the community, another day in the life 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.840 of Calvin Beacham. Can you tell folks exactly what you're 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.440 doing and where they started. Yeah, so we'll be going 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:00.480 UM to Harlem actually Manhattan UM and owing to the 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.920 local UM food shelter there. Um. I've been serving during 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.000 volunteering there for well since I've been here in New York, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.400 and uh, we're doing a turket distribution to the community there. Um. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.800 I'm gonna be serving kind of like a Thanksgiving meal 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.080 as well. So I'm excited that, you know, get to 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.600 go there and participate with other teammates. So usually when 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.600 I go there, it's just me volunteering, but it's a 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.440 couple of my teammates that are coming, and I'm excited 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.160 to to go and serve, serve the community. Again, what 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:32.599 are you doing overall? Uh, as far as community wise, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.760 because Green's has talked about it, it's hard to keep 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:41.560 up with you man, it's the clean water um, and 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.400 you're involved in food pantries not just up here in 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.320 New York but in your native Texas. And you're still 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:52.240 connected to Pittsburgh where you started your career. Yeah, so, uh, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.200 where should we start. Let's do let's do Let's do 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.560 clean water first, because this has been a recent initial 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.040 You know. The thing is I've done things around clean 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.000 water on the global scale. Um. Where I've I've been 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.000 to hunds, working on a trip to Africa right now, UM, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.640 where you know, I've been able to understand what's going 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.680 on the global front from a clean water standpoint. UM. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.360 And that's it's a great thing to do. Is it's 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.840 it's great to bring awareness too great to bring awareness 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.440 and actually go do something about what's going on the 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.080 global front. But right before training camp, I heard about 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.120 what was going on in New York. Um, I just 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.640 came back up from from all season training. UM. My 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.200 wife was telling me about what was going on in 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.560 the news, and she told me about New York, and 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.520 you know, I started doing some research and then started 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.920 reaching out and found out that what was going on 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.840 in Flint happened to be now going on in New York. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.640 UM contaminated water. UH lead levels were high. UM, there 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.600 was poor infrastructure. The city is an older city just 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.320 in general. UM in different pockets of the community were 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.880 being affected by this lack of infrastructure from a piping standpoint. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.080 So UM got in touch with the United Way. I 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.760 actually reached out to Jesse here in the building director 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.640 of community relations here, reached out to him and asked 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.760 him what would be the proper way to go about it. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.839 He reconnected me back to the United Way. That's what 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.640 I've done some work with up here, and we just 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.280 started putting the plan in place. Did UH did a 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.840 donation which led to UM about a hundred thousand bottles 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.320 of water being just you know distributed distributed UM early 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.000 on in the in the summer, right, you know, kind 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.840 of during some of those off days that we had 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.600 in training camp UM and then UH had more conversations 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.040 about what was going on, started talking with PEPSI got 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.840 in touch with the NFL. UM. You know, it kind 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.800 of I guess it kind of pushed some buttons from 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.480 a government standpoint because they don't want to call it 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.080 a crisis. But there were some issues that were still 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.320 going on and they're still um you know, some things 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.080 that that that that just hadn't taken place and hadn't 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.720 taken place fast enough in my my opinion. So the 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.280 NFL and PEPSI and a Cafena we got together and 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.360 we did a campaign. I think that was two Sundays ago. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.840 The giants came UM and for every bottle that was 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.880 bought by people at the stadium when bottle was then well, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.800 that was matched by PEPs and then donate it to 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.600 the residents of New Worker. So that's been something that 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.200 you know again heard about earlier this summer um and 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.400 just been something that um I wanted to continue to 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:11.960 to stay on top of. That's right down the street 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.960 from us. We're here in from On Park, New York 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.920 is about a fifteen to twenty minute drivings. Yeah, we 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.880 fly out of that airport every time we have a 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.640 ro game. Now, how do you stay so positive in 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.920 terms of what you've seen, because I gotta imagine that 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.920 when you go to Honduras or you're scheduling a trip 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.680 to Africa and you see how people struggle the day 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.000 to day, and then you talk about here in America 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.240 where we we I think sometimes get lost as as 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.160 as a society, we don't pay attention to people's struggles 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.120 and flint or down the street in New York. How 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.160 are you able to go in there deliver a positive 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:59.600 impact but also remain so positive in your approach, because 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.920 I'm sure you've got to be looking at it from 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.280 a standpoint too, is that nobody should be living like this? 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.400 It's correct. Um, I think it's it's the ability to 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.480 understand what's going on, and it also be able to 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:16.000 empathize with the constituents that that are having to go 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.600 through this. Um. You know, I've been on both sides 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.200 of the coin. You know, I've been on on the 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.920 side of the coin where um, my family struggles when 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.800 when I was younger, I've been on the side of 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.040 the coin now where you know, I'm considered affluent. My 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.840 tax bracket is completely different than than than what I 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.760 grew up in. So it's like I can understand both 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.720 sides of the coin. And I've been you know, I 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.320 was I'm thirty now. So you know, I would say 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.760 for eighteen years of my life I was on the 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.360 other side of you know, even in college, I was 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.400 on the other side of that coin. So I can 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.800 actually relate to to what, you know, what's going on there. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.199 When I go to developing countries, I can't say that 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.640 I can relate to that, and that's that's a different 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.880 level of poverty. But to be able to empathize and 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.439 at least think about, well, what what would what would 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.000 my life be like if I were growing up in 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.439 this type of environment. And I think when you can 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.400 really understand, or not even understand, but at least empathize 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.040 and imagine how different your life would be if you 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.319 would have come from a situation like that, I think 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.080 you can then be able to meet people where they 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.920 are and be able to have conversations. And the thing 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.160 at the end of the day, man, if you can 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.520 smile with somebody, if you can put your arm around somebody, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.520 and when you can hug somebody, um, and you don't 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.880 care what they look like, what they smell like, what 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.480 they've been through, that's a connection. And at the end 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.040 of the human connection is its powerful. It's just are 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.959 you willing to go out of your way and go 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.080 out of your comfort zone to to to be willing 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.360 to work on that human connection. The thing that I 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.760 like that you do is oftentimes it's matching programs where 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.800 you say, Okay, I'm gonna put myself out there. What 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.960 are you guys gonna donate? I'm at that. What the 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.720 thing is is to bring people along. And sometimes you know, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.360 I've I've had teammates beach Man tell the next time 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:00.960 you want to do him, I I come and do 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.600 it with you. But I'm like, you know, it's it's 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.800 one thing to get another player to do it, but 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.640 it's another thing to get you know, a fortune one 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.160 hundred business to do it. You know, in this case PEPSI, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.800 in this case the Jets, because the thing is is, yes, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.480 I played for the Jets, but the Jets also have 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.400 to put put their name on the line to like, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.480 you know, we're going out of our way to do this. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.439 We understand the need in our community. We understand that, hey, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.920 we're right there on the street from from what's going 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.920 on here and here in New Work. So when you're 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.680 when you're able to ask somebody to come alongside you, um, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.800 I think it's one takes the pressure off of off 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.280 of that entity. Hey. It's not just hey, I'm coming 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.400 to you and say, hey, you need to give money. No, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.400 it's like, I'm gonna do this thing with you. I'm 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.760 gonna walk this journey, and I'm I'm gonna walk this 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.959 walk with you. So you know you're not having to 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.119 walk to journey by yourself. I'm doing in a collaboration. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.360 And the thing is, at the end of the day, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.600 I'm not trying to reinvent the will. At the end 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.280 of the day, how can we do this thing together? 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.440 And I think you know, if you could do it together, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.480 it makes uh, it makes more impact. It shows that 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.280 you're willing to collaborate. It's what is showing that, um, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.240 you're willing to put your hand in the pound and 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.120 and forget the egos or forget uh, you know, some 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.679 of the social economic things that are going on and 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.800 just find a way to get the job done. Something 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.960 that I really admire about Beach, and we talked a 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:17.280 little bit about it last year. How you said earlier 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.000 you've been on both sides of the coin, and being 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.760 on the one side of the coin, this side that 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.640 you don't want to be in even though you're not. Now, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.880 that's something that you've told me you wanted to instill 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.880 in your kids, so where you're aware of what's going on. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.800 And I believe you told me like your kids have 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.599 to eat all their food because you've been on that 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.720 side of the coin where food isn't is not a 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.440 it's not a luxury. I guess this is the way 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.959 to put it. So how do you go about, like 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.240 what do you do now to make sure that you 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.760 don't get out of perspective from when you were growing up, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.920 Because I feel like a lot of people grew up 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.400 like you, but then just go off the walls and 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.440 you see stories about that all the time. You know, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.480 it's something that me and my wife work on consistently. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.679 Um three. When I got here, I think I had 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:11.440 I think I had one, so um, but uh, I 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.559 have three now and you know we work on that consistently. Um. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.440 You know, yesterday, well Wednesday was my daughter's birthday, and um, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.640 you know, Report tweeted, you know, tweeted it out and 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.080 Report I asked me, well, what did you get her? 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.640 I said nothing? He was like, what do you mean nothing? 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.880 Like you didn't get her? President I'm like, no, she 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.280 got a balloon, Like she's five years old? What did 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.439 she need she has? She's going to a private daycare. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.720 I'm like she she's working on steaming related activities in school, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.040 Like what what? What does she need? You know, my 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.120 son's birthday is today, Well what am I getting him? 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.720 Nothing like get a hug? Happy birthday? So like you're fine. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.240 So it's like the thing is, it's like and I 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.000 understand where in society and it's about giving and which 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.200 is great and great and grandy. But I think for me, 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.360 I have to like almost keep like purposely keep my 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:06.040 kids very humble and grounded because what they're seeing in 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.440 their life it's not realistic. Like when they come here, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.480 they're living in an apartment. When we go to Arizona 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.160 and spend time in the off season, they're living in 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.040 our home. Like that's not realistic. People don't get to 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.040 have two places. People don't get to have a set 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.840 of toys in New Jersey and a set of toys 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.040 and and and and in Arizona. That's not realistic. So 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.760 what can I do to like make sure that they 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.120 don't see this as well? This is our way of life, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.880 this is how we're always going to have. This is 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.960 how our life is supposed to be, you know, So 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.440 it's always working to make sure that you know this 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.680 is this is not okay, Like this is not how 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.360 it's gonna be. And it may seem counterintuitive, but I 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.320 have to, like I make sure that I work on that. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:43.680 And the thing is you're talking about making sure to 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.480 eat everything. When they played, you know, there is no 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.320 dessert like if you hadn't eaten everything, and I don't 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.760 care if you don't like it. Like when I was younger. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.560 You know, this may seem same odd, but my mom 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.680 would actually get the fork and like shove them food 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.040 into my mouth and I didn't if I didn't want 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.880 to eat it. I didn't like ree being green beans 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.640 and mashed potatoes like, and they would mix it together. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.320 That would be a meal. I wouldn't invanted that she 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.280 would get that fork, open my mouth and put it 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.880 in my mouth, you know, and I ate it. Say, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.560 with my daughter, we had some some some some couscooster 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.960 to day and she didn't like couscous. I'm like, you're 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.400 gonna eat this couscouse? You got two minutes to eat it? 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.760 If I ate my entire plate. You've got two minutes 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.720 eat this or you're going to bed. Like simpleness, And 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.760 I know that may seem hard. And well, there's so 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.120 much food, because you know how much food is wasted, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.960 not only in the United States but in the world. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:34.600 And and uh, you have a good sense of taking 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.600 something and looking at it and saying, Okay, this is 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.560 what we have. And you talked about your childhood, is 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.200 that you've got great parents, great support system, but you 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.480 needed assistance to eat at times. Correct, Yeah, no doubt, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.160 no doubt. It's it's it's crazy. My sister is up 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.440 here with us right now, and we talked about how 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.520 that that used to be and how that was my 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.160 mom was period a couple of weeks ago. Like we 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.400 talked about how how that used to be here and 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.960 it's again, it's it's it's crazy to think about where 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.680 I'm at right now. I mean, it's you know, people said, 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.520 it's come We've been in the league for almost a decade. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.480 Like to even think about that, it's a while. But 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.960 like to even say that I've been living this life 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.640 almost a decade, that's that's that's that's unreal. And again, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.320 this is not realistic, like, yes, I love playing football. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.560 I love the game. It's it's a lot of great 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.560 things to come with it. But um, America, Middle America, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.000 like day to day, nine to five America. This is 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.640 not this is not realistic. And at one point it 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.280 goes back to what are you gonna do? And football 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.520 is over? Like that's how life is going to be 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.760 when football is over, Like you gotta do something. You know, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.920 you can't just wake up and go play with your 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.400 friends all day. That's when my wife thinks, I do 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.760 right now, go play with friends all day. But you 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.520 know that's that's not that's not realistic. That's speaking of 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:00.680 toys though, speaking of toys, is it true that you've 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:08.440 had two cars? The Chevy Tahos the Green Machine? Okay, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:14.920 how many miles to eighty two? Eight thousands is my 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.360 favorite part. There's no radio in the Green Machine. It's 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.400 not really just Calvin and his thoughts. Are you trying? 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.960 Are you taking the Green Machine back to Texas? And yes, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.639 well what like your season? No? No, no, stay now, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.760 I don't I don't put that. I don't put that 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.960 on the road trip for less. You know, I gotta 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.680 really go somewhere but it's that is a like my 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.879 like my mom says, that is a hometown car. So 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.919 um that goes here from from here to the stadium 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.680 will be go and play and and from here to 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.639 to the facility every day. Well, let me ask you 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:52.720 about your pops working on cars his entire life. Did 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.440 you get from him? Did you pick up some of that? 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.479 Like if the green machine needs a oil change, are 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.280 you taking care of that? Man? I think is this 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.080 I would love to, I just don't have the time 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.159 to now they're making let me tell you this now, 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.680 it's it's times and it's I don't know if I 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.040 don't know how much time you got, but it was 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.640 I'll give you a story. Um, a couple a couple 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.639 of mornings are gonna about two weeks to two or 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.960 three weeks ago. Um, the thing is my my gas 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.359 hand doesn't work, so I don't you know. The thing 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.119 is is I try to try to fill it up, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.600 you know, probably weekly a week and a half. Don't 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.240 try to go too long because the trip to the 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.639 stadiument back, you know, that drain draining the gas a 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.000 little bit. But I thought I had some more time left. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:38.040 So it's uh, it's a Wednesday, I happened to get um, 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.399 get back home after practice and it's kind of sputtering 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:41.680 a little bit. I'm like, what's going on. I'm like, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.639 I know, I got gas in here, so I end 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.320 up making it home and I'm like, all right, well 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.480 I go if I need the gas, I go and 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.400 get gasing in one before I head to the facility. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.240 This is five third in the morning. Um, and the 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.120 car doesn't start, uh five, And then you know, I'm 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.359 I'm I'm I'm a stickler about time. And I called 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.480 my wife. This is five thirty five thirty five of 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:02.879 the more and I'm like, hey, I need you to 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.520 take me to the facility. This is I have the 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.919 ankle injury during this time too, so I gotta rehab. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:10.960 So I'm like, hey, can you take me to the facility? 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.640 The car won't start, so I finally get it to start. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.760 I get it out the driveway and it's a gas 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.840 station literally like around like I'm talking about walking distance 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.280 around the corner, but it's kind of up a hill 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.040 a little bit, and you know, I get it out 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.640 and I'm getting ready to turn it to the street 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.119 and it dies on me. And I'm like Hey, if 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.800 I could just get it to the gas station, UM, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.240 I'll be all right, but I might need you to 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.600 come in and guide it up the hill. Like as 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.480