Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Official Jets podcast. Eric Allen is there,
Speaker 1: Ethan Greenberg is here. Calvin Beachum, don't worry, nobody could
Speaker 1: see that. Calvin, thanks for joining us here in the
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Speaker 1: talked to the Jets about maybe sending you something that
Speaker 1: he's just gonna send you feach of you are natural.
Speaker 1: He's always provide giveaways. He is a man of the people,
Speaker 1: and now he's gonna give some Jet skires up, sir.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what, if you don't know anything
Speaker 1: about Calvin, he's Mr Community and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that obviously. But first things first, Happy Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving? What
Speaker 1: is Calvin Beecham's favorite Thanksgiving food? Favorite Thanksgiving food? I
Speaker 1: love sweet potato pie. I love sweet potato pie. Love
Speaker 1: people love yams and sweet potatoes, but I love sweet
Speaker 1: potato pie. Now do you are you okay with pumpkin pie?
Speaker 1: Are you never? I've never really been a fit. I've
Speaker 1: never really had it. I'm not going to say that
Speaker 1: I don't like it. It's just i've never really had it.
Speaker 1: Like my my family we cooked sweepotatoes, So I really
Speaker 1: didn't know what a pumpkin pie was until I got
Speaker 1: up here Northeast sweep potatoes. See, I've never really had
Speaker 1: sweet potato pie. You gotta try it, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I just think it's the same family as pompkin same family.
Speaker 1: So where do you stand between sweet potato and pumpkin pie?
Speaker 1: I like them both. Uh. You know. My thing with
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is I don't eat much during the day up
Speaker 1: until the meal. We have the meal around four o'clock
Speaker 1: for thirty right, So I don't eat breakface, I won't
Speaker 1: eat launch. I'll have a couple of maybe crackers things
Speaker 1: like that. But but so my stomach is ready and
Speaker 1: then yeah, the meal itself. I'm not a huge turkey guy,
Speaker 1: huge turkey guy, but I do like the dessert some Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: so kelvin stuff. Let let me ask you this as
Speaker 1: a football player, you guys typically have practice on Thursday?
Speaker 1: Is thanks what's Thanksgiving like in season for you? Like?
Speaker 1: Are you able to remove yourself and enjoy Thanksgiving for
Speaker 1: when you're in the moment or is it almost it
Speaker 1: just feels like another day and you get something to do,
Speaker 1: Like is it weird as a player and Thanksgiving? You know,
Speaker 1: I've answered this question a couple of times lately, um,
Speaker 1: And I tell folks I hadn't been able to celebrate
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving or into the holidays since I live for college,
Speaker 1: you know, back in oh seven, So I don't know
Speaker 1: what a traditional Thanksgiving day would be like. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been so long. I know, I know how it
Speaker 1: was when I was younger, but you know now it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're practicing on Thursday. You got a game
Speaker 1: that possible? You know that that Sunday I've played on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving a couple of times as well. Um, So sometimes
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving has been the day before Thanksgiving, and sometimes it's
Speaker 1: been the weekend other Thanksgiving. Um, And you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to say this is is you know,
Speaker 1: we're so rismatic and we're so we're in a routine
Speaker 1: all the time, where you know, there is no routine
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. Like it's like you know, well, what we're
Speaker 1: gonna have it at this year? Who's who's cooking this year?
Speaker 1: All right? Well whose house do we want to spend
Speaker 1: spend thans Giving? That? So it kind of just a
Speaker 1: very year to year. Did you like playing because and
Speaker 1: the other thing is on the back end, get that
Speaker 1: weekend off, You get that weekend off and especially if
Speaker 1: you win. Uh, it's an amazing feeling. Um. So I've
Speaker 1: had had my shut of Thanksgiving games. I enjoy them. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a it's a fun it's a
Speaker 1: fun so fun feeling because I think is growing up,
Speaker 1: everybody watches football on Thanksgiving Day, you know, everybody watching it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know anybody that can say on
Speaker 1: things Giving because I think is everybody's sitting around, you're eating,
Speaker 1: you're spending time with family and friends. At some point
Speaker 1: you're gonna cut the TV on and most likely if
Speaker 1: there are men in the room, they're disrespecting women. But
Speaker 1: they're most likely it's gonna be a football game that's playing, uh,
Speaker 1: and people are just gonna be gathering around doing what
Speaker 1: you what you do, but most people are gonna be
Speaker 1: watching some type of some type of game on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1: I like the triple header approach the NFL STA because
Speaker 1: we got the early game with Detroit. You always gotta
Speaker 1: tell us in the late afternoon and now we have
Speaker 1: a game to end the night. And there's college games
Speaker 1: as well, if you want to take her with that.
Speaker 1: True And this Thanksgiving or two days before this Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Calvin again in the community, another day in the life
Speaker 1: of Calvin Beacham. Can you tell folks exactly what you're
Speaker 1: doing and where they started. Yeah, so we'll be going
Speaker 1: UM to Harlem actually Manhattan UM and owing to the
Speaker 1: local UM food shelter there. Um. I've been serving during
Speaker 1: volunteering there for well since I've been here in New York,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're doing a turket distribution to the community there. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be serving kind of like a Thanksgiving meal
Speaker 1: as well. So I'm excited that, you know, get to
Speaker 1: go there and participate with other teammates. So usually when
Speaker 1: I go there, it's just me volunteering, but it's a
Speaker 1: couple of my teammates that are coming, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to to go and serve, serve the community. Again, what
Speaker 1: are you doing overall? Uh, as far as community wise,
Speaker 1: because Green's has talked about it, it's hard to keep
Speaker 1: up with you man, it's the clean water um, and
Speaker 1: you're involved in food pantries not just up here in
Speaker 1: New York but in your native Texas. And you're still
Speaker 1: connected to Pittsburgh where you started your career. Yeah, so, uh,
Speaker 1: where should we start. Let's do let's do Let's do
Speaker 1: clean water first, because this has been a recent initial
Speaker 1: You know. The thing is I've done things around clean
Speaker 1: water on the global scale. Um. Where I've I've been
Speaker 1: to hunds, working on a trip to Africa right now, UM,
Speaker 1: where you know, I've been able to understand what's going
Speaker 1: on the global front from a clean water standpoint. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's it's a great thing to do. Is it's
Speaker 1: it's great to bring awareness too great to bring awareness
Speaker 1: and actually go do something about what's going on the
Speaker 1: global front. But right before training camp, I heard about
Speaker 1: what was going on in New York. Um, I just
Speaker 1: came back up from from all season training. UM. My
Speaker 1: wife was telling me about what was going on in
Speaker 1: the news, and she told me about New York, and
Speaker 1: you know, I started doing some research and then started
Speaker 1: reaching out and found out that what was going on
Speaker 1: in Flint happened to be now going on in New York.
Speaker 1: UM contaminated water. UH lead levels were high. UM, there
Speaker 1: was poor infrastructure. The city is an older city just
Speaker 1: in general. UM in different pockets of the community were
Speaker 1: being affected by this lack of infrastructure from a piping standpoint.
Speaker 1: So UM got in touch with the United Way. I
Speaker 1: actually reached out to Jesse here in the building director
Speaker 1: of community relations here, reached out to him and asked
Speaker 1: him what would be the proper way to go about it.
Speaker 1: He reconnected me back to the United Way. That's what
Speaker 1: I've done some work with up here, and we just
Speaker 1: started putting the plan in place. Did UH did a
Speaker 1: donation which led to UM about a hundred thousand bottles
Speaker 1: of water being just you know distributed distributed UM early
Speaker 1: on in the in the summer, right, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of during some of those off days that we had
Speaker 1: in training camp UM and then UH had more conversations
Speaker 1: about what was going on, started talking with PEPSI got
Speaker 1: in touch with the NFL. UM. You know, it kind
Speaker 1: of I guess it kind of pushed some buttons from
Speaker 1: a government standpoint because they don't want to call it
Speaker 1: a crisis. But there were some issues that were still
Speaker 1: going on and they're still um you know, some things
Speaker 1: that that that that just hadn't taken place and hadn't
Speaker 1: taken place fast enough in my my opinion. So the
Speaker 1: NFL and PEPSI and a Cafena we got together and
Speaker 1: we did a campaign. I think that was two Sundays ago.
Speaker 1: The giants came UM and for every bottle that was
Speaker 1: bought by people at the stadium when bottle was then well,
Speaker 1: that was matched by PEPs and then donate it to
Speaker 1: the residents of New Worker. So that's been something that
Speaker 1: you know again heard about earlier this summer um and
Speaker 1: just been something that um I wanted to continue to
Speaker 1: to stay on top of. That's right down the street
Speaker 1: from us. We're here in from On Park, New York
Speaker 1: is about a fifteen to twenty minute drivings. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: fly out of that airport every time we have a
Speaker 1: ro game. Now, how do you stay so positive in
Speaker 1: terms of what you've seen, because I gotta imagine that
Speaker 1: when you go to Honduras or you're scheduling a trip
Speaker 1: to Africa and you see how people struggle the day
Speaker 1: to day, and then you talk about here in America
Speaker 1: where we we I think sometimes get lost as as
Speaker 1: as a society, we don't pay attention to people's struggles
Speaker 1: and flint or down the street in New York. How
Speaker 1: are you able to go in there deliver a positive
Speaker 1: impact but also remain so positive in your approach, because
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got to be looking at it from
Speaker 1: a standpoint too, is that nobody should be living like this?
Speaker 1: It's correct. Um, I think it's it's the ability to
Speaker 1: understand what's going on, and it also be able to
Speaker 1: empathize with the constituents that that are having to go
Speaker 1: through this. Um. You know, I've been on both sides
Speaker 1: of the coin. You know, I've been on on the
Speaker 1: side of the coin where um, my family struggles when
Speaker 1: when I was younger, I've been on the side of
Speaker 1: the coin now where you know, I'm considered affluent. My
Speaker 1: tax bracket is completely different than than than what I
Speaker 1: grew up in. So it's like I can understand both
Speaker 1: sides of the coin. And I've been you know, I
Speaker 1: was I'm thirty now. So you know, I would say
Speaker 1: for eighteen years of my life I was on the
Speaker 1: other side of you know, even in college, I was
Speaker 1: on the other side of that coin. So I can
Speaker 1: actually relate to to what, you know, what's going on there.
Speaker 1: When I go to developing countries, I can't say that
Speaker 1: I can relate to that, and that's that's a different
Speaker 1: level of poverty. But to be able to empathize and
Speaker 1: at least think about, well, what what would what would
Speaker 1: my life be like if I were growing up in
Speaker 1: this type of environment. And I think when you can
Speaker 1: really understand, or not even understand, but at least empathize
Speaker 1: and imagine how different your life would be if you
Speaker 1: would have come from a situation like that, I think
Speaker 1: you can then be able to meet people where they
Speaker 1: are and be able to have conversations. And the thing
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, man, if you can
Speaker 1: smile with somebody, if you can put your arm around somebody,
Speaker 1: and when you can hug somebody, um, and you don't
Speaker 1: care what they look like, what they smell like, what
Speaker 1: they've been through, that's a connection. And at the end
Speaker 1: of the human connection is its powerful. It's just are
Speaker 1: you willing to go out of your way and go
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone to to to be willing
Speaker 1: to work on that human connection. The thing that I
Speaker 1: like that you do is oftentimes it's matching programs where
Speaker 1: you say, Okay, I'm gonna put myself out there. What
Speaker 1: are you guys gonna donate? I'm at that. What the
Speaker 1: thing is is to bring people along. And sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've had teammates beach Man tell the next time
Speaker 1: you want to do him, I I come and do
Speaker 1: it with you. But I'm like, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: one thing to get another player to do it, but
Speaker 1: it's another thing to get you know, a fortune one
Speaker 1: hundred business to do it. You know, in this case PEPSI,
Speaker 1: in this case the Jets, because the thing is is, yes,
Speaker 1: I played for the Jets, but the Jets also have
Speaker 1: to put put their name on the line to like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going out of our way to do this.
Speaker 1: We understand the need in our community. We understand that, hey,
Speaker 1: we're right there on the street from from what's going
Speaker 1: on here and here in New Work. So when you're
Speaker 1: when you're able to ask somebody to come alongside you, um,
Speaker 1: I think it's one takes the pressure off of off
Speaker 1: of that entity. Hey. It's not just hey, I'm coming
Speaker 1: to you and say, hey, you need to give money. No,
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm gonna do this thing with you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna walk this journey, and I'm I'm gonna walk this
Speaker 1: walk with you. So you know you're not having to
Speaker 1: walk to journey by yourself. I'm doing in a collaboration.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to reinvent the will. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, how can we do this thing together?
Speaker 1: And I think you know, if you could do it together,
Speaker 1: it makes uh, it makes more impact. It shows that
Speaker 1: you're willing to collaborate. It's what is showing that, um,
Speaker 1: you're willing to put your hand in the pound and
Speaker 1: and forget the egos or forget uh, you know, some
Speaker 1: of the social economic things that are going on and
Speaker 1: just find a way to get the job done. Something
Speaker 1: that I really admire about Beach, and we talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about it last year. How you said earlier
Speaker 1: you've been on both sides of the coin, and being
Speaker 1: on the one side of the coin, this side that
Speaker 1: you don't want to be in even though you're not. Now,
Speaker 1: that's something that you've told me you wanted to instill
Speaker 1: in your kids, so where you're aware of what's going on.
Speaker 1: And I believe you told me like your kids have
Speaker 1: to eat all their food because you've been on that
Speaker 1: side of the coin where food isn't is not a
Speaker 1: it's not a luxury. I guess this is the way
Speaker 1: to put it. So how do you go about, like
Speaker 1: what do you do now to make sure that you
Speaker 1: don't get out of perspective from when you were growing up,
Speaker 1: Because I feel like a lot of people grew up
Speaker 1: like you, but then just go off the walls and
Speaker 1: you see stories about that all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's something that me and my wife work on consistently.
Speaker 1: Um three. When I got here, I think I had
Speaker 1: I think I had one, so um, but uh, I
Speaker 1: have three now and you know we work on that consistently. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, yesterday, well Wednesday was my daughter's birthday, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, Report tweeted, you know, tweeted it out and
Speaker 1: Report I asked me, well, what did you get her?
Speaker 1: I said nothing? He was like, what do you mean nothing?
Speaker 1: Like you didn't get her? President I'm like, no, she
Speaker 1: got a balloon, Like she's five years old? What did
Speaker 1: she need she has? She's going to a private daycare.
Speaker 1: I'm like she she's working on steaming related activities in school,
Speaker 1: Like what what? What does she need? You know, my
Speaker 1: son's birthday is today, Well what am I getting him?
Speaker 1: Nothing like get a hug? Happy birthday? So like you're fine.
Speaker 1: So it's like the thing is, it's like and I
Speaker 1: understand where in society and it's about giving and which
Speaker 1: is great and great and grandy. But I think for me,
Speaker 1: I have to like almost keep like purposely keep my
Speaker 1: kids very humble and grounded because what they're seeing in
Speaker 1: their life it's not realistic. Like when they come here,
Speaker 1: they're living in an apartment. When we go to Arizona
Speaker 1: and spend time in the off season, they're living in
Speaker 1: our home. Like that's not realistic. People don't get to
Speaker 1: have two places. People don't get to have a set
Speaker 1: of toys in New Jersey and a set of toys
Speaker 1: and and and and in Arizona. That's not realistic. So
Speaker 1: what can I do to like make sure that they
Speaker 1: don't see this as well? This is our way of life,
Speaker 1: this is how we're always going to have. This is
Speaker 1: how our life is supposed to be, you know, So
Speaker 1: it's always working to make sure that you know this
Speaker 1: is this is not okay, Like this is not how
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. And it may seem counterintuitive, but I
Speaker 1: have to, like I make sure that I work on that.
Speaker 1: And the thing is you're talking about making sure to
Speaker 1: eat everything. When they played, you know, there is no
Speaker 1: dessert like if you hadn't eaten everything, and I don't
Speaker 1: care if you don't like it. Like when I was younger.
Speaker 1: You know, this may seem same odd, but my mom
Speaker 1: would actually get the fork and like shove them food
Speaker 1: into my mouth and I didn't if I didn't want
Speaker 1: to eat it. I didn't like ree being green beans
Speaker 1: and mashed potatoes like, and they would mix it together.
Speaker 1: That would be a meal. I wouldn't invanted that she
Speaker 1: would get that fork, open my mouth and put it
Speaker 1: in my mouth, you know, and I ate it. Say,
Speaker 1: with my daughter, we had some some some some couscooster
Speaker 1: to day and she didn't like couscous. I'm like, you're
Speaker 1: gonna eat this couscouse? You got two minutes to eat it?
Speaker 1: If I ate my entire plate. You've got two minutes
Speaker 1: eat this or you're going to bed. Like simpleness, And
Speaker 1: I know that may seem hard. And well, there's so
Speaker 1: much food, because you know how much food is wasted,
Speaker 1: not only in the United States but in the world.
Speaker 1: And and uh, you have a good sense of taking
Speaker 1: something and looking at it and saying, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what we have. And you talked about your childhood, is
Speaker 1: that you've got great parents, great support system, but you
Speaker 1: needed assistance to eat at times. Correct, Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt. It's it's it's crazy. My sister is up
Speaker 1: here with us right now, and we talked about how
Speaker 1: that that used to be and how that was my
Speaker 1: mom was period a couple of weeks ago. Like we
Speaker 1: talked about how how that used to be here and
Speaker 1: it's again, it's it's it's crazy to think about where
Speaker 1: I'm at right now. I mean, it's you know, people said,
Speaker 1: it's come We've been in the league for almost a decade.
Speaker 1: Like to even think about that, it's a while. But
Speaker 1: like to even say that I've been living this life
Speaker 1: almost a decade, that's that's that's that's unreal. And again,
Speaker 1: this is not realistic, like, yes, I love playing football.
Speaker 1: I love the game. It's it's a lot of great
Speaker 1: things to come with it. But um, America, Middle America,
Speaker 1: like day to day, nine to five America. This is
Speaker 1: not this is not realistic. And at one point it
Speaker 1: goes back to what are you gonna do? And football
Speaker 1: is over? Like that's how life is going to be
Speaker 1: when football is over, Like you gotta do something. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't just wake up and go play with your
Speaker 1: friends all day. That's when my wife thinks, I do
Speaker 1: right now, go play with friends all day. But you
Speaker 1: know that's that's not that's not realistic. That's speaking of
Speaker 1: toys though, speaking of toys, is it true that you've
Speaker 1: had two cars? The Chevy Tahos the Green Machine? Okay,
Speaker 1: how many miles to eighty two? Eight thousands is my
Speaker 1: favorite part. There's no radio in the Green Machine. It's
Speaker 1: not really just Calvin and his thoughts. Are you trying?
Speaker 1: Are you taking the Green Machine back to Texas? And yes,
Speaker 1: well what like your season? No? No, no, stay now,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't put that. I don't put that
Speaker 1: on the road trip for less. You know, I gotta
Speaker 1: really go somewhere but it's that is a like my
Speaker 1: like my mom says, that is a hometown car. So
Speaker 1: um that goes here from from here to the stadium
Speaker 1: will be go and play and and from here to
Speaker 1: to the facility every day. Well, let me ask you
Speaker 1: about your pops working on cars his entire life. Did
Speaker 1: you get from him? Did you pick up some of that?
Speaker 1: Like if the green machine needs a oil change, are
Speaker 1: you taking care of that? Man? I think is this
Speaker 1: I would love to, I just don't have the time
Speaker 1: to now they're making let me tell you this now,
Speaker 1: it's it's times and it's I don't know if I
Speaker 1: don't know how much time you got, but it was
Speaker 1: I'll give you a story. Um, a couple a couple
Speaker 1: of mornings are gonna about two weeks to two or
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. Um, the thing is my my gas
Speaker 1: hand doesn't work, so I don't you know. The thing
Speaker 1: is is I try to try to fill it up,
Speaker 1: you know, probably weekly a week and a half. Don't
Speaker 1: try to go too long because the trip to the
Speaker 1: stadiument back, you know, that drain draining the gas a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I thought I had some more time left.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it's a Wednesday, I happened to get um,
Speaker 1: get back home after practice and it's kind of sputtering
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm like, what's going on. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know, I got gas in here, so I end
Speaker 1: up making it home and I'm like, all right, well
Speaker 1: I go if I need the gas, I go and
Speaker 1: get gasing in one before I head to the facility.
Speaker 1: This is five third in the morning. Um, and the
Speaker 1: car doesn't start, uh five, And then you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm a stickler about time. And I called
Speaker 1: my wife. This is five thirty five thirty five of
Speaker 1: the more and I'm like, hey, I need you to
Speaker 1: take me to the facility. This is I have the
Speaker 1: ankle injury during this time too, so I gotta rehab.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, hey, can you take me to the facility?
Speaker 1: The car won't start, so I finally get it to start.
Speaker 1: I get it out the driveway and it's a gas
Speaker 1: station literally like around like I'm talking about walking distance
Speaker 1: around the corner, but it's kind of up a hill
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you know, I get it out
Speaker 1: and I'm getting ready to turn it to the street
Speaker 1: and it dies on me. And I'm like Hey, if
Speaker 1: I could just get it to the gas station, UM,
Speaker 1: I'll be all right, but I might need you to
Speaker 1: come in and guide it up the hill. Like as
Speaker 1: I push it up the hill right and um, I
Speaker 1: get up the hill and I end up making it
Speaker 1: right to the gas station. But here in Jersey, which
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Oh boy, I know where you have
Speaker 1: to have an attended to pump the gas. Something is
Speaker 1: five thirty the more you can just slade you credit
Speaker 1: card there. They're not open. So I'm huffing and puff
Speaker 1: and this is like five and I'm huffing and puffing,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push the car back down to the drug
Speaker 1: to the parking lot. I leave it there and I'll,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess up later after you after my
Speaker 1: wife takes me yet. So we finally I'm pushing this
Speaker 1: and it's raining in the morning too on this ankle,
Speaker 1: So I end up pushing it back down the hill
Speaker 1: and I'm pushing it down to Hire and I'm telling
Speaker 1: my wife. I'm like, listen, don't hit the brakes, just
Speaker 1: let it. I'm gonna push it. I'm pushing enough and
Speaker 1: it's gonna coast. Just let it coast one in and
Speaker 1: you and you can you know, you'll be able to
Speaker 1: go right back into the parking. It's got to touch
Speaker 1: of the steering with And mind you, this is early
Speaker 1: in the morning. I've already been hammering my wife about, hey,
Speaker 1: come on out. It's early in the morning. I'm like,
Speaker 1: just come on out. She's in the car and she
Speaker 1: happens to see a fox like cross in front of
Speaker 1: the car and she hits the brake. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Well, I want to hit the fox.
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, baby, girl, hit the fox and let's
Speaker 1: get this thing that gets to the driveway. It's like
Speaker 1: going to the facility. So this is I'm pushing at
Speaker 1: five more and my green tyhole and I finally get
Speaker 1: it back over to the park and let my wife
Speaker 1: brings me in and I tell her, I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is why I love the Chevy ty Hood,
Speaker 1: the ninety six Sevy time hold. I'm like and she's
Speaker 1: like wow. I'm like it's good for our marriage because
Speaker 1: you know, the thing is is I still have to
Speaker 1: do things like that. It sounds my trans my girard
Speaker 1: shift from my transmission or come off. So I have
Speaker 1: to get up under the car, put the put the like,
Speaker 1: get the gird shift from, push it back into park,
Speaker 1: put the gird shift back on. Uh go get a
Speaker 1: rip tie like a little tie and tied tied the
Speaker 1: thing back on there. Because I just say, I've been late.
Speaker 1: I've been too lazy to take it over to the
Speaker 1: dealership to get it done right. So I'm kind of
Speaker 1: like using some Southern engineering. But but if I could
Speaker 1: change the oil, I would change the oifer. I can
Speaker 1: change the transmission fluid. I would change the transmission fluorid.
Speaker 1: If I you know, could could you know, jack it up,
Speaker 1: take the take the tires off from rotating on my own,
Speaker 1: I would do that. I just don't have the time too.
Speaker 1: So you know I've worked with or, which is player,
Speaker 1: you know director player development here and he can be
Speaker 1: hooked up with one of the mavis Um shops here
Speaker 1: in the area and then we get things done. All right.
Speaker 1: So if you see anybody pushing a green time on
Speaker 1: the morning it's like five thirty, it's Calvin Beacham. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you're running this thing until I can't go anymore,
Speaker 1: right man, this is this ain't going nowhere? I think
Speaker 1: is I just changed the mode of transmission about two
Speaker 1: years ago, so it's fine, got the interior completely redone.
Speaker 1: I just got to get the seabuds. Do you think
Speaker 1: this is something that like KB three, No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So is that gonna be like his first car? Is
Speaker 1: that gonna be like this is a big deal when
Speaker 1: it's a face. The thing is is that car was
Speaker 1: passed down to me. So that used to be the
Speaker 1: family car, right That car was passed me. I worked
Speaker 1: for that car in high school. It was passed that
Speaker 1: to my brother for a year in college, and I
Speaker 1: got the next car that was passed that, which was
Speaker 1: which was a Crown Victoria. My last couple of years
Speaker 1: in college, my brother wrecked the tahoe which bent the hood,
Speaker 1: which is still bent right now. I ain't got that fixed.
Speaker 1: That's what I brought to the league with me, um,
Speaker 1: so it would just be passed there, just like it
Speaker 1: was passed down to me. So the next person in
Speaker 1: live is my daughter Klena bass down to Klein and
Speaker 1: once Clean moves on be passed down to K three.
Speaker 1: Once K three moves on to me, passed down to
Speaker 1: Janelle and whoever decides to to to keep it going
Speaker 1: from there. Uh, you know it'll be passed down just
Speaker 1: like it was passed down to me. I love it.
Speaker 1: That's a family tradition. I'm making it away. Um thinking Uh,
Speaker 1: speaking of Thanksgiving, I should say, in Pittsburgh when you
Speaker 1: started out, did you seek out homeless on the on
Speaker 1: the street in terms of giving them meals and stopping
Speaker 1: by or this is something you were driving by in
Speaker 1: the Chevy Tahoe and you saw people on the street
Speaker 1: and you know, I want to help him. What the
Speaker 1: thing is in Pittsburgh if you're um, I can't think
Speaker 1: of a bridge now, But if you're going through Fort
Speaker 1: pitt Tunnel, Um, there are usually people that are because
Speaker 1: they know traffic. During traffic time, it's really slow, and
Speaker 1: you will see people standing up, you know, standing up
Speaker 1: on the bridge. And you know, if I'm taking a
Speaker 1: meal home from the facility and pick up a couple
Speaker 1: of extra apples or a couple of extra bananas, and
Speaker 1: I see them and you know I would give them.
Speaker 1: I will purposely bring stuff from the facility. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you make that part of your routine. So anytime I
Speaker 1: saw somebody there and you know they had to ask
Speaker 1: I would have something already in the car form. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, I've been doing this stuff. I've been
Speaker 1: doing food related things since high school, honestly. So this
Speaker 1: has been something that has continued to be a part
Speaker 1: of my life and will continue to be a part
Speaker 1: of my life after I'm done playing football. So it's
Speaker 1: not just I waited until I got here to do it.
Speaker 1: I did this. I did can drives and food drives
Speaker 1: in college and conjunction with the sm athletics, and did
Speaker 1: some of these things with the more multi cultural club
Speaker 1: when I was in high school. So this has been
Speaker 1: something that I've been doing for some time. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite part about it? You know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's being and I say this all the time.
Speaker 1: It's been able to provide a smile to somebody. UM.
Speaker 1: But I think as I've been doing it more, I've
Speaker 1: been able to see more instances. UM. I did uh
Speaker 1: water distribution that ended up with me provided some food
Speaker 1: along with them a couple of weeks ago, UM in
Speaker 1: conjunction with United Way, and it was a mother that
Speaker 1: had seven kids and they were all adopted. She adopted
Speaker 1: seven kids and to get three cases of water and
Speaker 1: two big huge boxes of food just to see how
Speaker 1: she reacted. Um, for me, that is special to get
Speaker 1: a hug from a stranger. I talked about human connection earlier.
Speaker 1: To get a hug from a stranger and uh and
Speaker 1: all she says and thank you. Um, I didn't see
Speaker 1: this coming. I had no idea that this was coming. Um,
Speaker 1: this is gonna help my family tremendously for the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You just don't know what that that
Speaker 1: that does for people. UM. And for me, it's being
Speaker 1: able to make that small impact and and understand that
Speaker 1: I helped somebody that that otherwise may not They've gotten
Speaker 1: it in time, you know. UM. And I really do
Speaker 1: get a lot of joy out of that. I get
Speaker 1: energy from that, honestly. That like people you know, trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what what are you get energy? And
Speaker 1: how do you keep going? For me, that that that
Speaker 1: that fires me up when I'm able to help somebody
Speaker 1: in that particular fashion. And you're helping the youth too
Speaker 1: through STEM. What's that an acronym for? And why is
Speaker 1: that so important to you? Science? Technology, engineering and mathematics?
Speaker 1: And if you want to say Steam. You add the arts, UM,
Speaker 1: but you think about where we're going from an economy standpoint.
Speaker 1: You think about the the market cap for Google, and
Speaker 1: the market cap for for for Facebook and Microsoft and
Speaker 1: all these tech giants. UM, they're powered by software engineers,
Speaker 1: electrical engineers, developers, you know, product managers, designers like what
Speaker 1: have you. And they're all coming from Steam based backgrounds UM.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: people of of of all colors are races UM, have
Speaker 1: access to understanding how they can play a role and
Speaker 1: in this new economy. UM. And the thing is, there's
Speaker 1: there's money to be had, and I know, you know,
Speaker 1: money doesn't solve everything. But again we talked about the
Speaker 1: middle class, and we talked about the common they American
Speaker 1: to be able to go and then have a job
Speaker 1: coming out of college or coming out of high school.
Speaker 1: You know, because you've been working on being a sophomore
Speaker 1: engineer and you're starting salaries eighty five thousand, that that's
Speaker 1: a lot different than than than where most of America is.
Speaker 1: And to be able to have a skilled job that
Speaker 1: you can actually you know, uh continue to to to
Speaker 1: to go through the ranks and continue to elevate yourself
Speaker 1: and become you know, possibly a VP, possibly a CEO,
Speaker 1: to be able to empower our youth in that particular fashion.
Speaker 1: Something that I see because I see what the economy
Speaker 1: is at, you know, and I see where um folks
Speaker 1: can be in this particular space. So just for me
Speaker 1: is just again being able to provide a word. It's
Speaker 1: being able to provide opportunities, being able to about exposure. Um,
Speaker 1: I wasn't exposed to these types of things. I had
Speaker 1: no idea what Apple was. You know, everybody just used
Speaker 1: the iPods, you know, but nobody realized how impactful Apple
Speaker 1: would be to our our our society right now. And
Speaker 1: it's being able to make sure that our young folks, um,
Speaker 1: you know, here in America and across and across the
Speaker 1: globe have access to it. You got anything else? No man?
Speaker 1: Any last Thanksgiving thoughts here? Well? I did. I didn't
Speaker 1: actually want to ask you a question. This is big news.
Speaker 1: Your hometown, it says on its website, a great place
Speaker 1: to live, no matter. How will you pronounce it? Now?
Speaker 1: Calvin grew up in Texas. How do you pronounce your hometown?
Speaker 1: What is the proper way this is? I find it's
Speaker 1: fascinating that they put this on their own website. So
Speaker 1: the proper way to say it is mahea. That's what
Speaker 1: I thought exactly. If if most times people from the
Speaker 1: north they say Mexico, and if you're from the air,
Speaker 1: yeah you say my her, you know, yeah, because you
Speaker 1: know the the Texas slang and how words and and
Speaker 1: and how um letters are drawn out. Sometimes that's just
Speaker 1: how they said. So my hair is a way of
Speaker 1: saying it. Mexia is another way of saying it. And
Speaker 1: maha um you know is the is the I guess
Speaker 1: the correct annunciation of it. Did you have a favorite
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving growing up? In my head? Favorite Thanksgiving? Man, I
Speaker 1: had great Thanksgivings. Uh homemade ice cream? Oh boy, well
Speaker 1: she didn't know him homemade ice cream for for Thanksgiving? Um,
Speaker 1: so you talk about how you know you want. You
Speaker 1: didn't eat till four o'clock Thanksgiving meal, Like everything was
Speaker 1: ready by noon, Like it was like we're ready to roll.
Speaker 1: We're praying, like that's what time we're getting ready. But
Speaker 1: my mother, because she did homemade biscuits for the dress. Um,
Speaker 1: she would do the homemade biscuits, so we would have
Speaker 1: that for breakfast. Um. And then you have the homemade
Speaker 1: biscuits she made. She took some out that would be
Speaker 1: used for the dressing. We did a hen so we
Speaker 1: did chicken and dressing instead of turkey. The chicken, the giveing,
Speaker 1: the gravy, the potato salad, the devil leggs, the collar
Speaker 1: green uh, the the the yams, the whole nine. The
Speaker 1: whole spread was already on the table, the peach cobbler,
Speaker 1: the banana pudding, the sweet potato pie, the kool aid,
Speaker 1: the sweet tea like all that was already ready at noon.
Speaker 1: So growing up, like for me, my favorite holiday was Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Like forget about Christmas. My favorite holiday was Thanksgiving because
Speaker 1: I knew we were gonna eat galore um uh, mac
Speaker 1: and cheese, the whole nine, and then we go play
Speaker 1: basketball afterwards. Uh played hoops, man, I played. I played
Speaker 1: basketball before I even got recruited to play football. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get into that. Just I knew you play.
Speaker 1: I knew you played hoops. I just didn't know you
Speaker 1: would play hoops on Thanksgiving. You you will play after,
Speaker 1: like if you gotta go run some of that stuff,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like after I eat I'm I'm done,
Speaker 1: Like on Thanksgiving, I wake up, I'll play hoops or
Speaker 1: I'll do whatever. And then once I eat, I eat,
Speaker 1: and I sit back and I just I do like
Speaker 1: the chicken over the turkey. By the way, that's the
Speaker 1: turkey guy at all. Not a big time Yeah, me neither.
Speaker 1: I think turkeys is kind of an overrated bird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll eat it. I'll eat it. I like it. I
Speaker 1: just don't think it's you know, I saw something on
Speaker 1: Twitter the other day it says it takes Americans three
Speaker 1: hundred sixty four days to remember that turkey is just
Speaker 1: not that good. Wow. So that's pretty that's pretty rough.
Speaker 1: But that sounds like you sounds like you could have
Speaker 1: tweeted it. Well, I'm just saying, I like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to the beach and had some chicken and then
Speaker 1: play some hoops. Yeah, but you won't be able to
Speaker 1: move out to coming down. I believe that. I believe
Speaker 1: that too. All right, Calvin, thanks for joining us UM
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