1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: the Falcons in Focus podcast, presented by Ticketmaster. I'm Scott 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: Baer Storry mclaney. The man in the middle here needs 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: no introduction, but we'll give him one anyway. 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: Aj Terrell snaps all around Atlanta, and we're gonna ask 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: you some really hard hitting questions off the top, namely 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: about handshakes and motorbikes. 8 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: So we'll just get started with the really capital j 9 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: journalist stuff, right. 10 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. So the first question I have, and this is 11 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 3: a question that I've had since you were miked up, 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 3: I believe in week one, and one of my favorite 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 3: parts of your micd up was seeing how many different 14 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 3: handshakes you had with guys in the secondary. 15 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: There are so many, There were so many. 16 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 3: Everybody has a different handshake. So I have a few 17 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 3: jumping off points. Question number one is just like, how 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 3: long does it take y'all to not just like decide 19 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 3: who has what handshake, but also to like perfect it, 20 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 3: because y'all really are just going around and just being 21 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 3: like dabbing each other up the whole time. 22 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 4: Well, for me, first of all, I started at Clemson 23 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 4: when we when we used to work out. At Clemson, 24 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: not workout, but practice. All the offensive defensive players always 25 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 4: have handshakes. 26 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 5: You know. 27 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 4: The whole four years I was there, they always had handshakes, 28 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 4: and I never got into it because I was always like, 29 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 4: I'll never be able to remember. Yeah, I'll never be 30 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 4: able to remember that many handshakes. I never even try 31 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 4: to do it. And then this when we got into 32 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 4: camp this year, we was like, we just want to 33 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 4: have some energy, you know, some boost or whatever, and 34 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 4: we just started with you know, just to say, you know, 35 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 4: me and Jesse. Then it went to you know, all 36 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 4: the dbs. We just got a handshake in and it 37 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 4: kind of all started the same way. Just let it 38 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 4: start the same way, just have a different ending. 39 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,279 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. So everything was like we're. 40 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 4: Gonna boom boom boom two times and then whatever we're 41 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 4: gonna do for our personality. 42 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 5: So you know, that's how it started. 43 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 4: And then eventually, once we mastered the back end, then 44 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 4: now let's go with the linebackers, let's make with the 45 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 4: d line, and then we all just once Once you 46 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 4: just keep doing it in practice, it just carried over 47 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 4: to the game and it was just like muscle memory. 48 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: That was my thing is. I was like, okay, this 49 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 3: has to take such a long time too. I was like, 50 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 3: they're definitely practicing. 51 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 4: I had I definitely had to practice because, like I said, 52 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 4: I never did it in Clipson at all. But then 53 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 4: I'm like, it's just repetitive practice, like not even when 54 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 4: we in practice anytime we just walking up, just just 55 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 4: do it real quick. 56 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 3: Do you have somebody and I you know, we don't 57 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 3: play favorites on this podcast, but is there someone who's 58 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,239 Speaker 3: handshake that you have like that you think accurately describes 59 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 3: your friendship with that person. I feel like one my 60 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 3: personal favorite, and this may not be yours. My personal 61 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 3: favorite is yours with Jeff Okuda. I think it's just 62 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: funny because he says, what like good something added. 63 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 4: That part we never was he never had said that part, 64 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 4: but yeah, good day, my fine sirtain. But I say 65 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 4: the that that handshake to you know, quick little business 66 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 4: one handshake. But I like the handshake I like that 67 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 4: I have with somebody is Jesse's me and Jesse's hard 68 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,839 Speaker 4: with the you know, and then the mask down, Yeah 69 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 4: Ski mask with the DV is just trying to get 70 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 4: picks and stuff like that. So I think that that 71 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 4: handshake right there is like number one for me right now? 72 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: Cool? That is that is tremendous. Now onto the onto 73 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: the motorbikes or I guess electric bike. Yeah, bike bike 74 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: tell us the origin story and for those that. 75 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 3: Don't think people know about the bike though, for. 76 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: Those that that haven't seen a picture of it, I 77 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: mean AJ does kind of look like a bad dude 78 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: helmet on, shield on riding it e bike okay. And 79 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: sometimes during camp, right you're you're riding it out to 80 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: the dorms back and forth or something. Sometimes AJ rides 81 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: it like from the cafeteria to the indoor facility which 82 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: is about the yards. 83 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, listen camp. You know when I first came, we 84 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 4: was doing it was COVID. We went in the locker 85 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 4: room like that. We had to go to the dorms 86 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 4: and walk everywhere. So it'd be walking to the walking 87 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 4: to the facility, walking to the endoor and just a 88 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 4: big triangle like that. And then that was my rookie year. 89 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 4: So second year I came. You know, I'm on Instagram 90 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 4: or whatever, and I just you know how, I don't 91 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 4: know how Instagram be finding stuff that you see? 92 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 1: Algorithm, algorithm, you. 93 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 4: Know I was just I guess I typed something in 94 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 4: my phone or sometimes even when you think stuff, it 95 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 4: just pop. 96 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,679 Speaker 1: Up on the se Yeah, it's always. 97 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on. 98 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 4: So I'm looking through the stories and the Super seventy 99 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 4: three bikes showed up, like then this bike hard electric bike, 100 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 4: look like a dirt bike, and I'm like, you know 101 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 4: what I'm about to I'm just go and get it 102 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 4: because it looked hard and I know I don't want 103 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 4: to walk no more. 104 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: That's a really good point. It would be a lot 105 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: of walking. 106 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, So I looked at I went on the West site, 107 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 4: end up buying the bike, and then the rest history. 108 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 4: So like you said, the walk is fifty yards, but 109 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 4: for me, it's like five seconds. 110 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 5: I know I don'll never walk. 111 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: The one thing that I am surprised at is that 112 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: it hasn't really like caught on like because because it 113 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: looks so tough, right and you don't have to walk back, 114 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: especially during camp that we'd have like fifty bikes. 115 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 4: I'm waiting on my dude, I know, you know, it's 116 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 4: too many pictures and videos that don't blew up, and 117 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 4: you know they ain't tagged me and nothing in it. 118 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 4: So is it. 119 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get there. 120 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 3: This podcast hopefully will help. Is there a stipulation as too, 121 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 3: because I have seen other guys ride the bike at 122 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 3: some point, I think Jesse, I've seen Jesse on it, 123 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 3: maybe some other guys. What is the stipulation to them 124 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 3: being able to ride the bike? 125 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: I mean, like they don't steal it, do they? 126 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 5: No? 127 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 4: I Like, it really threw me off when you just 128 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 4: said it, Like who else is know? I know Jesse, Okay, 129 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 4: I know Jesse. I probably let him ride it, you 130 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 4: know once one of the times of O t A s. 131 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 4: But you know, let to me people get you know, 132 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 4: ride the bike, but. 133 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: You know, video evidence, like we're gonna bring it to you. 134 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 4: Like I had broke it so like it's not really 135 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 4: good on grass, you know, with the tires that I have. 136 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 4: You know, I went down that hill real quick one 137 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 4: day and the bike came from up underneath me and 138 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 4: fell into the concrete almost you know, tripped up, but 139 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 4: stayed on my feet. But it could be a little 140 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 4: dangerous if you're trying to go fast the whole time. 141 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 4: You just gotta ride it right away, so be one 142 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 4: people too many people, yeah, to get on the bike. 143 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, that's and the one. You know, so the 144 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: bike is ridden around the facility, you know. And but 145 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: something I assume that you would get in your car 146 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 1: is after home games, right, at least if I'm remembering this, 147 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: Right after home games, you don't like go back to 148 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: your house or like ride the bus back to facility. 149 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: You like go to your parents' house dinner after home games. 150 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 5: Right, I'm in the home. 151 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, because you grew up how far from the stadium. 152 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 5: With no traffic, like like twenty wow? 153 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, so like twenty minutes away, you know, Pride of 154 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: West like high school. Yeah, I mean that must be 155 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: so cool that after games you can just cruise right 156 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: on down and hang out with your family, and like 157 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: give us some insight into like what that's like, Like 158 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: is it like a home cooked meal waiting for you 159 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: right when you get to the door, Like was it? 160 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 4: Like it's like I'm, you know, I'm maximizing the opportunity 161 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 4: to the you know a lot, Like I never since 162 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 4: I've been here drove home after a game, like go 163 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 4: to bad win loss, Always go to my even even 164 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 4: when we come back from away games. 165 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 5: Really yeah, like I go to my mom. 166 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 4: House more than likely, especially we have a one o'clock game, 167 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 4: I have time. 168 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 5: We probably get back a like eight. 169 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 4: I go to my mom house and watch the rest 170 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 4: of the games and just mingle and eat, but just 171 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 4: have an opportunity to one not have to drive all 172 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 4: the way back to you know, beautfor where we had 173 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 4: all the way up here and just had the opportunity 174 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 4: to just kick it and have family time with them, 175 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 4: because all week I'm really like, right now, I don't 176 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 4: go all the way to the house because you know, 177 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 4: I'm trying to you know, watch them and get ready 178 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 4: for the next day. But once the once the game 179 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 4: is over, I beat the traffic, get around that and 180 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,719 Speaker 4: just go right to the house and just chill out 181 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 4: for the rest of the night. 182 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: I love it. 183 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 3: I think that's so special too, Like the fact that 184 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 3: they can come and watch you and Merced and all 185 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 3: of a sudden, y'all are all back home, all back home. Yeah, 186 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 3: takeet time to spend together. 187 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: Now. 188 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 3: Is it one of those things where y'all have the 189 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 3: same thing that y'all eat every Sunday night, or do 190 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 3: y'all mix it up? Because I know my family we 191 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 3: were something when my dad was coaching and still is. 192 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 3: But we were like superstitious for a little bit, and 193 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 3: we would eat like pizza hut like every. 194 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 4: Single I know what you mean. I'd be having those 195 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 4: types of things too. I keep it all the same 196 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 4: to keep the good luck. But for me for home games, 197 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 4: since they come to the games, usually when we go back, 198 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 4: it normally be like the same, you know, fast food, 199 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 4: not fast food, but like fast dishes that you could 200 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 4: put together, which is like wings and pizza, like tailgate food, 201 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 4: you know, you know, hot dolls, all Hamburgers everywhere. And 202 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 4: when we come back from away games, it may be 203 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 4: a little different because sometimes they may not travel, so 204 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 4: it might be a real dinner. Yeah, So you know, 205 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 4: I get the best of both worlds with that. But 206 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 4: it's better than just going home. Like I know, a 207 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 4: lot of my teammates if they lived and they respect 208 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 4: you know, hometowns or whatever, they'd do the same. So 209 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 4: I'm just doing what I'm supposed to be doing with 210 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 4: you know, going to spend time with the fam while 211 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 4: I can't. 212 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: So there's a weight room in the house where you 213 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: and your dad when you were younger used to like 214 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: lift like together a lot. I bet your dad he's 215 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: still he's still pretty built. But do you guys still 216 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: do that? Do you ever go back to the house 217 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: or I mean maybe you have a nicer. 218 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 5: Upgrade. Yeah, we had a we we always had. 219 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 4: Uh my dad always had a weight room set up 220 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 4: in the house from since I was a kid, So 221 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 4: it started from what since I was five and we 222 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 4: don't been through a few houses already. But you know, 223 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 4: my dad go like keeping everything what's the word like, 224 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 4: he don't he don't let it. He don't let things 225 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 4: get bad. Like with with the weight said it stayed durable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 226 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 4: for for it to be iron He took care of 227 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 4: it for a good minute. 228 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 5: And some of the weights that. 229 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 4: I was five years old, he's still got now like wow, 230 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 4: you know we probably changed the bar because it bent 231 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 4: a little bit over time, you know, stuff like that. 232 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 4: But the weight gonna stay twenty five times, is gonna 233 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 4: stay twenty five, forty five, gonna stay forty five. So 234 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 4: now yeah, I'm in I'm in a new house now, 235 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 4: so I got my own setup. You know, I'm not 236 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 4: in the house of him no more so. Uh. During 237 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 4: the off season sometimes, you know, we we work out together, 238 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 4: but then again he not you know, my dad he's 239 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 4: more old school, just we're gonna squat. We're gonna do that, 240 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 4: and I'll be having to I'll be having to put 241 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 4: some work, you know. And he worked with me, like 242 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 4: we've been putting some workouts together, like this is what 243 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 4: we do. 244 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 5: This, this is you know, this is a modern day. 245 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, like we're gonna take off the body a little bit, 246 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 4: We're gonna do this. 247 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 5: We're gonna do that. 248 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 4: You know him, as long as you can bench this 249 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 4: or squat this, you'll always be in shipped. 250 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 5: You'll be good. 251 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 4: I'm like, I know. But the joints getting older too. Yeah, 252 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 4: Like so he'd be having to work with me. So 253 00:11:57,880 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 4: we still work out together, but it's slowed down the 254 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 4: little bit with you know, because of that. And you know, 255 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 4: he respected like he knowed that it's a whole business 256 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 4: going on with you know, just keeping the body healthy 257 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 4: and all that. So we do definitely still work out together. 258 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it, do you. 259 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 3: I think it's always like super I'm sure that time, 260 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 3: like now that you're an adult and you have a 261 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 3: son of your own, like how special were kind of 262 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 3: those you know, maybe even early morning. 263 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: Workouts like with your dad for you when. 264 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 3: You look back at kind of your middle school high 265 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 3: school years. 266 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was really important. 267 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 4: Like it didn't really hit me until I got to 268 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 4: high school, and being able to lift one thirty five 269 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 4: was a thing coming in ninth grade, Like being able 270 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 4: to hit one thirty five at least like two, three, 271 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 4: four times. If you get the five, that's like, okay, 272 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 4: you're on the right. Coming out of middle school, you 273 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 4: hear one thirty five five times, it was a good thing. 274 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 4: So coming out of middle school and I have went 275 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 4: to West Lade my first year, just and some of 276 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 4: my friends from middle school because they was coming to 277 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 4: train with and we had like an after school program 278 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 4: where the eighth grade is from my middle school. We'd 279 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 4: have to go to high school and get like a 280 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 4: a little freshman pre freshman lift, Like we would just 281 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 4: go lift with the high school team after. It was 282 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 4: something that we had to do. We weren't mandatory, but 283 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 4: if you were going to the school and wanted to 284 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 4: play football, you it was mandatory. 285 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 5: Comes Yeah, So I. 286 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 4: Remember going in there and being able to you know, 287 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 4: I was familiar with the weight you know, like some 288 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 4: people when they see the weight sets, it's like a shocker, 289 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 4: like they ain't never lift weights before. I was already 290 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 4: immune to it coming out of middle school. And I 291 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 4: wasn't really like lifting lifting crazy in middle school. But 292 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 4: by eighth grade, I was, you know, seventh eighth grade, 293 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 4: I was in the weight room doing little things that 294 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 4: I can do. And by the time I, like I said, 295 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 4: I got to the high school, I was able to 296 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 4: do certain thing. I was able to squat a little 297 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 4: bit more than all my classmates and peers. And it 298 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 4: just goes to show you that, you know, everything that 299 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 4: we was just and leading all the way up to now, 300 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 4: even when I got to college. You know, some some 301 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 4: high schools don't even have the. 302 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 5: You know, have the. 303 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 4: Ability to provide a weight room and stuff for they 304 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,599 Speaker 4: you know, for their high school. And just going to 305 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 4: high school and being able to live to twenty five 306 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 4: like eight times as a freshman was you know, it 307 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 4: was was a big deal for sure, and just it 308 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 4: all just goes basically what I'm just saying is my 309 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 4: dad molded me from all those stages through the you know, 310 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 4: through life and with the weight room and training and 311 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 4: all that, all the way up to now of just 312 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 4: being accustomed with weights and all that. 313 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. Your whole family is athletic. 314 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 5: Everybody. 315 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: Your dad was a really good high school running back 316 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: and defensive back in New York I think. And then 317 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: your sisters were both. 318 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 5: Track sisters both tracked then. 319 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: And then your little brother Clemson, Yeah, uh, and he was. 320 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: He was huge when he was in high school in 321 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: terms of another and what is a very long line 322 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: of really good Westlake athletes. Cam Newton played there, right, 323 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: I mean you kind of went through the high school 324 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: process and then you went to Clemson. What was it 325 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: like to see your brother? I mean, he plays the 326 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: same position. You guys speak the same language, the same 327 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: football language. To watch him go through that process, how 328 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: kind of cool was that for you to be able 329 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: to kind of see him and be able to go 330 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: to his football games and every Friday and experience that 331 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: with him? What was that dynamic? 332 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 4: Like little Bro always been a good football player, He 333 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 4: always been a good athlete and everything Like some sports 334 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 4: I couldn't do, like basketball, I suck. He make it 335 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 4: look easy though, like he could have took it there 336 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 4: if you wanted to. But of course the high thing 337 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 4: ain't match with so he uh, you know, all through 338 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 4: all through his life football. I always used to of course, 339 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 4: you know how recreation ball is where the older kids, 340 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 4: like myself, we have a later game than the younger kids. 341 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 5: I always watch his games before my games, and. 342 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 4: He was since day one coming up, hitting, you know, 343 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 4: doing what he's supposed to do, just dominating at every 344 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 4: level and him going all the way to. 345 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 5: You know, going to Clemson. 346 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 4: It it's it's it's like a no, it don't feel 347 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 4: like surprising to me. Yeah, saw, yeah, I saw it 348 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 4: all the way through, like you know, just him with 349 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 4: just watching me and just training in him being himself, 350 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 4: and we had two different playing styles. Like he more 351 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 4: of a like you know, in your face and you 352 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 4: know here he tell you what he's going to do, 353 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 4: and he like he more of a guy. Me I'm 354 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 4: just you know, I'm just by business. I just play. 355 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 4: And you know, just watching him go through the whole 356 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 4: process all the way through high school, just you know, 357 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 4: each phase of success going through from ninth grade all 358 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 4: the way to twelfth grade again offers going to school 359 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 4: and you know doing everything is not really a shocker 360 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 4: of what he's doing. But I'm definitely enjoying his his 361 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 4: his role while he's you know, still doing it and 362 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 4: giving him as much support as possible and let him 363 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 4: know what's to come and all that, and just keep 364 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 4: locking in and doing your job until, you know, until 365 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 4: it's time. 366 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 3: It's interesting because I feel like a question that you know, 367 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 3: when you get to a certain point in your career, 368 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: and I feel like anybody listening could probably feel this way. 369 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 3: It's like, what advice would you give your younger self? Well, 370 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 3: you kind of have this like young he's not a 371 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 3: younger version of you, but he's your brother, like, and 372 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 3: so what advice did you kind of give him as 373 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 3: he was going through I guess even the recruiting process 374 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 3: and making the decision as to where he wanted to 375 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 3: go that you kind of said, look, this is what 376 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 3: I went through and I can help you. What what 377 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 3: advice did you give him during that time? 378 00:17:59,240 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 5: Yeah? 379 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 4: Like from me, Like even when he was getting recruited 380 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 4: by Clemson and all that, I stayed out of as 381 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 4: much as possible, Like, you know, anytime he went on visits. 382 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 4: I never went to a visit on a visit with him. 383 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 4: The advice I really just gave him is like, go 384 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 4: go where you're like wanted and needed, Like you know, 385 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 4: don't go there for the of course, Like don't go 386 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 4: there for the coach, don't you know, go there for 387 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 4: the school, Go there for stability, go there for your degree, 388 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 4: you know, go there for all the all the good things. 389 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 4: And he ended up choosing Clemson. A lot of people 390 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 4: always you know, just feel like he was going to 391 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 4: Clemson anyway. He actually committed to Clemson late, Like Clemson 392 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 4: been offered him when he was in ninth grade. He 393 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 4: could have been just sealed the deal, but he still 394 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 4: him And you know, my dad took him on the 395 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 4: same way my dad did with me, like just go 396 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: to You only get one opportunity to you know now 397 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 4: that they got the portal love, but you really got 398 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 4: one opportunity to really see around, going all the official business, 399 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 4: get everything down packed, because you the decision that you 400 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 4: make is like key to your future. So he ended 401 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 4: up making, you know, we all feel the best decision 402 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 4: for himself in you know, for the family and time 403 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 4: of til. 404 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 3: So it's cool too because like the I feel like 405 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 3: you can't tell your story, your brother's story, your family 406 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 3: story without talking about Westlake in this area and this 407 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 3: high school, and this is a high school that you've 408 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 3: actually given back to quite a bit. And now this 409 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 3: is the question that I do have. Is it true 410 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 3: that they have batons for the like four by one 411 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 3: four by four that are red and black and have 412 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 3: your face on it? 413 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: This is true at the at the AJLL relays, at. 414 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 4: A relay, but they need to know, like did you 415 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 4: know that they were doing this? 416 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 3: And what was your reaction to thing? 417 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 5: They send it to me. They not send it to me, 418 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 5: They gave it to me. 419 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,959 Speaker 4: And when I first had the baton, I thought it 420 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 4: was a. 421 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 5: Trophy for me. 422 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like okay, cool, right, But then going up 423 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 4: going to the track meat they was running with the baton. 424 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 4: I think it was just Westlake if the school who 425 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 4: won probably got the baton when they won, But I 426 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 4: know west Lake ran with the baton. It's just something 427 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 4: that you dream of it, you know, like you know, 428 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 4: like I'm doing something right, you know, just having you know, 429 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 4: my face on a baton, having a whole meat is 430 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 4: just a blessing for sure. 431 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: They I think I talked to you during a part 432 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: clean up for four day, I don't know how far. Yeah, 433 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: and you told me then it's an honor and a 434 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: responsibility to give back to not just I mean Atlanta 435 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: and the state of Georgia and people that wear twenty 436 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: four kids who wear twenty four jerseys, but that neighborhood especially, 437 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 1: I mean Tory had mentioned it. You don't ask for 438 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: a lot of clips, but you give a lot back 439 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: to that high school. And it's not contingent on your 440 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: brother being there, right that Why? Why is the honor 441 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 1: and responsibility part of it? 442 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 4: I lived, I lived in that in that area all 443 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 4: my life. And my oldest sister she went to west Lake. 444 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 4: I went to west late my youngest sister went to 445 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 4: west Lake, and now I little bro he's just finished 446 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 4: up at Westlake. And I just felt like even before 447 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 4: my sister even went, like you said, Cam Newton was there. 448 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 4: So as a kid, when I was like five years old, 449 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 4: my dad used to take me to you know, watch 450 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 4: him play, watch Camp play in big games and. 451 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 5: Go up to west Lake. 452 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 4: And I watched west Lake go to the new Westlake, 453 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 4: like it's two high schools, even though the old Westlake 454 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 4: High School that Cam went to is still there, and 455 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 4: then the new Westlake High School is right next to it, 456 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 4: you know, So it's like I just seen and then 457 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 4: I ran track, like everything I did as a kid. 458 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 4: Westlake was part of the journey, like from football games, 459 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 4: track meets, you know, all of all of its, like 460 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 4: was part of each phase of it. And like I said, 461 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 4: I just felt like anything that I do is just 462 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 4: to honor you know, where I come from and the 463 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 4: people that's still to come, and just show that it's 464 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 4: possible to make it through. 465 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: Wesley, does it ever like hit you? 466 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 3: I know probably you felt this way, you know, when 467 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 3: you're drafted to the Falcons and and everything, But does 468 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 3: it ever hit you even now we're talking about four 469 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 3: years later that it's like, oh my god, like I'm 470 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 3: playing for the team that I I mean, I assume 471 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 3: you grew up a Falcons fan. 472 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 5: Maybe I didn't. You didn't. 473 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: Oh no, he definitely had the mic Vic jersey. 474 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 5: I'm sure I had. 475 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: But you were a fan of. 476 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, like my dad. My dad was a forty nine fan. 477 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 4: It took me a minute. Took me a minute to 478 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 4: get on that boat. 479 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 5: I didn't. I didn't get on. 480 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 4: I didn't get on the boat until about four or 481 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 4: fifth grade, you know, just being a kid like in 482 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 4: every team in NFL, you know, every I feel like 483 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 4: every NFL team I liked as a kid. Was all 484 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 4: based off color, Like I like the Jaguars color this week. 485 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 4: Say I like the Saints color this week. I like 486 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 4: the Falcons color this week. But like I said, the 487 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 4: forty nine end up ended up being a team once 488 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 4: I got on track Sundays, Yeah, you can't can't get 489 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 4: around my dad with red gold. So that the whole 490 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 4: family was just forty nine fans until the day. 491 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: Right, and then that day. 492 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 3: It's the day, yeahs draft Day and. 493 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: You get to I mean like Draft Day was during COVID, 494 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: so it was like your entire family was under one roof, right, and. 495 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 3: Wait, so how long were all quarantine together? 496 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 4: Because exactly, you know, like the NFL, they had all 497 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 4: these rules about how many people can be at the 498 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 4: you know, at the house, and we had the whole house, 499 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 4: the whole the whole family was you know, we we't 500 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 4: have a big house at the time, but. 501 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 5: It fit everybody. 502 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 4: Everybody fit in size, and it was it was a 503 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 4: great time. Like I'd rather I like, I really loved 504 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 4: the way the party was more so than it being 505 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 4: in Vegas because you could be yourself inside the bubble, right, 506 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 4: all the people that you all the friends and family 507 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 4: that you love. So I feel like if we're in Vegas, 508 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 4: we were gonna have fun, but you still got to 509 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 4: hold your guard a little. 510 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 5: Bit because of it being public to everybody. 511 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, Like we're there, you're 512 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: just trying. 513 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, we just were was lit and then. 514 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: You knew right then that you could go home and 515 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: have dinner. Right like every Sunday, pretty much everything was 516 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: up the street. Like I mean, we're we're definitely up 517 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: against it with time, but we cannot just last question, 518 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: we cannot not talk about your son, right. Yeah, it 519 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: was probably gonna be a cornerback in his own right 520 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: and might be the best stressed three year old on 521 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: this planet, you know, But I mean having him obviously 522 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: you have such a strong relationship with your dad. 523 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was something that I was like looking into. 524 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 3: And there was a quote from you that this was 525 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,959 Speaker 3: probably while you were actually in Clemson. I'm not entirely sure, 526 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 3: but you said, like, my dad always had my best 527 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 3: interest at heart, and then you said he kind of 528 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 3: taught me that everything I do is a reflection like 529 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 3: on my son. How much do you feel like from 530 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 3: your dad to you to your son is like a 531 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 3: reflection of each other. 532 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 4: So a lot it's like, you know, something like how 533 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 4: my dad was, or how you know other people's dads are. 534 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 4: Some people have dads, some don't. Some have dads that 535 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 4: support us. Some to have dads that's not you know 536 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 4: how Like basically my dad was, like. 537 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 5: He did a whole whole, whole, whole whole. 538 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 4: Lot for me and my siblings. And you know, as 539 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 4: a kid, you probably take it for granted because that's all. 540 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 5: You know. 541 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 4: You don't know kids who don't have you parents in 542 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 4: their life or kids who you know, parents not as 543 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 4: supportive as mind, but my parents in general, my mom 544 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 4: as well, like they went over and beyond us to 545 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 4: help us see better days, to feel like we got 546 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 4: everything and you know, made the best out of everything 547 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 4: that we had and for it to be how the 548 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 4: table's turned now, like everybody just you know, all my 549 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 4: siblings and everybody doing what they doing. It's a big deal. 550 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 4: And then just goes back to show you, like show 551 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 4: me how how it all started. Like sometimes I be thinking, 552 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 4: like you know, they they they did they you know, yeah, 553 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 4: like they did everything. Yeah, like me in camps, like 554 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 4: they did everything to put me in a position I'm 555 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 4: in today, like and for me to be able to 556 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 4: just give, you know, give them everything in them to just. 557 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 5: Who sign chill? Now, I got a cern. It's like 558 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 5: I know what you know, I know what to do. 559 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 4: My dad was a good example for me, and I 560 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 4: feel like I owe the world to him for that. 561 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 4: Like there's no way that you're not gonna have what 562 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 4: I had, if not more with all the support from 563 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 4: my family and my siblings and all the rest of 564 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 4: the extended family. 565 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 5: It's like he got that. 566 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 4: He don't even I feel like he don't even he 567 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 4: don't even know that he got it made. Like, yeah, 568 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 4: this is life, and I'm just gonna make it. You know, 569 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 4: I'm a challenging you know. You know, everything my dad 570 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 4: did the right way, I'm gonna do it. I might 571 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 4: add some spring, Yeah, it might add a little sprinkles 572 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 4: to it that I probably was like, you know Dad, like, well, 573 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 4: I might, you know, push a button a little bit more. 574 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 4: But you know, I had a great example through my dad, 575 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 4: and then now it's me passing on to him and 576 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 4: then so forth and so forth, and. 577 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: You just keep paying it for it. 578 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 3: You got to keep the name going. 579 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, got to keep it going. 580 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: What a freaking awesome way to end this podcast. AJ, 581 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming down. It was such 582 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,959 Speaker 1: a great conversation that I know Falcons fans are absolutely 583 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: going to love. Do what y'all do, Please rate, review, 584 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: Subscribe to the Atlanta Falcons podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 585 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: and Spotify Spotify. Yeh, a little brain misfire there, And 586 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: subscribe to the YouTube page where you can watch this 587 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: thing on video from our new Ticketmaster podcast studios for 588 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: Torri and Ag. I'm Scott. We will come back to 589 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: you again next week with another awesome guest. See you 590 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 4: Five