WEBVTT - Donte Stallworth 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John and this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.600 to it. Good do it, Good do it. They's getting 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.919 down to do it. Good do it. We asked the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.880 questions you always want to know, but no one ever asked, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.600 let's cut to it. You ain't heard am about it? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:40.920 Then we're about to let you know. It's all. Made 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.239 it through the weekend. It was pretty good. Made it through. Hey, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.880 some people don't make it. So made made it through 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.440 and weekend. Like we ain't supposed to be celebratory. You 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:49.960 made it through, like you're supposed to make it through 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.240 the work week. Yeah. Sometimes though that the weekend if 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.480 you're a husband or dad and you know you got 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:04.319 more work. Yeah. So sometimes it's like sports activity, yes, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.440 all that stuff. Yeah, so it doesn't Sometimes you're like, man, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.200 I can't wait your structure combs. Yeah. Right, So that's 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.560 why I say said made it true. It's not not bad, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.959 it's just but then you find yourself tired, right because 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.480 if you just want to go, we just want to 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.280 get home, Like for me this weekend, you just want 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.440 to go you want to get home, you want to 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:26.800 watch some NBA playoffs? Dumb, My bad man Steve Context 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:35.560 is a is a Clippers fan. Yes, so you to punish. Stop, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.200 I've been broke. I mean the facts of the facts. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:40.920 But do I not ride with my teail you dude? 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.319 Oh no, that's that's that's definitely a fact. You rock 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.280 the Clippers at you rocked the and there's no and 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.240 it's no knock against the Clippers. But but I'm excited. Look, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.120 I this is the furthest they've been. They've never been 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.440 to a conference finals. Right, well, we ain't going no further. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.200 We you know what, I'm playing playoff p He's showing 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.840 up though, I mean, just not on the free throw line. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.280 But yeah, stop. Did you hear what Shannon Shark said 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:14.200 about He called him poly est? You know why because 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.840 when you heat poly esd up, it melts meat on it. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:25.040 He melts Come on playoff playoff, it would be a 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.480 much different series if Kawal Leonard was I believe it 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.480 may be a worst series. I'd love to hear your 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.920 thoughts on why you think that. We look at all 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:43.160 these guys that are getting together with other superstars. Brooklyn 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:51.920 I'm not. I'm not a huge fan of Leonard just 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.559 in general or of him coming coming to say hypothely, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:00.600 come to the Lakers, I mean the Clippers, because Dame 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:06.760 is such an ice sol player. He could give you fifty, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.400 but he doesn't play defense right. And if he when 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.320 he goes in those fifty points, when he's going cold, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.840 when he goes cold and he's shooting a thirty eight 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.560 footer is dunking off the rim and the other team 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.200 is getting a ball and spreading down the transition and transition. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.240 And if you're gonna have those type of all stars, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.080 you gotta have some of those all stars. You gotta 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.640 have your specialists. And I think teams are starting to 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.160 see that. If you're gonna have some specialists, you gotta 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:51.200 have guys to show up on both end of today's NBA. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:56.040 You gotta have those guys there even And that's why 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.200 I think the Clippers rousso overall. The only thing I've 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:04.520 always come to is is Paul George and Kauai too similar. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.320 Like you know, you know what I'm saying, Like you 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.640 have you have Lebron and a D. Complimentary players. A 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.760 D can do some things. Lebron can do. Lebron can 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.120 do some things they they can't do. You look at 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.599 even though Brooklyn got eliminated, You look at Katie and James, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.359 Harden and Kyrie. They all do something. They all do 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.279 things that are similar, but then they all have distinct differences. Heye, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.480 excuse me, Kauai and Paul George are very similar. Do 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.279 you think Paul George plays just as good of defense. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.000 He's a good defensive player. Yeah. So, but you know 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.880 what I'm saying, like complimentary. This is the only thing 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.200 that I see with with that particular duo that they're 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.840 not that complementary. It's almost like washing rintchs repeat, we 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.719 got the same guy that you know what, it seems 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.520 like though he seemed to play better as the head 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:02.039 guy versus Paul. Absolutely agree with that. He seems to 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:09.359 be outstanding batman. He has gotten lost in translation in 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.919 the game of being a robin and everybody can't do that, right. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:19.480 Remember how much Chris Bosh struggle when Lebron came to 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.840 the Heat. It was, it was it's different when you're 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.520 used to being the guy who gets buckets and then 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.480 you gotta have to take the second seat or with 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.040 Chris bosh that third seat, SA. I'm really I'm a 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:35.119 basketball fan that knows zero about basketball. We we always 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.840 joke about this, like when we're chilling. You know more 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.200 about basketball, but I don't. I don't feel confident talking 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.560 about it. So I look at it purely from a 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.920 I don't even look at statistics anymore. I just look 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.599 at like I watched a guy play. I'm really surprised 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.960 how James Harten morphed his game, right. I also look 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.120 at people are talking about Kevin during he can't win 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.200 the big one. He carried that team, he missed the shot, Okay, great. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.080 I just look at it purely as a not as appears, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.080 not as someone who knows the game, not as athleticism 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.839 being an athlete. I just kind of go, man, I 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.880 love watching basketball. I love I love playoff basketball. Me too. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.840 I'll watch every single playoff game. My wife knows when 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.839 playoffs are on. I'm watching unless it becomes like a 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.719 complete beat down, like the like that Hawks game the 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.400 other night, which a man, how about the Hawks? Man? 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:32.120 What's interesting? Where you say that's interesting because you have 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.600 a head coach that didn't want the job, an interim 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.320 head coach, and they didn't really want to give them 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.839 the job. They ran out the other guy, and I 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.720 think I find it extremely interesting with Trey Young. And 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.720 this is the part about sports that you gotta be 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:50.599 careful of when you draft your franchise. And then you 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:58.480 allow who's gonna coach by how they work with one individual, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.000 and one individual doesn't buy into it, he doesn't like 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.200 how he's being coached. And then that guy gets fired. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.320 And then now you see, you know, quote unquote, you 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.600 gotta give him the buy in he signed that check right, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.680 And then now you got a guy Holiday Holiday is 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.880 putting them paws on it. If he's always Holiday is 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.760 a defensive monster, that's what you want him to do. Correct, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.080 But I find it interested in is now But tray 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:39.520 st he's still getting how many uses? Some buckets? Some buckets. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.600 That's what I'm saying is he's a young guy who 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.040 still needs to develop. Will he be a superstar? I 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.960 want to see can he can? Can he come out 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:56.200 next year and start where he finished in the playoffs. Oh, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.520 that's a good point. I also think they've got uh, 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.400 they got they got a sneaky good roster too. Spircher 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.040 is archer. I don't know how to pronounce that. But 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.880 he's he's been good. Collins is a good player. Cappella 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.640 many they gotta it's not just Trey Young and everyone 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.680 else like they have. They have a pretty Solidit a 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.920 random thought of capella and the time I'm going, does 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.920 he dye his hair? And that right? Because darn that 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.040 looks good? Spree pa just that on the on the 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:30.840 baalty just get you, just get you can Just like 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.200 That's when I say I am so checked out as 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.439 far as an analyst of basketball. I just look at 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.000 it just as a fan, like okay, so as a fan, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.640 who would you who would you like to see in 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:46.120 the finals? So I would like to see Milwaukee in 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.680 the finals because they're a small market team. I don't 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:58.040 want to deal with Janice being a champion and him 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.320 being a champion at such a all. He's still raw 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:06.600 very much so and he becomes a champion, then people 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.400 are gonna let off on him and he does He's 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.880 not gonna be held to that that that that standard up. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.840 He still needs to improve because now he has that ring, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.320 right And I say that and people listening because I hear, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.560 I hear, well, this guy he's a super Bowl champion. Okay, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.760 but the brother can't make a free throw? Yeah and 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.280 n but but it always comes back to I feel 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.600 like there is a different standard for some of these 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.400 younger players today than it was for the guys who 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.120 came out like in the early two thousand's, like the Lebrons, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.839 like the Chris Paul's, who you know, maybe going to 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.640 the finals, but those guys were ringer, not ring Maybe 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.760 maybe they they up the up, but three one then 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.160 cat check. But you know what I'm saying, Like I 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.239 have always felt like the uh, this last regime of superstars, 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.280 the Lebrons, the Chris Paul's, the Carmelo Anthony's, it was 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.520 do you got a ring or not? KD A little 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.559 bit on on the fringe of that. He's got to 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.719 your point like this this kind of next tier generation 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:19.760 of your Westbrooks, your Hardens, Janice, like we they haven't 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.599 really come under that kind of fire at least. And 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.320 this is a conversation with me and the fellows were 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.600 just having like it's it's been a I don't want 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.319 to say drop off, but it's a different type of 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.920 criticism that they get someone to. I mean, I don't 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.480 you know, not to make it football versus basketball. But 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.640 it has been times when you look at it is 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.440 what does he have a ring? Well? What else? Right? 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.520 So I get what you're saying. So I just see 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.680 Yannice as I say, ideal. I think it'll be cool 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:51.920 Milwaukee and who I got the Phoenix I want. I 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.240 think that be the most that'd be the most balanced match. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.040 Here's what I am worried about though, with Kauai reading 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.280 the reports, him and the injury, why don't they just 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.240 rule him out? I don't get it, him and the 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:09.040 injury and him becoming a free agent and knowing how 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.440 he operates with injuries and he's coming back. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.160 I've wondered that. But it's it's it's you know, it's 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.920 you know, some stuff at coming and we went through 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.920 that before, all right, mill and I agree with that. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.800 So Milwaukee Phoenix, what's We'll see what happens. Man, it 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.480 would be it would be nice balance to seven games. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.520 I don't I don't know if holiday can hang with. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.640 That's what I'm rooting for that. I'm rooting for my 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.360 guy North Carolina, North Carolina born Chris Paul. I want 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.120 him to get a ring. I wanted to get a ring. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.160 So I got a cheer for North Carolina. So I'm 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.320 I'm being I'm being non biased. I want the sun somewhere. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.040 So that's what. That's what. Who we got coming up 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.920 on the Cut to It Podcast, We've got Dante Stalworth, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.199 a veteran NFL wide receiver and a native of Sacramento, California. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.520 He's turned into a journalist, contributing to The Humpington's Post, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.360 The New York Times, and CNN. Dante Starworth on the 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:18.760 Cut to It Podcast first segment. It's called get Ice Up. Random. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.720 Iceberger questions, we gotta get you loose. You know Smithy 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.120 very well. You don't know what duration is gonna go in. Smithy, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.720 go ahead and give him the first one. All right, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:34.439 what sports do you enjoy watching other than football? Mm hmm, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:40.760 that's a good question. Um, Listen, I ran track in 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.520 high school, so I definitely enjoyed watching track. Um. I 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.199 was terrible in high school at basketball, but I enjoyed 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:54.920 watching Hey, no, I've watched I've watched Dante and he's 0:12:55.120 --> 0:13:00.280 very finesse, and he's extremely fast, and sometimes he could 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.200 be out of control. Okay, so like a Westbrook almost 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:10.599 no yeah. I tried to lay it up. What is 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:17.280 something that always makes you laugh? Family Guy? The show 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.240 Family Guy, the TV show Family Guy. I never seen 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.320 the show? Is that like what the big fat dude 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.440 and a little kid with the big hit? Yeah? Yeah? 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.880 What what? What? What's so funny about the show. It's 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:40.040 it's so inappropriate that sometimes you just gotta laugh. You 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.440 would enjoy it, actually, all right, you know it's kind 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:49.000 of it's kind of like the yeah you should you 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.160 should definitely put it in rotation. No, no, I put 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.720 at the bottom of my list that I probably will 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:57.439 never chance. It just doesn't seem like the show. But 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.520 you know what, because my guy shut out, I'll I'll 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.920 check out an episode or two. I probably should give 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.160 it two episodes because I'm already walking in there going 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.920 I'm like, you know, yeah, you're You're not even gonna 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.079 make it past the credits. He's just short change me. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.080 Let me you know, let me hand stand the time 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:25.880 that that was germs. So what is your biggest pet peeve? 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.520 I don't like being in wet clothes. Like I love 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:37.080 to run run outside, but when it's raining, I just 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.880 can't do it. Wet socks, wet clothes. I need to 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.960 have them off. There's something about wet clothes and I 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.400 just don't like having on all. Right. Last one, um, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:54.400 family traditions. One of the best things for me, especially 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.880 growing up as a kid, was always my mother cooking 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.000 at Thanksgiving. We would have number of family members. We 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.880 have big family. My my dad had eleven brothers and sisters, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.200 so you can just imagine how many cousins and relatives 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.520 we had just on my dad's side alone. So my 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.200 mother would cook for everyone and uh, and she cooks 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.880 really well, and so everyone would come over and it 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.640 was just kind of our way, or at least her 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.960 way of just you know, bringing the family together. And 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.520 even family who were hanging out, you know, at their 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.840 own homes or went to see other families, they were 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.800 always welcome to come and get a plate. And there 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.720 was always spades and dominoes, playing in basketball, uh, playing outside. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.600 I never played basketball, but I was always ready to 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.640 race anybody, um in the streets, you know, things like that. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.480 So we we had that. That family tradition was always 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.760 something that that has always uh, you know, brought back 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:54.960 good memories. How do you play Spade, Dante? You play Joka? Joker. Dudes. Yeah, 0:15:55.160 --> 0:16:00.480 that's that's yea proper way. All right, let's move on. Um, 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.440 So who's your favorite who is your favorite team? Growing up? Football? 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:14.720 Basketball doesn't matter. The San Francisco forty Niners. Um. I 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.480 was a freshman in high school and that was the 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:25.080 year that um that we the year before when I say, well, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.960 am speaking of the Sampsons for Fort ninus in the 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.760 eighties and nineties. So we had we had just lost 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.360 to the Dallas Cowboys at home in Candlestick. Uh, Emma 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.000 Smith ran all over as Michael Irvin, Alvin Harper had 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.240 some big plays and j Novcheck obviously coming through in 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.960 the clutch on third downs, and the defense was really good. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.360 So the next year we we made some changes. We 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.080 brought in Gary Plummer, We bought in Ken Norton from Dallas. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:57.040 We brought in uh the incompartable Dion Sanders, who didn't 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.360 make it to the team until Week three against the 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.080 Saint type of And at this time I can tell 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.040 you the roster of every team I knew every coach 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.760 had told you. So that was the tip man. That 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:16.400 was a team Dallas, Dallas, San Francisco, Philly. Um, that's 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:21.400 when everything went through the NFC. Whoever NFC one, we're 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.600 pretty much when within the championship, that's so who else 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.080 uh the Packers with with Sterling, then you have Philly 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.160 Um when they had Keith Buyers and left handed throwing 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.960 the throwing a little tall suite tall suite pass have 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.040 back passed and they had Charlie Garner right um, just 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.879 all the different players man. So then that the NFC 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.960 Championship always went through the NFC, right if you a 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.040 ANFC teams ever had had a chance. I still have 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.280 every game on VHS, by the way, recorded every game 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.720 that's with the current week, all of it, all of it. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:03.480 You know. Actually you know what I used to pause. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.680 I used to hit the I used to hit the 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.399 pause button just to save um, to save tape on 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:09.840 the end of that tape, because the tape would only 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.280 if you recorded it on h SP, which was the 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.920 highest quality at the take up a lot of tape, 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.960 pick up three hours. So I would get one game 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.720 each VHS tape. And that was that was my allowance 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.200 when I whenever I happened, I would save up for 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.280 VHS tapes and posters are hanging my room. That was 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.800 that was whatever I had, whatever I had spent my 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.720 money on. Who's your favorite athlete? Growing up as a kid? 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:42.800 Who any sport? My favor? Yeah, my soul, my favorite athlete. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.360 I was a big football fan. Football was like nine 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.440 eight percent give the other two per cent was honestly 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.720 was probably history and science. I was. I was. I 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.280 was a nerd as a kid, and I enjoyed, uh, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.200 learning about world history, learning about American history. Um, and 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.000 a lot of the A lot of the things that 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.680 I that I grew up and even today still are 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.600 things that I kind of harkened back to my childhood with, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.440 you know which his history. I write about politics and 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.159 the history of politics, the history of sports, things like that. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.720 So it's it's all come kind of connected. But I 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:24.040 would say probably my favorite athletes was I would have 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.040 to say Dion. I was thinking between um, because my 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:33.640 four favorite football players were we're really in no order. Um, 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:40.960 probably between Dion, Dion, Jerry, Barry Sanders, and Bo Jackson 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.720 were my four and those are my Those are my 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:50.600 guys right there. Yeah. I actually saw Jerry We can 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.400 get to that later, but I actually saw Jerry Rice 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.879 as a kid, and um, he called the police on me, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.320 but I stopped because I was talking about years old. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.159 We need we need that story. I'm like, oh, we 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.439 can talk about that. No, he didn't, he didn't call 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.600 the police on me. It was their training camp. It 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:07.920 was their training camp that we were in Rockland, and 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.959 I was with a high school teammate of mine who 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.320 lived north of Rockland. And I'm from Sacramento. So I 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.440 was going, uh, you know, to his home and um 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:23.840 in Grass Valley. Huh, You're going to Garry's home. No, 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:31.800 I know, my my high school quarterback. I actually didn't 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.600 know that when I was calling the police and then 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:43.119 I was in the bush. So I'll give you the 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.760 quicker version. So the quicker version is, as we're driving 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.440 by Rockland, this is during the summer, and this is 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.440 right around the time when training campus it's starting. And 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.320 so I knew everything about Jay Rice, who was one 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.200 of my favorite players, one of my prob you know, 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.200 one of my favorite athletes. So I knew that his 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.399 wife's name was Jackie. I knew that, Um, you know, 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.880 I just knew his family dynamic. Anything about jer Rice 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:05.520 I had read about because I loved him so much 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.119 as a kid and so as as we were stopping 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.920 to get gas. In front of us, there was a 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:16.280 little convertibles like a blueish Mercedes with the license plate 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.639 that said something like for you Jackie or Jackie. And 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.680 I remember looking like, oh, that's Jay Rice's wife's name. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.360 And then I looked at the person in the car 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.040 which I was behind, and I'm like, yo, that's Jerry 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.560 and and my and my teammate was like, how can 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.359 you tell us? Jerrys in back of his hand, like, Bro, 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.480 I know that being head, that's Jerry Rice. Bro follow him. 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:42.160 So we followed him years old. That is my favorite criminal. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:48.080 Begin follow him right, follow I got it. I got 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:57.119 his plate right right right right on a banker. But 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:03.800 you weren't North South. As for me, it was my 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:08.320 deductive reasoning that we were in Rockland, its training camp. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.520 It's a Mercedes Bens. Jackie's a license plate that's his 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.480 wife's name. And I know Jerry. I know the back 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:20.320 of Jerry Rice's head, the African American man. Hey, but 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:24.240 I'm telling you, like, so we we didn't even get gas. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.840 We followed Jerry right so I think you know, and 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:28.959 we're in this beat up We're in this beat up 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.800 pick up truck right, and he just sees two guys 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.920 following him. So he's in his mind. You know, I'm 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.000 not thinking this at a time. I'm fifteen years old, right, 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.439 this is my idol. I'm going to like say hi 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:47.240 to him. So oh yeah, I was, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.040 yeah yeah I was. I was all. I was all 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:54.440 about it. So we we pulled in. He pulled in, which, 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.080 you know, there were a lot of cars, and I 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.600 figured this was the you know, the the four niners, 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:05.040 uh parking only forty niners only parking. But we followed 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:07.520 him in and then so he drove around the parking 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.880 lot inside, so we stopped right because they were like, okay, 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.760 we're following. We're actually like following him following. Now, let's 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.600 just pull over here and and wait till he gets 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.159 out of his car. So he parks up close, and 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:22.800 as we see him park up close, we get out 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.760 of the car to start walking towards me. Now we're 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:28.080 probably about fifty yards away from the entrance where he's 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:30.879 walking into. Jerry's out of his car and he's looking 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:34.680 in our direction and he's pointing at us to security, 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:39.119 and security is like looking at us as we're walking up, 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.000 and so then the security starts walking towards us, and 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:44.680 Jerry walks in the building and he's like, hey, you 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:46.639 guys can't be in here. And we were like, oh, 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:48.640 we just wanted to say hi to Jerry. And he's 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:50.280 like that, so that's fine, I understand it, but you're 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:52.320 not allowed to be in here. And so we left 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:54.800 and I wasn't like, oh, I just thought Jerry right, 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.200 So I was like, oh my god, I just said, 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.040 what's up to Jerry? Rights? That was my story. So 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.840 I had met my I don't and and of course 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:04.200 I had like exaggerated the whole encounter. I didn't tell 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:08.080 anyone that we stopped him partially, but um yeah, he 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.639 like he was like, yo, he's probably like, Yo, these 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:14.040 dudes right here have followed me from this light, and 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.159 y'all need to make sure that you know they're not 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:18.000 gonna run up in here and try to do whatever. 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.639 So yeah, so he didn't necessarily call the police on 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:24.119 the ends. 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