WEBVTT - Jill Montgomery 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 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John And this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.920 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.520 They's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.800 am about it? Then we're about to let you know 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:43.960 it's all and we're gonna starting five, three to go. Steven, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.519 how's it going? Man? Going good? You got a big 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.680 smile on your face, and I think I know why? 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:54.240 Why is that? We are overdue for good old episode 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.040 of big dummy hit there from one with Tom b 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.920 Oh no you big, you gotta set you gotta set 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.240 the stage for this one. I have to Yeah, you 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.960 got you sent me the video. Okay, which one are 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.920 we doing? Because there are several dummies in the world 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.720 right now, let's talk about the one from the San 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:20.280 Diego Zoo. Here we go. So alright, people you know 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:25.120 usually pay your money post pri whatever pandemic party you 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.080 want to be on. But it's pretty standard. You pay 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.240 your money go to the zoo. Now, most people but 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:39.759 every so off the song, dumb person decides they want 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:46.440 to test entomos. Have you ever thought about testing the animals? 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.600 That would be a big no for me. Now. Pretty 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.480 much when it says do not feed the animals, do 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.720 not enter whatever, I pretty much follow those rules. Why 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.040 first off, is because my mama told me to. So 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.080 that's kind of that's pretty much the you know what 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.360 I live by. Not everybody listened to their mama, but 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.800 continue maybe for you, but for me, I just kind 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.200 of I just kind of learned those rules were like, hey, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.280 if if that says do not touch, do not feed, 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.160 I mean, I just don't push those kind of boundaries. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:21.120 I really can't. In this particular story where a man 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.520 was arrested at the San Diego Zoo, he took his 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.640 two year old um girl past the fence past where 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.560 it says do not didn't take it past. He climbed 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.800 into the exhibit, went beyond, went beyond the boundaries of 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.640 the elephant exhibit with live I think it was Asian 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:46.640 and African elephants. Yeah, Asian and African elephants, um endangering 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.000 his two year old daughter. So bypassing multiple barriers, including 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:56.480 an electric fence, police told the station. Kg TV police 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.480 told the station the man allegedly wanted to take a 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.160 photo with the Asian and freaking elephants. He took a 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:07.680 selfie holding his child. Afterwards. A witness told ABC ten 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.200 that she was grateful to see the man and the 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.320 girl is successfully escaped without any injuries. But the man 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.000 appeared to drop his child as he attempted to get 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.160 away from the elephant after the elephants started charging at 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.760 the both of them because he was hitting up the 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.600 deuces holding his baby, so he wanted to get a selfie, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.160 and of all the things that you dropped at that moment, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.880 he dropped the child. Well, he kind of saw the video. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.680 He dropped the child trying to get through the electrical 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.640 fence so he doesn't get shocked and dropped her butt off. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.840 Be an apologist for this behavior, I'm not. I'm just 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.360 setting it up, Like I'm just really just setting up 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.520 I'm just watched the video several times, and you know 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.360 the sad part was is I was I didn't find 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:56.040 it funny or met all. Yeah, what's sad is like 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:01.880 we're at the place where we want to get inside 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:07.600 of the cage to take a picture for what likes comments, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.320 and and those boundaries are there for a reason. And 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:12.840 I get what kind of in a day and age 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.080 where people people people people push boundaries, right, people people 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.440 don't always follow rules. And while I may not agree, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.599 I see it. But in this situation, these barriers are there, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.480 I don't know for a reason. If there's a barrier 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.680 preceded by an electric fence, you may not want to 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.520 go past said fence, especially not with your child. Exactly 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:44.640 the one one uh tweet this show and it reads 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:58.440 this dumbass baby daddy takes picture with elephant. But what's crazy, though, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.920 is we're starting to see this more and more where 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:08.279 people are willing to just get the like and willing 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:14.880 to risk themselves and their child. What's crazy? And then 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:20.000 he gets arrested rightfully so, yeah, rightfully so, but I 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.440 just don't get it. I don't understand. Like, but here's 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.039 the worst part though, the worst part is that this 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.880 father is growing up raising his child, who now this 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:37.920 is an example of protection. Yes, so as a whack 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.840 As example, I saw that, I was like, oh man, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.960 and like they had to tell him, like, hey, there's 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.360 the elephant, and that's more than anything you had to do. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.360 Like it wasn't just all right, I'm just gonna hop 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.680 this little wire fence. So I'm just gonna I'll just 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.039 go mosy through this gate, like you had to go 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.640 past the gate, then pass the electrical fence, then you 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.880 drop the child, Like, man, how dunk can you be? 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:06.120 You n cole, bloody dummy, super dumb. But they just 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.400 keep rolling in. Every time I see something like this, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.960 I'm like, how much more stupid can people get? And 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.120 then there's yet another video. I'm not can you you're 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.479 a big dumber? There's always in a sad and and 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.920 and and not to make fun of it, but you 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.800 also it's more just kind of really saying like how 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.960 stupid people are and where we're at right now that 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.680 people want to get that stuff on video on picture. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:38.719 So sad Indictmond, sad Indictmond. But congratulations because bigger dum dumbing. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.480 That's that's pretty good. Yeah, that's a good one. So, hey, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.080 who we got coming up on the cut to a podcast? 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.320 We've got Joe Montgomery, a current broadcast with ESPN. She's 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.640 also the CEO of Four Leaf Productions and a former 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.039 USA Track and Field star. Joe Montgomery on the cut 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:13.160 to a podcast. M you hear that's my Black Irish 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.760 walkout music. Also that's that's not like it should be 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:24.680 a wwe like Black Irish, the Black irishman's name els right, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.280 or the three studies right. That's that's that's gonna get 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:40.160 as kids three two we have I want to say 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.200 fan favorite, but it's really a personal friend of mine 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:48.040 and also someone who only the very few people who 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.120 walk this earth who are allowed to talk to me 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.280 in the way that she talks to me, like my mentor. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:05.280 And also um, good friend Jill Montgomery. J Jill, welcome 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.560 to the cut to the podcast. Thank you so much. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.720 I've been waiting for this day. MM. We've never had 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:16.880 someone who anticipated the participate not all the time. Oh no, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:25.520 one never verbalized it. So let's go sta keep you 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.040 on your toes man, Jill. Our first segment is called 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.960 get iced Up. You may have heard of it if 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.199 you listen to our podcasts. It is our version of 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.880 Icebreakers their random questions Smitty has selected might be a 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.000 follow up? Might not? Who knows Smitty go ahead and 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.559 give her the person. Well, Jill on this podcast in 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.520 my world, I can ask you a double barrel question. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:50.640 So I don't want to everybody what why you said that? Though? 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:56.199 So a double barrel question is in um in journalism 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.920 is when you ask more than one question, and the question, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:06.600 which my coach and mentor tells me, when you asked 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.880 two questions, or some people ask three questions in one, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.679 they never answered either one. Sometimes they never because you 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.480 forget the first question by the second one, and you 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.559 forget the second one at the third one. Double barrel 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.439 because this is this is your show. This is this 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.080 isn't a session with me where we're making you better 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.480 on the NFL network. This is all This is no 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.600 holds barred, You do what you want. I'm game, yeah, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.440 but I do have fun with it. However, I still 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.000 am practicing all of my notes that I still have. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.760 I love that. All right, let's go. I don't have 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:53.719 to ask te yes you okay, We're gonna have to 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.280 ask t F you all right, which she tells me, Steve, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.920 shut them and let us and as f W, I say, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:06.079 and that's your down person, answer the question. Don't be 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.319 super excited. So that's why, all right, here we go. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.719 Are you ready, Jill? I am ready? Okay, here we go, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:21.720 what do you want to leave? Everything? Taking anything, nothing, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.480 not your bank account, not your safe He's just let me. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.920 I'll keep my bank account. But I want to leave. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:35.480 I want to leave the negativity, the the the division, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:42.360 the people becoming puppets and sheep. I want to leave 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:47.520 all of that in. I want people to reinvent and 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.480 find faith in one. I want I want all the 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.520 negativity and everything that that encompassed to stay. The hell there, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.199 oh here. I love that answer. I like that answer too. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:07.360 All right. If you had to ride amusement park ride 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:15.959 twenty times in a row, let's say Disney World, Space Mountain, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:26.360 Small World, or the Teapot ride is a row, you're 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.520 gonna I would do the Teapot twenty times in a row. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.160 I'm gonna. I'm gonna throw this back on you. As 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.160 you know, I may have dabbled in professional athletics in 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:44.280 my life. I cannot go on a Merry Go round, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:49.679 any carnival rides, the zipper, the you know whatever and 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.480 anything that spins and turns and what and all My 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.480 friends could and I never could. And I didn't understand 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.120 why I would get sick, violently sick, throwing up like 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:04.720 gravy eyes out my nose sick, asked my doctor once. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.280 I said, why can't I ride carnival rides? And he 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:12.880 said professional athletes. Some of them have such insane hand 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.640 eye coordination that their body processes every move and it 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.240 throws their equilibrium off. That is correct. I've been since 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.800 I was a little boy. When I spin around, we 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:29.040 used to have this wooden lean leanable, the wooden chairs 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.640 that lean spin around. When I was a kid, we 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:37.880 used to spend and spent me too much, and I 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:42.880 have been Mr Queasy ever since. I cannot do anything. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.079 You've got them bad guts. He doesn't have bad guys. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:52.360 It's because you have ridiculous hand eye coordination. Okay, okay, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.640 so so which one? So you so you are eliminating 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.640 the teapot ride? Correct? I would. That's when I would 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.160 ride twenty times in a row. Don't they go around 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.760 and around? Yeah, there's it's the little kid one, right. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:12.560 It's just like I've been there multiple times. I don't 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.679 never get on that. I think that was like the 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:19.920 worst one. I mean, the kids say, oh Dad, you're scared. Yeah, yeah, okay, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.400 I can't. Here's why I can't do space Mountain though, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.840 because I'm not the tallest dude. But you can see 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.800 the bars in there and it's pretty scary. Yeah, but 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.679 I can't do small world times in a row. I'll 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:41.400 give you two your late night go to snack ramen 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.959 noodles out of the pan, not even putting it in 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:49.480 a bowl underneath the towel. Raman chicken flavored ramen noodles. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.600 I'm judging. Are you judging? Why are you judging it now? 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.520 Just because I eat it so much as a kid 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.800 that I just I can't do it. But back in 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.440 the day, like you do the stove top ramen noodles, 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.280 you put the pack and then sometimes you get the 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.240 risk of chicken. And that's what I'm saying, is that 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.480 the old school just the regular classic chicken rama noodles, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.760 not the crazy ones they have now, but the old 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.599 school ones where you had to boil them in the 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.360 water and then add the packet sauce in it. And 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.720 I always drained most of the water out and and 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.640 ate it that way. I didn't make mine as a soup, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.440 do you know what? I do love them cup of 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.400 noodles the same thing. What what do you mean you're 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.360 gonna judge me on my ramen. It was just just 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.080 easy because just add the hot water to it. I 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.320 think it tastes better shrill like the shrip was always 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:51.680 wagged though it was chickens. My mouth likes it. Wow 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:57.320 dry On a second, why are you judging me because 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.360 my showing I can is my time to get back 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.600 at you? I not. I just love to just say 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:06.840 it because it just felt good. Jill, all right, yeah, no, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.560 I'm not really it was I didn't know what you're 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.000 gonna say. It was just fun to It was just 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.280 fun to have you all here and and and rash 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.000 you a little bit because of how much you give 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.960 me such a hard to know where is the thing. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:23.560 Let me clarify something. You hard time. I have to 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:30.520 start your ego. No, when I say she gives me 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.720 a hard time, what our first couple of sessions, Like 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.240 if I didn't have the confidence that I had in myself, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:41.200 she would have crushed me. Don't scare people, I mean 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.640 the session, would you? Well? I told she was like, well, 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.720 I want you to write stuff down, and I'm like, 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.360 I am, I was writing it down. Is what she 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.800 tells me is it's unbelievable. Makes me think right, because 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.880 I didn't go to school to be to do communications. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.040 I didn't go to school for I didn't even think 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.400 i'd be doing it today, right. And so there are 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.400 some technical things that if you have not been schooled 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.560 on it, you don't know. Now you learned them, but 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.320 you you were starting from scratch. I was from scratch, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:20.720 like box and milk or or water, that's how scratch. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.960 It was like literally just baby steps. She went in 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.080 like a true athlete and just went in full go. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:35.080 And it took me back a little bit because I 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:41.200 wasn't expecting, you know, a. I was expecting her to 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.000 be to be honest, a little bit gentler, and she wasn't. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.120 We go up and she turns on the film. So 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.040 we're skyping, and the whole time I'm like, I was 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:55.080 skyping this person and and my agent, Hey, I think 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.520 you really like this. She's really good, and I'm coming 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.920 because I had someone before and we were doing some 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.639 stuff and I'm like, you can't wait. You're trying to 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:09.040 be too just coach me, And so it didn't really 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.400 work because they were the way they were doing things, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.080 that was their style. I picked up some things that 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.359 I can use and this, some other things whatever. Well 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.920 with Jail the first session, she was just so on 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.240 me and then she so we skype and she's playing 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.840 back my film. And as she's playing it back, what 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:35.720 are you thinking on this, Steve? And I'm kind of like, oh, yeah, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.080 here's what I wanted to say. I don't remember what 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.679 I was thinking in two months ago. Hell I really remember. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.560 I mean, unless I write it down, I'm not going well. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.280 Last Thursday I had tuna, and a week before that 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.119 I had I don't know, my belly knows. What we 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:55.680 had wasn't healthy or unhealthy. So she's winding it, rewinding it. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.639 What were you thinking on this? What were you trying 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.280 to spit out? Spit it out? Man like? She just 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.520 hit me and wow, I don't really think that those 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.680 were my words. That's how I felt. You were saying 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.280 it right, And here's why, here's why you're an athlete, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:18.280 and when you played, what was the easiest way for 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.879 you to go see what you were doing right or 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.280 wrong on the field? You had to go sit in 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:30.440 in film? Right? Yes, and so what I have to 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:35.080 do with somebody like you, who is a huge personality 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.680 on TV works for a huge network, but has that 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.920 athlete mentality. Is I now have to adjust and say, 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.040 all right, how can I break this down frame by 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.840 frame for him so that not only that he gets it, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.080 he gets it and takes it back to the field 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.359 and goes and does it better. Ye, but I get it. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.840 It just wasn't I appreciate you today and then at 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:05.359 the moment a little back because first of all, you 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.840 weren't expecting probably that from It had nothing to do 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.920 with your sport that you did or didn't play, and 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.160 had nothing to do with your sex. I haven't played 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.160 the sport, but it's like I'm coming at you. You listen, 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.119 there's nobody knows a game of football more than you. 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:23.760 You are the expert. You know hands down so much 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.040 about the game that what my job is is to 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.800 get it out of you. And I had to establish 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.639 in that very first session how it was going to 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.480 be so that you trusted me. So what did you 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.280 see in Steve as an endless from the from the 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.560 very initial session, I think he can actually be one 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.760 of the best ever on television. And I told his 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.600 agent that, I said, he has all of the tools 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.800 to be literally not just another NFL guy going to 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.680 the bow right. We we've seen that a million that 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.560 that song has been played million times. But hands down 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:10.359 the personality, the intelligence, the knowledge on the game, but 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:15.320 also how he encompasses his everyday life and what he 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.600 does in preparation with his families, his charities, his things. 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:24.760 When you have that more of a soulful approach to 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.920 everyday life, you can put that into your work. And 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.200 when I met him, I mean I knew it was 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.719 I knew who he was. I knew just the peripheral. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.439 But when in that first session, when we started talking 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.080 and I started to get right off the bat kind 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.920 of what he was made of, I was like, oh, man, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.720 I can I can make this guy a star. Not 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.920 that he wasn't already, but if I was like I could, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.200 if he listens any trusts, I can make him so 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.640 much better on TV that people are gonna want him 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.000 and and and we're doing that. I think clearly the 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.840 proofs in the pudding. But yeah, I know he I 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:06.200 think he can be one of the best ever on 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.680 time with me. So that my duty. But she was 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:16.880 hard on you. Thank you, Jill. We have to take 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.040 a break and the morning thing, we gotta pay some bill. 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:28.240 You got checks. I love cut to It, and I 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.120 love it even more when you download us and subscribe, 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:35.240 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.360 where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.639 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.639 It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? And you 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.080 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.399 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.520 us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.960 answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my questions answered. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.600 That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.920 Podcast dot Com. You know, I have to give you 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.000 credit there is there were some things inside of me 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:12.760 that I didn't know it was there, and so why wow, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.800 I continue to work with you. It is the improve 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.480 on camera presence, but more it has allowed me to 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.840 be okay with the uniqueness of how I think. And 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.119 that's why is why this podcast is where it is 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.240 today is because of the great team I have around me, 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:37.520 but also people like you, like KBS in my life 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.480 that has said hey, you can be you, you know, 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:43.720 just harness it a different way. This is the opportunity 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:47.439 to do that is dive deeper into who people are. Um, 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:52.479 what they what? What are they made of? Right? And so, uh, 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:54.760 that's what we want to know about you, Jill. And 0:22:55.600 --> 0:23:01.320 who's your childhood sports team growing up? My childhood sports 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:05.679 team growing up were the Celtics and Notre Dame. M hmmm. 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:11.760 Uh why Irish family. I grew up in an Irish 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:16.600 Catholic family, you know, blue color, working class montana. Um. 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:18.600 You know, we grew up. We didn't grow up with 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.080 a lot. I mean it was, you know, a contrary 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:23.200 to popular belief. I wasn't born with the whole set 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:27.840 of silver flatware in my mouth. Um. But we we 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:30.639 just grounded out. And and when you're growing up and 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:34.480 you don't have a lot of money, you you appreciate 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:36.680 the things that you you can watch or that you 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.320 can see. And being able to watch those teams on 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:41.720 TV it was a treat. You know. Now we have 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.080 so much, there's just so much access to everything. It's 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.960 just overload. But when I was a kid, it's like, man, 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.520 we could watch the Old Lake or Celtics series. Come 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:52.640 on it. To me, it just doesn't get any better 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.000 than that. And I, you know, I'm an Irish kid, 0:23:55.359 --> 0:24:00.720 and you you learn to really appreciate and live your roots. 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.040 And so it was the Celtics and Notre Dame football. Um, 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:06.000 and the fact that I didn't go to Notre Dame 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:10.000 broke my mother's heart. But Notre Dame's track and field team, no, 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.359 no disrespect to them, that it's an incredible institution. But 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:16.600 I I the PACT ten at the time was the 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.960 best track and field conference out there. So I didn't 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:25.480 go to Notre Dame. You said you didn't grow up 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.800 with a lot. Yeah, but but not a lot at all? 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:35.920 What is Jtgomery journey or definition of a lot? Because 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:41.440 there are people listening and there are people in studio 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:47.040 who not a lot varies. Yeah, yeah, um, I'll be 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:49.919 And that's a that's a great point. It's a great question. Um. 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:51.720 You know, we grew up in and I grew up 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:56.800 in low income housing. My parents my parents were divorced. Um, 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.560 we'd spend the school years with my mom, summers with 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.760 my ad um. But my mom was a nurse raising 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:08.120 three kids, and and we lived on what what most 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:10.720 people called, at least in Montana, you know, the wrong 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:14.320 side of the tracks. It was low income housing. Um, 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:17.200 there wasn't there wasn't a lot of extra There wasn't 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.880 you know, cars at fifteen and and you know, new 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:24.680 school clothes every year and stuff like that. It was 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:26.959 you know, my mom would work and we would come 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.320 home from school and make a snack, which would have 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:31.679 been maybe a bowl of cereal or something, and then 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.679 she come home and we'd have a very simple dinner. 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:37.960 And there was times when birthday parties didn't have cake, 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:41.960 birthday parties didn't have anything but my sisters in a 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:46.480 birthday card. Um. And you really learned to appreciate the 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:49.560 things around you, you know, going outside and we played 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:54.240 in irrigation ditches, we played in fields, we played in trees. Um. 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:57.399 There was you know, there's just there wasn't brand new 0:25:57.480 --> 0:25:59.919 bikes at Christmas and things like that that kids had. 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:02.480 But that I think a lot of people take for granted, 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:06.200 but that was my definition of not a lot. Growing 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:09.200 up in low income housing and you have your neighbor 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:12.440 kids that you play with and your sisters and you know, 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:14.520 my mom worked her ass off and my dad was 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:17.840 retired military, um and and growing up that way, I 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:19.960 gotta tell you, looking back, I wouldn't have done anything 0:26:20.040 --> 0:26:23.800 different because man didn't make me tough. It made me 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:27.320