1 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,199 Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Jets Official Podcast. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: Here in the Playing GM Studios. Jonathan Harrison in studio, 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming up, Florida game. Yeah, I knew there's 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: gonna come. Let's move you out of here, bringing Marcus 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: May and people as well. Let's get this going right now. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: We don't need where's this love for your undergraduate school? 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: Don't worry about it if you yeah, that's right, if 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: you have an advance. Okay, what's your most recent degree? 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: University of Florida, Masters of Mass Communication. Hey, you can 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: take that title, you can. Yeah, it's all yeah, no doubt, Okay, 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: that more power to you. I don't share the gator love, 12 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: you know. I'll root for you on Saturdays because we're 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: in different conferences. Gator bait, you know, so don't get 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: in our way. No one wants to play this Ere's 15 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: orange anyway. Okay, So that gator bait might be like 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: the equivalent of to a school of fish. At least 17 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: you can say you guys have good colors something. Yeah, yeah, 18 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: that's fair. I will I will agree with that, all right, Jonathan. 19 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: There's so much that I feel like we know about 20 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: you that we want to tell fans about. But you 21 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier to me off off camera that you 22 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: were in the city today doing an interview for Stomp 23 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: Out Bullying. So just to paint the picture here, you 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: went from being bullied as a kid to being a 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: bully on the offensive. Lot, Like, it's weird to think, 26 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: obviously that someone your size, which is the play and 27 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: stomp Out Bullying, was bullied as a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 28 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: I definitely am. I definitely get that a lot, And 29 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: I think a lot of it came from, you know, 30 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: in my household, my parents did not promote violence. Like 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: there was no there's no weapons, there was no like 32 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: we didn't really watched like violent movies or like you know, 33 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: action films or anything like that. Like that was just 34 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: that was just the way they were. And um and 35 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: my mom, like I remember, she would always tell me, 36 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: She's like, you can't retaliate against the people that are 37 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: messing with you, picking on you, whatever it was, because 38 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: you can actually hurt them. And like I accidentally hurt 39 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: my friends all the time, you know, like everyone's like, 40 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 1: you know, boys growing up, you're wrestling rough house and 41 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: jumping on the trampoline. I've broken an elbow someone else's 42 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: elbow broken, someone else's ankle. You know, like we weren't fighting, 43 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: we were just like playing like friends, and like so 44 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: she's like, she like would emphasize that. She's like, you 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: don't understand like how large you are compared to the 46 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: kids your age, So I don't want you to retaliate. 47 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: And she's like, it's not worth it. You know, it's really, 48 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: it's really not worth it. You'll look back at this 49 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: when you're older and you'll you'll probably laugh, and you know, 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: you'll think, like, these guys look foolish for messing and 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: when with you? When they did? When did the bowling start? 52 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: For you? Though? Because reading your story you had appointed 53 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: in my words and New York just dot com and 54 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: yourself it's in my words. Yeah, I understand of that, 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: but I helped him. Okay, this is not the Green Show. 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: I gotta get you talking gators. I gotta get something 57 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: in there. What stood out? It feels like that, yes, bollying, 58 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 1: but some of that felt like racism as well. Correct. Yeah, yeah, 59 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: there's definitely. Um so when did it start? What happened? 60 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, Um, I I always point to 61 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: fifth grade, you know, fifth grade of my first year 62 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: in this new area that I moved to in central Florida. 63 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: You know, I was born in South Florida, you know, 64 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: moved around a little bit down there, and my parents 65 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: will travel nurses, so they would take you know, a 66 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: year assignment here, two years of time in here, and 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: just kind of bounce around, and eventually one of the 68 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: assignments took them to Orlando, So we did Orlando for 69 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: a year. Didn't really have any issues in Orlando. Moved 70 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: about an hour west of Orlando for fifth grade through 71 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: the rest of high school, and that's when I slowly 72 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: started like noticing things at you know, know, there was 73 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: there was a couple of times. There's a couple of 74 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: times when like you know, like like true like racial 75 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: slurs or something would come out. I'm not gonna say 76 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: it was all the time or very frequent, but it 77 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: was just an odd coincidence that you know, me being 78 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: you know, the race that I am and all of 79 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: that in the class was the main person getting picked on, 80 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: you know by like the same group of guys for 81 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: a couple of years and stuff like that. So it 82 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: was just and you know, I even experienced it from 83 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: like a teacher, you know, the teacher, like, I'll just 84 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,239 Speaker 1: be completely honest. There was three black kids in my class, 85 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: and we were all in the enrichment program. So that's 86 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: that's stating that, you know, we're a little advanced, you know, 87 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: so exactly that that's what it's stating. But then you know, 88 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: there's an English teacher that failed the three of us 89 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: in in her her English class. And we had each 90 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: of us had straight a's in each of our other 91 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: subjects and an F in her class, not like a 92 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,559 Speaker 1: C or something like that, and F. And no matter 93 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: what we did, we would still have an. And I 94 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: would compare my test to someone else's test. I should 95 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: have the same grade day have I still had enough? 96 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: And then so like you know, I end up. Um 97 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: so I'm kind of like trailing right now. But um 98 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: like I ended up the graduating or the end of 99 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: middle school. I couldn't graduate because I failed English. And 100 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: so you know, I'm like, all right, I'm going to 101 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: summer school. And I told my mom. Of course she's 102 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: she's furious. She was like, like, where are you slacking 103 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 1: off in school? Like why why are you going to 104 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: summer school? And um so, I was like you know, 105 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: I just gotta do it so I can graduate go 106 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: to high school. So I'm in summer classes and the 107 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: first day I'm there, I forget if it was the 108 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: principal or the vice principle, but whoever was at the 109 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: school he saw him. He's like, what the hell are 110 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: you doing here? And I'm like, you know, I failed English, 111 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: so you know I'm here for summer school. He's like, 112 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: there's no way that's possible. So he calls my mom 113 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: on spot and he's like, come get your son out 114 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: of summer school. He's not supposed to be here. And 115 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: then my mom came, yeah, yeah, yeah, my mom came 116 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: grabbed me out of the summer school. Like that was that. 117 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: That was that, And then we like put two two 118 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: together and like, no, this teacher really had like an 119 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: issue with you. But but no one realized. No one 120 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: else from the school realized that that teacher was doing 121 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: that or saw I guess, I guess I'm a little 122 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: surprised at maybe the principle or the vice principle, whoever 123 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: it was, it slipped through the cracks up until summer school. 124 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: It wasn't like he was looking at the grades and 125 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden was like, WHOA, what's going 126 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: on here? Let me get ahead of it. It happened 127 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: once you were literally in a seat in summer school. 128 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: That's crazy. And I know that you had also talked 129 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: about on your way. I don't remember the story you 130 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: told me, but something about every day going to lunch 131 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: and there was a hill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I honestly 132 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: like earlier today, I'll get back to that, but earlier 133 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: today I was kind of just like I call it 134 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: black holing, like I'm just going to like memories in 135 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: my head. I'm like, man, I've really just like trapped 136 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: away and like filed. But I gotta imagine when you 137 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: go to these schools that because this means so much 138 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: to you, is that all these memories gotta we're talking 139 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: about this and and the great thing about you is 140 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: you're willing to share your experience. Um definitely, Um, definitely. 141 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: There's some triggers going to the schools and anything. You know, 142 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: I don't lose my mind, but I'm just like wow that, like, man, 143 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: like I really thought this was okay what I was 144 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: going through at the time, like you know, just part 145 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: of growing up type thing, but it really wasn't. Um, 146 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: and that's why, you know, I'm gonna try to, you know, 147 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: make a difference. However, you can try to make a 148 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,679 Speaker 1: stand because it's it's behavior that's truly, truly inappropriate, behavior 149 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: that can really affect somebody for the rest of their life. 150 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: And um, well, yeah, the one story you're referring to, 151 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: this one, I'm not gonna say it was like it 152 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: was like a racing or anything, but this one was 153 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: more of me being a very large guy. Same height, 154 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: same height, and eighth grade, same height. I am now 155 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: two seventy pounds though, so you know, I'm I'm like 156 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: thirty pounds heavier, but same height, and um, you know, 157 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: I'm a really big kid. And I didn't play any sports. 158 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: I tried out for every sport team in middle school, 159 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: didn't make any of the teams. And I was a musician. 160 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: Like going into the middle school, I was a musician already, 161 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,679 Speaker 1: So let me continue playing the French horn and the guitar. 162 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: I don't see anything wrong with it. You know, it's 163 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: a cool skill to have. But um, you know, definitely 164 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: definitely got made fun of for being this huge kid 165 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: in the band, you know, band NERD all that stuff. Blah, 166 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: blah blah. And there was a group of like the 167 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: athletic middle schoolers, because there's no true like jocks in 168 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: middle school. You know, it's like the athletic middle school 169 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: was that played Pop Warner football, that play Little League 170 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: basketball or whatever, you know, and um, and they just 171 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 1: thought it was funny. You know, I'm coming down the 172 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: hill going to lunch, and our lunch line would get 173 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: so long because there's multiple cities that went to this 174 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: one middle school. So our lunch line would get so 175 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: long that if you weren't one of the first I 176 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: don't know, a hundred people whatever it was in line, 177 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: you weren't getting food. The bell would ring you about 178 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: the class of no food. It's not they would run 179 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 1: out of food. The lines were just that long. So 180 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: it was a thing. It was a thing to always 181 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: like pre set your locker, and so you get out 182 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: of class, your lockers already set, throw your books in there, 183 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: and you're gone. You're booking it to lunch. And then 184 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: every day, like I'm coming down the hill, I'd run 185 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,839 Speaker 1: the same way. It was the fastest route to lunch, 186 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: and I'd see the group of um, the group of 187 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 1: I was. I was a little bit younger. So the 188 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: group of upper class and the eighth graders coming up 189 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: the hill and I see his one big kid. He's like, 190 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah, hold my books, hold my books, 191 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: and then just come charging at me. And I mean, 192 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: like first time, I just took it like he came, 193 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: just dropped the shoulder bomb, you know, just knocked me, 194 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: knocked me on my back. I'm stuffed up all this stuff. 195 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: Everyone's laughing or whatever. The interview just wanted to baul 196 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: my eyes out when I'm like, I gotta look tough, 197 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: you know, I gotta look tull. So it just kind 198 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: of like dust myself off, keep going on lunch, and 199 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: then you know, like it just kept getting worse, like 200 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: it would turn into like a game for him. So 201 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: I'd like jump over the railing. I'm running in the 202 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: grass like all this stuff, trying to get away from this. 203 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: And they just thought it was so funny, just like 204 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: just knocked me on my tail. Every single day. Well, like, yeah, 205 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: that was that was definitely. I was one of the things. 206 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: And I didn't think much of it at the time. 207 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: I almost thought it was like my passage to becoming 208 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: an eighth grader. Eventually to becoming a high schooler eventually. 209 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 1: And but how did you cope? Because you talk about 210 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: your parents and your mother telling you, listen, Jonathan, you 211 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: can't fight back. We're not going to do that. How 212 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: were you able to deal with it? And I guess 213 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: part B of that would be what do you tell 214 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: the kids now we're dealing with it. I didn't deal 215 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: with it well. I just kept viewing it as you know, oh, 216 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: this is all right. Everybody goes through it, you know, 217 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: so I would just tuck it inside. But then that 218 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: you know, all this is going on, and it's just 219 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: crushing my confidence, you know, Like I walked like hunched 220 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: over and like I wouldn't look anyone in the eye 221 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: when I was talking to them, just like little things 222 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: will just keep crushing my confidence. So the way I 223 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: handled it, I just kind of like just dealing with it, 224 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: just like accepting it got me through, got me through school. 225 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: But I will honestly admit that I know it affected 226 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: me more than like I'll ever let on and um, 227 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: and I see it in like like daily life and 228 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: like certain times that I just feel like anxious for 229 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: no reason. Even to this day, there's times like when 230 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: I go do these talks at the schools, and I 231 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: just like I'm almost having like an anxiety attack just 232 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: because I'm like, you know, like what are these kids 233 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: thinking about me? Like this is that? Like and I 234 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 1: know a lot of that stems from, you know, all 235 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: this stuff that like people would say to me or 236 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: mess with me about or whatever growing up. And and 237 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: I'm much I'm much better now, of course, but it's 238 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: definitely yeah, yeah, it's one of It's one of those 239 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: things that like like I look at society now and 240 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: I look at the access kids have the social media, 241 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: and that's just a whole another I didn't have to 242 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: worry about social media, so like I could only imagine 243 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: what it would be like if I had to worry 244 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 1: about social media. And like the best thing I can 245 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: say is like, don't you think it's normal and just 246 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: deal with it or don't say anything. Don't think that 247 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: you're being like a snitch or a tattle tale or 248 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: anything like that for speaking up, Like no, like speak 249 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: up for yourself because it's a former like standing up 250 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: for yourself, like you're not you're not snitching. Like if 251 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: someone keeps I don't know, like I'm literally like making 252 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: something because someone keeps like throwing stuff that you were 253 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: spinning spitballs at you, and it's bothering you. You're not 254 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: approving of that, Go say something to someone, Like, if 255 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: you're not comfortable enough to like approach this person's face 256 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: to face, go say someone to something. Tell tell your 257 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: friend to tell somebody, Go tell the teacher, go find 258 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: like just nonchalantly, like you know, I'm not trying to 259 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: cause a scene, but you know so and so is 260 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: doing X, Y and Z and it's really bothering me. 261 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: How difficult is it, though, to try to get in 262 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: the mind of a middle school, because I'm thinking about 263 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: when I was in middle school and you don't want 264 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: to be the snitch because of what you're talking about 265 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: the athletic middle school ors what. And if you're in 266 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 1: a small school, then everyone's gonna know that it's you, 267 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: whereas you can almost be law in the crowd in 268 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 1: a larger school. So how difficult is it to get 269 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: into the mind of middle school? And what do you 270 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: think is the most effective way to do so? Because 271 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: I have to imagine it's one on one versus maybe 272 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: a larger group. Yeah, and it's definitely one of those things. Um, 273 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be that snitch. You know, nobody wants 274 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: to be that because then you're even less cool than 275 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: you feel before. You probably don't even like that term exactly. Nobody, 276 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: Like nobody wants to be that person. Um, but we 277 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: got to look out for each other. You have to 278 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: look out for each other. That's the thing. So I 279 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: feel like the best thing is ensuring within the school 280 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: that there's a you know, a group of kids, a 281 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: group of people that are kind of designated to handle 282 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: that situation where it's like a safe zone. Almost I 283 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: didn't have a safe my safe zone with my mom 284 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: and my stepdad, you know, going home. Um, But like 285 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: I feel like like developing that group, you know, whether 286 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: it's a teacher, whether it's a principle nominating certain students 287 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: that they know can uphold that standard, you know, and 288 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: they know that they know what the right thing to do, 289 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: like a group of kids like that, Like I I 290 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: can like picture and I'm like, you know, six kids, 291 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: whoever's getting bully goes up to these six kids like, hey, 292 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: look like I need some help, and all six of them, 293 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: all seven of them or whatever you want to do, 294 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: like go over and like talk to his bully. I 295 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: go talk to them like, hey, look like that's not cool. Like, 296 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: I know it makes you feel cool, but it makes 297 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: this person feel like crap. You know, like something like 298 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: that would be like great. You just mentioned the dangers 299 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: of the social media. How often do you now as 300 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: a professional athlete, a guy who's overcome some of his 301 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,359 Speaker 1: fears and his anxieties to get to this point professionally, 302 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: And also look at what you're doing personally? How much 303 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: time do you spend on social media? So me, personally, 304 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm not great with keeping up with social media, but 305 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: I know that I need to be involved with so 306 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: social media to to kind of like reach reach the 307 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: audience that I'm trying to reach. And so I'm trying 308 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: to do a better job, you know, getting more involved 309 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: with social media and posting positive things, are keeping it light, whatever, 310 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: just showing a little insight to my life. And um, 311 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: like I do that more for work, you know, I 312 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: do that more for work. But if it's not work related, 313 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: then people are just on there, you know, the brows 314 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: they're scrolling, you know, scrolling the gram whatever it is. 315 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: And that's what gets people in trouble, is like the 316 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: scrolling and and like there's a long, long trail to 317 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: this long story short, like you know, a kid seeing 318 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: what a person, what social media is painting for like 319 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: the typical human being to be. Kids are seeing this, 320 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: especially like young girls and stuff. They're seeing, you know, 321 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, the beautiful people of the world, and they're like, Okay, 322 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: well that's what I'm supposed to look like, but I 323 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: don't look like that, so I'm ugly. Okay. Then god 324 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: A comes around and says something about you know that girl, 325 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: you know, makes fun of that girl, says her hair 326 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: looks funnier or whatever, her shoes whatever, knocks her down 327 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: a couple more notches. And then that rumor goes through 328 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: the school knocks her down a couple more you know 329 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: what I mean. Like so just like a like a 330 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: snowball effect, all based on like what people are visioning as, 331 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: like what people should be, what society should be from 332 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: social media. You know. It's like a it's like an 333 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: exaggerated image of like society on social media, if that 334 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: makes any sense. Yeah, I had a classmate, Um I 335 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: had to transfer schools because you of cyber bully and 336 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: that what one of them, the two people involved one 337 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: of them stayed and one of them had to go. 338 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: And it's just one of the things where to your point, 339 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: even at my age, I didn't quite have that experience 340 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: with Instagram or Twitter and any of that because it 341 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: wasn't in full force yet. But I can only imagine 342 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: in what kind of effect they would have had on 343 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: me or anybody else that I know for that matter, 344 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: because it's it's terrifying to think about. And I'm sure 345 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: that's one of the things where it's difficult for you 346 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: to talk about because you didn't quite go through the 347 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 1: social media phase of it. But at the same time, 348 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: you're more wise with it because you're older than a 349 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: middle schooler obviously, and on that on that note, it's funny, 350 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: not funny, but it's interesting that even as a professional athlete, 351 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: I still get cyber bullied, you know, like, yeah, you 352 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: have to you have to do, you know what I mean, 353 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: Like like so like I'll like, I'll be completely honest, 354 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,959 Speaker 1: Like I got a message like yesterday out of nowhere, 355 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: like I was just I didn't I didn't follow this person. 356 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: I didn't like any of their pictures, Like oh, you know, 357 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: the Jets sucked. I'm like was that necessary? Yeah, you 358 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: know what I mean, like, this is my job, this 359 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: is my livelihood. Like what made you go out of 360 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: your way to write this stranger such of like you know, 361 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: like a harassing message, you know, like that's so rude. 362 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: But the only difference is as an adult now I 363 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: know that you know this will pass, Like I know 364 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: that you know those are just words, and I can 365 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's 366 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: different when you know a younger person is getting that 367 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: when you're your teenage or adolescent years are the most 368 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: important years of your life at that time. I feel 369 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: there are just a lot of unhappy people out there 370 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: for whatever reason. I second that, and and and social 371 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: media tends to amplify that. And you know, instead of 372 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 1: I guess going off social media completely because we can't, uh, 373 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: I do think we can take The message from you 374 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: is that we don't remind people what's positive out there, 375 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: you know, because it seems like the things that are 376 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: going to grab attention are are the solaceous things or 377 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,959 Speaker 1: the crazy comments and threats and things of that nature. 378 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: And uh, sports sometimes there's a microcosm of what we've 379 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: seen in life. Yes, yes, for sure, Um, yeah, yeah, 380 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: there's there's there's not enough positivity out there right now. 381 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: There's too much negativity, and it's easy to be negative. 382 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: It's easier, like you wake up on the wrong side 383 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: of the better, you stub your toe or whatever, like 384 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: it's easy just to be negative, just to be angry. 385 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: But like if everyone just worked to try to be positive, 386 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: you know, try to just be nicer to people and like, like, 387 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: like I try to tell some of the kids I 388 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: talked to him, like, you're not gonna like everybody. Everyone's 389 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: not gonna like you. But that doesn't mean you have 390 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: to go out of your way to say something to 391 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: that person. You're entitled to your opinion, you know what 392 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: I mean, to yourself, Like, but you don't go insult 393 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: that person because they're entitled to do as they want 394 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: as well. You know. So it's just well, it's just 395 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: one of those things that you know, there's no true, 396 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: true solution, there's nothing like there's no quick fix or 397 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: anything like that. But you know, we can just, you know, 398 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: one person at a time just kind of get on 399 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 1: board with with this positivity train. You know, I feel like, 400 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 1: how happy are you you're using this platform to go 401 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: out into the schools and talk about your first hand 402 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: experiences and also listen to these children about their problems today. 403 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: How would all come about in terms of the jets 404 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: and the anti bowling uh with the community relations department. 405 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think what really started it? Um So 406 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: I believe there was a former teammate here, former teammate, 407 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: and he was kind of involved. It's not about bullying, 408 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: and he was doing a visit to a school, like 409 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: an assembly visit to talk to the school and just 410 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: kind of giving some positive words and all this stuff. 411 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: And it was my first one going, you know with him. 412 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: And then like, you know, after that first assembly, you know, 413 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: after I talked to the kids, I'm like, wait, this 414 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: was my life in a nutshell. I'm like I might 415 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 1: be able to like like kind of like get more 416 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: involved with this. So then I was like, you know, 417 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: you guys, just let me know whenever there was an 418 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: assembly or you know, school visit, will meet with some 419 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: kids one on one, you know, just to like make 420 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: their day. You know, they're in the middle of class 421 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: and you know, to have like an NFL player show 422 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: up in your classroom grabbing you, like, hey, let's go 423 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: have a bye the pizza real quick, like that will 424 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: just make anyone's day, make anyone feel cool, you know, 425 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: so UM, you know, very very glad, very glad that 426 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: that UM to be involved with this. And you know, 427 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: I'm just hoping. I'm just hoping to think and kind 428 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: of just branch on just kind of you know, pick 429 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: up some more steam because like the cyber bullying threat 430 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: and you know, just throughout in America, it's like it's ridiculous. 431 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: It's so ridiculous. Like I'm asking third and fourth graders, like, 432 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: you know, who all has an Instagram account. Everyone's raising 433 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: their hands like what do you need in Instagram for? 434 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: I didn't have a phone, And thank you. I have 435 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: a phone ntil like eight or nine, thank you, thank you. 436 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think what game system I had at 437 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: that time. I think it was like sixty four or 438 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 1: something like that. I'm just like that's all I needed 439 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 1: was my n sixty four, you know, and I was cool. 440 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: So were dating. We're gonna date myself here. I'm gonna 441 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: talk about flip phone, the land lines. You guys don't 442 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: even know what a land line. I beg for a 443 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: private line. I beg and beg for a private line 444 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: and then you just heard that the phone was hollow 445 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: and like, Mom, get off the phone. I thought my 446 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: parents used to have their parents, Um the really old 447 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: phones where the dial phone? Yeah, I used to love that. 448 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: I fascinating. Yeah, yeah, it was like, what are you 449 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: talking about? You have to do like this, Like I 450 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: just punching the numbers. You can probably get those in 451 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: an antique story. Yeah yeah, yeah, And you guys probably 452 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: don't even know what busy signals are. Oh, of course, 453 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: dial up up, dial up. No one can be on 454 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 1: the phone with the dialoge. I didn't have two parents 455 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: of dialog. I'll date myself, you know, the the A 456 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 1: O L. DIC that you have to put in you know, hey, um, 457 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,479 Speaker 1: what you're doing is outstanding. I think what it also 458 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: highlights is you just that at that you're not gonna 459 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: like everybody at your workplace. So just fifty three guys 460 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: on an NFL roster, there's no way in how you're 461 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: gonna like everybody on on that roster. With that being said, 462 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: all right, who don't you like that? There there are 463 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: players in the National Football League who get in trouble 464 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: with the law, who do things that aren't good and 465 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: don't put the league in a favorable light. But there 466 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: are a lot of dudes like you conversely who are 467 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: out there in the community who are good people who 468 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: care about the future, who care about community causes, who 469 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: are actively involved, and you can you talk a little 470 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: bit about that as far as the small fraterning in 471 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: the National Football League and how there are guys like 472 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:58,479 Speaker 1: yourself who really are concerned about just more than winning 473 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: and losing on Sunday. Um, yeah, there's definitely there's definitely 474 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: a lot more of us in the NFL than people 475 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: realize because not everyone does it for publicity or you 476 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: know what I mean, like not saying that people like 477 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: you know, it's just like sometimes people are just like, no, 478 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: I genuinely care about animals, so I go to all 479 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: the animal shelters whatever it may be, just trying to 480 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: make a difference. And um, and I just think that 481 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: that should be like, you know, however it's done, that 482 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: should be like, you know, highlighting and emphasized a bit more. 483 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: Because of course it's one of those things like you 484 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: turn on the news in the morning, what's gonna grab 485 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 1: your attention is the the six six car car accidents 486 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 1: you know, with two deaths or you know what I 487 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: mean exactly exactly, but like what somebody said on Twitter, 488 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: exactly exactly. But like you know, the positive news and 489 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: stuff like that doesn't grab as much attention, so people 490 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: tend to like shy away from that. But um, you know, 491 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,199 Speaker 1: there's definitely there's definitely a bunch of guys throughout the 492 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: NFL that are that are trying to make a difference, 493 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: you know, that that have a purpose. And I think 494 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: it's it's amazing thing that they're using this platform to 495 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: do so, because you know, the one like obviously looks 496 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 1: great for the NFL, but to like you're gonna reach 497 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 1: a lot more people using the NFL platform in such 498 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: a positive light. And you know, I highly encourage everybody to, 499 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: you know, if you have some kind of purpose, some 500 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: kind of cause, like in the within the NFL, to 501 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,239 Speaker 1: use that platform, use that to kind of magnify you know, 502 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: your your purpose. And and like I said, you know, 503 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: I keep saying, I'm like, you know, the world can 504 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: be a much better place. I think about things now 505 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: like this is legit what I think about, Like when 506 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: I'm on my couch at home, I'm like back then, 507 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: like there were no school shootings, you know, like why 508 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: like why are kids so angry that they're you know, 509 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: they're bringing a rightful to school and shooting up to school? 510 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: I want and you don't wonder why, Like they're not 511 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: just like oh well my mom was mean to me, 512 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go shoot up to school. No, it's like, 513 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, like this person said X, Y and Z 514 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: about me in school. This person won't leave me alone 515 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: day in day out. This person, I don't know, like 516 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: trash can me, you know, was a swirling like put 517 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: my head on the toy. Like all this stuff that 518 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: that that still goes on in various forms today, and 519 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: that brings out like like those actions, those negative actions 520 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: bringing it brings out, you know, the evil people. Jet's legend. 521 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: Marty Lyons has always said you can change a person's 522 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: day by just saying hello to them. Totally agree with that, 523 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: just saying hello to them. Why why is that? Why 524 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: is that so difficult? It's not, It's just it's one 525 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: of those things that I think evolved over time. And 526 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: to your point about the news being so negative, it's 527 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 1: not not to be like to get in my routine 528 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: here once a week, I go on the treadmill for 529 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 1: and I hate I hate it for two reasons. One 530 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: because I hate the treadmill too because the TVs all 531 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: have the news on it and I can't change them. 532 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: And every morning when I look at the TVs, it's 533 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: car crash, this X y Z, and it's just like 534 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: kind of depressing and it's just like and to flip 535 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: the script, though, as much as we've talked about cyber 536 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: bullying and social media negativity, the one thing that gets 537 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: me every time is when something happens in sports and 538 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: it's promoted on Twitter, and it chokes me up. Whether 539 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: it's like um, homecoming for someone that's active overseas, if 540 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: it's a scholarship in college, when someone gets put on scholarship, UM, 541 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: when someone who's sick meets their idol and stuff like that, 542 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: Like I'm a sucker for that, and I will watch 543 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: it all day and it'll it's you feel like you 544 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: need more of it because there's just not enough to 545 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: go around. That's a great transition to speaking of school, 546 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: let's go back to the World's Greatest. Can you tell 547 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 1: us about your major at Florida, what you ultimately want 548 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: to do after your long playing career is over. Um, 549 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: you know, I had every every bit of you know, 550 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: the desire to be a sports college just going into 551 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: college start out psychology, and um, the only biology class 552 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: they offered was an online bio class. I don't do 553 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: wealth online classes, especially, you know, I had a job 554 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: in college and you know, full time athletes, so so 555 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: ended up having to go a different route. Failed that 556 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: class twice. When different route, ended up with a double 557 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: major anthropology and criminology, and I forgot the classes that 558 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 1: kind of got me in that direction. But I was like, 559 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: man like, I was like, like, homicide kind of kind 560 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 1: of interesting. It's funny because like it's such like a 561 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: weird topic. But I'm like man like, like becoming like 562 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: a homicide detective would be kind of cool. Like I'm 563 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: all about like critical thinking and puzzles of all sorts. 564 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: And I was like it sounds morbid, but you show 565 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: up to a crime scene, it's like a life size 566 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: puzzle of like what happened? Like why life? Yeah, no, 567 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: like it really and um, that's just kind of like 568 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: how my mind works. So um, you know, my my 569 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: end and end goal would be you know, to be uh, 570 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: to be a homicide detective, you become a homicide detective. 571 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: But as of right now, I've really become more passionate 572 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 1: about like fitness and training, and I'm kind of leaning towards, 573 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: you know, training training professional athletes, whether it's training offensive lineman, 574 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: whether it's just training athletes in general, whether it's more 575 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: like a strength coach route, like all of that's kind 576 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: of on my radar right now because something I understand 577 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: well and that I myself do well. So like I know, 578 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: like you know, being in that kind of career, I'll 579 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: always be able to practice what I preach. Well. We 580 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: had Justice on Justice, Galick had strength and conditioning coach. 581 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: You said, you're in there all the time. Wait, we 582 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: asked him, who are the people that are that you 583 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: have to kick out of the weight room. Then you're 584 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: on the shorelist, so you do practice what you preach. 585 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: Their great interpersonal communicators, so I think you'd be able 586 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: to motivate folks in there as well. Now we have 587 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: to have you back on the podca on this year 588 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: so we can go into the homicide detective stuff into 589 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: yeah but real quickly, and we can get into this 590 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: next time. The music. Do you still do a little 591 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: music still yeah, well I was wondering that too, so 592 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: very musically inclined, like most just about any song that 593 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: comes on, like I know the lyrics too, or something like, 594 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: no matter what genre, no matter what genre, Like people, 595 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: I'll catch people off guard by, you know, knowing every 596 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: like lyric to songs. I probably shouldn't know every lyric too. 597 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm just I almost almost just threw myself under the bus. 598 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna spinning right now. Just just you can 599 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: just just talk to some of the people like I. 600 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: I know, I don't even have a good voice, and 601 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm just like a song comes on, I'm just singing. 602 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: I got I'm just singing. But um no, still still 603 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: love music. I can still pick up the guitar and 604 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: do a little something. I don't keep up with it. Um, 605 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: I haven't touched the French horns since um yeah, since 606 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: like I left school. Um but you know, would I 607 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: pick it up one day again? Maybe? Maybe? But um overall, 608 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: I just enjoy music, and I think playing music kind 609 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: of grew my passion for it, you know, like I'll 610 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: listen to a song in a different way than somebody 611 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: like typically would listen to a song, you know, like 612 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: I'm listening to the different instruments in the background, like 613 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: the rhythm of the beat, you know, like lyrics and 614 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: stuff are always cool, but like I guess more of 615 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: the creation aspect of the music is whens. Well, not 616 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: to come full circle here, I feel like it's how 617 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: an average person would watch a football game versus how 618 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: you would watch a football game. And that's one thing 619 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: I do enjoy. Like people who who are like, oh, yeah, 620 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 1: you know, I little football. I watch football NonStop and 621 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: then drop a little bit of knowledge. Yeah, you know, 622 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: drop a little bit of knowledge. I'm like, oh, well, 623 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: you know, if you watch a running back here on 624 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: this play, he's doing this for this reason and well 625 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: you know this stuff like it's such a different vantage point. Yeah, 626 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: you know. Okay, before we let you go, I have 627 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: one final question for you. I want to know just 628 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: leave us with a little bit of I don't know 629 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: if it's positive, but give me the time where the 630 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: bullying stopped, the first time where you realize you could 631 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: become the bully being on the offensive line, and that 632 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: the bullying has got to come to an end. Alright. 633 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: So earlier I was wondering, you know, kind of like 634 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: talking to myself, like should I really share you know, 635 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: like kind of the breaking point story, which I'm like, honestly, 636 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: I'll be like I'm embarrassed about like like, oh, you 637 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: don't have to share it if you don't want to, 638 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: but like it's it can be an off camera conversation, 639 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: or you can keep it to yourself. Um, but or 640 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: we'll keep the people hanging for next time. Maybe we'll 641 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: keep them hanging. Maybe we'll see. But long story short, 642 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: my freshman year in high school. Freshman year in high school, UM, 643 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: there's like like four or five six I don't know 644 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: upper like upper classmen, seniors and juniors that you know. Um, 645 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: the first time they met me was in summer training 646 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: before my freshman year, and that's when I acquired the 647 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: name Big Baby. I know anything else football, I know 648 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: anything about lifting weights, never lifted I couldn't do a 649 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: push up, you know. And UM, so like, oh, you 650 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: know that, we're just gonna call you big Baby. You 651 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: know we you don't know anything wrong, you know whatever. 652 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, cool. So I just kind 653 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: of took that and embraced that name. I was like, 654 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: all right, I couldn't I could work with that like whatever. 655 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: Um it was like a month later or whatever it was. Um, 656 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: we're in the locker room hanging out. Our last period 657 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: of the day was a football class, Like it was 658 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: a gym class that you know, we can get something 659 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: like we could watch a little film, we could work 660 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: out whatever it was. And like I remember one time 661 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: they thought it would be funny to mess with me 662 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: and um and they all just started like harassing me 663 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: in like this other locker room. So like we had 664 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: the main locker room, then there was like a JV 665 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: locker room that no one was in at the time, 666 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: and like they just they just like harassing me like whatever, 667 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: like pinning me down, like trying to take my stuff 668 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: off me, like like and it got it got, it 669 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: got pretty bad. You know, I got pretty bad. And 670 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: like I'm trying not to like like I didn't get 671 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: like angry, you know, hey get that far, you know, 672 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: like I didn't get angry when I'm trying like honestly, 673 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: I'll be honest, like I was trying not to not 674 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 1: to cry verse you know, trying to laugh it off 675 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: and act like I'm cool, like oh, hey, I'm one 676 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: of the guys, Like you know, this is my initiation, 677 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: but like it really wasn't like it was. It was 678 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: definitely like every bit of hazing, every bit of bullying 679 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: like it was and nobody else went through that. Nobody 680 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: else went through that. So you know, all that said 681 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: and done. Um, you know it really like it really 682 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: got under my skin and all this stuff. And so 683 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: we're practicing I don't know how long after and we're 684 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: doing I guess what would be considered like Oklahoma, the 685 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: old Oklahoma. But yeah, and I remember like I hit 686 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: the first dude bham Bom got past him and the 687 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: biggest guy on our team, Um, the biggest guy on 688 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 1: our team, Um, I'm not YEA, don't know names or nothing, 689 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: and uh and just sitting there and he was one 690 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: of the guys I was messing with me in the 691 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: locker room, and like I caught him with my helmet 692 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: like right under his chin and just dropped him. It 693 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: was like three pounds at the time, like a big 694 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: country joker. Yeah, and I just dropped him. And then 695 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: something just kind of went through me, and I'm like, 696 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: wait what I got? I got a little stuff to 697 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: me like like like yeah, I'm like hold up, because 698 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: I never hit somebody like that before I'm like, hold up, 699 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,720 Speaker 1: hold up. And then that's when it slowly started to turn. 700 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: It's like the guys were like they would still like 701 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: after that, after I did that to them. You know, 702 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: that's a big dude. That was a honcho you know 703 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: with this group. So like they slowly stopped messing with 704 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 1: me as much, and um, you know eventually would try 705 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: to be like buddy buddy with me, and like I was, 706 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: I wasn't having that. I was like, there's no way 707 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: I'm having that. And then um, just you know, as 708 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: I grew older in high school, they graduated, they left, 709 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,879 Speaker 1: and then I kind of moved up to that senior role. 710 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: And that's like, you know, I'm starting like I was 711 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: getting recruited by colleges all this stuff, and the recruitment 712 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 1: and that attention kind of brought some like natural confidence 713 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: to me because I was a cool like I'm from 714 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,239 Speaker 1: a small country school like I now, he was a 715 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: cool kid on campus, like I'm I'm the big time 716 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: football player. All these guys that messed with me are 717 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: are not working at the grocery store, you know, and 718 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: so that gave me a little boost of confidence. And 719 00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 1: that's when like I kind of took a turn for 720 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: the better and going to college, like it just kind 721 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 1: of increase. It's a little bit more confidence, a little 722 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: bit more and here I am, you know, like I 723 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 1: can put on a good front, but like I'll be 724 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 1: the first admit that I'm not. I'm not naturally like 725 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,399 Speaker 1: a confident person, you know. So I think it's cool 726 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,279 Speaker 1: that you admit your flaws more than anything else to like, 727 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: you're hot. What's your highway six, three or five? Yeah, 728 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: A good guess. I don't know if it's a flawed. 729 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: I'd just say I admire your yeah, honestly, yeah, because 730 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:56,799 Speaker 1: most people won't go that raw. And credit your mom too, man, 731 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,799 Speaker 1: she said, I love to hear that, and I make 732 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: sure send you know. I got a chance to meet 733 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: her last year, but that she said, Jonathan, you can 734 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: hurt somebody. And and you took care of your issue 735 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,960 Speaker 1: between the white lines. You didn't even have to do 736 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: it outside of school. You did on the football and 737 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 1: boom jokes on whoever picked on him, because big babies 738 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: in the NFL, that's going strong. That definitely was football 739 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: became my outlet to like be a legal bully, a 740 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: legal bully, illegal bully love that well, we really appreciate 741 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: you coming on the Official Jet Podcast in the play 742 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 1: MGM Studios because this is has been great and make 743 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: sure to check out what Jonathan's doing in the community. 744 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: Stop out bullying and we'll see you next week on 745 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:42,879 Speaker 1: the pod.