WEBVTT - MARCUS SPEARS PART 1 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.640 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.920 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.720 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.000 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.479 Let's get down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.920 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:29.080 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:34.720 about it, then we're about to let you. Now it's 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:43.960 all that's welcome your good friend. He thinks he got 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.839 a little swag on him from bad and Rouge. Louisiana 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.199 went to uh Louisiana State University also known as l 0:00:53.400 --> 0:01:00.080 s U and a former defensive end Baltimore Raven and 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.200 what it really loves to claim that star Dallas Cowboy. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.720 Welcome to the cut to a podcast. Marcus spears, what's 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.440 some fella listens what and I'm impressed by yo Louisiana accent. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.280 That was that was? That was dope. Hey, when you 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.279 run through it, when you run through a team twice 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.640 a year every year for thirteen years, you gotta pick 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.759 up something. It was it was no limit ish. Yeah, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.400 we're doing this today? Is I gonna do it today? 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.120 And it was facts. Was there was there a cap? 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.920 I ain't got nothing to do with that. I ain't 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.920 never played for the same. Okay, we'll put your mc 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.240 hammerglasses back on. How about that it's got a glare. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:45.279 I don't I don't have to put ant on my glass. Year. Listen, 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.320 we were about to start off. We like to start 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.360 off with some little ice breakers. Now I have to 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.240 tell you your team sent uh, some dough some some dudes, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.760 and don't what they said. So here's what they said. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:04.160 They sent no political questions. So who did you vote for? Um? 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:12.440 The insurrection? Are you against it? A ford? Uh? They 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.280 listen to see sense of things that. I'm like, I'm 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.280 not gonna ask him that. Who did you vote for? 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.680 Were you on so secure? Were you? Were you on 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.480 us section eight? As a kid? I mean it was 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.160 just it was mad at me all the time, because 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.280 you know, I don't give a damn Steve. Her job 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.919 is to protect me. My job is to do something. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.680 So she has to do um to justify justify that check. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.440 That's what you're saying. Huh. But I wasn't gonna ask 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.520 who you vote for? I know better than that. Hey man, Listen, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:47.520 I don't give us. Bro let me not y'all gonna 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:52.200 give me texts about thirty seconds. Here's the Here are 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.440 the things that we don't we don't want to ask. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.080 Like there's one that we were gonna ask that we 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.679 can't even ask even because I'm scared they're not gonna 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.840 add it out. They had to do with somebody. No, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.959 I can't Okay, people would not like me to ask 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:14.440 you that. All right, all right, all right, all right, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.320 all right, I knew this was yes, I knew this 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.560 was coming. I know you didn't I didn't know. Yeah, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.480 I'm not gonna ask you. First of all, there's so 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.160 many I would love to do a podcast were like 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.240 ten or fifteen active or retire guys and just ask 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.480 questions that we know darn well we can't answer, but 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:46.560 just to ask, like why, just why you why? Not 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.480 even not even an answer, I don't even even answer, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.760 just the question of why, just to get the reaction. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:04:00.200 Why did you think that was appropriate? Yeah? Like we 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.360 at what point did you think that was appropriate? See? 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.600 That's the thing. That's the things man Like people get 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.600 piste off because I'll be saying what I mean, bro, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.440 and I really don't think about repercussions. I'm right there 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.880 with you, and it is what it is sometimes, bro 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.719 Like something I realized that I worked for a company 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.480 I understand to that six years in and I just 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.080 realized that, yeah, you represent it's a while too. It's 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.880 a metal while, to be honest with you. But but 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.240 but also, man, I've become more censored in my age 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.680 because of my kids and my wife. Like that's why 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.320 I have I've become a little bit more sensitive to 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.680 things that I say, let's let's jump right into and 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.200 instead of you know, we usually do icebreakers, but that 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.960 that ice the one of the icebreakers was funny because 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.520 we're not gonna we don't really care what your political 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.400 views are because, let's be honest, a color of our skin. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.159 People don't really care what we think anyway, as long 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.440 as we pair our taxes and catch and jump and 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.440 tackle and and and do the things that is supposed 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.760 to do on the field. And if we don't do 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.799 it on the field, they're gonna they're gonna call us, uh, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.080 the hard art anyway and keep it moving. So so 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.760 let's experience. But it is true. Let me let me 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:19.279 ask you, what have you learned as an analyst that 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.920 you wished you knew as a player that could benefit 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.839 your benefit you as a player today, as a player today, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.880 Like if you can, if you know what you know now, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.440 you get to go back in time to benefit you 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.159 because I I have some things and I'll let you 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.560 go first. That I'm realizing that it's some whoppers. Boy, 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.440 I'm talking about whoppers, some like mythical stories that I'm 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:58.320 just I'll just be I'm just be fuddled, honestly, demand 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:04.360 the truth from people in authority position. Um, don't be 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.919 fearful of losing a job or rub that folks the 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:15.440 wrong way. The truth that r that's some pause, Okay, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.680 don't rub people the wrong way. Pause. Um, it's some 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.200 folks in trouble. Don't worry about that. Get the truth. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.960 I know, I know, I gotta realize that. I I'll 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.680 tell you. I'm I'm still feeling my way through where 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.800 I'm at right now because I know you can't feel 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:42.680 you Listen, I'm gonna hang this damn phone, don't get 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.760 oh see, look at you now, you've been asthley. You're 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.160 mad at me for your words anything, I'm gonna get 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.080 mad at you. You know me way better than that. No, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.839 man like, honestly, that's it. That's it, bro. I used 0:06:53.839 --> 0:07:01.240 to try to um just facilitate the easier versation. Sometimes 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.200 they need to be hard, sometimes they need to be difficult. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.640 Sometimes they pause, sometimes they need to be Um. You 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.840 you gotta, you gotta just you gotta get to the 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.720 to the bottom of it instead of saying, you know what, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.400 this person writes my check. But you gotta have the 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:23.560 conversations and you can't. You can't subject yourself to you 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.400 can get fired anyway. They're gonna. I've I've always jeez 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:34.840 heard me say this, You're gonna get fired. The question 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.560 is when you're sitting alone after you're fired, you have 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.880 the question of and the answer, and your body of 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:48.080 work is the answer because I've heard guys say it, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.120 you're gonna get fired. So you can't either get fired 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.360 doing it jee way, or you can get fired and 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.880 then wish you would have said something or done some things, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:08.400 a non regrettable way of living, but not yoloing right, 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:16.240 not not not risking everything. Yeah, but but there's the 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:23.840 question is right and not trying to question individuals men 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:29.160 or women. Do you really know your authentic self? Because 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.760 I know my authentic self. However, I would go back 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:43.000 and maybe tweak how I articulated my authentic self, maybe 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.600 taking maybe taken away, maybe taking away a few cuss 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.440 words here and there. And if you backhands shining, I 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:52.880 think as long as you can look at it in 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.680 and will you slap somebody though that that's more than hindsight. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.520 That's just a little bit of regret. I'm just being 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.920 honest out a back hand if you brother time, but 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.080 I wish everybody didn't go to the to the to 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.720 the lengths that you win. I understand, I understand, but 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.000 you know what I'm saying, like, but you acknowledge it. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.480 That's that's so, that's the that's yes. But I mean 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:18.160 it wasn't technically unsolicitedy they asked I gave, so I 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.080 thought it was Christmas. You know sometimes it's Christmas. Shall 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:30.480 receive that cup back canneth over, man, I feel you, bro. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.640 I just think a lot of times, man, where we 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.640 at and honestly like, for as much as I like 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.840 speak out about stuff, also be trying to meet people 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.040 where they are, like that's that's a big part of 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.280 it because you realize, like as a man sitting here 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.440 with a fifteen and thirteen, and the nine year old 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.120 obviously wouldn't do the same things I did when I 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:56.720 was twenty four. Hop yeah, right, hope not because you 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.160 do got something I trying to steal a um, but 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.840 but yeah, man, I just think I think if anything, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.480 and and to your points to me, I like what 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.439 you said not regrettable because that's where you were at 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.400 that time, But you also need to be mature enough 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.360 and smart enough to have a different perspective years later 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.320 and say, you know what, I should have did that 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.080 different or if I would have been where I am now, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.559 I would have handled that differently. The one thing I 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.400 tell people, man, I'm not going to compromise on truth 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.360 to me, like, you're not gonna get me in the 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.800 room and get me to say something about Smitty and 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.240 then go in another room and have a different story. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.319 If you're my guy, you my guy in the White House, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.760 you my guy in your house, you're my guy, and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.400 I'm around some people you don't like you know what 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.199 I'm saying. So I think that's you know, for me, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.720 that's probably to get back to the question you asked, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.959 I would probably just have really more conversations that that 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.960 aired on the side of edgy and hoping that the 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.000 person that I'm talking to realize where I'm coming from, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.480 as opposed to getting emotional about it and saying, well, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.280 I can't deal with this, dude. Yeah, yeah, the emotional 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:11.160 the emotional part of us as athletes becomes lazy. And 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.760 I believe that's where the confrontation comes. And that's where 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.679 I have to I have to use my own internal 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.600 measuring stick of myself to say, am I being emotionally 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.480 lazy and allowing someone to kind of get under my skin? 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.320 And then I go I go in on them, and 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.920 then I make it personal, and and and and then 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.760 you happen to do it on television, and then it 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:39.400 becomes it becomes you're racist or you have and I 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.800 and I and I find it interested in us doing television. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.640 The Young Cats calls lazy the Young Cats talking about shade. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.880 First of all, Young Punk, you gotta understand that the 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.160 oak tree we are playing, you know, double digit years 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.280 in the league, that has to have some good deep roots. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.559 You used talking about we're throwing shade. You forget, well, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.920 this oak tree is allowing you to be under this shade. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:09.800 We're watching film to knowing and and build our opinion 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.640 about your game. Now, I tried not to do with 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.199 some of the other guys, and I experienced, well, you 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.160 can't depend on the thirty seven year old. Well, if 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.319 that thirty seven year old is really really good, that's 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.000 h that that's the that's the young boy's fault. Yes, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.360 it's production and his fault. That guy gave him something 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:29.920 a thirty seven that he didn't give some of these 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:35.240 twenty seven year olds. Right, However, right, I look at 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.000 the A. J. Brown thing right now, he keeps constantly 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:45.160 going against the Tennessee Titan fans and just come out 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:50.160 saying Tyreek Hill, Cheetah, come out. It ain't no way. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.640 I don't know to h I'm gonna just be honest. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.679 There's nothing about two A currently right now that I've 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.839 that has brought me to to the conclusion to go 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.839 watch how accurate, inaccurate, how good? How bad? Two is? 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.400 Two is? Two is like that. They're not a sponsor, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.280 so I can said to us, like Arby's right, you 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.760 don't really know if Arby's has a, I don't have 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.719 a has a. Good men you're bad because I just 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.400 don't look at Arby's as a destination for me. Yeah, 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.959 that's not the way you stop them go but them 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:35.600 curly fries, fire as hell facts, now some good sandwiches. Really, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.040 I just ye, you just we ain't going there first too, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.560 they're not on there. And so two is coach McDaniels 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.040 looking forward to what he's gonna do, interested to see Cheetah. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.240 Is Mike Kasecki gonna continue to dominate because he didn't 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.679 look dominant coming out in his rookie year under a 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:04.680 uh them gaze. However a lot of people did I understand. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.199 I know, but I just got to show him that 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:12.760 my my, my football accurate. But too is not this 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.080 player that I'm going And I wonder if he's accurate 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.200 or not. You know how, you know how when you 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.400 was you know how, you was in school and used 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.360 to get your report card and you were scared because 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.600 it's aid n A and then you had all the 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.440 other grades. You thought the NA meant fl You thought 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.360 it meant that because we was dumb, We was young, numb, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.520 and we was like, if the teacher don't give us 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.440 a grade, we must be failing. Um, that's tour to me, 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.080 Like I'm not gonna get it. Excited about man Tyrek 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.040 the practice with tour for six minutes, like to draw 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.360 these conclusions and put it out there in the public forum. 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.320 I hope his mentality is big enup my teammate and 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.040 trying to build some confidence. He's trying to build some confidence. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.440 He's also trying to build up a podcast. He's also 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.440 trying to do this. He's trying to do. But one 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.040 of the things that I heard that was extremely interesting 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.400 to me, and I've been holding this too, is people 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.480 are talking about his Hall of Fame legacy because of 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.880 how early, how much success he had and now that 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:23.840 the I would say, the sour taste of leaving a 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.880 good team for more money, but then all of a 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.800 sudden coming out and then finding out which I already 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:36.400 knew that the Chiefs actually offered him more money. However 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.880 they the the way it was structured was a little 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.600 bit different for a guy who's in his late twenties. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.520 And I'll just say this constructively. I like Cheetah. I 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:52.840 think he's a fantastic football player. However, when I look 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:58.360 at his game, he doesn't have the pH D and 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.800 route running. Yeah, he runs a lot of uh, he 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.800 runs a lot of crayon routes, be fast. What do 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.920 I mean by that? It shot threw that up there 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.520 hoping you dunk it. I love you when you could 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.560 dunk g um. I'm not That's what I'm here. What 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.360 I mean by creon routes says they, you know, a 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.600 real route runner can connect the dotss angle science, you know, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.160 science mathematics, being able to run the post corner and 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.480 and stop on a dime and get you change. Cheetah 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.520 stop on Cheeta will stop on several domes, but it 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.360 may not be a change and maybe a dollar just 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.360 because he and he doesn't catch the ball when you 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.360 talk about Hall of Fame, he doesn't catch the ball 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.280 in the in the way of a receiver that's on 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.880 his way to the Hall of Fame like a life 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.800 fish geral. He has amazing runs, he does not have 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.040 amazing catches. Well, let me tell you this, bro, you 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.360 can speak to that. As far as Hall of Fame, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.360 the way my NFL career countless set up, I ain't 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.440 really I don't really know about all that. No, I 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.159 just I just mean this is if I want to 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.480 hear somebody critique it is you. I just I'm not. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:13.960 I'm not on him. I'm not. He's a hell of 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.439 a player, but to move on for a couple of millions, 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.480 millions of dollars when you're at a place where playing 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:26.520 in Kansas City actually long term you can make more 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:33.520 money because I don't see Miami planning deep into January February. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.840 Good point, right, he is on South Beach though, Yeah, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.840 that's not that's not that's not like, get rid of that. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.040 It's cold as hell and can't see that. Listen, man, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.119 but you know, you know it's not cold. You know 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:55.320 it's not. It's always a good temperature. And now on 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:56.920 who you are, you might have a checking in the 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.080 savings and days it might. It just kind of depends. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.200 Now I'll tell I'll tell him. I want them to 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.920 cash and then deposit. Mind. I don't don't put no 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:12.520 hole on my money. It's mine. I love cut to 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.040 It and I love it even more when you download 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.480 us and subscribe and you can follow us on social 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.520 media too, Smithy where where at? That's at? Cut to 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:27.600 It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At cut to It? Facebook? 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.720 Cut to It featuring Steve Smith Singer, what about online? 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.640 And you can follow us at cut to It Podcast? 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.840 Dot com where you can buy merch and you can 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.320 subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.800 all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.440 questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother cut 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.440 to a podcast dot com Like, I understand what you're saying, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.920 Smithy about Tyrek. Um, I think too, man. Like the 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.280 one thing about when you went let's say, when you 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.480 went to the raven right, because he was a free agent. Though, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:04.960 that's what I'm saying. You went to the Ravens, but 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.080 but you balled. Yeah, Like that's really what it boiled 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.399 down to. Tarik will be fine, probably getting in the 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.240 Hall of Fame if he go do his thing. What 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.399 you don't want the conversation to become just thinking everything 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.480 around you was the reason you was like you were. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.920 That's and that's what I'm trying to say a little bit, right. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.200 I don't think everything around him, However, I think I 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:34.600 do believe he grew because of everything around him. He 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.320 was successful, successful because of everything around it. Because when 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:44.040 you have bad quarterback play, bad bad quarterback play, it's 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.880 like a bad circuit breaker. You can have you can 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:52.760 have the top of the line RENEI tankless water heater, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.760 the best of the best air condition. But if you 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.719 got a circuit breaker that's built in the nineteen eighties, 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.240 this this new technology is pop pop. It's just not 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.719 gonna work. It's gonna work just for a little bit. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.320 And then so does it get too hot like it 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:15.679 is right now? Right now you got the house fan going, 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.280 but it's pointing outside the window because you're trying to 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:19.880 get the hot air out, or you got the house 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.240 fan with the bowl of water underneath. That's say they're 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:29.359 supposed to who being polled before. But here's the problem 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.040 I have. It never worked. It was still hot air 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:43.280 like it's sticking to the plastic. Stop moving, and then 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.440 your grandma still make you sleep with that hot that's 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.280 comforted on her bid. Grandma weighed it weighed like forty pounds. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.720 Was the regular house, grandma? Why they was never hot 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.679 or they had they had great they had great conditions. 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.639 Here's what the elements. Here's what I learned as an adult. 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.960 Here's what I learned as adult. They was hot. They 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.200 just they were not going to turn down. Pride was 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.879 not gonna let you. You're not gonna see me sweat 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:11.880 and why and why is that? First? I want to say, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:13.920 get wins. Why is she not? Why was she not 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.800 gonna do it? You ain't about to drive up mom? 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:23.280 That was late man, Exactly. It was so many things 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:28.919 on the list. I my wife grew up with a grandparents, bro, 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.040 and I was I was in She from Detroit, and 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.760 I was in Detroit, man at a football camp. And 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:37.600 that was the first opportunity that I had to meet 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.520 her grandmother and grandfather. And we she lived, you know, 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:43.680 grew up a rough area whatever. So we went to 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:46.359 the house Smithy. I walked in. It was a hundred 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.160 and fifty degree and I told I told, I told 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.359 my wife at the time, girlfriend, I said, I can't 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.879 stay here alone. I was like, I can't stay here alone. 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:58.480 I was like, we either got to go sit on 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.560 the porch, and I can't. When it's cooler outside, you 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.399 would rather sit under the shade tree, light up a 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:08.640 black mouth. And I'm sitting at the dining table talking 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.960 to her grand I am like, bro, like I'm playing 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.520 in Miami at one pm on Sunday in August and 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.639 I'm looking They're looking at me like something wrong, Like 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:27.680 something wrong with you? Something wrong with me grandmother probably 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:35.520 like she's gonna marry this horrible sweat glands. I was 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:40.400 almost broke up with him. I'll tell you, I'll tell 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:42.359 you a bad I'll tell you a quick bad story 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:46.240 and then we'll get into it. Um. Well, the first 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:50.240 time I took my parents, my uh my kids to 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:53.840 my grand grandma and grandpa house. Right, And this was 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.000 like two thousand and thirteen, like right after the Super 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.200 Bowl show. You know, we're living were living high the 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:04.760 hog right. Bailey, my daughter, she's uh what I was. 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.840 Bailey baby was like two or three. Peyton was seven 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:15.000 or eight, right, I'm but I remember. And we went 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:16.879 over there and had to use uh, I had to 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.440 use the bathroom. And my wife we had been married 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.800 like to two years, two or three years, four years, 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:25.480 and she had been over there, but it was all 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.840 in passing. It was never like at a long period 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:33.920 of time to where she had to use the bathroom. Oh. Man, 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.520 one of the kids had to use the bathroom. And 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:38.560 they went to the bathroom. My wife came back said, uh, 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.119 I flushed the doll. I said, oh, let me come 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:47.120 show you. No, No, this is when we you where 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:49.840 you wash your hands or there was a leaky falls 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.879 and underneath had the bucket and had to rinse it 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:57.680 and uh oh. I looked at me and she was 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:01.600 I was like, yeah, so to me. About three months later, 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:07.439 we're in the car and Peyton, who's brilliant, my oldest, 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:12.359 he's super duper smart, Um says Daddy, this looks like 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:15.000 grandma's house. I said, what do you mean. He says, 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:20.400 look like but we're watching TV. We're watching national geographics, 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:25.480 We're watching something that's shows like kind of a third 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:31.720 third World country shanties. He goes, yeah, grandma, your grandma's 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:35.240 house looked like shanty. I looked at him and I said, yep, 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:38.000 that's how Daddy left. I said, if you don't go 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:43.520 to school, that's how you're gonna. But it was just 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:47.159 the connecting of the dots, right, the idea. They had 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:50.440 no idea. Remember the TV and you got you gotta 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:52.320 you gotta change the channel on the floor model TV 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:54.320 with the plyers because you lost the cap off the 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:57.880 and we didn't have that. We didn't Our TV wasn't 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:00.040 that big. We had a smaller TV on the on 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:01.679 top of the floor. Oh yeah, that's when you upgrade. 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.680 That was then for as much as for as much 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.200 as like being poor. Like when you get older, you 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.200 you look into it. Man, I had fun. You had 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.320 so much fun when we were broken. Yeah, Rich ain't 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.200 all that fun all the time. I disagree, and I 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:20.280 ain't that. I ain't smith. You know, I'm not gonna 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:22.840 I'm not gonna ever tell anybody like I love I 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:26.720