WEBVTT - Quincy Enunwa 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John And this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.600 to it. Good do it, Good do it. Let's getting 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.919 down to do it. Good do it. We asked the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.880 questions you always want to know, but no one ever asked. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.840 Let's cut to it. You ain't heard about it, then 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:40.279 we're about to let you know. It's all which one? 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:51.920 Are you? Hey? Hey, Hey? What is up? Cut to it? Fam? 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.120 How are you? What up? What up? What up? All right, 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.400 let's get straight into it. Backstage, Joe, what's up? Man? 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.440 It's going on? Fellas. Okay, we had an unbelievable weekend, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.920 didn't we. Yes, we did. We played golf this weekend 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.479 to cut to an invitational. Yes, none of us made 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:11.280 the cut. We only made it the saturday. We got 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.440 that green ribbon, that participation award. All right. So we're 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.839 driving back, um from from a little golf off trip 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.000 and it's about a four hour drive. We're not gonna 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.000 say where we were. We don't want to lose them anymore. Uh, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.080 beach folks that we are. We lost the Myrtle Beach folks. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.880 We want to keep. We don't want to keep the 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:37.640 streets the coast. So driving back and four hour drive, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.240 so we about two hours in, it's like, hey, let's stop, stop, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.240 grab something. What's anybody wants? So you know you're on 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:45.840 the road, and you know how these when you're on 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.760 a road trip, got a few options. You got a 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.480 few options, right, They all pretty much the same. So 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.560 go through a drive through, go through a drive through, going, 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.800 go through line, go through the line. So we order 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.880 welcome to such and such. Man help you. Yes, I'm 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:04.040 driving os there, geez there, and they all rattled off 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.639 one by one what they want. So I say, hey, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.880 I would like this combo? What else? What else? Joe says, hey, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:18.200 I'll take a sound interrupting. Then after Joe says that 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.480 gerald interrupting or is the exact same thing as a 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.720 comb made it easy. We should have known it was 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.440 gonna go a straight because the second you gotta sell. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.400 But what else? Yeah? I would I would like what else? 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.799 And also what else? What kind of sort? That's how 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:44.760 it went. So, thank you. Here's my Here is my amount. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.560 I knew it was struggle when you pulled around four total. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:55.160 That was my total. Drive up. I had a girl 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:01.280 tend the five easy easy cash transaction easy cash. Right now, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.000 I'm gonna write this out because I had to rethink 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.720 it when I did the transaction. Let's back in. Let's 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:17.320 back into that maths at ten and the five okay, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.240 one on one canceled out? Four cannot go in to five? 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.760 Old school. I got to yeah, I have to see. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.320 This is where we already are separating in which we're going. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.200 This is how math is introduced. It is continue with 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.440 the story, all right, because I'm doing this math or 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.880 the four zero came not make that that canceled out 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.960 to zero nine? Bang, make that zero attend ten minus 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.760 one is nine nine cents. Now I knew this. I 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.920 knew this, but I'm doing it the second day. This 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.240 happened yesterday, second day in case maybe I misjudged her 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.600 calculating skills, because let me tell you, she used a 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.120 calculator on her phone. So she comes back after I 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.800 handed the money, she comes back and says, you got 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:11.160 ninety one cents. But to be fair, first she turned 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.120 her back on us once you hand her the money, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.920 and like we were just staring at it, like it 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.560 was like a showdown. Because I looked at him, said, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.000 I hope she would give you my change? Why change 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.320 important to me? I'm a change guy. I like to 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.839 have to change, and then I take it home, put 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.679 in my change, and then every six months I cash 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:35.159 it and I put into dollars. Listen, I'm a change counter. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.560 I pick up change off the But what what was 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.440 the change that she gave you? Was that she gave 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.760 She gave me three cents? Three? So we just after 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.679 I said, uh, can I get a change? She goes, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:55.360 and now we're back into this math already sidetrack Sally, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.240 stop it. She goes, you're gonna give me a ninety 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.800 one cent? I said it, excuse me, I gave you? 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.719 And did you actually owe me? How much change do 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.839 you owe me? Then she brings out the calculator. No, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.599 she gives me three cents, And I said, because when 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.080 she gave it to me, I was like, are they 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.800 giving up? So? Are they giving our big coins? Does this? 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.840 I know this is a podcast, but not only did 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.919 she give us three cents wrong, she finger rolled it 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.440 right in just Steve's hands to like with the attitude 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.560 like here's your three cents. And so I called it 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.360 and I was like, hold on, and so I told 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.239 her not aggressively. I said, in my mind, I'm gonna 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.719 all right, don't be rude, don't be rude, don't be rude. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.080 I said, uh, how much change were you supposed to 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:48.400 give me? She goes, huh. First of all, if you 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.920 hung you can hear. That's how my mama told me. Huh. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.280 I said, how much change are you supposed to get me? 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.800 I gave you fifteen? How much was it? She could 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.760 not do it? So then she brings out so she 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.839 turns her back, but she didn't turn her back quick 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.520 enough as she was busting out her iPhone with a 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:13.479 pink case to do the calculation. And so she was like, well, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:18.840 how dog. She used her calculator and still got her wrong. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.760 She did not know how much change to give me, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:29.440 No no clue. So then she gives me. She finger 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:34.760 rolls me to change. Luckily. Luck luckily, I'm such a 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.680 profound athlete. I called all of it. It's like slight flags. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:45.000 So I catch it right, and then I'm like, can 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.000 I get two straws please? So she gives me the 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.240 straws as if like here child be gone gives me 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.880 she gives me the change, we get the food. I 0:06:55.000 --> 0:07:00.720 drive you hot. He was fired up just right, So 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:08.240 then I drive off. I get on and I no, no, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.640 Joe didn't, I said, hold on, damn it. She got me. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.920 She forgot joe sandwich. She didn't even give us the 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:24.840 right food, broke it. So here's what I did. I 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.640 took two French fries to take my supplement, and Joe 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.640 ate my lunch because he didn't have a meal. I 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:39.920 was no longer mad. He was mad. You know why 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.800 I was mad? Do you know why I was mad? 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:49.040 In likeness? Because all of that nonsense that she did. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.720 It was on her. It wasn't my fault. She couldn't count. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.840 It wasn't my fault. It was it wasn't my fault. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.720 She you need her iPhone to count up what I 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.760 did on a piece of paper, and then she gets 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.120 mad at me and stess me my sandwich. But guess what, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:10.000 my friends, I cleaned up my car when I got home, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.800 and guess what I found my receipt with the store number. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.920 Because guess who's gonna get a free meal? Guess who's 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.680 gonna get it free? I am? I am. Come make 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.480 sure you had an extra chicken sandwich on that for me. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.199 I'm getting the whole damn meal. I'm emailing look at you. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:38.439 I'm gonna email such and such dot com because one, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.040 I need employees that can count or at least read 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.400 the cash register. I mean he's right there, for it 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.760 does all. I've worked in fast food. Now, this is 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.000 this is not Steve's trying to be all high in 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.240 my this. I'm I want to t integral part of 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.800 your story. Yes, I worked to Taco Bell. You have 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.559 you have papers, you have calculators, and you got that 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:09.000 big old register that has all the menus. It really is. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.360 And then maybe she was color blind. Possibly that could be, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:21.760 but no shade to the color blind listeners. Correct whatever. Yep. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.559 So I'm gonna get me a free I'm gonna get 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.160 the whole meal free. Do you fire the place up? No? 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.319 I just want my free mel I just want my 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:35.040 sandwich that I paid for that she didn't get me. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.800 Who we got our guest today, Quincy a none Wa 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.880 drafted out of Nebraska. He spent his five years with 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.720 the New York Jets and really an all around stand 0:09:50.800 --> 0:10:01.280 up guy advocate for mental health. Quincy Anne One Quincy 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.280 coming up. You're gonna take part and get iced up smarty. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.200 Go ahead with the first one. All right, here we go. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.640 So we go with an easy one. Uh. Favorite cartoon 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:17.719 growing up? Oh? Man, favorite cartoon. There's so many Uh, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:23.640 I never I never saw that show. It's so many 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:29.679 five man. I mean, look, I probably aided myself, man, um, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.000 you know, but the last one I just saw that 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.040 I remembered because it was on I think my messages 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.760 like Powder Family, and that brought me back. But then 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.920 if I go way back, you know what I mean? 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.360 It was like it was like a Black Family Nickelodeon 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.640 was on Nickelodeon. It was something like that. Man, all right, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:54.040 so here's here's a good one too. Have you ever 0:10:54.240 --> 0:11:01.880 sent a text message to the wrong person? Uh? Multiple times? Man? 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.520 I got anxiety just thinking about man multiple times. And 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.080 the worst part is now. And whenever you do it, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.520 anytime you send a text, youre always like real cautious, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.160 like you gotta make sure, okay, that's the right sender, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.560 making sure you're not sending to the wrong person again. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:22.040 I've sent a text to my wife who Aim is 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:30.400 Ace in my phone? Angie Ace two? You know him? Adam? Oh? 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:35.440 Which is right underneath. Yeah, and there was a husband 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.400 and wife. I was gonna say, I've done it in reverse. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.560 It was a husband and wife like, hey, I'm on 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:47.120 the way home. Yeah, I got the food. And Adam 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.960 goes in the text Man, that school Steve, but I 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.480 don't really want to know what you and an you 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:58.640 got played stomach sense to your feet done? Bro? I 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.040 was like no, oh, but at first I was kind 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.960 of hot. Yeah that wife didn't reply. I'm like that 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:11.480 you were married. Boom. You know, I mean they need like, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:17.640 they need to recall, they need a recall, right, dinner 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.200 back back, you know, I set it up. You know you, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.839 I mean, of course you don't know this, like, but 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:26.920 light skin, you know how we do it. Bro. Nope, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:33.079 it was Adam so embarrassing. And then a couple of 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.400 weeks it happened to be about a month later, me 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.480 and Adam got together. We had a business thing and 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:45.360 he brought it up. Uh so no lunch. All right, 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.520 here we go, last one and then we're gonna jump 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.600 right into your story. Who you are. If you can 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:56.040 make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:02.880 what would it be? Oh? Man, if I could make 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.480 a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.960 Be real on social media, man, he real on social media. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.920 Keep that same energy later on. Let's cut right into it. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.880 Let's let's hear your story. But I want to get 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.800 this out of the way just immediately, because I know 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.720 I'm in journalism now and i'm journalists, I'm a media guy, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.479 but I have always struggled with I'm gonna call you Quincy, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.160 but we want to know. We want you to pronunciate 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:45.120 M and also explain your full name, your govern name, 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.400 because everybody knows you as Quincy. Some people butcher it, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.160 but really, just what's the what is the meaning behind 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.840 the name and all that stuff? All right? I got you, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:00.320 all right? So my actual government name is on the chest, 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.200 Quincy and new right. So I just had my first 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.040 name on the chest, okay, and it's O n O 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.440 C h I E. And it's an evil named Nigerian. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.760 My parents are from Nigeria. Um and uh it means 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.720 the replacement. It's like Junior, the real so the real 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.680 meaning of his replacement. But it's just Blake me like Junior. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.920 My dad named me after my grandpa, so he died 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.000 a year before I was born. And so they named 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:34.160 me that. My parents were both from Nigeria. My dad came, um, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.880 maybe like eight to ten years before I was born, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.760 and my mom actually came like a month a month 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.680 before I was born. So that's probably not even safe 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:47.640 at all, right, Um, and they're both from Nigeria. UM 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.840 brought me up in the culture all of that, and 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.040 I was wearing it. Got c keis. I was wearing 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.080 all of that when I was going up. They came 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.320 over here, and I'm I'm trying to dump it down 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:03.400 for myself. I won't that journey, Yeah, the transportation, the 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.920 journey of how they got here if if you even know, um, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.920 you know how they got here, whether they come from 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.720 they both of My dad flew and he came here 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.680 first and went to school. And when my mom flew 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.600 with me, watching was pregnant. She actually so she was 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.000 so pregnant, her stomach was so big for bully is 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.880 so big that he had a doctor, a doctor write 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.840 a note, Um, I said that he was holding twins 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:33.240 when actually she was just like eight months pregnant. Wow. Yeah, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:38.240 so you know whatever it takes, right, yeah, yeah, So 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:43.200 that uh so she came and had me. UM and 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.080 then she went and got her nurse and degree, and 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.320 my dad he got it bigest degree and he started 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.040 working at Walmart. Um and he was like a store 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.520 manager for a really long time. From Walmart. He dropped 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.200 Walmart and became an entrepreneur. Now he owns like two 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.040 stories to like mailing stories in uh Southern can American 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.000 dream right there. Honestly, they did whatever they could to 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.360 get me over here, and they they've been working hard 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.960 ever since. How many other siblings are you the oldest youngest? Yeah, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.239 so it's me and then my two younger sisters. Um 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:24.760 one is twenty six. The other one now I think 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.160 she is. That's when you know, you know, you gotta 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:34.280 think about people got that, got that brother? You know 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.120 sometimes that's the slips of mind a little bit. I 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.680 think that really. And so you're growing up, you saying 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:46.680 you're wearing Dashiki's you're from from? I can take it 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:54.160 you're wearing who you are, your culture mm hmm exactly. Yeah, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:17:00.520 growing up you know in in southern Californi, where there's 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.960 a ton of there's a ton of cultures there. However, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:11.480 there isn't a lot of brothers walking around. So I'm 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.280 I'm assuming pretty interesting at first because outside of your 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.320 home it was normal. Yeah, but then you're inside of 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.480 your home is normal. Outside of your home, you probably 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.680 got some looks and and and I'm assuming yeah yeah. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.720 So so you know, we weren't wins every day, but 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.679 you know, they was still still part of us. You know, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.040 we reward um done Evans and stuff like that. But overall, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.560 i'd say, you know, Especi back then, you know, you 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.800 had the jokes and everything, African booty Scratcher, all those 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:45.840 different duffs that people would tell, Yeah, you know what 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.920 I mean. So you know you've got those jokes. That's 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.720 really um for me, you know. And then on top 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.920 of that, you know, people didn't really take the time 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.719 to really pronounce my name correctly. That was actually part 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.359 of the reason why I went up my middle name, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.359 because you know, it felt as though people try to 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.520 just kind of wash away in my culture and I 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.360 and I just kind of fell into that, right like 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.760 by going by Quincy and then just accepting that that's 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.560 my name. Um, but uh, yeah, it was, it was. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.520 It was definitely like it was an interesting, um, interesting childhood, 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.640 interesting growth pattern you know, to be uh Nigerian amongst 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.359 a bunch of people from different cultures, but mainly just 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.000 you know black culture making culture like that's really good 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.159 dominie um and where I was growing up, So I 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.439 think in order to kind of assimilate, right, Um, for me, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.200 it was like, well, let me go by my Englishman 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.720 name inside your house and I've got some friends who 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.000 are who are Nigerian inside your house. What's the what's 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.520 maybe the pressure of what's the experience of having Nigerian 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.600 parents while you're in the US, what's take us on 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.879 that journey? Yeah, well the biggest one is education. You know, 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.080 it's it's a big pushon on education, trying to make 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.520 sure that you know, they brought us here essentially, um, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.159 so they want us to take advantage of every every 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.640 benefit that we can get being in this country. UM. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.920 So you know, growing up, we we you know, we 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.800 have to get the good grades. You know, we have 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.439 to make sure that if we were doing sports, that 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.800 we were also still excelling in school. You know. 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So growing up in Los Angeles, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.639 how did those two worlds Nigerian in Los Angeles in 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:22.040 the nineties, How did that shape and impact your view 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.800 on the world because you had two different views and 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.760 as adult you will probably you can say it was 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.840 an advantage, but as a child probably saw it as 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.800 a disadvantage. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was interesting. So 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.679 actually we were maybe like forty five two or an 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.160 hour Marino Valleys is where I grew up, so it's 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.280 about uh maybe an hour east uh down a sixty 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:53.000 three way. But it's it's it's essentially, you know, a 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.960 lot of people came from lady to go living me 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.960 about so it was, it was. It was definitely an interesting, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.240 you know upbringing. You know, just at least you see 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.960 so many different things. Um, but I think party. What's 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.679 what's funny is that, you know, my parents kind of 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.359 shielded me from a lot of things. They took me 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.840 in in the private school. You know, so for a 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.040 good amount of my pilor, I was in a private school, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:15.879 you know, so there was a lot of things that 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:17.399 I didn't see until I tried to go in the 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:19.920 Polst school and man, my life got flipped up. So 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:27.400 in what way do you do? Tail do? You can't 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.960 just leave us there? I know, I don't know. It's 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:35.320 you know, I mean, private school is a different lightstyle. Man, 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.720 it's it's um, there's no really way to explain it. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.040 You know. So when you go to public school, you know, 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.119 you get you get a real taste, you know. I 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.240 think what helped me a lot was just the fact 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.600 that I was playing um kitty ball, you know, football, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.280 so I gotta I got you know, I got to 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.760 see you know, different ways people, you know, kind of 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:55.560 acting it stuff. But you know, when I got to 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.480 high school, that's when I really started to see you know, 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.120 uh up close to like game culture and all types 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.680 of other things that I you know, you see on TV. 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.479 But it wasn't until I was acting the school and 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.080 seeing stuff. I was like, bro, where am I at? 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.720 Do you think you would shield it in a way 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.639 in private school? Oh? Yeah, definitely, definitely. You know, you know, 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:22.800 you people talked about it, but nobody was really about it. 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:28.119 Was that shield? Do you believe was that shield enough 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.600 for you at that moment? So when you got to 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:37.119 public school you had to you had enough wherewithal to 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:41.520 be able to separate yourself or at least be hesitant 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.040 and not jump all in immediately. Yeah. I think so, 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.040 you know, I think when I see other people's stories, 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.520 you know, there's a difference. So I can't say that 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.120 this is just the blueprint. But I think for myself 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.560 it was helpful. You know, I kind of I kind 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.840 of already had a lot of discipline and part of 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:02.159 the money came mainly for my parents, but also you know, 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.439 from being at school. I think that that helped me 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.399 as well. I don't know if I do anything to 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.520 my keys. But you know, I'm just speaking on my 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.720 own experience. So you're saying you wouldn't do it for 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.359 your kids, meaning you wouldn't I wouldn't put it in 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:20.560 private school. Uh, other than the money I heard that 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:27.040 heard that money, you know, retired retired flare to mine 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:32.720 go to private school, you got look at that. So 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:34.960 this is my thing. My my private school wasn't like 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:36.960 a big private school, or I could have gone there 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:39.119 and they went to college and play ball there, like, 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:41.239 there was no chance of me being looked at. So 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:44.440 everybody's private school experience is different. The woman I was 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:46.480 at was not going to help me get to where 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:48.199 I'm at now. So that's actually why I went to 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:50.800 public schools because you know, everybody knew I had the talent, 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.520 but I wasn't in the ginningywhere being in a school. 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:56.200 So I say, if it's a private school that can 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:59.280 you know you can go to and still make it, um, 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:01.760 then I might put them in me. But the route 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:05.199 that I took, I wouldn't see that my kids. So 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:11.520 you're talking just from a sports related understanding. Um, the 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.440 journey of trying to give your child if they pursue 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:21.040 a professional or collegiate career. This helps them based on 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:26.159 your your own experience exactly. Man, So you're in high school, 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:28.720 you know, you're you're at public school. Now you're in 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:32.879 the real life. M h. When did you believe in 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:36.440 in playing in high school that you felt I can 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.880 possibly go to college and and participate in football at 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:46.120 that level Division one. Yeah. Uh, when I first got there, 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:48.760 it was a struggle. You know, Like I said before 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:50.359 that the school that I was at, you know, I 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:52.320 knew the thing that I was talented. You know, I 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:55.520 got to a level where everybody was talented, really talented. 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:58.680 So the first couple of years, you know, I saw 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.960 the flashes, so you know, they put me out there, 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:04.879 they saw me scored some touchdowns and knew I could play, 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.119 but you know, it was it was inconsistent. You know. 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:09.359 It was until my senior year where I put it 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:11.199 off together and that's when I started to get the 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.680 offers and uh, you know, people started to really see that, 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:16.000 you know, I can make it to cause and that's 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.360 when I really started to believe it. You're probably being 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:23.880