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Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I and this is cut to It.
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Speaker 1: we're about to let you know. It's all I'm happy
Speaker 1: to introduce. I gotta go down to e acculades, you know,
Speaker 1: for a fellow community college guy right East Mississippi community
Speaker 1: college participant, super Bowl champs with the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles, and then also retired and trying
Speaker 1: to get championships with his sons football team, and also
Speaker 1: just trying to be a regular old dad. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Cut to A Podcast. La Garrett Blunt, you said
Speaker 1: you guys have beef always because you got all weeks.
Speaker 1: Man's appreciate it, man, So we're gonna get I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just jump in it right now. I love doing this.
Speaker 1: It's called get iced Up. It's just random questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So all right, so you you know you've been around
Speaker 1: the way Florida, guy, Uh, what seat you know, you
Speaker 1: don't really have there's no seasons in Florida. So but
Speaker 1: you played in the league. You've been obviously in Boston, right,
Speaker 1: You've been in Foxborough. So you had to indore Philly, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: you Oregon. You've had to endure seasons. What's your favorite season?
Speaker 1: And why? Hey, my uh, my favorite season, I'm always
Speaker 1: i mean out of here in Arizona. You can't really
Speaker 1: pick the summer because it's it's one twenty out here
Speaker 1: during the summer. But in any other any other time,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, bro, it's it's it's it's piping up
Speaker 1: out here, get high and and but I'd rather I'd
Speaker 1: rather have that that one season of it being hot
Speaker 1: all the time rather than and having the rain, the
Speaker 1: snow and all that. Man. So I'm I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: either the summer or or the spring on I mean,
Speaker 1: the falllest football season all bro. But but that bring
Speaker 1: that brings you know, rain and snow, and I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not a fan of the elements. Just
Speaker 1: I just like it to be not us out all
Speaker 1: the time. California so crazy because when I you know,
Speaker 1: doing TV with some of the running backs bad weather.
Speaker 1: They talk, Oh man, it's just football weather. This's just
Speaker 1: and and hearing the running back say no, the grain
Speaker 1: is not football weather. I mean it is. It is.
Speaker 1: But if I'm gonna be I feel condition for people,
Speaker 1: I don't just as much as just as much as
Speaker 1: y'all don't. They don't like hitting us in the cobra,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like getting hit and hit if
Speaker 1: I get thirty carries and it's four degrees out there.
Speaker 1: But we better believe I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: feeling that. You know what I'm saying. It's gonna feel
Speaker 1: different than if it was a seventy five degree game.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That your body's gonna feel
Speaker 1: different after that. So yeah, I play that hate any
Speaker 1: I play the hate anything. All right, Well, this is
Speaker 1: probably a personal shot, but I'll take it. Uh do
Speaker 1: what kind of lotion do you use? Uh? You know
Speaker 1: what do you have? Jargons? Uh? You know, something vacillating?
Speaker 1: Like what what are you using? For? The real ashy folk?
Speaker 1: They're the only the only too I get. They're the
Speaker 1: only ones that penetrate. I've only got eggs. Let me
Speaker 1: get close to this camera. But clean, clean and clean,
Speaker 1: unmoisturized that I think it's a heat. Man. It's okay
Speaker 1: over there making biscuits outside you and you put that
Speaker 1: low stone and tim minutes later you all back in.
Speaker 1: It's like you're putting that. No. The worst is when
Speaker 1: you miss a spot. It's like like what you said,
Speaker 1: would it looked like? Alright, man, let's get let's get
Speaker 1: it right down. Then to it. Man, how you doing today?
Speaker 1: You're good? I'm good man. Kids at the big kids
Speaker 1: at school for you old here running around, I don't
Speaker 1: know if y'all hear. And down stairs we need destroying
Speaker 1: the house. Uh and yeah, man, we ain't not man
Speaker 1: and running the company, running the company. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into that. I want to hear about that. You
Speaker 1: love hey, I love it in the business man. Now
Speaker 1: that's that's different. Yeah, cool? All right? So where are
Speaker 1: you from in a place you call your hometown? Um?
Speaker 1: Born and raised in Perry, Florida. Well born in Madison,
Speaker 1: but I only lived there, only stay there for lack
Speaker 1: a week after I was born. And I've lived, born
Speaker 1: and raised in Perry Florida like that was. That's my
Speaker 1: spots so um and I I love Arizona. I love
Speaker 1: it here. This is what we made at home. Um.
Speaker 1: But but but Florida wild always have my heart, you know, say,
Speaker 1: my family and everybody still live out there. So you know,
Speaker 1: what was your upbringing growing up? For you? Um, for
Speaker 1: the most problem, I had a pretty using upbringing, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. A little struggle here and there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up in like, you know, a low
Speaker 1: income area. You know, we had lived in the practice
Speaker 1: for a little bit. You know, we lived my grandparents
Speaker 1: for a little bit before we got on our feet
Speaker 1: and file our own home and stuff. Um. But for
Speaker 1: the most apartment I had both parts and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: which was always a good thing. Um, I grew up.
Speaker 1: I grew up with some guys that didn't have you know,
Speaker 1: um father figures around. So my dad was always just around.
Speaker 1: That was I'm telling that was a huge, huge plus, um,
Speaker 1: because I mean, obviously the boys when you get older,
Speaker 1: you obviously get older and you can run over you
Speaker 1: can't really, I wouldn't say run over your mom. But
Speaker 1: like the dad with a different kind of discipline than
Speaker 1: the mom does always you know what I'm saying, even
Speaker 1: if it's even if it's a hey versus a hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If it's that, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I I I always had that
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that was that was
Speaker 1: that was huge for me because I ain't no telling
Speaker 1: what you know, or what kind of turning out I
Speaker 1: would have I would have had if I didn't have
Speaker 1: my pops around. Tell me Who's who's the Garret Blunt.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like I'm always getting the
Speaker 1: rap of being this angry black dude, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Um, And and that started, like I said, man,
Speaker 1: like you were saying, you gotta you gotta get to
Speaker 1: know someone before you can you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And still you can't judge anyone like you just can't
Speaker 1: judge anyone. And you know, ever since that little incident,
Speaker 1: I kind of had a bad rapper being like this
Speaker 1: angry black dude. I always walked around. I always want
Speaker 1: to fight, always want to do this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: And that's not the case. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Everybody that know me personally everybody that you met me
Speaker 1: and been around me personally. I know that. Bro, i'mna
Speaker 1: laid back dude. I'm down to earth. I like the
Speaker 1: clown to talk my ship. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I like the I mean, I just like the chill. Bro.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have I don't have no problems
Speaker 1: with nobody in this They got problems with me, like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm an open book, like bro, I can
Speaker 1: I can approach anybody. Anybody can approach me, and I
Speaker 1: mean everybody going whenever they see that that you know,
Speaker 1: that stigma of you know, me being this angry black
Speaker 1: dude that always snap and that he got a y'all.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't had so many people that
Speaker 1: once they met me, hit me with this this line. Bru,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're talking about, you, Bro, you
Speaker 1: don't see my anger, Dude to me, your cool as
Speaker 1: hell or you know what I'm saying is you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So that's that's I want to I
Speaker 1: tried to tried my best to get rid of that
Speaker 1: stigma and get rid of that like label. It is.
Speaker 1: It is is ros exhausted. It's just to have to
Speaker 1: just to have to. Basically, I've been defending myself from
Speaker 1: this incident since two thousand and nine, you know, and
Speaker 1: I don't really defend myself anymore. I'm just like, man,
Speaker 1: look happened where I was twenty years old. Like I
Speaker 1: don't know what else y'all want me to say, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, so that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: that's kind of how that's kind of how I just
Speaker 1: approached at this point. But when I'm a nice dude, bro,
Speaker 1: I I could kick it with whoever. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: laid back, bro, I could I could chill. I don't
Speaker 1: have I have no ill will towards the dude that
Speaker 1: we that I got into it. I have no ill
Speaker 1: wills towards the coach, towards the fans ring thing. Like again,
Speaker 1: I just look at it as one bad instanct that
Speaker 1: happened in my life. Um And to be real, that
Speaker 1: ain't even the worst thing that's happened to me, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So like that, that's that wasn't
Speaker 1: really crazy for me. You know what I'm saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: snap back that intro for function of d They suspended
Speaker 1: me for the whole season. Obviously, I felt like that
Speaker 1: wasn't I feel like that was extreme because we've seen
Speaker 1: where he works. Happened since my incident, and and people
Speaker 1: can get I have game or one game suspension just
Speaker 1: it's wiped the front of the rug, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I was watching, you know, I was watching.
Speaker 1: I'm a Utah guys, so I watched you know, around
Speaker 1: that time, you had to watch um boys State just
Speaker 1: because they were sneaking up on folks, right they were,
Speaker 1: they were, Yeah, they were sneaking up on folks. And
Speaker 1: um when I saw it, the first thing, I was like,
Speaker 1: that boy then saying something he didn't like. You know,
Speaker 1: I know, we're not gonna get into it. And he
Speaker 1: said some stuff you didn't like, and you said, you
Speaker 1: know what, this football, and in football, whether the whether
Speaker 1: the whistle has gone on and stopped, sometimes you get
Speaker 1: caught up in a moment and and football is all
Speaker 1: about hand to hand combat. And uh, he said something
Speaker 1: I know that that that didn't sit well with you,
Speaker 1: and you had to show him that it didn't sit
Speaker 1: well with him. And what he said, Uh, he has
Speaker 1: to be he has to be willing to live with
Speaker 1: that consequence, and he realized that consequence was not what
Speaker 1: he was willing to live for with. So yeah, because
Speaker 1: he because because I know, he hear everybody all the time.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hear the yeah, yeah, you let that dude
Speaker 1: knock you out? Yeah, why don't you go ahead and
Speaker 1: tell him why he almost put you night night? Why
Speaker 1: he almost why y'all you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure, bro, I'm almost positive he's not telling people. No,
Speaker 1: of course they don't do that, because i mean, bro,
Speaker 1: you think about it. He got to be telling this
Speaker 1: the black people. He got to be telling you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Whoever asked you you gotta tell you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I'm pretty sure he's not
Speaker 1: telling him. But you know who did here his head
Speaker 1: coach heardly m hm. So if y'all watch that, If
Speaker 1: y'all watch that video a couple of more times and
Speaker 1: and and see like like right as it was happening,
Speaker 1: you'll see you'll see him slap my shoulder pass say
Speaker 1: what he said, and then you see the head coach
Speaker 1: kind of like reach for him, like, but what the
Speaker 1: funk you're doing? And obviously you know what happened from there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know they know what he said. They know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. His head coach are real with because it's
Speaker 1: where his head coach and throw them under the best.
Speaker 1: He was like, man, yeah, uh, it's football. This happens,
Speaker 1: you know, we and to live with it and move on. Yuta, YadA, y'all,
Speaker 1: you know. And my coach is like, well, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: only this is unacceptable. Um, we think we're probably gonna
Speaker 1: suspending for the whole season. Uh. And I'm like, damn, bro,
Speaker 1: you don't even take the data, think about the ship.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You don't even take two
Speaker 1: days to be like damn tho, it's this worth a fool?
Speaker 1: You know you're suspension or now you just did that
Speaker 1: been the next day. Let me ask you about that.
Speaker 1: You go you you go through that process. What did
Speaker 1: I do for you personally, like just psychologically? Like you know,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to talk about what happened, but I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything where people are asking you about the residual
Speaker 1: in in This is just my words, and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to imagine how I would feel. How what
Speaker 1: do I feel for you? Is I've been on that
Speaker 1: side where you do something and and the narrative is like,
Speaker 1: for instance, for me, every time I talk on television
Speaker 1: or I say anything that requires a conscience, social media
Speaker 1: says I don't respect the guy who sucker punched someone.
Speaker 1: And I'm always given that label of sucker punch. And
Speaker 1: you know it's does not sit well with me on
Speaker 1: the sucker punch is because when you're in a fight.
Speaker 1: The last time I check, when you're in a fight,
Speaker 1: it's a fight, right, ain't no fair way to win,
Speaker 1: and it ain't no fair way to wound somebody either,
Speaker 1: And I and I just I find it. I was like, you,
Speaker 1: you know, well, because I did something back in two
Speaker 1: thousand four or two thousand and eight, and it's as
Speaker 1: all people say, oh, I don't respect anything he has
Speaker 1: to say, and so and so what I'm and what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is one I'm not speaking from
Speaker 1: ten thousand feet above looking down on you. I'm honestly
Speaker 1: for me, I feel like, let me lay down and sit,
Speaker 1: sit down and kind of look up to you, to
Speaker 1: not look up and like admire you, but look up
Speaker 1: and saying I understand some of what you have had
Speaker 1: to deal with psychologically. I don't want to put worth
Speaker 1: in your mouth, but it's a great opportunity for you
Speaker 1: to tell people what you've had to deal with from
Speaker 1: what people are assuming about you and how maybe some
Speaker 1: people talk down to you to your face based off that,
Speaker 1: um so so one thing that about people about people
Speaker 1: talking like down to me and my face and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like people they don't do it intensively. They
Speaker 1: try to joke, but it ain't funny because it's your
Speaker 1: lie and right and it's you, Um exactly, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So like you ain't like you just
Speaker 1: telling this joke to a frame. Bro, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying like you you you're talking to me, And um,
Speaker 1: it took me to a dark place, bro, it took
Speaker 1: into a real dark place. And Emily, UM, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about when I'm going to class like I can't go
Speaker 1: on campus because you know, I'm I'm going campus and
Speaker 1: and as soon as they see me, everybody like, oh
Speaker 1: ship bro, the man you should be this as like
Speaker 1: I'm going to classrooms. I'm more like going to my
Speaker 1: class and I'm going into the you know, and and
Speaker 1: everybody look at me coming in They're like, Hey, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm like, Bro, I'm might Bro
Speaker 1: come home and Bro just just let me come to
Speaker 1: the class and just just be normal, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But that happened for like But it happened
Speaker 1: for like a week to the points where I stopped
Speaker 1: going to class. I just stopped going. I just email
Speaker 1: my professors. I had my h I had my tutor,
Speaker 1: um teacher whatever her name is is this do it
Speaker 1: whatever um she had. She emailed my teachers and stuff
Speaker 1: and got all everything that I needed and gave it
Speaker 1: to um one of a couple of my teammates. And
Speaker 1: during this time, Bro Um, I say, I lot my
Speaker 1: eyes in my apartment. Bro for two weeks, and I
Speaker 1: I saw a total of four different people, maybe five.
Speaker 1: That's that's just showing love. Like, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I only saw four people like Ed Dix and and
Speaker 1: a few other teammates. You know, he kind of wanted
Speaker 1: he was my best friend. He was my best friend
Speaker 1: still too, so he brought my life working ship to
Speaker 1: the house and stuff. But Bro, I was I was.
Speaker 1: I couldn't go to restaurants. Are you saying you couldn't.
Speaker 1: Are you saying you couldn't go because of how people
Speaker 1: treated you or you didn't feel comfortable? Like what do
Speaker 1: you what do you mean? Because I just I just
Speaker 1: didn't go because I was going. I mean I did.
Speaker 1: I I to act normal, But I mean I'm talking
Speaker 1: about everywhere I went bro it was it was either
Speaker 1: it was either man, you know, he what he said
Speaker 1: was what he said to you was justified. And then
Speaker 1: you had obviously the other people's like you know, the
Speaker 1: whole turn of the cheek. You know, how could you
Speaker 1: have responded? And those people that say that, those people
Speaker 1: that say that they don't know in my background, they
Speaker 1: don't know how I was raised. They don't know what
Speaker 1: my grandparents told. How were you raised? How was your
Speaker 1: take us through that? There take us through? How were
Speaker 1: you raised? And what and what did you growing up?
Speaker 1: How did that play into your psychological process to respond
Speaker 1: the way you responded. Uh? So I grew up. I
Speaker 1: grew up man. Obviously I had both parents. I told
Speaker 1: you that, um, and I grew up with with some
Speaker 1: grandparents that uh they oh man, and they grew up
Speaker 1: in Florida. So you know what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 1: you they you know how they're feeling about certain stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, they still feel like you know, um, they
Speaker 1: still feel like you know, racist, racism and slavery is
Speaker 1: is what's is what's running the world. Like may you
Speaker 1: know how grandparents are bro you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: especially like well at least black grandparents with my grandparents,
Speaker 1: um and and and they always just like, man, don't
Speaker 1: ever let you know, don't never let anyone disrespect You'll
Speaker 1: never let anyone sin on you, never let anyone to
Speaker 1: touch you in the face, will never let anyone call
Speaker 1: you the N words. Don't never let you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Don't ever let um you know, someone ever
Speaker 1: disrespect your sister. You know what I'm saying. How you know,
Speaker 1: just the basis of growing up what they they talked
Speaker 1: to you not to accept the things that they are
Speaker 1: endured when they were being raised exactly exactly. Um and
Speaker 1: and you know, my grandma told me a long time
Speaker 1: ago that know when you know, when she's called a
Speaker 1: certain word and she defended herself, um back then you
Speaker 1: go to jail for defending yourself. You you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So she was just like you always if
Speaker 1: they come down to it. If anyone does any of
Speaker 1: these things to you, that's automatic. You gotta it's go time.
Speaker 1: Somebody's spent on you. You know that it's go time.
Speaker 1: Somebody to put the hand in your face. Just go time.
Speaker 1: Somebody call you whatever they call you, Just go time. Um.
Speaker 1: So I was raised that way and I never lost
Speaker 1: those values, and I never lost you know, track of that.
Speaker 1: So um obviously at twenty years old. I think I
Speaker 1: was twenty years old, um, nineteen or twenty whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: But at that age, you know you're still living by
Speaker 1: that philosophy. Now I'm old enough, I'm not sure enough
Speaker 1: if you know, if any of that happens, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: still a fight with somebody spit on me or slapped
Speaker 1: me or anything like that. But if if anybody comes
Speaker 1: like outside my name, I'm gonna just you know, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you yeah, you get you can still
Speaker 1: get up. I thought, beat up and say it again.
Speaker 1: So what's the point, you know? Yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they get back up and said again,
Speaker 1: but they could they could probably not. I love cut
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Speaker 1: I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother,
Speaker 1: cut to a podcast dot com. Man, I just want
Speaker 1: to ask because I'm a little bit I'm a little
Speaker 1: jealous this, you know, last chance you on Netflix? What
Speaker 1: There's so many other community colleges out there? Why is?
Speaker 1: Why is Mississippi Community College getting this love dog? We
Speaker 1: win in the National Championships? Man, y'all ain't playing no
Speaker 1: callie teams though, win the National Championship and everybody, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking one of my boys, one
Speaker 1: of my sons. Did you say everybody? But then y'all
Speaker 1: y'all beat Did y'all play Bakersfield in UK homes Northwest?
Speaker 1: Who cold a really good? We're making all of them,
Speaker 1: all them We're going to I don't know who we
Speaker 1: played in the National Championship, but I want to say
Speaker 1: one of the national championship games for US. But I
Speaker 1: thought we beat one of the teams like fifty something
Speaker 1: to twelve from from you. They was trash. It don't matter.
Speaker 1: And I think kind of what got them, kind of
Speaker 1: what got them a little bit more noticeable is because
Speaker 1: I think they might have won two or three national
Speaker 1: champions maybe two national championships back to back, went to
Speaker 1: a third win and lost, and then went to a
Speaker 1: fourth front in one, and then they started trying. They
Speaker 1: start hearing about some of the players too going into
Speaker 1: the league. Because we had Ja Darius Smith, he was
Speaker 1: had that. He was the old miss Kelly. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta Receira, that was I think Baylor from there.
Speaker 1: Um you got you got a lot of d one
Speaker 1: kids coming out of these They got you. You were there,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know you didn't see me on the
Speaker 1: Netflix show. They just showed a little quick picture of me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was playing against Mabil, been playing against the Panthers.
Speaker 1: That I mean, if you're talking about highlights, generally, the
Speaker 1: Panthers are in those highlights every time. Hey, every time
Speaker 1: I want TV lately, all the highlights against the parts.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, can y'all pick a different team? Goodness?
Speaker 1: The boys boys turning around and where we will be
Speaker 1: edited out? I'm not gonna allow you to talk this
Speaker 1: foolishness on my showy. But but hey, you want one
Speaker 1: thing though, Bro, I got a question for you. Oh
Speaker 1: did you think did you think it was? Did you
Speaker 1: think it was a good brain? Camback? I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: hear you. My headphones went out. Uh, you know, let's
Speaker 1: talk about it came as a player, Bro, But I
Speaker 1: don't think that was Why not? I just don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can. He's not Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: Cam Newton anymore. Well, I mean, if you go backwards show,
Speaker 1: was that shop both fifty? Um? I mean when you
Speaker 1: look at you both fifty in that year he was
Speaker 1: the league MVP. However we are you know, however, we
Speaker 1: also know the league MVP also goes. It really goes
Speaker 1: on how deep the team goes? Right, even though they
Speaker 1: say that it doesn't. Those voters vote on is that
Speaker 1: league MVP gonna help propel them because they vote in
Speaker 1: They they vote during the regular season. They're not going
Speaker 1: to vote a guy who statistically is really good, who's
Speaker 1: not even sniffing going to the playoffs, so that you show,
Speaker 1: you know, so they do narrow it down to the
Speaker 1: quarterback or the individual must make an impact on a
Speaker 1: team who's I believe, bound to go to the playoffs. Right,
Speaker 1: But that team construction was constructed. They were led by
Speaker 1: Cam Newton on the offense, but they were led by
Speaker 1: Luke Keikley on the defense, and so both sides of
Speaker 1: the football was severely scary. Like you, you were worried
Speaker 1: if your offense Cam Newton company would do some damage,
Speaker 1: and you were concerned that Luke Kickley and company would
Speaker 1: pick you or knock you out the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was remarkable how well balanced this team really was
Speaker 1: after the year before. They couldn't get it out of
Speaker 1: their own way. We uh we we played against him
Speaker 1: on the way to Super We ran against them. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't. But my problem is, my
Speaker 1: my whole problem wasn't with the Cam Newton bringing them back.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was I just thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting that they they brought him back, as if he
Speaker 1: was gonna save a team that had so many deficiencies right.
Speaker 1: The offensive line wasn't very good, the defense was The
Speaker 1: defense were was good, but teams were starting to already
Speaker 1: know what they brought to the table and what what
Speaker 1: what they couldn't do, And so it was like this unfair,
Speaker 1: this unrealistic expectation that he was gonna save the season.
Speaker 1: And the season was pretty hard to say because you
Speaker 1: you you had an officive line that could just could
Speaker 1: not block and in the conference, in the conference you
Speaker 1: win was tough too. Yeah, So it just it was
Speaker 1: an unrealistic expectation. Not well, it was funny is watching
Speaker 1: living here. I thought he came back as a different guy.
Speaker 1: I do believe he came back more mature, Okay, mature.
Speaker 1: I don't the Cam Newton that came back and the
Speaker 1: day I left, I don't know that Cam Newton, right,
Speaker 1: And people want me to know him, like people like, oh,
Speaker 1: how can you? How can you know him? Just like
Speaker 1: you we played against each other, and you've seen me
Speaker 1: because you play offense, You've seen how I've operated as
Speaker 1: a NFL player. In my younger years as a Panther,
Speaker 1: in my older years as a Raven. There are some
Speaker 1: things that was a little bit hype and there are
Speaker 1: some things that were a little bit subdued, But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I still conducted myself as
Speaker 1: like I used to call I was the warden when
Speaker 1: I was out there, you know, things went through me,
Speaker 1: whether it's setting the tempo right, blocking on run plays,
Speaker 1: running routes on past plays. It was different. And so
Speaker 1: when I left in two thousand three, that Cam Newton
Speaker 1: it was not a father, that Cam Newton was not
Speaker 1: a league MVP, that Cam Newton was not a team captain.
Speaker 1: He was a young guy. Yeah it was. And so
Speaker 1: he's matured and went through some things. But mature doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean mature like you're gonna save the world from cancer.
Speaker 1: Mature is just a different place of where you started.
Speaker 1: And and so I I don't know that thirty two
Speaker 1: year old man just like him. Newton doesn't know forty
Speaker 1: two year old Steve, because we haven't interacted with each
Speaker 1: other long enough to see what has matured, what hasn't matured,
Speaker 1: what has died off, what has come to pass, what
Speaker 1: what still needs to be rooted out, what still needs
Speaker 1: to be groomed. So that that's why I've always tried
Speaker 1: to stay away from when people ask me about him
Speaker 1: because you and I both I don't know that Cam
Speaker 1: Newton in that locker room, right, and and Cam Newton
Speaker 1: didn't know me in the Baltimore locker room. Because when
Speaker 1: I played against everybody just knew I was gonna talk.
Speaker 1: Everybody just knew how I was gonna respond, and everybody
Speaker 1: was shocked, like this boy really is not gonna say
Speaker 1: one word, you know. And it took a lot, bro
Speaker 1: I'm telling when I played against him, it took a
Speaker 1: lot not to say anything. But it also show myself
Speaker 1: and showed the other people and more of myself that
Speaker 1: I can't control myself. I can, you know, play the
Speaker 1: game without talking, right right. You know, that was kind
Speaker 1: of first time I ever did that really out of
Speaker 1: that field though. Um that's that's a that's a part
Speaker 1: of your personality, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: it actually it actually wasn't as sweet as people thought
Speaker 1: for me. For me, it was actually, um it, it
Speaker 1: was kind of a buyer's remorse, like I experienced it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I moved on. I got my you know, I got
Speaker 1: I got to win. I have fun bla blas. But
Speaker 1: it was like, but why did I have to go
Speaker 1: through that right, right, And there were some people that
Speaker 1: wanted it, and it was some people that you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Dave Gelman, who was a guy who was like, hey,
Speaker 1: we could move on from him. But it was one
Speaker 1: of those things. So many things were said and there's
Speaker 1: so many stories that were let out that was the
Speaker 1: purpose was to um poison and kind of manipulate and
Speaker 1: kind of set a bad leave, a bad taste in
Speaker 1: the city. That's that's that's done so much for me.
Speaker 1: And so it's kind of like like, Okay, well, if
Speaker 1: I leave, I think, don't get mad, because I'm one
Speaker 1: of those if I leave, I ain't coming back now,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, we're not coming back. Yeah, And so it
Speaker 1: took you know, so it took a lot, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's obviously the place I still live. My family's here,
Speaker 1: my kids and got a lot of stuff going in.
Speaker 1: It's fun. But there are times, man, I am I
Speaker 1: am reserved. I do enjoy being at the house and
Speaker 1: kind of taking a step back because it feels a
Speaker 1: little safer, right, it does, bro it does. That's it's
Speaker 1: it's a safe it's a safe space for me too.
Speaker 1: I feel exactly what we're talking about exactly what men, bro,
Speaker 1: because I mean I got a juggle. I'm I just
Speaker 1: ordered up be a judgment. See he plays receiver. Um,
Speaker 1: I just ordered him Ajugmentee. I told you gotta get
Speaker 1: two hundred catches in a day. Um, you're gonna you
Speaker 1: want me to burst your bubble? Tell me don't make
Speaker 1: them catch two hundred passes a day. Bro, No, no,
Speaker 1: how many you need the cats to day? Real talk
Speaker 1: or or no real talk? Here he twelve Real talk, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying. I'm not saying throw two passes, but
Speaker 1: spend more time with him throwing the ball, just playing catch.
Speaker 1: Then making it a job because we know wants the job.
Speaker 1: You don't want to burn them out right, I would
Speaker 1: say you. I would say, use that jugment scene to
Speaker 1: teach you how to catch a punk the ball because
Speaker 1: here's what you don't want to do. You don't want
Speaker 1: to beat his hands up, okay, right, you don't want
Speaker 1: to create you don't want to create that muscle deficiency
Speaker 1: in his hands at a young age. Here's what you
Speaker 1: need to do. Play catch with him, Throw the ball
Speaker 1: all over so he can, you know, so he could
Speaker 1: like practice. Yes, yes, get his range, but make it
Speaker 1: where you're throwing it. He can focus on catching the ball,
Speaker 1: creating a diamond looking it in verst and the judge, man,
Speaker 1: that thing is coming is bang bang bang, right, and
Speaker 1: also get him some hand grippers. Oh, I ain't think
Speaker 1: about that. Yes, I see a lot of people think
Speaker 1: a lot of people think is catching the passes. The
Speaker 1: passes are creating iron hand coordination. That's all it's doing.
Speaker 1: You can create iron hand coordination by just playing catch
Speaker 1: with him, you and him. Yeah, but when you do
Speaker 1: the jugs, man, it's constant beating on his hands and
Speaker 1: then you're tearing them down. So what I would say,
Speaker 1: You know, we used to sit in those meetings and
Speaker 1: so you know, playing against you, right, We're going against
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, are going against the Pittsburgh Steelers, going
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia Eagles. Man, I'm sitting there on Wednesday. You know,
Speaker 1: let's say we win, very rare, but say let's we win,
Speaker 1: and so we got you know, we got Monday off Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So I come in on Wednesday, bro, you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: I come in Wednesday. I'm watching my film. You know
Speaker 1: which dB I gotta go against? What's the defense, whose
Speaker 1: defense coordinator? And then I got my coffee. And when
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in the meetings, you know, you got the
Speaker 1: eight oh five meeting and the coach talks. Then he
Speaker 1: breaks down and talks about where we are, the you
Speaker 1: know what this team is about, who the referees are, blase, blase,
Speaker 1: and the whole time, so you you know, the opening meeting,
Speaker 1: we may be done forty five or nine o'clock right,
Speaker 1: and the whole time, you know what I'm doing. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there with hand grippers going we're going over and
Speaker 1: then we break down to offense defense. And so why
Speaker 1: they're talking about offense defense. What I'm doing is I
Speaker 1: switched it to the left hand because now I got
Speaker 1: to write down my plays hand grippers. It's strong ones
Speaker 1: and so there's so so so there's a sporting good
Speaker 1: sword because they ain't paying it, so I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: drop drop them, so I ain't gonna drop their name.
Speaker 1: So there's one um, there's some hand grippers that has
Speaker 1: a little orange ball that you can adjust and by
Speaker 1: adjusting that, you can increase it or decrease it, so
Speaker 1: you can start him on the low and then just
Speaker 1: he just sit there and hand grip right, So you
Speaker 1: got those hand grippers, and then you got the iron
Speaker 1: hand coordination, and you you and him just playing catch,
Speaker 1: he's improving the iron hand coordination. And then he strengthened
Speaker 1: his hands because I mean, I'm gonna make sure I
Speaker 1: make sure I don't get that because think about it,
Speaker 1: him catching the past, what separates him? What how he
Speaker 1: can hold on to the ball in a contested catch?
Speaker 1: You know, go back man, you know going against you
Speaker 1: guys them dude useduld come and they hit me and
Speaker 1: I just to hold that ball up. You know why,
Speaker 1: hand grippers because I'm gonna get hit with the ball.
Speaker 1: The question is am I gonna get hit holding onto
Speaker 1: the ball or not holding onto the ball? Right right?
Speaker 1: And you know the difference. But you know how you
Speaker 1: know the difference? Yes, So that that's what I That's
Speaker 1: what I like. That's what I would say. I would say,
Speaker 1: use that judge machine. It's not a waste, but use
Speaker 1: it for pump return, to kick off return, teaching him
Speaker 1: how to catch. I'm gonna use I'm gonna use this
Speaker 1: for his tackle team this year too, So it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be just at there, so use it for teaching
Speaker 1: all those boys how to be a pump returner and
Speaker 1: catch save his hands man, Man, I was gonna beat
Speaker 1: him up. Man, I hate hand I hate the judgment saying,
Speaker 1: because when are you really gonna catch a two seventeen
Speaker 1: my per hour pa? Why? Why? Why you shouldn't? Because
Speaker 1: think about it, that that pounding you're running back. Does
Speaker 1: pounding make you better? No? What does it do? It
Speaker 1: takes life off away. So don't beat this hands man,
Speaker 1: don't do that. I got you. That's because that's just
Speaker 1: that's like, that's like the that's like the coaches. That's
Speaker 1: like the coach is telling you as running back, if
Speaker 1: if if you obviously on the if you're obviously running
Speaker 1: you know, if you got all this space right here,
Speaker 1: but you got this guy right here and this one,
Speaker 1: the coach don't want you to run that guy over
Speaker 1: rather than you know, he's gonna he's gonna want me.
Speaker 1: He donna want me to run him over rather than
Speaker 1: the ye cut left, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: and I used to get in trouble for that because
Speaker 1: obviously of how big i am, I'm I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: already annoying. Somebody that's five foot ten or five for
Speaker 1: the eleven gonna hit me low. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: try to I'm not gonna try to go all the
Speaker 1: way down there and run you over. I'm gonna cut right,
Speaker 1: cut left. You know what I'm saying. I was being
Speaker 1: used to go crazy to me? What the fucker doing?
Speaker 1: LG was running over and he weighs a hundred and
Speaker 1: me d eight, sometimes one over and sometimes on hundred
Speaker 1: sneak up on you and trick you one or two times.
Speaker 1: Now it ain't well? How about this? My hunter and
Speaker 1: eighty five pounds will trick a few trick a few
Speaker 1: of them linebackers that try to come hit the running back,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they didn't see me. I
Speaker 1: don't think I need it. I need it. I needed
Speaker 1: a couple of I needed a couple of years. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to my dad talk a lot. He loves
Speaker 1: to talk. Just give him a minute and he'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Good, do good. Let's getting down to do good.
Speaker 1: Hey Gerard, why didn't you get that T shirt? You mean?
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Speaker 1: us wherever you listen to podcasts. Man, let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about this the CBD company. Man, what well you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about the business. How how did you
Speaker 1: get started? Why did you get started? What was the purpose?
Speaker 1: What's the purpose? Why do you feel it's a purpose?
Speaker 1: I got started because I I was one of the
Speaker 1: guys that I mean, and I don't know how how
Speaker 1: do you feel about this stuff? But I was one
Speaker 1: of the guys that I do get the ball a lot.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to the game. I'm taking that I'm
Speaker 1: taking that first pill. I'm getting that shot into the shoulder,
Speaker 1: M and and and and I'm going out there and
Speaker 1: playing like that on that After the game, this this
Speaker 1: shoulder probably gonna be sure, it's gonna be horrendous. After
Speaker 1: the game was gonna feel like it's about to fall along.
Speaker 1: So uh me personally, Bro, I used to love being
Speaker 1: able to go in the game and not have to
Speaker 1: deal with the pains of of of what I was
Speaker 1: dealing with. But at the same time, Bro, the games
Speaker 1: that used to be so excruciating when the medicine and
Speaker 1: stuff war on. So I was just like, man, it's
Speaker 1: I was thinking, there's something wrong. There's there's just something wrong,
Speaker 1: Like they can't. I don't know how strong these pills are,
Speaker 1: but they're they're strong enough to make uh towing a
Speaker 1: c joint, you know, disappeared during a game that you're
Speaker 1: playing against grown men. You're hitting that cell there. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what ain't. And that's the other thing, Bro,
Speaker 1: you don't. I mean you probably asked, but I've never
Speaker 1: asked them what what this pill is? And every time
Speaker 1: and every other guy that went in there to take
Speaker 1: these pills, Bro, I never heard anybody said, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: what what this pill? And and for me, man, I
Speaker 1: just man, the pill started whenever I started listening to
Speaker 1: uh older players Um Brady, Um, Vince Wilford, Mayo, Uh,
Speaker 1: Chris Long, you know, I started. I started listening to
Speaker 1: older players, Jason Peters, all these guys. That's that's that's.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these guys and these guys ain't going
Speaker 1: there and you know, getting shot up every time and
Speaker 1: taking I'm like, bro, you know, and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Chris Long, like bro, yo, your knee or your ankle,
Speaker 1: whatever it was. B your ship messed up. It's unique.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It shouldn't be looking like that. Bro. Bro,
Speaker 1: what Bro, you're gonna go play on that? He's like, yeah, Bro,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go play on this. Somebody you're feel to
Speaker 1: get it shot or he's like, nah, I don't do
Speaker 1: the shots no more. It's like, I don't do the
Speaker 1: shots no more. And I'm do the pain pills no more.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm like, well, bro, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know what I'm saying. And you
Speaker 1: know him, Uh, Chris was one of the guys that
Speaker 1: was already on the TVD. You know, he here a
Speaker 1: little bit older than me. I think he was got
Speaker 1: drafted and like two thousand and he's not that far
Speaker 1: ahead of you, right behind you. I'm older than Chris, yeah,
Speaker 1: but not a lot, No, no, not by a lot.
Speaker 1: But he started, he started, he started telling me about
Speaker 1: it more and more. And I mean, Chris Long is
Speaker 1: somebody that I respect, you know, so if he say something, Mama,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it the heart. And I started looking
Speaker 1: into it. This was in two thousand and seventeen, I
Speaker 1: started looking into it and I started getting my shots
Speaker 1: less and less. UM. I started taking them pills less
Speaker 1: and less, and I deal with a little bit more
Speaker 1: pain than usual. But I was okay with that. So
Speaker 1: I found a couple of different CBD companies UM that
Speaker 1: guys was using and I just started using it and
Speaker 1: and they, you know, they was cool and all, but
Speaker 1: they were just like guys kept telling me, like, bro,
Speaker 1: there's a lot better products out there than this. There's
Speaker 1: a lot better products out there than this. And then
Speaker 1: when I got over, you know, and I started seeing
Speaker 1: you know, the dance pros, the girls and all these
Speaker 1: guys tearing the A c l s and you know,
Speaker 1: all these crazy kind of injuries and stuff, and I'm like, man, thang, bro,
Speaker 1: I know, I know that there's something that that that
Speaker 1: I could do, that I could find it and being
Speaker 1: hit me. I'm like bro, cb D company, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm like this right here to help guys if
Speaker 1: I can. If I can get enough guys, don't notice.
Speaker 1: If I can get enough people on board, they will
Speaker 1: notice that this is a healthy, a more healthy way,
Speaker 1: a healthier way to deal with pain, to deal with
Speaker 1: this comfort to deal with bro I mean, just think
Speaker 1: about it. They give you pills for if you can't sleep,
Speaker 1: they give you a pill for it. You got anxiety,
Speaker 1: they give you a pill for it. Pain, they give
Speaker 1: you a pill for it. Think about it, taking three
Speaker 1: pills today every day. You know what I'm saying. Now. Now, now,
Speaker 1: now that's something to think about. Because five years down
Speaker 1: the road, seven ten years down the road, fail, your
Speaker 1: kidney fail, all that stuff, you're not gonna you're not
Speaker 1: gonna you're not gonna register that. All the way back
Speaker 1: to NFL football and two thousand and fourteen, you're gonna think, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: something wrong with my body? Now? So you start your
Speaker 1: did you start your own company? Like? How did that process?
Speaker 1: Own company? This s life Flex, Yeah, that's mine. How
Speaker 1: did you started? Like? What? What? What takes us through
Speaker 1: that process? So we I went and found I gotta,
Speaker 1: I got somebody to help me go find a manufacturer.
Speaker 1: My manufacturers and Oregon, okay, And that's why I went
Speaker 1: And that's why I went to school. So obviously you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna probably want to work. I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: acknowledge the Oregon thing, but yeah, I get I give
Speaker 1: it to give it to you, and they ended up
Speaker 1: loving me. They love my idea. Um, and when they
Speaker 1: started coming to the formulas and the ingredients and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So that's how that's how I got my
Speaker 1: patches and my rollerball in my and my salve. And
Speaker 1: then when it when it came to my dummies and teachers,
Speaker 1: I gotta my manufacturers out here in Arizona because that's
Speaker 1: just higher than man, than than than the patages and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: So he's out here and he got a quick turnaround,
Speaker 1: so that's easy for me to do and pick up.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I've had the company for a year
Speaker 1: now and now I'm starting to see the different prints
Speaker 1: and and how much people are receptive to what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Because obviously at the beginning, and you gotta grow businesses
Speaker 1: no matter what, but I was in the beginning, people
Speaker 1: were kind of like, just because I'm Garrett Blunt, I'm
Speaker 1: going up, I'm going here and check out the products.
Speaker 1: But I wanted people to be receptive, receptive to what
Speaker 1: I'm teaching them, to what I'm what I'm telling them. Um.
Speaker 1: For instance, mayra H, C, CBD and t C they're
Speaker 1: not the same, They're not the same. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They a lot of people put those together.
Speaker 1: And that's not that it's not the same, cause none
Speaker 1: of my products get you high. All my products are
Speaker 1: t h C free. You know, they're all TC free,
Speaker 1: CBD isolate, they're all natural, they're all organic. This is
Speaker 1: as healthy as you're gonna get um when it comes
Speaker 1: to dealing with discomfort, when it comes to them, with
Speaker 1: dealing with pay badly, patterns, any kind of anxiety. This
Speaker 1: this is the cream of the crop. I think this
Speaker 1: is this is the best. The best product that you're
Speaker 1: gonna find when it comes to CBD is mind. So
Speaker 1: is it just in Arizona? What you know? Are you?
Speaker 1: And others? Are you? And where are you? It's basic.
Speaker 1: It's based in Arizona. It's based in Arizona. But I
Speaker 1: mean I should, we should Canada anywhere. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you order, we're gonna send it to you.
Speaker 1: So what's been what's what's been? Some of the things
Speaker 1: you've learned in this process in business and business? Oh
Speaker 1: he's smiling, Oh, he's smiling. The things that I've learned
Speaker 1: is and uh, networking and patients is key to having
Speaker 1: that successful that's that's that's two of the main kids
Speaker 1: to having a successful business. I'm so happy for you, man,
Speaker 1: you see him at peace? Why do you what's what's
Speaker 1: really what has resolved inside of you where you can
Speaker 1: be so just looking at you smiling, you're enjoining the
Speaker 1: conversation and dialogue where you know why? How did you
Speaker 1: get to that moment that you're at right now? Where
Speaker 1: you got la Garrett, let's go feel good CBD. You
Speaker 1: teach your kids how to play all teaching them to
Speaker 1: master the craft in which you you did a pretty
Speaker 1: darn good job. And and you was physical. You understood
Speaker 1: the business. Um, you experienced the bad side of the business.
Speaker 1: You've experienced, the amateur side of the business, the collegian side,
Speaker 1: you've experienced, um, the bs of not being recruited, being
Speaker 1: half recruited, all of that stuff that you've experienced. And
Speaker 1: yet you're on the end of this zoom and you've
Speaker 1: seen at peace, smiling and enjoy your life. How did
Speaker 1: you get to there? Because not a lot of men
Speaker 1: that have playball that made ten times more money that
Speaker 1: you've made, made ten times less money that you've made.
Speaker 1: I have not been able to be at peace the
Speaker 1: way you see you're at peace right now. I just
Speaker 1: credit that to just the kids. Man. Uh. The wife
Speaker 1: is just being sold so um, supportive and taking care
Speaker 1: of what need to be taking care of around the
Speaker 1: house and stuff like that, if I if im you
Speaker 1: know any any of that. So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: put me at peace, just being able to be here
Speaker 1: with them because my last after after Philly, we bought
Speaker 1: a house out here, and then they didn't come back.
Speaker 1: They didn't come out to um to watch me play
Speaker 1: anymore into like probably a Christmas game and maybe I
Speaker 1: think it's giving game, but that was about it, um
Speaker 1: and so uh and I used to get these phone calls.
Speaker 1: I used to get these text messages from LB. Um,
Speaker 1: that's some little Garad Jr. And I used to get
Speaker 1: the calls from my daughter's yard and they used to
Speaker 1: be like, Um, Dad, are you gonna are you gonna
Speaker 1: be home at a football season? How long are you
Speaker 1: gonna be home for? You're gonna be home for a month?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be home for a few weeks? Or
Speaker 1: you know? Or you know, I'm getting call like hey,
Speaker 1: we missed you, can we come out? And just then
Speaker 1: the other and uh. In year nine that started hitting
Speaker 1: a little bit different. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: and you're not, like, Dame, I don't want three Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: Un done everything I wanted to do in my career,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean beside rush for ten thousand yard
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, well, but you know I don't.
Speaker 1: And and you know I've I've done everything in my
Speaker 1: career that I was and I wanted to do. Um
Speaker 1: the kids don't being able to watch it from the
Speaker 1: ground up, and and they've enjoyed every bit of it. Um.
Speaker 1: And it was just me personally, I just didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't feel like there was nothing else for me to
Speaker 1: play for UM. And I didn't want to continue. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to continue to go from the team, the team,
Speaker 1: the team, the team in the back end. You know
Speaker 1: nine and you're nine of them with the Lions, you're
Speaker 1: tend them. With New Orleans, you're twelve. And with the Raiders.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I'm I'm just not I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be on the ap careself um um
Speaker 1: and and and you know, get to the point where
Speaker 1: they pick you up, you know you gotta stay in
Speaker 1: safe and then they pick up a week before the
Speaker 1: playoffs and then they cut you a week later. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like that just wasn't trying coaster
Speaker 1: right on that roller coaster, and I just want, like
Speaker 1: I said, I wanted to be here. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: always missing I'm missing cheer competitions, school, I'm missing all
Speaker 1: of that, bro And and I'm just getting phone calls like, hey,
Speaker 1: Murk calling me like Marissa, that's that's that's my lady. Shoot, Hey,
Speaker 1: LB did great. You know what I'm saying. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: some videos and I'm like, and the videos just don't
Speaker 1: do it justice because I don't show you, like four
Speaker 1: players of what the game looked like. Like I just
Speaker 1: got I wanted to be more involved in all that stuff. Man.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Man. You obviously you play with Brady, you
Speaker 1: were coached by Belichick, and now you have your own business.
Speaker 1: What ingredients from what you've learned from those organizations and
Speaker 1: that success with those teams and those leaders that you're
Speaker 1: able to carry into your business now um with your
Speaker 1: CBD company. Um. I say, one of the major things
Speaker 1: I learned being with those places is uh, just being
Speaker 1: in the lead in general is um, patients. Man, you
Speaker 1: can't arrest anything. You gotta be patient. I mean, everybody
Speaker 1: want their business, they want to start the business off,
Speaker 1: and then the next they make to me no, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like, but you got you
Speaker 1: just you just gotta you can't rest man, take patience
Speaker 1: and take time. It takes a lot of discipline, UM,
Speaker 1: in which I learned all three of those things over
Speaker 1: the course of me playing in the NFL. I learned
Speaker 1: all three of those things are viral and key to
Speaker 1: your success in the lead. UM. And you can also
Speaker 1: take those and and put those into other ventures that
Speaker 1: you do later on in life and still follow that
Speaker 1: same mold and be successful. Patience, discipline, you know. I
Speaker 1: obviously you gotta you gotta be patient if if the
Speaker 1: business is gonna be successful, you gotta be disciplined in
Speaker 1: order to stay stay focused and stay on course of
Speaker 1: what you know that you have to do to make
Speaker 1: your business successful. Like it's just you know, those two
Speaker 1: of the things. Those are two things that that I
Speaker 1: definitely take out took out of being in the league
Speaker 1: and brought her to the to the business side. UM
Speaker 1: and the hard work man. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think that will that will never be matched to anything.
Speaker 1: You ain't nothing you can do to to cover up
Speaker 1: hard work. There's nothing you can do. The stuffs too
Speaker 1: hard work. If you're gonna work hard, you're gonna read
Speaker 1: the benefits, you know. And we've been grinding, you know,
Speaker 1: we've been grinding this company, um, like I said, for
Speaker 1: a little bit over a year now, man, and I'm
Speaker 1: starting to see um a lot more support, a lot
Speaker 1: of benefits, you know, UM a lot more traffic to
Speaker 1: the websites, and just people are just starting to learn
Speaker 1: and see about you know what what this is all about.
Speaker 1: You know what's what's what's the website? And you know,
Speaker 1: go ahead and uh, go ahead and talk about your company. Man.
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to. I ain't trying to. Ain't trying
Speaker 1: to short short change your company. Oh you know you
Speaker 1: don't built shouting. Let that thing live, hey man. The
Speaker 1: website is LGS feel good dot com. Lg S feel
Speaker 1: good dot com. That's where you can find all the products.
Speaker 1: That's where you can go place your orders. Man, go
Speaker 1: check this out. You won't regret it. You can also
Speaker 1: catch us on Facebook at lerg is still good. You
Speaker 1: can get us on Instagram same handle. Well, Man, I appreciate,
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Man, it's it's it's so cool to
Speaker 1: see your trend um, see the transition of you man,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's cool to see your smiling brother.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand the road. The road, if you've traveled, is the
Speaker 1: long scenic road that a lot of people could not do.
Speaker 1: And you made it through. You got more out of
Speaker 1: that apple, orange and liman lemon then a lot of
Speaker 1: people would have. And you actually have made it into
Speaker 1: lime and an apple and lemon juice that some people
Speaker 1: wouldn't have. Man, So congratulations. Uh, I was not part
Speaker 1: of it, so I can't say I'm proud of you,
Speaker 1: but I am amazed at the transition you have made.
Speaker 1: And man is awesome. So congratulations brother, and I'm happy.
Speaker 1: I'm happy, Yes, it is. There's a lot of us.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen what happened in last year, you know,
Speaker 1: in the last year or so. Man, you know these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know God bless today. You know
Speaker 1: some of these guys just retiring, don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: You don't have a plan, and you know, and it's
Speaker 1: it's tough. It's tough. And I've witnessed some of these guys,
Speaker 1: and you know, I've tried to help some of them,
Speaker 1: and it's it's hard. And I thank God that I
Speaker 1: don't have to go through that. I thank God. But man,
Speaker 1: it's tough to see. It's tough to see, especially if
Speaker 1: it's somebody that you personally know, you know like that.
Speaker 1: It's tough to see. Man. So I'm happy I was
Speaker 1: able to transition smooth. You are a unique person. You
Speaker 1: are well worth it, you are competent, and most of all,
Speaker 1: your lovable. I'm Steve Smith Senor I'm Little John and
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