WEBVTT - LeGarrette Blount 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 --> 0:00:13.039 Steve Smith Senior and I and this is cut to It. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 Good do it, Good do it. They's getting down to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.720 do it. Good do it. We asked the questions you 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.200 always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.840 cut to it. You ain't heard am about it? Then 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:42.880 we're about to let you know. It's all I'm happy 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.920 to introduce. I gotta go down to e acculades, you know, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:53.000 for a fellow community college guy right East Mississippi community 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:59.600 college participant, super Bowl champs with the New England Patriots, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:05.199 with the Philadelphia Eagles, and then also retired and trying 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:10.880 to get championships with his sons football team, and also 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.200 just trying to be a regular old dad. Welcome to 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:22.640 the Cut to A Podcast. La Garrett Blunt, you said 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.760 you guys have beef always because you got all weeks. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.119 Man's appreciate it, man, So we're gonna get I'm gonna 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.200 just jump in it right now. I love doing this. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:40.039 It's called get iced Up. It's just random questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.400 So all right, so you you know you've been around 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.760 the way Florida, guy, Uh, what seat you know, you 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.200 don't really have there's no seasons in Florida. So but 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.880 you played in the league. You've been obviously in Boston, right, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.559 You've been in Foxborough. So you had to indore Philly, Pittsburgh, 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:04.320 you Oregon. You've had to endure seasons. What's your favorite season? 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:10.720 And why? Hey, my uh, my favorite season, I'm always 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.880 i mean out of here in Arizona. You can't really 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.839 pick the summer because it's it's one twenty out here 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:23.120 during the summer. But in any other any other time, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.680 I'm telling you, bro, it's it's it's it's piping up 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:34.600 out here, get high and and but I'd rather I'd 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.519 rather have that that one season of it being hot 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.760 all the time rather than and having the rain, the 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.480 snow and all that. Man. So I'm I'm gonna say 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.680 either the summer or or the spring on I mean, 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.679 the falllest football season all bro. But but that bring 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.560 that brings you know, rain and snow, and I'm not 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.919 I'm not, I'm not a fan of the elements. Just 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.520 I just like it to be not us out all 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.080 the time. California so crazy because when I you know, 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.000 doing TV with some of the running backs bad weather. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.919 They talk, Oh man, it's just football weather. This's just 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.120 and and hearing the running back say no, the grain 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.440 is not football weather. I mean it is. It is. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.480 But if I'm gonna be I feel condition for people, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.840 I don't just as much as just as much as 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.960 y'all don't. They don't like hitting us in the cobra, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.280 I don't. I don't like getting hit and hit if 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.600 I get thirty carries and it's four degrees out there. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.400 But we better believe I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.480 feeling that. You know what I'm saying. It's gonna feel 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.200 different than if it was a seventy five degree game. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.680 You know what I'm saying. That your body's gonna feel 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.960 different after that. So yeah, I play that hate any 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.480 I play the hate anything. All right, Well, this is 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.400 probably a personal shot, but I'll take it. Uh do 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:58.640 what kind of lotion do you use? Uh? You know 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.920 what do you have? Jargons? Uh? You know, something vacillating? 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.240 Like what what are you using? For? The real ashy folk? 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.360 They're the only the only too I get. They're the 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:21.640 only ones that penetrate. I've only got eggs. Let me 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:26.200 get close to this camera. But clean, clean and clean, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:35.839 unmoisturized that I think it's a heat. Man. It's okay 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.560 over there making biscuits outside you and you put that 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.840 low stone and tim minutes later you all back in. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.360 It's like you're putting that. No. The worst is when 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:53.120 you miss a spot. It's like like what you said, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.200 would it looked like? Alright, man, let's get let's get 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.159 it right down. Then to it. Man, how you doing today? 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.839 You're good? I'm good man. Kids at the big kids 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.560 at school for you old here running around, I don't 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.360 know if y'all hear. And down stairs we need destroying 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.560 the house. Uh and yeah, man, we ain't not man 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.719 and running the company, running the company. But we're gonna 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.760 get into that. I want to hear about that. You 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.840 love hey, I love it in the business man. Now 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.159 that's that's different. Yeah, cool? All right? So where are 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.720 you from in a place you call your hometown? Um? 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.560 Born and raised in Perry, Florida. Well born in Madison, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.200 but I only lived there, only stay there for lack 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.680 a week after I was born. And I've lived, born 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.360 and raised in Perry Florida like that was. That's my 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.960 spots so um and I I love Arizona. I love 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.320 it here. This is what we made at home. Um. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.520 But but but Florida wild always have my heart, you know, say, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.880 my family and everybody still live out there. So you know, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.760 what was your upbringing growing up? For you? Um, for 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.920 the most problem, I had a pretty using upbringing, you 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.400 know what I'm saying. A little struggle here and there. Obviously, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.760 you know, growing up in like, you know, a low 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.159 income area. You know, we had lived in the practice 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.159 for a little bit. You know, we lived my grandparents 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.200 for a little bit before we got on our feet 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.920 and file our own home and stuff. Um. But for 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.160 the most apartment I had both parts and stuff like that, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.919 which was always a good thing. Um, I grew up. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.840 I grew up with some guys that didn't have you know, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.279 um father figures around. So my dad was always just around. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.640 That was I'm telling that was a huge, huge plus, um, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.560 because I mean, obviously the boys when you get older, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.200 you obviously get older and you can run over you 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.360 can't really, I wouldn't say run over your mom. But 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.880 like the dad with a different kind of discipline than 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.000 the mom does always you know what I'm saying, even 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.000 if it's even if it's a hey versus a hey, look, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.160 you know what I'm saying. If it's that, you know 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.760 what I'm saying. So I I I always had that 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.440 you know what I'm saying. So that was that was 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.320 that was huge for me because I ain't no telling 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.280 what you know, or what kind of turning out I 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:02.880 would have I would have had if I didn't have 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.479 my pops around. Tell me Who's who's the Garret Blunt. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.400 I feel like I feel like I'm always getting the 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.600 rap of being this angry black dude, you know what 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:16.120 I'm saying. Um, And and that started, like I said, man, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.040 like you were saying, you gotta you gotta get to 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.160 know someone before you can you know what I'm saying. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.520 And still you can't judge anyone like you just can't 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.000 judge anyone. And you know, ever since that little incident, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.800 I kind of had a bad rapper being like this 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.680 angry black dude. I always walked around. I always want 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.560 to fight, always want to do this, that and the other. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.720 And that's not the case. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.080 Everybody that know me personally everybody that you met me 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.960 and been around me personally. I know that. Bro, i'mna 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.040 laid back dude. I'm down to earth. I like the 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.280 clown to talk my ship. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.400 I like the I mean, I just like the chill. Bro. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.720 I don't I don't have I don't have no problems 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.040 with nobody in this They got problems with me, like 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.600 I'm I'm I'm an open book, like bro, I can 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.760 I can approach anybody. Anybody can approach me, and I 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.120 mean everybody going whenever they see that that you know, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.960 that stigma of you know, me being this angry black 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.440 dude that always snap and that he got a y'all. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.840 And you know, I don't had so many people that 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.000 once they met me, hit me with this this line. Bru, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.920 I don't know what they're talking about, you, Bro, you 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.240 don't see my anger, Dude to me, your cool as 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.000 hell or you know what I'm saying is you know 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.200 what I'm saying. So that's that's I want to I 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.400 tried to tried my best to get rid of that 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.599 stigma and get rid of that like label. It is. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.160 It is is ros exhausted. It's just to have to 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.560 just to have to. Basically, I've been defending myself from 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.839 this incident since two thousand and nine, you know, and 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.240 I don't really defend myself anymore. I'm just like, man, 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.480 look happened where I was twenty years old. Like I 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.559 don't know what else y'all want me to say, you 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.959 know what I'm saying. So, so that's that's kind of 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:55.880 that's kind of how that's kind of how I just 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.000 approached at this point. But when I'm a nice dude, bro, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.480 I I could kick it with whoever. You know, I'm 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.440 laid back, bro, I could I could chill. I don't 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.520 have I have no ill will towards the dude that 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.240 we that I got into it. I have no ill 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.880 wills towards the coach, towards the fans ring thing. Like again, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.079 I just look at it as one bad instanct that 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.839 happened in my life. Um And to be real, that 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.920 ain't even the worst thing that's happened to me, you 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.920 know what I'm saying. So like that, that's that wasn't 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.680 really crazy for me. You know what I'm saying, Oh, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.320 snap back that intro for function of d They suspended 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.439 me for the whole season. Obviously, I felt like that 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.200 wasn't I feel like that was extreme because we've seen 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.800 where he works. Happened since my incident, and and people 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.040 can get I have game or one game suspension just 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:49.960 it's wiped the front of the rug, you know. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.120 I was. I was watching, you know, I was watching. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.440 I'm a Utah guys, so I watched you know, around 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.959 that time, you had to watch um boys State just 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.240 because they were sneaking up on folks, right they were, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.599 they were, Yeah, they were sneaking up on folks. And 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.880 um when I saw it, the first thing, I was like, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.360 that boy then saying something he didn't like. You know, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.360 I know, we're not gonna get into it. And he 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.000 said some stuff you didn't like, and you said, you 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:23.200 know what, this football, and in football, whether the whether 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.280 the whistle has gone on and stopped, sometimes you get 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.360 caught up in a moment and and football is all 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:33.319 about hand to hand combat. And uh, he said something 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.959 I know that that that didn't sit well with you, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.319 and you had to show him that it didn't sit 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.719 well with him. And what he said, Uh, he has 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.559 to be he has to be willing to live with 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.280 that consequence, and he realized that consequence was not what 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.040 he was willing to live for with. So yeah, because 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.760 he because because I know, he hear everybody all the time. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.240 He's gonna hear the yeah, yeah, you let that dude 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.800 knock you out? Yeah, why don't you go ahead and 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.040 tell him why he almost put you night night? Why 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.480 he almost why y'all you know what I'm saying. I'm 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.079 pretty sure, bro, I'm almost positive he's not telling people. No, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.400 of course they don't do that, because i mean, bro, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.280 you think about it. He got to be telling this 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.199 the black people. He got to be telling you know 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.160 what I'm saying. Whoever asked you you gotta tell you 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.760 know what I'm saying. So I'm pretty sure he's not 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.400 telling him. But you know who did here his head 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.440 coach heardly m hm. So if y'all watch that, If 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.160 y'all watch that video a couple of more times and 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.400 and and see like like right as it was happening, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.560 you'll see you'll see him slap my shoulder pass say 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.719 what he said, and then you see the head coach 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.400 kind of like reach for him, like, but what the 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:46.520 funk you're doing? And obviously you know what happened from there? Yeah, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.640 you know they know what he said. They know what 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.080 I'm saying. His head coach are real with because it's 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:55.720 where his head coach and throw them under the best. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.120 He was like, man, yeah, uh, it's football. This happens, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.240 you know, we and to live with it and move on. Yuta, YadA, y'all, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.120 you know. And my coach is like, well, yeah, that's 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.200 only this is unacceptable. Um, we think we're probably gonna 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.480 suspending for the whole season. Uh. And I'm like, damn, bro, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.880 you don't even take the data, think about the ship. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.360 You know what I'm saying. You don't even take two 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.000 days to be like damn tho, it's this worth a fool? 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.439 You know you're suspension or now you just did that 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.240 been the next day. Let me ask you about that. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:29.880 You go you you go through that process. What did 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.880 I do for you personally, like just psychologically? Like you know, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.439 everybody wants to talk about what happened, but I haven't 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.960 heard anything where people are asking you about the residual 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:47.160 in in This is just my words, and I'm I'm 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:53.040 just trying to imagine how I would feel. How what 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.280 do I feel for you? Is I've been on that 0:12:55.400 --> 0:13:00.719 side where you do something and and the narrative is like, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.760 for instance, for me, every time I talk on television 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:08.720 or I say anything that requires a conscience, social media 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.960 says I don't respect the guy who sucker punched someone. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:20.400 And I'm always given that label of sucker punch. And 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.040 you know it's does not sit well with me on 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.880 the sucker punch is because when you're in a fight. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.360 The last time I check, when you're in a fight, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.839 it's a fight, right, ain't no fair way to win, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.600 and it ain't no fair way to wound somebody either, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.920 And I and I just I find it. I was like, you, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.880 you know, well, because I did something back in two 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.839 thousand four or two thousand and eight, and it's as 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.560 all people say, oh, I don't respect anything he has 0:13:53.640 --> 0:14:00.199 to say, and so and so what I'm and what 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.120 I'm trying to say is one I'm not speaking from 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:08.800 ten thousand feet above looking down on you. I'm honestly 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.520 for me, I feel like, let me lay down and sit, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.400 sit down and kind of look up to you, to 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.480 not look up and like admire you, but look up 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.680 and saying I understand some of what you have had 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.920 to deal with psychologically. I don't want to put worth 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.880 in your mouth, but it's a great opportunity for you 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:33.600 to tell people what you've had to deal with from 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.120 what people are assuming about you and how maybe some 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.560 people talk down to you to your face based off that, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:49.160 um so so one thing that about people about people 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.080 talking like down to me and my face and stuff. Um, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.080 I feel like people they don't do it intensively. They 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.760 try to joke, but it ain't funny because it's your 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:04.440 lie and right and it's you, Um exactly, you know 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.960 what I'm saying, So like you ain't like you just 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.080 telling this joke to a frame. Bro, you know what 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.320 I'm saying like you you you're talking to me, And um, 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.440 it took me to a dark place, bro, it took 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.480 into a real dark place. And Emily, UM, I'm talking 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.720 about when I'm going to class like I can't go 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.520 on campus because you know, I'm I'm going campus and 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.880 and as soon as they see me, everybody like, oh 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:31.040 ship bro, the man you should be this as like 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.000 I'm going to classrooms. I'm more like going to my 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.640 class and I'm going into the you know, and and 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.680 everybody look at me coming in They're like, Hey, you 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.240 know what I'm saying. I'm like, Bro, I'm might Bro 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.040 come home and Bro just just let me come to 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.440 the class and just just be normal, you know what 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.000 I'm saying. But that happened for like But it happened 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.480 for like a week to the points where I stopped 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:57.440 going to class. I just stopped going. I just email 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.120 my professors. I had my h I had my tutor, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.480 um teacher whatever her name is is this do it 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.600 whatever um she had. She emailed my teachers and stuff 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.880 and got all everything that I needed and gave it 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.840 to um one of a couple of my teammates. And 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:19.640 during this time, Bro Um, I say, I lot my 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.000 eyes in my apartment. Bro for two weeks, and I 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:29.160 I saw a total of four different people, maybe five. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.040 That's that's just showing love. Like, but I'm pretty sure 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.920 I only saw four people like Ed Dix and and 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.040 a few other teammates. You know, he kind of wanted 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.840 he was my best friend. He was my best friend 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.560 still too, so he brought my life working ship to 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.800 the house and stuff. But Bro, I was I was. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.000 I couldn't go to restaurants. Are you saying you couldn't. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.240 Are you saying you couldn't go because of how people 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.400 treated you or you didn't feel comfortable? Like what do 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.600 you what do you mean? Because I just I just 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.640 didn't go because I was going. I mean I did. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.920 I I to act normal, But I mean I'm talking 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.240 about everywhere I went bro it was it was either 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:11.320 it was either man, you know, he what he said 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.639 was what he said to you was justified. And then 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.840 you had obviously the other people's like you know, the 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.040 whole turn of the cheek. You know, how could you 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.800 have responded? And those people that say that, those people 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.480 that say that they don't know in my background, they 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.440 don't know how I was raised. They don't know what 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.800 my grandparents told. How were you raised? How was your 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.239 take us through that? There take us through? How were 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.400 you raised? And what and what did you growing up? 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:47.840 How did that play into your psychological process to respond 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.720 the way you responded. Uh? So I grew up. I 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.280 grew up man. Obviously I had both parents. I told 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.720 you that, um, and I grew up with with some 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:02.280 grandparents that uh they oh man, and they grew up 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.080 in Florida. So you know what I'm saying. You know, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.920 you they you know how they're feeling about certain stuff. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.840 You know, they still feel like you know, um, they 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.240 still feel like you know, racist, racism and slavery is 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.840 is what's is what's running the world. Like may you 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:21.760 know how grandparents are bro you know what I'm saying, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.119 especially like well at least black grandparents with my grandparents, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.160 um and and and they always just like, man, don't 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.040 ever let you know, don't never let anyone disrespect You'll 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.440 never let anyone sin on you, never let anyone to 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.120 touch you in the face, will never let anyone call 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.440 you the N words. Don't never let you know what 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.040 I'm saying, Don't ever let um you know, someone ever 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.840 disrespect your sister. You know what I'm saying. How you know, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.440 just the basis of growing up what they they talked 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.719 to you not to accept the things that they are 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:57.480 endured when they were being raised exactly exactly. Um and 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.440 and you know, my grandma told me a long time 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.080 ago that know when you know, when she's called a 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:07.399 certain word and she defended herself, um back then you 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.520 go to jail for defending yourself. You you know what 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.719 I'm saying. So she was just like you always if 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.119 they come down to it. If anyone does any of 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.320 these things to you, that's automatic. You gotta it's go time. 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.800 Somebody's spent on you. You know that it's go time. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.000 Somebody to put the hand in your face. Just go time. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.199 Somebody call you whatever they call you, Just go time. Um. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.760 So I was raised that way and I never lost 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.399 those values, and I never lost you know, track of that. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.800 So um obviously at twenty years old. I think I 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.400 was twenty years old, um, nineteen or twenty whatever. Um. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.199 But at that age, you know you're still living by 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.840 that philosophy. Now I'm old enough, I'm not sure enough 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.920 if you know, if any of that happens, I'm gonna 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.679 still a fight with somebody spit on me or slapped 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.880 me or anything like that. But if if anybody comes 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.520 like outside my name, I'm gonna just you know, I'm okay. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.760 I mean, if you yeah, you get you can still 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.879 get up. I thought, beat up and say it again. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.040 So what's the point, you know? Yeah, I don't. I 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.439 don't know if they get back up and said again, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:25.680 but they could they could probably not. I love cut 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.200 to it, and I love it even more when you 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.520 download us and subscribe and you can follow us on 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.720 social media too, Smithie where where at? That's at? Cut 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.800 to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:44.159 It Facebook? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? What 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.240 about online? And you can follow us at cut to 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.760 It podcast dot com where you can buy merch and 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.560 you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.720 I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.120 all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:05.080 cut to a podcast dot com. Man, I just want 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.240 to ask because I'm a little bit I'm a little 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.920 jealous this, you know, last chance you on Netflix? What 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.920 There's so many other community colleges out there? Why is? 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:20.680 Why is Mississippi Community College getting this love dog? We 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.720 win in the National Championships? Man, y'all ain't playing no 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:28.720 callie teams though, win the National Championship and everybody, Yeah, 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:30.719 I feel like I'm talking one of my boys, one 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.920 of my sons. Did you say everybody? But then y'all 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:42.120 y'all beat Did y'all play Bakersfield in UK homes Northwest? 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:48.640 Who cold a really good? We're making all of them, 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:50.960 all them We're going to I don't know who we 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.480 played in the National Championship, but I want to say 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.280 one of the national championship games for US. But I 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.160 thought we beat one of the teams like fifty something 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:02.040 to twelve from from you. They was trash. It don't matter. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:07.960 And I think kind of what got them, kind of 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.119 what got them a little bit more noticeable is because 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:14.560 I think they might have won two or three national 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.960 champions maybe two national championships back to back, went to 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:19.639 a third win and lost, and then went to a 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.479 fourth front in one, and then they started trying. They 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.760 start hearing about some of the players too going into 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:26.879 the league. Because we had Ja Darius Smith, he was 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.480 had that. He was the old miss Kelly. Yeah, you 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.600 gotta you gotta Receira, that was I think Baylor from there. 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:36.960 Um you got you got a lot of d one 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.840 kids coming out of these They got you. You were there, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:42.240 Oh yeah, you know you didn't see me on the 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.640 Netflix show. They just showed a little quick picture of me. Yeah, 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:48.199 I was playing against Mabil, been playing against the Panthers. 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.520 That I mean, if you're talking about highlights, generally, the 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:58.600 Panthers are in those highlights every time. Hey, every time 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.120 I want TV lately, all the highlights against the parts. 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.000 I'm like, man, can y'all pick a different team? Goodness? 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:10.639 The boys boys turning around and where we will be 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:16.080 edited out? I'm not gonna allow you to talk this 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:21.960