Speaker 1: This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and and this is cut to it.
Speaker 1: Good do what cud do? What that's getting down to
Speaker 1: do with good do It? We asked the questions you
Speaker 1: always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's
Speaker 1: cut to it. You ain't heard am about it? Then
Speaker 1: we're about to let you know. It's all that's my
Speaker 1: pet piece. Man. Why do you got to learn how
Speaker 1: to spare where you your kids? Something happy? You know?
Speaker 1: You know, I've been camping using the summer and I
Speaker 1: went home, back to back to l a UM and
Speaker 1: just kind of snuck in, snuck out see if I
Speaker 1: saw a few people. And we really didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of time. But it reminds me of some of
Speaker 1: the funny stories I have is growing up as a kid,
Speaker 1: and so I have this story that every time I
Speaker 1: chew gum, it reminds me of my pop. Okay, so
Speaker 1: my pop. You know, we didn't have a lot of means,
Speaker 1: so we wrote the public transportation. At the time, it
Speaker 1: used to be called the rt D and then uh uh,
Speaker 1: the metro or m T A whatever, it is. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is anymore because um, but
Speaker 1: I got a jailb so I got a car, right,
Speaker 1: And so we used to be on the bus a lot.
Speaker 1: And my dad used to always so you know, chewing
Speaker 1: gum when you you know big league chew right, and
Speaker 1: then if you get baseball cars, you got that chalked uh,
Speaker 1: got that white powder? Who whoa, whoa the white powder
Speaker 1: and like in that I don't know not that not
Speaker 1: what you're thinking inappropriate scum back. I'm talking about just
Speaker 1: like the old like garbage pale kids, remember, and so
Speaker 1: they had that cheap gum. Yeah, or it made me
Speaker 1: think remember the almost like oh yeah, you like the
Speaker 1: dipper huh that you got me back? Got you back.
Speaker 1: So when I was a kid, I used to chew gum,
Speaker 1: and you know when you're chewing gum as a kid,
Speaker 1: blowing the big bubble and for some reason, I would
Speaker 1: struggle on blowing the bubble, but I would. They would
Speaker 1: blow the bubble small enough and then it will have
Speaker 1: a small bubble and so you have that like you
Speaker 1: make it pop. And that used to chalk my dad.
Speaker 1: Here it man. My dad used to chalk me up
Speaker 1: and he'd be like, Okay, you're over there chilling that
Speaker 1: gum like a female. Or he used to be mad
Speaker 1: and I'm like, bro, what are you talking about? And
Speaker 1: so that was his pet peeve. So to this day
Speaker 1: I will to go and at least at some point
Speaker 1: that you and go popped my gulp and I just
Speaker 1: start declaring, here, yeah, control that you're going, Debo ain't around.
Speaker 1: Is that I'm gonna keep your but he ain't gonna
Speaker 1: say nothing about this, right, And so it literally used
Speaker 1: to be funny until this day. Bro, I'm forty two
Speaker 1: years old and I still popped the gum, but I
Speaker 1: giggle every time, and I don't snap. I'll be like
Speaker 1: poetic justice. It's just because he used to irk him
Speaker 1: and he used to say some of the most derogatory terms.
Speaker 1: Popping that gum like a female again, I see it, Bro,
Speaker 1: It is so funny because he used to get so annoyed.
Speaker 1: And there's like little things that I do now as
Speaker 1: adults where even Angie should be like, Babe, close the door.
Speaker 1: And I remember my grandpa loved my grandpa close that
Speaker 1: damn door, Steven. We don't live in no barn. And
Speaker 1: literally I leave the door open and it ain't no bar,
Speaker 1: but it's my house just because you came. But it's
Speaker 1: just so funny now as an adult, some of the
Speaker 1: little nuances, some of the little things that you used
Speaker 1: just used to happen. It was funny. One of the
Speaker 1: other things this is super inappropriate, but I'll say it anyway,
Speaker 1: is um growing up back home, Jehovah witness come to
Speaker 1: the door, boy, And we used to have it where
Speaker 1: they come to the door. We had that iron screen
Speaker 1: door that was spray painted so you couldn't see if
Speaker 1: somebody was there. And so they come to the door
Speaker 1: and I'll tell my grandma, I tell my dad, ain't
Speaker 1: somebody at the door for you be jehov Witness And
Speaker 1: my grandma damn me. You know, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: answer the hey set up our cousins. It's just a
Speaker 1: little stuff like that, man, that I got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to go back home, that back down memory lane. But
Speaker 1: it was cool this time going back home. It hits
Speaker 1: some wounds, hit some triggers, but also hit some some
Speaker 1: some good stuff. You gotta think about the memory man.
Speaker 1: It was so funny, man. But one of the things
Speaker 1: I do miss though, Um, is. I remember on Sundays, man,
Speaker 1: they had a Tomali lady man on Sundays right before
Speaker 1: football because being on the West Coast, I love by
Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Ten o'clock. Man, you got four or five
Speaker 1: football games and hitting on to Molly's man, they're hitting
Speaker 1: that bell told my last to my lags man. I
Speaker 1: get three Tom's four dollar twenty five man, and they'd
Speaker 1: be freshly made. Get him on the plate. I take
Speaker 1: him off on so hood and put it in the
Speaker 1: microwave with some catchup. Oh man, he's ruining the hole
Speaker 1: of spirit if you put the catchup on it. That's
Speaker 1: how at my tomalies. I still need my tomalis like that,
Speaker 1: oh catch up mouth. So that was just that was
Speaker 1: one of those things memory lane. Yep. So right now,
Speaker 1: when I how do we finish this podcast, I'm about
Speaker 1: to get some government popping and smile. It ain't nothing
Speaker 1: you can do pop popping. His gone like a female.
Speaker 1: So but here's the blesser. Ain't on the bus, no,
Speaker 1: mom man? Yeah, So who is cool? Coming to the
Speaker 1: cut to it podcast? We've got d J. Moore A
Speaker 1: native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended University of Maryland to
Speaker 1: play football, and now he is a wide receiver for
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers with over three thousand career receiving yards.
Speaker 1: DJ Moore on the Cut to It podcast, Man, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming by and hanging out with the Cut
Speaker 1: to A crew. Man, Man, I appreciate being here. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good time. Oh yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the podcast. All right, well, our
Speaker 1: first segment, bro hold on what this ain't a dating
Speaker 1: game like talking low? Yeah, it's quite quiet storm, DJ right, man,
Speaker 1: a little back, laid back. What you do I've been
Speaker 1: waiting when you said something else. I'm gonna get him back.
Speaker 1: Don't you worry about sumbing up? Quiet story, Quiet story,
Speaker 1: and be group. Say Sunday night more tell me quiet
Speaker 1: storm on Sunday nights. Ladies, Just let you know if
Speaker 1: your man ain't came in, he will got you. Yeah, alright, man,
Speaker 1: it's all up. It's all up. Buckled up because we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a whole lot of this our first segment.
Speaker 1: Actually it is called get iced up. So for a
Speaker 1: cool cat like you, it's ought to be real easy. Smithy,
Speaker 1: go ahead and give him the first one move So
Speaker 1: he do on cheat? All right? If you could play
Speaker 1: any position for one game, so you know seventy eight plays,
Speaker 1: what position would that be? Quarterback? Why? Because I can
Speaker 1: control the whole offense. Sometimes a quarterback is the main
Speaker 1: leader on the team. So you need to go out
Speaker 1: there and make the place for yourself sometime. Alright, So
Speaker 1: you are you gonna hang out? You're gonna throw any
Speaker 1: passes to your receivers the way you've been throwing a
Speaker 1: few passes. And what's your stock? Your pocket passer? You're
Speaker 1: on the run. I'm on the run with it. If
Speaker 1: it ain't damn about run about. No, I don't get started.
Speaker 1: I see it. I'm going one too. If it's not there,
Speaker 1: I'm out. You already supposed to missed a versatility, so
Speaker 1: I guess I guess that would be your m O. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you threw a path? Have you thrown the path here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I threw one this pass here against the How wasn't
Speaker 1: it went to the dirt? It was? It was a
Speaker 1: different just you won't be thrown anymore. Huh. I'm back
Speaker 1: healthy now. So you had on I had a sore
Speaker 1: shoulder that week. I was just warming up more. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So what is the state flower of your
Speaker 1: hometown Pennsylvania? The state flower? Come on, man, you mr Philly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm from Philly, from the state of Pennsylvania. I don't
Speaker 1: never clean the state of Pennsylvania from Philly. We're gonna
Speaker 1: rewind that, and we're not editing that out. Let's go
Speaker 1: that back. Lets the city of Philadelphia is in the state.
Speaker 1: But when you think of p A, you think of Philly.
Speaker 1: Don't nobody say p Am I disagree that some people.
Speaker 1: That was. Uh So, now that you've distracted on that,
Speaker 1: do you notice stay flowers? Okay? You state flower is
Speaker 1: a mountain laurel? What is the mountain laure We got
Speaker 1: all that on the flower of your home state of
Speaker 1: p A. I ain't never see that. Yeah, well, give
Speaker 1: a bouquet full of mountain laurels. See that, boy? Talk
Speaker 1: about what's these ugly flowers? Actually, we had someone else
Speaker 1: on from p A and so we went down that
Speaker 1: road and so I asked him, and so it was
Speaker 1: it was since we have you, I thought he didn't know,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure we thought you didn't know either.
Speaker 1: So definitely don't know that. All right, So last one
Speaker 1: give us one meal or dish m that you would
Speaker 1: say you are good at making that does not include
Speaker 1: a micro wave, that does not include a microa. So
Speaker 1: a dish or or meal mago is steak, uh, mashed
Speaker 1: potatoes and mixed vegetables, all on the stove or the grill.
Speaker 1: How you cooking steaking? Well? How are you cooking the
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes on the grill? He said? Are you hit
Speaker 1: the grounds like? Well, you said grills like the grill.
Speaker 1: I put the steaks on the grill, okay, everything else
Speaker 1: in the stove time. I'm impressed, Chef Boyard DJ Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Where are you from in a place you
Speaker 1: call your hometown? I'm from Uptown in Philly. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: really east east East Philly, but everybody called it uptown.
Speaker 1: So that's where I grew up. It wasn't the best
Speaker 1: place to grow up, but it was. I made it
Speaker 1: do what to do, so everybody knew me. I used
Speaker 1: to walk around there just by myself with my friends.
Speaker 1: Uh everybody. I was the one that made it out.
Speaker 1: Everybody pushed me to make it out. My friends, they
Speaker 1: all knew that I was gonna make it out. So
Speaker 1: it was only right when I made it to the league.
Speaker 1: I helped him out. Like with the closing line, they
Speaker 1: wanted to start a clothing line, so I founded that
Speaker 1: and they've been doing that ever since and making it big.
Speaker 1: How far, so, how far are you from downtown Philly, downtown,
Speaker 1: like the center city. I'm like twenty minutes north or
Speaker 1: south north, okay, going towards Jersey. Now it would be
Speaker 1: going towards Jersey. So wait, I've got my geographics messed up.
Speaker 1: So I'm going south. Hold on, hold on, hold, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Phillies here. Then when you go up, that's north
Speaker 1: north towards New York and Jersey. Yeah, but where I'm from,
Speaker 1: you gotta go across. Ok So that might be west
Speaker 1: or east, right, so it might be west northwest. I
Speaker 1: ain't been home, so when I think of that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta. So you ain't gotta use the GPS when
Speaker 1: you're home. Okay, that's that's that's that's that's the only rue.
Speaker 1: It's north. So I would say it's north were as
Speaker 1: long as you'll have to use the GPS when you
Speaker 1: get home, that's all that. There's a test. Now you're
Speaker 1: about the fella, I gotta I got a chance. You
Speaker 1: know the stadium Bank American Stadium. If you're going that
Speaker 1: way away from the lake, which way are you going?
Speaker 1: Like Norman? That was good. That was a good Like
Speaker 1: him in the North, like while he is South because
Speaker 1: I lived on the South, let me South Carolina. That
Speaker 1: would have made it simpler. I felt like I had
Speaker 1: to answer more in detail to make sure I got
Speaker 1: it right. Now, you got you got to press So
Speaker 1: growing up in Philly, like who who did you look
Speaker 1: up to? Who did I look up? Whether it's known
Speaker 1: or known? I say, A, I was one. Then we
Speaker 1: had people before me, like they was in high school
Speaker 1: when I was growing up. But they played it little
Speaker 1: league too, so it'd be Jalen Strong like Rob Holman.
Speaker 1: There's people that played my little league teams that was
Speaker 1: older than me. But I looked up to him and
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be better than him. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they both made it. They both made it, uh to
Speaker 1: the league. Jalen just recently got out the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because of injuries and stuff. Yeah. And then Rod
Speaker 1: made a practice squad but he didn't fully make it.
Speaker 1: So just looking at them, I was like, man, that's
Speaker 1: motivation to just keep going and just make this something
Speaker 1: that I always wanted to do. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep going with it. That's that's what's your daughter's name?
Speaker 1: Got the real bosson in there we need to talk to.
Speaker 1: So when you look back growing up and stuff, how
Speaker 1: would you how would you summarize the way you the
Speaker 1: way you were raised? Um in Philly just because a
Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, there is a stigma amongst athletes, um,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up and then the city that um,
Speaker 1: you know, just just being honest, they always, you know,
Speaker 1: they look at us and they said that we're thugs
Speaker 1: or we're this, and were that. But to some degree,
Speaker 1: the hardness of us, um, you know, it does play
Speaker 1: a role. And how we how we made it. And
Speaker 1: so how how would you summarize the way you grew up? Um?
Speaker 1: And and how that helped you get to where you
Speaker 1: are today? Uh? Oh say, I grew up not the
Speaker 1: not the worst, but a step above. Like okay, because
Speaker 1: I was just talking to my friend about like we have,
Speaker 1: Like he used to stay at my house, like we
Speaker 1: had My room wasn't wasn't that big, but we had
Speaker 1: a three bedroom apartment. It was couches in the other room.
Speaker 1: He bought a couch in there, and he just slept
Speaker 1: in there, Like one time we have no lights, no water,
Speaker 1: he stayed there. I was like, for what when you
Speaker 1: got hot order and lights at your house? But he
Speaker 1: was just like, man, I just want to be around you.
Speaker 1: It's like you've got a good spirit no matter what.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I was like not a trouble kid,
Speaker 1: but I found my way out of trouble a lot
Speaker 1: of times. So, but I was raised real good under
Speaker 1: my mom. She was my back phone, do everything. How
Speaker 1: was why and how was she your backbone? No matter what,
Speaker 1: whether it was literal league, like she used to spend
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars a thousand dollars that we didn't have,
Speaker 1: but she used to get up five o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: come back at to make me dinner for practice before practice,
Speaker 1: go to practice, bring me back home, do everything that
Speaker 1: that she wanted to. Like, she never pushed me to
Speaker 1: do anything. I just always wanted to play sports, like
Speaker 1: whether it was football, basketball, track, anything, she just always
Speaker 1: funded it. Even though we didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: fund in our pockets. How'd your first fund football? Shoot?
Speaker 1: I was I was playing football illegally at four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we ain't turning my birth certificate. That's how I
Speaker 1: was out there just running around, just making people that
Speaker 1: was six seven look crazy. But I was four years
Speaker 1: old until somebody had told that we didn't have a
Speaker 1: birth certificate for me. You're not tall, But how were
Speaker 1: you at four? For dude? I was you can? You can?
Speaker 1: I mean literally, you can always be under. It's the
Speaker 1: ones who's over that's that's really be getting caught. But
Speaker 1: the way he said I'm kinding like like four, I
Speaker 1: was about like, yeah, you can get away with At
Speaker 1: that point, they ain't really gonna, like you said, let
Speaker 1: someone tell on you. They're not really going to find
Speaker 1: out my viewer, you know, kid about alignment size and
Speaker 1: yeah you ain't. You ain't gonna be allowed to play.
Speaker 1: So the reason they told on you, it's probably the right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I go. I think about that all the time. I
Speaker 1: was like, I shouldn't have been playing that for because
Speaker 1: I'm ye high, like my my brain now fully development.
Speaker 1: I'm just out there just having fun playing tackle or
Speaker 1: flat now. I played tackle all my life. I didn't
Speaker 1: meaning now because people now they're the flag just started
Speaker 1: like yeah, I don't like flag. It's pretty much a
Speaker 1: newer thing, like I mean, especially down here forty two,
Speaker 1: I was playing flags, So I don't know when how
Speaker 1: how much newer? And I mean I'm not from played,
Speaker 1: I'm not from Philly, but yeah down here in the South,
Speaker 1: like there weren't no flag leagues. Like you either playing
Speaker 1: in pads or you ain't playing football. Wow, yeah that
Speaker 1: was up in Philly like we used to play like
Speaker 1: we was justus to playing on concrete, like we playing
Speaker 1: the basketball court after the game and go play on concrete.
Speaker 1: We ain't playing on concrete, aboy playing the street like
Speaker 1: you play pick up a bust them, but like an
Speaker 1: organized league. It was like a group of people playing
Speaker 1: on the court. You used to play throw up, that's
Speaker 1: what it was called. Somebody get hit like people used
Speaker 1: to get scraped up hitting the basketball. Who. I got
Speaker 1: a question though, if you're gonna play thorpe touch or
Speaker 1: thorpe tackle on the on the pavement when you when
Speaker 1: you avoided some grass, you got to make it. Do
Speaker 1: what it? Do it? Do it? Understand. But I don't
Speaker 1: know about no concrete. You've seen people get flipped. I seen, yeah,
Speaker 1: you use flip. I don't know about the flip park
Speaker 1: on concrete. Yeah, we played. We played touch and flag
Speaker 1: like on the street and stuff. But you wouldn't tackle
Speaker 1: the only thing you have silon pop, like give views
Speaker 1: on the sideline because you got that little patch of
Speaker 1: grass or oh ye silon pop yep. No we we
Speaker 1: fall to the ground on the concrete. Yeah, what it is?
Speaker 1: I can't do it. No, sir built that way, so
Speaker 1: you wouldn't build for that. Nah, well you literally don't
Speaker 1: think about it. You just having fun. We have to
Speaker 1: take a break and the morning thing. We gotta pay
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a
Speaker 1: Podcast dot Com. You know you drafted umen that's crazy, right,
Speaker 1: and you getting old? You know that. Every time I
Speaker 1: think about it, I was drafted at twenty, Like that's
Speaker 1: how I keep up with the years I'm in the league.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty four. I just turned twenty four some four
Speaker 1: years and like this my fourth year, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: that ship went fast. Yeah. Uh. And then we got
Speaker 1: the youngest team. I just saw that this more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm still like top six young on youngest on
Speaker 1: the team. Yea, by the numbers, by the numbers right now,
Speaker 1: So your youngest team. And yet I'm one who was
Speaker 1: skewing the numbers because I saw that come out by
Speaker 1: the numbers average agents like four point three for the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. So like someone who had to be skewing
Speaker 1: the numbers. All of the suf they just told us
Speaker 1: we got the only four people that's over thirty on
Speaker 1: the team. Four. Yeah, everybody else like Kristen shot we
Speaker 1: got we got a few people that could actually rent
Speaker 1: a car, Hey, get a big truck. Get the big truck. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: goodness crazy. Obviously when you were drafted, I was working, Um,
Speaker 1: what was that was the Dallas No? That was was
Speaker 1: that Nashville No, it was that Dallas. So when you
Speaker 1: got drafted, we were in Dallas, uh doing the doing
Speaker 1: NFL network, and uh, you know, you obviously got compared
Speaker 1: to me very quickly. And I said, you know, and
Speaker 1: I said what I said, how did you feel really
Speaker 1: when you heard all of the comparisons and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know what I said. And just coming here in Carolina.
Speaker 1: When I first like the comparison, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that's spot on because I was watching you in college.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, let's do this and
Speaker 1: incorporate this and all this throughout college. And then when
Speaker 1: they came out through uh through the NFL network, had
Speaker 1: the comparisons and I was like, damn, y'all spot on.
Speaker 1: But at the time I didn't think I was gonna
Speaker 1: be the first round. How it was because they actually
Speaker 1: got to go back to school grade So like coming out,
Speaker 1: I don't know I had we got all. They don't go, hey,
Speaker 1: what you want your grade to be? Back to school?
Speaker 1: Like we sent it in, they sent back go back
Speaker 1: to school. I was like, no, I'm still out. Like
Speaker 1: after that pen State game, I was like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: leaving regardless. So after that, but like a week leading
Speaker 1: up like two days leading up, I've just seen that
Speaker 1: I was the number one receiver. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go then, So that was like that was a blessing.
Speaker 1: Then you came out and said what you said? That
Speaker 1: just put the ice in on the cake for me.
Speaker 1: So I was like, man, I got like when you said,
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I got a lot to live
Speaker 1: up to. But then I thought about it, like I
Speaker 1: could use that as more motivation to be better than
Speaker 1: what you was as a Carolina coun And that's what
Speaker 1: I was just I was going to ask that what
Speaker 1: what expectations not from not externally, but what did that
Speaker 1: dude inside of you? Like internally, what did that? What
Speaker 1: did that puts a good question internally? Like I never
Speaker 1: fixated my mind on just be like, yeah, he said this,
Speaker 1: he said, this is live off that hype. I was like,
Speaker 1: he said this, Now, I just got to go out
Speaker 1: there and improve it, improve it more than I can
Speaker 1: be as good or even better than he was. You
Speaker 1: hesitated when you said it a little bit because we
Speaker 1: sit and cross room. That's like a mental thing. I'm
Speaker 1: not as I'm not as bad as uh they make it. See, Oh,
Speaker 1: trust me, trust me. I know I ain't. I ain't
Speaker 1: too worried like about you. It's like when I first
Speaker 1: like you, this is your first time actually hearing me
Speaker 1: said so, like it's always been in my mind like
Speaker 1: I had written it down, Like when I first got here,
Speaker 1: it was like and I was the only person I
Speaker 1: avenue it. Yeah. OK, yeah, It's just like when you're
Speaker 1: saying that, I can sense you're like, well, because you
Speaker 1: kind of stopped and hesitated, like, well, I want to
Speaker 1: I mean, I you never want to sell yourself short
Speaker 1: right to say to say well, I want to well,
Speaker 1: because he's right there. I don't want to say, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm hesitant that I want to be better than like
Speaker 1: you know, even what people say, uh um, you know
Speaker 1: who you you mother, your game after and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Even when I talk to people, they always say, you
Speaker 1: know who who do you think is the next year?
Speaker 1: It's like, I personally don't like having someone say, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be as good as them because I
Speaker 1: heard someone. I heard someone say they wanted to be
Speaker 1: their own pace two, be as good as ready moss.
Speaker 1: I was on radio show and I'm like, and they're
Speaker 1: talking about Tarik Hill and I'm like he was pace. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm like and I'm kind of like why is
Speaker 1: like they shouldn't even be compared. They're not even That's
Speaker 1: I think that's where you was going to the receiver
Speaker 1: at all, Like it's not even close in respect to
Speaker 1: Hell or Randy because they both play different games, different systems,
Speaker 1: just like so much of it is uncomparable, Like they
Speaker 1: had at one point they had, oh b j on
Speaker 1: pace to be as good as Jay Rice. I'm like,
Speaker 1: different eras, different everything everything. But that's how they take
Speaker 1: the narrative because well, he's gonna pace for this, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna keep this pace up till he's twenty, you know,
Speaker 1: for twenty for the next twenty years, which you know
Speaker 1: he's sustained injuries. Uh. Hell has had great you know
Speaker 1: games where he had what two yards against Tampa in
Speaker 1: the first half. Right, it all varies. What did you
Speaker 1: see about DJ considering what you just said, what did
Speaker 1: you see about DJ just as a player, not in
Speaker 1: terms of player pro player. Well, he hadn't played an
Speaker 1: approch yet. So what you're seeing them as a as
Speaker 1: a college player? Uh, college player you know obviously being
Speaker 1: down there in Maryland, Uh, heard a lot about you
Speaker 1: and seeing the only thing that I the only thing
Speaker 1: that I was concerned about, and I'm still concerned about
Speaker 1: all the receivers that come out, is that when you
Speaker 1: get numbered the way and how you get big numbers
Speaker 1: in college, it's extremely hard to continue that. Like my
Speaker 1: whole thing was even now, you know, even the people
Speaker 1: at the organization I've talked to, I was always asking,
Speaker 1: I said, how are you guys, how is he gonna
Speaker 1: adapt to use averaging? Damn twelve twelve vers between twelve
Speaker 1: and seventeen targets a game, bro, That's that's gravy like
Speaker 1: to be able to get going and you probably know
Speaker 1: that ain't even coming close, Like you you like for
Speaker 1: that to happen. That's like every blue moon, like to
Speaker 1: get that many targets now to get that ain't talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta get you got your your first pass. You
Speaker 1: gotta get dirty on your first pass because you don't
Speaker 1: know when you're gonna get it again. Space based on
Speaker 1: the defense and my mistaken that ya, how how has
Speaker 1: that transition? That been? The truth? The truth? The truth is,
Speaker 1: He's like, it's great the lions, you know. The truth is, uh,
Speaker 1: it's been rough. The Lions. Oh, it's great, it's great.
Speaker 1: He disappointed if you come from twelve to seventeen to
Speaker 1: now he goes from steak potatoes every game, brother, take out.
Speaker 1: We've just been the toughest transition for you coming from
Speaker 1: from college college lifestyle, uh, college demand, college style, and
Speaker 1: then the work, then the volume and the workload. First
Speaker 1: now now college everything was like mandatory, like you gotta
Speaker 1: mandatory workout, lift, run, do this with the team, do
Speaker 1: that with the team. Now it was like you got
Speaker 1: all the free time in the world to do what
Speaker 1: you want to do, but it's on you to either
Speaker 1: work out, get with the quarterbacks to throw doing the
Speaker 1: off season and work out on your own off season,
Speaker 1: get your own rehab, going the off season, like it's
Speaker 1: two different lifestyles. And then on top of that, you
Speaker 1: gotta learned the playbook. Like that all came so fast
Speaker 1: to me when I got drafted, because I was just
Speaker 1: like it got thrown into the fire. But people was
Speaker 1: telling me that it was gonna be hard for a
Speaker 1: hard transition, but I just was like, now, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the same. So when I got here,
Speaker 1: it was like a smack in the face. So I
Speaker 1: was taking it like I didn't. I wouldn't say I
Speaker 1: had like I wasn't. I'm never big headed, but like
Speaker 1: when I was here, I was like, damn, this playbook
Speaker 1: hardest ship, Like I gotta really dial in. That's what
Speaker 1: really put me on the back burner the first seven games.
Speaker 1: I want to say so, but once I got it
Speaker 1: down and started like people started getting hurt and like once,
Speaker 1: I never looked back after that. So when did things
Speaker 1: start to slow down? Was it do you remember that
Speaker 1: fork in the road or uh the four in the role?
Speaker 1: When was when I was on special teams I was
Speaker 1: running down on a kick or I was like, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm not about to keep doing this, like and I'm
Speaker 1: down there tackling people like no, I'm not doing this
Speaker 1: no more. So like I was, I was like, that
Speaker 1: really had me. Man. I was pitching from Atlantic game.
Speaker 1: I had scored that touchdown then they put me on
Speaker 1: the bench, so I'm just sitting there. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: I know I'm better than have these people on this team. Like,
Speaker 1: I just gotta get my mind set right with this playbook.
Speaker 1: Because at the time I was pointing X F and
Speaker 1: and Z and I had to be in the backfield
Speaker 1: two at times. So I was like, all right, let's
Speaker 1: narrow what offense were you? What Scott was? Yeah? Now
Speaker 1: norv was first, and then I had Scott shame people
Speaker 1: last last name, so you were It was a number system,
Speaker 1: though not all the time they had they had words. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I noticed, I still know the word numbers. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the numbers part. It was just like the responsibility and
Speaker 1: like like being on your depth and then yeah, oh
Speaker 1: yeah nor isn't if he ain't like how you did
Speaker 1: on that partice you just not getting the game all right?
Speaker 1: Shows it shows a tough transition. Why why? Because college
Speaker 1: everything was like spend spoon fed that getting getting dirty.
Speaker 1: Here we go like college was spoon fed. The league
Speaker 1: is like you better go eat just so so like
Speaker 1: that was the whole How was that transition for you?
Speaker 1: Like real talk? Why before you answer? So, let me right,
Speaker 1: let me let me get this right. So Philly m
Speaker 1: grind right, mom, is your backbone you get drafted? M hm?
Speaker 1: Put up the numbers? What did you expect this was
Speaker 1: gonna be? What coming out of college? Like I said,
Speaker 1: I guess more in totality right right now, just over
Speaker 1: just overall. Like, here's why I'm asking. I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: beating around the bush. I know a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that I don't reveal on TV. Everybody in that organization,
Speaker 1: whether they want admit or not, they have to talk
Speaker 1: to me, whether they want to or not, because if
Speaker 1: they don't, then I go on TV and I pant
Speaker 1: you or I'm going on TV and I keep a
Speaker 1: little secrets to ourselves. With a lot of organizations. So
Speaker 1: the reason I'm mask is I know where you know everybody.
Speaker 1: I had multiple teams. They always asked me great guys
Speaker 1: that say, hey, this is a guy, what what do
Speaker 1: you like about them? What you don't like about So
Speaker 1: I get the skinny on a lot of people, the
Speaker 1: ins and outs. So what I'm trying to ask is
Speaker 1: how is your transition with your work ethic from college
Speaker 1: to pro after your rookie year heading into your second year. Shoot, really,
Speaker 1: I had to turn it up a whole another knots
Speaker 1: like it went from because you you have a laid
Speaker 1: back personality that comes across as I don't as you
Speaker 1: care or no, I would take away you care, it's lazy,
Speaker 1: it be it be you on don't be your own,
Speaker 1: your own if I'm being honest, if you're being honest,
Speaker 1: that's why to be honest, that's why fooling with you.
Speaker 1: But I'm not lazy though, That's the thing. Okay, you
Speaker 1: see what I was. But it does come off as
Speaker 1: that like I don't really I don't talk a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't really like when I work. Do you think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I talk? If you if you talk, I'm saying he
Speaker 1: ain't a mute, he talks. How do you deal with
Speaker 1: that misconception? How do I do it? I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't care what you think about me, how you view
Speaker 1: me like I'm gonna it does win. But the organism.
Speaker 1: But the organism we talked about. We talked about just playing,
Speaker 1: not players, just playing because if you if you're if
Speaker 1: to your boys, your quietness comes across as lazy to urorganization.
Speaker 1: Your quietness at times come across lazy. And they're paying
Speaker 1: you and they hold the keys to the check book.
Speaker 1: And now you're sitting around playing special teams and you're going,
Speaker 1: man this ship for the birds. That's what that's what,
Speaker 1: that's what that Honestly, that's the main reason I wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to hit on it. But that's the main reason
Speaker 1: why I really wasn't playing, because they thought I wasn't
Speaker 1: running fast enough, I wasn't practicing hard enough all that.
Speaker 1: But that was like, but the thought of you, they
Speaker 1: thought you weren't And I say, I love this conversation
Speaker 1: because now it was about to get real interesting in
Speaker 1: a good way. What is your version of hard work?
Speaker 1: You being a rookie, because I'm always amazed at the
Speaker 1: young guys. Their version of hard work doesn't really seem
Speaker 1: to equal up to the other people counts version of
Speaker 1: hard work to them, like for me, no, not you them.
Speaker 1: Let's go them and we'll let them be nameless, faceless individuals.
Speaker 1: This is not this is not always, This is not
Speaker 1: pertaining to any organizations. But this is pertaining to your
Speaker 1: business because you're you know this conversation were you are
Speaker 1: an independent contractor that can only work in selected cities
Speaker 1: like you live close to you live close to South Carolina.
Speaker 1: But I ain't got no team, least no team that
Speaker 1: pay good money. So I would say, they want you
Speaker 1: to work until your wills is gone, like Dan and
Speaker 1: day Out. But as a player, you know you gotta
Speaker 1: take care of your body first. To have longevity in
Speaker 1: the league. So when I first came in, I was
Speaker 1: like all lasking, like every almost every round. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. You can't you can't run full speed every route.
Speaker 1: So when I was like, won't allow you to. So
Speaker 1: when I got to speed downpack like and I was
Speaker 1: like leaving people, and then it was looking at effortless.
Speaker 1: I started getting on the old here comes his laid
Speaker 1: back vibe. But at the same time, I'm still going
Speaker 1: out here and putting in work like and even in
Speaker 1: practice I was embarrassing people. It was crazy just to
Speaker 1: just to see the different mindsets of I'm like, I
Speaker 1: had to sit down with somebody, somebody and it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta practice heart. I'm like, if you look at
Speaker 1: my mom's per hour, I'm still running past people. So
Speaker 1: let me ask you this individual and we're not gonna
Speaker 1: say names, but I know where you're talking about. Now
Speaker 1: you understand that they bumped up against greatness and Hall
Speaker 1: of famers for a very long time. Yes, no, I'm
Speaker 1: just as trust me. The reason why is because it's
Speaker 1: a funny conversation, because you're giggling. Because there are some
Speaker 1: young guys they'd be like you ain't never worked never,
Speaker 1: you ain't never uh, somebody worked hard as me and
Speaker 1: they forget that. No, I'm not saying you don't know,
Speaker 1: but like there's your guys. There's guys they're like, oh man,
Speaker 1: you know, like you're saying, you didn't really watch me
Speaker 1: until you were in college, right, but prior to you
Speaker 1: in college and play, you know, like twelve and a
Speaker 1: half years prior to you, you know, you get in
Speaker 1: the college and then that you know, the individuals that
Speaker 1: you're talking to, our young guys that you're talking to
Speaker 1: that I've heard that there would be. They'll say things
Speaker 1: as if when hard work was invented, that God made
Speaker 1: them the example of hard work. And I guess all
Speaker 1: the other people prior to them is a hold new definition. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you strolled up in here. Yeah. And so that's why
Speaker 1: I said it that way, because I've met them do that.
Speaker 1: As the combine that I say, they worked harder than anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm going and then I'm looking at him and
Speaker 1: they can't even they can't do any drills at the
Speaker 1: combine because they hurt. As if it's just the thing
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, it's the right thing to say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's not the right thing to say. It's not
Speaker 1: but people you know how it is that people think
Speaker 1: they have to say what's right in order to people
Speaker 1: see and that going back to the conversation, when I
Speaker 1: had to sit down, I got bored to y'all practice tape.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a whole different error, Like
Speaker 1: he was fighting that practice. I'm not about fighting practice.
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't a fight on that tape. Wasn't no,
Speaker 1: not that tape. Like it's just like you gotta be
Speaker 1: a dog. I'm like, yeah, like I'm still a dog,
Speaker 1: but it's a different it looks your own way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's about that time. Just take a little breather. Good,
Speaker 1: do it, get down to do it. Hey, Gerard, why
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Speaker 1: us wherever you listen to podcasts. Who is DJ more
Speaker 1: now going into your fourth season, Shoot, I'm happy with
Speaker 1: the fifth year. Uh, grateful, But that shows like in
Speaker 1: some way they want me here a long term so
Speaker 1: like I'm grateful for that, but that with that, I
Speaker 1: still want the long term deal. So I'm like extra
Speaker 1: motivated to even play out the fifth year of options
Speaker 1: and show them that I'm worth more than that what
Speaker 1: you're working on on the field and off the field
Speaker 1: right now, I'm working on routes still, Like I'm still
Speaker 1: new to like rout running, like because in Maryland, we
Speaker 1: uh we really didn't have like a whole route tree.
Speaker 1: So everything we do now with North it's like different.
Speaker 1: It's back to like college. It's not the yeah I
Speaker 1: know I'm saying, but back then, like when I first
Speaker 1: came in, I was able, we care, we ran the
Speaker 1: route tree. Now it's a different route tree, like you
Speaker 1: got exotic route exotic style route tree. So learning numb routes, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's still still different because based off of steps and
Speaker 1: if your quarterback is on time and with you, so
Speaker 1: I'm learning get that down with Sam now steps steps
Speaker 1: instead of yards, and like you got running a certain way,
Speaker 1: so like all right, so you gotta so let's do
Speaker 1: teenyard out, ten yard out? How many steps? Six? All right?
Speaker 1: How many steps was it when you were doing ten
Speaker 1: yard out? What you mean? It was always heard the
Speaker 1: ten yard out like, so how you you ain't you
Speaker 1: ain't thinking about steps off times. When you started thinking
Speaker 1: about the steps you get, your feet started to get
Speaker 1: so you know what you gotta do. Even though see
Speaker 1: I we had tight Tober. He's a receivers coach for
Speaker 1: the Giants, used to be able to He used to
Speaker 1: be at the Broncos. He was here. He's great. He's
Speaker 1: a probably top three, top three or four wide receiver
Speaker 1: coaches I've had. He was steps. I hate steps because
Speaker 1: I I catch my silly ass count. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: you sound. So the best way I used to do
Speaker 1: it to get out over and he gave me a
Speaker 1: leeway is um, I look at the spot and then
Speaker 1: you step to that spot. I stepped to that spot.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Like, that's what I learned to
Speaker 1: do At the time went on, it was like all right,
Speaker 1: I know I gotta break Yeah, and then you do that.
Speaker 1: But what I used to do before practice so they
Speaker 1: would know that I'm working on it is I will
Speaker 1: walk through the steps for the muscle memory. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but then the game time comes, man, I ain't know
Speaker 1: about giving them about the step about to hit this
Speaker 1: ten yard go right back to it. Look if you
Speaker 1: pressed up, give you that go about eight Cadillac turn
Speaker 1: bank through it on time. I ain't counting. You can't.
Speaker 1: You gotta let it. You can't count again, you call
Speaker 1: it up all the google or they hold on to
Speaker 1: you because they can count. It's bad because that guys,
Speaker 1: even like man Steve, you count, I can hear you
Speaker 1: count at doing that. So I just walked through it
Speaker 1: and helped. It just helped me. I just walked through
Speaker 1: my routes before practice, go out there early, and then
Speaker 1: in the game. I actually before the game, I used
Speaker 1: to walk through every route just muscle memory. And then
Speaker 1: after and then by the time I go when we
Speaker 1: come back in with stuff, I would literally go through
Speaker 1: my plate chart and I'll just walk my routes and
Speaker 1: I just simulate. So if I gotta scene, I do,
Speaker 1: you know, I do my double head and bang practice
Speaker 1: the ball. All that stuff simulated. And then when I
Speaker 1: was playing in the game, that would be the second
Speaker 1: or third time that I've done that, so I've gotten
Speaker 1: all the screw ups out of the way. So it
Speaker 1: was always, uh, you know, for me, it's like deja vote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do the same thing. Like we go. I run.
Speaker 1: I do routes on the air, in my head and
Speaker 1: on the field. But when I come back again, look
Speaker 1: at the place. She like I write everybody routes on
Speaker 1: certain place, like right them out to the exact t
Speaker 1: and then I go out there. It's not the first
Speaker 1: time I'm hearing the player, We're seeing what the route
Speaker 1: is or anything. So I'm good to go. How excited
Speaker 1: were you, uh for for Curtis to to get the
Speaker 1: opportunity for a new contract in Washington, but also, you know,
Speaker 1: lose the guy that you got drafted with man. I
Speaker 1: was excited because, uh, you know Kurt Uh. Kurt can
Speaker 1: be uh that playmaker that any team need, like as
Speaker 1: you've seen with the years that we were together. It
Speaker 1: was something special. When he got the ball in his hand,
Speaker 1: he never got a negative place, so that was that
Speaker 1: was big for him. And he got the new contract
Speaker 1: in Washington. We kind of knew he was gonna go
Speaker 1: to Washington because because of the tie. So when he
Speaker 1: did that, it was like, all right, now you just
Speaker 1: gotta go ball, uh, because we're not gonna be together.
Speaker 1: Like everybody always looked at us as DD and Kurt.
Speaker 1: But now he's just gonna be on his own. So
Speaker 1: I'm expecting him to do big things. What's one thing
Speaker 1: you gotta work on your game? And and then you
Speaker 1: know obviously got a new quarterback. Um you know hopefully
Speaker 1: is healthy. Um, you know, just everything new. You know,
Speaker 1: you're getting older, not older in the negative way, but
Speaker 1: older in there, you know, more advanced, being able to
Speaker 1: see the game at a more mature level because you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, when you first came out, you were you,
Speaker 1: just the transition was different. Yeah. Now like throughout the years,
Speaker 1: I've been coming more vocal with the team like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he speaks crazy. It's crazy. People actually come to meet
Speaker 1: and be like, yo, what should I do this? How
Speaker 1: you feel about that? But you got that, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: only really like I try to help them, like uh,
Speaker 1: experience that I went through. Uh. Other than that, I
Speaker 1: would say, just to keep becoming better as a receiver
Speaker 1: every year, Like I just want the top top but
Speaker 1: I did the previous year, but not really thinking about
Speaker 1: the previous year. Now that you are this wiley overt,
Speaker 1: what goals do you have now that? What goes do
Speaker 1: you have now that maybe changed from when you first
Speaker 1: came in to lead, what's what's what's left on your
Speaker 1: list goals wise? Shoot, I need to get an end
Speaker 1: zone more. That's one thing. Like that's brother manifesting touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Like like, that's that's really been on my mind right now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but ten, that ain't I don't really ain't enough.
Speaker 1: Like I had two our first year and ford and four.
Speaker 1: Like last year I said the same thing, but I
Speaker 1: ain't really accomplished that. But this year I'm really gonna
Speaker 1: focus on that now being uh now being a dad.
Speaker 1: You know what what has that done for you? Shoot?
Speaker 1: That that's a whole different motivation right there, because because
Speaker 1: you ain't just feeing yourself like or your mom or
Speaker 1: your like your family. They still blood. But when this
Speaker 1: blood came into the world, it's like a whole different
Speaker 1: meaning to the world. You gotta go out there and
Speaker 1: eat like someone's really dependent on you, like depending like
Speaker 1: many me is literally dependent on me to go out
Speaker 1: there and do my job to the best that I can.
Speaker 1: What's been eye opening being a dad? I open it
Speaker 1: so how fast they grow up? It's not it's not
Speaker 1: a cliche like she only like one like, but she
Speaker 1: speaking four senses like she had say hi, you know
Speaker 1: what like shows are saying, she ever repeat with the
Speaker 1: show is saying like everything it's just crazy like she
Speaker 1: acts she won, but she acts like they really do
Speaker 1: grow fast. Like I usual to hear people say, oh
Speaker 1: they grow fast, bro, what you mean they really do it?
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I mean, just we'll keep more on kind
Speaker 1: of off the field stuff. But you started your foundation
Speaker 1: more to life. What's the focus and what do you
Speaker 1: doing to serve the community right now? This year we're
Speaker 1: gonna have it's gonna be three different camps. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be one in Philly, one and two here in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: It's just something to get the kids staying at camp.
Speaker 1: Football camp. So all of them just gonna be strictly football.
Speaker 1: But in the future I just want to add like
Speaker 1: some type of study study session with them for like school,
Speaker 1: like summer school, like add and work and like stuff
Speaker 1: like that, like an hour of a day just not
Speaker 1: on football. I like that. Yeah, and something that's definitely needed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because like right now in the pandemic, everybody they could
Speaker 1: be on the computer, but are they really paying attention
Speaker 1: to what they're doing? Is no, no, because they got
Speaker 1: the internet like this right there, and they could just
Speaker 1: click over to the internet. I mean there's teachers who
Speaker 1: ain't paying attention right fact, you know you started foundation.
Speaker 1: What was the premise on starting the foundation? No, it
Speaker 1: wasn't just the thing to do, Like I always wanted
Speaker 1: to start a foundation, uh, just to get back to
Speaker 1: where I grew up, Philly. And then I was like, shoot,
Speaker 1: I don't just got to get back to Philly no more.
Speaker 1: I gotta get back to Maryland. Like I like to
Speaker 1: leave a legacy wherever I played at Like, so from
Speaker 1: Philly to Maryland to hear like, I just want to
Speaker 1: keep being a what's your legacy that? So, what was
Speaker 1: the legacy you left in Maryland? Now? In Maryland, Shoot,
Speaker 1: I was the man. But I was just like kind, cool, collected,
Speaker 1: everybody respecting me. I had a good personality like everything there,
Speaker 1: Like if you go back now, they'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: DJ was one of our best students. Everything like I
Speaker 1: had mainly as and b s. I had my one
Speaker 1: see when I got to college, and I was really
Speaker 1: mad my advisor was coming at me too. So but
Speaker 1: everything was always good vibes. I never gave no trouble
Speaker 1: to nobody and speaking of vibes, like you you you
Speaker 1: do come off very positive, like you always have a
Speaker 1: positive attitude, Like why is that important to you? And
Speaker 1: how are you able to not like dwelling and negative
Speaker 1: feelings or negative experiences. I don't know. I'm just like
Speaker 1: I'm just always positive thinking person, Like I don't never
Speaker 1: look back at the past and be like, man, I
Speaker 1: should have did this, Like if if I did that
Speaker 1: in the past, like I already did, it can't change
Speaker 1: it now. And so like I'm always going forward no
Speaker 1: matter what. That's pretty good. All right, Well, we're about
Speaker 1: to wrap everything up in our last segment. It's called
Speaker 1: Deep three. They're just three three questions we used just
Speaker 1: close out, Smitty, just give them the first one. We
Speaker 1: already had this one here, he's not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to change. Let's see, Uh, what's your most meaningful tattoo
Speaker 1: you have inked up over there? And that you got
Speaker 1: a new one on the way right on the right.
Speaker 1: I angel wing on my back next to her name
Speaker 1: on my back, and she got her feet when she
Speaker 1: was born. I got it walking up my back and
Speaker 1: her name, but the angel wing next to it, I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting to get the other angel wing. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a small baby angel angel wing for her.
Speaker 1: So it's just like it's always something more to like,
Speaker 1: Like I always got that mindset, even though it's like
Speaker 1: a play on words. But I see what you did,
Speaker 1: ye meet Meal, What do you What do you hope
Speaker 1: people say about DJ More the receiver in five years?
Speaker 1: And then what do you hope people say about DJ
Speaker 1: more father? Five years nine? Dj More to receiver? Shoot?
Speaker 1: As times go, my game keep going up like he was.
Speaker 1: He never had like a down season, like he always
Speaker 1: grew through every season like he never had a step back.
Speaker 1: Got you know what about the father? The father? Shoot?
Speaker 1: Just make her life meaningful whatever she want to do
Speaker 1: in five years, whether it's like Dans run track. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm at every event right there front real, that's what
Speaker 1: it's all about too. To have a outstanding football career
Speaker 1: is great. But how do you want to impact the world, um,
Speaker 1: outside of football? Shoot? Like I said, like with the foundation,
Speaker 1: I want to open up like we were just talking
Speaker 1: about this last night. Uh, like a school. Me and
Speaker 1: my boy want to open up a school like I
Speaker 1: try to trying to take over one of the recidents
Speaker 1: that I grew up at Bank in Philly and just
Speaker 1: turn it out into like a study hall like type,
Speaker 1: feel like a college type, feel like for kids who
Speaker 1: are just going there and just feel safe and happy,
Speaker 1: able to play sports no matter what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Well, I appreciate you taking your time. It
Speaker 1: was it wasn't It's kind of cool. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool. I don't usually do stuff. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I don't like talking, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. Yeah, we appreciated say you ain't a talker,
Speaker 1: just that's just not your personality. M a back after this,
Speaker 1: I probably probably never see me again. We appreciate you, broth,
Speaker 1: but yeah, man, I appreciate you. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: You are a unique person. You are well worth it,
Speaker 1: you are competent, and most of all, you're lovable. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Singer. I'm Gerard Little John and this is
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