WEBVTT - DJ Moore 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.840 Steve Smith Senior and and this is cut to it. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 Good do what cud do? What that's getting down to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.720 do with 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 --> 0:00:40.040 we're about to let you know. It's all that's my 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:41.479 pet piece. Man. Why do you got to learn how 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.120 to spare where you your kids? Something happy? You know? 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.879 You know, I've been camping using the summer and I 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.839 went home, back to back to l a UM and 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.040 just kind of snuck in, snuck out see if I 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.560 saw a few people. And we really didn't have a 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.480 lot of time. But it reminds me of some of 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.880 the funny stories I have is growing up as a kid, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.319 and so I have this story that every time I 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.400 chew gum, it reminds me of my pop. Okay, so 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.400 my pop. You know, we didn't have a lot of means, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.880 so we wrote the public transportation. At the time, it 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.440 used to be called the rt D and then uh uh, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.959 the metro or m T A whatever, it is. So 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.640 I don't know what it is anymore because um, but 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.720 I got a jailb so I got a car, right, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.680 And so we used to be on the bus a lot. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.080 And my dad used to always so you know, chewing 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.920 gum when you you know big league chew right, and 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.400 then if you get baseball cars, you got that chalked uh, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.920 got that white powder? Who whoa, whoa the white powder 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:48.120 and like in that I don't know not that not 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:53.120 what you're thinking inappropriate scum back. I'm talking about just 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.560 like the old like garbage pale kids, remember, and so 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.120 they had that cheap gum. Yeah, or it made me 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:06.080 think remember the almost like oh yeah, you like the 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:11.120 dipper huh that you got me back? Got you back. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.520 So when I was a kid, I used to chew gum, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.560 and you know when you're chewing gum as a kid, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.119 blowing the big bubble and for some reason, I would 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.720 struggle on blowing the bubble, but I would. They would 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.800 blow the bubble small enough and then it will have 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.640 a small bubble and so you have that like you 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.720 make it pop. And that used to chalk my dad. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.440 Here it man. My dad used to chalk me up 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.800 and he'd be like, Okay, you're over there chilling that 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:50.040 gum like a female. Or he used to be mad 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.800 and I'm like, bro, what are you talking about? And 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.399 so that was his pet peeve. So to this day 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.640 I will to go and at least at some point 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.840 that you and go popped my gulp and I just 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:17.040 start declaring, here, yeah, control that you're going, Debo ain't around. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:21.200 Is that I'm gonna keep your but he ain't gonna 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.680 say nothing about this, right, And so it literally used 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.079 to be funny until this day. Bro, I'm forty two 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.720 years old and I still popped the gum, but I 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:36.080 giggle every time, and I don't snap. I'll be like 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:42.360 poetic justice. It's just because he used to irk him 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.560 and he used to say some of the most derogatory terms. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.880 Popping that gum like a female again, I see it, Bro, 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.840 It is so funny because he used to get so annoyed. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.360 And there's like little things that I do now as 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.000 adults where even Angie should be like, Babe, close the door. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.120 And I remember my grandpa loved my grandpa close that 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.320 damn door, Steven. We don't live in no barn. And 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.680 literally I leave the door open and it ain't no bar, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.760 but it's my house just because you came. But it's 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.240 just so funny now as an adult, some of the 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.640 little nuances, some of the little things that you used 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.720 just used to happen. It was funny. One of the 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.279 other things this is super inappropriate, but I'll say it anyway, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.520 is um growing up back home, Jehovah witness come to 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:37.479 the door, boy, And we used to have it where 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.640 they come to the door. We had that iron screen 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.160 door that was spray painted so you couldn't see if 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.679 somebody was there. And so they come to the door 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.760 and I'll tell my grandma, I tell my dad, ain't 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.800 somebody at the door for you be jehov Witness And 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.359 my grandma damn me. You know, I didn't want to 0:04:55.360 --> 0:05:02.040 answer the hey set up our cousins. It's just a 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.200 little stuff like that, man, that I got an opportunity 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.599 to go back home, that back down memory lane. But 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:13.360 it was cool this time going back home. It hits 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.080 some wounds, hit some triggers, but also hit some some 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.320 some good stuff. You gotta think about the memory man. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.160 It was so funny, man. But one of the things 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.560 I do miss though, Um, is. I remember on Sundays, man, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.360 they had a Tomali lady man on Sundays right before 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.400 football because being on the West Coast, I love by 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.440 nine o'clock. Ten o'clock. Man, you got four or five 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:39.080 football games and hitting on to Molly's man, they're hitting 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.560 that bell told my last to my lags man. I 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:48.600 get three Tom's four dollar twenty five man, and they'd 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:53.640 be freshly made. Get him on the plate. I take 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.960 him off on so hood and put it in the 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.560 microwave with some catchup. Oh man, he's ruining the hole 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.760 of spirit if you put the catchup on it. That's 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.480 how at my tomalies. I still need my tomalis like that, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.160 oh catch up mouth. So that was just that was 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.400 one of those things memory lane. Yep. So right now, 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.320 when I how do we finish this podcast, I'm about 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.559 to get some government popping and smile. It ain't nothing 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.880 you can do pop popping. His gone like a female. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.080 So but here's the blesser. Ain't on the bus, no, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.640 mom man? Yeah, So who is cool? Coming to the 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.240 cut to it podcast? We've got d J. Moore A 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.240 native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended University of Maryland to 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.080 play football, and now he is a wide receiver for 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.719 the Carolina Panthers with over three thousand career receiving yards. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:54.080 DJ Moore on the Cut to It podcast, Man, we 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.320 appreciate you coming by and hanging out with the Cut 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.920 to A crew. Man, Man, I appreciate being here. Man, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.839 it's gonna be a good time. Oh yeah, for sure, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.480 Thanks for coming on the podcast. All right, well, our 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.599 first segment, bro hold on what this ain't a dating 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:13.160 game like talking low? Yeah, it's quite quiet storm, DJ right, man, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:21.880 a little back, laid back. What you do I've been 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.000 waiting when you said something else. I'm gonna get him back. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.960 Don't you worry about sumbing up? Quiet story, Quiet story, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:38.640 and be group. Say Sunday night more tell me quiet 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.520 storm on Sunday nights. Ladies, Just let you know if 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:47.200 your man ain't came in, he will got you. Yeah, alright, man, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.320 it's all up. It's all up. Buckled up because we're 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.080 gonna do a whole lot of this our first segment. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.200 Actually it is called get iced up. So for a 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.000 cool cat like you, it's ought to be real easy. Smithy, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.840 go ahead and give him the first one move So 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.680 he do on cheat? All right? If you could play 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:06.880 any position for one game, so you know seventy eight plays, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:13.000 what position would that be? Quarterback? Why? Because I can 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.160 control the whole offense. Sometimes a quarterback is the main 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.120 leader on the team. So you need to go out 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.080 there and make the place for yourself sometime. Alright, So 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.200 you are you gonna hang out? You're gonna throw any 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.240 passes to your receivers the way you've been throwing a 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:34.000 few passes. And what's your stock? Your pocket passer? You're 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.960 on the run. I'm on the run with it. If 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:46.000 it ain't damn about run about. No, I don't get started. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.440 I see it. I'm going one too. If it's not there, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.760 I'm out. You already supposed to missed a versatility, so 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.920 I guess I guess that would be your m O. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.320 you threw a path? Have you thrown the path here? Yeah? 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.680 I threw one this pass here against the How wasn't 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.480 it went to the dirt? It was? It was a 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:08.640 different just you won't be thrown anymore. Huh. I'm back 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:13.120 healthy now. So you had on I had a sore 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.400 shoulder that week. I was just warming up more. Okay, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:23.280 all right, So what is the state flower of your 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:31.640 hometown Pennsylvania? The state flower? Come on, man, you mr Philly. Yeah, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.000 I'm from Philly, from the state of Pennsylvania. I don't 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:39.560 never clean the state of Pennsylvania from Philly. We're gonna 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.959 rewind that, and we're not editing that out. Let's go 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:49.800 that back. Lets the city of Philadelphia is in the state. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.760 But when you think of p A, you think of Philly. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.560 Don't nobody say p Am I disagree that some people. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:05.720 That was. Uh So, now that you've distracted on that, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:12.360 do you notice stay flowers? Okay? You state flower is 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.959 a mountain laurel? What is the mountain laure We got 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:25.440 all that on the flower of your home state of 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.080 p A. I ain't never see that. Yeah, well, give 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.280 a bouquet full of mountain laurels. See that, boy? Talk 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:36.679 about what's these ugly flowers? Actually, we had someone else 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.079 on from p A and so we went down that 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.920 road and so I asked him, and so it was 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.679 it was since we have you, I thought he didn't know, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.280 and I'm pretty sure we thought you didn't know either. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.600 So definitely don't know that. All right, So last one 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.680 give us one meal or dish m that you would 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.319 say you are good at making that does not include 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:10.800 a micro wave, that does not include a microa. So 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:17.480 a dish or or meal mago is steak, uh, mashed 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.120 potatoes and mixed vegetables, all on the stove or the grill. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.840 How you cooking steaking? Well? How are you cooking the 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:35.960 mashed potatoes on the grill? He said? Are you hit 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.760 the grounds like? Well, you said grills like the grill. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.120 I put the steaks on the grill, okay, everything else 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:51.960 in the stove time. I'm impressed, Chef Boyard DJ Yeah, 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.559 all right. Where are you from in a place you 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.480 call your hometown? I'm from Uptown in Philly. Uh, it's 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.960 really east east East Philly, but everybody called it uptown. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.480 So that's where I grew up. It wasn't the best 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.080 place to grow up, but it was. I made it 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.000 do what to do, so everybody knew me. I used 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.520 to walk around there just by myself with my friends. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.800 Uh everybody. I was the one that made it out. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.160 Everybody pushed me to make it out. My friends, they 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.800 all knew that I was gonna make it out. So 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.480 it was only right when I made it to the league. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.640 I helped him out. Like with the closing line, they 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.120 wanted to start a clothing line, so I founded that 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.559 and they've been doing that ever since and making it big. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.679 How far, so, how far are you from downtown Philly, downtown, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.040 like the center city. I'm like twenty minutes north or 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:45.400 south north, okay, going towards Jersey. Now it would be 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.079 going towards Jersey. So wait, I've got my geographics messed up. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:54.760 So I'm going south. Hold on, hold on, hold, Okay, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:13:01.440 so Phillies here. Then when you go up, that's north 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:06.120 north towards New York and Jersey. Yeah, but where I'm from, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.600 you gotta go across. Ok So that might be west 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.800 or east, right, so it might be west northwest. I 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.520 ain't been home, so when I think of that, yeah, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.200 you gotta. So you ain't gotta use the GPS when 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.240 you're home. Okay, that's that's that's that's that's the only rue. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.080 It's north. So I would say it's north were as 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.559 long as you'll have to use the GPS when you 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.800 get home, that's all that. There's a test. Now you're 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.240 about the fella, I gotta I got a chance. You 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:48.280 know the stadium Bank American Stadium. If you're going that 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:55.199 way away from the lake, which way are you going? 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.880 Like Norman? That was good. That was a good Like 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.440 him in the North, like while he is South because 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:14.840 I lived on the South, let me South Carolina. That 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.839 would have made it simpler. I felt like I had 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.720 to answer more in detail to make sure I got 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.760 it right. Now, you got you got to press So 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:27.720 growing up in Philly, like who who did you look 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.560 up to? Who did I look up? Whether it's known 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:37.600 or known? I say, A, I was one. Then we 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.320 had people before me, like they was in high school 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.560 when I was growing up. But they played it little 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.560 league too, so it'd be Jalen Strong like Rob Holman. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.320 There's people that played my little league teams that was 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:50.760 older than me. But I looked up to him and 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.160 I always wanted to be better than him. Uh. Yeah, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.640 they both made it. They both made it, uh to 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:02.120 the league. Jalen just recently got out the league. Yeah, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.000 just because of injuries and stuff. Yeah. And then Rod 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.120 made a practice squad but he didn't fully make it. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.640 So just looking at them, I was like, man, that's 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.760 motivation to just keep going and just make this something 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.040 that I always wanted to do. So I'm just gonna 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:23.120 keep going with it. That's that's what's your daughter's name? 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.800 Got the real bosson in there we need to talk to. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.200 So when you look back growing up and stuff, how 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.280 would you how would you summarize the way you the 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.920 way you were raised? Um in Philly just because a 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:49.600 lot of people, you know, there is a stigma amongst athletes, um, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.000 you know, growing up and then the city that um, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.800 you know, just just being honest, they always, you know, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.200 they look at us and they said that we're thugs 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.920 or we're this, and were that. But to some degree, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.960 the hardness of us, um, you know, it does play 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.600 a role. And how we how we made it. And 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.680 so how how would you summarize the way you grew up? Um? 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.080 And and how that helped you get to where you 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:19.120 are today? Uh? Oh say, I grew up not the 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:25.640 not the worst, but a step above. Like okay, because 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.920 I was just talking to my friend about like we have, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.000 Like he used to stay at my house, like we 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.360 had My room wasn't wasn't that big, but we had 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.840 a three bedroom apartment. It was couches in the other room. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.080 He bought a couch in there, and he just slept 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.840 in there, Like one time we have no lights, no water, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.240 he stayed there. I was like, for what when you 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.640 got hot order and lights at your house? But he 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.160 was just like, man, I just want to be around you. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.240 It's like you've got a good spirit no matter what. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.160 So I mean, I was like not a trouble kid, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.120 but I found my way out of trouble a lot 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.360 of times. So, but I was raised real good under 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.440 my mom. She was my back phone, do everything. How 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.120 was why and how was she your backbone? No matter what, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.040 whether it was literal league, like she used to spend 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.480 a thousand dollars a thousand dollars that we didn't have, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.960 but she used to get up five o'clock in the morning, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.600 come back at to make me dinner for practice before practice, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.199 go to practice, bring me back home, do everything that 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.080 that she wanted to. Like, she never pushed me to 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.480 do anything. I just always wanted to play sports, like 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.200 whether it was football, basketball, track, anything, she just always 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.600 funded it. Even though we didn't have a lot of 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:39.040 fund in our pockets. How'd your first fund football? Shoot? 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.520 I was I was playing football illegally at four. Yeah, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.879 like we ain't turning my birth certificate. That's how I 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.760 was out there just running around, just making people that 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.320 was six seven look crazy. But I was four years 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.040 old until somebody had told that we didn't have a 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.840 birth certificate for me. You're not tall, But how were 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.560 you at four? For dude? I was you can? You can? 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.080 I mean literally, you can always be under. It's the 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:12.199 ones who's over that's that's really be getting caught. But 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.639 the way he said I'm kinding like like four, I 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.880 was about like, yeah, you can get away with At 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.879 that point, they ain't really gonna, like you said, let 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.840 someone tell on you. They're not really going to find 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.000 out my viewer, you know, kid about alignment size and 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.760 yeah you ain't. You ain't gonna be allowed to play. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:31.680 So the reason they told on you, it's probably the right. Yeah, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.520 I go. I think about that all the time. I 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.879 was like, I shouldn't have been playing that for because 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.000 I'm ye high, like my my brain now fully development. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.320 I'm just out there just having fun playing tackle or 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.080 flat now. I played tackle all my life. I didn't 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.920 meaning now because people now they're the flag just started 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.639 like yeah, I don't like flag. It's pretty much a 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.840 newer thing, like I mean, especially down here forty two, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.159 I was playing flags, So I don't know when how 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.840 how much newer? And I mean I'm not from played, 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.520 I'm not from Philly, but yeah down here in the South, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:04.879 like there weren't no flag leagues. Like you either playing 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.480 in pads or you ain't playing football. Wow, yeah that 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.400 was up in Philly like we used to play like 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.040 we was justus to playing on concrete, like we playing 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.600 the basketball court after the game and go play on concrete. 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.840 We ain't playing on concrete, aboy playing the street like 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.680 you play pick up a bust them, but like an 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:25.480 organized league. It was like a group of people playing 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.760 on the court. You used to play throw up, that's 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.680 what it was called. Somebody get hit like people used 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.800 to get scraped up hitting the basketball. Who. I got 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.919 a question though, if you're gonna play thorpe touch or 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:45.600 thorpe tackle on the on the pavement when you when 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.639 you avoided some grass, you got to make it. Do 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.240 what it? Do it? Do it? Understand. But I don't 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.680 know about no concrete. You've seen people get flipped. I seen, yeah, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.920 you use flip. I don't know about the flip park 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:05.120 on concrete. Yeah, we played. We played touch and flag 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.919 like on the street and stuff. But you wouldn't tackle 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.440 the only thing you have silon pop, like give views 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.879 on the sideline because you got that little patch of 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:20.520 grass or oh ye silon pop yep. No we we 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.439 fall to the ground on the concrete. Yeah, what it is? 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:30.840 I can't do it. No, sir built that way, so 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.680 you wouldn't build for that. Nah, well you literally don't 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.639 think about it. You just having fun. We have to 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.680 take a break and the morning thing. We gotta pay 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:48.359 some bills. You got checks. I love cut to It, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.840 and I love it even more when you download us 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.399 and subscribe, and you can follow us on social media too, 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.000 Smithie where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:04.200 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.240 It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? And you 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.720 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.040 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.159 us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.600 answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my questions answered. 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.240 That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:33.480 Podcast dot Com. You know you drafted umen that's crazy, right, 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:41.560 and you getting old? You know that. Every time I 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.040 think about it, I was drafted at twenty, Like that's 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:45.720 how I keep up with the years I'm in the league. 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.800 I'm twenty four. I just turned twenty four some four 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.320 years and like this my fourth year, I'm like, damn, 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:57.680 that ship went fast. Yeah. Uh. And then we got 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.280 the youngest team. I just saw that this more. Yeah, 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.200 and I'm still like top six young on youngest on 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:07.320 the team. Yea, by the numbers, by the numbers right now, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:13.879 So your youngest team. And yet I'm one who was 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.120 skewing the numbers because I saw that come out by 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:20.159 the numbers average agents like four point three for the 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.119 Carolina Panthers. So like someone who had to be skewing 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.359 the numbers. All of the suf they just told us 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.760 we got the only four people that's over thirty on 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:37.240 the team. Four. Yeah, everybody else like Kristen shot we 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.840 got we got a few people that could actually rent 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:49.600 a car, Hey, get a big truck. Get the big truck. Yeah, man, 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.240 goodness crazy. Obviously when you were drafted, I was working, Um, 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:56.919 what was that was the Dallas No? That was was 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:01.159 that Nashville No, it was that Dallas. So when you 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.920 got drafted, we were in Dallas, uh doing the doing 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.400 NFL network, and uh, you know, you obviously got compared 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:10.359 to me very quickly. And I said, you know, and 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:15.200 I said what I said, how did you feel really 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:19.440 when you heard all of the comparisons and and uh, 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.000 you know what I said. And just coming here in Carolina. 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:27.359 When I first like the comparison, I was like, man, 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.119 that's spot on because I was watching you in college. 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.679 So I was like, all right, let's do this and 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.080 incorporate this and all this throughout college. And then when 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.679 they came out through uh through the NFL network, had 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.320 the comparisons and I was like, damn, y'all spot on. 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.280 But at the time I didn't think I was gonna 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:49.560 be the first round. How it was because they actually 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.920 got to go back to school grade So like coming out, 0:23:55.640 --> 0:24:03.600 I don't know I had we got all. They don't go, hey, 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:05.439 what you want your grade to be? Back to school? 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.520 Like we sent it in, they sent back go back 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:10.520 to school. I was like, no, I'm still out. Like 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:12.400 after that pen State game, I was like, no, I'm 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:15.920 leaving regardless. So after that, but like a week leading 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:18.600 up like two days leading up, I've just seen that 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.000 I was the number one receiver. I was like, all right, 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.399 let's go then, So that was like that was a blessing. 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:26.320 Then you came out and said what you said? That 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:28.399 just put the ice in on the cake for me. 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:31.520 So I was like, man, I got like when you said, 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:32.880 I was like, damn, I got a lot to live 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:34.680 up to. But then I thought about it, like I 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:37.000 could use that as more motivation to be better than 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.199 what you was as a Carolina coun And that's what 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:40.960 I was just I was going to ask that what 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:44.040 what expectations not from not externally, but what did that 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:46.960 dude inside of you? Like internally, what did that? What 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:50.720 did that puts a good question internally? Like I never 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:53.240 fixated my mind on just be like, yeah, he said this, 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.520 he said, this is live off that hype. I was like, 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:57.159 he said this, Now, I just got to go out 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.800 there and improve it, improve it more than I can 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:03.040 be as good or even better than he was. You 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:04.960 hesitated when you said it a little bit because we 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:12.480 sit and cross room. That's like a mental thing. I'm 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:17.880 not as I'm not as bad as uh they make it. See, Oh, 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:21.480