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We deliver the message, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.280 the unwritten rule that you can be a celebrity and 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.360 talk about other things other than what you do or 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.920 what you're known for, because you have a brain. You 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.720 have a brain out there that's three sixty. In other words, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.920 you're also making money while you're sleeping. Other than whether 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:56.120 you're a singer, an athlete, you know, you're CEO, you're 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.480 a small business owner. That's what this shows us about. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.000 It is like giving the voice to the to the 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.200 business side and the millennials eating it up eighteen and 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.600 thirty four. That's that generation. A lot of people don't 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.720 realize that one third of the workforce is self employed, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.520 so they we're delivering the message that wants to be 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.079 heard and is being delivered brilliant to be about a 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.200 lot of talent, the people that come on my show 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:23.239 that are in the fields of athletics, success, Netta range, celebrities, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.040 industry decision maker, CEOs. Let me just tell you by 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.959 my next guest. He's on the phone right now. My 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.680 next is an NFL fan favorite. He ended. He entered 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.640 the NFL as the first overall pick in two thousand 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.919 one with their line of Falcons and just five years 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.399 with the Falcon victory three pro Bros two thousand, two 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.880 thousand to two thousand four or two thousand five, and 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.880 led the team to two playoff appearances, including the NFC 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.639 Championship in two thousand four. I remember that game. I 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.920 remember that. During his final season in the Lanta, he 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.160 put on one of the best performances, breaking the single 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.120 season Russian record for a quarter act and becoming the 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.280 first quarterback in NFL history to rush for one thousand 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.160 yards in the season. Please walk on the money making 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:15.080 conversation the incredible Michael Vick. Uh, thank you, Hey Michael, Michael, 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:21.160 Come on, Mike, that was Mike. I laid you out, man, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:25.799 I laid you out, working on working on out here, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.960 Mike had night. I'm at home for putting all these 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.480 words together, man to mix sure up for my board 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:41.000 where he's old to be alleged. Man, I'm gonna something. Man, Mike, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.720 you're I'm a fan of you, not only as an 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:52.000 athlete but a business person. Uh. Game changer. Um uh, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.800 just just the world. I had called Francis on the show. Uh. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.360 A lot of people don't know direct your communication for 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.800 the NFL pad and and and one of your questions 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.160 talked about you re launching his your team VIC foundation. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.400 It's a give back to youth and community and then 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.720 but what I know is the Hampton Hampton Roads where 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.480 you're from. You know you've teamed up with Pittsburgh dealer 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.240 coach Mike Tomlin. Of course, you teamed up with Carl Francis, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.400 who was an NFLPA community director of communications. You've never 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.279 stopped giving back, Mike. Yeah. Yeah. And also when I 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.000 was in when I was playing in Philadelphia, I don't 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.240 need a two hundred thousand dollars football field, UM Team 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.520 VIC field to the city of Germantown. So you know 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.840 I've done some things that you know, people, you know, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.800 I don't do it for a recognition, you know, I 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.400 do it from the goodness of my heart and um, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.120 you know, just a giveback. You know, it's always gotta 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.039 be you know, something that said at the center of 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.320 your of your heart. And you know what I mean, 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.760 these kids coming behind us that they really need our help. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.839 And right now the Team Big Foundation is about to relaunch, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.480 coming back stronger. We're coming back with you know, a 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.200 ton of support and and and and people who are 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.960 gonna be able to help us, you know, accomplished division 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.120 and and that's you know, being able to to make 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.720 you know, kids lives better, to help improve their upbringing. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.760 And uh, you know I won't say give them a 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.719 sense of hope, let them know that you know, they 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.080 have an opportunity to rely on people who are going 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.000 to help them, you know, find some level of success 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.440 in their life. And they have no opportunity what to 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.800 listen but to follow protocol and guidelines. You know, that's 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.919 what it be, you know, predicated around it it'll be strict, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.520 will be in the city driven, and you know in 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.240 in in the suburban, every is because everybody needs um. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.200 Aren't just all from you know, a monetary standpoint. Sometimes 0:05:55.240 --> 0:06:00.240 people need you need things, um in terms of you know, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.000 you know, it's from from this, uh, you know, being 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.880 able to talk and in the mental standpoint of shopping up. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.640 So yeah, man, it's you know, I go on and 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.120 knowing about that, but yeah, I'm excited about it. But 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.200 I want you to go on and on because of 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.359 the fact that because it's the fact that we're in 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.440 the era of you shout out your love, you shout 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.839 out your message. That's what social media is about nowadays. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.960 You know, I would tell people social media is your 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.160 own private press conference. You know. I remember, I remember 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.680 when you shouted out that love for Lamar Jackson, when 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.360 you said, no, no, no, no, he five times better 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.040 than me. You just put him on the platform and 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.839 that was all over ESPN, right right. They ate that 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.040 up for they're still talking about it now to this day. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.359 And just that you know, one headline really went a 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.200 long way for Lamar in terms of you know, his 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.719 draft process and this progress. UM. So you know, I 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.039 look at it from a point like sometimes you say 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.240 things you don't know the impact that is going to 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.279 have on the individual. It's just it just comes out. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.800 And I came out, um, you know, just out of 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.320 pure team with it. And you know, I'm glad that 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.040 you know, I was able to help him, you know, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.840 improve his draft. You had to see I saw the 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.600 game that you responded afterwards like whoa hey, yeah, And 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.920 then you know, I think ultimately when you look at it, 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.720 two coaches that I worked with in Philadelphia on his 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.520 coaches now, so my voice is heard. And they got 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.400 a good player in Lamark Jackson with the Ravens, and 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.040 that's really important, and that to to what you The 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.840 thing about this is that is that as a a 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.920 guy who's been successful in a lot of lanes talking 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.520 about myself, I've always been a fan and I was 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.680 one play, I'm just gotta, I gotta, I gotta get 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.320 the Michael Vick play that that that you know, and 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.800 when we took TOIME, I always tell people when you're 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.720 watching the game, when you play, you never want to 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.960 watch the game by yourself. That's the worst thing. That's 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.960 the worst thing in the World's to watch the game 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:06.800 with Michael Vick because you can't trying to nobody to go. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.600 So so it was when you were playing against Minnesota 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.920 and Uh, I think it's like a fifty five yard 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.320 touchdown run. You went back to pass and you split 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:26.040 the safeties. My man, I was like, nobody was around me, Mike. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.720 I had never seen a guy that fast throw the 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.520 ball and run the ball simultaneously. And when you split 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.120 the safety and like the whole even if the broadcasters 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.200 lost their mind, because that's the type of talent that 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.959 you brought to the field, and you're bringing that same 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.360 type of talent off the field with your community efforts 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.960 and with your business efforts. You kind of like balancing 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.160 and out. Now you're taking the same God given talents 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.920 and letting people know that, yes, I have this brilliant 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.000 physical gift that God gave me. Now you're showing everybody 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.800 did from an analyst to now a community act. That's 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.240 why I had to bring up that Mike Tomlin relationship 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.920 that you have a call Frances because because people cause 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.880 a great guy called one of the guys that you 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.839 know throughout all circumstances, see who was there for me? Um, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:23.320 Like I said, Uh, mentally. And when I was going 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.079 back to you know, everything is out about money or 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.480 monetary Carl was one of the guys who illustrated that 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.920 to me. You know, just when I was going through 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.520 my personal problems, call was there to give me advice 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.880 on the day to day basis and basically talk of 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.480 my mood every day. And I thought that was just 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.560 extremely important, man, and do those lessons. You know, Andy 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.000 Reid did the same thing. And um, you know, any 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.640 guy who was an influence in my life as a coach, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.960 my high school coach, they all, you know, we're there 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.679 for me mentally. And I feel like, you know, that 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.400 has to be passed more generation to generation. And you know, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.080 I used to talk to Rees a lot, you know, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.800 back in the day. So I always just tell me 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.640 when I was young, you know, you know, I ain't 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.880 shopping iron shopping then and I never forget that. So 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.439 I try to live by that. And you know, not 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.560 the force it onto you know, young kids or you 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.360 know somebody who you know who's older than me. I 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.160 just I beat myself and and you know, you just 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.640 let it come out of the flow natural. Right now, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.480 I wanted to bring this up. I'm going to go 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.080 to a break here. But I want to bring this 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.000 up about you paid back the seventeen point four million 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.720 dollars you old and you could have easily have filed 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.600 for bankrupts. So you paid it back in two thousand 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.680 and I remember when you said, hey, you wrote that 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.920 last check? You said done. You know why was it important? 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.120 You know, I know why I'd like I said, I 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.319 don't want back my whole life as an African American. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.920 I fought for my credit. You know, I don't play, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.960 I don't pay nobody slow. But this seventeen point four 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.040 million dollars. Yeah, yeah, and and and you know, and 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.680 you know the luxury and that was I was able 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.200 to keep another seventeen point four million dollars, so you know, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.520 and I'm looking at it like, okay, I could easily 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.400 have thirty four million aalargies get in my bank account. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.040 But what good is it if you can't leverage it, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.880 you know, with business relationships and personal relationships, because if 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.959 you know, if you should, like anybody in this world, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.760 when it comes to money, you know, you lose a 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.720 ton of respect. You know, people put a lot of 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.640 times when in a dollar. You know, it's so true, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.840 and um, you know, I just look at it if 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.840 I have a lot of life to live out for football, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.160 and obviously, you know, if I'm you know, shipping on 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.520 you know, a certain amount of money, and obviously I 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.760 would want that money to grow. Um, you know, I 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.040 don't think, you know, a certain amount of money is 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.320 ever gonna be enough. You know, it's that it's never 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.599 enough for anybody listening who you know think, Um, a 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.920 million knowledge is a lot, or a ten million knowledge 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.000 is a lot. Though you should always strive for more, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.480 you know. And you know, if you know, working on 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.720 a thirty five thousand hours salary, then figure out the 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.800 way that you know, you know, to get the fifty 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.360 you know. So I think everything it's always a growing process, man, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.480 and and everything we're doing, you know, in that in 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.200 that particular case, I didn't want people to think that, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.000 you know, I wasn't a man of my word. I 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.800 knew it, you know, playing football beyond you know, the 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.960 time I wanted to was gonna be important, But living 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.079 life out the football was gonna be important. That was 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.679 gonna be building with people who can trust me and 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.079 my word. And that's you know, with a certain money 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.520 and that's when we come back. We're gonna talk about 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.319 you know, the Fox Sports trust you, this new flag football, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.800 They trust you. You launching a new clothing brand. Just 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.280 trust you. Be back back with more. Michael vent the 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.560 incredible Michael Vent I might have another intro for you 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:58.040 on the backside. To Michael Vick, I am back the 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.839 incredible Michael Vick is on the phone. Um, this young man, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.600 UM changed the game of football. Uh. He brought hip 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:11.840 hop to football. Um. When he was here with t J. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:19.559 Duckett done, it was a DVD backfield. You don't talk 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.800 about the show another week. Man, I'm saying some man. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.600 I'm just I'm just following the circle with you, Michael. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.559 All the messages done. Uh. Carl Francis was on the show. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.520 T J. Ducket Man, I love that dude. Man who's 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.280 doing great things as an entrepreneur, was on the show 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.320 talking about that experience, and I just want to I 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.480 just want to talk about that experience a little bit 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.079 because of the fact that and I'm not saying that 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.560 that that whole Virginia area because Alan Iron Persson is 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.840 from that area and a lot of brilliant, talented athletic 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.240 people are from that area, and Alan Irrison, he changed 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.760 the view that that he brought hip hop into basketball. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.680 He really urbanized it and made it feel because that 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.120 was the that was the talent that was dominating the sport. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.000 But it didn't it didn't it wasn't embraced by the 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.320 talent that was supplying the athlete. And I like to 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.600 believe that when you came in, you did the same 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.760 thing for the NFL am I correcting saying that, yeah, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:27.080 and that was through so you know, we're from the 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.320 same neighborhood. And of me looking up to him and 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.680 watching him accomplished everything that he was able to and 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.600 such a you know sort of spending time. You know, 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.440 I watched this every move and that move was part 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.400 of my every move. So you know, you you know, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.040 you look up to guys and you don't even know 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.800 when young, how big of an influence that they have 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.680 on you as a as a role model. You're being 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.880 a fan, you know, because when that I was the 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:02.640 first went to the NBA, I you know, in high school, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.280 right you know, so you know I looked at him 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.520 every time I've seen him, so we got him that level. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.680 I just followed him and you know me being influenced 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.240 by him helped me to transcend the culture, you know, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.720 in the NFL. And you know I took that same 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.680 bridge style and that same budget looked, so to speak, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.560 and you know, I made it a part of my 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.880 game because I felt like that's what that's what I 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.560 needed to be. I had to take on a broader appearance, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.000 you know, you know, just to do something different. And 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.440 I was I was always a fan of being different, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.800 you know, so I tell my team to this day, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.280 you know, I love ideas that's different. That's really important 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.800 because you know, Alan Irish, don't if anybody doesn't know 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:52.360 legendary Philadelphia, Uh, Philadelphis having to section basketball player number 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.240 one pick in the draft, by the way, played his 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.760 college ball at George Now, you played your college ball 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.600 in Virginia Tech. So neither one y'all went that fall 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:06.000 from home. Y'all stay closed. Now, y'all stay that Virginia's cold. Okay, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:12.560 Mama Mama's boys, and we love the finger. Now. Now, now, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.000 when you got an opportunity to hear to be an 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:22.360 analyst Fox Sports NFL kickoff show on Fox, Okay, here 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:27.920 you are, you're You're you're extremely talented athlete, but everybody 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.000 is not extremely talented. In the words, you have natural 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.160 guard gifts, and there's a lot of players who have 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.240 to work hard to achieve the same opportunity that you get. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.520 What are you in preparation for? You know, you don't 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.000 want to be critical players because you have to meet 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.040 these players. How do you how do you approach you 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:50.680 prepping for those shows? Well, you know, it's it's it's 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.560 kind of tricky. Um, you know, I think you know, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.200 to my advantage, I played the game, so I know 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.000 players feelings and emotions after win or loss, and just 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.679 I'm just saying that just to keep it simple. So 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.359 when I when I go on TV and I'm able 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.480 to talk about it, I'm such a fan of the game, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.040 I know how to bring it out in a positive 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.960 and negative way, but in a way where where it's 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.080 you know, constructive criticism, you know, And I'm trying to 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.840 help you see that. Listen, there's a problem. It needs 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.879 to be fixed. Um. If this problem don't be fixed, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.800 to become bigger, and you know, you kind of lead 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.800 it up, lead up to a week by week based 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.440 on you know, every players storyline. Every player in the 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.280 NFL has a storyline. You know, if you're playing you 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.920 know guys you know, playing the offensive line, they're not. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.399 It's visible. So you know, if one guys given up 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.919 ten sacks the game, and yeah, he'll be a storyline. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.320 But you know guys like Godell Beckham, we watches every move, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.520 you know, Drew Breeze, he watches every move my round. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.639 You know, the premier players in the game. You know, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.040 give us something to talk about weekend and week out 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.639 based on performance, and I know what it should look like. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.240 So it helps me when I get on set. Now. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.159 It also helps is the fact that you still maintain 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.879 this high profile television parents and then you're launching a 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.080 clothing brand called V seven. Tell us about that high 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.720 performance active where yeah, well V seven was low. You 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.400 know it was in V seven, you know, from two 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.280 thousands three to two thousands of seven. You know, uh, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.000 per my deal with Nike, and you know is no 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.679 Nike has been great to me. You know throughout the 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.440 course of my career. Man have been so loyal that 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.800 you know, we've had, you know, such good times. You know, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.280 they they gave me permission, they kind of redo it 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.359 again on my own, you know, and just you know, 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.080 go out. You know, still represent Nike. Still I never 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:59.159 leave the Nike BRANDO, Nike branded for life. Um, you 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:03.280 know I I you know, chant that relationship to you know, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.639 to the day I die. So you know, I still 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.040 do work with Nike. I'm still there for them. I 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.280 still and they allowed me to have V seven and 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.400 you know V seven is just um, you know, there's 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.000 nothing you know, crazy about it. It's like any other 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.040 closing life with the trends and you know, um, when 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.679 we're we're excited because you know, at some point we 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.200 you know, we were pushed to get into big retail 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.199 stores when we feel like we're ready. I don't want 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.000 to rush it, but I just got you know, my 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.680 coaches approved and me in the bookstores that at Virginia Tech, 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:40.000 you know, in three different UM locations and online. And 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.679 as long as we continue to produce good products and 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.800 we get the fans of Portment Virginia, Virginia Tech and 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:50.280 Michael Vick V seven always be able to you know, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.600 say that we were the first to ever do it 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.119 and be able to co brand and exist exist on 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.200 camping what we make where I made history and it's 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.320 great to have to old in a place where you know, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:06.080 kids for generations to come, you know, can always feel 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.679 like they're part of the V seven tradition and the 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.680 things that happened at Jenior Tech. So along with that, 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.920 and you know, me and my crew rocket and making 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.840 it look good. Man, It's just it's funny to have 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.040 their own clothes. I think that's right. Hey, Mike guest 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.159 shape not Mike got stance. Can't rock your cloth with 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.560 a little part billy, you know that. Not come, yeah, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.680 gotta keep that slam now. But you're looking good. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:35.479 I'm feeling good right now. There you go. Now if 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.800 you want to look at this clothing logo to WW 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.879 dot V seven clothing dot com as WW dot V 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.720 seven clothing dot com dot. Michael, offensive coordinator for the 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.920 new professional Spring Football League Alliance of American Football Atlanta team. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.960 Tell us about that head coach is former Super Bowl 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.680 UH coach, correct Brad Childress. Brad Brad Shoulders the head 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:01.840 coach you know on the offensive course latter um, you know, 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.080 and I'm excited, man, this is this is a great 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.480 opportunity to you know, connect with you know, a league 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.639 that's you know on a rise and look it's looking 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.720 to you know, be around for a long time and 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.960 help you know, get players, you know, another opportunity to 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.440 can teale their careers and further than creazy, get good 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:25.480 teaching and coaching and maybe go moon and do greater things. Well, 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.040 so that's what that's what they're set up for. So um, well, 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.480 we know we needed we need to go ahead. I'm'm 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.520 gonna be marking. I'm gonna take on a little subtle 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.359 V seven marketing. Let's get this V seven tied to 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.679 this league here. Okay, Well, I think those are conversation 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.240 that camp could be had there. We're gonna find there. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.920 You gonna money make conversation, Mike, just make conversation and 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:52.399 it yeah, absolutely Penny making conversations. What what I what 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.840 I what I was? What I was mentioned because we're 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.560 having a plenty baking conversations. You know, bring my Clee 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.119 back and might Creep be there? Uh you know flagship 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:08.480 you and BE seven. Look we can, but it will 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.880 only be the Atlanta Alliance to absolutely absolute only get 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.359 it on absolutely. You know, it's what makes us special. 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.240 Let's set us apart. So you know those conversations that 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.040 the project you had at some point, you know, as 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.560 the relationship continues to bro um. You know, if we're 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.159 working with a great growing people from Charlie episode to 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.440 Um you know, j K McKay, Um Silver down to 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.920 Brad Children. So I mean the league is going to 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.600