WEBVTT - Mark Ingram 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 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John And this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.840 to it. Good do it? Good do they's getting down 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.520 to do it. Good do it. We asked the questions 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.880 you always want to know, but no one ever asked, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.600 let's cut to it. You ain't heard them about it, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:41.000 then we're about to let you know. It's all you 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.800 needed it. But you needed a black nickname anyway. Now 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.680 your name Scooter. It's always a black school. Hey, how 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:51.920 you guys doing. Steve Smith Senior here and g um, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.120 welcome to the podcast. And when those us my Spanish 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.560 is Ussey, so I don't know that right when those deals, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.960 when it's startest if it's afternoons, you know I was 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.119 a little bilingual. You ain't boy ling anyway. We got 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:15.840 our bookie manager on here, Joe Fushi nicknamed Scooter ak 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.119 a backstage Joe. He was backstage, backstage. We brought him. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.080 We brought him to the limelights. So Joe's Joe's want 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.920 of homeboys and good dude, very talented businessman. Yeah, it 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.080 makes a lot of this happen I'll tell you what 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.280 his ass is not. What's that he is not a 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.080 good communicator on this subject at hand. So we were 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.119 talking this weekend, and Joe has a boat, and Joe 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.200 loves to go on this boat. Now, Joe loves to 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.720 play golf with Smitty, but Smithy ain't as good as Joe. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.640 But Smitty got the membership and Joe got the boat. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:58.400 So it's a nice boat. And so Joe loves being 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.200 on the boat. He beautiful wife Kim says, look, if 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.840 you get the boats, you can't have a country cutup membership. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.600 So Joe's all, you know, Joe's my golfing buddy. I 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.560 love hanging out with him. Great dude. Business as well 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.799 helps me a lot of stuff. So me and Joe chilling, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.480 and I know, so I get some shoes, uh do 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.760 some yard work, and so they have these cool like 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.839 boots but their waterproof and so I can hold them 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.600 down and not get my socks well, and I hate 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:34.440 wet socks. Like that is like like I'm like two 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.480 things like yard that y'ard work that I hate wet 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.400 socks and picking up dog poop. But I got a dog, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.079 so I pick up dog poops. So the only thing 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.480 I can really get away with is not having wet socks. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.200 So I say, man, these these shoes. And then I 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.440 discovered that this these boots, they also make boat shoes. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.800 So I'm gonna read your text, good morning Joe. Quick question, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:04.320 what shoe size are you? Morning, Steve? I am a 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:09.399 ten and a half two eleven and a half depends 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.160 on the style. So at this time Joe did not 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.480 know I am trying to order these shoes as I 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.000 am texting him. So now I'm like, you just need 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:25.880 one size? Yes, So I said, all right, let me 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.800 gather up something that we can all identify with generally Nike's, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.200 depending on Nike's run small. So I said, what size 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:43.240 are you? And Jordan's And here's where it gets interested, scooter, Okay, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.280 here we go up? What's he goes? I said what size? 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.640 And I even s z in Jordan's. So now I'm 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.760 mentor like cutting into like specifics. What side to it? 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.080 I got the laptop up, It got two pair of 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.840 sizes left. I want to get my boys some some 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:09.400 some boat shoes. All right, I wear eleven and the 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:16.000 eleven half if I tighten them up. Now, so I 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.120 go back up, and I said, first of all, he's 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.080 a ten and a half to eleven and a half 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.240 and now he's an eleven. But if I tighten them up, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.560 eleven and a half. So here is I don't ever 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.719 want to Here is my reply. Here is my reply. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:40.760 What blankety blank size are you? Bro? I don't want 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.520 the hood size when you can't afford to pass up 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.880 what they're giving you, grown ass man, you're walking you 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.880 walking into a true store to get a pair of Vans. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.599 What size can I get you? Sir? Joe? Reply is 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:07.479 you can get me size eleven eleven? I said, not 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.919 in between sizes. I've looked that up. There is no 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.880 slides between ten and a half and eleven and a 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.320 half and there's definitely no size for eleven and a half. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.680 When I tightened them up, He's like, damn, why are 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.719 you on me so bad? I said, we read your replies. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.560 See why dot dot dot this whole time I'm trying 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.520 to order you a pair of shoes and I gotta 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:39.680 read this. Can I jump in here for school? First off, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.960 your georgie's tied tight right now? No, they are not. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.000 And guess what shoes he's wearing currently? Right now vans, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.080 thank you. So I really don't have an excuse for this. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.600 I really really thought I was being good friend Joe, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.400 because you know, like when somebody's gonna help. I felt 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.600 the vibe somebody was getting me something. You know, how 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.680 you want you get that gift from an ant and 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.440 like it's a sweater with a V neck and like 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.839 you don't want to act like you don't. And I 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.800 know Steve knows me well enough to know it's gonna 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.760 be nice. So I'm just trying to be open guy. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.240 And then I go back and read and I was thoroughly, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.760 thoroughly embarrassed. I was stuttering. If you can do that 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.719 in text? Says, how do you studying a text message? 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.320 I was giving nine eleven sizes, like he said, I 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.280 felt like growing up when your big friend gives you 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.240 them old shoes. Man. I put four pair of socks 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.760 on as long as I can get him, and they fit. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.280 So um, I'm you're grown ass man. Why are you 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:36.560 tightening up? Yeah, don't don't ever see you tightening up? 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.200 I said, what size are you between? Ten and a 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.640 half and he left ten and a half is a 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:50.600 size three sizes ten, seven, five, even if you're even 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.160 if you're your right, you still have to buy two 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.680 different pairs of shoes to discover which he tried to 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.400 give you a damn fitted hat size. And it's a shoot, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.479 I said, I said, we read what you're saying. I did, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.960 and I apologized, and I'm thankful for the gift I'm receiving. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.200 I didn't even wanted the shoes because I was so irritated. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.800 I didn't even get them. I wasting ll not in 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.080 order because the whole time I'm going through this batch, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:21.760 like what's what size do you wear? Man? This is 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.200 like eight thirty in the morning, and I'm like, I 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.760 was getting Saturday ripped up, Sunday Sunday. I was ripped 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.800 apart for like this one. I'm like twenty minutes and 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.800 it's all my fault. It's one I take ownership, my fault. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.440 It's COVID. But the best part about it is when 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:44.840 I finally got it down, I'm eleven. We did all 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.920 of this, that's your size. Just cut to it, bro, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.040 That's all I had to do. I know, awful. Let's 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.280 just cut to our guests now, Yeah, who is our guests? 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.520 Coming up? On the Cut to It podcast, we got 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.560 mark Ingram running back for the Baltimore Ravens. He's a 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.480 three time Pro Bowl winner. He was a Hosman Trophy 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.440 winner in Alabama, and he's married to his wife Chelsea. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.200 They got four beautiful kids. Mark Ingram, want to cut 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:16.120 to a podcast. Thank you for joining the podcast, bro 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.520 sure man, appreciate you having me on. So we're gonna 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.480 go into a segment we called get Iced Up. It's 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.000 our version of Icebreakers, man. So what we're gonna do. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.240 We've got some random questions that might be a follow up, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.560 might not? You know how Agent eighty nine is, so 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.280 I'm gonna let him go ahead and give you the 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.080 first one. All right, all right, all right? If you 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.640 are an animal, what would you be and why? I'll 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.640 probably be like a grizzly bear something because that thing fast, strong, lucive, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.920 and ain't nobody hunting grizzly bear. I things just the 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.160 ultimate predator. So probably like that, or a lying or 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.120 something something that ain't gonna be on the food chain 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.120 getting eating up by other animals like that. So do 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:00.280 you prefer baths or showers? I need a shower after 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.800 I'm working out, but I do love my EPs. And 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:08.040 soap salt soaks, so you know, showers is mandatory, but 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.640 you know I love being in that bath with the 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.000 EPs and salt and you know, putting together that that 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.400 soft you know, that secret sauce to help their body recover. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.480 So I might have to go with both on that 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.040 he just gave us to understand because the man answer 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.520 has been a shower. Hey man, Shoot, I don't know. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.000 Maybe you're too manly to have that EPs and soft 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.880 soap after sore day in the heat. But I ain't 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.520 you know what I mean, I'm retired. I'm an tradition, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.719 so I never eat no more. You never did, bro, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.360 Yeah I did. I didn't say it was anything wrong 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.800 with it. I just wanted to know, would you be fourth? Right? 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.440 That's all? Yeah? Yeah, I'm good like So the last 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.000 book you you did not finish, and you cannot say 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:57.160 the Bible the last book I did not finish. Shoot, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.439 that's tough. I mean the last book I picked up. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.560 I've read the whole thing, flew through and I ain't 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:11.360 picked up another book since. So which one give? Not 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.200 a fan? Um? It's basically a book about you know, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:21.320 being a devoted follower to you know the Christ and um, basically, 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.320 are you a fan of Jesus Christ or you a 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:30.520 follow Jesus Christ? Man? It was just very convicting man. Um. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.880 It was just numerous chapters of just you know, encouragement 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.600 and and and obviously you know, being convicted. Like you know, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.760 a lot of guys say that they they followed Jesus. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.760 But do you pick up your cross daily? Do you 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.760 follow him? Do you um spread his word to others? 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.000 Do you do you talk how you're supposed to be 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.280 talking around people that don't know you. Um, you know, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.360 it's his light shining through you. You know what I mean. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.800 It just dives into that and many different aspects and 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.760 many different examples on how to be I'm a completely 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.080 devoted follower and not just a fan. I like that. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:09.400 I like that's all right. Last one, tell me one 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:13.320 person not in your media family a confidence that you 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:19.199 trust and name that individual. Well, other than my blood relatives, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.040 this guy is like a blood relative to me. His 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.880 name is William Nelson. That's my uncle. Um. I called 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.520 him my uncle because he's like my uncle. He's my 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.920 father's best friend. Uh was there uh you know for me? 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.760 You know, it's been every single one of my football games, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.000 my professional football games. And he lives in Baltimore, so 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.760 he could always fly all my games. And all of 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.800 a sudden, I'm here in Baltimore, So I just drives, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.160 you know, if your teen minutes up the road to 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.640 the stadium. But that's my uncle Bubby. I'll call him Bubby, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:50.960 Uncle Bubby, nickname uncle Bubb, but his real name William Nelson, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.559 So shout out to Bubb. All right, let's let's get 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.320 into who you are, where you are, and where are 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.920 you from? So where are you from and where do 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.160 you consider your hometown. I'm from Flint, Michigan, and that's 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.320 what I consider my hometown. That's where all my families living. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:13.600 My mother and my father, and my sisters, um, aunt's cousins, grandma, grandpa. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.480 Basically that's where I'm from. And that's what I claimed Flint, Michigan. Hey, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.719 we'll know all day Flint Stones. What experiences growing up 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:29.120 in Flint, Michigan? Um, what that was experienced like for you? Man? Uh? Yeah, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.000 that's where I'm from. I have a long story of 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.640 like you know, being you know, moving around as a child, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.280 but through my main years growing up as a young 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.079 growing into a young man. You know, I was in Michigan, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.160 so um just um my father was incocetrated a little 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:45.680 bit of time. So just being able to have to 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.760 take a bigger role in my family from my younger sisters, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:50.960 UM pick up some way from my mom who's working 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.280 two jobs. Just to make sure that I stay focused 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.200 on what I need to do, to make sure that Um, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.520 you know, my dad always tell me he made no 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.040 mistakes where I didn't have to make any. So I 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.240 always just trying to stay focused on the right people 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.560 from myself, for positive people and people who love me. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.080 So um, you know, I just always learned how to 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.200 you know, keep a small circle, keep a circle of 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.360 those who believe in you. And so I definitely learned that. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.560 And just um important to the importance of a dollar, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.040 you know what I mean, Um, important to treat people 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.480 the right way. Um, being tough. You know, it's not 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.880 easy city to grow up in. I'm thankful that my parents, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.160 my mother you know, obviously worked two jobs to you know, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.480 move it like you know, into the servers away from 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.280 my grandpa's house. Um that was in the heart of Flint. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.839 So we moved to the suburbs and Mom present me 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.559 to a good school and stuff like that. So um, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.160 and everything that I've been through in my life basically 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.320 shaped the man I am the day from my mother 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.040 and my father and my grandparents. UM. Lots of ups 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.080 and downs to our life that just helped me develop 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.760 into our am today. So you use a key word 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.280 for me, a shape? How it growing up? Shape you 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:04.520 an impact your view on the world today. Um, it 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:09.040 shaped me and helped me view the world today because 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.560 I just always had positive influences in my life. And 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.920 my grandmother was a you know, superintendent in the schools. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.440 My mother was a social worker. UM. My father had 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.320 played tenures in NFL. Um. I have many family members 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.600 and good friends around me that it's always you know, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.960 showing me with love and positivity. Never, um, did I 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.200 have to you know, be in the streets or doing 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.960 things that you know that I that uh, you know, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.960 it wasn't that wasn't good, you know what I mean. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.560 My parents and my loved ones held me to a 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.840 high standard. They expected high things in me. If I 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.520 didn't have above a three point o g p A, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.880 they will let me play even play sports. UM. So 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.960 you know, even though you might be elgible for school. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.640 I brought home that port card and I didn't have 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.200 a three point oh um. Then my parents were shipped 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.280 me out. So one time I brought out home, I 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.160 had a couple of seeds, maybe a d on there 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.720 and uh, whatever it was, they weren't happy. I was 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.400 in I'm grade. I was in the sixth grade and 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.800 we had a little AU game and I tell my 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.240 teammates that I couldn't play, and they I wonder why 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.960 I couldn't play, And I tell them my grades went 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.200 right and so ever since that day, I knew they 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.520 wasn't bluffing by my school and me being accountable, uh 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.680 to handle my priority. So um, I know they might 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.120 be long winded, but basically they shaped me to be 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.200 a positive person who likes to be around positive people, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.280 people who love me genuinely for who I am, and 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.200 I just like to be encouraging and positive and spread 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.720 that same love, spread that same light to others around me. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.600 You know, do the best that I could do, and 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.040 whatever it may be, whether it was sports, school or 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.000 or you know, going the lawn or moving something for 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.880 you know, our ontie or something that needed to move poses, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.160 whatever it may be, do do my best from myself 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.880 with positive people and try to spread that positivity to 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.120 others as well. 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Would you would you share with us 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.920 how your standards have shaped you into the man that 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.200 you are now and even as the player that we 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.440 know you to be. Yeah, like I said, man, my 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.640 father you know played ten years. You know my grandfather 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.960 was crucial in my life. My mother, Um, they's always 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.680 helped me to a high standard. So to do my best, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.000 to perform at the highest of my ability, to put 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.199 the work in, because nothing's gonna be given to you 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.679 everything that you get, you don't have to earn it. Um, 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.040 If you don't have something, everybody's gonna feel bad for you, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:12.840 and just you know, give it to you. So you 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.440 have to put in the hard work. You have to 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.080 put in the man or you have to put in um, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.720 you know, the labor in order to achieve the things 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.240 that you want in life. And you know them is 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.359 still in knows in me being tough on me at 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.280 a young age when I ain't know you know why 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.520 they're being tough on me. Um. You know, I appreciate 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.560 it now being a parent of four and just being 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.760 able to reach the you know, reach what I have 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.399 in my career and in my life. I appreciate my 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.720 mother and my father and my grandfather for being tough 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.719 on me and for helping me to the hyperer standard 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.240 because that's how that's how I live my life. Now 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.680 that's how my children live their life. I want them 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.120 to be the best they could be at whatever they 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:53.960 choose to do. In order to do that, you have 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.439 to put in the hard work. You have to have 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.600 your priority straight. You have to have your mental you know, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.760 you have to have your mental uh focus, you know, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:06.479 in order mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, all those things. You know, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.679 you just have to believe in yourself, surround yourself with 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.439 positive people. Surrounding yourself, people who genuinely love you, who 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.359 don't have any al two of your motives and you 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.639 know the world's yours. You know the sky's living for you. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:21.159 So I appreciate no, and uh, clearly I wouldn't be 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.480 glam today without those people in my life. Tell me 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.720 about playing high school football, because how it is for you? 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.399 Because my son played college, he played high school soccer, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.800 and being a professional athlete, he was always dealing with 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.600 people talking smack like Steve Smith can't help you out here, 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.879 and it's like, bro, he's first of all, he's playing soccer, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:50.080 and second I'm on the sideline like this this is 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.320 his game. So what what was it like to be 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.840 the son of an NFL football player and then also 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:02.440 playing football as well? Because you're trying to follow your 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:07.440 follow follow in your father's footsteps, and then you got 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.679 you got folks coming at you. One you're intimidating to 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:15.360 them because now you have a lineage like a little 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:23.480 become a little markets like big Mark. Yeah man um, 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.600 but like you said, I can. I can empathize with 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.040 your son. But one thing that always stood out to 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.520 me was my father was like, you don't have to 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:32.080 live up to me, you know what I mean. But 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.000 that's easier said than done, you know, because where you go, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.080 you know, in any article that it was ever written 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.240 on me, high school, you know, son of world champion, 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.679 you know, tenure veteran mark Ingram, you know what I mean, senior, 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.680 So everywhere you went you had that kind of stigma 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.439 like you know, a little mark you know, or Mark Jr. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.119 You know what I mean. Um, But my father just 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.840 did such a good job to keep me focusing, not 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:01.280 necessarily uh, making me feel that pressure because he always 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:02.960 told me that, like I just had to do my best, 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.880 and he poured everything he had, all his knowledge, all 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.560 his wisdoms, all his figures, all his successes. He poured 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.439 that into me. And so um with the natural ability 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.119 that I was blessed with from birth, from my parents 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.639 and from the Good Lord, and along with just uh 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.920 you know, great supportions and from my father, from my mother. Um, 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.800 you know, I didn't feel that pressure from the outside world. 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:27.439 I just felt like I had to do what I 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.720 needed to do believe in myself working my butt off 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.159 and that I'd be able to accomplish my dreams. I 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.520 had high goals and high dreams for myself. It's it's 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:37.480 it is. It is tough though, you know, being the 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.640 son of a you know, a legend. You know, it's 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.000 like C. Smith, you know, Hall of Fame agent eighty nine, 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:43.679 you know what I mean. So I can empathize with 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.800 your son. But even playing football, even playing sports, like 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.400 I felt like I got more respect from people than anything. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.880 Like really people really would mess with me, but like 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.080 they were like mess around a little bit, but like 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.280 I never really had no bad stories to somebody saying like, yeah, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.760 your daddy can't help you all here today, Like I 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.919 ain't really had no stories like that because I don't know, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.280 I don't know. I was just you're the way your 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:14.240 dad played and the way football at that time where 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:18.480 you were growing up is nothing compared to that of 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:26.200 today because like the highlights everywhere, well, the access has 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.600 changed because our baseball used to be American's pastime. Now 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:38.199 football is America's pastime and American's current We're consuming so 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.680 much twenty four hours day, hard knocks um NFL films, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.400 all of the bro you got Mike, the center's miked 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:49.680 up to be able to hear the cadence from the quarterbacks. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.920 Certain players each game are miked up, but then there 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:57.560 are players like the centers consistently miked up. So when 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.080 you have all of that going on, you know, I 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.000 mean you see all the different streaming systems we have 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.919 the access, the access was not the same social media. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:15.320 That's crazy, but we wasn't having hot mics. You weren't 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.880 hearing everything. When hearing dudes over their dog cussing and 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.040 talking about people, and like even looking at the the 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:26.720 bubble for the NBA, you're hearing everything. Everything. You're hearing 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:31.440 picking rolls, strategy conversations that in the stadiums were fake 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:36.720 because they need all that content exactly. Some of the 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.280 stuff that said on the field amen for people to hear, 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:41.439 so they want you to be all this, but some 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:45.640 of that stuff back an if he's scales and stuff, man, 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.440 I've seen them him that people up by the faith 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:52.160 mass everything you that. When you're in that heat, boy, 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.560 you can't ain't no turning it off. If you're a 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:58.400 real dog, you can't turn it off. You know, it's 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.679 amazing is playing against Mark all those years in Carolina. 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.360 He didn't really talk or hear him because I didn't 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.679 play defense, but he would hear me talk and he 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:11.639 played office and I would always see him. He'd be 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:13.760 like looking like he wanted to say something, but he 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:16.200