WEBVTT - Recorded Live with Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert 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 --> 0:00:11.480 Steve Smith Senior and I'm Drew a Little John and 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:16.000 this is cut to It. Good do It, Good do it. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.520 Let's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.800 them about it, then we're about to let you know 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:43.640 it's all all right. Well, want to welcome everyone to 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.800 the first ever live podcast of the Cut to It Podcast. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.120 I'm Drew a Little John w the co host. We've 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.480 got backstage Joe, and of course we've got Steve. That's it. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.800 That's just Steve. Just Steve, just some dude named Steve. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.040 You're run up, all Steve. Now you have a bad day, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.040 but just just piece five piece, some kind of pieces 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:13.440 that the whole chicken can't see. Whatever, whatever, however, however 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.800 and wherever you want, finger looking good. So of course 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.080 we want to welcome everybody. Uh, this is the one 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.920 is the first time we've ever done this, and too 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.919 we definitely want the first time we've ever done a podcast. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.480 It's the first time we've done a live podcasts like 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.920 I Feel out on my natural Habitat. Typically we're in 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:31.560 a studio, we're recording. Um, we've never had a studio audience. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.280 We've never like this is like we're on an episode 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.080 of Family Matters or something that's first sitcom. The kind 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.800 of show is that I've never seen that. Well, it 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.480 was a black show back in the day. It was 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.520 so we've got to go there, man, ever, but you 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.600 didn't know it, would you ever? Rather me said like 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.840 step by step, who's the boss? Growing pains? So I 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.280 watched a little bit to dancing, like I don't know 0:01:53.280 --> 0:02:02.520 who that is? Wonder Years Fred Savage, Oh, why you 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.760 gotta bring up race because they saw one of the 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.359 years it was black folks. I was like, they're remaking it. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:16.120 that's what we're talking about. Is your year. Look, you 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.519 got an audience gone there, like, stay away from this one. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.720 I want to thank all the sponsors, Domas Direct, want 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:29.440 to thank Pinnacle Bank, Tito's uh j F. She enterprises, um, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.680 but before we get there's other agent NATed some the 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.760 v I p's the v I P event. We don't 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:42.959 think everybody, but thank you Agano. That's all right, we 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.839 got how we got visual evidence. Now they can see 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.480 what you're's the police officer in here and I can 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:52.000 tell that. So cameras is hired by me, and all 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.280 these cameras are hired out of me. You know what 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.520 they say, Man, the Richard always can wipe it away. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.880 So here's a healthy dose of elite. Is so about 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.120 wonder years before we get started? Why are we here today? 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.000 Of course the Steve Smith Family Foundation TA for Health event. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.040 But tell the folks a little bit we always start 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.880 with whenever we're doing this Q and A. Tell the 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.760 folks a little bit about your your foundation, where it 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.640 originated from, your your your passion for philanthropy, and just 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.480 just speak a little bit to that. Well, I mean 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.880 as as an executive director, Gerard little John. You know, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.919 we started um in the basements. We started in the 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.120 home office, and they started way before you even met me. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.280 But they're just saying in the home offices, UM, just 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:39.880 trying to figure out, you know, how we can make 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.000 an impact in the community in Charlotte. And so it 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.560 just kind of has started a little bit a little 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.960 by little and expanded, uh to the place of who 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.680 now it's uh, we are UM. Just making an impact 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.040 in Charlotte, whether it's after school program, after school and 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.880 Richmond program, Uh, doing the t F health for the clinic, 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.480 uh and now soon to be a behavioral health urgent care. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.440 So uh, just doing all those things here in Charlotte, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.240 giving back to a community that's given so much for 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.000 me during my football season, uh, during my football days, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.200 and so now as in retirement, trying to make impact 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.240 that UM is lasting for the community, but also something 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.400 that my family can be proud of as well. As 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.040 you speak a family, where did it originate from? So 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.599 everyone may or may not be familiar with your story 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.520 or your upbringing, like how what what maybe happened in 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.120 your life too, maybe spark your desire to give back 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:38.760 the way that you do. Uh, yeah, I guess it's sparked. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.320 I think, you know, utilizing and understanding where I grew up, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.080 in how I grew up and understanding that, and so 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.520 with understanding that, that means a lot of the programs 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.719 we do are based off of what I've experienced. So uh. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.840 In the behavioral health they call that right now, they 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.640 call that indigent, which is the uninsured u UM. And 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.640 I was uninsured and so I understand that UM SEX 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.920 and eight government assistance. I experienced all that, so understanding 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.479 that are really building our programs around the need of 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:18.040 what UM I experienced, what you've experienced as well. And 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.159 so with that being said, UM, we we already know 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.560 the system. We know what the system presents. The system 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.760 was originally presented Section eight Government systems was presented UH 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:34.800 to a community to help to extend a helping hand 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.799 to lift them up. It was not intended for people 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:43.600 to be on government assistance for it their whole life. However, UM, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.600 there are some people believe that those types of folks 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.680 don't want to be off government assystems. They don't want 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.680 to be UM whatever it that, whatever your perspective of 0:05:54.960 --> 0:06:00.000 that is. But the matter, the facts are government assists 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.240 sense was there for temporary help. But now that it 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.320 is considered permanent health. No one's really asking why is 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.960 it considered permanent health. It's because there's such a huge 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.760 gap and there's such a huge need and there aren't 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.960 really their lack of resources. There aren't resources there, UM, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.760 there are is that there is a gap in certain communities, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.880 in certain school systems. That there's a reason why you know, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.680 people only feel that, and it's not about racist people 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.560 feel like, well, I'm only gonna be a guy or 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.599 a girl that can have an hourly wage job because 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.360 sometimes that's all they see or that's how they're taught, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.680 or they have so many deficits education wise, they they 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.880 don't feel like they can get out of the hole. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.800 And so I think with all that being said, is 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.080 we try to do like our enrichment program, we try 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:58.360 to help academically but also socially um emotionally, helping those 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.520 people understand and figure out why they're there. So if 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:08.040 you grow up and experience something that's traumatic, you just 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.680 become an adult that experienced something traumatic with with complex 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.160 trauma and it has never been addressed. So you grow 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:21.320 up being a hint football player that experience not my dad, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.440 watching my mom get beat up and yelled and and 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:31.000 talked down to by her husband thirteen years old. I 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.160 didn't know how to address that, didn't know who to 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.560 talk to, get up in the morning and go to school. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.760 I'm not telling that to my friends. I'm not going 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.960 through that. So didn't know how to handle that, didn't 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.320 figure it out, didn't understand how to get through the 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:51.560 muck and mire the messiness of that and so um. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.680 And that happened a few times to the point of 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.480 where I just held it in and it impacted me 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.280 into the in the world. Now I'm an adult, you know, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.640 and and I just see it, and it it's hard 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.640 to get out of my mind. It's hard to at 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.920 times when I'm you know, on I closed my eyes. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.200 I can almost replay it as if it was yesterday. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.400 But the blessing is I have you know, I have 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.680 the resources to give get counseling, got that shorted out. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.080 But there are times where I still sometimes close my 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.440 eyes and I just I wake up because I can 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.240 still see it. It's never it's never an end all right, 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.520 Like it's a constant It's a constant journey because I 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.640 can't even speak to as well you you you referenced 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.280 a little bit. But even my upbring, right, there's there's trauma. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.720 There is things that you see that maybe your parents 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.280 went through. There's things that you see that maybe you 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.840 witness to. To your point, You've got poverty, You've got um, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.320 you've got different neighborhoods, you've got violence, You've got all 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.600 these different things that a lot of kids probably shouldn't 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.480 be exposed to some of the stuff that you are, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.760 but it is then you're in the adult and you're 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.480 now left carrying the bags of whether it's the things 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.880 that you've seen, or whether it's the stuff that you've 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.959 seen happen to your parents or within your family, and 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.360 you bring that with you as an adult into your 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.520 marriage and to your job, into your career, into your sports, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.200 like whatever it is that you do, you take that 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.760 with you. And so it is very, very very tough 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.920 to navigate and and I think it's really been good 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.080 because even for the three of us, um, we're not 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.120 just hosts on the podcast, like we're really friends and 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.320 so we have these conversations. We have a lot of 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.240 common threads, whether it's parents en upbringings that we all 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.280 um are lucky enough that we have someone to talk to. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.559 But now with Steve talking about with the foundation, we're 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.280 able to provide those resources to other people in the 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.079 community who may not have the When we're out and 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.080 about in in the community, like we said, we hang 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.760 out a lot, and you know, people always come up 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.920 to us and they're like, Oh, I'm glad to see 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.080 your back, Steve. It's kind of funny because he's always 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.160 been here. What a lot of folks are knowing this 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.600 community is all the good work than his foundation, his 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.920 family has done that. I'm lucky. I've been lucky to 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.439 be a part of and so is Gerard. And Steve 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.679 kind of said it in his normal under the radar. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.880 Doesn't want to bring attention to himself because that's truly 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.440 who he is. But what the Steve Smith Family Foundation 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.720 has done for years, We've served youth, We've served under privilege. Um, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.400 we have the luxury upcoming, and you're gonna hear more 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.319 and more about this over the next couple of weeks. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:26.960 And he kind of said it real fast. It's a 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.440 b huck, which don't google it, I'll tell you. It's 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:35.040 called the Behavioral Behavioral Health Urgent Care. Today in Charlotte, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.280 North Carolina, if someone wigs out, goes crazy, needs some assistance, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.080 they got two choices. They go to jail, but they 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.840 have to travel him to Raleigh because that's the closest 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.760 facility to be able to take care of somebody. So 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.640 the county because of what Steve's done, Um, they've come 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.840 to our foundation and we've been busting our you know, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.800 what's for the past four or five six months, we 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.160 didn't know acronyms. We didn't know anything. We were sitting 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.600 in these meetings early on, like so in our head 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.920 and then like I said, laughingly, we would have to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.080 google something. What we're doing is we're providing a twenty 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.280 four seven three sixty five mental health facility to take 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.280 care of folks that are in need. And we all 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.600 know somebody. I see everybody looking up here right now. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.200 Everybody's going in their mind, it's a friend, it's a 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.720 family member, it's that guy in the street corner. So 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.200 we're actually building a facility here in Charlotte, North Carolina 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.920 to take care of these folks, to give them an 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.480 opportunity to grow, to get out of the systemic stuff 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.360 they've been through their whole entire life. So, um, that's 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.160 what Steve Smith Family Foundation is all about. We've always 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.520 known it's been about that. Um, we're gonna be on 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.880 a larger stage now. So I want to thank everybody 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.280 for being here and helping us out. So we really 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.880 appreciate that. That's what your dollars and what you're volunteer 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.240 shift and everything else is going towards. So like I said, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.240 hats off to you for getting us involved in this stuff. Well, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.480 it's it's been a long process. There's been a lot 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.719 of names, but faceless folks that have contribute a lot 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.199 of their time away from there for family, uh, traveling 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.320 to make this happen. And so it's it's it's been 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.640 a long process. It's been encouraging, it's been frustrating, but 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.760 it's also um, now we're at the end of the 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.720 negotiation process and now we start with the fund stuff. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:21.319 So it's been cool. I love cut to It and 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.400 I love it even more when you download us and subscribe, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.600 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.640 where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:36.880 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It Facebook? Cut to 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.880 It featuring Steve Smith singr. What about online? And you 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.360 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.680 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.800 us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:54.240 answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my questions answered. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.839 That's what I'm here for, a brother. Cut to a 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:02.360 Podcast dot Com. We got uh, we got a short 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.079 round and uh and' stillart here so we're gonna get 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.040 into like a live podcast and uh so short round 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:15.160 is Mactober and Johnson Stewart good friends of mine. Uh, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.559 come on up, and so we're just gonna do a 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.360 little podcast. Appreciate it, welcome to cut to it is 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:26.160 that is that the intro you wanted from from smithy Man, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.120 So I definitely want to welcome in Jonathan Stewart and 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:33.720 October Jonathan native of Washington, attended Oregon University ten season 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.480 with Carolina Panthers one with the New York Giants. He's 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.840 the Panthers franchise leader in career, Russian attempts and Russian yards. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.439 And of course we got Mike Tobert, a native of Carrollton, Georgia. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.120 There were from what part of Georgiana from I was 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.040 born in Carrolton. We get into that, were getting that, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.439 we were getting that, We get that we're getting because 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:59.719 that sound right. I don't know. I know now that 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:06.840 tring Wikipedia? What's wrong with I don't control with Wikipedia? 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.280 You can end it. Karon has like three stoplights. So 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.720 you're gonnadom embarrassed by that? I don't know, just not 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.359 So where are you from? Huh? We got like seven stoplights. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.320 Don't just respect and I know how to be when 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:30.440 they tried to dition next, right, you don't from lex 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.680 Have you ever heard don't do it? Yeah? Have you 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.600 ever heard of lexa to being lex Vegas? Why you 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.000 gotta smart like this? Like you like you from something 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.160 like we finally got a light like like I thought 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:48.600 you're from the West coast, but it ain't like you 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.640 exactly from like you know, I'm from Olympia and Olympia, 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.360 Washing is the capital. You tried to put me in 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:03.200 my p boring Fort Lewis, Washington, which is a military base. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:11.000 So that's once again it's known. Uh, I'm a rock 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.840 with there's five people up here and folk didn't know 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.800 it a man. Well, now you're looking at you rock 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:22.160 though a uh where are you from the place you 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.440 call your hometown from Douglasville, Georgia, Oh, about fifteen minutes 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.320 west of the wet As you asked, I'm gonna where 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:36.760 you're fine? And all right? Okay, so you know you 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.680 want you want to you wanna do to get ice up? 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.800 When get up? It's part of our podcast where we 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.000 just asked random Iceberger questions like I don't know he 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.040 just brought up the sheet. We haven't talked about this. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.160 We don't have no pre production meet, none of that stuff. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.920 So yeah, he gets yeah, so let him so just 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.160 one we got this question, all the questions whose podcast 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.720 is I'm just I'm ansking questions the stage all right, 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.240 um you guys, and you can answer if you choose to. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.400 If you can buy any type of food, what would 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:12.680 you buy any type of food? Look at me, shround 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.080 for a reason. I'm doing gonna buy anything though you're eating. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.040 One thing you don't know about Toba is he's not 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.080 a sweets guy. Really, yeah you sweets my my, my 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:29.040 meat come from meat and potato, not one like that. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.880 You're out of here. That's one all right, no more, 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.640 and we're friends. We're not going to add that out, Brian. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:43.040 But don't do that again. Oh if I go on 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:50.280 your web browser, your history, what I find stut today, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:56.080 you would find uh top golf trying to figure out 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:05.439 the fastest impossible. That because stew he's also he he 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.480 is lightweight, lazy sometimes. Hey man, that was the answers 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.760 right there, because one time I got to be there. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.439 You can't tell him early because he will forget and 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.919 he will take a nap before you're supposed to ask 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:25.159 you and then oversleep. Yeah, nowadays I don't really get 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.000 to take that million naps, you know, So things have 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:33.520 changed a little bit more responsible. So what how would 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:44.600 you characterize your just football career? Football career? Um trials, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.399 you know, just injuries, um, but just stay in the course, 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.800 um and making it last. What can I just want 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.840 to jump in real quick? Why would you characterize those 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.680 two things? First? Like, even just in your you the 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.760 franchise leader in Russian attempts rushing yards, you went straight 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.920 to injuries. Yeah, because I mean I think at the 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.399 end of the day, that's one of the things that 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.040 knock you out. And that's what I'm you know, grateful 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.159 for and blessed you know too. I mean Smitty, you know, 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:21.680 introduced me to his guy that prolonged, that made my 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.720 career last longer than what it should have, you know 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:31.720 what I'm saying. So when I think dr that, but 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.640 when I think about football now, I'm just I just think, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.560 you know, just the bratefulness to be able to walk 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.439 away from the game. But also looking back, you know, 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.240 I played eleven seasons. Um, you know, I'm just just grateful, 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.080 you know what I'm saying, more than anything. So that's 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.160 the first thing that comes to mind, is the things 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.280 that I've come over that you know, the adversity. I 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:55.680 think you look at a person's career, you're more satisfied 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.200 with the bounce back stories, You're more satisfied with what 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.560 that person had and dur You're more satisfied with all 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.280 those things because that's how you can connect um. And 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.399 I mean Smithy is good at stories for days for 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.800 adversity of how he's bounced back. Told 's got stories 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.879 for days for how he's bounced back. And I've been 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.280 able to watch these guys along their side, you know, 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.840 through the you know, parts of the career. And that's 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.400 what's inspirational, you know what I'm saying within the locker room. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.879 But so that's why. So so what when you have 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.880 bounced backs and you have injuries, what is that internal 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.080 motivation that makes you come back from that? Like what 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.040 your drive to come back from that? That's a great question. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.920 We should have you one more one. I mean, ultimately 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:44.600 it's you know, for me, it's your why, right, and 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:50.200 I believe your why changes, you know, through different seasons 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:56.040 of life and but the ultimate y stands tall and 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.639 first at the end of the day, which is my 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.480 why is I have a plat from given by God 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.760 to do something bigger than myself. So once you get 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.320 out of your own way, that's when you can go 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.320 through those things with the right attitude, with the you know, 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.919 with the mindset of I need help. I need people 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:26.479 like my teammates or family members or coaching, um, whatever 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:31.560 it is to get you to that next phase. UM. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.480 And I mean, you know there's there's right you know, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.080 towards the end of my career, you know, I got 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.600 married and had my first baby girl, and you know 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:45.760 that became my why. Um. And we have another baby girl, 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.760 uh Nora, she's eight months. She's part of that why 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:55.159 Now nothing else matters. So told, but what about she? 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.600 Which what's those internal motivators for you? Um? Just always 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.400 been on adult you know, I was always short and 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.520 fat and not considered the biggest or the strongest or 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.960 the fastest. So I like to pride myself on being 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.280 a lucky worker, you know what I'm saying, Like I was, 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:15.560 I was lucky because I didn't have to go through 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.320 the major injuries that y'all went through. But I worked 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.040 my tail off, and I'm saying I worked hard to 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:23.119 you know what I'm saying. I don't only keep my 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.040 weight down, but you know, make sure that the person 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.800 that was six four two fifty across from me, he 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.600 knew I was who I was. You know, he had 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.639 the game playing for me stuff like that. You know. 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.960 So I prided my cell phone UM making. I prided 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:43.240 myself on sacrifice, you know when I played UM sacrificing 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:45.199 you know what I'm saying in my mind and my 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.320 body to make sure that this guy went to the 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:50.800 Pro Bowl. You know what I'm saying, to make sure 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.040 that you on those end of rounds that you know 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:54.720 what I'm saying, that linebacker was cut down and the 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.840 defense end was cut down, stuff like that. So you know, 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.639 I just I like sacrificing, you know, saying my body. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.239 I mean that was my position, so it was I 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.080 was signed to sacrifice. So let's talk about football a 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.840 little bit, because listen, we're not gonna have too many 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.880 ex teammates that actually trust on my podcast. I'll tell 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.040 like the real story. This is the first time I've 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.640 ever listening you segue into your own storytelling like typically 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:30.280 he always dance around around. So what what what was 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:38.679 it like to be at practice with me in a 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:46.400 good way because I can say whatever hell I want 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:50.920 to and I'll make sure Brian edits it out the 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:55.159 way I wanted to. Um, this is well, I was 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.240 gonna say. I was gonna say the good way because 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:00.720 a lot of people always just go to you was aggressive, 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:03.440 blah blah blah and not. That's why. That's why I 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.239 think one thing that not only playing with you, but 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.160 like being a friend off the field, Like you're gonna 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:11.480 get what you're gonna get out of you. You know 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:16.399 what I'm saying. So when you come in everything like 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:19.560 so when you come in the morning and you know 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:21.280 what kind of day is gonna be, Like when you 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.080 see the expression on his face if he if he 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:26.359 high five in short round, what's up man? This and 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.240 that at seven o'clock in the morning, I have a 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:31.520 good day. But if he come in mugging back, you know, 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:33.800 has back over show. This is hanging on the floor, 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.560 one of them cornerbacks probably gonna get fought in practice. Like, 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:41.479 don't feel bad, it's podcasts and we read the room too. 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:44.560 That's that's just how would you you filled up the tension. 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:46.600 You know what I'm saying, good or bad, But I 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:49.479 mean it's it's a lot of stories that we can 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:55.080 get into it for two years, but we're here so time. 0:23:55.280 --> 0:24:00.080 But I got a few him. Yeah, that's part on 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:05.160 because I usually have the same kind of demeanor. I'm 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:14.919 either very mild or low, like as far as in 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:19.160 the mornings, like like here you go here on that day, 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:25.160