WEBVTT - BLUE KIMBLE - A Story Served Southern Style 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.160 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.880 I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today I have very 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:12.320 special guests, actor, producer, model, and former professional athlete Blue 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:13.440 Kimberle in the building. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:13.760 Why are you? 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.360 Why are you black? Because I said model, just wow, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:17.400 there's a long title. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:18.960 No thank you, crowd. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.120 It's all your all your You're like a true Jamaican. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:23.639 You have all these I like that. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:30.440 I'm Jamaican now, actor, producer, model, professional, former professional athlete. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:36.639 It's a lot yes, and there's a lot of are 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:37.560 you you're not Jamaican? 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.280 I not Caribbean, big shout out. I'm a Caribbean people. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.600 What are are you just black? 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:41.919 Look? 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:42.800 Are you just black? 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.120 I'm a mutt most black people are. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.120 Okay, yeah, that's true. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:48.080 What about yourself? 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.120 For you, I'm one hundred percent much money people. People 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.440 look at me. That's a Puerto Rican, Hispanic, Dominican Spanish 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.520 speaking something. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.840 I'm black, my mother is black, my fault is black. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.160 But they yeah, my family has a lot of other 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.840 other things. The you know, everybody like to claim that 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.840 they Cherokee. Yeah, yeah, got all that. You know what 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.720 I'm saying. So there you have it. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.480 So before we get into everything, Blue Kimball, I wanna 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.920 know what you're gonna be cooking us for breakfast today? 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.240 Mm well, I didn't even mean to say that breakfast, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.240 but m y, you know. But technically this is my 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:27.760 first meal of the day. So what are you gonna 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.760 have me eating today? And go through the ingredients in 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:30.160 the season. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.600 A lot of people like to call them struggle plates. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.800 You know what I'm saying, when you're cooking and you're 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.679 broke and you're struggling. But being from the South, like 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:44.240 I said, I'm from Atlanta, so southern culture, southern heritage. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.640 You can eat breakfast all day, breakfast for lunch, breakfast 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.160 for dinner, come home at the club two in the morning, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.200 late breakfast. So this is a struggle plate. We are 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:13.959 making a sandwich. P s. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:15.400 Okay, what's in your sandwich? 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.200 Make no way a sandwich? No, that's not what we said, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:24.560 say it right, sandwich A sandwich, hilarious sandwich. Not a sandwich. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:29.040 This is a sandwich and it's gonna have eggs and 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.240 bacon and cheese. But a sandwich can be comprised of 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.240 whatever ingredients you choose. But we gonna do eggs and 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:38.960 bacon for this sandwich and. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.280 Cheese and for the sandwich. Do you do your eggs 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.600 scrambled or hard over easy? 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.160 Like either or depends. Sometimes it's scrambled, sometimes you do 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.320 'em hard. You wanna do hard? You from New York? 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.480 I'm New York like hard eggs. They like their eggs hard, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.600 we do, so we gonna do hard egg okay, cause 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.160 New York is in the building, So yeah, we gonna 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.760 do hard eggs for me. Every everything from New York 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.639 is just hard eggs. Hard. The girls are hard bralic. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.560 He's been making fun of you guys since he got here, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.519 so right now, blue hats for all your listeners. He 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.119 already started cooking the potatoes. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:13.800 Mm. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.240 So that was a nice addition. So it looks like 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.000 it'll be a nice hearty breakfast. Go ahead and hardy, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.880 hardy breakfast, cause you got potatoes. Go ahead and make 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.200 me some breakfast, man, and get into this sandwich. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.919 Times get into it. Like you said, we going to 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:34.000 oil this pan, you know, with some organic virgin oil. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.600 You know they say you're not supposed to be U 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.960 vegetable or no more. Right, Yeah, even though we still do, 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:40.560 I know you still do. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.400 I'm trying. No, I use it only like if I'm 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:50.040 doing potatoes or maybe plantings every once in a while. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.280 And yeah, but you just said you wasn't Puerto Rican. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:55.480 I'm Jewish and Jamaican. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:03.520 Oh no, wonder you hit me with the Caribbean vibes. Okay, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:04.800 any man with a job. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.440 Is Jamaican exactly. And well with multiple jobs. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.200 Multiple jobs, you have a lot of. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.720 Jobs, okay. And it looks like you've had a nice journey. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.760 So take me back to what was going on. Take 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.119 me all the way back to the original, because I know, Salm, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.440 the sandwich meal can be still be you know, you 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.719 can still enjoy that today. But take me back to 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:31.799 the time when this was a meal of to keep you, keep. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.320 You full, because it's like that, like you said, during 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.400 the times when you're struggling or whatever and money is 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.080 an issue, crack that egg because you want them hard. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.440 You know, you gotta you know, reach and and and 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.039 find things that are last. And it's always eggs. Eggs 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.359 is a meal that you that you can buy a 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.039 card and the eggs for the low, you know what 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.000 I mean. And you can always eat eggs for breakfast, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:00.719 lunch of dinner. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.200 Do back in the day it was for the low. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.920 Yeah, well not now right. You gotta be balling to 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.400 get eggs now. But back in the day, that's what 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.599 it was. You can get eggs. So anytime, like I said, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.160 money low, you can't get out, you can't eat. You know, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.000 you gotta get some and you know, the men that 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.960 work out want their proteins and this and that eggs 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.760 is that eggs is the good you know, the good protein. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.200 So at any time you can always. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.920 So can you take me back to a time when it. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.520 Was eggs for the low low and you can eat 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:31.560 eggs all week? 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:34.800 Can you take me back to a time when it 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.359 was like times were rough most like starting out, maybe 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:39.839 before you became a professional. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.400 Uh see, that's the whole thing. People think that just 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.480 because you're a professional athlete, that means you're rich, that 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.840 means you're balling. That means this majority of football players 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.160 are making league minimum, you know minimum. Back then it 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:02.000 was a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Okay, you know 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.680 what I'm saying. Right now, I think it may be 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.160 it may be two fifty, but it's still a lot 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.000 of people that's making league minimum. So after you go 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.480 through that and tax you know, you're getting still gonna 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.320 get taxation and all that. So, yeah, you're playing football, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.960 but yeah you're not rich, you're not balling. You're just 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:26.400 getting paid to you know, your dream to be a 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.520 professional football player, and you still chasing the dream. But no, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.200 the people that are the names, the people in the 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.600 names that you know, and they're getting paid twenty million 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.679 dollars a year. Mm. But trust me, it's more people 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.800 that's making league minimum than it is. Yeah, people that's 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.760 balling and getting paid all the money and. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.680 Being being a football uh huh uh NFL player. The 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.240 schedules like what what what does the schedules? It like 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.680 a hundred percent full time, eat, sleep, dr everything. It 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:55.440 is that what it is. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:56.760 Yes, I don't know. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:57.839 I'm just saying I I I. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.279 I don't like this, okay. So being you know, from 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.040 the culture, you know, a man and whatever. Most in 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.799 our demographic from the eighties from the nineties, there wasn't 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.680 too many dreams that I mean not dreams, but too 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.200 many other things that you see people that look like 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.440 you and be like, oh I wanna do that, I 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.960 wanna be that. So that's why it's always sports it's 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.200 always football, It's always basketball, because that's us. That's who 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.000 we see, you know what I mean. Now, in this 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.240 time and in twenty twenty five and going forward, you 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.320 see so many different things. You know, with the Internet, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.760 you could see black lawyers, black doctors, black whatever. Back 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.920 but back then, your superstar, your hero is gonna be athletes. So, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.480 like I said, we play sports from the beginning. I've 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.280 been playing football, basketball, everything since I was five years old. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.640 So it was always that the. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.800 Even though coming from Atlanta, cause Atlanta has like uh yu, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.080 black people in almost every seat, you still felt like 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.760 that was the only thing you really saw. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.720 It's not that it's the only thing. It's just the 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.520 simple thing that you gravitate to, you know what I mean. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.360 And and yes, big shout out to you for knowing 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.200 that Atlanta has always been a chocolate city, you know 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.000 what I mean. And we've in comparison that I do 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.760 now that I've lived all over the country and been 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.720 in other cities, and it's such a blessing and a privilege, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.760 and anybody from Atlanta, I definitely tell you, there's just 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.640 to be raised in Atlanta, you know what I mean, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.920 to be able to have the culture like you just 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.640 spoke of, or being able to see so many black 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.440 people doing different things. You know what I mean? We 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.080 h we have that in Atlanta. We always have had 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.320 a rich black culture and people like you just said, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.880 professional blacks. We have that in Atlanta, but they're not 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:43.480 on TV. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.040 Yeah, I'll tell you who. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.280 We will watch it on TV. You don't what I'm saying. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.680 The sports and athletes. But no, we have that in Atlanta, 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.120 always have and like I said, to grow up with that. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.440 And then when you come you meet people from different walks, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.000 different cities. Like one of my friends is that's you know, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.360 the homie now and he's from Kansas, you know what 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.560 I mean. And he we, you know, sit down and 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.000 do these talks different panels, and he was always just 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.760 the only black person in his class and this and 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.199 that he's surrounded by white people. He's the token black 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.199 you know, to use to use those air quotes. Yeah, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.600 but you know what I'm saying, and a and and 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.600 then we chopped it up and was like damn. You know, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.400 then you get to talking to people from Atlanta, it's 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.360 the opposite where you didn't see a white person like 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.720 that until you were fifth maybe in the fifth grade 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.880 or middle school or whatever. Like you, we weren't around 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:44.520 white people. We were raised around a black community, you 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.920 know what I mean. So, and just to come up 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.320 that way with the rich culture from Atlanta, it's a 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:55.439 blessing man to know that as a black man, you 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.640 can do more because you've seen it. Yeah, and that 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.240 and I feel like that's some of the mentality and 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.439 some of the energy that's installed in a lot of 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.520 people from Atlanta. Why so many successful Atlanta people are doing. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.360 It now You've lived in every city you mentioned earlier, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.599 and you're now in the entertainment business. Could you potentially 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.960 seeing it being a you have your friend from Kansas 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.880 who is surrounded by all whites, then you you know, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.839 prior to Tyler Perry and some of these black names 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:35.080 really pushing forward with black production, I would say the 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.720 industry was not predominantly ran by black people. Could you 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:44.720 see it? Could you see that potentially hurting someone that 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.640 comes from Atlanta that's not privy to that many other 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:49.920 races doing. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:55.600 Things as I butter your toast, thank you literally yeah, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.760 I mean in saying you brought up Tyler Perry. Big 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:04.120 shout outs to the big boss, Tyler Perry. That's one 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.200 of the main reasons that I'm into the industry now because, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.640 like I said, he did everything that he did within 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:18.160 Atlanta after I stopped playing ball and going through that transition. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.880 That's how I randomly fell into acting. You know, if 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.679 I would have stayed in any other other cities, if 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.760 I would stayed in Florida, Miami, where I was living, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.880 if I would have stayed in Charlotte, where I was 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.960 playing ball at one point living there, I wouldn't be 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.920 doing this now because I moved back to Atlanta and 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.439 Atlanta was popping with the film industry, and Tyler Perry 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.240 was taking off of what he was doing, and Atlanta 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:46.080 was becoming the Hollywood of the South because those Avenues 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.520 was there. That's how I randomly fell into this shit. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:56.320 Now, before we get into the random randomly fell into acting, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.240 I wanna go back to you aspiring to be a 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.480 professional athlete, your householder, upbringing, two parent household, single mom. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.319 I wanna know the whole scoop, rich, poor, middle class O. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:09.160 What's sure? 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:10.120 Go ahead? 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.000 Oh no, it's like that. No. I I I come 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:18.120 from a two parent household. My mother and father are 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.640 still married, I love that happily in love to this day. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.400 They've been married for fifty years. Fifty years, fifty years. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.440 Now, when do you do you have a a ideal? 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.720 Uh uh, a positive outlook on love because you've seen that, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:33.439 oh big time. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.400 Like I said, so, I'm the youngest of three boys, 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.280 you know what I'm saying, And I'm just a old soul. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.280 Everybody that meets me will say that because I'm raised 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.480 by the elders. I got older brothers, older cousins, older uncles, 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.800 you know what I'm saying, and just all that. So 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.280 everything that I have, I went through it with them. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.440 I saw them doing it. I'm watching them doing it. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.400 I'm watching my older brother bring girls home. You know 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.960 what I'm saying, at a early age. So these things 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.959 impact you or whatever. But like I said, I'm raised 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.120 by men. I come from a boy family. We have 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.839 Like I said, I don't have a sister. You know, 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.800 I had one cousin. My eldest cousin was a girl. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.760 Rest boys like twenty twenty twenty boy. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.479 Cousins, okay, and then middle class poor. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:31.480 No, nobody's rich. There's no such thing. Yeah, two parent household, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.720 mother and father, you know, doing their thing. No, you 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.360 know what I mean? Middle class? Uh? 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:37.480 And what did they do mit? 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.520 Middle class? Meaning whenever they if they did struggle, I 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.000 didn't know it. Okay, they let us, they they they 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.920 made sure that we were good. Okay, you know what 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.840 I'm saying. So I can't attest to the people. You 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.480 know what I'm saying, even though I saw it, and 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.400 growing up more and being around more, you see it 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.320 and understand it. But no, my mother and father never 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.959 let us go without. So we never did the whole 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.720 thing of oh, y'all gonna eat air breakfast tonight, I 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.880 mean for dinner. Yeah, you're eating air in water. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.520 And you never caught wind of anything. Okay, that's that's great. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.840 Now are you the first? Are you the first and 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.920 only professional athlete in your family? Because it sounds like 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:19.800 you got a lot of men. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.320 Come from a sport family. Like I said, we did that, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.520 and that's the whole thing. Sports is always there within 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.520 the family and within community. But that's the thing. You 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:36.080 have to survive the community before you can be a 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.080 professional anything. You know, you have to survive the streets. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.240 You have to survive the allure of the stereotypical things 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.360 that black men go through being raised in the hood 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:48.600 or not in the hood. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.320 Like what for example, just whatever. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.680 No. So, like some of the people that were supposed 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.640 to make it to the NFL, the NBA, and they 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.360 didn't because they didn't survive the streets. Some of the 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.920 best football players in basketball players that I know dropped 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.640 out of high school because the streets got 'em. Yeah, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.680 you know, they didn't stay down and like you said, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:17.120 or have two parents taking care of them like I did. So, yeah, 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.720 they selling crack or they doing whatever or e x 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.760 y Z. They don't have time to chase the allure 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.800 of the dream. Yeah, I need money right now. So 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.120 it's like that, and all of that happens. And even 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.960 when you come from a situation like mine, you still 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.760 can get caught up. Like I said, my oldest you know, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:44.360 not to glorify that, but that's what my older brothers 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:50.040 and uncles did. Yeah, they they were in the streets. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.440 So the allure for that was always there for me. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.840 I had a VIP access to the street life if 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.760 that's what I wanted, you know what I mean, Even 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.880 though they wouldn't advocate it for me, it was still there. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.320 I chose I had to make those choices. I chose 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:15.760 not to be the stereotypical street guy, and in a 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.560 victim to that situation, I knew that I could do 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.840 more and was capable of more because I watch all 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.920 them and seen when they ane did. And I've seen 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.000 people get shot, not not, you. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.360 Know, I mean, yeah, you see, you've seen. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.480 You've seen I've seen the the the the the other 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.080 side of the sword, like I said, growing up around 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.400 that and being raised by the others, you see it. Yeah, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.880 so you see when it falls apart. You see people 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.560 get killed, you see people go to jail. You see people, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.320 like I said, in the street chasing things that have 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.280 in this and they fall all the way off the 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.040 other side of what can happen. So No, even though 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.360 that was there for me and I coulda would have 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.800 done all that and had those instant I chose not to. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.920 Even though it was always there, And it's always tempting 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.440 because like you said, you doing something else and you 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.920 going without. You're playing football, you're not getting paid, you're 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.119 going to school, you're not getting paid. Your homiees pulling 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:15.159 up in the damn bens. 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.720 Yeah, I saw a football documentary. I want to say 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.720 a year or two years ago on Netflix, and it 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.720 talked about like what football athletes go through and all that. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.639 And then even if even if you beat the odds 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.520 of turning down sex, drugs, and alcohol before making it, 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.720 once you make it, those vices come ten I would 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.000 imagine ten times harder because now you. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.719 Have you see I putted it as it and it 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:42.480 looks so good. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.520 You know, you're making two sandwiches. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.199 Right but this was yours. It gets mine after you. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.000 Oh I love that. I'm gonna judge his breakfast. But 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.600 right now it looks good. It looks like he knows 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.280 what he's doing. Guys, So after you make it, I 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.040 would imagine the vices come harder for you. Right, So 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.880 now you're dealing with in or or you know whatever, just. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.960 All of that. I mean, of course those things are there, so, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.600 like you said, going through those struggles or whatever. So 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.400 if you're you don't just become a s a star. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.439 So if you have the potential to go to the 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.440 NFL and all this stuff, nine times of the ten 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.840 you're the man on campus in high school. You know 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.440 it's still there, the lord of those things that they're 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.920 people showing you favoritism and more attention and X y Z. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.840 But yeah, No, it's different when you get to the 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.240 league and now you're famous and you have a million 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.960 dollars at your disposal. Yeah, and you went from just 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.439 having a high school sweetheart or two of people and 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:43.080 now you got ten girls, Yeah, trying to throw themselves 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.440 at you every damn day. Yeah, it's like that. It's 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:51.080 a struggle and a lot of people don't survive it. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.600 It just is what it is. The men, the mentality, cause, like, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.159 think about it, so many people hit the NFL or 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.879 NBA or whatever become you know, hit the league, and 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.800 you like, man, he was so good in college or 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.520 he was so isn't that why he didn't or he 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.560 was the man? Why he didn't pan out? Because you 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.440 lose the focus once you it's hard to stay focused 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.600 and do everything that you have been doing to get 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.960 to this point. Now you like, oh, I'm here, I 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.520 made it, I got paid. Now I can relax a 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.280 little bit. Did you go that sh when you fall off? 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:21.600 But did you relax a little bit? 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.600 Na? Oh, it's not. Everybody's walk is different. Mine ain't 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:25.000 the same. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.040 But that's what I'm trying to find out. What was 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:27.720 your walk like. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:33.600 Oh see, Like I said, I was in high school, 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.680 I was in trouble because the street stuff was there. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.920 I I I didn't. I played football all my life, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.840 always been good. Like I said, y, this is what 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.320 we do. But I didn't. It's not that I didn't 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.640 take it serious. It's just what we used to do. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.840 And I made my situation harder for me. I didn't 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.480 go to a major school because, like I said, I 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.479 was in trouble. My coach was telling people that I 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.639 wasn't you know, people go say, you know, call him 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.439 a hater or whatever, but he was telling people that 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.440 I wasn't college material and that type deal. So I didn't. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.080 I didn't go to major school. I went to black college. 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.000 I went to Morris Brown in Atlanta. That was a 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.480 black college. It's you know, one of the historical HBCUs 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.040 in Atlanta. They lost their accreditation and they you know, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.080 in the football team when I f when when I 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.119 first got there. So I went there, and then I 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:30.320 transferred to other schools and getting kicked out of other schools, 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.320 you know, trying to find my way, and I ended 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.960 up in Alabama. Ended up in Alabama, and I was 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.840 supposed to try to get a situation going on at 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.960 the University of Alabama. This was before Nick Saban got there, 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:47.160 but in all their glory, but whatever, that didn't, that 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.840 didn't pan out, and I had to try and I 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.080 went to the black college across the street in Tuscaloosa. 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.680 It's called Stillman Still in College and a lot of 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.080 people have never heard of it. Still in College and 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.480 tuscal loose I Alabama, hbc U. Shout out to all 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.800 the steel Nights out there, the Steelman Tigers. Yep. So 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.879 and when you do that and you go to a smaller. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:14.600 School, I feel like this is gonna end up burning 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:18.520 that bread. 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.520 That's cheese. Cheese. Don't don't you get over here knocking. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.120 What's going on over here? It's not burnt. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.520 Look look at the bread that's Look at the other 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.760