WEBVTT - Ivory Latta 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 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John And this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.640 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 --> 0:00:42.920 It's all backstage, Joe, Steve, what up? Hello? What's going on? Fellas? 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.320 How's everybody today? Man? Good? This might be a good story. Joseph, Yeah, man, 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.800 tell you up. Let it fly, bro backdoor? I whoa 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:55.440 whoa whoa who Now, ain't gonna be too that man. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:02.440 We passed that joke back stage? What up? Man? Has 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.080 everybody listened to this podcast? You know? We talk about 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:06.760 a lot of things that we see when we're on 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.600 adventures or we're out riding around town or making Yeah, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:15.640 because we always got we always got something popping up. Yeah, 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.160 we got all kinds of stuff. Well, I'm gonna omit 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.960 some of the information on a letter that I received. Okay, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.160 I'm gonna omit a little bit information. But but but 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.040 our fans and y'all. Now neither one of you looking 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.800 at me. You both got your eyes bugged out, like 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.960 you have no idea what's happening here. I just know 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.560 it doesn't include me. I got a hoodie on justin 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:44.360 case it opens up. Dear Mr. Please, this is this 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.400 is an official letter. Please, I would like some information 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.440 on the two thousand twenty one C Class three fifty, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:59.920 also on the g SUV price pictures, et cetera. Five 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.120 Any and all information you can send to me, please, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:13.560 thank you very much. May my God bless you. Hey, man, boss, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.639 this is this man's name. That so he just signed 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.360 it as boss and and then is the regular spell 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.839 boss or is it it's boss like I don't don't 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.400 know how you spelled boss, so as if that is 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:32.560 that letter conson spell boss a different way. So I 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.560 just want to give it this he letting you know 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.640 he's the boss. He wants a G or he wants 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:43.840 a three fifty sincerely, Now after this, there is three 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:48.680 letters and a numerical value. It says m VC dash 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.000 one to to eight one. Does anybody know what that 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:58.000 stands for? The I don't want to give it all 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.720 away because once I tell you what this means. And 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.839 that's his inmate number. Y'all this cat, this rascal sent 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:13.080 a letter in. I did say rascal. They ain't never 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.320 heard this rascal. And I know this is a podcast, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.040 it's not visual. I'm gonna pass this to to to 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.920 Mr Steve Smith. Now, the boss wants a g wagon 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.840 when he gets out of prison. I'm like, what do 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.640 you do? Like do you send him a credit app? Like? 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.240 Like what how does how does he qualify you think 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.040 being in the pen. I don't know how much time 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.200 he's doing the other thing too. He gave choices, he didn't. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.360 He didn't just go in and be like, man, let 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:49.400 me copy this boss. Boss. That's his his boss. That's it. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.360 So if you're at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Spruce Pines, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.080 North Carolina, is our call in line up? What come 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.960 does he want? Wait a minute, did we just become 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.520 local radio to call a line boss online? Too? You 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:14.080 go ahead, you're with Steve Hey, Hey, Mike, I want 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.600 that g wagger. I ain't got no job, That's okay, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.279 I've got no credit, but I want that. We don't 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.680 know that man may have him great credit credit. We 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.760 don't know. It's it's plenty white color folks who got 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.760 great credit is locked. Here's what I can tell you. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.839 Don't buy it street credit. Right, that's true. That right, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.400 But man, that came across me. You know, people always 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.040 try to send us stuff and everything, and this came 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.800 to me me a few days ago. I'm like, I've got 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.240 to talk about this. That he locked up, but he 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:53.159 making he's setting up when he get outdoors making moves. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.479 Oh man, jail ain't gonna hold me back, right, these 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.560 ain't gonna hold me back. That's all you, my brothers, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.000 because we could quote, we could quote Ross whenever we 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.560 feel like, hey, hey, what was he saying this for 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.200 the boys that see the uh see the moon like 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.599 at night? Was that definitely dress? Huh? Is that definitely 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.320 the red dress? Yeah? I know, I know, my Ross. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:20.760 I don't know how we got to this topic. But 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.599 it costs too much. I ain't gonna try to product. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.920 Don't vote, that's that's that's another podcast. Don't vote, don't 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.400 vote you. I can't pull his music over, don't tell 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.760 them what we're working on killers our whole budget production 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:40.720 and Talifia. But if he does, we can go our Boss. Yeah, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.760 that's the Boss. Wow, that's crazy, man, I like that. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.320 Who we got coming up on the cut to a podcast. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.960 We've got Ivory Ladder, a w NBA point guard. She's 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.120 the all time leading scorer in South Carolina basketball history, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.560 one of the greatest collegiate players for the University of Carolina, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.240 Lady tar Heels, and she's the author of Despite the Height. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.760 I've read lotta on the cut to a podcast. So 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.040 we're just gonna get to it. We we got some stuff. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.919 It's called get Ice stuff. It's a random questions that 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:23.760 I just just randomly pick. Um. Oh, you're gonna need 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:30.760 him all right, here we go. Oh my god. What's 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.960 the difference between living and existing? Oh? Man, I mean 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.080 the difference to me is just you know, you living, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.159 you here, you enjoying you in the moment um you 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.120 exist and it's just like like you. It's like to me, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.200 it's like an out of body experience kind of thing, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.360 like you just you just here really with no purpose, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.320 you know when like with me, when I'm living, I'm 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.240 living to the most high. I'm enjoying my life. Um, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.599 I'm trying to be an inspiration to a lot of people. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.720 Just have an impact. I just don't want to exist 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.400 on earth, you know what I'm saying, because you can 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.440 definitely be invisible and people don't even know what you 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.640 do with who you are. So I just love living 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.400 life every day existence like just checking off the box. Yeah, no, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:20.400 thank you, I'm good. It's one lifetime. Enough time? Is 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:27.120 one lifetime enough time? Yeah? To me, I'm just like, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:34.160 hold up, rewind you overthinking this? Yeah, lights enjoy it. Though, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.760 I would say, there are some things that like you 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.280 experience you like, man, I can't wait to get over this. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.680 And then there's so many things you're like, I love 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.040 to do that over you know, experience it. I'll switch 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.840 it up. So that's that's why I like about all right, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:53.000 here we go. What's your biggest passion? H Impacting the youth. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.760 That's my biggest passion. A lot of people would think, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.400 I say basketball all this, but just the impact that 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.160 I have through the game of basketball with the children, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.520 like that is my passion, Like just you know, like 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.360 now train, but just to see the influence in the 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.240 impact that I have on their lives just through the 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.000 game of basketball and just man, the joy did they 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.160 give me? Like that's my passion. I love to see 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:20.400 the kids succeed for sure, absolutely, Oh yeah yeah. So 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.360 what happens when they're You have fifteen kids that give 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.680 you the joy and then there's one that's that There's 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:32.160 that one that just that just is a little ivory yea, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.520 So how do you deal with that? That that one kid, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:39.960 that that next ivory, that justice rambunctious, that's full of spice. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.440 I'm dealing with it now. I trained kids. I trained 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.560 at least twenty twenty kids, boys and girls, and I 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.800 got a young man like that. Yea. But when I 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.520 tell you, he's one heck of an athlete. But you 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.600 know my other kids, they two parent home. You know 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.280 they're good. You know, him staying with Grandma and just 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.600 like you can tell a big difference. But when he 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.480 comes to me, it's like you walk up in my gym, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.400 pull your pants up. You know, I got standards, you 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.360 know what I'm saying. So the first week was rough, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.760 but I'm like, hold up, man, I can't fight nobody kid. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.440 You boy too, like what's going on? But it's that 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.840 one kid that I would never give up on. You 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.319 just gotta keep finding a way to like relate to him. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.800 You know, some way try to relate to him. And 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.439 and that's what I did. And man, when I tell 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.760 you has changed far as like a like a's and 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.640 bees in school is cool now. Back then it wasn't 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.840 cool because he would get picked at for making like 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.559 good grades, like a man, make good grades. We're trying 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.920 to get a scholarship so grandma can be Okay, that's 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.280 that should be your thing right there, like grandma needs 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.880 to be set. And that's why you do it. Oh, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:54.839 absolutely absolutely, I do it. Man, I do it all old, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.120 all over. Give me, give me five or six of you. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.480 What's your favorite child hood childhood restaurant back in your 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:09.640 back in your hometown York? What? What's so funny? We 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.319 just thought getting restaurant a couple of years ago. I know, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.960 but I just if there's a mom and pop, there's 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.800 always everybody has that. Everybody has that place that you 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.439 go when I go home. It's like you can't eat 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.480 it every time, but you're like, you know what, let 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.839 me roll on over here and get some of this, uh, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.839 get something um this food that reminds me of when 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.439 I was here. Why are you thinking about this place 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:41.920 back home called Ramona's everybody that travels with me that's 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.000 been and g has been. It's a barrito spot. That 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.839 brito spot is in the hood, right is dope boys 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.960 out there slanging in the parking lot. But man Gee 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.200 looked at us like, man Gee was like, man, that's 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.599 brito better be good. Yeah, ain't side because no, no, no, 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.000 I'm not. I'm not saying you sid side on it. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.600 But it's all you know, I get you, but I 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.000 know you're gonna be up hype it up. I didn't 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.160 hype it up something. And you know that's my boy. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.959 So if you hype up something, he gonna say, like, man, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:28.160 that was a mid ye exactly. It was cool that. Yeah, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:36.439 well I did that. Boy, that's good right there. But 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.520 it's not. Yeah, it's but it's not one of those 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.200 that um. For me, it's a place at some point 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.480 in my trip, I'll snag one because it it's more 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.199 of it reminds me of home. There's a brito spot 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:58.320 called Steve Burgers. It's I it's not even mid it's 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.440 more of the video game I used to play in there, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:08.840 ms pac Man in Gallicha, right. So for me, it's 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.760 more of just brings me back to that nostalgic place 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.880 of when I dreamed about being in the NFL. Right, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:20.320 it reminds me of what I dreamed about, and so 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.000 like this even like music. There's some music, Bro, I'm 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:30.120 not lying to you. Fuji's killing me softly. You know 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.120 about the school man I used to, Bro, I used 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.520 to sit. Let me tell you. You know what I 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.160 used to. You know what I used to, You know 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.839 what I know about it. I remember when I used 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:44.880 to sit in my room, brown carpet, bunk, bed wood paneling, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:51.679 um radio what had a black and red chord. Um 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:58.960 was playing a Sega Genesis with a wall unit and 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:04.559 we had uh and just that's when we had like 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.280 the five gallon water jug with change in it, Like 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:14.440 I remember that. And but the fojis always bring me 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.720 back to that. When I used to practice catching the football. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.280 You remember what it smells like. I'm not trying to 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.679 be funny, like that's a great question. I really don't. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.040 I remember we had a old school tub. I used 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.839 to wash the we would uh if the Washington I 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.520 remember when the Washington she broke. I used to wash 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.080 my clothes my hand and dry them out with the 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.240 towel roll the towel up and put it on things, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.400 squeeze it out and hang it. And when we were 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.040 you can hang clothes on the line because Ninja was 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:54.839 taking it right next day. And and so that's why 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.199 I asked on the food part because that just that 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.000 just brings back some of that grind that, right, something 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.319 that grind that that some of these young folks, um, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.760 they don't get that on Instagram. I'm not giving that 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.800 to you on Facebook. I'm not giving that to you 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.200 on social media. That's something that I gotta hold dear 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.040 to me is when I get up in the morning, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:23.440 I'm going forty two, I'm straight. What's gonna push me 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.320 to work out with my fat ass today? Right? And 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:31.800 I remember, I remember, you know what, we gotta get 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.600 off the bench today. Let's let's let's let's play like 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.800 a starter. So so what was that restaurant for you? 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.400 If I had to think? I think before games because 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.120 I am the baby seven. So it was at one 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.680 point all sisters was on the same team because I 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:51.800 played varsity in seventh grade. Flex no, he was in 0:14:51.840 --> 0:15:12.040 school like my I can't say no for that man. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.760 So my sisters then they would we would always go 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:21.840 since since you said that the sister older sister is Iris, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:32.800 and my middle sister is Ashley, and then I'm Ivory okay, yeah, 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.120 and then my brothers is four. It's four boys and 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:41.480 three girls. So my oldest brothers, Charles, I mean cool. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.960 I love all my no. See, everybody got their own 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.040 personality when it comes to me. That's the thing. They're 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.840 so protective. Like my brother Charles, on a good day, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.760 on a good day, hey, listen, on a good day. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.360 For the night he es, don't give me about five five, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:05.200 you know, Charles. Okay, so you're telling me no athletes 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.960 lie about their height. Absolutely absolutely so on a good day, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:15.320 when I'm feeling good, stretched out real well, like, oh 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:21.880 my god, oh man, don't I'm not even captain b 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.960 I even said on a good day. I wasn't even 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.720 like saying, oh it's every day or you know, every game. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.600 I say, when I'm feeling good, stretched out, you know 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:40.160 about five seven someone Reggie, Sharon and Colon. Yeah, so 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.200 it's seven of us. So my the spot that when 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.800 you was talking, I was like, man, my sister would 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.040 take me there for the games. Will eat the Afghan 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.240 Chinese kitchen. It's a little Chinese kitchen spot that's in 0:16:52.320 --> 0:17:00.320 your Everybody would go there, so it's like basketball football everybody. Yeah, 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:05.879 it was on, Oh it was some days. It was 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.359 on some day with difficult but I mean, you know, yeah, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.560 but the place was. You know, did you a school? 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.600 You know, give us that like ten dollars, We're gonna 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.240 make that ten dollars work, you know what I'm saying. Stretched, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.679 So that's the that's the place and so crazy. Man. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.840 I drove by there the other day and I just 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.359 looked at it like, nah, boy, I'm saying something that 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.440 workout is, but I'm about to die. And that work 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.800 out hurt. The things that we used to eat before 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.560 a game, go out there before and perform. You go 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.880 out there now, man, you right for a week, week, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.440 a whole week, a week some stuff like that. Don't 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.239 you cannot finish the game. Yeah, I don't know what. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.320 We didn't even talk about playing. I'm just talking about paying. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.280 I ain't even talking about playing now now being a 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.119 dad and going to games and stuff with my boys 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.160 and they're like, yeah, you know, we got a little 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.359 bit of time and be swen. Let's get someway. And 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:08.280 I just look at it now, and think about the food. Yeah, right, 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:14.639 just how much we played on God give him a building. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.679 How much. There's only so much you could really do. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.960 You either got or you don't. Right, you can you 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.399 can put all you can, hire all these folks and 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.440 do all this stuff that at the end of the day, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.120 if you ain't got, if you if you're jumper, ain't wet, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.440 it don't matter what coach you got. It don't don't 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.840 matter what defense you're running. It don't matter what offense. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.440 How many screens that boy can run around the screen, 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:50.359 don't you know? So No, you're right though, Like you're right, seriously, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.399 but you can't tell this generation that because they got 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.240 ten trainers. But we're going to I G with the trainers. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.520 You know what I'm saying, Like they showing out, But 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.520 so you're saying you're seeing seeing that. I'm from your 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.040 perspective all the time. That's a cap A lot of 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.800 these kids that are doing it, they only showed Like 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.040 with me, if you see any highlight tape, I'm showing 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.040 my missus because I'm gonna be real, I miss shots 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:19.160 show that. But then when you got a college coach, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.400 because I was I was a college coach at Carolina 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.200 for two years. You know, you get on Instagram and say, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.880 oh man, she's nice. But then when you go recruiting, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.880 you're like and you're looking at the video and looking 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.000 and making sure that person got the same number. Like 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.680 hold up, no, they do that highlight thing, but in reality, 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.600 turn turn the cameras off, Like who are you as 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.919 a player? You know what I'm saying. Like even like 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.639 when I trained my kids, y'all bring them in, but 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.440 I tell a parent, we're putting them. We're putting the 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.639 misses on. You need to see that, you know what 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.040 I'm saying, because it's part of the game. You're not 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.600 gonna make every shot. I've never known anybody to make 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.840 every shot. Now you're gonna take forty four like Kobe 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.520 in one game, but you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.320 miss on. So that that Instagram stuff is straight up 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.359 cap that. That's the cap I was captain. That's the 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:10.840 cap right there. Don't trap it up here they it is. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.800 It's uh. I just wanted your perspective on it because 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.120 you're seeing it firsthand. Training all these training, all these kids, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:18.879 and I mean we'd all be sitting here line, we 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.720 didn't if we didn't acknowledge that. I mean, the generations 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.040 are just different and things have changed, and social media 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.440 has brought so much. It's a it's a gift on 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.879 the curse sometimes it is, it really is. And I 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.280 just wish that these kids when they get in the gym, 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.640 focus on your craft, like, focus on what you need 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.480 to do to get better as a player. But also, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.880 you know, try to get recruited by colleges, not the popularity. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.960 It's no stop doing things for lights. Everybody don't like it. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.280 Sometimes they'd be bored like me at homes all time 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.679 on a on a Saturday and just be clicking up 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.640 that click and then you're looking like, oh they liked 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.640 my post. They don't even know he's empty. Because when 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.280 you're like, seriously, all when Steve, you know this, whenever 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:03.880 you we grinded, ain't nobody would have. Yeah, but when 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.600 we when it's on the shore, everybody can pick pick it. 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.440 I love cut to It, and I love it even 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:20.959 more when you download us and subscribe and you can 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.480 follow us on social media too. Smithie, where where at 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:28.360 that's at? Cut to it? On Instagram? What about Twitter? At? 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:32.160 Cut to It? Facebook cut to It featuring Steve Smith 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.800 singr what about online and you can follow us at 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.920 cut to It podcast dot com where you can buy 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.840 merch and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:45.880 to podcasts. I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.639 I got all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.520 a brother, cut to a podcast dot Com. All right, 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.560 let's get into it. So where are you from in 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.639 the place you call your hometown? Um? Recently from McConnell's 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:06.719 Softcare Alana McConnell's, McConnell's were like twenty five minutes from 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:14.280 rock Hill, Like rock Hill is moving and shaking, and 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.600 then the Panthers facilities going down there. So hey when 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:22.760 they go down there, all all those little houses, because 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:26.400 all of a sudden, it's gonna double and triple absolutely yeah. 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:34.879 So um, I mean stoplights, how many stopped signs? Two 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:37.959 to come in and go? Here's what I need to know. 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.800 Is the fire department volunteer or a most likely, But 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:44.480 it's all in the same It's all in the same 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:48.359 building as the police department. I mean yeah, it's the 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.760 police department and the fire department in the jail in 0:22:51.800 --> 0:23:01.480 the same place. Now it's like one division. The jails 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.680 not in there. You know what I forget y'all. Man, Hey, 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.879 but that's like the post office, the meat hall, and 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.920 the fire department is in one building. The meeting hall. 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:13.560 Like you know, we have all our meetings. You know 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:16.000 what that means South Carolina? So I know what meetings 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:21.240 y'all talking about. But have we have we progressed? Get 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:24.520 them off? Get him off your back. You said meetings, 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.200 you know, South Carolina. I don't know what kind of 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.160 meetings y'all talking about. No, not the type of meeting man, 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:36.640 Not that means anymore. That's true. Not mean. Ain't talking 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.479 my fish fry meetings either. Oh yeah, you gotta have 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.159 them because we got the meeting hall. Now, were you 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:45.600 growing up? Oh no, no, no, you aren't even allowed 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:51.200 in exactly No, I definitely wasn't going in there. Were 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:58.280 good when you go growing up? Growing up out there 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:03.600 a young kid? Um? What was that like? As far 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:08.879 as you know, racism and in in segregation? Uh? In 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:13.760 in in a small deep South? Was it forty five 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:19.400 minutes from Charlotte? Seems back in the day like Charlotte, 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:23.840 Charlotte's downtown uptown uhould be where you where you score 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:28.560 dope right years ago, so I can imagine if if 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:31.720 Uptown was that way. Forty five minutes down in South 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:36.000 Carolina was my personal spears growing up. My mom and 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:40.399 dad shield me from a lot of stuff. Why you 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:44.520 know what, I never asked them, Um, I don't know why, 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:47.280 but it's I mean, you know, I never knew what 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:50.640 that as the Confederate flag was, but you see it 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.280 all the time. You know, people trucks and in the trailers. 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:55.960 You know, they have it on the wall, I mean 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:00.240 in the in the windows, is everywhere. I never knew 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.560 what that was growing up until literally, I'm gonna be honest, 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:06.280 I got to college, and I mean that's when I 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:10.840 just started realizing, like, dang man, it's crazy something so much. 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.680 It was something that represented something that you had no idea, 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:16.760 but it was it was it was in your face 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:19.040 every single day. I had no idea. So when you 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.520 went to college you discovered that Confederate flag for you 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:31.120 and your small town meant what man? It just meant that. Yeah, absolutely, 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:34.840 it just meant that it they wasn't for us. There 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:37.640 wasn't for us. They was they was against us. That's 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:39.520 what it That's what it meant. But it's so crazy 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:45.199 because literally, um really growing up. Man, Like when I 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:47.520 say we're in the country, like we like the next 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.600 house down, you know, it's you know, like the kind 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:59.240 of like family members, but it's still far away. And yeah, yeah, seriously, 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:02.080 it's like the next was down, like you know, they fought, 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:06.120 they we separated. Um. But I did experience this though 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:11.840