Speaker 1: This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I and this is cut to it.
Speaker 1: Good cud do. Let's getting down to do with good
Speaker 1: do it. We asked the questions you always want to know,
Speaker 1: but no one ever asked, let's cut to it. You
Speaker 1: ain't heard am about it? Then we're about to let
Speaker 1: you know. It's all Hey, alexis uh, Alexis that's the wrong?
Speaker 1: You even answer back, and al got a question for you.
Speaker 1: You're doing that, sir, I'm great. I've been struggling with
Speaker 1: myself on frustration right, And so I was like, man,
Speaker 1: what am I first straight about? And so I heard
Speaker 1: I heard this and it was it was a great question,
Speaker 1: which is what are we doing and how are we
Speaker 1: dealing with ourselves or maybe with God when we're sitting
Speaker 1: in his waiting room. That's good. And the reason I
Speaker 1: say that is if we're immature enough, we can hear
Speaker 1: a delay as a denoma. Oh so my question to
Speaker 1: you is how are you handling waiting in God's waiting room?
Speaker 1: The first thing comes to mind, is it it exercises
Speaker 1: a lot of patients right exercises a lot of patients
Speaker 1: because you are literally in the middle of whether it's
Speaker 1: something you asked for, whether it's something you're waiting on.
Speaker 1: You you you mentioned waiting room, where there's something you're
Speaker 1: waiting on or waiting for, or something to Uh, manifest
Speaker 1: is such a buzzword right now, but you're waiting for
Speaker 1: something to happen. It is that gap where it is
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, I know what either I'm trying to
Speaker 1: detain or whether I'm trying to get to but I
Speaker 1: haven't accomplished it yet, or I don't even see an
Speaker 1: inkling of it happening yet. So what do you do
Speaker 1: in that middle portion? And the middle I've always found
Speaker 1: is where you typically get refined to where you get pruned.
Speaker 1: It's where um it's it's it's typically where the best
Speaker 1: version of yourself eventually comes forth. It's also the part that,
Speaker 1: if I'm being real, completely sucks. It completely sucks, because
Speaker 1: you're you're literally right there in the middle. The cool part, though,
Speaker 1: is when you look back, you tend to see, man,
Speaker 1: I came from something um either really bad or something
Speaker 1: I didn't like or something I didn't enjoy, and you're
Speaker 1: not where you want to be. But you gotta appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So I'll say all that to where, um, you know,
Speaker 1: to answer your question. Oh, it definitely sucks, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. But it's also it's also when I go
Speaker 1: back and I think about it's also I can point
Speaker 1: out specific times in my life where it made me better.
Speaker 1: And that's the part that matters. Truth be told, and
Speaker 1: to be totally honest, most of us don't like waiting,
Speaker 1: particularly waiting on something to change or something to get better.
Speaker 1: Waiting sometimes we could be very frustrated with the experience,
Speaker 1: and God is causing or calling us or causing us
Speaker 1: to wait because sometimes he it's not we're not asking
Speaker 1: the right way or we're not praying the right way.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll give it. This is the best analogy I
Speaker 1: can I can do illustrate illustration. I give you the
Speaker 1: best illustration. Remember back in the day, you go to
Speaker 1: the d m V. Or you go to the old
Speaker 1: butcher or the corner store, and you gotta pull a ticket.
Speaker 1: You gotta get the real ticket, not not not the
Speaker 1: board you're talking about, the actual ticket. You gotta get
Speaker 1: the ticketing in there's a little you know, the dots
Speaker 1: and the numbers and say let's just say you're you're
Speaker 1: uh ticket five or eight, you know whatever number? Which
Speaker 1: number do you want to fifty seven? And what's the
Speaker 1: counter on? Like four? That's really as a TV to
Speaker 1: be here for a while, counters on fifty Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: two fifty five. Okay, my show, So I get it.
Speaker 1: I get the leap frog here, okay, okay, whatever you do.
Speaker 1: Check still come on Friday. Yeah, okay, cool. So they're
Speaker 1: on two fifty three. Now when we leap frog and
Speaker 1: we try to get in front of two fifty three,
Speaker 1: think about this. To fifty seven is Gerard, he's get
Speaker 1: getting the check up. To fifty five is getting a
Speaker 1: his I don't have it, but I'm using it asmin
Speaker 1: halo refhild. But to fifty three he's getting the heart transplant.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna jump your ass in line early? And
Speaker 1: you go in as two fifty three because you stole
Speaker 1: this ticket and now you gotta get a heart transplant?
Speaker 1: Don't even realize it, but all you really went in
Speaker 1: there for and I just want some oxygen in my healer,
Speaker 1: or I want to get a check up. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: have to understand that God is delaying it because we're
Speaker 1: not ready for Really, what's in there to fifty three
Speaker 1: is getting a heart transplant. But you didn't jump the line,
Speaker 1: and you disrupt the order. Now your healthy heart is
Speaker 1: now about to be ripped out and you're about to
Speaker 1: get a different heart. And somebody will say, well, well,
Speaker 1: God's giving us this hard. But the point is when
Speaker 1: you get a heart transplant, there's a process. There's a
Speaker 1: process of are you the right blood type, are you
Speaker 1: the right age? How? How do you know to fifty
Speaker 1: three isn't a fifty year old man who's who's been
Speaker 1: a smoker, who all they're trying to do it that
Speaker 1: it's not even a fully operating heart. It is a
Speaker 1: heart that now is applied with a pacemaker. So now
Speaker 1: forty two years old, I can't run anymore, I can't
Speaker 1: play any sports. Now. I'm just I've jumped the line
Speaker 1: because I'm impatient because of delay. You took it as
Speaker 1: a denial, as a denial, that's good, So I I
Speaker 1: just I've realized in this process of life that one
Speaker 1: I have to have a life of gratitude, better life
Speaker 1: of gratitude, And also I gotta start realizing that while
Speaker 1: I'm in God's waiting room that I need to be
Speaker 1: appreciative and understanding why God has me in that waiting room.
Speaker 1: And that's good. What time you stream on Sundays? I
Speaker 1: need some of this now. I need to tune in
Speaker 1: for this. Appreciate that we're about to launch this. Ain't
Speaker 1: there right back? Say you're gonnalausch this G four crush
Speaker 1: the numbers. Well, I just wanted to tell you. I
Speaker 1: just I struggled and I thought about you know, life
Speaker 1: is difficult depending on the week, day of the week,
Speaker 1: in the time, it varies. But I also try to
Speaker 1: encourage and want to be more encouraged and want to
Speaker 1: be less. I'm a guy says oh half a glass
Speaker 1: half empty means I'm halfway thirsty. Yeah, but really just
Speaker 1: appreciating it. Sometimes God is only putting half of the
Speaker 1: liquid in the in the cup. You ain't ready to
Speaker 1: get the rest. You ain't ready to get the rest
Speaker 1: because you know why, sometimes your bladder can handle them. Right.
Speaker 1: But so facts facts, Hey, who we got coming up
Speaker 1: on the Cut to It podcast? We've got Spice Adams,
Speaker 1: a social media star, comedian, actor and TV host. But
Speaker 1: not many people even though He was an eight year
Speaker 1: veteran in the NFL for the forty Nins and debate
Speaker 1: Spice Adams on the Cut to A podcast, Spice Man,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Cut to It podcast. How you doing, man, man,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting like a villain on penicilla. That could be
Speaker 1: good at bad. Hey, I'm gonna cut like perack side.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is gonna be well. Don't come on
Speaker 1: about the fish fight, all right. So our first segment
Speaker 1: is called get iced Up. Maybe follow ups to these
Speaker 1: questions there may not be. They've been selected at random.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's happening. So medi go ahead
Speaker 1: and give Spice the first one. All right, So Spice
Speaker 1: on the ice up questions, there are random, they have
Speaker 1: rhyme a reason. So who or what is your favorite
Speaker 1: character or skit that you do one of the head
Speaker 1: uncle's yeah, and I always got the cigarette in the
Speaker 1: side of the mouth and the bluetooth had a bluetooth cousin,
Speaker 1: cousin Rick, I put a corporate for you. I'm for
Speaker 1: that cop right wrong, that far right anything anything you
Speaker 1: got going on. He got some experience with like man
Speaker 1: pcl the same time and the only feel like a
Speaker 1: six pack of beer. But that's why it never works.
Speaker 1: It only lasts for a couple of months. I got
Speaker 1: comfort him since that tight and so I feel the
Speaker 1: same thing. Man, My my daughter loves you and and
Speaker 1: her favorite one is just that. And every time you
Speaker 1: say what you're say, not chuck, like when the bluetooth
Speaker 1: isn't working. Like if it wasn't for the fact that
Speaker 1: she had remote learning right now, she'd be it because
Speaker 1: she loves always laugh, that distinct laugh that you can hear,
Speaker 1: like from around the corner. First of all, you can
Speaker 1: smell him before, you see, because they got the jew
Speaker 1: the stuff they sell everywhere. And why is it always blue?
Speaker 1: And he masking it because he missed. He definitely been
Speaker 1: smoking new ports. Oh who's no, no, no, no, Virginia
Speaker 1: slam different And so what you're smoke again? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are our assistant? I mean Sarah our sound? She she
Speaker 1: she smokes. She smokes healthy cigarettes. They organic cigarettes, but
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of it before? They're vegan cigarettes,
Speaker 1: American Spirit, American Spirit, okay them, not them the low
Speaker 1: cost joints, right, they're expensive. They'm the Kirklan brand, right,
Speaker 1: blue free. They smoked with like the cigarette holder. They'll
Speaker 1: be like, well that's the Jessica rabbit joint. No, not
Speaker 1: just from Dalmatians. I'm gonna get those pasket dogs. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get so question to you, all right, Spice, listen.
Speaker 1: Now you know you're big, dude, you used to be
Speaker 1: you used to be bigger. You're still dark skinning, so
Speaker 1: you know I'm light skinned, so I gotta throw that shade.
Speaker 1: So what part of your body could use a little
Speaker 1: bit more lotion? Loasiness for suckers? So you don't yes,
Speaker 1: I don't listen. I'll listen. Man. Let Vibe do his work, right?
Speaker 1: Did you ask me? Be asked me? Man, I'm proud
Speaker 1: of people like boys. Look at my l dog. Listen
Speaker 1: of work. No, Spice, how are you that ashy? And
Speaker 1: he's sweaty? But when I sweat, it's just like Lucus. Yeah, precipimitation, right,
Speaker 1: So it's greatness. Just one body bar he's completely asky.
Speaker 1: I dry off and I did. I'm out. It's dangerous, Bro'
Speaker 1: not been in that extra ten minutes getting in the crevices, like, no,
Speaker 1: you put a pair of jeans on this cres I'm
Speaker 1: a big rose. I got insulation yeah, you know without
Speaker 1: lack of insulation. Lee Molde fire starter. That's all right.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What would you rather have
Speaker 1: I in the middle of your head? Head? Or two noses?
Speaker 1: Or two noses? Now I gotta have an eye man,
Speaker 1: two noses, Man, I'm gonna be fat again. I'm what's that? Man?
Speaker 1: Who knows this? I couldn't do that? One of them
Speaker 1: running too? Like? What else are you gonna see it?
Speaker 1: With an animally hit that you wouldn't see what you're
Speaker 1: king too? You can see something coming before it actually come.
Speaker 1: Was that your third? Now? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It gives you a different type of vision. Dog, you
Speaker 1: going these I sleep right? But the other eyes like yeah,
Speaker 1: so you always got one. What I'm saying here on
Speaker 1: the lookout Like I know my boys down there sleep,
Speaker 1: but I gotta I gotta be on the lookout. Baby.
Speaker 1: But but with three eyes, you still get your Assok,
Speaker 1: it can happen. I didn't that one at the stop?
Speaker 1: The other two might be like they might be out
Speaker 1: of commission. Dog, could you be cock out with three? Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Three listen in COVID has taught me there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that can happen that ain't supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: That's the best one. All right. Uh so I heard
Speaker 1: you don't curse. Correct, So let's just say, you know, so,
Speaker 1: how would you curse someone out without using a curse word? Man?
Speaker 1: You've seen a coach that don't curse. Yeah, I'm gone,
Speaker 1: and you've seen them coaches. Man, we don't curse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where's the other way? Laughing is good? You don't curse
Speaker 1: no more. Man, you know you're trying you train. I've
Speaker 1: seen your NFL network. They never bleep out anything you do.
Speaker 1: I don't want the same network. Now I've I've I've
Speaker 1: calmed it down. You start come. You always getting into
Speaker 1: with Michael Irvin? What'd you say? What you say? I said?
Speaker 1: All right, So here here's the rundown on the whole
Speaker 1: Michael Irving thing. Yeah, people want to know the people wanted.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened. So when we were obviously in
Speaker 1: studio and all that stuff, I'm gonna take my time.
Speaker 1: It's my show. I want to hear the real baby. Oh.
Speaker 1: So so we were, um, you know, Irvis from Florida, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, lives in Texas. So we were you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of asked him a question about his outfits
Speaker 1: and he, you know, he gave me an answer that
Speaker 1: I was like. And so I had been making fun
Speaker 1: of him, kind of you know, messing around because he
Speaker 1: wears some flamboyant ones and so he, Mike Irvin said
Speaker 1: something about mine, and I had kind of had a
Speaker 1: conversation with him on who was doing my outfits. I
Speaker 1: remember this, okay, and Mama wifee picks out a lot
Speaker 1: of my stuff because if it was me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you right now, bro, I'll be wearing like three
Speaker 1: or four colors only gray, black, red, So you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna style. I have styled, but when it comes down
Speaker 1: to it, when it comes down to it, I'll just
Speaker 1: go at what I feel like. And for me, my
Speaker 1: goal to is, man, we're just throwing them a red hat,
Speaker 1: play it safe. I can't say I'm throwing a gray suit,
Speaker 1: black shirt, basic foundational colors like to the point that
Speaker 1: people that do my suits, they're like, um, all right,
Speaker 1: we got enough of these colors. We need to pick
Speaker 1: some different ones. But I'm gonna do it, but right now, yeah,
Speaker 1: so and and so he would joke around and I
Speaker 1: was still a new guy. So I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, you know how it is in
Speaker 1: the locker room. Yeah, so I'm the young I'm the
Speaker 1: young pup, and so I gotta take my lickings and
Speaker 1: keep on taking. But basically, after the conversation, I felt
Speaker 1: like since we had a dialogue like shoosters off closer
Speaker 1: off the table, Yeah, and he brought it up on air,
Speaker 1: he brought it up on air, and so I responded
Speaker 1: on air. I responded the way I really felt it all.
Speaker 1: It all makes sense now you see what I'm saying
Speaker 1: at a private conversation and then you bring it on.
Speaker 1: So I'm a guy if you clown me on air.
Speaker 1: The retribution was on I'm gonna clown you gonna air
Speaker 1: if you trip me. You know we're on air and
Speaker 1: you playing games. Then I said, okay, the game playing
Speaker 1: begins when we're on air. I'm not gonna do it
Speaker 1: off air. Mhmm, No, I'm gonna du it on air.
Speaker 1: And so that's what it was. And so when he
Speaker 1: said it, it had been like two or three weeks
Speaker 1: that he kept kind of jabbing that man, I'm just like, bro,
Speaker 1: if you don't stop this one more again, one gonna
Speaker 1: get and I said, one more get into my head
Speaker 1: and then he sat and I was like, no, but
Speaker 1: the way I said it, people missed it is I
Speaker 1: just I was gonna do it. I said, when I
Speaker 1: come to l A, I'm gonna do it. Do that
Speaker 1: mean I'm gonna take this mental note put in my
Speaker 1: back pocket. Then when I'm on the plane in l A,
Speaker 1: take that note out, you know, because I'm from l A.
Speaker 1: I'm back home. Okay, go to Martha's, get me a
Speaker 1: breed of from the spot, Go see my grandma, Go
Speaker 1: see my uncle, and oh yeah yeah, while I'm here,
Speaker 1: almost forgot to do list. So look, let me get
Speaker 1: my bag. Okay, back all right, rental car check, boom,
Speaker 1: gonna get my food. Chat, holler at my boys chat.
Speaker 1: Let's roll over there. Check dude. This is awesome. There's
Speaker 1: nowhere else man. Yeah, so that's what it was. If
Speaker 1: you call to YouTube, man, it is like a back
Speaker 1: and forth compilation that got you and Michael I. I'll
Speaker 1: watched the whole entire thing dog times. The thing is
Speaker 1: Spice has played against me and knows me. Yes, I
Speaker 1: wasn't joking, No, I know how And so but it
Speaker 1: also is a great reminders like, hey, we gotta grow up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta change how we approach things. And the really
Speaker 1: cool thing about Earth though, is Earth does challenge me.
Speaker 1: He does make me think outside of the box. Earth
Speaker 1: has the gift for the game. Earth is a very um.
Speaker 1: He is a smart man. Um. He knows what he's doing. However,
Speaker 1: it was a little bit of you know, younger, I
Speaker 1: receiver Old World and I've always respected IRV and that,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of why I responded the way I was,
Speaker 1: because I do have so much respect for him, and
Speaker 1: I felt at that time it was a personal attack.
Speaker 1: And when when you believe somebody you look up to
Speaker 1: and you mentor that mentors you and you inspire, you
Speaker 1: aspire to to to to some degree, have some some
Speaker 1: remnants of, Hey, I hope I could be considered you know,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to be able to consider
Speaker 1: myself in the same category of Earth as far statistically
Speaker 1: and playing. And so I kind of was like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, at the time, I'm yeah, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: almost forty years old. Yeah, and then it ain't you
Speaker 1: come at me happened because ye, yeah, when I'm talking
Speaker 1: about want to happen. So I'm like yeah, and so
Speaker 1: that's why it's like and I kind of like, man,
Speaker 1: I I don't know what I did that you want
Speaker 1: to do it on the air. So it kind of
Speaker 1: made it. I was, you know, to something. Yes, some
Speaker 1: people say, oh, Steve was in his feelings. I wasn't
Speaker 1: in my feelings. I felt pretty much disrespected because of
Speaker 1: and I'm not even I still haven't win in the
Speaker 1: detail and I won't go in detail. We had an
Speaker 1: end depth conversation, a private conversation which I thought, and
Speaker 1: it wouldn't left me and which led me to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I won't make fun of Earth because of the conversation
Speaker 1: we had. And then when he said on camera like
Speaker 1: two weeks later, I'm like this ninja, this ninja te
Speaker 1: check this out, dude, Like I'm fresh off the field, dog,
Speaker 1: like I still got mud in my fingernails, say out
Speaker 1: for a Big ten network. Right. They gave me this CD.
Speaker 1: They said, okay, on how your State Indiana game. They
Speaker 1: said to three players that you think like we're game
Speaker 1: change or whatever. So I'm like, all right, cool, I
Speaker 1: got all right. So it's like me and Mike Hall,
Speaker 1: Mike hallight man, We're gonna have so much fun, dude, Like,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Whom were on here? Three to one?
Speaker 1: Actually go? So Mike says, okay, welcome to Big ten Network.
Speaker 1: I got a special guest Fice Adam stim Let's go
Speaker 1: to the highlights. I thought we was gonna go back
Speaker 1: and forth and the and all that. So I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: all right, So what's all on me? I noticed like
Speaker 1: as I'm talking, I'm the one going through all of
Speaker 1: the highlights. I'm like, dang, it's really all on me?
Speaker 1: All right? So I n all that part because all
Speaker 1: they asked me to do. What's to do? Three players?
Speaker 1: So I did those plays? Is I said all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say whatever whatever. So then like right
Speaker 1: after that, he's like, so what do you think about
Speaker 1: produce offensive coordinator? And I was like, what that is
Speaker 1: not what we talked about and say, oh, Momi, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying in my head. But like coming
Speaker 1: like what I'm saying. It's like, oh man, I think
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator's cool. You're talking about the old boy, right,
Speaker 1: But in my mind, I'm like, dog, y'all stay in henda,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know nothing about You can actually something
Speaker 1: about Ben Roethlisberger NFL quarterbacks, But vict I had no
Speaker 1: zero percent percent of what you're talking about. So make
Speaker 1: a long story short. I straightened bomb Dog like like
Speaker 1: none other and they take everything. Then he was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: what do you think about defense coordinator from Northwestern? I
Speaker 1: was like, man, what they should do is hiring me.
Speaker 1: Get everybody in on line, some gassersta. So I just
Speaker 1: started just saying anything, bro, just like the random questions
Speaker 1: he was asking, I was just giving random answers that
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the question he was talking about.
Speaker 1: But I straight up bomb Dog, so I can understand
Speaker 1: what you what you're saying. Like sometimes you get caught
Speaker 1: off guard and you're just like, but the thing is,
Speaker 1: you and Earth got a relationship, bro. So when he
Speaker 1: said something like that, it's different when it comes from
Speaker 1: somebody that you figure that that's your mentor like this
Speaker 1: your homeboy, and like y'all been through some of the
Speaker 1: same thing, right, So when he said that, I don't
Speaker 1: know you was like, but the thing is at least
Speaker 1: you responded that way by feeling disrespected, because sometimes people
Speaker 1: feel disrespected and it's like it's on on air, off
Speaker 1: area it on that So the way you handled it
Speaker 1: that was dope. Well I appreciate it the other because
Speaker 1: only wanted to handle You're gonna need a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of proxide and a lot of ice read. We have
Speaker 1: to take a break and morning a thing. We gotta
Speaker 1: pay some bill. You got check. I love cut to
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Speaker 1: subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got
Speaker 1: all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my
Speaker 1: questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut
Speaker 1: to a Podcast dot com. You know, Spice is. It's
Speaker 1: just been fun really to to see your see your development,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously into a comedian, just into your personality,
Speaker 1: allowing allowing people to see you off the field. But
Speaker 1: we really want to just kind of dive into spice
Speaker 1: atoms Anthony Spice atoms like who you are? What do
Speaker 1: you stand for? How you became? Story? Yeah, you're coming
Speaker 1: of age story, how you became who you are? And
Speaker 1: and and the good and the bad and ugly the
Speaker 1: the parts that people you know, um don't see. They
Speaker 1: a lot of times, these these young folks today, Uh,
Speaker 1: the public today looks at at athletes, at entertainers, and
Speaker 1: they see the championship parade, but they don't understand the
Speaker 1: grind and the process of the preseason, regular season, O
Speaker 1: t a s. Mini camps, all of that stuff that
Speaker 1: the all of the days that to have failed. You know,
Speaker 1: before Sunday Sunday is the greatest moment in football, but
Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday it is, Man, it is some b s.
Speaker 1: It ain't even granted it shall be as some of
Speaker 1: the things, how guys start, how guys don't start, what
Speaker 1: the coordinator you don't do, all the plays that they
Speaker 1: put in during the week, and that they only call
Speaker 1: like ten through the through the whole two hours of football.
Speaker 1: So you know, just wanted to kind of go through
Speaker 1: that and really give you an opportunity, man, to share
Speaker 1: your story who you are. If there's some things you
Speaker 1: think we miss interrupt us man. You know, man, before
Speaker 1: we get into that, like how you were just saying
Speaker 1: that you don't know what people were saying, if you
Speaker 1: were in your feelings or not whatever. I just got
Speaker 1: in my feelings about what you just said. Because there
Speaker 1: was a lot of time on Thursday. You can see
Speaker 1: the writing on the wall man, like when it comes
Speaker 1: to your reps and practice, like like I don't even
Speaker 1: feel at all from mixed practice, Like seems like I'm
Speaker 1: not in the game plan. What's going on? So then
Speaker 1: Sunday rolled around, Yeah, we uh, you're not gonna dress today.
Speaker 1: I did my warm up all that everybody can't be
Speaker 1: like Julius Peppers and get here thirty minutes before and
Speaker 1: say hey let's go. Man, I gotta run in circles
Speaker 1: like always before the game and get warmed up. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my game pans on when I woke up,
Speaker 1: like I'm ready. Now we're gonna set you out this game,
Speaker 1: like bro. But anyway about me, um, Ultimately, dog, I
Speaker 1: just want to be the best dad evers. Like I
Speaker 1: value being a husband. I value being a dad because
Speaker 1: I didn't have that growing up. I didn't see you
Speaker 1: know my dad, and like, my dad went to prison
Speaker 1: when I was like four, so it was just me
Speaker 1: and my mom's and so I never really saw the
Speaker 1: dynamic of marriage unless it was you know, my grandma
Speaker 1: my granddad. But other than that, I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: Living in my house, so it was all. And I
Speaker 1: was the only child, so I didn't have brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1: So growing up I always was like, man, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be a good husband, and I'm gonna be a good dad,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have a lot of kids. So now
Speaker 1: I got four kids, uh going on fifteen years of marriage,
Speaker 1: my wife and I and uh so that's that's what
Speaker 1: I valued the most. Now as far as the entertainment side,
Speaker 1: like I said, I was the only child, so I
Speaker 1: grew up always wanted to entertain So then I want
Speaker 1: to come back over to the house. So what what happened? Uh?
Speaker 1: You you on my show? But let me let me
Speaker 1: let me give it. I don't do one word answers, man,
Speaker 1: I know how the interviews be when you'd be like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: so that's fine, you answer opening the question and he went,
Speaker 1: I'm media trained too, spicies, but let you know, let me,
Speaker 1: let me do my thing playing plas. Okay, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I know you ain't used to say, hey, sit back
Speaker 1: in the first class and let me, uh hey, let
Speaker 1: me let me get the state you got it? How
Speaker 1: would you like it cooked? Medium plus? I've never heard
Speaker 1: of that, continued that I was a different type of classic.
Speaker 1: Get you plus that. You know some folks get a
Speaker 1: medium well or you know she rare come out, you know,
Speaker 1: still come out? You want his that thing? Dad, like
Speaker 1: I like a love that Jackie. Now, Spice. Where are
Speaker 1: you from in the place you call home? What's your hometown?
Speaker 1: From the D? Man? Detroit? The D? Yeah? Man three
Speaker 1: one three man? He sigh, He sighed Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: High School. Okay, yes, sir. How did growing up there
Speaker 1: impact the way you see the world today? Man? I
Speaker 1: knew that I had to work for everything, because everybody
Speaker 1: that I knew either work that Chrysler for a GM
Speaker 1: or some type of factory or something like that. Man.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was nothing handed to you in
Speaker 1: Detroit and in the in the neighborhood I lived in, Man,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of gang violence, shooting, drugs and
Speaker 1: gambling and all that type of stuff. Man. But once
Speaker 1: my mom, you know, it's like, look, you're gonna play
Speaker 1: some football. Then she kind of sheltered me away from
Speaker 1: that stuff. And I gotta love for football because I
Speaker 1: never really wanted to play. Like we we grew up
Speaker 1: the Pistons Bad Boys, so it was all about Isaiah Thomas,
Speaker 1: Joe Dumars, John Sally, Dennis Robin and like all those guys.
Speaker 1: So all we did in my neighborhood was cool. Then
Speaker 1: my mom was like, no, you're gonna play some football.
Speaker 1: I was like, what what is that? I didn't want
Speaker 1: to play? It was like it was boring to me,
Speaker 1: Like it's four hours. It's either you catch the bar
Speaker 1: you don't like? Who want to sit there and watch
Speaker 1: that for four hours? But then when I started playing,
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, this is dope. Like you could
Speaker 1: physically beat a man and they ain't got to worried
Speaker 1: about the police or not like that. Sign me up,
Speaker 1: let's do with it. Like man, that was I love it.
Speaker 1: So since my mom made me play man, I've been playing,
Speaker 1: you know, eighteen years since then. Man, the dope? How
Speaker 1: did you get spice as the as your nickname? A?
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this, bro, so Mark Luther Game High
Speaker 1: School in Detroit. It was about seven Anthony's on the team.
Speaker 1: So they saw I was somewhat good because I started
Speaker 1: out on JV. Then I got moved up to varsity.
Speaker 1: But then it was like dog, this young kid, he
Speaker 1: got something and it was like, man, we can't call
Speaker 1: you Anthony, dog. We gotta give you a nickname. And
Speaker 1: so I had these braids in my hair that looked
Speaker 1: like the rapper Spice One. So there was like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna call you Spice, and I was like, nah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna call me Anthony, like you've been feeling it now
Speaker 1: I want. I wasn't a gig any gangster man. I
Speaker 1: wasn't Spice One. Like I'm not Spice, but that's my man.
Speaker 1: I love all Spkes One albums. But dog, no man
Speaker 1: called me Anthony. But I'm like a freshman, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's like, boy, a thousand times
Speaker 1: somebody called me Spice. I was just like, what, man,
Speaker 1: what you want became Spice the main ingredient man, and
Speaker 1: it just stuck. You never have said so to your
Speaker 1: own nickname, You don't man something like one of my
Speaker 1: other nicknames is fat back greeves me exactly. I'm full
Speaker 1: name dog, fat back greeves me. Why don't It's like
Speaker 1: if somebody called me fat back, I gotta turned around,
Speaker 1: like what's up like this? And that's one of them
Speaker 1: names that you're like, can't get right. We just have
Speaker 1: a dude on team that can't get right. Everything kind
Speaker 1: of right left, and we all know who that is
Speaker 1: that's saying. He'd be like, oh, several names that go
Speaker 1: to I can't get right. Oh you're talking about the Panthers.
Speaker 1: What's here, bro? It's it's and can't get right on
Speaker 1: every team. That's what makes it funny, Like, oh, he
Speaker 1: can't get right? But didya have did y'all have a
Speaker 1: dead man walking? We had a dude on the team.
Speaker 1: Then we all got sprints, we all got these runs
Speaker 1: we gotta do everybody damn man walking. It's like this.
Speaker 1: He literally looks like a dead man walking. So the
Speaker 1: coach like, da walking, You might want to move out
Speaker 1: the way we run the sprints. Oh, you always got
Speaker 1: to do this out of shape. I'm not even always
Speaker 1: lying no or d lin I ain't really experienced, man, Listen,
Speaker 1: don't don't do that. He's a offense. See, I felt
Speaker 1: like how you felt when it was alignment. I didn't
Speaker 1: say which I said. It is either you can put
Speaker 1: defense or I've been filling the plank. I feel attact.
Speaker 1: I'm I apologize because some of y'alls, it would be
Speaker 1: some running backs who just can't do it, especially when
Speaker 1: they come to long distance y'all receivers, y'all sprinters, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of us. I ain't even gonna ask you following
Speaker 1: a question on that because I don't want you. It's
Speaker 1: not not every not every fast guy can sprint like consistently.
Speaker 1: So you know, you have to have gassers. Like there's
Speaker 1: some guys that they can run. They're like a They're
Speaker 1: like a cheap piece of gum, Like we're gone ten seconds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it just don't have yes big round of
Speaker 1: high school stud I ran um. I ran a hunter
Speaker 1: meter hurdles, three thirty hurdles, and I knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna say hurdles dog just from the way he played.
Speaker 1: I knew he was gonna say her tell me what
Speaker 1: like the way you got up and get the rock.
Speaker 1: It is either I had to be like long jump
Speaker 1: or I mean I jump, or like some type of
Speaker 1: hurdles or something, some type of bounding. Yes, look at
Speaker 1: you and Bunny. I don't really inser like skilled positions,
Speaker 1: bro especially running back, because running backs are the most
Speaker 1: disrespected athlete as far as when it comes to like
Speaker 1: money and contracts and stuff like that, and how it's
Speaker 1: like a revolving door with them, Like there's no reason
Speaker 1: why Adrian Peterson should have played for five six teams.
Speaker 1: He should not be a journeyman like you. Gotta get
Speaker 1: that man in respect he deserved, like for real, like
Speaker 1: that man can still go. I mean it happens all
Speaker 1: the time. That's just like I'm a four three guy.
Speaker 1: I'm skinning and grinned. I'm shooting the gap. No responsibility,
Speaker 1: just penetrate, go go, don't think, just go. I love
Speaker 1: not to think like I got a gap, boom, let's
Speaker 1: do it. But I know what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Came over to San Francisco with that three four. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get it all the way to
Speaker 1: three thirty. I don't want to be I can't move
Speaker 1: three thirty. Oh man, they want me to be too
Speaker 1: gaping and go. Let the linebacker gonna make the play.
Speaker 1: I could go make it, let me go do it like,
Speaker 1: oh man, that's it's it's it's different, bro, it's different.
Speaker 1: And then a lot of times and they've got nothing
Speaker 1: to do with your ability, to do with your knowledge
Speaker 1: of the game, nothing to do with your effort, none
Speaker 1: of that. It's just like sometimes coaches come in, they
Speaker 1: like who they like, and whatever also happens to is
Speaker 1: they you have coaches who believe their system. It's more
Speaker 1: valuable than the players. Yes, Smithie has shared his mentality
Speaker 1: how he approached the game, Spice, how did you approach
Speaker 1: the game? What was your mentality playing on the defensive line? Uh,
Speaker 1: how did you approach the game? I just wanted to
Speaker 1: prepare like crazy, man. I used to watch a lot
Speaker 1: of film. I used to watch the Guys home game.
Speaker 1: I used to see how they played away, how they
Speaker 1: played with the crowd, noise, all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: And uh, I had a lot of fun, man. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's how I kind of approached the game too. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like in the locker room, I never like wanted
Speaker 1: it to be quiet or anything like that. Man, So
Speaker 1: I always like crack a joke. I'll be in there dancing,
Speaker 1: I'll be doing like all types of stuff. So, but
Speaker 1: the thing with the Bears, it's just like it was
Speaker 1: a bunch of people on the team who was the
Speaker 1: same way. So it was like a bunch of big kids.
Speaker 1: So when I got there, I was like, I'm in
Speaker 1: my element. Dog. Like it was more than just one
Speaker 1: class flown. You got Peanut Tillman, you got less Bridge,
Speaker 1: you got Tom Harris out of Wileon Letter, Alex Brown.
Speaker 1: It's it's so many characters, bro. So I was just
Speaker 1: like I was in my element. Bro. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of like what Steve said, like people just see the
Speaker 1: They just see you on the field on Sunday. They
Speaker 1: don't see what happens Monday through Saturday when you just
Speaker 1: you know, training and you're you're you're in the weight
Speaker 1: room and you're going all out and then you're watching
Speaker 1: film and then you're going out on the practice field
Speaker 1: doing working on all your little moves and all your
Speaker 1: techniques and all that type of stuff. But you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade it for the world. Man, I'll do
Speaker 1: it all over again, man if I had to. I
Speaker 1: wish I could still play right now. Man, I give
Speaker 1: you thirty good plays might not be in a row.
Speaker 1: It'll be some conditions on it. Like if I gotta
Speaker 1: sull being, I want to sub being where the ball
Speaker 1: is closer to the hatch that's by the bench, because
Speaker 1: like running that extra fifteen yards is gonna you know,
Speaker 1: I might get booty locked. You know you're doing them
Speaker 1: shuttles and that the glutes just don't be firing like
Speaker 1: how they's opposed to. So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I play right now, but there's gonna be some conditions
Speaker 1: on that thing. I think it's about that time. Just
Speaker 1: take a little breather, do cut do it. Let's get
Speaker 1: down to do it. Hey, Gerard, why did you get
Speaker 1: that T shirt? You mean this thing? Oh yes, I
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Speaker 1: buy you a T shirt, subscribe to us wherever you
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. You refer to yourself as a class
Speaker 1: clown almost How do you balance that out with those
Speaker 1: guys who were the nacal gout cats likes me cats
Speaker 1: like now, but Aaron Donald? How does that balance out? You?
Speaker 1: Gotta know when to, you know, turn that on and
Speaker 1: win and turn it off because some people they don't
Speaker 1: they don't get down with all of that. And you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You gotta make the adjustment. But
Speaker 1: it's it's all a part of it's all a part
Speaker 1: of being a leader, like knowing your team. Like I
Speaker 1: can't talk to Smitty the same way y'all talk to us.
Speaker 1: Moved to Mohammed, Like moved to Mohammed is just like
Speaker 1: like he's real cool where he's just like real serious.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like I can't talk to
Speaker 1: Moose the same way I would talk to Steve. And
Speaker 1: you gotta understand and know your teammates like off the
Speaker 1: field too, like what's gonna make him tick? Like what's
Speaker 1: gonna make like Steve crazy? Like yeah, it don't really
Speaker 1: take that much for Steve. I mean give me because
Speaker 1: Steve Smith story spice. Oh I'd rather not no, no, no, no, God,
Speaker 1: let me get I'm gonna get upset all over again. Man,
Speaker 1: don't be, don't be, don't be triggered, Like go ahead
Speaker 1: and give us a listen. Man, it's you can't do
Speaker 1: nothing to Steve unless he wants you to okay, like
Speaker 1: you can't touch the dude, man, And I can't talk
Speaker 1: to my dvs bro because I can't do what they do.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of times when we're playing Steve
Speaker 1: and you're like, what, at least can somebody at least
Speaker 1: stop him from talking. You went out, you went out,
Speaker 1: We couldn't hear you. Oh, Like, somebody needs to stop
Speaker 1: Steve Smith. At least stop him from talking. Stop him,
Speaker 1: stop him period from talking, catching the ball, running a route,
Speaker 1: just stop him, bro. Like it is so frustrating. It's
Speaker 1: like a trying to catch like a like a chicken
Speaker 1: or something like that. He's just going every witch away, man,
Speaker 1: and you can't. It's like by the time you catch him,
Speaker 1: it's already first down the chicken coop. Oh man. I
Speaker 1: mean it's just like every time you play him, bro,
Speaker 1: you already know what to expect. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: played defensive line and I know about like the impact
Speaker 1: of Steve Smith. So it's like, man, I got to
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback so then we won't have to
Speaker 1: hear about Steve Smith. But I only played first a
Speaker 1: second down stopper. It's like, oh man, I hope this
Speaker 1: is passed. But I know I'm gonna get double to
Speaker 1: trip a team this game. So it's like I really
Speaker 1: have no impact on the game. But playing with Steve,
Speaker 1: playing against Steve is a is a headache, bro, And
Speaker 1: it's it's like every time. So that's every story when
Speaker 1: it comes to Steve Smith, every every story. You know.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. You were considered undersize D tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now when you look at the game today, undersized D
Speaker 1: tackles are going in the first round in the premium.
Speaker 1: Now they're getting paid a hunt a hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: with chatting five million dollars guaranteed. Wrong. I had wrong time.
Speaker 1: Should have wait, dog man, I should have said now
Speaker 1: let me cook some old mama. These dudes is some
Speaker 1: cyborgs man, Like how how are you a defensive tackle
Speaker 1: and you got abs? Like what? Like how these dudes
Speaker 1: just like makeup players now man faster, stronger muscles and
Speaker 1: not like what Like I'm used to seeing Ted Washington.
Speaker 1: Big Ted's six seven, four hundred pounds. But if you
Speaker 1: look on the magazine and say three twenties, but everybody
Speaker 1: know Big Ted is pushing phone on it Monday through Saturday.
Speaker 1: But when he listed yeah, it's gonna say three thirty.
Speaker 1: But nowadays, man, like Aaron Donald is like ridiculous. Dog,
Speaker 1: He's like weird science, Like all right, we're gonna make
Speaker 1: them fast this way, We're gonna make them be able
Speaker 1: to play every position on the defensive line like J. J. White,
Speaker 1: like all these different guys. Man, it is crazy, dog,
Speaker 1: just like how much bigger and faster and stronger everybody.
Speaker 1: You see the wide receivers running um four twos like
Speaker 1: it's nothing I electric Like, how are you running out
Speaker 1: for two with electricity? What? What did you running hand
Speaker 1: hill like this? I mean it is. I love to
Speaker 1: see it, though, man, because it's just like, dude, I
Speaker 1: can't do it. So I'm just like I'm I'm at
Speaker 1: a position now where I'm a fan, like I understand
Speaker 1: like what it takes to get to that point. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm just like, yo, do you
Speaker 1: know like what you're doing right now? Like if I
Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to him and like, dog,
Speaker 1: you you're killing it right now. Like I know they
Speaker 1: can't see it right now because they're in the moment,
Speaker 1: but these young players are here, man, they they I'm
Speaker 1: really impressed with him. Man. I did a zoom call
Speaker 1: the other day and one of the questions for one
Speaker 1: of the guys coming out UH into the draft, he said,
Speaker 1: what do you do about your brand? Mmmmm, I think
Speaker 1: that's a great question. I should Well, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: your brand is whatever it is and what you desired
Speaker 1: to be. But if you can't play ball, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter about your brand. And what I find
Speaker 1: interested in that question and the statement is you're on
Speaker 1: your way into the league and you're thinking about your brand.
Speaker 1: That's good. I'm confused about you know, and I guess
Speaker 1: that's where it comes off where I'm a hater. Fuck
Speaker 1: your brain, that's real. Love it. Take us through your
Speaker 1: journey of becoming spice atoms, the Internet, YouTube, the influencer.
Speaker 1: Because you've had a lot of success, it almost seems
Speaker 1: people know you more is spice Atoms the median and
Speaker 1: not spice adoms who actually play football. That is that
Speaker 1: is so dope to me, dog Like, I love that.
Speaker 1: Like people think when I put on Instagram and Twitter
Speaker 1: me and the forty niner is uniform or in the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bury uniform, they think it's photo shop like nah, bro,
Speaker 1: Like I did nine years, but I played nine years
Speaker 1: in the league, So it's like a testament to to
Speaker 1: my work. Bro. And I'm like at this point right now, man,
Speaker 1: I just I just called myself an entertainer, man, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's dope, man, because I did this. I
Speaker 1: do this show on ABC called The Great American Bacon Show,
Speaker 1: and we film it out in the UK. And when
Speaker 1: I'm out there, oh oh, humble brand. But I'm down
Speaker 1: there and people like, yo, you you dude from this
Speaker 1: stand even spice out of stude whatever, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And I'll be like, man, where you from, Dudes, be like,
Speaker 1: I'm from Ghana, Like what? And you to see my videos,
Speaker 1: I'm Ghana dog like. So it's dope, man, It's dope.
Speaker 1: And the uh, the social media stuff kind of just
Speaker 1: happened from you know, just me just putting myself out there,
Speaker 1: same way we put ourselves out there every week on
Speaker 1: the football field, like for everybody to say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: you could have did this better, you could have did
Speaker 1: that better, or whatever. I like, I'm starting, dude, Like
Speaker 1: I got the respect from everybody in my locker room.
Speaker 1: I got respect from people on playing against all right,
Speaker 1: So like I'm not just out here just to be
Speaker 1: out here, Like I work hard to be out here
Speaker 1: and so uh you know as far as uh, you know,
Speaker 1: me being on Ballers and with the rock and uh
Speaker 1: doing some I did an episode on Detroitters on Comedy Central, man.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's it's been dope, man, It's been dope.
Speaker 1: And it's just like you know with football, man, you
Speaker 1: just keep getting the reps and keep putting yourself out there, man,
Speaker 1: and uh you know, and so long, man, you know,
Speaker 1: good things start happening for you know. Our last segment
Speaker 1: Spice is called the Deep Three. These are questions that
Speaker 1: we asked. This's a goal at a deeper level. Who
Speaker 1: you are as a football player, pass where you are
Speaker 1: as a social media fluencer. So smothy, go ahead, give
Speaker 1: me the first one. Hey, what's the biggest miss misconception
Speaker 1: people have about Spice Adams. It's that I'm just a
Speaker 1: football player. Like that's it. That's kind of why I
Speaker 1: went back to school to get my executive NBA because
Speaker 1: I figured like I was gonna go into some type
Speaker 1: of business and I wanted people to take me serious.
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: I played for the Bears. I played for uh for
Speaker 1: San Francisco, So you know, give me a shot because
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm in NFL. Dude, Like no, like
Speaker 1: respect me as a businessman, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: respect my authority. Tie. When's the last time you really
Speaker 1: challenge yourself today every day? Because listen, I've lost pounds, congratulations.
Speaker 1: And that is by far the hardest thing I ever
Speaker 1: had to do. And I've been in training camps, you know,
Speaker 1: all types of stuff, but this is everyday battle. Dog
Speaker 1: to say, I'm not gonna have no cookies today. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna have no chips today. I'm not gonna have
Speaker 1: no kool Aid. Like Dog. It is is ongoing battle
Speaker 1: every day. And I work out just like now to
Speaker 1: keep the weight off. Like the weight is off. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to give away all my suits,
Speaker 1: all my suits, man, all my my player at Steve
Speaker 1: Smith's suits. Man, I had to give him all the
Speaker 1: good will man. But yeah, it's a it's a battle
Speaker 1: for real. I used to think when people say, um,
Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle, I was like, man, that's just something
Speaker 1: skinny people be saying it really is? It really is?
Speaker 1: Why is making people laugh so meaningful to you? I
Speaker 1: like people around me to have a good time, like period,
Speaker 1: dog Like, I don't like people to be around I
Speaker 1: remember a lot of times where I'd be in a
Speaker 1: locker room and then just be quiet, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: don't like. This is a kid's game, man. We get
Speaker 1: paid at King's Ransom to play a kid's game, And
Speaker 1: I'm just like, dog, is this a game where it's
Speaker 1: a funeral? Dog Like, come on, Like I would literally
Speaker 1: say that verbatim, like is this a funeral or it's
Speaker 1: a football game? Like it's too quiet in here, dog Like,
Speaker 1: look at this dude, hair Like I just crack a
Speaker 1: joke like something like, let's break the ice. I can't
Speaker 1: be next to you, dog if you just got like
Speaker 1: bad energy, dog like you just too quiet? Something like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna crack a joke in a huddle. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say something during the game, like something bro like let's
Speaker 1: let's like it's nothing better than doing your job and
Speaker 1: having fun while you're doing it. It's the best in
Speaker 1: the world. Dog Like, we we used to play games
Speaker 1: in the locker room. We just play basketball. We used
Speaker 1: to play baseball. It was nothing. If you went to
Speaker 1: our locker room and you hear this on the door,
Speaker 1: that's us playing baseball. That's the baseball hitting the door
Speaker 1: because somebody just got struck out. And so it's just
Speaker 1: like it becomes a culture in a locker room, Dog
Speaker 1: that you can't get nowhere else. Dog, it's the best, bro.
Speaker 1: What do you think about class clowns in the locker room?
Speaker 1: Did you like those teammates who were the class clowns?
Speaker 1: Who were some of those class clowns? What do you
Speaker 1: remember about it? I mean, you just remember who they were.
Speaker 1: We had a guy Lewis d. Lineman from l s U.
Speaker 1: He's actually a relators back in Louisiana. He was always
Speaker 1: doing fun stuff. They broke up to day Ros Smart,
Speaker 1: he hate me, Gerard Cooper. They you looked forward to
Speaker 1: them doing things. Jordan's gross is a class clown? Really?
Speaker 1: Oh Jordan do a prank? He's funny. Um. You know
Speaker 1: they gave things. They gave the locker room at times,
Speaker 1: meaning right, it helped us at times when difficult moments
Speaker 1: where you have some one that can just say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: not that serious. So you know, I think, um, you
Speaker 1: gotta have you gotta be able to laugh at yourself
Speaker 1: and other people to keep to the soul man it is.
Speaker 1: It is got to be able to keep that laughter in.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I would even say you're a clown
Speaker 1: at times when we're when we're behind the scenes, whether
Speaker 1: it's in the office or whether we're recording this podcast,
Speaker 1: whatever we're doing, like people don't always see. I don't
Speaker 1: think you have more of a clown side maybe than
Speaker 1: you than you lead onto. Oh absolutely I do. I
Speaker 1: just there's just part of me. There are areas part
Speaker 1: of me. I just don't reveal the people. And that
Speaker 1: has to go. That has to do with a little
Speaker 1: bit of a way I grew up in some of
Speaker 1: the wounds that I have. But I also try extremely
Speaker 1: hard to be a little bit guarded and allow that
Speaker 1: funniness or me be a class clown and really kind
Speaker 1: of be private for the my closed circle and the
Speaker 1: people who don't really know. They think I'm always serious
Speaker 1: and I'm not always serious sometimes, Um, you know I
Speaker 1: play around too much. Big Yes, it's like all right, brother,
Speaker 1: let's let's get serious. And I'm kind of like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be serious today. You gotta have
Speaker 1: you gotta have that balance every everything can't be mr serious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would admit I am sometimes too serious,
Speaker 1: but I'm also um trying to let it go. And
Speaker 1: it was really cool, is uh? In my reading the
Speaker 1: day it said for the person who has learned to
Speaker 1: let go and let be, nothing can ever get in
Speaker 1: the way. Again. That's really interesting to me because it's
Speaker 1: it says that we have to learn how to let go.
Speaker 1: It doesn't It doesn't come naturally until we learn how.
Speaker 1: Letting go as a skill that comes when you see
Speaker 1: others do it and when we practice it. It comes
Speaker 1: when we accept we are not completely separate individuals but
Speaker 1: part of a larger whole. Then we must turn most
Speaker 1: of our problems over to our Lord and savior, or
Speaker 1: let others deal with issues that don't belong to us.
Speaker 1: Most of us work hard to gain control of our
Speaker 1: lives and to manage the circumstances we face. Becoming selective
Speaker 1: about what we try to control is a very adult
Speaker 1: skill that takes time and much life experience. When we
Speaker 1: can finally let go and stand aside from the things
Speaker 1: we we do not need to manage, we get the
Speaker 1: payoff of liberation and peace of mind. Our burden is
Speaker 1: lighten and the only things that we can handle are
Speaker 1: left today. I will take every opportunity to practice the
Speaker 1: skill of letting go and letting be. So that's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to work on. I feel appropriate after that
Speaker 1: interview that we had to Ye, that's cool. You are
Speaker 1: a unique person. You are well worth it, you are competent,
Speaker 1: and most of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith Singior,
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