WEBVTT - Mike Garafolo 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John and this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.600 to it. Good do it, Good do it. They's getting 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.919 down to do it. Good do it. We asked the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.880 questions you always want to know, but no one ever asked, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.600 let's cut to it. You ain't heard him about it, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:43.200 then we're about to let you know. It's all good. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:45.960 All right, We're gonna cut straight to it. So I 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.480 was in the gym the other day, Steve, Okay, I'm 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.440 doing excellent. I've been waiting for this one. And so 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:55.400 I was in the gym the other day and five 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:00.160 eight about a hundred seventy pounds of soaking with So 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.920 I ain't the biggest guy, but I got a couple 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.720 of muscles whatever, and so you can live. Yeah. So 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.360 so it was a leg day on Sunday, and hold on, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:15.360 hold on what what we want? Let what you do? Legs? 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:20.320 Yea with weight? You're doing with bands? Non do no bands? Ways? Right, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.520 So I thought you was trying to You thought you're 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.600 trying to pour the apple bottoms. First off, you should 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:32.120 never with a man talking about Apple bottoms that it 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.920 was petr Apple Apple. I wish you would have discontinue 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.720 both options anyway. So I'm working on legs with your bands, 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.680 no with wights. Did you have ancho way? So I 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.319 did not have on anko ways. I don't do none 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.000 of this stuff y'all be doing. So who's the y'all? 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.760 The people a the stable? Okay, okay, cool, alright, so alright, 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.800 doing squad to doing leg press, all this stuff. So 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.080 I went heavy. He's doing all the selfie shots, selfish shot. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.200 Let me tell my story. I apologize. I apologize. So 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.960 I don't do that stuff for show. I don't post 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.360 my workout. I don't do all that stuff. However, as 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.120 I'm probably three quarters of the way through my workout, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.800 I see this guy who's probably don't know, five eleven, 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.400 probably about two twenty something like that, and so he's 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.160 doing all the show off the type workouts, right Like 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.760 he's got the weighted vest and he's doing the pull 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.720 ups and then inverts the dips on top of the 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.480 smith machine. And then he's got um with a weighted vest, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.640 with a weighted vest, and he's doing push ups on 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.280 top of the dumbbells to balance himself. And he's got 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.960 a videographer with him. So I'm like, all right, this 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.400 is just odd, right, Like, he ain't a trainer, he's 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.880 not on staff, he's just here with a videographer. So 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.960 I'm just like, all right, dude, just doing the most 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.720 but whatever. So I'm finishing up my works. Not to 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.919 my knowledge, but he's probably I'm just asking. He's probably 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.160 early to mid forties maybe, yeah, So he's and then 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.800 he's ripped up, like I I ain't gonna do this, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.519 he ripped up or whatever. So I was across machines 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.760 from him. I was on the leg extension. I'm towards 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.720 the end of my workout now, so I'm just trying 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.600 to burn out. I'm trying to do lightweight how reps 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.160 on lego Stensi'm just trying to burn out. And so 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.480 he gets my attention. He's like, hey, you're gonna put 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:22.760 some more weight on there, and I'm like, uh Na, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.120 said Brom, I'm doing how reps. I'm burning I'm about 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.200 to get about here. Oh man, I'm just messing with you, bro, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.480 I'm just messing with you. I'm like, I'm gonna be offended. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.400 I'm just telling you, like, that's what my workout was. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.679 So he's on the bench pressed right, so it's videographers 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.920 on the way and I see him. I think he 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.040 put on maybe to sixty five weight on two plates 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.720 and probably had two to sixty five And so he 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.440 puts his legs on the bench so you know how 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.920 you can do it. Oh, but it don't stop there. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.800 So he puts his he puts he still has the 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.800 weight vest on. No, he took the weight vest on. Okay, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.760 so um, so his his videographers, you know, loading up 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.000 like between sets because he had changed something out whatever, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:07.640 and so he puts his feet on the bench and 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.280 then I'm thinking he's just like he's ripped up. So 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.760 I'm thinking he's gonna he's gonna kill this whatever. Then 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.040 I see him turn his grip and he goes underhand grip, underhand, underground, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.400 so he's underhand. So you know, typically your bench fresh 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.960 like this underhand to sixty five legs up. I'm like, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.479 this ain't gonna work out. This is not gonna work. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:30.400 And guess what happened. It didn't work. So my man 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:35.120 who's been doing the most with the videographer why he's 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.320 filming goes underhand grip and his right hand. I don't 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:44.560 know what happened all of a sudden, shoot Ah asked 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.159 me what I did? Oh hell no, I ain't helping him. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.960 I'm watching him, my man say, telling somebody to help him. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.279 I wouldn't have said that, you know, I said that 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.440 in my mind. I didn't say. You know what I said, Hey, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:01.840 my man, you matter one lighting up that way? So 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.600 what actually what I did? I put the hoodie back 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.120 over my head. I wouldn't locker room. I got my 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.160 stuff and I dipped. You know what I wut to say? 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.960 I walk past him stupid. Oh my bro, it costs you, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.560 Like my man jay Z said, it cost you nothing 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.839 to pay me no more. You worried about what I 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.000 got on my way? It was a brother too, Oh 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.400 yeah it was man. He had on He had on 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:31.720 the Hogan tank top that goes you know, around your aun. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:40.240 There's two sixty five fall straight on your pack, Like, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.279 come on, bro, you know all this, you're doing all this? 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.360 They got a videographer, So did they help him? The videographer, Yeah, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.520 he put his camera down and up the mountain was 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.560 like dangn But it wasn't me. I can tell you 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.280 that now I would to stay and want because I'm like, Bro, 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.920 you like you over here worried about everybody else flavor 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.479 that cool aid, and you ain't worried about you know. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.360 Here's what it is. He worried about your flavor of 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.440 the kool aid and he out here drinking crystal like that. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.520 What happened at two six five? So my man, I 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.080 have no idea first time Sam, have no idea who 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.360 he was. But that was tragic. Bro, I'm sorry. Oh 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:18.760 be did in RiPP his peck? Hope he didn't do 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.160 anything like that. But the moral of this story is 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.719 it pays to mind your business. Man your weight, son 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.680 man weight. Who we got coming up on the Cut 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.720 to A podcast. We've got Mike Garafolo. He's got over 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.400 twenty years experience covering the NFL, works for the NFL Network, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.600 and the native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mike garre Folo on 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:46.320 the Cut to It podcast, get iced up Smithy's versions 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.159 of icebreakers. And you know him well enough that you 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.720 don't know what this man may throw at you. So 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.039 there may or may not be a follow up, just 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.880 depends on what he has Smitty, go ahead, give him first. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.560 All right, this is an easy one. It's all about 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.719 Mike Gara, Folo. So if you fail the test, you 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.679 failed yourself. I'm ready. All right. What was your first 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:14.560 car you drove? Uh? I think it was you know 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.080 or think? Why are you well? Because my mom had 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:24.559 two cars and I'm trying, Oh my cos he had 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:30.360 two cars at two different times, and I'm trying to remember. Wait, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.080 but like literally the first car ever drove, like literally 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:40.320 got behind the wheel of Uh, it was a it's 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.040 a bad story already, Like you're getting me in trouble already, 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.040 you get me in I mean, look, if if you 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.400 illegally drive, we it's a recorder line. I don't want to, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.440 you know, I don't want I mean first car, first 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.120 car I had, I did not have license. I bought 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.960 it for a hundred and sixty bucks and it was 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.640 it was a Dodge something my mom used to let 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.880 me drive for chron. So so here's my friend was 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.880 Nobody knows this story? I mean nobody what two people 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.880 know this story? Me and my Okay, there's one, two, three, four, five, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:18.080 eight people in here and the world. So, uh, he 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.800 was banged up and I didn't have a license and 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.000 never driven a car. And I'm like, bro, you can't 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.280 drive us home. You cannot drive us home. There's no way. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.559 You are like, you're not seeing straight. And so I said, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.880 we gotta leave the car here, we gotta get a cab. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.679 And he's like, no, because my parents will know that 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:43.280 I was drunk underage. And so now I gotta get like, 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.560 the car has to be home. I have to get 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.160 home in the car. So I drove home. I mean, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.200 that's the short version. And I had never driven a 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:56.520 car ever before in my life. There was a Plymouth. Um, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.559 it was a disgusting brown plymouth. It well, it did 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.199 no hatchback, no hatchback. Those has no hatchback. It was 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.480 a four. It was a sedan. Uh And I drove 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.920 it and I was I just like, I didn't try 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.559 one time. I don't know why. I remember changing lanes 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.079 in the middle of the bridge and I asked him. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.600 I was like, dude, I don't know how this works. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.400 I'm not looking at my mirrors. Can I change lanes 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.120 right now? He's like, yeah, you're good. And then I 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.040 realized I listened to a guy that was incapacitated, and 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.800 I heard, so I just look, we've all done stupid 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.840 things when we were kids. I mean it was it 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.520 was stupid and semi responsible because I was trying to 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.040 get us home and get everybody safe and not in 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.280 trouble and all that stuff. But I probably should have 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.000 called the cab and let him deal with the consequence 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.640 trying to make yourself at night. Everybody got to have 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:50.480 the team dead, except the team. Dad would have probably 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.640 punished himself on that one. Because I shouldn't have drove. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.800 I never driven before, and I drove over over a bridge. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.360 I went from state to state. That's a federal case. Now. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:05.360 Rules don't lose things. How old were eight seventeen eighteen? 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.360 Maybe I didn't drive. I'd have my license until I 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:16.080 was eighteen. Um, so it's probably seventeen ish seventeen eighteen ish, Okay, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.840 I like that all right? The last movie you went 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:25.160 to at the theater before COVID nineteen, I have no 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:31.560 earthly idea. I couldn't guess bas Park Persons. I was 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.960 literally like, I can't even remember the last movie I saw, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.360 but I do because it was a black movie. Har 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.600 you tught me? M hmmm, that's a good one. Um, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.960 remember that coming out. That's how bad it is now. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.600 You know, we talked about it was a great movie, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.880 but I didn't see it. I don't. You know. Well, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.640 let me think about this, because the Oscar contenders this year, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.520 I think I saw them all at home. So Oscars 0:10:54.320 --> 0:11:01.600 twenty nineteen insider. That's why I heard him close his glasses, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.200 his glass case that he usually pops on. That's the 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.240 glasses he uses. You know, he's really hunkering down. He's 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.160 about to get into it. Was our first guest to 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.360 ever google to get up questions. This is well, I 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:19.720 want to get it right right, so best him and 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:24.439 he's googling right now. Green Book, green Book. I saw 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.600 on a plane, Black Panther, I saw on a plane, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:33.520 Klansmen Plane, Bohemian Rhapsody, saw at home. I don't A 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.720 Star is Born, I saw it. I'm trying to remember 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.920 Roma the favor I have. Dude, I have no idea time. Yeah, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.520 well that's what I said this year I saw. I 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.360 definitely saw them. I definitely did not go to the 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.920 movies this year, right, because dude, I honestly don't know. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:55.040 I have to alright, Uh so, where did you propose 0:11:55.200 --> 0:12:01.400 to your beautiful wife Jess the Big Apples ergus uh 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.360 in the center ring, because um, that's where we went 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.440 on our first date. And UM, you'll love this story. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.000 So I said, that's where she had told me, you know, 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.640 don't do the stadium proposal. For some reason, she thought 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.400 I was going to do a stadium proposal, which I 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.559 never want to do. I just I don't listen, you 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.319 want to do that, and that's romantic for you go crazy, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.760 But I was never ever going to do that. So 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.960 I was worried that and I didn't want to ask 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.319 her at that point, be like, hey, remember when you 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.160 said stadium proposal, What if I do it at a circus? 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.280 Like I think you just didn't want the stadium thing. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:36.920 But I was afraid that she was gonna get mad 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.160 at me if I did it in the middle of 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:43.920 a public event. But the day that, UM, I asked 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.640 her if we were like exclusive? We went to the 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.800 circus that day, Um, the Saturday afternoon in the city. Whoa, whoa, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:58.079 whoa what? So you you asked her? Are you exclusive? One? 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.560 I mean, were you thinking about not being right? Are you? 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.840 You were trying with my wife? Now? Hey, we exclusive? 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.920 We're going well that's such an an African American question. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.800 But I had never had hold on. I had never 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:24.199 hold on. I had never dated. I you know, I dated, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.920 but I was never in an exclusive relationship before my wife. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.000 Like I just the longest I dated a girl was 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.560 like three months maybe, and we just had a dated. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.600 We weren't we weren't exclusive. So I never really had 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.720 a true, you know girlfriend. I was always sports work stuff. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.200 So I just really didn't you know, you know how old. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.400 Did Like, so you're twenty five years old, you're asking 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.959 your girl we exclusive? Well it started with you like 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:59.000 give her a paper. Yeah, so you're not. I mean 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.400 the moral of the already here's I Like, I didn't know, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.679 so Mike, we we went to that circus. Then we 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.400 met my cousin for dinner in the city. She and 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.280 her friends met us because she went to Fordham and 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.440 they were around. I said, come join us for dinner 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.800 and whatever. Um, And so she asked me when when 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.199 Jess snuck away for a second, She's like, so are 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:19.960 you too exclusive? And I was like, I don't know, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.680 Like what do I have to ask that or is 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.320 that just kind of assumed? She's like, no, you gotta 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.680 ask her, So I said, okay, So I asked her 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.840 on the way home. And to this day she thinks 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.120 that I was copying out by saying, oh, my cousin 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.040 asked me and then I didn't know. She's like, why 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.360 couldn't you just ask me. I was like, because I 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.480 didn't know, and I just saying, hey, by the way 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.680 she mentioned it to me, that's a good question. Are 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.040 we exclusive? Anyway? So that was that was the first. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:50.280 That was two thousand uh six, I believe, and then uh, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.240 two thousand nine, we got engaged and I said, I 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.200 want to do something special. So I contacted the guy 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.200 at the Big Apple Circus because that's where we you know. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.840 I said, well, look, it's is a fitting that I 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.440 would ask her to marry me in a place where 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.960 I asked her were we exclusive? And um, but I 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:12.400 tried to barter with him. Yes, uh, it's but it's 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.680 not like it's not like Ringling Brothers used to be. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.600 It wasn't in a big arena. It's under a it's 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.120 kind of an old fashioned circus where they have animals 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.960 and stuff. But it's it's it's more throwback type stuff. Um, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.560 like a juggler and so it's not they have like 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.280 a type role. Yeah, they got a type rope guy 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.600 jumps off to then I get traps and all this stuff. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.320 Um shocks. Yeah. And it's under it's under an actual tent. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.360 They put a big tent up in in Lincoln Center. Um. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.400 So I did a deal with the guy. I said, listen, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.920 here's the deal. Um, I'll tell you what. You let 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.720 me do this. And I don't think I had to 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.960 do this deal. You let me do this. I will 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.400 get s n Y, which is Sports Net New York. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.720 I'll get s n Y to do my weekly interview 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.760 with Brandon Jacobs of the Giants from the Big Apple Circus. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.320 So you give me a little bit, I'll give you 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:08.880 a little public dude. I know. Yeah. So we so 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.280 it gets better. So we I proposed my wife knocked 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.280 her socks off. She loved it, which was great. I 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.560 was relieved it was worried she wasn't gonna like it. Um. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.760 And then we set up a date like the following 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:25.680 week for for Brandon, and Brandon confirms with me, yeah, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.680 we're good, We're good, We're good, and then bounce on 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:33.160 me the more of the morning of the show, and um, yeah, 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.280 I gotta get surgery on my tooth because he got 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.400 his he got hit by Albert Haynesworth. They got into 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.240 a fist fight during the game, and so he and 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:44.600 so the guy was pissed. Obviously he had promoted it. Uh, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.440 he got a letter from a fan that was pissed 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.960 because her kids showed up in a Brandon Jacob's jersey. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.800 So then I had to arrange for like Brandon to 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.680 send the kid a note and a video and all that. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.160 I mean it was worth and then we finally did it. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.800 We rescheduled and he showed up and we all did it, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.560 you know, and he was in the center ring. And 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.159 so there's a lot that went into it, but it 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:10.920 went well, three or four layers deepen all that. That's Jesus, 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.200 that's Mike Gus right there. I love miss and Mike Jesus. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:19.119 We actually we argue on television. But actually, like he 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.960 pushes me, I'll push him. So were we really don't 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.080 dislike each other. As much as I didn't think at all, 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.040 you said as much, I didn't think at all. A 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.240 few times I could uh thump you in your abom 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.399 dropple a few times, But I mean, yeah, you know, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.080 especially on live TV, you watch a man just grasp 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.200 of air? Is it? Is it NFL Network? Was it 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.880 like copra CoA? Just don't just a little though? So 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.600 last one, if you had to choose one thing to 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.160 eat for the rest of your life, what would that be? 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.800 Mm hm, assuming all things are you know, we're not 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.399 doing this based on health because if I, yeah, this 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.880 is just you gotta eat something, that'd probably be pizza. Right. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.720 I like that? Now do I do I have one 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.800 kind of pizza? Or can I vary the different kinds 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.840 of pizza? I'm sure we're always living in a brother 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.960 So yeah, that's good. It gives me some variety. You 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.080 could do a little veggie pizzas one day, do a 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.560 little meat lovers the next day. You could like that 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:30.960 meat lover. So I appreciate you coming on. We love 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.600 to really just talk all sports, all the dynamics. So 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:42.239 um growing up? Who is your team? Eagles? Yeah? Up 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:49.679 for Eagles because I grew up in Philly, UM rooting 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:56.000 for Buddy Ryan's team. And I still it's Sixers. Sixers 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.520 not so much but Flyers and and Phillies. I'm still into. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.480 You can't be a fan and I covered the Giants, 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.639 and for some reason they found out the fans did 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.880 I was from Philly, and it was an ongoing joke 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.199 every year that you know, you're an Eagles fan, and 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.000 you heard about it, and you brought it up on 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.800 air a few times. Steve busted me and Colleen about it. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.719 Her It's true. She's still because she's not a reporter, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.880 so she could still be a fan. Me. I'm a reporter, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.960 so you know, it was my fandom. Here you go, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.399 my here's where we crossed paths. My fandom started to 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.920 taper off as I would every now and then cover 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:33.800 the Eagles, which still allowed me to kind of be 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.000 a fan because I wasn't, you know, entrenched with them. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:38.800 I just kind of helicopter ring because I was covering 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:43.719 everything in Philly. Uh. The two thousand three UH championship 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.439 game that you guys came in and punched that Eagles 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.359 team in the mouth. And that's the last one that 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.080 I was upset about. And I said, you know what, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.560 I can't truth you renounced your fandom after that, true 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.800 Philly f Yeah, I mean sort of. Yeah. That's probably 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.080 the last game that I actually a rooting interest. The 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.199 bottom of the bottom field, they will turn on their team. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.080 But did you notice how at first he tried to 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:09.879 position and like, you know, I'm a professional. He's a 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.359 journalist and I have you know, journalistic standards. He has 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.320 to not have a team. But it was really at 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.119 the end of that game, I ain't mess with them 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.760 no more, Taylor Phillies. We have to take a break 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.600 and the morning a thing. We gotta pay some bills. 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:31.280 You got checks. I love cut to It and I 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.240 love it even more when you download us and subscribe 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.440 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.520 where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:46.720 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.760 It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? And you 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.200 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.520 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.639 us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.080 answer question Um yeah, I got all my questions answered. 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.720 That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:12.000 podcast dot Com. Where are you from in a place 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:16.760 you call your hometown? Uh? Well I'm from phil I 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.879 mean I used to walk to the Vet Veteran Stadium. Uh, 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.760 the Phillies games were dollar general admission, so you could 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.680 go to a game for a dollar in the middle 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.679 of the yea and those were the cheapest seats and 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.119 need sneak your way down obviously. Um. And then they 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:36.880 went to the World Series and uh, the price went 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:41.440 up to five dollars, which is a increase or is it? 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:44.800 I never get that right, but regardless, it was an increase. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.560 That was a lot for a fourteen year old. Yeah. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.960 So yeah, that's that's my neighborhood. I wouldn't change a 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.360 thing about where and how I grew up. I loved 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.919 growing up in the city. Uh, in a neighborhood that 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.639 was tightly knit. I learned a lot of things on 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.560 the on the streets and then the on the playground. Um, 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:05.280 that you don't learn in school. That you have to 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:07.800 learn life lessons. And I wouldn't ever change a thing. 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:12.320 Tell us like, what what did you learn in the streets? Uh? Well, 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.479 when I say it that way, you start to think, like, 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.359 you know the streets the streets, I knew what I 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:19.800 knew what you meant, but I just I just took 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:22.560 what you said row with it. I figured that cut 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.320 you off at the past before you went. I knew 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.879 you wasn't slanging dope. I just meant you said you 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.520 learned stuff in the streets on the playground, Mike young jeezy, 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:36.160 dear Pholo. Hey, what's what's your name? My name is Mike, 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:40.679 but they call me Mike. Mike. You got my cash. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:43.960 I'm not talking about that. I'm just talking about really. 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:49.080 You know, it's sometimes people will say the streets and 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:54.199 you know, as you know now, as parents, right, you 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.640 can't have your kids hanging out with all kids because 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.440 you know, some kids well pick up cursing, will pick 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.320 up bad habits from mothers other places. So that's what 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:10.040 I'm That's what I meant more as a parent perspective, 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.040