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'm a little John and this
Speaker 1: is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it.
Speaker 1: They's getting down to do it. Good do it. We
Speaker 1: asked the questions you always want to know, but no
Speaker 1: one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard
Speaker 1: am about it? Then we're about to let you know.
Speaker 1: It's all, Hey, what's going on? How about these teams
Speaker 1: going to the super Bowl? What do you think? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm excited? This is Why are you excited? Because it's
Speaker 1: Super Bowl time? Man? Like who doesn't get excited around
Speaker 1: this time of years? People who thought they were going
Speaker 1: and found out very quickly that day can't even make
Speaker 1: the players. Hey, I ain't getting check for that. So
Speaker 1: I'm just watching, So that ain't That's not my occupation
Speaker 1: problem as someone who watches. I'm just excited about. Listen.
Speaker 1: I've remember the times being in front the TV watching
Speaker 1: Dallas Pittsburgh and Larry Brown gets a couple of interceptions
Speaker 1: he's a super Bowl MVP. To watching Afford and honors
Speaker 1: clap the Chargers to clap that that Packers Patriots Super
Speaker 1: Bowl with Brett forve and uh, Desmond Howard runs back
Speaker 1: a touchdown for to seal up the wind. So I
Speaker 1: just love this time of year. So even you playing
Speaker 1: in the league away, even as a kid as a fan,
Speaker 1: like what what what memories do you ask from Super Bowls?
Speaker 1: Like just just just from a from a fan perspective,
Speaker 1: what are your memories? What can you be quiet so
Speaker 1: I can get started? Well, I had had to super
Speaker 1: excited for that, bro. First of all, as a forty
Speaker 1: Niners fan, I can remember and watching Jay Rice, John Taylor,
Speaker 1: Roger Craig, Ricky Waters, Joe Montana, Uh, you know, Dwight Clark,
Speaker 1: all these guys more stiff neck Hanks. Right, it was
Speaker 1: you got Tim Tim McDonald who used to knock you
Speaker 1: out after Ronnie Lott used to knock you out as well.
Speaker 1: So you got all these um man J J. Stokes
Speaker 1: just t o catching it against the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: Hunt Street Circle that was a seam up the middle,
Speaker 1: or when they clapped the Chargers that man, the Charges
Speaker 1: didn't have a shot. All of the all of those
Speaker 1: things I remember, and then you also you gotta remember
Speaker 1: Chris collins Worth you know how he made his name
Speaker 1: with the Bengals, um how Boomers, Eyeson and Joe Montana.
Speaker 1: That game right for me, man, right now to the hood,
Speaker 1: the history rich teams that are in the playoffs. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's nostalgia. It's nostalgia. All I need right now, all
Speaker 1: I need right now, man, is my mom makes him
Speaker 1: some seven layer demp. You got somebody bringing that some
Speaker 1: of that springfield. That's shasta right that that tiki fruit punch. Right.
Speaker 1: You gotta have somebody that's gonna bring some good food,
Speaker 1: some some some some good some good que right by barbecue, barbecue,
Speaker 1: you know barbecue because you know I'm from North Carolina.
Speaker 1: So the barbecue is to find a couple of different ways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about the sauce. We're just talking about that.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Yeah, we're talking about hot links, hot
Speaker 1: links for grown ups, hot dogs for the kids. Right right. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got a chicken, you got some we don't really
Speaker 1: you know, you got some pork eaters, and then you've
Speaker 1: got some beef ribs. Right. You got the hamburgers like
Speaker 1: that's right there with that lifting mix for the hamburgers,
Speaker 1: got you that right, right, and then you got the
Speaker 1: and you got the ruffle. You got the lace ruffles
Speaker 1: with the ranch in sour cream mix for the dip.
Speaker 1: Don't double dip neither. Right, that's that's that's about your speed.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, that's not that's pretty touche. So that
Speaker 1: just brings back the nostalgia of somebody has a big
Speaker 1: screen TV. Whoever has a big screen TV, his his
Speaker 1: or her house is the house. But everybody brings and
Speaker 1: and we watch football, We play cards, play dominoes, and
Speaker 1: the kids go outside and play. And now you set
Speaker 1: up all that nostalgia and coming back to this super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Now you've got this halftime show. You got Dre, you
Speaker 1: got Snoop, you got Eminem Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige,
Speaker 1: like the super Bowl got everything. It's lit. Yeah, it's lit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I get to be home, which is a rarity
Speaker 1: for you, right, well, you get to be I get
Speaker 1: to be home in Cali. Watched the game, watch guys
Speaker 1: a halftime show that and you can't script that any better.
Speaker 1: It's like a homecoming. It's a homecoming the NFL because
Speaker 1: of the Shield, or we the NFL, the Shield gets
Speaker 1: the advantage of good football. But we didn't know the
Speaker 1: football was gonna be this great. It was to remember,
Speaker 1: it was exciting. Noil body, you have to respect. I
Speaker 1: mean I was texting. I text some people that were
Speaker 1: on all the teams. Bro your ball, you know. I
Speaker 1: text some folks with Buffalo said, listen, that's a bad
Speaker 1: mama jam right. And they got some good pieces. And
Speaker 1: these these these four, these last four teams, the future
Speaker 1: looks bright for the future. From the Josh Allens to
Speaker 1: the Patrick Mahomes. I mean, we we're looking at it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's for a treat. So listen. We got
Speaker 1: today on the podcast. Born and raised from Detown, from Michigan,
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson currently temporarily currently wide receiver route runner extraordinaire.
Speaker 1: He may have a pH d. You gotta take a
Speaker 1: few more classes and route running, which which ones? Which ones?
Speaker 1: He need? He need like thousand level courses? What he
Speaker 1: is now? He he passed, he passed one oh one
Speaker 1: and one oh two. He passed one on one and
Speaker 1: one oh two on getting off the press. He doesn't
Speaker 1: stack as well after he gets passed him a little bit.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit. I know, Keenan, I know, no
Speaker 1: he's right there. He just he just gotta you know,
Speaker 1: he gotta taking something super course. Love who you are,
Speaker 1: love what you represent. Man, and I want to thank
Speaker 1: you for coming on and cut to a podcast. I
Speaker 1: appreci you guys, having a man like no doubt. Appreciate
Speaker 1: having you bro. We appreciate having you listen. We got
Speaker 1: this section that's my favorite get ice stuff. So it's
Speaker 1: a little icebreakers. What's your favorite route to run? Slant,
Speaker 1: slant or not? Slant or not. That's tough because they do.
Speaker 1: That's why you don't have a pH D. Right there,
Speaker 1: that is the laziest two routes you can run. You fast.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna running go route and you're fast because
Speaker 1: you didn't want to go route. So you're gonna give
Speaker 1: them that outside You're gonna give him that outside route
Speaker 1: and then go inside. Huh. Look, man, there things yes
Speaker 1: or no. That is yes or no. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear why yes or no? Man, go ahead. They're
Speaker 1: like Teana butter and jell. Yeah. Well, I'm like skinning.
Speaker 1: I like steaks, sucker. If you can spend a weekend
Speaker 1: in any city, what's what you choose, and you can't
Speaker 1: choose Chicago. Now is this international or the message? Did
Speaker 1: your life? I don't know. I'm gonna say Nassau, Bahamas. Man,
Speaker 1: that's my spot really, why best places I've been a vacation. Man.
Speaker 1: I feel like when I go out there, any and
Speaker 1: everything you need is there. Man. You got the sun,
Speaker 1: you got the beach school, everything you need. I like
Speaker 1: that you was over there lightening people on fire up
Speaker 1: on yes, Ben, So I'll just try to get you
Speaker 1: to calm down. Com t yeah what you got? Yeah,
Speaker 1: on on that, on that, then let's do Since you
Speaker 1: from Detroit, Big Sean T Grizzly forty two rank him
Speaker 1: in order. That's tough. I gotta go. I gotta go
Speaker 1: Big Sean Grizzly and then four too, and and it
Speaker 1: is it's four to the two by the way. See
Speaker 1: I'm watched, so but I gotta I gotta go in
Speaker 1: that order. Man, I feel like I feel like being
Speaker 1: shot a big shot. He's been doing it the longest, man,
Speaker 1: he got the he don't get he don't he a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. Man listening He's put out solid albums too,
Speaker 1: like his last album. But yeah, he doesn't get a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. He do. He a true rapper. You
Speaker 1: feel me like there's a lot of true rappers nowadays.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't get as much credit. You know, people
Speaker 1: want to people want the club box and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But if you want some
Speaker 1: music you can just ride to and listen to. You know,
Speaker 1: it's slowly coming back, Like I feel like lyricism now
Speaker 1: it's starting to turn that corner people because people to
Speaker 1: repeat yes, yeah, mumble rap like it's it's cool, but
Speaker 1: it's it's starting. It really is. If you start to
Speaker 1: look at what's starting to get hot again, who's starting
Speaker 1: to come around? Like lyricism is making his way back.
Speaker 1: And you've you're born in Detroit, right Detroit. Men, you're
Speaker 1: living in Chicago. You lived in Jacksonville, and you talked
Speaker 1: about the places you've you've traveled. Why is traveling something?
Speaker 1: I know for me it is? Why is traveling something
Speaker 1: for athletes? Um? That seems to be almost essential now,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to put worsh your mouth.
Speaker 1: I almost said a word that you probably would use,
Speaker 1: but I want to see if you would use it.
Speaker 1: Why is traveling so important for you currently and as
Speaker 1: a as a man, as an individual as a football player,
Speaker 1: you know, entrepreneur, all all above all the categories of things.
Speaker 1: Who you are, what you want to be? Why is
Speaker 1: that traveling in central You like that question, don't you do? First?
Speaker 1: Myself on the back growing up in Detroit, you know,
Speaker 1: but for me, at least, I didn't get to travel
Speaker 1: a crazy amount. You know. Listen, it was like a
Speaker 1: seven or seven or like a tournament or something like that.
Speaker 1: You know. Um so being able to travel and see,
Speaker 1: you know, places and kind of get to the roots
Speaker 1: of where you know, like like like Jamaica, you know,
Speaker 1: like being in Jamaica or being in the Bahamas, you know,
Speaker 1: being around those kind of people and those in that culture.
Speaker 1: You know, what kind of people are you referring to?
Speaker 1: Like you said, you make that statement, and we're in
Speaker 1: a place now, we're a polarizing place where when you
Speaker 1: make that statement, people automatically assume you're talking about people
Speaker 1: of color, right or I don't know the purpose of
Speaker 1: why you said it, but I want you to clarify
Speaker 1: it because there's so many there's so many assumptions in
Speaker 1: the world today. So I just I just I just
Speaker 1: triggered it. Like, man, let's just talk about the reason why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people who look like me and you, people who are
Speaker 1: raised very similar to me, and you you know, people
Speaker 1: who have the ethnic backgrounds, and then you have a
Speaker 1: connect with those islands with those people, you know, because
Speaker 1: that's the natural routes of of where I come from,
Speaker 1: you know, and and being able to embrace those people
Speaker 1: and telling how those people embrace me and you know,
Speaker 1: and my family and whoever else when we go to
Speaker 1: those places in one of those islands. That's what makes
Speaker 1: those places so special to vacation too, because you truly
Speaker 1: are allowed to vacation. You know, it's not any you know,
Speaker 1: any any problems, it's not any nothing. When you go there,
Speaker 1: you can just kind of chill, relax, kind of let
Speaker 1: your guard down a little bit and enjoy it. That's
Speaker 1: interesting word you said, to let your guard down. I've
Speaker 1: been in Jamaica off the resorts, my guard, ain't you
Speaker 1: damn Yeah, maybe I'm off, but off the Blue Mountains.
Speaker 1: That's a few times I went off the resort. I've
Speaker 1: been like, I'm going back on the resort, but you
Speaker 1: you need I feel if I still think it's a
Speaker 1: level of you know, connection to those places where again
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said before, I mean now you
Speaker 1: gotta be smart wherever you at. You know, as far
Speaker 1: as having your guard up or down, you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's based on you know, everybody, everybody judgment, but
Speaker 1: just from the standpoint of you know, being there and
Speaker 1: feeling that connection, you know, because it's different. It's it's
Speaker 1: different than when you just reading the history book, right,
Speaker 1: But to be there and experience and be around the culture,
Speaker 1: um multiple cultures, it's always fulfilling. It's always for me,
Speaker 1: it's always more of a not even an educational thing, man,
Speaker 1: but just being to have that connectedness for sure, because
Speaker 1: it's something that you know, growing up you see all
Speaker 1: these different islands. You may hear about these different islands,
Speaker 1: you know, you see commercials about these different islands. You know,
Speaker 1: so whenever you can get a chance to go or
Speaker 1: to these places and other place that I want to
Speaker 1: go to, my future is is um African. You know,
Speaker 1: being able which part? Which part? Because there's a there's
Speaker 1: a ton of places. I know, I'm look, I don't
Speaker 1: even know where to start, you know, I just you know,
Speaker 1: that's just that's just the place that I had, you know,
Speaker 1: circled circled on my you know, calendar at some point
Speaker 1: in time to be able to go to an experience,
Speaker 1: you know, an experience not just the vacation side of it,
Speaker 1: you know, but but everything else that's in it, you know,
Speaker 1: from from from the Safari, from you know everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mark killing mageral down to Nigeria. That Nigeria there, Samaria
Speaker 1: is it ain't vacation. Brother. We had we had a
Speaker 1: guy c JS poem on and he talked about going
Speaker 1: back to his roots, and he talked about going back
Speaker 1: to the to the coast of where his family uh.
Speaker 1: He his mother was the seventh or second of seven wives.
Speaker 1: His great grandfather was the tribal leader, and his grandmother
Speaker 1: was his great grandmother was the fifth out of the
Speaker 1: seven wives. And he actually was part of royalty right
Speaker 1: and how he had land and ownership. And his cousin
Speaker 1: took him to the castles in which the Spaniards were
Speaker 1: utilizing um, capturing, rape, being um, imprisoning his people. And
Speaker 1: he went and he was able to smell a stench
Speaker 1: and smell the odors, and he gave us in the
Speaker 1: pandemic man. It was a great episode. He gave us
Speaker 1: the essence of his history and it was unbelievable. So
Speaker 1: you know, we already said it, but I love to
Speaker 1: say it. And where are you from in the place
Speaker 1: you call your hometown Detroit, Michigan. Man, Um, it's something
Speaker 1: that I take pride and enjoy. It too. Is more
Speaker 1: than me in many different ways, you know, um, preparing
Speaker 1: me for certain situations and certain circumstances I've you know,
Speaker 1: come to in my life. You know, I think of
Speaker 1: all the time. For me, you know, being able to
Speaker 1: have my dad around and and and in my life,
Speaker 1: my entire life, you know, I tell people all the
Speaker 1: time it was like a movie of like training that
Speaker 1: some of the experiences that that life, being around him,
Speaker 1: you know, and just being in a car with him
Speaker 1: and him telling me stories. That's where you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like just just riding around and being able
Speaker 1: to experience and see Detroit and seeing you know, how
Speaker 1: to be able to have you know, help my family
Speaker 1: to you know, live a better life, and just a
Speaker 1: lot of different things. Man. So it's like when you
Speaker 1: when you go to Detroit and you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a place where you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta bring you know all the time. It's it's amazing,
Speaker 1: you know. Sometimes here in Charlotte and what's my travels,
Speaker 1: I see it a lot. Charlotte is an outstanding community,
Speaker 1: a lot of transplants, a lot of people from different
Speaker 1: areas of the world, and uniqueness of it. When I'm
Speaker 1: heading the training camps to go see you know, you
Speaker 1: guys go perform and get ready for training camp, I
Speaker 1: see a lot of folks here in Charlotte going on
Speaker 1: mission trips to some some folks are checking the box,
Speaker 1: the giving box. Some folks are checking the box because
Speaker 1: they have they have survivor's guilt. And then there's people
Speaker 1: who are checking the box because they feel like these
Speaker 1: third world countries really need our help. But I would
Speaker 1: imagine just like growing up in Los Angeles, like I did,
Speaker 1: you growing up in Detroit, g growing up in Lexington,
Speaker 1: and here living in Charlotte. Man, there's some places here
Speaker 1: in Charlotte, l A and Detroit. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go to a thord world country. You can go to
Speaker 1: your own city. Go go go in the city and
Speaker 1: volunteer and serve right and so impact so and just
Speaker 1: basically bring that up. You know, I'm I'm glad that's
Speaker 1: that you brought up because you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, they want to go
Speaker 1: to the third world country. You know what you gotta
Speaker 1: see like Flint, Michigan, you know, who have in the
Speaker 1: water crisis, you know for you know, and and when
Speaker 1: you see different things like that and not a lot
Speaker 1: of time, you know, when they say that, you know
Speaker 1: about third world country, I'm like, man, there's so many
Speaker 1: different areas of of of kids who may not have
Speaker 1: their parents, or or kids whose parents may be incarcerated,
Speaker 1: or you know even too even two single moms who
Speaker 1: are having to work three and four jobs, you know,
Speaker 1: to try to put you know, food on the table,
Speaker 1: the basics, you know, and when you like you said before,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Jacksonville, Charlotte, you can name city
Speaker 1: at the city at the city in America that needs
Speaker 1: everybody's help. You know. That's that's you know, you it
Speaker 1: may not be a third world country, but it's some
Speaker 1: it's some third world cities and some third world neighborhoods
Speaker 1: to the airport there. Yeah. So if you could describe
Speaker 1: one word yourself as a kid, what would it be? Grit?
Speaker 1: My great I feel like, especially when you like Detroit
Speaker 1: like a lot of other cities, you know, the ambitions
Speaker 1: and the dreams instead that you may have as a kid,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't see it as realistic or
Speaker 1: they don't embrace it, you know, so when you are
Speaker 1: going through these different experiences you may have. For me,
Speaker 1: it was it was my dad, and it was a
Speaker 1: couple of coaches, you know who kind of always helped
Speaker 1: me along the way. You know, even if it's you know,
Speaker 1: having some steps back, you know, switching schools or or
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's being able to adapt, being able to embrace, you know,
Speaker 1: change and different things that's going on around. Every time
Speaker 1: I talk to someone who's from Detroit, everybody is super
Speaker 1: prideful about Detroit. What does that pride come from? Alan Like,
Speaker 1: what makes detroitter so proud of that city? For me,
Speaker 1: it's everybody who's not just made something of themselves, but
Speaker 1: everybody that's that's come from the area. Like thinking about
Speaker 1: my granddad. You know who who worked in factory, Your granddaddy,
Speaker 1: whether he's living or has passed, or grandpa got a name,
Speaker 1: don't shore change Grandpa now, no doubt, my granddad Mitchell
Speaker 1: Robinson one person cause you know specifically think about you
Speaker 1: know who and and and my mom's dad, Ted Goldsmith
Speaker 1: him as well. You know, these are people you see
Speaker 1: take pride in working in the factory, you know, or
Speaker 1: having to do these certain jobs, or or doing certac things.
Speaker 1: I remember my granddad, you know, from him working in
Speaker 1: the factory. His his hand got caught like in one
Speaker 1: of the machines in the belt and he cut off
Speaker 1: and he cut off two of his fingers, you know,
Speaker 1: and and being able to see and it and it's
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know again like that you know,
Speaker 1: never happened for him. You know, he never brought it up,
Speaker 1: never mentioned it. You wouldn't even know, you know, So
Speaker 1: things like that, and not just to the people who
Speaker 1: also you know, from an athletic standpoint, from a hip
Speaker 1: hop standpoint, when you hear those guys and how much
Speaker 1: proudly taking detroity man stuff is going on, you know,
Speaker 1: it makes you real proud to be from there, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, I's like a lot of guys should come
Speaker 1: from there, you know, embrace each other, you know, because
Speaker 1: again I mean coming out of any any city like
Speaker 1: that and just being around that is you know you
Speaker 1: you're a part of your culture. I love cut to
Speaker 1: It and I love it even more when you download
Speaker 1: us and subscribe and you can follow us on social
Speaker 1: media too, Smithie, where where at? That's at? Cut to
Speaker 1: It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to It Facebook?
Speaker 1: Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online?
Speaker 1: And you can follow us at cut to It podcast
Speaker 1: dot com where you can buy merch and you can
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. Who's Allen Robinson? As far
Speaker 1: as what you're working on and building and doing all
Speaker 1: this stuff, you know, whether it's family, whether it's friends,
Speaker 1: whether it's daddy, whether it's you know, with your girl,
Speaker 1: just overall, because that's the important part. Because if you
Speaker 1: can play six, twenty or forty years, at some point
Speaker 1: you will no longer be a football player. You'll just
Speaker 1: be Mr Robinson. And what does that mean to you?
Speaker 1: And you know, lockdown for me from from a family standpoints,
Speaker 1: you know, again, making sure that I'm not spending not
Speaker 1: only spending time with my with my daughter and with
Speaker 1: my family, but that goes to the whole full circle
Speaker 1: for me of being locked in is you know, I
Speaker 1: have my I have my football time where you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my PT and rehab and stuff
Speaker 1: to get my body back healthy and right from this season.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm doing my physical training while I'm improving
Speaker 1: on a certain things that I want to continue to
Speaker 1: get better at certain on the field. But how are
Speaker 1: you improving your mind and your heart? Improving my mind
Speaker 1: and my heart by again being around, being around my
Speaker 1: family and being around my friends, you know, and and
Speaker 1: not only just seeing you know, uh this year or
Speaker 1: being affected by this year, but also embracing you know,
Speaker 1: everything that I have right now, you know, and being
Speaker 1: able to embrace that with my loved ones, being able
Speaker 1: to you know, like I said, go on, go on
Speaker 1: a vacation and spend that family time to you know,
Speaker 1: get the mind right, you know, before you go into
Speaker 1: a heavier part of football so to speak. So just
Speaker 1: being able to embrace, you know, the people who are
Speaker 1: around me who have not only supported me and showed
Speaker 1: me so much love you know, especially out this course
Speaker 1: of this year. Man, like shout out to my family
Speaker 1: and my friends and you know, everybody who's been who's
Speaker 1: been close to me this year, because again I mean
Speaker 1: when you when you go through adverse times and frustrated times,
Speaker 1: and those are people that you have to mean on
Speaker 1: because those other people who truly care about you and
Speaker 1: your well being with or without the game of football.
Speaker 1: And what do you do outside of family? Because you
Speaker 1: you mentioned it, You've dealt with a lot of adversity
Speaker 1: on the field, injuries, you know, all this stuff that's
Speaker 1: going on over the course the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: What do you do for Allen for your own mental health?
Speaker 1: My own personal mental health. Um one, I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a gamer, so that's always kind of game. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Card games or video games? Five? Video video? Okay,
Speaker 1: so help me out on call of duty because I
Speaker 1: got the was a vanguard. I'm just talking okay. So
Speaker 1: the new ones, it's not like the old one where
Speaker 1: you can like do where you play online and you
Speaker 1: can do like the different uh operations, Like maybe I
Speaker 1: haven't downloaded it downloaded right, but like I don't like
Speaker 1: I don't like the I don't like the Fortnite version
Speaker 1: like that, you know, the multiplayer version. Yeah, my old
Speaker 1: ass hands just can't. I can't. I ain't got the
Speaker 1: I ain't got the finger fast twitch. I just got
Speaker 1: the fast twitch on the playing ball. So so can
Speaker 1: you play the operations like operations where you with other
Speaker 1: people when you you you're fighting the box and you
Speaker 1: can like you know old one. You can play in
Speaker 1: the stadium and all that stuff that they still have
Speaker 1: that Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got you gotta go to
Speaker 1: I think that's co op co op and multiplayer co
Speaker 1: op multiplayers. That means I got to spend more money. Basically,
Speaker 1: that's another like seventy nine dollars retired brother income. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am. I am on to fix income. That's what
Speaker 1: I played all these years for now I'm on a
Speaker 1: high fix income. But I'm still on the fix income.
Speaker 1: Got my checking the savers. They I gotta check and
Speaker 1: I gotta save. It takes three business days. Hey, when
Speaker 1: I get a check and they're talking about they're gonna
Speaker 1: be holding it. Yeah, man, COVID told me. I'm like, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: all I can do is mobile. I need to take
Speaker 1: off this twenty one day uh hole, Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: I'm off on the tangent. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got said vide against. What else do you do? From
Speaker 1: from a mental health standpoint of the house, you take
Speaker 1: care of you. I'm a I'm a movie and show
Speaker 1: personally movie whoa, whoa? What show you? What show you watching?
Speaker 1: What movies and shows you like? Let's start with movies though,
Speaker 1: what's a good movie? Movies? Good movies? Yeah, don't tell
Speaker 1: me anything. Whatever you yeah, whatever you want if we
Speaker 1: if we're going up, I say one of my faith
Speaker 1: and I used to watch this before a game, but
Speaker 1: they took it off Netflix. I used to watch Hayden
Speaker 1: Full before every game in a comedy. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite movies. M I mean, we
Speaker 1: can go on and on. You you haven't went on
Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't like give me a gi
Speaker 1: give me? Is that considered? Like what's your top five movies?
Speaker 1: Like you have? Is not with your girl or not
Speaker 1: with your parents or with Grandpaul? Like you just you
Speaker 1: do lo right? And you said, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: gona watching a movie? What movie you gonna watch? I like,
Speaker 1: I like all the Batman's from Batman beginning. Uh, Dark
Speaker 1: Knight rises, Um, I forget the one that's called with
Speaker 1: Bands that's starting that rises. Yeah, have you watched a
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones? I cannot watch Game of Thrones. Here's why.
Speaker 1: When it first came out, before it became this phenomenon.
Speaker 1: He's just being on HBO. Game of Thrones when it
Speaker 1: first started on HB, like the first two episodes was
Speaker 1: literally like porn. And it didn't stop. It never really
Speaker 1: because stink about it. I got four kids. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: watching Game of Thrones nine o'clock at night and I'm
Speaker 1: watching living Room and they walked by or the white
Speaker 1: walk by as a hell of an explanation on what's
Speaker 1: going on? Nothing? Nothing. What are you like? Well? New season? Um?
Speaker 1: Do you watch? I like the first season, the second season,
Speaker 1: the old lady and and the young kid. They're just
Speaker 1: getting started now the third season it's it's it's yes,
Speaker 1: I'm only like four episodes. I'm not gonna lie to
Speaker 1: When that happened, I was like, it was, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about that, but I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the old lady. What she's doing. Favorite couple of movies?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite couple of movies and in shows show
Speaker 1: for me like I like movies. Uh, I like movies
Speaker 1: that make me think, Um, what was the inception? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh that movie is complicated. Vers did you say? That's
Speaker 1: not me? I mean it's you. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I had to read about that movie afterwards and I
Speaker 1: still didn't get it. Look the one with Denzel's my
Speaker 1: son told me and we watched it, the one with
Speaker 1: Denzel's son. Yeah, they can like go backwards. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I saw that movie. When they opened it up with
Speaker 1: the backpack, I was like, that's the key my son
Speaker 1: what he was like, Dad, how are you getting this?
Speaker 1: Like that's my mind? Like I gave up on that
Speaker 1: movie after five minutes. Oh mane movies like that. Me
Speaker 1: movies like that, saying I don't I read informational books.
Speaker 1: I get information. Read the book. I'm not fantasizing. I
Speaker 1: watched I let my imagination run wild by watching the movie.
Speaker 1: So I can watch a fighting movie like three hundred
Speaker 1: love it right, anybody getting punched in the face. I'm
Speaker 1: you guy, I'm gonna watch what you like that? Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, shooting in the face, punch in the face.
Speaker 1: Oh man, right, I'm not. I'm not a huge marble guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was nice having that. I grew up though, like
Speaker 1: I grew up Superheroes, Man, Wonder, Twins, Uh Man, Ice Man,
Speaker 1: Spider Man, Fire Star, Spider Man. I had my son
Speaker 1: keeps telling me, I got some tras coming up, I
Speaker 1: got some travels coming up, so I want to I
Speaker 1: can sit on the airplane. I got a five hour
Speaker 1: flight coming up, so I want to set the airplane
Speaker 1: and watching that. I tell you, another good movie. I like, uh,
Speaker 1: the honest, Steve, I don't think I've even seen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like I like something. I like shows. Right, I
Speaker 1: was gonna so what what you mentioned? Shows outside of Ozar?
Speaker 1: What you what you're watching? Those are? Those are? Um? Snowfall? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's coming back this this month, right next month, BMF.
Speaker 1: I messed with that. That was good. Shout out to Detroit. Um, hm,
Speaker 1: what else? Snowfall? Those are? BMF. That's a Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: I started watching the show Vikings. That was pretty good too. Vikings.
Speaker 1: I like that. Um, it's just shot. I like watching
Speaker 1: that stupid though. But how to Catch the Smuggler No,
Speaker 1: I've never seen that, man. How to Catch the show
Speaker 1: on National Geographic National Year. Man, maybe going through the airport,
Speaker 1: and boy, you're talking about people getting caught up. They
Speaker 1: opened up their bag. Oh, I actually have seen that,
Speaker 1: people having stuff like the soles of their shoes, amongst
Speaker 1: other places. How you got you didn't take the inside
Speaker 1: of your load. Youve got like ten pounds that smack
Speaker 1: going to jail. They'd be hey, they'd be crying. They
Speaker 1: had a they had a black lady talking about she
Speaker 1: was you knew she she was talking about she was hurt, injured.
Speaker 1: She was sitting on like a pound of that that
Speaker 1: sidewalk chalk, that something that's snow in this summer. But
Speaker 1: so I like I like watching shows also like Life
Speaker 1: Below Zero. I'm really into that right, seeing how those
Speaker 1: folks are maneuvering degrees below and negative twenty degrees. Man,
Speaker 1: just seeing that stuff. Man, And as I got not
Speaker 1: that I really started, my wife has gotten me more
Speaker 1: on that is just when you come down to it,
Speaker 1: it's like always self sufficient, all right. I'm a city boy.
Speaker 1: I don't even know the fish all. I've never never
Speaker 1: gotta get you. We gotta get you all out to
Speaker 1: hiw Rock Lake got here in North Carolina, then yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know all the fish. I've never
Speaker 1: been fishing, and and I just know there's My wife
Speaker 1: was asking me the other day, she said, do you
Speaker 1: know basic survival? I'm like, no, if the power grid
Speaker 1: for age and a nine that Steve San did the
Speaker 1: power grid go on? You're on my house. Man, we
Speaker 1: should grow electricity. You ain't about the mind for the electricity.
Speaker 1: And my car's electric right, So, I mean I got
Speaker 1: some stuff like that when things go out like automatically,
Speaker 1: some you know, some some stuff that's support and come
Speaker 1: in natural gas generator and all that stuff. But really, man,
Speaker 1: I become so dependent on making sure that I have
Speaker 1: a backup to a backup that if the source that
Speaker 1: helps the backup goes out. I mean, if we you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm in Chicago, I mean I could tell you
Speaker 1: probably by looking at because I used to have a
Speaker 1: higher I used to have a house on the water
Speaker 1: to you his second floor, so I know I can scar.
Speaker 1: I could scale yours because the water is real close.
Speaker 1: I'm in your house, because you look like you could survives.
Speaker 1: And I thought of another I'll tell you another show.
Speaker 1: I like it. It's hard Knocks and they just had
Speaker 1: this new season where you can see during the season
Speaker 1: and yeah, they need they need a hand pleasure, y'a
Speaker 1: wash hard knocks? Do you haven't, but I can. I
Speaker 1: know they need to have a hard Knocks after the
Speaker 1: season when they tell you to training camp, you got
Speaker 1: good season and now you need to have a post season.
Speaker 1: I want to see what they said to Carson on
Speaker 1: the exit. God, get down to do it. Hey, Gerard,
Speaker 1: why did you get that T shirt? You mean this thing?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I got it from cut to a podcast
Speaker 1: dot com where we have exclusive merchandise. Shout out to
Speaker 1: our guys at seven or four shot. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: can go on, buy you a T shirt, subscribe to
Speaker 1: us whereever you listen to podcasts. Man, tell us so
Speaker 1: many things that that you enjoy doing with your daughter,
Speaker 1: and why is that important for you? I mean what
Speaker 1: I like doing anything she like doing? Look, because that's when,
Speaker 1: because that's when, that's when. Uh, that's when she's happy.
Speaker 1: And you know her being happy makes me happy. So
Speaker 1: that's painting. Um. She'll be back at the house in
Speaker 1: a little bit and I told her we're gonna get
Speaker 1: ice cream, so we'll be going on the ice cream
Speaker 1: run cream me. I like prailings. It was a prelings
Speaker 1: mouths become that's that's what that's like, my granddaddy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, that's old people mouth. That's Nina right there.
Speaker 1: I like, yeah, I like, I like, I like Superman too.
Speaker 1: And then you're basically chocolate and then you doctored up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Doctor what I'm nuts? Right? Nah? But
Speaker 1: on some real stuff though, tell us about your Within
Speaker 1: Reach Foundation. Why do you started, what do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you focus on? Y I within Reach Foundation, UM,
Speaker 1: we focus on inner city and obviously UM poverty areas
Speaker 1: throughout the pandemic. Though, one thing that we did focus
Speaker 1: on was food as well, which I think was was
Speaker 1: huge and was different for us. But you know, with
Speaker 1: us focusing on food, UM, it was a lot of
Speaker 1: kids and a lot of families who had relied on
Speaker 1: free lunch and now with kids not going to school,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of families now having to feed
Speaker 1: four or five, you know, kids that they weren't scheduled
Speaker 1: to to feed. That that's you know, you got kids
Speaker 1: getting sometimes breakfast, lunch, and and meals after school. You know,
Speaker 1: So that was something that we really, uh that we
Speaker 1: really you know, tapped into that. I feel like it
Speaker 1: was a you know, it was a blessing. You know.
Speaker 1: We were able to bring a lot of families across
Speaker 1: the Chicago area food and also you know, other goods
Speaker 1: and supplies. You know. So I think that this year
Speaker 1: d of course, of the pandemic, we kind of change
Speaker 1: direction a little bit because normally we kind of focus
Speaker 1: on reading and the and the educational part of it,
Speaker 1: and once COVID hit, you know, we really focused on
Speaker 1: more so of you know, the the lifestyle part of
Speaker 1: just people who are in need of rather if its food,
Speaker 1: other goods and just the basic you know, um unnecessities.
Speaker 1: You know. But what made me started was you know,
Speaker 1: for me man, being very blessed and being able to
Speaker 1: you know, be in a situation that I'm in, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to get back to as many people as
Speaker 1: I can. Like I said before, me and Steve kind
Speaker 1: of touched on early on, is that you don't have
Speaker 1: to go to another country and things like that to
Speaker 1: find people who are in need of just the basic
Speaker 1: essentials of life, you know, food, fresh water and things
Speaker 1: like that. You know, So me being able to to
Speaker 1: really tap into that, you know, and having the city,
Speaker 1: you know, for me being in Chicago, you know, the
Speaker 1: the city of Chicago really embraced that and the in
Speaker 1: the community to embraced that. We were able to help
Speaker 1: out a lot of people, you know, and I was
Speaker 1: very thankful for that, for having the the partners that
Speaker 1: I had, you know, for having the community rally behind this.
Speaker 1: You know, are on my teammates and everybody growing up
Speaker 1: in Detroit and going to Penn State and receiving an
Speaker 1: education you have received, and seeing how the pandemic has
Speaker 1: impacted our future, our youth today. With your foundation and
Speaker 1: the programs you guys are committing in a partnership, how
Speaker 1: has it how do you believe it will impact the
Speaker 1: next Alan Robinson with the lack of resources, the lack
Speaker 1: of food, the lack of support without your foundation and
Speaker 1: and many other foundations that are filling in the gap
Speaker 1: of what this pandemic has exposed in US right now
Speaker 1: with reliance on government assistance but also not having a
Speaker 1: plan in case like the pandemic has done when the
Speaker 1: stretched the government to to to to the point of
Speaker 1: where they can't keep account of all the people that
Speaker 1: are just trying to figure it out because every day,
Speaker 1: something's news happen, something new is happening in the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like we all have experience around the country. And that's
Speaker 1: a that's a great question, you know. Um, I think
Speaker 1: for some of those cities, some of those areas, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, hopeful you know, well that we
Speaker 1: have enough people to kind of you know, mustered up
Speaker 1: enough to be able to help out, you know, and
Speaker 1: in a lot of these communities and a lot of
Speaker 1: these areas, because it's a lot of communities, man, that
Speaker 1: are truly truly leaning on people and needing people to
Speaker 1: help them out, like I said before, from just your
Speaker 1: basic everyday stuff, you know. So and that's what I
Speaker 1: think is making I think that's what makes it very tough,
Speaker 1: is that you know, there are groups of people who
Speaker 1: are severely in need, you know, and I say severely
Speaker 1: in need, I mean, you know, when it comes to
Speaker 1: to close and food, and it aren't just people who
Speaker 1: are like living on the street. These are you know,
Speaker 1: moms and kids and you know, three year old kids,
Speaker 1: four year old kids, you know, babies needing formula, you
Speaker 1: know everything that you can name, you know, so hopefully
Speaker 1: you know, we can continue to try to you know,
Speaker 1: build a community of people to continue to help one another,
Speaker 1: you know, because as we saw in the in the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of people that's the need.
Speaker 1: So Alan, Man, what do you see yourself in the
Speaker 1: next years? I like when you asked that question, Jake,
Speaker 1: next teen years, I would say, Nick, hold on before
Speaker 1: how old are you gonna be? Continued? You're pushing thirty now,
Speaker 1: I'll be thirty eight and ten years so when you
Speaker 1: can pushing forty where you want to be, I'll be
Speaker 1: fifty three. You about have a r P cards Really
Speaker 1: is that more discounts? Yeah? Definitely. Coffee now, I got
Speaker 1: the expression at the house because I want to keep
Speaker 1: paying for coffee. It goes too much. Coffee is expensive.
Speaker 1: I'm a coffee drinker myself. But in the next teen
Speaker 1: years sold, I'll be thirty eight. I think when you're
Speaker 1: thirty eight and I'll be fifty three, I can still
Speaker 1: run better roasting. What do you think? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's your favorite? He didn't answer that,
Speaker 1: did he was my favorite? You didn't ask me? That's
Speaker 1: true to wonder one favorite oute? Let me tell me
Speaker 1: what you think my favorite oute? Is a dagger man.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's like me running the daggers like you
Speaker 1: running slant that easy work home boy, Uh, come back,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that. I was gonna say I've
Speaker 1: been talking about I was gonna say come back. I
Speaker 1: was sitting there thinking about it. I love a comeback.
Speaker 1: You said that nine stop on a dime. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: also I can I can run a comeback. I used
Speaker 1: to be able to run a come back. I didn't
Speaker 1: run coming back and longdown. I asked for kids. The
Speaker 1: other day, I was helped training my old trainer and
Speaker 1: we were Uh, I was helping them with some stuff
Speaker 1: that we're talking about it, but uh, I was just
Speaker 1: helping them with the basics and to come back and
Speaker 1: you know, keeping it tegrity, you know, not being a
Speaker 1: little drummer boy doing that breakdown, having a right angle
Speaker 1: coming back to you know, coming back towards the sideline,
Speaker 1: not opening up the gate, not not rolling. Yeah, put
Speaker 1: your foot in the ground. Come back, man, I could.
Speaker 1: I would be able to burst a comeback, stem a
Speaker 1: comeback and then also going motion and run to come back.
Speaker 1: So I can run to come back like three or
Speaker 1: four different ways. So that's why I like to come
Speaker 1: back because you fear to you fear to speed, but
Speaker 1: also you I felt on the comeback, man, I would
Speaker 1: burst a comeback. So I line up two yards outside
Speaker 1: the numbers, burst that thing in, take it straight up,
Speaker 1: and then come back. You ain't supposed to be doing that, right,
Speaker 1: But then I would give you the look of a dagger. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's why. So as I like to come back.
Speaker 1: Also too, I used to watch Jerry run comebacks ridiculous
Speaker 1: and so I was just like, man, anybody can running go.
Speaker 1: I used to alway challenging necessarily to speed. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's what's Yeah. So I used always tell the corner
Speaker 1: anybody could jam my hell my son can jam, but
Speaker 1: can't cover. Yeah. So that I mean, that's football. Football
Speaker 1: is what I love about football. Football is that element,
Speaker 1: the element of surprise, the gamesmanship. Also, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we get lumped in sometimes and I think especially early on,
Speaker 1: they you know, they call people dumb jocks. You don't
Speaker 1: have to have a pretty good well roundedness and and
Speaker 1: and have a little bit of you. Most athletes are sensitive,
Speaker 1: ultra competitive, but also the thinkers man. And I think
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, people talk about athletes are you know,
Speaker 1: dumb jocks man To play at a professional level, you
Speaker 1: gotta have some kind of sense to you, right. You
Speaker 1: may yes, now you may not process it at a
Speaker 1: you know, gigabyte level, but you have to be able
Speaker 1: to have some kind of processing system that's efficient and
Speaker 1: and and I don't think people really understand. At each
Speaker 1: sport there's a different skill that you must have and
Speaker 1: not everybody has that skill and not every athlete. And
Speaker 1: I think the ones who have it the best are
Speaker 1: the ones not necessarily that you see, but their career
Speaker 1: is more than six or seven years, is eight plus
Speaker 1: nine plus ten plus as you get older, playing ten
Speaker 1: years as a wide receiver tight end like Mercedes Lewis
Speaker 1: out in with the with the Green Bay Packers. I
Speaker 1: don't care what you say about for a long time,
Speaker 1: a long time what he has to do to be
Speaker 1: able to play, because he's not like a wide receiver
Speaker 1: where he could pick and choose to go across the middle.
Speaker 1: He lined up sometimes next outside of a d n
Speaker 1: A a Khalil Mack, who Khalil ain't gonna Well, that's machetes.
Speaker 1: So let me take it off on him a little bit.
Speaker 1: So sometime a little on man, the old head, I'm
Speaker 1: about to whoop him up, all right, and so just
Speaker 1: all the all the off season requirement to just play
Speaker 1: a young man's game. You know a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't give give give these older players benefit of down right.
Speaker 1: They want to They want to devalue older players and
Speaker 1: they want to make the young players with a little
Speaker 1: bit of success great. That just boggles my mind. That
Speaker 1: boggles my mind to hear a young player because of
Speaker 1: our generation of of of likes and uh and from
Speaker 1: of likes, and our generation wants to they want the
Speaker 1: championship parade without playing in the regular season. Right, they
Speaker 1: get participation trophies for participating. They're told that everyone is
Speaker 1: the same, and it's not the case. Are are our
Speaker 1: prison system, whether we like it or not. There are
Speaker 1: some people in there that didn't do what they said
Speaker 1: they were done. They were framed as coming out. Guys
Speaker 1: are serving fifty years of doing things that were truly
Speaker 1: what they did not do. But our prisoners system are
Speaker 1: are our prisoners system shows that not everybody is a winner.
Speaker 1: There's some real losers in the world that do some
Speaker 1: things that are unfathomable. They do them some things that
Speaker 1: they should be locked away for the rest of their life,
Speaker 1: and that and and that behavior is a loser's behavior.
Speaker 1: But our society now says that everybody is a winner.
Speaker 1: Everybody should have what everybody else has. Right, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really like the socialist the social socialism game,
Speaker 1: because there are some people right that I remember growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid. You remember growing up as a kid,
Speaker 1: we were poor, when nobody walking around throwing us money. Hell,
Speaker 1: they actually didn't allow us to enter some of those
Speaker 1: stories because they knew we didn't have money and we
Speaker 1: couldn't afford it. Now we want everybody to be even.
Speaker 1: God tells us not everybody's even, and we have to end.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the reason we were able to be rose up
Speaker 1: is by adversity. You you learn more by failure than
Speaker 1: you know with success. I mean, you guys, win a
Speaker 1: football game, y'all. Have you win a game that you
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have and they give you Wednesday off? By
Speaker 1: giving you Wednesday off, what does that mean? You no
Speaker 1: longer do film evaluation at the MTh degree that you
Speaker 1: would do if you lose. You may high have highlights
Speaker 1: on Wednesday just to go over you glance over it,
Speaker 1: but you don't really put it under the microscope the
Speaker 1: same way in the uh, you don't put on the
Speaker 1: microshop with the wind the same way you do with
Speaker 1: a loss, and and and so that's that's I think
Speaker 1: that's why. It's you know, winning is glorified, but then
Speaker 1: we want to glance over while we lost. We don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about why or who's inefficient. We just
Speaker 1: want to say, yeah, that was a tough loss, man,
Speaker 1: we'll get them next time. Well, we can't get them
Speaker 1: next time. The left tackle came block, we can't get
Speaker 1: them next time. To the quarterback can read defenses, we
Speaker 1: can't get them next time. My offensive coordinator can't offensive coordinate.
Speaker 1: So that's that's that's why. Maybe I'm sorry, I'm on
Speaker 1: the soapbox, but I just you know, it's it's tough, man,
Speaker 1: and it's becoming difficult to look people in the eye
Speaker 1: and tell them not necessarily devalue or put them down,
Speaker 1: but just say, man, that wasn't good enough, and here's why.
Speaker 1: But when you do that, now you're you're picking on people,
Speaker 1: you're bullying. It's tough. So it's almost like you know,
Speaker 1: you're better off not saying anything, and which short changes
Speaker 1: that individual, and then that individual that short change as
Speaker 1: a kid becomes a short change adult. So I got
Speaker 1: a question for you. Your question for you? Will you
Speaker 1: leave an inheritance financially? I'm I'm I'm guessing you know
Speaker 1: you probably want more than one child? Hopefully, if not,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Will you leave inherance inheritance for your kids?
Speaker 1: Will you leave inherences for your kids? About like cash? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: All right? Among But yeah, because I've asked, I've asked
Speaker 1: some heard some people they say, Man, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like Bill Gates if I ever make that kind of money,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna leave my kids. Saything, Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: he's not leaving him anything because he's worth so many million.
Speaker 1: They've inherited some. But I'm talking about why would Why
Speaker 1: would you? Because as athletes, especially as people who are
Speaker 1: raised in the bottom or who struggle oodles and noodles,
Speaker 1: we generally work our way through and we become so
Speaker 1: performance based that that loses and and and comes out it.
Speaker 1: When we are married and relationships we start to be
Speaker 1: based on performance, whether it's friends, where there's teammates and
Speaker 1: then most mostly unfortunately and I know I did. It's
Speaker 1: for our kids and my wife. So if I become
Speaker 1: so performance based and I make them feel less, there,
Speaker 1: well when I die and I don't leave him anything,
Speaker 1: you know what I don't tell me I'm doing. I'm
Speaker 1: saying screw you. I'm screwing you from the grave. I'm
Speaker 1: saying you weren't good enough when you was, when with
Speaker 1: little with little Alan, you aren't good enough. You didn't
Speaker 1: do it right. Then. Now you're twenty and I pass away,
Speaker 1: Now your forty, and all of a sudden, now I'm
Speaker 1: telling you from the grave, you wasn't good enough. We
Speaker 1: don't even realize, man, some of the subliminal messages that
Speaker 1: we say, especially as men, black men, men who were
Speaker 1: raising poverty. What how we have conditioned ourselves to be
Speaker 1: so performance based that we can be short changing our
Speaker 1: kids by our actions, by some hidden or out there
Speaker 1: to say, now we're gonna make them work, We're gonna
Speaker 1: make them work hard. You worked so they wouldn't work
Speaker 1: as hard. That's that's the whole I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: whole different conversation that we have. We have Alan sound
Speaker 1: for another hour. When you start talking about dirt under
Speaker 1: their fingernails to like what we had. We were going
Speaker 1: into breaking generational curses. And you start going into that's
Speaker 1: a whole that's a whole differentthing. I was just on
Speaker 1: the trip and something that was one of the conversation
Speaker 1: when I got said, Man, I'm not giving him. I said,
Speaker 1: why that ship is stupid. I'm just gonna say that
Speaker 1: I don't because it's like you know, like I said before,
Speaker 1: I mean, at least for me, per I didn't do
Speaker 1: everything that I've done, and I didn't take on everything
Speaker 1: that I've taken on just for my daughter and my
Speaker 1: future kids and their kids to just have to go
Speaker 1: through the same exact things that you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense, at least to me. It doesn't. And
Speaker 1: if you really want to go there, that's that's if
Speaker 1: if someone's gonna thump the bubble on one thing that's
Speaker 1: on biblical as well. If you don't, if you don't
Speaker 1: leave an inheritance for them, So whether that's cash or whatever,
Speaker 1: so eve know they gave them a heritage of knowledge. Man,
Speaker 1: You ever tried to pay you ever tried to pay
Speaker 1: mortgage with knowledge? Yeah? You know what they do. You
Speaker 1: know what they do for clothes. Man, I got knowledge
Speaker 1: I showed would like to get along. You know you
Speaker 1: play pay a car bill, the pay your card note
Speaker 1: with some knowledge. You know that. I think the application
Speaker 1: is a little bit um. I don't agree with that, Man,
Speaker 1: I do with that. Told truck comes so quick, be
Speaker 1: on Discovery repo. Man. So hey man, it's been awesome conversation. Brother.
Speaker 1: How much time you gave us? Man? Love gonna man,
Speaker 1: love connecting with you. Man. I look forward to see
Speaker 1: where you go. You may end up staying in Chicago,
Speaker 1: you may not, but man, look forward to it. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Man, how did you do? I appreciate you all, haven't.
Speaker 1: You are a unique person. You are well worth it.
Speaker 1: You are competent and most of all, your lovable. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith singor I'm Gerald Little John And this is
Speaker 1: cut to It. Cut to It with Steve Smith Senior.
Speaker 1: That Is Me is a production of Cut to It LLC,
Speaker 1: Balto Creative Media, The Black Effect, and I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: For more podcast from I Heart Radio, visit the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to
Speaker 1: your favorite shows from Cut to It. Executive producer Steve Smith,
Speaker 1: Singer co host Gerard Little John Talent in booking manager
Speaker 1: Joe Fusci, Social media team Wesley Robinson and John Show
Speaker 1: from Balto Creative Media. Cut To It is produced by
Speaker 1: Brian Falka Chevitch and Meredith Carter, with production assistance by
Speaker 1: Alex Lebrec Production Coordinator Taylor Robinson. Theme music by Alex Johnson,
Speaker 1: Lyrics and vocals by Anthony Hamilton. You ain't heard them
Speaker 1: about it, then we're about to let you know. It's
Speaker 1: all