WEBVTT - Allen Robinson 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.640 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.520 They's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.800 am about it? Then we're about to let you know. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:43.159 It's all, Hey, what's going on? How about these teams 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.959 going to the super Bowl? What do you think? Man, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.279 I'm excited? This is Why are you excited? Because it's 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.400 Super Bowl time? Man? Like who doesn't get excited around 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.600 this time of years? People who thought they were going 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.680 and found out very quickly that day can't even make 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:57.320 the players. Hey, I ain't getting check for that. So 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.040 I'm just watching, So that ain't That's not my occupation 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.039 problem as someone who watches. I'm just excited about. Listen. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.200 I've remember the times being in front the TV watching 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.600 Dallas Pittsburgh and Larry Brown gets a couple of interceptions 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.800 he's a super Bowl MVP. To watching Afford and honors 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.720 clap the Chargers to clap that that Packers Patriots Super 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.560 Bowl with Brett forve and uh, Desmond Howard runs back 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.440 a touchdown for to seal up the wind. So I 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.479 just love this time of year. So even you playing 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.640 in the league away, even as a kid as a fan, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.839 like what what what memories do you ask from Super Bowls? 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.920 Like just just just from a from a fan perspective, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.679 what are your memories? What can you be quiet so 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.560 I can get started? Well, I had had to super 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.080 excited for that, bro. First of all, as a forty 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.720 Niners fan, I can remember and watching Jay Rice, John Taylor, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:57.040 Roger Craig, Ricky Waters, Joe Montana, Uh, you know, Dwight Clark, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:03.880 all these guys more stiff neck Hanks. Right, it was 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.639 you got Tim Tim McDonald who used to knock you 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:13.000 out after Ronnie Lott used to knock you out as well. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:19.400 So you got all these um man J J. Stokes 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.360 just t o catching it against the Green Bay Packers 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.600 Hunt Street Circle that was a seam up the middle, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.760 or when they clapped the Chargers that man, the Charges 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:34.960 didn't have a shot. All of the all of those 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.320 things I remember, and then you also you gotta remember 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.080 Chris collins Worth you know how he made his name 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:45.120 with the Bengals, um how Boomers, Eyeson and Joe Montana. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:50.880 That game right for me, man, right now to the hood, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:56.320 the history rich teams that are in the playoffs. Right now, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:03.240 it's nostalgia. It's nostalgia. All I need right now, all 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:08.000 I need right now, man, is my mom makes him 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.640 some seven layer demp. You got somebody bringing that some 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:16.000 of that springfield. That's shasta right that that tiki fruit punch. Right. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.440 You gotta have somebody that's gonna bring some good food, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:24.960 some some some some good some good que right by barbecue, barbecue, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.840 you know barbecue because you know I'm from North Carolina. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.000 So the barbecue is to find a couple of different ways. Yeah, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.560 we're not talking about the sauce. We're just talking about that. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.320 We're talking about Yeah, we're talking about hot links, hot 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.200 links for grown ups, hot dogs for the kids. Right right. Okay, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.080 you got a chicken, you got some we don't really 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.080 you know, you got some pork eaters, and then you've 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:54.480 got some beef ribs. Right. You got the hamburgers like 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.280 that's right there with that lifting mix for the hamburgers, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.320 got you that right, right, and then you got the 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.040 and you got the ruffle. You got the lace ruffles 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.600 with the ranch in sour cream mix for the dip. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.680 Don't double dip neither. Right, that's that's that's about your speed. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:20.880 But go ahead, that's not that's pretty touche. So that 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.560 just brings back the nostalgia of somebody has a big 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.520 screen TV. Whoever has a big screen TV, his his 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:33.640 or her house is the house. But everybody brings and 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.479 and we watch football, We play cards, play dominoes, and 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.560 the kids go outside and play. And now you set 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.800 up all that nostalgia and coming back to this super Bowl. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.160 Now you've got this halftime show. You got Dre, you 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.839 got Snoop, you got Eminem Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:57.440 like the super Bowl got everything. It's lit. Yeah, it's lit. Yeah. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.440 And I get to be home, which is a rarity 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.200 for you, right, well, you get to be I get 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.360 to be home in Cali. Watched the game, watch guys 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.160 a halftime show that and you can't script that any better. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.760 It's like a homecoming. It's a homecoming the NFL because 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.400 of the Shield, or we the NFL, the Shield gets 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.320 the advantage of good football. But we didn't know the 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:26.040 football was gonna be this great. It was to remember, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.080 it was exciting. Noil body, you have to respect. I 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.719 mean I was texting. I text some people that were 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:38.279 on all the teams. Bro your ball, you know. I 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:43.719 text some folks with Buffalo said, listen, that's a bad 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:51.000 mama jam right. And they got some good pieces. And 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.039 these these these four, these last four teams, the future 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.600 looks bright for the future. From the Josh Allens to 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.880 the Patrick Mahomes. I mean, we we're looking at it's crazy. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:11.359 I mean, it's for a treat. So listen. We got 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.360 today on the podcast. Born and raised from Detown, from Michigan, 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:23.119 Allen Robinson currently temporarily currently wide receiver route runner extraordinaire. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.400 He may have a pH d. You gotta take a 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.640 few more classes and route running, which which ones? Which ones? 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.680 He need? He need like thousand level courses? What he 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.920 is now? He he passed, he passed one oh one 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.240 and one oh two. He passed one on one and 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.120 one oh two on getting off the press. He doesn't 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.320 stack as well after he gets passed him a little bit. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.240 That's a little bit. I know, Keenan, I know, no 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.840 he's right there. He just he just gotta you know, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.760 he gotta taking something super course. Love who you are, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.640 love what you represent. Man, and I want to thank 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.880 you for coming on and cut to a podcast. I 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.640 appreci you guys, having a man like no doubt. Appreciate 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.880 having you bro. We appreciate having you listen. We got 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.160 this section that's my favorite get ice stuff. So it's 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:19.440 a little icebreakers. What's your favorite route to run? Slant, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:25.240 slant or not? Slant or not. That's tough because they do. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.680 That's why you don't have a pH D. Right there, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.840 that is the laziest two routes you can run. You fast. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.720 So I'm gonna running go route and you're fast because 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.240 you didn't want to go route. So you're gonna give 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.840 them that outside You're gonna give him that outside route 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:46.600 and then go inside. Huh. Look, man, there things yes 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.720 or no. That is yes or no. I don't want 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:55.680 to hear why yes or no? Man, go ahead. They're 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.560 like Teana butter and jell. Yeah. Well, I'm like skinning. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:05.200 I like steaks, sucker. If you can spend a weekend 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.160 in any city, what's what you choose, and you can't 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.440 choose Chicago. Now is this international or the message? Did 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.800 your life? I don't know. I'm gonna say Nassau, Bahamas. Man, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:21.400 that's my spot really, why best places I've been a vacation. Man. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.360 I feel like when I go out there, any and 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.280 everything you need is there. Man. You got the sun, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.320 you got the beach school, everything you need. I like 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.400 that you was over there lightening people on fire up 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.280 on yes, Ben, So I'll just try to get you 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:43.600 to calm down. Com t yeah what you got? Yeah, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.000 on on that, on that, then let's do Since you 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.560 from Detroit, Big Sean T Grizzly forty two rank him 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:57.719 in order. That's tough. I gotta go. I gotta go 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.599 Big Sean Grizzly and then four too, and and it 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.400 is it's four to the two by the way. See 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.199 I'm watched, so but I gotta I gotta go in 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.679 that order. Man, I feel like I feel like being 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.760 shot a big shot. He's been doing it the longest, man, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.079 he got the he don't get he don't he a 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.040 lot of credit. Man listening He's put out solid albums too, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.000 like his last album. But yeah, he doesn't get a 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.920 lot of credit. He do. He a true rapper. You 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.560 feel me like there's a lot of true rappers nowadays. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.280 Sometimes they don't get as much credit. You know, people 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.000 want to people want the club box and stuff like that. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.199 You know what I'm saying. But if you want some 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.839 music you can just ride to and listen to. You know, 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.120 it's slowly coming back, Like I feel like lyricism now 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.559 it's starting to turn that corner people because people to 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.640 repeat yes, yeah, mumble rap like it's it's cool, but 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.120 it's it's starting. It really is. If you start to 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.440 look at what's starting to get hot again, who's starting 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.240 to come around? Like lyricism is making his way back. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.520 And you've you're born in Detroit, right Detroit. Men, you're 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.040 living in Chicago. You lived in Jacksonville, and you talked 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.680 about the places you've you've traveled. Why is traveling something? 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.120 I know for me it is? Why is traveling something 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.840 for athletes? Um? That seems to be almost essential now, 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.439 you know, I don't want to put worsh your mouth. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.120 I almost said a word that you probably would use, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.559 but I want to see if you would use it. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:29.000 Why is traveling so important for you currently and as 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.920 a as a man, as an individual as a football player, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:38.040 you know, entrepreneur, all all above all the categories of things. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.679 Who you are, what you want to be? Why is 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:45.480 that traveling in central You like that question, don't you do? First? 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:50.240 Myself on the back growing up in Detroit, you know, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.360 but for me, at least, I didn't get to travel 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.959 a crazy amount. You know. Listen, it was like a 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.559 seven or seven or like a tournament or something like that. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.920 You know. Um so being able to travel and see, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.560 you know, places and kind of get to the roots 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.280 of where you know, like like like Jamaica, you know, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.920 like being in Jamaica or being in the Bahamas, you know, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.880 being around those kind of people and those in that culture. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.280 You know, what kind of people are you referring to? 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.120 Like you said, you make that statement, and we're in 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.040 a place now, we're a polarizing place where when you 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.520 make that statement, people automatically assume you're talking about people 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.559 of color, right or I don't know the purpose of 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.240 why you said it, but I want you to clarify 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:39.199 it because there's so many there's so many assumptions in 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.280 the world today. So I just I just I just 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:47.080 triggered it. Like, man, let's just talk about the reason why. Yeah, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.320 people who look like me and you, people who are 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.040 raised very similar to me, and you you know, people 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.480 who have the ethnic backgrounds, and then you have a 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:04.199 connect with those islands with those people, you know, because 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.520 that's the natural routes of of where I come from, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.520 you know, and and being able to embrace those people 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.319 and telling how those people embrace me and you know, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.199 and my family and whoever else when we go to 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.040 those places in one of those islands. That's what makes 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.480 those places so special to vacation too, because you truly 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.599 are allowed to vacation. You know, it's not any you know, 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.440 any any problems, it's not any nothing. When you go there, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.960 you can just kind of chill, relax, kind of let 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.000 your guard down a little bit and enjoy it. That's 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.719 interesting word you said, to let your guard down. I've 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.679 been in Jamaica off the resorts, my guard, ain't you 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:48.600 damn Yeah, maybe I'm off, but off the Blue Mountains. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.000 That's a few times I went off the resort. I've 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.240 been like, I'm going back on the resort, but you 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.360 you need I feel if I still think it's a 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.559 level of you know, connection to those places where again 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.480 I mean, like you said before, I mean now you 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.480 gotta be smart wherever you at. You know, as far 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.200 as having your guard up or down, you know, that's 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.439 that's that's based on you know, everybody, everybody judgment, but 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.040 just from the standpoint of you know, being there and 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.400 feeling that connection, you know, because it's different. It's it's 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.280 different than when you just reading the history book, right, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.880 But to be there and experience and be around the culture, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.880 um multiple cultures, it's always fulfilling. It's always for me, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.760 it's always more of a not even an educational thing, man, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.440 but just being to have that connectedness for sure, because 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.480 it's something that you know, growing up you see all 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.000 these different islands. You may hear about these different islands, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.240 you know, you see commercials about these different islands. You know, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.120 so whenever you can get a chance to go or 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.079 to these places and other place that I want to 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.959 go to, my future is is um African. You know, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.720 being able which part? Which part? Because there's a there's 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.040 a ton of places. I know, I'm look, I don't 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.000 even know where to start, you know, I just you know, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.120 that's just that's just the place that I had, you know, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.320 circled circled on my you know, calendar at some point 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.319 in time to be able to go to an experience, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.839 you know, an experience not just the vacation side of it, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.040 you know, but but everything else that's in it, you know, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.360 from from from the Safari, from you know everywhere. Yeah, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:28.360 mark killing mageral down to Nigeria. That Nigeria there, Samaria 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.240 is it ain't vacation. Brother. We had we had a 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.520 guy c JS poem on and he talked about going 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.320 back to his roots, and he talked about going back 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.400 to the to the coast of where his family uh. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:48.680 He his mother was the seventh or second of seven wives. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:53.440 His great grandfather was the tribal leader, and his grandmother 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.920 was his great grandmother was the fifth out of the 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:02.040 seven wives. And he actually was part of royalty right 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:07.720 and how he had land and ownership. And his cousin 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.040 took him to the castles in which the Spaniards were 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:18.960 utilizing um, capturing, rape, being um, imprisoning his people. And 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.280 he went and he was able to smell a stench 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.560 and smell the odors, and he gave us in the 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.120 pandemic man. It was a great episode. He gave us 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:32.320 the essence of his history and it was unbelievable. So 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.520 you know, we already said it, but I love to 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.720 say it. And where are you from in the place 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.240 you call your hometown Detroit, Michigan. Man, Um, it's something 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.880 that I take pride and enjoy. It too. Is more 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.520 than me in many different ways, you know, um, preparing 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.400 me for certain situations and certain circumstances I've you know, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.240 come to in my life. You know, I think of 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.360 all the time. For me, you know, being able to 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.400 have my dad around and and and in my life, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.640 my entire life, you know, I tell people all the 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.280 time it was like a movie of like training that 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.360 some of the experiences that that life, being around him, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.560 you know, and just being in a car with him 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.200 and him telling me stories. That's where you know what 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.760 I'm saying, like just just riding around and being able 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.440 to experience and see Detroit and seeing you know, how 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.120 to be able to have you know, help my family 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.160 to you know, live a better life, and just a 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.960 lot of different things. Man. So it's like when you 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.040 when you go to Detroit and you know, it's a 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.600 it's a it's a place where you know, you gotta 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.720 you gotta bring you know all the time. It's it's amazing, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.640 you know. Sometimes here in Charlotte and what's my travels, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.440 I see it a lot. Charlotte is an outstanding community, 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.560 a lot of transplants, a lot of people from different 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.800 areas of the world, and uniqueness of it. When I'm 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.560 heading the training camps to go see you know, you 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.040 guys go perform and get ready for training camp, I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:01.280 see a lot of folks here in Charlotte going on 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.000 mission trips to some some folks are checking the box, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.720 the giving box. Some folks are checking the box because 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:17.440 they have they have survivor's guilt. And then there's people 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.880 who are checking the box because they feel like these 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.760 third world countries really need our help. But I would 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.960 imagine just like growing up in Los Angeles, like I did, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.480 you growing up in Detroit, g growing up in Lexington, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.360 and here living in Charlotte. Man, there's some places here 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.359 in Charlotte, l A and Detroit. You don't have to 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:38.879 go to a thord world country. You can go to 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.560 your own city. Go go go in the city and 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:49.200 volunteer and serve right and so impact so and just 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.840 basically bring that up. You know, I'm I'm glad that's 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.000 that you brought up because you know, like you said, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.960 a lot of people, you know, they want to go 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.680 to the third world country. You know what you gotta 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.240 see like Flint, Michigan, you know, who have in the 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:06.000 water crisis, you know for you know, and and when 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.040 you see different things like that and not a lot 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.320 of time, you know, when they say that, you know 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.880 about third world country, I'm like, man, there's so many 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.760 different areas of of of kids who may not have 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.760 their parents, or or kids whose parents may be incarcerated, 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.560 or you know even too even two single moms who 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.680 are having to work three and four jobs, you know, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.920 to try to put you know, food on the table, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.640 the basics, you know, and when you like you said before, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:34.720 Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Jacksonville, Charlotte, you can name city 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.240 at the city at the city in America that needs 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.399 everybody's help. You know. That's that's you know, you it 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.280 may not be a third world country, but it's some 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.360 it's some third world cities and some third world neighborhoods 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:53.120 to the airport there. Yeah. So if you could describe 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:58.680 one word yourself as a kid, what would it be? Grit? 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:04.240 My great I feel like, especially when you like Detroit 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.560 like a lot of other cities, you know, the ambitions 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.239 and the dreams instead that you may have as a kid, 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.080 a lot of people don't see it as realistic or 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.520 they don't embrace it, you know, so when you are 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.080 going through these different experiences you may have. For me, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.800 it was it was my dad, and it was a 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.320 couple of coaches, you know who kind of always helped 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.320 me along the way. You know, even if it's you know, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.000 having some steps back, you know, switching schools or or 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.600 or whatever the case may be. You know, it's it's 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.399 it's being able to adapt, being able to embrace, you know, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.640 change and different things that's going on around. Every time 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.440 I talk to someone who's from Detroit, everybody is super 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.720 prideful about Detroit. What does that pride come from? Alan Like, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.800 what makes detroitter so proud of that city? For me, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:54.399 it's everybody who's not just made something of themselves, but 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.440 everybody that's that's come from the area. Like thinking about 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:02.800 my granddad. You know who who worked in factory, Your granddaddy, 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:08.000 whether he's living or has passed, or grandpa got a name, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.760 don't shore change Grandpa now, no doubt, my granddad Mitchell 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:18.680 Robinson one person cause you know specifically think about you 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.400 know who and and and my mom's dad, Ted Goldsmith 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.960 him as well. You know, these are people you see 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.080 take pride in working in the factory, you know, or 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.640 having to do these certain jobs, or or doing certac things. 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.399 I remember my granddad, you know, from him working in 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.719 the factory. His his hand got caught like in one 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.439 of the machines in the belt and he cut off 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.440 and he cut off two of his fingers, you know, 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.200 and and being able to see and it and it's 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.920 and it's like, you know again like that you know, 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.879 never happened for him. You know, he never brought it up, 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.359 never mentioned it. You wouldn't even know, you know, So 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:54.639 things like that, and not just to the people who 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.800 also you know, from an athletic standpoint, from a hip 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.000 hop standpoint, when you hear those guys and how much 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.800 proudly taking detroity man stuff is going on, you know, 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.800 it makes you real proud to be from there, you know. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:08.520 You know, I's like a lot of guys should come 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.800 from there, you know, embrace each other, you know, because 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.800 again I mean coming out of any any city like 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.119 that and just being around that is you know you 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:22.680 you're a part of your culture. I love cut to 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.200 It and I love it even more when you download 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.640 us and subscribe and you can follow us on social 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.680 media too, Smithie, where where at? That's at? Cut to 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.760 It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to It Facebook? 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.880 Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.800 And you can follow us at cut to It podcast 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.000 dot com where you can buy merch and you can 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.479 subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.960 all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.600 questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother, cut 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.479 to a podcast dot com. Who's Allen Robinson? As far 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.920 as what you're working on and building and doing all 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:10.280 this stuff, you know, whether it's family, whether it's friends, 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.880 whether it's daddy, whether it's you know, with your girl, 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.720 just overall, because that's the important part. Because if you 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.240 can play six, twenty or forty years, at some point 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.240 you will no longer be a football player. You'll just 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:28.159 be Mr Robinson. And what does that mean to you? 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:34.920 And you know, lockdown for me from from a family standpoints, 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:39.639 you know, again, making sure that I'm not spending not 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.240 only spending time with my with my daughter and with 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.119 my family, but that goes to the whole full circle 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.480 for me of being locked in is you know, I 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.320 have my I have my football time where you know, 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.399 I'm going to do my PT and rehab and stuff 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.200 to get my body back healthy and right from this season. 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.040 You know, I'm doing my physical training while I'm improving 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.280 on a certain things that I want to continue to 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:05.840 get better at certain on the field. But how are 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:10.360 you improving your mind and your heart? Improving my mind 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:14.200 and my heart by again being around, being around my 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:16.720 family and being around my friends, you know, and and 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.600 not only just seeing you know, uh this year or 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.240 being affected by this year, but also embracing you know, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.400 everything that I have right now, you know, and being 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:31.600 able to embrace that with my loved ones, being able 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:33.720 to you know, like I said, go on, go on 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.680 a vacation and spend that family time to you know, 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:39.160 get the mind right, you know, before you go into 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:42.440 a heavier part of football so to speak. So just 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.480 being able to embrace, you know, the people who are 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.680 around me who have not only supported me and showed 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.960 me so much love you know, especially out this course 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:52.800 of this year. Man, like shout out to my family 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:55.920 and my friends and you know, everybody who's been who's 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:57.840 been close to me this year, because again I mean 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.240