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Speaker 1: first day in Black history. Up. White people never quite
Speaker 1: know what to do. I'm sorry, it's not longer. It's
Speaker 1: I think it's it's cold out there. It should be
Speaker 1: illegal to be this cold on the first day of
Speaker 1: Black histuar. I don't even think Black History mothers in
Speaker 1: February because it's the shortest. I think it's because it's
Speaker 1: the coldest. That's why. Ain't no where in hell they're
Speaker 1: gonna march in February. I know that you can have
Speaker 1: voters rights in May. That's all right. We have a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about it, so we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: the headlines. It's big news today. UM. A very very
Speaker 1: famous quarterback, a legendary quarterback, Tom Brady, said that he
Speaker 1: has retired for good. He should have a sandwich Stough
Speaker 1: because that's that down. He's retiring for good again. This
Speaker 1: dude retires more than share. I'm like that. But of
Speaker 1: course you're still breaking records. Not only is there the
Speaker 1: oldest quarterback in the NFL, there is gonna be the
Speaker 1: youngest retiree in Florida. I can't wait to see time
Speaker 1: Ready riding around the golf court in the villages. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be hilarious. And here's some very good news for
Speaker 1: fans of casual sex. Colleges around the country are installed
Speaker 1: a starting to install vending machines that sell the plan
Speaker 1: the emergency contracepts appear. Um. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: you should rely on the vending machine for your plan
Speaker 1: being by the time you find those couple of quarters,
Speaker 1: the baby's gonna be born. Dad, Dad, Why do you
Speaker 1: call me to ritos because that's what dropped out instead
Speaker 1: of the pill. Now go find your brother, cool ranch
Speaker 1: and get the car. And then some other news. Of course.
Speaker 1: The memorial service for Tyree Nichols was heill today. Um.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of things that were interesting about
Speaker 1: the funeral, but there was something that was slightly different.
Speaker 1: An emotional farewealth in Memphis Tennessee. That's where hundreds of
Speaker 1: people gathered this afternoon for the funeral service for Terry Nichols,
Speaker 1: who was remembered as a loving brother, son and father.
Speaker 1: And this was also a call for justice, with Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris and the Reverend L. Sharpton pledging to get
Speaker 1: policing reformed. Past that is right. It is the very
Speaker 1: first time in history that the president or vice president
Speaker 1: they have have attended the funeral of a black person
Speaker 1: that was slain by the police. So not even Obama,
Speaker 1: he didn't go either. So he's saying a lot of grace,
Speaker 1: amazing grace a lot of times, but not by people
Speaker 1: that were killed. Black people are killed by the police.
Speaker 1: But but Kamala went, and I'm very proud and I'm
Speaker 1: happy she showed up in black mode, not in cop mode,
Speaker 1: because I mean she was a district attorney and that
Speaker 1: could have been a sting operation. You know, they tell
Speaker 1: you got a free TV, but you just behind the
Speaker 1: child supports, so you go to jail for mine. I
Speaker 1: would have liked to see Mike Tents go to a
Speaker 1: black funeral. That would have been funny. John He is
Speaker 1: that I'm sorry about your loss with my water the
Speaker 1: classified documents. I'm sorry that's not a um, but seriously,
Speaker 1: there is a good reason to have a black vice president.
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna do anything about police reform, at
Speaker 1: least you can have somebody that goes to those funerals.
Speaker 1: But here is a crime story that is captivating the nation.
Speaker 1: Somebody's as now to some good news overnight about two
Speaker 1: monkeys that were missing from the Dallas Zoo. They have
Speaker 1: been found, but police they're still looking for the person
Speaker 1: who apparently took them. This morning, mystery at the Dallas
Speaker 1: Zoo to missing Emperor Tamarin monkeys found in the closet
Speaker 1: of an abandoned home, the latest in a string of
Speaker 1: suspicious incidents. Dallas police telling ABC News they received a
Speaker 1: tip directing them to the monkey's location. Authorities say they're
Speaker 1: also trying to determine if several incidents at the zoo
Speaker 1: last month, including an escaped leopard and the suspicious death
Speaker 1: of an endangered vulture, are connected in any way, and
Speaker 1: it's not unknown keeping zoo officials cautious. Those monkey monkeys
Speaker 1: look like Civil War reenactors, don't they. I mean, who
Speaker 1: snitch on the monkeys? I don't understand that, and they
Speaker 1: look like Civil War reenactors. Dear Clara Belle, the war
Speaker 1: drags h my fondest wishes until the day we meet again.
Speaker 1: But they actually found the monkeys because somebody the next
Speaker 1: door heard a suspicious noise and called the cops. So
Speaker 1: even monkeys got Karen's it's crazy. And they found these
Speaker 1: monkeys very fast. They found them faster they find most people.
Speaker 1: So if I ever go missing, don't tell him I'm me.
Speaker 1: Tell him I'm a pandit I'm not here, is my question.
Speaker 1: How is a zoo gonna accuse anyone else of stealing
Speaker 1: a monkey? Where the hell did you get the monkey? Front?
Speaker 1: For more on this kid that, we turned to Michael Costa,
Speaker 1: who is at the Dallas Zoo right now. Michael, why
Speaker 1: the hell are you dressed like that? Well, because I'm
Speaker 1: a professional DL, I wanted to see who's been stealing
Speaker 1: the animals, so I went undercover as a monkey and
Speaker 1: I infiltrated the zoo. I spent dollars on this disguise.
Speaker 1: You wasted your money. That disguise is shitty. I can't
Speaker 1: believe the zookeepers they haven't noticed you. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've been paying attention to this story, but
Speaker 1: the zookeepers here aren't exactly the best and the brightest.
Speaker 1: They asked me if I was a monkey, and I
Speaker 1: said yes, and that was good enough for them. All right,
Speaker 1: So how is the uncovered operation going? Not great? I've
Speaker 1: been here a week, but I haven't seen any kidnappers.
Speaker 1: Even worse, one of the monkey has been trying to
Speaker 1: mate with me. I've been going along with it to
Speaker 1: keep my cover, but now it's getting pretty serious. I mean,
Speaker 1: she wants me to groom her back, and that's a
Speaker 1: big commitment in the monkey kingdom. Now I'm flattered, but
Speaker 1: I want to keep my options open. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of hot monkeys in here. And Michael, why don't you
Speaker 1: get the hell out of there? Just tell the zoo
Speaker 1: who you are and they're gonna and then you want
Speaker 1: to leave. I can't deal. I'm a professional journalist and
Speaker 1: I won't rest until I figure out who the kidnapper is.
Speaker 1: Plus I want to stay for lunch. We're getting grapes today,
Speaker 1: So but but okay, okay, sorry, deal, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Lucy's getting jealous. So he's just a friend. I'm allowed
Speaker 1: to have friends. Maybe come on, don't mean like that.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just what are you gonna have to
Speaker 1: luck in your new relationship? Michael Coslin, Michael Coxson, everybody.
Speaker 1: When the win come back, I am going to find
Speaker 1: out how you are celebrating by hing us this. Don't
Speaker 1: want to go away? Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I was telling you that this is the very first
Speaker 1: day of Black History Month, so I thought I'd hit
Speaker 1: the streets to as black and white people how they
Speaker 1: were celebrating as we enter yet another Black History Month.
Speaker 1: We thought it was important to connect with people and
Speaker 1: to to find out what their idea of black history was.
Speaker 1: And nothing says black history like Hollywood Boulevard. Actually is
Speaker 1: the closest that the crew will come to mart Luther
Speaker 1: King Boulevard zone. How are you doing good? Um? It's
Speaker 1: Black History? Absolutely? What excites you the most about it?
Speaker 1: I think it's an opportunity we can celebrate ourselves, our
Speaker 1: contributions as a people. Like it makes me feel good.
Speaker 1: I love Black History Month? What do you love about it?
Speaker 1: Our kids are getting more educated. Not in Florida though,
Speaker 1: well I don't know about Florida. Nobody there. What do
Speaker 1: you know about black issue. I'm first, so I don't
Speaker 1: know much about I respect everyone, I like black, brown,
Speaker 1: everyone I love, but they already had their turn. It's
Speaker 1: our turn now. What is black History? Monther may need celebration? Celebration?
Speaker 1: Are there any black people you like to celebrate? Mark Lawrence?
Speaker 1: All of black people do? I mean? I love Black
Speaker 1: History Month? Excited it'll get my first if your first
Speaker 1: Black History Month? How long have you been black? But
Speaker 1: we don't good? Oh you don't do it to South Africa.
Speaker 1: What's the blackest thing you've ever done? I think when
Speaker 1: we have guests over, I don't want to share out, dude,
Speaker 1: so we just all go hungry until they leave. That's
Speaker 1: the blackest thing you've ever done? Oh? Man? I put
Speaker 1: a cereal in the glass bad so I can keep
Speaker 1: it from the roaches because if the roach I ate
Speaker 1: at first, I'm damn, you ain't gonna eat it. That's
Speaker 1: so black. I'm embarrassed. Every time about go to a
Speaker 1: new city. I like to go to the grocery store. Right,
Speaker 1: I'll stop, I'll get some watermelon and some chickens, and
Speaker 1: I'll see if they'll say something to me at the rest.
Speaker 1: Has anybody ever don't go to Mississippi. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been denied alone? No? I haven't. That's that's probably the
Speaker 1: whitest thing you've ever done. What is the whitest thing
Speaker 1: you've ever done with surfing? You set up and how
Speaker 1: did that work out? Not very good, But it's the
Speaker 1: whitest thing you've ever done. Improv pay my taxes. Can
Speaker 1: you name any other members of the wool Tang clan? No,
Speaker 1: I can't. You know any of the words of the
Speaker 1: Black National anthem? That's mess stuff. But I don't know
Speaker 1: you know any the words of a Black national anthem?
Speaker 1: I know to stand up even if you don't know
Speaker 1: the word, I don't know the word will be respectful
Speaker 1: in your name? Any members of the wood Tang clan.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been late? Someone hack? No, I'm very punctual.
Speaker 1: That's pretty way. I know. You think Kanye should be forgiven?
Speaker 1: I think yeah, he just he needs hope. Do you
Speaker 1: know any of the members of the wood Tang clan.
Speaker 1: That's that's the check my car for you right now?
Speaker 1: Give it here? Give it here. You know any of
Speaker 1: the words to the Black National Anthem? No? You know
Speaker 1: any of the members of the wood Chang clan ghost
Speaker 1: space Killer Ray Kwan got just a riz h. That's it.
Speaker 1: What is the blackest thing you've ever done? Um? I
Speaker 1: went to Roscoe's Chicken and waffle. Yeah, but is the
Speaker 1: I guest thing you've ever done? Oh damn, that's pretty
Speaker 1: black right there? Can you follow anybody on black Twitter?
Speaker 1: I don't have a black Twitter smoke week. I was
Speaker 1: in a hip hop group in high school. Were I
Speaker 1: what was your name in the in the in the group?
Speaker 1: Big and tasty, Big and tasty. Give me something, look
Speaker 1: at me, look at me, look at me. Bread chasing
Speaker 1: like a bakery like I like that. What is the
Speaker 1: blackest thing you've ever done? That's racist question? Of course,
Speaker 1: what is the blackest thing you've ever done? Talking to you?
Speaker 1: All right? Sing you guys when we come back. I'm
Speaker 1: a fox work. We joined me on the show. We
Speaker 1: don't want to make say welcome back to the voting saw.
Speaker 1: My guest to life is from the NFL player and
Speaker 1: the president of the NFL Players Association. He's a now
Speaker 1: writer and a commentator. Please welcome Dominique Foxworth. Happy Happy
Speaker 1: Black History Month, Oh, happy Black History Month? Through too.
Speaker 1: I appreciate all the white people celebrating. I don't know
Speaker 1: who I am, but for me anyone, they both think
Speaker 1: we're in. You know what's interesting. It is Black History
Speaker 1: Month and the first day Tom bradytirement, I mean, and
Speaker 1: on the day or that, we're leading up to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. First two black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: of ever. And we also had we also had um
Speaker 1: over the weekend what I believe to be the blackest
Speaker 1: moment in playoff history. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes Daddy on the sideline, Patrick Lavon my homes
Speaker 1: Daddy on the side. I loved it. It sounded so
Speaker 1: much like my black uncle's. And when you say it was,
Speaker 1: then you know it's gonna be Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was the familiar den of a black It sounds
Speaker 1: like a like a leather baseball cap and black good
Speaker 1: that don't kind of come over you hide the jewelry.
Speaker 1: I'm moving on that job. But right so, just like
Speaker 1: but it is, it's historic to black waterback story for
Speaker 1: the first time. And then what does that mean your
Speaker 1: former play No, I mean I think it represents I
Speaker 1: hate the word progress, but it does kind of represent
Speaker 1: some progress. I mean, there's lots of other things in
Speaker 1: the NFL and in the world frankly, that we need
Speaker 1: to work towards. But one thing that we've had to
Speaker 1: finally accepted. Black quarterbacks are perfect leaders perfect quarterbacks. The
Speaker 1: problem was that they didn't think they had the intelligence.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's one about the intelligence and also
Speaker 1: in the leadership, and it's also about y'all. Like Frankly,
Speaker 1: it's about what the what the quarterback represents on the
Speaker 1: football team is something that uh, white people in America
Speaker 1: in general were never comfortable with seeing a black person
Speaker 1: represent that. So it's been it's been great to see
Speaker 1: not only have so many successful black quarterbacks, and we
Speaker 1: saw even some quarterbacks that are black that aren't good,
Speaker 1: which is assuring progress too, because we could be just
Speaker 1: a SI that is. That is progress. But the most
Speaker 1: like exciting thing about it is the future of the league.
Speaker 1: The best quarterback that I think any of us have
Speaker 1: ever seen is Patrick Mahomes. I think I've never seen
Speaker 1: anybody hever to do the things he does. Now you gotta,
Speaker 1: of course, you gotta be great over a long period
Speaker 1: of time because people who started out that way I
Speaker 1: thought with Cam Newton was doing was remarkable and then
Speaker 1: and then, and then you see what happens. It's interesting
Speaker 1: because we talk about football and there's there's a market
Speaker 1: difference between the way players in the NFL are treated
Speaker 1: and the way players in the NBA are treating. And
Speaker 1: I think primarily is it is the ownership. Um, I
Speaker 1: think that the the ownership in the NFL has a
Speaker 1: decided any different view of their commodity than the NBA does.
Speaker 1: Like you would never see an NFL NBA owner talk
Speaker 1: to a major star like like NFL if if somebody
Speaker 1: talked to Lebron James like they talked to some of
Speaker 1: these stars, it would be over. Yeah, I mean Lebron
Speaker 1: James has a disproportionate amount of power. But like singling
Speaker 1: out the NFL, and trust me, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: up here defending the NFL, But the NFL exists in
Speaker 1: our society, and frankly, NFL is no different than any
Speaker 1: other workplace. And so like the hierarchy that exists in
Speaker 1: the NFL, it's like it's gonna be blacker at the
Speaker 1: bottom and or minorities at the bottom, and you get
Speaker 1: up higher and higher and there's less risk, there's less dangerous,
Speaker 1: there's less injury, there's less pain, but there's more money,
Speaker 1: there's more success, there's more protection. And that's like, that's
Speaker 1: true in the NFL, and frankly that's true in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Everywhere that y'all work is true. It's true in this building.
Speaker 1: Sorry that nothing day. You know, it's interesting because we
Speaker 1: we watched. When I watched what happened to hambling on
Speaker 1: the field, Um, I was personally like, because I'm I
Speaker 1: watched football very long time and I'm sure you've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries. I don't know that I've ever
Speaker 1: seen anything like that, and um, the way that the
Speaker 1: players reacted, um, it was, it was. It was hurtful.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you were sad that somebody was suffering there.
Speaker 1: It was such a beautiful human moment because the NFL
Speaker 1: got to be human. They like the cultures like when
Speaker 1: you're playing this game, and owners like, yes you are.
Speaker 1: So you got to see men that just were empathic
Speaker 1: and and just men who were crying and praying and
Speaker 1: not because they want a little lost, because they were
Speaker 1: praying for for somebody who wasn't there. I played for
Speaker 1: a long I played a long time. I was in
Speaker 1: a game where a player got paralyzed on the field
Speaker 1: and he was taking off. We waited five minutes, warmed up,
Speaker 1: and played again. I played in the preseason game where
Speaker 1: a player died in the locker room afterwards. Like, I've
Speaker 1: been around some ugly parts of football, but to your point,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like what do you think it
Speaker 1: was different about that that particular play his heart stopped
Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, but we've seen people pass out,
Speaker 1: We've seen people have but it was something different about
Speaker 1: that that because I didn't think it was all that
Speaker 1: bad at first. I passed out doing COVID so but
Speaker 1: there was the way because I think that people are
Speaker 1: used to certain types of injuries or seeing certain types
Speaker 1: of things. But that's scared everybody. Yeah, the reaction from
Speaker 1: the players really like scared all of us. And I
Speaker 1: think this all goes back to the original conversation that
Speaker 1: we were having about like American culture and the hierarchy
Speaker 1: that exist. Is you show up at those games as
Speaker 1: a player, and you know that there is no limit
Speaker 1: to the risk that you're taking, right, but what would
Speaker 1: you do with them? Well, you do it because you
Speaker 1: grow up so when you were a kid and you
Speaker 1: want to play football. You decide before you're like of
Speaker 1: clear mind, then you're showing propensity for it, and people
Speaker 1: just keep pushing along, keep pushing along, And nothing's wrong
Speaker 1: with that. And frankly, when I came up, we were
Speaker 1: unaware of the ct stuff that came out while I
Speaker 1: was in che your mind. I like to think it would,
Speaker 1: but I doubt that it would. And to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I don't begrudge any of the players now
Speaker 1: for participating in the game knowing the risk that it takes.
Speaker 1: The thing that frustrates me is there is a cap
Speaker 1: on the amount of money they can make, on the
Speaker 1: amount of uh like healthcare they can receive. The league
Speaker 1: negotiates for a cap on that, but on the other side,
Speaker 1: the owners, the coaches, the general manner, the players really
Speaker 1: because there's a say if if if if NFL players
Speaker 1: didn't play, that ship would be Rugby, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think the goal is to make you pretend like
Speaker 1: you don't have a choice. I believe you don't have
Speaker 1: a choice. You go through some of the finest institutes
Speaker 1: of higher learning. On the face of there, you went
Speaker 1: to Harvard, you're very right, man. But to make you
Speaker 1: believe that fuel the holding to a thing because of
Speaker 1: your mind is the biggest game in town. So I
Speaker 1: agree and I understand. So to be clear, I went
Speaker 1: to Harvard Business School. I'm aa turp through and through
Speaker 1: first of all. But the first he's plays down playing Harvard. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I know somebody went to the new school. I would
Speaker 1: say quality called back. Harvard is no news school. I
Speaker 1: would say that I get your point. And I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to sound like a broken record, but like we all
Speaker 1: exist in the society, and I think the players as
Speaker 1: a whole, it's solidarity is power. If they stop, you
Speaker 1: can get what you want, and all of us can
Speaker 1: get the things that we want if we band together.
Speaker 1: But the challenging thing about negotiating with the owners, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing that we all faces trying to change
Speaker 1: the system that's in trench the people who are already
Speaker 1: in power in that situation. So if you are to strike,
Speaker 1: if you're a player too, if you're a group of players,
Speaker 1: to get which one, that's essentially a war of attrition
Speaker 1: the commanders. The Washington Football Team reporter is gonna sell
Speaker 1: for eight billion dollars. How do players win a war
Speaker 1: of attrition? Against them. And then you compound that by
Speaker 1: the fact that we get pressure from everywhere. No one
Speaker 1: comes down so rarely. I think it's changing from now,
Speaker 1: But so rarely do fans come down on the owners
Speaker 1: when there's an issue. Not at all. They're mad at
Speaker 1: the players because that's the face that they they are
Speaker 1: get to see, the face because they have a helmet on. UM.
Speaker 1: I think you guys have a tremendous amount of pressure
Speaker 1: on you externally because um, if you're an athlete, um,
Speaker 1: people aspire to be and and there's amount of external
Speaker 1: pressure that society from a civic perspective, from a cultural perspective, UM,
Speaker 1: from activism perspective. So and and it's it's it's really
Speaker 1: important because the only time generally they see black people
Speaker 1: were running, jumping, singing, the dancing. It really is. It's
Speaker 1: the only time we have everybody's wrapped attention. And so
Speaker 1: how do you balance the fact that you are a professional,
Speaker 1: you have commitments you have to uh, you know, obligated to,
Speaker 1: but you still have a commitment to making things better
Speaker 1: for our community. It's so it's unfair, but that's life.
Speaker 1: It's unfair that that responsibility falls on black players. Because
Speaker 1: it doesn't fall on black on white players, like no
Speaker 1: one has this expectation of white players to do the
Speaker 1: same thing, but as black players, they all know that
Speaker 1: that expectation falls on them. But I think Howard Bryant
Speaker 1: wrote a great book called The Heritage about the history
Speaker 1: of activism and athletes, and it's changed. The position of
Speaker 1: the players um and and activism has changed. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's incumbent on us as spectators and people
Speaker 1: who care about it to understand that athletes aren't activists anymore.
Speaker 1: As much as they are like flashlights there, they are
Speaker 1: not entrenched in the fight and the way that say
Speaker 1: Kareem Abdul Jabbar was, which is fine. So when they
Speaker 1: get an opportunity and they say, look over at Tyree Nichols,
Speaker 1: then it's our job to jump in because we can't
Speaker 1: expect them to commit themselves to being the best in
Speaker 1: the world and then also commit themselves to be on
Speaker 1: top of the latest reading and the latest life. Virtually
Speaker 1: every skill set that got you in that field will
Speaker 1: get you makes you a hero on Sunday, will makes
Speaker 1: you a target on Monday. If you big, you fast,
Speaker 1: you strong, and you're black on Sunday. That's an attribute
Speaker 1: on the streets of the of of this country. It
Speaker 1: is a detriment. So it is self prevent preservation. There's
Speaker 1: one there's only one standard I have. Do what you
Speaker 1: can to the best of your ability. Do what you
Speaker 1: can for as long as you can, for all that
Speaker 1: you can. And I think that one thing I would
Speaker 1: say about you, even if I got a chance to
Speaker 1: meet you, I love how area that you are. I
Speaker 1: love how nuanced you are because most things aren't just
Speaker 1: black and white and and and and I love how
Speaker 1: you don't just depend on your physicality. You have never
Speaker 1: just depended on that. But I hate how you play.
Speaker 1: You said I want to. I'm a nobody would ever.
Speaker 1: But it ain't no news to You've seen that there's
Speaker 1: a pretty broad continued experience of between when the NFL
Speaker 1: was then it is now. Are you more hardened or
Speaker 1: more disappointed by the direction it's going? Um, I think
Speaker 1: that's a tough question. I think I am. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that it's not about the NFL. And I'm guilty
Speaker 1: of this as much as anybody else. As we think
Speaker 1: of the NFL as a single entity, which like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an institution, but the NFL is made up of
Speaker 1: a bunch of different things, and the most important entity
Speaker 1: in the NFL is the players. And so that like
Speaker 1: gives me optimism because I've never been more impressed, more excited,
Speaker 1: more invigorated by not only the talent, but the perspective
Speaker 1: and the engagement of these players. We talked about Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and how he's the best quarterback in football right
Speaker 1: now and on the trajectory to be one of the
Speaker 1: best of all time. He spoke out he was one
Speaker 1: of the first faces in that video about Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 1: And I know that Colin Kaepernick is not back in
Speaker 1: the league, but the idea that a black quarterback who
Speaker 1: can obviously avoid this conversation if he wants to, like
Speaker 1: they that opportunity is presented to him time time again,
Speaker 1: and he does not. And that's an example to everyone
Speaker 1: else and players like Lamar Jackson who are willing to
Speaker 1: be outspoken and fight for players right, Like all of
Speaker 1: these players in the league, and it's not just the
Speaker 1: black players, it's the white players also, Like the league
Speaker 1: is in so much better place because of the players.
Speaker 1: And if only the players like really understood that they're
Speaker 1: invested interest in making sure you don't realize everything you
Speaker 1: have because somebody look like you sacrifice. That's why you have. Um,
Speaker 1: you want to leave the union. I don't even pay
Speaker 1: my dudes. Um, what would the you're you're older, now,
Speaker 1: you have a family, you've been married, you lived in
Speaker 1: various places, You've seen in the world. What would the
Speaker 1: adult you tell the rookie you, the wide eye, the
Speaker 1: wide eyed, the white kid that we walk into. What
Speaker 1: would you tell you have as much fun as you can. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: that's a different conversation. That's no. I think the most
Speaker 1: important thing is to get as many different experiences as possible.
Speaker 1: And we are so focused and we're celebrating. Did a
Speaker 1: bunch of ESPN stuff today, celebrating tom Brady's career, and
Speaker 1: his career deserves to be celebrated. It was great, And
Speaker 1: part of the reason why it was so great was
Speaker 1: because it appeared to me that nothing else was more
Speaker 1: important than football to him. And that's fine. If you
Speaker 1: could be Tom Brady. Not everybody can be tom Brady.
Speaker 1: And I know that having all these other experiences. The
Speaker 1: tough thing about being a player in professional sports is
Speaker 1: your skills aren't applicable anywhere else. So if you don't
Speaker 1: hit that home run. And this goes back to like
Speaker 1: the challenge for being a player versus in the ownership class.
Speaker 1: If you are a player and you play three or
Speaker 1: four years, then the league minimum goes up and you're
Speaker 1: out of the league, and your experience, I mean set
Speaker 1: you up to be a bouncer like what you are
Speaker 1: in a tough situation. So like, one of the things
Speaker 1: that I did, and I would encourage all the players
Speaker 1: did that is get involved in the Union as much
Speaker 1: as possible. They're like that helped open my mind to
Speaker 1: how many other opportunities there were out there in the world.
Speaker 1: Get involved in community things obviously, and also like when
Speaker 1: you have time, One of the things that we negotiated
Speaker 1: was for a longer off season. Sure, use that off
Speaker 1: season to go do something else. It will make you
Speaker 1: a better football player and will make you a better person,
Speaker 1: to make you better husband. And I just I did
Speaker 1: talking to you, but I'll say this, I want you
Speaker 1: to understand this. I truly want you to understand this.
Speaker 1: And I most of the men who are on that
Speaker 1: football field go through the finest institutions of how I
Speaker 1: learned in the world It is not their physical attributes,
Speaker 1: it is their minds. And when you understand that your
Speaker 1: mind is the most valuable piece of rena state on
Speaker 1: the face of the earth, they can't beat you. They can't.
Speaker 1: It is not your body. Your body will fail you
Speaker 1: wait before your mind. Does you know you you're here
Speaker 1: not because your your You may think that because you
Speaker 1: hurt yourself you're here, but your mind was ready. And
Speaker 1: these maybe I'm just you know, I got the g D.
Speaker 1: So who am I to say? But if you go
Speaker 1: to college dropped by a class every once in a whire,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it ain't gonna be the
Speaker 1: new school. But Dominique a Fox Club gotten them. Dominique
Speaker 1: Fox Club the show O Kavin got right? We will
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