WEBVTT - Antoine Bethea 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 --> 0:00:31.040 am about it, then we're about to let you know. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:43.920 It's all. There's sometimes like we play sometimes you just 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.279 got Peggy bowl up? What's going on? How was your 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:52.040 weekend entertaining? What'd you get into? Uh? Did some yard work? 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.920 Actually I didn't do new yard work. I pushed it off. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.400 Now I was supposed to. I'm gonna end up doing 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.720 something this weekend, trying to end up. Buddy was in town. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:06.480 Uh toy Smith shout out the toy. Yeah, so he was. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.760 He was up in town and UH called me Friday 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.959 night and was asking me was I in town? He 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.640 was coming down. They were doing uh you're doing this 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.920 uh under armour all American, like this skills challenge where 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.080 they had high school kids. They were running forties vertical job. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.160 It was it was pretty it was pretty big time. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.080 It sounds dope, it was, but it was also one 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:35.480 of those things where I I never experienced this in 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:41.800 high school, but I believe it can warp your perception 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.679 of things, and I just really saw some things that 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.520 were as a parent, I saw some things in myself 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.400 and I was like, that's my wife was talking about. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.080 We would say, you didn't experience what you mean, like 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.680 stuff like this, like the kind of just gamboree type 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.040 type thing. It was. It was big talk. You know. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.920 They had some kids our ranked seventy five in the nation, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.720 thirtieth in the nation, in the nation, it was all around. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.160 I know I'm a little bit younger than you, but 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.000 I feel like even when I was in high school, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.560 that stuff was really just starting to kick off. Like 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.840 the seven on seven tournaments like that stuff. Well, this 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.639 we didn't start doing that till my senior year in 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.440 high school. Was we did seven on seven tournaments in 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.600 high school just to kind of get yourself familiar with 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.000 the possibility of competition and that that goes on no 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.600 matter what stole on your offense all that, but this 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.720 wasn't it wasn't a thing. This was like esp or rank. Yeah, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.040 and so they had some players, I believe, according to 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.720 what they say, are highly ranked. That you know, you'll see, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.639 as some people told me, you will see some of 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.920 these some of these young men playing on Sunday already 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.640 know that. They already know that. Yeah. And and some 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.600 of these young men were conducting and carry themselves as 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.760 if they were already playing on something. What you mean 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.800 by that? It was just a lot. It was a 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.320 lot in regard. So and maybe I'm just old school, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.240 and I probably am, but I am old school in 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.440 them in in a matter of fact of like, um, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.720 you know, a lot of this generation is all about 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.360 about that life right that yolo. And so I was 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.920 I was asked to if I see something corrected. So 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:29.320 I'm working with the wide receivers and we're going over 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.359 some over some how to swim or how to get 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:38.040 off the jam right or the press coverage or quick jam. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.160 And so I was just surprised at how many navels 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.880 I saw out on the field. You mean, like the 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.120 high tuck the in Jerseys, No, I call it what 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.640 it is. I saw a lot of No, I saw 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.840 a lot of crop tops, That's what I saw. And 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.520 I and to be honest, I'm just telling you what 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.320 I saw. I have. I've seen it a little bit. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.360 You always got a guy or two, but it was 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.680 a whole bunch of them. It was a whole bunch 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:10.280 of crop tops and navels and and ear rings with 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.080 hoops and and and and crosses and so they were 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:20.839 they were swagged out. Yeah, here's the problem. I guess 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.040 the standard of swag is lowered because when I started 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.360 coaching some of these kids. No one of these kids 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.200 and I don't know his name and our name, didn't 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.279 ask it because it was just it was so many kids. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.920 But I was like, hey, you know, let's swim. You 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:42.360 shouldn't do swimming moves. Right, One kid swam and that's 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:47.200 when you know, like you swimming and he hit the 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:54.400 bag as if he was someone under five six? Who 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.600 are you? And so I said this statement, and this 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.839 summarizes everything I mean about the crop tops in their rings. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.680 I wear air rings always half but on the football field, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:11.800 also about my business. So one of these young man, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.040 I said, hey, man, if you're gonna swim, you gotta 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.760 swim and swinging that arm violently, right, I said, you 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.360 gotta it's a fist fighting the phone book. You're trying 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.880 to get off the line. Fist fighting the phone that's 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.640 what I love using fist fighting the phone book, not haymakers. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:38.479 Fist fight just you know, punch out, rocking, sock 'em bops, right, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.760 kid tells me, And it just makes sense connected the dots. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.080 See you ever been in a fight? He goes, No, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:53.000 not really. All you needed to hear. If you got 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.240 that crop top and never rings, you had better been 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.400 in the fight. And why is that imports of you, Steve? 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.719 That's hard to say, No, it's not. We're talking about 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:09.720 a hand to hand. It's a violent sport. But you 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.320 look in the part, you're looking like you're ready to 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.599 get after someone you ain't. Why does that bother you 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.440 people who look the part? Because there's a lot of 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.599 people who looked apart, and they get so much credit 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.560 for looking apart, and then you get them out there 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.080 and they want no parts of the game, and then 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.279 then you get a false narrative of that's how they are. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.200 That that's you know, as they say, And I was 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.680 with the receiver, So you know what they call it? 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:44.320 Diva's right, don't look the part of it, the diva part. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.279 I go out there and ball but I just I 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:56.120 found it me personally, I found it extremely disappointing that 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.800 so focused on how I understand look good, play good. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:06.440 But then also when I tried to give them criticism, coaching, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:12.120 correction and correction and critiquing, man, the crop tops got 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.160 in a bunch. But what do what do you think change? 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.880 What do you what do you think changed generates? Because 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.920 it's it definitely wouldn't like that from your stand point? 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.040 What do you think? So? I believe it's changes. Our 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:33.760 young men are listening to music, emulating the music, and 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.880 behaving in the manner in which they see off a 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:43.960 twenty second Instagram posts. They're mimicking things and don't realize 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:51.880 what they're mimicking to some degree isn't very masculine. And 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.600 I don't know how this is gonna come across, but 0:07:54.680 --> 0:08:00.440 I just felt it was extremely I feel like I 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:05.520 was at a fashion show instead of a football display, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.280 and not everybody. There's some there's some beast out there, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.120 but then there's some. There was some beasts who looked beast, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.960 but they really weren't there for the right intentions. That 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.040 also why that's important why I found that as a dad. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.480 That's also setting them up for failure and not really 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:28.800 giving them a realistic understanding of what they're embarking on. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.160 They're not embarking on the popularity contest. They're definitely not 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:39.000 embarking on a fashion contest. It's football, It's about skills, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.120 and it's actually about producing. Because there were some times 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.760 where I gave some coaching and some kids received the coaching, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.120 and there are some kids who looked at me as if, 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:59.560 what do I know? It's different? Man. That's why I asked, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.240 you wouldn't what do you what do you think it is? 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.320 Because I agree, I think it's I think it's images. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.400 I think it's social media, I think it's I think 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.520 it's overall media. But then I was curious to know, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.800 do you think it's any of from parenting to coaching 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.800 to what all of the above? Where it's really what 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.120 I tend to think because you can just tell it's 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.080 a it's a difference between and they don't sports youth 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.959 sports today versus youth sports back in the day, where 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.200 again I know I'm a little bit younger, but generally 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.800 when we came up, man, it's it's just different. It's 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.840 completely different. What's tough too, is they don't like to 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.960 be critique, right, I don't like to be coached. I 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.640 mean we used to welcome that. The only way you 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.679 got I didn't necessary. I wasn't all ears on dog custom, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.920 but like you can't even hey, put your foot up? 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.720 What why you know? Put your opposite? And it's not 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.000 why it is? Hey, why tell me? Because I really 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.760 want to know. It's like, well, what's the big deal? 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.000 So what people questioning you when you gave them correct 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.120 they weren't necessarily question I just I got the I'm 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.080 a dad because I would have been different if it is. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.680 It's not it's not that I got the look. I 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.439 got the like yes, but it's still like, you gotta 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.199 a future Hall of Famer. I know they're making a 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.839 comfort whatever, but you gotta you have a guy who's 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.920 been there, done that. And I think whether it is 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.000 whether it's your status as an NFL player or just 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.480 someone but here who has played before. Here's the part 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.720 that threw them off too. I knew I was going 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.400 to a football camp, so I also want to dress 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.520 comfortably in case I had to get out there. But 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.640 I also I got look sideways a little bit because 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.319 I didn't look like a guy who played sixteen years. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:46.840 You know what I look like. I um, some short sweatpants, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.040 a T shirt. I had, you know, my nine year 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:56.280 old free watch. You know I didn't look like the 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:02.319 NFL superstar. Yes, you know I got my you know, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.040 my necklace. I've been warning for years that I wear 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:11.440 it in my shirt. But it wasn't extravagant. And so 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.079 if you a little bit like Steve like, yeah, oh 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.120 I thought you were Oh I just kind of got that. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.560 He thought she showed up looking like a lane. Yeah, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.920 I showed I showed up. She showed up with knowledge 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.839 and they and sometimes I don't want to hear who 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.480 actually I showed up in that fist fighting phone booth 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.640 of time. Hey, you never know. Sometimes you just gotta 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:41.240 pull up, pull up, because you can't fistfighting skinny jeans. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.560 You can't get your ass swooping them skinny jeans. But 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.280 not here, not this guy. Don't let me pull my 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.360 flip up brim down. That's when that's when you mean business. Actually, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.599 when I flip it around. As we know who we 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.200 got coming on the Cut to It podcast. We've got 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.440 Antoine Buffet, a veteran NFL safety He played with four 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.960 teams during his tenure with the NFL. He's a three 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.600 time Pro Bowler and he's a member of the Black 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.600 College Football Hall of Fame, as he attended Howard University. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:23.600 Antoine Buffet on the Cut to It podcast, it's always 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.600 a pleasure to have someone in studio. So hey, right 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.720 off the bat, we're gonna get into get our stuff. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:33.360 Favorite color and why red um? And I would just say, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:38.360 you know, um, that bull you know that bulls he's red. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.959 You know you? You would sacking, like you said, I'm 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.720 a defensive guy anyway. So that's how we That's how mindset. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:48.120 And that was a cool last explanation. He's always been 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.040 one of those cool guys just playing against I never 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.000 really got the opportunity to see how cool he was. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.000 That cool factor didn't come through. Then what are you 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.800 trying to hit? You cool guy trying to knock my 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:09.200 appreciate that. We'll get into that. I gotta moving on. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.880 Moving on, Hey, hobbies, you have picked up um and 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.880 retirement now man um sustainable hobbies not. Don't give me. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.960 I didn't it until we right now. It's peloton, Okay, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.920 you got to bike or the tradmill the bike right 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.600 now it's pelotone. I don't know how long that's going. Um, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.439 that's gonna stick, but right now that's what it is. Yeah. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.120 For how much I played for my pelotone. Oh it's 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.280 sticking exactly. We just got ours like two weeks ago. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.520 I love it. I love it so far. But it's 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.800 a bike though. So I tapped into a six thirty group. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.560 You did alive six thirty group. It was some other guys, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.880 some retired guys, and we was getting on six thirty 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.319 out of fall back on that door like that, getting 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.360 up at six o'clock, being with time, like, nah, that 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.360 goes against the whole point, the whole point, you know, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:04.000 but that when your metabolism works throughout the Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.480 I just I just can't for how much riding you 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:13.160 guys are doing, like and being a peloton treadmill, you 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.880 having a I do get jealous sometimes when seeing y'all, Like, man, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.280 I get an hour, I'm over there ecstatic about my 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:28.640 little my little fold five miles. I mean, how are 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.520 you sitting on that peloton for that long time? Sometimes 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:40.360 you're not sitting pause, Um, I gotta get the butt pack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:48.120 definitely pause definitely because we hate but now that sitting 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.520 there for forty five mental hour that that's a that's 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.160 a beast. That's a beast. But the treadmill, I'm just 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.520 not I've never been a treadmill runner. I haven't either, 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.760 but I started. I like it. The trail man hurts 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.240 in what regards. I don't like running running, running on 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.600 that treadmill. With me running, I gotta I gotta have 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.240 an endpoint. Yeah, I gotta see where I'm going. You know. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:11.960 What I mean with the treadmill was just but it's 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.320 it's the same, just like Ryan, what's crazy is I 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:21.200 did so I did the peloton at an Indy and 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.040 when I was thinking about getting one the bike, and 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.560 I did the class and the class didn't do anything 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:33.160 for you. I was kind of like, this is it? Yeah, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.760 but then I did the peloton. But what I like 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:41.520 about the treadmill is HASH has the wood way. Yeah, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:47.720 give me so peloton, your ad can go here. I 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.400 mean it's a good product though, Definitely, it's a good product. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.479 I like. I like I can work out by myself, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:00.040 push myself. But yet I do not feel connected. I 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.240 just don't feel like I'm by myself. I don't have 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.680 to be connected with anybody. If you're up at six 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:11.880 am or seven pm, it's not this awkward like Okay, no, 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.880 that's dope because I did the Um you know, I 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.560 got the app, so I do. Uh. Also, I'll run 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.720 outside and I'll do the audio peltine and have somebody 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.200 in your ear talking like yo, this's what we're doing 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.600 is push it. Yeah I like that. So I like 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:32.480 that too. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to social distance? 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:41.600 Six ft apart? Or um? Loan? So wants some money? 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.160 Oh loan somebody some money, no question. You want to 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.720 get them, no question. They may not come back. You 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.280 ain't gonna worry about saying no question, no question. And 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.720 city your point, man, it's conversation app all the time. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.840 Like give me that same energy that you get you 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:05.960 when you was asking for them more. Yeah. M that's 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.840 a backstage Joe on that one. We thought you jump 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.439 right on that all right. Um. You know, so my 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.960 daughter works a Chick fil A and she was like, Dad, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.400 there's this guy that drives a nice car and I 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.879 can't remember where I know him from. And then she said, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.840 you looked at her like, I know you, but I 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.159 don't know where I know you from. And so she 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.359 finally someone there said, oh, that's that's Antoine that. So 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.080 she was talking to me and I said, tell him, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.440 I said with something. So she said and she said, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.920 now it's that less awkwardness of like yeah, and so 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.120 it was pretty funny. So um, So with that being said, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.240 what's your favorite item on Chick fil a? Because word 0:17:53.280 --> 0:18:00.800 on the chicken streets that crested chicken? What annointed meal? 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.879 What you're getting, man, I'm right now, you're going up, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:11.080 So I definitely right now, I'm I'm with spicy chicken 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:16.800 strips right now. What's the side fries? Okay? Drink drink 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.879 sprite Okay. I thought you might have switched it up. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.600 Got a little on a palm or some of us 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.120 called the tiger woods. No, no, no, I'm sticking. I've 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.200 never heard the tiger never never heard of it. Start 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.280 instead of it being on a palmer, you know, just 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.159 more of a more recent golf of the pen on 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.720 where you go. Some people call it a tiger the 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.480 first time and I've heard that. What did you hear 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.120 it from? I had that Soulfu restaurant so I thought 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.960 it was just half and half the same thing. It's 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:49.720 the same drink, it different golfer. I never heard same drink, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.639 different golfer. I don't know about that. Oh no, I 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.320 just so I just made it up. That's how all 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.439 the palmer became on a palmer. It was made up. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.359 But I'm just saying I don't know if that made up. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:07.480 Just gonna stick you hear you hear this without anybody stopped, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:12.440 like like like the needle went off the record like that. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:23.400 Mass I looked like right, and you said you start 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.520 to take You started taking this like damn. I love 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.720 how you. I love how you explain to us who 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.280 tiger Woods was right, like y'all looking like tiger Woods, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.800 like he had a golfer like when you said tiger 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.880 Woods and you said, yeah, he's more current. First thing 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.800 he said was that ain't with his legs. Said you 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.439 ain't playing golf right now, so you you try to. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.840 That's one of those that ain't gonna stick. Nah, al right, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.359 well stuck somewhere. It ain't with this group. If we 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.040 go out to eat and we said, you give me 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:05.960 a tager Woods. It depends on where you at the 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.640 still gonna look at you. Here's what they're gonna say. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.040 Which what are you referring to? That's what I said. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:19.720 Depends on where you go. Yeah, all right, translation, No one, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.960 it's going down this road. We have to take a 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.120 break and the morning a thing. We gotta pay some bills. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:33.840 You got checks. I love cut to It and I 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.760 love it even more when you download us and subscribe, 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.880 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.040 where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:49.280 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:53.280 It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? And you 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.720 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.040 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:04.000 us wherever listen to podcasts. I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.960 I got all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:12.640 a brother, cut to a podcast dot Com. So, Antoine, 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.080 where are you from in the place you call your hometown? 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:20.280 Born in Savannah, Georgia, But um hometown is Newport News, Virginia. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:25.560 Grew up there so dad was in the military, moved 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.080 around a little bit, but Newport News was home. So 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.680 growing up in Newport News Virginia. You know, how did that, 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.680 How did that shape your perspective on the world. Man, 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:41.720 it was again being a military child. Um, when you 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:46.679 say military child, what a jury? What's the age range? Um? 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:54.720 My dad was in the military until I was probably fourteen. Okay, 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.959 So so you were so long enough to it actually 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.600 shaped you because you know, so you hear somebody I'm from, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.040 I'm here, I was in the military, you know, and 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.080 then he was like he got out when I was 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.800 four yea, yeah, yeah, so old enough to so old 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:13.000 enough you experienced a lot of different places. So that's 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:18.000 that's what I'm saying. So Pops born in Savannah. From Savannah, 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.040 we moved to Germany. From Germany, we moved to Virginia 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.720 at four years old. So Mom and Pops they made 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.840 a decision that you know, instead of jumping from city 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.960 to city, state to state, family will stay put. Dad 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:35.840 would do the traveler. So again with that just understanding, 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:38.040 you know, for one, Dad, you know he gotta do 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.040 what he gotta do to protect, to take care of 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.119 fam So from there he had his chores back to 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:48.840 Germany to Egypt, um, you know, Saudi Arabia. So again 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.879 me being the youngest of two brother off at school. 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:54.879 It's just me and mom. Duke's at the house. So 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:58.840 now it's like at a young age, I'm technically the 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.520 man of the house, you know what I mean. So um. 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.600 But but being in the um, living on the base, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.800 you see white, you see black, she Asian, you see 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:10.200 all type of life you know, um, and then really 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:14.280 everybody has something in common. It's military life. And then 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:18.040 you know, going to school other kids. Uh, mom and dad, 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.239 um gone. So we had that in common. But then 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:25.359 living moving off base, able to see more so off 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:32.360 the um, urban life, urban lifestyle. Um. You know, middle school, um, 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:37.680 not black, high school not black. Now were starting the 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.080 I'm starting to experience what you know, life in the 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.400 urban neighborhood is all about, you know, friends going down 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:48.320 different different paths. So for me, Man just opened my 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:53.880 eyes of just moving not even ten miles down the road. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.280 It's a huge difference, you know what I mean. Just 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:59.399 life's throwing off on the base. My family were in 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:05.479 the middlitary rry, but no one necessarily lived on base, right. 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:08.840 I had uncle served as a storm he was Navy, 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.520 but family didn't live on base, you know, especially in 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.399 the Navy. They were gone so much. Um, living on 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:18.640 living on a ship family is not living on the base. 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:21.080 They just didn't. As I got older and then I 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:25.320 was doing I started doing football camps, and I started 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.800 to get the pleasure of going on all these different bases, 0:24:29.520 --> 0:24:34.320 and I really saw some things that advantages of kids 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:38.399 going all these different countries and experiencing that. But I 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.240 also saw the disadvantages the same way you could be sheltered, 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:44.639 the same way that we talked about sheltered of someone 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:50.120 living in a bubble of of of affluence, where there's 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:54.200 someone that's living in a military bubble that they only 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:59.080 interact with kids that a military and so that's all 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:01.800 you know, and it's a good thing and could be 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.120 a bad thing because in that bad thing, they also 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:08.359 lack resources, right even though they're serving our government. The 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:10.879 government only gives you so much. You only you know, 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:14.040 every every family deals with it differently. There's all the 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:15.840 you know, all the stuff that goes on in that. 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:20.480 And man, I really learned a lot and really saw 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:23.520 a lot that um to the point I did that 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:29.359 for about seven or eight years, and what the cool 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:32.199 part was is I was able to serve maybe at 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:35.720 this military base and then maybe five six years in 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:39.480 a kid that was at one military base that the 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.240 other one. It was cool, but it was also you 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.399 could see I think I met him in the States 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:47.640 and then next time I saw him six seven years 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:53.680 later it was at Camp Humphreys and so Korea. Now, 0:25:55.760 --> 0:25:58.320