WEBVTT - Jakeem Grant 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John and this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.600 to it. Good do it, Good do it. That's getting 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.919 down to do it. Good do it. We asked the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.880 questions you always want to know, but no one ever asked, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.600 let's cut to it. You ain't heard am about it? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:43.919 Then we're about to let you know. It's all damn it. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.360 I lost WiFi. Okay, I don't have WiFi for like 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:54.680 two days. Why you want to really know? A lot? You? 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.160 A great line is um, because I didn't pay my bill. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.360 That's the line the devil made me do it. Let 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:09.120 me tell you what happened to us. So the family, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.040 So the family, so, uh, you know, first of all problems. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.319 So we have a whale and we try to utilize 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:21.120 the well too. Um one. I know this isn't surprise, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.319 but I don't like folks telling me I can't water 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:29.000 my grass. So we have a whale and in the 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.640 well that my irrigation is on the well? Now are 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.880 well does it get p s size pressure? It doesn't 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.040 get enough pressure to to to be able to run 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.759 the whole thing because of we're not getting as much 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.559 of gallon per minute, so we only get like eight 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.360 thirteen or fifteen gallons permitted the threshold is like eighteen 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.280 or twenty. You're fudging it, and so it will kind 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.360 of killer reserves. And so it just makes it to 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.640 where it would utilize the well. But we you know, 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.800 I used it to like do other stuff around the 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.400 house and stuff just I just like to have my life. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.359 Wants an off grade house. But I um real, lie quick, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.560 lie and just a lie over. I can't afford it. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:18.640 Um so, so that's my goal to. That's my goal to. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.960 I can't afford it. So and and plus I'm not 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:32.120 farming that I'm not farming right so especially I don't 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.680 know any vets that will help me deliver a baby 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.920 for a cow or a calf, um just all of 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.360 all of that stuff. I don't want to pay for 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.200 all that little house on the It weren't there any 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.119 black people in the house on the plur know that 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.560 that was a trick question and answers, no, there wasn't. Okay, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:59.240 And um so I got my landscaper too, uh, change 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:04.639 the nozzles on my sprinklers too. For them to be smaller, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.840 so it will we can accommodate the well. So on 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.119 the internet, and I'm like, dang, internet went out? Ding, 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:20.400 don't hey did the internet go out? Yes, your neighbor, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:26.520 the landscaper, he hit the line because it's buried here 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.120 in North Carolina. You bury um utilities hit the line 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:36.760 digging up the sprinkler head. So lost the internet. No 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.760 big deal. Mistakes happen. I don't have a problem with it. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.640 So we call are in that provider. Now I have 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.880 two lines, have a business line for NFL network and 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.720 I have a personal line. My man, did it right. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.280 If you're gonna do it, do it right. He could 0:03:54.360 --> 0:04:01.920 everything everything, I mean, alarms going all, no line left behind. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.440 He got him hall. No big deal, he's apologetic. Mistakes happen. Cool. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.840 So we get our our internet provider to come in. Bang. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:15.400 They they later line. So now the kids are hot 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.400 because we got the PlayStation five and that was the 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.560 only one I could muster up and muscle. And that 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.280 one is totally downloadable. No hard copy, no no hard 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.760 a hard drug. So you could play online. But we 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.760 ain't got no online. Next, you don't have internet. It 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.320 doesn't work. Oh, man kids is looking doocy Damn. Didn't 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.560 want to slap me, right, So we go pool. Hey, 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.000 let's just go hang out. So on our way we 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.719 you know, kind of going through the neighborhood. Were on 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.680 a golf cart, just just getting outside, you know, doing 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:52.200 old school stuff. Oh school with a golf cart. Damn 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.280 your legs. Ain't that schooling about a golf riding around 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:01.599 the neighbor in a golf cart. Sorry, you see you 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.560 threw me off. I was I stated story mode, like 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.200 the story mode, but you was in the holding modes. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:14.720 It wasn't riding bikes. Were riding bikes old school. We're 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.120 riding bikes right uh. And so as we're riding a 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.520 bike slash riding a golf cart, landscapers go past us. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.400 They're going to motor grass. Now they read they run 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.680 the line. They're gonna burry line in seven ten days. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.880 So we were hanging out and then we go to pool. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.440 We're playing, and then we come back in the house 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:44.880 and the internet was working and that's not working now. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:50.679 When they laid the lines, they also put red flags. Okay, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.359 now this may come across a certain way, but I 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.960 just said they laid flags that one roh that's Spanish 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:06.240 for red bilingual. Mm hmm. So some roles come by. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:15.320 Guess what I discover they in the lawnmower right anymore? 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:26.120 Cut the new line. He drove over the line, scoundrel, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:36.359 and then try to jerry rig it with black electrical tape. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.839 As we that's the that's the that's that's the thing. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:46.599 So then we had to call the same people we 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.920 called to get the line. They have laid two lines 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.839 now and he cut the other line, the business line 0:06:54.839 --> 0:07:01.120 that they laid. Mm hmmm. So now this week I 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.000 do not want them to motograph because it has not 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.280 been buried. We don't need oceananigans anymore. Bro do you 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.600 talking about you? Are you? You're talking about? I wasn't 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.160 the first time, actually happen the second time. If I 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.160 was doing this podcast at the time that I discovered 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.520 that they cut this line, you know how many associations 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.680 would disassociate me from what I was saying. I was 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.760 so mad. Mh I was. It's a low down, dirty 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.760 shame bro Keen and Ivory Wins. Let me tell you something. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:41.360 It was b s dog. I had two days of 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.240 no WiFi. It ain't even the WiFi. It's the fact 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:51.160 that if you drove over this black line with red 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:57.720 and red even in Europe, means stop, m hm, educate 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:05.040 red flags on top of a black line that's going 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.960 through out it goes from my front yard to my backyard. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:15.880 He he caught with this sharp blade underneath that driving 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:20.760 over it. He would be okay, tow it up. Yes, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:31.440 you are so mad at your anger. You are the 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.880 first guy, he was straight. The second guy. Let them 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.640 be more on my grass this week, and I'm at 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:45.120 the house. It's gonna show down. Really, he don't do it. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:52.679 As I am progressing and I'm growing up, but every 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:59.000 so often I ain't. I'm this woman in my elbow. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:06.200 I ain't molly watched somebody this year yet I can't 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:14.840 believe like me and Andrew looking at it. She goes, Babe, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:24.720 big man, I'll tell you, you man, because you know 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:30.199 I'm mad laziness dog. So I guess the safe to 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.000 say that we ain't gonna be or we're not going 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.880 to be endorsing this because I had to read for 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:40.120 this landscape, because let me tell you, tell me, I 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.760 shouldn't read it right now. If you don't think I'm 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.120 looking for a new landscaper because these dudes and my 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:52.559 landscape is great. But this, come on, dog, this is 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.199 the topic. This is just lack of because why I 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.080 look at that? Why why it gets me so charged up? 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.880 It's if you're lazy to do that? What other areas 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:10.280 are you skimping on? And so now I'm in every 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.760 before they get there, and before they and after they leave, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.920 I am checking to make sure did you get my 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.480 flower beds? Did you get this? Did you get that? 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.320 Because if you don't, I'm done with them. Stand your ground, brother, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:28.240 stand your ground. You know what. I hope your wife 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:34.560 I get cut? Oh we got alright. Coming up on 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.160 the cut to a podcast, we've got Jachem Grant, a 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.880 while receiver for the Miami Dolphins. He's a native of Dallas, Texas, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.320 and was just named second team All Pro and as 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.280 a punt returner. Jachem Grant on the Cut to a Podcast, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.240 we will announce right now your nickname, which I would 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.559 not call you by, which is black but black? How 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.520 did you get home? How did you get the nickname black? 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.960 I'm dark as hell man, right, That's that's what people 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:14.320 don't understand. I'm okay with being dark. Man, look, dark man. Listen, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.240 that's what they called me. I'm talking about from high 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.320 school to college, everything from pee wee. I'm talking about. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.040 The coaches called me black. Everybody called me black. Even 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.560 even white coaches call you black. Yeah, even white coaches 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.520 call me black still to this day. Real he is dark, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:37.560 as I'm telling if he closed his eyes and but hey, 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.160 that brother got a clean set of anneers though brussus 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:46.360 teeth and floss. I see, that's a fact. You got 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.520 to when you're that dark and ugly, you gotta have 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:58.479 other attributes. Take the dark window, the window as a 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.520 as a leader of the under short people. Man, it's 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.640 a pleasure to welcome you into the group of playmakers 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.720 six feet in below right, welcome to Welcome to the squad. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.719 I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Well, he like five way. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.000 I'll tell you don't know you said welcome to the 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.280 squad as if you in the squad we all on 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:23.439 the six feet right. Yeah, but you gotta actually had 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.400 did something. Oh okay, I'll leave my bad. I didn't 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.920 know I didn't do anything. I thought we were just 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.360 talking about hype requirements. That ain't no, no, no, I 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.360 forgot the corner. He was a corner. I forgot you 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.320 was an elitist. I'm showing that you just were. He 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.040 was a corner we wanted. We got let corners. Now 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.839 I see what you I see. I see myself outter. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.839 You wonder if he was trying he told yeah, where's that? 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.920 He was all I got you look look, yeah he 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.360 got quiet. Yeah, alright, let's go. Okay, here we go. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:06.640 So what's your favorite lazy activity? Netflix? Sitting there and 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:12.640 watching TV's. So are you a Netflix being join movies 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.520 or shows? Shows? Most definitely shows. I gotta have a 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:23.480 sit which one you're on right now? Um look at 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:31.040 boy timing the time of that way that I gotta 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:49.280 get some Look at floppers, wife and kids back home 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.880 in Texas. Yeah, so I have nothing to do. Man, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.440 I'm talking about when you when you say my wife 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.000 and kids, I just sent them back to Texas. Um 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.880 My want to move back to be around family and stuff. So, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.800 um you know how the NFL go. You don't want 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.880 team to be on the next team, So what you're 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:12.319 thinking about that? So that's home base? And so um man, 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.480 when I tell you loneliness, the strikes when you ain't 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.959 got your kids and your wife there, Yeah, tell you that. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.960 That's why I'm all in the Netflix Netflix hardcore all 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.080 day cool, All right, what's um? I know I'm gonna 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.080 get you on this one. Definitely favorite Christmas song or 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:36.320 Carol man I if you have one that's fun, Rudolf, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.520 I guess I mean go with rut Off. The red 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.680 nose rein Deer had a very sign you know if 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:54.160 you ever saw him. M yeah, yeah, appreciate No, I 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.440 got it. Yeah. See, that's what happens when you just 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.760 you just throw something out there and then they call 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.680 you on you're trying to wing it. I had it, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.960 I had I had the first couple of Yeah, there's Temptations, huh. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.880 The Temptations Solid Night count that's my favorite. Like that's 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.440 when you know it's Christmas time. When that Temptations slid 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.360 Night comes on, it's Christmas time. So I grew up 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:22.640 that's we didn't coordinate this. Yeah. When I was a kindygarten, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:29.040 our Christmas are Christmas. H was that Christmas progrogram? We 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:34.000 have to sing Silent Night so big, So I like 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.680 Solid Night. I just like the Temptations first, and that's 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.920 that's that that's that legit one. That baritone voice. Yeah, 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.640 that's that's that's the one of money right there. Huh cool. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:52.280 How do you display love to friends and family? Time? Man, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.280 spending time with them and uh the showing them that 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.040 you know, I'm I'm here for you and sign a 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.040 vice versa. I think time is the biggest thing, especially 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.360 being an athlete. They're just showing you that, like I 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.760 still care about you, I'm still here for you, like 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.400 without happening, you know, as you know, Steve buying somebody something. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.960 Now I'm here. Just let's spend time. Let's do this, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.720 let's do that. I like that. All right, last one? 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.440 You ready, I'm ready. I know you're a returner, but 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.440 you also are excellent receiver. What is your favorite route 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.560 to run? And a go route is not a route? 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:37.800 Choice route, choice route over the ball? Sit right there? 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.400 We Uh you can break in out sometimes you get 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.240 you get messed up on you saw you the Nickel Star. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.920 Easy easy, easy words. Especially I love you when man 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.000 coverage because yeah, I got three way, I got I 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.320 got two way go. I can beat you with speed, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.520 run across the run across, or I can hit you 0:16:58.560 --> 0:16:59.920 and make you feel like I'm going all the way 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:04.520 cross and returned back out. All right. So where are 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.760 you from in the place you call your hometown, Ballace, Texas? 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.119 M hmm, okay, it was tough. It was rough, single 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.360 payer at home mom working two jobs, trying to uh 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.960 provide for me and my my two brothers and men 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:28.280 that left us up to doing everything. Um mom was 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.720 never home, she had to work and to make ends meet, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.520 and me and my brothers was running wild. And we 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.160 didn't make it. We didn't make it easy on them 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:43.240 because I mean, I say, with you know, gang activity, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:49.240 I mean from everything, time on your hands, a lot 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.760 of time on your hands. And it was just like 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.760 you know, oldest brother started off with it and and 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.359 my brother. My mom always told us you your brother's keeper. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.959 So it was like, hey, you and it we in it. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.520 So this is how it was gonna go. How the 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:10.680 gang activity got into it. And then everybody was just like, hey, hey, black, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.679 you're the only one that you're the only one that 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.520 can make it out of us. So that kind of 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:19.160 just turned me on a different path. And then also 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.080 with my oldest brother getting side in the next so 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.040 that was just that was a rout for me. Your 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.359 older brother got shot in the neck. Yep, we're still 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.200 here to this day, not paralyzed, Thank God for that. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:37.480 And that was it. That was a rat for me. Mhm. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.680 What did what did football represent to you in your mind? 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.480 Football was with everything going on in my life, mom 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.879 doing paying two jobs and stuff like that, doing this 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.399 and that, it was my getaway. It's my safe hayting. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.520 I don't think I've ever asked anyone this, and it 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.640 when I was doing this rundown and made me think 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.879 of that because I was thinking about myself. I don't know, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.000 I think as a as as a I only know 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:13.159 the African community. Um yeah, why I think I'll ask you. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.240 I don't even know to answer myself. Why do we 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.160 think sports is the only way we can get out 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:26.959 of out of poverty? Because because to be honest, I 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.760 want you to be honest, don't lie. Yeah yeah, I'm saying. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.440 It was just it takes it takes away that time, 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.000 what time and what the time that you have to 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.720 to get into anything. And so as you know, as 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.640 an athlete, when you when you have you've got time 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:51.040 this but whenever you're an athlete, everything you have is boom. 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.479 You have this this one time you got this is 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:58.120 everything destructured. So it was just basically like, and ain't 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.280 no way I can go and do this when I 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.159 got when I gotta do, I gotta work out, I 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.440 gotta stay ahead in the game. I gotta I gotta 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.320 I gotta eat right, I gotta do this, I gotta 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.240 study on. I got school and stuff. I gotta do 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.080 all this, so there's no time for me to get 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.920 in trouble. We have to take a break and the 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.960 morning thing, we gotta pay some bills. You got checks. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.240 I love cut to It, and I love it even 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:28.679 more when you download us and subscribe, and you can 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.200 follow us on social media too, Smithie, where where at? 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:36.120 That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.280 Cut to It Facebook? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.800 What about online? And you can follow us at cut 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.960 to It podcast dot com where you can buy merch 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.360 and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.440 I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.800 all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:02.000 cut to a Podcast dot Com. I didn't want to 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.320 play football, Momma put me in football. I I was, 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:10.840 I was. I was skater, like skater, like not the 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.120 ramps and doing all that like inline speed skates, you know, 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:19.639 for the for the Olympics where they it was basically like, oh, 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:26.080 ice skate, mom was It wasn't ice skate, but the blades. Yeah, 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.520 they had nipads and elbow pads. Now they had the 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.960 elbow pads and just ahead just the helm helmet. Yeah. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:44.359 And and I'm talking short yeah yeah, yeah, I'm talking Yeah. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.919 It was just it was strictly off. It was just 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.800 strictly speed. Was there like an inline league or something 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.479 like that. Yeah, I used to skate for the Texas Squires. 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:03.480 See I'm guessing, wasn't y'all didn't have inline rollerblading in 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.200 the hood. No, we didn't. We went to this skating 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.640 ring called called Broadway Skating Ring where my mom used 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.000 to drop us off. This is when we're young. Now wait, 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:16.439 this is way before gang activity and all that extra stuff. 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:20.919 This is Mom used to hey, y'all, yeah, y'all go 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.000 up to the y'all go up to the skating ring. 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:25.280 We used to go up there all the time. They 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.800 start letting us in for free and we'll be up 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:34.600 there from literally from two to eleven PM and me 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:40.000 to h, I do it all. I still skate, but 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.720 and I'm talking about skating like NonStop. My brothers and them, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.320 they take a break, I'm still skating because I want 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.359 to be the fastest on skating is doing everything. And 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:53.960 so Dad, the one that used to work that, his 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:58.119 name was Dad. He worked behind the skate counter and 0:22:58.119 --> 0:22:59.760 and he was just like, how would you like to 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:03.040 be on the Texas Flyers? And I was just like, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:05.600 and I love it, like he was. I was like, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:07.880 I just told him, like I don't think I can 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.240 afford the inline skates. I don't I can't afford it. 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:15.320 And yeah, and he said, don't worry about it. And 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.879 I signed up right then and there, and the next thing, 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.920 you know, killing them And then we used to then 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.800 and now this is how I got introduced the football. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:28.880 I was if we played this. We played this game 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:32.280 called Sharks in the Meadows. It's for four guys, four 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.119 guys on skates and a whole bunch of kids in 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:39.440 the middle to skating ring, and everybody got tagged out. 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:43.119 I'm the last person me versus four four guys on 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:46.639 skates and little dodo. I know my mom walked in 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:50.280 and she and she watching it and I made all 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.359 four of them fall and they just they called the game. 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:55.720 And then next thing, you know, that next day, my 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:58.320 mom signed me up for football and I'm like, what 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:00.240 we're doing. I'm trying to I want to those skate 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.320 and she was like, just just trust me, You'll think 0:24:03.359 --> 0:24:09.240 me like m and the wrest was itty cool. Actually, 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:13.480 I what's funny is um my mom when she was 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:15.840 trying to get her degree and we were in I 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.600 think I was in middle school. My mom used to 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.000 drop me off on Saturdays at the ice skating ring 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:25.720 and Culver City. She's get me back then that was 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:28.800 a lot of much. She give me ten bucks and 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:33.320 drop me off on our ice skate all day and 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.119 that's what we did. And then when I it's actually 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:38.200 when I go back home now, especially working for the 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:42.359 NFL Network, which is right there on Culver City, I 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.280 drive past the ice skating right every time. I just 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:48.679 look at it. So yeah, I mean that's why I 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:53.120 asked not to make funs. But just especially with having 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.240 kids now, and you know, everything is so one sports centric. 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:01.560 Everything is about one sport, one sport, but realizing you 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:06.600 can see the athleticism in people in other sports. And 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:09.119 so you know, you being able to skate as funny 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:11.520 as you know, even when I go to events or 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:14.439 do something with my kids, somebody birthday party, and the 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.960 kids are always amazed, like I get on a skates, 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:24.359 rollerblade and you know, roller skates, skiing, play tennis, golf, 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:28.240 like all those different sports that I'm not great at them, 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:31.120 but I can hold a conversation or I can eat, 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:33.000 you know, we can have a little bit of fun. 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:36.280 So that's pretty cool, man. I love that. But let's 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:40.240 get back to that conversation on I want the football. Now. 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:43.600 Your mom takes you, she takes you off the flyers 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:46.640 because she sees some things. And your mom is a scout. 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:50.080 Shout out to mom, dude, you know she she already 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:53.760 Yeah she saw with some of these bums didn't see, 0:25:54.400 --> 0:26:00.720 uh right. And you know the reason I asked I 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.879 asked that is, you know, what does football representing your 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:08.879 mind growing up? Because I know, as I go back, 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:13.680 football represented everything for me. Football represented how I got 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:17.040 out of the hood, Football represented how I would be 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:22.040 able to go to college. It just represented football was 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:27.840 everything my folks couldn't do for me. That's what football 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:33.520 was for me. So if I you know it, football 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:36.720 cleaks were baseball cleaks. And then I actually had to 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:40.240 practice like three or four games, three or four practices 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:48.200 in my baseball slash football cleeks in the gym because 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:51.879 mom didn't have no money until you know, two weeks later, 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:55.920 and so they had to let me practice playing basketball 0:26:56.880 --> 0:27:00.399 in in the rubber cleeks. And I was from up 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:04.160 that gym. People are pissed at me, but that's all 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:06.679 we can afford, you know, we we we had to 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:09.160 do it. So you know, that's why I was asking 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:11.720 what it means to you and why you know and 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:15.480 and and it sounds like you know, I mean I 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.879 think you're young, you're you're probably the answer will change. 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:23.760 Football is like means everything to me because not only 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:26.800 just like you helped me make it out of the hood, 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:33.119 also it created this this thing where it is where 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:35.879 as a team it's it's not all about you, and 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:39.320 so the thing was for me you lost me. Now 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:44.720 I'm n when it's when it's not all about you. 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:48.880 It's just like I took that mindset of like, hey 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:53.600 you king, I have your Basically they looked at me 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:55.480 as the children one. So I was like, I gotta 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:58.040 give my mouth hood, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta help. 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:01.320 I gotta help my Mama's like with my brothers, I gotta, 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:03.240