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Speaker 1: This is Reggie Kelly kicking in with my boys Peanut

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Speaker 1: and Roman on NFL Players Second Act Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in to the NFL Players Second

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Speaker 2: Act Podcast. I'm Peanut to Himan and with me as

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Speaker 2: always my guy rooman Rebbi Harper.

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Speaker 3: He calls me, he calls me now because he had

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Speaker 3: a taste of my my delicious rabbis and uh.

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Speaker 4: By far, the best steak I've ever had in my life.

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Speaker 4: I kid you not, but we'll get a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: Let me let's thank all of our listeners and viewers

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Speaker 3: out there and let them know where we are.

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Speaker 4: Peanut.

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Speaker 3: That is the iHeart Radio Studios right here in Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: a town. Yeah, so we're in Atlanta this week. Uh,

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Speaker 3: it's fun, it's going. We got a lot of different

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Speaker 3: guests coming in. Let's let's jump right into our first one.

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Speaker 3: All right, this first one, it's a goodie.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: This gentleman was a same around pick like the two

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Speaker 2: of us. Forty second overall absolutely class ninety nine. Played

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Speaker 2: thirteen seasons with the Bengals and the Falcons. After football,

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Speaker 2: he got into the food business. Uh. He is the

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Speaker 2: founder of Kivan Foods, Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to

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Speaker 2: the show, mister Reggie Killer.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, you got it right the first time.

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Speaker 5: Most people butchers that butcher.

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Speaker 2: So what's the.

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Speaker 1: Worst Cayvan Cavan, whatever the case may be, but Kyvin Foods.

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Speaker 5: You hit it right on the now the first, cool,

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Speaker 5: cool good. That's a professional research.

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Speaker 2: If you look at my notes, I have it like

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Speaker 2: the way I have it. I have the phonetic form,

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Speaker 2: so I wouldn't mess it up myself, somorr.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to make.

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Speaker 3: Sure because I didn't write it that way I would

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Speaker 3: have had I would have the van park.

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Speaker 4: But that's why Peanuts the real professional around here.

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Speaker 1: Well, I feel naked up here. You you have notes,

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Speaker 1: You have notes. I have nothing. So I'm hoping I

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Speaker 1: can hope my weight here, hoping I can hold my own.

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Speaker 4: Now, you're going to answer everything truthful. You you're an

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Speaker 4: expert on yourself.

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Speaker 5: Let's get it.

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Speaker 4: Let's jump off into it though.

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Speaker 3: How do you feel A recent accomplishment about yourself is

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Speaker 3: that you were named in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: Three and SEC football legend. How did that feel?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 1: It felt absolutely great. My athletic director Assissippi State gave

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Speaker 1: me a call Zach Selma, who is doing it excellent?

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Speaker 3: Yes, he's doing an outstanding john.

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Speaker 1: You know, he has a great pedigree, come from a

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Speaker 1: football family, and just a great guy overall. He knows

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Speaker 1: the business inside and out. So he gave me a

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Speaker 1: personal call to let me know that I had received

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Speaker 1: such a great honor, and he told me he would

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Speaker 1: be there to support me. If there's anything that I needed,

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Speaker 1: he would definitely be there. And so he gave me

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Speaker 1: the call, and quite honest with you, day surpassed all

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Speaker 1: of my expectations.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: I was with some of the greats. Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: with so many other graatce like Shane Matthews as well.

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Speaker 1: And man, they laid it out, I mean, first class everything.

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Speaker 1: They put us up at the Hyatt Regency and they

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Speaker 1: treated us like kings. And I had the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: football fanatic, so he saw somebody greats as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a great experience, a great weekend.

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Speaker 5: Guys.

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Speaker 4: Hey tell me this though.

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Speaker 3: I got one more follow up is like, did you

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Speaker 3: ever feel that you know when you get an honor,

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Speaker 3: so so much further after you've done hanging it up, right,

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Speaker 3: do you feel a little bit forgotten And all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden you get that call and you're like.

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Speaker 4: Man, I'm not forgotten about They do remember.

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Speaker 5: Me, you know.

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Speaker 1: Man, I actually felt extremely grateful because you know, I

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Speaker 1: if it's in the short term or the long term.

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Speaker 1: So whenever I got that call, I was just like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm extremely grateful that they thought enough of me, they

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Speaker 1: it took a lot own time. I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: So it's an SEC legend, right or a football legend?

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Speaker 2: Is that equivalent to like a Hall of Fame just

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Speaker 2: what's the equivalent?

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Speaker 4: Bro?

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Speaker 5: Don't give us a spill onint Man.

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Speaker 3: So I would say yes in the short terms, because

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Speaker 3: the college football has its own Hall of Fame and

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Speaker 3: to only you can only be elected to the College

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Speaker 3: So for a lot of players who are not selected

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Speaker 3: to be All American, but we're still truly great at

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Speaker 3: their own school or within the SEC, it's another way

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Speaker 3: to honor those guys. And I think the ads in

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Speaker 3: the SEC do a great job of really trying to,

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Speaker 3: you know, find two comb things of their own university

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Speaker 3: so they can be represented there. And it's a great

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Speaker 3: time for a place like Mississippi State to say, hey,

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Speaker 3: we still got some greats out there have not been

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Speaker 3: honored with these things.

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Speaker 4: So shout out to Reggie for being that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, getting coming from Missippi State. We need some type

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I know you're got to get on it.

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Speaker 4: I just think they don't have enough yet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah that's a key word. Yeah, Yeah, it's coming down

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Speaker 4: I agree. So I want to transition.

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Speaker 2: You make it to the league in ninety nine, what

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Speaker 2: was that welcome to the NFL moment?

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Speaker 4: I know we all play, we're all second round picks.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we all had that that time where

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Speaker 2: we got to hit or something happened in the league

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Speaker 2: and we were like, damn, this this is the league.

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Speaker 4: I'm with the big boys. Now, yeah, what was that

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Speaker 1: But it happened in training camp, right, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: you guys remember Jesse the hammer? Yeah, yep, yeah, the hammer.

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Speaker 1: Though let's less than the hammer, that's the opportitive word

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Speaker 1: right now. And so during training camp, you know, I

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Speaker 1: And I'm quite sure that the veterans did their homework

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Speaker 1: never in my life experienced that type of hit. That

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Speaker 1: point where all the veterans and welcome to the NFL,

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Speaker 1: I saw man, you know, I just can't rely on

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Speaker 1: I really have to study the game. I really have

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Speaker 1: set and understand, it's all about angles, it's all about leverage,

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Speaker 1: it's all about footwork, it's all about having your hands

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Speaker 1: the one welcome in the rookies to the NFL and

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Speaker 1: guys like Jesse Tuggle, they taught me how to be

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Speaker 1: They should tell me, don't have a problem taking a

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Speaker 1: because if you do that early and often, it gives

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Speaker 2: Like that, do you think we've kind of lost a

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Speaker 2: little bit of that, like trying to take a know

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Speaker 2: the man's heart. Like when I went to Carolina TD

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Speaker 2: Thomas Davis, he would say, we got to take them

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Speaker 2: to a dark place they don't want to beat, a

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Speaker 2: that's how I think. That's that's that peanut punch mentality

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Speaker 2: right there. I'm trying to take you to a dark place.

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Speaker 4: Did you just name drop? No? I did not thank you.

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Speaker 1: I thank you, but it's okay, you can do that.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a question, guys, y'all cracking them right now.

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Speaker 2: I just I appreciate. I appreciate like.

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Speaker 4: The old dror.

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Speaker 5: Older mentality. I love that.

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Speaker 4: What did you learn from that play? Too?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 4: What did you do wrong? If you could go back?

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Speaker 1: I was out of control and I kind of alluded

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Speaker 1: to it when I said my footwork was here, there, everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you just thought you could just go here so

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Speaker 4: I could just go hit him?

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Speaker 5: All right, he's already jest.

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Speaker 1: It was about five six five, I had like no leverage,

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Speaker 1: you know, no leverage, out of control, no leverage in

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Speaker 1: my hands. Was all over the place, and they showed me, Rook,

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Speaker 1: you know when you come up against me, you better

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Speaker 1: have your act together. Yeah, you got to have every

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Speaker 1: After that episode, Terrence Mathis came up to me. You know,

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Speaker 1: Terrence Mathis mister Atlanta falcon.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: He was one of the first NFL Riot receivers doing

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Speaker 1: this time to catch over one hundred passes. And in

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Speaker 1: today's game that that's that everybody's doing it. But back

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Speaker 1: then that was something to be seen. And so Terrence

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Speaker 1: came to me after I got knocked on my bud

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Speaker 1: and he said, listen to me, ro if you do

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Speaker 1: the little things right, the big things will fall. And listen, man,

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Speaker 1: whatever that means. I just got knocked on my butt here, bro,

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Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed. I'm really not thinking about them, thinking about retaliation.

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Speaker 1: That's really what I was thinking about. Didn't know that

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Speaker 1: what he was telling me. If you won't to be

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Speaker 1: great and if you want to play on that type

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Speaker 1: of a level, you're gonna have to do the little

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Speaker 1: him at that point, but he came back with me

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Speaker 1: with great patience. That's really all the great you know

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Speaker 1: a veterans do who are trying to leave the game

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Speaker 1: better than they found it. He said, Now listen to me,

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Speaker 1: young phelly, if you do the little things right, the

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Speaker 5: Twenty eleven, can't wait. That was a lockout, yere Uh huh,

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Speaker 1: And there were times where where some select guys did meet,

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Speaker 3: You mentioned a couple different things and about knowing your

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Speaker 4: I was one of those guys.

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Speaker 2: Now, he's so salty right about this before you walked in,

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Speaker 4: I'll explain why.

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Speaker 3: Two thousand and nine I went, we won a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: The lockout happened.

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Speaker 3: I was not at six years I was at year four,

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Speaker 4: Was the one.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it was just everybody if you were outside

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Speaker 5: It's a greater good man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was sorry.

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Speaker 1: We just we were looking at what is the greater

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Speaker 1: And we knew that we was going to get some pushback,

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Speaker 4: I would agree with you on the overall. I just

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Speaker 3: For somebody that was in the room, so absolutely absolutely,

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Speaker 3: like it was a few of us that like, man,

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Speaker 5: It turned out really well for you.

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Speaker 2: You know, I would have got that fifty. You are

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Speaker 3: Right, But I will say one of the best things

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Speaker 3: Before that CBA, they had not been looked after like you.

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Speaker 4: Like that.

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Speaker 3: Twenty eleven CBA set everything else differently on the trajectory

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Speaker 3: that that pot. And so in twenty eleven we set

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Speaker 3: they will continue to do that going forward because of

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Speaker 4: So great job.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate that, man, appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back after a quick break. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk post football, your second act. So you get

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Speaker 2: you go from the grid iron to the cast stars.

440
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Speaker 5: There it is there.

441
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,880
Speaker 2: It is this man, this man from the grid iron

442
00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 2: to the cast on. So how was that transition smooth?

443
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 5: So for it?

444
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,760
Speaker 4: Because I know Roman I. We we talked about this

445
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:03,639
Speaker 4: all the time.

446
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,439
Speaker 1: And could you say that one more time? I just

447
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 1: like the sound of that. Go ahead one more time,

448
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 1: give it to me.

449
00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 2: From the gridiron to the cast. So professional, Yeah, you

450
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,640
Speaker 2: know football, it's something I did. It's not who I am,

451
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,560
Speaker 2: you know it is, I'm a professional. But no, seriously,

452
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,199
Speaker 2: like your your transition was like what I what I

453
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 2: assume and you can maybe you can help me understand

454
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,399
Speaker 2: that it seemed like it was smooth. Why do you

455
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,199
Speaker 2: think that transition was so smooth once you got out

456
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 2: of football? Because I know Roman I we've talked and

457
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,639
Speaker 2: kind of what this podcast is about. It's just about

458
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,920
Speaker 2: talking to you know, former players and how they get

459
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 2: into their second act and how they transition. Some do

460
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 2: it well, so struggle a little bit, some maybe so much. Yeah,

461
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,200
Speaker 2: there's no blueprint. It's all kind of custom to the player.

462
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 2: So why was yours so smooth?

463
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,479
Speaker 1: You think, yeah, it was actually a smooth transition. But

464
00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 1: I learned that even before I became anrepreneur. Again my

465
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 1: rookie year, Terrence Mathis took me under his wing right,

466
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,360
Speaker 1: and again I always shout out T Matt. And by

467
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,120
Speaker 1: the way, T Matt is the head coach football coach

468
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,360
Speaker 1: at Morehouse now, so I want everybody to support him.

469
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 1: But but T Matt, you know, he would always give

470
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,440
Speaker 1: me nuggets, just nuggets. Man, you gotta leave the game.

471
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 4: Bet.

472
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: Then you found it, man, nuggets, how to be a

473
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 1: professional on and off the field. And he told me,

474
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna have to prepare for life after

475
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: football one day, ruck. I know you may not want

476
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: to hear that. You may think you're going to play forever,

477
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 1: but you got to prepare, you know, for life after football.

478
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: And you got to do the little things right. And

479
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 1: if you do the little things right, of course, the

480
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: big things will always follow you. So he gave me

481
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: a blueprint to say, hey, play the game of football,

482
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,640
Speaker 1: Enjoy the game of football. Take what you can take

483
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 1: from the game of football. But when it's over, then

484
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: what that's when life really hits. And if you don't

485
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 1: have a plan, you can plan to fail. What's the phrase?

486
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 1: If you fail to plan, you might as well plan

487
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: fail to fail. And he told me that in so

488
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,239
Speaker 1: many different instances, so that once I actually finished playing football, well,

489
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: to be honest, with you, guys. I started to business

490
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: while I was still an active player. During the off seasons,

491
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: I would go and research, I mean research how to

492
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: start a food company. I would research all the intricate

493
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 1: details about the economics, about the marketing, about the sales,

494
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: about the manufacturing, about supply chain, about R and D.

495
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 1: What's R and D R and D research and development.

496
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: So for every product you got to research, you got

497
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: to develop it. It has to meet certain standard standards,

498
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 1: certain protocols. You can't just put any kind of product

499
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 1: on the market unless it's absolutely approved and it's up

500
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: to standard. It's commercialized, so to speak. So you may

501
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 1: go in with a recipe, but once you get commercialized,

502
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 1: that a recipe is called a formula, right, And so

503
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: I had to learn all of those intricate details about

504
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: the food and beverage industry, to the point that once

505
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: I finally retired, I had already started a business. My

506
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 1: business was already running smoothly. And if you guys don't mind,

507
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 1: I could tell you really what really was kind of

508
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 1: like that moment where it's kind of like trailblazes, where

509
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 1: my company just started to really catch on fire. And

510
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 1: this is not everybody's story. Every entrepreneur has their own story.

511
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: But shucks, I had only been in business for about

512
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: three months, guys, three months. I knew hardly anything about

513
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: the food industry itself for the stuff that I had researched,

514
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: and so I said, well, this is what I'm gonna do.

515
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to start off extremely small. I'm an error

516
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: on the side of caution. I'm gonna get me a

517
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: probably a couple mom and pop retailers to take my

518
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 1: products so that I can, you know, learn the business

519
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: and if I kind of fail, well I can fail

520
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: with from a small scale perspective. Well, within three months,

521
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 1: I took the plunge on reaching out to Walmart, reaching

522
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: out to Walmart stores and to see if they were,

523
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: you know, scheduling me with me. And to my surprise,

524
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: when I reached out to him a week later, they

525
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: responded back wanting to schedule a meeting for me to

526
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: present my product.

527
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

528
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: I had one of those moments. I'm like, because if

529
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: you understand the industry, that doesn't happen right to get

530
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: an opportunity to meet with a Walmart or a krow

531
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 1: Ger or Target stores, to meet with stores like that,

532
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: only being in business for three months, They're not really

533
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: going to give you the time of day because you

534
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 1: don't have the numbers, you don't have the sales, and

535
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 1: you probably don't have the experience. But anyway, this regional

536
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: merchandise will reached back out to me and said, let's

537
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: schedule this meeting. And so went in to meet with him.

538
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: And when the meeting was over, he kind of leaned in,

539
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: looked at me across the table and say, you know what,

540
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: that's something about you. I'm gonna give you a shot.

541
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 1: What he said, yeah, that's something about you. I'm gonna

542
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: give you a shot. Here I am like saying, well.

543
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: He then said there was something about my products, which

544
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: we got good products. Product was on fire. He didn't

545
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: say shucks, we like yourselves. And I had only did

546
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 1: business with two or three mom and pop retailers, nothing

547
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: on the scale of Walmart. He never said anything about sales,

548
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: but he said that's something about you. What I failed

549
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: to tell you, guys, was about a month before I

550
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: had that meeting, I traveled to multiple Walmart stores and

551
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: multiple states, and each Walmart merchandis is a lot different.

552
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: They have different products. I was up and down every

553
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: last hour in those Walmart stores, looking at my compared

554
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: to brands, looking at their nutritional panels, their ingredient decks,

555
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: they're packaging, they're pricing. I would buy those products, and

556
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 1: before I got to the car good I was tasting

557
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: the products, not using the spoon or fork or anything,

558
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: no meants, just tasting the product just to get an

559
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: analysis of what are they doing to get on the

560
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: shelves and what do I have to do to compete

561
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,199
Speaker 1: against those particular brands. And I would walk around the

562
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: stores and walk around the stores and get all all

563
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: the information that I could, to the point where when

564
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: I actually met with that merchandiser, he knew I couldn't

565
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: have got that information just searching the Well, yeah, he

566
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: knew I couldn't have gotten all of that information just

567
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: by looking on the internet. He knew I had to

568
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: actively travel from one state to the next, multiple stores

569
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: within that state, because I was telling them stuff that

570
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: was in one store that wasn't in the other store.

571
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: I was telling them the workers, you know, the culture,

572
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. To the point he said, if

573
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: he could do that in this short period of time,

574
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 1: imagine what he can do in the long run, and

575
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: so I learned a couple of things from that particular me.

576
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: First thing, you don't get a second chance to make

577
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: a first impression. When you get your opportunity, you better

578
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: kick the door in. The Next thing is people do

579
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: business with people they like. It's not necessarily what you know,

580
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: it's who you know. To finish that story off, when

581
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: I left that meeting, he gave me a deal to

582
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: do busines with Walmart stores. Only being in for three months,

583
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: he reached out to two of his other buddies that

584
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: are merchandises as well, and because he liked me and

585
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: because I knew him, he reached out to him. And

586
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: then they gave me an opportunity to put my products

587
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: in their stores as well, simply because they knew him

588
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: and simply because I knew him. And the rest is history.

589
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: So you know, when you get your opportunities, you got

590
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're a likable person, especially in

591
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: this type of business, and you got to make sure

592
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: that you take full advantage of every opportunity that you have.

593
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, Regie, man, you give me a whole bunch of

594
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 3: nuggets over your dat I'm just taking notes because like

595
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: this stuff, I'm telling my kids. It's just it's just impressive, right,

596
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: And everybody needs to hear that people do business with

597
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 3: people they like. Yeah, that's a that's a gold mine.

598
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 3: You don't get a second chance at a first impression.

599
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 3: Everybody needs to hear that you got a good brand. Yeah,

600
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 3: great brand. I want to know this, though, what made

601
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 3: you get into the food business. That's the one thing

602
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 3: you didn't tell it.

603
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 5: I'm greedy.

604
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: I'm greedy, man, Okay, you got all these products this,

605
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: you have this game plan.

606
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,719
Speaker 3: First of all, the fact that you went to all

607
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 3: these different walmarts. You're behind enemy lines and tasting everything, like,

608
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 3: that's amazing grind. And they don't even know that. That

609
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 3: guy was like, man, bump this. He knew that, he

610
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 3: knew the thing. He's like, you bet on the jockey,

611
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 3: not the whole. Absolutely, I'm not betting on the barbecue.

612
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 3: This off whatever, I ain't worried. I bet on this guy.

613
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: This guy is different. So what made you get into

614
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: food though? Like, what what what made you go there? Uh?

615
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I'm greedy, but but the truth

616
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: be told, it wasn't really something that I want to do.

617
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: Fellas during the off seasons, I used to throw free

618
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: football camps for the kids in my hometown, Aberdeen, Mississippi.

619
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Speaker 1: And I used to reward the kids who exemplified great

620
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: academic excellence.

621
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Speaker 5: Right.

622
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: I want the kids to understand when you do good,

623
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,719
Speaker 1: you can expect good. Hard work pays off. And so

624
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: I used to throw some of these free football camps.

625
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: I had my teammates come out and and and really

626
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: speak life into the kids. But I didn't want the

627
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: kids just to see athletes and think that okay, and

628
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: only the only way that I could be a success

629
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: is to be an athlete.

630
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: No.

631
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: I brought in professionals. I brought in business people. I

632
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: brought in blue collar workers who were successful, just to

633
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: see kids seeing people who model success and how that looked.

634
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: And the kids absolutely enjoyed the football camps. And after

635
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: the camps were over, and for that matter, after any event,

636
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: the Mississippi bro you're gonna have some good food.

637
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 5: Based, Yeah, you're gonna have some eats for you.

638
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: And so my family and my wife's family cooked for

639
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: all the volunteers. And I tell you, my teammates couldn't

640
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: stop raving about our family recipes. Some of them really

641
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: had never been to the sip to Mississippi, and so

642
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: they didn't really know how we get down, you know.

643
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: And so they were raving and raving to the point

644
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: where one of my teammates right talked my wife, Sheila,

645
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: and said, you know, you guys really need to do

646
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: something with these family recipes. And my wife came to

647
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: me as as they normally do, and she gave me

648
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: a little arm rub, and I said, oh boy, well

649
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: we're going with this. And she said, you know, babe,

650
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: I really think we need to take Nicole's idea and

651
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: we need to run with it. We need to take

652
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: our family recipes and start a business. And Chucks, man,

653
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: that wasn't something I wanted to do. You know, I'll

654
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I wanted once I finally retired,

655
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Speaker 1: I wanted to work either in the NFL front office.

656
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Speaker 1: I took a trip up to New York, met with

657
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Speaker 1: Ray Anderson, I met with Ron Hill at the time,

658
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent. I talked with them guys about the next step.

659
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: I talked to coach Marvin Lewis. He said, man, rech

660
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Speaker 1: we need you in a position of leadership like that,

661
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: not necessarily being a coach, but being in the front office,

662
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: and you have a lot to bring and give to

663
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And so that's really where my head was at, honestly.

664
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Speaker 1: And so but my wife she had other plans. And

665
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Speaker 1: my wife, now we were high school sweethearts, so we

666
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: had been together for a minute. I remember I had

667
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: told her, you know, hey, you know when we get married,

668
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: you know, we need to start our own business together.

669
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: You know, we need to be entrepreneurs. You know, I

670
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: was just trying to be slick, you know, cool with it, smoothie,

671
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: get you in trouble every time.

672
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for getting nothing.

673
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 5: It ain't forgot nothing.

674
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Speaker 1: And so all these years, almost two decades later, she

675
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: remembered it, and one, you know, one of the girls

676
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: put that in their ear. I think you guys need

677
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: to take your family recipes to market. It was just

678
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: like a light bulb hit in. Regardless of whatever excuses

679
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: I made, she wasn't gonna let me. No excuses was

680
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: going to be good enough. And she said, no, I

681
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: think we need to do this, and lo and behold,

682
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: I told her, well, we're gonna do it now. You know,

683
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,959
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be all in. And she's always been detailed,

684
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: she's always been gold you know, driven, and that's her

685
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: reputation and I'm the same way. And so that's when,

686
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: like when the off season hit, bro I'm talking about,

687
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: I'm up to two and three o'clock at night, research research, research, research,

688
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: and traveling, traveling, asking people and food and beverage industry

689
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: about what do I need to do? How do I

690
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: need to start this company? What should I do to

691
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: be very competitive? Because you can have a great product,

692
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: but if you don't know how to market it and

693
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: you don't know the demographics to market it too, you're

694
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: not going to succeed. So I learned all that information

695
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: from those people, and they ended up helping us to

696
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: start this bill. They didn't end up helping us, but

697
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: they gave us some of the resources we need as

698
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: far as information and some experience to help us start

699
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: this business. And so what ended up happening this long

700
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: story short, no, I'm telling it long No you good,

701
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: long story. Short end up happening. We end up starting

702
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: the food business. We named it after our kids. My

703
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: daughter's name is Kyla, son's name is Cavin, combined the

704
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: two to come up with Kaivin, and we desire to

705
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: leave a lasting legacy a tangible legacy to our kids.

706
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: And if they want to work the business, great, If

707
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: they don't want to work the business, great, But we

708
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: want to give them a head stared art in life

709
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: so they can be their own bosses if they choose

710
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: to do so. And so that's our plan, and that's

711
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: really having foods got going, man.

712
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 4: So what's one of the best things that you all saw? Like,

713
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 4: what's what's the hottest item? They're all good, man, Okay,

714
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 4: let me really like this.

715
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 5: How many kids you got?

716
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 4: I have four?

717
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 5: Many kids?

718
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: You got four? You got four kids. I kind of

719
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,959
Speaker 1: like in this food coming into like my babies. Okay, well,

720
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: you know when people ask like what is your favorite?

721
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 5: Your favorite kids?

722
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 4: We both got favorites. There's no way I have a favorite.

723
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 4: I have, you know, the youngest, you pops favorite? Everybody

724
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 4: know that. Oh no, a second man, that's my dog.

725
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is our trustee. This is my assistant right here.

726
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: This is my assistant, Thomas Warner. That's my intern, y'all.

727
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 4: That's the mild saucer.

728
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: I'm a wimp man when it comes to to heat,

729
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: like everybody else, y'all got y'all got a recipe?

730
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 2: That's a family recipe. Black black people got the family

731
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: sauce of recipes.

732
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: But you know, you know it's it's a little bit

733
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: of this and a little bit of that, and then boilai,

734
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: you got yourself a masterpiece. So I grew up in

735
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: a family of cooks, not chefs, and so you know,

736
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of this, a little bit

737
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: of that, a little bit of this, a little bit

738
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: of that, little taste of that's in boom.

739
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 5: You got yourself a mass speech. So man, we got.

740
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: Salsa, apple butters, salad dressings, barbecue, sauce, is seasoning, it's

741
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: the whole nine.

742
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 3: First of all, you guys have a huge influence in

743
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 3: the state of North Carolina where I live. So I'm

744
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 3: gonna make sure I go scoop up something that.

745
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 5: Is actually thought I was playing. Thought I was playing.

746
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 5: I thought.

747
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 4: It is good. It is sweet.

748
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 5: That's fact, it's good.

749
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 4: It is good.

750
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 5: What do y'all taste wrong?

751
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 4: What?

752
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 5: What do you taste? What did you taste when you

753
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 5: taste of that?

754
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of sweetness. But but it's like, uh,

755
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: it's called a little tang to it. I think that's

756
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 3: the apple in it. A little bit I'm not a

757
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 3: I don't eat fruit, but I will eat fruit flavored

758
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: or things with fruit flavor.

759
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 5: You ain't fruit. I don't at.

760
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 4: This about me.

761
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 5: All right?

762
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 4: This is good though, and uh I saw that.

763
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 3: As you guys are going down the list, I would

764
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 3: love to also see this sweet potato barbecue sauce.

765
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 5: Do we have any sweet potato barbecue sauce in the house.

766
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 3: I've never even heard of this, but for me and

767
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 3: my family being from Alabama, you give me some barbecue

768
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 3: sauce and you got sweet potatoes, and I ain't got

769
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 3: to separate them.

770
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 4: I can just have them all at one time. Boy,

771
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 4: I'm in I don't even know what that's It sounds crazy.

772
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen. The man made a request, and we

773
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: like to answer requests around here. Baby, he wanted sweet potato,

774
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: and we gave him sweet potatoes. You got to open

775
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: it up, man, Shake it up for him, Shake it

776
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: up for him, shake it up.

777
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 4: Take this up all the time. We do not.

778
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: So I'm in Chicago, How can I do? I just

779
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 2: gotta go to the website to order this? Or are

780
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: you in the Midwest? Are y'all in the Midwes?

781
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: Yes, we are so we service a number of retailers

782
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: across the country. Let's first start, let's say from an

783
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: e commerce platform. We service every Amazon Fresh fulfillment center nationwide.

784
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: So for those who don't understand what Amazon Fresh, it's

785
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: a platform under the Amazon brand, and it's just an

786
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: online grocery store. So if you order off our products

787
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: off of Amazon Fresh, they're delivered to you in grocery

788
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: bags within two hours. So it's not like your tradition

789
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: of Amazon where you got to order then a couple

790
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: of days you receive your ordering boxes.

791
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 4: I got you.

792
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: So we service every Amazon Fresh fulfillment center nationwide. You

793
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: can find our products on our website. We service select

794
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: target retailers, food line retailers, and one of our greatest

795
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: passions is we do a lot of food service stuff.

796
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: So we service restaurants, hotels like the Height, Regency, Hilton, colleges, hospitals,

797
00:36:59,000 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: the whole nine.

798
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 4: You know, your story has been amazing, uh and clearly

799
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 4: you're doing great things.

800
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: I mean, really, you gotta hit that sweep talking about

801
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: you got to hit it, I'm gonna hit that.

802
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 5: You need to take it to the head too, broke it.

803
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:17,959
Speaker 4: Ever, I have never just.

804
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 2: It's like, hold about it, like this is just normal

805
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: behavior it is. It seems okay, I'll say it, it seems fat.

806
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: But that's how you got to get the taste for it.

807
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 3: I want to know this, though, if you have one,

808
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 3: what has been your biggest challenge, like in this industry,

809
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 3: like getting into it, what you've figured out since you've

810
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 3: been in it. Tell me like one of the biggest

811
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 3: challenges you've had to get over.

812
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: That's an absolutely great question, and especially for for entrepreneurs

813
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: and looking to start a business up.

814
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 5: Quite often.

815
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: I've done a few panel sessions me and Brian Scott

816
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: with Atlanta Falcons sponsored by Truant Banking. We get an

817
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to sit in front of small business owners to

818
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: talk to him about the importance of being detail, being

819
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: intentional and having a great plan. And so I'm quite often, Oh,

820
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: he's about.

821
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 5: To take it. Go ahead, baby, for this to the head.

822
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 5: Tap him up, man, tap them up.

823
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it too, do it a love one.

824
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 2: I ain't never done this. So I got cheers, I

825
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 2: got honey apple cheers, I got steep and Tao the

826
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: barbecue sauce.

827
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 4: We take it to the head.

828
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 5: Cheers, there it is. M hm, talk to me.

829
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 4: It's good. I wish I had some wings. That is good.

830
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: Now you get the true flavor profile without it being

831
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: masked with a meat or vegetables or anything. You gotta

832
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: take it to the head.

833
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 4: So you just got to take it to the head.

834
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 4: That's the best way to do.

835
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: So, like whenever I do whenever I do product samplings,

836
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: whenever I have meets in front of executive chefs, a

837
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: lot of times they don't want to taste the product

838
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: when incident can junction with a meat, let's say, for instance,

839
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: or chip. They want to see the actual true flavor

840
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: profile of the product. They want to taste every ingredient

841
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: if you will, and that particular product. So a lot

842
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: of times we don't match it up with some chips

843
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: or or meats until after they get the initial taste

844
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: profiles of the product. So yeah, that's how we do

845
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: it in the food industry. That's how we get down.

846
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 5: Man.

847
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 4: I didn't know that either.

848
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 2: I just figured you did that. I just figured that

849
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: was just like alcohol or lime or something. You just

850
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: take it to the head. Not barbecue.

851
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 5: SA.

852
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: First time food is over here, man, So what did

853
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: you think about the sweet potato because a lot of

854
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: people listen, this is what I normally get, right when

855
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: you talk about a sweet potato barbecue stuff. We also

856
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: have a sweet potato vinaigrette salad dressing. But my usual

857
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: reaction is from people like sweet potatoes, come on, man, nah,

858
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: or it's man. I love sweet potatoes, right, And so

859
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: normally when somebody says I love.

860
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 5: It, they're eager to taste it.

861
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: And only when somebody says I don't like it, they're

862
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: so pessimistic about it to the point where they really

863
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: want to taste it just because they see they want

864
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: to see what it really tastes like. And so either way, normally,

865
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: when I present that product, I normally have people because

866
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: you really can't taste the sweet potatoes too.

867
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 3: That was what I was going to tell you, that

868
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 3: I really didn't taste the sweet I thought it tastes

869
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 3: like barbecue.

870
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Speaker 5: Tastes like barbecue sauce.

871
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: But you got all the healthy ingredients and all the

872
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: nutrients not ingredients, but the nutrients and vitems that come

873
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,760
Speaker 1: from a sweet potato is actually in this sweet potato

874
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,479
Speaker 1: barbecue sauce. That's why moms really like it. That's why

875
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: I really like it because I don't have any of

876
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: that junk as far as synthetic ingredients, non gmo, gluten free,

877
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: know how, fruit toast, corn syrup, and then when you

878
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: add that to the flavor profile and the nutritional ingredients,

879
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong.

880
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 5: Man.

881
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: The only way you can go wrong is if you

882
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: don't have any skills on the grill. Yes, and that's

883
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: for another conversation. The sweet potato, barbecue sauce and the ribbot.

884
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 3: So I'll do the ribbis on the side. I do

885
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 3: chicken wings really well too. I'll break out my green

886
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: egg for you.

887
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 5: You can't put the barbecue sauce on the ribes, so

888
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 5: you can't put it on.

889
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 4: I agree, I would. He just wants he just I

890
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 4: just don't.

891
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 5: I need to know.

892
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: How do you prepare to ribes? I know we're getting

893
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: off of course a little bit, but how do you

894
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: prepare the rivites?

895
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 5: Man? Talk to me.

896
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 4: I got I got some ingredients.

897
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 5: It's a secret.

898
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 2: I'd have been to a lot of restaurants. I didn't

899
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: had a lot of Michelin. And I'm gonna get wrong.

900
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give me his credit. I'm making my dog's credit.

901
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 2: He it is the greatest steak I've ever had in

902
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: my life.

903
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 5: Give me, just give me the highlight, like what is

904
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 5: makes it?

905
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 2: Seasoning, the slavery, like each each bite was like damn,

906
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: I taste that. And that morning I woke up, I

907
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 2: just I just ate.

908
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 4: This was.

909
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 2: This is a couple of months ago. This is this

910
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: is from the summertime. You can you can ask everybody

911
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: else on on that. He cooked force and it was.

912
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 2: He invited us to his cribby cut and he was like, yo,

913
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: you know just what I learned.

914
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 4: I learned how to do this that and whatever.

915
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 2: And he's taking his fingers and he's sprinkling the spices

916
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 2: and he's doing it. You know, got the herbs and

917
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 2: everything and he's sprinkling everything, doing this, doing his thing.

918
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: And he was likey you know, he cut one up

919
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: and he gave it to all of you know, the

920
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: cruise staff, the fellas. He gave us a piece of

921
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 2: was like okay, ye that is good, you know whatever.

922
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 2: And then it all came out and then we ate

923
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah.

924
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is nice.

925
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 3: He won't go the next day and just ate by cold,

926
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 3: just like that, just.

927
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 4: Off the bone, cave man style. It was it was.

928
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 2: It was that good. I give my props. I normally

929
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: don't give his props. Hey, he did his thing on

930
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: that he read. Got you dog next time.

931
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,479
Speaker 4: We'll be right back.

932
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: My question for you is you are a successful gentleman, business, football, college, life,

933
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 2: You've done well Mount Rushmore. Who would be on your

934
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore of helping you get to where you've gotten

935
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 2: in life? And it could be anybody, any group of people.

936
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 2: Four you get four, I would say my dad, Okay,

937
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 2: my mother?

938
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 4: Why Mom's and pops?

939
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: Well, you know my dad and mom they were extremely

940
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: instrumental in my life. And I would just say, honestly,

941
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: when you think about just a community, I grew up

942
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: in a tight knit community, let me say that. And

943
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: so you never become a success by your own merit

944
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: and by your own work, as a number of people

945
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: who help prune you, help developed you, who've disciplined you,

946
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: who've given you directions so as you can reach that

947
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: trajectory in life, that incline in life that they already

948
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: knew that you could reach. And so I had a

949
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: really tight knit community that poured in me how to

950
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: handle myself as a young man. You know, once they

951
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: pushed me off into the world, and my parents were

952
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: number one on that list.

953
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 2: You know.

954
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: My dad always taught me to pray like everything depends

955
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: on God, which it does, and to work like everything

956
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: depends on you. But faith without works is that. My

957
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: dad was always instrumental, and hard work pays off side,

958
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: even if you don't have the most talent like somebody else.

959
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: What they say about hard work, it's Trump's talent all day, right,

960
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: And so my dad was very instrumental, teaching me the

961
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: fastest of working my butt off, trusting in the Lord,

962
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: and if you do that, good things normally going to

963
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: come your way. My mother, on the other hand, you know,

964
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: my mother was tough too. Now, she was extremely tough.

965
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: She's the one who told me about values. Always know

966
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: your work, Always know your value because there's always going

967
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: to be someone who doesn't see it. Never let it

968
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: be you. But one of the greatest things she also

969
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: told me is to have some standards, and the standards

970
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: are never to be shifted. She told me that when

971
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: I was a kid. So she said, it doesn't matter

972
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: if you go off to the NFL, it doesn't matter

973
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: if you're an entrepreneur. It doesn't matter how much money

974
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: you make. You need to present yourself from how you dress,

975
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: from how you talk, from how you act, from how

976
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: you do business, from how you do your job. You

977
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 1: need to handle yourself with some standards at all times.

978
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: And she would finish with this, the standards are not

979
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: to be shifted, Reggie. Even if our society shift their standards,

980
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: yours should never shift because you're called to be a

981
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: catalys a catalyst in this world and your calls to

982
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: make a difference and the only way you're going to

983
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: do that is if you're different. And so they keep

984
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: me to that standard even to this day, check Man.

985
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: I oftentimes would go take my mama out to go,

986
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: you know, get something to eat, and before I enter

987
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: her house, she's looking me up and down to make

988
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: sure I'm dressed right. I mean she's looking at age

989
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: you're wearing that you need to go back home and change.

990
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: She's that type of mother. Everything has to be bam

991
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: bam bam. And she believed that when you present yourself

992
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: the right way, when you carry yourself the right way,

993
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: you influence others to do the same. You know, we

994
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: all love to dunstandard saying right there, that's true, that

995
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: is true. In every fast So I think that you know,

996
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: just like that Walmart merchandise, and when you present good,

997
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: some good's gonna happen. When you sacrifice good, something good's

998
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: gonna happen. When you do the small things right, something

999
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: good's gonna happen. When you extremely detail, good things happen.

1000
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: But the thing is, are you willing to do that?

1001
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: Just like you guys. I'm extremely proud of you guys.

1002
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: A few months back, by a year or so ago,

1003
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: I went up flipped to New York and did a

1004
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: set with Nate Burlison and Gail King on CBS Deals

1005
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: so nice, and had an opportunity to talk with Nate,

1006
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: you know, before and then after that set. It was funny,

1007
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: man to see how Nate was on set about ten

1008
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes before you. Nobody else was. Yeah, we

1009
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: know the phrase in the NFL right to be on

1010
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: time is to be late, but to be but to

1011
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: be early, it's to be on time. Still carry that mantra,

1012
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: still carried that lifestyle. He was there early, he was

1013
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: there afterwards, you know, talking to him, and I'll just

1014
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: tell him how proud I am that he didn't let

1015
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: anybody put a box around him.

1016
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 5: Right.

1017
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: Quite often people tend to put boxes around us, thinking

1018
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: that we're only athletes. That's all that, that's all we

1019
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: can do. But man, we got so many gifts and talents.

1020
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 1: But we got to nurture them things. Man, we got

1021
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: to develop those things, and we got to lean on

1022
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: each other to sharpen those gifts and talents and take

1023
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: them and use them, use those talents, man, to be

1024
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: whatever the Good Lord has called us to be.

1025
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's two you give me, give me two

1026
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 2: more on your mount Rushmore. You got mom and dad.

1027
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 5: Oh, and I got to put my wife on that too, man.

1028
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 5: Real talk.

1029
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: When I first started dating my wife, I didn't know

1030
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: we were dating because I wouldn't dating material. To be

1031
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: quite honest with you, I had never kept a girlfriend

1032
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: for no more than two weeks. Yeah, at the time,

1033
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: I was just not that type of guy that wants

1034
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: to settled down with one woman and one girl, especially

1035
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 1: in high school.

1036
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 5: And you know how it is.

1037
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so when I was when I was in

1038
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: high school, my wife and I we were like best

1039
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: of friends. I mean, she was like one of the fellas,

1040
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: and she can hang with the fellas. She was very articulate,

1041
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: all ab student, and even if the fellas would climb around,

1042
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: she could climb right around with us, so she could

1043
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: hold her own.

1044
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:22,439
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1045
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: I wasn't used to that coming from girls, you know,

1046
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: I was used to that. And so we were cool

1047
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: for for quite some time, for maybe a year or so,

1048
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: and then you know, the question came up, said, well,

1049
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,240
Speaker 1: why don't we, you know, take this to the next level.

1050
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: And of course I didn't want to do it because

1051
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: I knew if I did it, I was probably gonna

1052
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: mess it up like I always do. But I said

1053
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: to myself, shucks, well, if I don't data, it's going

1054
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: to get awkward. If I do DATA and I messed

1055
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: things up, it's still going to be awkward. So I

1056
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: just took my chance and started dating. And that's the

1057
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: best thing I could have ever done. A great wife.

1058
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: She always encouraged me, always supports men, always there for me.

1059
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't asked for a better partner. And the thing

1060
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: I like about is that we're best friends. We're friends

1061
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: before we started dating, we're friends before we are a

1062
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: married couple, and everything that we do, we do it

1063
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: as friends. And that's why when she came to me

1064
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: about this food business. She knew well listening, I know

1065
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: your man or your were you always when you say

1066
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna do something, you always stick to it and

1067
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: do it.

1068
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 5: And so she.

1069
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: Knew by me telling that some years ago when we

1070
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: were friends, when we were dating, she knew that I

1071
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,479
Speaker 1: would stick to it. So's she's a type of woman

1072
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: that's gonna always keep me accountable. She's a type of

1073
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: woman regardless if I'm six foot five and she's five

1074
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: foot she's still gonna stand her ground and say, hey, no,

1075
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 1: if you say you're gonna do it, do it all right.

1076
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: You need to make sure that you're different. No, I

1077
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: don't care what anybody says. You need to fight for

1078
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: your dreams, Regie. And so whenever you have that type

1079
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: of support, it makes it makes it easy to come home,

1080
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: It makes.

1081
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 5: It easy to to.

1082
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: Be able to confide and my wife. And so she's

1083
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: definitely definitely instrumental in my life. And I think the

1084
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: fourth one will be the fourth one in my life.

1085
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: I have a number of coaches. Man, I would hate

1086
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 1: to leave anybody out. Man, Can I just stay with three?

1087
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 5: Can I do three? I gotta do one.

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Speaker 4: That's a standard. That's the standard one more it's a

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Speaker 4: good call.

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Speaker 1: That's a good call, I would say. The other person

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Speaker 1: would be my grandmother, my grandmother. I grew up next

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Speaker 1: door to her, and so grandmother used to always take

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Speaker 1: me fishing. She used to always spoil me. Even times

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Speaker 1: when my dad wanted to whip me. All I had

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Speaker 1: to do is run next door to my grandmother and

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Speaker 1: hide behind her, and she would tell my dad leave

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Speaker 1: me alone, leave me alone. And that was old school

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Speaker 1: because those old school grandmother they didn't play, especially about

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Speaker 1: their grandkids. And so she would always love on me.

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Speaker 1: I would always go to church with us well, she

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Speaker 1: would always cook for me, and she was that quiet,

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Speaker 1: sweet spirit that I needed in my life life, especially

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Speaker 1: when I was a rowdy young teenager. I could always

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Speaker 1: lean on my grandmother and laid my head in her lap,

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Speaker 1: and she was always there for me. So my grandmother

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Speaker 1: caught you passed some years ago, but she was the

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Speaker 1: matriarch of our family and everything. She was somewhat the

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Speaker 1: center of our family.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and she.

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Speaker 1: Left a great legacy behind. And before I passed, she

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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to know that I did, you know,

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Speaker 1: reached the goal of playing in the NFL and trying

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Speaker 1: to be productive. So those for my dad, mom, my wife,

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Speaker 1: and of course my granny.

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Speaker 3: Oh great, man, that's a great one. Well, Reggie Man,

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 4: Tell a friend to tell a friend to do what

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