WEBVTT - Chris Smith 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, cud do it. They'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 them about it, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:45.000 then we're about to let you know. It's all welcome 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.400 to cut to it. How are you, Gerard Man? I'm well, wonderful, fantastic. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.360 How about you? Good? Um? Just can I get one? 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.640 I don't want three, just just one? How are you? Gerard? 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.400 I can't be all that well. How are you gonna 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.280 limit me? I don't feel like being I'm not being 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.560 limited today. It's almost Black History Month. I will not 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:13.759 be limited speaking of Black history. Backstage stage pulled up Joe, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.640 please step up too the mic? How are you today? 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.240 Good afternoon, fellas? How y'all doing? What up? Man doing excellent? 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:30.839 Please walk us through How does a brother like Joe operate? 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:38.720 Moving forward in Black History Month? It seems like every 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.440 time backstage Joe gets called to the microphone, there's some 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.920 discerning events to take place. You only, I told you, you 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.000 you only reveal yourself from the from the shadows of 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.400 the cut to it production when you have something pertinent 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.200 to say. And we had some conversation outside of the 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:03.880 studio that it was hilarious, hilarious. Well, the names will 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.160 be protected please to hide the innocent. But there is 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:14.040 a individual individual that that I know very well that 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:19.400 is in the You just know, we just know. So, Um, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.400 she came home and at all the individual that went 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.240 to her house. Excuse me, this individual that I heard 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.840 from a guy who my cousin Bradley knows, your buddy John, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.640 and said that she went home, hold on, hold on, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:39.000 hold on you those names, uh, a black storyteller and 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.040 a white storyteller, because Mone would have been like, so, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:50.920 what happened was he was over there, he said, Bradley, Bradley, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:58.320 Bradley's cousin John and Karen. So this young lady was 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.400 telling me about what they're learning in school, obviously for 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.480 a Black History Month, and you know, we were all 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.720 familiar with that, and they you know, they, yes, you 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.960 went to school, right, yeah, okay, making sure you went 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.000 to school. I think I don't know how far you went. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.360 But at some point in time they probably discussed this. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.280 So she was going over some of the topics that 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.280 they were going to be going over in class to 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.119 to pay homage to uh Black History Month. So I'm 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.280 all ears now, and you guys know where I'm going 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:36.840 with this worded the way it was worded, they were reviewing, Yes, reviewing. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:42.480 So do we review Christmas? No, we have Christmas celebrate, 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.800 we celebrate Chris. Do we review Thanksgiving? Celebrate that too, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:55.000 Easter celebrate it Hanakah celebrate. All right, all of the above, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:00.360 we don't review. Let's review Black History Month. They were 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:06.480 celebrating black in this school. And and I will phrase 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.360 it to our listeners as I phrased it to you, gentlemen. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:16.599 And it's gonna be multiple choice as far as options, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.680 as far as options on what they were gonna be 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.720 learning throughout the school throughout the month. So one might 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.520 be you know the famous Martin Luther King junior speech 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.600 on how it you know, solidified and everybody understood where 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.880 it was coming from, impact, rights and impact. That that's 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.760 an option. Didn't go there. Second one, um, maybe we 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.039 can go with Rosa Parks and our impact out. Okay, Boycott, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.599 maybe a little Harriet Tubman, just just to understand the 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.640 influence and the impact and what she went through and everything. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.880 So so many different choices, so many choices. And in 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.680 the final, the final one, they were going to learn 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:03.800 how to step step step step like like for like 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.320 wait in a minute, and don't put no boom in it. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:18.280 They were so you go, you got Luther King, Harriet 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:25.440 Tubman and then stepping. This young lady looked me in 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.560 the eye and said they were going to be going 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.840 over and learning how to step. Okay, why who are 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:38.600 they going over? Too? Um? So there was another individual 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.240 in her class who was a minority, who was a 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:47.240 minority who was black. It was black splitting hairs here, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:54.119 but yes, yes, and they were going to celebrate Black 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.560 History Month. And this young lady's mother happened to be 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.080 who was adele to which I'll let you to expand 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.240 on what that means in the air quotes here world 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.159 of stepping. So in Black History Month, we gott another 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.640 we gotta we're gonna review options celebrate. So let me 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.200 get this right. So you got six years are are 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.920 are too younger? They're saying, yeah, I gotta, I gotta 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.800 one year old and six year But so do see 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.080 a miya are to say? So you're gonna ask, you're 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.200 asking a group of children for Black History Month. Do 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:46.320 you want to read, remember and regard your all of 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.960 those or do you want to dance? That would be 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.840 like asking Mia and Deuce, Hey, you can have cake 0:06:55.000 --> 0:07:00.400 for dinner, chicken or Brussels sprouts? Which do you think 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:05.640 she's gonna pick Brussels sprouts? They want the activity and 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.039 and that is this is not to the mean because 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.880 we got a bunch of listeners. It's not to the mean. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.960 The Divine nine, any of the historically black sororities, fraternities, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.240 they have so a rich history. So many of MLK 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.800 wasn't was an alpha there. There's so many UM fraternity 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.520 sororities who have had meaningful contributions to not just Black 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.720 history history overall they served the community. However, we should 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.360 not be hold on now before now is the teacher 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:47.200 of this individual's class a delta no black? So so 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:52.360 the influence, So the influence came from where? So what 0:07:52.640 --> 0:08:02.120 made teacher decided this is the route where I was stepping? No? 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.520 How how is the how is the curriculum built by 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.000 a parent and not the school system or at least 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.720 a teacher. Yeah, we're gonna skip over ros apart anything, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.760 Harriet tub We just y'all gonna I'm gonna teach you 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.520 how to Oh, first of all, I'm gonna we're gonna 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:25.280 step yep, I said. And not that there's anything wrong, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:31.960 it's it's the fact that it's an option. Like there's 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:37.920 so many other activities they couldn't experience or individuals that 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.439 we can that we can talk about. And Frederick Douglas right, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:52.640 so they're a dB. Right, you might get another technical 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:59.760 you go into the challenge and so so how does 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:05.200 her I was just this instructor, this this uh educational provider, 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:10.520 I would assume north. So, fifth year old white lady 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.440 has given a classroom full of non black folks. There's 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:22.160 two she told me this individual so the dynamics on 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.199 the table. So there's two black kids in the class. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.200 And then one of the parents of the black kids 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.280 wasn't offended. She goes, oh, I know what to do. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.640 I'm gonna teach them how come on for black history 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.000 for blacks like this, So like just there's there's so 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.720 much that there's so much more that we could have done. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.599 And I don't know if the teacher just wanted to 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.160 class have a voice. Yeah, because you know, I want 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.120 to hold on the temperature the country right now. I 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.040 better listen to them, which is fine. So you're gonna 0:09:56.080 --> 0:10:00.440 categorize them like, well, I know little Lisa can't read. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.959 She's killing it on that stomp. Yeah, just so many 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:11.319 different ways we could have went. Um so Marshal the Boy, like, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.599 there's so there's so much. So it's a treat with 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.560 a bunch of George Washington Carver right, doing one, trying 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.160 to attend one of his inventions, right, creating something right, 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:29.199 Jackie Robinson, No, nope, we're gonna step and then the 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.280 parent falls into the trap. She won't sign herself, right, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.800 I don't know if there's an approval form coming home, 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.920 like like I'm not we didn't have the Black History 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.120 curriculum built way in advance, Like this ain't our first 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.320 year doing this. It's only one day on the right, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:50.560 and it's Christmas the short wind. Yeah, yeah, yea, let's 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.560 put it on there. Right, every four years you get 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:58.719 an extra day. That's what I'm saying is that it 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.719 does that extra day fall all this year. So y'all 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.319 get you all some was public schooled. I don't know. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:12.559 That's horrible. Dog. Well, so so that's this individual that 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.600 you don't know but very close to. Um what did 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.319 they decide? Um? So of course she could have k 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.000 because she could have Brussels sprouts. She chose the cake 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.040 and she was ecstatic. And you know, as I'm as, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.200 we're starting to understand more of this social media game 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.439 from backstage joke, the whole TikTok thing, like she was 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.920 all about it, trying to figure out different moves. So 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.240 she was going on, she's gonna get an A. I'm 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.480 gonna promise you that she's gonna get an eight. So 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:48.959 I've heard this individual that I don't know, But so 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.240 tell us how did they divide out the teams? Well, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:57.120 I mean there's a team captain. Oh god, it's pretty 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:04.280 easy start. I I wonder who which the team captain? 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.959 These are your tax dollars at work. A very good 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.280 friend of mine who speaks on another network on Thursday night, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.480 always taught me that you have to paint a picture 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.080 for the audience. But I think this picture is painted captains? 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:26.480 Are you know? Uh? Please tell though, in case who 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:31.480 the team captain. It's Bradley and caring. It's a damn 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:36.120 caring in here, all right, that's what your So this 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.679 young lady that I may or may not know very 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.959 is super excited to do it, just you know, to 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.440 go for the real for a second and reving fund. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:52.840 But um, I've been real the whole time. So if 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.560 backstage joke can be serious for a second. Oh, learning 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.120 that culture and learning all the individuals we talked about, obviously, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.720 we we've taught in our household. I got two fine 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.400 young gentlemen like you guys that that that she learns 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:13.880 from if she was around and was that she has 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.839 the luxury of understanding and looking, you know, towards the world. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.240 And you know, I heard like, just for a quick example, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.120 around the holidays, this young lady might have gotten a 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.280 shirt or a sweatshirt that said just be a good 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.360 human and and that's what these fine parents of these 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.719 of this little girl tried to instill in her. So 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.480 I know, we make light of it, and you know 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.640 we we here she does her best to be able 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.240 to include all and make everybody equals. But I just 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.719 thought it was hilarious, and of course I had to 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.960 tell you guys about it. When I found out about 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.040 it the grape Vine that they actually we're going to 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:59.760 be teaching stepping for Black History Months. But I just 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:06.040 say time, man, it's we don't have a cane at 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:13.120 the house like that's I don't that's that's fraternity because 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.480 the Greek folks are not gonna come with me. You 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.680 know how sad that is for Black History? You teaching 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.840 these kids how to step? That is I don't want 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.200 to say that this that is so racist. Racist you're 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.840 gonna say for Black History. Yeah, y'all need to identify, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.320 so we're gonna teach you all. It's just like I said, 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.400 it's it's definitely there. It's it's a it's a big 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.800 time reach. It's a big time reach because again, the 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.920 contributions of our fraternity sororities is unparalleled. However, there's just 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.840 so many different ways that that that we could just 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.400 go beyond. And you just look at a normal Black 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.960 History Month curriculum where there are things that get glossed over. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.760 There are things that we don't always include. But man, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.720 we at least could have got to the to the 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.200 to the mlks, to your point, the rosa parks of 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.440 the thirty Good Morsels to to all these other things. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.240 We went straight to that. That's when we're gonna spend 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.240 the month. Though, Holy y'all gonna spend a month, shoot, 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.200 I don't take about two months for all of them. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:25.760 Off beat that's got I'm a family, I mean that 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:35.160 parents of that dog. So they're gonna they're gonna go 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.840 into March. I gotta get inside of this on the 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.640 podcast today. Coming up on the Cut to It Podcast, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.600 we've got Chris Smith, a defensive end for the Las 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.720 Vegas Raiders. He was all sec at Arkansas. He's a 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.720 father of three and a native of North Carolina. Chris 0:15:53.760 --> 0:16:02.720 Smith on the Cut to It Podcast, Thanks for having me, man, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.080 and we appreciate you. Our first segment, it's called get 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.000 Iced Up. So you you're from North Carolina, you're familiar 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.680 with Smitthy, you're familiar with ice up Son. This is 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.920 our version of Icebreakers. We gotta get you iced up. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.240 Their random icebreaker questions. You don't know what's coming, might 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.440 be a follow up, might not be, but Smittie will 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.240 get you the first one. It's time to get iced up. Okay, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.360 I ain't study for this one. But I love it. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.920 You know why, because it is an open book test 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:37.960 about you, Christopher. So if you fail, it's because you stupid. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:46.320 I read it already, all right. What are you afraid of? 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:53.120 Mm hmm. I'm afraid of failure, That's what I'm mean. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.560 Why is that? Just because? I mean, you wanna, you know, 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.600 want to win, like in everything you know, so when 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.840 especially I guess when it comes to ball or whatever 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.120 and just things that life, you just want to win 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.440 everything you know you can't, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:18.400 Everything like, man, I hate but you don't. But you've 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.000 learned from a failure. Yeah, you learned from it though 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.639 you hate it, but you know it's a bitter sweet though. 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.200 You learn from it though you know what I'm saying, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.680 it's necessarily evil. Yes, yes, if you can learn a 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:36.919 new skill, what would it be a new skill? Mm 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.960 hmm I would Uh. You know. I'm a music guy, man, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.000 I always, like, you know, growing up in church, I 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.080 played drums and stuff like that. I always wanted to 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.280 learn how to play the league. Good talk. I don't 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:49.880 think a lot of people know that about me, though 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.879 I always want to. My cousin could do it real well. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.280 He never taught me though, but I was always a drummer. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.200 But I always want to know how to play the league, 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.400 the talk, you know what you want time because sometime 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.320 drummers at church they sometimes running a little bit late. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:13.080 I did you give me that look though? You know, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.520 but how you y'all came from the same house. How 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.080 you late? And she drove, I know, man, especially when 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.200 I was able to drive though, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.600 She was like, yeah, man, I was. I was late. Man, 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.160 I was late and there the fellowship hall up. No good, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:36.560 Oh my god. Uh um, are you a restless or 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:46.080 RESTful sleeper? Oh? I think both? Mmm, I think I'm both, man. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.720 I mean, I guess it's just really um, I've been told, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.400 you know that I snore and stuff like that and everything, 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.520 but like, uh, I think it's a little bit of both, 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.960 though I think really mostly um. You know, this is 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.800 my first time playing on the West Coast team, so 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.320 I ain't I'm in bed. But first I was in 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.800 bed by like seven o'clock. That was rest folks sleeping, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.960 you know, because but it was kind of going back 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.240 and forth because I had to give this to the 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.800 time change. But it's getting better now, So I said 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:21.080 a little bit of both. Though. All right, last one, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.720 this is a curve ball. You're in Las Vegas. You're 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:33.200 also currently formerly the Oakland Raiders. Being on the West coast, 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:42.320 Oakland has a huge Latino community. Facts, facts, facts. How 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:47.920 do you say football in Spanish? Oh? God? In Espaniel, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:20:00.960 that's how you say? No, almost cursed. I'm telling you 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.000 the defensive players, so you don't know. Would you like 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.600 me to tell you? Yes, I need that football Americano 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:18.320 football Americano, football Americana. That was a good curb. But 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:23.720 I did not know that one. I was the time 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.280 I was like hold on, It was like afterwards, you 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.520 know what I'm saying. No, I was, I was. I 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.879 was holding on hand, Chris hand. You still want to 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:42.119 still get on the on the full stomach. No, no, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:47.600 you just ain't re tried. You just but that's crazy 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.560 though you say that I did not know that they 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.879 have a big you know, Spanish base. You know, um No, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.760 you didn't know that. I did not know that until 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.200 I got here. Oh till you got here. See that 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:04.720 that just olds the East coast, West coast, the lack 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.040 of knowing each other, because when I moved to Charlotte. 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:12.800 There were things I just like, I did not know 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:21.359 about the Southern culture of the South. Time. Yeah, it 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:29.560 was different, different when you laid back, No man laid back. 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.080 Laid back is an hour late the South. Is you 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.760 two hours late on the wrong day. It's not even 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.280 it's not even punctuality thing. It's just everything moves slower. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.159 Let's tell a quick story. One time I had just 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:50.639 a landscaping guy, scattered deployment one two o'clock, twelve o'clock 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:58.960 on a Tuesday. This dude came Thursday at three, just 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.240 got you gotta you gotta mixed up? Yo, My man, 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.080 what's you're doing? Oh I'm hearing such and such. Hey bro, you' 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.879 about two days later and you two hours late to 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:16.640 be kissed look off my property? Oh, what's the big deal? 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.720 We had it on Tuesday, I blocked off my schedule 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.680 and you come on Thursday at three. Yeah, I can't 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.320 work with you. South is different, man, But you you 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:29.920 get a cosme to it. Now you almost you will 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.800 you honorary Southern or now? I don't bring your ass 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:40.200 on two days. He don't define the South. We ain't 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:44.320 gonna let that dude define us. I run into a 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:48.840 quite a bit of those though. That's that's that's the 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.000 South though many I would have been hearing at that too. 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:56.280 So what what what is what has been the eye 0:22:56.480 --> 0:23:04.920 opening culture change for you? Coming from you know, Rowan County, 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:10.960 coming from a small town of North Carolina, going to 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:16.879 you know, uh, Las Vegas slash Oakland like that west 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:21.800 Like Las Vegas and Oakland are West Coast, West Coast, 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:26.520 like they rule West Coast. They busy West Coast and 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.000 they are get out my way. I'll pull a gun 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:34.359 out on you at the red light. West Coast facts 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:39.080 facts I feel like um mostly with me coming here. 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:42.960 I mean, other than the time change, but you know, 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:47.320 just you know you West Coast is a vibe though 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:49.680 it ain't gonna lie, it is a vibe where you 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.639 know there it is unmatched from the East Coast. But 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.440 I think the one thing that I do miss, and 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.520 it's different out here, like it is the southern hospitality 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.960 yea and everything like that. So that's one thing that 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.879 I do miss. Like you know, I'm walking through my 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:09.359 neighborhood and how are you doing? And they just walked 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:12.640 right past you, so you know they just bought play 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:15.800 past you and stuff like that. But I think that's 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.480 you know, but as far as just everything else though, man, 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:23.280 it's I mean, it's beautiful. Like especially people think when 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:24.639 you were in Las Vegas. They think you're on a 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:27.760 strip every day, you know, But I stay in Henderson 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:31.440 the battle So this is my brother. My brother is 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:38.200 a fireman Ville so he works out of there. Yeah, 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:40.159 and it's like it's like a vibe man out here 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.480 where you know, it's not you ain't gotta you know people, 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:45.800 you know, especially back home country town people. Oh you 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:48.600 just at the gambling day. My mama said, you're gambler. 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:51.000 I'm not a gambler first of all, but you know, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.320 that's what they first think. But it's really like a 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:57.639 really nice places out here, man um and especially in 0:24:57.720 --> 0:24:59.920 Henderson area and stuff like that. Man, really nice place. 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:03.919 We have to take a break and the morning thing, 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:11.200 we gotta pay some bill. You got checks. I love 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.120 cut to It, and I love it even more when 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:18.480 you download us and subscribe and you can follow us 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:21.440 on social media too. Smithie, where where at that's at? 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:25.720 Cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:29.600 to It? Facebook? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:33.120 what about online and you can follow us at cut 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.320 to it podcast dot com where you can buy merch 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:39.600 and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.720 I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:47.160 all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother, 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:52.119 cut to a podcast dot com. What did you inspire 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:57.760 what you want to be? Grown up? Um? I always? 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:00.760 I always, Um, I thought I was gonna be the 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:06.520 next Lebron James, the sixth one. I thought I was, 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:09.720 but it worked out that way to my coach got 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:15.400 on me and everything. But yeah, I didn't. I didn't 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:17.359 play foot. I always played a little league and stuff 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:20.280 like that. Football, but I always, you know, ran track 0:26:20.320 --> 0:26:24.480 when I was a little basketball obviously, but I didn't 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:28.440 play football. My freshman year, my mom and dad it 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:30.040 was like they want you, we want you to focus 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:32.080 on your grade, show to choose one. So I come 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:33.920 from a basketball family, so I was like, you know, 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:36.480 I'm gonna play basketball. I played. It's a freshman on 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:41.200 varsity and uh he's passed away. But my my my 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:44.040 high school coach man he was He's like, you crazy. 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:47.119 You can get any thousand dollar scholarship, you crazy or 0:26:47.200 --> 0:26:49.399 whatever like that you're never gonna make any basketball And 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:51.360 I was like, man, you're just hate him. But then 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:56.080 I came out my sophmore year for football, man, and 0:26:56.320 --> 0:26:59.680 like just just I mean I always played when I 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:02.320 was at but what you call it, like it just clicked. 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:04.800 Everything just clicked, man, and just coming off the edge 0:27:04.840 --> 0:27:07.560 of the speed Russia. So yeah, man, that's that's how 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:09.960 it all came and came into place though. But I 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:12.880 didn't have dreams like I guess like most of most 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:17.000 people are being a basketball player. Where are you from? 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:22.400 And the place you call your hometown? Salisbury, North Carolina? 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:27.520 All right? Now, is there like a little small as 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:30.360 that he giving you? He giving you the next largest? Yeah, 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:34.080 I'm talking about You ain't gonna say I'm from North Carolina. 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:37.120 You ain't gonna. I got it right here. I don't 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.280 want to know where you from. I don't want to 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:43.639 pronunciated incorrectly. But I also want you to tell me 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:49.240 if you know yo not you're yo from home town? 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.480 Mr Smith. If you would have been from Salisbury, you 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:56.359 would have said North Rowan, you would have said where 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.760 are you? What it is you know? Where high school? 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:10.840 With the Mount Ula Mount. My home address is Salisbury R. Mount. 0:28:10.880 --> 0:28:16.000 What you play in the NFL, You've experienced some highs 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:20.359 and lows. Mm hmm. Here's some unique things about your hometown. 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:25.640 And I'll let you chew. On of the residents at 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:31.880 least completed high school. Percent of the residents have received 0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:37.120 bachelor degrees or higher. Is that a fair assessment from 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:44.000 your observation of leaving and coming back? Yeah, yeah, I 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:47.760