WEBVTT - Jennifer King 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John And this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.640 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.520 Let's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.040 them about it, then we're about to let you know. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:43.600 It's all, hey, where's your glass? You don't have You 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.920 just don't have them. Okay, it's not a button until 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.520 you put your glasses on. My wife for my birthday 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.960 lass no. Two months ago in December, whoa, whoa, whoa? 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.760 Did you almost forget your own birthday? Remember what was there? 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.160 So for my birthday, my wife got me the my 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:07.320 heritage shout out to shout southside hot point. She got 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.959 me the my heritage thing. So they do the DNA 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.080 swab where you have to do the cotton ball, the 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.720 cotton swab or whatever is it like the test like 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:20.000 the know you don't put in your nose, didn't you 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.959 swab your you swab your cheeky? So they give you 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.720 two of them, put them in the vals. You ship 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.640 them off. So I literally got my results back May 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.399 about two days ago. Would you like for me to 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:36.000 read them to you? Absolutely, so I'll get hit. A 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.520 matter of fact, I'll get to the point. The most 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.920 talent thing that I found out about this is that 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.880 while most of my heritage over six is from Africa, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.200 range which from ranging from Nigeria to see her really 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:55.120 on to Kenya to which part of you don't tell 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.240 me all that, but you're trying to get way too specifics, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.880 don't You don't give all that. I don't give you 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.240 all that. I don't know if it's got that kind 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.040 of capable. If you're gonna do it, don't go all out. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.480 I think it's more to see your paychecks. It's more 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.800 to the to the get the goal level capabilities. There 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.760 ain't no levels to it. It ain't no level. It's 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.880 always it ain't no levels to this is my hairtage game. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.720 Any who, it's some of my families from Ethiopia. So 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.040 I did the twenty three and me had the had 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.040 the North African in there. Okay, but what was most 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:35.640 surprising is most tail I'm thirty three white, say it 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.359 ain't so it's so you know, what that Actually, it's not. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.000 I'm light skinned, so it ain't. I didn't go into 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.160 this thing, but I didn't. I didn't think you're thirty 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.079 three percent, didn't need so now that you're thirty three percent, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.840 tell me a few things just bang pop up in 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.600 in your head. When you discovered your thirty three percent bank, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:56.680 I wanted to go to the bank and see if 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.400 maybe I could get a very special rate four anything 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.320 loans anything. What you mean special rate? The rate you 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.680 have right now currently is not good? What all this though? 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.320 Maybe I would be able to get something sense. I 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:12.000 am now part of the Caucasian heritage. I thought there 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.080 may be some sort of I call up Joe Memphis. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.760 I call it backstage, and I'm like, bro, can you 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.720 believe what? So what you called Joe up first instead 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.760 of me? Well, you're not white? You know the black 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.800 experience I'm trying to understand. I'm trying to understand more 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.720 of the white hair dig right. So I actually call 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.880 up my man Joe, and I'm like, hey, Joe, you 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.040 will never forget this. I did my DNA test and 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.160 it tells my third three percent white verbatim. And we 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.480 just we just brought backstage Joe up. So of course 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:51.640 my answer was welcome to the team. That is, how 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.200 is the A step going right now? Well, I wasn't. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.440 I was gonna have Gerard come to the house and teacher, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:02.280 but apparently he came down. It dis qualifies you. So 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.000 so all the folks out there that that maybe follow 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.400 us on social media, maybe about a month or so ago, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:15.720 we post some adolescent pictures of Steve adolescent adolescent, say 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.880 it with me. It's just the way it came out. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.719 I just was wondering where you have to start talking 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.960 like that big words so and I told you you're 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:30.280 getting and I told you he's still saving me per 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.479 six No, no, no, no, that's sixty seven sixty seven. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:40.400 But I'm I'm I'm actually kind of his sature looked 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.159 like Bruno Mars and I thought it was and I 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.400 didn't know obviously he was taking this test. And then 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.000 when it came back, I was like, holy cow, and 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.560 he's one of us, Gerard, little John, well not actually, David. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.440 Now you're pushing now when I put the Stevens out 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.640 of my pocket, we're going to d them already. Get 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.480 that change. So I asked, I'm like, hey, how does 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.640 it feel to be like a card carrying member. Now 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.760 I've made a few calls. Man, he's still under investigation. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.200 If you got the gold package Ebony, it had been better, 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.400 but that silver package and giving us the details. So anyway, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.760 so ask me some other things, other things that I thought. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.000 I was like, yeah, other things. What it's gonna be 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.039 like now when I get pulled over? Can I can 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.120 I say, hey, officer, you know what I can't do that? 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.400 You could try that if you won't gonna work. I 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.400 think I think it has a little bit of a limit, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:41.160 don't it. Favorite basketball player now, Larry No, you're not. No, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:51.159 Kurt Rambiser, Chris Muller, why are you profiling? I was 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.080 trying not to do like all the international guys. I 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.880 was gonna say, Luca Duncan, but I mean, you can't 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.719 really go down. No, you can't know, you can't go 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.880 that around anymore. No before but some real stuff though 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.520 it was it was one of the best birthday gifts 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.880 that I have received because you know, has nothing to 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.960 do with it, but honestly, it's finding out where you 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.840 come from. It's finding out kind of where your roots are. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.880 Because one thing I think I've mentioned this actually in 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.360 our podcast with with c J. So Pale was that 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.520 he has this broad lineage of history and knows where 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.520 he comes from, not just from a country, but from 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.960 um even all the way down to what tribe all 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.760 that stuff, and it's so cool and from from my family. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.200 We don't have that, and so my family is relatively small, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.960 and all I really know is that most of my 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.479 folks came poured it in from Charleston and where slaves 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.080 and settled in roughly around like the Gaffney, South Carolina area. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.560 So to have even this little bit, now, this isn't 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.080 a this isn't a family tree type of thing. It 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.440 really is like, hey, here's your makeup of your DNA, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.400 but just to know, like, man, this is where I 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.920 came from. For me, it's actually really really cool because 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.440 I just have never had that before. So this is 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.560 actually one of the more cooler things that I've ever done. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.280 And it's really probably the best birthday gif I had. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.000 We've joked a lot or whatever, and we're making fun 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.400 of it. I hope I don't lose my black Affelt 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.200 contract now, but it is really really cool. Now you're 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.200 not gonna lose it because I mean just even the 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.720 fact that I know, even the fact, you know, just 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.440 discovering all that, and you know, I think sometimes there 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.600 is some skepticism with people on are they trying to 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.640 gather your DNA or information to track and all that stuff. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.960 But it's more I know, but it's just more of 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.880 understanding it. But I can tell you this. You come back, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.560 you know on the heritage thirty three percent. But I 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:45.040 could I could have told by your beer, No, brother, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.560 you got that African American nation. No, it wasn't it. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.520 This gout. All of that is just like, I know what, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.320 it's cool. You know what. I honestly knew that I'm 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.640 pretty light skinned. Who hasn't seen before I'm pretty light sking, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.880 so I knew, you know, I wouldn't. I wasn't batting 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.200 the thousand when it came to be fully black, so 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.880 I knew something else was in there. It's just a 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.480 matter of man, well that's that's exactly way from from 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.120 French and German and all this different stuff. It's actually 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.160 pretty cool. It's actually know from which you come from. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:13.960 I don't know. For me, I thought it was really cool. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.160 So we made some jokes. It's really cool. I will 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.840 not try this with the police stuff. Just being honest. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:22.400 I'm not trying that. I like my co host. Hey 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.960 who we got coming up on the Cut to It podcast. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.040 We've got Jennifer King, the first black woman to become 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.360 a full time coach in the NFL. A former football 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.880 player herself, she also coached women's basketball. Jennifer King on 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:43.000 the Cut to It podcast. Get Iced Up. Now, that's 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.959 our version of Icebreakers. Smithy's got some random questions. There 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.640 may be a follow up. It might be an open 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.560 ended question, might be a multiple choice question. I got 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.200 no idea. You don't either. Go ahead and for the 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.800 first one. All right, here we go. You ready, man? 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.040 It is a open book tests about you, so if 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:09.000 you fail, it's your I got you, all right? So, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:16.440 waffle cone or cake cones? Uh? Waffle? Yeah, white waffle. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.000 I don't know. It's kind of classic. It tastes a 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.360 little better, you know, with the ice cream at the end. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.079 So I think that's why I like it. I do 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.920 love cake conbes. I don't know why they're not bad. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:27.839 I'm not trashing them, but you know, it gave me 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.600 a choice. You gotta shoes, you do you? You know, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.319 obviously with the pandemic and everything going on, do you like, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:43.800 let's go pre COVID dining in or take out? I'm 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.760 on a dining in person. You know. I like to 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.000 get the whole experience. I'm kind of foodie, so I 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.920 love to go to different spots, so I like to 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.800 have experience. Okay, so you your foodie, all right, So 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.160 what's your what's your favorite food? There? My favorite food? 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.439 Like this is go It's not gonna be a foodie food. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.959 But I love pizza, like all different kinds, so I 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:09.840 like to try. Yeah, okay, what kind of pizza? Right? 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.400 You know, A foody answer would be something like fancy, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.480 but just you know, just keep it, keep it real 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.760 with you man. Okay, so what kind of piece? What 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.840 don't you like on your pizza? I like a bunch 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.160 of stuff, so like I don't really like onions, but 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.520 pretty much anything else can go on it, like the Supreme, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:29.880 just put everything on it, edgies, everything like that. You see. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:35.040 You don't know, but I love pizza. There we go 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.959 when I love pizza, like I have pretty much during 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.040 the football season and off every Sunday, we have pizza 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:50.839 like pizza do favorite? So you don't do the frozen pizza. Hunh. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.679 You have a whole contraption, right, Yeah, I have a 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:58.360 pizza oven at the house that I built this pizza. No, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.480 it's not your average pizza. It's a I got it, 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:09.040 uh built ship and put together. And I can make 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.520 pezze when I say pizza, like I make my own 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:18.439 dough hift boy, shift boy. All right, last question and 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.240 we out of this one. A. What's hard of the coach? Offense, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:32.640 special teams or defense? Oh? Man, that's tough. Um, I 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.360 know that's a tough one man, just because they all 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:39.480 have their difficulties. Um. I would probably say offense, you know, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.440 just because I'm a little question, just because now there's 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.920 so many things defensive can throw at you. Um, you know, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.559 especially working with running backs, you know, protection wise, sometimes 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.920 you get surprised by stuff and exotics. Did they saying? So? 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.440 I would just say offense for that reason. But you know, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.920 defense is a beast. Two now with all these crazy 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.480 offenses out here. I asked that because of no owing, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:05.640 each individual position, like special teams, is his own animal. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:11.520 And it how simple special teams look on the game, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:17.120 and how difficult getting a middle linebacker who's a backup 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.760 to be able to swivel his hips and move covering 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.080 a running back or wide receiver at L three running 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:28.560 full speed, Like that's not a you can't just happenstance 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:35.040 on doing that. Oh, he's just a special teams player, 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.600 as if special teams is not just as important as 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.120 offensive defense. To your point, all that stuff is important, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.400 Like you're not just running down on kickoff, just like 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.360 it's all orchestrated, right, there's schemes to it, their schemes 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.360 to kickoff, return their schemes to a way. It's like 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.839 that's always chatman people, he's just a special teams player. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.600 What what does that mean? And you gotta get a 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.760 special team player who maybe that was not their expertise 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.040 because they were starters in Kyle It and hey, the 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.320 guy that is playing their position is a starter pro 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.400 bowler and they can't beat that man out, and so 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.680 they gotta be on this on this on the field. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.120 Getting that individual to understand keeping his assignment as a 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:21.040 backup on defense, but making sure that individual understands the 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.240 gravity of being a contribute on special teams is the 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.079 difference between you making a career or you out here 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.560 looking for another job. You're still getting justice. You may 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.760 not be getting as many snaps as an offensive defensive player, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.040 but you're still getting snaps. You're still getting playing time, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.320 you earn your opportunity to be the backup. All right, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.640 you're ready. So let's let's get down to who is Jennifer? Yeah, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.560 that's good, all right? All right? So what's what sport 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:54.520 or sports did you watch as a kid? Uh, the 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.960 big sports for football and basketball. So we were always 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:01.240 watching college NFL, going to high school games, um for 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.719 all of them. And you know, the NBA finals were 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.960 big for us, watching the playoffs. So football and basketball 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.559 were the biggest things in our household. You know who 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.000 your teams? Oh man, it was tough. You know. I 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.280 like the Hornets because they were close, but uh, you know, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.120 obviously was rooting for the Jordan Bulls too, just because 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.880 you know it's Jordan's But football wise, you know, I 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.200 liked Washington and to the Panthers came and then you know, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.840 I was in North Carolina, so I jumped over to 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:32.520 the Panthers. That's a real North Carolina answer, right there. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.480 Washington fans then then they then they contributed, they slid 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:40.480 over the game Panthers fans. So where are you from 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.400 in the place you call your hometown? Yeah, I'm for Reesville, 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.240 North Carolina. It's a little small town near Greensboro. Uh 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.960 big for sports. Um our football team in Reesville has 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.080 won like twenty state championships. I went to I went 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.800 to Rockingham County down the street. But back back up, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:04.440 back up, back back back back. You can't flex when 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.480 in state in North Carolina? Did you ever play independence? 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:16.360 They're not in the same classification. Yeah, I went to Rockingham. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.280 But the reason what, don't run for anybody? So come 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:25.360 on now, yes she did. They got twenty of things 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.480 Reville in three six a. Oh yeah, they took some 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.600 names for sure, Which which names? Give me? Give me 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.600 somebody that came out of what is this? What is 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.760 it called? Drune Simpson? Drune Simpson. I have no idea 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.960 who that he played for for the Bengals. He's the 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.920 one that did the flip over the guy into the 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.240 end zone. They still play it a lot. He went 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.600 to other than that one highlight? What else did he 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.640 He was in the league for like six years? Yeah, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:16:00.200 six years? He also you know I can go there 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:05.600 he did, Okay, So who else besides him out of 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.680 those twenties. Yeah, they had a guy named named Brown. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.280 He went to the Eagles while back. Really good basketball 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.480 players coming out of Reesville. They got one now actually 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.480 this he's ranked in football and basketball. But he's gonna 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:26.120 go play basketball and see state. What's his name, Brian passed. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:31.200 I will look out for him, all right. So growing 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.840 up in your hometown, how did it shape your perspective 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.080 on the way you see life today. It was kind 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.080 of crazy, just because it was such a small place. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.680 So um, you know, I remember as a kid going 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.120 to like the city's like Greensboro, Charlotte or Raleigh, thinking 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:48.960 I had like saw the world, you know because I 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.040 was from this little town. So they see those things 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.720 at a young age kind of helped me develop now, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.480 you know, just the experiences that I had. And it 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.160 sucks because there's a lot of people for Reesville that's 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.960 still think that way. You know, they're in that small 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.000 town mentality and you know, going to Myrtle Beach is 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:10.159 it for them? Exactly? Like if I get up a 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.320 Myrtle Beach, I'm getting paid to be there or something's 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:19.000 going wrong. Man, Myrtle Beach slander is at all about 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:24.439 Myrtle Beach, going to Myrtle But I'm with Jennifer. I mean, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.920 you're growing up a small town. Once you got to pleasure, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.439 that was the destination back then, Like all right, we're 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.080 gonna go to Myrtle Beach and then you actually leave 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.679 and you get a taste of the world. Now, say 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.800 in South Carolina's not the world. You get a taste 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:41.679 of the world. You're like, what have I been? Nothing? 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.880 We might have lost some sponsorship with you. I don't 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.200 think we've got to get the visit Myrtle Beach, ads, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:51.320 and you might wanna take that off the list back stage, Na, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.800 I don't think they're gonna come through. Oh well right, 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:02.000 I've been declined in better places. So, Jennifer, where did 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.560 your love for sports come from? Who introduced you to sports? 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.560 It was kind of a collective effort. Man. My whole 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.120 family was in the sports. So I used to watch 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.919 games and my dad, my sister played, my cousins played. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.879 You know, we were always playing in the backyard and 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.919 football and basketball, so um. It was kind of a 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.320 collective thing. You know. Sports were just always around and 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.480 I was always playing something so um pretty much ever 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.720 since I remember, you know, I've been playing sports and 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.400 it was kind of just be an athlete. What sports 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.520 were you really just like in love with that? You 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.080 just everything you did. It was like if I do this, 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.320 I'll get better in this sport. So you know, just 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.120 growing up as a kid, what sport did you just 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.360 just attach yourself with? Yeah, I mean it was basketball 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.600 and football. Um, you know I played a lot of 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.159 football in the backyard and at school, and um, you know, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.080 I was I wanted to be really good at football. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:56.960 I was like wow, like I was just throw my 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.960 body around, just like I see people doing the TV. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.040 So you know, we didn't play tad. You know, we 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:05.280 were tackling as little kids. So yeah, and then you 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.240 know basketball of course. Um, you know, my sister played 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.360 my cousin's place. I always wanted to be better than them, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:11.960 so I was always trying to get better. And I 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.520 would go to the gym and be there for hours 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.560 and hours. You know, they're trying to get better. We 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.680 have to take a break and the morning anything, we 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:28.000 gotta pay some bills. You got checked. I love cut 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.600 to it, and I love it even more when you 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.800 download us and subscribe and you can follow us on 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.040 social media too, Smithie, where where at? That's at? Cut 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:43.200 to it on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to it? Facebook? 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.320 Cut to it featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.280 And you can follow us at cut to It podcast 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.480 dot com where you can buy merch and you can 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.919 subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.439 all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.080 questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother cut 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.000 to a podcast dot com. I think this is a 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:13.840 unique question because I'm a dad. What's the dynamic when 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.720 you wanted to play and obviously your girl? So we 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.920 I want to highlight that and also talk about to 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:26.960 some degree talk about the stigma of girls playing guy's sports, 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.800 especially at a young age, because I've used to do 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.120 I used to do football camps when I did play 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.360 and I and I one thing that I always noticed 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.080 that was really cool is you always got two or 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.400 three girls. But these two or three girls were always 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:45.960 excellent players because they most most young men playing sports, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.560 they lacked the detail. But that that girls that played 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.159 they always knew that they had to have the fundamentals 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:59.000 because some girls or just physically not as strong or 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:03.119 not as fast as the counterparts as the counterparts, And 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:08.560 so what was the dynamic between mom seeing you play 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:14.000 football and dad seeing you play football? Yeah? That was 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.480 that was funny because you know, when I got to 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.760 like middle school and even high school, you know, the 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:20.920 coaches were like, you know, like I think she can 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.679 help us. You know, so I was I was trying. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.440 I was trying, but you know that was like nah, 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.679 like they printed my parents streamers let me do anything 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.200 else and supported me except for playing football that they 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.560 were worried about, you know, me getting injured. So I 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.639 didn't get to do it. So I still just played 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:40.320 in like pe and you know, in class. But that 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.560 was it pretty much until I was an adult. So 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.480 did they ever tell you that you that you can't. No, 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.720 they never told me I couldn't. They just didn't sign 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:50.560 me up for allowing me to do it because you know, 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.920 they were worried about me get injured. So that was 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.040 prettymu sh it. Not that I couldn't do it, It 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:59.880 was just they were concerned. And I like that big 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:04.760 because obviously I'm a dad and I played football, and 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.480 you know, I remember I wasn't working on Thursday night 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.359 and I was watching, but I was watching Thursday night 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:13.840 because I had to take notes and I had a 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.600 show to do the next that following weekend, and because 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.480 of that, I was watching the Thursday night and I 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:25.880 remember sitting there watching Ryan says he got his injury. 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:30.640 And I can remember, like yesterday, my wife goes, My wife, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.840 Angie goes, that's why I won't bamm playing football. And 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:39.120 I got sold. I was a little bit irritated because 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:45.679 I had to walk. I paused it and I walked 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:51.480 Boston through what happened and why it happened. Not the 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:56.199 sport her natural reaction, which I agree with. It's a 0:22:56.200 --> 0:23:01.360 brutal sport. That's why I wanted to play what as 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.199 a dad, I had to go, No, it's not the 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:09.440 sport necessarily, it's the participant in that sport that increased 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:15.560 the chances of his probability of getting hurt. On the 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.080 way he did something, and we went back through it 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.240 and I walked him through it. And from that moment on, 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:25.320 I had told my son, for you to play this game. 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:29.040 If you can't see, if you don't see what you hit, 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.919 you don't hit it. And on that particular play, and 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:35.480 I played against Ryan. He's a hell of a football player, 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:41.720 but also like anybody else, you can have that centimeter 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:48.359 of air, put your head down and it can cost 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:52.800