Speaker 1: What's Good Commands Family.
Speaker 2: Brian Copra Junior here, and this is the Next Man
Speaker 2: Up Podcast where we talk to your favorite Commanders players.
Speaker 1: But it's not so much X and O's. We get
Speaker 1: to know the man behind the helmet.
Speaker 2: And our next man up is no other than Chris Paul,
Speaker 2: our second year offensive lineman. Chris talks about his family
Speaker 2: being immigrants from Nigeria, playing at Tulsa, being a part
Speaker 2: of mental health advocacy, and wanting to meet the NBA.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: This brother is definitely a renaissance man. You're gonna want
Speaker 2: to tune in. One of the best conversations I've ever
Speaker 2: had with an individual, and it all starts right now.
Speaker 1: What's Good, Commanders Family?
Speaker 2: I'm Brian Coper and this is the Next Man Up
Speaker 2: Podcast where we talk to your favorite Commandis players.
Speaker 1: Not so much about X and O's.
Speaker 2: We want to get to know the man behind the helmet,
Speaker 2: and our next man up is no other than Chris Paul,
Speaker 2: the real Chris Paul.
Speaker 1: Chris, how you doing today? Brother? Ah Man, I'm blessed man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy, man, I know we're pass halfway
Speaker 2: through the season, So you got a lot going on.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a little bit about football, but I
Speaker 2: mostly want to talk about you, where you're from and
Speaker 2: what makes you? You cool with that? Let's do it
Speaker 2: all right, let's do it man. First thing is for
Speaker 2: you from Houston. Yes, what is being like? There's a
Speaker 2: lot of pride in Houston, right, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: Houston pride. What's being from Houston mean to you?
Speaker 3: I mean it means everything. I mean I feel like
Speaker 3: we kind of have a one side of a wife
Speaker 3: when we were Dallas. Yeah, anybody from Houston is gonna
Speaker 3: make sure you know that. You know, like, I'm from Houston,
Speaker 3: no nowhere else, no confusion. So that's definitely where I'm
Speaker 3: from and definitely a lot of culture down there. So
Speaker 3: I really do love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, And you talk about Dallas real quick, So
Speaker 2: where you hype when you found out, like, Yo, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get to play Dallas twice a year and beat
Speaker 2: up on them with your little height.
Speaker 3: I was very high, very hard like. So that's definitely
Speaker 3: an honor for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, being from Houston, Man, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: things that can you know, distract a young man trying
Speaker 2: to come up. How did you avoid, you know, those
Speaker 2: type of distractions, stay on the path that you've been
Speaker 2: on because you're very focused and driven individual.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say it really all depends.
Speaker 3: Like Houston, it has a lot of neighbor different pockets
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So thankfully, my parents made it
Speaker 3: a priority to kind of like put myself and my
Speaker 3: brothers in a great area, like a great, great school system,
Speaker 3: all of those kind of things. So I really didn't
Speaker 3: run into that many distractions, and I was able to
Speaker 3: like kind of capitalize on every opportunity I was given.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk about your brothers, man, you have two brothers, right,
Speaker 2: there's three of you guys. Right, you have a older
Speaker 2: you're the middle, and then it's younger Yes, all yaller athletes. Yes,
Speaker 2: younger brother is a very very good colleague of athlete
Speaker 2: as well. What is that like growing up in a
Speaker 2: house like that with three athletes, three very big, very athletes.
Speaker 1: What was that like?
Speaker 2: Very large humans? What was that like growing up with
Speaker 2: three brothers in environment like that?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 3: It was so much fun, so much fun. I just
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how my parents did it.
Speaker 3: I don't know how my mom did it, like I
Speaker 3: mean three three big boys, I mean, summers was just crazy,
Speaker 3: Like we go grocery shopping, fill up the fridge, it's empty.
Speaker 3: The next day, I gotta do it again. So it
Speaker 3: was it was a lot of fun. And so it's
Speaker 3: kind of also been cool to watch kind of like
Speaker 3: watch all of us come into.
Speaker 1: Our own Yeah. Yeah, is there any competitive spirit there? Right?
Speaker 1: Like where there were you.
Speaker 2: Guys constantly baling like I gotta get the last turkey
Speaker 2: leg like things like that.
Speaker 3: Always baling whether we're playing the video game or you
Speaker 3: know anything like always a competition.
Speaker 4: So like it was, it was fun.
Speaker 1: How has that healthy competition helped you be where you
Speaker 1: are today?
Speaker 3: It's helped in a way because like it's kind of
Speaker 3: molded me into who I am today. It's added to
Speaker 3: that like competitive spirit that we naturally all have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I would say it was it was more
Speaker 4: beneficial if anything.
Speaker 2: That's fire man, that's really really cool. And then you know,
Speaker 2: like I said, we got your younger brothers still in college,
Speaker 2: you're here at the NFL levels, what conversations do you
Speaker 2: guys have? Like I know, he probably picked your brain
Speaker 2: and ask you with things like what conversations are those like,
Speaker 2: and like what kind of game do you give him
Speaker 2: to get him ready for the next level.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's always asking me questions and shot he's given
Speaker 3: me pointing us.
Speaker 4: He watches the games.
Speaker 3: I watch his game, and it's been really cool, especially
Speaker 3: since he'll be pretty much coming out this year, and
Speaker 3: so I mean I'm walking him through every aspect of
Speaker 3: the process. So we'll probably be in the same area
Speaker 3: during the off season as well, so I'll get to
Speaker 3: kind of like be hands on and I just I look,
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of him, and I look forward to
Speaker 3: this journey.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, man, how would it be you know, he
Speaker 2: gets drafted to a place like that, so he goes
Speaker 2: somewhere that you got to play against him. Of course
Speaker 2: you guys are both lineman. What would that be like?
Speaker 3: Man, that would be the world because if you think
Speaker 3: about it, I went to Tulsa.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: He is currently at.
Speaker 3: Houston and now Houston is in the Big twelve, but
Speaker 3: they used to be in the American so we had
Speaker 3: we got to have two games where we played against
Speaker 3: each other. And it's the coolest thing on earth. And
Speaker 3: I mean, you should have seen pictures pictures.
Speaker 1: Of my mom.
Speaker 3: She kind of like had this, I think my senior
Speaker 3: year she had this like split dress for like blue
Speaker 3: or I mean it was it so much fun and
Speaker 3: just like a full circle moment.
Speaker 2: That's really really cool man. And clearly, man, your parents
Speaker 2: mean a lot to you. Man, So talk about them
Speaker 2: a little bit. They both came here from Nigeria, they
Speaker 2: both met going to college in Houston. Yes, that's a
Speaker 2: very very interesting past man, And I'm sure you've talked
Speaker 2: a lot about them, and like that's not easy to do, right,
Speaker 2: It's not easy to come here into a new country's
Speaker 2: and really settle and let alone have three amazingly talented
Speaker 2: young men.
Speaker 1: How inspiring are your parents to you?
Speaker 3: I mean, they are the most inspiring people to me
Speaker 3: on this earth, you know, just.
Speaker 4: Knowing their journey. My mom really came here the youngest.
Speaker 3: She came here when she was seventeen to go to college,
Speaker 3: you know, all by herself.
Speaker 4: And just to kind of see them take on that journey,
Speaker 4: what they made.
Speaker 3: Of their lives, how they built their family and prioritize
Speaker 3: their children, and the sacrifices, many many sacrifices they made.
Speaker 4: The most inspirational people yeah.
Speaker 2: And you being a Nigerian man, what does Nigeria that
Speaker 2: being from there and having that pride Nagia. Yes, you're
Speaker 2: from Houston, put your roots in Nigeria. Exactly what kind
Speaker 2: of love do you have for Nigeria?
Speaker 4: I have? I have so much love.
Speaker 3: And really, when you talk about like my background and upbringing,
Speaker 3: my parents they really found it important to have us
Speaker 3: live in Nigeria for like a portion of our lives.
Speaker 3: So I lived in Nigeria for about three to four years,
Speaker 3: went to school and everything. I think that would have
Speaker 3: been right around like second to fifth grade.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And so those are like, you know, pivotal moments of
Speaker 3: your upbringing. So being able to like take that experience
Speaker 3: and all the lessons I learned over there and then
Speaker 3: bring it back here like it made a world of difference.
Speaker 3: It made me like well rounded, multi dimensional, Like I
Speaker 3: just knew how to navigate life in a much better way.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Man, I mean that's very young, right to being in
Speaker 2: another the country come back to this country.
Speaker 1: What are the challenges you faced going through that?
Speaker 2: Which is cool as it it's just really cool and
Speaker 2: it's amazing that your parents did that.
Speaker 1: It was very very smart.
Speaker 2: You gotta be attached to your roots. But what are
Speaker 2: the challenges today?
Speaker 3: I mean there's challenges. Luckily, I'll say culturally there's challenges
Speaker 3: because like culturally between like Nigeria and here, a lot
Speaker 3: of things are different. I would say, like in terms
Speaker 3: of students versus authority figures, Nigeria definitely has like an
Speaker 3: emphasis on respect and like those type of values, and
Speaker 3: so it was it was a little bit difficult, like
Speaker 3: adjusting to what we were used to the point. But
Speaker 3: I mean once you get around like younger kids your age,
Speaker 3: and you start like getting submerged into it, you start
Speaker 3: to realize that it's it's pretty easy to adjust. And
Speaker 3: I mean's official languages English, so that there wasn't any
Speaker 3: type of language barriers or anything. And we picked up
Speaker 3: a very very thick accent that was like it took
Speaker 3: two years to lose while I came back. But yeah,
Speaker 3: all of it was just I would say it was
Speaker 3: more beneficial if anything.
Speaker 2: How now, because you know, you're grown man, now you've
Speaker 2: been in America a really long time, how do you
Speaker 2: keep that attachment in those tides in Nigeria and stay
Speaker 2: connected to you know, basically, what's the mother man?
Speaker 1: For you.
Speaker 3: I would say, we got to go back for Christmas
Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: Wow, so that was that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So it's still been a while since I've been back,
Speaker 3: but I mean majority of my extended family I would
Speaker 3: say currently lives in Nigeria, so I would say just
Speaker 3: keeping up with them. You know, older people use Facebook
Speaker 3: a lot, so I mean I'm all connected through there,
Speaker 3: so i'd say I'm pretty pretty stuck.
Speaker 1: Man. That is so cool to hear. Man.
Speaker 2: And if you haven't peeped already by talking to this brother,
Speaker 2: it's very versatile. Yes, we know you're versatile on the field,
Speaker 2: but life you're extremely versable.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You have a lot of passions, you have a lot
Speaker 2: of things you care about. So let's get into that
Speaker 2: a little bit. You end up going back to America
Speaker 2: after in Nigeria and you start playing football. You didn't
Speaker 2: start playing football right away right once you start playing.
Speaker 4: I started playing sixth grade, so middle school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, middle school.
Speaker 2: And I think I was telling you off air that,
Speaker 2: you know, Kawan Martin was saying he played at five
Speaker 2: years old. So you know, you're clearly a big dude.
Speaker 2: You have stature. What sports war you playing? Leading up
Speaker 2: until sixth grade.
Speaker 3: The first sport I ever played was soccer, So I
Speaker 3: think pee wee. That was probably what five years old, Yeah,
Speaker 3: pre k kindergarten. That was the first sport I ever played.
Speaker 3: Then when I got you know, I say, living in
Speaker 3: Nigeria for those years, like the main sport over there
Speaker 3: is soccer, yeah right right, they you know, dabbling basketball
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, but the main sport is soccer,
Speaker 3: which they called football. So and then middle school, I
Speaker 3: mean genetically, myself and my brothers were just being so
Speaker 3: like it was real kind of like you know, people
Speaker 3: seeing always like, yeah, you're gonna play for me? No
Speaker 3: you really, I didn't have a choice in the battle,
Speaker 3: right right right, And so got into it and then
Speaker 3: just really started having fun with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah how long did it take?
Speaker 2: Because I mean middle school that's you know a lot
Speaker 2: of people play the whole lives what we talked about.
Speaker 2: When did you start realizing like, oh nah, this.
Speaker 1: This me right here, I'm gonna be good at this.
Speaker 3: This was It was probably you know, high school, but
Speaker 3: especially junior year. That's around where like you know, offers
Speaker 3: for college starts to come in. And that's really when
Speaker 3: I knew like, yeah, this is this, this is what
Speaker 3: I'm wanna do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then you chose to go to Tulsa.
Speaker 2: And then during your time at Tulsa, Man, I should
Speaker 2: have just wrote a list of it, because there's so
Speaker 2: many different things you were involved in, so many different
Speaker 2: things you did. Like one thing you really big on
Speaker 2: is mental health advocacy. Why was that so important to
Speaker 2: be involved in that? Because I think you were representative
Speaker 2: of the whole ac If I'm not mistaken right, it's
Speaker 2: like seven thousand plus student athletes that you had to represent.
Speaker 2: Why was mental health advocacy the main you wanted to
Speaker 2: focus on the thing you wanted to.
Speaker 3: Push Because I think it's so so huge in sports,
Speaker 3: Like even if you and that's all sports, like that's
Speaker 3: male sports, women's sports, that's all of it. And because
Speaker 3: think about it, we're in very competitive environments where you
Speaker 3: have to be tough to be in thisment, you have
Speaker 3: to be mentally, physically all of it. You've got to
Speaker 3: be tough, and so a lot of times in those
Speaker 3: very serious, very competitive environments, you kind of like can
Speaker 3: lose sight of the holistic aspect of like being an athlete.
Speaker 3: There's somebody under the helmet, right exactly. Yeah, there's somebody
Speaker 3: beyond the entertainer, you know. And so that's why for
Speaker 3: me it's so so so important, and I can only
Speaker 3: speak from the standpoint of being a man like I
Speaker 3: also think it's very important from that aspect as well,
Speaker 3: because think about our whole lives.
Speaker 4: We've been told, you know, man up, you know, deal.
Speaker 1: With it, shake it off, walking off, whatever.
Speaker 3: But everybody goes through something like no matter how like
Speaker 3: tough you go about it, no matter how tough you
Speaker 3: try to act about it too. And so for me,
Speaker 3: it was just really important to let people know that
Speaker 3: there are others, even if it's somebody right next to you,
Speaker 3: others you might not know that could be going through
Speaker 3: similar things as you are speaking up about those things
Speaker 3: like change his lives.
Speaker 2: I mean, how do you get to this point though, right,
Speaker 2: Because like you said, man, you're not only a man,
Speaker 2: you're a black man.
Speaker 1: You're a big man. A lot of us don't get sympathy, right,
Speaker 1: A lot of black men aren't getting you know that.
Speaker 2: We're the ones that are told the age, especially out
Speaker 2: the way raised like we gotta be tough because this
Speaker 2: world's hard on us.
Speaker 1: How do you get to this point, you're still a
Speaker 1: very young man.
Speaker 2: How did you get to that point into where you
Speaker 2: understood how important was to take care of your mental Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would say one everybody's like upbringing is different.
Speaker 4: For me.
Speaker 3: I'm very grateful that I have parents that were like
Speaker 3: that really cared about me, or care about me holistically.
Speaker 4: Like and how I'm doing.
Speaker 3: But I think to your point, like being a very
Speaker 3: large man, being a black man, and we don't usually
Speaker 3: get sympathy for me because of that. That's why it's
Speaker 3: that much more like I wanted to come from me.
Speaker 3: I want I want my black brothers to like know
Speaker 3: that somebody goes through similar things, that somebody cares like
Speaker 3: you can talk to somebody doing that can change the
Speaker 3: trajectory of your life.
Speaker 2: We talked to I believe it was Jeremie Reeves and
Speaker 2: he was mentioning he went through some things in life
Speaker 2: and he was saying how it was so hard as
Speaker 2: him to realize he needed to release, he needed to
Speaker 2: let things go. And then he had a moment where
Speaker 2: just everything came out. What are your ways you deal
Speaker 2: with things and make yourself feel better and do these
Speaker 2: self checks to where you check on your mental health
Speaker 2: power ways you do that for people that are watching
Speaker 2: that are trying to figure out like their own mental
Speaker 2: health journey.
Speaker 3: Absolutely like what you just referenced, Like I call that
Speaker 3: the bottlenecking effect.
Speaker 4: That's like that's well known.
Speaker 3: If you just like keep it inside, you know, shake
Speaker 3: it off whatever, just ignore it, like will it's gonna
Speaker 3: come out in a healthy ways. Like and I've had
Speaker 3: experiences with that as well, And so for me, healthy
Speaker 3: outlets are really really important to me. And I know
Speaker 3: we'll get into it a little bit later, but like
Speaker 3: whether it's video games for.
Speaker 4: Me, it's music, Like that's how I like channel.
Speaker 3: That's kind of how I unplug and like channels my
Speaker 3: mind somewhere else into like creative things. So like any
Speaker 3: type of healthy outlet that you can get into out
Speaker 3: extremely extremely advised you to do so. And then just
Speaker 3: like taking advantage of resources, like talking to somebody is okay.
Speaker 3: And there's this like stigma of like talking to people
Speaker 3: or going to counseling or going to therapy because you
Speaker 3: think that like that means something is like seriously wrong
Speaker 3: with you or like no, take advantage of like all
Speaker 3: the resources that you have around you. I think doctor
Speaker 3: Robertson really around the league. The NFL has taken a
Speaker 3: great step by making sure that there's a doctor roberts
Speaker 3: on every team and providing those type of mental health
Speaker 3: resources for players that really have to go through a
Speaker 3: lot behind, like beyond what you see at base level.
Speaker 1: You mentioned music man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know to the casual fan that might not
Speaker 2: know Chris Paul, you know, you might just say about say, oh,
Speaker 2: he likes listening to music all that where you actually
Speaker 2: make music man? I actually was, you know, because we
Speaker 2: do a lot of research on this man. So I
Speaker 2: found a music video, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: and this isn't like it's ain't hip hop or like
Speaker 2: this is like R and B, Like you really like
Speaker 2: are into this music thing?
Speaker 1: How did you get into it?
Speaker 3: You know, as as crazy as it sounds, this really
Speaker 3: started like out the.
Speaker 1: Worm I heard a start. I heard that you used
Speaker 1: to home as a babe.
Speaker 3: That's your're talking like humming, humming, and like you know,
Speaker 3: as a baby you go to all like the pediatrician
Speaker 3: check up. Yeah, and so my mom and dad always asks,
Speaker 3: you know, he likes to hum like he was just
Speaker 3: like create his own tune. Who be in the car,
Speaker 3: he was just created some he was just humming, Like
Speaker 3: why is that? Why is he always humming? It's like
Speaker 3: that baby's probably musically inclined. Probably, So like growing up,
Speaker 3: I think right around like middle school I started getting
Speaker 3: in the choir on through up high school and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and then that's when like I really knew
Speaker 3: like I was musically gifted.
Speaker 1: Wow. So music been in your life longer than football
Speaker 1: for real?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Really?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: So what if you describe your style of music, your
Speaker 2: genre of music?
Speaker 1: Would you call yourself a singer? What would you describe
Speaker 1: yourself when it comes to music.
Speaker 3: I would say predominantly singer. And then when like you
Speaker 3: think of genres, like I want you to think of
Speaker 3: number one, I would say alternative, R and B. But
Speaker 3: like lately the past three years, like we've been kind
Speaker 3: of like changing what all of that means. So I
Speaker 3: would say you could get some popping there. Production wise,
Speaker 3: you could get something that sounds more hip hop, but
Speaker 3: that I would like end up, you know, creating something
Speaker 3: different to it. So I would say very well rounded
Speaker 3: when it comes to like genre, but like in terms
Speaker 3: of like inspirations, like the Lucky Days of the world.
Speaker 4: Wow, that type of like.
Speaker 3: Sound, the gibons, which is like the more of the
Speaker 3: R and B, the scissors and the solanges that give
Speaker 3: you that more like alternative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I like that. You gotta throw me some tracks. Man,
Speaker 2: I gotta hear what you work with. So you know,
Speaker 2: you're a football player now, you know, man, you Nike
Speaker 2: it to the NFL. You get to this point, you're
Speaker 2: clearly into a lot of things. Yeah, activism, music, athlete, family.
Speaker 2: How have you managed to juggle all the things now
Speaker 2: that you're at this point, I mean your career is
Speaker 2: taken off, right, How have you managed to juggle all
Speaker 2: of these interests that you have to keep your mental
Speaker 2: health right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I would say time management is very very important to me.
Speaker 3: And like in college it was it was much easier,
Speaker 3: I would say, to be as multi dimensionalized right right
Speaker 3: when you get to this level and especially in season
Speaker 3: like this is this is the main thing, and so
Speaker 3: you kind of have to like almost not so much compartmentalized,
Speaker 3: but like just be very like intentional with your time.
Speaker 3: And so, like I said, music for example, that's like
Speaker 3: I would compare that that's like my Madden Like when
Speaker 3: I go home and I've got some free time and
Speaker 3: I've watched my film and I want to unplug, Like
Speaker 3: that's that's my outlet to do that.
Speaker 2: And a lot of athletes, like they'll say it, you know,
Speaker 2: dealing with fans, dealing with people that are like sports enthusiasts, Oh,
Speaker 2: just play football, well, just play basketball? Like why are
Speaker 2: you into all these other things? Would you say to
Speaker 2: people that say.
Speaker 3: That, I say, listen, like, there there really is. There's
Speaker 3: a holistic person behind the helmet. You like once in
Speaker 3: you I guess you may have to like be in
Speaker 3: it to really really really understand, but like once you
Speaker 3: just practice a little bit of like empathy.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, practice, just just try a little bit and realize like, oh,
Speaker 3: like there's a whole.
Speaker 4: Person with a life outside of this under that helmet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to really help you understand and get
Speaker 3: away from that mindset of like just play football or
Speaker 3: just do whatever.
Speaker 1: For sure, man.
Speaker 2: And I mean I think even this conversation right here,
Speaker 2: if people are if people are listening, they're gonna understand
Speaker 2: who you are and understand who this man is.
Speaker 1: And now we're in year two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seventh round pick right, I don't think people realize
Speaker 2: that just because you drafted doesn't guarantee anything, especially when
Speaker 2: you're in the sixth or seventh round, you very well
Speaker 2: could not make the team exactly, not only make the team,
Speaker 2: but now you are a key component of this offense.
Speaker 2: How much fun are you having right now being at
Speaker 2: this point in your CAREERCAU.
Speaker 1: Working season is over, you know, the newness is over.
Speaker 1: How much fun are you having right now?
Speaker 4: First, like, God is so good, amen all the time,
Speaker 4: He's so good, And I'm just I'm having the time
Speaker 4: of my life.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of times, I feel like time almost
Speaker 3: like freezes when I'm out there and when I'm like
Speaker 3: in the zone, and i just kind of like reflect
Speaker 3: on like how far I've come to get to this point,
Speaker 3: and I'm just I'm so thankful for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: That is so cool. Man, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 1: Run out of time.
Speaker 2: But I'd be remiss if I don't ask you about
Speaker 2: the name brother man.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul. How old is it? Ask you?
Speaker 2: Because I'm like, man, he probably gets this all the time.
Speaker 2: It's probably so annoyed because there is another famous Chris Paul,
Speaker 2: and the ambient has been playing a long time, dang
Speaker 2: near your whole life, chrisau NBA does that bother you?
Speaker 2: The parallels between the days, and people be like, oh,
Speaker 2: Chris Paul, what like that bother?
Speaker 4: You know, I can't say that about me.
Speaker 3: I can't really, if anything, It's really like, it's more cool,
Speaker 3: it's cool, if anything, because I mean, especially now that
Speaker 3: I'm in the NFL, so like there's an NFL Chris
Speaker 3: Paul as well, I want to meet the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know why why we haven't set set that up.
Speaker 3: You know, he almost came to the Wizards, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that would have been the perfect, the perfect opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I mean, commanders, come.
Speaker 2: On, Commanders, come on, and Chris Paul, if you're watching this,
Speaker 2: we got it.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 2: And Chris Paul seems like another guy that is into
Speaker 2: a lot of different things. So I'm sure you guys
Speaker 2: have a lot to talk about. We're gonna let you go.
Speaker 2: I need one last thing from you, my brother. I
Speaker 2: need you to look into that ISO camera right there,
Speaker 2: and I need you to tell the commander's family who
Speaker 2: is the NFL Chris.
Speaker 3: Paul Man the NFL Chris Paul is you know if
Speaker 3: I do say so myself, a great young man, a
Speaker 3: very very multi dimensional young man. I'm a young man
Speaker 3: that is just grateful to the Commander's fan base and
Speaker 3: and grateful for this opportunity that I get to do
Speaker 3: what I love, and a young man that intends on
Speaker 3: using this platform that he's gracefully been given to make
Speaker 3: a change.
Speaker 1: Hey man, Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: Man, it's been such a pleasure talk tell we should
Speaker 2: talk to you for another thirty minutes. Man, I appreciate
Speaker 2: your time so much. Command this family. This is Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: This is the next Man Up Podcast. Chris Paul, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for the hand and we're gonna make
Speaker 2: sure we get you that meeting with the end of
Speaker 2: thea Let's do it, Fall do it?
Speaker 1: What's good?
Speaker 2: Commander's Family Love Podcast when we have a lot more
Speaker 2: for you on the Commander's Podcast network.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: We have the Command Center podcast with Logan Paulson, Fred
Speaker 2: Spoot and Santana Mass.
Speaker 1: It's like hanging out with.
Speaker 2: Your best friends but you're doing nothing but talking about
Speaker 2: Commander's Football. Then you have the Players Club with Legends
Speaker 2: London and Santana Moss sitting with your favorite Commander's players
Speaker 2: talking football and only the way that those who played
Speaker 2: the game can. Then we have the Get Loud Podcast
Speaker 2: with Mike Jenkins and Fred Smooth and they do what
Speaker 2: they do best, get loud and have a ton of fun.
Speaker 2: The show definitely gets off the rails, but in a
Speaker 2: very great rate. You don't want to miss that. And
Speaker 2: then of course the net expanded podcast. We will be
Speaker 2: back every Tuesday talking to your favorite Commander's player and
Speaker 2: getting to know demand behind the helmet. All that and
Speaker 2: more can be found on the Commander's Podcast Network or
Speaker 2: watch our videos on the Commander's YouTube page.