WEBVTT - Lorenzo Neal 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 That'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 --> 0:00:31.840 them about it, then we're about to let you know. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:45.159 It's all say what a grit? It doesn't come singular? 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.600 A grid? Another episode of cut to It. Steve, what's up, bro? Hey? 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.559 How are you doing? Brother man? I'm doing good. I'm 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.200 doing good backstage? What's up man, man, I'm hanging in there. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.200 How about y'all? Not too bad? Always a pleasure to 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.920 have you here here every week, though, it's always a 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.920 pleasure making sure. I'm glad. I want to say it 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.240 was one of week it is like then you suck. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.160 You always got to add value. So if I'm adding value, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.800 I'm good. There you go, there you go. But we 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.480 were having a conversation the other day around uh, what 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.600 was it stadiums. Yeah, so just the other day Steve 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.640 and I are riding around going to get something to eat, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.560 and um, something was on ESPN and they were talking 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.520 about spate stadiums and uh might have been about the 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.560 Eagles the old vet where they had you know, the 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.600 jail undernet, and it got me thinking. I looked over 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.600 at my guy said, hey, uh, you know I was 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.920 here about these things. I said, Um, what do you 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.560 think about it? When you were there? Did you know 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.600 when everybody got to the stadium or or the field, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.640 did you go look at it? And you know, your 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.560 response was like super interesting to me. So that's kind 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.880 of why I was talking with the g We just 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.920 you know, just you know, like how different it is 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.520 at a stadium or a dome or arena as a 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:56.280 player versus as a media personnel. As a player, I 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:01.120 did not get to see as much of the inside 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:05.600 of the stadium because you went in as an opponent. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.320 You went to your locker, You went into your locker 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.799 a vision of locker room, you got dressed, you did 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.880 whatever in training room, blah blah blah. You come out, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.560 you go to the field, So you're not really experiencing 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.520 what everyone else talks about. When you think about Limbo 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:27.520 or Soldier Field or um School candlestick, you know all 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:32.440 those kind of stadiums. So I've been at Lambeau a 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.560 number of times as a player, but I've only been 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:41.240 at Lambo one time as analysts. Really cool. As a player, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:51.720 You're fly into Appleton where Appleton Apple t o n Appleton, Wisconsin. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.920 Back in the two thousand and eight, two thousand seven 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.880 what every year they used to piggy Wiggly. You stayed 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:07.400 at the same hotel. It was very much not very big. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:15.480 Now they got a dang top golf next to the stadium. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.200 Really cool. However, also too, when you go into the stadium, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.280 it used to just being like this neighborhood. As a player, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.519 Lambeau has always been Lambeau where it's in this neighborhood. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.200 It's big old stadium, and right across street from the 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.760 big old stadium you can see a family who literally 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:40.600 are You can park on their line for right and 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.840 it's just so iconic. It's just awesome. But as an 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:54.840 analyst it's remarkable. Lambo still has the original foundation, the 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.920 brick I believe that was like seven that's still in there. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.160 They just have a strip, but it's only on the 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.280 side of the of the packers. You don't see it 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.400 as a visitor, so I've seen certain parts to have sweets. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.320 Now they just they've added more and more to it. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:19.120 But it's just remarkable. Lambo feel is Lambeau is iconic, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.920 is super special. It's a it's just a place where 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:31.039 if you're a fan and you day day dream dream 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.800 that night about playing the NFL and Lambo, it will 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.760 be more than what you could have ever dreamed about. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.719 Minnesota Vikings It's newer stadium was just being able to 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:50.240 just just unbelievable, unbelievable. Dallas is the same way. You know, um, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.600 you know a T n T stadium, it's you know, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:58.359 it is a great stadium on steroids, right. I actually 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.240 did a commercial in Allas Stadium before it was actually 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.560 opened up, when they were still kind of doing it, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.360 and I got to see how large the vision locker 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:14.880 rooms are. One stadium that was just trash. Yeah. Um 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.160 quote uh San Diego chargers there when they were the chargers, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:27.680 quote calm dump. Why what made it a dump? Uh? 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.240 They didn't take care of it and you know, for 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:36.160 whatever reason. And we played down there and my wife 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.800 told me they were in a suite and they had 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.120 a clogged toilet and one of the sweets. Yellow water 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:47.080 was running down the windows of the sweets like stuff 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:53.440 like that. Man, Yeah, you know that's a that's that's 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.800 interesting is the world. I'll go with, Yes, me too. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.560 But you know, as you sit back as a fan 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.320 or on the outside looking in, and I know you're 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.080 when you're playing, you're always you know, getting ready for 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.000 the game and getting hype. You don't get to see 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.400 those things. Were there other stadiums? Could you like? And 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:12.920 I go back to Lamb, but just because I think 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.800 everyone who do you know when you're there? And why 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.279 I say that is when you walk in and you're like, ah, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.240 this this is it and you said, like you said, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.120 it's unbelievable. It's more than you can imagine. But is 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.320 there a presence? There is there that vibe of old 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:33.120 school you know, running football and just you know Lombardi. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.400 All that I think depends on the team. You know, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.680 how good the team is doing, depends on the time 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.240 of year. I mean you if you're there playing in September, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.719 it doesn't feel the same the way it's gonna look, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.240 uh in November December when its cold, it's just it 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.200 isn't the same. Um. I remember playing when I was 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.040 with the Baltimore Raiders, we were playing, uh thinking the 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.440 division around, We're playing New England patre Rish and they 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.760 want to want to win a super Bowl in that 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.800 playoff game. Nope, none of the fans sat down and 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.680 it was like fifteen degrees at night. They stood the 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.880 whole time. My wife goes, I wish we could have 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.400 just sat down a little bit, but she couldn't because 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.480 you wouldn't be he wouldn't have been able to say 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.280 so like stuff like that, Pittsburgh playing that night in 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.080 Pittsburgh Banana, especially if for Baltimore Raven the discuss and 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:31.120 the hate professional hate unbelievable. There's just some places that 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.880 when you go h Philly old just current Philly, Old Philly, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.400 their fans just make it make the game what it is. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.240 What would be bucket list that you have yet to 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.040 expect any sport. I was supposed to go and then 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.880 I broke my arm um and then good friend I 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.720 was supposed to go see play tennis. You know, I 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.440 broke my arm and he ended up having that world 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.800 record fifteen hour match that that John isner Um. So 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.040 I didn't get a chance to go see him play 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.120 out there. Out in London. I can't which one was that. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:12.080 Uh he had that fifteen hour match in tennis, I can't. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.920 I can't spend anything about tennis. Brothers. I've been, um, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.160 I've been Australian Open. So I enjoyed that. That was 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.680 pretty cool. I saw some saw some players playing on 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.600 center court. Saw Serena went out there. Um, that's got 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.120 a rank up there. That's got a rank up there. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.160 Or or tennis um down in New York, been there, 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.760 men Peyton, saw John down there. So I was pretty good. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.280 Any anybody list for you, Joe, Um, I mean for me, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.760 just going from a golf perspective, you know, I kind 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.480 of think of the same thing. Just going to the 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.480 Masters would be yeah cool just to walk those hold 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.679 grounds and and go and see that and another one 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.240 was pretty cool and and and it's might lean more 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.800 towards the event than the venue, but uh like going 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.679 to when o U Texas college football game, just to 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.200 how they crowd after it down there were just to 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.040 sit back and watch and that would be a great experience. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.040 And that's my to college. Being local. Got in North Carolina. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.199 I've been, of course to Dean Smith Center. Never had 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:17.920 a chance to go see you and ce do. So 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.800 That's what I'd love to do. That's that's my bucket list. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.840 Is you'd be surprised of the Duke facility. Yeah, I've 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.719 I've I've been to do once, haven't been again. I'm 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.720 just saying, like the Rock Washington play, I went to 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:37.120 it very um it's tiny, super but then they have 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.800 but everything is old school, even a popcorn makers old 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:45.319 school Agnes that's serving the popcorns she bought a hundred 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:50.840 years old. I've really groan and love and respect how 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.520 much of the workers and how much detailed work it 0:09:54.640 --> 0:10:00.720 really takes to run a run a place on game day, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:06.440 hours and hours before um, sometimes fifteen sixteen hours before 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.240 the game has started. People have busted their chops busted there, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.800 but just so that when those people walk through three 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.600 two and a half, three hours before the game, it's 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.040 been so much done for the players, but more for 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.600 the fans and experience that you received that you never 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.280 know what has happened. You don't know how dirty or 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.080 how clean uh, those seats were prior to you getting there, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.720 and everyone has to Someone has to clean that seat, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.680 someone has to clean that stall, someone has to clean 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.000 and refill all of those napkin holders and basketball they 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.440 gotta pull up the court, got got got forbid. If 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.640 it's a hockey team in the same facility, I've seen 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.520 where you had to go overnight. Someone a crew works 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.120 all night, take up the basketball floor, bring the ice 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.880 back out. It's it's a huge operation. M I know 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.719 one stadium. They should have done a better job at 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:08.320 that squad. Comment Sandy, that's true. Man. Who we got 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.520 coming up on the cut to a podcast? We've got 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.000 Lorenz O'Neil, a four time pro bowler and All Pro, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.960 a member of the two thousand's NFL All Decade Team, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.600 but more importantly, just a fountain of wisdom. Lorenzo O'Neil 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:30.800 on the Cut to a Podcast. Our first segment is 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.280 called get Iced Up Smithy. Go ahead and give him 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:38.120 the first question. Are you ready? Okay? The strangest thing 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:43.320 You've ever eaten? And where were you? Oh strangest thing 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.439 that I've ever eaten? Man? I think it was a grasshopper. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.880 I was member Buddy Joey Jordan's. We were in Lamore. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.679 I'm a country boy, you know from l you know, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.800 from the big l town Lamore. We didn't have a 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.120 stop like growing up, we didn't have a McDonald's growing up, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.240 believe it or not, only had a couple of stop 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.520 didn't have stoplights. So we're country kids. So you know, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.439 he pulled off the legs of the grasshopper, and we 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:06.800 wanted to see if we could eat it. So at 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.160 a grassofer. So it was still moving around and wiggling 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.560 in your mouth. So a grasshopper. And then ah, I 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.240 don't know if you guys heard of salt grass and 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.720 go look up salt grass. I live out in Lamore too, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.960 and uh a lot of Native American Native American Indians 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.240 and Lamore and the Indians they give salt grass and 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.839 they eat salt grass really salty. But it's like post 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.040 bit a cow poop. They poop on it and makes 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.920 the grass. So look up salt grass pretty interesting. So 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:32.800 those are probably the two things that I'm eating this 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.679 Probably I wouldn't probably do it again. I don't need 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:41.240 to look it up because there's there's two infractions here. Okay, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.480 first fraction is yo as a Native American. Yeah, I'm 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.040 chalk talk. I'm chalk talk. My grandmother, my grandmother, my grandmother, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.920 her mom was full boded in the end, and she 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.040 so in Oklahoma, I'm from forth Oklahoma's well, I'm not 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.600 from my ancestors and stuff. And so back in the day, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.000 the Native Americans and Blacks and the slaves, they were 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.200 always hooking up. So, believe it or not, um a 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.280 lot of Blacks and Indians were married in together. So 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:13.960 I got my car ex curl does not make you 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.440 Native American to say that, you know, my hair is good? 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.199 And then Indian I got. I got high tea boy. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.240 I run a lot of barefoot, and I knew what 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.280 he's called me running foot, but I love it. And 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.920 then and then the second infraction is you said, salt 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:37.160 grass is what calminure cal poop is on and basically 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:42.520 when it drives up, it's salty grass that had m 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.160 cal feces. I think it may have been. I don't 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:53.040 know that. That later on mayde ben so all the 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.280 next time, I'm back home and we're hanging out and 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.200 you say, you know, can I have a swig? Ain't 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.480 get you say kiss? I said, if you say, hey, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:11.640 that salt grass, your salt grass mouth. After we didn't 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.120 gonna be I'm gonna leave it alone because I ain't 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.240 gonna mention what y'all boys been eating out there. I 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:22.080 know y'all, I'm gonna leave it alone. Let's great. Lord, Hey, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:28.320 what what's the one thing you cannot leave home without? Oh? 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.480 I cannot leave home without my wallet or my phone 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.080 or a couple of bucks in my pocket. Okay, I 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.240 have a couple of dollars, got don't have dollars, don't 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.880 have sinse. Hey, that's a generational thing, because you know, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.360 I'm I'm old school and I have a money clip. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.360 You gotta add right, bro, gotta have cash now. My 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:53.880 kids and the wife whenever they need cash to Hey, dad, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.360 you you know all your money clippers right, don't don't 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.760 touch that money. You can ask me, don't touch you. So, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.560 I know that's a generational thing. A lot of the young, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.600 the young pucks, the whipper snappers, they you know, they 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.160 mowe me the money. Oh boys, my son's after due 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.800 already graduate engineers, still playing this fifth year senior bawling 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.000 out playing pretty good. Big Feller got some feet, can dance, 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.360 and he's got a chance to play on Sunday. So 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:26.560 he got his mama's James's goods. Stop playing, boy, y'all 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.480 play too much. Y'all play too much. I'm gone, I'm 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.560 getting off this show. And that's called me all the time. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.080 You'll talk to this mama all the time. Oh, mama comes, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.520 stay anytime you call me. It's just for money. And 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.320 I'm like, why are you calling me? Say we'll happen. 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.000 Hey dad, good morning? How are you doing? Just wanting 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.160 to call check in with you. I'm gonna start talking 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.000 and before we get to the end, I said, how 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:51.360 much money you need? Uh? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.280 how I go. Y'all know how that go. If you 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.000 could change your name, what would you change it? Two? 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:04.200 I would change did I would change it to Denzel? 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:10.080 Don't even all right? So are you many? Somehow? I 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:11.960 think that Denzel would play him in the in the 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.760 movie about his life. So no, I just say, think 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.560 you You asked me if there was a movie about me, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.080 and that's the that's the answer that you write. Why 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.760 am I gonna pick some bum? Why can I shoot 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.120 for the stars? Okay? Why why do I want? Why 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.600 do I want something dude for cheap? I ain't paying 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.800 for it. I'm not having this ail. Why Why do 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.360 I want my cousin Dion, who I love. I want 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:43.560 that playing me. I want this ail. I'm waiting. Yeah, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.960 hey that's black on black crime. Gee, what did I 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:57.560 just commit? You a t or coffee person? Uh? Wow, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.640 that's a that I used to be more were with tea, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.080 But you get older. I think I switched more to coffee. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.560 But I do enjoy both of them. But to me, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:12.880 coffee is easier, and so I'll go with the coffee. Yeah, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:14.960 I like I like a little cup of tea here 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:19.440 and there. Man, some Earl gray. Yeah. I got a 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:20.960 lot of tea when I used to do it with 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.120 my bourbon. I don't drink anymore. I'm about five years here, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.200 but always some good tea and make a hot tidy 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.920 with the little jack in it or a sottle Jim 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.320 throw some. Now we're talking, man, now we're talking. I 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.440 was just I just was trying to be rich. It 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.359 just has some so you se you stick your pinky 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.240 out too while you at it. I said, watch watch 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.200 a shower, watch a show on Netflix. U just gonna Flix? 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.760 Why are you talking about you? That's not something you 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.879 just randomly don't let me have some tea like you 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:54.600 gotta be in a mood like some house slippers own rope. No, 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.200 just basketball shorts. I've heard on it. I'm still hood, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.760 so I'm not white beater on even like you were 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.320 at him. They can drink your tea. Wow, turtle necking 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:08.600 drinking tea. And here's t let me pay the picture. 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.440 I'll be in some basketball shorts, tank top, some house 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.040 shoes on and yes, I'm in a house. What kind 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.440 they like? The old dog slippers from like Menister Society 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.520 or which which they say the old they the old 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:28.280 dog upgraded. I got the memory phone man fancy like 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.080 uh like us, got the little fuzzing inside because my 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.680 crystal need to stay warm. An yeah, you asked, you're 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.480 trying to I like little tea sometimes. All right, let's 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.919 move on, let's we have digress. But it is interesting 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.840 and love having you on this. My big dog man 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.520 I met. I met though so many years ago, and 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:53.200 we've kept this great bond, is great relationship. I've been 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:58.200 on his radio show a number of times back in California, 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.359 but I've never had to the privilege, uh to having 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.679 obviously our show cut to it where we get I 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.720 get to talk to and that's one of the things. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.800 I'm really enjoying getting to talk to what I call 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.119 the older heads, that the men um and the women 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.040 uh that have really instilled some things in me. And 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.160 as we go down this trail, you'll hear some things. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:26.119 And I gotta love on him that I've stolen a 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.399 few things that he have said, that he said and 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.080 also instilled in me, um that I'll give credit to 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.280 now he's on on UM on my poodcast. Now when 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.000 I'm on TV or talking to other radio I don't 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.080 give him credit, and I won't because I want people 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:47.560 to think right. So, but well we'll get into that. So, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:55.120 Lorenzo O'Neil, what was your favorite team growing up any sport? Yeah? 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.960 You know what's crazy, it's interesting and this is not 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.919 just me chain this is really true, I believe it 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.360 or not. I was a San Diego Charger fan because 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.920 of Chuck Munsey, Kellen wins Oh, Charlie Joinner, loved Dan 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.320 fox West, Chandler James Brooks. I love that team. Eric, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.879 you know, Don Cory always to the good coach, something 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.040 about watching you know, old forty six. So Chuck Munzy 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.399 take it with the one one one crossbar across the face. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.520 Chuck Munsey was a beast um watching him playing Kellen 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.800 winso what he was at the tight end position that 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.280 offense and had Charlie joining West Chandler. Watching those guys 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.360 play man was just like, oh my god. And uh. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.600 At a young age, I became a Charger fan. I 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.760 had two guys lived down the street from us. They 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.240 were like next door neighbors, not in next door neighbors. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.520 You gotta realized that's probably a country maw because you 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.200 know he has to walk because it's in the country. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.240 What we had Land and David Joey, and they were 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.920 the Stellers and Dallas Cowboys, but I was always the 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.080 Chargers and they weren't that good, but they would always compete. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.080 And so just it was a charge of fan growing 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.120 up basketball. You know, you love the Lakers, You love 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.560 what those guys were doing. You know, watching those good 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:11.480 rivals between them and Boston. Uh, you know, boxing love. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.880 I was a boxing Connoisseward loved Ali, caught a little 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.880 bit of him. Larry Holmes was watching him, loved him, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.639 Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray, Leonard what Bernitez, All those guys 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.160 in that era. Man was just those guys Herns Hagner, 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:27.760 they got it done. But watching Sugar Raye man, he 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.080 was just so sweet. So uh Ali and and Larry 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.480 Holmes don't get the credit he deserves. Love to watch 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.040 those guys. Uh love to watch those guys fights. So 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.800 I I love sports. Just it just said something was 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.000 ingreened in me. We have to take a break and 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.680 the morning anything. We gotta pay some bills. You got checks. 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.040 I love cut to It and I love it even 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:57.479 more when you download us and subscribe, and you can 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.960 follow us on social media too, Smithie, where where at? 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:04.920 That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:09.040 Cut to It Facebook? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.560 What about online? And you can follow us at cut 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.760 to It podcast dot com where you can buy merch 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.119 and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.200 I got all my answers questions. Um yeah, I got 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.600 all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:31.040 cut to a podcast dot com. A guy you blocked 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.439 for two gave us a great story when we asked this, 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.639 um is where are you from? In a place you 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.720 call your hometown. The more the l the move, the 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.879 big Eltown, Lamore, California, where I'm from. So if you 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.600 look at California, you guys know how long it is, 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.840 you know, one of the longest states to travel to California. 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.439 We're in the Central Valley, so we're dead smack in 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:55.080 the middle. We're three hundred miles south going down to 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.560 l A. We're three hundred miles north going up to 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.560 the Bay San Francisco, so we're in the middle. And 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:06.800 those so Fresno, Bakersfield, by Saia, by Saiah, bakers for 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.280 all those town those little those little towns by the way, 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:12.879 related to Tommy Smith, member the sixty four Olympics of 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.280 when you know, so he's from the Moore. Steve Perry 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.560 just a long there's a small town boy living in 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.840 a lonely world. He's you know, you know Jane your journey, 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:26.680 he's more to Steve Perry. So small town, but it's 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.159 just a country. A lot of egg form laying around, 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:32.520 you know. So, but we are centrally in the Central Valley. 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:34.080 So that's why they call it the Central Valley, where 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:36.639 the raising capital of the world. We produce over seventy 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:40.280 five billion dollars a year in in agg and food 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:43.680 we feed the majority of the world. Central Valley is 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.160 so rich in farm land, so that's where it's at. 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.480 So three d miles south, you go to l A, 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.719 three hundred miles north you go to San Francisco. So 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:56.240 we're kind of we're dead smack in the middle growing 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.320 up there. How did that shape your view in the 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:03.119 world today? Well, I think that, you know what, you 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.200 were blind a little bit, but you were also it 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.040 made you see things differently because you're a young man 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:10.399 growing up in a town like that. Lots of Portuguese, 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.200 a lot of majority of Portuguese, and you know, and 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:16.520 in white and you know, blacks were kind of not 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:18.919