WEBVTT - Listen: Jordan Jenkins (11/12) 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.160 Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast powered by Amazon 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.440 Web Services. Here in the play, MGM Studio's Ethan Greenberg, 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.440 Rick Allen, Jordan Jenkins in the house. Jordan, thanks for 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:14.400 joining us. Thank you all for having me. You knew 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.720 that we were going to talk about video games, obviously, 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.480 Jordan's huge video game guy. I've asked you this before, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.079 I think, but I want to refresh my memory and 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.280 the audience's memory. What's the longest sitting you've had playing 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:32.760 video games? It's probably a sickening number. Oh back in 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.000 the day when I played World of Warcraft. Still do 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:37.519 every now and then with some people I know. But 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.479 it was like, I think I played for like twelve 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.559 four but you can't pause the game like get up 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.280 and a bresh my teeth, you know. It's like maybe, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.600 well I had the Ellen on Ellen didn't count because 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.160 I didn't get up and go leave the room whatever. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.880 But call of duty wise, I will say maybe about 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.480 six to eight hours straight. This is no no food, 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.640 no nothing, just you on the sticks. Well not you 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.440 gotta bring the food with you. Actually you can just 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.280 reach over there. Everything's within arms. Read snacking though, like 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.640 finger foods, I'm sure we're talking about. Yeah, but you're 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.679 an athletic guy who is constantly moving on the field, 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.039 or you're get in the weight room getting after it. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.679 Don't you feel like, oh man, I gotta I gotta 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.080 get up, I gotta do something that stretching the chair? Yeah, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.440 Now what your parents think about that? When you were 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.360 a kid, were you always in the gaming Oh no, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.160 they hated the video Well they didn't hate it, but 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.200 they knew, Oh I did was playing the video games, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.520 and uh, I got I'd go out Like if I 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.320 wentn't outside, I was either getting in trouble or I 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.039 was outside when I was on the video games. Combination 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.160 of So you were that kid that would just like 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.920 be in his room just on the sticks all weekend. Yes, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.960 and only because down in uh the part of Georgia 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.840 I'm from it, it takes a long walk to get 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.280 to your name's house, I get to one of your 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.240 boy's house. And if you didn't have a car, then 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.160 you pretty much were the sol because it's a long 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.720 walk to your neighbor's out. But how it was young 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.240 Jordan's getting into trouble. How would you describe that? What 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:18.080 can you share with us that you don't mind the world. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.760 Remember back when I lived in Washington State, there was 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.600 like a little this little uh patch of woods and 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.519 there's a new uh suburbs getting developed on the other side, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.000 like a different neighborhood. Like I was in Tentnor Point. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.680 This place was called Deerfield or something like that. And 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.080 we would sneak over to like the building site and 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.720 take the wood and make like we've made a treehouse 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.560 in the woods. Like there's like some path you can 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.120 go through from our side of the neighborhood, go through 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.720 the woods and you'd be into the other ones. We 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.520 would just sneak through all there and make a big, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.799 big little treehouse upstairs. But somebody caught you on that one. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.440 Oh yeah. Eventually some of the guys, like some of 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.680 the older guys got caught and they're like all right, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.680 you know you guys in the woods, and like eventually 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.280 he just came down and just broke it down. All right, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.880 Building a treehouse doesn't seem too bad. If all kids 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.760 get get in trouble doing that, well, I feel like nowadays, yeah, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.120 I mean it would be parents would be happy that 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.080 their kids are getting out and doing stuff as opposed 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.919 to being on their phones or maybe like Jordan playing 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.519 video games. Well wait, wait, I gotta know what was 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.880 the video game that like first struck you where you 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.480 were like, Wow, this is fun. I could do this 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:33.760 for six to eight hours. Um, it might be maybe 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.600 when when w w Day of breaking Ing. Uh, that 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.400 was a good one though, back on the GameCube days. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.760 But Zelda the wind Waker on the GameCube. I would 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.960 play that all day. So his GameCube your first system 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.000 or no, actually the Nintendo was, but I played uh 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.960 when whenever we go to my grandmother's house, we would 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.280 play the Sega upstairs with my older cousin and my 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.600 older brother and then we played the Super and nintendells 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.560 sometimes going over the old relatives house or whatever. But 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.680 the Nintendo was my first one. Did your grandma have 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.760 the system and you bring it over there? Oh no, no, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.880 it was already over there from like when my dad 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.040 was growing up whatever that game like, he used to 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.720 play him every now and then. But we go upstairs 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.800 and there's like a room like no one would go in, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.320 and my older brother always missed with me and my 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.920 sister and say like, oh, someone died in the back 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.279 room and he was trying like I'd love to go 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.040 up there and play Sonic and but I would hate 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.599 doing at ninth time because he would lock the door 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.320 and leave it. Just leave me up there. But were 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.560 you the kid that also had the Game Boy or 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.240 the PSP? Yeah, the PSP socker I never had, all right, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.479 so no PSP, but you had the Game Boy? Was 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.320 that the d S and the Advance was the more 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.960 square one, the more it was like the Game Boy 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.000 Color was the one I had. My older brother had 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.200 the original Game Boy, and then it was the Game 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.159 Boy Advance that had the light on it. And then 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.120 it switched to the d S. Oh no, no, no, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.640 it was the DS was the one that flipped right, yeah, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.320 and then it went to like a two d S 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.920 or like a d S two that was wider and everything. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.640 And that's when I was like, all right done. You 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.920 mentioned the wrestling game. Did you do you watch wrestling 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.320 to this day? Did he get into it when you 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.880 were a kid? Are concerned or not? It's real big 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:23.000 into it? Uh? Yeah, that that was the prime time, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.920 like the good old days. And uh like I had 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.760 the old one, the NW overs w CW of Chris 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.560 Jericho on it, the rock Man kind all the O G, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.000 the Doulei brothers, like Roddy Roddy Piper was on it 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.159 like that. That's when I was really big into it 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.960 and everything. And then when I first moved to Georgia, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.880 like in two thousand and seven or six, we went 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.240 to uh SmackDown, an e c W event in Columbus, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.800 and that was pretty fun. What's the atmosphere? Like, I 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.320 always considered going to a SmackDown or Monday that Raw 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.840 or something. I've never gone, but I'm always curious what 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.760 the atmosphere was like. It actually was pretty high, like uh, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.440 and do you think like like, so, when were you 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.160 hear the impact of the chair. He's like, oh crap, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.599 like this dude really got hit in the back with 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.919 his chair. And it's just like you actually get the 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.680 here and you can almost feel the feel some of 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.760 the hits and feel some of the slams like that 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.320 that I hit the man. Everything. We talked about it, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.640 uh previously because your former outside linebackers coach, of course, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.240 was k k G. Kevin Green, who participated in the 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.760 w c W himself, would you ever consider jumping in 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.520 to the squared circle? George Jenkins was asked to make 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.120 a guest appearance. I couldn't do it all. I did 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.000 always think think about doing uh going in m m A. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.200 And then there was uh we did sparring, uh just 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.919 not even just mount transitioning at Georgia one morning for 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.080 like a summer like a spring workout, and it was 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.800 just five minutes just transitioning back and forth. I said, yeah, 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.200 I can't do this. It was miserable. It's gotta be exhausting, right, yeah, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.320 they're throwing in kicks. It was just grounded pound for 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.720 like five like five minute intervals and it was just 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.520 it was the worst training. Are you yeah? An m 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.040 m A fan to this date, like oh yeah, yeah, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.480 I don't watch as much uh as I used to before, 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.480 but like with some of a lot of the headliners 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.640 of the UM fighting, I'll get into it and watch 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.080 that one or whatever. And like the last one I 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.440 watched was Nate d Has his last fight. Uh he 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.960 got in a little early, he got a little gash 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.720 um that he was starting to make good, good little 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.600 push towards the end. But do you want to see 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.160 a rematch of that fight? Oh? Oh yeah, Nadreg would 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.920 be uh that's uh, that's what I'm still waiting to 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.239 see what do you think about the Notorious one Connor 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.960 McGregor in terms of the way he goes about promoting, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.560 because it's hard to tell with him what is really Connor? 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.520 And also what's the act because he's a master showman. Yeah, 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.160 I mean he's sort of just falling in the same 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.680 footsteps as Floyd Mayweather. Like he he was the guy 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.200 just was he started the whole thing of this promoting himself, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.320 like doing everything in the house and just being a 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.120 little trashed, argy, show abouty kind of guy. And he 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.200 just tore modeled himself after that. And it's it's smart 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.240 business wise and everything. But then again you see what 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.240 him and could be even all this stuff, and like 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.920 you don't know, like like you said, what stage, what's real? 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.880 And it's just the authentic, the authenticity, I don't know 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.840 if I don't even there. It's one day, but it 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.200 comes into question, like you don't know it's really him. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.320 It was just a persona Yeah, because you see him 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.280 attacking busses sometimes in Dublin. He was buying guys shots, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.640 I think, yeah, and he hit the old man, yeah, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.679 the old man. And I'm thinking to myself. Well, you 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.720 are trained fighter. I don't care. I know Connor's probably 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:53.800 a smaller man, probably probably called McGregor small. Listen, I 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.400 don't want I don't want to, I don't want a 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:00.400 piece of it. May be shorter, but guarantee he'd make stuff. Yeah, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.240 I'm sure. I don't know. Yeah, I think you'd have 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.480 a chance and listen to. But maybe if it was 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.800 us three combined, if I miss a plant's it's over 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.679 with because he's gonna grab it, you know. But he's 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:15.200 considered a striker, and I'm sure you could lay the lumber. Yeah, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.200 you know, I got some Yeah, you got big hands. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.840 My point is when I hear about Connor McGregor in 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.800 a bar punching an elderly man, a guy who's up 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.080 there in age, I'm thinking myself, oh my god, this 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.280 guy's gonna die. Yeah, yeah, that is that. That does 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.120 come into questions. But there's some folks you just don't 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.080 mess with, all right. So if you were to have 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.800 a tag team and you have to choose one of 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.760 your teammates to be your partner, not necessarily because you 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.480 like him, but because you think he'd be good in 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:49.440 the ring, who are you choosing. It's a good question. Uh. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:54.880 I would actually go with Nathan Shepard really solely because 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:03.680 he's just frequently strong, and he's unpredictable and if anybody 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.400 can take a point unprotectable on the field and off 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.240 the field shop and you would say, yeah, like I would. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.719 I would let Chef take all the punches and then 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.240 go in there and be the clean up guy. Wow, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:21.360 so you're really growing Chef to the wolves here. Yeah, okay, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.800 I just could see Frankie Louisville coming off the top 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:31.559 rope would yeah, yeah, m CIA was my guy, one 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.760 of the hard He'd be Matt Hardy, That's what he 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.440 would be. Yeah, yeah, a little crazy. Yeah, yeah, I 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:44.000 love that. Bash would probably be like uh, Bash would 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.000 be great with the microphone. I think, yeah, he might 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.920 be a rig Flair type for maybe maybe h b K. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.440 You're gonna give Bash h b K. I can see 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.440 a little sweet him. Yeah. I think leaving a bow 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.800 would be interesting and one of those Oh yeah, yeah, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.080 that is a good toss up there too. You know, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:10.120 I guess he's a showman. Who's the guy you don't 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.079 want as your partner? Let's put it away. That's a 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:17.800 tough one Henry Anderson. Okay, I can see that, Henry, 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.360 but why why can't you see that? He's just unproportioned 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.719 and he always falls? No, no no, what we're doing, he's 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.600 always fallen, and when he falls he exaggerated. Watching him 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.520 fall is just like are you calling Henry a flopper? Yes, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.320 Henry's a flopper, and he just when he falls, it's 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:44.360 just an unnecessarily awkward fall, Like it's I couldn't have him. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.000 We get we get trash talk about so much and 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.600 it just me and Henry are just don't we can't 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.680 work together. Alright. We actually ride on the plane side 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:58.400 by side together too. Yeah, all right, listen, you talked 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:03.720 about Washington State before you traveled throughout your childhood and 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.160 not necessarily just stopping by for vacation. What was it 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.400 like being part of a military family and what did 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.360 that provide you as far as experience wise? Uh, during 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.360 Wall was going on, it was kind of rough, you know, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.080 every like sometimes just every two years you move. Sometimes 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.960 it's three years you move, and it's like you never 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.880 really had like a true like you didn't really have 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.400 a true identity growing up because's like, oh, well, lived 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.079 in warn in Texas nine months later, moved to South Carolina. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.760 A year and a half later, moved to Alaska, stayed 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.559 there for two and a half three years, moved to California, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.719 lived there for like maybe three or something years, and 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.240 moved to Washington. Lives for five and then finally got 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.680 to Georgia until there for a little while. But it's 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.600 as a kid is tough because you don't really like, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.880 you don't have any long lasting relationships, not relationships, but friendships. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.520 And my sister was more outgoing. I was more quiet, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.640 like quite like I'm smart and gifted athletically. She was 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.760 also kind of gifted athletically and she smart, but she's 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.559 just lazy at times. But she was the more outgoing, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.160 uh one of the family. Like she was always into music, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.719 was always she's the social queen or whatever. What's the 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.280 between you two. She's here and two months older, and 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:22.920 uh she was. She was a great ahead of me 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.080 in school. My mom got tired of paying for daycare 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.240 and sent me to school early. And they never question 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.600 the age because the size. But looking back now as 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:34.160 an adult, um, it's definitely, uh, it was. It's sort 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.480 of to find who I am now because I going 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.240 all those different places. Uh, you get to interact with 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.640 different types of people and see different types of cultures, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.680 and you know how to relate to someone that's maybe 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.880 not the same as you, like someone that didn't have 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.480 the same minds to this. You you know how to relate. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.040 You know how to talk to different types of people 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.320 and how to interact, how to belong with people at 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.400 the same time. Did you say, I don't want to 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.160 let this slip by. Did you say that you your 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.240 age was not questioned because of your size as a kid, Yeah, 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.920 it was all I was a little bit tall, like uh, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.280 and I was supposed to be in the class. I 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.360 was supposed to graduate high school, but my mom started 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.840 me and uh, like preschool in kindergarten early because she 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.240 didn't want to have a day car out and like 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.040 I was like, I think I just maybe was like 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.880 a day or two short on the threshold. Like I 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.600 graduated high school when I was seven. Yeah. So what 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.920 how old were you when you graduated college? Uh? Just 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.920 turned twenty one. You had just turned one, so yeah, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:45.440 you're really young. Yeah. So what your dad's retired military 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.040 twenty two years in the army. What did he finish 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.920 this he was just about to be promoted the sergeant major. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.800 So he finished right there, right right there, he was 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.040 just about to be promoted, and and then just like 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.800 all right, I'm just gonna call it. I'm yeah, We're 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.800 t all right until we can be in the same 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.240 high school, middle school and just be in one place 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.520 for our older, older, older childhood years. So what did 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.320 you take from him in terms of um, his influence 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.960 and how much are you guys on the other end 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:23.480 of spectrum different? Um, he might have been more uh 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:28.600 gifted like finesse wise like he uh, and um, I 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.560 guess like speed wise like he he he was a 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:37.080 tight end linebacker and um back in his day. Uh 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.680 he actually played a car on a state full year 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.120 and then messed up his neck and then join the army. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.320 And then when he was staying in Germany, he wasn't 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.440 supposed to play, but got on and played in Germany 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.600 in the leagues over there for a little while. But um, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.760 I got uh, I got a lot of discipline. I 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.480 learned respect and discipline from him, and pretty much just 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.880 being a tough guy. And in our family, like you 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.560 never back now from no one, and you don't take 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.320 nothing from knowing to being wrong, say something about it, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.240 and you lose a fight. You keep coming back to them, 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.600 and so you don't want to fight you no more. 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.080 And uh, but he was uh in his a like 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.680 I was a tackle. I was a nose guard and 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:21.360 right tackle all the way up until uh college and 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.480 then like hi, my senior eyes goes the right tackle 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:28.480 and defenseman. Really yea, and how big were you? Then? 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.000 I came into high school like one hundred eighty five 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:37.120 pounds and then left two hundred fifty seven. Yeah, we 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.160 had a pretty good uh. Like he honestly could have been, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.960 uh a collegiate strength coach if he would hire. If 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.480 he got to speed. Gotta go with him because he 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.720 we did all things like we were doing Olympic lifts. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.400 My when I was fourteen years old that summer going 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.000 into high school. We were getting our body's trained to 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.840 do like power cleans, like cleaning snatch, um cleaning old 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.360 cleaning jerk and then snatch and all the other stuff. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.040 And we would always train like uh, excuse me, We'd 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.879 always do like flexibility stuff and strengthen the bodies. And 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.040 then after every like I got on, I want I 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.240 needed a game, wait and game muscle. So I eat 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.840 like five eggs of the protein shake in the morning 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.000 before school, and then I'd have like first block or 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.560 second block weight training, and after that our coach of 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.640 makers have like we it's like a triple decor pedut 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.800 butter sandwich just with no jelly and crunch and peanut butter, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.840 and you'd have to eat that after your lift and 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.119 then go to lunch. But yeah, approachein shake and a 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.600 triple decorpedum butter schandwich before you went to n What 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.520 did you left? Huh no, no, no, no, no no, it 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.119 was it was at the high school. Yeah, I know, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.240 But did you ever like outside of school you and 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:45.919 your pops get after it in the weight room or now. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.919 Uh sometimes, but he had that next surgery back in 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.399 two thousand and four, two between two thousand and four 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.880 and six, so you couldn't really do a lot of stuff. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.720 But uh, he was always there for like something like 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.919 we'd go outside and might throw some until the baseball 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.359 around a little bit back in the day, or we 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.560 just lose like some position stuff. When you're putting on 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.520 the amount of weight that you did in high school, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.960 you have to have five baggus of the protein shake, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.520 peanut butter, triple decker sandwiches, and then go eat lunch. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.840 Isn't it like sickening the amount that you consume? It 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.920 definitely sucks. Like having if you had first lunch at 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.800 at my high school and you had second block weight training, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.960 you're pretty much screwed because you've just been just working out. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.199 You just drank a protein shake. Like sometimes a lot 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.359 of guys don't like eating after they just finished working 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.720 out because just like I'm not really hungry, and then 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.880 you don't eat, and it messes up the muscle game 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.000 or the possible muscle game that you could have got. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.520 But I mean half the time, I just like all right, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.200 drinking protein shake like you'd have the sandwich. Or sometimes 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:45.600 guys are like, hit, take a couple of by ites 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.919 s throwed away. But most of the guys that really committed, 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.000 they just eat it and then get something in lunch. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.199 You're like, all right, I don't know, huncky, but I 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.000 gotta eat anyway. Were you recruited to you to play 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.840 outside linebacker, Yeah, Coose grant them. Uh one of his 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.639 wanted me to playoffs linebacker, and he was like, justin 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.199 Houston's the guy that who we see you being like 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.280 a similar mold too. And at the time he was 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.840 like two sixty five or whatever, and I was like, yeah, 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.920 I kind of see that like I was two or 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.159 at the time, like in all the norms, just like 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.280 you're too short to be a true demons event and 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.000 you're not big enough really to be a true demons event, 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:28.000 and you're too big to be a true linebacker in 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.000 college or whatever. And it was like, I was just 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.320 the twinter building. Your friend was like, well in r evens, 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.800 you'd be like the sandbacker. And I mean it pretty 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.120 much was the same um as what uh, the same 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.560 as what it was the last two or three years here. 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.280 So you talked about all the different places that you 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.199 grew up. Did you start playing football when you were 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.399 in Georgia though, or did you have to like start 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:59.080 in one one state, play a little bit, then moved 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.399 and continue playing in another state? Like how did that 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:06.520 affect your football career as a kid? Actually, Uh, my 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.320 dad really hates because he went to uh I think 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.960 I can't remember. It might have been a sergeant major 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:14.800 school or some school he had to go to for 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.200 the army in El Paso, Texas. Um, well, I have 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.399 rewind um my start to football. I didn't want to 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.159 play football. I was a soccer player and I was 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:31.000 playing soccer, baseball and basketball. And we're Washington. My dad's like, oh, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:32.960 you grab a soccer, gonna take you to a soccer camp. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.560 Only the ends when we get there, it's not a 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.919 soccer camp. It's football. And uh, I played flag football 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:41.399 the year before. I was like, all right, it's kind 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.520 of dull. This was in third grade. And then fourth 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.919 grade we go to the camp and he's like, all right, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:47.480 get out and I'm like, no, I'm not getting I 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.960 was just stubborn with kid, did you play a fast 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:51.840 one on you? By saying that it was you know, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.240 he pulled a fast on? And uh, It's like all right, 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:56.639 you can even sit in the car or get out 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.359 there and go blaring football. And I sat in the 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.000 car for like ten men and I said, well, he's 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.560 already out there, and I'm like, I'm not gonna sit 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.960 in the car all day. Got out the first day, 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:07.760 had fun, but I didn't want him to show it. 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.240 I was like, no, I have fun. I don't even 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.159