Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast powered by Amazon
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Speaker 1: Rick Allen, Jordan Jenkins in the house. Jordan, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. Thank you all for having me. You knew
Speaker 1: that we were going to talk about video games, obviously,
Speaker 1: Jordan's huge video game guy. I've asked you this before,
Speaker 1: I think, but I want to refresh my memory and
Speaker 1: the audience's memory. What's the longest sitting you've had playing
Speaker 1: video games? It's probably a sickening number. Oh back in
Speaker 1: the day when I played World of Warcraft. Still do
Speaker 1: every now and then with some people I know. But
Speaker 1: it was like, I think I played for like twelve
Speaker 1: four but you can't pause the game like get up
Speaker 1: and a bresh my teeth, you know. It's like maybe,
Speaker 1: well I had the Ellen on Ellen didn't count because
Speaker 1: I didn't get up and go leave the room whatever.
Speaker 1: But call of duty wise, I will say maybe about
Speaker 1: six to eight hours straight. This is no no food,
Speaker 1: no nothing, just you on the sticks. Well not you
Speaker 1: gotta bring the food with you. Actually you can just
Speaker 1: reach over there. Everything's within arms. Read snacking though, like
Speaker 1: finger foods, I'm sure we're talking about. Yeah, but you're
Speaker 1: an athletic guy who is constantly moving on the field,
Speaker 1: or you're get in the weight room getting after it.
Speaker 1: Don't you feel like, oh man, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: get up, I gotta do something that stretching the chair? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now what your parents think about that? When you were
Speaker 1: a kid, were you always in the gaming Oh no,
Speaker 1: they hated the video Well they didn't hate it, but
Speaker 1: they knew, Oh I did was playing the video games,
Speaker 1: and uh, I got I'd go out Like if I
Speaker 1: wentn't outside, I was either getting in trouble or I
Speaker 1: was outside when I was on the video games. Combination
Speaker 1: of So you were that kid that would just like
Speaker 1: be in his room just on the sticks all weekend. Yes,
Speaker 1: and only because down in uh the part of Georgia
Speaker 1: I'm from it, it takes a long walk to get
Speaker 1: to your name's house, I get to one of your
Speaker 1: boy's house. And if you didn't have a car, then
Speaker 1: you pretty much were the sol because it's a long
Speaker 1: walk to your neighbor's out. But how it was young
Speaker 1: Jordan's getting into trouble. How would you describe that? What
Speaker 1: can you share with us that you don't mind the world.
Speaker 1: Remember back when I lived in Washington State, there was
Speaker 1: like a little this little uh patch of woods and
Speaker 1: there's a new uh suburbs getting developed on the other side,
Speaker 1: like a different neighborhood. Like I was in Tentnor Point.
Speaker 1: This place was called Deerfield or something like that. And
Speaker 1: we would sneak over to like the building site and
Speaker 1: take the wood and make like we've made a treehouse
Speaker 1: in the woods. Like there's like some path you can
Speaker 1: go through from our side of the neighborhood, go through
Speaker 1: the woods and you'd be into the other ones. We
Speaker 1: would just sneak through all there and make a big,
Speaker 1: big little treehouse upstairs. But somebody caught you on that one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Eventually some of the guys, like some of
Speaker 1: the older guys got caught and they're like all right,
Speaker 1: you know you guys in the woods, and like eventually
Speaker 1: he just came down and just broke it down. All right,
Speaker 1: Building a treehouse doesn't seem too bad. If all kids
Speaker 1: get get in trouble doing that, well, I feel like nowadays, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it would be parents would be happy that
Speaker 1: their kids are getting out and doing stuff as opposed
Speaker 1: to being on their phones or maybe like Jordan playing
Speaker 1: video games. Well wait, wait, I gotta know what was
Speaker 1: the video game that like first struck you where you
Speaker 1: were like, Wow, this is fun. I could do this
Speaker 1: for six to eight hours. Um, it might be maybe
Speaker 1: when when w w Day of breaking Ing. Uh, that
Speaker 1: was a good one though, back on the GameCube days.
Speaker 1: But Zelda the wind Waker on the GameCube. I would
Speaker 1: play that all day. So his GameCube your first system
Speaker 1: or no, actually the Nintendo was, but I played uh
Speaker 1: when whenever we go to my grandmother's house, we would
Speaker 1: play the Sega upstairs with my older cousin and my
Speaker 1: older brother and then we played the Super and nintendells
Speaker 1: sometimes going over the old relatives house or whatever. But
Speaker 1: the Nintendo was my first one. Did your grandma have
Speaker 1: the system and you bring it over there? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: it was already over there from like when my dad
Speaker 1: was growing up whatever that game like, he used to
Speaker 1: play him every now and then. But we go upstairs
Speaker 1: and there's like a room like no one would go in,
Speaker 1: and my older brother always missed with me and my
Speaker 1: sister and say like, oh, someone died in the back
Speaker 1: room and he was trying like I'd love to go
Speaker 1: up there and play Sonic and but I would hate
Speaker 1: doing at ninth time because he would lock the door
Speaker 1: and leave it. Just leave me up there. But were
Speaker 1: you the kid that also had the Game Boy or
Speaker 1: the PSP? Yeah, the PSP socker I never had, all right,
Speaker 1: so no PSP, but you had the Game Boy? Was
Speaker 1: that the d S and the Advance was the more
Speaker 1: square one, the more it was like the Game Boy
Speaker 1: Color was the one I had. My older brother had
Speaker 1: the original Game Boy, and then it was the Game
Speaker 1: Boy Advance that had the light on it. And then
Speaker 1: it switched to the d S. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was the DS was the one that flipped right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it went to like a two d S
Speaker 1: or like a d S two that was wider and everything.
Speaker 1: And that's when I was like, all right done. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the wrestling game. Did you do you watch wrestling
Speaker 1: to this day? Did he get into it when you
Speaker 1: were a kid? Are concerned or not? It's real big
Speaker 1: into it? Uh? Yeah, that that was the prime time,
Speaker 1: like the good old days. And uh like I had
Speaker 1: the old one, the NW overs w CW of Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho on it, the rock Man kind all the O G,
Speaker 1: the Doulei brothers, like Roddy Roddy Piper was on it
Speaker 1: like that. That's when I was really big into it
Speaker 1: and everything. And then when I first moved to Georgia,
Speaker 1: like in two thousand and seven or six, we went
Speaker 1: to uh SmackDown, an e c W event in Columbus,
Speaker 1: and that was pretty fun. What's the atmosphere? Like, I
Speaker 1: always considered going to a SmackDown or Monday that Raw
Speaker 1: or something. I've never gone, but I'm always curious what
Speaker 1: the atmosphere was like. It actually was pretty high, like uh,
Speaker 1: and do you think like like, so, when were you
Speaker 1: hear the impact of the chair. He's like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: like this dude really got hit in the back with
Speaker 1: his chair. And it's just like you actually get the
Speaker 1: here and you can almost feel the feel some of
Speaker 1: the hits and feel some of the slams like that
Speaker 1: that I hit the man. Everything. We talked about it,
Speaker 1: uh previously because your former outside linebackers coach, of course,
Speaker 1: was k k G. Kevin Green, who participated in the
Speaker 1: w c W himself, would you ever consider jumping in
Speaker 1: to the squared circle? George Jenkins was asked to make
Speaker 1: a guest appearance. I couldn't do it all. I did
Speaker 1: always think think about doing uh going in m m A.
Speaker 1: And then there was uh we did sparring, uh just
Speaker 1: not even just mount transitioning at Georgia one morning for
Speaker 1: like a summer like a spring workout, and it was
Speaker 1: just five minutes just transitioning back and forth. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't do this. It was miserable. It's gotta be exhausting, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're throwing in kicks. It was just grounded pound for
Speaker 1: like five like five minute intervals and it was just
Speaker 1: it was the worst training. Are you yeah? An m
Speaker 1: m A fan to this date, like oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't watch as much uh as I used to before,
Speaker 1: but like with some of a lot of the headliners
Speaker 1: of the UM fighting, I'll get into it and watch
Speaker 1: that one or whatever. And like the last one I
Speaker 1: watched was Nate d Has his last fight. Uh he
Speaker 1: got in a little early, he got a little gash
Speaker 1: um that he was starting to make good, good little
Speaker 1: push towards the end. But do you want to see
Speaker 1: a rematch of that fight? Oh? Oh yeah, Nadreg would
Speaker 1: be uh that's uh, that's what I'm still waiting to
Speaker 1: see what do you think about the Notorious one Connor
Speaker 1: McGregor in terms of the way he goes about promoting,
Speaker 1: because it's hard to tell with him what is really Connor?
Speaker 1: And also what's the act because he's a master showman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's sort of just falling in the same
Speaker 1: footsteps as Floyd Mayweather. Like he he was the guy
Speaker 1: just was he started the whole thing of this promoting himself,
Speaker 1: like doing everything in the house and just being a
Speaker 1: little trashed, argy, show abouty kind of guy. And he
Speaker 1: just tore modeled himself after that. And it's it's smart
Speaker 1: business wise and everything. But then again you see what
Speaker 1: him and could be even all this stuff, and like
Speaker 1: you don't know, like like you said, what stage, what's real?
Speaker 1: And it's just the authentic, the authenticity, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I don't even there. It's one day, but it
Speaker 1: comes into question, like you don't know it's really him.
Speaker 1: It was just a persona Yeah, because you see him
Speaker 1: attacking busses sometimes in Dublin. He was buying guys shots,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, and he hit the old man, yeah,
Speaker 1: the old man. And I'm thinking to myself. Well, you
Speaker 1: are trained fighter. I don't care. I know Connor's probably
Speaker 1: a smaller man, probably probably called McGregor small. Listen, I
Speaker 1: don't want I don't want to, I don't want a
Speaker 1: piece of it. May be shorter, but guarantee he'd make stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I don't know. Yeah, I think you'd have
Speaker 1: a chance and listen to. But maybe if it was
Speaker 1: us three combined, if I miss a plant's it's over
Speaker 1: with because he's gonna grab it, you know. But he's
Speaker 1: considered a striker, and I'm sure you could lay the lumber. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I got some Yeah, you got big hands.
Speaker 1: My point is when I hear about Connor McGregor in
Speaker 1: a bar punching an elderly man, a guy who's up
Speaker 1: there in age, I'm thinking myself, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna die. Yeah, yeah, that is that. That does
Speaker 1: come into questions. But there's some folks you just don't
Speaker 1: mess with, all right. So if you were to have
Speaker 1: a tag team and you have to choose one of
Speaker 1: your teammates to be your partner, not necessarily because you
Speaker 1: like him, but because you think he'd be good in
Speaker 1: the ring, who are you choosing. It's a good question. Uh.
Speaker 1: I would actually go with Nathan Shepard really solely because
Speaker 1: he's just frequently strong, and he's unpredictable and if anybody
Speaker 1: can take a point unprotectable on the field and off
Speaker 1: the field shop and you would say, yeah, like I would.
Speaker 1: I would let Chef take all the punches and then
Speaker 1: go in there and be the clean up guy. Wow,
Speaker 1: so you're really growing Chef to the wolves here. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I just could see Frankie Louisville coming off the top
Speaker 1: rope would yeah, yeah, m CIA was my guy, one
Speaker 1: of the hard He'd be Matt Hardy, That's what he
Speaker 1: would be. Yeah, yeah, a little crazy. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that. Bash would probably be like uh, Bash would
Speaker 1: be great with the microphone. I think, yeah, he might
Speaker 1: be a rig Flair type for maybe maybe h b K.
Speaker 1: You're gonna give Bash h b K. I can see
Speaker 1: a little sweet him. Yeah. I think leaving a bow
Speaker 1: would be interesting and one of those Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a good toss up there too. You know,
Speaker 1: I guess he's a showman. Who's the guy you don't
Speaker 1: want as your partner? Let's put it away. That's a
Speaker 1: tough one Henry Anderson. Okay, I can see that, Henry,
Speaker 1: but why why can't you see that? He's just unproportioned
Speaker 1: and he always falls? No, no no, what we're doing, he's
Speaker 1: always fallen, and when he falls he exaggerated. Watching him
Speaker 1: fall is just like are you calling Henry a flopper? Yes,
Speaker 1: Henry's a flopper, and he just when he falls, it's
Speaker 1: just an unnecessarily awkward fall, Like it's I couldn't have him.
Speaker 1: We get we get trash talk about so much and
Speaker 1: it just me and Henry are just don't we can't
Speaker 1: work together. Alright. We actually ride on the plane side
Speaker 1: by side together too. Yeah, all right, listen, you talked
Speaker 1: about Washington State before you traveled throughout your childhood and
Speaker 1: not necessarily just stopping by for vacation. What was it
Speaker 1: like being part of a military family and what did
Speaker 1: that provide you as far as experience wise? Uh, during
Speaker 1: Wall was going on, it was kind of rough, you know,
Speaker 1: every like sometimes just every two years you move. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's three years you move, and it's like you never
Speaker 1: really had like a true like you didn't really have
Speaker 1: a true identity growing up because's like, oh, well, lived
Speaker 1: in warn in Texas nine months later, moved to South Carolina.
Speaker 1: A year and a half later, moved to Alaska, stayed
Speaker 1: there for two and a half three years, moved to California,
Speaker 1: lived there for like maybe three or something years, and
Speaker 1: moved to Washington. Lives for five and then finally got
Speaker 1: to Georgia until there for a little while. But it's
Speaker 1: as a kid is tough because you don't really like,
Speaker 1: you don't have any long lasting relationships, not relationships, but friendships.
Speaker 1: And my sister was more outgoing. I was more quiet,
Speaker 1: like quite like I'm smart and gifted athletically. She was
Speaker 1: also kind of gifted athletically and she smart, but she's
Speaker 1: just lazy at times. But she was the more outgoing,
Speaker 1: uh one of the family. Like she was always into music,
Speaker 1: was always she's the social queen or whatever. What's the
Speaker 1: between you two. She's here and two months older, and
Speaker 1: uh she was. She was a great ahead of me
Speaker 1: in school. My mom got tired of paying for daycare
Speaker 1: and sent me to school early. And they never question
Speaker 1: the age because the size. But looking back now as
Speaker 1: an adult, um, it's definitely, uh, it was. It's sort
Speaker 1: of to find who I am now because I going
Speaker 1: all those different places. Uh, you get to interact with
Speaker 1: different types of people and see different types of cultures,
Speaker 1: and you know how to relate to someone that's maybe
Speaker 1: not the same as you, like someone that didn't have
Speaker 1: the same minds to this. You you know how to relate.
Speaker 1: You know how to talk to different types of people
Speaker 1: and how to interact, how to belong with people at
Speaker 1: the same time. Did you say, I don't want to
Speaker 1: let this slip by. Did you say that you your
Speaker 1: age was not questioned because of your size as a kid, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all I was a little bit tall, like uh,
Speaker 1: and I was supposed to be in the class. I
Speaker 1: was supposed to graduate high school, but my mom started
Speaker 1: me and uh, like preschool in kindergarten early because she
Speaker 1: didn't want to have a day car out and like
Speaker 1: I was like, I think I just maybe was like
Speaker 1: a day or two short on the threshold. Like I
Speaker 1: graduated high school when I was seven. Yeah. So what
Speaker 1: how old were you when you graduated college? Uh? Just
Speaker 1: turned twenty one. You had just turned one, so yeah,
Speaker 1: you're really young. Yeah. So what your dad's retired military
Speaker 1: twenty two years in the army. What did he finish
Speaker 1: this he was just about to be promoted the sergeant major.
Speaker 1: So he finished right there, right right there, he was
Speaker 1: just about to be promoted, and and then just like
Speaker 1: all right, I'm just gonna call it. I'm yeah, We're
Speaker 1: t all right until we can be in the same
Speaker 1: high school, middle school and just be in one place
Speaker 1: for our older, older, older childhood years. So what did
Speaker 1: you take from him in terms of um, his influence
Speaker 1: and how much are you guys on the other end
Speaker 1: of spectrum different? Um, he might have been more uh
Speaker 1: gifted like finesse wise like he uh, and um, I
Speaker 1: guess like speed wise like he he he was a
Speaker 1: tight end linebacker and um back in his day. Uh
Speaker 1: he actually played a car on a state full year
Speaker 1: and then messed up his neck and then join the army.
Speaker 1: And then when he was staying in Germany, he wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to play, but got on and played in Germany
Speaker 1: in the leagues over there for a little while. But um,
Speaker 1: I got uh, I got a lot of discipline. I
Speaker 1: learned respect and discipline from him, and pretty much just
Speaker 1: being a tough guy. And in our family, like you
Speaker 1: never back now from no one, and you don't take
Speaker 1: nothing from knowing to being wrong, say something about it,
Speaker 1: and you lose a fight. You keep coming back to them,
Speaker 1: and so you don't want to fight you no more.
Speaker 1: And uh, but he was uh in his a like
Speaker 1: I was a tackle. I was a nose guard and
Speaker 1: right tackle all the way up until uh college and
Speaker 1: then like hi, my senior eyes goes the right tackle
Speaker 1: and defenseman. Really yea, and how big were you? Then?
Speaker 1: I came into high school like one hundred eighty five
Speaker 1: pounds and then left two hundred fifty seven. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a pretty good uh. Like he honestly could have been,
Speaker 1: uh a collegiate strength coach if he would hire. If
Speaker 1: he got to speed. Gotta go with him because he
Speaker 1: we did all things like we were doing Olympic lifts.
Speaker 1: My when I was fourteen years old that summer going
Speaker 1: into high school. We were getting our body's trained to
Speaker 1: do like power cleans, like cleaning snatch, um cleaning old
Speaker 1: cleaning jerk and then snatch and all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: And we would always train like uh, excuse me, We'd
Speaker 1: always do like flexibility stuff and strengthen the bodies. And
Speaker 1: then after every like I got on, I want I
Speaker 1: needed a game, wait and game muscle. So I eat
Speaker 1: like five eggs of the protein shake in the morning
Speaker 1: before school, and then I'd have like first block or
Speaker 1: second block weight training, and after that our coach of
Speaker 1: makers have like we it's like a triple decor pedut
Speaker 1: butter sandwich just with no jelly and crunch and peanut butter,
Speaker 1: and you'd have to eat that after your lift and
Speaker 1: then go to lunch. But yeah, approachein shake and a
Speaker 1: triple decorpedum butter schandwich before you went to n What
Speaker 1: did you left? Huh no, no, no, no, no no, it
Speaker 1: was it was at the high school. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: But did you ever like outside of school you and
Speaker 1: your pops get after it in the weight room or now.
Speaker 1: Uh sometimes, but he had that next surgery back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, two between two thousand and four
Speaker 1: and six, so you couldn't really do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: But uh, he was always there for like something like
Speaker 1: we'd go outside and might throw some until the baseball
Speaker 1: around a little bit back in the day, or we
Speaker 1: just lose like some position stuff. When you're putting on
Speaker 1: the amount of weight that you did in high school,
Speaker 1: you have to have five baggus of the protein shake,
Speaker 1: peanut butter, triple decker sandwiches, and then go eat lunch.
Speaker 1: Isn't it like sickening the amount that you consume? It
Speaker 1: definitely sucks. Like having if you had first lunch at
Speaker 1: at my high school and you had second block weight training,
Speaker 1: you're pretty much screwed because you've just been just working out.
Speaker 1: You just drank a protein shake. Like sometimes a lot
Speaker 1: of guys don't like eating after they just finished working
Speaker 1: out because just like I'm not really hungry, and then
Speaker 1: you don't eat, and it messes up the muscle game
Speaker 1: or the possible muscle game that you could have got.
Speaker 1: But I mean half the time, I just like all right,
Speaker 1: drinking protein shake like you'd have the sandwich. Or sometimes
Speaker 1: guys are like, hit, take a couple of by ites
Speaker 1: s throwed away. But most of the guys that really committed,
Speaker 1: they just eat it and then get something in lunch.
Speaker 1: You're like, all right, I don't know, huncky, but I
Speaker 1: gotta eat anyway. Were you recruited to you to play
Speaker 1: outside linebacker, Yeah, Coose grant them. Uh one of his
Speaker 1: wanted me to playoffs linebacker, and he was like, justin
Speaker 1: Houston's the guy that who we see you being like
Speaker 1: a similar mold too. And at the time he was
Speaker 1: like two sixty five or whatever, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of see that like I was two or
Speaker 1: at the time, like in all the norms, just like
Speaker 1: you're too short to be a true demons event and
Speaker 1: you're not big enough really to be a true demons event,
Speaker 1: and you're too big to be a true linebacker in
Speaker 1: college or whatever. And it was like, I was just
Speaker 1: the twinter building. Your friend was like, well in r evens,
Speaker 1: you'd be like the sandbacker. And I mean it pretty
Speaker 1: much was the same um as what uh, the same
Speaker 1: as what it was the last two or three years here.
Speaker 1: So you talked about all the different places that you
Speaker 1: grew up. Did you start playing football when you were
Speaker 1: in Georgia though, or did you have to like start
Speaker 1: in one one state, play a little bit, then moved
Speaker 1: and continue playing in another state? Like how did that
Speaker 1: affect your football career as a kid? Actually, Uh, my
Speaker 1: dad really hates because he went to uh I think
Speaker 1: I can't remember. It might have been a sergeant major
Speaker 1: school or some school he had to go to for
Speaker 1: the army in El Paso, Texas. Um, well, I have
Speaker 1: rewind um my start to football. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: play football. I was a soccer player and I was
Speaker 1: playing soccer, baseball and basketball. And we're Washington. My dad's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you grab a soccer, gonna take you to a soccer camp.
Speaker 1: Only the ends when we get there, it's not a
Speaker 1: soccer camp. It's football. And uh, I played flag football
Speaker 1: the year before. I was like, all right, it's kind
Speaker 1: of dull. This was in third grade. And then fourth
Speaker 1: grade we go to the camp and he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: get out and I'm like, no, I'm not getting I
Speaker 1: was just stubborn with kid, did you play a fast
Speaker 1: one on you? By saying that it was you know,
Speaker 1: he pulled a fast on? And uh, It's like all right,
Speaker 1: you can even sit in the car or get out
Speaker 1: there and go blaring football. And I sat in the
Speaker 1: car for like ten men and I said, well, he's
Speaker 1: already out there, and I'm like, I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: in the car all day. Got out the first day,
Speaker 1: had fun, but I didn't want him to show it.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I have fun. I don't even
Speaker 1: like it. And then Slowest Dirt that year, like me
Speaker 1: and it was I was I think it was a
Speaker 1: right guard at the time, and it was me and
Speaker 1: this other Russian kid would always be the last two
Speaker 1: guys in every sprint we had to do. And then
Speaker 1: he also part time coach that league, and in fifth
Speaker 1: grade came around, he coached again, got a little faster,
Speaker 1: started understanding things a little bit better, and uh, I
Speaker 1: had a good time. Like he would purposely make me
Speaker 1: late to practice because we would have to. If you
Speaker 1: were late, you had the bear call the field down
Speaker 1: and back on the yards. That's so when you knew,
Speaker 1: you're getting your stuff together and your dad's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to go yet, and you know you're
Speaker 1: coming to practice later, Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: arguments in the car, what um ma? And it'd be quiet,
Speaker 1: like I just be like, man, you know him for
Speaker 1: to be late, and I know you're not gonna tell
Speaker 1: the other coaches. Yeah, I mean it was my fault,
Speaker 1: but no, it's like he knew. He was like, oh, coachy, seign,
Speaker 1: you don't get off easy. You gotta go to your
Speaker 1: bear across. So so at what age did at at
Speaker 1: what age did to change for you from being forced
Speaker 1: to actually admitting that you like it. Obviously, now you're
Speaker 1: on the professional level, it's pretty remarkable considering that you
Speaker 1: were literally forced to play football. Yeah. I can't really
Speaker 1: imagine you're playing soccer. I gotta be honest, And just
Speaker 1: because I'm looking at maybe it's like a center fullback
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, I just can't imagine you running around
Speaker 1: a soccer field kicking. Yeah. It was pretty fun back, UH,
Speaker 1: in my soccer days. But I actually didn't play in
Speaker 1: sixth grade because my dad, Like I told you, my
Speaker 1: dad went down to UM I think it was sorry,
Speaker 1: the Major Academy or something like that, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: some training ended to get in el pass with Texas,
Speaker 1: and it was he had to be there for like
Speaker 1: eight months out of the year. And I knew my
Speaker 1: mom wouldn't gonna make me play football and UM because
Speaker 1: he was gone, and I just remember them arguing on
Speaker 1: the phone and Moll I'm saying, Oh, he didn't want
Speaker 1: to do he didn't want to do it. I didn't
Speaker 1: play football in sixth grade. Then moved to Georgia and
Speaker 1: first year we go UH. I trial for the team,
Speaker 1: get cut in seventh grade, and then come back out
Speaker 1: in the UH for the spring team in seventh grade
Speaker 1: going into eight grade year. They a couple of the
Speaker 1: coach asked me like, did you try out um in
Speaker 1: the fall, and I was like, yeah, no, I tried out.
Speaker 1: I remember getting cut and uh, to this day that
Speaker 1: was That was on one of the funnies years my life.
Speaker 1: Didn't have to play anything. I got cut from the
Speaker 1: basketball team to the year. Didn't play a single sports
Speaker 1: in seventh grade like a Michael Jordan's story here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't play out once sport, got cut from
Speaker 1: basketball and football, and I didn't know how all the
Speaker 1: baseball program work down in Georgia. So how many so
Speaker 1: you mentioned your sister before, how many siblings? And what
Speaker 1: did your mom do? Did she raise you guys or
Speaker 1: was she working as well? But no, she uh she
Speaker 1: worked with sold security and as it claimed representative. So
Speaker 1: both family members in the government, so you know they, uh,
Speaker 1: they know all about us. There's no lying to get
Speaker 1: pell grant back in college. That was certainly couldn't do.
Speaker 1: And she must have been tremendously adaptable, because that's not
Speaker 1: easy to be the wife or a spouse of a
Speaker 1: military person because a lot of times these sacrifices are amazing,
Speaker 1: you know, whether you're overseas or you're moving throughout the
Speaker 1: country in terms of being stationed at certain places for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. And you guys are a family
Speaker 1: who would just get up. Yeah, that's something more family's
Speaker 1: uh gotten really used to. Was just traveling around a
Speaker 1: lot of places like we. Uh well, first of all,
Speaker 1: my mom, she's a tough woman, tough smart, Uh not
Speaker 1: one to cross because she's gifted in the words, and
Speaker 1: she's gifted and uh know when she knows how to
Speaker 1: get under your skin. So she's winning every she's winning
Speaker 1: every argument. Like she's hard at it, just like me.
Speaker 1: And she is a tough little nut to crack. But
Speaker 1: we would like we when we left Washington State to
Speaker 1: come to Georgia, we drove and excouraging me and my sister,
Speaker 1: my brother he's six, five sisters six ft. I was
Speaker 1: six one at the time. I just passed her up.
Speaker 1: Uh dad's six. Three moms like I think five eight
Speaker 1: five nine, maybe five five seven eight or nine one
Speaker 1: of the three, but all of us all in the
Speaker 1: excursion with all our stuff from watching the state, driving
Speaker 1: across the country was pretty fun, uh, pretty fun trip,
Speaker 1: Like about a week, Like we stopped here and there,
Speaker 1: like the Four Corners stop. There, stopped at some littity
Speaker 1: spots on the way. But it was a long ride
Speaker 1: with a lot of stops, and I would always get
Speaker 1: car sick as a kid, and like anything anything, anytime
Speaker 1: I drank anything with red dye in it, I would
Speaker 1: just start throwing up in the car. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: was something weird and this kid like I just couldn't
Speaker 1: drink red dye and be in the car Like, so,
Speaker 1: do you just like red gator right now? I tend not.
Speaker 1: That's also why I tend not to drink red gatorade.
Speaker 1: It's because I like it didn't infect me now, but
Speaker 1: I always you have the flashback, Like even at sporting
Speaker 1: events sometimes I drink red Gatorade and I'd either get
Speaker 1: crams or I just start throwing up whatever. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was kind of weird. Is that something you guys often
Speaker 1: talking about a family reunions or get togethers where everybody's together.
Speaker 1: Because you just said that it's such a impact and
Speaker 1: yeah that you just think about that that move specifically
Speaker 1: from Washington, Georgia in that week, well just about oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that and all the stops and Uh, me, like I
Speaker 1: get cars to get like even now, like if I'm
Speaker 1: in the back seat whatever in the cars with that's
Speaker 1: over an hour. I'm just like, no, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta stop. Well, I gotta like I go to sleep
Speaker 1: in every cards right now? All right, Well, I I
Speaker 1: got something for you. Speaking of cars. Forgot about this.
Speaker 1: E A probably did too, but we had Avery on
Speaker 1: earlier this year. Yeah, and he has a new shiny
Speaker 1: jeep apparently. Yeah have you Yeah you haven't really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we shot a feature with him in the summer. But regardless, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: ride let me tell you something beautiful, but it's rough. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we asked him who he would not let drive, and
Speaker 1: he said, you, oh see, I'm a point a point
Speaker 1: be driver, and me being like my mom, if you're
Speaker 1: driving bad, I'm gonna let you know you're driving bad.
Speaker 1: So hey, I ay, we didn't tell you. I drove
Speaker 1: baby around for during the bye week when I stayed
Speaker 1: up here and got treatment when I was out for
Speaker 1: the cab and uh, he couldn't drive at the time,
Speaker 1: so he had to ride with me. And it was
Speaker 1: that like we went to treatment at like six in
Speaker 1: the morning or like seven in the morning, and there's
Speaker 1: some girls, this one group of guys in the morning
Speaker 1: just try cutting me off. And I've got like a
Speaker 1: light bar on my truck with spotlights on the bottom,
Speaker 1: so I mean when they get cut on there insanely bright.
Speaker 1: And these guys cut me off, I said, okay, you
Speaker 1: want to cut me off, switch one switch too, Flash
Speaker 1: the heck out of those guys, and then went around
Speaker 1: him and got around and he was in the car
Speaker 1: now he was like, what were you doing. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: don't cut me off like that. Yeah, otherwise I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of that. Yeah, if you don't let people
Speaker 1: know they're driving bad, they're going to continue to drive
Speaker 1: bad before we let you go. I just have one
Speaker 1: question for you about to Salute the Service month week
Speaker 1: in the NFL, depending on the team or whatever. Does
Speaker 1: it have different meaning to you, Like does it go
Speaker 1: through your mind or is it just are you more
Speaker 1: just appreciative that the NFL does something like salute to
Speaker 1: Service Month? Well, I always, uh always take great pride
Speaker 1: in that, uh because being military brat, like you can
Speaker 1: do certain struggles that now not not a lot of
Speaker 1: other kids go through, Like it's sometimes to strict their household,
Speaker 1: different different standards, and it's just you just have more
Speaker 1: respect for the authority. Figured it just when you see like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's just all the everything just means more. Like I
Speaker 1: think about my dad, think about all the other uh,
Speaker 1: all the other military families, like living on base and
Speaker 1: just experience what we've had, and it's just such an
Speaker 1: honorable thing to me. Like I always try and play
Speaker 1: harder and uh in those games, Well, I don't have
Speaker 1: to play hard. It just gives me more amped up.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have to do a lot to
Speaker 1: get hip for that game. And then any anytime they
Speaker 1: have like army pains or Army stickers, always trying to
Speaker 1: grab the Army paine or like army flag to take
Speaker 1: out just don't you have the towel to services camel towel? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'll always try and get uh, anytime anything, I
Speaker 1: always try and get Army, because army is the best one.
Speaker 1: Sorry Air Force, sorry, Navy can go Army. Well, my
Speaker 1: uncle was a former lieutenant colonel himself in the Army.
Speaker 1: He's his past, but he served in Vietnam and Korea,
Speaker 1: and he would echo those sentiments of people here here.
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say, well, my family's Navy family.
Speaker 1: I don't know the one thing about living on base.
Speaker 1: Did you live on base it all those stops or not?
Speaker 1: In Alaska we lived on base and southall South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I was too young. Alaska, we definitely
Speaker 1: lived on base. It was just like there's a neighborhood
Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of Sometimes it's even
Speaker 1: like do plexus or whatever, and it's like random. It
Speaker 1: feel like we're in a random neighborhood in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere, like a neighborhood of town, and then just
Speaker 1: wilderness everywhere. And then California we're on base. Washington State
Speaker 1: is when we stopped living on base and then uh
Speaker 1: moved out and got like two I think we lived
Speaker 1: in Tacoma and then span Away and then but we
Speaker 1: didn't live on base after after Washington. All right, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you go play some video games now.
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