WEBVTT - The Breakfast Club Presents : Cut To It Podcast 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:03.800 Peace of the planet. I go by the name of Charlomagne, 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.200 the God, Uncle, Charlotte, Lenard, whatever you want to call 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.719 me and listen to me. I'm here to gift you 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.240 with a brand new podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.560 I hate with the holidays. Here the Breakfast Club is 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.720 gonna take a little break. But don't worry. We got 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.080 you all right. Just sit back, cool out, and entertain 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.360 yourself with this new podcast from my Carolina Bredren, Stephen 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.720 Smith Senior and Jerald Little John. Cut to It Podcast 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.640 is here to bring you interviews from your favorite athletes, entertainers, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.920 and more. 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I mean we're in 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.120 North Carolina. We're in Charlotte for those of y'all who 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.160 don't know. So it gets humidity. It is painstaking. The 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.880 I mean it's been it's been hot in North Carolina. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.560 I mean it's been ninety degrees in October November. Right, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.760 We've we've had a Thanksgiving where it's been like eighty 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.400 four degrees, which is and then it feels like ninety 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.360 seven with all the humidity. Yeah, so it's it's different. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.200 So we decided we're gonna play tennis. Right and so 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.320 where we played tennants, they also have some uh it's 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.160 a pool right there. So there was a guy, he's 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:11.600 about sixty years old, and again he was by the pool, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.880 so he had he was walking from the pool pastor 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.680 tennis courts to his car to go in to to leave, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:24.000 and he had on he didn't have on a shirt. Okay, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.720 so he was again suns out, guns out, but he 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.840 was sixty years old, so he had it. He had 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.600 it for sixty year old man or maybe he could 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.400 have been older. He was pretty fit, and he wanted everybody. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.679 He wanted everybody to know, Look, I'm old, but I'm 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.119 still handling the business. So I look over and one 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.360 just you know, I was always taught respect your elder, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.720 so I look over. When I said, hey, suns out, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.880 guns out? He said yeah. I say hey, but um, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:59.560 you got those guns registered. He looked at me and said, nah, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:04.440 I shot these in a while, bro. He had this 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.680 clip bloated waiting for you to ask. He wanted to. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.480 That's why he didn't have a shirt on, because he 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.760 was waiting for some money. Yeah, I ain't shot these. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.320 I know what he's saying. I haven't discharged these in years. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.840 And what I loved about that's one when I was acknowledging, Hey, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.119 I see you working, old, I see you, I see 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:28.000 you working young man. It was really cool because when 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.680 I get sixty or seventy years old, man, I still 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.200 kind of want a four pack at least, right. The 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.920 other two is still in the cooler, still in the cooler, right, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.480 because obviously when you're sixty and seventy you ain't working 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.440 out like he used to. But just just to have 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.200 a a two patter man, that's progress because there's a 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.200 lot of thirty year old so walking around with kegs. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.920 They ain't got No did he run up on you 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.000 like he wanted to try you or he just ran 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.840 He wasn't like that, No, he was. He was strolling 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.120 by his flip flops in the shorts and his shirt. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.880 I was fully dressed in ninety degree weather playing tennis, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.520 and people like, really, still you play tennis? Actually I'm 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.480 a three to five in tennis. That means there's five old. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.600 I mean four or five four old three five three 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.960 h two five two O two old is you're terrible? 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.600 Um three to five is you could play a little 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.960 bit run around. I love the exercise. I'm actually a 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:30.520 huge tennis junkie. Love love tennis. Grew up watching Andre 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.320 Agassi and um, you know on here on cut tool 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.680 we also eventually have some tennis guys too, brothers talking tennis, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.279 That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, you know, obviously Arthur 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.159 ashe but there's a lot of different guys here in 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.680 North Carolina and um, Andy Murray, UM really good friends. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.960 He grew up in Greensboro, John Eisner. Um, obviously you 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.160 got the serenas. That's down the street from the house 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.480 in La Girls. I remember I had to unique opportunity 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.039 to visit um James Blake when he was playing. His 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.920 mom actually well was his trainer and and really kind 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.599 of kept him in focus. I was pretty good. So 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.080 I love tennis. An intense dude. That's that's crazy, man, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.680 an intense dude like you savage on the field swinging 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.240 tennis club while you saying like, no, I'm saying I'm 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.480 not like you. I'm not judging at all. I'm just 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.600 saying I find it interesting that you know, if you 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.040 can to you to keep back felling, you're gonna hit 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.280 the water cool over there. That's cool. I played a 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.960 little DV in my life, but I'm just saying I do. Seriously, 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.080 I find it interesting that that you play tennis. I's 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.160 school because I think the for one, I mean, you 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.039 are a football player, your intense dude, and tennis is 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.800 such a quote unquote country club sport that um, I 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.440 really find it interesting and honestly, I find it cool 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.760 even for me like my daughter who six your niece Mia, Um, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.440 she loves swimming and she loves playing golf, two things 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.120 that I never threw up around where I'm from. So honestly, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.400 what I'm saying is I find it cool that you 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.080 can invest yourself in the sport that otherwise, you know, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.599 places that we're from, you don't typically play. So I honestly, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.920 I find it really cool that you know, in your 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.200 later stages in life, you can find something like that 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.160 that really keeps you fit, keeps you focused, and keeps 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.800 you really you know, keeps you around some sort of competitiveness. Man, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.560 let me tell you, in tennis, you want to get ran, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.240 play some old folks. They get you the business, give 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:33.359 you the business because in tennis, tennis is a mind game, right, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.360 and it's ball placement, and a lot of the older 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.200 people don't have that movement like they used to, but 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.160 they but they playing from a mental standard and so 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.279 they So I played the older guy and got my 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.920 butt wok and he ran me, ran me off the 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:56.480 court because ball placement. I'm over there, I'm running from 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.719 side to side, baseline, the baseline. That dude was out yeah, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.599 out there running for no reason. He was out there 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:08.920 like he just cross throwing darts. But I love tennis 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.880 because it's it's a great It is a great sport 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.880 in which requires mental for to two strategy. But you 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.640 could also hit the snot out of the ball and 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.000 then they can return it same velocity even more, or 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.480 they can set you up. So it's a lot of 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.040 mental aspect of it. It's a lot of I was, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.400 but that old man taught me something. I'll running. I'll 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.120 run them into the ground right now. But you know 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.560 that ain't gonna happen. But I really love tennis, and 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.520 so me and my wife play tennis together. My boys, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.360 I am doocey Um. We call m Doocy Goosey Steve 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.800 Smith Junior. I have brainwashed him Um into being a 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.520 tennis player. He's gonna be tennis. He's gonna become a 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.720 tennis player. And then I will be able to live 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.760 in Italy for a year or two because he'll be 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.000 he'll be training out there, and so we're gonna be 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.000 recording from Italy. I like, I don't I don't really 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.160 care where we record from, but I'm getting the Italy 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.720 at so far to just be there for a year 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.720 and let him train um in Italy, and then I 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.000 can blow up by eating a whole bunch of pizza. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.800 There you go, There you go, there you go. So gee, 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.480 let's cut to it. And who's our guest for today? 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.080 Because I don't know who it is. We we talked 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.640 about some guys and then now I got like a 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.720 surprise guest that you're supposed to be telling me, and 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.360 so now I'm just going off to I am literally 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.200 I have no questions in front of me because you 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:43.000 guys didn't tell me. So if this show seems a 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.080 little bit erratic today, that's only because they surprised me 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.120 with a guest and I don't know who it is, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.280 but I think it's gonna be an awesome guest. All right, 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.400 coming up, we got a very special surprise guest, an icon, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.599 a legend, Michael Vick. He went to Virginia Tech University. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.280 The four time pro bowler, he was the NFL Comeback 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.240 Player of the Year in twenty ten, and he's the 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.040 NFL's all time leader in rushing yards by a quarterback 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:19.200 over six thousand yards. Michael Vick, thanks for coming on 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.959 to the Cut to a podcast. Brother, Thanks for having me, man, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.200 it's just a pleasure to be on. Pleasure to this 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.880 segment we were about to go into is called get 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.559 Iced Up with Smitty's basically our ice breakers be prepared 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:38.880 for anything. Smitty. I'll let you take a favorite childhood cereal, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:46.160 Captain Crunch Crunch. It was flavorful, especially when they started 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.560 throwing the flavors up in man got better years when 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:54.720 that's a hood favorite right there, that's a favorite, right berries? 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.360 Yea berries and they hit the blueberries and the red 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.320 berries game. It was popular. The summer activity you love 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.360 to do, swimming at the Boys and Girls Club. But 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:07.880 that was my thing, you know what I mean, that 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.640 was my thing that swim, swim, swim, and it made 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.360 me strong, It made me better, um you know, as 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.440 a as a as a football player, and you know 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.800 growing up where I grew up because I was stronger 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.240 than everybody. Nobody liked to swim but me, and it 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.360 was a passing growing up. So swimming at the Boys 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.400 and Girls Club, now, I know you had a ton 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:30.080 of fast twitch. However, now you retire, so how you 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.880 ain't your shoes? You got shoelaces or veil crow? I 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:42.080 I got shoelaces to dispect the icon. Let's see, I 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.160 can't get caught in the bell crow. If you ask 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.640 me this ten years from now, then you might get 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:56.679 a different answer. We can't have big fifty. Yeah, I ain't. Oh, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:02.760 let me trap up real quick. All right, Well, we 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:08.120 we really appreciate you coming on. And the purpose, uh 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.960 of the of our podcast really is to get the insight, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:18.480 um and understand the the man, the woman as well 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.199 inside the jersey. We want you to start off before 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.000 we really get into really who Michael VICKI is just 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.640 set a stage like where'd you grow up? How'd you 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:36.120 grow up? Right? And and and and really how and 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.000 where you grew up? How did that shape your life? 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.680 Good and bad and and and so paint that picture 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.000 for us. We all know, you know, the good and 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.160 the bad. Yeah, but it but it all started from 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.199 somewhere and where where is that place? It started in News, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.720 Virginia um, a place I can sit at home for 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.480 eighteen years until I left Virginia tech um. You know, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.320 I moved around to a couple of different neighborhoods from 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.960 the age of uh, you know, six until I was 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.319 about ten years old. So I had always had different 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.800 crews of friends, which which was cool. And until I 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.959 moved into my last neighborhood, Bridey Circle where I grew up. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.640 Where I grew up, you know, from the age of 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.000 ten to like eighteen and met all my friends who 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.680 uh you know I got to know and still friends 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.320 with guys to this day. But had dreams with and 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.000 you know, thought about what life would be like with, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.120 you know, as as a young man growing into an 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.720 older man. You know, we went through everything together. You know, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.280 we went through you know, the preteen years and the 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.200 teen years and you know, to playing football and liking girls, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.360 and you know, everybody had their own set of goals 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.800 and dreams, and you know, it was so you know, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.880 it was a tough situation to grow up in because 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.920 you know, you don't know, you don't have a lot, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.800 you know, until you goes around somebody who has a lot. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.240 And one of my cousins, his mom and dad was 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.679 in the household and they both had good jobs. And 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.120 you know, I've seen the different side of life, and 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.400 I'm like, you know, I want that life, you know, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.480 even though I don't have what he have. You know, 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.200 if I can experience that and learn from that experience, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.080 you know, it helps shape and mold me to you know, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.880 me thinking like, look, I want more than what we have. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.400 And uh, you know, I started playing you know football, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.480 like the age of seven, and it was like the 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.760 coolest game ever. You know, then start out as a quarterback. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.920 You know, I was running back at first. That's a 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.680 different story. But you know, the dreams started right there, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.360 and I was like, man, they get paid for this. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.200 You know, I'm pretty good at this. You know, I 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.559 think this is something that I want to do. And 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.120 you know, fast forward to you know, from the age 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.840 of ten to eighteen, it was like, man, you got 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.120 to do so much in order to get a scholarship 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.960 to go to you know, college, and to play in 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.080 the National Football League. So I looked at the journey 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.640 I had to travel and I was like, man, this 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.200 is tough. But as a ten year old kid, I 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.280 was like, I'm prepared for that journey. So, you know, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.960 growing up in that environment prepared me for that journey. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.000 I think my friends and the guys I grew up with, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.760 the guys that really grew up with, um, they helped 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.839 me with that journey. And then you know, it was 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.160 high school, college and then but when you say guys 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.440 I really grew up with, I say that, Steve, because 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.760 I really feel like, um, you know, my my two 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.240 best best friends, my two besties, A guy named Jamal 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.040 Wilson and Kevin Stanley was the guys that when I 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.680 when we touched eighteen, we all went out separate ways. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.560 They both went in the military and I went on 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.160 to college. And then it was the guys that I met, 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.920 you know, over time, and you know, Kevin wasn't playing 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.520 football and Jamal wasn't playing football. I got closer with 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.600 my teammates. Some of those guys good dudes. Some of 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.960 them was bad dudes, but they all they became my friends. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.360 And I hung out with him and you know, he 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.440 kind of made decisions and choices together, you know, good 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.640 and bad, and uh, you know, it was what it was. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.760 But those two guys that I just name were, you know, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.200 my guys, and to this day, like they still like 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.680 my beasties. The ones that are gonna tell me, like, na, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.320 you're making a bonehead decision or you know, you shouldn't 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.080 do that. They're not afraid to tell me no, you know, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.240 and that that that's been the biggest tale to the 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.160 sign of why you know those guys are they always 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.920 been my besties. Man, They're always really bid, you know, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.080 So you know, I learned my lesson with friends along 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.040 the way. You know, how to determine if your friend 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.840 is really a friend. You know, Mike, I played against you, Um, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.120 long time, good and bad, and we were out we 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.240 were in the same draft class and um, and you 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.160 know we're both doing analysts work now. Um, you're doing 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.560 a fantastic job on Fox, you know, and I'm I'm 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.400 trying to keep up with you on NFL network. Amazing, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.240 appreciate it. Now, I'm gonna take this time to as 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.200 something the elephant in the room, because I think it's 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:10.040 one journalistic integrity that I'm learning of talking about it. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.840 But just steer me in the direction if I say 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:20.760 something that's if I misspeak. But basically, um, around two 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.880 thousand and six, you know, the FBI and some of 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.400 that stuff is starting investigation about some of the outside 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:33.080 activity that was going on outside of your employment with 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.480 the Atlanta Falcons, and you were basically convicted or or 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:43.000 I believe plead got a plea deal with them on 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.360 dog fighting and all of that stuff. And so August 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.440 twenty seven, two thousand and seventh, you were sentenced and 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.280 had to serve an eighteen months prison term and also 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.720 had to do two months of house to arrest you 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.280 also had to pay back money to the Land of Falcons. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.960 I believe a whole bunch of money. Um. None of 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:10.760 us got under our under our mattresses. No, but you also, Mike, 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.679 Mike Vick is the original highlight reel. Um, myself and 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.520 many other people feared when you had the ball in 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.480 your hands when we were standing on the other sideline, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.000 I'm like, man, if that they let this dude get 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.320 loose again, we in trump. I want to ask you 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.920 when you went to prison then, Michael Duane vic walk 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:41.040 in that prison or was it Michael Victor highlight Reel. Oh, man, 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:46.520 that's an amazing question, because Michael Victor Highlight Reel walked 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.200 into that and into that prison and walked in there 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.280 and feeling like, damn, this shouldn't this shouldn't be me. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.800 I had too much money for this. I shouldn't you know, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.480 I shouldn't be in this situation. You know, at first 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.480 couple of hours, I was in there every time they 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.040 came to check on me to make sure that I 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.919 was good, and I wasn't, and they permitting suicide that 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.000 you know, I thought somebody was coming out and locked 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.119 that door to let me out, you know, And I'm like, 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.000 because I felt like I didn't deserve to be there. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:19.360 And then over time, you know, as the knights went 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.320 on and the days went was longer, and the days hurt, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.119 they hurt. You know, you're thinking about, you know, the 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.840 outside world. You think about family and watching football and 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.240 watching you guys you know, you know, like men of 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.960 integrity out there doing but they supposed to be doing, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.680 because that's what everybody dreampt of doing their entire lives, 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.320 unless they just fell into it. You know, very very 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.680 blessed to be out there on the field in that situation. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.919 And I'm you know, one of the you know, Markey 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.119 players of the league, and I'm sitting in the prison 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.080 seeing I'm like, damn, this shit beat me. But that's 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.879 time went on, I realized like, yeah, this was gonna 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.040 it was supposed to be me. It needed to be me, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.000 because I started thinking about, you know, all the people 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.119 I did, hurt, all the animals I hurt, all of 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.760 you know things that I did, and the decisions I 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.800 made that could have been better. And I'm like, you 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.040 didn't make the all the right decisions. You know, nobody's perfect, 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:10.920 but at the same time, you probably made more bad 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.320 decisions than you did good. And that's the reason you 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.199 were in this place right now. So you know I 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.120 looked at that, you know, understood it. You know I 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.040 accepted it, and I was like, you know, when I 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:22.359 leave out of here, I'm gonna come out of here 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:23.920 a different person. I'm gonna come out of here a 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.000 man and integrity. I'm gonna respect my family and respect 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.480 you know the game. I'm gonna respect the people who 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.200 try to help me in every fast that my life 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:34.919 and want the best for me. And I'm not going 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:36.680 to ignore that. I'm gonna grow up. I'm not gonna 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.840 be so reserved and I'm not gonna be so you know, introvertive. 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.640 I'm gonna try to open up. You know, all those 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.560 things is on my mind. And I felt like, you know, 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.880 I did it, but I needed that time so get 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.800 to that point in my life. So the highlight, Michael 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.760 Victor highlight real walkan in prison, Michael, the man came 0:19:54.760 --> 0:20:00.159 out and I'm very appreciative of that in my life. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:07.480 So what did you discover about about yourself? Really being 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:13.960 put in that position twenty three hours a day. Yeah, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.159 I feel like, you know, just losing control, you know, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.240 it was probably the biggest thing. And like I have 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.240 no control of, you know, when I'm gonna eat, I 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:22.919 have no control of when I got to go to 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.879 sleep or you know, I'm pretty much on somebody else's time, 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.520 you know, um but a lot of idle time. And 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.000 I'm like, damn, like, you know, I got to find 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:37.840 a way to to make this, you know, somewhat, you know, 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.280 a success story, like man, I got it in me. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.920 I know I could do it. I know the decisions 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.280 that was made that was wrong. Damn, I should have 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.240 just did it right. You know. All I started thinking 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.800 about was a second chance, another opportunity. If I get 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.160 a chance to do it all again. And I'm gonna 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.160 do it this way, And I know I'm not gonna 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.000 be perfect, but at least I know I'm not gonna 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.320 be around those same people, you know, the same influences. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.080 You know, I'm growing up a little bit, and I 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.439 wanted to show people more than anything that when I 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.200 got out, I was more mature. You know. It started 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.480 with Roger Goodeale than he was the last person I 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.280 was looking to his face and lied to, you know 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.040 about being involved. So I was able to start with 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.680 him break the ice tell the truth. I was wrong. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.520 He said, look, I'm not here to talk about the past, 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:23.879 me to talk about the future. And right then and 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.480 then when I heard that, I was just like, Okay, 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.359 that's it. That's it. It's all about the future. And 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.320 Roger Goodell told me that and our initial conversation and 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.879 that changed my life. That made me look at the 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:38.320 world different. It made me know that the vision that 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.439 I had could come true. Like all the other visions 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:48.359 I had, what vision, I don't know. I got a 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.640 lot of like a lot of stuff in my mind. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.280 I was you know, we spent a lot of the time. 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:58.160 We spent a lot of time like all my all 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.000 the staff, all the people as working with us. We 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.159 spend a lot of time just kind of looking at 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:08.240 all this stuff about about you. And I watch a 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.960 lot of things myself, and the one thing I kept 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:12.920 focusing on it was like, you know, I don't want 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.600 this to you to come on here and to rehab 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:19.919 something um that's happened. However, I don't want people to 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.399 feel like that we're glancing over or were or we're 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:28.280 giving you Yeah yeah, it's all under control, baby. Yeah. 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.200 But but also like I also put myself in your 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.399 position is I've done some stupid stuff in my life. 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.199 And you know when you do some stupid stuff, you 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.640 sitting there right, and I say stupid because if I'm 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:46.159