Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to Renee all Day. I'm Renee Paquette
Speaker 1: joining me right now. Number five Tea Higgins, the one
Speaker 1: and only, the one and only. How good does it
Speaker 1: feel to have that number five slapped on the jersey?
Speaker 1: Do we feel like a new version of T Higgins?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: For sure, you know, going back to you know, my
Speaker 3: old roots, high school days, boys club days.
Speaker 2: So I mean it definitely feels good.
Speaker 1: Certainly. No, it looks good on you, does it?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 1: Like? Mentally? Did it have any kind of a switch
Speaker 1: for you? I mean, I know I've heard you speak
Speaker 1: about it a little bit, but just to like move
Speaker 1: on from the eighty five, I mean to.
Speaker 3: It, it was just you know, exciting to get back
Speaker 3: to my old number. Yeah, you know I wrapped eighty
Speaker 3: five well you know, my first three years wearing it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know it's time to get back to
Speaker 3: the old roots.
Speaker 1: So certainly, all right, So what feels different for you
Speaker 1: about this season?
Speaker 3: It's just, you know, honestly, for me, you know, I
Speaker 3: feel like us together as a team is you know,
Speaker 3: we just more together and I feel like more of
Speaker 3: a family, and I just feel like I got good things.
Speaker 2: Ahead of us.
Speaker 1: I feel like that has been like the theme for
Speaker 1: some time. So to imagine you guys just like gelling
Speaker 1: even more and more of that camaraderie that makes for
Speaker 1: a pretty dangerous team, which you guys have been obviously
Speaker 1: thus far. If you could go back and talk to
Speaker 1: rookie T what advice are you giving him?
Speaker 2: It's a lot of advice I will give him. You know.
Speaker 3: It's so much more that I've learned, you know, just
Speaker 3: throughout my years playing the NFL. You know where they be,
Speaker 3: you know, attacking the ball, you know the right way,
Speaker 3: you know, working a certain release.
Speaker 2: And the main thing is you know, eat healthy.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, for sure, diets changed, you know, and that
Speaker 1: would probably be the main thing is definitely eat healthy.
Speaker 1: What is the thing you missed from not eating healthy?
Speaker 1: Do you still dabble a little bit?
Speaker 3: I definite dabble a little bit with the canes, you know,
Speaker 3: that's number one.
Speaker 2: But really just like a lot of chips, oh me
Speaker 2: and you both, that's my snack. Like I love chips.
Speaker 1: So what's your favorite chip?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: Okay? Interesting? I'm more of like I'm a potato chip gal.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean I can get down with the lace
Speaker 2: the sour cream.
Speaker 1: Onion, Oh, sour cream and onions. Did I like a
Speaker 1: ruffle souer cream in onion to give me a little rich? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: what about the grippos? Do you do the grippos?
Speaker 3: I did my rookie year. I was I was big
Speaker 3: on them, and then I ate them so much. I
Speaker 3: just got tired of them.
Speaker 1: You burn yourself out. I see sometimes you feel like
Speaker 1: you need to do that a little bit, to like
Speaker 1: get it out of your system. I've not landed on that.
Speaker 1: I just keep reaching for the chips, bloating, bring it on,
Speaker 1: that's what we like. Okay, let's talk some shoes for
Speaker 1: a minute, because I saw the collap that you posted
Speaker 1: with NFL. Very organized. You got a lot of shoes,
Speaker 1: a lot to work with. But my big question is
Speaker 1: the green off whites. We're not wearing them. We're saving
Speaker 1: them for a special occasion in the sneak your world.
Speaker 1: Why are we buying shoes and not wearing them? Talk
Speaker 1: to me about it. I don't understand, honestly.
Speaker 3: For me, you know I wanted those so bad, and
Speaker 3: you know I wear a big sized shoes, so sure,
Speaker 3: and a lot of guys that's you know in the
Speaker 3: league were my saying size, So I guess you.
Speaker 2: Know, it doesn't have to be in the league. So
Speaker 2: they was all snatched up.
Speaker 3: So I was finally able to get my hands on them,
Speaker 3: and I'm gona wear them eventually, but right now, I
Speaker 3: just got them on this planet. This little thing I
Speaker 3: got in my room, it's like, oh, it like floats
Speaker 3: and it spins and it looks it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It's like a home decourse. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So big home decorse guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I got that. Got the jellyfish coming.
Speaker 1: Listen, we know we set the whole on beyond for you.
Speaker 1: We like to set the scene for you. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I heard you yesterday kind of popped your head in here,
Speaker 1: and you said that the jellyfish tank is coming along
Speaker 1: where we are what needs to happen with the jelly fish?
Speaker 2: So I got the tank finally. Now it's just.
Speaker 1: How big is the tank?
Speaker 2: It's like a cylinder. It's well, yeah, hi, oh it's
Speaker 2: not like no, it's no, it's not no.
Speaker 1: Big crazy thing, okay, cheap, just a little yeah jellyfish
Speaker 1: you putting in there.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to buy three jellyfish jellyfish only costs
Speaker 3: around like thirty bucks each. So yeah, I'm just about
Speaker 3: like three of those moon jellyfish. So like whatever the light,
Speaker 3: whatever light it is, the color of the jellyfish would be.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. Yeah, but that's definitely coming along. Got
Speaker 3: the tank now, I just got to get it set up.
Speaker 3: That is just the hard part.
Speaker 1: Where do you acquire the jellyfish? Are they being shipped
Speaker 1: in or can you go down to pet.
Speaker 2: Smart like some sight on the internet order on jellyfish stock, Yeah,
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: What else was going on with the decore of the home?
Speaker 1: How else do we set the vibe when your home?
Speaker 1: It's important to be able to walk through the door
Speaker 1: and enjoy your home and enjoy the lavishes.
Speaker 2: Sure. So yeah for me, I like paintings. Oh so
Speaker 2: I got a lot of paintings of paintings.
Speaker 1: I need some artwork in my house. It like me out.
Speaker 3: There's different things like cartoons, like but it's like a
Speaker 3: certain type of painting like that this artist.
Speaker 2: That I know. H yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. I
Speaker 2: have like a nipsy painting.
Speaker 3: Cool I'm having Michael Jordan painting with He's wearing like
Speaker 3: these off white shoes.
Speaker 2: But the laces are actual laces. Yeah, and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: See, I really need to dabble in the artwork. I
Speaker 1: keep like it's hard to pull the trigger to like
Speaker 1: really decide what you want up on the wall. I
Speaker 1: have a hard time with it. They all just sit
Speaker 1: in my cart and then I don't actually make the purchase.
Speaker 1: They just think about it a lot. Okay, So we
Speaker 1: talked about moving back to number five. How well you've
Speaker 1: worn number eighty five? Talk to me about your relationship
Speaker 1: with Ocho. Is he's sending lots of text to you guys,
Speaker 1: staying in touch. What's the communication?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we stay in touch here and there.
Speaker 3: You know, you know I tweet something I see him
Speaker 3: quote it. It's pretty funny. I think I tweeted something recently.
Speaker 3: What did I say?
Speaker 2: I said something.
Speaker 3: He was just like he I don't even know it
Speaker 3: was funny, but I was like typical Oho.
Speaker 2: But man, he's a great guy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: You know, before I even when I was first drafted
Speaker 3: by the Bengles. You know, I asked his blessing though,
Speaker 3: just out of respect. It's like, man, I want to
Speaker 3: wear eighty five. I get your respect. No, He's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: go ahead, man, do your thing. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 3: I was able to do my thing, get it, but
Speaker 3: now it was just time for a switch.
Speaker 1: What was the last text that Ocho sent you. I've
Speaker 1: heard rumors that he kind of will nag on the
Speaker 1: receivers a little bit, do you guys? Is that true?
Speaker 3: So here and there will he will here, he'll he'll
Speaker 3: talk smack on Twitter talking about here lock me TV
Speaker 3: and chased down in practice and stuff. He asked the
Speaker 3: Bengals to sound on like a ten day or something,
Speaker 3: come in and just yeah, he's he's a clown man character.
Speaker 1: Your your youth football program. Talk to me about that.
Speaker 1: It seems like things are moving along quite well as
Speaker 1: they would for a man like you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it was very big for me, you know,
Speaker 3: going back home, being able to you know, put on
Speaker 3: my first annual camp. Yeah, you know, had a lot
Speaker 3: of kids. I think I had around like two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty kids come out. Whoa and man, just it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's a blessing.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day. You'll be able to
Speaker 2: come for where I'm from.
Speaker 3: And you know, put do something for the kids that
Speaker 3: you know, I wasn't able to do.
Speaker 2: When I was younger, So definitely it was an answert.
Speaker 2: Definitely inspire me.
Speaker 1: So what are some of those like conversations that you're
Speaker 1: able to have with those kids and to be able
Speaker 1: to give them those opportunities that you weren't able.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 3: The conversation more went like I appreciate you for doing
Speaker 3: this for us, and I want to be in your
Speaker 3: shoes one day, and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, you know, just giving them, you know, great advice, So.
Speaker 1: Just not the screen off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't need you don't need off, you don't
Speaker 2: need you don't need the shoes.
Speaker 1: We'll get to them.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that.
Speaker 1: You seem like you stay very like calm, cool and collected.
Speaker 1: What is that about. Have you always been like that?
Speaker 1: Like giving them yourself a mantra in the mirror every
Speaker 1: day what goes down?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've always been like that since I was yay hi,
Speaker 3: you know, and you know, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: that's that's just the way I like to go about
Speaker 3: things because nobody can ever read me, you know, like
Speaker 3: even like even in games, like when say a guy
Speaker 3: talking talking smack to me, I just look at them.
Speaker 2: I either smirk, or you know, just walk off and
Speaker 2: then just go do our thing.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the guys that do do
Speaker 1: the trash talking, that have like more of that and
Speaker 1: they're like tool belt.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't blame them for it. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you got your two belt, I'll say do it,
Speaker 3: use it.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, to use. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just how they go about things, you know.
Speaker 1: So as I'm getting ready for this interview, I'm going
Speaker 1: deep in the Twitter, deep in the Instagram, and I
Speaker 1: can't help but see that you took a photo with
Speaker 1: the Undertaker. I come from the wrestling world.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you a wrestling for sure? Me?
Speaker 3: Me Joe mixing, Tyler and Chasse. We just had a
Speaker 3: full conversation about wrestling yesterday. I practice it.
Speaker 1: We have a show coming up soon. You got to
Speaker 1: come really come down.
Speaker 2: Yes, where is it?
Speaker 1: And we're going to be at what's the rented called
Speaker 1: now us Banks? Okay, Heritage mag Yeah, you guys have
Speaker 1: to come calm down.
Speaker 2: It's not I don't think rest is the same as
Speaker 2: it used to be though.
Speaker 1: Sure sure, I mean, but do like.
Speaker 3: I do like going wrestler now, I like Jake Paul,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I like his moods.
Speaker 2: I like the moos that he do. I like the
Speaker 2: moods that you do. I mean, it's just he's.
Speaker 3: Like doing all his athletic backflips and all types of stuff.
Speaker 2: It is so as much as you.
Speaker 1: Can talk a little trash and the guys that come
Speaker 1: in that have like a celebrity name for themselves or
Speaker 1: an athlete and another in another program, they move into
Speaker 1: pro wrestling. But I will say he does put in
Speaker 1: the work because he puts on a good match.
Speaker 3: He does because because I have a best friend that
Speaker 3: actually tried out for wrestling. He was like, Bro, this
Speaker 3: stuff is actually harder than training camp.
Speaker 2: Right, he like, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I respect like Pat McAfee from what he was able
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, he actually came in and did
Speaker 1: a really good job. He's great on commentary obviously, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he did a really good job too. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: may we'll get you out there.
Speaker 2: We'll get you just to.
Speaker 3: Try it something like, Uh, I want who did it?
Speaker 3: Was it Steph Curry that did something?
Speaker 1: Oh? Maybe it was it was it was.
Speaker 2: A professional athlete that did something with the wrestling scene,
Speaker 2: there's always guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought that was pretty cool. I feel like I
Speaker 3: could do something like that.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites was when Snoop Dogg came in
Speaker 1: to do it and to see his long lanky ass
Speaker 1: jumping to the third rope like dropping an elbow, running
Speaker 1: the ropes.
Speaker 2: I did see that on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That was funny, impressive to say the least. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get you down to some wrestling. It must happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on from wrestling, there's no natural segue to go
Speaker 1: from wrestling to talking about your mom. But your relationship
Speaker 1: with your mom, You guys, of course, are very close,
Speaker 1: have a great relationship. What does it mean for you
Speaker 1: to be able to have her by your side during
Speaker 1: your whole career, having her out there in the stands
Speaker 1: being loud and proud for you.
Speaker 3: It means everything to me simply because you know what
Speaker 3: she's been through, you know, with her life, and you know,
Speaker 3: for me, I just want her to list stress free,
Speaker 3: just to be able to enjoy the rest of her
Speaker 3: life and you know, just just cheer me on at
Speaker 3: the end of day. You know, man, me and my
Speaker 3: mom's bond is like no other. You know, and I
Speaker 3: love your mom. Yeah, at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: I love your mom.
Speaker 1: Best nugget of wisdom that you've got from your.
Speaker 2: Mom, don't drop the ball.
Speaker 1: Mom.
Speaker 2: She she hates when I dropped the ball. Man.
Speaker 3: She She's on me more than anybody that I know.
Speaker 3: It is crazy.
Speaker 1: What is the nicest thing you've done for your mom?
Speaker 2: I got her a house in a car.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was really stoked about that. She just really
Speaker 3: really all she wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She she don't really care for all the materialistic things.
Speaker 3: Obviously I get it for She's just like, you didn't
Speaker 3: have to get this for me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, thank you. Yeah. She came to the
Speaker 2: game last year after I got her bag.
Speaker 3: She was like, in my bag, huh, Like I love it.
Speaker 1: That's a little something out there again. Getting ready for
Speaker 1: this interview and reading the article that you wrote about
Speaker 1: her for the Player's Tribune, how was that for you?
Speaker 1: Kind of putting pen to paper.
Speaker 2: It was tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was so it was so much
Speaker 3: emotion going into it and just thinking and thinking about
Speaker 3: the things that happened over time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, being.
Speaker 3: Able to because we actually talked about me playing in
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, Yeah, long ago. Crazy and to see it
Speaker 3: happen and to see her in the stands cheering me
Speaker 3: on was just I even shed the tear at the
Speaker 3: time and it was just you know, surreal.
Speaker 1: So yeah, very very cool. Okay, we've got a game
Speaker 1: plan for you called did your mom tweet it? Or
Speaker 1: did Oho tweet it?
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let me just pull them up here. Oh yeah, cut
Speaker 1: our props. You got to give me a which face
Speaker 1: it belongs to? At your mom and Ocho first one, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so ready for some football football emoji. That was mama, Mama,
Speaker 1: the real eighty five just scored.
Speaker 2: I've seen that. Sweet.
Speaker 1: If the ball touch your hands, catch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was easy, now we know.
Speaker 1: Come on, defense, get in the game. Shake their shoulder pads, shisty.
Speaker 2: Yup, that's something. This sounds like something you say.
Speaker 1: Bengals are winning the division again and we'll make another
Speaker 1: run at the Lombardi. We have Ta Higgins, Boyd and Chase.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, Bengals, please prayer emoji one more time.
Speaker 1: You wanted one more time. Come on, Bengals, please with
Speaker 1: the prayer hands emoji. Noo Chad, just another one. Let's
Speaker 1: go tea prayer emoji. No, it was Chad too. We
Speaker 1: know that he likes the prayer hands emoji, so we
Speaker 1: know that that's him. Okay, okay, all right now to
Speaker 1: close things out here with some more jellyfish facts. You're
Speaker 1: jellyfish guy. They're coming in, the tank is coming together.
Speaker 1: We've got the ambiance. How much do you know about jellyfish?
Speaker 1: True or false? Jellyfish can glow in the dark.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: True. Get a little black light and you guys have
Speaker 1: a real party.
Speaker 2: I've just talked about the neon light with the moon jellyfish. True.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. They've got a bioluminescence, organs that
Speaker 1: emit blue or green. That jellyfish have three brains, true
Speaker 1: or false? Can we see any brains in there?
Speaker 2: That's true?
Speaker 1: They have no brains.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real dumb dumbs. They have no brains at all.
Speaker 1: Five thousand people are stung by jellyfish every year. True
Speaker 1: or false?
Speaker 2: Five thousand. I do know a lot of people get
Speaker 2: stung by jellyfish, so I'm gonna have to say.
Speaker 1: True actually false.
Speaker 2: I don't know not a jellyfish.
Speaker 1: Because it's one hundred and fifty million people that are
Speaker 1: stung by jellyfish each year. So it's like a thousand
Speaker 1: people since we've been talking. It's a lot. That was
Speaker 1: mean of me.
Speaker 2: I set you up.
Speaker 1: I set you up.
Speaker 2: I did know a lot of people get stung.
Speaker 1: Like jellyfish are edibles. True, I can't imagine what they
Speaker 1: taste like. They can't taste like much of anything. I
Speaker 1: think they have to like really be cleaned and you
Speaker 1: like strip out some.
Speaker 2: Of what what are you eating?
Speaker 1: I don't know. As I was looking this up, I
Speaker 1: want to say maybe similar to like a calamari. Nah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it either. I'm not interested if you
Speaker 1: were stung by a jellyfish? What do you do?
Speaker 2: You get stung by a jellyfish? Is it? Is it
Speaker 2: too you're supposed to get like the pea, yes, pea.
Speaker 1: Or vinegar, but vinegar he's usually more readily available.
Speaker 2: I would definitely use vinegar.
Speaker 1: I mean, ain't how bad it hurt and there's no vinegar.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you do? You gotta do. And
Speaker 1: a group of jellyfish is called a smack, a bloom
Speaker 1: or truckload smack. Yes, true, a smack or a bloom
Speaker 1: both apply. See you know your jellyfish a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know them, just gonna name the jellyfish.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, what have we got? I have nothing yet.
Speaker 1: You got to meet them first, you have any kind
Speaker 1: of personality.
Speaker 2: Y see, You've got to see how they floating around.
Speaker 2: You know what they got.
Speaker 1: Well, very excited for the jellyfish. Excited to see you
Speaker 1: out there, a number five. Excited to see you guys
Speaker 1: bring to the table this season. Really pumped to watch
Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you Higgins, everybody, the jellyfish King, It's
Speaker 1: me