WEBVTT - Listen: Henry Anderson (12/3) 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.080 Welcome back to the Official Jezz Podcast powered by Amazon 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.360 Web Services. Ethan Greenberg, Errick Allen, Henry Anderson on the 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.560 pot Thanks for joining us. Appreciate you having me. We 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.159 are are in the best MGM Casino Studio rate US 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.440 review US, New York Chess dot Com YouTube, Apple Podcast. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.279 All right, Henry, we're recording this before Thanksgiving. I just 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.320 wanted to be known. So your Thanksgiving plans entail. Frankie 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.000 Luvu on the grill, y, Yes, So it's gonna be 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.839 not your traditional Thanksgiving meal. We'll still have some some 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.639 of the traditional sides like well sweep pteto cast role, 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.280 weve some mashed potatoes, will have um some of the 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.600 we'll have some pies and stuff for dessert. But instead 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.160 of and well, I think we're gonna have ham as well, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.600 but instead of the turkey, I think we're gonna have 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.760 a little Hawaiian uh Hawaiian barbecue, which is Frankie's specialty. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.200 And have you had any of it before? Yeah? I 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.000 love it. I'm upset. It's like my favorite. It's like 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.360 my favorite dish now like is his. He does these 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.639 chicken thaghs that he marinates in his his secret family 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.960 recipe that he refuses to give me because I've asked 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:14.920 him numerous times for it, but he never gives it 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.399 to me. But yeah, he marinates it overnight and puts 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.479 it on the grill and it's just incredible. It's like, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.000 I don't know Hawaiian barbecue. I don't think he's big 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.759 out out here on the East Coast. I would say 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.920 it's not. Yeah, when I was at Stanford, it's like 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.200 it's really popular out in California and there's a lot 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.679 of restaurants out there that the Hawaiian barbecue restaurants. So um, Anyway, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.400 I'm looking forward to that meal because I haven't had 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.280 his his Hawaiian barbecue and and probably a couple of months. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.520 It's his Hawaiian barbecue recipe trump some of the Hawaiian 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.960 barbecue that you've had. Let's say it's Stanford. It's like 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.200 that good. Yeah it is. It's incredible. And I'm telling you, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.280 I'll try to get this recipe from him so many 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.320 times and he just won't give it to me. It's 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.960 Frankie one of the most well like in the locker 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.400 room and feels that way. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's uh, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.560 he's just the chill dude. Like I feel like any 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.040 a lot of the Polynesian guys that I've played with 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.960 in the league and in college or just kind of 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.200 like the chill, kind of island vibe guys. So they're 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.280 always fun to be around. And uh, yeah, Frankie's Franki's 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.840 an awesome dude. We all love them. I feel like 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.600 I want Frankie if I had a barbecue or like 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.400 a beach barbecue, I want Frankie on the grill and 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.000 Frankie d Jane because I feel like he's yeah, he does, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.359 he does. We had a barbecue. Uh this was like 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:37.560 right after the preseason at Leo's Um and Frankie Like 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.520 I felt bad because Frankie was on the girl for 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.600 like hours, just cooking his trap. I feel like I 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.040 like should have paid him or something, because it was yeah, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.880 I mean yeah, he was like I mean, the girl 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:48.720 was in the middle of where everyone was sitting, but 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.320 like We're all just sitting there crushing food and Frankie's 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.440 like laboring over the girl for hours. I was like 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.359 feel like, yeah, you know, he does, he does. I 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.400 think he likes the fact that we all are like 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.600 obsessed with it because like, it's not just me that 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.040 loves the like everybody that eats it loves to check it. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.880 You just you just mentioned Leonard Williams, so of course 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.560 was traded a few weeks back to the Crosstown Giants. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.600 What's the relationships like with you guys along the defensive line? 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.760 Because you were at the radio show inside the Jets 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.000 across the street of Vanderbilt Sports and spirits inside to 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.560 Windham Hamilton Park with Town Monday nights, you along lock 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.519 it up Steve McClendon, uh, full of Runzo Fatakasi, Nathan 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.640 Shepard and you guys really seemed like a tight group. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.000 Yeah we are we uh, we get along great together. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:41.440 Um obviously, Uh, you know, losing Leo was was tough 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:42.960 because we were all really close with him and he 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.080 was such a good dude. Um. We all still keep 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.840 in touch with them, and like I've been talking to 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.400 some of the other guys on the on the line, 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.160 we all tested him pretty much every week, just checking 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.480 in on seeing how he's doing so. Um, so we 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.400 still keep up with him. But yeah, I mean we 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.320 just we we we hang out together. Um, we all 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.600 get along to other We're all um, I mean we 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.720 a bunch of good dudes up front, Like, no one, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.480 no one's like kind of doing their own thing, like 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.760 not really hanging out with the other guys. So we're 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.360 we're just a tight knit group. Um. We spend a 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.320 lot of time together obviously in the building, and then 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.120 um we'll do some stuff outside the building as well, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.200 and um, yeah, we've all got good relationships and uh 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.720 I think that's that's uh, that's important. What kind of 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.320 activities do you guys do outside the building. I'm sure 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.560 that involves eating. Oh yeah, yeah, well if includes Frankie 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.240 on the grill clearly. Yeah, I mean he's an honorary 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.320 remember the defensive line. I guess. Yeah, obviously eating, we'll 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.160 we'll have some barbecues, Like we'll go out to eat 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.920 at restaurants, and like sometimes if we're we're playing away 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.279 game and we get in uh we get into that 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.600 city earlier, we'll go all, well, we'll go eat together somewhere. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.200 Um this off season, so yeah, I mean most of 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.400 the time it's it's eating related, which doesn't come as 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.360 a surprise this this off season. Like during O t As, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.040 we went paintball together. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.000 That was although actually, no, it wasn't paint It wasn't paintball. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.760 It was like it was like rubber pellets or something that. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:16.560 Uh that, yeah, that it hurt pretty bad. Jordan Jenkins 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.880 snuck up behind me one time and popped me a 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.720 few times, and uh, I had some welts for a 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.760 few days. Who else is good at the rubber pellet ball? 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.600 Who else was good? I was Actually, I'm gonna give 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.040 myself a little crow. I was out there being being 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.680 pretty uh, pretty strategic out that was doing my my 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.279 army crawl. I could definitely see because we just had 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.880 him on the podcast a couple of weeks ago when 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.960 we talked about his military background that's part of his DNA. Yeah, no, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.960 he was. He was good though. He he pulled a 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.400 nice little flank on me at then on one game 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.320 and uh, but yeah, the guns just kept it was 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.320 funny because like it was I forget how many. It 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.839 was like maybe seven on seven, Like we just split 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.240 it up, so seven on seven, and the guns would 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.599 always just keep jamming like they were just they were 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:09.000 not great guns and they would always keep jamming. And uh, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.920 I remember it was like four on one at the 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.479 end of the game on in one game and I 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.160 snuck up flank this dude, I like I'm staring at him. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.400 Like he turns around, he sees me, He's like surprised, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.360 and I try to pop in my gun jams and 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.719 I don't like and then he turns around and like 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:29.240 shoots me three times. I'm like, yeah, that's not right. Um, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:34.520 who's the funniest guy up front? M the funniest dude. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.760 I mean, Quinn is pretty funny. Yeah, Like does he 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.560 try to always funny? Yeah, I think he does, but 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.120 like he's just naturally funny too. I always just laugh 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.599 at like his his accent, his southern his Southern draws 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.359 is always funny to me. Just the way some of 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.520 the words that like, the way he pronounced his words 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.920 is um. I just I don't know, I'm easily amused, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.799 but it's it's pretty funny to me. You know, I'm 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.080 had to know this for a couple of years now, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:06.840 since you got traded um here in Indianapolis, you hurt 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.000 your throat. In the moment that you get hurt, like, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.760 can you physically tell people what's wrong with you? Or 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.880 are you like so much in pain that you're just 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.000 like that was. It was just something where like I 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.720 feel like if somewhere would give you like a quick 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.160 little chop in the throat, you'd be like to kind 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.560 of take you back for a second, and then you'd 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.320 just be back to normal in a couple of minutes. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.560 And that's kind of what it was like for me. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.560 Like I got hit and then I was kind of 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.040 running like the quarterback through it. I turned and run 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.480 to the ball, and I'm like that kind of felt 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.480 weird my throat, and then I was like, it's nothing, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.440 Like I didn't think you could do anything to your 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.480 throat anyway. And then uh yeah, Like that was in 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.120 the first half, and by halftime it was like starting 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.960 to hurt, like drink water and stuff. And then in 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.240 the third quarter, I made a tackle and I got 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.480 up and like screamed, and as I screamed, like my 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.520 voice just cut out in the middle of my scream, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.800 which was weird, and I was like, some might not 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.280 be right, and like it just kept hurting worse and 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.760 worse as I was trying to like drink water on 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.240 the sideline, and I just like I still literally think 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.600 anything of it. I just thought it was maybe swollen 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.800 or whatever, and then uh, after the game, it was 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.760 like bad, like I couldn't do it, like I couldn't 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.720 swallow at all, and uh the doctors were like, yeah, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.440 why don't you come in tomorrow, we'll check it out. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.440 And they didn't seem like too concerned about it and 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.240 got it scanned and ended up being bad. But yeah, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.000 it wasn't wasn't a thing one of those things where 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.600 I like I knew immediately that it was just like 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.200 yeah that it was bad, but looking back at it, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.880 was that because I know a lot of people termed 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:41.080 that potentially career threatening. Was that the case? Uh no, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:46.000 they said, I mean it it's uh no, it wasn't 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.600 career threatening. They said, like if I was there, I 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.120 got kind of lucky because they said it could be 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.719 like life threatening because like obviously the thing that I 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.960 that I fractured, I fractured like cartilage, and the cartilage 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.679 that I fractured protect your windpipe and so once it's fractured, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.640 if it gets hit again, like the cartilage can collapse 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.840 your windpipe and like you can stop breathing. So the 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.400 the doctors were explaining that to me, and I was 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.439 like I got pretty lucky there, um because I played 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.240 like another half on that and luckily didn't get hit 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.400 there again. So um, but yeah, I mean they said 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.040 it happens a lot like in car accidents, like people 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.800 whiplash and like hit their throat on like the steering 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.440 wheel or something. Um, and people can like die because 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.440 like it collapses their windpipe and they can't breathe. So 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.280 have you ever got hitting the throat in the game 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.920 after that? Yeah? Well, I get so paranoid about it too, because, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.600 like I did natural It's like I played ice hockey. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.800 I was a goalie. Anytime I get hit upstairs like 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.040 in the neck area, like okay, what's happening now, I 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.320 feel like my throat is like swallowing closing. As we're 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.199 talking about this, they did say it happens in hot 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.840 he a lot too, with the puck like coming up 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.360 and hitting them, that that injury does happen a lot hockey. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.440 But now, like it'll, I'll hit and practice sometimes and 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.320 like I'll I have to kind of wiggle it around 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.959 and make sure it's okay, and I'll still I think 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.480 I kind of piss our doctors off a little bit 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.520 because I'm always kind of coming up to him like hey, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.360 like is my throat good? And they're like, yeah, you're fine, 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.280 Like quit worrying about it. How does the dude who 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:22.160 grew up in Georgia end up it's Stanford? Yeah. Um, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.400 So I liked Jim Harbaugh was there at the time. Uh, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.240 and he had he was kind of starting to turn 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.480 that program around. They won, like I think one game 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.559 a few years before I committed, Uh, and he was 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.800 slowly starting to turn that program around. The year before 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.960 I committed, they went to a bowl game, and uh, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.960 he was just a good recruiter. Like I liked his 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:48.040 competitive attitude and uh, I really liked what what he 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.440 was doing with with the program. And I think the 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.280 biggest thing, Like the biggest thing too was um, was 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.440 just the education that that Stanford provided. I want to 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.840 private schooling to land and education and was important to me. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.800 So uh, I had some people close to me told 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.439 me that if I turned out a free, full scholarship 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.199 to Stanford, I'd be stupid. So I tried to follow 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.480 that advice. Did Harbaugh actually come into your house during 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.360 the recruitment period. Did he have that opportunity to not 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.040 only talk to you, put impress mom and dead? Yeah, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.640 he did he did he Uh? I remember he had dinner. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.760 Uh yeah, we had dinner together and he had a 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.600 lot of food. I think he had the most food 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.400 out of anybody there. And we had another there was 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.319 another offensive lineman that committed to Stanford with me, who 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.720 was from Atlanta, and he came with his parents. So 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.520 we were all at the dinner table and Hardbay more 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.280 than any of us. Um And then what was this pitch? 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.720 I don't remember, but I remember beating I think it was. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.720 I think it was like a beef tender one if 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.560 I remember correctly. I could be totally wrong there because 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.520 it was probably about ten years ago. But he did 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.240 eat a lot. And then we we went upstairs and 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.800 watched Modern Family for did you really want? But now 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.440 his hard but talk during the episode or does he 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.760 just take it in and smile or is he outwardly laughing? 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:18.040 And how does he take I don't remember since we 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.320 brought up Modern Family now I have so last year, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.600 isn't it? I don't know. But what I do want 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.600 to know is I want to create, Like I want 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.480 to match someone in the locker room to a character 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.199 in Modern Family, So like who's the Phil Dunphy who's 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:38.920 Jay Pritchett, who's um awfully difficulty? Well, go ahead, figure 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.520 who or what's the easiest pairing? How about that? It 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.320 doesn't need to be all of them, but what's the 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.400 most the one that comes to mind most naturally? Who 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.840 would uh Phil dunphye be? I don't know, I don't 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:56.960 Maybe you got any ideas. I don't, I can't think 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.480 of anything. Someone that's uh, I don't know, well tough. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.920 It's such a nice guy. I'm just thinking of someone 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.600 that's like, he's funny, yeah, but kind of like spacey, right, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.679 wouldn't you consider phail kind of spacing? Can you use 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.960 the word dorc and in these these times, I don't know, 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:18.360 I want to be politically correct, okay, yeah, yeah, but 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.800 a little i'd say, Q is like the who's the 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:30.520 little who's the manny? Yeah? Yeah, okay, I see that 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:35.320 that's funny. Uh were you disappointed? You're there a year 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.400 and hard bus is for me to go and they're like, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.160 oh God, thanks for the tenderloin and new coaching staff. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.360 Who's this David Sea? Yeah? It was I guess it 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.839 was something that had been kind of tossed around while 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.120 I was getting recruited it. He was he was like 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.800 a hot coaching prospect and um could potentially leave, so 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.360 uh yeah, I mean after after the after my red 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.800 shirt ear, he did end up leaving, and um, it 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.360 was definitely different because his coach Shaw was kind of 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.520 the polar opposite of Hardball. He's more of a calm, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.640 relaxed dude. He doesn't really show much emotion on the sideline, 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:16.400 and obviously hardball is the total opposite. So, um, but 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.880 now it was good coach Shaw's Coachhaw has done an 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.600 awesome job there. They've they've had a little trouble this year, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.560 but um, but I enjoyed all five of my years there, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.200 and uh, I'm definitely glad with that decision. What about 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.560 your education, why, Polly sigh? He said, Stanford, it was 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.040 important to you to get that education and and not 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.560 turned down and offer. Yea, what did you take from 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.400 classes there and why did you opt to go in 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.920 that direction? Yeah, So my dad, my dad went to Lost, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.440 he did policygh my beds an attorney. He went to 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.480 he went to the University of Wisconsin and he did 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.600 policy and ended up going to law school. So I 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.000 I had I was kind of thinking along those lines, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.160 and uh, well, initially a Stanford I wanted to do 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.120 kind of like the business management agree but I took 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.760 I think one math class and I was like, yeah, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.840 but this, this is gonna be too hard for me, 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.560 because the math and science classes at Stanford are like 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.880 stupid unbelievably hard, and I just didn't have the time 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:19.120 to to like to study and and put in the 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.760 work that I that I needed to do well in 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.160 those classes. So I was like, I gotta do something else. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.160 And so I was pretty good at writing papers and 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.000 that's pretty much all political science is is just reading 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.440 and writing papers. So that's what I ended up doing, 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.240 and uh ended up doing pretty well. And like the 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.800 classes we're interesting too, Like it's it's a lot of 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.520 cool stuff that they cover and in some of those classes. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.480 So yeah, would you what would you ever think of 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.280 pursuing a LITE after this is all? Probably not? Probably not. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.400 I don't know if I want to go through law school, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.760 Like I got some friends that are that are going 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.120 through that right now, and doesn't sound like the most 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.720 the most fun, So I don't think I'm gonna probably 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.040 not going to do that, all right? How about I 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.280 want I wanted to bring up the your off season 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.880 after you hurt your voice, you get traded here, you 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.000 put on weight, you lose weight, you put on weight 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.760 like first of all, and the initial moment where you 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.600 know you have to put on weight again after losing 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.720 all of it. Are you just like like you gotta 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.400 give me a break and like what is your what 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.080 do you do? What was your diet? Yeah, I mean 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.800 it was frustrating because I did. I Like, I spent 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.560 the whole off season from like pretty much the time 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.400 I got hurt, so pretty much from like November through 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:41.680 um let's see April, like just eating Like my mom's 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.960 a pastry chef like I've told you before, and she 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.880 would always have desserts like because I would. I went 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.000 home to Atlanta that offseason I was training Atlanta. It 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.040 would staying with my parents and she always had desserts 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.840 like and I would always have to turn them down 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.120 and like no, I'm like I'm gonna get to this weight, 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.960 Like I want to show the I want to show 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.520 the GM and the coaches that like I'm I'm committed 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.359 to what they want out of me. And uh and 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:10.400 of course is in Indianapolis front YEP so um so, yeah, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:15.320 I was just eating really like just really healthy that 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.640 whole offseason and and I'd have like one cheat meal 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.240 a week, but that was that was pretty much it 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.040 for for the whole off season. And uh so yeah, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.720 it was frustrating just because I spent so much time 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.439 and dedicated myself that whole off season to losing the 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.480 weight and getting to the to a certain way that 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.239 I that I wanted to be at. And then I 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.919 was there for like less than a week during the 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.239 off season program and then they, uh they traded me. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.240 And yeah, I knew once once I got traded and 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.040 the jetstrure three four, which is the old defense that 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.399 we ran in Indy, uh that I would have to 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.240 put the way back on. And I was like, God, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.280 I could I could have. I could have had all 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.000 those desserts that mom was. I know. So I just 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.800 went back home in June and got it. I know 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.400 that's what I should. I did go on a One 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.880 of the things that did help me is I went 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.159 after so I got traded, here went through all O 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.120 t A s and mini camp, and after mini camp, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.879 I went a week to like an all inclusive resort 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.480 and just crushed food so that that got my weight 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.320 up a little bit um. But yeah, for me, it's 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.679 like it's hard for me to keep my weight up 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.679 to begin with, Like I have to eat just constantly 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.800 to keep my weight up. So I knew if I 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.840 had add weight instead of just like maintained, it was 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:35.080 gonna be be really hard. So yeah, I was my 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.320 My coach are always my Delone coach would always joking 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:38.800 me during O t s because I'd be out there 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.480 like puking during like O t A s aren't that 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.240 hard like here in helmets and jerseys, like you're not 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.119 in full pads or anything, and I'm out there puking 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.320 going through like pretty simple drills and he's like, you 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.199 had drinking last night, Like no, I'm just trying to 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.120 crush like a big huge meal before I come out here, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:19:00.080 Like my stomachs just like engorged with food. So I 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.960 was just always like I was just always having to eat, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.800 and it was it was not fun. There's gonna be 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.840 a lot of people jealous of you when you say 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.600 that I have to eat just to keep my weight up. Yeah, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.280 I mean, I just gotta That's gotta be the case 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.240 even now during the regular season, though you're so active. Yeah, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.000 and it's it's it was hard then and it's still 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.440 hard now because I'm trying to eat like clean food 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.359 and when you're eating grilled chicken and like brown rice 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.679 and veggies, if you need to get the calories like 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.760 necessary to to like keep your weight up, like you 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.600 have to eat a ton of that or just constantly 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.840 be eating like different, like smaller meals throughout the day, 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.680 which is harder to do during the season. But yeah, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:42.360 So I tried to do that for a little bit, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.320 and then I was like this, I can't eat enough 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:48.040 of this healthy food. So I kind of relax my 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.119 diet restrictions a little bit to healthy food. What is 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.320 your last meal a day? Typically, like in season, it's 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.680 I just have like a I have a protein shake 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.080 before bed, like nine o'clock, town of class football. The 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.560 usually a pretty big dinner and then protein shape. Does 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.960 it almost feel like a chore to eat that much? Yeah? Yeah, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:12.400 I mean because again it's I'm like, oh, if I'm 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.760 out at a steakhouse or something, I can just I 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.480 can eat a ton. But if I'm eating healthier food, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.679 I don't really like I don't love eating girl chicken 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.360 fish or so you're a young dude still six ft six. 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:29.320 How much do you win? It's to eighty five? What 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.480 do you think you're walking around? Wait, would be if 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.159 you didn't have to force it, probably to fifty or 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:41.080 less than that, probably like to fifty five. Yeah, you 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:47.480 know what fascinates me about you is you participated in 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.159