WEBVTT - Hangin' with the Boys: Malik Hooker Interview 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.160 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:16.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys flowing out of 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:21.080 the backfield, Nick's flowing down the sidelines. He's hanging with 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:26.080 the boys. Presented by wing Stuff where Flavor gets its wings. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:31.240 Now your hosts Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, Jesse Holly, and 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:39.760 Shannon Gross Thursday Live look at Tostito's Christmas Championship plows 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.200 outside Forward Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, where 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.840 it is thirty four degrees. It feels like twenty three. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.159 The wind is kicking today. If you haven't been out there, 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.599 Hi is thirty nine low Tonite will be twenty three. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:59.600 And here we are Kurt Daniels, Sir Jesse Holly, Nate 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:05.600 new newly elected to the Black Football College Hall of Fame, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.000 Black and Black Black Black Baby, He'll smiling, needs a cookie, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.400 needs a cookie, needs to get going, man. I owe up. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.520 I've done two shows and kind of bombed on him, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.360 and now I'm trying to do a read for Doug 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.560 and I'm struggling. Man, why are you struggling? I'm so 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.679 excited just about just being happy. I'm I need to 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.480 calm down. I'm to calm down. Well, don't calm down 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.200 till after the show, because we need you hype for 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.440 the show. Yeah, because we have a big time interview 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.880 in this. In this we do second segment. Danny McCrae, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.200 Malik Hooker, Oh, Catherine was Danny. That was last night 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:41.840 name Yeah it was. That was a good show with 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.480 him shirtless. We tried, We tried, man even waving. His 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.440 wife was on our side trying to get him shirt 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.480 didn't say. We did say butt naked and afraid about 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.280 eight times doing the show last night. Did we say that? 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.640 Or we did? Me and they both said it? Yeah, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.680 so quick funny story. I don't know if d anyone 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.280 to tell the story, but I'm gonna tell. I don't 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.640 know if story. Just say, y'all are homeboys. Yeah, y'all 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:08.440 We were cool, were cool. Bring the receipts too, receipt 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:13.200 It was. It was funny because we were at his 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.160 viewing like that when it when the show first started, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.720 they had a two hour premiere, right, so we were 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.880 all over it. When were we at shark club Shark club, Yeah, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.160 he had a watch party for invited everybody out, so 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.799 we were all over over there, and we were having 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.720 a great time and it's over and it's a couple 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:33.280 of us still kind of uh mingling around and hanging around. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:39.400 And so the way Danny had his hair styled was 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.560 similar to the way that I had my hair styled. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.160 It both was kind of like, you know, we both 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.800 have lots, but we both had him twisted up and 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.639 we both wore him. We were wearing him in a ponytail. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.560 And so I'm standing there at this table. I'm about 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.400 to leave, so I'm, you know, I'm cashing out my 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.239 bill for food and stuff like that, and all of 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.360 a sudden, I feel this soft touch, like run down 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:06.959 like my back, and it goes, honey, what are you buying? Honey? 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.320 What more are you buying? And I thought to myself, 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.440 who is this good? Right, I'm cashing out just in 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.320 and as I and I do it, and know if 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.760 anybody just kind of runs down your back, this is 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:24.720 this warm outside. So I have a T shirt on 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.160 and I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you know what, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.280 you know what woman's touch right? And I turned around 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.680 and it's Danny's wife and she thinks from the back, yeah, 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.920 that I'm Danny. And it was like, she was like, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.680 I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I thought you 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.200 were Danny, and I like I understood it. We both 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.120 had white T shirts on, we both had you know, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.440 our hair was in the same style, but her face 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.040 looked like her face when I turned around, and I 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.840 was just like My response to her was like, you 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.640 kind of wish Danny was this tall, right, And she 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.480 laughed and she laughed, but but it was just it 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.960 was just so funny because you know, at that time, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.680 everybody kind of had a few not me, but everybody 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.240 kind of had a few few adults feel adults, beverages 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.400 and if you ever been in the shy club, the light, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.120 it's not like in the studio. It was a dim situation. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.480 So yeah, so that was funny. The look on her 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.600 face when I turned around was like, oh my god, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.840 I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. How many different ways 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.960 can you wear your hair with dreads like that? Um, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.080 put in a ponytail, you can let it down, you 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.600 can style it up, I can get I can get 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:42.159 it braided. Okay, Um, you ever done that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.440 you're wearing a hat again. By the way, today, I 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:51.720 know it's never ever because this covers up the rest 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.159 of my face, and you can't decipher, you know, what 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.480 I look like, what I'm not? Can doing it any style? 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.080 I kind of wanted. I just didn't know. I'm growing 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:00.880 my hair out, but it's not near the league. How 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:05.880 long you been growing your hair? About twelve? Thirteen? Wow, Nate, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:12.240 how long you been growing your hair? Sixty? Don't even 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.200 know what that means even a little minute. Thro but bad, Kurt. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.719 I don't have you been growing you hair? Oh? Wow, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.560 you just gotta cut. Yeah, you gotta cut earlier this week. Yeah, 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.680 we're looking good. Yeah, you know, new year, new Kurt. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.960 I like it. I'll cut your beard off. I don't 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:35.640 think ever. I'm honestly, I'm kind of scared because I've 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.039 had it for probably eight years now, the beard, and 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.839 I know there's some lines on this face that weren't 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.240 there when I didn't have it. Well, you like, will 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.039 you at least cut it down to like maybe you know, 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.640 maybe not? Maybe maybe it's not obnoxious. I need to 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.440 see a picture of you eight years ago. I don't 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.240 like his profile picture on emails and stuff is like 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.159 from twenty years ago or whatever. Ten twelve, Pull it up, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.520 put it up, Chris and throw it out there. Pull 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.240 it up, Chris and throw it out there. Yeah, I'll 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.359 show it to you in the break. So no, Chris, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.800 throw it out that to the world. Chris. You do 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.560 Jesse and we gotta do him. Fine, I'll send I'll 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.720 send you one, Chris. You can shood what I look 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.840 like without a beard. I'll find one on my phone 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.760 here and he's gonna find what he actually likes sending 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.360 it on your credential. No, they changed. They updated this 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.359 year finally, like it took him ten eleven years to 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.440 update it and then finally did it. So I don't 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.520 look anything like I do with with the beard without 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.160 So all your crimes, you keep your beard for all 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.880 your crimes. You can know what messed up my mind 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:40.880 is I thought about that. I was like, the first 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.960 thing I would do if I ever was wanted by 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.920 the FBI or something. The beard comes off. Yeah, like 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.960 immediately the beard comes on, be like what did you do? 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.560 What did you do? And now I got a kid 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.880 that if I cut it, he's not gonna have any 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.720 idea who I am. You'll see those videos on the 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.080 internet where guys cut their beards and the kids are 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.960 like just busting tears, Like I did that to my 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.599 dad one time. You know he you know, he he 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.840 came late one night because he delivered newspapers or regional 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.880 calvert these newspaper routes and here's what's that song? Get up? 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.560 It needs you real quick. And need helped me load 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.800 up the card of the vehicle. I got these papers 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.120 to run. You know, one of my workers, you know, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.920 missed a right down get there you yes, me run 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.440 out there, man, and we're throwing the cars and he 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:34.760 talking banging up like who so you go right? If 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.080 you go for his voice, I would not have known. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.440 I would not. I said, Dad, what happened? So I 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.800 shaved him and he but he said, you know the 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.840 old school dad didn't care like you you adjusted keep 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.480 throwing these papers. But I'm like, wow, he shook me. Man. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.520 Did y'all uh happen to watch the MAVs game last night? 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.440 You know they had the big ceremony for Dirk and 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.640 they had a lot of a list celebrities courtside. Did 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.080 you yeah? Somebody son of something. I was scared to 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.560 send it out because I didn't want to get talked 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.880 about it happened to see who was courtside without masks on. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.440 I did, and then the news came out today that 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.360 is it tiring? And Anthony Brown? Did I see Anthony 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.800 Brown on the list as well, So still got a 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:19.680 little COVID mini outbreak going on. And nah, but shut up, Jesse, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.640 shut up, Jesse. Don't say nothing. Don't talk like that. Jesse. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.680 No one told you shut up yesterday. That was I 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.840 just said. He just had opinions. He just wanted to live. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.080 He just wants you know what a Mari and City 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.439 were just living last night. Now. Yeah, and when when 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.280 I saw that and it came from I said, you 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.440 know what, if I tweet this over to you or 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.200 to somebody, then I'm gonna get sold out to the 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.520 next day, so I let it cold. And here's an 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.600 interesting thing. And I wasn't there, so I can't confirm this. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.520 But a lot of people who were there, who I 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.599 trusted what they say, said they didn't even stay for 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.760 the Jersey ceremony. They left after the game. They just 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.560 went to the game. They just went to the game. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.240 Maybe they went to see Steph yeah, maybe, but they 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:07.400 left after the game was over. So what like they 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.559 were there because Dirk was, you know, and I'm I 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.080 don't want to. I don't want to spend a whole 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.160 segment on COVID talk because I mean, it is what 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.800 it is. I don't really know how I feel about it, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.600 because if I'm part of me is like, Nate, just live, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.200 then just go. But then part of me's like, hey, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.960 you kind of have an obligation as a teammate and 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.800 being on this team to take care of your body. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.280 Take care of yourself, no matter what that means, take 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.480 care of you, your brother, take care of your teammate. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.440 Part of that is it's playoff time and maybe they'll 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.440 lock this thing down after this week and they started, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.600 but that's too that's too late for you, right because 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.760 things like we are today's Thursday, Yeah, okay, all day, 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.360 all day Thursday, and this thing takes sometimes three or 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.120 four days to be positive and then you're and then 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.360 you got five days after that, so then you're gonna 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.960 be short winded for seven days. You're gonna be short 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.559 you're gonna be out, You're not gonna be practicing, because 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.760 the game plan will change. Whoever we're playing, whether it's 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.240 the Rams or it's the Cardinals, your game plan changes you. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.400 The focus gets more lasered in when it comes to 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.720 the playoff because you have nothing at times, when you 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.160 have a seventeen week season, what you end up doing 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.960 at times is you divide your staff. You'll have some 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.680 of your staff as the week goes on start preparing 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.560 for next week, while the rest of your staff are 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.280 preparing to finish out this week. In the playoffs, you 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:44.000 locked in at all hands on deck on this opponent, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.320 start breaking down of the next opponent. We need, we 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:56.800 need every stone unturned. We we if we need you watching, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.679 you watching, you, watching me watching, so we could if 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.360 we could find one thing that is a determining factor 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.880 in the game, we're gonna use it. Yes, And Amari 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.360 had COVID five weeks ago, right, Yes, he missed, he 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.240 missed the Las Vegas game, so he doesn't so he 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.400 doesn't have to test anymore. Right, And then how it works, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.080 you don't test any No, I think he's n't vaccinated, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.600 so he has he would have to test, still has 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:27.199 to test. Fellas I said to yesterday, and I said again, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.200 you either lock it down universal it's team by team, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.520 deal by deal, and that's just how it's gonna be. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.800 And Mike McCarthy cannot be No, the Cowboys do it right, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:46.880 The Corgnals, don't you rick, the Aptimals don't could catch 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:52.440 a wait a minute, hang on til this man can't 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:57.600 stop for two the last two years. Cannot stop himself 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.760 from saying the R word every time it comes out 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.960 of his mouth. He never calls them the football team. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.040 And we mentioned their new name one time and he 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:13.000 catches himself mid sentence, the admiral, you know what? You 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.280 know what? That tells me? Your whole bit. It's a bit. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.720 You can pronounce every name in the book. You don't 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.400 forget things, your whole. You just proved that you're whole. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.440 He called it to The Crosby Show three different times. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.920 It's a bit, Nate, if you could do what you 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.480 just did your whole this whole stick you've done for 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.880 four years on our show is a bit. I think 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.199 it comes and goes. No, this is the thing it's like, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:49.760 and I'm serious about this, Kurt Jesse Shannon, he remembered, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:55.160 you cannot do it team by team. You cannot do 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.960 COVID state by state. It has to be a universal thing, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:07.480 corporate independent, free living. It has to be all a nothing. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.280 That's the only way this will work. Canada has proved 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.520 that it's all a nothing. If you do anything else, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.720 one week we'll have this up. Two weeks from now 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.199 we won't. It's either all or nothing. That's why I 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.960 see you might as well live. That is the god 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.199 on the truth. No matter what you say, we sat 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.520 right here and agreed collectively. Hey man, the Cowboys players 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.640 need to do it better. Last night we get a 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.280 text around about seven o'clock. Guess who's at the game. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.920 It's either all or nothing. That's that's the only way 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.400 it's gonna work. Australia's got to figure it out. By 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.840 the way, who that Australia. Yeah, they're not letting the 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:56.840 number one tennis player World Tennis match because it's unvaccinated. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.120 Do you think it's causing any kind of rift in 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.280 the room because I think Dak had said, you know, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.360 I'm not going to games like this during the season, 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.599 you know. Do you think other guys are starting to say, hey, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.000 you know, come on, they need to. I think this 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.280 time of year they need to is either all or nothing. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.560 Fellas I'm telling you, when you when when we say 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.719 we have the right to do what we want as 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.840 a human being, we have the right if it was us, 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.000 if it was our team, And when I played U 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.480 go to go to a Marverige game, Troy, when Troy Aigman, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.920 and if Troy didn't speak to you, Mike definitely gonna 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.880 stop speaking to you. The next thing, you know, everybody 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.880 looking at you. It's fifty some guys saying wow, really, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.920 And we would lock our families now, we would do 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.920 whatever it take because it means that much. But you 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:49.000 cannot ask young people but who who you've given them options. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:56.360 Here's my thing is that we've seen players, for the 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:02.920 most part, be locked down every single year. You go 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.080 to training camp, you are locked down, Yes you are. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.120 You are locked down. When you go to training camp, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:14.920 you leave your families for literally three weeks, for literally 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:26.440 almost a month, personnel training, equipment. Uh, everybody leave your family. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:32.600 So we make this thing out to be something you know, Oh, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.160 I was in there, I was in there. I was 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.200 in the the the post office yesterday mailing something off. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.320 And this lady comes in with no mask on. They 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.520 politely tell her, you know, hey, can't come in here 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.400 federal building. She screams, well, it's my right and so 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.560 ladies kindly goes, well, it's our right to kick you out, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.280 and like she left huffing and puffing, and the lady's like, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.960 does she think I care that that that that's happened, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.520 Like she needs the stuff mail, not me, So she'll 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:09.080 get a mask or she won't. And when I look 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:15.480 at this situation, it's you're serious about winning this whole thing, 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:22.840 or you're not, or you're not. Like And I'm not 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:27.680 saying that that people can't live, Nate. I'm not saying 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.520 that you can't live your life. I'm saying I'm saying 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.480 that there are moments where there is a little bit 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:41.080 more sacrifice that needs to be committed for the greater 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:47.680 cause you don't get there are players. See, Nate, you're fortunate, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.280 you're you're fortunate in your life to know and experience 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.720 what it feels like to win the big one, not once, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.520 not twice, three times. Wow, that's great, Thank you, Jess. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:07.520 And I'm pretty sure there was a moment in time 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.560 in that locker room, maybe your mind, where it just 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.919 became almost a normality. Hey guys, listen, we're gonna we're 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.520 gonna win another one. Let's go out there and it 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.520 became what we strive for. It became just this what 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.840 we do. 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I haven't no, no, no, Malik, okay, yeah, 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:11.880 the way you talked about to receive, well, you shouldn't 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:13.800 know him. No, I don't know him either, to be 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.560 honest with you, but he was. He actually I thought 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.000 it was a really good interview. Was awkward because me 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:21.960 and Kurt are standing in front of his video board. 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.160 And then it was even more awkward when I forgot 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.800 mid interview that he actually joined the team in training camp. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.959 I heard about that and wasn't here in the off season, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.440 so there was an awkward moment with me, and then 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.159 Kurt like wouldn't let us get out on time. So 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.199 here's the interview. Watch it, Enjoy it, Nate Jesse, go 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.560 get a snack because it's about eighteen minutes long, and 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.320 we'll be back for the third ex Hanging with the Boys. Kurt, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:49.359 all right, welcome to the wing Stop Flavor feature of 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:51.480 the show. If you all know, Hanging with the Boys 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.959 as sponsored by our great friends at wing Stop. And 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.160 due to COVID protocols, we're not able to have guys 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.560 in the studio. But we are in studio and we 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.240 have on the monitor behind us it is Kurt Daniels 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.919 over here. I'm Shandy Gross and we have right here 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.440 in the middle, Malik Hooker. Malik, welcome to the show. Man. 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.919 How have you been. I'm doing great. I thank you 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.399 guys for having me on the show. Absolutely, man, glad 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.520 you glad you're here. Glad you're joining us. What what 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.680 is the mentality like going into this last game, gearing 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.679 up for the playoffs? It is it business as usual 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.120 for you guys? Is there a little more intensity this week? 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.280 Walk us through kind of preparation and what you guys 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.760 are getting ready for against the Eagles on Sunday on Saturday? 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.040 All right, it's still is still you know, the show's 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.120 still going. You know, even though we took a tough 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.320 loss last week, that can't get us off of what 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:43.040 we want to get a complace throughout the end of 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.280 the season. So I mean, we're still here and we're 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:47.679 still treating as if it was week one or you know, 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:49.959 as you know, the last game of the season. So 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.119 it ain't really make no difference for us. We know, 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:53.520 we still got to go out there and do our 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.520 job to make a statement going into the playoffs. What 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:59.520 was it? I gotta ask, man, you finally got that interception? 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.639 Man if I gotta pick there, What was that like 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:03.560 for you? Kind of getting getting that off off your 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.280 shoulders there? Oh, it was special, man. It was just 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.360 that was just rehabbing and all that stuff that I've 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.520 been through this offseason and you know, just the training 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.200 and the work that I put in and get myself 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:17.520