May 17, 2021 • 9 mins
Welcome to Getting Real with Grady Jarrett, a podcast in which Atlanta Falcons DL Grady Jarrett and co-host Kelsey Conway “get real” on anything from football, lifestyle, and beyond. This week we’ll take a look back at a few of our favorite moments with Ray Lewis, Dabo Swinney, Elisha Jarrett and Dansby Swanson. Be sure to check out the individual Getting Real with Grady Jarrett episode for each special guest.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast, where
me and my co host you might know him. His
name's Grady Jarrett, the Falcon Start offensive tackle, talk about
a number of different topics, starting with what he's doing
off the field, to interviews with guests like Hall of
Fame linebacker Ray Lewis, Clemson head coach Dabo Sweeney, Grady's
(00:26):
Wonderful Mom, Alicia Jarrett, and Brave Shortstop Dance by Swanson.
So let's take a look back at the first four
episodes of the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast. So
let's kick it off with our first guest, the Hall
of Fame linebacker that is Ray Lewis. How did you
come up with the iconic squirrel dance intro that she did?
(00:49):
And how did you pick the Hotten hair song to
go with it? And yeah, if you could just go
into detail on how that whole thing came about. First
of all, thank you, um, and then it was I'm
gonna do I'm gonna do a really quick right because
there was a military veteran, um retired military veteran NA
Kirby Lee, who lived in our hometown and he had
(01:10):
some he has some mental issues, and so he took
he took a liking to me in high school. And
he's he's always just every time I came home, he's
to always dance. He used to always do something. He's
to always have a song. He's always have something for me.
And if you see on his arm and on his chest,
on his back, he got me tattooed, like all over him, right,
(01:31):
And so I'm like, so I saw to helping him out.
I saw to get him houses and clothes and just
different stuff. I just really wanted to help him out.
And one day I came home and there was this
famous song uh in Temple calls the squirrel, right, So
he's go, let me see you squirrel, let me see it.
So and it was all type of dances that you
(01:53):
could do with it, like all type of dances like
me and South used to do it in the locker room,
like just messing with you should just play with it.
And so one time I'm home, one time I'm home,
and uh, he showed me. He showed me his version
of it, right, And I was like, I was like, herb,
who does this girl like that? And I said, I'm
(02:13):
gonna do that. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do
that on TV. And he was like, no, you're not, No,
you're not. Said I guarantee you'll do it on TV.
The next week, I went, I went into the I
went into the meeting. I said, Marvel, Marvin Lewis might
be discording at the time. I said, Marvin, when I
when I'm introduced, I'm gonna do something when I come out.
You're cool with that? He was like, I'm good. I
(02:35):
came out of the tunnel and I'm telling you I
was the last one call and I came out of
that tunnel and this is when it was like no
music at first, and I hit that thing for the
first time and the crowd lost their mind. And I'm
telling you, Jay, I'm telling you Twitter was broke before Twitter.
(02:57):
It was even out O. That was crazy for emails. Oh,
he has to dance every week. And as I talked
about in that episode, I had to ask Ray Lewis
the question of how he came up with that iconic
squirrel intro dance, and his explanation was even better than
(03:18):
I thought it was. So let's get to our second episode.
That was with Davo Sweeney, who recruited Greedy to Clemson,
who's a very important person in Greedy's life, and let's
see what he has to say about how he found Greedy.
And I'm like, well, let me go check him out.
And he's like, I know, we probably don't. He goes,
I know, we probably don't have a spot for him,
and and our decorder at the time, you know, we
(03:39):
were we definitely we were looking for just a different
body type and U and I. But I remember coming
over there and I think he had just a white
T shirt on, you know, and he just had just
an old T shirt. And I started watching him, so
we're doing when we got to the OLDO and he
(04:00):
was he was undersized. But I'm just telling you. I
sat there and even to this day, I hadn't seen
anybody at our camp like that. And I watched him
the whole session, and I mean absolutely dominate and destroy.
I mean I felt sorry for them kids that was
(04:20):
out there. And and not only would he win his rep,
he wouldn't go wait in line, you know, because sometimes
guys are bashed on in those situations, and that's small things.
I always look at, you know, you kind of see
like you know, and sometimes and guys they'll start, they'll
start counting the line like, yeah, he's going, and they
want to go against the right guy. You know, Grady
(04:40):
didn't care. Yeah, Grady would get back. He just go
cut right back in line because he was maximizing his
time and he and he knew he had limited time.
And I mean he just went. He just kept going
and kept going. And I'm just watching this kid. And
he had a look in his eye that, uh, you know,
you don't see all offen. You know, he had. The
(05:00):
look in his eye was a look of purpose, a
man on a mission. And so I watched this whole
thing and when it's over, I went over Dan Rooks.
I said, good Lorrd. I was like, tell me a
little bit more about this guy now. Listening to the
way Davo talked about just how much of an impact
(05:21):
Grady has made at Clemson was incredible. But I think
the third episode might have been my favorite because listening
to these stories from Alicia Jarrett about how Grady was
as a kid, it's pretty priceless. He's always been a
competitor and he's always been very resilient. But with that resilience, see,
(05:46):
he's also been very empathetic at the same time. And
it's it's rare that you find somebody so competitive at
a young age and still very empathetic. And that's that's
that's that's definitely Jared. He's a humble person. Give him
a little example, maybe what you mean, but so, yeah,
(06:08):
I can give an example. So he wants me to
give an example, I can give you a couple. Okay,
So we'll start off at the at the parks early
early on um I think it was just maybe his
second year playing UM Warner Roberts football, and he, uh,
(06:30):
he was a big guy, so he would they called
him truck. And they called him truck for a reason
because he would truck down the players. I mean, he
was just he put him on the ground and but
then he turned around and he looked and they need
to go back, and he picked him up, and you know,
coach was like, Okay, your job is to put him
(06:50):
on the ground. You don't have to pick him up.
But he did that, and he did that often. You know,
he wanted to make sure that he was doing his job,
but that he was also not hurting, you know, really
hurt somebody too, sou But another example of this competitive competitiveness.
He um, he's he's broken one of my TVs. He
since replaced them. But I knew that, I knew that
(07:15):
first story was coming. I don't know you're about to well.
Listening to Alicia talk about her relationship with first son
sure was special to hear it. And for our fourth episode,
we decided to go across Atlanta sports teams and interview
Brave shortstop Dan Responson, who shares a similar story to
(07:38):
Grady as they both grew up in Atlanta and now
are the faces of their hometown teams. Just as like
a competitor, you know, obviously being the best of the
best of what you do, being you know, top pick
um growing up or as a professional to this day,
even like what do you find as your biggest motivation
(08:01):
to continue to get better and be better? Or um,
you know, when you when you look back and reflecting
your path, like what was the thing that pushed you
to be? Like, look, I'm gonna be the best I
could be and you know it got you where it
got you. I think you correlates this when you're when
you're a competitor and you care and you want to win,
(08:24):
Like there isn't really anything else that you need, because
how I was raised was to always like do my
best and to be the best that I could be
and anything that it was like. Well, we hope you
enjoyed those clips of our first four episodes. We've got
a whole lot more coming for you on Getting Real
(08:46):
with Grady Jarrett podcast. So if you want to like us,
subscribe and rate and review us, we will be back
for more Getting Real with the Grade Jared Podcast. In
time THETTANT, they began to play night Time and the
other
Welcome to the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast, where
me and my co host you might know him. His
name's Grady Jarrett, the Falcon Start offensive tackle, talk about
a number of different topics, starting with what he's doing
off the field, to interviews with guests like Hall of
Fame linebacker Ray Lewis, Clemson head coach Dabo Sweeney, Grady's
(00:26):
Wonderful Mom, Alicia Jarrett, and Brave Shortstop Dance by Swanson.
So let's take a look back at the first four
episodes of the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast. So
let's kick it off with our first guest, the Hall
of Fame linebacker that is Ray Lewis. How did you
come up with the iconic squirrel dance intro that she did?
(00:49):
And how did you pick the Hotten hair song to
go with it? And yeah, if you could just go
into detail on how that whole thing came about. First
of all, thank you, um, and then it was I'm
gonna do I'm gonna do a really quick right because
there was a military veteran, um retired military veteran NA
Kirby Lee, who lived in our hometown and he had
(01:10):
some he has some mental issues, and so he took
he took a liking to me in high school. And
he's he's always just every time I came home, he's
to always dance. He used to always do something. He's
to always have a song. He's always have something for me.
And if you see on his arm and on his chest,
on his back, he got me tattooed, like all over him, right,
(01:31):
And so I'm like, so I saw to helping him out.
I saw to get him houses and clothes and just
different stuff. I just really wanted to help him out.
And one day I came home and there was this
famous song uh in Temple calls the squirrel, right, So
he's go, let me see you squirrel, let me see it.
So and it was all type of dances that you
(01:53):
could do with it, like all type of dances like
me and South used to do it in the locker room,
like just messing with you should just play with it.
And so one time I'm home, one time I'm home,
and uh, he showed me. He showed me his version
of it, right, And I was like, I was like, herb,
who does this girl like that? And I said, I'm
(02:13):
gonna do that. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do
that on TV. And he was like, no, you're not, No,
you're not. Said I guarantee you'll do it on TV.
The next week, I went, I went into the I
went into the meeting. I said, Marvel, Marvin Lewis might
be discording at the time. I said, Marvin, when I
when I'm introduced, I'm gonna do something when I come out.
You're cool with that? He was like, I'm good. I
(02:35):
came out of the tunnel and I'm telling you I
was the last one call and I came out of
that tunnel and this is when it was like no
music at first, and I hit that thing for the
first time and the crowd lost their mind. And I'm
telling you, Jay, I'm telling you Twitter was broke before Twitter.
(02:57):
It was even out O. That was crazy for emails. Oh,
he has to dance every week. And as I talked
about in that episode, I had to ask Ray Lewis
the question of how he came up with that iconic
squirrel intro dance, and his explanation was even better than
(03:18):
I thought it was. So let's get to our second episode.
That was with Davo Sweeney, who recruited Greedy to Clemson,
who's a very important person in Greedy's life, and let's
see what he has to say about how he found Greedy.
And I'm like, well, let me go check him out.
And he's like, I know, we probably don't. He goes,
I know, we probably don't have a spot for him,
and and our decorder at the time, you know, we
(03:39):
were we definitely we were looking for just a different
body type and U and I. But I remember coming
over there and I think he had just a white
T shirt on, you know, and he just had just
an old T shirt. And I started watching him, so
we're doing when we got to the OLDO and he
(04:00):
was he was undersized. But I'm just telling you. I
sat there and even to this day, I hadn't seen
anybody at our camp like that. And I watched him
the whole session, and I mean absolutely dominate and destroy.
I mean I felt sorry for them kids that was
(04:20):
out there. And and not only would he win his rep,
he wouldn't go wait in line, you know, because sometimes
guys are bashed on in those situations, and that's small things.
I always look at, you know, you kind of see
like you know, and sometimes and guys they'll start, they'll
start counting the line like, yeah, he's going, and they
want to go against the right guy. You know, Grady
(04:40):
didn't care. Yeah, Grady would get back. He just go
cut right back in line because he was maximizing his
time and he and he knew he had limited time.
And I mean he just went. He just kept going
and kept going. And I'm just watching this kid. And
he had a look in his eye that, uh, you know,
you don't see all offen. You know, he had. The
(05:00):
look in his eye was a look of purpose, a
man on a mission. And so I watched this whole
thing and when it's over, I went over Dan Rooks.
I said, good Lorrd. I was like, tell me a
little bit more about this guy now. Listening to the
way Davo talked about just how much of an impact
(05:21):
Grady has made at Clemson was incredible. But I think
the third episode might have been my favorite because listening
to these stories from Alicia Jarrett about how Grady was
as a kid, it's pretty priceless. He's always been a
competitor and he's always been very resilient. But with that resilience, see,
(05:46):
he's also been very empathetic at the same time. And
it's it's rare that you find somebody so competitive at
a young age and still very empathetic. And that's that's
that's that's definitely Jared. He's a humble person. Give him
a little example, maybe what you mean, but so, yeah,
(06:08):
I can give an example. So he wants me to
give an example, I can give you a couple. Okay,
So we'll start off at the at the parks early
early on um I think it was just maybe his
second year playing UM Warner Roberts football, and he, uh,
(06:30):
he was a big guy, so he would they called
him truck. And they called him truck for a reason
because he would truck down the players. I mean, he
was just he put him on the ground and but
then he turned around and he looked and they need
to go back, and he picked him up, and you know,
coach was like, Okay, your job is to put him
(06:50):
on the ground. You don't have to pick him up.
But he did that, and he did that often. You know,
he wanted to make sure that he was doing his job,
but that he was also not hurting, you know, really
hurt somebody too, sou But another example of this competitive competitiveness.
He um, he's he's broken one of my TVs. He
since replaced them. But I knew that, I knew that
(07:15):
first story was coming. I don't know you're about to well.
Listening to Alicia talk about her relationship with first son
sure was special to hear it. And for our fourth episode,
we decided to go across Atlanta sports teams and interview
Brave shortstop Dan Responson, who shares a similar story to
(07:38):
Grady as they both grew up in Atlanta and now
are the faces of their hometown teams. Just as like
a competitor, you know, obviously being the best of the
best of what you do, being you know, top pick
um growing up or as a professional to this day,
even like what do you find as your biggest motivation
(08:01):
to continue to get better and be better? Or um,
you know, when you when you look back and reflecting
your path, like what was the thing that pushed you
to be? Like, look, I'm gonna be the best I
could be and you know it got you where it
got you. I think you correlates this when you're when
you're a competitor and you care and you want to win,
(08:24):
Like there isn't really anything else that you need, because
how I was raised was to always like do my
best and to be the best that I could be
and anything that it was like. Well, we hope you
enjoyed those clips of our first four episodes. We've got
a whole lot more coming for you on Getting Real
(08:46):
with Grady Jarrett podcast. So if you want to like us,
subscribe and rate and review us, we will be back
for more Getting Real with the Grade Jared Podcast. In
time THETTANT, they began to play night Time and the
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