October 23, 2024 • 54 mins
"Stew and the Crew" is hosted by Jonathan Stewart, the Carolina Panthers' all-time leading rusher, and Jeremy Kelley, Director of Legends Affairs. Together, they invite legendary guests to delve into the intricacies of the game and life after football. Panther legend, Tre Boston, joins the guys to discuss his time in Carolina, the TV show he hosts with his wife, his relationship with his mother and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With the thirteenth pick in the two thousand and eight
NFL traft Carol Lnon half the select.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jonathan Stewart gives to Stewart.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
He leaves touched up.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Stewart oh rough tough right, angry man out at all
those knees.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Sewart hesitates, accelerates. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's the spash moll football.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Let Stuart cant running round.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Stuart jump over a tackler at the tenth flows jumping
Laura's his shoulder, keeps running. No one will touch him.
Jonathan Stewart house, is it you talk about explosive plays
in the run game.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It's like the fourth of July around here right now.
You are listening to Stu and the crew.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Now to Jonathan Stewart's and Jeremy Kelly. All right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We welcome to Stu and the crew. Got Jeremy Kelly here,
got Trey Boston here.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Man, it's good to see you fellows.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good seeing my guys. What's up babies? One and only
Trade day, fourth round pick fourteen. Read Now you want
me to go for Tobio for you? You deserve it.
You deserve it. There, there we go, straight out of
the University of North Carolina, drafted in the fourth round.
But the Carolina Panthers, Oh, we got a drum roll,
seven year NFL VET Trey Boston.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Let's go, my man. Good to have you in the building. Man, Yeah, Man,
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I was every day I got to see yesterday too,
So we appreciate you, my man. You know what, I'm
gonna go right to that, because yesterday was was special
about the good very young man. So our legends stay
active in the community very much. So a lot of
stuff that that we don't publicize just because there's not
enough bandwidth when you talk about social graphics and social
(01:42):
capacity on Instagram, LinkedIn all these other things, you know, Twitter,
But you guys are very very active for us, and
we appreciate that. I mean, I think this year alone,
we're already creeping up on one hundred and fifty different appearances,
not all community related, some are internal business, et cetera,
but for the majority probably community related.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
But yesterday was a special one.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We partnered up with Atrium obviously as our well known
partners are our main health partner, and Trey got to
greet a young man that is battling a very difficult
circumstance right now, young man named DJ, and he got
to spend the morning with DJ and his mother and
provide him a special surprise. Man, So when do you
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want to dive into it a little bit? Share the
experience from yesterday morning?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, it was cool. I mean you you obviously hit
me up. I think it was just last week and
you know told me, hey, you know, could you do this?
And for me, no, that's no problem to go visit.
You know, a kid, you know, obviously a family going
through adversity, especially in these times. You say you're a
Panther fan. We don't need to add to that, my boy.
So to be able to go in there give this
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family smiles. Man, He had been dealing with a lot lately.
Last winter is when it started. This summer really tough
for him and the family. So to see them where
they're at that now, compared to the pictures that they
showed me at the beginning to blessing, his mother was there.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I surprised his mother, like I had learned that she
had a nickname. So being able to call her by
her nickname, that was a whole big deal because she
was just an awe, like hold loup, you know me too,
you know, And it's cool to go in there and
meet those families where they are man allow them to know,
you know, it's okay to hurt, you know, it's okay
to have that pain, but they will be joy in
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the morning, you know. And to go in there and
give them those smiles, give them those moments that they
can have as a family, it was a blessing. You know.
Their father came a little bit later, actually came around
the corner. You know. I ended up telling him everything
that they were about to do, which I'll tell you
on a second, and then he just teared up, you know,
just being thankful. And they were very thankful family. And
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what they said about Atron was just it was a
blessing to everybody in the room because they just thank
Atron for making them feel like they were the only
people in the hospite. But when there's so many kids
that they know are in that hospital but getting the
same treatment, you know, it's not like they are just
being favorite to. They're just they just think that Atre
makes every child feel thankful. So to go in there
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reward him with beating the drum, you know, to keep
pounding drum that they have in there. Then to give
them the passes and tickets that they'll be flying out
to Denver to the game, sideline passes, they're gonna board
them up, They're gonna fly out with the fifty three.
You know, it's gonna be a cool experience for them,
and they're just so thankful so to again be able
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to give a family just a time like that, just
smiles in the middle of that adversity. It's what we're
all about, I said, you know, all over you know
the social medias yesterday is like, that's the motto of
us as panthers. You know, we're gonna keep pounding, you know,
every days of fight and some days it's not gonna
be pretty. Some days you will lose. But it's about
getting up every single day knowing that, hey, we will fight,
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we will keep pounding. So yeah, man, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
They that's right. And it's a reminder. Man, it's so
much just bigger than a game.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, man, I mean the impact that you
can have on others. I mean, people know me, I
mean they know I'm all for the people.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's just because because that connection, that relationship goes so
much further than just the game of football, man, to
you know, I spoke with a little bit with the
family this morning again, just talking with his mother, Janine,
and she was just again just just repeating how thankful
she was. You know, everybody was saying how DJ. You know,
throughout the day was just watching highlights and responding to
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you know, oh, I can't believe I got to meet
And like, if we only understood the power of just smiling,
being in the being where your feet are, like Ron
used to tell us, Career used to tell us, you know,
so for me, it's like to be there, give this
family this man, this smile. Man, you don't know how
far this will take them. And again all that in
that environment of everybody being there. The nurses atroom showed
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up big, We showed.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Up big man.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They won't forget that. And you don't know where that
push is.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Kid.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
When it comes to prayers on the outside, I'm seeing
people on the feeds praying for them. Hey, DJ, you
got this, Like that's that's that crowd. You know, we're
that crowd in the game when those kids need that, man,
when they're fighting for their lives.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So man, you got that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's cool, bro, It's cool. It's cool. Bro. It's it's
cool to be that for those kids when they when
they need the most.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Let me tell so, let me tell you a little
story in Jeremy and Audience. Trey Boston was drafted twenty fourteen.
You had a hernia as you were recovering from and
you know, talking about showing up for somebody and being
a positive light through adversity. You know, our boy lou
(06:46):
I saw on the podcast recently talking about you got
somebody on there talking about you want people in your
corner that are going to be able to win with you,
but more importantly, you got to have somebody in the
corner that's going to lose with you because you're not
going to go and defeated in life. Not gonna happen.
And so story time. Trey Boston drafted twenty fourteen. I
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was a guy that was plagued with injuries, especially going
into a season. So training camps, I'm over there on
the stationary bike and I know it's a lonely bike, like, hey,
man hanging their dog. Hey just just keep getting better, dog,
(07:33):
How you feel today? All those things right?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Getting better?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But Trey Boston bro. That's where I met That's where
I really truly met him. Like we was during practice
and we was over there doing pushups over there, getting
it in over there on the bike, over there, recovering
from injury, right and this was his freshman or his
rookie year, and I just remembered, like, man, who is
this kid? There's something about him? And it's that like
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in the sense of like what he can do on
the field, because I didn't even know what he could
do on on the field. We just drafted guy and
he ain't been on the field. Very similar to my
situation when I got drafted. I was hurt and I
was basically where I was in training camp on the
sideline on the bike, getting ready to play and getting
healed and prepared to play a season. Trey, your energy,
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I remember I nicknamed you Honeycomb way back, but like
and it was because his energy was the same every
day and it was hey, doll were about to get better.
And this was coming from a rookie. I was like, man,
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we got one. We got somebody. And I was literally
sitting there and practice watching the guys that were out there.
Thomas Dey, could you know a lot of vets that
we got that off season, and I'm just thinking, oh,
Trey about to tape they spot. I don't even seen
trade play yet. But the energy his mindset is determination, confidence,
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Like we need that energy. And so going back to
what you was able to do for that family at Atrium,
those are the types of things that people need in
their life. Those are the types of men that you
need in your life. Some types of those are types
of people that you need in your locker room business. Right,
(09:26):
And but what I want to ask you is how
has someone how has anyone showed up in your life
like you show up in people's lives now that like
propelled you to do and be who you are. That energy,
that light, that that motivation, that confidence.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Oh absolutely, I mean my mother, like I got the pinpoint.
You know, we're when we see an example, we're able
to really capture that. You know, from a young age,
we didn't grow up with much inner city kid all
the regular stories that all us have, but my mom
made sure holidays, we're at the soup kitchen, we're at
the salvation army. Hey, be grateful for what you have. Hey,
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not only are you grateful what you have, we're gonna
give back. Like it's just instilled in us that, hey,
we got to be good human beings. Is what God
called us to be, not only disciples, but to help
your brothers and sisters stewarts, be the hands and feet
of the Lord. So for me, my mom at a
you know, I've seen my mother maybe go out to
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the club five times her whole life. Maybe my mom
to this day still shops at Goodwill will tell you, hey,
I got me a deal, you know. Like So for me,
the humility of her pushing everything to the side and
allowing us to give back. When I grew up older,
you know, too much is given much. You know, too
much is given, much is required. So for me to
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have all this on me, to have this power, this
platform that God gave me, I would not be using it.
I feel fulfilling it if I wasn't to give back
to others. When I know people ask every day how
do you do it? Every single day? And all I
can say is is God, you know what I mean.
When I wake up, I got that juice. I'm going
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through tough times too, you know what I mean, Like
every day ain't easy, but I've been through very very
bad things to where like life doesn't phaze me when
you know how precious every day can be for somebody,
when you know that you're fighting for every individual who
you meet. When you say that, hey, everything happens for
a reason, Do you mean that? Do you mean that
time when you brush somebody and we're able just to
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say excuse me? And who knows that excuse me? It's
just like, man, I seen a guy with the hat on.
If I regular would have seen him bumping me, I'm thinking, oh,
who just bumped me?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
That mad guy?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You know what I mean? When you're like, oh excuse me,
you're like, oh, okay, good going by. It's just like
you don't know the domino effect of every single day
and what you can do for people. So for me,
that's the way I give back is given that and
that you're giving that love, loving on people. And you know, man,
I'm confident in myself, you know, So for me, I
want to have that confidence in others. I want to
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allow them, you know, my corner to know, hey, whatever
you want to do, do it and I got your back,
and them know I got they back.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And going back to like you know, your rookie year
because I mean you became the start of your rookie year.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah yeah, I mean like two games after I even
came back. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And who in that locker room, you know, like really
helped you to get to where you was at.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
My rookie year. I just felt like it was a
lot of the veterans. You know again, I got to
do training camp with you, I got to have you know,
not only you and Tolbert were like a package, you
know what I mean, Like you were always going to
be together. So you had healthy older vets who lived
life the right way. Thomas Davis, Roman Harper was huge
because he was in my room, you know what I mean,
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Like if I could speak on himself, you know, Roman
was the first person to like they'd want, you know,
me to go in the game on third down packages
and Rome would be happy for me, like yeah, yeah,
go get one and I catch a pick and they
would be live for me, you know what I mean.
Like like and that's you talk about feeding off others
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and others feeding you Like we didn't care who ate,
Like we we played our roles like like like like
I tell people in life, like no matter if you're
working a family, like everybody on the team has a role,
and we played those so well. So Roman Harper wasn't
he wasn't selfish. He knew like, man, I got a
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young study in here. I'm getting older. I can't move
around as much, you know, as good as I used to.
Could I go get a pick? Absolutely, But if this
can be trades, time to shine, I'm finna let him shine.
And I seen someone with Saykon Barkley yesterday, you know,
them saying he's thirteen yards from you know, his leading
you know, yeah, a record, and he's like, no, let
the young bucksy. That's the humility you need for guys,
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the belief that, hey, man, I can care less about myself. Right,
it's about us. We will get us better. Now that
running back goes out there, let's just say he rushes
for forty yards. Now they need him later in the season.
The offensive line and coaches trust him. He trusts himself
because when he got in, no matter if it was
a blowout or not, he did what he did with
his opportunity. Like everything matters if you understand everything matters.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, everything matters, especially when you know you talk about development, Yes, right,
you know you was able to develop into a great
player for the Carolina Panthers. Talk to me, talk us
through you know, your transition of you know being you
know able to have this locker room, this like place
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that was so special and then being a guy that
you know obviously you play for other teams and experience
some ups and downs. Yeah, and with your person now,
your energy, your smiles, your laughter, like laughing, the tears,
like how did you you know, go through those challenges
(15:11):
with you know, being at the top right having to
you know, face this reality that didn't make any sense
because outside looking in the whole world knows it didn't
make sense.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And and you know, being the guy that you are,
talk to us about a little bit of how how
those moments of being in your low and how you
navigated it to where you still smile.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, I see, we're going with it. First, we'll start
off with Man, I think early in the years, you know,
Peanut Tillman, Roman Harp or second year going to Super Bowl. Man,
they jinxdus. I'm gonna tell you right now, y'all jinxed us.
Y'all told me and benaving Wickery, you guys are lucky
you guys made it to the playoffs and super Bowl
your second year. Both years playoffs. Guys don't see this
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to the end of their rears or never. Yeah, we're like,
oh man, yeah, that's how it come that time. Come
we hear that. I never sniffed the playoffs again, right,
So I never never sniffed it again.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I actually felt like that was you who I was
talking to on the sideline in Seattle. You probably were
and I was like, oh, we'll be back next year.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Oh oh it was that. Uh yeah, that was fourteen
though fourteen, but we were back then.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We're back next we were. But I remember saying like, hey,
it don't work like that. It don't, but but it works.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Belief, you know what I mean, Like we'll get into belief.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He too.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Belief is like it's man, you believe it. Everybody's on
one page and you can't knock them. That's a lot
of twenty fifteen. So they jinxed us, you know what
I mean. So to go through those highs being on
Super Bowl teams and prepared me for those lows because
you knew what the standard was like you go to
different teams and you say, okay, we're good here, but
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we like discipline here. Hey, we might have fun, but
a couple of all need to know y'all need to
dial in a little bit more. Hey, these veterans are
not good examples. You guys are living with some vets
are toxic and dy what man I try to tell
his young boys, he can do that, ELT can do
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ELT type things. We can't all do that, and these
young boys will be in an out the league a
couple of years because they want that life. And for
me at a young age to have y'all good veterans,
I tried to be that for those guys. Hey, yo, yo,
come over here, like you don't need to do that. Hey, come,
just let's read our playbook over here. Hey, come over
to the house. Let's watch the film together. Because I
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had that for me, so going to other teams, you
knew the standards. So then to play at such a
high level when I left, be able to come back.
You're coming back because your defense is loaded. We got cam.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
If you got cam, you're good, beautiful. I just.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
For a second, but.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's just you know, I'm a drinking drink, right, and
I think it speaks right because because the water look,
look when you when you I think, getting the opportunity
to come back and have a second stint of the club,
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and it does speak to who you are as a player,
you know, because you need a lot of things to
go right for that to happen. You know, you either
more times than not, you don't leave on your own terms,
as we know for sure, even in your prime and
that right it's just business, yeah, you know. I mean
it comes as whether it's you're taking care of business
or not. But to have the opportunity and the timing
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and the circumstance to fit to have a you know,
an opportunity to come back, you know, and for the
way that you departed to my to my knowledge, my
limited knowledge of it right for you to have it
in your heart to say, okay, I can do that,
because that's as big of a thing too now be
able to accept and go back and get past whatever
those you know, the hindrance or obstacle could have been,
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just emotionally, because you can have personal experience and you
can have a business experience, and sometimes one gets in
the way.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Or the other. I think, I think what a lot
of people don't understand is like how hard it was
for you know, there's there's tears of who make decisions
and for about as high as you can get, those
were decisions that they didn't want to make the very
first time I left. This is decisions that I'm literally
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in people's faces from top to bottom, paws that they're
crying in my face. Man, I did not see this coming.
I I'm praying for the best of you. We know
you're gonna you know hard, they toell us, but but
you know they see when they mean it, you know
what I mean, when they really life Like, Man, I
can't believe this is happening. So to go through the
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drama of like every off season kind of you knowing
what's on your back, you knowing, Okay, why why am
I putting up? I'm top three in the league in
I in t second on team and tackles like I'm
out here snapping, but just nobody nobody.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Want me around.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Okay, I get with y'all. I see what y'all long.
So for me at a young at like early stage,
I already knew like football is gonna be over soon,
like they're trying to make it over for you soon.
I think the connections that I made because those coaches said, man, no, no, no, no,
we have to bring the baller in personality and the
person who we know, this guy is no matter what
y'all think, at the very top. So for me to
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come back, man, it was a blessing to serve this
panther nation.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's why it means so much to me to not
I only play college here, but to play here, leave,
come back. Know what it's like to be very hurt
in the comeback and like, man, the height of it
and then the very bottom of like this is the
start of something what we thought would be new, but
this is like it hurts. We're building a new foundation.
And sometimes when you build new foundations.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I love it hurts. I love what you said. You
said to come back and serve. That was That's powerful, bro.
I got chills because it goes back to how you
were brought up with your mom. You know what I'm saying, Like,
you really view everything as how can I serve? And
as a young guy you might not be able to
apply that right, but as you get older, you realize
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how valuable your time is in situations, especially playing football. Right,
Like you one of the top top but you get
a perspective. Yeah, and so to come back and view
this as an opportunity to serve, like like, where do
you see you know, a panther team right now where
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that can be of value?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Man, I mean these guys who called me in the
locker room right now with me and you both know
I should be in about year twelve still really playing
at least third safety veteran.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Come on, I might be able to get a gone
carrying in.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'm just I'm just saying, Jason, you got no bad
feet man, money up, money up my case.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And we had about I don't know how many people
we had on so far. Everybody know about these feet.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Go on man toes.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
So for me in this locker room, man, you need
those steady vets man who will not waiver that know,
the standard is the standard. We're just around the corner.
Just keep pushing. Hey, we might have to do a
little extra. Yes, that might be how we're structured, Like,
let's be real with each other, Hey, d line, you
might have to attack a little bit more. Hey, linebackers
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in hands. We know we're on our backup linebackers. Okay,
we might know they're trying to put their hands on
us as big boys. We got to find a way
to get the job done at the end of the day.
So for me, it's like having those guys who can
be real with them, have fun with them, let them know,
a it's okay to mess up. Hey, I got your back,
Like you got to build that chemistry throughout it, and hey,
I hope they have that right now. But I would
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tell you without Shaq Thompson around, I don't know what
that looks like. When Shaq Thompson is a product of us.
I know what leadership looks like in Shack because I
know he got that through me. I know he got
that with Thomas Davis, with Luke Keighley. Like when you
have leadership passed down through you, it's a staple. So
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I don't know what they have in that locker room.
I pray they got guys who are able to maneuver.
But for me, I know in locker rooms like this
is where you thrive because this is where you give
young guys the confidence that, hey, you can play. My
last game, I played with seven rookies on the field,
one year two, one year three, and me year seven.
Come on, man, are we in the NFL are we
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really in the NFL, and what I do that game
think like nine tackles a sack, you know, like all
a couple of PBUs like that. That's what the young
group when you're talking about grown men on that field
who can scheme against you whenever they want. If they
want to outpower you, they can outpower you. They whatever
they want to do, they can do. Because we're just young.
You can't have seven rookies on the field at once.
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Where are we at that we think we can do
stuff like that. So obviously that's going you know here
or there. But for me, that's what is the use
for me is because I can get guys like that
to play with confidence. I can give guys like that
to think that, hey we can get the job done.
Hey when we are down, it's okay, let's keep going.
Get the ball back to the offense. Every moment matters.
(24:41):
We can get a pick, we can get a force fumble.
You can do so much. And I learned that because
playing with a Peanut Tillman, you never doing a fumble
can happen. Luke, you never doing a zack could come
from either you know, uh.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
All out during training camp.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's magical like, for real, I've never seen anything like like,
I've never like, you know it, you know the nickname,
you know everything about it, but no, you've never seen
it like it's in practice every single day about three,
you know, about I would say two, yeah, it's it's
it's sick. But yeah, man, I think, yeah, man, you
gotta serve. You got to serve to be able to
get teams like this back in the.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Where it goes, you know go.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You know, you're talking about identity and you're finding out
who you are and that comes through experience, that comes
through and it has the you know the chemistry of
a locker room, the chemistry of a team, the identity
of a team.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You need to have.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
A variety of demographics right from an age standpoint. You
have to have it because you can't replace that. You know,
you have guys who understand this. You know this ain't
the same kids. You know, you got grown men fighting
for families out here real day and the day y'all
in practice. Practice ain't just turn up like it ain't
no swich on game day, right like the special guys
(26:03):
that can you reference to lts who hey, I forget
who we had on or a conversation I was having
recent somebody at played with the Chargers and they were
talking about, uh uh they had hit l T or
somebody hit LT.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
The entire coaching staff brought him and like, hey, don't
do that, right, But.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's those guys, the dudes, but everybody else like you
better strap up three into sixty five days and getting
ready to go right. So, but but in those trials
and tribulations, man, as much to be gained, right, That's
why we keep saying, and I truly believe it, because
you can see the progress that is being made in
a lot of different ways, even though sometimes it doesn't
(26:45):
it's not indicative on the scoreboard and whatnot. But that
said from a from a from a challenging standpoint in
your life, in your career. It brought you back to Carolina,
It brought you back to Charlotte, man, And like stew said,
he pointed out, you came back to serve and even
(27:07):
I would I would say it served as a launch
pad for your career after football, for your second act
and what you're doing now. And so you know, talk
about it, man, I want to I want to dive
in right to to what you've done. On the Weather
Channel and in the TV space because obviously it's very
relevant the disasters that recently took place with the hurricane relief,
(27:28):
and so you have experience with disaster relief for sure,
for sure. And so if you can tell us a
little bit about what you had going on, you and
your wife and the series that you guys completed.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah, so first I'll start off with man, youngins have
to take advantage of the moment while you're in the league.
You got to take advantage of being a NFL player,
not a former NFL player. While I was with the Chargers,
I had an opportunity to just do a training camp,
just set up with one of the guys and for
NFL Network, they love that setup. They asked me to
come back the whole season as the Charger correspondent. I
(27:59):
did you know twenty plus live total access shows that
launched me to Okay, now I'm done playing in the league.
ACC Networks like, hey, we don't know if you're playing again,
but we'd love to get your own show. Boom got
my Monday through Friday four through seven, three hours talking
today ACCPM. Now they found that for you though, like bro.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
A day.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, it's a little hard, just a little hard for
your boy fifteen hours a day, so to do those
they saw NFL network, they knew what I can do. Boom. Now,
in the middle of that, you know, I got a
call that, hey, we would love for you and your
wife to do a TV show renovating homes hit by
natural disasters around the nation. My nonprofit had already kind
(28:48):
of partnered with the organization who was, you know, the
organization that was rebuilding the homes. So they asked them,
the organization, like, hey, do you guys recommend anybody like
we got we got fifty hg like people who we want,
but do you guys have anybody all would just recommend?
Just us like trying. They're like, well, we we've partnered
(29:09):
with Trey Boston before and he's you know, he's been
on TV. He's on TV right now, you know, Like
and then they we rehearsed with, you know, had a
little trial with them, and they were just like oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah, let's go with this guy. My
wife killed it too. So that led us to go
around the nation man and to go from we renovated
homes in five days Monday, we get there We really
(29:30):
wouldn't start on Monday till about two thirty maybe three,
and by Friday about three through five, you gotta be done,
So it's really four days of work that we would
be We went through Florida and I got to started
my hometown for Minus Florida, which was so dope. You're
talking about like an experience of like serving my community.
(29:51):
Not only get to serve the nation, but I get
to start in my hometown. I'm meeting like, oh, so
and so's grandma's house, so and so's Grandpa's house. Like
they're like, damn sure, you really look because it's it's
cool to do for others man, but you want to
know that the one who loved on you at a
(30:12):
young age can get fulfilled to clothes. So it was
good to have it at that stage. My foundation does
tons of stuff, but again to be able to rebuild
people's grandparents and people's families homes, Bro, that meant so much.
So we're going Florida.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
After we went to Florida, we went to Louisiana. Bro.
I was in the Buyou in Louisiana. Bro. One of
the coolest experience is take a boat to the house
type of experience. Bro sick. After we went to Louisiana,
went to Texas Austin, Texas dealt with the freeze there.
So you're getting to deal with like different natural disasters,
whether it's hurricane, tornadoes, straight line wins. So to be
(30:49):
able to go on these places, man, these families are deserving. Man.
They've been out their homes for two years to maybe
six months, not being able to use their home.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Kids might be sick, they're traveling you know, here to
there to the hospital, but they ain't got a home
to stay in. Sort of going there and be able
to serve them. In a week, we come to here Monday, Hey,
how you doing, man, We're meeting to the next thing.
You know, by Friday, you get your crib. That's amazing,
you get what I'm saying. So like, man, that was
so fulfilling because there was a lot of long nights.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I think the crew that we had, man, because they
weren't sleeping, like you know what I mean, Like we're
rebuilding homes in four days, Man, ain't no sleep. And
your boy over here doing subflooring. I'm doing just trusting
and rules. I'm doing everything like the audio and video.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
People are probably picking up hammers too during during the show.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, yeah, yes, you know what I mean. Like at
a point you literally got like we were going there
with like a total of maybe nine people on whole crew.
I'm talking the three four builders, the cameras, a couple
of assistance, the director, producer, me and my wife. That's it.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
How awesome is that that you get to do this
with your wife. Shout out to Sierra. She like she
shines in that show, bro. Like when I watched it.
When I watched it the first time, I was like,
oh dang, like her personality like I didn't I didn't
see that, And then being able to see it on
TV and just seeing you guys vibe is very inspirational
(32:29):
for couples in general. Just just talk about how how
special that is for you guys to do that together
on such a platform, especially you guys having two kids
and one day they'll be able to see mommy and
daddy on a TV of episodes of them doing good.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Man, And we took them with us too, so our
kids got to experience all that too.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It was so dope. So to deal with the wife
was amazing, man, because you know, our wives have kind
of took in a back seat to who we are,
so you don't get to experience a lot of our
wives in their spaces, their personalities. You know, we meet them,
Hey how's your wife doing? We you know might see
it you know here and there, wipe pass, you know
what I mean, Like, not often do we really get
to chill. We might have barbecues and stuff where they
(33:13):
get to finally meet and stuff. So to allow her
to have a space where she can be herself, be
on TV, you know, it was new to her. You
know your boys, Yeah, let's go, you know. So for
me it was cool.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
You never see a Mikey Ain't like I tell you
I'm Paul.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
But hey, but it was cool bro to see her
kind of like accept this role come out and it's
like wow, like you got that in you, like like
you you really can do this. And it was cool
man to see her blossom through that. Because I'll say
that I was going with the wives taking the backseat
to us. But when we're done playing, we go from
(33:56):
being in our wives face, you know, out their face
for ten to twelve hours a day, like we're grinding
maybe seven am to you know, seven PM. Maybe six
if you if you hurt like we were, you know
you you five six in the morning. Now you in
they face for ten more hours of the day. I
ain't got no job, really, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
I'm talking on the show, but you know I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Like you're a free agent.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'm free So for me for me to be able
to like get back into that connection of we we
have something now like it ain't just me by myself.
We got something that was dope, man, So to do
two seasons of that twenty homes. The last season was Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
middle of excuse me language, but middle of nowhere. They
(34:41):
know them a focus Folcus, but middle of nowhere. Oh
my god. It was so fun man, Like we're in
where Mississippi with the Cox family. Man, it's so dope.
Five hundred people in the population of the town. They
own a store that serves the whole town. So every
day we might be renovating their home that's in the
(35:02):
back of the store, but they were still in there,
serving the serving the community, cooking up their lunches. We
got to get in their cook up with them. They
serving us food. I had just seen them serving so
much man and cooking and doing everything. Big man the father.
I asked him, like, hey, man, if I get two
big tomahawks, you'll cook them up for me and you.
(35:24):
He's like, you'll get two big tomawks. Like I'm gonna
get two healthy ones for me and you. You'll smoke
them up, y'all. I will listen. I went and got
the big est tamahawk steaks I ever seen in my life.
That man whipped them up and was so appreciative. He said, Man,
I hadn't had a tomahawk in like fifteen years, you
(35:45):
know what I mean, until I got him eating like
a t rex. I'm tall, bro. But it was so
dope to like being be able to interact with these
families man, Because again I'm not about like, hey, we'll
come to fixure home, all right, see you on Friday.
I made sure on that show something they loved about that.
As me and my wife said during the week, we
want to meet with these families. We want to chell
(36:07):
with these families. We want to be a part of
these family lasting impact. Come on, man, something like now
I can call those family to say, hey, me and
my kids want to come back. You know you know,
it's somewhere we stayed and they all invited us back.
So it's a blessing, man.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I would imagine because it is.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It is truly a blessing just to be able to
have impact like that, and especially in a place that's
foreign to you, going into someone else's backyard. But drawing
it back to Carolina, I would imagine behind the scenes,
you guys were only able to capture so much, but
there was probably a hundred stories for everyone that you told,
you know, what are these folks dealing with right now?
(36:46):
Would you imagine, you know, like you know, I can
up there in the hills right now out in western
Carolina in Ashville and blowing a rock whatnot?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I would imagine that you've ventured these environments where you
almost don't know where to start.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
And you're probably helping out one family. You're doing one thing.
You just feel probably bad and sick to your stomach
that you can't help everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I'm talking You're talking blocks full of people who got affected,
and you're there to just help one family, and you
got families coming over every day, Like, man, can you
just can you just look at my roof? I've had
an inspecter. I've called insurance. It's been a year. Hey,
can you just come look at my floor?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
How do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Bro? Sometimes we send that two three over from that
nine man crew, five man crew, you know what I mean,
Like just let's try to serve, Like if we could
do it real quick, we'd love to try.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
But sometimes I mean, I mean, you don't even hear
the stories that come behind the people who've been affected,
like because they're trying to like, let you know, like
I need help, man, I've had this happened in my life.
This happened in my life, this happened to this having
my life. Oh and this hurricane came. You're like wow
yeah right, wow, Yeah back to your point. Sometimes all
(38:04):
you can offer is compassion. Yeah yeah, no, you can
offer a.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Hug, right So yeah, man, No, it's as special as
you're talking about that. I think about the stories off
the screen.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah no, So I go back to that. Man, I
know Ashviiel's in trouble man, Like you're talking about a
place that's never dealt with the natural disaster like this
ever and there so so they weren't prepared for this. Man,
It's not even like the water that flooded is like
clean fresh water. It's like mud slide. Like it's mud water.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So it's like, not only is it gonna damage things,
but everything it touches, it's gonna just it's it's destroying it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
So as much as we can come together help them
Hurricane what was it helenin or Heleen you know, just
those man, It's just it's just sad, man, because while
I was doing that show, like we do the research
on this stuff, man, They're like sending me the research,
the notes on this stuff, and you just see, man,
how often this stuff is coming and it ain't stopping
(39:04):
every year. So it's just yeah, it's it's scary. It's scary.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
So well, Saturday is gonna be a special night Bag
of America Stadium. Yes, obviously you know, Stu, You've got
contacted with Luke Combs, and I know that Luke Eric Church,
Carolina Natives, Bailey's nimmer Man. I'm going ahead. I'm gonna
give him plug right now, even though we weren't playing
(39:28):
on that. But it's deservingly so because I don't know
if there's still tickets available. Maybe there is, but I
know that they went fast, but to raise some dollars
this weekend for those folks out there that are hurting,
and it's going to be a special night. Unfortunately we're
traveling to the game, so we're gonna miss out on it.
And I'm not, you know, grateful for that, right, but
(39:52):
but I do know that it's gonna be and I
you know, I love the music awesome. I think I'm
I really know. I think it's going to be a
special night emotionally for a lot of folks. And what's
going to come out of it on the back then
is even be even more special.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Music provides healing, man, no question. The question the way
that people connect to these artists, you know, that's that's
the gift of you know, people being so talented. You know,
they they are able to connect, They're able to take
their minds to a place of just like, well, at
least there's some hope, right.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
You're not alone in that story, in the in the tone,
whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
And I will say this too, this is going to
be a great event. It's going to make a big impact.
But this is just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
It has to be.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's got to be the mindset, the beginning of doing
something right.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
YEA so special night this Saturday.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
If you got a chance or the opportunity to go
ahead and purchase some tickets out and encourage you to
do so. Right here, Bank of American Stadium Concert for Carolina.
It's going to be it's going to be special.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Trey HBCU Man, Man, yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
He was telling me about this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
M Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
I was like, man, look that little fun he said,
He said, he struck up the band, struck at the
band this weekend.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Man speaking of music, Yeah, man.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
It's.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
My god.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
When you're here, I'm talking right there, your life.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Look at he hits.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
It ain't nothing like it, man, being in person for so, okay,
let's start this. I do a show that is like
a college game day but for HBCUs. And it's on
a channel called HBC you go. We're also shown on
the Grio. The owner of the Weather channel, Byron Allen,
owns these shows. That's how you know. They asked me
(41:57):
would I do this? I told him yeah, man, I
would love to serve the HBCUs. You know, so so
for me, you know, I do this show. We go
to uh this year, we've gone to classics and Homecomings
Southern Classic. Uh this year we just got done going
to Alabama two weeks ago, Alabama A and M. And
(42:20):
this week we just got done with Graanmlin State. Man
to see these places homecoming everything they talk about, Oh
you our homecoming differend All the band, Yes, it is,
it is.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
It is culture. Oh my god, Man.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
To see all these people come together. Man, just be
a great time line dancing. Listen. Oh man, I had
some ribs this weekend. Oh my god, Oh my listen,
I'm at they tailgate pretty much sleep in the chill
that thing had they had me, man, So to be
able to do this, Man, the reason why I did
(42:56):
it because a lot of these kids are under exposed. Uh,
they don't get any type of people talking about them,
no highlights, nobody knows their stats. And we wonder why
these HBCU players are going undrafted every single year. Well,
there is no value on them and people aren't valuing them.
So for me to be able to be the NFL
player that people trust, They've seen me on NFL Network,
(43:16):
they see me ACC network, they've seen me as an
NFL player, so they can pull up the highlights to
see this guy is a baller too. So for me
to be able to say, hey, I'm stamping Andrew Jones
from Gramla State at linebacker. He's a baller. He's going
to be all over the field. He's physical. I do
a personal segment on him, so you get to learn
about him, learn about the kid, meet him, and then
(43:38):
he goes out there and balls. Oh my god, one
play defensive player of the week. Come on, man, that's
what you do it for. Man, So to not only
put a light on this kid and just get the
ball out in that light. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Obviously you're doing the interviews throughout the week. Yeah, prepping
this guy. Yeah, he's looking at it smart on him. Yeah,
oh this is an opportu.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
No, actually, Chris, thing is I meet these kids on
a Friday. Let's say this week was I made him
at eleven am. We had the film by eleven fifteen,
so it's literally me fifteen minutes getting to learn who
he is. How you doing, man, listen, I'm here for you.
This is this, this is what I have planned for you.
These are the questions I'm going to ask, Hey, what
(44:22):
are you good at?
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (44:23):
What do you want your story to be?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
What do you want to talk about I will only
throw you at least, I will not lead you into destruction.
I'm gonna only lead you into a slam dumb. I
love that. So for me, it's getting these kids who
have never had the opportunity, so the very first opportunity
is easy to go, oh yes, sir, I'm yes, I
am so, and told from her it's like no, no, no,
no yourself for yourself, man, I'm you tree. So for
(44:54):
me to loosen them up and allow them to like understand,
oh okay, he one of us, he got he's a
friendly man. We go through these man and like I said, man,
I'm gonna post that on my ig probably the day
or tomorrow of just his interview, and man, what I mean,
it was just so powerful to see a young man
talk the way he did. He spoke about his mother
just giving him that grit and how she wasn't violent,
(45:16):
but she told him on the field like inflict that pain,
you know, just like little things like that, right right, right.
So it's dope to give to that community and the
HBCUs because you know that maybe a few of those
players are absolutely prosper and a lot of those players
come from big time schools, four stars, five stars that
had to transfer with you know how the portal is
(45:37):
these days. So man, these kids are ballings. So to
be able to put a stamp on them and help
them in their journeys.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, it's a blessing, man, It is great to see.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Actually, I remember a few years back, it's probably three
four years ago, I was talking with front office personnel
who was actually in the pr space okay for many
years in the NFL, within twenty five plus years, and
I remember I wanted to do a spotlight on all
of the former players for this NFL team when I
was working with the Buffalo Bills, and I wanted to
(46:05):
pull all of the players that had attended in HBCU
spotlight them during the month of February Black History man.
And I sent an email, you know, and focused on
HBCU play and I remember getting applied. What's the HBCU now, No,
So I thought about it, right, and I was thinking
to myself, like, I mean, I don't know if I
(46:26):
can fault him. You know, I don't know where he's from,
I don't know his background. But it was a surprise
to me that someone had worked in the NFL space
for that amount of time, had not know the acronym
for historically back college and university.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
So back to your point about not being spotlight a
highlighted record. We always say, if you're good enough, they
gonna find you.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
Yeah, maybe and so and so.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
To have an entire network and television station focused on
it right now, it's special, man, And I dive another story.
You know, I had a good pleasure. I've gotten to
know shock Hair Yeah, right, James Shaq Herrott HBCU legend.
We all know Shaq one of the first black quarterbacks
to start an NFL game. And Shaq and invited me
to be his guest at the Black College Football Hall
(47:11):
of Fame a few years back down in Atlanta. So
I got to sit in on the ceremonies. I got
to meet a lot of these casts that you know
that are going in and guys that you know household
names man and too Tall Jones. I mean, you know,
like you're going in and so Donald Driver. You know,
like you're you're watching these guys get inducted and you're
(47:33):
thinking to yourself, like, man, how many casts didn't get
that out?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Okay, let me let me get back on this one. Okay,
Paul's okay, listen. Eddie Robinson from like the forties to
like the eighties had put in two hundred players into
the NFL Grandma State, Grandma State head coach legend four
hundred and eight wins more than Paul Bryant. Bear Bryant,
I'm talking legendary, and I think about again, we aren't
(47:59):
highlighting these kids. So imagine back then how he was
getting these guys to the NFL. Now, I will also say,
back then, there wasn't a lot of brothers on teams,
so you had to go to those HBCUs and go
get your ballers back in the days. So for now
they don't have to. That's why it's so important that
(48:19):
now we must highlight these kids because they feel as
if they don't got to no more because their schools
already have them. We got our bunch, and again we
know we want you when you're undrafted. Were gonna call
your phone seventh round. Let you know, hey, anybody there,
we're gonna give you ten K, come on over. We
gotta get these kids values enough and talked about to
where they say, you know what, four fifth round, sixth round.
(48:41):
We gotta grab this.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Guy, got to there's a ton of history there. Man,
I would urge any of listeners.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
And if you get a chance to go to the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, make sure you stop by
the Black College Football Hall of Fame exhibit there. It's incredible.
You just rambled off just about Eddie Robinson. But the
stories that exist, uh, you know again in my space
and this this history called alumni sphere.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
It's it really is like, man, like, I can't believe it, bro,
what could be?
Speaker 2 (49:11):
You know?
Speaker 3 (49:11):
So?
Speaker 1 (49:12):
But that's awesome for you, man, again, just just a
launch pad of opportunity for you taking it running with it.
It's great to see you thriving in the second act, man,
So keep that going for sure.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
You know, for sure, man, I think we uh.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
With you?
Speaker 4 (49:29):
We didn't we didn't see see we didn't pick up
on the paddle.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
Oh okay, we got to got three minutes left. Okay, listen,
I'm big on Padel man. Y'all need that world, the world.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
See, I didn't when it first when he first started
saying the time him like is he just saying it wrong?
It's like, is this what it is?
Speaker 3 (49:47):
Listen, I'm talking to y'all. Now these guys there, Padell,
I'm serious about it's a new sport. Well, it was
out in It's a new sport to America. So in
the sixties it was invented. It was played within like
Mexican col Spain and Argentina are huge in it. Like
there's like over sixteen thousand courts in Spain. Spain is
on the side of Texas. Texas right now only holds
(50:08):
like thirty you know what I mean. Like, it's ridiculous
how they play this sport. It's second to soccer right now.
Right now you google fastest growing sport in the world
now United States in the world. Paddle. You know, listen,
you can say paddle, but it's pudell. You gotta stay
at like you gotta accent, like like you're from Spain
and Argentina and you told them say paddle, they'd be like, oh,
(50:29):
but that you know what I'm saying, that big on it.
It's so fun. Reason I like it because pick a
ball that's for grandma's I'm keeping the real If your
sixty year old grandma can hangle me, I am not
trying to play with the grandma hook and whoop my butt.
I got too much dog in me to allow anybody
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who fifty forty to think they could even compete with me.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
You're playing a sixty year old grandma.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
You go, absolutely, he's gonna dog. I'm gonna dog like
I'm not trying. I'm trying to do any component.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
What's the difference.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
Okay, So it's like racquetball and tennis put together. So
it has its own racket and you can hit it
and when it bounces, it can hit off the glass,
and then when it comes back, you just hit it
back on the other side. Now, this is why I
like it, because your grandma can't bend over, go back
and hit that back over. She's not an athlete, you
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know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
You so basically saying this provides you an opportunity to still.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Be an athlete. Yeah, we don't want to go from
elite athletes to like like regular athletes, like.
Speaker 4 (51:35):
People just taking games and just smashing it whatever it like.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Racquetball has one glass, they have two glasses. You know
what I'm saying. Tennis, I gotta see it. It's dope.
Bro to come out, bro, okay, you come out, listen, listen.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
You know one sports and.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
Listen. Just me on this real quick. If y'all want
to come out with me, y'all hit my I g
up on Twitter. Let me know, y'all want to come
out and play. Matthews has a court. We can listen.
We can have a whole event, Panther Nation. You know,
we need some fun, so we can have a whole
event on Sunday. We could just not even wear about Sundays.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Allowed, I'm just playing.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
I'm just playing. I'm just playing. But for real, my
Panther Watch party is gonna come up. I need y'all
give me a couple of dates. We're gonna watch some
y'all know how we do come together the last year, sir,
I ain't do a date on it, but I need
y'all to you know, know that's coming your way. But yeah, Padel,
I'm for real, just watch party that's coming up to man.
So you know what I mean, Man, I'm here for
the people.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
Man Tray Boston, the people shamp Yeah, I'm not so,
but you let's let's let's get out to the court.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
Let's get out to the court for beat. You don't
come back up and allowed back.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
Up in here.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
You might not be left that one down before we
get out. Before we get out, I really want a
quote from you, okay, And I want to quote about service.
Speaker 4 (52:58):
Okay, okay, trade boss is about service. I give you that.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Things just easy, man, treat others how you want to
be treated. I think that's that's just that's like the
simplest thing you can give a kindergarter, and they should
be able to take that through life. Now we know
there's levels within that, but man, what it feels like
to just treat somebody the way you would love to
be treated. Man, when you're having a hard day, you
would love somebody to come over there and just say, man,
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hey man, how you doing. Man, you're doing well? Anyway
I can help you. So go over to that person
who's struggling or not having a good day and ask them, hey, man,
I see you having a hard time. Man, can I
help you anyway? I can service you? Because we all
holding luggage, every one of us. We're all holding luggage.
So to be able to take off a bag off
somebody's shoulder. When you're at the airport and you got
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four or five bags, somebody just take you and now
you have two, you can move around a little bit
more so for me. That's how life is.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
You gotta serve others. Be happy, like really enjoy that
God is storring your treasures when you do stuff like this,
Like God is really blessing this moment. He is rejoicing.
The heavens are rejoicing and smiling that you were able
to reflect what the kingdom looks like. So yeah, man,
that's the simple it is. Man, treat us how you
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like to be treated. I love it.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
Man, thank you for stopping.
Speaker 3 (54:22):
Still and the crew.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Blessings to everything that you got going on in your family.
All right, we out appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (54:29):
Go keep pounding.
With the thirteenth pick in the two thousand and eight
NFL traft Carol Lnon half the select.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jonathan Stewart gives to Stewart.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
He leaves touched up.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Stewart oh rough tough right, angry man out at all
those knees.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Sewart hesitates, accelerates. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's the spash moll football.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Let Stuart cant running round.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Stuart jump over a tackler at the tenth flows jumping
Laura's his shoulder, keeps running. No one will touch him.
Jonathan Stewart house, is it you talk about explosive plays
in the run game.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It's like the fourth of July around here right now.
You are listening to Stu and the crew.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Now to Jonathan Stewart's and Jeremy Kelly. All right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We welcome to Stu and the crew. Got Jeremy Kelly here,
got Trey Boston here.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Man, it's good to see you fellows.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good seeing my guys. What's up babies? One and only
Trade day, fourth round pick fourteen. Read Now you want
me to go for Tobio for you? You deserve it.
You deserve it. There, there we go, straight out of
the University of North Carolina, drafted in the fourth round.
But the Carolina Panthers, Oh, we got a drum roll,
seven year NFL VET Trey Boston.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Let's go, my man. Good to have you in the building. Man, Yeah, Man,
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I was every day I got to see yesterday too,
So we appreciate you, my man. You know what, I'm
gonna go right to that, because yesterday was was special
about the good very young man. So our legends stay
active in the community very much. So a lot of
stuff that that we don't publicize just because there's not
enough bandwidth when you talk about social graphics and social
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capacity on Instagram, LinkedIn all these other things, you know, Twitter,
But you guys are very very active for us, and
we appreciate that. I mean, I think this year alone,
we're already creeping up on one hundred and fifty different appearances,
not all community related, some are internal business, et cetera,
but for the majority probably community related.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
But yesterday was a special one.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We partnered up with Atrium obviously as our well known
partners are our main health partner, and Trey got to
greet a young man that is battling a very difficult
circumstance right now, young man named DJ, and he got
to spend the morning with DJ and his mother and
provide him a special surprise. Man, So when do you
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want to dive into it a little bit? Share the
experience from yesterday morning?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, it was cool. I mean you you obviously hit
me up. I think it was just last week and
you know told me, hey, you know, could you do this?
And for me, no, that's no problem to go visit.
You know, a kid, you know, obviously a family going
through adversity, especially in these times. You say you're a
Panther fan. We don't need to add to that, my boy.
So to be able to go in there give this
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family smiles. Man, He had been dealing with a lot lately.
Last winter is when it started. This summer really tough
for him and the family. So to see them where
they're at that now, compared to the pictures that they
showed me at the beginning to blessing, his mother was there.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I surprised his mother, like I had learned that she
had a nickname. So being able to call her by
her nickname, that was a whole big deal because she
was just an awe, like hold loup, you know me too,
you know, And it's cool to go in there and
meet those families where they are man allow them to know,
you know, it's okay to hurt, you know, it's okay
to have that pain, but they will be joy in
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the morning, you know. And to go in there and
give them those smiles, give them those moments that they
can have as a family, it was a blessing. You know.
Their father came a little bit later, actually came around
the corner. You know. I ended up telling him everything
that they were about to do, which I'll tell you
on a second, and then he just teared up, you know,
just being thankful. And they were very thankful family. And
(03:51):
what they said about Atron was just it was a
blessing to everybody in the room because they just thank
Atron for making them feel like they were the only
people in the hospite. But when there's so many kids
that they know are in that hospital but getting the
same treatment, you know, it's not like they are just
being favorite to. They're just they just think that Atre
makes every child feel thankful. So to go in there
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reward him with beating the drum, you know, to keep
pounding drum that they have in there. Then to give
them the passes and tickets that they'll be flying out
to Denver to the game, sideline passes, they're gonna board
them up, They're gonna fly out with the fifty three.
You know, it's gonna be a cool experience for them,
and they're just so thankful so to again be able
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to give a family just a time like that, just
smiles in the middle of that adversity. It's what we're
all about, I said, you know, all over you know
the social medias yesterday is like, that's the motto of
us as panthers. You know, we're gonna keep pounding, you know,
every days of fight and some days it's not gonna
be pretty. Some days you will lose. But it's about
getting up every single day knowing that, hey, we will fight,
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we will keep pounding. So yeah, man, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
They that's right. And it's a reminder. Man, it's so
much just bigger than a game.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, man, I mean the impact that you
can have on others. I mean, people know me, I
mean they know I'm all for the people.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's just because because that connection, that relationship goes so
much further than just the game of football, man, to
you know, I spoke with a little bit with the
family this morning again, just talking with his mother, Janine,
and she was just again just just repeating how thankful
she was. You know, everybody was saying how DJ. You know,
throughout the day was just watching highlights and responding to
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you know, oh, I can't believe I got to meet
And like, if we only understood the power of just smiling,
being in the being where your feet are, like Ron
used to tell us, Career used to tell us, you know,
so for me, it's like to be there, give this
family this man, this smile. Man, you don't know how
far this will take them. And again all that in
that environment of everybody being there. The nurses atroom showed
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up big, We showed.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Up big man.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They won't forget that. And you don't know where that
push is.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Kid.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
When it comes to prayers on the outside, I'm seeing
people on the feeds praying for them. Hey, DJ, you
got this, Like that's that's that crowd. You know, we're
that crowd in the game when those kids need that, man,
when they're fighting for their lives.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So man, you got that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's cool, bro, It's cool. It's cool. Bro. It's it's
cool to be that for those kids when they when
they need the most.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Let me tell so, let me tell you a little
story in Jeremy and Audience. Trey Boston was drafted twenty fourteen.
You had a hernia as you were recovering from and
you know, talking about showing up for somebody and being
a positive light through adversity. You know, our boy lou
(06:46):
I saw on the podcast recently talking about you got
somebody on there talking about you want people in your
corner that are going to be able to win with you,
but more importantly, you got to have somebody in the
corner that's going to lose with you because you're not
going to go and defeated in life. Not gonna happen.
And so story time. Trey Boston drafted twenty fourteen. I
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was a guy that was plagued with injuries, especially going
into a season. So training camps, I'm over there on
the stationary bike and I know it's a lonely bike, like, hey,
man hanging their dog. Hey just just keep getting better, dog,
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How you feel today? All those things right?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Getting better?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But Trey Boston bro. That's where I met That's where
I really truly met him. Like we was during practice
and we was over there doing pushups over there, getting
it in over there on the bike, over there, recovering
from injury, right and this was his freshman or his
rookie year, and I just remembered, like, man, who is
this kid? There's something about him? And it's that like
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in the sense of like what he can do on
the field, because I didn't even know what he could
do on on the field. We just drafted guy and
he ain't been on the field. Very similar to my
situation when I got drafted. I was hurt and I
was basically where I was in training camp on the
sideline on the bike, getting ready to play and getting
healed and prepared to play a season. Trey, your energy,
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I remember I nicknamed you Honeycomb way back, but like
and it was because his energy was the same every
day and it was hey, doll were about to get better.
And this was coming from a rookie. I was like, man,
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we got one. We got somebody. And I was literally
sitting there and practice watching the guys that were out there.
Thomas Dey, could you know a lot of vets that
we got that off season, and I'm just thinking, oh,
Trey about to tape they spot. I don't even seen
trade play yet. But the energy his mindset is determination, confidence,
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Like we need that energy. And so going back to
what you was able to do for that family at Atrium,
those are the types of things that people need in
their life. Those are the types of men that you
need in your life. Some types of those are types
of people that you need in your locker room business. Right,
(09:26):
And but what I want to ask you is how
has someone how has anyone showed up in your life
like you show up in people's lives now that like
propelled you to do and be who you are. That energy,
that light, that that motivation, that confidence.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Oh absolutely, I mean my mother, like I got the pinpoint.
You know, we're when we see an example, we're able
to really capture that. You know, from a young age,
we didn't grow up with much inner city kid all
the regular stories that all us have, but my mom
made sure holidays, we're at the soup kitchen, we're at
the salvation army. Hey, be grateful for what you have. Hey,
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not only are you grateful what you have, we're gonna
give back. Like it's just instilled in us that, hey,
we got to be good human beings. Is what God
called us to be, not only disciples, but to help
your brothers and sisters stewarts, be the hands and feet
of the Lord. So for me, my mom at a
you know, I've seen my mother maybe go out to
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the club five times her whole life. Maybe my mom
to this day still shops at Goodwill will tell you, hey,
I got me a deal, you know. Like So for me,
the humility of her pushing everything to the side and
allowing us to give back. When I grew up older,
you know, too much is given much. You know, too
much is given, much is required. So for me to
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have all this on me, to have this power, this
platform that God gave me, I would not be using it.
I feel fulfilling it if I wasn't to give back
to others. When I know people ask every day how
do you do it? Every single day? And all I
can say is is God, you know what I mean.
When I wake up, I got that juice. I'm going
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through tough times too, you know what I mean, Like
every day ain't easy, but I've been through very very
bad things to where like life doesn't phaze me when
you know how precious every day can be for somebody,
when you know that you're fighting for every individual who
you meet. When you say that, hey, everything happens for
a reason, Do you mean that? Do you mean that
time when you brush somebody and we're able just to
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say excuse me? And who knows that excuse me? It's
just like, man, I seen a guy with the hat on.
If I regular would have seen him bumping me, I'm thinking, oh,
who just bumped me?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
That mad guy?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You know what I mean? When you're like, oh excuse me,
you're like, oh, okay, good going by. It's just like
you don't know the domino effect of every single day
and what you can do for people. So for me,
that's the way I give back is given that and
that you're giving that love, loving on people. And you know, man,
I'm confident in myself, you know, So for me, I
want to have that confidence in others. I want to
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allow them, you know, my corner to know, hey, whatever
you want to do, do it and I got your back,
and them know I got they back.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And going back to like you know, your rookie year
because I mean you became the start of your rookie year.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah yeah, I mean like two games after I even
came back. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And who in that locker room, you know, like really
helped you to get to where you was at.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
My rookie year. I just felt like it was a
lot of the veterans. You know again, I got to
do training camp with you, I got to have you know,
not only you and Tolbert were like a package, you
know what I mean, Like you were always going to
be together. So you had healthy older vets who lived
life the right way. Thomas Davis, Roman Harper was huge
because he was in my room, you know what I mean,
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Like if I could speak on himself, you know, Roman
was the first person to like they'd want, you know,
me to go in the game on third down packages
and Rome would be happy for me, like yeah, yeah,
go get one and I catch a pick and they
would be live for me, you know what I mean.
Like like and that's you talk about feeding off others
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and others feeding you Like we didn't care who ate,
Like we we played our roles like like like like
I tell people in life, like no matter if you're
working a family, like everybody on the team has a role,
and we played those so well. So Roman Harper wasn't
he wasn't selfish. He knew like, man, I got a
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young study in here. I'm getting older. I can't move
around as much, you know, as good as I used to.
Could I go get a pick? Absolutely, But if this
can be trades, time to shine, I'm finna let him shine.
And I seen someone with Saykon Barkley yesterday, you know,
them saying he's thirteen yards from you know, his leading
you know, yeah, a record, and he's like, no, let
the young bucksy. That's the humility you need for guys,
(14:02):
the belief that, hey, man, I can care less about myself. Right,
it's about us. We will get us better. Now that
running back goes out there, let's just say he rushes
for forty yards. Now they need him later in the season.
The offensive line and coaches trust him. He trusts himself
because when he got in, no matter if it was
a blowout or not, he did what he did with
his opportunity. Like everything matters if you understand everything matters.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, everything matters, especially when you know you talk about development, Yes, right,
you know you was able to develop into a great
player for the Carolina Panthers. Talk to me, talk us
through you know, your transition of you know being you
know able to have this locker room, this like place
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that was so special and then being a guy that
you know obviously you play for other teams and experience
some ups and downs. Yeah, and with your person now,
your energy, your smiles, your laughter, like laughing, the tears,
like how did you you know, go through those challenges
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with you know, being at the top right having to
you know, face this reality that didn't make any sense
because outside looking in the whole world knows it didn't
make sense.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And and you know, being the guy that you are,
talk to us about a little bit of how how
those moments of being in your low and how you
navigated it to where you still smile.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, I see, we're going with it. First, we'll start
off with Man, I think early in the years, you know,
Peanut Tillman, Roman Harp or second year going to Super Bowl. Man,
they jinxdus. I'm gonna tell you right now, y'all jinxed us.
Y'all told me and benaving Wickery, you guys are lucky
you guys made it to the playoffs and super Bowl
your second year. Both years playoffs. Guys don't see this
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to the end of their rears or never. Yeah, we're like,
oh man, yeah, that's how it come that time. Come
we hear that. I never sniffed the playoffs again, right,
So I never never sniffed it again.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I actually felt like that was you who I was
talking to on the sideline in Seattle. You probably were
and I was like, oh, we'll be back next year.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Oh oh it was that. Uh yeah, that was fourteen
though fourteen, but we were back then.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We're back next we were. But I remember saying like, hey,
it don't work like that. It don't, but but it works.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Belief, you know what I mean, Like we'll get into belief.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He too.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Belief is like it's man, you believe it. Everybody's on
one page and you can't knock them. That's a lot
of twenty fifteen. So they jinxed us, you know what
I mean. So to go through those highs being on
Super Bowl teams and prepared me for those lows because
you knew what the standard was like you go to
different teams and you say, okay, we're good here, but
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we like discipline here. Hey, we might have fun, but
a couple of all need to know y'all need to
dial in a little bit more. Hey, these veterans are
not good examples. You guys are living with some vets
are toxic and dy what man I try to tell
his young boys, he can do that, ELT can do
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ELT type things. We can't all do that, and these
young boys will be in an out the league a
couple of years because they want that life. And for
me at a young age to have y'all good veterans,
I tried to be that for those guys. Hey, yo, yo,
come over here, like you don't need to do that. Hey, come,
just let's read our playbook over here. Hey, come over
to the house. Let's watch the film together. Because I
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had that for me, so going to other teams, you
knew the standards. So then to play at such a
high level when I left, be able to come back.
You're coming back because your defense is loaded. We got cam.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
If you got cam, you're good, beautiful. I just.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
For a second, but.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's just you know, I'm a drinking drink, right, and
I think it speaks right because because the water look,
look when you when you I think, getting the opportunity
to come back and have a second stint of the club,
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and it does speak to who you are as a player,
you know, because you need a lot of things to
go right for that to happen. You know, you either
more times than not, you don't leave on your own terms,
as we know for sure, even in your prime and
that right it's just business, yeah, you know. I mean
it comes as whether it's you're taking care of business
or not. But to have the opportunity and the timing
(18:48):
and the circumstance to fit to have a you know,
an opportunity to come back, you know, and for the
way that you departed to my to my knowledge, my
limited knowledge of it right for you to have it
in your heart to say, okay, I can do that,
because that's as big of a thing too now be
able to accept and go back and get past whatever
those you know, the hindrance or obstacle could have been,
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just emotionally, because you can have personal experience and you
can have a business experience, and sometimes one gets in
the way.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Or the other. I think, I think what a lot
of people don't understand is like how hard it was
for you know, there's there's tears of who make decisions
and for about as high as you can get, those
were decisions that they didn't want to make the very
first time I left. This is decisions that I'm literally
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in people's faces from top to bottom, paws that they're
crying in my face. Man, I did not see this coming.
I I'm praying for the best of you. We know
you're gonna you know hard, they toell us, but but
you know they see when they mean it, you know
what I mean, when they really life Like, Man, I
can't believe this is happening. So to go through the
(20:04):
drama of like every off season kind of you knowing
what's on your back, you knowing, Okay, why why am
I putting up? I'm top three in the league in
I in t second on team and tackles like I'm
out here snapping, but just nobody nobody.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Want me around.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Okay, I get with y'all. I see what y'all long.
So for me at a young at like early stage,
I already knew like football is gonna be over soon,
like they're trying to make it over for you soon.
I think the connections that I made because those coaches said, man, no, no, no, no,
we have to bring the baller in personality and the
person who we know, this guy is no matter what
y'all think, at the very top. So for me to
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come back, man, it was a blessing to serve this
panther nation.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's why it means so much to me to not
I only play college here, but to play here, leave,
come back. Know what it's like to be very hurt
in the comeback and like, man, the height of it
and then the very bottom of like this is the
start of something what we thought would be new, but
this is like it hurts. We're building a new foundation.
And sometimes when you build new foundations.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I love it hurts. I love what you said. You
said to come back and serve. That was That's powerful, bro.
I got chills because it goes back to how you
were brought up with your mom. You know what I'm saying, Like,
you really view everything as how can I serve? And
as a young guy you might not be able to
apply that right, but as you get older, you realize
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how valuable your time is in situations, especially playing football. Right,
Like you one of the top top but you get
a perspective. Yeah, and so to come back and view
this as an opportunity to serve, like like, where do
you see you know, a panther team right now where
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that can be of value?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Man, I mean these guys who called me in the
locker room right now with me and you both know
I should be in about year twelve still really playing
at least third safety veteran.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Come on, I might be able to get a gone
carrying in.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'm just I'm just saying, Jason, you got no bad
feet man, money up, money up my case.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And we had about I don't know how many people
we had on so far. Everybody know about these feet.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Go on man toes.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
So for me in this locker room, man, you need
those steady vets man who will not waiver that know,
the standard is the standard. We're just around the corner.
Just keep pushing. Hey, we might have to do a
little extra. Yes, that might be how we're structured, Like,
let's be real with each other, Hey, d line, you
might have to attack a little bit more. Hey, linebackers
(22:52):
in hands. We know we're on our backup linebackers. Okay,
we might know they're trying to put their hands on
us as big boys. We got to find a way
to get the job done at the end of the day.
So for me, it's like having those guys who can
be real with them, have fun with them, let them know,
a it's okay to mess up. Hey, I got your back,
Like you got to build that chemistry throughout it, and hey,
I hope they have that right now. But I would
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tell you without Shaq Thompson around, I don't know what
that looks like. When Shaq Thompson is a product of us.
I know what leadership looks like in Shack because I
know he got that through me. I know he got
that with Thomas Davis, with Luke Keighley. Like when you
have leadership passed down through you, it's a staple. So
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I don't know what they have in that locker room.
I pray they got guys who are able to maneuver.
But for me, I know in locker rooms like this
is where you thrive because this is where you give
young guys the confidence that, hey, you can play. My
last game, I played with seven rookies on the field,
one year two, one year three, and me year seven.
Come on, man, are we in the NFL are we
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really in the NFL, and what I do that game
think like nine tackles a sack, you know, like all
a couple of PBUs like that. That's what the young
group when you're talking about grown men on that field
who can scheme against you whenever they want. If they
want to outpower you, they can outpower you. They whatever
they want to do, they can do. Because we're just young.
You can't have seven rookies on the field at once.
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Where are we at that we think we can do
stuff like that. So obviously that's going you know here
or there. But for me, that's what is the use
for me is because I can get guys like that
to play with confidence. I can give guys like that
to think that, hey we can get the job done.
Hey when we are down, it's okay, let's keep going.
Get the ball back to the offense. Every moment matters.
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We can get a pick, we can get a force fumble.
You can do so much. And I learned that because
playing with a Peanut Tillman, you never doing a fumble
can happen. Luke, you never doing a zack could come
from either you know, uh.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
All out during training camp.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's magical like, for real, I've never seen anything like like,
I've never like, you know it, you know the nickname,
you know everything about it, but no, you've never seen
it like it's in practice every single day about three,
you know, about I would say two, yeah, it's it's
it's sick. But yeah, man, I think, yeah, man, you
gotta serve. You got to serve to be able to
get teams like this back in the.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Where it goes, you know go.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You know, you're talking about identity and you're finding out
who you are and that comes through experience, that comes
through and it has the you know the chemistry of
a locker room, the chemistry of a team, the identity
of a team.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You need to have.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
A variety of demographics right from an age standpoint. You
have to have it because you can't replace that. You know,
you have guys who understand this. You know this ain't
the same kids. You know, you got grown men fighting
for families out here real day and the day y'all
in practice. Practice ain't just turn up like it ain't
no swich on game day, right like the special guys
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that can you reference to lts who hey, I forget
who we had on or a conversation I was having
recent somebody at played with the Chargers and they were
talking about, uh uh they had hit l T or
somebody hit LT.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
The entire coaching staff brought him and like, hey, don't
do that, right, But.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's those guys, the dudes, but everybody else like you
better strap up three into sixty five days and getting
ready to go right. So, but but in those trials
and tribulations, man, as much to be gained, right, That's
why we keep saying, and I truly believe it, because
you can see the progress that is being made in
a lot of different ways, even though sometimes it doesn't
(26:45):
it's not indicative on the scoreboard and whatnot. But that
said from a from a from a challenging standpoint in
your life, in your career. It brought you back to Carolina,
It brought you back to Charlotte, man, And like stew said,
he pointed out, you came back to serve and even
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I would I would say it served as a launch
pad for your career after football, for your second act
and what you're doing now. And so you know, talk
about it, man, I want to I want to dive
in right to to what you've done. On the Weather
Channel and in the TV space because obviously it's very
relevant the disasters that recently took place with the hurricane relief,
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and so you have experience with disaster relief for sure,
for sure. And so if you can tell us a
little bit about what you had going on, you and
your wife and the series that you guys completed.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah, so first I'll start off with man, youngins have
to take advantage of the moment while you're in the league.
You got to take advantage of being a NFL player,
not a former NFL player. While I was with the Chargers,
I had an opportunity to just do a training camp,
just set up with one of the guys and for
NFL Network, they love that setup. They asked me to
come back the whole season as the Charger correspondent. I
(27:59):
did you know twenty plus live total access shows that
launched me to Okay, now I'm done playing in the league.
ACC Networks like, hey, we don't know if you're playing again,
but we'd love to get your own show. Boom got
my Monday through Friday four through seven, three hours talking
today ACCPM. Now they found that for you though, like bro.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
A day.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, it's a little hard, just a little hard for
your boy fifteen hours a day, so to do those
they saw NFL network, they knew what I can do. Boom. Now,
in the middle of that, you know, I got a
call that, hey, we would love for you and your
wife to do a TV show renovating homes hit by
natural disasters around the nation. My nonprofit had already kind
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of partnered with the organization who was, you know, the
organization that was rebuilding the homes. So they asked them,
the organization, like, hey, do you guys recommend anybody like
we got we got fifty hg like people who we want,
but do you guys have anybody all would just recommend?
Just us like trying. They're like, well, we we've partnered
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with Trey Boston before and he's you know, he's been
on TV. He's on TV right now, you know, Like
and then they we rehearsed with, you know, had a
little trial with them, and they were just like oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah, let's go with this guy. My
wife killed it too. So that led us to go
around the nation man and to go from we renovated
homes in five days Monday, we get there We really
(29:30):
wouldn't start on Monday till about two thirty maybe three,
and by Friday about three through five, you gotta be done,
So it's really four days of work that we would
be We went through Florida and I got to started
my hometown for Minus Florida, which was so dope. You're
talking about like an experience of like serving my community.
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Not only get to serve the nation, but I get
to start in my hometown. I'm meeting like, oh, so
and so's grandma's house, so and so's Grandpa's house. Like
they're like, damn sure, you really look because it's it's
cool to do for others man, but you want to
know that the one who loved on you at a
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young age can get fulfilled to clothes. So it was
good to have it at that stage. My foundation does
tons of stuff, but again to be able to rebuild
people's grandparents and people's families homes, Bro, that meant so much.
So we're going Florida.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
After we went to Florida, we went to Louisiana. Bro.
I was in the Buyou in Louisiana. Bro. One of
the coolest experience is take a boat to the house
type of experience. Bro sick. After we went to Louisiana,
went to Texas Austin, Texas dealt with the freeze there.
So you're getting to deal with like different natural disasters,
whether it's hurricane, tornadoes, straight line wins. So to be
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able to go on these places, man, these families are deserving. Man.
They've been out their homes for two years to maybe
six months, not being able to use their home.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Kids might be sick, they're traveling you know, here to
there to the hospital, but they ain't got a home
to stay in. Sort of going there and be able
to serve them. In a week, we come to here Monday, Hey,
how you doing, man, We're meeting to the next thing.
You know, by Friday, you get your crib. That's amazing,
you get what I'm saying. So like, man, that was
so fulfilling because there was a lot of long nights.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I think the crew that we had, man, because they
weren't sleeping, like you know what I mean, Like we're
rebuilding homes in four days, Man, ain't no sleep. And
your boy over here doing subflooring. I'm doing just trusting
and rules. I'm doing everything like the audio and video.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
People are probably picking up hammers too during during the show.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, yeah, yes, you know what I mean. Like at
a point you literally got like we were going there
with like a total of maybe nine people on whole crew.
I'm talking the three four builders, the cameras, a couple
of assistance, the director, producer, me and my wife. That's it.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
How awesome is that that you get to do this
with your wife. Shout out to Sierra. She like she
shines in that show, bro. Like when I watched it.
When I watched it the first time, I was like,
oh dang, like her personality like I didn't I didn't
see that, And then being able to see it on
TV and just seeing you guys vibe is very inspirational
(32:29):
for couples in general. Just just talk about how how
special that is for you guys to do that together
on such a platform, especially you guys having two kids
and one day they'll be able to see mommy and
daddy on a TV of episodes of them doing good.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Man, And we took them with us too, so our
kids got to experience all that too.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It was so dope. So to deal with the wife
was amazing, man, because you know, our wives have kind
of took in a back seat to who we are,
so you don't get to experience a lot of our
wives in their spaces, their personalities. You know, we meet them,
Hey how's your wife doing? We you know might see
it you know here and there, wipe pass, you know
what I mean, Like, not often do we really get
to chill. We might have barbecues and stuff where they
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get to finally meet and stuff. So to allow her
to have a space where she can be herself, be
on TV, you know, it was new to her. You
know your boys, Yeah, let's go, you know. So for
me it was cool.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
You never see a Mikey Ain't like I tell you
I'm Paul.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
But hey, but it was cool bro to see her
kind of like accept this role come out and it's
like wow, like you got that in you, like like
you you really can do this. And it was cool
man to see her blossom through that. Because I'll say
that I was going with the wives taking the backseat
to us. But when we're done playing, we go from
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being in our wives face, you know, out their face
for ten to twelve hours a day, like we're grinding
maybe seven am to you know, seven PM. Maybe six
if you if you hurt like we were, you know
you you five six in the morning. Now you in
they face for ten more hours of the day. I
ain't got no job, really, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
I'm talking on the show, but you know I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Like you're a free agent.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'm free So for me for me to be able
to like get back into that connection of we we
have something now like it ain't just me by myself.
We got something that was dope, man, So to do
two seasons of that twenty homes. The last season was Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
middle of excuse me language, but middle of nowhere. They
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know them a focus Folcus, but middle of nowhere. Oh
my god. It was so fun man, Like we're in
where Mississippi with the Cox family. Man, it's so dope.
Five hundred people in the population of the town. They
own a store that serves the whole town. So every
day we might be renovating their home that's in the
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back of the store, but they were still in there,
serving the serving the community, cooking up their lunches. We
got to get in their cook up with them. They
serving us food. I had just seen them serving so
much man and cooking and doing everything. Big man the father.
I asked him, like, hey, man, if I get two
big tomahawks, you'll cook them up for me and you.
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He's like, you'll get two big tomawks. Like I'm gonna
get two healthy ones for me and you. You'll smoke
them up, y'all. I will listen. I went and got
the big est tamahawk steaks I ever seen in my life.
That man whipped them up and was so appreciative. He said, Man,
I hadn't had a tomahawk in like fifteen years, you
(35:45):
know what I mean, until I got him eating like
a t rex. I'm tall, bro. But it was so
dope to like being be able to interact with these
families man, Because again I'm not about like, hey, we'll
come to fixure home, all right, see you on Friday.
I made sure on that show something they loved about that.
As me and my wife said during the week, we
want to meet with these families. We want to chell
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with these families. We want to be a part of
these family lasting impact. Come on, man, something like now
I can call those family to say, hey, me and
my kids want to come back. You know you know,
it's somewhere we stayed and they all invited us back.
So it's a blessing, man.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I would imagine because it is.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It is truly a blessing just to be able to
have impact like that, and especially in a place that's
foreign to you, going into someone else's backyard. But drawing
it back to Carolina, I would imagine behind the scenes,
you guys were only able to capture so much, but
there was probably a hundred stories for everyone that you told,
you know, what are these folks dealing with right now?
(36:46):
Would you imagine, you know, like you know, I can
up there in the hills right now out in western
Carolina in Ashville and blowing a rock whatnot?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I would imagine that you've ventured these environments where you
almost don't know where to start.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
And you're probably helping out one family. You're doing one thing.
You just feel probably bad and sick to your stomach
that you can't help everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I'm talking You're talking blocks full of people who got affected,
and you're there to just help one family, and you
got families coming over every day, Like, man, can you
just can you just look at my roof? I've had
an inspecter. I've called insurance. It's been a year. Hey,
can you just come look at my floor?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
How do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Bro? Sometimes we send that two three over from that
nine man crew, five man crew, you know what I mean,
Like just let's try to serve, Like if we could
do it real quick, we'd love to try.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
But sometimes I mean, I mean, you don't even hear
the stories that come behind the people who've been affected,
like because they're trying to like, let you know, like
I need help, man, I've had this happened in my life.
This happened in my life, this happened to this having
my life. Oh and this hurricane came. You're like wow
yeah right, wow, Yeah back to your point. Sometimes all
(38:04):
you can offer is compassion. Yeah yeah, no, you can
offer a.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Hug, right So yeah, man, No, it's as special as
you're talking about that. I think about the stories off
the screen.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah no, So I go back to that. Man, I
know Ashviiel's in trouble man, Like you're talking about a
place that's never dealt with the natural disaster like this
ever and there so so they weren't prepared for this. Man,
It's not even like the water that flooded is like
clean fresh water. It's like mud slide. Like it's mud water.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So it's like, not only is it gonna damage things,
but everything it touches, it's gonna just it's it's destroying it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
So as much as we can come together help them
Hurricane what was it helenin or Heleen you know, just
those man, It's just it's just sad, man, because while
I was doing that show, like we do the research
on this stuff, man, They're like sending me the research,
the notes on this stuff, and you just see, man,
how often this stuff is coming and it ain't stopping
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every year. So it's just yeah, it's it's scary. It's scary.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
So well, Saturday is gonna be a special night Bag
of America Stadium. Yes, obviously you know, Stu, You've got
contacted with Luke Combs, and I know that Luke Eric Church,
Carolina Natives, Bailey's nimmer Man. I'm going ahead. I'm gonna
give him plug right now, even though we weren't playing
(39:28):
on that. But it's deservingly so because I don't know
if there's still tickets available. Maybe there is, but I
know that they went fast, but to raise some dollars
this weekend for those folks out there that are hurting,
and it's going to be a special night. Unfortunately we're
traveling to the game, so we're gonna miss out on it.
And I'm not, you know, grateful for that, right, but
(39:52):
but I do know that it's gonna be and I
you know, I love the music awesome. I think I'm
I really know. I think it's going to be a
special night emotionally for a lot of folks. And what's
going to come out of it on the back then
is even be even more special.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Music provides healing, man, no question. The question the way
that people connect to these artists, you know, that's that's
the gift of you know, people being so talented. You know,
they they are able to connect, They're able to take
their minds to a place of just like, well, at
least there's some hope, right.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
You're not alone in that story, in the in the tone,
whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
And I will say this too, this is going to
be a great event. It's going to make a big impact.
But this is just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
It has to be.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's got to be the mindset, the beginning of doing
something right.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
YEA so special night this Saturday.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
If you got a chance or the opportunity to go
ahead and purchase some tickets out and encourage you to
do so. Right here, Bank of American Stadium Concert for Carolina.
It's going to be it's going to be special.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Trey HBCU Man, Man, yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
He was telling me about this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
M Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
I was like, man, look that little fun he said,
He said, he struck up the band, struck at the
band this weekend.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Man speaking of music, Yeah, man.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
It's.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
My god.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
When you're here, I'm talking right there, your life.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Look at he hits.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
It ain't nothing like it, man, being in person for so, okay,
let's start this. I do a show that is like
a college game day but for HBCUs. And it's on
a channel called HBC you go. We're also shown on
the Grio. The owner of the Weather channel, Byron Allen,
owns these shows. That's how you know. They asked me
(41:57):
would I do this? I told him yeah, man, I
would love to serve the HBCUs. You know, so so
for me, you know, I do this show. We go
to uh this year, we've gone to classics and Homecomings
Southern Classic. Uh this year we just got done going
to Alabama two weeks ago, Alabama A and M. And
(42:20):
this week we just got done with Graanmlin State. Man
to see these places homecoming everything they talk about, Oh
you our homecoming differend All the band, Yes, it is,
it is.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
It is culture. Oh my god, Man.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
To see all these people come together. Man, just be
a great time line dancing. Listen. Oh man, I had
some ribs this weekend. Oh my god, Oh my listen,
I'm at they tailgate pretty much sleep in the chill
that thing had they had me, man, So to be
able to do this, Man, the reason why I did
(42:56):
it because a lot of these kids are under exposed. Uh,
they don't get any type of people talking about them,
no highlights, nobody knows their stats. And we wonder why
these HBCU players are going undrafted every single year. Well,
there is no value on them and people aren't valuing them.
So for me to be able to be the NFL
player that people trust, They've seen me on NFL Network,
(43:16):
they see me ACC network, they've seen me as an
NFL player, so they can pull up the highlights to
see this guy is a baller too. So for me
to be able to say, hey, I'm stamping Andrew Jones
from Gramla State at linebacker. He's a baller. He's going
to be all over the field. He's physical. I do
a personal segment on him, so you get to learn
about him, learn about the kid, meet him, and then
(43:38):
he goes out there and balls. Oh my god, one
play defensive player of the week. Come on, man, that's
what you do it for. Man, So to not only
put a light on this kid and just get the
ball out in that light. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Obviously you're doing the interviews throughout the week. Yeah, prepping
this guy. Yeah, he's looking at it smart on him. Yeah,
oh this is an opportu.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
No, actually, Chris, thing is I meet these kids on
a Friday. Let's say this week was I made him
at eleven am. We had the film by eleven fifteen,
so it's literally me fifteen minutes getting to learn who
he is. How you doing, man, listen, I'm here for you.
This is this, this is what I have planned for you.
These are the questions I'm going to ask, Hey, what
(44:22):
are you good at?
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (44:23):
What do you want your story to be?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
What do you want to talk about I will only
throw you at least, I will not lead you into destruction.
I'm gonna only lead you into a slam dumb. I
love that. So for me, it's getting these kids who
have never had the opportunity, so the very first opportunity
is easy to go, oh yes, sir, I'm yes, I
am so, and told from her it's like no, no, no,
no yourself for yourself, man, I'm you tree. So for
(44:54):
me to loosen them up and allow them to like understand,
oh okay, he one of us, he got he's a
friendly man. We go through these man and like I said, man,
I'm gonna post that on my ig probably the day
or tomorrow of just his interview, and man, what I mean,
it was just so powerful to see a young man
talk the way he did. He spoke about his mother
just giving him that grit and how she wasn't violent,
(45:16):
but she told him on the field like inflict that pain,
you know, just like little things like that, right right, right.
So it's dope to give to that community and the
HBCUs because you know that maybe a few of those
players are absolutely prosper and a lot of those players
come from big time schools, four stars, five stars that
had to transfer with you know how the portal is
(45:37):
these days. So man, these kids are ballings. So to
be able to put a stamp on them and help
them in their journeys.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, it's a blessing, man, It is great to see.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Actually, I remember a few years back, it's probably three
four years ago, I was talking with front office personnel
who was actually in the pr space okay for many
years in the NFL, within twenty five plus years, and
I remember I wanted to do a spotlight on all
of the former players for this NFL team when I
was working with the Buffalo Bills, and I wanted to
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pull all of the players that had attended in HBCU
spotlight them during the month of February Black History man.
And I sent an email, you know, and focused on
HBCU play and I remember getting applied. What's the HBCU now, No,
So I thought about it, right, and I was thinking
to myself, like, I mean, I don't know if I
(46:26):
can fault him. You know, I don't know where he's from,
I don't know his background. But it was a surprise
to me that someone had worked in the NFL space
for that amount of time, had not know the acronym
for historically back college and university.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
So back to your point about not being spotlight a
highlighted record. We always say, if you're good enough, they
gonna find you.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
Yeah, maybe and so and so.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
To have an entire network and television station focused on
it right now, it's special, man, And I dive another story.
You know, I had a good pleasure. I've gotten to
know shock Hair Yeah, right, James Shaq Herrott HBCU legend.
We all know Shaq one of the first black quarterbacks
to start an NFL game. And Shaq and invited me
to be his guest at the Black College Football Hall
(47:11):
of Fame a few years back down in Atlanta. So
I got to sit in on the ceremonies. I got
to meet a lot of these casts that you know
that are going in and guys that you know household
names man and too Tall Jones. I mean, you know,
like you're going in and so Donald Driver. You know,
like you're you're watching these guys get inducted and you're
(47:33):
thinking to yourself, like, man, how many casts didn't get
that out?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Okay, let me let me get back on this one. Okay,
Paul's okay, listen. Eddie Robinson from like the forties to
like the eighties had put in two hundred players into
the NFL Grandma State, Grandma State head coach legend four
hundred and eight wins more than Paul Bryant. Bear Bryant,
I'm talking legendary, and I think about again, we aren't
(47:59):
highlighting these kids. So imagine back then how he was
getting these guys to the NFL. Now, I will also say,
back then, there wasn't a lot of brothers on teams,
so you had to go to those HBCUs and go
get your ballers back in the days. So for now
they don't have to. That's why it's so important that
(48:19):
now we must highlight these kids because they feel as
if they don't got to no more because their schools
already have them. We got our bunch, and again we
know we want you when you're undrafted. Were gonna call
your phone seventh round. Let you know, hey, anybody there,
we're gonna give you ten K, come on over. We
gotta get these kids values enough and talked about to
where they say, you know what, four fifth round, sixth round.
(48:41):
We gotta grab this.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Guy, got to there's a ton of history there. Man,
I would urge any of listeners.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
And if you get a chance to go to the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, make sure you stop by
the Black College Football Hall of Fame exhibit there. It's incredible.
You just rambled off just about Eddie Robinson. But the
stories that exist, uh, you know again in my space
and this this history called alumni sphere.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
It's it really is like, man, like, I can't believe it, bro,
what could be?
Speaker 2 (49:11):
You know?
Speaker 3 (49:11):
So?
Speaker 1 (49:12):
But that's awesome for you, man, again, just just a
launch pad of opportunity for you taking it running with it.
It's great to see you thriving in the second act, man,
So keep that going for sure.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
You know, for sure, man, I think we uh.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
With you?
Speaker 4 (49:29):
We didn't we didn't see see we didn't pick up
on the paddle.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
Oh okay, we got to got three minutes left. Okay, listen,
I'm big on Padel man. Y'all need that world, the world.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
See, I didn't when it first when he first started
saying the time him like is he just saying it wrong?
It's like, is this what it is?
Speaker 3 (49:47):
Listen, I'm talking to y'all. Now these guys there, Padell,
I'm serious about it's a new sport. Well, it was
out in It's a new sport to America. So in
the sixties it was invented. It was played within like
Mexican col Spain and Argentina are huge in it. Like
there's like over sixteen thousand courts in Spain. Spain is
on the side of Texas. Texas right now only holds
(50:08):
like thirty you know what I mean. Like, it's ridiculous
how they play this sport. It's second to soccer right now.
Right now you google fastest growing sport in the world
now United States in the world. Paddle. You know, listen,
you can say paddle, but it's pudell. You gotta stay
at like you gotta accent, like like you're from Spain
and Argentina and you told them say paddle, they'd be like, oh,
(50:29):
but that you know what I'm saying, that big on it.
It's so fun. Reason I like it because pick a
ball that's for grandma's I'm keeping the real If your
sixty year old grandma can hangle me, I am not
trying to play with the grandma hook and whoop my butt.
I got too much dog in me to allow anybody
(50:50):
who fifty forty to think they could even compete with me.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
You're playing a sixty year old grandma.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
You go, absolutely, he's gonna dog. I'm gonna dog like
I'm not trying. I'm trying to do any component.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
What's the difference.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
Okay, So it's like racquetball and tennis put together. So
it has its own racket and you can hit it
and when it bounces, it can hit off the glass,
and then when it comes back, you just hit it
back on the other side. Now, this is why I
like it, because your grandma can't bend over, go back
and hit that back over. She's not an athlete, you
(51:25):
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
You so basically saying this provides you an opportunity to still.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Be an athlete. Yeah, we don't want to go from
elite athletes to like like regular athletes, like.
Speaker 4 (51:35):
People just taking games and just smashing it whatever it like.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Racquetball has one glass, they have two glasses. You know
what I'm saying. Tennis, I gotta see it. It's dope.
Bro to come out, bro, okay, you come out, listen, listen.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
You know one sports and.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
Listen. Just me on this real quick. If y'all want
to come out with me, y'all hit my I g
up on Twitter. Let me know, y'all want to come
out and play. Matthews has a court. We can listen.
We can have a whole event, Panther Nation. You know,
we need some fun, so we can have a whole
event on Sunday. We could just not even wear about Sundays.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Allowed, I'm just playing.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
I'm just playing. I'm just playing. But for real, my
Panther Watch party is gonna come up. I need y'all
give me a couple of dates. We're gonna watch some
y'all know how we do come together the last year, sir,
I ain't do a date on it, but I need
y'all to you know, know that's coming your way. But yeah, Padel,
I'm for real, just watch party that's coming up to man.
So you know what I mean, Man, I'm here for
the people.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
Man Tray Boston, the people shamp Yeah, I'm not so,
but you let's let's let's get out to the court.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
Let's get out to the court for beat. You don't
come back up and allowed back.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
Up in here.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
You might not be left that one down before we
get out. Before we get out, I really want a
quote from you, okay, And I want to quote about service.
Speaker 4 (52:58):
Okay, okay, trade boss is about service. I give you that.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Things just easy, man, treat others how you want to
be treated. I think that's that's just that's like the
simplest thing you can give a kindergarter, and they should
be able to take that through life. Now we know
there's levels within that, but man, what it feels like
to just treat somebody the way you would love to
be treated. Man, when you're having a hard day, you
would love somebody to come over there and just say, man,
(53:28):
hey man, how you doing. Man, you're doing well? Anyway
I can help you. So go over to that person
who's struggling or not having a good day and ask them, hey, man,
I see you having a hard time. Man, can I
help you anyway? I can service you? Because we all
holding luggage, every one of us. We're all holding luggage.
So to be able to take off a bag off
somebody's shoulder. When you're at the airport and you got
(53:50):
four or five bags, somebody just take you and now
you have two, you can move around a little bit
more so for me. That's how life is.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
You gotta serve others. Be happy, like really enjoy that
God is storring your treasures when you do stuff like this,
Like God is really blessing this moment. He is rejoicing.
The heavens are rejoicing and smiling that you were able
to reflect what the kingdom looks like. So yeah, man,
that's the simple it is. Man, treat us how you
(54:17):
like to be treated. I love it.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
Man, thank you for stopping.
Speaker 3 (54:22):
Still and the crew.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Blessings to everything that you got going on in your family.
All right, we out appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (54:29):
Go keep pounding.
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