July 10, 2025 • 54 mins
The upcoming T.J. Carrie Foundation Heart Warrior Run and Walk on Saturday, June 28th. Listeners are encouraged to join the 5K run, one-mile walk, or 100-yard kids’ run, hosted by NFL veteran T.J. Carrie. The event will feature music, referees, and cheerleaders, with proceeds supporting the foundation’s programs. Participants are urged to track and share their steps, with all forms of movement—walking, biking, or playing—counting toward the challenge. Visit tjcarriefoundation.org for details.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is WOVU Studios. I'll welcome to our voices today
right here on WOBU ninety five point nine FM with
your beloved Unicorn of the Land, DJ Black Unicorn aka UNI.
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How you doing, how you live, and how you feeling?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Our voices today right here on ninety five point nine
f MWOVU burtonbel Car Community Radio. And you already know
what we've been doing. At the top of the ten
o'clock hour. We've been taking those cleansing breath because the
pause for the causes yourself, your mental health, making sure
that you are able to do what it is that
you need to do. And you can't do that off
for razzle dazzle all you know, just wished up, wishway,
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twist it all up, and you gotta recenter, you gotta pause,
you gotta slow down.
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Look, I know the world is so.
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Fast paced these days, but look UNI is here to
remind you.
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The pause for the cause and it causes yourself. So
you know what to do.
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Deep breath in hell through the no balls, deep excel
through the mouth. Because as a kid say life be
life in and I agreed at different points at different times.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know, life is a mountain and valley.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, but you never stay
up or down too long.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So just remember, just remember to keep breathing.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I have someone so special live in the studio with
me here on our voices today today, joining us here.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
When we were we were a little bit late because
the others studio, we're excited as well. They wanted to
talk football, they want to talk domes, they want to
a field and just the g love of the game
that never really leaves you. But we're gonna talk about
that after I allow my guess you know what, I
usually do that, but like he's too not you know,
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I love all my guests, don't get me wrong, but
he's very special and near and dear to my heart
because that's the amazing work that he does. And you
don't see too many people who are in the spotlight
who are superstars and they know it, and they are
not only superstars, but are walking testimonies, and they give
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that reverence to the Lord and understand that without that
foundation that they would not be here. Understand without that
love from the universe, that they would not be here.
And so to see them make sure that that love
is exuded through the rest of the community and that
they have resources and access. It's such an amazing thing.
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Y'all got Tjky live.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
In the studio with me.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Geez.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
But I tell you the intro was fired. I mean, wow,
that it took me back for a moment.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I felt like I'm a superstar all over again, like
I was getting introduced to a game.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I tell you super appreciative for giving us the time
and opportunity to talk today. Man, it's a lot of
things to talk about today, so I'm really tuned in
for some of the facts that we're gonna talk about,
discussing the foundation, right what's going on in the world, man,
the I mean, it's a lot of decisions that our
Browns fans are thinking about right now. So I definitely
want to comment on some of those things. But have
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some fun man talk mingle about a lot of the
good aspects that we're doing out in the community, and
then just having casual conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yes, I'm excited. I'm so very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So we're gonna talk like we never had a conversation
on our voices today, right, we got.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
A clean slate.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Some things have changed here at WWU. If you didn't know,
now you know somehow. If you've been under a rocker,
you've been listening with a muted ear. I don't know,
but the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Sound is different.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Everything that is different, So understand what is not different
is the mission. Understand that we are still the beacon
of the community. We are still the voice of the community.
The mission has not changed. And that is why these
conversations are so important. That is why it's so importance
for us to encourage each other to get involved with
our health. Because you, yourself, mister Carry, at the age
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of fourteen, were diagnosed with a coronary artery anomaly. And
look that I even say that, right, because like, I'm
not good with medical words. I'm no doctor. I'm only
doctor on the wheels of the steel, you feel me.
But that led to an open heart surgery. How did
that experience influensh your decision to establish TJ. Carey Foundation
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in the first place.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, no, it was big. You know, a lot of
times we go through things and I feel like there's
alone feeling right, that there's no one out there experiencing
what you're going through, And a lot of that information
is false, right, and so when I set out to
really start the foundation, it was in the mind frame
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of being able to adjust to the community of some
of the aspects that we needed at that time. Now,
my surgery was very rare, a right a brand corner
artery when I was fourteen fifteen years old. We did
about a year of testing first, and at that time
these surgeries was very very rare. There had only been
twelve surgeries done in the world at that time because
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of the rarity, and so it took us a good
year just to kind of find out. And I remember
myself going through going to high school and I would
have to wear a machine on my chest just to
figure out the processes. And you're young, you don't know
if that's normal or not. And from that aspect of
going through that experience, having open heart surgery on Valentine's Day,
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which is why Valentine's Day is such an important day,
it made me look back and say, man, there's more
families out there that's going through this same environment, that's
going through the same situation, and they may feel alone.
And we needed an aspect and an approach to be
able to let our communities know, let our families know
that Hey, there's someone else out there like you that's
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going through this, and there's other families that you can support,
talk to and understand the perspectives of what congeneral heart
disease is. And so we started the foundation and it's
been a phenomenal journey throughout the roads of really impacting
communities from a different aspect.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh when you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Say different aspect, can we talk about that aspect on
what that looks like?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah? Health and wellness? Man, A.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Lot of our being right, a lot of our eating,
a lot of our activity, a lot of the things
that we wake up and do first thing in the
morning really sets the day, sets.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The schedule of the foundation of the body. Right.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And everyone always says, man, yolo, right, you only live once.
You only got one body as well, right, So we
got to make sure we all driving ferraris around here,
and we got to put the ninety three gas in
those things, right, and so we got to look at
our body as that temple. And so one of the
biggest things that we always try to encourage is healthy living, right,
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And that's eating healthy, that's being active, being conscious of
your mental state.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Something that I think for a while we kind of
missed in terms of why it was so important. But
it's a big aspect of who you are, what you do,
and how you set your goals and sites. And I
think one of the biggest things that we talk about
is goals and dreams, right, dream big. And I was
the real model that we kind of set apart to say,
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through what you're going on, you still have the aspect
to dream big. And those dreams take the discipline of
making sure all these other factors are in place, right,
eating healthy, being active, and being conscious of your mental state,
and those things can be achieved.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Wow, And they definitely can be achieved. Like for me,
I am you know now conditioning. I'm not gonna front
like I was doing it before. You know, I realize
it's about that five K time.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But I see you out there last year.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, I said, oh,
I gotta do better this.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I was embarrassed idea last year was and I said,
I gotta start early this year. I got it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And this should be an ongoing thing.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And that's why it's important to be involved in these
type of situation an events because look, if it wasn't
for that event last year, the five Ktjkerry Foundation five K.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I would not have gotten a running at all that year.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I don't think and we we you know, I think
the concept and mentality of activity is we live in
this mindset that we gotta go in there and get
an hour a day or two hours a day, and
it's it's kind of like more is better, right, if
you can go in there and do twenty five minutes,
if you can go in there and do thirty minutes. Man, Look,
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I got twenty five minutes to put in today, and
that consistent approach of twenty five minutes every day, rather
than you going in there on Monday and putting an
hour and then you so sore you can't go back
in there until Thursday.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well, I ain't got four to.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Twenty five minute sessions in right, and so twenty five
thirty minutes man. And it could be something just pulling
up something on YouTube, just looking. I mean, social media
is so crazy right now. There's people posting social media
workouts all day, every day, just on social media. Let
me just go grab a twenty five minute workout, and
so those things are important.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Go for a walk, man.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
People underestimate the importance of walking and it's you know,
I see in our neighborhood, in our community, I see
eighty ninety year old people walking every day miles and
I'm like, man, that's how you stay young. So it's
not about consistently having to put the hour to two
hours in. If you got twenty five minutes every day,
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anticipate that, set it in the schedule and go out
there and do it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, it's so much easier than mister Carrie, do you
have like any I don't know pointers or anything when
it comes to that, because I know, like a part
of the five K you waking up early.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Not only are you conditioning, you know, maybe two a days,
three days, I don't know your life, but in the
early morning, people have the opportunity to meet you downtown
if they want to condition with you before the run
that is going down June twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But we're gonna talk.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
All about it.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, So I think the biggest thing, and I think
this is a great segue to implement one of the
things that we're implement this year, which is the thirty
eight Strong. It's the campaign that we're going to do
for thirty eight days, and what it really is is
kind of doing thirty eight days of activity your way, right.
So that's walking, that's running, that's cardio, that's lifting, that's swimming.
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You know a variety of ways of how you can
be active throughout the day. And we're just challenging you
do thirty eight days?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Can you commit to doing thirty eight days? And I
think the biggest thing is, in order to change any
aspect of life, something has to be sacrificed. Right, So
first said it again, Yeah, change any aspect of life,
something has to be sacrificed. So most of the time,
the first thing everybody does when they wake up is
check their phone. What's new on social media? What's new
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on my emails? Who texts me? What business do I
get to get done? What is mo my calendar today?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
And so it's like, when are you going to commit
to giving yourself the time?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And sometimes that is, Hey, I don't need no distractions.
I got thirty minutes. I'm gonna go downstairs, or I'm
gonna go to the gym, or I'm gonna just do
some body squad some push ups, some dips, some crunches, right,
a couple high knees running in place, some jumping jacks.
You don't even gotta go to the gym. Like, there's
so many things that you can do by just being
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present at home. Right, you got water jugs at home.
You got a gallon of milk that weighed five ten pounds.
You might not even need weights, you know, so.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
In the day told you if you ain't have a weight,
you better grab a can of stel.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I mean, there's so many things, and so I think
the aspect of physical activity is it's important. It's crucial
for longevity in life and a lot of the different
things that old mentality. If you don't use it, you
lose it. Right, So we got to be more active,
and I think that the world that we're living in now,
you're seeing the ramping up of just being active in
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a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
So, transitioning from the NFL to philanthropy, I want to
know about that process and that experience for you.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Because again, you're a huge star.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You still are, and you are now making sure that
you are giving back that little brown kids that look
like you that may be experiencing things that you experienced,
are getting the resources and access that they need.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
It.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I mean, you know, in all things, right, when you
reach a pinnacle of life where you achieved that goal
and you're in the position of transitioning out, always challenges, right,
And I think that the biggest challenge is, you know,
your daily aspect of waking up and being accustomed to
a schedule, a routine, an identity that is different right
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from from the norm. It it takes a little bit while,
it takes a while. And I think the biggest thing
that you know, I'm really grateful for, you know, my
team family is just always kind of actively being present
and understanding that identity of who you are isn't your job, right, Like,
that's not who you are as a person. You create
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who you are on an everyday basis, and so being
able to separate the athlete from you know, TJ. Carey
the person from the philanthropist is it's a part of
just every day waking up and understanding that there's different
purposes in life and the transition of okay, we're full
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time into philanthropy now, like what does this look like? Right,
rel looking at at our team and understanding how can
we be more impactful? And some of the biggest strides
that our team has made is just being able to
spread more awareness of what we've done, who we are,
and how we can continue to impact.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And so.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Very thankful for a lot of our team, our counsel
who continuously give us guidance on hey, look, we need
to kind of be a part of you know, these
communities to spread who we are, we need to kind
of get more out there.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
So it's definitely a challenge, and I think that my
road and experience is definitely different than a lot of
other professionals in whatever field, so tremendously a great opportunity
to transition and say, all right, this is what we're doing.
And so the run walk, you know, this will be
our third run walk, which is phenomenal because at each
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one we've had the opportunity to really showcase that you
can be active through some of the challenges that you
go through, right, struggles, obstacles in life.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
There's still a way to be active.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And so running was was never my biggest feat, right, No,
never long distance, right, So this would be my third
five k.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And uh, I.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Think the first two were challenging, So this one we'll
see how it goes. I think this course that we're
at is challenging.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, it's chilnge.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It got heels and all kind of stuff, y'all. Look
look it's not for the week carded. But look look
if you're scared, don't be scared. Still show up, Still
be a part because there is a walking aspect. And look,
nobody's gonna shame you. I stopped a lot of times, honey.
Last year I stopped a lot of times. But I
made sure to keep going and make it to the end.
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And that is what is important. That what is the
most important part of it. Because getting to the end,
what does it mean?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, it means completion. Man, Getting to the end is
is you know, it's that. It's that old example like
no one sees the work put in. They only see
the end result, right, And so whether you're walking you're running.
I think my second one, our last run walk, Uh,
I stopped and I was like, man, I stopped. I
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kind of helped myself to accountability to say I wasn't
going to stop, but I stopped. Then I finished, and
when I finished our our our race coordinator told us, hey,
you ran one of the fastest times for your group.
And I was like, wow, that's that's pretty awesome, and
so uh, this year around, it's uh, you know, I'm
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gonna prepare a little different because I didn't know that
all of the course last year, the back half was
all uphill. So I've been on my lifting and and
uh and my treadmill and uh, just a little different experience.
Just give you some background of the race. Right, So
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June twenty eighth at the Slavafski Overlook race registration at
eight am. Right, we're doing We're still doing our kids
dash eight forty five and then we'll start the five
k run walk. You have an option to run walk
a mile, right, and then we have prizes and awards
at the end.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
So it's a great event to come out. Last year
we had really really phenomenal weather. We had some of
our heart Warriors actually run the entire race. And when
I say her warriors, I'm talking about our kids ranging
from eight to seventeen. That random and I was like,
that is phenomenal. Right for them to see that, hey
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there's someone else out there like me doing it, and
then for them to kind of take advantage to say
I'm going to run and it could be a try,
it could be a jog, right, it could be a sprint, right,
So just getting through the finish line is a big
accomplishment because it's shows that you had your mind on
something you were able to accomplish it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
So I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
They'll go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You are listening to our voices today, this is your
beloved unicorn of the land.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You need having a great conversation with mister t.
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I want to say tg Il, but we're not there yet.
We got one more.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Dayjkry live in the studio with us talking all about
his upcoming.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Warrior heard Run and look.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Look if you definitely want to be a part, if
you want all the details that we're going to be
talking about for the remainder of this show, you also
visit TJ. Carey Foundation dot org. That's t J. Carrie
Foundation dot org. Make sure you stick a state dope
go away. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
So welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Guard voices today right here on WU ninety five point
nine f M. During the break. Of course, the richest
conference some time happens.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But welcome back.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
If you are just doiting in this is UNI having
a great conversation with mister TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Carrey of the TJ.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Carry Foundation talking all about a wonderful upcoming event that
you definitely need to be a part of, which is
the TJ Carry Heart Warrior five k. And if you
are intimidated of running, it's okay, you can walk. If
you are intimidated of walking, it's okay. Show up with
your babies and just support them. Okay. You talked about
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the impact and making sure as you embark on this
philanthropy journey that you make sure that what it is
that you are doing is impactful. And one of those
things that you make sure that you do with the TJ.
Carrey Foundation is hospital visits. Can we talk about those
hospital business, what you have experienced during those business with
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you witness and just the joy that you've been able
to bring because I'm sure, I'm I'm sure the.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Man that's it's such a great opportunity to have the
ability to put smiles on kids' face, right, moms, dads,
and talk a lot about their experience. And so the
hospital visits they started in two thousand, we were actually
doing them twenty fourteen as soon as I came into
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the league my first year, and we started with Oakland's
Children's Hospital, which was the hospital that performed my open
art surgery. And then that the hospital visits grew. They
grew from just being able to be present to providing
shadow buddies to then working on activity books to give
to the families when they're actually there. And so the
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customization of how we kind of go into these vulnerable
situations right and we're very appreciative of all of our
program partners for our hospital visit program that allow us
to come and then our parents who through this experience,
they're able to still have the ability to withstand someone
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coming into that vulnerable situation and giving guidance and given
inspiration and giving hope. And so it's such a great
opportunity because you you'll find that when you go into
these hospitals and you go into and talk to our
heart warriors, they're all have most of them have smiles
on their face. They've created their rooms to either a
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lego land or you know, I've seen Spider Man rooms,
I've seen colorful rooms, I've seen blue rooms, and they
really understand that Okay, this is this is right now
and experience and being able to talk to mom, dad
and share the stories and them hearing like, wow, Okay,
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I didn't know that we had a possibility to be
able to still.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Do these things.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And so for them to hear kind of the experience
and us provide a resource for connection community in them
to say, I didn't know that there were other families
that had some of the same surgeries or procedures, and
they're right here in my backyard. And so I think
that's one of the biggest things that we make sure
we capture is giving them resources to say, hey, there
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is an aspect that you can still tap into that.
It's been phenomenal and I love it. So every Valentine's Day,
we go through that entire week, you know, the February month,
we go through and we visit all of the program
partners that we visit with from a hospital standpoint, we
you know, sometimes twenty thirty, forty fifty kids at a
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time throughout that week that I'm personally able to see,
talk to and give support, you know. So it's a
phenomenal chance. It's a phenomenal opportunity to really capture those moments,
share the stories. It was funny, I actually are on
our last visit, I used to watch wrestling a lot
wwww right, and uh yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Still I was having a conversation so where they were like, oh, well,
you know, I grew up and got in the girls
and I was like, oh, you're just laying and you
don't have an outlet.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Well, one of the one of the kids, one of
the hard words, was talking and discussing about they used
to have a belt that was called like the anywhere
you're at belt, where it's like.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Four to seven belt anywhere home, it will catch.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You anywhere, pull up on you and a camera.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And I thought that was the craziest thing. And I
was like, that's such an experience. And he was just
telling me about you could be at a restaurant and
they just like you said pull up, let's go.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I want that. And I said, man, that's that own
site mentality. Man.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And uh to see that was, you know, phenomenal. To
hear his story the past about it and to kind
of go back and relive that moment when I used
to love those things, the games and everything in the
aspect of it. So you hear some unique and amazing
stories from those events.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And I want people to understand when they participate in
this year's five K and next year's and the one
that they participated in last year. With those funds are benefiting,
it's benefiting those medical visits, is benefiting.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
These camps that you do every June. Can we talk
about the camp?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, Camp Carrie Man. We're going on our fifth year
with Camp Carrey and Wow, such an impactful situation that
we've created in terms of a program and opportunity. It's
at Mammy Bay and so the whole concept behind Camp
Carey is really to be able to provide families an
opportunity to connect with other families, so creating that community
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and also give them a little time to kind of
experience some of the beauty of Mommy Bay. Right, there's
a ton of opportunities there, nature experience, there's a beach,
We do a.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Lot of gaming there.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
So it gives them an opportunity for some of the
kids that do struggle with physical activity to kind of
see other kids push themselves. And we got a game
over there called Wallyball. And I don't know if any
of you all played Wallyball. Okay, so it's volleyball, but
it's inside so you're able to actually hit.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
The ball off the wall.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And when I tell you, this is one of the
most competitive games that we've ever played. And I'm talking
about moms and dads in there too, and they are competitive.
But it's an opportunity for us to bring these families together.
We provide so much from a mentally socially impactful standpoint
to our kids and our families, and understanding that heart
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disease affects everyone. It affects mom, dad, siblings. I got
four of the brothers and I'm the fourth, and so
my disease affected how all of the other brothers had
to kind of treat me. It affected the time that
I got to spend with Mom and dad. I got
to spend more time, and so we understand the entire household.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, it shifted everything shifted everything right.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Mom and Dad are now you know, they're working and
more hospital visits, so someone is always in a strained position,
and Camp Carry is able to give the support to.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
All of them.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
So we provide program from everywhere, Mom and Dad, sibling programming.
We have a lot of different therapists that we have
come out and to support that event, and so those
that is actually live now, if you are someone that
has had congeneral heart disease of any aspect. Go to
the Tjcareyfoundation dot org website. That link is live on
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our website now you can go on there and complete
an application, and that is for families from ages eight
to seventeen. Please go on there if you have anyone,
if you need support, if you need assistance, our foundation
is able to provide some of those things for you
to come out and experience that. We've had found fly
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out from different states and we're able to support for
them to come out and just experience that and leave
with knowing that they're a part of a community that
now supports the times that they are that may seem
that there's no way out right, so come out. Support
the run walk is a benefit, true benefit to be
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able to provide a lot of these different opportunities for
the families that we serve.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yes, and look, if you want to support all these
amazing initiatives that the TJ. Carey Foundation is doing, you
need to find yourself. June twenty eighth a a am shot,
because that's when registration.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Begins that day.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Look, we're talking nineteen thirty three West eleventh Street, right
near the bridge. Look It's going to be a beautiful
day again. I have full faith it's going to be
a nice sun shining day shining. Yes, no clowds, no glowds,
no glowds.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
We don't want no.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Maybe just a little listen, little, just so little, you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Know, the sun running, just a little bit of clouds,
not too much, not too much. No rain, maybe just
a little bit of rain, a little sprinkle just to
keep us cool.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
We had this.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I know we getting really specific in this prayer, but
we want a nice beautiful day. Lord, please a nice
beautiful day so we can run in peace. The five
k Hartware Running Walk look again. The twenty eighth registration
begins at eight eight am. And if you want to
support all these amazing initiatives that's going on with TJ.
Carrey Foundation, please sign up run walk, Bring your kids
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a kid Dash? Why is it important for you to
incorporate the kids and everything that you are doing when
it comes to the foundation, like the kid Dash?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah, the kid Dash is an opportunity because one I
got kids, and I got four amazing kids.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And may I say your little daughter was so adorable
last year, her little cheerier too.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yes, yeah, man, HeiG tails.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Did you see that picture of you on No, it's
a picture of you and her. You were holding her
in your lat while you were getting screened.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I gotta check that out, man.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
But you know, kids are part of us, man, They're
our future, right, And so I've always felt like I
had an obligation for me and our team to be
able to pour into them because they're the future generation.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And so the.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Kids' dash is important because it gives them their spotlight.
It lets them know that you are important, You are
a part of the process.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We need you.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
And so you know I'm competitive as well, So we
do a little dash, right, so let's see who the
fastest in the group is. And then a lot of
our heart warriors are kids, right, and so it gives
them an opportunity to to see other heart warriors exert
themselves in a way that's safe, it's controlled in a
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safe environment, and so that encourages them next year to say, hey,
I've seen so and so running the kids dash you
mom and dad. Sometimes they connect I seen your son
or your daughter running the kids dash, right? Or do
they do other activities? And you'd be surprised some of
our hard warriors or wrestlers or cheerleaders, play sports, and
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so they really kind of outgrown the mentality that they're limited.
And this gives them an opportunity to just continue to
build within themselves and see that. And so the Kids
Dash is an amazing opportunity for our kids to be
able to participate in the run as long as walking,
you know, they'll still walk with mom and dad. And
last year you all came out and provided some amazing gifts, right,
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so not only come to the Kids Dash too, but
there's prizes there. You all did a phenomenal job of
being able to provide gifts for the kids that I
thought was just phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Ah, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. For sure.
We do what we can when we can't, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
So before we get into the fun stuff like the
football dam and things of that nature, before we there,
I want to talk about how many children, how many
of our young athletes are facing health issues on these courts,
on these fields, we have more and more kids that
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you It occurred with you at the age of fourteen,
and that was a rarity back then. Now in today's age,
it seems to be happening more and more and more
what would you say is an accounting factor into why
this is happening and how does it make you feel?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's as a heart worry or survivor yourself.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Man, it's and I say this in terms of just
the mentality that we've you know, society in some aspects
have had, is the old mentality of if I don't know,
I don't need to worry about it, right. And I
say that to say, if I don't know, if something's
wrong with me, then that's one less thing I don't
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have to worry about. And I think sometimes we have
that mentality because there are so many other things that
come attached with knowing, and so one of the big
aspects that we've been trying to kind of break through
that barrier is given access. And I think access to
health and wellness is something that a lot of organizations,
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not just ours, right, that partners that we work with
are really trying to get the awareness out to say
we're able to assist with knowing right and the steps
that come with knowing. And one of the big initiatives
that we did over the last few years was we
implement for the love of the game, get screen program
that we do, which is an opportunity for us in
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some of our program partners to come out to our
local high schools and screen our student athletes. And the
screenings are free, right. We come in, we bring the nurses,
we provide EKG and echo, and we look at your
heart to see if everything is okay right and if
there's further.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Tests to need it.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We have program hospitals that we work with that we
can send you to to provide questions, updates, situations that
you can resolve. And so last year we screened over
one hundred and something kids and five percent of those
kids needed further testing that could have been you know,
life saving testing that gave them an opportunity to now
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have a chance to make a decision like, hey, you
have this condition. It's not bad, but we need to
make these changes, yeah, you know. And so the for
the Love of the Game program was really really good
because the CMSD school district you know, in which we served,
we were able to attack those things. And now we're
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trying to implement more of that. And these screenings typically
cost thousands of dollars in the hospital, and you're able
to get them for free through you know, through the foundation,
which I think is phenomenal and it goes back to
just giving access. So when you do come to these runs,
when you do donate, when you do support, right, I
want you to know that the dollars and the donations
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that you give are really going back into the communities
and making impact to better our communities in whatever ways
we can. And you the list of the programs that
we provide have been phenomenal because we made life changing
impact on our youth. And I think, like I said,
our youth is the future. We have to pour into
them and give them guidance, give them role models for
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really being able to take advantage of their calls.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
CMSD occurs in and pretty much all berths from a
heart standpoint, right, it's the number one calls, right, The
number one calls it inf and death right now. So
there's a lot that goes into it, and we have
to kind of take advantage of taking some of the sources,
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the resources that are out there, having the courage to
be different in a sense and take the step to
say I'm going to go and use this resource because
it's going to help me and it's going to impact
me down the road.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And I promise you with you doing that, You're gonna
encourage people around you to do the same, and then
we have this trickle down effect of people living healthier lives.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
And that's the goal, right, Yeah, that's the goal.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
You're listening to our voices today right here on WOVU
ninety five point nine FM. After this break we're gonna
talk a little bit about the Cleveland Browns. We're gonna
talk about the Browns, and I just want to talk
a little bit about just the game of football in general,
because it has changed a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And I hear many, many, many mixed reviews.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And I also want to just circle back and double
tap on the thirty eight strong campaign leading up to
the run this.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Year as well.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Right after this breakdown, go anywhere you are listening to
our voices today, right here on ninety five point NINEFL.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
We'll be right back. I'll welcome back to our voices.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Today right here on WOVU ninety five point nine FM.
And if you are just tuning in, this is your
beloved Unicorn of the Land, DJ Black Unicorn aka Nied
having a great conversation with TJ Carrey of the TJ
Carrey Foundation. Football stuper Star turned to philanthropists in the
studio live with us.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And before the break of course, we were talking all.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
These five k going down June twenty eighth, right there
by the bridge on nineteen thirty three, Rus eleventh. And look,
it's gonna be a fun time. Wow, you's gonna be
there making sure you guys have fund It's gonna be prized,
it's gonna be cheerleader, it's gonna be footballers, it's gonna
be runners, it's gonna be walkers, it's gonna be kids
for the dashing. Look, it's gonna be a great time.
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I'm super excited. I can't wait to be a part again. Honestly,
I've only done two five k's in my life. Last
year was the second one. I did a turkey dash
with my sister.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Wait, how was that?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
How what it was fun? It was really really fun.
I enjoyed it. That and that what was made me
be like, Okay, I can do this. I can do
five k's. And look, that's what it takes, people.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It just takes doing that first one to know Okay,
this is something I can do that. I stop a lot, Yes,
did I finish though, Yes? And it's okay to walk
it's okay to stop. It's okay. You know you were
explaining how you was, you know, being hard on yourself
because you stopped a little bit, And that's okay to
have those standards for yourself. You should want excellence from yourself.
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But if you do know that you're not a runner,
if you know you have not ran in years, you
gotta be kind of yourself and do like he just
said before the break as well, if you got twenty
minutes to just walk, do that just so you can
get into the mold thirty eight strong campaign.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Can we talk a little.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Bit about that.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Yeah, man, this is new. So the last few years
we did the gear up and I thought this was
a phenomenal opportunity. You know, our team came up with
this opportunity. Thirty eight right special because that's my football number.
It is what I wore when I played, and I
think it's just a phenomenal opportunity to combine that with
the ability to do thirty eight miles right. And so
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check it out. You to run down real quick thirty
eight strong to party, it's paid. You gotta go on
to our Facebook page right search thirty eight strong. You'll
find the TJ. Carey Foundation on there. The challenge starts
May twenty first, Okay, May twenty first to the twenty seventh,
So you got thirty eight days you can, like I said, walk, run, bike, swim, dance, cardio,
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track your miles, right, so you gotta make sure you're
tracking your miles and then make sure you are fundraising.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
So the prizes that we auditioning out for this is
go to the race website, become a fundraiser, right, and
from that every person and you can bring mom, dad, brother, sister.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Are prizes that we're doing. Raise thirty eight dollars right,
get social media shout out. We're gonna shout you out.
We're gonna give you that. That definitely that opportunity to
be recognized for some of the things that you do. Right,
Raise one hundred dollars right, give you official TJ. Carey
Foundation T shirt, and then are anything over the hat right,
the two fifty raisers, right, we gotta we got a
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VIP experience for you, right, and from that, all you
need is to friends to get you on the leader board, right,
and so become a fundraiser, bring your friends on, bring
your team. You know, I think I won the team
challenge last year myself because you know, I had about
ten to fifteen team members on me that was able
to participate. But once you join our Facebook page, we're
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gonna give you all the opportunity on there to track
your miles. Right, so tracking miles posts, you'll see me
doing a lot of different things. I'm typically a big swimmer,
so you may see some swim workouts on there, you
may see some runs on there. But it's a good
opportunity for you to track you miles and then bring
family friends in there with you to assist and then
win some of those prizects in so great opportunity for
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you to be active, be fun, join a community, and
join the cost.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yes, yes, if you want to join me, you are
more than welcome too, because I will definitely be starting
my own little wovu team over here.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Okay, all right, we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You know, I wish I could be like, yeah, we're
gonna win, but look, look we're gonna finish.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
My wife.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
My wife just text me. She said no she won't.
I don't know about that, wife, I don't know about that.
She said she wanted the team fundraising childs last year.
I have to double check those notes. We'll go to
the instant replay.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
On that beautiful to wifey every time I see you
pregnant girl, bless your heart.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Were done. Listen, we are done.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Are you are?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Our family is grown, and we got a little legacy
right beneath us.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
And for all of those who have kids, I commend
you because it is a journey.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
It's a marathon, now, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Sometimes you gotta take some deep breaths in the morning,
take some deep breaths at night. But understanding that the
young humans that you are raising our imitation of yourself, right,
they are going to feed off your energy or experience
your likeness, the things that you don't like. And they
got a little mom, they got a little dad in them,
Grandma and grandpa, auntie uncle. They're gonna remind you of somebody, right,
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So embrace it, enjoy the journey, and understand that you know,
these are the most precious times to be with your kids, man,
because they grow so fast. You know, my mom and
dad used to say that all the time, y'all grow
so fast, And then then they hit me with, oh,
you don't see, you don't see when when you have kids.
So for those of you, man, just just love them,
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kiss them when they go to school, tell them how
happy and proud of you are them.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yes, they need to hear that all the time. They're
growing up in a totally different world. And we talked
a little bit about that.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
But let's talk about how the game of football have changed,
because you know, from my young athletes on the field,
the game itself has changed.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
For them as well.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
They don't get to experience some of the things that
you got to experience some of them artists that you
got to experience either. Can we talk about some of
them that their key changes that have happened within the
NFL and how you think that has affected the game
of football itself.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
It is, man.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
You know, one of the biggest things that you know,
when I grew up, I think the kickoffs. Right, Let's
start off with the kickoffs. So one of the things
that they really changed early on in my career is
they changed the wedge. They used to have a wedge
right where you could have four guys lined up together,
and they don't do that no more. Because those four
guys used to you know, it was kind of difficult
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to get around those guys but back in the day,
kickoffs was like exciting, right they were. They were a
thing of I remember Devin Hester taking the first in
the Super Bowl, taking the kickoff return to the house
on the first opening kickoff.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Man, it's like they changed that rule.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
So now the kickoff is is it's a lot different.
And you know, I don't I don't know if guys
are really liking what they're seeing. And I know we're
making it safe, so I can't take the safety out
of it. You know, we all want a safe game,
and I think at the end of the day, kickoff
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is just one of those I mean, football is just
one of those sports that it's it's not safe.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
It's just I'm gonna say it for you. Football is
one of these games that's just not safe. And if
you don't want to play it, you don't want to
get hurt, they don't play.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Get off the field.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
The field is the only place that you are legally
okay to kill a man. Okay, I'm just saying this
is how they probably used to talk to you in
the in the locker room.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
You know, like returns was a thing like cribs, right,
you had sprolls.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
I mean, uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
I mean, you could go on and on about the
amazing you know, kickoff return teams, the guys that did
it in such a high level. But to see that
that's changed the game in a lot of different aspects.
They came out with a new rule that you know,
I'm a defensive guy, and they came out with something
that that I just, man, it's challenging the hip tackle.
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So we can't hip tackle guys no more so. It's
very hard to play defense. Okay, Now, I know everybody
like touchdowns. They didn't already changed the cornerback positions where
you really can't touch a receiver no more. Now I'm biased, Okay,
so I know I'm probably getting a lot of offensive
people that's uh, they don't.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
They don't.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
They're not liking what I'm saying. But you can't even
touch a receiver no more so. Now you can't even
tackle a receiver. I don't know how we're gonna play
the game, fellas, I just don't know how we're gonna
play it.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
If you can't tackle.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Nobody has been being played, you know.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, it's it's challenging because you know, they say you
can't make head to head contact. Which is phenomenal, right,
because you know that is it's it's dangerous. And so
the only way they used to teach us was, you know,
get lower than the next man. And when you're coming
against a Darrick Henry two thirty who ain't stopping and
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you can't go low, how do you tackle him? You know,
you you're very vulnerable into what they say, getting trucked.
And you know, with memes nowadays, you don't want to
be one of those memes out there that you want
to be out there where they're using you like that.
So it's changed, and you know, it's all of safety,
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and I get it, and I just don't know how
safe you can be with a sport that is, you know,
it's it's a physical sport. So i'm you know, and
then and then they changed one last thing. We'll get
off this topic. I want to talk about a couple
other things. The on side kick. Now, back in the day,
you didn't have to declare when you're gonna do an
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on side kick. It was a surprise kick. It's a
surprise kick. It catch you off guard. The title, yeah,
you know, and so it's kind of like they changing that.
So now you don't really know. You can't be surprised, right,
And I think that takes away the instinct. So now
guys is they're not even worried about if they're gonna
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kick off side kick because they got to tell us
when they're gonna do that. And so, you know, some
of the games that some of the things that they're
taking out and they're implementing, it's a challenge and it's
gonna take a lot to one from the fan perspective
to you know, continue to like a lot of the
aspects that they're changing. But you know, fans, we understand
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y'all want to see forty five to fifty games, right,
That's what y'all want to see, right, y'all want to
see touchdowns from a receiver. You know, you want to
see a guy go off for two hundred and fifty
receiving yards or running back have three hundred rushing yard.
That's what y'all want to see, But from a defense
that is demoralizing.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Okay, Miles Garrett new contract and those details, do you
have any opinion in those one point three milian salary?
Speaker 4 (46:44):
You know, I think Miles is phenomenal. I think the
Browns tremendously.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Man.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
They've done such a great job with bringing in some
staple pieces of the organization and you know there's still challenges,
but you know, you got a lot of staple guys,
you know, Miles Denzel, you know, some of the old linemen.
They've been there for a while and they've been able
to really set a standard in the precedent and I
think they give they've given, you know, fans the aspect
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that now every game that we play, we have a
chance to win. And I think that mentality has changed
a little bit because I think it used to be
something different. But every I mean having now the expectation
that playoffs is something that is obtainable every year, I
think is phenomenal. I think it's just something that they've
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been able to do and change the culture there. And
so Miles is a big part of that too, right,
and being able to have him solidify him back. Phenomenal athlete,
phenomenal player. I played with him a.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Few years and man, he's you know, he's one of
those freaking natures.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Man.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Guy can do it all right, Strong, fast, big, smart,
and a very very conscious leader in that aspect. So
phenomenal thing and we're getting talks about this whole doom thing.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Now. I know a lot of fans out there want
the dome.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Wait, do you want the stadium to stay downtown or move?
Speaker 4 (48:05):
And I wanted to stay right where. It's sad man,
it's in a perfect space. It's right on the water.
I mean, you know where I'm from. Waterfront is hard
to find.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah, it's hard to find, you know.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
And to be able to have a stadium sit right there,
I think it's a beautiful experience and I would love
for them to stay there. And I know there's a
big contention with that going on, but then the thought
about changing to a dome, and I just you know,
let me, let me break it down to you, right,
the game of football, and just like anything else in life,
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is mental. It's more mental than physical. And I know
everyone thinks it's more physical than mental, but it's exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
I know. That's why the Browns, you know, be disappointed
usd man.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I know, go ahead, I'm sorry. I know, I'm sorry, go.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Ahead, But you got to think being able to play
outside is an advantage. It's an advantage teams that play
on the West Coast that have to come over here.
They don't want to play in the cold. They don't
want to play in the snow in December. They don't
want to play in the cold in November.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Who was that that was so joyous at the beginning
of the season with the when the winter came here. Yeah,
I've never seen a player so happy that we get
to play the good game of football in the snow.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
He was so happy.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Yeah, that's an advantage because those teams that don't play
in the snow, they don't know how to play in
the snow.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
They don't know how to play.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
When it's five degrees outside, right, But Clevelanders is built
for this, right, so you get accustomed to that, and
that's an advantage.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
It takes away.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
You know, most teams that come over here and play
in the snow, they don't want to catch the ball,
they don't want to get hit, they don't want to run,
they don't want to come outside for warm ups. You see,
guys don't even want to come outside the warm up.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
That is all a mental aspect from a fan perspective
that sometimes may not understand, but from a player perspective,
the mentality of going in and facing Mono E mono.
Every play is something that you have to take into consideration.
So when we go to the dome, if we lose that,
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now we're just like any other regular team that plays
in a dome. We don't have to worry about the
outside elements, and.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
We need that.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
So I am not for the dome. I love the
elements of what we have. I think it's an advantage,
and as the Browns continue to build year in and
year out, I think that's an advantage we gotta keep
because it's a mental it's a mental battle when you're
out there playing that game. So I know I might
(50:45):
get some pushback on that, but let's keep it downtown
and there's no dome, not at all.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
I feel like that affects the experience, even as a
person who is spectating, as a person who is a
fan coming in to the facility understanding that I am
about to watch a hardcore game of football in the cold.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Snow, Like what why do I want to?
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Don't covering up what God is providing on this field.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
It don't make sense. You messing up my entire experience.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
If you see a lot of the old videos, right
you used to see in the cold where you can
see the breath.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
Coming out, and you see that on the TV and it's.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Like, oh, that's cold out there, man. Or you see
the guys with the you know, the handwarmers on. What's
interesting is that I thought was really really James Jones.
It was a receiver for the Packers back in the day,
and he came in and he played with us in
the Raiders. He had a jersey with pockets on. And
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now you're starting to see guys with that, right. So
if you think about a couple of players I've seen
with the jerseys in the pockets, I'm like, that's fire.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
But that's adapting. That's all.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
That's about all you need right there. Give me some pockets, coach,
put them in there.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
So because my daddy like how they just be out,
I'm like, okay, they're being physical, but what about the
welds on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
Like they ain't freezing.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
But when you really think about it, everybody boil have
boiled blood because they just you know, anticipating that the
game's man.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
So so no, I love it, man, I love everything
about Brown's organization.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Tremendous fans out here. You guys are phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
And I know that there's this itching want of the need,
right of continuous excellent football, and I think that the
organization is truly working towards that, and they built and
brought pieces over here to continuously give the opportunity to
compete year in and year out, So phenomenal opportunity. Think,
thank everyone for just you know, believing in the calls, right,
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being able to tune in and listen today and understand
that everything and every aspect of being a part of
the foundation, uh is it goes towards the great calls.
And you know we're still any organizations, vendors, sponsors, right,
we're still taking those for the five K, right, So
if you would like to be a part of it,
if you would like to come out and let other
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community members know about your calls to you know, definitely
give us a call. Contact us Tjkreyfoundation dot org. Doctor
Francesca Jones is a phenomenal uh she's a phenomenal director
of ours and she'll definitely help trend you know, get
you acclimated to what we can do to to to
be a part of the foundation in some sort of aspect.
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So thank you all. Phenomenally and tune in thirty eight strong. Yeah,
I want to see y'all. I want to. I want
to know what y'all got, you know, I want to.
I want to do some implementation of what you guys
are doing right walking, running, biking, playing with your key
is outside you getting them steps in. I know everybo
that count everybody. Everybody got watches on that you know,
(54:07):
track your steps, postals on that challenge.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
Man, once we get it started.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yes, yes, TJ. Carey Foundation dot org again. Visit the TJ.
Carrie Foundation dot org to find out more about Camp
Carrie to found out more about the football camp, the hospital,
visits all the things, all the programs that benefits from
the TJ. Carrey Heart Warrior five K. Make sure you
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sink the state, don't go away, And of course TJ.
Carrey we'll be coming back hopefully and joining us again
on our voices today before the twenty eighth, but.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Please please join us get fit. This is w O
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This is WOVU Studios. I'll welcome to our voices today
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How you doing, how you live, and how you feeling?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Our voices today right here on ninety five point nine
f MWOVU burtonbel Car Community Radio. And you already know
what we've been doing. At the top of the ten
o'clock hour. We've been taking those cleansing breath because the
pause for the causes yourself, your mental health, making sure
that you are able to do what it is that
you need to do. And you can't do that off
for razzle dazzle all you know, just wished up, wishway,
(00:43):
twist it all up, and you gotta recenter, you gotta pause,
you gotta slow down.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Look, I know the world is so.
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Fast paced these days, but look UNI is here to
remind you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The pause for the cause and it causes yourself. So
you know what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Deep breath in hell through the no balls, deep excel
through the mouth. Because as a kid say life be
life in and I agreed at different points at different times.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know, life is a mountain and valley.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, but you never stay
up or down too long.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So just remember, just remember to keep breathing.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I have someone so special live in the studio with
me here on our voices today today, joining us here.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
When we were we were a little bit late because
the others studio, we're excited as well. They wanted to
talk football, they want to talk domes, they want to
a field and just the g love of the game
that never really leaves you. But we're gonna talk about
that after I allow my guess you know what, I
usually do that, but like he's too not you know,
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I love all my guests, don't get me wrong, but
he's very special and near and dear to my heart
because that's the amazing work that he does. And you
don't see too many people who are in the spotlight
who are superstars and they know it, and they are
not only superstars, but are walking testimonies, and they give
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that reverence to the Lord and understand that without that
foundation that they would not be here. Understand without that
love from the universe, that they would not be here.
And so to see them make sure that that love
is exuded through the rest of the community and that
they have resources and access. It's such an amazing thing.
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Y'all got Tjky live.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
In the studio with me.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Geez.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
But I tell you the intro was fired. I mean, wow,
that it took me back for a moment.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I felt like I'm a superstar all over again, like
I was getting introduced to a game.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I tell you super appreciative for giving us the time
and opportunity to talk today. Man, it's a lot of
things to talk about today, so I'm really tuned in
for some of the facts that we're gonna talk about,
discussing the foundation, right what's going on in the world, man,
the I mean, it's a lot of decisions that our
Browns fans are thinking about right now. So I definitely
want to comment on some of those things. But have
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some fun man talk mingle about a lot of the
good aspects that we're doing out in the community, and
then just having casual conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yes, I'm excited. I'm so very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So we're gonna talk like we never had a conversation
on our voices today, right, we got.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
A clean slate.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Some things have changed here at WWU. If you didn't know,
now you know somehow. If you've been under a rocker,
you've been listening with a muted ear. I don't know,
but the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Sound is different.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Everything that is different, So understand what is not different
is the mission. Understand that we are still the beacon
of the community. We are still the voice of the community.
The mission has not changed. And that is why these
conversations are so important. That is why it's so importance
for us to encourage each other to get involved with
our health. Because you, yourself, mister Carry, at the age
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of fourteen, were diagnosed with a coronary artery anomaly. And
look that I even say that, right, because like, I'm
not good with medical words. I'm no doctor. I'm only
doctor on the wheels of the steel, you feel me.
But that led to an open heart surgery. How did
that experience influensh your decision to establish TJ. Carey Foundation
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in the first place.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, no, it was big. You know, a lot of
times we go through things and I feel like there's
alone feeling right, that there's no one out there experiencing
what you're going through, And a lot of that information
is false, right, and so when I set out to
really start the foundation, it was in the mind frame
(04:51):
of being able to adjust to the community of some
of the aspects that we needed at that time. Now,
my surgery was very rare, a right a brand corner
artery when I was fourteen fifteen years old. We did
about a year of testing first, and at that time
these surgeries was very very rare. There had only been
twelve surgeries done in the world at that time because
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of the rarity, and so it took us a good
year just to kind of find out. And I remember
myself going through going to high school and I would
have to wear a machine on my chest just to
figure out the processes. And you're young, you don't know
if that's normal or not. And from that aspect of
going through that experience, having open heart surgery on Valentine's Day,
(05:37):
which is why Valentine's Day is such an important day,
it made me look back and say, man, there's more
families out there that's going through this same environment, that's
going through the same situation, and they may feel alone.
And we needed an aspect and an approach to be
able to let our communities know, let our families know
that Hey, there's someone else out there like you that's
(05:59):
going through this, and there's other families that you can support,
talk to and understand the perspectives of what congeneral heart
disease is. And so we started the foundation and it's
been a phenomenal journey throughout the roads of really impacting
communities from a different aspect.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh when you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Say different aspect, can we talk about that aspect on
what that looks like?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah? Health and wellness? Man, A.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Lot of our being right, a lot of our eating,
a lot of our activity, a lot of the things
that we wake up and do first thing in the
morning really sets the day, sets.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The schedule of the foundation of the body. Right.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And everyone always says, man, yolo, right, you only live once.
You only got one body as well, right, So we
got to make sure we all driving ferraris around here,
and we got to put the ninety three gas in
those things, right, and so we got to look at
our body as that temple. And so one of the
biggest things that we always try to encourage is healthy living, right,
(07:00):
And that's eating healthy, that's being active, being conscious of
your mental state.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Something that I think for a while we kind of
missed in terms of why it was so important. But
it's a big aspect of who you are, what you do,
and how you set your goals and sites. And I
think one of the biggest things that we talk about
is goals and dreams, right, dream big. And I was
the real model that we kind of set apart to say,
(07:28):
through what you're going on, you still have the aspect
to dream big. And those dreams take the discipline of
making sure all these other factors are in place, right,
eating healthy, being active, and being conscious of your mental state,
and those things can be achieved.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Wow, And they definitely can be achieved. Like for me,
I am you know now conditioning. I'm not gonna front
like I was doing it before. You know, I realize
it's about that five K time.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But I see you out there last year.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, I said, oh,
I gotta do better this.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I was embarrassed idea last year was and I said,
I gotta start early this year. I got it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And this should be an ongoing thing.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And that's why it's important to be involved in these
type of situation an events because look, if it wasn't
for that event last year, the five Ktjkerry Foundation five K.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I would not have gotten a running at all that year.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I don't think and we we you know, I think
the concept and mentality of activity is we live in
this mindset that we gotta go in there and get
an hour a day or two hours a day, and
it's it's kind of like more is better, right, if
you can go in there and do twenty five minutes,
if you can go in there and do thirty minutes. Man, Look,
(08:47):
I got twenty five minutes to put in today, and
that consistent approach of twenty five minutes every day, rather
than you going in there on Monday and putting an
hour and then you so sore you can't go back
in there until Thursday.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well, I ain't got four to.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Twenty five minute sessions in right, and so twenty five
thirty minutes man. And it could be something just pulling
up something on YouTube, just looking. I mean, social media
is so crazy right now. There's people posting social media
workouts all day, every day, just on social media. Let
me just go grab a twenty five minute workout, and
so those things are important.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Go for a walk, man.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
People underestimate the importance of walking and it's you know,
I see in our neighborhood, in our community, I see
eighty ninety year old people walking every day miles and
I'm like, man, that's how you stay young. So it's
not about consistently having to put the hour to two
hours in. If you got twenty five minutes every day,
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anticipate that, set it in the schedule and go out
there and do it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, it's so much easier than mister Carrie, do you
have like any I don't know pointers or anything when
it comes to that, because I know, like a part
of the five K you waking up early.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Not only are you conditioning, you know, maybe two a days,
three days, I don't know your life, but in the
early morning, people have the opportunity to meet you downtown
if they want to condition with you before the run
that is going down June twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But we're gonna talk.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
All about it.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, So I think the biggest thing, and I think
this is a great segue to implement one of the
things that we're implement this year, which is the thirty
eight Strong. It's the campaign that we're going to do
for thirty eight days, and what it really is is
kind of doing thirty eight days of activity your way, right.
So that's walking, that's running, that's cardio, that's lifting, that's swimming.
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You know a variety of ways of how you can
be active throughout the day. And we're just challenging you
do thirty eight days?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Can you commit to doing thirty eight days? And I
think the biggest thing is, in order to change any
aspect of life, something has to be sacrificed. Right, So
first said it again, Yeah, change any aspect of life,
something has to be sacrificed. So most of the time,
the first thing everybody does when they wake up is
check their phone. What's new on social media? What's new
(11:11):
on my emails? Who texts me? What business do I
get to get done? What is mo my calendar today?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
And so it's like, when are you going to commit
to giving yourself the time?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And sometimes that is, Hey, I don't need no distractions.
I got thirty minutes. I'm gonna go downstairs, or I'm
gonna go to the gym, or I'm gonna just do
some body squad some push ups, some dips, some crunches, right,
a couple high knees running in place, some jumping jacks.
You don't even gotta go to the gym. Like, there's
so many things that you can do by just being
(11:44):
present at home. Right, you got water jugs at home.
You got a gallon of milk that weighed five ten pounds.
You might not even need weights, you know, so.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
In the day told you if you ain't have a weight,
you better grab a can of stel.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I mean, there's so many things, and so I think
the aspect of physical activity is it's important. It's crucial
for longevity in life and a lot of the different
things that old mentality. If you don't use it, you
lose it. Right, So we got to be more active,
and I think that the world that we're living in now,
you're seeing the ramping up of just being active in
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a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
So, transitioning from the NFL to philanthropy, I want to
know about that process and that experience for you.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Because again, you're a huge star.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You still are, and you are now making sure that
you are giving back that little brown kids that look
like you that may be experiencing things that you experienced,
are getting the resources and access that they need.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
It.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I mean, you know, in all things, right, when you
reach a pinnacle of life where you achieved that goal
and you're in the position of transitioning out, always challenges, right,
And I think that the biggest challenge is, you know,
your daily aspect of waking up and being accustomed to
a schedule, a routine, an identity that is different right
(13:14):
from from the norm. It it takes a little bit while,
it takes a while. And I think the biggest thing
that you know, I'm really grateful for, you know, my
team family is just always kind of actively being present
and understanding that identity of who you are isn't your job, right, Like,
that's not who you are as a person. You create
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who you are on an everyday basis, and so being
able to separate the athlete from you know, TJ. Carey
the person from the philanthropist is it's a part of
just every day waking up and understanding that there's different
purposes in life and the transition of okay, we're full
(13:56):
time into philanthropy now, like what does this look like? Right,
rel looking at at our team and understanding how can
we be more impactful? And some of the biggest strides
that our team has made is just being able to
spread more awareness of what we've done, who we are,
and how we can continue to impact.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And so.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Very thankful for a lot of our team, our counsel
who continuously give us guidance on hey, look, we need
to kind of be a part of you know, these
communities to spread who we are, we need to kind
of get more out there.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
So it's definitely a challenge, and I think that my
road and experience is definitely different than a lot of
other professionals in whatever field, so tremendously a great opportunity
to transition and say, all right, this is what we're doing.
And so the run walk, you know, this will be
our third run walk, which is phenomenal because at each
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one we've had the opportunity to really showcase that you
can be active through some of the challenges that you
go through, right, struggles, obstacles in life.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
There's still a way to be active.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And so running was was never my biggest feat, right, No,
never long distance, right, So this would be my third
five k.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And uh, I.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Think the first two were challenging, So this one we'll
see how it goes. I think this course that we're
at is challenging.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, it's chilnge.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It got heels and all kind of stuff, y'all. Look
look it's not for the week carded. But look look
if you're scared, don't be scared. Still show up, Still
be a part because there is a walking aspect. And look,
nobody's gonna shame you. I stopped a lot of times, honey.
Last year I stopped a lot of times. But I
made sure to keep going and make it to the end.
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And that is what is important. That what is the
most important part of it. Because getting to the end,
what does it mean?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, it means completion. Man, Getting to the end is
is you know, it's that. It's that old example like
no one sees the work put in. They only see
the end result, right, And so whether you're walking you're running.
I think my second one, our last run walk, Uh,
I stopped and I was like, man, I stopped. I
(16:19):
kind of helped myself to accountability to say I wasn't
going to stop, but I stopped. Then I finished, and
when I finished our our our race coordinator told us, hey,
you ran one of the fastest times for your group.
And I was like, wow, that's that's pretty awesome, and
so uh, this year around, it's uh, you know, I'm
(16:42):
gonna prepare a little different because I didn't know that
all of the course last year, the back half was
all uphill. So I've been on my lifting and and
uh and my treadmill and uh, just a little different experience.
Just give you some background of the race. Right, So
(17:03):
June twenty eighth at the Slavafski Overlook race registration at
eight am. Right, we're doing We're still doing our kids
dash eight forty five and then we'll start the five
k run walk. You have an option to run walk
a mile, right, and then we have prizes and awards
at the end.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
So it's a great event to come out. Last year
we had really really phenomenal weather. We had some of
our heart Warriors actually run the entire race. And when
I say her warriors, I'm talking about our kids ranging
from eight to seventeen. That random and I was like,
that is phenomenal. Right for them to see that, hey
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there's someone else out there like me doing it, and
then for them to kind of take advantage to say
I'm going to run and it could be a try,
it could be a jog, right, it could be a sprint, right,
So just getting through the finish line is a big
accomplishment because it's shows that you had your mind on
something you were able to accomplish it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
So I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
They'll go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You are listening to our voices today, this is your
beloved unicorn of the land.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You need having a great conversation with mister t.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
G O.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I want to say tg Il, but we're not there yet.
We got one more.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Dayjkry live in the studio with us talking all about
his upcoming.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Warrior heard Run and look.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Look if you definitely want to be a part, if
you want all the details that we're going to be
talking about for the remainder of this show, you also
visit TJ. Carey Foundation dot org. That's t J. Carrie
Foundation dot org. Make sure you stick a state dope
go away. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
So welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Guard voices today right here on WU ninety five point
nine f M. During the break. Of course, the richest
conference some time happens.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But welcome back.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
If you are just doiting in this is UNI having
a great conversation with mister TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Carrey of the TJ.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Carry Foundation talking all about a wonderful upcoming event that
you definitely need to be a part of, which is
the TJ Carry Heart Warrior five k. And if you
are intimidated of running, it's okay, you can walk. If
you are intimidated of walking, it's okay. Show up with
your babies and just support them. Okay. You talked about
(19:33):
the impact and making sure as you embark on this
philanthropy journey that you make sure that what it is
that you are doing is impactful. And one of those
things that you make sure that you do with the TJ.
Carrey Foundation is hospital visits. Can we talk about those
hospital business, what you have experienced during those business with
(19:56):
you witness and just the joy that you've been able
to bring because I'm sure, I'm I'm sure the.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Man that's it's such a great opportunity to have the
ability to put smiles on kids' face, right, moms, dads,
and talk a lot about their experience. And so the
hospital visits they started in two thousand, we were actually
doing them twenty fourteen as soon as I came into
(20:23):
the league my first year, and we started with Oakland's
Children's Hospital, which was the hospital that performed my open
art surgery. And then that the hospital visits grew. They
grew from just being able to be present to providing
shadow buddies to then working on activity books to give
to the families when they're actually there. And so the
(20:47):
customization of how we kind of go into these vulnerable
situations right and we're very appreciative of all of our
program partners for our hospital visit program that allow us
to come and then our parents who through this experience,
they're able to still have the ability to withstand someone
(21:08):
coming into that vulnerable situation and giving guidance and given
inspiration and giving hope. And so it's such a great
opportunity because you you'll find that when you go into
these hospitals and you go into and talk to our
heart warriors, they're all have most of them have smiles
on their face. They've created their rooms to either a
(21:32):
lego land or you know, I've seen Spider Man rooms,
I've seen colorful rooms, I've seen blue rooms, and they
really understand that Okay, this is this is right now
and experience and being able to talk to mom, dad
and share the stories and them hearing like, wow, Okay,
(21:52):
I didn't know that we had a possibility to be
able to still.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Do these things.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And so for them to hear kind of the experience
and us provide a resource for connection community in them
to say, I didn't know that there were other families
that had some of the same surgeries or procedures, and
they're right here in my backyard. And so I think
that's one of the biggest things that we make sure
we capture is giving them resources to say, hey, there
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is an aspect that you can still tap into that.
It's been phenomenal and I love it. So every Valentine's Day,
we go through that entire week, you know, the February month,
we go through and we visit all of the program
partners that we visit with from a hospital standpoint, we
you know, sometimes twenty thirty, forty fifty kids at a
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time throughout that week that I'm personally able to see,
talk to and give support, you know. So it's a
phenomenal chance. It's a phenomenal opportunity to really capture those moments,
share the stories. It was funny, I actually are on
our last visit, I used to watch wrestling a lot
wwww right, and uh yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Still I was having a conversation so where they were like, oh, well,
you know, I grew up and got in the girls
and I was like, oh, you're just laying and you
don't have an outlet.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Well, one of the one of the kids, one of
the hard words, was talking and discussing about they used
to have a belt that was called like the anywhere
you're at belt, where it's like.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Four to seven belt anywhere home, it will catch.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You anywhere, pull up on you and a camera.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And I thought that was the craziest thing. And I
was like, that's such an experience. And he was just
telling me about you could be at a restaurant and
they just like you said pull up, let's go.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I want that. And I said, man, that's that own
site mentality. Man.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And uh to see that was, you know, phenomenal. To
hear his story the past about it and to kind
of go back and relive that moment when I used
to love those things, the games and everything in the
aspect of it. So you hear some unique and amazing
stories from those events.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And I want people to understand when they participate in
this year's five K and next year's and the one
that they participated in last year. With those funds are benefiting,
it's benefiting those medical visits, is benefiting.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
These camps that you do every June. Can we talk
about the camp?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, Camp Carrie Man. We're going on our fifth year
with Camp Carrey and Wow, such an impactful situation that
we've created in terms of a program and opportunity. It's
at Mammy Bay and so the whole concept behind Camp
Carey is really to be able to provide families an
opportunity to connect with other families, so creating that community
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and also give them a little time to kind of
experience some of the beauty of Mommy Bay. Right, there's
a ton of opportunities there, nature experience, there's a beach,
We do a.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Lot of gaming there.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
So it gives them an opportunity for some of the
kids that do struggle with physical activity to kind of
see other kids push themselves. And we got a game
over there called Wallyball. And I don't know if any
of you all played Wallyball. Okay, so it's volleyball, but
it's inside so you're able to actually hit.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
The ball off the wall.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And when I tell you, this is one of the
most competitive games that we've ever played. And I'm talking
about moms and dads in there too, and they are competitive.
But it's an opportunity for us to bring these families together.
We provide so much from a mentally socially impactful standpoint
to our kids and our families, and understanding that heart
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disease affects everyone. It affects mom, dad, siblings. I got
four of the brothers and I'm the fourth, and so
my disease affected how all of the other brothers had
to kind of treat me. It affected the time that
I got to spend with Mom and dad. I got
to spend more time, and so we understand the entire household.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, it shifted everything shifted everything right.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Mom and Dad are now you know, they're working and
more hospital visits, so someone is always in a strained position,
and Camp Carry is able to give the support to.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
All of them.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
So we provide program from everywhere, Mom and Dad, sibling programming.
We have a lot of different therapists that we have
come out and to support that event, and so those
that is actually live now, if you are someone that
has had congeneral heart disease of any aspect. Go to
the Tjcareyfoundation dot org website. That link is live on
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our website now you can go on there and complete
an application, and that is for families from ages eight
to seventeen. Please go on there if you have anyone,
if you need support, if you need assistance, our foundation
is able to provide some of those things for you
to come out and experience that. We've had found fly
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out from different states and we're able to support for
them to come out and just experience that and leave
with knowing that they're a part of a community that
now supports the times that they are that may seem
that there's no way out right, so come out. Support
the run walk is a benefit, true benefit to be
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able to provide a lot of these different opportunities for
the families that we serve.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yes, and look, if you want to support all these
amazing initiatives that the TJ. Carey Foundation is doing, you
need to find yourself. June twenty eighth a a am shot,
because that's when registration.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Begins that day.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Look, we're talking nineteen thirty three West eleventh Street, right
near the bridge. Look It's going to be a beautiful
day again. I have full faith it's going to be
a nice sun shining day shining. Yes, no clowds, no glowds,
no glowds.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
We don't want no.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Maybe just a little listen, little, just so little, you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Know, the sun running, just a little bit of clouds,
not too much, not too much. No rain, maybe just
a little bit of rain, a little sprinkle just to
keep us cool.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
We had this.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I know we getting really specific in this prayer, but
we want a nice beautiful day. Lord, please a nice
beautiful day so we can run in peace. The five
k Hartware Running Walk look again. The twenty eighth registration
begins at eight eight am. And if you want to
support all these amazing initiatives that's going on with TJ.
Carrey Foundation, please sign up run walk, Bring your kids
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a kid Dash? Why is it important for you to
incorporate the kids and everything that you are doing when
it comes to the foundation, like the kid Dash?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah, the kid Dash is an opportunity because one I
got kids, and I got four amazing kids.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And may I say your little daughter was so adorable
last year, her little cheerier too.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yes, yeah, man, HeiG tails.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Did you see that picture of you on No, it's
a picture of you and her. You were holding her
in your lat while you were getting screened.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I gotta check that out, man.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
But you know, kids are part of us, man, They're
our future, right, And so I've always felt like I
had an obligation for me and our team to be
able to pour into them because they're the future generation.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And so the.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Kids' dash is important because it gives them their spotlight.
It lets them know that you are important, You are
a part of the process.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We need you.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
And so you know I'm competitive as well, So we
do a little dash, right, so let's see who the
fastest in the group is. And then a lot of
our heart warriors are kids, right, and so it gives
them an opportunity to to see other heart warriors exert
themselves in a way that's safe, it's controlled in a
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safe environment, and so that encourages them next year to say, hey,
I've seen so and so running the kids dash you
mom and dad. Sometimes they connect I seen your son
or your daughter running the kids dash, right? Or do
they do other activities? And you'd be surprised some of
our hard warriors or wrestlers or cheerleaders, play sports, and
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so they really kind of outgrown the mentality that they're limited.
And this gives them an opportunity to just continue to
build within themselves and see that. And so the Kids
Dash is an amazing opportunity for our kids to be
able to participate in the run as long as walking,
you know, they'll still walk with mom and dad. And
last year you all came out and provided some amazing gifts, right,
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so not only come to the Kids Dash too, but
there's prizes there. You all did a phenomenal job of
being able to provide gifts for the kids that I
thought was just phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Ah, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. For sure.
We do what we can when we can't, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
So before we get into the fun stuff like the
football dam and things of that nature, before we there,
I want to talk about how many children, how many
of our young athletes are facing health issues on these courts,
on these fields, we have more and more kids that
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you It occurred with you at the age of fourteen,
and that was a rarity back then. Now in today's age,
it seems to be happening more and more and more
what would you say is an accounting factor into why
this is happening and how does it make you feel?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's as a heart worry or survivor yourself.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Man, it's and I say this in terms of just
the mentality that we've you know, society in some aspects
have had, is the old mentality of if I don't know,
I don't need to worry about it, right. And I
say that to say, if I don't know, if something's
wrong with me, then that's one less thing I don't
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have to worry about. And I think sometimes we have
that mentality because there are so many other things that
come attached with knowing, and so one of the big
aspects that we've been trying to kind of break through
that barrier is given access. And I think access to
health and wellness is something that a lot of organizations,
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not just ours, right, that partners that we work with
are really trying to get the awareness out to say
we're able to assist with knowing right and the steps
that come with knowing. And one of the big initiatives
that we did over the last few years was we
implement for the love of the game, get screen program
that we do, which is an opportunity for us in
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some of our program partners to come out to our
local high schools and screen our student athletes. And the
screenings are free, right. We come in, we bring the nurses,
we provide EKG and echo, and we look at your
heart to see if everything is okay right and if
there's further.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Tests to need it.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We have program hospitals that we work with that we
can send you to to provide questions, updates, situations that
you can resolve. And so last year we screened over
one hundred and something kids and five percent of those
kids needed further testing that could have been you know,
life saving testing that gave them an opportunity to now
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have a chance to make a decision like, hey, you
have this condition. It's not bad, but we need to
make these changes, yeah, you know. And so the for
the Love of the Game program was really really good
because the CMSD school district you know, in which we served,
we were able to attack those things. And now we're
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trying to implement more of that. And these screenings typically
cost thousands of dollars in the hospital, and you're able
to get them for free through you know, through the foundation,
which I think is phenomenal and it goes back to
just giving access. So when you do come to these runs,
when you do donate, when you do support, right, I
want you to know that the dollars and the donations
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that you give are really going back into the communities
and making impact to better our communities in whatever ways
we can. And you the list of the programs that
we provide have been phenomenal because we made life changing
impact on our youth. And I think, like I said,
our youth is the future. We have to pour into
them and give them guidance, give them role models for
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really being able to take advantage of their calls.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
CMSD occurs in and pretty much all berths from a
heart standpoint, right, it's the number one calls, right, The
number one calls it inf and death right now. So
there's a lot that goes into it, and we have
to kind of take advantage of taking some of the sources,
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the resources that are out there, having the courage to
be different in a sense and take the step to
say I'm going to go and use this resource because
it's going to help me and it's going to impact
me down the road.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And I promise you with you doing that, You're gonna
encourage people around you to do the same, and then
we have this trickle down effect of people living healthier lives.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
And that's the goal, right, Yeah, that's the goal.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
You're listening to our voices today right here on WOVU
ninety five point nine FM. After this break we're gonna
talk a little bit about the Cleveland Browns. We're gonna
talk about the Browns, and I just want to talk
a little bit about just the game of football in general,
because it has changed a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And I hear many, many, many mixed reviews.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And I also want to just circle back and double
tap on the thirty eight strong campaign leading up to
the run this.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Year as well.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Right after this breakdown, go anywhere you are listening to
our voices today, right here on ninety five point NINEFL.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
We'll be right back. I'll welcome back to our voices.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Today right here on WOVU ninety five point nine FM.
And if you are just tuning in, this is your
beloved Unicorn of the Land, DJ Black Unicorn aka Nied
having a great conversation with TJ Carrey of the TJ
Carrey Foundation. Football stuper Star turned to philanthropists in the
studio live with us.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And before the break of course, we were talking all.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
These five k going down June twenty eighth, right there
by the bridge on nineteen thirty three, Rus eleventh. And look,
it's gonna be a fun time. Wow, you's gonna be
there making sure you guys have fund It's gonna be prized,
it's gonna be cheerleader, it's gonna be footballers, it's gonna
be runners, it's gonna be walkers, it's gonna be kids
for the dashing. Look, it's gonna be a great time.
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I'm super excited. I can't wait to be a part again. Honestly,
I've only done two five k's in my life. Last
year was the second one. I did a turkey dash
with my sister.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Wait, how was that?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
How what it was fun? It was really really fun.
I enjoyed it. That and that what was made me
be like, Okay, I can do this. I can do
five k's. And look, that's what it takes, people.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It just takes doing that first one to know Okay,
this is something I can do that. I stop a lot, Yes,
did I finish though, Yes? And it's okay to walk
it's okay to stop. It's okay. You know you were
explaining how you was, you know, being hard on yourself
because you stopped a little bit, And that's okay to
have those standards for yourself. You should want excellence from yourself.
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But if you do know that you're not a runner,
if you know you have not ran in years, you
gotta be kind of yourself and do like he just
said before the break as well, if you got twenty
minutes to just walk, do that just so you can
get into the mold thirty eight strong campaign.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Can we talk a little.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Bit about that.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Yeah, man, this is new. So the last few years
we did the gear up and I thought this was
a phenomenal opportunity. You know, our team came up with
this opportunity. Thirty eight right special because that's my football number.
It is what I wore when I played, and I
think it's just a phenomenal opportunity to combine that with
the ability to do thirty eight miles right. And so
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check it out. You to run down real quick thirty
eight strong to party, it's paid. You gotta go on
to our Facebook page right search thirty eight strong. You'll
find the TJ. Carey Foundation on there. The challenge starts
May twenty first, Okay, May twenty first to the twenty seventh,
So you got thirty eight days you can, like I said, walk, run, bike, swim, dance, cardio,
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track your miles, right, so you gotta make sure you're
tracking your miles and then make sure you are fundraising.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
So the prizes that we auditioning out for this is
go to the race website, become a fundraiser, right, and
from that every person and you can bring mom, dad, brother, sister.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Are prizes that we're doing. Raise thirty eight dollars right,
get social media shout out. We're gonna shout you out.
We're gonna give you that. That definitely that opportunity to
be recognized for some of the things that you do. Right,
Raise one hundred dollars right, give you official TJ. Carey
Foundation T shirt, and then are anything over the hat right,
the two fifty raisers, right, we gotta we got a
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VIP experience for you, right, and from that, all you
need is to friends to get you on the leader board, right,
and so become a fundraiser, bring your friends on, bring
your team. You know, I think I won the team
challenge last year myself because you know, I had about
ten to fifteen team members on me that was able
to participate. But once you join our Facebook page, we're
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gonna give you all the opportunity on there to track
your miles. Right, so tracking miles posts, you'll see me
doing a lot of different things. I'm typically a big swimmer,
so you may see some swim workouts on there, you
may see some runs on there. But it's a good
opportunity for you to track you miles and then bring
family friends in there with you to assist and then
win some of those prizects in so great opportunity for
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you to be active, be fun, join a community, and
join the cost.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yes, yes, if you want to join me, you are
more than welcome too, because I will definitely be starting
my own little wovu team over here.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Okay, all right, we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You know, I wish I could be like, yeah, we're
gonna win, but look, look we're gonna finish.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
My wife.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
My wife just text me. She said no she won't.
I don't know about that, wife, I don't know about that.
She said she wanted the team fundraising childs last year.
I have to double check those notes. We'll go to
the instant replay.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
On that beautiful to wifey every time I see you
pregnant girl, bless your heart.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Were done. Listen, we are done.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Are you are?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Our family is grown, and we got a little legacy
right beneath us.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
And for all of those who have kids, I commend
you because it is a journey.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
It's a marathon, now, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Sometimes you gotta take some deep breaths in the morning,
take some deep breaths at night. But understanding that the
young humans that you are raising our imitation of yourself, right,
they are going to feed off your energy or experience
your likeness, the things that you don't like. And they
got a little mom, they got a little dad in them,
Grandma and grandpa, auntie uncle. They're gonna remind you of somebody, right,
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So embrace it, enjoy the journey, and understand that you know,
these are the most precious times to be with your kids, man,
because they grow so fast. You know, my mom and
dad used to say that all the time, y'all grow
so fast, And then then they hit me with, oh,
you don't see, you don't see when when you have kids.
So for those of you, man, just just love them,
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kiss them when they go to school, tell them how
happy and proud of you are them.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yes, they need to hear that all the time. They're
growing up in a totally different world. And we talked
a little bit about that.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
But let's talk about how the game of football have changed,
because you know, from my young athletes on the field,
the game itself has changed.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
For them as well.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
They don't get to experience some of the things that
you got to experience some of them artists that you
got to experience either. Can we talk about some of
them that their key changes that have happened within the
NFL and how you think that has affected the game
of football itself.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
It is, man.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
You know, one of the biggest things that you know,
when I grew up, I think the kickoffs. Right, Let's
start off with the kickoffs. So one of the things
that they really changed early on in my career is
they changed the wedge. They used to have a wedge
right where you could have four guys lined up together,
and they don't do that no more. Because those four
guys used to you know, it was kind of difficult
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to get around those guys but back in the day,
kickoffs was like exciting, right they were. They were a
thing of I remember Devin Hester taking the first in
the Super Bowl, taking the kickoff return to the house
on the first opening kickoff.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Man, it's like they changed that rule.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
So now the kickoff is is it's a lot different.
And you know, I don't I don't know if guys
are really liking what they're seeing. And I know we're
making it safe, so I can't take the safety out
of it. You know, we all want a safe game,
and I think at the end of the day, kickoff
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is just one of those I mean, football is just
one of those sports that it's it's not safe.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
It's just I'm gonna say it for you. Football is
one of these games that's just not safe. And if
you don't want to play it, you don't want to
get hurt, they don't play.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Get off the field.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
The field is the only place that you are legally
okay to kill a man. Okay, I'm just saying this
is how they probably used to talk to you in
the in the locker room.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
You know, like returns was a thing like cribs, right,
you had sprolls.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
I mean, uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
I mean, you could go on and on about the
amazing you know, kickoff return teams, the guys that did
it in such a high level. But to see that
that's changed the game in a lot of different aspects.
They came out with a new rule that you know,
I'm a defensive guy, and they came out with something
that that I just, man, it's challenging the hip tackle.
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So we can't hip tackle guys no more so. It's
very hard to play defense. Okay, Now, I know everybody
like touchdowns. They didn't already changed the cornerback positions where
you really can't touch a receiver no more. Now I'm biased, Okay,
so I know I'm probably getting a lot of offensive
people that's uh, they don't.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
They don't.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
They're not liking what I'm saying. But you can't even
touch a receiver no more so. Now you can't even
tackle a receiver. I don't know how we're gonna play
the game, fellas, I just don't know how we're gonna
play it.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
If you can't tackle.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Nobody has been being played, you know.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, it's it's challenging because you know, they say you
can't make head to head contact. Which is phenomenal, right,
because you know that is it's it's dangerous. And so
the only way they used to teach us was, you know,
get lower than the next man. And when you're coming
against a Darrick Henry two thirty who ain't stopping and
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you can't go low, how do you tackle him? You know,
you you're very vulnerable into what they say, getting trucked.
And you know, with memes nowadays, you don't want to
be one of those memes out there that you want
to be out there where they're using you like that.
So it's changed, and you know, it's all of safety,
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and I get it, and I just don't know how
safe you can be with a sport that is, you know,
it's it's a physical sport. So i'm you know, and
then and then they changed one last thing. We'll get
off this topic. I want to talk about a couple
other things. The on side kick. Now, back in the day,
you didn't have to declare when you're gonna do an
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on side kick. It was a surprise kick. It's a
surprise kick. It catch you off guard. The title, yeah,
you know, and so it's kind of like they changing that.
So now you don't really know. You can't be surprised, right,
And I think that takes away the instinct. So now
guys is they're not even worried about if they're gonna
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kick off side kick because they got to tell us
when they're gonna do that. And so, you know, some
of the games that some of the things that they're
taking out and they're implementing, it's a challenge and it's
gonna take a lot to one from the fan perspective
to you know, continue to like a lot of the
aspects that they're changing. But you know, fans, we understand
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y'all want to see forty five to fifty games, right,
That's what y'all want to see, right, y'all want to
see touchdowns from a receiver. You know, you want to
see a guy go off for two hundred and fifty
receiving yards or running back have three hundred rushing yard.
That's what y'all want to see, But from a defense
that is demoralizing.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Okay, Miles Garrett new contract and those details, do you
have any opinion in those one point three milian salary?
Speaker 4 (46:44):
You know, I think Miles is phenomenal. I think the
Browns tremendously.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Man.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
They've done such a great job with bringing in some
staple pieces of the organization and you know there's still challenges,
but you know, you got a lot of staple guys,
you know, Miles Denzel, you know, some of the old linemen.
They've been there for a while and they've been able
to really set a standard in the precedent and I
think they give they've given, you know, fans the aspect
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that now every game that we play, we have a
chance to win. And I think that mentality has changed
a little bit because I think it used to be
something different. But every I mean having now the expectation
that playoffs is something that is obtainable every year, I
think is phenomenal. I think it's just something that they've
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been able to do and change the culture there. And
so Miles is a big part of that too, right,
and being able to have him solidify him back. Phenomenal athlete,
phenomenal player. I played with him a.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Few years and man, he's you know, he's one of
those freaking natures.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Man.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Guy can do it all right, Strong, fast, big, smart,
and a very very conscious leader in that aspect. So
phenomenal thing and we're getting talks about this whole doom thing.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Now. I know a lot of fans out there want
the dome.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Wait, do you want the stadium to stay downtown or move?
Speaker 4 (48:05):
And I wanted to stay right where. It's sad man,
it's in a perfect space. It's right on the water.
I mean, you know where I'm from. Waterfront is hard
to find.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah, it's hard to find, you know.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
And to be able to have a stadium sit right there,
I think it's a beautiful experience and I would love
for them to stay there. And I know there's a
big contention with that going on, but then the thought
about changing to a dome, and I just you know,
let me, let me break it down to you, right,
the game of football, and just like anything else in life,
(48:38):
is mental. It's more mental than physical. And I know
everyone thinks it's more physical than mental, but it's exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
I know. That's why the Browns, you know, be disappointed
usd man.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I know, go ahead, I'm sorry. I know, I'm sorry, go.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Ahead, But you got to think being able to play
outside is an advantage. It's an advantage teams that play
on the West Coast that have to come over here.
They don't want to play in the cold. They don't
want to play in the snow in December. They don't
want to play in the cold in November.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Who was that that was so joyous at the beginning
of the season with the when the winter came here. Yeah,
I've never seen a player so happy that we get
to play the good game of football in the snow.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
He was so happy.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Yeah, that's an advantage because those teams that don't play
in the snow, they don't know how to play in
the snow.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
They don't know how to play.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
When it's five degrees outside, right, But Clevelanders is built
for this, right, so you get accustomed to that, and
that's an advantage.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
It takes away.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
You know, most teams that come over here and play
in the snow, they don't want to catch the ball,
they don't want to get hit, they don't want to run,
they don't want to come outside for warm ups. You see,
guys don't even want to come outside the warm up.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
That is all a mental aspect from a fan perspective
that sometimes may not understand, but from a player perspective,
the mentality of going in and facing Mono E mono.
Every play is something that you have to take into consideration.
So when we go to the dome, if we lose that,
(50:18):
now we're just like any other regular team that plays
in a dome. We don't have to worry about the
outside elements, and.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
We need that.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
So I am not for the dome. I love the
elements of what we have. I think it's an advantage,
and as the Browns continue to build year in and
year out, I think that's an advantage we gotta keep
because it's a mental it's a mental battle when you're
out there playing that game. So I know I might
(50:45):
get some pushback on that, but let's keep it downtown
and there's no dome, not at all.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
I feel like that affects the experience, even as a
person who is spectating, as a person who is a
fan coming in to the facility understanding that I am
about to watch a hardcore game of football in the cold.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Snow, Like what why do I want to?
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Don't covering up what God is providing on this field.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
It don't make sense. You messing up my entire experience.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
If you see a lot of the old videos, right
you used to see in the cold where you can
see the breath.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
Coming out, and you see that on the TV and it's.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Like, oh, that's cold out there, man. Or you see
the guys with the you know, the handwarmers on. What's
interesting is that I thought was really really James Jones.
It was a receiver for the Packers back in the day,
and he came in and he played with us in
the Raiders. He had a jersey with pockets on. And
(51:56):
now you're starting to see guys with that, right. So
if you think about a couple of players I've seen
with the jerseys in the pockets, I'm like, that's fire.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
But that's adapting. That's all.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
That's about all you need right there. Give me some pockets, coach,
put them in there.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
So because my daddy like how they just be out,
I'm like, okay, they're being physical, but what about the
welds on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
Like they ain't freezing.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
But when you really think about it, everybody boil have
boiled blood because they just you know, anticipating that the
game's man.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
So so no, I love it, man, I love everything
about Brown's organization.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Tremendous fans out here. You guys are phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
And I know that there's this itching want of the need,
right of continuous excellent football, and I think that the
organization is truly working towards that, and they built and
brought pieces over here to continuously give the opportunity to
compete year in and year out, So phenomenal opportunity. Think,
thank everyone for just you know, believing in the calls, right,
(53:01):
being able to tune in and listen today and understand
that everything and every aspect of being a part of
the foundation, uh is it goes towards the great calls.
And you know we're still any organizations, vendors, sponsors, right,
we're still taking those for the five K, right, So
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if you would like to come out and let other
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community members know about your calls to you know, definitely
give us a call. Contact us Tjkreyfoundation dot org. Doctor
Francesca Jones is a phenomenal uh she's a phenomenal director
of ours and she'll definitely help trend you know, get
you acclimated to what we can do to to to
be a part of the foundation in some sort of aspect.
(53:43):
So thank you all. Phenomenally and tune in thirty eight strong. Yeah,
I want to see y'all. I want to. I want
to know what y'all got, you know, I want to.
I want to do some implementation of what you guys
are doing right walking, running, biking, playing with your key
is outside you getting them steps in. I know everybo
that count everybody. Everybody got watches on that you know,
(54:07):
track your steps, postals on that challenge.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
Man, once we get it started.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
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