Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning, Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody is the j en Vy Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy,
Speaker 2: we are the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: He got some special guest with us.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, you got the brother Ryan Johnson and chat
Speaker 3: Oh Chosing.
Speaker 1: Welcome brother.
Speaker 4: I'm glad to be here. Glad to be glad to
Speaker 4: be here.
Speaker 1: Oh so you like a cultural icon in a way?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: You think so? Yeah?
Speaker 1: From from from sports like like you. It's been like
Speaker 1: this for a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I know I never really viewed myself like that.
Speaker 4: I kind of just enjoy having fun regardless of what
Speaker 4: atmosphere and put in. I adapted my surroundings and just
Speaker 4: act accordingly. Yeah, yeah, that's about it. I don't I
Speaker 4: don't see it like that, though I.
Speaker 1: Need you and Shane, y'all can't be looking at just
Speaker 1: like that. Though I don't know. It wasn't It was
Speaker 1: both saying and it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's that's my dog. Ye way, many I tried.
Speaker 4: I directed it and listen, I directed it in the
Speaker 4: right way.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Because I don't think Shannon understood or knew about my homie,
Speaker 4: you know, got you, and so I kind I ain't
Speaker 4: really indulged in it, but you know we're good. He
Speaker 4: ain't mean no disrespect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just felt, you know, it felt like I
Speaker 3: because like like that.
Speaker 4: That's why why you know he said that. I was like,
Speaker 4: I understand where you're coming from, and I just left it.
Speaker 6: And when and when you left it alone, it was
Speaker 6: left alone.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So how was it dealing with Shannon Shaw with
Speaker 2: all the beef that he's getting in right now.
Speaker 1: It's like he's arguing with everybody.
Speaker 4: It's coming from everywhere. And I told Uncle, I said,
Speaker 4: this is what we got to do. We can't set
Speaker 4: a president. Every time somebody say something, y'all get together
Speaker 4: and apologize. We're gonna have to make an example out
Speaker 4: of somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: Person, we got to make it hear about of somebody.
Speaker 4: What's gonna happen is people gonna see what damn if
Speaker 4: he can come at him and just say I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: then they squash everything. I said, no, that's not gonna happen,
Speaker 4: because now you see it's starting to be a trickle effect.
Speaker 4: Everybody got their little jokes. So I'm off papers now probation, right,
Speaker 4: right right, I be in the streets. I'm like that.
Speaker 4: So my girl got insured. Something is if anything happened
Speaker 4: to me. I told I got you. I'm gonna be enforcer.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Griselda had an enforcer, had enforcer for I'm enforcer, and
Speaker 4: I mean, it's whatever.
Speaker 1: It's uff. But you got to tell him to A
Speaker 1: lot of that does come.
Speaker 4: With the territory, you know what I'm saying. I think
Speaker 4: I think you understand that, especially especially playing football, dealing
Speaker 4: with the media, dealing with the other side. Now being
Speaker 4: on the other side with the media, I mean, we
Speaker 4: do it to the players. The players that's playing so
Speaker 4: all jokes. I think it. I don't think it bothers
Speaker 4: them because we've we've been in it so long. I
Speaker 4: enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I like the joke.
Speaker 5: You look like you enjoy it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want you talking shit about I'm sorry. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: well funk that.
Speaker 1: I love what y'all doing.
Speaker 3: I love seeing all the athletes that are controlling their
Speaker 3: own platforms from y'all the camp to the to the
Speaker 3: pivot to all the smoke.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: We need that because you got to understand us as athletes.
Speaker 4: Remember the mainstream media controlled how we're perceived on the outside.
Speaker 4: So ESPN and Fox and all those were able to
Speaker 4: get out to the masses and try to tell them
Speaker 4: who we really are. Now we've cut out the middleman
Speaker 4: and we are the voice. We are the voice now.
Speaker 4: And I think it's dope.
Speaker 2: I think it's really I think I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 2: We were talking about it the other day, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know. You can't here for all business.
Speaker 4: I'm here, I got I got five hours, so I
Speaker 4: must take you got them Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: So he was released, but he still gets eighty five million.
Speaker 2: He can play for another team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, most definitely. Obviously it's the owners. It's the owners.
Speaker 4: The owners of the Broncos come in very rich, very
Speaker 4: wealthy family, but have no understanding of what it takes
Speaker 4: to build a winning team. And we're gonna winning organization.
Speaker 4: So you think you get Russell Wilson, you pay them
Speaker 4: all this money and everything's supposed to at the snapper
Speaker 4: of finger just turn around. That's not the way it works.
Speaker 4: You build around him. It takes time to build a
Speaker 4: winning team. Obviously, in business, what you guys do you
Speaker 4: fix everything with money? It's not the way it works
Speaker 4: in the NFL. Especially as an owner if you have
Speaker 4: an NFL background, you understand that. But listen, you pay
Speaker 4: all you pay them all this money, you have dead cap.
Speaker 4: Now you have to pay him what eight eighty five
Speaker 4: he gets to go to another team and double dip.
Speaker 4: You get the double dip. But again it's just the
Speaker 4: owners really not understanding and having like, dude, it takes
Speaker 4: time to win. You know, Russell Wilson for my NFL
Speaker 4: two bowl winning quarterback. He's been the multiple playoffs, multiple
Speaker 4: Pro Bowls. He knows what it takes. You're impatient because
Speaker 4: you always do everything with money and you try to
Speaker 4: fix the situation. But NFL is not gonna.
Speaker 1: Work like that.
Speaker 3: It does make me wonder if if Russell was that
Speaker 3: good in Seattle, was the system that good?
Speaker 4: Russell he was that good, He was that good, and
Speaker 4: I think I think he was good, especially this past
Speaker 4: season he was. He was good as well. He showed
Speaker 4: you he was not. Obviously the first year wasn't as
Speaker 4: good to be like. But Russell Wilson played, took up
Speaker 4: the par and they still let him go. And now
Speaker 4: what you just set everybody back again because you're starting
Speaker 4: all over again. Who're you gonna Bran?
Speaker 8: There's nobody out there, Ryan, you are the CEO and
Speaker 8: founder of Community Community Media, Community Media that tell us
Speaker 8: about that?
Speaker 9: No, for sure and again we excited to be out here,
Speaker 9: for sure.
Speaker 5: But Community Media.
Speaker 9: We're a media company based in Atlanta, Georgia with the
Speaker 9: mission to basically amplify black creators, black gamers. And that's
Speaker 9: actually how we got to link with Chad. Almost about
Speaker 9: a year ago. We were brought into an opportunity to
Speaker 9: create an experience at the MLS All Star Game last
Speaker 9: year that happened in Washington, DC. But what a lot
Speaker 9: of people haven't realized is that all the professional sports leagues,
Speaker 9: the MLS, the NFL, and the NBA, they all now
Speaker 9: have professional gaming.
Speaker 5: Leagues attached to their leagues as well.
Speaker 9: So we were part of the EMLS experience, We got
Speaker 9: to shoot some content with Chad and that really started
Speaker 9: the conversation that ultimately led to him becoming like our
Speaker 9: first ambassador not only for Community Media, but what we're
Speaker 9: building across the HBC Esports League and the HBCU gaming
Speaker 9: ecosystem as well. So literally for us, we throw live
Speaker 9: gaming events, live concerts, working with major brand partners like
Speaker 9: Verizon discovered Nike Hot Pockets, Mountain Dew, and you really
Speaker 9: utilizing these platforms to provide other means of scholarships for
Speaker 9: young black and brown students.
Speaker 1: Nice, It's crazy.
Speaker 2: I had to DJ something at the ball plays and
Speaker 2: it was a gaming event and I didn't know what
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 7: They paid me outside I go DJ and the fact
Speaker 7: that it was sold out just to watch people game.
Speaker 1: I said, Jesus Christ, this is a business man.
Speaker 2: I never knew people would pay that much to see
Speaker 2: other people game a regular game, like to play on
Speaker 2: a joystick. I'm like, this is amazing. And that's I
Speaker 2: guess what part of what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So, like a few years ago when we started this
Speaker 9: whole thing, what we learned is that eighty three percent
Speaker 9: of black youth play video games on a daily basis,
Speaker 9: but when you look at the global two hundred billion
Speaker 9: dollar industry, there's only four percent of us that work
Speaker 9: full time in that industry. So just like everything else,
Speaker 9: like in media, like in the front office of sports,
Speaker 9: like in tech, So what we decided to do is
Speaker 9: like how do we engage our community because the first
Speaker 9: thing we always need to know is like we have
Speaker 9: to be engaged and entertained in order to get like
Speaker 9: extreme interests. So like, how do we create avenues to
Speaker 9: like help young black and brown kids turn their passions
Speaker 9: into professions. Oh yeah, we focus a lot on the competition,
Speaker 9: but we're really really more so focused on helping these
Speaker 9: kids learn how to become content creators, learn how to
Speaker 9: code their own video games, learn how to be in
Speaker 9: legal professions. Like there's everything really ties back into this space,
Speaker 9: you know, health professions, doctors and surgeons helping with Carporo tunnel.
Speaker 9: So we're not necessarily trying to bring people into gaming
Speaker 9: per se, but we're saying, like, yo, if this is
Speaker 9: a passion for yours, here are all of these different
Speaker 9: avenues and areas that you can tap into. Because our
Speaker 9: community has always been told to get off the joystick
Speaker 9: when other communities have been in this space for ten
Speaker 9: fifteen years and now we're playing catch up. So coming
Speaker 9: back to twenty twenty is when my business partner, Chris
Speaker 9: he went to North Carolina Central I went to Oakwood
Speaker 9: University in Hustbal, Alabama, and we were literally just talking
Speaker 9: in the office one day. We're like, yo, I bet
Speaker 9: you my school can be your school and call it duty.
Speaker 5: Out the blue.
Speaker 9: We found four kids from my school his school. They
Speaker 9: went head to head. They loved this so much. They
Speaker 9: told all their friends at other HBCUs. They're like, Yo,
Speaker 9: let's just start a league for this.
Speaker 1: That's dope.
Speaker 7: But I think you know, I see you were in
Speaker 7: the FAMI. You won't comfortable.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, right here, you know, just just I'm wearing
Speaker 10: the greatest HBCU of all time, not just fam you
Speaker 10: this is the highest of the Seven Hills.
Speaker 2: Okay, well this is hamp University, the real HU. Just
Speaker 2: just so you know, just you feel comfortable withs to Oakley. No, right,
Speaker 2: But I was gonna ask, do you think the hbc
Speaker 2: U should change the curriculum because a lot of them
Speaker 2: are real old school and I'm sure they don't have
Speaker 2: a gaming content where these kids are making millions of
Speaker 2: dollars and even you two create is making millions of dollars,
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions.
Speaker 9: So the answers, Yeah, so, like up until twenty twenty,
Speaker 9: this didn't exist in the HPC ecosystem, like it was
Speaker 9: brand new. So the competition, the curriculum development, the internship opportunities.
Speaker 9: All that is now being put in place because I'll
Speaker 9: be real with you, like, our goal is not to
Speaker 9: sell like hoop dreams for the black community. That yo,
Speaker 9: if you get into game and you will make a
Speaker 9: million dollars, because that's very few and far in between.
Speaker 9: But you can get a decent job, you can have
Speaker 9: a nice painting job.
Speaker 5: Doing something that you love to do.
Speaker 9: But it's really about first and foremost educating everybody, right,
Speaker 9: So that's why this opportunity for us is so important
Speaker 9: because having that microphone to let people that look like
Speaker 9: us know that these opportunities exist as step one. Once
Speaker 9: that becomes a thing, I guess taking a step back
Speaker 9: to it is really really important to understand that like thirty,
Speaker 9: I think close to thirty out of the fifty states
Speaker 9: in this country also now have varsity high school esports.
Speaker 9: So a few years ago, we actually partnered with the
Speaker 9: New York City Department of Education and we ran a
Speaker 9: tournament called the Battle of the Boroughs in partnership with Microsoft,
Speaker 9: which was literally a Minecraft tournament to engage kids during
Speaker 9: COVID and like keep them engaged in their high schools
Speaker 9: and like, so for us, it's like you know as
Speaker 9: is ecosystems being built out at the high school level,
Speaker 9: is being built out of the college level.
Speaker 5: What we noticed is that there was.
Speaker 9: No black schools in general, There was no inner city schools,
Speaker 9: and there were no HBCUs taking advantage of this.
Speaker 5: So it's like, what do we have to build, what
Speaker 5: do we have to create?
Speaker 9: Who do we have to tap into to like really
Speaker 9: build out this ecosystem. So for me, we look at
Speaker 9: gaming the same way we look at football and basketball.
Speaker 9: You have high school leagues, you have AAU programs, you
Speaker 9: have after school programs, you have professional leagues, you have
Speaker 9: job opportunities, and that's the same pipeline that we're building
Speaker 9: and establishing right now across gaming.
Speaker 1: That was all pushing a year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So when actually when we seen you and CAN
Speaker 9: that the event was that was actually like our gaming
Speaker 9: activation really was at It was crazy, bro. They unplugged
Speaker 9: everything before the party started because I thought it was
Speaker 9: gonna make the room too hot exactly. So that space, though,
Speaker 9: was rented from a larger activation that week, And so
Speaker 9: that entire week at CAN we had gaming activations. We're
Speaker 9: doing panels, we're educating brands and agencies about how do
Speaker 9: you invest in the space.
Speaker 5: So that's what we was talking to you about in France.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's funny like we've been met Charlie Mane Closer
Speaker 9: seven years ago now when you did your first Black
Speaker 9: Privileged book signing in Atlanta, and every time I seen her,
Speaker 9: like yo, I don't know when or how it's gonna happen,
Speaker 9: but we're gonna end up on here. We're gonna be
Speaker 9: talking about what we're gonna do and then lo and behold,
Speaker 9: the opportunity came up. So and we're also creating that
Speaker 9: as again this upcoming summer a can as well. So
Speaker 9: shout out to her name is Adrian, Adrian Smith.
Speaker 5: With Inkuo Beach.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Inquo Beach.
Speaker 4: So that's exactly what we were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Chad you had dinner with Antonio Piss the
Speaker 3: raiderst coach. Yeah, and you tweeted that you were going
Speaker 3: to ask for a coach and.
Speaker 4: John Yeah, I see, I was gonna ask y'all for
Speaker 4: a job too. I know y'all have an opening. I
Speaker 4: know you're gonna make some space.
Speaker 1: Just got if God filled.
Speaker 4: No no no no, no, we can add we could add
Speaker 4: add another chair. The more the better the merrier. But
Speaker 4: I was in Vegas Super Bowl and I went and
Speaker 4: had it wasn't just me, obviously, other people whatever with
Speaker 4: mister Pierce and having and having dinner, and I just
Speaker 4: tweeted out the picture with him and I just playing.
Speaker 4: I'm playing around, you know, I'm a jokester about Listen.
Speaker 4: I finally got off of the job as the ratest coach,
Speaker 4: and then Antonia went behind me and said, I can't
Speaker 4: wait to have you working with our receivers. So that's
Speaker 4: what That's what sparked it. Like I was really gonna.
Speaker 4: I can't coach, really I have I have thirty seven
Speaker 4: other jobs. I have thirty seven other jobs right now,
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't have time, and coaching is really not
Speaker 4: my thing.
Speaker 1: You got a passion for football, though, I have a.
Speaker 4: Passion for the game of football, not coaching. I have
Speaker 4: a passion for playing. Somebody that want to bring me back,
Speaker 4: then I'll come.
Speaker 1: And do that.
Speaker 4: At forty six, you would play I'm fifty six. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a joke.
Speaker 1: If you call if you fifty six and calling Shannon
Speaker 1: Unk something wrong.
Speaker 4: I mean, in general, I was born in sixty eight,
Speaker 4: which cut it out. Oh my gosh, so y'all. Ain't
Speaker 4: that mean, y'all ain't do your homework.
Speaker 1: You're born in nine hundred and seventy seven.
Speaker 4: I was born in nineteen sixty at Jackson Amorial Hospital
Speaker 4: in Miami.
Speaker 1: Stop. So would you would you play in the league?
Speaker 4: Would I?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Today you can't even hit nobody. Yeah, I'll be able
Speaker 4: to play. You can't hit nobody the rules. Look the rules.
Speaker 4: They damn they're playing flag football.
Speaker 1: You think that rules the game?
Speaker 4: You know what the NFL is all about, protecting the players,
Speaker 4: But again I see they're trying to add an eighteenth week.
Speaker 4: Is it really about protection? About the bottom line at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, money? Maybe know what it is?
Speaker 4: Come on, now, the players are getting bigger, fast and stronger,
Speaker 4: but the dementias of the field have not have yet
Speaker 4: to change. So if everybody bigger, fast and stronger, it's
Speaker 4: only so much you could do. And making the cars safe,
Speaker 4: but at some point youf you drive one hundred miles
Speaker 4: an hour to a wall, regardless of what you do
Speaker 4: from a technical aspect, you're gonna get hurt. The car
Speaker 4: is going to crumble. I mean, same thing when it
Speaker 4: comes to football players.
Speaker 1: Do you think widening in the field. Would make people safer.
Speaker 4: I mean it would help with everybody. You got d
Speaker 4: Lineman three hundred and fifty pounds, you know, running four
Speaker 4: or five? What?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Crazy?
Speaker 1: So why do you drive a Prius?
Speaker 4: I drive a smart car. It's it's one of one
Speaker 4: of the safest vehicles out there, are very cost sufficient.
Speaker 4: I get fifty five miles of the gallon and I
Speaker 4: can park anywhere. People always make fun of my damn car.
Speaker 3: But no, because you said it's smart, I would be
Speaker 3: more if you get an accident.
Speaker 1: It would be something.
Speaker 4: It's one of the safest it's been it's been battle tested. Okay,
Speaker 4: it's battle That's why I drive it. And obviously because
Speaker 4: I'm cheap as hell. I've been having I had that
Speaker 4: since like two thousand and four. Wow, and I just
Speaker 4: my friend. I ain't been in New York and maybe
Speaker 4: I feel like to me like eleven twelve years. I
Speaker 4: see the New York Police Department. They got smart cars. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but who they gonna catch is that that's traffic. Oh,
Speaker 4: it's traffic.
Speaker 1: That's traffic.
Speaker 4: So they ain't trying to go after just like, look
Speaker 4: at him copy and my style?
Speaker 3: It was you serious about? I think Dion wanted you
Speaker 3: at Colorado at one point that was a room.
Speaker 4: Now I asked him coming out right now, I work
Speaker 4: for I work for the Buffs as a recruiter.
Speaker 1: Seriously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just recruiting. I'm recruiting for Prime.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, so he sent you out just to talk
Speaker 1: to the player.
Speaker 4: He don't have to see me. I do it myself.
Speaker 1: Actually, I can't tell him. He bullshit.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I wouldn't lie to you. I lie for
Speaker 4: you before I lie to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so you do it, but it's just not official.
Speaker 4: It's official because if I'm doing it, I ain't doing
Speaker 4: it for free. I don't do it. I don't do nothing.
Speaker 4: But he doesn't have to tell you.
Speaker 1: Already know who you should.
Speaker 7: Be looking at.
Speaker 4: Got you?
Speaker 1: Gotcha?
Speaker 4: Because we over there in Colorado, we're trying to beef
Speaker 4: up the interior offensively in defensive, So I know exactly
Speaker 4: what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Got you? Yeah, got you? And and you made a
Speaker 1: bet before the Super Bowl, that is the Chiefs lost, you.
Speaker 3: Would give up eating McDonald's. You know you love McDonald Yes,
Speaker 3: I can't believe you ain't never got to deal with McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Be Honestly, I.
Speaker 4: Own three franchises, so I really can't have a deal.
Speaker 1: You better.
Speaker 3: You said you would divorce your wife and give up
Speaker 3: sex for the rest of the year. Yeah, were you
Speaker 3: really ready to give all that up?
Speaker 4: I mean, I knew the Chiefs was gonna win. So
Speaker 4: that's why I mean, the Chiefs gonna win. That's what
Speaker 4: I made such an extreme bet. She was pissed. She
Speaker 4: was pissed, but I needed her to understand. You know,
Speaker 4: who get married. Sometimes I go out on the land.
Speaker 4: I say some things that you're not gonna agree with,
Speaker 4: but you know how I feel about you, and I
Speaker 4: was gonna we were good. You see who won the game? Right?
Speaker 1: That's absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4: I got the script.
Speaker 1: You got, I got the script.
Speaker 3: I believe that when people say that the NFL script
Speaker 3: can't script script got.
Speaker 4: Eleven dudes that no, hell no, it's impossible. But if
Speaker 4: you talk about jobs, what y'all think about? What bring
Speaker 4: me in now?
Speaker 1: I don't think it.
Speaker 4: The work is a full I don't wanted to be
Speaker 4: full time, part time like Monday and Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: I'm at four. I don't know if the four could.
Speaker 1: I don't know four could work.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: Because it's like a triangle offense.
Speaker 4: But that's outdated.
Speaker 1: No, it is out radio in NBA, not in radio.
Speaker 8: And then sometimes we got five because we have testling
Speaker 8: figure out she does front page news politics, so sometimes before.
Speaker 6: So this is like your way of telling me if
Speaker 6: he comes on.
Speaker 4: I think that's your way of telling me.
Speaker 7: No, I think they're telling you know, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4: I'm too I'm too dark. Huh oh my god, I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm you lighting every week? What you're doing now? Were
Speaker 1: you really thinking about going to the uf L?
Speaker 4: Hell not? Mm hmm? How much they pay you?
Speaker 1: Tweeted out? You don't even know what you be tweeting,
Speaker 1: tweeted considering mephis.
Speaker 4: Show boat be in a moment, I see something, yeah,
Speaker 4: and then I instantly tweeted and I forget about it.
Speaker 4: But the fact that you mentioned the u f L,
Speaker 4: I want to know how much, say paid. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to diversify my portfolio, yes, in my resume. The fact
Speaker 4: that you won't hire me, I mean, I thought you
Speaker 4: were for black people. I thought you were for uplifting.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to understand what's the problem.
Speaker 8: Well, speaking of uplifting, you know your uncle Shannon and
Speaker 8: he be do you feel like he puts hisself and
Speaker 8: and a lot of these positions and stuff like Vanson's
Speaker 8: like him jumping out the car the like what you think?
Speaker 6: What do you think about it?
Speaker 4: It was cool. He's promoting his liquor brand, okay, promoting
Speaker 4: his concact. He was doing a signing. He was explaining
Speaker 4: to people he's.
Speaker 7: On the road.
Speaker 4: He has to to fly here, fly there signings and
Speaker 4: I like it. Of course, people making trying to make
Speaker 4: jokes up and light every goddamn thing he does. And dude,
Speaker 4: my uncle has hurt. He had two hit replacements.
Speaker 5: What we understand that Hall.
Speaker 4: Of Fake, Hall of Famer. He's he's been beat up.
Speaker 4: You know, technology wasn't as advanced as it is now,
Speaker 4: so being able to recover from some of those injuries,
Speaker 4: it's tough.
Speaker 1: And he grow.
Speaker 4: He's tough.
Speaker 3: You're fifty five years old and you got to run
Speaker 3: this circuit now like you got a whole new life.
Speaker 4: And media like okay, they're always on the gold. So
Speaker 4: there's a microscope on him. Obviously, you bring somebody on
Speaker 4: you because you're volatile towards everybody else, so they're going
Speaker 4: to be volatail back. I think he understands that, and
Speaker 4: you have to welcome that, and he's okay with it.
Speaker 4: I welcome it too. I want, I need people to
Speaker 4: come at me because I.
Speaker 6: Like, I got you gotta do something I do.
Speaker 4: Okay, Damn, tell me you.
Speaker 6: Gotta do something to put yourself, to put yourself out there.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I still believe you.
Speaker 1: Fifty six.
Speaker 4: Look at the wrinkles. Now, look at damn. You see it?
Speaker 4: No relate the lady put makeup on me, so it's
Speaker 4: hard to see. Make a board all right, look at
Speaker 4: the angle? You see it?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Are you a Rocky related in any way to know me?
Speaker 4: An Acep cousins. Now, I gotta explain everything. That's seriously,
Speaker 4: there's a reason me we look just like right, I'm
Speaker 4: just I'm tall as hell, just Acep. He's been in
Speaker 4: the fashion I'm at Target, H and MS. So that
Speaker 4: missed me because I'm not really spending no money. He
Speaker 4: get his stuff free. And you know, I think we're
Speaker 4: gonna collab on something in the future. I've really been
Speaker 4: getting into music and trying to you know again the first.
Speaker 3: But one thing I've always liked about him is how
Speaker 3: I do like how frugal you are.
Speaker 1: Like I've learned a lot of ways of just being
Speaker 1: watching you.
Speaker 4: Over the years.
Speaker 7: That just that just did not had some cars he
Speaker 7: had Lambo.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no no, that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 4: You have to understand those the fruits of my labor.
Speaker 4: Those were not bought with football money. That was from
Speaker 4: obviously my own three what no, So I'm not spending anything.
Speaker 4: I'm using my hard earned money.
Speaker 1: On the field.
Speaker 4: The stuff I did off the field TV shows, endorsements, cards, signings,
Speaker 4: And then you got to think those cars you just name,
Speaker 4: I only had for three years and got rid of
Speaker 4: them because I didn't need anymore. My name, my name, Oho,
Speaker 4: it was it was. It was a little bigger than
Speaker 4: anything I could purchase at the time. So it made
Speaker 4: no sense visually, visibly, you know who I was, no
Speaker 4: matter where I went. So what what the come? I find?
Speaker 4: God damn lambou for why am I driving a Ford?
Speaker 4: Nigga you o jo? It didn't make any sense even
Speaker 4: though outside of the image. You know, when you're young,
Speaker 4: you know you're trying to impress the women, and for what, man,
Speaker 4: I'm holding Oh shit, the women have already googled what
Speaker 4: you're making, so it's no need.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: One day, me and Pete Davis, Pete Davis that wanted
Speaker 3: to go buy a Cuban link change. I remember this person,
Speaker 3: you okay, And I told him I said, we don't
Speaker 3: need to buy real ones because I saw you say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so we went and got three.
Speaker 3: Thousand dollars gold played in Cuban like anybody asked no questions.
Speaker 6: That was green as a muy.
Speaker 1: Nobody asked no questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, listen, man, it's it's for one, it's
Speaker 4: hard for people to move the way I've moved. I've
Speaker 4: been doing this in not past thirty years. It's hard
Speaker 4: because people we caught up in the image and look
Speaker 4: in a certain way becomes your identity. Driving a certain
Speaker 4: certain car becomes part of your identity, you know, and
Speaker 4: people focus on image and look in a certain way
Speaker 4: because I want to look like I got it. I
Speaker 4: just was a complete opposite. Really didn't care what anybody thought.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you to, man, remember when French
Speaker 3: Montana made sinkle how many you know what?
Speaker 4: I have a problem. I needed all that French for royalties. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because I ain't getting no royalties.
Speaker 6: Can't event you up and ask you can't do that.
Speaker 7: It's not get royalties for saying your name right.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: How many women offered your sinkle because of that song?
Speaker 1: Mhm?
Speaker 4: What's that on my left hand just back in the day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I want to Yeah, I don't like. I ain't trying
Speaker 4: to start deal with that when I get home.
Speaker 1: By the way, all I said was offered. I ain't
Speaker 1: saying what you get.
Speaker 4: I don't move because offering there's always something in the
Speaker 4: back of a catch. You got to think anything on
Speaker 4: the outside is always added expense because ain't nothing free.
Speaker 4: Even if they're offering, you got to give something to give.
Speaker 4: I ain't doing that. How did you feel about direct?
Speaker 4: Ain't bothered me. Ain't bothered me. You know, we all
Speaker 4: make mistakes in life, we all do. You know. I
Speaker 4: picked myself up, that's myself off, put my head forward
Speaker 4: and kept moving. I funked up, see d J. Yes,
Speaker 4: I fucked up real ship. Yeah, it took responsibility. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you gotta keep moving. Yeah, that's it. Ain't look back.
Speaker 4: I've been fighting. I've been fighting that mountain. I fell
Speaker 4: from ever since fighting the client back. We're here now
Speaker 4: and I just asked for a job and y'all.
Speaker 1: Told me no, I was just talking about head, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just circle.
Speaker 6: At least the other things.
Speaker 8: Who was just bringing it all around. I tell you what,
Speaker 8: you don't up on parents and you all love the
Speaker 8: way you.
Speaker 4: Are your daughter. Yeah, I love this ship that it
Speaker 4: is amazing. You got one or two.
Speaker 8: I got, I have one on the way, and then
Speaker 8: I have an eleven year old boy.
Speaker 4: Y'all, man, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: I'm on, I'm on. I mean have eleven you.
Speaker 6: Have eleven children?
Speaker 1: Damn stop kids, because you stop listening to this manids man.
Speaker 1: This man is entertain before I was.
Speaker 4: I was Nick Canning before Nick can I was future
Speaker 4: before future. I know that's right. You know I've been
Speaker 4: doing this for a very long time. I'm not sure why.
Speaker 4: I would love when they talk about fathers. I would
Speaker 4: wish they would be should I should be there because
Speaker 4: I also have a lot of kids, and I'm hands on.
Speaker 4: I'm thankful for those I have kids from, and uh,
Speaker 4: they're really what makes this trained rod, you know, because
Speaker 4: most of the time people that have one just one.
Speaker 4: They're going through hell. Yeah, and it's hard to find
Speaker 4: success when you don't have kids with the right people.
Speaker 4: It's hard because they can make life for a living hell,
Speaker 4: living hell. And I do have eleven serious all together.
Speaker 1: I believe nobody gonn live more. Care about that. Niggas
Speaker 1: livet So what you had three over the last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm working. I'm working.
Speaker 1: Had eight. I ain't see no eleven.
Speaker 4: But but I'm married, so then I have to those
Speaker 4: are also my kids. Yeah, so eleven and I'm working
Speaker 4: on twelve right now, that's right. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: People want supplying congratulate the ring of on the two.
Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Yeah, appreciate it. I do feel it was cool.
Speaker 4: It's good. It's good too. Obviously, as much as I
Speaker 4: gave back to that city of Cincinnati, I love the fans.
Speaker 4: I had fun. I did all I could. Obviously, the
Speaker 4: end goal is the winner super Bowl. I can't do
Speaker 4: that by myself. We fell short as far as that
Speaker 4: is concern. But to receive those flowers for all the
Speaker 4: work that you put in throughout those years, it means
Speaker 4: a lot. And to see my name obviously embedded sement
Speaker 4: it into that stadium. That was a good That was
Speaker 4: a good feeling. A good feeling, man, because not too
Speaker 4: many times are we able to get the flowers that
Speaker 4: we deserve for the work that we put in while
Speaker 4: we're still alive, that's right. And to get those well,
Speaker 4: I'm well, I'm still here, young, live and vibrant at that.
Speaker 4: That's dope.
Speaker 3: I feel like at some point there was a period
Speaker 3: when you were playing that you realize what you when
Speaker 3: you realize exactly what you're doing. Now, you got to
Speaker 3: be a personality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 4: I figured that out year three, year three. I was
Speaker 4: setting myself up in year three for the long haul.
Speaker 4: And oh the NFL hated it. Back then, they weren't
Speaker 4: about in the individuality. But I understood what it's going
Speaker 4: to take to keep me moving once the small window
Speaker 4: of opportunity with football closed, I got to You got
Speaker 4: to be a personality. You have to be a character
Speaker 4: in some sort and back then there was no I mean,
Speaker 4: there was social media, but not like it is now.
Speaker 4: So I understood I had to get it while it
Speaker 4: was hot. And I'm still I ain't playing down there
Speaker 4: eleven twelve years.
Speaker 2: Was it pushed back from the League with that, with
Speaker 2: with players being personalities with almost some of the plays.
Speaker 4: Ain't like that, you know, they call it just they
Speaker 4: call it your diva mm hmmm, A distraction, that's what.
Speaker 4: That's what. That's the words that they use. But I
Speaker 4: ain't pay them people.
Speaker 1: No mind, especially you and Tyo. You you and t O.
Speaker 4: I still kept the talget on, y'all. I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I don't like that, you know, if they can't promote it. Man,
Speaker 4: and you got to be a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I know that, y'all really close. Do you think you'll
Speaker 1: ever get into the Hall of Fame? He made it.
Speaker 4: They made him.
Speaker 1: Wait, yeah, he made it.
Speaker 4: He made it. Matter of fact, this is the funny thing. Obviously,
Speaker 4: statistically speaking, he's one of the greatest of all time.
Speaker 4: That's obviously Jerry Rice's numbers of what they are, and
Speaker 4: then it's it's t O and Moss. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: my one a in one beating. And they didn't this
Speaker 4: first year of eligibility, they didn't let him in. So he said, well,
Speaker 4: forget y'all. He had his own ceremony.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 4: That's why you probably remember, because he was like, forget
Speaker 4: your y'all want to play. I forgot about that Hall
Speaker 4: of fame in politics. Man, it's politics, it's the game
Speaker 4: I rather not playing. I understood that earlier in my career.
Speaker 4: So they pick and choose who to let in, you know,
Speaker 4: And I hate that players allow that to to weigh
Speaker 4: in on, to weigh on them, like always knocking on
Speaker 4: the door, wanting to be in so bad because of
Speaker 4: that need for validation or I finally made it, which
Speaker 4: is why I donned my own jacket while I was
Speaker 4: still playing, because at that time, after that catch, I
Speaker 4: felt I was Hall of Fame worthy because I crossed
Speaker 4: a certain amount of certain amount of yards. So I'm
Speaker 4: not waiting on y'all to put me in. I'm induct myself.
Speaker 4: I don't want to play politics. I would have been
Speaker 4: a politician.
Speaker 3: I wonder if this new media that y'all have, how
Speaker 3: much pressure do y'all put on the league to do
Speaker 3: right by players.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's no pressure at all, because the
Speaker 4: league can always do what the league wants to do
Speaker 4: at the end of the day. Always, at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, they're gonna always do what they want
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 2: How much change did you see in the league since
Speaker 2: you left to now with seemed like the politic the
Speaker 2: polo plitics have come down a little bit.
Speaker 4: A little bit, the politics have come down, and the
Speaker 4: safety for the players has has gone up. But at
Speaker 4: what cost? Because at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 4: always about a dollar. It's always about the bottom line.
Speaker 4: The NFL's bottom lineill always beat money. So changes are happening,
Speaker 4: but they're finding a way to make sure that they
Speaker 4: continue to turn the profit at all costs.
Speaker 2: I know I asked you earlier when we were talking
Speaker 2: about the game is changing, but I just remember as
Speaker 2: a kid not to say it was the excitement of
Speaker 2: a hit. It was the excitement of my wide receiver
Speaker 2: bush somebody in the face. It was that excitement. Does
Speaker 2: that excitement still happen in the league? Do people still,
Speaker 2: you know, like to Cee Lawrence Taylor cracks somebody, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean to hit somebody. It was like you wanted
Speaker 2: to see it. But now it's like, I feel like
Speaker 2: these players are too scared and they almost hurting themselves
Speaker 2: trying not.
Speaker 4: To They're going to hurt themselves because of the rules
Speaker 4: that the league has now upheld. You can't hit anybody
Speaker 4: if you're bigger, fast, and stronger, right, and you've been
Speaker 4: playing the game one way your entire life. I understand
Speaker 4: there's a way to adjust, but it's hard to adjust
Speaker 4: moving at the speeds that they do now, especially if
Speaker 4: you're a defender. You can't touch anybody at that line.
Speaker 4: You can't hold, you can't do anything. And now they're
Speaker 4: making it to the point where you can't hit. So
Speaker 4: what's gonna give. It's gonna be you because you're gonna
Speaker 4: do something wrong that's not natural. You're gonnaen u hurting
Speaker 4: yourself and until somebody actually hurt themselves, then you'll It's tough.
Speaker 4: It's tough, and from the outside looking at and there's
Speaker 4: really nothing I can say because I'm not playing anymore.
Speaker 1: But do you think it would be so much easy
Speaker 1: for you because you were a target? Right?
Speaker 2: You with somebody that they want to I wanted this
Speaker 2: because my mouth it's like you wouldn't be that target.
Speaker 7: You would be able to catch even more balls falls
Speaker 7: than before.
Speaker 4: I think that's certain level of comfort with receivers today
Speaker 4: because they know they can't be hit. During my time,
Speaker 4: the time before mine, during that tenure, you were a
Speaker 4: little cautious you understood the middle.
Speaker 1: You know, you jump up.
Speaker 4: Some's coming, some's coming. Today not so much. That's why
Speaker 4: you see everybody being pretty with the one hands and
Speaker 4: doing all this, all this knife acrobatic stuff as opposed
Speaker 4: back then. I mean, you'll do it, but you're a
Speaker 4: little bit more cautious.
Speaker 3: Guy's gonna make people and not want to play fucking defense.
Speaker 1: I'll just be an offensive player.
Speaker 4: But the money they passing out, absolutely you you're gonna play.
Speaker 4: You're gonna play the money. The money is crazy these days,
Speaker 4: it's crazy big time.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you missed out? No on that
Speaker 1: aspect of it.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, because man, what I did make I did
Speaker 4: what I was supposed to do with it. I ain't
Speaker 4: spend nothing, which.
Speaker 1: You never spent it. Yeah, yeah, so you still got.
Speaker 4: I'm still and I'm rolling. I'm rolling real good now,
Speaker 4: rolling good. I'm rolling good.
Speaker 8: What I want to ask you we back on parents,
Speaker 8: and because I wanted to ask you this.
Speaker 6: But I just thought about again.
Speaker 4: You want me to babysit, Yes, you actually want to listen.
Speaker 4: That's why y'all need to hire me. Look at the
Speaker 4: look at the listen, look at the position I can
Speaker 4: do here at breakfast club. Boom, you deliver. I'm here.
Speaker 4: I started an intern as your babysitter. Okay, so you
Speaker 4: can bring the baby to work. Boom, I'm here, sat.
Speaker 4: You ain't got to worry about Mark. I changed Pampas, milk,
Speaker 4: bird feed everything, so I can start like that and
Speaker 4: then work my way up as a baby gets older.
Speaker 4: Then you give me a position at a chair like
Speaker 4: I want to. I want them win the chair. These
Speaker 4: chairs is nice, so I work my way up the ladder.
Speaker 4: But I just I'm trying to diversify my portfolio and
Speaker 4: would like to work here.
Speaker 8: How much diversity in the portfolio do you need? You
Speaker 8: need thirty seven jobs? You're fifty six.
Speaker 6: You say you got eleven kids. I'm choosing to believe
Speaker 6: him at this point. How how active? Well, you're very
Speaker 6: hands on.
Speaker 8: How how can you still be so active in your
Speaker 8: kids life?
Speaker 1: Easy job?
Speaker 4: I got my kids. Everybody in college except two. My
Speaker 4: daughter run track at University of Kentucky. My son is
Speaker 4: at Arizona State. I have an older daughter who's twenty six.
Speaker 1: Your cairo.
Speaker 4: Hey, baby, I know you're gonna see this. My daughter's
Speaker 4: at Perrier and m you know she just wait, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm allowed to say that. But she's
Speaker 4: at and m I was getting ready to talk about
Speaker 4: something that just happened for her that was really good,
Speaker 4: but I can't say it. And little ones and then
Speaker 4: have French fry my little two year old baby, Kennedy,
Speaker 4: her sister, and I need more.
Speaker 1: You want more?
Speaker 4: Yeah, more more. I have time, okay, yeah, because I'm retired. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I'm trying to diversify, trying to get more. Okay,
Speaker 4: I don't, I don't. I was so busy when I
Speaker 4: was playing. I never got the full experience of what
Speaker 4: it's like to be a father. I was always gone, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And you stay in shape, so you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 1: I don't need you to. Yes, you wanted to.
Speaker 4: Take it up, don't get it.
Speaker 5: You got married.
Speaker 6: No, I will be getting married when you got to them.
Speaker 4: But that's the thing I'm gonna crash over.
Speaker 6: It's coming.
Speaker 4: I want. I want to sing.
Speaker 1: IM surprised you ain't over the pastor.
Speaker 4: I was ordained, but you know I'm serious. I was
Speaker 4: on that, but my license expired, so I gotta redo.
Speaker 4: I gotta redo my ship.
Speaker 1: When the last one you ever did was the last
Speaker 1: one you did.
Speaker 4: My homeboy at the hood in Liberty City. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: married him and his wife he married to uh uh something, Queisha.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We're telling you no, no, no, I was, I was
Speaker 4: ordained minister. Yeah, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2: They canceled me one time, and I remember this, uh
Speaker 2: when your wife had her show and I was they came,
Speaker 2: it was at your head, but they was at my
Speaker 2: head and I said, I was like, I feel like
Speaker 2: the network is not showing the sisters selling houses enough.
Speaker 1: And then they got mad.
Speaker 2: At me and said I was coming from and I
Speaker 2: was like, no, I want to see more of it
Speaker 2: on TV. Right right, they just showing the beef and
Speaker 2: the drama, and I hate that they show that with
Speaker 2: black women, but when they have the white women.
Speaker 7: Show, they show all the houses they show.
Speaker 1: And I was, I was mad.
Speaker 5: I was like, they should show the systems.
Speaker 4: It's hard for me to set them straight. I would
Speaker 4: need her here. I would need her here to be
Speaker 4: able to explain the side of the story. But I
Speaker 4: understand understand what you mean. Obviously they were selling houses,
Speaker 4: but we one thing. If they were just selling houses, right,
Speaker 4: how many ads is that going to peace to I
Speaker 4: get it even even today, just in general, you got
Speaker 4: to have some type of drama type of something. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, just just in general and all that we do.
Speaker 4: So like, even they don't we need some type of drama,
Speaker 4: somebody just say something.
Speaker 3: I wonder about that. Up until recently, I don't think
Speaker 3: y'all had a lot of drama on Nightcap.
Speaker 4: Oh no, oh no, we know. We haven't had probation. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was, I was on papers. We didn't. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think Shannon and I we play off each other
Speaker 4: in the chemistry is so goddamn good. We didn't even
Speaker 4: have to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. People just like hearing y'all talk.
Speaker 4: And then it's to see us in a different space
Speaker 4: that you never get to see us in and and
Speaker 4: talk the way we are because it's like the barbershop
Speaker 4: locker room and in a way you've never seen us before.
Speaker 4: I think that's what is more appealing to the audience
Speaker 4: as opposed to being any drama.
Speaker 3: I think the best thing with all of these platforms
Speaker 3: is showing that athletes are not dumb, because there was
Speaker 3: always this that stereotype type dumb, especially in football, and
Speaker 3: I think y'all beyond shadow that.
Speaker 4: Most definitely, most definitely, most definitely, And.
Speaker 2: I wanted to want one last thing. You know, the
Speaker 2: NFL is not testing players. I don't think from marijuana anymore.
Speaker 2: And that's what I.
Speaker 7: Think I read, And it's saying that a lot of
Speaker 7: the players were saying that's.
Speaker 5: Good because they use that to help heal and help.
Speaker 4: For pay injuries. You know what I'm not. That's a
Speaker 4: that's a good one. That's a good one. As someone
Speaker 4: that I've never had smoke weed before, I'm a heavy man.
Speaker 3: Cut it out. Every time you say this, I be
Speaker 3: thinking about solf. I got to remb myself. You from Florida,
Speaker 3: and the craziest people in the world come from the
Speaker 3: Bronx and all of Florida.
Speaker 4: So think about this. Everybody else that come from Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're flashy too, m hm and what am I?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the complete but you're a different type of flash No no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: But a joke saying my mama rest in peace, who
Speaker 4: just passed away in twenty twenty one on Hurricane Paul Johnson,
Speaker 4: I've never had wee before.
Speaker 1: So you was playing, but from the time you walked
Speaker 1: in you was bull Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like smoking it.
Speaker 4: You like talking about my cigars. I ain't never had
Speaker 4: no alcohol before. Really, yeah, I never never drank what?
Speaker 1: No, So that's why you looked at.
Speaker 4: It like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, smoke your wife McDonald's cigars.
Speaker 4: Okay, three, I smoked three of the matter of fact,
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here itching ready to hit. There's a cigar
Speaker 4: bar somewhere here, a private private I forgot the name
Speaker 4: of it. You got to have the membership, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm talking about. Yeah, so I heard about in
Speaker 4: New York. I don't frequent here some cures to check
Speaker 4: it out today?
Speaker 1: What's the allud when it ain't like no kanyac and
Speaker 1: letting involved?
Speaker 4: I drinknaletch your Starbucks, told Carolcatto High, I just don't
Speaker 4: drink alcohol. So with my cigars, I always coffee. I
Speaker 4: mean in Miami, obviously it's just easy.
Speaker 1: God, it's easy.
Speaker 4: But so it's like you you don't hell with smoke
Speaker 4: door right, No, No, it's all about taste. I've never
Speaker 4: had wine before. But the same way you do with
Speaker 4: wine tasting the same thing you do with cigars wine
Speaker 4: before that would be alcohol.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm saying that.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying no, don't. I don't play that. I
Speaker 4: just I just lost my old girl, my mama alcohol poisoning,
Speaker 4: and I think as a little kid, you know, it'd
Speaker 4: always starts when you're young, when you don't do something.
Speaker 4: It's always comes from I'm not calling it trauma, but
Speaker 4: just seeing her be someone I wasn't used to seeing
Speaker 4: when she was consuming alcohol. So I just promised myself
Speaker 4: I would never about young like man, woman, who is you?
Speaker 4: That's still my baby?
Speaker 1: Though. Yeah, I got another homeboy like that.
Speaker 3: His mom had a really bad drinking problem, so it
Speaker 3: called him to never ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it impacted her anyway.
Speaker 4: But again with those injuries, that the weed, I've heard
Speaker 4: the stories. I never I never thought of it. Get
Speaker 4: to this point where the NFL is not testing for it.
Speaker 4: I thought they wouldn't allow it to happen.
Speaker 7: Feeling for it, they said, not suspending for it.
Speaker 4: Okay, are they able to monetize on it, because you know,
Speaker 4: the infield don't play, they gon't find a way to
Speaker 4: make a dollar.
Speaker 7: That's a good question.
Speaker 4: So normally, especially when they allow something to happen. Okay,
Speaker 4: now we find a way we can monetize off allowing
Speaker 4: them to smoke weed will let it happen.
Speaker 2: But it was always surprising that they allow betting in
Speaker 2: professional sports, Like you know, growing up, you could never
Speaker 2: bet legally in sports. And the fact that you know
Speaker 2: they'll break down the offensive defense and then they'll break
Speaker 2: down the draft picks pick and I'm like.
Speaker 1: This is crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the players can't bet. There were a few
Speaker 4: suspended last year and year before last about making bets
Speaker 4: at the facility on their phones. And NFL they track everything,
Speaker 4: easy track everything. They know you hang with and the
Speaker 4: all seat. They know how much you're spending. They know everything. Literally,
Speaker 4: it's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: They know everything you're doing off the field, even during
Speaker 4: the off season.
Speaker 1: You think that's gonna help hurt the game.
Speaker 4: It's always been that way, no matter what, even with
Speaker 4: the legal always you think you think you're getting away. No,
Speaker 4: they know everything you're doing. They know the type of
Speaker 4: people you hang with, they know you're fine answers, they
Speaker 4: know how much you got, you know everything, they know
Speaker 4: what you're spending. The NFL. This is it's the big boys.
Speaker 6: Even if it ain't all coming from them, they know
Speaker 6: what you.
Speaker 4: Know what's coming and they have no problem giving you
Speaker 4: two three hundred men because they know they're gonna get
Speaker 4: it all back anyway over the years. If you get
Speaker 4: where I'm.
Speaker 6: Going, Wow, real quick, before you get out of here.
Speaker 4: Get out of wear, get out of here. I'm not
Speaker 4: going well all right?
Speaker 6: But what is your skin regimen?
Speaker 4: My skin?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: What do you do to keep your skin so clear?
Speaker 1: And let me tie you and your cousin?
Speaker 6: Got good skin?
Speaker 4: But simple fair and white black soap. I get out
Speaker 4: of the hood, the hood beausely stole in Miami. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure where it is in other states. But fair
Speaker 4: and white black soap. You know what you know? Fair
Speaker 4: and white right? No, just simple fear and white air,
Speaker 4: fair white, simple. I don't have all them routines.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what I'm like. What is going will pay
Speaker 8: for stuff like that to your skin?
Speaker 6: Like to get the skin like that?
Speaker 1: Hmm?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got a dermatologist.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like he has a whole You got.
Speaker 4: Fires that takes too long. I ain't got time for that.
Speaker 8: So he be here slapping himself with all all that time.
Speaker 1: No chemical pills, nothing chemical pill.
Speaker 4: I don't like grease or anything shining on my face.
Speaker 4: I don't like that. I don't even like massages that
Speaker 4: oil on. They give me a.
Speaker 1: Man as much as as much as body trainers you had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I didn't get massages when I was playing.
Speaker 4: Ain't even right. McDonald's no injuries, never been hurt, thank god.
Speaker 8: Now I can't say he's fifty six when you see
Speaker 8: his hands. Yeah, thanks for Oh I have seen this
Speaker 8: and white black, so that's what okay, Okay, then every
Speaker 8: day you just wash.
Speaker 1: One time soon as boom, you got your teeth done though,
Speaker 1: your teeth right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's mine for real. Yeah I paid for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, I'm getting me something I like yours. Yours
Speaker 1: don't look like to do.
Speaker 4: I didn't wanted a perfect smile. I'm getting it was
Speaker 4: cool because I still suck my fingers.
Speaker 1: They shaved it down.
Speaker 4: Yeah a little bit, a little bit look good.
Speaker 6: So they were already your teeth you just got them.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I had like a little bit, a
Speaker 4: little b I.
Speaker 1: Want that a little bit. I wanted to be yell
Speaker 1: in the mountain. I wanted to be yell in the mouth.
Speaker 3: I want to, you know not, but I want to,
Speaker 3: like he said, like the perfect It's just something about that.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna fix your list.
Speaker 8: You're still gonna have that big ass tongue.
Speaker 6: Nothing.
Speaker 4: Can I talk about my project with a man?
Speaker 1: No, because you lying not me?
Speaker 4: A got something coming out for real? Yeah, I just
Speaker 4: wanted to yes music.
Speaker 6: Okay, and it hurt me.
Speaker 4: Wrap No, sixteen, You gotta do me a favor. What's
Speaker 4: that Teddy's Battle Rappers? Right right, I'm here and I'm outside.
Speaker 1: Cut it out.
Speaker 4: Outside listen lux DNA clips, hollow goods verbs, letting boys
Speaker 4: know I'm outside. I know right now. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure what's going on with the r L, with
Speaker 4: smacking all that, but I'm here. If they want to
Speaker 4: ring kindle and get that fire back going and battle rap,
Speaker 4: come holler at you boy, what you're gonna do.
Speaker 7: You're gonna host the league.
Speaker 4: Host the league and I'm trying to battle.
Speaker 1: You're gonna rap?
Speaker 4: Man, I'm a three zero all of them niggas. Give
Speaker 4: us sixteen right fast now. I can't do that because
Speaker 4: if if I give you sixteen, I'm gonna need to
Speaker 4: see some green.
Speaker 1: I give you four balls that's above right there.
Speaker 4: Huh give me sixteen, but you know I ain't gonna
Speaker 4: say nothing me and asap coming got something coming out soon,
Speaker 4: So y'all just lay around for that.
Speaker 1: What is it music?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it ain't fashion.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can make like a frugal fashion line, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Nobody gonna got a society. Were about looking the party,
Speaker 4: got it?
Speaker 1: I like being I like frugal and comfortable.
Speaker 8: You should have say what he had on yesterday? He
Speaker 8: had cursed of all over the sweatsuit. It was looking
Speaker 8: crazy if I came from City Trains, the city trends.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a black COVID line called Chaos.
Speaker 4: It's nice.
Speaker 8: It was for children, and he was dressed like a
Speaker 8: big ass kid, an old ass kid.
Speaker 4: Well, I came to New York with one outfit. I've
Speaker 4: had this on the past few days. We got this.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're cool with him? Saturday? Oh yeah, that's millions, Yeah,
Speaker 1: yesterday and Brooklyn. Yeah alright, alright, other clothes too.
Speaker 4: I don't have nothing to weere. I'm going to.
Speaker 3: You ain't gonna have that on the Falcons Hawks, You
Speaker 3: not that, I mean, You're not gonna have that on.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna find outfit because it's the Knicks. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: find Lena go to h and right there. Ain't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they got a gizar you wear, I wear O
Speaker 6: H and M twenty one.
Speaker 4: I get. I've been looking at like a million.
Speaker 6: Bud know what I like.
Speaker 4: It makes you look like you spend some money Uni Clow.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, they got good T shirts. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh man, the Asian store, it's like Asian. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: looks like urban outfitters. But yeah you're in type.
Speaker 6: Of yeayeah okay yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's like it is very cheap too, yes, good
Speaker 4: price point.
Speaker 1: Just gotta go. You do Ryan into some words, man,
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 9: Say kind of just everything man, like first being here,
Speaker 9: like everything we're doing across gaming, music, entertainment, like talking
Speaker 9: about upcoming projects, like the next big thing coming up
Speaker 9: for us.
Speaker 5: We'll be backstage doing like all.
Speaker 9: The gaming and artists interviews at Rolling Loud California. So
Speaker 9: like we're just trying to continue to find ways to
Speaker 9: bridge the gap, make sure that our people have a
Speaker 9: seat at the table, make sure that they have the
Speaker 9: information to make their own informed decisions about what they
Speaker 9: can do with their own individual life.
Speaker 4: One thing we.
Speaker 9: Always say, like stick to the plan because like again
Speaker 9: you know, with the schedule. First of all, I was
Speaker 9: so happy to be able to come through with this.
Speaker 9: Yesterday we go here, we learn about the relationship that
Speaker 9: y'all got with the Saturday folks and the whole nine
Speaker 9: sort of like you know, everything kind of works and
Speaker 9: builds on each other.
Speaker 5: It builds on itself.
Speaker 9: But like the main message we wanted to share is
Speaker 9: like again, if parents, aunts, uncles, you have nieces, nephews,
Speaker 9: kids that are trying to tap into gaming, you're telling
Speaker 9: them to get off the game. We just strongly advised
Speaker 9: to change the message because it's actually a real space
Speaker 9: for it right now. I mean within our league alone,
Speaker 9: the last two years, AHBCU students have earned over two
Speaker 9: million dollars playing in our league. So for us, we
Speaker 9: have kids that are earning six figures just by being
Speaker 9: a part of this. And sometimes these are traditional athletes,
Speaker 9: like we have one kid at Florida Memorial right now
Speaker 9: in Miami.
Speaker 5: He literally plays on the basketball.
Speaker 9: Team and he's on their esports and gaming team, so
Speaker 9: he's on a scholarship for basketball and he's earning money
Speaker 9: in this pastway. So it was interested in like the
Speaker 9: HPCU community, the gamers are getting more nil than the
Speaker 9: traditional sports athletes.
Speaker 1: So the games should we be having our kids on it.
Speaker 9: So the games that are mainly in this NBA two K, Madden,
Speaker 9: Call of Duty, for Night Rocket League, Mortal Kombat, like
Speaker 9: Super Smash, all the games that you know as what
Speaker 9: is playing coming up. Minecraft Minecraft is a big one too.
Speaker 9: That's what I was questioning, Like, we just did an
Speaker 9: entire New.
Speaker 5: York City Battle of the Burroughs.
Speaker 9: We had one hundred and twenty five high schools across
Speaker 9: all five boroughs going ahead to head in Minecraft, and
Speaker 9: the kids were the winner was tasked with whoever built
Speaker 9: the best New York monument inside of Minecraft.
Speaker 5: So it's a whole.
Speaker 9: Linkage between the gaming competition, stim based education and like
Speaker 9: that's really really it is like what we're doing because
Speaker 9: like black parents don't realize it, like yo, your kids
Speaker 9: are on the game, but they could be the ones
Speaker 9: making the game. Like a big thing right now in
Speaker 9: Fortnite is this thing called u e FN right, so
Speaker 9: Unreal Engine Fortnite essentially it's allow It's the same model
Speaker 9: they brought into gaming that exists right now in the music.
Speaker 9: So as a young black person, you can go in
Speaker 9: and build a custom level in Fortnite, you will get
Speaker 9: paid on the hourly playtime that people are playing on
Speaker 9: your level, and they will share forty percent of the
Speaker 9: revenue with all.
Speaker 5: Of their creators.
Speaker 1: So like, yo, I guess.
Speaker 9: Garantee, someone in this room got someone that's playing Fortnite. Okay, well,
Speaker 9: your son and his little friends. They could be making
Speaker 9: LLC's they could be, Yeah, they could be.
Speaker 4: They could literally be.
Speaker 9: Doing what they're already doing every day right now and
Speaker 9: converting that in the revenue. Game companies are then hiring
Speaker 9: these young people to then come build out experiences on
Speaker 9: their behalf. But again, like when we look at this,
Speaker 9: the biggest divide of what we've see is those who
Speaker 9: grow up.
Speaker 5: With computers versus those who grow up with consoles.
Speaker 9: So when you look at just demographics, black and LATINX
Speaker 9: families generally play on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. When you look
Speaker 9: at the other side of the coin, it's computer based games.
Speaker 9: The reason we've been excluded from this space, the big
Speaker 9: event that you're talking about. Those are PCs, And so
Speaker 9: how are's supposed to get in? How are high school
Speaker 9: kids supposed to get in when the schools themselves can
Speaker 9: afford the computer lab to start a gaming team. So
Speaker 9: a lot of the work that we're doing is working
Speaker 9: with of Horizon to then literally get the money to
Speaker 9: build the lab, to give the scholarships so the kids
Speaker 9: can then play in the league.
Speaker 7: Or not even at Wi fi.
Speaker 2: Like wi fi is so damn important in a lot
Speaker 2: of these areas, they don't have strong WiFi.
Speaker 7: They be lagging the kids people playing so and it
Speaker 7: was crazy.
Speaker 9: It is like our first major initiative was back in
Speaker 9: May twenty twenty, and we literally did a stream of
Speaker 9: thought on Twitch. We had people like OFFSET, we had
Speaker 9: GZ Michael Strahan was a big part of that.
Speaker 5: We raised one.
Speaker 9: Hundred and eighteen thousand dollars and twenty hours on Twitch.
Speaker 9: We took that money and bought devices, mobile hot spots
Speaker 9: and laptops for kids in Atlanta that were basically could
Speaker 9: not graduate high school because they didn't have a device
Speaker 9: because of distance learning. So I was like, that's so
Speaker 9: what we're looked at, like this whole thing of gaming
Speaker 9: and technology, like it's really really not about the kids
Speaker 9: just playing the game.
Speaker 5: But what we realize over the years, like Yo, we
Speaker 5: really got to tap.
Speaker 9: Into larger voices that are known within media and known
Speaker 9: within sports, that also have a very strong passion to
Speaker 9: like bring this to the community. And so now we're
Speaker 9: going about like a whole different approach. So now like
Speaker 9: for us, that's kind of like what's coming up, that's
Speaker 9: how we're building this out. And we just say, like
Speaker 9: for parents, like if your kids are interested in something,
Speaker 9: they're doing it every day. We now live in a
Speaker 9: passion economy. You can turn your passions into money.
Speaker 6: What if your kids sucks? Not saying mind dude, But.
Speaker 9: It's not even it's not even about it's not even
Speaker 9: about the being good or bad, right, It's about because again,
Speaker 9: like I play games or to day, I'm not a
Speaker 9: great gamer, but we run a media based business that's
Speaker 9: focused on gaming. Right, So again I turned a passion
Speaker 9: into a profession. And what we're saying is like, yo,
Speaker 9: how I stay in touch with my family. I'm from Columbia,
Speaker 9: South Carolina.
Speaker 5: Like three, I'm from.
Speaker 9: Columbia, So like the way I stay in touch with
Speaker 9: all my cousins is through call of duty. So like
Speaker 9: it's a means of communication for us. But I'm not
Speaker 9: trying to be a professional call of duty gamer. But
Speaker 9: now what I can do is use the information that
Speaker 9: I have bring that to a bunch of companies that
Speaker 9: are trying to touch young people, trying to connect with
Speaker 9: diverse audiences, trying to build with HBCUs. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 9: let's just do this through a whole new league.
Speaker 1: You really diversified your portfolio.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's amazing. I would hope you would help
Speaker 4: as well. And all right, I don't mean to be
Speaker 4: in your personal businesses who call the shots here.
Speaker 6: I have to go actually to a meeting to go
Speaker 6: see her. She's a woman's.
Speaker 4: Mitchell. I know you're probably gonna see this, honey. I
Speaker 4: know we we've never met.
Speaker 3: You don't like being called honey, that is, mister Mitchell.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you see this.
Speaker 4: I have no problem flying to and from Miami to
Speaker 4: get here. I just want a chance. Just put my
Speaker 4: foot in the door and I'll take it from there
Speaker 4: as long as the cameras rolling.
Speaker 1: We know we got an iHeart station in Miami.
Speaker 4: I want to come here with y'all. I like like
Speaker 4: the chemistry is there, like just the vibe. I like it.
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you I know what I could bring
Speaker 4: and help us. Not that y'all need help, but y'all
Speaker 4: is the ship. But just add the cherry on time
Speaker 4: in Miami. I don't listen to the radio at all.
Speaker 4: I'm a gamer, okay, a gamer.
Speaker 1: She hates people that don't listen to the radio. She
Speaker 1: never hired somebody that don't listen to the radio. Yeah, man, listen.
Speaker 4: That's what makes me that, that's what makes me so
Speaker 4: great because I don't listen to the radio.
Speaker 6: I still don't listen to the radio.
Speaker 2: He's lying, So yeah, chat old your single. Appreciate you
Speaker 2: for John Yeah, I said, she gotta go.
Speaker 1: She got a job.
Speaker 4: Where you going to.
Speaker 1: Meet THEA Mitchell? Absolutely.
Speaker 7: Actually, it's a.
Speaker 1: Woman's it's Women's International Day. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7: Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning club.
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.