Speaker 1: What's popping? It's your boy, Nick Burlison, I'm real Mike
Speaker 1: Rob and this is the RV Podcast. TV dropped that intro.
Speaker 1: Yeah oh no, no, yeah, Well I had a long
Speaker 1: day not really trying to go out, trying to go
Speaker 1: by my lady, got a dressed out for man on
Speaker 1: the town and now ain't going down. See now, baby,
Speaker 1: I got some staffs for you and I was some
Speaker 1: real playing super special fast for your teach you at
Speaker 1: this game go down. As they analyzed the winners, they
Speaker 1: might shout my name out because you're bad, mommy. We
Speaker 1: can jump tune into the r V show. He shout
Speaker 1: and tune. Tune into the r V Show show tune
Speaker 1: all season long. Man that does not get on, Nate,
Speaker 1: I'll never gets I'll be singing like I'm in a
Speaker 1: shower with dog. It never gets home, never get it,
Speaker 1: We'll never This is a movie and um we will
Speaker 1: turn this into a weekly show on TV. But as
Speaker 1: for right now, we are on YouTube obviously you can
Speaker 1: check us out iTunes, Stitcher, This is the R and
Speaker 1: B Podcast And coming up on today's show, UM, you
Speaker 1: know we have to talk about with a heavy heart,
Speaker 1: the tragedy will Smith, Um, it's something that transcends football,
Speaker 1: transcenor sport. We're gonna speak about that. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about coach arians saying that moms are afraid to let
Speaker 1: kids play football. Obviously, Mike, me and you feel strongly
Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk about Johnny man zeil Um. Word
Speaker 1: on the street is that he's living with von Miller
Speaker 1: or living with Josh Gordon. He's living with somebody in
Speaker 1: l a Um. So we'll talk about that. Man, I
Speaker 1: got the school. We don't get Listen, Mike, we don't
Speaker 1: get to that. I know, man, But look, man, you
Speaker 1: ain't even going over the script right. You're not going
Speaker 1: over the script right. And they come on, man, just
Speaker 1: because you ain't been in the work, just because you
Speaker 1: ain't been in the job in a few weeks. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Let me handle Listen as
Speaker 1: I'm in studio reporting to work. You see what I'm saying. Um,
Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with Will Smith Man like right now,
Speaker 1: right now, I ain't going to hold up, hold up,
Speaker 1: hold up, no hold up, man, We do that after Wilson,
Speaker 1: Let's pay respects to big homie dog. Let's pay respects
Speaker 1: to big Homie. A moment of silence, straight up shout
Speaker 1: out to his family, everybody affected by by by the
Speaker 1: death of Will Smith and and and and everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's his kids, his wife. Um, this man was a father, husband, teammate, uncle, UM, nephew,
Speaker 1: grand child. I mean, you know what I mean. The
Speaker 1: list goes on and it's heavy hearts. I mean he
Speaker 1: he was a big team guy, Nate, So you know,
Speaker 1: I had many battles against him in college. The guy
Speaker 1: was always a respectful competitor, tough competitor. We oh he was.
Speaker 1: He always the guy that had the big sombrero. That's
Speaker 1: what we call in the meeting room, you know, the
Speaker 1: guy that we had to we had to block. And
Speaker 1: then when I got to the National Football League, same
Speaker 1: same deal. Leader on and off the field. Man. Um,
Speaker 1: we we just couldn't start this show without without talking
Speaker 1: about that, without without paying the respect and that. I
Speaker 1: know you got a lot to say about it too, man. Yeah, no, no, Michael,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, um cut me off and doing that.
Speaker 1: That's definitely something that we had to do. And it's tough, man,
Speaker 1: because you know, our job is to talk about football
Speaker 1: and it's uh talk about everything current, um, everything positive
Speaker 1: and everything negative. And when I heard this news, uh,
Speaker 1: it hit me in the place that I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go. So I can only imagine, Um, the people
Speaker 1: that are directly affected. You know, his wife, Uh reports
Speaker 1: were that she was shot twice. UM, the kids that stended,
Speaker 1: families surrounding him, and all the fans that have seen
Speaker 1: this young man grow into a man. I mean, his
Speaker 1: last post that he put on Instagram was I'm out
Speaker 1: in joint time with my wife and and and the
Speaker 1: last thing that we hear about him is that he's
Speaker 1: being slain in the streets. And that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: He was slain. I was trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: I was gonna talk about it, what I was gonna
Speaker 1: say about, um, guns and violence. And I know it's
Speaker 1: a hot topic, and I know that some people say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, guns are necessary, it's necessary evil. But I'll
Speaker 1: say this. I'm not gonna tear down people that own
Speaker 1: guns and own them properly, but I will say this.
Speaker 1: I heard a comedian say that, um, you know, guns
Speaker 1: don't kill people. Stupid people with guns kill people. And
Speaker 1: for me, it's two things. It's stupid people, and it's
Speaker 1: um people that are afraid. And if you combine the
Speaker 1: two of those things, then you have complete ignorance UM
Speaker 1: and the gun in the hands of somebody that one
Speaker 1: they don't know what to do when they have a
Speaker 1: dangerous weapon like that in their hand. And then too,
Speaker 1: they're overcoming so much fear that they make the worst
Speaker 1: decisions in the pressure moment. So you know, if you
Speaker 1: have a gun and you want to properly loose use it,
Speaker 1: and that gun is an extension of your ego, then cool.
Speaker 1: But if you're leaning on the fact that a piece
Speaker 1: of metal putting your waistband is any way making you
Speaker 1: a bigger, batter, stronger man or woman, then you need
Speaker 1: not have a weapon because too many lives are taking
Speaker 1: from us and they're taking too soon. Absolutely right, it's
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, man, And I'm I'm I'll say I'm
Speaker 1: a gun owner. Um, I'm registered responsible gun owner and
Speaker 1: um literally man, it's only for protecting for protection of
Speaker 1: the house of my kids, like it goes nowhere. And
Speaker 1: and you know, you just understand that you don't even
Speaker 1: want to get into a situation as to where you
Speaker 1: have it on you and you know that, like you
Speaker 1: talk about, that ego which all men have to an
Speaker 1: extent um, comes out in in a in a tough situation.
Speaker 1: So um again, man, we just want to send our
Speaker 1: condolences out from the R and B podcast to the
Speaker 1: family and everybody affected. Man um uh, let's move on
Speaker 1: to the next topic. TV. You gotta you gotta beat
Speaker 1: for brother. I got no beat today. We want to
Speaker 1: keep a little bit mellow. Okay, well, you know so
Speaker 1: it's big shot, you know, prayers and thoughts his family
Speaker 1: for sure, But I will let the people know as usual, Hey,
Speaker 1: what they need to do, you know what they need
Speaker 1: to do every show, every show, every episode. But first
Speaker 1: of all, you need to be real because your r
Speaker 1: V podcast and recognize the real, which is the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors winning seventy two games, history being made. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's true. On for seventy three on Wednesday. That's history
Speaker 1: being made. So this recognize the real because we all
Speaker 1: talk about the bull se season like the past six
Speaker 1: in win season. Obviously they weren't able to finish it off,
Speaker 1: but there's an order to it and the something to
Speaker 1: be said of being a part of it while it's happening.
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what. I tell you what though TV.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, man, it is a great
Speaker 1: feat man, because all the games and stuff that they played,
Speaker 1: the physical toll that they put on their bodies, and
Speaker 1: the commitment that they have to be to be great
Speaker 1: for so many on so many nights, man, so many,
Speaker 1: so many you know what I mean. But for me,
Speaker 1: I'm one of these guys. Bro, if you don't win
Speaker 1: the championship is off or not. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I really do feel that way. Man.
Speaker 1: If they weren't, if they don't finish this thing the
Speaker 1: right way and repeat, if they don't go out the
Speaker 1: way that they're supposed to, I'm telling you, man, this
Speaker 1: will be This will be um in the history books
Speaker 1: of the other Golden State Warriors. Man, it definitely wouldn't
Speaker 1: be in the first chapter. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And they need to recognize that, and I think they do.
Speaker 1: Just listen to all the interviews, listen to them, listen
Speaker 1: to them talk. They realize that, and I think they are.
Speaker 1: I think they are problemed to do it. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I agree with you, Mike, and I think
Speaker 1: we have this thought process Uh, that you have to
Speaker 1: win it in order to validate such a great feat.
Speaker 1: Because we were active watching the nineties, we were active
Speaker 1: watching Chicago. We've seen them grow. We've seen Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: grow from this rookie who was you know, shot happy
Speaker 1: and could do anything to becoming the most complete player
Speaker 1: on Earth and then willing his team to one of
Speaker 1: the best seasons we've ever seen. I mean, seventy two
Speaker 1: and ten eighty two games, you lose ten games, and
Speaker 1: then they went on to validated by saying we're about
Speaker 1: to dominate the rest of the postseason and bring a
Speaker 1: championship back Chicago. So, Mike, you hit it on the head. Listen,
Speaker 1: whether they finished seventy two and ten or seventy three
Speaker 1: and nine, it's all gonna fall on the shoulders of
Speaker 1: this team whether they win it or not. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a great feat regardless. But um, it's just like the
Speaker 1: Patriots when they had Randy loss, Brandy had twenty two
Speaker 1: timesdowns or whatever it was. It was a crazy season.
Speaker 1: I remember being in Vegas watching that game versus the Giants,
Speaker 1: thinking like, this is it like the Patriots about to do?
Speaker 1: You always in Vegas, bro, every every story you got, man.
Speaker 1: I was in Vegas getting out of getting out of
Speaker 1: the pool. Oh, man, I was party. That's that stuff
Speaker 1: right there. Hey, you ain't lying. We like part actually
Speaker 1: with my wife at that point and I'm watching the game.
Speaker 1: It's snow and I'm like, yo, the Patriots are about
Speaker 1: to do what the Dolphins did. They're gonna go down.
Speaker 1: Is one of the best teams ever to do it?
Speaker 1: And then they lost? And then you think, what happens
Speaker 1: to that train of thought? Are they still in your
Speaker 1: mind one of the best teams ever do it? Unfortunately, no,
Speaker 1: no matter how good the season was. So yeah, if
Speaker 1: the if the Golden State Warriors win it all, there'll
Speaker 1: be stamped is one of the best ever. And then
Speaker 1: we can have that conversation who wins bulls of Warriors?
Speaker 1: So are some of the best things were? Hold up?
Speaker 1: Hold up though, hold up though? You know we we
Speaker 1: we played football. Let me let me jump back in
Speaker 1: football real quick. I gotta ask you this. I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you this, Nate, I've been dying ask you this. Bro.
Speaker 1: What's up with Johnny Dog? What's up with Johnny Manzel? Bro?
Speaker 1: You're talking about Johnny Johnny Manzel? Oh man, you know
Speaker 1: who I'm talking about. Come on, man, what's up with him? Bro?
Speaker 1: Before we get to that, because yes, you guys completely
Speaker 1: hijacked what I was trying to set up right there.
Speaker 1: Oh my bad, my bad life. He set up with
Speaker 1: stuff you need to do, this pop culture related and
Speaker 1: it's like stuff we really need to do for the show,
Speaker 1: which is my bad. Man. Hey man, you know how
Speaker 1: we know how we know? I know, we just roll.
Speaker 1: We just roll with it. But you make sure to
Speaker 1: subscribe it to r you just comment, leave your rating.
Speaker 1: We need that love and tell a friend to tell
Speaker 1: a friend, tell a friend. Let's tell a little Johnny. Hey, look, Nate,
Speaker 1: what's up with him? Dog? Like? First of all, if
Speaker 1: he's trying to get back in the league, talking to
Speaker 1: TMZ ain't the way to do it. Talking to r
Speaker 1: B podcast might be. Don't come on, Nate, what's man? Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get Johnny on the show next
Speaker 1: week because I know Johnny's out in l A. Actually,
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, when I was in l A, I
Speaker 1: went out to a spot called Mr. Nice Guy. It's
Speaker 1: a little lounge, grape food, grape vibe, grape and be honest. Um,
Speaker 1: I walked in there and I run into Greg little receiver,
Speaker 1: and then I see Josh Gordon and then I see
Speaker 1: Johnny like like, what's something my guys? So, you know,
Speaker 1: we kick it back chilling. They had a little booth.
Speaker 1: I had a booth and we actually saw I forgot
Speaker 1: to do his name. I don't want to slide the
Speaker 1: light skin calf and the Lakers who was like Kobe
Speaker 1: told me to stop dunking like a light skin dude.
Speaker 1: You remember that dudember Head. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: slide him, but he's butterfly ball. Anyway, it was a
Speaker 1: lot of athletes in here, so UM, I went up
Speaker 1: to Johnny and Josh and I was like, yo, listen,
Speaker 1: your story is gonna be told regardless. You know, when
Speaker 1: you make mistakes or you do something that people don't
Speaker 1: agree with, you know, what we do in the media
Speaker 1: is we're gonna talk about it. Um. Sometimes guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be brash and harsh, and a lot of it
Speaker 1: is because of y'all's wrong doing. But if you guys
Speaker 1: want a voice, you guys want to talk and come
Speaker 1: holler at us, come on the podcast going on network. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll let you guys speaking. Josh was like, you know,
Speaker 1: me and Johnny were just talking. We got something big
Speaker 1: in it works. Um, we're gonna highlight you in a
Speaker 1: little bit. So, uh, you know, they weren't drunk, they
Speaker 1: weren't turned up, they weren't in there stumbling and fumbling
Speaker 1: their words. Deal, you're supposed to the deal. I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to paint the picture because people think that
Speaker 1: Josh and Tonny out there just going to ham. That's
Speaker 1: not the case. They were casual. They were having a
Speaker 1: good time, um, eating and relaxing. So I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: Johnny come through. I don't know if I get johnsh
Speaker 1: to come through, because you know, a light of the
Speaker 1: news recently, Josh scored he might want to, he said,
Speaker 1: he has a story to tell. No, but this is
Speaker 1: my thing. This is my thing. Okay, what's up? If
Speaker 1: I'm mean, if I'm meant, Josh was this and that? Look,
Speaker 1: I would say this if he was sitting right here, bro,
Speaker 1: if I'm in his position, and Nate, let's keep it funky.
Speaker 1: We both already know the drug policy in the league, Okay,
Speaker 1: whether it's right or wrong. Okay, we already know, especially
Speaker 1: for what for for marijuana and stuff for what he
Speaker 1: gets down with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we already know that
Speaker 1: we got guys in legal states and not. We already
Speaker 1: know that. So for him to even get to the
Speaker 1: point to where he's not in the league right now,
Speaker 1: to me is crazy. Okay. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: he might not have an issue or a problem of
Speaker 1: substitute problem, whatever the case may be. But if I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get back in the league, you best believe
Speaker 1: there will not be a trait, a story, nothing. Okay.
Speaker 1: Let me position myself to act like I'm really talking
Speaker 1: to you. Okay, yeah, nothing, Okay. That's gonna happen while
Speaker 1: I'm not in this league. That's gonna make a team
Speaker 1: think twice, Make a general manager think twice, Make a
Speaker 1: general manager's wife think twice about talking about me at
Speaker 1: the table at dinner anything. I don't want anything to
Speaker 1: come across their mind. Bro Come on, I agree. I
Speaker 1: agree that what I will say is this, if it
Speaker 1: shows and what the reports were deluded or traces of
Speaker 1: marijuana means that Josh could have been in a situation
Speaker 1: or a place or location where come on, by the
Speaker 1: time legends, dog, come on, with him Urban legends. Dog,
Speaker 1: let's keep it real, Nate. Come on, man, Come on, dog,
Speaker 1: Come on. Dog didn't say tested positive for a mere
Speaker 1: one that said traces are deluded. Switch means he could
Speaker 1: have been somewhere where we was. That he could have
Speaker 1: been in the club and the guy's guy could have
Speaker 1: been smoking. He could say, you know what is that smoke?
Speaker 1: U smell? Let me get up out of here. He
Speaker 1: could have been at a house part. He could have
Speaker 1: been n Nate. Then nobody would pass. No, no, nobody.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying stuff happens from this man.
Speaker 1: I know whether I'm in a location where somebody's smoking
Speaker 1: or somebody And that's what I'm saying. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be aware, you're surroundings, you know what time it is. Dog,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get back in the league. You're talent. Man,
Speaker 1: he's being our league in the beginning. I agree with
Speaker 1: you right now. I feel I'm just say this. Not
Speaker 1: everything there is a gray area in light, but what
Speaker 1: you're saying, you're right. Hold. Hold, I'm glad you're said that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that because I gotta tell our
Speaker 1: listeners right. One of my favorite songs is about this
Speaker 1: guy by the name of Jonathan McReynolds, right, and and
Speaker 1: basically he's it's a song called No Gray and it's
Speaker 1: a spiritual song, but it's basically talking about, man, why
Speaker 1: are we living so much great? Why can't we make
Speaker 1: decisions and make it be black or white? Not obviously race,
Speaker 1: but make the decisions be black or white. Man. That's
Speaker 1: what's wrong. You can't live on it. You can't think that,
Speaker 1: uh just marijuana may show up in my in my
Speaker 1: yearing okay, but then still live the same lifestyle with
Speaker 1: that stuff gonna be around. No, Mike, I get, like
Speaker 1: I said, you're right if if you're in a position
Speaker 1: sound defended man, instead of just speaking the truth. I'm
Speaker 1: not mad. I'm just saying. I'm just saying what the
Speaker 1: possibilities are. What I what I will agree with with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: is that if you're in a position that Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: is in, then Mike, you are right. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: in a gray area. That means if if I'm in
Speaker 1: the car and I got friends in the back and
Speaker 1: somebody's about to roll up some weed, then either I'm
Speaker 1: getting out of there. Ge now, if I walk in
Speaker 1: the club, I'll walk in a house and somebody smoking weed.
Speaker 1: Are there's cannabis around, and yeah, I need to get
Speaker 1: out because I don't have the luxury of saying, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not smoking it. Second hand smoke shouldn't get me
Speaker 1: in trouble. So, Mike, You're right. What I'm saying is
Speaker 1: that because it's deluded or traces, we can't assume that
Speaker 1: Josh was smoking weed over the last year and he
Speaker 1: just purposely disregards the fact that he was on the
Speaker 1: outs of the NFL and doesn't care about him getting
Speaker 1: back in that man. But but Mike, you're right. Bro,
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right, and we both know we Mike,
Speaker 1: come on, let's keep it real. We've been there. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say a long time so that what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say to you, I've never I've never failed
Speaker 1: to drug to us. Have I been around weed, Yes?
Speaker 1: Have I been around cannabis and marijuana and the house
Speaker 1: parties and clubs in situations where the drugs that failed
Speaker 1: are in the house, are in the place, are in
Speaker 1: the location. Yes, But I know what I had in
Speaker 1: my hand, which is the gym that the NFL is
Speaker 1: and I don't want to risk this gym for a
Speaker 1: couple of moments of a quick high. There it is, there,
Speaker 1: it is. So when you talk to Josh, why don't
Speaker 1: you relate this stuff to him? We we've had these conversations.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was in Cleveland and I talked
Speaker 1: to him, um, and I was just like, look, man,
Speaker 1: I've seen them all, Like I've seen Randy. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: seen Calvin. Like I'm looking at you, bro, and you
Speaker 1: are a phenomenal watchbra And he was, and he was
Speaker 1: probably around twenty pounds overweight at that time and not
Speaker 1: me assuming we were at practice one day and he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, man, my knees kind of bothered me
Speaker 1: because I'm just a little out of shape. Like you know,
Speaker 1: the time off that I spent, I didn't get in
Speaker 1: the best shape that I could have. I've seen Josh recently,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and you know, Mike, we
Speaker 1: tap each other up and we give each other the hug.
Speaker 1: It's like, yo, what's up, bro? You know I'm I
Speaker 1: grab a dude shoulder, like, now are you feeling you? Good? Man?
Speaker 1: Josh is in tremendous shape. I mean, cut face, slim next,
Speaker 1: slim shoulders, big trapped buys. This dude has been busting
Speaker 1: his ass in l A. So from this situational reports
Speaker 1: of him possibly not getting back in the league, man,
Speaker 1: it's funstrating because I'm looking at this new two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixteen Josh. I'm talking about this new and improved
Speaker 1: j G Flash Gordon, and he is ready ready to
Speaker 1: take that spot back Top five Dinner a Lot. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I've always agreed. I mean, when he's on,
Speaker 1: he's one of the top three or four guys in
Speaker 1: our league. I feel like the league that the league
Speaker 1: needs him, the league needs that talent. But his issues
Speaker 1: has have never been a physical. His issues have always
Speaker 1: been the decisions he had he makes outside of the field.
Speaker 1: And I just hope that he surrounds himself with the
Speaker 1: right guys that's not gonna even put those distractions around him.
Speaker 1: That's what he needs. He needs people that's just not
Speaker 1: gonna even put him around him, that's gonna say, come on, man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure that you right. We're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure that you write so that you know that's it
Speaker 1: on that man. We still don't have no musical selection TV.
Speaker 1: It's the whole, the whole Like that, Mike, I got
Speaker 1: something for you right here. Uh uh uh uh that's
Speaker 1: the hot stuff right there. Hey look, Nate, Hey, can
Speaker 1: I actually one thing, man, Actually one thing. Bruce arians
Speaker 1: Arizona card No head coach says that moms are stopping
Speaker 1: their songs from playing football. Man. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: and I run a little league. I run a little
Speaker 1: bit of spring football league, and um, I can't say,
Speaker 1: and uh, certain communities, I can't say in the black
Speaker 1: community that they are. Um. I mean kids are signing up,
Speaker 1: they're playing in the community. I see. Um. But I'm
Speaker 1: what you laughing at. Man, It's the truth. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying they're not playing football, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying and it leads to a bigger discussion that
Speaker 1: I mean, again, our kids. You know, kids in certain
Speaker 1: areas only see athletics or entertainment as ways to get out.
Speaker 1: They don't even see that you could be a doctor
Speaker 1: or or plumber or whatever. Whatever. But anyway, um, I
Speaker 1: think that the numbers across the United States, yeah, people
Speaker 1: are in moms are taking their kids out of football. Uh.
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on that? Man? Because I have some
Speaker 1: crazy thoughts on it too. But what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on our game? Possibly uh losing? Um, but you know
Speaker 1: our future because moms are putting their kids in football.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's an epidemic, and it's getting it's
Speaker 1: getting bigger and bigger. You know right now, you know
Speaker 1: my kids play uh football in excuse me, and I'm
Speaker 1: working right now. I gotta go now listen, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: kids these days are you know, their parents are so
Speaker 1: concerned with the injuries to their body and also the
Speaker 1: head injuries, the concussions, the CTV, all these different things
Speaker 1: that uh, you know parents haven't directly been affected by,
Speaker 1: but they watch and read and and see these these
Speaker 1: kind of bad examples of what football can do to you.
Speaker 1: So they're pulling their kids out of the young age.
Speaker 1: The only thing that frustrates me about that is you
Speaker 1: can't expect the kid who hasn't played football on organizational level,
Speaker 1: a certain skill set level, from a student perspective, being
Speaker 1: able to learn the game, and then put them in
Speaker 1: high school and expect them to be as caught up
Speaker 1: as everybody else. You look at parents who want their
Speaker 1: kids to be in tennis or soccer or baseball prime example. Um,
Speaker 1: and yes, these sports might not be as violent in nature,
Speaker 1: but these parents say, oh, why want my kids to
Speaker 1: play baseball at the age of five all the way through,
Speaker 1: all year round. But you're right there though, man, them
Speaker 1: sports you just, especially baseball, that's so much of a
Speaker 1: skilled sport that, yeah, you have to develop that skill.
Speaker 1: Are you know what? Dog? And it goes back to
Speaker 1: the old saying, bro coach Toby a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Our game will will be, always have been, and will
Speaker 1: continue to be about pain. How much can you give
Speaker 1: out and how much can you take? Brute force sometimes
Speaker 1: wins and football and so it is different, so so
Speaker 1: so to my point, you can't expect the kid automatically
Speaker 1: they adjusted in high school. If you haven't been introduced
Speaker 1: to that, can't might be introduced Mike, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're a brother guy. I'm not saying that. Listen,
Speaker 1: didn't you hit this man? Dog? Come on, man, that's
Speaker 1: that why I received we're talking man getting the triches.
Speaker 1: You didn't even let me get my point. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't want to listen. Have you been in a fight before, Mike, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not proud about it, but yeah, okay. So I
Speaker 1: would say maybe at the young age you got in
Speaker 1: the fight. Later in life, you got in a fight
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you weren't shocked when you got into
Speaker 1: that scuffle later in life. That's how football is. You
Speaker 1: gotta get introduced to this sport so when you get
Speaker 1: hit in the mouth, you're not shocked and want to
Speaker 1: walk away from it. I want these parents to allow
Speaker 1: their kids to feel, like you said, Mike, the pain,
Speaker 1: and feel the energy, the intensity, and to be real
Speaker 1: some of the violent nature of what football is. So
Speaker 1: when they get to middle school, when they get to
Speaker 1: high school, they're already accustomed to it and they can
Speaker 1: enjoy it because Mike, you know, like I know, we
Speaker 1: played with guys in high school, even something college who
Speaker 1: weren't built for what the game is really meant to be.
Speaker 1: That's a fast paced, very high intense, painful, violent game.
Speaker 1: So I want kids to get involved from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: and I get it. Parents are afraid and they're saying, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want my Keith Geeric cool. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Your kid can get hurt doing anything. So if you're
Speaker 1: going to be a helicopter parent and help over around
Speaker 1: every single sport event, our thing that they do. You're
Speaker 1: gonna always be on edge, biting your nails because life
Speaker 1: is gonna bring your child pain. Might as well let
Speaker 1: him do something enjoyce you. You write, Nate, and and
Speaker 1: I agree with all of that. I'm not gonna even
Speaker 1: repeat it all um, because you said it perfectly. Uh.
Speaker 1: But also I take other things away from the game
Speaker 1: of football man um. To me, it trains CEOs. And
Speaker 1: I say it like that because you know the culture
Speaker 1: and how discipline we have to be regimented. We have
Speaker 1: to be on your own. Um. Stuff that you have
Speaker 1: to prove to yourself. You have to be self motivated um. Um.
Speaker 1: The sacrifices you make moving different places, getting cut, um,
Speaker 1: you know, setting up shot then getting cut again, have
Speaker 1: to look for schools and uh, the the the the
Speaker 1: adversity of the of the women in the clubs and
Speaker 1: this everything right, it really teaches you how to deal
Speaker 1: with adversity. It really really teaches you how to manage
Speaker 1: right and the issues are that more oftentime than not.
Speaker 1: As football players, we don't take the exs and ohs
Speaker 1: and translate them into everyday life, uh vocabulary so that
Speaker 1: we understand it, so that we can't succeed in life.
Speaker 1: A lot of times our scope isn't isn't that big.
Speaker 1: We're always talking about all men, I gotta be ready
Speaker 1: for the next season. I gotta be I gotta be
Speaker 1: good in football. I gotta be good in football. I
Speaker 1: gotta be good in football. Right when, for real, football
Speaker 1: is training us to be successful in life. Right, if
Speaker 1: only we can just make the correlation. A lot of
Speaker 1: us can't always make the correlation. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so from that aspect, I feel like football has
Speaker 1: been wonderful. It's been awesome, especially if you play it
Speaker 1: the right way. And always tell people when I was
Speaker 1: in Seattle, especially when I really started getting into my
Speaker 1: mold at full back, and really I'm talking about every
Speaker 1: single time I'm in the game as a head collision right. UM.
Speaker 1: I really started learning from um, from from rugby players
Speaker 1: about leverage, UM, about having twelve cleats in the ground.
Speaker 1: And most of the time, if you have your twelve
Speaker 1: cleats in the ground and you have a base, UM,
Speaker 1: a lot of times your head and your body is
Speaker 1: not um absorbing the hits the ground that's absorbing it hit.
Speaker 1: And once I understood all of that nothing stuff, I
Speaker 1: take care of my body. I was able to tell
Speaker 1: the trainers, hey, look watch out for certain hits. I
Speaker 1: already know I'm weak here, watch out for this, and
Speaker 1: they already knew m. I Thank god for guys like
Speaker 1: Sam Ramsden, who U? Sam? Out there? Um and Donald
Speaker 1: and all those guys in the crypt on in Seattle,
Speaker 1: because they would literally they would literally watch me and say, look,
Speaker 1: I saw what just happened. Are you good? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You're good? They would check with me,
Speaker 1: and we developed a relationship as to where I knew
Speaker 1: I could be vulnerable around them. And that's what a
Speaker 1: lot of football players we don't trust a lot of
Speaker 1: the trainers. You see what I'm saying. I knew I
Speaker 1: could be vulnerable around him and cry and be like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I can't go back in the game right now, and
Speaker 1: I'm hurting. You see what I'm saying, as opposed to
Speaker 1: the word times in my career where it's like oh no,
Speaker 1: oh no, I can't even be I can't even show
Speaker 1: this around this trainer, right. You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that's it that's it. I feel like when parents
Speaker 1: they hit the mindset that one, this is the reason
Speaker 1: why they don't put their kids in football. There's a
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One, I just don't want my kid
Speaker 1: to get injured. And then two is, well, my kid
Speaker 1: really isn't that good, so I don't want to put
Speaker 1: him out there and put him at risk. And what's
Speaker 1: the point of getting him involved in football if you
Speaker 1: know he's not gonna make it to the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: it's unrealistic goals, So we're not gonna get him involved.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, like you said, Mike, the parallels
Speaker 1: between football and life are so close that once you're
Speaker 1: done playing the sport at any level, like you have
Speaker 1: learned something in the sport of football that will carry
Speaker 1: you through some tough times and will propel you past
Speaker 1: individuals that aren't built for what life is going to
Speaker 1: bring you. And I bring us all around by saying,
Speaker 1: if you think that your kid isn't good enough to
Speaker 1: play football, let me tell you this. Maybe his understanding
Speaker 1: of football one day will allow him to be a manager,
Speaker 1: a coach, and a owner. Like I know I'm jumping sports,
Speaker 1: but I gotta talk about this while so in my mind.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, there was a teacher in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. He said, I don't want Steph Curry
Speaker 1: coming to my classroom because some realisted my kids can't
Speaker 1: be an NBA. You know, Steph Curry is tall and
Speaker 1: he could jump high and the shoot wheel. A lot
Speaker 1: of these kids can't do that, so I don't want
Speaker 1: them to get in realistic goals. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: rip that article out of my hands and send it
Speaker 1: back to the guy. It frustrated me because maybe Steph
Speaker 1: Curry walking in the classroom motivates a kid that wasn't
Speaker 1: the basketball to get in the basketball and that same
Speaker 1: kid goes on to be a four point on student, valedictorian,
Speaker 1: graduates with honors, goes to college, get his masters, and
Speaker 1: then owns a basketball team. The same thing in sports
Speaker 1: with football. So these kids. Dude did have a point
Speaker 1: by saying, not every basketball player's dad played in the
Speaker 1: NBA and had two resources. I'm not saying the whole
Speaker 1: article was right. That's true, but not everybody has Steph
Speaker 1: curs resources. And I had to get that off my mind.
Speaker 1: I get that, but but if if one kid in
Speaker 1: the back of the classroom that can't jump, can't shoot,
Speaker 1: can't do anything. It's fascinated by this man that has
Speaker 1: made it and it's making millions on and off the court.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest athletes that under Armourers ever signed,
Speaker 1: potential worth of his contract under armour is upwards in
Speaker 1: the billions. Then maybe this kid in the bad classroom says,
Speaker 1: I want to get involved in basketball, and maybe that
Speaker 1: same young kid, instead of paying tickets to watch the
Speaker 1: future NBA players play, are cutting checks of the guys
Speaker 1: playing on the court. Same thing with football. Let these
Speaker 1: kids go out there and play, because some of these
Speaker 1: parents would be surprised just how much you will fall
Speaker 1: in love with the support of football once your kid
Speaker 1: goes out there and enjoys it. I got your name,
Speaker 1: uh t D. Let's get another track before we get
Speaker 1: or no our new segment or no or no, uh huh,
Speaker 1: that's hot right there, CD. What you got for us
Speaker 1: this week? Big dog? Alright? This week on? Or no?
Speaker 1: When I ask you guys something in the headlines and
Speaker 1: you guys tell me if you agree or not, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start off with actually just one. So Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: plays the final game in the NBA tomorrow, capping off
Speaker 1: a big retirement year. Of course sports we had to
Speaker 1: pay you Mann and retire. We had Lynch retired, Calvin
Speaker 1: Johnson retired, Charlotte Woodson retired. So do you guys see
Speaker 1: any big names in the NFL retiring next season or nah?
Speaker 1: I do. Now, Look, I can't. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: any names because it's too early. And as analysts, we
Speaker 1: digest information and we you know, and we form, we
Speaker 1: form opinions, and just too early in the process. But
Speaker 1: what I can't tell you is with all the money
Speaker 1: guys are making, which I love, with all the education
Speaker 1: guys are getting about safety and all those types of things,
Speaker 1: every year, I think you're gonna see a name or
Speaker 1: two that surprises you. That's kind of big, where they're
Speaker 1: stepping away from this game and saying, you know, financially,
Speaker 1: I'm okay. I have my body, I have my health,
Speaker 1: I have my wits about me. It's time to move
Speaker 1: on to the next chapter. Football isn't everything. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I got four guys that come to mind, and not
Speaker 1: because their skills are in a complete decline. Um, they're
Speaker 1: not as good as they were in years past. But
Speaker 1: I would say because of Mike's reasons, they made enough
Speaker 1: money and they don't want to take a lesser role.
Speaker 1: Um in the future. And it's Frank Gore, Yeah from yeah,
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson, okay, Uh and Kwan Bolden, Oh that's a
Speaker 1: good one. And uh Darrell Revers Reeve. I was about
Speaker 1: to say that, Um, I think you're absolutely right about
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not taking a shout at their skill
Speaker 1: level because with how talented they are, you know, those
Speaker 1: receivers can go Uh, Andre and Kwan can be a
Speaker 1: two three for the next four or five years. Number
Speaker 1: one get older and we talked about that, No more
Speaker 1: corners get older, the more receivers get younger. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and you know, Durrell Reeves is a prime example
Speaker 1: of you know, making them enough money to relax on
Speaker 1: the years that you put in. And then Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: I mean he obviously Mike, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most consistent backs is League scene. He's tired of getting
Speaker 1: beat up. Man. So you know, both of the guys
Speaker 1: that come to mind. But speaking of Kobe, I have
Speaker 1: to show some love, you know. I got I got
Speaker 1: a pair of shoes that I posted on Instagram. These
Speaker 1: are the Kobe eights. These are a prop. Guy, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all about the pros. So here we go
Speaker 1: right here, see I got the mom but yeez, he's
Speaker 1: right there. I'm made these little custom joints with the
Speaker 1: glowing and dark soul. Okay, get those. So next, we
Speaker 1: got another pair of Kobe's that I bought a while back.
Speaker 1: And this is a tribute to the nine draft. Mike,
Speaker 1: can you tell me where Kobe was drafted? Charlotte Charlotte Harness,
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what picked? Uh? No, oh okay,
Speaker 1: So you see that thirteen right there? Yeah, yeah, my
Speaker 1: my joints? All right, get rid of those, all right?
Speaker 1: He look, man, don't hit the pictures in the back. Bro,
Speaker 1: Look all right, your wife, here's here's my favorite. Here's
Speaker 1: my favorite Kobe's right here. Um. And not because they're
Speaker 1: the most comfortable or they're the best, I mean because
Speaker 1: he's was not gonna get you a contract, bro, Okay,
Speaker 1: so stop stop milking, all right, Just let me see
Speaker 1: the man. These might be the flyest, most ugliest shoes
Speaker 1: that any players introduced. Okay, I love I love who
Speaker 1: remember these? Kobe the Moon boot terrible dog this man,
Speaker 1: take them off the screen. Come on, man, he's making
Speaker 1: them off the screen. Bro. If you don't know about these,
Speaker 1: I mean I know about them. They look like they
Speaker 1: look like Mace had him on in the Shinny Suit video.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, that's it. Hey, Nate, Man, I appreciate
Speaker 1: your dog. Man, appreciate you back next week. You're back
Speaker 1: next week. Let's get it. Man, get Johnny in studio. Okay. Hey,
Speaker 1: look man, hey, look, let me tell you something that
Speaker 1: nobody listening. Look, you get Johnny studio. Maybe you get
Speaker 1: Johnny in the studio, man, Man, then we can go
Speaker 1: to them talk about raise or something. Man, talk about
Speaker 1: getting on show or something. Man like now that is,
Speaker 1: but we gotta get Johnny. Okay, we gotta get john
Speaker 1: up in here kicking it. All right, We're good. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. All right. Boom boom. That's it for this
Speaker 1: week's show. Man. Make sure to subscribe and let us
Speaker 1: know your thoughts and questions on Twitter. I'm I'm at
Speaker 1: Mike Rob got the video coming, Yes, recap video coming
Speaker 1: soon after they got the video. Look, they shot a
Speaker 1: video without me, guys. I'm not a rapper, but I
Speaker 1: can rap video. When y'all see this video is gonna
Speaker 1: be fired. I can't even he talking about Mike. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get you a cameo, cameo on the R and
Speaker 1: B video. Where's the R it's the recab? Where's the
Speaker 1: R Mike. We're gonna do our own RB video. Oh so,
Speaker 1: basically what you're saying is, Mike, you ain't on this one. Okay,
Speaker 1: wait till you wait, till you get back in studio.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna get kiss cold. Okay. I just want
Speaker 1: to do my ad libs, So I just rmy podcast.
Speaker 1: We out of here, We out