Allen Robinson

I'm excited? This is Why are you excited? Because it's Super Bowl time? Man? Like who doesn't get excited around this time of years? People who thought they were going and found out very quickly that day can't even make the players. Hey, I ain't getting check for that. So I'm just watching, So that ain't That's not my occupation problem as someone who watches. I'm just excited about. Listen.

I've remember the times being in front the TV watching Dallas Pittsburgh and Larry Brown gets a couple of interceptions he's a super Bowl MVP. To watching Afford and honors clap the Chargers to clap that that Packers Patriots Super Bowl with Brett forve and uh, Desmond Howard runs back a touchdown for to seal up the wind. So I just love this time of year. So even you playing in the league away, even as a kid as a fan, like what what what memories do you ask from Super Bowls?

Like just just just from a from a fan perspective, what are your memories? What can you be quiet so I can get started? Well, I had had to super excited for that, bro. First of all, as a forty Niners fan, I can remember and watching Jay Rice, John Taylor, Roger Craig, Ricky Waters, Joe Montana, Uh, you know, Dwight Clark, all these guys more stiff neck Hanks. Right, it was you got Tim Tim McDonald who used to knock you out after Ronnie Lott used to knock you out as well.

So you got all these um man J J. Stokes just t o catching it against the Green Bay Packers Hunt Street Circle that was a seam up the middle, or when they clapped the Chargers that man, the Charges didn't have a shot. All of the all of those things I remember, and then you also you gotta remember Chris collins Worth you know how he made his name with the Bengals, um how Boomers, Eyeson and Joe Montana. That game right for me, man, right now to the hood,

the history rich teams that are in the playoffs. Right now, it's nostalgia. It's nostalgia. All I need right now, all I need right now, man, is my mom makes him some seven layer demp. You got somebody bringing that some of that springfield. That's shasta right that that tiki fruit punch. Right. You gotta have somebody that's gonna bring some good food, some some some some good some good que right by barbecue, barbecue, you know barbecue because you know I'm from North Carolina.

So the barbecue is to find a couple of different ways. Yeah, we're not talking about the sauce. We're just talking about that. We're talking about Yeah, we're talking about hot links, hot links for grown ups, hot dogs for the kids. Right right. Okay, you got a chicken, you got some we don't really you know, you got some pork eaters, and then you've

got some beef ribs. Right. You got the hamburgers like that's right there with that lifting mix for the hamburgers, got you that right, right, and then you got the and you got the ruffle. You got the lace ruffles with the ranch in sour cream mix for the dip. Don't double dip neither. Right, that's that's that's about your speed. But go ahead, that's not that's pretty touche. So that just brings back the nostalgia of somebody has a big screen TV. Whoever has a big screen TV, his his

or her house is the house. But everybody brings and and we watch football, We play cards, play dominoes, and the kids go outside and play. And now you set up all that nostalgia and coming back to this super Bowl. Now you've got this halftime show. You got Dre, you got Snoop, you got Eminem Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, like the super Bowl got everything. It's lit. Yeah, it's lit. Yeah. And I get to be home, which is a rarity for you, right, well, you get to be I get

to be home in Cali. Watched the game, watch guys a halftime show that and you can't script that any better. It's like a homecoming. It's a homecoming the NFL because of the Shield, or we the NFL, the Shield gets the advantage of good football. But we didn't know the football was gonna be this great. It was to remember, it was exciting. Noil body, you have to respect. I mean I was texting. I text some people that were

on all the teams. Bro your ball, you know. I text some folks with Buffalo said, listen, that's a bad mama jam right. And they got some good pieces. And these these these four, these last four teams, the future looks bright for the future. From the Josh Allens to the Patrick Mahomes. I mean, we we're looking at it's crazy. I mean, it's for a treat. So listen. We got

today on the podcast. Born and raised from Detown, from Michigan, Allen Robinson currently temporarily currently wide receiver route runner extraordinaire. He may have a pH d. You gotta take a few more classes and route running, which which ones? Which ones? He need? He need like thousand level courses? What he is now? He he passed, he passed one oh one and one oh two. He passed one on one and one oh two on getting off the press. He doesn't stack as well after he gets passed him a little bit.

That's a little bit. I know, Keenan, I know, no he's right there. He just he just gotta you know, he gotta taking something super course. Love who you are, love what you represent. Man, and I want to thank you for coming on and cut to a podcast. I appreci you guys, having a man like no doubt. Appreciate having you bro. We appreciate having you listen. We got this section that's my favorite get ice stuff. So it's a little icebreakers. What's your favorite route to run? Slant,

slant or not? Slant or not. That's tough because they do. That's why you don't have a pH D. Right there, that is the laziest two routes you can run. You fast. So I'm gonna running go route and you're fast because you didn't want to go route. So you're gonna give them that outside You're gonna give him that outside route and then go inside. Huh. Look, man, there things yes or no. That is yes or no. I don't want to hear why yes or no? Man, go ahead. They're

like Teana butter and jell. Yeah. Well, I'm like skinning. I like steaks, sucker. If you can spend a weekend in any city, what's what you choose, and you can't choose Chicago. Now is this international or the message? Did your life? I don't know. I'm gonna say Nassau, Bahamas. Man, that's my spot really, why best places I've been a vacation. Man. I feel like when I go out there, any and everything you need is there. Man. You got the sun,

you got the beach school, everything you need. I like that you was over there lightening people on fire up on yes, Ben, So I'll just try to get you to calm down. Com t yeah what you got? Yeah, on on that, on that, then let's do Since you from Detroit, Big Sean T Grizzly forty two rank him in order. That's tough. I gotta go. I gotta go Big Sean Grizzly and then four too, and and it is it's four to the two by the way. See I'm watched, so but I gotta I gotta go in

that order. Man, I feel like I feel like being shot a big shot. He's been doing it the longest, man, he got the he don't get he don't he a lot of credit. Man listening He's put out solid albums too, like his last album. But yeah, he doesn't get a lot of credit. He do. He a true rapper. You feel me like there's a lot of true rappers nowadays. Sometimes they don't get as much credit. You know, people want to people want the club box and stuff like that.

You know what I'm saying. But if you want some music you can just ride to and listen to. You know, it's slowly coming back, Like I feel like lyricism now it's starting to turn that corner people because people to repeat yes, yeah, mumble rap like it's it's cool, but it's it's starting. It really is. If you start to look at what's starting to get hot again, who's starting to come around? Like lyricism is making his way back. And you've you're born in Detroit, right Detroit. Men, you're

living in Chicago. You lived in Jacksonville, and you talked about the places you've you've traveled. Why is traveling something? I know for me it is? Why is traveling something for athletes? Um? That seems to be almost essential now, you know, I don't want to put worsh your mouth. I almost said a word that you probably would use, but I want to see if you would use it.

Why is traveling so important for you currently and as a as a man, as an individual as a football player, you know, entrepreneur, all all above all the categories of things. Who you are, what you want to be? Why is that traveling in central You like that question, don't you do? First? Myself on the back growing up in Detroit, you know, but for me, at least, I didn't get to travel a crazy amount. You know. Listen, it was like a seven or seven or like a tournament or something like that.

You know. Um so being able to travel and see, you know, places and kind of get to the roots of where you know, like like like Jamaica, you know, like being in Jamaica or being in the Bahamas, you know, being around those kind of people and those in that culture. You know, what kind of people are you referring to?

Like you said, you make that statement, and we're in a place now, we're a polarizing place where when you make that statement, people automatically assume you're talking about people of color, right or I don't know the purpose of why you said it, but I want you to clarify it because there's so many there's so many assumptions in the world today. So I just I just I just

triggered it. Like, man, let's just talk about the reason why. Yeah, people who look like me and you, people who are raised very similar to me, and you you know, people who have the ethnic backgrounds, and then you have a connect with those islands with those people, you know, because that's the natural routes of of where I come from, you know, and and being able to embrace those people and telling how those people embrace me and you know, and my family and whoever else when we go to

those places in one of those islands. That's what makes those places so special to vacation too, because you truly are allowed to vacation. You know, it's not any you know, any any problems, it's not any nothing. When you go there, you can just kind of chill, relax, kind of let your guard down a little bit and enjoy it. That's interesting word you said, to let your guard down. I've been in Jamaica off the resorts, my guard, ain't you damn Yeah, maybe I'm off, but off the Blue Mountains.

That's a few times I went off the resort. I've been like, I'm going back on the resort, but you you need I feel if I still think it's a level of you know, connection to those places where again I mean, like you said before, I mean now you gotta be smart wherever you at. You know, as far as having your guard up or down, you know, that's that's that's based on you know, everybody, everybody judgment, but just from the standpoint of you know, being there and

feeling that connection, you know, because it's different. It's it's different than when you just reading the history book, right, But to be there and experience and be around the culture, um multiple cultures, it's always fulfilling. It's always for me, it's always more of a not even an educational thing, man, but just being to have that connectedness for sure, because it's something that you know, growing up you see all these different islands. You may hear about these different islands,

you know, you see commercials about these different islands. You know, so whenever you can get a chance to go or to these places and other place that I want to go to, my future is is um African. You know, being able which part? Which part? Because there's a there's

a ton of places. I know, I'm look, I don't even know where to start, you know, I just you know, that's just that's just the place that I had, you know, circled circled on my you know, calendar at some point in time to be able to go to an experience, you know, an experience not just the vacation side of it, you know, but but everything else that's in it, you know, from from from the Safari, from you know everywhere. Yeah, mark killing mageral down to Nigeria. That Nigeria there, Samaria

is it ain't vacation. Brother. We had we had a guy c JS poem on and he talked about going back to his roots, and he talked about going back to the to the coast of where his family uh. He his mother was the seventh or second of seven wives. His great grandfather was the tribal leader, and his grandmother was his great grandmother was the fifth out of the seven wives. And he actually was part of royalty right

and how he had land and ownership. And his cousin took him to the castles in which the Spaniards were utilizing um, capturing, rape, being um, imprisoning his people. And he went and he was able to smell a stench and smell the odors, and he gave us in the pandemic man. It was a great episode. He gave us the essence of his history and it was unbelievable. So you know, we already said it, but I love to say it. And where are you from in the place

you call your hometown Detroit, Michigan. Man, Um, it's something that I take pride and enjoy. It too. Is more than me in many different ways, you know, um, preparing me for certain situations and certain circumstances I've you know, come to in my life. You know, I think of

all the time. For me, you know, being able to have my dad around and and and in my life, my entire life, you know, I tell people all the time it was like a movie of like training that some of the experiences that that life, being around him, you know, and just being in a car with him

and him telling me stories. That's where you know what I'm saying, like just just riding around and being able to experience and see Detroit and seeing you know, how to be able to have you know, help my family to you know, live a better life, and just a lot of different things. Man. So it's like when you when you go to Detroit and you know, it's a it's a it's a place where you know, you gotta you gotta bring you know all the time. It's it's amazing,

you know. Sometimes here in Charlotte and what's my travels, I see it a lot. Charlotte is an outstanding community, a lot of transplants, a lot of people from different areas of the world, and uniqueness of it. When I'm heading the training camps to go see you know, you guys go perform and get ready for training camp, I see a lot of folks here in Charlotte going on mission trips to some some folks are checking the box, the giving box. Some folks are checking the box because

they have they have survivor's guilt. And then there's people who are checking the box because they feel like these third world countries really need our help. But I would imagine just like growing up in Los Angeles, like I did, you growing up in Detroit, g growing up in Lexington, and here living in Charlotte. Man, there's some places here in Charlotte, l A and Detroit. You don't have to go to a thord world country. You can go to

your own city. Go go go in the city and volunteer and serve right and so impact so and just basically bring that up. You know, I'm I'm glad that's that you brought up because you know, like you said, a lot of people, you know, they want to go

to the third world country. You know what you gotta see like Flint, Michigan, you know, who have in the water crisis, you know for you know, and and when you see different things like that and not a lot of time, you know, when they say that, you know about third world country, I'm like, man, there's so many different areas of of of kids who may not have their parents, or or kids whose parents may be incarcerated, or you know even too even two single moms who

are having to work three and four jobs, you know, to try to put you know, food on the table, the basics, you know, and when you like you said before, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Jacksonville, Charlotte, you can name city at the city at the city in America that needs everybody's help. You know. That's that's you know, you it may not be a third world country, but it's some it's some third world cities and some third world neighborhoods to the airport there. Yeah. So if you could describe

one word yourself as a kid, what would it be? Grit? My great I feel like, especially when you like Detroit like a lot of other cities, you know, the ambitions and the dreams instead that you may have as a kid, a lot of people don't see it as realistic or they don't embrace it, you know, so when you are going through these different experiences you may have. For me, it was it was my dad, and it was a couple of coaches, you know who kind of always helped

me along the way. You know, even if it's you know, having some steps back, you know, switching schools or or or whatever the case may be. You know, it's it's it's being able to adapt, being able to embrace, you know, change and different things that's going on around. Every time I talk to someone who's from Detroit, everybody is super prideful about Detroit. What does that pride come from? Alan Like,

what makes detroitter so proud of that city? For me, it's everybody who's not just made something of themselves, but everybody that's that's come from the area. Like thinking about my granddad. You know who who worked in factory, Your granddaddy, whether he's living or has passed, or grandpa got a name, don't shore change Grandpa now, no doubt, my granddad Mitchell Robinson one person cause you know specifically think about you know who and and and my mom's dad, Ted Goldsmith

him as well. You know, these are people you see take pride in working in the factory, you know, or having to do these certain jobs, or or doing certac things. I remember my granddad, you know, from him working in the factory. His his hand got caught like in one of the machines in the belt and he cut off and he cut off two of his fingers, you know, and and being able to see and it and it's and it's like, you know again like that you know, never happened for him. You know, he never brought it up,

never mentioned it. You wouldn't even know, you know, So things like that, and not just to the people who also you know, from an athletic standpoint, from a hip hop standpoint, when you hear those guys and how much proudly taking detroity man stuff is going on, you know, it makes you real proud to be from there, you know.

You know, I's like a lot of guys should come from there, you know, embrace each other, you know, because again I mean coming out of any any city like that and just being around that is you know you you're a part of your culture. I love cut to It and I love it even more when you download us and subscribe and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to It Facebook?

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to a podcast dot com. Who's Allen Robinson? As far as what you're working on and building and doing all this stuff, you know, whether it's family, whether it's friends, whether it's daddy, whether it's you know, with your girl, just overall, because that's the important part. Because if you can play six, twenty or forty years, at some point you will no longer be a football player. You'll just be Mr Robinson. And what does that mean to you?

And you know, lockdown for me from from a family standpoints, you know, again, making sure that I'm not spending not only spending time with my with my daughter and with my family, but that goes to the whole full circle for me of being locked in is you know, I have my I have my football time where you know, I'm going to do my PT and rehab and stuff to get my body back healthy and right from this season.

You know, I'm doing my physical training while I'm improving on a certain things that I want to continue to get better at certain on the field. But how are

you improving your mind and your heart? Improving my mind and my heart by again being around, being around my family and being around my friends, you know, and and not only just seeing you know, uh this year or being affected by this year, but also embracing you know, everything that I have right now, you know, and being able to embrace that with my loved ones, being able to you know, like I said, go on, go on a vacation and spend that family time to you know,

get the mind right, you know, before you go into a heavier part of football so to speak. So just being able to embrace, you know, the people who are around me who have not only supported me and showed me so much love you know, especially out this course

of this year. Man, like shout out to my family and my friends and you know, everybody who's been who's been close to me this year, because again I mean when you when you go through adverse times and frustrated times, and those are people that you have to mean on because those other people who truly care about you and your well being with or without the game of football.

And what do you do outside of family? Because you you mentioned it, You've dealt with a lot of adversity on the field, injuries, you know, all this stuff that's going on over the course the last couple of seasons. What do you do for Allen for your own mental health? My own personal mental health. Um one, I'm a I'm a gamer, so that's always kind of game. What are you talking about? Card games or video games? Five? Video video? Okay, so help me out on call of duty because I

got the was a vanguard. I'm just talking okay. So the new ones, it's not like the old one where you can like do where you play online and you can do like the different uh operations, Like maybe I haven't downloaded it downloaded right, but like I don't like I don't like the I don't like the Fortnite version like that, you know, the multiplayer version. Yeah, my old ass hands just can't. I can't. I ain't got the I ain't got the finger fast twitch. I just got

the fast twitch on the playing ball. So so can you play the operations like operations where you with other people when you you you're fighting the box and you can like you know old one. You can play in the stadium and all that stuff that they still have that Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got you gotta go to I think that's co op co op and multiplayer co op multiplayers. That means I got to spend more money. Basically, that's another like seventy nine dollars retired brother income. Yeah,

I am. I am on to fix income. That's what I played all these years for now I'm on a high fix income. But I'm still on the fix income. Got my checking the savers. They I gotta check and I gotta save. It takes three business days. Hey, when I get a check and they're talking about they're gonna be holding it. Yeah, man, COVID told me. I'm like, hey, bro, all I can do is mobile. I need to take off this twenty one day uh hole, Yeah, so that's I'm off on the tangent. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, we

got said vide against. What else do you do? From from a mental health standpoint of the house, you take care of you. I'm a I'm a movie and show personally movie whoa, whoa? What show you? What show you watching? What movies and shows you like? Let's start with movies though, what's a good movie? Movies? Good movies? Yeah, don't tell me anything. Whatever you yeah, whatever you want if we if we're going up, I say one of my faith and I used to watch this before a game, but

they took it off Netflix. I used to watch Hayden Full before every game in a comedy. No, it's not. That's one of my favorite movies. M I mean, we can go on and on. You you haven't went on because I don't. I don't like give me a gi give me? Is that considered? Like what's your top five movies? Like you have? Is not with your girl or not with your parents or with Grandpaul? Like you just you do lo right? And you said, you know what, I'm gona watching a movie? What movie you gonna watch? I like,

I like all the Batman's from Batman beginning. Uh, Dark Knight rises, Um, I forget the one that's called with Bands that's starting that rises. Yeah, have you watched a Game of Thrones? I cannot watch Game of Thrones. Here's why. When it first came out, before it became this phenomenon. He's just being on HBO. Game of Thrones when it first started on HB, like the first two episodes was literally like porn. And it didn't stop. It never really

because stink about it. I got four kids. Man, I'm watching Game of Thrones nine o'clock at night and I'm watching living Room and they walked by or the white walk by as a hell of an explanation on what's going on? Nothing? Nothing. What are you like? Well? New season? Um? Do you watch? I like the first season, the second season, the old lady and and the young kid. They're just getting started now the third season it's it's it's yes,

I'm only like four episodes. I'm not gonna lie to When that happened, I was like, it was, oh yeah, I'm not even talking about that, but I'm talking about the old lady. What she's doing. Favorite couple of movies? What's your favorite couple of movies and in shows show for me like I like movies. Uh, I like movies that make me think, Um, what was the inception? Yeah? Uh that movie is complicated. Vers did you say? That's

not me? I mean it's you. But at the same time, I had to read about that movie afterwards and I still didn't get it. Look the one with Denzel's my son told me and we watched it, the one with Denzel's son. Yeah, they can like go backwards. Oh yes, I saw that movie. When they opened it up with the backpack, I was like, that's the key my son what he was like, Dad, how are you getting this? Like that's my mind? Like I gave up on that

movie after five minutes. Oh mane movies like that. Me movies like that, saying I don't I read informational books. I get information. Read the book. I'm not fantasizing. I watched I let my imagination run wild by watching the movie. So I can watch a fighting movie like three hundred love it right, anybody getting punched in the face. I'm you guy, I'm gonna watch what you like that? Oh my gosh, shooting in the face, punch in the face. Oh man, right, I'm not. I'm not a huge marble guys. Yeah,

it was nice having that. I grew up though, like I grew up Superheroes, Man, Wonder, Twins, Uh Man, Ice Man, Spider Man, Fire Star, Spider Man. I had my son keeps telling me, I got some tras coming up, I got some travels coming up, so I want to I can sit on the airplane. I got a five hour flight coming up, so I want to set the airplane and watching that. I tell you, another good movie. I like, uh, the honest, Steve, I don't think I've even seen. Yeah,

I like I like something. I like shows. Right, I was gonna so what what you mentioned? Shows outside of Ozar? What you what you're watching? Those are? Those are? Um? Snowfall? Yeah, that's coming back this this month, right next month, BMF. I messed with that. That was good. Shout out to Detroit. Um, hm, what else? Snowfall? Those are? BMF. That's a Game of Thrones. I started watching the show Vikings. That was pretty good too. Vikings. I like that. Um, it's just shot. I like watching

that stupid though. But how to Catch the Smuggler No, I've never seen that, man. How to Catch the show on National Geographic National Year. Man, maybe going through the airport, and boy, you're talking about people getting caught up. They opened up their bag. Oh, I actually have seen that, people having stuff like the soles of their shoes, amongst other places. How you got you didn't take the inside of your load. Youve got like ten pounds that smack

going to jail. They'd be hey, they'd be crying. They had a they had a black lady talking about she was you knew she she was talking about she was hurt, injured. She was sitting on like a pound of that that sidewalk chalk, that something that's snow in this summer. But so I like I like watching shows also like Life Below Zero. I'm really into that right, seeing how those folks are maneuvering degrees below and negative twenty degrees. Man,

just seeing that stuff. Man, And as I got not that I really started, my wife has gotten me more on that is just when you come down to it, it's like always self sufficient, all right. I'm a city boy. I don't even know the fish all. I've never never gotta get you. We gotta get you all out to hiw Rock Lake got here in North Carolina, then yeah, I just I don't know all the fish. I've never been fishing, and and I just know there's My wife was asking me the other day, she said, do you

know basic survival? I'm like, no, if the power grid for age and a nine that Steve San did the power grid go on? You're on my house. Man, we should grow electricity. You ain't about the mind for the electricity. And my car's electric right, So, I mean I got some stuff like that when things go out like automatically, some you know, some some stuff that's support and come

in natural gas generator and all that stuff. But really, man, I become so dependent on making sure that I have a backup to a backup that if the source that helps the backup goes out. I mean, if we you know, if I'm in Chicago, I mean I could tell you probably by looking at because I used to have a higher I used to have a house on the water to you his second floor, so I know I can scar. I could scale yours because the water is real close.

I'm in your house, because you look like you could survives. And I thought of another I'll tell you another show. I like it. It's hard Knocks and they just had this new season where you can see during the season and yeah, they need they need a hand pleasure, y'a wash hard knocks? Do you haven't, but I can. I know they need to have a hard Knocks after the season when they tell you to training camp, you got good season and now you need to have a post season.

I want to see what they said to Carson on the exit. God, get down to do it. Hey, Gerard, why did you get that T shirt? You mean this thing? Oh yes, I got it from cut to a podcast dot com where we have exclusive merchandise. Shout out to our guys at seven or four shot. But yeah, you can go on, buy you a T shirt, subscribe to us whereever you listen to podcasts. Man, tell us so many things that that you enjoy doing with your daughter, and why is that important for you? I mean what

I like doing anything she like doing? Look, because that's when, because that's when, that's when. Uh, that's when she's happy. And you know her being happy makes me happy. So that's painting. Um. She'll be back at the house in a little bit and I told her we're gonna get ice cream, so we'll be going on the ice cream run cream me. I like prailings. It was a prelings mouths become that's that's what that's like, my granddaddy. Yeah, come on, that's old people mouth. That's Nina right there.

I like, yeah, I like, I like, I like Superman too. And then you're basically chocolate and then you doctored up a little bit. Doctor what I'm nuts? Right? Nah? But on some real stuff though, tell us about your Within Reach Foundation. Why do you started, what do you do? What do you focus on? Y I within Reach Foundation, UM, we focus on inner city and obviously UM poverty areas throughout the pandemic. Though, one thing that we did focus on was food as well, which I think was was

huge and was different for us. But you know, with us focusing on food, UM, it was a lot of kids and a lot of families who had relied on free lunch and now with kids not going to school, there were a lot of families now having to feed four or five, you know, kids that they weren't scheduled to to feed. That that's you know, you got kids getting sometimes breakfast, lunch, and and meals after school. You know, So that was something that we really, uh that we

really you know, tapped into that. I feel like it was a you know, it was a blessing. You know. We were able to bring a lot of families across the Chicago area food and also you know, other goods

and supplies. You know. So I think that this year d of course, of the pandemic, we kind of change direction a little bit because normally we kind of focus on reading and the and the educational part of it, and once COVID hit, you know, we really focused on more so of you know, the the lifestyle part of just people who are in need of rather if its food, other goods and just the basic you know, um unnecessities.

You know. But what made me started was you know, for me man, being very blessed and being able to you know, be in a situation that I'm in, you know, being able to get back to as many people as I can. Like I said before, me and Steve kind of touched on early on, is that you don't have to go to another country and things like that to find people who are in need of just the basic essentials of life, you know, food, fresh water and things

like that. You know, So me being able to to really tap into that, you know, and having the city, you know, for me being in Chicago, you know, the the city of Chicago really embraced that and the in the community to embraced that. We were able to help out a lot of people, you know, and I was very thankful for that, for having the the partners that I had, you know, for having the community rally behind this.

You know, are on my teammates and everybody growing up in Detroit and going to Penn State and receiving an education you have received, and seeing how the pandemic has

impacted our future, our youth today. With your foundation and the programs you guys are committing in a partnership, how has it how do you believe it will impact the next Alan Robinson with the lack of resources, the lack of food, the lack of support without your foundation and and many other foundations that are filling in the gap of what this pandemic has exposed in US right now with reliance on government assistance but also not having a plan in case like the pandemic has done when the

stretched the government to to to to the point of where they can't keep account of all the people that are just trying to figure it out because every day, something's news happen, something new is happening in the pandemic, like we all have experience around the country. And that's

a that's a great question, you know. Um, I think for some of those cities, some of those areas, you know what I mean, hopeful you know, well that we have enough people to kind of you know, mustered up enough to be able to help out, you know, and in a lot of these communities and a lot of these areas, because it's a lot of communities, man, that are truly truly leaning on people and needing people to help them out, like I said before, from just your

basic everyday stuff, you know. So and that's what I think is making I think that's what makes it very tough, is that you know, there are groups of people who are severely in need, you know, and I say severely in need, I mean, you know, when it comes to to close and food, and it aren't just people who

are like living on the street. These are you know, moms and kids and you know, three year old kids, four year old kids, you know, babies needing formula, you know everything that you can name, you know, so hopefully you know, we can continue to try to you know, build a community of people to continue to help one another, you know, because as we saw in the in the pandemic, you know, it's a lot of people that's the need. So Alan, Man, what do you see yourself in the

next years? I like when you asked that question, Jake, next teen years, I would say, Nick, hold on before how old are you gonna be? Continued? You're pushing thirty now, I'll be thirty eight and ten years so when you can pushing forty where you want to be, I'll be fifty three. You about have a r P cards Really is that more discounts? Yeah? Definitely. Coffee now, I got the expression at the house because I want to keep paying for coffee. It goes too much. Coffee is expensive.

I'm a coffee drinker myself. But in the next teen years sold, I'll be thirty eight. I think when you're thirty eight and I'll be fifty three, I can still run better roasting. What do you think? I don't know, man, I don't know what's your favorite? He didn't answer that, did he was my favorite? You didn't ask me? That's true to wonder one favorite oute? Let me tell me what you think my favorite oute? Is a dagger man.

That's it. That's like me running the daggers like you running slant that easy work home boy, Uh, come back, I was gonna say that. I was gonna say I've been talking about I was gonna say come back. I was sitting there thinking about it. I love a comeback. You said that nine stop on a dime. Yeah, But also I can I can run a comeback. I used to be able to run a come back. I didn't

run coming back and longdown. I asked for kids. The other day, I was helped training my old trainer and we were Uh, I was helping them with some stuff that we're talking about it, but uh, I was just helping them with the basics and to come back and you know, keeping it tegrity, you know, not being a little drummer boy doing that breakdown, having a right angle coming back to you know, coming back towards the sideline, not opening up the gate, not not rolling. Yeah, put

your foot in the ground. Come back, man, I could. I would be able to burst a comeback, stem a comeback and then also going motion and run to come back. So I can run to come back like three or four different ways. So that's why I like to come back because you fear to you fear to speed, but also you I felt on the comeback, man, I would burst a comeback. So I line up two yards outside the numbers, burst that thing in, take it straight up,

and then come back. You ain't supposed to be doing that, right, But then I would give you the look of a dagger. Yeah. So that's why. So as I like to come back. Also too, I used to watch Jerry run comebacks ridiculous and so I was just like, man, anybody can running go. I used to alway challenging necessarily to speed. That's that's that's what's Yeah. So I used always tell the corner anybody could jam my hell my son can jam, but can't cover. Yeah. So that I mean, that's football. Football

is what I love about football. Football is that element, the element of surprise, the gamesmanship. Also, um, you know, we get lumped in sometimes and I think especially early on, they you know, they call people dumb jocks. You don't have to have a pretty good well roundedness and and and have a little bit of you. Most athletes are sensitive,

ultra competitive, but also the thinkers man. And I think sometimes you know, people talk about athletes are you know, dumb jocks man To play at a professional level, you gotta have some kind of sense to you, right. You may yes, now you may not process it at a you know, gigabyte level, but you have to be able to have some kind of processing system that's efficient and and and I don't think people really understand. At each sport there's a different skill that you must have and

not everybody has that skill and not every athlete. And I think the ones who have it the best are the ones not necessarily that you see, but their career is more than six or seven years, is eight plus nine plus ten plus as you get older, playing ten years as a wide receiver tight end like Mercedes Lewis

out in with the with the Green Bay Packers. I don't care what you say about for a long time, a long time what he has to do to be able to play, because he's not like a wide receiver where he could pick and choose to go across the middle. He lined up sometimes next outside of a d n A a Khalil Mack, who Khalil ain't gonna Well, that's machetes. So let me take it off on him a little bit.

So sometime a little on man, the old head, I'm about to whoop him up, all right, and so just all the all the off season requirement to just play a young man's game. You know a lot of people don't give give give these older players benefit of down right. They want to They want to devalue older players and they want to make the young players with a little

bit of success great. That just boggles my mind. That boggles my mind to hear a young player because of our generation of of of likes and uh and from of likes, and our generation wants to they want the championship parade without playing in the regular season. Right, they get participation trophies for participating. They're told that everyone is the same, and it's not the case. Are are our prison system, whether we like it or not. There are some people in there that didn't do what they said

they were done. They were framed as coming out. Guys are serving fifty years of doing things that were truly what they did not do. But our prisoners system are are our prisoners system shows that not everybody is a winner. There's some real losers in the world that do some things that are unfathomable. They do them some things that they should be locked away for the rest of their life, and that and and that behavior is a loser's behavior. But our society now says that everybody is a winner.

Everybody should have what everybody else has. Right, I don't. I don't really like the socialist the social socialism game, because there are some people right that I remember growing up as a kid. You remember growing up as a kid, we were poor, when nobody walking around throwing us money. Hell, they actually didn't allow us to enter some of those stories because they knew we didn't have money and we couldn't afford it. Now we want everybody to be even.

God tells us not everybody's even, and we have to end. Sometimes the reason we were able to be rose up is by adversity. You you learn more by failure than you know with success. I mean, you guys, win a football game, y'all. Have you win a game that you probably shouldn't have and they give you Wednesday off? By giving you Wednesday off, what does that mean? You no longer do film evaluation at the MTh degree that you

would do if you lose. You may high have highlights on Wednesday just to go over you glance over it, but you don't really put it under the microscope the same way in the uh, you don't put on the microshop with the wind the same way you do with a loss, and and and so that's that's I think that's why. It's you know, winning is glorified, but then we want to glance over while we lost. We don't want to talk about why or who's inefficient. We just want to say, yeah, that was a tough loss, man,

we'll get them next time. Well, we can't get them next time. The left tackle came block, we can't get them next time. To the quarterback can read defenses, we can't get them next time. My offensive coordinator can't offensive coordinate.

So that's that's that's why. Maybe I'm sorry, I'm on the soapbox, but I just you know, it's it's tough, man, and it's becoming difficult to look people in the eye and tell them not necessarily devalue or put them down, but just say, man, that wasn't good enough, and here's why. But when you do that, now you're you're picking on people,

you're bullying. It's tough. So it's almost like you know, you're better off not saying anything, and which short changes that individual, and then that individual that short change as a kid becomes a short change adult. So I got a question for you. Your question for you? Will you leave an inheritance financially? I'm I'm I'm guessing you know you probably want more than one child? Hopefully, if not, that's cool. Will you leave inherance inheritance for your kids?

Will you leave inherences for your kids? About like cash? Absolutely? All right? Among But yeah, because I've asked, I've asked some heard some people they say, Man, I'm gonna be like Bill Gates if I ever make that kind of money, I'm not gonna leave my kids. Saything, Well, first of all, he's not leaving him anything because he's worth so many million. They've inherited some. But I'm talking about why would Why

would you? Because as athletes, especially as people who are raised in the bottom or who struggle oodles and noodles, we generally work our way through and we become so performance based that that loses and and and comes out it. When we are married and relationships we start to be based on performance, whether it's friends, where there's teammates and then most mostly unfortunately and I know I did. It's

for our kids and my wife. So if I become so performance based and I make them feel less, there, well when I die and I don't leave him anything, you know what I don't tell me I'm doing. I'm saying screw you. I'm screwing you from the grave. I'm saying you weren't good enough when you was, when with little with little Alan, you aren't good enough. You didn't do it right. Then. Now you're twenty and I pass away, Now your forty, and all of a sudden, now I'm

telling you from the grave, you wasn't good enough. We don't even realize, man, some of the subliminal messages that we say, especially as men, black men, men who were raising poverty. What how we have conditioned ourselves to be so performance based that we can be short changing our kids by our actions, by some hidden or out there to say, now we're gonna make them work, We're gonna make them work hard. You worked so they wouldn't work as hard. That's that's the whole I mean, that's a

whole different conversation that we have. We have Alan sound for another hour. When you start talking about dirt under their fingernails to like what we had. We were going into breaking generational curses. And you start going into that's a whole that's a whole differentthing. I was just on the trip and something that was one of the conversation when I got said, Man, I'm not giving him. I said,

why that ship is stupid. I'm just gonna say that I don't because it's like you know, like I said before, I mean, at least for me, per I didn't do everything that I've done, and I didn't take on everything that I've taken on just for my daughter and my future kids and their kids to just have to go through the same exact things that you know, it doesn't

make any sense, at least to me. It doesn't. And if you really want to go there, that's that's if if someone's gonna thump the bubble on one thing that's on biblical as well. If you don't, if you don't leave an inheritance for them, So whether that's cash or whatever, so eve know they gave them a heritage of knowledge. Man, You ever tried to pay you ever tried to pay mortgage with knowledge? Yeah? You know what they do. You know what they do for clothes. Man, I got knowledge

I showed would like to get along. You know you play pay a car bill, the pay your card note with some knowledge. You know that. I think the application is a little bit um. I don't agree with that, Man, I do with that. Told truck comes so quick, be on Discovery repo. Man. So hey man, it's been awesome conversation. Brother. How much time you gave us? Man? Love gonna man, love connecting with you. Man. I look forward to see where you go. You may end up staying in Chicago,

you may not, but man, look forward to it. I appreciate it. Man, how did you do? I appreciate you all, haven't. You are a unique person. You are well worth it. You are competent and most of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith singor I'm Gerald Little John And this is cut to It. Cut to It with Steve Smith Senior. That Is Me is a production of Cut to It LLC, Balto Creative Media, The Black Effect, and I Heart Radio.

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