LeGarrette Blount

to introduce. I gotta go down to e acculades, you know, for a fellow community college guy right East Mississippi community college participant, super Bowl champs with the New England Patriots, with the Philadelphia Eagles, and then also retired and trying to get championships with his sons football team, and also just trying to be a regular old dad. Welcome to the Cut to A Podcast. La Garrett Blunt, you said you guys have beef always because you got all weeks.

Man's appreciate it, man, So we're gonna get I'm gonna just jump in it right now. I love doing this. It's called get iced Up. It's just random questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So all right, so you you know you've been around the way Florida, guy, Uh, what seat you know, you don't really have there's no seasons in Florida. So but you played in the league. You've been obviously in Boston, right, You've been in Foxborough. So you had to indore Philly, Pittsburgh,

you Oregon. You've had to endure seasons. What's your favorite season? And why? Hey, my uh, my favorite season, I'm always i mean out of here in Arizona. You can't really pick the summer because it's it's one twenty out here during the summer. But in any other any other time, I'm telling you, bro, it's it's it's it's piping up out here, get high and and but I'd rather I'd rather have that that one season of it being hot all the time rather than and having the rain, the

snow and all that. Man. So I'm I'm gonna say either the summer or or the spring on I mean, the falllest football season all bro. But but that bring that brings you know, rain and snow, and I'm not I'm not, I'm not a fan of the elements. Just I just like it to be not us out all the time. California so crazy because when I you know, doing TV with some of the running backs bad weather. They talk, Oh man, it's just football weather. This's just and and hearing the running back say no, the grain

is not football weather. I mean it is. It is. But if I'm gonna be I feel condition for people, I don't just as much as just as much as y'all don't. They don't like hitting us in the cobra, I don't. I don't like getting hit and hit if I get thirty carries and it's four degrees out there. But we better believe I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be feeling that. You know what I'm saying. It's gonna feel different than if it was a seventy five degree game. You know what I'm saying. That your body's gonna feel

different after that. So yeah, I play that hate any I play the hate anything. All right, Well, this is probably a personal shot, but I'll take it. Uh do what kind of lotion do you use? Uh? You know what do you have? Jargons? Uh? You know, something vacillating? Like what what are you using? For? The real ashy folk? They're the only the only too I get. They're the only ones that penetrate. I've only got eggs. Let me get close to this camera. But clean, clean and clean,

unmoisturized that I think it's a heat. Man. It's okay over there making biscuits outside you and you put that low stone and tim minutes later you all back in. It's like you're putting that. No. The worst is when you miss a spot. It's like like what you said, would it looked like? Alright, man, let's get let's get it right down. Then to it. Man, how you doing today? You're good? I'm good man. Kids at the big kids at school for you old here running around, I don't

know if y'all hear. And down stairs we need destroying the house. Uh and yeah, man, we ain't not man and running the company, running the company. But we're gonna get into that. I want to hear about that. You love hey, I love it in the business man. Now that's that's different. Yeah, cool? All right? So where are you from in a place you call your hometown? Um? Born and raised in Perry, Florida. Well born in Madison, but I only lived there, only stay there for lack

a week after I was born. And I've lived, born and raised in Perry Florida like that was. That's my spots so um and I I love Arizona. I love it here. This is what we made at home. Um. But but but Florida wild always have my heart, you know, say, my family and everybody still live out there. So you know, what was your upbringing growing up? For you? Um, for the most problem, I had a pretty using upbringing, you

know what I'm saying. A little struggle here and there. Obviously, you know, growing up in like, you know, a low income area. You know, we had lived in the practice for a little bit. You know, we lived my grandparents for a little bit before we got on our feet and file our own home and stuff. Um. But for the most apartment I had both parts and stuff like that, which was always a good thing. Um, I grew up. I grew up with some guys that didn't have you know,

um father figures around. So my dad was always just around. That was I'm telling that was a huge, huge plus, um, because I mean, obviously the boys when you get older, you obviously get older and you can run over you can't really, I wouldn't say run over your mom. But like the dad with a different kind of discipline than the mom does always you know what I'm saying, even if it's even if it's a hey versus a hey, look, you know what I'm saying. If it's that, you know

what I'm saying. So I I I always had that you know what I'm saying. So that was that was that was huge for me because I ain't no telling what you know, or what kind of turning out I would have I would have had if I didn't have my pops around. Tell me Who's who's the Garret Blunt. I feel like I feel like I'm always getting the rap of being this angry black dude, you know what

I'm saying. Um, And and that started, like I said, man, like you were saying, you gotta you gotta get to know someone before you can you know what I'm saying. And still you can't judge anyone like you just can't judge anyone. And you know, ever since that little incident, I kind of had a bad rapper being like this angry black dude. I always walked around. I always want to fight, always want to do this, that and the other. And that's not the case. You know what I'm saying.

Everybody that know me personally everybody that you met me and been around me personally. I know that. Bro, i'mna laid back dude. I'm down to earth. I like the clown to talk my ship. You know what I'm saying. I like the I mean, I just like the chill. Bro. I don't I don't have I don't have no problems with nobody in this They got problems with me, like I'm I'm I'm an open book, like bro, I can

I can approach anybody. Anybody can approach me, and I mean everybody going whenever they see that that you know, that stigma of you know, me being this angry black dude that always snap and that he got a y'all. And you know, I don't had so many people that once they met me, hit me with this this line. Bru, I don't know what they're talking about, you, Bro, you don't see my anger, Dude to me, your cool as hell or you know what I'm saying is you know

what I'm saying. So that's that's I want to I tried to tried my best to get rid of that stigma and get rid of that like label. It is. It is is ros exhausted. It's just to have to just to have to. Basically, I've been defending myself from this incident since two thousand and nine, you know, and I don't really defend myself anymore. I'm just like, man, look happened where I was twenty years old. Like I don't know what else y'all want me to say, you

know what I'm saying. So, so that's that's kind of that's kind of how that's kind of how I just approached at this point. But when I'm a nice dude, bro, I I could kick it with whoever. You know, I'm laid back, bro, I could I could chill. I don't have I have no ill will towards the dude that we that I got into it. I have no ill wills towards the coach, towards the fans ring thing. Like again, I just look at it as one bad instanct that

happened in my life. Um And to be real, that ain't even the worst thing that's happened to me, you know what I'm saying. So like that, that's that wasn't really crazy for me. You know what I'm saying, Oh, snap back that intro for function of d They suspended me for the whole season. Obviously, I felt like that wasn't I feel like that was extreme because we've seen where he works. Happened since my incident, and and people can get I have game or one game suspension just

it's wiped the front of the rug, you know. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was watching, you know, I was watching. I'm a Utah guys, so I watched you know, around that time, you had to watch um boys State just because they were sneaking up on folks, right they were, they were, Yeah, they were sneaking up on folks. And um when I saw it, the first thing, I was like, that boy then saying something he didn't like. You know,

I know, we're not gonna get into it. And he said some stuff you didn't like, and you said, you know what, this football, and in football, whether the whether the whistle has gone on and stopped, sometimes you get caught up in a moment and and football is all about hand to hand combat. And uh, he said something I know that that that didn't sit well with you, and you had to show him that it didn't sit

well with him. And what he said, Uh, he has to be he has to be willing to live with that consequence, and he realized that consequence was not what he was willing to live for with. So yeah, because he because because I know, he hear everybody all the time. He's gonna hear the yeah, yeah, you let that dude knock you out? Yeah, why don't you go ahead and tell him why he almost put you night night? Why he almost why y'all you know what I'm saying. I'm

pretty sure, bro, I'm almost positive he's not telling people. No, of course they don't do that, because i mean, bro, you think about it. He got to be telling this the black people. He got to be telling you know what I'm saying. Whoever asked you you gotta tell you know what I'm saying. So I'm pretty sure he's not telling him. But you know who did here his head

coach heardly m hm. So if y'all watch that, If y'all watch that video a couple of more times and and and see like like right as it was happening, you'll see you'll see him slap my shoulder pass say what he said, and then you see the head coach kind of like reach for him, like, but what the funk you're doing? And obviously you know what happened from there? Yeah, you know they know what he said. They know what

I'm saying. His head coach are real with because it's where his head coach and throw them under the best. He was like, man, yeah, uh, it's football. This happens, you know, we and to live with it and move on. Yuta, YadA, y'all, you know. And my coach is like, well, yeah, that's only this is unacceptable. Um, we think we're probably gonna suspending for the whole season. Uh. And I'm like, damn, bro, you don't even take the data, think about the ship.

You know what I'm saying. You don't even take two days to be like damn tho, it's this worth a fool? You know you're suspension or now you just did that been the next day. Let me ask you about that. You go you you go through that process. What did I do for you personally, like just psychologically? Like you know, everybody wants to talk about what happened, but I haven't heard anything where people are asking you about the residual in in This is just my words, and I'm I'm

just trying to imagine how I would feel. How what do I feel for you? Is I've been on that side where you do something and and the narrative is like, for instance, for me, every time I talk on television or I say anything that requires a conscience, social media says I don't respect the guy who sucker punched someone. And I'm always given that label of sucker punch. And you know it's does not sit well with me on the sucker punch is because when you're in a fight.

The last time I check, when you're in a fight, it's a fight, right, ain't no fair way to win, and it ain't no fair way to wound somebody either, And I and I just I find it. I was like, you, you know, well, because I did something back in two thousand four or two thousand and eight, and it's as all people say, oh, I don't respect anything he has to say, and so and so what I'm and what I'm trying to say is one I'm not speaking from

ten thousand feet above looking down on you. I'm honestly for me, I feel like, let me lay down and sit, sit down and kind of look up to you, to not look up and like admire you, but look up and saying I understand some of what you have had

to deal with psychologically. I don't want to put worth in your mouth, but it's a great opportunity for you to tell people what you've had to deal with from what people are assuming about you and how maybe some people talk down to you to your face based off that, um so so one thing that about people about people talking like down to me and my face and stuff. Um,

I feel like people they don't do it intensively. They try to joke, but it ain't funny because it's your lie and right and it's you, Um exactly, you know what I'm saying, So like you ain't like you just telling this joke to a frame. Bro, you know what I'm saying like you you you're talking to me, And um, it took me to a dark place, bro, it took

into a real dark place. And Emily, UM, I'm talking about when I'm going to class like I can't go on campus because you know, I'm I'm going campus and and as soon as they see me, everybody like, oh ship bro, the man you should be this as like I'm going to classrooms. I'm more like going to my class and I'm going into the you know, and and everybody look at me coming in They're like, Hey, you

know what I'm saying. I'm like, Bro, I'm might Bro come home and Bro just just let me come to the class and just just be normal, you know what I'm saying. But that happened for like But it happened for like a week to the points where I stopped going to class. I just stopped going. I just email my professors. I had my h I had my tutor, um teacher whatever her name is is this do it whatever um she had. She emailed my teachers and stuff and got all everything that I needed and gave it

to um one of a couple of my teammates. And during this time, Bro Um, I say, I lot my eyes in my apartment. Bro for two weeks, and I I saw a total of four different people, maybe five. That's that's just showing love. Like, but I'm pretty sure I only saw four people like Ed Dix and and a few other teammates. You know, he kind of wanted he was my best friend. He was my best friend still too, so he brought my life working ship to the house and stuff. But Bro, I was I was.

I couldn't go to restaurants. Are you saying you couldn't. Are you saying you couldn't go because of how people treated you or you didn't feel comfortable? Like what do you what do you mean? Because I just I just didn't go because I was going. I mean I did. I I to act normal, But I mean I'm talking about everywhere I went bro it was it was either it was either man, you know, he what he said was what he said to you was justified. And then you had obviously the other people's like you know, the

whole turn of the cheek. You know, how could you have responded? And those people that say that, those people that say that they don't know in my background, they don't know how I was raised. They don't know what my grandparents told. How were you raised? How was your take us through that? There take us through? How were you raised? And what and what did you growing up? How did that play into your psychological process to respond the way you responded. Uh? So I grew up. I

grew up man. Obviously I had both parents. I told you that, um, and I grew up with with some grandparents that uh they oh man, and they grew up in Florida. So you know what I'm saying. You know, you they you know how they're feeling about certain stuff. You know, they still feel like you know, um, they still feel like you know, racist, racism and slavery is

is what's is what's running the world. Like may you know how grandparents are bro you know what I'm saying, especially like well at least black grandparents with my grandparents, um and and and they always just like, man, don't ever let you know, don't never let anyone disrespect You'll never let anyone sin on you, never let anyone to touch you in the face, will never let anyone call you the N words. Don't never let you know what I'm saying, Don't ever let um you know, someone ever

disrespect your sister. You know what I'm saying. How you know, just the basis of growing up what they they talked to you not to accept the things that they are endured when they were being raised exactly exactly. Um and and you know, my grandma told me a long time ago that know when you know, when she's called a certain word and she defended herself, um back then you go to jail for defending yourself. You you know what I'm saying. So she was just like you always if

they come down to it. If anyone does any of these things to you, that's automatic. You gotta it's go time. Somebody's spent on you. You know that it's go time. Somebody to put the hand in your face. Just go time. Somebody call you whatever they call you, Just go time. Um. So I was raised that way and I never lost those values, and I never lost you know, track of that. So um obviously at twenty years old. I think I

was twenty years old, um, nineteen or twenty whatever. Um. But at that age, you know you're still living by that philosophy. Now I'm old enough, I'm not sure enough if you know, if any of that happens, I'm gonna still a fight with somebody spit on me or slapped me or anything like that. But if if anybody comes like outside my name, I'm gonna just you know, I'm okay. I mean, if you yeah, you get you can still get up. I thought, beat up and say it again.

So what's the point, you know? Yeah, I don't. I don't know if they get back up and said again, but they could they could probably not. 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? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? What

about online? And you can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a podcast dot com. Man, I just want to ask because I'm a little bit I'm a little jealous this, you know, last chance you on Netflix? What There's so many other community colleges out there? Why is?

Why is Mississippi Community College getting this love dog? We win in the National Championships? Man, y'all ain't playing no callie teams though, win the National Championship and everybody, Yeah, I feel like I'm talking one of my boys, one of my sons. Did you say everybody? But then y'all y'all beat Did y'all play Bakersfield in UK homes Northwest?

Who cold a really good? We're making all of them, all them We're going to I don't know who we played in the National Championship, but I want to say one of the national championship games for US. But I thought we beat one of the teams like fifty something to twelve from from you. They was trash. It don't matter.

And I think kind of what got them, kind of what got them a little bit more noticeable is because I think they might have won two or three national champions maybe two national championships back to back, went to a third win and lost, and then went to a fourth front in one, and then they started trying. They start hearing about some of the players too going into the league. Because we had Ja Darius Smith, he was

had that. He was the old miss Kelly. Yeah, you gotta you gotta Receira, that was I think Baylor from there. Um you got you got a lot of d one kids coming out of these They got you. You were there, Oh yeah, you know you didn't see me on the Netflix show. They just showed a little quick picture of me. Yeah, I was playing against Mabil, been playing against the Panthers. That I mean, if you're talking about highlights, generally, the

Panthers are in those highlights every time. Hey, every time I want TV lately, all the highlights against the parts. I'm like, man, can y'all pick a different team? Goodness? The boys boys turning around and where we will be edited out? I'm not gonna allow you to talk this foolishness on my showy. But but hey, you want one thing though, Bro, I got a question for you. Oh did you think did you think it was? Did you think it was a good brain? Camback? I'm sorry to

hear you. My headphones went out. Uh, you know, let's talk about it came as a player, Bro, But I don't think that was Why not? I just don't think. I don't think he can. He's not Super Bowl fifty Cam Newton anymore. Well, I mean, if you go backwards show, was that shop both fifty? Um? I mean when you look at you both fifty in that year he was the league MVP. However we are you know, however, we also know the league MVP also goes. It really goes on how deep the team goes? Right, even though they

say that it doesn't. Those voters vote on is that league MVP gonna help propel them because they vote in They they vote during the regular season. They're not going to vote a guy who statistically is really good, who's not even sniffing going to the playoffs, so that you show, you know, so they do narrow it down to the quarterback or the individual must make an impact on a team who's I believe, bound to go to the playoffs. Right,

But that team construction was constructed. They were led by Cam Newton on the offense, but they were led by Luke Keikley on the defense, and so both sides of the football was severely scary. Like you, you were worried if your offense Cam Newton company would do some damage, and you were concerned that Luke Kickley and company would pick you or knock you out the game. I mean, it was remarkable how well balanced this team really was after the year before. They couldn't get it out of

their own way. We uh we we played against him on the way to Super We ran against them. Yeah yeah, yeah, So I don't. I don't. But my problem is, my my whole problem wasn't with the Cam Newton bringing them back. I just thought it was I just thought it was interesting that they they brought him back, as if he was gonna save a team that had so many deficiencies right.

The offensive line wasn't very good, the defense was The defense were was good, but teams were starting to already know what they brought to the table and what what what they couldn't do, And so it was like this unfair, this unrealistic expectation that he was gonna save the season. And the season was pretty hard to say because you you you had an officive line that could just could not block and in the conference, in the conference you win was tough too. Yeah, So it just it was

an unrealistic expectation. Not well, it was funny is watching living here. I thought he came back as a different guy. I do believe he came back more mature, Okay, mature. I don't the Cam Newton that came back and the day I left, I don't know that Cam Newton, right, And people want me to know him, like people like, oh, how can you? How can you know him? Just like you we played against each other, and you've seen me because you play offense, You've seen how I've operated as

a NFL player. In my younger years as a Panther, in my older years as a Raven. There are some things that was a little bit hype and there are some things that were a little bit subdued, But at the end of the day, I still conducted myself as like I used to call I was the warden when I was out there, you know, things went through me, whether it's setting the tempo right, blocking on run plays,

running routes on past plays. It was different. And so when I left in two thousand three, that Cam Newton it was not a father, that Cam Newton was not a league MVP, that Cam Newton was not a team captain. He was a young guy. Yeah it was. And so he's matured and went through some things. But mature doesn't necessarily mean mature like you're gonna save the world from cancer. Mature is just a different place of where you started. And and so I I don't know that thirty two

year old man just like him. Newton doesn't know forty two year old Steve, because we haven't interacted with each other long enough to see what has matured, what hasn't matured, what has died off, what has come to pass, what what still needs to be rooted out, what still needs to be groomed. So that that's why I've always tried to stay away from when people ask me about him because you and I both I don't know that Cam Newton in that locker room, right, and and Cam Newton

didn't know me in the Baltimore locker room. Because when I played against everybody just knew I was gonna talk. Everybody just knew how I was gonna respond, and everybody was shocked, like this boy really is not gonna say one word, you know. And it took a lot, bro I'm telling when I played against him, it took a lot not to say anything. But it also show myself and showed the other people and more of myself that I can't control myself. I can, you know, play the

game without talking, right right. You know, that was kind of first time I ever did that really out of that field though. Um that's that's a that's a part of your personality, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, honestly, it actually it actually wasn't as sweet as people thought for me. For me, it was actually, um it, it was kind of a buyer's remorse, like I experienced it. Okay, I moved on. I got my you know, I got

I got to win. I have fun bla blas. But it was like, but why did I have to go through that right, right, And there were some people that wanted it, and it was some people that you know, obviously Dave Gelman, who was a guy who was like, hey, we could move on from him. But it was one of those things. So many things were said and there's so many stories that were let out that was the purpose was to um poison and kind of manipulate and kind of set a bad leave, a bad taste in

the city. That's that's that's done so much for me. And so it's kind of like like, Okay, well, if I leave, I think, don't get mad, because I'm one of those if I leave, I ain't coming back now, I'm okay, we're not coming back. Yeah, And so it took you know, so it took a lot, but you know, it's obviously the place I still live. My family's here, my kids and got a lot of stuff going in. It's fun. But there are times, man, I am I

am reserved. I do enjoy being at the house and kind of taking a step back because it feels a little safer, right, it does, bro it does. That's it's it's a safe it's a safe space for me too. I feel exactly what we're talking about exactly what men, bro, because I mean I got a juggle. I'm I just ordered up be a judgment. See he plays receiver. Um, I just ordered him Ajugmentee. I told you gotta get two hundred catches in a day. Um, you're gonna you want me to burst your bubble? Tell me don't make

them catch two hundred passes a day. Bro, No, no, how many you need the cats to day? Real talk or or no real talk? Here he twelve Real talk, man, I'm not saying. I'm not saying throw two passes, but spend more time with him throwing the ball, just playing catch. Then making it a job because we know wants the job. You don't want to burn them out right, I would say you. I would say, use that jugment scene to teach you how to catch a punk the ball because

here's what you don't want to do. You don't want to beat his hands up, okay, right, you don't want to create you don't want to create that muscle deficiency in his hands at a young age. Here's what you need to do. Play catch with him, Throw the ball all over so he can, you know, so he could like practice. Yes, yes, get his range, but make it

where you're throwing it. He can focus on catching the ball, creating a diamond looking it in verst and the judge, man, that thing is coming is bang bang bang, right, and also get him some hand grippers. Oh, I ain't think about that. Yes, I see a lot of people think a lot of people think is catching the passes. The passes are creating iron hand coordination. That's all it's doing. You can create iron hand coordination by just playing catch

with him, you and him. Yeah, but when you do the jugs, man, it's constant beating on his hands and then you're tearing them down. So what I would say, You know, we used to sit in those meetings and so you know, playing against you, right, We're going against New England Patriots, are going against the Pittsburgh Steelers, going

against Philadelphia Eagles. Man, I'm sitting there on Wednesday. You know, let's say we win, very rare, but say let's we win, and so we got you know, we got Monday off Tuesday. So I come in on Wednesday, bro, you gotta you know, I come in Wednesday. I'm watching my film. You know which dB I gotta go against? What's the defense, whose defense coordinator? And then I got my coffee. And when I'm sitting in the meetings, you know, you got the

eight oh five meeting and the coach talks. Then he breaks down and talks about where we are, the you know what this team is about, who the referees are, blase, blase, and the whole time, so you you know, the opening meeting, we may be done forty five or nine o'clock right, and the whole time, you know what I'm doing. I'm sitting there with hand grippers going we're going over and then we break down to offense defense. And so why

they're talking about offense defense. What I'm doing is I switched it to the left hand because now I got to write down my plays hand grippers. It's strong ones and so there's so so so there's a sporting good sword because they ain't paying it, so I ain't gonna drop drop them, so I ain't gonna drop their name.

So there's one um, there's some hand grippers that has a little orange ball that you can adjust and by adjusting that, you can increase it or decrease it, so you can start him on the low and then just he just sit there and hand grip right, So you got those hand grippers, and then you got the iron hand coordination, and you you and him just playing catch,

he's improving the iron hand coordination. And then he strengthened his hands because I mean, I'm gonna make sure I make sure I don't get that because think about it, him catching the past, what separates him? What how he can hold on to the ball in a contested catch? You know, go back man, you know going against you guys them dude useduld come and they hit me and I just to hold that ball up. You know why, hand grippers because I'm gonna get hit with the ball.

The question is am I gonna get hit holding onto the ball or not holding onto the ball? Right right? And you know the difference. But you know how you know the difference? Yes, So that that's what I That's what I like. That's what I would say. I would say, use that judge machine. It's not a waste, but use it for pump return, to kick off return, teaching him

how to catch. I'm gonna use I'm gonna use this for his tackle team this year too, So it ain't gonna be just at there, so use it for teaching all those boys how to be a pump returner and catch save his hands man, Man, I was gonna beat him up. Man, I hate hand I hate the judgment saying, because when are you really gonna catch a two seventeen my per hour pa? Why? Why? Why you shouldn't? Because think about it, that that pounding you're running back. Does

pounding make you better? No? What does it do? It takes life off away. So don't beat this hands man, don't do that. I got you. That's because that's just

that's like, that's like the that's like the coaches. That's like the coach is telling you as running back, if if if you obviously on the if you're obviously running you know, if you got all this space right here, but you got this guy right here and this one, the coach don't want you to run that guy over rather than you know, he's gonna he's gonna want me. He donna want me to run him over rather than

the ye cut left, you know what I'm saying. And and I used to get in trouble for that because obviously of how big i am, I'm I'm I'm I'm already annoying. Somebody that's five foot ten or five for the eleven gonna hit me low. So I'm not gonna try to I'm not gonna try to go all the way down there and run you over. I'm gonna cut right, cut left. You know what I'm saying. I was being used to go crazy to me? What the fucker doing?

LG was running over and he weighs a hundred and me d eight, sometimes one over and sometimes on hundred sneak up on you and trick you one or two times. Now it ain't well? How about this? My hunter and eighty five pounds will trick a few trick a few of them linebackers that try to come hit the running back, and all of a sudden they didn't see me. I don't think I need it. I need it. I needed a couple of I needed a couple of years. Thanks for listening to my dad talk a lot. He loves

to talk. Just give him a minute and he'll be right back. Good, do good. Let's getting down to do good. Hey Gerard, why didn't you get that T shirt? You mean? 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 wherever you listen to podcasts. Man, let's let's talk about this the CBD company. Man, what well you know,

let's let's talk about the business. How how did you get started? Why did you get started? What was the purpose? What's the purpose? Why do you feel it's a purpose? I got started because I I was one of the guys that I mean, and I don't know how how do you feel about this stuff? But I was one of the guys that I do get the ball a lot. So I'm going to the game. I'm taking that I'm

taking that first pill. I'm getting that shot into the shoulder, M and and and and I'm going out there and playing like that on that After the game, this this shoulder probably gonna be sure, it's gonna be horrendous. After the game was gonna feel like it's about to fall along. So uh me personally, Bro, I used to love being able to go in the game and not have to deal with the pains of of of what I was

dealing with. But at the same time, Bro, the games that used to be so excruciating when the medicine and stuff war on. So I was just like, man, it's I was thinking, there's something wrong. There's there's just something wrong, Like they can't. I don't know how strong these pills are, but they're they're strong enough to make uh towing a c joint, you know, disappeared during a game that you're playing against grown men. You're hitting that cell there. I

don't even know what ain't. And that's the other thing, Bro, you don't. I mean you probably asked, but I've never asked them what what this pill is? And every time and every other guy that went in there to take these pills, Bro, I never heard anybody said, hey, bro, what what this pill? And and for me, man, I just man, the pill started whenever I started listening to uh older players Um Brady, Um, Vince Wilford, Mayo, Uh, Chris Long, you know, I started. I started listening to

older players, Jason Peters, all these guys. That's that's that's. I'm looking at these guys and these guys ain't going there and you know, getting shot up every time and taking I'm like, bro, you know, and I'm looking at Chris Long, like bro, yo, your knee or your ankle, whatever it was. B your ship messed up. It's unique. You know what I'm saying. It shouldn't be looking like that. Bro. Bro, what Bro, you're gonna go play on that? He's like, yeah, Bro,

I'm gonna go play on this. Somebody you're feel to get it shot or he's like, nah, I don't do the shots no more. It's like, I don't do the shots no more. And I'm do the pain pills no more. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, well, bro, what are you doing? You know what I'm saying. And you know him, Uh, Chris was one of the guys that was already on the TVD. You know, he here a little bit older than me. I think he was got drafted and like two thousand and he's not that far

ahead of you, right behind you. I'm older than Chris, yeah, but not a lot, No, no, not by a lot. But he started, he started, he started telling me about it more and more. And I mean, Chris Long is somebody that I respect, you know, so if he say something, Mama, I'm gonna take it the heart. And I started looking into it. This was in two thousand and seventeen, I started looking into it and I started getting my shots

less and less. UM. I started taking them pills less and less, and I deal with a little bit more pain than usual. But I was okay with that. So I found a couple of different CBD companies UM that guys was using and I just started using it and and they, you know, they was cool and all, but they were just like guys kept telling me, like, bro, there's a lot better products out there than this. There's

a lot better products out there than this. And then when I got over, you know, and I started seeing you know, the dance pros, the girls and all these guys tearing the A c l s and you know, all these crazy kind of injuries and stuff, and I'm like, man, thang, bro, I know, I know that there's something that that that I could do, that I could find it and being hit me. I'm like bro, cb D company, you know, and I'm like this right here to help guys if I can. If I can get enough guys, don't notice.

If I can get enough people on board, they will notice that this is a healthy, a more healthy way, a healthier way to deal with pain, to deal with this comfort to deal with bro I mean, just think about it. They give you pills for if you can't sleep, they give you a pill for it. You got anxiety, they give you a pill for it. Pain, they give you a pill for it. Think about it, taking three pills today every day. You know what I'm saying. Now. Now, now,

now that's something to think about. Because five years down the road, seven ten years down the road, fail, your kidney fail, all that stuff, you're not gonna you're not gonna you're not gonna register that. All the way back to NFL football and two thousand and fourteen, you're gonna think, oh, ship, something wrong with my body? Now? So you start your did you start your own company? Like? How did that process? Own company? This s life Flex, Yeah, that's mine. How

did you started? Like? What? What? What takes us through that process? So we I went and found I gotta, I got somebody to help me go find a manufacturer. My manufacturers and Oregon, okay, And that's why I went And that's why I went to school. So obviously you know they're gonna probably want to work. I wasn't gonna acknowledge the Oregon thing, but yeah, I get I give it to give it to you, and they ended up

loving me. They love my idea. Um, and when they started coming to the formulas and the ingredients and all that stuff. So that's how that's how I got my patches and my rollerball in my and my salve. And then when it when it came to my dummies and teachers, I gotta my manufacturers out here in Arizona because that's just higher than man, than than than the patages and stuff. Um, So he's out here and he got a quick turnaround, so that's easy for me to do and pick up.

So I mean, I've had the company for a year now and now I'm starting to see the different prints and and how much people are receptive to what I'm saying. Because obviously at the beginning, and you gotta grow businesses no matter what, but I was in the beginning, people were kind of like, just because I'm Garrett Blunt, I'm going up, I'm going here and check out the products. But I wanted people to be receptive, receptive to what

I'm teaching them, to what I'm what I'm telling them. Um. For instance, mayra H, C, CBD and t C they're not the same, They're not the same. You know what I'm saying. They a lot of people put those together. And that's not that it's not the same, cause none of my products get you high. All my products are t h C free. You know, they're all TC free,

CBD isolate, they're all natural, they're all organic. This is as healthy as you're gonna get um when it comes to dealing with discomfort, when it comes to them, with dealing with pay badly, patterns, any kind of anxiety. This this is the cream of the crop. I think this is this is the best. The best product that you're gonna find when it comes to CBD is mind. So is it just in Arizona? What you know? Are you? And others? Are you? And where are you? It's basic.

It's based in Arizona. It's based in Arizona. But I mean I should, we should Canada anywhere. You know what I'm saying. If you order, we're gonna send it to you. So what's been what's what's been? Some of the things you've learned in this process in business and business? Oh he's smiling, Oh, he's smiling. The things that I've learned is and uh, networking and patients is key to having that successful that's that's that's two of the main kids

to having a successful business. I'm so happy for you, man, you see him at peace? Why do you what's what's really what has resolved inside of you where you can be so just looking at you smiling, you're enjoining the conversation and dialogue where you know why? How did you get to that moment that you're at right now? Where you got la Garrett, let's go feel good CBD. You teach your kids how to play all teaching them to master the craft in which you you did a pretty

darn good job. And and you was physical. You understood the business. Um, you experienced the bad side of the business. You've experienced, the amateur side of the business, the collegian side, you've experienced, um, the bs of not being recruited, being half recruited, all of that stuff that you've experienced. And yet you're on the end of this zoom and you've seen at peace, smiling and enjoy your life. How did

you get to there? Because not a lot of men that have playball that made ten times more money that you've made, made ten times less money that you've made. I have not been able to be at peace the way you see you're at peace right now. I just credit that to just the kids. Man. Uh. The wife is just being sold so um, supportive and taking care of what need to be taking care of around the house and stuff like that, if I if im you

know any any of that. So that's kind of what put me at peace, just being able to be here with them because my last after after Philly, we bought a house out here, and then they didn't come back. They didn't come out to um to watch me play anymore into like probably a Christmas game and maybe I think it's giving game, but that was about it, um and so uh and I used to get these phone calls.

I used to get these text messages from LB. Um, that's some little Garad Jr. And I used to get the calls from my daughter's yard and they used to be like, Um, Dad, are you gonna are you gonna be home at a football season? How long are you gonna be home for? You're gonna be home for a month? Are you gonna be home for a few weeks? Or you know? Or you know, I'm getting call like hey, we missed you, can we come out? And just then the other and uh. In year nine that started hitting

a little bit different. You know what I'm saying, Like, and you're not, like, Dame, I don't want three Super Bowls. Un done everything I wanted to do in my career, you know, I mean beside rush for ten thousand yard you know, I'm like, well, but you know I don't. And and you know I've I've done everything in my career that I was and I wanted to do. Um the kids don't being able to watch it from the

ground up, and and they've enjoyed every bit of it. Um. And it was just me personally, I just didn't I didn't feel like there was nothing else for me to play for UM. And I didn't want to continue. I didn't want to continue to go from the team, the team, the team, the team in the back end. You know nine and you're nine of them with the Lions, you're tend them. With New Orleans, you're twelve. And with the Raiders.

You know what I'm saying, I'm I'm just not I'm not trying to be on the ap careself um um and and and you know, get to the point where they pick you up, you know you gotta stay in safe and then they pick up a week before the playoffs and then they cut you a week later. You know what I'm saying, Like that just wasn't trying coaster right on that roller coaster, and I just want, like

I said, I wanted to be here. I mean, I'm always missing I'm missing cheer competitions, school, I'm missing all of that, bro And and I'm just getting phone calls like, hey, Murk calling me like Marissa, that's that's that's my lady. Shoot, Hey, LB did great. You know what I'm saying. I'm seeing some videos and I'm like, and the videos just don't do it justice because I don't show you, like four players of what the game looked like. Like I just

got I wanted to be more involved in all that stuff. Man. That's cool. Man. You obviously you play with Brady, you were coached by Belichick, and now you have your own business. What ingredients from what you've learned from those organizations and that success with those teams and those leaders that you're able to carry into your business now um with your CBD company. Um. I say, one of the major things I learned being with those places is uh, just being

in the lead in general is um, patients. Man, you can't arrest anything. You gotta be patient. I mean, everybody want their business, they want to start the business off, and then the next they make to me no, you know, you know what I'm saying, like, but you got you just you just gotta you can't rest man, take patience and take time. It takes a lot of discipline, UM, in which I learned all three of those things over

the course of me playing in the NFL. I learned all three of those things are viral and key to your success in the lead. UM. And you can also take those and and put those into other ventures that you do later on in life and still follow that

same mold and be successful. Patience, discipline, you know. I obviously you gotta you gotta be patient if if the business is gonna be successful, you gotta be disciplined in order to stay stay focused and stay on course of what you know that you have to do to make your business successful. Like it's just you know, those two of the things. Those are two things that that I definitely take out took out of being in the league and brought her to the to the business side. UM

and the hard work man. I don't think. I don't think that will that will never be matched to anything. You ain't nothing you can do to to cover up hard work. There's nothing you can do. The stuffs too hard work. If you're gonna work hard, you're gonna read

the benefits, you know. And we've been grinding, you know, we've been grinding this company, um, like I said, for a little bit over a year now, man, and I'm starting to see um a lot more support, a lot of benefits, you know, UM a lot more traffic to the websites, and just people are just starting to learn and see about you know what what this is all about. You know what's what's what's the website? And you know, go ahead and uh, go ahead and talk about your company. Man.

I ain't trying to. I ain't trying to. Ain't trying to short short change your company. Oh you know you don't built shouting. Let that thing live, hey man. The website is LGS feel good dot com. Lg S feel good dot com. That's where you can find all the products. That's where you can go place your orders. Man, go check this out. You won't regret it. You can also catch us on Facebook at lerg is still good. You can get us on Instagram same handle. Well, Man, I appreciate,

appreciate your time. Man, it's it's it's so cool to see your trend um, see the transition of you man, and it's it's it's cool to see your smiling brother. A lot of people don't a lot of people don't understand the road. The road, if you've traveled, is the long scenic road that a lot of people could not do. And you made it through. You got more out of that apple, orange and liman lemon then a lot of

people would have. And you actually have made it into lime and an apple and lemon juice that some people wouldn't have. Man, So congratulations. Uh, I was not part of it, so I can't say I'm proud of you, but I am amazed at the transition you have made. And man is awesome. So congratulations brother, and I'm happy. I'm happy, Yes, it is. There's a lot of us. I mean, you've seen what happened in last year, you know, in the last year or so. Man, you know these guys,

you know, um, you know God bless today. You know some of these guys just retiring, don't know what to do. You don't have a plan, and you know, and it's it's tough. It's tough. And I've witnessed some of these guys, and you know, I've tried to help some of them, and it's it's hard. And I thank God that I don't have to go through that. I thank God. But man, it's tough to see. It's tough to see, especially if it's somebody that you personally know, you know like that.

It's tough to see. Man. So I'm happy I was able to transition smooth. You are a unique person. You are well worth it, you are competent, and most of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith Senor I'm 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, Baltold Creative Media, The Black Effect and

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