Spice Adams

You're doing that, sir, I'm great. I've been struggling with myself on frustration right, And so I was like, man, what am I first straight about? And so I heard I heard this and it was it was a great question, which is what are we doing and how are we dealing with ourselves or maybe with God when we're sitting in his waiting room. That's good. And the reason I say that is if we're immature enough, we can hear

a delay as a denoma. Oh so my question to you is how are you handling waiting in God's waiting room? The first thing comes to mind, is it it exercises a lot of patients right exercises a lot of patients because you are literally in the middle of whether it's something you asked for, whether it's something you're waiting on.

You you you mentioned waiting room, where there's something you're waiting on or waiting for, or something to Uh, manifest is such a buzzword right now, but you're waiting for something to happen. It is that gap where it is all right, Uh, I know what either I'm trying to detain or whether I'm trying to get to but I haven't accomplished it yet, or I don't even see an inkling of it happening yet. So what do you do

in that middle portion? And the middle I've always found is where you typically get refined to where you get pruned. It's where um it's it's it's typically where the best version of yourself eventually comes forth. It's also the part that, if I'm being real, completely sucks. It completely sucks, because

you're you're literally right there in the middle. The cool part, though, is when you look back, you tend to see, man, I came from something um either really bad or something I didn't like or something I didn't enjoy, and you're not where you want to be. But you gotta appreciate it. So I'll say all that to where, um, you know, to answer your question. Oh, it definitely sucks, no doubt

about it. But it's also it's also when I go back and I think about it's also I can point out specific times in my life where it made me better. And that's the part that matters. Truth be told, and to be totally honest, most of us don't like waiting, particularly waiting on something to change or something to get better.

Waiting sometimes we could be very frustrated with the experience, and God is causing or calling us or causing us to wait because sometimes he it's not we're not asking the right way or we're not praying the right way. Sometimes I'll give it. This is the best analogy I can I can do illustrate illustration. I give you the best illustration. Remember back in the day, you go to the d m V. Or you go to the old butcher or the corner store, and you gotta pull a ticket.

You gotta get the real ticket, not not not the board you're talking about, the actual ticket. You gotta get the ticketing in there's a little you know, the dots and the numbers and say let's just say you're you're uh ticket five or eight, you know whatever number? Which number do you want to fifty seven? And what's the counter on? Like four? That's really as a TV to be here for a while, counters on fifty Okay, I'm two fifty five. Okay, my show, So I get it.

I get the leap frog here, okay, okay, whatever you do. Check still come on Friday. Yeah, okay, cool. So they're on two fifty three. Now when we leap frog and we try to get in front of two fifty three, think about this. To fifty seven is Gerard, he's get getting the check up. To fifty five is getting a his I don't have it, but I'm using it asmin halo refhild. But to fifty three he's getting the heart transplant.

Are you gonna jump your ass in line early? And you go in as two fifty three because you stole this ticket and now you gotta get a heart transplant? Don't even realize it, but all you really went in there for and I just want some oxygen in my healer, or I want to get a check up. Sometimes we have to understand that God is delaying it because we're not ready for Really, what's in there to fifty three is getting a heart transplant. But you didn't jump the line,

and you disrupt the order. Now your healthy heart is now about to be ripped out and you're about to get a different heart. And somebody will say, well, well, God's giving us this hard. But the point is when you get a heart transplant, there's a process. There's a process of are you the right blood type, are you the right age? How? How do you know to fifty three isn't a fifty year old man who's who's been a smoker, who all they're trying to do it that

it's not even a fully operating heart. It is a heart that now is applied with a pacemaker. So now forty two years old, I can't run anymore, I can't play any sports. Now. I'm just I've jumped the line

because I'm impatient because of delay. You took it as a denial, as a denial, that's good, So I I just I've realized in this process of life that one I have to have a life of gratitude, better life of gratitude, And also I gotta start realizing that while I'm in God's waiting room that I need to be appreciative and understanding why God has me in that waiting room. And that's good. What time you stream on Sundays? I need some of this now. I need to tune in

for this. Appreciate that we're about to launch this. Ain't there right back? Say you're gonnalausch this G four crush the numbers. Well, I just wanted to tell you. I just I struggled and I thought about you know, life is difficult depending on the week, day of the week, in the time, it varies. But I also try to encourage and want to be more encouraged and want to be less. I'm a guy says oh half a glass half empty means I'm halfway thirsty. Yeah, but really just

appreciating it. Sometimes God is only putting half of the liquid in the in the cup. You ain't ready to get the rest. You ain't ready to get the rest because you know why, sometimes your bladder can handle them. Right. But so facts facts, Hey, who we got coming up on the Cut to It podcast? We've got Spice Adams,

a social media star, comedian, actor and TV host. But not many people even though He was an eight year veteran in the NFL for the forty Nins and debate Spice Adams on the Cut to A podcast, Spice Man, Welcome to the Cut to It podcast. How you doing, man, man, I'm sitting like a villain on penicilla. That could be good at bad. Hey, I'm gonna cut like perack side. Oh man, this is gonna be well. Don't come on about the fish fight, all right. So our first segment

is called get iced Up. Maybe follow ups to these questions there may not be. They've been selected at random. I don't even know what's happening. So medi go ahead and give Spice the first one. All right, So Spice on the ice up questions, there are random, they have rhyme a reason. So who or what is your favorite character or skit that you do one of the head uncle's yeah, and I always got the cigarette in the side of the mouth and the bluetooth had a bluetooth cousin,

cousin Rick, I put a corporate for you. I'm for that cop right wrong, that far right anything anything you got going on. He got some experience with like man pcl the same time and the only feel like a six pack of beer. But that's why it never works. It only lasts for a couple of months. I got comfort him since that tight and so I feel the same thing. Man, My my daughter loves you and and her favorite one is just that. And every time you say what you're say, not chuck, like when the bluetooth

isn't working. Like if it wasn't for the fact that she had remote learning right now, she'd be it because she loves always laugh, that distinct laugh that you can hear, like from around the corner. First of all, you can smell him before, you see, because they got the jew the stuff they sell everywhere. And why is it always blue? And he masking it because he missed. He definitely been smoking new ports. Oh who's no, no, no, no, Virginia slam different And so what you're smoke again? Oh? Yeah?

Are our assistant? I mean Sarah our sound? She she she smokes. She smokes healthy cigarettes. They organic cigarettes, but have you ever heard of it before? They're vegan cigarettes, American Spirit, American Spirit, okay them, not them the low cost joints, right, they're expensive. They'm the Kirklan brand, right, blue free. They smoked with like the cigarette holder. They'll be like, well that's the Jessica rabbit joint. No, not

just from Dalmatians. I'm gonna get those pasket dogs. I'm gonna get so question to you, all right, Spice, listen. Now you know you're big, dude, you used to be you used to be bigger. You're still dark skinning, so you know I'm light skinned, so I gotta throw that shade. So what part of your body could use a little bit more lotion? Loasiness for suckers? So you don't yes, I don't listen. I'll listen. Man. Let Vibe do his work, right? Did you ask me? Be asked me? Man, I'm proud

of people like boys. Look at my l dog. Listen of work. No, Spice, how are you that ashy? And he's sweaty? But when I sweat, it's just like Lucus. Yeah, precipimitation, right, So it's greatness. Just one body bar he's completely asky. I dry off and I did. I'm out. It's dangerous, Bro' not been in that extra ten minutes getting in the crevices, like, no, you put a pair of jeans on this cres I'm a big rose. I got insulation yeah, you know without

lack of insulation. Lee Molde fire starter. That's all right. You know what I'm saying. What would you rather have I in the middle of your head? Head? Or two noses? Or two noses? Now I gotta have an eye man, two noses, Man, I'm gonna be fat again. I'm what's that? Man? Who knows this? I couldn't do that? One of them running too? Like? What else are you gonna see it? With an animally hit that you wouldn't see what you're king too? You can see something coming before it actually come.

Was that your third? Now? You know what I'm saying. It gives you a different type of vision. Dog, you going these I sleep right? But the other eyes like yeah, so you always got one. What I'm saying here on the lookout Like I know my boys down there sleep, but I gotta I gotta be on the lookout. Baby. But but with three eyes, you still get your Assok, it can happen. I didn't that one at the stop? The other two might be like they might be out

of commission. Dog, could you be cock out with three? Absolutely? Yeah? Three listen in COVID has taught me there's a lot of things that can happen that ain't supposed to happen. That's the best one. All right. Uh so I heard you don't curse. Correct, So let's just say, you know, so, how would you curse someone out without using a curse word? Man? You've seen a coach that don't curse. Yeah, I'm gone, and you've seen them coaches. Man, we don't curse. Yeah,

where's the other way? Laughing is good? You don't curse no more. Man, you know you're trying you train. I've seen your NFL network. They never bleep out anything you do. I don't want the same network. Now I've I've I've calmed it down. You start come. You always getting into with Michael Irvin? What'd you say? What you say? I said? All right, So here here's the rundown on the whole Michael Irving thing. Yeah, people want to know the people wanted.

So here's what happened. So when we were obviously in studio and all that stuff, I'm gonna take my time. It's my show. I want to hear the real baby. Oh. So so we were, um, you know, Irvis from Florida, Um, you know, lives in Texas. So we were you know, I kind of asked him a question about his outfits and he, you know, he gave me an answer that

I was like. And so I had been making fun of him, kind of you know, messing around because he wears some flamboyant ones and so he, Mike Irvin said something about mine, and I had kind of had a conversation with him on who was doing my outfits. I remember this, okay, and Mama wifee picks out a lot of my stuff because if it was me, I'm gonna tell you right now, bro, I'll be wearing like three or four colors only gray, black, red, So you ain't

gonna style. I have styled, but when it comes down to it, when it comes down to it, I'll just go at what I feel like. And for me, my goal to is, man, we're just throwing them a red hat, play it safe. I can't say I'm throwing a gray suit, black shirt, basic foundational colors like to the point that people that do my suits, they're like, um, all right, we got enough of these colors. We need to pick

some different ones. But I'm gonna do it, but right now, yeah, so and and so he would joke around and I was still a new guy. So I was, you know, I was, you know, you know how it is in the locker room. Yeah, so I'm the young I'm the young pup, and so I gotta take my lickings and keep on taking. But basically, after the conversation, I felt like since we had a dialogue like shoosters off closer off the table, Yeah, and he brought it up on air, he brought it up on air, and so I responded

on air. I responded the way I really felt it all. It all makes sense now you see what I'm saying at a private conversation and then you bring it on. So I'm a guy if you clown me on air. The retribution was on I'm gonna clown you gonna air if you trip me. You know we're on air and you playing games. Then I said, okay, the game playing begins when we're on air. I'm not gonna do it off air. Mhmm, No, I'm gonna du it on air.

And so that's what it was. And so when he said it, it had been like two or three weeks that he kept kind of jabbing that man, I'm just like, bro, if you don't stop this one more again, one gonna get and I said, one more get into my head and then he sat and I was like, no, but the way I said it, people missed it is I just I was gonna do it. I said, when I come to l A, I'm gonna do it. Do that mean I'm gonna take this mental note put in my

back pocket. Then when I'm on the plane in l A, take that note out, you know, because I'm from l A. I'm back home. Okay, go to Martha's, get me a breed of from the spot, Go see my grandma, Go see my uncle, and oh yeah yeah, while I'm here, almost forgot to do list. So look, let me get my bag. Okay, back all right, rental car check, boom, gonna get my food. Chat, holler at my boys chat. Let's roll over there. Check dude. This is awesome. There's

nowhere else man. Yeah, so that's what it was. If you call to YouTube, man, it is like a back and forth compilation that got you and Michael I. I'll watched the whole entire thing dog times. The thing is Spice has played against me and knows me. Yes, I wasn't joking, No, I know how And so but it also is a great reminders like, hey, we gotta grow up. Yeah, we gotta change how we approach things. And the really cool thing about Earth though, is Earth does challenge me.

He does make me think outside of the box. Earth has the gift for the game. Earth is a very um. He is a smart man. Um. He knows what he's doing. However, it was a little bit of you know, younger, I receiver Old World and I've always respected IRV and that, and that's kind of why I responded the way I was, because I do have so much respect for him, and I felt at that time it was a personal attack.

And when when you believe somebody you look up to and you mentor that mentors you and you inspire, you aspire to to to to some degree, have some some remnants of, Hey, I hope I could be considered you know, I want to. I want to be able to consider myself in the same category of Earth as far statistically and playing. And so I kind of was like, like, you know, at the time, I'm yeah, I'm I'm I'm

almost forty years old. Yeah, and then it ain't you come at me happened because ye, yeah, when I'm talking about want to happen. So I'm like yeah, and so that's why it's like and I kind of like, man, I I don't know what I did that you want to do it on the air. So it kind of made it. I was, you know, to something. Yes, some people say, oh, Steve was in his feelings. I wasn't in my feelings. I felt pretty much disrespected because of and I'm not even I still haven't win in the

detail and I won't go in detail. We had an end depth conversation, a private conversation which I thought, and it wouldn't left me and which led me to say, hey, I won't make fun of Earth because of the conversation we had. And then when he said on camera like two weeks later, I'm like this ninja, this ninja te check this out, dude, Like I'm fresh off the field, dog, like I still got mud in my fingernails, say out for a Big ten network. Right. They gave me this CD.

They said, okay, on how your State Indiana game. They said to three players that you think like we're game change or whatever. So I'm like, all right, cool, I got all right. So it's like me and Mike Hall, Mike hallight man, We're gonna have so much fun, dude, Like, let's do it. Whom were on here? Three to one? Actually go? So Mike says, okay, welcome to Big ten Network. I got a special guest Fice Adam stim Let's go to the highlights. I thought we was gonna go back

and forth and the and all that. So I'm like, damn, all right, So what's all on me? I noticed like as I'm talking, I'm the one going through all of the highlights. I'm like, dang, it's really all on me? All right? So I n all that part because all they asked me to do. What's to do? Three players? So I did those plays? Is I said all this stuff. I was gonna say whatever whatever. So then like right after that, he's like, so what do you think about

produce offensive coordinator? And I was like, what that is not what we talked about and say, oh, Momi, this is what I'm saying in my head. But like coming like what I'm saying. It's like, oh man, I think the offensive coordinator's cool. You're talking about the old boy, right, But in my mind, I'm like, dog, y'all stay in henda, Like I don't know nothing about You can actually something about Ben Roethlisberger NFL quarterbacks, But vict I had no

zero percent percent of what you're talking about. So make a long story short. I straightened bomb Dog like like none other and they take everything. Then he was like, hey, man, what do you think about defense coordinator from Northwestern? I was like, man, what they should do is hiring me.

Get everybody in on line, some gassersta. So I just started just saying anything, bro, just like the random questions he was asking, I was just giving random answers that had nothing to do with the question he was talking about. But I straight up bomb Dog, so I can understand what you what you're saying. Like sometimes you get caught off guard and you're just like, but the thing is,

you and Earth got a relationship, bro. So when he said something like that, it's different when it comes from somebody that you figure that that's your mentor like this your homeboy, and like y'all been through some of the same thing, right, So when he said that, I don't know you was like, but the thing is at least you responded that way by feeling disrespected, because sometimes people feel disrespected and it's like it's on on air, off area it on that So the way you handled it

that was dope. Well I appreciate it the other because only wanted to handle You're gonna need a whole bunch of proxide and a lot of ice read. We have to take a break and morning a thing. We gotta pay some bill. You got check. 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. You know, Spice is. It's just been fun really to to see your see your development, you know, obviously into a comedian, just into your personality,

allowing allowing people to see you off the field. But we really want to just kind of dive into spice atoms Anthony Spice atoms like who you are? What do you stand for? How you became? Story? Yeah, you're coming of age story, how you became who you are? And and and the good and the bad and ugly the

the parts that people you know, um don't see. They a lot of times, these these young folks today, Uh, the public today looks at at athletes, at entertainers, and they see the championship parade, but they don't understand the grind and the process of the preseason, regular season, O t a s. Mini camps, all of that stuff that

the all of the days that to have failed. You know, before Sunday Sunday is the greatest moment in football, but Monday through Saturday it is, Man, it is some b s. It ain't even granted it shall be as some of the things, how guys start, how guys don't start, what the coordinator you don't do, all the plays that they put in during the week, and that they only call like ten through the through the whole two hours of football.

So you know, just wanted to kind of go through that and really give you an opportunity, man, to share your story who you are. If there's some things you think we miss interrupt us man. You know, man, before we get into that, like how you were just saying that you don't know what people were saying, if you were in your feelings or not whatever. I just got in my feelings about what you just said. Because there

was a lot of time on Thursday. You can see the writing on the wall man, like when it comes to your reps and practice, like like I don't even feel at all from mixed practice, Like seems like I'm not in the game plan. What's going on? So then Sunday rolled around, Yeah, we uh, you're not gonna dress today. I did my warm up all that everybody can't be like Julius Peppers and get here thirty minutes before and say hey let's go. Man, I gotta run in circles

like always before the game and get warmed up. Man, I'm gonna have my game pans on when I woke up, like I'm ready. Now we're gonna set you out this game, like bro. But anyway about me, um, Ultimately, dog, I just want to be the best dad evers. Like I value being a husband. I value being a dad because

I didn't have that growing up. I didn't see you know my dad, and like, my dad went to prison when I was like four, so it was just me and my mom's and so I never really saw the dynamic of marriage unless it was you know, my grandma my granddad. But other than that, I didn't see it. Living in my house, so it was all. And I was the only child, so I didn't have brothers and sisters. So growing up I always was like, man, I'm gonna be a good husband, and I'm gonna be a good dad,

and I'm gonna have a lot of kids. So now I got four kids, uh going on fifteen years of marriage, my wife and I and uh so that's that's what I valued the most. Now as far as the entertainment side, like I said, I was the only child, so I grew up always wanted to entertain So then I want to come back over to the house. So what what happened? Uh? You you on my show? But let me let me

let me give it. I don't do one word answers, man, I know how the interviews be when you'd be like, hey, man, so that's fine, you answer opening the question and he went, I'm media trained too, spicies, but let you know, let me, let me do my thing playing plas. Okay, yeah, you know, I know you ain't used to say, hey, sit back in the first class and let me, uh hey, let me let me get the state you got it? How

would you like it cooked? Medium plus? I've never heard of that, continued that I was a different type of classic. Get you plus that. You know some folks get a medium well or you know she rare come out, you know, still come out? You want his that thing? Dad, like I like a love that Jackie. Now, Spice. Where are you from in the place you call home? What's your hometown? From the D? Man? Detroit? The D? Yeah? Man three one three man? He sigh, He sighed Martin Luther King

High School. Okay, yes, sir. How did growing up there impact the way you see the world today? Man? I knew that I had to work for everything, because everybody that I knew either work that Chrysler for a GM or some type of factory or something like that. Man. And you know, it was nothing handed to you in Detroit and in the in the neighborhood I lived in, Man, there was a lot of gang violence, shooting, drugs and

gambling and all that type of stuff. Man. But once my mom, you know, it's like, look, you're gonna play some football. Then she kind of sheltered me away from that stuff. And I gotta love for football because I never really wanted to play. Like we we grew up the Pistons Bad Boys, so it was all about Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, John Sally, Dennis Robin and like all those guys. So all we did in my neighborhood was cool. Then my mom was like, no, you're gonna play some football.

I was like, what what is that? I didn't want to play? It was like it was boring to me, Like it's four hours. It's either you catch the bar you don't like? Who want to sit there and watch that for four hours? But then when I started playing, I was like, Yo, this is dope. Like you could physically beat a man and they ain't got to worried about the police or not like that. Sign me up, let's do with it. Like man, that was I love it. So since my mom made me play man, I've been playing,

you know, eighteen years since then. Man, the dope? How did you get spice as the as your nickname? A? You're gonna love this, bro, so Mark Luther Game High School in Detroit. It was about seven Anthony's on the team. So they saw I was somewhat good because I started out on JV. Then I got moved up to varsity. But then it was like dog, this young kid, he got something and it was like, man, we can't call

you Anthony, dog. We gotta give you a nickname. And so I had these braids in my hair that looked like the rapper Spice One. So there was like, we're gonna call you Spice, and I was like, nah, you're gonna call me Anthony, like you've been feeling it now I want. I wasn't a gig any gangster man. I wasn't Spice One. Like I'm not Spice, but that's my man. I love all Spkes One albums. But dog, no man called me Anthony. But I'm like a freshman, you know

what I'm saying. So it's like, boy, a thousand times somebody called me Spice. I was just like, what, man, what you want became Spice the main ingredient man, and it just stuck. You never have said so to your own nickname, You don't man something like one of my other nicknames is fat back greeves me exactly. I'm full name dog, fat back greeves me. Why don't It's like if somebody called me fat back, I gotta turned around, like what's up like this? And that's one of them

names that you're like, can't get right. We just have a dude on team that can't get right. Everything kind of right left, and we all know who that is that's saying. He'd be like, oh, several names that go to I can't get right. Oh you're talking about the Panthers. What's here, bro? It's it's and can't get right on every team. That's what makes it funny, Like, oh, he can't get right? But didya have did y'all have a dead man walking? We had a dude on the team.

Then we all got sprints, we all got these runs we gotta do everybody damn man walking. It's like this. He literally looks like a dead man walking. So the coach like, da walking, You might want to move out the way we run the sprints. Oh, you always got to do this out of shape. I'm not even always lying no or d lin I ain't really experienced, man, Listen, don't don't do that. He's a offense. See, I felt like how you felt when it was alignment. I didn't say which I said. It is either you can put

defense or I've been filling the plank. I feel attact. I'm I apologize because some of y'alls, it would be some running backs who just can't do it, especially when they come to long distance y'all receivers, y'all sprinters, man, Yeah, some of us. I ain't even gonna ask you following a question on that because I don't want you. It's not not every not every fast guy can sprint like consistently. So you know, you have to have gassers. Like there's

some guys that they can run. They're like a They're like a cheap piece of gum, Like we're gone ten seconds. Yeah, you know it just don't have yes big round of high school stud I ran um. I ran a hunter meter hurdles, three thirty hurdles, and I knew he was gonna say hurdles dog just from the way he played. I knew he was gonna say her tell me what like the way you got up and get the rock. It is either I had to be like long jump or I mean I jump, or like some type of

hurdles or something, some type of bounding. Yes, look at you and Bunny. I don't really inser like skilled positions, bro especially running back, because running backs are the most disrespected athlete as far as when it comes to like money and contracts and stuff like that, and how it's like a revolving door with them, Like there's no reason why Adrian Peterson should have played for five six teams.

He should not be a journeyman like you. Gotta get that man in respect he deserved, like for real, like that man can still go. I mean it happens all the time. That's just like I'm a four three guy. I'm skinning and grinned. I'm shooting the gap. No responsibility, just penetrate, go go, don't think, just go. I love not to think like I got a gap, boom, let's do it. But I know what I'm supposed to do. Came over to San Francisco with that three four. I'm like, I gotta I gotta get it all the way to

three thirty. I don't want to be I can't move three thirty. Oh man, they want me to be too gaping and go. Let the linebacker gonna make the play. I could go make it, let me go do it like, oh man, that's it's it's it's different, bro, it's different. And then a lot of times and they've got nothing to do with your ability, to do with your knowledge of the game, nothing to do with your effort, none

of that. It's just like sometimes coaches come in, they like who they like, and whatever also happens to is they you have coaches who believe their system. It's more valuable than the players. Yes, Smithie has shared his mentality how he approached the game, Spice, how did you approach the game? What was your mentality playing on the defensive line? Uh, how did you approach the game? I just wanted to prepare like crazy, man. I used to watch a lot of film. I used to watch the Guys home game.

I used to see how they played away, how they played with the crowd, noise, all that type of stuff. And uh, I had a lot of fun, man. And uh, that's that's how I kind of approached the game too. Man. It's like in the locker room, I never like wanted it to be quiet or anything like that. Man, So I always like crack a joke. I'll be in there dancing, I'll be doing like all types of stuff. So, but the thing with the Bears, it's just like it was a bunch of people on the team who was the

same way. So it was like a bunch of big kids. So when I got there, I was like, I'm in my element. Dog. Like it was more than just one class flown. You got Peanut Tillman, you got less Bridge, you got Tom Harris out of Wileon Letter, Alex Brown. It's it's so many characters, bro. So I was just like I was in my element. Bro. But it's kind of like what Steve said, like people just see the

They just see you on the field on Sunday. They don't see what happens Monday through Saturday when you just you know, training and you're you're you're in the weight room and you're going all out and then you're watching film and then you're going out on the practice field doing working on all your little moves and all your techniques and all that type of stuff. But you know, I wouldn't trade it for the world. Man, I'll do it all over again, man if I had to. I

wish I could still play right now. Man, I give you thirty good plays might not be in a row. It'll be some conditions on it. Like if I gotta sull being, I want to sub being where the ball is closer to the hatch that's by the bench, because like running that extra fifteen yards is gonna you know, I might get booty locked. You know you're doing them shuttles and that the glutes just don't be firing like how they's opposed to. So you know what I'm saying.

I play right now, but there's gonna be some conditions on that thing. I think it's about that time. Just take a little breather, do cut do it. Let's 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 wherever you

listen to podcasts. You refer to yourself as a class clown almost How do you balance that out with those guys who were the nacal gout cats likes me cats like now, but Aaron Donald? How does that balance out? You? Gotta know when to, you know, turn that on and win and turn it off because some people they don't they don't get down with all of that. And you know what I'm saying, You gotta make the adjustment. But it's it's all a part of it's all a part

of being a leader, like knowing your team. Like I can't talk to Smitty the same way y'all talk to us. Moved to Mohammed, Like moved to Mohammed is just like like he's real cool where he's just like real serious. You know what I'm saying. Like I can't talk to Moose the same way I would talk to Steve. And you gotta understand and know your teammates like off the field too, like what's gonna make him tick? Like what's gonna make like Steve crazy? Like yeah, it don't really

take that much for Steve. I mean give me because Steve Smith story spice. Oh I'd rather not no, no, no, no, God, let me get I'm gonna get upset all over again. Man, don't be, don't be, don't be triggered, Like go ahead and give us a listen. Man, it's you can't do nothing to Steve unless he wants you to okay, like you can't touch the dude, man, And I can't talk to my dvs bro because I can't do what they do.

But there's a lot of times when we're playing Steve and you're like, what, at least can somebody at least stop him from talking. You went out, you went out, We couldn't hear you. Oh, Like, somebody needs to stop Steve Smith. At least stop him from talking. Stop him, stop him period from talking, catching the ball, running a route, just stop him, bro. Like it is so frustrating. It's like a trying to catch like a like a chicken or something like that. He's just going every witch away, man,

and you can't. It's like by the time you catch him, it's already first down the chicken coop. Oh man. I mean it's just like every time you play him, bro, you already know what to expect. And I'm like, I played defensive line and I know about like the impact of Steve Smith. So it's like, man, I got to get to the quarterback so then we won't have to hear about Steve Smith. But I only played first a second down stopper. It's like, oh man, I hope this is passed. But I know I'm gonna get double to

trip a team this game. So it's like I really have no impact on the game. But playing with Steve, playing against Steve is a is a headache, bro, And it's it's like every time. So that's every story when it comes to Steve Smith, every every story. You know. Let me ask you this. You were considered undersize D tackle. Yeah, Now when you look at the game today, undersized D tackles are going in the first round in the premium. Now they're getting paid a hunt a hundred million dollars

with chatting five million dollars guaranteed. Wrong. I had wrong time. Should have wait, dog man, I should have said now let me cook some old mama. These dudes is some cyborgs man, Like how how are you a defensive tackle and you got abs? Like what? Like how these dudes just like makeup players now man faster, stronger muscles and not like what Like I'm used to seeing Ted Washington.

Big Ted's six seven, four hundred pounds. But if you look on the magazine and say three twenties, but everybody know Big Ted is pushing phone on it Monday through Saturday. But when he listed yeah, it's gonna say three thirty. But nowadays, man, like Aaron Donald is like ridiculous. Dog, He's like weird science, Like all right, we're gonna make them fast this way, We're gonna make them be able to play every position on the defensive line like J. J. White,

like all these different guys. Man, it is crazy, dog, just like how much bigger and faster and stronger everybody. You see the wide receivers running um four twos like it's nothing I electric Like, how are you running out for two with electricity? What? What did you running hand hill like this? I mean it is. I love to see it, though, man, because it's just like, dude, I can't do it. So I'm just like I'm I'm at a position now where I'm a fan, like I understand

like what it takes to get to that point. But at the same time, I'm just like, yo, do you know like what you're doing right now? Like if I had a chance to talk to him and like, dog, you you're killing it right now. Like I know they can't see it right now because they're in the moment, but these young players are here, man, they they I'm really impressed with him. Man. I did a zoom call the other day and one of the questions for one of the guys coming out UH into the draft, he said,

what do you do about your brand? Mmmmm, I think that's a great question. I should Well, you know, obviously your brand is whatever it is and what you desired to be. But if you can't play ball, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter about your brand. And what I find interested in that question and the statement is you're on your way into the league and you're thinking about your brand. That's good. I'm confused about you know, and I guess that's where it comes off where I'm a hater. Fuck

your brain, that's real. Love it. Take us through your journey of becoming spice atoms, the Internet, YouTube, the influencer. Because you've had a lot of success, it almost seems people know you more is spice Atoms the median and not spice adoms who actually play football. That is that is so dope to me, dog Like, I love that.

Like people think when I put on Instagram and Twitter me and the forty niner is uniform or in the Chicago Bury uniform, they think it's photo shop like nah, bro, Like I did nine years, but I played nine years in the league, So it's like a testament to to my work. Bro. And I'm like at this point right now, man, I just I just called myself an entertainer, man, and it's it's it's dope, man, because I did this. I do this show on ABC called The Great American Bacon Show,

and we film it out in the UK. And when I'm out there, oh oh, humble brand. But I'm down there and people like, yo, you you dude from this stand even spice out of stude whatever, blah blah blah. And I'll be like, man, where you from, Dudes, be like, I'm from Ghana, Like what? And you to see my videos, I'm Ghana dog like. So it's dope, man, It's dope.

And the uh, the social media stuff kind of just happened from you know, just me just putting myself out there, same way we put ourselves out there every week on the football field, like for everybody to say, oh, man, you could have did this better, you could have did that better, or whatever. I like, I'm starting, dude, Like I got the respect from everybody in my locker room.

I got respect from people on playing against all right, So like I'm not just out here just to be out here, Like I work hard to be out here and so uh you know as far as uh, you know, me being on Ballers and with the rock and uh doing some I did an episode on Detroitters on Comedy Central, man. So it's just it's it's been dope, man, It's been dope.

And it's just like you know with football, man, you just keep getting the reps and keep putting yourself out there, man, and uh you know, and so long, man, you know, good things start happening for you know. Our last segment Spice is called the Deep Three. These are questions that we asked. This's a goal at a deeper level. Who you are as a football player, pass where you are as a social media fluencer. So smothy, go ahead, give me the first one. Hey, what's the biggest miss misconception

people have about Spice Adams. It's that I'm just a football player. Like that's it. That's kind of why I went back to school to get my executive NBA because I figured like I was gonna go into some type of business and I wanted people to take me serious. I don't want to just be like, oh, you know, I played for the Bears. I played for uh for San Francisco, So you know, give me a shot because I'm you know, I'm in NFL. Dude, Like no, like respect me as a businessman, you know what I'm saying,

respect my authority. Tie. When's the last time you really challenge yourself today every day? Because listen, I've lost pounds, congratulations. And that is by far the hardest thing I ever had to do. And I've been in training camps, you know, all types of stuff, but this is everyday battle. Dog to say, I'm not gonna have no cookies today. I'm not gonna have no chips today. I'm not gonna have no kool Aid. Like Dog. It is is ongoing battle every day. And I work out just like now to

keep the weight off. Like the weight is off. And uh, you know, I had to give away all my suits, all my suits, man, all my my player at Steve Smith's suits. Man, I had to give him all the good will man. But yeah, it's a it's a battle for real. I used to think when people say, um, it's a lifestyle, I was like, man, that's just something skinny people be saying it really is? It really is?

Why is making people laugh so meaningful to you? I like people around me to have a good time, like period, dog Like, I don't like people to be around I remember a lot of times where I'd be in a locker room and then just be quiet, and I'm just like, don't like. This is a kid's game, man. We get paid at King's Ransom to play a kid's game, And I'm just like, dog, is this a game where it's a funeral? Dog Like, come on, Like I would literally say that verbatim, like is this a funeral or it's

a football game? Like it's too quiet in here, dog Like, look at this dude, hair Like I just crack a joke like something like, let's break the ice. I can't be next to you, dog if you just got like bad energy, dog like you just too quiet? Something like I'm gonna crack a joke in a huddle. I'm gonna say something during the game, like something bro like let's let's like it's nothing better than doing your job and having fun while you're doing it. It's the best in

the world. Dog Like, we we used to play games in the locker room. We just play basketball. We used to play baseball. It was nothing. If you went to our locker room and you hear this on the door, that's us playing baseball. That's the baseball hitting the door because somebody just got struck out. And so it's just like it becomes a culture in a locker room, Dog that you can't get nowhere else. Dog, it's the best, bro. What do you think about class clowns in the locker room?

Did you like those teammates who were the class clowns? Who were some of those class clowns? What do you remember about it? I mean, you just remember who they were. We had a guy Lewis d. Lineman from l s U. He's actually a relators back in Louisiana. He was always doing fun stuff. They broke up to day Ros Smart, he hate me, Gerard Cooper. They you looked forward to them doing things. Jordan's gross is a class clown? Really? Oh Jordan do a prank? He's funny. Um. You know

they gave things. They gave the locker room at times, meaning right, it helped us at times when difficult moments where you have some one that can just say, hey, guys, not that serious. So you know, I think, um, you gotta have you gotta be able to laugh at yourself and other people to keep to the soul man it is. It is got to be able to keep that laughter in.

I mean, and I would even say you're a clown at times when we're when we're behind the scenes, whether it's in the office or whether we're recording this podcast, whatever we're doing, like people don't always see. I don't think you have more of a clown side maybe than you than you lead onto. Oh absolutely I do. I just there's just part of me. There are areas part of me. I just don't reveal the people. And that has to go. That has to do with a little bit of a way I grew up in some of

the wounds that I have. But I also try extremely hard to be a little bit guarded and allow that funniness or me be a class clown and really kind of be private for the my closed circle and the people who don't really know. They think I'm always serious and I'm not always serious sometimes, Um, you know I play around too much. Big Yes, it's like all right, brother, let's let's get serious. And I'm kind of like, no, I don't want to be serious today. You gotta have

you gotta have that balance every everything can't be mr serious. Yeah, I mean I would admit I am sometimes too serious, but I'm also um trying to let it go. And it was really cool, is uh? In my reading the day it said for the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way. Again. That's really interesting to me because it's it says that we have to learn how to let go. It doesn't It doesn't come naturally until we learn how.

Letting go as a skill that comes when you see others do it and when we practice it. It comes when we accept we are not completely separate individuals but part of a larger whole. Then we must turn most of our problems over to our Lord and savior, or let others deal with issues that don't belong to us. Most of us work hard to gain control of our lives and to manage the circumstances we face. Becoming selective about what we try to control is a very adult

skill that takes time and much life experience. When we can finally let go and stand aside from the things we we do not need to manage, we get the payoff of liberation and peace of mind. Our burden is lighten and the only things that we can handle are left today. I will take every opportunity to practice the skill of letting go and letting be. So that's what I'm trying to work on. I feel appropriate after that interview that we had to Ye, that's cool. You are

a unique person. You are well worth it, you are competent, and most of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith Singior, I'm Gerard 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, Baltol Creative Media, The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. For more podcast from I Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows

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