The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #251 - Andre Carter, Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt

Episode Date: January 26, 2015

Andre Carter, Former NFL Player who played for The 49ers, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders and The New England Patriots, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio. This podcast is brought to you by:  Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout. Iron Dragon TV. A New Roku channel with all the best martial arts films. Use Code word joey for two free rentals. HITecigs.com For a better tasting, longer lasting e cig go to HITecigs.com. Use Promo code joeyschurch for a 20% discount Naileditlife.com - Get 20% off a vapor pen by using code word joeydiaz. Music:  Justify My Love - Madonna I Wanna Be Around - Tony Bennet Born On The Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival Recorded on 01/26/2015

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Oh shit Oh shit Lisa I'm here Andre Carter's here We got ourselves a little Monday afternoon party Here you go, cops on this Here you go One thing, what

Playing Licking Oh shit For you to justify Oh shit You got to justify your existence, bitch. What? Sirk that pipe, motherfucker.

It's Monday. For you to justify my own. Super Bowl week. Anderson's Silver Week. But most important, it's your motherfucking week. What? Take that shit, Lee. Wiggle for them, Lee.

Give him a little wiggles. What? Stop it. Stop it, Lee. Shake that ass. What? Take those shoulders in this. Let me go, Lee.

Go, Lee. One thing. Oh, shit. What are we going to do? We got to do. Lee. Listen to her. Talk to me. Listen to me. Tell her dreams. Are you lonely? Tell him you fears, you dirty bitch. What's happening, people, everything? All right. Look at Lee. He's turning red. He actually's listening to Madonna. Believe it. It's creepy. It's not like a song. It's like, it's just talking over. It is brilliant at its best. I heard it today on the radio as I was driving back and I'm like, holy shit, this fucking song is powerful. And they cut up. And they cut up. loose. They cut a loose after the song. They said it was too risque, too much bullshit. How you doing people? It's a beautiful day to be alive. It's all up to you after that. Andre Carter

in studio. How's it going? Former NFL fucking superhero and shit. Look at the bad motherfucker all around. What's up with you? I'm doing great. You went to San Diego. I did. It was awesome. You ate like a savage. You got drunk. We haven't eaten like that. It's kind of fucked up. We can't eat like that anymore. We were eating like we used to be able to eat. And we were

in pain. It was terrible. But it was It was delicious. It was great. What did you have? What did you have? We went down, and my buddy owns a burrito place in La Jolla. So we went there, Don Carlos. He has four burritos and six tamales to start off. We didn't finish the tamales were for her mom. And then we went to a barbecue place, Phil's.

And then we went to a breakfast place in La Jolla the next day. And we went to Carinas, a really badass Mexican place. It doesn't even have English menus. So she just ordered. It was amazing. and then we went to Hodans for some burgers. It was great. You went to McDonald's?

You got to McDonald's? We got drunk and had the Uber take us through the McDonald's drive-thru. You went to McDonald's? I haven't been to McDonald's in months. This guy, he can't live without McDonald's. I used to go. What did you get? Just a double quarter pounder.

That's it. Ooh. I think I'm too healthy for you guys. Oh, no, no. I won't eat McDonald's. I haven't been since July. Yeah, I can't recall it last of eight McDonald's. Well, yeah, you can't.

You can't. I mean, you haven't played four. or a year or two now? Yeah. And you're still, you could probably go out right now. Right now. I feel good. If they needed a defensive end for the Super Bowl, you could.

Hey, you never know. Would they activate you? They could call you like that a weekend? They could call you. You hear stories about that, just last minute situations. But I'm confident I'll probably be watching the Super Bowl on my couch with my son. If you would have heard some, you'd heard it by now. Yeah, exactly.

They would have called you this morning and say, come on down. I got to go. That's up, baby. How's it going, bro? Thank you for having me on the show. Thank you very much. I know we had talked about connecting and networking. Oh, my God.

I'm happy to be with you, man. You know, the more I get to see you, like, I'm like, wow, he's like a superhuman nice guy. You know, we met in Eagens. Yes, sir. You're really into it. But just the more I got to see you and you, and then I would talk to my friends and say, you know, Andre Carter's done. That motherfucker is a beast. You know, everybody says you're a beast.

Right, man. Take care. And you really are. I took a look at all the credentials. I mean, listen, I grew up. linebackers. I grew up when it was cool to be Jack Lambert and Jack Camp. There you go. Period. Yes, sir. And then I didn't grow up

a giant fan. But once I saw Lawrence Taylor and his fury, irrelevant about the drugs or whatever. I'm talking about when this man was on the field, it did something to you. I still remember when they wore their home whites. And one game on Thanksgiving one year, he intercepted it and ran it for

a touchdown. And I remember my head almost exploded, like going, what type of, like I learned to play a linebacker position a certain way. I know. This guy is doing something that I get thrown off the team if I did. Like if I cheated the way he did. Right, yeah. To certain things he did.

So it really made you think outside the box as a linebacker. You did. And, you know, I remember watching you playing, but more when you were a redskin. Yes, sir. Yeah, yeah. One of the year I was a linebacker, but for the most, I'm sorry, two years on my career, I played linebacker for the most part. Your defensive background.

Which is for me in my world. It's kind of the same. Yeah, it's kind of the same. Yeah, just got your hand in the dirt. They just put you in a cage on Friday and let you out on Sunday. Let you go. Let the dogs hunt. You know, a couple tendencies. They like to run on third down.

That's it. And that's all you fucking need. That's it. When I was in high school, there was this kid that was a great linebacker. He came up from the Jersey City. And all these schools were looking at him. But, you know, he came from a fucked up home. Right.

He didn't have a chance. He just didn't like school. And I remember one day, the coach in high school going, can we take a ride? We got to go talk to Georgie. You got to talk. to him. He won't show off for practice. Yeah. And we went to his house, and he knocked on the door. I don't know him coming out, like, with a shorts and like a cigarette in his hand, like a bottle.

He was 17. Oh, yeah. I'm a throwback. And I'm like, he was like, coach, listen, I don't want to go to school. I don't want to fuck with it. He goes, just do me a favor. Just put me in a cage. Don't let me out on Sundays. I don't give a fuck what you do all week. If you poke me with a stick and he goes, in fact, I prefer that than having to go to practice. Wow. He just didn't get it. And the coaches are coming to look at him in practice. Yeah. All these Division I school. He just didn't want to do it.

He goes, I just want to play. Who knows what happened. Last time I seen him, he had a ghetto blast. His stitches were exposed. He fell off a cliff. Oh, man. And he was out drinking with the stitches, the strings. It looked like he had a spider in his fucking head.

I'll never forget that. Some people cover it up. Not him. He's like, fuck it. You got to give it the air. I don't know what happened to George after that. Oh, man. That's crazy. But lineback is like this position where, you know,

I remember going to offense, defense, football camp, and seeing Jack Lambert shaving with shitwall. Like he was taking the shit and dipping his razor. You can't be? I went early in the morning to drink like water like to brush my teeth. And this fool was in the bathroom with the door open. Like, what's happening, kid? Yeah.

And he dipped his water in the thing and he was shaving it. Oh, wow. And I always thought that linebackers had to be a little. They were crazy. They have to have a little bit of... They're a little edgy. But then I meet you when you're the sweetest fucking guy in the world. I'm a different beast.

My wife always makes fun of me. She's like, you know what? I don't know what it is. It's like off the field. You're just cool. But when you're on the field, you just... You're just in a different friend of mind. That's just always been my mentality.

You know, there's just a time to turn on and turn it off. But at times now, especially, you know, the transition, just not playing. You know, you got your moments where you feel a little edgy because, you know, you've been trained to do this in my life. I've been playing football for almost 20 years in my life. So this is all I've known. So sometimes when you're just kind of by yourself or you're just kind of out about, you kind of wish you just had that outlet.

There'll probably be no other outlet that will replace football. I mean, some things kind of come close. That's why I end up doing jiu-jitsu with you guys. You know, you beat the dog out of each other. You have fun. It's just a physical contest, man-oh-man. But there's nothing like football. Nothing like.

There's nothing like football. That's probably why I mean, end up coaching because it's the co-sustained a plane. But a guy like you, you know, you woke up one day when you were six and you played football. No, actually, I was a late bloomer. One, so I think we had that discussion. My dad played for the Broncos. And they won that year, right? For 12 years.

No, he ended up having all three AFC championships, no Super Bowl ring. Super Bowl 12, 21, and 22. Damn. No rings. And then I got my EFC championship when I was in New England, 2011. No Super Bowl ring. So we'll see what my son does in the future besides to go that route. So how old were you when you started playing?

I was, what? 14? Why so late it? My dad didn't want me to play. My dad didn't want me to play early. He felt like kids at a young age just need to develop their bodies and do other sports. I did basketball.

I did taekwondo. I sucked at basketball. I mean, my friends were always laughing me. All I can do is just dunk and rebound. That's pretty as good as you can get. But what happened was one of the teachers came to our school. This was like when I was in ninth grade, our school system was weird.

So I was going to a different school, 10th grade year to say, hey, he wants to sign for football. I told my dad I want to sign up. He asked me, are you sure? He said, three times. Is, are you sure? Yeah, dad. Are you sure? Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah, I'm sure. Okay, let's go. End up pumping iron in the backyard. We're doing defensive line drills.

I think the reason why he said, asked me, are you sure was, well, he played it, he experienced it. He know what it took from a mental and physical standpoint. But I was ready. I wanted to just see what I could do. And it just, it paid off in the end. And I loved every moment of it. I moved to San Jose, California when I was a junior. Didn't realize how good I was until after we had lost to one of our rivalries, St. Francis. After the game, Coach came up to me.

I was like, hey, Andre, you know, good season. I'm like, yeah, coach, you know, I'm still upset that we lost. He's like, well, guess what? You know, what's going on, Coach? You made all the league. I'm like, all right. And I'm looking at my dad's like, is that good? like, yeah, it's good.

He said, hey, guess what? You made all, you know, section, all CCS. I'm like, oh, is that good? My dad's like, yeah, that's good. This shows you know, I didn't know nothing about football. I just played it. I didn't know nothing about all these accolades. He's like, hey, guess what?

I'm like, what? You made All-American. I'm like, is that good, dad? You're a junior year? My junior year. Wow. I made All-American. And my dad's like, that's great.

And then I'm like, okay, I guess I do have a chance. And then next thing, no, I'm receiving letters from colleges. I mean, my first letter was from Rice University. I even know where Rice University was. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like opening a letter like, Rice, where's Rice University at? The dad's like, it's in Texas. I'm like, okay. Then these next thing, no more and more letters were coming in. I'm like, oh, wow. Like, this is big. My dad's alma mater sent a letter, University of Miami.

I'm like, okay, okay, now I'm in business. And after that, my senior did well. got All-American again and took my trips. I went to University of Miami, went to Northwestern, went to Rutgers, went to Cal Berkeley, Arizona State after they went to the Rose Bowl against Ohio State. And my final decision was Cal Berkeley. I just felt connected to Cal. At that time, we had, said, Gene Upshaw, or, sorry, Reagan Upshaw and Dwayne Upshaw and Dwayne Clemens.

They were the two big time Devenson of Mands. When I saw them was when my dad was coaching at San Jose State. They were playing at San Jose State at the time. And I just saw these two ends just tearing up the backfield, just going, not stop, not stop. I'm like, I can do that. And just seeing the blue and gold

and like I love the colors. It just fits. And when I made my final decision, that was my school, you know, Cal Berkeley. Now, fortunately, my four years there, We're a little bit rough. We didn't win any games. No bowl game.

Nothing? Not a. Everybody asks, do you go to a bowl game? No. You sure? Yes. But I'll tell you what. The friendships that I achieved there, just the camaraderie.

Just, you know, I call them the throwbacks. Just the old school golden bear, the gridiron, the guys that wore the leather helmets, they were still out there. I mean, those are guys that set the tone for being a golden bear. And I'm proud to be a bear no matter what. You know, and I was very proud for it, and it was just an amazing institution. I still talk to my teammates to this day. Scott Fujita played linebacker for the Northern Saints.

To this day, he still rubs a Super Bowl ring in my face every now and then. He's got to get you one of these. I'm like, whatever, Fujita, hang up on them. But overall, it was such a great experience, and I wouldn't change. change it for anything. It's, uh, you did something that I wanted to do.

Yeah. That was my original dream. My original dream was in comedy or, right, be an attorney and nothing. It was to be it all Americans. Yeah. To play basketball and be on NBC.

Yeah. Monday and March. Yeah. And for them to say, uh, what town you came from. Right. It was always important to me.

Once I realized I wasn't going to be six foot, my dream blew the fuck up. It's just something. I've always thought that's to greatest thing a person could do is playing college sports. Yeah. Be at a bowl game. I know.

Fucking, I'm not saying them. Yeah, yeah. I'm just saying. No, in general, though. You did everything, I mean, just in general, just the feeling your parents must have. Yeah, I did everything right way. God was my strength, of course, and had a humble upbringing. I mean, that was, of course, my resource because he played in high school, collegiate and pro level.

So he played, where in high school? Was it? Strayhan High School? That was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. So he's in Florida, Richard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Strayham or Stringham? The thing is like... That's like a great football thing. That's like a great football. That's what Michael Irvin's from endless. Yeah, it was like in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I forgot the name of the high school. Like Stranahan, Stranahan. Yeah, Stranahan High School.

My friends did a... My friends in Florida did a documentary about a bowl game they do. Right. In Florida. It's like, you know, like, fucking everybody goes to it. Yeah. Forget the name of the black and white boy. I don't know what it was. Yeah.

Like high school games. Like a high school game. That's fucking huge. Yeah. It's fucking huge. Like, there's 5,000 people. I'll tell you what. This was crazy.

So I'm glad I had a taste of high school football on when I went to school in Florida. Because I tell you, it was a different dynamic in California. In Florida, spring ball? Oh, you're hitting. You're hitting. It's like full goal They have this little tournament or something where they got

You know school here School there Hey we're going to play the first half Let's see what you're made of And then they just switch it up California football Was just so different Because I'm coming in

Like a new kid on the block Oh hey man Who we playing against You know spring ball They're like Oh we don't do that here I'm like we mean you don't do that here No we just put our helmets on

And kind of like a passing league That was so different But I felt when I played football in Florida kind of gave me an edge because it was just the competition was just so, it was just so different. Even though I had that one year, it was just, I had a taste of it, and that's

why I think I was just so hungry to excel when the season that started my last two years in high school in California. Some of those states, Texas is a hard football state for high school. Florida, New Jersey. I mean, I played Georgia. Georgia. I played flag football one year. And I was

playing with the, who was the guy that went on to New Orleans. It was the shortest linebacker ever. Sam Mills and the other guy. I played flag football. Those guys were still in the game. This was before he went to New Orleans. He was playing in college waiting for the call.

He was waiting for a call selling cars in Montclair. He was playing flag football on Sundays. He was keeping shape. Grantly, he was on like eight different teams. He'd play from eight in the morning to six in the afternoon. I don't know how to fucking you did it. But the programs are different. You know, one thing that you're up.

father foresaw that's a big issue now is kids with the concussions earlier yeah yeah and i don't think your dad looked at it that way but he saw something well you know what concussions back then weren't a big thing i think his thing was from from his experience was just you know the broken bones you know sprains knees concussions weren't really big like when i played in high school and even in collegiate level you got them but you didn't know what the fuck they were i got a concussion I don't know what the fuck it was. Now they're looking for you. They've got a concussion.

I think it's just more just how technology is, the resources. It's just more diagnosed. Now, my grand in the high school level, I mean, yeah, I hit somebody hard. And back then, we would call it, we got our bell run. Or you just kind of like, oh, okay, shake it off and I'm fine. Knock on wood. Now, I never, after that hit, I never had any, you know, after effects or being hit. was sensitive to light and never felt like unbalanced and that was throughout my whole career

and people always ask me how it was that you know maybe because I just I knew how to hit um I knew I kept my head up when it came to a tackle I knew how to I just I was just smart I never made a tackle my head down and all that pressure coming down on top of my head to where it could mess up my spine I was just I was blessed and lucky I count my blessings every day and he would think it would have more often to defensive linemen and people who every player are going up against offensive linemen and tackling. And as a receiver, you're not getting the ball every play. No.

You're only getting tackled whenever you get a catch, which maybe 10 times a game or something like that. Yeah. I think it's different. Now, what I'll say is my dad probably says the same thing, especially old school dudes that maybe just didn't have concussions. Now, we maybe have faced trauma. Now, that's probably common because, like,

as you mentioned, you know, where every play, you know, for me, 60, 50 plays a game, however you want it. Yeah, you're always hitting somebody. I mean, that's constant. So almost 20 years of my life, I was hitting somebody. So will I not be surprised that, you know, hopefully it doesn't happen, God forbid, but will I be not surprised while I have some type of neurological problem 15, 20, 30 years down a road? Hey, we're all human. I mean, it happens.

You know, fortunately, I see my dad, my dad's actually, he's mentally sharp. missed a beat. The only thing he's going on with him is he has a little bit of a limp and that's just, you know, from old school knee surgery when they just opened you up, toss everything out,

and sold you back up. You know, that was his deal, but everything else, now, he's, he's sharp since day one as long as I've known him. What position did he play? Now, he played nose, nose tackle, three, four,

Orange Crush. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, orange crush. There were only a few teams that were running that defense, so he was in the thick of things, It's double team, triple team, everything. Well, how much bigger are guys now than back then?

Because you're huge. I'm sure you're bigger than your father was. And even now coming up, like Jason Pierre, Paul and all these humongous people. Well, I'm taller than my dad. Okay. I got the height. I think my mom's six foot. So I end up sprouting out.

So my dad played, now he claims, always mess with him when I always talk to his teammate. He claims he played that back then, you know, nose tass was probably about $2.50. That's not even a. linebacker now. That's barely a linebacker. And they weren't tall either. They weren't tall either. No.

511, 6-1. So his last year was 86. So I think he always told me it kind of shifted more when guys started getting heavier, start shifting as he was leaving. So I think offensive line were about 290. 305. Yeah, 300. 300 was heavy back then.

But he didn't notice of change where offensive linemen were constantly getting bigger to 300, 310, 315. And in his position, of course, guys, you see, you know, nose tackles these days, man. They buy almost three bills because they got to plug up that middle, get those, you know, set the linebackers free. And the mess up part, like Vince Wolfwork is huge. Yeah. But he can run.

He's an athletic big man. Yeah, he's an athletic big man. I've been around a lot of big man. One of my old teammates, Anthony Adams, he played with me up in the 49er days and then ended up finishing up into Chicago. You know, he was a big dude. But athletic. You guys, man, I'll tell you what they can do.

The big man, the athletic big man, what they can do is just ridiculous. But they find a way to take care of their bodies. I think the most important thing is life after football because we've been so accustomed to eating in a certain way. I mean, you know, when it came to traveling, you know, you got Popeye's chicken and, you know, you go away, you go hang out with your guys. But now it's just because you don't have that outlet or that resource, the most important thing is just eating and right.

working out. That's why you see me how I am today. People always say, oh, I'm not worried about you. There was a time where actually I was bigger and I was after my quad tendon when I had to reach my quad tendon when I had to fix my ruptured quad tendon. I actually got thicker because it was just I was doing the rehab but activity wise it wasn't up to a level that I'm used to training at unfortunately because I was just always on the go. Well, thanks. I always, constantly on the go. So I was about almost, I was 270, but I bumped down, I'm about $2.50 now. And I was just doing good diet and working out and exercising.

I read about some player that was three or something when he played. Yeah. Dave retired. Yeah. He changed everything. I read what he was saying. He changed everything and became marathon runner. Yeah.

And now he's 140 pounds lighter. He's a marathon runner. Yeah. With a long time center of the Chargers, Novak. He was just on ESPN. He's tiny now. Yeah. He was 300.

Now he's like 200 or he lost a ton of weight. Yeah, that's crazy. It's just easier on your joints too. Yeah. I mean, especially when you get older and you just kind of feel the aches and pains. Like, I'm lucky. I feel pretty good decent. You know, there's times when you wake up, you got a stiff neck.

And that's just due to the fact that you've been, you know, you put in the time never and you train hard. And, yeah, your body's going to have a little trauma here and there. But for most part, I just try to stay active and just moving around. I don't lift the weights anymore. I hardly don't have lift weights to do. Pull-ups, push-ups, do stuff with you guys, the jiu-jitsu stuff, just to stay mobile. I think that's the most important thing.

That's the most important thing. Yeah, just as long as I'm staying mobile, I'm good. I didn't play seventh or sixth grade football. I was always tall. Right. So it was like 135. The league was, you had to be 125. Yeah.

I was always walking around at 1.30 or 134. They wouldn't lose fucking weight. I didn't even know what losing weight was. It wasn't that I was a fat kid. It was just that I was a big. bone kid. Right. So I never really played eighth grade.

And then I think my eighth grade summer, somebody said, hey, you want to play semi-pro ball? I went to this football thing. And I said, you know what, maybe I will play because they said to get in shape for basketball, it's good if you play football. Yeah. Because the freshman football team did all this crazy shit. Right. So my eighth grade year, I did play football, but I didn't play for that weight thing.

I played for like a semi-pro thing they did in Union City with these fucking gorillas, man. These guys were fucking huge. Yeah. It was 14 to 16 or something. And I went down and I realized how weak I was. Wow. I couldn't believe how weak.

I was quick and I could catch the ball and I could tackle. Yeah. But I was weak. And I dedicated myself to lifting. I mean, that was it, you know. Five sets of six. Yeah. Squats, straight bar, no fucking dumbbells.

Right. I just got to get strong and big and dick. Yeah. I ate everything. Stake-gums with cheese and white bread. Steak and potatoes. There you go. Steakums, those fucking shitty fucking horse meat.

Oh, yeah. You know, and I'll tell you, The whole thing I did was just to get, like I wanted to be a linebacker, so I knew I didn't want no neck problems and no spine problems. So my goal was to make my fucking draps come all the way up. So I was doing high pulls and shrugs with all this fucking weight, and I got them up. And it was so much work that was involved with the football. It's just not, so you have this thickness that you're building, and then you just keep building.

The more you play. You go to college, you add through it. Now you're in the fucking pros where you think, I mean, I was reading something about you. You were the seventh pick in the fucking draft overall. Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah. Are you kidding me? I was in Maryland at the time at my dad's house and I'm just watching.

Did you know you were going to be the first round? I knew I was going to be the first round. I just didn't know what team because I heard three different teams. It was either going to be 49ers, Chicago Bears, or Denver Broncos. So those were the three teams. Three great teams to get picked. Three great teams. And I'm just sitting there watching it, watching it,

and then, you know, if I actually 49ers, they traded it to get me. I think they traded with Seattle to come get me. And, you know, I see the highlight. Just my whole highlight reel, my senior at Cal, and I'm just like, I'm just, I'm just, and you're from there. I'm from there, you know. Local, local, hometown guy.

And I'm like, wow. I'm like, you know, it's funny because my teammates were like, with me. They're like, do you know how lucky you are? Because most of everybody that I knew was like, I'm from Florida and I'm coming to San Francisco. It was like, you don't understand how lucky you are. I'm like, man, I am lucky. It was

great. It was the best thing. And also, always take pride in this. I was the last draft class of Bill Walsh. That was an honor. And so for him to pick me, but then also to play this long, it was kind of like, it was like, I was kind of like

carrying the torch. for him as well because he had believed in me. So I played that long for 13 years. It was a blessing. So he coached you a rookie year? He didn't coached me. He was just part of the last draft class. He was a GM at the time or something like that.

More like a consultant. He was kind of on his way out. But, you know, Marriucci, I think, trusted his judgment as far as, you know, bringing in the right guys. It was me, my boy, Jamie Wimborn, who ended up playing, I think, 10 years. Kevin Barlow, unfortunately,

just with injuries and stuff, he didn't play that long. but when he played, at his prime, he was the best. We had an awesome draft clash. We had a great draft clash. So for us to be a part of his picks was just like, wow, thank you. We appreciate it. I don't know.

I know like with a running back to longevity is three years. Yeah, like three, four years. What's the longevity with a linebacker? Man, that's a good question. I don't even know these days. It just seemed like, you know, the past, I want to say two, three years, there was a lot of guys just constantly getting hurt. As a fan, you notice it.

You notice like a draft class people come in, really highly touted. Yeah. And maybe they'll be lucky to make it through the rookie contracts. Now statistically, just overall, they said the average career for players, maybe three and a half. Three and a half years. And you're not playing 10? 13. 13.

13. Yeah, 13. And only a quadricept. God bless you. Yeah, that was the major injury. I mean, I had roached my bicep tendon. I had two more games left, so I just said, you know what, I'm not going to go in the IRA. I'll just play with it.

Just take me up. I mean, that hurt, but I ended up playing through it. But that quad tending, that was probably the worst injury. I had a little back ordeal. I had that put me on IR. It was something small. I had like a cyst form wrapped around my sciatic nerve of all places. It was just something that was nagging me.

So they ended up taking it out and took a piece of my facet joint out in my back that was kind of creating that cyst. And I kept on playing. Actually, I thought I was done after that. When you hear her back or something spinal, you're like, oh, wow, that's done. But my wife, she took good care of me. You know, she majored in physiology, masters in kinesiology. So she understood the dynamics of how the body works and then just training my butt off.

And I end up still playing. And it worked out great. Well, it's crazy how, like, it seems that when people bring up surgeries for players, it's just, oh, well, he's just going to have an A-C. He'll be back in 12 months. I've been with Joey, and I've seen you've got two knee surgeries, and it takes you forever to get back. And it's just, I don't know if it's fans get so attached to the team. They don't really care about the players or what it is.

But when you say you had a back thing and you tore your bicep and you played for two more games. Yeah, that's tough. If I got a hang nail, I might be like, all right, well, I'm out for the season. When you mentioned ACL, this is the thing with ACL that people don't know about. when a player has an A.C. injury predicated on when he hurt it, whether it's

beginning of the season or midseason or even towards the end, even when the player comes back, in actuality, yeah, he's back, but he's not into full form until the following year. It takes a good two years just to get right, just to be normal.

Yeah, they're back on the field and, you know, they're being somewhat productive, but deep down they're hurting. Like, people understand that Like, they're not 100%. And how much pressure do you get from not only coaches, but let's say agents, because they know your contract's coming up and they want to get their money? I never experienced the agent part of it, but from teammates that have been through that.

And, you know, it's tough because it's some decisions you've got to make. I mean, you got to put food on the table for yourself or for your family. And then also the competition as well. If you're hurt, and then, like I said, next man up. And that next man up is performing. please believe it. The guy that's hurt, it's like, I got to hurry up and get my butt back on the fit. Right. Whenever, whenever, like,

they draft a play, like, whenever, like, they drafted a QB for, like, to be a Tom Brady's back guy. Yeah, yeah. And they always pretend, like, oh, he's a great mentor. And I'm, he might be, I'm sure he's a nice guy. Right. But nobody must, like, sitting at home and watching the draft and seeing,

oh, they drafted the top defensive end. You're like, I'm still good. Yeah. Like, why they drafted him? Yeah. They always think about in the future. No matter how productive you are, no matter what you did in the past, it's on to the next. What, you know, the team's always thinking about the future or the present at that time. Yeah.

You know, it's all about now. You know, thank you for your services, but they're trying to win some games. So they got to, you know, look at the exes and those and see what they can do to have an advantage when it comes to the season. It's a business. It's a business. It's not pop one. No.

It's not high school. No, not college. It's a fucking business. And there's a thousand different values. You know, you think of the players that you said some interesting that you had a teammate that was tremendous. And when he wasn't hurt, he was great. Yeah. Think of all the people that fall through the loopholes.

Oh, yeah. We don't even understand. Nothing bothers me more in the world, or the sports or anything when a sports writer writes something. Yeah. He doesn't know dick about that. He never even played Pop Warner. He's never even played the fucking game. Here, you're sitting there with your pen going that this guy's not pushing it because he hasn't come back from his neck surgery, eight weeks or whatever.

fuck it is, you know. It's just, I remember one when Magic Johnson played for Michigan State. He had a teammate called Gregory Kelser when they beat Larry Bird in Indiana State. For years, I thought, whatever happened to Gregory Kelser? And I didn't have, there was no internet. You couldn't press to see what happened, you know? And I asked around, and I asked other basketball people, and he got drafted. He didn't make the team for some reason.

And then he went to a couple teams, and then you just drift away. No matter how good you are, you don't know if there's a thing. thousand other variables. All the fucking stars have to collide. A thousand things. My friend went to Miami. Did he go to Miami? Yeah. Penn State. They went to the

fucking FedEx Bowl, paternal didn't let him go down there one year or something. He was still one of the best linebackers in the country. Well, I just watched the boss were 30 for 30. Did you see it? He was huge in college. And he played like two, three years in Seattle. They said his shoulders was like a 60-year-old man. His shoulder was a

a scam before he got drafted. It was a scam. They took an insurance on on him. They pushed him through the league. And he got them and everybody knew his shoulders were damaged. When I did the longest yard with him, he tells stories of waking up and his shoulder was next to him on the table. He was doing surgery. Back in the days when they didn't know. They didn't know what they know now, what the page and shit. He used to get get, did he talk about getting fined for every game for wearing his shirt outside? They would find him his game check. I don't really know. Because he was the only line back I got a little tuck his shirt in.

Yeah. I know it. So they were, you know, once he got to Seattle, I guess he caused Seattle so much money. That didn't want him. So they were doing what they could to fuck with the man. They took his house. They did all these little things, you know. And these are the variables you don't know while you're sitting on your fucking couch eating chicken wings.

Yeah. Chearing for the fucking team. Oh, whatever the fuck. You don't know these things. Yeah. There's so many different variables. It's like people got really mad at Derek Rose, the point guard for the Bulls this year, this year. Because he was out for two years.

Different knees went out. And he, he was like, well, he took himself out of the game. He's like, listen, I have to think about it after basketball. And he was MVP right before he got hurt. Yeah. But he's like, listen, man, I mean, I understand you're a fan. I understand that you want the Bulls to win, but I can't be sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of my life at 30.

Yeah. My buddy was a great linebacker, got drafted by Green Bay, started the first three seasons, first three preseason games. He was going to start that linebacker. He already had Bill. What was the center? He was from my high school. Bill Withers.

What's his name? Frankie Winters. Frankie Winters. Okay. He said he went up there and he pulled a muscle on the thigh. It was a muscle that only water skaters. Mm, tab. Oh, wow.

It's in your groin. It's not your groin muscle. Something inside that only water skiers are ripped. Oh, wow. He got it sewed. Everything was perfect. He went to training. Guess what?

He ripped the other side. The exact same muscle that only fucking water skiers ripped. Well, God, retired. Did you come out of college and the junior year? No, my senior year. Senior year? Yeah, my senior year. I had a chance.

I had a chance to leave early, but I decided, you know what? I'm going to enjoy college. Enjoy, you know, want to see the program do well. Fortunately, we did it. Did any part of you want to be like, well, I can always go back and get my degree, but I can't, if, let's say I get hurt in college, like Maurice Coleretian. Was he the one who tore his knee? Who was the Miami running back or Ohio State running back

who tore up his knee in a bowl game? And he had like a couple years. Oh, yeah. He had a couple of, like in Denver or something. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I forgot his name. And because he decided to stay in college, I mean, yeah, college is great, but if you only have a certain amount of time,

four years on average to make money, make your money and go back. Yeah. No, for me, it was just, like I said, I weighed out the risk. But for me, I was at that time where I was like, look, I enjoy my boys. I enjoy college. It only comes once in a lifetime.

One thing I was blessed enough to do was I did that little insurance thing. So if I got hurt, I would be fine just as a backup. But I have faith in my ability. I took care of myself. I never got hurt. And I know that was a risk, especially coming into my senior year. I mean, things do happen, especially when my coach was like, hey, man, you don't have a backup. You're playing the whole game, which I kind of anticipate anyway.

And I ended up, actually, I ended up being pretty healthy until we ended up playing Stanford, and ended up having a sprained ankle. I tell you a story, though. I played through the whole game, but I tell you what, somebody that I'm friends to this day, my teammate who's, I think he's kind of like an assistant D-line coach or kind of like a pastor. Specialist. I have to mention his name, Tosh Lupoi. He was a freshman, my senior year. They would dress him, but he wouldn't play. But if I went down, he would come in for me. So fortunately for him up to the Stanford game, he didn't lose a year of eligibility.

But if he had stepped on the field, he would have. I sprained my ankle. He's about to come on the field. I tell him, stop. This is our last game of the season. If he had stepped on the field, he would have lost your eligibility. I love that guy to death. I had to give him a shout-out. Tosh Lupoi. I mean, it goes to show you how much love that he had for me and the team.

He was willing to risk his freshman year to come out and take a few play. Give me a few plays out to, you know, just to tape it up. I told him, no, I couldn't allow that. So that was big. I mean, that was very big on him. But other than that, though, I was healthy throughout my senior year. It was great. So running by me.

So you get drafted, San Francisco. How long are you up there? Five years. And you play defensive end up there, or they switched your... One year, my last year in San Fran, we changed our scheme to a three-four. So it was an outside line back. How much of a big difference is it going from D.N. to the inside? It's different because, you know, I wasn't accustomed to covering, tight-in.

or jamming receivers and being at a certain spot. So it was a little a little bit uncomfortable. But you got to learn as you go. Covering Thailand is those fucking savages. You know, I'm freaking freaking, you know, you rush the pass. And then you next thing you know, you've got this coverage call. You're like, hey, he, he, you know, like, don't throw the ball to him. Don't throw the ball to him.

Oh, he threw the ball to him. Okay, I got to tackle him. So that was pretty adventurous. You learn more about yourself when it comes to a new position. They learn more about the game. But like I said, I was fortunate to play those five years. And then when my contract was up, ended up signing with the washer Redskins who wanted me as a defensive end.

And then talking to the Redskins, they're like, look, we know what you can do. We want you as a right end. We've seen a film on you. You put your hand in the dirt and rock and roll. And that was when Joe Gibbs was there. Love that man to death. We'll fight for him to the very. in. Greg Williams was my

defensive coordinator. Love him to death. Crazy SOB. But I'll tell you what. There was so much, so many stories I can tell you about Greg Williams. He was a very aggressive coach. No matter who we played, even if the other team was

faster than us, maybe had more weapons receiver-wise. He said, look, we're going to blitz. We're going to blitz this game. And so you boy is that you MFers better get there. And the people on the cover, and the people on the back in covering, you better cover them tight because we're blitzing.

I'm like, okay. He just didn't care. He just didn't fear anybody. And, you know, did that put us in a bad position at times? Sometimes. Sometimes. But sometimes it was great. It was great.

It was great. But I tell you what, as a coach, I love him as a coach because when we watch the film, he's like, you know what, guys? I take responsibility on that play. I should have never called that play. Hey, it's okay. You know, hey, sometimes you got to go with your gun instincts.

You know, you live and you learn. But we played hard. We were actually, I think, what, the top 6-7 defense, what, 2006, I'm talking, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Greg Williams had left after my first two years in Washington. But we played hard. We played fast. We were physical.

We were dominant for three. I played with London Fletcher, who was by far one of the best middle line backers that I was ever with. He made the call. He made sure everybody's in the right spot. Passionate about the game. Thump her.

I mean, when he hit you, he hit you. And play with Sean Taylor, you know, that, you know, fortunately it passed away. You know, it's funny too, because you don't really know how good somebody is until you go back and watch a film. You know, actually, I was watching just old. old film, just kind of like password stuff

when I played and watching my teammates. I'll tell you what, man. When I watch it on Taylor, man, that dude was phenomenal. Just all over the place. Ballhawk, fast. Fast, fast. Hit you. I mean, when he hit you, like I said, he'll hit you.

And he just didn't care. I'll tell you this one story. When we were playing the Saints, those were in those six. You know, when you watch old film, you just kind of pick up old stuff. I remember I hit Reggie Bush, and Reggie Bush, and Reggie Bush was kind of on the sideline, like kind of holding the stomach. I see Shantella over there dancing.

I'm like, O'Cawesi Rwanda, I'm like, this kid, this dude, man. I'm like, you know what, I love him to death, man. And, you know, it's unfortunate that, you know, that incident happened to him. But I tell you what, his legacy will always live on. And I can just say I play for it. I was happy to play with him. Yeah. It's funny.

me, I came from a... I love defense. I love to see people. I understand football. I understand that the guys in the field and where they have to go. You know, when you watch it, without playing it, you see something else.

And then when you watch it after you play it. Yeah. I enjoy watching a great oil defense. Yeah. I enjoy that. As soon as I see two plays, I know these motherfuckers are doing it. Yep.

But I also enjoy a great offense. I love watching. Listen, I'm not a fan. Anybody? I love watching Tom Brady. When Tom Brady's on, I'm not looking at the, I'm looking at his feet. I'm a dumb fuck. I'm looking at why is he doing that?

Look how he does that. That's what I'm looking at. I'm not looking at the receiver. I'm not looking at how many he's dropping back. Is he putting this leg parallel? I'm one of those freaks. But I love defense. It had to be 95.

The bills were rocking. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I forget who they were playing. Whoever they were playing were horrible. on offense, but their defense was money. And whoever the coach was said, we're going to blitz on Monday. And I remember to my friends were like,

well, better big. I wouldn't do that if I was here. Just, I could be wrong. Machine Gun Kelly might have the game of his life. But this guy just does a perfect blitz where everybody's covered. So if these four guys are in or three guys are in, there's three and there's two, he just knew what he was doing. And Dog, do you know that they blitzed?

And I remember one time he got up, his helmet was fucked up, and I remember like somebody said something to him I could read his lip he looked at him and he said I never seen so many black people all my fucking life job they were flying through the air and everything they were coming at them

well it's tough now because they're doing everything they can to make defense I love it you can't do it yeah because then all the penalties and no he would send

I forget who they were playing they would send two in these guys were coming and then nine more would come flying going boo like they would just come bah and machine gun Kelly, he couldn't get off. And once you

get into his head with that blitz, he's done for four quarters. He's done. That's why I love that blitz. From the beginning. Hit him hard, first four. Let's see what he's made up. I want him to go back to the silent and look at his coach and say, Amen. Dog, what the fuck? We fucked up, but I'm fucking

prep work. Because it ain't work. I love whether it's baseball. When I was a baseball guy, I loved watching Cincinnati because they figured it out. Let everybody do what he do. Our job is to fuck that pitcher up. When And that picture goes to the coach and gives that motherfucker the ball. And he says, listen, you ain't just taking me out for the game.

I quit. I'm going back to my fucking father's milk company. I'm done. I don't need this. That's what the game is about. You fuck that main guy up. That he can't, you know, the head, the body can't do nothing without the head. You chop the motherfucker's head, and that's what certain coaches read through all that shit.

Or somebody else is like, well, we're going to hit the running. What are you talking about? Let's get this little lanky motherfucker. Once we put him out, look at the bench. You got Michael. Vic, we'll put a dog on the sideline, and that's the end of him. And he got another guy behind him. Whatever the fuck it is.

You know what I'm saying? Whatever the fuck it can be. Well, that's the word on Tom Brady is that if you hit him a few times, his old game goes down for that game. Well, anybody would. That's any quarterback. Any quarterback. That's any quarterback.

That's any fucking quarterback. They don't want to get hit. Get him flustered. You all the sake, get him off the spot. He's just a certain way of throwing the ball, you know, the footwork, everything. If you frustrated a quarterback, you're doing your job. Is it frustrating for you, though, with all the new, penalties and oh yeah oh yeah I mean I understand I mean like I said I talked to my guys that

that played around the same time I played in I mean I get it yes there's there's a safety safety ordeal with it in the day you're like man this is football this is football this is football this is this is motherfucker it's gonna happen part of it's safety but part of it is and I've heard them tell it they they want a higher scoring game that's all it's more it's all it is yeah that's best that's all it is I mean it's just it's more like I said it's more entertaining high scoring game just make it more exciting But, you know, some people, man, when they watch a football game, they don't want to see the hits. Right.

And they always give us trouble. But you were talking about how a team had a really bad offense, but a great defense. When Suggs and Ray Lewis and I forget the defensive act, the safety's name. Ed Reed. When they were playing and they were all at their prime, I hated playing. And they didn't have a quarterback. They had like Trent Dillfer and they won a Super Bowl. He's okay.

They had a good defense. But the Ravens and I, I don't know. Unfortunately, the past couple years, they haven't been that great, but the Bears, like as a player, did you, because when you think of a college program, you think of, they have certain things that are known for. Right. When you go to the Bears, they're going to have a great defense. When I was in college, when I was in college and I watched pro football games,

one game that I loved at that time when they were at the peak was Tampa Bay's defense. Really? I didn't even... Tampa 2. Oh, wow. Tampa 2 defense. Because they had Brooks. You know, they had one sap.

They had rice on the edge. Lynch. I mean, and their scheme was just... Their scheme was simple, but it was just so effective because they just had the depth and they just knew they understood where they need to be. And then they just relied on their four-man rush. I'm a big... I think just being a defense event.

I'm just big on the four-man rush. And all I say, let the dogs hunt. You know, every time we call, you know, sometimes it's D-Lyman, when our D-Corps didn't cause a blitz, you're like, man, love us rush. Let's figure this out. You know, because it's just, I think it's that old-school mentality. It's that, hey, I want this guy. I want to see what he's made of. Just like how much, you want to see what I made of.

Let's go get after him. And, you know, times, you know, of course, you'll be successful. At times, you know, you ain't lose some. And blitz, I understand, though. Blitz is kind of like a curveball. You just, you just throw it out there, just kind of keep them honest because you constantly do the form. rush, you're not, you know, being successful, you got to kind of keep the offense off their game.

But Tampa, I think Tampa was, when I was, during the time, in 97, 98, 99, I love watching the Buccaneers get after it because they, when they were coming, they were playing fast, they were playing relentless, they were playing nasty. Who was one of the quarterbacks you hated playing against on a Sunday? Oh, man. I'm sure you don't have that type by knowing you personally style. Yeah. When I was with 49ers and we played Manning

when Manning's with the Colts, kind of stand them. You respect them as a quarterback. Not that you didn't like them. No, but just played against them. Well, they had Marvin Harrison, they had Edron James. Yeah, Edron James. Right, right, right. You know, this was a thing too,

because that's when the, I think the new rule with the distance between the cornerback and receivers when the new rule came in. I think that was like 2002. Guess we were playing? Manning. Check, check. I'm like, oh, geez, this boy.

Did you have got them? I got, no, I got Manning. I got both Manning brothers. Did you get both? Yeah, I got both Manning brothers, so I'm good. I put my little checkbook on. The quarterbacks are set. But that was tough.

He's tough. I tell you what, he's by far, besides in being with Brady and playing against Brady, those by far were the smart quarterbacks. Drew Brees, smart. Because they just know where they need to be, how they need to be. Hasselback. Hasselback was a great at his prime. We played because our rivalry was usually Seattle.

About Farr, have you ever played against Farr? Farn Farn Farn. Because he would always just throw it up. And his cadence. He had by far the best cadence. Really? I never jumped off sides a lot through my whole whole career. But I remember I jumped off sides in Green Bay.

I was so mad. Because I took, you know, you had as a D-LIM, you take pride in that. He had by far the best hard count never been up against. and Brady, you know, because he just, something that he did, just as mannerisms. You know, because you try to anticipate the snap count, you want to get a jump off the ball.

But something about far, man. He just knew how to get in your head with that snap count. But he was good at his prime. He was really good. Just three-to-three-step. As a defense, I mean, the lineman, when you rush, you know, we say, we can't get there. Three-step drop. Because it's like, one, two, three, boom, one, two, three, boom.

You got to get into your guy, put your hand, hands up hopefully get a batting ball and run to the ball wherever it is. But those quarterbacks right there were, I'm happy to say, yep, I played against them. They were great. You have any offensive linemen that you were like looking forward to like going up against them? Oh, yeah, man. Walter Jones. Walter Jones, man, all pro.

I mean, that boy was phenomenal. Great feet. Good center of balance. Smart. You know, when you rush, you always have this mindset like, okay, I got to attack him a certain way. to get after this guy a certain way. Walter Jones was just so different. He was just, at times I think he was just probably unorthodox.

But he was so ahead of the game because he kind of noticed out the offensive tackles do it now. They always say, you know, cut the Deemson lineman off a certain point. Walter was doing that ahead of time, I think, compared to all the offensive linemen. So he just, he just had it set in stone. So as I'm rushing, I'm like, you get to a point, you're like, what do I do? I want to chop his hands down. I want to club him. I want to rip him.

He's got me beat. He's got me beat before I got my... He was like, wow. But I enjoy playing with him because he was physical. He had a powerful punch on pass protection. I think one time he kind of punched me off the screen. Let's see here. Who else?

Willie Rolf, who played for the Saints in Kansas City Chiefs. Man, I never met a man. That would have big, big dude, big solid dude, but had skinny calves. The skinniest calves were all of this alignment. Same with my teammate, Derek Deas, that I played with the 49ers. Same deal, but athletic. Those guys are so athletic, man. So those guys that I mentioned were great.

You know, when you, for my, when I see pro football, I think it's a smarter game. The players are so much more smart. I mean, you wouldn't get to the pro level. if you weren't so fucking intelligent as a player. I mean, so intelligent, you know. Yeah. I remember watching, when I was younger,

I knew the game more and I paid more attention. And I remember watching Ronnie Lott. Yeah. Like, Ronnie Lott. Ronnie Lott was one of the smartest D.Bs I had ever seen. That's a position I always wanted to play. I just didn't have the talent to do it. You know, I grew up on Lester Hayes.

Yeah. I remember breaking down Lester Hays when the day for Joe Rogan. And his head was like, who was this guy you're talking about? Lester Hayes got up on you and deed up on you. He wears a different type of helmet. He wore like a fucking lineback helmet when he was a DB and he would spray himself with stick-em.

So if the ball bounced, they would land on his ass and shit. This guy was a stick-em king. And he wore braces all the way up to his arm. But when he, you know, the way he covered you, his stance. But when he stand up against you, it was all mental. I remember years later talking to somebody from Minnesota, Walker Lee Ashley, and he was doing a thing

in Jersey, he was in Jersey City. And he was telling me, he goes, just seeing that guy, he intimidates receivers just by his stance. How he would come up on you and draw his pants up and shit. And as soon as you turn, he'd stiff arm, he'd just be stiff on him. He'd just be stiff on him in you. It was all a mental fucking thing. So for me, when I watch it, it's so weird even as a comic sometimes.

I could tell when I'm up on stage and I'm not using my head. Right. You know where you should be. You know the level you should be at. You said that you're very nice off the field. Once that fucking coin tip, something hitting inside here, you didn't care about mom no more,

you didn't care about fucking nobody. And that's the, it even happens with stand-up. The more I do it, now I know I'm a professional. I know what needs to be done. The stage don't affect me no more. The wind don't affect me. If I don't have a fucking microphone

that don't affect me, I have a game to do. That's the level of professionalism. So with football, I've always seen it like that. It's a smarter guy. It is. The guys that don't make it are the guys that bring that high school mentality.

I'm going to lift, outlift them. It's not about lifting no one. It's not about that shit no more. It's like what he was saying. The guy had good balance. Who tells you that shit? Only a pro would say that's why he was strong in that position. His balance is right.

Well, we were talking about Kevin Grenet before the podcast started. He's the skinny, he looks like a skinny alien, but he's been playing for 20-something years, and fans of opposite teams hate him. But as soon as he's on your team, you love him. I loved him as a selfing. But he just headbutted a dude. He bangs his head against the, whatever, the hoop.

Before he starts, he hits his chest. He goes crazy. But I think that probably is one of the best things is you hate them on opposite teams. Like, I hated DeRole Revis. But now that we have them, I couldn't be happier. Yeah. That must be pretty cool. Yeah, it is.

So after Washington, you live there for how long? I was with Washington for five years. And then I went to New England in 2011. How did you feel? How did you feel the day you got to call from you? You know, it was great. One, because I was actually on edge because that was the lockout year. So I left Washington.

I had one more year left on my contract. But I had to just part ways. It was just, it was kind of like a mutual breakup. Like, look, you guys are going this direction. I want to go this direction. Let's shake hands, part ways. Thank you. So I did that knowing that I'm going to the lockout year.

So that was a big risk for me. But once the lockout year ended, you know, you're just kind of sitting and waiting, okay, something's going to happen, something's going to happen. Actually, New York Giants actually called me first. I took a trip to the Giants. And we just kind of come to a mutual agreement when it came to the contract. So I was like, hey, thank you guys. Rob Tooney. Went back to California.

Just kept on training. Then a week later, Patriots called. But the irony is who would have thought that two teams, that wanted me ended up going to the Super Bowl that year, Giants and Patriots. So that was like, wow. The year before? No, the year, the year I got picked up.

Okay, so then you went to the Super Bowl? I got hurt. That's when I got hurt. Oh, fuck. But I'll tell you what, I made my first Pro Bowl nod at 11 years, 11 year vet, making the first Pro Bowl not. That's just, that's something unheard of. You made it out of New England?

In New England, yep. That's something that's unheard of. So I was very thankful. But to not playing the Super Bowl or the ASE championship or the playoffs, you're like, oh, come on. You're like, why? God always has a sense of humor. But I'll tell you what, it was fun. I mean, I wish we would have won that Super Bowl.

Me too. Yeah, it came down to a few plays. But I think overall, just the experience of being in New England was just such amazing. because they're kind of like a second family, you know, fans that talk to me on Twitter or that I bumped into you, that I bump into this, hey, once a patriot, always a patriot.

You know, and you don't hear that often when it comes to, well, from my experience, I could be wrong, but you don't, it's good to hear that, you know, because it's just like, because the fans, and I'm sure you're being there, they know their sports. They know, they know the players that,

no matter how big or how small, They just know the players that just go out there and just give it 100%. Well, when I live there, the only radio station my car was ever on was EI, W.EI, the sports station. And people calling, they have regular callers every hour. People, they take it very seriously. And there's a lot of players who go in and might be high, bigger-name players. Yeah. But they last for a year or two.

It's a different sport. But for the Red Sox, we had Coffered. and we had that big trade that sent out all those people to the Dodgers. People hate them. And they're Adrian Gonzalez and they're great players. But when New England people love players like you who go in. It's the only picture I can think of of you is you doing the arm thing. That started with Sean Ellis.

He started that. It was just kind of linking together, staying together, linking together, being strong. One strong link. And so he started that and just kind of spread like wildfire. So that's how it started with him. So thanks to Sean. I love that. One thing I loved about him from the Jets.

When he came to join us. How is it like playing for Belichick? Because everyone makes fun of them with the news conferences. Yeah. And all the Patriots players always go on to the next one. Right. What did he like behind closed doors? You know what?

I tell everybody, he's like a general. I mean, he truly is a general. I mean, everybody knows that through his experience with his father, his father was a coach for Navy so he kind of has that mindset look our business is nobody's business you know you work hard do your job do it well

and be consistent and you know don't put yourself at a disadvantage don't put the team at a disadvantage don't do nothing dumb outside the field that will jeopardize a team and it's just something that's constantly harped on and that's why they're just so successful

That's why they've been successful. You know, everybody says, is there a secret recipe? No, this is just a standard. And he just constantly preaches it day in and day out. I think one thing that's been well for them is also the continuity with the staff. When you have that continuity, I mean, most of the people that I met there, and it doesn't necessarily have to be coaches. I mean, there's people from up top management-wise,

this lady Nancy, sweetest lady in the world. She'd been there maybe like 20-something 30 years. It was a secretary, but she's been there. But she gets it. It's a great system. And so when you have that, when you have that, it just gels. Everything just gels. And everybody kind of feeds off each other. And it's just such a great environment to be in.

Because at the end of the day, I know this coach, you know how this other coach works. They don't even have to communicate. But they understand each other's philosophy. So when it comes to maybe planning for a game or preparing for practice, at the end of the day, they're all in sync. And when you have that, it just makes things so much better. It's why they do what they do. That's it.

It's why he's been to fucking six Super Bowls. Nine AFC championships. All that. You know, it just, I never understood the last four years I've had success with comedy because I did things I never did before. Right. You know, the last five years because I did things. And I kept doing them.

Right. You know, and it's just. continuity sometimes. And it's weird when somebody looks in the face and they know what they need to do and they do it for three weeks and then they forget all about it. Right. And it's like I go every morning and I put somebody got mad at me last week. They sent me an email and they go, you know, you're a fucking boring fuck.

Every morning you write the same shit on Twitter. I always put, have a beautiful day. Yeah. You know, and what would you rather me fucking say? I say it for me. It's a beautiful day to be alive. What do you say is going to be a shitty fucking day to be alive? You believe it.

You start believing it. Yeah. And nothing bad happens. Become what you believe. And you have beautiful fucking days. Yeah. And I've been doing this for, I don't know, eight years now because it's a beautiful fucking day to be alive. And I write it every day and it becomes real because the power of the pen.

That's it. But it's continuity. If it works for you, you know, it's been working for fucking Belichick. That's it. And he keeps fucking doing it. It's tedious as it is. It's tedious as it is. It's work now.

Yeah. It's fucking works. The biggest thing you always hear is do your job. And we just had that thing last week with the Green Bay Packer, Tide End, who was on the kickoff team. Yep. And he went for the ball and he wasn't supposed to. And he knew he wasn't supposed to. But he went for and it ended up not losing them a game because there's so many plays, but it didn't help them.

It was a crucial play. And I always laugh when another team, another player on a team says something about the Patriots. Because you know we're going to use it. And someone just said something about Grunkowski. He's not that good. Yeah. So I know the first couple, there's going to be a big pass to Grunkowski. It's a, I love it as a fan.

Yeah. But it makes me laugh when I see other teams doing that. Right. Are you as crazy when Andre was on the team as you are now? I was more, I was crazier. I had more time. Did you curse on Andre to the team? You fuck you.

There was nothing to curse him. You're missing that fucking block, you fuck. There was nothing to curse at him for. You love him. You love him. I appreciate it, bro. As soon as I came up and I said he met you, no, you didn't. He was great.

I know England. Oh, shit. We got to have him on. Yeah. I appreciate, man. Thank you. There's something about football is pretty much the only sport I can watch. any team, any game.

Baseball, I love the Red Sox, but on TV, it's boring. Yeah. For me, at least. I don't watch baseball. I've tried it. It's just, like I said, I know it's America's pastime. It's just so slow. But so is fucking football.

You think football slow? No, I think fucking America's pastime. Oh, yeah. Right, right. That's what I think. That's what I thought. I think more people go fucking crazy on a Sunday. Yeah.

The other day of the week. I just came back from the, I just came back from one of the teams. It's the craziest football team I ever went to their game. That's the Buffalo Bills. You don't know what a game is. You went to a Buffalo Bill game. The first three hours outside. Oh, yeah.

In the fucking snow. That's the whole thing. You don't need to go in. You can sit outside and get drunk with those animals. That's all there is out there. That's all there is out there. If you could have played all 13 years from New England, you would have loved it. Oh, yeah.

No question. But you had the same love. I have the same love with the 49ers and the same love, the Redskins. But I like I said, I love New England. How the fuck did you end up a raider? It was open I want to know this point You know that's funny

So I got hurt I was slowly recovering We just didn't come to agreement With New England When I got hurt It's business Raiders just took me a chance But I tell you what

I thank the Raiders Because it just kept my foot In the door To keep playing Because that's all I really wanted to do It was this play And yeah it was a rough year But I tell you what

I was working with a lot of younger guys So it was rewarding working with Lamar Houston, who's now with the Chicago Bears. My D-Line coach was actually now with the University of Florida, Terrell Williams, played with Richard Seymour. We all got drafted the same year. So we kind of just talking about things growing up.

We actually had the same accolades together. So there's always a reason for everything. Yeah, it may not have worked out win-wise, but I tell you what, I kept my foot in the door to keep playing, and my final year was back into a year. England, which I told my wife and people know this, like, I told them at the end of the day I want to finish my career as a patriot, whether it was just sign that, you know, contract or just finishing it up as a player. And I finished up as a player.

What is it like when people tell or are saying you should retire? There was just a UFC fight where Henderson, right, it was Dan Henderson, he got stopped pretty quickly. And everyone's saying, oh, he should retire. Yeah. When it's all you've done for however many years, it can't be that easy. It's never that easy. It's never that easy. You always have that edge. You always have that.

I know I can go for fighting. I can know I can go one more round or for football. I know I can go one more quarter. I know I got a lot left in the tank. You always trying to push yourself. But one vet always told me to say, go till they kick you out. Well, apparently I didn't get picked up this year, so they kicked me out. And how was your first year without football?

It was always an adjustment. It was always because you always kind of feel out of place. It wasn't so much the fans. It was the locker room. You know, because you'll never have that type of dynamic in the real world. In the locker room, everything goes. There's no holes bar. But it's like, that's your brothers.

You know, you can say whatever you want. and it just stays there. You know, you have fun. In the world world, it's like, you know, you get a job, get a 9 to 5 or whatever you do. You can't be politically incorrect. You can't say this. You can't say that.

How's the locker room? You can be politically incorrect. Yeah. We're men. We're young. We joke around. It's like it's like being in high school or college. You know, guys, we just, we poke fun of each other.

It's like, you know, you're a big brother, little brother. You know, but there's a fond line that's wrong. But it's just those memories that just keep on going, no matter how old or how young you are. So that was the adjustment. But, you know, you try to find yourself, you try to find what makes you happy, you try to find a sense of balance. You enjoy your family because, you know, during the times when I was training, I was away. So I get a chance to see my son do all these crazy sports. He's in the soccer.

He does basketball mechanics. He does football mechanics. She does outdoor hockey. So I enjoy being a dad and then just being a supportive of husband. My wife, she's into all these crazy projects. And I always tell her how proud I am of her. But you always have that it.

You always on, you know, there's times you're going to be on edge. It's just, it's in you. It's just embedded in you. We're still going to be animals to a certain degree. And every now and then you've got to find a little outlet that goes to cage. But like I said, there's nothing in this world that can ever replace that besides.

football without playing the game. But like I said, jihadis has been great, so I enjoy it. I still work out. I just try to take care of my body. And I just continue to just try to network and just let people know, hey, I do have an interest in coaching and hopefully be on board with,

on the staff, whether it's on the pro level. My goal is definitely coach pro, but if I have to do something for the collegiate level during my stripes. I want you to get a high school job, so I go out and yell at a screen and say, Fucked up things in the stands and throw me out and shit. You know, you said something that I've been thinking.

What happened to the gay football play? Oh, Michael Sam? He's been out of it. He didn't play this year. Yeah. You know, I kept thinking about that. Like, how would that work in a locker? I know I don't want to put you in a spot.

No, no. I know you and me. People know, well, people ask me, I just, I don't care. Do long as you play football, let's go. Well, you must have. I'm obviously not going to ask you to name names. But just with those sheer numbers, there have to have been gay football players that you played with.

I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. I mean, I think in life in general, there's somebody that you baby knew that was kind of like, maybe he is gay. Then again, maybe he's not. I mean, the world is too small for all your friends not to be gay. Right.

You know, it's saying it goes for men, same go for women. It's, that's, you know, but I'm not, hey, I'm not against it. If that's your cup of tea, hey, I'm going to treat everybody the same. You know, I do have gay friends. I know gay people. And I just show them, hey, I show them the love, same amount of love. No, I have gay friends. not saying that bad. I was just always curious

on what happened. That's how out of it I am. Because when we had the discussion a year ago about him getting drafted, I said to you, that's all great and dandy on paper. It's not going to be like that in the locker room. There's going to be 10 players and I go, Coach, can we talk to you for a second? This can't happen.

This can't fucking happen, okay? There's got to be. Ten players, they're going to go. You know, they're crazy. Well, the issue that it seems, from the outside it looked at it's not that he's gay and it's not even that he's out. It's that kind of like with the Mansell thing. He's causing a lot of unwanted distractions.

The media. Which I can see. I never thought about it from that. Which I can see. Because the media, I know the media kind of maybe booed up to a whole different level. What do you think of that with Marshawn Lynch? Like how the NFL makes them go and do the interviews

and you have to have media availability and all he wants to do is run the football and they're finding him if anyone find me $100,000. Right. I don't know how you even deal with that. Well, one, I can't speak bad about Marshang, he's a cow guy. That's my cow.

That's a cow bear, golden bear. In general, that's just a rule. I mean, that's just a standard rule. I mean, the media wants you, got to do the interview. He chose not to do the interview. He gets fine. That's his choice. I'm not going to knock him down for it.

That's just his overall mentality. But this was also brought to my attention about Monson. See, my Sean does a lot of stuff for the community. I think he just kind of keeps on the rap because he just doesn't want that attention. He does it because he loves his community. Which is great. And I'm proud of that.

But people always ask me about the question he asked me, well, what do you think of him not answering during the interviews? I can't speak on him with that. If that's his choice and he wants to get fined, it's a waste of money, but that's just me. Well, I don't like him this way because we're Patriots are playing him. But I think it's hysterical when they were having the interviews. He's like, thanks for asking.

I'm thankful, yeah. Thank you for asking. And he's somewhat about and by the rules. He's doing an interview, maybe not to their standard, but he's there. He's, I mean, yeah, he's a piece of work there. I don't even know if you know him, but it's just as a fan, like with the Aaron Hernandez and now Josh Gordon again. Right. When you hear stuff like that, it's just, I can't even fathom why they make those decisions.

For people who don't know, there's a wide receiver for the Browns. He was suspended for all last year. He got in on the technicality, and then just now he failed another test. What kind of test? Drug test, but it was for alcohol, but he can't do it because he's failed drug tests like every year. Yeah. And then the thing with Aaron Hernandez, where he just signed a $60 million contract. I think if we had Gronk and Hernandez, it's an unstoppable tandem.

But then he just, I don't know if he did it or not. Well, they're human beings. Yeah. And that's what nobody, everybody forgets that before Andre Carter goes on the field, he's a human being. He has feelings, he has emotions, he has problems like everybody else. So you can never be in shot. And then you, you know, I remember $60 million, the reason why Aaron Hernandez went and got a gun and shot somebody, obviously these problems were in him before he became a football player.

Right. Let's do Tony Bennett real quick here. I know my boy. You got a boogie? Yeah, I got a buddy. Okay. I love you, man. Thank you, brother.

Man, appreciate it. Real quick, who are you picking this weekend? Come on, baby. Come on, baby. You got the Patriot shirt. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. I love, baby.

I love you, man. I'll see you Wednesday. Yes, sir. Thank you, brother. Thank you for coming on today. A little football for you motherfuckers on the church. Oh, you made his world, man. I was going back and forward.

Tuesday night. Monday night. And tell him he has to run a mile with you next week, right? Come get him and shit. It might take him a little minute to eat. You got to run a mile with me on Aluma Beach, brother. That's it. It's over now.

It might take a little bit longer than you're used to, but I'll do it. I love you all my heart. Thank you very much, man. Thank you very much, man. We used to do with me. That's a bad fucking interview right there, people. A little football for you. In Super Bowl, we just wanted to switch it up a little bit.

I know this isn't what you people usually get You want fucking people jumping out windows And me making fun of people and laughing But it was just a little something Let me give some shoutouts real quick With a fuck in my glasses I got all excited I keep smelling spaghetti

You smell something or is me I smell something I could go for some spaghetti Some shoutouts here my main man Don Wrangler Eric Sir Rudy Moses Vasquez Jamil Hadad Corey Layton

J.B Brandscombe Frankie Barker down there in Australia with Trent Planet, John Wolf J. And my man, Udi Gusterson. I love you, Coxsuppers. Thank you, man. Had a great time in Buffalo last weekend. The crowds are great.

Thank you very much if you came out. I love Buffalo with all my fucking heart. But something really weird happened this morning. I want to tell you people something about what goes on here. You know, Lee and I were fat, and we try to lose weight, and we really try at this, you know? And at least 26, and I'm 51, and you guys know that,

I tell you every fucking day. And, you know, I don't drink soda no more. You guys hit me up and said that I know how bad soda was, and I took your advice, and I read up a bunch, and I never drank soda again. I did that because of you guys, because people sending me messages. I listen to you guys.

Half the things I do are for you guys, because I want to do them to send an exam. example, because I don't want you to think that we're just here fucking around. Lee's just lost 80 pounds doing the standmaster. It's not the way you guys want it. You know, maybe you guys want Lee to fucking jump out of a helicopter or whatever. You know, I've been losing a little bit more weight. I took these two classes down at the hospital for, you have to take a mandatory class for nutrition.

I took another one. I weighed myself the other day after Buffalo. I lost six pounds. That's awesome. You know, so now I'm at 300 even, you know, so it feels. fucking good, like it just feels good. I got a... Now you guys know I'm thinking about doing the gastric bypass.

I'm doing the gastric bypass. I've already lost 118 pounds with weight watches. I put 30-something back on. I've gotten two knee surgeries. My blood pressure is just a little tad too high. It's not high because of the food I eat. It's high because of hereditary reasons. Even when I was in prison and I was 27 and I was in the best shape of my life,

my blood pressure was a tad high. Now with the medication, it's not going anywhere. Anybody who knows me knows I work hard at what I do. This morning I had an audition, but I still walked my daughter around the park twice, pulling the fucking thing, and I watch what I eat. I love when you guys give me advice. You know, I got Danny Lyon who sent me the book's Pilates for Men, fucking great book. You know, I get a little bit for me to use, whether it's Mike Dolce. I don't like the whole Mike Dolce thing.

I know what he's trying to do, but I can't eat that stuff. I got this fucking email from this fucking scumbag two weeks ago. Out of all the people, he wants, and I understand where he's coming from, he tried to help by me watching a documentary on Netflix. But he says the gastric bypass, blah, blah, blah, the gastric sleeve and all this shit. I'm trying to explain that. And then I told you that my wife bought salami and cheese over the fucking holiday to make an antipastom in case people came over. Okay. So the one night, I met a salami sandwich.

I think I mentioned it here that I like eating salami sandwich. Another guy emails me like, well, you eat, you and Lee. You know, your nutrition is bad. You got to do this. I advise you against whatever. All right, that's great. Out of the 6,000 emails I got, when I decided to do this gastric leave,

and I haven't really decided yet, the first thing I do, when I make a decision on anything, is I ask my closest friends. I ask the people who know me, Josh Wolf, Lee. I didn't ask Lee because Lee got the same problems I fucking got. But I asked other people.

Then I went to the doctor's idea with, Dr. Amy, Dr. Waxler, Dr. Bidici, my sleep apnea guy, I'm a cardiologist. I ran it through them. I ran it through friends of mine that have had the surgery. Friends of friends that have had the surgery that have been hit me up about the surgery. People have sent me more information on this surgery and anything else they've ever sent me information on.

Joe Rogan, who's a fucking against everything. I pulled him aside in Vegas two weeks ago, and I talked to him about it. He emailed two of his doctors. They emailed me back the information I had to look for. These are all this people with a positive tip. And this fucking scumbag on Gmail sends me this fucking thing about this, that, this. I mean, it's like they know us.

Like, they know what the, like, I'm lying about my diet. I'm doing the gastric sleeve because I have a daughter, and I want to live, you stupid, worthless motherfucker. Okay, because that's what you are. There's certain people who try to give you advice, but there's certain people who want to give you advice like they know you and they speak down to you. Like, he wrote me back like three fucking emails.

I don't give a fuck about what you think. I listen to people who love me. I don't want no fans. I want family. But it's like, you get these people that they think they know you and they want to, like, bully you. Like, he was talking down to me, like, well, you need to do this, and you're eating this.

What the fuck? Oh, he told me, I live in denial. I'm as honest as I can with my diet leave. Do we not talk three times a fucking day about our diets and disgusted and whatever? This guy thinks we're out drinking, like, in-and-out fucking burgers and shit. You know, I like food, and my niece called me that then when we're talking. And she's like, you know, it's a shame that you're doing the surgery because you really like food.

But guess what, people? I also like Coke, too. And I stopped that eight years ago There's a day you look at yourself in the mirror You say you just can't happen I had my friend call me this week at 3 30 in the morning A great guy And he can't put it together in Buffalo

He's moving to Boulder now And I told him today What was the call at 3 30 in the morning For it goes I just want I go there was no reason for that call you were drunk I've told you 30 fucking times Every time I go to Buffalo After I leave that show at 1230

My night is dead This guy thinks I go back to the room And I'm having a party or do him blow without him No I go back to fucking sleep So I called them back and I go, what was the call for the other night? And he goes, well, I just wanted, I go, no, you were going to call me to break my balls. I go, when I leave you at 1 o'clock, I leave you. I don't go to drink, I don't go do nothing.

I go, you came to me after the show and you said that it looks from the last four times that you've seen me that I really put a lot of work into my stand-up. That's the work until your stand-up, that you stick to what the fuck your rules are. If you say you're going to write every day and you're going to perform four nights a week, this is the rule you do. You don't deviate from that. You know, I don't deviate from anything. Once I say I'm going to do something, I fucking do it.

I don't deviate. I don't give a fuck whose plans or who gets upset or who doesn't want to get upset. It doesn't make no difference to me. And I take the same thing with my diet. I haven't drank soda late. I refuse to drink soda. I don't like it. I didn't drink, I didn't quit soda.

I like soda, but I got advice from the podcast, from people that listen to the podcast. So what my point is, if you're going to send me an email, send me an email out of love. Don't send me an email because you're a miserable fuck. You know, well, I lost 180 pounds, and this is how I did it. I too had high blood. I don't give a fuck, but you're still a miserable person. I can tell you're a miserable person by what you wrote me. So don't worry about your weight and how you did it.

Worry about how come you're such a fucking cunt and how you're going to stop being a cunt. Miserable is when you want to make other people's lives miserable. Right. And if you read his emails, that's what he was trying to do. Like, you live in denial. Who the fuck are you? You live in a fucking computer.

you fucking cunt. Anyway. No, it's tough, especially because there's so many ways to do it that everyone thinks the way they do it is right. It's why there's so many weight loss fads. And, yeah, when you think about it, if you're just...

And there's fads and there's lifestyles. Right. That's the biggest thing I've learned. But if you're going to look at it just on paper, yes, you should not be eating a salami sandwich. No one should ever eat burgers. You just shouldn't. But it's also, there's life.

if your wife and daughter are eating salami sandwich? One salami sandwich isn't going to put a hundred pounds on. She put a quarter pound on to fold up. Right. To put on the thing. She left five slices to one night and I made a salami sandwich and cheese. I think I sent on the podcast during the fucking holidays. The guy's like, well, you're eating salami until?

The fuck are you talking about. And you know what, man? When I go to fat Tonys, what do I get? When I go to with you to Jersey mics, what do I get? A small tuna sandwich. Or the salad. Or the salad. Or the fucking salad.

I don't get no fucking salami. Or I get the fucking turkey with the provolone. Then I tell you, I go to worst case now, get a turkey with the provolone, let us that motherfucker up. But nine out of ten, when I go to that fucking place, I get the tub and a sub with half the tuna. Right. That's what I get.

But let's say even if you did get, I don't know, the turkey with the cheese, or you had the salami sandwich. That's not doing what we talked about a while ago, where you would go, where you would have breakfast, a huge breakfast, and then immediately go to McDonald's. And it's the little changes, And it's, when people go on these fans, when I went on the fans, I'll just speak for me. I wanted the quick fix.

I wanted to lose the 70 pounds in the month and a half and not put the work in. But that's not, you can't live the rest of your life, never eating a salami sandwich again. No, it's impossible. I went to Buffalo this week. I had one beef on wick. I had three wings. I don't know how to do that. Who eats three fucking wings?

You want to call the manager? We went to do radio, and Rob Liederman, the guy who's got radio, had wings sent. He had nine different types of wings. Nine different types. Barbecue, this, garlic. They had big things of blue cheese and celery. I must eat ten pieces of celery, raw, with no blue cheese. I took three wings, three wings, and I dipped just the tail in blue cheese, and I inhaled the whole thing.

I was in Buffalo three days. I worked out two of the days, not dicking around, lifting weights, the treadmill one day, and the fucking, not the treadmill. what you do for 30 minutes. And the other day, I just rode the bike for 30 minutes. And I did the weights. I did the fucking stomach. I did the fucking lunges.

I did the whole thing. You know, I'm working here. We're all fucking working here. So I don't mind you sending information about web pages. So many fucking people have sent me such great information. Web pages about diet. But it's the way they do it. This fucking little miserable country has no fucking life on its own.

The most important question is, did you go to subway? Not even. And there was one in the hotel. I took a picture. I was going to bomb those fuckers. No, no more subway for nobody, brother. No more. No more.

Did you see that? This girl tweeted at us that she used to work there and when they took them out of the packages it smelled like dog butthole. It does. It does. I could tell you that fucking north of bed.

You didn't know that? No, I know that. It's a... The issue is a... Convenience. And that's where a lot of people gain a lot of a weight, I think. What's that convenient?

Laziness and convenience. No, hey, listen, I gain a lot of weight because I'm a fat fuck. I'm not here to tell you, I gained weight because I had Bursitis and my heel. No, no, I gained, I was eating fucking 6,000 calories a fucking day. You're going to gain fucking weight if you gain 6,000 fucking calories a day. But now we look at what we're doing and we pay more attention to. And that's it. It all starts, you know, and that's, I love what Mike Kelly said, but it's true.

You know, I like Coke too. And I got rid of that fucking. I mean, I love cocaine. I tell you motherfuckers that I love doing below. Love that I couldn't fucking even think of not doing it. So please, if you're going to mail me something, I don't mind constructive criticism as long as it's fucking real. Yeah, there's a big difference.

And then it was when I did the juicing and then every time I talk to somebody, everyone says your taste buds change. I haven't found that, but what was really big for me this weekend was we had planned every meal where we were going to go and we were going to get all this food. And the last night, we almost had to cancel our dinner reservation because we just, we, we, we actually had to push it back because we were just so full. And when I got there, they had a 16 ounce whereby with French fries and a poached egg on top. That sounds fucking delicious.

But I was sitting there. I was in pain. We worked out every day. We were there. What are you getting? Three pounds. That's not bad. But, I mean, it's not great.

But I was sitting there. I was like, hmm, there's a four ounce filet and a thing that grilled shrimp. I was like, I really want. the rib eye, but I don't need it. And that's something I would never have done before. And I didn't think my mindset had changed. I thought I was always going to be like a fat guy. Even if I, I've never ever been skinny.

But let's just say I do someday get to be skinny. I never thought that I would, I'd be eating salads. I thought I would always be fighting against being a fat person. But it was kind of cool looking at it, being like, wow, I can't eat as much as I used to. And I have to make those decisions. That gift thing that he sent us from. We're doing it next week for sure. Okay.

I'm home next week. This week I go to Columbus. Then I'm home for a week. Then I go to Austin, Texas. So I'm excited about that. But I'm the same way. When I go to eat breakfast now, I went both days to the hotel, all three days. All three days, I had oatmeal. I could have had eggs and bacon and fucking T-bone steak. I had oatmeal.

Yeah. I had oatmeal and fucking fruit and whatever. And you try. It's a lifestyle change. You know, so you have to, and this is why I say, you know, I don't even look at McDonald's no one. How did it take it? Oh, well, we were hammered.

It was delicious. But I got, I, I, I've told them, man, I used to get three sandwiches, a large fry. You told me what your menu was. That's when you told me you went to McDonald's. I was like, I got a double quarter pounder with a small fries and a small drink. And I didn't even finish the fries. I did get carneasada fries at the bar. Those things are fucking delicious.

But it, if you saw what I used to be eating, I used to. I used to go to fast food probably at least once a day, if not more. This McDonald's, the last time I got McDonald's, was in July. So sometimes you're going to get it. And I've gotten so many of those emails. And I don't know if they're trying to be mean. I don't know if they think they're helping. Some people are great.

Dog, I've had, so far since this, I've had close to 300 emails about this surgery. Right. The advantages of disadvantages. I've had people send me websites, diets. I mean, people are fucking trying. It's always that one guy that thinks he swar me that thinks like, well, I know what you're doing. You don't know dick.

You don't know fucking dick. If you know what you were doing, you wouldn't listen to the fucking podcast. All right, so go fuck yourself. And we've talked about it. In reality, you could do it without the surgery. The surgery is not, it's not like it's liposuction. They're not pulling the fat out of you,

but it's putting it in place where you can't eat that much. She'll get sick. You could just eat however much you're going to end up eating with the surgery and lose the same amount of weight. It's just it's helping you. It's everyone needs help with some things. Some people, some people needed help with rehab to go to get off drugs. You didn't, that wasn't where you needed your help. You need help because you're on the road, because you love food, whatever the reason may be.

You need help losing weight. I've been working so hard at it, little by little. You know, I'm terrible at Jiu-Jitsu. Fucking terrible. Holy, horrible, horrible. But I still go. It said it on the Rogan podcast. You got to fucking show up.

I'll probably go tonight or I'll go tomorrow and Wednesday and I leave Thursday. You know, I always stick to the shit. I'm the type of person when I tell you it's over. It's fucking over. That's how I was raised. That's my mindset. There's no reason to go back. There's no reason to fuck around.

I advise you to do the same, man. I do these stupid things on Twitter every day as a reminder for me. There's a lesson for you guys that no matter what the weather, no matter what the fuck's going on you still got to do the same shit every day the same shit I don't want you to eat the same fucking cheese sandwich every day I'm not saying you get a tuna sandwich every night

because that's not going to happen but if you want to be a winner like Andre Carter said if you look at what these people do they do the same shit every day that's why they're in the position they're in they're in because they go away for a week or they didn't want to do it for one week or it got old well

then you're going back to your old fucking thing I do things now. I got up this morning at 4.15. You know I did from 415 to 6? I sat in the living room and wrote. Something I never do. I never used to do. If I want to get to the big games and comedy, this is what I need to do.

I tape my sets Saturday night, both sets. Really? Second one was Men's of Men. The first one was great. I learned so much from listening to him. If I'm going to shoot this special in May in Vegas, these are the things I need to do to be the best. Not just for one week, for the rest of my life.

We didn't ask them, but I'm sure watching game film for hours might not be Andre Carter's favorite thing, but he can go and look at see what the offensive linemen he's going to be up against does every game. Oh, when they're running, when they're going to go into a run, he moves his foot this way. It's not, that stuff isn't fun,

but it's what makes you a professional. That's what, that's the difference is that you learn, you move on. When you see these UFC fighters and they're going to be champions, they don't come in with the same shit that they did for the last 10 fights. They improve. Everybody says that John Jones gets better with every fight because he pushes.

He tries different things. He experiments. And that's what makes you better. But I guarantee and all that, he does the same things every day. That's what gets you there. Not for a week, not for eight weeks, for fucking 20 years. You know, when Lee and I have conversations about that,

it's like, Lee, you're going to lose this weight. You're 26. What are you going to do the next 20? Are you going to be chasing it on a treadmill? No. You've got to learn to a job. Just. Right.

Because every year, that treadmill is going to work less and less for you. Every year, your metabolism slows down. So you could do the treadmill from now to whatever. I don't think you're going to be doing the treadmill next year. You don't want. And you know what the fucked up part is? The more weight I lose, the less it works because you burn less calories. It takes me about 20 minutes longer than it used to to burn the same amount of calories.

You know, and so what are you going to do when you're 40? Right. So now, eventually, you're going to gain 15 pounds. And you go, you know what? I got to change my lifestyle. Cornedita fries are not even in my vocabulary no more. Right. You know, this is not even in my vocabulary no more.

I've discussed it a thousand times. I love fucking eating. I love it, but I like eating good food. You want me to eat it too? Make me a fucking prime rib with some steak fries, with some gravy. You know? Yeah. I want to eat Jersey style.

If I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to waste it on anything else. Because I know they're wasting their time. Right. You know, why would I spend $20 for breakfast when I could eat one egg, a piece of toast and some fruit. That's all you need. Why would I want? When I pay $20 for breakfast, what am I eating home fries?

And four pieces of toast. Right. You know, there's just so many different things that you could learn from. And, you know, it took me fucking years. I'm just really proud that people are helping me. I'm really happy I have this opportunity to have this surgery. I did all the requirements. Whether I'm going to have it or not, that's a complete different thing.

The thought of them taking your fucking stomach out sucks dick. But let's see how I feel. When is it? Do they have a? us on the schedule day. I got to wait. I'm going to call now when I leave here. I got a call and get the insurance, which takes four weeks.

Right. And then after that, we're ready to fucking rock. What does Terry think about it? My wife thinks that it's going to help the family that I really want to do this. I want to live for mercy. So I've already taken the other steps to live for mercy. You know, I don't do drugs. I don't do any of that shit.

I'm not doing nothing. I don't drink. I'm working on my sleep. I do the best I can, man. You know, a lot of people got mad at me. week in Buffalo because I wouldn't do podcast, stuff like that. You know, a good friend of mine. Saturdays is my rest day because I'm not going to sleep.

I only slept two hours, maybe an hour and a half Saturday, fucking night. You know, I get out of, off a stage at one, and I get on a plane of fucking five. And in there, you got to go home and decompress. So I know these things. So Saturday, I prepare for Saturday night, you know. I worked out Saturday. I worked out Friday, very hard, a lot harder than what I usually do, you know, on the road. They had all the things at the gym, so I said my diet.

The only thing I ate that was bad, but it came in my calorie count was the hot chocolate I had that night. Oh, yeah, you said they put a chocolate strong. They put a chocolate straw at one fucking night. I just, it was so cold outside. I didn't want coffee. So it was just called the chocolate bar. Yeah. So I went in there, and they had a large, an extra large, had shakes.

They had all this shit. Out of everything, I go, can I get a small hot chocolate? Blady looked at me. She's like, you know, we put whipped cream. No, no, no, no. Just give me hot chocolate. She goes, can I give you a chocolate stare? I don't try to lose weight.

She goes, I think it's only 60 calories. Like, all right, what the fuck. I still kept under the 2000 on my... My fan. But what happened with the black ice? You called me? Oh, my God. I was calling you because I was stoned.

I went out there and I got so fucking high. And all I kept seeing was in my mind. I saw... I fell first. So what happened was Saturday. It got really the rain. It was frozen rain. And I didn't know.

I had brand new Adidas on. I go around this thing. I take a four guys. That is classic. I'm laughing. I'm on all fucking fours and howling. My jeans. were dirty. Because it hasn't happened to you in how many years?

Oh, I haven't fallen like that in a long time. I enjoy a good fucking fall. Who am I kidding? So I got up and I kept walking, smoking the joint. And then after I finished smoking the joint, I'm like, I got it. It doesn't change these fucking sneakers. These sneakers are too fucking slippery. They were like Puerto Rican shoes.

They were just slippery on concrete. And next thing you know, I see some blackbird to take a fall of, like, her feet went out from under. She landed on the ass and the head. And also when I seen this car pull up and I'm like, look at that. Jewish lightning at its best. I thought the guy was going to come give her like a card. Yeah.

Instead he helped her up. And I'm like, look at this fucking mom. I thought he was a real Jew. He was going to give her a card for insurance settlement. And then I'm like, all right, so it's not my new sneakers. With all that, I look and I see these two little white gay dudes that are running. Yeah. And they have tracks shoes.

They take her outside to run. They didn't know. And they went around the turret and all of something, one guy fell, and the other guy fell on top of him. I go, this is not good fucking running weather. I think they thought the same. So I saw four people fall. Same spot. In five minutes.

Not in the same spot. in the same fucking street. Oh, okay. 30 feet apart. Like, everybody fell in the same 30-foot area. That's Buffalo, New York. But I had a great time. Buffalo is a great fucking city.

It really fucking is a great city. And every year, you go at the same time. Fuck, yeah. There's only one reason to go to Buffalo, and that's in the winter. I'm not going to summer. I'm not going to no Buffalo Bison game. If I'm going to Buffy,

it's in the motherfucking winter. And a lot of great people showed up. You know, Denmark showed up, little dishwash over at Rob Leithman's he brought. Mercy is Stuck Toy I heard a lot of Canadians to flew in A lot of Canadians drove down Toronto

Ontario I love you motherfuckers Who else came down 10 Planet Rochester was there Oh cool My man Tim McKenna was there Sean Conners was there A lot of people were there

So it was great You know when I go to Buffalo It's like a small family And I love helium I love fucking helium Yeah Let me tell you something I had a half of beef on wick

I cut the beef on wick sandwich sandwich as they had in half. I had one when I got there and I had one in between shows. That's how good I was. With the aju and the horse radish, Leon. I've never had beef on whack. I've never been to Buffalo. It's salty. Your blood pressure goes up.

I had them put half the meat on. Okay. And I just put horse radish on it. No French rice, no nothing. And that was my dinner. I ate half a sandwich when I got there in the other half, so I wouldn't have a lot of food in my stomach. Yeah.

When I went on stage. But the shows were great. They were great. You know, I have nothing bad to say about Buffalo. I go, I'll fucking move up there. That's how much I like it. And now you're on to Columbus. Now I'm on to Columbus to fuck around.

And that's it, brother. Let's wrap this motherfucker up. I love you guys. We've got a great week going on. I don't know if you're on the East Coast. My heart goes out to you. You guys are about to get hit. You guys are going to be invisible until fucking Thursday.

So get ready for that. It's always great when it snows. You can prepare to disappear. Oh, I love it. Especially on the East Coast. Nothing's going to happen. You know, Josh had surgery. And he's supposed to go on Wednesday.

I'm going to send my thoughts to Josh Wolf and his family. And I talked to Josh today finally. He called me back. And we were talking and I go, you know, it doesn't look like you go on New York on for on Wednesday. Right. There's no reason. I mean, they're already canceled all the flights tomorrow. That means they're two days behind.

If you're thinking to go to New York, you're just going to fucking slip and slide to freeze and a foot of fucking snow. You know what that's like? That means they're going to... Are you serious? They're looking at two to three feet in Boston. Is it already snowing? I heard it was supposed to start later in the day. but I'm not sure.

My mom called during the podcast, or something. It might be. It's already 6 o'clock, so it should be fucking coming down. Do you want to do the ads if we're going to end up real quick? Oh, I don't know. I'm just trying to see if it snows. I don't know what the fuck did. Let's see.

Yeah, apparently it's a little bit of snowing already. In Boston at least. But not huge. I can't find it. Well, anyway. That's the fucking show today, cocksuckers. I love you dirty bitches. As usual.

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