"Marshawn Lynch"

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Speaker 2 Hey, yeah, so Will is joining us from over the pond there in London. Looks like you went ahead and treated yourself to a nice, at least a one-bedroom, maybe a two-bedroom suite.

Speaker 1 Dude, look, who's counting other than you? I mean,

Speaker 2 yeah, it looks like you're doing pretty well.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sitting in a wingback. Sitting in a wingback, you know, I felt like this is the chair that I've always deserved.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, and you're also taught, you're kind of, you sound like you're keeping it down because you're trying to stay quiet because the kids are asleep.

Speaker 1 No, you know why? It's kind of echoey in here. Yeah.
So I'm just trying to be like not as echoey.

Speaker 2 Oh. Oh, because you probably have hardwood floors in that nice hotel and high ceilings, right?

Speaker 1 Sure do, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so I'm over here visiting some friends, and then, of course, I'm going to the football on Sunday, which I'm really excited about.

Speaker 2 The NFL is having a game on this weekend over. They're trying to expand the league.

Speaker 1 You are something. You are something else.

Speaker 1 I'm going to see Liverpool

Speaker 1 play West Ham up at Anfield, their home ground in Liverpool on Sunday. Chappie and I are going.

Speaker 1 And I'm very, very excited.

Speaker 1 I can't.

Speaker 2 Would you ever consider getting each other rings, you and Chappie?

Speaker 2 Maybe just tattoo it around your ring finger.

Speaker 1 You know who we went and saw yesterday? We went last night and saw Johnny Vaughn, my buddy who I've mentioned, who's on the radio over here, and he's a great tanker. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And so I went and joined the Ford 7 thing with his crew. Everybody from Gav the Woodman Woods to Dr.
Santa Templeton to Big Psy and Little Psy.

Speaker 1 It was just, and then we went out for a nice Chinese food dinner

Speaker 1 at a casino.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 How about that? Like a bedding casino?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was very, it was different, but it was great. This guy hosted us.
It was amazing in the incredible Chinese food restaurant in the basement of this casino.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What is this, man?

Speaker 1 I can't picture, look at Jason's face. I can't picture anybody.

Speaker 1 I can't picture gambling anywhere other than Vegas. So they have casinos there.
Does it feel like Vegas? They got casinos everywhere, Sean. Really? Yeah.
You ever heard of Macau?

Speaker 2 I'm going to be going to Vegas in a few weeks here, and I'm anticipating not going to the tables at all

Speaker 2 because I don't drink anymore and I feel like I need to be

Speaker 2 inebriated to enjoy the mindlessness of gambling and the

Speaker 1 skill or the fear of gambling.

Speaker 1 Sean can do it at breakfast. Yeah, that's right.
I could do it. Oh my god, I love it.

Speaker 2 Wait, Sean, are you one of those at like a buffet?

Speaker 2 Do you sit at the table, fill out the bingo cart and everything?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then I go to Vegas.

Speaker 1 I went with Sean once. You remember that years ago ago we went to Vegas.
Oh my God. That was a long time ago.
Do you remember that? That was like 2002.

Speaker 2 Was this after Istanbul, you guys?

Speaker 1 It was before

Speaker 1 Istanbul.

Speaker 1 Well before. Well before I went to Vegas on Tanzania

Speaker 1 Venice. Oh boy.
Because we did Venice, Italy, too.

Speaker 2 Does Chaffee know about Sean? Is he okay with him?

Speaker 1 I'm trying to keep him on.

Speaker 1 Will and I have tattooed rings.

Speaker 1 Toe rings. But Sean, I saw Sean one time at the blackjack table just go nuts, and he was splitting and doubling down.
And at one point, he just had, he was playing like an eight-hand thing.

Speaker 1 It was so many splits and doubles.

Speaker 2 But it was $2 units, right? It was just a $2 table.

Speaker 1 No, it was great. And that one time, I think it was that time or another.
You won. Yeah, I kept winning.
I was really drunk and I was really young. See, that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 I don't think you can win when you're sober.

Speaker 1 No, and yeah, because you make horrible choices.

Speaker 2 Well, you make pragmatic decisions, and that's sort of at odds with successful gambling, I think.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And anyway, I had like 300 300 bucks or 200 bucks left or something like that and i turned it into like ten thousand bucks and i gave it all the way to the people at the table the people yeah

Speaker 1 like robin like the like

Speaker 1 just like robin in a second if you work for the irs if you work for the irs just it was 9 999 right yeah

Speaker 1 how are you with the how are you with the jet lag can you uh

Speaker 1 it kind of hit me i actually left in there a little bit early because the jet lag kind of hit me in the between the eyes and i was like like, guys, I got to go to sleep.

Speaker 1 But I can tell you this, I'm really excited to go to my first, as you guys know, I do love Liverpool, and I love what they call football over here. So I'm excited to go.
It's a big thrill.

Speaker 1 And Jay is a sports fan. You can appreciate how cool it is to go to a new sports.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they make sports fans look bad here in the States because you guys got the, or they guys,

Speaker 2 you're one of them.

Speaker 1 All the songs that you sing and like incredible.

Speaker 2 It's real good fan stuff all the time.

Speaker 1 I'd be into that. It's super, super fun, and it's a great environment.
I've only been to one match over in Europe, and that was in Spain a few years ago, but I haven't been here, and I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 And I love the football. And I'm glad I'm saying football because it's reminding me.
Oh, here we go. It's reminding me.
I'm just going to the guest.

Speaker 2 Watch this.

Speaker 1 You know, our guest today, I'm so excited because I just want to get to him.

Speaker 1 This guy, Will. Our guest today

Speaker 1 is an incredible entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 He's a philanthropist. He's involved in all sorts of businesses from media consulting consulting to management to

Speaker 1 blenders to sports apparel

Speaker 1 to team ownership. This is a guy who's done so much, and it started, a lot of it started because he had so much success on the football field.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you talk about people who do amazing things, and then you talk about guys who went in the first round of the NFL draft, who played three seasons in both.

Speaker 1 Twice led the league in touchdowns, voted to four consecutive Pro Bowls,

Speaker 1 won a Super Bowl. And also, I think he got really well known for his incredible, what they called the Beastquake

Speaker 1 touchdown run during the 2010-2011 NFL playoffs. He rushed 67 yards while breaking nine tackles, considered one of the greatest NFL runs of all time.

Speaker 1 He's an all-time great, he's an all-time great guy, and he's also, more importantly, my friend. You guys, it's Mr.
Marshawn Lynch. No way, Marshawn.

Speaker 2 Marshawn, good morning.

Speaker 1 Marshawn.

Speaker 1 What's going on?

Speaker 1 Marshawn, can I ask you a question?

Speaker 2 Why do you spend so much time with this guy, Will Arnett?

Speaker 1 What happened?

Speaker 2 Does he have photos on you or something?

Speaker 1 You guys are so close.

Speaker 2 It's the weirdest couple in all of Hollywood.

Speaker 1 Nah, man.

Speaker 1 I told him, like,

Speaker 1 if you ever call my phone or bang my line,

Speaker 1 I'm going to make it work. Because he gave me an opportunity to do some shit that I ain't never done before.

Speaker 1 So anytime you hit my phone, I'm, I mean, I'm coming through phone.

Speaker 1 So that's just for forever, in perpetuity, perpetuity he's got you as a as a guy throwing favors for sure because i want to tap can we know what that was or no no murder veal yeah a lot of people don't realize how hilarious marshawn is yeah because they think of him as like a football you know icon and i'm like this is a funny dude um

Speaker 1 and i'm so lucky you know i'm so happy that you do return my calls and and you know marshawn we've never really talked about football like in a way or like how you started.

Speaker 1 Think about it over the last few years, we've talked about so much other weird stuff. Honeymoon and we went, oh, well, we went, we covered the World Cup last year.
We did this thing together.

Speaker 1 And we never talked about how you started in pro football. Well, just in football in general.
And

Speaker 1 I guess that's on me. I should have asked, but I'm asking now, how did you

Speaker 1 what was your first,

Speaker 1 were you in love with football when you first started when you were a kid? Like, what was the deal? What was your relationship like with football starting out?

Speaker 1 I mean, the relationship with football was

Speaker 1 I was big on playing it.

Speaker 1 Not too much of a fan of sitting down and watching it. Really? That's interesting.

Speaker 1 But when it came to it, it was like, yeah, if we had the opportunity, every opportunity I had to play it, I was for sure getting down.

Speaker 1 I really wasn't, I wasn't, like I said, I wasn't big on sitting down and watching a game.

Speaker 1 It wasn't like no big ass tradition that we did where everybody come through on Sunday and watch the games or, you know, Monday nights wasn't like, we got to watch this Thursday night.

Speaker 1 No, I wasn't, no shit like that. And then the opportunity to go to college and, you know, play there,

Speaker 1 I thought it would all end for me after high school. And then, you know, we started sending letters like, oh, yeah, you got an opportunity to go to college and shit.

Speaker 1 That wasn't something that was, you know, really talked about in my household as well. So really? I mean, it just all seemed, yeah, that shit all seemed like a little fairy tale or whatever.

Speaker 2 But which college did you end up going to?

Speaker 1 Cal University. Oh, yeah.
California. Berkeley? Yeah.
Yep. So, I mean, the shit worked out for me in the long run, but

Speaker 1 when I first found out, I'm like, hell no,

Speaker 1 you want me to more school?

Speaker 1 More voluntary school.

Speaker 1 Like, nah, hell no, I'm cool off that. But

Speaker 1 I ain't going to lie. Luckily, I had two cousins

Speaker 1 who was really into that shit.

Speaker 2 Was that schoolwork?

Speaker 1 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 Really into schoolwork? Yeah. Yeah, man.

Speaker 1 I'll say they took on the jobs of

Speaker 1 the teachers by making sure I maintained

Speaker 1 a reasonable grade point average to even be able to give college an opportunity. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 But then once it was like, once I got there and...

Speaker 1 you know, seeing what type of time it was on, what I had to do in order to accomplish, you know, going to the next level, then shit just made sense. And it was like that shit clicked.

Speaker 1 Cause now it was like, oh, I got a goal and I got to do X, Y, and Z to accomplish this. Then let me just do what I need to do and see how far I could take me.

Speaker 2 Do you remember the process of getting used to getting hit? Like, or did you start playing football so young?

Speaker 1 Sorry, Graham.

Speaker 2 Where you don't remember it? Were you so young when you started that you don't remember it?

Speaker 2 Or do you remember like, because,

Speaker 2 you know, I never was allowed to play football. My mom was British.
She wanted me to play soccer.

Speaker 2 But I got this one part in a football movie where I actually got to put on pads and a helmet and I played like a defensive back or something. And

Speaker 2 this one take, I had to tackle a guy. And I didn't know what to do with my head.
I felt like, well, if my head hits that person's shoulder, it's going to break my neck.

Speaker 2 So what I thought would be smart to do is just to kind of shrug my shoulders up and trap my helmet in the hole that the shoulder pads create so it locked in there.

Speaker 1 Like a turtle. yeah exactly

Speaker 1 i'm not sure when you i'm not sure when you did this this uh this role in that movie but you sound like you you got that move from the little giants exactly i'm just a small soft actor uh and they all laughed at me um the movie was a comedy thank god that's right though jay i i wouldn't think of that that that is true like because marshawn i'm i'm the opposite of you i'd rather watch it than play it and uh because i played it when i was a kid i was terrible but i know i i when i watch it though when i see the heads hit the bodies, I think the same thing.

Speaker 1 I was like, how does their neck?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
So do you remember that process?

Speaker 2 Is there a learning curve that's painful on that? Or were you too young?

Speaker 1 Most definitely.

Speaker 1 So, I mean,

Speaker 1 I probably got the latest start out of it because it was a group of us. And I mean, you know, it was more family,

Speaker 1 you know, close friends like in the neighborhood. And,

Speaker 1 you know, I think I was probably one of the later ones that started maybe around age 13. Yeah.
So a few of them started maybe from age six. Six, eight was around the normal time for them to start.

Speaker 1 So they were called, like, considered the veterans. Right.

Speaker 1 And, you know, one of my closest friends, rest in peace, we were doing hidden drills, angling tackling. It's the biggest thing in football.

Speaker 2 And is what? Is angle tackling?

Speaker 1 Angling tackling. Tackling drill.

Speaker 2 What does that mean?

Speaker 1 You line up on opposite sides, put a cone out, and you come to a point where you have to

Speaker 1 earn your manhood. Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 A lot of us, sure. A lot of it.
We're a lot of us seen it. And,

Speaker 1 you know, he was a veteran. This was my first year.
This is my first year in full contact

Speaker 1 sports. And

Speaker 1 somehow he convinced me to go first, which, you know what I mean, was not a good idea. But

Speaker 1 so he called go

Speaker 1 and we ran and we hit like like a couple of rams hitting each other with their horns right yep except for i didn't lower my shoulders or my helmet and i went in standing straight up like i was trying to give him a bear hook right like frank and he actually put his stomach exactly he actually put his helmet right in my stomach ouch and i'm talking about all the wind was blowing out like oh shit i don't know and i had to make a decision because uh

Speaker 1 as soon as the you know i mean as soon as he had hit me, all you can hear is the coach is like, man, what the hell y'all doing? Like, line up. And I'm like, line up.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, you want me to do this again? I'm laying down. Yeah.
You want me to do this again right after? I just, I'm like,

Speaker 1 I don't know what to say. I want to tell him, like, hey, you know, I just went.
But then, you know, everybody in line, they, hey, line up, line up. We got to line it up, Coach.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, oh, you want me to do this again? So it was like, oh, hell no. I seen what you just did to me.

Speaker 1 And I was like, all right, Now this time, I'm going to duck my shoulder in my head and run it into you.

Speaker 1 So the thing was, I was a little faster than him. So I was able to get to the point quicker than him.

Speaker 1 So in the midst of him lowering his helmet in his shoulders, I had already been lowered and

Speaker 1 smashing. Bam.
Coach is like, oh, okay. The little rookie got something to him.

Speaker 1 Line up again.

Speaker 1 And now is he's calling all his veterans to the front of the line. And now he want to see the rookie hit with all the veterans and so it was a thing of like

Speaker 1 oh this is just what you got to do in order to be you know a hitter on the team those are the people who get all the praise all the cheerleaders make little go number you know what i mean whoever your number is and i'm like oh so if i become a hitter then i could be one of them

Speaker 1 and then i mean you know my my first position i play offensive line so that's where all my little i guess my toughness and all that, ain't afraid to hit somebody.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, as much as, so for y'all who don't know, I'm an offensive player, but my mentality is defense.

Speaker 1 And we will be right back.

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Speaker 2 By playing offensive line first,

Speaker 2 do you have sympathy for the offensive lineman that once you became a running back, power back,

Speaker 2 you start running into the backs of those offensive linemen? Do you remember the days when running backs used to do that to you?

Speaker 1 I bet it hurts.

Speaker 1 No, man, to be honest with you,

Speaker 1 I take care of my offensive linemen. And one of the things that I don't do is I don't run into the back of them.

Speaker 1 If I see a pal up or something like that, I'd rather

Speaker 1 bounce outside and run into a defender than hit my offensive lineman in the back is that is that something that offensive linemen do do complain about hell yeah yeah

Speaker 1 because it's like damn pick your eyes up because they feel like hey look i'm doing my job i'm running this dude out of there and you running into my back if you want to hit somebody hit yeah one of the guy with the other color on yeah yeah for real for real yeah during the the the um

Speaker 2 well was work harder during football or is work harder now with the acting you know because

Speaker 2 the hours in acting can be, you know, usually 12 hours.

Speaker 2 And sometimes that hard work is simply trying to manage boredom

Speaker 2 because

Speaker 2 no one, there's no two people that are working at the same time.

Speaker 1 And concentration, though, when you're when it's called, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Or, or was, or is the football harder because of you know, all the obvious parts of it, the traveling and the strenuousness?

Speaker 1 And well, see, the thing was, you know, the traveling meetings,

Speaker 1 you know, practice, the games, being able to take care of my body, you know, making sure I don't lose my mind.

Speaker 1 That, that became like second nature. That was more and so like just my walk in life.

Speaker 1 And then with this,

Speaker 1 you know, with, you know, going over into, I guess you would call it entertainment, it's more of like, a challenge to me. So I'm not looking at it as,

Speaker 1 is it hard or is it strenuous? It's more and so like, I want to understand it.

Speaker 1 I want to get an understanding for this the way that I did for when I was playing my sport.

Speaker 1 But ultimately,

Speaker 1 if I'm just looking at it from a time management point,

Speaker 1 when I lock in for football, I had to lock in for eight months out the year. That was just what it was, regardless.
And

Speaker 1 why is it important to you just out of curiosity?

Speaker 1 Have you always had this thing in the back of your head? It's like, you know what? I want to stretch this muscle in my head about this

Speaker 1 acting thing or this artistic kind of side of me? No, it's just that

Speaker 1 realistically, I don't want to be bad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I mean, shit. I mean, you know, you hear about it all the time, like for individuals after they first career, they go and get into something else and it kind of don't pan out for them.
Right.

Speaker 1 In the same breath in which they're, you know, damn, he was a great football player or he was a good football, player, however, you view me as a football player, you're not going to say I was bad unless I've done something to your team.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Then maybe I'm shitty to you. But otherwise, you know what I mean? But otherwise, you're going to say, yeah, I mean, he brought something to the game.
And then,

Speaker 1 you know what I mean? Going into my second career, motherfucker see me on T, like, oh, you know what? He ain't bad.

Speaker 1 He did a good job. So

Speaker 1 it's almost like a challenge, like

Speaker 1 you enjoy the challenge of it. Yeah, I could say that.

Speaker 2 What about the gym? I imagine the gym would have been a big part of every day during your football career.

Speaker 2 What's the amount of hours you're doing in the gym per week?

Speaker 1 To be honest with you, that was probably the place where I spent the least

Speaker 1 work at. I mean, you got to think about it.

Speaker 1 If you, well, my career, I played in the league, what, 12, 13 years? And then you got to think college was another three, high school, four. In the little league, I got about three in.

Speaker 1 So you, 20 plus years of doing the same shit, you got to think like, all right, I got to figure out a way to do some other shit in order to stay in shape or to get my body right.

Speaker 1 So then, I mean, you start getting creative. Yeah.
And I mean, you know, I would say

Speaker 1 realistically, maybe two,

Speaker 1 maybe three times in the gym. a week and it ain't to do like you know like you see that you probably be like pumping all this weights and all that shit up and it might be just to get a stretch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, or to utilize the swimming pool, but.

Speaker 2 Or just see who's in the steam.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that should work too. Sign of staying in the room for sure.
But so I have like a I have a two-part amar Sean. Like, so

Speaker 1 when you were playing football, was there a person or a moment that made you want to, that kind of clicked your brain into what if I did this, you know, expanded into entrepreneurial stuff?

Speaker 1 And what if I, was there a person that you're like, gosh, I really admire the way he handled his career after football or during football? Or was there a moment?

Speaker 1 And the second part is, what is your favorite or most rewarding entrepreneurial effort so far?

Speaker 1 All right, well, the first part is

Speaker 1 before I, before I even knew about money or anything, because it wasn't like

Speaker 1 that was something I came from.

Speaker 1 I remember they was having these, what is it, financial advisors

Speaker 1 come into the facility and get a spiel. I mean, and you can, you know, choose a financial advisor that way.
That was the way in which we met financial advisors. So,

Speaker 1 oh, so the team brings people in to talk to players and sort of help them kind of figure out what's good, actually. Yeah, the player personnel, like, you know, the guy who looks after

Speaker 1 the players on a more personal level. He'll bring in individuals who they know maybe through dealings with or maybe got introduced by another player.
But I remember the first time

Speaker 1 my financial advisor came in and

Speaker 1 he came in there and he was talking. And

Speaker 1 shit, I had this thing where I could go to sleep stand. I could go to sleep standing straight up.
And so he came in and he started talking all the way. And I fell asleep and straightened up.

Speaker 1 It was in one ear out the other.

Speaker 1 Shit, it didn't go in nowhere. I'm sleep, dead to the world.

Speaker 1 And he make a,

Speaker 1 he don't say nothing. So as he finishing up and he, you know what I mean, kind of come to and up on the board, I see all these names.

Speaker 1 And these are names of NFL players who, you know, I thought if you play in the NFL, you like the richest person in the world. I'm

Speaker 1 looking at all these names and I'm seeing like, you know, they got a number on the side to the right of their name and another column. And I'm like, damn, like, fuck, they got all this money.

Speaker 1 And then at the end of it, you know, he goes through like three slides and I'm talking about maybe some of the most notable names in football. And at the end, he say, all bankrupt.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, what the fuck? Like, no money. I'm like, no, hell no.
Right. Now I'm up.
Yeah. But now it's presentation.
Time awake. So I'm like, hey, hold on.

Speaker 1 What you mean they bankrupt? Like, you know, I seen some of the names of individuals who, you know, I look up to. Like, no, what the fuck? So after he said, man, you slept through my whole meeting.

Speaker 1 I said, yeah, I did. You know what? My bad.
But can you start from the beginning again? Part where you said, all my, all of these players up here is broke now. Like, what the fuck is going on?

Speaker 2 The number next to them are the millions in debt they are.

Speaker 1 Man, and I'm like,

Speaker 1 how do I not become one of these? Good for you. Good for you.
Well, you know what, Marshawn? First of all, you can't go to sleep in my meeting.

Speaker 1 Look,

Speaker 1 quit bringing up old shit. We're talking about moving forward.
Was there, what, what was early on one of the, if you did make like a just foolish, you know, purchase?

Speaker 1 Do you remember like one of the dumbest things you've ever bought? You said one of the dumbest things I ever bought. Like when you first started out, you're like, oh, I got an extra, you know.

Speaker 2 Did you ever buy an animal that should probably be in a zoo?

Speaker 1 Yes, I have. But that didn't come

Speaker 1 early on. That was after everything was said and done.
Oh, really?

Speaker 2 And what kind of animal was this?

Speaker 1 I brought a monkey.

Speaker 2 A monkey. You didn't really? I've always wanted a monkey.
What kind of monkey?

Speaker 1 A red-hand tamarind. Is that true? Did you really buy one? Yeah, about as big as my hand.
Lil Pimp was his name. Oh, my God.
Lil Pimp.

Speaker 2 That's L-I-L apostrophe.

Speaker 1 Man, nah, no apostrophes.

Speaker 2 Is this the kind that throws stuff at you?

Speaker 1 No, he don't throw no shit at you. Now,

Speaker 1 he will get the yelling at you, though. He'll yell.
Really?

Speaker 1 Is he still with us? Hell yeah. No, no, no, no.
See, they got a short

Speaker 1 lifespan. Yeah.
I was always nervous. I wouldn't want to get that a monkey monkey would come and like end up like rip ripping my arms and my balls off or something

Speaker 1 he was about as big as my hand about as big as my hand yeah and i mean this that little was fascinating oh my god he he did some of the some of the most crazy i've ever seen before you have to get a trainer for that or do you train him yourself no they to be honest with you he really he really cool though like i mean they come they come trained no they i won't say that that.

Speaker 1 But as far as, like,

Speaker 1 I mean, he's so little. Like, if he take his shit somewhere, it's like,

Speaker 1 like, damn, is that red? Like, rat shit?

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. Oh, he's touching it.
So it ain't like it's no messy ass shit like that. Never a diaper on Lil Pimp? Nah, man.

Speaker 1 We wasn't confining him, man. Lil Pimp was, he was, hey, man, he was a real true one.

Speaker 1 Lil Pimp. R.I.P.
Lil Pimp. R.I.P.
Lil Pimp. But there was a few.

Speaker 1 I mean, there was a lot of guys that, yeah, I mean, I started to see turn, you know, like used to watch OJ in movies,

Speaker 1 Jim Brown in movies.

Speaker 1 And I mean, you know, just to see them being able to do it, it gave like, oh, it's an opportunity there to do that. And then, I mean, you know, throughout the league, you know, you had players who,

Speaker 1 you know, get into investments and like, hey, man, you know, I'm working with this company, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, like, you doing well? Like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm an outreach person.

Speaker 1 And like, okay, outreach, like, well, I mean, you know, I don't really like people like that, but for the simple fact that I'm seeing you being able to be on a level of professionalism, even after you're done playing football, you know, I kind of got inspired by that and I wanted to see what was actually out there.

Speaker 1 And a lot of this shit that I did learn or that I did get into,

Speaker 1 it basically all started off like a joke, kind of like, you know, damn, well see if they'll let me get ownership right okay and then it's like okay yeah you put a couple dollars up and they give you some ownership like all right yeah you did that you did that with like the with the seattle kraken you got ownership in that you know

Speaker 1 sean you might not know this uh marshawn's like part owner of a bunch of uh sports teams including the nhl seattle kraken uh marsha and i did this thing but with for soccer for the world cup last year and then like like two weeks into it he sends me this sweatshirt from the Oakland Roots.

Speaker 1 And I go, What's and he goes, Yeah, this is this MLS2 team that I co-own.

Speaker 1 And I go, We've been talking about soccer every day for two weeks, and you're only telling me now that you're an owner of a team.

Speaker 1 That's when he's got all these pieces of these teams, which is so, so cool. Very cool, very savvy.
Yeah, no kidding. Like team ownership, that's that's where it's at.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man. Just trying to try to position myself.
I mean, I have one, I have $1,000 to invest in this team. Can I? See, look, you just a little bit too late.
We just did a round where

Speaker 1 he could have bought into...

Speaker 1 That's his nickname. Too late.
Too late, Justice.

Speaker 1 He could have bought into

Speaker 1 the Oakland Roots. We just raised $2 million in Oakland.
More so, like, you know, my team, my team, my city.

Speaker 1 It's something big going on within the Bay Area just because, you know, within the last, what? Five years, we done lost, what, the Raiders, the Warriors. And the A's.

Speaker 1 And I just, I think I just heard the A's is going to be leaving too. Wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Why don't you start, why don't you start doing a show like our friends Rob and Ryan and just have cameras following you around. You go visit all the teams that you own pieces of.

Speaker 2 That'd be a good show. Yeah, that would be a good show.

Speaker 1 That's a good idea. Thank you.
It's not a bad idea. Or a podcast.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 And we'll produce it through Smartless Media.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we will.

Speaker 2 We just made some money.

Speaker 1 Well, that was why I came on here. I'm trying to school.
Here we go.

Speaker 2 Let's do that. Let's get a podcast going with you popping around and visiting on the teams that you own.
I want to hear locker room speeches. I want to hear play-by-play.

Speaker 1 There's all kinds of things we can do. Wait a second.
I was going to ask you about locker room speeches because you've worked with some great coaches. You worked with great players.

Speaker 1 You got to know that Marshawn's quarterback when he was at Cal was none other than Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 And then his quarterback, while he was a pro for most of his career, was Russell Wilson, two of the all-time great quarterbacks. Coach

Speaker 1 for a long time was Pete Carroll in Seattle.

Speaker 1 I mean, you've been, it's funny.

Speaker 1 I feel like sometimes like great players and talents are attracted to each other. And you got in with, you were with a lot of talented people.

Speaker 1 What was your relationship like with coaches? Well, specifically like Pete Carroll, but coaches in general through college and then into the pros

Speaker 1 early, early on in my career,

Speaker 1 like from, I'm going to go like this, pop winter, high school, it was easy because all the coaches was, you know, from my neighborhood. They understand how to speak to me,

Speaker 1 understand how to get the most out of me. Then going to college,

Speaker 1 considering I, because I ain't grow up with no father in the household. So going to college, and then I have, I mean, in Oakland at this time, probably 90%

Speaker 1 black. I got a white head coach, and this motherfucker don't got no filter.
And I'm talking about maybe one of the most,

Speaker 1 how could I say that?

Speaker 1 At the time, I thought like, I regretted it. I'm like, man, this motherfucker racist.
I can't do nothing right.

Speaker 1 And then it was like, all of a sudden, it just clicked for me. Like, oh, shit, no, he not racist.

Speaker 1 This dude was preparing me for going to the league and what I was about to go through in the real world.

Speaker 1 Knowing where I'm coming from, I mean, was i was basically trapped in a box and he was opening my mind to shit that i didn't even know exist

Speaker 1 coaching was something that i didn't take you know lightly like man fuck you how you gonna tell me what to do like motherfucker you ain't playing you ain't you know what i mean and then i the running back coach that i had when i was in college i found out he played db and i'm like how the fuck you gonna tell me how to be the greatest running back and your motherfucking ass played DB?

Speaker 1 Didn't make sense to me,

Speaker 1 but what it did was

Speaker 1 it taught me to learn from individuals from different perspectives.

Speaker 1 He knew what it looked like as a running back

Speaker 1 coming downhill at a defensive back. Oh, interesting.
He didn't know what it looked like as a running back running down

Speaker 1 a defensive back. So he's able to tell me when he tell me, Marshawn right here, square your shoulders up.
He knew that DBs don't want to tackle running backs. No.
So make him make a business decision.

Speaker 1 Make him stick his head through his shoulder pad.

Speaker 1 Make him wiggle his head through his shoulder pad. It doesn't work.
You know what I mean? It doesn't work. But I wasn't.

Speaker 1 It hurts. Yeah, I wasn't paying attention to that early on.
But like I said, when I figured it out, okay, this shit makes sense now.

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Speaker 1 It seems to me that a guy like Pete Carroll, does he coach? I feel like a lot of his speeches are really esoteric, like really out there kind of like,

Speaker 1 like, are they, are they football related or does he make a lot of like big sort of inspirational speeches about life? And stuff? Is that am I right on that?

Speaker 1 That he, I fuck with Pete, I won a championship with him, but as far as the speeches and all that, you know, I would, I would leave out of his meetings.

Speaker 2 Did you do any standing up sleeping in the Pete Carroll meetings?

Speaker 1 Nah, I'd sit down sleeping in that motherfucker.

Speaker 1 I wanted my good race. You dig in.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would, I would,

Speaker 1 you know, after a while, it just started to become

Speaker 1 repetitive for me. right and then i'm not a guy who you need to like

Speaker 1 to get me ready to go and bust somebody because i'm already at a disadvantage because that's what that's what my lifestyle was so i don't need that that extra that just gonna make me upset make me like all right bro you talking too much like I don't want to talk.

Speaker 1 I just want to bust motherfuckers head. And you keep talking is you damn near talking me out of going to go bust a motherfucking head.

Speaker 1 Now, i want to let them do something to you because you talk too much type situation so i don't need i don't need rah rah rah and he was you know that type of guy so you know anytime i could eliminate the rah rah rah i would i would do that but i mean you know i done had some great coaches along the way uh you know men who who i feel has taught me you know, to stand on principle, morals, and values, which I feel that that shit is a thing of the past.

Speaker 1 Like that shit is a myth. If you hear somebody standing on principle, morals, and values, like, for real, he did? Like,

Speaker 1 he must be hella old or something. Like, that ain't something right now that is looked at as a good thing.
And

Speaker 1 they taught me that, that walk, to walk with conviction as a man. And, you know, I

Speaker 1 hold conversations with them till this day, still, you know, I mean, contact with them and reach out to me, reach out to them, check on them but i mean you know it's it's it's a funny thing because i mean

Speaker 1 like i said from my mindset before i'm a coach like was like what you talking about right now that don't concern me to

Speaker 1 okay no these are individuals who have lives families and they actually walk with a purpose and i feel that you know i mean once i opened up my mind to that thanks to coach tefford to seeing them for more than just telling me okay marshawn you got to run through the B gap, you got to run through the C gap, or you got to cut back right here.

Speaker 1 And I took it for more than what it was worth, shit started to open up for me.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it was a big thing for me. And, you know, I mean, it's funny you talk about Pete Carroll because at the time

Speaker 1 he had got another coach over there,

Speaker 1 Tom Cable.

Speaker 1 And that was like my, my connection. Tom Cable and

Speaker 1 Coach Sherman, those were my connections to the team that was how i got the information about what was going on because you know pete was just a little bit he was he was too much for me you know what i mean like

Speaker 1 you wake i'm telling you you come in at because i i have weird ass hours when you start talking about the gym and shit like i would come into the locker room maybe at four o'clock in the morning And, you know, I'll go do some extra work, sign a steam room, you know, maybe a little bike swimming or whatever.

Speaker 1 And it'll be about five o'clock in the morning. And And I'll see Pete coming into the office and he, hey, buddy.
Hey, how you doing? It's going to be a great day today. Like, hey, hey.

Speaker 1 And he'd be like, what the fuck? Like, hey, nigga, it's five o'clock in the morning, bro. Cool out.
And you're like, hold on, man.

Speaker 1 I just seen this motherfucker didn't leave out of the facility until like 11, 12 o'clock at night. And he's back at five.
And he was leaving. Hey, buddy, I'm going home.
You can have a great night.

Speaker 1 See you tomorrow. Make sure you're ready on time.
And he's like, hold on, this mother.

Speaker 1 And then it ain't no difference when you see him at breakfast. He coming at meeting the same way.
You see the motherfucker at lunch the same way. You see him on a practice field.

Speaker 1 You see him after practice and the meetings after that. And when he going home, he the same way.
And best believe, if you dare to see him coming in in the morning, it's the same.

Speaker 1 It's like, man, this motherfucker got to be a robot. Marshawn, tell me,

Speaker 1 do I remember this right?

Speaker 1 Did you spend an entire season not talking to the media? A few seasons. What do you mean, a season? It was a few of them.
Where you refused to talk to the media, right? What'd they do?

Speaker 2 What'd they do to make you take that position?

Speaker 1 What they did was they showed me who they was.

Speaker 1 They showed me who they was.

Speaker 1 And the thing, like I said, I started to stand on principle, morals, and values. And because I mean, you know, like I said,

Speaker 1 I was raised different. I seen things through different lenses.
And then I listened. They used to come into the rooms and they tell, oh, the media, this, that, and the third.

Speaker 1 They're not your friend, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 And then they'll double back and say, you got to remember, no press is bad press.

Speaker 1 What the fuck?

Speaker 1 So that was a conflict for me. And then you had a situation where

Speaker 1 it was a point in my career where everybody wasn't fucking with me. where I was doing shit that you would think a

Speaker 1 20-year-old would, you know what I mean, with a couple dollars in his pocket, some mistakes that would be made. And it would go from, I'll be here one day, hey, Marshawn,

Speaker 1 your greatest,

Speaker 1 this, that, the third. Oh, yeah, yeah, he.

Speaker 1 And then I'd get in trouble. And then it was like, oh, I knew that motherfucker was a thug.
Oh, that motherfucker ain't shit. Oh, fuck him.
He needs to be in jail, not on the football.

Speaker 1 And then it was all this shit. started to and I'm like damn this the same motherfucker who I just seen last week was just telling me how much of a good run.

Speaker 1 And, you know, I mean, he looked forward to seeing what comes out next week. And then, motherfucker,

Speaker 1 motherfucker make a mistake. Yeah.
Or a motherfucker got caught doing some shit he shouldn't have been doing. But the thing was, I seen how judgmental they was.
And the thing was, all right,

Speaker 1 when y'all not recording and doing all of that shit. is he and i'm hold on you motherfuckers it's too confusing it's it's too confusing to try try to find out who you individuals truly are.

Speaker 1 So in my terms, instead of I'm thinking like, you know, I mean, if we was back in the hood and I'll beat your ass, right? And I'll roll your ass up. I'll take your camera.

Speaker 1 And I was like, oh, no, you can't. You can't.
You can't do that. You can't act that way.
So it was more and so like.

Speaker 1 Hey, if you ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all.

Speaker 1 Now, these individuals who, you know, talking big shit about me, I could care less what anybody else think about me and if this is my way to get people to understand where i'm coming from and x y z

Speaker 1 nah

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 who i need to deal with i'll talk to them individuals let them know what's up and then i just go about my business i didn't feel i needed to broadcast it to the to them excellent sadly we live we live in times where we're obviously we're where sort of negativity sells i i've seen movie reviews that start off with it with like a negative headline and then you read it and it's like not a bad review.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, oh, you just wanted people to click on the shit. And people just want that kind of shit, which sucks.
And it's not positive.

Speaker 1 I will say this: one of the great positive things you do, I know, Marshawn, you've got your Fan First Family Foundation,

Speaker 1 which is pretty awesome. And I know you've been like doing a lot of giving back through that.
You want to talk about that for a little bit, how that came to be?

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, that's probably the longest-standing

Speaker 1 business that I got. And probably the, I mean, that's,

Speaker 1 I started that immediately.

Speaker 1 well, I'm not gonna say I, we started that immediately after I uh decided to uh enter the draft. And I mean, since then,

Speaker 1 uh, we just been on a tear. Like, I mean, it didn't matter wherever help was needed, we tried to fill that gap.
And uh, and what specifically, like, what's the mission?

Speaker 1 Like, who you got, who are you trying to help? Like, what's the main the inner city youth? Well, we looked at

Speaker 1 a lot of the kids

Speaker 1 from our neighborhood, they don't get a fair shot. So we just tried to

Speaker 1 even it up a little bit by

Speaker 1 supplying

Speaker 1 some of the needs that they needed in order to

Speaker 1 be able to

Speaker 1 compete with

Speaker 1 somebody from

Speaker 1 a higher background or education level. And I mean, it just started as a football camp, but then it turned into architect camps.
Like, we do an architect camp for the kids over at

Speaker 1 Cal.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Cal for letting us utilize their

Speaker 1 facilities. We do, you know, reading programs, math programs,

Speaker 1 entrepreneur programs. We got Shopify supplied us with some shit.
And we do Beast Mode of Business where they create their own business and, you know, able to

Speaker 1 have it go live on Shopify

Speaker 1 site.

Speaker 1 I mean, anything that you could think of from coding to fucking building a shoe, creating clothing lines, I mean, teaching them ways in order to, you know, think outside the box of what, you know, I mean, the five, we call it the 580 and the 880, but to think outside of that and show them many ways, like with the production company, everybody think like, You got to be the individual that's on the screen to make their money.

Speaker 1 Like they don't know that that there's a guy back there holding a mic that there's a guy holding a camera that you got grips that you got motherfucking uh ads and all these like all these other things like i said i'm watching y'all right now to see i i see two people on this button like they don't they don't know this all they see is they're gonna see the clip go from me talking my bullshit to will to youtube And that's all they're going to see and say, oh, I want to do that.

Speaker 1 Not knowing it's a whole team that made all of this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's actually a group of people that are making it. The people on the screen are just in it.

Speaker 1 Jason, you said this once, and I love this.

Speaker 1 Everybody on set, when you go on a movie, everybody from catering to background holding to locations to team studs driver, you know, everybody's a filmmaker, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Everybody on that set is a filmmaker, and it's what makes us.

Speaker 2 There's no one there that doesn't need to be there. That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 I love, Marsha. I love that you're doing that.
And it doesn't surprise me because I know, you know, I gotta know you're such a great guy.

Speaker 1 and um man i'm just it's so great to be able to talk to you we've i've we've held you here too long kind of held you hostage but i just want to i could no i told you you might you you you folks brad you you good in the hood man anytime so

Speaker 1 well is it's good i had no problem with that uh Marshawn, you're the best, man. Thank you.
Continued success. Thank you, Marshawn.
You're just, you're just always, always you. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And we'll talk soon. Thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Marshawn.

Speaker 1 All right. All good, man.
Y'all have a blessed day, man. Nice meeting you, too.
Thank you, Marshawn.

Speaker 1 What a sweet fella. What a great guy, huh? Yeah.

Speaker 1 How cool is it that here's a guy who has not just a football career, but he wins Super Bowl and he goes to the Pro Bowl and he's a first team all pro does everything like every basically thing he can do as a as an NFL player.

Speaker 1 And then has this retires three times, by the way, he retired because he kept coming back.

Speaker 1 And then he retires and he turns, he turns all that into, becomes this entrepreneur and he goes into, he goes into the arts and goes into all this stuff. And I'm like, this dude is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 He truly is. He's gone beast mode through life, not just on the football field.
Yeah, yeah. He's just gone beast mode into everything he does.
And I have so much respect for the guy.

Speaker 1 He's such a cool dude.

Speaker 2 It sounds like he didn't need to. He held on to his money and he probably doesn't need to continue working so hard, but that's just part of his makeup.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love that too. He's such a savvy dude and he and he's just so cool.
And again, I should point out he's such a good, good person, too.

Speaker 1 So I'm lucky. I'm lucky that you came and did it.
I'm lucky they know him. Yeah, he seems very kind.
Yeah, he is very kind.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see Jason's headline, that meltdown thing? No.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the little stuff you guys chopped together

Speaker 2 and put on the show. It's like

Speaker 2 Bateman has meltdown on, but I mean, it's just talking about novels.

Speaker 2 No, no, I know, but

Speaker 2 to your point earlier, you said in the interview here that people will find a headline just so you can click through.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 2 And the fact that I said in it that I had a full meltdown, they were able to use that, put quotes around it, and then say Bateman has, quote, full meltdown on podcasts. So

Speaker 2 it's the headline they need.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it's good.

Speaker 2 It's good press for us, I guess.

Speaker 1 I haven't looked on the internet, and I'm so stymied by that. Well, you'd need a Google alert on Smartlist and or me.
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I might lease one.

Speaker 2 You're going to lease a Google alert?

Speaker 1 Yeah. What does it cost you to get into one of those? Well, the rental's pretty steep, but

Speaker 2 um oh, you know what, though?

Speaker 1 Maybe

Speaker 1 you could, yeah, go ahead. No, you're gonna do it first.
I was gonna say, maybe you could, if you can't

Speaker 1 afford a full subscription, maybe you could do a buy monthly.

Speaker 1 Why are you holding your stomach?

Speaker 2 Bye, you have an Abe Froman t-shirt on, that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 Sausage King of Chicago.

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