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Best of the Bus: Marshall Faulk On Playing For The Greatest Show On Turf
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iHeart Radio Announcer
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Interviewer Bo
Marshall Falk.
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Interviewer C
Let's give a round of applause for Marshall Falk.
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Marshall Faulk
Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that.
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Interviewer C
Absolute legend. You just flew in just now.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah, I got in. Yeah. Earlier today.
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Interviewer C
Earlier today.
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Interviewer Bo
I grew up an hour south. I don't know if you're familiar with Festus or Farmington, Missouri.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
Yeah, but you're a legend, bro.
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Marshall Faulk
Thank you.
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Interviewer Bo
You are a legend. And it was. It's a. It's a pleasure to have you on our podcast.
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Marshall Faulk
Right on, man.
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Interviewer Bo
You. Right before the show, we were talking and you saw the Nebraska shout out to Big Red, but you mentioned that Osborne. Coach Osborne.
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Marshall Faulk
Huh.
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Interviewer Bo
Was the first coach that said you couldn't play running.
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Marshall Faulk
First coach, first coach. And he. He was, he was honest. Like, first day I. I was there, you sit in with him and. And this before you go to your position meeting and, and he asked. He, you know what, what. So, so what do you. What position you think you can play here at Nebraska? And you know, like this, the early 90s. Nebraska rolling. Yeah, they rolling. And the only reason I took a visit because Mickey Joseph, who's from New Orleans as well, had just became the quarterback there. And I was. And I thought, because I'm right in between Mickey and Vance. Okay, Vance Joseph is Mickey Joseph's younger brother. Right. So I'm in between them two. And I was like, man, if I go, I get a year to play with Mickey and then I'll play with Vance. Cause I thought Vance was coming there, but. But vans ended up going to Colorado.
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Interviewer Bo
So did Nebraska offer?
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Marshall Faulk
They did, they did, but I had to play corner.
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Interviewer Bo
Really, man?
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
I mean, you were like. I mean, you were an athlete.
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Marshall Faulk
Listen, man, coach. Coach Osborne is a legend. Yeah. When he was at Nebraska, they churned out so many athletes, so many first rounders. So, I mean, he knew what he was talking about. I was pretty good corner, but I had to love. I had a love for playing running back. So it's a little different.
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Interviewer Bo
Was all your offers kind of split, like your teams wanting you to play corner, teams wanting you to play running back?
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Marshall Faulk
Most of them wanted me to play corner.
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Interviewer Bo
So that's. When. Is that a. Probably the biggest reason you.
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Marshall Faulk
Well, no, no, no. Because on offense they were lazy. And I'm going to tell you what happened after. After. All right, so. So I played quarterback, receiver, running back, but on offense I was just a corner cover corner. So they couldn't tell what I played on offense. And. And right after that happened about. I'm gonna say right around maybe 94, 95. They created the position called athlete. So when you recruit a guy, you recruit him as. You just get an athlete. Cause they realized, damn, if we'd have got him in here, found out he could play multiple positions. But back then, they had to recruit a position. You had to play a position. You couldn't just be an athlete.
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Interviewer C
If Tom Osborne would have came in and been like, listen, you're a hell of an athlete. We see you playing all over the place, utilize you in ways no one's ever seen before. You going to Nebraska?
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Marshall Faulk
It would have. It would have been easy. I mean, it would have been an easy decision. I mean, Nebraska was like cream of the crop. Early 90s.
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Interviewer C
Good reference to corn.
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Marshall Faulk
I mean, 88, 89, 90. They were dominating. Fools, man.
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Interviewer C
Hey, that's got to feel good to hear, dude.
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Interviewer Bo
It does feel good to hear. It sucks that we didn't. You know what I mean? Like, Osborne.
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Marshall Faulk
It happens.
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Interviewer Bo
Cornerback.
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Marshall Faulk
It happens.
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Interviewer C
I was at the University of Michigan. So I have to ask, did Michigan offer you?
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Marshall Faulk
No.
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Interviewer Bo
Who's in your top? Who's in your top?
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Marshall Faulk
Michigan wasn't recruiting, and, you know, they weren't recruiting in the south like that. Michigan, Michigan, Michigan, Notre Dame, they had that idea of. They wanted people who played in cold weather. That's. That's the kind of. They didn't understand the difference in speed in the south versus the North.
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Interviewer Bo
Who's your top three, and why did you choose San Diego State?
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Marshall Faulk
San Diego State wasn't even in the runnings. It was. It was Nebraska, Miami and Texas A.
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Interviewer Bo
And M. So why San Diego State?
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Marshall Faulk
I took a trip out there. I was like, I want to live here. This is nice plain land. You take the 163 down, you're riding. I'm like, I've never seen anything this beautiful. And the only thing I could think of, yes, I get to spend maybe four or five years at a school, but I get to live here the rest of my life. And so I live in San Diego.
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Interviewer C
You still live in San Diego?
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Marshall Faulk
I still live in San Diego.
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Interviewer C
What part of San Diego you live in?
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Marshall Faulk
La Jolla. La Jolla Y.
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Interviewer C
So when I was training, I would be in Leucadia, Carlsbad's area. Dude, it was. We'd stay, like, on the bluff, hang out. Like, just the way of living out there. Like Southern California. You really just can't beat it, dude.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah, I fell in love with it. My trip out there. I just. I fell in love with. I fell in love with the city, the school's so open. And it's just like. And, and then it was like a melting pot. Like, I, I, I mean, and I was, I, I, Any Asians, any. No Mexicans? I was like, there's everything at this school. Like, the diversity was unbelievable.
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Interviewer Bo
What was the process like going into the draft? Cause you were number two overall, right? Number two, number two overall. Talk about that. Because obviously, like, running back, now you got somebody in the top 10, it's like, oh, that's a big leap. Like back when you were a running back. Like, the running back was the premier spot that you drafted at. You signed guys like you built around the running back.
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Marshall Faulk
Guess what we didn't do in college? The running backs that got drafted early that you see going, 1, 2, 3. Guess what we didn't do in college? We didn't share the backfield. You watch college, you got three and four guys playing. I'm like, who's the guy? You can't tell who the guy is. So if you don't step up and demand, look, hey, I want to carry the ball 20, 25 times a game. And then you're not going to get it. The position, and I'm saying it, the position has been devalued by the guys who want to share time. Even in the pros, these guys come out, man, I never wanted to come out of the game. I didn't want somebody taking my spot.
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Interviewer Bo
Right.
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Marshall Faulk
And now it's like two run, two carries, like they'll let somebody else in.
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Interviewer Bo
Right, Right.
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Interviewer C
It's got to make you appreciate a guy like Derek Henry then.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah. Well, Derrick Henry, Kristen McCaffrey. Kristen don't come in for me.
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Interviewer C
Right.
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Interviewer Bo
I saw, I actually read recently, I think there was just an article on it about cmc, talking about how he's connected with you in the off seasons or you giving him advice, feedback. I think it was like you and Ladanian Tomlinson taking care of your body, just kind of being like Christian's, kind of like that, that style that you were where you're, you can do everything. You can catch out of the backfield. You can line up at receiver, you can run the ball. Talk about, talk about meeting him and how you've been kind of, I guess, a mentor during his career.
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Marshall Faulk
I mean, I wish I could say I was a mentor. The kid is such astute. And obviously we know who his father is. The pedigreed is there. But what I love is in today's game, very few guys reach out. I got it. I know. And the fact that he'll call and he'll ask certain things, and he's not asking for pointers on how to hit the hole. And he's like, how do I. Longevity. You played 13 years. How do I do this? How do I do that? What did you change about your workouts when you got to this age? The things that you. You want to know to, like, next level, which is how to maintain your body, how to take care of yourself. And that's what he's doing. It's not about what happens on the field, it's about what happens off the field. And he's smart enough to understand the game is going to be played. You just got to be out there to play it the best. When you have talent and you see it, the best ability is your availability.
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Interviewer C
That's. Yeah. With going back to San Diego, San Diego State, when you're having all these big offers and you just go to a place and the location to you is like, oh, this is where I want to be. Like, was there any family members that was like, listen, you have an opportunity to go to the NFL here. Are you sure you want to go to San Diego? You go to Miami, but Miami in the 90s.
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Marshall Faulk
But listen, and I'm gonna be. I'll be honest with you guys. On my high school football team, in four years, I probably won, like, six games. Like, we were. We sucked. Like, you couldn't tell, but everybody. We played like you could. Like, I. I scored on. When we played against the really good teams. Like, I wasn't on a good team, so it wasn't like you saw in me, oh, he could go to the NFL. It was like, you. You. You people didn't know, right? They. They didn't see it. So when I got to San Diego State and all right now I'm not playing running back, receiver, quarterback, db, kicker, punter, return, kicks, punts. Like when I walked on the field in high school, I didn't come off till halftime.
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Interviewer C
Yeah, you was kicking and punting.
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Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah. I did everything. And when the kicker was okay, I held for him. So I did everything. So they didn't really get a chance to see. So I get to San Diego State. Now it's just like. That's all I do is play running back. Oh, my God. This is easy. Are you kidding me? I get the rest while the defense is out there. Oh, man, I'm gonna be fresh way easier. It was. It was like night and day.
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Interviewer C
So if you didn't know in high school, like, for. For me, I. I tell the story That I got offered by Utah State going into my senior year. And that was like, okay, I'm gonna go to the NFL. Like, when were for you where you're like, okay, I'm for sure maybe not gonna have the success that you've eventually had, but, like, what did you know? Like, all right, I'm gonna be an NFL football player.
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Marshall Faulk
Second. My second game in college, literally, first.
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Interviewer C
Game didn't go well.
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Marshall Faulk
First game. First game, I didn't. I didn't play much.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
And I got in. It was like, we. We played. I think it was like Long Beach State. And I got in and I had a couple of good runs. And then I, you know, tried to. Tried to do a little too much and did a spin move and the ball flew in the air.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
I was like, oh, my God. And then the next. The next game, I don't play the first quarter. First play, first play of the second quarter, our starting running back was the punt. Returner. He gets hit in the thigh and he's out, and coach grabs my face mask. The only thing he says is, hold on to the ball. And so. So from. Right, right. Hold on to the ball. Yeah. So I end up playing the rest of the second quarter, the third quarter, and half of the fourth. In that time, I rushed for 389 yards and seven touchdowns.
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Interviewer C
Who were y' all playing?
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Marshall Faulk
Literally, people get mad at me because they. Cause after that, like, I think after that year, they shut down the football program. It was University of Pacific. Literally, you ended.
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Interviewer C
You ended entire program.
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Marshall Faulk
Literally, you ended them. That's what they say.
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Interviewer C
You shut down our program anymore? That is nuts, man.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
What was it like going from. Where'd you grow up exactly?
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Marshall Faulk
New Orleans.
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Interviewer Bo
New Orleans to San Diego and then to Indianapolis.
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Marshall Faulk
All culture shocks. Yeah, all culture shocks. Like, I'm talking night and day, man. What was. I remember before we get to that, I remember going to the. Going to the combine. So I leave in. I leave San Diego. I go. I fly to Indianapolis for the combine. It's cold. Like, it's like this time of the year in Indy. And it did just had, like, one of the worst blizzards, and I never been in snow. I'm like, oh, my God, it sucks. This is awful. I would never live here with the second pick. Indianapolis coach take Bar. So Falk, I'm like, oh, my God.
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Interviewer Bo
Yeah, take us through your thought process. Probably pumped second round or second overall. But at the same time, you're like, damn, I gotta go to Indianapolis, man.
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Marshall Faulk
I was just like, that's all I was thinking about was the wintertime. I was just like, man, how cold it was when I was there. So I kept. I was happy that we played indoors, but at that point in time, they didn't have an indoor practice facility.
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Interviewer C
Ooh, so you're out there in the wintertime.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah, my first year, my first year, we didn't have an indoor practice facility, so it wasn't as bad as I thought. It's so different when you, like in college, how you see things in the pros. Like, you grow up real fast when you, like, you're a rookie. Halfway through the season, it starts to get cold and you're in the locker room, locker room, and you're in the huddle and he's grown men. He's like grown ass men. They're like, like, my, my job's on the line. Hold on to the ball.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
You're like, man, this, like, this guy got to feed his kids. Like, like the game. For some people, it's not really a game. It's like, it's their livelihood and they take it serious. And that was that. That's like a. That's like a whole nother transition. Seeing the game for what it is. But make it, but trying to make sure that it's still fun for you because the fun can go out of it real quick.
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Interviewer C
That's got to be like. The hardest thing, though, is realizing how much of a business it is. Especially like high school. Like all your boys, like, you win in six games your entire. But every single Friday, the boys are hyped up.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
After.
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Interviewer C
I know it was for you boys, but hey, it's like, how are we gonna find a 12 pack of beer after this? You know, chase a couple girls around, like, same thing. But you're all kind of like doing, doing your thing. Then you go to college and it's like a little more obviously more serious, but like, no one's got, no one's married, no one has families. Like, you're still like, all as a community going and doing the same thing across San Diego.
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Interviewer Bo
You're all chasing the NFL.
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Interviewer C
Yeah. And you're all chasing the NFL. You get the NFL and it's like now you're 21 years old and there's 32 year old dudes.
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Interviewer C
Kids, grown men, they go, they do their business and they leave you like, yo, you want to. You want to hang out? They're like, no, Doug, what are you talking about? I'm going to go see my family.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer C
Like, how difficult was that for you to kind of like realize and keep the fun when it was so business?
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah. You obviously, like, you got to have the right support system around you because a lot of the dudes in the locker room, they're not. When, when it's over, you're not going to play Madden. Like, you're not going to hang out.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
And your priorities start to change and you start to understand how much of a business it is and you have to start, yeah, the game is fun and you're getting paid a lot of money and, and it's a business and they expect you to do your job. If you, if you don't, if you don't do the things you're supposed to do, the fun can go out of it really quick.
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Interviewer Bo
Yeah, really quick. How do you feel like your professionalism in, like, you know, acclimating yourself to the league as a running back developed over time, especially as a younger guy. Like, you were alluding to, you know, talking with Christian about, like, maintaining your body and everything like that. Like, how did you develop as a pro in the early part of your career?
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Marshall Faulk
What I told him and the things that I say to him. Emmett Smith told it to me. Thurman Thomas told it to me. Ronnie Harmon, like, these old heads, they, if you ask the veterans will tell you what to do. Like, they'll give you the information on how to have a long career and how. And how to continue to be productive in your latter years. I mean, it wasn't a hard thing, actually. What is hard is early in your career, making sure that you doing the off season, you remain in shape. You don't go party with your boys late in your career, making sure that you value the time that you get to train and don't, oh, I gotta take my kids here, I gotta go here with the wife. The time that we get, those 13 years that I played, it's like a blip in my life. Like, it was such a Fun time. But when I look back at it, I was like, man, that seemed like so long, but it went so fast. So cherishing in the moments that you have and the responsibilities to making sure that you are the best that you can be, It's a responsibility that you got to take on. Because when I'm in the huddle, you know what I want you to know when you're looking at me that you can count on me. I want you to know that I did the things that I was supposed to do in off season to be here, and I got you, and I need to know you did the same thing.
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Interviewer Bo
Yeah.
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Interviewer C
How was it difficult for you to ask for that guidance and help from those older guys?
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Marshall Faulk
No. No. So I'm the youngest. I got. I got. I got five older brothers. I'm the youngest of six, and. And I learned. You know, I learned by watching them and. And asking them, and I didn't have to repeat. They paid the dummy tax. I didn't have to pay it. Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
No, it's fair being the youngest. You kind of have to go about it, like, the humble way, because if not the older. Your older brothers will humble you. Yeah, we're both.
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Interviewer C
We're both the oldest. Go ahead, Bo.
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Interviewer Bo
No. Did you have one?
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Interviewer C
Yeah. I was gonna say, was there ever, like, somebody you reached out to for help that was, like, you got to figure it out for yourself?
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Marshall Faulk
Nah, because I was select. I was always selective. What I did was I, I. I made sure that I formed some type of relationship with the person before I engaged and ask for help. And I think that's what you do. You just call somebody up and say, hey. You don't ask them about their life. You don't find out about anything that motivates them. You don't find out if y' all have any commonalities. You just ask them. I mean, that's kind of cheesy. Call somebody and you get to know them, and that's what Kristen did he say, hey, man, I'm a big fan. Huge fan of yours. Always loved your game. Like, we had a conversation about where I was at in life and what I was doing and how things are going before we got into anything about ball. Yeah. And I think this is a respectful way to go about it.
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Interviewer Bo
Who is that rival running back that you always just kept your eye on, that you always.
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Marshall Faulk
All of them. Every. Every back that I took. I didn't care where you were drafted, how good you were. I wanted to be the best running back on the field, actually. I Wanted to be the best football player on the field, period. That's what I always thought about. I never looked at it as, as a position. Like, I always looked at myself as a football player. Like, I was never, I wasn't a running back or receiver or slot. Like, like I didn't want labels. I was like, I can play the game of I'm a football player.
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Interviewer Bo
Right. What was I going to ask? It was so tasting the business for the first time. Like, you get traded to St. Louis before you get traded, you have some turf toe that you're battling the couple.
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Marshall Faulk
Years before you did your homework.
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Interviewer Bo
Look at you, bro. Hey, listen, man, Marshall Falk, like I grew up, you're on the Madden cover, you know, seeing the jerseys transition to navy blue and gold, like you're Marshall Falk. So yes, I, I know a little bit about you, but tasting the business for the first time, like, walk us through that. Like, because, you know, you're, you're drafted second overall, like, you're the man and then all of a sudden you get traded for a couple picks to St. Louis. Like, talk about that relationship and kind of seeing the business for what it is with Indianapolis.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah, I was ready for a change. And, and I think Indianapolis, they, they were as long as. Because my last year there in 98, I almost did a thousand thousand. Like, I was like, we sucked. But I had an amazing year. I almost did a thousand thousand and we only won like three or four games. So I was putting in work. But what they realized was that people were still following me. I was the leader and they wanted it to be Peyton's team. So moving me kind of took a security blanket away from Peyton, which, which actually allowed him to grow up because the next year they went 13 and three and he took charge of the team. How that was kind of his leadership way. But for me, that happened. But in the move, accepting the fact that it was time to go and it's kind of like, like I kind of needed it in a sense, because when you walk into a new locker room and there's guys and it's like you got trading, you got this big contract, they looking at you, you looking at them, and it's like, who the hell is this guy? Who does he think he is? And you go from a locker room to where you're proven to a locker room where you have to prove yourself and it puts you back. Like, it gives you that edge back. I got that edge back and I was like, okay, I like this. I got to earn their respect. Before they believe I can lead them. And if you accept it like that, then the business is easy to deal with.
- [22:38]
Interviewer C
How long does it take you to earn that respect in your mind? I mean, obviously it was extremely established. I'm sure it didn't take very long.
- [22:43]
Interviewer Bo
But I mean, the boys won the super bowl fairly.
- [22:46]
Marshall Faulk
It actually took, I'm gonna tell, I'll be honest. It took a few games. I'm gonna tell you. We, so we were, we were, I think we were 6, 0 and I barely touched the ball. And I, I had not won games in the NFL without touching the ball that much. Like, I think the first game I touched the ball 12 times. The next game, like 13, maybe 15. But we go, we're, we're. I think we were 6050 or 60 and we're in Tennessee, we're playing the Titans and they're giving us the business.
- [23:19]
Interviewer C
You know, it's a real ball club right there.
- [23:21]
Marshall Faulk
They're giving us the business, lavish ball club.
- [23:23]
Interviewer C
It's a hard nosed ball club.
- [23:25]
Marshall Faulk
I'm just telling you. We go into the locker room, I go to Mike, Marcy, I say, mike, I understand you being judicious. Just come to me. And so we come out, we come out the first like five or six plays, the ball goes to me, we score. And so I kind of took over the game. We were down like 21, 21, maybe three. And we ended up tying it up 24, 24. And they got the ball, drove down and kicked the field goal in overtime. But they had not seen, like, I literally took over the game. And that's when they were like, okay, like, all right, we, now we see who this guy is. Before that, you know, I was just like, I was coasting. I, I hadn't really taken over a game or played up to my potential because I was just a part of the offense. I was doing what, you know, 5, 8, 10 yards, 20 yards, score a touchdown here. It didn't, we didn't need to dominate. But like, I was like, Mike, feed the boy. Like, yeah.
- [24:28]
Interviewer C
Have you always been a guy that's like, hey, give me the, give me the ball. Or was that like, was that a new thing for you to do to kind of like.
- [24:35]
Marshall Faulk
No, no, that was, that was always about my personality was like, if we're going to, we're going to win. If I have the ball, that's like, if I'm getting the ball, we are going to win. That's like, that was always my personality.
- [24:46]
Interviewer C
That's like a standard, textbook Personality trait of a skill position guy that you need probably.
- [24:52]
Marshall Faulk
So you need that.
- [24:53]
Interviewer C
Like A.J. brown, playing with him with the Titans, like, he was a guy that, like, he's not getting a lot of catches. He's like, do y' all want to win or not? Like, you need to give me the football.
- [24:59]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
- [25:00]
Interviewer C
And a lot of guys can look at that as, like, selfish guy, not thinking about the team. But, like, you want dudes to have that kind of confidence and that kind.
- [25:06]
Marshall Faulk
Of, like, that edge.
- [25:07]
Interviewer C
Have that edge of being like, I. I can truly make a difference any point in the game at any time.
- [25:12]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah. I went about it a little different because, I mean, should I play with ice? Bruce, Tory Holt. So I was always like, mike, look, no problem. Like, we start the game, you throw it. No problem. But when it get real. When it get real, like, hey, you.
- [25:28]
Interviewer C
Know where to go. Hey, yeah.
- [25:30]
Marshall Faulk
Like. Like, when he know. When I started looking at him like.
- [25:34]
Interviewer Bo
Hey, yeah, like, let's get going.
- [25:36]
Marshall Faulk
Score a little too close.
- [25:37]
Interviewer C
Yeah. Yeah.
- [25:39]
Interviewer Bo
What was it like playing with Peyton? Just coming into.
- [25:42]
Marshall Faulk
It was fun, man. It was fun. It was fun, like, watching him learn the game. Cause he had all the attributes, but the speed of the game was just a little different. Like, your first year for a quarterback, it's moving fast. Like, faster than you ever thought. And he threw a bunch of interceptions. And, I mean, we used to walk off and he used to. Oh, I just didn't think the guy could get there. I didn't think the guy could get there. And then one time I was just like, hey, Peyton, it's the NFL. Everybody can get there. Yeah. Like, it's a little different, man. All these dudes are dudes, man. They were. At some point in time, they were the best person on a team.
- [26:17]
Interviewer C
Yeah.
- [26:17]
Marshall Faulk
All of these dudes in the league, like, the dudes with.
- [26:21]
Interviewer C
Obviously, that rookie. You're throwing all those interceptions, did you expect him to have the career that he ended up having?
- [26:25]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You could see it. You knew it immediately because it was all, like, every mistake was a new mistake. And he didn't make the same mistake twice. Once he made that mistake, he filed it away. Never made the mistake again.
- [26:38]
Interviewer C
I love that.
- [26:39]
Interviewer Bo
Let's dive into the greatest show on turf. Talk about that year. We have a Tennessee Titan, Nashville native. You want a yard and a half?
- [26:50]
Marshall Faulk
You want a hug?
- [26:52]
Interviewer C
Hey, Jack, Give him a hug.
- [26:55]
Marshall Faulk
It's okay.
- [26:56]
Interviewer Bo
That newspaper shot reaching.
- [26:58]
Marshall Faulk
I'll give you a hug.
- [27:00]
Interviewer Bo
No, talk about.
- [27:01]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
Talk about that on the podcast. Health stuff. We are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night.
- [27:07]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Yes. I'm Dr. Priyanka Wally, a double board certified physician.
- [27:11]
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And I'm Hari Kondabolu, a comedian and someone who once googled do I have scurvy at 3am on health stuff, we're.
- [27:18]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Talking about health in a different way.
- [27:20]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
It's not only about what we can do to improve our health, but also.
- [27:23]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
What our health says about us and the way we're living.
- [27:26]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
Like our episode where we look at.
- [27:28]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Diabetes in the United states. I mean, 50% of Americans are pre diabetic.
- [27:34]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
How preventable is type 2?
- [27:36]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Extremely. Or our in depth analysis of how incredible mangoes are.
- [27:43]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
Oh, it's hard to explain to rest of the world that like your mangoes are fine because mangoes are incredible. But like, you don't even know.
- [27:51]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
You don't know, you don't know. It's going to be a fun ride. So tune in.
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Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
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- [28:03]
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- [29:03]
Wilmer Valderrama
What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time? You get Desi Arnaz, a trailblazer, a businessman, a husband, and maybe most importantly, the first Latino to break primetime wide open. I'm Wilmer Valderrama. And yes, I grew up watching him. Probably just like you and millions of others. But for me, I saw myself in his story.
- [29:26]
Marshall Faulk
From cleaning canary cages to this night here in New York, it's a long.
- [29:31]
Wilmer Valderrama
Ways on the podcast starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll Take you on a journey to Desi's life, the moments it has overlapped with mine. How he redefined American television and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like ours on screen. This is the story of how one man's spotlight led the path for so many others and how we carry his legacy today. Listen to. Starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama as part of the My Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast year.
- [30:04]
Interviewer Bo
Man in the. In the rise of the St. Louis.
- [30:05]
Marshall Faulk
Rams, it was literally. I remember being in that locker room, you know, from the start of the season. And I think it was like. I think it was Keith Lala, Todd. Like, they say, why not us? Like, why not us? Literally, like, why not us? Why can't we dominate the league? And everybody was like, huh? And like, that literally started. You could see guys, because the Rams had a lot of good draft picks, but they just couldn't put the pieces together. And it was because they had draft with Orlando Pace, Gwen Renstrom, Isaac Bruce, Todd Light. Like, all of these dudes are first rounders. They had guys that were still on the team that could play, and it just hadn't happened for them. But the willingness to just buy in. And we started this thing with celebrating as a team. Like, it started in practice. It didn't matter who caught the touchdown. We were going to celebrate as a team. It didn't matter who got the sack. We were going to celebrate as a team. And that started to feed into the identity. And then we had this special teams coach that was like, he was the best I'd ever heard, get people ready to play. I mean, and he used to use a lot of war analogies.
- [31:34]
Interviewer Bo
Those are the best ones.
- [31:36]
Marshall Faulk
And ask guys to go and tell them what to do. And he used to get people so fired up. I mean, I didn't even play special teams. I sat in the special teams meetings just to hear him talk.
- [31:47]
Interviewer C
No shit.
- [31:48]
Marshall Faulk
And he, man, Frank Ganz, was like, he was. He was one of the best special teams coaches to ever play. And in that mantra of us, everybody was like, we gotta go to work if we want to do this. And that became our whole thing. Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta go to work.
- [32:08]
Interviewer C
When you. So you guys are feeling the juice, you're celebrating the team and everything. Like, when did that. Like, all right, the momentum is in our favor right now. When did it Turn into, oh, legit. We could win a Super bowl this year.
- [32:24]
Marshall Faulk
After. After we lost to Tennessee the next week of practice, how we showed up. I had been a part of teams that lost games and showed up like it was nothing. Guys showed up pissed, mad, like, working hard. You could see that the lineman, like, O line, D line. They were in fights with each other. It wasn't the, I'm doing defensive scout team, offensive scout team, and I'm just getting in your way. It was like they were trying to kick each other's butt. And I was like, man, these dudes. These dudes hungry, man. And you could start to see it. And we. I think right after that, we played the Niners, and the Rams hadn't beat the niners in like 11 times. And we blew them out. Like, literally blew them out. And that's when it was like, there's something here. There's literally something here.
- [33:26]
Interviewer Bo
Then having that pissed off team after losing the Titans. How hungry were you guys to play them again in the. In the Super Bowl?
- [33:35]
Marshall Faulk
We couldn't have had a better opponent. Literally could not have had a better opponent.
- [33:39]
Interviewer C
Damn, man.
- [33:39]
Interviewer Bo
Came down to the last play, too.
- [33:40]
Marshall Faulk
Could not have had a better opponent, man. It was like, if you go back and watch the game that we played them in Tennessee, like, that game was hard. Was just as hard fought as the Super Bowl. And to watch the effort of Eddie George and the late Steve McNair, like, the effort. Watch the last drive. Steve McNair is leaving it all out there. I'm talking dog tired, and this dude is finding a way to stay up, fight guys off. Complete passes and, you know, what was.
- [34:16]
Interviewer Bo
Your vibe like on the sidelines, seeing him drive down, last play happening?
- [34:19]
Marshall Faulk
I'm gonna be honest, man. I was like. I was so calm because I just didn't think this is. I was like, I knew a little bit about Fisher. I was like, there's no way he goes for two, because if they scored, they were tie. But there's no way he was going for two.
- [34:37]
Interviewer C
You know, that route was ran wrong. That route. If that depth was just a little bit more.
- [34:43]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah, that's a touchdown. That. But that. That's it, though. The discipline of the game is sometimes what caused what all the times is when you. Why you win or lose, the discipline and how you do stuff.
- [34:56]
Interviewer Bo
Mike Jones. Yeah, he's the one who had that final tackle you also play with. I got to play with him.
- [35:01]
Interviewer C
Stay on the Super Bowl. Stay in the super bowl because go ahead. I was so 20. I played for the Titans 2019. We're two quarters away from going to a Super Bowl. Tell me that feeling of running out of the tunnel for a Super bowl to literally achieve a world championship, that. That moment is it, man. Like, obviously extremely successful. Like, you've literally done everything you can possibly do as a football player, but, like, the opportunity to achieve, like, the holy grail of a team sport. Like, what is that? Was it moment massive, or was it, like, how hard was it to stay, like, kind of composed, just running out of the tunnel knowing, win or lose, this is the last game of the year, and this is a legacy deal?
- [35:38]
Marshall Faulk
I. I didn't even try to stay composed smart. Like, what I did was I. I allowed whatever was going to happen to happen and that, you know, I was going to be able to gather myself and play the game. That's literally. When I ran out of that. Out of the tunnel, I was so hyped. Like, I started hyperventilating. I had to go to the sideline and get some oxygen. I was, like, so excited because as a kid, like, my friends, and I'm from New Orleans, we're playing in Atlanta, I got so many people at the game. Like, people that spent they last to get there because they grew up spending.
- [36:14]
Interviewer C
That whole check trying to get everybody in there.
- [36:15]
Marshall Faulk
And I'm thinking about my boys when we, you know, as kids, every time it didn't matter what the score was. Oh, shit, the street light's coming on. We gotta get home. This play is to win the Super Bowl. I'm like, I get a chance, man, you crazy. Like, I was not going to hold anything back. And, you know, by the time when I ran out, I'm like, I'm amped and I tie my. I wore myself out. I'm sitting on the bench, I'm like, I gotta catch my breath. Yeah.
- [36:43]
Interviewer C
Came a long way from not coming up the field in high school.
- [36:45]
Marshall Faulk
Literally, I started to game off tired, and it took, like, I had to catch my second win just to go out and play. That's. That's how much adrenaline is going through your body to play that game.
- [36:58]
Interviewer C
What a moment that would be.
- [36:59]
Interviewer Bo
You're the MVP that year, too, right?
- [37:01]
Marshall Faulk
No, that was Kurt's.
- [37:02]
Interviewer Bo
That was Kurt. You were second to Kurt, right? That's wild. Like, Kurt was. No, Kurt Warner's number one.
- [37:08]
Marshall Faulk
So three years in a row. So Kurt won. I was second. I won. He was second. Kurt won. I was second three years in a.
- [37:16]
Interviewer Bo
Row to a guy who was filling grocery bags.
- [37:19]
Marshall Faulk
Hey, man, the best Grocery bagger in the business. No question.
- [37:22]
Interviewer C
Details, details. The eggs were never on the bottom. Like he knew what the hell he was doing.
- [37:27]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
- [37:27]
Interviewer Bo
What was it like playing with him?
- [37:29]
Marshall Faulk
Hey, best man. I know, man, I tell people all the time, like I'm talking not just football player, but like person. You meet him, like so authentic, so authentic and just, just enjoyed playing with him. He only got upset with himself. It didn't matter who was yelling at him, he maintained who he was and he always stayed in his person and who he wanted to be. Like a man of faith. Always.
- [38:01]
Interviewer Bo
Not going back to back. Spygate Patriots. Taking it from us, from The Rams.
- [38:08]
Interviewer C
From us.
- [38:09]
Interviewer Bo
St. Louis Rams.
- [38:10]
Interviewer C
You were a Cowboys fan.
- [38:11]
Interviewer Bo
I was a Cowboys fan. But you're still like, you know, when this, when the city team wins as a kid, you're on that bandwagon, you know what I mean? Like Marshall Falk was on the COVID of Madden. You pretended to be guys like Marshall Falk, Terrell Davis, Eddie George out in the front yard. But back to the question of not getting that back to back super bowl against the Patriots. Talk about that.
- [38:33]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, that was a tough one, man. You know, for, for a while I hung on that loss more than I did the win, you know, and, and, and you just, you, you just, you know, you gotta let it go. You literally let it go. And, and that's, that's easy to do when you play sports, you know, you, you don't, you don't really know how, what you need in order to enjoy the wins. It's so much easier to go down and be pissed off about the losses. So much easier, you know, because it becomes fuel to your fire. You know, you use it to like get stuff done, you know, really when you're the best, you're like, oh, I'm gonna work out harder. You know, it's like, it's harder to work out harder when you're the best. It's easier to work out harder when there's some adversity or something's up against you. And so, you know, I had to, I really had to like work on like, man, I gotta let this go. Like I, I, I enjoyed winning the super bowl more than I did losing the Super Bowl. Why am I not talking about this as much?
- [39:39]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah. Do you feel like there's any truth to the Spygate.
- [39:47]
Marshall Faulk
Emmanuel? I mean, hey, that's a yes. Let's, let's just, let's just say this. It's not one spy gate, it's two spy gates. There's all kinds of stuff that you know. But in this business of professional sports, you know, Al Davis used to say, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, man. And some people, you know, you find a way to get it done in the game, in between the lines. It ain't holding if they don't call it.
- [40:22]
Interviewer C
Yeah, but spying.
- [40:25]
Marshall Faulk
If they don't call it, they gotta call it.
- [40:27]
Interviewer Bo
Right.
- [40:28]
Marshall Faulk
The league has to throw the challenge flag on itself.
- [40:31]
Interviewer C
Yeah.
- [40:32]
Marshall Faulk
And they ain't never doing that. Yeah. We're not gonna be baseball. Remember that. Baseball got some tainted league ain't doing that.
- [40:39]
Interviewer C
No, they're not.
- [40:40]
Marshall Faulk
You're not gonna see no asterisk buying these Super Bowls.
- [40:42]
Interviewer C
Trust that when you come back to. Obviously you didn't play in Las Vegas for a Super bowl, but during super bowl week, like, is there a piece of nostalgia every time you come back?
- [40:51]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah.
- [40:51]
Interviewer C
And do all this stuff?
- [40:52]
Marshall Faulk
Always. Always. Yeah, always. Just. Just the memory, the memories of. Because. Because when you actually. When you're like. So when I was in the league, I would not come to a Super bowl until I played in one or until I won one. So I never came until. Until I. Until then I came in 94, and then I didn't come again until. Until after 99, until after the 2000 season. So you're always wondering when you're playing, like, what's happening? What's going on out there? What's happening? And now being on this side of it, I'm always thinking about, like, man, what are they talking about? Like, what are they game planning.
- [41:35]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
On the podcast health stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night.
- [41:39]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Yes. I'm Dr. Priyanka Walley, a double board certified physician.
- [41:43]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
And I'm Hari Kondabolu, a comedian and someone who once googled, do I have scurvy at 3am on health stuff, we're.
- [41:50]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Talking about health in a different way.
- [41:52]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
It's not only about what we can do to improve our health, but also.
- [41:55]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
What our health says about us and the way we're living.
- [41:58]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
Like our episode where we look at.
- [42:00]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Diabetes in the United states. I mean, 50% of Americans are pre diabetic.
- [42:06]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
How preventable is type 2?
- [42:09]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
Extremely. Or our in depth analysis of how incredible mangoes are.
- [42:15]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
Oh, it's hard to explain to rest of the world that, like, your mangoes are fine because mangoes are incredible. But, like, you don't even know.
- [42:23]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
You don't know.
- [42:24]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
You don't know.
- [42:26]
Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
It's going to be a fun ride.
- [42:28]
Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
So tune in Listen to health stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [42:35]
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- [43:35]
Wilmer Valderrama
What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time? You get Desi Arnaz, a trailblazer, a businessman, a husband, and maybe most importantly, the first Latino to break primetime wide open. I'm Wilmer Valderrama. And yes, I grew up watching him, probably just like you and millions of others. But for me, I saw myself in his story.
- [43:58]
Marshall Faulk
From cleaning canary cages to this night here in New York, it's a long ways.
- [44:03]
Wilmer Valderrama
On the podcast starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll take you on a journey to Desi's life. The moments it has overlapped with mine. How he redefined American television and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like ours on screen. This is the story of how one man spotlight led the path for so many others and how we carry his legacy today. Listen to Starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
- [44:35]
Marshall Faulk
What's the scheme? Like the guys, what are they planning on? Because you talk about how much you're going, man, after we win this, after we win this, here's what we going to do after we win. Oh, I can't wait. I can't. Like you're manifesting your destiny and so you're talking about it, you can see it. And that's why when you lose it, Hurts so much.
- [44:58]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah.
- [44:59]
Interviewer C
There's obviously a lot of passion in your voice. Like, where did you get this championship mindset? Has it always been since you were a young child, or did it have to develop over process of elimination of trying new things and kind of having to pivot if it. Okay, this, this mindset, this way, this body of work is not working for me right now. Like, where did you get to where what we're seeing right now, when you.
- [45:17]
Marshall Faulk
Do youngest and because of age, size or whatever, you don't get the win, it burns in you. Like, I. So basketball is my first sport and my brothers, they all play basketball. And my two brothers that were really good, when I got big enough, they wouldn't play me, so they didn't want to lose to me. So it's literally just. It's just a competitor to me. You know, I compete at everything. Everything that I do, I compete and I'm always competing against myself. I'm just trying to get better, just trying to get better. I'm trying to live life better, trying to be a better human every day.
- [45:52]
Interviewer C
There's gotta be like, with football players or anybody who plays a sport in general, there's gotta be like this insane competitiveness, like, about you in every facet. Like, I feel like it doesn't leave any part of your life. Like, what about it? What now? Are you like the most competitive?
- [46:09]
Marshall Faulk
Probably golf.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
Big golfer.
- [46:12]
Marshall Faulk
I love golf. I love golf. It's. It's the most mentally challenging thing that I've ever done in my life. Like, it's, you know, I've never been so mad and disappointed in myself for not being able to mentally focus at something that doesn't hit back. You know, it's crazy.
- [46:32]
Interviewer C
If you could play somebody, one, a celebrity in golf, just to know that you could beat them, who would it be?
- [46:38]
Marshall Faulk
To know that I can be.
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Interviewer C
Not know that you could beat that. But if you wanted to prove yourself like a guy like Michael Jordan, we.
- [46:44]
Marshall Faulk
Know he plays all the time like Tiger. Like, I would like to play Tiger in a match and beat you.
- [46:47]
Interviewer C
Think you'd be Tiger?
- [46:47]
Marshall Faulk
I'm saying I would like to play Tiger.
- [46:52]
Interviewer Bo
Tiger.
- [46:52]
Marshall Faulk
Come on, man. Like, really?
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Interviewer C
Have you seen the clip? There's a. There's a barstool podcast called Foreplay and they did a long drive competition with Tiger. Have you seen that clip?
- [47:00]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Interviewer C
And he's on his knee.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer C
Incredible.
- [47:03]
Interviewer Bo
Out drives them.
- [47:04]
Interviewer C
Out drives them. That is just crazy.
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Interviewer Bo
Do you got any good? I got to play with London Fletcher. Like his Last year. Dude, do you have any good London Fletcher stories? Because you was. He was with him when he was young, like, undrafted. Like, he always had this look in his eye. He kept it in his entire career. But do you have any good London Fletcher stories?
- [47:21]
Marshall Faulk
So the best. This is my best. I don't know if you. We named them.com.com Fletcher.com. so we started calling him dot com. But here's how I met London. I was on the coats and we had a joint practice because Jim Moore, he and Dick Vermeil, they coached together at ucla. So we meet at Champaign, Illinois, and we have a joint practice, all right? And we get ready to do one on ones. And, like, the starting linebacker comes up. I don't. I don't remember who it was. And I came up and I come out the backfield, I run a route, catch the ball. Then we move to the other side. I come up, the other starting linebacker came up. Shh. Caught the ball on him. And then it's time for me to go again. And the linebacker that's up is, like, wearing number 66. And I turned around, I'm like, can y' all get somebody else in here? And it was London. It was London because it was his rookie year. And he was like. He was like, you don't want to go against me. You don't want to go against me. I'm like, look, man, I ain't trying to get hurt messing with no rookie, all right? And two years later, I'm playing with him and we line up, and he reminded me, he was like, hey, I know you don't notice, but I was number 66 when we were in camp. I said, okay, did he ever do.
- [48:52]
Interviewer Bo
Ever strap you in one on ones?
- [48:54]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, no, not. Never. No, he. He couldn't. Not. No.
- [48:57]
Interviewer Bo
But, you know, I mean, a linebacker, pass back, such a cheap.
- [49:01]
Marshall Faulk
Right, right. Pass pro, you know, Pass pro. Meet him in the A gap, catching him off the edge. Yeah, he. He. He won his battles there. You know, I put up a good fight, and I'm supposed to lose that. I'm just supposed to occupy your time.
- [49:12]
Interviewer Bo
Right, right, right.
- [49:14]
Marshall Faulk
I'm not supposed to win. I'm just supposed to get in your way.
- [49:16]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah.
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Interviewer C
Die a slow death.
- [49:17]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, yeah. But. But one on one, he no chance. I told him, I say, listen, here's the reality. Ain't whether I'm going to catch the ball. The reality is you're not going to touch me. Like, in this drill, me winning is whether you touch me or not.
- [49:33]
Interviewer Bo
Has there been A linebacker two strap you. Whether it's in a game.
- [49:36]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's. It's. Listen, it's going to happen, right? I mean, it's. Yeah, it's happened many a times, but. But like we're talking situation, right? You know what I'm saying? If it's, if it's third and I gotta win, whatever that is, it ain't happening. Now, you can catch me on second down, you can probably catch me, you know, but if we're calling a play, and this play is. It's third in this and we're going to. They're calling my route or a play to me. Unless they double team me, like, and take me out and make the quarterback not throw it to me, I'm winning. That's. That's just. That was like guaranteed.
- [50:14]
Interviewer Bo
I mean, you essentially, I mean, you were like, known for the Falk route. Coming out of the backfield, running vertical. I know that was absolute hell for any linebacker to have to do. Just COVID Marshall out of the basketball.
- [50:25]
Marshall Faulk
Listen, what are you thinking about? You're like, okay, is he gonna break in? He gonna break out, right? And the minute he runs by you.
- [50:30]
Interviewer C
You'Re like, oh, are you strapping down, Marshall?
- [50:36]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, I mean, I'll be, you know, I'll get him every now and then.
- [50:38]
Interviewer C
You think so?
- [50:39]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna get. I'm gonna have my day.
- [50:41]
Marshall Faulk
I'm gonna have nine out of 10 times. I'm gonna win.
- [50:43]
Interviewer Bo
I'm gonna guess right at some point. I'm gonna guess right at some point.
- [50:46]
Marshall Faulk
Another time I fell down.
- [50:49]
Interviewer C
Come on.
- [50:50]
Interviewer Bo
I'm gonna get. I'll have to guess, but I'll guess right at some point. Then that's when I'll stop playing. You know what I mean? Right now, Marshall, you know, get somebody else there. I'm not trying to get hurt against somebody like you.
- [51:01]
Marshall Faulk
Dude.
- [51:02]
Interviewer Bo
You were talking earlier about always wanting to be the running back. Like, never leave the field, be that guy at all times. Talk about, like, when Stephen Jackson was coming in and you start splitting carries and splitting reps in the later part of your career. Like, how was that for you?
- [51:16]
Marshall Faulk
So the story is different than that. When, when they drafted Steven, I had a conversation because Steven and I, we had the same agent. And, and I said to Stephen, I say, look, here's the reality. And I told Mike, I said, here's the reality. If you want the job, you gotta beat me out. I'm not giving it to you. Like, I'm not. You have to. You have to take this job. And I told him, I said, the only reason why that's the case is in this huddle, the best guy gonna be here for these dudes. And so if you beat me out, you're the best guy. That's it. But I knew I was, you know, I was. I think I was like 32, you know, and I was like, I couldn't play whole games anymore. I needed, you know, I needed to kind of split time a little bit, you know, I just. I wasn't the back. I was right. I once was. So it was. It was good. He learned a lot. You know, I sat down with him and went over film and talked about, here's what I see. Here's what I'm thinking. This is my pre stab read, you know, whatever I could teach him. I taught him just in. Not like taking him under my wing. Just, I want. When he's in there, I want him to have what I have and how I see things for the other 10 guys in there. So. And he was awesome, man. He never. I mean, you're an early pick, you know, you're playing behind, you know, guys in his 11th, 12th year.
- [52:53]
Interviewer Bo
Right.
- [52:53]
Marshall Faulk
You know, and it's like, shit, you can't win the job. That could mess with your confidence, you.
- [52:59]
Interviewer Bo
Know, That's a young man's game.
- [53:02]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, that's starting to mess with your confidence. And the only thing that kept me in the game was because, you know, like, the mental side of the game, you know, mentally. Mentally, I just, I didn't make many mistakes. And when you can. When you can, when your mind is sharp and you can not make mistakes and you can be efficient with carries, always get positive yards. Although you don't hit the home run the way you used to, and you're not. You can't do all the things that you used to do. You can still be effective.
- [53:32]
Interviewer C
How was the. How was that process when you started to figure out, okay, I can't hit the home run, I am losing a step. Like father, time is starting to catch up with you. Denial 100, right?
- [53:41]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah, you're in denial.
- [53:42]
Interviewer C
When did the denial turn into acceptance?
- [53:48]
Marshall Faulk
Maybe the season before my last. So my. The 12th year, I had a series of games that, I mean, like, I never got tackled by the first guy. And so it happened probably three or four games where single guy ran up on me. I put a move on him and he got me. And I was. And I was like. And I was like, man, you know, huh? You just. You're thinking like, oh, that was a good tackle. He barely got my leg. Oh, he barely. Oh, he. He hit my leg and it hit my other foot.
- [54:23]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah.
- [54:24]
Marshall Faulk
And those are things that. That first guy wouldn't even touch me.
- [54:28]
Interviewer C
Right.
- [54:29]
Marshall Faulk
Just a few years and now. Yeah. And now I'm getting tackled by the first guy. To me that was like, you know, that's like a wounded animal out there. I'm like, listen, there's blood in the water. There's no way. I talk too much smack when I play. Like, there's no way I'm gonna be out here. And I can't. I got. I can't make the first guy miss. I'm in trouble.
- [54:48]
Interviewer Bo
You were a shit talker on the field.
- [54:50]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah.
- [54:51]
Interviewer Bo
Who's some of the best shit talkers you went against?
- [54:54]
Marshall Faulk
Ah, Johnny Randle, Rodney Harrison. Strahan talked all day. Oh, SAP. Oh, my God. SAP wouldn't shut up. SAP would not shut up. Yeah.
- [55:08]
Interviewer C
It's impressive to see a big guy that doesn't shut up.
- [55:10]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
- [55:11]
Interviewer C
You know, he can kind of motor around that much and keep the jaw sets going the whole time.
- [55:14]
Interviewer Bo
Right.
- [55:16]
Marshall Faulk
SAP was the one. And he had an issue with this guard that we had, Frankie Garcia, and he talked smack to him the whole game. Called his name out the whole. Every time he was in. Harold, Frankie, I'm coming to get you. I'm coming. Frankie, look at me.
- [55:34]
Interviewer Bo
Anything you're saying to Frankie, like, hey.
- [55:35]
Interviewer C
Frankie, it's okay, brother. We're here for you.
- [55:37]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah.
- [55:37]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, well, the first, the first time it happened, he was like, frankie, Frankie. And Frankie, Frankie. And I'm looking this way, Frankie's back is just happening. And I say, frankie, he talking to you.
- [55:48]
Interviewer C
Oh, shit.
- [55:50]
Interviewer Bo
Frankie, you gotta do something. Frankie, stand up for your.
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Marshall Faulk
Frankie. I know you hear him. He's talking to you.
- [58:57]
Interviewer C
And off its alignment, a lot of those dudes are soft spoken cats. Was he, was he a talker? Was Frankie a talker?
- [59:03]
Marshall Faulk
Was he kind of keeping have nothing to say.
- [59:04]
Interviewer C
Frank is a killing with kindness kind of guy.
- [59:06]
Marshall Faulk
Something happened. Frankie was playing somewhere else and him and SAP, some. Something happened.
- [59:11]
Interviewer C
Yeah.
- [59:11]
Marshall Faulk
And they had issues. And when. That's when. Anytime SAP played him, regardless of who he was playing on, he. He got after him. Damn.
- [59:20]
Interviewer C
It's a bad guy to have on your back.
- [59:22]
Interviewer Bo
How do you. How do you feel? Like the game has gotten softer since you. Since your guys's era.
- [59:27]
Marshall Faulk
I wouldn't say softer. They just, they're. They're playing smarter now. In playing smarter, what they've done is unfair to defense. You know, guys are running across the middle like they're Bambi. They can't be touched. They trying to play brave like, you know what I'm saying? Like, dude, stop running across the middle. And you gonna get up talking smack to somebody because they can't hit you unless you look at them. Like, if I. If I always say if I duck, that mean I saw you.
- [59:57]
Interviewer C
Yeah.
- [59:58]
Marshall Faulk
So that creates helmet to helmet. More helmet to helmet contact happens when a guy ducks. You're a linebacker, you're going in, he duck. Bam. Helmet to helmet flag on you.
- [60:06]
Interviewer Bo
Right.
- [60:06]
Marshall Faulk
They've put, they put too much of this responsibility on the defensive guy. The quarterback throwing the ball, not protecting his receiver, the offensive coordinator calling these plays, putting these guys in these kamikaze situations. None of them are responsible.
- [60:21]
Interviewer C
And giving a lot of interpretation up to the referee.
- [60:24]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
- [60:25]
Interviewer C
Putting them in a difficult position.
- [60:27]
Marshall Faulk
And listen, any, any hit that looks bad, they gotta throw a flag.
- [60:31]
Interviewer C
Got to.
- [60:32]
Marshall Faulk
They have to. Yeah.
- [60:33]
Interviewer Bo
What were your guys's off seasons? Like, I'm trying to remember, because we had all start on. And he was talking about, you know, how the union, how it shifted. We asked for all this off time and stuff like that. Like, what were your guys. How long were you guys off seasons? Like, when did you have to report? When. So your last game was in January?
- [60:51]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah. So last game in January, let's say February. We started off season conditioning. And right after the draft, off season conditioning would be from February until the beginning of April. And then you would leave after April, you come back right after the draft and do the first minicamp. They'd have a, you know, if you were first or second year guy with the rookies, you do that minicamp, and then the next week they'd have. The vets would come and you'd do another minicamp with the vets and the rooks. Yeah. And. And camp was six weeks long.
- [61:30]
Interviewer Bo
Damn, man, we do got.
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Interviewer C
I mean, we're soft and, and not even talking about two days.
- [61:35]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah.
- [61:35]
Interviewer C
How to practice two days.
- [61:36]
Marshall Faulk
Not for real. Real 2A days.
- [61:38]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, I was gonna say.
- [61:38]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah. Not like, not like helmets, only like.
- [61:41]
Interviewer C
My rookie year, a two day would be like practice in the morning with pads, a little jog through in the afternoon.
- [61:46]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, Nah, we. We were. We were full, strap. 10 days in a row.
- [61:51]
Interviewer C
Full tackle. Too full.
- [61:52]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah. Tackle to the ground.
- [61:54]
Interviewer Bo
God, we are soft.
- [61:55]
Marshall Faulk
Sure yardage. Sure yardage and goal line, like live.
- [61:59]
Interviewer Bo
Now, when you, when you were Marshall Falk, mvp, Marshall Falk, were you having to participate in all the two days?
- [62:06]
Marshall Faulk
I still did it. Yeah, I still did it. Yeah. Yeah. Because like, that was I. I always. My conditioning was how I beat people. I was like you. When we got to the fourth quarter, I know you didn't work as hard as me. I knew it. There's no way you worked as hard as me. No way.
- [62:27]
Interviewer Bo
What was, what was it like? You had, you know, you had the skill positions like yourself. You mentioned Tori Holt, Isaac Bruce. Was all your guys's work ethics just sickening like you're explaining?
- [62:39]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, we. We pushed each other, like in conditioning, like, we were all. We raced, we pushed each other. Like some of the stuff you saw in games wasn't even close to what we did in practice. If you thought the greatest show on turf and if you watch some of the practices. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
- [63:00]
Interviewer C
The joint practices today are like the worst. It's like a war. I can't imagine what they were like when you played.
- [63:06]
Marshall Faulk
Well, now in today's game, that's all they have to. They understand that. They get in a fight. Practice over.
- [63:13]
Interviewer C
Yeah, yeah. But it's also like, there's not a whole two at the same time. Like there's not. You know, if you get like a little scuffle, like there's not. You have to worry about penalties. Guys are playing a lot harder and a lot dirty. I feel like joint practices are actually more difficult than games to an extent.
- [63:29]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Like, for us, a joint practice was easier than our practice. Yeah. Because a joint practice, I'm going against somebody who don't know me. When you're going against somebody, when you practice against somebody who know what you do every damn day, you know how hard that is to defeat him.
- [63:47]
Interviewer C
Yeah. Every day it's like to learn everything.
- [63:49]
Marshall Faulk
The team you got to play in your division, you got to play him twice. That second time you play him, it's hard. And if you play him a third time, you're like, we Beat him twice. Can we beat him again? It's hard, but now you get to go up against another team that's like, oh, man, this. This is cake. This. This guy don't know my tricks.
- [64:06]
Interviewer C
Right. Playing. Make a lot of relationships in football. Obviously. Who was. Give me your top three teammates of all time. Doesn't have to be best players, just the boys you like hanging out with the most.
- [64:17]
Marshall Faulk
Todd Light, Tory Holt, and who else? Oh, a guy that. So. So this is funny. So my backup in college was my backup in the pros.
- [64:37]
Interviewer C
For real?
- [64:37]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah. A guy named Justin Watson.
- [64:39]
Interviewer C
How to get to the NFL. Playing behind you. Like you say, you never come off the field.
- [64:43]
Marshall Faulk
It just happened.
- [64:44]
Interviewer C
No way.
- [64:45]
Interviewer Bo
See, was he younger than you? And then, like, you leave. He has a year. He's doing it.
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Interviewer C
Gosh. Yeah.
- [64:50]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, I left. So he was my backup. I left. He had two years. He was in camp with the Chargers. He was in camp with the Chargers, was on their practice squad for two years, and then got picked up when I got traded to the Rams.
- [65:06]
Interviewer Bo
You got any good? Your best post super bowl memory in that next week two span after you guys win the title?
- [65:14]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, man, just everywhere I went, I think I spent the week down in Miami, South Beach. Rented a yacht.
- [65:25]
Interviewer Bo
Like, just the boys, just on a bender.
- [65:27]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, I mean, I was. I mean, you gotta remember, I never won anything in football. Like, I never won. I never wanted football, man. You know what I'm saying? You never. Like, I never. I won a championship in basketball, baseball. I won state running track. I never won a championship in football. And my. The first championship I win in football is in the NFL. I lost my damn mind.
- [65:51]
Interviewer C
Now, y' all must have been going crazy, too.
- [65:53]
Interviewer Bo
Most money you spent in a night.
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Marshall Faulk
So I was. I was a smart part of you, you know, I didn't always take it on. I always had teammates with me. So we split the bill. We always split the bill.
- [66:06]
Interviewer C
So no credit card roulette or nothing like that?
- [66:08]
Marshall Faulk
I mean, that happened a couple of times.
- [66:09]
Interviewer C
Yeah, but just make sure you didn't get got.
- [66:11]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah, I mean, you don't make sure. You know, I've. I've. Yeah, I mean, it's happened. It's happened.
- [66:17]
Interviewer Bo
What's the heaviest bill you've seen?
- [66:19]
Marshall Faulk
Uh, one of the trips we took to Vegas. Oh, Mario.
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Interviewer C
What the.
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Marshall Faulk
What's up, my man?
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer C
What's up, bro?
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Interviewer Bo
Flavor Flav, man.
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Interviewer C
How we doing?
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Interviewer Bo
Good seeing you, man. So I'm in Michigan Right?
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer C
Michigan. Michigan versus Nebraska. A couple years ago, I had to.
- [66:52]
Marshall Faulk
Come in here and scroll my own version of a touchdown.
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Interviewer C
Dude, right here.
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Marshall Faulk
How you doing, my brother? I'm good, man. I'm good. Good. No complaints.
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Marshall Faulk
No complaints, no interruption break out, man. You know what I'm saying?
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Wilmer Valderrama
I just wanted to come spread some.
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Marshall Faulk
Love, man, and probably see you probably later on tonight. Let's do that. Okay. My man. My man. Excuse the interruption. You're good.
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Interviewer Bo
Welcome to busting with the boys, man.
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Interviewer C
Hey, take care.
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Wilmer Valderrama
God bless.
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Marshall Faulk
See you in a few, Marshall. Right on, man.
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Interviewer C
Hey, I did see him in the back there. I saw that chain. I was like, is that.
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Marshall Faulk
You did?
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Interviewer C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
Flavor Flav just jumping in.
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Interviewer C
Hey, what a way to end the show.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
How do you know Flavor Flav?
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Marshall Faulk
Oh, man.
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Interviewer C
You super bowl when you can see.
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Interviewer Bo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Interviewer C
He was on that yacht.
- [67:44]
Interviewer Bo
It's him popping in. Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
Hey, man, me and Flav, we go back, man. That's. That dude's a pioneer, man.
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Interviewer C
Yeah. Yeah.
- [67:52]
Marshall Faulk
You gotta love some Flav.
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Interviewer Bo
Who's the first dude you were starstruck by?
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Marshall Faulk
M flavor of love? Probably. I was in college. I just, like, bursted onto the scene my freshman year, the next year, and I went up to LA to watch. To watch Martin and to get to meet Martin Lawrence, you know, like, in the time when he was doing Martin. Oh, man, I was just like, you know, I wasn't into the whole Hollywood thing, but to see, like, you know, most actors play somebody else, but Martin is Martin. Like, Martin is Martin Lawrence. So, like, you getting to see the dude be himself. Yeah, it was just like, damn, this is. This dude. Is this Martin, man? He was like, the first star. Star that I met.
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Interviewer Bo
How about. I'll flip it. Who was the first dude who you weren't necessarily starstruck by, but you're surprised that they were super, like, knew who you were or start. Or was starstruck by you.
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Marshall Faulk
I'm trying to be like, oh, man.
- [69:02]
Interviewer Bo
This dude, he knows who I am.
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Interviewer C
Someone comes up, though. I'm a big fan of you. You're like, bro, you're you, right? Yeah.
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Interviewer Bo
Like Charles Woodson in here early. He's like, oh, yeah, Busting with the boys.
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Marshall Faulk
I'm like, oh, Charles.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
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Marshall Faulk
I'm trying to. Oh. Like, we got a call. I'm trying to think. I think it was. I think it was Jay Z. We got a call because he wanted a jersey. He wore it in. In a video. He's in a. He's in a. Like he wearing a bunch of videos. This was like, you know, late 90s J, maybe early 2000. J. One of my, one, one of my jerseys is in his video.
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Interviewer C
Oh, that's a good one.
- [69:52]
Marshall Faulk
Like, I was like, me, like my jersey, you know, cats, cats from New York, they don't want to, they don't win the outside of jersey when you're from New York. Yeah, they wearing all New Yorker stuff.
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Interviewer C
Man, that's awesome.
- [70:05]
Interviewer Bo
That is sick. Anthony, should we ask him anything before we leave, before we head out? Is he still in here? Oh, absolutely. So many of these texts.
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Marshall Faulk
On the.
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Health Stuff Host Hari Kondabolu
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Wilmer Valderrama
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Marshall Faulk
From cleaning canary cages to this night here in New York. It's a long ways.
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Wilmer Valderrama
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Interviewer C
Okay.
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Wilmer Valderrama
All right.
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Interviewer Bo
We have, before we let you go, talk about a drug free world.
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Marshall Faulk
Yeah, man, I know we've been having some good times here, but as you guys see, like I literally, I went talk to some high schoolers and, and these kids, man, they're, they have no idea. They have no idea Fentanyl and drugs, what's going on. And they're curious. And a lot of the times, as you know, we were kids, the minute your parent or somebody said say don't do, what do you do?
- [74:04]
Interviewer Bo
You do curious. Yeah.
- [74:06]
Marshall Faulk
And we've just taken a different approach. I tell people, go to drugfreeworld.org we're not going to tell you to say. We're not going to tell you. No, we're not going to tell you to. Don't do. We're going to tell you educate yourself. Like just like you use Google, go to our site, get the information. Don't let your friend tell you this drug made me feel like this. And then you try it and you die.
- [74:27]
Interviewer Bo
Right?
- [74:27]
Marshall Faulk
Or something crazy happens. Literally. We have educator kits, information, anything and everything under the sun that you would need just to understand before you try it, what's out there for you?
- [74:42]
Interviewer Bo
So what, what got you into that?
- [74:45]
Marshall Faulk
I just, I grew up around drugs and listen, I made it to the hall of fame and I wasn't the best player on my team in High school, there's. I wasn't the best player in my community.
- [74:55]
Interviewer Bo
I mean, you seem like you played every position. I would almost assume that you were probably the best player.
- [74:59]
Marshall Faulk
I wasn't.
- [75:00]
Interviewer C
You guys won six games.
- [75:01]
Marshall Faulk
I wasn't, bro.
- [75:01]
Interviewer C
You guys won six games. You played every.
- [75:02]
Marshall Faulk
I'm telling you, man, the best. The best guy sometimes didn't show up. You know, he was cool. He was smoking weed. He was cool. He was, you know, and then eventually that guy was the guy. After my rookie year, I go back home, he's the guy on drugs. It's like, so what do you do? What do you do? How do you let people know? I believe the best way to let people know is by educating them and giving them the opportunities to, like, hey, at your own liberties, go to the site drugfreeworld.org, get the information, make the right decision.
- [75:37]
Interviewer Bo
Was it just, like, an area that just touched you to be like, I want to, like, get in the space? Or was there anything.
- [75:41]
Marshall Faulk
I was always in the space. I grew up around it. Yeah, I grew up around it, you know, has touched me deeply. You know, I've lost many friends. I've had family members partake and have issues, you know, and. And recover, you know. Yeah. To live a better life. But everybody don't make it, right. Everybody don't make it.
- [76:03]
Interviewer Bo
How, you know, in your experience, do you approach conversations like that with somebody close to you that you would. You know, it's like you want to immerse yourself into their world and try to help them out, but you struggle, like, bridging that gap for people that are, like, watching right now. I know. I think of a couple situations in my circles where you, like, you're just trying to find the lane of, like, getting them the help they. Getting them the help they need, I guess, without, like, being, like, forcing yourself onto them, like, in your experience, like, what advice would you have with that?
- [76:40]
Marshall Faulk
What I say is, and what I'm always trying to do is, anything. Anything that we find ourselves needing in life, you got to find out why. Like, well, why do I like that? Why do I need to do this? What. What is this masking? Because it's masking something. And if you can get down to the core, then you can solve the problem. And the reality is they might not want to. They might not want the problem solved. They might like how they live, how they live their life. And when that's. When that's the case, then you got to back off, because until they are ready, it's not Going to happen. You can't make it happen for them. I can't make it happen for them. They have to be ready.
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Interviewer C
Yeah.
- [77:25]
Interviewer Bo
That's like the hardest part, right?
- [77:26]
Marshall Faulk
It is, yeah.
- [77:27]
Interviewer C
Just trying to get somebody to get out of their own way and in.
- [77:30]
Interviewer Bo
Like, backing up when you're just like, you know, you care about somebody and you're, you know.
- [77:33]
Interviewer C
Yeah. Because anytime, that type of situation where you're dealing with somebody that's using or abusing, it's like you want to help them. But usually with people that are abusing something, when you go and approach them with that situation.
- [77:45]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah.
- [77:45]
Interviewer C
It's usually met with resistance and it ends up in a kill the messenger type of situation.
- [77:49]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah. Do you go around and speak a lot?
- [77:51]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, yeah, yeah. And. And you know, the, the idea is that is. Is just street drugs. It's not just street drugs. You know, there's, there's some prescription drugs that's. That's out here, man.
- [78:01]
Interviewer C
Prescription drugs are a whole nother ball game, like there, I mean, playing. Obviously you get in there, they give you a couple pills, like, hey, this is. Make you feel a little better. You take it, you're like, oh, I, I get it. I understand why people get addicted to these things and their lives easily end up getting ruined. Because it is, I mean, it's a deal.
- [78:20]
Marshall Faulk
It is.
- [78:20]
Interviewer C
It's a bit of a deal.
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Interviewer Bo
It's awesome that you go and do that too. Like, you were obviously pivotal and influential on the field. First ballot hall of Famer. And so you have influence beyond that. And it's really cool to hear that you go around and speak and, and try to, you know, advise and mentor and, and speak to kids because you're, you know, you're Marshall Falk, bro. You are Marshall Falk.
- [78:39]
Marshall Faulk
Gotta use the platform for, you know, others just. Other than just making money.
- [78:44]
Interviewer C
Yeah, yeah.
- [78:45]
Marshall Faulk
You got to make a difference too, in this world, man.
- [78:47]
Interviewer C
No question, man.
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Interviewer Bo
Last one. Hang on, hang on. Right before he goes. First ballot hall of Famer, what was it like, that knock on your door? However it happened, were you expecting in your head, are you like, I am a first ballot hall of Famer, so let's see how this shakes up.
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Marshall Faulk
So I'm gonna tell you the story, all right? It's just true story. But this was before the knock. This is like you gathered with your family and friends. They announced it, they brought you to the super bowl, and then you would go meet somewhere and they would do like a press conference, wherever that was for the people that decided to Come. And I was like. I was so sure. I was like, there's no way that I'm not getting in. No way. You know, that's all I kept thinking. And my agent did a deal with Anheuser Busch, being that it was in St. Louis at the time headquarters. And at the Bud Light Hotel. When the Bud Light, When Bud used to be. When Anheuser Bush was the Bud was the beer. Bud Light was the beer of the NFL. They had a hotel like the bottom floor. I mean, we packed it with 2, 300 people that's there, you know, and we're watching, and I'm. And I'm standing. And as they come on and they're getting ready to call the names, the first time ever, I thought, what if they don't call my name? I'm standing there like, what if they don't call my name?
- [80:23]
Interviewer Bo
Like, we just got all these people here. We're at the Bud Light people here.
- [80:28]
Marshall Faulk
I mean. And when I think back, I'm like, man, that's like somebody saying no or running away at the altar.
- [80:34]
Interviewer C
Yeah.
- [80:35]
Marshall Faulk
You know, I'm like. I'm thinking to myself, oh, my God, what if they don't call my name?
- [80:39]
Interviewer C
You start looking tactically, like, at all the exits. Like, where's the easiest way out of here if they don't call my name? Try to figure out.
- [80:45]
Marshall Faulk
Yep. And then, man, like, three names in. They said my name. I was like, oh, my God.
- [80:52]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, it got in your head too much.
- [80:54]
Marshall Faulk
Oh, man. And from there. From there, literally, they. Wherever you're at, because you tell. You got to tell them where you're going to be. Car pulled up, takes me to the place. Take me to the place where they're doing an interview. And on the ride, like, your football life is literally playing in your head. From your little league coach, your high school coach, things that people taught you, things like how many people had been on this journey with you to end up, you know, in. In this place, like. Like, hold on, wait. Like, there's. At the time, like, there's only 200 and, like, 16, like, 275 of these guys, and I'm one of them. Like, are you kidding me?
- [81:40]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, man.
- [81:41]
Marshall Faulk
Like that. Like, it starts to dawn on you, regardless of how confident you are, you look at it like, damn. Like, that's. You know, that. That's. That's pretty damn neat.
- [81:52]
Interviewer Bo
It's forever. I mean.
- [81:53]
Marshall Faulk
Yeah. Yeah. You know, and that's it. Like, in. In reality, that's all we want to do is be remembered, like, right and now to know that now to know forever generations can go identify with me as their relative. Or you know, like, like that's. And there's a place.
- [82:14]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, Ohio. Man, thank you so much.
- [82:16]
Marshall Faulk
This is all good, fellas.
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Interviewer C
Appreciate it.
- [82:18]
Interviewer Bo
Yeah, it's been a pleasure, man.
- [82:19]
Interviewer C
Awesome time. I appreciate you making the time, man.
- [82:20]
Marshall Faulk
This is right on.
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Interviewer Bo
That was awesome.
- [82:25]
Marshall Faulk
Anthony.
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Interviewer Bo
Anthony, we got.
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Marshall Faulk
Hey, this is Sarah.
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Marshall Faulk
Right now and well, you're sweet and all, but I found something more fulfilling, even kind of cheesy. But I like it.
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Marshall Faulk
Needs, but they've just got it all.
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Health Stuff Host Dr. Priyanka Walley
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Marshall Faulk
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Marshall Faulk
To beat the champ, you go to.
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Interviewer C
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Marshall Faulk
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