Ephraim Salaam: Navigating Hollywood as a writer, Finding Bel-Air, the Amazing Race debacle
NFL: Good Morning Football
iHeartPodcasts and NFL
4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former offensive tackle, and renaissance man Ephraim Salaam joins Peanut and Roman. Ephraim takes you on his journey from his days as a hoop star at San Diego St. University, to 13-year NFL veteran, to Hollywood writer and producer. He’s currently a staff writer on the hit Peacock show “Bel-Air” and Ephraim shares how his unusual path to that job started with something his wife gifted him. He also talks about how the topsy-turvy life in the NFL was great preparation for the unpredictable world of being a Hollywood writer. And Ephraim takes us inside his experience competing on the Amazing Race.
2:13 - Ephraim on his basketball career at San Diego St University
4:45 - Ephraim on how Draft status can outweigh performance in the NFL
7:50 - Ephraim on being a writer on the show Bel-Air and the importance of positive Black role models
15:14 - Ephraim on how his wife helped him get into how he got into writing
19:43 - Ephraim on how his NFL career prepared him for dealing with Hollywood rejection
27:37 - Ephraim gives career advice on the importance of adding value
32:14 - Ephraim on creating opportunities for Black people in Hollywood
34:48 - Ephraim on how he skipped two grades in elementary school
37:30 - Ephraim on his experience on the Amazing Race
42:00 - Ephriam on his wife’s career as a background dancer for Beyonce, Rihanna, and Usher
47:36 - Ephraim gives his personal Mount Rushmore
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Well, damn, y'all keep adding words and letters to the damn two. |
| 0:08.0 | What the f... |
| 0:09.0 | Second X. |
| 0:12.4 | This is Arafam. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the NFL player second X podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Peanut Tooman, and this is the NFL player second axe podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | And with me, as always, my trusted sidekick deacon Reverend Harper. What's up baby? What's up dog? I didn't know if you're going to |
| 0:46.6 | keep going there. No, I just kept a two piece. Okay. Well, thank you for keeping it just as a two piece |
| 0:51.5 | today. I don't want the three piece. So I do like the way that shirt compliments your hair though. The gray and the white around the beard, it is |
| 0:59.1 | complimented. Well, you're coordinating. You're coordinating. Some people wake up and have to work |
| 1:04.5 | at this peanut. Other of us, we just show up like this. So thank you. I appreciate all the |
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| 1:19.7 | Apple Podcasts or IHeart Radio Podcasts. Thank you as always. And Peanut, who is our guest today? |
| 1:26.8 | Hey, we got a special guest for y'all today. He was a |
| 1:29.3 | seventh round draft in the 1990s draft at a San Diego State, a 13-year NFL veteran. He played |
| 1:37.6 | left and right tackle, played in Super Bowl 33 with the Atlanta Falcons. He is a Chicago native from my town. Now he's a big |
| 1:47.0 | man in Highwood as a writer, producer, and he's a radio host. Ladies and gentlemen, please |
| 1:53.0 | welcome Ephraim Salam. You like that? Ladies and gentlemen, I like that. Yeah. I appreciate you |
| 2:00.4 | guys having me here, man. |
| 2:01.7 | I'm excited. |
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