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I'm Jamie Erdall, what's happening?

That's Jason McCordy, Peter Strager, and Patrick Peterson's been hanging with us.

Joining us now, newly retired, Pro Bowl defensive tackle, a Super Bowl champion, very good friend of our show.

We always welcome him back warmly at our table of Malik Jackson.

What's up, Maliki.

So good to see you.

Appreciate it.

You look great.

These two are jealous of your post-playing physique.

How's your body?

It's feeling good.

I'm sure they'll poke up, get the muscle mass, you know what I'm saying?

So it's good.

Nice style.

No lie.

You're down what looks to be 40 to 50 pounds from your playing days, right? Yeah. How long did that take? It took me about like eight, nine months, but now I can finally go shop at Zara in the you know what I'm saying? So I can be a regular shopper now. Man of the people. That's exactly right. The last time you sat here, you publicly announced your retirement from the NFL. What have you been up to besides getting your weight to where you wanted to be? Retirement's been great. It took me a minute to figure out who I am, what I want to do. But what I figured out was I want to be able to help the guys at a retirement fellow NFL retirees. So I decided to make a company called Carling and Partners just to help guys navigate the nuances in the new lifestyle of being retired. So just working on that right now and trying to give back to the guys. Talk a little bit about that process because we always hear with professional athletes, guys transition out of the league and you go from walking into your building, which might be five minutes away. And there's trainers, there's equipment people that you have this bond with. And next thing you know, you retire one day, your cold doesn't work in that building anymore. And you're kind of cut off from that part of your life that you've invested so much. So just talk about when you just said finding myself and getting to know, talk a little bit about what that process was like for you. Oh, you know, retirement's hard because what, and you guys know, once you leave that building, you know, the kinds, you don't really understand what you're getting, right? We have people, the doctors coming in, the trainer's always available, the people always there, just helping you hand and foot, nutritionist, meals. And then you leave and you're like, okay, hey, I want to do this. And you're like, nobody's here.

I got to do it myself. So it's an interesting change. But, and then not only that, but just identifying as, okay, who am I now? going to do now you know I've been playing football since I was eight so I'm like I

have to try that at what 32 so now I'm like who I don't even know how to tell call a

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