The Real Deal: Zahir Giwa, LSU Cheer
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4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Hear from LSU cheerleader Zahir Giwa on the latest edition of The Real Deal podcast, talking all things cheer, content creation & more.
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| 0:00.0 | On July 1st, students ask you can profit off name, image, and lightning. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. |
| 0:07.0 | So, elementary school, middle school, high school, now you're in the deciding period of where you're going to go to school. |
| 0:20.0 | You're from Chicago. Why? LSU. What kind of sparked your interest? Because you have, I don't know, Chicago that well. But I know DePaul's right there. You got some other schools up in the north that are closer than coming down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Yeah. Champagne was probably one of my biggest places, Urbana Champagne. |
| 0:39.9 | It's just, I think it's about three hours down from Chicago. |
| 0:42.9 | I actually like almost pass it when I drive down here because I drive down here. |
| 0:48.7 | How long of a drive is that? |
| 0:50.3 | 12 to 13 hours. |
| 0:52.7 | I just do it straight. |
| 0:53.8 | Just hop in the car. |
| 0:54.9 | You're a warrior. |
| 0:56.2 | That drive sucks. |
| 0:59.2 | Okay, but the thing is, I think everybody's kind of like had this experience when they drive long periods time. |
| 1:05.1 | The first like three hours, in my opinion, are terrible. |
| 1:09.9 | That's the worst. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | The first three hours are terrible. And then after that, it's kind of like, you come to the realization, like, I'm in the car. Like, okay, whatever. Like, I'm in the car at this point. Like, I'm going to drive. So, you know, whatever. You're just kind of going along. Then you have, like, hour seven. you get I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say this, |
| 1:28.7 | but you get like that near death moment where you're just like, you're getting kind of tired and you're like, whatever. You drove up for a thing and you hit like the bumper things. Yeah. And I go, oh my God, what am I doing? And you like wake up. Then you get that adrenaline boost and that keeps me going for like the rest of the, I guess five hours from there, but yeah, the drive kind of sucks. |
| 1:45.5 | But at least it's a straight shot. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.9 | I don't got to do anything crazy like I'm I'm pretty sure I could drive like home without like even using the maps because I mean the signs are pretty good yeah interstate and everything yeah it's you literally just go straight up I don't know what the interstate's called, but you just go straight up from here. |
| 2:01.9 | And it's like pretty much you're in Chicago again. But LSU specifically, so I really wanted to run track. |
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