What's become an annual tradition of us talking to our guy, Jared Payton. What's up, man? On Monday. I got you back on the bear hug finally. Yeah, you did. All these years are you sneaking up on me, Bear Hug? I got you. I almost flipped you, too. You were lucky. I didn't have my morning Starbucks yet, so I was about to get a little edgy and put you over. I only gave you like 40% of what I got. But once I saw the jacket, I knew.

I'm gonna to need the back crack when we're done with the interview. What's up, fellas? Man, we're here again. Can we start with a little emotion right at the thing here? Because I was listening to you doing radio on the score the other day, and your dad came up. Oh, yeah. And I was, I was what, you know, for me, my favorite thing on Instagram, TikTok, wherever is when Kobe pops up, is when MJ pops up, is when 34 pops up. So like as bad as social media can be in some ways, and I know you're a master of it. Seeing your dad's highlights pop up on my feed on the daily,

it's honestly the best thing that any of the apps do.

It's kind of crazy because I never thought back in 99 when he passed away

because all this social media wasn't invented yet.

So we were always talking about a 10-year plan, a five-year plan,

how to keep his legacy and memory alive.

And so to see the people on social media help our family keep his legacy alive, man, it's amazing.

But when you watch it in perspective of what he did on certain things things like sometimes it's like the saints game

where he ran for a touchdown through for two you know like things that you just don't see

that you're like could you imagine if he was in this day and age playing right now first and

foremost I wouldn't be here with you guys because the money wouldn't be too good to be working

I'm being serious but it's so cool to because the money would be too good to be working.

I'm being serious.

But it's so cool to be able to watch him.

And we saw a lot of them this year because of the success of the Bears. I was going to say, can you imagine what Ben Johnson would have done with your dad and his offense?

That would have been insane.

Just, no, I have no clue.

I look at CMC and I think about what he does on a daily basis of watching him every Sunday

and the workload that he puts on his shoulders.

I mean, that's what my dad did, man.

And he was, he never cried.

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