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Odell Beckham Jr. | Club Random

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Odell Beckham Jr. | Club Random", an episode of Club Random Podcast published June 30, 2025 (60 min, about 10,897 words). It mentions 23 people, works and ideas, including New York, New York, Barcelona, Atlanta, Georgia Tech, Chris Collinsworth.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: New York, New York, Factor, Chris Collinsworth, Zbiotics
  2. – 10:00: Robert Woods, The Art of War
  3. – 15:00: Barcelona, New York, New York
  4. – 20:00: Atlanta, Georgia Tech
  5. – 25:00: Factor, Zbiotics
  6. – 45:00: New York, New York, Saquon Barkley
  7. – 50:00: Barcelona, Jerry Rice
  8. – 55:00: LeBron James

Notable quotes from "Odell Beckham Jr. | Club Random"

  • This episode is sponsored by Factor. If you didn't already know by the longer days and scent of suntan lotion in the air, summer's here and our schedules are busier than ever. Let's face it, between.
    about Factor · at
  • You're the one hand catch guy of all the people. A few of them. Yeah. I'm I gotta tell you, lifelong New York Giant fan.
    about New York, New York · at
  • Be, legend in New York, it's completely different. And you were. I remember Chris Collinsworth like coming in his pants. Yeah. when you made that catch. all the sperm almost came through the TV. It's shut the [ __ ] up. I you.
    about Chris Collinsworth · at
  • Know that's a great [ __ ] attitude that's great that's Like you ever read the art of war? He says, keep the sword right behind you, but if you ever have to touch it, you've…
    about The Art of War · at
  • To a great team and I'll never forget I came to that team and funny story, Robert Woods. I'm walking on the practice field. I watched it.
    about Robert Woods · at
  • Instead of staying at Texas decided to go to LCU. My mom was all world track and field went to the 92 Barcelona Olympics pregnant came in fifth place or fourth or fifth or…
    about Barcelona · at
  • Long story short, I'll tell you a quick short story. My mom, four years old, I was in Atlanta, Georgia. My mom was a track coach at Georgia Tech. My stepdad was Olympic gold…
    about Atlanta · at
  • Some plays I'm just blocking. That's got to be boring. No, but not when you're blocking for a Saquon Barkley, right?
    about Saquon Barkley · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Chris Collinsworth — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Robert Woods — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Saquon Barkley — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Jerry Rice — Person · 1 mention · first at
    At some point in the near future, there are no 40-year-old receivers. Jerry Terry Jerry Rice was 40.
  • LeBron James — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Who do you go to? I think it's hard because it's like so LeBron James is one of my LeBron James biggest role models, idols, this that third. also a friend, brother, all that, right? There's so many people, but I'm Sure, he understands all.
  • Aaron Rodgers — Person · 1 mention
  • Bill Belichick — Person · 1 mention
  • Eli Manning — Person · 1 mention
  • Odell Beckham Jr. — Person · 1 mention

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Concepts & topics

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Sponsors

  • Factor — Sponsor · 6 mentions · first at
  • Zbiotics — Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Off and use code random for 50% off plus free shipping. This episode is sponsored by Zbiotics, the probiotic that turns hair of the dog from an act of desperation into an act of premeditation.

Full transcript with timestamps

This episode is sponsored by Factor. If you didn't already know by the longer days and scent of suntan lotion in the air, summer's here and our schedules are busier than ever. Let's face it, between work life, life that covers a lot. And pretending you're outdoorsy on Instagram, cooking is now just aspirational performance art. That's where Factor comes in. Factor meals arrive fresh and ready to eat. Get started at factormeals.com/random50 off and use code random for 50% off plus free shipping. This episode is sponsored by Zbiotics, the probiotic that turns hair of the dog from an act of desperation into an act of premeditation.

Summer is here, which means more opportunity to celebrate the warm weather. Don't forget your Ziotics pre-alcohol. Drink one before drinking, wake up feeling great and ready to take on the next day and all that summer has to offer. Go to ziotics.com/random to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use random at checkout. Well, I'm 5'8. How do you think I feel? Put your wallet on the above feet and then I'll tell you. Exactly. So, why don't you join the Steelers? That'd be great cuz he's on this Steelers now. I won't say that that it's not a possibility.

Odell here. Nope, not here. Beckham? Yes, sir. Reporting is ordered. How are you? Excuse my uh laugh. Okay, I'll make sure. Sports injury, which I'm sure you're familiar with. No, I never had any of those. You had worse. Although this you wouldn't want this. It's called a mallet finger. Yeah. Happens in basketball. That's how I got it. The ball hits, you know, like straight on and then and it's like the I saw the doctor. He said, "You'd be much better if you had broken the bone cuz it's the tendon." Yeah. Or me. I had a boot deformity. Boom. Hit it just like this. And they told me, "Keep it in a sling. It'll be straight." And And And was it? Yeah. I tried to keep it as And you're the one hand catch guy of all the people. A few of them. Yeah. I'm I gotta tell you, lifelong New York Giant fan.

Yes, sir. I mean, literally learned it on my father's knee who was a fan from like the inception of the team in the 20s. My father, you know, he was a kid. So, like I took him to the Super Bowl at here in ' 86 when they played the Broncos when I couldn't even afford it. But it was important. So like your years with the Giants, uh, thank you. Yeah. For great memories because that's my team. Definitely. And you know, for me, too. [ __ ] It was a It was just like It's It's crazy cuz it was a a different time and age um at the time. And just I'll never forget where I came from and then going to New York and how thick of skin I already had and how thick of skin how much thicker of skin I grew cuz of New York, man. But I but like I love New York forever for the rest of my life. I mean, you've been with a few teams since then. It's got to be But it's got to be It's got to be tough when you start in New York because

you're kind of, you know, it's at Yeah. the Right. I mean, where you anywhere else you're going is never going to be there. Look, I I grew up outside of New York and that's why they're still my teams, you know. I was a part Met owner for a while. I mean, I'm all in on New York, but I've lived here for 40 years. I never really liked living in New York. Yeah. But I get it that it's the Mecca. If we're being honest, New York is, you know what I mean? It's like you can't It's New York. Like, respect to New York, right? I love LA. It's a different vibe. Yeah. But it's New York, bro.

Like, and I And it's so funny cuz when I was there, it was always like I had just started kind of going out to LA and I had never been to California or whatever. And it was like, man, to be like the the LA would be something, but like to be the king of New York or to be, you know, legend in New York, it's completely different. And you were. I remember Chris Collinsworth like coming in his pants. Yeah. when you made that catch. I mean, all the the sperm almost came through the TV. It's like, shut the [ __ ] up. I I mean, you know, I mean, it was I didn't I didn't have anything to do with that. I didn't feel that nothing. I'm just saying it is funny to me the way sports casters, you know, sports the the sport that's like super macho and there's nothing gay about it and and yet they're kind of gay the way I mean, they just go gay for the for the players that they love. And uh you know, I mean, look in the stands,

you're wearing another man's shirt. Yeah. Nothing wrong with it. I'm just saying it it's it's it's not quite the macho image that they think, but there's there's been a gay player now. Wasn't didn't somebody come out in recent years, a football player? There's a few. But it's like, you know what? I mean, the world is open. Like, you be who you are. I personally I feel like this every man has to look himself in the mirror. Every woman has to look themselves in the mirror and be comfortable with themselves like and I am who I am.

That's something I kind of live by. If that's you, that's you, you know. And it's just like I know that makes it difficult and it's especially in the sport of football. It's kind of like it it's a tough cookie for people to like, you know what I mean, get with. But there's something about sports. I mean, obviously it's just a bro thing and a guy thing and there's still a lot of I'm sure Neanderthalss and good old boys and also Christians, you know, that's a big thing, especially in the black community, right? I mean, you know, there's a lot of, you know, boy, ineligible man downfield. You don't want an eligible man downfield.

Brother, everybody listen. Free world we live in. Like I I feel like at the end of the day, what what else are we looking for in this lifetime but to fulfill ourselves and be happy? Are you me? Yeah. Oh man, I'm happy. But you say it like I'm working. Throwing the glove down. Yeah. I'm glad you are. I'm I'm You know, and I'm still working on Why? What makes you happy these days? No, you're not with a team. Not with a team right now. So, you don't care. Is that I care a lot. You do? I I've You still got stuff in the tank. I got [ __ ] that I got to prove. You can still get open. I promise you that. And I got, you know, I like to stay under the radar right now because I'm like I'm trying to figure out my own life. It's like life hits at different times and it's like real [ __ ] happens and like for me having my son like just imagine you get to the pinnacle of your dream Super Bowl I'm telling you the game plan that McVey

had drawn up and me coup staff everybody I have to wear it we know about it you know that's a great [ __ ] attitude that's great that's Like you ever read the art of war? He says, you know, keep the sword right behind you, but if you ever have to touch it, you've already lost. Come on. It's right there. That's right there. And it's just like it just like a And obviously that's a touchy subject for me cuz it was it's bittersweet. It's like I went and joined that team. Yeah. And you made that great [ __ ] catching and got hurt, right?

Yeah. It it wasn't just that. It was the whole playoffs. It was the energy in the building. People don't know the whole dynamic of how uh Von Miller, Jaylen, like the whole locker room. Like it was a like that brotherhood thing is real. Like when you have guys who are really rocking with each other and I was I came to a great team and I'll never forget I came to that team and funny story, Robert Woods. I'm walking on the practice field. I watched it. They were practicing hard. I was like, damn, they're they're practicing hard.

Robert Woods. Robert Woods. Who is that again? He was in LA. No, remind me who what position. Receiver. Robert Woods. Okay. So, he played alongside you as receiver. He was in LA towards ACL the day I was walking on the field. Major part of their offense. Went to Houston. He's done. He's had a a great career. And it was like they were practicing hard and it was just like the competitiveness. I'll never forget two days me signing me having an ACL where like people didn't even know it took me like 24 hours to sign the deal because Dr. the elatars came in. He was like, "Yeah, we have to let you know that you don't have ACL, your MRI, blah blah blah." He's like, "We could redo your surgery or you could play with it." And I was I was like, "I'm going to die on the sword.

Like, I've come too far. I've been through too much." And you may not never get there again. I'm I'm ready to go. This is when I was just leaving the Cleveland situation. Yeah. Um that happened. But anyway, signed over there. Um and I'll never forget like week after week, uh Dr. D Rogers is like that is my family now. Uh Mcay the whole like family like he's did he do the one who did Aaron Rogers too? I don't know but he's Dr. He's the man. Shout out Shout out Shout out the lot because he he really is the man. He's a good dude.

Good family. Beautiful family. So he fixed your foot. My knee. Your knee. My My foot was in uh New York. That's another story. Well, you got to bring your foot when you get traded. You can't leave your foot in New York. I mean, come on. You're you're an athlete. The foot is what started everything. And it's so crazy that people really don't even know this story is like my doctor, um Dave Hancock, I'll never forget this. He was like, "Mate, this is the type of injury that'll ruin people's careers. I've seen it happen multiple times. He's worked with multiple sports teams, Chelsea the whoevers all all over in Europe. He's a soccer player. And he's like, "What you're having done like grade two high ankle sprain. What it could turn into is really bad." And I came back three or four weeks too early. I I'll never forget we had to sit I had to sit out the first week of Dallas at Dallas and Dallas beat us and it was a division

game and I was feeling all the pressure and I was like I got to come back for my team. We had week two against um the Lions and it was a Monday night game and it was like I know I'm not really ready but I can't see us going 0 and2 and starting off in a bad way like I got to try and find a way to get back for my team. I never understand how athletes can play when they're, you know, not at 100% because the nature of elite athletes and professional sports. The reason why we watch them is because I mean everybody in on the field like when they were in grade school, high school, they were like way way way above all the other kids as far as how good they were.

I'm sure you were too. And then they get to college and if you can still be like elite, but even a lot of college great college players go to the pros. I've seen enough episodes of Hard Knocks, you know, the coach is like it's just faster up here. Everything is just faster. And this guy was great in college and we we cut him in three days. Yeah. So, like considering that you have to be on that much of a razor's edge level just to be that much above better than the guy you're playing against, I don't know how you can do it when you're nursing an injury. It's just it's like the heart.

It's like the heart of who you are. And for me, God had already blessed me with the parents that I have. Like I I come from dad was a all world running back supposed to back up Barry Sanders went instead of staying at Texas decided to go to LCU. My mom was all world track and field went to the 92 Barcelona Olympics pregnant came in fifth place or fourth or fifth or whatever. So she didn't qualify but she had a drug test and she found out she was pregnant. That's why I'm a little thrown off honestly cuz I'm four or five months pregnant and she's, you know, she's running and she's running with me. Yeah.

That's that's why I'm a little, you know, I have my issues myself. And you think that's because your mother was jostling you when you were in the womb? She was running to So you were just like like Yeah. I was just, you know, just Right. But but my mom had my mom drank cuz that's what women in the 1950s did. She drank and smoked. I came out okay. Listen, listen. We all came out okay. Well, you know who else is? Maybe your mother knows her. Probably she does. Shay Gildis Alexander. His mother was an Olympian. Wow. Did you know that? I actually didn't know that.

Gilg. That's I guess she married a guy named Alexander, but that's his heritage. That's fire. Yeah. You should call him. You should call him on that. It's his time cuz I bet you guys would relate. He's like, "Yeah, he's just in his era. He's he's a he's a good man. He's a good Oh, father, husband, or I think he's I don't know his situational [ __ ] but he seems like a good dude." And he's just focused and he's just I know, but let's not pretend you have to be a father and a husband to be a good man, right? We are. We're We're men, bro. We are every But I've never been married or had kids. I So, I can still be a good man, right? We are who we are.

You know what I Yeah, that's who I am. If I can look myself in the mirror, I can accept my flaws for who I am. Yeah, that's but that's not a flaw. That's just a choice, right? Yeah. I mean, do you want to Are you You're not married. No, I'm not married. Well, there you go. You know, do you want to be? Who knows? Maybe. I bet you if you did, you would. I'm sure lots of ladies would say yes. If if it happens, it happens, you know, but it's just What do you mean? Well, it happens if you say, "Will you marry me?" No, but now don't clip that and look like I'm asking him to marry me. Please. Yeah, definitely. I don't know if you're doing that, but my knee hurts right now. I don't know if I can get down on there right now. What a good excuse. But at some point, you know, it just it just is about where you're at in your life. Like everything is about Don't do it, man. Life steps in the flows. Like it just flow

and go. That's it. as an athlete. I mean, even in the off season, you can't really go buck wild with partying, right? But I'm saying why though? At the end of the day, right, you work hard, you play hard. Like I was gifted with an ability and everyone, not everyone was gifted with that ability. No, you know, it's it's for you. Every it's life. Everything is about balance. How can you moderate and how every everything in moderation is good, you know? Um, so as far as you drink, do you what this whatever, bro? But you but obviously you keep yourself in pristine shape because you still want to play. You know, you're an iconic figure in the sport and you know I can't believe that some team u isn't going to be and I I don't know who you would fit with but like if you still have the passion and think you can do it I'm sure you know my boy Aaron Rogers who I love sat there you are too you're too good at this. I'm gonna tell you

this. He was there. I We had to say this. I got too much pride. I got too much since I was four or five years old. I've I've I've sacrificed too much to get to where I'm at. Yeah. To let anybody write my story off except for how I want to write it or how God's going to write it for me. So, So, four or five? That young? You were like you you thought you were going to do this when you were five? Long story short, I'll tell you a quick short story. My mom, four four years old, I was in Atlanta, Georgia. My mom was a track coach at Georgia Tech. My stepdad was Olympic gold medalist. The 96 Olympics was in Atlanta at the original. I remember this. This is like one of my first memories, like one of my first things that I can remember. I was four years old. Wow. Um my stepdad won a gold medal in the 96 Olympics. My mom was a 12 Taiwan American, 12, I don't know the the numbers, but my mom was a

beast. Like my mom was the real deal, right? Um, and I just remember, you know, she went to Georgia Tech, Rice, Twolane, these, that, and she's at track practice coaching, and I'm on the the POV pit throwing the football up to myself, catching, doing one hand catches, doing catches, diving, bottom of my feet, dirty as [ __ ] You know what I mean? Like that was me like growing up. Uh Matt Forte could attest to it at two lane. He was like he was always just working [ __ ] He was over there just like working like and um 4 years old. I remember it was snowing in Atlanta.

Always tell this story. My mama came outside. She looked around the house. She couldn't find me. She came outside. She's like you know she cussed me out a little bit but like what are you doing out here? Like I had no shirt just my socks and shoes on shorts whatever. throwing the football to myself and I told her I was like I'm practicing for Sundays and she was like I said it with so much conviction that she was like I had no choice but to push you to be who you were like it it was just built and and I gave up the weekends I gave up every weekend we were in Buxy Mississippi this that for a soccer tournament or this that for a basketball or this like I was but sports was everything for me like I was always the kids want to be playing sports I I mean I played sports every weekend also. They just weren't in like tournaments. It was my backyard. But it was what I wanted.

You must not have had It must have been actually fun for you. No. No. Too much pressure. No. For me it was different. Like I could stand on this and it is what it is because you know we could all do if if was a but like you know take injuries aside like as far as athletes in the world with God and my mom, my pops, everybody whatever happened to me I was one of those athletes in the world that could go from playing multitude of sports. Go take the to go take your LeBron and all you know what I mean? like everybody. Baseball, whatever. You could have played baseball, you think? Whatever. You could have whatever I would have chosen, I would have been great at. I just It was in me. Like, I have that ability. Yeah.

I mean, it makes sense. I mean, it it just wasn't it it just wasn't. Would I have been as good of a baseball player as I would a football player? I don't know. Would I been as good a football? Like, you you never know. Soccer was really my first sport and I was supposed to join the US national team when I was like 13. A couple of my coaches were from uh Trinidad, Chebago and we used to have this AAU league and I remember like growing up how we grew up. I just could never imagine my like we got to move London and Paris and like you know like how are we going to pay the bills? How are we going to to chase like a dream that we don't know is going to work out?

And it's just like football for me was just an easier thing. Like I just knew I would make it. And basketball was there. I never forget. The only way I was playing basketball is if I went to UNCC because Roy Williams camp wanted to be like Mike. Like I I only wanted to play at UNCC basketball. That was it. And I went to the camp. I won MVP in whatever grade that was. I'll never forget having the white Kobe Mambas on. Like I I'm like that. You know what I'm saying? Like it just So what are these things that you think you've given up so much?

Okay. So your weekends when you were a kid, that's a lot because kids need free time. That's true. I But what else? Like as it go you're But it wasn't that to me though. Then when it it wasn't that it was like it was like I was doing what I loved, you know, but I'm like looking back on it now and it's like are you every every weekend it was traveling somewhere to go do this when you're actually doing it? I mean like when you're with the Giants or the Browns or the the Rams, the Ravens, you were there for a while, right? Loved it.

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Loved every single Who who's your favorite quarterback ever? What a good question. Like I almost question because there's so many different like it's so many different facets. like I there there wasn't a quarterback that I didn't not like obviously Eli went to his high school and every Friday when I grew up in New Orleans I used to be like what is going on like there's a there's some loud noises going on like really a movie literally watch this I'm talking about I lived right here there was a gate right here I used to walk to the gate and watch the football game and this is Isidor Newman and I didn't know nothing about it Isidor Newman Eli Pton Manning. Yeah. Archie Manning, the the father, the patter familious of of Eli and Payton. He that's Yeah. He played for Who did he play for in the pros? The Oilers. The No, somebody like that. But yeah, I mean, he was And now the kid.

Don't they have a kid now who's coming up? Arch. Yeah. Bloodline, you know. I mean, DNA. I'm talking about I'm talking about 100 ft. Like I think about one football field, maybe two football fields max. I lived right there. Do you think that was destiny that you wound up catching his passes? I don't know. Just it just happened to work out like but it was just like I like it literally could be a movie. Like I remember walking up to the fence and I was like watching I was like I want to play here. You know what I mean? Like I had no idea of anything.

And um because growing up in New Orleans, it would have either been Newman or St. You have a you have a very sophisticated, mature attitude for someone who's 32 because I remember being 32 and I didn't. Yeah, I didn't I've been through I think I've done uh my my 22 through 32 was a 23 through through 40 with what I had to go through and experience and all those things. And yet, yes, I still have a lot to learn. And yet, I'm still someone who wants to learn. Like when someone like we sit down, I want to learn. That's the most important. I'm not somebody who I Oh, I think I know what. No, no, no. That is the best. I am the same way. Absolutely. Somebody somebody younger than me could teach me something. I doubt it. But um but my favorite three words are I don't know because every time I say that I somebody tells me something and I was physicious about that. You absolutely can learn from people younger than you. I love

that. Luckily the people that younger than me are also better looking. Yeah. The mentality that you can't learn from somebody else then it just I don't know. It's just like you you you think not too highly of yourself or whatever it is, but you're just not like you're not open like you no. But I mean the classic mistake of youth and I suffered it also was thinking you're so dumb. You don't know what you don't know. So you think you know it all. And you know what most people have to discover painfully through life is you know if you had just listened to this person opened your mind open your ears they could have they were trying to save you right so much pain but it's almost but it's so it's ironic that's how I feel that's where I stop you and I'd be like for me type of person I am I have to touch that stove to know that it was hot. It's not just you. That's everybody. You have to Everyone has to

learnbody. That's the only way for someone to learn. If you could I get it that you can oh learn from my mistakes. You don't have to be like me. But no, I mean for me I have to grow that way. Like that's how I'm going to grow. I needed to do that. It's a shame because we could save so much pain. And I would say, I'm just pulling this out of my ass, but like one out of 10 times when somebody older imparts some wisdom to a younger person that says, "I'm telling you, I've been down this road. I've seen this movie. I've stopped at this in I know, but you're doing the same thing.

We all have the same patterns. I'm telling you, you could save yourself so much." I think like one out of 10 times that lands and the person actually avoids the mistake they would have made. nine out of ten times they just got to do it for themselves for sure. But also the one out, let's compare the one out of 10 to the 9 out of 10. Like who knows what it does for that person. Like maybe right the one out of 10 who learned didn't learn in other areas. The nine out of 10 who had to burn their hand so true took all the information in and they understood for the next time that something was coming. Like you just got to like everybody everybody is everybody. We all have our own lives. We all deal with our own [ __ ] And that's just how it's got to be. Like we all have to I wake up every day. I got to look myself in the mirror. I got to understand my problems. I got to my flaws. Not to discredit anybody else,

but at the end of the day, like I got to handle me and mine. Like, especially now that you got a kid, like I I tell people right now, like I'm in the middle of my own storm. I'm holding my umbrella and my son and my family and the people who I love and care for are under my umbrella. I can't hold your umbrella right now. Umbrella. What? Wasn't that Ella? Wasn't that a big song? See, take your jacket off. Oh my Oh my god. You're going to sing umbrella now. Do it. Got me. Let's do it. Yeah, that's quite a jacket. Yeah, it might be. Oh, that's a beautiful Oh yeah. Might need this. take your Yeah, but you can reattach that yourself. That's okay. We can even keep rolling with this. And I'm sure you know, we were talking before about how you said you're really 40, you know, you you No, but like mentally because you you do like when you're 22, you not only you're playing this game in front of a lot of

people and most people are not doing something in front of all those people, whatever they're doing. And then after the game, you have to like sit down in front of the press. You have to go to a, you know, that table where you sit. I feel like it's the rock bottom worst thing ever you could ever watch on television is any sort of interview with an athlete. It's just it's kind of rogue, but it's like for even for me as a 22-year-old, everybody talks about this catch and it's like, oh, you know, they like to try and reflect and be like, oh, he only had one catch. And I'm like, I think that was touchdown number eight of the season or whatever. No, no, you're whatever. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm a fan. I know how good you are. Let's be real. Yeah. The people who watch the game know. Stop it. But it's like at the same point in time, it's like, yeah, that was one catch. That was touchdown number eight. But to me, I'm over here as a 22year-old who's now been handed the world. And now you have I I'll never forget the catch happened. I went from like almost being at 300K to by the time we hit the game next week 1 million followers. The week after that close to 1.5 to like going into my like my second year 2.3 million follow like just taking off and people around the world hearing about it and it's like not everybody can carry that.

No. No. You How many followers do you have? I Okay, but it's a lot. I know it's a lot. I know you I know you're like uh crazy. I mean, uh I've got uh 10,000 on beeper. Yeah. I'll just say for like for the sport that I play, I've traveled across the world and and I [ __ ] love it because it's like it's great. Like I could be anywhere in the world and not anywhere but people have fans. Yeah. who I am. And like as a football player, we wear masks. We're not playing basketball. Like it doesn't happen to anybody. I'm not Tom Brady who's the [ __ ] goat. You know, like there's only certain people who are like, you know, etched in stone like and it just so happens. Do you think he's the goat of football? I'm not arguing. I'm just asking. I'm not arguing with you either. That's like Yeah. I mean, he has a I mean, he is pretty amazing. I mean, seven seven. I used to dislike him.

Yeah, you try and it's hard. No, I used to dislike him. No, I tried too. But I love them because it's like why the [ __ ] does he keep winning? He beat my Rams and the Rams is my team. Like, you know what I mean? He also I mean, even if he just had the Super Bowls with the Patriots, it would be an amazing number. It's very hard to get to the Super Bowl, but then to leave the team, I mean, the studliest move he ever did was to leave the team and win a Super Bowl with another team because that was the that it was this it was the mic drop of all time. It was like I can do it without Bill Bellichic. Thank you for sure. And you know that led directly to Jordan Hudson. Yeah.

And so it was a tragedy. No, it wasn't. I think she's fantastic. Yeah, I think it's fantastic he's with her. But at the end, I think it's fantastic a coach can get young [ __ ] That's how great sports is. Listen, man. Life's great. It's just like you got to respect, though. Like, Bill was a real dog, too. Like, he was a real like he he's one of those coaches. He really was, bro. He was one of those people who I'll never forget like coming to play for him. Uh we it was close. There was times. Yeah. That was like, would you have wanted to?

Absolutely. Yeah. Tom Brady was Tom Brady. You want to Oh, of course. And Brady was there. That would be my guy. Oh, that would have been awesome. It's also then funny that like I played with Eli who Eli was the only person to beat Tom and it just like that kind of like Newman connection. So, it's like it's always like a bud. But like Eli was really like my [ __ ] guy. like and people don't know it and they always try and go back to this one interview that I did when I was young and it's like oh you threw your quarterback under the bus and it's like you're talking a 24 25 year old man who's trying to accept a check to set himself up from an organization so he can't really speak out on our organization can't speak out on a quarterback and he's but you want him to take all the blame for But yet it's a lot more than that that's at fault. It's like me I I've had this conversation with Eli.

Like I know for sure how much I used to text Eli. I'm like you're seventh on the list for greatest of all time. Let's get it. Just 2015. Let's [ __ ] get it. Like we got [ __ ] to do. And it's like when I was at the Giants, do you know how bad I would have loved to see Eli go out with a Super Bowl? like on his last like boom [ __ ] you did it like I don't know like you did it you know what I'm saying like that was what it was for me like it was deeper than it was deeper than that and like people got it so confused because the media tries to play their games and they try to play their role and they know how to create the story and make it this and make it controversial just so people read it and then enough people read it and enough people probably are happy with themselves buy into it and they all line to it and make it bigger. It's just a vicious cycle. I see this. I mean, when Aaron was here, he was talking about

Devonte Adams and you know, I mean, I remember Terrell Owens crying. You remember that? Like that's my quarterback. And it I love it because it's like it just shows the camaraderie and also like it's like sports is great for being like transcending race. For sure. It's such a I've said this many times before on my show. It's such a It's a great example for society because obviously um you could people can do it. They play together and the and the love that you see the the players have for each other and it's like because you're on my team, not on my race. You're on my team. And I mean and and quarters and we win. How did we win? We all did this [ __ ] together. But but especially the the love that I see between like quarterbacks and their receivers. It I mean they go together like drunk and disorderly. I mean they just and people don't I'll be honest and I hate this. People do not understand

what it's like to be a receiver. They like to put these primadana this that. Imagine this. Imagine this. Especially on receiver. Imagine this. 63 plays in a game average. You're the top receiver. You only get eight to 10 to 12 opportunities out of 63, right? The O line has to block. Everything has to block. The routes have to be per the coverage just for you to get one opportunity to catch a pass. How do you get open? [ __ ] That's what you do when you're training. But I'm just saying. But how do you get how does a receiver get open?

They beat him off line of scrimmage. It's just time and place like everything else, you know? But it's like for me it's the it's the idea that people have of a receiver. It's like oh he's selfish. Everybody else on the football field the O line as soon as the ball's hike they get to touch somebody with pads and block them or not block them. The quarterback he gets the ball in his hands. The running back if he gets a hand off he's getting the ball. The linebackers they see the running back getting the ball. They're coming up to make the play. They see the quarterback dropping back. They're dropping back in cover.

The DBs are guarding the receiver. The receiver is the most selfless position on the field. We have to rely on everything else to go right just for one opportunity to catch a pass. They never People don't think about that [ __ ] like that. Yeah. You don't because you're like, "Oh, no. He's the Polla and all this." No, [ __ ] I worked hard the same way he did. the same way just for this opportunity to catch a pass. So [ __ ] it right. I'm going to be pissed if I got open and I didn't get the ball and this was my chance. And some plays you're just blocking, right?

Some plays I'm just blocking. That's got to be boring. No, but not when you're blocking for a Saquon Barkley, right? Not when you're blocking for I got caught so many times. I I'll never forget I'll never forget like Saquon coming to the Giants and finally being like I have somebody like never leaving New York like what the [ __ ] like yes I got somebody let's build off here and um it was the Philly game we were in Philly man this dude is just he's the best right and I'll never forget I don't know what player there was but he caught like a he He he took a hand off and he was coming up the left side and he bounced and d and I'm like looking at the the the the the jumbotron like trying to block my guy but he's like breaking right to me and I'm like trying to get out of his way so he could be great cuz he's bro he's one of he's one of the best that ever put on cleats telling you that and he's going to continue to show

that and I just love it for him but it's like there's nothing better also as a receiver like you bring that block that made the touchdown go. Like that's just as good as catching a touchdown. I'm like, cool. Every receiver wants to catch a touchdown. Come on, be real. You know what? In my world, the version of that is like if I'm if I'm a comedian on like Martin Short or something like last thing in the world is I want to get in his way. What I want to do is just set him up. In my business, playing a straight man, that's blocking. Yeah. And it's extremely satisfying and it's a skill that lots of people don't have. I love doing it. They pay me the same.

Yeah. Whether I'm getting the laugh or you're getting the laugh, you know, the check is still the same. And it is it is a great feeling. A feeling of camaraderie and selflessness and doing something for somebody else. Sure, bro. It's a mentality. And it's like, you know, that again, break it down to this. There's good people, there's bad people. And I'll similar it back to be like there's some receivers who do want to score to be like it's me like you know what I mean? Sure. And there's some receivers who are like like I did that like we you know what I'm saying? Like I I scored like for us though like we're good like let's go defense. You do your thing. Like it's it's a camaraderie. So what about Aaron Rogers? The love him. We've had conversations. So why don't you join the Steelers? That would be great cuz he's on the Steelers now. I won't say that that it's not a possibility and I won't say that I

haven't had any communications, but I also great coach. You'd love to play for that coach. [ __ ] love Thailand. I was actually supposed to be drafted to the Steelers. Really? That was the that was the meeting that I had that I was like, I think I'm going to the Steelers and the Giants ended up taking me to 12. Steelers had the 16th pick maybe. Um, I think they said Ryan Shazier um in that drafts and just it just was well I I hope I see more of you because you're always entertaining to me and I watch I'm not done. I'll tell you that.

I watch sports to be entertained to waste time in the most elegant way I can. Um I I smoke you one of those. I No, I do I I it's too passive. Um, pot I use for for positive things like I like I I indulge myself here. I love it. Um, but I would never smoke pot and watch football. You like cards? Cards? Yeah. No. Like like bridge? No. Cards. Rummy. Rummy. Bridge. That's Yeah, those are card games. Um, no. Uh, no. I mean poker. You mean like that? I mean, yeah. I I wish I knew how to play poker. I don't. I mean, no. Is that what you do for fun? Cards. Love cards. Stimulating my mind. It's something I feel like something about playing cards with somebody whether it's Rummy, whatever it is. You get to tell a lot about that person and their intent. You get to tell a lot about their decision making. How how do they go about like, okay, I need to get my my 33 and my four, but I got to get a pure run, but I have this, but

I have that. What decision am I going to make? You you just said a lot about people. But the problem cards is that it's too much luck involved. It's like you can't make a three come up. You can only play the cards you're given as the saying goes. Ain't that the same in life? We're we're all given [ __ ] cards and all I can do is make what I have of what I have. Somebody who's poor and doesn't have money but goes out and finds a way to be [ __ ] successful. Yeah. They were dealt with a shitty hand, but they stepped it up. You know what I'm saying? That's how I feel like in life, we're all dealt the cards that were dealt and however you deal with that.

That's how you deal with that. No, that's the right attitude. I agree. But I just feel like with cards, like in life, you're dealt one hand, you know, when you're born and that Yeah. Maybe you're dealt a few other hands along the way. Some people dealt a better hand. Some people dealt a shitty hand, right? But I've seen a shitty hand turn out to be a winning hand. And I've seen a winning hand. Yeah. No, you're right. Find a way to be a shitty hand. Yeah. And you can And parents have a lot to do with it that you can if you have great parents, you were dealt an ace. And if you have shitty parents, you were dealt a deuce.

But people do overcome that. Um, but I don't know. I guess I'm more of a determinist. I feel like yes, I I know the cards. Maybe I just have known my cards for such a long time now that I feel like yeah, I played them out and you know in the game of life did I win 372? No, I did. It was not a cream. I feel like I won the game but it was more like 2417. You know what I mean? Like I've had many setbacks and many defeats and many things, but generally the jokes with me and my friends like it could be 25 24 like I'mma look at you after we won and be like I just beat the [ __ ] out of you.

You know what I mean? Like just just to mess with them like it's like bro you won by one point. No no no I beat the [ __ ] out of you. Like it's just that kind of like I won period. It doesn't matter how it is. And it's just like I feel like life is all about perception. And I always say perception is reality, but like your perception is not my reality. And once I used to live by everybody else's perception and you're always trying to please that as a person, you're always going to find yourself displeased and it's never going to be good for you.

So that means it's never going to be good for the people that you're trying to do more for. It's just you got to just you got to find your own way in this life, you know? I feel like they can't I can't rely on someone to No, you've got to rely on you. That's the end of the day. It's too late for that. Yeah. Well, um but you know, one of the cards that's kind of shitty when you're an athlete is you don't get the longevity card. Like I'm still like working my job at the top of my game and I'm almost 70. That's not going to happen in sports. Now, you could go into another field and you may. I mean, at some point, even if you play this year, next year, at some point in the near future, there are no 40-year-old receivers. Um, Jerry Terry Jerry Rice Jerry Rice was 40.

Really? Okay. Well, I wouldn't advise it. You're going to get hurt. Well, if you do, you do. That's what you choose. You think you could be a receiver at 40? What you choose? Okay. Well, but not 50 at some point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like I mean, come on, bro. You got a family, we got kids, we got like Come on. Like, what do you want to do when the football ends, you know? I just want to to be honest, I keep a lot of I keep a lot of my things private cuz I don't want people to steal my ideas, but like creating my own. Like, when I was with Nike, there was nothing more I wanted to do than build Nike up. build like I I they used to call me uh Mr. East Bay, you know what I mean? Like when I was young.

You remember East Bay catalogs? No. Where you had uh the cleats, the gloves, the everything blah blah blah. Like where you buy athletic equipment? Yep. All I wanted my mama when she got jocks everything. Uh I never wore those until I got to leave. But um never wore a jock strap. Yeah. Are you sure it was your mother's running? You know, my other my other Bob. Yeah. Anyway, but my my um all I wanted was that clean. The orange Nike sherbet Nike material Vapor. That one. The sparkly orange one. That was it. Boom. The David Beckham baby blue Predator sparkler that came out. Adidas with the strap with the big toe. Boom. The Nike material Christian Ronaldo carbon fiber. That was like my thing. Like it was always my thing. It was something that and and to be honest, one of my I I actually haven't talked about him a lot and I have to give him a major salute. I was supposed to meet with him recently.

Raldinho was one of the biggest inspiration of my life. Who those Raldinho? Who is that? Soccer player. The way he [ __ ] played, the smile he had on his face, his movements. Who does he play for now? himself, I guess. You know what I mean? He played for Barcelona, Brazil. Oh, he had the gold, Nike, Tempos. Like, he was Where is he from? He was the Brazil. Brazil. Yeah, he was the man. Like, he's Is that where the greatest soccer players are from? Like Ple, wasn't he? Brazilian, I think. So, that's like the last one I remember. I'm not into soccer. Well, no. Look, hey, I'm not a historian either myself, but Ronaldo was somebody who inspired me more than people could ever imagine. And it's just like I I'll never forget I was talking about meeting your heroes and blah blah.

For me, my biggest inspiration is those kids. the way that they look at me, the way that they wanted to dance, the way that they wanted to do all that, like that kept me going for a long time because the grown ass men who have their opinions and feel like they get to say whatever about whatever, like that didn't inspire me at some point. It's just that it's another man judging me or telling me what I should and shouldn't be when they're not in my position and dealing with what I'm dealing with, you know? So, I'll never forget how Mike was for me. Mike Vic and uh I feel like he truly What were you What were you think What are you saying you're dealing with at that time?

Well, you said don't judge me and you don't know what I'm dealing with. What were you dealing with? Just in general life. Like, bro, you don't know what it's like to have everybody watching you and you just want to go into CVS and get some sour punch straws and Gatorade, but people want to take a picture. People also don't know that your Chima might have passed on that day and now you don't want to take a picture. Don't you think that's a I mean, but now you're the [ __ ] because you didn't want to take a picture, but I'm also I'm a human. I'm going to I understand that very well. But don't you think that, you know, as we said before, you know, you're dealt different cards. Some are good, some are bad. Don't you think the tradeoff of that for all the things that fame gets you is worth it? Wouldn't you you wouldn't you wouldn't trade that tradeoff, would you? I understand that, but also as a human,

I have emotions. I have things I do, too. I have But I'm saying I have things that like today might not have been my [ __ ] day. Like it might have been a bad day, but you know how I avoid that? I don't go to CVS. And you don't have to either. You're rich. You have a gazillion dollar. I feel I feel like God is maybe I feel like any celebrity in CVS wants to be in CBS. But maybe I needed specifically for me. I needed to go grab that candy. It wasn't somebody else bringing me in. I You wanted the experience of everyday life. You needed that for me, right? And and maybe it's just as simple as that. Like, well, tough [ __ ] I don't feel sorry for you.

You're feel Odell [ __ ] Becca. You know what? You know what? If you if you can't go buy your hard candy at CBS, cry me a river. But but we live we learn. See, you learned. I I'm telling you, you could have told me the stove was hot. I had to tell you. I could have, but I didn't listen when they told me the stove was hot. Well, [ __ ] We both do. But it's good to get to know you. I mean, it's nice to meet your your sports idols and find out they're cool because, you know, sometimes you meet people who you've only seen from afar and they do the opposite. They disappoint you. Yeah. you know, they're dumber, meaner, or, you know, just arrogant. And you're cool.

Yeah. I just feel like at the end of the day, the way my parents raised me, the way whatever happened, whatever it my experiences, like I'm a real ass person. And I won't change. And I'm not saying that I won't get better, but I'm saying I won't change for anybody in that sense, unless it's something that I need to do for me. I am who I am for better or for worse. Like I say, I know my flaws. I know my good [ __ ] I know my bad [ __ ] And I'm okay with that. When I laid my head at night, I'm okay with that. If I didn't If I laid my head at night and I had to be like, damn, I didn't stand for who I was in this moment. That's worse than laying down your head at night be like, "Oh, I could I could lay good because I made everyone else." Who who's your like close friends that you can always rely on when you're having these kind of thoughts and you know you got to ask about what's real and you can who can

you depend on to tell you the truth and to know the fame lifestyle and all that stuff that you're talking about. Who who who do you go to? I think it's hard because it's like so LeBron James is one of my LeBron James biggest role models, idols, this that third. also a friend, brother, all that, right? There's so many people, but I'm like, "Sure, he understands all that." Every situation is different. Like, I could only take a piece from Brun. I could only take a piece from here, a piece from there. The same way when I watch Alan, I can only take a piece from here. The same what I'm saying. The same way when I like all these people, I can only take a piece and then I'm I'm always going to be myself. All sports people are those are all the only people who can understand no no you got you know regular people you got your mom you obviously everyone looks at their mom their dad like you know growing up as to who I am or how I

can understand things but like when you're when you're gifted or or blessed or I don't know what the word would be but when you're put in another situation and you have to live in a different way it's kind of like you're left to fend for your own. At the end of the day, most I understand truly the downsides to it. Um but um most people would say I would give my right nut. Yeah. But they didn't have that opportunity so they can't I would give my right nut to have been 66. But God didn't want that for me. And God knew God knew why he didn't make me 66. What are you 6'3? Huh? You see I like you.

Okay. Yep. Yep. Why? What are you? Yeah. I mean, I like to We don't need to talk about it, but you're an athlete. I So, you're saying it would be Of course you would be a whole different man. Football players like tall targets and we and and quarterbacks have to be tall now, too. I think women like tall targets, too. Like, you know, it just That's true. Could have been playing a different sport. Who knows what I would have been if I was 66, right? I mean, again, not going to cry for you. I'm not going to cry for you either. Like I think God did that on purpose. So you didn't get that last 4 in? I mean, no. He had to humble me. He had to that. But like when he was making me, he was like, "Damn, I did the job, but it was brewing over the pot."

So he put the pot on the top and he was like, "He's got to stop right here." You would have been too powerful at For sure. I think so. I don't think I would have been as good as good of a man as I was if I was a little bit taller. Is that true? I think so. Wow. I can't think of much that would have gone better. I mean, you you got to the top of your field professionally. Yeah. I just think my my pride I would be a little bit more like I'd be looking more Yeah. Yeah. A little bit. You'd literally be looking down on people.

Yeah. Exactly. Well, how do you Well, I'm 5'8. How do you think I feel? I mean, well, I've been put your wallet underneath both feet and then I'll tell you. Exactly. I like that one. It's It's not You're 66 yourself. It's Well, I mean I mean that's I I hear guys say things like that all the time, but I guess when you have a kid like you do, it's um I always said before I ever had my son, I said, "I fear the day that I have to raise a child in this world." Well, I hope you're a traditional parent. I I have a dim view of modern parenting and not that I am one, but I'm I'm not oblivious to what it looks like because I I I see these little rap scallions around me sometimes when I'm out and so forth and they have no respect for their parents and I feel that I don't I don't take any [ __ ] from your kid. It'll make your life and the kids' life better. For sure. I'll take a little [ __ ] from him

though. Sometimes it gives you that look and it's like damn it like I'm looking at you. I'm I'm looking at you, but I'm looking at me and I'm like, "Right." So, but every now and then, you know, but he's three, you know. Come on. He's I'm sure that he's a great kid, though. There's no there's no turning down a three-year-old, I'm guessing. But when he gets a little older, he wants keep him away from from social media too much. Uh by that time, it might be implanted in their brains. Yes, that might be implanted in our brains and the robots are going to take over. Yeah, they got a bunch of Let's do that. You You need those hands. I know. These are very famous hands. Keep them strong, bro. Yeah. I hate to give you my left again, but I mean it. I know it's my [ __ ] you finger, too. I wouldn't I wouldn't disclose it. I would have gave you the little Okay. No, thank you. I appreciate this. Was so

much fun. Oh, that's right. You aren't tall. Oh, wow. Well, even even better on you for succeeding in sports. Yes, indeed.

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Who speaks in "Odell Beckham Jr. | Club Random"?

Bill Maher (Host), Odell Beckham Jr. (Guest).

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In order: 0:00 New York, New York, Factor, Chris Collinsworth, Zbiotics; 5:00 Robert Woods, The Art of War; 10:00 Barcelona, New York, New York; 15:00 Atlanta, Georgia Tech; 20:00 Factor, Zbiotics; 40:00 New York, New York, Saquon Barkley; 45:00 Barcelona, Jerry Rice; 50:00 LeBron James.

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The episode runs 60 min; the transcript is about 10,897 words in 75 timestamped sections.

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