S3E22: YMI Talking to Andre Reed from the Buffalo Bills

NFL Hall of Famer Andre Reed stops by to talk about his Lehigh Valley roots, Kutztown days, Buffalo memories, and what it really took to build a career that lasted. We get into football stories, life lessons, laughs, and the mindset that carried him from the Valley to the Hall of Fame.

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I was up at Kutztown and it was the first day of the draft, and I was watching it on TV in a dorm room near Kutztown. And a lot of the people that were sitting there were like, hey, Andre, we where are you going? Away. Where do you think you're going to go? And I was like, I don't know. He goes, well, I said, I'm going to go home this weekend and watch it with my mom and dad. Yeah. And that's, that's where I found out where I got drafted in the fourth round with the Bills. Yeah. It was, we still have pictures of that. We do, we have. We have Polaroids of that. Oh that's awesome. Yeah. And you know what a great day that was not only for me and my family, but the Lehigh Valley itself. I think the last guy was I don't I don't know how many, how many guys who got drafted that high at that time. Yeah. But, you know, things happen for reasons. Welcome to YMI Talking A podcast where the guests are so good you'll wonder why the host is even talking in each episode, you will hear one of the leaders of the Lehigh Valleys vibrant business hub. They will tell you the keys to their success, the mistakes they've made, and what they have in store for the future. Here is the host of YMI talking from YMI insurance, Jimi Honochick. All right that is me, Jimi Honochick. And I am joined by Emily. Hello. How are you? Really good. Good. You are a big football fan, correct? No. But, you know, football is. Yes, I know of it. And you know, the NFL is the largest football organization in the world. I've heard of it. And the Hall of Fame is, like, the best of the best of the best. Yes. And we have an NFL Hall of Fame player today on the podcast. That was so cool. Andre Reed is a native, of the Lehigh Valley. He went to DRF high school. He went to Kutztown. And then he played for the Buffalo Bills for many years. And went to four Super Bowls with them. Just unbelievable football royalty. Yeah. Really, really cool guy. And he came here and it was great to hear his story. Kind of his thoughts on life. And, just really just a great episode all around. Yeah. And he's from the Lehigh Valley. So, yeah. What more could you ask for? And you guys do a bunch of Lehigh Valley questions. I do, I do I enjoyed those they were pretty good. He threw some surprises at me there. Yeah I wasn't ready for all those answers. I wasn't either. I was surprised that he really knew what all the places were to like. He hasn't forgotten it. Yeah. I mean, the Jacko's. Everyone loves Jacko’s, In fact, Jacko has come on the podcast. They are. Spoiler alert. Yeah. But this was awesome. And Andre is so well-spoken that you can tell he's done this before. But it was great to have him on here and to hear his story and his ties to the valley. Yeah. So let's shut up and let Andre talk. Let's do it. Awesome. All right. Thanks. All right. This is an absolute treat. I think we're going to shut down the podcast after this episode. We we have Lehigh Valley royalty in the house. I am I could not be more excited if he was in the Super Bowl four times. He is in the Hall of Fame in the NFL. Like you cannot go down the list. Without just being blown away by the career and life of Andre Reed. Andre. Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming on here. Awesome, man. Thank you for having me. Little cold outside for coming from SoCal. But it brings me back to Earth really quick. So it's, it's great to be here. I come here seeing my family. See my mom. It's always good to come back to the valley and see some people that I don't see a lot anymore. Yeah, but, it's always good to have been with family and playing golf. But there's no golf. No, not right now. Yeah, it is fun. Well, let's talk about the cold weather. So you're from High Valley? Yeah. Talk to me. You know about growing up here. Going to drive? When? When you realized football maybe was the answer for you? I don't I don't think I ever thought it was an answer. Yeah. You know, I just was a kid that loved to play the game. And, you know, it was like it's go to, you know, just go to volunteer Park and and play basketball and play football or let's go to Roosevelt Park and play basketball play. But I mean, I just was one of those kids, like any kid in the neighborhood. Yeah, but I happened to, you know, our family was very competitive. My two brothers were always competitive. We took anybody on. Yeah. Basketball basically didn't matter. And I think that's where I learned my really my competitive it kind of, you know I needed that. Yeah. Competitive in life. And we took anybody on at any time. And did I think it would turn into a Hall of Fame football career? No. Yeah. It just I was just a kid like anybody else in the Valley and going to school and trying to do the right thing and go to college and all that stuff. I mean, that's everybody's dream. So I exceeded that because I had the right people around. And had, you know, good graces of guy with me too. Absolutely. Yeah. We'll talk about your family a little bit. We've got family in the room right here. Oh yeah. My brother's in a room. And Is this his first? Is this your first podcast? Yeah, probably. Come up here. I'm sorry. Yeah, it must be okay. And, like I said, we were always competitive as little guys in junior high school and Pop Warner and playing Pop Warner down at DC and high school, the Derriford Junior High School at South Mountain. That was our life, you know, our life was sports. And and again, did I ever think sports would be like the main thing in my life that I'm the person I am today? No. Yeah. I had great people around me and believed in me when I didn't believe in myself a lot of times. And then as I got older, it was just more people, more people that had an influence on me. Coaches, again, my family, coaches and just everybody. Yeah. I mean, let's talk about did you your parents must have been supportive to take you. It's not it's not easy getting the kids, you know, sports nowadays. No, no, but even then, I mean, at the level you were playing, I imagine they had to be invested as well. Were they were supportive of you during that process? Oh, 20,000%. Yeah. My mom and my dad, I probably the 254 games. I think my mom and dad were at almost every home game. Wow. Until my dad passed away in 96. Obviously, you know, that was a big blow to our family, but they didn't miss any games. Yeah, and that was from high school Pop Warner all the way to the pros. So they were there. Yeah. And everybody in Buffalo knew my mom and dad. They know my mom and dad. My mom now. Yeah, yeah. My mom, she wears Bill's stuff every day. And where she's at now everybody knows that she's a bills fan. Yeah. How cool is that though. To see your mom like get that invested into it. And everyone know your mom for that. That. Well my mom is is not short of not saying anything. She will she will say you know what? Actually I was over there yesterday at Country Meadows there. Yeah. And there's a Patriots fan there. And my mom wanted to knock on the door and have a meet me and is like because we played them yesterday. So yeah. I'm sure when I told her, I said, mom, you see him tomorrow. Don't don't give it to him. I just say, hey, it was a good game. We want to keep going. Yeah. It's great. Yeah. So the Lehigh Valley, I mean, you go here, you go to drive. And then the next step is Kutztown. Talk to me about your experience there. Is that when you said, all right, maybe, maybe this football thing is what's going to be it? I didn't really think of that. I just, you know, education was really important to my mom and dad and gave me an education. Football was secondary for me. I just was like, I just love to play the game, you know? And and I was a high school quarterback at Durham. Yeah. And they switched me to receiver. So here you go. You got to start all over. But you know what I had those kind of I had those skills because me and my brothers we always played in the park and as quarterback as receiver, we did all that. And what a foundation that was for me to stand on, to be the person I am and be the football player I became. Yeah, yeah. And you know, Kutztown to have named the stadium after you, that's got to be a pretty cool honor. And then you know what they've done in the past five years? Insane, right? I mean, that's a program. Yeah. They, you know, the head coach, Jim Clements, has done a great job. They're recruiting and they're very powerhouse now. And yeah, unfortunately, they didn't win this past week. But very proud of that school and how they have, the school has elevated itself on the national stage in D2. Yeah. You know, one game away from the championship. So, very proud of them. Yeah. Okay. It's great. All right. And then you're drafted by the bills. Walk me through. You know how that process goes for you mentally, like getting drafted. Well, I kind of had an inkling of where I was going to be drafted, but it's never like that. Yeah. You know, the draft is something else. Back then, it was 12 rounds and I was only seven. So the draft was like three days, right? Yeah, it was like three days. It's like, okay, you. No, no. And I think the one thing I remember to Moses, I was up at Kutztown and it was the first day of the draft, and I was watching it on TV in a dorm room near Kutztown. And a lot of the people that were sitting there were like, hey, Andre, we where are you going? Away. Where do you think you're going to go? And I was like, I don't know. He goes, well, I said, I'm going to go home this weekend and watch it with my mom and dad. Yeah. And that's, that's where I found out where I got drafted in the fourth round with the Bills. Yeah. It was, we still have pictures of that. We do, we have. We have Polaroids of that. Oh that's awesome. Yeah. And you know what a great day that was not only for me and my family, but the Lehigh Valley itself. I think the last guy was I don't I don't know how many, how many guys who got drafted that high at that time. Yeah. But, you know, things happen for reasons. And, again, I had great people behind me, but I had to do the work, too. I just was. Oh, yeah, I got drafted. Now I'm good. Yeah, I had to. I was a grinder. Yeah, yeah. And and I credit that to my mom and dad because they were grinders. Yeah. I feel like the Lehigh Valley in a sense is a grinder. Is a grinder. Yeah. Yeah. And that's sort of the work ethic. Get everything here. Yeah. You have to work for it. Yeah. You know, I tell my kids and I my, my brother tells his kids that you, you can wake up thinking you're going to get something, but you got to work for it. Yeah. That's just the way this world is now. It's if you don't work, you're never going to know what your potential actually could have been. Yeah. So, yeah. And so you did work and you lived up to a meaningful, you know, potential, I would say. So talk me through the bills career and just your time there and, you know, how you how you viewed that as a player. I thought Buffalo was just like Allentown, you know, blue collar and just hard working people. And, you know, I kind of fit in there because I, I kind of resonated with those people. Yeah. I was like, yeah, my hometown is this like this almost. And not as many people as Buffalo. But I felt comfortable there. You know, I could have went to Miami. I got drafted by, you know, the Raiders or got drafted here and been in a bigger place. But I was drafted at the place. I should have been drafted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, I as a football fan, like I have so many questions for you, but I'm trying to keep this focused on our audience. Walk me through the lessons you learned. You know, something that you hear about a lot for football players and athletes in general is the money aspect. And coming into the money for the first time. Yeah. How do you keep a level head on? Oh, the first time I got that check. Oh yeah. I have a level head. That was crazy. You know, obviously, you know, that's that's part of being a professional. I had to learn that part of it. I had to learn, you know, how to work every day. Even though when the season was over, I had to be kind of into my mentally. And the game is so mental. I mean, life is mental. If you don't have good mental state, you're not going to get anything accomplished. So, you know, I had to realize that every year somebody was out to get my job. And if they were good enough to get it they can have it. But they weren't going to be good enough together. So I had to be on my grind every single year. And I played almost 17 season. So which is unheard of at this point right. I mean people don't last that long for a wide receiver, I don't think. Well in any, you know, in any position now. Yeah, I think the game is different too. Yeah. You it seemed like you even before I played these guys had two jobs. Right. They played football and they had a job outside of football. So the game is elevated and changed because of that. Yeah. And you know, I just knew that every year I had to be better than the year before if I wanted to excel at what I did, my profession, I had to be better at designing. I had to be better at that because somebody was doing it too. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. So I went snowboarding for the first time in a while yesterday, and I wiped out one time and I'm still feeling it. How does your body feel after 17 years in the NFL? Plus everything before that. I knew when I got off the plane, man, at whether you know and said, hey, remember me? And I go, no, you I think I played a 254 game plan. I missed 11 of those games. Yeah. So I was very adamant about getting myself ready for every season. Yeah. And I work out my brothers a lot too. So and I knew if something happened it wasn't because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. Yeah. You're going to get injuries. I mean just look what happened this past weekend. Yeah. Home. So, it was it was like Black Friday. It was like Parsons out. Yeah. I mean, that's it. So you never know how long you're going to have. So you play your last play. You play like it's your last one. That's that's pretty inspirational, actually. Yeah. And you didn't just have, you know, 17 years. You had the playoffs on top of that and you had a lot of games. You had a lot more games than most people ever get. From that perspective, what's the NFL playoff like from a player perspective? I mean, how do you think about it, especially going to the Super Bowl that week leading up to the Super Bowl? Oh, the first one. Oh yeah. It's what you dream about. Yeah, right. You know as a kid I'm going to be you know we're playing in the park or whatever. It gets in here boy. Super Bowl catch whatever. That's that's the beauty of what sport is about. Yeah. Any sport. It doesn't matter if it's basketball, baseball, whatever. You dream of yourself being in that moment. And if you don't dream about it, the chances of you never having to go to diminish. You got to dream. You got to dream about it. And I tell kids, dream about it. Think that you're going to do that. That's why you got to do it. But I, I had my brother they came to the first Super Bowl in Pasadena. No it was in Pasadena. Worse than I do. Florida is in Florida. I was in Tampa. And it was during the Gulf War. Remember the Gulf War started that year and I'm standing like 30ft from Whitney Houston and and everybody's just crying and I'm just looking down I wish everybody crying for Brady playing football game. But wow the magnitude of what that meant outside of the game of football, that's what sports is about. It is it is right. Like yeah. You look up to these people who you're never going to meet. Right. But because they offer something more than just a game, there's there's a whole thing there. And then the next year I saw Michael Jackson. Like, I want to write pass, get out. Yeah. I was like like, we're coming in at halftime. And he was standing there with all you getting ready for a halftime show. Yeah. And I just went. It was just Michael Jackson and and he looked like he was standing there. It looked like a mannequin. Right? I mean, not a Michael Jackson. Yeah. Michael Jackson was looking. Jackson. Yeah. But I just was like walking into the locker room just going Michael Jackson right there. So I'm in all of a lot of the guys that I've met over the years. Yeah. Magic and Steph Curry and Michael Jordan and all these guys I met over the years. Yeah. And have a respect for them. Like I think they have respect for me for what I do. And I was going to say, how do you carry that or how do you think about that, knowing that there are people there are kids who are looking up to you as sort of that that role model. I learned that as a kid. And, my dad has it and my dad always said it. He had sayings and my brother can really talk about. He always had sayings. I had sayings about things and that I remember. And, you know, he said one thing you said, you never as good as you think you are. And whether or not you do think that way, there's always another person behind that is better. Yeah. And he just had so many sayings and I you know vividly remember that I've taken with me my whole life and you know, unfortunately he passed away in 96 when the year, well, the year I got in the hall, he wasn't there, so. And my brothers and my whole family were there. But he was. He was there. Yeah. Yeah. So how do you step aside from the game that you've loved? You're right. It's time to retire. You've been working, like you said, harder than everyone. How do you make that decision? Actually, the game probably makes the decision for you. I know after I'd probably year 8 or 9, I was like, yeah, if I get ten, I'll be good. And then maybe I'll depends on how I feel, like whatever. And then I was like, I still feel pretty good. I'm still, you know, producing. I'm still doing the things I love to do. And yeah, okay, I'll get two more to the last year. 13. I'm like, man, I don't know, man. I think, you know, are everyone all right? I'll try to go two more. Yeah. And I was like 15 or 16, but I was blessed. I mean you're but your blessings are if you do the right things, you get the blessings to If you don't. Yeah. You're not going to get blessed. Yeah. Yeah. And then to get into the Hall of Fame, I mean, walk me through how important that was or how meaningful that was to you. For me personally, I think you just you know, because of the game I played and what I did and the players that were around me, but I was more excited for my family. To me, you know, because they waited for seven, eight years and there was a point in time and I didn't think I'd get in. Yeah. I thought, oh, man, maybe it just wasn't meant to be. It as soon as I said that that's what happened. So it was more to see my mom and my brothers and all my friends, and it was more of a Hall of Fame for them than it was for me. That's awesome. Yeah. And let's, let's turn it to real quick, Diane. I mean, what is it like growing up or, you know, living next to someone who becomes NFL royalty like that? It's hard to explain because, I didn't see any day was different than from day one by cell phone. He started playing, hoops and baseball. Basketball, football. Whatever. Yeah, we just every day we're just out playing. We're we're sitting on our right gameboys or whatever. Now, we had those, you know, gameboys and it's. And it's funny too, because our mom, we'd be out until the sun. Yeah. She would be yelling out the kitchen window and the parks over this way. And we'd hear her voice cheating. Moreland. Do you know Andre hits her on. Let's get Home and he had lights on you know. And we're at the park doing that porch lights on and you ain't on the porch. You know it's time. Yeah. So it was it was cool though because, everything everything we did was competitive. Well, everything I was going to say. Does it crush you when Andre becomes better than you at things? No. Okay. People. You know, people ask me that sometimes. Like, were you jealous of them? I got are you kidding me? Yeah. Jealous of them? I couldn't be more proud of them. Yeah, because, I'm undefeated against Kutztown. I went to Millersville when I knew he was going to say, you know, of course, I'm a defeat against Shippensburg. I was pretty nice back in 1964. So those are my wins right there. So I played against them and, Yeah. Oh, that must been pretty cool. Like free safety. He was a watch when he had the three guys on me. Yeah. It was it was fun because they know if they just had won, it was over. They were done. Yeah. Yeah. So they really would have to team up on you like that. Yeah. We did. Yeah. But his coaches made it easy for us to some of the formations that we're in. We're like what are you doing with it there. Yeah that's all right. That got me ready for the next level right. So yeah. Did you feel that step up at each level. Like did the competition really become that much closer? Let me tell you, I think day one when I got to training camp, well actually mini camp and the vets weren't there yet. So you're going with the rookies that got drafted with you and some of these guys. These guys went to bigger schools and me. Yeah. And then the vets didn't come into training camp, right. They came in like a couple days of mini camp. And then you didn't team training camp. It's when they came to training camp. When training camp, they hit you. And training camps were tough. Yeah, two days were two days. It was. Yeah. It was. No. All bets are off. And no matter what or you were drafted, there was a guy that was starting before you. Yeah. And he was going to get that job up to easily to you. I don't care what you know around you were drafted in. Yeah. And I remember one play I went across the middle, which I was known for and ball was a little high jump them got it, and I got flipped. Jumped up because like I got flipped and jump right up at the same time. I was up and ran back to the huddle and the coach looked at me and went like this. I say well get used to that buddy. Yeah. Because that's going to be like in the camp. Rookie. Yeah, yeah. So yep. That's amazing. So let's talk about your life after the NFL. You haven't sat idly. I feel like it's easy to do that if you sit there and relax. What have you been up to and what are you kind of most proud of after the NFL? I've been involved in the game, though I it's not that I didn't try to do coaching. When I retired in, in 2014, I was like, hey, let me try this coaching thing because I still want to give back to the game. I've learned so much and I'd like to give it to the young kids. Yeah, because somebody gave it to me. And it was just too much time. I mean, I was believe it or not, I was worn. I was worn out. Yeah. I mean, I had so many years of football in me, I just was like, what am I doing? I'm just like, but I love the game so much. But I did that for a couple of years, you know, in training camps and stuff. And then I was like, all right, it's time to move in a different direction and end up starting my own foundation. Got my foundation here and here in Allentown and got my foundation in San Diego, California, too. So my brother runs a foundation here. Okay. And then the one out in California, my wife kind of runs that one. So she does run that one just to be real. You know, my dad said too much is given, much is expected. And that is I think that holds true in everything. Because if you're giving something and you don't give back, you know, what's the what's the Houston, And he said, always give back no matter where you're at, what you're doing, make sure you give back to the communities and do the things that those things. Yeah, that's that's the fruits of your labor. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're going to you'll be known for that more than catching a pass going across the middle. Yeah. Even if you do a flip during it. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about the Andre Reed Foundation then and what you're doing here in the Lehigh Valley and Allentown. Yeah. For the, the biggest, people that we well, we grew up in the Boys and Girls Club. So our main focus is to help raise money for their programs. We do other, you know, other charities and stuff that we donate money to, but it's mainly for the Boys and Girls clubs because as, as kids we had somewhat of a, you know, rough upbringing and that was our, our place of to feel safe. Yeah. It was the Boys and Girls Club. So Andre always wanted to give back there. So we started a I'll let you talk about that though. I started reading program with them. Read with Andre Reed. Yeah. So last names read. Make me think pretty easy It's funny my my wife came up with that. She gets you know your last name is read. Hey I took a lot of hits but and we started. Yeah we started to read with re programing and, going into inner cities and talking to kids or boys and girls clubs. I'm now a national ambassador for them. We go around the country, telling these, boys and girls clubs how important reading is to to success in life. And it's it's just been great. And we do a Superbowl one every year. Yeah. So and then we incorporate the athletes wherever we go. If we go to Cleveland we get, you know Cavaliers and Browns. If we go to Kansas City we get the Chiefs in there kind of. So we're yeah yeah. So it's really we're just in Florida with the Dolphins. Yeah. So it doesn't matter I think a lot of these young kids are looking for something to do to a certain point. And the NFL has done a great job of giving them resources. When I came in league and had no reason and resources weren't like that. So they have the resources to go out there and whatever they want to do, they help them do it. When I came in the league in 85, they didn't have. So it's a, it's a great thing to do man. We feel so satisfied. And what my two brothers are doing here in Allentown, we have a golf tournament every year here. And I have a golf tournament in California. So, this is what I said about earlier. About my dad giving back. Yeah. So, yeah, I was going to say if anyone wanted to get involved with the Andre Reed Foundation here in Allentown, what would it be? It's the golf tournament. How could they go about doing that? Yeah. The website. Okay. There's a website. You can it's separate from your California one. Yeah. You got a new website. Yeah. So yeah. Anybody that wants to sign up just go on the Andre Reed Foundation talk. Yeah. And then, yeah, we're always looking for people just to come through and see what we do. And we got a bunch of guys that come in here. We get about, what, 15 guys and these 15, 20 guys come in from all over. And then in California, it's a little different. We get about 30 guys coming in. But they both have the same perspective. They both had the same when we want to do. And that's, you know, raise awareness about reading and get back to the kids in the community. That's that's it. I love that. And like you said, you know, you'll be known for catching passes, but what you do after that defines the legacy. And there's something to that. I mean, we're all here on the earth together. We might as well be trying the best that we can for you. And it's it's it's kind of crazy that sports is kind of like the it's like the, the concrete for that because everybody looks for sports every weekend. There's a sporting event on. Yeah every weekend. And during the week there's something going on on sports. And. It just gives you a sense of, what? These guys are great at what they do. What else are they doing. Yeah. They can get their, you know, initiative out or whatever it is. That's important. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I feel like you should put together a book of your dad's sayings, because the few that you've dropped on us so far, like, really hidden. And it sounds like you've got a list of them. I got a lot of them. And let me tell you, my dad, it's not that he didn't say them all the time. You can just see him, like floating around him. Yeah, yeah, because he was, you know, he was a great dad and and sometimes he was the dad that we thought he would be. But he always he loved us. And he made sure that we knew that in life, you gotta work hard to get what you want. Yeah. He said do as I say, not as I do. Because his favorite saying yeah, you know I say not as I do. Yeah. And he's up there, he's proud of all of us. Yeah I'm sure is. Yeah. Yeah yeah. We are running out on time which is killing me and I'm very sad. But we have to at least two things we want to do before we wrap this up. Oh yeah. That paper I see. Yeah. You see this paper over here? So Emily came up with this great idea. I'm like, I'm gonna let you take it over here. All right? So we're going to play a game called punt or pass. It's just like a little this or that, Lehigh Valley edition with all the Lehigh Valley classics. Okay? So. Okay. All right, here we go. All right. Cheesesteaks or hoagies? Right out the box. I was a hoagie guy. What's your go to hoagie? I just was regular, man. Now, you know what I mean. Just. I don't even know now. It's just probably steak. Yeah. Big hoagies. Yeah, yeah. Lettuce, tomato, mayo, maybe something else on some pickles. I'm. I wasn't a big, you know, peppers guy or anything like that because my mom made us try to eat peppers, and we had to go to get back to her at the table for four hours. Right there. Right, you get nothing until you eat those things. Get out. Oh, my dad would sit there and we'd be like,

be like, it'd be 4:00 or 5: 29:21

00 eating.

We don't leave out into, like 10: 29:23

00. It wasn't that bad. It was bad. It was bad. Oh, I'm just I'm just trying. If it's out that way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I felt that way. And then you would try to give it to the dog. And he was like, that's true. Oh. All right. So hoagies okay. Yeah. Allentown or Kutztown. Is another one. I mean. I didn't realize you're pitting Allentown against Kutztown. That's a tough one. It's it's really hard. I mean, I mean, I'm I'm from Allentown, so I'm going to go Allentown, okay? I know I went to school. I just went to school in Kutztown. Okay. Allentown fair or Musikfest? Oh, I'm going to Allentown Fair. Oh. Hot Take. She used to give us. Or she give us, like, $5. Yeah, yeah. Going right now. We'll see you in a bit. Make sure you go past the little show where all the freaky people are. You're never sure if that ride was going to survive while you were on it. They were never trustworthy going at that. The parachute one that went around. Yeah. Yeah. Every time we stopped there, if somebody threw up, there we go. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Fair was good though. Yeah, yeah. All right. Andre Reed Stadium or Super Bowl stadium. Oh Andre Reed Stadium. Phantoms or iron pigs. The phantoms. I just like the colors man. Orange. Yeah. Orange is good. The [...] center is awesome. It is really cool. They opened a new merch shop for the Phantoms downtown. So check that out. Yeah there's some good stuff in there. You kind to rip them for sure. All right Phillies are sixers. Sixers, new ice cream world or the Cup? Cup. Ice cream road is right there. Right across away. Wahwahs or Sheets now that's that. We were just talking about that. Yeah. Podcast. I'm just an old school. I'm go Wahwah. Me too. Straight up just. Yeah. On this side of the state, we're we're pretty much Wahwahs. Yeah, yeah. You're safe. Yeah. It's okay. But Wawa. Yeah. All right. Egypt star or Marion's? Egypt star. Wow. Okay. And last one, Dorney Park or Hershey Park. I mean, yeah, Dorney Park, because it's right here. I mean, Hershey Park was I mean, it's legit. I've been to Hershey Park lately. Yeah. And you know, it can't go wrong with all that chocolate. It smells like chocolate in there in the hotel. It smells like chocolate. Yeah, the Mac picnic. So we used to go to work there. Yeah, yeah, you go there. We should be like, oh, we can get free stuff. You just go through those lines and we you don't, you know, like food and going right. Yeah. But, Dorney Park. yeah I agree. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you for doing that. So we are sponsored by Z craft, the site and their local coffee shop. Yeah. Coffee shop. Caterer. But you go there, you get some coffee, you have a sip of coffee, but sometimes sip happens and things don't go the way you expected them to. Yeah. When is the time that sip happened to Andre Reed? Oh, man, I don't know. That's a good question. It's probably a couple of days ago. I don't even know, man. I can't tell you. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Some point, nothing that's happening. Oh, that's about good stuff. Yes, I like I like to say I don't really get embarrassed, so I wouldn't have a good story for this. People try to embarrass people that. Yeah. Was that as a you don't get embarrassed. No. No. Not because I, you know I don't know I got a shield around me, some reed for some reason. Yeah. And I'm just like, okay, whatever. And I just keep moving. So. Yeah. Awesome. One thing I did want to ask. Yeah, you mentioned God for a lot of your success. Yeah. Your faith. Is that something that you always had growing up, or is that something that I think we did? We used to go to church and, you know, and we'd be down in, in, in the basement that vacation mode, but not we did Vacation Bible School, but, you know, all the kids would go down in front where everybody else was hollering upstairs. Yeah. And they said, give us the little paper and all that stuff. Everything. And, yeah. So I got baptized, in 2017, in the Jordan River in Israel. So we my wife went there. So and that really, you know, that put in perspective kind of my career. And because I think at times you get selfish and I'm not no different than any other athlete. And you just you think that you did it all. It was all you. But I am a man up there. I did it, and when I got there, when I went there for a week, with some other players and stuff, it really put in perspective of, you know, you're in the Holy Land and you're this is where Jesus walked. This is where he where he was baptized, where he was baptized, all that stuff. So, yeah, my faith is just my wife is really a faith. She's at my wife. She's all about her faith. And when that things aren't going right, she's like, hey, go pray about it. And I'm just holding up, you know? Oh, yes. But she's right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And, so we do have a background in that. Yeah. That's great. Well, thank you. And I stopped drinking like, ten years ago. Really? Oh, yeah. For faith reasons or for health reasons or every reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't worry. I picked up the slack. I just, I just felt I had to be better. Yeah. As a human being. And Neil was it hard I mean it's hard getting up in the morning. Right, right. I think I was going towards that direction and I had to make the choice there and. Yeah. Yeah that's awesome. I mean thank you for sharing that. That's great. Yeah. Anything we didn't hit that. You want to hit any anything I want to talk about my brother's business. Let's do it. Well, we got there. You go ahead. Actually, Mike's email is, customer okay. Of, it's a play on. I don't know if that's the ringing endorsement that you think. Oh, yes, I like my I love Mike. Yeah, absolutely. It's Hall of Fame Bin Clearning. I clean, garbage. He's in the Hall of Fame for Millersville. Okay. Oh. Get out. Yeah. So when I came up with the name, I figured, you know, everybody knows him around here. Yeah, right. Nobody knows I'm an all too. Yeah. So, it's called the Hall of Fame Bin Cleaning. And we go to neighborhoods and clean garbage cans. Oh. Get out. So it's really neat. So who's your client? Like, who's your and likes meal? Well, I mean, like, in terms of demographics, neighborhoods and HOAs okay. Yeah. But they get an HOA because it's, it's it's something because HOA as they have to keep the garbage cans in the garage. So in the summertime when it's 95 degrees out, it's going to stink. Yeah. So we come through curbside service, we follow the, the garbage can pick up, clean them out right there and put it right back in the garage. Wow. Get out. It takes probably four minutes. Yeah, five minutes to just clean them out, put them down and spray them. It's fine. I just had to clean mine out recently, and I was like, I did it. This is such. I like. I even emailed to find a person up in there. Yeah yeah, yeah. So like there's Charlie, I, I, there's my six year old actually. Where's George? Oh, there he is, is in the trash can I get I see you in there. You literally don't be playing in the garbage can, right? Yeah. Yeah, I found that I had to make a change because we grew up. My dad was in the construction business, so I took that over for him when he passed away. And now I'm 60, so I can't rely on doing concrete work. The rest of my life. So this was an opportunity. And it's it's been going pretty good. So give him the website. The number D yeah. Hall of Fame. Been cleaning. Awesome. Look us up. Hall of fame. Been cleaning. Get on it. That's awesome. Yeah. Right. Nice. Very cool. Yeah. All right. Anything else? You you have a new, Budweiser drink? Am I wrong on that? No, no, I actually did something for the bills. It's called a, the Blizzard brew. Yeah. So I'm going up to, they played. They played Cleveland this week and then the Eagles coming to Buffalo week after. And then I'm going to be up for the last game because it's the last game of the stadium. Yeah yeah. They move across the street. So they're going to bring out this Blizzard brew the last game of the year because it's made with actual snow from you know actual snow. No. Yeah that's pretty cool. Yeah. So it's going to it's going to be available at the stadium and in Buffalo. Yeah. So it's, it's probably a good collector's item. Yeah. Absolutely. Very cool. And Buffalo fans, if you ever go to a bills game. Yeah I recommend that you go to one. Yeah. Oh yeah I mean I've seen the videos. Yeah. So I guess I have to ask like are the bills winning at this year. Like I was going to say no. Yeah. I know this your podcast but hey yeah I mean the last two weeks have been crazy. They, they've come back them one yesterday and they were down, you know, against who they play yesterday again. Patriots and Patriots are pretty good. So and then a week before that they were down against the Bengals. So as long as they got one seven back there yeah he's unreal. He's unreal. And everybody feeds off of him. So and the Chiefs are not going to be there. So they have to worry about that. Exactly. Yeah. That's been the kind of a hurdle I think all today was about you know Mahomes and what's going to happen. And you never wish nothing on you know a player. You know he's a great player and he'll be back. He's just he's he's a competitive dude. He's not going to you know he'll be back. Yeah for sure. Yeah yeah. So they'll go out the stadium. This will be the win the Super Bowl in last year. The stadium that'll be let me tell you this is a this is a story right here. Yeah. They'd have to shut it down. So I had to show the East Coast man all the way from through Philly and everything through Eagle territory. You got to shut it down. Absolutely. Yeah, well, Andre, I can't say it enough. Thank you so much for coming on here. Awesome, man. I'm like, I said, I was in town and this worked out. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. And Deon Hall of fame Ben cleaning. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming on and telling your story as well. Yeah. Well thank you. Reed. Really appreciate this. You got it. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Seth. for listening to another episode of the YMI talking podcast. If you enjoyed this and want to hear more content from amazing personalities in the Valley, please subscribe. Leave a rating and drop us a quick review.