Akbar Gbajabiamila

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887 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 13 Jan

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We're Out of Time · From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

I go do it.

The audition, I mean, big names stacked up.

I'm going...

I said, forget it.

I'm just going to do it.

I just threw everything I had into it.

I walked out, went to go sell turf, more turf, try to go meet my appointments that I were late to.

And I get a phone call about a week or two later saying, you got the job.

And from that point, it's what started my entertainment career because the year after I got...

uh, the NFL network, I got American Ninja Warrior, American Ninja Warrior catapulted.

And then it would have it that, you know, years later I would get my main, what to me was one of the, like one of my biggest goals was to be on a talk show was to get the talk and to be able to be a, uh, one of the host of, of the talk.

That's so cool.

Yeah.

So you want to know what I always tell people?

What's that?

I tell people that children don't cost you money.

They make you money.

And it made you money too.

Oh, I see what you, yeah.

That's a really, yeah, that's a good point.

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