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Akbar Gbajabiamila

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
887 total appearances

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

That gram dosage might have been different for their body type and for who they are.

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

Don't do it.

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

It's too dangerous.

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

And the tolerance that these people have, you don't have.

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

Right.

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

So you have had the conversation with your kids.

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

Oh, of course.

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

I mean, to the point now.

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

where I just say it as a running thing.

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

I'm like, you don't know what that is.

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

That thing could have fit in it because I want them to constantly think about it.

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

So not as a joke, but more or less as a cautionary kind of thing that I bring up when the time is right.

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

Like, no, don't eat that.

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

You don't know what that thing is because

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

it was kind of like you know when you know the i grew up in the just say no you know and you ever do drugs never you've never done drugs well outside of well no i lied i lied because i did develop a habit after i got out of the nfl and i didn't even know it was a drug you know drug habit um it was using uh vicodin and so from the pain because you had it for the pain for pain and to me it was something that was handed out you know if your body has gone through something that's right

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

And so it was perfectly normal to me.

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

I didn't see it.

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

And then you were done playing football and it had you, you didn't have it.

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

So how'd you get off it?

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

My wife, my wife actually, prior to us getting married, before we even met, she was a farm tech and she saw the way I use it.