"Must be the Money" by Deion Sanders

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[00:00:50] It's Super Bowl week here at One Hit Thunder and to celebrate we're playing fast and loose

[00:00:54] with the term hit so we can discuss multi-sport athlete turned musician Deion Sanders and his

[00:01:00] 1994 single, Must Be The Money.

[00:01:03] If you were a sports fan in the 90s you knew how electrifying prime time was on the field

[00:01:07] but did he match that intensity on the mic?

[00:01:10] Hammers seemed to think so even if the public at large didn't necessarily agree.

[00:01:15] Stay tuned so you can, at the very least, be impressed with Neon Deion's sports accomplishments.

[00:01:47] Matt, it's Super Bowl week.

[00:01:59] I know you're excited and I'm also excited to hear what your relationship with Deion

[00:02:05] Sanders is and is it this song that we're talking about today?

[00:02:10] Chris, you know if I did want to give myself extra editing work I want to say this right

[00:02:15] out the gate.

[00:02:16] Most people know that we do a lot of early pre-recording on our show.

[00:02:20] We like to have a nice evergreen back catalog.

[00:02:23] I always wanted for the TikTok for us to talk about what teams were playing in the current

[00:02:29] Super Bowl while blocking our mouths and then we'll just add the team names.

[00:02:34] I really think the Urns are going to win the Super Bowl.

[00:02:38] Exactly.

[00:02:39] Here's the thing with Deion Sanders, obviously I've never been a sports kid but there are

[00:02:43] obviously certain people who are so famous that I just know their name.

[00:02:50] I have known the name of Deion Sanders as long as I can think of.

[00:02:55] Same with Michael Jordan.

[00:02:57] Growing up in Philly, a name like Mike Schmidt was a name that I just knew.

[00:03:01] I knew a lot of the Phillies of the 90s pretty well like John Crook.

[00:03:06] John Crook, yeah.

[00:03:07] How about Allen Iverson?

[00:03:08] Yeah, Allen Iverson.

[00:03:10] There was those names you couldn't escape.

[00:03:12] Deion Sanders was absolutely one of them.

[00:03:14] A person whose name is probably going to come up more than once in this episode, Shaquille

[00:03:18] O'Neal, another athlete turned musician.

[00:03:23] How about Bo Jackson?

[00:03:25] Was Bo Jackson a name you knew?

[00:03:28] I feel like that's a name I know more now.

[00:03:32] Also the world of podcasting, there are so many podcasters I like who also like sports.

[00:03:37] I'll hear them reference sports stuff and I'll be like, okay, I've got that.

[00:03:42] But no, it's the same with, I would say the flip side would be like you don't really watch

[00:03:47] wrestling but you know who Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage is because they were...

[00:03:53] Or you know who John Cena is.

[00:03:55] It's just like some of these people become so famous and become known for so much more

[00:04:00] than just the fact that they are this one particular thing.

[00:04:04] Sanders was one of those.

[00:04:05] I know that he was famous for his like touchdown dance celebrations and that maybe, I don't

[00:04:10] know, maybe is that a connection?

[00:04:11] That's all you know about him?

[00:04:12] You just know his touchdown dance celebrations?

[00:04:15] I couldn't even tell you what teams he played for.

[00:04:20] I know that when doing research for this, this was an interesting thing.

[00:04:24] I did know that he played baseball and football.

[00:04:28] And I did not know...

[00:04:29] That's why I asked you if you knew who Bo Jackson was because Bo Jackson did that too.

[00:04:33] I did not know that he is the only player to win a Super Bowl and a World Series in

[00:04:38] their career.

[00:04:39] And that in 1992, he became the only person to hit a home run and score a touchdown in

[00:04:44] the same week.

[00:04:45] It's crazy.

[00:04:46] It's crazy.

[00:04:47] To think that he played for two different teams simultaneously like that.

[00:04:52] I don't think you could even let that happen in 2023.

[00:04:55] Yeah.

[00:04:56] Bo Jackson did it as well.

[00:04:58] And we'll get to that.

[00:04:59] Okay.

[00:05:00] I want to give you a background on how incredible Deion Sanders really was.

[00:05:05] In high school, he went to high school in Fort Myers, Florida.

[00:05:08] He was a letterman and Allstate in football, basketball and baseball.

[00:05:12] In 1985, he was named to the Florida High School Association All Century Team, which

[00:05:17] selected 33 players in the 100 year history of high school football in Florida.

[00:05:24] He's one of those 33 players.

[00:05:26] Jesus.

[00:05:27] Okay.

[00:05:28] You're going to say Jesus a lot in here when I tell you this stuff.

[00:05:30] He was picked by the Kansas City Royals and the sixth round of the 1985 draft right out

[00:05:36] of high school.

[00:05:38] The Kansas City Royals are a baseball team, Matt, but he didn't sign with them.

[00:05:41] He wanted to go to college.

[00:05:43] He went to Florida State where he played football, baseball and ran track.

[00:05:49] He started for Florida State in the secondary as a freshman.

[00:05:53] He played outfield for the baseball team that finished fifth in the nation.

[00:05:57] Then he helped lead the track and field team to a conference championship as a freshman.

[00:06:01] Okay, jam.

[00:06:02] In college, he was the two time consensus All-American quarterback in 1987 and 1988.

[00:06:10] He intercepted 14 passes in his college career, including three bowl games.

[00:06:15] He managed to return one interception for 100 yards for a touchdown, breaking the interception

[00:06:20] return record when he did that.

[00:06:22] Okay, damn.

[00:06:23] All right.

[00:06:24] He's impressive.

[00:06:26] In 1988, he won the Jim Thorpe Award as the best defensive player in the nation in college.

[00:06:32] Okay.

[00:06:33] He was also a standout punt returner and he led the nation with his punt return average

[00:06:37] and he broke the school's record for punt return yards.

[00:06:41] His batting average in baseball in college was 331 and he stole 27 bases.

[00:06:47] And then on May 16th of 1987, he played in the conference semifinal baseball game that

[00:06:55] he ran a, a, the four by 100 relay with the track team.

[00:06:59] Then he returned to play in the baseball championship game against Cincinnati.

[00:07:04] The Florida state track team won the conference and the baseball team won the championship.

[00:07:09] Holy hell.

[00:07:10] Chris, that's just college.

[00:07:12] Yeah.

[00:07:13] Let me ask you a question then to bring it back to this episode for a second.

[00:07:19] So does that mean that primetime is the only thing that he wasn't like the best of the

[00:07:24] best at doing at this point in his life?

[00:07:26] Like this album made no ripples at all when it came out.

[00:07:31] I mean, it was this, it was a little bit later, but he already, he was already primetime.

[00:07:36] He got that nickname from a friend.

[00:07:38] You know how he got that nickname?

[00:07:40] How?

[00:07:41] So his friend that he ended up going, I think he, I don't think he went to college with

[00:07:45] him.

[00:07:46] I think it was in high school, but this dude was a college football player.

[00:07:47] I actually have his name.

[00:07:48] Let me give him credit.

[00:07:51] He was a Florida Gators defensive back, Richard Fane.

[00:07:54] They would play, pick up basketball games together during the primetime television

[00:08:00] hour.

[00:08:01] And that's where his friend gave him the nickname primetime.

[00:08:04] He's also known as neon Dion.

[00:08:06] I was going to ask, I thought I saw the words neon Dion a few times.

[00:08:10] Was that just for the clothing?

[00:08:11] Like, did he wear like really flashy flamboyant colors or something?

[00:08:14] All right.

[00:08:15] No, nevermind.

[00:08:16] I don't know.

[00:08:17] I don't know where that one came from.

[00:08:18] I think it just because it rhymed.

[00:08:20] It makes sense.

[00:08:22] Okay, so now let's get into his professional career because this is going to lead to his

[00:08:25] musical career.

[00:08:27] He was drafted by the Yankees in baseball in 1988 and then he made his major league

[00:08:32] baseball debut in May of 1989 in 1989 at the NFL scouting combine.

[00:08:38] Do you know what the combine is Matt?

[00:08:41] Is that like, I don't know.

[00:08:43] I know that there's like the football draft.

[00:08:45] Is that where the draft happens or before the draft where all the players who are going

[00:08:49] to get drafted or want to get drafted, they go.

[00:08:51] Most of them go to this thing where they can do all kinds of skills competitions and like,

[00:08:56] okay, they're kind of just like I put it in this, but it's like being like a show dog

[00:09:00] essentially.

[00:09:01] It's like, all right, who are the people that we want to bring in to show to the other people?

[00:09:04] Yeah.

[00:09:05] Okay.

[00:09:06] That makes sense.

[00:09:07] And it's not the end all be all because players could have a bad combine and be an amazing

[00:09:10] player.

[00:09:11] It doesn't always work that way.

[00:09:12] But at the combine Dion ran a four to seven 40 yard dash.

[00:09:19] That is insane.

[00:09:20] You know, it's something I've never done.

[00:09:21] I want to see what my 40 time is.

[00:09:23] I don't know what my 40 time is because these dudes that run four twos and four threes, that's

[00:09:28] so insanely fast.

[00:09:30] Like I, I don't even know how to put it in words.

[00:09:33] How fast are you saying words?

[00:09:34] I don't understand.

[00:09:35] Which means that possibly listeners don't.

[00:09:37] What is a 40 time?

[00:09:38] Yeah.

[00:09:39] How much time it takes you to run 40 yards.

[00:09:41] Okay.

[00:09:42] So gotcha running it.

[00:09:44] Like you'll hear the best, like an awesome 40 time is, is a 4.4 40.

[00:09:51] That's 4.4 seconds.

[00:09:53] You ran 40 yards.

[00:09:54] So like a 10 yards a second, essentially 10 yards a second, which is crazy.

[00:10:00] And he did three points on that.

[00:10:02] Four point two seven.

[00:10:03] Oh, four point two seven.

[00:10:04] You're talking about fractions of a second difference, but it makes all the difference.

[00:10:09] So after that combine, he was the fifth overall pick in the NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons.

[00:10:16] When he was in the NFL, he ran back his second ever punt for a touchdown in the second attempt

[00:10:21] of his first game.

[00:10:22] Yeah.

[00:10:23] I even know that that's a big deal.

[00:10:24] Yeah.

[00:10:25] Right.

[00:10:26] And then like you said, during the 1989 season, he hit a home run and scored a touchdown in

[00:10:32] the same week, becoming the only player ever to do that.

[00:10:35] He's also the only person to play in both a Superbowl and a world series.

[00:10:39] Yeah.

[00:10:40] And I think he won both of them.

[00:10:42] That's correct.

[00:10:43] Yeah, that's insane.

[00:10:44] So I brought up Bo Jackson.

[00:10:46] Now I was a Bo Jackson guy.

[00:10:49] It's funny.

[00:10:50] I just recently came across some old family videos where I had my Bo Jackson Christmas,

[00:10:56] which was hilarious.

[00:10:57] I got like so much Bo Jackson stuff.

[00:11:00] It's what I wanted.

[00:11:01] I wanted a Bo Jackson jersey and a Raiders sweatshirt and a Raiders hat and Bo Jackson

[00:11:05] cards.

[00:11:06] And I just wanted everything Bo Jackson, whereas Neon was very like a show off.

[00:11:10] Bo Jackson was more just like a badass.

[00:11:14] Okay.

[00:11:15] So it's funny.

[00:11:16] You brought up the Raiders.

[00:11:18] And for me, we're talking maybe 94, 95.

[00:11:23] I'm in elementary school still.

[00:11:25] For whatever reason, even though I didn't watch any sports, there would come a time

[00:11:30] where there'd be like almost like the book fair, but it was like a clothing thing where

[00:11:35] you could order things to be delivered to the school that were like sports jackets or

[00:11:40] like blankets or whatever.

[00:11:42] And it was almost like I wanted the kids to not know how much I didn't like sports.

[00:11:47] So I would buy things based on if I thought the logo was cool.

[00:11:51] Oh yeah.

[00:11:52] I'm going to use the wrong way of saying that I definitely had a fair share of Raiders things

[00:11:56] because I thought the Raiders logo was cool.

[00:11:58] And I've seen a lot of things online about this, so I'm not alone in this.

[00:12:03] I had a lot of Charlotte Hornet stuff because I thought that cartoon Hornet was fucking

[00:12:09] awesome.

[00:12:10] Oh, and they had the colors, like whatever color that was.

[00:12:15] The purple, blue, like whatever.

[00:12:17] I had like a blanket, like I had a fleece with it.

[00:12:20] I definitely had a jacket.

[00:12:21] Oh man, the nineties were such a good time for like awesome, like the San Jose Sharks

[00:12:29] was a cool one.

[00:12:31] Pittsburgh always had cool.

[00:12:32] We always had black and gold and we had the Penguins and Steelers.

[00:12:35] My dad wants, and I may hit you up on this one of these days, my dad wants to own, he's

[00:12:40] retired now, he's built himself a little sports bar in the back of my parents' house, but

[00:12:46] he wants the wall to be a baseball hat for every single team in the MLB.

[00:12:51] So he's trying to, but he said his one regret was he went and saw the Phillies play in

[00:12:54] Pittsburgh and forgot to grab a hat while he was there.

[00:12:59] So if you go to a game, I might ask you to get him a hat for me.

[00:13:02] Yeah, I can help you out.

[00:13:04] Although I don't go to many Pirates games, but-

[00:13:06] I didn't think you did, but I was like, if you do, if you find yourself at a Pirates game,

[00:13:10] let me know because I may Venmo you some money for a hat.

[00:13:12] It's a rough Pittsburgh team.

[00:13:13] It's a rough Pittsburgh team.

[00:13:14] They're like, they don't win very often, Matt.

[00:13:17] They're not good.

[00:13:20] So anyway, back to Neon Dion, before we get to his music career, we got to talk about

[00:13:24] a couple other things.

[00:13:25] He eventually, he played against Bo Jackson, the other two sport athlete, five times in

[00:13:30] baseball and the most memorable time being on July 17th of 1990 and what was billed the

[00:13:37] Bo and primetime show.

[00:13:39] And in that game, Bo Jackson had three home runs to which Dion Sanders said, Bo's one

[00:13:45] of the best athletes to ever put on a uniform.

[00:13:48] I think he's correct.

[00:13:49] It's funny, Matt.

[00:13:50] I know you're not a sports guy, but did you ever play Tecmo bowl?

[00:13:55] I didn't.

[00:13:56] I'll tell you the sport, the sport games that I played for whatever reason, I had soccer

[00:14:01] shootout for super Nintendo.

[00:14:04] I did a lot of soccer shootout.

[00:14:06] NBA jam tournament edition obviously was big for me and played like the general, like,

[00:14:15] oh, here's the snowboard, like generic snowboarding game, but I've never played a football game.

[00:14:21] I get too confused trying to play any type of football game.

[00:14:24] Okay.

[00:14:25] Well, my point being that in Tecmo bowl, it's like the joke about Tecmo ball, which is true

[00:14:31] is it was unfair to be the Raiders because you had Bo Jackson and he was, his little

[00:14:36] character was so much faster than anyone else.

[00:14:38] Like you can watch YouTube.

[00:14:39] So people just like taking Bo Jackson and running all over the field and no one can

[00:14:44] catch him.

[00:14:45] Like, you know, like, like running for like 200 yards on a hundred yard touchdown.

[00:14:49] Cause he's just going up and down the field.

[00:14:51] Yeah, he was that good, but we're talking about Dion.

[00:14:55] Who was the other Dion was no slouch.

[00:14:58] He ended up winning the 1994 NFL defensive player of the year while playing for the 49ers.

[00:15:03] And he recorded an end zone interception in the fourth quarter of Superbowl 29 against

[00:15:07] the chargers, earning him his first championship ring.

[00:15:10] That's a day on I'm talking about.

[00:15:12] He then signed with the Cowboys in 1995, making him the highest paid defensive player in the

[00:15:17] NFL at that time.

[00:15:18] And he went on to help the Cowboys beat the Steelers in Superbowl 30.

[00:15:22] So it's back to back Superbowls.

[00:15:23] He won.

[00:15:24] I know, you know, Dion is like a celebrity.

[00:15:26] He's known for his bandana and he's known for high stepping into the end zone followed

[00:15:31] by his touchdown dance celebrations.

[00:15:34] Now I feel like nowadays every team has like entire team touchdown celebrations and stuff,

[00:15:40] but this still was at the time where people, it players spiked the ball, but dances in

[00:15:46] the end zone, they weren't as prevalent.

[00:15:48] Just curious.

[00:15:49] Did people like it?

[00:15:50] Did people hate it thinking it was really arrogant and like ruining the sanctity of the

[00:15:55] game or was like a 50 50 split of that opinion at the time?

[00:15:58] I would say it's 50 50.

[00:15:59] I would say the adults hated it and kids loved it.

[00:16:03] And I think players realized more and more over time that dancing and make your making

[00:16:09] yourself into a personality helped you land more endorsements and made you more well known

[00:16:15] and it just meant more money, you know?

[00:16:18] And it's almost like you talked about wrestling.

[00:16:20] It's like you want people to know, oh, it's the guy who does the crazy dances.

[00:16:24] It's the guy who does whatever.

[00:16:26] And it, it's a huge part of the game now.

[00:16:29] Yeah, no, 100%.

[00:16:31] I, it's, it's a, it's an element of you have to present yourself as larger than life.

[00:16:36] I think that there's, I think that there's an element of why baseball is always kind

[00:16:43] of dipping in popularity is that there really isn't any like superstar baseball player right

[00:16:49] now that like is as known and beloved as like the fact that I know at least one or

[00:16:56] two like football players just based on who do you know?

[00:16:59] And we're recording this in, you know, 2024 who are current football players that you know

[00:17:05] who they are?

[00:17:07] I, I know the Kelsey brothers.

[00:17:09] Sure.

[00:17:10] I know that there's them.

[00:17:11] Uh, I know Hertz.

[00:17:13] That's somebody right.

[00:17:14] Yep.

[00:17:15] Yep.

[00:17:16] You're a Philly guy.

[00:17:17] He's Philly's quarterback.

[00:17:18] Yeah.

[00:17:20] I know that there's a lot of Philly's players, but like, you know what I mean?

[00:17:21] Like the, like the Kelsey brothers are like a prime example right now.

[00:17:24] Like they are obviously Taylor Swift is helping out a little bit there, but they are like

[00:17:27] superstar status right now.

[00:17:29] Like there's documentaries about them in this, that, and the other thing I can't really think

[00:17:33] of like off the top of my head, like a baseball player that anybody, whether they watch baseball

[00:17:38] or not would be like, Oh yes.

[00:17:40] Him.

[00:17:41] That's currently playing.

[00:17:42] I'm just curious who the larger than life I'm sure you know my homes.

[00:17:46] Yeah.

[00:17:47] I was going to say, is there someone that's like homes, but yeah, my homes,

[00:17:50] Someone like homes.

[00:17:51] Okay.

[00:17:52] You really don't know.

[00:17:53] You know about as much as my girlfriend.

[00:17:55] So okay.

[00:17:56] All right.

[00:17:57] I get, I get where you're coming from.

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[00:21:12] So here we are, it's December of 1994 and Primetime has done it all except release an album.

[00:21:21] So who steps up to help him?

[00:21:23] MC Hammer.

[00:21:24] Hammer don't hurt him.

[00:21:26] On Bust It Records and he releases his album Primetime featuring the single Must Be The

[00:21:33] Money which is what we're here to talk about.

[00:21:34] We're finally talking about his song.

[00:21:37] We're doing this just because it's the week of the Super Bowl.

[00:21:40] Like this song didn't chart.

[00:21:42] I knew it though.

[00:21:43] I knew it.

[00:21:44] I knew it too actually.

[00:21:45] I weirdly knew this song when I heard it.

[00:21:47] You know he performed it on SNL like it was a thing.

[00:21:50] We're talking about Deion Sanders Must Be The Money because it was kind of a big deal

[00:21:54] when it happened.

[00:21:55] I'm trying to think at this point in time you obviously had the 85 Chicago Bulls put

[00:22:01] out a song.

[00:22:03] They didn't put out an album but they put out the Super Bowl Shuffle which technically

[00:22:06] we could have done that.

[00:22:07] That's a more established hit than Must Be The Money.

[00:22:12] But was this before or after Shaquille?

[00:22:15] This was after Shaq right?

[00:22:16] I don't know what year that was.

[00:22:19] Because that was Foo Schnickens.

[00:22:20] I can't imagine Foo Schnickens was still popping in 94.

[00:22:24] I would have thought that Gangster Rap would have completely wiped all of that type of

[00:22:27] rap music off the back.

[00:22:29] I'm finding out right now.

[00:22:32] It was 1994.

[00:22:33] Oh okay so this was something in the air at that point in time.

[00:22:38] Athletes thought they could have music careers too and they were right to a certain extent.

[00:22:43] Here's what I'll say.

[00:22:44] You're comparing Must Be The Money to the Super Bowl Shuffle.

[00:22:47] Must Be The Money is a song.

[00:22:49] It's an actual song.

[00:22:52] That's one thing we can say about Must Be The Money.

[00:22:54] It is a song.

[00:22:56] Also the other thing we can say about Must Be The Money is hey, the chorus ain't bad.

[00:23:01] No, it's actually very good.

[00:23:04] It's not like it sounds good and I think it was produced by Dallas Austin who I always

[00:23:09] knew who Dallas Austin was because he produced the first Boyz II Men album and what I probably

[00:23:15] knew him even more from, Another Bad Creation.

[00:23:19] Dallas Austin eventually went on to work for LaFace Records and then he was recruited to

[00:23:24] work on the debut album for, do you know who Matt?

[00:23:28] No.

[00:23:29] TLC.

[00:23:30] Oh.

[00:23:31] Damn.

[00:23:32] And then after that he worked with Madonna on Bedtime Stories.

[00:23:36] He produced TLC's Unpretty.

[00:23:39] He produced Pink's Don't Let Me Get Me and Just Like a Pill and he produced Gwen Stefani's

[00:23:43] Cool and he has three kids with Chili from TLC.

[00:23:49] Damn.

[00:23:50] Dallas Austin has had a big career.

[00:23:52] So he had something to do.

[00:23:55] To be honest, there were a couple other people listed as producers on this album as well.

[00:23:59] He was the first person listed.

[00:24:00] I tried to see who produced individual songs so there is a slight chance but this sounds

[00:24:06] like, this sounds good so I kind of think it's probably Dallas Austin.

[00:24:11] This whole album, I did listen to the whole Primetime album.

[00:24:14] I think it's weird that it's referred to on Wikipedia it says that he released a rap album.

[00:24:20] I don't think that this is rap.

[00:24:21] This feels way more like just general R&B.

[00:24:24] Like talking?

[00:24:25] I thought you were gonna say it sounds more like he's just talking.

[00:24:27] Yeah, it's not.

[00:24:30] Shaq put out a rap album.

[00:24:32] You know what I mean?

[00:24:33] Diesel Power is a rap album.

[00:24:36] I don't know what this is but it sounds good.

[00:24:38] It's well produced and I think my favorite thing about this Deon Sanders story is this

[00:24:43] album came out, did not do well, didn't chart at all, singles barely made a blip.

[00:24:51] He goes on SNL, he performs two songs off of it, still no movement, shows up in some

[00:24:56] MC Hammer music videos and then even does another song with MC Hammer for of all things

[00:25:02] the Street Fighter soundtrack.

[00:25:04] Yeah, why not?

[00:25:06] I just, look, I say this is a guy who is one of the greatest athletes ever in his prime,

[00:25:18] hence the name primetime.

[00:25:20] And he's just like, I can do it all.

[00:25:22] I'm gonna do it all.

[00:25:23] I'm gonna do music too.

[00:25:25] Why not?

[00:25:26] And he did it and it's not very good.

[00:25:30] It's all right.

[00:25:31] He got the right people around him to help him make something that sounds good.

[00:25:37] The only thing that doesn't sound good are his parts when his verses are very bad.

[00:25:43] Well, let's talk about the verses real quick.

[00:25:45] Why not?

[00:25:46] Sure.

[00:25:47] He goes, you know, ever since I turned pro in 1989 when I signed the dotted line, people's

[00:25:53] strange because things change for the better and for the worse.

[00:25:57] So I called my mama and she said, baby must be the money.

[00:26:03] Must be the money.

[00:26:04] Then he goes on, says, I've got people wanting to be my friends, people I never knew, people

[00:26:10] I never thought about associating with.

[00:26:12] I don't know what it is.

[00:26:14] Talk to me.

[00:26:15] Check it out.

[00:26:16] Diamond Rolex with gators on my feet.

[00:26:19] Got two pairs for every day of the week.

[00:26:21] My hair done, my fingernails too.

[00:26:24] Six buttons down.

[00:26:25] Don't know what to do.

[00:26:27] Must be the money.

[00:26:29] I love the idea of being just at the top of your game or whatever and making a song about

[00:26:34] how much money you have.

[00:26:38] And then poor people going out and spending their money to get an album of a guy singing

[00:26:44] about how much money he has.

[00:26:46] Listen, look, I'm going to say something really controversial for a second.

[00:26:51] I don't think that there is anything different on this song that you couldn't find on say

[00:26:57] Juicy or Mo Money Mo Problems by Notorious B.I.G.

[00:27:03] It is a thing.

[00:27:04] Hey, I used to be poor.

[00:27:05] I've got money, but the money's led to some problems too.

[00:27:08] I mean, it's all there.

[00:27:10] It must be the money.

[00:27:11] All right.

[00:27:12] It keeps me looking calm.

[00:27:14] It's got me rolling on strong.

[00:27:16] Limousines in first class I fly.

[00:27:19] I'm living large and you know I can't deny a drop top bends when I'm with my lady friends.

[00:27:26] My truck six four with my homies making ends must be the money.

[00:27:31] Must be the money.

[00:27:32] Must be the money.

[00:27:33] And then I think this is the last.

[00:27:36] There's so many lyrics to this song.

[00:27:38] So many ways to tell people how rich you are.

[00:27:42] These women fall in love must be the money when I'm kicking it at the club flashing lights

[00:27:46] on the dance floor.

[00:27:47] The DJ says my name as I make my intro.

[00:27:50] The place is packed nowhere to find a seat, but I'm prime.

[00:27:53] Don't worry because I'm sensing VIP must be the money.

[00:27:57] I got so many jewels.

[00:27:58] Sixty twenty six with all this.

[00:28:01] So many jewels is probably the best line.

[00:28:06] Twenty six with all this loot to afford the way I live.

[00:28:09] The players ball is at my crib and if I make a better mansion on my land pools, jacuzzis

[00:28:15] and my neighbors can't stand the way I live is oh so fat.

[00:28:20] I got two ladies and prime time is all that.

[00:28:23] Oh wait that's the best line.

[00:28:25] The way I live is oh so fat.

[00:28:27] I got two ladies and prime time is all that.

[00:28:32] It's so funny like this is the best he could do on these verses.

[00:28:36] I don't know it's just it's wild.

[00:28:39] This is his outro.

[00:28:41] Come on ladies sing my song.

[00:28:44] You know I can't go wrong.

[00:28:45] Come on ladies sing my song.

[00:28:47] The first thing people say is prime don't let money change you.

[00:28:51] Don't let money change you.

[00:28:52] I said hey don't let money change you because personally I've got to change my wardrobe,

[00:28:58] my phone number, my address.

[00:29:00] Hey my snakeskin shoes ain't gonna change in the gators and my library cards aren't

[00:29:05] gonna change into credit cards.

[00:29:07] You know what I'm saying?

[00:29:09] Don't let the money change you to which I don't know what you're saying.

[00:29:13] Has the money changed him?

[00:29:15] Has the money not changed him?

[00:29:17] What's the what's the verdict here?

[00:29:20] I think the money may have changed him.

[00:29:21] I think the money may have changed him a little bit or maybe he's always been prime time.

[00:29:27] Maybe that's the point.

[00:29:28] I don't know what the point is.

[00:29:29] He's been prime time since the day he signed.

[00:29:32] He's been prime time since the day he popped out into this world.

[00:29:35] That's right.

[00:29:36] I mean Chris I think we could probably bypass the thunder blunder side of things because

[00:29:42] can we?

[00:29:43] Can we?

[00:29:44] I mean obviously the song is a blunder but who are we to tell Deion Sanders that he's

[00:29:49] anything but thunder.

[00:29:50] Did you listen to his other single prime time keeps on ticking?

[00:29:55] I absolutely did.

[00:29:56] This was better.

[00:29:58] Must be the money was better than prime time keeps ticking.

[00:30:00] For anyone listening prime time keeps on ticking does an interpolation of time keeps on ticking.

[00:30:07] It's fly like an eagle by Steve Miller.

[00:30:10] Yeah yeah.

[00:30:11] Hey but in the first line of that that song is playing two sports not taking no shorts

[00:30:17] mess around you might catch me on the basketball court.

[00:30:20] I love his music career it's just him talking about his sports career.

[00:30:27] It is.

[00:30:28] I would look you know you know how I would love this album is if the Deion Sanders athletic

[00:30:36] career didn't exist and it was just a guy who made an album about how good he was at

[00:30:41] sports and how rich he was.

[00:30:43] Then if that was the case this might be one of my favorite albums because I kind of want

[00:30:47] to make that album now.

[00:30:48] I want to make it an album where I brag about how much money I have and how good I am at

[00:30:53] sports.

[00:30:54] Maybe it's time for the world to come out of retirement and put out another EP about

[00:30:58] how good you are at sports and how much money you have.

[00:31:00] That would be awesome.

[00:31:03] Catch me on the deck hockey court.

[00:31:06] I'm at least the 14th best player out there and I'm definitely a hundred air got hundreds

[00:31:13] at the bank.

[00:31:14] Dion he appeared in hammers to legit to quit music video and his alter ego prime time.

[00:31:21] I didn't know it was his alter ego but it showed up in hammers pumps it up music video

[00:31:25] video.

[00:31:26] The bump video the controversially banned for being too sexy video.

[00:31:32] Well he made a bump.

[00:31:33] I wonder he might be in the second one that wasn't as sexy.

[00:31:37] Maybe that's possible.

[00:31:39] And then yes straight straight to my feet also came out at that time.

[00:31:43] Street Fighter soundtrack right and that featured Sanders on that and that song charted at 57

[00:31:50] in the United Kingdom.

[00:31:51] Yeah I don't know why the people of the United Kingdom like this hammer and Dion's dance

[00:31:58] and his collab.

[00:31:59] Yeah.

[00:32:00] Anyway in 1995 listen to this.

[00:32:05] Dion Sanders was a spokesman for the Sega sports line of video games as well as doing

[00:32:09] commercials for Nike Pepsi Burger King Pizza Hut and American Express.

[00:32:15] How can you do Burger King and Pizza Hut.

[00:32:18] Aren't they competing restaurants.

[00:32:19] I know that they're different types of food but damn.

[00:32:23] Yeah I guess so.

[00:32:24] I was going to say it'd be more controversial if it was Burger King and McDonald's or Wendy's

[00:32:29] at the same time.

[00:32:30] I guess but I wonder maybe they're under.

[00:32:32] Yeah.

[00:32:33] They under the same umbrella.

[00:32:35] I guess not because then you'd see Burger King's in those like Pizza Hut KFC Taco Bell

[00:32:41] yeah those three those three are an item.

[00:32:43] You like Taco Bell.

[00:32:46] I got a new appreciation for it lately.

[00:32:49] You got to get a crunch wrap supreme with a jalapeno sauce on it.

[00:32:52] It's damn good.

[00:32:53] My my thing with Taco Bell is that I I feel like I eat more food there than I would eat

[00:33:01] almost anywhere else feeling like I wouldn't get full from a normal like if I go to say

[00:33:06] McDonald's I'm just going to get like a combo one and call it a day but like I don't know

[00:33:12] three soft shell tacos from Taco Bell isn't particularly filling they're very small so

[00:33:18] then all of a sudden I'm getting to get a crunch wrap crunch wrap will change your I don't

[00:33:22] eat much fast food but I will kill two crunch wraps right.

[00:33:26] Well I will say hey for any listeners out there who don't already know this they probably

[00:33:30] already know this but if you're trying to eat vegan or just vegetarian Taco Bell is probably

[00:33:36] the biggest fast food place that's got your back.

[00:33:38] Yeah yeah that's what I that's what I do I get a bean crunch wrap supreme.

[00:33:42] Okay anyway Deion Sanders he retired from the NFL in 2001 he worked as an analyst on

[00:33:48] CBS until 2004 you know and he's been he's been around for all these years in 2021 you

[00:33:54] may not know this about Deion Sanders I actually saw this last week and I didn't believe it

[00:33:58] because I couldn't find any more info on it and I finally found more info on it today.

[00:34:02] He underwent several foot surgeries on his left foot and he had two of his toes amputated

[00:34:08] as a result of blood clots.

[00:34:10] Oh Jesus.

[00:34:11] Yeah in 2021 and then he's been back in the news in recent year or two here because he's

[00:34:19] in 2023 he's the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes.

[00:34:25] They finished in his first season they finished with a four and eight record after winning

[00:34:28] their first three games man there was Colorado Buffaloes mania going on after those first

[00:34:33] three games because Colorado was one in 11 the season before and they brought Deion in

[00:34:37] and he was making a world of difference and his son Shador is the quarterback of the

[00:34:42] team too so you know I think he recruited a lot of good players but they ended up not

[00:34:48] having that great of a season but he's back he's coaching and I don't know I like I like

[00:34:54] Deion more now than I did then at the time I was way more Jackson was there back then

[00:35:01] all right well Chris thank you for educating me I'm going to be telling everybody about

[00:35:06] Deion Sanders now I hope it'll be it'll be like when you watch a movie that's like 30

[00:35:10] years old that was already like critically adored and you're trying to get conversation

[00:35:14] started sure hey have you guys ever heard of the Lord of the Rings movies I just check

[00:35:18] them out they're pretty great hey have you guys ever heard of Deion Sanders

[00:35:21] with the riffraff that I hang out with it's possible they don't yeah I believe that Geek

[00:35:28] Scape on Geek Scape I'm sure there's not too many people that know who Deion Sanders is

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