 Hello everybody and welcome to our first inaugural episode of Behind the Hype with Cal TV Sports. I'm Naisal Reyes, your host. Behind the Hype is a show that I created this summer along with the help of Kelsey Rothaus where you want to show the personal side of the athlete off the court, off the field, etc. I am so honored to have my first guest on the show starring defensive tackle James Looney, a good friend of mine here. James, thank you for being on the show. How are you doing today? Doing great man, thanks for having me. That's great. Alright, I want to talk to you about the USC game on Saturday. You know there's a lot of hatred here at UC Berkeley towards USC. How's the excitement in the locker room? What is everyone talking about? I mean this is just great energy. I mean just you know a lot of people being from LA down here coming to Cal Berkeley and I mean just having like the North Cal, So Cal rivalry and you know USC has I mean like the privileged students known for them. Oh we know that. So you know you're just trying to trying to get after them. Of course and a lot of excitement also comes from being a halloween that's going to create a lot of excitement. The fans can be a lot of costumes. Let me talk to you about costumes and outfits. I know during the game in practice I've heard that you wear this crop top outfit. You want to touch up on that a little bit? Yeah you know I got a sexy pretty sexy body. We all do. That's big boys you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? You know I eat McDonald's here now but you know everything's cool. We don't touch upon McDonald's that much but you know what I mean. I'm not a big fan of like dressing up. I just like to go out there and put on anything and I don't know the crop top looks good to me. I like it man. I know a lot of people on Twitter and Instagram like it so you keep doing your thing. I know I get a couple sacks. Speaking of sacks what's your favorite sack dance to do? I know that hotline bleeding that Drake you know what I mean or hitting the dad. What's your favorite one? The dab is pretty sweet but I don't know personally like soccer like soccer celebrations. Okay. I messed with that. Don't hurt yourself. I know a couple people have hurt themselves in the NFL doing that so I don't want to mess up with that stuff. Yeah but I'm a superb athlete so I know you get those hops though. You get those hops. Yeah I know. I feel that. All right speaking of soccer I've heard that there's a lot of FIFA competition happening in the locker room. How are you? Are you good? Decent? Like I know I'm one of the best FIFA players in this school. You know what I mean? How are you? I mean there's average and there's good and then there's probably great and then there's me. There's a couple other teams on the team. Let me players on the team that are pretty good at FIFA. Bryce Treggs, Kyle Craig, Isaiah Tonga Lava definitely. All right. But yeah this is we go at it. We gotta play sometime. You gotta come over man. No we got four TVs. Okay we gotta invite me over. Trollers get broken every now. Oh I bet. I bet. I've been through a couple of my own man. Who's your favorite team to play with though? Barcelona. Barcelona? Uh-uh. I don't mess with Barcelona man. I'm saying you got Neymar. You can't can't beat him. Respect though. Respect. Respect. All right. I know you started off at Wake Forest but you came over to Cal. What initially drew you to come over to Cal? I mean first when I was at Wake we got new coaching staff and I mean I was real like close to the coaching staff that was there before and the new coaching staff I mean they were pretty good guys. I mean it just didn't fit my system and they didn't fit my personality. So I wanted to come out to Cal. I mean my brother was out here playing for the Niners at the time and I mean it just seemed like a perfect fit. Coach Dykes was a great guy. I mean and coming to Cal obviously it's a great academic school. One of the best in the country so I mean it was pretty much easy decision. Any weather too? Amen to that. Amen to that. All right speaking of your brother I know my mother and my brother have been a big influence on my life. Big role models. How has your brother like inspired you to be successful here at Cal? Me just pushed me to work hard. I mean when you got a brother as successful as my brother I think he's done a great job in the NFL. He's actually playing for Tennessee Titans right now. He just got picked up. That's some dope stuff. Yeah he's doing a pretty good job. He's laying the foundation for me. Yeah. Yeah and I mean I don't know it's just competition between us two growing up as kids. I feel that. Trying to up him. All right I see that. Family rivalry. For sure let me touch upon lifting. All right so I've heard some rumors that you're a huge lifter. Maybe one of the best. Maybe not as good as me because you know I'm pushed 135. What are you pushing on bench press? 135. I could probably get about 145. Easy in your sleep though. You get that in your sleep. Yeah I'll warm up with that every now and then you know what I'm saying. Yeah. I'll probably probably get up to like 405. All right that's some. Putting up some good numbers. Okay I can only dream of doing that number man. That's some incredible stuff. No man you gotta look good and play good. It looked good. Play good. Feel good. You know what I mean? For the people in the stands and yourself you know what I mean? That's Dion Sanders. Always, always, always. Floating mentality. All right. I want to thank you for being on the show. I really enjoyed it man. I really enjoyed the conversation. Look forward to next week for the show where Kelsey Royalt House will be interviewing a special player and show you the hype behind basketball. Again, Looney thank you for being on the show. Get excited. It's the first episode. We have a lot more coming your way. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it.