What's going on, guys? Nicole Kotch for Young Hollywood hanging out backstage at Kids Choice Sports with Russell Wilson. How are you?

Super excited to be here with you Nicole. Obviously it's super cool venue back here behind us, you know with the monster slides and all the slime. So uh to be able to host Kids Choice Sports Awards again, uh three years in a row, it's super exciting. I'm pumped.

You are such a pro. My next question was gonna be like, so, welcome back. You're hosting again. How does it feel? I love it. Nice work.

Yeah. It's exciting to be here, obviously. You know, to be able to hang out with all these kids and have so much fun. There's gonna be millions and millions of kids watching and tracing me, so it'll be a lot of fun.

Awesome. And I know you've been slimed before. I've never been slimed. So can you just describe to us like what it feels like, tastes like, smells like, all that, all that good stuff?

Well, it's pretty powerful. Uh it's nasty, it's slimy, it's gooey, um but it's also fun. So it'll be a blast. Obviously, it's super, super green. So there'll be a lot of fun to uh just uh get slimed again. I'm not sure how I'm getting slimed this year, so we'll have to see. It's a little bit of a surprise. But we also have Michael Phelps is is getting the Legend Award. The past two years I've been able to to slime Kobe Bryant the past two years, and also Derek Jeter the past two years. And this year uh it's going to be Michael Phelps. So it's going to be really exciting to uh get him. He's used to swimming in a pool of uh of water, but I'm not sure about slime.

Yeah. Oh, really? Ooh. That'd be a little bit hard for sure. Yeah, for sure. I also read too that the original slime, it's made of vanilla pudding, um oatmeal and uh oh. Dang it, I it was gonna say applesauce. That's that's correct though. But I want to know what would you make your own slime out of if you had the choice.

Oh man. Um I would probably make it out of food coloring, water. Um I would probably

That's cool.

use some uh spoiled milk. make it thick. And uh nasty and uh yeah, put some other stuff in there too. Other surprises.

You're all about the surprises. I love it. So I was actually stalking your Instagram, um doing research, and I saw that your Instagram bio had a really cool quote in there that I want to read. It's dreams come true when you capitalize on opportunity. Which I think is so cool. So what does that mean for you?

It uh first of all, I think that to be successful, you have to have a dream. You have to have a vision.

Yeah.

And once you have that vision, you have to go capitalize on it. And uh dreams really do come true, when you capitalize on opportunity. And so you only get so many opportunities. Everybody's going to get an opportunity. Um but you only may only get one. Some people may get 100, some people may get 1,000 of them.

Yeah.

But you only need one to capitalize. And um when I think about me and my, my uh my opportunity to play National Football League. I had one opportunity, I had one chance.

Yeah.

And uh I capitalize on it and it worked.

So you have the Pass Academy, which is a football camp, and then also the Why Not You Foundation. So what made you so passionate about these projects?

Well, both of 'em, uh it's about the kids. It's about empowering our youth, about empowering uh the young kids, you know, tomorrow and and uh it's been super exciting. You know, we've been able to raise over, you know, $2 million this year, uh for for pediatric pediatric cancer. Uh I'm on I'm the captain of this uh cool initiative called Strong Against Cancer. And Dr. Mike Jensen is doing some amazing things with T cell therapy and and uh and all that. So it's been uh 92% success rate, you know, saving these kids from from cancer. It's been wild. And so

Yeah.

Yeah. That's amazing.

Lastly, because it is Kids Choice Sports, what keeps you a kid at heart?

Well, I think what keeps me a kid at heart is the kids. You know, they're so fun just to be a to be inspired. And to be inspired by seeing little Future and and his growth over the years and being able to play sports with him and play football and baseball and stuff like that and and run around and enjoy that with him. And then see uh new baby Sienna and to see her life and what life really means, you know, that's that's special. And then also being able to interact with these kids. I mean, it's going to be 15,000 people in here, uh you know, come Sunday night. There's going to be 15,000 people in here. It's going to be wild, wild, crazy. And to be able to have all these games and challenges and to have the 50K challenge and seeing these kids potentially win $50,000. That's inspiring.

Let's just go out, can you show me your game face and can you throw it to camera so I can do it with you?

Oh, that Oh, that's it. Boom. Throw it to camera? You want me to do it again? Did you just throw it? No, you want me to throw it. Throwing to me means it's football. But you mean like throw it to camera. Later. You guys later. Boom. Okay. Game face. Throw it to camera. Okay. Ready? Count of three. 1, 2, 3.