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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. I
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Speaker 1: am your host, Will Compton. I am coming to you
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Speaker 1: not live from Las Vegas, Nevada, in Austin Eckler's house.
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Speaker 1: We have a mutual family friend, Coach Eckler, who is
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Speaker 1: my coach in Nebraska. I believe it's his sister that
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Speaker 1: is Austin's mom, so I was able to get hooked
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Speaker 1: up with his house out here. So shout out the boy,
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Speaker 1: Austin Eckler. You know, I hope we beat your ass
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Speaker 1: of a year. All right, onto the episode. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: be talking through you know a lot of different things. Well,
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Speaker 1: basically we can re cap we've had a hell of
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Speaker 1: a year. I know it's been a few weeks with
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Speaker 1: everything that has transpired in my life personally, with the
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Speaker 1: passing of my mom, and uh, I do want to
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Speaker 1: say that everybody who has reached out and gave their
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Speaker 1: sentiments and condolences and absolutely everything, man from you know,
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Speaker 1: comments and and and tweets and uh text messages, phone calls, voicemails,
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Speaker 1: absolutely everything, people who sent flowers, like just all of it.
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Speaker 1: Man it uh, you know, the support was definitely felt,
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Speaker 1: and it's incredible to see the impact that uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: my mom made. Whether you knew my mother or you know,
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Speaker 1: you just care about the boy. Like seriously, all that
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Speaker 1: stuff really meant a lot because it was a you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it was a brutal it was a
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Speaker 1: brutal time. Not that it's still not brutal, Like I know,
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Speaker 1: it'll never you know, really get uh get easier anything.
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Speaker 1: But you know, all that stuff really meant a lot
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Speaker 1: the first week honestly, you know, for for people out
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Speaker 1: there who have lost somebody, the first week is obviously
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Speaker 1: pretty brutal. I was, yeah, I guess we can jump
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Speaker 1: I guess we can jump right into talking about that stuff. Uh.
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Speaker 1: But also before I know, I'm getting ahead of myself.
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Speaker 1: I'm a little rusty. It's been a little bit for
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Speaker 1: the boy, so bear with me. What is happening right
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Speaker 1: now is I am shooting this pod in Vegas. The
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Speaker 1: boys are at the bus right now. We're gonna kind
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Speaker 1: of run this thing the way Dave Portannoy does on
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Speaker 1: the Dave Portnoy Show. Alex Legos will be my eddie,
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Speaker 1: and the boys will obviously all be you know, the
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Speaker 1: eddies to to Dave. And once I get into this stuff,
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Speaker 1: we can we'll recap things, they'll they'll they'll reel me
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Speaker 1: back in, ask questions, kind of guide the podcast and
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Speaker 1: we'll kind of get to this whole thing together. Boys,
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Speaker 1: if you guys want to say what's up? I would
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Speaker 1: love to see your faces, because it's just me right now.
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Speaker 1: You got Jack McPherson rocking repping the fifty one Black
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Speaker 1: and So over will Compton Jersey. You got Alex just
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Speaker 1: being Alex, and then you got JP Hovey over there
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Speaker 1: rocking the fifty three Compton rocking the fifty three Compton Jersey.
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Speaker 1: But what's up? Boys? Should I should I start with
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Speaker 1: the December recap or continue to continue to talk about
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously the situation was my mom.
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Speaker 2: I think you can keep hitting on that. We can
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Speaker 2: go back to December after.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, I was sitting in my room.
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Speaker 1: We were getting ready to play Cleveland, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we think, uh, she had a blood clot. She had
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Speaker 1: a knee replacement surgery and obviously your chances for blood
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Speaker 1: blood clot can be higher than usual. And you know,
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Speaker 1: my mom she was, you know, tough as nails, dude.
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Speaker 1: She was, she was the alpha wolf of the family.
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Speaker 1: And she was quick to get off pain meds and
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Speaker 1: bra about how she was walking. And you know, I
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Speaker 1: was in my hotel in Cleveland, and you know, it
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Speaker 1: was about eight thirty. We were texting. She was She
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Speaker 1: was texting me saying, Hey, I wanna I want to
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Speaker 1: send a little Christmas give out uh to you and
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Speaker 1: Charo out out in Vegas and we can FaceTime you
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Speaker 1: guys on Christmas morning and uh shooting your address with
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Speaker 1: a couple of little part of emoji's and I had, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, responded with the address. That's an awesome idea.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait. Give her the address, uh to the
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Speaker 1: to the spot imn out in Vegas and got the
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Speaker 1: read receipt that she had read it. And that was
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Speaker 1: probably an hour before you know, I got the uh
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Speaker 1: I got the call from from Wyatt. I was on
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Speaker 1: the phone with Tay. It was either Taylor or Charrow.
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Speaker 1: I was talking to both of them throughout that night
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Speaker 1: and she's kind of catching up and stuff. And I
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Speaker 1: got in a text from Wyatt, Hey call me, it's
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Speaker 1: an emergency. And uh, call Wyatt and he's a little
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Speaker 1: he was a little frazzled and he said it's it's
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Speaker 1: mom and uh m hmm, my bad fellows you good man,
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Speaker 1: but uh, you know he had told me that h
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Speaker 1: that uh, that mom was getting rushed to the hospital
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Speaker 1: and they had a little bit of a pulse and
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Speaker 1: you know, you hear something like that and you're just like,
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Speaker 1: you know, not not Kathy Compton, not you know, my mom,
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Speaker 1: not this person who is uh a principal of a
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Speaker 1: Catholic school. Are the family's rock. She did a lot
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Speaker 1: of stuff for all of us. Man. You know, she
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Speaker 1: did a lot of my She was an accountant, so
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Speaker 1: she did my taxi, she did a lot of my
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Speaker 1: financial work. Anybody I ever worked with had to work
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Speaker 1: with my mom because you know, she always had my
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Speaker 1: best interest in you know, always had my back when
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Speaker 1: it came to that stuff with my dad, she did
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Speaker 1: absolutely everything. I mean, the woman could do everything. Bro
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Speaker 1: I'm talking event planning, accounting, taxes for everybody. She was
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Speaker 1: a mechanic. She could change a carburetor or I don't
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Speaker 1: even know if I'm saying that right, but she could
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Speaker 1: change a belt on a truck just because my dad.
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Speaker 1: My dad wasn't able to and instead of paying for mechanics,
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Speaker 1: she would get stuff like that done. And you hear
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Speaker 1: something like that and you're just like, you know, you're
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Speaker 1: immediately just frazzled. Head goes everywhere, you're thinking everything you're
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Speaker 1: trying to I call Charli immediately, obviously, I'm in tears
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Speaker 1: and stuff, and she's like, oh, you know, your mom's strong,
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Speaker 1: your mom's tough. She'll she'll make it through this. And
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Speaker 1: you know, it's like fifteen minutes later, my dad calls
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Speaker 1: me and just broken. I mean, I couldn't understand him.
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Speaker 1: He's yelling no, and she's gone, and I don't even know.
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Speaker 1: Man like that, you know it's over with, you know.
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Speaker 1: I look back at my text messages. Obviously I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: in my hotel room in Cleveland. It's about nine thirty
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Speaker 1: or ten that night, and I'm you know, relentlessly emotional
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Speaker 1: and you just can't you're so like sad and angry
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Speaker 1: and you're just you know, it's it's the worst pain
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Speaker 1: in sadness I've ever felt. And you just sing something
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Speaker 1: like that can be real. And I was trying to
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Speaker 1: do anything to wake up to not make it real,
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Speaker 1: and you're just yelling that you would do anything, and uh, dude,
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Speaker 1: it it's you know, it's just crazy how fragile life
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Speaker 1: actually is. And it doesn't matter how you know, tough
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Speaker 1: or anything anybody is that you can just be gone
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Speaker 1: through something like that. My dad said he was in
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Speaker 1: the office and he heard her making noise and kind
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Speaker 1: of like a yelp or something, and he came into
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Speaker 1: the room and you know, found her, was trying to
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Speaker 1: give her CPR and you know, shaking her and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that, and called the ambulance and by the time
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Speaker 1: they got they had a low pulse on the way
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Speaker 1: to the uh to the hospital and she was going
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Speaker 1: by the time they got to the hospital. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I had no clue what to do. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: hadn't I hadn't lost somebody like that, you know, since
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Speaker 1: my grandpa back in college, and even then I mean
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Speaker 1: my mom is you know, outside of my wife, you know,
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Speaker 1: the most important person in my life. And uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm like laying there being emotional, and I just had
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Speaker 1: no clue what to do. You're you're scared, you just
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Speaker 1: you don't want to do anything anymore. It's just how
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Speaker 1: do I be with my family? How do I be
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Speaker 1: with my dad? Because I can only imagine, you know,
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Speaker 1: I could hear my dad, but you know, I know
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Speaker 1: my brothers were there, and it's like, what can you do?
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I don't know lost, You're like lost.
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Speaker 1: And so I hit up a coach, Maasatya and just
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Speaker 1: shot him a message and let him know what had happened,
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Speaker 1: and he immediately was like, what room you in and
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Speaker 1: told him. He came down to my room and just
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Speaker 1: you know, hugged me and it was just hugging me
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Speaker 1: and sitting there with me for probably an hour, and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was a you know, he's a stud
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Speaker 1: for that. You know, it's he just sat there with me,
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Speaker 1: was encouraging me to call the people and not to
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Speaker 1: be not to feel awkward or nervous or anything in
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Speaker 1: front of him, and do what I gotta do. And
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Speaker 1: he was like, when do you want to you know,
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Speaker 1: when do you want to get home? And you put
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Speaker 1: me on the first flight out. I didn't really sleep
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Speaker 1: that night and went out to uh flew back out
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Speaker 1: to Nashville, grab charrow and and uh grab char and waffle,
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Speaker 1: and drove up four hours to make it home. And yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: it was, uh, it was a brutal time. And I
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Speaker 1: kind of just I kind of just tell all you
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Speaker 1: guys that stuff. I don't know fully why. I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's it's good obviously to talk about this stuff.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know I can't see the boys right now,
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Speaker 1: but I know the boys are sitting there listen, and
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Speaker 1: they kind of I haven't really talked to them about
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Speaker 1: it a whole lot, and you know, it's important to
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Speaker 1: kind of, you know, I guess, talk through grief. And
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Speaker 1: I promise this whole episode isn't gonna be a downer
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Speaker 1: the whole time. We're going to get into a lot
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Speaker 1: of good stuff, because there is a lot of good
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Speaker 1: things happening, and you know, I just kind of wanted
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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about what had happened and
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Speaker 1: you know, the impact, you know, she had on me,
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Speaker 1: my family's life. That'll be forever, man. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: had a huge heart, she cared about people. She was
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Speaker 1: a hard ass. I mean she was annoying at times.
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Speaker 1: I mean she can be mean too, even though she's
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Speaker 1: a Catholic school teacher. But you always knew where you
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Speaker 1: stood with her, and she always had everybody's back. And
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Speaker 1: you know, you can never prepare for something like that.
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Speaker 1: And you know, when it's someone you love and someone
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Speaker 1: who has shaped who you are as a human, you know,
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Speaker 1: you feel in your core your body knows it's important,
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Speaker 1: and grief is really just the reaction that you have
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Speaker 1: from all that stuff. And again, man, when it's somebody
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Speaker 1: that important in your life, and you try, and like,
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Speaker 1: I'm somebody who clings the videos and audio and quotes
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Speaker 1: and readings and absolutely everything, but you know, to step forward,
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Speaker 1: to put one foot in front of the other, and
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Speaker 1: to find whatever hope or optimism you can in the situation.
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Speaker 1: And you know, it's hard to I don't want to
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Speaker 1: say mask either. It's not like I'm trying to mask
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Speaker 1: the pain, but yeah, I'm just you don't like living
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Speaker 1: in that kind of pain. And you know, something I
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Speaker 1: read about grief actually that I want to share. It's
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Speaker 1: actually from I was reading it online. But grief is
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Speaker 1: really just love. It's all the love you want to
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Speaker 1: give but can't. All that love gathers up in the
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Speaker 1: corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and
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Speaker 1: that holl apart in your heart. And grief is just
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Speaker 1: love with no place to go. And that was something
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Speaker 1: that was, you know, not you know, necessarily comforting, but
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Speaker 1: you like to be able to wrap your brain about
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Speaker 1: around any emotion you're feeling at the time. And you know, again,
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Speaker 1: I'm just somebody who clings all that stuff. And the
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Speaker 1: funeral was amazing, The service was amazing, the church service,
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Speaker 1: everybody was all time. What's crazy is the amount of
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Speaker 1: people that were there that I just had no clue
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Speaker 1: who they were or had never met them. And you
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Speaker 1: just kind of see that that the impact that uh,
15:04
Speaker 1: that she had on everybody. You know, I had to
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Speaker 1: you know, I spoke, I gave the eulogi and that
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Speaker 1: was brutal, but something that you know, I know she
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Speaker 1: would she would have been encouraged about and happy that
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Speaker 1: her you know, her her baby boy was talking about
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Speaker 1: her that way, and you know, this this is something
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Speaker 1: that you talk to people who have had lost in
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Speaker 1: their life, somebody who's lost their mother. I know, I
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Speaker 1: had several people reach out to me that, you know,
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Speaker 1: you just felt like they knew what you were going
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Speaker 1: through because they had lost their mother around an age
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Speaker 1: or being middle aged, like you know, like myself. And
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Speaker 1: you know, those people helped me a lot. People are
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Speaker 1: sending me. You know Brian Peters, you guys know Brian,
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Speaker 1: he was just on the last podcast. He's literally sending
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Speaker 1: me readings from will Ebner's book, videos and anything he
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Speaker 1: can to, you know, because he knows I like to
16:03
Speaker 1: take my mind to different places and try and wrap
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Speaker 1: my head about where you can find like hope and
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Speaker 1: everything else inside of all this, and people just you know,
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Speaker 1: really rallied around, and you know, I know this is
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Speaker 1: something that will never be easy, and it's not easy
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Speaker 1: to lose anybody. I know, when I was at the visitation,
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Speaker 1: one of my best friends, his mom was there and
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Speaker 1: she had just buried her mom two weeks before that.
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Speaker 1: She was like, oh, this is my second time in
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Speaker 1: two weeks being here at this funeral home, and you know,
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Speaker 1: her mom just died of old age and she was
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Speaker 1: sitting there and you can kind of see the water
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Speaker 1: in her eyes, not from that, but obviously were She
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Speaker 1: just saw my mom at the visitation and she's there
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Speaker 1: comforting us, and you know, she brought that up and
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, how are you doing? And she
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Speaker 1: just breaks down and starts crying, and you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: hugging her and stuff. And you just realize that it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter when it's and the pain, you know, isn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily different when you lose somebody that you know you
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Speaker 1: care about. It just you know it affects you no
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Speaker 1: matter what. And you know this will, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I know this is something that will never actually like
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Speaker 1: be easy. You kind of just you know, my mom
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Speaker 1: would be pissed if we just hung our heads and
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Speaker 1: dwelled in something like this. And I know grief works
17:24
Speaker 1: different from everybody. Yeah, but you know, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's anything you'll ever really wrap your mind around. But
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Speaker 1: you know, one at one moment, it pisses you off
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Speaker 1: to think about because you just wish this person was
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Speaker 1: here on earth. You'll drive around and listen to music
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Speaker 1: and I'll be my you know, I'll be myself where
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Speaker 1: you know, enjoying something enjoying whatever's I have on my phone,
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Speaker 1: playing in the truck, or laughing at something on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: or you know, having fun with the boys, whatever the
17:54
Speaker 1: case may be. And then you just get in those
17:56
Speaker 1: moments where you're you're driving and you're just mad, realizing
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Speaker 1: that this human being isn't on the planet anymore. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what everybody believes, but my mom,
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Speaker 1: being a Catholic school school principle, you just sit there
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Speaker 1: and you're like, you know, I hope that whatever she believed,
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Speaker 1: it's true. And you know, you see him, you see
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Speaker 1: him again on the other side. You know, she'd want
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Speaker 1: us to live intentionally. She gave us a lot of
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Speaker 1: interest to the test. Uh, So again, she'd be she'd
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Speaker 1: be pissed if we didn't take everything she embodied and
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Speaker 1: taught us and put it into practice and move forward.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think, uh, inevitably, we all know
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Speaker 1: it's better to live life courageously than it is to
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Speaker 1: live cowardly, than it is to dwell, than it is
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Speaker 1: to make excuses on why you're so affected and you
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Speaker 1: can't move forward. And uh, you know, intuitively, I think
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Speaker 1: we all know that we need to live life with purpose,
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Speaker 1: you know, I know that's something that you have to
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Speaker 1: do in times of like that kind of ain't really
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Speaker 1: really any adversity, but you know, death being something you
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Speaker 1: have to figure out a way to live in and
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Speaker 1: to live intentionally and live with purpose. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I think you become hopeful after that, not and hopeful
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Speaker 1: is just you know, hope's a good thing, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe the best of things, because you know, when you
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Speaker 1: have hope, it never dies. And so you know, now
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Speaker 1: we live. We learned to live on earth loving my mom,
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Speaker 1: and now we have to learn to love her in
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Speaker 1: her absence. So you know, it's like one of those
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Speaker 1: things too where you just you begin to honor her
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Speaker 1: and you find you find new purpose with things. And
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Speaker 1: I don't really quite know what it is yet, I
19:55
Speaker 1: know it'll be something, and you know you have ultimately
20:00
Speaker 1: have to spin a positive out of this, and if not,
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Speaker 1: you sit there and dwell and you'll never get over it.
20:06
Speaker 1: And we're all about fucking being a wolfing and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know not in a way too to just like
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Speaker 1: tough through it, but you know, to use everything that
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Speaker 1: I've ever learned from her and from anybody else and
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Speaker 1: try and put stuff into practice and move forward. But uh,
20:23
Speaker 1: and the last thing too, something that you know sitting
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Speaker 1: there too, Mike Studd ended up reaching out. It's not
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Speaker 1: stud anymore. He doesn't go by Mike Stud. It's just
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Speaker 1: Mike now. But uh, he has shot me a message
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Speaker 1: and it really, you know, I just it really resonated
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Speaker 1: with me, and it was at some point we are
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Speaker 1: the eldest, we are the leaders. When our parents go
20:48
Speaker 1: is when we truly become ourselves. Until then, there's always
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Speaker 1: that little kid inside of us somewhere who calls mom
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Speaker 1: or dad when something is wrong. This is essential in
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Speaker 1: self mastery. It's your time. I have no doubt you
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Speaker 1: absolutely body this and become even better. It's time to
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Speaker 1: make her proud. I'm here if you you know, want
21:07
Speaker 1: to talk, so then you love and light brother. But
21:10
Speaker 1: it's like it's you know, something like that too that
21:12
Speaker 1: resonated with me. Is It's true there's a part of
21:15
Speaker 1: you and grief and all this stuff that there's a
21:17
Speaker 1: little bit of fear of knowing what she did and
21:20
Speaker 1: how she was there for us and everything that there's
21:24
Speaker 1: a little bit of fear on what happens next, Like
21:27
Speaker 1: how do I do this or how do I go
21:29
Speaker 1: about that? And my mom did this for me and
21:31
Speaker 1: that for me, and you know, I think when something
21:36
Speaker 1: like this happens and you got to live a little
21:38
Speaker 1: bit more intentional with purpose. With intentional with purpose is
21:42
Speaker 1: just taking on, you know, more responsibility, and with that,
21:46
Speaker 1: I do think you become, you know, more of you know,
21:50
Speaker 1: whoever we're supposed to be on this planet. But yeah, man,
21:56
Speaker 1: that is I don't know how much time we took
21:58
Speaker 1: up on that, but that is my me just talking.
22:02
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys listening. I know almost the ways
22:07
Speaker 1: were hit me. It comes in ways I really haven't
22:10
Speaker 1: outside of the first week. It's kind of more thoughts.
22:13
Speaker 1: But I feel like now that I'm vocalizing it to
22:15
Speaker 1: you guys, and you know, especially the boys on the
22:19
Speaker 1: bus right now, it's like, you know, I'm sitting there
22:21
Speaker 1: with my boys and you're kind of like talking through
22:24
Speaker 1: stuff and yeah, just hit you. So I appreciate you
22:29
Speaker 1: guys for listening.
22:31
Speaker 2: I think it's beautiful man, that you're in a position
22:33
Speaker 2: to be able to share that with people too. You know, like,
22:36
Speaker 2: obviously there's never a good time for to lose the
22:38
Speaker 2: loved one, but I think that the fact that you're
22:41
Speaker 2: in a place in life to be able to understand
22:44
Speaker 2: a lot of these feelings and you have people around
22:46
Speaker 2: you to help you understand that and get yourself through that.
22:48
Speaker 2: But then also you have the position of the platform
22:50
Speaker 2: to be able to share that with people. And like,
22:52
Speaker 2: I'll just speak for myself, but I would assume other
22:55
Speaker 2: dudes on this bus have kind of been impacted by
22:58
Speaker 2: this as well. It's definitely a hug your loved ones
23:01
Speaker 2: type of thing, and I think that, uh, I think
23:03
Speaker 2: there's never a bad time to get that kind of
23:05
Speaker 2: reminder out there. So perhaps to you minute, it's been
23:07
Speaker 2: amazing kind of watching you get through this and work
23:11
Speaker 2: through this, and obviously it's incredibly heavy, but you're a
23:15
Speaker 2: guy who can bear that weight.
23:17
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate that, dude. You know too, Like,
23:24
Speaker 1: you know, people will reach out and DM me, and
23:26
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I make sure not to like
23:28
Speaker 1: accept all of them, so that way, I'm not sitting
23:30
Speaker 1: there just conversing back and forth with everybody in DMS.
23:33
Speaker 1: But I clicked through a lot of them, man, and
23:37
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people, whether they're you know,
23:40
Speaker 1: fans of the podcast, uh, fans of me from playing football,
23:44
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, or just following me on
23:46
Speaker 1: social media. But there are a lot of you know,
23:52
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tragedy that happens, and you learn,
23:56
Speaker 1: you help cope and learn through other people. So yeah,
24:00
Speaker 1: I do feel like, you know, this is something that's
24:05
Speaker 1: that's good and and and can be positive for people
24:07
Speaker 1: because you just have no clue what people out there
24:09
Speaker 1: are going through. And if it takes reading a story,
24:13
Speaker 1: reading a DM, listening to me on the podcast, or
24:16
Speaker 1: something that helps you wrap your brain around something out
24:18
Speaker 1: there and people can do it through me talking through it,
24:25
Speaker 1: I think it's strong because it was. It definitely was
24:27
Speaker 1: powerful for me. Like you know, it doesn't it doesn't
24:31
Speaker 1: solve the problem that happened. But knowing you have people
24:38
Speaker 1: to lean on and and stuff to occupy your mind
24:42
Speaker 1: and and just stuff that somebody else might have learned
24:44
Speaker 1: through through loss, it is comforting. So yeah, I appreciate that.
24:53
Speaker 2: You want to rewind a little bit jump topics and oh.
24:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love to. I'd love to actually, but actually, there,
25:02
Speaker 1: what's up?
25:03
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I'm sorry.
25:05
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I actually wrote a a timeline
25:09
Speaker 1: of the type of year that that we've kind of
25:11
Speaker 1: had as bust with the boys because we you know,
25:13
Speaker 1: this podcast has a lot to be proud of and
25:18
Speaker 1: you know, a lot to look back on because I know,
25:20
Speaker 1: you know, we were joking about it in the group
25:22
Speaker 1: chat the other day. What was I saying? It was
25:24
Speaker 1: me and Jack and uh, I said something about being prepared,
25:28
Speaker 1: and he made a joke about Say what was it, Jack?
25:32
Speaker 1: What happened? Let me reread it.
25:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said I don't like to count my chickens.
25:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, We'll just talking about being prepared in saying that
25:44
Speaker 3: Private League, Garrett and I would take the fall for
25:47
Speaker 3: not having an af Camp shirt on deck.
25:50
Speaker 2: And I don't have my chicken before they hatch.
25:53
Speaker 3: And then it just was kind of always be prepared,
25:57
Speaker 3: We'll take blame and YadA, YadA, YadA.
25:59
Speaker 1: And then it was like, except for this podcast because
26:03
Speaker 1: we go by the seat of our pants so much. Yeah,
26:07
Speaker 1: something like that, you know, something like that. And then
26:09
Speaker 1: when you sit and I'm writing a lot of stuff
26:12
Speaker 1: out because I'm like, man, we have to recap the
26:15
Speaker 1: type of year we had, because number one, we're gonna
26:19
Speaker 1: be doing some awesome things in twenty twenty two. But
26:23
Speaker 1: to finish with the Titans last year and go throughout,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know, all twenty twenty one and another successful year
26:29
Speaker 1: with our partners at Barsol Sports. Shut up, shout out
26:32
Speaker 1: everybody at Barsol sports Man. They've been huge in our corner.
26:37
Speaker 1: They they gas anything that we do and we plan
26:40
Speaker 1: on doing a lot of big things with them in
26:42
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. But through traveling, traveling Arizona, because you know,
26:48
Speaker 1: Taylor was Taylor had an up and down year. Man.
26:50
Speaker 1: I wish he could, you know. I know we'll get
26:52
Speaker 1: to talk to him after the season, but I just
26:54
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of insight and a lot of
26:55
Speaker 1: things to learn with stuff that he went through as well.
26:57
Speaker 1: He had such an up and down year with the ACL,
26:59
Speaker 1: And you know, it's never easy coming back from a
27:02
Speaker 1: major surgery like in ACL, and you put a lot
27:04
Speaker 1: of pressure and expectation on yourself, especially when you're you know,
27:08
Speaker 1: a first rounder with this organization, somebody who was the
27:11
Speaker 1: highest paid left tackle in the game at the time
27:12
Speaker 1: he signed his contract, and you were having all those
27:16
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl years until you got upended and then you
27:20
Speaker 1: tear your knee, and you know you're trying to be
27:23
Speaker 1: the guy that the organization wants you to be and
27:26
Speaker 1: with that, you know, it's nobody's nobody's fault. But like
27:30
Speaker 1: with that becomes all those pressures and everything, and the
27:33
Speaker 1: way you know, he's went throughout this year and now
27:36
Speaker 1: he's standing tin Toe's down with the boys looking at
27:39
Speaker 1: the one seed throughout playoffs, I think just speaks a
27:43
Speaker 1: lot into speaks a lot to the adversity that not
27:46
Speaker 1: necessarily that you have to go through, but just you know,
27:50
Speaker 1: success and growth and progress is never linear, and it's
27:53
Speaker 1: up and down and it's a roller coaster. And I
27:56
Speaker 1: say all that because the time we had to travel
27:58
Speaker 1: to Arizona because has Taylor needed to get away and
28:01
Speaker 1: travel our end train elsewhere and kind of get out
28:03
Speaker 1: of the monotony of Nashville and his knee to shoot
28:06
Speaker 1: a podcast out there with Paul Bissonette from spitting chicklets
28:10
Speaker 1: and making a couple episodes happen out there on the
28:13
Speaker 1: fly bar, still helping us find a couple producers and
28:16
Speaker 1: set up cameras and everything. Signing with Chevy. We got
28:19
Speaker 1: to sign with Chevy, which is, you know, obviously the strongest,
28:23
Speaker 1: best truck on the planet. But that was huge for
28:25
Speaker 1: us Man because we were set to sign with him
28:27
Speaker 1: during the year of COVID and that fell through because
28:29
Speaker 1: obviously COVID everybody was pulling money and everything else, and
28:33
Speaker 1: that was a big loss for us. And you know,
28:35
Speaker 1: to partner with them in twenty twenty one has been incredible.
28:38
Speaker 1: We got to do our one hundredth episode. I've never
28:40
Speaker 1: thought I never thought we would have done a hundred
28:42
Speaker 1: episodes when we were first starting on the bus in
28:44
Speaker 1: that gravel parking lot, and to do our one hundredth
28:47
Speaker 1: episode with Dave Portnoy was huge for us. We outgrew
28:50
Speaker 1: our old setup. We were in that that shed, I
28:55
Speaker 1: guess you can call it a big shed where the
28:57
Speaker 1: bus was parked where you could easily break into it.
29:00
Speaker 1: People did break into it almost people broke into it,
29:02
Speaker 1: slept there, took our gear, but our took our merchandise,
29:05
Speaker 1: not our gear, broke a TV on the way, but
29:09
Speaker 1: essentially just scooted the furniture over so they could sleep somewhere,
29:12
Speaker 1: and you know, followed the police report for that. But
29:15
Speaker 1: we had a hot spot. We ran off a generator.
29:17
Speaker 1: A hot spot didn't even work most of the time,
29:21
Speaker 1: probably more so because I struggled to pay the bill
29:23
Speaker 1: with that. But then we got to move and we
29:26
Speaker 1: got to upgrade into a bigger spot fully functional ac
29:30
Speaker 1: Now heat I think is the heat working.
29:33
Speaker 2: Heat works right, it's not cold in there, it's not cold.
29:37
Speaker 1: Good deal. Well you got we got heat. Now, we
29:39
Speaker 1: got fully functional Wi Fi and Internet. We got to
29:42
Speaker 1: interview some incredible guests, people like Chadou Josinko obviously the King,
29:46
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, comedians, Nate Bargatzi, Brian Callen, George Kittle and TJ. Hockinson,
29:53
Speaker 1: George Kill and Rob Tunyan. That was an awesome episode.
29:56
Speaker 1: Max Crosby talking about his his sobriety and his walk
29:59
Speaker 1: with sobriety and now my man's in a pro bowl
30:01
Speaker 1: Like that's that's an amazing story. I already said Paul
30:05
Speaker 1: Paul Bissing that head coach Arthur Smith for the Atlanta Falcons,
30:08
Speaker 1: Chase Rice Jelly Roll a few times. Uh, the UFC
30:12
Speaker 1: superstar dude who just takes you know after that last
30:17
Speaker 1: fight that uh, that war he had with Gae Chee.
30:20
Speaker 1: We had Michael Chandler on Johnny Manziel. Mike. I was
30:24
Speaker 1: gonna say, Mike Stepp, it's just Mike Now, Quentin Nelson,
30:27
Speaker 1: barstool personalities like big Cat Little sas Roan Brandon Walker,
30:32
Speaker 1: a journeyman like Darren Bates and uh Corey Levin and
30:35
Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly who Dennis Kelly is bawling at the moment
30:38
Speaker 1: right now out in Green Bay for somebody who hasn't
30:40
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of opportunity this year, and I had
30:42
Speaker 1: to kind of wait his turn and be patient with
30:45
Speaker 1: injury and to to play well. I know, I know,
30:48
Speaker 1: that's a great feeling. We finally had Dale Junior on
30:50
Speaker 1: the bus. Our bus is themed Dale Earnheart Junior and
30:53
Speaker 1: we had Dale Junior on the bus Bo Pauline, he
30:55
Speaker 1: came and talked to those stories. That was an incredible episode.
30:57
Speaker 1: Scott Frost and Trev Alberts, the head coach and athletic
31:00
Speaker 1: director at Nebraska, ESPN's personality Ryan Clark, Jeff Simmons, Roger Saffold,
31:06
Speaker 1: Spencer Lee who updating right now. He you know, the
31:11
Speaker 1: stud wrestler who tore both of his acls and continue
31:14
Speaker 1: to wrestle and be the best in the best in
31:17
Speaker 1: the world, is now undergoing ACL surgery for both of
31:19
Speaker 1: his acls. I guess between cartilage damage and just a looseness,
31:24
Speaker 1: the instability of his knees. He's gonna start getting that
31:26
Speaker 1: taken care of so he can look, you know, look
31:29
Speaker 1: look forward to his future in Worlds, the Olympics and
31:33
Speaker 1: everything else. So his college career, I do think is done,
31:36
Speaker 1: which sucks. I would love to have seen it because
31:38
Speaker 1: he was statistically he could have been ended up one
31:40
Speaker 1: of the best wrestlers of all time, but obviously bigger
31:44
Speaker 1: things with Worlds and Olympics and everything else. I'm actually
31:46
Speaker 1: glad he's getting these surgeries because whenever he was telling
31:50
Speaker 1: me about it on the bus, you guys go back
31:51
Speaker 1: and listen to that episode, it was just like, Yo,
31:53
Speaker 1: how in the hell are you wrestling on two torn acls?
31:59
Speaker 1: One of the great music artists of all time, Darius Rucker,
32:02
Speaker 1: Josh Wolf. We've had on a lot of people, man,
32:06
Speaker 1: and it's just it's crazy to look back on and
32:08
Speaker 1: see we rebranded picking with the boys in the bus
32:11
Speaker 1: stop sessions. I know, you guys bust your ass to
32:14
Speaker 1: do that stuff. Along with TBD management. I know Garrett
32:18
Speaker 1: is producing season two right now, which you guys will
32:20
Speaker 1: be able to check out next Monday. But We've had
32:24
Speaker 1: people on like Ernest who's blowing up right now, who's
32:26
Speaker 1: also been on the podcast, Jelly Roll who's huge on YouTube,
32:29
Speaker 1: Laney Wilson Man, who's the dude who's the first episode
32:33
Speaker 1: Garrett of the season two.
32:39
Speaker 2: First episode of season two is gonna be Breeling.
32:42
Speaker 4: You might know him from his famous TikTok song Don't
32:45
Speaker 4: touch My Truck.
32:46
Speaker 1: There we go. We've got a DJ. Now. Shit, I
32:51
Speaker 1: got married. I mean I got married to my wife
32:54
Speaker 1: charro Uh in June out in Big Sky, Montana. That
32:57
Speaker 1: was incredible. And now we're pregnant. We're like seven months
32:59
Speaker 1: pre then I'm about to be a dad. This year,
33:03
Speaker 1: me and the boys, Jack and Garrett, we went to
33:05
Speaker 1: the Barstool Classic. I don't know where we placed, but
33:07
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and say we were in the top three.
33:09
Speaker 1: We went to Garrett and I went to barsel HQ
33:12
Speaker 1: for a day in the middle of everything, I think,
33:14
Speaker 1: on just some random Monday or Tuesday. We went out
33:17
Speaker 1: there bright and early in the morning, the earliest flight,
33:20
Speaker 1: and then got back that night. All of us went
33:22
Speaker 1: to PBR. That was incredible. Getting hosted at PBR, that
33:25
Speaker 1: professional bull Riding event in Nashville, traveled to you know,
33:30
Speaker 1: the opportunity was there to go to the Atlanta Falcons.
33:33
Speaker 1: I forget what week that was, but the Atlanta Falcons
33:37
Speaker 1: had contacted me because I was text with Arthur Smith
33:40
Speaker 1: and you know, he was like, hey, are you ready
33:42
Speaker 1: to go? We want to bring you out. It was
33:44
Speaker 1: going to be I was gonna work out by myself
33:46
Speaker 1: with the intent to sign and Charo my wife. We
33:50
Speaker 1: were fourteen weeks pregnant at the time. She was fourteen
33:53
Speaker 1: weeks pregnant at the time, and she had assist She
33:56
Speaker 1: had assists on her on her ovary. So the doc
34:00
Speaker 1: was telling us how dangerous it could be if we
34:02
Speaker 1: get deeper into the pregnancy. She would would rather take
34:05
Speaker 1: it out now than have to do an emergency surgery.
34:07
Speaker 1: You might not have to get surgery at all, but
34:09
Speaker 1: there would be a she had like a set it
34:11
Speaker 1: was like seven inches. There'd be like the cyst sitting
34:13
Speaker 1: on top of her stomach. Right now, now she's bigger
34:17
Speaker 1: and pregnant, more pregnant, you would be able to see
34:19
Speaker 1: the cysts sitting on top of her stomach. And so
34:23
Speaker 1: we decided we were going to get that surgery. And
34:25
Speaker 1: when Coach Smith was contacting me. That was on a Monday.
34:28
Speaker 1: We were supposed to get surgery on Friday, and so
34:31
Speaker 1: I had to call him and just say, hey, man,
34:33
Speaker 1: you know, I hate to deliver this news, but I
34:35
Speaker 1: won't be able to make it out, and you know,
34:37
Speaker 1: I need to be there for my wife and she's
34:39
Speaker 1: gonna need bedside assistance and we can't get family in
34:41
Speaker 1: town for like, you know, not until like the next week.
34:45
Speaker 1: And he was super understanding. He was like, hey, yeah,
34:47
Speaker 1: do your thing. Man. How how about we come get
34:49
Speaker 1: you after the bye week? And I was like, man,
34:53
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for any favors, but that'd be incredible.
34:56
Speaker 1: I mean, we'd have enough time to get her through
34:58
Speaker 1: the surgery and everything everything else. Because my agent was
35:02
Speaker 1: contacting me, Hey, we got to get your flight, and
35:04
Speaker 1: I was like, Atlanta is a few hours away. I'll
35:06
Speaker 1: just drive the ship. I'll just pack up the Chevy
35:07
Speaker 1: and drive the Chevy down. No worries, had all this anxiety.
35:11
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, what do I need to do? And
35:13
Speaker 1: so I got on the phone with Coach Smith and
35:14
Speaker 1: we kind of talked it through. You know. Uh, it
35:18
Speaker 1: ended up he didn't even come get me a couple
35:20
Speaker 1: of weeks later, they ended up picking up Darren Bates.
35:24
Speaker 1: So I like, in my head, I'm like, did I
35:27
Speaker 1: lose that on that opportunity? I chose, you know, you know,
35:29
Speaker 1: I'm good with myself because I chose, you know, to
35:31
Speaker 1: be here for my wife and my family. She was
35:33
Speaker 1: kind of being beating herself up about it because you know,
35:36
Speaker 1: you're missing out on these game checks, uh to play
35:39
Speaker 1: football and to h to be on a team, and uh,
35:44
Speaker 1: you know, I had to had to talk her down
35:45
Speaker 1: and give her some perspective on you know what if
35:48
Speaker 1: I don't play another down, And it was because of
35:50
Speaker 1: like the health and safety of you getting to the surgery.
35:53
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we made the right decision. And
35:55
Speaker 1: with that to spin a positive into it, the boys
35:58
Speaker 1: ended up getting to travel that Those were the times
36:01
Speaker 1: we got to travel to Nebraska, which was an awesome
36:04
Speaker 1: game when they played Michigan lost by three. We should
36:06
Speaker 1: have won the ress kind of you guys know the
36:07
Speaker 1: whole story there. We got to travel to Tennessee at
36:11
Speaker 1: the Old Miss game, which was incredible. Jack was you know,
36:14
Speaker 1: six to midnight the entire time we got to throw
36:19
Speaker 1: all these tailgates. I got to be at these tailgates
36:21
Speaker 1: with you guys, and you know, I do big, big
36:26
Speaker 1: up to you guys. I appreciate the hell out of
36:28
Speaker 1: you guys sitting on the bus right now because you
36:30
Speaker 1: we're not having any of these tailgates. We obviously don't
36:32
Speaker 1: have a podcast without you guys, but we all know
36:34
Speaker 1: that the podcast is the gig, but all the extra
36:37
Speaker 1: stuff with the traveling around in the in the in
36:39
Speaker 1: the tailgates and hosting and you know, being around the
36:43
Speaker 1: tier ones and picking up I won't even say picking
36:46
Speaker 1: up slack because I know you guys are personalities and
36:48
Speaker 1: your own right too, no disrespect, but uh yeah, man.
36:52
Speaker 1: It was just a crazy year and the whole time
36:53
Speaker 1: it's like balancing football and podcasting and do I also want
36:57
Speaker 1: to play football? That I was at kind of the
36:59
Speaker 1: last opportunity with Atlanta that I had gotten, and going
37:03
Speaker 1: into Thanksgiving it was kind of like the date where
37:05
Speaker 1: I was like, I think this is where I'm gonna
37:06
Speaker 1: draw the line in the sand, because at the beginning
37:09
Speaker 1: of the year there were only a few teams that
37:10
Speaker 1: I wanted to play for. It was the Titans, it
37:12
Speaker 1: was Atlanta with coach Arthur Smith, and it was the
37:14
Speaker 1: Raiders potentially like the Packers or Washington, just depending on
37:20
Speaker 1: the situation. And I get through Thanksgiving and I get
37:24
Speaker 1: to go home and visit and go home for a
37:27
Speaker 1: visit my family for when the North Kunty Raiders, my
37:31
Speaker 1: high school football team, was in the quarterfinals. When I
37:34
Speaker 1: went home that weekend, and I was kind of just
37:36
Speaker 1: telling my parents that, you know, I'm at peace with everything,
37:39
Speaker 1: like I feel good about this decision, and I think
37:41
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang it up, like I'll still stay in shape,
37:44
Speaker 1: I guess in case something happens. But it was better
37:47
Speaker 1: for me to shift my mind to like I need
37:48
Speaker 1: to start thinking full busting because of not I was
37:51
Speaker 1: only planning out one week at a time. It's like
37:55
Speaker 1: schools would hit A school would hit us up. Kansas
37:57
Speaker 1: State wanted us to come out and I couldn't plan
38:01
Speaker 1: it in advance because you never knew on the next
38:03
Speaker 1: Monday if a team would call you and want you
38:05
Speaker 1: to play that week. So I could never plan out
38:09
Speaker 1: that far in advance. We're always scrambling to get you know,
38:12
Speaker 1: book guests. And Taylor was gonna do the pod then
38:14
Speaker 1: he you know, then we decided that he wasn't gonna
38:17
Speaker 1: do the pod and it was just, you know, there's
38:19
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in between there that you know,
38:21
Speaker 1: I don't want to like take for granted or forget
38:23
Speaker 1: about that, because we continued to push forward and keep
38:27
Speaker 1: doing the thing, and then uh just went on that
38:30
Speaker 1: piece with everything. I'm sitting on my toilet having my
38:33
Speaker 1: morning too, and Coach Basacia calls me FaceTime and I
38:39
Speaker 1: thought he was just calling a He had a couple
38:41
Speaker 1: of the boys like Alec, Alec or Foster or somebody
38:44
Speaker 1: in the in the office with him, and they're just
38:46
Speaker 1: gonna bust my balls about something because he had contacted
38:49
Speaker 1: me the week before, just telling me Happy Thanksgiving and everything.
38:52
Speaker 1: Uh He's like Happy Thanksgiving, prick and blah blah blah.
38:54
Speaker 1: And that's just kind of how we go back and
38:56
Speaker 1: forth with each other. And I sent him a selfie
38:58
Speaker 1: video and I just got done working out and I
39:01
Speaker 1: was sweating, and I'll give it to bloss so we
39:03
Speaker 1: can we can roll it too. But I was like,
39:06
Speaker 1: I'll close on my face. I was sweating. I was like,
39:07
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you see that sweat equity. Just making sure,
39:09
Speaker 1: you know, I stay in shape in case somebody like,
39:11
Speaker 1: you know, the Raiders want to call for you know,
39:14
Speaker 1: a roster spot or even practice squad. Hell, I'll even
39:17
Speaker 1: be a janitor for you guys, and you guys might
39:19
Speaker 1: have to have to pay, and just sending a goofy
39:22
Speaker 1: video back to him and we laughed about and everything,
39:27
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, no, you're you're you're you're too
39:29
Speaker 1: far gone, You're uh you you're a celebrity now, you
39:33
Speaker 1: cost too much money and just busting my balls. And
39:36
Speaker 1: so I thought he was just calling me to kind
39:37
Speaker 1: of do the same thing. And he's like, hey, can
39:39
Speaker 1: you play? And I was like, yeah, I can play.
39:43
Speaker 1: And he's like, all right, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna, uh,
39:47
Speaker 1: we're gonna get you down here. You know, we we're
39:49
Speaker 1: hurting right now. We had a couple of guys go
39:51
Speaker 1: down and uh, you know, if you tell me you're
39:53
Speaker 1: in shape, I believe you. And you know, I know
39:56
Speaker 1: who you are and stuff like that. So we're familiar
39:58
Speaker 1: with each other. And he's like, well, I'll have our
40:02
Speaker 1: people contact your agent and everything else is your is
40:04
Speaker 1: your agent still? Neil? Is your agent still Neil Cornwich?
40:07
Speaker 1: And I was like, uh, I was like yeah, yeah,
40:10
Speaker 1: it's still Neil, and all right, I'll just kind of wait.
40:12
Speaker 1: And I was going in and headed in to work
40:13
Speaker 1: out and can't really work out anymore because all this
40:16
Speaker 1: stuff is happening. I'm kind of just sitting by my phone, like, Hey,
40:18
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? And sure is shit enough, dude. It's
40:22
Speaker 1: like when one thing happens, something else has to happen.
40:25
Speaker 1: I get this text from it was it was j Rob.
40:30
Speaker 1: Jay Rob text me and he was like, Hey, when
40:33
Speaker 1: you get a minute, can you call me? Thanks? And
40:36
Speaker 1: I just put who's this because I didn't have his
40:37
Speaker 1: number on my phone all right, didn't save it from
40:39
Speaker 1: the last year when we texted, and I was like,
40:42
Speaker 1: who's this and he was like, Jay Rob, I'll just
40:43
Speaker 1: put oh life out loud. Yeah, I'll call you get
40:45
Speaker 1: a bit and so my agent calls me before I
40:48
Speaker 1: get to call Jay Rob, like, Hey, the Titans want
40:50
Speaker 1: to bring you in on Wednesday. This is on a
40:53
Speaker 1: this is on a Tuesday. Say hey, the Titans want
40:55
Speaker 1: to bring you in tomorrow morning on Wednesday for a workout.
40:57
Speaker 1: You'll be working out with a couple other guys. Yeah,
41:00
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, and they'll make a decision to get somebody
41:02
Speaker 1: to sign somebody, whether it be on practice squad. The
41:05
Speaker 1: theme this year is you sign on practice squad and
41:06
Speaker 1: then you get use your elevations and all that fun stuff.
41:09
Speaker 1: You get two elevations on practice squad to be active
41:12
Speaker 1: on the fifty three, and then after the two elevations,
41:15
Speaker 1: you have to make a decision is if you want
41:17
Speaker 1: to got on the fifty three full time or you're
41:19
Speaker 1: gonna cut them and keep them on practice squad, you know, permanently,
41:21
Speaker 1: I think. And so I called Jay Robin. I'm kind
41:25
Speaker 1: of talking through everything with Jay rob and he kind
41:27
Speaker 1: of tells me the situation. I'm like, well, how likely
41:30
Speaker 1: is it that I'll be active this weekend or the
41:32
Speaker 1: next couple of weekends. Because my whole goal was like
41:35
Speaker 1: get a credited season. To get a credited season, you
41:38
Speaker 1: need to be on an actor, you need to be
41:39
Speaker 1: on an active roster for three games. I'd say, you
41:41
Speaker 1: get the benefits for retirement pension and everything else. So
41:45
Speaker 1: if I was going to go play for somebody, I
41:46
Speaker 1: wanted the best opportunity to get to a credited season
41:50
Speaker 1: to you know, help with my help long term, help
41:53
Speaker 1: with retirement pension, and everything else. I didn't want to
41:55
Speaker 1: go and just be on somebody's practice squad because it's
41:59
Speaker 1: a much better situation just doing busting with the boys,
42:02
Speaker 1: and I have to look over your shoulder worrying about,
42:04
Speaker 1: you know, being somebody out on social media and a
42:06
Speaker 1: podcast and everything else. So I wanted to kind of
42:09
Speaker 1: be worth it. And We're talking back and forth, and
42:13
Speaker 1: I tell them that another situation is kind of unfolding,
42:15
Speaker 1: so I'll keep them in the loop talk to my agent.
42:19
Speaker 1: Raiders hadn't contacted yet, so it's like, okay, well, the
42:21
Speaker 1: only tangible uh offer I have right now is from
42:24
Speaker 1: the Titans, and it's like, holy shit. The boys in
42:27
Speaker 1: Nashville are asking if I want to work out, and
42:29
Speaker 1: at the same time, the Raiders call bright and early
42:32
Speaker 1: in the morning wanted me to come be a Raider.
42:35
Speaker 1: And I get on the phone with Rich and kind
42:39
Speaker 1: of talk through some things back and forth, and ultimately I,
42:42
Speaker 1: you know, decided to come out to Vegas. And it
42:45
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't anything like obviously against the Titans. Everybody
42:48
Speaker 1: knows I love the Boys, man, but situationally, it seemed
42:52
Speaker 1: like the better move was to be, you know, on
42:54
Speaker 1: the Raiders for what I was trying to what my
42:57
Speaker 1: goals were, and you kind of I didn't know past
43:01
Speaker 1: one week with the Titans. Jay Rob couldn't really promise
43:04
Speaker 1: me or kind of tell me anything beyond that. He
43:08
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, we'd love to get you
43:09
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and you know, obviously you know
43:11
Speaker 1: everybody here and we'd love to have you this and that.
43:14
Speaker 1: And it turned out to be, you know, the right
43:17
Speaker 1: decision because the next day Zach Cunningham gets cut and
43:21
Speaker 1: falls to the Titans. They claim them off waivers and
43:24
Speaker 1: that dude is a stud. I'm not taking anything anything
43:26
Speaker 1: away from myself, but set Cunningham stud and that the
43:30
Speaker 1: riding would have been on the wall pretty fast for
43:33
Speaker 1: me there. But yeah, man made it out to Vegas,
43:37
Speaker 1: flew out that night Tuesday night, didn't get in, didn't
43:41
Speaker 1: land until like midnight or twelve thirty. I didn't get
43:45
Speaker 1: to my hotel until like two in the morning. I
43:48
Speaker 1: have to wake up at five five thirty in the
43:49
Speaker 1: next morning to do the whole you know, test for
43:51
Speaker 1: COVID clear physicals, do all this stuff. And then I'm
43:54
Speaker 1: in the meeting rooms and everything with all the boys
43:57
Speaker 1: that day going through practice, just dehyd it had been
44:00
Speaker 1: on the plane for hours, no sleep, just kind of
44:04
Speaker 1: cramping in my caps a little bit. I'm like, yo,
44:07
Speaker 1: I don't know. It sounded nice, but I don't know
44:09
Speaker 1: if the boy can do this anymore. Uh. But after
44:12
Speaker 1: the first day it was it was a lot better.
44:14
Speaker 1: You kind of catch your breath a little bit and
44:15
Speaker 1: everything else. It's like you have so much nerves, anxiety
44:19
Speaker 1: and everything else. It kind of comes within your back again.
44:21
Speaker 1: You're back with a team, you're familiar with a lot
44:23
Speaker 1: of the guys in the locker room. It was a
44:25
Speaker 1: it was a it was a warm welcome, and it
44:27
Speaker 1: was a it was awesome man. And uh, you know,
44:31
Speaker 1: then we go and unfortunately get absolut our cheeks absolutely
44:34
Speaker 1: throttled by Kansas City and we go out to the
44:37
Speaker 1: logo before before the game, and I see on Twitter
44:41
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, it didn't happen before Will had gotten there.
44:44
Speaker 1: They did this on the Titans, And that was only
44:46
Speaker 1: a couple of people. I'm not saying that was like
44:48
Speaker 1: some consensus across the board, this is Will Compton's doing. Uh.
44:51
Speaker 1: But it was just funny, man. It was Uh, it
44:54
Speaker 1: was funny that I was kind of seeing that stuff,
44:56
Speaker 1: but yeah, got uh got beat by the Chiefs and
45:00
Speaker 1: then we've won on a three game win streak since,
45:02
Speaker 1: and we are now in the Super wild Card and
45:06
Speaker 1: an extended playoff and we went and in baby, So
45:10
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and stop rambling and talking. I'm sure
45:12
Speaker 1: we have an ad read and I can let you
45:14
Speaker 1: guys back up or ask any questions or engage as
45:16
Speaker 1: much as you want.
45:20
Speaker 2: What was it? What was it like getting back like this?
45:22
Speaker 2: And now with the third year in a row that
45:24
Speaker 2: you've jumped into a team late in the year and
45:26
Speaker 2: every step of the way, the pod has grown significantly
45:31
Speaker 2: back into the locker room with those guys where with
45:33
Speaker 2: the pod being where it is and everything now, well,
45:37
Speaker 2: if you.
45:38
Speaker 1: Guys remember the first time I went to the Raiders.
45:41
Speaker 1: Obviously the guys didn't know about it then, but Max
45:44
Speaker 1: Crosby did. Max new based on that trailer too that
45:47
Speaker 1: h JP did last week. But Max knew. He was like, yo,
45:51
Speaker 1: you do bust with the boys. And I was like, hey,
45:53
Speaker 1: He's like, yo, I love your show man. I was like,
45:55
Speaker 1: that's when you kind of knew, Like, oh, Dan, this
45:56
Speaker 1: is a cool We got something pretty cool going now
45:59
Speaker 1: coming back. It's just cool, man, And it's cool to
46:03
Speaker 1: know that you have something going on off the field
46:05
Speaker 1: that people will jive with and respect and want to
46:08
Speaker 1: be on. And again, this is a your peers. These
46:11
Speaker 1: are guys that when I was wanting to start the podcast,
46:15
Speaker 1: I had a lot of insecurities about it because not
46:18
Speaker 1: as much maybe to the outside, but more so like
46:21
Speaker 1: what do what will my teammates are like what will
46:23
Speaker 1: guys that, you know, my peers, what will they think
46:25
Speaker 1: about me doing something like this? And uh, just stuff
46:29
Speaker 1: that you get in your own head about and so
46:33
Speaker 1: being out here now, uh, you know, guys talk about it,
46:36
Speaker 1: Guys want to be on it, and it's just it's
46:38
Speaker 1: super cool, man, And like you know, coaches will bust
46:41
Speaker 1: my balls and if you know, say I'm doing something
46:44
Speaker 1: I practice, we're watching film, you know, put that on
46:47
Speaker 1: your podcast, put that on your little TV show, and
46:51
Speaker 1: we just have fun with it. It's just it's just
46:53
Speaker 1: it's cool, man. It's pretty surreal. But but yeah, dude,
46:56
Speaker 1: it's a third year. Third year, I've just been jump
47:00
Speaker 1: up and in and out of the league. Man, you're nine,
47:02
Speaker 1: blessed and highly favored.
47:07
Speaker 2: A little better up extended day.
47:10
Speaker 1: Oh bro, you can as the boys JP and Garrett. Man,
47:14
Speaker 1: it's the hotel that I was in before I came
47:17
Speaker 1: in the Austin Spot. So what happens is they give
47:20
Speaker 1: you a week or two of to stay at the
47:24
Speaker 1: hotel that they put you in, the Team Hotel, and
47:27
Speaker 1: the first year in Oakland and Alamia, I'm at an
47:29
Speaker 1: extended stay out Legit. You smell the cigarette smell in
47:32
Speaker 1: all of the material homeless people like the whole nine
47:36
Speaker 1: You smell weed just busted place. Man. I had ant
47:39
Speaker 1: bites and bites all over my body. I had to
47:41
Speaker 1: move rooms two different times in that place, but I
47:45
Speaker 1: gutted it out from the end of October throughout the
47:48
Speaker 1: rest of the year because we're in California. Like, it
47:51
Speaker 1: was already like three grand a little over three grand
47:53
Speaker 1: to be in that extended stay, But that was the
47:55
Speaker 1: cheapest place and situation I could be in without like
47:58
Speaker 1: going to an airbnb. Airbnb he's like four and five
48:00
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. If I wanted to rent a place, it's
48:03
Speaker 1: like then you got to think about rinning furniture and
48:05
Speaker 1: just doing all this stuff. The extended state was right
48:08
Speaker 1: there next to the facility, and I'm talking neighbors. So
48:11
Speaker 1: all I had to do was walk out the exit
48:13
Speaker 1: door and literally two minute top walk to the facility,
48:18
Speaker 1: getting in the door, and being at the facility. So
48:20
Speaker 1: I chose to stay at the Extended's day and because
48:24
Speaker 1: I didn't have a car or anything either. So coming
48:28
Speaker 1: out here, it's like, Yo, We're in this like casino
48:31
Speaker 1: hotel and you got like restaurants inside their cafes, pastries
48:38
Speaker 1: like not that I meeting them, because you know in
48:40
Speaker 1: the NFL now, I gotta like keep it right, keep
48:43
Speaker 1: it tight. But walking in and visually like what wolve
48:46
Speaker 1: was the JP or Garrett, wasn't there like a Lambeau
48:48
Speaker 1: parked right there in the middle of the in the
48:50
Speaker 1: middle of the hotel, Like when you come in the entrance,
48:52
Speaker 1: there's like this high end car that's sitting there. Like
48:55
Speaker 1: it was just dude, complete one to eighty difference from
48:58
Speaker 1: the al media extended State uh experience, but that he
49:02
Speaker 1: that that extends to experience. It me up a little bit.
49:07
Speaker 2: What's up the car in the hotel?
49:09
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the hotel that you stayed up or
49:12
Speaker 4: that you were going to stay ut. Yeah, with the
49:14
Speaker 4: car of uh well, I guess it would be just
49:17
Speaker 4: like a mannequin and Raiders uniform with Will's number on it.
49:23
Speaker 5: Hey, when we walked into the room, you know how
49:25
Speaker 5: they have like apples and oranges. Like in the room,
49:28
Speaker 5: Will has set up two oranges that a.
49:31
Speaker 2: Banana on his bed probably brought us out.
49:41
Speaker 1: Oh dude, it was uh dude, Yeah, I mean it's
49:43
Speaker 1: been it's been awesome out here in their facilities, bro,
49:47
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, like their practice facility. The scenery
49:51
Speaker 1: out here, like I don't know for anybody who's been
49:54
Speaker 1: the Vegas, I've only been like once for like a
49:56
Speaker 1: bachelor party or something. And so being out here in
50:00
Speaker 1: seeing like the lifestyle and just kind of the valley
50:03
Speaker 1: and you see the mountains surrounding you and everything else.
50:05
Speaker 1: The scenery is gorgeous. Uh it's wide open, man. It's
50:09
Speaker 1: just it's crazy, bro. It's a it's a it's a
50:11
Speaker 1: nice life to live out here. You actue when you're
50:14
Speaker 1: when you're out for reasons of like the strip and
50:17
Speaker 1: bachelor parties and everything else, and your people are like,
50:19
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm local here. You're like, man, how can
50:21
Speaker 1: somebody live in Vegas driving around on the outskirts. Now
50:25
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I can see why people live in Vegas,
50:27
Speaker 1: Like all the different things you can do, all the
50:30
Speaker 1: food options out of here, hiking options, scenery, everything else,
50:33
Speaker 1: like there's everything out here. Uh. But it's been Uh,
50:36
Speaker 1: it's been crazy. And I can't wait to get to
50:38
Speaker 1: have a home game to where I actually go get
50:40
Speaker 1: to see the death Star and like being the death Star.
50:42
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be that's gonna be pretty serious.
50:44
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, you haven't even seen it yet.
50:46
Speaker 1: Yeah.
50:47
Speaker 2: Going going back to ball, there is you guys were
50:50
Speaker 2: just talking about before we got on the podcast. There's
50:51
Speaker 2: this scenario, Yeah, where you and you guys end up
50:55
Speaker 2: coming back to Nashville to play, right, what's the what?
50:58
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, so you could have the Boys
51:02
Speaker 1: Bowl going on in the in playoffs, So what can happen?
51:06
Speaker 1: Is this counting chickens. Yeah, we're not gonna We're not
51:11
Speaker 1: gonna do that, Jack, but we gotta pay some scenarios here.
51:15
Speaker 2: Number one, we.
51:15
Speaker 1: Got to take care of business against the Chargers. That's
51:18
Speaker 1: it's great to be in this position because we control
51:21
Speaker 1: our own destiny. We don't have to you know, have
51:24
Speaker 1: other teams lose or anything else that happen other than
51:27
Speaker 1: us focus one day at a time this week and
51:29
Speaker 1: win this game. If we win this game, we are
51:32
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, so we're essentially both teams Chargers Raiders.
51:36
Speaker 1: This is like a super wildcar weekend. We got the
51:38
Speaker 1: game flex a Sunday night winning in for both teams,
51:41
Speaker 1: similar to when I was on the Titans in eighteen
51:45
Speaker 1: and we played who was it the Colts? The winning
51:48
Speaker 1: in situation there, but it's good. It's awesome to be
51:51
Speaker 1: in a situation like where you control your own destiny
51:53
Speaker 1: because I've been in other locker rooms and on other
51:55
Speaker 1: teams where you're fighting at the end of the year
51:58
Speaker 1: and you need other things to work out for you
52:00
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, it just sucks. It's like,
52:02
Speaker 1: let's just win this game and see how everything unfolds.
52:05
Speaker 1: To bounce back after what happened in Kansas City and
52:08
Speaker 1: string three in a row together is unreal. And the
52:12
Speaker 1: Boys got a lot of momentum right now, and we're
52:14
Speaker 1: stoked about this weekend. But the playoff scenario that could
52:17
Speaker 1: happen is let's just say the Titans the Boys win
52:22
Speaker 1: this weekend against the Texans. I know they lost the
52:24
Speaker 1: first game, but you know, hopefully they take care of
52:26
Speaker 1: business this weekend, they'll they'll they'll get the one seed,
52:30
Speaker 1: so they'll get a bye week. The whole AFC will
52:33
Speaker 1: have to come through Nashville, which will be incredible for
52:35
Speaker 1: the city and everybody else, and we would essentially if
52:41
Speaker 1: the coach beat the Jaguars, they should, we will be
52:44
Speaker 1: the seventh seed. We'll have to go play the Chiefs.
52:47
Speaker 1: As of right now, the Chiefs are the two seed.
52:48
Speaker 1: We'd have to go play at Case and play the
52:51
Speaker 1: Chiefs for a third time, which I think will be
52:53
Speaker 1: a great game, especially after what just happened last time.
52:55
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, everybody knows it's tough to
52:58
Speaker 1: tough to beat a team three times, and when you're
53:00
Speaker 1: so familiar with teams, I think it just makes for
53:02
Speaker 1: great ball. We beat the Chiefs, we would then go
53:06
Speaker 1: to travel to Nashville and play the Boys in Nashville.
53:09
Speaker 1: Now there's a situation where we could play them in
53:11
Speaker 1: the first week of the playoffs. And again, any coaches,
53:16
Speaker 1: anybody associated with the Raiders listening, I am not getting
53:19
Speaker 1: ahead of myself. I am just talking through these different scenarios.
53:22
Speaker 1: I know that this week is the only week that
53:24
Speaker 1: matters right now. But if the Titans lose to the Texans,
53:32
Speaker 1: we obviously take our business and we beat the Chargers.
53:34
Speaker 1: If the Titans lose to the Texans, Titans become the
53:37
Speaker 1: two seed. We then can go to Nashville and play
53:40
Speaker 1: the boys in Nashville for the first week of the playoffs.
53:43
Speaker 1: I think that'd be I think it'd be awesome to,
53:47
Speaker 1: you know, as we take our business against the Titans,
53:49
Speaker 1: the flip brave of the Bird and Jack and Garrett
53:51
Speaker 1: and everybody else in the stands and just have that
53:53
Speaker 1: little shit grin, just like this is a little cocksuck
53:56
Speaker 1: crowd here, man. But yeah, that's I think that situation
54:01
Speaker 1: would be hilarious.
54:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think Garrett brings up a good point? Garret?
54:05
Speaker 2: Would you just say, I said.
54:08
Speaker 4: After you had that little ship grin, are you gonna
54:10
Speaker 4: take your pads off and get out of there like
54:13
Speaker 4: a b.
54:19
Speaker 1: Oh man? If that happened? I don't know, man, that
54:25
Speaker 1: that that Hey, Hey, what Aby did I do not
54:29
Speaker 1: agree with? Is that what you want to do? Is
54:32
Speaker 1: that how we do we want to transition in into
54:34
Speaker 1: talking about that.
54:35
Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you first saw it.
54:37
Speaker 1: When I first saw it, it was anger. I just,
54:43
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like my man has gotten so
54:45
Speaker 1: many opportunities and chances to kind of re create himself
54:48
Speaker 1: in this league. And last year with the Bucks, it
54:51
Speaker 1: seemed like hopeful, you know what I mean. It seemed
54:53
Speaker 1: like he you know, from what I've read, he stayed
54:56
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady like you get people in your corner,
54:58
Speaker 1: like you're trying to rally around and help, you know,
55:01
Speaker 1: ab out because he had just gotten cut from the Patriots,
55:04
Speaker 1: had a lot of allegations coming out of New England,
55:07
Speaker 1: gotten cut with the Raiders. I have teammates that played
55:10
Speaker 1: with him, so I've heard stories as well about the
55:13
Speaker 1: type of you know, the type of stuff that happened here.
55:16
Speaker 1: And he had gotten traded from the Steelers. So he's
55:19
Speaker 1: getting another opportunity to do what he is incredible, and
55:24
Speaker 1: that's play football. I know he had a post recently
55:27
Speaker 1: saying like football doesn't define you or nothing, and he's
55:30
Speaker 1: right about that. He really like, he's right about that.
55:32
Speaker 1: This game doesn't define us, it doesn't do any of
55:34
Speaker 1: that stuff. But I felt like for where he was
55:37
Speaker 1: at in his career. What I had read like where
55:40
Speaker 1: he seemed to be at in his life because he
55:42
Speaker 1: just wanted to play football. That was in his video.
55:44
Speaker 1: He just wanted to play football, and he had another opportunity.
55:49
Speaker 1: Not nobody gets nine lives in this league like that.
55:53
Speaker 1: Nobody does, man, And to be that talented like him
55:57
Speaker 1: and to you hear everything, all the good stuff about
56:00
Speaker 1: him as a football player too, Like no, when he's
56:02
Speaker 1: practicing and playing like he cares about this game more
56:05
Speaker 1: than anybody on the field. He's somebody that takes his
56:07
Speaker 1: game extremely seriously. And I've seen like when he was
56:10
Speaker 1: working out with Josh Norman when Josh was on Washington.
56:12
Speaker 1: I would watch those videos and like, man, you know
56:14
Speaker 1: I'm following ab on Snapchat. I'm like, yo, this dude
56:16
Speaker 1: gets after it like he grinds. And you know that
56:19
Speaker 1: competitive side that everybody speaks to. I thought Ryan Clark
56:22
Speaker 1: spoke really well about him earlier today, and you just
56:26
Speaker 1: see that competitive nature and to get another opportunity to
56:29
Speaker 1: do that. You win a Super Bowl, you're kind of
56:31
Speaker 1: in a driver's seat to where I don't know if
56:33
Speaker 1: you're wanting another big contract. I don't know what the
56:35
Speaker 1: situation may be, but you're in a good spot to
56:39
Speaker 1: you know, control to rewrite who you are essentially, and
56:44
Speaker 1: to see that happen and to see like the sideline
56:47
Speaker 1: stuff unfold, uh with Mike Evans, and to see that
56:51
Speaker 1: a teammates trying to help you out, to listen to
56:53
Speaker 1: all the teammates the way everybody's talk on, you know,
56:57
Speaker 1: being compassionate and empathizing with them and all this and
57:01
Speaker 1: all this other stuff, and you know, hoping he gets,
57:03
Speaker 1: you know, the help that he needs. And I'm not
57:06
Speaker 1: sitting here saying or diagnosing him with some mental problem
57:08
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I don't personally know him. I
57:11
Speaker 1: just know what I've seen, I know my experience in
57:14
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I know what I what myself and
57:16
Speaker 1: a lot of guys would give. That you have all
57:18
Speaker 1: these different opportunities that he's gotten and he seems to
57:21
Speaker 1: want and just kind of take it, take it for granted,
57:25
Speaker 1: and essentially put give a middle finger to everybody on
57:31
Speaker 1: your team when you're leaving in that fashion, Like if
57:33
Speaker 1: you're upset and if it's something with it's injury related
57:36
Speaker 1: and you don't want to go in, don't go in.
57:38
Speaker 1: Wait until the end of the game and then hang
57:41
Speaker 1: him up after the game. You could do a retirement
57:43
Speaker 1: like that like Vontae Davis did if you don't want
57:45
Speaker 1: to play the game anymore, if you disagree with the
57:48
Speaker 1: with with the way that they were handling an injury.
57:50
Speaker 1: There's ways to deal with that as a professional, like
57:54
Speaker 1: as an adult, like you're a grown man, and to
57:58
Speaker 1: take off your pads and like have this scene and
58:01
Speaker 1: cause this scene and then start doing you know, like
58:04
Speaker 1: hyping up the crowd and smiling and leaving your team
58:06
Speaker 1: like when your team is out there on the field.
58:09
Speaker 1: I just thought, that's like a that's a clown move, bro,
58:12
Speaker 1: Like that's a classless move. And I think I reacted
58:16
Speaker 1: too much, too like more, you know, I wanted to
58:18
Speaker 1: make a few people laugh. Actually, now that i'm thinking about,
58:21
Speaker 1: I actually do want to delete take down my tweet
58:24
Speaker 1: that I had because I was like, you know, God
58:25
Speaker 1: gives the silliest battles to his biggest clowns. At the time,
58:28
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's funny and everything else, but you chew
58:30
Speaker 1: it all in and take it in for a day,
58:32
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, why exactly am I doing that?
58:35
Speaker 1: And outside of making people laugh and everything else, Like
58:38
Speaker 1: what if this dude is going through something. I don't
58:40
Speaker 1: know him, And I'm not usually somebody that like wants
58:43
Speaker 1: to shy away from anything I put out there. But
58:45
Speaker 1: I was kind of thinking about it and I was like, oh, man,
58:47
Speaker 1: I should just probably take that down. It was kind
58:48
Speaker 1: of like a reactive social social media thing that happened.
58:54
Speaker 1: But yeah, dude, I think it's a I think it's
58:57
Speaker 1: a shit move on his part, man, and to just
58:59
Speaker 1: leave his to leave the boys like that, And I
59:01
Speaker 1: know it's like, you know, this is a game that
59:03
Speaker 1: takes from you. All they do is take from you.
59:05
Speaker 1: All they want you to do is for you know,
59:07
Speaker 1: get you out on the field as quick as possible.
59:09
Speaker 1: You don't fully know the extent of your injury all
59:11
Speaker 1: the time. They kind of keep it in the house.
59:12
Speaker 1: They kind of treat you wrong, like everyone knows this
59:15
Speaker 1: stuff about the NFL. And I'm with, you know, decide
59:19
Speaker 1: of thinking for yourself and being selfish at times and
59:22
Speaker 1: thinking selfishly. I mean, shit, we I'm on a podcast
59:24
Speaker 1: right now, podcasts that we that we built, Like I'm
59:28
Speaker 1: all about like self empowerment and everything like that and
59:31
Speaker 1: controlling your narrative and things, but I think you know
59:34
Speaker 1: to do that and he probably wasn't thinking about it.
59:36
Speaker 1: But it's just a big you know, it's just a
59:38
Speaker 1: big f you to all, you know, your teammates and
59:41
Speaker 1: everything else. Man to just kind of leave in the
59:42
Speaker 1: middle of a game like that, because I know people
59:46
Speaker 1: try putting their arm around them, they try helping him, Like,
59:50
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to get into everything that
59:52
Speaker 1: I've kind of you know, who I've talked with and
59:54
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but you just, you know, you hate
59:57
Speaker 1: to see that. And if it is something mental are
1:00:00
Speaker 1: something like mental health related, you do hope, you know,
1:00:05
Speaker 1: something happens and he gets the help that he needs.
1:00:08
Speaker 1: And again I'm not like trying to diagnose him and
1:00:10
Speaker 1: say that's what happened. I'm more of the I'm more
1:00:12
Speaker 1: on the stance of, like, dude, you've had so many
1:00:14
Speaker 1: opportunities and you continue to show yourself team in and
1:00:17
Speaker 1: team out with everywhere you've been like this. You know,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: this zebra isn't changing his stripes, and this dude continues
1:00:25
Speaker 1: to show us who he is. Why or why are
1:00:27
Speaker 1: we continuing to enable it? And why does everybody continue
1:00:31
Speaker 1: to feed into it? You know what I mean. I'm
1:00:34
Speaker 1: kind of more like on that stance of it. But
1:00:36
Speaker 1: if there's something going on, like I do hope that
1:00:39
Speaker 1: you know, he gets he gets help. Man, Like everybody
1:00:42
Speaker 1: obviously goes through their shit, and clearly something is off
1:00:45
Speaker 1: because that behavior was just insane. I've never seen anything like.
1:00:52
Speaker 2: I wish we could see the I wish we could
1:00:53
Speaker 2: see the Tom Brady chapter of this incident because he
1:00:57
Speaker 2: stuck his neck out for this dude over and over again.
1:01:00
Speaker 1: Are you talking about a man in the arena?
1:01:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like I want to hear from Tom
1:01:04
Speaker 2: about this.
1:01:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he had like he had a good message,
1:01:08
Speaker 1: and Tom is a great leader, and that was somebody
1:01:10
Speaker 1: when I was listening to his message. That's actually what
1:01:12
Speaker 1: made me think about the tweet that I had too
1:01:15
Speaker 1: in response to it all. But yeah, you can just
1:01:19
Speaker 1: tell by the way Tom talks and other people have spoke, like,
1:01:24
Speaker 1: it's not like people are neglecting it and not trying
1:01:28
Speaker 1: to listen to him, you know what I mean. Like,
1:01:30
Speaker 1: I know, speaking with guys here who was around him,
1:01:32
Speaker 1: it seemed like he got really he would get outraged
1:01:36
Speaker 1: over the smallest stuff, the smallest things, and you know,
1:01:41
Speaker 1: and again like speaking on what Tom was saying, you
1:01:44
Speaker 1: can just tell by the way he's talking that he
1:01:46
Speaker 1: cares about the man. And uh, it's not like people
1:01:50
Speaker 1: haven't tried, you know, stepping in and listening and trying
1:01:55
Speaker 1: to see it probably from his point of view, and
1:01:57
Speaker 1: just stuff like that to like help the do, help
1:01:59
Speaker 1: to do along. And part of me hates even talking
1:02:03
Speaker 1: like that, Like let's just hypothetically say he's listening and
1:02:08
Speaker 1: nothing's wrong and he just wants to be this character
1:02:10
Speaker 1: that he's making, Like it's you're just kind of man,
1:02:13
Speaker 1: I wish people would shut up about all the mental stuff.
1:02:15
Speaker 1: But you just you have no clue, right, Like I
1:02:17
Speaker 1: don't know him, Like I don't know what's going on.
1:02:21
Speaker 1: I just know from what I've seen from this dude
1:02:23
Speaker 1: year in and year out, and it's always it always
1:02:25
Speaker 1: ends up the same.
1:02:28
Speaker 2: He follows the pot on Twitter.
1:02:30
Speaker 1: I know we had, I know we had reached out
1:02:32
Speaker 1: to him before a bout possibly getting him on. I
1:02:34
Speaker 1: want to say it was wasn't at the time when
1:02:36
Speaker 1: he was on the Raiders.
1:02:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, it was really after I think, uh,
1:02:41
Speaker 2: Darren Waller came on.
1:02:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Darren Waller had that stuff to say about
1:02:45
Speaker 1: him too, and like, you know, it's not that again,
1:02:49
Speaker 1: you can tell that people do care and uh but yeah,
1:02:52
Speaker 1: I know, I I know we've exchanged dms or I
1:02:55
Speaker 1: know the profile has exchanged DMS with him and stuff
1:02:57
Speaker 1: like that. That'd be wild. He comes on, we gotta
1:03:02
Speaker 1: a a comp let's u let's let's look at this
1:03:04
Speaker 1: tweet you had. What do you mean by that? But no,
1:03:07
Speaker 1: I always like, dude, somebody somebody was saying like, oh,
1:03:12
Speaker 1: it's it's big Ben's fault. I was like, bro, I
1:03:14
Speaker 1: gotta correct this thinking right now, like what makes you
1:03:17
Speaker 1: think this is somebody else's fault for the way this
1:03:19
Speaker 1: man is acting? Like I just think there's at some point,
1:03:23
Speaker 1: obviously everybody's gonna talk about being a professional. That's why
1:03:26
Speaker 1: I think that there there's gotta be something going on
1:03:28
Speaker 1: because the behavior is bizarre. Right, He's acting out clearly,
1:03:34
Speaker 1: But if you are looking at it from an accountability standpoint,
1:03:39
Speaker 1: like at some point you got to be a pro
1:03:42
Speaker 1: about it. You got to understand the situation you're in
1:03:45
Speaker 1: and understand that there's a time and place for it all.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: And not only that, but you've got to respect what's
1:03:49
Speaker 1: happening around you, like you're part of a team. I
1:03:52
Speaker 1: know we're all looking out for ourselves. I know we're
1:03:54
Speaker 1: all individual contractors, but we're still a part of a
1:03:56
Speaker 1: team who who sweats and does everything to try to
1:03:59
Speaker 1: get the same goal. That's the best part about the
1:04:01
Speaker 1: that's the best part about football is you have this
1:04:03
Speaker 1: melting pot of all these guys from different cultures, different
1:04:06
Speaker 1: walks of life and everything else, and it's all laid
1:04:09
Speaker 1: and sacrifice and put aside. Not that there's indifferences, but
1:04:12
Speaker 1: everything puts all that aside and goes after one common
1:04:16
Speaker 1: goal and we all you all bond that way and
1:04:19
Speaker 1: to be in the heat of the moment, act that
1:04:20
Speaker 1: way and do all this and throw a tantrum and
1:04:23
Speaker 1: hype up the crowd and do all that stuff. And
1:04:25
Speaker 1: it just disrespects what your teammates are putting into this
1:04:29
Speaker 1: thing because it means something to them. And everyone wants
1:04:32
Speaker 1: to see you still there, and you're acting like everyone's
1:04:35
Speaker 1: against you and nobody wants you a part of that
1:04:37
Speaker 1: team when you know that's false, Like you're just telling
1:04:39
Speaker 1: yourself that if that were to be the case. So yeah,
1:04:44
Speaker 1: that's kind of those those are those are those are
1:04:47
Speaker 1: kind of my thoughts on it. I hate it for
1:04:49
Speaker 1: the teammates and the guys who have to answer questions
1:04:51
Speaker 1: about it and everything else because they're a good football
1:04:53
Speaker 1: team who's going after the super Bowl and you want
1:04:55
Speaker 1: to limit distractions and everything else, And I just feel
1:04:58
Speaker 1: like you disrespected all that by it, by acting that way.
1:05:03
Speaker 2: Did you see uh did you see a Brooks Kapa
1:05:05
Speaker 2: get tweeted last night? No, he's a golfer, he tweeted
1:05:11
Speaker 2: a hot take. Ab will fight a Paul Brother before
1:05:13
Speaker 2: the year is over.
1:05:16
Speaker 1: Shit, man, at this, at this right the way the
1:05:18
Speaker 1: simulation out here is going right now, I wouldn't be
1:05:21
Speaker 1: surprised at that. Are they about the same size as
1:05:25
Speaker 1: a being? Uh? Jake about the same size.
1:05:29
Speaker 2: I think I think Jake might actually be a little bigger.
1:05:33
Speaker 2: He's definitely he definitely weighs more.
1:05:37
Speaker 1: Because I know, yeah, yeah, I mean I wouldn't.
1:05:43
Speaker 2: But AB's also probably.
1:05:46
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's the thing, Like all this stuff happens,
1:05:48
Speaker 1: and he drops a song last night.
1:05:51
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like he's clearly like okay.
1:05:55
Speaker 1: With this character he's created, calls himself super Grim one
1:06:02
Speaker 1: God damn it, dude, what are we doing out here?
1:06:06
Speaker 1: Super grambling and drops a song and he's capitalizing on that.
1:06:09
Speaker 1: So the dude's clearly you know, he's all about getting bags.
1:06:12
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised to seem in some celebrity
1:06:14
Speaker 1: celebrity boxing match.
1:06:16
Speaker 2: The moment's gonna live forever, though, Like, that's it. That's
1:06:19
Speaker 2: gotta be a top ten NFL High Jinks moment forever.
1:06:23
Speaker 3: This whole week, there was a lot of weird things
1:06:26
Speaker 3: that went on this week, just like it was a
1:06:29
Speaker 3: strange week.
1:06:31
Speaker 1: Oh dude, yeah, I feel like JP's about it.
1:06:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm a fan. I liked it.
1:06:38
Speaker 1: You like the AB stuff?
1:06:39
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, man, why not? What do you?
1:06:45
Speaker 1: Why not? Let's hear let's hear the angle.
1:06:48
Speaker 2: Well, I wish I could show you the angle. AB
1:06:51
Speaker 2: is a very close friend of mine and I.
1:06:53
Speaker 1: Actually, oh my god, what are we doing?
1:06:57
Speaker 4: Man?
1:06:58
Speaker 2: Just hang out? I don't know where, I don't know where.
1:07:02
Speaker 2: We can can cut it in, blust, can cut it in. Yeah,
1:07:05
Speaker 2: you know A B.
1:07:05
Speaker 5: And I we worked out together one time down in Florida.
1:07:09
Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna say he talked about this moment,
1:07:11
Speaker 5: but no, I'm just kidding, but I was gonna say
1:07:16
Speaker 5: now breaking news.
1:07:17
Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding. I think it's I don't know.
1:07:19
Speaker 5: I mean I think a lot of people are taking
1:07:21
Speaker 5: it way more serious than they should.
1:07:25
Speaker 1: What do you mean by taking it serious?
1:07:28
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just like he doesn't want to play football.
1:07:31
Speaker 5: He's not going to play football. I don't know why,
1:07:33
Speaker 5: Like everyone is up in arms.
1:07:35
Speaker 2: Like you think, just let him walk? Yeah, are you surprised?
1:07:38
Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, why are we surprised? And like, yeah,
1:07:40
Speaker 2: it's his professionals, right, But who's walked out on a
1:07:48
Speaker 2: game before? Like one dude like that though, like across
1:07:52
Speaker 2: the field walked out on a game. Yeah, he's a
1:07:54
Speaker 2: better one guy that tried to do it.
1:07:57
Speaker 1: He's on Aboutvonte Davis to when he just tired at halftime.
1:08:00
Speaker 1: He just didn't want to play football anymore. And and
1:08:04
Speaker 1: if aby doesn't want to play football, then that's great.
1:08:06
Speaker 1: But like, and I think to your point of like
1:08:08
Speaker 1: people are making it super serious. Number one, it's a
1:08:11
Speaker 1: hot topic in the NFL. Like NFL is like the
1:08:13
Speaker 1: most popular sport. So and this dude is an elite
1:08:16
Speaker 1: athlete who's had a resume in timeline like he's had
1:08:19
Speaker 1: so of course it's going to be talked about like
1:08:20
Speaker 1: it's a huge spotlighted thing. Like it's like, you know,
1:08:25
Speaker 1: Jake Paul being a boxer. It's like, I don't know
1:08:27
Speaker 1: why we're making such a big deal about it, So
1:08:29
Speaker 1: what does that mean? We just let them fight and
1:08:31
Speaker 1: nobody comments or says anything about it. Yeah, it's kind
1:08:36
Speaker 1: of like this dude does something like this and an
1:08:39
Speaker 1: actual like with this again, the entire story of it all,
1:08:43
Speaker 1: it's just insane. The dude like took off his pats,
1:08:46
Speaker 1: through his stuff and then was doing jumping Jack's hyping
1:08:49
Speaker 1: up the crowd leaving the Areada.
1:08:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean like it's a like it's a spectacle.
1:08:55
Speaker 5: But I just don't think it's as serious as everybody
1:08:58
Speaker 5: is coming at it it.
1:09:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get if the angle is, If the angle
1:09:07
Speaker 1: is it's just a game, like who cares? Then I
1:09:09
Speaker 1: guess like then yeah, because you're somebody that doesn't take
1:09:13
Speaker 1: it that serious, then I can see why it's not
1:09:15
Speaker 1: that serious. But if you're like a football fan and
1:09:18
Speaker 1: watching the game and keeping up with stuff, it's like
1:09:21
Speaker 1: this is a it's a I would say it's a
1:09:23
Speaker 1: pretty big story.
1:09:25
Speaker 2: I think it did. I think it lit the fire
1:09:27
Speaker 2: under Tom Brady.
1:09:28
Speaker 5: I think it's his bad news for everyone in the
1:09:30
Speaker 5: NFL because I think he's going to be like, hey,
1:09:32
Speaker 5: you know what, ab look what you missed out on.
1:09:34
Speaker 2: I'm about to go get another ring man.
1:09:37
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see you know how Tampa continues to
1:09:42
Speaker 1: go without god Win an a B because you know,
1:09:44
Speaker 1: they took over the middle of the field with those guys.
1:09:46
Speaker 1: It opened up everything else for him. So yeah, it'll
1:09:50
Speaker 1: be interesting. Hopefully we'll get some guys on in the
1:09:52
Speaker 1: offseason where we can we can talk through some of
1:09:54
Speaker 1: this stuff.
1:09:56
Speaker 2: To wrap that topic. Do you think we'll ever see
1:09:58
Speaker 2: a B in an NFL uniforming?
1:10:02
Speaker 1: I I don't think so. I guess the team could
1:10:07
Speaker 1: for minimum, right, Like at the end of the day,
1:10:09
Speaker 1: it's all about wins and losses and taking taking chances.
1:10:12
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, you see every year Josh Gordon
1:10:15
Speaker 1: getting reinstated for all different stuff, so I guess you
1:10:19
Speaker 1: never know. But I I just don't think so, because
1:10:23
Speaker 1: clearly the root of the issue has never been fixed
1:10:26
Speaker 1: for anything. Like to me, I just think that there's
1:10:28
Speaker 1: some some uh some self awareness that he needs to
1:10:33
Speaker 1: that he needs to gain just in life in general.
1:10:39
Speaker 1: That's that's just that's just my opinion. Like I'm just
1:10:41
Speaker 1: trying to think if I was acting that way or
1:10:43
Speaker 1: anything else, and you blame or you create these stories
1:10:46
Speaker 1: in your head on the trainers are doing this or
1:10:47
Speaker 1: my injury was like, you know, there's clearly some uh
1:10:53
Speaker 1: you know stuff you're just not taking into account or
1:10:55
Speaker 1: thinking about in a in a in a rooted way
1:10:58
Speaker 1: on why you're so affected by you know, acting that way.
1:11:04
Speaker 2: You want to Uh you want to jump to college football?
1:11:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can hit college football, so Brad, what.
1:11:16
Speaker 2: I just figured they'd come up somehow, so we might
1:11:18
Speaker 2: as well just start with it. Uh, no college football
1:11:20
Speaker 2: for the weekend? You catch any Oh, I caught all
1:11:22
Speaker 2: of it. What'd you think?
1:11:24
Speaker 1: You went out with the shoot being quarantined with with COVID,
1:11:28
Speaker 1: there wasn't much to do. It's like you get out
1:11:31
Speaker 1: here in Vegas, like, first of all, the backers are
1:11:34
Speaker 1: going down. We're going down last week, uh with Vegas.
1:11:38
Speaker 1: And this was before the five day rule change happened
1:11:42
Speaker 1: with COVID, and Uh I came out here thinking like,
1:11:46
Speaker 1: you know, shoot, I might be playing this weekend because
1:11:49
Speaker 1: that's how limited we were on the roster with backers.
1:11:53
Speaker 1: So I come back out sure enough, you know, start
1:11:56
Speaker 1: to get start to get symptoms with COVID, test positive
1:11:58
Speaker 1: for COVID, and I'm out in Vegas after leaving you know,
1:12:02
Speaker 1: the family back home with all this stuff with my mom,
1:12:06
Speaker 1: and now I'm out here in Vegas like alone quarantine,
1:12:09
Speaker 1: like at the house, which obviously you can be in
1:12:12
Speaker 1: your own thoughts and lonely and shit like that. But
1:12:15
Speaker 1: I felt like Twitter in college football was help keeping me,
1:12:20
Speaker 1: keeping the spirits up, keeping me busy the whole time.
1:12:22
Speaker 1: But yeah, I caught everything. We can talk about it. Boys.
1:12:27
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if I'm overthinking it right now,
1:12:29
Speaker 1: but right now I'm thinking about Jack and Garrett sitting
1:12:31
Speaker 1: that ready to talk about it, and you know, I
1:12:32
Speaker 1: feel like I'll have to admit a few things, and
1:12:34
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'll be mad enough to do that
1:12:37
Speaker 1: for you boys.
1:12:40
Speaker 3: You kind of got lucky though, because me and Garrett's
1:12:43
Speaker 3: boys strength and conditioning coach of Michigan, so we were
1:12:46
Speaker 3: polling for the Big ten there. If we hadn't had him,
1:12:52
Speaker 3: it would have been. Yeah, bloodbath on Twitter from that
1:12:56
Speaker 3: Michigan Georgia game. But yeah, I mean it was fun
1:13:00
Speaker 3: watching all go down that.
1:13:01
Speaker 2: Uh. I don't know.
1:13:02
Speaker 3: I don't have much to say besides the preduy Tennessee game.
1:13:05
Speaker 3: It was heartbreaking. We always seem to get fucked in
1:13:08
Speaker 3: the Music City Bowl. It's kind of like another thing now,
1:13:12
Speaker 3: you know. The progress I feel like has got to change.
1:13:17
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't have too much to say
1:13:19
Speaker 2: about it.
1:13:19
Speaker 3: We've got a good uh, we've got a lot of hope,
1:13:22
Speaker 3: real hope for next year.
1:13:24
Speaker 1: So I'm okay.
1:13:25
Speaker 4: I think the the forward progress thing, like we all
1:13:30
Speaker 4: with the Nebraska Michigan game, how it does play a
1:13:34
Speaker 4: pretty big factor that.
1:13:36
Speaker 1: Fires me up. That you mentioned that, Gart, I do
1:13:37
Speaker 1: appreciate that because I was thinking about that too.
1:13:40
Speaker 2: We're gonna get there somehow, because.
1:13:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's better for it to come from you than
1:13:45
Speaker 1: for me just coming up with no. But that makes
1:13:50
Speaker 1: sense because I did think you guys are gonna come
1:13:52
Speaker 1: after me for the Michigan stuff, and not that I was.
1:13:57
Speaker 1: I mean, I was surprised that you guys were coming
1:13:59
Speaker 1: after me at all for that. Uh, that Michigan just
1:14:02
Speaker 1: blood bath out there. But yeah, that makes sense. I
1:14:04
Speaker 1: forgot that. You guys, you have a coach friend that's
1:14:06
Speaker 1: a strength coach there. Yeah, yeah, bro, Tennessee game. Are
1:14:14
Speaker 1: you talking about Tennessee game?
1:14:15
Speaker 2: Yeah? What'd you think of the calling a goal on?
1:14:17
Speaker 1: I thought it was the right callid man, I'm just
1:14:22
Speaker 1: kidding honestly, Like it was funny because I would see
1:14:26
Speaker 1: people tweet at me and be like, hey, you know,
1:14:29
Speaker 1: do you really care about the other Big Ten teams
1:14:32
Speaker 1: or is this just like a like a front that
1:14:34
Speaker 1: you're putting on. They're really like outside, Like I wanted
1:14:39
Speaker 1: Michigan to win because you guys are right like everybody
1:14:42
Speaker 1: who was saying it too, like what matters is the
1:14:44
Speaker 1: college football playoff and everything else, And I wanted Michigan
1:14:48
Speaker 1: to win that. Like if we could have went, you know,
1:14:50
Speaker 1: had your guys' records starting off right now, you guys
1:14:52
Speaker 1: are basically essentially winning the important games, Like I would
1:14:55
Speaker 1: much rather that happen, but uh, just for the fun
1:14:58
Speaker 1: and everything else. Like I was rooting hard for every
1:15:01
Speaker 1: Big Ten team just because we started off undefeated and
1:15:05
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe for Duke came back like y'all were
1:15:07
Speaker 1: murdering them in the first quarter and then they were
1:15:09
Speaker 1: coming back and I was like, oh, man, I know,
1:15:11
Speaker 1: I knew was eating a jack. So that's kind of
1:15:13
Speaker 1: what fueled me, is just knowing, like, you know, I
1:15:15
Speaker 1: could just throw out a little jab or something like that,
1:15:17
Speaker 1: but that was a brutal call on the goal Lion.
1:15:21
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. But of course I was like, oh,
1:15:23
Speaker 1: this is this. This helps me with the story I'm
1:15:26
Speaker 1: trying to write right now.
1:15:29
Speaker 2: Would you what about Cincinnati?
1:15:35
Speaker 1: You know they did better than Michigan's you know what
1:15:40
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, yeah, people are both up these stats.
1:15:44
Speaker 1: People are pulling up these stats in the semi final
1:15:46
Speaker 1: on teams getting dusted by the SEC or like really,
1:15:49
Speaker 1: whoever is the number one team or really usually the
1:15:53
Speaker 1: number one team, but whoever the best team is, or
1:15:55
Speaker 1: usually wiping the hell out of whoever the four team is.
1:15:57
Speaker 1: And you know, Alabama, I'm a right from the get go.
1:16:02
Speaker 1: When they lined up and had the first player, You're like, oh,
1:16:04
Speaker 1: these boys are way bigger than Cincinnati's team. You kind
1:16:08
Speaker 1: of just knew what would probably happen. The only hope
1:16:11
Speaker 1: I kind of had with Cincinnati was just the fact
1:16:13
Speaker 1: that uh coach Fickles their head coach, and I know
1:16:16
Speaker 1: him like Rave I think was his best man at
1:16:18
Speaker 1: his wedding. Like I know their boys, So I'm like
1:16:20
Speaker 1: they probably run a ship similar they have, like because
1:16:23
Speaker 1: they coach with each other at Ohio State, and so
1:16:27
Speaker 1: I figured they kind of he kind of had the
1:16:28
Speaker 1: same philosophies and everything else. I'm like, these boys probably
1:16:30
Speaker 1: won't you know, fear Bama or nothing like that, and
1:16:33
Speaker 1: they'll probably do all the little things right and like
1:16:35
Speaker 1: do all the team keys, like all this stuff that
1:16:37
Speaker 1: I know very Abel preaches. So that was really the
1:16:39
Speaker 1: only hope I thought they had. Then when Bama ran
1:16:42
Speaker 1: the ball the entire first drive and scored, I was like, oh,
1:16:45
Speaker 1: this is it isn't even going to be a game.
1:16:47
Speaker 1: And then you're just looking forward to the Michigan game.
1:16:49
Speaker 1: And then it's like, oh my god, dude, what are
1:16:52
Speaker 1: we doing out here? Just a brutal, brutal showing for
1:16:58
Speaker 1: anybody not in the SEC.
1:17:01
Speaker 2: Do you think we'll ever see another non power five
1:17:03
Speaker 2: team in the playoff again?
1:17:05
Speaker 1: I hope not.
1:17:07
Speaker 2: That is across the board that like this was okay, cool,
1:17:11
Speaker 2: you guys were cute with it, but like this can't
1:17:14
Speaker 2: this can't happen again.
1:17:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, like this was a great experiment, like it was.
1:17:18
Speaker 1: It was fun, Like you know, it's a good little
1:17:20
Speaker 1: science class experiment that everybody had and putting this team
1:17:23
Speaker 1: in and you got to kind of see the outcome.
1:17:25
Speaker 1: But everybody coming after Michigan for the same thing. It's like,
1:17:28
Speaker 1: you know, have rable bodybag tailor out there and said
1:17:30
Speaker 1: make it Uh what do you say? Make it too?
1:17:33
Speaker 1: Two sheep? Yeah, Bro, that was hilarious. Yeah, I mean
1:17:40
Speaker 1: Michigan didn't look. I just don't get it, man, I
1:17:44
Speaker 1: just don't get it because you.
1:17:46
Speaker 2: Think, do you think that.
1:17:50
Speaker 4: Michigan and Sincy like do you think that the losers
1:17:53
Speaker 4: in that should have to play so we know the
1:17:55
Speaker 4: real truth?
1:17:56
Speaker 1: I really would, I truly because I'm sitting there, I'm like,
1:18:00
Speaker 1: man would since he beat Michigan, Like you know, I'm
1:18:03
Speaker 1: asking that question now, like I'm not like I am
1:18:05
Speaker 1: blind and blind loyal to I act blindly loyal to
1:18:08
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. But I'm sitting there, like would Cincinnati
1:18:11
Speaker 1: beat Michigan or was Michigan just not ready to play?
1:18:16
Speaker 4: That month break really affected Michigan the most because they
1:18:20
Speaker 4: had and then they had time to cool off and
1:18:25
Speaker 4: I mean, that's another discussion. I think that's way too
1:18:27
Speaker 4: long the time to play, but that's I think what
1:18:30
Speaker 4: got Michigan in the end.
1:18:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good point because I think number one,
1:18:35
Speaker 1: like they're younger than professional athletes. Imagine if we had
1:18:37
Speaker 1: a month break before playoffs started, like it would just
1:18:40
Speaker 1: be completely different teams from teams that are building momentum
1:18:43
Speaker 1: in December and going into the playoffs. It's kind of
1:18:46
Speaker 1: the same thing with like, I mean, they're younger their kids.
1:18:50
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good point because even in
1:18:53
Speaker 1: the second half, like the second half was a good
1:18:55
Speaker 1: half of football. It's just there's no way Michigan was
1:18:58
Speaker 1: coming back because they were both playing defense against each
1:19:01
Speaker 1: other and everything else, and they kind of got you know,
1:19:03
Speaker 1: you wish that was a team that would have showed
1:19:04
Speaker 1: up in the first half. So at least it's it's closer.
1:19:09
Speaker 1: But uh but yeah, dude, I don't know, man. And
1:19:12
Speaker 1: then you got all these high scoring games like Ohio
1:19:14
Speaker 1: State and Utah and who else had I Who am
1:19:19
Speaker 1: I thinking of? That was an awesome game to watch.
1:19:20
Speaker 1: So they're just throwing bombs at the end and scoring
1:19:24
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Purdue.
1:19:26
Speaker 2: Oh that one too.
1:19:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were throwing bombs over bag dead too and
1:19:30
Speaker 1: just scoring at will. But that's kind of my uh
1:19:35
Speaker 1: my college football take. Big Ten started strong in the
1:19:38
Speaker 1: games that you know, they don't they definitely didn't matter.
1:19:41
Speaker 1: But if Big Ten's winning those games in January, those
1:19:45
Speaker 1: records look damn good for the boys in the Big Ten.
1:19:47
Speaker 1: If we were going like, you know, one loss, like
1:19:50
Speaker 1: if Rutgers would have been the only team that lost
1:19:52
Speaker 1: that lost because the Penn State Arkansas was a good game.
1:19:55
Speaker 1: The Kentucky Iowa was a good game. So if you like,
1:19:59
Speaker 1: gut those out obviously makes for just you know, better,
1:20:03
Speaker 1: better firepower. But when we started losing those games and
1:20:07
Speaker 1: I got back to my phone and saw that Penn
1:20:09
Speaker 1: State fell and Iowa fell, and everyone's just falling, dude,
1:20:13
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, I got nothing against these boys.
1:20:15
Speaker 1: The SEC has got it, man, they got it for
1:20:17
Speaker 1: another year and there's nothing I can do. And both
1:20:20
Speaker 1: the SEC teams are playing for the Natty.
1:20:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
1:20:29
Speaker 1: More.
1:20:29
Speaker 2: Things I wanted to get on, one of them being
1:20:32
Speaker 2: Matt Correll goes down in the Sugar Bowl and there's
1:20:36
Speaker 2: obviously a conversation about opting out. Kirk curb Street was
1:20:39
Speaker 2: quoted saying, this era of player just doesn't love football anymore.
1:20:43
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on players opting out from these
1:20:45
Speaker 2: bowl games if they're guys who have a clear future
1:20:48
Speaker 2: in the league.
1:20:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you're a first rounder, it's kind
1:20:52
Speaker 1: of hard to opt into playing in these games. I
1:20:54
Speaker 1: do kind of get it from that standpoint. I know myself, like,
1:20:57
Speaker 1: if I'm getting back in my brain in Nebraska, there's
1:21:00
Speaker 1: probably no way I'm ever like opting out of playing
1:21:02
Speaker 1: because you're just so you know about the team and
1:21:06
Speaker 1: everything else. I'm not saying that that's that's not what
1:21:09
Speaker 1: that's what it shouldn't be about. I'm just saying the
1:21:11
Speaker 1: perspective that I have now on how the big business
1:21:15
Speaker 1: of college football works and the big business of the NFL.
1:21:18
Speaker 1: And you know how your body is your business when
1:21:21
Speaker 1: you leave college, Like your body's what's gonna make give
1:21:24
Speaker 1: you another year in the NFL, depending on how you
1:21:27
Speaker 1: take care of it. I guess running backs, you kind
1:21:29
Speaker 1: of see how they're utilized now and you don't really
1:21:31
Speaker 1: need a running back for that long and the tread
1:21:33
Speaker 1: on the tire kind of wears off quick, So you know,
1:21:36
Speaker 1: are you wanting to put over one hundred two hundred
1:21:38
Speaker 1: however many carriers running backs get in college, are you
1:21:41
Speaker 1: wanting to put another year on that? And if you're
1:21:44
Speaker 1: healthy and you're gonna be in a you're gonna be
1:21:46
Speaker 1: a first rounder or a second rounder. Why would you
1:21:49
Speaker 1: risk carrying the ball more, putting more on the legs
1:21:51
Speaker 1: and risking an injury? Like the kid from Ole Miss
1:21:56
Speaker 1: I'm drawing a blank with his name. It's Matt Correll, right, yeah, yeah,
1:22:00
Speaker 1: with Matt Krall, Like Jalen Smith. I know, he was
1:22:02
Speaker 1: a linebacker that came out from Notre Dame. He was
1:22:04
Speaker 1: a huge injury. I mean, look, look what's happened with him.
1:22:07
Speaker 1: He kind of can't run that well anymore. That's kind
1:22:11
Speaker 1: of been what people say about Jalen. But had he
1:22:15
Speaker 1: not had that nerd had that nerve damage and that
1:22:18
Speaker 1: huge knee surgery coming out of college, like, who knows
1:22:21
Speaker 1: where he'd be now. But it's tough, man, because I
1:22:25
Speaker 1: definitely understand both sides. But if I'm going to be
1:22:29
Speaker 1: pro player, Uh, you you've definitely got to look at,
1:22:34
Speaker 1: uh this new era of kids opting out, you know,
1:22:38
Speaker 1: their senior year, junior year, like if they're if they're
1:22:41
Speaker 1: going to be selected high in the draft, because that
1:22:44
Speaker 1: is the best that is in the best interest of
1:22:47
Speaker 1: that kid, that's in the best interests of their body,
1:22:49
Speaker 1: that's in the best interests of their them As a business,
1:22:53
Speaker 1: that's in the best interest of everything else, because you
1:22:55
Speaker 1: see it with coaches, you see with you know, these
1:22:57
Speaker 1: organ these schools and everything else. Like it's all big business, dude,
1:23:00
Speaker 1: And you know, I understand people wanting the players to
1:23:04
Speaker 1: play and it's honorable and everything else, but dude, honor
1:23:07
Speaker 1: doesn't get you paid. Honor doesn't doesn't get you more
1:23:11
Speaker 1: years in the league. Honor doesn't get you any of
1:23:13
Speaker 1: that stuff other than like this is a great and
1:23:15
Speaker 1: tangible to have, you know. Yeah, it makes me think
1:23:21
Speaker 1: about and another another Uh, what'll be interesting too, is
1:23:27
Speaker 1: like the mid round kids mid round, Like if you're
1:23:30
Speaker 1: gonna get drafted, for sure, but you'd be a mid
1:23:32
Speaker 1: round and lower round, like you know, you'll have kids
1:23:34
Speaker 1: wanting to play because they want to up their stock
1:23:36
Speaker 1: in a big game, right. I know we're talking about
1:23:38
Speaker 1: Matt Crall and Ole Miss, so you have enough tape
1:23:41
Speaker 1: of him against SEC talent, but maybe you have these lower,
1:23:44
Speaker 1: these smaller schools where you know, kids want to show
1:23:47
Speaker 1: against better competition. So I think it'll be a new
1:23:51
Speaker 1: thing with college athletes opting out of games, but I
1:23:54
Speaker 1: also don't. I also don't think it'll be as big
1:23:58
Speaker 1: as what everyone's seen seems to be making of it,
1:24:01
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I think it'll just
1:24:02
Speaker 1: kind of be the new norm, like, hey, this kid
1:24:04
Speaker 1: shouldn't play this Matt Crowle example be the example. Examples
1:24:08
Speaker 1: used from a will be the example used for agencies
1:24:12
Speaker 1: and agents trying to recruit kids and trying to talk
1:24:14
Speaker 1: kids out of it. And I think coaches and teams
1:24:18
Speaker 1: will have to communicate and just have conversations about it
1:24:22
Speaker 1: and just understand each side of it. And if a
1:24:25
Speaker 1: coach really has their players' best interest at heart, I
1:24:27
Speaker 1: think these kids who are gonna get drafted high, the
1:24:30
Speaker 1: best thing for them is to not play the game
1:24:33
Speaker 1: because they have a they have a future in a
1:24:35
Speaker 1: career uh to look out for and not to mention,
1:24:38
Speaker 1: you know, things that you're not even thinking about. Family
1:24:41
Speaker 1: that you'll probably that these kids will be having one day,
1:24:43
Speaker 1: and everything else that's gonna set you up for life
1:24:45
Speaker 1: after football. So yeah, that's that's kind of my take
1:24:50
Speaker 1: on it.
1:24:52
Speaker 2: Coaches perspectives got to come into that too, right, because
1:24:54
Speaker 2: they probably got performance bonuses attached to winning bowl games,
1:24:56
Speaker 2: whether they're a college football playoff game or not. Like fans,
1:24:59
Speaker 2: fans I think will obviously be the last ones to
1:25:01
Speaker 2: understand something like that, but you would expect like teammates
1:25:04
Speaker 2: to understand it, I guess. But coaches then it's tied
1:25:06
Speaker 2: to money all of a sudden two for them.
1:25:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. I mean you got incentive. You got
1:25:12
Speaker 1: incentives in there with coaches because you get a few
1:25:14
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars bonus if you win a bowl game.
1:25:17
Speaker 1: And so it's in the coaches that's interest to have
1:25:19
Speaker 1: all their best players playing. But again from that now
1:25:26
Speaker 1: there might be new negotiations and new new language and
1:25:30
Speaker 1: contracts for coaches with this new era of what athletes
1:25:34
Speaker 1: might be doing, so that way they don't have to
1:25:36
Speaker 1: depend on stuff like that. And again, man, if you're
1:25:40
Speaker 1: if you're a coach, is trying to self serve, I
1:25:43
Speaker 1: think it'll it'll be it'll it'll be seen and the
1:25:48
Speaker 1: player will know that and not you know, care anyway,
1:25:51
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, bro. I think it's it's all
1:25:54
Speaker 1: about what that that person's about. If you're a coach
1:25:57
Speaker 1: and you're about, I really am about the best interests
1:25:59
Speaker 1: of players, then you know the answer is pretty clear.
1:26:03
Speaker 1: And if you go against that, you kind of know
1:26:05
Speaker 1: like it's it's all self serving, Like that's all everybody's
1:26:09
Speaker 1: trying to do. Anyway, we have a do you guys
1:26:13
Speaker 1: have anything to add to that? I have one more
1:26:14
Speaker 1: topic that I want to throw it will.
1:26:19
Speaker 4: I have a question going on the kids opting out
1:26:23
Speaker 4: and stuff going towards coaches. What about the coaches that
1:26:28
Speaker 4: just bail before a bowl game, or bail before a
1:26:31
Speaker 4: playoff game, or bail before a national championship, Like.
1:26:36
Speaker 2: That's kind of bullshit making a decision enough.
1:26:42
Speaker 4: He should not be like once business got involved, it
1:26:47
Speaker 4: changed everything, and the players should not be hounded for
1:26:51
Speaker 4: not like like what you're saying, like thinking about the
1:26:53
Speaker 4: future if coaches are doing it, like that's the coach.
1:26:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're telling Meanwhile, you're telling all your other
1:27:00
Speaker 2: students who are not athletes, like hey, you should be
1:27:02
Speaker 2: preparing for the future and everything. And then exactly now
1:27:04
Speaker 2: you're gonna tell the student athlete, he's got to suck
1:27:05
Speaker 2: it up and play. Yeah, I mean, well, to your point,
1:27:07
Speaker 2: there's got to be some sort of like I mean,
1:27:10
Speaker 2: letters and intent will probably look different for that type
1:27:13
Speaker 2: of stuff now too.
1:27:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you already see the transfer portal and
1:27:17
Speaker 1: everything else. The way kids can jump ship like everyone us.
1:27:20
Speaker 1: Like when a kid does something, you know you have,
1:27:23
Speaker 1: whether it's backlash or support, there's kind of a still
1:27:25
Speaker 1: a mixed bag. I think it's trending more towards everybody
1:27:28
Speaker 1: understanding that, oh, this is a business, like these players
1:27:31
Speaker 1: do need to look out for themselves. I think that's
1:27:33
Speaker 1: like where the meters going. And for people that you
1:27:37
Speaker 1: know are quick to react or upset, they're obviously just
1:27:40
Speaker 1: wanting their team to win, like they're wanting their colors
1:27:42
Speaker 1: to win. They're wanting you know, their team, pride and
1:27:44
Speaker 1: everything else to prevail and win. And then when somebody
1:27:47
Speaker 1: gets in an argument with them, the first, uh, the
1:27:51
Speaker 1: first action step is usually comparing it to a coach.
1:27:55
Speaker 1: So I think that's just something that kind of comes
1:27:57
Speaker 1: with it anyway, because I do agree, I mean, looking
1:28:00
Speaker 1: at from that standpoint, the coaches, if we're looking like, oh,
1:28:03
Speaker 1: the players should play for the coach because the coach
1:28:05
Speaker 1: is saying X, Y and Z like that is bullshit.
1:28:07
Speaker 1: Like coaches do jump ship. You see with Brian Kelly,
1:28:10
Speaker 1: you saw Lincoln Riley this year. They're great examples. Like
1:28:13
Speaker 1: you know, you saw the one coach. Was it Georgia
1:28:16
Speaker 1: or Alabama where the coordinator's still staying there until he
1:28:19
Speaker 1: goes and takes over the head job at Oregon? I
1:28:21
Speaker 1: think it might be, Uh, it might be Georgia's DC,
1:28:24
Speaker 1: I think, but you do see coaches. You see coaches
1:28:28
Speaker 1: doing that, Like there's examples everywhere. But yeah, if you're
1:28:30
Speaker 1: marrying it up to these guys, should you know, lay
1:28:33
Speaker 1: it on the line for their team and their coaches
1:28:35
Speaker 1: and everybody who's counted them for four years. It's dude,
1:28:38
Speaker 1: it's big business man, and it's just the unfortunate reality
1:28:41
Speaker 1: of just capitalism in the world that we live in
1:28:43
Speaker 1: and how we've kind of created this product of college football.
1:28:48
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the same with the pros and everything else.
1:28:50
Speaker 1: Everybody's looking out for their future and you can't discredit
1:28:55
Speaker 1: anybody doing that. You can't discredit coaches doing that, you
1:28:58
Speaker 1: can't discredit players doing that. I think the coaching example
1:29:01
Speaker 1: is just easy to use to help people like, you know,
1:29:04
Speaker 1: vibe with a player doing it because sometimes these you know,
1:29:07
Speaker 1: coaches obviously get attacked. People act like coaches are out
1:29:10
Speaker 1: there saying, well coaches, there are some coaches doing it.
1:29:14
Speaker 1: But like has Brian Kelly been has Brian Kelly been
1:29:19
Speaker 1: seen or been caught saying like these kids need to
1:29:21
Speaker 1: stay and play in the bowl games? Or these coaches
1:29:24
Speaker 1: who have jumped ship and left and went elsewhere, Not
1:29:28
Speaker 1: that I know of. Who's the weird dude from uh
1:29:31
Speaker 1: he he coached at Texas Tech and Utah State. Maybe
1:29:38
Speaker 1: Mike Leach Michaea another.
1:29:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, another close friend that you cannot speak poorly about.
1:29:46
Speaker 1: But Mike Leached, I think he came out and said
1:29:48
Speaker 1: these players need to be playing a Bowl games. And
1:29:50
Speaker 1: somebody's like, yeah, just like when you left them this
1:29:52
Speaker 1: year and that year and that year. It's you know,
1:29:55
Speaker 1: it's at the end of the day, man, you gotta
1:29:58
Speaker 1: you gotta, you know, be what's what's your best interest,
1:30:01
Speaker 1: especially in the business of athletics, and you know in
1:30:06
Speaker 1: the corporate world too, like everyone's pretty much kind of
1:30:09
Speaker 1: out for themselves and in that business because when you
1:30:11
Speaker 1: get cut or anything else, Like nobody cares what happens, right,
1:30:16
Speaker 1: It's just business. How you can't take it personal. It's
1:30:18
Speaker 1: just business, And so athletes need to kind of you
1:30:22
Speaker 1: start to empower themselves out that way and trend that way.
1:30:24
Speaker 1: And I think with that like will become you'll be
1:30:27
Speaker 1: seeing new language and contract negotiations and everything else. And
1:30:30
Speaker 1: like you said, like let her intent to look a
1:30:32
Speaker 1: little bit different and the transfer port, with the transporport
1:30:35
Speaker 1: and everything else, it's it's definitely gonna be a different
1:30:39
Speaker 1: a different era of college football. And you know these
1:30:41
Speaker 1: kids won't you know, like uh, Kirkirbs, you said, love it,
1:30:45
Speaker 1: love ball as much. Just you know they're awake to
1:30:48
Speaker 1: a lot more stuff.
1:30:50
Speaker 2: You're right by the way that uh that defensive coordinator
1:30:52
Speaker 2: is Dan Lanning from Georgia going to Oregon next year
1:30:55
Speaker 2: to be the head coach. Yeah.
1:30:56
Speaker 1: I thought that was really cool. When we were watching
1:30:58
Speaker 1: that game he was coaching them. They did a little
1:31:00
Speaker 1: did a little snippet on him saying, you know he's
1:31:03
Speaker 1: staying and coaching through trying to win the national championship
1:31:06
Speaker 1: and he'll get to Oregon like after the season's over.
1:31:08
Speaker 1: I thought that was. I thought that was pretty cool.
1:31:11
Speaker 2: The last thing I wanted to get to before we
1:31:12
Speaker 2: wrap is, uh, this dude Hunter Anthony committing to Nebraska
1:31:20
Speaker 2: full pads and hear your boy and his commitment photo.
1:31:23
Speaker 2: What do you have to say about that? Oh?
1:31:25
Speaker 1: Man, dude, if you're a running back, do you want
1:31:30
Speaker 1: that dude blocking for you? I know, I'm just I
1:31:34
Speaker 1: know I'm immediately reacting and I don't know how good
1:31:36
Speaker 1: the kid is or not done. I think you can't
1:31:37
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma State. But as far as like the the
1:31:43
Speaker 1: toughness factor, the grit factor, the you know, looking like
1:31:48
Speaker 1: you don't look at that photo and think, oh, Nebraska
1:31:50
Speaker 1: is a football factory. You think, what the hell is
1:31:54
Speaker 1: going on? Why this is why these boys are three
1:31:56
Speaker 1: and nine? We got that dude spread eagle or we're
1:32:00
Speaker 1: talking sack on the floor dude. And the photographer there's
1:32:04
Speaker 1: a photographer there that's taking a picture. I think I
1:32:06
Speaker 1: was talking with JP and JP's like yeah, photographer had
1:32:09
Speaker 1: to say, hey man, this is fire, Like what are
1:32:12
Speaker 1: we doing? And when that happens, as a photographer needs
1:32:15
Speaker 1: say hey man, we we ain't doing that, or you
1:32:18
Speaker 1: need to go tell the coach like, hey, we need
1:32:20
Speaker 1: to pull this skllie.
1:32:22
Speaker 2: That's big ten football. Baby. Why don't you like it?
1:32:25
Speaker 1: I like it.
1:32:26
Speaker 2: I'm jealous. I saw it.
1:32:27
Speaker 1: I know you like it. It seems like you like it, Alex,
1:32:29
Speaker 1: like you hit the splits.
1:32:30
Speaker 2: If you want to, I would impress you to tell
1:32:34
Speaker 2: me what that means. But okay, but my question is,
1:32:36
Speaker 2: how is this any different than your Peaky Blinders haircut?
1:32:39
Speaker 1: Oh? Come on, are we talking about peaky blindes. We're
1:32:42
Speaker 1: talking about gang stuff, bro, We're talking killing. We're talking
1:32:45
Speaker 1: mob stuff. We're talking selling liquor and alcohol and dealing
1:32:48
Speaker 1: with guns, not doing splits, not doing splits in the
1:32:52
Speaker 1: ballet and everything else. There's nothing wrong with that stuff. Man.
1:32:55
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to Uh, I'm just trying to juice
1:32:58
Speaker 1: the entertainment factor for busting with the boys. Subscribing rate
1:33:00
Speaker 1: five stars. If you guys are watching right now, go
1:33:02
Speaker 1: ahead and leave a comment. I hope the kids are
1:33:05
Speaker 1: hell of an athlete. I hope he. I hope he
1:33:06
Speaker 1: blocks his way, you know, blocks us to a national championship.
1:33:10
Speaker 1: But my first thought was, like, Hey, what the what
1:33:12
Speaker 1: the fuck are we doing? Like like I was saying,
1:33:18
Speaker 1: like I was saying we got in the deed the
1:33:19
Speaker 1: glory written somewhere in there. I know all the quotes
1:33:21
Speaker 1: written around that building, dude, And we got somebody fully
1:33:24
Speaker 1: geared in a Husker in Husker gear bro. We're in
1:33:27
Speaker 1: the inn on their helmet hitting the full splits, thinking
1:33:30
Speaker 1: it's cool.
1:33:31
Speaker 2: What's the deed.
1:33:34
Speaker 1: In the glory?
1:33:35
Speaker 2: I mean, what the man?
1:33:37
Speaker 1: Look it up?
1:33:38
Speaker 5: I mean, well, you photo in front of the bus,
1:33:42
Speaker 5: you do a podcast on button aked just just a flag?
1:33:45
Speaker 6: Oh man, no, you're right due, that's so funny.
1:33:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got me, you got me. We get to
1:34:01
Speaker 1: the point where I talk myself into all these corners
1:34:03
Speaker 1: and there's nothing to do other than being like, hey,
1:34:05
Speaker 1: I'm just fucking around, just having a silly goose times
1:34:09
Speaker 1: as Deleah would say. But dude, we're trying to recruit.
1:34:13
Speaker 1: We're trying to recruit studs. Perception is reality, man, Like
1:34:18
Speaker 1: me me being like that from the bus. I'm good
1:34:20
Speaker 1: with everything I've done in my career and everything else. Like,
1:34:23
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get dudes to be on my team.
1:34:25
Speaker 1: If I was, I probably I'll probably carry myself a
1:34:28
Speaker 1: little bit differently.
1:34:30
Speaker 2: What about us though? We don't want to be associated
1:34:32
Speaker 2: with something like that, think of us. Yeah, i'd be selfish.
1:34:39
Speaker 1: Oh that's so funny, dude, Alex. Why do you like it.
1:34:45
Speaker 2: Because we're talking about it?
1:34:47
Speaker 1: Oh, they take it easy, man, take it easy. I'm
1:34:49
Speaker 1: just said you said you were with it.
1:34:51
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm saying I like it because it
1:34:54
Speaker 2: generated a lot of conversation. That's why I like it.
1:34:56
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, for sure. And he's just staying in
1:35:00
Speaker 2: front of the building. We don't talk about this, you
1:35:01
Speaker 2: don't tweet it. It doesn't go on the on the
1:35:04
Speaker 2: radar for us to talk about. We don't get it. Instead,
1:35:06
Speaker 2: I know exactly who Hunter Anthony is.
1:35:08
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, that's true. I like it. If he gets
1:35:11
Speaker 1: easy and il deals, I might need to cut We
1:35:13
Speaker 1: might need to get him on bus with the boys
1:35:14
Speaker 1: to talk about it. I wouldn't mind doing that, all right,
1:35:20
Speaker 1: getting them on the bus and just be like, hey, like,
1:35:21
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about this, man, let's talk through this.
1:35:26
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:35:27
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I was uh so I posted
1:35:30
Speaker 1: the photo first, and you know, I just thought it
1:35:34
Speaker 1: was funny. I'm like, yo, what look, what are these
1:35:37
Speaker 1: photos that this dude posted? And I'm kind of laughing
1:35:39
Speaker 1: about it. At first. I mean, I was laughing about
1:35:41
Speaker 1: the whole time, but I didn't really think nothing else
1:35:43
Speaker 1: of it. And then I get people texting me like, hey,
1:35:48
Speaker 1: how you been other than other than allowing your school
1:35:51
Speaker 1: to have recruits doing the splits and taking photos of
1:35:54
Speaker 1: themselves or saving your school on Twitter, or you know.
1:35:58
Speaker 2: I had a became about you. That's what this was.
1:36:02
Speaker 2: It all came back to.
1:36:05
Speaker 1: So it comes, it comes back, and then I get
1:36:07
Speaker 1: h I get a buddy of mine, COVANOI. He texts me.
1:36:12
Speaker 1: He's just blowing me up about it. He's like, what
1:36:14
Speaker 1: is this? What is Nebraska doing? Like this is why
1:36:16
Speaker 1: y'all are three nine? This d at the other and uh,
1:36:20
Speaker 1: I'm just laughing the entire time. I'm like, come on, man,
1:36:22
Speaker 1: stop gaslight me right now. He's like, I can't believe
1:36:24
Speaker 1: you didn't say nothing about it. It's just it's beyond me,
1:36:26
Speaker 1: you know. He's just kind of sparkling me. And so
1:36:29
Speaker 1: of course I take the Twitter and now I've created
1:36:31
Speaker 1: this weird illusion from the whole thing, so I can
1:36:34
Speaker 1: spew about it on bus with the boys.
1:36:36
Speaker 2: I think you're three nine because you don't have enough
1:36:38
Speaker 2: dudes doing splits that's what I think it is. Because
1:36:40
Speaker 2: this guy didn't play this year, right, So we'll see
1:36:42
Speaker 2: next year if these splits are what's going to save
1:36:44
Speaker 2: the save the day.
1:36:45
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, because if the split saved the day,
1:36:48
Speaker 1: man or I'm gonna learn how to do the splits
1:36:49
Speaker 1: and I'm going to recreate that photo for him. Well
1:36:52
Speaker 1: like JP, some be right in front of the bus,
1:36:54
Speaker 1: butt naked hitting the splits with the flag cover me
1:36:57
Speaker 1: up talking about it said a bigger, fast, stronger, bigger, faster,
1:37:01
Speaker 1: more mobile.
1:37:02
Speaker 2: M bigger, faster, wider.
1:37:05
Speaker 1: Well yeah, all.
1:37:12
Speaker 2: Right, that's what we got through more mobile. You want
1:37:16
Speaker 2: to wrap us up?
1:37:18
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