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Speaker 4: We are the week so as you guys are watching this or listening to this, we recorded this episode last week. We're also recording this intro from the previous week because the boys we are going to be on vacation. Oh, thank you guys for listening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll be up north, north of the Wall, North of the Wall.

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Speaker 4: You'll be down in Hawaii catching some rays, catching some sun.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully if I could, just if I could switch with you, I would.

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Speaker 4: So how did the Canada unfold?

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Speaker 1: I said, because at.

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Speaker 4: First it was Canada and then Canada was off right then you were talking try to find maybe some sunshine. Yeah, so wet a little sunshine vacation.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, we had that announcement on for the Dads that is also coming out this week. Oh yeah, yeah, you're on for the Dead Yeah yeah, I was on tomorrow tomorrow on for the debt by the way, plus for me, Yes, for the dad shout out PT. Six. All right, dude likes shock Wait taking place on for the dads. But I had myself a quick little announcement. And one of the things about that announcement that talents had going on is this little kind of like tear type thing that's not dangerous, but hey, if it gets worse than it could be dangerous, we're gonna take a little peak ski at that and make sure everything's good. So then it was are we gonna go to Canada because we bought a house in Canada December? First we closed for me, Okay, oh yeah, good app so far. I'm having a hell of a year vacation. So we were gonna go up, and then it seemed like maybe we couldn't. Then we got it checked. It's like, hey, you seem like you're in a good spot right now. And then with super Bowl week, it was like, maybe we just will drive somewhere and you know, take the easy way out of all these things, get back from super Bowl, and I tell Taylor, like, listen, anything the family wants to do. I'm down so much so that we actually looked up flights to Italy, Like that's how we were, like just trying to get somewhere, Iceland, Italy, somewhere my brain, you guys know, me. I'm always headed towards the warmth. How do I get warm in the winter time? That's kind of where my my, uh my brain kind of goes. But you know, as always keep looking at It's like, why don't we just get to Canada, get the house, get in the house for the first time, see your family, take the kids up to Big Bear or wherever it is. It's not Big Bear, it's some sort of mountain that kids can go skiing in. All stand there at the base and just be like cold, but like watching my kids and enjoying it a whole lot. So that's kind of God.

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Speaker 4: I'll go try a local craft right out there.

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Speaker 1: Just sit there, get myself a gym, beamon lemonade or something like that, pop it at Kevin's now Foods, and just chill. Sit back. Well, my kids learn new crafts in the snow, and they're like, Dad, you should do. It's like, honey, you guys. By the way, Jared Beeman sitting in for Miss Carson, and let's get him a round of applause. Dude's got crazy.

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Speaker 4: He produced for the Deads last week too, so we sat in and produced that as well.

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Speaker 1: What can't Jared Beeman, do it's funny.

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Speaker 4: Right before you gave me that shout out, I like cut to the wrong camera, to that empty chair, and then you're like, give it up for Jared.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I just fucked up good. But yeah, dude, So we ended up just booking a last minute flight to Canada. We're gonna go up there hang out. I'm fired up, dude, I'm fired up to go out there the cold. Not fired up about that? What were you pitching other destinations? Oh? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And then when it landed on When it landed on Canada, yeah, I'll bend the knee.

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Speaker 1: Here's how it started. I was like, man, I really I was like, we should have just gone up to Canada. And then Town was like, yeah, but the way your schedule worked and how you were talking, I'm like, I gotta sat back. She explained all the things I did wrong, and I go, so, you're telling me there's nothing you could have done differently in the situation. And then she started explaining. I was like, you're right, absolutely, it's one hundred percent on me, which it usually is. So then Canada's kind of off the table, but we've spoke about it for some reason. Cabo San Lucas is like not okay with kids, which I disagree with one hundred percent. Then I'm thinking about thirty eight. But the weather's not that great in thirty eight that I'm like, hey, Saint Bart's, we can just go there. That'd be sick to hit the islands a little bit, get a little tropical on them. That flight looked was like the same amount of time it would take to get to Canada. Then I'm like, yo, Italy, you've been wanting to go to Italy. I will just get on a plane and go to Italy Italy February. Yeah. So I started putting this into other four people this. I look at the price, I'm like, that's not bad. It's not bad for all four people. So I started like dialing it in. It's like, yo, first classes like this, like we're gonna be money going to Italy. Turns out that one price wasn't for four, it was per and then the price was over fifty thousand dollars. When I get to check out, I'm like, hey, Italy's off the table. We are one hundred percent not going to Italy Iceland. But those those direct flights on So how long were.

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Speaker 4: You thinking about going to Italy too, like Italy as well, Like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, when we were having this conversation, So my daughter, she's in piano class at a certain time and there's like a thirty minute break that she has an hour long songwriting class. So during the hour long song writing class on Monday, I'm just in the car of vegging out and I'm just like on the phone with Tailor and a Willow and we're just talking about what should we do. So this is the conversation took about an hour.

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Speaker 4: But I'm saying, I'm saying the duration of the of the trip. When are you getting back from Canada?

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Speaker 1: I'm getting back Friday the twentieth, And is that what it was like? That was Thursday back to the next Friday, back to the next Friday. Get in, get off, get out. If you're especially going to Italy. But I feel like eight days is solid, right, Yeah, eight days is solid about if you went over to Italy. Yeah, yeah, it all depends too, like how much you're trying to hit her what I forgot? You're like my idiot Italy. You're my idiot, You're double idiot, You're my Italy. Like if you're there, Yeah, if you're there. I forget how long we went. Was it two weeks? Was it ten days? I was something like that. I think it was just under two weeks. I don't want to say.

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Speaker 4: We hit like three different places. So you're going for eight days and you chose two spots that you wanted to hit, Like, yeah, that'd be more than enough.

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Speaker 1: Because Taylor, she's been in Italy a handful of times. Her best friend is like, her husband are off the boat Italy, so Taylor has like whatever connects in Italy to get to all these places. So we could just go and rip. But yeah, once I saw the price tag for a flying there, I'm like, this is not gonna happen. Yeah, not gonna happen. But we looked all over the place and it ended up on let's just deal with what we know, and that's Canada. Yeah, nor defend the wall, check out stick, my stick, my claim, look around a little bit, you know, Yeah, get behind the enemy line. Yeah, for the Olympic State play. My favorite thing to do when I'm in Canada with Talan's family is just talk about how great America is and then egg them on about becoming the fifty first state. Yeah, and then they talked to me about just play the hits and with the hits the best of soundtrack. What is that? Is that Japan? That's Japan? Yeah? Is that Mount Fuji and those are the cherry blossoms around it.

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Speaker 5: This is the largest amount of Americans to travel to Japan in the history of the world.

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Speaker 1: Was this year. Japan is like totally.

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Speaker 5: On the map now of Hey, where should we vacate? So I was just throwing it out there for you guys.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I do feel like Japan.

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Speaker 4: Has been hitting the headlines, been hitting the priory, the priorities.

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Speaker 1: You know what's crazy? When I googled the best what where is the best place to go this time of year in the world, it had like the sunny ones and it had the snow ones. I don't know where Japan's at, but Japan popped up and I in my brain like I went to the website and I was like popped in like BNA to it a Japan dot com, Japan dot org. Yeah, it was twenty three hours of flying and that quickly was that's we're out of here, dude, We're not doing that one. I didn't realize that. Yeah, So Japan dot com. We need direct we need direct flights, direct flights from being a check, I'll check out Japan show Japan dot com, bet us. But clean take, clean take, Yeah, that's beautiful. Warm weather vacation in the winter time is the move. That's a clean take. That's a clean take. That's a clean take. Right.

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Speaker 4: But also I would say, like snow spots in the wintertime, like if you want to go somewhere sick, I don't even know where. I'm saying that group of people too, I feel like that's a clean take for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're a snow person.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like if you want to get the slopes.

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Speaker 1: Right, everybody had, if everyone had Tao Lawan brain, clean take, got to get to the beach in the wintertime, yeah clean yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I'd rather be in the sun. Yeah. You get a pasty white, get a little gross looking. You can come back with like a nice pink hope. So I hope, so come back with a nice pink on you. It'll turn the brown about late fab Yeah, it'll maybe two weeks. Yep, yep, you'll hit. You'll hit the second week of March. You'll look the exactly like this again. But you have a nice little story arc taking place. It's but it happened with your skin, which is nice. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very excited, very excited flying out to the islands. Island one in the island. Yeah, I'm flying out to an island. But I'm saying islands because all the stuff going on right now in the world, you don't want to say, I'm flying to an island.

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Speaker 1: What island are you going to?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 1: I think the Big One? Gotcha?

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Speaker 4: I think the actual title ConA? Is that an island or is that a place?

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Speaker 1: I know ConA is a pepper song and that's a great song. So think about that. Did you tie did you type.

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Speaker 5: In the Big Island? Which is the island of Hawaii?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: See see if ConA is on that island.

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Speaker 1: Everybody Hawaii, Washington, Nationals, and Philly fans listening like, who the fuck are these guys right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like we said the year, the audience, we're getting smarter together this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're learning geographically.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what's step one is? So is it the island? The Big one? Big island for.

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Speaker 5: The Big Island is uh commonly known as the island of Hawaii.

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Speaker 4: But there is sure type in where is Conah, Hawaii? Not which island is the biggest in Hawaiian island chain?

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Speaker 1: How you feel right now, Sean, you're talking about which was the biggest island. He's misspelled a bunch of shit on this thing, which was Conah. It looks like ConA is down on the big one, the biggest. Yeah, Conah, which was the biggest. I don't know. I don't know because you hit Malli right last year.

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Speaker 4: Uh dude, I've hit I don't know this will be we don't know.

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Speaker 1: Ship dude, what fourth years? Fourth year going to Hawaii?

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Speaker 6: Fourth year in a.

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Speaker 1: Row to why third or fourth year? It's an absurd amount of times gorgeous.

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Speaker 4: Nont but like that's a lot of fun. Gotta go to l a X, sit there for what's the flight dation? What's the flight duration?

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Speaker 1: You know you've been there fourth I think it's like seven hours. That's not bad.

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Speaker 4: You're say flight time from which in Nashville to Kona to to to the big.

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Speaker 1: Island eleven and fourteen hours? Right? Because you said seven, Like it takes me seven to get to Kolowna, BC. Then I stop in Calgary or Seattle or Vancouver, and then I pop over. So it ain't no way. I'm getting to West Coast Canada and the same time you're getting to the big island Tona. Yeah, I'll have to do some math because usually just did it. I got I gotta do, I gotta do.

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Speaker 6: What is this, oh dad, West Coast Canada.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's direct, though I would love for Colonna in Nashville to have a direct I would salivate at the opportunity of that. Salivate. So you're there a lot, man, I'll be there back. I'll be back there in April for Easter. Oh really, yeah, dude, we just go.

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Speaker 4: Oh so for you to get up there, you're traveling nine or ten hours.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, seven thirteen is my timeline I will go in this trip, I'll go from Nashville to Vancouver, which is actually past Colonna, and then to Colonna, which is like a twenty five to three minute flight, but the layover yeah yeah, and then but usually it's the best. One is six forty five and it's Nashville to Calgary, Calgary to Coloonna. That's when you're that's when you're living nice. Got you, Yeah, got Calgary. Don't want to fuck around with good fight.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, we love we love Hawaii. We love getting out to Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: How many. Yeah, there's a little bit of suck.

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Speaker 4: With the travel, but it's like I've been the bor.

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Speaker 1: You've been all over the time. Yeah, I've been. We've been around the world. We travel around the world. Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 4: It's like there's like short term pain with the travel and every long term game yeah yeah, but being there it's magical.

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Speaker 1: And for Rude and s guy to sit there when they're, you know, in their twenties, they're on a date and they're talking to the individual about like what you do as kids, Like, oh, my my parents would take me to Hawaii every year. We would go fight to Hawaii. We go to Italy, we go to this Yeah, American Italy. We go to American Italy over and over and over again. Like that's kind of badass. Yeah, I could be like, where'd you go Canada? Yeah? Like four times a year? Yeah, four times, dude, we go to Canada all the time. It's like great Tales. Tales got family, she's close with them, yeah, yeah, she's And the thing about taylorm And I wish I possessed this ability, which is like checking in with people. I'm so bad at it. Like if I'm not, if you're not in my day to day life, I probably don't check on you very much at all. And when I see you, it's like I'm expecting us to pick up where we left off, or my cta brain decides we left off at But she she will call her family every single day. Grandpa, Grandpa, wins on there, Nana, Mom, Quinn. She's always talking to him. She's keeping up with the fan all day, every day.

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Speaker 6: Same.

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Speaker 1: You gotta love that. Yeah, my Verizon bill is crazy. But yeah, boys, you know you know I have been at two eighty eight last month. You know what I'm saying. You get me having that.

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Speaker 5: If you're trying to pregame Hawaii Will Chief of War is a really sick show. I feel like both of you guys would really enjoy it. It's a like period piece of Hawaii kind of breaking free of all of the tribes and trying to come under one king. It's like Game of Throne set and Hawaii.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's all you had to say, Game of Thrones of w.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I love you putting this wreck up. But I don't want you to give will any rex until he watches Entourage. Oh he's got away.

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Speaker 4: That's fair because I do want to WATCHOGE. It's like stuff gets in front of me or gets in the way and I see I see a photo.

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Speaker 1: Right, and you get excited. Yeah, since that's newer.

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Speaker 4: If I go on Apple Plus and see that, I'll bet Oh yeah, I gotta watch the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. S was saying, we got to watch the show. Have we have you guys seen Sopranos.

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Speaker 4: I've watched two seasons of Sopranos. Okay, I have now that last Cicico Sopranos Sicco last night.

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Speaker 1: Tell your dad this, Tell Billy this. Who's actually watching right now? I watched the finale of Sopranos last night, the last episode, and Buddy, it makes I think it makes the whole show worth it. People hate it, but apparently people hated it. You were telling me in San Francisco that people hated the I want to say.

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Speaker 4: My dad was felt a little.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get I get it on the phone with Bill if I can.

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Speaker 4: Remember right when him and my mom were watching the finale when it was airing. I remember coming out. I think I was probably playing like, you know, WWE or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, take a little body break, right.

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Speaker 4: And it seemed like they were kind of not in love with the finale.

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Speaker 1: And I know Bill and I think similarly, except for now that I have the power of like true Internet when this show came out. The show ends last night, and Taylor looks at me, he goes, do you get it? And I go, fuck, no, I don't get it? Like what what? Like that was terrible? Why would it end like that? Does that something to do with the gas station? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: No, is there like pulling up to a gas station or anything?

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Speaker 1: And then in the last episode there's a lot of pulling up to gas stations. But the last episode, the last remember that the last scene happens at a diner. It happens at a diner with his entire family. And I mean, you're probably never gonna watch the show, are you. Yeah, I'll probably watch it. You probably will watch You probably will watch Sapranos.

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Speaker 4: And it's definitely on a wave of it's slower.

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Speaker 1: It's a very slow movie now, and like but the ending, the end scene, like the last four minutes, you can feel the intensity because you know it's the last episode, you know what's happening. And then when the show just abruptly ends, you're like, why the fuck would you finish a show that people argue it's the greatest show of all time like this. And then I like, literally for the next twenty minutes, like on YouTube, listen to the director and the reason why he did it. And once he was putting the pieces together for me, I was like, Oh, that's an incredible ending of the show. That is amazing. What a way to end a show. Because I have my artistic brain couldn't fathom that is the final scene right there. And Buddy, it kind of rattled me where I had a harder time going to sleep that night, But you know how to bested. I get into things. Yeah, characters. Arthur Morgan was explaining Game of Thrown season eight. Oh yeah, you hated it. Yeah, I think everybody does. Really universe.

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Speaker 4: There might be somebody in the comments that says, oh, no, good and they might explain why, but they're wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Majority of people hated season eight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I I've always been a guy that has started Game of Thrones, but then I get three episodes in I'm like this is too much right now. A lot of different webs going on, Web's going on, and I learned more that like that web webs falter and break all the time, and then there's new webs that are coming in, and then everybody dies, and then nobody died, and then one person's alive, and then he dies, they die, she dies, whatever it is, it's pretty insane. It sounds pretty insane. But then I hear about season eight and I'm like, I don't even think I need to. And everybody hated the finale, then why would I watch that?

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Speaker 4: The only people I feel like might have enjoyed Season eight is if they watch it all the way through in succession, like you know, you know, you wait till all the seasons.

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Speaker 1: Come out and then watch it all the way through.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, which is because of the pain point where the I would say the majority hated it is the majority lived in that like two year pocket of Season eight being created with season because season six, Season seven, those finales, those seasons were awesome. There's so many theories and so many things to break down like that was one of the rare few times where I'm seeking out Reddit threads and other things breaking it down and talking about it, and all the callbacks and the pictures and people would circle circle, Oh, look at this from a from an aerial view, this is a sign that was in like this march that was happening just every you you went down every rabbit hole. Imagine on what we're about to see in season eight and then for go the way it did.

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Speaker 1: No real fight with the Night.

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Speaker 4: King between John Snow and the Night King, they sit there and stare at each other and you're like, this is the battle, and then the fucking Night King raises. There's a billion fucking white Walkers and somehow, you know, everybody in the castle is surviving.

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Speaker 1: And kind of defeating them. And then the Night King dying just.

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Speaker 4: From what's her name, Aria, just from Aria coming out of know where.

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Speaker 1: It's stabbing them. So we're just doing we're giving all of it away.

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Speaker 4: Well, Game of Thrones, Like that's like you haven't watched it by now, Like that's not.

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Speaker 1: Were you wanting to watch it. It's always on my brain too, Hey, if I should watch a show, should I put Game of Thrones on? That being said, spoilers don't ruin my dad.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And even when you get there, like It's like you won't remember all of this happening, but when it does, you be oh, yeah, now I see why.

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Speaker 1: Then this Now that you've explained to me the finale of Thrones, can I explain to you the finale Sopranos? You get is there? And I want to ask this too. I always kind of sitting there and I was like, do you.

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Speaker 4: Is there's a part of me in there a movie that got made that kind of showed the back part of that last episode of Sopranos, Because I want to say, I feel like I've seen this that you're talking about where they're in the where they're in the restaurant. Yeah, for some reason, I feel like I've seen it, and if not, like I'm sure i've seen.

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Speaker 1: It on the internet. Is there? Because I was talking to Dave Lwan and he was saying, a wise guy, David chasing the Sopranos.

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Speaker 5: That's a finale that covers like the making of Sopranos will but I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: There's something where I feel like I've seen this scene that Taylor's talking about, And then when you brought the picture, I remember I've seen this scene somewhere and there's so many clips. Everybody uses so many clips and sopranos. You feel like you've kind of seen a lot of the show. You just don't know what order it's all in.

00:22:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the show is like it's twenty one episodes of season and every episode is like an hour long, Like you're really you got to put in time to watch the show. And you get to the finale and Taylor, she says she's already seen the finale, like she already knew what the found I was. So I'm kind of going into a blind while she knows. So I'm gonna tell you now if that's okay, go ahead, all right. So in the show, basically before they go into the diner, this this ending scene like his son's having issues, but his son kind of like writes his issues and he seems like he's in a good track. His daughter, he didn't agree with what she was doing, but then they have a dinner and he's like proud of where she's going. Carmela, his wife, they seem like they're in a really good spot. So you feel as things are going into this last scene that like, oh, this is now a change that's happening, a new season of life. Is taking place for the Soprano family. Instead of having dinner, which Carmela always cooks, they are going out for dinner because she just want to cook that night. They sit there and there's this whole thing about he's there by himself alone first, and he's sitting at this diner and he looks up every time the door opens. There's like a little bell, like old nineties bell, and he would look up and different characters would walk in. Not you would know, but like races, ethnicities, people just walking in. And his wife walks in, he sees her. They have they exchange menus or whatever. And there's a guy sitting at the bar, and then his son comes in. He's like, hey, where's meadow? At Meadow is his daughter, and it kind of cuts the meadows. She's trying to parallel park right outside the street, and she's like not getting it right. And every once in a while will cut back and forth or having like a little you know, back and forth conversation, whether it's like regarding the onion rings or regard like aj and what he's gonna do. And the guy at the bar gets up and walks to the bathroom. My brain goes to that's a Godfather type of situation, which is like, hey, leave the gun, take the Canoli type of situation. Right, he goes away, and like you see Soprano kind of look and maybe your brain's like does he recognize this guy? Does he not? But the visual of this man, You're like, I could see this guy being in the mafia based on everything I've watched these six seasons. And then Meadow finally like parks the car and he hears the bell, he hears the door open and the bell ring, and he looks up shows over cuts the black and you're just sitting there like as I'm like that, I'm like, my mouth's open, and it's like counting down Big Bang Theory or The Big Bang Theory show Season one, episode one. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's done. That's just it. That's the end. And then kind of raises out of bed. She goes, do you get it? I'm like, no, I don't fucking get it. Like what happens? And then we start talking about I go down the YouTube and throughout the show, Soprano's asked Tony Soprano, He's asked, like what is it like when you die? What do you think it's like when you're when you finally get taken. He's like, I think everything just goes black. Like I don't know, I don't really believe in nothing. I just, you know, I think everything goes black. So the idea was he got killed, he got assassinated, and it's up to the viewer to think about what happens after, because you see people in the show get killed in front of their wives, in front of their children. You see their reaction and you're just left wondering to yourself, like how did Carmela, Meadow and aj react to all this? Because before this all goes down, this guy named Phil who's like the mafia guy in New York. He's trying to kill Soprano and kills like his two number one guys, or puts one guy in the hospital, kills another one, and so they're kind of on the run. They have a secret meeting between families and they shake hands and that the guy who's the right hand man of Phil, who's the New York mob boss. He's like, I can't tell you where he is, but you do what you gotta do, Like we need to make sure this is all over. They end up killing Phil at a gas station, and you're like, oh, Soprano's gonna win this thing, Like he's gonna become like the next Dawn. You know, it's the last episodes. You're not gonna know how it happens, but you think, Okay, he's in a great spot and then cuts the black and it leaves you just wondering, like, oh, the last thing Tony Sprando saw was his daughter walking through the door, and then what was his daughter's reaction? What was all that? And I'm laying in bed trying to fall asleep right after that, like this is fucking up my day a little bit.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a sign of finale.

00:26:34
Speaker 1: That's a good finale.

00:26:35
Speaker 5: You're like visceral reaction, Like that is a sign.

00:26:39
Speaker 1: And dude, when I was watching something on the director I was watching, I hated it at first, and then I watched like the director and he's like the idea of it is he yes, he was assassinated, he was killed, but like if that finale left you feeling like confuse, angry, empathetic towards the family, which were all the things out was feeling in the moment, He's like then I did my job. That's what I wanted the viewer to feel. And then it's up to you. It's up to you, the viewer, to decide what happened next. It's like fuck Art, Yeah, Art's crazy.

00:27:13
Speaker 4: Or he just silver tongued it to where you're like, oh, yeah, I guess I felt all those emotions.

00:27:18
Speaker 1: He just said that. I had no doubt. But you know how I work. If you could silver tongue me into bed. But if you.

00:27:22
Speaker 4: Hated season eighty Game of Thrones and you had this massive, you know, emotional reaction of anger and disgust and confusion, then I did my job as a writer.

00:27:32
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:27:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're sitting there watching the YouTube. Okay, yeah, I guess it was. I guess it was brilliant.

00:27:38
Speaker 1: Hey, he's silver tongue me into hating it. Now, that's what's happening right now. Because you're right, so any joy you could be like, if you felt these things, I did my job. And it's like, yeah, you just say all the emotions, the core four emotions. He's like, yeah, I did my job. You're like, oh, I guess I didn't feel all of those things. Confused, confused, if you're angry, at labeling every happy. It's like, I kind of get're hungry. Yeah, if you get hungry in the next twenty four hours, if you set up and looked over at your life wife and said, what the fuck was that? I did my job. Yeah, it's exactly what I wanted you to do. Oh shit, he got me.

00:28:14
Speaker 5: A football coach has to do that after a really bad loss, extremely bad loss. Can you explain that loss? Hey, if the fans just like they feel like they don't want to be a fan anymore, they don't want to show up anymore. They're confused, they're crying their sound.

00:28:28
Speaker 4: They go, didn't make the right calls.

00:28:29
Speaker 1: I did my job.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: They felt like we were predictable. We're doing our job.

00:28:32
Speaker 1: We're doing our job. Shit. But yeah, it was extended. Hey, he's playing chess on us. Yeah. Yeah, that's so funny. It brings up the Yeah, if I would have just said X, Y, and Z, I'm like, yeah, I bought it, and I'm buying what will say? I'm now I'm back the fuck that's a part of us finale.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: I do because I'm with you, Like I haven't seen it, by the way, so I'm just literally assuming. But I would like if he does get if he does get off, I would want that to happen, and then I would want to see the reactions.

00:29:00
Speaker 1: Right, the family losing their mind where they put a bow on it. Right, there's no bow, not just like mystery. All right, we ran out of budget. So did you like it? Did you like the movie Inception? I kind of can't remember Inception. The movie is when you go in a dream within a dream dream, but the last scene so he's always finally looking at his kids the whole entire time, and the last scene of the movie, he spins his drader or whatever the hell it is, this little thing that tells him whether he's in a dream or not, because if it wobbles, he's not in a dream. If it stays up and doesn't move, he is in a dream. But he spins it, and he hears one of his kids go Daddy, and he looks up and he walks away, and you just see the thing the end scene, it goes slowly down to the drader or whatever it is, and uh, it kind of like does this, But then the movie cuts off and it's over, so it leaves you the viewer wondering, like, is he in a dream? Is it real? Was his psychotic wife? Was she right and she was in a dream she had to kill herself in order to get out of the dream. Or was he correct and he finally got home, got to America all the things and saw what that you're in? Right? Are you in the reality dream or you in this dream drip?

00:30:02
Speaker 4: I would say that is the difference there is the movie being inception and the whole concept of it being that. That's where it's like it could be left up for interpretation, whereas the Sopranos, it's such a.

00:30:12
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, dude, Will took Alpha brain to day because the way the way he's taking these questions and be like, yeah, well we don't know, like he's just answering, and I'm like, fuck, he's right, man. The concept of the movie is to make you question thinks. Sopranos, the concept is not the question that just to have like the it's right, it's a game. Yeah, I gotta watch shows with this man. Dude, he's fucking he took would you take Alpha Black or whatever the fuck it's called.

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00:30:44
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00:31:29
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00:33:45
Speaker 1: People love it.

00:33:46
Speaker 4: You've been loving I've been seeing the people love the fart. Everybody a great fart.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this man. Will didn't have stinky farts for whatever reason, that one was ranted and I was in a position of discomfort for all. Yeah, I do apology, guys about still funny because it's hard to laugh and it was stuffy and then yeah it was stuffy. I go for the big inhale for my laugh and it's all poop. Yeah, yeah, it's poop in my mouth. Christian McCaffrey chasing the chasing the edge, chasing one percent, fighting being white, that's what he's doing. He's fighting. He's fighting the process of becoming white because he's doing a great job. But at some point, like it's not gonna be father time. That gets Christian McCaffrey. It's gonna being white that gets Christi McCaffrey.

00:34:25
Speaker 4: I love how he keeps chasing edges though, keep chasing it. Shout out, no for shout out to chasing the edges. Yeah, it's a clean take.

00:34:31
Speaker 1: I thought I handled the power playing questions pretty well too.

00:34:34
Speaker 5: That's why I was gonna ask was there was there any like off camera conversations like does it does the rabbit hole get deeper?

00:34:42
Speaker 1: I'll say this, do you mind?

00:34:43
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I'll say this, but go ahead, I'll say this.

00:34:46
Speaker 1: Say it. Conversations always happen after podcasts, but that's why they happened after podcasts. Yeah, right, yep, he's that Kevin's Food clean take. That's clean take, clean take. If someone tells you something in confidence, you keep it to yourself.

00:35:03
Speaker 4: Kim's Natural Foods clean take. These conversations that happened post pod are with Kevin's Natral Foods, And then when you're eating Kevin'satril beause you can't help to feel a little bit more authentic and dive a little deeper into the clean take.

00:35:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, clean clean. I'll also say this.

00:35:19
Speaker 4: You sit there listen to to see them see break down everything he does, whether it be in training, diet, chase it, chasing every edge that he talked about whether it's grounding, hot, cold, therapy, all the things, timing of the day, everything. You know that that group of boys is on to the to the power station, clean, tag clean, and then that's not speaking for him. I'm just saying, like if we were in that forty nine locker room in those parts that we're talking about with bulletproof and every bulletproof coffee and all the edges that we chase, the minute that starts to gain traction and make noise, us guys like in our groups, we're excited about that because that's something that we would sit there and be talking about without question.

00:36:03
Speaker 1: Once it gains traction publicly, we're like, thank god, it's finally being talked about because we have felt X, Y, and Z because of the one percent chase. Yeah, and that's how you and I would be not saying Christians like that, just you and I.

00:36:15
Speaker 4: Right right, Well, we're speaking for ourselves, speaking for ourselves because we dive into it a lot too with Bryce All Yeah, and like with pep tides and everything else, we dive into that conversation the one percent. Why wouldn't owners want to pay or make this stuff? I legalize And it's like well, on the counter side of it, if your best athletes are going in the second contract, third contract, where the money is exponentially higher, they wouldn't want you to reach those deals. They want you to Yeah, they want to win the championship, but they also don't want to pay you money.

00:36:43
Speaker 1: They want to find bigger, younger, faster.

00:36:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, they wouldn't want all the money going into we're talking about the Niners, so just using that example, but into like CMC George.

00:36:53
Speaker 1: They want them to have.

00:36:53
Speaker 4: As long a career as possible, but they don't want them to have every edge in the world that makes them play for twenty years because that amount of money. When they're re upping and getting new deals, they want to find the next generation of George's and Christians because there's yeah, they're cheaper, right, you got them on their rookie deal.

00:37:09
Speaker 1: You you are once again handling business the correct way. But Bryce, Yeah, the Peptide Game, the BPC one seven, the TV five hundred, all those things like, yeah, gotta get those into sports, Gotta get those in.

00:37:20
Speaker 4: I think TV five hundred has been something that's been uh I don't know enough about it. I just know the lore of TV five hundred was almost like the peptide for like racehorses, and so that's that's always been on the list. But the new wave of peptides, I don't think anad's on the list.

00:37:35
Speaker 1: I think you can do anything. You're right. I'm speaking in the fact of like, uh, just bio hacking and yeah, optimizing your entire body needs to be something like a promoted situation for athletes as opposed to being like, oh, you're you're seeing a peptide, and peptide has this blank like that's you shouldn't do peptides.

00:37:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and peptide being like almost coexisting with ped and steroids and everything else. It's like all this stuff that has all this data backed research is coming out through a lot of different people. With the health three point oh wave. It's like a lot of these things that help you with longevity of life should not be seen as like some performance enhancing drug in sport.

00:38:10
Speaker 1: Yes, we are gonna cook him. Now we are cooking, but I do have to leave. You gotta leave. I don't want to have so much I want to have so much more fun. I just got this thing to do that will be announced on for the dads and I gotta get to it. I have to Okay, yeah, so I have to go. I have to go.

00:38:27
Speaker 4: Like there's a mouse in the office, Sherman. The team's gonna get it. They've been around the wheel of cheese. That of cheese, that clay matth cat.

00:38:34
Speaker 1: Should we get an office cat?

00:38:36
Speaker 6: Should we can bring his biscuits up here?

00:38:38
Speaker 1: Should we get an office cat? We should?

00:38:39
Speaker 5: The mouse is currently in the stream room. Office cat can live in the stream room. We get a nice little tower.

00:38:44
Speaker 1: Would you be down to get an office cat?

00:38:46
Speaker 4: An office cat?

00:38:46
Speaker 1: Like an animal like yep, yep, yes, felon yep, yes, Well he was on fire before too, and he fucking lost it. He lost it. A ranch at the we want to have a pet animal around the here at the ranch, we would have barn cats, like we'd have They have three barns on our ranch, and we would have three cats and they would catch all the rodents and everything and just kill him. They just bring him to your doorstep. Look what I did for you. He and they just live, bro, They just live. I'll go to pet Smart today and go get the cat out. Hey, listen, we know how it works. He starts at now we'll get him to guess right now is not going to be the g s that we want. Hey, I got recommendations on AutoMac liter First off, thirty animals running. I'd be pissed off because now I have thirty animals in my house and I'm like, why the fuck did I do this? And we realized like half of these things millionaires.

00:39:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like hamsters and gerbils and everything.

00:39:41
Speaker 1: I got you.

00:39:42
Speaker 4: You had a rat craze there for a second.

00:39:43
Speaker 1: Well, when I was a kid, Yeah, love, I had a right dam queezer be a rat, a rat queezer, it'd be Quezer Queezer. Yeah, he's actually saved. I saved him. He died. I cried for like three months. I love them saved him. I saved him from being a snake snake food I was I was at I was at a pet cow or a pet smart and a guy pulled it out and I'm like, what are you doing that? And he's like, I'm gonna feed this to my snake. I was like, not this one. And I bought it and it was like three eighty five. It was like three dollars eighty five cents bought him, took him, dude, this rat would live with me. No rat, true rat would follow me. I'd put him on the ground, he'd scamper across. I've told the story too many times. He would sleep on the pillow next to me. At night, we'd watch movies. He'd sit there, steer at the TV and eat a half eat and grape. That's how me and queens were operated. Every day together, he would I would walk, he be on my shoulder. I was like, I was like the birdman of this rat. Dude, I was ratman, Yeah, exactly, except my rat was a pure, pure rat. He wasn't a piece of shit, dude. No, he wasn't those boilers, those spoilers. But he would never work for the dark lord. He would never work for the dude. You're more ratitude, Yes, dude. I woke up one day. I'll put a bow on this and I gotta fucking go. I woke up one day. I get him out of his cage. He's bleeding out of his bum. I'm like, oh no, I'm in Loomis, California with my grandmother. We go to the vet. The vet goes he's got an issue. Internally. I was too young to know the exact words, it's going me two thousand dollars to operate on this rat. I look at my grandma and go all right, like right, we're gonna get this done. Yeah, and she goes, I'm not spending two thousand dollars to fix a rat on a three dollar Rat'm not doing that. So with they euthanized his ass. Oh not, fuck you, Glinda, and we I remember my mom calls me and I'm holding the now hardened rat, No, who's in my hand? And my mom was like, heyday like house quezy. I was like, well, I'm holding him right now, and he was dead and we buried him under her tree. And I did not recover from that, no joke years. I'm thirty four and I'm still feeling affected by it right now, that rat.

00:41:55
Speaker 4: Now that you're bringing it up in the full story, I'm sure you are feeling.

00:41:58
Speaker 1: I was fucked. Yeah, it was really sad. It was a very hard time in my life too, a very difficult time in that rat. It was a good boy. He didn't save it, man like that. One't like that.

00:42:06
Speaker 4: But yeah, Kevin's I was all right, clean take Kevin's nentral food, clean Take, having very fond memories of your old pets.

00:42:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, that's a clean tay. He's the bulletproof is back in. Had a bit of a relapse for a second. You guys talking about a cat like yeah, yep, like an animal? Yes, will that being said, and we should have an animal. Let us know in the comments if we should have an office cat for the rodents. We need to know. We will take your pull very seriously. We will take it very seriously and enjoy.

00:42:38
Speaker 4: Barce Harper, I gotta go, you can go. But to address a top priority for the audience out there listening. Now that we are in week one outside of essentially the Super Bowl, we're done with the season. So we get the review recap, do all the things dive in. We will be cutting down automated ads on Spotify, in audio, pat well, we'll.

00:42:56
Speaker 1: Be doing that.

00:42:56
Speaker 4: We will do we will be doing that.

00:42:58
Speaker 1: We will swing it whoever.

00:42:59
Speaker 4: We get a lot, We get a lot of counsel, We get a lot of advice, we get a lot of suggestions. But over and over, especially after the variable win and a couple of people came up to me at the Super Bowl, people that I respect in the industry, talking about so many as I'm like, dog, I keep seeing that, I keep reading it, and when I pop on the episode, you were right, You're right. So we will get that shit corrected. We gotta get it correct for the audience.

00:43:20
Speaker 1: Who needs money, not us. That's a lot. Bryce Harper's also yes, I'll tell you what I say from now.

00:43:29
Speaker 4: Bryce Harper is an incredible interview and just I don't think we understand even sitting here with him, Like I was going back and we're having dinner last night, and I was kind of telling Charles how awesome the interview was and everything else, and You're kind of just sitting there. It's like, Yo, this dude was in such a different world. He's kind of like he was kind of like a I hate saying it because it feels kind of like I don't even know, but he felt like it was a child superstar based on his upbringing and life just in the major leagues, being coined as already the next like Babe Ruth, Aaron Hanks, just all the big dogs. It's gonna be the greatest baseball player to ever live as a teenager to when he gets he leaves high school in the middle of high school, just imagine that and you have cameras in your face right away at that age with the expectation because he talks about, you know, he talked about thoughts of you know, wanting to stop after his fall season the first time he.

00:44:18
Speaker 1: Was in Jujo.

00:44:20
Speaker 4: We dive into all of it. It's a it's a really cool interview. But I sit there and I'm like, yo, he ripped bro. Yeah, he was awesome, and it's just nuts to think about. Yeah, he's like he was like a prodigy type baseball player coming up.

00:44:33
Speaker 1: And the thing that when people are in the limelight at such a young age, it's very easy to think, Okay, this person is like away from reality a little bit. Yeah, this dude sat down. He was a bro immediately, Like he even without having two years of the social experience of high school. He was extremely engaging. He was great to the boys. He's just like you cou'd be like, oh, this dude's been our friend for a while. Yeah, yeah, a friend of the show, friend friend of the show.

00:44:57
Speaker 4: When he dapped me up, first thing, he says like, I'm surprised you got to driveway just knowing like he's a boy, like he's a fan of busts and content and everything else. I was just like, oh, but it's it's fascinating to me because you talk about the social life stuff, like I wonder at what age it started for him because we didn't ask that question, but just assuming like his social his social stuff was just blown up from the get go. Absolutely, whenever he's taking the mount and people are identifying like hey, he's got that and selling out crowds at Juco and everything else, Like I would assume every kid who played against them and they're like, oh, that's fucking that's the one.

00:45:30
Speaker 1: There's guys that are and on those guys are like, fuck this guy, I'm just as good as him. Yeah, everybody's best shot. Yeah. Time, Can I say one thing? I gotta go. I gotta go.

00:45:42
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00:47:35
Speaker 1: Find a store near you. Let's dive in to this Bryce Harper interview, brought to us by the cold iced bud Light. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. We have a very special guest, a man who resides in Nashville, Tennessee. He's an eight time All Star, two time nl MVP, twenty twelve Rookie of the Year, four time Silver Slugger, can't wait to figure out what all those things I mean during this podcast, signed a three hundred away stick with me three hundred and thirty million dollar contra with the Phillies that runs through twenty thirty one. Please, ladies and gentlemen, give a rondo aplause for the one, the only Bryce Harper. Yeah, byso worth fired enough to have you on. Let me just tell a quick story how we got connected. Gentlemen goes, Hey, I'm boys or Bryce. You were doing like a celebrity softball thing for coach V. He's like, you should connect to get guys, get you on the podcast. We start going for a little bit and I'm like, hey, yeah, we should absolutely get you on. All of a sudden, you get busy. I don't hear anything from you. Clamp my boy over here, who's a huge Bryce Harper's fasay, hey, what's going on with Arper? I'm I think it's just not happening. I think it's like over now. Check in last week before we go to the super Bowl, you hit me up. You're like, hey, I have two weeks. Do you want to do the show or not? And I'm like, yeah, oh yeah, okay, yeah we could absolutely do the show.

00:48:50
Speaker 4: He's seeing the same thing. Tale hasn't followed up like you're doing.

00:48:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it probably if I wanted to look back at those tacks, I think history has shown it probably was on me a little bit terrible. So I'm like, hey, we can hit Monday eleven am. What do you think Let's lock it in, And sure enough the boys shows up. So it's a big time of you. Man.

00:49:05
Speaker 6: I appreciate you guys coming in. I know it's an off there.

00:49:07
Speaker 1: For you guys.

00:49:08
Speaker 6: So yeah, super Bowl weekend, all that kind of stuff.

00:49:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're about to hit a little little break and we'll take a little vacation. Was going to Hawaii, but they've been talking to one of the one of the make sure that the mainland maybe okay, but they're talking about storms happening be the Buffalo.

00:49:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you gotta run towards the storm.

00:49:29
Speaker 6: Kawhi really good.

00:49:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, cool fun fact. Bryce and I we used to run the city of Washington back in like twenty twelve. You guys just passed across no no.

00:49:45
Speaker 1: Spots, mafia family.

00:49:47
Speaker 4: His team kept reaching out, my guys. I gotta focus on football. Yeah, I gotta get off this practice school.

00:49:52
Speaker 6: They I was a Dallas fan growing up, they hated me even more the same same.

00:49:57
Speaker 4: I remember when I was on Peace squad and we were knocked out of it, and I'm like, rooting for Dallas. There's a couple of times I'm rooting for Dallas against US. Crazy to say, but this.

00:50:05
Speaker 1: Is before when you were playing, not when I was playing playing, but when I was when I was on Peace squad. And then the next.

00:50:13
Speaker 4: Year I only played like three games. I spot started like three games due to injury, and we weren't in the playoffs. That was the year des Bryant Did he catch it?

00:50:21
Speaker 1: But I'm like hoping, did you catch it? He caught it?

00:50:24
Speaker 4: Last game of the year is against US, and I'm like, Okay, I'm glad they beat it because they need momentum going into the playoffs.

00:50:30
Speaker 1: Is what I'm like.

00:50:31
Speaker 4: My the little kid fan of me is thinking like as we lost that game.

00:50:34
Speaker 1: So the first time he saw the Dallas Star on the field.

00:50:37
Speaker 4: It was incredible. First time playing playing in Dallas and seeing the star and seeing everything, Jerry's world, all of it. I'm like, this is all times. This is a big time.

00:50:47
Speaker 6: I've never seen it. My dad grew up big Dallas guy. Obviously we're huge Eagles now, just because I'm in Philly and I know the guys in I root for him and stuff. But my daddy grew up I'm all those guys. Yeah. The commentary on Netflix was sick.

00:51:01
Speaker 1: That's what he was. Haven't seen really good?

00:51:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, this whole story like kind of you understand the madness of it all.

00:51:06
Speaker 4: When we were at a we were at sam Coom and I got to meet him at Smith and I'm like, maybe I wasn't fumbling over my words, but I'm thinking that I am because I'm nervous to meet him and just trying to tell him how much he meant to me.

00:51:18
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know you've heard it all the time. This probably means nothing to you.

00:51:20
Speaker 4: But I pretended to be you out in the backyard with my dad and was telling him all this stuff.

00:51:24
Speaker 1: Was super nervous. But meeting him at Smith bro unreal. Yeah, he's great, dude, tool yourself well. In that situation, I was right there watching, Hey, if you ever come to Nashville, I'd love to have you. Hey, he started talking about Nashville. He started to get a little too excited, about now. Yeah, Okay, he was really he was like having flashbacks like PTSD war veteran flashbacks. I'm thinking like, oh god, this yeah, dude. Obviously the NFL, the Eagles, the fan base is insane. Is that bleeding over the Phillies as well? Like do you have the craziest fan base of all time there? Yeah?

00:51:56
Speaker 6: I mean it's uh, it's such a great city to play in. Obviously, it's a really hard to play in for a lot of people. And if you're not ready to play there, then don't come because yeah, because I mean it can it can you know, chew you up and spitch you out real quick. Obviously they're very passionate and they work hard for for their hard earned dollars. So when they come and buy a ticket force each night, if that's you know, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, like they want you to go out there and give it your all, no excuses or anything else like that. So I love that. I mean obviously I kind of feel like I grew up like that my dad. No excuses, Like we out play your game. It doesn't matter how you're feeling or what's going on. Just play hard and have fun. But I love playing there just for the fan base and knowing that they're gonna, you know, kill force each night. They want to beat up the other team more than us.

00:52:41
Speaker 1: So yeah, do you think early in your career you would have been able to handle it as well as you are now?

00:52:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean DC was such a different vibe, you know, I think it it's just different. I mean, I think each fan base is different. So when you understand what Philly is all about, I mean, if you think about New York, Boston, Philly, like just the the big places like that that fans really show up each night, understand it. They live and die by, you know, if their team wins or not. When you kind of understand it in that perspective, like, Okay, you know, I'm all about it. I understand it. DC is just different. It's just it's just different, you know. I mean it was it was just a different spot comparative to what what Philly is. And I love it. I've I've I've said this numerous times. I wish I would have started my my career there just because of the way it was. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Banya is like all these guys just that whole era of Philly's baseball was was really cool and just seeing kind of the fans rally behind them, and you know, as as an opposing player going in there, there was there was nothing like it.

00:53:50
Speaker 4: It was always fun going to those Caps games when they were in the playoffs for sure, before getting all the baseball, because the bust with the boys, we're known for. We're known for baseball. The substance, Yeah.

00:54:01
Speaker 1: We had. I mean we've had some people on one. I've le had anybody else other than coach b I don't think any baseball guys ever. No, because you said my first love was baseball, Like I was a kid. Silver Hawks you know might not in Arizona, right, Arizona big baseball stay, but you quit baseball. I was scared of getting hair, he said. I grew up love. I know, Like that was like that was the I had the Luiscans. I had the Luiskans all a stance because I mean that's when the Backs won it and you like step into the ball. I would just keep my leg out there. I was so afraid of getting hit. That's why I quit football when I was little. That's why I quit hockey when I was little. It was just scared. I don't know what my question was going to be.

00:54:48
Speaker 6: Because you get a round on my break, guys come in they're like, no, I ain't trying to get hit, but but I'm like guy coming over the middle, like you know, I.

00:54:58
Speaker 1: Got that little ball just ripping miles an hour. I mean I got hit.

00:55:02
Speaker 6: I got hit in the face, shoot four years ago and with ninety eight just bang, And it was one of the probably scariest moment on a baseball field I've ever had. And it took me a minutes to come back. But like I don't know, like just coming across and ray lewis just absolutely dominating me, Like I don't I don't want no part of that.

00:55:19
Speaker 1: I mean I've been dominated on a football field as well. That's no fun. But something about you, like, yeah, it's the little ball, Yeah, just cruising in there and it does all these weird movements. I can Yeah, what was.

00:55:29
Speaker 4: Going through your mind when you got rocked in the face sleeping Like you.

00:55:34
Speaker 1: Know, I'm still there, So that was the biggest thing.

00:55:37
Speaker 6: So like I I went to the ground and I pressed on my face as hard as I could just to see like it was broken and it wasn't. And I mean I definitely had a guardian angel over me because there's no chance. Like I mean, I've seen guys get hit and just their faces gone, you know, like surgery here, surgery there. I was I had nothing.

00:55:53
Speaker 4: Is that one where you're like you hit up the picture or something You're like, yeah, what the fuck was that?

00:55:56
Speaker 6: I actually felt back for him. He was a rookie and it kind of just got away from I think he was in year two maybe, but I actually texted their head, their manager at the time. It was like, hey, like tell him, don't worry about it, Like it's not a big deal. I don't want this to like ruin him or mentally like mess him up or anything. I really felt bad for him at the time, just I mean, obviously it suck getting hit in the face, but I was kind of worried about him, just because I didn't want that to kind of determine like the rest of his career, you know what I'm saying. Sales he smokes Bryce Harper, Yeah, no, and the problem was too, he smoked the next guy too, so he was I mean, the game just sped up on him a little bit, and they just got kind of crazy for him.

00:56:33
Speaker 1: So kid got rattled a little bit.

00:56:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's still pitching now. He's actually with the Phillies now, so he really we just signed him, I think to him.

00:56:40
Speaker 1: Have you talked to him about it?

00:56:41
Speaker 6: I haven't.

00:56:41
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, yeah, that would be a fun conversation. Good to see man, You see him still very handsome.

00:56:47
Speaker 6: Thank you for I'm still here man.

00:56:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt being in Nashville. Here's here's Yeah, you're gonna want this dove right here.

00:56:56
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you were saying we're not gonna talk about baseball because.

00:57:01
Speaker 4: There's been some opinions on in busting in recent weeks about Mexican food, food scene restaurants. So started the first question, what is your opinion of the food scene in Nashville.

00:57:15
Speaker 6: I think it's okay, I mean it's not.

00:57:18
Speaker 1: It's not bad. He didn't say bad. Yeah, you're right, and I think it's good. I fall him back on that that opinion, that opinion of mine was a too strong opinion. You like, you're talking to the boys and you're on the Walkers and you're like, oh I'm wrong. Yeah yeah, Now I'm like, okay, I could see what we're saying bad is not that's not when Nashville's Nashville has definite blind spots.

00:57:36
Speaker 6: I won't say bad. I mean I think it's okay.

00:57:38
Speaker 1: Like I've been.

00:57:39
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously, we've all traveled around the country, Like I would say, there's probably better, Yeah, in San fran Was I mean San Francs, Scottsdale, La, Miami, New York, Philly. I mean, Philly's got one of the best food scenes in America.

00:57:53
Speaker 4: You get around and eatd a bunch of restaurants in Scottsdale.

00:57:57
Speaker 6: I mean when I'm out there, Yeah, because they induced you've been changing. Yeah, but like I mean just traveling out there and playing and stuff.

00:58:03
Speaker 1: Right, So, but you've you've spent some time in Scottsdale, Yeah, eating food? Yeah, I like it. Well, if I said the name zips to.

00:58:09
Speaker 6: You, yeah, I'm sorry, man, I.

00:58:13
Speaker 1: Mean, how far are we into this podcast?

00:58:15
Speaker 4: Hey, Taylor, It's not even close, dude, even close. He's got a couple more. Do you think that you can find good food in Mexican food in Nashville?

00:58:23
Speaker 6: In Nashville, I think there's one place that I've been to and I had it last night for the Super Bowl but like I mean, it was Bria tacos, and I thought they were very very good.

00:58:31
Speaker 1: You know the name of the spot, it's in.

00:58:33
Speaker 6: The Gulch and there they had a truck in East. I can't on the top of my head because I mean, it was the first time yesterday having it. One of my buddies ordered it for us.

00:58:40
Speaker 1: Look up Gulch Mexican food spot.

00:58:42
Speaker 4: He talked about some of the best he's ever had.

00:58:45
Speaker 6: No, it was that it used to be a tortilla factory and now he changed it into a restaurant. The ones kind of white tablecloth a little bit, I think, they said. And then the truck in the east was really good, they said, But I think they're Michelin recommended.

00:58:56
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Michigan. Michelin recommended Mexican food to me.

00:59:00
Speaker 6: It doesn't I agree to get I agree, I agree, but like this wasn't like so this wasn't like sit down like white table like they have that type of restaurant, or like they have like a steak there or like mole or whatever all that kind of stuff. But the Bree tacos were top notch. Okay, yeah, very.

00:59:20
Speaker 1: Good if you're looking to that beloved restaurant.

00:59:24
Speaker 6: Whatever he thinks about Noko, right, And I don't like beloved restaurant.

00:59:27
Speaker 1: I don't like that's what the boys is. Noco.

00:59:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, partner of case, very good, but the Noco, like everybody's on Noko and I'm just not.

00:59:34
Speaker 1: You're like, no, it's overrated and just Soko is the East Nashville on the curve that JP is talking about, right, Yes, I don't want.

00:59:42
Speaker 6: I don't want to piss people off in Nashville yet because I've only been here for freaking months.

00:59:46
Speaker 1: I mean they shouldn't get mad. Just like give you an opportunity to like, Hey, let's city in America for food? You think, dude, I see, here's my I have opinions like Nashville and there's blind spots of food.

00:59:59
Speaker 6: But I'm not like a like I'm from Vegas, born and raised and like it's decent, okay because people people.

01:00:05
Speaker 1: Got some good food.

01:00:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like you're talking about the Strip and all these like it's just like spots, yeah, but it's I mean, it's all the same stuff that you can get all all over them.

01:00:14
Speaker 4: If I go into a city and I have one good place like.

01:00:18
Speaker 6: San frans exactly San Fran. Best Greek food I've had is kakari, like by far my favorite.

01:00:24
Speaker 1: Like you've been to Greek Cafe in Nashville, I'm telling him about that. I'll tell about Greek cafe. They load your ass up.

01:00:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you what. Abba is a nice little spot over in.

01:00:37
Speaker 1: Uh No, you don't think so, you could just tell it the way he uses it, like even restaurant lingo. He's like white cloth. It took me a minute, like, okay, white cloth. I think it's nice. Do you realize he he knows food.

01:00:48
Speaker 4: How many different angles he just kind of hit around us.

01:00:51
Speaker 1: He's like one of the best I've had. My favorite burger in and out? You do that? Oh yeah, so you're five guys where you were.

01:00:59
Speaker 6: Paying so much for five guys?

01:01:01
Speaker 4: Man, it's incredible burger fast.

01:01:04
Speaker 1: Food that's fast casual. There's no drive through, so that's where the fast food? Yeah, okay, where is where's your stance on the best burger in and out? Yeah, I'll see. I think we need together.

01:01:17
Speaker 6: But the think about in and out? Like so, so the other night we were going to in and Out here and it was like a four hour wait away because of the line, and I was like, I'm not waiting that long. It's not gonna happen. So I go up to the front, paid a guy like one hundred bucks to take my order. He did it for me, but we got the wrong order because they were the first time in and out and we got their order and they ordered tear. They got a double double playing with pickles yea. And so I'm thinking about, like people love Waterburger, and I'm like, if Waterburger has to have one a chicken like them, if they have to sell anything about burgers and it's not very good, but like people in Texas will die on that.

01:01:55
Speaker 1: They love. People will, yeah, people in Texas, because.

01:01:57
Speaker 6: There's there's a certain way to order in and out, and every as always like, oh, you can't do it like that, Like you have to order like the actual burger with the fries, Like I think they have some of the best fries and people are gonna kill me for that. But if you get well done fries from in and out, unbelievable.

01:02:10
Speaker 1: See that's where I kind of fall back a little bit. I think that's where I bend the knee. When the argument comes in and out. It's like yeah, the fries if you get well done.

01:02:16
Speaker 6: If you get well done fries, I'm telling you these.

01:02:19
Speaker 1: I rip with the animal fries.

01:02:20
Speaker 6: I don't like those, but like, but I like. I like grilled onions on my burger, so I'll do like. So I do three by one grilled onions, Peppercini's on the side, mustard on the bun.

01:02:32
Speaker 1: That's a that's an there being a DC cat will vibe on the Shakeshack. Hold on before you what you see. I honestly, you like their fries.

01:02:41
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about their fries, I know, but their burger. I mean it's I'm not gonna I like their chicken.

01:02:45
Speaker 1: I like their they have good chicken. I like the I think.

01:02:48
Speaker 6: It's good, especially if you're like, I'm not going to say like, I think they're I think Shakeshak is good. I think it's good, but I'm not going to say like, oh, yeah, it's one of my favorites. But if I go to Shakeshak, I'll eat one.

01:02:57
Speaker 1: Of their burgers.

01:02:57
Speaker 6: I think they're good.

01:02:58
Speaker 1: The best argument like their bun.

01:03:00
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, little potato progress.

01:03:02
Speaker 1: The best argument for In and Out you had it is you went to In and Out and there's a four hour weight. You go anywhere in the country, there's in and out, there's always going to be some sort of weight that takes place.

01:03:11
Speaker 4: And also they hit on a two as you talk about the A plus customer service known that he got a kind of a botched order.

01:03:16
Speaker 1: I think it's also part of.

01:03:17
Speaker 6: But that was that wasn't my fault. The kids that ordered my food. They gave me the wrong.

01:03:21
Speaker 1: Bag, So it was the kid's fault, right, Yeah, because you blame in children.

01:03:25
Speaker 4: Hey, we got here, we run an operation and that we're known for this standard.

01:03:30
Speaker 1: Right, I'm with that when you know what I mean, you're not getting the full in and out you're talking about. I think about a pedestrian. You talking about a pedestrian that's sit in the front line. Brice is like, hey, I'll give you a hundred bucks to order food for me. And those kids fucked it up. They have they have.

01:03:41
Speaker 4: They're not with in and out. They got their moment, that was their super Bowl, right, and they threw a pick.

01:03:46
Speaker 1: But their super Bowl has nothing new with in and Out being the champion of fast food burgers.

01:03:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it'll always, it'll forever be an argument.

01:03:54
Speaker 6: But I think I think a lot of people don't like in and out, like from like Arizona over like to the side of the country.

01:04:00
Speaker 1: I don't.

01:04:01
Speaker 6: I don't think people like it and out very much because when they have it, like shake Shack five guys, like.

01:04:06
Speaker 4: I think everybody hates like the pompous that it is the best bar nun nothing's close to it. So then there's friction that gets created to talk about other burger spots, because there are other burger spots that are just as good, if not better.

01:04:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's good burger spots. I mean burgers in general are like yeah, it's like.

01:04:21
Speaker 6: There's one in Barstow, California that is unbelievable.

01:04:24
Speaker 1: What California, Barstow, Barstow, right next to the thing in and out in bars.

01:04:29
Speaker 6: So you got, oh you have ever been a del Taco?

01:04:32
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you like de talking? They ever had their double Dell? No? I have not.

01:04:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they're burgers are extra pretty good too when I was growing up, I mean anymore probably Yeah, I haven't had Dell talking twenty years.

01:04:44
Speaker 1: But strong food, strong food, opinions, strong food. He seems like he's a well versed individual with this food, like my range is like burgers to middle class eats, so you start getting upper ast. Yeah, but the white tablecloth is well no, no, I'm not.

01:04:59
Speaker 6: I'm just saying like that restaurant was a white tablecloth. They said, I've never been there, but like, yeah, yeah, they'll talk. You know.

01:05:06
Speaker 1: He kind of had all these different angles.

01:05:07
Speaker 4: Whenever he said he had some of the best tacos or burritos you ever had, were like dapping, oh, Taylor l And then he's like, oh uh Nashville. When you walked out, He's like, yeah, I mean National Food pretty subpar. I was like, oh God, was like, hey, JP comes in like, hey, you ever had no co He's like overrated.

01:05:25
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, he's hitting all these different Yeah. Walking I heard him say that I gotta get that walk out. He just proceeds to kill everybody else.

01:05:36
Speaker 6: But like, I mean too, like what like if you're having a steak, like where you're gonna go get a steak here?

01:05:40
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, frankin Farmer's Market, Kane.

01:05:43
Speaker 6: Prime Camee Prime. I thinks I think Loobs is good. But like you think you think you can, you think you can make.

01:06:00
Speaker 1: The see the scenery in Bourbon's nice on the scenery overlooking Nashville, and as far as like the apps menu and the shareable stuff like you the French Fry Down forty.

01:06:24
Speaker 7: Podcast is about to suck the rest of the time, dude. We did We did a part with with Josh Allen.

01:06:33
Speaker 1: It was twenty five minutes of us just like uncomfortably trying to each other dick jokes, and then we got done with the pot We're like, this show was not very good. Yo.

01:06:43
Speaker 6: The Phillips was great, bro, Poor Jack thing.

01:06:46
Speaker 1: God, he's not here to leave because of that. Yeah, that was take leave, Bess, Taking Philly. Angelos is Angelas the one that Big Don was trying to put us on. It was closed that day, right.

01:07:00
Speaker 6: Really good. I haven't been yet. I haven't been yet. Yeah yeah, yeah, Mitch, Yeah, I think. I mean, I've been to Angelo's and I love it.

01:07:12
Speaker 1: Pizza, Like it's really.

01:07:14
Speaker 6: Good, but the thing is like cracker thin like crust pizza, And I mean, I think Angela is really really good. Taking Ally's is great.

01:07:21
Speaker 4: What's your favorite pizza out of here in Nashville?

01:07:23
Speaker 6: Uh Folk, Okay, yeah, so they have like a sour dough It's really good.

01:07:29
Speaker 1: Don't know what you don't that your opinion about Like Nashville pizza.

01:07:35
Speaker 6: I think it's that the folk one is really really good, but I haven't like, is that it right there?

01:07:40
Speaker 1: Looks like it looks to me.

01:07:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's really good.

01:07:43
Speaker 1: See, pizza is another bar. It's like, are so low for pizza? Like you're gonna have it herebody, Yes, pizzas.

01:07:48
Speaker 6: But like I think deep Dish is terrible.

01:07:50
Speaker 1: Agreed.

01:07:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like Chicago is awful, but like there's a there's a place in Chicago and they have cracker crust like thin crust pizza night. It's legit.

01:08:01
Speaker 1: We read emos in Saint Louis, No Craig across Stan. Yeah, squares is it good? Yeah, cheese emos, I'll get you.

01:08:11
Speaker 6: Sounds good.

01:08:12
Speaker 1: We had a free a frozen when we when we were in San Francisco. We were going to Alcatraz and this guy was just on the boat ask people where they were from, and they He's like, I'm from Saint Louis, Missouri.

01:08:24
Speaker 4: And the guy said, no clue.

01:08:27
Speaker 1: He's like, what's closed. But this dude had like a he was on the spectrum, that's clearly and he just knew, like you would say, like a city, that's wrong. Well, I'm just saying you said it, and you did the thing.

01:08:37
Speaker 4: You looked over at me for a second, so I just held my face and then now that there's a crack, it's like, okay.

01:08:42
Speaker 1: Was that the keep going on? The stroke? And his superpower was knowing cities and all the places that go and eat, and that's what he was doing on the boat. And he said emos next, God damn bring about his Everyone's like, oh, ship, you know that's a superpower, having autism.

01:09:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was movie accountant.

01:09:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, yes I did. I've seen it recently, Ben Affleck, Yes, there it is. Yeah. I do love movies, newer movies because of having kids and all that. I don't get it. It's the way I want to now. But yeah, I mean, I mean, I haven't been to a theater movie in a long time. That's that sucks. Man, his gears. Sitting down in my rookie year in Nashville, like every like Thursday afternoon, I would go solo to the movies during the season and just sit there and watch whatever they had and just popcorn, big can of nicotine. That was my I went a couple of weeks ago as Utopia. How good? Incredible? Yeah, amazing.

01:09:40
Speaker 6: I saw a Housemade House on Netflix. Nah me and my wife went, it was really good like that.

01:09:48
Speaker 1: I thought it was.

01:09:49
Speaker 6: It's on, like, OK, yeah, you can get it.

01:09:52
Speaker 1: Have you guys been on F one yet? Movie? Yeah? I haven't seen it.

01:09:56
Speaker 6: Watched it last one I watched like sport Wise in the movies though, was Ford versus Ferrari?

01:10:01
Speaker 1: But that movie is incredible. Yes, that one probably edges out F one. But Brad Pitton, this F one movie is unreal. Yeah. So baseball yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't have to. Oh, how is it you're playing in the major league, Major leagu How is uh? I mean you like quit you quit high school. You said, I'm I'm gonna just grade out of this and be done because of baseball. Like you were called the chosen one at one point in Sports Illustrated, What kind of pressure you You're baseball is Lebron James, That's what they said.

01:10:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think the thing was that so when we were going through it, I mean I grew up playing uh, football, baseball, basketball, snowboarding, like I did everything, Like it wasn't just baseball all the time, and you know, my first love was football, like I love playing football. And then obviously I got to high school and was kind of like pick one, like what are we gonna do? And I picked baseball, and uh it's very hard to walk away from a lot of other stuff, but obviously baseball took over and it was what it was at that point. High school baseball in Vegas just is It's okay. But like as you go and play on travel ball teams or tournaments over you know, over the summer, you kind of realize, like, man, it's kind of hurting me a little bit playing high school baseball because I'd go to these other tournaments and I kinda would get dominated a little bit, but also like play well sometimes. And so me and my parents kind of sat down it was like what could be the next step, Like what can we do? I did really good my freshman year, did really good my sophomore year, and then we talked to a coach over at CSN College so on Nevada, and uh my ged tested out of school. And that was a tough thing for me too, because I mean, you're giving up your junior and senior high school, right, like it's supposed to be the best years of your life. But I was kind of a ghost in high school. I was kind of I'd, you know, go to school, do my thing. I'd work out all the time, like I had early bird weights, lived after school, and then like have have baseball practice and do my thing. So it's kind of I wasn't really missing out on much besides hanging out on the weekends with my buddies.

01:12:25
Speaker 1: And having that group of friends.

01:12:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, like I mean, but a lot of my friends, you know, played baseball, played other sports and went to a lot of different schools across the valley, so I'd go across town, hang out with them, come back to my school, all that kind of stuff. So, but the transition into JUCO wasn't as easy of a transition as it kind of looked. It was probably the most pressure I'd ever been on er in my whole life, even now to this day, just because you know, you drop out of school and then it's like you have to play well because if you don't play well, like there's nothing else.

01:12:56
Speaker 4: In all these headlines, and this idea of you was already there for sure.

01:13:00
Speaker 1: When when were those headlines starting? Because you talk about I was probably all the sports and then you get to your freshman year and you have to pick one. Yeah, I know. And like in Arizona people were like with hockey and baseball, it was like you get to like ten essentially you have to be like all in on one thing. So it sounds like you're just good at everything, and you're like, I guess I'll just be great at baseball. No.

01:13:21
Speaker 6: I mean, I just think my dad wanted me to be an athlete. I think that was the biggest thing. I think that's what kids kind of lack nowadays, is like they all the parents think their next their kid's going to be the next Mike Trout or the next you know, Lebron or the next Joe Burrow or whatever. You know. It's I think they kind of lose the side of the kid, you know, of like letting them be a kid, understanding that they have so much time to be great at what they want to be great at. You know, maybe maybe the kid actually wants to play piano and he wants to be great at piano, like you never know, right, And so I think that's the thing that my dad never pushed me to like do something I always wanted. I mean I come back on a weekend, I'd play six games and that Monday and my dad let's go hit, you know, like let's go, let's go get some work in, you know, like I the working mentality, Like I love to get out there and tried to get better at anything that I did. And so for me, like just understanding once I got into high school, like it kind of all started when I was like probably ten or eleven years old and.

01:14:14
Speaker 1: By traveling around playing travel.

01:14:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I've I mean my first competitive game I played at seven against ten year olds. Like it was just like I was very competitive from a very young age. And I wouldn't probably wish that on anybody because like obviously, like I loved it, but I don't know if many people want to do it for that long, right, some guys get burned out or they don't want to do it anymore by the time they're sixteen. They're like, man, that's way too much baseball. I Mean, I had so many buddies that were really good that got burnt out because their parents just hammered on them all the time instead of like hammer hammer love, you know, Like I always think about that like my dad, like he'd hammer on me, but also he'd pulled me aside. Hey, I love your kid, Like this is what it's all about. Like this game might not last forever, but you know, we're family, we're blood, we're all this kind of stuff, like so we're in this together kind of thing. And so, you know, once I got to that point, you know, I got into to junior college and like you said, like the Sports Illustrated came out, and that's kind of a blessing and a curse at the same time. It's really cool, right, Like you want to be on a Weedy's box, you want to have a tops card, Like.

01:15:10
Speaker 1: It's like what you think about growing now, Like you want to.

01:15:12
Speaker 6: Be on Sports Illustrated and all that kind of stuff. But it comes with a sense of you have to be good, like this is this is it is what it is, like you you have to show up or you know you're going to be the biggest story in sports, and you don't want to be a bust. You don't want to be the next buster. You know, everybody talks about you for twenty.

01:15:29
Speaker 1: Years like oh hey what if? What if? What is right?

01:15:33
Speaker 6: And you know, so I think getting there, I was playing against guys that were, you know, five, six, seven years older than me, because there's a lot of you know, Juco drop back guys from you know, D one s and stuff like that. We had a really really good team. So we had a lot of drop drop back guys from D one that just couldn't make grades. And so I actually got dominated in the fall like just and we were would bat. So our division was would bat. Everybody else was aluminum and so it kind of gave me a sense of like, hey, this is this is real baseball, Like we're playing wood bat. We don't have aluminum bats. And so I mean, I kind of I came back and said to my dad, I don't want to do this. I want to my high school. And so we actually met with principal, ad my coach, everything, and they were like, you can't come back. You test it out.

01:16:19
Speaker 1: And so I was like, this is a falling.

01:16:21
Speaker 6: This is my first fall in judo, and so they were like, you know, you can't do this, and I'm like, man, all right, well I got to figure this out. And so obviously I figured it out and had a great year, but it, uh, it was tough. It was it was probably the toughest year, knowing that like either you have to be the number one pick or there's nothing else, right, and so like you have to be the number one pick out of junior college. And thankfully I had a great coach, great guys around me. My brother played with us as well, so I had him all year. But I had a lot of guys that had my back. And I think that was the biggest thing. Going in and playing against all these other teams and all these college guys was you know, I got chirped out a lot, which was which was great. I loved it, you know, it was probably the best time. But yeah, I mean a lot of guys came in and helped me a lot, and so it was it was nice to have a group around me that like kind of pushed me along as well, you know, because I don't think I would have got to where I needed to be without you know.

01:17:14
Speaker 4: How did some of those conversations shift? Mainly for you when you're not around the group of guys. Obviously you have a good group around you, got your dad, you have it seems like you have good people that surrounding you. But also when you go back home at night, and you're thinking to yourself, like what were some things that helped you on top of that, because a lot of that self talk stuff that athletes have and go through, I would assume too, it's like, yeah, you're around guys that are lifting you up and everything else, but when you're driving home and you're by yourself, like a shift has to happen, like you know, from within from yourself.

01:17:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think you know, obviously, I think like motivation, it comes and goes, right, but like having that determination to be great always has to be there no matter what. I think that's in life today too, right, Like I mean, there are certain times where you do a job or you do certain things like man, dude, I gotta get in there again. Got to get it, get it done, get it done. I mean you guys know, like season gets monotonous sometimes to doing the same thing every single day all the time. Consistent for sure, you have to stay consistent with what you do. So I mean, consistency is key to being great every day. And so for me, like good day, bad day, I had to be the same guy because we had, you know, a thousand scouts at every game, Like I obviously was seventeen years old and made a lot of mistakes when I was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old. It just is what it is, right, high school kid on the field, off the field, like it is what it is. But for me like understanding, like this is what I have to do.

01:18:33
Speaker 1: This is the dream.

01:18:34
Speaker 6: If I don't do it, then I'll be working with my dad's side by side, you know, building hotels in Vegas and that's not terrible, but like it's not the dream that I had for myself.

01:18:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what was that conversation? Like who came to who when you're in high school and you made the transition, Like who started that dialogue? Was it your dad that started that or was that you been like, hey, seems like the next step for me is this.

01:18:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it was a family decision at that point. I mean obvious, see my dad. So in America, you have to be out of school for a year to be eligible for the draft, or you have to you have to test out and go to junior college. So I could either go and play in Japan. I could either go play in winter ball or in the Dominican or something like that overseas, or I could go test out and go to junior college. And I played for a great coach in junior college, and so it was kind of we went and met with him, told him, you know what, it was all about what we thought, and he goes, absolutely, let's go, let's roll with this. And you know, I looked at CSN, I looked at two schools in Texas as well at the time, school in Oklahoma as well, and it was just nice to be able to stay at home, being able to be around my family.

01:19:45
Speaker 1: I don't think it. I think it would have been a lot different if I was going somewhere else.

01:19:49
Speaker 6: So making that decision, we talked to my advisor at the time, Scott now my agent, and the big thing for him was me getting out of school to have the opportunity to be on a big league deal once I got drafted. So after my year it was minor league deals only, and so big league deal means you're right on the forty men roster and you have a chance to be up in the big leagues within you know, two or three years if you play well. And so that was the last year of me getting drafted, was the last year for that, and so there was a lot of things that kind of went into our decision. And obviously there was a lot of people that were like, you're crazy, you're robbing this kid of two years of high school. You know he could you know, he might not be this guy. He might not be this guy. But I love that notion, like I love people kind of saying this about me or saying that about me, and then you know, doing my thing and not really worrying about it, but having the group around me that kind of helped me get there, which huge for.

01:20:43
Speaker 4: Me, which is which is wild because you're in such a it's like a it's like a one of one type situation, you know what I mean, like not going to high school getting out. Do you ever look back and think like, would I wish I would have stayed in high schoo Obviously it's all worked out, but there are there parts of you that's like, oh, man, I should have played football, I should have done more sports, knowing that maybe you could have still accomplished or been where you're at now.

01:21:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean my dream was to be a two way guy. I met an SEC school like somewhere, and being a two way guy like that was always like my dream, Like playing football somewhere playing baseball. I played outside linebacker until my freshman year, and I mean I played well. I mean I'm not going to say I was the greatest, but I was.

01:21:28
Speaker 4: As far as when you're reflecting, no one can really argue, yeah, like you were you nice on the edge or you like, stand.

01:21:33
Speaker 1: Up, stand up.

01:21:34
Speaker 6: So I was like Lawrence Taylor coming around the edge trying to kill the quarterback.

01:21:39
Speaker 1: So that was because you know, people are going to doubt right now, white guy playing the outside linebacker. Yeah, you can say whatever you want.

01:21:45
Speaker 6: That's okay, But like I I I enjoyed it.

01:21:48
Speaker 1: Like I I.

01:21:48
Speaker 6: Absolutely enjoyed playing. I love I love hitting guys. I didn't like getting hit, but I love to hit, you know what I'm saying. So that was really hard for me making that decision of hey, I can't do this anymore. I remember walking in and going, hey, coach, like I'm not gonna play anymore, and he was like, slap dig baseball player. That makes sense. He like so mad, And then my coach was sitting across across the way it was like trust me in the spring, you'll understand, and so like he can't watch me in the spring it was like, oh shit, okay, like this makes sense and so, but yeah, I mean it was always like that, like slaptig baseball player, bro, It's.

01:22:21
Speaker 4: Always like that, especially when baseball starts getting you start playing like all year round and summertime you might be playing summer ball. It takes away from whether it's seven on seven or I got to.

01:22:29
Speaker 6: Miss workout, and I loved I loved hell weeks in the summer, like I mean we I mean, you know, I was in Arizona, the same thing in Vegas, like one hundred and eighty degrees outside, right. I love that though it was just it was fun getting out there and like doing that and waking up. I mean, I still did early bird weights with the football team in the morning for high school and that was just something I love to do. I mean, I wanted to be the absolute biggest guy in the weight room and do my job and stuff. But I missed that feeling of walking out on a Friday night crowd going nuts. And I'm not saying Vegas is anything like Texas, Arizona, California, Florida for foot ball.

01:23:00
Speaker 1: I love that you put Arizona in there.

01:23:02
Speaker 6: I love that, But I mean the thing about Arizona, Like back in when you were playing those Chaparral Horizon Brophy.

01:23:08
Speaker 1: I mean you hear they are all good schools. You hear them talking right now. Here stands in Arizona football lore.

01:23:15
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01:23:29
Speaker 6: But like, that's why I love watching high school football and I love watching college because it still has that demeanor of like this means more than anything, you know, Like there's nothing like this moment of walking out here and playing for our school, the tradition of it, and everything else.

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01:25:43
Speaker 1: You talked about us like being a two way player at SEC school. A bunch of SEC coaches just set up in there. See watching this, like, what was the school you wanted to go to?

01:25:52
Speaker 6: So early on? It's funny because early on I love Texas, so like I love the University of Texas.

01:25:58
Speaker 1: These orange uniforms were.

01:25:59
Speaker 6: Unbelievable, and so like I love that feeling of like, oh, I want to go play for Augy Gurito at Texas and you know, their football program is so historic and Austin obviously great place I saw them, but Taylor t Garden their three hole hitter to get Drew Stubbs to second base, and I went, I can't.

01:26:17
Speaker 1: Go there because I went hit homers.

01:26:21
Speaker 6: And so anywhere from like LSU to Florida, I mean, I think any type of baseball school that like you're looking at has to be the right like approach for you, especially nowadays. I mean it's so crazy with nil and stuff. But LSU was probably one of my top picks just because they were so legit at the time. Arizona State was really good at that time too, so like staying close to home. But I didn't like the Pac twelve.

01:26:47
Speaker 1: Just the type of s you see baseball seems like it's the tops.

01:26:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, But like when I was growing up, it was like Irvine, cal State, Fullerton, Arizona State, Stanford, Fresno State, like it was very like West Coast more than anything. I mean, you had all your Cinderella stories in Fresno, Irvine, like all these teams coming in and at that time it was all Pac twelve baseball comparative to now where it's all secs, you know sec. I mean I would have loved to play for Tony V. You know at Tennessee. I mean it would have been unbelievable playing for him, just the way he kind of his demeanor and everything, Like you want to coach like that, you know, you want to coach that has you know, has your back and lets the kids be kids. But also like he still teaches as well. It's just not like go out and play.

01:27:29
Speaker 1: And like us not being like a big baseball like we don't know how to work about baseball. But meeting Tony V. Seeing like the bad boys, like the balls, the way they handle themselves like this, cursing guys out, talking shit like that, that it juiced me up as a guy that doesn't watch baseball. Yeah, I want to be a part of this.

01:27:44
Speaker 6: But like it's so it's so gibberish to do that in baseball because it's such a classical sport, right, like that's whatever he thinks. And so I mean the old head heads in the game, it kind of and I love the old headness of the game, like, you know, being able to respect the people that like played before you and all that kind of stuff hundred percent, like they paved the way, they did their job. But they're gone now, just like in you know, eight years or whatever, when I'm done playing, like I'm done. So like the kids that are playing now, they need to understand that it's their game now, Like they need to go out there and play their game, and they're gonna do it the way they want to do it. Like I can't tell the young kids coming up to not do it a certain way. Like I need that kid to help me win a World Series, so like I want him to be hisself, no matter what whatever that looks like. I don't care where you're from, who you are, what you do, what the team you played for before. I don't care, like if they liked you or not. I don't really care. Like I want you to come in here. I want you to be part of our family. You're part of our group. They'll be an asshole, you know, like obviously, but like you know, I want my rookie to come up and have fun and enjoy the first time he puts his cleats on the dirt on the infield or in the grass in the outfield or in the batter's box, because for us or for me, if he's in a big moment on the field and we're in the playoffs and he doesn't think that we have his back, then he's probably gonna be you know, shipping bricks, you know, on the batter's box. Like it's just it's just not fun. I mean, I think all sports kind of are like that, where they get so hammered down all the time. It's just like, guys, hold on, he's trying to help us win. He's a stud, he's a superstar. Like let him be you know, let him be that and be a guy, you know, for us, and let's let's win this game no matter, like I said, who you are, what you do, where you come from, Like I don't care.

01:29:23
Speaker 1: I just want to win.

01:29:24
Speaker 4: So you see a young guy crack one home run and just start riding the.

01:29:28
Speaker 1: Bat, I'm be a pissed.

01:29:29
Speaker 6: I mean, we're not doing that that can be themselves.

01:29:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean there's an extent to that.

01:29:35
Speaker 6: Like the good thing is the thing is though, if guy does that, he better be prepared that his next guy up teammate is probably gonna get drilled, you know. So like then, so now I don't need that guy to come in the dug out and break the guy's jaw, you know what I'm saying, because he's pissed that he just rode the horse like happy Gilmour on the baseball.

01:29:57
Speaker 1: What are what are those like unspoken rules in baseball? How high is too high of a bat flip? Like, like, what's the celebration you've done touched the You've done a little something, haven't you? You get to boys in some trouble to.

01:30:10
Speaker 6: An extent, I mean, I mean, I think, I mean, I I flipped my bat in DC when I came back.

01:30:15
Speaker 4: Are we talking boom? And then you stood there and you just flipped it.

01:30:18
Speaker 6: I mean, I'll stand on stuff, but I'm not I'm not disrespecting the picture, like I don't for me, like I don't want to.

01:30:24
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look at the guy.

01:30:25
Speaker 6: Like when a guy like like pimps it looks at the picture, I think that's very disrespectful. But like when you make it about yourself and the team, like I'm cool with that, Like you want to celebrate with your team and like have fun with that, like and you know whatever to the dugout, cool, like I don't care if any team does that, that's totally fine.

01:30:41
Speaker 1: So if a guy gets hit cracks one saddles the horse and then just faces his dugout and does it, is that saddling the horse just off limits.

01:30:54
Speaker 6: I think one of the cooler ones I've ever seen was a walk off that Princeviller hit and they did the bomb at home plate and so I thought that was cool, you know, but I love that vibe in football too, when you know, defense runs back and they do the tush push into the into the end zone or no, I'm just saying like I'm saying, like the celebration of it was really funny, like seeing those guys do it.

01:31:17
Speaker 4: Or you know, I think I rode the horse after a pick it was Russell Wilson. Actually you showed the horse acted like I was slamming. I celebrated to the mask. But I love that came looked at it and winked.

01:31:30
Speaker 6: But that's fun.

01:31:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta you gotta have a little savviness. And why these pictures getting so upset about stuff?

01:31:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that when brought.

01:31:40
Speaker 1: Up the stair, can you explain what is this stuff?

01:31:42
Speaker 6: I think when people provoke, like if you provoke then like I'm gonna come right back at you, like I don't play that.

01:31:48
Speaker 4: Have you had a situation with the picture to where there's kind of some beef and then you've taken them yard and you're you know, you.

01:31:53
Speaker 1: Give him like a Kurt Signetti.

01:31:55
Speaker 6: I think our biggest one was prought me in Strickland, But like I think that was so like overplayed, Like it was just it was dumb, Like I don't even think that should have happened. I mean it was six years later after it happened, and he drilled me and then we fought, and then it was like over you know, Like I mean when I charged the mound. The new one was. That was crazy though, because Strick is he's a big boy, and so I'm running out there halfway I'm like, oh crap, we're doing this.

01:32:17
Speaker 1: You know, like here we go.

01:32:18
Speaker 6: I'm committed, you know what I'm saying, Like I can't just run the first base now. But I think the big one was probably in the playoffs in twenty three second. Yeah, no short stuff.

01:32:28
Speaker 1: Oh you caught you caught him? Yeah, he snuck his ass right there.

01:32:31
Speaker 6: He duffed me, man, he deffed me.

01:32:33
Speaker 1: In the arm.

01:32:34
Speaker 6: Oh really yeah, right when I came up to get over top, you duff me and it kind of went sideways.

01:32:38
Speaker 1: Now, when you're going up to bat right there, are you thinking yourself? You knew it? Yeah?

01:32:42
Speaker 6: I told Jada before we went up there. I said, because of something six years early.

01:32:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what we were like, we have no clue. I'm enjoying story time, right yeah. Yeah, So when you're when you're saying something, you're probably think like, oh people though, damn, you guys are going hey. Uh. He then.

01:33:08
Speaker 6: Ran in right there, Jeff Smarja wide receiver, notre dame, so he real.

01:33:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, he runs in trying to kill me.

01:33:12
Speaker 6: H's morse.

01:33:13
Speaker 1: Watch this the wide receiver from loved Him. When you're after that, when you're running out there, are you thinking yourself? Can my boys getting there to get my back?

01:33:31
Speaker 6: Yeah? So my problem, So your problem is you got But the thing was is Strict told them before the game. I know this for a fact. So Strick told them before the game, Hey, if I face Harper in this series, I'm gonna get them. You guys need to stay back. That's why Posey sat back there and didn't stop me. And so you see Brandon Crawford and all these guys like sitting back and whatever.

01:33:50
Speaker 1: So and also, hey, Strickland him he's a big boy, back up a little bit like ready to go show and put that glove down. That's it was hard. Yeah. No, So he tells his boys that he's gonna he's gonna get you, and then they need to stay back, which is, by the way, it's school every single time. And you're like, I'm gonna throw.

01:34:16
Speaker 6: This happened more often in baseball because I think it would eliminate guys throwing at each other. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So it's just like hockey, like hey, you want to go, you want to go? And so I think it would eliminate a little a little.

01:34:27
Speaker 1: Bit, dude, massive view yeah, viewership.

01:34:35
Speaker 6: Right, But like also like I think it would stop right and like this is part of the game. Like obviously I don't want to fight anybody in a baseball field, like I didn't want to fight Strickland or anything else, but like there comes a time where it's like hey, dude, like you get drilled, like it is what it is at that point. Yeah, And so I think that was probably one of the main ones that everybody talks about. I have no bad blood with him at all anymore. That happened.

01:34:56
Speaker 1: It was just like we're done. Now.

01:34:57
Speaker 4: Did you catch when that it was going to happen before the game started?

01:35:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, because after the fact, I was like, hey, guys, like, why did you guys all sit back? And so, like I talked to some guys and they were like, well, this is what happened. Yeah, but again, like.

01:35:11
Speaker 1: So what happened six years before that?

01:35:13
Speaker 6: I hit a homer in the postseason and some stuff happened, and then I hit another like some stuff was said, and then I hit another one against him, and I kind of stared him down at that point. Oh, so you're provoking something happened before that that provoked me to do that. We were not, but so but then like the next one after this was Arcia. So RCI was talking about some stuff, overheard it, and so that's that's where the staredown came from.

01:35:44
Speaker 1: God, yeah, that's hard. Yeah, I mean that's so you knew walking up.

01:35:53
Speaker 6: You're gonna get a hit against the against them.

01:35:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:35:56
Speaker 6: I think it was just like the moment of I gotta do this, like everybody's watching, like this is what it is, what it is, and trying to have my back for myself.

01:36:05
Speaker 1: As well give the people what they want.

01:36:08
Speaker 6: But again, like all this stuff happens, and like I have zero animosity towards anybody, like it is what it is, Like you have such a different demeanor, like when you walk onto a football field or a baseball field or anything, right, and so like when I walk away from the field, there's no like I don't care about it, Like it's just it is what it is. Like if I saw him in the parking lot, I wouldn't like, you know, try to fight him, Like I'd probably say, hey, man, how you doing.

01:36:29
Speaker 1: You spoke since this place?

01:36:32
Speaker 6: No, I've never talked to him.

01:36:33
Speaker 1: Really, I wonder if he feels the same way. I don't know.

01:36:37
Speaker 6: I just don't care, Like it's just it does nothing for me to like think about all this stuff like it just but again, like in between the lines, I think it's just such a different demeanor and then like you get out of the lines, and I mean, I'm a dad of four husband.

01:36:50
Speaker 1: You know yea at some point for sure, no doubt.

01:36:55
Speaker 6: I mean you gotta flip the switch and understand, like the game is the game, and then once you get away from it, his life, your dad, You're You're just like anybody else.

01:37:04
Speaker 1: Crack a cold beer with him, have some laughs.

01:37:05
Speaker 6: I don't drink, but yeah.

01:37:11
Speaker 1: Are you guy spots? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, bud Light. You don't know, but they're good. Was also fire You had a teammate called bull Light? Bulllight? Oh sorry, hit me, got to catch up. Yeah, leaving.

01:37:33
Speaker 4: How was it during the either breakup or just separating paths with Washington? Is that any decision there where you know, you might have made the decision that some people don't understand or how was that? Was that like a bat? Was that a bad blood breakup? Because I know, I mean, you're in Washington, so I'm sure everybody was just hoping that you would stay with Washington.

01:37:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I uh. Mike Rizzo, I loved him. He was He was our geam and president at the time. He was awesome. The team we were great, man. We were always a pitcher away. And so for me when we got into that offseason, I remember sitting on my couch in Vegas and they had signed Patrick Corbyn and this was like November December, and I remember looking at my wife Klea, and I said to where I go, they're gonna win the World Series this year. They finally got the picture they needed and so they ended up going like fourteen and like twenty seven or fourteen and thirty six or something in the first like fifty games, and they turned it around and ended up winning the World Series. So when they did that, obviously, like as a player, I rooted for him. I love the guys that I played with. I understood like I was with them for seven years, and all the guys that I made relationships with. I was very happy to see them do it. Obviously I want to win one because I haven't yet. But organizationally, this was the best thing for me to go to Philly and play there. I think it was just time for me personally to get away from there and do my thing with a different organization. And I made the right decision. I absolutely loved Philly. I enjoy it. The breakup, I don't know. I mean, I don't have anything bad to say about the fans or anything else. They boom me every time I go in there. You know, it's sports.

01:39:09
Speaker 1: It is what it is.

01:39:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's just weird more than anything. You know, just because I don't know, I feel like I've did a lot for their organization and their team and stuff. But at the same time, like it's sports. It is what it is. But I have no bad animosity towards it everything else, No, because I mean, for me, like I understand the hard work that goes into it and understanding the guys that I played with and build relationships with, Like I was so pumped Trade Turner and Ryan Zerwoman and all these guys that have done it, and so obviously I would have loved to have been there and in one one because we did get so close and.

01:39:45
Speaker 1: Understanding.

01:39:46
Speaker 6: We were such a good team at all those points of when I played there. I mean we we've never had a losing record. I don't think in the you know, seven years that I was there made it to the playoffs maybe five out of the seven. And so, I mean just a just a great time and had a had a really good, you know ride with them. But turned the page to Philly. I mean it's been it's been unbelievable.

01:40:06
Speaker 1: How does the free agency and baseball work and how did you end up on on the Phillies or what other teams were involved?

01:40:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it was very quiet at the beginning. I would say, I mean it was funny. So going back to the National so we actually so we had our last game in DC and then we went on the road that year to play I think the final was in Colorado, and so we were in a rain delay. It was like the sixth inning and my coach walked over to me and my manager was like, hey, old Man's in the office, and I was like, that's weird. So I go in and I sit down with old man, old Man Learner, and he's their owner. He was their owner, and so I remember sitting there and he goes he hands me an envelope and says, this is an.

01:40:52
Speaker 1: Offer you won't be able to refuse. This is during a game, like middle of the game, middle of the game, old Man wants to see you. Mid the game, rain delay, the right time to come to Bryce and tell him it's time.

01:41:04
Speaker 6: And so I was like, what, like are we serious right now? Like this is this is how it's happening right now. And obviously my agent wasn't there, had no idea this was happening nothing. So I go back to my chair and I'm sitting at my chair in my locker, and I was like, hold on. So I text my wife. I'm like, hey, come down to the to the door, like I need to talk to you real quick.

01:41:25
Speaker 1: She's like what.

01:41:26
Speaker 6: I was like, okay, So she comes down. I handed the envelope. I'm like, he just offered me, you know, X amount of dollars. Like she goes, he did this during a game. I said, yeah, isn't that weird? And so I called my agent and he goes go down to the fine print and so I go down to the fine print and it's like seventy percent deferred over the next thirty years of your life. And so it was like the deal with the deferrals of like and so he's like, yeah, that's not a good offer, and so I go back to my locker. But just the moment of that, like I was just like that's wild, you know, like.

01:41:57
Speaker 1: Why what would make him not want to go through the agent?

01:42:00
Speaker 6: Just in that moment, it was just kind of weird.

01:42:02
Speaker 4: Like it was just as like, what you know, you started to dock with the cowboys like a Jerry Jones.

01:42:06
Speaker 6: Right, Like it was just it was a really weird perspective as I was sitting there because I mean, my season is not over yet, obviously, like and I understand, like you want to get a deal done. I get that totally. Like I had people come out to me all year, throughout the whole year kind of trying to get things done, trying to get things done, and.

01:42:22
Speaker 1: So that was different.

01:42:24
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously, the the you know when the off season kind of hit, you're not allowed to talk to anybody until the World Series is over, and then you have like a brief period and then they go to GM meetings and then they got Winter meetings and stuff. Winter meetings were in Vegas where I was, so that was kind of cool, like being able to go down and meet with teams. But I had some really good meetings. We had the White Sox Padres, San Francisco, Dodgers came in late and then Philly talked to them as well at that point, so I had five teams kind of talk to me. My deal with the with the Dog was less money, but very similar to what Kyle Tucker's on right now that he signed. Obviously not to the extent of what Kyle's at right now, but very similar, four year deal, opt outs, all that kind of stuff. I had one team offered me a one year for forty eight. I think it was one year forty eight or one year fifty, and I kind of was like, I want to take that. Yeah, and the team, the team that it was was really good, and so I was like, man, I would have I would have loved that.

01:43:27
Speaker 1: I don't know if he doesn't want to say did the one team offer me? And I was like, I kind of want to go to that team. It's like, Okay, what's the did the is? Did this team have pinstripes? No? No, the Yankees were not in at all. Because you grew up a Yankee fan, yep, I did, and they'd never been in the loop with you. They were never in the loop. At the beginning. Were hopeful that the Yankees would come into this.

01:43:50
Speaker 6: I think you're always hopeful for big market teams to be in just because it drives money or anything else. But I loved the pinstripes growing up. I loved all the players that played there in the winning mint out that they had. But at the same time, they had just got John Carlos Stanton from Miami and so he was on a big deal. They had some young guys coming up that they believed in more than me and stuff. I told teams I could play first base, and they didn't believe me that I could play first base, and so they all just wanted me to play the outfield, which was fine. But now it's funny that I'm at first base and you know, top three, you know, gold Glove every year, but I don't know it. It was it was cool to be kind of wanted, right, Like you kind of go into the situation and you talk to all these teams, and it's weird kind of also sitting there understanding that you have to put your faith in these teams without even knowing these organizations besides what they tell you, right, Like you you can talk to anybody on other teams, but like I mean, I talked to White Sox guys.

01:44:47
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, it's great organizations. These people are great.

01:44:49
Speaker 6: If I would sign with the White Sox, I probably already been traded out of there because they've been in a rebuild for you know, the last ten years or ever since Konerko left, you know, so like I mean, it's it's been a it was a it was a wind. I mean, making the decisions that I did, having the Dodgers come in late was was tough for me, you know, because they're a really good team and you're sitting there and you're like four year deal, and I was like, man, I don't really want to go through this again. I didn't want any opt outs like that was a big thing for me.

01:45:12
Speaker 4: So you were close to the finish line with the Phillies and then that's when the Dodgers come in.

01:45:15
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, ah shit, yeah.

01:45:17
Speaker 6: So I was close with so San Diego had signed Machato maybe like two weeks after my deal or two weeks after I met with them. They wanted a third base and they kind of told me that They're like, hey, like we want an infielder. We need an infielder, and so they went with Machato. But that's my best meeting actually was the White Sox. They actually came in. I believed in a lot of their stuff, and they're young guys. Jim Tomay was in there with me, and actually I said to tell me, I said, well, are you like hitting better though the White Sox or Phillies And he kind of was like they're both great, you know, yeah, you know, but I asked point blank two Toboci. I said, Hey, is this your last year coaching in San France? And he was very upfront with me and said yes, and so big.

01:46:00
Speaker 1: I was very.

01:46:02
Speaker 6: I'm happy that he told me that because I would have loved play for Bruce Bochie obviously, like he one of the greatest managers in baseball of all time. But for him to be upfront with me and that situation was huge for me in my career because I probably would have went and thought about San Fran a lot more because of Bochie comparative to you know, anybody else. But I mean, at the at the final stretch, I felt like it was always going to be Philly. They offered obviously three thirty. San Fran was at like three fifteen, and then at the last moment they came up to three thirty. Every every every team was pretty much at three thirty. Like every team. They were all kind of incahoots about that and talking and stuff. They said, they don't but it is what it is.

01:46:42
Speaker 1: So Sant Frank could have been a move.

01:46:44
Speaker 6: It could have been, but my life just doesn't match that city.

01:46:49
Speaker 1: So he's great.

01:46:52
Speaker 6: I mean, Tony Bee's the man, you know, I think he's gonna do really good, good things up there. I think having a guy like that, it's the way he come, which is he's got a lot of Tennessee boys on that team too, So.

01:47:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, he's like, uh, test he's a test subject a little bit right, coming from college for sure.

01:47:10
Speaker 6: I mean I think he's one of the first ones to do it, comes straight to college and being MLB. I'm pretty sure.

01:47:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, in your opinion, how big of a difference is that, Like, is it wild that he's getting this opportunity or is it kind of saying like, oh, it's it's kind of nice to see somebody take a chance like this because you feel like it'll work out.

01:47:25
Speaker 6: I think it's one of the best hires around, Like I don't. I don't think it's I think Buster did a great job. I mean Buster wanted them. I think the being able to have Buster as your president and GM like, there's nothing like it. I mean, Posey's one of the best to ever do it as well. So I think the big thing for Tony was like, Hey, I want to be able to come in and be myself, Like I don't want to have to change or I don't want to have to listen to this guy or this guy, and I think Buster was like, no, like, we want you to be Tony B. You know, because Tony V's what's got what's what's got you here? His path in baseball has been incredible and for him to go into Tennessee and change around that you program, and then you know, every time we play them, I hope we beat him, obviously, but I wish him all the all the success just because of the person he is and who I know, you know that's on that team, Like he's going to be great for that organization.

01:48:12
Speaker 1: How what's it like, what's it like changing positions? Because you earlier you were catcher, then you're in the outfield. Now you're at first base. And as a dumb baseball guy, you watch Moneyball and Chris Pratt had the hardest time, the hardest time going to first base.

01:48:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, thetar in that movie though, because Ron Washington is the coach. I don't know if guys knew that, but Ron Ron Washington, he's like he's one of the best to ever do it, like infield coach wise, and uh so they that's the that's the actor that's playing or he's the guy that's playing him. Yeah, uh for Ron Washington and they go, how hard is it? And Billy Bean's like, it's not that hard, and they look at Washington, Wash goes, it's extremely hard. Pratt's likes in there like crap, Yeah, I guess I can do, you know, like I can't really throw anymore, but you know, I got it. But no, I mean just being trying to be an athlete. I mean, I grew up playing the infield pretty much all through college, high school and then college. I'm at cop but I played you know, shortstop and third base as well. But it was nice to kind of get into something new, you know. I think when you know, it kind of gets monotonous just standing out in the outfield all the time. And now I don't have to hear all the people behind me yelling and screaming at me either, So that's good.

01:49:20
Speaker 1: You know.

01:49:20
Speaker 6: So but it's been fun, man, I think, just trying to be the best I can over there for for my infield, understanding that I got guys out there that can win gold gloves, you know, because of me or not because of me? Right, Like if I pick a ball, like I'm helping them out, or if I miss a ball like I just killed him. You know, it's an air on him, you know. So just trying to help them as much as I can for them to be great. I think that's, you know, kind of what first base is all about, you know. I think obviously at young age that kind of just put the young fat kid over there and they're just like, go play, you know. But now it's all of them wearing number twenty five too, because of Mark Maguire back in the day.

01:49:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, stand out.

01:50:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you made the switch after you made the switch after Tommy John's right.

01:50:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I had TJ.

01:50:09
Speaker 1: I love you got a nickname for your injury, TJ. TJ. So got the TJ handled that business right there. How hard is that? People say that you come back fast from that now, right, some guys can b better?

01:50:19
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I mean I think it kind of depends on like your rehabbing stuff. I was super lucky. I mean, uh, Ela Trosh did my surgery for Merode. He's the best. So I didn't go see that.

01:50:32
Speaker 1: Guy in Alabama had when I got my a cl done the second time, you get it fixed, I was the Walker Bueller. You just had the Tommy John and Eli Trosh is like, yeah, with these guys now with the surgery, like some guys like throw harder better with it.

01:50:54
Speaker 4: Because you came back the fastest of any player.

01:50:57
Speaker 6: That has position player. So I came back in five on, which is like eight to nine. It's a or like for pictures, it's like twelve to fourteen, depending just kind of depends on.

01:51:08
Speaker 1: The guy or that's player.

01:51:10
Speaker 6: But I was super lucky too because we had the DH and so they just came to the National League with the DH, or I would have missed the whole year and so being able to kind of have the DH and it didn't hurt when I swung, and so I was able to play through it that whole rest of the year and then had the surgery in the off season, rehabbed it and was back I think May first from we had I had surgery November, like day before day before Thanksgiving, had surgery, and then came back home after that and started rehabbing it. But I cut the cast off to really started moving it, and so I was like.

01:51:46
Speaker 4: Just like cool nights, He's just off the crazy.

01:51:52
Speaker 1: Ferrell.

01:51:53
Speaker 6: I texted elatross Is like, Hey, how quickly can I get this thing moving and he was like, just hold on, like we don't want any infection. I was like, so the only reason I can't move it is because of infection. He goes, you really want to move this thing? I go yeah, And so I remember, dude, I was sitting there. I took the cast off and I was sitting there like this. I had him send me a video and he was like, all right, so stabilizing at your knee and just try to go down as much as you can, like just like three or four times, hold it, you know. Yeah, And I think that really helped me like moving my body. But like I went on an extreme diet to like stayed away from a lot of stuff and just tried to get my body moving, you know the best I could.

01:52:34
Speaker 4: In the crazy how obsessed you get with like you know, when you get injured and you realize you're gonna get a surgery, and the first question how long does this usually take? And they might say six months, and then in your mind you're like, I'm gonna get back. I'm gonna fucking blow. Everybody's just gets obsessed with beating whatever the expectation is. Where you change your diet, you're you know You're You're like, hey, relax, infection. You're like, so it's just infection. Send me a fucking video. I'm gonna get the same movie. I'm gonna show everybody that I can bring back.

01:53:00
Speaker 6: I think it's just like one to get back, right. I mean, sometimes it's dumb, sometimes it's good. I mean it's worked out for me. My arms felt great, I've had no pain.

01:53:12
Speaker 4: And it's going in the first phase too. Is that like in your mind, like a longevity factor.

01:53:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think you're trying to pipe one in from.

01:53:18
Speaker 4: The outfield versus you know, scooping them up, striking, whipping around the diamond.

01:53:28
Speaker 6: If I could be on peptides, I'd play for another ten years, but can't be on those, So no, I think, yeah, I mean being able to. Obviously, longevity comes with understanding your body and what you know, you want to put into it, what you want to do. I mean, I'm I'm like one hundred percent in more than eighty twenty with food or anything I put into my body or you know, just everything. Yeah, it's just like all the above. Obsessive, Yeah, very obsessive with what I do, which is which is good and bad? Right, like, it's very hard for me to just go out and like eat it, you know, good meal.

01:54:02
Speaker 1: It's a minute out. Yeah, exactly.

01:54:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really like it's really hard for me like to mentally do that. And so whenever I can just like understand, like you got to live to at the same time, right.

01:54:15
Speaker 4: When the families want to go out where your wife's kind of age and get a little stircreer, let's go.

01:54:18
Speaker 1: Out to the You're like, I just don't want to go out to eat.

01:54:20
Speaker 6: It better be really good. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like it better be Oh you know what January really good?

01:54:25
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.

01:54:26
Speaker 6: At South Hall, yes.

01:54:29
Speaker 4: Bro Y Hall very South Hall is unreal. They got a couple of restaurants.

01:54:35
Speaker 1: Is that the restaurant that we went to for your birthday or Charles's birthday? Probably?

01:54:40
Speaker 4: I don't think it's because we sat right outside. There's like two restaurants.

01:54:44
Speaker 1: You know.

01:54:45
Speaker 4: It's like you got the main entrance of South Hall, you go in, they got the breakfast the breakfast Spot, and that we for dinner. We didn't eat at the restaurant called January. I want to say they rebranded it over the past couple of years.

01:54:55
Speaker 6: But yeah, January is yeah, there's like the break spot you're talking about. There's January. Yeah, January legit. Yeah oh really yeah, but excuse me. It all comes from that farm too, So that's awesome. It's a farm to table.

01:55:07
Speaker 1: It just sounds like a BlackBerry farms were closer.

01:55:09
Speaker 6: Have you been to black Bear Farms?

01:55:10
Speaker 1: Yes, it's awesome, it is. It is unreal. It's insanely expensive, but like they have like the barn, and like chefs from around the world will come and do like seasons there and it's like a it's like a big honor I guess to go and do that. But they hit the food everywhere.

01:55:24
Speaker 6: The Have you guys been in Almond property yet? So we went to Turks this offseason and went to Almond and it's like the same thing, man, I mean, people just come in. I mean this place that we stayed at in Turks was I'll show you guys pictures like it was unbelievable, unreal, like insects.

01:55:41
Speaker 1: Gotta have it that we're talking about being extremely disciplined in your craft and then going into what good food is in Nashville and first baseline, yeah yeah, yeah, what yeah, what was it? At what moment do you know, Okay, I'm gonna be able to come back in five months? Like was there like a day You're like, holy shit, was I think we're gonna be able to do this?

01:56:04
Speaker 6: I remember getting to spring training and well take that back, like I remember like going through the whole like first month and I felt great, like I was moving it. My pet was awesome in Vegas, and uh, we worked every day like we weren't. I was like, no, we're doing this every day like weekends. I don't care like we're working. And so just understanding like what was good for my body and pushing through like when I needed to, were sitting back when I needed to. I don't do a really good job of sitting back, you know, but like when I needed to, I did, But understanding all the things away from it in a d I VS couldtub hot tub, staying away from all sugars, I mean, everything that I could do to get me to that point I did. I mean, it wasn't there was nothing else like it was. This is how it's going to be. This is what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna get back. But we should have done One on.

01:56:56
Speaker 1: The Bus podcast that awesome, dude, Well, how do you guys do it?

01:57:01
Speaker 6: Like, do you do the whole bag of nad or do you guys do like the last like this little bit, like the whole.

01:57:07
Speaker 1: Seventh the seven to fifty drip that takes like an hour of forty five minutes. Yeah, I do. I do.

01:57:12
Speaker 6: Really how many leader bags?

01:57:14
Speaker 1: And I do a half liter bag like a smaller bag, like how many?

01:57:17
Speaker 6: Like how much like one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four fifty four to fifty.

01:57:21
Speaker 4: Dude, But in the season with like we'd be running with errite you win that seven hundred and fifty mili leader.

01:57:26
Speaker 1: I thought it was four fifty. So when I first met Bobo who owns Arrite, he had it. He was like just leaving to start Rita and he's like, yeah, this NAD thing, it's like the fountain of youth, drog you can take. Now. FDA has done studies up to eight hundred and eighteen fifty, so it's like we'll just we'll do eighteen fifty. So he would go to my house and for like three and a half hours, that's right.

01:57:47
Speaker 4: I would do the introduction type like yeah, here's where you start the nad process and you guys have eighteen fifty.

01:57:52
Speaker 1: I would do eighteen fifty would take three and a half hours, and he and my wife would just play like Mario Kart Well, I just lay it on.

01:57:57
Speaker 6: The g Where do you feel it the most us? Yeah, dude, bro with.

01:58:04
Speaker 1: Get I would get stomach and stuff, but I felt my sack was like vacuum sealed against my nuts. That's how pain like. I was in so much pain and I would feel them. I'd be like they legit feel vacuum sealed. Like you just feel like each nut you know.

01:58:20
Speaker 4: It is the worst, but as soon as you're done, it's kind of torturous. Yeah, it's like a slow like level of torture. It's like intermediate, but you feel like you're getting tortured.

01:58:28
Speaker 1: We had a guy named Roger Saffold. He would take he would take a syringe like with the like that big of a syringe and he would just shoot four fifty or fifty whatever the number was that we would do, and he would sit there, dude, for t is. That's every game we had Cray, we have Dilo, and we'd just be like, yeah, two dicks a day. It keeps doctor away. Close through the week and then game day, game days, tourt all I'd want room, no no clothes on it, all completely naked, just bend over that the doctors and then yeah, you all the all the bad pain goes away. You know, you get a good how much are you doing?

01:59:09
Speaker 6: I mean like four fifty, So let's just say you're in four to fifty bag, That's that's when I'm at the highest. So like if I don't go any higher than.

01:59:15
Speaker 1: That, yeah, So we did that for a while and then we realized, like, okay, this study has gone this, so you know that the most the best is like the form.

01:59:22
Speaker 6: Well that's the thing. So like it's whatever's good for your body. And so like if you're at two hundred and that's good for you, then like you do it at two hundred, you could do it like bi weekly or whatever. Like any higher you go, it doesn't have any benefits for you.

01:59:33
Speaker 1: After you know, the psychopath mentality of love for sure, Yeah, for sure all that.

01:59:38
Speaker 4: But Rogero he even went into the syringe, like say the bag. They would stand over him and he would just lay on his back like this and they would just squeeze the fuck out of the bag and he'd get done in eighteen He got done in eighteen minutes, like say a four to fifty bag or seven fifty's gar and his eyes would just be bloodshot as he lays on.

01:59:56
Speaker 1: Him, he'd be drenched in sweat and then like be quiet for a minute and a half and and then he's just like, all right, is different, man? You thought are different? That that was I've always said that was just Roger. Roger do it, and then Nate Davis. But Roger was the only one ever saw I do the syringe where they legit, just take the syringe of an India and put it right.

02:00:13
Speaker 4: In everybody else with bags around yea, yeah, five minutes and then it'll be like if you if you go over forty five, guys are gonna be like, really that's I put it.

02:00:22
Speaker 6: At the bottom of the bag.

02:00:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.

02:00:23
Speaker 6: I put it at the bottom of the bag and I get it in like ten minutes.

02:00:25
Speaker 1: See that that to me? I would I would throw up really. Yeah. I think it was in my nuts at the eighteen fifty and then at the four to fifty, I feel chest and like right at my stomach.

02:00:34
Speaker 6: I get the stomach because that's where I keep all my like my inflammation and stuff like all my inflammation and stresses at my stomach and so like that's where it attacks the most. I would say, yeah.

02:00:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, is no jokes. Have you involved and developed? Have you done ebu? What's he done? So?

02:00:49
Speaker 6: Ebu is where they take your blood out of this arm and it goes through red light, oxygen, another filtration system, and it comes back out and right into your other arm. So a one thirty of your blood gets out of your body within the hour and it comes right back into your body.

02:01:04
Speaker 1: I've done. I've done. It kind of sounds like some o's like another layer.

02:01:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, so ozones Like so ozones just your blood. You put it up and they put it back in. So this one, the blood is actually filtered, get through red light everything and then comes right back in. So it looks like super dark kind of like this chair, like a little bit darker as it comes out and then super red as it comes back. You got it?

02:01:26
Speaker 1: What you can get this in Nashville.

02:01:28
Speaker 6: I think I think Bobbo doesnt.

02:01:30
Speaker 1: Pass where like it goes up and there's like a it kind of like shakes like this, and it puts the ozone in it and it goes back in. But I didn't know about what's called ebo.

02:01:38
Speaker 6: Ebu or ebo or whatever.

02:01:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like I've never seen that machine before. I got that done.

02:01:42
Speaker 6: It was cool.

02:01:44
Speaker 1: It's something. I was go ahead, No, you're good. I was gonna say something I remembered, well, do you real quick? I had what kind of needs you because he's one of the highest profile MLB players. It's active right now. I was just gonna say, how much is it bullshit that we can't use peptides? Right?

02:01:59
Speaker 6: It's terrible because.

02:02:04
Speaker 4: Yeah we can wait, I don't care, but like, uh yeah, I feel like peptides should be allowed and be able to be Like I feel like there's so much research on it now to where it's there's it's just so.

02:02:15
Speaker 6: Why can a teacher, a pilot, uh you know, firefighter, a chef, why can they all do it? But athletes that travel the world or travel all over the country can't take peptides even if it's not even if it's not a grow. So there's growth hormone peptides, okay, and then there's non growth hormone peptides that are good for your gut, good for healing, good for recovery, you know, all that kind of stuff, Like why can we not take that kind of stuff because longevity of that they're unbelievable, you know what I'm saying, Like that log.

02:02:47
Speaker 4: From the stigma of thinking that it it's it feels too close to ped for sure and everything. Obviously baseball they had their own thing, but it's been it's been all sports.

02:02:56
Speaker 6: Right, I mean, that's that's I think that's a big issue too though in our obviously in the world today, like they're so locked in on you know, so many different things, like you, I don't know, there's just you you can't do wellness stuff that you really should be able to do in the States. You have to go somewhere else to do it. And it's like what are we doing? Why can we not do it? For the longevity of life? Obviously obviously there's other things that you know, people believe and stuff. But for me, like I want to be able to put stuff into my body and my system that work for me and if that, if that works for me, then I want to do it. And the longevity of that, Like I could be able to play and I mean when I'm done playing and I'm able to take peptides, Like I'm gonna feel better than I was when I was playing. You know, like we travel for one hundred and six two games across this across the across the country, and we're traveling, getting in at you know, three four o'clock in the morning, have a day game the next day sometimes and it's like what.

02:03:51
Speaker 1: Are we doing?

02:03:52
Speaker 6: You know, like why can why can this not be regulated to an extent? Like every guy should be able to do this, like this thing.

02:03:59
Speaker 4: You know they that you know, they can find ways to regulate it.

02:04:02
Speaker 1: He was on BPC. What haven't got there yet?

02:04:04
Speaker 4: We're just I was like, how much bullshit is it that we can't use peptides? Like I remember before BBC one fifty seven got banned. I want to say, what year was it, Maybe twenty nineteen, twenty twenty.

02:04:13
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I think was like it was like this decade, yeah.

02:04:17
Speaker 4: Because in twenty sixteen I started doing it because I listened to like a Ben Greenfield podcast where he was on Rogan and then I started listening to Ben Greenfield and I'm like, all this stuff's out there and he's talking about it. It's not on these lists like BBC one fifty seven is uh, what's.

02:04:30
Speaker 1: It called, like.

02:04:32
Speaker 4: Body protection compound? Yeah, And so I started doing it and it helped with my injuries. And then when it became band, you kind of feel like you're a badass because you've you found something from the system.

02:04:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, you found like a podcast.

02:04:44
Speaker 4: A few years ago from people who think in the Health three point zero or the new wellness stuff that goes on, And I'm just thinking, how can they not give guys access to this stuff because.

02:04:52
Speaker 1: You know it, you know it helps you.

02:04:54
Speaker 6: Well, it's good for the longevia life. Yeah, it's not just for sports, like it's longevia life. I was saying him, Like pilots can take it, teachers can take it, shifts can take it, police firefighter, like anybody can take it. It's taken the right way. It's it's great for you. Like, why can professional athletes not take this product. It's not a ped it's not a steroid. It's not like I'm going to G and C and grabbing the best thing I can or you know, going somewhere else and getting something illegal, Like, No, this is something that's very very good for you, right, and you should be able to take it.

02:05:20
Speaker 1: Going to a GMC is nothing like that something Get four something. You see like all the stuff behind the no explode.

02:05:27
Speaker 6: You guys remember no explode.

02:05:28
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I never dejected. I never dejected it. But I had no explode. I had the night tricks that came with it as well. That was like for like blood flow, so I had it was like red with a silver cap, right. I remember.

02:05:39
Speaker 6: I remember go to my buddy's house. I was like fourteen years old. Yeah, and he was like, yeah, d this is my brothers. It's like blue Raspberry, no explode. I'm like, yeah. We go to like we go to twenty four hour Fitness or whatever. We're like, you know, pump in whatever, Like five minutes go by, do you I got at.

02:05:55
Speaker 1: The bathroom like that Beta Alan that beat Alany and hits your system. You get that little you know.

02:06:03
Speaker 6: It's working, But isn't that crazy? Like you take the littlest thing during season or something, You're like, oh, I feel like an absolute monster and it's just like the lowest level of something you can put into your system, right, you know, And then like people get on BPC or whatever, any peptide and they're like, I feel like I feel like an absolute animal.

02:06:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. The BBC thing was wild to me because when Will came over from the Redskins, he put me on BPC and it was kind of the first couple of times, like taking a needle and drawing it and put it in. You're like, I don't know, mix it and everything. This is it the mo come here exactly. You take it and pinch it and then you just do it. I'm like, yeah, just a light. I had like an ankle, my ankle I got really swollen. I rolled it and it was like a Wednesday. I was like, I don't know if I can play this week. And I put BPC in there like twice a day, like acutely right in the spot. By Sunday, I felt fine. I was like, oh, this is it really does help in the TV five hundred, which I was never big on that. Well.

02:07:04
Speaker 4: TV five hundred is something that you would that would show up you get like POP four, but now that we're done, you mix like BPC one fifty seven and TV five hundred kind of like you know, fucking racers.

02:07:13
Speaker 6: Yeah. I saw a list. I don't know, maybe like two months or maybe like two months ago about peptides and it wasn't on MLB's non improved list or approved list. But if you test positive for it, you're in trouble. Right, So it's like it's like, well it's not well it's not FDA approved.

02:07:29
Speaker 1: Gotcha.

02:07:30
Speaker 6: Oh so that's why, Like that's why, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know, it's wild.

02:07:34
Speaker 1: Then you start thinking like do these owners do they want us to go up?

02:07:38
Speaker 6: Well?

02:07:38
Speaker 1: I think they do.

02:07:39
Speaker 6: Well, that's the thing I think. Well, the thing is is I think owners do want it because they are paying a crap ton of money for all these players and they're a little bit older. Like why would they not want players to be on peptides?

02:07:49
Speaker 1: Right?

02:07:49
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like, I think this should be in our bargaining agreement coming up, like peptides should be in it. I really do think that's a big thing for well older player.

02:07:57
Speaker 4: In the minute you get into another free agency cycle, the market's alway is higher. Whereas if you know you want to get younger, especially in NFL, like I know you guys play a lot longer than we do, but you want it to be a younger crop because younger is cheaper.

02:08:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, for sure.

02:08:09
Speaker 4: No, the conspiracy I put the tin foil on. It's like, yeah, you think that you're them paying you three hundred three hundred thirty million. They want you on whatever you can, and it's like, okay, when he comes up again, if he's still at the top of his game, we can't find h Whoever the next one is yeah, six sixty.

02:08:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, you're right. I think I think there is that type of.

02:08:28
Speaker 1: That's what BPC does for you. That's me. Oh goodness, Hey you see them TOP telling you top so crazy toord?

02:08:44
Speaker 2: Yeah was that?

02:08:45
Speaker 1: When was that? That was at a surviving bar stool ship?

02:08:48
Speaker 6: For real? I know I'm looking at him, like, man, really, what's the heaviest you ever played that YouTube?

02:08:52
Speaker 1: Two thirty seven?

02:08:54
Speaker 6: Yeah?

02:08:54
Speaker 1: I was.

02:08:55
Speaker 3: Uh.

02:08:55
Speaker 1: The heaviest I ever was was like three eighteen, But that was like in the summer, and like I drink a gallon of water, I threw up right after. I was always gotta have to gain weight. But I played between like three oh eight and three terrible. That feel in your body, dude, how great do you feel now? I feel way better now for sure? Like you, I like I didn't know how much pressure that was in my body until I lost weight. Like once I knew I couldn't play anymore, Like in three weeks, I was like two eighty five because if I didn't eat and it wasn't like like seriously working out, I would lose weight so fast. And then once I hit like the two sixty, I'm going right around two fifty now. But once I hit like that two sixty, I was like, oh, I can definitely tell these things that I thought were just like a part of life, like wearing terrible life, It's way different.

02:09:35
Speaker 6: Go for a walk, you're out of breath.

02:09:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say for me, I have more of just look at that chows that life. You'd say, what I feel like more for me, I've just kind of chosen not to feel incredible because I see some of the old photos of playing and just taking three fifty five or three twenty five, three thirty five on a ride for six refs. Yeah, I can't even Yeah, that was the strongest I ever got like that my back, I know your game was and now it's you know you got the little back issues a little this one yeah, and then hearing about the yeah, yes, yes, five s.

02:10:14
Speaker 6: I yeah, I'll get you.

02:10:18
Speaker 1: That is the big, big win about being so big. When you plays like people are like, oh, it looks great. I really don't do much. I just have lost a lot of weight, and then Will has stayed the same weight, but he's.

02:10:27
Speaker 4: Not I've lost you know, I'm down around two twenty so I haven't like lost that. But as far as the way my body feels, I just haven't even come close to taking care of it the way I did when I blame, which is a massive red flag. Yeah you listen you talk about that ebo. It was like, yeah, I kind of need to just get back in the game.

02:10:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's all about taking that step we got to.

02:10:51
Speaker 6: The first step goes up.

02:10:55
Speaker 1: I had the same thing happened this morning. Six am. Alarm goes off. I'm like, fuck this dude, no shot never mind? Yeah yeah, yeah. My wife wakes me up at eight thirty. She's like, hey, on your calendar it says you have something at thirty minutes like spring up, Like, oh my god, because I hit the I didn't hit snooze. I just took the alarm off. And I'm a guy that if you're like, hey, you sleep as long as you want. I'll sleep till noon. Still to this day. I'll tell you what. There's a new chapters turned because I got the plunge now in the in the room on bro like it.

02:11:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, like your song is hit hit the shockwave this morning and got in the little hot the shockwave.

02:11:35
Speaker 1: Shockwave? Is that the clickers of the horse thing? I'm talking more Papa Team six lore shockwave.

02:11:39
Speaker 6: I hit the oh gott.

02:11:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, the sho you're talking about the shockwave therapy and Greenfield when he's talking about boosting tea levels, he talked about getting like injections like in his peace, in his Greenfield, Yes, she.

02:11:54
Speaker 1: Is due in his in his peace.

02:11:56
Speaker 6: You see the guy that just died a billionaire, yeah, like two days ago. Probably you can find it from shockwave therapy. No, because he was trying to get his piece bigger and billionaire.

02:12:06
Speaker 1: See what do you change? Crazy?

02:12:09
Speaker 4: I want to say, Ben Greenfield put stem cells and it was doing shockwave therapy, like give it some more you vascularity to get the boy I get.

02:12:17
Speaker 6: I get stem cell and like pr f into my eyes and stuff like that, like my face.

02:12:21
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can in your eyeball. Yes, No, like you're down here, Oh got you got? What does that help with recog? Getting old? You know I'm getting old? So want to talk about the what you have? Like viral videos going on, people talk about people talk about your eyes. I'm like, man, man needs to get some sleep.

02:12:40
Speaker 6: I don't sleep. I got four kids.

02:12:41
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Yeah?

02:12:42
Speaker 6: I got a six year old, five year old, one and a half and newborn. Oh I'm in the thick.

02:12:48
Speaker 1: What do you mean? You were fired up to come to this podcast? Where are you going? After the longest podcast? They probably have to cut four or five hours takes anybody. I got two weeks later this, Yeah, there's probably around seven when when the little ones like, no, I'm not going to be brody? When would you be five? Both of my both my kids were born in July, and my first one was in July twentieth for shit you, but it was when I was playing and I remember like when my kid was born and camp would start like July twenty fifth, So those five days, like by the fifth day, I'm like, oh my god, I had to get to football because it's so exhausting the new born stage. Now I'm about to go through it all over again. Man.

02:13:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's crazy. Man, it's uh yeah, there's nothing like it.

02:13:34
Speaker 1: It's a war.

02:13:35
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, it's a war a half. You have to understand that you really love your wife. Yeah, you know, like, hey, it's me and you against them.

02:13:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly who's going first? And you got four of them things just ripping around. Oh yeah, two on one everywhere, everywhere, no matter what it's like in baseball season. For you as a dad, it's got I mean you're talking about all the traveling, you're gone all the time. God to suck, right, Yeah.

02:13:55
Speaker 4: So you're absolutely there's pockets where he's probably like, you know, I'm just okay, I'll talk.

02:14:02
Speaker 1: I'll talk for myself.

02:14:02
Speaker 4: I'm sure there'd be pockets you're traveling, like, Okay, this would be a nice little break. But then there's gotta be sometimes like man, I kind of like it sucks having to be on the road all the time, especially when you're talking to your wife.

02:14:11
Speaker 1: You're hearing what they're go through.

02:14:13
Speaker 4: When you are home and present and doing all the things, you can't get a perspective on knowing what they go through all the time. So then when you're on the road, you kind of feel.

02:14:20
Speaker 1: You probably the dad guilt kicks in now you think about all the shit we did, Yeah, from a week to week standpoint, like Monday to Sunday, just getting ready for the game, and I would come home. Yeah, I mean Will had his kids after his career, but like my kids were young in the middle of it, and I'm sitting there like, yeah, I want to hang out, but I know I have all these things I need to like mentally check off a box to know that I can be ready for Sunday. Yeah.

02:14:40
Speaker 6: No, I think the biggest thing for us, man is like we play one hundred and six two games, one hundred and like eighty days or something like that, and so we're I mean even I think maybe one hundred and seventy five days something crazy. But you have to understand, like the hardest for me, the hardest job in the in the world is being a stay at home mom with your kids because like cortisol levels, stress levels, like everything is through the roof.

02:15:01
Speaker 1: Could you imagine me at home all day with.

02:15:02
Speaker 6: Four kids or like your kids like all of them need you, need you, you know, twenty four to seven, like and so I'm very lucky I get to go to the field and play baseball, you know, because I get I get the you know, hanging out in the locker room and that's not my wife. But but no, I mean I think just having that perspective of like, you know, understanding what their job is to you know, they have a job to do as well with four kids at home and keeping them alive and understanding like what's going on. But I have them travel with me as much as possible, Like I I love them being with me. Obviously it's tough with a newborn and you know, one and a half year old and going through season with that, Like you don't sleep, like it is what it is like you got to be dad too, Like you can't just like I don't want to look back on my career obviously and sit there and like man, like I wish I would put more into my career. I put a lot into my career. But also I don't want to miss these stages of life for my six year old, five year old, one and a half and newborn, Like I don these are all stages I want to be part of, you know, because one day I'm gonna look back on it and my kid's gonna be, you know, fifteen sixteen years old, and I'm gonna want to hold them again and They're not gonna let me. You know what I'm saying, Like, there's no greater feeling than having your kids. There's a song by Luke Combs called front Door Famous. Yeah Yeah, and so like hearing that and understanding like, no matter what I do at the baseball field that day, when I walk through that door, my kids are me screaming and yelling Daddy. You know what I'm saying, Like, there's no greater feeling than that. There's no better job in the world than being a.

02:16:31
Speaker 1: Dad, you know, so right now?

02:16:33
Speaker 6: No, I mean I think I think there's one thing that somebody talk to me about it the other day and they were like, what's what's the thing that you think holds you back the most in your career And I would say my kids, because I do have that, and it's not a bad thing, Like I love it, like I love being a dad, but also like I I have dad guilt a lot because I don't want to go and work out every single day because I want to help my kids. I want to be around them, right, But also there's a give and take with that where I want them to see I'm working. I want them to see the work that I put in because one day I want them to be able to do that as well. Those are my nieces and nephew.

02:17:09
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.

02:17:10
Speaker 6: But like I mean, I think, like understanding. Obviously, I only have, you know, a couple more years left of this. I want to enjoy it, and I want to love it as much as possible. You know, it's a big thing for me, and I want to enjoy these moments with them. But you know, at the same time, like baseball isn't just you know, my world. You know, it's just it's something that I do. And you know, I'm very fortunate to have a great career and be I'm super grateful for it. But my family, you know, means the world to me.

02:17:35
Speaker 1: With that stuff, nothing shocks you have a main character syndrome more than having kids, Like you realize, okay, like we're partners in this whole thing. We're gonna go and get it done together. But once a kid comes into the fold, it's like all the things that seem so important, like whether it's the game or how you feel about your practice that day, Like it's the way is much less because you feel like this this thing is so much, well, I may need to make sure I have time with and I.

02:17:58
Speaker 6: Think that I don't think people realize that with professional athletes either. They're just like whatever, figure it out, you know, like you got this, you got that, and they're right, like, we're very fortunate and I have a lot of things right, but I still go through the same problem as everybody else does. It's like you know, somebody down the street with family or friends or anybody else you know. So, but realizing like being a dad is the greatest job in the world is something that I love to do because, like you said, like the game's going to be the game obviously, it's not going to be there forever, and I'm not going to be Price Harper or the baseball player forever.

02:18:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just you know, and not taking over too that.

02:18:35
Speaker 4: Like your wife isn't number one, But when you're you guys, when you get married and you both know what each other does, you both essentially understand what you're signing up for in this life of professional sports, anybody's career. Then when kids come in, it's like with football or baseball being like a number one priority when your kids come in, you you start, your perspective starts to shift that I want fatherhood to be such a number one priority too, So it starts to it's so that's a pool from you a little bit right in your career, in your sport, because you realize how precious those moments are. Oh how much I'll give away every single hit. I'll give away every single hit just to be able to have my kid be successful at baseball. You know what I'm saying, Like, if he plays baseball or plays another sport, I hope he doesn't play baseball. I have no desire for him to play baseball, but like at that moment, like sitting over and watching him play or play any sport or my daughter or anybody, I will give away every hit, every MVP, anything that I've ever done in the game for him to have the success.

02:19:31
Speaker 1: You know why, why do you have no desire for your kid to play baseball? Is it the all you understand, all the pressures that took place that you had.

02:19:40
Speaker 6: I think it's just more of I want him to be his own, you know, and I don't want it to always be Oh, you're brace Harper's kid, right, You know what I'm saying, like I want him to have success if he wants to play baseball. He loves baseball, he does. He loves baseball, hockey, football, like everything right now. But and also like I don't want him to get so locked in on one thing, you know. I want him to be able to just go and do his own thing. Like he plays piano right now, and uh, he loves it, like he's all about it. But like he loves hockey too, you know, like he wants to go out there and crush kids, and you know, like it is what it is. But I don't know, I just want him to kind of make his own decision and not think that because dad does it, he has to do it, you know, and he's going to a fault, like he's going to sit there and go, well, you know I want to play.

02:20:20
Speaker 1: Or well yeah, because you're a hero for sure, no doubt. Man, that's nice too. He's got piano in his bag. He's gonna have some game, no doubt, no doubt.

02:20:29
Speaker 6: Walking into like a hotel being able to play the piano, right, Like, wasn't that such a like a crazy thing growing up?

02:20:36
Speaker 1: Though? You were like, bro, you're a band. Yeah, that's wrong play piano, piano doing it? Yeah, concerts like I did not know he could do. If I'd go back in my child and do two things differently, I would learn a different language and play an instrument, no doubt. If you could do those two things. Got well rounded, very well right rounded? Yeah, Midwest dads, you want to do what you want to play piano? Hell, no question for you.

02:21:18
Speaker 4: What if your son had this similar ability that you have and he was at that spot sophomore year of high school?

02:21:28
Speaker 6: Oh man, I don't know. I'm really not sure. I mean, it would take all of me to try to make that decision with him.

02:21:37
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know.

02:21:38
Speaker 6: I really don't have an answer for you, because I mean i'd probably call my dad, yeah you know, and like hey, what do you got?

02:21:43
Speaker 1: You know, like what do you think? Like what should I do?

02:21:47
Speaker 6: I would never want to give up on my kid, like of like, yeah, I don't think you can do this, you know, so I'd want to, like, but it's such a hard place to be, Like I I've never talked to my dad about this actually, Like what like what if it would have not gone the way we wanted it to? You know, like that would have been like crazy to think about, Like he had to have had those thoughts with my mom or like people right, like I'm never We're making the best decision for him, no doubt, Like it's probably, Yeah, that's crazy. I've never thought about.

02:22:14
Speaker 1: That's like four, go high school, right, like put all your eggs in one basket for real, And the fact you tried to go back to high school too, and they're like just nuts anybody you can't. Yeah, I wonder what that conversation is like with your with your wife, like as if if I'm your dad, like sitting there just laying in bed being like this kid better? What's what was the players? Marinovitch Marinovich, Yeah right, what happened?

02:22:42
Speaker 6: Like, wasn't he like the like all time?

02:22:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's supposed to be Like basically his dad was kind of like stretching him from the crib and was just molding him.

02:22:50
Speaker 6: To kind of spike from giants little giants. Yeah, yeahat's milk on the yeas.

02:22:56
Speaker 1: All the training. Yeah, but he's him. He saw me. You guys are laughing. I'm like.

02:23:10
Speaker 7: You that little look you gave me like you knows man, don't I know?

02:23:16
Speaker 1: That line. I know that line. I gotta watch Little Giants.

02:23:20
Speaker 4: I gotta watch the movie too, But you're gonna watch the Rock I gott I get Yeah, I gotta watch the movie as a football guy and not seeing theourage.

02:23:27
Speaker 1: Yeah I did, you were good. Yeah, I gotta movie. That's a great question.

02:23:32
Speaker 4: Uh will.

02:23:37
Speaker 1: Favorite comedy though is wedding Crashers? Really none without a doubt, But like favorite movie. When I was like eight years old, I was obsessed with the movie Titanic really came out in VHS at.

02:23:47
Speaker 6: The two dhs and those two like I thought the two actors were real. Watched that for the first time when I was younger. That's real story percent it.

02:23:54
Speaker 1: Has to be.

02:23:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, that wasn't don't see the first move.

02:23:56
Speaker 1: Leonardo gets me every time. The first move I saw, Yes, I was in Lowis, California, and I saw my grandmother and that and she's like, I want you to paint me like one of these French girls. I don't know what the hell he's saying. But the next scene she's naked. My Grandma's like cover your eyes, and I'm like, oh, yeah, God, you got favorite movies moves.

02:24:16
Speaker 4: First move was a Titanic. Yeah, in a movie theater. But favorite movie, I don't know. I hate putting up that type of pea. I hate Rocky the rock Roy is up there, man, you should play Redemption the Dark Knight when we went out to Philly.

02:24:34
Speaker 1: I will just watch the merchandise movies. But I did love those movies. Knight, though, isn't like the jokes to watch the rest of it.

02:24:43
Speaker 4: Jurassic Park, Free Willy.

02:24:45
Speaker 6: He's Ledger in that movie.

02:24:46
Speaker 1: Was and they killed him when he passed away, and everyone's like it's because of his role. The Joker was so like torturous to him. It just makes that movie that much like, oh my god, he's got your.

02:24:57
Speaker 6: Best part was when he has the the little thing trying to blow up the hospital. Yeah you know he lived that right right?

02:25:03
Speaker 1: Yes, that's great. It didn't go off right first click. Yeah. Have you seen have you seen the extended scene of this when he gets in the bus and stays with you bus for a while minute. Yes, and he just stays in character the whole time and like the scene's over. It's nuts, man, It's crazy. You see some of the interviews, what's your favorite movie? The Town?

02:25:24
Speaker 6: Okay, great, movie, Who's Yeah, Who's Got Were Taken?

02:25:28
Speaker 1: No?

02:25:28
Speaker 6: I love anything Ben affleck Man. I think he's unbelievable.

02:25:31
Speaker 1: Argo. Have you seen Argo? Not seen seen the Accountant that we checked that count? You were a football guy growing up with your favorite football movie?

02:25:38
Speaker 6: Remember the Titans?

02:25:39
Speaker 1: What's two man? I don't know?

02:25:42
Speaker 6: The replacements is hilarious.

02:25:44
Speaker 1: Replacements is night? I haven't seen the replacements? Uh?

02:25:47
Speaker 6: Why what's yours?

02:25:49
Speaker 1: Remember the Titans and Friday Night Lights?

02:25:50
Speaker 6: Friendly Lights is great?

02:25:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, because since you were coming.

02:25:55
Speaker 1: What year were you born? Ninety ninety two?

02:25:57
Speaker 4: Okay, been like you'd have been in middle school or something Friday Lights came out. I just remember I went to the varsity team. The boys seniors picked me up from my house because we rented out our coach rented out the theater and we all watch Friday Night Lights together.

02:26:10
Speaker 1: In that movie.

02:26:11
Speaker 6: What was your guys spot after the game on a Friday night?

02:26:13
Speaker 1: Dry Queen?

02:26:14
Speaker 6: Dairy Queen sonic?

02:26:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, dry Queen. I remember catching like full cramps in the booth. I played both ways?

02:26:21
Speaker 6: Yeah?

02:26:25
Speaker 1: Why not? You know four thousand? Yeah, dude, Dairy Queen was my I went to two I schools. The first one was Darry Queen. The second one was Zips. After every game, go to zips. Hey, who's having a party? You know what's going on? But they're gonna be girls.

02:26:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, with zips, like a I mean what zips?

02:26:45
Speaker 1: Like, what is it?

02:26:49
Speaker 6: He's like the greatest.

02:26:50
Speaker 1: If I was on death row, it would be it would be for zips. So yeah, zips. The origin of zips is Goldies is a it's right to a bunch of baseball diamonds in Arizona. You would love that. You can go play baseball and then go where's that. I don't know where the Goldies is? No, no, No, it's not that area. But Zip's just there's sixteen locations of zips and recently just they just got raided by Homeland Security because they're allegedly forging social security Not that's not important. Yeah, I tell you what, if they let me, I'll get it. I'll get a team together right away. But zips, dude, it's a it's a it's a classic sports bar. You can go there, play shuffle board, do all the things. But you're gonna go, You're gonna walk in, You're gonna tell them I want the Monico Ficasha with extra jalapeno dipping sauce half and half with the onion rings in the fries, and then you're gonna get the golden wings, medium, extra crispy, extra sauce, extra ranch inside are your rancho blue cheese branch. That that was a test. That meal, buddy, I'm telling you, like, one of the best best moments of my life. That picture doesn't even do it justice. That that does it. That's a that's the ficasha. And that's not the Monaco. That's not for Kasha. That's a fikasha. It's like the bar food type f kasha. It's a bar for kasha. Not the white tablecloth. There's there's like there's your right frstend, need your eyes, there's your monica right there. That's that's the one, buddy, you eat that looks like all right. The fear I have is you paying it as the greatest meal of all time. And he might go at some point it's you have to go the one on uh Via Linda and Hayden. You go to that one, You're you're not going to be disappointed at all. But one of my favorite moments was all the boys we went out to Arizona and what we did was at super Bowl the spring. I thought it was a spring game a state And I'm like, I've been talking to Zips way more than I even have on this podcast. And we go there and all the boys were like, we understand the hype. They elite. What fucking there he is? I've always been there, I've never left. You've used different different verbions. Elite I've been used in a while, but it is. He's correct, it's elite.

02:28:59
Speaker 6: Get his I don't know about.

02:29:01
Speaker 1: Because I'm not a leade anymore. So oh yeah, hey, what the fuck?

02:29:10
Speaker 6: I don't know?

02:29:11
Speaker 1: Was that the GM? It's a good word, right there? Was it the GM that said that the president? The President comes on, he does a press conference, he says Bryce is no longer an elite player. Yeah it is. I mean, what are you gonna do well so you can instead of good? Yeah, but stay great instead of good. It's something like that.

02:29:28
Speaker 4: But that feels like it's like unheard of for anybody that high a level to come on kind of talk about a player like that.

02:29:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.

02:29:33
Speaker 6: I don't think it's I think there's things within the organization that you probably shouldn't say in an outward like expression, right, like if you if I had a problem with you, I probably you know, if you were on my team, I probably bring you to the side and talk to you. And so I think that was one thing when I signed there was like hey, like we don't say anything about the organization outwardly or anything else, like make sure it's behind the door, closed doors, and if you have a problem, like we'll talk about us. Keep a family, no doubt. And so I think that's the kind of where it rubbed me the wrong way a little bit with that kind of stuff. Like I respect Dave and everything that he's done in the game and everything else he's created, his job and stuff. But you know, I think for me personally, like if you have a problem, like you know, you can talk to me and have an issue with it, like the way I'm playing or whatever, Like it's not going to motivate me. Like that's the thing, Like anything that people say like that, like that doesn't motivate me.

02:30:22
Speaker 4: Like kind of just like, but that kind of transparency is always helpful like within the relationship.

02:30:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, like knowing, you know, just us being on the same page. You're doing like exit interviews or something like that. Yeah, like hey, where do I stand? Like hay this, Yeah, that's how we're evaluating you right now. It's going to change your mind.

02:30:36
Speaker 6: And I don't even have exit interviews, you know what I'm saying, Like it's it's something in baseball, like I mean, some guys might have him, but we don't. But like again, like if he had something like that to say, like obviously I want him to say it to me.

02:30:45
Speaker 1: I assume he has your phone number. Yeah, okay, so that's probably that probably a good way to do.

02:30:50
Speaker 6: I think the tough part is like it's just a story that doesn't need to be out there. So like when we get to spring training, it's gonna be a story, Like people are gonna talk to me about it, people are gonna ask me about It's just like it doesn't need to be a story, Like there's no there's.

02:31:01
Speaker 1: That boy I do like a good rip, a good rip.

02:31:06
Speaker 6: But like I think that's the thing, Like you don't want stories like that in spring Like you don't want that to be right when you get there, Like, hey, what do you think you know?

02:31:13
Speaker 1: Like great, this is what I have to answer. Besides, everyone's got their opinion onward yeah, exactly where were you when this took place?

02:31:19
Speaker 4: I assume you just found out like everybody else or somebody might sent you a link.

02:31:23
Speaker 1: Where did I see this? I don't know.

02:31:27
Speaker 6: I can't even remember. I was just shocked more than anything. I was just like, that's that's kind of wild. It's a wild take. Yeah, you know, have you Obviously I didn't have the greatest postseason or like the year that I wanted to have. But if they want to talk about like you know, what stats mean or anything else, like they have their numbers, like they know where I'm at, like number wise for you know, the tier of the league and stuff like that, like it's still there, you know.

02:31:54
Speaker 4: So was there any beef with you guys like throughout the season to where it could have led them saying that.

02:32:00
Speaker 6: No, No, I think that's like that's the thing. Like I have a relationship with you know, Dave, So it was just like kind of weird you know for him to even oh, yeah, sure that way, you know. So it was just shocked.

02:32:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes you wonder like what would make will go through his mind and he's like, yeah, this is the this is the appropriate time to bring up a comment like this.

02:32:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean again, like obviously we didn't have the postseason we wanted to. We got beat and didn't in the way we wanted to. And I know all those things like and if you want to blame somebody, I don't mind you blaming me, like I didn't play well, you know, like I didn't have my best series, And I'm totally fine taking the blame for anything that happens, like it comes with you know, the territory and things like that. But things like that just don't motivate me to extent, Like you know, I know I need to be better, right, you know what I'm saying, Like I get that, Like I need to have a great year this year, and I plan to do that, Like I don't plan to not have a great year.

02:32:50
Speaker 1: So we'll see where where does your mind go when people like obviously people reference baseball is a game of failure, like if you hit three out of ten, like you're you're an all star, you're a stud. When you get into these situations where you maybe don't have the best year and you know you have to have a great year this year, maybe it doesn't start the way you want, Like what is the superstition like, how do you get yourself out of those mental funks?

02:33:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, my dad always says, it's a season for a reason, right, Like, you play the full season, you have six or seven months of baseball, and so if you have one bad month, it doesn't really mean anything in baseball, right Like, you have five more months to be great. The years that I won the MVP, I didn't have a really good you know, month and a half or you know, I lost out on two months or something, and then bang, I bang for four months and I'm the hottest player in the world and best player in the world, and there's the MVP.

02:33:36
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

02:33:37
Speaker 6: So I think just having a plan for yourself, understanding like what works for you. You're not gonna feel great every day. But Dustin PERDROI all you used to stay too, like you rake, like any given day like you rake, and raking means like you're the best hitter on the planet.

02:33:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like you rake.

02:33:53
Speaker 6: So it doesn't matter how you feel in the batter's box, doesn't matter, how you feel in the cage, doesn't matter anywhere else, like you rake. So just understanding that you're really a baseball player, a really good football player or you know, anything that you do, like be great at it and don't lose that motivation or that confidence to be great at it even if you're going through a little bit of a lull and staying as even killed as you can throughout the whole process of that.

02:34:13
Speaker 4: You know, how hard is it when you're in it, when you're reminding yourself you rake or it's a season for a reason, and it's you might be in week three where you're like fuck, man, like I keep you know, I'm trying to get out of this thing, but it seems like it's not coming together right.

02:34:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, Then you feel good. Then you go out there and you're still thinking, like, man, you know, is this am I? Who? I think? I am? So little superstitions Like when we went to that Cardinals game where I threw that first pitch the catcher he had like a bat in the corner and I went to grab it, and then I think somebody was like you probably you probably should ask, And I asked you. I was like, hey, can I touch the beaty? Like no, you can't. But there's so there's so many like things you have to get right or superstitions. I guess but yeah, will question.

02:34:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I think for me, like every every day, every day you come in, like you can feel good or you can feel bad. Like I mean there's days where you feel great in the cadri and BP you go over four to three punch outs, you know what I'm saying. So like there's no there's no get, Like you can't buy in so heavily on BP or heavily on you know, feeling good. Like I could feel my worst and have a great series and get nine hits in a series with you know, two homers, and I'm like, dude, how did that happen? You know? But you can go a good month and a half and then you lose it for a week and you're like where'd it go?

02:35:28
Speaker 1: Like what what just happened? Yeah?

02:35:30
Speaker 6: You know, and that's just how baseball works. Like you run into some good pitching and you know, you face Paul Skins on a Friday and then Jared Jones on a Saturday, and then you're facing somebody, you know out of the bullpen I left the other a bullpen throwing ninety eight two one hundred, and you're like uncle, yeah, I'm saying, like what are we doing? Like give me the average white ridy that throws ninety one.

02:35:48
Speaker 1: You know, like, what are we doing?

02:35:51
Speaker 4: And I'm talking about that's what we needed.

02:35:52
Speaker 6: To Like jeez, Louise, But like there's so many good pictures nowadays, there's so many, you know, different time a pitcher's lefties, right he's.

02:36:01
Speaker 1: Throwing a you know, bajillion miles an hour.

02:36:04
Speaker 6: I mean, Raldist Chapman is the fountain of youth right now, and he's throwing one hundred and four, one hundred and five, Like it's just it's crazy.

02:36:11
Speaker 4: God, what's worse like being in a being in a slump, or like making a crucial air that.

02:36:19
Speaker 1: Might lose the game.

02:36:21
Speaker 6: Oh man, I mean the cruiser air sucks because you never want to lose a game for your team. But if I'm in a slump, I'm probably losing more for my team in a slump than I am at first base making an air for one game. Does that make sense? You know, because I'm not doing my job at the bat in the batter's box, that we're probably not doing very good as a team. I'm not saying I'm everything to this team, but like, if I'm not playing well, then that's probably not very good for my team. So I'd probably rather make the air then go on a prolonged slump because if I'm hitting, we're probably winning a little bit more.

02:36:51
Speaker 4: What's the self talk? Like, like, when you're gonna slump? Are you just verbally abusing yourself mentally?

02:36:56
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean all the time? God ya?

02:36:57
Speaker 6: I mean for me here and me and Trey Turner who plays shortstoff for us, we just sit next to each other and just like should.

02:37:04
Speaker 1: We just go home? This is a stupid like we shouldn't do this anymore.

02:37:08
Speaker 6: We're the worst freaking guys on the team.

02:37:10
Speaker 1: Like we are absolutely terrible. You know, like you suck today, good job. Yeah, we always do that.

02:37:15
Speaker 6: We'll like walk in and go, hey, next game today, Yeah you sucked today, buddy.

02:37:22
Speaker 1: God damn, It's so funny because that's exactly how football goes to. You sit next to your boy and you are both have a bad game. You're like, we fucking we're terrible. How do we even get to this position of life? How do they let us fake it this long? But is that crazy?

02:37:35
Speaker 6: Like you probably never thought that in high school of college high school, I thought this is you know what I'm saying he's.

02:37:39
Speaker 1: Ever done in my life.

02:37:40
Speaker 6: So that's how I think to myself, though, I'm like, dude, I want to think how I was in high school or college, Like I wonder what it's is bliss, Like are you kidding me? Like I'm the greatest player in the world. There's nobody better than me tonight, Like, no chance, this guy's get me out tonight. Now it's like I got to face that left thrown out of the pen. Yeah, that's he wants.

02:37:59
Speaker 1: The first couple of guys go before you, and you're like, god, damn, he's really on right now, he's gonna.

02:38:06
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna swing breaks my bat roll. It's first basically back and there.

02:38:09
Speaker 4: I told you guys, when I struggle in college, I literally go back to the rival site and watch my highlight tapes.

02:38:17
Speaker 1: In high school, I felt like I used to be good in college. I move like that again. I never stressed in high school. Well, high school was just bad until my senior then I was all of a sudden good. But like college, I never stressed. I was like, this is like when out we're in the NFL. If you have a two minute drill and you're an offensive lineman, that's when your heart rates the highest, the anxiety is the highest, Like you just got to make sure you keep your boy alive. When I was in college, when you have a two manye drum, I'm like, oh, I'm about to get all pluses on this right now. It's not like this is just going to add to my grade tomorrow. And then you go in a couple of spin moves having by Whitney Merciless, and you're like, how the fuck do I ever If a man puts another spin move on me, I'm done. I'm dead. It's just crazy, man, It's crazy wild.

02:39:01
Speaker 6: It's the mental part is it's wild. And like guys that can kind of get through the mental like mental grind of the of the year, of the game or anything like those are the guys that you see that are at the top because you know, like baseball, man, it's it goes down here quick, you know, and it's like quick to I mean, it's it's like Shane Falco said, and the replacements more and more you try to climb out a quick stand, bro, the dep you go.

02:39:22
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was a great movie. It was awesome. Yeah, I'm sure it was a phenomenal scene. No, I mean just the replacements as that little giants and replacements, So that happened on this show. I know I must not have caught the replacement. That's crazy. You know me for eight years.

02:39:40
Speaker 6: Shane Falco man, Ohio State.

02:39:44
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's wide and watch State. Have you ever been around a guy that like doesn't worry about a thing. I've been around players that like are stress free, and I'm like.

02:39:53
Speaker 6: How, yes, I think that's so show?

02:39:56
Speaker 4: I do man, anybody that like in college, I remember Rex burke Head. It always felt like he kept himself so poised where I feel like there's mental warfare happening in my head.

02:40:07
Speaker 6: Shout out to you. He won me a fantasy league on a uh on a uh whatever on the what's it called when.

02:40:16
Speaker 1: You fancy football? Yeah? But uh ppr no, that's she's the championship.

02:40:22
Speaker 6: I sound like an idiot. It's okay, okay, eleventh or twelfth week for the Texas. He put up like fifty points back to back weeks.

02:40:35
Speaker 4: But I always felt like he always kept himself so poised, and I'm like, hey, is there anything that you do? And he ended up giving me this book called The Mental Age by Kenneth Bam. He's like, read this, and I will say reading that book, it was a whole different perspective. It's like four Agreements or the Fifth Agreement, where you just have this whole new perspective on using your brain as something that could be an advantage or helping you versus how you learn about yourself where you just talk to your you talk down or you have so much doubt to compartmentalize. And it kind of just opened my mind up. But Rex was a guy I always saw himself the way he carried himself. I'm like, what does this guy fucking have? Like I need whatever.

02:41:09
Speaker 1: It seems like he's posturing to me, but it seems real. I always think with the Trent Williams store, you tell and now he's sitting.

02:41:15
Speaker 4: There, But that's the guy who had the same the same mental that you had in uh like college and high school.

02:41:20
Speaker 1: Like he just still had that. That's what I'm saying, Like, guys guys have that, Like Trent Williams when he goes to a game, he's like, man, I'm a ball today, And I was always like, I hope I don't get found out today. Yeah, he was a dude. That just was he was so dominant.

02:41:35
Speaker 4: Tailor's referring to a time after practice for me and Logan Paulson, a couple of white tryards are just like fuck man like injuries. You just talk about practice being tough and everything else.

02:41:43
Speaker 6: It's the original exciting whites, Yeah, original Aogs and Trent came and sat down and he was kind of participating in the conversation.

02:41:51
Speaker 4: He's like, man, I'll be honest, I'm just waiting for a day that somebody walks walks in those doors and challenges me at practice. And he said in a way of not like us laughing or being arrogant, he said so innocently, where it's like that dude just has the right.

02:42:03
Speaker 1: And did he say it right in front of Brian A. Rackpo, who we go get those against every day. Yeah, yeah, right.

02:42:08
Speaker 6: But I think that's I think that's how you came up too, Like that's how like the people that around you to kind of put you in that like in that light. And then like, I mean, I don't know, my dad did such a good job of like building my confidence, like unbelievable job of building my confidence, and so I think it's kind of just carried over to where I am today. Like I feel that way when I walk into the clubhouse every day, like nobody's better than me obviously, like when you're going through this, you know, through a funk or anything else, like it sucks, but at the end of the day, like when I walk out on that field, like my name's still my name. Yeah, right, Like you know what I'm saying. There's a guy that always says that before we walk out on the field. He's always like, hey, remember your name is still your name, and so like that's the thing that I always think to myself, like, man, you're right, like your name is still your name is you're walking out on the field.

02:42:51
Speaker 1: Dad, what are some things your dad would do? It's still a type of confidence in you.

02:42:57
Speaker 6: I mean for me, like this is this might sound weird, but like he would always buy the best baseballs. Like I grew up in you know, lower middle class, like we could afford pearls all the time, but like he would always go out and get like the best baseball. So when I'm hitting, balls would fly, and so the confidence there, like you know, i'd hit on a He would always tell me when I was younger, I'd go to you know, hit on a baseball field and be like, oh, yeah, this is only like two hundred and fifty feet, like, don't even worry about it.

02:43:21
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, like whatever.

02:43:23
Speaker 6: He'd be like a three hundred foot fence and I'm hitting balls over it at like, you know, eleven years old, and I'm like, dude, this is nuts. And my dad would be like, hey, today, that actually was a three hundred foot fence, and so like he would always like give me that demeanor and I'd be like, are you seriously, But yeah, like this is what we do, you know what I'm saying. So, like, I mean, we did so much stuff.

02:43:40
Speaker 1: Man.

02:43:40
Speaker 6: He was such a good just you know, I don't know, he just he did such a good job of kind of motivating me and my you know, my brother and my sister as well. And he grew up tough man, and so for him to be able to go right where my grandpa went and left like was pretty incredible.

02:43:56
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, just really really good motivator and all that he did too.

02:44:01
Speaker 6: Like i mean he ran job sites of over a you know, five hundred guys and did a great job doing that and was able to just like he was a builder of men in that in that type of work. H you know, he'd get eighteen nineteen year old guys in there with him. He'd have to build them and they loved him, you know, just because you know the way he was so and he did that as a dad too.

02:44:20
Speaker 1: So that's cool man.

02:44:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, really good.

02:44:23
Speaker 1: You got the team USA. You about to do the Olympics.

02:44:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a hockey This is one of the hockey ones.

02:44:30
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics. Yeah, he was watching some of the skating. I'll tell you what. I was sitting there late there last night with tailing and there was like I don't know what sport they were in, but some guys were asked like, how do you feel about representing America? That's and the way they answered the question was like because of the stuff happening in America, like it feels weird to wear the flag and just that patriot. Me was like, hey, I know there's stuff going on that we're not all excited about, but like to represent your country, regardless of what country your represent if you're from there, like you should be. They're so proud. I mean one hundred percent.

02:45:03
Speaker 6: You just said it, like obviously there's things that are going on in the country that you know aren't good or people don't believe in or whatever, right, like politics aside. Like for me, when you're going and representing your country, you're representing your country, man, Like, yeah, block all that out, like it's sports, Like we want to put something on the TV that is happy and good and just great for everybody to watch, right like, and so representing your country. There's nothing greater than representing your country. There's really nothing.

02:45:30
Speaker 1: I mean, think about your relationship with your wife, Like, I'm sure there's things that you guys have arguments about. Sometimes you're like, I wish she did this different. I wish she probably thinks that about you. It's like we all, like in a relationship, want different things sometimes, like and the same thing goes through your country. Like there's things that happen in America that I'm not like super fired up about. But I still love America for sure. I still love being a part.

02:45:49
Speaker 4: I mean, you're not gonna go out when you get a moment on the pod to be like, yeah, you know, there's I don't always feel the best.

02:45:54
Speaker 1: I have the last name of Luwan right now, and there's some things that we can fix it home, right, Coop.

02:45:59
Speaker 4: This is, by the way, this is a rare sighting of Cooper comstock or graphics designer on the bus during.

02:46:05
Speaker 1: He never comes on for any interviews.

02:46:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, couple live in the shadows. He's a graphic design but he loves baseball. So Coop, I just want to give you the mic for a moment. I don't know if you have a question for mister Harper here, I.

02:46:16
Speaker 1: Kind of have one.

02:46:17
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm about to sound like a reporter after all that.

02:46:21
Speaker 1: You love baseball. I do love baseball. I want to know.

02:46:23
Speaker 6: I mean we're kind of talking to USA, Like, you didn't get to play in the WBC what three years ago? I think it was the same time as the TJ YEP.

02:46:31
Speaker 1: Like, who are some guys you're looking forward to playing with? Maybe against?

02:46:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Judge is probably my favorite. I'm really excited to play with him. I mean, he's an absolute stud, has had a you know, couple unbelievable years. He's also Yeah, I'm just really excited to play with him, you know, talk to him, be around him. But yeah, I mean, first time I represent my country was when I was eighteen or sorry, sixteen and then in the Junior Olympics, and then eighteen the year after being able to kind of do it now and put USA on my chest. I'm really looking forward to it.

02:47:04
Speaker 1: So a lot of that was a reporter question.

02:47:07
Speaker 4: I just pictured him being in Florida or Arizona for spring training, and that's like one of the first questions. Then, you know, Aaron Jodge, A're excited get around here, rattle some bats with the boys, excited to get after.

02:47:18
Speaker 1: A lot of guy guys out there. You brought up a judge torpedo bats.

02:47:23
Speaker 6: Torpedo bats? Wow, you do watch well?

02:47:26
Speaker 1: Yeah? I thought was bad. Headline did come across, Yeah, it came across my timeline. Yeah, I'm not a fan. Okay, they're not a fan of torpedo bats. Why it's kind of to me.

02:47:39
Speaker 4: So you think torpedo bats are just overrated. You don't think it's like, you know, where if.

02:47:44
Speaker 6: It works for somebody, thing, that's great.

02:47:46
Speaker 1: But I don't think have you ever put your hands on a torpedo bat. Yeah, and you've swung it and it's not like it doesn't strike as much as you think what you struck struck out.

02:47:57
Speaker 6: Piece of ship isn't it crazy to think, like, in the next six years, I could strike out twelve hundred times.

02:48:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's nuts. With a torpedo bat, it'd be like four.

02:48:06
Speaker 6: Like I hope it's not that because I'd be crazy, But like, it's like if I could strike out a thousand more times in my career, how.

02:48:12
Speaker 1: Many bats would be over the next however many years you just said.

02:48:18
Speaker 6: So you do the mass six hundred, six hundred times six right, Yeah somewhere in there probably, Yeah.

02:48:26
Speaker 1: Th bats and still be a beast.

02:48:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, strike out a thousand times?

02:48:30
Speaker 1: Maybe? So we don't like the torpedo bat.

02:48:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, just not into it. I like I like the Model I swing, the Model ice Wing, the Model I swing like the bat.

02:48:39
Speaker 1: Model got you the ice wing? Yeah? How about the old tp.

02:48:45
Speaker 6: X bro Hey, I used the Demerini Voodoo but nice. Yeah, but I grew up using like the Omaha Gold Yeah, and then like the uh trying to think of the air response air Gen one X yeah, and then I switched to double wall back them any.

02:49:00
Speaker 8: Which one we were using for the five hundred foot home run in high school? That and is that true because you've never hit one that five hundred in the MLB. Yeah, no, I'm saying, is it true that you never not happened? You've literally never Philly a piece of ship.

02:49:25
Speaker 4: The next questions even worse, what is you actually hit five hundred feet or is that just kind of fading because you're in the MLB and you've never done that.

02:49:34
Speaker 6: Because the metal bat is like, yeah, it's different, that's that's the de mariniy voodoo. Actually, but yeah, I mean I hit it pretty far fet this one. They said it wasn't it was on like like the track man stuff that they use now. So that was like five o four.

02:49:51
Speaker 1: I think that's that one right there. We're watching right now. But I don't know.

02:49:55
Speaker 6: I always had a coach that said, it's not how far, it's how many.

02:49:58
Speaker 1: M hey a bar I go the way you want to clump? Yeah, well, outside of my drumb outside of my terrible question, what's the meanest thing a Philly fan has ever said to you? That you remember?

02:50:09
Speaker 6: You walked away?

02:50:10
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck? Man?

02:50:11
Speaker 6: Like, the meanest thing of Philly fans said had been early in my career, so I probably don't remember. Actually yeah, I don't really remember.

02:50:21
Speaker 4: He blocks out the noise Yeah, who's one of the who's one of the best trash talkers you came across in the MLB?

02:50:27
Speaker 6: It's a great question trash talkers. Hum, I don't know, it's so weird in baseball man, Like they don't really like you can't really like talk from across the dugouts.

02:50:40
Speaker 1: Like it's kind of just like, you know what I'm saying, Like you're at first guy hits a single, he's sitting over there. Maybe you trip them a little bit.

02:50:47
Speaker 4: Hey, nice shoes, or maybe after a game when you shake hands you get a little pat the head comment.

02:50:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't do that either. You don't shake hands after a game.

02:50:55
Speaker 6: We never did.

02:50:56
Speaker 1: Lost and we've lost the We've lost a sportsmanship in baseball. Man, who do you think holds the the best athletes? Oh?

02:51:09
Speaker 6: Man, we're gonna have this conversation right now. We'll pro sport baseball. You think so, I mean, can a football guy come onto a baseball field.

02:51:16
Speaker 1: And do it on?

02:51:17
Speaker 6: I just decide you think that a football guy can come on a baseball field and hit a baseball?

02:51:21
Speaker 1: Yeah?

02:51:22
Speaker 6: Really, yeah, we do it.

02:51:24
Speaker 1: We had You want to faceball?

02:51:26
Speaker 6: You want to face Paul Skiings or scooball.

02:51:32
Speaker 1: That's nothing.

02:51:32
Speaker 4: Hey, this is this is a that's will we see right there?

02:51:39
Speaker 6: Just make it play and you see the cleague too. Like that was when I was like, athletes are we talking about? That's what that's So this is the thing, like are we talking because the best athletes in the world are Olympians?

02:51:47
Speaker 1: Hold On, hold On will show you right now is him doing y'all's job. And this man was on practice squad his first year in the league, no doubt, no doubt.

02:51:56
Speaker 6: Maybe you should have picked baseball man's better.

02:52:00
Speaker 1: No.

02:52:03
Speaker 6: I think there's always these conversations about like what's the hardest sport? And I think baseball is the hardest sport to play, and it's not even close, because if Deon's think it's even close, Deon Sanders payed both right, Bo Jackson, Bo Jackson. But Deon Sanders always says there's nothing harder than hitting a baseball, and I really think I don't. I don't think there's anything close to hitting a baseball.

02:52:22
Speaker 1: Your argument that you're having right now is not between baseball and football or basketball. It's between baseball and hockey. That's your argument right now. The hardest to do, like the barrier of entry is the hardest.

02:52:32
Speaker 6: So like skating backwards and all that kind of skating.

02:52:34
Speaker 1: Using a stick, like you're you're going from hands to now you have an extension of your hands, and that's how you have to operate. For sure, he'd be easy, bro, Yeah, I'm with you. I'm not, but I'm just trying to support you. Say, use this pitch. Let's watch Taylor. You tell me this is not hard. I'll tell you that chick in the yellow you can go back. She was saying, some means, yeah, do this piece of ship to watch this pitch.

02:53:04
Speaker 4: This is right after baseball NFL players play.

02:53:10
Speaker 1: Got the pitch? I liked sinker bang bang? You like that?

02:53:16
Speaker 6: Grind up a second?

02:53:17
Speaker 1: You got me? What would you have done with that pitch?

02:53:20
Speaker 6: Probably ground out a second?

02:53:27
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you?

02:53:29
Speaker 6: I mean, what's the hardest thing to do with football?

02:53:31
Speaker 1: Play every snap?

02:53:33
Speaker 6: You're right.

02:53:34
Speaker 1: You have to have durability, you have to have athletic ability. You have every shooting size on the football field. Guys have to cover dudes with One guy knows what he's doing, the other guy doesn't know. Just has to be reactive. Another guy has to put a ball in a place that only the guy he wants to catch the ball is gonna catch it. I would have to stop these guys that are to eighty four percent body fat from getting to a quarterback.

02:53:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, coming across, I mean coming across, I mean one hundred percent.

02:53:57
Speaker 1: Like toughness, coming across the middle running a.

02:54:00
Speaker 6: Four to three and he's two d and eighty five pounds.

02:54:02
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, you're covering your mirror gibs out of the backfield. I mean, yeah, come on, man, that one didn't do it for you? What that was like? Hitting a baseball is hard, Yes, no doubt about it. Field Is it that hard?

02:54:18
Speaker 6: Carlos coming and trying to hit a ball one fifty at you? You're scared of the baseball? Right?

02:54:25
Speaker 1: Was that was? I mean, like, how many? How many?

02:54:32
Speaker 6: How many times do you think you can get a hit in like one hundred at bats against like Jacob d Grom one? You really think you can get a hit off them in a hundred at bata?

02:54:39
Speaker 1: I think enough? Yeah, about five by Rep ninety five, I'm like, I've had enough in the tank here to make connection. So the first fifteen those balls going by.

02:54:49
Speaker 6: So fast, I just think I think everybody talks about just the heater, right. Everybody always just talks about like one o two or like one oh one, Like they're not talking about the slider or the change up or the curve ball or the one hundred and one our cutter that he throws this or that's ninety six miles slider that he throws too, or like or like my back right now, Zach Wheeler throwing a you know.

02:55:09
Speaker 1: We get it. Did you play baseball.

02:55:14
Speaker 6: To me? Here we go?

02:55:20
Speaker 1: He just starts cooking us without baseball, We get it.

02:55:27
Speaker 6: I mean, I couldn't imagine like guarding a guy obviously, like it's just I mean, being out on the edge and trying to, you know, get somebody out of the backfield, like you know.

02:55:35
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what MLB player you think could play in the NFL or get closest to playing in the NFL.

02:55:43
Speaker 6: I mean John Carlos Stanton was an all time California wide receiver. What's going to USC? Aaron Judge? Same thing.

02:55:52
Speaker 1: Judge kind of got that he got the I mean JT.

02:55:55
Speaker 6: Realmuto is a quarterback going to Oklahoma State. Archie Bradley was a oklahom a guy going to Oklahoma trade and it ever plays, So I don't know. I mean I feel like trade would get kind of broken in half.

02:56:07
Speaker 1: What's this photo? Is that right?

02:56:09
Speaker 6: No, you're right, I think that's Judge.

02:56:11
Speaker 1: Oh I thought that was Brice in the middle. Damn, Oh that's funny. Yeah, okay, get it.

02:56:31
Speaker 6: No, I mean, I I think every sport has something right, but like I mean, I think it just depends on what you call like athleticism and like who has the best athletes or like whatever, like maybe.

02:56:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be hard to arguey like what track and field? Right?

02:56:43
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like, so I mean, if it's if it's straight down the middle, like what are like, if it's if it's how who can run fastest? Who can jump the highest, like all that kind of stuff, then faster? You know what I'm saying that it's a little bit different. Yeah, But like I mean, if gift to be an athlete to play baseball, you think, yeah, are baseball athletes?

02:57:03
Speaker 4: You have to be an athlete to play baseball? I would say no, No, there's some you said cats out there, It's like they ain't as far as and I and understand playing the game at a very high level.

02:57:16
Speaker 1: The hardest sport to play.

02:57:18
Speaker 4: I would say, it's not like you have to be like an all world athlete, the world class type of athlete with as far as like genetics and bigger, faster, stronger and all that. What is it like it's the hardest I would yeah, baseball would say is the hardest craft out there. So you agree argue with how Yeah, I'm just trying to serve the pot as far as like the hardest thing to take into account Again, it's.

02:57:42
Speaker 1: About what about just kidding, like losing.

02:57:48
Speaker 6: Going down the street.

02:57:49
Speaker 1: Look at my man right there losing curling this guy.

02:57:53
Speaker 6: I think that's a chef. That's no, that's doesn't it look like Action Bronson?

02:57:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, a big ass boys with that. Give me your ranking of the core for so hockey, Baseball, basketball, Football, hardest to easiest.

02:58:10
Speaker 6: Godna get crushed. Baseball is one for me. Okay, Hockey's two, Football three, NBA is four.

02:58:18
Speaker 1: Nice. I'll take that.

02:58:19
Speaker 4: I'll take that.

02:58:19
Speaker 1: What do you think I was thinking? It just all depends on the argument.

02:58:25
Speaker 6: Well, that's what I'm saying. So like, there's there's so many arguments you can have about the sports so like running jumping, So like, is there any better athlete? Okay, who has the better athletes? NFL or NBA?

02:58:35
Speaker 1: Oh, don't get well cut up on this, but like.

02:58:37
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying the NFL to But like, okay, so are guys in the NBA because they couldn't catch or like you know what I'm saying, Like, I mean, I don't know, like too.

02:58:45
Speaker 1: So you really think that I think? Yeah?

02:58:47
Speaker 6: So like Lebron like say, one of the greatest, like one of the best athletes, right, like speaking just athlete, right, like what he was all state football, right, so like could he have went and played football at Ohio State or like you know what I'm saying, you know, like he's outlier.

02:59:00
Speaker 4: I feel like as far as barrier to entry, NBA is the hardest because you have to you have to just be you have to have some barrier of entry.

02:59:07
Speaker 1: Basketball is the easiest.

02:59:08
Speaker 6: NBA you're saying is the hardest.

02:59:10
Speaker 4: Highest barrier of entries the well you're talk about entry.

02:59:12
Speaker 1: You're talking about entry and ceiling. Entry is like just to play the game. It's the easiest game to just play from an equipment. I'm talking about getting into the NBA. Oh, but also like if I ran on a court right now, they put me in a pretzel. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, lowist barrier of entries baseball. No point at him. What are you talking about? More people can play baseball the basketball. It's easier to go and play basketball from a just an equipment standpoint. How much it costs to go do it? How much like harder to find than basketball courts?

02:59:45
Speaker 4: Pure numbers you're saying, Yeah.

02:59:49
Speaker 1: The phone, you can tell he's over that. Yeah, no, no, no, I know.

02:59:54
Speaker 6: I enjoyed this conversation because I don't, like, I respect all athletes, so like I respect everybody that does their craft to the right way, but like we never know. Like that's why I always go back to Deon Sanders or Bo Jackson because Dion and Bo always say that baseball is the hardest sport to play and those and those.

03:00:11
Speaker 1: Are two cards, you know what. I'm like, Yeah, those are big trump cards.

03:00:13
Speaker 6: And so for me, like what NFL player is going to come onto a baseball field and play like and be like be really good? Like I feel like I could take a baseball player that was an All American. It's completely different.

03:00:25
Speaker 1: Game.

03:00:26
Speaker 6: I'm not saying this at all, right, but I understand what you're saying though, But like, give him a camp or a year to get ready for the NFL, and I think he could probably remember how to go play be.

03:00:35
Speaker 1: More successful faster than a football.

03:00:36
Speaker 6: Pure Like you think Aaron Judge can go be a tight end at six nine and two hundred and you know, seventy five pounds and play right?

03:00:44
Speaker 1: Like can? I mean, I don't Michael Jordan wasn't able to do it.

03:00:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you're right, You're right, we're talking about.

03:00:55
Speaker 1: It.

03:00:56
Speaker 6: But like you take I mean Matt Stafford, he probably played all the way through high school, right baseball? Yeah, so like that, you know, I mean, can he come out after a month in spring training and come face to grom and be well? Tim Tebow did it, but like couldn't play at the highest of levels because he was Like, but.

03:01:13
Speaker 4: We've seen footballers go from a football to going in and shaking the world in the MLB, oh Bo Jackson was at all samples, Yeah, are there any?

03:01:23
Speaker 1: But there's no examples of just like a baseball player going to play football or a basketball player going to play football.

03:01:30
Speaker 6: I mean Brandon Whedon is that yep, right quarterback? Ye, Oklahoma State. So he got drafted, played in thenor league baseball. Russell Wilson, same thing. Minor league baseball is Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray like, no chance. I don't want to do that, you know, like guys, guys are like, I don't think that's for me. Yeah, they come back in the NFL and they're superstars.

03:01:50
Speaker 1: That's a good argument. Yeah, it's a good argument. Oh, Grog has an answer. The sport is boxing. Yeah, you could see how a still GBT. Yeah that is that's not it. You want to him with the bud light question. Yeah, the buut light, the blue light. Uh, Bryce, you know anyone would do anything for an ice cold crisp bud light. What is something that Bryce Harper would do anything for? I can't say Family World Series. That's the only answer. That's the only answer. I like it. Have to think about it too much, be real.

03:02:30
Speaker 4: How far would you go?

03:02:32
Speaker 1: Oh I would do it? Yeah?

03:02:34
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, you would even take half. If we're talking about it, then yeah, I mean I think, man.

03:02:44
Speaker 1: The way he looked at me something, Yeah, I mean Jeffrey Simmons sad he'd kiss another man. Yeah, Bryce World Series Game seven, you're in there getting ready. Some guy to Cloak comes up and he's like, hey, you can win, but the only way you're gonna win is if you canss this man right here and will pops up.

03:03:06
Speaker 6: For the boys.

03:03:10
Speaker 1: That's how you get it done. This is a great It was a great episode. I hope we asked all the baseball fans. They're gonna be mad about something. They're gonna we're gonna get off this pod there. But I got it. Why don't you ask about the salary cap?

03:03:22
Speaker 4: I got Why don't you guys have a salary cap? That's kind of crazy. You're kind of the leader of it.

03:03:27
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen. It's just no hams a player. I'll be fired up that you, Like, we ain't get no fucking cap? Yeay cap? Yeah, guys like three thirty no cap.

03:03:43
Speaker 6: I just feel like for our game and the way our game is going, and how much I always say this, like I'd rather be an owner than a player, Like, and there's teams lining up like or there's people lining up to buy teams, so like we must be doing it. Okay, you know what I'm saying like there's so many things that like the Rockies were bought for two hundred and you know, fifty million dollars or something crazy like that, and now they're worth you know, two or three billion, you know what I'm saying, So like, yeah, teams are making money, and obviously, like everybody has down years and things like that, but at the end of the day, like players need to get compensated the right way for the longevity of their career.

03:04:21
Speaker 4: So in a way, you could be saying, like all the organizations and people that kind of complain about the the separation or the gap, it's like there's owners that can be out there if do you want to get in this game this way, well, organization can kind of approach it.

03:04:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, what they're doing I think too, Like that's why I say the Dodgers always do so good, right, Like I'm not I'm not saying like I want to be a Dodger, right, like everybody's oh, you know that's crazy. No, Like they do it the right way because they draft, well, they get guys in their organization that are Dodgers. Like there's teams that like you know, like oh yeah, that's a cardinal Like he definitely plays like a Cardinal. Oh, this guy plays like a Dodger. This guy plays, you know, like a Philly. Like there's certain teams and certain individuals you get into your organization. You're like, he's going to be a guy for us because he matches the mold of our team, our city organization.

03:05:06
Speaker 1: Right.

03:05:07
Speaker 6: And so when the Dodgers go out there and do their job, like and yeah, they have more money than everybody, Like I get that, but you still have to put pin on paper and go out and play like you can't just be like, oh, yeah, we're better than everybody, Like, no, you still have to go out there and do your job and play well and whatever.

03:05:23
Speaker 1: And so for me, like, they still have to show up. They have to do their job, and they run it the right way.

03:05:28
Speaker 6: They run a business. They're smart, they understand what they need to do off the field, on the field, in their clubhouse, you know, management, everything, and so.

03:05:35
Speaker 1: They do it the right way.

03:05:36
Speaker 6: And so I don't think they should be reprimanded because they go out and spend money more than Colorado or wherever, Like they're just I don't know, they do it the right way from the ground up, and I think more organizations can learn from them how to run their organization because they do draft well and they do things the right way in their minor league systems that make their players great too. You know, they have some random the guy. They have some random guy that comes in and throws six innings in the postseason like it's nothing, you know what I'm saying, Like some guy that was sitting in Arizona. I can't remember the guy's name, probably not.

03:06:10
Speaker 1: I don't know. There was a guy that shouldn't find that guy's random guy postseason six innings for LA Dodgers.

03:06:17
Speaker 6: I can't remember, No, But seriously, like he was sitting in Arizona, he got the call and then came in and threw like six shuddy against I don't even know who they played in the second round, but they played Milwaukee. They played the Brewers in the second round.

03:06:30
Speaker 1: That what it was, Cooper would be the guy. It was a Milwaukee Cooper shaking his head. Yet, no, not oral, he'll find it. He'll find it.

03:06:40
Speaker 6: No, But I mean he just like he came in and just did his job, and it's like, who's this guy?

03:06:44
Speaker 1: And he dominated?

03:06:45
Speaker 6: But like that's that's who the Dodgers are. Yeah, they have all these great players, but also they have guys like that just come in and.

03:06:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, they developed, the draft, developed and they signed.

03:06:52
Speaker 6: Exactly you know, so like I can't I can't be mad at them.

03:06:55
Speaker 1: For what they do. You you brought up something talking about watching a guy play like, oh, that's a Cardinal, that's a Philly. Have you ever gotten the title of, Hey, this is a guy that plays like this franchise.

03:07:06
Speaker 6: For me, Yeah, I feel like I'm very Philly.

03:07:09
Speaker 1: Very Philly. What makes a Philly guy? You don't know?

03:07:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think just hair on fire, hard nos like passionate.

03:07:21
Speaker 1: Blue collar blue collars. Yeah, for sure, happens. How much How much longer do you have to play?

03:07:30
Speaker 6: I want to play time like forty two if I can. That's like the number I want to get to. I mean, I'll at the end of this day, I'll be thirty nine and I'll have like a couple more months to twenty years. Yeah, so I'd love to get to twenty years.

03:07:42
Speaker 1: Fortunate to get to twenty years. Yeah.

03:07:43
Speaker 4: I think when you when you reflect on your career, is there a moment, a decision you made, a conversation or situation that happened that you look that you look back on and which you would have handled it differently, or you felt like I kind of failed in this instance.

03:07:57
Speaker 6: I think for me, growing up, you have to learn from what you you do. And so I'm glad everything's gone the way it has just because I've learned from each situation I've ever put myself in for that kind of stuff, like on the field or in the clubhouse or anything else. So the decision I make in the clubhouse or that I've made prior to being in Philly or in Philly or whatever has really helped me go this way instead of this way. And so the things that I've learned from guys over the years, good and bad, has helped me, you know, with guys around me or given them talks or anything else. Like it's I think everything I've done has got me to where I am today.

03:08:33
Speaker 1: So I love that. Yeah, I feel great. This is awesome. Awesome. One recommendation for people in Nashville to GOE where would you put them on?

03:08:45
Speaker 6: If I had that name of that place yesterday, I would say that place really because it's a Mexican spot, and like there's not many Mexican spots in Nashville.

03:08:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. The best restaurant you've ever been to in your life, in my life, in your life. Oh my gosh, you're like, man, if you if I could have one meal again to be this meal? What's your zips? Oh my zips?

03:09:06
Speaker 6: Probably Cacari, man, what is so? It's a Greek place where they got like lamb chops and in San Francisco and San Francis. Kacari is very good.

03:09:16
Speaker 1: And it sucks that we were just in San Francisco two days ago.

03:09:19
Speaker 6: I mean, Ucci is very good sushi.

03:09:22
Speaker 1: Where's that at? So?

03:09:23
Speaker 6: Denver, Colorado?

03:09:25
Speaker 1: Really crazy? Right? Denver? Is that wild? Yeah? That's wild. Yeah.

03:09:29
Speaker 6: There is a place Argentinian steakhouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, banging all right, Yeah, unbelievable Minneapolis.

03:09:41
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

03:09:42
Speaker 4: You gotta travel the country.

03:09:43
Speaker 1: You know, we do. We gotta get off our asses when we travel. Yeah, we just go and do what we're supposed to do and then go to the hotel.

03:09:48
Speaker 6: Sunday, Monday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday Sunday. Shoot, I don't want to screw this up. I think it's Friday Saturday Sunday in Philly whoa very good too?

03:09:57
Speaker 1: Yeah?

03:10:00
Speaker 6: Is that it?

03:10:01
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think it's Brazilion, No, not Brazilian Argentinan. Yeah, you gotta get the zips man.

03:10:08
Speaker 4: What parts of the year are usually back home?

03:10:11
Speaker 1: Right now?

03:10:12
Speaker 6: For how November till I leave Sunday Saturday? November Saturday.

03:10:19
Speaker 1: I want to get up a the next year or to the end of the year. We think we'll just have to get the boys back together. Yeah, we need some food become we're Philly fans. Now we're Philly fans or San Francisco fans. That's it. Cardinal this place right here. What's a college room? It's called very good.

03:10:42
Speaker 6: What's your guys favorite hotels?

03:10:44
Speaker 1: Like chain?

03:10:44
Speaker 6: You graduate?

03:10:46
Speaker 1: Graduate? Graduate is fun? Yeah, I like to graduate any like college town you go to they have like the culture of the school there.

03:10:53
Speaker 6: We didn't talk about any college man, I'm so sad. So what we didn't talk any college football?

03:10:59
Speaker 1: This is this is a new Willy flavor. But I've been in a few four seasons and four season elite by good. Yeah, bro. First one I went to is the one on h on our honeymoon. Here we go, where we go?

03:11:20
Speaker 6: They say the one that I know, the one in Philly is the number one rated h four seasons in the country in Philly, in Philly.

03:11:27
Speaker 1: Damn did we fire? Bro? See, I gotta I gotta do that.

03:11:34
Speaker 6: You must have not liked it too much if you don't remember remembers.

03:11:39
Speaker 1: Together. But that was funny thing too.

03:11:42
Speaker 6: Bro.

03:11:43
Speaker 1: He talked about Bora three weeks leading up to it. After I've heard about Bora shipload and this time he's just his brain working. Yeah, it just stopped. It happens, lights flickering. Here's a problem with this placement. Place is too damn far away.

03:11:57
Speaker 6: It's way too far.

03:11:58
Speaker 1: Is amazing? Mind flying? Yeah, like I enjoy flying. I enjoy flying with my boys here and talking about the plane going down every time we fly.

03:12:04
Speaker 6: See I don't care about crash and burn. Yeah, Like I'm just it's like, what are you gonna do? It's been fun?

03:12:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah. I just think about like if you're up, if you're up like thirty five thousand feet and it starts to not go, well, how do we handle that? Last ninety seconds?

03:12:19
Speaker 6: Are you grabbing steering wheel?

03:12:21
Speaker 1: Oh? I can get us either. I've done twenty hours. Really, I've landed a plane. Wow. Yeah, so grabbing the steering wheel. I'm just trying to get a tweet off, I hope. Yeah, yeah yeah. Oh no, you said you were bummling to talk about college football? What? Uh No, I just he's Ohio State boy?

03:12:40
Speaker 6: Wait in I L I mean there's so much stuff like, it's just it's crazy.

03:12:45
Speaker 1: It's a crazy world.

03:12:46
Speaker 6: It's crazy.

03:12:46
Speaker 1: I know it's Where have you put any money into?

03:12:49
Speaker 6: Uh?

03:12:49
Speaker 1: Cmon ile and waity? How are you Ohio State guy? I don't know, maybe you have I don't know, maybe Ohio State. How do you think Jeremia Smith State there last year? Yeah? Right, not that much at four point five? Oh yeah, no problem. How are you Ahoo State guy?

03:13:02
Speaker 6: My wife went there, she played soccer there.

03:13:05
Speaker 1: That's a good time. Sorry, that's an okay, I'm an honorary remember, you know, be your own man.

03:13:12
Speaker 4: Have you put towards the n il F on for Ohio State?

03:13:14
Speaker 6: Not for the football team though, for the baseball team, girl soccer, girls soccer, women's soccer.

03:13:19
Speaker 1: No, how'd they do this year?

03:13:21
Speaker 6: They made it to the lead eight. Yeah, I think Michigan won it the final four.

03:13:26
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't know that at all.

03:13:29
Speaker 6: Florida State actually won it, and they're nasty. Really, brother, they got two girls on the team and they are housing Nebraska Legit probably just big.

03:13:36
Speaker 1: And shot our girls. They played different soccer, man, the Midwest is different.

03:13:48
Speaker 6: Midwest. It is what it is, no doubt. There's a type of soccer that they play.

03:13:52
Speaker 1: Brow It's just different.

03:13:55
Speaker 4: I remember when I was in college and there's a song this picture that a bunch of big girls. Right there after it, there's a softball player. Should just walk around with a can of Copenhagen packet in your pocket, guys put a lip in.

03:14:06
Speaker 1: We'd be at the cafeteria. I kind of did on around. We had Michigan softball. Dude, they went hard. We had a picture that was like three time All American. We would get some VP with them one time. It's terrifying. Still stepped outside the box. Do you think you get his softball as he did you? The The argument is like, is hard hitting the baseball?

03:14:34
Speaker 6: Is it?

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