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Speaker 1: All right, We're good.

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Speaker 3: Busting with the boys, hanging with the beasts, betting on the game. No woman's gonna tell us what you do. Not be over here just drinking beer and making na No baby, I'm hanging with the Fellers. He's busting with the boys.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: Yeah that's fair, and that's a that's a pretty dramatic low this time of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. We covered it on our football recap that was dropped yesterday, if you want to go check that out. We talked NFL college had a great weekend with my boy Brad Lebron.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, it sounds like your line.

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Speaker 2: Brad Lebron got married over the weekend show. Shout out the Biscuit. It was out in Sleepy Hollow, Bro, you would love sleepy Hollow.

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Speaker 4: I know, I gotta still text Brad ta congratulations on getting married.

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Speaker 2: I mean, sleepy Hollow is Halloween town.

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Speaker 4: Bro, sleepy hollow, headless horseman, like I've never been. I can't wait to hear about it.

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Speaker 2: But yes, yes, shout out Chris. At Bridgeview Tavern wrapped around the building two hour waight. We walked by him. He's like, oh, welcome to the bridge View TWARER. He's like, you look like Will Compton. I was like yes, sir. He's like you're Will. I'm like yeah. He's like oh shit. He's like, oh yeah, Nebraska. You got the Nebraska gear. He's a massive busting fan. Hooked us up with some T shirts and he was talking. He was a long line. We're standing in the line. He's telling everybody how it's going to be a two hour wait. So charl and I we walked back to the car because we got to go somewhere quick, because we got to get to uh, we got to get to the venue. We got to get to check in do all this stuff because there are some events coming up for Brad. And uh, we get in the car. He starts approaching the car, He's like, hey, you go around back here, that little that little hole in the gate, that little hole in the fence. You go through there. I'll meet you at the back door. He walks us through the back kitchen, gets us seated. We get a nice spot at the bar so we can watch the Huskers play. And Chris took care of took care of us, I was gonna say, took care of the boys, took care of my wife and I. So we got to enjoy. The food was great, the vibes were great.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so shout out Chris or some of the best people. They just make it happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We had Rochester.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, dude, Rocket that place that was awesome. Wedding was beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Wedding was great. Man.

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Speaker 4: Did Brad cryor no?

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Speaker 2: Uh, he got close a couple of times, but no, it didn't fully get there.

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Speaker 4: And you were how many grooms been did he have zero?

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Speaker 2: He just had his son standing up there and Alex had Emma, Brad's daughter standing beside her.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome. That's awesome because you said in the Reaction show there's a couple of things you had to do for the wedding.

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Speaker 2: I had to give a speech.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure it went great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. We were at Nick's Pizza. I had a little pizza, s bought, quieted down the crowd, brought everybody in tight. You gave a little three to five minutes speel very nice and it worked out well. Stands up, hugs me, tells me how much he loves me, and I'm just like, I've really got you based on the way you gave your speech at my wedding. Yeah, it was like, dude, I know, I'm sitting there listening. I'm like, bro, I couldn't have went oh yeah.

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Speaker 4: Oh buddy.

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Speaker 2: It was it was you know some heis and lows of that wedding, that being one of the lows, Brad, Like, you know, I'm telling him how I'm going to propose to Charrow and everything laying out, and he's like, bro, please let me give it, like, let me talk, let me talk about you at your wedding. And I was like, all right, bro, I'll you know, if you want to talk. Probably dress rehearsal, you can give a speech, and so Brad probably whenever we started planning for the wedding, he knew he was going to give a speech at my wedding. We get to the wedding or we get to the dress rehearsal where he's going to give a speech, and it was just kind of the wedding party and Brad, you know, he's got crippling anxiety, gets very socially awkward, and it was taking a toll on him, so much so that he started to pound alcohol, which is not a big drinker. He gets sighed. He's drunk. Now stands up there to deliver a speech and the majority of the speech was just fumbling over words and apologizing.

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Speaker 4: That is Oh, you know, it pained him so much, dude, exactly what happened.

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Speaker 2: It's pained him so much, dude, that he was in town a few months ago and we had one of our nights where we stay up to about one or two in the morning just chatting, and he went on this long tangent and to where I'm like, hey, I really I really appreciate you saying all that, and he was like, that's what I wanted to say. At your wedding, and we just started laughing because I'm like, bro, you that wedding. That speech he gave was so funny because there were a lot of moments too, like you know, there was some disorganization going on about trying to figure out who's gonna do what, we're we need to be out for times and stuff because there was no like wedding party or nothing else, so people's asking a bunch of questions. Usually when all that's happening, it falls on the bride and groom to deliver information where you want to be more stress free when the big days there, and uh to where several times he's like, hey, I probably you don't have to say anything. You don't even have to you don't have to give a speech. You have to do it. Because the speech kind of changed like am I going to do it the night before? Am I going to do it at the wedding? Do you want me to do it? There was a champagne hour afterwards where her dad spoke like do you want me to do it here? What do you want me to say? Are you just wanting me to talk about the story or do you want it? He's and he kind of There was no boundaries until like the morning of I was like, hey, am I speaking and uh he was like yeah, I talked to Alex. Her sister's gonna say something, so I want you to say something. So that day, like within an hour's time, I'm like mustering up a speech to say and he's like, you'll do it at the at the pizza spot where we all go after after the wedding. So that's how it all got coordinated. It was It was a good time. It was fun seeing everybody, seeing Brad's family, seeing everybody kind of out. There's only about thirty people there. Small wedding, but it was a it was a it was an awesome time. Sleepy hollows fun fun spot to go, especially during this time of year.

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Speaker 4: Was there a reason why they chose Sleepy Hollow? They just wanted us.

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Speaker 2: So they're like, first like travel experience together was at Sleepy Hollow. So they went, like they go like every year out to Sleepy Hollow. So they were kind of doing it as like a call to one of their better moments together earlier in their relationship.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: So everybody had to travel out to New York, travel an hour and a half out to Sleepy Hollow, ran cars like do they Oh listen, I'm not here to complain. It was a bit of a deal getting everybody out there, but it was a great time. Service was brutal, couldn't watch any ball. Not here to complain.

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Speaker 5: I love that you're saying it was hard to get thirty people out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's so funny too, because eventually somebody's like, uh, hey, I forget who who on the guys. Like one of the guys were like, hey, we should do like a guy's breakfast the morning of the wedding, and like thirty like hey we should do a guy's breakfast. Brad's like yeah, I'm down, And then of course guy brains it ends up happening like hey, where are we going to breakfast? Are we doing breakfast? Brad ends up having to pick out the spot and give everybody the information. See, bro, this is where a wedding party helps you, because you wouldn't have had to deal with all that stuff. And we go out to the we have like a guy's breakfast or whatever, and we're driving back and his brother and his dad just just giving it to him, talk just complaining about being out in New York, all small town guy stuff, just bitching about moving Yeah, bitch, is it about moving their feet? His brother was like, Hey, well, I just want to let you know I'm not you know, I don't feel any type of way about you being selected to say a few words after the wedding and Brad sitting there driving, he just kind of throws his hands up, like I don't know what you want me to say and do.

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Speaker 4: Oh bro, that's so funny, sounds like it sounds like an awesome time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good time. And then he's busting my balls. He's like, you're I'm back, and I'm like, bro, we have to like we gotta work, like we got to do stuff tomorrow. And so again we had to like leave Nick's Pizza. I was like, hey, bro, if you want me to say, if you want me to like speak or do the speech, we're gonna have to get roll because we're gonna have to leave here in like thirty minutes to go through you know, you got traffic going back to La Guardia. We gotta drop off the rental car. We had a little delay because it started raining. We landed probably we're sitting on the tarmac. We probably landed in Nashville like one in the morning last night. Last night, Yeah, WiFi wasn't working up in the air because then I get the I get the you know, I get our regiment, I get our schedule. We're gonna be who we're gonna be interviewing. So I'm trying to like, you know, come up. I'm trying to look up Mike Elco, like his resume, his background, everything else, trying to get caught up on some of the games, some of the game notes, and there's no Wi Fi working, and then you land. Then you're walking through the airport of BNA. There are so many flights, like because we landed it was like storm and it was like raining pretty hard last night. There's two flights that were supposed to head out, like I want to say it was like Chicago Midway and Milwaukee. As we're walking through the terminal that they're supposed to take off in between like ten and ten thirty, their new departure time was like one in the morning. They're lining up at the gate. Is like, oh man, te's and peas to delay travel.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, delay travels tough man tough, tough, tough sounds like overall though, four point.

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Speaker 2: Five strong, four point five good strong, four.

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Speaker 4: Point five Yeah, I take the good with the bats. Sometimes, man shout out Brad, Yeah he deserves love. He does this a guy like Brad deserves love. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: How was how is Orlando?

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Speaker 4: Buddy? I think it was the greatest family trip we've ever had. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was incredible. Top to Bob and we obviously we finished the stream Thursday night. I get up at four in the morning to make a six fifteen flight and you're like getting the kids going and stuff like that and tailing it before we go to bed and go. Listen, we got forty eight hours in Disney World. There's going we're gonna be tired. We're gonna have late nights, early mornings starting with right now, we know that we're gonna get on each other's nerves. Let's just ride. Anything bad that happens is just ride. And Talen's She's like, you're one hundred percent right, wake up in the morning. I'm a little more lethargic than she is. Easy opportunity for her to get mad handles business no problem, and they definitely like took over getting the kids ready, while I'm kind of like fumbling and bubblow, I took advantage of like I'll put the bags in the back of the car, Like that was my move to kind of chill. We get there. Kids are like half awake, half asleep, do we lamb get to the hotel. Hotel is like, hey, your room's not ready till four pm. It's nine in the morning, which is in my mind all good because we're gonna go like the hotel, where as a contemporary one the right next to it, you can literally see Magic Kingdom. You can see like the iconic Princess Tower all that whoever it is, that one right there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we go there.

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Speaker 4: There's a little breakfast spot and the theme of the breakfast spot is Winnie the Pooh. Win's first favorite like cartoon and Willow's first favorite cartoon is Winnie the Pooh, So like getting teary eyed seeing like take her walk by and they can both the kids are like this is actually ticker, this is pickelet, this is or like they are over the moon that they are there, and then like Winnie the Pooh, he doesn't go around to other places like the lady's breaking it down for us, Miss Gwen. She's breaking down, like, hey, the animals come over here every ninety minutes. There's a rotation. If you want to stay, if you want to meet all the animals the first, you have to be here for at least ninety minutes. To me, it's a long ass breakfast. I'm thinking, if the kids want, that's what we're gonna do. There's usually a massive line for winning the Pooh There's are two people, so take advantage of this. Right now, we get up there. We need the Poo's there, the sweetest little Pooh Bear you've ever Like, whoever's in that little suit handled business exactly like Pooh Bear would get the photo. We get just the kids, then the whole family and we sit down and within the first twenty minutes all the animals came through and we like happened to hit him right in like during their stride. So it was just right there, ma'am. And uh yeah, those guys, dude was it was just like seeing the kids light up the like the way they were was like this is why you do it, Like this is why you spend the money, this is why you go and you get the lightning past all that because The first place we go to is the Bayou. It's like this water one. It's like a New Orleans theme one, and it's like their first It's gonna be the first drop that the kids ever go down. And a lot of parents would sit there and be like, Oh, it's okay, this is just gonna happen. I'm trying to get my kids head a little bit. I want to see where they're a mental fortitudes at standing in this line. So I'm like, hate this drops pretty baked, Like, well, what's gonna be like all your stomach's gonna go up in the air. You're gonna feel like you're falling. It's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be crazy. Kids meeting head on, They're like, let's do this thing, and this ride is awesome. They're all the animatronics, those little things. Kids like reaching the air like majestically, like reaching for like a plant and like touching the leaf as it goes by, and I'm like seeing where those face light up. Loves it hit the drop. They're obsessed with the drop. They're all about the drop. And then we like kind of we tackle for that whole entire day. We tackle Magic Kingdom that's all we're doing because the next day we have like the tour guide that's gonna take us to all three other worlds, and we have like the Lightning Lane for the Lightning Lane that kind of like we did at the Pro Bowl a couple of years ago. Yeah, and dude, it was. It was fucking awesome. We hit all the rides. There's we go back to the hotel for like an hour, just kind of like chill for a second before we go to Mickey Mouse is not so scary Halloween that takes place like seven pm to ten, And I'm thinking of myself, Dude, there is not a chance in hell we make it to ten. These kids have been up since four, they went to bed at their regular time. They're running on e emotions are kind of getting high, more wind than it is Willow. Like Wind's definitely feeling the emotion of the day or the how long of a day it's been. And I'm like, there's no way we get to Magic Kingdom. My phone's dead. Taylor's phone is working, and they're like our nanny. She's like a big she's a big Disney goer, and she's like, hey, the parade that takes place at like eight point fifteen. You need to get a spot for like an hour before and they have like these bags where like they do a great job because they have a map and all these little pumpkins on the map where the kids can essentially go trick or treating. So we go scat at a spot. Tailing is like one of us has to stay and basically claim our ground, I know, as the father, Like that is textbook dad, Move, You've got to stand there. But my phone is dead. So we get there like seven, find our spot around seven to ten, and I'm chilling for an hour and five minutes just standing there, not sitting like bro. True, like I'm earning my stripes as a father moment to where I don't know if y'all looked up for your phone in a minute. There's some crazy motherfuckers that are ripping around Disney World, some wild ass cats. These people on scooters.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: They think they have the right of way everywhere they go, and they're running in mobs at times. I saw a fleet of them in a flying ve going up the road just mowing people over, like people are walking up on me. I had four water bottles. I won't say the brand name. But I had four water bottles, like kind of staking out my piece of land that's right on the curb. And I have like dads, and more than just dads, it's the it's the Karen moms. The mom's kind of rolling up on you and they're not saying nothing to you, but they're kind of standing in your area to where you got to take a step towards them, not look at them, but you're kind of like you're peacocking a little bit, like this is my don't even fucking try me. So for an hour and five minutes, I'm holding ground down. Kids get there. Right before it starts off, the whole part goes dark and the princess castle like becomes like a backdrop to where they're telling stories on it. There's fireworks going off on it, and then the whole part goes dead quiet and you just hear and the headless horseman starts off the parade by that's like trotting through on this big ass perch run and then who comes out? Who's the singer from the Goofy movie?

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Speaker 6: Be Oh, I know this, I know, I know it's something wire uh.

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Speaker 4: I know because I was like when he came out. I was like, oh shit, and Wing goes goofy movie and I gone. This dude comes out fifteen twenty people choreograph dance and he's hitting the greatest hits where you're hitting the piece of nostalagist you here like this is incredible. And as he's finishing, like Disney World does an amazing job of like you're looking away and as you're like, okay, I've seen that enough sits look back to your right. The next attraction for whatever's coming is there, and they're all so interactive. They come up. One character that came in and like pulls one of those on sorry I hit your nose, pulls one of those on win, and another one like kind of chose a spooky Willow a little bit like they're having a blast in the in the warm. My heart is like so full and warm watching my kids like just starstrug about all these Disney characters going by. Some woman comes in and snipes a little piece of my territory with one child and has them sit right next to winning Willow and she's now pressing into my area. That pissed me off, but I let it go. But the whole parade was amazing. We end up hitting a couple of things and then the fireworks show takes off. It's Jack Skellington and Mickey Minnie Goofy and they're displaying the storyline taking place with like going into a haunted mansion on the castle while fireworks are going off. It's just it was awesome.

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Speaker 5: Bro.

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Speaker 4: Kids are having a full melt down at the end of the night. It's perfect. I've got one over her shoulder. I'm holding like this big ass Lee Low and Stitch get back, get the kids to sleep, like eleven PM. Up at eight, and then we have this tour guide name Austin. Shout out Austin.

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Speaker 1: Dude.

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Speaker 4: He's like got the fun uniform, a little hat. He's kind of laying it all out for us of how the day's gonna go. And I didn't know if it was gonna be Like I had the Pro Bowl. What they did was they basically walk you in the back room, then you get right to the front of the line. And I thought like there'd be be a little bit different because the NFL put that on before. It's the exact same dude, where they would take us, like we went to Animal Kingdom and we hit the Safari early in the morning because apparently all the animals were out, saw all the animals, and then go to Pandora where we.

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Speaker 2: Do that Avatar ride Crazy.

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Speaker 4: It was crazy, and it's like it hits all the senses for you and you're essentially on the back of this banshee flying around, but like you can feel the banchi like breathing between your legsies. You're like saddled on it. Kids are in it. We ride it once, kids want to write it again. They're like, yeah, no problem, to stay in your seats and let us ride it again. And the second time there's like this big, like this feeling of you dropping. I'm sitting next to Willow and as the drop happens, this is one of my favorite parts of the whole entire strip. Willow leans back and puts her hands out like this like take me. She's immersed in the ride so much. I'm like it was like like it brings a tear to your eye moment. As a father, bro, You're like, this is so incredible, and it's like it's a it's a top tier ride. So we hit everything at Animal Kingdom, do this Jurassic Park one, which is also dope, and then we.

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Speaker 2: Go the Velosa Coaster.

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Speaker 4: It's not a veloss of coaster. It's like you don't drop or anything. Like You're in this like rocket ship type of thing and you're getting this like space animal egg and there's a media you're coming so there's it's like a time sensitive thing. You end up bailing on the egg and the egg ends up making it. But when Willow was like, I don't want to go on the ride, we told her, hey, this is probably a scary rider. Austin did Willow oh Wing goes on the ride. She loved the ride, like this kid's bulletproof. At this point, I'm thinking we're hitting all the rides. I'm telling them about Tower of Terror, which is my personal favorite. So we hit that. We go from Animal Kingdom to Hollywood Studios where more of like the big kid rides are. We hit that Slinky Dog ride, a toy story about seven times. Bro go to the other side. They do this whole development. It costs one billion dollars to make the Star Wars side. One billion dollars. Four hundred and fifty million of that was the one ride. So he's like, if you like the avatar, you're gonna love this. I texted you, yeah, Like it's everything and more.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: It is unbelievable, scared the shit out a willow. It depends what you like in Riodes. Me personally, I like the fear of like the drop, so it wouldn't be in mind. But as far as like special effects everything, Like you walk into this room right here that they're showing on the screen, and it's like you're a part of the resistance. You get docked by the bad guys whatever they are. You go in, they pull you in and they're like they're like, come with us, and so you go and they put you in this prison cell and one of like the Darth Vader esque individuals is like, we're gonna get it out of you. We're gonna talk through everything, blah blah blah, we're gonna get yeah no hell nine and stanch he walks away. All of a sudden, a laser, a like a lightsaber type of thing opens the door up, and it's the resistance like, come with us, hurry, So you get in. You get in these carts and they're like we've hacked these carts for you to get out and the carts are like flying around. Then those were those guys. The white guys have the storm stormtroopers. They see you and they start shooting lasers that you you're seeing the lasers like fly by you and hit and like burn the wall while you're going. That's the part that fucked though it was bro you walked away. You're like, we're legitimately in space right now, WILLI finished, He goes, how do we get back from space that fast? Like that's like that's how like realistic. It was a crazy ass ride. I would have wrote it again, but Will it wasn't having it. That slinky dog ride though. We hit that thing over and over and then we get to uh the rock and roller coaster, which is this is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's like the one ride if you're chasing the highs of like roller coasters, because really it's like Islands of Adventure has a lot of the good ones, a lot of the good coasters.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Universal Studios is much more like adult scary rides, but this is like the one ride.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that like you feel so you get to feel something.

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Speaker 4: You get to feel something. And Taylor's like, I don't know if the kids should go on this. So what we do is Tailor and I go on the ride first, and even before the ride takes off, towns like wind can't handle it, we can't do I'm like, Sweetie, like, let's find out for ourselves that motherfucker took off. And I'm thinking we're in the middle of the right, we're going upside down a loop. I'm like, hey, you right, kids probably won't like this one. So we get done with it, and the kids have like this big ass soft serve ice cream, and I look at when I go, honey, you're big enough. You're safe enough to go on the ride. I'll tell you this like it's it's I think it might be too scary for you. If you want to go, Daddy will go with you. I can promise you that you're safe. They would never put you on a roller coaster or a ride that I think you'd be safe. And but if you want to go, we can do it. Takes your ice cream, looks me in the eyes and puts it down. She goes, let's go. So we walk up there, dude, and they're like, what roa do you want to be? I was like, put us in the back, got to get the full speed. This is when's first real roller coaster. And we're like standing like the next cart is about to come to take all of us. And I'm sitting there and I go, hey, if you don't want to do this, now is the time to bail. She's like, bail. What's bailing? I was like, not do it because once they put us in that, Daddy, we we have to do the rock. She's like, we're doing it. We sitting, we sit in the back. The thing goes and cranks her in. Dad, I don't want to do this. I go in, baby, I'm telling you, we can do this. We can do this. She starts bawling, like crying. Different fear, ye, different fear. And I put it's like a movie. I put up my hand. I'm like, take my hand, both hands wrap, squeeze me like white knuckle tight, and I go, honey, we this is gonna be the hardest part of the ride is right now, not knowing what's going to happen. And we are no, it's a it's a standstill one. It does yeah, it doesn't like crank up slow with your anticipation, like you sit there and the lead singer of Aerosmith Steven.

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Speaker 2: You get to pick yourself. You need to pick your song.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, you don't get pick your song on the rock and rolling. No, this is just an aerosmith. I got you roller coaster and you sit there and then you take off like zero sixty and whatever, and when is she's she's freaking out. She's having a really hard time, and I'm like, sweetie, we've made this commitment. I promise you you're gonna be safe at the end of this. I bet you you're gonna be all right. And we take off and she screams her face up. The first thing that happens on that ride is a loop like you're going and you're immediately in a backflip and we're taking off, and I'm like, this is gonna be the hardest part right now, and we do the flipball like the rest of it's easy. We get done with the ride, and I'm like, how do you feel? And she's like wiping her eyes. She goes, We've got to do it again. That was that was incredible. And I was like, We're like high five and hugging, kissing, like, dude, you just did your first like big person roller coaster. I could not be more proud of you. Then we have a nice little teaching moment. I'm like, hey, what was the hardest part about that ride? She goes, probably the loop? I go was it the loop or was it the fear of what might happen before? And She's like the fear of what might happen before? And I was like, what's the quote?

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Speaker 2: Dad?

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Speaker 4: He always tells you. She goes, those who suffered before it's necessary, suffer more more than necessary, like hit it, spot on and buddy all time?

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Speaker 2: Is the uh? Is it? What is it called? Like the is it the rip and red rocket?

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Speaker 4: That is it Universal?

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Speaker 2: Because Taylor's in the same area, because.

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Speaker 4: The the Hollywood studios in Universal are very similar, like they kind of give you similar vibes, and Taylor was thinking that was the same thing. She's like, oh, I thought, because it's the one that kind of goes and you're like dangling a little bit, right, Yeah, you go, you shoot and then you kind of go backwards as well.

00:27:33
Speaker 2: I can't remember. Yeah, that's the Yes, that one that's like the one that's like the one big coaster again if you're like on that side. Because it is Universal Studios, Universal style Adventure.

00:27:43
Speaker 4: Right, and then yeah, that's the one Tailing was thinking of as well. Winn loved it. We did Hollywood Tower Tear No joke five times, like got done, Like can we go again, and be like, hey go again, no problem, rocks us right back up there, no way, Yeah, and it dude. We did the Guardians of the gall won. There was a ninety minute wait in the lightning lane and we rode that thing three times in a span of twenty minutes. And that that ride too unreal.

00:28:13
Speaker 2: I haven't read that. I don't think I've read the Guardien.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: Yay, that's that's like a newer one. That one was Epcot. We went to that one after we had the Tower of Tear. But kids were like you could see the magic and twinkle in their eye at whatever, the magical Kingdom, and then all the other ones are like fully embracing. We're not having and it wouldn't be a bad thing if the kids were like, I don't want to ride this, right, then you have to go and you have to walk out, but like we're a game for everything. Willow wanted to the rock and roller coaster. Tailor was like no, and she probably wasn't too tall. She wasn't tall enough anyway, probably, but like fully about it took like the tiredness on the chin and kept moving forward, like truly the best trip we've ever had as a family, like for the that was like this one's truly about the kids, Like it was awesome.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: It was theme parks are the best.

00:28:57
Speaker 7: Is there a better feeling than the anticipation?

00:29:00
Speaker 2: No, bro, And it's.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: Like when you're going in that first moment where you're like sit back in your chair, like, oh, we're kind of just ticking straight up, aren't.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: We, And then it kind of pauses for a second then catapults back up again. You're like, this is it?

00:29:14
Speaker 4: This is it? Yeah, dude, they they were. They were awesome man, And dude, this this tour guy in Austin. He was incredible the whole time. A wealth of knowledge. He was like everything we did, he was like so game for he was all about the kids. At one point, Willow's legs start to get a little get a little tired. He goes and we get to the next stop, but he's got a stroller, a two seater stroller, just waiting for them, And I'm like, oh, that's awesome. I go to like get it. He's like, you're on vacation. Let me push the kids. Bro, you're the fucking man. Ended up being a fan of the boys too. He's like, yeah, we like get towards like the middle of the day and I gotta ask you Tunnel of Chaos. I'm like, oh, oh, you're about it. Yeah you got that ride. I'll hit the ride right now. But yeah, he had it. But he was a super professional, super great guy. Gave my phone to birthday and I was like, hey, man, we'll be back, Like, it's in your it's in your lane if you want to text me or not. So we've been texting a little bit. But dude, it was sick.

00:30:13
Speaker 2: It was Sherm's got up your group trip. Group trip to Dolly World.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: It's Dollywood, dolly Wood.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: I've never been. I would love to go.

00:30:21
Speaker 1: Awesome.

00:30:21
Speaker 6: It's a great theme park. It's three hours right outside of Oxville and Pigeon Forge. It's a fun theme park in the summer too.

00:30:27
Speaker 2: They have some good coasters. Yeah, yea.

00:30:29
Speaker 6: They have a Screaming Eagle, which is like massive one, like one you'd see the Islands of Adventure. They also in the summer have a really good water park, but it's like a really fun for the family. All these like you know, like kind of like apple Acchian style, like you know, characters and like, you know, yeah, he's just like it's a it's a.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: It's a Screaming Eagle wooden roller coaster.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: No, it's it's metal, okay, And it's a beast. It looks like a beast. Is it the blue one right here?

00:30:53
Speaker 2: I think so.

00:30:53
Speaker 8: I think it's called the Screaming Eagle.

00:30:55
Speaker 2: That's dude. You get off in your legs or going to like six Flags as young. But by the way, you see Travis Kelsey's invested in He's got like a six Flags thing. I think he's like.

00:31:06
Speaker 6: With a financial group where they're trying to revive six Flags. I saw was like, this is exactly what I expect Travis Kelcey to be doing with his money.

00:31:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, which the six Flags in Saint Louis is incredible. Yeah, bro, you've been Oh yeah, bro. They got the water slide. It was one of my first ones. When the platform drops out from underneath.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: You yeah, Hurricane Harbor tank down. Yeah, yes, dude, sign me you're right? Did you go at all?

00:31:34
Speaker 7: Bro?

00:31:34
Speaker 2: Hey? The Mister Freeze. Yes, bro, you're talking about the Aerosmith one. Like Mister Freeze. My very first roller coaster I ever read was The Batman. Yeah, where you like standing lines, got gos. I'm like it is all time like we were on the Batman to where you're kind of sitting, your legs are dangling, And that was my first coaster and I was absolutely terrified, bro to where I'm I'm I was the eye closed kid for a few roller coasters until I got more comfortable. But dude, Six Flags and St. Louis with the Mister Freeze, they have a screaming eagle, but it's a wooden one and even the back too kinda kind of you know, it's got like the lore of it kind of skips tracks and things like that. But the Boss, the Boss. Bro, there was a guy who set like a world record for riding the Boss x amount of times in a row where you'd have the black gloves and everything else, and he just stayed on the Boss. But the Six Flags in Saint Louis was just a dream mud when you were growing.

00:32:26
Speaker 7: Up, got to get you out of Carowin's Dale Dale has a few roller coasters there because it's that it's like right outside of Charlotte.

00:32:32
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

00:32:33
Speaker 7: So they have the Intimidator and then they have Fury, and Fury is one of the fastest roller coasters in the country. And it's one of those that the thing is only on your thighs, nothing over top. You have a seat belt and something over your thighs and you hit that first drop, but out of the seat.

00:32:47
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

00:32:49
Speaker 4: I like the little the belt one because the ones that go over the shoulders, like obviously I'm not built for that. So every time I'm getting in, it's like comes down and I have it like this like one click yeah, yeah, bro kind of shoving it up. When I was Big Taylor and we would be at Universal as that, I'd be I like the Hulk, and they would they be a person that kind of like got me in one, like you're good. I'm thinking, Hey, no fucking way, I'm gonna dude. Yeah, that's the scariest part for me. It's just getting in the damn seat.

00:33:16
Speaker 8: Anybody go to the Six Flags in New Jersey with the King Da Ka have not.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: I've been in the one Cincinnati Logan and I his his mom. We did like a roller coaster. Or we did a theme park trip when we were in high school.

00:33:27
Speaker 4: That's sick.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: Story went to you hit the you hit Saint Louis. We went out to Chicago and hit the Six Flags. In Chicago, we went up to Ohio and hit the six Flags and in Cincinnati. I believe I think we hit one more in Ohio. But it was so fun where you're just like chasing the front seat on every roller coaster.

00:33:44
Speaker 8: My senior year trip in high school, we went to the Six Flags in New Jersey and the King Da Ka was the tallest roller coast roller coaster. I don't know if it was the world or in the US.

00:33:53
Speaker 2: Over Cedar Point. I know Cedar Point was like the big dog growing up.

00:33:57
Speaker 8: King Da I think it was either the tallest or the fastest.

00:34:00
Speaker 2: The fastest, okay, it's a wooden one, yeah, but you go up on King Da Ka and like you feel like you can see the curve of the earth.

00:34:10
Speaker 1: That's how tall you are. Oh shit, they up, they just.

00:34:14
Speaker 8: Tore it down. It's not there anymore, damn. But it was it was like if we're coming here, like this is the one ride you need to hit. And then like it was sick, but it.

00:34:24
Speaker 2: Was fucking bro The Mister Freeze in Saint Louis like you get to where you're at the end of the end of the ride and you're like going up extremely high and then you go back through it all backwards, but you start out. It's like in this awesome theme Mister Freeze cold Facility. It's cold in there, dude.

00:34:39
Speaker 4: That to me is not the best part of the ride, but I love a ride that tells a story while you're waiting a line.

00:34:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like it's one of those ones where you get you get all buckled in and everything else, and you get out to the middle of the track and you kind of you scoot up a little bit, but then you stop and then you're sitting there and it goes from like zero to sixty or zero to ninety, like you know, within seconds, and you just hear like as you're sitting there and you're like, this is it. You hear.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: Me?

00:35:03
Speaker 2: You just fly out, dude, it is. It is amazing because.

00:35:06
Speaker 7: Then there's the other side to it too, where one line is going forward and the other one ye shot backwards. Yeah, and I didn't know which way I was going I was assuming I'm going forward and it did the like the get off and I went fly backwards.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: I'll hear them it gets by you. Yeah, and it's it's one two to where as you go up at the end of it, you'll like, you know, you'll drop a coin or spit or something like that to see if it tracks back with you. I know spitting sounded crazy, but no, but definitely.

00:35:32
Speaker 4: A can't thing to do for yeah, high school thing, dude, the U. I don't know if this is a cold or well, how you guys will feel about this, but I think it's way scarier to start very slow than it is just shoot off.

00:35:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:35:44
Speaker 2: Both, I love this.

00:35:46
Speaker 4: I like them all the same. I'm just saying as far as an anticipation standpoint, and being like slowly just like cranking up for the localister start like, that's I think the biggest fear for me.

00:35:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it brings more of the fear inside of you, whereas like in the Mister Freeze one, like you're in the facility and it's more of the anticipation of hearing those clicks as they get back and work towards you and you know you're just about to take off lose your stomach.

00:36:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, that's a god.

00:36:11
Speaker 7: Shout out to whoever made the first amusement park.

00:36:14
Speaker 4: Right, there was just one in California. I think it's called like the Big Dipper and my mom. I was there with my mom one year, and I wasn't tall enough to go on. So she like went to the store and got like platform sandals and like a like a bucket hat, and I held it real high so I could go on the ride. And I was shitting myself. I was like them, I didn't want to go. She basically pulled me on the thing. I was dude, first twelve years of life, I was afraid of everything. I was afraid of doing it all. I was the kid that would like, excuse me, I get to the top of like a water slide and you start walking down the story. No, dude, I know it's so terrible. So we talk about Chad Powers.

00:36:54
Speaker 2: That's been a roller coaster.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: You gott get off?

00:36:58
Speaker 2: No, no, no, we're not going to give spoil. We can't what can we?

00:37:02
Speaker 1: Can?

00:37:02
Speaker 4: You and I talk about it after the show, then we can talk about it after show.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: I'm saying, we gotta talk. We gotta talk. About it because obviously there Chad Powers is a sponsor of ours. But I'm not I'm not talking about the last episode. Clumps like clumps like our head guy like he knows a sponsor and everything else, like we gotta talk about the last episode. I'm telling you, bro, we cannot talk about the last episode.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: You can talk about it, dude.

00:37:23
Speaker 2: I've watched it. It is incredible. I feel like people are getting bought into Chad Powers. I've been seeing a lot of people posting about it. Now, go watch Chad Powers. It is a phenomenal show. There's god, there has to be we don't know as fact. We do not know as fact. But there has to be another season.

00:37:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if there isn't another season, this podcast will be the one holding the fly for There has to be another season.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: Has to be another season, and Clump. The only reason I'm saying that we just cannot like it comes out on Tuesdays on Hulu. This show drops Tuesday morning. People aren't gonna be able to watch. People won't have watched episode six of Chad Powers, and eight is one. I just feel like we cannot spoil for people. I agree, I'm okay with that.

00:38:08
Speaker 4: I think what we should do, though, is what was your favorite moment from episodes one through five of Chad Powers.

00:38:14
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, first, yeah, somebody, somebody get us the ad. Look, the ad is go watch Chad Powers.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Is the ad is, go watch Chad Powers.

00:38:25
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm gonna sit here and do a bunch of fluff. Eight years after flushing his promising football career down the toilet, hot Shot quarterback Russ Holliday tries to re erect it. Tries to re erect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented a oddball who walks on at a struggling South Georgia Catfish team. Based on Eli Mannings Eli's Places segment from ESPN and O Mall Productions. It's a new comedy starring Glenn Powers, Russ Holiday, hot Shot quarterback. This comedy event will take viewers by surprise with the comeback story everyone can relate to. Chad Powers is now streaming with new episodes on Tuesdays on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for Bundo supscriber's terms apply. Go watch Chad Powers. Go watch it. You you said you watched six?

00:39:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, and I went back to watch. I was because we had the conversation on the plane last week and I was like, yeah, I've seen I've seen episode of five. I went back. I was missing the last like six minutes, the most important. Yes, dude, I agree on because this morning I wake up and I'm like, oh, I gotta watch. I gotta watch that, not only for this adtery that we have to do, but also for the for us three to have this conversation that we I wanted to have last last Wednesday on our flight to New York. Buddy crazy and I know you haven't seen it. Oh my god, I'm.

00:39:43
Speaker 6: Stoked for tomorrow to watch for sure.

00:39:46
Speaker 2: When we got on the plane to fly to New York, and because I had wi like Charlie was in London with Rue last week, so when Scotty was down, I was like catching up on Chad Powers watched, you know, caught up to five because five was out and it was so good. I'm just thinking, like those the last six minutes you're talking about, Jack, that I had to log in to the access we had to watch episode six, sat there, laid there in my bed watch episode six on my phone, and when we got on the plane to go to New York. I'm just salivating. I'm wanting to spoil it. Not to spoil it, because I just wanted to talk about it so bad.

00:40:21
Speaker 4: You wanted it for you. You did a good job holding your tongue. But at one point, Will goes, Can I just tell you? Or can you guys put headphones on so I can just say it out loud because I need to get it out.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just need to get it off my chest. Dude, I didn't watch the last six minute, so you've watched.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: I've watched it all. I've seen episode six now and everything.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: So Taylor hadn't watched the last six minute.

00:40:40
Speaker 4: Let's talk with the last six minutes of the episode five.

00:40:43
Speaker 2: The heart attack, the he starts to have a hotel, the wife coming downstairs, the moment you feel and I hate it for people who aren't caught up. I know everybody that's caught up. I promise you were not going to spoil episode six. And for people that haven't watched it, oh shit, they're talking about how it all went down, the moment that the wife comes downstairs.

00:41:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you haven't seen episode five and you want to just fast forward, okay, just fast forward from this point, because yeah, when she comes downstairs and they have the whole thing and the coach brings up what about the weight room or the training room two months ago? She's like, you knew about that. She's like, he basically texted it to me. I thought that's a good hard for her to walk away and end. But then she tells him I fucked us holiday in a bar, dude. While he's sitting.

00:41:28
Speaker 2: There as Chad Powers and they're trying to shoot a college game. They're trying to shoot like a game day special. Yeah, then when he chucks his keys into the water and I'm.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: Thinking, yeah, that's kind of crazy, just chuck his keys in the water. And they go in there and he's like, hey, can Ricky, can you come over for a second? Can you call it nineber one? And then she's on hold of number one. Wendy won't answer her phone.

00:41:50
Speaker 2: And that's a start of six. Yeah, chill, that's the start of six, is it? Yeah? The ending of five is there sitting there and they're kind of reflecting on the day that happened, and she's like, Ricky's kind of like Russ Holliday, and he's like, you know, He's a cancer everywhere he's been, Like, I've been following this kid since high school, college, every team he's been on, he's been a cancer. And Chad Powers. Russ Holliday's like sitting there having to drink it all in, and you're just like, it's that part to where you're like feeling as the viewer, you're like feeling bad for like Russ Holiday and Chad Powers and everything else, because as you see in the season, he is like he's trying to resurrect his career selfishly at first, but then he's like bought into like wanting to right his wrongs and everything else, and realized he made such an insane mistake with the wife at the bar the night before when he's having a really low moment, and but the ending is like, hey, Ricky, can you come here for a second. She walks over. Yet then what's going on anything? And he's like, I think I'm having an art attack and they just have the shock face and then it cuts off.

00:42:47
Speaker 4: Can I say one thing about sis? It's not going to be a spoiler.

00:42:51
Speaker 2: Jack's like, God, damn it, bro, I.

00:42:55
Speaker 1: Don't know why you do. Everybody hasn't watched it. You can't say anything about it.

00:42:59
Speaker 2: Well, technical, we're supposed to talk about episode six. We're just saying, Hey, I'm saying this right now for the Hulu people and the chat Powers people that say we got to talk about We're not talking about episode six, So quit asking. Yeah, quit asking? It is it is. It's good to where I don't want to say anything because I truly feel like people need to go watch the show. Because I tweeted about last week. You go into it thinking this is gonna be probably corny. They're beating a dead horse with this little Hollywood theatrics of Chat Powers. It is a very good show.

00:43:30
Speaker 4: It's a legitimately it's a legitimately good show. I'm gonna say one thing about episode six. I'm gonna say one thing about it, and it's not gonna give anything away. It's really just for will the bust scene, right, Yeah, all right, we're good. All I said, I didn't give anything awa, Yeah, I give nothing away. And I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't do it to the viewer. I just had I know how you feel on the planet. I had to say it. I just had to say that out loud.

00:43:57
Speaker 8: Yeah, but now like other people will know when that scene pops up.

00:44:02
Speaker 2: But just know when that scene popps anything worry about. Oh shit, here's the scene and you're not gonna know what happens, right because body don't say anything.

00:44:12
Speaker 4: I get us off the mic. Dude, if you want us to stop talking like this talk.

00:44:19
Speaker 2: That's what we need. Everybody needs a fresh sheuted downs. Go watch Chad Powers Fresh Setted Downs as a segment where we spotlight one transfer port a player current or pass who wasn't playing well or was buried on the depth chart and all they needed was a fresh set of downs in order to spark their redemption story and turn their college careers around. Do you want to you want to rip? You want to rip? Our fresh set of Downs player this week.

00:44:39
Speaker 4: Our fresh setted downs player this week is the one the heart and soul of possibly the entire sec. Diego Pavio Yeah sorry. New Mexico Military Institute transferred to New Mexico State, transferred to Vandy. Currently fifth in the Heisman voting plus eight fifty on the FANDO Sports WEOK. If you're wondering sixteen hundred passing yards, you might be thinking of Taylor fIF t TD's Boys fifteen TDS four and fifty eight Rushing Yards five TDS. That boy has taken over an entire program and they have fully embraced his mentality and they got something over there.

00:45:13
Speaker 2: Uh diego, Pavia could very easily be Russ Holiday gets.

00:45:20
Speaker 4: To the natty. Yeah, yeah, trucks a kid in a wheelchair. Friend of the show, the show very easily.

00:45:30
Speaker 2: Yes, you haven't watched it, have you? JP Club? You've watched it? Chat Powers Sure, Yeah, Hey, you gotta watch this show. It's a fun one and because it's easy watch, easy watch it.

00:45:48
Speaker 4: It's a good it's easy watch, but you're stressed. There's a piece of anxiety the whole time, which is why you keep coming back.

00:45:56
Speaker 6: They do a good job, like with football related scenes were like and a couple ofisodes you're like, oh ship like there these are games like you can like see actual like play taking.

00:46:05
Speaker 8: Place, which is fun. But there's a.

00:46:07
Speaker 4: Couple historically inaccurate.

00:46:09
Speaker 2: Things and I won't get into it.

00:46:10
Speaker 8: But it doesn't matter.

00:46:12
Speaker 2: There's gonna be holes in every TV show. There's we're not saying there's no holes in this in this story.

00:46:18
Speaker 4: The whole staff South Georgia is three people.

00:46:24
Speaker 2: We need everybody to watch Chad Pets And you're telling me like, once you get the national spotlight of Game Day and everything else, like diving into Chad powers, like you're gonna find like they they that would be put out.

00:46:36
Speaker 4: There, there'd be no way to be held.

00:46:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, this is it's a fun shows, a funny show, and it weirdly has it weirdly has you like sitting on the edge of your seat, like bought into all of the storylines.

00:46:49
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Sherman, you have a question.

00:46:51
Speaker 2: Question, how do we get y'all in season two?

00:46:54
Speaker 4: That's already in the works.

00:46:56
Speaker 2: If there isn't there would be a season.

00:47:00
Speaker 4: We guaranteed have a read for it. Yeah, guaranteed.

00:47:04
Speaker 2: We've passed our verbal messages that have been a little violent on how much season two needs to happen. Again, if the boys want to do a little cameo actions will be available.

00:47:16
Speaker 4: We can do that.

00:47:21
Speaker 5: Like, how would you want to be featured in the show?

00:47:23
Speaker 4: Honestly, probably the same what Eliam Manning was, Yeah, you just be like yourselves, yeah, each other or maybe like yeah, there's like a sit down with Chad on busting with the boys.

00:47:32
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm the head couch of the Huskers. They're playing the Huskers that week. Yeah, yeah, doing a podcast before we get out.

00:47:42
Speaker 4: We had a couple more things to do. We did the wedding. N SU Wolves won a thriller O T forty nine forty eight. After doing the all time we did the all time announcer for them, So shout out the Wolves, baby, Yeah we have sure them too. Had a great It was a great idea, a plan. Truly enjoyed making that video.

00:48:02
Speaker 2: Great vocals, thank you, thank you, great vocals.

00:48:05
Speaker 4: I've been saying it for years.

00:48:08
Speaker 2: But they did, like I felt like their social team got a lot of love, Like their team got a lot of love and attention from it. Then they got a sick ot win sick Yeah. Could not have scripted it better.

00:48:20
Speaker 4: Josh Button on tear Talk at Joshua Underscore, Button says the pelvic thrust that at will Will Compton is throwing is wild, but the eye contact he's making with the camera is out of bounds. This seems to be discussed on hashtag tear talk. You had a plan.

00:48:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a plan. You had you just had to buy in. My role was going to be more background of like vibes of you singing like be you be a role guy, And that's what I wanted to go with. I wanted with intense focus and intense staring at the camera while the hip thrust are happening. Because hip thrust, you can't you can't take him lightly. You can't just half ass a hip thrust.

00:48:53
Speaker 4: You had a fully buy into a hip thrust, no doubt about it. Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

00:48:57
Speaker 2: What another tear talk here?

00:49:00
Speaker 4: Uh?

00:49:02
Speaker 2: Which this one right here? This comes from f being sober on X What is the best blank one eighty two song of all time? Hashtag tier talk for Taylor one?

00:49:12
Speaker 4: What a hilarious handle. Yeah, that is such a difficult song. It's really like what stage of life you're in? Because they have just banger after banger after banger. The one that comes to mind is the two thousand and three self titled album, first track on the song Feeling This. I think that is my number one right now because I do still digest Blake two very consistently. But what Moody in because they got they got a little sampler, so it's like Chili's samplers, right, they got a little bit of everything based on what mood You're in? Blakelin eighty two absolutely has that.

00:49:44
Speaker 2: This one is from Big Plays only Sicko and for the Dad's PT six checking in with the new hat. Peep the sticker on the weight stack. Hashtag Sco Ducks, hashtag tier one, hashtag tier talk, shout out.

00:49:56
Speaker 4: The boy, shout out the boy.

00:49:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a nice setup. That's a nice Orgon Ducks setup right there.

00:50:01
Speaker 4: That's a Tier one right there. And it makes me feel like we should highlight a Tier one every single week, just seeing that photo at the start of something new, where that guy's just fully bought in, bought it of the ducks, bought it of the boys. Well, come, what more could you ask for? Payt sixer? What else you got? Fresh shirm.

00:50:21
Speaker 2: What scariest movie of all time?

00:50:23
Speaker 4: Fuler Lawler at Lawler under score fifty three says, what is the scariest movie of all time? Hashtag tear talk hashtags October. I think every year they come out with a scarier and scarier movie. What was the I think the number one voted movie scary movie all the time was Sinister Correct. I think that was like they had a list come out of fifty My personal scariest movie that I witnessed that affected me the most was freshman year of college. Oh my god, I'm forgetting the name of the movie. Paranormal Activity. That's exactly what it is, Paranormal Activity. Saw that with Cam Gordon at the State Street Theater. I've said it so many times in this show, but we ran back to West Quad and I couldn't sleep alone for three weeks. It was that scary.

00:51:05
Speaker 7: I felt the same way. And then the more that I learned about video editing, I was like, this is due.

00:51:12
Speaker 8: This was too easy, dude.

00:51:13
Speaker 4: The music for that movie was ten thousand dollars.

00:51:16
Speaker 2: That's all they needed.

00:51:17
Speaker 7: It was because when you like really look at how you edit something like that, I'm like, oh my god, yeah, this is ten thousand dollars worth of work. One of the greatest business moves of all time.

00:51:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, like changed it, like it sparked. It sparked this entire new like paranormal movie thing that's kind of taken over for horror films. Like it's real. Yeah, Like The Exorcist was like the first one that came out in whatever the seventies, but like then it's kind of been like whatever, until like Paranormal Activity really set it off. It has been like six of those movies.

00:51:49
Speaker 2: The Ring got me.

00:51:50
Speaker 4: I walked out of the Ring when I was twelve. Yeah, I walked out of that.

00:51:54
Speaker 2: Chucky really scared me when I was little. Paranormal Activity, I agree. First which I did coming out of that theater was was seeing if it was a true story.

00:52:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, Blair, which project is also one of those movies. Anything like a handheld.

00:52:07
Speaker 2: The Conjuring was terrifying.

00:52:10
Speaker 4: Yes, the first Conjuring movie. Dude, I need to see the newest one that came out. Have you all seen it?

00:52:14
Speaker 2: No, I haven't seen it.

00:52:15
Speaker 4: It might have to do a little little movie night.

00:52:18
Speaker 2: And then some of the Exorcists, Like there's another one there there. I forget which one it was, but the one that's like out one week, I like the Desert, you know what I'm talking about?

00:52:31
Speaker 4: No, maybe I think it's.

00:52:33
Speaker 2: Out in the desert.

00:52:36
Speaker 4: Gotta have them all this week, Yeah, gotta have all this week. The that Sinister two movie that was playing during Thursday and the football last week. I haven't seen that movie, and I kept peeking over to the side, thinking, I gotta watch this. This looks terrifying, Is it really I need that? What I need to is a new Frid of the thirteenth, because that movie's been in I think, like a lawsuits for a while. Who holds what rights? Yeah, it seems like that's gotten figured out. Yeah, that's what I heard to the grape vine.

00:53:05
Speaker 5: You could be in any scary movie?

00:53:09
Speaker 1: Which one would you want to be in?

00:53:11
Speaker 2: Be in any scary movie?

00:53:12
Speaker 4: Like do I live? Any scary movie? I could be any scary movie I want.

00:53:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, out of all your favorites, would you want to be chased by Jason Fores or Michael Myers or deal with the paranormal activity?

00:53:26
Speaker 4: The paranormal stuff I stay, I would stay away from.

00:53:30
Speaker 2: I mean, if we're in the movie immersed in the concept, immersed in the horror, I wouldn't want to be in any in anything.

00:53:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:53:37
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:53:39
Speaker 4: You could also be the villain like Scooby Doo. Yeah, yeah, that'd be That's the one I choose though, That's what I want.

00:53:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, even though you're in on the bit, you're still scared.

00:53:53
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, if if you're knowing it's a bit and you can kind of get away or do your own thing. But I'm just thinking if you're fully immersed and thinking this stuff is happening to you, Yeah, I mean, what a blender you be? Almost anything. No, just think about like like Freddy Krueger, like falling asleep.

00:54:10
Speaker 4: That's to me the worst one.

00:54:11
Speaker 2: Chucky chasing you. Yeah. Movies yeah, yeah, what do you know one of those? Because starting back up now, yea, like you're around friends and you feel like you're solving something kind of together, and you know it's a human you know, it's somebody trying to rewrite the stories that have been happening, like who the killer is scream?

00:54:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

00:54:36
Speaker 8: I feel like Final Destination would be a terrible one because you know, something could pop off at literally any second.

00:54:43
Speaker 5: I still get behind like the lumber trucks, That's all I can think, dude.

00:54:48
Speaker 4: Yes, any honestly, any rainy highway I get on, that's one of the first things that pop through my head is like, yo, Final destination right now would be crazy. Those movies got a little wonky for like the third and fourth one, The.

00:54:59
Speaker 2: Wa Out of the Dumb Ones, Hills Have Eyes.

00:55:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean any any like this is not that but Rob Zombie movies like all the gory type of Yeah, what is that midsommer hereditary? Those movies terrifying. Yeah, those just got like a creepiness tours.

00:55:18
Speaker 5: Seeing Jeepers Creepers maybe one or two for the first time.

00:55:21
Speaker 2: Bro. Cheepers is the first one when the.

00:55:23
Speaker 5: Like right out of the gate like attacks the school bus.

00:55:26
Speaker 2: That is that's the second one.

00:55:28
Speaker 5: I was out the room.

00:55:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Jeeper Creepers one kind of does a really good job of I think it's a great movie. Yeah, like the brother and sister kind of getting around there on a road trip and then there's a license plate beating you but really ends up being be eating you. That's just nuts. Who else we got around here? What else we got around here?

00:55:49
Speaker 2: I think we get out of here? Bro, we've been podcasting for five hours.

00:55:51
Speaker 4: Yeah we can do that. Do we want to do pet peeve anything like that. Let's get out of here.

00:55:58
Speaker 2: Huh, let's get out.

00:55:59
Speaker 4: Let's get out here.

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00:56:04
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00:57:51
Speaker 1: Bud doing good? Fellas feeling good?

00:57:54
Speaker 4: I love your shirt? What an ode to one of the goats?

00:57:57
Speaker 1: Huh yeah? They just the boys, just these This is the little white boaket little motion shirt.

00:58:04
Speaker 4: Is outstanding? Are we rolling? Mitchieba?

00:58:08
Speaker 2: I just can I start off with the I just have a question for him?

00:58:11
Speaker 4: Can I start off by introducing him.

00:58:13
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, okay, I'd also like.

00:58:16
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00:58:24
Speaker 1: I have had a bud Light.

00:58:26
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00:59:17
Speaker 2: Welcome to busting with the boys. Bro. I I just I want to out of the gate. I just want to ask you what are we squatting in this past offseason? What have you put on that bar? What have you loaded your spine with? Because you're you're a big strong boy, Iowa hawk guy. Now, I just I'm curious what you're putting up these days.

00:59:34
Speaker 1: It's not like I used to it. Uh had surgery this offseason, so I was trying to belt squad. I was belt squad in this offseason?

00:59:42
Speaker 2: We are we a true belt squatter? Or to where you're going ass to grass? Not getting help with the bars or your hands on the bars so we can load it up for ego.

00:59:51
Speaker 1: It's hands on the bars? Are kidding me?

00:59:54
Speaker 2: Smart man?

00:59:55
Speaker 1: Hands on the bars all day all?

00:59:57
Speaker 2: Put another forty five on there?

00:59:59
Speaker 1: Ye? Absolutely?

01:00:01
Speaker 4: What about two part question? Do you still go to community public pools? And if so, do you still jump out of the shallow end to impress.

01:00:09
Speaker 1: Those shot I I don't think I could. I could probably do it if I get a couple of tries, but it's I don't know, I'd probably scrape my shin. I would destroy that.

01:00:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, what how was that one of those things where like the draft process is coming, you're sitting there and you're like, hey, somebody take this video for me. Second, show all the scouts. What's what? Or or how did how did that whole video come come about?

01:00:31
Speaker 1: It was from that was from my freshman year of college, Like that was like down on my Instagram and then they like when the draft started happened, the draft process start happened. Somebody like found it and put it back out there and it helped us out.

01:00:47
Speaker 4: I mean, we watched it this morning in the pre production and we're like, bro, this is insane. And then I was like, yeah, I think he ran. He was really a great combine too. You didn't have a great combine. He had an absolutely elite combine And actually kind of discussed didn't me because my whole thing was like I'm gonna I was in an athletic offens alignment and you just buried me and every single category was incredible, Like did you know when you got to the combine, You're like, I'm about to These kids have no idea what they're about to witness.

01:01:14
Speaker 1: I remember, like I knew the vertical was gonna be gonna be pretty decent. I always knew I could a'd the bunnies. I know I had bunnies. But like when I was I just trained at Iowa with Coach Doyle, you know, for for combine prep, and he didn't really like tell us any numbers or like you know, we'd practice the forty and stuff and he didn't really tell us the time and he's like he just kept telling me that you're gonna He's like You're gonna be fine. And I'm like I'm like, okay, He's like just go run, just go do you And I was like sounds good. And so like the teams like in the meetings like what are you gonna run on Saturday? What are you gonna jump? And I'm like I'm like, we'll see, dude, I said, you know, well, I was like, you know, we'll see how it goes. And then I got out there and I remember the forty I ran it and then like my agent texted me and was like you're ran forty five and I was like I was like what because they get that then they didn't have now they I think they post the times take up on this big board, but then they didn't. I was like, you're lying, dude. And then the broad jump, like I hadn't hit that. I think I hit ten to one. I wasn't even close to that like in in training and I was just probably a little adrenaline dump. But you know, we'll take it. Well. It was fun. It was fun Saturday.

01:02:19
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:02:19
Speaker 4: It is is very unique because when we did the combine, it was you run your forty and then you kind of go over to the other group of guys who are like looking on the like looking on Twitter, like, Okay, what did you run? They can't tell you. I was at the combine last year and they literally now there's like fans in there. They display the person running. They showed the forty time in front of everybody, so people can ooh and ah at everything you're doing, and it's like, it's amazing how far this has come, because at one point we're all looking searching for, you know, some sort of hot spot in Indianapolis, trying to figure out like, hey, what did I run in this whole thing? That's dude, incredible. Combine stats are are you?

01:02:56
Speaker 2: Are you following your team the Iowaha.

01:03:00
Speaker 1: Guys, I do fall I do follow the Hawks. They like, they put up a good stat line against Minnesota the other day.

01:03:08
Speaker 2: Bro, they beat their ass, Yeah they did. Like, are you know I'm an absolute sicko with with my Nebraska Cornhuskers. But I feel like Iowa this year has been so confusing to me. But now I feel like they're hitting their shride and they're actually a very dangerous football team. I think it's wild that they're not in the top twenty five. I know, the ap pole kind of doesn't matter until the College Foball playoff rankings came out, but uh, you got to be excited about the a year Iowa haalk.

01:03:32
Speaker 1: Guys, No, absolutely. I mean someone who's a talk about a dog is Caleb Wegen the returning kicks? Yes, I just I read something that he's like he just tied Tim Dwight for I think most kicks return for a touchdown. I think I think I just read that, like that's that's pretty sweet. I mean Tim Dowyight, like, you know, growing up in Iowa, like Tim Dwight's like Superman. So for him to you know, go tie, you know, go tie that record is pretty pretty sick. Well, you know they're roll on right now. I mean, KF KF will always be the goat. That's pretty cool to watch. Pretty cool. See the boy's doing well.

01:04:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we got a game at the end of the year. Now, I think you guys are nine and one on us in the last ten years.

01:04:12
Speaker 1: I never lost to Nebraska.

01:04:14
Speaker 2: Oh I did not either.

01:04:16
Speaker 4: Will never lost in Nebraska. Both of you guys are undefeated versus Nebraska.

01:04:20
Speaker 2: I never lost to Iowa.

01:04:21
Speaker 4: Hell yea, how does that make you feel, trist Does it make you nervous? Sitting like sitting virtually on this bus right now?

01:04:27
Speaker 1: No?

01:04:27
Speaker 2: No, he yeah, he got his legs.

01:04:30
Speaker 1: Where's the game at Lincoln? Okay, yeah, he's nervous. I'm not nervous.

01:04:38
Speaker 4: And what was the what was the score of the Iowa Minnesota game?

01:04:41
Speaker 2: Had like forty to nothing, forty one to three or something like forty one to three.

01:04:46
Speaker 4: Iowa scored a program high forty one points.

01:04:49
Speaker 2: Forty one points beat Minnesota's ass. My My like analogy is like, Okay, I guess they had this massive emotional win against Nebraska because Minnesota stormed the field. Maybe Nebraska's their Super Bowl. They got too high for their britches. They went out to Iowa or they host i or whatever wherever that game was played, and I would beat their ass. I will. Yeah, not Minneapolis, you know two fridays ago.

01:05:12
Speaker 4: No, no one's winning there.

01:05:14
Speaker 2: But got out physical. I was obviously surprising the score, and I'm like, dude, I was kind of making some noise now, uh getting yeah, hitting their stride, which is good for us. Yeah, it'll yeah, we got usc this weekend. Yeah, but I would like to I would like to bring you in on the the annual bet that I have with George Kittle. Whoever kind of loses the game, I would Nebraska. You have to publicly acknowledge the ass whooping on video. Are you willing to go that far with your team to where I know you're not the biggest social media guy, but the Iowa Hawkeyes go down against the Huskers last game of the year in November, I'm gonna need a video of you talking about how you know, coach rule year three, Will Compton. They've built a juggernaut out there, they own us. Nebraska's back on top how and I will do the same thing. Whatever you need, I will include you in this video.

01:06:04
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair game. I'm done with it. I'm done with that. Okay, all right, good, I gotta get Levonte. I gotta get Levonte on something.

01:06:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Boogie. His nickname for us was Boogie. I always said I was going to name my first pit bull that I had Boogie, because that's how Boogie kind of operated back in the day in college football. But yeah, get Boogie involved. I know he I don't even think he has social media or has X him.

01:06:28
Speaker 4: He's all bad.

01:06:29
Speaker 2: He's a bro.

01:06:30
Speaker 4: He's all bald, and he's still doing an extremely.

01:06:32
Speaker 2: High level right now.

01:06:34
Speaker 1: You're fourteen.

01:06:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, still, yeah, still crushing it. Let's talk about Iowa and obviously you're an Iowa cat. I'm assuming that's the reason you grew up in an Iowa Hawkeye fan. Am I correct? And assuming all that?

01:06:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're pretty spot on. I mean, my hometown is twenty five minutes away from the University of Iowa, so.

01:06:52
Speaker 4: I grew up as a young buck going to the games. That Kirk fans. Guy, he might not be there when you're growing up, sure enough, he is. This is the place you want to go to. You guys are in a you know, could be for a bait the jbship every seven years. That that's the kind of program. What other schools were you looking at or that were offering you? And that if Iowa was not on the board, all these other schools might have been Michigan and who else.

01:07:14
Speaker 1: I only had two offers. I just had Iowa and Iowa State. They were my only offers.

01:07:18
Speaker 2: No way, that is nuts. This ca Yeah, this guy, what was.

01:07:22
Speaker 4: Your like how what was your height and wake coming out of high school? What was your rivals?

01:07:26
Speaker 7: Uh?

01:07:26
Speaker 1: Six five three?

01:07:28
Speaker 4: And people were just like not for us?

01:07:30
Speaker 1: Must they? Yeah? It was crazy. I was like, you know, it's tough, Like you know, you're a high school You're seeing like all these people on like on the on like Twitter, like your age, getting all these offers, and you're like, what am I doing wrong? Dog?

01:07:42
Speaker 7: You know?

01:07:43
Speaker 1: Yeah? But uh, I was at a baseball game in Iowa State called me and they're like, hey, we love your tape. We want to offer you. And then because we do base Iowa those baseball in the summers, like they just called me like kind of out of the blue. And then I had a camp like a like an O line camp or something like a big man camp at Iowa a couple weeks later, and then they offered me after that and that was pretty much the extent of my recruiting. I I took a visit to Michigan State and they I get up there and they didn't have tickets for me and my and my mom, and I didn't talk to anybody up there, Like none of the coaches came talk to me, and I like the recruiting directors talked to me. And we left at halftime and I think I called I called coach Morgan, like on the drive home. I was like, I'm ready to commit the August. Let's do it.

01:08:27
Speaker 4: Oh really?

01:08:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was that was pretty much that I committed. It was like right after it was like at the end of my end of my uh end of my junior season, I committed Iowa.

01:08:38
Speaker 2: That's crazy. And now you're a top thirty player in the NFL, you know, based on your peers voting you that. What's it been like for you? You know, coming from a you know, small town Iowa, not getting recruited by anybody, to now you're respected across the league as you are today.

01:08:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's it's crazy. I mean it doesn't feel real sometimes, just you know, just living my dream. I wanted to play football since I was you know, I don't know, five years old. I'd made this poster in kindergarten. It says like, what do you want to be when you grow up? I said football. I want to be a football player. So just being able to live out a dream and you know, do my best to help his team be great and and just have fun doing it has been just surreal, honestly, dude.

01:09:18
Speaker 4: Getting drafted Tampa Bay. Tom Brady, the goat of all goats is there? What was it like playing with Tom? You see the relationship break up with the Patriots, he comes down, Everyone's like, this is the middle of the Corvince student. Was it Bill Belichick or Tom Brady? We obviously know the end and the answer to that conversation now, but going into that building and seeing the greatest to ever do it? What was it like being his teammate and knowing that, like I have to block for him. I know he gets it out fast, but if I give up a sack, like I could kill him.

01:09:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about nightmare fuel, dude. It was That's what they That's what they told me. Like when they called me on Draffne like you ready protect Tom Brady and I was like, what shit, Really, you gotta be kidding me. But no, like blocking for Tom was was incredible. I remember like I had Shaq, Barrett and JPP like my first training camp and they were just cooking me and I'm like, I don't know if I'm cut out for this, and it was Tom told me he just pulled me his hide. He said, don't get beat fast, and don't get beat inside and will be okay. And I was like sounds good, you know. And I remember trying to break it down like as simple as possiage. I was like, just stay in front of the guy, like, you know, if you're gonna if you're gonna lose like Dia slow death, you know, just be an athlete. I was just trying to just trying to keep him up right because like obviously, like you know, you get him hit hard, and I was like, I don't want to be the one to to end Tom Brady's career, you know, which it turns out it was like, you know, last play of Tom's career, I gave up a sack. You know that's gonna stick with me. For the rest of my life. That's haunt. That's haunting. But getting to play with Tom was was unbelievable. You know, just coming in and watching him, watching him work and getting to be in that huddle was like playing a video game. It was Tom gronk Ab Mike Evans, Chris got when Julio Jones, like Leonard Fournette, like it was. It was insane being in that huddle, but it was. It was unbelievable. Like that's that's all. That's that's all I can say about it. It was like to this day looking back on it, like it doesn't feel real, Like it just getting to you know, I got to play with Tom Brady, you know, the greatest football player of all time. It just just crazy.

01:11:21
Speaker 2: But was it like mentally for a young guy when you know Tom gives you that advice. But throughout the season, I'm sure there were a couple of moments to where you got beat pretty good or Tom gets hit, Like what's going what's going through your mental state when thinking looking back and and seeing like it Tom lane on the ground, Like, oh shit, am I about to get coached up hard? Here? I I kind of hate going into the facility on Monday to watch the film with everybody.

01:11:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was my fourth game playing the Bears, and we'd like all week. I'm like a Khalil Mack out there. I was like, this is gonna be you know, this is gonna be tough. Yeah, and it was. It was COVID Thursday Night Football, and it's the play where he like flipped me afterwards, and in my you know, in my head after it happened, I was like, no, you know, nobody saw. No one's in the stands like we're fine. And then immediately after I had that thought, I was like, it's COVID, it's Thursday Night Football. Everyone in the world's watching. And I remember getting to the locker room after the game and my buddy texted me said, it's not that He said, it wasn't that bad, bro, And I was like, okay, so it looked terrible. So that was Yeah, that was the sack I gave up my rookie year, and it was it was that's still you know, that still sticks with me.

01:12:32
Speaker 4: You say the sack, how many sacks you up your rookie year?

01:12:35
Speaker 1: One?

01:12:37
Speaker 2: That is fire.

01:12:38
Speaker 4: I mean that that's not just fire, that's absolutely incredible. To be a rookie in the NFL and they give up only one sack the entire time.

01:12:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, any happening game fours? Are you? Are you just walking up to Tom like, hey, are you just apologizing?

01:12:52
Speaker 1: Yeah?

01:12:52
Speaker 2: I was just saying, hey, that's.

01:12:54
Speaker 1: Up, buck around, I'm sorry.

01:12:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, so sorry Tom. Tom was known for being like obviously the ultimate editor, but like a hot heead, especially in practice. Yeah, what's the worst ass chewing you ever saw Tom Brady to give somebody he keep in mind he's retired now, like one, No one's coming to get you. Your PR team is probably looking at you right now, like you better be smart.

01:13:16
Speaker 1: Behind the table.

01:13:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And I'm just letting them knowing. You know, it's all good at this point.

01:13:22
Speaker 1: No, to be honest, I don't remember any individual ass chewings. I remember in training camp one year, it might have been it might have been my second year. We're just having you know, it's one of the like the dog. The dog is a training camp. It's three out and one off now, but it's you know, we're in the middle of training camp and in Tampa. You know, it's disgustingly hot. You know, he's having a slow day and nothing's going right, and I remember he just starts screaming and he gets this tone in his voice, like this pitch that he gets to when he gets really mad, and it's like it's terrifying. And then he just takes the ball and punts it like you know, we get the fans, you know, the fans are all there, and he's just going on this rant, just screaming, just kind of like at nobody really but just yelling to yell and and just kicks the ball across the field and we're all kind of just like we keep going or like you know, we're in the middle of a rack. Get a good ball in here, like but I don't really remember any specific ash to He's like that was his thing when he came in. He's like he didn't I remember him saying. He's like, it's not about me. He's like, because there were still you know, we still have like you know, Levante, will Golstand, like Vida, like all these all these older guys Mike that were He's like, it's your guys' team, Like I just want to help us, help us win. He never really singled anyone out that I can I can remember if he did, he might have done it kind off to the side er in private, Like I remember Shaq Barrett beat me faster than I've ever been beat before and just kind of tagged off on top of Gran right by me, pulled me aside, and he's like he's kind of looked at me. I was like, all right, you know, I was like, yeah, I got I got you, I got you. Just gave me a little look. I was like, yeah, that's fair.

01:14:57
Speaker 4: I'm sure that looked felt like it was like three hours long, dude.

01:15:00
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, his eyes just glued. You're like, okay, I got like you. I remember as a young as a young player, like I was like scared to make eye contact with him. But yeah, that was that was scary.

01:15:12
Speaker 2: You know. It had to be a fun personality of an offensive room too, because you got Tom. You got the savvy old wise you know, the goat. Yeah, Tristan, who's just a new guy trying to figure it out. You got Mike Evans, known for playing video games being an absolute stead You also got we've had him on the bus before.

01:15:27
Speaker 4: But Leonard Fournette, who was his own unique personality. Yeah, yeah, and then Gronk as well. Yeah, like that's it's a it's a crazy group of boys out there.

01:15:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was wild. It was a wild time.

01:15:39
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah you're on the field when Ab dipped on the during the Jets game. Yeah, I was, yeah, were you?

01:15:45
Speaker 1: We didn't know what was Like the offense was out on the field, so like we're doing like a two minute drive before half, and and Aby was doing that on the sideline and I've seen I've just seen. I've seen clips of it, like Mike was trying to get him to like stay, and we get in at halftime and and Ba was like Aby's gone, like he left. You guys, We're like what. We're like, what's going, Like what happened? And then after the game, like we see on Twitter and everything that he just dipped. Yeah that was wild. That was really crazy.

01:16:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they so Ba Bruce is handling this at halftime saying he did he's.

01:16:25
Speaker 1: Not a buccaneer. Like we're like like, okay, like what And I was everyone on the sideline note knew what went on, but like we were literally in a two minute drive, like we had no idea.

01:16:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm sure after the game, like you're on the bus over to the airport and you're like pulling like Mike or somebody said, been like, bro, what happened out there? Like what was their vantage point? They're like, yo, he just started freaking out and dipped.

01:16:45
Speaker 1: It was it was something about it was something about catches, like not getting enough catches, and I remember I remember Mike going over to him like trying to take it. Like AB's like in the middle of like trying to take his pads off, and Mike's like trying to hold like hold his pads on. And then in the clip who Mike is like, He's like, okay, whatever I can. I was like, I can't do this right now, and then he jogs off.

01:17:05
Speaker 4: That was like that was that was its fucking wild bro hyping up the crowd. Yeah, that's just so nuts, dude. So you have had such a unique because obviously your your individual career has been incredible. You get Tom Brady and then there's this kid who gets drafted first overall from Oklahoma to Cleveland. What happened to Cleveland? They make the playoffs and next year they don't make the playoffs, but it wasn't like a blowout season. He ends up getting cut goes to like the Panthers, all these other places, the rams, and he finds his place in Tampa Bay to compete with. Please help me with the name. Who was the other quarterback Cayles Kyle Trask brought in to compete. At what point did you know, like, oh, this Baker Mayfield cat is going to be the man. You're wearing a shirt with him. We're having a due rag on like you have you obviously you understand my.

01:17:55
Speaker 1: Dog Bakes my dog. I think pretty early, I think I didn't really know as a competition, to be honest, I thought I thought we were bringing a big to like That's why I just, you know, when it first of all happened, I was like, bakes o bakes our quarterback. Just seeing him now, like his confidence and you know, and then knowing everything that he you know, his journey is pretty insane, and then you know, the football he's playing right now is is just insane. And just to be able to watch that and be a part of that and and do everything we can to help him have, you know, have success has been so fun and he's just an awesome dude. Like hanging out with him what you know, whatever it is, he's just he's he's he's incredible. And yeah, these shirts are these shirts are amazing. Don't let a white boy get a little motion is unbelievable. But that's him though, Like that's him to a t, you know, like his his his his aura is insane. You know, he's just a cool dude.

01:18:56
Speaker 2: I love that.

01:18:57
Speaker 4: He seems like the type of guy that gives a hell of a Christmas gift to his offensive line. What did he get you guys? Last year?

01:19:03
Speaker 1: He got us. He got us watches and and Margarita makers.

01:19:12
Speaker 4: That's mar mixer is awesome.

01:19:15
Speaker 1: But what that thing is off the charts? That thing is sweet.

01:19:18
Speaker 4: Oh it's like that. It's like one of those Jimmy Buffett ones, the good ones I know about the Jimmy Buffett Margarita maker. That thing is solid. Get you slushed up? Nice? Oh yeah talking but you said watches like it was it a Nixon watch? Are we talking about that rollie or we go crazy with an ap like we'll kind of watch it to get you guys.

01:19:37
Speaker 1: He got us, Uh, he got us Bostil No, I think it's two door or no, uh two doors.

01:19:47
Speaker 4: That I don't know. I'm not at that sounds like that's sponsored by two door. And he's like, let me get my offensive line.

01:19:55
Speaker 1: I think he had a little I think you had a little deal.

01:19:57
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, he adds up a little. That's a good opportunity for you to go in there and be like, hey, I was a bustle with the boys. They just let me know that that watch you gave me wasn't something you bought. It was actually I'm gonna need a little something nicer, Like were you ever if you were getting on them about the Chrismas presents of like, hey, we gotta I love the margarita mixer, but what about a car like Joe Burrow got his boys? Like legit Katana Samurai started last year.

01:20:20
Speaker 1: We've been trying to drop that I would I'd be down for a sort of I'm trying to like like so it keeps out, I'll walk by my swords not crazy, you know.

01:20:30
Speaker 4: That is the move dude, like you especially now too, like you guys have four what like uh what last second drives to win the game? Game winning drives? You're protecting, Well, the boys were a little hurt with injuries outside, you were a little banged up. Now the boys are starting to feel themselves a little bit now. Even you guys got wins, but time to get you maybe a real rollie, maybe a vehicle, like if you could have the perfect gift for your office. One you walked out and you saw ATVs, you saw golf carts, Like what are what do you envision?

01:21:00
Speaker 1: Golf cars?

01:21:01
Speaker 2: Is that?

01:21:01
Speaker 4: Is that number one for you in your mind?

01:21:03
Speaker 1: Think? I think they'd be number one? Golf carts are sweet. Yeah, he's got a nice, a nice golf cart. He does. He's got a six seater, I think, does you really Yeah?

01:21:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you gotta like a baker. I know you're gonna see this clip. We're gonna make sure you see it, Like we can't do this easy go bullshit, Like we need the tricked out ones with the with the base on the back, the system, the rims, maybe some cool lights underneath it, Like, Yo, what are we fucking doing?

01:21:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna probably call me after this that we're on the phone, like we're on the phone like thirty minutes ago. He's gonna he's gonna be pissed.

01:21:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that just.

01:21:33
Speaker 2: In just a side comment. It's like something all you gotta do is just have his uh golf cart pulled up on your phone and just hey, that's pretty nice. Is Sandy gets you brought me something? If Santa brought me something like that or maybe all the offensive lineman, I think it would be pretty elated.

01:21:47
Speaker 4: Yeah. Something something I wish I did when I was playing was printing off the gift you wanted, like a really bad like Google photo of it, and then just taping it to his locker and be like kind of nice, huh, like you could just put that there, or he doesn't know who's really sending the message, but there's a message being sent them. The less you guys win, then there's two of that item. You know, you guys losing goes back.

01:22:07
Speaker 1: They use that, they start doing that, take.

01:22:09
Speaker 4: It, run with it, it's yours.

01:22:10
Speaker 2: What's it like for you guys? Offensively? The juice that Baker does bring whenever he breaks one and puts his shoulder down and puts his face and somebody starts talking shit, what does that? What do you feel like that does for all you guys? And what kind of fun are you having postgame or the next week when you're watching those clips with him?

01:22:28
Speaker 1: I think he just fires everybody up. And I think he does it on purpose sometimes well I know he doesn't on purpose sometimes. I remember the Saints game last year, second game or second time we played him later in the year, like it came out, came out slow, and he he gets into a little scuff and we all like the whole lot, we just swarm over there, like get into a get into a little tussle, and he's just like there's a there's a clip of it. He's just walking away like from an explosion. And it was he said, don't want to say, he's like he's like he did that help or some Then I'm like, yeah, I was like that got are you.

01:23:03
Speaker 2: Just kind of like the match and then walk away?

01:23:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like it was it was sweet. Like you see that clip from Iron Man one when he like drops the bomb on the tank and just turns and walks away like that. It was like it was sweet. But that's just who he is. You know, he's a dog. He always he's always gonna have that passion in that fire, and we're we're there to back him up. You know, we always will be this.

01:23:27
Speaker 4: You brought up a really good point of like the whole offensive line going in there after a scuffle. There's nothing in this world that pisses me off more then when a quarterback takes a late hit and there's offensive linemen on the other side of the field kind of just walking around. What should what is and should be the standard of every offensive lineman, not just NFL, but we're talking college and high school as well. To where your quarterback takes a cheap so whether it's cheap shot or not a big hit, nonetheless, like we gotta get the boys out there barking a little bit.

01:23:53
Speaker 2: You have to.

01:23:54
Speaker 4: You gotta get a full sprinted, doesn't matter how many players are in Like, I would love your thoughts on that.

01:23:59
Speaker 1: No, you gotta go. You gotta go get him, like I think, especially if somebody's over on like if it happens like on their their sideline, like and there's somebody like you know, you know, another team kind of like surround somebody, like, you gotta go get your boy. I think we were saying, I mean, most places party we called bucks picking up bucks like go, you know, get to the pile. You know, you don't know what's happening. Some teams are some teams are you know, doing some stupid shit, you know, in the pile, Go get your boys, you know, but if it's your quarterback, I think everyone's got to be there, you know. And I think that's a standard that we've said, standard that that Bake kind of elevates. But yeah, I think all levels of football like, go get your quarterback.

01:24:36
Speaker 2: Yeah. Personality wise, what's it? What's it like being teammates with another friend of the show, Tez Johnson. There's always opportunities that come up when starters go down, Like you guys have had a lot of injuries across your wide receiver group, and seeing Tez get a couple opportunities take advantage of a couple of plays to the point to where in his personality, you just know when he assumed that the MVP chant was for him and seeing him having fun on the sidel about it. Uh, take a second to talk about playing with Tesz Johnson because he just seems like he seems so much fun to be around.

01:25:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. He's a riot that cracked me up that m VP thing. MVP for me, But I think that's I think that's again part of his personality, just a just a lighthearted dude, lighthearted kid, just out there having fun, like you said we had had some guys go down and he hit a step up And I mean that that catch he had the other week, like the diving kid, Like that's insane just watching him, like how athletic he is, Like he did that the like the round off. I don't even know what it is, Like, that's that's crazy. That could my knees would never But no, Tes is an awesome kid. It's it's fun having him in the huddle. He's just he just makes everyone laugh.

01:25:49
Speaker 2: I gotta know too, Like if if Mike Evans was on the pod, like hey, what happened when him and Tes they were like randy to each other on the sideline, like it seemed like somebody, yeah, yeah.

01:25:59
Speaker 4: Like we got it. Just assume that's testing like in year twelve, you.

01:26:02
Speaker 1: Have to I don't know what went on, but guys, I love you. I'm putting that one on you.

01:26:07
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Like you watch it as a viewer that doesn't even know the route concept like gotta be on test. There's no way that's on my.

01:26:13
Speaker 1: No, but you can't put that on thirteen, no.

01:26:16
Speaker 4: Doubt, no doubt. What's it? What is it like for you to watch? Like I think it was last year right here. Eleven thousand yard seasons in a row. How like, I guess, how cool is that? Right?

01:26:26
Speaker 2: Like that?

01:26:27
Speaker 4: To see a guy do stuff historically and so consistently for so long, it's just got to be awesome to witness. What kind of teammate is he?

01:26:34
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Evans is the goat you know? Watching him? Watching that, I will say, like the that that game against the Saints to get the thet to keep the street going was was crazy. Well, one, he was hurt, he pulled his hands for he missed like four he missed like four weeks like middle of the seasons. We're like, oh no, like is he gonna get it? And then comes back and balls out like always. But then like before that last drive when he got the thousand, we had to play like pretty much back like back corner fade like Mike Evans play, and they brought like zero and we kind of like like the old line like missed it and ended up being a scrambled bake flips at the Bucky Bucky scores and like we get to the sideline and Bucky's like should I have slid there? Like did we did we mess up? Like Mike's record right there, and the thing was like if we got the ball back, like like so Op is like is to kneel it out, Like we got the ball back and we're like, no shot, Like We're like Mike needs to get a thousand yards And I think everyone in the stadium knew where the ball was going, like everyone and everyone in everyone there was like Mike' shooting the ball and he like watching him get it and like immediately celebrate, like celebrate with the young guys like it was. It was Jayalen mcmill and I think was like the first guy over there, and like I can't imagine like Jalen's point of view of that, like being a guy who's grown up plane wide receiver, like watching Mike Evans and getting to be out on the field when he does something like that. But just watching Mike run over the sideline and celebrate with the boys was just insane. You know, get to see him do something like that and to be in that kind of company with Jerry Rice was super special.

01:28:08
Speaker 4: That's so cool that the like the rest of the guys were also like yeah, like Bucky scoring a touchdown and be like did I fuck that up?

01:28:14
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:28:15
Speaker 1: It was crazy. We're like no, like no, like no way, like you don't you score there, like to take the lead, like you know, but it's like that, Yeah, like Mike wasn't really worried about it all week, and we're all like, we all it didn't seem like he I mean, obviously he cared about it, but he's like, yeah, it is what it is.

01:28:31
Speaker 2: You know.

01:28:31
Speaker 1: It's like he's like, let's he said, let's just win, you know. That's that's Mike. And then we're like everyone else was like no, like we're getting I remember to the media, I said, yeah, we're gonna get him a thousand yards? Are you kidding me? You know, like everyone's just like it has to happen. Yeah, and watching it hat like the pop, like the crowd pop when he when he.

01:28:46
Speaker 2: Got it, it's say.

01:28:49
Speaker 4: About stuff you play for man, that's so awesome.

01:28:52
Speaker 2: In uh, in a world where you know, the world goes nuts for a big boy touchdown, have you ever lobbied to get a ball thrown your way to get in the zone? If so, like, what kind of celebration can we look forward to?

01:29:05
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so me and Luke gett a key? He we had a we had a we used to have a pass for him. We've never called it. What's the key and peel sketch where he's like he's like doing the air hump in front of the rev Yeah, if that ever gets called, that play. So I think we're gonna do that and he catches it. I would love to catch a touchdown I got I'm not even gonna put it out. That's gonna say I got hands. But now if I drop it, then it's you know that's out there forever.

01:29:36
Speaker 2: Already said it. So that's great.

01:29:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not gonna say the quote I'm saying right now, but however we're doing it, buddy, I'm i as a gentleman who is an offens alignment who scored a touchdown. There is no better feeling on this whole.

01:29:48
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's kind of be insane. We used to say in college, like you have to punt it like you have like if anyoneys catch a touchdown in college, like we're punning it as hard as we can. I still like that. I think that's a good big guy celebrate and a spike too, Like you can't go wrong with with a classic Spike.

01:30:03
Speaker 4: There's something about like a choreographed dance as well that I think it goes like the most elaborate type of offensive line like and it's none of the receivers. Is that maybe Bakers in it, but it's just the starting five in the quarterback and it's just like some ultra elaborate, like you know, top hat type of thing.

01:30:21
Speaker 2: Over and over.

01:30:21
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, they put this in this week, and they spent more time doing the celebration than they did actually practicing the play.

01:30:26
Speaker 1: That's the play you practiced play on Fridays on goal line for two reps and then you would do the celebration all week.

01:30:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, dude, that is That's what I want.

01:30:35
Speaker 2: For the electric to see a good hip thrust in front of the referee.

01:30:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you got to find them. Take the fifteen. Absolutely, take the fifteen?

01:30:42
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I don't know. I'll do everything. I just run around the field, just.

01:30:47
Speaker 4: Start take a beer from the stands. Like it's been multiple delayed games, he's still out there, gas ship. Yes dude, yes, buddy. First off, I want to give a bait. Let's give another round of plus to Tristan Worth's bank account. I mean, my god, unbelievable, Kat from Iowa. You strike me as a guy that just just loves the basics.

01:31:14
Speaker 1: Right.

01:31:15
Speaker 4: You need to be fed, you need to be slepty to be essentially you're a baby, like that's all you truly care about you. I don't think you're like, like, I could be totally wrong. I don't think there's a Lamborghini sitting in your parking space. But when you get that type of contract that you got, what's going through your mind? What is a purchase that you're like, I've always kind of wanted this. I guess I'll get this now. Like, talk to me, boss, what are we getting? No state income tacts in Florida as well?

01:31:37
Speaker 1: Huge? Yeah, I gotta I gotta S Class. I got a Mercedes Benz S Class that was my first second contract purchase. But yeah, I mean, I I don't think I don't think we'd fit in a Lambo. I think I don't think there's a big guy friendly.

01:31:57
Speaker 2: Trent Williams Smithson one today you got vehicle.

01:32:02
Speaker 4: You could also go to the Sequille O'Neil route where I think he has a custom Lamborghini made for him.

01:32:07
Speaker 1: All of his cars are. There's a YouTube channel. I watched that all of his cars they like extend the rails on the seat, on the seat tracks. It's so cool.

01:32:15
Speaker 4: Is that one of you is cars? You're thing?

01:32:18
Speaker 1: I do like cars. I do like cars. I like cars and watches and watches.

01:32:23
Speaker 4: So when you got when you got that watch from Baker may for you're like, because if you like watches, we don't know. It's okay, it's a safe space. No one's going to see this.

01:32:33
Speaker 1: No, I get it to my little It's kind of it's got a nice little space on my on my bathroom bathroom counter.

01:32:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, next to the A P and the rolls. What's that Baker got me that? I think?

01:32:48
Speaker 1: No, it's a beautiful watch. But no, it was. Yeah, I remember signing that deal. It was it was just life changing. It was, you know, just an unbelievable feeling. You know, I'm telling my girlfriend and my son and my teammates there, you know at the press conference, was was awesome. I didn't pull out a suit. I should have pulled out a suit like you. I didn't even I was lifting when they told me they're doing we're doing the press conference. I came in like the stringer tank top. I was like, I was like, should I change? And I was like now, I was like, this will be fun, this'll be funny.

01:33:16
Speaker 4: If you're not going to go suit, the stringer tank top.

01:33:18
Speaker 1: Is the move? Yeah, it was, but it was it was awesome, like having all my friends there, like I said, my son and my girlfriend Meredith was was was incredible.

01:33:27
Speaker 4: God, that's awesome. Well kind of so, big car guy, how many cars do we have?

01:33:31
Speaker 1: I have a Raptor love the great vehicle and my girlfriend drives a range over Okay, all.

01:33:38
Speaker 4: Right, so love cars more like looking than we do like having a collection. Yeah, gotcha, smart, smart man.

01:33:44
Speaker 2: If you could talk to your younger self or for the young cats out there listening to Tristan worfs I busting with the boys, Oh, what's something you wish younger players understood about what it takes to succeed in the NFL.

01:33:58
Speaker 1: That's a good one. I just think hard work, you know, like keep your nose to the grindstone, like obviously, Like and I get these messages you know, from kids on on like social media, like I'm from a you know, a small town. They're like they nobody, They're like, no one's gonna find me, and I'm like, I know the feeling, brother, you know, it's uh, just keep working, you know. They're like people are always gonna find you. You know. Don't let anyone, don't let anyone say you can't do something. Just keep grinding and stuff. And it is a different I say that it is a different animal coming from college to the NFL. The speed is different, but it's it's an adjustment. You know, going from high school to college is a big adjustment. Remember Anthony Nelson. You know, it's it's awesomeated to play with.

01:34:45
Speaker 2: You know.

01:34:45
Speaker 1: One of my college teammates, my my freshman year of college, he dog walked me in training camp and I'm like, son of a gun. But then you get over it. You know, it's you. You adjust to the speed. And I think the same thing coming from college the NFL, Like JPP and Shaq Barrett were dog walking me. But it's like, don't give up and keep working and everything's gonna work out.

01:35:05
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that.

01:35:08
Speaker 4: Superstitions. Everyone's got them, whether they're a little stitious or a lot of Stitshes like, talk to me about your stes before a game.

01:35:16
Speaker 1: I would say I'm a little stitious. It's I eat the same breakfast four egg scramble, bacon, ham, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms. I I I have to get ready the same way, and I don't notice it until like someone asked me a question. I'm super serious. I say no, and then I'm like, well, I guess I do put. I have to put things on the right art, I have to put my pads in my pants in the specific order right and left, the right quad, left quad. Just just little things like that. I think you like the same, the same trainer tapes me like, I'm like, I can't do it, and I've I try a new Preer cleats the other week and halftime I said, get these off. Can't do it, had to go to had to go to the old cleat. So it's like, I think it's little things like that, but try and break the mold. I'm like, oh, you know, trust new cleats. No shot, no shot.

01:36:08
Speaker 4: And it's like, yeah, you're just stitious enough too. When there is something new in the fold, like okay, yeah the shooter sleep books got a nice maybe y'all thinking about it your brain, yeah, And then yeah, it's like, okay, you have a tougher game, and you're like, what did I do wrong? Because my preparation was the same as far as watching film, But maybe I took this turn instead of that turn when going to the stadium. It's it's always like the not superstitious guys that always like play back in their head, like what what was the stitious thing I should have done differently? That maybe be subconscious.

01:36:38
Speaker 2: And I don't get how the guys do new cleats every week. I've never I'm kind of like you, like I'm always using the old ones. Like if I get a new pair of cleats, they have to go through two weeks of practice before I'll test drive them in a game.

01:36:49
Speaker 4: See.

01:36:50
Speaker 1: I was like, that's crazy, yeah wearing one? Like what brand new pair of game? I see? Yeah, guys do that. I'm like, no, no way.

01:36:56
Speaker 2: They got their uniform completely laid out on the floor in the crazy trying to match up the swag because I was.

01:37:03
Speaker 4: When I played in college, I would wear besides fourteen shoe, I would wear size thirteen because I like having I have my feet like compressed in there. And then my first couple of years, my first two years in LEGU, I would have one pair of cleats from the days training camp started till about week eight, and then I would switch out shoes. And then right around year three, I was like, I want to get back to like the tight shoes. So I wore new cleats every single week, and I really, I really like that. But the laying out the uniform making it look nice as if it's gonna post for its own picture, I don't. I don't understand it.

01:37:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, that far is crazy. Yeah, the size down in cleats is crazy. That's that's that's like, that's like bugging me almost. I gotta be comfortable, like I.

01:37:44
Speaker 2: Just told you, downsize in new pair of cleats every week.

01:37:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, I like it. I like my feet to be like crammed. I feel more agile when everything's like in there condensed together instead of just a bunch of bones working individually. That motherfucker's a brick. That guy's got like a bricks in there moving around. Yeah. Yeah, well college, you know how it works, man, Yeah, you know how it works. What else we got?

01:38:07
Speaker 2: Will we got the bud like questions.

01:38:09
Speaker 4: Weill had a big question for you, was the question you.

01:38:11
Speaker 2: Want to ask bud like questions.

01:38:12
Speaker 4: It was a huge one was different.

01:38:15
Speaker 2: I was gonna hit the bud light question. Do the bud like questions. Okay, we got a bud like question that we ask everybody here. People would do anything for an ice cool bud light. What's one thing that you would do anything for? You cannot say family.

01:38:30
Speaker 4: Can't say family?

01:38:31
Speaker 2: And then I have a follow up after you have this answer.

01:38:36
Speaker 1: What's something I would do anything for?

01:38:38
Speaker 2: Right?

01:38:39
Speaker 4: A couple examples. Steve Ranilla, he is from me eater, big hunter guy. He said he wants to make a documentary that no one cares about. He wouldn't tell us on air. He did tell us off air for that reason, I will not tell you on air.

01:38:51
Speaker 2: Brock brock Bauer said he do anything for just a nice cut, a steak, a nice steak dinner. Yeah.

01:38:57
Speaker 4: And most coaches say super Bowl or National Championship, depending what field they're in. You've already got a Super Bowl, You've got an All Pro, You've got Pro Bowls, You've got the largest contract in NFL history for an offensive lineman. You got your s class mm hmm.

01:39:15
Speaker 2: Do you have a you do you have you? You said you have a son? I do would you like him to be heir to the throne like a generational come up. Can't say we can't say family, but if it's like I would do anything.

01:39:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a big boy, so can't say family. This is like I feel like this is an old line answer. I would do anything for like a clean game of pass Pro.

01:39:39
Speaker 4: Oh that is that's an underrated answer.

01:39:43
Speaker 1: Is that crazy?

01:39:44
Speaker 4: Can I add to that for just a second?

01:39:46
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead, clean game of pass Pro?

01:39:48
Speaker 4: But also a game like you're not stressed out about pass Pro before, Like, let me like a a worry free, an anxious free game while also having the most productivity. Yeah, that is, buddy, that might be the best answer we've heard. There's nothing more stressful in that first third and six of the game. You're like, are my hands working today? Are my feet really where they need to be?

01:40:11
Speaker 1: I had a good week, but warm ups didn't feel the best.

01:40:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a little something was just a little different man something. So yeah, hey, that's a great answer, and it's it's a it sucks that you have to be put on the spot like that, but you definitely answer the bell. It's why the number twenty eight player in the top one hundred answered the bell answered the bell that way, left tackle, right tackle? Which one do you prefer?

01:40:39
Speaker 1: I was, I think we've tackling.

01:40:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the correct answer. Yeah, that's no shade at right.

01:40:47
Speaker 2: Is there a reason behind it?

01:40:56
Speaker 1: I don't know, I honestly don't. It's just like the longer I'm over on the left side, like the more comfortable I feel, and like I felt really comfortable on the right side. I will say like I was like I was you guys know, I was like I was stressing about the move because I was like in my head, I was like, I'm doing fine over here. I was like, why do I got to move? And I was like, I was like I kept coming, just more reps, Like just get as many reps you can and it'll be fine. And I was like, I was like, your first year might not you know, it might not be pretty. But I was like, we'll get through it. And yeah, the longer I'm over here on the left side, like the more comfortable I get in, which you know, it's a good feeling, you know, trying to keep getting better.

01:41:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, but some of the title like left tackle and right tackle doesn't mean as much anymore.

01:41:38
Speaker 1: Because over the board, yes, left tackle.

01:41:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, something, I saying left tackle, dude? Inside, Hey what position you played tackle?

01:41:48
Speaker 7: Oh?

01:41:48
Speaker 4: Left or right?

01:41:49
Speaker 2: Left?

01:41:49
Speaker 4: You're like, oh, all right, he must have been an athlete. Like there's still like the casual fan out there that believes in that. It's like, I'm with you cause you're I mean, other than your accolades that are of the mine, you're ranking in the top one hundred, Like you can also play right tackle, dude. I was horrendous. Like my first year when I get drafted. I got drafted with a ten year vet at left tackle and Michael Orr who they just got free agency, and so they're like, hey, we drafted you eleven overall to be a swing guy in the first year, like let it get your feet.

01:42:17
Speaker 1: What type of thing? Yeah?

01:42:18
Speaker 4: And I had to take snaps at right tackle, bro, And I was like, if I'm ever put in a game at right tackle, my career will be over it, will it?

01:42:26
Speaker 1: Will you play? Did you play only left at Michigan?

01:42:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, only left at Michigan And then I didn't play offensive line until my senior year at Chaparral With's Arizona by the way, so I only only was left tackle. We go in, like you know the rhino and elephant when they bring the left tackle over to the right side. Ye, so I take it like a handful of snaps and I was like a six tie, like a tight end. Kind of also my rookie year for a little bit. But buddy, it is so it's so impressive that people don't realize how hard it is to actually go from a right handed stance to a left hand stance. Because I could not. I would have been you're the guy, I guaranteed. Coach came in say we're going to move to left tackle and there was a hesitation in your voice for a moment and then you go, yes, sir, any way to help the team. I would have been a cancer about it, like you want to you want to do what to me? Like I I hate saying it about myself, but I would absolutely I would have fought tooth and nail once I've established myself. But yeah, what was the follow up question?

01:43:21
Speaker 2: You have pastor present somebody you'd love to have an ice cool bud light with for some good conversation.

01:43:31
Speaker 4: Oh that's a great one. Dead or alive equal to pastor present?

01:43:39
Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh, dead or alive.

01:43:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, while you're thinking too. When I saw you scratch your beard, I noticed a watch. Is that the is that the one baker got you?

01:43:52
Speaker 1: This one is not? This one is not. I should have worn it.

01:43:55
Speaker 4: I should Yeah, I know, I know.

01:43:56
Speaker 1: It was.

01:43:59
Speaker 4: A beer with one and.

01:44:00
Speaker 1: Die a beer with It's like, this is like a big question.

01:44:05
Speaker 4: Time to we don't have Yeah, this is our day.

01:44:07
Speaker 2: We have post production editing power here.

01:44:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I think I would want to have a beer with this is this is this is little kid? Meet is Albert Poohles.

01:44:23
Speaker 4: Okay, ye, all right.

01:44:24
Speaker 1: I was obsessed with Albert Pools when I was kidd. I was number five when I played baseball. I think that'd be that would just like do something for me and and younger me, that'd be that'd be I think that'd be really cool.

01:44:40
Speaker 2: So is this essentially a public invite to Albert Poohols to come to one of Tampa Bay's games. You will take care of everything for Albert Pooholes. Get him on the sideline.

01:44:52
Speaker 1: Albert pooh Holes, if you're hearing this clip, I got you covered at a Bucks game. Let's have a beer. I got I got, I gotta, I got everything covered.

01:45:01
Speaker 2: Hey, that would be insane, would could get and he ends up going to the game. Yes, were you a ballplayer? I'm assuming you were pretty good basic play baseball for a while. He was number five, number five, first basement. Did you hit the three four slot three and four?

01:45:19
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, I was d HL too. That's the best to choose seeds and hit dingers.

01:45:25
Speaker 2: Seeds anders top Maybe you have a list, maybe a top three, but your go to sunflower seed.

01:45:33
Speaker 1: Number one is Buffalo style, ranch number two is original, and three is barbecue.

01:45:39
Speaker 2: That's a great list. It's a great list.

01:45:42
Speaker 4: I don't.

01:45:46
Speaker 2: But it's a call. It's it's paying homage, you know.

01:45:48
Speaker 7: What I mean.

01:45:49
Speaker 4: The original flavor guy, a flavor guy.

01:45:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tristan, you're the man. Bro. Thank you so much for taking time to come on Bustle to join busting with the boys. We would you know, we tell it to everybody we're on zoom. If we would love to have you in this seat one day and sitting on us kicking it with the.

01:46:04
Speaker 1: Fellas, I would love that. That'd be sick.

01:46:06
Speaker 4: Let's get together in the off season, huh. Have a couple of buds, a couple of bls for the boys. Sit down in that chair, talk a little shop, go I don't know, hang out after, do something, go see a movie.

01:46:18
Speaker 2: Talk about how he met Albert Poolhols.

01:46:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, incredible.

01:46:24
Speaker 4: Let's get it done, baby, Hey run applause, just to work real quick. Thank you, sir, Tell that PR team we love them, and thank you for coming on our show man. It was amazing.

01:46:32
Speaker 1: Thanks boys, see you bro.

01:46:36
Speaker 4: That's a guys guy. Guys, Guys, that's a guys guy.

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01:49:36
Speaker 4: Coach Lee, how are you, sir?

01:49:38
Speaker 1: Good? How are y'all doing?

01:49:39
Speaker 4: Fantastic? Probably not as good as you massive game you just won. Talk to you about morale, talk to me about vibes. Just you personally right now? How are you feeling?

01:49:48
Speaker 9: I'm feeling good. I just got an email notification hereon Lark. Can you come do this?

01:49:53
Speaker 1: Can you guys hear me?

01:49:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we can hear you.

01:49:55
Speaker 9: Okay, I just lost the screen. Hang on, here we go, all right, hopefully maintain It's okay.

01:50:03
Speaker 4: Is that email notification? You have to do a diego Pavia winning the Heisman?

01:50:07
Speaker 9: Yeah, he just wanted.

01:50:08
Speaker 4: Oh wow, congratulations, thanks.

01:50:10
Speaker 9: Big moment for Vannerbilt. Yeah. No, vibes, vibes. Vibes are high, and you know, I mean, I guess that said. I mean it's it's you know, success brings a different kind of adversity, and this group's mature, like we've maintained focused. I think this is where we planned on Ben. It's just feels good to be here, you know, and feels good to have something at stake every weekend. So it's been cool.

01:50:36
Speaker 4: How do you handle uh, your quarterbacks personality? And this not just your quarterbackss not, but this new age of college football where it used to be very old school, right, No bulletin board material, guys, We're going to focus on the game in the game at hand. Diego comes on our show earlier this summer and he says, hey, before we get started, I'm not going to give any bulletin board material to anybody. And then he walks away from that podcast, and I'm thinking that felt like the most boltim Bore material you could ever give to people. But he continues to back it up at this play. How are you handling them in the media? Is it kind of like a Dana White UFC? Listen, you guys have freedom of speech for a reason. You go and run it the way you want to run it. Or are we reeling back at times keeping the program in mind?

01:51:18
Speaker 9: Or so he set a record for Boltimbore material. I think we made history in that interview, and it was interesting I was. I was traveling, I was going to see the Ravens for a day, and I was had an interview that morning in my office, and and you know, I'm pretty like, I stay pretty insulated from all of it. You know, I'm not I'm not on social media or whatever.

01:51:44
Speaker 5: You know.

01:51:44
Speaker 9: I just I kind of keep my head down and stay working. But the person I was I was speaking with mentioned that Diego had made a lot of you know, or there was a lot of buzz about what he had said about Tennessee. And I said, okay, I didn't know. I didn't know anything about it. Well, you know, he said something about running the state of Tennessee. Okay, well we'll deal with that. I'll land in Baltimore, and there's like, oh, there's a few other things that had come up, Okay, we'll deal with that. I spend the day there, I apply back to Nashall Land Air. Then there's a few other things that, you know, And so he and I had a meeting at like five thirty in the morning the next day, and and honest to god, I here's my thought on it. I you know, first of all, Diego has earned the right to speak for himself, and the world doesn't need like a watered down Diego Papya, Like the world doesn't need that. I mean, this guy has charisma, belief, you know. I think too many people will whisper their beliefs, you know, and like want to kind of walk kind of in the shadows and not actually say what they want and go after what they want. And he's he's a guy that does exactly that. And and yet I think there's a balance here between being confident and and and having belief and not also being disrespectful to our opponents and that you know, the bullet important material stuff. It just I don't really care. I don't think that matters, but I do. I do want this group to have a great respect for the teams we play against. And part of our respect is we're gonna We're gonna absolutely do everything we can to win the game, and we are gonna we're going to try to bury the opponent. I mean, that's our attitude, that's our mentality, and we expect them to do the same in return. That's how we learn about ourselves, you know. But we we don't need to we don't need to be disrespectful. And the way we you know, represent our program, represent ourselves, and and so you know, we we had a really good conversation about that kind of stuff. And again, I the other thing I'll say about Diego is he you know like my kids, you know, like my kids look up to him. You know, my kids go to school. I mean, living in Nashville, you're like the melting pot for every SEC team.

01:53:58
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:53:58
Speaker 9: And when you're not having sick sess, you know, your kids take some shit for it, Diego Pavia. My kids can walk in with their chest out a little bit, now, you know, I mean they can hell yeah yeah. So I like I told him that in that meeting too, Like, dude, I don't want you to change who you are. Man, I love who you are. Let's just be smart and let's understand the ramification of what we say, and and let's always carry respect for our opposition. And the beautiful thing about Diego is that he is totally humble in his process, and he's he's a quiet connector in this building. He's so sincere and authentic, and he's curious man. And I he and I are more alike than we are, you know, dislike, and we just he I couldn't imagine a better person to be taking the stabs for this program at this moment.

01:54:53
Speaker 2: You know too, It's like, uh, if people that weren't aware, it's like, hey, Diego went on bus with the boys, it's like, oh shit.

01:54:58
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, because even on our show is not like a hey, we're going to try to get clickbait type of stuff, like we give everybody like the freedom like if they say something like hey, I felt very uncomfortable about that. Can we can we cut that? We're the first ones to go yeah. Absolutely. And after the after the episode, I hate Diego, like you feel good about all that? And he's like, yeah, if anything, I felt like I was pretty good about not getting Multimore with That's why I just took a step back and I was like, all right, He's like, you seem kind of uptight. Yeah, I'm just thinking about it, Clark Lee. But yeah, go ahead, Yeah yeah.

01:55:31
Speaker 2: Coach, You're very much known for like culture and process, and what I want to ask is how has a player like Diego challenge your perspective on personalities and dealing with players and athletes like you know they're there. Diego's become such a big name, it's like they're on uh Pat McFee last week with Saban, He's like, there would there'd be a conversation him doing the victory, the kneeling and everything else. How has a player like Diego aallenge you to, Hey, this is a completely different player. Like he's walking with ski masks, Like everybody's fired up about this dude. The way he kind of carries himself with that swagger. It's getting to a point to where people are having like, oh, I hate this kid. He seems arrogant, he seems cocky, YadA, YadA, YadA. But a man with your background, a man like again of culture and process. How has Diego challenged you to think differently with him specifically?

01:56:24
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I mean certainly, he's he's a he's a different He's a different dude that way. I mean, I think I think part of my growth is a head coach, you know, like when you're a position coach, you can pretty well you got twelve to fifteen guys, and you can build a culture you kind of recruit into your room. And I don't know that it's very natural kind of the connection and the attitude, the mentality is all kind of there for you pretty naturally. As a coordinator, you got about fifty guys and you're you're doing the same, but you're still recruiting to that room. It's your kind of personal touch on As a head coach, it's just totally different. And I think when I when I started, first of all, this place was it was so sick, you know, we had so far to come, and it was we had to learn how to care about ourselves first. I mean it was it was pretty bleak. And so I don't I don't actually judge the way I approached the early parts of this because I think I had to approach it that way. But also, you know, I've learned a lot about control, you know, controls and illusion, and I think coaching is about impact and my job is to ensure alignment. And and also if if I put everyone in a box or if I expect everyone to take on, like I want my personality to show up and how we play like that's important. I want to turn the film on and see a team that knows their head coach and we play with edge and we you know, we're playing hard and physical and all those things are important to me.

01:57:57
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, to get that if if everything goes through me.

01:58:02
Speaker 9: If everybody's a little mini version of me, the program will only be as good as I am good. And I don't want that. I want people to bring their personalities. I want them to bring their creative energy. And when it's be you aligned with us. Now, I mean, there's certain standards and expectations. You know, if if Die goes out in the world talking shit and not showing up on time, I got a problem with that, right, I mean, so there's obviously that's not the case. But as an example of you know, the things that we matter, the mission's winning. So anything that impacts winning, I want it done at the highest possible level. I want you to bring your personality. I want you to bring your creative energy. I want you to feel ownership stake in this as a co creator, and in that way we amplify Vanderbilt Football. And that way, it's the collective spirit that makes us dangerous. And so to long winded way to answer your question, I think it's not that he's challenged me. I've learned a lot about the balance of giving this program room to breathe, and as I've gained trust in the team through our process, I've allowed for it to breathe a little more, and I think that's a healthy balance obviously, you know, I mean I challenge these guys every week and there's certain things again that we're they're boundaries here. You know, we have very specific things that we ask of our guys. But as long as we're within those boundaries, like I want them to feel like they bring their personalities and that's what makes us unique.

01:59:32
Speaker 4: Well, you've definitely established an amazing culture, so much so that we're seeing all these openings in these big time schools going on and your name slowly getting sprinkled around a little bit. Hey, Clark Lee's at Vanderbilt, Like what's gonna Florida? Looks like a nice one, Clark Lee? Hey, LSU is looking pretty solid when these things are coming up. Obviously, it's a massive compliments not only you but to your players in the product that they're putting on the field. But how are you handling that noise, not just with the team, but also with your only as well.

02:00:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, look that the standard response is when you're getting attention, it's a good thing because you know, it means you're having success. And there's true to that. Obviously, these kind of you know, early season, mid season coaching changes are just brutal to me, a brutal part of this business. And I this is such a personal, such a human endeavor, and you guys know because y'all have done it. I mean, your connection with your team is like as a family connection, or at least it is for us. So I couldn't imagine not not being able to finish out a journey with a group of guys that have poured so much into this, And so I don't love that this becomes kind of the nature of the beast here middle of the season. Certainly, our success is a credit to so many people that are sacrificing and investing in this, suffering for it, and so obviously I applaud that rumors can come from every where, and so you know, I'm not in direct conversation with anybody about anything right now, and my only focus is on getting the most out of this season. We We have put so much into this, and yet right all that buzz that surrounds it can come from any corner of the internet, and that is what it is. I believe the team, they they you know, they see my consistency, They know my routines, they know exactly where I'm at every day and what I'm doing. I have not sense that any of that kind of external noise has penetrated our locker room.

02:01:37
Speaker 1: And they know that.

02:01:38
Speaker 9: My My focus first and foremost, both short term and long term, is how to position this program at a championship level. And I think we've done that. You know, we we have stayed on course in alignment in that way to this point. Now we you know, we have still ground to cover to get this thing to a point of sustainability, and so now is a moment for me to push on that. But like as far as my family goes, I mean, obviously, you know, everyone sees the rumors and then they start to you know, reach out to my wife. You know, Like I had no conversation with my oldest son a couple of weeks ago, because what I don't want to have happen is he goes to school and the kids are talking to him about you know, hey, I heard your dad this or that.

02:02:27
Speaker 2: Yeah.

02:02:27
Speaker 9: I just want to make sure he knew that anything that would be big would come for me, that we would have conversations about that and for him not to worry about any of that stuff that gets to him at school. The younger two, I don't think you know, they they're just they're at recess and stuff like that.

02:02:42
Speaker 2: I think at the time, coach man, like you guys, Vanderbilt has never done what you guys are doing now. And being a cat that was born here, being a cat that played fullback at Vanderbilt, what has it meant for you to I mean, you're the face of the pro right now. Like looking back and reflecting on your process on your journey. What does it meant for you when you are sitting with your family or you're sitting with your wife and kind of having those reflective moments on where Vanderbilt is at currently at the moment.

02:03:14
Speaker 9: Well, I feel I feel very grateful. I mean, you'd say, sitting with my wife and thinking about it. I mean, shoot, man, over the last five years, there have been some really low moments here and some really hard moments.

02:03:29
Speaker 1: I think in some ways.

02:03:32
Speaker 9: What we've experienced in the way of pain has made kind of what we experience now all the sweeter. And it's you guys know how football is, man, You don't, You just can't hang on to it. That long. I mean, good game, bad game, next game, and you wake up on so it's like, well, yoh, we talk as a team. It's like you live, you die on Saturday, you wake up on Sunday, you start anew right. I mean, that's just the process.

02:03:53
Speaker 1: But it is so.

02:03:57
Speaker 9: Refreshing that as we go through our process that the buzz around our program is positive because for forever, honestly, there was there was zero attention being paid. And not that we do it for attention, but when you're getting attention, it's because you're on course with your goals. So it's personal being in Nashville, being a Vandy alom, having such a belief in what is possible at Vanderbilt, and even even having that belief met with just skepticism everywhere. You know, to finally be at point a point of breakthrough, it feels great. You know again, I just for me, it's about how I shift very quickly into thinking about what the next steps are and how we continue to position this program in a place of strength in an ever changing landscape. And uh, you know, so you just again, you can't hang on to it too long.

02:04:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's never a time you can in a football world. There's never a time to be fully present. You're always looking looking towards the future, of which you can't accomplish. A guy that hired you at one point, Brian Kelly, he just lost his job. And I know you guys have some type of relationship, whether it be positive or negative. But I want to hear about you hearing that news. What it kind of means for college football now seeing this many coaching changes or coach coaching firings happening at the middle point of the season in college football, that's kind of a newer type of fib or at least this many. But yeah, what's your relationship like with Brian Kelly? We sent a text, we do a FaceTime like, how is that whole thing?

02:05:30
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I mean, I've got so much respect for him, and he gave me an opportunity when you know, I mean he didn't have to, and I'm eternally grateful for that. I mean that changed the course of my career in my life, and I had to make the most of it. But you know, he supported me through it and really grew and mentor me. And then the other thing too, that as I was becoming a head coaching candidate. That always I always appreciated about b K was he was never threatened by that. It was he like he would when when I would go on interviews or when I'd have people calling, he would always sit with me and be supportive and talk to me about what I need to be looking for. And I mean it was just amazing. Again the level of support and that friendship has been maintained. And you know, hey, we're different people, you know. I mean I wasn't sure how good of a fit I was going to be working for him in Notre Dame, And yeah, I was nervous about that, but I got to be around him at a time in his career where he was really transforming and and and I thought what he did there on the back end of his time and Notre Dame was remarkable. And so you know, I heard for him, I heard for that program. I again, I think we're in a tough spot right now in college football in general. It's it's still the greatest game played, you know. I mean, it's it's such an amazing thing to be a part of, and there's so much emotion involved with it. But but the stakes are getting higher and higher and you know, I don't the financial parts of our game are are are tricky. I think we're still trying to really get a get a feel and get a hold of that. Obviously, you know, with these these coaches getting let go earlier mid mid contract, I mean, there's a lot to be discussed about that. The place I land more than anywhere else, And this is for everyone who's experiencing this is just I've got compassion for the people involved, the families involved, all that's been invested in a place, whether it's Penn State or Florida or LSU, just how painful that is. And I hurt for the players. I heard, for the coaches, I heard for the staffs. I hurt for the families, and I don't. I don't like it, but obviously, you know it's it's we also sign up for these pressure cookers, and you know you have to accept the good with the bad that way and understand it's all a part of it. But you know, at the end of the day, for me, you know, I mahar goes out to coach Kelly and his family and to the LSU program and to those players, and you know, I'm sure he's gonna land on his feet. He's a really good coach, and good things take time. And you know, this is a time in college football where you have to have total alignment from top down. When you have total alignment, you have a chance to position yourself to be competitive in our conference. It's gonna every year look more and more like the NFL, the margins or razor thin. You have to be play with an identity, you have to play with a strategy. You have to execute that every week. And just like in our game against Missouri, it literally came down to the last inch of the grass on the field. You know, It's just these are challenging jobs and you have to be on point. And when you're not, there consequences to pay for that.

02:09:04
Speaker 2: Brother, where was your heart at when you saw the MISSOO player catch that football on the hell Mary and it was like, you know, everybody's cheering, then it's kind of quiet, like where was your heart beat out? Where was your emotion at during that moment, especially when I was you know, the players are kind of getting on the field celebrating. It's like, hang on a second.

02:09:22
Speaker 9: Yeah, it felt like the way that game went, and I you know, I was upset early, just well, you know, there was a fumble through the interception started the second half, and I felt like from my vantage point that we dislodged the ball on the return before the aligneman was down who had picked it off, And had that been ruled fumble, I believe the ruling on the field would have been held. I don't know there was a video evidence for anything, but it wasn't. It was it was ruled that the runner was down, and so that was upheld. I was really upset about that.

02:09:57
Speaker 2: I'm with you that that was bullshit. Yeah.

02:09:59
Speaker 9: And then and then when when Seti was dragged on the ground on his back and the ball was dislodged, you know, they they ruled it a fumble, and it just so it was one of those games.

02:10:12
Speaker 1: And again, officials have a hard job. This is not about that.

02:10:14
Speaker 9: It's it's just about my emotions in the game were such that it felt like some of those things just were piling up on us, and so I couldn't see I couldn't see the play. I was getting feedback that it was incomplete, you know, obviously, which was wrong, and I was just trying to look on the video board to see whether or not he had crossed the plane, well, me and Eli. Eli called to me, and so we were sitting there talking and and he said, it doesn't look like he crossed the plane. But what if they put time back on the clock. And that's when my heart sang because I thought, I thought, God, if we're defending one play, you know, like, hey, we're gonna put one second back of the clock. There's one play from the one inch line. It's like, my god, is that really how this thing's gonna gonna finish out? But fortunately it was it was time.

02:11:06
Speaker 1: It expired.

02:11:07
Speaker 9: Obviously the quarterback had scrambled around for a while anyways, so you know it wasn't going to be you know, there was no time left. But that was a it was a moment, man. And we've had a bunch of tight games against them, and I thought a really physical game and I was really proud of our team. I think it's an example of, you know, sometimes you got to outscore people. Sometimes it's just about being gritty and fighting for every blade of grass.

02:11:30
Speaker 1: And that's what they did.

02:11:31
Speaker 4: M First off, coach, I before I tell you say this, I love your program. I love the culture, I love the attitude that you guys play with. Now that I've said that, one thing just coming off from an offensive lineman's perspective that I am not a huge fan of because I know if I was in college, I could not have done this because I was a one trick pony and a one trick pony only Why are we flipping guards and tackles from side to side? Because I was a a soali left tackle. But if you put me on the right side, we're talking undrafted free agent, not going to make the team, practice squad guy. Like that's how much of a big difference it was for me. Yeah, why are we flipping dudes? Why are we flipping them back and forth?

02:12:13
Speaker 9: Well, that's Chris Klanakis are offensive line coach. That's a part of his philosophy. And and you know, obviously the playing right and left, playing both creates challenges schematically.

02:12:27
Speaker 1: There are ways that you can.

02:12:30
Speaker 9: Tether those guys together if they're always on the strong side, always on the weak side, Like, there are things, there are plays and play menu that you're getting your tight end surface and those guys all connected with whatever the points are in the run game or the protection calls. So there are things that he believes in and and you know he's he's done it for a long time. The thing I love about so both you know, there's tactical benefits, there are fundamental technical challenges to your point, and I think he's navigated that really well. And the guys have bought into it and believe in it and also know that it challenges them too. But the thing about our offensive line, and I know you guys know kid really well, and how cool was it to see him highlighted, you know, for his physical play and pass protection against LSU.

02:13:20
Speaker 4: It was awesome.

02:13:22
Speaker 9: The you know, your your program's culture is going to ultimately be set by your offensive line. The two most important position groups in the building are the O line and the D line. So the offensive line, and I'll tell the team this, they set the tone, They set the course for us. I think what those guys have done in terms of their connection and their belief, what Chris Klenoch has has done and getting that group aligned to play at the level they played in our league is the story of our.

02:13:53
Speaker 1: Season, you know.

02:13:54
Speaker 9: And obviously Diego Pavia deserves all the recognition that he gets, but I he would be the first to tell you too, when those guys up front, create the space that they've created when they move people to get the run game going, it means everything to his performance too. And so we are different, you know, and different can be good and different can be bad. But at the end of the day, I love the culture of the environment and the success we're having in our offensive line I think speaks for itself.

02:14:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, you brought it up. You brought up kid. We obviously have a special relationship with him and it is awesome to see that play versus LSU. And on the flip side, a couple of years ago, there was an LSU offensive lineman that was doing that to Vandy and it's just like cool to see this full transition. You get kid transfers from a Big ten school that's where offensive linement are created. Bring him from Minnesota over there. Can you talk to you about Kid's development? And then I love to see here just a quick scout report where you think he thrives in where can we get a little bit better? And because I'm a big fan of the boy and I think he's got a career ahead of him in the NFL, and I'm excited for him.

02:14:58
Speaker 9: Well, he's first of all, just there there's when you meet Kate and when you get to know him as a person. The energy brings his attitude, you know, he's got he's a life force. He's such a He's a guy that doesn't have many bad days and and every time, even on the field, man just like I love players that in the moment, they can recognize, you know, the the the mentality, the competitive mindset they need to take on for the unit. And on Saturday, when we were struggling, like he would step on the field ready to tip the field, I mean, and he he had total belief it was the next series is going to be the ones that one they break it in the eye contact, the energy, the attitude that's day and day out with him. Obviously he's a big physical player, and what I think we've seen with him this year, I mean, he's He's also not played a lot of football, you know, so I think his performance, at least from what I've seen weekend week out, is strengthened over time. And I believe what you're going to see is, you know, as we reach the back end of the season, I think you're gonna see a guy that's going to maintain playing at a really high level. You know, look in terms of you know, what he needs to strengthen, I think there's there's there's reason to believe that you know, he can he can improve in in his past protection, there's things he can do for consistency in the run game. But on the whole, I think what you've seen from him is this steady improvement through the season that LSU Clip was was not a one off. I mean, this is how he plays the game. He's tough, he's physical, he's smart, and he's also a guy that that can snap the ball for us too, So you know, he plays really two positions. He plays garden center. And I agree with you. I think he's got a great future ahead of him and I'm glad he's with us. And it has been so much fun to watch him, uh step into this level of performance. And as he has improved, you know, so has our offensive line, so is our program.

02:17:02
Speaker 2: We absolutely love him. Like he did the internship with us over the summer, honestly insanely surprising how well he did, like editing clips and just immersing himself into what we do. Because I'm thinking this is just going to be you know, this is just going to be a jock brain. He wants an internship, he wants a credit right now. We'd love to have a Vandy O lineman over here. But just very surprising how well he did and just how much he embraced everything. And it's it's just so fun to watch that clip after last week and then he's going viral. He's getting these conversations, he sit downs with the national media. We love him, love love.

02:17:35
Speaker 4: Him, love him. Have you heard about the bet that I have made with Cad and Diego Pavia. Have you been Have you heard about that rumor?

02:17:43
Speaker 1: I'm not in that. I'm not okay.

02:17:45
Speaker 4: Well, the rumor is this, if you guys win the SEC in the National Championship, that I have to take Diego and the entire offensive line to Vegas so they can do the Taos. Yeah, I was, I was. I felt very good about my bet. I felt very good about it, even the poort where I told kid as I listen, I know you're zoomed in. I've played a lot of football. I just don't think I don't think you have the horses. Now I'm sitting here, you guys are seven and one, and I've gone past the point of fear and now I'm in full support, Like I was like, yeah, allow my bank account to get destroyed by these gentlemen there. You guys deserve it, like it's it's very impressive before we get you out of here. Big game at Texas this week. You guys are underdogs. Adversity at this point is something that you guys have just embraced open armed. But you see them have a big comeback win versus Mississippi State arch manning he gets hurt, the backup quarterback comes in there as a phenomenal fadeball and over time to end that game. What are your quick scattering port of Texas and how you guys are approaching that game.

02:18:49
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, look, you've turned their film on and they have everything they need, you know. I mean there's good play, there's good players, their speed, and so I think the Mississippi State game is a great example of this idea. I mean they were down seventeen points, yes, and it felt like I mean short of the there was a roughing the passer there on a fourth down that extended to drive. Short of that, I mean, they were all but out of it. But this is a team that's never going to be out of it because of the skill they have and the ability they have to close to close gaps quickly. Obviously a huge punt return there also and and and so they can do it in all three phases. You know this this is in some ways the story of kind of two very different programs. You know, we're we we say we're a team of misfits here and and and we're planning against a team that that again has everything they need across the board. We have to played our identity. We have to we have to go there and and play a physical game and obviously pay attention to explosive plays on defense and then special teams. Often, the more we can control the game, which you know we really didn't do against Missouri in terms of possessing, possessing the ball and having third down success, those will be the things to me that that will ultimately allow us to be able to find a win on the road. This is a really good team. It's a well coached team. Our guys will be excited for the challenge though, and this is a shoot man, this is this is why you play in the SEC. Right a November game at Texas with with all everything at stake, it's a it's a great opportunity for us, so we're going to embrace that and have fun with it.

02:20:33
Speaker 2: Coach Lee, thank you so much for joining us, taking time out of your day, enjoy the week. Good luck against Texas. We are rooting for you here at bus and what the boys are. But thank you so much.

02:20:43
Speaker 9: Social love what y'all do. It means lots of the honest shoes.

02:20:46
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.

02:20:47
Speaker 2: Hey, off season, will need you here on the bus and here in this season.

02:20:51
Speaker 4: All right, I'll be there at That's a that's a verbal.

02:20:54
Speaker 2: Commitment, that's right. See you, coach appreciate Thanks