Bussin' With The Boys - Banana Ball Is Ruining Baseball + MLB Opening Day | Inside The Bus

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

Welcome back to another episode of Inside The Bus. This week we have Ryan join the fellas as JP is out in Japan living his best life. the guys get into MLB Opening Day and the excitement that Coop and Ryan have for their respective teams. Coop believes the Rangers are poised for a deep run into the playoffs and Ryan says it's World Series or bust for the Yankees. The guys then get into Banana Ball and some of the guys don't like it at all. Jack and Coop are on the side that is bad for baseball and is ruining the game for baseball purists. Let us know in the comments what your thoughts are on Banana Ball and the Savannah Banana's. Enjoy the Friday hang with the fellas and as always, much love.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is episode 41. Welcome in, everybody. And now I will let Mitch take it away. That's all I got for the intro. Yeah, we have a, we don't have a guess, but I, Ryan, is this your first time on since calling Jared a bitch? We had the B-Team episode. Yes. And then, yeah, this is the first time after that.

So, yeah. We were just marveling. He's a AAA. He's called up. Yeah. Right before. It's baseball season. Opening day.

Opening night. Opening night. Right before we started, I was marveling at Ryan's thighs. So bad. Pause. Kid got torched. Stand up. Let's see.

Yeah. So. Let's go. Hell yeah I've seen worse But like yeah You got red Yeah so I went to Knoxville

This past weekend My sister goes to Tennessee Spent the weekend there Saturday went on a hike Did not get any of this on the hike Great hike four miles We went to Out to the Smoky Mountains

Yeah Cove Cove something I don't know Once you get out to like Pigeon Forge and stuff I think yeah I'm not too familiar With all of the hikes

But It was like I think it was called Chimney Covemonds Rock Trail. Oh yeah. I've done Chimney Rock. Awesome. I loved it. It was sick. Great one. Heard about like that whole story with how it burned down and everything was crazy. And then Sunday we went to a baseball game, sat right down the first baseline.

How's that, you went to the Smokies? Yeah. How's that, because that new stadium just got built last year and it used to be out by Pigeon 4. Oh, no, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Tennessee. Gotcha. Even better though. With the new chef, I was talking to chef. He's like, dude, you got to take pictures, show me all about the new like second level yeah i haven't been there since they did that one as well it's great i'll show you the pictures after it looks great there but uh yeah sat right down the first base line and sun was peeked right over my right shoulder my ass got torched um little base layer yeah i was sitting low base layer in march your boy does not tan at all yeah just uh just burns clearly

but uh yeah sunday night was really rough driving back here because i was driving back like as the sun was coming down so sun's still beaming in i'm burnt i'm Once you dig that first sleep too when you're burnt and just like it's like a fire going on underneath your sheets. So hot. I'm taking up in sunscreen so hard all summer. I don't care. Last year I got the worst burn in my life. Me too.

You got to get some sun though. No. Summer of the screen. Nope. Nope. I'm not getting sun. I tried getting sun. Ask Matt Malone.

I was tanning at my apartment last year. No sunscreen. Perfect time. Prime UV. Well, yeah, if the UVs at an No, no, no, no, prime. It was prime, it was prime. What's prime UV to you?

No, this is, it was like seven or eight. Not the middle of the day. I'm tanning at the pool. I get no color. I go to the lake. I put on some sunscreen. I get just completely wrecked.

So I'm caking. No, I know what the hell's happening to my skin. It ain't getting tan, so. But you know to reapply and everything. No, I, look, man. Well, does that burn? turn into like the base layer. It does, but it's not worth it.

I'm pale. See, you gotta get through one bad burn of the year and then it's greatness and beyond. Yep. Dude, I was like, yeah, and then you start like peeling a little bit.

It's literally tweaking. My OCD loves the peel, though, because I'll just kind of, I mean, as nasty as it is, I love just peeling the little skin. Yeah, you kind of rub it and you're just like,

yeah, just get in the shower and just kind of go like this. Oh, I can feel that motion. But also, like, I don't know if I did this when I was a kid. If I burned,

like on my legs, I would get, just kind of put it on there on the peeling skin and just like pull it off and it looks like the glue like when you're peeling glue off or something i don't know i don't think i've done that one before yeah it is what it is don't think i've done that one before you brought up the uh the smokies like the kodak smokies yeah i almost had an internship with them wait the kodak smokies is that that's are they located in kodak or another knoxville smokies yeah it's the knox it's the knox it's like a double a team it's the Knoxville smokies

I don't think it's a code it could be I don't know but it's is it located in Kodak Tennessee so the original stadium when I was in college was off the exit the pigeon forges which is where Ryan went where you go up to like the actual mountains and where like Dollywood and stuff is but now they that's like a 40 minute drive and we would always go on Thursdays because

it's dollar beer night and you just have some brave soldier who's just willing to drive you back because a 40 minute drive Sorry, they are in Kodak, Tennessee. They are the Knoxville Smokies, but they play at the Tennessee Smoky Stadium. So I'm confused. So Kodak would be like the Pigeon Forge area.

Yes. Correct. And it was an awesome double A part because the backdrop was literally just like rolling forest, which is always a good vibe. But now because they've... Hey, what's up, man? Taylor Luan. Taylor LaWan, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't even know if he's on camera, but... Hey guys, how we doing? How about that ride in? huh? That's what they call it Sin City. Derek, when you have a minute, I'd love to chop it up

with you downstairs, okay? All right. All good things. All good things. All good things. Do you want to go down there now? It seems pressing, and he does,

he's kind of, he kind of has the higher up on us. I'll come, I'll come switch. All right, we're going to do a little bit of a switch up because our humble boss came and needs help.

He needs help. But yeah, so I, Going back to I originally had a I they offered me the internship at this Baseball the minor league baseball thing but I was like 1200 bucks a month and like I wasn't about a move all the way down in Tennessee and not be able to pay rent or just anything like that and it kind of seemed like it would have sucked so yeah it's just my story about about the smokies yeah now the stadium luckily is relocated in downtown Knoxville so kids don't have to drive

I'm called the time. So this is, this is whose team? The Knoxville Smokies. It's a double, oh, I think it's the Cubs because I remember, I'm pretty sure it's the Cubs.

Yeah, because I remember like their logo or whatever having like, something with a C or something Cubs related. Yeah. And like the project I had to do for them, I would have been one of those,

like, one of the guys that are like hyping up the fans and just being like the video guy for that. So I had to create like a marketing scheme. In game entertainment. Yeah. Like I would have,

I literally, so I have a shirt folder at home and I just, just had to make like a commercial infomercial about that like that was my project for him and like this thank god i didn't do that that would have sucked minor league baseball what a grind there there's when i was in oklahoma oakland city is obviously pretty close to stillwater the minor league team there's is the oklahoma city dodgers which is the dodgers affiliate and like those games are actually pretty high and if you're ever injured on the dodgers but oklama city for a little rehab you get to see

some good players because the Dodgers have good players. We have, are there, because you got Trenton, right? So Trenton Thunder. I forget, they've kind of flopped around with like AAA, you know, which levels which.

There's like the Staten Island Yankees, the Rockland Boulders, the New Jersey Jackals. Somerset Patriots, though, right down the road from Rutgers and going there. I didn't go to too many games when I was a student,

but when I worked full time with the football team, there was, I think it was like the first week or two that I was full time. Garrett Cole He was rehabbing a little bit He came into the season Like a month late So or two months late

So it was like June And he was making a rehab start in double a It was like $5 tickets Me and my buddies went They were like you were saying Like $2 beer $2 hot dogs Literally through three innings After the third inning

Everybody left It was so funny We have the Redding Phillies And like the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs But I played in In high school like our counties, like our baseball tournament counties was on the Redding Philly Stadium or in the Reading Philly Stadium. It was like the coolest thing of all time. Like we were like under the

stadium taking BP and stuff. It was like this like I made it. I made the coolest play of my life too. The Rangers double A in Friscoe, which is very close to Arlington, the Friscoe Ruff riders. I have not been there since I was little. But I think nowadays their ballpark has a lazy river in the outfield. Because you know there's some major league parks like the, The Diamondbacks have a pool. Yeah. I think the brewers might have one. I know that.

Yeah, slide at least. So, like, everyone's got these gimmicks. The Frisco Rough Riders have a lazy river, which is insane. Right. And probably need it in the summer in Texas. For sure. I feel like that'd be such a big appeal for minor league teams. Yeah.

Where it's just really low stakes fan, like viewing. It's like a family event. Yeah, it's like you're not going like majority of people who are there are not upset, really, if your team's losing. I'm sure there are. I don't want to dog any, like, huge sounds fans, you know, from our local market. But I do know that I would be very inclined to go to a game if there's a lazy river waiting for me. But I do love the sounds game. It's every, I don't know if it's once a month on a Thursday, but they do $4 tallboys and like $2 hot dogs.

And if you give me a deal on beers and brats, it's over for me. I feel like AAA is kind of different too because like those guys are actually, they're on the high stakes for sure. AA is pure love for the game. Pure love for the game. cheap beer just you know a good ride brooks like best call best friend from college her husband is now on the redding fillies and we drove out there last year when he was uh i think he was a part of the mariner still and he played in little rock arkansas we drove all the way out there and like got

to see him pitch like it was cool and everything but i'm like there is nothing out here living out here must suck and like the both like the wife and the husband they're both from like Santa Monica, California. Yeah. One of the most beautiful places in the country. And now they're in Little Rock just chasing his journey. And guess what? When you're not playing at home, you're on the road in another.

Yeah. Shitty spot. Yeah. There's a minor league ballpark in Biloxi. Yeah. The Bucci Shuckers? He played for them too. Did he?

Yeah. Mottie League baseball is it's such an insane system. We have there, I don't know if it's independent ball, but like, have you heard of Lancaster Barnstormers? Yeah. A kid that I went to high school. school with it I was actually really close with but kind of he got drafted he made actually a start for the Rangers five like starts his name's AJ Alexi for real yeah

yeah I went to high school with him and like we were like best friends in high school and then he got drafted by the Dodgers and then was a part of the U Darvish trade from the Dodgers to the Rangers the Udardish trade and he eventually made a start and like I that he like got too big time and like but But he's now played for Lancaster Barnstormers. There's just an independent indie ball where it's not affiliated with any team, but talk about love for the game.

Like that's literally all it is. Yeah. There's nothing. It's like it's lower than banana ball. Yeah, at least some popularity. There's a kid that I actually played against in high school. Banana ball sacrilegious. You don't like banana ball?

I'm a baseball purist. But I mean, no, but I get it. You can't knock the hustle. No, no. They sell out everywhere. they go. It's just not for me. But I actually don't mind. I actually really don't like. Would you go? If like they were Nashville not too long. They were they were at Nissan stadiums around this time last year. I'm looking I I wouldn't go to like tea ball and like up to about middle school. But if I played

competitive baseball, I absolutely would be on the side of Coupe as a baseball purist. There's some of like, I like that they're getting a younger generation in there and selling tickets and like having fun with it. But if that was my sport that I grew up loving, I would consider. It's like being, it's, yeah, it's being butchered. I hate the dancing on the mound. Yeah, there's just, it's just not for me. It's just not for me. There's a, there's a crowd for it.

Their crowd, maybe one percent of them like real baseball. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I definitely see, yeah. I see where you're coming from on the sense of like hating it. And like the TikTok stuff, the TikTok dances and shit, like that does get annoying. It's like, but like the trick plays and the shit that they're able to do, like they are. Trick plays I'm in for it. Especially if like a foul ball.

goes out and an audience member catches it it's like an out as well i kind of i like that concept like i can get behind that but it is it's the dancing but i mean even it's very athletic in my opinion all like the backflip catches and like the umps are throwing out roundoffs and yeah i can get behind some of it but it's not something that i'm going to go spend my weekend doing but i'm not going to sit from the sidelines and just be like this is a travesty yeah i can't i mean like it's not for me i'm but i'm not 10 anymore so like who knows maybe I would have probably not but the kid I played against in high school is now on like it's in banana ball on banana ball I don't know what it is he won the college world series uh home run derby I think like a year two after Aaron judge his name's

Nico Holzizer he went to Moorhead State he like just hits nukes do you know much money these guys are pulling in like do you no I don't no no no banana balls bro you know what I want to know I want to know, I want to know what the opposing team, because they're all just ponds, right? What are they? I feel like it's kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters in the sense of like they travel with the like that, the team is the team. Yeah, but like they're the ones that everyone like. Yeah. You know? I feel like 70,000 a year. Again, I have no idea. If you're getting 70K to go out and play for sold out stadiums across the nation, good on you. Like they're, that's fire. But I don't know. Speaking of baseball

Peerty though, we do have two big baseball heads being Ryan and Coop. I'm loving this baseball talk right now. And this was... I'm already thinking of a thumbnail audio. Baseball is back. I was already thinking of a title

We hate banana ball. Well, we got... We have opening day that just happened technically yesterday. Because we're recording on Wednesday, but this is Friday when it comes out. So Yankees fan and Rangers fan. Do we have any kind of update,

any kind of optimism, scared? What's it look like this season for you guys? I'll start because, you know, everyone knows the Yankees. Let me let you... I'll let you what almost happening in Texas. Right before the season starts, that is like when optimism is at the highest

because the last two years the Rangers have not been able to hit the baseball. The year before that, they hit the fuck out of the baseball. I'm starting to think maybe these fuckers were cheating. But the cut a lot of the fat, They're going to have a good lineup this year. I'm just like drinking the Kool-Aid. I think the Rangers are going to be good this year.

Surprise a lot of people because no one's really expecting anything. And I don't even know where I'm going with this, but just look out for the Rangers. If you all want to pick up a team this year, sneaky wild card might be the Rangers. Sneaky AOS champion, actually, but. Who else is in the AOS? The AOS, so the Mariners will be good. The Astros are the Astros, but, you know, they're kind of falling off.

The angels are going to be awful. The athletics are going to sneak some people because they have a bunch of good players all the time for whatever reason, but they're actually just dog shit. There's... I mean, yeah, they definitely could win it. The West. Yeah.

Baseball is such bullshit nowadays. Because... Hmm. Like, I... Doesn't like banana ball, doesn't like MLB? No, I just think I hate the fact and I see where the players are coming from. But, like, the pirates have Paul Skeens

and we know in two or three years he's going to be on the Dodgers. Yeah. He's going to be on the Yankees. He's going to be on one of these. Like, I think, I just think it's bad for baseball. I just don't think it's really fair that, like, Shohei Otani's contract is all deferred, basically. Yeah, it's deferred, but he's getting paid more than the entire Pittsburgh organization.

Yeah. The entire athletics organization. Like, I think that it's just, you know you're going to see the same eight teams in the playoffs. You know that eventually it's going to be. to be the Dodgers and whoever the fuck else in the World Series and it just makes it uninteresting because I will I will say as much as that is like a a real thing and it's not really even recent I was going to say it's the Dodgers are more a recent development because they're back to back uh but like that's kind of always been a thing and and yet there's always so much

parody in baseball out of nowhere there'll be a team yeah like when the royals were good and then all a sudden they just the next year they weren't yeah and then I mean the Rangers they're in in 2023, we're coming off a hundred lost season, two seasons before, which is just not good. And then, you know, they had the best offense and, like, statistically in league history through the first three months of season, like, what the hell's happening? Baseball is just like, it's like any other sport. Like, you can get hot, you can win. I mean, even the Dodgers, they should have lost game seven last year.

They had their nine-hole hitter hit a two-run, home run to tie and go to extra. Yeah. The Blue Jays winning, like, who's, you know, I mean, they're. good but who's expecting that but it is like very much the yankees have always been the yankees the dodgers have money i'm kind of a little lucky the rangers have some money they're kind of spending it but it's just frustrating to like it would suck to be like a lower market team a lower market team i mean it's inevitable that that's going to happen it's inevitable i don't think i'm not against it i think that it there's like a good chance that there is no season next oh the lockouts coming

The CBA. The lockouts coming. It's not going to be good. But as fucked as baseball seems, it feels like the popularity has been going up the last few years. I think a lot of that is because of Shoheyotani. So the MLB could give less of a world baseball classic. The last two go rounds have been like huge. They need to get a new commissioner because he.

Yeah, I don't like Manfred. I remember like watching Pat McAfee like years ago. And like he was talking about how the MLB commissioner literally called the trophy just a piece of metal. Yeah. Rob Manfred is universally hated. I think people probably saying I wouldn't doubt he's the worst major sports commissioner. Yeah. I know nothing about like the NHL commissioner or anything.

He is. It's just bad. Yeah. He is. But that was also when like baseball kind of seemed like he was in a bad place like four or five, six years ago. So I could be wrong. But I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't think.

I think that opinion on him is still like that. He's not liked at all. Yeah. A lot of commissioners aren't. It's like what happens with that job, but he is. Manfred's getting a little lucky with players like, judge and Otani getting so big and there's always been good players but i mean otani's like i mean for me is someone who's like a very baseball casual like there's no way to not view some of the things that

are happening because of these specific guys in the sport yeah and so it's impressive when like i don't know i don't necessarily have such a fandom for baseball and i don't like follow it come october like i'm gonna tune into the games and like i enjoy the world series for for what it is and the spectacle of sport but when you've got showy otani's out there like throwing i mean i saw a stat the other day said his for this year he should be on pace because of last year to at least do a hundred home runs and 50 k's does that make sense i think that's the what over two seasons is it flip and again like flip oh yeah hundred home i'm like damn let him juice if he gets a home hundred home runs i mean he was he did 50 50 he was the first person ever to do to hit 50

home runs and 50 seals in the same season, right? I think it was. I mean, he definitely had 30. 40, 70. And this guy's like a Salliang caliber pitcher. I mean, it's insane that that happens. It's like what everyone thinks of, Babe Ruth, you know, because obviously he's the outfield that hit nukes, but like he pitched to a

first. I mean, Shohei is just it's insane. Show Hay's been a breath of fresh air, because a lot of MLB superstars, Mike Trout, one of the best baseball players ever, just like very low-key, not really. Baseball's had a lot of superstars kind of be under the radar, you know, about their business.

But having a global icon like Shohei has been massive. I don't know if this is a hot take that we can get into your outlook for the Yankees. Do you think I'm in the stance of like I couldn't easily play baseball back in way back when like Babe Ruth was playing? Oh, oh. Yeah, like players today would destroy players back then. But I think like the casual person, I even think sometimes with like that with football. but then you think of like Chuck Bednaric and just mean Joe Green and people like that.

But like I am in the firm stance of like I could have played Major League Baseball back then. It's funny because I don't disagree with that at all. I don't. Part of me doesn't disagree with it, but other... I just don't know. I feel like some of them, especially the pictures. I don't know how good they really were. I know they weren't throwing that fast. Yeah, but those pitchers were going out there every day

throwing 100 pitches and then would go the next day. Like Satchel Paige was thrown like through like a thousand pitches in one week. Yeah, and they were smoking Sigs and Chuck. beer it's it's like you're lucky i'm trying to think how long it would take someone to throw a thousand pitches now i think that may been an exaggeration but i mean even if not you he's like would throw 150 pitches next day he's out there were people who threw like 15 inning complete games yes yeah that's ridiculous yeah it yeah no i think like athletes today could definitely if you just dropped them in compete instead i'm i'm not even i'm saying yeah athletes for sure would tank him i'm

saying like you pick up the average show off the street you like the kid to play it in high school like high schoolers now could play back then and I think would hold their own. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. My boy Brian Reynolds could definitely play. Brian Reynolds could definitely play now. So like, yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I think like baseball might be the biggest example because you can say that about all sports. Baseball to me, all the old foot is just like it is so the game was very much.

It's like very similar but very slow. Like the pitching now is just insane. Yeah, I mean, you got Skeens topping out at 103, and then you got another guy, your closer comes in at 105, and it's like, I'm not touching that. And that's just the heater, like all the movement on the pitches now. Skines can make a 103 fastball, you know, you can pitch that, 01, next pitch. You're thinking it's a fastball, and then it's a splitter all of a sudden, and it looks the exact same until you go to swing. And then it just drops. Like, that's just not.

Yeah, that, I wish. when we get to heaven, can we just say, hey, let's, let's run a game where all these old timers, on all these new timers just play at their means. Let's see how this really would have gone. I feel like, I got to see it. Baseball, I feel like baseball and football, I feel like of the two sports where there would be a massive, like, disparity. I think hockey and basketball, I feel like would be closer, if that makes sense.

Yeah, I don't know about basketball. That one's interesting because- Basketball just was shooting threes. I mean, you always are like, they were playing against plumbers and, you know, I don't know. I feel like those old basketball players were weak as fuck. Yeah. Part of me disagrees with the baseball thing because when you look at like baseball versus basketball, it is so much more athletically demanding playing basketball.

And obviously these athletes are so much better now with all the technology and everything. It's like, you know, the MJ and LeBron, but it's like you put, you put Wembe in a game in the 1960s. People are going to legitimately think he's an alien. I probably there was like Will Will who else fucking Bill Russell Who else was like Bobby West

Bob Coosy Yeah All back in Jason Williams I mean shit like Damn we're skipping around now I really think it would be insane For any sport

I see your point on baseball My whole thing with baseball Is even like the athletes thing It's just The pitching now And it's just like different It's different for everything But yeah

I definitely think like a good athlete today high school athlete could hold their own back in 100% like you're not seeing the same speed pitches in high school yeah yeah with better movement on it the travel ball and stuff like the travel ball is probably comparable to MLB like it is called as America's past like it was a past time now it is like a real like people are from the womb yeah like prospects which is I mean there's minor leaguers that are 14 or signed to contracts I'm yeah Jason Dominguez current Yankee was on a Yankees contract that's 16 years old.

Yeah, back then that shit was for fun. Wander Franco. Wander Franco, yeah. Wow, I wonder what he's doing. He's in jail. Yeah, I wonder what he's doing like in jail. What's your outlook for the Yankees? I mean, it's like, I'm lucky enough.

Yeah, it's like World Series or bust, honestly. I mean, didn't have many changes going into the offseason or in the off season. Resigned Cody Bellinger, which I'm hype about. Aaron Judge is. the best hitter in baseball. I mean, hoping for a fourth MVP from him. He can facilitate enough around him to where it's like, if he's in the lineup, he's healthy. Like, 2022, we were going to be one of the best AL teams. He gets hurt. The whole thing falls apart, but it's like you have that one stud in your lineup and people will find ways to contribute.

John Carlos Stinn, I don't know if you guys saw this. He's trying to play all whatever 162 games. He's going to say that, right? He can't, he has tennis elbow in both his elbows. He can't open a bag of chips, but he's going to try to hit 50 home runs this year. How did that? How did you get it in both elbow? I don't know. I don't know.

He's always been. He's just, he's always got injury concerns. But, I mean, top to bottom, I love our squad. Pitching rotation is great. Gary Cole, I mean, Max Fried, Rodon, Heel, Schlittler. Coop and I were talking the other day. Cam Schlittler is the Boston guy who's the Yankees pitcher pitched game three of that wildcard series

when the Yankees game was on in the stream. It was like a football stream. It was like his debut, playoff debut, 14K, sat the Red Sox down. So that fires me up to see what he'll be like this year. But I mean, yeah, World Series or bust if we don't get a ring. The Rangers Yankees, ALCS is going to go hard. Better.

All I know is Juan Soto's crying every night wishing that he stayed with the Yankees. But hey man, you want more money. so take it. Playoff baseball is, it's up there. It's my favorite, dude.

The crowd pops for a home run. The Lindor, the Lindor home run. Yeah, all of them. Dude, the Seeger, I buy us

with the Seeger game tying home run. I just, my first year here, like working here, I kind of hated it in Nashville. And that was when the Phillies were making their World Series playoff run.

And like all my friends back home were like going to the Phillies games. I'm like, I kind of want to go back to Philly. Yeah. And like move. But then that was very short-lived. Yeah.

But like just the atmosphere around playoff baseball, I'm like, Oh, it's electric. It's sick. Because it's so fun to be at those games too. And I mean, this is all baseball in general. Kind of like what we were saying before with minor league baseball, it's like you go to the game obviously to have fun to watch baseball. But it's like you don't really care about what's happening in the game.

And the game is so slow pace anyway, even with the pitch. clock that it's like the four of us could be having this exact conversation right now and not miss a beat about what's happening on the baseball show you just hear oh that was a foul ball and like back to the conversation but MLB I mean obviously it's like that too and so that's why I love going to baseball games it's like you enjoy that atmosphere day game night game doesn't really matter you guys can go with the boys get those two dollar beers two dollar hot dogs and just vibe out and not miss and day at the ballpark is awesome yeah I'm playing like I mean it goes with anything but playing I can't stand watching baseball now, but I loved playing it.

Oh, so much fun. Granted, that's I feel like with any sport. Yeah. But I loved playing baseball and then now just watching it and like thinking of when I have, if I have a son and I have to go to all of his travel games and just sit there. You got to be coaching sitting in the dugout when your son's team is in the field because the pitcher can't throw strikes and you're losing by 10. Yeah.

And the fielders are out there for 20 minutes. Yeah. Those are some of my worst sports memories grow up. Oh, God. watching baseball though. The Rangers play 162 games. I will probably watch 140 of them.

That's so crazy. Yeah, I like to watch them. So, Jack, how was Vegas? Let's dive into Vegas. Vegas was good, man. Profitable. Always got to go to Vegas without Taylor and still know you have it.

I got a shout on my boy, Avery Freeze, the guru at the guru on Twitter. If you want good plays, he has a model built on gambling. It is very impressive. The stats that go in

behind it and all the analytics. But I want to say he was up like 22 and a half units over the weekend alone on March Madness. And my buddy Avery went to Texas and it was me and four of my buddies that grew up here in Nashville that we went to high school with Avery. And we were going to meet essentially all of the guys that he has essentially replaced us with through college. And we as bad friends never went to visit Texas and haven't been to Dallas post-grad. So it was a very interesting dynamic going into the weekend because you never know if you're all going to mesh well and then if you're going to kind of be like your own little small group and like there's like a group of 15 guys that like all have been like you know cutting teeth with each other for the

last 10 years and you're kind of the odd man out could not have gone better all of his boys awesome guys got to hang out with a ton of them and the wedding is in two weeks i i've realized something i feel like years ago it was very common to have a bachelor party and then you get married like six months to a year later. And because this bachelor party just happened this past weekend, the wedding is in a week and a half, two weeks in Dallas. I kind of love it because you still have that momentum going from the bachelor party. All the new guys you just met, it's not like a, oh, hey, what's up? Like, fuck, what was that guy's name? I feel like everyone's not going to skip a beat when we get there. So very excited for that wedding. But dude, going to Vegas during March

madness is stressful as it may sound is so much fun. You just can't go wrong. Everywhere that you go, obviously there's games on everywhere. And you can gamble if you want on the games. You can go to the tables. You can go to the pools. We had a really good weather weekend. Sunny, hot as hell.

I think it was like got up to 98, 99 one day. And that was my first time ever going or experiencing a Vegas pool party. And I go to Vegas constantly and been gone the last three years. So to see you the other side of like how like really traditional Vegas works, man, it's a blast. Especially the pool parties. I feel like that's the way to go. I am in my old age of 31 now. I've lost all desire for clubbing.

Like every now and again, like I'll go to bars and stuff. But like I don't actively seek out to like go to a place with like crazy loud music where you're having to scream at your boys. You know, you're paying $1,500, whatever. It still would be fun. But if I'm in Vegas,

I'm going to go gamble. And dude, we had so much fun at these pool parties. We just had the best service. It's just a good overall hang. and it felt like everyone for the most part I'm sure there was a couple stragglers that weren't as loud as us

but we all came back positive which with a group of 17 guys I believe it's tough to come back when majority of people came back winning and it just gave me that when I go to Vegas it's typically for work stuff and so to get to go there and just like kick back drink all weekend gamble

be it degenerate it was absolutely a pleasure so shout out Avery and all the fellas from Texas can't wait to see you guys a couple of them are like pretty big busting fans too which was funny and like you know they're like giving me shit like oh you think you're famous like you know like really getting in my grill and I'm like this is what I want like I don't want it to be some weird like kind of like oh so like how's this how's this how's that like it was like it was like a meaty like one of my boys just grilling me so we'd a blast man can't wait to go back already um don't know when that'll be but yeah Vegas has my heart always will and we say in an Airbnb too that was sweet I don't really do that route either and I like most people when they go there you stay in like casino hotel but if you're going out there with a big group of guys do not discount an Airbnb there are a lot of good options we had a really fun time and especially with 17 guys you can make that Airbnb cheap yeah

I will say this the only mistake I made and it wasn't even a mistake but it was truly one of the most difficult travel days of my life I have the 645 a.m. flight because I'd rather be back at noon than to get back at 5 p.m. and then you kind of just get back and it's like do I stay up for a couple hours, even though I'm dead tired or do I fall asleep right now, risk waking up at 2 a.m. I just stayed up all night Saturday. And when I left, guys were still partying our Airbnb, like, probably well after I'd taken off. Man, I got just incredibly nauseous and dizzy, and I was sweating out of every pore on my body.

And I just remember being like half conscious, half unconscious, just like shaking in my seat. On the plane back. And just like, I'm like, oh, my. God, we four hours left. And thankfully, you know, after whoever, I don't know how long it was that I was hallucinating, but finally just woke up in Nashville and then had a pretty big rest day on Sunday, which was nice. But I don't know. I'm always in for getting back at least at noon, then to get back at night. I mean, Broads, who many of you guys know, he didn't come back till last night. So he was in Vegas. He went and stayed at the Red Rock because he's went and gambled

there with me before so they gave him uh i think it was three nights of to stay and like eight hundred dollars free play to just like do whatever he wanted um he said he ended up putting like 450 bucks in free play turned it into like 2,500 damn so he did well got back last night yeah shout out broads um and but yeah overall very successful trip i was gonna ask something but i'm blanking so somebody help me here all i'll say is the traveling obviously oh i remember now good i'll be quick Your circumstances are obviously different for this trip. Every time I travel, I get sick or I get like the worst headache or I just feel like complete shit.

When I was flying back last week when we were figuring out, I was texting Ryan because I was trying to figure out what was going on here because I was working on the airplane. I felt so awful. And then like I get home, sit down for 30 minutes and I'm fine. But while I'm traveling, it is like the war. I hate, I hate it. I hate going to the airport. I hate all of it. I'm out on it.

So, relatable. I was going to say, do you remember, well, three spring tours ago when we did live shows at every spot? Oh, yeah. And then the next morning, early. Smelling salts? Was that, I mean, I just remember when we were coming from Columbus. Yeah. Like, staying up late.

There was a, like, and we, the guys would do the live show and then we would go out afterwards. I mean, that was when we were hanging out with laser. We were in. This is back also with Will and Taylor were drinking. Yes. And so things just, we were running it hard. That, like, those are some of my most favorite memories, like working here, but also, bro, those plane rides back. Oh, dude.

And Will and Taylor in first class. Oh, you're in 32C next to the two biggest humans you've ever met. And you're just, you're hungover. You're tired. You feel like dog shit. And you have like, there was when at our New Orleans, we woke up at like 3.30 a.m. Because we were in Baton Rouge. I didn't sleep.

that night. I came from the casino in New Orleans and went home packed and then met you guys in the lobby. I don't think anyone ever knew that until just now. Yeah, I don't think I knew that, but we would like we woke up at like 3.34 because we were in Baton Rouge, had to drive all the way to New Orleans to get on the, like the flight

G was like dude. And she had out G for being able to drive, but the amount of, like there was a period of time, I think, for like three or four months because then I went other trips that I went on, but I did not, I was not on a flight back to Nashville where I wasn't hungover

and maybe top five worst things, top ten worst things is being hung over on a flight. Oh, 100%. Has anyone ever thrown up from being hung over on a plane? Because that's one of my big, I thought I was about to end up. I was, you know when you start salvating your mouth?

It started happening on the plane and I was in the, or the window seat. So I was like, I might have to do it in the bag. I don't like, and it was like in that like weird, awkward moment where we're about to take off. So like you can't just jump up and go of the bathroom. The last thing I needed was just to throw up in my aisle and then pass out and probably like laying on the guy like next to me the rest of the flight.

I'm getting nauseous right now just talking about traveling. I swear me too. I never heard like I've never heard of somebody like just get sick for the day of travel. Like I've heard of like getting sick from traveling. I honestly think it's my fault because it's. Do you just get like anxious or something about it? No, I think it's more of like the tunnel vision of like I was supposed to be home at noon last week so I'm like a small breakfast I'll eat lunch when I get home uh like I'm not having enough

water all day all of a sudden I'm my lunch I'm like I'm not eating because I'm like I'm gonna eat when I get home it's lunchtime and then all of a sudden I get home at two and I haven't had anything to eat all day and I'm just I do it to myself no I just I just don't try you also don't want to like um I take all my meals very personally like I want every meal that I eat to be the best meal I've ever had yeah so especially on a travel day coming back from a long weekend like that Sunday like I'm going to pick out. I'm going to enjoy it. We'll get back to work Monday.

But man, you don't want to waste one of those meals for a breakfast airport meal. It feels like it's just going to add to how much you feel. So I'm with you. I always get weird and kind of my ankles swell up. My feet hurt like a motherfucker when I travel. It's always my head. My head just gets like just a pounding headache. Do your ears pop?

Can you like pop your ears to like make that? Yeah, but that's like my problem is just, I guess the head is like pressure. But like I said, I'm like, After I'm home, my body knows I'm home, I'm good. What's the longest flight you've been on? Oh, Hawaii, so like an eight-hour flight. But that was a long time ago. How long is Greece?

Greece, we went from, where'd we go? We went Atlanta to Athens, and I want to say it was like 10 hours. That's not bad. But yeah, Hawaii from Nashville, if you connected Dallas, from Dallas, it's eight hours. Dallas is a straight flight. Hawaii's a long flight. Yeah, it was long. That doesn't sound as long as I thought.

it was going to be yeah what eight yeah yeah it didn't and yeah it didn't feel we got i it was like the best flight experience in my life so that one i'm not even going to count because we had like uh i have to show you all picture we we had like those really nice like pods oh and and you could like lay down they gave you a tv little game system like a blanket and a pillow and you're like lay down in your chair and all like little bells and whistles the the food that the start i just like skipped off and just slept it was awesome sick yeah long i've been on Or go ahead. What about you?

I think five hours. We flew from Jersey, from like Newark to Arizona when we had a ball game last year. I was lucky, like, similar with you. We were, like, the whole team was on a plane. The team was on one plane. The support staff was on another. And so, like, we had all our meals. Yeah.

Like, just given to us. We had, like, menus and everything. They're like, oh, what do you want? Got, like, Chick-fil-A right when we were about to take off as a snack because, you know, these football players are taking 20,000 calories a day. Yeah. And then I had, like, chicken. chicken parm on the plane for like my entree i was like dude it's yeah i had a steak on the way of

why it was like a legit steak or like a microwave or like a microwave uh i mean i don't know if his it was small it was small steak i like my the longest flight i've been on was from la to fiji that was 11 hours oh my god and that was like the three three three and i if i remember correctly i was in the middle of the middle three and uh i only see the planes in the movies. Bro. That, that plane right.

It's fucked in the same spot that you said in. The, uh, like, there was like a little kid next to me, like fell asleep on me. He was playing video games or like, on his little pad or whatever and it was just loud as fuck.

Sucked. And then the one thing that was cool is they gave you these cool like blankets. It was Fiji Airways. So like this Fijian like pattern blankets. And I wanted to keep it so bad. But I felt bad. Fowland up keeping one. But.

Is it Fijian? and I'm not saying you're wrong, it just, it sounds hilarious. I know, like, when I said, I'm like that kind of sound weird.

Fijilian, but I believe it is. I think, no, it sounds right. It just, I don't mean to cut you off. Yeah.

I think it's the first thing I've heard that in that context. I don't know if there, it's like kind of New Zealanders or Kiwis. Like, I don't know if there's another word for Fijis. No, I'm good with it. Fijis and Fijians.

But then like, that flight was fucking forever. But luckily, like going out there, I had foul with me. And then we, It was five hours of Fiji and then like an hour and a half, two hours from Fiji to Samoa. And then I went to Australia after Samoa.

So it was Samoa to Fiji and five hours from Fiji to Australia. And then Australia back to Fiji, Fiji to L.A., L.A. to New Jersey. All of that by myself. And that I don't even remember it because I think it just blacked out for the entire thing. It's so much fun. Those connecting flights on the way back because it just starts killing you because you got just wait in line. A lot of times they don't. match up 45 minutes you got two and a half hours I think some bullshit airport luckily I think

coming back like it was like it was a long enough layover I think I'd like two or three hours that because when you're coming back you have to go through customs and everything so it was it was fine but I remember going to Australia and like getting there and like they're pretty strict with their customs like they had dogs and everything walking around everywhere and like it was actually super quick but like yeah the flying that long is insane and back to something you said about the kid playing his games next to you, I might be that adult because I've...

You definitely are, too. I have a story. It's probably not even a good story, but it was when I was flying out to my sister's like surprise engagement and, uh, Southwest,

so like you're picking your own seat and I got like in the back of the plane. I just wanted a window seat. And, um, I'm like sitting there. Me and this guy, he's on the aisle. And, uh,

it's like at the buzzer, this girl, last person on the plane. worst human being ever is like on the phone like given her boyfriend trouble and uh like like literally the most brain rock conversation ever too and like i saw her text and they were just wild and but she sits down just like somebody cheated i don't even know who it was paragraph messages but this girl like her lips like filled to the brand like it was just like stereotypical airhead Barbie doll but she sits down and she

in like she's given this dude next to me problem she's like this is my armrest like let me have my arm rest and then she's like complaining about the flight system she's like they have me all the way in the back of the plane they're playing video games back here I was on my switch I was like she's like she's like on the phone she's like yeah they're playing video games

I'm like oh I thought you were reading this type of text message she's saying this audibly she's yeah well yeah the text message after I should have clarified that she's on the phone like complaining about her situation She was bitching about you playing video games Yeah, I'm sitting there like I'm sitting there like in the corner Just you should be like

Get your fucking shit together Before you start coming at me for playing I was like I was like I was like I took my AirPod out I was like shit fuck me for I was like yeah they are

Fuck Mario cart I got a flight to I got time to burn I got time to get And then and then she gave the dude Next to his business on the way out In a he called her princess He's like later princess

She's it was weird And then me and that guy at the baggage claim. We're talking a lot of shit about her. It was, but yeah. You're that buzzing. I think it's my phone. I left it over there.

So. It's your mom. Yeah, you're good. We'll get her on the, we'll get her on the next week. But yeah, it was just wild. It was,

it had to be there. It was funny. On Southwest, that's interesting because, like, I would expect that type of behavior on like spirit. Yeah,

I just like, and that was my first time flying Southwest since the Nebraska incident. I guess it wasn't an incident. It was the Nebraska fun. The Nebraska movement. Yeah. And I was just like, I was like just lucky.

You know, I had nowhere to be like super fast. So I'm like, I'll go in the back and get a window seat. Like I don't care. I'm just going to be tucked away playing my games to pass the time. Have you, going back to like talking about throwing up on a plane? Have you ever been on a plane and like near somebody that threw up? Oh, yeah. But only children.

I was one seat away from a child throwing up on her mom And it was it was not like a casual kid throw up I was like this is a grown ass man's throw up It was so much Like next to you or so I'm in the window seat And then I believe she was in the center seat And her husband was aisle And they had like a baby that was small enough

For they could hold it And they switched at one point Thank God they switched And the baby threw up on her in the aisle seat And it was a brutal one To where like it felt like every, they like had extra flight attendants come out of nowhere cleaning this stuff up. And dude, the smell you can imagine.

Hey, oh my God. That's going to make me throw up. Anyways, I do not envy people traveling with kids. No. I know it's hard. But if you're going to do it, stay awake on the plane when your kids are running a muck. Because at one time I was sitting in the back row and this woman, and I don't know where

her husband, I don't know if she had, I don't know where he was. she had a newborn baby in a two year old and she gets on the aisle seat and she was holding the baby two year old's like sitting in the middle and she just like passes out with the baby and like the two year old like is like

trying to hold the baby and she this girl like this woman is slumped and this is like a newborn baby that's being held up by a two year old toddler that I just didn't trust to be just to be frank and so I spent like this entire flight like basically holding this baby You held the baby the whole time

Yeah Like it was insane You took the baby away from Yeah I'm not even kidding Like this baby was You like Mario Kart Yeah

No time to play games I gotta save live I've had some weird Flying experiences I was on We used to go to Florida Every year For spring break in high school

And there was this one time And like I hate Throw Up I hate throwing up I hate looking at it Like everything about it Yeah I can't do it And like there was like three or four aisles up and there there was this guy and I'm not saying this to be like I think he had Down syndrome or something.

Whoa. And I was in the window seat and like I could start hearing this commotion and I'm like what is going on? And I look through like the cracks of the seat and I see this the guy in like a like Ziploc like gallon bag just yucking. No, I don't. And it was like, it was, I still, it's burned in my mind, like milk white, dude, it was awful. Dude, that, I can't do. And it smelled like, like, like, yeah, like, get me out of here. Dude, the, I can't do throw up that, that, that like, why am I, why do I want to call an ad?

I forget who what it was for, but, oh, the, the, the, the merge thing, the, uh, design contest, like, the little skit we did. Dude, my role and I, like, I can't do anything throw up. My role was to pretend like I was throwing up. And I damn near like actually threw up pretending to throw up. That's how bad it is. I was like, it was bad. I can't even believe I made it through that.

Why did I get this role? I can't. I can't just like see people throw it. No, I can't. The smell. Like I've told like when I have kids like hey, wife, you get to throw up, I'll deal with the poop. Like I'll do something the same. I can't do throw up.

It's, I'm bad with it. Dang good. Not good. We can't end on those. What are we at? What are we at? We are at 49 minutes, 30 seconds. So honestly chucking through it.

What do we have coming up the next couple weeks? Oh, spring tour. Spring tour. That's next, this time next week, right? Yeah. Yeah. Nothing's been released. Nothing's been released yet, so we don't want to say anything quite yet.

Exciting stuff. Yeah. Really cool spots coming up. So stay tuned for that content. We'll have more. we'll be able to talk about it more in recap some of the trips that we go on some we got three lined up yeah you can speak about it because you do all of the booking yeah we got three locked in next week and then so one's right before easter two are back to back right after easter

we're trying to lock in two more for that following week yeah i think and then the draft yeah april's fucking hell yeah that's kind of crazy yeah so much but it'll be fun. I know like we kind of found the formula when we went to Oregon last year. So I'm curious how some of these other schools. Spring tours banged last year. A lot of the schools there was one they were good last year. That was like oh we love what you did with like Lannning. Oh really? And like that sounds like such a good time like we kind of want to get. We're probably like that but yeah I think I mean how could you not love like that vlog? Yeah I mean I'm trying to like we went to Oregon last year. Yeah, I went to Oregon. I swear I don't know why I can't think. Do we get to

Nebraska? Yeah, because we did a live show in Nebraska. Yeah, Michigan, they did the work out there. Yeah, Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon was the three. That was it? I think so. I don't think we went to another one. There was a draft vlog as well that kind of parlayed into it.

Yeah, I know we, because Delaney and Will did that live show and Lincoln. Was that, or was that? No, no, no, Taylor came for this one. I just looked at the vlogs the other day just to see the thumbnails on them. And I think, I think those are the only one. The Oregon one, I mean, Oregon is just sick. Like, as a little kid, especially me. Yeah.

I think, I don't know if Jack. you've tweeted out the video or the picture of me i know i have just i was a neon kid growing up a vault kid yeah and Oregon with their neon uniforms and stuff like i always loved them and like you obviously know like the CEO of nike the creator of nike is like out there and it's like that that is the cream of the crop as like a little kid so being able to finally go out there because i knew you guys went out there a couple years ago like beforehand and like it was everything and more and landing is the fucking homie so i'm excited to see what what the other schools. I'm excited to hold it down back in Nashville. Yeah. Yep.

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