Bussin' With The Boys - Big Cat + Brandon Walker, NFL Drama, Mental Health, Halloween Kills

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

Recorded: October 16(and 19th), 2021 | The boys had another huge weekend, but this time it was in Knoxville and Comp was joined by two more legends. Big Cat and Brandon Walker. A lot happened over the weekend so it was only right that Comp started off with a current event/weekend wrap up. The Boy talks about the situation going on with his former coach, Jon Gruden. Then he dives into how he would feel if he was in Patrick Mahomes shoes dealing with some family members who seem to find their way into the headlines for certain things. Next, we dive a little deeper and Comp describes the types of mental battles a professional athlete goes through during a season. He talks about what those highs and lows are like and some of the ways to deal with the negative thoughts. (55:53) It took a trip to Knoxville but Big Cat and Brandon Walker finally made their debut on the bus. We learn pretty quickly Big Cat prefers to only talk to Taylor if Will is present, even if it's a text message. (1:18:38) Brandon and Big Cat name their top five funniest Barstool Employees and you may or may not be surprised about who is and who is not on the list. Then, Big Cat and Brandon give Will some major Dad knowledge/advice on Will and try to prepare him for how much his life is going to change in several months. To wrap things up Big Cat tells us about the tough times in the early days of barstool and the moment he knew it was going to be long-term success. Whenever you have two stud's like Big Cat and Brandon on the bus it is guaranteed to be a banger, and remember... the spook is becoming more and more present, Halloween is approaching, stay strong. ----- EARN YOUR WOLF: Want to be featured on our Instagram Story? Screenshot this episode, tag @bussinwtb, and share it to your Story. The Boys will take care of the rest... ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Chevy Silverado: The Strongest Most Advanced Silverado Ever Better Help: Go to https://barstool.link/BetterhelpBussin for 10% off your first month. Hooters: Visit https://barstool.link/HootersBarstool and use code BARSTOOL for $10 off $50+ orders Rhoback: Go to https://barstool.link/bussin, and use the code “BUSSIN” for 20% off your first order! Roman: Go to https://barstool.link/RomanBWTB you can get your first month of Swipes for just $5, when you choose a monthly plan. Sport Clips: Sport Clips. The Pros in Men’s Hair.For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is what's the date, the actual date? It is Monday. October 18th. The boy, he's playing on Monday night football tonight. For the love of God, it's Wednesday. We're going to, no, no, no, no. We're not going to say what the boys are. We're not going to predetermine what the score might be.

Yeah, none of this bullshit right now because a lot of people are talking that wherever the buses went in college, we're 0 and 2. We're 0.2. Who, somebody had an idea where we need to start taking the bus. If that's the case, if we're going to go all defeated, then we need to start picking where we're going to go. Yeah, we need to go to every mission. Michigan game from here on now.

That would be amazing. Hey, we just go and they just tank. By the way, do we still have five, do we still have five Big Ten teams in the top ten? I know Iowa lost. But Purdue now, you got to, we're in Big Ten football. This is the best conference in the game right now? Is it not the best conference in ball right now?

What are we at? We got Oklahoma. Oh, wait, no, we not. We don't have Oklahoma. We got Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State, Michigan State, Iowa Federal 11, five in the top 11 it's hard to say that

the Big Ten football isn't the best conference in America it's hard to argue that do you have five in the top 11 so four in the top ten we have five in the top 11 we do the top 11 everybody else does top 10 we're not going to follow the trim we do a top 11 around here

we have five in the top 11 you can't talk because you all beat Vanderbilt JP's of South Carolina you can't talk because you guys only beat Vanderbilt by one fucking point. You can't talk because you guys lost to Minnesota by how many points? Seven points. In the toughest conference, this is, this is Big Ten football. This is SEC football.

We lost to three of those teams. We have a new coach. No recruits. We lost to three of those teams in the top ten by a total of 13 points. And what's your record? I don't know. We're the best three-win football team in the country. I don't know what our loss column says. So you have three wins? Three and five? We have four wins. We're four and three. You're three. You're three. 4. We're rebuilding. So are we. And look where we're at. You could have me. They're like, okay, you're in year 5 and you're still rebuilding or year 4. I don't know much about. Yeah, you don't know shit. Y'all aren't in the headlines. What do you mean we're not in the headlines? Did you not watch Bustle with the boys last week? Because of us in

headlines. We're in headlines. Hey, because of Busset with the boys, Nebraska is in the headlines. In football, it'll say, oh, Michigan defeats Nebraska. Minnesota defeats Nebraska. Who else we got? What do I? Hang on. Number one, if we're going to argue Big 10 S. For the love of God, give them Mike to somebody else who has a team in the SEC. Hey, look. You got Garrett, who he has Alabama. I'm about to help you. You got Jack who has Tennessee.

Like, we have South Carolina holding them mic. Like, you guys fucking suck. Tennessee took a tough hell this weekend. You're not better than Nebraska. We lost to a 13th rank, old miss, crazy game. You might get into that later. But SEC football, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, LSU would stomp the fuck out of out of Big Ten teams.

Get the fuck. We'll find out in both seasons. We'll find out in both seasons. We'll find out. find out in both teams or both seasons. We know. A little rattle. I said team and not season. Should we make a bet right now?

SEC versus Big Ten who wins or who even just makes it to the BCS championship? No, we'll do a, we'll do a bet of the games of Big Ten versus SEC. I mean, whatever you want. I'm here for it. I'm going to pass the mic to my brother. Hey, hang on, before we keep going. Listen, no, we're not doing anymore. We got to do a Chevy read.

Well, you played South Carolina one time. What happened in that game? What happened? we lost a game. Thank you. Go ahead. Do your thing. Because I was trying to go to the league.

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But let him know that Comnasty, Taylor, Alex, Blas, Garrett, or JP, any of those boys sent you. And you might get a free trailer hitch. All right. Now let's get back to the weekend recap. You had, you were wanting to say, you already said your thing. You just wanted to say, I lost to South Carolina. Where were you? We're at.

Side line. Yeah, okay. I was on a recruiting visit. I just didn't want to play football the next level. I made other plans, man. I'm smarter. Right.

All right, I got you. But we were in, give the mic to somebody else. We were in Knoxville over the weekend and Knoxville's like a second home. Knoxville's like a second home. Right behind Lincoln, Nebraska. The place is electric.

The love that bus with the boys had in Knoxville, yeah, we're still in the local state of Tennessee. So you can assume that people are familiar with the bus. but I felt like when you get a few hours outside of Nashville, people might not know about the bus. Like, who knows what kind of welcome we were going to get? Cool beans, bar and grill. Thank you for setting the bus up at your bar.

That place is electric. Fortunately, we had Jack, who you were in Tennessee for how long two years? Well, don't plan me like that. I'm a four-year graduate. Did it all. That's right. Four-year graduate. Graduation rate.

You helped the graduation rate. Yeah. And nothing. And Jack was like, I mentioned Cool Bean's Bar. I'm like, hey, they're trying to put us at Cool Beans Bar. Is it cool? And Jack was going all out saying that. It's this local spot in town.

That's the place to be at. It's in the middle of everything. It's on the most popular street. And you weren't wrong. Place was packed. Place was loaded. We had to be careful with the bus a lot. We had to try and keep people away while we were doing our pod with Big Cat and Brandon Walker.

But shout out to Cool Beans Bar and Grill for allowing us to set up. And also shout out the boys basic block. It's just tailgating. basically in a nutshell, basic block is like PayPal or Venmo for tow truckers. They pay their tow truckers fast. They get you out of a, they get you out when your backs against the wall and you need to find a toe, which is what the boys were. They found it within under 24 hours.

They found it to get there. They hooked us up. Garrett was worried about getting the flatbed in in that small little parking area, the parking lot where Cool Beans Bar Grillas, thankfully basic block those boys working around the horn. hooked us up with a small towing truck to get us back there. But essentially, the fastest way to get tow truckers paid. We know tow truckers listen to this podcast because they go to the games with us. We hook them up with sideline passes.

We hook them up with tickets. So if you're a tow trucker listening to this, you better get the boys a basic block because they'll get you paid fast and you'll get to travel with the boys. What else did we do? Shout out coach Eckler. Dude is a gym. Oh, yes, bro. Dude's a gym.

Yeah. Dizzle. Yeah. You went to go pay for your hotel. Blas had to do handle parking. Jack was like in the golf cart with me. We were going around and we got to go and tour the University of Tennessee. Were you bummed, Garrett?

We got to tour around with Coach Echler. He's a special team's coach at the University of Tennessee. He was also my linebacker coach when I was at Nebraska. He was the one responsible recruiting me, the tattoo stories, the jumping off on Memorial Stadium. His kids won't have a father. That was our first phone call. call conversation we had.

His, like, recruiting pitch to me. It was pretty dark. Have I told you guys about that? Really? So, Coach Eck, the first time, like, Nebraska made it switch from the Callahan regime to the Pellini regime. And Echler, the first time I talked to him on the phone, he's like, Will Compton, please.

He's like, is this the number one linebacker in America? You guys know, you guys can only imagine what these coaches and recruiters say to these kids. He's like, I told my kids, I have three kids at home right now. I told him they will no longer have a father if I can't keep you committed to the University of Nebraska because I'm going to climb to the top of Memorial Stadium and I'm going to jump. That was the opening conversation with Coach Eccler. You get work, though.

I saved those kids alive, man. But yeah, we got to tour around with Coach Egg. He took us around the university. We got to see all of it, dude, the indoor facilities, the training room, the basketball arena, the stadiums. the football offices, the meeting rooms. Tennessee is dope, man. I'll give it to Tennessee. They are.

They do have a nice spot. I will say it's not as good as Big Red. It's not. You don't need to backhand it like that. You can just say it was cool and we can move on. Okay. You're right. I should appreciate it.

I should appreciate it for what it is. I know Echler would appreciate that. Would appreciate what? Just, you know, leaving Nebraska out. Yeah, it was awesome. In the game at night, the checker board. That was sick. 100,000 people screaming.

It was loud as shit, bro. Yeah. Yeah, with the light show. Yeah, it was. Well, appreciate it for what it is. Tennessee, elite. I will say they're an elite. That is an elite stadium,

especially when you got a big game in town. I know. I was like thinking, like, you know, the light show, Nebraska's light show. Just keep always bringing it back to Nebraska. Um, we also did a podcast with Big Cat and Brandon Walker where we were there. We were there setting up. It was, I'm surprised they even fitted in.

The Barstow squad, they had their Barstow college football show with Dave, Big Cat, Brandon, and Casey, in Knoxville for the big game. And, uh, they started at like 5.36 o'clock. They landed at like one. And Big Cat and Brandon Walker were nice enough to squeeze in, uh, doing a podcast in the middle of the afternoon. It was a little hot. It got a little steamy.

The boys got initiated. Brandon, you know, he was apparently complaining a lot heading over there. We do a lot. We mess with him a lot and have a lot of fun with him. But the interview was awesome with Big Cat and Brandon Walker. Was there anything in that interview that stood out that we could recap? A lot of college football talk. Those boys were in the middle of their gambling day.

It was in the middle of their gambling day. Good father advice as an expecting father. as an expecting girl dad, Brandon and a big cat walk me through what it's like to be a father those opening days.

They were also, they also love the fact that their episode is going out before Rohn and Saskatch. Just to clear the air, I tried explaining it there but it got a little hijacked

because they're trying to keep up with their games. The reason that Rone and Saskatch episode hasn't aired yet is just because we have them in a library with a couple others. In case the event that I go and play for somebody comes up,

you need a few week buffer to try and figure out what the move is and that allows us to run those episodes and if not like let's say i'm not a team for the rest of the year holiday season comes up thanksgiving or we want a week or two where the boys are planning different stuff and we're just not going to be like uh you know doing current event pause and so guys can go and travel or whatever like you run those podcasts you have those in the bank for that reason but they'll be the first one to go out whenever we need whenever the first one needs to drop it's going to be ron and sass because that is a funny-ass episode. I do think it's hilarious that they're like,

we're talking, that they think it's, like, funny, that there just hasn't went out yet. They're like, you should just never drop it. Yeah, so Nebraska lost to Minnesota. You know, what kind of man am I if I don't talk about my own, if I don't talk about my own team? When the bad times are bad, I don't want to shy away from the adversity

and the backlash that I've been getting because there's been a lot. People have been questioning what happened, what's going on in Nebraska. Unfortunately, I didn't get to watch the game. So it's hard to comment unless I check the tape. I haven't checked the tape. I haven't got to watch it back.

You know, the next day was Sunday. We're watching the NFL games. I got my fantasy team. The Bontair Biscuits performing. So I got to make sure my guys are playing well there. So I'm just trying to keep up. But at the end of the day, we should not have dropped the ball against Minnesota. I will say that.

There's not an excuse to where I'm like, oh, we should be 9 and 0, 8 and 0, whatever, however undefeated we should be right now. we should not have lost to a a team where the mascot's name is the fucking gophers dude and their their colors are what maroon and yellow you said the what golden gophers my fucking bad um but you don't lose to a team to a team like minnesota no disrespect to the boys in purple and yellow are burgundy and yellow burgundy and yellow or maroon and yellow i'm for the boys and if you're a minnesota fan you should be for those boys i'm just like as a as a as a as a as a as a as a as a as a coer myself you don't lose to fucking Minnesota especially when you battle you battle and take three top 10 teams to basically the last series

we're five plays away from being undefeated right now we are you laugh but we are and i know i always do the joking oh you laugh but this like okay we lost by seven points to minnesota if I had the chocolate up to anything it's these are what 18 to 22 year old kids they had a buy week we're on a buy week now they were probably fucking waiting on to do the buy week to leave to this and that they probably thought their shit didn't stink because they took they put uh Oklahoma on the ropes they put Michigan State on the ropes they put Michigan on the ropes they had a huge sold-out crowd you know what 60 years running now I think uh Um, yeah.

Yeah, they probably overlooked Minnesota. They probably thought they were going to drag them like they did Northwestern. And they got their shit. They got their shit pushed in. So there is no excuse. We should be, what, what is their record now? Three and five. We should be a seven and one if we were actually going by if we played the hindsight game.

The reality is we're three and five. Minnesota. We'll say the Minnesota games. Yeah, I'm going to switch my Illinois game. I'm going to switch my Illinois game. Illinois game to the Minnesota game. Because it was bullshit. We were trying to set up for the bus all day, Saturday,

and I was very frustrated because I obviously want Nebraska to win just as much as everybody else in that state does. And when you drop a game to Minnesota like you shouldn't fucking do, everybody's going to have a bunch of questions. Now everybody's like, I'm sick and tired of it. Nebraska's going to be Nebraska, blah, blah, blah. It's tough, man. And all I can think of is that they overlooked it.

They're looking forward to the by week. And maybe they were just tired from taking it. three juggernauts to the last seconds. You know what I mean? Maybe they're beat down a little bit because they've had to play a top 10 team and the refs every fucking week. Anybody have any questions they want to ask? Now they got me in here.

JP, I always know you guys something. I'm not just going to say something Nebraska fans can look forward to. The quote we were talking about last week, is it fair to say Nebraska is going through some tough times right now? Tough times all last tough people do. No. What do tough times create? strong people

and what do strong people create good times so y'all are on the up and up y'all are going through some tough times right now yeah what's that full quote jp hit me with a banger one day it was uh tough times great strong people strong people create good times good times create soft people

weak people and weak people create tough times yeah that's a good pool it's a never-ending cycle you can't get fucking soft dude you can't get week. You can't buy into those good times. Because when you start drinking the Kool-Aid and buying the hype, you get weak-minded. When you get weak-minded, a tough

situation comes and you don't know how to handle it. We're kind of playing that into like a little joke of like Nebraska. I actually am obsessed with that little quote, by the way. I was glad you pulled that from me. Pulled that for me. No, pulled that for me. We were talking about something. I think we were just talking about like hard shit going on and you

like said that one day when we were talking to the shop. Washington football team lost to the Chiefs, 31 and 13. For a minute there, you thought Washington football team was going to win that game. And then I guess, I don't know, I changed the channel and I went back and it was fucking over with. It's got to be brutal. I'll say this.

I'm a big, big fan of Patrick Mahomes. Love Patrick Mahomes. I want him on the bus. If I'm Stephen A, I would talk about how we've had some conversations and he means a lot to me as a friend. But it's got to be tough being, my homes and having the deal with his family. I don't even want to say like deal with your family.

I know he loves his family. He wants them to have fun. Like he gives them hookups with box seats. Like they do their own thing, man. But his family's like, you know, drunk with power right now, drunk with like privilege and entitlement because his mom's, his mom's tweeting during the games talking about, you know, go. Yeah, she's saying go chiefs at the end, but she's talking,

she's commenting during the games. And it's like, if you look at them all individually, like it's not. terrible. It's like, yeah, his mom's like emotionally tweeting with the game. Like, yeah, that shouldn't be. It sucks that tip passes that turn into interceptions or drop passes that turn into interceptions, that that's a stat. But people are so like fed up with like, you know, his brother always doing the TikTok dances. My man does a TikTok dance on Sean Taylor's number where it's chained off to where you shouldn't be in that that chained off area where they have his number painted and he blows it by doing a TikTok dance everybody's coming after him his wife has obviously

a history a rich history of like being memed and all the videos and stuff i don't know all of those i know she tweets a lot during the games and then your mom's tweeting too it's just a combination of all of it dude it's just got to be tough like going home or going to the locker room after you already deal with enough being considered the mini goat or the young goat and uh being going to the Super Bowl and having all the expectation and pressure of being a half a billion dollar quarterback. And then you have to go to your phone. And then another thing that stack on top of it is your family just being all over, being in headlines, basically. And it sucks because everyone has those family members that do those things and they just,

they don't get the microscope pressure of it all. But since you're patching your homes, that's what's going to happen. Like you're just going to be that that's what comes with it. And if it was me, if I'm Patrick Mahomes, so I won't, I won't, I won't just, I'll put my stuff in those shoes. If that was, if that was my people doing that, I would be so pissed off after the game, dude. I back, yo, I fucking give you guys passes. I give you guys leeway.

I give you guys all of this access. And it's, just don't tweet and say shit during the game. Like, don't create headlines. Like, there's already enough going on. Like, we're trying to bring the chiefs back. I'm trying to bring, we're trying to get the boys back on track to get in the hunt to be at the top of the division. Like, this shouldn't be something that I also have to hear about. Whether or not he has to deal with it or not, which they probably do a good job being, you know,

because they seem like a tight-knit family. It just sucks that you have to think about those things subconsciously. Like you have to see this. You have to see that. You got to your boys are probably saying something. That would suck. It would piss me off. I'd be like, yo, I'm not going to continue to give you this shit.

If you're going to not have awareness to know, hey, don't do a TikTok video on Sean Taylor's number. Don't be doing all this during the game. Like, let's just enjoy the game. Let's appreciate where we're all at. Be grateful that we're in these box seats that we have field passes. And let's just fucking root on the chiefs and root on your son. We don't have to come and feed into the haters and feed into social media and create other anxieties that aren't even real.

Like, let's just play ball and enjoy the life that we have. I hope Pat still comes on the bus after this You think so? No, I don't like, you know Can I ask like, like, well, do you actually feel We'll let it roll. Bad for him? Do I feel bad for Pat?

I don't know him personally. You know what I mean? Like, so I don't know like how he has to deal with that stuff. I feel bad. I feel bad that like, like, it's stuff that's out of his control. do you I mean yeah but do you think if they were winning like they used to or have in the past that any of this would be talked about

um well they were other than his brother other than his brother doing the TikTok thing well his his wife like you know which I love that she leaned in and played against it right like where she's loud when they're winning I thought that's hilarious because she's obviously trolling people because they're winning but when you're actively like consistently doing it and feeding in to all these things that can be grabbed this headlines.

Like, it's more of like that, it's a funny quote. It's the only one I can think of right now, but like stay down until you come up type of thing. Where you just lay low until you win again and when you're on top to where you can kind of troll back at him. But it's like feeding into the frenzy,

like when Pat's already under a microscope and feeling not, he's not feeling pressures. Like he's playing good ball. Like guys are dropping balls. They're getting picked off. They're just not in the lead and winning and undefeated right now. So there's always going to be question marks.

it's just the fact that they're losing right now, so everything's bigger. But when to that, you got to know, like, the people that are in his corner don't feed into the stuff like when you're losing because it's just going to create more of a distraction or just more of like an attention thing that is just unnecessary. You know what? You might be finalized. Like if there's anything we've learned in media over the last five years, it's that it doesn't matter necessarily if you're right or wrong. It's just that you're still in the conversation. he might be fine with this because it's just boosting his personal brand even more. It might be a little bit an issue week to week football-wise,

but in general, like he's still in the media. And now he's monetizing his family as well. Like, that might be a reality show down the line that he has plans for. You know what I mean? So he could even be taking that way. That is true. If it's going beyond like football,

I just think like, uh, like juju, juju is an example who was doing all the TikTok dancing stuff, right? Like he kind of knows his branding. he knows, like, even though it was really bad at a couple points last year, like, that's something he's always done, always in forever, and something he'll continue to do because he loves doing it. So he's going to, like, weather those storms because it's something that's in his control.

To me, it's the stuff that's like outside of the control that I would just, yeah, I guess you can't assume that he's upset with it because maybe he's, maybe he's cool with it. Here we are. Right. Right. For sure. For sure. It's just all pub is good pub, right?

But, you know, sometimes you want, I don't know. I'm not going to, again, I'm not going to assume. Yeah, you're right. If you're playing devil's advocate, that could be true. I think it sucks because his brother was doing it on Sean Taylor's on the number. Like, that's fucked up. And I did see he posted an apology, which I'm sure he had no clue. Because aside from all of that stuff that we just talked about, what a, what a bad way to do the whole Sean Taylor retirement ceremony?

to me it was just a PR ploy because of the stuff that's going on that came out with gruden last week, which we can get into. But three days before Washington football team has been under investigation and just nothing but negative stuff has came out of there for, I know before I, even when I was playing there. But they had all that stuff to come out. And for three days before the game to say, hey, we're going to do a Sean Taylor ceremony. there are people saying like it was kind of in the talks and in the works but you got to do that shit the right way like there's so much of a better way to go about it like his Sean Taylor Road or parkway was right outside they had photos of it you know just out by the tailgate or something like that like they didn't actually have a good ceremony about it they didn't do him the right way they didn't do his family the right way like and that people had no awareness to know hey don't stand on these numbers like there's not security there like there's not it was roped up it was roped up off, but you're not going to have, like, there are some photos where several people were standing in there. It's not like, it's not like Mahomes. It's not like the Mahomes family, like just went in there, like, hey, let's do this TikTok dance video on the number.

It was like, there had to have been a sense that we can go inside of here because there's no security. There was no real professionalism about giving their family the respect that it has been deserved for a guy and a family like. like the tailors, like Sean Taylor. And I just don't think it was put together the right way, man. And I think they scrambled because I think there's something bigger at play. They wanted a distraction because there's all the investigation stuff coming out. That's what I think. Very much.

It seemed like it was just thrown together. Like, I mean, I can. Yeah, it was like, yeah, I was throwing together like a bus and tailgate. Hey, we're going to Knoxville this weekend. That's a good pool. And we're going to Lincoln this weekend. For somebody so big and somebody who means that. much to the organization, like it very much seemed like it was just thrown together.

Like, that's the best they can do for probably one of the greatest. Yeah. What? Yeah, that it took this long for them to do that. That's what it amazes me. 100%. How is this not already been done? I don't know, man.

A lot of people have those questions. I know a lot of fans are pissed off and they should be because Sean Taylor's like one of the goats, dude. And what he meant to that franchise and that organization to throw it together. three days before. And let's say, let's say that they did plan it. But to announce it three days before, to not have like some rollout of ex-players coming on, to have some like montage or some content or some segment built

on players interviewing about what Sean Taylor meant to them, some fans about what Sean Taylor meant. The owner or coaches, anybody that's been involved sitting down, you're playing it, you're playing it on TV, you're playing it. halftime, like, you know, having 21 somewhere, like other than a roped off little spot on the sideline. Not wearing a hoodie.

Not wearing a hoodie like when the family's doing it. The owner was wearing a hoodie. It said something about his brother just found out too. Like when we all did, like a week before his family just found out or his brother. So that that's true that his brother just found out. That's what I had heard. Because me personally, again, I'm a podcaster. I do other stuff to where I'm not reading all the tabloys.

headlines. I'm not looking so deeply into it to where I know who's right and who's wrong because I did see a couple players say, uh, this was planned for a while, blah, blah, and I'm thinking to myself, well, this is very poor planning. Um, but if that's true that his family or his brother or somebody just found out, like this is something that should have been planned. And if it was, just a dropping the ball of whoever was in charge of doing it. Sean Taylor's brother Gabe said he found out about it on October 11th. today's the 18th right so you there's

you can't tell me that this is something that's been in the works there's a big play going on boys there's a big play going on right now and this is like the whole the conspiracy talk that everybody likes to talk about with the elites and people at the very tip top and things like that to me this is like a game of Thrones happening right now

game of succession succession succession's out right now I fucking love succession um but this is like that elite shit happening. Created distraction, right? Now, leads us going into the John Gruden stuff. I don't condone.

It's very disappointing and sad that Coach Gruden thought this way, not only thought this way, but took his thoughts, put him in the words, sent him in the email. He's talking behind the scenes with people in the higher-ups in the NFL speaking that way. Unfortunately, you know,

what's done is done, and he did deserve that. It sucks because I was I was a big fan of Coach Gruden He was awesome to me Every player that Not every player I won't speak for everybody

But I know a lot of the guys When I was in that locker room A lot of guys fucking loved him dude He was He was all about the boys Always had great Great things to say After losses

Like In my eyes He was he was a good leader On those few weeks That I was on the Raiders It sucked It had to go It had to go that route

that all that stuff came to light. But I do think that he was somebody that had to fall in the sword for stuff that's happening. Like these are things that are now coming out to light to where they knew about this stuff since like June or July, I believe. Right? I think something came out that saying that this was known. These emails were had this kind of play. We'll call this John Gruden thing a play right now. This John Gruden card, this play was known about since June or July.

I don't know what the ins and outs are of the whole situation, but I do think it's something bigger, something bigger that's going on because you can't tell me of those 650,000 emails that those are the only bad things you found on one man. There had to be somebody receiving it. There had to be somebody reciprocating the same kind of messaging because it's not like he's just on his own, just sending this stuff.

Like he feels comfortable enough and all of that to send it to somebody. So, yeah, Derek Carr. Yeah, the Shepter stuff's in and Mr. Editor saying all that kind of thing. Like, that's crazy. Yeah, so Derek Carr, his quote, don't get me wrong. I love the man and you hate the sin. Like for anybody, no one is perfect. That is true.

It does suck, man. You know, what's tough about it is my experience. Yeah, I really enjoyed Coach Grub. Like I liked him a lot. And it sucks that sitting here, like knowing I'm about to say those things, like that stuff's going to come out of my mouth is like you can almost get judged. The way the social world is now, you can almost get judged to say like, oh, yeah, I like Coach Gruden a lot.

Like he was awesome to me, blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah, comp, he was awesome to you. You could have fit the type. You could have fit the mold. You could have fit all these things. And a lot of those guys in the locker room loved him. Like, I'm texting some of the boys and they're finding out the same time we are at half time. in that Baltimore Ravens game.

But it's just, it's unfortunate, man. It's sad. It's, you know, it's not, and I don't say sad. Like, damn, I feel bad for Coach Gruden. It's just, it just sucks that, like, that that shit is a reality. It's something that does need to be fixed. And I hope more comes from it because you can't tell me he's the only guy that's going to fall on the sword.

And a lot of trails lead back to, uh, to Washington. Because they're getting under the heat this past week. And then all of a sudden, we're going to retire Sean Taylor. there's a number. But, hey, where there's smoke, there's fire,

man. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. It's probably a duck. Um, what else, what else do we have? Hey,

we're, we're touching on a lot of fucking topics, boys. We can get canceled. I'm just kidding. Yeah, he said you can. And you get canceled.

You go to the top. Um, Lane Johnson. I did not know he was battling some, uh, depression. and anxiety and he had stepped away for a couple weeks. He had a note that he dropped.

I'd like to thank everyone for their understanding and support over the last two weeks. I appreciate the positive notes and messages as I've worked hard to restore my personal life. Depression and anxiety are things I've dealt with for a long time and have kept hidden from my friends and family. If you're reading this and struggling, please know that you are not alone. I am excited to rejoin my teammates and coaches. I'm grateful for the entire Eagles community and look forward to continuing to play in front of the best fans. in the world. Yeah, I had no clue he was MIA and was dealing with that stuff. That mental health stuff's real, man. You know, my wife and I, we go to the couples therapy

and stuff, and I know I've been on here talking about therapy. You've heard Darren Waller be on the episode before talking about therapy, Max Crosby. People, obviously, people deal with shit. Every single person deals with shit, right? You know, I know my own personal experience with stuff when you're like down bad or like shit's really against you or you just you get a lot of anxiety or you just start thinking the worst of things a lot of the times when you come out on the other side we were talking about it last week fellows but it's just like uh you kind of just like lose perspective on the entire situation because you're in these you're in these status games and these social games right and not to say it like it's something that shouldn't be important or anything

but you get sucked into these status games like being an athlete right being a pro football player somebody who like you you're always interested in what people are saying about you because you're at the top you're considered you're in the 1% playing a kids game you're getting paid millions of dollars to play football and you drink your own Kool-Aid um you know and you just buy into this identity it's easy to get lost into the identity of being uh what is an NFL football player and if are just a professional athlete in general anybody who identifies with what they do for a living you get really wrapped up into this status game because you're trying to trying to climb ladders. You're trying to do all these things. You're trying to be the best.

You're trying to be known. You want people to speak in you of ways that haven't been spoken of before about another player. You want to outlast somebody. I know in our game, it's like play longer than guys you came in a draft class with. Play better than outplay guys. What are they saying about me? Okay, I had a bad game. I know I had a bad game with my coaches and my, in front of my coaches and teammates, but people out there in the public eye, I'm getting rated still highly in the PFF stuff. Like my name is still good. It's not getting drug. Or maybe I'm playing well in front of my coaches and players. But, you know, all the media and social media and all this stuff, they're dragging me

thinking, I'm not playing good. Like, that game happens. And whether or not guys want to act like it doesn't or I play for an audience of one or I only play for my teammates and my coaches or I only play for this and that, like, it's total bullshit because everybody, we're all human. We all think about this shit. All this stuff like plays in a mental, vicious circle all the time. And you can get wrapped up in it so much so that you identify with it and you lose a sense

of who you are because you're so caught up. what's going on. I don't know what was going on with Lane. I'm just trying to give perspective and context on why he probably had to step away for a couple weeks. I don't know if it's football related. I don't know what it is. But a lot of times when you come out on the other side, like he's excited to rejoin his

team, when you come out on the other side of those things, you just kind of regain perspective on what your situation actually is. Because what people say about you, it's not, it's not, like that's not true. Like you can be a different person, literally, the next five minutes than you are sitting where you're at right now. I know some things are harder to quit than others, but if you wanted to just be like, okay, I'm not going to eat fast food anymore. If I decide right now, I'm not going to eat fast food anymore, which is not like a depression

anxiety thing. I'm just talking about changing who you can be. You can change it in fucking one second, dude. You can be a completely different person, no matter what people say to you after the fact, oh, you say that now, but you still do this. you used to do that. Like, okay, we'll see how long it lasts. We know how long Will says this thing.

But a lot of that mental battle stuff, it's tough, man. And I am a big proponent in taking care of your mental health. If you feel like, dude, don't think therapy is a low thing because it's not, man. Do we actually have better help as an ad? Do we have better help? Right now. Oh, perfect. Better help online therapy.

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I'm like, well, you know, Jack doesn't know what I'm dealing with right now. He's not a pro football player. But there's relatability in every, in every aspect. Because when we try and talk motivation, inspiration, any of that stuff, you try and take what I've learned from football and relate it to what I might be going through off the field. But sometimes it's always better to have a third-party perspective that has zero investment in who you are because they can, they can help. you zoom out and see the bigger picture a lot better, right?

Sometimes it is just a lack of perspective. But I hope. And shout out the Eagles, too, because the fact that you didn't hear much about this means that they probably handled it right and we're understanding about it. And otherwise, it could have been a huge headline if they weren't open to him taking this time that he clearly needed. Yeah, 100%, man. That's well said.

Like, I hope he's good, man. Because it does. Like, I know players. I know players. Like, I've personally dealt with stuff in certain years where you just, you're just like in it, bro. And when you're in it, you fucking, it creates anxiety. Uh, you, you, you put yourself under a lot of pressure. And honestly, like, it's pressure that you just create on your own because you're buying it. You might have read a couple things that you didn't want to read or you're just laying their

up or not up in night over thinking a little bit. Um, and you just get sucked in this vicious, this vicious cycle of, uh, anxiety and, and just stress, man. So definitely take care of you. Like Marcia Lynch said, man, take care of your chickens. Take care of your mental. Um, merch war do we have an update no update from alison right now we can't hit the merch we can't hit the merch war yet we do have incredible merch i'm wearing it right now because we're in spooktober go buy the spooktober merch while we still have time boys the boys merch i'm getting a i get a lot of chirps man where's my merch we ordered a long time ago don't kill the messenger but also hand up i'm going to take accountability in this i'm going to take some accountability in this um yeah so i've explained

the merch game before. Where we were at selling merch, we're usually only allotted like 100 or 200 units of things, right? Hey, we're going to make this. We're going to roll it out. We got you guys a quantity of anywhere from 50 to 200 is usually the game. When we had the idea of the boy shirts, it wasn't a rollout. It wasn't something leading up that we had planned.

It was something that had to be pre-ordered. And for it to be pre-ordered, you had to see the demand that was possible. because again, if your bar still, you're sitting there, bust some of the boys wants to do this thing, even though Will's saying that Nebraska or the Raiders or Titans fans are going to buy 500 or 1,000 of these things, we're obviously not going to believe it until we can see it, so you need to pre-order these things. The warehouse got backloaded, dude, got just unloaded on because people love the boy's shirts. I love that you guys love it.

What sucks is I hate having to post the links, Victory Monday. Hey, go get a shirt and people are like, hey, where's my fucking shirt from a month ago? because you guys are day one tier ones dude and i get it you guys should be pissed off i get on the phone with allison trust me when i get a lot of heat i take screenshots i send it to allison i'm like hey throw me a fucking life jacket dude because people want my head because they don't have their shirts yet they think i'm running a pyramid scheme right now we're we're network marketing buying shirts hey you guys post you guys post you guys post the link down if we sell five shirts we'll go and compensate you for it that's what i did with jack um but those shirts those shirts should be

there very very soon if not already in your hands. Nebraska fans wanted to come from my throat last week, but the first wave of people ordering them, they started to get them. Raider fans, I do feel fucking bad that you guys have not gotten your shirts yet. And we don't want that smoke, dude,

because I know what Raider Nation is about. I'm saying I'm a lot. Rich Basatia. Dude, we can't talk about the grud and stuff about what went down with the Raiders and not talk about the boys being four and two, locking the fucking doors, dialing in and playing for each other.

because it was awesome to see those boys beat the shit out of Denver, especially after a week of adversity that they did have. And to speak on Coach Basatia for a second, I am a coach Basatia fan, not because I want to still play for the Raiders. People joke with me on that. I would love to play for the Raiders again. But Coach Basatia has more respect in that locker room

than I've seen a coach have for a group of players. And that is real. Our special teams meetings, I would get cussed out all the time. because they would have meetings before the meetings like a breakfast club of special teams because all the special teams guys would go and sit in his office they'd catch up about family stuff stuff off the field obviously you'd go over game playing stuff but it was like a something that wasn't on the schedule would be like these little secret special teams meetings that they have all the

time and just the respect that coach passaccia has I can't speak on it enough that dude is seriously a leader amongst players um and he's all time man he's somebody. that when Max came on, he texted me. He was like, hey, you're going to have Max. I heard Max. He's so fired up to come on your podcast. Remember the responsibility that you have as a leader sharing a story like this and make sure you take care of him because his story, his story is, it feels safe.

It's something that he's going through right now. So essentially like don't do anything to harm him. He's so excited. Like you have a big responsibility having him on. And he was somebody when I had that, when I did that little pre-training camp blog, about the undrafted guys, the gritty guys, read this blog or whatever I did on Barstow last year. He was somebody that reached out to me and texted me about that article as well. He's just like, I'm just a big Coach Basaccio fan.

I really am. And I know he loves those guys. I've actually heard he's gotten a little soft and a little more sentimental because he's like, he talks about memories and stuff because, you know, he's getting older now. But he's one of those guys that, like, continues to have personal relationships, even when the guys are done playing for him. when I had gotten there, he had facetimed. Somebody I played with on Washington, Adam Hayward.

He's like, oh, he's one of my favorites, FaceTimes him. They're talking about the families. But, dude, he's the best guy for this job right now, whether or not they keep him. I'm a believer in Coach Basatia. He's got his little glasses that hang from his neck all the time. He's the fucking man, dude,

and they should be stoked to have him, and he's more than capable of having that job. All the fans should be at ease. They should be fired the fuck up about it. I know the players are. They obviously perform very well with him for him, for him for each other, you know, in light of all the shit that came out, the unfortunate stuff that they came to light.

But that's my spiel on the Raider Nation, bro. They should be stoked. They should be stoked to have him. We are more than officially, we are more than, look at that. I like try to read the fucking teleprompter. We're more than halfway through Spooktober. We're more than halfway through. And you're going to miss it when it's gone.

I do every fucking year. You get to the back half, your little dream. drain because you're embracing the spook so much because you grind. We grind to make this month of October an entire holiday long, right? And you get to the back half and you're a little worn down. You're a little like drain from like, fuck, I got to watch another fucking scary movie tonight. I'm over this.

My wife doesn't want to sit with me anymore. She's going upstairs. I got to watch it alone. You start coming up against a little bit of adversity. But guys, battle through because I'm telling you, when it's gone, it's gone. You got to wait another year. Then we got to get it. We start to get fired up for Christmas, then you got to get reminded.

Oh, we need to do Thanksgiving first. Prepare for your little speeches around the table. What are you most thankful for? You got to do all those things. But do not take for granted this little bit left. We have a spook to over. Buy the merch, embrace the spook. The boys, what we did last weekend, we had a private screening of Halloween kills.

We got it for the boys. The Titans, a lot of the Titans players came by with their plus ones. One coach brought us entire God. damn family. They were in their kids, man. Kids. He's trying to teach him. You got to embrace the spook. All the boys went busts with the boys. We had this little private screening, not to

flex, but to also flex of Halloween Kills last Friday at the Green Hills movie theater. So shouts to the Green Hills Movie Theater. No free shoutouts because we had to pay for that shit too. But Halloween Kills, perfect movie. Perfect movie. I'm

saying compete with Shawshank Redemption. Top IMDB movie. No, but dude, Halloween kills was fucking awesome. Spoiler alert, the motherfucker lives. You said spoiler alert. Yeah, spoiler alert. I'll say spoiler alert again because if you don't want to know, fast forward probably a minute or two.

Too late. It's all right. I should have said that ever before. But if people who follow this franchise, they should know that there's going to be another one next year called Halloween ends. I don't know if he's dying next year or not, but the motherfuckers like Tom Brady.

He just keeps coming back. he just keeps fucking winning dude he was down and out in this last one just like he is every fucking movie and just like that he disappears and next thing you know and knives up inside of you but he his special move i love how they stick with his special move he's just banging heads off of walls all the time just killing people off a pure brute strength and a wall takes out a lot of old people man you thought some prayers with them and their families um you know we won't mention how young how young of a life you took but you know be people prepared.

Just kidding. Spoiler alert. There's not. He doesn't kill a kid or he doesn't kill a baby. I forget if he did he kill a kid. Kill the kid. A couple of them kids. Hey,

like that Michael Jordan meet me. Hey, fuck them kids. Yeah, anybody can get it. If you're Michael Myers and you're based on pure evil, if they want to paint him as a picture of pure evil, he's got to kill fucking anything in his sight because he feels nothing for nobody.

He got a little weird there when they put the whole bullying, jumping off suicide. Yeah, that was weird. That was a weird little play. That was what you guys will see what we're talking about. I leaned over to Garrett and said, oh, it's a social commentary. I get it. Yeah.

Yo, okay. We're going to touch on this while we're also doing a horror film. Phenomenal movie, though. Loved it. Scratch the itch I needed. I was fired up. How nobody kills this man or severses his goddamn head from his body is beyond me. But he lives a fight another day, man.

He's on that TB 12 diet. I'm telling you, he just keeps fucking winning. Halloween episode next week. What's that? Nothing. We're doing a Halloween episode next week. Oh, we're doing a Halloween episode next week. Oh, yeah, yeah, we're doing a Halloween.

Yeah. Next week we'll be doing a Halloween episode. We're fucking stoked, dude. And we're fucking stoked, boy. There we go. Let's go. You dressing up? You dressing up?

Of course. Speaking of that, there will be, with the Halloween game, What is that? The Indianapolis Colts game? Yes. Halloween game. And? Or that.

And yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, I was trying to see you. Oh, yeah. We're going to do a Halloween custom contest. Yeah. The tail game. Yes. At Acme.

The boys will be there for the Colts game. The Halloween game, dude. Dress up going to Acme feed and seed. They're doing a costume contest. We are doing a costume contest for best dress, for best costume. So it's going to be decked out and bracing the spook to the fucking max, dude. We're judged by the boys. You will be judged by the boys.

You will be. be judged by the boys. I'm telling you, sell out. Go to hell and back to have the best costume at Acme because everybody's going to be dressed up. It's going to be a Halloween party. We're throwing a party while the boys beat the cults, man. It's going to be awesome. So, yeah, be ready for all that shit.

I'm flustered right now that I just read the fucking Halloween episode next week. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What do we got? The fucking teleprompter, man. I'm telling you. How long have we been going? We've been going a lot.

Yeah, about 50. Blas is so happy because he's like, I got a couple notes in it. We can cut out boys. Speaking of the Washington football team, Hooters, shout out of Hooters, no free shoutouts.

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I really am fired up that he came on the bus because I want all the barstool. I want all the barstool personalities to be on the bus at some point. We've been trying to get Big Cat locked in and get on the bus for a long time. I'm glad it worked out when we were in Knoxville, Tennessee, while Barstall took over all of Knoxville.

But this interview was a lot of fun. It's not even a fucking interview. The boys, we just banter the entire time. It was a good time. But share this episode. Hey, if you're watching YouTube right now, we got to get this figured out. We have to fucking get this figured out. Because I drop in that live chat every week.

Like, hey, guys, make sure to leave a comment. I ask nicely. I ask politely. I see people going at each other's throats in there, too. We'll talk about that. But here's how you leave a live comment. If you're on your phone... I'm not a lot comment.

Here's how you leave a comment. Good correction. Little Roy Kent from fucking Ted Lassau. here's how you leave an actual comment on the YouTube video. If you're watching, like the tier ones do, I know you guys do. You guys love fucking getting after it in those live chats. Exit out of the live chat.

If you're on your mobile, it's exit out of your live chat. Exit out of your live chat and hit comment. And all the comments should pop up. It's just going to write down at the bottom, say something. You type in a little comment, you hit post. make sure it goes to the actual video because when the episode's over

when the premiere is over the live chat goes away the live chat doesn't live forever when you guys are yelling wolf chanting wolf and the boys and dropping a comment because comp says so what's up Blas? It's not the same though you're right

it lives forever but you can't touch it anymore right exactly it doesn't matter for what the boys need what it's not like it's not Mike Myers It doesn't live forever. But it does.

But it does. But you guys get what I'm saying. This thing, it doesn't matter after the premiere is over. There's nothing for the algorithm. Like we need. Does nothing that we need it to. It's not for the boys.

It's not for the boys. It's for the boys at the time. When we're all watching the premiere and we're watching together, it's like we're in a movie theater watching together. We can all comment. But once we leave all the conversation stays in there, it's gone. Now, if you want the real shit, you want the reviews, we need you to leave.

There we go. Maybe we say leave an actual review of the episode. So if you're watching right now, leave a real review, which is an actual comment, not the live chat stuff. And stop being fucking mean to each other in the live chat. You know, it gets wild. And stop being mean to each other, dude.

I'm going to take a page out of DeLea's book and say, make friends in the comment section in the chat section, dude. Like, if somebody's in there with negative energy, acknowledge it, but acknowledge it that that person might be going through something. And hey, we're in here for the good vibes. We're in here for the good time. We're in here because we're for the boys. So let's stop the negativity right now.

Like, we got to nip that in the butt because we need you guys. the boys got to be together, man. I understand sometimes it gets a little heated. Nebraska fans argue with Michigan fans. We get people going at each other's throat for different things. There's a time and a place for it. But when we're premiering and we got people coming up to us at tailgates and their family watches this stuff on Wednesday, we need to have some good clean fun in those comments.

The boys are still the boys. That's what unites us over all fan bases. The boys are the boys. The boys are the boys, man. I love it. So without continuing to ramble and making this a longer episode than it needs to be, here's the Big Cat and Brandon Walker interview brought to you by Bustin with the boys

Thank you so much for listening Share, subscribe to all the fun stuff Um Yeah man Let's go 321 She's gonna edit all the funny stuff All right here we go Yeah

Jimmy put the headphones on No you can if you want to Are you a headphones guy I know No I'm not No I'm not No I'm not We're good

We just came from my burgers I gotta say something I love Brandon Walker He is a a good friend, a trusted confidant. He's the biggest pussy I've ever been around. He bitched the entire walk here. We walked a mile here.

A mile. He took my sunglasses from me because he said you'd get a migraine if the sun was in his eyes. I get a migraine from UV race, Will. Tell him, like, explain to him like training camp and like out in the sun. We're not at training camp. But he couldn't walk a mile. No. Not even, he can walk 100 feet, I don't think.

He kept on being like, Will doesn't want me on. I was like, yeah, he does. I literally, yeah, he did. He texted me. I said he wanted you, not me. No, he said he wanted both of us. Well, here's the deal. Like, I feel like in the bar still world,

I feel like I've gotten to know Big Cat a little right. Yes. So I feel like I can text him. Like, I feel, I trust Big Cat that Texas. You can text me? I don't have your number. You say you don't put people's numbers in your phone. You said that.

You said that on your podcast. It's a psycho for that. Right. So knowing that, and I knew he's going to be in town. I'm like Big Cat will probably come on the show because he's always for the boys. Hell yes. Always for. He literally responds for the boy.

Half the boys. You say for the boy then. Just the boy then. Just the boy. Why, what's wrong with the other half? Taylor keeps trying to text me and do side deals. I told him I won't talk to him unless you're around. That is true.

He did. You should actually like Taylor every time he texts me, he'll text me, just ask me like a random question. And then I'll text Taylor and Will together. I'd be like, Will, Taylor's trying to text me on the side again. So Taylor's trying to cut him out. I don't know. But I don't laugh.

He's like, he's like trying to, Big Cat feels like he's trying to do side deals. And he doesn't want to have any conversation when he knows he's represented already. Yes, exactly. So I don't have conversation. with Taylor without Will there. So you do everything on the record. Yes, on the record. I don't want, I don't want any funny business.

He gets a man of high character. Taylor didn't say he was shocked the last time he did it. He texted me and he was like, hold on. I'll say, I'll tell you what he said. Because he told you that, uh. Oh, he said, uh, bet for this game for the game this week. And I just immediately went to the group text. And I was like, hey, Will, Taylor's trying to text me.

And then he, and then he, and then he texted me again, you really are loyal to Will, I thought I was going to swoop you up. And when he texted that, I went right back to the group text. And he's like, this isn't real. Holy shit, dude. Like, what's going on? That first one was the most innocuous tweet ever. Well, here's the thing.

Taylor's a big time, you know, NFL player. Right. And Will's not? What? Pro Bowl? It's okay. Let me finish. Pro Bowl alternate?

No, into the Pro Bowl. Yeah. Was he a pro ball alternate or a starter? He was a starter. Okay, so I'm going to give him his just do. Big time Michigan football player. You know, everyone knows him. Big contract.

First rounder. Yeah, right. Like he comes to, he doesn't do the show during the football season. He shows up and he says daddy's back and all that stuff. I'm just trying to give Will his shine. Okay, that's all. I appreciate that. It's not a beautiful.

It's not a nefarious. Yeah. It's like a Chevy truck, a real Chevy Silverado truck. Which I also sponsor. We can't say the other sponsor because that's a conflict of interest with me. We are Chevy guys. We are Chevy guys. The Venn diagram of Busting with the boys and PMT is a big Chevy.

A beautiful Chevy Silverado, the grittiest truck ever. Did you see about the six tailgate flexes, the things they got in the back? Yeah, it's incredible. It's incredible. It helps you get into the tailgate. Yeah. So we're just doing a commercial now. And if you go right now, if you go to a Chevy dealership and you whisper a part of my take in their ear, they'll give you $100 off the truck.

You have to whisper. Wow. This is a free trailer hitch. Oh, no. Ours is $100 off the truck and a hot cup of coffee. You have to whisper it. You have to whisper. You have to just grab them and just grab them by the shoulder.

I'm going to take off my sweatshroom, by the way. It's getting hot in here. It was even worse last. Last week when we had Frost and Alberts on. Yeah. Trev Alberts was in a full suit. I saw that. And it was upper 80s.

It was probably 87. They're saying stop. They're saying stop. Yeah, yeah. Time out. T. Time out. We get three of them.

We used one in the first half, though. That's bad strategy. I'm also in the back. All right. Three, two, one. Okay, we're back. All right. Before the dad advice,

yes. I do want to go back and talk about the Poseidus. Yes. Don't really understand why you want to go back. can do that. I feel like we covered that. Here's why. Because when I met you at HQ, I was like, oh, he's a good dude. The reason I had my, uh, I had my questions. I like where this is going. What changed your opinion? Meeting you, for real. Yeah. Oh, you thought I was a good dude. Then you met me. No, I know. I had questions about

you then I met you and thought, yeah, and that locked in that I was going to do. Right. Here's how I learned about you. It was the shove thing in the hallway. Right. And I was a lot of people's interesting. No, sure. But that was when I was kind of coming into the world of bar still. Right. Like, this guy might fight me. Yeah, I felt like... But you know the world. You can push a guy and then shake his hand on this later.

I felt like it was a shove, though, like it was a shove. But as you were shoving, you're also pulling back. Yeah. I don't really want this smoke, but I'll do what I got to do right now. No, in my mind, in that moment, I have to push him. Yeah. Don't want to push him. Got to push it. Called him a moron from Mississippi.

It was one of those pushes where you hope somebody comes in right away. It wasn't that I hoped. I was just like, I don't want to fight you, but you got to shut the fuck up. The craziest thing is, Will, how many years you play in the NFL? Should I keep this as current? Yeah, this current. Okay, so, well, I'm saying, like, how many years did you play or how many years are you playing? I'm going on year nine.

Year nine. This is your, did you do an Instagram post being like, year nine? Can't believe it. Not yet. You should have. You should have. You should have. Everyone would be like, wait, what?

Are you? No, year nine. The craziest thing, year nine in the NFL, and he's never seen anyone shove anyone in a locker room. Yet he comes to bar stool and he sees it. No, it's true. That's not true. Yeah, there's, there's. On the practice field, you have?

There's decorum in an NFL locker room that Barstool doesn't have. You know, we don't have a locker room, though. Our practice field is your locker room. The hallway is our practice field. You can push somebody in the hallway, but if it gets to the desk. I've never seen a teammate or anything, any type of fight in the NFL. You've never seen. Nope.

Michael Westbrook. Didn't happen in the NFL. No, nothing. Didn't break Stephen Davis's eye at all. Okay. Uh-uh. All right. Some of your jokes, man.

Sometimes I'm gullible to slide by into a lot of stuff. You know, we can see Hard Knocks, too. It happened. What was that moment that you had a few? a few weeks ago on the show where you got got real bad. What was it? There was like a freeze frame on, no, no, it was like a freeze frame. You said something on this show.

Yeah, and you fucked up saying something. It was an all time moment. It happens all the time. It happens all the time. I'm going to think of it. Yes, yes, D1 football. Yeah, you're like, so you played it. Oh, Taylor goes, Taylor goes, everyone's in D1.

Yeah, everyone who plays in a Division I school is a D1 talent. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have the best. my wife, she can tell you a bunch of stories, but I'm not the best at, like, actually listening. That's fine. That's fine. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Because when you guys did the flush more on, I think, cereals, I was, like, triggered.

Oh, you were so mad. Yeah. Yeah, you couldn't figure it out. Because we just came in bars still and so, you know, I'm trying to like, I'm trying to get in the mix. I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah. And people are like, oh, no. What offended you so much?

On you? I don't remember the flushmore. What was a cereal that got you something? I want to say it was like, maybe like a checks mix or something? Yeah, something like that. Or whatever is. Is that even one checks mix? Chex Mix?

That's a sec. Well, no, it's not. There's like some. There's like some like Checks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What you make with Chex. Back to Brandon. Brandon, um, it's the cruelest thing like what God did to Brandon.

He made this man in the South who can't take the heat. I can't. Why is that you're in Mississippi State? We had Jeffrey Simmons on. I understand why I'm all. And if I think about interviewing Jeffrey is like, man, do you know your fan base? Like, right. Yeah.

Well, no, whatever. I can't take the sunlight. I, um, the UV rays give me. a migraine headache. It's fine. But it's not even a full-blown ginger though. I'm not even a ginger at all. I'm not a blown gym. You got a 25%. Yeah. Being blind, you're considered like a day walker. Yeah. I don't think you are. Yes, you are. You're an albino. I'm a different subset of human being than the ginger. Brain and Daywalk. Yes, Daywalker. He, uh, he, he, so we went to Clemson, uh, was his

Clemson, uh, was his Clemson, Texas A&M two years ago. Yeah. Beautiful day. Probably actually exactly like this. 80, 85 degrees. That was a little cool than that. We sat in the fucking season. We said We sat in a suite, so we're out of the heat, and afterwards he started puking because it was just too hot. That's what happened to him. He started puky? Yeah. Notre Dame, North Carolina, Wisconsin two weeks ago. Yeah. It was 70 degrees.

The sunlight makes me, gives me a migraine, and I was down for a day and a half. So this is real. It's from Mississippi, and the sun, like, beats down on a bus. Would you make fun of them for not being able to walk on the bus? Well, it depends on where they came from. This is a physical ailment. They came from, like, the number one walking community in the world? It would be ironic, wouldn't it?

That's a physical eye for me for me. It would at least be ironic. This is what I live with. Does it, does it, do you struggle knowing that that you can't really take the heat and you throw up after just five minutes and stuff? I'm terrified right now. Do you struggle like talking about football players? You see the fear in his eyes? I didn't want to walk here.

I wanted to take an Uber. He wanted to walk and see the city. I wanted to see Knoxville. Do you struggle talking about players and people at Mississippi State when they're athletes, like commenting on them when you can't really be outside? You couldn't even, you couldn't even go out of the tunnel. No, I can talk about anybody. I'm not scared. This isn't like some sort of segregation.

I put up between me and the able body, the able-headed, the able-faced. Yeah. Whatever you want to say. Do you get special parking? Oh, I don't get special parking. Okay. I just want to show.

I'm 42 years old, guys. I'm out of shape. There was once a time I could run around in the sun and be fine, but I'm 42 years old. I was just asking a question. Yeah. Don't yell at Will. I'm sorry. I was just asking a question.

But all that to say is it. I was told you. Hold it. The story that Big Cat said of you walking down and complaining just validated. I feel like my. my previous thoughts before meeting you, but I do think you're a good dude. Thank you very much. He's a great dude. You just can't be in the sun. It is hot as

fucking here right now. Yeah, yeah. You want to take a layer off? No, but this is actually better because I'm not in the sun. I've rather be hot in the shade than cool in the sun. Yeah. That's a fact. Yeah. So, um, thank you for, I didn't even say thank you for welcoming us on here. For, uh, the bus

is great. Yeah. Is this, uh, for a podcast that ripped off a hundred percent a part of my take. You guys did a pretty good job. You really like to lean into that, yeah. I mean, the problem is, the problem is the guy who would chirp us all the time, right? He tragically passed away so we can't make fun of it.

Who? You're your guy. Yeah. Oh, Neely. Yeah. Yeah. You took the joke right out of, out of way from me. You stole that joke from me.

Yeah. Yeah. Neely would be, neelie would be chirping you from the back end right now. No question. He chirped us on Instagram and Twitter nonstop. And then obviously it's very tragic. He seemed like an awesome dude. Oh, he's the best.

But you can't, like, you can't make fun of it anymore. You can't make fun of him for ripping himself off. Taylor also was chirping you guys. All right. So then we'll just say it was Taylor. Which leads me to my question. How many people work on the show for you? We got five.

Okay. Raise your hand. Yeah. One's at a wedding in Greenville. All right. Oh, I bet that's nice. Yeah. Beautiful fall wedding.

Yeah. He's bummed, though. He wishes he would have been here. Wait, was that Nate Bain? Yeah. Where did he go? So he doesn't work for the Titans? anymore?

Yeah, he does. He's the PR. He worked for the Rams, then he worked for the Titans. I don't know about the Rams. I believe that, yeah. Because I know him for a while. He's one of the boys of the Titans. Yes, yes, yes.

You guys text? Yes, because he hooked us up. I can't even remember who he hooked us up with. Might have been with the Rams. Might have been with Goff, maybe, but cough? I can't remember who it was. Maybe with Fisher. I was going to say maybe Jeff Fisher.

Yeah, yeah. So I've known Nate for a long long time. But I don't want to get away from you feeling like we ripped off the PMT. No, I don't think. you actually did. It's a joke. You got to replay the hits. I was just trying to play into my journalism. Speaking of ripping PMT off, when you guys have a guest at PMT, do you like offer them water or something? Sometimes, sometimes. I don't even have water. I'm sorry, do you guys offer them water? Depends. If they struggle with the heat, no.

We want to see if they'll... If we want to be the grittiest podcast, sometimes you got to go without water. Well, and also, like, in terms of like views and listens, like, if Brandon just starts puking on this show right now, it's going through the roof. Is it possible? Free to puke on the show? Is it possible? Yeah, if the show went long and. enough, yes. It takes me a couple of hours to work up a good few. Just tip the flip over the helmet and puke in it? No, that's Maroon. I love this color.

Why, how'd you, how'd you arrive on this color? Somebody sent it to us. What's the, what's the trip? Maroon's the ugliest color in, college football.

I don't why I asked that question. Would you agree? What'd you say? Maroon is the ugliest color in college football. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's one of the most used. Purple's not worse.

Kansas State and Northwestern, if they played, be ugly of shit. I like that. TCU. I'm doubt. with that. Red is obviously number one. Who else has Maroon? You got Mississippi State. Everybody has it. It's gross.

Virginia Tech has it mixed in with that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's really not the best. Minnesota. Yeah. Gross. It is. It's gross. I know we do. Don't shut the fuck up. It's a good color. Look, they're on my shoe. Look at those shoes. I got to match that. We interrupt this episode to shout out the boys at Roeback. Roeback activewear. You know Roeback best. Oh, you all know Roeback. Best Fit, Best Feel. It's football season, which means it's also hoodie seasons. It's getting a little chilly outside.

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Do it for the fucking boys. Who's your favorite Mississippi State player of all time? Good question. Probably Eric Molds. Oh, Pro Bowler at Buffalo or Fred Smoot. Let's go favor. I do love Jeffrey Simmons. Fred Smoot's funny.

I love Simmons. Who's your favorite Nebraska player of all time? Levante David. Okay. That's just because he's your friend. Well, yeah, I play with him. And he still plays? He's a monster.

How about before you played there? Did you have a favorite? Oh, man. Did you grow up on Nebraska fan? A little bit. I was more Notre Dame. I was more like a Notre Dame guy. Got it.

But growing up, Catholic school, all that stuff. That's why I was Notre Dame guy. And then Rudy. My favorite badge is Jim Leonard. I hope they keep him around forever. They're going to have to make a choice soon. I heard they got him a nice house. They're going to have to make a choice soon.

He's getting paid a lot of money. He's going to be the coach within five years. You're going to run Paul Christ out. We'll see. Who's your favorite Wisconsin player of all time? Jim Leonard. He just told you. Jim Leonard.

Was he defense? Yeah. Any other questions? Special teams, Jim Leonard. Who's your favorite recent linebacker from Wisconsin? I loved Chris Borland. Obviously, he retired. That's exactly where I wanted to go.

It didn't seem like you were driving him to the answer you wanted to get to. Great dude. Great fucking dude. He just asked the same question when he just. So was your favorite Wisconsin? Oh, seriously. Jim Leonard returned punts too. He was fucking awesome.

He was electric. I don't know a whole lot about like there was other than a long time ago. That was like 04, I want to say. And then he had a hell of a career. That's that long ago. Yeah, I know. But it is. It is.

When I hear kids saying like I heard a kid the other day be like, oh, I graduated from this school a while ago, 2014. I was like, well, huh? Right. That's not long ago at all. A lot of us, Tennessee, Nebraska, we live in the 90s. Yeah. At least you could just say 0-4. Feels like 98. Yeah. Yes. Although it's actually a great question for three college football guys here.

Right. Is it better to have had the glory and know you'll never be back or like Wisconsin in Mississippi State never, like I know that Wisconsin's peak will never be a national. I think it's 100% better to have had the glory. But what if you're, what if you're, what if you, like pre what if you are too young to remember the glory so you just live off the either way the way like look how many 18 year old kids are walking around with Peyton's yeah no you're right I'm just wondering Jack were you even alive in 98 and he goes and he goes he always says it feels like so just barely he's always saying it feels like 98 yeah they all

they all say I listen I love having the glory I adopted Tennessee as as like a they're obviously I'm not a fan of them but I love the people here because they welcomed me when I did Coach Ducks. And like that was a big moment. And the part of Coach Dugs is like, I could have played video games. It would have been fun. But the buy-in from the fans is what made it special and the program.

And Tennessee was like the epitome of it. Like the streams that like popped off. I think the National Title Stream was like 150,000 people watching. The Tennessee program sending me stuff, like tweeting stuff. So I will always have a soft spot for Tennessee. How did you find Dugs? I always just. just, oh, Dugs, the actual Dugs?

Yeah, I guess Bo. Like, did you make the character up? And then you're like, oh, hey, there's a human being. I made the character up. And he started just tweeting about it. And he was like, I think his first tweet was like, identity theft is not a joke in the Florida State stuff. And it was just like him. And I retweeted it.

And then it just went on. And he played along and he did a great job with it. Although I have said this and I love Dugs. But there is a weird thing that happens now where people would be like, oh, like, walk down the street here and Knoxville. People are like, where's Dugs? I'm like, but I'm Dug. Yeah, you're legitimately done.

I created Doug. I know there's a real-life avatar. No, there's no jealousy. Is there jealousy towards Doug's? No, I just want to remind people that I won the titles. You know, I fucking put it in the work to win the titles. Yeah, jealous isn't the word. He just hates him because of them.

No, I don't hate him. It's impossible to hate the real-life dogs. That's true. How close were you to go into Nebraska? Never. Never. I'm being honest. We texted.

I said I would never go to a big-ten school that wasn't Wisconsin. That's a lie. That's a lie. Did you try to hire him at Nebraska? Oh, did you see not see the recruit? Do you try to hire him? I got with the PR department at Nebraska, and we did a full-on push to recruit him to get to Nebraska.

See, that actually does make it seem like the, now that kind of like sullies the Tennessee thing, because it does feel like the team's trying to recapture glory. We're like, this is our only chance to win a title. Yeah, all the teams that will never get back again, use you to get there. Right. You literally said you were going to go to the big rent.

Did I? You said if they offered me a job, I'm going to go there. I might have lied to you. Yeah, but the video game probably didn't offer him a job. Yeah. The video. But I also think I might have. Because it was the one time I tuned in, I was like, okay, if we land him at Nebraska, this is going to look incredible.

No, I'm pretty sure I was confidently like I'm never going to go anywhere that's not Wisconsin, the big 10. And he didn't even go to Wisconsin when he had the chance. Well, it's to be continued. You went to LSU when you had the chance to go to Wisconsin, though. No, that wasn't it. It was, I think it was often. I can't remember. I think so.

Maybe. I remember you saying I'm going to Wisconsin because sometimes you'd look ahead, you know? That was always the last spot. And so it's, it's, it's still. in the system. So Ducks is still a lot. If I fired it up, Wisconsin would be the offer. Yeah, but you said the Xbox is like under some things. Yeah, I got to clean up some shit. Will you ever bring it back? I, I want to. It's just like, it's hard. The reason why it was so special was because there were no sports. Like, no, it's going to watch me play video games versus actual games. I think you're being humble. I think you're being humble.

No, I don't think so. Humble cat. Let me put it this way. I wouldn't play video games while there's actual sports on because I want to watch the sports. It's better than the Olympics. Yeah, that's true. 100%. Yes. Olympics suck. Sometimes. Sometimes baseball.

Most the time. Most of the time unless it's playoffs, right? Yeah. Or college world series. Sorry about your Cardinals, by the way. I thought this was the year. It's all right. We have a lot.

What do we have like 11 or 12? I did a really mean thing where the day after they got knocked out. One of our guys went around doing like a video of like who's going to win it all. And I was just like, I think it's the Cardinals here. And it was like a day after they had lost. Best fans in baseball. Do we do have a great. fan base.

No, you don't. That was a very Cardinal season, though, because they're a franchise that, like, even when they're down, they're not. Right. It's impossible. I don't understand how they do it. Like, even when they're having a bad year, it's like, oh, let's just rip off 20 wins. For sure.

It's crazy. You could always play the underdog card, too. I feel like we do that very well. Yeah. Then all of a sudden, we're in the World Series. Yes. Coming back, game seven. Yeah.

Yeah, the Cardinals devil's magic. Why don't we have good fans? No, you have good fans. But the whole best things in baseball, the Cardinals overplay their hand on that. You guys overplay. you guys brag about being the best fans in baseball to the point where you know, I think that's false. I'm going to do.

Maybe you just follow a couple of people that might lead you in a lot. I'm going to do something that I never thought I do. I'm actually going to defend Cardinals fans for a second. Right. Ready for this? Yes. I think it's one of those things where it was truly Cardinals fans thought they were the best fans in baseball. Then the internet got a hold of it.

Then they made it something bigger than it was. Yeah. So I don't think that most regular Cardinals fans walk around being like, we're the best fans in baseball. At one point they did. At one point they did, but I think it also has gotten to be a bigger deal. I hate them so much, but I do think the internet has like blown that up to a point where it's like not even a real life thing anymore.

There it is. That was the nice thing I've ever said about. Have you been to the new stadium? I have not. No, no. I've been to Bush. Yeah, I've been to Bush, but I haven't been to. What's it called?

Ballpark Village. Ballpark Village. That's not what's called. I have no clue. I think it's... It is. It is. It's a ballpark Village.

It is a spot that's like... Ballpark Village is a spot that's like in the parking lot. All the bars are like the battery in Atlanta. It's outside of the stadium. It's incredible. It's a great time. But I have no clue. Maybe it's called Bush Stadium again.

Ballpark Village is a village around the ballpark. He claiming to be a Cardinals fan. Don't even know the stadium name. Because he's like, oh, sorry about the, yeah, Bush Stadium. Oh, so it is still. He's like, sorry about the Cardinals. I was like, yeah, I figured they lost. You're like, wait, did they lose today?

Yeah, because. Yeah, I'm like those playoff. When they becomes playoff time. Listen, there's too much gatekeeping of fandom, although White Sox Dave was right about John Cusack. Yeah, hey, that was such a big story. It was awesome. White Sox, Dave. Have you ever met White Sox Dave?

No. He's the fucking best. He's the funny. He makes me laugh more than like pretty much anyone in the world. When he's not trying to make you laugh. Yeah, I mean, sometimes it has to be unintentional, but he's just a funny guy. Give me top five funniest guys at Barstool. Oh, geez.

Because you're just trying to say White Sox Dave, he's like one of the funniest. All right. All right. PFT and Dave. One and two, right? Yeah. Who's one and two? Well, I'm not going to do that. We need a one.

I mean, I think Dave is, I think Dave still, like, when Dave's on his fastball, I think, and that's not me sucking up. I just think that's the truth. Yeah. PFT. I'm trying to think. PFT, two, Dave one. Nick and KB is combined. Yeah.

Roan. Yeah. Who am I missing? I hate letting you have Nick and KB. Well, no, they are combined. They are funny shit. They are a combined entity. Nick and KB is at the top

For me They're the funniest guys They are extremely funny I think Nick DeRaney's the funniest Human Being I've ever He's very very funny I think Ron He didn't mention one that I just love doing stuff

With Kate is very funny to me I love Kate And I think Large is tremendously funny as well We have It's actually crazy You got top four Who's your five Hmm

I mean I'm gonna use it for a current spot I'm using it for a current spot He's ranking so Big Cat's one No Jersey No Jersey Jerry has been making me laugh so much. So Jersey Jerry just...

He's got the green arrow. He's got the green arrow. Who knows if he'll stay. But he's fucking hysterical. He is. All right. Brainham, what about yours? Well, I mean, Big Cat's obviously in it.

Oh, thank you, Brad. Where's he ranked? Top three. I go probably Nick KB, Big Cat. I also think... Nick, KB, Big Cat. Two more. Roan.

Roan is very... Wait, are you ever going to air the Ron and Sas? Yeah, he's coming in November. They're wondering if you guys... He's coming in November. What do you mean? He's already been here. Yeah, I know.

You had Ronan Sasson. You taped the whole thing and you just didn't put it out. Here's the reason why. Isn't that for practice for film? We have three in the library. So when I do sign, we have, we have episodes to help give a decision. To a football team. Question.

So that you do still think that's going to happen. Yeah. Got it. Very much so. I didn't know if we were doing like the portfolio podcast. When I sign. No, no, no. This one's going out next.

This one's going out next Wednesday. Do you put this out before I sign with an NFL team? Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to have to deal with my new team being like, dude, what are you doing interviews? Ron and Zass are going into the portfolio. We're skipping them. Yes, that's actually great.

Thank you, well. Here's why. I got to get it out there because I know. I'm not looking at my scores real quick. I don't want to create drama. The reason why is we're in the midst of Spooktober. Our bus is decked out Spooktober. Ron and Sass.

Oh, this is special decorations. Yeah, this is Halloween decorations. We embrace, hey, October is Spooktow. Can you pull up scores on ESPN? Yeah, let's just do that. Yeah, but let's just put that up. October. It just sounds like every grocery store's sale since the beginning.

of time. What's up? Spooktover. Spooktober. Yeah. We embrace it around here. Come down and get three for one. All right.

LSU beat Florida. We got these shirts. Oh, that's nice. Keep scrolling down. We got a lot of shirts. What are we looking at right now? I want to see. Can I see the full?

I didn't just bet the top 25. Yeah, go back up. Who's running this right now? Arkansas's trash. This is like a, like a 70-year-old dad. You literally, you literally googled. You Googled it, huh?

Google scores. Just go to ESPN. Well, that had everything we needed. Indiana didn't cover. No, didn't. It only had top 25. I bet everything. Oh, yeah, I forgot.

You bet Mama. Yeah. I have it all. I don't need to see my FCS one. All right, so you are going to sign. Hang on, hang on. Okay, sorry. I got to explain the Roan and Sass.

Okay. They came on right before Spooktober started. Okay. So they didn't have the decorations. We didn't talk about anything Halloween related. I went to air them. It wouldn't meet the aesthetic. The FBS.

We have a method. We have a method that we got to stick to, a plan that we got to. Because we always have to adapt and improvise all the time with the bus. So that's why there hasn't went yet. I am excited to show because they are very funny. How often do you do interviews in the bus with drunk college kids around knocking on the bus like this? This is the first time. Okay, cool.

It's the first one ever. Cool. Hopefully the boys can take out the background noise. So what if Zas and Rohn never get out of the portfolio? What if you keep getting podcasts to keep bumping now? Basically, what if I never signed? All right. Keep scrolling.

That wasn't the question. But essentially that's what would happen. That was the question, wasn't it? But essentially that's the question. It's all right. It's all good. I played eight years. I'm confident.

But what if you keep getting like a guest that push them back? Holiday season. I would like for that. Never run it. Never run it. That's what we're trying to get to. He just won't say it. I can't do that, man.

That would be funny, though. It was the lost tapes. Rome would be fine. It would destroy SAS. Yeah. It would not run that. It's the lost tape. It would destroy SAS.

Do you feel like SAS cares a lot more than he leads on? No. All right. So, Sass is also. top 10 funniest guy at barstool. So SaaS is a very interesting, like, person to watch because I don't know, like, there's times when I'm like, he's acting so young, but he is young. He's 20 years old.

I think it's almost an impossible job to take as a 20 year old. And like, you have to remind yourself. And I think the fans and the commenters have to remind themselves, too, like, how good he is for 20 years old. Like, remember when you're 20 years old, you're an absolute shithead. Yeah. Like you're half a brain. You have no idea what's going on.

He's incredible, given his age. He's incredible anyway, but like he's also incredible the fact that he's able to, like, handle this job at 20. 100%. When I was 20, I was obviously at Nebraska, but searching my name on message boards, pissed off and triggered at people talking about me. That's awesome. So you can only imagine being a 20-year-old kid, like being in this universe of TikTok,

Twitter, social media, all of it. And, like, handling it the way he does. Did Wilcompton play in the Big Ten championship game against Wisconsin? Because they weren't able to tackle anyone. Were you on the field for both those games, by the way? Melvin Gordon 5. No, thank God. Melvin Gordon actually came, ran out to D.C.

and ran me over my room. That's how many yards he had? Okay, yeah. You know, Melvin Gorman Gour, how many yards do you have in that game? In that game, he had over 400. It was crazy. Against Nebraska. That's the record that stood for six days.

Yes. And then we put it on them in the Big Ten championship game too. The dude from Oklahoma, right? Samaj P. Ryan. Yeah. Samaj P. Ryan. Look at that. College football guys.

Yeah. Just some dudes talking ball. Oh, go ahead. I was going to say, just to allow you to allow you to live in the, you guys beating our ass in that Big Ten championship game, which it sucks even more for us because you guys shouldn't even been there because of what Ohio State. Yes. And another one too, right Penn State.

It was right after Penn State. And you guys were like seven and six. Very bad team. Something like that. Something weird. Yep. Fun trip. And three running backs have over 200 yards against us.

And he's, I don't know if you do this, but he's a linebacker. So I'm far enough for room from it that I can talk about it. Linebacker is important. Yes. Yes. Very important.

Seems like that was your main job. Yeah. Wisconsin had a good game plan. Okay. And we didn't adjust. I wish I could have talked to Bo a little bit more about it. We went on some other, we went down some other paths. Oh, and he came on here?

Yeah. I love Bo. You saw him the other day. I was just eating at a steakhouse in New Jersey with my wife. I looked over and Bo Polini was sitting there eating a steak. Did you go say what I tell to him? I didn't. I didn't.

I told him to him. He told me. He's such a good dude, man. I sent him a picture. I said, is this Bo Polini? And he said, yeah, go talk to him. I said, nah. He's the best, man.

I know. I went out to dinner with this whole family in Youngstown because we did his Bachi tournament. Italian, dude. Dude, the Bachi tournament in Youngstown that, uh, I think it's Stoops and Pellini. It's like all the coaches show up.

Like Mark Stoops, Bob Stoops, Man Jeannie was there. Yeah, it was a Bachi tournament. Yeah, it was fucking awesome. You can only imagine how many secrets all those dudes have amongst each other. Seriously. With all the stuff that goes down. I know.

Hopefully they've deleted their emails. Yes. Oh. Wow. That's your former team. You deleted your? lately? My emails,

see, when that came out, I'm thinking like, I don't even email that much. That's true. That much. It only takes one, brother. A lot of mine's like a reply and then it says sent with iPhone. So did you ever email Bruce Allen?

No. I flew to a private job. You did? Wow. I didn't, I didn't, there's nothing there that, nothing there.

Like, we kind of just sat on the, we took it from D.C. down to Richmond because he wanted me to speak with him at some, at some event in Richmond. And I was doing it because I thought he might help me. help me out with the contract situation next year. But he obviously didn't.

No, obviously. He's not for the boys. Brousel's not for the boys, bro. No, none of those dudes up there in Washington. A lot of boys are taking guff because of Bruce Allen. Hey, listen, they got Sean Taylor's number retired this weekend.

That was an all time. That's an all time Washington football team's scumbag move. What can we do? Yeah. Three days before. Yeah. Oh, hey, we got a dead player. His brother didn't even know.

Sean Taylor's brother was like, I didn't know. Right. Dude, it's the, it's just typical, man. It's a shit show there. A, shout-out sport clips.

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Shout out the boys at Sport Clips. Yeah, let's find another topic. All right. What I was going to ask you is so you have any questions, dads, Brandon's got four kids, I got two, you're about to be a father. Are you ready? I don't think anybody's ready, right? Your wife is sitting off camera, so you have to answer these correctly. Yeah, my wife Charo is on the bus right now.

It's the first time actually listening to an episode, like being present for a long episode. Oh, well, I'm saying like being on the bus, like while after that's going on. Are you like, wow, is this guy sitting in the seat just always this electric? Yes, because we're here? So we're 16 weeks You wanted to put his sweatshirt back on? I'm so hot right now I'm just trying to dump my brain out

So I can get into some shade Under the tits right now Just get some Just get some easy sweat rolling down Let's go rapid We're two minute offense right now But we're 17 weeks pregnant We're having a baby girl

I like that you said we Yeah Because you're pregnant too People forget that guys don't get the credit for it Dude I know When Taylor was going through it I was like hey how are you doing Can I tell you one piece of pre-dad advice? Can I tell you one piece of pre-dad advice?

You can say we're pregnant until like 30 weeks. Yes, yes. Once it gets to like the last two months or not. You don't say we're pregnant. You say she's pregnant. Because if she hears we're pregnant, she's going to want to choke you. Yes. You say what can I get you.

You can say whatever you want to do right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. When it gets wrong. By like the seven, seven and a half months, it sucks so bad for the, for the women. I'm just, I'm just being honest with you. Like, it's, it does. They are so much stronger. than men, it's crazy.

Like, so yes, at that point, you just got to be like, what do you need? What can I get you? If like, can I take the dog out? Can I do, like, everything. Yeah, your credit for the pregnancy is gone. So I'm going to have to start taking the dog out of time. Yeah, you have to do it all. I'm just kidding. You got to do it. We're not to accuse her like that. We're the ones telling you. No, we're just giving you heads on. What other advice

you have? Actually, the only advice I'll ever give anyone is don't listen to anyone else's advice, which kind of makes this whole pointless. But, uh, but no, seriously, because people will always be like, oh, well, this, this is the hardest or this. No one knows everyone's different and you just fucking figure half the fun is figuring out on the fly. Yeah. Yeah. Do you agree with that? Well, this is going to sound sentimental. I don't mean it to. This is a real talk. The first time you see that kid. Oh, yeah. Everything changes.

Yep. Every decision from then on is about that kid. And you don't know how to plan those decisions until you just do it by feel because you've seen that kid. It's actually insane. It's actually insane because I'm sure you're sitting here right now like I was three years ago where it's like, can't be that much different. Everything. Your whole life perspective? Yeah. Completely different.

As soon as you're going to cry, too. That's okay. I cried for both my kids. Both of them? Bald. Even the second one? Bald. Yeah, dude.

I did cry for my second one. I bawled. I was crying so hard. By the fourth one, I just sent an Uber to pick it up. So how old are your kids? I have 12, 10, 8. You're looking like this is the hardest question ever. You just, did you see?

his face, he's like, all right, Brennan, don't fucking fuck this up, all right? Birthdays, man. You're looking up to the sky. Like, he's going to read a sticker that's going to tell us. Oh, God, here we go. I knew they were going to ask me the tough questions. You get used to ages. You get used to ages and saying this, but then birthdays happen and they separate them a little bit.

And when the birthday happens, the age changes. Correct. Yeah. It's fucking crazy. Really, just asked me at the end of the year so I can have one stock answer. Actually, at the beginning and the end, that's it. So my question in the middle of year. So hang on, hang on my question. Both of you, how do you guys do the whole content game with your families.

Like, when did you get a strong, strong wife, a strong woman. Sweetheart. To me. Listen to me. Yes. Oh, same with me. Absolutely. Same with me.

I mean, she understands, especially in football season. Yep. To live the way, like we want to live, you know, she, I'm going to be going to be gone a lot. And it stinks, but it is what it is. And she loves the life that we're able to live. And it's been fantastic. Yes.

It's all, yeah, it's all credit to my wife. She's the rock of the family. I mean, that sounds cliche. But it, I mean, like, we're here. right now. You know what I mean? We're not home. I'm not home. I'm in Knoxville on a Saturday. Yeah. But it's the idea of like, hey, if we want to get to where we want to get to in life, there are some sacrifices. And I'm home as much as I can be. Like, I go home and go back to work, shit like that. But the other piece of advice is, and it's all up to you because we have a bunch

of dads at bars. So they all deal with it differently. I don't share like my kids because I want to have something for myself. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? So like I don't share pictures. There's a close friends group now. Yeah, yeah. I love the close. I love the little green. I love the little green. You see my kids on the close friend.

Yeah, right. So, I mean, obviously my coworkers and my close friends see them. But like I, it's just one of those, it's a personal choice that I want something. I'm not in close friends. Are you not? No, I'm not in a close friend's group. Oh, my bad. Do you don't see the photos that he drops on that?

No, I don't. Whoops. Whoops. But yeah, so that's something you have to just figure out. Because, like, everything with the content world, you can't put the toothpaste back in. Also. You can't be like sharing your kids. And then if someone says something shitty about your kid being like, that's not fair.

It's like, well, you made the choice. So this is part of the game. One more thing. When you get home, you have to make a choice sometimes to be home. Right? Correct. And I think I take one day a week. Like Sundays, I haven't been doing a lot of NFL streams.

I'm just doing, I stay home. I turn the phone off. I don't tweet. I just got to be home for at least one day and give them what I got. And then hopefully that fills the bucket up a little bit. But sometimes you just got to turn the phone off and not be a public figure for them. Right. Which is, it's harder than it sounds.

Yeah, but you're going to be awesome. Yeah. Well, you know, too, like Charles sitting on here right now, I'm sure she's listening to that part. Like, yeah, you know, Will can not be on his phone all the time because there are times where I'm just like, I'm like, you're... It's hard. It's very, very hard at times. You just got to, yeah, it's very, very hard. Nobody can teach you how to be a dad.

You learn as you go. Correct. And it's an incredible process. Yes. That's the truth. It really is the best. Like, I know that's really my advice is people, try to scare you. People, like, I think it's, I think it's this weird thing that people do with, like, being parents where they try to one up each other. Like, oh, my kid, like, it was so hard dealing with it. Like, oh, the nights and everything. It's not a competition. Right. It's fucking awesome. And I'm, like, already sentimental about, like, my kids growing up, even though my son's only two and a half. But it's like, I, you know, like, you know, how about, you cry a lot? No, I don't cry a lot. But I, you know, I think of moments. There's weird shit where it's like, oh, this might be the last time we play with this toy or that toy, shit like that. Yeah. Shit like that.

You haven't even got to it yet. Yeah. Yeah, I know. One day a week for your wife, one day a week for your side piece, you'll be happy forever. Your Guma. I think it's Fridays are for the Guma Saturdays or for the wife. That's really what it is. There we go, babe.

Yeah. It's so fucking hot in here. Did I know I love, I don't see you sweating, honestly. You know what? Are you not a sweater? I don't sweat, but it's good that I do sweat. It just hits you hard right away. Huh?

It just hits you right away. Oh, hit you hard. You guys don't have any airflow in here? How many minutes are we going for? No, I know how many minutes are we going? What's the goal here? I'm so hot right now. It's all right.

I got a few more. I'm going to fucking power through. Yeah, you look rough. I'm sweating a lot. I'm looking at my scores. I'm not looking at anything else. When did you get with Barstool? How long have you been in Barcelona?

Okay, so you're newer. I'm newer. Yeah, yeah. I've been here two and a half years. I shot to the top in a hurry, but I'm pretty new. I'm pretty new. I would, you know, from the outside looking in, I would have thought you were around a lot longer than you have been. You've lived a full life.

A lot of people say that. Yeah, two years. Two years. See, I had a choice to either stay in Mississippi and do it from the side or just diving in New York and try to get it now. And I went to New York. I think that makes me seem like I've been there a lot longer. Yes. Because I just dove right in and started doing a lot of things immediately.

Was there like a job opening or is this something? Oh, you don't know the story? No. I have the greatest hiring story. One of the greatest hiring stories is one of the best. I'll tell it up into your point. Because I was there before, like, so we're in Minnesota. We're at the final four.

It's Texas Tech, Virginia. Yeah. In the championship game. And Dave is like, I'm about to make the biggest bet of my life. I want to bet, like, this much money, but I can't get it down anywhere. I think you want to bet $100,000 at the time. And it was $250, it was $2.50 on Texas Tech. And my bookie, the name of the, you know, the website was like, basically like, called him out,

being like, you don't actually bet that much. And Dave just went on a fucking rant. Like, eviscerated them. Fucking lit them up. Like, fuck my bookie. Fuck my bookie. Stoolies, as they are. We're like, yeah, fuck my bookie.

So it happens. The next day after the championship game, there is my bookie's Twitter account goes live with a periscope. And it's Brandon Walker sitting in his fucking basement or something. And Stooleys just. insane in this comment section and I'll let Brandon take it from there. Yeah, so I was used to having about 50 to 100 people

alive. You can see on Twitter how many people are watching 50, 75. I was used to that. There was only six weeks old, the show. I was used to 75 people and looked up. I went live, 3, 2, 1, live. It went from 25 to 1,200. And I was like, I have kind of an ego for a moment.

I was like, I fucking did it. I did it. There's people here. But there were 1,200, then there were 2,000, there were 3,000, and they were just, because you can see the comments, they were tearing me up, talking about my hair, called me a Brianna of Tarth, just killing me, killing me, killing me. So funny. Is that fucking funny? They were killing me and just giving me everything they had.

And I could have, if I find him going, Dave, if I freaked out, I wouldn't have got the job. I didn't freak out. I kind of started rolling with it, giving it back to him a little bit. And that night, my bookie CEO called me and said, hey, we're sorry. We let you into that. and then Dave blogged, I should hire this guy, and my radar went up like, okay, well, what's going to happen? He DM me the next day. He said, I want to hire you.

I said, here's my number. Call me and hire me. And that's how it happens. It's credit to Brandon Walker, because it was the first and last time he was able to successfully deal with the barstool commenters. That's not true at all. The first and last time. No, but it was like, it was insane how many people were in there just roasting him. And he actually like went with it.

And it was like, it said it all. Because, like, another person would just shut down the stream and be like, not doing this. He just sat there and took it and was like, what the fuck is going on? And it was so fucking funny to watch that Dave was like, we got to hire this guy. And Dave called me on Barstool Radio the next day. Yeah. And actually, we kind of did the interview there. And then he called me off.

He left the studio, called me on a cell phone and hired me. An hour later, I was doing Barstool gambling stream. Damn. Yeah, it was wild. That was it. That's a bit of a ride right there. Yeah, the rest is history. Are you involved with the hiring process?

No, I mean, there's not like, Yeah, not like. You're kind of involved with that one. Yes and no. So not like, I'm never like negotiating anything with anyone. But if I see someone funny and I bring it to Dave, they'll get hired. You kind of like a stamp of approval.

If Dave sees someone funny, he'll ask my opinion about it. So it's like in that respect, yes. But yeah, I mean, that one was, yeah, I think I was on radio that day and I was like, we got to hire this guy. So, yeah, in that respect, yeah, this is the clip. Look at you, man. Look at his haircut. I feel like you've aged, bro.

He was a bumble and idiot. I got confused I am. It's incredible. It was an all-time barstool moment. Barstools puts some age on you, bro. And this is the way we find people. This is like the funniest, you know, like, not everyone has to, like, copy our podcast and harass us on Twitter to get a job.

It's been a good move. It's a move that's a move that's paid off. Look at us now. And I'm happy. I'm happy. Barstools down at the hill with the college football show. we're here at a cool beans bar and grill like we're taking over knoxford yeah the boy the boy you love the boy no i don't i don't actually have a rivalry with taylor i just think it's very i just think it's very funny

when he texts me to be like i will not talk to you without i love it because taylor would essentially do that with other people when we were first starting because it was always like he was the dude like you know he's the man yeah radio show but he was on like him and rich eisen had this like inside joke that rich'll never say my name it'll be like it's taylor on's podcast oh okay so nice So let's keep it going. I will never, I will never. When that was happening in the group chat, I was like, this is what I need. All right.

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Dude, so I know I've, everybody can watch your story in the documentary. Yeah. But is there any tidbits along the way that isn't really known or isn't really documented? because your whole journey's been documented, but it's like, bro, like, where you're at compared to what you started at? Oh, it's nuts. I would say the craziest part about, like, bar stool. And I think about this often is, like, the fact that, like,

Dave and Kevin and I and John and Fidelberg and Gaz and Hank and, you know, K. Marco's still around, like, all these guys that, like, were kind of that first big wave when it wasn't just Dave, like, are all still together. And it's crazy to me because you see it in all types of businesses, media, sports. It's hard to keep a team together. And there have been bumps. There have been times when Dave and I have fought or Kevin and I have fought or Kevin and Dave have fought.

Egos take off. Yeah, but it's actually like a testament to, I think every party involved and also just like the loyalty and the belief in like what we're trying to do that we're able to stick it through. Because it had there's been moments where it's been like, I don't know, man. Like this is, you know, this is tough or like we're not getting along or, but it's always kind of, it always, we're always able to like see through it. You know what are? What are a couple situations where you look back on and you're like, man, hey, boys, remember that one time?

Like, I'm glad we got over that hurdle because we actually almost fell apart. Yeah, the Barcelona talk was a big one. Like, obviously that getting canceled sucked. You talking about with ESPN? Yeah, that sucked. And I think there was some like, you know, a little bit of like tension around that time. Between you guys like the group? Yeah, just between like everyone.

Everyone was like, well, like Dave had to do what he had to do because we were getting attacked, but we also were like, well, we'd like to keep this show. That one was the best learning experience ever because that one was the moment. Like, all throughout my Barstool career, I've been like, all right, like, is there a next step? Do I have to be thinking about like, because you can't blog forever? You know what I mean? You can't do this forever. And then after that moment, I was like, wait, I can do this forever. Like, Barstool is bigger than ESPN in some respects.

Like, we are the show. Like, we don't have to. our success isn't like getting to the next level, so to speak. You know what I mean? The next level exists here. So it was actually, as much as it sucked in the moment, it was the greatest, most freeing moment of my career because I was like, you know what's awesome is having a job you love, people you love working with, and you control your content and your fan base, you love your

fan base, fan base loves you. Like I truly love, you know, the Stoolies and everyone who supports us and not having to be like, we need to be on ESPN or we need to be on. NBC or we need to be on 5. No, we're good where we are. So like, figuring out that lane and being comfortable with it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Seriously. And I know people would be like, oh, you're just saying that because it got canceled. I truly believe it. Like, I look back and I'm like, why exactly did I want to have an ESPN show? You know what I mean? I don't know. I barely remember like what it went down. Like Dave fired back at it. Yeah, well, I mean, it was old stuff.

And again, I don't blame Dave. I don't blame anyone. It was, it was, it was stupid for us to think that ESPN. Like ESPN thought they could get us without getting all bar stool. And we thought we could go on ESPN and not have like the two companies clash, which was very stupid at the time looking back at it. But it also was just like I think about it. I'm like, why exactly did I like want to be on TV? And I look back and I'm like, that was a very foolish, not immature, but like this idea that I needed to be like my success needed to be validated by television. was, is silly now looking back.

Like I would so much, if you told me tomorrow, you can have a show on ESPN, I'd say absolutely not. I don't want it. I say, and I know that sounds crazy, but I would not. It's like,

I would much rather do the podcast I like to do. I would much rather do the videos I like to do. Like, if I could do anything for the rest of my life, it's like, I'd call rough and rowdy, do barso sports advice. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, there's no, I don't need the other stuff. So that was, that was a big moment. There was a lot of tension, but it was, we got through it. Yeah.

So those are like, it's just very interesting to think about like the moments that happen that maybe, especially for a company that's so open, there are moments that haven't fully been told that have been like gotten us stronger and we've all gotten through it. And it's, it's like interesting to look back at those. Yeah. Did you have something you wanted to add, Brandon? Oh, you're, I mean, I can't really, I was texting me and asking me where the burger join is.

I can't really add to what he says. Right. because he lived that I didn't live it. He's reached a level that everybody that he helps along the company is hoping to reach his level. But I will say the reason that ESPN is not the destination soon. The reason ESPN is not the destination TV is not the destination that people ascribe to and try to get to. It's because guys like him. Him and PFT building this thing that they built and building this connection with people.

That means you don't have to go to ESPN. And we do it on our own terms. That's the part that I love. You can sit in a bus with these chairs and you can do it. Sweat us out, try to kill us. These guys broke the mold of that. Like, before them in sports, there wasn't a whole lot that you could do outside of getting ESPN or Fox or somewhere else.

We just go to journalism school and all these other things. Right. Right. Yeah. And he won't say it, but I will. I mean, they're one of the ones to broke them old. But I think it's just like knowing. Yeah, I mean, yeah, Barstool in general.

But like, knowing who you are and like knowing, I think it's more than anything like in this is going to sound very safe. happy, but maybe it's partly being a dad, but like, just being very content with what you have instead of always being like, I want more, I need this, I need that, because there was a part where I always was looking for that, you know what I mean? Yeah. And now, if you told me I could do exactly what I'm doing for, uh, maybe not exactly because I'm like running myself dead in the football season, but pretty much my job for the rest of

however long I want to work, I'd be like, yes, that's incredible. Yeah. I don't need anything else. It's just nuts because you guys did basically pioneer. and inspire pretty much all the masses that if you have a phone in your pocket you have this low barrier to entry on getting in this media world

and the fact that you guys have created so much relevance and a following from it and kept it and you just continue to build off of it I think it gets slept on where I kind of got reminded I was looking at the Forbes article on Eddie the other day he had that awesome article because whoever wrote it

I forget who the writer is please credit him but he's talking about these high buried entry jobs like a professional athlete and then basically you're getting in this media and entertainment world and anyone with the phone or the internet can be in this world and they don't want it you can Eddie I've known Eddie for a very long time Eddie has wanted it for a very long time like that's the part five year internship yeah that's the part that people uh sometimes don't fully realize is like a lot of the guys and girls at bar stool were working their ass off to get to barstool and then kept on working

even more once they got there. Yeah. Like a lot of times, I think people would be like, oh, I'm funny. I want to work for Barstool. It's like, but there's a lot that, you know, you got to, there's a lot of work ethic that goes into it. Yeah. That, like a guy like Eddie, like all, all my Chicago guys, like all those guys were grinding.

Yeah. Their asses off for a very long time. So it's like those guys are all awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brandon, I mean, that's the thing. Brandon wasn't working at Barstool, but he was grinding in the sports adjacent world and

sports world. Right. and like all of that got to him to a place where he was to be plucked by bars. Right. And now you're still creating stuff too. Like you have a new show, don't you? I mean, how many, dude? How much time?

We don't have enough time to go through all. Yeah, for sure. But I'm saying this year you made one because I see you busting Mullenero's ass all the time. Well, that's it. That was a friendly thing. We're all good now. But listen, you can't have two teams. John Cusack.

It all comes back. Can't have two teams? I disagree. I think you can have a few teams. Well, you know, you can't talk shit about. I root for the Titans. Oh, well, you play. That's different.

That's different. You played for those teams. You got a chess from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's different. That's different. You got a house somewhere that was built by those. That's totally different.

Yes, yes, yes. That's totally different. I didn't, but we'll edit that part out so people think I have a house wherever I play. Oh, do you live on this bus? Yeah. Is that when she's here? She's doing that. How much money did you make in your NFL career pre-tax?

Yes. I mean, you can look it up. I think it's like seven. You didn't have to answer that. Can I have you? I wasn't. Will's too nice. Dude, what does your,

what did your 2018 tax return look like? Can I get your return? The reason I'd answer is because like, just Google it, but it makes it easier for me to ask people what they make because I'm like, you can look mine up. Yeah, that's true.

That is true. We interrupt this episode because we forgot to do the fucking deal of the week by J.P. Hovey. J.P. Hovey's deals are flying off the shelves. I don't know how many people went to smoothie king, but a lot of my boys were texting me saying and they went to Smoothie King for the $5 Fridays.

Since we didn't hit the JP Huffy deal of the week, I'm going to bring his ass up here right now. He's going to sit in this seat and he's going to deliver the hottest, best deal of the week that's served hot, fresh. JP, get up here, man. All right. I'm sitting in the back. This is what the back of the bus feels like.

Feels good right here. What's the deal of the week, man? Delivered to us, hot and ready. Listen, the deal of the week. As y'all know, the boys all went to Knoxville last. week, right? Yeah. They went to Knoxville.

I was not in Knoxville. Will told me, JP, sorry, you can't come to Knoxville. You got to go find the deal of the week. I was like, all right, bet. I drove to South Carolina. The deal of the week this week is on Wednesdays. This episode comes out on Wednesdays. I'm doing you guys all a favor.

You're listening to this at 6 a.m., this can be your breakfast. You listen at 6 p.m. This can be your dinner. Okay. Talk to me, man. Yeah. Hey, $5 Sushi Wednesdays

at Publix or Kroger. Yep. And that's your deal of the week. Let's go, man. Good deal. Yes, sir. Hey, Will, come back up here. All right.

Back. Yes, yes. Well, I appreciate you guys for being on. I know you got the college football show. Oh, we get to get off this most thing? I actually did a smart move to save Brandon's life. This is how much I love this guy. I texted Spider about 10 minutes ago and dropped a pin.

and said, can you bump the AC and come get us? Yes, please. So there we go. I just save this man's life. I promise you, when you step off this bus, it's going to feel so amazing. Well, we're going to have like a million people who are standing out here. Oh, maybe not. I know. Everybody's been obsessed with Brandon.

No, no, it'll be all right. Do you guys on the windows the whole fucking time? Alex, I know it's hot so we get delusional and forget questions or anything. Do we have any questions by you guys? Spider, you see the bus? All right, drop a pin. We'll walk to you. Drop a pin.

Can I get one of them shirts? All right. We'll be there in a second. I don't think we have more on us. Wait, what was there? Was there any follow-ups? Yeah, I do. I have Mammoth.

There we go. Plus three. Blas, plus. I have Purdue. I have Purdue. I have Purdue. Go up, scroll up, scroll up. This is just, this is stuff that everyone's going to want to hear five days later.

Yeah. I was going to say, but not live, unless we go in the portfolio. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Kentucky.

What is your question now? Stu. Stu? Where we got a question? Yes. All right. So you asked what's like working with Stu finder. working with Stu Feiner is incredible and scary and wild and ever like what you see is what you

get with Stu riding a roller coaster with no seatbelt the one thing I'll say about Stu he is so he's a psycho you see it he's always on Stu Feiner might be like the nicest human being alive like he has a heart of gold he's like a family man through and through every time I see him he asked how my family's doing he bought my fucking son my one year old son on his one one birthday a PS5 I was like, Stu, he's won. He's don't even have a PS5. He's one. With like a few games that were like rated or.

Yeah. It was like like fucking crazy shooter games. What games does he want? You like texting what you're one. Yeah. But yeah, he's the best. I love him. That's like, Stu Feiner.

You could do it. We could do a whole other podcast where we just like go down the roster and talk about like origin stories and how funny it is. But Stu is someone that I remember watching like way back in the. day because I've always loved gambling. Same with Dave. We mocked him on a skit with PMT and then found out he lived in Long Island, hit him up. He came in and then the rest is history.

Like that's something like Stu Feiner is just like a perfect barstool story. There's not a whole lot of people that can walk in the building and change the mood of the entire floor. Yeah. He does that. When he is there. Well, it's partially because he's just handing out weed to him.

Handing out weed. Yeah. Changes the mood pretty quickly. He hugged me. me on the cheek every week. And he has, like, I have to been down for him to do it. It's a considerable, it embarrasses me every time it happens. Is he yelling all the time?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's him. That's not, that's fake. That's him. That's him. That's him.

That's him. Yep. Yeah. That's 100% of it. I'm sure when you get to his house, you just go straight to his wife and you're like, how do you do it? Yes. I've met her a couple times.

She's a very, very caring and patient woman. Does she yell to? No. Not at all. She's very soft-spoken. I'm most of the wives at Barcelona. You can say patient. Yes, very patient.

Very, very patient. Yes. But Stu, I've been to his house. His house is incredible. Sweetie, you're patient. Yes. Just to throw any time we get a chance. I can't wait until he gets to seven and a half months.

I know. And he's still saying we're pregnant. I just text on the side of my head. You're right. They're getting the car going home. She just sits like this. We. Yeah.

We. Hey, you need me to come to HQ, right? We. Oh, man. All right. I think we're done, boys. All right. Appreciate you guys for listening.

We'll do all the ads. This is awesome, dude. Hey, trust me, you're not initiated. Now you get to tell people, hey, we sweat it on the bus. Everybody else gets the AC. And you know who's not here? Who's not, who's a fucking no show? Dave?

No. Taylor Luan? That's fucking no show. He's always got a football game. What's harder watching football? Was he you, give up another five sacks? Watching football, much harder. I know, I know.

I actually did. That was the last time I texted him on the side was his speech that he gave the week after was, I actually thought it was one of the best, like, athlete speeches I've ever seen. Which speech? It was after he was, so he gave up five sacks. He talked about getting booed. He talked about getting booed.

And it was like, this is like, this is kind of, whenever people like, we want athletes to be honest, Taylor talking about that experience, that was what people should like watch and be like, oh, that's, that's awesome. 100% because athletes are always like afraid to say anything. Yeah, right. Other than the company lines. Yes. So shout out. I'll shout out the other boy, Taylor. Okay.

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