Bussin' With The Boys - Introducing The Newest Bussin' With The Boys Member, Derrik Whitten | Inside The Bus

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

Recorded: October 30th 2025 | Welcome back to another episode of Inside The Bus. This week we are joined with the newest member of the Bussin' squad, Derrik Whitten. He is the social media guy for the For The Dads podcast. Derrik talks his journey to Bussin' and all of the different things that led him to be with the boys. He talks about the podcasts that he had himself and his crazy workload, the blogs that he has written and the hilarious one that he sent to the boys. We get into the different tiers of fandom at the bus and Derrik ends the pod off sharing a list he's been working on his whole life. Sportscenter can take a back seat to Derrik's list of best beer. Tune in to hear it all and enjoy the Friday hang with the boys in the back. Much love. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you. Solid intro. Thanks, man. Speaking with emphasis. Newest employee of two months already? Yeah, 39 days. 39 days was Friday. Yeah.

That blog was incredible. I was super nervous. Obviously, we can talk about what actually happened, but sending it out. There was like a two-hour gap before G hit the group chat of that blog. And you know you go through when you do any type of content. like does everyone hate it or whatever and then i was like fuck i kind of kind of fucked with coop a little bit on it and like shit i kind of fucked with will i'm like damn is everyone going to hate me on monday man but no it was good no that was incredible this office needs a

blogger too i feel like there's not yeah that we need more writing and for those that don't understand what we're talking about every sunday night we have a weekly schedule that gets sent out to us and normally ryan puts it together shout out ryan but has everything that's going on this past week derrick added a blog to it it where he was basically diving into the levels of fandom because that's been a big argument at the bus. We have some sickos. We have some diehards.

We have some Will Comptons. Some casuals. Some casuals. Me. And he dove into it and it was beautiful writing. I did take your name out of the casual thing. I didn't want it to be a shot, but I was like, you do love the chiefs. But you don't do it enough for clump to fuck with you.

No, I just, I'm not one. I mean, we said it before, but I'm not one. Like, it's not going to ruin my week. I just like watching football. I think there's a name that we need. I have something I need to grab pertaining to this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You definitely need that.

We need to figure out a name to differentiate between the casuals of the world like Matt Malone and then you. Because there's, I don't know, there seems like there's a little bit of a gap. In which way. Which swings better for your. Yeah, I would agree. Your fandom. Yeah. Because I think.

Fandum, casual fandom with incredible ball knowledge and then just casual fan. That could be it. I think my fandom. is the NFL hat that Kup has, like that is me for the NFL. Football blow of our office. Correct. But I like, and like, I know.

We got a face swap. I know like the ins like I do obviously playing college football and like growing up and playing football. Like I know the ins and outs of football. And like when like sometimes geo asked me a football question, I'm like, fuck yeah, I can flex my ball knowledge, ball knowledge like muscle. So like I am a. I think you're a gamer.

I think that might be. is a good one. Mitch fills in a lot. Mitch cares more if he loses flag, which is gamer. Yeah. Yeah. You're a gamer.

I can get down with gamer. Yeah. It fits too. You just gotta be clumped this week. I've always appreciated to you, you kind of take the first step and being like, I'm a casual. Yeah.

And in the back of my head, I'm like, you know, in a way you are, but like I feel like you're not giving yourself enough credit. So yeah, I think gamer's a good place to hang the hat for now. Yeah, because I would get frustrated

and annoyed because you guys were like you guys you it was more so of uh like taylor said it best on the bus he's like Mitch just likes football like we get we get mad at him because we think he doesn't like ball but like no it's just like i'm not gonna i just like football you like all ball i like all ball it's probably the level you played at like you played in college right yeah so you just like it you went to south carolina oak almost like there's that's the thing that's what i tried to hit in the blog is there's a difference between you guys when i came south with college football fandom and being a pro. Like being a Steelers fan, it ruins my day. But we play and I'm like, cool, we can go give another, if there's a third fucking Hayward brother, let's toss him a bag.

Like, but you guys have a year in, year out college fandom that like watching you with the vault, it's different. It's just flat, 100% different. It's tough in a state, Tennessee specifically, where you have to live and die by football. You can, you can rep the Grizzlies, but obviously that's Memphis, but like we don't have, obviously, an MLB team, no NBA team. So like, it like, as a Steelers fan, like you can rep the The Sixers, you can run the Phillies. Like, you can kind of, if you're having a bad year, you can run. Pirates.

We do have the Pirates and the Sixers are Philly, but we, in your defense, we don't have a basketball team. So people picked Cleveland and Sixers until LeBron came along. Then those. Just in markets where you have a fallback. We'll get there. Yeah. But yeah. It's a great point, though.

I like, so it goes bottom, casual, fan gamer. I think it's Matt Malone. I think below, below Matt is. Jared because he just doesn't really care. Like he's like Sundays are free days to me. Like I don't have to watch football. So it's Jared and then I would say. We'd be working seven days a week out here.

I think I and then I think Matt Malone and then I would almost say me and Cooper kind of in the same realm. I feel like it's fair. Because like you know ball but you're not like on there. Coupe was on Suey after the Titans snuck his cardinals.

He's that way with the Cardinals. Yeah. I am like maybe a step. I'm probably like a little bit above Mitch on like I do care. Yeah. It really doesn't, like, I almost like am just used to watching the Cardinals suck. So like that's just part of my football watching experience. It's not like a, it actually doesn't ruin my mood as much as I.

But you'll get frustrated. Yeah, I'll get frustrated. But like I do just like watching football. Like I don't care if it's my team. Yeah. But if the cards were nice, you're going to be like bought in all the way. God, I hope so. If you never get there, I hope the payoff is worth.

Your meme hit what? Like a couple hundred thousand? Mill. Was it mill for it? Yeah. The Cardinals being bad, I can post memes on Twitter and get 2.4 million views on them, even though it's about the Cardinals sucking ass. I'd say you're in the Gamer category, though, for sure.

I think he-I'm in a similar category to Mitch. Gamer Plus. Gamer Plus. He does get frustrated. Like, if the Chiefs lose, I'm like, fuck. But if, like, the Cardinals lose, like, he'll put out a tweet. He'll, like, dog the Cardinals where I'm not going to tweet about the Chiefs necessarily. I'm not going to that kind of fan where, like, I kind of am sicko in terms of, like, when my team's doing bad,

It's kind of enjoyable to kind of tease them and make fun of them. It's like tough love. Yeah. Every year with Cardinals. I'm curious. Yeah. Yeah. Finish the list.

Then I want to. So Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt.

Matt. Me. Or Jared. Matt. Me. Coup. So it goes does not care. Casual.

Gamer. Gamer. Gamer. What would be your next level? Derek. Yeah. I'm trying to think. I genuinely.

I know it's only been a week. It's been like three. Because the top one I know what it is. Shirms in the Matt Malone category because he's got 17 different teams. Let me swap it up because the thing was I named, I did not, I named what Jack is in it. Like Valls fans were basically their own category being South here. But I would like to identify a little bit more here because I have what does it mean to be a fan as the name of it. And we look at casuals, diehards, Vals fans, and then Will Comptons of the world.

And that is how I categorize basically the whole office. I like giving it out a little bit more. And just, I mean, I won't go too indefinitely. Some of them kind of get away from the office troll. Die-hards, they seem to teeter between serial killer and stalker. My favorite line there would just be as abated, the sexual orientation of other homo sapiens who request the sacred scribbling of names from sweaty men with athletic accomplishments. Valls fans, I would like to say, I'm coining it.

I don't know if you want it or not, but Mac, Jack McStraightman, just so you know, I appreciate that. Yeah. That's a good deep cut. Yeah, I thought it was good there, man. I like that. And then, yeah, you guys keep coming back no matter how bad it is, like a student loan reminder.

And then the Will Compton... Shout out Sally Mae. Shout out Sally Mae. The sickest, most diehard Steelers, man I could find the Steel City win. So hold a single match to the love that the Will Comptons have for their team. And then we dove into the fact that he

berated Coop for not knowing ball. I can't win. I think... Hey, hey, hold on. You were prepared for glory if Nebraska lost that game. Yeah. Part of me wants to be like,

Let's keep that in a razz. We can leave it there. Yeah, just no. I would say like, Will's not going to watch this, but I would say you're in the realm of, like, I don't know if like Valls fan is strictly Vals fans

can be in that category because I would say you're almost in the realm. I think he might be in a level of his own. I was going to say like in the Will Compton. The players he's friends with on Facebook from his old days. JP knows everything there is to know about South Carolina football and just this,

like he truly embodies what it is to be a South Carolina. Yeah, South Carolina. I would put JP above the sicko-psyco balls fans. Future governor. He's in a lane of his own. Bro is texting with the head coach. Like Nick Harbour asked for him, asked to meet up with him rather than like. He's DMing with Ty Simpson after the game.

Like, Jay, answer my DMs, please. In a lane of his own, I think. That means a lot. That means a lot. Where does Taylor fall into this? Who? Maybe just right in the middle of the road. he's had experience playing cut his teeth of the program, but never was a true fan until

until they won the national championship. And to his credit, he started being a fan that year, but even then it felt a little. They had been rolling a little bit. So I don't know, maybe just kind of like, it is funny to me when Coop knows more of Taylor's Michigan roster than Taylor knew his own teammates. Yeah, because his teams had me fighting for my life at middle school lunch every day. I know everything I was talking about. But yeah, so all of this to get to JP and his little Sherentel or show and tell. Yeah, when I was home with Garrett,

Gary got to see my childhood house, which is an underrated moment because your adult friends very rarely get to see your childhood home. It felt, I'll quickly say, it was very homey. It was almost exactly

what you would expect the hubby's house to be like. It was all time. So thank you. That is cool. Thank you. And so... Their neighborhood is elite,

by the way. Did you see the tree? he hit in for 12 hours? No, when he ran away. Oh, that's a good pool. Yeah, that's a good pool. I'll send you guys a photo in home for things. I've only ever made it to the edge of the driveway.

I never got past that. Yeah, I went to this tree, climbed up. I was like, they're going to miss me. And I'm going to watch them come out and look for me. And they never came out and looked for me. I was just hit in my closet. Yeah, that's horrible. That's probably when I made this.

I'm out. I'll show them. I'll go to college. Yeah. I'll create my own college. No, so this was on my little like dresser thing And this was the first brochure I ever made In a web design class So I had to be like fifth or sixth grade

And I guess the assignment was just like Create either a city or a town, school, something Naturally, I pick something about South Carolina I pick Cockyland And I don't know if y'all remember that like When you made brochures in school Oh yeah. Learning that was the sickest thing ever

And we'll have to put a photo up because I have this random, like, text box. Incredibly well maintained still. For real. For being 20 years old. So you're now on Cockyland Time. How do you feel? You open it up to find out.

I won't read the full thing, but I'll give you guys the highlights. I would listen to a podcast if you just reading this whole thing just for the record. Yeah. I mean, we have dining, parks and facilities, entertainment, clothes, and a calendar of events plus education. And this is not fully homer either. Like everything you need. Like, I'm including another school. in here. The food

consists of mostly tailgating food. Hot dogs, hamburgers, brawere, subs, fruit, wings. And then the water fountains are filled with gatorade. And in every refrigerator of the rooms is gatorade, water, juice, soda, power aid, and propels. And the last thing people would eat is shrimp. Now that's

some good food. Parks and facilities. All Gamecock facilities are open to the public from 7 to 12 and then 4 to 8 due to sport team practices. All the facilities have pools, concessions, basketball, court soccer fields and the city dump is where the Clemson fans live. Entertainment.

For entertainment, everybody goes to all of the games, football, basketball, soccer, swim meets, other sports and recreational sports. And yes, there are still movie theaters. Clothes. You could guess what they are. Everybody has a year supply of Gamecock T-shirt, long-sleeve shirt, pants, hoodies, and anyone who is found with the Clemson sweatshirt will be kicked out of the community. Calendar of events, football season, and then two times a year, we go to a

Clemson community to trash talk them and then throughout the rest of the year we watch everything else education since you when you're a little boy you will attend some kind of school that has a connection to the university of south carolina or another gamecock school when you're three years old you go to preschool called for the young game cock and so on by the time you are a senior in high school you will have a choice to go to USC or jacksonville state who are also the gamecocks each of which are free so i made this when i was about 10 or 11 you were ahead of the game i'd like that's a lot Thank you. And hopefully,

you know, maybe this is a different what's like a different layer of everything. He is. He's a brochure fan. And that, I don't love the name of that. Yeah.

But if you understand the context of it, it makes sense. Again, we need to work on it. But that's what separates J.P. It's like, I don't know if I've ever witnessed a fandom quite like JPs with South Carolina.

Because it, like I said earlier, just fully embodies the whole state. It's not just, you know, South Carolina football or like, it's everything. And I can really,

appreciate that kind of stuff. My favorite part in the whole thing is the year, one year supply of Gamecock. Yeah. After that. That's all we got. I thought I was cooking when I was on Clemson's head too. They're in the city dump. Go talk trash to them.

Now that's some good food. Yeah. When you are three years old, you go to preschool. It's called for the young Gamecock and so on. This is like really impressive. Just so you know, like on a kid level, like this is well done. You are definitely getting something in there. I'll give you your own rank.

Because to your point, like you are, if the vols lose, if BAM lose, if these teams lose, you guys are sick and annoyed and like want blood and want people fired. JP's trying to build a better world. Like there's something there. He's genuinely like, it's bigger than ball. He's like, look, I understand. But like, okay, guys, we still got to go to Clemson this weekend and make fun of their fans. So like, let's rally on the bus.

We have a schedule. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, that's my submission. That's great, though. I love that. Do with that as you will. I will say, when we were walking around, Columbia. We got out of the car for two minutes.

JP, this is a 10 a.m. Like, here we go. That's got to be so sick. It was cool. It was a great time. Running for mayor or some kind of city councilman. Dude. Later on your life. I feel like you're already campaigning without even knowing it. I mean, cocky land. Strong, bro. Yeah. I mean, AD.

I go through waves of being interested in politics, but I do. I love like the community building aspect. So I'm hoping that I think there's going to be massive shifts in the political landscape over the next 20 years. And I'm hoping that when I am 40, 45, there's a different type of role out there that would fit more in to the things I'm into because I'd love to stand on the table for South Carolina as a state. And I just, it needs to be the right opening. It's funny because I actually, I do DM with a couple of representatives. I DM with a couple of representatives from the upstate just to get their their pulse on things.

They're probably freaking out thinking, man, he's only got so many more years. He's on our coat tail. You guys are making Joey Aguilar edits. He's up being making presidential campaign edits. Seriously. I love that for you. But I mean, so funny, like way long ago, I had a buddy. He worked on Capitol Hill for a while.

I ran his small town campaign. So he ran for a very small portion of our local government for it. I helped run his campaign for him. And I will say without a sliver of understanding who you are outside of this office, other than just becoming friends with you, you would do absolute numbers. Small town would be fun. Yeah.

Because you could, like playground. Fully make change. Chalkyland. Yeah. I feel like Derek could be a great campaign manager. He would. I love that.

This might already just be forming in front of our eyes. Yeah. It's all right. For real. Yeah. Some sick posts was coming out. I mean, we, right.

We got the seat pose. The seed votes there, man. We're just going to get into politics. I feel like Pittsburgh. Small town politics. Like Pittsburgh is a place where people have a lot of pride into. Oh, yeah. Pittsburgh is, it's crazy too because you get down here.

And the first thing, like when I got with people, they'd be like, oh, like, you're in Nashville. And I'm like, yeah, let's go to like Franklin. And they'll be like, yeah, okay, that's Franklin. That's not Nashville. And like, I realize like it's very that way. Pittsburgh, you're 50 minutes outside the city. You're from Pittsburgh. Like that's, that's just, it's this identity type thing.

And like even PA, it's just, I mean, I don't know if it's, I'm assuming it's that way over there. No, I say I'm from Philly and the guys. give me shit for it. Okay. See, that's exactly, I tell. I'm 45 minutes outside of Philly and I'm like,

in my world, you're from Philly. Now I get it. I get it. Because that's why when you came here, they were in Franklin, not Nashville. Thanks, bro.

You got to learn about shit. Yeah. You guys do shit different down here. I like it, but it's different. How long have you been in Nashville? I've been in Nashville. This was the start of year five for me at the beginning of this year,

like March. So you moved. Did you move in the middle of COVID? Yeah, I moved at the tail end of it. So Pittsburgh was still. I mean, we would, I got a bike in Pittsburgh. My buddy does a bunch of, like, bars,

and we had all these restaurants we can go to. So we got bikes to just come into the city and sit at outside patios and drink beer, basically. It was, it was dope, but Pittsburgh was shut down way before. So Pittsburgh was the city where you wear your mask, go to your table, take your mask off. And that was a common thing. I come down here, and I'm like, oh, yeah,

it's opening up. The world's opening up. And I'm like, oh, cool. Like, Broadway is like a zombie fucking apocalypse. Like, there are just people. And it was a weird transition of it through it. But it was really cool, because I, I felt like I got past that point.

Like I got past the COVID shit. I got past that part of my life. And like as soon as I moved somewhere, I've never been before, the world just opened up. So it's really, really cool. How come you moved? I moved here for, so I was in advertising before this. I was a director of social media for an advertising firm in town called the Bunton Group. So I, God, dude, my, I used to sell like laminates, kitchen countertops, sinks, hinges

and shit. Took a huge pay cut to go into advertising, stuck around there, got headhunted for just a social job with them and came down and was like, I'm basically burn the boats, like not going back home. We're doing this shit. Luckily, obviously, fast forward a bit, but we got here. Thank God. There were some times where I was like, fuck, I got to go back home and like, fuck, I got to pack it up and shit. But I moved down for the job and I loved it. And it was really kind of that moment of like, this is the life now. Like, this is what we're doing. It's crazy. Yeah. And I was, so I was, I don't forget when it was, but I was scrolling through your Instagram. And your period when you were

like me trying to explain to my girlfriend what I'm doing unemployed those were great day whatever so appeal like to fast like go back a bit um when I was getting into advertising the first time I was an account coordinator so social was my way to get in the second time I basically sat at the bar with a buddy who's a video editor and we sat there and he's like I want to start my own agency and I was like that sounds lame I was like let's start a sports thing and he was like what is that I was like so we're going to call it thoughts from the bench it's a blog and we make content So we did that for, God, seven years. Blog, Twitch streaming, our own podcasting, everything you could think of.

We did shotgun races at tailgates against the barstool guys like Big Cat, White Sox, Dave. We fucking grind that shit. And it was completely free. All the Twitch streams, that's how we got into Movember. That's why I'm so heavy into that. And so all that shit was where I would experiment for my advertising job. And so, dude, the clients, they have, the red tape, everything in the advertising world is so ass, to be honest with you.

Like, I like it. It got me here. but it's terrible. So I would take everything and come working on my own podcast and it would work there and I'd bring it back. Well, what's the KPI's?

What's the delivery? Like, da, da, da, da. I'm like, no, it fucking worked. Dude, it worked. So everything up to there. Like, that's why I liked sending the blog and all that stuff. But those videos that you speak of,

I was at that job, left that job for a video shop in town. I was their director of social. Great guys. Just didn't work out. It was startup. Went back to the agency and then they had their third round

of layoffs ever, which happened in the same year, shocker. And got laid off. And I was like, fuck, dude. I just bought my ring. So we're engaged now. I just bought my ring. We just moved into a new house.

All this shit. So I was driving lift as much as a human could drive a car. I was picking up this freelance work, trying my ass off. And I was like, fuck, dude. I got to get back into it. Because I had taken a huge gap off of making content for the blog stuff. Like before, bro, we were making videos. Like, I would blog three times a day.

I would, we did our Thursday show, which was two hours. which I stopped doing just for Bussin. I want to pick it back up, but stop doing that. So three clips a day, two blogs a week. We did a live stream. Monday night was a gaming show, so we did Twitch stream gaming. Tuesday night was a ranking show. We just ranked shit.

Wednesday night was movie reviews. Thursday was my show. Friday was off. Saturday, we did a trivia show that I recorded the whole day. Sunday morning was gambling. And then after football, we did a recap show. All for free in the back of a gym. The back of a gym, this utility closet where the only thing that's still there is my 2004

Golden T Arcade game that just stopped working when I moved here. I was fucking pissed. Bro, full carcass arcade, everything. I know this is super long. I'm so sorry to do this. But back into it, yeah, I made these videos where I was basically like, I have this Salt of the Earth beautiful woman who is my fiancee named Kat. And she was like, hey, like, you're good.

She's a nurse practitioner. She's like, we're okay. Just like, promise me you're going to keep going. Like figure it out. Like, I was like, I will. Watch this. Yeah. Yeah.

And then I got clump making me fucking work on vacation. But no, it was, that intro was super funny. My interview with you guys was the funniest day of my life. Jeremy's a crack. But I get through those videos where I was like, well, fuck, how do I explain to her what I do all day? So I made, I got up to like edition 19 before I got this job where every day I was making another piece of video and making another piece of video just about my... Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what?

We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called... Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a...

We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey, Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was...

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

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We see that you have a good attitude about this. And we see that like the place that laid you off clearly like had issues. It wasn't a you thing. And so making those videos, like I have a cousin who's the professor of marketing at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. And he's the one to help me get a lot of my freelance clients that I still have today. But he was like, bro, he's like, keep making. He's like, just keep making something.

So I'll just make these stupid fucking Here I am taking the trash out videos Here's I made burgers for three weeks straight Different burgers I got a blackstone that my dad drove down I made three straight weeks of different types of burgers And I was like fuck it here's the halapino Cheese Curd peanut butter burger I made today

It's fucking ass Day 18 Day 18 but no man content That's why like when this happened And Clump replied back First time I replied back I thought he was fucking with me. I was like, this guy's not the director at digital.

Yeah. I had this in the picture. I was like, is that plank? He's like, yeah. I'm like, what the fuck is that? That's how I was when Will reached out to me too. Yeah, dude.

But it's, you know, being it, every, you guys have been so fucking sick. So it's been, it's been a fucking journey. It feels way longer than 39 days.

For sure. Yeah. Because what? When did you first walk in the door? Well, it would have been. Is that July? Yeah. Were you here with the interns?

No, no, no, hired. And so I went to the beach in July, which is why I said to Clump, because they had me editing clips for my audition for my contract try into it. And so did that. And then it was like, I started my what was supposed to be a six or five week trial contract, made it to week three, which is when I stopped bringing in shit to my desk so I can have a desk. That was another great. What day? Great thing. That was, I'd said it to you because it was like, I think it was like the start of

week three. Yeah, because I remember bringing it up. And you're like, yeah, well, it's actually over. I got offered a full-time job, like yesterday. You're like, motherfucker. That's one of my favorite moments ever. If you would explain that for anyone who doesn't understand what we're talking about as well. Yeah, I would bring in, so I'd like go through X and I was like, all right, I got to start, like, I got to do something because you guys were awesome, but I was like, I need to start showing what I can do. And I was like, first thing I can do is just be, like, get your gimmicks going.

Like, I love bits. Like, I handed out the cards today, a fun fact, trivia. Like, that shit just makes me happy. So every day I would bring in a new item for my desk when I got a desk. And so this would pop up. A Condama, T.J. White, Bobblehead, the Kobe Bryant magazine. And so I remember one day, I looked at G. And I said, gee, could I interest you in being interested in my desk item?

And he was just like, yeah, sure. And from there, it started slowly becoming a thing to the, I think it was one of our first conversation. You were like, hey, dude, what did you bring in today? And I was like, you know, man. And I bid it. I said, hey, bro, I did not bring something in. And I could feel genuine disappointment from you, which was hilarious. It was just like, man, like, I feel like, this was like, where me and you were really about to just.

connect and then it really in about five seconds you figure now you got hired full time for the better truly like i don't know why i think today i feel a little emotional i'm not feeling but i'm like dude i'm so stoked that you got hired yeah you've been such an amazing addition thank you yeah your personality is super bright and like it just brings just a new good vibe and energy and yeah with the uh the cards today like you wore in arkansas uh pull over the day before tennessee plays and like you immediately put on like you know some Tennessee logo you'd print off from the printer I tape the shit out of it

and then put something on my desk where it was like an apology and it was like one free volunteer moment it was like does not include like moving or something else which is a great so yeah it had the dog over top of an Arkansas pagan and said free for one volunteer moment does not include moving into or out of two of houses apartments

or living complex which was just great I mean it was a very well done card too It wasn't like you just wrote with Sharpie on like this piece of paper. But like obviously you and JP have an act for this brochure thing. He was ahead of me before him. Y'all have my vote whenever JPM's ready. No, it was funny. Yeah, Jack's like, well, what did you bring in?

And I was like, in my brain, I was like, I could be like, oh, dude. You could lie. And I could be like, no, no, I could be hype. And I could be like, no, here's why I didn't. But I was like, nah, dude, keep it. And I was like, you know what I didn't bring something in today, man. And he was just like, oh, dude, what the fuck? And I was like, well, that was for my contract.

I got hired full time. and he's like, what the fuck? He was like, that's how we're going to find out. And Jack, like, he's like, gee, did you know he got full? JP, did you know he got full time? And just like this whole, like, dude, it was a great moment. And there's so many of those little moments. Like, it's so funny because you guys are from the outside perspective, like, not to blow your tops up.

You're very cool. Like, you're very cool people. You are on busing. You're running for president. No, but like, you have this presence about you guys that is like we are, this is the group. Like, I can't explain to you how cool it is to tell people. I literally said to my mom, I was like, no, I'm one of the boys that's bussing. Like, and she was like, what the fuck does that mean?

I was like, no, like, I'm like one of this thing that is this and it's super cool because, you know, I've done my, in the words of my buddy, Josh, my 100,000 hours of podcast, 100,000 hours of graphics. Like, I've done all the little shit that the second this opportunity came up, I was like, oh, no, I know I'm going to do the job well. It's about getting you guys to, like, buy into me as a person too. That's an important part of what you have built here. Definitely.

For sure. What was so? you said the interview process was hilarious and stuff. What stood out? Yeah, so really genuinely what stood out was was me kind of fumbled at myself, not a bad way, but I, you know, got the call or the email from Clumm. And I remember because I had like, the meta thing was a contractor to run, they're rolling out on meta. So 2026, all ads creative will be made by AI. So it's this well-known thing. They had contacted me to lead a team of creatives to run AI. generated ads through our own eyes to say if it's going to be good or not. And I was like,

all right, cool, that's meta. And then there was another gig at an agency that I was getting through the final. It would have been remote with one week in Kentucky. Like, it was cool. And then I get the email from Jeremy Klum that's just like, hey, like, want to talk to you. Had the first call. And I'm just like, this dude is so, like, it's not a disrespectful. He's goofy. Like, Clems is a goofy. He's a dude, right? And so he's like, yeah, did that. And then next interview, I like, didn't hear from him for like two days. And I'm like, all right, this could be a bit. Like anybody can make a bus in Gmail, whatever. And he's like, yeah, I'm going to bring.

So savage. Well, he was like, I'm going to bring chef on. And so the next interview, chef comes on and I'm asking a couple questions. And chef's answering them, like, really well in a good setting. And Clumps getting it. And then Clems says like, yeah, man, your homework really is to watch the latest episode, which I had already gotten like halfway through, like huge fan. And so I was like, yeah.

And he's like, cut some clips of it. So I'm cutting. And I cut about three clips. And I'm talking like, he said, if you can send them tomorrow, that'd be. sick. And I'm like, fuck, dude, I don't even got Adobe Premiere. So I signed up for a free week of Adobe Premiere. And I was like, let's do this shit. Cut the clips. Sent him in. There was like one issue with the jump cut, him and I talked through. Then he goes, awesome, man. I'll reach out soon. Another three fucking days goes by. And I'm like, now I'm getting in my own head.

Because I don't know who. The movie premiere is about to, you know. Bro, it's by fire. Luckily, my buddy Josh got me his. I was like, thank God. But no, because I didn't know chef. I didn't know Sherm. I knew who Will was because of barstone will i didn't know will and i didn't know this jeremy guy and i'm just like fuck dude like i don't know if they liked it i'm sitting there like twitching like they fucking hate this shit and so clump comes back and's like yo that's sick um we want you to cut three more clips and he goes i know you're least this is thursday he goes i dude so we had a conversation about it but he's like i need

you to cut these clips i know you're leaving for the beach saturday morning at eight a ms i was going to myrtle beach out of south carolina and he goes i want you to the world I have the worst record of minigolf there, but I've played all the courses. It's great. I was like, yo bro, like, yeah,

he's like, I want you to cut a clip for Will's Instagram, cut a clip for Shirm's Instagram, and cut a clip for the dad's Instagram. He's like, you'll be running or cutting clips for all of them. Haven't fucking done it yet, Jeff.

We don't even do it. I still remember Clump, tell me that. I was like, clump, we put every, like we don't specify for people's accounts. I was like,

we're just going to make him do it. I was like, all right. shit. Well, I did like longest like to get in it so stayed up till about two in the morning cutting them because there was a glitch error because I downloaded the YouTube video and it kept fucking up did that send it in just insane anyways like yeah just

download it from you bro I'm like that's the link is crazy yeah he I mean get there I'm at the beach my family's yeah if you're clump fuck and uh my whole family's like all right so you're like auditioning for a podcast and they knew I did my whole thing but it was never serious up until now like it was never a job So Clump calls me. He's like, hey, bro, can you cut clips today? Or no, can you put together a social strategy? And I was like, yeah, I do that in my sleep. Cranked it out in like two hours on the beach with my fiancé with margaritas, which was great.

Day goes by, send it. Next morning, 835, I'm on the golf course. Hey, man, can you talk soon from Clump? Yeah, bro, like, just let me know I'm golfing, but I got you. This motherfucker don't text me back until the next day at like 10. Bro, I'm like, I'm sitting, I'm like, hey guys, can you make sure, yeah, my phone's plugged in. Thank you. I'm supposed to get a call.

I was on like the, hey, dad, don't use the phone. My friends are going to call and I have Ethernet. Like, that's literally where we were. And so then the next, he's like, yeah, dude, we want you to come in. Like, yeah, you're getting it. And I talked to Clump eventually about it because my first day was Breka. So my interview day was when you, Breka was, and there's just moving parts. And I'm like dodging balls getting thrown and like shit, fuck.

And so I get in there and Clump comes in. The strategy went well. I walked will through it. Like same as if I was doing it for one of the bank clients we had back in the day. And I find out later that week that Clump's like, oh, no, that was like an insane ask. He's like, you hit every checkmark. He's like, you'll never have a day hard as that interview process at Boston. Can I add to?

Yes, please. He's missing a big point. He came in at like one o'clock in the afternoon. Breka, Breka went. for some reason we had like oh it was a big recording day so he gets there we asked him to get there at one we sit down me shirm and clump we're having a great time talking to him we're like well we'll should be done will should be done really really quick like any minute now two and a half hours go by and they just finish up that which is like unforeseen circumstance and will's in like you can tell will just

had a long day when they do these big recording days for people that don't know it's like you just go and go and go yeah so will says down and I can see the look on his face where he's like in that mode where it's like don't talk to me no yeah kind of like a no bullshit mode Derek handled himself really fucking well because I know in that spot I remember my first day as an intern I was very fucking nervous and I think that would have definitely thrown me for a loop but like insane circumstances that he went through very impressive this might have been another time but did you have to be somewhere like get on the road that day not that day there was the other day so we had that day

where I told them I had nothing that day. So me, Chef and Shirm literally sat there and we watched all of my old ads on my portfolio. Like there's a brewery in town called Black Abbey and I did this ad called the patron saints. It's my favorite thing I've ever done. But it's all like when you go to the bar, like the girls are best friends in the bathroom.

There's a patron saint of the bathroom bestie. Like all this, so we watched all that. We watched old serve pro ad, shit like that. And so then Will comes in and I did ask, I asked Chef and Sherman like, yo, is Will? Because I have this persona of Will of his bar still days, booze ponies, like all that shit. I'm like, is he always a little cold?

And they're like, it's a little bit of a test, but it was a long day. And so cool. The next time I came in was for a recording and I brought my buddy RJ. So that was when I was like, oh, we kind of got to go. And RJ just sat in the room the whole day. And I was like, how was your day, RJ? And he's like, they're all really cool guys. I just watched TV and smoked.

And I was like, oh, cool, man. So if you noticed him going outside and coming back in, shout out my boy RJ. But no, it was just, it was funny for that. And then coming in and just like, yeah, I mean, everyone's obviously been, been right for but it's so funny and you're right it does feel like it's been a year already which is great i love it just did you talking through your hiring process reminded me of mine and like how i would truly thought you're getting punked yes i know i'm you know like i got a text from will i'm like is like it's this mitch carsey i'm like yeah he's like it's like it's will compton and i'm

like bullshit well i'll just sitting next to will we just fit thinking the photo like yeah say this say this. And I looked up the area code. I'm like, it's from Missouri. I know Will's from Missouri. And he said, it's Will Compton. Picture for reference. And it's like, it's his LinkedIn photo from his, like his senior year of college.

And I'm like, this is. Yeah. It was like, like this is, like, I literally went home like, yeah, I think Will Compton texted me, but I don't know. But then so like how you said you were waiting for a couple days, I was waiting for like two or three weeks. And I'm, and I

was bombarding JP with emails. Will texted you versus Clum text. Yeah. There was at least days of club. Will's a week. Clumps was intentional. Do you think Will's was intentional?

Wait now or? Like what? He made you wait that long? No, it was from, it was more so from you and Will. Yeah. But you guys were also just at Green Bay. Right. And like when I think you may have gone somewhere else.

I think so. And yeah. And there was like another person in the interview process too. And essentially it was just Will and I kind of trying to do it while also doing and other stuff. Like also having a shit ton of stuff to do. Campaining. But yeah, I was like, I think I've sent JP like 10 emails.

Like, hey. Yeah, I wish I had something more for you. At that time, I bet was about the sizes of how many people we have in this room. No, it was us three. And Blas. And Bloss. But like even Bloss was kind of like there sometimes. It's literally just a three of you.

Blas. That's crazy. It's part time. And then Will and Taylor. I mean, when you walked in and just saw us. I know we've talked about many times but sitting at the desk the same table

I was like in the bus working Do we even have this side yet? No no this was still rocket around We still had the bus right He actually sat at the desk In the back the bus to work And we shared this table Damn

The come up's crazy Yeah we dude it was I literally walked And Mitch was on the end of this day Like yeah it was it was two It was two tables like that back to back And then like it was like a tea Yeah I had the the tea And like we worked by that bathroom

in the back on the other side and if one of you one of us had a bad poop everybody was smelling it like it was we were in the trench you should change no for real but yeah when i walked back there was like oh it's basically sounds like everyone's hiring process was interesting it's unconventional was the job yeah i was long as crap i had to make a make a vlog out of some clips they sent me while i was like also trying to yeah legit make rent and i was in florida my first day i had to upload a episode from my laptop in Florida. The episode was late. Will blast me on Twitter. It was crazy.

JP's first day in office was Dave Portnoy's episode. Yeah. Our first time having Dave. Oh my God. The kid at South Carolina when I was talking to one the classes they asked like how to like face failure and I told them I was like well kind of at my job

when you mess up it gets blasted out to everybody so you have to do it head on and I use that example of them of Will being Like we just hired somebody, but apparently he can't get the episode out on time. So, like, everybody let at J. Hovey 34 know. And I was like, so basically, I guess the best way to face it is to bring back bullying. And that got a few laughs, but, you know, college is different nowadays.

P.C. shit, man. We can change that with this campaign. We can. That's why we're here. Come on down to cocky land. Speaking of campaigns, you and Koup have been on a campaign. It started a little bit of a seed campaign. I like Kube taking a bit.

Yeah. go ahead coo i mean i don't i don't remember how they noticed that do we want to say the the name yeah yeah what about when we get this start well it the journey of yeah tell it from the beginning i feel like so i guess midway through this year i just started cracking seeds at work like every day just doing it and i posted a tweet about it like whatever david's the standard sunflower seed brand and i like tweeted like i found my people because someone else tweeted about it and that was like mid year and then you get here you like seeds and we're just to just like cracking them and then we clump wanted to order uh smack in a sunflower seed brand that

they do a lot of promotion on tic talk maybe you've seen them but they have a lot of flavors so we just ordered a ton like a bucket full of them and so me and derrick started ranking them on the wall and i posted the picture on twitter and then like a week or two later of the posted rankings they reached out like to my tweet directly i think yeah oh yeah they commented right underneath it they commented on our rankings and then you know back and forth and dm a little bit and then and they sent us a care package. Yep. And so we got that and we have a video that we will be releasing soon, a reaction to them, which is fun.

It's in, it's in, it's in, it's in Coup's computer. So we'll get it out. And the ball's in my court. But you're skipping too. It's funny. We, uh, so I started to take a little bit over the streams and we're sitting at that table. And it's me, Jared, chef, and then, uh, coop on the left side. And we are all like sharing two bags of Davids, which, uh, or no, of a Biggs.

And two bags. Bro. Might have not been enough for a stream. It's a full-on dugout over there. Chipmucks, bro.

We're sitting behind the table like we're at the ballpark. Rippin. And so we started on Davids and then I was like, yo, may I put you on? And we switched to Biggs,

which is Hidden Valley. And so we're ripping them. And Jared is like at the computer, Coup, chef, me. And he just goes, y'all know you can buy your own individual bags, right? He's just like,

fuck this guy. He's not a seed boy. So we started doing that. and then Chinook reached out and sent us a little care package. Yeah, Chinook reached out too. It's become a, and that's the one thing I'll say. Like, if I have a gift of like content shit, sniff out opportunity like that. Like this is a thing that we're going to go with forever.

It happens so fast too. Chinook, Chinook. Special shout out to Chinook as well because they're a partner with, we don't have a lot of baseball fans here. Some of y'all might know who is Bobby Whit Jr. One of the best players in baseball. And they sent a signed baseball of Bobby Wood Jr. Because he's partnered with them, which I thought was like a really cool.

I said, hold on. Yeah. Bro, it's at his desk. It's on my desk. Bobby Witt signed baseball. He plays for the Rangers? He, uh,

the Royals. Oh, the Royals. Was he the guy that made that diving catch when we went to the St. Louis game? Yeah. That's why I know that name. He's one of the best.

Baller. Baller. Shortstop. Shortstop. Fun fact, he also went to the same high school as Max Crosby. Oh. So.

More is required. Yeah. But seed boys is strong. He went home. I stole that from. He didn't go to college of play. Oh. He,

He went to the same high school, Collieville and D.FW. We had a car ride. My buddy that does like events in Pittsburgh, we were going to Philly to do one of his. He did this hotel event for the Kifton hotels. And so it was called Clocked Out and we took it to the Philly one. And we had me, his videographer, another guy that was just rolling with us, and then the DJ all in a sprinter van. I bought six bags of seeds. And me and the DJ pound through him on the way there.

My one buddy was like, just a couple seed boys, chipmunks in the back. And so Seed Boys has stuck with me for, like, love them and just sit there and do it. And the tweet that Coops talked about that started it said, don't let anyone tell you that you can't just rip a bag of sunflower seeds at work. And it's like, yeah. And I was in the middle of ripping a bag of sunflower seeds at work. Have a lot of sense. You know who else has been really ripping through bags? You know who else has been really ripping through him as of late?

That boy, J.P. I haven't seen him. Oh, yeah. Chinooks is, but we would not have been a, yeah. Chinooks is my favorite. I thought you were ready to say G because G brought some of the. Like everyone is on it. You brought some to the zoo. I spit some.

Yeah, I did. Last night I had some at the zoo. I was cracking some. I love that we're saying cracking too. I was cracking some on my drive to South Carolina on Friday. Yeah, he was like, I brought some seeds for you because they all got the Chinook ones. Oh, yeah. That was the first thing you said, though, because I remember we went to, it was Taylor was doing it too,

because we bought the Bigs and Taylor ran through one of my bags. And I was like, yeah, you know, is what it is. What's that? You can't bring like just one portion of something. It'll be gone. Yeah. It's a mascot. Oh,

let's go. What a big dog? I didn't know they lived that long. That's, yeah, that's a nice, there's a hole up there. He had ripped through,

not to like put it at the hole. It could have come from the hole. He ripped through a bag or whatever. And I basically stopped at a Buckees. And I was like, let me see what flavors they have there. And they had Chinook. And so I bought a couple of them.

And I just was like, I'm not bringing these in. Yeah. I bought like lemon pepper. didn't love it. Yeah. And I, come in and we're like, yo bigs and J.P.

If you guys ever heard of Chinook? And I'm like, fuck, that could have been such a bonding moment with JP. Fuck. But we got Chinook and you got your bag. Halapeno Ranch. Halapeno Ranch. Another funny story about the seeds is I went to the dentist a few weeks ago. Yes.

And she, after she cleaned my teeth, the hygienist or whatever, she's like, do you, I thought this was a wild question. She's like, do you like dip or do those Zen pouches? I'm like, no, I don't. She's like, well, the tissue like in your cheek. on the left side of your mouth is like white and kind of like rub like it's like it's been you know like it's it's distressed I'm like oh she's like so you don't she's like you she's like you don't do what you talk about but she's like she's like question

me and I'm like could it be from sunflower seeds and she's like yeah it could the salt and the sodium I was like I was like yeah well I just basically rip seeds from 9 a.m. I'm 9 to 5. So 9 to 5 seed ripper every day. What she's saying about that? You have to change your bio. She's like, she's like, I've never seen that. She's like, I've never seen that before.

Like that is so interesting. And then she's like, oh, I'm glad like, I'm glad it seeds and not tobacco. I'm like, you're not my mom also. But then I followed up and I was like, also, is this going to be like a problem though? And she's like maybe like super long term, but like there's no gum damage. I'm like, all right, I'm going to keep ripping seeds. I was like, maybe. It would be a problem?

Maybe I'll switch sides. Do you guys put your seeds on the same side every time? Every time. You got to mix it out. I've had to switch. I tried to switch while I was driving. Bro, it was a disaster.

That's what I'm saying. That's why you probably have white. Not there yet. I feel I mean, you'll get there. Playing baseball and ripping seeds all the time. I mean, you just kind of get used to doing.

Well, the best part about baseball is they'd have the bucket in the dugout. I would just get a handful, put them in my back pocket. So you guys would have like a full bucket of just seeing. One of the, yeah, one of the dads.

I didn't. Key base. Yeah, it's just the bucket that we have down there but you empty all that. But they're just, I mean,

those are just OG flage, like salt, salt seeds. Brother, we got fucking cheeseburger now. We got loaded nachos. Yeah.

They sent us a shit done of cheeseburger. Basically, if you want to send Kup and Derek more seeds, that would be amazing. We've looked up some brands. Maybe.

Is there anybody that you're, I mean, Biggs is the one, but they don't got an X account. They got an Instagram. David's, like, like,

my thing with David, That's the one that will destroy everything in your mouth. That salt is intense on the... They can, you know, no disrespect. David's. Yeah, and that's what I was doing before we started this. You're an animal for that. I had to get you up.

Yeah, that's what I was doing before us. The hardcore seat. Bro, Chinook and... Smacking. They are both low... So they're low sodium big... My big issue with David's, they're a little tiny fucking seeds. Like, Dave, they got comfortable at the top of a market

that really has now started to catch up to them. And we're in. We're scratching the surface right. Because David, they got little tiny seeds. All the other ones. I'm a big smacking. Specifically,

backyard barbecue. That thing is, that was almost my dinner last night. The garlic parm. I mean, yeah. You're sleeping on the cinnamon or. No.

Cinnamon chero? We've had discussion. Maple brown sugar is elite. I'm a sweet boy. That's true. He hasn't been cinnamon chiro. I've been on the pepper. I literally just,

It's like I'm shoving pepper into my mouth. Like raw pepper. It's a crazy. Salt to pepper. Maybe I guess that. I mean, we all have our side quest. I don't know if it's a joint side quest for the both of you. Just more seeds.

Right. When I heard you guys talking about side quests, I do have questions. Is it one that you're like promising you're doing or is more just kind of like a thing? Because I do think making that official sick. It's kind of like your side content. Like my side content is flag, uh, golf. Mine's painting. I have done nothing about it.

But I can feel it. My bones, man. My mom is a painter. You just made a sale for her. Two tails. Make it to midnight for him and then we need to get coop to start doing some streaming stuff. And I just have not been on the game as much.

I say that. I've been saying that for like a moment. I would like to get back on the game. Get my hand muscles warm back up before cock. It's almost gaming season. The winter, like, it's a little colder. I feel like gaming. I feel like gaming season is one.

football's over. I don't know if I downloaded skate wrong. I saw on my marketplace or my friends list it was like like Gary like downloaded it and I was like damn he downloaded it but I never saw you actually in I went in and it was like the trial or some shit yeah it's an early access that's what it is oh skate made me so mad because of it skate I literally made my guy and just rode for like five minutes was probably you're probably on I see aerial island you're casual yeah yeah you have to like challenges tight takes you like fit 15, 20 minutes to get off. Which is, one of my grives with skate is the, probably the best place to skate in that game is Tutorial Island.

And you cannot access it. You can't go back? No, but there's a whole city with like four different sectors in it. It's four different like cities within a major city. Got you. Anything that's a free game and you have that much to do in it, I'm all on it. And I think I mentioned this in a couple episodes ago. But just to feel something for a video game at my old age of about to be 31, that is.

such a massive win. I just like crave that like man when I get home I'm going to make dinner and I'm going to play that game until I go to sleep and it does not happen a lot anymore so I'm... I've not played this week so I'm nervous and we're like hitting the... That's how I'm going to play tonight. What's the first game you felt that with?

Call it 4. Oh shit. Yeah yeah. Call it 4 was a 7th grade for me yeah modern warfare it just changed my life with video games and it also was a really big moment and how to share things. I had two younger brothers. So at the top of the pecking order,

it's like obviously I'm playing first. But then once the younger brothers start aging and they're like going to mom while I'm like, you know, on an epic kill streak, mom's coming in. She's like, after this game, James is up. And I'm like, fine. And then she's like, and then Joey's up.

And I'm like, okay, this is too far. You're going to get cold. Yeah, I'm going to get cold. But yeah, call 304 is a big one for me. I want to go back kind of into your life. Outside of seeds and working. What is, what is Derek like? to do. Yeah. Well, I'm very curious as myself and I know the listener is too. Yeah, I mean,

genuinely, it's funny because I feel a little bit lost from it. Like the things that I've done in my life, the number one thing is I have had, which we did, I'm not ever going to say we stopped. We pause doing it. For the last seven, six or seven years, every Thursday from six to eight, I have done a live stream podcast called Two Beers Deep. And I stopped it to emphasize on our streams, but also just like, hold on, I need to focus on this to hit it. So love, podcasting. Like that is my highlight favorite thing ever. I have, I believe it's at 85 and 85, uh, ranking of a brewery system. So beer is always been a part of my life like in terms of just being around the bar scene. I worked in a restaurant. I grew up with breweries that's social

for breweries. So I have a list and it's all across the country. So from Hawaii. Hey, it's us to Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there.

But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes.

I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart Podcast presents soccer moms. So I'm Leanne. This is my best friend, Janet. Hey. And we have been joined at the hip. Hipsons High School. Absolutely.

Now a redacted amount of years later. We're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drinks. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer?

Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white collar or something here? Just hit it. Oh, what are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would.

Come on. I would buy it. Cuts through the deep. That's like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic.

You are. I'm lucky I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, fam? This Isaiah Thomas. And I'm CJ Toledano, and our podcast, Pointeatio.

game is about defining the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reed. He has to guard Julius Rand. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He run up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball.

Like, you go through a training camp with that Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Seattle, some in Philly, some obviously a ton in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, like all of these. So ranking breweries, I have my own system. It's crazy. I have a spreadsheet. Can you, do you have a power ranking of just Nashville-related breweries? Because I'd love to hear that. Breweries for me, I'm up and down. Chef's a day one, yeah. Because I love it just like a domestic light beer. And obviously breweries, you're not going to have just like, you know, a cord,

bud light. You're not going to mud light. I know, Taylor, I know you're listening. It's a bud light. I used to work at one, one, I used to work at a beer distributor. So I've got it really big into IPAs. And then two, I used to work on a TV show that would go to different breweries. So that got me big into it. So I'm a big IPA guy. It's funny. Almost.

Bud Light guy. Yeah, but Lipa. And it is this big like, crazy part. So to that point, you're like, okay, I like light beer. I don't really know if a brewery, I would do like breweries. 100%. But I would say you have to, and obviously you're going to know about it, have to. go to Smith and Lentz.

Yeah. So Pilsner is one of the reasons. So, for example, like, you can see the best in Nashville. I would agree. But you can see, like, how crazy. And the scoring system. It's on an XL. Bro.

And it's all filtered. This is a no-tap, guys. Derek's manifest. And I'll share it out. I give the link to everybody. It's beer, space, food scene people. It's the model. Beer is pretty standard.

It's, it's, do you hit all the flip. Like, for example, Beard it, or Black Abbey in Nashville just does their beers. They don't really do specials. They do some collabs here and there. They did one called dancing, mannequin that was good. But like, how good is the beer that you do? Do you have all the flavors? Is your red ale or red ale? Do you experiment? Do you try some shit? Space is the place that you're in. Do you just do it well? There's some breweries that this would be the whole area. Okay, cool.

Is it set up well? Do I feel comfortable in it? Is it a sick venue? Food scene? Can I bring food? Are there food trucks? Do you serve food? Because not all breweries need to have. Smith and Lent's pizza puts them, right now Smith & Lentz is my third top brewery on this entire list. And then people. People is the people that work there, the people that are there, the people that sit at the bar, the community around it, how close are you to it? If there's somebody at the bar, that's just being a jerk to people, your people score goes down, which I know is not the breweries fault,

but like that's what you're attracted and shit. So the top ones I have from Tennessee, Smith and Lentz right now is third. They come in at a total score of 16.5 out of 20, which the highest is 17.6. I like the 20 scale rate. Yeah, it's good. Because each one, 510, 15, 20 on it.

Fate LaForce, have you heard of that? that. Fate LaForce is, it's fucking gas first and foremost. It's in Wedgwood, Houston. So,

so do you know when you come to those train tracks and you make it right and there's never, never, never, make a left, you go past that

apartment building, go up the hill. Wait, is it the place where that sandwich spot is? It's at the top of the hill

by Elforno. Yeah. It is the brewery next to Elforn. I have been there. That place is a vibe. I thought it was called iron something.

No. Fate LaForce, but there is probably there's something there. Yeah. Fala Force opened about two years ago I'm just gonna pause you

When I went to grab Jack I just got skin to skin I heard a noise and I wasn't Phala Force is sick They do a cold ship IPA Which is one of the few places I found here Really good They do Star Wars Day every year

Just a total vibe The people are awesome Love going there When they had the Kraft Brew Convention in town I bumed tickets off my buddy Who makes a can drink in PA And they had a bunch of parties

And that was at one of them Which was unbelievable I'm trying to get in this Dude it's my favorite It's bearded Iris is sitting here at 11. Homestyle is the greatest beer I think that I've had. That is my favorite IPA without a doubt. And it's so crazy because it is an IPA but it's an ale but it's not quite an ale.

It's juicy but it's hazy. Every time someone comes in I hand them one of those and right now bearded iris they're at a 15.8 Which is great. Do you have a Southern Grist on there? I do. Southern Grist. The reason they are not higher. So they're 18th right now and chef and I talked about this.

I have not accounted the ranking for the restaurant in east and that restaurant smacks. I know it does. I just have not updated but they're right next to me and Garrett as well. My issue with them is

and it's not an issue with them but they just they knock hazies out of the park. Hazes are a fad and if that's all you're doing I just want to see but they do have some sick ass beer over there. And then another one, tenfold if you guys have ever heard of tenfold. It is out.

I forget the name of the area just a little bit outside of town. There's like a party foul out there. They do gluten-free pizza. So my fiance is gluten-free. amazing. They just hit all of their beers to a beautiful point. They have a stage outside. Every time you go there's dogs running around. Donaldson?

Donaldson. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So that one rips. And it just dude, I mean, Barique brewing, if you've ever heard of that. Barique brewing is next to, so Titan Stadium and all that industrial park before you get to the Knights Inn. It's in one of those loading docks. And I literally, yeah, that's where a little Harpeth used to be. Dude, so I pulled up and it's just loading dock. shit everywhere and then a wooden door

that looks like I'm going to fucking Narnia and you go in it's hole in the wall they're the only place here that does cast brew it. So they brew the beer

they put it into an oak cast or a whiskey cask. Sorry Mitch. No, I thought the same exact way. I know what does that mean? To go back into it, if you go in, they just have barrel

like oak cask barrels everywhere. And what happens is Black Abbey had this for a little bit Jameson will note their barrels how many rotations they do and then they ship

those barrels to a specific number of breweries. So Black Ebby for a while was a Jamison partner and you make the beer and then age it in that. They age their beers and they do a good job

with like cherry tart sours and things but they do cask beers and so they'll let it age in the cask and sit there. It just deepens the flavor. It's just sick. It makes it different. This is so sick.

What about I'm thinking the jackalope is near us? Yeah. Monday night. Yeah, Monday night. So. I'm just going to say I'm like Monday night's right now.

I want to know number one. There's one in, oh, I'm thinking of fat bottom. I'm trying to think of another. I'm getting antsy for number one. So to go through. What's the one under the bridge with hippies in California? Has he? Tennessee Brewers.

Tennessee Brewers. So to go through, which I can't, I don't know why I can't filter. What was number one again? Number one in Tennessee is Smith and Lentz. I'll talk about one and two because they're there. Number one in Tennessee. I'm so sorry. Number one in Tennessee.

One and two are from Pennsylvania. Oh, hell yeah. I'm so sorry. In the country. In the country. Man, that feels good. Are you, is this, are these two, how many have you been in Pennsylvania? Oh, gosh.

So in PA, it's more Western PA. It's all Pittsburgh. There's, uh, so I have Sockony brewing out towards you a little bit, but that's more Poconos. There's Pocono's brewing in here. Uh, I have, there's a couple in Philly and I'll tell you flat out, dude, it's not their fault. Forrest in Maine is one on here.

I went during COVID. So it doesn't, there have a low score due to space and food. Yeah. Because we just got to go. Um, talk about some of the other Tennessee ones in here at Marble Fox, if you guys have ever heard of Marble Fox. They took over for Jackalope in the Gulch. So they're across from Finn and McDougals. Yeah, McDougals and like that, two hands. Yeah. They do a really good IPA. I never see anybody in there.

I used to go in because I'd go to that scouts, paying for parking sucks. So I'd park at the brewery, get free parking for a beer, walk over to my haircut and go home. Do you have Zul? What's it called, Chef, the one that Knox, Zool? Do you have Zul on there? No, and I know Zool just bought Southern Grist. Yeah, they bought Southern Grist. I have not, because Southern Gris hasn't changed technically to what they are. But like East Nashville Brew, Crazy Nome is a sick one in East. They just got a brand new spot. Have you been?

No. Okay, I was worried that they went out of business because it's not there anymore. A barbecue place moved in. Yep. It smells incredible. Do you know Sinkers, the distributor over there? So there's a covered bridge, and if you go through it, you get the sinkers. You make a left before it.

Crazy Nome bought a large. large space out there. So I used to know one of the bartenders who was... Yeah, right off Gallatin. Super sick. The old El Fuego. Yeah. Like right that bridge.

He's so tapped in. I will say, hold on. I do have, I do have... I actually feel like I'm learning a lot. Yeah. Southern Hop in Merle's Inlet, South Carolina is 38th on the list right now.

Is a shit show. Have you been to any in Birmingham, Alabama? I have not been to any. They've got a couple. They've got a couple down there, like Avondale. good people. I got,

yeah, good people, good people is a good brewery. I've never been. No, I have Seattle, Oklahoma City.

I have Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philly, Savannah, Georgia was a good little spot. Which you got in? Yeah, which one in OKC? OKC,

I have prairie artesian ales. I have lively brewing, and then one of my favorite ones is Stone Cloud. Okay, Stone Cloud's big. Stone Cloud is sixth on my overall list.

They put a stone cloud in Stillwater. It's so sick. They put one in Stillwater. right after I graduated. Bro, that rips. Angry Scotsman rips. Ola Brew in Hawaii and Calo Okaona rips.

Is that right? Kona Big Wave? So I've, no, so Kona. That's actually anizer bush. Is it? Yeah. That's the one, dude. We need some of those.

Kona's pizza rips. Hey, A.B. Yeah. A.B. If you want us to push a beer. Kona Big Wave. Also went to one in Texas and wax a hatch. Kona slaps.

I will say the two that are at the top of this list are if anybody knows me not a shock they're both in pittsburgh so extremely biased but here's kind of what i've been forcing clump to do when we go for the draft i'm forcing him to let everyone go i have no idea if we can make that happen and i'm forcing him to let us all stay there for a week for me to show you guys around probably not going to happen where's that's a pittsburg for the draft oh hell yeah it's going to be amazing uh number two on the list in the country is a brewery called trace brewing uh trace brewing is done by a gentleman he used to his name's adam soorme he's their head of like

their marketing. He drove a minibus around forever and just gave people tokens and like to different breweries. It's awesome. And then Cinderlands brewing in Pittsburgh is my number one in the country. They have a crunch wrap Supreme two story. They used to be called a spaghetti factory. They gutted it. Yard games downstairs, balcony upstairs. It rips. Have you, have you ever made your own beer? Yeah, man. I have the kid at home. I bought it for my agency. We had this thing called Conviction Days, which is if you're convicted for something, you get PTO to go. it. I went and bought it all. I missed timed this past Christmas. I missed time when I was leaving to go home.

Really? Convicted days. Conviction days. Conviction. You're convicted about something conviction. So, what does that mean? You have more to tell us? It means that you feel really strongly about it, right? What would be an example for me? I thought I was like convicted of that fucking line of it. Cocculent. You didn't go to. Nah, the conviction is like you're doing, conviction is a strong feeling about something. I'm convicted to come in here and do the best work I can do.

It's a driving force. I'm going to do everything I can. Not convict. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like a con and young Jeezy. I'm learning so much. Yeah. I have brew beer, though.

Yes, I brewed it. Fucked up my whole apartment. Smelled like malt for like six months. It was this past Christmas. Messed up when I was driving home by a week. So it wouldn't have been ready. And if I would have left it, it would have gone bad. Poured it out.

It was the best smelling beer I've ever poured out. But I have the kit. I tried to make one in color. college and what is it like before the last two weeks you put yeast in didn't do that went to go check on it

after the two weeks and there was like this layer of shit at the bottom was like oh okay maybe that just like happens or whatever drank it drank it and got so so sick and like insanely buzzed

that's bacteria it was it was insane I just remember being like, oh my God, I'm going to pass out. I woke up and was like, that couldn't have been good for me at all. And then looked it up and yeah, I was like, oh, missed probably the most important. So were you just like throwing up and stuff? I mean, I like felt sick.

It was more of just like a hot, like flashing like a hard buzz like just in my head. Yeah. And truly just laid down and then woke up like a couple hours later. Damn. Did you meet Shannon yesterday or at the girl that I, I don't know. No, no. I only got to say hi to you for a second because I was with the niece and nephew and they pulled us in.

She's originally from PA and they live in Philly, but her brother's a brewmaster in a small place. What's it called? Where in PA is she from? Bethlehem. Yeah. It's in Fishtown. Yeah. That's like the humble parlor.

But I don't know. She said it's a small one. Nice. That's in Philly, right? Fish Town. It's kind of like in a, it's like northern. It's kind of. near like the drug area.

Also some breaking news, so to say, first time. I asked Shane to be my girlfriend on Saturday. No. At the zoo. Let's go. Let's go. Side quest. Yeah, that honestly kind of is my side quest.

I did say the beginning of the year of getting married. I don't know if that's going to happen before December. It's on you. I felt very confident about it. I took Shannon down to Huntsville for a Billy Strings concert. It was her first. time she's been enjoying the music she knows how much I love it and she was like jokingly in the first few weeks that we had kind of been seeing each other she was

like I'm not saying like you're going to ask me to be your girlfriend but if the time ever comes she's like I don't want it to be some grand gesture and so we're sitting there Billy is playing like a very beautiful love ballad and like I have my arm around her and it's like the whole place lit up red I'm like this would be an ideal moment to whisper be like do you want to be my girlfriend but I'm remembering she didn't want that even though in my my head, like, I feel like she still would have, so I don't. But we're sitting outside the show afterwards.

The Orion Amphitheater is an amazing venue. If you ever have the opportunity to go, I would highly encourage it. After the show's done outside of the venue, they have, like, essentially, like, a small space where a band plays, and they have, like, their serving beer and stuff for, like, a few hours. We're kind of sitting on this staircase behind it. And I, they're playing Cortez the Killer, an awesome Neil Young song. one of my favorites ever. And I'm just like feeling this moment.

I'm like having so much fun. Like she's just never been an issue with me. And I go, man, like we're sitting on 10 stairs. I go, this would be, she watched me play skate a lot. I go, this would be an awesome 10 set to hit on skate. And she laughs and I just go, do you want to be my girlfriend? And she literally was like, no fucking way. You just did that.

And then like, she was like, well, yeah. But like, and then, you know, it was fun. That's awesome. But there's a good story. Because if she didn't laugh with the 10 step or didn't understand it, it's like, then you got your name. You don't ask. Let's get out of here. I'm glad you asked though, because when I met my fiancee, we had that thing of like, I did ask her.

And I have other friends who the guy was like, dude, you asked her. And the girl was like, yeah, you haven't fucking asked me. And what are we doing? So I'm glad that you asked. Because I feel like that's always a conversation of people who was like, does it just happen? Or do you? I like the moment. Yeah.

I'm with you. And I guess we are. doing relationship advice. I'm not one to be giving it, but very grateful to have met Shane. She's awesome. She's so she. Yeah, she's dope figure. She's just I you guys know me and have know me for a while. I'm like, I can fluctuate with my moods. She keeps me very in the middle, which is great. And like on her worst days is like how I could operate on like my just like normal days. So it's nice to have like a good just like person around. So yeah, I don't know why I kind of dove down the travel but the next time y'all

me, she loves beer like her brother, she did graphic design and so before she was really working, she was designing beer labels for her brother's like brewery, which is super cool. That's the dream. And so I know that he's got that and you know kind of the same general location. I know the pirates are

you know, it's not that movie. Hey, you're good man. My bad. I give no digs to anybody that's like, oh, you're from PA. You must love Joelle and B. I'm like, other side, it's like six hours that. way but no that's sick that I have a question yeah are you going up there for Christmas probably not because Jimmy is coming from Hawaii and coming back here so that's like a tough one her parents don't live there anymore her parents are retired now and live

forget some retirement kind of community in Florida four Myers somewhere yeah let's say because I was the reason I asked is like one we could link up in PA yeah if we do to caroling. Yeah, if we do, possibly. I would like to go up and check out her brothers, like brewery and stuff at some point. That's sick. So we'll see how it goes.

But yeah, next time we're all hanging around, she would love to hear and see more scale. Because that's not what I expected you to say was your hobby. Right. And, dude, I feel like I'm just learning today. Yeah.

There are other hobbies, but that's the one that, like, I made a fucking spreadsheet for. Yeah. That's sick, though. Wait, so if you had to go one v one. Yeah. Seeds versus beer. Ooh.

It's not close. It's beer. And the reason, well, said. It's not. Like, I love, here's how I'll word it. If I can sit on my desk and drink as many beers as I have seeds and still have my job, that would be the dream too. No, beer is, it's funny. It's like when I was doing Thoughts in the Bench stuff, me and my co-hosts on our podcast,

Two Bears Deep. We say it because you're at your best when you're two beers deep. You can stop drinking and still get home and be fine, have a good night. Or that's the peak when you have the third one and the night keeps going. Like two is the perfect number. And so we started doing that because during our pre-pro, we'd have two beers out of the six-pack and then have some more there. But we did vlogs of it, going to breweries.

And it's just, it's a different thing because it's all encompassing. Like, if we get to go tour a seedery, that would be sick. But I just touring the breweries and meeting the people and the stories. And like her brother, like, I have one of my best friends, went to college with a guy who got kicked out of his fraternity, who moved to Denver and opened up a brewery. And he's just sent me merch, just because we've DMed. And been like, hey, this is sick. He's had a new one now and I can remember the name of it.

But it's just like a weird, thickest thieves community that I feel like I'm just like a reporter on the outside of it. Just a beat writer for beer. Yeah, dude. Just a beat writer for beer. I remember when, uh, we need a beer boys. Like craft beer popped off and the labels are what drew me in first. The labels are sick. And I'm not on my phone.

I have a blog that I would love from back in the day to show you guys. Do you have off the top of your head, like your top three beer canned? design. While you think, we're also out of hour 10 minutes on the podcast, so just keep that in mind. Yeah, how are we at a battery with those? Well, that's looking too. The reason I ask is because I've always thought like the Voodoo Ranger ones are sick. Yeah, coming out with a new IPA.

Really? Fruit or like a tropical IPA. The logos or the way the can looked is how I would pick. I would just like, oh, that one looks cool. I'm going to try it. I feel like I got dup by that a lot, though. For sure. 22 years 100% this is awesome like it does taste like shit what's the monkey one the milky one monkey

magic is it magic oh there's um they have golden monkey and sour monkey yeah those are great i i am a sucker that one's that one's uh brewed by me monkey got me too yeah golden monkey's crazy that's that one's brood in damningtown people yes the key of can that i actually kept and i'm not even big beer drinker but the can look so sick dude it is there's one called lacto cooler there's a brewery called voodoo not voodoo ranger but voodoo that i interviewed the their graphic designer just one day for our pod. And it is the, I can't remember, it's a slimer from Goosebump, and they have it on the can, and it's holographic on the can.

I'll get them to send something like that. Yeah, I thought it was cool because obviously it, I feel like within the crap beer community is a bunch of people that have, like, artistic ability. Crazy, dude. And so for them to get to show it on a beer can, it's so sick. They're tattoo artists without a needle at this point. Like most beer guys want to be tattoo artists is how I've always met. And the other thing about it, we used to go for,

like Abby when we did their marketing and just look at turn up truck and look at the cans and just see shit. And I'm like, well, ours aren't selling because there's sticker and you can see the sticker and it looks weird compared to these cans that are all matted. Then you got like and you're looking, there's just so much intricacies to it. And it all comes down to the weight of it, the amount of money. Are you going to store it all? Like all these logistical things that luckily that's why I'm a fan of it, not a part of it. It's because it's crazy. But it's sick. Yeah. A lot of cans that are. Dude, I know we've talked about doing an inside the bus vlog for golf. Weather's kind of turning a little bit. Who knows?

potentially we could do a little brewery crawl bring the fucking leader of the pack with us take us to his top in Nashville and go from there. We'll rent one of those brew hop, the green trolley buses and just go around and I'll die on the way home

and still be a happy man. That would be fun. That would be dope. I have a blog here that I read for clump one day that is titled Top Ten Beers to Have that I would love to get your guys opinion on. This is from I believe 2020. So I'll go fast on it.

I wrote a scenario where I was just like, these are my top 10 favorite beers. 10. The first family member beer. Nothing quite hits like the first time your cousin or family member offers you a beer for the first time legally. Of course. I love that. I love that.

Nine. The oh my God, there's one beer left beer. Have you ever thought, damn amount of beer and magically one appears in the bottom of the fridge? Some up above is looking out for you. Wow. There's a beer. Eight. The PTO beer.

Whether you have PTO or not cracking a cold one while sending out the last email before a long, vacation really starts the vacation. off on the right foot. This one is, it's climbed up the rankings now. The hotel balcony beer. Whether it's a new city or just celebrating the one that you love, something about pretending to be rich in famous that just hits home. Six, and this is controversial, the airport beer at six.

Easily the most underappreciated beer, but everyone has it, is an internet mogul. Where's she off to? Hawaiian shirts in October. He must be going to Sweden. Drinking beers at 6 a.m., Mitch. Five. The first one at the reception bar beer.

Every single wedding reception has ended in a hangover But nothing is more refreshing than the first beer After you watch your loved ones say I do Big points if you're the one that says this rounds on me at the open bar Yeah classic Number four The before going out shower beer Yeah music is a must

But I didn't want to just add shower beer It has to be about a build up Top three, the new city beer New breweries and establishments are half the fun of traveling But cracking the beer in a new city feels adventurous. Number two, the weird day drinking beer. Starting or staring at a 30 rack out of Saturday morning, nothing compares to it. Not birds or alarm clops can wake you up faster. Coffee can't compete. The world is your oyster. And the number one beer of all time is

the next beer. I'm a sucker for a good cliche, but nothing is as good as your next beer. That's awesome. I wasn't aware of how good a variety you are, man. Yeah. It's really, You really bring us in. Like, we're there. I can taste the mud light. I have 300 pages on my blog website. My first one is called F. James Harrison. And I didn't put it out for a week because I was like, what if he reads it and kills me?

But I put it out because he had gone to the Patriots that day. You're still alive. I don't think there's... Barely. That may have been the best way to end off a pod. Yeah. Because what's the best pod? The next one.

Oh, my God. Campaign. And we'll see you next. Quarter century. And we'll see you next week. Oh my gosh, yeah. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers.

I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. Nice. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it.

We just contributed to it out. We get to ask other people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it. But, you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen.

We don't care where you hear it. What's up, fam, it's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano. It's our favorite time of the year on our podcast, Point Game, the playoffs. We're digging into the biggest surprises of the season. And I'm looking back on some of my greatest playoff moments. If we didn't talk ever again, I was hungry. You just understood.

That's how personal it got. Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis come in to you, he's like, you know I love you, dog. You know, it's all love. This was just playoffs. This was just basketball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And here's Heather with the weather.

Well, it's beautiful out there, sunny and 75, almost a little chilly in the shade. Now, let's get a read on the inside of your car. It is hot. You've only been parked a short time, and it's already 99 degrees in there. Let's not leave children in the back seat while running errands. It only takes a few minutes for their body temperatures to rise,

and that could be fatal. Cars get hot, fast, and can be deadly. Never leave a child in a car. A message from Nitzai and the ad council. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.