Bussin' With The Boys - Midland Talks Why They ALMOST Broke Up & What's Wrong With The Music Industry

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

Recorded: November 12, 2022 | This week we have the award winning country trio Midland on the bus for their second appearance with the boys. Midland was in town for the CMAs and Cameron Duddy (Tier 1) made sure they hit the bus before the red carpet. The conversation goes everywhere but we dive into a bunch of great topics like if Mike Tyson is the scariest athlete of all time and if Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders is the most athletic athlete of all time. We also get into everyone's craziest stories on airplanes, producers in the country music industry changing artists voices, and one of the greatest Tier Talks of them all... the best Thanksgiving sides. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone of our listeners and supporters, we are incredibly thankful for all you, let's keep growing this thing!! Intro - recorded Saturday - (0:00) Best campuses on our fall tour (3:30) What the boys are thankful for (28:00) Midland interview starts (36:30) ---- 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 ---- Chevy: Chevy Silverado - The Strongest, Most Advanced Silverado Ever. Rhoback: Go to https://barstool.link/RhobackBSS and use the code “BOYS” for 20% off your first purchase! Gametime: Download the Gametime app at https://barstool.link/GametimeApp and redeem code BUSSIN for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). Sport Clips: Sport Clips, the Pros in Men’s Hair Roman: Go to https://barstool.link/romanbussin for 20% off your first order Duke Cannon Use code “BUSSIN” at https://barstool.link/DukeCannonBSS for 15% off your first order. Wondery: Follow "Don't Call It a Comeback" on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts or listen early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery appFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My boy is just out here living the absolute dream in Columbia, South Carolina, established in 1801, February 2nd to be exact. This place is just riddled with history. We're sitting right now, if you're listening to us, you can part. I feel the grit around us, and that is the weight room we might be sitting in right now. Speaking of grit, Will. Are you about to speak on the most durable competitor on the planet? And let me tell you, buddy, I think a lot of people have seen who are now pretenders and contenders in this league, but one vehicle, one player in this world that's never a pretender and always a

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happening. A lot of stuff, a lot of grit. You can tell by this weight room that this place is just built on sweat. Yeah, if you're watching on YouTube right now, number one, you should be subscribed, drop a comment right now as we were talking. But we are wrapping up our Collegiate Football Tour. That is brought to you by the one and only Bojangles. And we do, now that we've wrapped up our five places, I think we need to give some ratings on what the facilities are. I would love to. How would you, how do you want to like separate? Do you want to go wait room? Weight room,

and then overall facilities. I think it would be the... Should we go stadium? Stadium? Yes. Four criteria? Four criteria. I like that.

All right. And the spots we've been to, just a recap. Notre Dame, Nebraska, Michigan, Tennessee, South Carolina. Now, I've been to all those except for South Bend, Indiana, Notre Dame. So I will bow out on that one. So just when I'm saying, this fellow's Notre Dame fans listening, I wasn't there to experience it. So it's not going to make any of my list.

But Willie, why don't you start us off? Wait room. How do we feel about weight rooms? From 1 to 5, I would say, go 5 to 1. Go 5 to 1. Go 5 to 1. That's giving me. That was JP's idea.

I would say, unfortunately, Notre Dame has to be 5 because we didn't get to see it. They were very strict about the touring we got to do, so we didn't get to see Notre Dame. Classic Catholics, dude. For that reason, they're number 5. The number 4 wait room, I would have to say number 3. four, I'd have to say the game cox. I'd say South Carolina is number four. I would say number three. I'll say number three is Tennessee. Number two is Nebraska. Number one is Michigan. That is as objective as I feel like I can be about that situation. Now, people probably wondering, like,

I'm literally sitting in, we're in South Carolina right now. I got, I got, I got eyes on me. I got cock eyes on me, dude. And- There's cocks flying everywhere around here. You said it earlier. Like, we're in a gritty spot. You feel the grittiness when you walk in here. There's no question about it. Every weight room has a little bit of grit to and this one I think a little bit more shit to it than others. If you were rating grit in weight rooms though this might be number one.

That's fair. Yeah. Because you can't really see, you'll be able to check it out on a vlog again YouTube, Bust with the Boys. Yeah, you can't really see the flory and stuff, but you, it's the smell when you walk in, it smells like a weight room. You guys don't want to talk about. You meatheads, you guys know what I'm talking about. And when you watch a vlog, you'll be able to see the smell. Yeah. It's one of those things you just look at you like, I know exactly

what that smells like. Well said. But that, yeah, I I would say that's my list. Like Michigan, I think it's, from what we've seen out of the five, it's kind of untouchable. It's more of like a state-of-the-art type of weight room. It's very pro. Two levels of uphill turf thing going up to the second level. With the plow metric boxes that also go up on one side. Yeah, and then kind of like equipment on the second floor.

It's like a double-decker weight room and a full court basketball court. Yeah. So it's kind of like tough to touch that. Which in that way you can access indoor and outdoor all at the same time. Like getting around, which will go into our facility's overall facility. Yeah, that's my weight room. How would you rate the wait room? To be honest, everything you said, and I, this is, obviously I feel like sometimes we should argue in this podcast, but I, I could go to waitrooms with you.

We can lift together. We have lifted together. We have lifted together, and I know what we're both looking for. I think a walk-on and a freshman Wilcompton would be here. This would be the way room you'd want to be in. But we're talking about state of the art, the best of the best. But I was a four-star, but go ahead. But four-star Wilcompton.

Four Star Wilcompton would want to be in here. I think Michigan does have the best facilities. Now, I put that on right now. And what's the date right now? It's November 2020. In a year's time, Nebraska is doing a $200 million renovation. I fully expect that place to exceed Michigan. But that's the game we play in college, right?

How do we get these recruits? We're constantly doing it. Judging right now. And you would do the same list? My list mirrors your list. All right. Anybody in the back of the bus? Beside.

Do you guys have a different opinion on the list of the weight room? if you do like I don't I don't disagree with that either yeah stratosphere for sure and so jack just said he could interchange Nebraska and Tennessee here's why I would disagree with that only because the Tennessee's the size of their weight room I think the weight room itself it's smaller and it's nicer like it's got more flash to it looks it looks good but Nebraska's is massive and that's I think what you need for 150 guys working out yeah and I yeah I don't disagree with that and again boys this is this is I know we're in a different spot right now we're in the weight room of the University of South Carolina it's a beautiful campus

the bus right now, boys. This is, this is Monday's intro. So we need you guys to chime in on anything. Are we plugged in for you guys to chime in? Okay, all right. If we have something, we come around, we pass the mic. I'll pass the mic. If somebody has something that important to say, we'll absolutely give up the mic. All right, let's move on to stadiums. Let's do stadiums. Okay. You can go first. All right. Okay, so Notre Dame, I played in Notre Dame, so I can actually rank them. I would go five to one, five to one. I know. This is a good one.

This is a tough one because they're actually all great. And I don't want my bias to sneak in here. I'm going to go Notre Dame 5 because of the size. It's the same exact thing as Ann Arbor, Michigan, just a little bit smaller. Four, four, I'm going to have to go Gamecocks. The reason why I'm going to do that is I think the stadium is very well set up but I can't wait to hear the noise tomorrow night. I do think, I love that the student section's in the place

where it seems like the most noise would get out because that's still going to be extremely loud. But if you covered up that area and kind of bold it all in and then brought it all down, we're talking about a lot of money here. But if you did that, they'd probably be higher up in the list. Number three is, and this is where, to me, it gets real close.

Number three to me is going to be Nebraska. I've played in Nebraska. not only is it loud, they're extremely polite as well. When that place gets rocking, it is incredible. Now, my two... Oh, you haven't experienced the Tennessee game day. I know, but I know what it's about. You will and do time in the future.

My number two is going to be the big house. And this is the only reason why Michigan does not make my number one. When you go and play an away game and you go, go to a spot. What's the first question everybody asks? How loud is it? And when you go to Michigan, although it is superior in size to any North American stadium, maybe even the world, it's beautiful, it's amazing. It's riddled with history. They're lacking, they're lacking noise. And I know the game got out of hand fast last week, so that was my most recent exposure. But I can only imagine being in Alabama, being in Tennessee for the Tennessee Alabama game and watching that all go

down and everything I've heard it's one of the loudest stadiums and it holds over 100,000 I have to tip my cap to Knoxville Tennessee on that one that is my one it's interesting given that you haven't and I was trying to be as unbiased as possible um my five how far off was I on that I mean you're a little off not by much though I would say five is uh I'd say five is Notre Dame I haven't been to a game cock game I just know what I saw in that room and that thing was right that thing was fire but i do still feel like it's number four on my list out of those college out of those experiences those game day experiences there's no doubt number three is definitely michigan uh two i would say game day experience loud i would say this is this is not only me talking

this is hearing from michigan this is hearing from others out there like trying to judge all the schools and i know it was what to say you're 100% right everyone in the Bay 10 says what is the best atmosphere in the Bay 10 they say Nebraska. Yeah like when we were at Michigan just last week for the bus and bowl. They're like that they're like that was the place. That was the place. This is your boy Dave too. Like how much balls he's seen in Michigan?

He's seen maybe too much. Yeah, maybe too much ball. He was like last year, night game, best three-win team of the country. Right. Rocking stadium. Imagine if we were. Legitimately. Yeah, legit.

Like winning those games by it. Right, right, right. Number two, Nebraska. Number one, hearing it myself, I would have to say Tennessee, the way it's built straight up and down. I'm telling you when you're in there, bro, it rattles your ears. It rattles your ears. It's an awesome place for ball.

And like you said, Nebraska's more, it's weird because it's loud, but they're also nice. They're saying congratulations after the ain't good game, glad. Nobody got hurt. Yeah, win or lose. Yeah, see you next year. Hey, I hope that heals up nice. And they're genuine about it. Yeah.

And Tennessee, they want your throat when they're there. It's kind of like a Philadelphia Eagles vibe as far as fandom. It's built straight up and down. It's loud. Ohio State goes like that too. Ohio State and Tennessee. Tennessee number one. Tennessee number one.

Now, the overall facilities, this is the grand package of all these campuses we've been to. If you were to take all those, put it into one, and five to one, what would you do? Five to one. Are you treated at each place? Yeah, I guess, yeah. I don't know if it's kind of weird. It's a move. saying overall facilities

no because I think Michigan treated us just as equally as Nebraska did oh no come on let's we do you don't think so I'm good on some of these rankings like we're one off one or the other bro I mean you haven't been to Nebraska for a game day I know I'm the overall facilities at the time we went like spring football tour

and don't get me wrong I knew Nebraska was gonna show up for the boys and I was very nervous Michigan keeps it more close to the vest but I was extremely impressed We walked away with jerseys. They gave us access to everything we needed. We could walk around freely. I think they treated us equally.

We got to take in the overall picture. Like, if we're going to Nebraska, we know we're like, these dudes all have media credentials walking around the locker rooms, like being on the field, doing all that stuff. In Michigan, we literally had, we got them passes. We did get them passes, but at first it was just me and you. And then you didn't feel the most comfortable going in the locker room. I'm like, we're all in the locker room.

We're literally back in the equipment room eating pizza with the boys. Yeah, I understand that. And that's more of my insecurities than it is how they were treating us, though. Yeah, but it's still pretty laced up, I would think. I think they did a great job. It was the Bust and Bowl. But I'm just saying if we're talking about they treated fairly equally, I would say like, if Michigan would have went first in the spring tour

and Nebraska got to follow, Michigan probably wouldn't have done some of those things that we got to do. Maybe. As far as yours and everything else. True. But walking away from Nebraska. If I had a ditch you be my uncle. Walking away from, yeah. Walking away from the Nebraska's,

Spring Tour, you were working that phone. I was. Boys, I'm telling you right now. I'm trying to live in reality as much as possible right now. I think they're neck and neck. What are we going overall when we say? Overall facilities.

Stadium. I think you leave treatment out of it. Like the way they treat it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's all different. But we're at South Carolina. Honestly, I'm ecstatic the way we've been treated since being on South Carolina.

Yeah. The best tour guide we've had is Stephen Garcia going around and touring the facilities. Well, don't sleep on Davey now. Dave Avlov. Come on. I'm not sleeping on Dave. I'm not sleeping on my boys in Nebraska either.

I'm just saying like a guy's guy. Stevie has a totally different energy than the rest of our guys have had. A guy's guy, you know. He's a dude's dude. Yeah, he's a dude's dude. Yeah. But in the way we've been able to be escorted around here, like we've been working with open arms.

That's what I'm getting at. The devil. Yeah, we had duffel bags of gear over in the corner. We had Notre Dame and South Carolina were the ones that like were kind of going beyond our reach of alumni and obviously being in the home state of Tennessee. Like getting that type of treatment. Like South Carolina's, they're up there. And shout out to J.P. Hovey, who's hooked it all up for the boys.

They've been awesome. Like, we've been walking around. They've been ecstatic that we're here. They're like people know about busing yada yada. The energy's good. With all that said, full on facility, everything else. I think you got to go. Five.

Notre Dame five. This is a, we'll never be invited back to South Bend. It's not like a slight at them. All great facilities. Yeah, it's a great facility. We just didn't get to see a lot at Notre Dame. Are we talking campus too? Yes.

I think overall college vibes, I guess. Overall college vibes. So facility stadium, now, based on what I just said, you'd have to go about how they treated us and campus vibes. So how they treated us? So I'm talking about the overall experience. encompassing experience of being in each university, which might be a little unfair in South Carolina

because we just got here a few hours ago. We haven't had a huge opportunity to see this place. So just know that wherever they fall on this list, your boys could flip our mind, no problem, right? Especially me, I'm a flip-flopper. I know we've put Notre Dame 5, and Notre Dame will be 5 on the list, but I will say as far as most beautiful campus I've been on,

it's Notre Dame without question. You feel like you're walking around like Hogwarts in Harry Potter. Wow. Hey, and you being a newly here, a pirate guy, you like, you would love it. It's got that vibe. Like, in certain areas, you can't walk on certain grass. Like, there's some traditions. Like, you don't walk up those stairs of that building unless you've graduated.

And there's just, like, there's an element of just mystery to it. That you just feel like you're on a college campus. See, all the things you're saying. And it's incredible. But there's not a lot to do in South Bend. As far as, like, college town, there's not a lot going on there. And I think, like, that not being able to see all the facilities now. It's Notre Dame.

So, you know, they're probably first class. Yeah. Their helmets are iconic. Yeah. And game day experience, I haven't been to Gamecock. I haven't been to a South Carolina game. I'm only seeing that stuff on there. But we stormed the field.

And, you know, it was awesome. But I wouldn't say it was like elite. So that's why it would be my number five. Number four, I'm going to go Gamecocks. College, all around everything. I would say number three is Tennessee. And then I would go in my unbiased opinion on being objective as possible.

So do not hate me, Husker Nation. But number two is Michigan. and number one is Nebraska. You really had me. You really had me. So here's when you were bringing up Notre Dame and how like it's kind of feel like that vibe we're talking about.

There's things you can't step on. There's stairs you can't go up. Michigan has that same thing. You weren't able to see those things. But there's really a block M in the middle of campus and you literally have to jump over it. No one's a lot of step on it. Touch it.

Unless you're part of these three different secret societies that are in Michigan. Yeah, you're talking about the secret societies. Yeah. And there's like obviously the bell tower. There is a fountain. that if you run from the Michigan M to the fountain and back in a certain amount of time, there's awards.

There's stuff you can do within the campus kind of like checklist off like your stuff. It's like the little things on Xbox when you play video games and you unlock certain things. You're like, oh, I had no idea I was even trying to do that mission. It'd probably be better if we had a tour of the campus because to me Michigan felt like more of a puzzle than all the other colleges.

Really? I thought so. Maybe I don't know if those guys felt that way. To me, it's State Street, Main Street, and then a couple side roads and you're solid. Yeah. Yeah, the house is in the tailgate at Michigan. We just got to really sit here and think, okay.

Yeah. Will's obviously being a little bit biased. I'm not being biased at all. Here's where I think you're being biased. The housing situation in Nebraska is such a, it's such an important piece of a college and having a college town where everything's surrounding. Michigan, you can literally live all over campus

and get to class, the facilities, the academic center, in five minutes. Very fair point. All right, my list. Obviously, I'm going to have to go in Notre Dame, number five because I haven't been there other than to play when I was in college. Number four, it's tough because I haven't seen South Carolina's campus yet. I feel like this place is a lot of fun.

This place is a lot of fun. I feel like South Carolina is a lot of fun. I feel like this is a great place to come. We've basically only been in the waitroom. Yeah, the way, yes, the wait room and the stadium. Which they have a nice little bar set up in the stadium where the old locker room used to be. Or the old wait room used to be. They have a nice little set up there.

and that players walk out to go out in the stadium that's just like the Dallas Cowboy Stadium where you're like, there's just people staring at you like a zoo animal, which I think is a cool vibe. But they're four on your list. But they're four on my list. Number three is going to be Tennessee. I think Tennessee, they have a lot to work to do

with their facilities. I think it's, it looks like an unfinished product to me, but I see the direction they're going, and I think it's going to be phenomenal when it's done. Right, like they're the most dated type of... They have the most dated stuff. It's big, but it's dated. Yes.

But listen, I gave Tennessee their flowers in the stadium, so shout at the balls. Two, obviously I've kind of already said what I was going to say, but like overall. And I know I'm going to say Nebraska 2, Michigan 1, but these two are close to me. I don't know if it was the hospitality coming back or even going to Nebraska where you've played and needed to see your boy in his place where he was and how he was welcome to the open arms. It's a pretty incredible experience. So those are very close. You basically played in Nebraska.

You basically played at Nebraska when you visited. It felt like it. Right. It really did feel like I was like, oh, I've been here. I've done this. I had to block Sue in practice, that type of thing. If you're just going off of hospitality, like the fans, how nice they are and stuff like that,

Nebraska takes the cake on that. I'm not saying hospitality how we were treated, but like in the facility, because I think Michigan and Nebraska are neck and neck, contrary to what you believe. But I think Nebraska naturally, we walked into a gas station when we first got there, and it was like, we talked to these guys for 20 minutes.

They had a 45-year-old dog just sitting in the corner, that was like wildly obese, obviously got in the pork rinds a little too much. And they were just talking our ear off about the last hundred years of Nebraska. And then once Will's name got like uttered, it sounded like he was four-time All-American, like 10-time All-Pro. Hang on. What are you trying to disrespect. I'm just saying. Like, it sounds.

At a decent career. A phenomenal career. Top 15 and tackles all time. Just start trying to rattle off staff. Top 15 in fact. But I would say that is, that's my list. It seemed like we were pretty similar. Yeah, yeah, definitely similar.

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Game Cox versus Volves. How do you think we got our tickets? Back to the show. And you know what, dude? I think Bojangles might be the most slept on place. The most slept on chicken spot in all of America. Their chicken sandwich, their fried chicken sandwich, that thing, it was like the Burger King commercial back in the day with a guy with a little hands. I picked that thing up and I was like, Jesus. Last week when we broke bread on the bus. Yes. What you were pulling out there, that chicken sandwich I was just talking about.

Look at this thing. It's a nice. It looks like a damn commercial. Uh-oh. You don't want to. Mama. There goes that man. Year 10.

That boy hungry. That boy is hungry. How good? Rate it for me. No, it's good. Rate it for me. All right. My boy just took three bites.

Hey, can you hear me in there? Did you hear me go? Mm. All right. A good amount of seasoning. You know how when you eat Chick-fil-A, it's a little bit cleaner. You eat Popeye's, you taste of seasoning a lot more in the chicken sandwich. I know I'm talking with my mouthful right now, but I think it's important.

But the seasoning is just right. If you look here, the ratio of breaded to chicken, very well done. Popeyes is a little too much on the breading. Chick-fil-A, less on the breading. Like, you know, bojingles, you see just right the ratio. As far as the sauce, whatever little mayo sauce they have on there, it's a nice, I'm not swarring. I already have food in my mouth.

Very nicely prepared. And the bun, which is important. You see the shininess on that bun? That's butter. The way your teeth break into it and the smoothness of it is important. Like, look at my thumb imprint on it. That's how it is when you bite down. That's soft.

It's soft. It's soft. overall, 4.5. Yeah, you can't argue with that. I'll tell you what, Bojangles is an incredible company. There's a lot to be thankful for with them, but we all know Thanksgiving is this week. One of the more underrated holidays

that we celebrate every single year, and I think it's important. What direction we're going right here? I think it's important that the boys say what they're thankful for. You want to do that now? You want to do it last before we get into Midland? Black Friday's coming up. Holy shit.

We've got to talk about how important Black Friday is. Not only for Bustin with the Boys, but for everybody shopping for Christmas. Everything you see that I'm wearing, this is the Seagre Boys doing a collab with Bustin with the Boys. This is all going to be live. Yeah. On Thursday night, 10.30 p.m. Central Time. 11.30 p.m. Eastern is when our Black Friday sale drops. We have like, how many items do we have dropping, Garrett? 23 units. 23 new items dropping. We're going to have a lot more boy. hats, those boys diamond hats that everybody's screaming, hey, do our team, do this team. We have more of those coming out. We have more lightning teas coming out.

More than we have the, yeah, hoodies. This little piece I'm wearing right here. Yeah, the fire piece right here. The coach's jacket. We have a, old schools. We're doing a legends collab or we have a legend one fits like a glove now. The Seeger boys, I know there's a, there's a cult following of the Seeger, the Seeger brand. Kyle Phillips is a part of that cult. Yeah. He loves them. This right here, what you're saying, this is going to be out. We have a lot of cool shit, it is dropping. We're going to have awards for, we're going to have like a tier system

too, like biggest spender, a day on the bus, all expenses paid for. We might have, you're floating around a little teaser of a, maybe a sweet possibility. Oh, yeah. Being entered in to get a full suite. Yeah, I think if someone spends a certain amount of money, and listen, it's, right now it's Friday. We're in South

Carolina. Before this ship is over, before this pod is released, we will have everything of slotted as far as if you spend this much, this is what we're going to give you. There's going to be a lot of winnings out there. You got to pay attention to what the boys are doing because there's so many new things that you can get

that are coming out on Black Friday, but also these old school things right here, the tried and true boys, you start grabbing those. Christmas is right around the corner. That's why they call it Black Friday, but we're getting ready for the flurries. This Christmas flurries, Santa Claus can't do it all,

so do something else for your family as well. But when this pod drops, a couple hours after that, you will start to see through me, Will, bus in, the boys, you will see all the things that we are going to do for you based on what you spend, obviously top spender a day on the bus. I think that's a non-negotiable.

That's a non-negotiable. I do believe I can make this work, but I'm thinking this might be the top spender. They could probably choose between these two. Is Titans game, I don't know, eight tickets in a suite for a game? That's nice. That's nasty. That's nasty. And then also, there's going to be a bunch of other stuff.

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the better it is for all of us. And we're going to do something special. Yeah. We figure something like that. We're going to do something special for you guys. I think... It says a couple of things. It's simple.

We have the best merch store in the Barstall store. Yeah. And whiskey, we sell out of this whiskey, this rollout, we get the co-brand on a bottle.

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I think that was outstanding. I think the boys... I think Will and I were just in flow state. What were we thankful for, Will? I'm trying to think, before we get to the thankful stuff, if I'm missing anything else before we wrap this intro up. You hit Black Friday. We hit the whiskey. Yeah. I think we're solid.

Yeah, there was a company. Yeah, I think that's a... Who knows how long we've gotten on this pod already, on this intro. That's what I'm saying. On top of a long, we're not even, let's not even say it because we have no idea what it's going to turn out and end up being, but it's a, it's a fun fucking pod. It's a fun pod. You're in here a lot of rambling on it. The boys are going off yet again.

You know who's on. Yeah, Midlands, Midlands coming on. They were an awesome time. They were in town for the, what was it, the CMAs? CMA awards. The CMA awards, the red carpet deal. They came through town and they're, I mean, they're, I mean. They didn't win, but still, outstanding group.

the show so we had to get the squad together and talk a lot of shop um let's we'll go around say what we're thankful for for thanksgiving with just the boys and we wrap this thing up and get into midland blas is not here moment of sign for bloss god love him which one of you guys want to start let's go Garrett you can go and then you can go is this the good one I'm sitting on your left too don't do that bro all right so what I'm most thankful for is uh He said no. Getting to do what we do every day, I think it's pretty, pretty badass. Like, we talked about it last week a little bit, but, like, this is, I get to call this work,

and that's pretty fucking cool. So I'm pretty thankful for that. That was beautiful. Thanks. That's a moment, too, because your arms around Taylor right there? Yeah, that was nice. You don't want to know where it's thumb. Yeah, no doubt.

Mine's sort of along the same lines, but I'm thankful for you guys bringing me on. Not to say I was in a bad spot in Charlotte, but I was not. not enjoying my job. It was pretty miserable. I wasn't the happiest person. Not a slight on NASCAR. It just wasn't for me. But now being with you guys,

I can say this is the happiest I've been in probably over a year. And I'm enjoying it being a big football guy, just hanging out, talking football, talking shop. It's, I mean, this is literally a dream job for me. So thank you guys for that. No doubt, Mitch. Appreciate you being vulnerable with the boys too. That's outstanding, buddy.

Jack, JP. honorable mention to the boys, obviously always thankful. But I'm most thankful for my sister is about to have her kid here in about a week. So I'm about to be an uncle. Couldn't be more excited. Little baby Izzy is her name. And yeah, she's due the last couple of days in November. Like I said, could not be more excited to have a little niece in my life.

Love honor, spoiler. So very thankful for family and friends. I am thankful for a lot of things this Thanksgiving. Thank you for the health of my family. But I'm going to stick with G and Mitch. I'm thankful for Taylor. Thankful for Will. Thankful for the boys.

And specifically, like, these trips, these trips are, like, things that I dreamed about as, like, a kid to go on. And, like, how am I going to do it? I'm not a college football player. I'm not going to play pro sports, whatever. So it's just, like, it's super dope to. me to like be able to come to these places and get these experiences that I like always wanted to do but didn't know how to do it that's mine that was outstanding you want to go appreciate the boys just

giving out love man yeah um I think I got two and they're going to be pretty easy because um what I am thankful for obviously my beautiful wife my two little girls and the life we've been able to establish for those you don't know that me and tailing got engaged in five weeks and then married in two months without anybody knowing. And when people started finding out, there was obviously a bunch of question marks of, hey, what's what is Taylor doing? I'm sure Taylor was that, Taylor was being asked that by her family. And it's been six years of marriage now with two healthy, beautiful kids. And I could not be more thankful for that. It has been the coolest thing of the world being a dad and a husband. So I love it. And my second one is obviously going out to

the boys because there's literally will and i sat at a chinese restaurant right after the season in 2018 and decided to do a podcast and never in our wildest dreams that i think we'd ever be able to achieve this and being able to do trips and do a podcast every week with your best friend is one of the the best blessings you can have in your entire life so that's what i'm thankful for this thursday this uh thanksgiving i love you love you too brother um along the same lines like i'm extremely thankful for my family. Like I have a seven-month-old cerulean that I am just absolutely obsessed with. My wife and I just have the most fun every evening just watching her in the mornings playing all that stuff and just you know being able to do life with somebody that you love and create new life and have somebody

that you're just absolutely obsessed with. Like everybody always says like you don't know what love is until you have a kid of your own. And it is, it's very true. And obviously my family back home, dad, my two brothers, um, having people like that, you know. You good, bud. Got me tearing up. And you guys. I'm super thankful to be surrounded by you guys because you're right. There's a, uh, there's a level of fear knowing like, uh, it's so dope that we've been able to establish this and create this and like have this as the plan B because there's a level of a fear when you're done playing because your identity's so wrapped up in it and taking shots and doing all this stuff and hiring people and learning how to try and scale and figure shit out.

I know there's a lot of frustration at times with all the boys. But being surrounded by you guys, like I'm super thankful because this shit is fucking awesome. And obviously your boy gets a little choked up because I get close to tipping the cat to the old mom. You know, but she'd be damn proud. Yes, she would. But happy Thanksgiving, boys. You want to send us off to Midland? I'm telling you.

Hey, everybody take a moment in Thanksgiving and be thankful for everybody that you're surrounded by and let them know. Like tell people, look them in the eye and let them know

because you just never fucking know. You really don't. And holiday season's coming up? Holiday season. But... I'll tell you what, buddy. I saw it. Hey, we can go to middle of man.

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As for the MVP experience, back to the episode. We're rolling. Go ahead. Okay, so talking to what we were talking about. So the CMA Awards is happening. Now, in the CMA world, just like in the football world, just like any world where there's voting on things, there's probably some people that get more votes than others. And being an independent is probably a little more difficult than being a part of a bigger, a big company. A record label that is universal or something.

And do you guys feel like you fall into that trap sometimes? Yes. Oh, 100%. I mean, it's happened to other recording artists on Big Machine for sure. Yeah. Luckily, we're not in it for that. But you asked right before we started recording. And Mark was going to answer that, which is...

What we were saying on the drive over here is that, you know, for us really, being nominated keeps us in the conversation. It keeps us at the forefront. And, you know, whatever anybody's going to say, the awards are about getting eyeballs, getting ears on you and getting attention. Sure, it would be nice to have the hardware. But really for us, it's about getting the music out there and grow on our fan base. Getting as many people to listen to Midland as possible.

And many people come to the shows because that's what we set out to do, is to make great music that moves people and inspires people. And we've never were like, man, we're going to win. Our goal by year eight is to have eight CMAs. Yeah. And we're going to have four Grammys. Yeah. And if we don't do that, our career has been a failure.

You're like, I've personally never thought about that. But I will say this and you guys can all of us being former and active and maybe even Will still active athlete, you know? Your 10's alive and well. Could be, yeah. By the sudden this comes out on probably. It sounds like really, really active. Let's empty you know. We're fucking competitive.

We're competitors. And we hate to fucking lose, period. And it's story. Right. That's what it is. It's not that the awards mean so much. It's just we hate to fucking. When you get nominated, you want to win?

You want to win. That's it. There's no question. And from a branding perspective, it just like you were saying earlier, just, helps was like, you know, like, oh, who's anybody that might have one. We won an ACM. So that's now part of our ACM award winning.

Da-da-da-da-da-da-midlin. When you're sending in. Grammy-losing. Yeah. 10-time CMA losing. Grammy-nominated. It doesn't, it doesn't just. Grammy nominated, CMA-nominated.

I don't know. That is exactly what you need to put. That's what we do. 10-time losing. Yeah. I mean, I think it's funny. But it's not for sure. I like being the underdog.

I like having a little bit of chip. on all of our shoulders. And it's something that, kind of, to me, pushes me personally as an artist to, just to keep going. We're the Raiders.

Of country music. Here's way to this album next year. You know what I mean? And that's what's been driving us to the body of work that we've had. We're like the, we're like the busting with the boys of country music.

There we go. Authentic original. Winning. Just the fucking underdogs. You are the underdogs. You are the underdust. You are the underdust. Who are, who, um, who, who, who, who is in your sector?

Who is like the brass ring? Who, who do you guys aspire to be? Or do, who do you feel threatened by? No, no, no, no, no. On our podcast. Number one in the sports world, I would say, it's part of my take. Part of my take are Pat McAfee. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm talking like if you're just looking at, yeah, I mean, when you look at the, a video show, Pat McAfee's competing with, like, the ESPNs of the world. Like, part of my take, like, in the podcast space. Yeah, they, they dominate him more. And I just like a daily show that gets videoed all the time. And then that gets kind of regurgitated, I guess, as like as podcasting. But as for podcasting, I would say part of my takes number one. And podcasting in general is Rogan.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, because you guys are a hybrid of that, right? You guys have morphed. I mean, you're definitely. There's a fluidity to what we do. And I think, I don't know how, like where this train's going. We really have no idea.

We've literally said we're going to sat after the season's over. We're going to sit and talk about what avenues we're going to go down. But from any podcast, we got to have sports guys on, and we'll talk about sports the entire time. And then we'll have other people on. And like we had Jared Allen, which I probably didn't come out the week. This will come out the week after. I already heard Jared Allen. For the first hour of the podcast, we talked about conspiracy theories and religion and all this crazy stuff.

A better rapid fire soundbite clip than busing with the board. Well, that's an outstanding compliment. I would agree with Greg. Jess. That's going to be on a new commercial. Mark. That is a good way to get on. Off there, Bob.

I'm moving up. I'm moving up. Where, um, is there, is there beef with Rogan? Will, are you've alleged at it? I think we're maybe trying to create. No, no, no. I think we need to air it out.

I think we need to get at the very least a sound bite out of this. Um, but I know you feel like you got cock blocked when Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers. Yeah, we were going to release one. And by the. the way, like Big Cat, part of my take me. I know you don't want to talk about this, but we're going there. I just think when you look up to your hero so much in this world and then something like

this happens, it's a tough pill to fall. Idols become your rivals. And that's what we're talking about here. But congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. But like, for starters, we were going to release the Aaron Rogers podcast when we went to Green Bay.

Everybody saw we were going to Green Bay. Big Cat. Everyone saw. They do a grit week. And BC was like, hey, you mind holding Aaron Rogers pod. We're going to release ours on Monday. And he's, Big Cat, they're on the roster. They're on the squad.

Yeah, they are, yeah. You guys do your thing. But then the following week, when we're about to release ours, Rogan cucks us. There's no communication with Rogan. Rogan just, and people might think like, oh, Will, you don't even talk to Rogan. I'm, we are one person away from Rogan on,

we can probably tell him two hands. Yeah, we're 10 different people. Where one phone goes, if he wanted to get our numbers, he could. Yeah, yeah. Like, Rogan knows about. But we probably couldn't get his number. But he doesn't need to ask your permission, unfortunately.

He could definitely, if he texts into hey, it's Rogan, He doesn't need to ask the permission for sure. But at the same time, like, from where he started from the webcam podcasting everything else, like squashing the little guy, I just feel like that's not, that's not Rogan. That's not the bro Rogan on top. I thought it was a great interview. It doesn't matter. I think people have more time than you may.

I don't know if you exposed any, because I listened to his, too. Are you worried that he got to certain subjects and got Aaron Rogers talking about things that you wish you had been the first? Is that why you're angry about? The Muslims, I was going to the podcast came out right after. People listen to PMTs first. Yeah. Then it's like, well, first Aaron came out with a, like he did one with Marcus Aubrey. Yeah.

Talking about ayahuasca and everything else. And part of my take that's kind of a different flow. Yeah. And then like you said, like we're kind of a hybrid. But then Rogan comes out with a three-hour banger with them. And it's like by the time we get there, we're the fourth one that has there. Rogers, people might not want to listen. Right.

Okay. I understand. I listen because I'm an avid fan. I will say this just anecdotally. And this is with all the respect in the world. world to one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Full stop. I thought he was a little chippy when you talked to him.

He was a little chippy with you. He's a little chippy. But I think he knows that about blessing with the boys. Like he knows it's a little chirpy. Because he saw, remember he said that was a good tweet you had. Then he knew he had to get me back. Yeah, hostile on a hurry on this last one time. It was a little hostile.

It can get that way. Okay. But I'll say if you've ever done ayahuasca, you know those next few days, a couple weeks after that, the endorphins are a little low. They're a little low from what I've heard. In his defense. Right. The way

When he was just coming off An ayahuasca trip? Allegedly, I don't know. Okay. His big thing was he did ayahuasca that was like he's opened himself up. His mind is now he's just seeing the world

and from different lens. But not coverage. I think that'd be a great episode like the third time we come out here. We do Iowaaska together. Boy. I think we do all do ayahuasca together. I would do ayahuasca with you guys.

I've done almost everything but ayahuasca. I'm a huge proponent of mushrooms. Hey, hang on. Hang on, just stay on the, I was telling Cam, and his defense, Cam looked at me, and we just stared at each other while we were here and everybody. I was like, it's happening. In Aaron's defense, the way Big Cat, I don't know if you listen to that one, that one was a phenomenal interview, but I didn't.

Big Cat was chirping him, so he probably thought, okay, another porcel pod coming. I got to be, I got to have my guns ready next time. He was definitely defensive in the interview, and you were just asking honest. He thought you were making fun of him. Right. That's what it felt like. His responses were, which I was. you know, you're my guy.

So I'm a little bit like, let me ask you. You're going to that for us. Well, let's maybe tone it down a little bit, Aaron Rogers. I mean, look at that bad. Yeah, exactly. If I saw him and you guys weren't around,

I would immediately go, what was with Will trying to get? Earlier I tried to see this bad and he wouldn't relinquish him. Yeah. It's my talking stuff. Let me ask you, did you think that the Rogan Beast

was serious? No. Okay, good. I assumed that. We were going on real for a little bit. I knew you were mad and I'm thinking like, oh, we're really. Yeah.

We're riding this thing for real. He's got to see this. When I got done with Shane Gillis, I was like, hey, bro, what do we got to do to get Rogan? Like, legit, what was you advised Taylor and I do? He's like, he doesn't really talk sports. He's like, he doesn't really care about sports. You guys have to do so much non-sports. You guys are non-thematic.

There's nothing about this podcast that says like, yeah, we're going to talk about sports, although we are going to talk about sports at some point. Yeah, there's no question. We'll talk about us. We have plenty of time. Can I offer up a transition for everyone to weigh in on, potentially, or at least? Should we have some ground rules? You guys are on again.

It's the second time we've had the Midland boys on. If you read, if you, you don't take all the comments to heart, but there's always something to get out of the feedback that you're getting from your audience. Okay. Talking over each other a lot, we're everybody yelling. We got five guys on the bus. There's a lot of that. Should we do, like, lay some ground rules when we're talking?

Like, maybe whoever's holding the bat gets to speak. Okay. All right. Well, if you can toss it around. We can go, then, sure, you know. It's great. Gosh. Do you want that bat?

You want it. It's very cool bat. It's a gorgeous bat. It's great. I would also like that bat. Oh, my. I mean, you got two of them. Mark, we can share it.

See if we got two bats in the back. Let's try. Let's try. Because I'm on three bats in the back, boys. It sounds like this runs a subject to like DMT and expand your mind and mushrooms and trying to learn. And I'm trying to learn always. So I'm, let's get better this time. Let's get better.

So where were you going before I had to try? It may be a little bit too. That was outstanding. Baseball or football, rather, for everyone. And we can make it just quick because not all of us are super up on college ball. But coming up this Saturday, Michigan is playing Nebraska, and these guys have created a bus and bull

out of their two teams, their respective colleges. Right. And whoever wins this, which is the heavily favored Michigan going into it. Is it at Michigan? It's at Michigan. Nebraska is not doing so great this year. Do you have your hat over your heart right now?

Yeah, it's just a big moment. I think, if anything. Moment is honest for the bus and bowl? Moment it sounds for the bus and bowl. All right. You know, what? I'm going to do a hard left turn here. I'm looking

at this chicken with the Mike Tyson tattoo. We recently played sold out in fact. Nice transition. The Greek theater in Hollywood, California. That was a critical show for us. That's kind of like the Bustin Bowl for Midland. Actually,

Red Rocks was made, arguably. Yeah. So, I remember when you guys put the Greek, I actually got a text saying, hey, do you want, I was like three days out of surgery and got a from Cammy said, do you want to go? They have a great handicap support there. I said they had full handicapped out.

You got the surgery done in L.A. Midland is accessible, okay? It sounds like it. We're on stage, three of us, mid-show, and we look over and who do we see standing side stage, but Mike Tyson? Was that your guys a show? Yeah, dude.

Just standing there. That's so cool. I walked immediately over to him. That's not even really, that's just a segue, because... The next night, Cameron and I literally watched an hour and a half YouTube clip of Mike Tyson's knockouts. It took forever. It goes so, it goes so deep.

Like, I mean, you remember the big ones, but like all the in-between ones where he just like just dismantled people. I mean, it was just. The toughest man to walk the face of the earth and compete in athletics, I think has to be Mike Tyson. I think so. Hang on. Hang on. That's a strong statement. That's a very strong statement. Let me and Jess. Let me and Jess, we will die on that hill because. Yeah, we saw the clip. We're going together.

You guys watch this hour and a half clip and you don't agree. Then. Well, that's the highlight tape. Yeah. Because, okay, here's what I thought. But it's like, in my head, when you started saying before you said in sports, my first dollar was David Goggins. But then he put sports in it. I said sports. I wasn't thinking nothing other than like, fighting. We cannot sleep on two.

and O Evander Holyfield against Mike Tyson. I know, but. Bill different. I, Bill different. It is what it is. Maybe he just knew how to fight Tyson. His choice is letting him not to be at his peak and at his prime. Like he went to prison for rape.

Like that, oh. Like that's what happened. He was in prison. Allegedly. He was avoiding. Allegedly. I don't know, like, if he was intentionally avoiding Evander Holyfield,

but Holyfield was coming for him. Holyfield beat him twice. Okay, can I offer a little... It's an incredible 3530. I saw that. Andrew Holyfield is... We both is the biggest human being on the face of the earth. So Mike Tyson going to...

Evander is twice as... Bro, his muscles on muscles. Like, it's a totally different body type fighting each other, which is, again, goes into this. Mike Tyson... I mean, he's built like you. Going toe to toe. He is.

My boy's just catching compies everywhere. Sorry, was that sure... No, no, no, no. No, no. No, no. I'm just laughing because of... Mark. Mark, who's tougher than Mike Tyson?

In the world of athletes. I think, you know, with the upcoming of UFC fighting, I think we got to isolate it to boxing. But yeah, I don't think... I'm going to all human beings at play sports. I don't think there's any question in my mind that Mike Tyson was the most violent and vicious and efficient, fastest, most beautiful boxer to ever watch at his prime.

I don't think it's a question. That is extremely well said. If you're talking about toughness, you're talking about Holyfield Bill to take a punch and to go rounds and go deep in decisions and stuff like that. Like, you know, you could talk about, there's an argument there. But if you're talking about pound for pound,

the most entertaining, I'm talking about tough. The most beautiful, the most tough, the most brutal. Like, I think the most fun thing is. Mike Tyson. And by the way, Mike is one of the greatest tangs.

I'm going to hang with Mike this summer. I went to this charity dinner and sat at a table with Mike and he's good buddies with a dear friend of mine and I've got to know him a bit and him and his wife Kiki they're amazing people man Mike Tyson to me is one of the most inspiring people

not because of all of the awards and accomplishments he had as an athlete it's more for the growth as a human and that's why I also am trying to grow as a human and I'm trying to have to talk over Taylor this entire show are hockey players tougher than boxers

no no no Okay. I don't think it's a boxer. They're pretty fucking tough. I would say UFC fighters. I mean, hockey players, it looks like they're punching hard, but I don't think they really are because they're on ice skates. But they're also bare knuckled. They're bare knuckled. These guys that are playing hockey are playing hockey.

How much footing can you get on ice skates? Buddy, you can, have you stated before? Do a tough this guy. Are you like, street fire on ice skates? Are you Connor, you're Connor, guys, or you were? I'm a big Connor McGregor fan. I think we're in a big limbo. As an entertainer, the way he talks, shit talk.

I think easily Mike Tyson is. is the most feared athlete of all time. Like when his prime, when he came out of prison, when he came out of prison, bigger, more cut, eating prison food. Yeah. Yeah. And that was a scary human being. He lost.

It was a buddy. He came out and lost, though. I know. I watched the same thing with you. I know, but I don't see. But this is the most feared. Okay, Bander didn't fear him. All I can say is this.

But Tyson said he didn't want to be in that fight. He wasn't, he was like, I was out of it. I wasn't ready. It's turned into some sort of conflict between Will and Taylor. I don't disagree. When he says in his prime, there is nobody, like, more exciting to watch. Well, that's for you guys. There's nobody more exciting to watch.

I think he's right. But to say he's the best boxer of all time. I didn't see that. I think it falls short because he's the toughest. Well, look. All I think he's the greatest. I think he's the greatest. I think he's the greatest.

I don't know. Not athlete. Bo Jackson is the greatest athlete of all time. That is a strong one as well. That is a great athlete of all time. I think he, you got Keith Seek. Dion Sanders. Do you see what he said?

What about you said? What about you said? What about you said? Bull. Did you see that? Somebody goes, Hey, Deion, who's the greatest athlete

of all time? Are you, or is Bo Jackson? He goes, nah, my cousin, what was his cousin? Oh,

yeah. He goes, no, my cousin, my cousin Bobo. Yeah, he's a crackhead. He said he's just

the best athlete he's ever seen. He goes, two was me. He said, Bo was two, one of the two. And Dia was the funniest

the biggest character. Well, I think he's one of the biggest character, his greatest character is old. Oh, yeah. He's like, you know,

O' Connor, Deanne, Sanders, like shit talkers and just entertaining guys. Is he going to level up? What he did if he didn't get hurt. And just the stories in the lore about Bo Jackson are unbelievable, man. I mean, just watching him casually snap bats. Over his head.

Over his head. Bro, over his helmet head. You don't have any torque up here. You don't have a, think about it. You pull that up for me. It's a compilation. I've seen them play. Many, many, many snap bats.

Do you guys? remember the Torque that takes. Sorry, I keep in this. The Bo Jackson, black and white baseball card. Watch how Matt he is. Okay. Watch.

He kept the bat. He was going to beat somebody with it. And then he goes, no, I'm going to do this. Here we go. Look at this torque. Are you kidding? That's superhuman. We interrupt this episode to bring you another ad read and that is Roman.

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We met John. I'm not the best guy ever. So we were backstage. It's scary to hang over it. Because you know, like these days like the hangovers hit different. Now that we're parents and stuff like, you know. Not for him. That guy never all gas, no.

breaks. Never let up. It was noon. It's working. It's like the Keith Richards diet. You know what I mean? Some guys just have that. If you never stop and just always go full, full board, you know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know if I never stopped, I'd be able to do it. You know, sugar, booze. Yeah, but I mean, and he's got his body too is like pure. Did you see they're making a movie? You're making a movie. They're making a movie in Jonah Hill.

I love that. When I first got to, when I first got to Nashville in 2014, I was at Losers in Midtown. And John Daly was there was Steve Ford is the owner of losers. And John Daley was hitting golf balls while some guy had a beer can balanced on his head off that guy's head. Wow. It was unbelievable. I just saw a guy on one of my golf, various golf Instagrams I follow.

Yeah. And, um, big golf guy. Probably fuck boys or something. One of the, like, morons doing things. Yeah. A bunch of guys. And the guy has got his pants down on the tee box. And they put a long tea in his asshole.

And his friend tees off, but it's like, it's not a soft tea. And it's a long tea. And he hits the T and it goes in his ass Ripped his asshole Up in his asshole. Oh wait, it was a tough deal Is it into his asshole? Are you searching for it now?

It's not It is, it'll make you pucker. That hurts, man. So fucking stupid. What do you get a You go,

Guy, have you really? Souspiter and stupider and stupider with all this. Yeah, but it makes it more fun. It makes it all more fun. He was. Watch this.

Oh, he just rips his cup of ball. I don't think that would hurt. Let's try it. Let's try it. Your butt is, um, Mark. Okay, so it's a whole thing. Oh, God.

Girls are doing it. I can't watch. That looks like our agent. Oh. Oh, he hurt her. What is? Oh, my God. Oh, look at it.

He's in pain. Oh, my, this is a thing people are doing now. Do you guys golf? Top golf. No, I don't know golf. Oh, my God. People that have made it. Oh.

I'll tell you what I want to do, though. Oh, my God. This is horrible. I'm going to do this as soon as I'm probably a little farther down the road of ACL surgery or rehab. I'm going to get my pilot's license. I am full bore on that. I've done 20 hours before. The diversity of the things you're pursuing right now is just astonishing.

I have no direction, dude. My life is the greatest life of all time. I really do. My old man was a fighter pilot, tech pilot in the Marine Corps. That's the coolest thing in the world to me. I got, we got into it early. I was such a huge fan of aviation. I thought for sure I was going to be a pilot.

I had accepted at the Naval Academy to go play football for him at high school. And the great story. I was at my sister's wedding before I was supposed to sign my papers. My dad pulled me aside, roaring like tuxedos down at the ranch. And he goes, so we're proud of you. And you got the acceptance letter and, you know, you got your nomination. I was like, yeah, thanks, dad. You know, and he goes, but, son, I don't think you should go.

I was like, what do you mean? He goes, I think you have a major problem with authority. You're not going to do well in the military. So I didn't end up going. But I was always fascinated. I did eight hours when I was in like college. Yeah. First of my pilot's license.

My twin brother went and got his license. Does he have everything, instrument, all that stuff? You can fly? Yeah. What's it called? VFR? Yeah. There's like different levels.

Like you can get your first license. It has to be like certain like they have to see disability. Single engine. You can't do anything. Then you get your instrument. And then you can do a whole bunch of stuff. You can, that's how you become a. commercial pilot.

I did a lot of research in this because two years ago, I was like, oh, I'm going to take two months and learn how to fly so that we can fly everywhere, private. But I pivoted. I went to sailing instead. Really? Imagine if camera was flying us everywhere the way that he drives. Well, the problem is you can't drink. Yeah, that is an issue.

But I tell you what, dude, there is a serious business jet. It's like two million bucks. You three can sit in it comfortably. It legs out like mine are right now. And it can be piloted by one person. there's a parachute. It's got the Vieth. And I don't get the stick.

I know I get the stick. But if you, if something happens to you while you're flying, one of you can press a button, the plane will literally find the nearest airport and land there. No controls needed at all. Midland's all drunk in the airplane and just fucking around and saying, we're not going to make it, boys. We're not going to make it.

Is this a thing now? Yeah. Pull up the serious business. Why don't we just buy this? Taylor. So they, in Tucson where I live now at the airport, they have a whole, in Tucson now, yeah.

You need to live in Cape Creek. They have, Cape Creek is like subpar if you want to, you know, if you're not quite at the level. So they have a squadron. They have a squadron of these in Tucson and they're gorgeous. Boys. They have a, yeah, that's the one. They're all black the ones in the Tucson. You can literally sit in the backseat.

Like if the pilot isn't right here. Let me ask you this. So my twin brother has gone, he's vacillated back and forth. And he had, um, Jack, find the price on those. He said the scariest thing ever was doing his first solo. He flew to New Mexico and back. Yeah. And once you're up there by yourself and you realize that you got to land that motherfucker,

there's that moment of the panic kind of swell. And then you have to revert to your training and how, you know, how much you actually studied. It's like the one test you don't want to fucking, you don't want to cheat on, right? You can't fail that test. And then my dad, you know, two tours in Vietnam, decorated combat pilot. He used to fly everywhere. There's a partner that had a twin engine turboprop, Cessna in the 80s. They were flying back from Park City in the 80s.

And they flew through a thunderstorm, albeit the radar and stuff is not, you know, what we have now. now, yeah. It's so much better, right? But they lost an engine, and it scared the fuck out of my dad. And he had, you know, he had six kids. And he was like, I'm done. That was it. I hope to God my wife doesn't hear what you just said.

Sorry. My twin brother says the same thing, but then he comes back like three or four years later and he gets back and do it. So I have the same. I don't know about sailboat, buddy, I don't know about sailboats, Tommy. Well, you're a, you're a beach guy. You're a beach guy. I'm like, you're a beach guy.

But I'm a beach guy. You can do it with both. I don't disheed that. How much was that budget? Three and a half million. Okay. So what's the operating cost annual? $300,000.

For maintenance? Yeah. Not including gas. Not including gas. The place you park your plane at? The hangar and it comes to the hangar? You got to have a lot. Okay, so if you're not used to, you guys go to three or for three months, you can

lease this out and it'll pay for itself and they'll make money off a two. It's three and a half million divided by five. I mean, we just go in on one and you fit five guys in it? Can you fit Taylor to the lawn? I mean, like, they'll use it. You see, I'm losing weight. You do look fit, man. I appreciate it.

I miss that part. I know. I need a back so bad. Actually, this is a question. I don't know. What do, do sports teams all have jets? They charter. They chartered.

Yeah, it depends on the sport. Like, I think basketball, they have, like, nice planes. Like, there's only like 30 seats. Yeah, but we're on United, sitting in the back. No, you're kidding. No, you're not. Well, yeah, we chartered. They're chartered.

And players. Oh, we're not in here for it. I got an additional question now, because this is exciting. It's a good, yeah, I like this. It's a good path here. Who, what's the hierarchy? Who sits where? Do you guys have a manifest?

So it depends on what team. I know Willie's had experiences with the Saints where they get to sit in, players in first class. On the Titans, that is not going to happen. It's only like, it'll be like vets and starters. The starters and then like the oldest guys on the team. Okay. But if you're a rookie in your starter, you're still going to sit a middle seat if you have to.

You're still going to have to sit with somebody. Okay. So you get up or in the ranks. You can have your whole aisle to yourself if you want. So I get a question because I was just watching Minnesota and Kirk, what, they're 7 and 1 now. Is that right? Is that 8 in 1? Yeah.

And the big, you saw it, you know, the huge celebration and all that. The chains and everything. He's dancing. That's right here. Your cousins, right? So is that? And it looks like everybody's got champagne. Like you boozing?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Everybody having drinks? Yeah. Win or lose, we still booze in the plane. You have a drink. Midland after us. You also have Uber's on the way back.

You got a drink or two to come down, right? Oh, yeah. Everybody's drinking on the plane. Not everybody, but a lot of people are drinking on the plane. Guys are drinking. This was us at the Greek theater with Mike Tyson. There it is. So that's a commercial jet.

That's a commercial plane. That's like you're united, your Delta plane. But yeah, but they charter it. So it's just players. What's the craziest thing that you've witnessed on in one of these flights? Do you want to go first? I got one in the pocket right here. We were flying.

Nice. We had to go to go to London to play against. the chargers. Will was on the team. He had a hamstring thing. He couldn't make that deal, by the way. We were just talking about this. It seems tough. What I'll say about is, like, four years later, I'm stoked. I think it's awesome. I got to play in London. That's awesome. They literally cheer harder for the punts and they do the touch-

wigs. But you leave on a Thursday. They recognize that. They're like, yeah. They like the foot on the ball. That makes sense. The punter and the kickers. Those fucking guys are through the roof.

But when you fly there, like you practice. He'd be a good soccer player. Yeah. Well, you practice Thursday. You get on a plane. You basically take two ambient. You pass out. You land in London.

If I took two ambient, I'm not waking up for a week. Okay. You take awe ambient. You take something to fall asleep. Hammer's got a great story about his mom taking ambient and not actually going to sleep. All right. We'll hit that next. So you literally, you practice in London, sleep on the, if you practice in the States,

sleep on the plane to London, get to London. You literally go, drop your bags off and you go immediately practice because you just landed Friday morning. A real deal. once you do that you have to stay up till 7.30. And then after that, like, literally, that whole day is miserable. You're so tired.

You're walking around like a zombie. The next day you wake up and you kind of beat the jet lag. It's pretty incredible. If you stick to the system, though, because if you go to sleep, if you're supposed to do it in high knees, I guarantee he had jet like he lied about. Like, that's, oh, I got to tell you that thing about him, too. Yeah.

We forgot to talk about that. No, no, no, on the, we can do on the record. But the crazy thing I've ever seen on a plane is, on the plane to London, and they did give the players the first class seats and we had the nice lay down ones. But on the way back, it's like everybody stay up. You have to stay up the whole time.

So everyone is parting like crazy. We lost like a last second couple of plays. Incredible, right? What is that? Yeah. Just give it a smell. Go ahead. No, that's the cologne.

Oh, I could do a little guy here. Yeah. You guys don't dip, do you? Have you done zins? Have you done zins? You have a zin boy? Yeah. He's a zim boy.

I'm on a zendur. I was just accusing Mark of being a zim boy this morning. Pass that up? Yeah, my wife, if... Does it go? Good for your hair, though? Is you dip? I'm like, no, I didn't dip?

Yeah. It's not good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's into the move. So, okay. So we're on the plane... About it. Okay, sorry.

We're on the plane on the way back, and I guess I can say... It's smoking a blunt on the plane. Oh, on a commercial flight. Whoa. Smoking a blunt. A flight attendant comes up to him and says, excuse me, sir, you can't do that here. And he goes, oh, okay, puts it out, walks away. She still can see him, lights it back up.

and the, didn't care the rest of the time, that plane was hotboxed the entire way from London back to the States. When you say commercial, like there were other people. No, it's a commercial, but it's only Titans and Titan personnel people, but like the whole plane, the whole way back, it's like loud music's playing. People are drinking, it's like

a little club in there. It's unbelievable. That sounds like so much fun. It is, where is it? Was it a 747? They take their own flat, I think. They take their own plane. Yeah. Was it a 747 with like the bar and stuff? No, it wasn't a 747. But it was a big enough plane where, like, you had a full laydown situation. It wasn't where you had you in, like, a little apartment thing.

But you could almost lay down. It was decently nice. Guys are partying the whole time. The whole time. Like the G. Like, when I was playing dice, you're playing poker. Yeah. When we were flying back in Washington, Scott McLuhan and all the boys were, like, playing cards.

Like, one time, guys were walking on the plane talking about how they lost 150 grand on the plane, playing dice and playing cars. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. So one more, because we're talking about that kind of stuff. One of the, like, biggest bummer things I remember hearing around a Super Bowl game. I can't remember what team it was, but it was reported that where the visiting team, or one of the teams where, like, the hotel they were staying and somebody pulled the fire alarm.

And, like, you know, three in the morning, they all had to get up, go outside of the hotel. I never leave when that happens, by the hotel. You're saying you heard that story? Yeah. That happens. Number one, has that ever happened? Number two, how much would that mess with you if that, if that happened? Before the Super Bowl.

We've slept through. We've slept through at least 100. Back in the day, we didn't care. I had nothing to live for. There's nothing to do. Did you happen to you in a way game? No, that's never happened to us on an away game. But I have, like, that would be sabotage.

That would be sabotage. Every single time we put Ohio State that happened. Every single time, that fire alarm would go off in the hotel we were staying at. But imagine the Super Bowl with the pressure you already have on. Yeah, I mean, we were one game away from the Super Bowl. One fucking game. Yeah. God, damn.

Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. Yeah. Every year, you guys put in Ohio State, you get the fire alarm. Well, we only been there twice. So, Buckeyes, give you the brown eye. Yes. What's your crazy story?

That was it. Like the G. Lost 150 grand. Yeah, I mean, I don't have a story. There's no story of somebody. Can I tell you? Can I share a story? I guess I would have been on it on the plane.

You would have been on that plane. Yeah. You would have been on that plane. I remember you being so happy you didn't. have to go. Fenest. Hey, Will, I,

Cameron asked for a question. No, I'm, I'm trying to figure out how to segue into this. He's asking for permission.

I, I heard a story back in my music video directing days, the director of photography, the guy, the camera guy,

the head of that department. DP, if you will. He's the DP. He, he'd been around for, I told you guys this story.

He'd been around for years. He was like a tenured, badass dude from New York. And he came up as Wu Tang's videographer.

And we were sitting at lunch and I was like, dude, like, what's your story? He goes, yeah, I came up with Wu Tang. And I'm like, oh, no, dude, those guys are crazy, obviously, right? You know, there's someone who's dead and the stories just go all forever. Yeah, he's like, God. Tells me the story. The craziest thing that were happening in them, they charter a, they get a private gig or something like that in Florida.

So they got a charter from New York down to Florida. they get in a, like, you know, 16 passenger jet, right? Big jet. Yeah, big jet, big PJ. And they get in five, C5. And this guy's with them because he's their videographer. And he said immediately they fire up and they start smoking crack. Oh my God.

In the plane. And the pilot is like, throws the, the door open after a while because he thinks it's like weed. Oh, yeah. I'm hip. Yeah. We're fine. And then realizes, uh-oh.

He throws the door open. He's like, put that shit out right now. He's like, this is like put it out. Like I can't, like, I'm getting secondhand. By the time it comes to landing this plane, the pilot is high on crack. Oh, my God. He's tweaking. Okay.

He landed the plane. He lands the plane. I have anxiety right now. Oh, I don't. And they open the deal. And the guy had landed in the parking lot of the airport. Okay. Because he's so high.

He's winging. He goes, get the fuck off of here. I'm going to lose my license. Holy shit. He's tweaking. Sirens. They're coming. Right?

And he's like, if you got anything on this plane right now, you better get fucking rid of it. They're like, we're wuting. We have things. Yeah. Not only. Are they obviously carrying like, you know, whatever that they've been smoking? They've got like suitcases full of cash and guns.

Contra. Contra. Oh, my. So these fools are like in taxi cabbing like the shit. And apparently they got out before the black airport cops, the black car airport cops. Yeah, you got a little bit of the left road you almost got on there. Almost. The black car SUV airport.

cop. Are they fed? I don't know. That was turbulent. That was turbulent. Ooh. But we made it. So, when you get your pilot's license.

Don't smoke crack. I think smoking pot in the back may be okay. I've never been high on secondhand smoke from marijuana. And landed a plane. But I feel who you let fly in that six feet. Crack cocaine. You inhale the secondhand smoke of it and it will make you high. Remember we met ghost face in Nashville?

Rayquan. Oh, we met Rayquan. back in the day. He was the dopest guy. We met him outside the hotel. We were coming in for a meeting and ended up chav on them. Mark, that he does once?

From? Oh, from potentially a hostile takeover on a southwest flight. Yeah. Rangler hero. Hostage takeover on a southwest flight? No, to hear the great story. This is the most random podcast I think we've ever done.

We literally landed in, we had a layover. This is years ago. It's like six years ago. We had a layover in Vegas. And we were still, this is before, this is before. This is before we had any, we were still dead broke, we were on radio tour. We've been on the road for like that year, I think we included all the radio performances.

We did like 360 shows in one year. It was insane. Every one of us had like a mental breakdown, anxiety attacks. Like, you know, we were just running on empty the whole time. So we have a layover and our flights gets canceled that we have a six hour layover in Vegas. So we get out and what do you do when you have a six hour layover? You go to the Hooters Casino. $5 blackjack, $5.5.5.5.

You go to have the best wings, and you go to the $5 blackjack tables. They're the only guys we have. And you smoke a lot of pot. Well, no, we forgot to smoke pot while we were there during the six-hour layover. But I remember that had this joint. No, you didn't. No, Mark. Yeah. Well, let me finish the story.

I have this joint. But, you know, back in the day, like, it was a little bit different, like, traveling with pot. Like, it's still basically illegal almost every state in the union. So I was like, oh, my God. So fire. up this joint and just pipe this thing. Just powerhouse it, right? Then get in the car and immediately realized within about 10 minutes that I got way too high.

Yeah. And I'm like, you know, super hungover. I'm exhausted. I'm going to get this plane. And I'm convinced that there's... I got to just say my part. Go ahead. Because this is a chronological.

So for my part of this, I sit on this plane and I'm not going to go into too much description, but the guy who sits down next... This is back when we're flying coach, you know. Sardine. Which Sardine class? You know, maybe the best airline. And so I'm in the window. Don't fly it much anymore, but it's great.

So I'm like, you know, trapped over in the window. And then the guy who sits in the middle seat, I've never in my life gotten a vibe. And I didn't even smoke pot. But the vibe I was getting off this guy. Lord knows I did. Was like the sketchiest, like, it's just there were so many, like. Combat boots.

Red flags with this guy. Looked in, cargoes. Like, really, like, fidgety the whole time and just, like, you know. Combat gear. But listen, there is potentially, when you're as high as I was, you know, you get, like a six cents, okay? And I'm sitting there. And all of a sudden, I decide that something's going to go down. And it is now my job.

Well, he's also looking. He is also looking. There's two guys, and they're communicating. They're sending text back and forth from the back to the front of the plane, right? He thinks that they're. So for some reason, because I'm tuned in. like I'm really high, right? And I'm just like, I'm seeing this.

And I'm like, oh my God, this is it. Mark, by the way, is eight rows ahead of us. Right. He's not even like. So I'm like, I'm freaking out. Okay, I'm too high. All right. I smoke sativa.

I don't usually smoke sativa. I powerhouse this entire joint. I'm a, listen, I know now I've learned on my limbs. I'm a one puff guy for an edible. Indica, really mellow. I like just a touch of anything. I don't like getting too drunk. I don't like getting too high.

I like doing any of that stuff. And, okay, just picture yourself. just being the most hungover, exhausted, and the highest you've ever been. And, you know, sometimes when you're, when you're too high on pot, it's like the scariest drug in the world. Oh, yeah, it's the absolute thing.

Mentally. So I decided that these two guys are, that these two guys are going to, like, try to take over the plane or something. It's going to be like a hostage scenario. So, like, I just go in straight, like, my dad, Marine Corps mode. And I just start, as soon as we take off,

and as soon as they say the seatbelt sign gets up, I get up and I start patrolling the plane. So here's where I turn on the face. Dude, I'm controlling the plane in cowboy boots. It's a four-hour flight. All denim. I've got a wrangler vest on. I've got, I put my cowboy hat back on.

It's a four-hour flight. Can't. Okay, so here's where I splice into this story. Vegas to wear. Vegas to Pensacola. It's four hours. Yeah, it's okay. I wake up because I had been drinking heavily in Vegas.

I've been drinking. We just never happened to anybody before. Never. So I wake up. By the way, can we talk about how dry your mouth gets on a flight when you fall asleep. It's a hydrate, dude. It's tough.

So you, a liter of fluid an hour. It's like fireman fucking Ville and you're, and I wake up and I open my eye. And Mark is doing this thing. What's Mark doing? He's walking as slow as you possibly can walk on this plane. And he's patrolling this way.

I'm facing this way. And he's got his hands for whatever reason, probably stabilizing. Yeah, stabilizing. He's running his hands across all the baggage bins. It's so good. That's so dirty. And he's looking at every single person in every row.

I'm scanning now. Scanning. And he makes eye contact with me. And I go, what's up? And he goes. He passes me. Oh, he just looks at you. He goes back.

He had that look. I had that dog in me. By the time he sits down. He's like, brother, you don't want to know what I'm looking at him like this. I didn't want to ruin Cameron's world at this point, dude. He didn't want to invite him into the hell I was in. Three in front and like one across and we're both aisle seats. Mark, I can't, I'm so

I've been asleep for hours now. I've no idea what's going on. Not me. And. That full tension. High heart. The fingers. You text?

Yeah. I check my test. All right. Can't get a hold of Jess. Yeah. But there's a couple suspicious guys on the plan. I'm keeping an eye on them. Just watch me if anything goes down.

How much anxiety? immediately. Dude, I'm already the most. Cairn suffers from anxiety. Bro. And especially flying too. I had, you know, I always travel with

a little helper guy, a little Xanax guy. Yeah. Like, I keep it in there. I never take it, but knowing I have it. So I'm fishing around. Oh, fuck. Oh, don't, I think God I got the Xanax in here. Yeah. Pull it out. It's a pebble that's been in my

pocket for a year. It's just a million. Who knows what happened to that bad boy? Oh, my God. Safe to say, we got to Pensacola. Nothing happened, thankfully, to Randall Storm. By the time we landed, the weed had worn off. Oh, no, Mark, you were so, you still believed.

I remember distinctly going to baggage claim in the story that you gave us. But Justin. That's true. That's true. No, I mean, Mark. Just it has a vibe and he wasn't. I mean, after this all happened, I was. You described the dirt on the guy?

Where were you during the flight? Did you notice what was going on? I was sitting next to the guy. I was just blown away that somebody else, especially somebody who's sitting 10 rows ahead of us, like also could get this vibe off this guy, but the best part was when Mark was going up and down the aisle, patrolling.

He didn't want to draw too much attention, so he would look at the guy through the corner of his eyes and he would just pass by and his eyes would have to go like farther or farther. Ladies and gentlemen, if you ever seen him on your flight, You can rest assured. You are very safe. So then we were all joking.

We went to our favorite pub in Pensacola. What's the called? What's the pub called that we go to the Irish pub in Pensacola? It's where all the fly boys go. My dad used to go there when he got it. My dad went to flight school in Pensacola. So it's like Malones? All the Navy Marine Corps.

What is it called? Malone. Google the Irish pub, Pensacola, where they have all the dollar bills. McGuire's Irish Pub. If you ever in Pensacola, It is one of the great pubs and bar experiences in the world. They have something like $2.3 million of dollar bills on the walls and the ceiling.

You put it on the deals. You signed a dollar bill and get to them. What was it called? Pony Post. Was it those things called? Something like that. Yeah, but it's real money. It's been insured in case the place ever burns down.

Really? It's been going for years and years. All the pilots go there. Live music. It's a great place. We came up with the name. My nickname was Randall Storm. It's Randall Storm.

That's because Air Deputy Marshal Randall Storm And to this day I think that like I never Smoke that much pot anymore Ever again You got to smoke that much pot because It was I literally

I roped a dope straight to the dome Straight to the dome Straight to that headpiece In about five minutes because we were running late All of a sudden we had a six hour layover And of course you know we're about to miss our flight though But we also we didn't say we I won like 600 bucks.

I'm sensitive. Real lot. Off like 20 or 30 bucks like I took out. That's all the name. That's a positive day. Blackjack or poker for you guys? Or are you craps guys? I like crafts.

I think it's the social game of crafts. You lose. It's a team sport. So fun. You get that, that do not pass line. Some asshole comes on that. And then, okay,

now we have somebody to hate. You got a loud voice. So craps is your guy. I do. But last time I was in Vegas, the boys doing an online trip every single year. We went to Vegas. And we start, hey,

craft table, that's what we're going to do. So we all, we get our table we're all there we start rolling we absolutely get dummied like i lost two grand like that like to the point i was like this is i've been here for 45 minutes that's the worst like so the gates so i bailed on that had blackjack the rest of time which i had maybe the most incredible hand of my life i always go to Vegas with like the thought process of i'm willing to lose this much more i'd be okay with that's that's it yes so my my end of the year thing was ten thousand dollars if i lose 10 000

then I'm that's it no more I can't lose any more than that I was down on my last $2,500 and I had a credit line I'm on the blackjack table I get a seven or got to get two sevens got to split it so I have to go hey let me get $2,500 more they give me $2,500 more now I'm past my $10,000 mark yeah get another seven you got to split that are you supposed to split sevens against what uh it was that what you're against the four mark is it's all about what you're splitting yeah it's all and I'm a super conservative like I'll hold on 15 sometimes. I'm a Republican.

I'm super conservative on the poker table. So like I end up getting four sevens. Wow. Yes. Lucky. First one. Nicol and dime my way all the way to 21. How much money is on the table?

So, $2,500. No, it's $10. $10. I have $10 on the table. I'm already about to lose my $10 grand. So I'm about to be in the whole. Another $10.

Close to $20. Oh, yeah. Close to $20 at this point. So your boy, I'm sweating. Yeah. But you nickel and that. I nickel and dime the first one at 21. I nickel and dime the second one to 21.

That's tough. I nickel and dime the third one at 21. I am now hit 321s. I'm living the fucking dream. The next card that flips over on that seven is a four. Got a double. Oh, my God. Give me another $2,500.

$1,500 down. And just like that, I was back. I was, it was the greatest. I had all my friends around me. It was like four to five, Kikilas in. Oh, my God. It was like one of those. Elated.

You couldn't believe it. The boys were high fiving. was maybe my greatest gambling moment in my entire life. I've had those. I would argue you're in a moment like that, like maybe one of the best vibes of all times. The feeling you get. It's like winning the Super Bowl.

I mean, it's like, I would assume. It's like a relation to think about it. I would assume. What moment, yeah, outside of like winning the World Series or Super Bowl or something like that. Like, when else are you feeling something like that? Oh, I don't know.

I don't know. And that's why Vegas is built up so big. Like that, the lure of experience in that, you know, the quick money. There's nothing. But it's smart to have that. That is... You've got to have your number.

You've got to have your number down. And then you have to walk away. Because there's those that I'll double it back. I'll get it back. Yeah. I can't give myself one or two of those. I do too. Yeah.

You got to have a buffer to your buffer. I'll get to the... Everything in moderation, including moderation. I'll get the roulette and just bet on the outside and I'll figure it. Yeah. When you go bowling, you don't put one bumper up. You put your roulette guy. I've hit roulette.

I've hit my number like twice. Have you heard Pat McAfee? I'm playing numbers on roulette, dude. You know what, one time? Red or black, Otter even. If I lose, I double back. I mean, if you hit a number on roulette. Take you back to eat.

Yeah, tell you back to. I hit your number on a rule of a lot. I've never done that. I've never done it. Twice. And if you, if that happens, you're, you kind of chase that feeling like forever. There's nothing like when, like that, huh? Yeah.

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We like to talk about it. We're the worst at self-promotion. Every interview we do, we just end up just joking and bullshit. I remember at Soho House. The bit at Soho House is like one of my most fun times I've had. That was a fun night. That was an outstanding night. To give you guys your flowers,

I think what you guys do, it's twangy enough to almost like you're making fun of it a little bit. I like it. Really? I love the direction you guys are headed, which is what I want to talk about with the country music stuff is, you guys could easily just go sell out, put a couple beats on your music,

and then all of a sudden, you're on multiple radios, because you guys don't do that. No, I think actually the inverse or the reverse of what you might think would happen, it would happen to us. Really? We did that now.

We would lose everything. We would lose the fans. and have. Yes, I think that would have them. And then fans that we don't have would listen to us and be like, this doesn't sound like these guys. This doesn't sound like authentic to these guys and or we wouldn't get fans that would last. So it would blow up in your face like a firecracker.

Even if we knew we were going to get paid, we still wouldn't do that. And that is, that'd be like you playing football in a way that you felt was demeaning to your character. You know what I mean? It is a little different in the game. football. I got a price for anything. No, I mean, but the style of which, the style of which you play. Not the team, not the team, but like the way you play on the field, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Dirty? Yeah. Just win. I have a little bit of a, I have a little bit of a different perspective of that because I think it's really actually difficult to put a finger on the Midland sound because I do think that our influences are quite vast and spans across genres. you know, from rock and roll to R&B to soul,

there's elements of gospel, there's bluegrass, the blues, you know, there's good old country and Western. It's all kind of fused in there. So I think that what happens is when people and artists will take like an outside song or they'll take the direction of a record label or an A&R guy or girl and a producer,

and they'll kind of let them, take them out of their realm of authenticity. So I think you actually do have quite an expansive circle to make music that not everybody can say is like that one thing. Because I think that's actually putting yourself in a little bit of a box. But you said a difference of opinion to whose opinion? Well, maybe, I don't know, whatever you guys are saying, maybe they're just adding to.

I had a thought to put onto it. And I do think that Midland, what the fun thing about that is, having three artists and three different perspective, it does expand that sound and that idea. And, you know, it's, who knows the direction where we're going to go. But for me personally, I feel like our latest album, The Last Resort, Greetings from, has been an evolution and a progression for us. And I think with every album starting chronologically to the Sonic Ranch, then to On the Rocks, then to let it roll, then to The Last Resort, I think you're seeing like a progression.

a progression in the quality of the songwriting and also in in the sonic quality of it you know i think it is expanding and growing but i understand that people the first you know when you're first exposed to an artist you know it has a it's that first that first impression right it has a i think people impact on you yeah i mean i'm i'm a big fan of you guys this music i love i love what you guys do i think your biggest selling point is the three of you though it's you guys playing beer pong in the audience at an award show. It's you guys having, you're the style you guys do and people look at and they're going like, what are they up? What are they doing? What are they up? So you guys carry yourself in a way that people are going to be attracted to. And that's going to bring you to music, bring you to your music.

And I think when you look at what, like, what you guys do, how you guys act and how you guys are approaching things from the outside looking in or from the outside, you can see like it matches up with your music perfectly. Thank you, dude. That's very sweet of you to say. I'm with it. Appreciate you, brother. Yeah, I appreciate it. Okay, well, and now you're, and now you're, you. No, well, what do you got? Piggybacking off Taylor. I like to just kind of repeat a couple of things.

What he said. It's hard. It's hard. To say what he's saying or not to. Regers just love you guys. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was fantastic. He was like meeting up with you guys. Like, I remember my first year here.

And I think we were over at, um, man, where was it? Urban Grub. Spotify party. Oh, okay. A couple years ago. At all right. guys were back somewhere and Taylor was just so stoked to go back and like hang out with you guys.

Yeah, we met at the... I love the Midland Boys lot. I love the vibe. We met at the CAA. The beer pong. That's where I was like, these guys. So that beer pong. I'm completely honest, I did not, I had not heard one song.

That party, so this party, the CAA beer pong tournament. And they, everybody got mesh red football jerseys. Yeah. You know, when you show up. And we cut the sleeves off ours and we crop top. them. So that was our vibe. And this is a CA party. Like there's higher ups there.

There's big names there, small names there. But everyone's kind of trying to figure out where everyone matches up. And I'm with, uh, shout out to Utah. And we're like, yeah, we were partners, whatever. And I see these three dudes acting like belligerent idiots. And I'm like, how can I get around them? Well, no.

How can I be around this? And then we play each other. It was fake blowing each other. They're like, they're doing the most ridiculous things. I'm playing people. I was like, this is exactly what I want to be around. Then you guys like, you should come to old red. And literally, I left that situation. I put the music on and I was like, oh, I fuck, I get it.

I mess with it. I think we like to have fun. And that's how we blow off steam. And we handle the pressure and the business and the kind of the schedule of it all. The three of us are having a great time. But we take the music really seriously. And we take the, you know, we take the quality of it and the performance and stuff. But we're having, we're having fun.

And I think that's just we're, we're, it's not lost. us that we're going to make music for living. This should be fun. And yeah, you can be a serious artist, but, you know, look at the stones. Look at the Beatles. They were the funniest motherfuckers that you'd ever seen, you know?

Yeah, I mean, we blow off steam. I mean, steam's our roadie. Like, he's always hanging out. I think he, the authenticity of like. Steam would be a good, safe word. Steam. Team. Guys, we've already read hot.

Listen, now we're going to, if he's too soon. But there is, there's a level that people want to be around because I think in a world we live in today, social media, everyone's trying to be somebody the TikToks, all that stuff. When you see somebody acting a certain way, it's why it's so attractive for people want to be around it. That's why

Willie is... There's not a lot of... Person who want to be around. He's an authentic cat. He's being himself always. No, you guys... Let me give you guys your flowers first. Now you guys don't know. Look, I've become an obsessive fan.

You guys know this. I text you all the time now. And I'm glad that you guys had a chance to... Or we got to figure this out where we can come back on and hopefully we could do this again because I felt like after literally listening to hundreds of hours

of your guys's pod now, the Midland one was the most chaotic. Yeah, but that's beautiful. Narnly. Yeah. Yeah. So this has been so much more of a pleasant share.

Growth. To beyond that is growth, definitely. But we gotta get a cut of how many times Cam puts his hand on Mark's leg. No. It's happened 17 times. I'm communicating with him.

I like it. No. But you guys, you got that stick for a while. You guys are, no, this thing, we totally hard and huge that stick is. You guys are great, charismatic. You're definitely, I hope that this is like, growing up how we probably grew up, specifically you and I, specifically you and I, in a big family and, like, around a lot of sports. And with a lot of shit.

it talking. It was, it was, it was, it's very familiar the way that you guys get on, you know. And I actually have your, your particular brand of it is like overwhelming like positivity. That wasn't our brand when growing up. Like it was shit on your buddy as hard as you can in front of other friends. Yeah, I was baptized in that. Yeah. And like that, that's how it is with my brothers, you know, like there is no flowers. Barely ever. In fact, I'd give a speech the other night after the Greek that gave my brother flowers, and it might have been our, like, closest moment of all time ever. Granted, I was on drugs, but I meant every word of it.

But I like what you guys do in that you can have conflict, but also there's, like, it's always positivity forward. There's a humor in it, too, which I find really infectious. Like, it's, and it's genuine. So, like, you guys have tapped into that, which is why I believe your pod is so successful and will continue to grow because you're influencing a whole, generation of

dudes, let's be honest it's probably 98% listeners. I think we're at yeah, it might be generous but yeah. 99.8. Yeah, that's probably right. And and point two women that don't know their sexuality yet. Yeah, they're outstanding though. Well, we got, there's a couple out there.

Because you guys are hot. Well, I think my mustache back, but I appreciate them. We need that thing back in a hurry. No, I think it's cool. It's changed my whole philosophy on, on I can't go, talking. I can't go backwards, with my brothers, I just can't do it. But with the boys,

I have noticed that I've changed my approach to getting yucks, but also like, because that's how you, we live on the road. It's the same thing. It's like being a sports team. Like, you have to engage people. You can't just be blowing each other all the time about, so great, fucking all this shit. Yeah, there's no question. It's not funny. Yeah. It's not how I like to spend my time. It's not cerebrally fucking challenging. Like, figuring out of diss somebody,

in a funny way that doesn't destroy them. Now that's interesting. Can I share the first text chain that the three of us were on when we were like very first starting this band like early, like for a few messages? And I have no recollection. Well, I called you because you...

I don't know how I remember this because I do have the worst memory, but you guys were going to go to the old place and it was like, Mark was like, hey, why don't you swing by and pick me up? because I'm like on your way or something like that. And you're like, no, I'm not going to pick you up. And Margo's like, why wouldn't you?

Just like, you know, all you got to do is. Well, you're just reading this. And then it just devolves into like, you know, just the like craziest, you know, shit talking ever. And it's just, and to me, like I grew up in the country with a sister who's way older than me. Cut off from society, basically, no TV and stuff like that. So I wasn't from that background. And it was like so over the top, like this. their shit talking, that I literally called

Cameron up and I was like, dude, it's like, the band already over? Like, is your friendship? Like, are you like, what are you talking about? You're not, you're not friends with Mark? Like, no, I'm picking up, but I fucking need. Like, you're not friends with Barre? That rifle that night.

Yeah, we did. We did discharge a rifle that night. It was your birthday. Yeah, on the way home. Yeah. No, it is a learned. It's a learned, and Jess has had to roll the punches. God bless them.

I still don't know how. You know, it's like, we'll be like, in Jess, and I'll be like, I'm going to slit your throat while you're sleeping tonight. Yeah. And they'll be like, what? That's too far. And that's like, bro.

You see to me for real. Like a friendship really hits when you can just like insult that person beyond belief. Like really just tear him down. And that's when I feel like me and this person are now. I would say that is one of the things that I've learned the most probably from being in this. Because in, and that's a necessary. I see outfits that are out on the road bands that don't have that. And man, if you can't have a daily dose of laughing really hard.

on the road, dude, it's not a good. It's how you navigate. It's how you navigate all the pressure and stuff. It's honestly, it's... And boredom. And boredom. And it's tough. It's not easy.

Like the amount of time that we spent, you guys know, I mean, you know, the amount of energy and burn that you have to do being a pro athlete, the amount of travel and the amount of sacrifice you got to do and being away from home, being away from your family, it's really tough, man. So you got to go out and have, you got to have the, most fun testosterone yeah there's a lot of that wow that I mean you guys with the wieners out and all that stuff there's a lot of big winners there's a lot of big winners and all that stuff yeah okay so last night so this is last night camera and I

are at the BMI Awards all three of us and camera and I go to the bathroom at the same time and there's two bathrooms it's confusing one is just stalls right and we end up in that one it's only me and Cameron and then another guy comes in he goes into a stall and he's taking a leak standing up and he just rips the most like like a sound effect fart right like just like and cameras washing his hands at this point

and he goes I'd like to sign you to a record deal son he goes that was a beautiful song a little bit too boy I'd like to sign you to a record deal the guys started laughing

oh shit that's fucking awesome yeah man what else boys growth I got to take growth. Speaking of growth, Wildcats, already three times.

Three times as many wins last year, okay? How many wins you guys have? I'm sorry. That was that. Three and five. We've been playing them close. We lost, I mean,

we were in the game, we were in the game, we were in the biggest penis. What is the one? We're going to get out of this somehow. I was going to ask, oh, wow. Have you guys everything close to breaking up?

Yes. Yeah. I think, like actual breakup. I think if COVID didn't hit, and if we didn't get a break in 2020, and have a reset and have a chance to release the Sonic Ranch, release the documentary of the Sonic Ranch,

and kind of all reflect on how far we'd come. I think you kind of lose sight of that sometimes, the starting point to where you're at. You know, if you're going like around the world, you kind of forget about the first two towns that you went to maybe. And I think that was a full reset for us when it was kind of taken away from us. And, you know, we're basically on the road. That never ends.

Imagine that. Never, no off season. Dude, your brain starts to diminish into mush. And I can, for one, tell you guys, everyone's sitting in this room, like, I was not the best partner and bandmate. Like, you know, when the jokes start to get a little too real. Yeah. And your buddy is like, what's behind that? Like, that was me a lot, you know?

Like, just utterly. Trying to find a place for that anger to go. Right. You know, like, how do I get off this fucking, this wagon? You do get to that point just from exhaustion, you know? And I feel like that exhaustion has brought us to the brink sometimes. But I think deep down there's always that knowing that I think the three of us would really regret it and miss it. It's like a marriage.

You know what I mean? It's like you might get in a really big fight. But if you actually split up, you know, you would really regret it and miss it. It's not like a marriage. It is a marriage. But it's imagine, you know, introducing a third party. It gets complicated. I mean, we don't.

You can. I mean, you could, but we don't. Maybe we should. That might... You know what? We don't have sex with each other. But... I don't know.

Are we going to address some rumors? Mark has been talking an awful lot about howl. I mean, I'm reading this book about Mick Jaggie right now, and it's like, it's, it's, it's unbelievable. We might try. Wild, how he didn't is. Yeah, I try everything twice. Right? I think 13 times.

I mean, like here, like right now. I mean, we're going to try this. I think now where we're at, it's so hard to break through as an artist. And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, It's fucking impossible. Literally 99.9% of the people that try it, they never break through to the point where you actually have a body of work. It's only getting harder.

And you have a fan base that is sustainable basically for the rest of your career. I feel like even if Midland never had another hit or never on the radio again, I feel like we could have a great living just being a touring act, like The Grateful Dead or like Jimmy Buffett, just because our live show is so good. And I'll put the stamp on that. I mean, dude, we've already preempt. proven that. We haven't had a hit since burnout.

We're like a number one. We're the Mike Tyson of playing live. That's right. You know what I mean? Like there's, we're Mike Tyson when it comes to concerts. Or Van der Holefield, you know, the toughest band out. We're, we're, broken through and where we're at now. And, you know, now we're back to kind of, you know, cruising. It's easy. It's not as much friction. But the amount of friction that we had, you had to, you had to overcome to get to this place was unbelievable.

And that, of course, created exhaustion and, you know, you're, you, you're, you, it's, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, it's, you're, you're. it created a lot of tension between the three of us. Plus what we do, you got to, as you guys probably know, and people listening, like, music is a deeply personal thing. And it's a deeply subjective thing. And it's a deeply opinionated thing when you're making it. So all that tension is always kind of lying around.

And how you navigate that is, is the point of differentiation between bands that break up and don't make it and bands that succeed and make it. You know, you don't see a lot of bands. that do keep it going. You know, the stones are one of the only ones, but they still had a rotating cast of characters. You know, people didn't survive it.

The Eagles didn't. They changed cast of characters. And it's not an easy thing. Like 102. Speaking up, boys, I don't know if you've heard the news, but you guys might be playing a concert in Cape Creek Arizona come October next year.

That would be great. Have you heard? We haven't heard. We remember. I've talked to your manager. Yeah. He told me what you guys. It'd be great.

Would you guys charge it. And then he said to me, he goes, he knows you. He guys might be able to get a discount. I said, no. I don't want the discount. Well, think about it like this.

I want the boys to come and be happy. I've always thought about that in respect to that, which, whatever, take it or leave it. But I feel like that is like art, right? I don't believe in getting discount art. If you're buying art for your house, don't negotiate the guy down. I disagree. I'll negotiate anything. I'm Greek.

No, fuck that. If that's the market value, I want to pay what the market value is for a piece of art. That's how I feel about. art's a little different because it's so subjective and it's yeah but i'm not like going like that's great i love it i want it but i want 10 000 off with art you set a precedent so if you actually paid that that actually factors that's what i'm saying this is exactly what i'm saying thank you mark so you're on the same side of him we can't tell i don't know man i'm just like when you were when you woke up getting knocked out right now what happened dude what are we talking about NASCAR drivers and hockey

it's like a hockey player what does that mean i meant that hockey players are the they're fucking tough, dude. You think they're the toughest sport? No. I don't think they're the toughest sport because they don't make as much contact as football players. I think that they are the

I, I, I, they're, there's been sitting on my brain for a while. You said that earlier. Yeah, we were kind of, we were on something way different. Yeah, I know, I know. You want to know. You want to know. I love about Harvey Will.

You want to know what the toughest sport is? You want to know what the fucking toughest sport is? Golf. Yeah, exactly. I mean, maybe like mentally. Mentally. No, you know, skill-wise, it's still fucking hard. But everybody does it.

I'm so frustrated. No, I disagree. I bet the tolls of the stress that you go through, fucking learning how to play golf and trying to get better at it, probably causes more heart attacks and stress and cancer and shit. Well, then you shouldn't be playing golf that. Well, I'm thinking about quitting, to be honest, you. I got to pull it back, right?

No, no. Guys, let me, let me go. I think we're going to go out. Every sport is the job of sport if you aren't naturally inclined towards it. Dude, I see John Daly. It's a gift. The guy is a gift.

Yo, law gave you a gift, girl. I think it has been hard for most people to pick up golf because most people are not naturally inclined towards it. And the thing is, it's the most accessible, right? So you got a lot of guys. It's not like, boys, let's go play football. The most accessible sport is basketball. Yeah.

You know what I think about? Accessible sport is basketball. Yeah. But I think the hardest sport, like to me, basketball, you got five guys out there. Yeah, but if you're talking about what's the hardest sport? Just learning basics. Right. Going to just, uh, you go to, basketball is not hard.

Because you can go. You can go. Yeah. F one. Shooting. Right. Those are the basics. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I would agree with you. I think golf, I don't think golf, I don't think golf has got a real argument in this situation here because anybody, everybody, everybody at every age is picking up a club. At every age. I've seen dudes who can barely fucking walk. You get up and twerk the hardest sport. The hardest sport?

The hardest sport to play? Football. That. No. You know what I think about a lot for some reason? You used to skate when you're young. Buddy, it's not like, okay. Okay, hold on.

Wait, hold on. Because I was dancing around this. Dude, so here's what I think about a lot for some reason. Like, the most difficult sports? Who ranked it? Ross from friends? Boxing. Baseball number two, ice hockey three, football four, water polo five, golf six,

seven rugby, eating water, eating wires, very hard. Nine is hard, but tough. And skiing. Surfing is way harder than any of those. Do you guys never think... Surfing is extremely hard. Okay. How big was you're bored?

15 feet? Yeah, just stand in the white. He's on a paddleboard. Surfing is not. You're surfing, my jee. Huffing is hard. Hold on. Hold on.

I'm gonna say this. Have you guys... Do you guys ever think about, like, what sport could you accidentally... It was just smash something right there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What?

Be careful with the camera. What sport? We can't afford more. What sport could you accidentally like look like you knew how to do for like one second? Like basketball, you know. What do you want to do? Like, do you guys ever think about that? Maybe all of them.

Except for skateboarding. If you saw me do a practice. That's the only one you can't. Oh, that's a nice. Isn't that you into the thing? Like, like, so let's say like a buzzer beater like one of Jordan's right. like in this crazy world of luck, somebody else could come in there,

get the ball and sink it, right? In skateboarding, nobody could ever by luck, go do a kickflip, like rail slide down a 12 stair, ever. No, I agree that. I can kind of get on board with that. That's not a bad argument.

I think, you know, what is the argument? Is it such a hard deal? And what's the deal with scooters? What are we doing with the scooter stuff? That's like the new stream sport deal. Unfortunately, it's cool as fuck. Like, my wife's cousin, he does scoops.

All I watch is the slams. I started doing it. I started skateboarding the young age. Oh, oh, sorry, guys, sorry. Rugby is the hardest sport of all time. Rugby's hard. It's tough. It's the toughest sport on the body.

Yeah. You play. I can get on board. And the pile of those guys are putting fingers in the butt. It's the easiest sport. What would you say? What do you say is? What do you think is the hardest thing that's?

do, it could be hitting a fastball. But you might get lucky and do that. No way. I would say, guys have been into the ring and not getting knocked out. I play baseball 300 means you're good. No, from a talent standpoint, the hardest thing to just pick up and do would be hockey or skateboarding. No, I can pick, I can play hockey.

We're surfing. I can pick up and do it. Surfing at a professional level. I grew up in California. I can put skates on right now. Do loops. I can do shit. I can get on it and go.

I can do go. I can skate backwards. Sometimes I skated. A decade ago. Where are you saying roller skaters? I can skate backwards. Immediately getting on ice right now. Buddy, I listen.

I love you to death and you know that. I think you're a fantastic friend. $300. $300? Yeah. $300. I've already got a bet for $300. I know.

I'm echoing the $300 here. You can get on skates right now and go skate like you know how to skate. $300. $300. What do I do? How do we do this? Well, I'll call it. somebody. Yeah, we'll call somebody. Yeah, we'll call somebody. Yeah,

you got, you got to know somebody plays to the Predators. Immediately put them suckers on. I could do, I could do, I could, or I could do Roller Blaze. You can do stops, both sides. Wait, you're adding things. You just said skate like you know how to. You got to stop. I could stop. Not to drag your heel behind it. Oh, I can stop.

You can, oh, thousand percent. Left foot, forward and right foot. I feel like I could figure that really fast. If you give me the full pads and stuff. Yeah, really fast. I think I could figure that out. I just like drilling with basketball. Jack, you got a lawyer boy. I started rollerblading. You know a guy with a roller rink?

To me, it's like doing drills with basketball. Like, you do it enough. Like, you'll figure out how to... Right, but I'm talking about getting it. He's immediately getting in the ice. You're going to be ankle bending and grabbing the corners before 15 to 9. Hey, you know what? This works out because we're going to Bridgestone in like an hour.

So... Bro, so we've defined it. Hardest sport at the highest level? Basketball. At the highest level. Hardest sport of the highest level. Easiest sport to start? Surfing.

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Apple Podcasts or listen early and add free by joining Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. Back to the episode, enjoy Thanksgiving. All right, boys, shout out for no free shoutout. It's a segment. Do you know what Shout, No Free Shout It is? Mm-mm. They don't know. Yeah.

Shout out, No Free Shouted is giving a little bit of love to the little things in life. For instance, Will's shout out, no free shout out last week, which was what two days ago? Mm-hmm. was the walking escalators at airports. Yeah, which was a great one. That's a fantastic shadow. I don't know if you shout out. But the way that,

the way to do this in the best, in most successful ways, to all the lead up to the thing. Yeah. So how are you going to present what this is? You're the expert. Sometimes you just go cut and dry. Yeah, you did cut and dry that a walking escalator

and it hit immediately. In sandwiches. Look, man. I've been thinking about this. Oh, hey, you just reminded me in mine. I mean, I'll, Jack's going to go first. We already have five and the mics are all set up over there. Okay, so we'll start.

I'll be the Lambda Slaughter here. Do I mean, I can go if you want to. Do you want me and Will to go? You go first because I want you. Yeah, you guys go first. Okay, right, all right. Go ahead, brother. All right.

My shout out, no free shout out. Go to those times when you might go to, not the best restaurant in the world. Maybe it's a fast food place. And you get to that condiment section. Usually everyone's got the ketchup. They got the mustard. But those few times you get there,

and they have the squeezy, dispensable ranch. When you get that dressing around your food, it makes everything so much better. And to know that you have a luxury of infinite ranch that you don't have to go and ask that individual, that waitress or waiter, and say, excuse me, sir, I get a couple more of these,

and it gives you that dirty look like, my God, this may can really put down the ranch. Yeah. I can just go back up, get my paper cup, fill that thing up. Start dipping them for us. And so my shout-out, no-free shout-out goes to, infinite ranch.

I love that. I'm a ranch buff. How do you feel about blue cheese? I've come towards it and now it is like integral to my... If blue cheese is a person, I would commit first degree murder. I hate blue cheese. I can't stand it. Worst thing on the planet.

I love cheese in general. All right, we're getting sidetracked here. Cheese in general. Yeah. You do a little bit of talk. You can do a little bit of... I know you listen. But we were talking about ranch.

I eat all kinds of cheese. But ranch goes on smoke is my favorite. Pucking everything in mind. You know what I was going to show. shout out today, but I decided against it because I thought I'd be petty. I was going to shout out hot sauce. Oh, well. Because I think there's a place that hot sauce can make everything a little bit better.

Bottle Rocket hot sauce, some of the greatest incredible stuff. It is pretty incredible stuff. All right. Willie, what you got, babe? Listening to your guys, I'm joking. Listen into your guys' almost breakup story earlier. Gave me my shoutout, no free shout out.

My no free shoutout goes to apologies. When you can swallow your pride, set your ego aside, empathize on the other side, and deliver a good, genuine apology, I think that takes a big person. Like I did earlier. Yeah, yeah, like you did earlier. It just reminded me, it's like, man, apology's like.

Like somebody who's at least 5'10 in boots, like a big guy, big person. That's a big guy. Why are you going to play in? You're catching straight in the middle of the shot. You deserve that same. You just didn't meet with one a second ago. I did not. But my shout-out, no-free shout-out goes to apologies.

Like, I think they're, you know, they're an unsung hero in a disagreement. Oh. They're not thought about a lot. That's an outstanding shout-out, no-for-shad-up. Yeah, I love that. That's a... Jack, why are you smiling back there, dude?

What do he... I wasn't thinking about that, but... Oh, what did Jack do? What did Jack do? What Jack asked for? Yeah, I, you know, I wasn't going to talk about it. You know what the best... Were you hungry?

I feel... Yeah, part of a little hungover. Mark's on a... He was a little, kind of like... Mark... Spade and Spade a little late getting up. Mopey. He came down to some...

It was his birthday. Oh, happy birthday, Jack. You guys have an extra bottle of water. I don't know what happened about it. But he came down with some bad energy and some, like, bad vibes on into like... Brother, what's going on? Yeah. Like, you just...

Remember, I got it, guys. Mark is a better... Moble sugar. And he gets, he turns into a... It's a Snickers commercial with him. Really? He does a lot of apologizing. Yeah.

For that. are they good apologies sometimes they are sometimes it's like too sorry i'm hungry i was hungry it's like bro it's like okay you're giving yourself an excuse yeah there's nothing worse and it's like dude I'm sorry that you got I'm sorry that you got offended you know I mean oh that's not an apology sorry you're offended by by me you know best thing about I feel so good to apologize when you know you just literally annihilated the whole debacle I'm good I have so much pissing me I'm with you I'm with you and anything to forgive people. Yeah, and it really takes

like you checking yourself. Like you really, like, not suppressing, but like, just saying I'm sorry. But I'm sorry because, like, I can have some weak apologies where I'm not really meaning it. I know it comes off that it can come off. No, there's nothing worse than a insincere apology. It's something more infuriating than that. And there's nothing worse than apologizing and then 30 minutes later

being like re-accused and be like it's still being mad after you've already apologized. I apologize for that. This is starting to get real personal here. I got one. Come on. How many people are married here, okay? I hear what I hear you say.

You know, Taylor knew exactly. I get it. Go Jess next? Yeah, go Jess. All right, my shout-out, no free shout-out. I love how he did the head, too. That was outstanding. Well, I took it from Will's.

That was great. I thought that's what we're supposed to do. That is, it is. It's probably right. He doesn't want it's a shout out No free shout out I just look away This one is based off of the guy

Who always brings The room service at the Joseph Hotel Who is the sweetest human being Like on the like I don't even know how it's possible To be such a sweet human being So my shout out is to The value of a smile Oh

That somebody That somebody gives you Just in your day you know like this guy I don't know how he's like always chipper yeah I didn't get him this morning bro we have been talking about this oh incredible day on our travels we travel a lot okay so we go to a lot of restaurants we go to a lot of hotels you know you deal a lot of airlines and what I'm finding is that there is a general lack of number one of pride in what you're doing there's we're starting to see just an erosion of general civility and politeness I'm gonna run out and pee while you say that. Go ahead. But I don't want to miss your shout out.

That's, I would. Go ahead. We'll fill a buster. You need a talk more? Yeah. You got to keep going. You got to be so bad. Go ahead.

Go pee. It's all right. Will and I fire ourselves all the time. Oh my God. Have you ever had this thing? What's the deal? What's the deal? What's going on?

You know, I'm in mid-stice. Go ahead. You know, I'm in mid-stance right here and everybody walks out. Be careful. You still got a camera on me or? Yeah. You know? Where's your camera to get?

my brother. I get no respect. Go piss. I'm in the mid-sentence. You know, I am pontificating on something rather profoundly, and everybody just walks out to take a piss, right? I get no respect. Lead singer never gets respect, you know what I mean?

Rodney Dangerfield, everybody. Now, imagine if the lead singer walked out on those two guys. Mark, be honest, have you ever thought about, like, leaving and doing your own thing? Oh, no, are we on the record now? Hey, let them know. We won't tell them. Well, I'm happy that the shout-out, no-free shout-out.

Are you giving yours right now? No, no, no, I've got one. But it came to me because first, it's interesting. This is a great little tradition. I'm going to start doing this with my wife. Wait you here too. Well, we did tear talk. Let me have a, I'm a Zen boy.

I'm a Zender. Zinder. Zend. Oh, hey, listen. My, speaking of Zin, so I grew up in a ranch and I enjoyed, we started doing plugs, right? I had, like, a bar of tobacco, like, soaked in molasses, and you bite off of it. You should chew it. You just chew on it. Like the old school.

Oh, my God. Sounds incredible. I just steal. dips of Red Man for my dad a chew when I was like six. I love it. But I know it's terrible for you. So I'm always getting like my mouth check and I don't do it very often. Yeah. But on road trips, especially when I used to drive the van, you know, or drive the truck on tour, because I was the driver.

I would load up on the thing of Red Man. And I just piece. There's something. It's so disgusting, the amount of saliva that it produces, but there's something so gratifying about that, that huge spit. It must dehydrate the living fuck out of you. It's got to. It has to, right? I also grew up on a ranch, and there was just an endless supply of chewing tobacco at all times. My first taste was skull apple. And I did it,

and I thought it was incredible. Mine was Copenhagen straight, and I threw up so, I threw up for fucking 30 minutes, dude. Yeah. My brother-in-law gave me to me. No, I didn't, I didn't throw up. I was friends with this kid named Whalen Whalen who had braces. So the way he taught me to do it was, I take a little bit, roll it up in a ball and put it in. So I was doing, like, I was

microdosing tobacco. So I did that for a little bit. Went to his house. a skull vanilla. I'm a huge vanilla guy. Like vanilla ice cream is my shit. Oh, wow. I can hate vanilla. Okay. We'll unpack that in a second. And banana flavor. Really? Anything flavored banana? Don't bring it out. Don't bring

up the power bars now. Oh, my God. I'll throw up. Just to remind you. What time is it right now? Oh, we're good. We've got a fucking roll. We're going to finish this segment and then do you go talk and then the fuck I'm supposed to wear. No, we'll be a fine. We'll be all right. So we got to roll soon.

Yeah. Well, whatever Jazz Pack, we'll finish this up. We're going to finish this and we'll do Tier Talk. Can you guys start figuring out what we're going to do for Tier Talk? Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving sides. Oh, fuck. Are we literally talking about this yet? No, usually take a break.

He was in the chat, right? It was in the chat. Yeah, how wild was that group chat we were in when he was talking about Will hasn't gotten back to me. I was like, what are you talking about? Is the thunderstorms going in the brain? Can we talk about how Cameron just took a piss break in the middle of fucking? the podcast while I was literally in mid-sentence dude it's a common deal it's a common deal jess are you going to piss yourself how long dude it was literally ask jess it was like

austin powers comedy piss i have a superhuman ability to hold my piss i can hold my piss for six hours if i had to while drinking beer um i can't actually i'm and it's getting worse yeah what did jonathan terrell say i've got the bladder the size of a caprice son they were my twin brother has to pee every 20 minutes. Okay, so hold on. The shadow, no for shadow of Mark. Mark, go. I was just saying that I think that there's a general, there's a, there's an eroding sense of civility, politeness, and also just a passion for doing what you're doing, the best you can do it. And by enjoying it, knowing that you're doing this job, hopefully to get to the next level, to get to somewhere else. And the only way to glean everything, because I truly believe that there is so much to learn from every position coming from a guy

that I've done every job from shoveling shit to washing dishes to bussing, no, to, I'm finished it is, to bartending to, uh, god damn, you name it like I've done it all. He held a thought. I was a repo guy. I used to repossess people's cars as a freshman in college. I've done it all. And I always took a certain pride in whatever that job was mastering it and getting to

be the best with whoever is working with. I just feel like people aren't doing that these days. I just feel like people are getting fucking rudder and ruder and ruder. that's what I'm saying. I don't know if you guys see that in your travels. The adversity I've had to overcome in my life.

Like, it's always been vision. It's been processed. I'm just, I'm just, fuck. Yeah. You're honest,

I'm there. I was just saying, I was about to get into it, do you? I think Jess is... I was just saying, like, Mark takes Jesses

and then he just starts going on. Yeah, I'm not about it. I'm saying, we're talking about this. I did it to the best of my ability,

you know? I did. I repoed the fuck out. The first would come running out. Do you want to do your shoutout next? Yeah. I'll do my shoutout for no shoutout. Shout out.

No free shout out. Shout out. Shout out. Shout out. There you go. The no free. You got it. He's got it.

You're doing so good right now. I'm really good right now. I don't think that has to do with head movements, does it? I don't know, man. Just let me do my shout out. No free shout out. That's my bad. Is that what it is?

Yeah. No free shout out. I got it. Ask on the sidebar where that origin of that is. All right. So it's Tuesday, October 22nd. Okay. And you have just, you've been going, going, going all day, and you're finally just getting a moment and you've been holding in this huge shit, right? And you go and take a beautiful dump, right? And then now you've got back from the gym.

All right, take that dump and you go take a shower, right? And you're thumbing through your closet, okay? And you kind of get a glimpse of something in the back, right? and you dig through your jeans, right? And you're like, oh, my God, I forgot that I own this pair of pants. What is the dumping? It's a favorite pair of pants. And you haven't, you know, oh, my God, I forgot about these fucking pants. Right? Yeah.

And so all of a sudden you get this little thing of excitement, right? And he pulled those pants out, right? And now all of a sudden you're like, oh, I'm going to fucking put this outfit together, okay? I'm going to go have drinks with the boys. and now it's coming together and you're feeling really good and you put that pair of fucking pants on. All right?

And they fit great. Oh, they're yours. And then you reach into that pocket. And there's $27 of cash sitting in your fucking pocket. Oh my God. And you feel like you just won the fucking lottery, right? All of a sudden, now your mind is racing

what you're going to do with this $27. Now you show up to the fucking valet and you look at the valet guy. And you fucking give them a fiver And you fucking, you make eye contact with them. Yeah, all right. And now you give an extra dollar to the bartender, right? Yeah.

You feel like money and that's my shout out, no free shadow. But wait, where's the dump coming? A great story is always to misdirect, okay, Jess. You don't get it. You know what? Can I say one? Can I say one thing? When we first started this band, we went and we played like a,

we flew to Tucson, drove down to Sinoida and played Mark's parents' anniversary early on in this band At the ranch, it was great And I'll never forget his sister Pulling me aside in the kitchen And saying, oh, let's go

That's wrong One of the first things Like she ever said to me was So does Mark Just love to talk about his shits or what? At the time At the time I didn't really Because I didn't spend enough time with Mark

But it's always wrong So Catplay is so important to life I mean having a good dump is like It's up there with the great, you know, it's like winning, it's winning a fucking $30,000 hand, okay? It's an exciting, it's a great thing.

And when you have a clean dump and you know that you don't even have to wipe, and you have the confidence, but you just do the check wipe. Sometimes Mark doesn't even check wipe. And you just know. He goes, I know. You know. You know. Oh, no. When that sucker pops

out and it's just like, it's like, it's like, man. It's just, it's like, he's like crying. I bet there's nothing there. You pull it out and that's a clean tissue. That's a great. Right. I've done gambling. I've done. So sometimes you get a little doughty.

Check. I have before. Oh. There has been. There has been. Hey, you're a young boy. We have our. Hey,

are we done because we have our sound bite that we need. Okay. There you go. That was, dude. I got to say, Mark. I wasn't sure how you guys were going to take to this. And first of all, Jess, that was an end.

What a beautiful over like, what a. That was a beautiful moment. emotionally satisfied. Mark, yours with the story. And the actuality of the no-free shout-out being one of the greats. And I've listened to a lot of them. Boys, that's going to have to go out on like top 10 of them.

That's a good one. That's a really good one. For at least a guest. Yeah. I've heard Will say, yeah, my shout-out sandwiches. And it was a hitter. And that's out, that's out 10. Oh, shout out the sandwiches.

Yeah. Can you go back to what you were just doing with your hair and the hat like that? That was incredible. Like that right there? God bless me a few things in life, buddy. Lettuce is all I got. Little boy right there. There it is.

A lot of lettuce. I need this mustache. So how were you guys? I got a question before I do mine because I wanted to hit and I may have to pivot to something else. But when you guys. You're intimidated by what your boy. No, no, no. I want to make sure this would be.

We went first. I'm not. I'm not too. I brought the heat of that. I got into me. But were you, when you, when you. you guys were out of high school and you guys were like in the real world world was uber like in your lives yet was it like it wasn't i didn't get to uber until uh here okay and i'm we're

technically still not in the real world yet okay good no but he's saying before what well i'm about to get to my point now yeah when we were graduating high school the iphone just came out okay so so i'm talking about college okay good so bro we had pagers from my school. Mark had the smoke signals. Jack, was Uber around when you were in college?

Were you using it all the time? Mitch, you look younger than Jack. Oh, Jack. Okay, okay. This is good. I just wanted to hit for everybody. So I'm going to go with this one.

Oh, he put an insurance policy. I did. I just wanted to make it make sure it hit. Listen, we're all excited. So, I mean, it's not, it's not, is. Listen, just you got to. So my shout out, no free shout out, is.

When it's that time of the year and you are going to be using air travel, you're going to be getting on a plane to go somewhere. Let's just imagine right now it's you got to go home for Thanksgiving and it's your sophomore year of college. Back to beautiful airs. You might have $27 in your pocket if you're lucky. Okay. You found them pants.

Right. Pants. And you've got your ticket. You don't want to be late. But you also being a college student and not having Uber at your fingertips, you got blindsided. You forgot to figure out how you're going to get to the airport. Oh, no.

Okay. My shout out, no free shout out goes to that buddy. And it's just one. And I can see him right now. Because you only get one of these guys in your life. Okay. That buddy who goes, I'll take you to the airport.

I will drive you in my car to the airport and completely inconvenience my fucking day to take you to traffic hell. I will take you to the airport. You can rely on me. I'll be that friend for you. Wow. Consequently, he's also the guy who helps you move.

That is my shout out, no free shout out, to the guy. that will stop his day and take you to the airport. I can safely tell you guys that I am that friend. You are that friend. You are that guy. Wow. That's a good shoutout.

I'm the guy. I would say, I've helped Mark fucking move. That's a lie, dude. You did not help me move. I've helped you move so many times. How did you get to the trailer? Me.

Oh, yeah, you did. Okay. I was thinking of Chris Blaspin was supposed to help me when I moved to Texas. And nobody showed up except for our buddy Andy Mac. Andy Merrick him. Sometimes these guys come. out of nowhere. It's not like your best friend. I have a guy. Joe Machado. I mean? Yeah.

To my buddy from high school. Who drove you? Fucking solid motherfucker, dude. Dude, Joe is my guy. Dad, can I get a ride? Absolutely fucking not. No question. Okay. Thanks, Dad. Dude, we were on tour a couple of years ago, and we were finished a show, and I called my wife, and I couldn't get a hold of my wife, and she wasn't answering. And I just had this really, I was homesick, and we just had her, you know, she was pregnant,

and we had her baby at home. And I was freaked out. has had this bad premonition, like on stage. And I called our neighbors, the brainers. She's also our OBGYN. She's delivered all my nieces and nephews. And it was fucking 1230 at night. They're doctors. Like, they're long asleep.

Page came into the house, broke into our house, and checked on Tyler and the baby that the baby was sleeping. No way. And then my wife never knew. She broke in. And then I was like, actually scary too. Yeah, that's scary too. I was like, oh shit, I got to like that person. Lump a man. Who can, you know,

a person that you can rely on. That's what I, I've, isn't it too knowing that you can ask that person? Yeah. There's a level if we don't want it inconvenience. That's called a mensch. Guess who moved my brother into his last house? This guy.

Really? Right. Fucking, yeah, dude. I'm not a, I'm going to help you move guy, but I will give you a ride. And didn't make it to the podcast. My brother. Guess who once missed our show, who's our videographer and photographer. that's what he gets paid for.

And we're taking stage and we look around and everybody goes, where's Colin? Taking a nap. And I go, I guarantee you he's taking a nap. Oh, no. And he didn't know that the time changed. He's going to be helping me on fucking Friday. Your brother. Colin better be.

Colin's a bench. Colin Duddy gets, we give him a lot of shit because he's our little brother. We talk about like the art of shit talking and stuff. But Colin really is the best guy to have on the rodeos has the best attitude. And he actually does work pretty hard. Somewhere hard. Fairly.

Fairly. Oh, he's here? Colin Duddy is the laziest. Okay, last question here. The Roeback question. Use code busing on rowback.com for 20% off

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Trust us, you're going to want these and use code boys for 20% off. This is the row. back last question. Okay. Tear talk. That was a good shout-out. I was, I think, five across the board.

I did not know what was going to happen. Hey. I knew Cam had heat because he listens. That was a perfect game. That was a perfect game. That was, that was an no-no. All right. Tear talk.

I love that, by the way, guys. I'm going to, that's going to be at Thanksgiving this year. We're doing a Friendsgiving. I'm going to go right. I mean, do a shout-out. No-free shout. I'm going to do a shout-out for a show. Yeah.

Shout- Enough-Fri-Shout the week. Go in Texas to shout-out, no, free shout out every week. read it out loud for you guys. Tongue twister, okay. So, tier talk. $300. This is I'm pointing. Oh, $300.

That's how you point. Coming my way. That's how you point. And maybe you threw up. That's a point. Best Thanksgiving sides. Okay. You rank them three to one.

Your top three base. Here talk. Okay. So you're ranking your tears. One is the top two is, so the best way to do it is start with three and then work your way to one. All right. Why don't you start this time? I'll switch it up.

And then there's also an honorable mention who doesn't make a, it but everyone's like it. Sometimes, but you can throw it in. You don't need to have the honor. Yeah, I'm not going to waste time with that. That sounds excessive. It's a little excessive. I'm not sure I'm hitting my right three.

These guys do this, but I've got. Okay, go ahead. So Thanksgiving side dishes. Yeah, yeah. So number, Thanksgiving side dishes. Number, okay. Number three is going to be in the vegetable group.

It's not anyone's like go to, but somehow when it's done right, it's like, you're, when you go back for seconds, that guy's getting scooped in. Because you know how sometimes seconds, you're like, oh, I know what, I'm avoiding now. Right.

And number one, you have to do everything, right? Because you don't want to offend anybody. Mm-hmm. So three is going to be a well-done green bean for me. Green bean? Not casserole.

Green beans. No. Now, no, thank you, Jeff. Hold on. So during Tier Talk, no one can speak with the person talking.

And at the end of Tier Talk, we all get one word to how we evaluate their tier talk. You didn't have to speak. I know how you think about that. Well, you didn't. That was your fault because you didn't explain the rules before. That's true. And that's why I had to interject right there. Actually, I'm glad that Jess said that because it made me feel, fill me with confidence.

Okay. Two. He can't help, but he's from Phoenix, man. Okay. Two is going to be one. that I never go for during the year at all. In fact, I avoid it vehemently. Behemently.

And we'll not order a meal on a menu if it's on it. But for some reason, in the setting of Thanksgiving, I find it very comforting. So number two is going to be creamed corn. Yes, sir. You're back there. And number one, I grew up in California. So there's a caveat to this one, because I'm sure

not everybody has been exposed to it, but if you haven't, I'm happy to bring this into your world. My stepmom makes this every year. Number one for me, the California kid enjoys himself, wasabi mashed potatoes. Have you ever had that? Yes. Did you like it? I love mashed potatoes, period. Oh, sorry.

That's your tier one? That's my tier one. Tier one is wasabi mashed potatoes. Yeah. All right, we'll go around the room. Will? Good. Oh, Will Smith?

Will, do it with me. That's fine. You're from a different area. I've got so much to say about your first time. I am. In an era. But it's only one word, right? One word.

One word? And after the entire tier talk about. All right. Good. It's okay. Garbage. No, no, no. Mark, you can't, you can't applaud his garbage.

I was stretching. Dude, I was stretching my forearms. I hit biceps and forums today. Okay. disappointed. Oh, wow. Colin. Yeah.

Oh, that's as bad as that one. Mark is a deep thought. Mark, you remember, allies can be made or enemies. Um, sadness. Oh, no. Wow. I got just shout out. Oh, no.

Hey, listen, you spoke your truth and that's the only thing that matters. Wow. You fucking satin on this bus and openly made a, fool out of yourself and that's not just kidding you expose yourself. But you didn't come out here and you said what's true to your palate and nothing, no one can take that from you. Now we go. I feel like I did a really good job. Do you want to go next? You go next to last. I can go

I can go extremely fast. I can go specific mashed potatoes. I do. I mean, I just said mash you. The mash I fuck with. All right. So you're going to start your tier three. Number three. My mother's homemade 24-hour slow simmered organic cranberry sauce. Number two. Honey baked ham.

That's not a side. That's not a side. That's a fucking side. No. That's a main. That's a main. That's a main. That's a main dish.

No way. It's not. No. Turkey's the main dish. We're throwing it out. Turkey, ham. Turkey's the main dish. I do lamb.

You agree? It's unanimous. Turkey's the main dish, but yeah. Sorry. Go back to the jogging board there, boss. Try again. My dad and my mom collaborate beautifully

after 50 some years of marriage to make a recipe that has been in my mother's side of the family, and then he merged it with my dad's Polish background to make... You're going with heritage stuff? Stuffing. With the turkey liver in it. It's amazing.

So stuffing. Stuffing. Two to... It's not going to make the graphic and stuffing. It's trying to make us feel for his tier one, and I don't care what you guys say, because to me it is a necessary food group at family events, especially like... Thanksgiving. Beer. No, a beautiful,

beautiful, like an extravagant bottle of red wine that has been decanted. Mark, that's a fucking drink. It's been decanted. How gay or gay you make that? Mark, that's a drink. I will not apologize for having But you're not playing the rule.

On your side. Why are you guys so fucking star show, dude? Mark, right on, pick a side of fucking pick aside, dude, we're gonna bring you home. He tried to put a hand. I can't wait for red wine to be on the graphic.

I'll go with turkey. Turkey, ham and lamb. Final answer? Decanted expensive red wine. You're gonna end up getting... That's it. You guys tried to make me say something else. He got, unfortunately, Mark, you got disqualified.

Jess, what's your word? No, he can have it. I want red wine to be on the... He can have it on there. He'll have it on there. And he'll win the internet. Thank you. Whoa, hold on.

What are you in the internet? Because the whineas, the people that love the wine, oh, a decanted bottle of wine. Beautiful. There's going to be some. One of life's great pleasures. I don't mean, you're fucking. He broke.

Yeah, one of life's great pleasures. Fucking. But like, kind of on. But like, kind of on. I hope. Shout out to the Mandevies. What's your one word? Diculous.

Nope. Nope. Nope. I love that. Let's go, Phoenix. Extra. Yeah. That's a good one, too. Gay.

Is this thing worth? Which means happiness. Which means happiness. Which means happiness. Okay? I can't. I can't. I have no.

You were disqualified in my eyes. My mother's nickname, by the way, is gay. Her name is Grace. And she was gay. one word is just qualified. Cheated. Cheating. Cheating.

That's my one word. Look, man. Oh, man. I told you guys I have a problem with authority. There it is. Thank God you didn't go to the Naval Academy. I like the rules, man. I wouldn't have done one in the military.

Number three for me is also green beans. Thanks, bud. No words. But they have to be done right because you can really fail on green beans. Well, it's not bad green beans. Right, yeah. Number two, mashed potatoes with gravy and I do the little volcano. You hollow out the inside.

You pour the gravy in there. You got a little volcano of mashed potatoes. Fried and true. Gravy. Taylor, please. Sorry. Number one is cranberry sauce. And any, it can be homemade with some molasses in there.

And it can be out of the can. It doesn't matter. I love cranberry sauce so much. I will fill up on that sometimes before I even eat. And you know what? I love, I love ham. In fact, I go ham before I go. Turkey. It's a side.

No, it's a Maine. We're going to ask all the followers. I want to take a survey. I just, I thought of, I thought of, I thought of, you guys authority here. I thought of hand because. But you will be disappointed in. You guys are speaking.

Because I was such authority. It was. Well, I'm what, the new guy, Mitch over here? It was, uh, it was a fucking. It was, it was. Look at how small this guy is. The reason I said hand was because, you know, I said,

molasses and it made me think, you know, what is cranberry? Cranberry is number one. Cranberry sauce. No, I wasn't going to change it. I was only saying because molasses made me think of how you prepare ham sometimes. Number one's cranberry, yes. Okay, that's fine.

If you continue to let it gravy snap piece. No, no, mashed potatoes a second. With green beans with green beans. Are we talking about the same green beans? Maybe that's why you don't like mine. They're long and they have a little tiny little, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, we're talking about it. Yeah, because you have to be snappy.

You've heard him not like this. Okay, one word. Mark? It's your one word. Oh, my one word? I'm going to go this way. Better? Okay, that's fine.

I got my word. It was a question. Will, geez. Mine is mid. Mid, mid, it's like mid, okay? It was fine. Like, I fucked with that of it.

I know Jacob appreciate it. I know Jacob appreciate it. see we heard of you. God that mad. This is technically one word if you don't put any space that fucks with cranberries. What about the whole thing, Mark?

Oh, cramberries. Focused with cranberries. He doesn't fall rules. No rules. All right, man. It's so much fun to fall in rules. What about this? Cranberries.

All right. There we go. Some emojis. All right. Willie? Would you like to go first? I always go last. He always goes last.

It's the thing. It's not always. This is our podcast. All right. Pets you, Princess, Taylor. I'm battling with my, I'm battling with my order

because I love Thanksgiving. I think it's, it's one of the best meals. And your boy's a classic Thanksgiving guy. My, I'm going to throw in an honorable mention. I'm going to throw in an honorable mention. It's not going to make my top three, but it's an honorable mention.

And it's going to go to Green Bean Casserol. Okay. Love Green Bean Casserol. My tier three, and this is where we get in the ailment. There's going to be nothing surprising, nothing flashy, just fundamental ball when it comes to Thanksgiving.

My tier three is going to be corn. My tier two is going to be mashed potatoes and gravy. And my tier one is stuffing. All three of those are going to be mixed all together on my plate with gravy on top. Listen, this is not, we're not, we don't have lineage like going back to Poland and decanted wine. I'm trying to feed on my Thanksgiving meal, boys. and that is my tier talk.

Okay. My one word for that is, is America. Okay. I feel like that's an insult. I know. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah.

Cultured. Oh. Oh, wow. Or non-lineaged. Non-lineage. J-B. facts. Yon.

Oh. It might have been the best insult yet. That might make a frequency. That was only payback because he gave me the best. Will's been fucking. I know. We can talk about it. We can talk about it.

Will's been throwing fire. Will's the top mentions have been bad and gay. All right. Mine is. No, no. What was your on him? My work. truth.

Interesting. Like that's a cop-out. Yeah, it isn't a cop-out. Just commit to liking it or not. You're just like you. Yeah. I think you should wait until I do my tears until you figure out what that means.

Okay. Okay. I can see the want-to in Taylor's eyes when he was talking to Will. Let's saddle up, boys and girls, because we are about to go down a fun little ride. My honorable mention is going to be in the casserole department. Oh.

But I think a sweet potato casserole Goes a hell of a long way. Get them marshmallows on top. Get them a little bit burnt. You start dipping in there. Buddy, you got a fully delicious carburated, carb. It's carbureated snack with some absolute sweet touches on the top. You're living the fucking gym.

I'm actually a little upset. I put that in honor roll mention. My tier three is going to the green bean casserole. I think if you do it right and the flavor profile with the teeth, texture of the crunch, you're not going to miss. You're not going to fucking miss. My tier two is a staple.

An absolute staple, and you can make it however you want. However culture do you want to be with it. I agree. I think stuffing is a staple in the Thanksgiving dinner. That's what you have to do. Like a good lineage.

And finally, my tier one holds this plate up on its shoulders, because we all know that turkey, although the main dish in most Thanksgiving's, sucks. Can be very dry. Yeah.

So you need that volcanic mashed potatoes and gravy to sit there and you'll lube that turkey up a bit. We're all going to the same place, so let's mash it all together. Yeah. And that are my tier three, my tier talk. Okay.

I'm ready. Horny. Why? That was so funny. No, that was so funny. I don't know. Nud, you nut it all. I went crazy on that thing. Mitch is new.

He sees that sexual tension. Yeah. Oh, Will and I, we've gotten close. I'm in the middle of No, not November right now, so I'm a little... Yeah, it's day nine, and I'm really having a hard time. Oh, really? There's some heavy petting this morning. That's rough.

I two him. Forney. I two him on a break with this guy. Yeah. It's a toughie. All right. It feels good, though. Classic.

If not, obvious. Runner up. through your own oh that's good is that good yeah talking boy I'm I'm proud of that to your talk

because I was stressed dude I will say man and speaking of food we gotta be in the record we gotta be in the record like 45 minutes dude but you're going to be there

in an hour five minutes I will say like man there should be like more movies about like the night before Thanksgiving when you return your hometown from from and meet up with all your high school friends from wherever you moved off to there's a few there's a few like that is one of the most pure and american and amazing things and everybody just gets together and just we'd go to elbelloo that was

you know so good it is and everyone's like oh some guys someone's balding right the chick that wasn't hot jenny hall i was some drama just gets created for no reason i was i spent one of those nights with cameron dude when you would go back for your first not your first time going back from college and meeting up with everybody. And then there's that girl that was untouchable. And now all of a sudden, like, for whatever reason, there's a story. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a off mic.

You're like, man, I can't believe. Like, I had a huge trust in her. Right. She never gave me a shot. And then, however, for a reason, beer's way more accessible now. Yeah, because you're maybe, like, a star football player in college and shit.

For whatever reason. You're going to be worth millions of dollars. He's like, yeah. I'm talking about your first, like, first time back from college. Yeah. Like, like, you're freshman year. You go and you see that, you see that girl get a huge. I went to college in my hometown.

I was popular when I left and I came back. I was, dude, high school was like days confused for me. It was the best. I bet you're the fucking man, dude. When I came back, bro, I did some time in L.A. And I was like, now I'm going to ban and shit. And I came back like skinny jeans, tight shirt, scarf. And got just, yeah.

And people were like, are you gay? And I was like, whoa, first of all, if I was, it's not a big fucking deal. Second of all, no. third of all like Tony Traverso like get off my shit bro I'm like cultured I left town like what the fuck dude I took a lot of bullets the first couple of years coming back dude so it was a tough time for you so if you just do a full 180 and come back 180 I was still fun loving cam but like I was trying different shit you know I gotta figure out who you are I'm still doing that every day came back steely Dan guy you know you do take you do you do you do take heat like you know not like you're outgrowing or something but people want you to be who they who you were yeah when they knew you at your best you know Go ahead. In their head. A little cocaine. We're all back to the square one, dude.

You know what I mean? That I understand that. The theme of today's podcast. Not anymore. We can circle back and probably ended here. Growth. Growth. Yes, sir.

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