Bussin' With The Boys - Roman Josi

Episode Date: July 2, 2019

Captain of the Nashville Predators, Roman Josi, joins the Taylor and Will on the bus to get a little weird. The boys chat about Taylor's first time masterbating, Will's embarrassing run in with Kid Rock, and about Josi's time in Nashville as a Predator.Website: bussinwtb.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB/  Merch: https://hangtn.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boysFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right. Or just pause us now. And welcome back. Now I enjoy the show, my baby. And plus you, we walked in and fucking kid rocks there

and everyone like, like literally the owner of the bar, you know Steve, right? Yeah, I've met him before. Yeah.

Steve's like texting me. Hey, Kid Rock's coming in, blah, blah, blah, make sure everyone's cool. So I'm like, hey, will be cool. Which, which we'll talk about how inappropriate you were. And a bunch of other people were there. So I was like, all right, everyone just fucking relax when he gets here. So fucking Bob walks in.

Yeah, you're going to, dude, that's going to give you the jitters. Seriously? Yeah. Anyway, Bob walks in and he, literally goes, starts going through everybody. He's like, hey, Bob, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. And within three minutes, Will goes,

All I'm thinking about is Joe Dirtlines. Like, loud as fuck. So everybody could be here. That was just like, God damn it. That leopard sucks. Stupid joke. It was a dumb joke. My bad.

My bad. Anyway, we get, we get Zach in there. And Zach's like, he like, we're Remember, hey, we didn't tell Zach? Oh, we didn't tell Zach. He said, his real name is Bob. We said, hey, we got a potential podcast guest that we've been trying to get on, but we're not going to tell you who it is.

And he got there. Remember, Zach? Yeah, Zach's, uh, Bob's like, Hey, I was going, Bobby goes, Kid Rock. And then Will goes, God damn it, Zach. Like, be cool. Be cool.

There's a mic in front of your face. Like, I was not expecting it. Like, I was just star-stunned. Like, that's who it was because I just thought it was, whatever it's called. I just thought it was going to be, like, another football player. And, like, no offense, but. Okay.

Jesus. Okay. And I'm shaking all your buddy's hands. And then I just get to this guy wearing the trucker hat, Bob Seager t-shirt and cowboy boots and starched jeans and I look up and I'm like it's kid rock and Will is like Zach damn it's that be cool man be cool no it is we I mean it is like I just think in my mind like if if me personally if I'm Bobby or if I'm kid rock he's way too old to be Bobby now I didn't even know his name was Bob

yeah well me neither I'm like ready for him to be like yeah what's up man I'm kid rock like just just be fucking kid rock for me he's got he's got he's got he's got he's He's got a line in one of his albums, Devil Without a Colise. He's like talking about, you too old a kid, too soft to rock. And I saw him like, yo, he's both those right now. Yeah. But he's still kid rock. He's a fucking badass still.

Yeah. Dude, kid rock's the fucking man. We're like thinking this stuff in our mind. What's up, man? I'm Will. Will, what's up, man? Bobby. He's thinking like, holy shit.

Your name's not Bobby, dude. Yeah, you're not Bobby. Did he introduce himself as Bobby to you or Bob? Yeah, Bobby. Bobby? Oh, hello, Robert. He introduced himself. up to me as Bob.

But dude, my wife... What's his last name? Rock. Yo, what is his last name? Look that up, Zach. Yeah, he's already on. Dude, I remember, I grew up on a ranch in Cave Creek, Arizona, like a 13-acre, like, horse ranch.

And I remember, like, I won this, like, stereo out of a raffle. And the first, the first CD I had was Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock, dude. And I popped that thing in there. I beat my room. Just so anti. everything but Kid Rock at that moment. Everything. Just like, just I will not succumb to the man type of act.

I was such a skid, dude. In the nighttime you're searching the Pamela Anderson videos? No, I had never seen. I never even. We didn't really have internet. There was like a, there was an office at the front of the ranch. We had an office at the front of the ranch and there was one computer. And it was my mom's work computer. And we didn't have internet.

We didn't have internet in the house. So when I figured out, this friend named Waylon and I figured out what porn was. he showed me he was that friend had my first chew with him you know what I'm saying all that shit

did a couple of things whatever and he was like he was like a super bad influence kid and I get to I figure out what porn is and I'm like I'm walking past the office one day

and I'm like yo is that a computer and I'm in there dude I swear to God I was in there for four days straight 12 hours all day and my mom would come in

and be like what do you do just like hitting the minimize button as fast as possible like lower the volume You know, it's like, nothing, Mom. And that's back on pop-ups were relevant. No, pop-ups were everywhere, dude. And the most disgusting pop-up.

I just didn't know, dude. It'd be like a girl and a snake all of a sudden. Like, you, what? What? I'm just looking for the regular stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm 12, 13. I want to see missionary, dude.

I want to see missionary. I want to see missionary. I want to see her on bottom and me on top. Yeah. I want to see those kinds of things. But then a snake's getting popped up. You know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The animal thing, what's that about?

Long story, short, took four days that computer dead couldn't fuck my mom went up there and like went to look at emails one day thing wouldn't even fucking start dude that thing put a gun to its own head and shot itself it was so done

Roman you got any good ones and uh what's the first time you watched porn Roman what's a good porno story from uh Sweden yeah um I don't know probably same age to be honest yeah same time how old is that how old are you saying

uh I was about 12 or 13 years That sounds about right. Yeah, sounds about right, too. Dude, I remember. Did your parents give you to talk about it? Like, did your dad ever talk to you about porn? No, never. Same.

Still haven't. They never talked to you about it? Dude, so my dad, here's what happened with me. My dad got, like, pissed off. And because, you know, pop-ups were happening. And, you're, like, young. You don't think that they know, but they know. And he's like, well, let me talk to you outside for a minute.

I have no idea, like what he's about to say. I'm like, all right, hey, dad, what's up? he's like what is tits and askelore.com no he did not say that I swear to God immediately I'm thinking of the buddy you were talking about

I'm thinking of my friend I'm like Son of a bitch taught me god dude Trent Montgomery he was on the computer earlier and I was I was telling him to get off of it because I didn't you know Wyatt I didn't want to say you sold your boy out

yeah you sold him out yeah he was never allowed to come to my house again what a terrible Roman you see that don't fucking don't ever be boys will when fear is happening yes He's under the bus He was like

He wasn't like that good Of a friend anyone But anyway Throw him under the bus And he's like If I ever catch you On a porn site again I will box your jaws

Your dad said that That was my talk So me I was just a kid That you know You stay at your buddies I'm like hey man You got Cinemax

You got HBO So you haven't watched porn since No no I did all the time You guys got Look at his phone right now This history is crazy dude Dude Oh man

That was my story I got so many getting caught watching porn videos Would you always have it on the previous channel Like you have it on ESPN That's the oldest trick in the book Dude oldest trick in the book I remember

Ah fuck it dude It's our podcast I say what I want The first time I like Jerked off Like dude Dude but everyone You guys all remember the first time You guys jerked off

Oh yeah my left leg went shaking Oh okay don't even hold So dude About 13 Like so like by the way The story I just told Like didn't jerk off once I'm just staring at

I had to do like literally 12 hours of my day. I'm just watching porn. Like I'm not even, I'm like, yeah, it seems like something's going on down there. But, uh, yeah, oh my God. Like, so sexually frustrated, dude, running around like punching other kids, whatever. So I figure out, dude, I'm on the bus. I go to Desert Canyon Middle School. And I go on this bus.

And these seventh, these eighth graders, I'm in seventh grade. These eighth graders are talking about jerking off. And I'm like, in my head, like, I've literally Googled like, how do you make yourself do it? Because I think to myself, I'm thinking at this age I'm like oh it only works if a guy and if a girl does it for you like that's the only way it happens

because that's how babies are made right I'm like lost and I hear these kids talking about yeah jerked off last night yeah they were talking about all that stuff and I'm like yeah yeah oh yeah yeah three times this week like all that great I'm like yo and I'm sitting like two rows in front

I'm like yo my mind is blown dude I'm like my mind is blowing up I'm like holy shit you can do it yourself you can do it yourself So I rip over to the house as fast as I can, dude I get home, parents aren't home, and I start to watch them porn,

but I'm like, ah, dude, I don't want to get caught. So I like wait to my, I wait, my mom comes home 50 minutes, and I was like, dude, you're on top of it. You knew she was coming home. Yeah. So I'll wait until she goes to sleep. I'm in the living room. Do we have one computer in the living room?

In the living room now. And moved. And I'm watching. Do you remember lime wire or frost wire? Yeah. Just like, just like HIV. AIDS for all computers everywhere. And I was downloading some shit.

I don't even know what I was looking at, dude. But I'm kind of like, just talking at it. I'm not really doing nothing. I don't really know what's going on, dude. And all of a sudden, like, I'm sitting there. And I'm like watching it. I'm like, all right, go. And my like, leg starts, like, going, like, shaking like this.

I'm like, yo, what is? What is? What is happening? And I just made a mess, dude. Made an absolute mess. Keyboard was never the same. Hey, that's so funny That was that was the first time, dude

Been chasing that high ever since Dude I'm chasing that high Dude out there like God I gotta get back on How'd get back on that train How'd I get back on the train You could do it multiple times

Every once in a while Every once in a while you'd get one back You're like that was kind of like it That was like an 8 at 10 Dude You're just like You're stoked about it You're distraught about the first time it happens

You're like what in the fuck did I just do I gotta clean this up now dude i have some funny stories man we can do it we can rattle that off on other i want to hear your story go ahead we got rome we got rome i know i know we got to let i know we got to get him yeah he wants to hear it um but rome hey you better think of yours too because we're coming to you next you got you got to think of yours you got to have something so i uh he's kind of the same situation fuck you what i get something to do dude is coach going to get pissed um i'm sitting there uh

figuring out, okay, my buddies told me this is how I do it. So I'm going to have a little. Your buddies? Yeah, my buddies. Yeah, my buddies. Sure. So I'm sitting in the bathroom, run the shower, obviously, taking a shower. Yeah.

Get out the lotion, make a little scene about it. Start, you know, going to work. Boy starts going to work pretty quick. And obviously, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't last long for a young, youthful dude. Yeah, or 27 years old. And so they keep going. Dude, my leg, like yours did. my left leg starts like twitching and it starts like leaning up like on the counter and it's just like

oh and it just goes everywhere fast word the next night can't wait to do it again i already start taking a shower i'm like i'm going to do this do this in the shower that's why i had to learn the hard way about shampoo so i'm like oh what can i use in the shower because the lotion it was falling off way too quick i'm like it's working i got to think come think oh it's shampoo so i start going to work with shampoo, well this one's hilarious because I didn't go the second time.

Calls a shot, this one's hilarious, dude. I thought I was about to. Oh no. Hey, and then I just started pissing. What?

What? What? What? Hey. Oh, that wasn't it. That wasn't it. That wasn't it.

That was that. Yeah. Quit try. Then as I start going, that's when I started burning the shampoo. And that's when you knew soap was just off limit. after that point.

I used to do some weird shit though back in my day, man. Yeah, I feel like when you're that young of an age you'll try anything. You're just an animal. Yeah. Oh, dude, no question. You'll go, dude, and you'll just look at stuff.

I remember being like eight and looking at a shoe box and the little hole in the shoe box being like, I could. That could be something. Like, I'm like in my head like, that could be something. Like, I don't know.

Or just, I don't know. Just a pillow laying there helplessly? Like, Yeah. There's a pillow like you're helplessly? Or is stuffed animal like, oh, you're in for a night. You have no idea what's about happening to you, dude. I'm tear it up, man.

Oh, dude. So, Roe. Who you got taking this thing, game seven? Now, obviously, by the time this releases, it's going to be over. Like, the same-fills are going to be decided. What's games? Oh, shit. Game seven tomorrow.

I think Boston, honestly. Yeah. I think Boston's going to win. They just have so much experience with game sevens and a bunch of guys who've been there. How much strategy is involved? involved in, like, how much strategy plays into hockey? Because we were talking about one game and a seven-game series. Like, dude, if we played seven-game series, there would be so much frustration by the seventh game.

So many changes, right? Because it's such a strategic game and football, like, game preparation, everything on, like, being on your P's and Q's, like, I don't know what you guys look at. But I know from a defensive perspective, like, it's all, like, what formations are coming out of, what personnel's, what are their tendencies in this formation, yada, yada, yada, to where you can. kind of narrow some stuff down and by game seven it's just like how many fucking trick plays are they going to have or just tendency breakers that they're going to have now yeah what is that with hockey it's a lot different in hockey it's a it's a it's a lot more instincts um there's obviously some strategy there's systems and stuff and you you try to adjust the other team but um honestly like once you're out there you're just playing like you know the system because you play it all year

and then once you're out it's all instincts like you're just trying to read the game and try to read and react and um like just talking to a bunch of you guys like the our meetings are so short to compare to you guys. Yeah. Yeah. We have a meeting. Like we have a yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. We don't we we have like on game days. We have a maybe half an hour meeting and that's about it. Like we meet about the other team and it's pretty much half an hour not even sometimes. And then you're just sharpen your skill. You're like your skills up. Yeah. I had to work on this. I work on that. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I can't imagine playing as many games you guys. How many? How many? How much time in between each game? Two days normally. And you guys. And you guys. And you guys. And you guys. just have like a 30 minute meeting yeah well we have like we have meetings on on practice days and we we just go over the game for like 20 minutes go over the game you just play yeah that's gotta be so much more fun than like football like like football you're like okay boys like the monday meeting okay we played awesome or we played shitty you know we had to work on this Tuesday's off Wednesday practice Thursday practice Friday practice Saturday walk and you guys are there from what oh dude

we're eight to five yeah every day yeah it's like it's like it's really like seven seven to five And, like, there's so much taking care of your body because you're banging all time. Yeah. Like, we got a hit. I mean, fuck, but you guys hit all time, too. We do. How's your body feeling like April, May? How's that feeling?

Honestly, it just depends on the games. It's not, playoffs is tough. Like, you get beat up in playoffs. But during the year, it's, I mean, there's guys who play a different way, too. There's guys who hit all the time. Here's your first train. Here's your first train. This should be an honor.

Like, every bust one with the boys' podcasts, there's always. There was a train? Always a train that goes by the deal. We just fight through adversity around here. But I'm sorry to interrupt you. Go ahead. You're good. But yeah, there's just, I mean, like I said, like on a practice,

we barely practice anymore. We just play games. And then the next day we might practice, but we practice for half an hour with the rink for two and a half hours, max. And then you get to go home and relax. So it's a lot of games and not a lot of practice. So your days aren't very full?

No. We get to rank maybe like 10. the day after a game and practice at 12, get out of there by one. Dude, Jesus. That would be fun, too, because, like, he said instinct. Like, you're kind of like, kill myself right now, dude. Because for us, it's, like, a different Wednesdays, the focus is, like, first and second down. Thursdays is, what, third down?

Third down. Friday's red zone. And some two-minute. Saturday's, like, you put it all together through walk-thrus and stuff like that. You've your first, your top-10 plays or whatever. Yeah. for your top 10 calls. Well, it's impressive.

How many plays you guys have to know? It's crazy. Dude, it is, but, like, you can do, like, it's just, like, any, studying anything. Like, word association. Okay, like, these, these plays are all grouped together in a certain way. Like, these are all outside zones. A couple nuances here, the inside zones, okay? These are the unique pinpole schemes or, like, the taxis and everything like that.

Yeah. That's the stuff that's crazy. But do you, like, have, like, defenses? They obviously, you do, like, power players. Yeah, we got the guy chilling down there. We got systems, like, and our systems are all, like, like, there's five guys on the eyes so the system is like

for the five guys. Like we don't have like a defense and an offense. Obviously the defense plays a little different than the offensive players but our system is all team base. Make sure no puck's get behind you. Our system is all team based.

So it's like whatever we do like playing defense our forwards have to play defense too. They can't just play offense. Once we get the puck to play offense but if the other team has a park everybody plays defense. So it's not just a D man that play defense.

What was your process like? getting to the league. Like my brother, my brother played juniors. He got drafted by Corpus Christi. It was like playing for Metro, Moose and a bunch of stuff like that. And then my brother-in-law,

he played juniors, played for like the, the Colonna Rockets. Oh, he did? Yeah. He played for the Colo Rockets, which shape, Weber, he also played for them too, right?

So I kind of get it. I've been around football, I'm not football hockey my whole life. My dad's from me, Dinna, Minnesota. And so I played hockey as a mite. I was eight. It was a stud, dude.

I could dangle. You could? I was D. I was the most coordinated eight-year-old. How's that sound? And then we went to peewee or whatever it is, and I got, I went to like do a travel team, I got checked. I got hit, I got de-iced or de-skated or whatever.

I was out of there. I quit. Because I got hit? Because I got hit. Now I get hit. Now I get hit. It's awful. I quit, dude, I quit football when I was younger, too, for the same reason.

Oh, really? I got tackled. I was like I'm out of here. Done. You don't like getting hit? I love it now. I don't mind it now. I know. I think it's all relative.

Yeah. I think I like hitting someone way more than getting hit. Oh, of course. That is not fun. But yeah, dude, when I was younger, I was a little bitch. I would, like, I got hit. I was like, fuck this, dude, I'm out of here. I don't want, and I want nothing to do with this.

So I quit. Well, hockey's different, though. Hockey, you can, like, kind of, uh... You guys take some hits, dude. Yeah, you do, but there's a couple of big hits once in a while, but there's also games where you're, like, depending on the situation. Like, you have to hit one, a guy, like, every play. Like, we don't have to do that.

Like, there's some place where you have to hit a guy or you get hit, but it's not as often. So your process growing up. Yeah, so I played in Switzerland my whole life. I grew up in Bern, Switzerland, not Sweden. Yep, excuse me. Yeah, you're good. Made that mistake before the podcast. Never do that again.

But, yeah, I grew up there and played for my hometown team pretty much my whole life. And I played there until I was 16. And then I turned pro in Switzerland, played for my home team. time team again. At 16 years old, you turn pro. Well, 17 was my first season, yeah. Jesus, that's crazy. It happens young. Like, if you're not in hockey young, like it's... Yeah, but it's different over here.

It's like, like you said, like, they play juniors over here, and then you get drafted, then you make the NHL or go to the AHL, but... So when you said it's different over here, you got juniors, and then they get drafted. What age are they getting drafted to the NHL? 18. Yeah. And you're a pro at, like, 16, 17 over... 17, yeah.

But then I got drafted when I was 18, too. And then once you drafted, you can play in the NFL. match out but I played uh two more years after that in Switzerland and then I came over after getting drafted you played two more years in Switzerland how did that work how does that work it's is similar to like uh like in go ahead you I know well the leagues are good over there like the European leagues the hockey leagues are pretty good um I don't know if you know Austin matthews played in he was the first oral pick he played in Switzerland the year before before he got drafted because it's a really good league it's fast and and you're playing against men so it's

they're all strong and it's a really good league so for me i i was going to make it right to the nchal so i decided to to play there one i think it was one more year or two more years and and just try to work on my game get better get stronger and then then i came over but i mean some guys make it right to the nchal but it's probably similar in football like it's only the real talent guys that make it right away like it takes yeah the difference between hockey and football is hockey you get drafted at a high school or when you're 18 17 18 years old and then you have the choice you can go you can go to the league right and then try to make a team or go down to their minor league teams or you can go to college and play and if you go to college you can only play one

year and then you can go play nchel and in football you have to be three years removed from high school so i if i so when i whatever i was 17 when i graduated high school so when i was 20 i was eligible to play football but like the dudes in the states because like in canada like you just play where you're from right and you just do your thing yeah in europe like you do this You play where you're from and then you go pro there and then you do the process. You just said like in the States, like I know some kids that are from Arizona that like 14, 15 years old had to go move to like Michigan or Minnesota. Because I think the USA team plays at Michigan in Ann Arbor actually. And Arbor, yeah.

So which is where the school I went to. And so you're living with a billet family. Yeah. And you're like you live with a different family at 14, 15 years old. And like your boys are your hockey guys and that's it. Then you go play college. Yeah. And then at any time in college you can just dip.

Yeah, and like NHL sounds like you can have more development, more of a developmental stage. Because in the NFL, like, if you're not ready to go once you enter the draft, like, you're not going to... There's only going to be very few guys who are on a practice squad. Like, I couldn't have been drafted by somebody and then played somewhere else for a year so they can kind of, I don't know, did they get better? Did that team help you? Like, when they drafted you, they knew you were going to play in Switzerland for another year or two. They did. They wanted you to develop more and work on certain aspects of your game.

And then I came over and I played in Milwaukee for. a year in the AHL. So for me, it was, like, that's, in hockey, it's pretty nice because you can, like, you can play, if you don't make it the NHL, you can play in Europe, and it's a pretty good league, or you can play in the AHL, and the HL is good, too. Like, it was, it was great for me because I came over from Switzerland, and the game is a lot different over there because it's a bigger ice rink and stuff, so, um, there's so many things I had to learn and just get stronger and get used to the North American game.

And, um, for me, playing Milwaukee for one year was huge. That's a wild game And so you from Milwaukee Went to the Predators Yeah And you've been here the whole time Yeah How has that been

Like when your first year What was that like? It was awesome Well when I got drafted I got drafted by Nashville I was like Where is Nashville? I never heard of it

Like never So Yeah And then I came My first year here It was It was unreal Like to be honest

Like everybody thinks hockey Is only growing The last couple of years Because you made it to the finalist But even even my first year here playing at Bridgestone was was unbelievable like it was loud it was wild the fans fans are unreal and obviously with making it to the finals it we got the whole city kind of came behind us but but even before it was awesome yeah you guys are studs dude the way you guys like

i don't know you guys got this energy about you like well first off all the fans are crazy like they're unbelievable they're all about it's so cool how everyone's so close and like if you go and talk to somebody from nashville they have no idea you Yeah, what hockey even, like, you know what I'm saying? But they've educated themselves. Yeah. They know, like, hey, well, if the puck goes past the blue line, then everyone's going to go back.

Yeah. And they've got to chill for a second. Then they've got to go back. You know what I'm saying? And it's just like, it's wild. And like, growing up watching hockey, like, that was a sport to me. Like, that was my favorite sport to watch. And to come and watch you guys and kind of get to know you guys a little bit.

That's been the coolest thing. Like, my dad and my brother are like, oh, yeah, you know, you know, Roman Yosey? It's like, yeah, we're actually boys. He's your number right here. Got his phone number right here, dude. Yeah, oh, am I going to his wedding? I can't make it. I must have got lost in the mail.

My, I took my AOL account. You see, me, I was like, I'm like the guys you explain. Like, I didn't, most I know about hockey is, like, playing it on the video game and just kind of learning and bandwagon rooting for freaking Alex Ovechkin being up in D.C. So, dude, being in the hockey games, it's my favorite sport to watch a live. I mean, the energy is, like, it's fast-paced. Like, dude, you get. But Bridgestone is another level, too.

Bridgestone? Yeah. It's unreal. Have you played in Washington? And Bridgetown's better? I think so. Okay. Washington is good, too, but Bridgeton is just, it's a different atmosphere.

Like, it's like a college game. Like, Def Chans and everything. That doesn't happen. That's awesome, man. I haven't been to one yet in Bridgeton. Oh, you haven't? No. I haven't been one yet.

I haven't slept the catfish. I haven't watched the Boer Row play. You haven't what a catfish? I've ever watched the catfish. I've slept the catfish. drink from the catfish ain't that what you do you slap them you slap them did you you chug from the catfish what you're talking about go fish to the catfish with uh term erronic one time dude that was the coolest thing ever well no we had like we had like an already dead one in there oh really yeah and like

with that pond where we were out outside of the titan's facility the whole facility used to be a dump like there's like trash and they turned into a pond and i guess there's like a rumor like they paid in offensive line in like 15k to swim across the pond and it ain't know it ain't no like basic swim. Yeah. Like you gotta know your shit a little bit to get across that thing. And the guy swam across it and he was like dead. Like he was like so sick for weeks because that water is so contaminated.

Really? And so like they're like, hey, they want you. Because we just did the catfish thing with the, I think it was the first time. We only did it once. It was before like we chugged it off the catfish or whatever. And they like, they're like, hey, NHL's coming for the finals. They want to do a thing with you and Ronick. And I'm like Jeremy Ronnie, you mean the guy who played for the coyotes?

It was like, I mean, he played for the flyers. He played for the flyers, but for a little bit. For a little bit. Yeah, and he's like a legend. He is, yeah. Yeah, and so I was like, yeah, I was fired up about it. But this dude who started like, he gets into it. And we were out at the pond.

And I'm like, hey, you should just know that that's some dirty water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, I appreciate that. And the guy's like, all right, here's what we're going to do. You're going to get in the water. and they said action and Ronik dives into the water, dude, like mouths the water and like spits it up in the air.

And I'm like, this man is going to die, dude. He's going to be responsible. Get him out of there. And, dude, it was fun, dude. He gets into it. He's a fun time for sure. He's awesome. Yeah, he definitely gets after it, dude.

I, um, do you know a guy named Bob Corcombe? No. He was like a fourth line guy for the coyotes forever. But like when I was really young, his kid, his family lived in our neighborhood. and we'd play like roller hockey every single day together after school. It was the best. Did you go to a lot of coyotes games? Dude, I went to a couple, went to a coyote's games.

We had a lot of fun out there, but I never like really invested into hockey until I got to Nashville. And when I got to Nashville, I mean, we did the catfish thing and that was awesome. Like I remember. And that was during the playoffs? Was it the first time? I think that was in the finalist, wasn't it? No, I think the finals. was the that was the luge thing we did okay do you guys watch that stuff oh yeah do you guys get fired

up yeah we do get fire up the old line and the big dudes up there just fucking pounding beer oh yeah we love that dude i had no we see that for sure do you guys really dude because i was saying my head i'm like you all i got to get these boys like in my you know you got pump yourself up and give yourself a reason i mean i was so fired up to pump you dudes up and we're like i remember sitting back there and it's all the boys and they're like wives or girlfriends and really it was like a oh we want marcus to be there but marcus is Not the most outgoing guy in the world, so we'll bring the office line. And, like, as soon as I knew we were in it, I bought a catfish.

Well, I bought a catfish. I'm going to go through security, and I'm talking to the boys. And I'm like, all right, boys, like, what do you guys want to do? And they're like, well, maybe we should just wave towels, like, everybody else. Let's go, predators. Like, we're not going to do that. Like, why be basic, A-F? Like, let's get this thing going.

It's like, we're chuggy. I'm going to, I'm going to hold this thing up. We're going to slap the 24 ounces, and we're going to put those things down, dude, as fast as we can. and they were kind of iffy about it and then they bought in dude and it just it totally took off it was unreal

it became a thing after yeah it kind of did remember we came to your game dude I was gonna bring that up and they all brought catfish up dude you guys well I remember it was like it was right before you were announced captain right yeah that was the next season

right after yeah yeah what fish are not fish and Weber were gone yeah right or maybe fish fish was still there fish was captain before and then he left and so I remember like you guys came out and I was kind of watching y'all you like put

the sword down and in my head I'm like you know that dude he's gonna be captain like he's gonna for sure be captain they had you guys already knew didn't you no no no you lying son of a bitch I swear we didn't know but I remember like it was it like halftime or something like that it wasn't half time no it was before the game it was before you guys were up in the oh no yeah it was like during the game I think yeah because all brought catfish up we were all like getting after it was so fired up too I did they did they just play it on the screen then dude they put it on the screen and they were all like holding the catfish up and the boys were slamming beers and I'm like I'm gonna fucking run through a wall for these boys

that's what I'm gonna do it for the boys right here that's what I'm saying I was so fired up that's what it is though how like how sick is it if you see like we see you guys yeah in our suite like just that's what I'm gonna boys up and we come to your game like it's the best like when you see our athletes there and like you appreciate like boys coming out and support you because you're like oh did you see that I'm just thinking bro we were sitting on the I guess you guys already did but if we were sitting on the bench and look up and the freaking hockey teams they're pounding beer like,

Ty, yeah, you're just, let's fucking go. No doubt, no doubt. And then we did it again. Yeah, dude, I got me so fired up. I was so stoked you guys did it because in my head I'm like, you know, the boys like, we got a little thing going. That's pretty cool.

I know. And so we did it like for the finals year, we did the catfish alluge thing. And like we, like they put the beers on top and I'm like drowning. Literally that catfish was like, I didn't drink one ounce of that beer, dude. I was just like trying to breathe the whole time.

And finally I get the catfish. I'm like holding. it up and I'm so fired up but I'm also like trying to catch my breath and I see their goalie and I just give them the bird too hard and I came off and uh one of our PR guys goes texts me and goes a little too much and I was like oh dude got a the GM gave us a talk oh really braybo gave us a talk to him they're like hey maybe just tone it down a little bit a little too much w-wee or whatever yeah and I was like I don't know man I kind of love you that's awesome Dude, there's a big difference in, like, hockey etiquette and football etiquette.

I feel like for you guys to be able to fight and come off, go to the box, get out, like, that's got to be like, you got to have some self-control to not just go back at that dude and fight him again. In football, like, I don't know if it's where, like, a lot of dudes in football, like, we, like, everybody came from a different part. You know what I'm saying? I feel like hockey, I don't know. It's just a different situation. You know what I'm trying to say? Yeah, but well the fights are kind of like

The fights are more part of the game than aggression Sometimes they're aggression Like sometimes you I guess like the guys who actually fight a lot It's kind of part of the game They're trying to get the momentum for the team or the boys Yeah Yeah they try to get the momentum like you're down

Like you're fighting someone you win a fight It's like three two you need something Everybody gets fired up and But there's definitely fights from aggression Like there's some players who don't fight a lot Sometimes I get into it with a guy And you fight but that's I mean, that's what's good about hockey.

Like, you can settle it right there. Yeah. It's one against one. It's all, like, it's not, like, both guys have, like, a fair event, like, the same, the same rules and stuff. So, it's one of the ball. Yeah. And then it's done.

Like, you go to box and. Yeah, there's, like, it's, like, implemented. It's pretty much settled. Power play, stuff like that. Yeah. Uh, how is that coached? Like, how is that in the room coached? Because, like, when we're coached, like, not fight.

Not that guys want to square up and fight. Yes, we do. Yeah. Yeah, but you know what I mean. like when your guys are shoving up to the play and basically you can get a penalty we go through situations where you know he's basically you'll walk away like you're not going to fucking do anything here besides make it worse like how is that coach how is fighting coach and implemented in like a strategy or in your guys's locker room well it depends like you normally know the

guys who are fighting know when a good time is to fight yeah and it's always like if you have a tough guy on the team it's he's fighting another tough guy like he's not going to go after some guy who never fights yeah so he's going after the other tough guy and um they're they're pretty much know when when a good time is to fight and it depends on big games though playoffs there's not as many fights because you want to you don't want to take a penalty just for a fight and then then you're on the box play so but um yeah do you are you a fight i got one fight two skill two skilled to fight i got one fight you got to keep him sharp man got to keep him sharp who's the who's the i hate that i don't know this uh who's the tough

guy on the predators who's the one who fights well um i would say austin watson watson Cody McLeodd last year, Austin Watson. Brian McGratton, man. That guy was legendary. Brian McGratt, he used to be like really, really tough. Yeah, is there conversations on the bench like,

hey, man, we might need you to whoop somebody's ass to get this thing going. Like, is that, does that shit ever happen? Dude, if you guys have an opening, I would absolutely love. All you come in for is fine, like Happy Gilmore? Well, have you ever seen the documentary Ice Guardians?

No. Have you seen it? No. It's unbelievable. It's about hockey like enforcers and how like literally they'd be sitting there and like their only role like is to fight. And then once once you get to the playoffs or games that matter, you're an HS. Yeah, you're healthy scratch. That doesn't happen.

There's not many guys like that anymore. No, it's not like that. Now everybody has to play. Like everybody, um, there's a lot of like tough guys. Like, yeah, probably in that documentary, those guys were like top. I know for the caps. Tom Wilson fights a lot. Yeah, he's tough too.

Yeah, he swings. Is there ever a really good player too? Yeah. Is there ever like, you know, I shouldn't fuck with him. Because when you're at the games and in between whistles, that's when guys are kind of trying to alf each other a little bit. Yeah. But it's almost like, you, like, guys know who's tough and who's not.

So it's like if I go up to a tough guy and go like, hey, hey, he's going to know, like, okay, like, you're not going to fight me. Or like a tough guy picks on you, not saying you're not tough, but the tough guy at a team would be, hey, hey, like, you know, don't be a bitch. Like you want to fight somebody, fight me. How did your fight go? How did your first fight go? It was okay, actually. Did you win? He said it was okay.

Yeah. I don't know. It was more like a wrestling match than a fight. I didn't get any punches in. But he didn't either. Did you win the take down? Did you win the takedown? Yeah.

Oh, that's all you mean. There's all you mean. And you were never a big fighter. Like, do you get after the gym or anything like that? What, fighting in the gym? No, I mean, no, I'm saying like, you know, you got to get in the gym a little bit. Yeah. If you want to fight.

No, but I was always, I'm, I was always. kind of weak a little bit. I was never a strong guy. So I just never. And growing up in Europe, fighting is not like, it's more in North America than it is in Europe.

Oh, there is. Fucking Americans. This is you fighting? This is your fight? Let's see, dude. Let's see Yose throw some bows here. He's back there. Is it going to go back?

Yeah. Okay, let's go. It is a wrestling. Leverge. Look at leverage. Oh, yeah. He's got him up against the boards. Dude.

Hey, that's a win, bro. That's a win. Came over with a little Chuck Liddell over the top. You got the tail of the tape. Yosi, 6-1, 201. 5-8. Reach. That's that 63 guy.

He talks about a shit. He does, yeah. He talks a lot of shit out there. Do you chirp? Yeah, do you chirp? Not really. Dude, you got. I'm terrible at it.

What do you mean you're terrible at it? I could see you. I'm going to go, boys. Yeah, Taylor's a big chirper. I'm begging to it. Love it. Yeah, but you're quick. You're probably just quick and like...

Yeah, well, dude, I get a lot of my shit from videos like this. Like, I'll watch it because my wife's from Canada. Yeah. My brother, I've said the whole thing. I literally grew up like watching hockey. And like, football players like just say like ridiculous shit. Yeah, but also growing up. Like N-word, I'll shoot you.

That is literally, I've been told that I probably had guys in times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. I'm like, okay, whoa, a little aggressive. Yeah. But like hockey players, dude, they say the fun. They call people wagons. Like, yeah.

Hockey lingo is the best, dude. And they're like, guys are wearing visors back in there. Like, hey, rolled on your window before you talk to me, bud. Like, just saying stuff like that. I never heard that one. Oh, dude, it's so funny. But everyone wears a visor. You got to be quick.

Like, to be, it kind of has to be funny. Yeah. If somebody chirps me, I'm just like, uh, uh, uh. Well, I mean, it's a second language, too, right? English, like, you got to like, I'm sure you get some Russian guy out there. You're like, hey, what's up? You pile on? The guy's just like, duh.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, this guy doesn't want to talk at all. thinks about it, but you just kind of know what you're going to go to. I feel like if you're going to chirp, you got to have a couple in the back pocket. That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know.

I'm not a big, like, but you got to just too. Like, she says something. You got to come back. You got to have, you got some form right away. You know, dude, you got a couple. Who chirps in the team? Austin Watson. Yo, Austin Watson sounds like a boy.

P.K. is good, too. Does he chirp? He's quick. Is he quick? Is he quick? He's quick and witty. Yeah. He's just say something.

What is this? Good one. The pussy? Who's this? Who's this fighting? That's Watson, yeah. So, yeah, this is Austin Watson fighting. And it's a video.

They go to the box and they start hanging out. They start having a good conversation. The words come up on the screen. Dude, it's the best. You done? You done? Hey, good job, man, that boy. Water, buddy.

Hey, Watts, we're going to work on our cardio this summer. I'm dying after like 10 seconds, man. That's so fun. Funny, dude. They were really going at it, though. They were kind of... But that's what it is most time. Like, they know it's kind of like... For morale.

It's just a fight and it's not like... I'm sure there's aggression sometimes. Like, sometimes you get into it, but a lot of times they fight to get the momentum and stuff. And then it's done after the fight. Sorry, I mean, I didn't even go. Oops on me. Oops. No, I was just going to say, too, it's like part of the culture to protect your, like, your guys. Yeah.

Like, um, I heard, uh, We were talking, Wayne Gretzky was talking about his enforcer, that McSwerley guy. Yeah. And he's like, I wouldn't have been Gretzky without this guy. You know, he protected me on the ice the whole time. No, that's what it is. Like, you, like, they protect the star players. Like, they make sure everything, everything is, like, in order.

Like, guys don't, like, do any cheap shots on the star players. And, I mean, I have so much respect for those guys. It's, it's, I mean, they're tough. When you're out there on the ice and you see them fight, you're like, wow. Dude, there's such a respect factor in hockey. that I appreciate so much. Like, I love it when guys will skate up on the goalie, ice the goalie a little bit, and you guys are just on them.

Doesn't matter how big the dude is. You guys just take care of your boys. It's like the quarterback. They hit the quarterback or slice in around the quarterback. Everyone's around them, dude. You got to look out for the boys, dude. That's one thing. Dude, this is a long bus.

That's one thing you got to... Long train. Yeah, long train. Oh, sorry. Fuck, dude. I am literally CTE right now. It's bad. Dude, you got to like, I don't know.

It was just crazy how you guys look out for your own out there. Yeah. And like the boys are always looking out for the boys. Yeah. Did you see that video in the finals a couple years ago when P.K. was just like jabbing Crosby in the head and the back of the name. What was going on with that? I don't know what I was going. They were chirping on.

They were chirping on. Yeah. They're going at it for a couple of times. There were a couple of big name guys too. Because he said something about, I don't know if you guys saw that about his, like, he, P. He said something that Crosby called him out that he has bad breath. I don't know if he got sot up Hey man

Hey man you want a man What the fuck? And then they had like The whole series They were kind of going at it Oh shit No it was opposite It was Suban getting hit like that

But PK's good He gets Like I said He's good at chirping too Yeah how do you not beat the shit Out of that guy for that dude You could be fucking tired man Look at him

Hold him in a headlock Yeah I'd be so mad if I was Subbin Was he going That was a tough series to watch man I was there for all those games. Every game you guys had at home.

Every home game? Yeah. Yeah. Well, all these final games for sure. Because I got those, um, the, I got season tickets and I'm like two rows behind the bench. Every once in a while we lock eyes. I know. Yeah, we got to give each other a little nod.

We do. We do. We do. We do. I remember that picture you posted about, uh, when you were standing behind Phil and you were standing like this. Oh, yeah. Just like just staring at Phil. Yeah.

Yeah. He's, he good dude? He is. Yeah. Yeah. He's awesome. That's all. That was a couple years ago, dude.

I didn't make it to one game this year. I know I know I'm a bastard But I should have definitely made it It's hard breaking Will hasn't been to one Yeah we gotta go to one dude I love the hockey environment Do you make it to a lot of

Titans games I try to at least once or twice a year Yeah Did you this year? No I didn't last year either actually We try to But it's tough with our schedule Because you guys

Play what eight home games Yeah So sometimes we're on the road or like we play Saturday night but I love watching you guys play it's awesome I mean I want to come to a couple more if you have a chance for sure dude you ever need tickets you let me know I got you

are you um do you understand the game I do yeah did you know more or more before you came over here I did not actually well we we used to watch the Super Bowl in Switzerland yeah it's like a thing to watch a Super Bowl What time does it come on there? Like 3 a.m. 2 a.m. Perfect time but we would only watch the Super Bowl

we didn't see any other games and then I came over And like I said, I played in Milwaukee. And that year I played in Milwaukee, Green Bay won the Super Bowl, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I started to watch football more and more. And, yeah, I'm pretty, I don't know all the rules, but I would say I'm pretty good at it now. Dude, that's awesome.

Yeah. It's fun to watch. I love it. It's a red zone on Sundays just all day. You really? It's a relatively easy game to watch. Like, you understand the concept pretty fast. Yeah.

It doesn't take very long to learn. Hockey is, it's definitely tough to pick up, like, when, when you're icing, like, it takes a while. Why is the, why is a ref just blowing it dead? Yeah. And then there's so many lines involved. I feel like it's kind of like soccer. But I don't even understand the concept of soccer at all.

But it took me a while for football. I don't really know soccer. I know hockey decent, but like I wouldn't know how to play. But football is hard for like, for me to understand, like, all the plays, the different plays and, like, and why you run the ball right now or why you're drawing it? Yeah. That took me a while, too. Like, he's watching somebody.

He's watching us run it on, like, third long. and we're like, you know, backed up or trying to just get better. When the fuck are we running? Do we do it? You have a fantasy team? Do you play fantasy? Yeah.

I played last year for the first time. You guys played with offensive alignment or no? No, there's no offense alignment in fantasy football. Did you have anybody from the Titans on your team? No, I have myrota, actually. Yeah? Yeah. Have you met him?

No, never met him. He's an awesome guy, dude. I've heard, yeah. We got to, like, that's the thing I love. like that little community has got going, we got going on, like, the Preds and the Titans. I feel like we got a little something. I know. I agree.

Yeah. It's awesome. I was talking to, we were talking to Butch, who was a guest. We haven't really a state yet, or maybe we have it this time. We're all over the place. But I was talking to them about doing, like, a softball game, like Predators versus Titans. And then I know, like, Caleb's really close with you guys. Yeah.

And so, like, do, like, Kings of Leon, like, two on your side. And then I'm close to Jared. So do two. And that's it as captains. Yeah. We do like a, we do like a slope. A big softball game. Yeah.

You guys would probably kick her ass. No, we wouldn't. Dude, your hand-eye coordination is crazy. The Europeans? No. We can't play golf. We beat the shit out of them. Yeah.

There's no way. We played. I think it would be a close game because football players, ego everywhere, dude, we would try to go yard every time. No doubt. No doubt. That is true, too. But you guys, like, I've seen, like, dudes take the stick and, like, just bank it in.

But I don't know. We played a baseball game at Vandy this year, in the beginning of the year, and we played Europe against normal. North America and we had no chance. Like, you go softball? It was a softball? It was baseball. Oh, you guys played a baseball?

Were you guys pitching? Yeah. Well, but like not ripping it. Like, I like, no. It was more like a home run derby kind of. Like the coach was throwing to us. Do you get some kegs there? I think, dude, that's what we got to do is you got a couple of kegs.

I think it would be awesome. Yeah. But what's a good time for you guys? Probably, well, the thing is guys don't. Well, guys are not in town. Guys don't get into like end of August. But when you guys are in town. We would never be able to do it.

But if you guys, like... Do guys hit the road right away right after the season's over? Yeah, like most guys leave, like, a week after. What we should do is feel it out. Like, if you guys are doing really well and we know, like, hey, they got a chance, then we should do it, like, around this time. You know what I'm saying?

Because all the football players are in right now. Like, we're all here. And you get enough guys to come back, nine, ten of your guys. Like, we're solid. It would be perfect time, bro. It would be so much fun. Yeah.

It'd be so much fun. I haven't spent a lot of time with you guys But I've been around a couple of you guys And you guys seem like good dudes Yeah But hockey's always been a super tight community Yeah At my house in college

We were on State Street And like Yost Arena Was right across the streets So the hockey boys Were my next door neighbors And like it'd be spring Like it'd be like May time We'd all be hanging out

And we play poop dollar You were playing poop dollar No Dude dude Dude you're missing out dude Dude You guys never heard of poop dollar You never play poop dollar

Dude we would literally So like well, you take a shit and then you like take a little bit of it out and you put it on a dollar and then you go across the street and you put it face down and then you and the boys

a couple 30 packs just hang out and wait for people to pick up the dollar and that's poop dollar I thought you and the hockey stories well no no no that's what I thought he said you guys just sit there dude

it just be like literally me and all those guys And like a couple of the dudes from the track team, because I love the track guys in college. And we just, we'd wait and we'd hide under everything. And like some old man and his, like, granddaughter would be walking by just enjoying their Saturday afternoon. And that old man would get super greedy. Dude, you get greedy. Swipe it up.

Poop all over his hand. Oh. You guys just laughing in the back. Oh, God. He just laughing. We'd start yelling at us. High-fiving. And he'd start yelling back at us.

Dude, it was so much fun. Did I play poop? I've played in Nashville. We should play it in Nashville. Yeah. Hey, we should do a bit. Like, just get the cardboard out. We get the,

get the film crew out, play poop dollar. What do you think? Did you still play poop dollar? I know you definitely played Invisible Rope. Yeah, yeah, I played Invisible Rope. Have you played Invisible Rope? We're like, a car's coming up on, like, a stop sign.

And, like, say, me and Taylor out in the middle of the road. And you're, like, by the stop sign. Like, hey, come on, come on. And me and Taylor act like we're getting this rope set up, and we stand there and act like we're pulling on each end of the road. And the car comes to a complete stop. Well, I guess it's not a stop sign just in the middle of the road.

Yeah, it wouldn't be a stop. Yeah, just be like ongoing traffic. And you act like you're pulling this rope and they all stop. And then we, you know, you act like you drop, oh, there's no rope. It's invisible. Losing.

The guy would just be shaking his fist as you. You damn kids. Get the fuck out of this street. What's that? Don't they see that there's no rope? No, but all they see is two people like just pulling super hard. Yeah. You see it at nighttime.

Yeah. And you're like pulling on each side. And they just come to a stop. And you dropped the robot. I got you. Never played on. Did you guys have any in Switzerland? Did you guys have any games like that?

Any games like that? Ding dong ditch. Yeah. Ding dong ditch. That's it? What do you call it over there? What do you really call it? What do we call it?

Lutti stay. What, Lutti stay? That's the one you go. Ring the doorbell and take off, run. What do you got? Lutti stay? Lutte stay. Luttee?

Yeah. Were you a good kid? Yeah. I would say so I was always kind of like I knew when there was the time to stop Like So my mom always told me like she

Like I never got in trouble Because I always knew like when to stop But I don't know You'd be a class clown I guess Until I was time to stop me in class clown Yeah Until I knew I was gonna get in trouble

I was like okay I'm gonna stop He's definitely probably a good dude Dude Roman's the best Niceest guy in the world That's what I'm saying He probably didn't get too much trouble What's up Juse

I was just gonna ask the difference between the transition from Barry Trots to, you know, Love Ulet, yeah. And, like, how are they different coaches? Well, I don't know. Trotzi was my first coach. He was, I mean, he was awesome for me. He's, I don't know if he ever met Trotty. No, but he's, he was like the best guy ever.

Like, he was awesome. And he was a great coach, too. He was, I only had him for, two years i think and um he was awesome and i mean he wasn't watching they won the cop yeah and uh he's a great coach he's been the league for so long and i think there's a lot of similarities um i think lavies more he's he's he's really intense he uh he's he's great with pregame speeches uh he gets the boys fired up which is not easy we're playing 82 games and the coach has to come in there like every day and say something and he's unbelievable like he he always finds something to to

get the boys going and um i mean they're in a lot of ways they're they're really similar but they're still a little different but um they're they're they're both great coaches and um like i said drachi was my first coach and um he helped me get in the league so um yeah they're they're both awesome but uh they're definitely a little different what year did you come in the league that was 2011 so you're part of the lockout yeah how was that what was that like no i had two years two years before the lockout. Yeah, so you were part, you were in the league. No, actually, no, I played one year and then the lockout happened. Right. What was it like going through the lockout? Like, what was that? What was that? Yeah, it was, it was, I mean, I only played one year and I got to play in Europe after that.

I played in, I played in Switzerland. You kept, so you were able to keep playing. So I went back to my hometown team and played in Byrne, which was, which was really good for me. But there's, there's a lot of guys who didn't play. So they just kind of worked out and skated on their own. And for those guys, it was, it was long. What was the big reason for the lockout? I forget, was it getting like contracts guaranteed or? No, all our contracts are guaranteed. It was more at the shares between players and owners.

But your contracts were already guaranteed before the lockout. I got you. I got you. That's always interesting because you guys went into season with that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we missed half of the season and then we started in January and played 48 games. Yeah. That's interesting, man.

Going through a lockout. Yeah, did you get paid the same amount? Do you get paid? Well, no, I'm saying when you went back. Oh, no. No, that's a bummer. That's a bummer. Yeah.

It was, for me, it was tough because I only played one year in the league. So you just want to, like, you just get into the leagues. You're going to play, play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there's a lockout. But for me, it was good. I mean, I got to go back home and playing a Swiss league, which was good for me. But there's a lot of guys didn't play. So you can go and play somewhere else while things are going on?

Yeah. That's awesome. That's something that they're able to do that. If the NFL ever did, like, guys aren't able to do that. Well, you also wouldn't want to, because in the NFL, the season's so short and the injury rate is so high. True. Yeah, for sure. You're not going to go.

You're not going to go play for pennies on the dollar of what you would get paid for. Like, oh, I'm going to go play in Canada. Like an AFF or whatever, or Canada League or something like that. That's way different. I don't think football will ever get to that point where they have like a minor league, like hockey or baseball or anything like that. Why wouldn't they, though? It's just because that's what colleges. Yeah.

It's free. And it's a billion dollar business that. somehow the NCA has gotten away with for such a long time. Like we, you're a professional athlete dude and not a professional, I'm sorry, you're an amateur athlete and I was getting like $1,200 bucks a month. My rent was like $5,000, $600, you know?

And so like you're, you're playing for nothing. And you get, you know, free meals. Like you can't even have cream cheese on a bagel. It's a violation. It's just crazy. And so with that and like you're not, I feel like if you were allowed to go right from high school to the NFL,

then there would, be an opportunity for like a minor league. Yeah. But if you already, everyone's already going to college, then like we've got it. You know what I'm saying? And you only have so much mileage on the tires anyway

in the football career. Yeah. Like you get banged up a lot easier, sooner, faster. If you're playing amateur right out of, say you got a fifth year senior that goes to an amateur league and plays like three years.

Then he's like, what, 26 years old trying to be, trying to make the minimum. Trying to be a rookie. Yeah, trying to be a rookie, dude. I'm 27. Like,

I can imagine. Like I got in the league last year. Yeah. Yeah, and then what you have, the average career anyways, only like three and a half years is the average career in the NFL. So it's like... I feel like there's just a lot of guys who play and then they can't play. Like, they're really talented, but all of a sudden they don't play football anymore because there's no league for them, right? I think you're talking about after three and a half years?

Like, let's say they play in college and they don't make it the NFL. And then what do you do? Like you have to quit pretty much, right? Yeah. Well, you can go different paths. Like there are leagues like the CFL, the Canadian Football League. Yeah, that's right. You can go to.

There's an arena football league. The XFL has been a thing and not been a thing about 40 times. They've always been trying these leagues. They try a bunch of leagues for guys to get opportunities. There was a spring league this past year. It was like four weeks long. And you would have thought it it was going to potentially be something. Yeah.

And it just tanked. Springle would probably be the best bet. Yeah. Like something that's honestly like that. Oh yeah. Go ahead. Will. Do you need that?

Sorry. Is that another phone call? It's my, it's a red, Redskins strength coach. Oh, is it? It's my boy. He's just calling it. It's a weird flex. Okay.

What was I going to say? Oh, it's Chad. Who's Chad? It's a really weird thing to say, dude. All right. Who's Chad? Redskins strength coach. Weird flex.

What the fuck? So I got a question if you're done, Taylor. Go ahead, Zach. So I want to ask about, like, traveling. I mean, you're playing 82 games a season, but more, I want to look at the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs. Round one, you're playing Anaheim. That game goes to seven games.

Well, the last four games of that series, you're going back. forth from Nashville to Anahom, Nashville to Anaheim. Traveling-wise, is that pretty, like, tough on you? Because, I mean, they're in a different time zone than us, two different time zones. So I think Puck was dropping here at, like, 9 or 11 o'clock at night. Then y'all would have to come back after games and then play a day after next. Yeah, that was tough. You're right.

I mean, we, like, it's a four-hour flight every day. And so we pretty much, we played two games there. I think we won the first two, lost two at home. and then you play, like, you play every other day. Every other day. So you play at home. You go to bed pretty late because I don't know if, oh, you guys, I can't sleep after games. Well, you guys play earlier, which is nice.

Oh, it can't be the same sometimes depending how banged up you are. You play at seven, so I can't sleep after games. So you go to bed late. Get up, travel four hours to Anaheim, play the next day, fly back again, four hours again. And then the second round we played San Jose. And they only played five games in first round. Yeah. And I remember we played game seven in Anaheim.

In Anaheim. And the islands were only playing their second round match. So we were like the last first round matchup to finish. So two days later, we played in San Jose. We didn't even go home after the Annam series. Really? Playing San Jose. And then went another saving games.

And that was hard. I mean, it's just, I feel like traveling is just, it's hard on your body. Yeah. Dude, it is hard on your body. All that inflammation shit being up in the plane. How important or how serious is like the performance side, recovery side for like you guys individually? or how much of a priority does the team make that? Like when you guys have a quick turnaround,

like are they in your face and in your ear about doing the right things to recover? Yeah, for us, it's all about recovery. Like, that's what I said. Like, we don't practice much anymore. Right. Like, even the coach is like it's all about the games. Yeah. Like you can practice once in a while, but it's pretty easy.

Like the days we don't play is pretty much just to recover and work on some system stuff. But on that, it's especially like driving like that, it's huge. Like getting a lot of water in you, getting a lot of sleep and all. that stuff and I mean it's it's probably the most important part in in the playoffs for sure is your guys is do you do your recovery through a lot of stuff at the facility or do you source a lot do guys like kind of source people around Nashville or in cities they go to um both yeah we get it through the facility but a lot of guys have have their own people for for massages or treatment and but um yeah it's a little bit both i mean you know bobo do you use bobo no no you don't no you're your fiance yeah yeah i

Yeah. I used him on time, but. It's a preference, right? I mean, getting stuck all the time's tough. Yeah. I love the IV stuff. I like that stuff. I got, like, treadmarks.

You have a heroin addict. You guys, you take, when you talk about not sleeping, you take a lot of, like, pre-workout and some uppers before the game. Yeah. The boy's all about that. Yeah. Who's got the pre-workout? Do you guys take that or not?

Yeah, I take some pre-workout for sure. Do you guys drink coffee before games? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's what we would do. We hit Starbucks on the way to the stadium. If we played it at noon, we'd go like, what, 7.30 in the morning? Yeah.

We go to the facility. Oh, 7.30 already? Yeah. We go cold tub, hot tub, cold up, hot tub, like contrast for probably 45 minutes. Yeah. Roll out a little bit and then stop at the Starbucks. Get myself in ice latte with almond milk. There we go.

No sugar. And just bang some music on our way to the facility. Get her going a little bit. Taylor got me on that stuff because with the red stuff. Because with the Redskins, our games are in D.C., but where we lived in our practice facility was like an hour away. So I never, we never had access like that. We'd just be in the hotel before our game, even on home games.

So Taylor got me on the bid of going in the facility like hours before, and it's a lovely dude, playing for a team that's in town. What time do you guys have to be there? It's usually... It'd be there two hours before a game starts. So if it's at noon, you ought to be in the stadium at 10. Yeah, checked in. Ready to roll out of your clothes and changed and all that type of stuff.

We have like a little team meeting and then you kind of go about your business. Like I'll go on the field for a little bit. Can I do a couple of things? Make sure I feel good. Go up. And I don't usually get IV. I get Ivy the night before. Yeah.

With Bobo. Because you're just, dude, I can't, like, I can't imagine doing 86 games and, like, just skating all that wear and tear on the legs. But, I mean, it's all. You get to a certain point in the season. It's just like, at week eight, you're just like, all right, get myself to the next game. Yeah. Make sure you feel good at the next game. Survive in advance.

Survive and advance. And it's almost when you don't play for a couple days, you, You get tired because you get in the rhythm of playing every other day and you just keep playing. That's what like people like buy weeks, I'm not like like, I don't know how I would actually feel about it, but if there was no by week, it almost be easier for me. Because I could just, I could just transition and like just, because eventually like you take enough hits, your legs get sore enough. Like it just kind of gets stagnant. It's like plateaus and you're solid. But I don't know.

I mean, people might kill me if you're not wanting a biweek. Yeah. You get killed up there. We just got a biweek like three years ago. Yeah. We get the All-Star break too, right? I know, but they started to have a bi-week now, so you get either like three days off after the Y'Also game or before. So it's like your guys are you guys, your guys are you guys?

Yeah, it's like three or four days, yeah. Yeah, that's so much. Go ahead what you're saying? Yeah, it's like with the also game, it's like seven. It's like a week pretty much. Yeah. But guys love it. It's like a little break and kind of breaks up the season a little bit.

Do the boys go out when you guys go to Vegas? After game we did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. soul, dude. What hotel did you guys stay in? Bellaccio.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah, Will, do you know where the Belagio is? The Bellagio? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, I know where it is. Dude, I feel like, because, like, the Raiders are going to the Vegas.

Dude, people are going to lose some paychecks. Things are going to go down. Vegas is a tough state. It's a place that will steal your soul. Yeah. I'll spend three days there. I'll be like, dude, get me the. the fuck out of Vegas, dude.

Unless you're winning. Dude, well, I mean, yeah, but, like, sometimes you're just so hung over. You're like, I just got to go home and regroup my whole entire life. Do you guys get there the night before the game? Well, we don't know. They haven't moved yet. But you would get there the night before game. Yeah.

There would be no way. Well, you get there at, like, four o'clock. You can go out for a couple hours and go gamble if you want. But you know, like, the coaches, everybody would be pretty, you know, you'd probably be a little more strict. A little more strict for sure. living there, like, outside the ship, there's not a lot, like, in Vegas, and, like, really there's nothing.

Yeah, but James Neal played there last year, and he said it was awesome. He loves it. Like, there's so many nice neighborhoods, and, like, he lives right on the golf course. He said it was pretty nice, actually. You play a lot of golf? That's awesome. I'm starting to, yeah. Yeah.

I started, like, two years ago, so I'm now, I'm terrible, but I'm getting lessons right now. It's fun, though, man. Just get out. It's awesome. Get some beer, cigars, play some music. Yeah. Not take it too serious. I know.

It's hard not to take it serious. Yeah, it is. You're about it. Yeah. Where do you guys play? No, I don't golf. I haven't played here. I would play when I was on the skins all the time, like in the all season around this time.

Yeah. But, I mean, I'm not that good. I got my own clubs and stuff. And you'll hit shots that keep you coming back. Yeah. But I'm not like some scratch golf or anything like that. No, I'm terrible. It's fun, though.

I enjoy it. I like the camaraderie around the boys. Yeah. And it's nice being outside for five or six hours and just. For sure. just golf. You gotta, we gotta get you into golf.

I see, I don't know, dude, like I have this weird thing, like, you'd come with us. I just remember, like,

I grew up poor, and now I'm watching, and I watch all those assholes, part of country clubs. I'm like, I don't want to be a part of that. Dude, I was at a country club

a couple, like a couple years ago, and the guy's like, oh, you should be, you should be a member. And I was like, can I dress like this?

And I was wearing, like, a T-shirt and Jim shorts. He goes, you got to wear a collared shirt. You got to wear khakis. I'm like, get me out of here, dude. I don't want to be a part of it. Golf.

I had this stupid joke that I grew up. Yeah. Don't want to be in a country club. I don't want to be in country club. I'll be a sellout if I ever join a country club. Yeah. Don't even want to live on a golf course. That'd be nice, though.

I mean, you're going to live on a golf course. What's that? I would love to live on a golf course. Would you? Yeah. I think it'd be nice, too. Well, you're going to live after you're done playing. Because your wife, she's a stady.

Yeah. Looks like Nashville. No way. Yeah. How do you feel? How does your family feel about that? My mom isn't too happy about it. Yeah.

But no. She should just come over. I know. Bring the squad over. They love it here. Like my family loves it here. But yeah. Like, I mean, we met here and she loves Nashville.

I love Nashville. So we'll see. But have you seen a lot of spots besides Milwaukee and Nashville? Besides what? Besides Milwaukee? Or on the U.S. Have you been in the U.S.? Like you spent time.

I'm not just like. flown for games yeah not really there's a lot of traveling out there man I mean you're trying to get him well not away yeah where are you know I just diving into there's a lot of love at there man like you like golf Arizona yeah Arizona's got great golf and then California I love California yeah I mean your your wedding was that big sir where are you going to live way better in a country dude I don't know that's a good question because I like

don't know what it is about this city but for some reason they love me and I love them back and I think it's a great city I'm building a house But I mean I'm from Arizona I was born in California All west coast And then my wife's from British Columbia Canada she's west coast

And so I feel more naturally drawn To that part of the country Like I said Nashville people were so nice Like you come here And everybody's so nice to you And like everybody's so open And they help you out

And it's I mean it's been awesome honestly That's awesome Yeah I would agree with that Yeah Being in D.C. And shit like that everybody's all about going from A to B and

Not like asshole But there's just people prioritize Like it's all like business Out there dude yeah Dude Nashville I don't think anybody has a job Like dude it's Tuesday and I'm like Drive past the Mumbrian And it's tin roof is packed

Yeah you know what I'm saying Losers is a pat like yo You have to go to work Yeah what's going on Nashville's so unique dude I love it Yeah I like Nashville a lot too But about that about that skate Dude I'm down to go skate

Let's do it. You're in. I'm 100% now. Are you guys working out right now? Yeah, we're done on Thursday. Okay, so. And I'm here. All we do, it's just like, yeah,

football is done on Thursday, but all we do in the summer is just work out, so we have, like, a lot of the day free. Okay, well, come on. Are you good at skating? Dude, I used to skate quite frequently. Well, I just know how I'm going to be out of. Dude, I have my first date on skates.

Really? Like, I know I'm not going to be that solid, so I'm just trying to gauge how solid you know. I'm going to be trash. It's not like riding a bike, dude. If you don't stay on it, you're going to be... No, come on out. Come on skate next week.

It's literally just me and Watson out there. Dude, I'm okay. You guys come skating. You got to get me a stick, though. Yeah. All right. What are you? All righty.

All right. I want a bucket, too, to get me a good bucket. Your CCM? Yeah. All right, I'm a joffa guy, but all right, I'll do CCM. I want to do one of those old jofas. Old Jofes, dude. I might cut it into a bullet, dude.

I want to line up 40 sticks and just pick out the right one. Yeah, you and P.K. out there. All right, we're done skating. Hey, cop, just pick a stick, comp, like you don't play. Checking out the bend in the stick. Oh, God, I thought. That's not good.

Yeah, this one's a little too stiff. Dude, I'm down to get out there. Yeah. Of course. All right. Deal. Have you skated? I've skated before, but, like, it's like one of those deals.

It's one of those deals where it's like, it'd be a field trip one time of year in Missouri. You know what I mean? So not that much. Like, if Taylor and I are doing a face, I was going to be, comp, like, stop moving forward. I don't know what the fuck you guys want me to do. Like just stay still. Fuck, man. Dude, I'd have to tape my ankles.

I would have to tape my ankles. Really? Like a scrub. Yeah, dude, I'd be ankle-bending on the ankles. I mean, hell, I don't know. I'll do whatever it takes, man. I got these flat flippers, dude. I got some flat feet.

Do you have skates? What's your feet size? Is it like 14 or 50? I'm 12. You got 12? Yeah, probably. Oh, no. I'm out now.

Give me some figure skates, dude. Have you seen the movie Goon? No. You ask everybody this question. Nobody sees it. The most inspirational sports movie of all time. Sean William Scott. Have you seen American Pie?

Yeah. Stiffler? Yeah. So he's in the movie. And it's like a based on true story about a guy who's an enforcer. But he's like kind of like simple. And he just beat the shit out of guys and they watch him. He's got to learn how to skate and stuff like that.

And he's wearing figure skates. So it's a hockey. It's a hockey movie. It's a hockey movie. It's a unbelievable. And he hasn't seen it. So it's probably not that fucking good. Dude.

I watch this movie before every single game. Look at him. Oh, this is... No, no, no, this is the second one. This one was trash. What is this one? Back in 2012? This might be it, I don't know.

We'll let you go after this, but you're going to sit and you're going to watch this. I want to watch that movie. It's on Netflix, dude. Never made it to theaters. So it's never made it to theaters? Are you being serious when it's your favorite sports movie? I watch this movie every single game. Before every game.

I swear to God. It's way better than it should be. It's really good. Yeah. It's really good. When do you watch it the night before? Night before, dude. And I just sit there and I'm just like fucking fired it up, dude.

Is it? Yeah, because he's a protector. This guy named Xavier LaFlemme is, he's like this number two overall pick. And then Ross the Boss Ray, who's a enforcer, knocks him out like his second game in the league. This guy right here. Just start watching him. Boom! See you, nerd.

That's how he knows. that I should be a hockey player Look at him It's coming out there In the August Guys are talking shit to him Look at him He just beats the shit out of the whole hockey team

He starts doing the skit Skate at him Or the stick So he learns how to skate or whatever It gets the number 69 Because it's hilarious Their words, not mine He's got the elbow pads outside the jersey

And then he becomes a pro hockey No this is below He's at the Halifax Highlanders dude East Coast Canada So you've seen this movie like 60 times. Dude, I've seen this movie so many times. It's got two rules, man.

Don't touch my perkinsettes. And do you have any fucking perkinsets? You got a couple of European dudes. They're always just talking about banging his mom. This guy just beats the shit at a... That was Xavier LaFlemm, the guy with the hair. Such a great movie, dude. Falls in love with this girl.

That's Ross de Boss Ray. We're basically watching this movie right now. Taylor's taking us through it. I'm actually starting to feel it now. Yeah, Ross de Bosset Ray is like my hero. And he's like this just tough bastard that beats the shit of people. There he is, dude. Like, he's just beats the hell out of everybody.

Got that foo manchu, dude. He's sitting there in a diner at it's 3 a.m. And he goes, he tells him, he goes, if you and I ever go toes, I will lay you the fuck out. And at the end of the movie. And they go toes? At the end of the movie, the whole stadium goes crazy or the arena goes crazy. And they get out to center ice, dude. And they just go at it, dude.

Don't run it. I won't tell you what happens. I'll tell you what, the Ross, the Boss Ray. That guy was a real, national hockey player. George LaRoc. He was tough. Yeah, he was a goon, wasn't he? Yeah, he was really, he's one of the toughest ever, I think.

Yeah. He's got a video on YouTube that's like, he's like sitting there before a faceoff, and he goes, hey, you want to go? Yeah, I see that. Sure, he goes, good luck, man. And they dropped the puck and they square up and just get after it. That's awesome. That fires me up, dude.

I'm actually going to watch this now. It's a great movie, dude. I'm going to text you both tonight. Between the combination of the, I'm going to text you both tonight separately. And I'll let you guys know. Make sure you watch it. Sweet joke. Hey guys, it's us.

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