Bussin' With The Boys - Taylor Lewan's Reaction To Michigan Making National Championship + Why The Bills And Browns Look Dangerous

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

Recorded: January 2nd 2024 | We are back for the New Year and we all hope you guys had a Happy Holiday season. The biggest news which we talk about for a while is Michigan beat Alabama and is now set to play Washington in the National Championship. Taylor gives his honest thoughts on how he thinks the game went, believe it or not, he did not have any outlandish things to say about the game. Will and Taylor analyze the whole game and get into how happy they are for the boys. Once they finish talking about the Bama game, they start previewing the Championship game against Washington. Taylor is still very confident in Michigan but does say how he is a little bit worried about the explosiveness of the Washington offense. It'll be an amazing game. Following all the college football talk, they guys get into the NFL playoff picture that is starting to take shape. There are some possible dark horses in this years playoff and the boys have a couple bold predictions. One of which is that Will says he could see the Rams and Bills making the Super Bowl. Taylor gets into how he thinks the Browns and Joe Flacco could make a little bit of a run and they are not a team anyone wants to be seeing right now. To finish the pod, all of the boys give their New Years resolution both physically when it comes to physical health but also their goals for their mental's. This is a fun pod that really gets into the football that happened this past weekend but then finishes off with some fun convos. It's gonna be a helluva year fellas, enjoy. 2:00 It’s Still Michigan vs Everybody 25:30 Preview For Michigan vs Washington 35:10 College Football Playoff Got It Right 37:45 How Beneficial Is It To Sit Out Of The Bowl Game? 45:42 Dave Portnoy Let His Nuts Hang 50:44 Will Is Going On A Date With Who?? 56:20 Will Might Be The Best Party Planner 1:08:25 The Lions Got Bent Over 1:13:20 Make Or Break For The NFL 1:27:32 New Year’s Resolutions 1:40:15 Michael Chandler v Conor McGregor 1:47:14 One Massive Poop Or Poop Your Pants?For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ladies gentlemen, welcome to episode 257. It is January 7th. 22, 2004. Hope you had an absolutely incredible Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's holiday season, we'll just call it. And congratulations to the University of Michigan Wolverines for punching their ticket to the national championship, along with the Washington Huskies. Let's talk about our presenting sponsor for a little bit. Yep. All right, Mitch, way to chime in, Mitch. Good job, Mitch. I appreciate that. That's big of you guys.

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the Chevy Silverado, dude. Let's give a tip of the cap for the boy. That is literally exceeding most touchdowns in Michigan history, rushing touchdowns in Michigan history in that game, in that moment. He was down. I think he scored 14 touchdowns this year.

Like, it was like, hey, he's off in the distance. We'll see what happens. But the guy, truly after an ACL, all that stuff. It was, dude, it was so, it was so fucking great to see. It really was. You got to bleep the F word. But dude, I hated yesterday

until the end. I hated it. Literally woke up, got excited, went to the Chandler's house for New Year's and we're kind of talking this girl, Deney, she played softball at Alabama. We're kind of chirping back and forth a little bit. I showed the little videos I was going to post.

I told about the whole situation we talked about you guys plotting against me, but really it was just Garrett plotting against me. And so I thought, hey, it's me against the world of the bus, essentially, which it kind of has been this whole entire year. Then I wake up in the morning, hit my little routine, hit my little workout. And right around 1 p.m. I'm nervous. Nervous to the point where, man, what if they just get blown out again? What if this just happens again?

What of all of the things that everybody said, the men in this bus, happens? And it was an incredible game. You had like when that first play happened and JJ was trying to throw out of bounds and he just throws it to the Alabama defender, I just start laughing out loud like, oh my God, this could be so bad. This could be so bad. Fortunately, you know, it wasn't a turnover right there to start the game. I mean, it might, it's just there was a turnover just like three minutes later.

I'm sure. Every Michigan Bay was probably sitting there when he threw that pick like, oh no. Everybody. You just felt it was so tight. Everyone felt so tight and everything. Yeah. And then they see the defense get pressure they did. I think they sacked them.

Like, defense played well. Defense played outstanding. The line got after their O line. Which is crazy because you get a guy like Milro who is just a freak athlete. Having those contained rushes, running those inside games during past plays, they had an incredible game plan. And I was very impressed with the back end of the defense, too. the way they're able to run with those athletes.

Because that is the fear of how fast... True, but I was... I didn't understand, and I owe the Michigan defense an apology. I didn't realize their game was like that. I'm looking at the back seven, and they are... They are some goons, bro. Oh, yeah.

Will Johnson, and then I always forget the other kid's name, but he's number zero. They're both insane. Thank you very much. And then that Moore kid, the safety, like all of them in the back end. That Colston kid, Brentwood, Brentwood kid, Nashville, Tennessee.

like they just have dogs. And dude, one of the most impressive people on that team is number 78, their D-Lignment, their nose tackle. He is a unit, kids like 350, but you see him every time he's in, they revolve guys around so much. He's sprinting to the ball. He hawked that dude down against Penn State.

Just amazing. But very uncharacteristic of Michigan, the way they had as many miscues as they did. The special teams was what was killing y'all. Killing us, dude. Because you guys like, like Jim Coach Moore

is it Coach Moore their offensive staff who put together that game plan like they were doing a great job like with all the shifts with the motions after the shift like messing with their eyes

because you have to you have to do a good job of adjusting like defensively but I thought that Michigan just had a great game plan to kind of go along like of course I was like rooting for Alabama then by the end of it you're like

fuck man like they are playing a solid game and special teams almost killed you guys. Yeah, it was like, then that cat at the end of the game trying to field the ball

and then it's backed up on like the inch yard line. And then you're thinking, you gotta do a, you can't even take a knee. Yeah, you got to pile it in there. What if we lost on a safety?

But the thing, yeah, so I think you're right. Like strategically, the game plan, everything like Michigan had the better game plan. They were executing better,

especially in the first half. The special team's place. Like muffing that punt. in the first quarter when you're getting the ball back for your second, then you just spot Alabama 7 right there. Then you go through the game, and this is what I love,

I'll actually get to what I love about what Michigan did in these situations, but at the end of the game, you're going in, you have one drive to go and win it, 45 seconds left on the clock, and you put this white boy out here, no disrespect to him,

but like, that's the first punt. I've seen him, I've seen him catch the entire game. Everybody's been muffing the punts. It was one muff. And the other kid, there was a couple more puns. This kid caught it just fine.

And he goes inside the 10. He was inside the 10, backed up to another 7. That's just the awareness game where you're like, bro, just let it go. And if they down it, that's fine. But that could have been essentially 2015 Michigan State. Yeah. Every special team's meeting in the country is if you're fielding upon inside the inside the 10, especially if you're backing up to go get it, you let it go.

Let that thing go. Yeah. Let it go. This is what I really liked about. Michigan and the trust they have in their players. The first series of Michigan happens. The almost pick, they end up going three and out, and then the defense gets the ball back.

The whole punt thing happens. Eventually Michigan's obviously back on the field. Instead of just going, all right, JJ almost threw a pick when he was throwing the ball away. We're going to run it. And it was 7-0 too. Yeah, 7-0. Immediately goes and gets the ball out of JJ's hand

for an easy completion, getting his confidence back up. This 82 kid, when he must, the punt. He had a play down the field, gets him 10, 11 yards. And like one series later, like they're going back to these guys and not just keeping them cold and then eventually, like, relying on them later in the game, which I thought was great. Roman Wilson, the fourth quarter on fourth and three, Blake Corm, like you said, with the motions and everything, going from that trips to that bunch trips and then flipping the back. He did a great job of getting out and has an ex-play 20, 25 yards. Roman Wilson has a abysmal block in the back. A dis like,

senior wide receiver does everything right, has the block in the back where you're just like, oh my God, they're literally trying to fucking ruin it. They're trying to ruin it. Because I don't know about you guys, but when that last drive, I'm thinking they're going to eat up all the clock

and in my world's score. And in that situation, based on how the second half is gone, you go for two in that situation. In my head. I thought they might go for two as well. Yeah, but fuck it. Like,

but with one, 138 left in the game, Alabama's got timeouts. I think it was the right move to hit the extra point. but if you were to get down where it's like 10 seconds where hey boys let's just win it here balls in our hands

they obviously made the right choice but I love the fact that they went back to dudes that were making that made a couple of mistakes and that shit was cool I also love the referees letting the boys play I thought the punter I thought the punter getting hit that was a flag

I thought JJ on that that like JP said that legacy catch when he got hit that could have been a penalty that last drive JJ runs it He's on the Alabama side line, gets thrown to the ground outside the white paint. That's a penalty. But they let it ride and they were calling it evenly. So that is, I did appreciate that.

But, and I told G this earlier because it was a great game. You've had a lot of success in your fandom. That game, if Michigan doesn't make the uncharacteristic mistakes, is a double-digit win for Michigan. Yeah, I mean, that's, yeah, we're just playing the hypothetical game at this point. Yeah. I mean, is this podcast that should be me talking the whole time

or? No, I thought at some point, Gary, how'd you feel about the game? You know, obviously disappointing. It's, you know, Taylor's right. That was the worst feeling

of anxiety the entire day leading up. One o'clock hit and I'm pacing around. I'm like, what do I do? Like, this sucks. Closer it gets your nerve set in. You're like, holy crap, here we go. First play, pick.

I'm like, oh, It's a wrap. It's a wrap. Second play, I don't even remember what happens, but JJ converts a third down on that first drive where he throws a laser on the sideline. They review it, guys toes in. I'm like, oh, fuck.

Like, we got to finish plays. Obviously, we get the ball back. Jace breaks one. Touchdown, I feel a little better. And then the game kind of stales after Michigan immediately drives down his course because I was like, oh, shit, here we go. Like, they're going to move the ball.

and so the whole back and forth for forever was extremely stressful. Errors were all over the field for both sides. Who do you put the game on? Who were you most disappointed in or what were you most disappointed in? Our game plan, for sure. The game plan on offense, I think, was immediately set back because of Michigan's game plan on defense. They came with pressure immediately to start the game.

and that's how you get Milrow off his game. You can't give him time because the longer he extends plays is where he beat you. And there was no extending plays. I think play calling was interesting. When we had success running the ball, we'd get inside the 30 and start throwing screens.

We even had success doing that all year. I think, you know, there's big mistakes and big moments that back you up to where you have to settle for three that could have put the game away. hopefully. You know, it was tough. I think there's like four plays that Michigan had that were perfect

on third and that fourth down conversion. I mean, it was just you got beat kind of thing. Because the game was called so fair, there is no like ifs and butts. You know, it's just kind of didn't execute for sure. How, uh, I think the month off hurt us more than it helped. or I think the month off hurt us and it helped Michigan.

How sick are you that it was Michigan and knowing you're coming into work next day with the boy? It sucks for sure. I'm not going to lie. It sucks. I think because of how the game went, it makes it a little bit better in a weird way. It could have been, like Taylor said, like it definitely could have been way worse. I mean, we only had two touchdowns and they were. running the ball and then somehow we don't run the ball the rest of the game.

Yeah, it blows. But you get beat and that happens. So now Michigan's just got to go finish the job. I think it was interesting how Nick Saban, like if you give a five sacks in the first half, after the third sack, the kid's running for his life, I just don't understand why a coach, arguably the best college football coach of all time, right, doesn't make a change there from a protection standpoint, getting another guy in their protection, getting a tight end,

keeping the back in more, and just making it a little more simple for Millro. Like, give them some easy throws to complete. They were either trying to take shots or and in the third quarter like it opens back up. Michigan has done an amazing job in the third quarter

of outscoring their opponents. There's a crazy statistic on that, but they ran the ball well. And then they would go to throw in complete pass. Well, then they get another chunk play for 10, 11 yards. And it's like, you can see the key to the the path to success for Alabama was just running the ball until they said stop. Yep.

That's, I think that's just where it was. They got too many like third and longs like that. And there, you guys are, Alabama's running the ball on third and long. Like second and long and third long happened too much for Alabama on offense. And yeah, like if you're, who's the, who's the OC? Tommy Reese. Tommy Reese.

Tommy Reese, Sabin, like, you know you just got to be disappointed because they're talking about it coming out of halftime, but. the O-Line was just missing on some of these, on some of these blitzers. Or just getting beat because Milro is not a cat. Like, I don't mind them taking shots. But then there's some times where they might have a guy open and he's not even able to get the ball off because somebody's in his face.

I can't read. The back gets across face late. Tackle kind of doesn't know what to do. He gets smacked. Like, there were so many, like, third and longs for him. There weren't a lot of opportunity for him to make a second read because he had to get it out. That's where I think.

And then Millrow, he wasn't hitting everything. Like he's that's what hurt. He's not like an accurate. Well, there was no flow to the offense. Every play was starting from scratch, it felt like. And that's why I think that Michigan game playing in the first half would bring in heat early. Don't let him get comfortable kind of thing. I think going into half, we, yeah, are lucky that it's only a three point game.

I thought Michigan going in at half being excited to have the lead and us being pissed off was really going to work in our favor in the second half. And it almost started that. rolling the second half for the most part. There was just no points getting put on the board. It's like Michigan felt like they dominated the first half, but it was only 13 to 10. Exactly. That's what made me feel good because it wasn't great ball.

And it was only a three point game. And then, yeah, when we score or when we kick three to go, or no, when we score, to go 17, 10. I was like, all right, here we go. Now the defense is just got to play defense. but great game playing on offense too. The pre-snap shit is like, you know. The pre-snap motions and shifts were next level.

Well, the bunch, I mean, the first touchdown for Blake Quorum is the best, I told you this earlier, is the best Blake call I've ever seen. I don't know why everyone doesn't do this. You have three wide receivers run basically the same route on different levels that builds a wall for whoever's guarding the running back to have to fight through. You're talking about the first touchdown? Yeah. And you got to, somehow you got to match speed with Blake.

It's like, that's a touchdown. He didn't get touched. Yeah, but if the backers have better eyes, the other backer would see it. Well, that's where a 32 was pointing. Right. Right when he goes across it right away. Like, hey, you, you, you, but he got his eyes to the bunch. Second half adjustment, they, Bama reacted quicker to that stuff pre-snap, I think.

And that's what helped kind of slow that down a little bit. But then as the game went on, that, that fourth and two, that was my least favorite situation. of the entire game. When we got the stop on third down, it was like, all right. Fourth down's even worse than third down. Like, this sucks. Yeah, and you brought up a good point, too,

in the beginning. Like, I didn't know, I looked up JJ's stats after the game and 233 touchdowns, 66% completion. Yeah. That in, because I was watching the game and they were playing these big replays.

And I told you, like, it was like the third quarter were backed up inside the 10. And there's a tight end. He goes and he just says like a little hitch. And he's, blanketed by the linebacker. Those is linebacker, and it's an obvious, like it was broken up immediately.

Well, on the far side of the field with the one receiver, he had separation from you to me. Or you put it right there. If that's an ex play, getting you towards midfield and there just seemed like there were some plays here and there, you're like, yo, what is going on? There was a deeper play where receiver had great separation,

came back to the ball, but the ball was just a little too high, overthrown a little too high. But incredibly impressive, the poise. incredibly impressive the poison be able to fight and fight through that. That play right there with Roman Wilson at the end of the game with like two minutes left

got tipped and that was a pick dude. That was a pick and it was just for him to go up and get that and that is right after he had the block in the back call which I think is just makes it better. This is the best part about Michigan when I watched, I didn't watch all of Texas

and Washington but when mistakes were happening on Alabama or Texas or Washington You could see like safety's like there was one where one guy slipped out towards the Michigan sideline and they didn't do a good job of exchanging it. The safety starts to go back and even before the plays over, he's already putting his hands up and then running to it. When plays were happening, I didn't see one time like a palms up type of bad body language

thing. Right. And it's kind of, to me, that's just cool culture. That's a cool culture deal. And it just fired me up, bro. Like this shit just fired me out that they're legit good because we are. all had doubts. Like, I mean, you guys obviously all picked Alabama. Like, even going, I mean, going into the game, I'm having doubts. I'm like, man, what if you see Big Ten just getting

mopped all over the floor? Penn State, Ohio State, Iowa, shout out Jack, and their big win. Like, you just think, man, we are, maybe we're just a bad, bad conference, which I would now argue that we got the best conference. Well, I think, I think if Ohio State has all, has their quarterback, has their wide receivers play. If Penn State has any of their guys play, like it's a different ball game. It is a different ball game. It's a different ball game.

Now, do I think the Bay 10 should take credit for Michigan? No. I think the Big 10 doesn't deserve to take credit from Michigan. They tried everything they could to ruin Michigan. So the Big 10 doesn't deserve Michigan. The Big 10, in my opinion, is Ofer and Bullgings, except for Maryland. Maryland's the best team in the Big Ten right now. You know, Minnesota won their bowl game.

Oh, Minnesota was in a bowl game? Minnesota. Who would they play? Uh, bowling green maybe. No. A tough ball club out there, bowling green. Bull and green gave Michigan fits. gave them fits.

Let's see what we got here. 30 to 24. Northwestern over Utah. Okay. That's a big, that's a wild wind. Minnesota over Bowling Green. Rutgers over Miami. I'll tell you what now.

How many are? Hey, at Big Ten West took care of business. at Big Ten West is taking your business How many Big Ten SEC matchups? What was the outcome of all the Bay Ten SEC matchups? All right here. Right here,

Stard, Ole Miss, beats Penn State, Auburn beats, I mean, sorry, Maryland beats Auburn, LSU beats Wisconsin, Tennessee beats Iowa, and then obviously Michigan beats Alabama. So two and three?

By this, it'd be, yeah, one game up. Yeah, ma'am. I mean, yeah, the Bay Ten, I just can't believe that they tried to do that in the middle of the season. That's crazy. Try to do what? To spend Harbaal, no due process, the whole thing.

And now we're saying that Ohio State's hacking into catapults and all that. Yeah, zero integrity out in your guys' division. Yeah, we're going to be independent. I hope we're independent. I think that'd be a crazy, a crazy switch up. But. Ultimately, people were trying to take you guys down because y'all cheated for several years. Shout out the kids, dude.

shout out the University of Michigan players. When everybody's talking shit and everybody's like the mainstream media and Will Compton are all saying that there are a bunch of cheaters and to go and still take care of business with all the adversity without your head coach in the field in your biggest games,

that says so much about the culture. Absolutely. That is insane to not like waiver or get distracted. Like that is very, very rare to see a team stick together like that and that is just cool. That's a national title team. They just seem like a team that like

Literally I feel like they all go to the bar together When I was in Michigan They're probably like hey we got one left We ain't going to the bar together I like that I like that You like the 2012 Michigan Wolverine? No they are not

Them boys Let's go to skis Yeah win and lose we were still boozing It was mostly losers It was tough out there Are the uh The two white guys on the D line for Michigan Yeah Graham and that McGregor

How guys can we get those guys on the all white team salty cat We got some Our D-Line is set Well we need depth Yeah we got depth Like D-line We could use some

We should use some guys on the inside You know that Use some interior That 17 kid was the one That was messing with us at Springball Yeah yeah yeah He's the one who jumped in the fucking bush He was a crazy kid

Yeah the crazy motherbuck I was fired up when he had that sack Like the opening drive Because I want to say Bama I might have scored them But I had already scored them but I thought they came out, they came out, like, putting it to that offensive line.

Yeah, I did not see that coming because they really didn't have that type of, like, the success against offensive lines in the big 10. I thought, man, it's going to be tough to get pressure. There's some big boys over there at the Crimson Tide. They're, like, are average bigger than every NFL offensive line. Yeah, Herbie said that in the broadcast. Like, how slow are you if you're that big? How are you feeling about the national title against Washington? I feel nervous.

I do. It's crazy to me that Washington is one of those teams, too, that have played in so many games being underdogs, and they just continue to win. They do, man. They just fucking continue to win. It's nuts, bro. That's a fun story.

And they're four-point underdogs again against Michigan. They were four-point underdogs against Texas. They were underdogs against Oregon twice. Like, he's just crazy. I think they're underdogs against USC and maybe even Utah at one point. Oregon State, like, dude, that Pennix kid is a stud. They survived that Oregon State game. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They survived the entire year. They just keep winning. They're not only surviving, they're thriving. And so that kid watching that first half against Texas, because I thought Texas was going to run away with it. I thought Texas was going to win. It was going to be Texas and Michigan. But watching Pennix, where he was putting the ball,

when there was pressure, him just kind of moving to the side and handling his pocket presence and ripping it, running when he had to run it, like just very elite. football elite football when i was watching their offense i was like why couldn't we just operate on offense like a big is score at any moment when he didn't have that qb man oh no doubt i'd have that kb that game comes down the quarterback i thought it sucked that that last play had to be that play call

that's how that's how that's how much you like for which what oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that was slaggy yes and he didn't even like get crazy celebrate like start running the field at first he's just like you fucking try that on me? Yeah. Like Crabtree. You're shit out of that ball. Imagine if you missed. That was wild.

But Washington, dude, their operation towards the end of the game was terrible. I was watching a little bit like the last two minutes of the game.

They get their running back hurt and they should have just took a knee. It would have been 12 seconds in the clock, 20 seconds on clock, whatever it was. They decided to run it and they get stopped.

Then the running back's injured so the clock has to stop. And they almost lost. I tell you would. they better strap up for the Michigan running game. I mean, it's a totally, it's a totally different game playing Alabama. The, just, because Bama Michigan, it was just like a fun matchup to watch, like built similar physical teams.

Right. Going back and forth, like, it felt like the Texas Washington game was a lot more. Like, Washington's more finesse than everything else. So it would be cool to kind of shoot. Washington Michigan game could be like a shootout. It could maybe be similar, maybe different. If it's a shootout, you've got to give the edge to Washington. If it turns into a shootout, you would assume edge Washington

because of the way they're able to put the ball where they are. Michigan, the way Michigan wins is on the ground, taking their shots when they need them, and playing incredible defense. Because to think you're going to get the pressure on Pennix, the way you did Alabama, it's, they have the Joe Moore award-winning offensive line. Like, their offense line is well put together. Their tackles are well put together. They do a great job of communication.

They handle the games that Texas was throwing at. them. So I don't, this would be more a question for you. I don't know if it's like, hey, you keep a similar game plan of like, hey, we're rushing five. We're bringing a fifth guy every time. Or you putting four and hoping your games kind of work out and then get guys in the back hand to cover up. Yeah. I don't, like if you're like Michigan to me, they just did a good job kind of being like, hey, we're going to apply pressure like when you feel like it's situational. Pennix is a lot better than Millrow. Millrow, you know you can pluser as long as you get it as long as you get in his face and get pressure on them,

Pennix, you might have to have more guys in coverage and let your, you let your four go hunt. Because the four that's going to hunt now, like they're, they're good ballplayers. Good ball players and they have a great rotation keeping guys fresh. Yeah, and it's not like anybody gets real stagnant. Like you see pressure coming up the middle. You see pressure coming from inside, outside, all of it.

So I think they're going to have to do a good job of getting home with four to keep as many as they can in coverage. I agree. Because if not, Pennix will, I think. They play. He'll be tough. He played a zone. I mean, maybe I'm wrong.

They played zone in the back in and then let guys go eat. I don't know if you can do the zone against Pinnock's because those receivers will sit down with him getting rid of it that fast. Yeah, I mean, it'll be, it'll just be a lot different. Like, the game plan is going to be so much different. Like, you saw with Alabama, like, they sent so much pressure to the side of the back. Like, you can dictate pressure going to the tight end, to the open side, to the back, away from the back, to the passing strength to the weak side.

like with Michigan, they're doing a lot of it to the backside just because all that zone regame, that's why there's so many negative plays. Like, Milro, if he keeps it, he's getting hit because you got somebody coming off the edge or he doesn't do a good job of getting it out to the perimeter once he sees that edge rush are coming. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like if you have that, if you have like that run pass option to where it's zone read and

you're reading the end, but you also have the option to throw it out wide, the minute you see that edge guy coming off the edge, you would hit that receiver. He was slow a couple times getting it out. Like one, not the number three, got rocked one play. Yeah. Because he got it out to him late off that cat blitz. A random screen. And that was a great play by the defense, too.

Yeah, absolutely. Breaking down. Good timing. Like, yeah, they had really good. And that's another thing, too. The back end of Michigan did a great job open field tackling. Like, there'd be why, except for that first one were they, except for that first one that was nuts.

But, you know, you get back in it. You could easily fall into the tank there, but they did a good job. making plays in the open field against, like, guys that are on Alabama. Yeah, I, like, that was a crazy move. The only better move I've seen was the LSU Florida game when that kid blew his knee out. Oh, yeah, we saw that. That move was nuts, and then it ended up, you know, happened the way it happened.

But my God. You feel better. You feel better about Washington than Bama? You have to, right? Yeah. You got to feel like a massive monkeys off your back because you beat the SEC, Bama squad. You couldn't get out of the first round of the playoffs.

You finally get out of the first round of the playoffs. against Bama in the SEC. So I feel like you're kind of playing with house of money. I know you want the Natty for sure. You want the Natty. It's hard. To me, based on all the allegations, you just said everything correct.

Like I do feel this massive side relief being able to walk in here and essentially just be like, I mean, you guys all did bet against it. And I get it. I completely understand why. But it's a nice feeling to be able to walk in and feel that type of way. But with all the allegations,

all the stuff with Harbaugh and stuff like that, the only way this movie ends as a blockbuster hit is with Michigan winning the national championship. That's the only, that's the only way. Because all the, and I know you said it's objective of the, whether it's tainted or not. Subjective. Subjective, whatever. To me, it's like, when you win, when you win this game, there's just, no one can say anything.

You can try, but you really can't say a fucking thing. No matter what, you guys will be in the history books as the national, as the national, as the national champion. No matter what, exactly. There'll just be a faded. There'll be an asterisk in there. That's all right. People will,

haters will bring that up. But you can also say all these allegations came up in the middle of the season. These players had every reason that cash it in, not stick together, have the excuses.

Like Florida State. And they literally, like Florida State. We'll get to them. My God. Got to tell that in there. Yeah. Talk about a bad culture.

That's bad. But they had every opportunity to do that and fold. And they literally just, took on the persona of their head coach, not really answering the media questions. Yeah. Like just these guys, these guys, look at this guy. And don't look at me.

Look at this guy. Look at that guy. Like, that's like, you know what it's like to be in the locker room. No, no question. Like legitimately. Great culture. Insane culture, bro. Yes.

Legitimately both things can be true. You know what I mean? Like it's not like the players are all you guys cheated. There's a lot of stuff going on outside the locker room that's, everybody's trying to investigate, do this and that. Like, all that stuff can be true while this team is. has built the culture that it has to kind of like go against all that all year long because it was Michigan versus everybody.

I think even in that game as it was unfolding, it's kind of, I know for me it was like it was harder to root against Michigan because of the cats like Blake and, yeah, and all those guys that are like staying poisoned going because we sat with Blake and listened to them. And it's like now they're in the national title, but if you look back on when we were sitting down with them,

like you could legit be like, you know, that it's like a national, that's a national title running. back mindset right there. Yeah. So it's just kind of like cool to see. And then he got the touch on everything else. I was like, fuck. But it, you know, it's, yeah, it's like hats off to Michigan. They've been, they've been dealing with the shit all year long. And Trevor, not Trevor King. Zach Zinter being out too. Yeah. I'm just staying there tight jersey on that belly. And they're missing. And they handle it. Because that was my biggest word going into is like you're missing,

essentially your leader, one of the best players in your team, projected first round pick. And they went and fucking handled it, dude. That's the thing that fires me up the most is the culture of the team. it's so cool that they're not blaming anybody they're focused they're they're they're giving praise to other people and harball is the perfect villain for like this whole scenario you yeah i know but you almost enjoy watching like i love when the camera's on when all the big plays were happening because you see like he's in the moment like yo we are in a war yeah and a play's got to kind of just go your way like you have the the muff punt the pick but then it goes back the other way but you're seeing your guys get home on, on, like, on pressures, getting sacks, making those plays in the

open field. And you just slowly see him smiling and fist pumping, like, there's a lot of ball left, but fuck, we are taking care of business for that play. Yeah. Which is, like, fun to watch. Truly present in the moment. Mm-hmm. And that just, that fires me up, dude.

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interesting interesting ad read you get a per you get a personal trainer on the app and a personal trainer on tuesdays at apm yeah yeah we like promoting jpg that looks nice but better fit pod got half of an ad there yeah dude yeah but going back to uh michigan and washington it's a completely different game now. Yeah. You're playing a completely different personnel, a better quarterback, a good offensive line, receivers that have the confidence to go get it done,

a team that also has been counted out multiple times this year to lose, and you're going against like two teams that essentially, in one way or another, have been cheated on. College football, playoff got it right. Like got it right. Right. Like two great games. The two undefeated teams,

the one in two seed are playing for the national title. like you couldn't have put it together any better than that. Let me ask you this devil's advocate, Georgia. No, I mean, yeah, Georgia mopped the floor with fucking Florida State. And Florida State fans were so pissed. And they're right. I didn't know that they had a billion people opt out, get injured, all that stuff. I just saw the score.

I saw that 60s through the three. And I'm just thinking, holy fuck. They got their asses mopped. But given all the opt-outs, all the injuries, everything else, sue and this, that the other, like, at the end of the day, the cars that were dealt to you were dealt to you. You either got to accept that shit, strap up and get ready to go play. Give the middle finger to everybody because you were playing against a great team like Georgia. Like it wasn't like you were going, who's another team that had like an easy game where it's like, oh, they didn't belong in this bowl game?

One of the better ones. Oregon Liberty. Oregon Liberty. It wasn't like you're playing Liberty. No, disrespect to you Liberty. Yeah, yeah. It is what it is. But you got to still play against a true contender.

And that's a game that you still get up for, whether or not the backups are in, whatever the case may be. You got to play against Georgia. One of the best teams in the past five years, maybe arguably the best team in the past five years, and in the Georgia Bulldogs, and you just, you pack it in, and you bitch, and you complain and you do this,

and it's not fair, blah, blah, blah. All that can be true, but no matter what, you could still have the opportunity to strap up and play a New Year's Day bowl. And you shit the bed. That game was over when it got announced. Because the Florida State was so focused on getting away

from the ACC and filing lawsuits and crying, We're not. Yeah, I'm opting out. At the end of the day, we know the structure of college football has changed. However, it's still a gladiators game. It's still a best on best.

There's still pride and ego and fight involved in every single game. And if you are going to treat the game of football like that, you deserve to get your ass blown out, say, two, three to three. You guys want to opt out, get ready for the NFL draft. That is, that's great. Go ahead and do that. But it just seemed like Florida State didn't give a fuck. And my question, too, is like, and I don't know this answer.

but you would assume Georgia probably has a lot of guys on that roster who could opt out or not playing the game. I think Brock Bowers was out. I think their best wide receiver was out. And Brock is somebody like, if you're a primetime NFL guy, like, that's where those decisions should get made. But you're mid later round and you're opting out of bowls, X, Y, and Z. That's where it's, that's where it gets softer for me. That's taking the easy road out. Right.

And not accepting the challenge. If you're a third, fourth, fifth, second, third, if you're not in the first round, like obviously 100% you're going to go to New York and you're going to get drafted staying there in the green room, that bowl game is an opportunity to go against different and probably better talent than you have. Absolutely. And you need to answer the bell.

Because the reason why you're opting out is you're happy with your body of work, but you're scared about taking on a new challenge and hurting your draft stock as opposed to, I'm going to body these guys. The risk of injury. Yeah, the risk of injuries. There's stuff out there like the Ole Miss quarterback

when he tore his shit. Yeah, there are several. stories. But to your point, like, if you're not getting, because I want to say they give out more first round grades than the guys who get drafted, right? Like, say 50 first round grades and only, you know, 30 are going to be. My junior year when I put in my draft thing, they told me like, hey, we don't know what's going to say, but these are usually very conservative. So you're not, it's going to look worse than it is. Got you. If you are, like, if you're a mid-round cat and you're opting out, like you do get the opt to play against, again, Georgia to put on film, like against NFL caliber players. Because you're training. You're training. for the combine, an extra few weeks of training for the combine, isn't going to do dick, bro. No. Like, the combine sounds great. It's fantasy football. Like, it sounds great. Like, we were all

brain-roh for Pro Day, for X, Y, Z, but the minute the combine and the pro days are over, it doesn't matter anymore. And the pro-day combine stuff is, like, 20% of the full picture. Like, you're basically leaning on your tape from college and everything else, then you want to match the tape to,

hey, how do they test? What's their discipline like? Let's talk to their references. their coaches, everybody around them to get to know them. But people who are thinking that you got to train the extra, like, I got to go, I got to get a leg up. Like, I promise you, that does not matter in the end. I agree with most of that, but I think the percentage is a little high, even for 20% being the combine.

The combine to me is, you're right, the film is what's going to get you drafted. The combine is nothing more than just checking boxes. Hey, is he fast enough? Yes or no. Are you saying the combines lower percent? It's a lower percent. Okay, I'm on board with that. I thought you're about to say it was more.

No, no. I'm thinking, bro, you were dogging dudes. Like, you run fast, you show up, you do all the things right? Then, yeah, like you're saying right now, you need to go and check boxes. Now, if you're an outstanding athlete and you're able to exceed that, it's going to help you. But at the end of the day, it's like, off its line. You get more than 25 reps on bench? Yes, check the box.

Everything after that, he's strong enough. You're 40. What's your 10? Is he fast enough or is he slow as shit? Okay, check the box. Check the box. See the speed. But the most important thing in the combine is not even on the field.

It's in the meeting rooms, how your mind is processing a high pressure situation with these coaches, these GMs, things you thought about since you were a little kid, getting all nervous as you're sitting in front of a, you know, Mike Vrable and these other, these other NFL coaches you've been watching since you were a kid. And if you're a lower round cat and say you opt out to do all that stuff and you happen to go to the combine, I can see a question these days being like, why did you opt out for the bowl game? Yeah.

Against a team like, you know, I'm using Florida say as the example, but against a team like Georgia. And how that gets handled is probably a look into the cookie jar. Because if you don't, say you don't bench 25, then you're going to be talking to the strengths go. You're going to be talking to the coaches. Why, this, that? then it might be justified why he doesn't get 25. Like he still plays with,

he plays with tremendous leverage, X, Y, and Z. Same with the 40, all that type of stuff. You can tell on tape, like, if that is, if he's faster than what he just showed at the combine or if he kind of outperformed or surprised you a little bit more. The bench press, too, is kind of a facade. Because how many times you've been in the locker room in Lincoln, Nebraska, and you see some guys that look like Tarzan

are strong as shit, but they don't, doesn't translate on the field. Like the guard for the Bengals, somebody told me this. I don't even know if this is a real thing or not. But Kappa, I believe his name is, the kid that was saying FU Nashville when he was walking off the field a couple years ago, he got like below 20, like a really bad bench press. He's playing the league and he's handled himself at a relatively good level for a long time. So these things that correlate, it's like you're checking boxes and what are your mentals like? That's all the combine is.

It is not as big of a deal as you think it is. You look at the mainstream. You look at the NFL networks and they're putting up the biggest job interview of your life. Yeah, it's a job interview and it's big. But it is the most important thing at the moment. At the moment. But as soon as you finish, you take your cleats off after you're doing with everything, it no longer matters.

And you get another opportunity to say you're 40, you didn't go the way you want. You got a pro day coming up to go get that done. I think the agents are to blame for a lot of that. They are. Because it's all for those low round guys, they don't have the as highly touted agents. And you know they're sitting there telling them,

hey, don't get hurt. this is where you're going to go. Just lying to them because they know they're going to get paid. They know it's one-on-one at that point. They can infiltrate their mind thinking like this is not, look, it's all about getting you to pro-de-combine. Do you think by one game you're going to elevate your stock that much? If the answer is no, like, hey, you really need to do what's in the best interest of you

and only you. You've, the last four or five years, you've sacrificed for the brand, for the logo, and everything else. You've done your stuff. You're not playing for the national title game. Like, you have to think now, you are. are a business going into the NFL, is it worth yada yada, X, Y, and Z? And that's how, you know, I would assume these agents kind of infiltrate their mind for a

second. Well, you hope that that kind of ends now that we go to 12 team playoffs. You would hope that that that. Yeah, but they're going to see 13, 14, 15, 16. Yeah. There's always going to be a line that gray area of who didn't get in and then you're going to run into four states. They were, I don't know if you listened to yesterday morning, but on college game day,

they were kind of talking about how the shift is going to go in Kirk, Kirk, Kierp Street as a he's like pro bowl like he wants bowl games but he's like listen if guys are off the down they don't want to do it then just do away with the bowl games like just focus on the playoff because you're still going to get bowl games from there I know there's a lot of big business that goes into it but it is it's kind of like you know what basically if you're not in the playoff they're just like glorified exhibition games yeah right well you're just turned into because when we played it was like you're in the gator bowl you know you're not fighting for anything special right you're out there fighting because you're like we got to

end the season on a high note and There's all these, like, justifiable things in your mind telling you I got to fucking go after it. Yeah, because if you're an underclassman or you still got another year, you are trying to, you're still trying to establish yourself. Say you ended on a bad note for the end of the year. You get to kind of get back out there. I think those bowl games before the college football playoff had so much history to them, too. So you were like, see guys win the Gator Bowl.

And you're like, oh, we're going to, like, we got to win the Gator Bowl. It was just cooler, you know, with the bowl games. But did you see what Kirby Smart said about, or after the Florida State game, about everyone needed to see what happened. Like, this is why it's important to play, because that's just unfair for those guys that went out there and had to do that. Yeah, he made it an incredible point. I would love to hear what his pitch was to all the guys

where everybody's basically opting into play. So many guys are playing. You know what I mean? Culture. Yeah, exactly. And not saying that, who is it, Coach Norve? Norvelle. Not saying that he's not like a great culture guy, but I'm telling you, man, they just, you know, it just,

it snowballed for them to just point the finger everywhere else. And I get it. I'd be pissed too. But the way this college football playoff played out, like, they got it right. They got it right. Yeah, Florida State wouldn't have stood a chance versus any of the, any of those teams that were in the playoff. No. They wouldn't have.

But this Florida State example is a great example of Michigan. Because you see all the adversity, you see all the stuff. and then the culture difference, seeing Michigan versus the Florida State stuff, they folded. They fold in this situation. And you obviously see the repercussions for all that versus Georgia,

as opposed to Michigan, who didn't let the noise get in their ears. And that's a lot about the coaching. That's a good point. That's a fair point. You guys cheated. And we win the national championship. That's just like a...

right off the shoulder. That has nothing. I am fired the fuck up for this game, dude. No, you should be. The Michigan squad, like, yeah, they're a great ball club. Yeah, I think I am going to go. I think so. You have to, right?

But in my mind, it's like, okay, Mondays we film. Can I get back in time to do slips and picks on Tuesday? But in this situation, I might have to give you guys the burden dip. Huh? I mean, Houston's closer now. Yeah, but you can drive back. You really about it. You could drive down, drive back.

I might have to do that. But I think, yeah, David and I were text about it last night. I think we're going to go. You're a road dog. I'm a ride dog. Come on now. You're a road dog? I can get behind the wheel now.

Dave can drop you off in the PJ. That would be nice. That would be nice. That would be very nice to Dave. Hey, just win. Did he, I didn't see his Twitter,

but did he take the money he won from the Michigan game and put it on Washington? I don't think he put it on Washington. Bro, could you imagine? Wait, what? He was talking about, oh, he took the money he won and then put it on Washington to win last night.

He said that he would bet on Washington, but I don't think he did. Yeah, he bet something, but it had to be... Yo, million-dollar bet hitting. Oh, my God. I can't imagine. I was sitting there in my old man cave last night, sweating bullets, legs shaking,

like just truly immersed in the game. And like two or three times I just thought, I cannot imagine what Dave is going through right now. The question is, can you do it again? The question is, Dave Portnoy, can you do it again? Double the bet. Oh, you're welcome, fat boy. To be.

I shot him and Texas. Hey, congratulations. Dave just responds. You're welcome. Dude, that was an insane, insane game. It was, it gives you a lot of hope, too, because you see the firepower of Washington, but then all the mistakes Michigan made, it's like, you clean them boys out, dude. You play a clean football game.

Just a well. Everyone does a scheme right. We run the ball efficiently. Bro, yeah. We take our shots when we need to. handle the time of possession, you will be national champions. Play perfect, you'll win.

Hell yes. I'm already nervous, man. Another great, another great notch for this one saying that you guys are going to win this game is like the whole schedule mess all year long too. Like, I think Garrett was saying it. Somebody said it back there. Like, they'll have to play it.

They'll have to do it back to back next week. Play good teams, great teams back to back. so I think that also helps with that narrative all year long and that was getting fall like you guys have the easiest schedule. Yeah. Yeah. Anything you kind of feel like, oh shit,

we got another one next week. Let's get back up because it's almost like this entire month you're preparing for. The SEC. Yeah. Yes. And two, game goes into overtime, much more physical game.

Now you get on a plane, go back. Thank God for her, their strength coach. Yeah. He's going to get them right. I don't even know if Michigan has classes boys do not go to one class if you do

I'm sure they're not If their teachers are worth the shit They'll be on board for this Yeah They'll email and say so and so does not have to come today Oh my god Can you fucking Should we talk ball?

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Are you in it? I'm in the league, but I didn't lose. Thank God. I'm in the league. Shout out to Schits and giggles fantasy football league. he was saying is between ours was like, dude, I would love to hear if anybody, everybody who has, who's in a fantasy football league,

if you have a loser, if you have a, not reward, but loser punishment that you have to do, leave it, leave it in the comments so that way we can look at punishments to have for like next year. Or tag us. Yeah, or tag is.

Get on social and tag us. We're just talking about fantasy football. You're in the two-week, you're in a two-week fight with clump. Plum is, he's got the team to beat. Clumns the GM. He's a hell of a GM. Columbus, a hell of a GM. I somehow got the edge on him. I'm up eight points going into the week two.

Which is a good thing because they were just saying that because McCaffrey's down. Oh, for real? Yeah, he's got McCaffrey. Yes. He said that they weren't going to play him. They're going to rest them up for the first round. That's, that's big. Yeah.

That's big. We need that. Our bet, Garrett. you're going to go to the grocery store and film yourself doing all that stuff? Oh shit! I don't know. I was thinking about it.

But yeah, I was thinking about it. Yeah, Davey's got it all set up. I last night was watching that Texas Washington game like, I'm about to look like such an idiot, but it'll actually be hilarious.

It'll be funny. It'd be funny if there was like, also like someone went with you to film you, filming yourself. We can do all one of the stops. That should be. Yeah, it'll be funny. I actually am kind of,

looking forward to it. That's good. I'm glad you're finding. I'm trying to make it like as hype as possible. Do you, do you got any, uh,

Michigan merch ideas? Oh yeah, I was gonna bring me. I was thinking last night, like, yeah, but to drop right now, like blue,

like blue, like blue, like blue roses? I think bars already. Oh, really? You know, Dave's gonna do a better job of, and I was really,

like, yeah. Elevating on some shit. If we do. Maybe I even saw it, too. You know how it can, like, marketing can subconsciously get in your brain? Yeah. Well, if we have an idea like that,

they usually just give it up to barstool. But see, those aren't blue rope. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no. I don't like the helmet on that either. Blue roses. That's what I'm saying. May shirt, blue roses?

It should have just been a mazed. You're just been a mazed shirt with a rose on it. You're feeling me? Yeah. When they're in small, just like the, the score of the game or something like that. But yeah, we should, we got to think of something for. Yeah, we got, we'll do a little thing tank after the show.

Yeah, some merch would be nice. Yeah. It's a real nice. That's real nice. How do we feed, go back. That's crazy. That's wild. That's crazy.

I was sitting there about to be, oh, nice. I don't see the boy in there. That's just, that's the shop now. Interesting. Go back again. Oh. Okay. Interesting.

I'll have to call somebody at Borristo. There we are. Just that old, just that old photo Yeah Yeah Like the photo they use I think on the manning cast I know Will was actually trying to get the manning cast photo changed

And he takes me my size like hey you cool with that photo I was like yeah yeah don't worry about it We're good I don't care When I see the old photos of Taylor I just think like we gotta get this shit We gotta get something new in the game Over time we'll get it

We'll get it Hey your Instagram you were posting I forget what I was probably the first like quarter of first half year You did on Instagram It's the one where both your arms up are over. Oh, you're just that, oh, a thicker boy, man. Which is crazy because you weren't that thick then.

Like, you weren't like... And I was like 280 then, 290 maybe. Like down 20 from my regular weight. There's nothing worse than having to be the person who's got both arms up. Scrunching everything up, dude. Yeah, like trying to take a photo like this. I know. I literally found all those photos.

I wanted to put them all in there. And I was like, I'll just do like quarterly posts. And I finish and Taylor and goes, why don't you just make a video and then just slide over? I was like, come on, Tay. You know, I don't think about that kind of stuff. Either way. Your video was nice.

How long that video would take you to make? Oh, a minute. Did it? Yeah. Yeah. Man. Took me a nice minute. Probably ruse entire nap.

Oh, for real? Yeah. How long as that nap usually take? Hour and a half? Two hours? Yeah, like a two hour nap. But, like, because you ought to go through, I mean, I do it in a bad way.

I need to, like, add stuff to a folder, like, as I go. But I, like, scrolled through videos of, 2023 and then I took like 140 and moved them into a folder and then from there I just picked the ones that matched the song yeah yeah I was banged up uh whatever night it was vitamins up up up lifted and I was listening to uh green day yeah good riddance and listen to all the old school alternative rock jams from the 2000s and I was just well just in the zone thinking to my boys from back in the day, messaging them all, texting them all. Was that the night of the party?

I can't remember. Oh, yeah, we got to talk about that party. The murder mystery party you put on. Yeah. Will surprised his wife Charo with a murder mystery party. Actors, the whole thing. Like, we show up. These actors are like fully bought in.

This guy's name's like Mr. D or something like that. And he's got another chick with him. And Will literally plan the entire thing to where Charles' friend. flew in and then hit in the corner and then we're sitting there like, what do we do? Like, oh, we'll go in the back when they show up. It'll be like an empty room

and the guy's going to show them around. So Charles gets all excited. She's happy to see everybody. We get like a round to start talking about the game and he's like, let me bring out my assistants, more actors, blah, blah, blah. First one walks out, Charles sees her friend. Like literally goes into tears.

She's so excited. Next person, walk out, another shrilling screech. And the whole time you just feel the boys energy. Like, I really fucking pulled this thing off. I was about to tear up. in her reaction to Susan. Susan walked out, like, let me introduce my actors like Taylor's saying, and then she dropped it down like this, and she just erupted.

Like, oh, my gosh. And we go through. We go through this, no, I'm trying to paint the picture for you. You should definitely be the one tell a story. But, like, all her friends came dinner. There was, like, chefs in the back. Everyone gets a name tag. If you had a name tag, you're a suspect.

And the two other actors were also suspects. You get these, like, folders to write down information. And, like, every, like, scene or every act, essentially, you flip a page to learn more about your. character and kind of take you where you want to go. There's money to bribe people with that have to answer the question if you give them a dollar. It is a sick, sick process. It is a murder mystery.

Look, Taylor did a great job right there. I would love to take all the credit in the world. Like, did I vision the whole thing? Sure. But there were so many, like Charles' friends were helpful. Like our nanny was super helpful. She, like, booked the companies. She, like, found, like, two to three different ones.

And I was, like, just figure out which one that you would, that you would do. if you did a murder mystery party. Who was it? Who was the murderer? Well, do you want to... What happened was, is so... It's like a spoiler? They were gonna...

No. Well, hold on. Before you say it, explain like, kind of the game a little bit. Okay. You don't want to see the season finale? But I'm throwing a lot of flowers

of Charles friends. Like, they basically helped me out. Like, I basically thought of the painting. They filled in all of it. They did everything. They're like, hey, did you think about child care for this day? Hey, so on Friday,

what do you think we're going to do? Because I was going out to the Arizona Bowl. So it was... fly her friends in. And then when she'd see them, Charles was trying to plan stuff for the weekend. I was like, I just leave them open. I got a,

I got something in the works for you. Like, you can go do this, but make sure you're free during this time to make it to not give it away. But basically, once their friends were there, they stayed until Sunday. So they stayed all weekend.

They had the Airbnb, got an Airbnb for them, like the whole nine. And so when we, when we go to the murder mystery party, I have a dinner reservation plan for us. I'm like, hey, I'm taking you to a dinner spot

of one we haven't been to before. And then after that, like, couple drinks. I got child care for us. Like, let's go get a couple of drinks at a speak easy and just kind of lean into and just kind of role play a little bit. You know, get a little spicy. So she like wore, she like wore a dress and I wore like a colored shirt and a tie just for the foundational stuff to get to the house. Drive to the Airbnb, pull up. Then I take out 1920's accessories. Like I put on the suspenders that I had on out there, my newsboy hat, get her

accessories like pearl necklace, scarf, stuff like that. We walk in and, all the surprise stuff happens. So when the murder mystery starts, he basically sets it up, as Taylor was saying, we all get binders. But any of us could be the killer. We don't know who the killer is. Not even the killer knows who they are.

You're basically playing an entire game of clue, and then you try and figure it out at the end. So then, like, Taylor got it right. Charles was the killer. Charles and her team, we split up in the teams of three. They randomized it, too. So people that didn't know each other were playing together.

It just, it was really cool because it's like, you're forced to talk and communicate. with everybody. Like, it is a, a murder mystery party is a perfect, like, adult style icebreaker. Yeah, yeah. Getting different groups around each other. Probably be like a werewolf. Like, you're playing with a big group. People don't really know each other. You just get acclimate. And then, like, if I go up to Taylor, I'm like, hey, you know, what business did you have with so-and-so with Ivan Stone? And Taylor would be like, you know, hold out his hand because you've got to work to get questions answered and have money because you can run out of money. But you're working

all these different acts, then you eat in the middle, you try and put stuff together. Another murder happens in the middle of the investigation, which switches it up. And as Taylor was saying, each act, you learn another clue about yourself and the goal of what you're trying to keep secret, but you have dirt on somebody else. And you're trying to pry it out of everybody. And then at the end, everyone kind of says who they think the murderer is. And again, it could be you. So you're basically just trying to, you're playing a massive real life game of clue.

It's awesome. And the icebreaker part is my favorite because when everyone's kind of getting there, it's like Charles friends Will and Charles friends and it was like me, Donnie Caleb and Taylin Like everyone was kind of Our neighbors

Yeah yeah They're in there Cause Caleb and them come in And they don't really know everybody So everyone's kind of clicked up Like a high school But the minute you start counting people off He'd count people off by six

There was 18 people So six teams of three We are now like all kind of mixed Hodgepodge to where like We now have to work together As a team and learn about each other And then you go to talk to other people It's where it's not like a

You're hanging out with just the people You know like you're getting to know everybody in a very unique setting. I thought it was cool how the killer didn't know that they were the killer. Yeah. Because we both walked into it thinking we hope we're not the killer. I know. That way we can work together.

I'm already trying to game it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trying to get the thing going. It was, dude, it was so much fun, so much fun. And then after, the reason why this whole story got brought up is we got a little banged up, hit the vitamins right after and Will. I got banged up two nights in a row. Did you?

I'm talking. No, not two nights in a row. I'm thinking of New Year's Eve, but yes. Yeah, yeah. So we finished. And it was great. Like, it really was great. But there were like multiple holes.

Oh, he's dread easy. Yeah, there were multiple holes in the, like, the game. Like, a lot of stuff kind of didn't add up. You kind of had to fill in the pieces for yourself because, like, the papers didn't give you that or whatever. And Will's a little banged up. And he starts being constructively critical about the actors. He thinks they left, buddy's standing right behind him. Like, he's just like.

Yeah, next time we got to get guys they're going to probably buy. We got to vet the company to make sure they buy in a little bit more. I thought so. And he's sitting right there. He's like, hope you guys had fun. Here's my business card if you want to do it again. But they did good. They did a really good job of being their characters and everything else.

It got confusing a couple of times because people are asking questions saying like, you said this earlier. And the gal was like, oh, no, I didn't say it that way. I said it this way. So there was just some holes because it felt a little, not rush, but when we were sent down to have dinner and they're like, hey, are we ready to solve them around? I'm thinking like, yo, you almost disregard the food

because you're still wanting to walk around and talk to everybody and get some more out of it. But it almost felt like it was a little too condensed. Yeah. It could have been another hour. Yeah, because right when we walked in, like, when we pulled up to the Airbnb, Charles, like, so what do you have planned?

And I was like, oh, I got us a private dinner with a private chef. And then when he opens the door, dude is in full character talking to Char, like, welcome to the murder mystery. I was like, I kind of wish you would have said that. but yeah, let's go on in. They walk to the back room, see our local friends, and then it could not have went any better.

It was all the time. It was awesome. We should just have one. Yeah. Get the call. Yeah, get the gals in, get some friends. Like, do a big one. He said ideally, like, he likes to do where it's teams of four.

But it's a lot of fun. Like, again, you have somebody who's controlling the binder. We had somebody who's taking notes with the binder. We had somebody controlling the cash, like being the treasurer. And then somebody who would, like, do the lead role of, walking around, talking, like doing the negotiation, or trying to negotiate or get some, get some facts out. But it's a lot of fun.

I highly recommend murder mystery parties. And also to give flowers, Will Compton was a voted best actor. And Taylor was voted best actress. A long way. It was nice. It was nice. Long way.

It was, dude, it was a lot of fun. And it, like, the game within the game, like Caleb just leaves his binder in the corner. And I go up to the guy hosting and I go, hey, if somebody just leaves their binder, like, I can just, it's fair to just go through it, right? And he's like, yeah, you can do whatever you want. So I started going through his binder. Didn't talk to Caleb the rest of the night because I had all of his information.

Took his cash. Didn't you take his money? Yeah, took his cash. I ended up giving the cash back. But I won the award for Best Thief. So that was nice. That was a nice deal. It was fun, dude.

But Charles ended up being the killer. She was Greta. Yeah. But Charles, like, I stumbled upon the answer. Give yourself more credit than that, bro. Like, we broke it down. I know you're trying not to give yourself. You played a good game.

You got it right. It was fun. I got the answer correct. Charo, it was like, if multiple teams get it right, whoever's the best description and the most correct description of why they did it. Right. They just get out of the winner. Mine was like, you know, a couple bullet points of why she was a killer.

Charo had a full fucking multiple paragraph. This is why she did. This is when she did it. The whole thing. Like to a T figured out. Yeah. She lives for that kind of stuff. Yeah.

That was a lot of fun. And it's one of those things, too, you go to a murder mystery party and, like, you've got to buy in. Otherwise, you're like, this shit's, you're like, this shit's lame. No doubt. No doubt. And the fact that everyone kind of bought in, even Caleb, who was Lil Willie, who was obviously written as a black guy. It was, he said his binder literally said black speak in it. Wasn't in a company?

Nah. I can't remember. It was solid. It was a lot of fun. And then with the boys went to Arizona Bowl. That was cool, too. Yeah, the Arizona was all the time. They did a good job.

Like I was talking to, I knew the Cody coordinator for Toledo, and he was just talking about how that entire week, like Barso crushes it with how they do their bowl games. But, yeah, I mean, that was fun. It was kind of weird doing the CW and the really highly produced thing because we had to cut out multiple segments because the Duke game was running over. So then it condensed everything down. Like, all in all, I probably spoke like 20 seconds total during the entire.

thing. Like we had to really crunch a lot of stuff in. Like Casey had to basically just, you know, transition it to this interview, that interview, Coach Bowlesle, and this, that. But it was cool in that Moneyline hit. Thank God. Yeah, because it was not great for a little bit. Yeah, I was down because we picked, obviously, Wyoming to cover minus four and a half on Bet the Bus. And I was in, yeah, well, I was one of them. They were in on a parlay with Moneyline, Wyoming, and then Moneyline Penn State, that obviously got, you know, Penn State got mopped. And then I had straight up Wyoming minus four and a half. That wasn't happening.

So I make an emotional bet fourth quarter. They're down. Toledo's driving a little bit. I'm like, I'm going Wyoming money line. And it hits and just fireworks. They lost. A little lost. Yeah.

Oh, yes, yes, yes. But that, that offensive linemen catching the screen in that game in the first quarter and like running at 40 yards. Yeah. Did you all watch the game? Dude, so they run a screen and the running back like touches the ball and it falls out of his hands

and then it falls into the lap of this office alignment. He trucks it all the way down. The rules must be different in college. I feel like if an eligible receiver touches the ball and then an ineligible number gets the ball, it should have been, it's okay to advance, at least in the NFL.

So the producer who's in our ear because you didn't have a headset on. Like when they were trying to explain that, he was trying to cut in and say if it's a defender or a referee tips that's where that would have been a legal play. Got you. But since it was his own offensive teammate, that's why they took it away.

Which did suck. That boy housed it, too. Like, you knew what to do with the ball. Had oxygen the whole thing after that, dude. It was so cool. And so that got taken away. And I want to bring this up. Lions.

End of the game this year or this week. Detroit Lions? Detroit Lions. NFL ball, dude. NFL ball. Going for two, ballsy. Letting them hang. Dan Campbell letting it hang and they call a play to Taylor Decker.

And I explained this in a little bit of a recap on my Instagram, but Decker actually reached out to me. He's like, you're exactly right. Like you walk up, you bring multiple offense alignment to the table, and then he reports to kind of throw off the defense because they know 70 or whoever is going to usually be the guy that reports. This should have been a touchdown. The Lions should have won this game.

Great hands by Decker. Great hands. I got two guys coming after him. Coming after him. And it kills the lion because they would have been fighting for that one spot, right? And now they can't. And then the Cowboys...

So what are they saying that he didn't report? They're saying that he didn't report. They're saying that they called him ineligible and they said that's 70 reported, but not Decker. If you go to like a slow-mo, you can see Decker bring his hands to his chest. With two linemen next to him, too. And Brad Allen, the head referee.

What's that? Golf also pointed with like, go talk to the right. Now the head referee, Brad Allen, he, you see him look at Decker and seems as if he acknowledges him and then goes off. This is the problem is this Brad Allen guy apparently has already had a couple of missed calls throughout the

season. I believe it was the Packers and the Chiefs. There was a no-call DPI that really sealed the game. Not in favor of the Chiefs? Who won that game? Anyway, he messed it up real bad. To the point where it's like just abysmal. Like this guy needs to probably go to prison. That's just

crazy. Absolutely. crazy. Yeah. You got to hang him up. You need to turn in your iPad. Yeah. Dan Campbell in his post-game press conference is like, I don't even want to talk about it. There's nothing that I don't want to talk about.

Ball, ball. Like, this is, that was a major killer. A major killer. And somebody brought up a good point of Detroit making the playoffs for the first time and however long winning their division since like the 90s or something like that, 93. It was two years old when that happened. Now you're taking away home game. for Detroit, taking away money from the franchise,

taking away money from the city. Like big brain level thing that I'm not even thinking about because of the referee wasn't present in the moment to truly dial in, okay, this guy's reporting, this guy's now reporting, or they're both reporting. That is just, you can't have that. You cannot have that in football. This is why the ref's got to be better.

It's been a product of the conversation for so long, how there's so much grayer and decisions and the human error, you cannot have that. You can't have it. He said it was 70. Like he didn't, he was the last one there.

He also reported. But because of the formation, 70 was an ineligible number because he was in a tight end position, but he was covered up. Now, the wide receiver, he's off the ball and Decker's on the ball,

making him the eligible receiver since he reported eligible. So. Noddy play by the lions. But you see him go up. Like, why would Decker walk up there? Hey, I'm not reporting. It's like, it doesn't make any,

sense because you want multiple guys to go up there and you have your sixth man going to say, I'm reporting and Decker also same way he's reporting, but the defense is probably thinking, oh, here comes 70 or whatever the number is is now reporting. Didn't, uh, that sucks, man, like run the refs through the possibility that they might run

these plays too? That is. Yeah, that's usually what happens pregame, yeah. You say, hey, these are the gadgets we have in, these are the specials we have in, this number could report, that number could report, it's just this DB's pretty handy, make sure you keep your eye on them. Right, right. I think eventually you just got to be able to review that stuff.

Like, how do you get around? Because, like you're saying, like, in the moment, not being able to be present to make the correct call with all the reviews that you do have that change games. Or, you know, I don't know. That one's more of like a hearsay. He's just saying that, you know, the refs basically dying on his hill.

Yeah, because now you get into a point where now you're reviewing dead time in games, which leaves more up for interpretation. Now you have to elevate that to where you're literally putting mics on every player now so that the conversations can be heard when they go review those types of plays. There's a lot of gray area and the rules with the NFL college, all of it.

But this is an inexcusable act from a referee standpoint. If you need to be able to, that's your job is to be present in the moment. You can't just assume things are going on. Yeah, that's terrible. Terrible ball. God, that pisses me.

I feel bad for the Lions. So, yeah, Lions can't. I mean, Lions right now are still hosting a playoff game. Yeah, I think that the two seed. But you're right about the one seat, like it running through there. Because even if the 49ers lost this week, Cowboys still have the shot to go up to one. Yeah, with the Lions losing that game, the Niners clinch the one seed. Oh, they clinch?

It's already done? They clinch the one seed. But if the Lions win that game, now Christian McCaffrey is not sitting out, he has to play in this game, and they have to win their game against the Rams to become the, the one seed. Well, how do you see this all shaping up? You got to pull it. You got to pull up week 18.

Havens. You think so? Raven's going to win it all? I think the, the clearest, the clearest path here is 49ers Raven Super Bowl. Yeah, it seems that way. It seems that way.

But you get into the tournament. Anything happen. 2019 Titans versus the one seed Ravens at the bank. Yeah, I'm pulling the bills. I think the bills over the Browns is doing damage. I'm pulling for the Browns and Bills, dude, on the AFC side. Yeah, I can get on board with that.

Think about Flacco. Think about Flacco going to the Super Bowl. Dethroning. Dehroning Lamar Jackson in Baltimore. And yes. And you got Cleveland Brown fans chanting Joe Flackers' name when he was with the Ravens for however long. Yeah.

It's just crazy how this world is. Well, who's that comedian? Stavvy. Yo, he's so funny, bro. Yeah, but I mean, it's Joe Flack. I feel like we've gone from the AFC. in the beginning of the season, looking like this is the toughest division.

So now I think the NFC is the strongest division going in the playoffs. The conference? We talk about... Yeah, the conference. Because Miami has obvious holes. Kansas City shown they have obvious holes. I can see Buffalo. Yeah, I was going to say, like, you look at Green Bay,

Tampa Bay, and even Philly now. Philly just lost to the Cardinals. And they play the Giants this weekend. Who knows? Who knows what's going to happen there? Because they're kind of falling apart. they're doing the opposite of what they did in years past. They're getting colder as the season goes on.

Yeah. As opposed to just getting stronger. But I think the picture is much more clear on the NFC side for me. Like the 49ers are the best team, even though they got dusted by, they lost real bad to the Baltimore Ravens. Ravens destroy the dolphins. The dolphins.

It is crazy. But I'm anxious to see with that bi-week what happens to the Ravens. Because my only sample size is 2019, which I've already brought up. What you've got to love, too, is all of Lamar's post game, post game conversations. You can just tell he does not give a fuck about what just happened. Yes. Like it's all, it's Super Bowl this year, a bus basically. He doesn't care.

And I love listening to him on his post game conversations because you can just see it. Like he's, he wants the Lombardi. He doesn't care about nothing else. He's like, yeah, yeah, everybody played well. Yeah, it was a good game. Yeah, he really doesn't say a lot. And I just love it. You can just tell him.

Tell he's focused. But I like of the besides Baltimore Ravens I like Buffalo. I like Buffalo in this. I think they beat the Chiefs. Yeah.

Yeah, I do. I think they're gonna, they got a Jacksonville are in it right now. Yeah. And this week. Let's see here.

This week will be big. If Jacksonville loses and the Colts win, Colts take the division. Crazy. So it looks like, Like it's a winning in-game with the Colts and the Texans. Because Texans are 9 and 7.

Yeah, but there's a bunch of, isn't there a bunch of like tiebreakers? So let's go to the standings here. AFC standings. I think the Bengals are out. They got eliminated. Yeah, Texans are on the outside looking in. So they're the first team in the hunt, basically. So this is a win and in-game between the Colts and Texans.

Oh, that's awesome. That is cool. And it's a, wait, this would be weird now. If the Steelers win, are they in? What's their, what's their record? Nine and eight or whatever. They're nine and seven as well. They're number two in the hunt.

Yeah, I would assume. So Steelers need a win in Texans to lose, right? No. Jack, can you look up Steelers' playoff scenarios? Yeah. God, you got to love it, man. Yeah, this ball's shaping up great. Yeah.

In the end of the season. Can the Titans knock off the Janks? No. The Jax have too much. Here's all the Steelers' playoffs. Steelers have five playoff scenarios. So, yeah, they're not winning in. Wait, wait, wait.

Steelers, oh, Steelers. Steelers win and Jaguars loss or tie. Steelers win in Buffalo loss. Steelers win in Colts, Texans. High. who's Buffalo playing? Buffalo's, I think they're playing Miami for the division. Oh, yeah.

That's their best scenario. They got to win because I believe the Ravens will sit a bunch of guys. Prime time. You've already clinched the one seat in the AFC. Like you don't want to get a bunch of guys hurt, maybe playing for a quarter or two, like a preseason game. And then after that. So you got to think the Steelers are going to win that game

because they're playing for more than the Ravens are playing. And then, yeah, Buffalo. But I feel like, I feel like, Buffalo is going to beat Miami. I tell you what you got to look out for right now. No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Raiders are eliminated too, yeah? Never mind.

Chiefs are, Chiefs are one at the AEC West, that's you looking at? Yeah, they've already clinched. Right now, the charges are favored one and a half against the Chiefs. Yeah, but I've also, they can't go up or down in their rankings. Yeah, yeah. So they're going to probably sit guys. I don't know if they can afford to. You got to put the guys.

They had another drop, another big drop this past week. No. The Chiefs are so weird, man, because they are a team. You look at it, they're not Super Bowl contenders this year, but then again, it's the Chiefs. So the minute we all start saying, we all pull a Will Compton, we say they're done is when they just go bet. Yeah, but this is where you're most confident about Chief's Kingdom falling this year.

Yeah. I mean, I agree. I don't think they're going to make the Super Bowl. Right now, as it stands, they would be playing against Buffalo. And you take Buffalo in that. No. I don't think they will, though, because if Buffalo loses, they'll fall prior to the seven.

Who knows? Who knows? Maybe they still, they use that playoff scenario so wild. If they win, then they win the division. So they'll be the, they'll, Buffalo can go from the six seed all the way to the two seed with a win. Yeah. That'd be crazy.

And then playing in Buffalo would be nuts. In January, yikes. It's different. Yeah, after he was, they were essentially pronounced dead. I know. That's going to be a great game. That'll be a fun game to watch. I like the,

I think the Rams are playing the Niners as well. I like the Rams in that game. I do too. I like the Rams. We were talking about the AFC where I'm rooting for Browns and Bills. I'm kind of pulling for the Rams. Niners, they're in one seat. If they go, like, if they go, like obviously I'm pulling for the boys out there.

Well, no, they clinched. So I feel like they're going to sit out. Like they already talked about saying on McCaffrey, they're going to arrest dudes up. so the Rams have an easy path of victory here. And I think they're underdogs. I'm even saying in Super Bowl. I'm saying on the run to the Super Bowl.

Like, I would love to see the Rams. I think they're a team you don't want to play right now. Similar to the Bills of the NFC. Even the Browns. I mean, Joe Flacko. Yeah, but. 11 and 5, insane. Everybody, they were dead too.

They chalked it up. Joe Flacco's coming in. He's 300 plus to last several games. I wonder what happens. If Joe Flacco takes a run at the playoffs, not saying he has to win the Super Bowl. but let's say he makes it to the AFC championship or even gets past the first round of the playoffs,

you move on from Deshawn Watson. I want Joe to win it all. That would be insane. That would be insane. So if the Browns win in the first round of the playoffs and then they lose, hypothetical situation, do you walk away from Deshawn Watson? I don't know.

I don't think he can't remember. I mean, I guess you could, but you're taking a massive loss in the whole cap finances because so much is guaranteed to him. do what I said turn them back to you sir that'll be interesting

dude you like the bills better in the playoffs and the Browns uh like I would be rooting for Josh and the bills just because we know

the boy but the Browns is kind of like that that Cinderella story that if they end up winning all these games I would like love it I'd be smiling I back good for them

yeah I'm with that I like that a lot but yeah if they all get in say they all all these teams it in, I would want the bills and I would want probably the Niners, but I'd kind of like to see chaos. So I'd love to see the Rams. I love to see the Rams and bills.

So you Rams and the Super Bowl. Chaos Super Bowl? Chaos Super Bowl. Rams and Bills. That would be nuts. I would love to see Detroit in the Super Bowl. I think that would be so cool. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, yes. They'd be sick too. Yeah, I'll take a, that'd be a fun, that'd be a fun situation. You can't sleep on the Dallas Cowboys I think you can

Yeah they're not going to do anything He's trying to give a little bit of Yeah they played tough ball games here down the road But they make stupid mistakes And those things That's the reason why I'm kind of down on the Browns a little bit Because Flacko is slinging that thing But he's also giving the ball up a bunch too

And interceptions count Yes he has a bunch of interceptions He throws the ball for 500 yards and three touchdowns But he's given up too Like he's he's ripping it As if he's 38 years old kid him off the couch and he doesn't give a fuck, which is beautiful. Yeah.

But when you get to the playoffs, those interceptions cost you a lot more. 13 tuddies, eight interceptions? Yeah, he's ripping it. He's absolutely ripping it. That's why you kind of like, I like Buffalo over the Browns as far as playing the upset team in the playoffs. But the Cowboys do... But they got defense.

The Cowboys are going to get into close games and they're going to do some dumb shits strategically and they're going to lose. and that just sucks as they have talent. They have so much talent. I think it's just the coaching. I bet if the playoff pictures like this, I bet the Buccaneers would sneak Philly.

You could, I mean, you could see that happening right now. Like the Eagles are. Even though they just lost to the fucking scenes. God damn it. The Falcons wins. Are they still in it? I don't think they'll come up about playoffs and arrows for the Falcons. They are.

but it's like one of those far, far down the hunt. Yeah, they probably need a, they probably need a tie to happen. Playoff scenarios entering the final week. It says that the, they have to beat the Saints and then the Bucks have to lose to the Panthers. I mean, that's the, you know, the Bucs are to lose. I thought that they had.

The Bucs have to lose the Panthers? Yeah. Panthers have, wait, what did they do last week? I think they got beat. Did they? Yeah. They won a couple weeks ago against. Oh, man.

That division is so shitty. They all begged each other to win. Oh, they got mopped by the Jaguars, 26-0-0. But I feel like the AFC South is the best, the worst, best division. What do you mean? Like, they might have guys that like three, three of the four teams might be in the playoffs, but I just don't think any of those teams are competitive enough to make a run.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they're going to get in because things are just falling that way. Like this is a year where they're similar to the NFC least. When they're talking about the NFC East and everybody's hiding to get in. Yes, yes. Sitting around 500. Yeah, I mean, all them except for the Titans are 9 and 7, right? We're all 9 and 7.

We had a win in-game and I think we were 8, 7 and 1 that year. Against the Giants. It's crazy how it works out. And then you have a team scrapping for the 7th seed and they have like 10 wins. That is... The team that's hot. Like the Giants back in 2008. When they won't beat the Patriots?

That was an eight, yeah. They were the lowest rated seed. Yeah. The Eagles did that. Two against the Cardinals. Eagles did that as well in the Super Bowl. They were the sixth seed, right? When?

When they won the Super Bowl a few years back? Oh, with Foles? I don't know. They were pretty solid. Yeah, but I think they... Maybe they were a lower seat. I think they were a lower. I don't think they won the division.

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Clean, mean, machine. New Year's same goal. So cut, it's unreal. Lean meats, high protein, clean veggies. and yeah and reading a little more not on Twitter physical books

we're talking just straight body yeah I guess so like mine I don't have like pinpoint it's got to be this percent body fat but being around 215 zero low back pain

is my is a New Year's resolution of mine because I've had it forever but basically like my structure is the morning routine, 30 grams of protein in every meal through food that gets me up to like around 160 to 180 and then get the rest up to my up to like 220 of protein through like essential amino acids, glutamine, you know, drinks and shakes and something like that.

But mine's basically 30 plus grams of protein every meal. In the morning, the first one's going to have no carbs, so protein and fat. Then cold tubbing four times a week or cold water immersion four times a week. I'm going to get this shit. I'm like in the middle of it too, but get it kind of like printed so that way I can check like as the weeks go on and switch them out every week. So that way, you know, I hit on all my, you know, vitamins and minerals like supplements I take in the morning. Like have it for the, you know, right when I wake up, breakfast time, ones with the meal, ones that are three days a week. So I'm like trying to structure out that way versus having like the result there because I just feel like if I just dial in those things.

The result will come. Yeah. Enjoying the process. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would jump on, I'll jump on board with that. Like, for me, it's establishing, which I've kind of done towards the end of the year, I'm like 36 days in, of doing every single day some sort of like cold water therapy,

whether, like, if we're on the road, when we're in Arizona, I just had to take a cold shower. I take a cold shower. But like, waking up in the morning, hitting a routine for myself. And then for me, it's all about, like, dialing in my optimal health from like a gut health standpoint. Like, I've still got a bunch of issues from all those anti-inflammatories. like just get the body running the exact way I want to and paying more attention to like longevity things not just like cosmetic things as far as like

you want to look better and all that but like the stretching the stability in the core the knee pain that it's always going on trying to figure out a way to get that knee pain a little bit better but yeah I think this is going to be a nice little year yeah the routine is absolutely everything it is and when you do it it's like it sucks at first but once you like get in, like, what I've noticed, like, being this far into it now is it's enjoyable. Like, even when I wake up tired, I know, hey, at the end of this routine, I'm going to feel

way more awake and I'm being able to get my shit done today. And it's truly like, like, I had this coffee you brought me today, but I have, I've kind of like, not as much coffee, like, feel more consistent energy throughout the day. And it's like, you just make it a priority. And I, I mess with it. I'm really enjoying it. You create that momentum. Yeah.

Because even if I go a few days without, like, doing something or say I couldn't get a workout in or I didn't work out. Like I just know in the back of my mind, I'm like, man, if I just wake up early the next morning and do a workout, like, I know that that will get everything going. Yeah. Because waking up after days of like, even with holiday season, you get kind of in a, I got kind of in a mode of when I got to sleep in, I'd sleep to like 7, 7.30. And then you're just slower to get out of bed versus like waking up when the alarm goes

off at like 535, 535 and just like, it's that much harder after you kind of create the holiday season of eating good sweets, like sleeping a little bit long. longer having, you know, kind of like having fun in the morning, slower in the mornings. But once you, it's like, yeah, I just know in my head, I'm like, man, if I just wake up early next morning, I just got to get the fuck up, get moving, like cold shower this morning. And like, that will, that will start to create that momentum. But I'm with you. I think it's going to be a fun year.

For me, I got to write it out. Like, I'm somebody who I have to write things down. Or it'll, I have to make the invisible visible. If not, I will always justify something because I haven't like put it out into the universe, I feel like. So if I, like, write it down, if I print it out, if I put it up, so that way it's in front of my face when I go into the pantry on checking things off, that way I don't miss whatever vitamins. Like, you can just kind of go by the seed of your pants sometimes. Like, man, did I take that this morning? I kind of can't remember. Oh, I'll make sure to take it

when I get home. Then I think I already took it because I thought I was going to take it when I got home. So if I just write stuff out, if I map it out and put it in front of my face, then I know, like, I'll create some momentum. What about you, JP? you? I just got to get cut up before August 17th. Great day. A wedding day. Oh, it's in? Yeah, I mean, unofficially, officially.

Okay. Dialing in right before the fall, too. That's big of view. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty much my goal, my fitness goal. Yeah? Yeah, I got to be looking nice. Do you have any, like, like a different discipline or anything that you're trying to implement? I mean, definitely could do more cardio. I want to start swimming. get back into the water.

Yeah, but it's just swimming's not convenient, like, as far as gym memberships and stuff like that. But yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. Mitch, you got, you got some New Year's resies? Yeah, I want to do, like, fitness-wise, are you talking about? I want to do more cardio. Like, I want to get more into, like, I'm not somebody who can just go for runs. But, like, I'm thinking if I get into, like, more, like, more football, like, get into

a couple of, like, football leagues, maybe. play some beach volleyball when he gets warmer outside. Just trying to stay active that way because I still have like that competitive itch. Just trying to stay more active that way. Nice. Did you give yours? Nothing really changing from last year. Just consistency is like huge for me.

And like y'all are saying, routine. So continuing that, honing in on a couple other things. What those are, no clue. But always room for improvement. I like it. Is there anything, obviously there is, but is there anything outside of a body standpoint? Obviously, we have other news resolutions.

We kind of all just hit the body for a second. All great. We all think it. Cars were lined up more this morning at Boots, at Boots, and you just know, like, there was one cat in there fucking humming.

Was you doing a tank top? Possibly. Yeah, there was like this light. He had like shorter tight shot. He was on that, just for like 45 minutes. Yeah, bro. I'm talking running at like eight,

nine miles an hour. for minutes at a time. And then we take like a quick break and then get back on it. Yeah, that's crazy. But I'm just saying at like high speed running. Like, I had to jump in there early this morning

because they get up. Yeah. And it was kind of like the same crew of people in there just a little bit earlier. Oh, really? So I think I saw that dude. I was like, he is fucking.

He was humming by the time I walked in there. He just got here. Played ahead. Do you have stuff outside of fitness? Yeah, dude. I want to, like from a benchmark standpoint, want to at least read one book a month. I think that's a solid.

I read more than I ever have in years past in 2023, but I just think taking a next step of like consistently reading, whether it's like self-help book type of stuff or like, like, would you say about Charlie, read what you love until you love to read? Naval. That's when Naval says. Yeah.

So I've like picked up the pace of like reading and stuff like that. I'm in the middle of one right now. Like I got it like a few days ago. I'm like 150 pages in. And so just kind of like this unique pursuit of acquiring like different skills, whether it's like financial literacy, whether it's like trying to look at like learning a new language or like reading just reading comprehension in general, like trying to take the information I'm reading and process it more like instead of just like checking the box of reading.

But I think that's like for me, I enjoy that. I'm starting to find myself enjoy that. So taking the next step of like putting a number on it will definitely help. Love that. Yeah, book a month would be nice. Right? It's just discipline, too. Yeah.

It is like, uh, it's such like a lost art, it seems like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, how many, how often, like, when you're a kid, you, you're a kid, you see your parents, like, picking up a book and reading, and now we have all this access to the internet and social media is, like, you don't see anybody our age. with an actual hardcover book in their hands. I don't feel like anybody in their 20s and 30s really did it. You know, I feel like people do a whole lot of reading outside of having to growing up in school.

And then maybe as you like get older and realize, you know, that reading kind of fucks. It kind of fucks. It kind of fucks. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I like the, I like the reading goal. And another one that I was going to have to go with like reading is making sure I write like notes, like a book summary.

And just like writing more. I just think like writing, whether it's journaling every day. I got Charo, which I think I might get us all one, is there's this five-minute journal where it has everything kind of like laid out for you, like what to write about in the morning, what to write about at night. But I think like writing would be really good. It was something I wanted to do last year and obviously did not do it. So I want to like hold myself to that going into this year.

I just got to structurally figure out like what that looks like. like. Yeah. Yeah. My brother-in-law did this thing this past year where he tried to do it, you know, once a week or a few times a month and then, you know, that just changes, but write down something that positive in that week or in that moment and then go back and reread them because then you'll realize like a very small thing can feel like such a victory in that week. When you read it at the end of the year, you're like, oh, damn, like even that little thing was tight that week. And you just kind of like, you know, reflect on that kind of stuff. Right.

I'm with that. I like that. Boys, anything in the back? We're all going with reading. D.P. You got one? Yeah, I mean, I was reading one book a month as mine as well. Still, like last year, I'm just making my bed every single day, which I did hit. Did you really?

Yeah. A first win. First win. Win right out of the bed. So continue that. More journaling for sure. and, man, I was, I had one because Sittin and I were coming up with them yesterday, but it's escaping my mind.

So I might just concur with y'all. On the significant other, like, Char and I, we were talking about it yesterday, we're going to do, like, a weekly discipline. So whether it's yoga or something that we can do it together in the morning, like health-wise, fitness-wise, whether it's sauna and cold, the cold tub or yoga or boxing or whatever it is, like one daily. one discipline a week, and then we're going to do like a bimonthly date night. So she plans one one month or she plans one one week.

I plan one, you know, the next, after the next couple weeks. And then like one where we have to be intentional on getting our, getting like a group of friends together, like do something, whether it's a murder mystery or like just doing something that we are like intentional about like being around friends. That's one of ours was at the end of each month sitting down and, holding each other accountable about if you are keeping up with your... Ooh, yeah.

That's a good one. That is a good one. Be intentional about being around friends is a really good one. Yeah, because you know how it is. Yeah, especially doing as much as we do. Like, I feel like because we travel so much when I get home, I just want to be with my family. And I don't take the time to like check the other social boxes. Right.

At all. But doing it, I like that. Yeah. I like that one. And whether like, we were talking about like a quarterly thing too is like whether it's the murder mystery. Like each like it was us one time. Just because again monthly it's like the minute it doesn't happen one month and it can kind of fizzle out. Yeah. So if like you're the monthly thing, if it's just like dinner or something like that. But a quarterly thing where it's like, hey, we'll host one. You guys are

responsible for hosting a quarter. You know, you get another pair of friends that host at their house, whether it's a Chandler's or something like that. Yeah. But just doing one where it's like on that crew, I think it would be a lot of fun. Mm-hmm. A quick pivot. We got to give a huge shout out to Michael Chandler. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What a fucking incredible. Literally the guy has sat for a year waiting for this Irishman to finally pull the trigger

and it's big. Yeah, it's big. It's massive, man. My understanding is it's not like 100% done yet. Like there still has to be a couple of dominoes that fall. But everything on Connor. But it seems like things are pointing that way. Does it seem like it is going to be a 185?

I think so. Yeah, I think. I wouldn't know the answer to that, but if Conner saying 185 and Mike's on social media. I think International Fight Week is that's when it's going to happen. My thought was, my question mark was if it's actually going to be at 185. What would you think it would be?

Like 175? lighter? Yeah, 170. If it fits at 185, the only reason McGregor wants to do that is so that if he does win, he can say, I have wins at middleweight,

welterweight, lightweight, and featherweight, which obviously he'd be the only person. But Mike would have the only person with three. I just, that's not even, he, Mike probably, well, walks around at 180. Mike is 1.85 right now.

Like Mike was saying, it benefits Mike more than it benefits. Yeah. Why does it benefit Mike more? Because he's more naturally built, like, at that weight. Connor is like eating his butt off to be 185. When he's not on all the stuff. Right. Because all you see is these photos of Connor.

Oh, Jesus. stuff. It's so clear. He's on, he was on something. But there's, I feel like there's a whole bunch of stuff. He's still got to go through the USADA protocol. Well, they're not with USADA anymore. Or whatever, whichever drug testing thing they have to do.

I really don't know. I just know it's like not officially official yet. Yeah. Seems like it's going to happen though. But that is so sick, bro. Yeah, I think it's like June 28th, June 29th. 29th. That's international fight week.

We'll have to, I feel like that would be a weekend or the week that we would do like Beer Olympics. Oh, no, we are going to that fight. Yeah, we asked, oh, yeah, no, that I'm just saying, like, the last year, I think we did the Bear Olympics on the last week. Like, we're going to have to dictate. We're going to have to, that is what we will be doing. Yeah, last week we will be there.

Vegas. 100%. We will be there. Yeah, I bet it'll be in the sphere, too. The sphere of September. I know, but that's what they say now, but I think. Yeah, it's true. Why wouldn't you do McGregor?

Yeah, come back. Yeah, maybe it's like, I mean, it's only six months away. Yeah, I don't know the planning and all that, but that would be insane if it was at the sphere. Insane. Oh, that's going to be so much fun. It's so fucking hype. Yeah. I really, I want him to win so bad.

I know, man. Once again, I feel like there's an easy path to victory on Connor. What do you mean? Take him to the ground and sit on him for a round. Tire his ass out. Because from what mine are saying, I'm very green when it comes to like, understanding combat. But J.P., you're our

pseudo-UFC guy. Connor's incredibly precise, throws good, and he moves really well on his feet, and he's not the best grappler. So if Mike, who's a great wrestler, takes him to the ground, wears him out, putting his body on him the whole entire time for a round,

round and a half, make it boring, and then make it fucking ugly. This is, but Mike should, it's like Mike should be doing that every fight. He just doesn't do it. I know. I'm even asking him. He's like, all the spirit, The spirit of fighting.

The warrior spirit. The warrior spirit. That's great. Yes, absolutely. But I feel like that's all of Mike's fights. It's like, hey, he should play to his strength of wrestling here. Now, like, even though Connor is precise with his striking, he's got good defense on wrestling. Like, he would have to get him to the ground, which could be a, that wears you out,

like trying to take people down. If it doesn't work, it kind of like hurt your gas tank. Yeah. What do you, how do you see it going, JP? Or how do you think Mike should go about it? I mean, the same way everybody else in the world thinks Mike should go about it. I know. But he never will.

I do think he'll, I think he's going to go for more takedowns than people are thinking. Just because I think he wants a massive, like, slam. Yeah. And I think he wants to add that. So I'll probably try that in the first round. And I bet he will get one. Yeah. And then he'll probably in the second round, probably stand up.

The thing you can't, yeah, the thing like for Mike, could potentially be boring because I think Mike needs to wait for his opportunity, like be patient to try to get a tick down. Because if you're pressing Connor, Connor's very good at like counterstriking, like understanding when Mike drops his head, just bink in him. Yeah.

He's going to have to wait for Connor to make me. That's, that's what I, that's like my opinion. That's good at fighting backwards. Yes. There you go. Yes. That's a cool line.

I think, but like, yeah, when Mike sits in the bus and he says, warrior spirit, I want to make it a blood bath. It's like, all right, great. But let's say he does take the game plan into, I'm going to be the smartest way,

easiest path to victory as possible. When you start hearing the booze, let's say it's in the sphere, of them kind of just dancing around each other, where's Mike's mental of being like, yeah, fuck it. I'm going to have to just go and go. He's going to go out there swinging out of the game. Yeah.

I think even if Mike tries to wrestle, it won't be boring because he does everything so violently. It's not like, he's not going to be like, I don't know, like some of these other guys that just are. No, no doubt. But the wrestling to happen, I think it has to happen

from like a patient standpoint to where maybe that's where it's thinking because if he tries to go after him, again, not only are you making yourself more vulnerable and playing into a strength of Connors of being a great fighter backing up, but then if you fail on takedowns, you're wearing yourself out.

You're wearing yourself out. And that's not where you want to be. Maybe just take the Dias approach and just slap that front leg for a while. Yeah. Just take that front calf over and over and over again. I don't know. I feel like...

The titanium shin bone, Taylor. Mike has a path to win this fight. It's the impatience that worries me. I mean, I'm sure he's probably thinking, man, it'll be sick to knock him out. There's so many mental games. Yeah. Just throwing in there. It's like, we can make up this strategy.

That strategy can be thought of. And he's like, oh, okay, I'm going to surprise everybody by going in just going fucking nuts. but he won't be surprising anybody if he goes nuts. Yeah, fair, yeah. Yeah. Should we get to the Twisted Question? Yeah, I'm down.

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Bring in the new year with the Twisted Tea today. This question is brought to us not only by Twisted Tea, but Mitch. He gets to start off the New Year. maybe it'll start off with some better questions. Mitchie? This one is from Ryan Sirecki. So you're not doing the question.

No. On Instagram. Twisted question for the boys. Would you take one continuous 24-hour shit once a year or fool-on shit yourself once a year? Full-on shit myself once a year. I don't know. I think about the time you get just shit by yourself.

yourself. Think about, okay. Would it work? Yeah. Yeah, your legs would, your legs would fall asleep after an hour and go like, I got 23 more hours of this. And think about this. You ain't going to be thinking about your legs if you got shit coming out of you

for 24 hours straight. I mean, your New Year's resolution is not going to hit. Yeah. Think about this, though. It's been a rough day. Maybe the boys, there's a big altercation. It's been long, blah, blah, blah. You go home.

Roo's yelling. Charles bitching at you. We're going to go take those five minutes. She knows you shit once a year for 24 hours. You can't go take five minutes in the bathroom. them to yourself, scroll the phone a little bit, pants still on. You're just saying this is the part,

shitting yourself? I'm saying, if you only shit yourself 24 hours one time of year, then there's no, that classic dad move. You're like, I go to the bathroom,

I'll be right back. That's a great point. Yeah, but if you just... I'm thinking of the upside of shitting, but you're also talking about the upside of shitting. Yes. And I'm thinking, shit my pants once a year.

It's like, do I get to pick? if so, yeah, okay. If not, it's like, that'll be funny as hell. Then I'm just on the bus one day and I just shit my pants. Like, you know how it is. I gotta get out of here.

I'll be right back. Yeah. Just keep a change of clothes in the back at all times. To me, that's like, that's an easy boy. Sold. Sold. Four for one, Mitch. What's a dub?

Yeah, what's a dub for Mitch? I thought that actually... I would say if it's like, would anybody take the 24-hour shit? No. Was anybody on the 24-hour shit and then got swayed? No. I was on the 24-hour shit.

But did you get swayed? You got to point at each other. You saying the, like, take some five minutes away and just have some time by yourself, that's what you switched. Yeah. So I guess a good twisted question would be like the ending multiple choices. Everybody walks away. Like the best, I think the best twisted question we've had is the, miss every light or make every light or the best parking spot.

Because we've walked away and we all still have our choices and the reason why we have those choices. But the shit thing, it's like we all came to conclusion. Imagine wiping after a 24-hour dome. Oh my God. I think it's the same. Probably going to be the same cleanup, right? Think about all the flushing you got to do because if that bowl is going to get filled up.

Yeah. You could die. You could legit die. Yeah. Place an IV You got that IV Placing IV on you While your shit

And they're smelling it You gotta eat In the corner You gotta eat With that smells just coming up Oh my God And you know like 15 minutes From now

That thing's coming out of you Will said That can't be that bad On the wiping On the wiping Oh yeah The wiping part Your butt holes open

For 24 hours Yeah but it's still gonna You still gotta wipe it the same It should be raw Oh do you be Because you're going to wipe in between shits because you're going to have to flush. Right.

It's going to be a good of you. No, I'll just sit and flush. You sit the courtesy flush. You have your asshole all year has been worked once. And then you're essentially feeding shit through your asshole, rubbing against it. You're talking about. But hang on now.

You're talking about rashing. You're talking about blood. But I'm assuming in this hypothetical situation that my body is built to do that if I'm only shitting once a year. Like it's like, okay, here it comes. You know it's not to loosen up and knows how to work. I guess you would be right because if your body wasn't built for that, you're legit dying the first time it happens.

You might be dying if you never shit for the other 364 days. That's correct too. I think like a one-time, one-time dispense. At least that's what it sounds like. I think he's trying to make it seem like, would you just get all your shitting out of the way in one time, which I don't think there's a... When you said that, that to me is like you get the upside of shitting every day.

Sometimes a couple. Sometimes three. You shit three times a day. to get that looked at. I, uh, no, I want... I think you'd rather swallow his food. Or he doesn't chew his food. I think two's healthy.

I think two's healthy. I think three's fine. But you know it ain't coming out. Solid. Is it always coming out solid? Yeah. Maybe you're all right. Maybe he is good.

Maybe I'm fucked up. Yeah. Maybe I need shit more. I know I'm fucked up. Once in the morning, after lunch, and then after dinner. See, I'm usually once in the morning, and then once in the, uh, late after. and noon early evening.

Whenever I'm finding that moment, if I'm picking my shot, okay, so you're all right. I've got to go to the restroom. It's going to be a minute. Boom. And you don't get that with 24 hours. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. Do you need that? It's your time. It's for you. You guys, ready wrap this thing up. Yeah.

For those of you who stuck around for this long, next week, I believe I'm correct in saying this. Next week, there will be a new addition to bustling with the boys, correct? I don't know. January 6, I think it's the first day. Oh, what are we doing?

Graphic designer. Oh, I thought. you're saying we're going to the Capitol. Yeah, come on, bro. That's J and 6. The boys are off. We're off. Yeah.

There's a holiday. It's a holiday now. That's a holiday for bus, and it's on our calendar. Right. Hey, best year yet. But yeah, you're right. It's the best year yet.

New graphic designer coming on board. Mm-hmm. Shout out. Is Connor? Cooper. You called him Connor on our interview, though. I think you just called him Connor, didn't you? I said, Coop.

Yeah, I got a, I got a, Honor Stallions, joining the bus. Yeah, Connor Stallions, joining the bus. We would have information on all the other podcasts. Yeah. I wonder what he was doing during that game yesterday. Was he? You lying. Live streaming.

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