Bussin' With The Boys - The Lone Wolf

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

Recorded: July 26, 2021 | The boy Comp is riding solo today as Taylor is away at camp, but don't worry, there is PLENTY to talk about. Will starts off with some "house cleaning" before giving a sneak peek at what's coming up this Fall (episodes, tailgates, events, and more). Then, he and the crew take a DEEP dive into some NCAA / NIL talk, they offer an update on how Bussin' might make moves to work with college athletes, Texas & Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for their new home in the SEC, and Will clears the air on the NFL's vaccine memo that shook up the sports world last week. To wrap up, Will talks about some of his favorite sports psychology resources, how he keeps his mindset sharp, and then the boys bring it home by running through some fan questions from social media and the Bussin' Video Mailbox. ----- BUSSIN' MAIL: Send a video to The Boys! bit.ly/BussinMail ----- EARN YOUR WOLF: Want to be featured on our Instagram Story? Screenshot this episode, tag @bussinwtb, and share it to your Story. The Boys will take care of the rest... ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Chevy Silverado: The Strongest, Most Advanced Silverado Ever. Bearbottom Clothing: Get Free Shipping on your first order at https://barstool.link/BearBottomBSS with code BUSSIN. BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month at https://barstool.link/BetterhelpBussin Cross Country Mortgage: Go to https://barstool.link/crosscountrymortgageBSS to learn more about your future home buying experience or refinance your current Mortgage. Roman: Go to https://barstool.link/RomanBUSSIN you can get your first month of Swipes for just $5, when you choose a monthly planFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Js, some retro ones. I thought I'd change it up and stun on some people today. Dude, solo pod. The boys are rolling just, it's just us. We got Bloss in the back, Alex Legos with Legos creative. We got JP Hovey. We got Garrett. Is it Hargis?

Hargis? Hargis? I hate it. that. I'm sorry. I really am sorry. Run it back. That's fine. Hey, he said run it back. Run a fucking back. Yeah, that's what happens when you want to be mean to me on Twitter, dude. You realize you butchers our name, too.

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We have over 1,500 comments last week, and, you know, we average maybe a couple hundred every week. That's huge. That's fucking huge, boys. Dude, I'm telling you, I wake up the next couple days. I think we're at like 40,000 views. It's like, hey, how are the boys going to do when you don't have a guest on? How guest driven is this podcast and how much can the boys put asses in seats watching at home? And we have, where are we at right now? About 40,000 views, which is great news. The audio is good as well. The comments over 1,500, guys, you guys are,

you guys are crushing it. And being a podcast that just runs off of gasoline from you guys. and our fans and everybody else. It's all about what you guys do. So buying the merch. The merch, by the way, what you guys are seeing is a Fourth of July shirt. Yes, it's late.

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These are our July 26 merchandise pieces, dude. Represent America. Represent the boys proudly. Our Hawaiian shirts, everything's set now. You got this Hawaiian shirt. You got the Hawaiian shirt

that Thomas was repping reping last week. go buy all of our stuff And speaking of merch, we had a young lad. Let's see, let me bring this up. He had a little comment to say, there we go, can we zoom it in?

Trent underscore underscore R just got the trunks in and can say they cradle my balls like I'm getting a massage. When I sit down, they don't uncuff like other shorts. They stay in place like a soft pillow when you get done fluffing it

right after it gets out of laundry. 10 out of 10 would recommend again. Well, Trent, why don't you, you know, buy another set and give it to a friend? That's how you do it. If you believe in the product so much, you need to buy it again and give it to a friend, gifted to a friend. But our swimming trunks are whole Hawaiian set. You guys saw me rocking it last week.

My sack was showing very well. But we have a lot of good merch. You know it's been the sneaky number one seller that we never really pub. The bus and pocketees. The black one? Yeah, the one that looks like the Chicago Bulls. Yeah, the black one. Where it's got the bow tie logo.

Yep. And it's got the little B with the horn, steer horns over it. That's like our best seller. And it's not even close. Our dad hats are doing well. But yeah, that pocket tee right there. It's been a bunch of colors now, too. The cream ones, the red ones, the gray ones, they even get the blue ones.

Yeah. And those, the black ones, it makes you think of the 96 bulls, man. I hope I'm saying that right. 95 Bulls, 96, 8, 7, something like that. The year Jordan was playing and not retired. But yeah, so we should probably pub those more, and that's my fault. I need to relay those kinds of messages to you guys instead of taking a different angle and blaming you guys. The flags, dude, I'll tell you what, fans are in seats this year.

Stadiums are going to be packed. I know, you know, old Titans faithful, which is our number one fan base, obviously right now. The flags we saw last year with minimal people, the flags better be blowing this year in Nissan Stadium. Titans called the boy up. They might be getting the bus. in one of their little videos, since it seems to becoming a staple in Nashville, which is huge news. The concern was like, I don't know if they want you particularly in the video.

And I'm like, hey, look, listen, I get how the game works. If you don't need me in the video, it's all good. I get that, you know, you just want to show the bus and everything else. But the flags, the bus and the hype video, like Nissan Stadium needs to be packed with these boys flags that we got out there, which is you're flying the flags, the boys, the bus with the boys, all that stuff. But some good merch stuff. what else do we have on the housekeeping, the housekeeping agenda? What's next for the pod?

What's coming up? All right. So as you guys see, I'm sitting by myself. I'm in this little limbo of when I could be leaving. And for right now I'm here. I'm training. I'm doing all this stuff. We're thinking about keeping pods current and up to date.

To do so, we need to do pods like this to where I am on my own. And you see, you know, data numbers, the boys, we're in the war room. We're strategizing how we should approach it. But we have about five pods in the work for you guys. we have. Dail Earnhardt came on, and he's going to be a hitter. That one's going to be a banger. We're going to talk about the Mount Rushmore later.

He might be, you know, you got to see when that comes in, but he might be on that Mount Rushmore. That's how good of a pot it was. Who else we got? Brian Peters, a huge, you guys might not be familiar with who Brian is. Brian was somebody who's played in five leagues. Arena, Canadian, UFL, XFL, and the NFL. By the time he got to the NFL, he was like,

a 26, 27-year-old rookie who earned a contract in the NFL after playing in the Arena League and CFL first. Then he goes to the NFL and becomes a captain of the Houston Texans. So I've always watched him from afar and I've always admired him from afar. He's one of those guys who are like my age that I see as like a mentor because he's very big in the breath, in the breath work performance and just being an awesome dude. So I wanted to have him on the bus because we've always DM'd and everything else. But he's a really good podcast. as Bo Polini comes on the bus, and that one's going to be a banger.

The Nebraska fans that are out there listening, I played for old coach, Bo. There's a bad breakup with Nebraska that happened with Bo after about six or seven years. And we sit down with Coach Bo and, dude, you just don't make him, you just don't make him like that anymore. The way Bo is and the way he talks about his philosophies and you try and, like, dabbling the funny stuff,

and he laughs and everything else. But the way he is just mental is and how he wants to do things and his approach to the game. game and everything else. Like, it's just, you just don't make him like him anymore. The one question I wish I would have asked him that I didn't get to. However, I did get to say my opinion on what Taylor asked me what I thought he could get better at.

And I asked him if I could speak candidly. We laughed and stuff. And then I kind of give my opinion. And, uh, but I do wish I would have asked about the, uh, bit, the Big Ten championship game when Wisconsin was just throttling us. I mean, we were getting throttled. We're in a half time and there's not a whole much of a speech other than, boys like wake the fuck up this is it like we're in the big

how much were down uh you could pull it up but it was like they might have been in the 40s already we lost that game 70 something to 30 something it was bad and uh I'm talking you're in prison you get cornered by a bunch of dudes and there's there's nowhere to go and they're just tossing that ass around that's how bad it was they had three running backs have over 200 yards Melvin Gordon uh Monty ball and uh James white oh three three running backs over 200 yards. It was abysmal. And the one thing I did want to ask, now that I've played, now that I've played a little bit in the league, I've dabbled, being a linebacker now, when you're a young cat playing in college, you just don't know, you look to your coach. You look to like, what are we

going to do? We got to play better. We got to tackle better. Yeah, you see that? At halftime, it was 42 to 10, dude. Final score 70 to 31. I promise, guys, I'm not joking. Anytime Wisconsin comes up, there's, there's like an internal part of me that shells up, because I know there's no conversation to be had. What do you think happen? Well, I think it's a mix. Number one, players, we should have executed better on defense. There's a mistackle that I had.

I mean, we're missing tackles left and right. However, what Wisconsin did so well that game was there in this personnel called 21 speed, 22 speed, where you have a running back more so as the receiver, or two running backs. One running back has the fullback to where it's not a traditional fullback in there. You have two speed guys back there. And they would do this jet. fucking sweep, dude.

And essentially, we only had one call because it wasn't a personnel they lived in a whole lot throughout the year. Even our first game when we played them, we tackled it early, and they didn't go back to it. But they weren't a personnel they lived the whole lot in throughout the game, throughout the year, based on film.

So we only had one call to that personnel. It wasn't like a base personnel for them, to where they were running it all the time. You have a lot of different calls. We had one call, and it was over Miami. and you would always call it away from the speed guy, but they would do this jet sweep, and essentially they got it to where they had one-on-one tackles going. Like there was a key that I had to where if the Titan released,

if he released wide, you knew it was going to be a handoff to the speed sweep. If he blocked down, you knew it was just a zone play to the running back in the back field. But they switched it up in the championship game to where the Titan would block down, and they would still hand the jet sweep. And you have all this space with the DB and making open field tackles all day long as hard as shit.

And as a player's opinion, we didn't make any adjustments. It was kind of like, you know, rape us one series, rape us again, just over and over, back at us, dude. And I'm telling you, they ran nuts, three running backs over 200 yards. And what I wish I would ask Bo about is, looking back on it, do you think we would have, should have made an adjustment?

Because as a player, it's like, yeah, why in the fuck are we not calling something else? Like, why not send two off the edge? Why not send an ed pressure away from the speed? away from the speed guy, right? So you're handling the speed sweep, and then you can obviously play ball against the zone player, a lead player, whatever they were running belly.

And I would have liked to have me and him talk shop on that. Because as a coach, you still, like, your players are there to still make the play. We just didn't make them. But as a coach staying on the sideline, when shit's hitting the fan, why not think about making an adjustment there? You guys were the favorite by 12 in that game, too?

We beat him earlier. We beat him earlier that year. I mean, we were, Wisconsin went into that game because Ohio State was ineligible to be in the championship game. Penn State had their thing going on with an old guy that, you know, yeah, old quagmire. And so they weren't allowed to be in the game. And so Wisconsin was the third team that got into the Big Ten championship. So they were like seven and, yeah, they were seven and five going into that game. We were 10 and two.

We had seven fourth quarter comebacks and the boys were on a roll. We were feeling good. We're like, we're going to win this game, go to the Rose Bowl, and beat the shit out of Sanford. We're riding high. And, dude, they just beat the fuck out of us, man. And it was the worst feeling. We just had such a hangover the next day I'm talking. You're in your room.

You're ordering pizza. You just don't want to talk to nobody. But I would have wished to have had that. Not to make this a whole Nebraska podcast and living in the past. Who else? Yes, Open Doors. So we had Open Doors come on. Open Doors is a company that is essentially pioneering.

this new NIL movement in the NCAA. I'm not sure if this is certain or not, but I know there's programming, their software will be used for a lot of brands. So if there's a brand that wants to, you know, the Alabama kid who's now making almost seven figures, I don't know, but I would assume a lot of brands are going to this platform open doors to book this kids

for all this money that he's getting. They're basically that middle man, so athletes and kids don't have to get agents and have all these other distractions in their life. It's a seamless platform that allows you to see what their worth is, if you want to pay for their worth or not, in the demographic that you want to. But anyway, Open Doors, Blake and Adi, I had them on. They are Nebraska guys.

I played with them on these Bo Polini teams. So I'm really close with them. Blake, he hosted me on my recruiting trip. Adi, he's kind of been a mentor as we've grown bustling with the boys. They both have. But anyway, I'm super close with those guys at Open Doors. So they flew in to kind of talk about the NIL world, the landscape, what it's going to look like, how Open Doors is doing, and what to kind of look forward to in the years to come.

and also Amir Abdullah. So three little Nebraska connections here. But I had on Amir Abdullah. He's a running back for the Minnesota Vikings. Amir is somebody who he was drafted in the second round. Went through some ups and downs throughout his career. And he's in a really good spot mentally. And again, he's somebody I kind of follow.

I mean, we're like, we're really good friends and not just follow. But he's somebody I follow from afar, like on, not follow from afar. I follow him closely. He's my boy. On Instagram, because he's very much in that mental that, limiting distractions, treating your mental right, like breath work, all this stuff to help you perform better, which I'm always fascinated with because that's something I have like a passion in with football and everything else. So I had a mirror on and that was a really good podcast. He

delivered some little TED talks. Alex, I don't think you were here. I missed that one. Yeah, but he was delivering some heat, man. I mean, he's very well spoken. Yeah, I'm not going to let my wife watch that one either. Hey, because he's got... That's a handsome man right there. Yeah, and he's got a wrench on him. He's a handsome man, and I'm not going to go too far until you guys can wait and listen to the podcast. But five pods that are very good. I hope you guys all enjoy them. So that's what the boys kind of have coming.

Taylor's going to be in training camp, so obviously he's not going to be on the bus. We're going to see what happens when the season starts to come about. And we'll see where we are, man. We're in a weird spot because I truly have no idea where I'll be. I could get a phone call right now and have to be on a plane that night or the next day to go try out or make a team or something of that nature. So we're kind of in a limbo. But the boys are always going to make it work.

We always do. If I'm somewhere else, I'll be interviewing dudes on that team. I'll see what I can corral. The boys will be talking back here. You got Spooktober coming up. You got a lot of big shit happening. So we gave ourselves a little bit of room to breathe with these five pos. I think you guys are going to really fucking dig.

The Music City Grand Prix is coming. What's the day to that? That's next weekend. Next weekend. So August 6th. The Music City Grand Prix is coming to Nashville. And it's awesome, dude. They reached out to us.

They went the bus on like around one of the popular spots in Nissan, around Nissan, right? Yeah, it's called the paddock area. It's basically like the crew area where all the teams gather and have their office spaces and meeting rooms and everything like that. So the bus will be right in the center of all that. I love that shit. They reached out to Alex.

They reached out to the boys. They want to tow the bus into that spot. Paddock place. And so the. the boys are going to get a little bit of love, taking the NASCAR, or taking the racing bus. I don't want to say NASCAR. I don't know if the Indy car. I don't want to, I don't know if there's any bad blood or rivalry between like the Grand Prix and like NASCAR or some shit like that.

So we'll just stay out of it. But our racing bus at this racing event, but yeah, you can get tickets. I'm sure it's going to be huge. Any racing coming to Nashville, I think this is the city for it. But the boys are going to be there. So if I'm around, I'm going to be there. We're going to have all the boys there. We're going to, it's going to be a good fun time.

Speaking of being outdoors and everything else, there's been a lot of people wondering what's going to happen with the tailgates this year, watch parties, everything else. We got good shit in the works, boys. And there's no restrictions as of now, as of now. You never know what could happen in the pandemic that's still, you know, going on. But as right now, there's no restrictions. We're going to be on Broadway.

We're going to have the bus parked on Broadway. We're going to be at Acme for, I believe, every home game, maybe one of the preseason games. We have a meeting later this week about it. Maybe it's fucking today, and I haven't looked at my calendar yet. But we're collabing, bar stool, being at Acme Feed and Seed, just like we were last year. But again, there's no real restrictions. We're going to have the bus on Broadway, and we're going to have a lot of cool shit.

Might be able to take photos with the bus. Maybe not. But for watch parties, tailgates, pre-gaming, all that shit, we're going to have a lot of giveaways happening. We're going to be throwing banger-ass parties. And we're going to be rooting for the boys. And until I'm on another team, I'm obviously for the fucking boys here in Nashville. If I go somewhere else, I'm for the boys wherever I'm at.

Like when I was on the Raiders, I was for the, I was for the, I was for the, I was for the, I was for the, I was for the raider boys. You know what I mean? I wanted to drag the Titans when they came to town because you want to beat, you know, the guys that are perceived as like, you know, your family member, your brother's coming to the town. You kind of just, you just want to just, you just want to drag them. Obviously, you didn't go that way. They went off on us. And AJ had a little, you know, what is it, career game? He's only played two years, but it's all good.

Anything else in the housekeeping? I'm going to need you to keep this up more so than the time thing. You're good. The raw room cookout. I had a good, guys, it's been a good time. The last couple weeks, it's been head on a swivel week. The boys have been recording bus stop episodes or I don't even, what do you call that? Episodes, little mini concerts.

Sessions? Sessions, bus stop sessions. There you go. Thank God. Thank God for Alex. But we recorded like 12 bus stop sessions. We recorded like seven podcasts. I mean, we didn't know which way was up.

We're doing this feeding Nashville. By the way, get your tickets ticket master. That's going to be on August 3rd, August 3rd, down in Franklin. It's going to be awesome. Incredible lineup of country artists. Yeah, brand new venue. It's going to be the first big venue they've, or the first event that they've had there.

So it's going to be awesome. But between the bus stop sessions, podcasting, and doing all this content for feeding Nashville, dude, the boys's head has been on a swivel, you know, especially with Taylor coming up because we knew we weren't going to have them after this past week that we just had. But we did content with Thomas Rett, Tyler Hubbard,

and we got some cool interviews on the bus that's going to kind of embody what Feeding Nashville is about. So get your tickets at that shit. Over the weekend, got to enjoy Raw Room cookouts. Shout out the Raw Room podcast by my boy Darren Bates and his co-host, fuck, I'm dropping it, J.C. Collins. J.C. Collins.

Is that it? J.C. Collins? But Raw Room. You can go and subscribe to it. of those dudes, another active NFL player podcast. But I got invited to the cookout. Anytime you're a white boy and you get invited to the cookout, you are a certified fucking white boy.

That is like the stamp of approval, especially when I tweeted in, and then he wants to quote to it and say, he's certified. It's official now. Anytime you get that cookout invite, I mean, we were eating, you know, cheap hot dogs and burgers.

I'm talking slices of cheese, stuff that I haven't eaten since the old hot dog and applesauce days, you know what I mean? but it was a great time. It was a great time. But I think that's all the housekeeping things that we have. Here we go. Here's where we do an ad read.

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I, dude. So let's play both sides. Let's play pros and cons to this NIL game. Because I have like, I guess thoughts on both sides. Like I understand both sides. Like I pull up. What do you got? Oh, I, I pulled up in my house.

I'm listening to that that voiceover that I did for Nebraska, their black shirt video that they did. I'm pulling up, and I'm literally thinking in my head, I'm not doing this voiceover unless busts with the boys happens. I'm not doing some of this stuff that I'm, I'm not doing busting with the boys

unless I'm somebody who wanted to take control of kind of where my status and platform was playing in the NFL and everything else. That's why I kind of wanted to do it. Like I knew I had the boys, we always had really good conversations and I wanted to kind of use, the platform I had to make a podcast in the show.

And I think a lot of that stuff is driven off taking control of, like, my NIL, right? I'm not in college, of course. But I think guys, athletes are starting to see that the opportunity is that they have outside of football, using football to drive, you know, these other things. And also, like, you see stuff to where a quarterback is now making a million dollars without playing it down and what that dynamic could be like in a locker room. like on raw room. AJ Brown went on,

sat in on raw room yesterday. I'm not sure when that episode will come out for them. But they were kind of talking about and AJ had a stance to where he thought it was, it's going to kind of ruin college football. And I've heard people say that.

And at first I'm kind of thinking like, how does it, you know, how much does it ruin college football? I do think it's going to look very different in five, in a few years, honestly. It's looking different now

with all these reports coming out. But essentially what, uh, AJ was saying, or what they were talking about, was that it just adds, like you already have enough distraction when you're in college.

Like you're already trying to figure out and balance your, well, you know, you'll get in this thing soon enough, Alex. But you essentially have enough distraction figuring out class, scheduling, everything else. And when you're when you're in a culture growing up to where your families want to grab at you and ask for money and expect you to send them the Pell Grant home, any scholarship check money, I had teammates that were like that going in college, whatever leftover that they might have had from their scholarship check, they had to send it home to their parents. So you can only imagine some of the more distraction

that might come involved in that world where you're making, you know, a lot more money as a student athlete, especially if you have, if you come from a place where you're going to have more distraction with family members and relatives, everybody else kind of reaching at you. And it's just going to be interesting to see how it all unfolds because you're going to have a quarterback now.

Like when you're in college, Alex, I, you know, chime in at any time. But when you're in college, you're kind of figuring out you're learning the process. Like we had bow on and that the dude molded my brain. It was hard work. It was, you know, it was processed. It was never results. It was always competing every day.

Like you weren't just going to go to class. You're going to be an all the time guy. You guys will hear it all there. But this dude molded my brain. Him and our strength coach, coach, Dobson. Those are the people that kind of, you come into that world. You get recruited as a four star. You get recruited and you get pampered.

You get into college and you got to kind of get derecruited because you don't want to drink your own Kool-Aid. So you've got to learn the hard way. You're doing hard-ass workouts. You're strong. strict, your discipline. People telling you where to go. And when you mess up, you have hard lessons to where they sit you down and give you advice on why it is that way. Because when you get in the real world, they don't give a shit if you're late. If you do X, you do Y, you do Z. It's this

way or the highway type of thing. And you kind of learn in that mold. Now, when you start throwing money and potentially seven figures into this stuff and you're complaining with the boys, like you're camaraderie with the boys, you go through a hard workout. If you're somebody making a shitload of money, there's some resentment that can come in in the locker room. Oh, bro, you don't have to do this. You're making X amount of money. You might have somebody who is making a shitload of money and they feel like they don't have to do a workout now. Maybe they feel like they're a pro already. To where they can, there's some new dynamics that can start to enter in the locker room that was so pure before NIL comes involved.

But I'm also a believer in the NIL in the NIL model because I know how much money gets made and I do know that a free ride and everything else doesn't take care of you after it's all said and done. Like, fortunately, I've been able to play for a while in the NFL, but I just know for guys, anything you could have made, regardless if it's an extra 50 bucks a month goes away just because you just don't, after rent and expenses and everything else, you really don't have a whole lot of money. You might get the Pail Grant every now and then to where that's a little fluff, but you go and spend it at the mall. Like you just don't, it's going to be interesting how it all unfolds. Alex, you're back there kind of nod and wanting to get in.

What are your thoughts? I mean, there's a ton of ways to come at this, obviously. I'm a big fan of you shouldn't be able to tell people where they can or can't make money. That pisses me off because these kids have worked their whole lives to get to this opportunity where they're playing sports at a high level. They're on TV every week. How bad does that suck that their jersey sales go out and they don't see anything for it? How bad does it suck that they have brands reaching out to them wanting to do things with them

and they've had to say no, or couldn't say yes to somebody covering their dinner at the local restaurant or something like that. Like those are all violations up until this NIL thing has now happened. And so it's really difficult to look at it because you can't really like pick one angle. But like the angle you're just saying about the purity of the sport, that'll definitely change locker room dynamics.

But that's already happening in high school. Like there's high school basketball kids with five million Instagram followers. That's money at the end of the day. Yeah. And I don't know why it took this. long for the NCAA to pivot on this. I guess probably just because they are that big and they do have so much leverage when it comes to control of the sports. But these athletes at a very young age, 15, 16 years old, are going to start to come into management who is able to direct them to

navigate these waters to be able to do brand partnerships, to be able to do endorsement deals, et cetera. And I think that's great because you have, you're creating wealth in these kids at a younger age, which, yes, there will be some people who abuse that and do terrible things with Which happens no matter what. Right. You can't control that. But I think the majority, that sets up families even earlier. You know, what do you say to the kid who comes out of a bad area who's trying to play football?

And he would love it if he could start sending checks home at 16 years old instead of waiting until he's 23. I think that can change infrastructure of, you know, local economies if we really want to go that far. Yeah. It's a lot. That's well said, by the way. Alex Legos is creative. I love all the company shoutouts. Yeah.

but there's a ton of ways to go about it. But I think, like, looking at it from people get mad about it as, like, a privilege thing where it's like, oh, they already get a free education. And it's like, yeah, but what does that do? You can play in a bowl game and then be an accountant. I think that's the dumb. I think that's the laziest argument is that they get a free education. Like, yeah, of course, that person arguing probably wishes they could have had a free education. Like, that's just how that shit works.

It's thinking that athletes are so taken care of because they have a scholarship. It's not the case at all. Right. Like, it's more than a full. time job. I like it's it's more than a full-time job. I know Taylor went in the detail about how those schedules look like, but you're doing so much more and doing class and expected to perform in your classroom. Obviously everyone's expected to perform, but I'm talking you're up in the meeting. Like we have some good stories when Bo comes on because we had the highest GPA as a team in the

history of Nebraska because there was a, there was an expectation there. But you're juggling so many things as a kid. I think that's the laziest argument when people are like, oh, but you go to scholarship ball for a time. The one thing that I say that I learned from school is like, people are like, do you use your degree at all? It's like, sure, but what I really learned was time management and delegation and the ability to multitask when needed and prioritize what I need to get done. And it's because that schedule is so grueling. Right. You have to learn how to figure that stuff out before most other people do. Yeah. And all that stuff that you said about all that stuff, I'm just thinking, I mean, yeah, that's fucking true. He's right about that stuff. Because it kind of

just depends on the angle you go about it. Like if you're old school thinking about the purity of the sport. I'm just, I guess I can only speak from my experience of being in the, you can too, of being in the locker rooms and knowing how that dynamic is, but it's been what, almost 10 years since I've been in that locker room. Like, who knows what the dynamic is now? Like, I don't know. Like, maybe there'll be some pivots and they're doing some good things. I assume a guy like Nick Sabin who comes out and says something like that. Like, you know he's going to have his team. Like, he's the goat coach in college football. Like, no matter what, at the end of the day when you say it just adds more distraction and everything else to play devil's

advocate to that. The ones who want to be professional athletes are going to still be professional athletes. They understand how to prioritize. Like Dionne Sanders says, baby, keep the main thing, the main thing. And I think that's essentially like those kids will do. And anybody else, anybody who's Fugazi, Fugazi about it and think they've made it in college by making a little bit of money, that money runs out very fast. Don't you think this will also make it easier for pro organizations to scout?

because now they already, players are already dealing with the... They understand how they're balancing and juggling both things, juggling the whole world. So you don't have to sign a guy and see if they pan out that year one when they sign a check and they start to do whatever they want with their money. You now already know how they're going to handle that stuff. Yeah, no, that's a good point. That's a good point.

And ultimately, too, like, and to go to touch on the thing where people talk about, oh, they have a scholarship and this and that, they should focus on playing football and this and the other. When you're in college and you're a college student, you're taught and everything else to equip yourself as much as possible. Add whatever you can to the resume. So you have a lot of different skills and abilities. And once you've kind of gotten good at one,

you know, you get swayed into do another direction to add another club to your bag. And when you're telling athletes to stick to their sport and everything else, like that's essentially what's, it's going away from the mindset that college students get taught anyway to equip your resume as much as possible, to add, you know,

the dynamic of social media, whether we like it or not, like social media is here to stay. Like branding and all this stuff, like, that's part of what the resume is going to be now. You know what I mean? Like, we don't know what it's going to look like. What do you got? I was going to say, and I think a major part of that, too, is like just this simple fact that non-student athletes are able to profit off of anything they decide to start as a business or a brand or whatever while they are still students.

But student athletes are not. Exactly. Like, that's a simple, like, contradiction that I've always looked at and been like, why can the kid who plays trumpet go make money playing trumpet, but I can't go make money teaching baseball camps or, you know what I mean? Exactly. And even when you're in a lane or even when you're in an internship or job, more so when you have a job already, you're still taught to equip yourself to transition to another job,

whether it's in a different lane or not. But you want athletes to say in this one particular lane until that lane is done and gone. And then they don't know what they want to do because they had to focus so much this one thing. That's why the whole, you know, don't focus on any kind of plan B because it deters from plan A. Like, I'm not as much a believer. And I do believe you got to be obsessive about stuff to become great at it. Like, if you want that to be your field, like, yes, you need to hone in on those things. But at the same time, you do need to start, you always need to be thinking of some kind of plan B because you need some kind of pivot. Do you think that this could ever

evolve to the point of like Nebraska signs Will Compton? You're highly touted out of high school. You're ready to come in here and do work. we want to offer you equity in the Husker brand. Do you think it could ever get there? To where an athlete gets equity in the Husker brand? Maybe in the Husker merch sales this year. I don't think so. Why not?

Because you're in and out within a few years. Like you're giving up equity for something that's not going to be a mainstay forever. You don't know how that athlete's going to perform throughout their career. They could be a total bus and you gave a percent away in equity. We do that in the, well, we don't do the equity thing with organizations. and the pros, but we invest and then sometimes things don't pan out. You know what I mean?

I just think it's interesting how many more avenues are now open now and to see if universities decide to jump on board and try to think creatively when it comes to how to compensate it. They're going to think creatively. Maybe. But I don't think it gets to a point where you give away equity in something. Possibly like a split revenue

with a percentage or something to where it's all revenue based. Yes. But not equity. I think that's... Yeah, you're not getting equity in Nebraska. And if they... Yeah, yeah. And if they do, someone needs a fucking check whoever

is doing that deal because that is a dumb fucking deal. But you think like a revenue share of like general Nebraska gear maybe you get a half a percent for the next three years while you're here? As far as all merch? Do I think it'll go that way? I don't know. I think there's going to be

stuff laid out like I think Nebraska themselves are going to be able to do now I'm not sure but do deals with their student athletes right to where they can give them a portion of their number or some shit they can't. So brands can but the schools can't? Yeah, I don't think they're. So, yeah, so then the university can't sit here and pay on the side and up the deal.

But it's going to get wild. Because thinking about it, I think if you're in the Nebraska apartment right now, you're thinking who are all of our close relationships with as far as brand partners and everything else that we do marketing wise, you get on the horn with them and you finagle it by talking to them about what you can do for ex-recrued or ex-athlet. And you can pump money that way. to where it's like, hey, this is who we want to target, this is who we'd like to recruit,

or this is how to play that game. I think it's just going to get very interesting until there's some kind of, just red tape for lack of a better term, until there's some kind of like, some kind of controlling aspect, but then again, you want it to kind of be the free market, but to control what schools and the business side of it does

from that administrative standpoint. So going off of that, do you think that as they figure this out, that there will be new jobs under coaching staff or universities to help players work with this money since if they go through open doors and they're not getting agents and all that, who's going to control, yeah, they need guidance. Right. I think, you know, there will be new positions in like compliance and the compliance departments.

And there's going to be jobs added, I think, to the universities for that particular thing. So that way you can limit distraction as much as possible. Because from a coaching and competitive standpoint, that's ultimately what has to happen is you want to limit distractions to where it's not like wildfire. You know, again, going off Bamba and Saban, like you know that they've probably had team meetings already talking about all this stuff and saying we're going to have people in place. So you don't feel like there, I mean, there's agents hitting guys' phones up right now. You know what I mean? Like even for busing with the boys, like talking about the bus and athlete stuff, there's people hitting up like, hey, what do you think Barstall is going to do? and that's from an angle of how do I work it for the athletes

that I'm probably going to start trying to recruit. So you're going to have people blowing up your phone to where you want those new jobs and those people in place that players can trust that you know things are going to be handled correctly so you can limit those off-field distractions. How do you think, so in my opinion, Nick Savan's saying that out loud, saying that his quarterback is making near seven figures, that's a recruiting tool.

Would you agree or disagree? Yeah, I would agree. Okay, so now do you think that, that obviously recruiting is going to be different, but when he goes and visits at home, is that the number one conversation now? It's not the number one, but it's a conversation. If you're sitting in a kid's home, dude,

and number one, so if you're Nick Saban, I assume this is how Nick is. Like, you've seen his Zoom videos of how he recruits players. Like, you want motherfuckers who want to play football. So, you know,

if questions are asked too much about NIL and making money, I'm sure Sabin or somebody else going to sit there leave that house, but hey, this ain't, it's ain't our guy, pal. Yeah, like this ain't our guy.

He seems like somebody that is against it and for it, kind of like how you were saying, approach, depending on what angle you take, because, as he says, rat poison,

that's more rat poison. But, yeah, he's definitely had that meeting of this, we're not having this bullshit. Yeah, I think any great coach and any great,

any great leader like Sabin is not going to just have some stance. Either way, it's going to be like, you know, there's pros and cons to both, but let's reel in all the information and all the data before we start going nuts about all this shit. In the other side of that conversation would be like a Kentucky basketball who's like, you're just coming for one year.

We don't care. We're just going to win the national championship this year. So show up. We'll also hook you up with Nike while you're here. And so you know what I mean? Like schools like that who are not trying to build like a three-year franchise basically while a player is there, they're more so looking at it as a one and done. They could start to pitch it like that. Yeah, they could.

with them to the home is it. Yeah, and basketball is different with football. Like, you could do more so of that. Like, you know, the dude's going to ball regardless. Like, it's just going to be interesting, man. You'll find out what are good coaches and what. Right. You'll see which coaches adapt.

Just like you're going to see how players adapt to this all. Like, I do think, like, guys are like, do you think, you know, it's going to hurt X, Y, and Z about guys going to the league? Those dudes who play themselves out of the league because they care more about what's going on off the field. Like, okay, well, you're not making it the priority anyway. That's not actually what you want to do. because the ones who actually want to do it and play in the NFL, they're going to fucking keep football the main focus.

Which brand would you have wanted to sign with if you're in school right now? Who would be your first, like, well, I want to lock in with them? Bussing with the boys? Yeah, good thing. And speaking of busing athletes is in the works. Oh, yes, that is true. Bussing athletes, bus you, busing university, who knows what we're going to do? We're going to do something is trying to figure out what we want to do.

obviously you have Dave Portnard would come out with his video, which is, you know, Barstool to a T. He did a great job capitalizing on that stuff to where you got Barstil athlete and all the bios and everything like that. And so we had how many, like several hundred athletes reach out about, hey, can we do? And it's like, you know, we just don't have the same infrastructure as a bar. We can't just be slinging this merch everywhere for you guys a rep, this and that.

We need to figure out what we want to do. Audi and Blake, Open Doors crew that was on here, they're like, what do you want your bus and athlete to embody? like what what does it look like for you? And so I think like the question kind of starts there to when we're kind of figuring it out. Like is it a select crew? Is it some linemen and some backers? Is it like, you know, I don't know.

I don't know what it looks like, especially when we're juggling all these other things. Like we don't have, you know, just a bunch of people and white collars running around figuring out all of these business moves for us. Like we have to take time to sit and talk about it and what that it looks like. But there is something coming with bus and athletes. bus you, I don't know. I do know I want it to be beneficial for both sides. I don't, you know, just listen, you guys want merchandise. I'm sure we can hook you guys up some of you with some merchandise.

It's just hard. It's just hard to kind of juggle all that shit. Do you have any thoughts about what you would like it to look like? Yeah, I don't know how much you want to go open on here. I like the linemen and the in the debacks to start. I think that's really cool because that's where you guys come from the linebackers. I'm sorry, linebackers to start. Yeah, I think that's a great place to start and keep it select.

Because, I mean, people are grabbing up athletes right now and it becomes less special. Right. Because I think if you keep it select, you keep it special and you can do more with those athletes too. Yeah, I would personally like to help whatever athletes are with us too. Like, give some perspective on it all. Like, you know, I don't know if it's like mentoring or anything like that, but I would like to actually work with the athletes to where it's like, yeah, well, obviously you'll get hooked up with merch and shit like that. But if there's something we can do where maybe it's a, it's a segment, it's something we want

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Texas and Oklahoma move into the SEC. I mean, good move, bad move. You know, Oklahoma, they're getting better. Texas, not so much. You go from the Big 12, not even winning the Big 12, and now you want to go get drug in the SEC? What do you mean it's not about football for them anymore? What do you got, Garrett?

It's all about that money? It's all about the money. I mean, yeah, everything is about money now. If they thought they could compete, they'd be in the playoffs the last couple years. Yeah, it is. It is a money move. I know I'm just trying to be a childish little girl

and talk shit about Texas football. I'm here for it. Yeah. I mean, they're not that great. Remember, you can't do horns down. It's illegal. You got to do sideways or you got to put it up and shoot the gun.

Or a score gun. It's a score gun. It's not a real gun. Just for the athletes that use it during the, they can explain to the other referees. it's a squirt gun. But I think recruiting-wise, if Oklahoma and Texas go to the SEC, moves have to be made by these other conferences.

Because SEC, honestly, could essentially become their own league. Like, as painful it is for me to say shit like that. The SEC gets some of these big-name schools to join them. Like, you're just in the South, man. Do you think it's ruining the tradition of college football? Yeah, I mean, all this stuff essentially. is right but just like the big eight go becomes the big 10 and like you know shit changes and over time it becomes the new norm so it's going to become the new tradition you know a decade from now like say

this happens a decade or two from now like it's going to seem like this is the tradition so you know just like everything the shit'll adapt but i tell you what if oklahoma and texas joins the big 12 better be throwing whatever the fuck they can at texas and oklahoma to stay i think they've already done stuff. I think they've already tried offering them where I saw people kind of making fun of the Big 12, like that girlfriend that Texas doesn't want, but they're trying to persuade them to come back into their arms. But the Big 12 does need to do whatever they can to retain them.

I think if they leave, if you're in the Big 12, a lot of your Southern recruiting kind of changes. Like, now everybody in the South can kind of stay in the South. Like, that is a big thing I thought that damaged Nebraska going to the Big Ten is, I I've explained it before. I don't know which podcast. C-T-E. I don't know if it's one that you're going to listen to down the road.

But essentially, when we went to the Big Ten, you are not able to recruit Texas as much anymore because you're sitting in those houses. You're trying to tell these kids, like, you have all these schools in Texas. How many are there? Like five, six? I could be butchering that. But, like, Texas Tech, A&M, TCU, Baylor, Texas.

I mean, you have all these schools that you could sit down and recruit kids and say you're going to play a few times a year down and south and the family, the parents, they felt good about it because their longest trip would probably be to Nebraska. Now Nebraska's, Texas, if you're down south, your closest trip is now Nebraska,

not the other way around. And now you're competing with everybody in the Northeast. And if you're in the Northeast getting recruited heavy, why are you going to pick Nebraska over Ohio State, Michigan, I mean, the Ohio State's Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, like those guys. They got it locked in.

like why not even go to Iowa over and I like that's fucking painful for me to say but why would you go even farther to now Nebraska is the farthest trip if you're in the northeast and Nebraska hasn't been performing like we have in the past to merit like getting those kids there so recruiting in Nebraska's is very difficult so I felt like that hurt is going to the Big Ten and I say that because it can kind of be a situation in the Big 12 now you don't have these Texas you don't have these south schools like Oklahoma and Texas that are in the Big 12 you're kind of taking kicking juggernauts historically and moving them to the premier, you know, arguably big tens in there too, but the premier conference in college football. And now the SEC is just going to have all the leverage and all the power. You can break away and you could become your own fucking league. Do you think with joining the SEC that will help even the playing field in the SEC? Yeah, potentially. I mean, if you're Oklahoma and Texas, you're going to get some more recruits.

I feel like more recruiting benefit because now you're going to be like, you're in the, we're in the best conference, all the little brochures. They probably don't use brochures anymore because it's not fucking 2000, 1990. But the brochures that are going to say like, you know,

number one conference in America, this, that, all these NFL players have went here. Well, I mean, the kids are now going to have the SEC patch on their jersey and NILs in place.

Yeah. Yeah. No, like if that happens, I saw somewhere where the SEC, would look at breaking it up in four different like little divisions, which essentially is like you're becoming like the NFL, you're becoming your own league.

If they go to the SEC, it's going to be, it's going to be crazy to see how the rest of the. They still need 11, they need 11 votes, right, from SEC schools to come in. And Texas A&M was a hard no. Yeah, they don't want those boys to come in

because they get the recruiting benefits from it. To tell the ones who they compete with with Texas, hey, we're in the SEC. SEC's better than the big, 12. NFL memo on vaccinations. This has been a hot topic. NFL released a memo last week that just basically set the world on fire. And Twitter did what it always does, dude, became a bunch of monkeys and just throwing shit at each other. It's just who can throw which feces at each other. The media did its thing, dropped a few tidbits on what the NFL meant by the memo, and just lit everything

on fire. And like media and everybody does, they make every problem your own problem in some way or fashion. People are arguing about the wrong fucking thing. it comes all this, you know, stuff going on. At the end of the day, J.C. Treter, our president with the NFLPA, he actually wrote and came out with an article today, clearing up the facts on the COVID protocols. And essentially what it says is nothing has changed. Like nothing last year, the protocol last year worked.

No games were canceled. The protocols that were implemented last year are nearly identical. The fines are the same, the mask wearing, physical distancing, testing and contact tracing are the same. Yes, there are changes to how vaccinated players can move about to building and do their jobs, but that is based on data and science. So if you're vaccinated, you don't have to get tested every day. That's a benefit to getting vaccinated.

Like, guys are essentially going to have to make their own decision and be like, yo, am I going to want to go in at 6 a.m. every day and get tested before meeting start or catch 30 minutes extra sleep. Traveling on the road, vaccinated players, I'm sure, are going to be able to go out and eat if they want to when they're at an away game. I go out with the boys, whoever's vaccinated, and break some bread before the game the next day. Unvaccinated players are probably not going to get to that. They're probably going to have to get to their hotel room, have all the contact tracing on, and essentially be in their room.

There are some questions that were asked in this article. J.C., he does a great job laying this out, and we will bring it up for you on our YouTube. What will happen, hang on, go up, go up to one of the first questions. Is the vaccine mandatory for NFL players? No. though we believe the vaccine is both safe and effective, players have the choice whether to take it or not. Unlike among the NFL coaching ranks or in other businesses,

the vaccine is not mandated for NFL players. Again, you can make your own decision about it. Is it possible for games to be postponed this year? Yes, the NFL made it clear. It does not intend to add another week to the schedule. That should not be a problem as we were able to play every game last year within our normal season calendar. the threat of miss game checks is matched by the threat of lost revenue by NFL owners.

So we all have a vested interest in playing another complete season. And at the end of the day, what everybody wants, fans, players, coaches, owners, the entire NFL, both sides of it. Everyone wants to play an entire season and crowned a Super Bowl champion at the end of the year. That's what everyone wants. So we're essentially using the same protocols as last year. And whether or not you agree with them, like, that's just your own shit. That's your own prerogative. If you're the NFL and your business, you're doing whatever.

you can to put up the red tape needed to protect your bottom line. That's just the way business works. That's the way the world works. Are players going to be upset about it? Yes. Am I sitting here? Do I wish it benefited the players more? Yes, I do.

But that's just the way it is. And essentially, if you're not vaccinated, you're going to have to move like it was 2020. Or, did I say that right? If you're unvaccinated, you're going to have to move like it was 2020. If you're vaccinated, you're going to have a new set of benefits, which inclines players to get vaccinated. Is the NFL going to make it hard?

Yeah, they are. And then they're going to put out like a memo like they did last week to cause chaos and sit back in their chairs and their white collar and watch the world burn. And let everybody throw feces at each other like we're in a zoo and mad trying to implement our own problems on everybody else. That's basically what happened last week. The bottom line in this article, the message that needs to be conveyed to the entire NFL community is very simple. We are still in a pandemic. and we do need to work together to make it through another complete season. Given the rising cases and the emerging data on how the vaccines hold up in the virus's variance,

we should expect the unexpected. So it's just all about safety, man, and getting the boys paid and doing it in a safe way. And whether or not you jive with it, you know, that's your own thing. But to clear the air, nothing is different from last year. So I was a little victim to it last week. I'm texting Dennis Kelly, the player rep for the, he was the player. rep for the Titans. Like, yo, Dennis, what the fuck?

And he was like, essentially nothing's changed. Like, you know, don't buy into everything going on right now. Like, we played every game last year. Like, yes, last year we were on the phone. If we had to forfeit a game, you weren't going to get paid. Fortunately, we didn't have to do it. But anyway, that's all this stuff on the vaccination talk. I hate kind of like, you know.

And if everybody wants to know if I'm vaccinated, HIPAA, dude. I don't have to fucking tell you. Hey, what did Dag Prescott do? weekend, you know, he had his stance and he said, like, you know, I don't tell you because the hippo, hipa violations. Then people were, you know, fucking pissed and, you know, throwing shit at each other again there. Um, but anyway, do your thing, man. Do what to do, do what you got to do. Do what you want to play football. Then play football. If you don't want to be vaccinated, don't get vaccinated, but follow the fucking rules and get paid. That's all it is. Um,

you see what Jerry Jones said last week? No, what did old Jerry say? After we potted last week, he came out and said this. I'd do anything known. to man to get to a, oh, shit. I'd do anything known to man to get to a Super Bowl. That's a fact. So my man's not even talking about winning a Super Bowl. Just get there.

Just get to the dance. It sounds like he needs to be on bussing with the boys and we need to ask him the hot questions. Are you willing to go as far as cutting that piece off? Like, what, like, let's... Known to man... He doesn't understand how much fun the internet can have with this. Or he does because he's a genius,

and he knows a lot of a tread is going to come from this. A lot of traffic is going to come from a statement like that. You need to put that Vrable clip under that. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Vraib, so what jumped this podcast off in our first year was where Vrable talked about cutting his dick off for a Super Bowl?

He said, been married 20 years. You guys will obviously play the clip. I'm sure Blas is mad that I'm still explaining it. Blas, what would you do for the 49ers to win a Super Bowl? Have you thought about it? No, I don't think I'm. I mean, I get nothing out of it other than seeing the enjoyment of seeing my team win. but I mean, it's not worth cutting my own penis off.

I mean, if I got a Super Bowl ring, now we're talking something different. Would you kiss a dude? For the Niners to win a Super Bowl? And we're not against, we're not, if you're gay, you want to be gay, we're not against gays. I just know Blas is straight. Would you kiss a dude? No, I wouldn't. You wouldn't peck them on the mouth?

No, I wouldn't benefit from it. I don't benefit from the 49ers winning a Super Bowl other than being a fan. All you got to do, it would be peck. Let's say Alex on the mouth and the 49ers is going to win a Super Bowl this year. You wouldn't do that for the team? I mean, I love Alex a lot. But not like that.

But again, if you put a Super Bowl ring on my finger that changes everything, there's no limits of what I would do. Hey, because with a couple thousand dollars... Would you kiss a dude to win a Super Bowl? So me being on the team is what you're talking about? Oh, you're saying be on the team to have a ring. My fault.

My fault. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's this whole argument. Like, as a fan, no, I don't care. I'm not going to go kiss somebody. I'm not going to go cut my penis off for a Super Bowl as a fan because I get nothing other than like, hey, my team won in the Super Bowl

and guess what? When the next year starts over, everybody's talking about like, nobody cares what happened last year because that's the truth. But you put a couple of diamonds on my finger, a little bit different. I'd kiss a dude for somebody to win a Super Bowl. Cowboys, you're a Cowboys fan.

No, no, hang on. You can't just throw that out there lightly. I was a Cowboys fan growing up. Did I root against? Did I root against my own team when I was a rookie on the Washington football team? I did. But that's only because we were out of the playoff run. And I wanted Des and the boys, Tony Romo and the boys that have momentum going into the playoffs.

So I didn't want us to beat them. But I'm not a Dallas Cowboys fan like now. I think it'd be sick to plan on now because then you're kind of like full circle, right? But come on now. Don't just tell that around. But are you asking like, yeah, for the times to win a Super Bowl, cop all you got to do is kiss somebody on the mouth kiss a dude on the mouth i'd kiss a dude on the man not even on the team don't give a shit yeah we're talking about kiss somebody on the mouth

shit's over with i know who i am people can have fun with it on the internet like they do with my hair cut everything else like if you and taylor we'll make some good content from that shit if you and taylor were still titans yeah i'd probably consider kissing somebody on the mouth so you could win okay i appreciate that man i you know i can't continue down that path of this stuff going on What do we have after that? Because I know we have some fan questions and stuff, and I want to get to that stuff for sure. We could jump right into that now.

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Hey, I truly almost crumbled. I truly almost crumbled. I honestly, I started looking all over the ad too. and I'm just like, listen. You highlighted something, I just went to the red. I was like, let me just live here for a second. Okay, some social media. I send out a tweet.

I send out Instagram like we do every week to ask fans if you guys have any questions or to send in a video question. And to start with Twitter, shout out to our boy T. Holmes 99. Can you talk a little bit about the sports psychology podcast and books you've read and listened to recently? you talked about it some on the pod you did with Mike. Also, what's your confidence level that you'll get a call to play this year? And would there ever be a situation where you choose building the success of the pod over playing? T. Holmes 99, I appreciate your questions.

Ty, I see your tie and you got the wolf emoji in there. So be a fucking wolf boss. So it looks like a couple parts in this question. Can you talk a little bit about sports psychology podcast books? All right. So, my, if you've listened, you know the first book I, read to get into sports psychology was mental edge by Kenneth Ball. That is where I started to take a deep dive into your brain, working your brain to your advantage compared to a in relation to a

disadvantage because we always walk around. We're always seeking comfort. I mean, it's happening now, like still training to do everything else. You always got to have solid reminders, but day one, Wilcompton is going to be way more excited than day 30 Wilcompton when it comes to, you performance, training, the grind, training camp, all the things, all the tools. So where it started with me was the Mental Edge by Kenneth Ball. I would say dive into that if you're into sports psychology. If you want to get more of something that's outside of the sports realm, the second book I got on was Compound Effect by Hardy, something Hardy.

Damn, I hate that I'm butchering that. But the compound effect, like doing small things, like basically essentially creating new habits. Darren Hardy. There he is. Shout out the boy, Darren Hardy. The compound effect was the next book I read. And from there, like, yeah, there's books I've, I dive into, but I get a lot of benefit out of listening to things as well. Obviously, I always take inspiration from Joe Rogan's inspirational stuff on YouTube. Tony Robbins was somebody that really gravitated me towards the whole psychology thing. I don't want to butcher this because this was a while back. I think I did it a little bit when we were out golfing that one day. But

Tony Robbins taught this four-corner chart. And essentially, if you're looking up here, you have belief, potential, action, results. And those are in four different corners. So if you're listening, the top left corner is belief. The top right corner is potential. Bottom right corner is action. Bottom left corner is results. And what Tony was essentially saying was just talking about how, how, how,

fear is such a motivator for us to either act or not act. It's all the same thing. We're getting over this fear, whether it's fear in our ability, fear of the unknown, feel of other perceptions and opinions that people might have of you that you carry with you. Whatever it is, whatever your fears are, this is a four-corner chart that I really jived with, that really turned shit around for me. But essentially, if you're somebody who has a lot of belief in who you are, let's start the the way, let's say you don't have a lot of belief, right? And it doesn't matter what your mom,

your dad, your coach, or anybody's telling you. Let's say you're a young kid in a sport. And you don't have a lot of belief in yourself. So you have a little belief in your potential. Now, if you have a little belief in your potential, no matter what plan you're on, no matter what strategy you're implementing, no matter what practices you're doing, no matter what action steps you're taking, no matter what, how much action you think you're actually going to take. guys, audience, little, if any. You're not going to take a whole lot. No matter if you're showing up every day and still doing it,

you're like, you know, I just don't believe in my ability. I don't believe in what's going to come of this. I don't believe in this dietitian who's telling me X, Y, and Z. I don't believe in this coach that I'm using. I don't believe in what I'm reading right now that's going to get me out of my comfort zone. You're going to take little action. And when you get little action, when you take little action,

how much result you think you're going to get? Little, if any. And then all that does is now draw a circle in this four-corner chart. Your little action is going to create little result and that little result is just going to feed your belief system that you already had. Like, see, I told you that shit didn't work out because so-and-so said it would. See, I told you your dad was bullshit. I told you, a coach was bullshit in you here. I told you that article you read and that diet you did wasn't going to work because you had little belief. Whether if it was somebody telling you that, hey, I told you

that wasn't going to work and you're carrying their perception with you, no matter what. If you got little fucking belief, it's not going to get done. Now, in real, uh, uh, in relation to that, say you have a lot of belief in who you are, right? And you believed your potential. You believed in your ability. My own example coming from this, from Tony Robbins in this four-corner chart, was a pro-day training for me because agents and scouts had me clocked at like a 48540. Low belief in myself, right? I mean, I went undrafted. So again, you weren't believed in. If I, if I'm believing in what these people are fucking saying, I'm not going to take a lot of action and I'm going to get the result for.

from that that's going to say, hey, you know what? It didn't work out, but you got an opportunity to be in camp. Who can say that to where I'm trying to lift my spirits in a different way, right? Like, it's all good. Like, it's the 1% of the 1%? Like, you played high-level college football. You were a starter in Nebraska. You, you know, you at least performed at Pro Day.

You, you know, you got to be in a training camp. Even if you didn't make it, you played them preseason. Who can say they played in an NFL game? Like, you're doing all these things to justify the failure or the setback that you might have had, right? Now, fortunately, the boy did not believe in that bullshit. And I had a lot of belief in my potential at ProDay and training and making a team. And yeah, there's the chart right there.

And being of value to the roster, right? Like I knew if I got my shot, I would take advantage of it, some way, some form, somehow. And if you believe in your potential in whatever strategy you're trying to implement, whatever practices you're trying to implement, how much action you think you're going to take? a shitload. When you take a lot of action, how much result you think you're going to get? You're going to get some. You might not get a lot,

but you're going to get some. You're going to get some that tells you stay the course. Like, don't listen to the bullshit. Somebody might say, hey, you know, it's all good. Like, you know, are you surprised you didn't get a whole lot? Like, you've got to block that shit out and realize that what you're doing, you can now look back on the action steps you were taking

and sharpen it a little bit more. Live in on what mistakes were you. making. Where were you coming up short? And then you just re-evaluate your action steps. Still keep the same belief, the high potential, new action steps, and you're going to get more result. It's just going to feed your ego or your belief that you are who you thought you were. And then you get to look back. And, I mean, essentially, we're all just creations of what we've decided to believe at some point in time. Yeah, genetics play a part. Natural selection takes course and from that you got to pivot and figure out what your next move is going to be right

that's what bustling the boys came about you think i wasn't scared shitless to start bustling with the boys and thinking what people might be saying about cutting dicks off coming on there my agent called like hey let's not you know get too out of whack like with what you're saying right he's looking out for my best interest at heart like thinking what about how my voice sounds and everybody else listening to my voice right or whatever i'm saying and people think we're stupid and our rates start to go down. Like then you're kind of like, oh, shit, that sucks. But fortunately, we got over that hurdle.

We got through it. We're taking a shitload of action to create result from it. Alex Sutherkhan, you were leaning in there. The boy was on one right there. And I was fired the fuck up, dude. Yeah, I don't want to cut you off. That's my bad. I was going to say you're like weaponizing confirmation bias.

Yeah, yes. You're looking for things that confirm what you already believe in yourself. So you're altering your belief system to say, I am this and I will be this if I do these things, doing those things and then you're training your brain to look specifically for those positive results and focus on those instead of focusing on the shortcomings or negative results that might come even with that. So even though they're there, you've already primed your brain and your mentality in that mindset to be able to see those results in a positive light to encourage yourself instead of nitpicking at them or being sad that they didn't come out exactly as you wanted them to be. Absolutely. It's awesome. Well fucking said.

That is true because when you do let those little things creep into your mind about it, It happens. Like, I'm not fucking perfect. I'm telling you, like, the, the hardest truth to find out is that this, this mental fortitude never, never ends. It's not ever going to end. Like, I was literally thinking the other day, even with the pot, it's like, you know, if stuff doesn't go out during the season, like, what's going to happen with the pot? And a little bit of doubt comes in. And when fear creeps in, it can kind of light a match, right?

It kind of festers. You start to get a little anxiety. You start to think about things that haven't even happened. happened that drive your next course of action. And you know, you kind of got to stop yourself and just realize like, this shit is never going to be done. It's just a constant journey. Like even when you feel like you get on the other side, like,

it's just never going to end. Like people talk about playing in the NFL, like, you did it. And it's like, absolutely. I felt like I've lived my little kid's dream, that 10-year-old will come, that little kid that always wanted this to happen. And now when you're on the back nine, golf analogy for everybody listening, when you're on the back nine of it,

you're kind of like, you've got to figure out what's next. Because you're not even, you know, knock on wood, I haven't even lived half my life. And it's just a constant process. So it's just feeding your mind the right way

and guarding it because you're going to get a lot of, you know, perspectives too. And I'm going off on a weird tangent. I don't even know if I'm answering this dude's fucking question. But podcasts and books that I've read,

right now I'm reading seven spiritual laws of leadership. There's a book I want to pick up by Naval. I butcher his last name every time. Robicant. Yes. Say that. Raavacant. Ravacant. That's what I'd say. Navaqant. I'm listening to his podcast with Tim Ferriss. Check out his podcast with Tim Ferriss. I'm going to listen to him on Joe Rogan next. But Naval Ravacant has like, you know, he's just big into philosophy and things like that. Like I'm just, I enjoy that shit, man, because I think your mental is absolutely everything. I, when my highs and lows, I can literally dive in and understand, like, how I got certain places based on my belief system and my routines and my habits and everything else. And when something didn't work out for me, you create an identity within yourself, right, to where you transition and pivot based on the beliefs and philosophies that you carry.

Because we're all going to fail. Like, we're constantly failing. Like, I've done fucking network marketing. Like, show me somebody who hasn't failed that fucking network marketing when you weren't drinking that Kool-Aid back in the day. dude. Like, show me that. What did you do? Usana, the fucking supplements.

I got finagled in the supplements. Now, nothing bad happened, but you're sitting there and then you learn about it and you're like, fuck, I'm in this goddamn, I'm part of this goddamn crowd, dude. Was that there in football? Was that? Yeah, it was transitioning from college to the NFL. And it was one of those playing B seeds that were implemented in my brain. And I bought, I drank the Kool-A.

Like, I go hard at stuff. But show me somebody who hasn't failed at network marketing. I'll tell you somebody that's not a fucking hustler, dude. You know what I'm saying? Like, that is a weird fucking grind. Hey, I can get your money. We got this product. Why isn't it televised and marketed about it publicly everywhere?

Like, oh, you do it through people. Here's this wine. It's going to cure cancer. If you get X amount of people, we'll all get rich. Oh, fuck. That shit is hilarious, dude. And then I also, like, there's a t-shirt shop with my boy, MTs. That's actually still going locally.

But there's a t-shirt shop. I was trying to go partnerships. and that just fizzled out. Like, that didn't work out. Like, you fail constantly. Like, I've been cut. Like, it just, none of it,

you get nowhere without trial and tribulation, do, without failures. Things that you see is failures, right? But they're all learning experiences. As long as you can take them and learn and realize, don't make the same mistake again and learn from it and grow from it. Like, that's where it all is, man. And then you just got to take a long,

hard look at yourself. It's the conversation you have with yourself that is the most important. Because that is where you figure out who in the, fuck you are. Garrett called me the other day and he actually got me. It was the Neval one. What was the quote? It was a somebody whose mind is chaotic. It's somebody who has an unexamined mind. And that fired me up because it's the people is you being able to sit with yourself is where you're going to get a lot of the answers, a lot of the bullshit. You'll be able to navigate through a lot of it because we distract ourselves with our phone and everything else to where

you don't actually want to sit with yourself. But anyway, great question, Ty, to answer your question about football in the pod. Yeah. I mean, I'm confident that I will get a call to play this year. I'm ready to go. My mental's in a good spot. Physically, I'm feeling good. There's definitely situations I would look at before going.

I'm not, I definitely do not feel in a place to where I'm desperate to be on a team or look to go into any situation. You know, the podcast is building, and it's definitely a transnational. I feel like we're building something that we're going to be able to transition ourselves with. And I say we, Taylor's obviously, you know, cashed in big time with his contract. And I know he does a lot of things off the field as well. And he'll probably get to play forever. But I know for myself, I do feel good about this pivot we've been able to kind of create with the platform.

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listener George Kittle he's off the camp I can't wait to see the boy ball this year but George had a nice little question do your own Mount Rushmore of the podcast and this is interesting because I like everybody to be happy

and this is going to be fucking hard dude now let's lay some guidelines boys you got to give me some guidelines are we going off of performance? Are we going off of because it's different. Now, as you guys know, listening to this podcast, Taylor's an entertainer. Taylor has a natural ability to entertain comedy. The dude is witty as shit and he can tell stories like a motherfucker. Myself, I love interviewing people. I love sitting.

I like diving a little deeper. Of course, the boy likes to have a little fun time, a little silly goose time, but I like, we're different. We're different. I like to talk to people more and dive in on journey and shit like that. The boy is a five-star entertainer. So we have different, there's a different, I feel like dynamic with what pause we're including here is the Mount Rushmore.

Do you have any ideas? I was gonna say, just the way I did mine was it was pods that I left where I just kind of like shook my head and I was like, damn, I learned something from it. Or like, damn, that really touched me. Damn, I really resonated with that.

So anytime I left the pod where it had like a physical impact on me, that's kind of where my line was in naming my Mount Rushmore. What's yours? I'm glad you have a Mount Rushmore. Jalen Ramsey. Not in this specific order. Right, we're on a mountain here. Yeah.

It's not one, two, three, four. We're on a, we're on a. Paul Bissonette. That was an awesome one. George Kittle and Robert Tanya. and then Dang, what was Oh, Darren Waller.

Yeah. That one, yeah. Do you have the... And there's just like honorable mentions, too. I mean, jelly roll was insane. See, hang on, hang on. The line is drawn. Yeah.

Because I'll be the same way. We'll be saying, I'll be saying every goddamn guest that's been on our podcast and we do honorable mentions. But, Jay, shout out of Jerry Roll. I saw you snuck it in there. Yeah, man. that shit is hard.

I would say the Mount Rushmore of Pots, yes, because, look, I'm going to, before I make the list, I'm going to, you know, talk about a few that have been on because I had to take photos of the little thing you make because I'm like, yo, we've had on so many fucking people. But you can't not look at Brable. Cutting his stick off for the Super Bowl,

set the boys, you know, started to ascend us. That's where we took a new light. We started to take notice. That's where Barstool started to figure out where we were, like who we were. That falls right in line with, like, impact. Impact, yes. It impacted your business.

Yes, absolutely. You could go off of that. Guess that impacted Bustin with the boys to send us. Yeah. We didn't. Jalen Ramsey. That one set us off. Let's see here.

Me personally, the one I was most nervous. for because it was our 13th episode overall and it was following jalen ramsie and it was the first podcast i did on my own i actually brought michael chanler on that helped the boy out with but shop because brendon was somebody like the fighter and the kid has written i need to send you fucking pictures of this too so you can have it on the youtube but it's written like the some of the inspirations of what you wanted your stuff to look like like the fighter and the kid king and the sting and him and theo vaughn like having him come on was seeing somebody in the podcast podcast world to where he was an athlete turned podcaster, like in the entertainment with comedy,

podcasting, and everything else. So he was somebody I was super nervous for, and I thought that pod was awesome for me personally. Let's see here. You got Derek Henry's first time. That was huge first for as far as impact for Bussing. Darren Waller, David Cressonbury. the story with him beating cancer and everything else that's six trust me i'm going to narrow it down but look at me trying to get in all the trying to save faces of people um let's see here

dana beers i'm just fucking kidding um max crosbie he was a banger dude incredible story talking about his addiction and everything else that was an incredible story Right, right, right. He kind of did it on ours. Yeah. No, that was incredible. I mean, AJ Browns was big, but I don't think he's on the Mount Rushmore. George Kittle and Rob Tunyon, that was when I walked away and I was like, yeah, I fuck with these dudes. Like, I want them to win. Like, I want them to be successful. You know what I mean? Like, that one was one that really resonated with me. I'm sitting here just scrolling through the playlist of all the full episodes, and this is impossible to pick four.

I know. But it is what it is, man. Like, we got to pick four. I'm going to go Darren Waller. I'm going to go. We'll put it on Twitter this week, too, and we'll let people say theirs. Yeah. I think Darren Waller, I think Brable.

Not because I want to be on the team, but I'd still like to be on the team. Rable. Chad Johnson. He's going to say, Ocho, yeah. Yeah, I forgot about that one. Bo hasn't dropped yet, but. Fuck, man Wait, Chad Johnson, why?

Because I was obsessed with him as a high schooler. I'm talking, you know, I was the White Ocho Cinco. I got you. People call you that too. I've been hearing them call you that. Yeah, there's been a lot of rumors. There's a lot of nicknames out there. White Ocho Cinco, Aramontar, the Wolf.

Cinco Blanco. Yeah. Dale Earnhardt. I think the Dale Earnhardt. I think the Dale Earnhardt one coming out is going to be on the Mount Rushmore. Released? Yeah. Who's the other on release one?

Bo? Oh, we're not putting Bull? No, you asked Bo. Oh, okay. I don't know if Bo makes them out Rushmore. Really? I mean, you can't not think about Portnoy. As far as what it did for the pod.

Yeah. Johnny. Johnny Mansell, too. That was a banger one. We're all just fucking pissed now. Derek's second time? Stupid question. You think Derek's second time was better in his first?

Yeah. I think he was better a second time. I thought the second one. He was a lot more comfortable. You're right. You're right. You're right. Okay. Well, I didn't even have him on the Rushmore. He didn't bring the trophy. That is so hard, man.

There's a lot about the pod. Maybe we come back next week. Yeah, maybe we'll have something next week if we roll one out next week. That's a good question, George. One of our tier ones, Iowa Hawkeye following the Nebraska Cornhusker pot very closely. I'm glad you're a fan of the boys. What do we have? Let's get to some of the video. Wait, wait, wait, wait. what do we have with the with the Instagram before we go video because there's a two and one for the

Instagram I just wanted to shout out the boys if you're drinking watching this you got to drink every time I say boys uh Zane hunt because this was a two-parter so z underscore hunt too zane hunt where you at mentally not knowing where you'll be at this season in terms of football is it harder getting geared up for a season when camp starts and you haven't been picked up yet my mental is solid I you know this is the third year I'm going about it. Probably the first year where I was uneasy about it is when in 2019, when I hadn't got picked up and we were doing the podcast and I had went to the Saints and ultimately went to

the Raiders. But that was probably when I was most uneasy because you're just so used to the routine of going and knowing where you'll be, being in a camp every year. But this being the third year, I'm seriously like, if anything else, I'm trying not to be anywhere until the end of training camp because it saves my body. The boy's older. So if, and I say that not because I don't love ball, but being in training camp early, the benefit to me being in training camp early is if a team actually saw me and it would reflect

in their offer to me that I would be a potential starter for their team. So I would go all in on obviously playbook being there absolutely every day because I'm competing for a starting job. being so late in the in the process and getting close to the season i know i'm i'm probably going to be a low offered guy i don't know where that money's going to fall you never want to say nothing but that's just usually where everybody's heads at right i'll be somebody that comes in if a young guy doesn't work out and i'm in a contingency plan like a team called me last week and they wanted to know where i was at physically mentally all that stuff if i want to play because they wanted me as a contingency plan and so knowing that

I'm slotted there that I'll be a backup and special teams guy, for me, the best business decision is to save my body as much as possible because I know I can do those. I know I'm as good of an insurance policy as you can get, being a linebacker. So I got to play to what's going to benefit me the most unless I'm getting paid to go and actually compete somewhere. Knowing I'm slotted there is the reason why I would wait as long as I can to get somewhere again, so I can save the tread on my tire because I know I'm not. I'm not getting that shot to actually compete, no matter what these dudes say,

because, you know, I've played for a little bit now. But thank you for the question. Also, Darcy Hargreaves. Darcy Hargreaves. What's up, boys? Got a question for Will in the pod? Will we see comp suiting up the season? Will it be for the Burgundy and Gold?

Love you guys from Queensland, Australia. That's fucking awesome, Darcy. I shout out the boy being out in Australia, sending in a question. I'm not even sure what time it was for you when I posted that tweet. last night or Instagram. But yeah, I'm sure I'll be suiting up this season. I don't know if it'll be for the Burgundy and Gold. If it was, that would be

awesome because it's like a homecoming party. Like, I would love to play for the boys out there because there are still some guys out there, but thank you for the question. All right, the video ones. Colton. Yo, what is it up, Will? I was just wondering how you spent your first million in the NFL. All right, Colton. That's a

great question. The first thing I want to talk about is your lid. It's a little patchy up top. It kind of like my backyard. You let waffle out. The female dogs, they have a little, they have a little chemical in their urine that, that burns up the grass a little bit. And that's what it's looking like on top of my man's head. Another thing, Colton, listen, you know, no one's off limits when you come on this bus. We know you're for the boys and we're for you also, but the boys got to get got. Just go ahead and check out my haircut last year. You'll see how we all

get drug around here. But when you're doing a selfie video, guys, lift the phone up over your face. Like, you're halfway cut in. And it doesn't look good when you're from the bottom up. I look chubbier when you go from the bottom up. I assume it's the same with everybody else. Go from the top down, you look better. But, Colant, to answer your question about spending my first $1 million, the first thing I did, I don't even know.

I saved it. Honestly, I was a Dave Ramsey cat, my rookie year because it wasn't a million dollars that I got. I probably amassed. It took me several years to amass that. Because, look, just because you play in the NFL, don't mean you're a millionaire. there. My rookie practice squad money was like $100,000. I did the envelope system with Dave Ramsey. The first big purchase were probably Airmaxes.

They were the first pair of shoes I was able to get over $100. And they were Airmaxes. Shout out the Airmaxes. After three years of playing in the league and some performance bonuses, like some P.P player performance that you get bonus-wise at the end of the year, that is when I bought my first house back in Bonteur, and I also bought my first truck. that's as far as I go because we're a Chevy podcast, baby.

But that was probably how my first big purchases. Nick Gomez. Question for the boys. Bothered me for years. Nobody else seems to give a shit, but I'm wondering why our fucking clear drop passes not considered a separate category than incompletion, similar to an air in baseball. I feel like if a fucking receiver fucking muffs three passes,

perfect passes, shouldn't go to, against the QB's line for the day. This should be a separate category of draw passes. Love to hear what you think. Thanks. Peace. Nick, thank you for the question, brother.

Sorry for looking at my phone in the middle of the question, but there's a reason no one gives a shit about that question because it's just an incomplete pass. Yeah, what he's saying it's on the receiver? It's not on the QB. Absolutely, but what kind of stat do we need there? Like, there's the next gen stats. There's PFS for drop balls.

Like, if you go to PFF, they have drop balls on there. but he's talking about from the quarterback's perspective, why does it have to go into the quarterback? Just as what it is, bro. It's a team game. I disagree. I like the baseball analogy. Good.

I need somebody to disagree. I need somebody to be like, hey, that's kind of an asshole response. But to me, it's like, you know, he sought of it for years. There's a reason no one gave a shit. It's like, it's a drop pass, bro. I didn't know it was an epidemic like he's talking about, but it definitely, I think, could be considered an error or something like that on the wide receiver.

We already look at it in baseball, like you said. If it's a play that the score, makes the decision you should have made, they give you the error and they don't put it on the pitcher. Yeah. It could easily be that. But then we'd also have to change the rule books from here on out, and all record books would have to be rewritten

because you'd have guys having perfect games in football now, which is actually kind of sick now that I'm thinking about that. Throw a perfect game? Yeah. Be like, hey, I went 24 for 24. Yeah. That's fun. That's true.

Like, what would the analogy be to play on the other side of that, though? but what if you had two drop balls? You can still say 24 for 24. Right, yeah, because it wouldn't be your fault as a QB. But listen, when you throw a no-hitter or a perfect game, it's not like he's striking everybody out. You still need your players to make the plays for you. That's true.

You know what I mean? Yep. So if you say, you know, balls are... You're getting credit for those outs, though. You're still recording those outs. So the pitcher gets credit for those. Just like the QB will get credit for those being caught, and the receiver would also get their credit for catching you.

So you still get a perfect game if there's an error and somebody gets on base. No, that would be a no hitter. But a perfect game is when literally nobody gets on base. So no walks, no errors. Correct. Yeah, yeah, I know. So it would just be a no hitter if somebody reached via error. So essentially, like, there would be a middle stat that could be created for like a, uh, uh, uh,

because you throw a perfect game, no one's making an error. Correct. So I would say that's the devilless advocate side of like, if you throw a perfect game as a pitcher, you need your boys around you to make their plays as well. Oh, no doubt. That's a team effort for sure. It's the same when you're throwing the balls as a quarterback. Like, just because your receiver drops,

you still need your teammate to make a play. To win, yeah. But if we're just talking about stat sheets, you know what I'm saying? But also I think it could give even receivers more to, it's a shitty way to say, but more to play for. Where it's like, yeah, I went nine for nine today, which they already do anyways.

Yeah, I was going to say it's already... It's not pub the same way, though. Right, but the right ones who need to know, no. Yeah, that's true. When it comes to business and everything else, like, if a quarterback goes 24 for 26 and the receiver dropped it a couple times, the right people are going to know what happened. Yeah.

It won't be as publicly displayed, but, hey, great question. It ended up being a great question, Nick. Shout out Alex back there. You kind of came. He threw your little, you know. I'm trying, Nick me. Yeah, I was an asshole, but. Hey, Will, Catfish Jake here.

I got a question for you for busing. I know you more Taylor's experienced in Nashville Preds catfish tossing tradition. especially with that 36-pounder I took him and chugged that beer out of, which was awesome, fun and kind of gross, but cool at the same time. When do you want to experience it, man? I know you just talked about it before. I want to see what it's all about. You pick a game, home or away. Home is fun because, you know, it's local and we can do it and get the crowd hype here.

Away is a lot of fun too because it pisses off a whole arena full of people, which I've been able to do a few times, which is also a lot of fun. So you call it, man. You want to get down with the tradition here in Nashville? with a catfish. Let me know. We can go somewhere and do it. We can stay here and do it. Just give me a shout, man. All right. Catfish, Jake. Enjoy life a little bit more. Has some enthusiasm. Well, stoicism going on there. Yeah. You stoic guy. You know, you want to do it? Like pissing people off. We have a good time, though. Taylor, he did it.

You've always talked about doing it. I think it'd be a fun time. Let me know. Hit me up. Call me back. Hey, have a little bit of fun with life. I would love to do You know, it definitely doesn't seem sanitary at all, like chugging beer off of a catfish. But I would do it for the boys. You know what I mean? Like, I would love to be out. Speaking of, the hockey guy shirts were good for us. The shitty part was the boys ended up losing, which, you know, the hard fought battle.

It did suck. We took a, you take a shot. But next year, with those hockey guys shirts going to games and however the tailgates go this year with football, I think we're going to have a nice little transition getting into the hockey world. some of the boys on in hockey. I know Garrett's been calling for it since day one to get more hockey players on the pod, especially the Preds.

Garrett, I don't want that to be going said. You have been, you know, steadfast in your request for hockey players. But I think, yeah, Catfish, Jake, I love your cause. I know you've been a day one for us, a tier one. And, dude, it would be awesome to chug a fat, fat fish, to chug a catfish and just get the crowd going. Would you guys take some beer off of catfish? Hell, yeah.

Yeah, for the, I mean, for the fucking boys. You see some shit like Dave Bactiari and Dana Beer's going back and forth. I mean, Taylor, our own. He did a great job. But I think that, you know, what Dana B did with Bactiari, I mean, can they not take a little bit of credit for that sparked they come back for Milwaukee to win the whole series? I think so.

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