Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules - Julian Edelman answers fan questions about the Super Bowl & More!
Episode Date: March 3, 2026Julian answers fan questions about the NFL including recovering from playing in the Super Bowl, and we get into some fun topics like the biggest moments in fast food history!Support the show: https://...hoo.be/dudesondudesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We're officially in the NFL offseason.
And what a year it was.
So many surprises.
So many awesome storylines.
I mean, I'm exhausted.
It was a wild year.
It was a long.
Jalen Carter's spitting on that dude.
It seemed like it was 30 years ago.
That dude, that dude being Dak Prescott.
Oh, yeah, sorry.
Who had an unbelievable football year.
That's an unbelievable year.
He was balling, man.
I mean, but that does seem like years ago.
That's how long the NFL season is.
Even though it's only one game a week.
Let's add one more game.
Let's add one more game.
One more game.
Although next one more game or national game.
Yes.
We're pro-owners on this podcast.
One more game, baby.
18-game season.
Don't pro-rate those checks.
Although next year, we're all going to weekends on presidents.
President's Day weekend.
So it's on Valentine's Day,
but then you get the Monday off.
So it's kind of like a...
They're doing that on purpose.
That's the one more game.
My one true love, Paul.
So did we...
Are we officially going to...
Everyone's playing an international game next year, right?
49ers are playing two.
They're playing Australia and Mexico City.
Give me two.
Wow.
Man. Wait, where the Patriot is?
The thing is, the 49ers?
I know.
Especially in Mexico City.
Mexico loves the 49ers.
Also, it's not that long of a part of a part of.
plane ride. It's not that, but I mean,
it is, that's still, it's a different,
that's a little bit of a disadvantage.
If you're going twice to
change up your routine,
because that's still, Mexico City's not like
Cabo or it's right there.
You gotta go down that bitch.
Elevation.
Anytime you're not near the power plant's probably
Ryan was telling me there's a power plant near the stadium there.
That's what Ryan was telling you. We were there. I didn't see a power
plant. I felt it.
That ACL got weak.
No, I just felt like I had
like a little stiffness.
That Achilles was starting to tremble.
My calf.
It was weird.
But what about Australia game?
Oh, croaky.
That's going to be on a Wednesday,
did I see?
I think it's going to be the opener.
Did you not pitch Wednesday night football to Godell at Fanx Fest?
I did.
We did.
Where's the credit?
Wow, the trip on the Barbie bowl.
No.
Wednesday night, let's go.
I mean, I think that's going to, I,
everyone says, even like,
Grooting and all, they like,
they hate it.
coaches hate it because they're getting,
they're not getting exactly what they,
they can control the environment at home.
I'm telling you right now,
players are fucking loving this.
Oh, I love it, man.
I ain't going,
you get to go to Australia.
I mean,
it's probably different now in the locker room,
but we went to London the first time.
Ain't nobody on our team ever been to Europe before that.
You know what I mean?
It's true.
It was like our first time getting to go to Europe.
We don't get to experience the international travel as much.
Now in the league they are,
but I think the players enjoy it.
I mean, it sucks, yeah, with the, with the routine,
but I always enjoyed like field trip routine.
That's what I called it, field trip routine.
It's kind of like when you're on that field trip,
you know, it didn't matter where you're going.
As long as you weren't going to class, it was fucking awesome.
I don't care what you get a little excitement.
You know what I mean?
You may have a quiz that day, but it's still, we're out of the class.
And then you see the kids from the other school,
and you're like, whoa, bizarre a world kids.
Like, whoa, let's fight.
I just, I think this is, I think it's awesome because it's growing the sport.
Amen.
Internationally.
And I, I believe through our analytics, I think we're an analytic team.
Yep.
Through, uh, fan bases.
Australia has a huge following.
Yeah.
We got listeners down there, don't we?
Yeah.
Steve.
Steve likes to show.
Deve, what's, Irwin?
RIP.
RIP.
My daughter loves Steve Irwin.
The kids.
The kids.
He crushed it on.
He won dancing with the stars.
Do you see when she was in?
I didn't even know he was on there.
Partner.
Whoa.
Right? She's good.
I think Steve Irwin kid won Dancing with the Stars with Dola's partner.
Let's go.
Whitney Carson.
Whitney.
Shout out Whitney.
She's been in here.
She's been in the nut house.
She's been.
And she killed it.
Shout out Robert Irvin, my man.
Robert Irwin.
Irwin.
Did he win with her?
This is peak off season.
This is, yeah, we're talking dancing with the stars.
I mean, he won.
Season 34, baby.
Who is his partner?
Whitney Carson
there, boom.
Let's go.
And shout out.
Bindy, shout out, Bindy Irwin, shout out, Robert Irwin.
Shout out the Irwin's, bro.
Irwins.
He went to his first Super Bowl.
He was just at the Supi.
Amazing.
Jack, you did too.
I was there, baby.
How was it, Jack?
It was good and bad.
It was very good.
It was the most enjoyable, awful game I think I've ever been to.
The first Super Bowl took it all in.
It sucks that they lost.
Four crappy quarters of football.
One sick concert in the middle.
The pre-act was bad.
The post act was bad.
Benito killed it.
It was awesome.
It was a real experience, man.
I got a confession to me.
I was really, I loved it.
Went with my friend Bella.
She was shout out, Bella.
It was awesome.
Amazing.
I think I'm the reason the Patriots lost.
Why?
Oh, no.
I was at a Super Bowl party with a friend who's a Seahawks fan.
And he had a surprise before the game, before kickoff.
He had a fucking hawk there.
So a hawk guy showed up with a fucking hawk.
A real hawk?
real hawk. In the stadium? In this guy's
house. Okay. We got a hawk guy at the house. He's the guy. He's the
hawk guy for L-A-S-C for all you L-A-S-C friends. So I was watching
the game. I was like, I can't touch this fucking hawk until
after the game. Half-time. The hawk guy was next to me. I was like
by the hawk to me. And I can't touch the hawk. It was over.
So that's on me, guys.
Hock Tua over here.
I mean, what are we
doing? Touching hawk?
It's my, it's my fault.
guys. It's not Will Campbell.
Never touched all.
Yeah.
Golly, boy.
See, the thing that,
I was trying to Riz during the Supi and locking on the game.
It's tough.
Tough combo.
Tough combo.
There was one point in the second half where I kid you not, I think she said to me,
I feel like you're spiraling right now.
That's always no.
You can always tell it's going well.
Yeah.
And I was like, no, I'm not.
I'm just locked in on.
The vibes are great.
We're losing, yeah, we haven't scored yet.
And it's the third quarter.
Yeah.
That was a moment in the fourth quarter before that long pick where there was a pathway to win that game.
Yes, after the Mac touchdown.
The thing is, we're fucked up.
I know.
We're mentally fucked because that ain't ever happening.
No.
Yeah.
That's only happened with Tom Brady in that team.
Hey, they were driving.
He's messed up everything.
And there was eight minutes.
What they say got a shot.
Honestly.
There was eight minutes left.
They were down two touchdowns and they were driving.
No.
I mean.
And he was open on that play through a pick.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It was a rough day.
It was a rough day.
Way ahead of schedule, though.
It was way ahead of schedule.
I think the Patriots overachieved by a trillion.
And this is an unbelievable, successful year.
You know, I think they got baptized on the offensive line throughout the playoffs,
which I anticipate, it's probably going to get better.
Look, our left tackle is a rookie, rookie.
Our left tackle, Will Campbell, who has.
the attitude, fourth overall
pick. He was hurt for
about 6 to 8 weeks in the middle
of the season. His first game back is
in the playoffs. We expect him to just
wipe off the cobwebs
and just fucking come in and play
elite as a rookie in the playoffs
against elite defensive
lines. Shout out to the Seahawks
defense. Shout out to the Seahawks
in general. You know, shout out to
Sam Darnold. How unbelievable
is that story? I mean,
we, myself,
I thought he would give you at least one or two mistakes.
And he tried to on that first throw.
But he tightened it up and good quarterbacks play to their team.
You know, in the two most important games of his life,
he played his two best games, Super Bowl and the NFC championship.
And, you know, the story of coming on and being on five different teams,
the underdog, even though he was like the second or third overall pick.
But that's got to be, that's got to be.
a humbling experience to go from the guy to the bust to we can't even get him on a team
to a backup to another backup that gets an opportunity plays very well to Super Bowl champion.
Unbelievable trajectory.
This makes me think of all the potentially good quarterbacks that got right.
Yeah, but we can't go down that road because then it takes away from Sam Darnold.
It takes away from Sam Darnold and his story because we, we, we can take away from Sam Darnold and his story.
because we talk about all these second shots and these third shot guys,
which over the last five, six years, there's been a few of them.
Oh, yeah.
The Baker Mayfields, you know, the Daniel Jones until he got hurt.
Like everyone says, who's that guy?
Everyone's got to start referencing who's the next Sam Darnel,
because that's what winning a Super Bowl does.
He made his name.
He cemented it.
Now he got the monkey off his back.
And the crazy thing is, this is how we all,
this is how I'm going to expect him to play all the time now.
100%.
You know, because we've seen it.
Yes.
That's the shitty thing about doing great.
Wouldn't you do it great once?
Now everyone expects you to do it like that every time.
Now it's not, oh, is he going to see ghosts?
Is he going to win another Super Bowl?
Is he going to win another Super Bowl?
Godly.
Man, that's a young football team.
John Snyder, shout out to him.
Unbelievable job constructing that football team.
And it looks like they're going to be around for a while
because, A, Sam Donald's not on a fucking killing you type contract.
They got a bunch of cap space.
I know they got to pay some guys.
but I mean, John Snyder, I've talked about it.
He, you know, after my pro day, he was with the Packers at the time and we had a lunch.
And, you know, he was just such a cool dude that connected with players at that time.
He wasn't even a head GM.
He was like a side G or one of the assistant guys or whatever.
And I almost signed with the Packers because of that.
Wow.
Like if I was going to be a priority three agent, I was going to the Packers because I liked John Snyder.
like the opportunities that were shown with that team.
But boy, has he put his name up there with the Howie Rosemans, the Jason lights,
you know, less needs.
And, huh?
Less need.
Less needs.
I mean, he's up there now.
And it's, once again, it's another example of how to win a Super Bowl, you know.
Pretty crazy.
Defense.
Great team.
Cast off quarterback.
It's usually all right.
we got our highest paid quarterback that usually wins the Super Bowl that has to do Patrick Mahomes type shit,
or you got the rookie quarterback that you could surround a lot of talent with.
This is kind of a newer example of, all right, well, he's not the highest paid quarterback,
but he's, and he got it over the job.
Like, this is, this was, this was awesome.
And, you know, I just, I thought San Francisco hosted an awesome Super Bowl.
It was awesome.
That stadium is too much, too much slander.
I liked it.
go in August
or go in like September
when it's really fucking hot
Yeah I can see that
That'd be brutal
Where
The Seventh Clair?
Yeah
Great sight lines enjoyable
I liked it
You know I don't love
I mean
I don't love that
Candlestick's not there
It ain't the stick though
Yeah
And it is a little
Far when you're going
From San Francisco to Santa Clara
To potentially San Jose
The most of our stuff
That we were doing
Was in the city
And you know
We partnered with
Liquid IV.
Shout out.
We created a bunch of awesome content and a few good shows.
And I was as a Bay Aryan, I've been, is that it?
What is it?
Just don't spell it with a line.
You're good.
A Bay Area.
San Francisco.
And the San Francisco.
I like Bay Aryan.
A Bay Aryan.
Well, I'm not from the city.
I'm from the Bay Area.
I'm 30 miles south.
Yeah, you, yeah, are you, bro?
But I thought the city looked all.
It was clean. It was great.
From what I saw in the areas that a lot of the stuff was taking place, I went on some late night walks and I felt safe.
Me too.
And that wasn't the case a few years back when I used to go dip into the city.
The food is unbelievable.
I mean, there was two beautiful, unbelievable Latakaria in the mission.
Maroon of me.
And then we had two really unbelievable days in the city.
Super Bowl Sunday had started getting a little.
fog at the end, but nothing beat San Francisco on clear beautiful days.
I mean, you sit and you see the Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, you know,
the energy was there.
There was football energy, you know, it wasn't just San Francisco energy, which it wasn't
overly powering with the football energy, but in certain areas, it fully was.
Oh, yeah.
It was viking, man.
It was buzzing.
The city was awesome.
I thought the city was awesome.
It really was.
What, L.A.
L.A.
next year.
L.A. way.
Shout out.
L.A.'s next year.
Yeah.
We're back.
Just to the Nuthouse
at the Nutt House.
Oh my God.
We're back.
I think they said
the visiting team's practicing
in your backyard.
They're using your yard.
I hope not.
Maybe they put it
actually,
I want to brokerage that in
because then they'll bring in good ass grass.
Now we're talking,
now we're talking.
Kentucky Blue Grass.
Not a power plant in sight.
Bermuda.
Bermuda.
Who was the,
like Bermuda?
Who was the coolest guy you guys saw?
Like out in the wild
or anybody,
any cool sightings?
ran into person that you were like, hell yeah.
Also, we should let the audience know.
We are aware that this is like a month and a half.
Yeah, we're still digesting.
Yeah.
I think it's a while.
I still can't get over you in Sketch.
Oh, I saw him in Media Day.
Jack was trying to get this guy sketch on the show.
He's like a streamer like forever.
And I was like, I'll try to get sketch on the show.
If you can prove to me why Sketch is interesting, right?
And it was on and on.
It was a whole thing.
And then we ended up never doing it.
But then Sketch was at Media Night.
Right.
And Jack just wouldn't even talk to him.
And it wasn't like you had a go.
It was just like you and him like standing 10 feet from each other.
Right.
And you wouldn't even talk to him.
The moment passed.
2024, I was all gung-ho.
Now I'm just kind of like, nah, no shade to sketch.
But like, he's coming at me with the full denim tears fit looking real streamery ginsie.
I'm like, cross-body bag.
I'm just like, nah.
Play-on player.
I saw that two years ago.
Okay.
Yeah, I must have been blinded.
I was blinded by the madame streamery.
How many words of that conversation?
did you get? Stretch? I mean,
it was cool.
Stretch Armstrong.
That's where I instantly win.
When you're talking to stretch, because I remember
the whole thing, we were going to get them on.
But then in my mind, my mind went to stretch Armstrong.
Oh, my God. John, then I was thinking about
Bon Jovi, because you guys, we were talking about
cool people. I saw Bon Jovi at, you know, the owners
Oh, hell yeah. Mr. Kra, or R KKK's
dinner. How was he doing?
He's just cool.
Cucumber. I think he's, he's, he's, he's,
think he says he's coming back this year.
I said, I'm, I'm coming to see you.
Hell, yeah.
I'm coming to see you.
I think he's saying, I don't know where he said.
Oh, bro.
He's going back on Tory.
He's been a little, he's been a little.
I feel play so fine.
Under the wraps.
Oh, dude, get Richie. Gather the boys, man.
Get Richie Samore out there.
We got it.
Slippery win, wet. Let's go.
Come on.
It was, it was a fun.
I kept it chill.
Yeah.
I feel like we were pretty low key.
We had a good week.
It's a good week.
It's a banger episodes.
Bangor episodes, had some fire muck.
All right.
It's my guy.
All right.
Well, since it's off season, I figure it was time probably we should catch up on some of these voicemails.
Got some housekeeping to do.
We got some housekeeping.
Let's rip it.
Again, that number is 424-291-2290s.
Let's get into it.
I also saw Gibbs from Detroit.
Yeah.
So swagged out.
Had you met him before ever?
I haven't.
I haven't.
But he was, I mean, he's young, cool, running backs.
Oh, man.
Dressed apart.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he just looks fast, looks swaggy.
You're a great year.
And he was just a cool dude, man.
Yeah, I met there was, Zach Brian.
Zach, I got, I ran into him.
I ran into Zach.
Wow.
On the way to something, but I didn't take much of his time.
I just dapped him up.
Big fan.
You know, I'm a big fan of you, man.
Love watching your shit.
And I didn't want to take too much.
He was like getting ready for something.
And I was like, that's it, man.
I didn't even take a picture.
I was like, all right, bro.
Love your album.
Got 68 fastback, man.
be rocking that in my Mustang all the time, dude.
And then just kept it rolling.
That's some player shit right there.
Met the CEO of EA.
Whoa.
Was he in the game?
He was in the game.
Oh, boy.
I should probably know his name, but he was really accommodating and cool.
Is he a Redwood City guy?
No.
Isn't that where they're based?
They're in Redwood Shores, I believe.
Andrew Wilson.
Andrew Wilson.
Got out of Andrew.
Yeah, he was pretty cool.
That's tight.
I saw say, you know, we need the.
echo team back. Yeah, we need the market echo team back.
I want to run for 400 yards with Coltrane again.
Yeah. Dude.
You mean,
Coal play. No, that's what I don't know.
I was running that. Cold Train.
Oh, I was going to talk about the Cole Play CEO
the thing.
Oh, oh, a Gillette. Shout out.
Was it at Gillette? Yeah.
That was at Gillette? Yes. No, I thought that was at the garden.
Gillette, bro. The whole thing was at Gillette.
Yeah. How fucked up was that whole thing? It's so messed up, bro.
Lives ruined.
Ruined.
All for it was all yellow.
A kiss kid.
Or just don't cheat on your partner.
1,000%.
It's not that hard.
I mean, I'm talking on all parties.
It was crazy, dude.
That swept the, like that one instance of cheating.
International news next day.
Absolutely.
Guy resigned.
Resigned.
And she was ahead of HR.
Oh, my God.
How was she going to get hired again?
Oh, you're the little bit of stuff.
Into these voicemails.
Dude, we got to do a special episode about that.
Jeez.
Live from Gillette, live from the exact spot.
We're only a year late on that one.
We're recap in the year and that was through the year.
The cultural mindset.
This is the year recap.
Okay, we're good.
That might have been the greatest thing that happened in Gillette all year.
No, no, we did.
Rob retired.
I tell you what wasn't the greatest is when we went there for wins three.
Oh my God.
We got fucking mollywashed.
Jeez, turn it over six times.
If you left that game and someone told you,
the Patriots are only going to lose two more games the rest of the year.
I would have been like, no shot.
Yeah.
Shut up.
Even though they did have a chance to win it with a six turnover.
But I was like, whoa.
Man, turn it on.
Here we go.
What a hell of a year.
Guys,
I know the game obviously sucked,
but how is the weekend overall and how do you deal with the Super Bowl saddies?
We just went through half of the weekend.
I guess we just did that.
So how do you do with the Super Bowl saddies?
Yeah.
Super Bowl saddies.
Is that after you win or lose?
Either.
Well, I think you had to find that for the people.
Super Bowl saddies,
you know, after you get to the Super Bowl,
even if you win or lose,
when you lose,
you have just an anxious sadness
that makes you want to start to work right away
because you're already thinking about...
Caesar wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
Yeah.
And then if you win...
You know, you get a sadness because
you hit the pinnacle of everything,
you know, and the saddies may not come
until two, three weeks after the festivities of celebration have been going.
I would always feel like, all right, we just hit everything.
We just did it.
And then I would instantly start to think, like, now we got to go do it again.
And it's going to be so much harder.
So like every little thing that we were just taking, partaking in, like,
there's so much more of a shot that that won't happen than that will happen.
How do we find a way to make that happen again?
Yeah.
You know, and so then you get back into the mode.
And the old, you know, I mean, I was super blessed and fortunate enough to be a part of five Super Bowls, played in four.
Ooh.
One, you know, and one three.
So, like, I, we had a, I had a routine by the end of it, you know, which is crazy to even think about.
Like, oh, you've been to the Super Bowl so much you've kind of understand how this feels.
but, you know, it gets to a point where, like,
you've hitting all those marks that you want to hit and join another club.
So the fact that you win it, it's cool, but you're still in it.
So there's not a sadness.
You wouldn't get sad, but you would just have like an anxiousness.
Like, all right, now we got to start it all over.
Turn the page and starting at ground zero of anything, you know,
it sucks if you start to look into the future.
So then it's another reminder.
All right, let's start over.
Let's worry about what we have on our plate right now.
And, you know, getting that happily miserable mindset.
One day at a time.
Me as a fan, I felt it this year.
Jeez, Louise.
I was ready to put the toaster in the bathtub last week.
My God.
It was brutal.
I just watched a lot of Bravo.
Checked out TikTok all day.
My screen time was through the roof.
I went soccer tournament too.
There we go.
That's how you turn to face.
You just jump into other sports.
You got to jump into the shit.
So Olympic hockey, Olympics were happening.
I just jumped right into the Olympics.
We'll be right back after this quick break.
I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast.
This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families.
Late one night, Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime.
He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground.
He identified Termaine Hudson as the perpetrator.
Germain was sentenced to 99 years.
I'm like, Lord, this can't be real.
I thought it was a mistaken identity.
The best lie is partial truth.
For 22 years, only two people knew the truth,
until a confession changed everything.
I was a monster.
Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app,
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Everyone thought they knew how it ended.
A verdict,
villain, a nurse named Lucy Letby.
Lucy Letby has been found guilty.
But what if we didn't get the whole story?
The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses.
I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt the case of Lucy Lettby, we follow the evidence
and hear from the people that lived it, to ask what really happened when the world decided
who Lucy Lettby was.
No voicing of any skepticism or doubt.
It'll cause so much harm at.
Every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong.
Listen to doubt the case of Lucy Letby on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world.
But in 2017, the FBI got inside.
This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall.
This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him.
But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary.
Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast.
I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life.
And that's the unicorn.
No one had ever seen anything like that.
It was unbelievable.
This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes
opened its vault of secrets.
Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor.
Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan.
He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected.
The internet turned on him.
If I could press a button and rewind it all I would.
But what happened to Clayton after the show?
made even bigger headlines.
It began as a one-night stand
and ended in a courtroom
with Clayton at the center
of a very strange paternity scandal.
The media is here.
This case has gone viral.
The dating contract.
Agree to date me,
but I'm also suing you.
Please search for it.
This is unlike anything
I've ever seen before.
I'm Stephanie Young.
This is Love Trapped.
This season,
an epic battle of He Said She Said,
and the search for accountability in a sea of lies.
Listen to Love Trapped on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast.
I'm joined by Luke Combs, award-winning country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today.
Luke opens up about success, self-doubt, mental health, and what it really takes to stay true to who you are when your life changes overnight.
I hate fame, I hate the word celebrity, I hate those words, they made me uncomfortable.
But I think when you get to a certain point, the fame or the success or the influence,
it just accentuates and exacerbates the inherent person that you are.
The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there
is the only guy that's not there.
I'm in Australia when Beau is born.
My whole identity is that no matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children.
over my job.
I dread the conversation with my son.
What do you think you'd say?
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty
on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Let's go to the next one.
Hey guys. Any advice
how I should spend my Sunday
from how the football is over?
I'm really not sure what to do anymore.
Yeah.
You know, this is a tough time of year.
because you just, you're emotionally,
you basically calloused to the 13 hours of football you watch on Sunday.
Oh, the best.
You know, and you hate it during it because there's so much football.
You don't hate it, but you're like, man, I got to.
But then when it's gone, you're like, what do I do now?
Yeah.
And I instantly just get into golf mode.
Yes.
Yeah, baby.
We're shifting into golf mode.
Check your California privilege on that.
because if you're in Massachusetts right now,
it's pretty fucking.
No,
you got a couple weeks.
You got to at least.
If you're a mass.
Yeah.
Yeah,
you got to start eating weights.
Start getting,
thinking about beach bod.
It's beach bod.
Beach bod.
Beach bod.
Pliables,
you can get those hip,
that,
turn.
Well,
we're,
we're fed you right now.
We're also like mid-fed.
We're also starting to turn the corner on like hockey and basketball start
becoming important.
We just got through All-Stars.
So they're going to start wrapping that thing,
getting that thing going.
hockey's going.
I like the hot, you know.
I'll be back from Olympic break right now.
Olympics have been awesome.
Yeah.
I've loved the Olympics.
I've been watching a lot of Olympics with my daughter.
Hell yeah.
We got a question for that later.
So skeleton,
Bob sled.
For all you guys,
it might be on the edge.
You might be like stepping on the edge.
You got that toaster right.
Why do I keep talking about suicide?
Geez, Louise.
We got March madness.
Smell it.
We can almost smell it.
Masters.
Masters.
We got NBA.
We got NFL.
NH.
We got.
Spring football, if you care for that.
Bad football, but spring football.
If you only like football, you got Combine right around the corner.
Combines right here.
You got draft.
And guess what guys?
Yeah, World Cup summer.
Free agency.
Free agency.
March 15.
World Cup's coming.
World Cup summer.
We got a lot to.
Oh, we got a lot to look forward to guys.
A lot to look forward.
The spring classics for all you cycling heads.
There it is, man.
Tour de French.
All you cycling heads.
What do we call pedal?
Pedal.
What is their name?
Fuckheads.
Spockhead.
Oh, yeah.
Spandex.
Spandex.
Spoke heads.
Spoke heads.
I like it.
There it is.
Some bikes don't have spoke.
Yeah.
Yeah, but those, I mean, back in the 1910s, they had spokes.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you're a real spokehead, you would understand that.
And you would have a baseball card for these folks.
If you knew spoke, you don't.
A, Jules, if you're playing any of the offensive line positions,
which one are you playing?
Why?
And you've got to give a left or the right if you're playing guard or tackle.
Games with names rocks.
Yeah, I like that.
I'm probably going,
I'm going to go right guard.
Right guard.
Right guard.
Just because I want to get up,
I want to go hip to hip to hip with the center.
I want to go hip to hip with the tackle.
But the guards,
like if you get the right protection,
they get to clean up the piles along with the centers.
I just want to double team with a guy.
Hips to hip on the double team.
hip to hip on the double team.
But I mean,
Fuling Kelsey,
he pulls as a center.
But I would probably play,
I want to go right guard
just because shout out Logan Mankins.
Shout out, bro.
And Joe Tuny.
And tune.
You can move him.
He plays everything.
Up and down the line.
He put that guy on a team you're winning.
He just brings a winning mentality.
Just float.
I mean,
he won linemen of the year.
What's your,
what's your,
what's your,
uh,
your mask situation?
What's your like,
lineman swag?
I'm in swag.
Fing fingers.
You got arm pads.
You got like the bull horn.
Like what are you doing?
I definitely got a cowboy collar.
The little one.
The role.
Out of necessity.
Okay.
Because I probably hit back so many times from getting off.
High top cloggers.
Hell yes.
Always some high top black cloggers.
Cluggers.
You go in knee braces all the time?
I mean, we have to.
Our coaches make us.
The preventative knee brace.
You know, if it's practice, coaches,
make us no matter what in game.
I think it's optional, but, you know,
hey, best of
abilities, availability.
So, yeah, I'd learn to play with
the guards or the thing, the
knee braces.
Yeah, I'd probably just
I might go no glove
too. But like tape?
Tape.
Like that.
Good question. That's a great question.
We should do defensive line. Hell yeah.
There you go.
What's your problem with tennis?
There have been no tennis matches on this whole list of games with names.
You don't like tennis?
Is that not considered a sport in your eyes?
I'd say maybe get Rina, Serena, but they're on the level of Brady,
and I don't think you're going to be getting Brady on the podcast anytime soon.
He doesn't like something about it.
He doesn't like it.
But anyway, I don't know, Pete Sampbris, John McInerner.
Look at somebody.
There's plenty of good tennis matches that you could be put on the list.
just the suggestion
would love to get tennis on
I love to tell you
Billie Jean King she wants to do it's just scheduling
Who? Billy Jean King
Billing King
That's the scheduling
I would love
I mean I would love to get Maconroe
He'd be great
I was obsessed with that Borg versus
Maconroe movie that Shia LaBuff did
Free Shia free Shia
Free Shia he just got
I think he just did something again
I got arrested down to Mardi Gras
Yeah
Busted down on Bourbon Street
The Taylor's old time
is neutral towards shy out of life.
We're not pro or negative.
More information needs to come out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, he killed that movie that we're watching.
Great actor.
Yeah.
Sure did.
Yeah.
Andre Agassi would be great.
Love to get tennis involved.
I mean, my daughter, she does tennis lessons.
There's also a big name woman tennis player that we almost had this week.
Yes.
Maybe coming up soon.
TBD.
TBD.
Yeah.
I'll just leave it at that.
We'll leave it at that.
Ooh.
I like this guy brought the passion to tennis that.
Johnny Mac brought, man.
This guy was real confrontational.
I like that.
I mean,
he even brought some real McEnroe energy.
I love watching some tennis, man.
Me too.
Even though I'm a ping pong guy,
but I just think that they're playing ping pong in my head.
Big ping pong.
The only thing that bums me out about Wimbledon is that at the end of the tournament,
the grass looks like shit.
There's something about it.
I wish the grass looked the best in the finals of Wimbledon.
I'm with you.
I'm a U.S.
Open guy.
New York, baby.
the U.S. Open
Federer? No,
it was a Federer Joker?
Jokic. Sounds right. In 16.
That's cool.
2017 saw the final. It was electric.
Wow.
Cramer's out there, by the way.
Dude, I want to get a honey deuce or whatever those are.
Dude, I want to go to one of the U.S. Open or women?
I want to go.
It was cool.
Big dog, big dog is Jackie Moon from Boston.
Love guys.
Love the channel.
Just some guests I want to see.
Not really a question, but Ray Lewis.
How has Ray Lewis not been on the park yet?
What are we doing, guys?
Maybe a little Michael Irvin.
See if we could do some of that.
Get a connection there.
Reach for the stars.
But other than that, man, love the channel, guys.
We can give.
I think we had Mike on.
We did.
We did.
Go back, man.
We have Mike on.
We got to get Ray on.
Got Mike Irvin for sure.
But Zoom.
Yeah, it was Zoom.
Mike still brought the energy, though.
Yeah, we should get him in studio.
We got to get Mike back on.
Mike is electric to do anything.
He's so fun just to work with.
Like, you got to hit both of them up.
I like how this guy said the channel.
Ray would be amazing.
Ray would be amazing.
Ray would make me want to run through a wall while we do this.
Heck yes.
It's like in production meetings.
Work together.
Hi, boys.
I have a question for you.
guys.
I don't know if I would
do this one either.
What do you guys prefer to wear under your trousers?
Do you like wearing
bikinis?
Thongs,
briefs, or boxers?
Inquiring minds
want to know.
Bye from Halifax.
Hell yeah, I like this guy.
Where's Halifax?
Canada.
Um,
briefs guy.
You can no comment this too.
I'm a brief guy.
I'm a big skimsman these days.
Briefs.
Yeah.
Boxers every once in a while depending on humidity levels.
Yeah.
Fax, fags.
Skimsman.
I'm a boxer briefs, right?
Yeah, I'm more of a, I like them tight.
You go full brief?
Like tiny, whitey brief?
I mean, depends on the trouser.
He does say trousers.
I'm going to go, no comment.
What?
You're not getting, I'm no comment.
All right, you know, comment.
I'm taking a hard stance.
Boxer briefs, skims, or Supreme Haynes.
Ain't wearing no banana hammock, that's for sure
Oh heck no, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Fucking thong.
Who's wearing a thong?
Who is bikini underneath?
Boatette.
Just trying to be silly.
I like this guy.
He brought some good energy.
Hi, guys, it's not half nation.
Let's talk cars.
Jules, we know you love them.
You got them.
Frank the tank was a mechanic, so he knows them.
So let's do a quick round of goat glaze gone with movie cars.
So you have to take which car is the goat,
which one you want to glaze up Jackie style,
and which one can get gone.
So today I got three classics for you.
Number one, the 84 mut-cut sheep dog from Dumb and Dumber.
Number two, the 81 DeLorean from Back to the Future.
And number three, the 76 Pacer from Wayne's World, aka the Mirthmobile.
So goat glaze gone, you got it.
And then Proin, shout out any other cool movie cars that you want.
See you guys.
DeLorean Goat.
Yeah.
Got is Wayne's World Pacer.
because it had
it had the freaking
licorice thing
in the top member
unlimited licorish
and then gone is
is the puttmobile
from dumb and dumber
I mean
ain't rolling around
no puttmobile
doesn't have as good
as gas mileage
of a mini bike either
but that pace
it was kind of fire
with Cassandra
remember he had
his babe Cassandra
and give her
some licorice
yeah man
Cassandra
such a babe
you know
the Lorrians
are actually not
like
are not
as rare or as crazy as a car as you might be led to believe based off the movie Back to the Future.
I mean,
but if it's the back to the back to it.
If it's got a flux capacitor.
Yeah,
we got flux capacitor.
We got enough space for 88.
We're out.
Other car movies.
What do you guys think on that?
Oh, great Ford Explorer from Jurassic Park.
And the Jeep too.
Both are sick.
Wow.
Yeah.
I forgot about the Ford Explorer.
Geez.
In Jurassic Park?
Yeah.
There's an expo.
Wow.
Yeah.
The movie Cobra with Sly.
What was that car?
It was like an old Buick
With like cut off top
Hold on
Let me look that one up
What is that car?
That thing was sick
Also gone in 60 seconds
Eleanor
Yeah
You remember the little basic
I was thinking back to the first basic
I got a slightly deep cut
The first longest yard
When Bruce or fucking Bert Reynolds
He's driving the Citro in
And it like it can
You know the one that can go up and down
Yeah
When he's speeding away at the beginning
I mean, that's a fire one.
Is the General Lee off off off limits?
It's got a Confederate flag on it though.
Yeah, that's no good, but that's up to you.
Yeah, you are a Bay Area.
Good hoodslider.
Good hoodslide car.
Fucking Starz-Tch.
What would they have?
Stor pound and now, loaded up, man, trucking.
It's another one.
That's a gas one.
Ghostbusters.
Huh?
Ghostbusters.
Ghostbuster car was okay.
Batmobile.
Batmobile's iconic.
Any of the batmobiles, yeah.
The A team, do you have a particular batmobile that you're into?
Neymar just buy.
a Batmobile or something?
Oh, I did see that.
Burrow bought the Batmobile
but didn't get it.
Joey B did?
Joey B bought up the,
like the new Batmobile, I think.
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention
Herbie, the Lovebug, bro.
Love Barbie.
Jada, Lindsay Lohan.
Who else we got?
We got to talk movie cars.
We'll be from Transformers.
Oh, Shia, bro.
Bullet had a Mustang.
It's a San Francisco movie.
James Bond always had some sick whips.
I love the lightning in
the original Fast and Furious that Paul Walker used to drive in.
Oh, yeah.
When he went to the taco spot, the lowered red lightning.
I love the slam trucks back in the day.
Love me some lightnings.
We're missing some big one.
Did we mention the Gone in 60 seconds, whip?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We did?
Okay, sorry.
We were talking so much cars.
We know Eleanor.
Eleanor.
Eleanor got a spot.
Oh, yeah, bro.
Shout out.
And we don't just mean real-world cars.
Or versus Ferrari car.
Any of them?
Any of them?
How about my boy?
Lightning McQueen, bro.
Shout out.
Lightning McQueen.
Mater.
Wow.
Mader.
Mader.
Bro, the truck.
That are all you five-year-olds listening.
So five-year-olds are just absolutely going nuts right now.
Billy's son.
What's another?
Dude, we're missing.
I feel like Rupers from the Italian job.
Marky, Mark.
I agree.
We're really missing something here.
We're missing something here.
Did we say drive?
What was he driving and drive?
He was driving in drive.
He was driving in.
a couple different cars, right?
Okay.
What was with the Trans Am?
Who's that?
Trans Am was in something.
Is that the movie with,
Clint Eastwood?
Grand Torino.
Oh, Grand Trino.
Yeah.
Smoking the Bandit was a Firebird.
Firebird.
I was never the Grand Trino guy.
Same.
I liked the movie, but not the...
The car.
The car.
It was a little long for me.
I used to love...
I liked Chevelles.
there was a
Shout out Yankee Candle
Car Museum
There was a Plymouth
Roadrunner
That had like a four foot tall spoiler
Yeah
The roadrunner has
And it has a roadrunner
Like from the car
Looney Tunes on it
I fucking love that
You used to have the spoiler
The Dodge Roadrunner
Right
Or is it a charger roadrunner
Plymouth
Plimuth
Speaking of like
Just a grail
Is Dodge Jules
Are there any
Is there any
OG classic car
That's on your list
To buy one day
Yeah I want to get
my dad's, I want to get my dad's first car.
What was that? It was a 72
Scout 2. Oh, Scout
2. A scout? A Scout 2. International Scout 2?
Wow.
69 to 73 or something.
That's a great car. They're back, brother. You see their back?
Yeah, but those are like the full electric ones.
That's cool. But I want to get like an old one and
That's a great car. Like a Jeep kind of truck.
That would be good for.
Great beach car too.
beach car. I love that.
Man, that's a good one. That's a really good question.
Shout out, Nothalination.
Hey, we're in the thick of Winter Olympics.
What events are you guys watching?
What are you liking? Thank you.
You know what?
Been loving,
how about that fucking Austrian dude?
Was it Austria?
The cross-country skier
that just...
Norwegian.
He's like an...
He's the goat. He's got like nine gold medals.
and when our shout out to the American got that he got Ben Ogden yeah Ben Ogden got silver first time we meddled
in like 50 years in the event but the Norwegian dude like he climbs those hills unbelievable
just smokes them it looks like he's a machine I mean it was unreal I've been watching a lot of
the curling for some reason curling's on like 8 o'clock yohan's Hofstot clobo yeah that guy right
For the pronunciations.
It's on a lot.
Yeah.
He killed it.
Love curling.
Curling.
I've been watching the, but it's on too much.
Because they have so many games and it's always playing.
And it's always on like the prime time level.
I watched the quad god.
He hated that.
He fell,
but he won golden one,
right?
He won golden team,
I think.
And then didn't do.
There's too much pressure how they do this.
I mean,
they build them up.
Like,
you see a lot of these like big time athletes like someone bows and that.
guy and Michaela Schifrin.
Just like all over him, man.
Does two things.
Yeah.
Either make diamonds or bust your pipes.
Yeah.
He'll be able to gold medal and slalom.
I've been watching. How about the Brazilian dude who?
First one ever for a South American country. And he smoked everyone. Unbelievable. What was that in? I didn't see that one. He was in. He was in. Rezillion slaloms or downhill? Yeah. He was in the downhill. Oh, just straight skiing. Skying. Wow. That's cool.
His dad's Norwegian or something.
That's cool.
Yeah, he's the man.
I love that.
He,
he murked everyone.
Absolute murkish.
There's an American speed skater who was incredible, too.
Watching a lot of the bobsledding.
Shout out to the 41-year-old chick that won for America.
All-timer, bro.
Like, she's been doing it forever and then she just got it.
Absolutely went out there and fucking.
She had the run of her life.
Me and Lily watched that.
She loves the downhill, like the skeleton.
Great mom.
The bobsled.
He likes to like the bob sled.
What's a little bit
Gravitating towards?
She likes the bobsled
Like whenever we watch replays
She wants to see the girls in the bobsled
That's fun
I love that speed skating
Girls are insane
I try to watch all the girls stuff with her
She we threw on the hockey once
But she didn't love the hockey
It's hard to
It's hard to it's hard to graph
I think she likes the shit she does
Like we watch the ski and shoot
Competition with the girls
The biathlon
The whole time she
My brother is a hunter
Got out Jason
Uncle Jason would love this one
You know what I mean?
Because there's a gun involved.
I'm like, oh my God.
It's fun to see the uniquely winter sports events.
You know what I mean?
Like hockey we can see that every year.
Even though I've watched Curling, I mean,
Curling is pretty fun.
You get in a wormhole of watching it.
Oh, yeah.
These men and women could put it anywhere on that thing.
Incredible.
How about the guy?
We're totally missing the guy, the guy that wins.
And then he's like, I cheated on my girlfriend.
Oh, yeah.
I cheat.
I made the biggest mistake of my life.
That guy rocks.
He stole the show.
He was only dating her for like a couple months.
I know.
He's like,
Love is love, though, fellas.
I'm with him.
Love is love.
I kind of wish he'd give him another shot, man.
You guys?
No, not after what he's probably doing in the Olympic Village.
Oh, boy.
It goes down in the village, bro.
You know, the...
Sheesh.
The one that got away.
I hate that for him, man.
The one that got away.
I just hate seeing heartbreak like that.
We all have one.
Yeah.
The one that got away.
It's making me so sad.
I just like that he...
That should be the right one.
Man.
Any other fun ones?
I had one that got away.
I'm sorry, brother.
that I pushed away.
I'll come back.
Hey Julian.
A guest I think
would do a really good job on your show
is 50 cents.
Oh.
50 cent.
Where's he from?
New York.
50 cent would be amazing on here.
He's so cool.
Is he what basketball?
Curtis?
Did you see his interview with the fucking
the P. Diddy like
No, but he's just like a shit eating grin?
Yes.
My guy is
kills people on the internet.
He's the man.
I fucking love 50.
And anyone who listened to Get Rich or Died Trying,
understand.
There wasn't even a,
every song on that was a fucking hit.
Like,
every song was a banger.
It raised us, dude.
We were raised on it, man.
I loved 50.
I loved his movie.
I loved everything.
Which is movie.
Remember he had the 50 movie.
Yeah.
He made a movie.
Get Rich or died trying.
And it was a spectacular movie.
Really?
It was good.
I thought it was great.
It was all the time.
Eight Mile?
they're in the same category.
They're in the same category.
And 8 Mile was elite.
I haven't seen either.
Man, you got,
oh, you haven't seen 8 Mile?
No.
Really?
What?
Those are good movies.
Dude, that's surprising to me,
Cather.
50.
50.
That's a great guest suggestion.
Not off the wall,
but I like that.
I used to play mini men all the time
before games.
Mini, man.
Wish that the movie.
Mini, mini, me.
Wish that palm me.
Lord, I don't cry.
No more.
Don't look to the sky
No more
Have mercy on me
Have mercy on my soul
Now we just got pulled from you
Sorry crap
Did he will let us
Yeah
He'll let us
He was sitting here
He said he could use the song
Who got delisted
Did it really?
Yeah
It's okay we're good
Semantics
We clip out
We hate it
We'll shut out 50
We'll be right back
After this quick break
I'm Nancy Glass
Host of the Burden of Guilt
Season 2 podcast
This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families.
Late one night, Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime.
He pulls the gun.
Tells me to lie down on the ground.
He identified Tremaine Hudson as the perpetrator.
Germaine was sentenced to 99 years.
I'm like, Lord, this can't be real.
I thought it was a mistaken identity.
The best lie is partial truth.
For 22 years, only two people knew the truth
until a confession changed everything.
I was a monster.
Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app,
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In 2023, a story gripped the UK,
evoking horror and disbelief.
who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer
in modern British history.
Everyone thought they knew how it ended.
A verdict?
A villain?
A nurse named Lucy Letby.
Lucy Letby has been found guilty.
But what if we didn't get the whole story?
The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses.
I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, doubt the case of Lucy Lettby, we follow the evidence
and hear from the people.
that lived it, to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Lettby was.
No voicing of any skepticism or doubt.
It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong.
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I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022,
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Unfortunately, it didn't go according to,
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If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made
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Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast.
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and that will do anything to be there
is the only guy that's not there.
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What do you think you'd say?
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I can I go to you.
Jeffie Tyler.
Eric from Detroit.
I think you guys know Pucked pretty well.
and I will say from being a games with namespan since you guys started,
I think that the hockey players tend to have the best stories.
So I want to use guys to do the 2002 Stanley Cup finals
because that Detroit Red Wings team was absolutely legendary.
Ken Hall of Famers, you got guys like Steve Eisenman, Brendan Chanahan,
Sergei Federov, Nicholas Litchram, the list goes on and on,
just Hall of Famers all over.
if you guys could do a game from that series or that series as a whole
be awesome to have thanks a lot guys keep doing big things
the red wings haven't been good since then have they
yeah they won a Stanley Cup oh yeah 2008 but no
but that was that's like the end of their like dynasty and they got one later
well they went back to back to back to back Cups but one one but no he's incredible
this this team is stacked I remember when I was a kid like the red wings were
always hot yeah they were good in the 90s they went
When I got to Boston, I started looking into hockey.
They started to do.
They were never around, but they always had, like, great fans.
Like Detroit, they loved the hockey there, I feel.
Good jerseys.
I feel Michigan people love hockey.
And there's so many Hall of Famous.
So cold.
And having their sports teams owned by pizza franchise.
Pizza mogs.
What do you mean?
The Little Caesar's guy owns the Red Wings, I believe.
And the Domino's guy owns the Tigers.
I don't know the Domino's guy.
I'm pretty sure.
Pizza pizza pizza.
I might have a pizza.
Dominole?
You were as Little Caesar's guy growing up, aren't you?
I loved Little Caesar.
I knew it.
I knew it.
I remember specifically when they changed into the five, like, they were like shutting them down left and right.
And then all of a sudden they started the hot and ready, $5 ready pizza.
Changed the game.
And they just came back.
That's, I used to go there.
I get a slice of pizza, which was like a fat slice of a dollar eight.
And then like you get $1.39 was like crazy bread.
It was truly a watershed moment in corporate food history.
Like that is, they'll be talking about that for years, bro.
I mean, the hot and ready fucking, I think they're, I liked the little Caesars back in the day when it was like deep dish.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, the square pizzas.
And then I would get the, like the church.
They changed it when they went to hot and ready.
They went to circle pizzas, which I thought it went.
I still loved it.
It wasn't as good as the deep dish squares that used to get the two pizzas on the big ass family box with like something in the middle.
there was two pizzas in the middle.
It'd be a huge just sheet pizzas.
A little Cesar's.
Oh, yeah, baby.
What are some other watershed moments in corporate food history?
Well, I will say, that's funny you ask.
I will say the introduction of the crunch wrap, I think, was very big in Taco Bell.
I think another one was when McDonald's chose to make in-house ketchup.
Wow.
Instead of using high ice.
Wow, that is a.
I don't know that's great.
We got to look, I'm going to look that one up.
But what I, I know for a fact, I think they make their own catch.
When they start doing all their own shit, I don't know.
That brings me to my next moment, which would be the, um, the introduction of the Egg McMuffin,
which is McDonald's in-house listening to one of their franchisees who came up with it.
Okay.
Which is really big.
Um, I will say, I like when dominoes, like, we're like, our pizza sucks.
Let's fix it.
And then they like made their pizza better.
It's just true.
ad campaigned it like worked.
Was that in the mid-nought?
I think it was like 2000s.
Like, middle of 2000s.
Yeah.
It really is good.
I'm a roundtable guy too.
I was roundtable guy.
We didn't have that.
That's a West Coast.
West Coast.
There's still only a few of them now.
But I mean, for fast food pizza,
they're like 50 bucks.
Geez.
I will say.
Pizza's expensive right now.
I didn't, yeah, I mean.
They're like four,
nah, they're not 50, but.
Pizza is lucky ads.
I will say that like,
this might be only in New England thing,
but maybe West Coast and South,
I don't know.
But like,
When you could go to a pizza hut and you could get the buffet.
Salad bar and it was like a vibe to go to Pizza Hut.
I missed that.
That was good.
With the old school lamp.
Remember the lamps?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had lamps.
Kent.
It was like a Pizza Hut cafe where they would do the all you can eat pizza huts.
And they had the dessert pizza.
Yeah.
Dude, I was speaking of salad bars.
I was thinking about when Wendy's had a salad bar the other day.
Wendy's.
Remember that?
Yeah.
That's old school.
Salad bars at pizza holes were always.
is awesome.
It's all of us.
Remember when Wendy's had a pita?
The pita was gas at Wendy's.
I was a Wendy's chili kid.
Me too, brother.
I don't care.
Remember that there was a finger in one of the Chili's?
Yeah.
I don't buy that.
It's too good.
I low key liked Wendy's Nuggies.
They had a seasoning on them.
Really good.
They'd only give you five pieces instead of six.
I know.
Remember back in that era?
Because I was raised on Wendy's Burger King Nuggies because back then,
McDonald's Nuggies were disgusting.
They would use like dark to me.
them.
They would use like dark meat and weird.
It was weird.
Everyone liked them,
but I didn't like them.
It was all gray and weird in the inside.
Yeah.
I mean, I've come around to them now.
I like my nuggets,
but yeah,
I mean,
Watershed Moment's corporate food history is a great topic.
Adding the Dorito.
Yes.
Oh my God.
The Dorito Taco Bell,
the Dorado.
Yes.
I mean, that's huge.
There's a.
I dropped a Yoquetto Taco Bell.
Classic.
I had the little dog.
Do you remember the plush guy?
In front of my,
and my daughter had no clue.
Lily.
I mean,
in front of a chihuahua,
I was like,
I don't get a taco bear.
And she's like, dad, what are you doing?
I was like, really aging ourselves here.
You don't remember that?
Dude, I don't remember that thing that happened 20 years before you remember.
You know who voiced that dog?
Who?
Like, one of the guys from Reno 911.
No way.
Probably.
Heck yes.
What's his name?
Dude, that's awesome.
Fuck.
Carlos A la Query.
Dude, he probably made a killing off that.
He was, he was, he was the greatest campaigns ever.
He was deputy of Garcia and we don't have one.
I was one the best campaigns ever.
I mean, there's the Rick and Morty's that's one sauce.
That's,
another thing is when McDonald's goes to serving breakfast at all day,
to not serving breakfast all day.
It's exhausting.
When is it time?
Is it 11 or is it 1030?
I hate participating stores for the 1030.
Like it, we got to get some consistency.
It's kind of like referees.
Okay, if we're going to fucking.
If we're going to call the game tight,
we call the game consistently tight.
Okay, we all call it tight.
We're going to say 10.30, it's got to be 1030 everywhere.
Yes, and for all you heads,
it was immortalized in Big Daddy when he's going to McDonald's with Julian
and he's going to get Steve Buscemi.
Frankenstein, sorry.
He's going to get Steve Buscemi,
uh, uh, egg McMuffin.
Can he comes back.
1030, he said, I thought it was 11.
Total mind blow.
I know.
Remember when Taco Bell did breakfast?
Oh, great.
I was there for one of the first couple days.
They had those cinnibals.
I always thought it was a good idea.
Never had it though.
I was out of my Taco Bell.
Maybe it wasn't.
It was good.
The crunch wrap was like egg, bacon.
Yeah.
Really good.
If you think about it,
what's the easiest thing to make?
Yes.
Breakfast burritos.
So good.
Eggs and tortillas always work.
It's right there.
And I'm not.
That brings me to another good point here with the corporate food.
The Taco Bell test kitchen,
I feel like they are like constantly pushing the envelope.
Taking food where you never thought it could go.
purely in Mountain Dew technology.
Even purely in Mountain Dew technology, Baja Blast, oh my God.
But lately, where's the innovation?
Haven't gotten much lately.
Nothing that's blowing my mind lately.
What are we doing over there?
I'm not showing shake because I love Taco Bell.
No, they just added a can'tina stuff.
Well, that's that's really good.
The drinking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a canteen menu that has like more Mexican inspired.
No, no, no.
It's not.
You can get it.
like grilled and has people.
You can never eat the more Mexican-y stuff at Taco Bell.
No one wants the steak or the chicken.
Have you had it?
It's good.
Yeah.
I was surprised by how good it was.
All right.
I will give it a try.
I'm not throwing shade at the R&D boys.
Where are we with gorditas and chalupas?
Are they still there?
Are they different?
I haven't been.
Whatever happened to the...
We might need a field trip after this.
Are we still there?
A cheesy.
A chintecherita crunch.
Mexican pizza?
We might need a filter after this.
Mexican pizza for the ones that no.
Encherido?
Why are we talk about Taco Bell?
and they don't pay our goddamn podcast.
We need to stop.
Sponsor the pod.
All right.
You'll get up a couple of them.
Isn't Hank from Barstool?
Isn't he connected to Taco Bell in some way?
Oh, I didn't know.
I think his parent is a
invite to Adams is.
He's talked about at his house.
Yeah.
That's here.
Let's go visit it.
All right.
The nearest taco,
that might be our nearest.
Maybe I'll go for breakfast.
Try it.
And then one more.
He just says Quiznos.
Quiznos.
I haven't had Quiznos.
It was like acid method.
Oh, yeah.
That was crazy.
That was wild.
It was like a year where Quiznos was fucking awesome.
I had Quiznos once.
It was the first time I ever smoked.
I ate so much Quiznos.
I threw up for three hours and never ate it again.
That'll do it.
Quiznos.
We're open for advertising.
All right.
Last one.
Joel.
Tyler,
what's up?
I had a question.
I remember there was an episode.
I'm not sure how long ago,
but Tyler,
you talked about how you were at a casino
and you had it queued up in the screen.
Drake the MVP and New England Patriots Super Bowl like a hundred bucks to win like 700 grand
But you didn't do it
What are you feeling like now? You should have done it
He's been MVP
We're winning this Super Bowl baby
Peace out, I love you guys
So
Well thank God he didn't do it
He'd be a hundred dollars less
Yeah I was fretting about that for a while
And I thought about it often it's the most of ever fred about a bet I never made
But now I look at it as like I won $100,000
by not placing that bet.
Can't lose what you don't spend.
Big brain, baby.
But Jack can't lose what you don't have.
I will attest.
This is the, I've never heard more about a bet that was not placed than this.
Yeah.
This was a hindsight 20-20 years.
My dad even called, because the reason why I had a cute-up, because I was showing my dad.
Do you remember?
Well, I'll tell you.
So I was in Vegas.
I was showing him sports gambling and that's why I had it queued up.
And then like two weeks ago, like the week before the Super was like, hey, remember
when you were in Vegas and you had that bet?
Like, did you ever do that?
Because I think it would be for a lot of money.
It's like, fucking dad.
Yes.
Of course I remember that, man.
So I'll do it next time in Vegas.
I'll place that for next year.
I was going to be the same one.
I may be Justin Herbert,
charge your Super Bowl.
I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see.
Although you are,
you are $100 richer, man.
I am $100 richer, so.
Man.
That was a lot of emotional energy.
Imagine you've done Matthew Stafford Seahawks.
Super Bowl.
Probably would have paid pretty good.
Probably would have paid at least 500 grand.
Yeah.
At least the Seahawks part of it.
At that point, pre-season, we didn't know if Matthew Stafford was going to play.
No.
But this was, this wasn't even in pre-season.
It was in February.
So we thought it was going to be Jimmy G.
This was in February.
Spinal.
It was even before that.
Oh, that was fair.
That was last Februaryb?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
So right after the season.
It was right after Vrabel got hired.
Wow.
I was feeling the Patriot.
But not enough to actually do the bet.
Scared money.
Don't make money.
Hey, I made $100.
This is right.
No, you kept $100.
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I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season
podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby
Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a
confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart
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podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Lettby, we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that
gripped the UK in 2023. But what if we didn't get the whole story?
Evidence has been made to fit. The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapsed.
What if the truth was disguised by a story we chose to believe? Oh my God, I think she might be
innocent. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor.
But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him.
If I could press a button and rewind it all I would.
That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom.
The media is here. This case has gone viral.
The dating contract.
Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you.
This is unlike anything I've ever seen before.
I'm Stephanie Young.
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This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall.
In 2018, the FBI took down a ring of spies working for China's Ministry of State Security,
one of the most mysterious intelligence agencies in the world.
The Sixth Bureau podcast is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets.
to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today. The guy that says he's always
going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. No matter
what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children. I dread the conversation with my son.
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