Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa basketball final four plans, hating on Nebraska, and getting creative to watch Iowa football games in the fall with actor Riley Smith

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

Part two of our conversation with actor Riley Smith is here as we talk about what our plans would be if the Iowa basketball team makes the Final Four, how easy it is to hate on Nebraska, and make plans for a possible podcast hosted by Riley. We also touch a bit on what his acting schedule is and how he gets creative in order to watch Iowa football games even when he is filming. We wrap up with a funny story about him trying to catch an Iowa Hawkeyes game while in New York and ending up in a Michigan bar decked out in black and gold.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.ManscapedGo to Manscaped.com and use code LOCKED to get 20% Off and Free Shipping. Manscaped is #1 in men’s below the belt grooming and offers precision-engineered tools for your family jewels.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you’ll get $10 off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I thank God I was born on the good arms of the Midwest, and not on the battlefields of the U.S. It's a time of panic, and it's intercepted! It's picked off right away! Intercepted by Marty Hooker! Pick six! Eight seconds into the game! Buffen sets up deep in the pocket, goes down the field for Smith!

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It is caught. No offense. Touchdown. That's either one or you have it. Go ahead and three. Yes. Two-point lead for the Hawkeyes. Welcome back, Hawkeye Nation, to another episode of the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast.

Your daily podcast covering your Iowa Hawkeyes on the Locked On Sports Network. As always, I am your host, Andrew Wade, and today's episode is brought to you by Built Bar. Go to BuiltBar.com and use promo code LOCKEDON, and you'll get $10 off your next order. And on today's episode, we're going to continue our conversation with Riley Smith. Hope you all enjoyed Part 1 yesterday. Part 2 is just as good today, and we'll get to Part 3 tomorrow. On today's show, Talking with Riley, we're covering a wide range of topics, such as what our Final Four plans are if Iowa makes it that far this year in basketball.

His experience going to the Rose Bowl and renting out a bar for Iowa fans on New Year's. Talking a little smack to Nebraska as we all like to do. What George Kittle and what kind of made George Kittle so great. The charity golf classic he does participate in that is hosted by Zach Johnson. His thoughts on potentially hosting or creating a podcast himself, interviewing Iowa folks, his acting hours and kind of what he's doing right now, and the time he went to a Michigan bar in New York City decked out in Iowa gear.

That is all coming on the show today. Before we hop into that, though, do want to cover some relatively big news coming out of the Big Ten. As you know, we've been covering the saga that is the Big Ten fall sports cancellation. And Tuesday, yesterday was no different. President Trump decided to call Kevin Warren and had a conversation basically stating, you know, we need to have Big Ten football. And said that the Big Ten is on the one-yard line of getting football back.

And then the Big Ten presidents literally just laughed at that notion, which is, you know, interesting. But then news came out that the Big Ten actually was considering, according to Dan Patrick, considering a November 10th start date. Or sorry, October 10th start date. There's still a lot that needs to go into that. They still need to actually get more votes from the presidents to be able to move that up. But it does sound like there are discussions happening.

And there is, I guess, a remote possibility that we do get Big Ten football this fall. They're working on getting that in place right now. So anytime we get more information on that, we'll make sure to cover that. Maybe if there's some late-breaking news, we'll go on to the Locked On Live and cover that immediately. But for now, we're going to break into our conversation with Riley. Again, Part 1 was yesterday. If you haven't listened to that, definitely make sure to check that out. And Part 2 is starting right now.

So if Iowa does win a NAC, I mean, mean heck if they even make the final four i'm celebrating um i was i was in madison wisconsin when wisconsin went to the final four they'd be arizona to go the final four back in it'd be 2013 or 2014 and we just happened to go downtown to go to some bars and as we got to downtown people were on light poles people were on top of buildings like they were just going to the final four and w has been a pretty solid basketball program last, you know, 10, 12 years. Yeah. Iowa wins a national championship. How are you celebrating? Well, first of all, I already told my, my, my boy, my Iowa boys,

like we're going to the game. They are allowed to have fans at the games by, by March or April, whenever they'll do the tournament. But I, that's up for me. It's always a, it's always a must that I'm at those kinds of monumental games. Like when Iowa made the Rose bowl, we had been waiting for that my whole life. And I live in LA. So I, you know, I've been there almost 18 years at that point, I think. And, and I'm like,

what are the chances that the 18 years I've lived in LA, Iowa has not made the Rose Bowl. And they finally did. And then of course, I was back in Iowa for Christmas that year. And a huge snowstorm hit. And all the flights got canceled. And we weren't going to be able to get back to LA for the game. And on top of it, I had set up a big party for, for everyone that was in from Iowa, anyone I had to spread the word on top of it I had set up a big party for uh for everyone that was uh in from Iowa anyone I had to I spread the word on Twitter and I rented out an entire bar and we got a DJ and it was obviously it was a New Year's Eve night and and I just thought like I know that when when Iowans travel they don't know what to do it's New Year's you're in LA where should we go what can

we do and I thought I'll I'll rent out a bar and anybody that wants to come can come. And so I needed to get back for that too. So we had to rent a car. There was no way around it. I was pulling every string I had. So we ended up renting a car, Cedar Rapids, driving through a snowstorm to Chicago. And then I had to sweet talk the hell out of a couple of ticket agents to get a ticket onto like the last flight of the night and we made it just in time and uh i always say like you know we we got back and the game was over before we knew it i mean we had literally like the party was awesome the night before the tailgate was great and then it was a long line to get into the into the rose bowl i'll never forget and we had just sat down at kickoff and before we like had sat down we found our seats before we sat down it was seven nothing

yeah i mean christian mccaffrey was it's unfortunate that iowa makes a rose bowl and they have to go up against christian mccaffrey i mean that guy makes everyone look like they're just standing still and especially against iowa i mean i I love Iowa's players and I love the way Iowa plays defense as a team but when you have a guy like Christian McCaffrey that's more athletic than literally anyone else in the NFL he's gonna make some of those Iowa farm boys look a little bad and he he definitely did yeah well you know like being on the west coast I tend to get to watch a lot more west coast games probably more than I'd want to, because they're the late game and we have Mayer out here. So I knew about him.

I feel like no one else did. I feel like the coaching staff didn't know. If you got a guy like that and you know his explosive ability, I just felt like we didn't plan for it well enough. But a few of those plays were just pure speed and athleticism. couldn't do anything about it i mean no just outran people and just would make the most amazing jukes i mean that was that just sucked that again very iowan to have iowa go to the rose bowl and meet up with christian mccaffrey that's yeah that was that was yeah so hopefully hopefully when we get uh the the big break this year in basketball,

it goes a little bit different. I just – man, I don't – I know there's a lot of good teams in the Big Ten this year. The Big Ten's deep. Illinois is going to be good. Wisconsin's always good. Rutgers is actually pretty solid too. Are they?

They have a lot of like – I mean, they're kind of a gritty, lengthy type team, so they're tough when you're playing them on offense because they just have a really good defensive team. They're not – they didn't lose anyone so Rutgers is kind of an interesting team to watch out for too you know who I always root for in basketball in the Big Ten that just because I love their coaches Penn State um yeah you know they're never really good but uh but they're I love their coach and and I I always kind of root for them to have a like some breakout year

just because I feel like he deserves it. Tom Chambers is his name or something like that? Pat Chambers. That's the kind of underdog team that I wouldn't mind seeing do good every once in a while as long as it's not against Iowa. I think now there's a rivalry between Iowa and Illinois that's going to be fun

to watch. Illinois fans are – they're aggressive on Twitter, man. They hate Iowa. They clap back at everything. You don't even talk about Illinois, and they find a way to make it about Illinois. Yeah. I try to not talk too much smack on Twitter. But every once in a while I'll get drawn into some of the smack talk,

especially with Iowa State fans. That's just too easy. Too easy. It's honestly – Nebraska, I wanted to say it so bad on Twitter and I didn't. But, you know, Scott Frost in Nebraska just like vocally, you know, talking about wanting to play anywhere and they'll transfer. It's like you guys lose all the time.

If you tried half as hard to win as you are trying to play this year, you might actually lose the team. But, like, why out of all the teams are they so feisty to want to play? They're going to lose anyway. Yeah, I mean, like, do you think you're going to do better in the Big 12 or the SEC? Like, I would love to see them in the SEC. If they beat the Big 10s hard, which they, for some reason,

still don't think the Big 10s hard. If you talk to any Nebraska fan yet, you look at their track record and it's not not good i just would love to see them in the sec yeah i got a few friends in la that are from nebraska and we have we have a great time talking shit i mean they because they they're feisty too they're like iowa state fans oh man i at least one of my best friends is a nebraska fan and he he honestly just gets annoyed about me sending him stuff constantly. Like, look at this recruit that I – like, Keegan Johnson recruiting, committing to Iowa, his dad to former Nebraska player. He's like, can you just stop?

Like, this is just getting annoying. I think he's honestly just defeated at this point. Well, speaking of Denver, you've got Noah Fant. He's an Omaha native who chose Iowa. That worked out well for him. Yeah. All right, quickly to break up the conversation with Riley, just for a few moments to let you know about the sponsor of the show today,

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roommate, um, his first two years at Iowa was a player named David Tan. And he played secondary and ended up transferring to a smaller school in Colorado, actually, Colorado Mesa. So he had a stellar career. He's like my little brother. And so I've known him since he started walking. But so he and Kittle are obviously – he and George are best friends. And so I know George through David,

and I ran into him in Chicago a couple years ago at the Big Ten basketball tournament. But we always talk smack on Instagram and Twitter and stuff. He's a great guy, and he's going to be the next Gronk. I mean, he's about to be a superstar in the NFL. And that's really cool. the next Gronk. I mean, he's about to be a superstar in the NFL. And that's really cool. It was cool for Iowa. Did you see the Instagram video his parents posted? Yeah, I cried.

Not going to lie. I've watched the first two minutes, and it cut off, and I was like, oh, my gosh, I was about to cry. And then I found the actual full video, and I was like, why am I so emotional right now? I mean, you look at him, and his trajectory was just, again, very Iowan. I mean, hardworking, didn't get anything handed to him, was undersized coming out of high school, was a wide receiver,

barely got recruited to Iowa. Thank God for Bruce, you know, at least knowing the Iowa coaches. And then gets drafted in the fifth round and becomes, you know, the best tight end in the NFL because he works hard. Right. That's what I wrote to him I was like hard work wins bud you know and it's true I mean that's what we develop over there and I mean now I don't know how anyone couldn't say we are tight end you I mean with Hawk and

Noah and starting all the way back to another buddy of mine Dallas Clark yeah who by the way is literally one of the nicest guys ever is he really yeah I play um every year uh not this year obviously but and Zach Johnson does a uh a charity golf tournament in Cedar Rapids Iowa in um in what is it July August every year yeah um and so I get what I love about playing in his tournament is he always has great local celebrities come back and play and and he knows that I'm a huge Iowa fan so Zach will always put me usually paired up with uh some Iowa last year I got to play my Bobby Hanson was my cart partner oh that's awesome me Bobby Sherm Dillard and uh and and uh gary dolphin that's what a great foursome yeah i had a blast i was picking their brain and we were talking about you know bobby hansen day basketball and and bobby

and i ended up you know staying friends uh because of that but they but that's what i love about zach's tournament he's and then he'll bring in all these pros like and i'm not a huge golf fan watcher yeah i don't know you know like i like golf and i know some of the some of the golfers but not all of them and and i didn't realize like he has the top-notch players come in and and golf and they do instructional stuff with the kids and uh it's a really awesome tournament raises a ton of money for his educational foundation uh Cedar Rapids. But but Dallas always plays at that. And so I've gotten to know Dallas really well through that. And then that was it last year, two years ago, I got a picture with Zach, Zach and Kurt Warner.

I was standing between those two. And I'm like, you know, it's really cool of our state that I can sit next to a Super Bowl MVP and a Green Jacket winner. And these two guys were both undersized, undervalued players in their sport, athletes in their sport. And they both excelled at the top level. And that's really cool. Yeah, dude. I love, like, I think, like, for me, anyone that comes from Iowa, I'm rooting for, I absolutely, you know, you, you have to root for them. If, if they're having Iowa tie, I just, you feel that draw to like be there for them in some sort of weird way.

That is pretty sweet. I mean, Jack Johnson having to go to Drake for example, to play golf and then making it big, like that's, that's great. Kurt Warner have to, you know, bag groceries at a grocery store playing the NFL. Yeah. I remember watching Kurt play in high school when I was really, really little. And, you know, he was like a superstar.

But, you know, it's – he went to UNI. And I love his story. His story's great. And he's a really nice guy. He does a lot for the community as well. We've got some – I mean, that's what's cool about Iowa. And I always brag about it, you know, everywhere I go, I'm probably like one of the only people that sits and talks about my home

state as much as, like you said, not a lot of people talk about their home state or with excitement. I love that we're so small and you know, kind of overlooked in a lot of ways is considered a flyover state to a lot of people. And yet we've really overlooked in a lot of ways. It's considered a flyover state to a lot of people. And yet we've really put out a lot of successful people in their fields and all fields. And especially I always talk about with my industry, the entertainment industry, people will say to me like, oh, you must be a big deal in your hometown. And I'm like, I probably would have been if Ashton Kutcher wasn't from there. Ashton Kutcher's from there. It's a high bar to set.

I mean, you know, we've got like in our industry, there's been a number of great actors that have come from Iowa. Another one randomly was a guy named Michael Emerson, who he is, remember on Lost? He was like the main bad guy on Lost. And then he did this show called Persons of Interest with Jim Caviezel for the last however many years. main bad guy on Lost now and then he did this show called Persons of Interest with Jim Caviezel for the last however many years but he's an unbelievable Emmy award-winning actor who's from the Cedar

Rapids surrounding area and I got to randomly become friends with him through his wife played she was one of the leads of True Blood and the final season of True Blood, I played a vampire who ended up becoming her love interest. And, and so we, we became obviously good friends throughout that year. And then the Iowa connection came in and we became friends and, you know, Michael, but I love that about, you know, we've got people everywhere doing big things and that's so cool to see. Well, I mean, it was cool. Cause I mean, I saw obviously that you were, I was going through,

honestly I was going through like our followers list and stuff trying to see. Well, I mean, it was cool. Cause I mean, I saw obviously that you were, I was going through, honestly, I was going through like our followers list and stuff trying to, you know, figure out who I actually wanted to be following on our lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. I saw you were following me and I looked up and I was like, Oh my gosh, I know who, I know who you are. I'm like, this is, this is really cool. Like it's cool for me to see when people like you are following my podcast. I thought that was really awesome. And then, so obviously I just shot my shot. I was like, do you want to come on?

And you were so quick to respond. I like oh yeah that's a very i was like that's so cool you want to come on and talk about iowa sports with me and then shoot the shit for a little bit like i think that is so cool i love it man i love that you're doing this and uh you know i follow a lot of the different hawkeye um fan pages just because i love the camaraderie and talk and shop and, and, uh, just like, you know, everybody's got a different take on things and you get information from different people, but a lot of them are really funny. Um, but yeah, as soon as you hit me up, I was like, I got nothing going on right now.

I'm waiting to start work. And, uh, and, uh, and since we can't possibly see the Hawks is here in football, nothing more than to just talk about it, you know? Yeah, man. I've always wanted to do a podcast about Iowa sports. I never got around to it. My fan base isn't really into Iowa or sports. So I was like, I probably have a very small market.

But so that's why anybody that wants to have me on and talk, I always am like, hell yeah, let's do it. Yeah. I think it'd be cool actually to have a podcast where you just talk to other big time Iowans just, I mean, about their hometown roots and stuff. I feel like the state of Iowa would love that for sure. I think that'd be. It's a good idea, man.

Maybe I'll steal that. Yeah. Go for it. It isn't going to come from me. So yeah, I wanted to do something called, uh, what's in the water. Maybe that'll be the name of the podcast. Yeah. Now everybody watching this can just steal it.

Yeah, well, I mean, they don't have the connections of you, so you're golden. Yeah, they'll just buy the domain and then make me pay them extra money to get it back. No, you guys heard it here first. What's in the Water. Riley's going to be able to use other Iowa people. I think that'd be, I mean, like I said, I have a ton of Iowa pride. I would absolutely listen to that. I think that'd be super cool.

So just real quick, I do want to touch, so when do you actually start filming then? Well, that's a good question. We've had a lot of issues with just like the university's liability and that they want to put a lot the unions on our side want to put a lot of protocols in place. And they're trying to work it out with the Canadian government. One of them is testing. They want to test us three times a week. But the Canadian government says that that's kind of a infringement on our our uh privacy and i think that also there's like 70 shows that shoot up here in vancouver it's it's like they call it hollywood north um so most shows shoot up here so if you were testing every actor

three times a week it would like literally uh crash their their testing uh so they're trying to come to agreements on different liability issues right now but sony and disney studios just just uh came to the agreement and so they're about to start back up with their shows the good doctor is is one of them that shoots here i've got a couple friends on the show and they're excited because they they they're part of i think sony and so that uh or maybe disney but that they got the green light and uh what i know that'll do for us is we're my my show nancy drew is on cbs studios so that will open the door hopefully for cbs to see that there's a model that's that people have come to agreement with and so i i've heard mid-september um it was supposed to be August 1st and August

15th and September 1st now it's I think mid-September should stick um so I'm just I'm I haven't worked since March we were on episode 20 of 24 or were we on 22 of 24 and COVID hit we got shut down and uh we left Vancouver and went straight back to LA. And then we're just locked down there from March 18th until July 1st when we left, we were just locked in LA doing nothing. And so I'm bored. I'm ready to work. The only upside to it has been, not the only, but the best upside to it is that I've literally gotten to spend every single waking hour with my daughter for her first year of life. She turns one tomorrow, which is exciting. It makes sense why you were not free yesterday or not free tomorrow.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm taking her to Science World tomorrow. That's so cool. I'm having a big birthday day for her. But that has been the positive is that I don't see any other way that I would have just gotten to be home all day every day and and have all this time with her so that'll be actually hard to go back to work and not have that but I'm really excited to work again you know yeah they started sending us our scripts this this past weekend we got nine they kind of just unloaded all the ones they've had ready to go and so I'm like that that

got me really excited to get back to it. Yeah. Are the hours long then for you? They can be, yeah. People think actors don't work hard, but, but when you're on set, you know, it depends on, depends on your role on the show, how much you're in the show. If you're a lead of the show, you're working like 60 to 80 hours a week. I mean, you basically live there. You're going 12 hour days, 14 hour days are, that's a minimum, you know? So, but you know, I've, I've got a bit more seniority now. I've been doing this a long time. My role on this show is not, I'm the lead. I'm not Nancy Drew. So working that many hours, but she's young and she can do it. I've got kind of a, you know, I remember growing up,

all the older actors that come in, they'd only work like two days a week, get all their stuff done and that you wouldn't see them again for another 10 days. I'm like, that's the life. And cause you still get paid the same. You're on a contract. Yeah. So you're not getting paid by the hour. So I finally have gotten to that place in my career and so now i'm only working like two three days a week on the show but when you do work those days are usually 12 14 16 hour days because you're packing all your scenes into those days um and then i'll get like you know three days five days six days off and

then i'll work another two three days so my my life uh here in vancouver i love this city it's my favorite city in north america uh keep hearing these uh i live on the water the sea plains oh yeah yeah right in front of my place it's beautiful to watch it's loud but no i love i love the i love the show i love the city i love my my uh my work schedule yeah really nice for especially where I'm at in my life with the baby. So yeah, things are great. We just got to get back to work. Yeah, that's exciting. So then as far as not, I know we've been talking for a while, so I don't want to keep you too long, but I know you're- Honestly, I'm not working, so I got nothing else to do.

Perfect, man. So then as far as like Iowa schedules go, right? So as far as like watching football, watching basketball games, how often are you able to watch every game? So, I mean, are you able to pretty much catch every football game, every basketball game, or how does that work? Yeah. Well, being in Canada has made it a lot harder. However, nowadays with the internet, you can pretty much figure out, you know, there's a bar here in town that as soon as I – I actually have another buddy, Michael Raymond James, who's an actor.

He was on True Blood and has had his own shows. But he was up here doing a show and he's a big Michigan fan. Another guy I love to talk smack with. So he he was up here before I'd gotten up here back in 2016, which then it was a little harder to find stuff on the Internet. gotten up here back in 2016 which then it was a little harder to find stuff on the internet now it's pretty easy now i can catch every game yeah i've got all the different you know ways to find them but but anyway back then it wasn't as easy and he said go to this bar the red card in vancouver and uh tell alan the bartender that i sent you and he'll set you up so of course the first stop i made was to see alan at the red card and he sat down and had a couple beers with him told him how much I love Iowa and that bar didn't doesn't even open until 11 but if I was playing the early game which for us out here is 9 a.m yeah he would either open

the bar for me and let me come in alone and I just had you know be able to drink from the tap and watch the game or he would TiVo it record it and then when I come then I come in when the bar opened and he just put it on the big screen and I wouldn't check my phone until then so I I find out ways you know um one year this was back the Drew Tate one of the Drew Tate years I was uh doing a movie in Namibia Africa uh and that back in 2006 it was impossible to try to stream a game. So I missed that whole season and that was, that was tough, but now it's,

it's so much easier with the internet and the different ways you can Canada's made it tough. But like we were talking about before you started recording, one of the first things I do at any, any city I go work at, whether it was nashville or carolina or hawaii once i always go and i find the uh the iowa yeah yeah and uh there's always one in every city and then uh you know you go and you make lifelong friends from that experience and you've got somebody to watch you every game with i mean i'm with when it comes to iowa sports i'm almost just as fine watching alone but it is nice to sit with other Iowans and especially when you're in a city that you don't

belong in it's not Iowa and then you find this camaraderie and it's like for those like four hours you share this this yeah passion with and you know sometimes it's heartbreaking most of the time it's just exciting bliss yeah I mean it's exciting bliss. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's always fun. Everyone's screaming, I O W a in the middle of a bar and you don't know any of them, but you're all best friends for about four hours, all the Iowa and everyone's wearing Iowa gear. It's funny to bring some of our friends will come with us to watch Iowa games just to come with us and drink like, what the hell is going on here? Right. Yeah. Yeah. We look like fools. I'm sure. But who cares? I mean, I did the Iowa alumni bar, big shout out to the LA, Iowa alumni bar. They,

they have a spot in Santa Monica at Barney's Beanery on the promenade. And I didn't know about it until probably Oh five Oh six. And I'd been in LA since 99. And so it took a long time. But when I found that, I literally made like brothers there. Like the guy who was, they call him the mayor, Eric Bruni. He was running it for years and he built it up into an amazing, amazing bar. I mean, they'd have a line around the corner, everyone wearing yellow. It was a huge two-story place. It is. And they pack it out. out it goes crazy like the game against Penn State

the year that Claiborne blocked the punt and ran it back yeah my dad and sister and brother-in-law were in in town from Iowa they were in LA so we took them to the the spot and we were bouncing so hard that the floor was bouncing my dad's like this this place is gonna cave in like no no no and so we got done with the game it was obviously a great game and it was unanimous they're like this is better than any place in Iowa City other than if you're in the stadium yeah that bar with the the because you're so much more excited because you're not there cheering extra hard you would you know I don't know something about it but uh i love going to those alumni bars love it some of the national ones really great um down on broadway uh but there's yeah they're all great new york's got a great one i used to go to back in the day

um one year i was doing i was doing a movie called new york minute in uh new york city the olsen twins right yeah yeah this is a long, long time ago. I've heard of that movie before. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, Oh three. We had a really great year as the gallery was on that team. And we were playing Michigan at Michigan and I was watching it from my hotel room and it was just too good. I'm like, I got to get to a bar. I got into a bar. So I called concierge. I'm like,

where's a great place I can go watch Iowa or now I didn't say I was said, where can I go watch college football? They're like, I got to get to a bar. I got to get to a bar. So I called concierge. I'm like, where's a great place I can go watch Iowa? Or no, I didn't say Iowa. I said, where can I go watch college football? They're like, I'll go to the athletic club over on Madison or whatever it was. And so I jump in a cab at halftime. I go down there, come to find out it's a fucking Michigan alumni bar. And I'm like decked out in Iowa and gear. And I walk in and the girls were the worst they were

throwing beers at me and shit so I sit down I find a table next to an older couple and they're like you need to stay close to us because this is going to get bad for you and we ended up winning that game at Michigan I think it was Brad Banks year yeah and uh we won that game and these old people had to walk me out people were throwing beers on me booing me and of course I was a young drunk punk I was probably talking smack too yeah but you do feel like at least I feel like and I've never gotten punched yet but you feel like with with college sports smack talk there is a there's a level of you know you can do it and it's never going to lead to a fight unless you're dealing with the wrong kind of guy um or you say the wrong kind of thing but it's fun to jaw with each other you know to a degree yeah i mean it's funny um like we so the iowa state game this past year we went to

sports column and iowa state fans were coming in and we're like what are you doing here and so we kept giving them a bunch of crap and then but yeah i mean like you can you can talk smack and everyone feels like it's it's kind of normal. It's kind of expected. No one usually gets out of hand or gets out of line. And if you do get out of line, the fans of that same team are usually like, dude, can you calm down? You're making us feel bad.

Like let's maybe stop and come back a little bit. Yeah, when your own fans start telling you to be quiet, that's when you know you crossed the line. All right, and that will do it for our show today. Again, a big shout out to Riley. As I mentioned a couple different times, we hopped on and we shot the shit for two hours.

Talking about Iowa football, Iowa sports, the state of Iowa, acting, you name it. We talked about it and I really was excited to bring you this three-part series this week. I hope you all are enjoying it. We'll be back tomorrow with part three our final part of our conversation with Riley Smith make sure to go follow him on Twitter as well and make sure to follow us on Facebook Twitter and Instagram and if you did like the show if you've liked the show before and you haven't done this already please make sure to like review and subscribe wherever you

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