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Speaker 3: Welcome back. Ben Leber's here, Tanny Elson is here. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's all happening.
Speaker 2: You guys know, like how good Cheryls was, Like how
Speaker 2: strong he was. I've told you that.
Speaker 3: Marcus Cheryls were talking about who's coming in here a
Speaker 3: little bit later today.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, like Eddie, how strong he was freak
Speaker 4: really freak athlete.
Speaker 5: Like I know he's a freak athlete. But like you're
Speaker 5: talking twit your strength. Yeah, yeah, I know all that,
Speaker 5: but you're you're saying.
Speaker 2: Strangling guy really yeah? Yeah? Him and Brock Maurine. You
Speaker 2: guys remember what I could see Brockfarene.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marcus and Marcus had like a forty two inch vert.
Speaker 2: Ask him all about it. No, no, I knew he
Speaker 2: was explosive.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that he was sure, sure, sure, sure,
Speaker 3: ask him about it.
Speaker 4: And then he has a place called chip Shot or no,
Speaker 4: maybe chip Shots. He owns his place down in Rochester
Speaker 4: and it bangs.
Speaker 2: It has like golf.
Speaker 4: Stimulators that ets he owns one of those, all of them.
Speaker 2: Nast You see Zach's text. No, no, it's maybe your
Speaker 2: favorite text of all time, say less, Zach.
Speaker 3: Why did I say we should take our shirts off
Speaker 3: in fresh I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Five numbers get closer. Yeah, he just told us to
Speaker 2: get closer to the camp for the camera frame.
Speaker 1: Tommy, you know, the previous text in our group chat
Speaker 1: between the three of us was was Tommy saying, sounding
Speaker 1: great gang on March twenty seven, twenty nineteen, Wednesday, but
Speaker 1: for power trip Vegas, when you guys were all on
Speaker 1: the flight and it was just Ben and I for
Speaker 1: much of that morning.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's what that was about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty nineteen, man, that seems like a million years,
Speaker 3: eighty years ago. So yeah, Marcus Cheryl's coming in a
Speaker 3: little bit, and we have a WILLIAMS. Wallach here at
Speaker 3: bottom of the hour, so we'll get some news real
Speaker 3: quick and just tell you what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3: But we won't spend too much time on because most
Speaker 3: of those the news is not good.
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Speaker 3: Here's what's going on in our little world.
Speaker 2: Ben, what's that?
Speaker 3: Well, we talked about it earlier, but the passing of
Speaker 3: Bonnie Tyler totally clips at the heart seventy five years old,
Speaker 3: which she passed away rest in peace. A new study
Speaker 3: provides sobering information on the impact of head trauma on
Speaker 3: NFL players. I don't know if you've seen new information
Speaker 3: or not, but this is brand new. According to Tammy Trio.
Speaker 6: Researchers at Boston University and Mass General Brigham say professional
Speaker 6: players are four times more likely to die of a
Speaker 6: neurodegenerative disease than the general population. Among the nearly twenty
Speaker 6: thousand former NFL players studied the length of their career
Speaker 6: played a role. Those with five plus seasons doubled the
Speaker 6: risk of contracting als, Parkinson's disease or dementia. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 3: Are you guys contacted about this stuff from time to time?
Speaker 3: Do they as that not something that the NFL reaches
Speaker 3: out to you guys about? He anybody the union? Does
Speaker 3: anybody reach out to you about this stuff.
Speaker 2: About being a part of the research.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, I'm well, okay, kind kind of okay. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't really know how much the I don't know
Speaker 5: how much the information is shared.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: So we have a really like a great program for
Speaker 5: all the retired NFL players that you can go to
Speaker 5: I don't know, call it seven or eight major hospital systems,
Speaker 5: unfortunately Mayo's not one of them, and you can get
Speaker 5: your brain body They call it the Brain Body Assessment.
Speaker 2: I think that's what they officially call it.
Speaker 5: And it's basically like the Mayo Executive Physical really and
Speaker 5: they do it for free and they.
Speaker 2: Put you up. It was sweet. I went down to
Speaker 2: two lane. Oh my god, it was awesome. So you're
Speaker 2: supposed to watch every five years or something like that.
Speaker 5: Anyway, they go through the whole battery of tests, plus
Speaker 5: all these brain scans, plus all this cognitive testing.
Speaker 2: It's kind of exhausting.
Speaker 5: It's like it's two and a half full days, three
Speaker 5: days of testing, and you are mentally exhausted because you're
Speaker 5: going through all the cases. The thing is, I don't
Speaker 5: know if they share that, you know, like if they
Speaker 5: I mean, it would be fine with me. I suppose
Speaker 5: if it was privately shared with the research group. But
Speaker 5: they said like, hey, you know, if I'm not like
Speaker 5: a name, I'm just a number, and it's like here's
Speaker 5: you know, reference number, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: These are his test scores. This is what you have.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
Speaker 5: Possible they do that, but I don't think I've ever
Speaker 5: been directly asked to be a part of like a
Speaker 5: brain study.
Speaker 3: Interesting, there you go.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess they're they're continued to keep an eye out,
Speaker 3: and that's a good thing, right, we need Well, the.
Speaker 5: Thing is like I want to know, I guess I
Speaker 5: want to do. I want to drill down even further
Speaker 5: into I wish they would tell us what are the
Speaker 5: key factors for that? Is it just head trauma? Is
Speaker 5: it just repeated head blows? Or is it lifestyle?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right right.
Speaker 5: You know, because there was there was a there was
Speaker 5: a a theory back in the day that these guys
Speaker 5: that would have brain issues and just overall health issues
Speaker 5: and a lot of a lot to do with the brain.
Speaker 5: Steroids were involved, street drugs were involved, you know, along
Speaker 5: with along with repeated head blows. Like, is it just
Speaker 5: one thing or is it a combination of a lot
Speaker 5: of lifestyle choices? Because you know now that we know
Speaker 5: what we know now about concussions and recovery is completely
Speaker 5: different than it was thirty forty years ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what is it? Is it just one thing
Speaker 2: or all of it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good questions. I don't know. We'll keep an
Speaker 3: eye on. If I know more, I'll that, you know,
Speaker 3: I promise. Also in the news today, well there's seventy
Speaker 3: five different things. But this is an interesting thing and
Speaker 3: something I've never heard of before. Have you guys ever
Speaker 3: heard of transient global amnesia?
Speaker 2: No? No, either.
Speaker 3: But Katie Kirk has a journalist, Katie Kirk, is opening
Speaker 3: up about a health scare She experienced last month, known
Speaker 3: as transient global amnesia.
Speaker 8: Cork detailed the incident where she lost her memory in
Speaker 8: a sub stack post titled A day I'll never remember
Speaker 8: what began as a regular day and asked been turned
Speaker 8: into a medical mystery after she was taken to the
Speaker 8: hospital with no recollection of basic questions such as the
Speaker 8: year or who the president is. Doctors initially began a
Speaker 8: stroke protocol, but after a clean MRI and some tests
Speaker 8: ruled that out, the journalist was diagnosed with transient global amnesia.
Speaker 8: According to the Cleveland Clinic TG, it is a rare
Speaker 8: medical condition in which you experienced a sudden episode of
Speaker 8: memory loss, but it typically resolves on its own. I'm
Speaker 8: Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 2: Weird, very weird. Strange. Yeah, it's so strange.
Speaker 3: Never heard of that. No, No, I've had a stroke protocol.
Speaker 1: Causes and the triggers include sudden immersion in cold or
Speaker 1: hot water and sexual intercourse.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I don't know what Katie was doing.
Speaker 3: I mean, because I'll tell you what, man, I've done
Speaker 3: just two of those cold water immersion things, like what
Speaker 3: do you call those?
Speaker 2: Cold plunge?
Speaker 3: Yeah, cold plunge. I ain't doing another one. Again. I
Speaker 3: almost lost my penis alone, my memory, you know, I mean, like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, all the way up in there. Man,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. Yeah, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2: Apparently it's good for your test.
Speaker 3: That's what they tell me.
Speaker 2: That's very good.
Speaker 3: For one second, hold on, yeah, it's before practice.
Speaker 4: We'd go get a bag of ice and we just
Speaker 4: we'd sit.
Speaker 2: On put you put your balls.
Speaker 4: Why why because it's booster test before practice.
Speaker 2: Like that's what we did. I know that, honey, we did.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 4: Nick rolis now the defensive coordinator for.
Speaker 2: The I don't know if you wants.
Speaker 9: Yeah. And then but that ice tubs.
Speaker 4: We used to have more testoster in practice because you
Speaker 4: want to just get you know, get.
Speaker 2: Between two days.
Speaker 4: We were telling you about that because we would take
Speaker 4: ice plasts all the time.
Speaker 2: And before we.
Speaker 4: Got like the new facilities, we used to get like
Speaker 4: horse troughs, like big old like how they give water
Speaker 4: to horses.
Speaker 2: We fill those up with ice.
Speaker 4: And Matt Carrafell made this tradition that all the old
Speaker 4: linemen had to bite the filters off SIGs and.
Speaker 10: Smoke SIGs and train for because we were dirt manna
Speaker 10: smokes can't. You can't say it, so it could be tough.
Speaker 10: You would smoke smoke, field filters.
Speaker 2: Off, spit them off, throw a big old.
Speaker 4: Chewing and then throw a singing and the god this
Speaker 4: is right, goes my God.
Speaker 3: A couple of things. We gotta go to break Number one.
Speaker 3: Number two, Marcus Schers is here, Max, would you go
Speaker 3: down getting place?
Speaker 11: Sure?
Speaker 3: Number three? We have williams Watach at the bottom of
Speaker 3: this hour, so will be a short sports segment coming
Speaker 3: up here in this a moment. We'll talk Nascar with
Speaker 3: William and we have Marcus, Cheryl's and Tommy and Benner here.
Speaker 3: So there's a million things going on.
Speaker 2: I have to go to work.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, just tell me your.
Speaker 2: Now Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Why you're sweat your guy when your.
Speaker 2: Big Papa pump. Nowadays you'll be fighting for jersey.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm in there.
Speaker 2: You're a sweat guy.
Speaker 3: I don't mind.
Speaker 2: I'll take you're a guarantee.
Speaker 3: I am all right. I love you, Tommy, Bye, buddy. Hey,
Speaker 3: it's Chris Hockey, the pouch of Morning show. It's a
Speaker 3: big old country out there and you want to see it.
Speaker 3: Did you know that Jefferson Lines has been your number
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Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 3: Right, it's all happening. Tommy's on his way out, Marcus
Speaker 3: Cheryl's just walked in, and I'm hearing that our guest, buddy,
Speaker 3: see you, tell me love everybody, see you later. I'm
Speaker 3: hearing that our guest, our NASCAR friend, williams so Watach
Speaker 3: is already there with us right now. So a lot's
Speaker 3: going on. We'll bring in Marcus Cheryl's in a moment.
Speaker 3: But William, Sir Watach, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 9: Good to see you.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the party at morning show. Ben Leber's here,
Speaker 3: cast a thousands, we're all here and uh glad to
Speaker 3: have be honest always thinking. So our friends, it's Starky,
Speaker 3: and don't forget to go to starky dot com and
Speaker 3: you can get a free hearing tist on there and
Speaker 3: find out more about all their great ways to make
Speaker 3: your life better and make your hearing better as well. William,
Speaker 3: we're gonna get right to the point. I watched you
Speaker 3: marching down Pitt Lane. I wasn't sure if you were
Speaker 3: gonna go fight somebody or what, but I know you
Speaker 3: had some words with your teammate after he spun you
Speaker 3: into the infield. You had to go to the infield
Speaker 3: care center. Looks like you're one hundred percent fine. Tell
Speaker 3: me about what happened, and tell me about your conversation
Speaker 3: with Brent Cruz on pit row.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, we had a really good race
Speaker 9: and a really good car.
Speaker 12: Within the race, we had to go to the back
Speaker 12: from a pit stop penalty in the second stage, and
Speaker 12: we made it all the way back to fifth middle
Speaker 12: of the third stage, so I would say we had
Speaker 12: a car capable of at least the top three or
Speaker 12: maybe winning, So that was a good shot to get
Speaker 12: some points back. And then just had an incident with
Speaker 12: the a teammate and you know, kind of a racing incident,
Speaker 12: and it just was the worst time for that to happen,
Speaker 12: you know, because of our situation. So now we're a
Speaker 12: little farther out of the playoffs, so we got some
Speaker 12: good work to do coming up with the next four races.
Speaker 9: But yeah, obviously had a conversation with him.
Speaker 12: After the race, and we had meetings about it on Monday,
Speaker 12: and so it's all smoothed over and we should.
Speaker 2: Be ready to rip.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Ben, did you hear that after the races over
Speaker 3: they get back to the shop and they're teammates, so
Speaker 3: they got everybody got pulled them together, make sure everything's okay.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the incident on my screen right now, Ben,
Speaker 3: if you want to turn around. Look, he just got
Speaker 3: into the left rear quarter panel of you, right below
Speaker 3: the the unreal signature there, and just just tapped you
Speaker 3: a little bit. Was it a rookie mistake on his part?
Speaker 3: Is that what you would say?
Speaker 9: I mean, he is a rookie, but he knows how
Speaker 9: to drive these cars very well. You know.
Speaker 12: So when you get close to somebody's rear bumper, it's
Speaker 12: called packing air, so you take air off the rear spoiler,
Speaker 12: so that's less rear down force, so you lose the.
Speaker 9: Rear of the car. And that was happening.
Speaker 12: So I had to, you know, get out of the
Speaker 12: throttle a little bit to try and save it. And
Speaker 12: then you know, obviously once he taps you in your sideways,
Speaker 12: it's kind of kind of over. So that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 12: It all happened, you know, pretty fast, and expect that
Speaker 12: he was a little better than me on that restart,
Speaker 12: and I think he could have passed me cleanly. But
Speaker 12: unfortunately I got together.
Speaker 3: It is interesting because and I we'll move away from
Speaker 3: this in a second, but Ben, you saw you started
Speaker 3: to lose the rear end a bit because he was,
Speaker 3: as you just said, affecting the air on your race
Speaker 3: car because he was so close to you. So even
Speaker 3: before he tapped, you were already getting squarely Because.
Speaker 12: Yes, yeah, I know, airs crucial, especially on the my
Speaker 12: and a half tracks where we're going super fast and
Speaker 12: you know we're not drafting there. Technically you can kind
Speaker 12: of get a little bit of a pull on a
Speaker 12: straight away, but the air is more effective in the corner.
Speaker 12: It's we call it dirty air. So you want to
Speaker 12: stay out of somebody somebody's wake. The guy who's in
Speaker 12: front of you, you want to stay out of his wake
Speaker 12: that he punches through the air at you.
Speaker 2: Always good to talk to you again.
Speaker 5: I am curious about this though I know that you
Speaker 5: don't have to get into like the personal things that
Speaker 5: happen with teammates, but I am curious just from a
Speaker 5: setup standpoint. You have two cars, same team, two different drivers.
Speaker 2: Is it how.
Speaker 5: Different are the cars on race day because you have
Speaker 5: the same engine, the same manufacturer. I'm sure the same
Speaker 5: kit setup, but you guys probably have different preferences and
Speaker 5: maybe how you drive, so like how much different are
Speaker 5: the cars that you're driving versus your teammate.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So going to a newer track like Chicago Land
Speaker 12: this year, it's not new. Last time we race it
Speaker 12: was twenty nineteen, but it's new ish for all the
Speaker 12: rule updates and new packages for the cars that NASCAR
Speaker 12: put out. You know, based off of sim drivers, all
Speaker 12: four of us probably, that was probably the most different
Speaker 12: race we were at. Setup wise, where else that we've
Speaker 12: been to, like three four years in a row. We're
Speaker 12: all pretty close. We all share notes. Everybody can see
Speaker 12: what everybody's running.
Speaker 9: At that point.
Speaker 12: It is down to driver preference and you know, crew
Speaker 12: chief preference and your sim model that you run, so
Speaker 12: you know, if the sim is running a little bit tight,
Speaker 12: which is not turning well with the front tires, you
Speaker 12: can probably get a little behind and you know, unload
Speaker 12: at the racetrack and practice a little loose because it's
Speaker 12: not right. So you have to make sure that's right
Speaker 12: before you go to the track because we don't get practice,
Speaker 12: so we have to use a simulator and all that
Speaker 12: simular time can sometimes not.
Speaker 9: Be worth it if the tire's not skilled.
Speaker 2: Right, So quick follow up to that.
Speaker 5: So, I'm assuming you guys have two individual separate spotters
Speaker 5: for you and your teammate. But is it the same
Speaker 5: crew chief that is communicating with both of you guys
Speaker 5: or you guys have separate crew chiefs that are giving
Speaker 5: you different opinions and options during the race.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no separate crew chiefs.
Speaker 12: So four separate crew chiefs, four separate spotters for all
Speaker 12: four drivers within jg R. Yeah, so that gives each
Speaker 12: driver a different strategy and you know, two tires, four tires,
Speaker 12: whatever you want.
Speaker 9: Pit, don't pit.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so that, you know, it makes it interesting, and
Speaker 12: each crew chief kind of has their own style and
Speaker 12: strategy of what they like to do in a race.
Speaker 1: I didn go go ahead, I'm sorry you mentioned the
Speaker 1: you know, the bad timing obviously for that rec because
Speaker 1: of the well, the new chase. I guess when I
Speaker 1: even calling that playoffs anymore? That situation, where where are
Speaker 1: you standing there? And what are the next couple of
Speaker 1: weeks look like as the regular season winds up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I think so we're thirteenth, top twelve, make it in
Speaker 12: from the end of the year, So we're right there.
Speaker 9: I think we're there forty ish points out.
Speaker 12: Going into that race, we were maybe twenty points out,
Speaker 12: and you know, if we got a top five there,
Speaker 12: we're probably going to be ten fifteen points out.
Speaker 9: So we were gaining on it.
Speaker 12: So now these next few weeks are gonna be really
Speaker 12: important trying to get stage points. You know, obviously good
Speaker 12: finishes and you know, the people that we are racing
Speaker 12: in the chase, which just so happens to be my teammate,
Speaker 12: you know, it really depends on how their week goes
Speaker 12: as well.
Speaker 3: There you go again, Williams Wallach's Starky Racing and Joe
Speaker 3: Gibbs Racing. As you head into racing, where are you
Speaker 3: guys going this weekend? What's the track like and how
Speaker 3: do you feel about going into this last race before
Speaker 3: the chase.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so we're going to Atlanta this weekend. It's a
Speaker 9: mile and a half track.
Speaker 12: Our motors are going to be restricted, so we're gonna
Speaker 12: be drafting there. It's basically like Daytona on steroids, just
Speaker 12: because it's smaller. Everything happens twice as fast. It's actually
Speaker 12: really good racing. It's probably some of the best racing
Speaker 12: on the calendar. But you know we've been decent there.
Speaker 12: We can be better. We spend a lot of time
Speaker 12: with the simulator trying to prepare for this race. And yeah,
Speaker 12: so I think we're gonna go capitalize on what we can.
Speaker 3: Go get him. Man, we appreciate it. William so Waltach
Speaker 3: again is our guest Starkey dot Com. Go in there,
Speaker 3: get a free hearing test, find out how they can
Speaker 3: help you even more with your hearing. Also get to
Speaker 3: know william S Walach O'Reilly Racing series in NASCAR and
Speaker 3: as we follow your career, Man, it's been a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. Thank you for letting us in on this.
Speaker 3: We believe in you. You're gonna make the chase. This
Speaker 3: is another win for you this weekend. The first Minnesota
Speaker 3: native to ever win NASCAR race. Williams so waltch You're
Speaker 3: gonna get your second one this weekend. Thank you, dude,
Speaker 3: Thank you guys. Absolutely Man that that must be awkward
Speaker 3: to walk into the walk into the office on Monday.
Speaker 3: And the guy who spun you out who by the
Speaker 3: way he said it there. But in case you missed it,
Speaker 3: the guy who's in twelve in points is the guy
Speaker 3: who spun him last week, who's also his teammate. So
Speaker 3: him being not in the in the chase this starting
Speaker 3: next week could be because of that spin because his
Speaker 3: teammate did make that's gotta be tough. Yeah, yeah, that's tough, Marcus. Shealls,
Speaker 3: what's up?
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, thanks for having me in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 13: It's so good to see you against Forever House. Things
Speaker 13: pretty good. Yeah, I'm still living in Minnesota. I'm staying busy,
Speaker 13: playing a lot of pickleball, learning how to golf, and
Speaker 13: just living life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's me. I'm going to ask you to do.
Speaker 5: Can you get a little closer to me because you
Speaker 5: know we have to get ready for that.
Speaker 3: We have to be at your camera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be shoulder to shoulder. I don't have to
Speaker 2: smell your breath, but yeah, we got to be a
Speaker 2: little closer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, teammates, right, you got to.
Speaker 5: He's crazy though, that like we So I was looking
Speaker 5: back and I'm like, I know that we crossed over,
Speaker 5: but I think it was only the one year, only
Speaker 5: twenty ten. Yeah, and was that just a was that
Speaker 5: a practice squad year for you?
Speaker 13: It was that I got called up the very last
Speaker 13: game of this season. Yeah, kind of as a Christmas.
Speaker 3: Reward, right right. Listen, we're very excited to have you here, Marcus.
Speaker 3: We're gonna break and come back and get things started.
Speaker 3: But before we do, during this break, would you do
Speaker 3: me a favorite. I know Tommy likes to set his
Speaker 3: chair all the way down on the floor, but it
Speaker 3: makes you look like Ben as a grown up.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have you raise your chair as well
Speaker 3: during this break. But man, thank you for coming. We're
Speaker 3: gonna talk about chip Shots, are we right? That's your spot?
Speaker 3: Is that your spot there in Rochester? Chip Shots?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 7: Yep, that's the name of it.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and so much more so. Ben Leeber,
Speaker 3: Marcus Cheryls are here and the regular cast of thousands
Speaker 3: will break and come right back. It's about you Morning
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Speaker 11: Good Morning.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Zacho And by the way, watching right now
Speaker 3: on the chat on kven dot com slash Watch and
Speaker 3: somebody just asked anybody else heading the DL for the
Speaker 3: show tomorrow?
Speaker 2: We are, Yes, we are.
Speaker 3: So we're bringing Max. So can't wait for that. Looking
Speaker 3: forward to that. Zach will be there, Max will be there,
Speaker 3: I'll be there, Saucy will be there, Mark Parrish will
Speaker 3: be there, and we will have one lovely listener and
Speaker 3: the audience get to play the initials Major tomorrow, which,
Speaker 3: because Corey is still playing poker, Zacho is going to
Speaker 3: be the man in charge tomorrow. So a million reasons
Speaker 3: to be there tomorrow at the Hockey Arena in Detroit
Speaker 3: Lakes for a live broadcast.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, call the game there before. Well that's a
Speaker 1: sweet second broadcast. That's nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They're redoing the place where we normally broadcast from Plion.
Speaker 3: This one's been I can't remember. Do you ever go
Speaker 3: to Detroit Lakes with us?
Speaker 2: I did? I did one time. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So they're redoing that pavilion and it's the water
Speaker 3: carnival weekend, always a big thing, so we're excited about
Speaker 3: I had to shoffle some things around because apparently Corey
Speaker 3: can play poker. I didn't believe it, but it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Guys, So what's the update, Zacho.
Speaker 5: You said if he makes it through today he'll be
Speaker 5: in the money, or if.
Speaker 1: He makes it through the first I think I don't know.
Speaker 1: Half hour however long it takes to get through the
Speaker 1: last I guess I looked it up here. Seven players
Speaker 1: actually remaining now before the money, so speaking out last
Speaker 1: seven other guys.
Speaker 2: He will make some money today.
Speaker 3: Well, good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck.
Speaker 2: I believe in you, Tommy would win.
Speaker 3: I don't want to go there, but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I feel overwhelmed by all the things I heard during
Speaker 3: the last two breaks before our friend Marc Scholl's.
Speaker 9: Got here Vik News on the Power Trip presented by Go.
Speaker 3: That Go Sayer. Again, thanks for being here, man, We
Speaker 3: appreciate it very much.
Speaker 7: No thanks, thanks for having me.
Speaker 13: I haven't seen a lot of faces in many years,
Speaker 13: especially Ben, and it's good to see him and everybody
Speaker 13: else too.
Speaker 3: So of course, Marcus Scholl a former Viking, former Golden
Speaker 3: Gopher and now has chip shots in Rochester, Minnesota. What
Speaker 3: you want and we'll talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 3: I involved in ets performance as well. But I guess
Speaker 3: let's just start right there.
Speaker 2: Where have you been.
Speaker 3: What's been going on since your last time putting on
Speaker 3: the purple?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm five years retired now from the NFL.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 13: It's been fun doing one piece, luckily, playing a lot
Speaker 13: of pickleball, learning how to golf. As I saw you
Speaker 13: at the charity golf event. My ten nieces, one nephew,
Speaker 13: keep me busy, which is fun. They're all local, They're
Speaker 13: all around. Yeah, they're all in sports and activities. So
Speaker 13: it's like every night of the week if I want
Speaker 13: to go see him, and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 13: But I'm living in inver Grove and just enjoying life,
Speaker 13: traveling a little bit.
Speaker 5: How's the business life like? You've got to two businesses
Speaker 5: you're part of. What is What has that been like
Speaker 5: to sort of like use your brain power not for
Speaker 5: football but now for for business.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So my first year out was our boys.
Speaker 3: I don't know what just happened.
Speaker 2: I don't go.
Speaker 3: I believe that a gentleman in Fort Wayne. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you about a little bit later. Yeah, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: sorry you were saying about being a businessman go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: So my first year retired from the NFL, it was
Speaker 13: the COVID year, so it was a little different trying
Speaker 13: to figure out, navigate life, figure out what I was
Speaker 13: going to do, got approach multiple opportunities. Adam Thielen and
Speaker 13: I had always talked about opening and ets in the
Speaker 13: locker room throughout our years, and then we finally did it.
Speaker 13: And then this chip shots came came along and we
Speaker 13: did that as well. So I'm learning a lot ups
Speaker 13: and downs. Uh, it's a lot of work if you
Speaker 13: really want to put in. And it's in Rochester, so
Speaker 13: I commute a lot, which I enjoy. It's an easy drive.
Speaker 13: But it's been fun learning a lot kind of the
Speaker 13: different side getting away from athletics.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I find it.
Speaker 5: I find it so fascinating, like the whole business world,
Speaker 5: at least from where we came from. Because obviously I
Speaker 5: think you developed the work ethic. I mean, the work
Speaker 5: ethic is there, and the desire and the drive is there.
Speaker 5: But like you know, we weren't breaking down financial statements.
Speaker 5: We were thinking about marketing budgets and like what we're
Speaker 5: gonna do for marketing and like just running the business, like,
Speaker 5: I think it's so fascinating that you've gotten into it
Speaker 5: and you're already successful, which is great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun, a lot of learning.
Speaker 13: I read a lot of books during COVID to kind
Speaker 13: of learn the business world, especially their restaurant world, which
Speaker 13: is there's never a break, it's every day, there's so
Speaker 13: much turnover.
Speaker 2: But it's been fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'm guessing when you say that chip Shots
Speaker 5: obviously is a is a pickleball facility, but you have
Speaker 5: food avail, food and drinks available.
Speaker 13: Yes, so we're a bar, restaurant and golf simulators. We
Speaker 13: kind of moved away from the pickleball ets actually took
Speaker 13: over that space, which was nice, kind of win wind
Speaker 13: for me. We wanted to focus more on golf and
Speaker 13: other things as pickleball was coming into the community getting
Speaker 13: kind of oversaturated a little bit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, are you a better golfer than Adam Deeven?
Speaker 7: Not even closing.
Speaker 11: He might be one of the legitimately might be one
Speaker 11: of the best golfers in the state. Yeah, he's that good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be nice if he came to Detroit Lakes
Speaker 3: with us, but I'll leave that alone.
Speaker 2: Anything from there.
Speaker 3: That's what I've been told, Marcus, not only obviously golden golfer.
Speaker 3: You go to the Vikings twenty ten as an undrafted
Speaker 3: free agent. Just making the squad was a big deal.
Speaker 3: You did more than that. You stayed with the Vikings
Speaker 3: through twenty eighteen, then came back in twenty nineteen as well.
Speaker 3: But it's not just that. Okay, here are the records
Speaker 3: you hold. Viking single season punt return average at fifteen
Speaker 3: point two in twenty thirteen, most punt return yards in
Speaker 3: a game one hundred and nineteen in twenty thirteen, Most
Speaker 3: punk return touchdowns in a season two in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: most punk return touchdowns in a career five, first Vikings
Speaker 3: player to have two games of more than one hundred
Speaker 3: yards in punt returns and most special team touchdowns by
Speaker 3: any Viking in franchise history, tied with Cordero Patterson and
Speaker 3: Percy Harvin. Five. It wasn't just that you made the squad.
Speaker 3: That was a huge feat. You made the squad and
Speaker 3: then you stuck around and became one of the Viking greats.
Speaker 3: Do you look back at your career and say, that's
Speaker 3: what I expected. Are you surprised? By you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I kind of know what you mean. I look back,
Speaker 13: and it was I loved every second of it. I
Speaker 13: remember coming into rookie mini camp as a tryout, kind
Speaker 13: of walk on guy, and my name was spelled wrong
Speaker 13: on the depth charts. I wasn't even on the punt
Speaker 13: return list. I had to tell the coach I could
Speaker 13: catch punts, and that was Murphy back at the time,
Speaker 13: and he's like, yeah, whatever, go back there. And then
Speaker 13: I caught a few that day, and then the next
Speaker 13: day everybody, the whole front office was came out to
Speaker 13: watch me catch punts, and then they said they were
Speaker 13: thinking about signing me. And and then ten years later
Speaker 13: I got ten good years in. Was lucky to have
Speaker 13: some good coaches and coach Mike Preefer and some really
Speaker 13: good special teams units because we had a lot of
Speaker 13: starters who ended up playing special teams and kind of
Speaker 13: bought in and believed and actually weren't pouting about playing
Speaker 13: special teams.
Speaker 14: You know, sometimes we're getting seventy five snaps on defense.
Speaker 14: I don't I don't know, I want to go come
Speaker 14: this punt.
Speaker 11: Special teams is so unique, Like you guys just said,
Speaker 11: because a lot of you guys are the best players
Speaker 11: on your high school teams. You're not playing special teams.
Speaker 11: But then you get to the pros, you're like, well,
Speaker 11: I can make a good living doing this, and you
Speaker 11: took full advantage of it. What is when when you
Speaker 11: catch a punt, there's so much you have to focus on.
Speaker 11: You got to track the ball, you gotta catch it,
Speaker 11: and then you got like ten dudes running full speed
Speaker 11: at you.
Speaker 2: What makes that such a unique play?
Speaker 13: Like you said, there's so many dynamics to that play,
Speaker 13: especially as a partner turner. You got to look at win.
Speaker 13: You gotta look at right foot, left foot punter. You
Speaker 13: gotta look at which way they're punting, how far they're
Speaker 13: gonna punt. What's our scheme? Are we doubling the gunners?
Speaker 13: Am I gonna have more time? Are we trying to
Speaker 13: block it where it's most likely a fair catch? But
Speaker 13: just with repetitions, I became comfortable doing it and I
Speaker 13: and I enjoyed it, and it was my niche and
Speaker 13: it kept me in the NFL.
Speaker 3: So sweet, Why were you good at it?
Speaker 13: I think me I'm not the biggest guy. I had
Speaker 13: to raise my chair next to Ben, that's.
Speaker 3: A top.
Speaker 13: But I think quickness was one of my main attributes.
Speaker 13: Coach Pefer always told me I had to make the
Speaker 13: first guy missed miss and I and I took pride
Speaker 13: in that, and I think I was one of the
Speaker 13: quicker players on our team and in the NFL at
Speaker 13: that time.
Speaker 3: Four point three seven in the forty that's flying, That
Speaker 3: is flying. That do you think you still you still
Speaker 3: run a four three.
Speaker 2: Seven maybe a five three seven?
Speaker 5: Well, and Chris, I'll even say, like you know, to
Speaker 5: pumpas tires a little bit, like it's speed.
Speaker 2: I think speed on the football fit.
Speaker 5: And just in general, it's more than just the straight
Speaker 5: line forty, you know, it's it's the short, airy quickness.
Speaker 2: I think that's especially at that position.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of positions that value short, airy quickness
Speaker 5: more than vertical speed. And that's that's the thing that
Speaker 5: Marcus had was like to make a guy miss, you
Speaker 5: have to move laterally in a twitchy fashion that it
Speaker 5: takes a certain amount of body mechanics. It's it's your
Speaker 5: eye movement, it's your shoulders, it's your hips. It could
Speaker 5: be a hip swivel, it could be just like a
Speaker 5: pure weete with your feet, you know. So it's not
Speaker 5: so much like hey, I'm going to hit the hole
Speaker 5: and gast and hit and use my four three speed.
Speaker 5: It's more of the lateral movement. How well you can
Speaker 5: move in a three dimensional space. Like that's something that
Speaker 5: I think that you just had naturally. Like it's it's
Speaker 5: kind of hard to practice that. You know, you can
Speaker 5: do your quick foot ladders and you can do your things,
Speaker 5: but like you just kind of had that knack, you know,
Speaker 5: like you just and I'm sure that you knew that, right,
Speaker 5: I mean there was some I know that you you
Speaker 5: set guys up and you do all this other stuff,
Speaker 5: but like you just naturally had the short, airy quickness
Speaker 5: that I think a lot of people envy.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I was gifted from when I was young.
Speaker 13: I wasn't running anybody over, so I had to kind
Speaker 13: of get used to making people miss and figure out
Speaker 13: angles and using my quickness and head bobs and different footwork.
Speaker 13: And I think that translated over from high school to
Speaker 13: the college to the NFL.
Speaker 2: Well and the other thing. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: courage dude.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, there are there are a lot
Speaker 5: of you know, quote unquote tough football players that that
Speaker 5: shrivel when they catch a punt or they have to
Speaker 5: return a kick. I mean, there are a lot of
Speaker 5: receivers out there, a lot of running backs out there.
Speaker 5: Maybe less so running backs, but certainly receivers that they
Speaker 5: think that they can be a returner and they get
Speaker 5: back there and like, oh hell no, right to the
Speaker 5: sky and i' and then and I sausage.
Speaker 2: You're laid it out.
Speaker 5: You have ten dudes barreling down and barrel and the
Speaker 5: two guys on the outside want to take your head off.
Speaker 5: And those are the fast athletic guys out on the outside.
Speaker 5: And if they get past those those double teams or
Speaker 5: those single blocks out.
Speaker 2: There, they want to decleach you.
Speaker 5: And so you have to like catch a clean punt
Speaker 5: with all of that chaos going on and make a
Speaker 5: guy miss like that takes some bravery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's not a position that a lot of guys
Speaker 13: volunteered for. The coaches are usually like go catch punts
Speaker 13: or whatever. Like some of the best returns. Cordero and
Speaker 13: Percy weren't big fans of part returns, but they're two
Speaker 13: of the greatest of all time. At kick returns, right, Yeah,
Speaker 13: and it's just a different skill set between kick and
Speaker 13: part return. But yeah, you can always protect yourself with
Speaker 13: the fair catch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've.
Speaker 7: Definitely taken my licks.
Speaker 13: I remember you guys know TJ Watt, he used to
Speaker 13: like special teams. This first year, he hit me so
Speaker 13: hard one time. I was like, oh man, this guy's
Speaker 13: gonna be good, and now he's like one of.
Speaker 2: The best players.
Speaker 13: Probably that or I got I got hit in the
Speaker 13: helmet one time and my helmet rolled like fifteen yards.
Speaker 2: I was pretty off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you remember who is He doesn't remember any of.
Speaker 13: It was against the Redskins. I don't remember the gunner's name. Yeah,
Speaker 13: you got me pretty good.
Speaker 11: On the flip side of that, Marcus, I mean, you
Speaker 11: obviously have a bunch of career highlights. Is there one
Speaker 11: particular player that you would say like that's this is
Speaker 11: my best, Like this is the one that's that sticks with.
Speaker 2: Me for sure.
Speaker 13: It was my first touchdown in the NFL. It was
Speaker 13: on my birthday at Detroit. Percy had just scored one
Speaker 13: and then he came up to me, It's like it's
Speaker 13: your turn now. And then I returned one and that
Speaker 13: was probably my favorite.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, he was sweet.
Speaker 3: That's again. Our guest is Marcus Cheryl's number thirty five
Speaker 3: in your heart always in Minnesota Viking Golden Gopher as well.
Speaker 3: You know one game that sticks out to me and
Speaker 3: I just looked it up. So I'm not pretending this
Speaker 3: was off the top of my head, but I do
Speaker 3: remember the game because it was such a huge thing.
Speaker 3: You weren't just a punt returner. You weren't just a
Speaker 3: kick returning obviously, you were a cornerback as well. How
Speaker 3: about the London game against the was it the Browns
Speaker 3: I believe or the Steelers? Steeler Steelers that's right, yeah,
Speaker 3: the Steelers. As I said, I looked it up and
Speaker 3: now I xed out of it. It wasn't just that
Speaker 3: you played that day. You had ten tackles, including nine
Speaker 3: solo tackles in that game. You had to be prepared
Speaker 3: every week to play cornerback. You weren't just a putt returner.
Speaker 3: But that game, when you got to show everybody what
Speaker 3: you could do a cornerback. Did that lengthen your career
Speaker 3: a lot as well?
Speaker 7: It definitely did.
Speaker 13: I remember, just because we had Antoine Winfield and he
Speaker 13: wouldn't really practice a whole lot, so I'd get all
Speaker 13: of those Nickel reps. So that was so good for
Speaker 13: my game and kind of developing myself. And we had
Speaker 13: great coaches, Joe Woods. He did a great job with me.
Speaker 13: But I remember that game was my first start, and
Speaker 13: I was so nervous the entire week. But and you
Speaker 13: had to play against Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders. Man, I
Speaker 13: was like, oh man, but yeah, yeah, but it worked out.
Speaker 13: It ended up being a fun game and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: So who was the hardest guy you had to cover?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 13: I remember Garden Calvin Johnson and I'm in my stands.
Speaker 7: His knees were literally at my helmet.
Speaker 9: I look back.
Speaker 7: I'm like, Harrison, we might need some help here.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think that is That is the fascinating part of
Speaker 5: like you forget sometimes I must be just the TV perspective,
Speaker 5: Like how big some of these guys are, especially in
Speaker 5: certain positions like hawk. I think you and I were
Speaker 5: talking in current times right now. Is it Mount Washington
Speaker 5: the tight end for the Steelers? Dude, Dude, Like, I
Speaker 5: can't believe that that is a that's not a tackle.
Speaker 3: I can't believe that.
Speaker 5: I can't believe that's not an offensive alignment and he's
Speaker 5: out there catching passes.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wouldn't want to tackle that guy. Isn't
Speaker 2: that what everybody says about Cam Newton. He's bigger than
Speaker 2: you think he is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, enormously.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I remember tackling Cam Wants in my shoulder was completely
Speaker 13: know and then I had to go catch a pont
Speaker 13: I'm like, oh, like I'm fair.
Speaker 3: With the other hand again. Now, Marcus Schuls our guests.
Speaker 3: I had a question from the chat. Somebody wanted to
Speaker 3: know what is e t S.
Speaker 13: E t s IS is short for angle Bert Training System.
Speaker 13: So Ryan Engelbert is the one who started it and
Speaker 13: then kind of Adam Deeling kind of jumped down the
Speaker 13: HQ team. But it's a sports training facility for ages
Speaker 13: eight through the professional level, boys and girls, all sports.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fantastic. My boys have done it. I know
Speaker 5: Greenways involved as well. Yeah, fantastic facility. Yeah, and kind
Speaker 5: of a really cool just sort of ethos. You know,
Speaker 5: the vibe there is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think there's eighty locations.
Speaker 2: Now wow, I don't hang don't quote.
Speaker 13: Me on that, but yeah, it's it's doing really well.
Speaker 13: We get really good feedback from all the parents in
Speaker 13: the athletes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's sweet.
Speaker 3: And another question from the chat, how does your body
Speaker 3: feel after taking hits like that and playing the position,
Speaker 3: playing for so long and as you mentioned, giving up
Speaker 3: size to most of the NFL.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my body. I came out pretty unscathed.
Speaker 13: I kind of had a Liz Frank injury that kind
Speaker 13: of shortened my last that.
Speaker 7: It's a mid foot injury.
Speaker 13: Okay, it hasn't really recovered since and that kind of Yeah,
Speaker 13: that was kind of the reason I had to hang
Speaker 13: it up fortunately, but I can still do everything. I
Speaker 13: still played basketball, pickleball, anything athletic.
Speaker 2: I can still do it.
Speaker 7: Just I just wouldn't be able to play football anymore.
Speaker 2: Did you have surgery on it or No?
Speaker 9: No, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Probably the reason why it hasn't healed completely.
Speaker 13: Maybe I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not well.
Speaker 3: You can always do radio, that's what Ben does.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he still looks like he could play, but you
Speaker 3: don't have to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Liz Frank does not mind either, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Marcus. Can you stick around man, of course? Oh good,
Speaker 3: I'm so glad again. Marcus Cherrell's been Lieber, max O, ZACHXO.
Speaker 3: Saucy's over there, I'm here as well. Corey's still playing poker.
Speaker 3: Will keep you updated on that and Detroit Lake's were
Speaker 3: coming to see you tomorrow. So all that and more
Speaker 3: with Marcuschell's after this, Potrick Marshall the.
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