Speaker 1: You're busting with the boys.
Speaker 2: Are we busting yet?
Speaker 1: Yeah? We're busting. This is it. We're busting right now.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people of all ages,
Speaker 2: welcome to Busting with the Boys. A couple quick updates. Yes,
Speaker 2: our podcast is going very well.
Speaker 3: Could it go better?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? So let's do us all a favor. And I
Speaker 2: need you to go on Twitter and Instagram and put
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Speaker 3: I need to click follow and.
Speaker 2: Maybe just maybe just tweeted us or maybe instagram post us.
Speaker 3: You never know. Guess what.
Speaker 2: We're not big enough of a business to where me
Speaker 2: and Will don't see everything you guys say. Okay, the
Speaker 2: hurtful things, the helpful things, and everything in between. Okay,
Speaker 2: so go ahead send it. I promise we're gonna see it.
Speaker 2: And if we don't respond to you, take it personally
Speaker 2: because I definitely saw it.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: The other thing you need to do is you get
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Speaker 3: And what's the other deal we got?
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Speaker 1: Who gives a shit?
Speaker 2: Because that's the shitty way to become a good podcast
Speaker 2: and we're not above that, all right, and.
Speaker 5: Hit that five star and leave funny ass reviews or
Speaker 5: shit on.
Speaker 1: It's like, I just have to have fun, dude.
Speaker 2: Every opinions are like assholes. Everyone's got one, So what
Speaker 2: you need to do is give us your asshole opinion.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 2: Honestly, there's nothing better than waking up in the morning
Speaker 2: on a Monday afternoon after you play like shit and
Speaker 2: looking at all the hateful, hurtful tweets and just punish yourself.
Speaker 2: And then you drink a lot of tequila and then
Speaker 2: you go into your room. You turn off all lights.
Speaker 2: When it gets stark, you light the candles. You pull
Speaker 2: out a quill in a pen and you write free
Speaker 2: hand poetry and then you cry to sleep, and you
Speaker 2: wake up the next day and you say, we gotta
Speaker 2: be better next week, and That's what I need you
Speaker 2: to do for me, all right. I need you to
Speaker 2: make me better by coming and saying the thing you
Speaker 2: hate most about Will and the thing you love most
Speaker 2: about Will, and also do that for me too.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. We're both in this together. We have
Speaker 3: a dog here. YouTube YouTube YouTube as well.
Speaker 2: So YouTube is going to be busting' wtb or busting with.
Speaker 1: The busting with the boys.
Speaker 2: Let's busting with the boys. And so you're you're probably there,
Speaker 2: like Taylor, this is your podcast.
Speaker 3: You probably know what's going on. Literally, dude, here's the deal.
Speaker 3: You're probably wondering.
Speaker 2: You're probably thinking, how much do I put into this?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 2: I literally show up and talk all right. Everyone else,
Speaker 2: the guys behind the cameras, they do everything, all right.
Speaker 2: Zach does everything, Matt does everything, Our production crew does everything.
Speaker 2: Another thing we need to talk about today.
Speaker 1: Folks, is merchandise.
Speaker 2: Okay, whoops, yep uh, that was it. Thank you for
Speaker 2: killing my punchline, Will, Yeah, dick, oops to daisies. That's
Speaker 2: what we What's what we call on the podcast is
Speaker 2: interrupting somebody. We'll talk about this in a little bit.
Speaker 2: What we really need to talk about right now is
Speaker 2: is merchandise. And the thing we're gonna talk about later
Speaker 2: is how disrespectful my friend Will is. He has been
Speaker 2: like the last three days, just like I can't even
Speaker 2: be around the guy who sowed disrespectful. I just want
Speaker 2: to I just want to make him bite.
Speaker 3: The curb, dude.
Speaker 2: And it's just American history excess back of his head.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: For those you haven't seen that movie, it's just don't
Speaker 2: It's a good movie, so go ahead and see it.
Speaker 2: But anyway, those of you that said, probably what that's
Speaker 2: a good reference, Taylor. If you really actually want to
Speaker 2: kill Will merchandise, so you can go on our website.
Speaker 2: It's a bustin WTV dot com. Yes, BUSTINWTV dot com.
Speaker 2: We've got some merch up there. There's t shirts, there's koozies,
Speaker 2: and that's what a lot of podcasts have. But what
Speaker 2: else do we have? Look behind me, what do you see?
Speaker 3: Is that a neon sign? Yes it is.
Speaker 2: That's a terrible question. These are for sale on the merchandise.
Speaker 2: You're thinking, I'm a boy, I'm a puppy. I want
Speaker 2: to be a part of something special. I want to
Speaker 2: take pictures of myself and send it to the boy
Speaker 2: because they asked us really nicely on Instagram to please
Speaker 2: send us stuff. I'm gonna get this kneeon sign and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it behind me.
Speaker 3: And then look at me. I'm Will Compton.
Speaker 1: I'm a boy.
Speaker 2: I'm a little puppy, just like this little puppy way
Speaker 2: right here. This is our guest. Go ahead, the little
Speaker 2: guy there, Dude Haggard named after Merle Haggard. Why because
Speaker 2: we try to be cool and it's not working out
Speaker 2: too well anyway. Those things are for sale on the
Speaker 2: merch day. I think the first topic we need to
Speaker 2: talk about.
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Speaker 2: So there's this thing I was looking up online. I
Speaker 2: actually tweeted about the other day. My wife called me,
Speaker 2: hold on tailing.
Speaker 3: So we're on the street.
Speaker 2: Is that the Tennessee Police Department warns about meth gaters?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we got to figure that out. What is
Speaker 5: the what's what's the premise behind the meth gaters?
Speaker 3: Day?
Speaker 2: They warned us about meth gaters dude, this is this
Speaker 2: is like a cartoon like people in me, like you
Speaker 2: know the old story, like you flush like a fish
Speaker 2: down the toilet or contewers or god damn it will.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm talking about. Being so disrespectful, dude.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I gotta chime in.
Speaker 2: Let me finish a thought.
Speaker 5: It's it's not even a finish a thought. It's finish
Speaker 5: a book, a Harry Potter books.
Speaker 3: And how well do those sell?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Nice, yep, this is like, yeah, I've already lost my
Speaker 2: lawns flushing. No, you flush down the toilet, I said,
Speaker 2: Like in New York they talk about all the time.
Speaker 2: Don't flush the lizard down the toilet, don't flush the
Speaker 2: fish down the toilet.
Speaker 3: They go in the sewers. They become toxic, like teenage
Speaker 3: mutant ninja turtles.
Speaker 2: But they have a chip on their shoulder because they've
Speaker 2: been flushing the toilet. And if you've ever been flushed
Speaker 2: on the toilet, I've got a swirly when I was
Speaker 2: a little kid, and I didn't enjoy it, and I
Speaker 2: get pissed, all right, And now I'm a toxic goldfish
Speaker 2: that's now seven hundred pounds, dude, And I've adapted feet
Speaker 2: and now we're in Futurama. But anyway, Tennessee Police Department
Speaker 2: warns about meth gaters due to flushing drugs down the toilet.
Speaker 2: What so over here, it says a middle Tennessee police
Speaker 2: department is warning people about fishing flushing drugs down the toilet,
Speaker 2: saying fouls and gaiters on meth are possible. That's a
Speaker 2: real thing, getters, getter's on meth. So basically, what they're
Speaker 2: saying is if you're in Tennessee and you flush on
Speaker 2: the toilet, they go to these treatment ponds. In these
Speaker 2: treatment ponds in Alabama, there are gators. Gators that will
Speaker 2: eat these things. This myth that's probably in a plastic bag,
Speaker 2: because no one has has ever nice enough to just
Speaker 2: again like push it out of the bag. They actually
Speaker 2: have to fuss the whole bag. The gators will eat this.
Speaker 2: And now gators are already terrifying. All right, we've seen
Speaker 2: the things in Disneyland where dogs are getting snatched up,
Speaker 2: people are getting snatched up. Imagine that kind of issue
Speaker 2: if we are dealing with gators on meth. All right,
Speaker 2: no one is safe, dude. Gators are already dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: Are they like zombie gators?
Speaker 3: No, they're meth head gators.
Speaker 1: Right, But what is the attitude when of gators on
Speaker 1: fucking meth?
Speaker 3: Do you remember what?
Speaker 5: Like I know where I grew up number three county
Speaker 5: one time for meth in America? Really Yeah, we would
Speaker 5: go to these fame, yeah, claim the fame. We would
Speaker 5: quote unquote what are these haunted places? And we would
Speaker 5: break in these abandoned buildings sometimes and you would find
Speaker 5: these meth labs that were abandoned. So be around people
Speaker 5: of like the the meth category is like, we got
Speaker 5: somebody right here on the screen right now.
Speaker 1: Like meth heads are fucking out of their mind.
Speaker 3: Is there any way we could patch this through? Dude?
Speaker 1: We better be able to like man maybe Jaz at
Speaker 1: the time somebody else and liked him.
Speaker 4: Terrible.
Speaker 3: We're so fired. Your production company has already fired.
Speaker 1: That's actually fired.
Speaker 3: He doesn't even make a dollar, dude, he's already fired.
Speaker 2: Here's number one. I don't know what was going on
Speaker 2: with that whole thing, but that myth dude.
Speaker 3: He look he had some.
Speaker 2: Rhythm when he was talking though, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: He had a little a.
Speaker 1: Little they got a weird twitch to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2: Get it back way back the smile, my baby.
Speaker 1: Pretty smile again.
Speaker 2: We have we ain't got no problem.
Speaker 1: Hey, did you imagine a gator on that ship?
Speaker 3: Did dude?
Speaker 5: The the the treat the now you pause, Zach, pause
Speaker 5: this video.
Speaker 3: Dude, God damn.
Speaker 2: So the treatment center also had a comment saying the
Speaker 2: following ducks, geese and other foul foul frequent our treatment pawns.
Speaker 2: And we shuddered to think what one all hyped up
Speaker 2: on meth would do. And that's just talking about duck
Speaker 2: and geese.
Speaker 1: Did you a fucking gator coming out of the water
Speaker 1: on meth? Dude with your dog outside?
Speaker 3: My dog's dead.
Speaker 2: I love you, hey, get your ass back. Hey, dude,
Speaker 2: that would be a terrifying thing. But like I've learned
Speaker 2: a lot of things this week.
Speaker 3: What was what was it? What was the thing you
Speaker 3: were telling me about ducks?
Speaker 1: Dude? These fucking these ducks, bro, male ducks.
Speaker 5: The sentence was our prolific gang rapists on Instagram And
Speaker 5: I just saw this helpless female duck getting destroyed by
Speaker 5: a gang of ducks, like male ducks.
Speaker 1: From what they say is it says that male ducks.
Speaker 5: Have a corkscrew penis that they use as a weapon
Speaker 5: to try to impregnate a female duck.
Speaker 1: That's how they reproduce.
Speaker 5: So female ducks have a vagina that is built like
Speaker 5: a maze for these corkscrew for these corkscrew weapons that
Speaker 5: male ducks have. So these male ducks are taking turns
Speaker 5: trying to penetrate them, and these helpless female ducks are
Speaker 5: just built to try and survive this gang rape. Dude,
Speaker 5: it's insane.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: Somebody passing into our group chat fuckery Island, shout out
Speaker 5: fuckery Island. But I'm sitting there like, yo, could you
Speaker 5: imagine being a female duck created? Like, hey, we're creating
Speaker 5: you to be to fear for your life when males
Speaker 5: are around you. Look here, here's a video right there,
Speaker 5: these videos.
Speaker 1: Look at it. Oh my god, this female duck.
Speaker 5: Oh shit, I am out I am out numbered, I
Speaker 5: am out manned, I am out gunned.
Speaker 2: And the thing is is like, yeah, if you get
Speaker 2: to do your thing, if that's how the reproductive system
Speaker 2: and a duck works, go for it. That's how the world,
Speaker 2: it's society of being a duck. If that's how it is,
Speaker 2: I guess I'll turn a blind eye to that, but
Speaker 2: don't peck her in the back of the head, dude.
Speaker 1: Like, look at that one.
Speaker 5: One male duck is holding the female duck down by
Speaker 5: her neck.
Speaker 1: The other two are like, hey, good job, man, let
Speaker 1: me get up in there behind it. And they're just
Speaker 1: just running a full flying v on this thing. Just
Speaker 1: a quack attack.
Speaker 3: Dude, I'll never watch The Mighty Ducks ever again.
Speaker 1: This is what it's based off of.
Speaker 2: Can I I hate that I'm even asking this, Zach,
Speaker 2: Can you pull up a picture of a duck's penis.
Speaker 2: I need to see it, dude, I gotta see this
Speaker 2: duck penis.
Speaker 1: Bro we got I'm gloss so glad we get the
Speaker 1: editor time out?
Speaker 3: Is that it? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 3: Look at fucking cork screw it is have a quarkstrew poenis.
Speaker 4: You're right?
Speaker 1: How did they get him? Howd they get him excited
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 2: They probably Oh, it's got a blue bill.
Speaker 3: That's a cool looking duck.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 1: To get a male duck excited, what do they do?
Speaker 5: Just like tie a female duck down and look like
Speaker 5: scary and pray ye, that's like pull.
Speaker 2: Fiction Oh my, look at that thing, dude. Honestly, like,
Speaker 2: that's a big penis for a duck.
Speaker 3: I think, right, that's like.
Speaker 5: A it's a weird ratio. It's going on right there, unit.
Speaker 5: It's a nice peace man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, that guy's got a serious.
Speaker 1: We got a transition out of this subject, totally ship.
Speaker 3: You just go back to the videos as it's over, Dude.
Speaker 2: I was intently staring at that duck penis, dude, and
Speaker 2: the video popped up on me.
Speaker 3: Have a ducking rape, dude. That is that is way
Speaker 3: too much.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what a weird way to start this podcast.
Speaker 2: I know it started off so well, and now we
Speaker 2: have duck rapes.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have such a great, great character guy and
Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins coming on, and this is gonna be this
Speaker 5: is his intro.
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, who's the most salt of the earth Midwest
Speaker 2: boy of all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we couldn't get on to say, we couldn't
Speaker 1: get him to answer a bad question.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna ask him about Michigan, Michigan State,
Speaker 2: and he didn't even like I got punched in the
Speaker 2: face and he didn't even try to protect me, like
Speaker 2: he's guilty by association. Kirk Cousins punched me in the face. Dude,
Speaker 2: It wasn't just William Golson. When you saw that happen, Kirk,
Speaker 2: when you if you ever listened back to this podcast,
Speaker 2: when you saw that happen, you were guilty by association.
Speaker 3: Dude, that's your bad that I got punched. You were
Speaker 3: the leader of that team.
Speaker 1: Did he ain't stepping in there? Bro?
Speaker 2: Pull that video up, dude, type and ty Lawe gets
Speaker 2: punched by William Golson.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 2: For we played Michigan State and for a year I
Speaker 2: had this guy as the background.
Speaker 3: On my phone.
Speaker 1: Oh I remember you tell me about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I followed him on Twitter, looked at him every single day, dude,
Speaker 2: and I beat the ship out of him that next year,
Speaker 2: beat the absolute shit out of him.
Speaker 5: I mean you, it's not like you were swinging and
Speaker 5: beat the shit out of him like.
Speaker 3: Football beat the shit out of which is not just cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I football the ship out of this day.
Speaker 3: Footballed him so hard. Dude, there it is. I'm playing
Speaker 3: left tackle. What a grainy film?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 3: Was this like nineteen seventy four? Look at this?
Speaker 2: Everything's good there's a penalty flag down? Why is there
Speaker 2: a penalty flight that? Roy Rowntree shouts, what are this
Speaker 2: that's gonna show William walking away?
Speaker 3: I've watched this video.
Speaker 2: It's probably got you know, fifteen thousand views.
Speaker 3: I'm fourteen of them. I watch this like every other
Speaker 3: every other month.
Speaker 2: Yep, he didn't even he didn't even get kicked out
Speaker 2: of the game for this. Look at him, dumb ass,
Speaker 2: And this is when he hits you, uh yeah, looking
Speaker 2: to him. It's about to show the replay right now.
Speaker 2: I've seen it, Roddy. I got him playing on the
Speaker 2: ground and coo, yo, look at you walk a bitch, dude.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, just do what your coach do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, literally before the game, so Michigan, Michigan stay for
Speaker 2: those of you in the South who don't understand, we
Speaker 2: don't understand, like that's a that's a huge ribber way.
Speaker 2: And my coaches were like, hey, I keep your comp
Speaker 2: or make sure you keep your composer, like the entire
Speaker 2: before the game, like you're a bit of a hothead,
Speaker 2: keep your composure. And so I kept my damn composure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would definitely say that.
Speaker 2: But for the rest of my life, I have to
Speaker 2: live with looking at that video.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we played Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: My second year was Marcus's rookie year, and William Golsen
Speaker 2: placed with Tampa Bay. And we ran a We ran
Speaker 2: like a play to the right, a run play to
Speaker 2: the right, and all I had to do was have
Speaker 2: the end.
Speaker 3: It was like a super easy block.
Speaker 2: And I swung at him in this play and I
Speaker 2: missed so bad.
Speaker 3: Like I blocked him.
Speaker 2: I hit him in the chest and I swung as
Speaker 2: hard as I could, like legit, tried to punch him
Speaker 2: in the face and totally missed.
Speaker 3: He just moved gently.
Speaker 2: To the right and I came over the top and
Speaker 2: he just took it a little and it was it
Speaker 2: was nothing. And he looked at me and goes, you
Speaker 2: can get fine for that.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'll do whatever.
Speaker 2: It takes, dude. I haven't forgot a thing that I
Speaker 2: haven't forgot a thing.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 2: Hey, you'll say that we killed him, Dude, We smacked
Speaker 2: Tampa that game. Guess what, we went two and fourteen solid,
Speaker 2: first year solid.
Speaker 3: I know we went three and thirteen. Yeah, because my
Speaker 3: first year we went to in fourteen. First The first
Speaker 3: first two years didn't didn't go so hot.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Kirk Couses is coming on the pod today.
Speaker 2: Kirk is live Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Paid paid, so paid, dude.
Speaker 1: He's like the only guaranteed contract, Uh, I think in
Speaker 1: the quarter? Is it in the league? I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's I don't know.
Speaker 2: If you sign a one year deal, isn't that guaranteed?
Speaker 1: No, you gotta play, you gotta like run down on
Speaker 1: kickoff first. Well, in my world, you have to be on.
Speaker 3: The team on Monday of week one, right.
Speaker 5: But I'm saying when Kirk signed that stuff is fully
Speaker 5: guaranteed right out of the gate done. He's like the first,
Speaker 5: like an elite quote unquote elite guy to have like
Speaker 5: a fully.
Speaker 1: Guaranteed contract like that.
Speaker 5: Because I want to I want to say, Jets offered
Speaker 5: him like a few million more dollars, like a lot
Speaker 5: more of a ceiling, but not as much guarantee, and
Speaker 5: he ended up turning that down and going with the Vikings,
Speaker 5: who fully guaranteed everything.
Speaker 1: Solid deal. We asked him about that. We asked him
Speaker 1: about the franchise situation the Redskins.
Speaker 5: Everybody always wants to know how some how certain things
Speaker 5: went down there.
Speaker 1: We ask him if he'd cut he cut his piece
Speaker 1: off for a Super Bowl ring.
Speaker 3: Doesn't go the way you think it does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we try hard, man, We went at this dude,
Speaker 1: and he is polished. He's a polished white quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And what just just being white in the league as
Speaker 2: a feet in its own isn't it?
Speaker 5: Isn't that just unless unless you're a quarterback. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: it probably better to be white as a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Why.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the you know, the stereotype that goes.
Speaker 5: On if it's a if it's a black quarterback, it's
Speaker 5: like the thought is they can throw it a little bit,
Speaker 5: but they can run in their super athletic and then
Speaker 5: gets you out of weird situations for a white guy,
Speaker 5: you like think, you know, it's just those stereotypes.
Speaker 3: White guy, I think he's a grinder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, grinder, high motor, try hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a pretty dumb stereotype, but it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, most over quarterbacks are black. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: Tom Tom Brady can't run at all. Hey, there's a
Speaker 2: you got that five b there's a all right, Well
Speaker 2: we'll be back right after.
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousin.
Speaker 6: Well, this is Kirk.
Speaker 1: We're doing my baby.
Speaker 4: I'm doing really well.
Speaker 3: How are you, guys, Kirk, I'm I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good at Kirk. I was gonna say, we
Speaker 1: want to kind of, we want to kind of we
Speaker 1: need more out of you.
Speaker 5: I hope you change your attitude a little bit. You
Speaker 5: sound a little more excited.
Speaker 7: I think you're going to character here.
Speaker 5: All right, good dude, we got a lot of things
Speaker 5: we want to ask and talk about. Number one, you've
Speaker 5: seen the videos.
Speaker 1: You've seen what.
Speaker 5: Vrabel would do for a super Bowl? What would you
Speaker 5: do for a super Bowl? Ring you're young, you know
Speaker 5: we know the answer is no.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know. We don't Okay, Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: Maybe we don't know. You've had a kid.
Speaker 2: I broke the straw on my law to Kirk, damn it?
Speaker 1: Would you cut? Would you cut that piece off for
Speaker 1: a super Bowl?
Speaker 4: Or no, I can't do it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Would you do it? What extent would you go to?
Speaker 7: I mean, give me, give me some other things, some
Speaker 7: other options.
Speaker 2: But would you would you punch three children in the
Speaker 2: face for for a Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: Your son?
Speaker 1: Your son, your son being one of them.
Speaker 7: I couldn't I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't do it.
Speaker 8: I don't want this to become a cousins doesn't want
Speaker 8: a super Bowl, but.
Speaker 2: It's starting to sound like it a little bit. Honestly,
Speaker 2: can we all be honest?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I love a good would you rather?
Speaker 7: But this is just getting kind of dark.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, well, we can go some really dark.
Speaker 1: Would you rather? Do you want a dark? Do you
Speaker 1: want a dark? Would you rather?
Speaker 4: I don't know that I do, but I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we have.
Speaker 5: Come this far, and you know your boy, you know
Speaker 5: I'm way more. I'm way out there for you. But uh,
Speaker 5: if you had to choose, if you're if you had.
Speaker 1: Your wife Julie and your mom was in her body,
Speaker 1: and then you had your and your wife was in
Speaker 1: my body, which one was you have to you have
Speaker 1: to pick your hand.
Speaker 6: And go there.
Speaker 4: I can't even go there.
Speaker 5: Well, then, god, dude, we're trying. I knew I was
Speaker 5: gonna try. I'm like, yo, it's gonna be a reach
Speaker 5: to get Kirk to ansel a couple of these, but
Speaker 5: we're gonna go after the boy and see what he
Speaker 5: can do.
Speaker 1: Kirk.
Speaker 3: To be honest, Hey.
Speaker 1: Kirk's got a podcast Taylor does really tell me last
Speaker 1: night it's uh, what is it? The Kirk Cousins podcast.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we're just trying to keep up with you guys.
Speaker 4: We don't have as good as a name, we don't
Speaker 4: have as good as a boss.
Speaker 1: That's all right, public public right now, it's the Vikings
Speaker 1: run it though, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, Vikings on A Vikings podcast will be on
Speaker 8: this fall after games.
Speaker 7: Have a good time.
Speaker 4: Maybe not as much a good time as you guys have,
Speaker 4: but uh yeah, I'm a good time.
Speaker 5: I get to swing the bat a little more since
Speaker 5: I'm a free agent, not really like too concerned, but
Speaker 5: I'm doing exactly.
Speaker 1: And Taylor, you know, he he's got a contract, not
Speaker 1: one like yours. Uh nope, but close enough.
Speaker 2: Kirk, I get it, dude. You look, you have a
Speaker 2: fully guaranteed contract. You're not going to cut off your
Speaker 2: piece for a Super Bowl. I totally understand that. What
Speaker 2: I will say is good. Good on you for getting
Speaker 2: with the Minnesota Vikings on your podcast, because the whole
Speaker 2: reason why I started my podcast was.
Speaker 1: The no, I don't say why I started my podcast, right,
Speaker 1: The whole reason.
Speaker 3: Why I let Will. I carry Will in my back.
Speaker 2: Every day is because when the Titans started their podcast,
Speaker 2: I thought to myself, I could beat this, and now
Speaker 2: we did, so good on you.
Speaker 3: We did beat We beat all their views on the
Speaker 3: one day.
Speaker 4: But honestly, do the boys right, it's a the boy there.
Speaker 2: I'm starting to I love it. You're starting to buy
Speaker 2: into the the deal we're gonna send.
Speaker 1: Uh, We're gonna send a box of shirts to the
Speaker 1: locker room, and you better just throw them around. You
Speaker 1: better just sling those tools.
Speaker 4: Do that, you know.
Speaker 8: Kyle Sloter, one of our quarterbacks, had shirts made to
Speaker 8: say Sloaterhouse and he distributed them around the locker room.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean.
Speaker 4: Guys wear them.
Speaker 6: But I thought, you know, if you make a shirt.
Speaker 8: For yourself and they give them out to everybody.
Speaker 7: I would think there's not there's the president.
Speaker 8: There's nothing wrong with having a shirt represents somebody else.
Speaker 2: That Hey, we're my t shirt. It's a weird flex.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a weird flex.
Speaker 6: Weird weird flex.
Speaker 4: But okay, Cook, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know, and you don't have to answer
Speaker 2: this question if you even know who I am. But
Speaker 2: I definitely know who you are, buddy, because I don't
Speaker 2: know if you do this. We are rivals, Our colleges
Speaker 2: are major rivals.
Speaker 4: Nine eleven.
Speaker 2: You went to the one of the worst universities to
Speaker 2: ever be called a D one university, the little brother
Speaker 2: Michigan State.
Speaker 3: Well how'd you get there?
Speaker 2: Do Was it like, hey, this is my only offer
Speaker 2: and I have to or did you actually choose to
Speaker 2: go there?
Speaker 4: Is that a thing?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 7: What grew up in Michigan?
Speaker 4: Full disclosure, I grew up. Really, I'm on the line.
Speaker 4: I mean I watched any of them.
Speaker 6: I watched the Spartan And the reality.
Speaker 8: Is Michigan had every opportunity to recruit me and call
Speaker 8: me to come to my high school, and they never.
Speaker 6: They never even I don't even know if they sent
Speaker 6: me a letter.
Speaker 8: Like a like a just typed up, like generic send
Speaker 8: it to fifteen thousand kids letter.
Speaker 4: I don't think I even got one of those.
Speaker 8: And so you know, they got Ryan Mallett early in
Speaker 8: the recruiting process.
Speaker 7: He committed and I.
Speaker 8: Think they pretty much said, with Fi for quarterback, we
Speaker 8: don't need to recruit another one, and that was it.
Speaker 8: But chat Enny was a senior when I was a freshman,
Speaker 8: so I thought, you know, Hey, it timed out great.
Speaker 6: I could have been graduated.
Speaker 8: I could have stepped in as a sophomore and played
Speaker 8: a few years. But they had other plans, and Ryan
Speaker 8: Mallett and and so I went to Michigan State and
Speaker 8: it all worked out and won a few games against
Speaker 8: those guys in the ann Arbor.
Speaker 4: But uh, I would have loved to have.
Speaker 6: Gone to the wolver I mean, what a great school,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 1: And Bloomer, you were a late bloomer.
Speaker 7: I was a late bloomer.
Speaker 4: Will knows that I was a late bloomer. And uh
Speaker 4: and uh, dude.
Speaker 8: Will has Will has way more bragging rights against me
Speaker 8: in the Big ten.
Speaker 1: Then you're damn right.
Speaker 2: Hey, let the guy finish this whole Sorry started, I
Speaker 2: got excited. I got sorry, sorry for we have a
Speaker 2: big we have a big interrupting issue will is, but
Speaker 2: on this thing lately, he is so disrespectful. So I apologize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 2: I uh, we're not calling Ryan Mallet right now. I
Speaker 2: have him on the podcast. That's for damn sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you definitely you definitely swung a hit a home run
Speaker 2: on that one. Good on you, buddy, I'm happy for
Speaker 2: you played. Uh, I went one and three against Michigan State.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that. But did you
Speaker 2: play with William Golston? Did you play with him?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do you do you remember when he punched me in
Speaker 3: the face?
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 7: I remember I got and that's what you know.
Speaker 4: People talk about it.
Speaker 7: But that's why I love it, man, That's what made
Speaker 7: it a rivalry.
Speaker 6: To make senseful, is that kind of extracurricular stuff?
Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong, But is there not a
Speaker 2: better feeling than when you're going to play Michigan and
Speaker 2: we're going to play you guys like there's that Like
Speaker 2: the week of you just don't even go to class,
Speaker 2: You just lock in watch film and the hype before
Speaker 2: the game. Michigan players are kicking at the middle of
Speaker 2: the Spartan head. You guys are coming around trying to
Speaker 2: knock down our banner. It's it's wild. People are punches,
Speaker 2: just good American boys that were the number seventy seven
Speaker 2: and the amazing Blue has never done anything wrong in
Speaker 2: his entire life. It's a beautiful thing, man, It's a
Speaker 2: There's nothing like that rivalry because like Michigan had you
Speaker 2: know we had a house state, which is supposed to
Speaker 2: be the biggest one.
Speaker 4: We had, y'all. Oh yeah, Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: But for me, ever since William Golsen punched me in
Speaker 2: the face here, there's nothing I want more than the
Speaker 2: Michigan is the dummy of Michigan State.
Speaker 3: Every single year.
Speaker 4: Well I grew up in the state.
Speaker 8: I grew up in the state, would have loved have
Speaker 8: been recruited by their school, wasn't recruited by him.
Speaker 6: Play against them?
Speaker 4: And I know, and I'm still a resident of Michigan.
Speaker 8: All my years of the Redskins, all my yars of
Speaker 8: the Vikings, I keep the Michigan driver's rights, my residence
Speaker 8: of Michigan.
Speaker 4: So I if we had it done well against I.
Speaker 6: Gotta face it the rest of my life.
Speaker 8: So I really hold on to that whole thing about
Speaker 8: you walk the street through the alleys each year, whoever
Speaker 8: you know, whoever wins, whoever loses, and so you know
Speaker 8: you still live that every every day back in the
Speaker 8: state when you run.
Speaker 4: Into people who are you know, your part and to Wolverine.
Speaker 6: So it's uh, and I knew that on a plan.
Speaker 6: I mean, you felt that pressure like.
Speaker 4: Man like today's games. Yeah, it's gonna change my life.
Speaker 7: It's gonna change my life one way or another.
Speaker 4: And here we go, and uh, you gotta love it.
Speaker 5: Do you think Michigan looks back and they're like, man,
Speaker 5: we should have got Kirk Cousins or do you.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you were still the toper hired?
Speaker 8: I mean, if you want to go into the football,
Speaker 8: and if they hired Soloy Carr, obviously iconic in Michigan,
Speaker 8: you know so much respect.
Speaker 4: You know, we'll get an offer from him, it's a
Speaker 4: big deal.
Speaker 8: But he retired after what would have been my freshman year,
Speaker 8: so they hired rich Rodriguez. I'm thinking Rich Rodriguez says,
Speaker 8: even if we had offered Kirk Cousins of scholarship, I'm
Speaker 8: not playing him like I'm gonna get my guy at
Speaker 8: Nard Robinson, guy who's run, a guy who's athletics. So
Speaker 8: I probably would have been transferring or been kind of
Speaker 8: stuck behind somebody far more athletic than me. So it
Speaker 8: all worked out because if they had hired Rich Rodriguez,
Speaker 8: it wouldn't have been good for me.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 5: Fast forward, fast forward, after your Michigan State days. You're
Speaker 5: drafted fourth round behind the chosen one, Robert RG three.
Speaker 5: You know, we got to go down this rabbit hole
Speaker 5: of what that transition was like when you started to
Speaker 5: become you like that and kind of that dynamic of
Speaker 5: climbing that ladder when you know that DC wanted RG
Speaker 5: three to work out so bad.
Speaker 6: Well, the way I always do it was my best.
Speaker 8: Case scenario when I was happy with this scenario was
Speaker 8: to play well in.
Speaker 4: Pre season games in the third and fourth quarter.
Speaker 6: That maybe another team takes notice.
Speaker 8: And then after probably two to three years, I get
Speaker 8: traded and I thought, that's a great deal and I.
Speaker 4: Can go somewhere else.
Speaker 8: I'm in a good spot and so I always felt
Speaker 8: like that was a good scenario for me. I love
Speaker 8: that I got to play for Mike Shanahan, so I thought,
Speaker 8: I'm in a good spot here.
Speaker 4: To kind of learn the ropes.
Speaker 8: I thought it was awesome that I got to kind
Speaker 8: of because I wasn't ready to play. Robert was ready
Speaker 8: to play and he proved that being with C the year,
Speaker 8: but I wasn't ready to play.
Speaker 4: I needed to be able to sit and so it.
Speaker 6: Kind of was a good fit I just never thought.
Speaker 4: It being Washington.
Speaker 8: And then as things played out, coaches changed and injuries.
Speaker 4: Happened, and just life happens.
Speaker 8: Is you know, suddenly I'm starting in Washington and then
Speaker 8: I'm there starts for a few years. So this league
Speaker 8: is crazy and you can say that, but when you
Speaker 8: actually live it, it's a whole different deal. And yeah,
Speaker 8: and you you heard me say you liked that. I
Speaker 8: think in practice, long before I ever seen it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do We had so much fun.
Speaker 2: You said that before you did it, before the thing.
Speaker 2: We Yeah, we had a blast in the red redskin.
Speaker 7: I mean we were always chipped.
Speaker 4: We were always.
Speaker 8: Surfing in ocage or surfing in training game. If I remember,
Speaker 8: always looking back at the coaches defense and just.
Speaker 4: Kind of running my mouth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, you would run your mouth in like the
Speaker 5: most fun loving way too. It's like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, man, god damn it, I won't even yeah, gosh,
Speaker 5: you won't even curse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: But so then when I did it.
Speaker 8: When I did it in the game, I didn't think
Speaker 8: anything on it because I had been doing it.
Speaker 4: But I guess you forget it.
Speaker 8: Sometimes there's cameras and sometimes there's not. When there's cameras
Speaker 8: changes the whole game. And so uh, yeah it was
Speaker 8: on camera. Next thing, you know, it's everywhere. Yeah, I
Speaker 8: was just seeing me And sometimes, you know, I wish
Speaker 8: I didn't know there were cameras around more often because
Speaker 8: I feel like a different Kurt comes out. But sometimes
Speaker 8: when the cameras are on, you're like guarded and you
Speaker 8: just don't want to think you're put in your mouth,
Speaker 8: especially in today's culture, and so you're just so protective
Speaker 8: and nobody ever gets to see the real youth. So
Speaker 8: that's why I appreciate the podcast, so you can just
Speaker 8: kind of let your hair down and be yourself and.
Speaker 2: Raise Yeah, man, when you have eighty seven million dollars guaranteed,
Speaker 2: but you don't have to worry about my studio, no, honestly.
Speaker 1: Talking about that. You know, you're one.
Speaker 5: You're like the only guy to have a guaranteed contract
Speaker 5: of that like magnitude. Uh when people like, yeah, but
Speaker 5: he was making bank on his franchise tag too, like
Speaker 5: the Yeah, explain obviously you make a lot of money,
Speaker 5: but explain that mentality And I don't even know if
Speaker 5: it's pressure, Like you can walk me through this but
Speaker 5: the dynamic that would go on the few years that
Speaker 5: you're under the franchise tag, especially in a media market
Speaker 5: like DC, Like I always think about the time we
Speaker 5: were playing golf and your stuff's going on, and you're
Speaker 5: talking about, you know, going to training camp.
Speaker 1: And you're obviously yeah, I'm definitely going to.
Speaker 5: Training camp, and it's just so awkward being in some
Speaker 5: of these standstill stages of a situation like that. Talk
Speaker 5: about the mentality and the pressure that kind of came
Speaker 5: with being a franchise tag guy year in and year.
Speaker 8: Out, Yeah, you know, it's it kind of was what
Speaker 8: it was. I just felt I kind of shrugged my
Speaker 8: shoulders dead and said, look, there's a lot of different
Speaker 8: ways to play this.
Speaker 4: This is the way it's kind of played out.
Speaker 8: I felt peats about the decision I made time, I
Speaker 8: didn't feel unrest. In fact, if I had done anything different,
Speaker 8: I probably would have felt unrest. So the fact that
Speaker 8: I just felt eached and felt somewhat settled about the
Speaker 8: decision I had made, even if it meant that I
Speaker 8: was gonna have to be figuring it out again when
Speaker 8: the season ended, I can't get it allowed me to
Speaker 8: just kind.
Speaker 4: Of play and not worry about it.
Speaker 8: And I guess it just helps it that teams are
Speaker 8: always looking for quarterback, it doesn't seem like they've got
Speaker 8: an oversupply of them.
Speaker 6: So I felt like, look, if I've shown I can play,
Speaker 6: I can go year to year and and I just don't.
Speaker 8: Feel like I'm risking all that much because between an
Speaker 8: insurance policy and and the fact that team's need quarterback,
Speaker 8: the mass would just say that I'm better off just
Speaker 8: playing year to year and letting it play.
Speaker 6: Out as it does.
Speaker 4: So obviously I look back now and I think it
Speaker 4: worked out really well. But yeah, but everybody deals with that.
Speaker 4: I mean when guys are.
Speaker 8: Playing you know you you were undrafted, playing for Equanimenment,
Speaker 8: fighting every year and like that.
Speaker 4: That's pressure.
Speaker 8: That's a grind in training camp to try to figure
Speaker 8: out where your future is going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, And dide I feel you your your
Speaker 1: your mental fortitude about that. You guard your mind, you do,
Speaker 1: you do a great job of that.
Speaker 5: I've actually picked a lot of stuff from Bryan on
Speaker 5: you know, learning to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But when you lose, when me and you when we
Speaker 1: were losing.
Speaker 5: Games and people are bringing that stuff up, you really
Speaker 5: still felt at peace all the time, like there was
Speaker 5: no there was no pressure around anything that thought.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I wish this, either team or
Speaker 1: anything would have my back. You probably thought they did.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to talk you in any corner.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to fucking down and talk to the boy,
Speaker 5: like we're at the training table swapping stories.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: I felt like I felt like, yeah, certainly, you know, hey,
Speaker 8: I wish this had been done differently. But look, there
Speaker 8: were there were conversations, I mean with guys like Scott
Speaker 8: mccluan where you just realized, hey, they have a certain
Speaker 8: view point, there, certain position.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think even since then, Scott's been public about it, saying,
Speaker 8: you know, I wanted to pay Kirk a certain amount
Speaker 8: and I didn't want to pay him anymore, and you
Speaker 8: know that that was that, and that said that's fine,
Speaker 8: Like I don't care, that's fine, but I think the market,
Speaker 8: if I was allowed to be a free agent, would
Speaker 8: pay me more.
Speaker 4: And so until you're willing to let me.
Speaker 8: Go to the market and see what my value is,
Speaker 8: maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's less, but I would like
Speaker 8: to go to the market.
Speaker 4: And if you're not going to let me. Then I'm
Speaker 4: going to sit and wait until you do let me.
Speaker 8: And then they decided, I guess eighteen, to let me
Speaker 8: go to the market. And I went to the market
Speaker 8: and I went to whatever the market dictated.
Speaker 4: And that's just the way it is. That's just free agency.
Speaker 8: It's not complicated.
Speaker 4: It's just for two years they wouldn't let me go
Speaker 4: to the market. I said, that's fine, you know, don't
Speaker 4: don't let me go.
Speaker 2: You know, was there any time you were like frustrated
Speaker 2: with that situation, like let me just go, because there's
Speaker 2: got to be something we said about sitting there and
Speaker 2: having some sort of stability, like when you sell in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: you're like, Okay, I know for the next three years,
Speaker 2: I have, I have a home, I'm raising a family.
Speaker 2: Like I'm good, we can we can seat of shot
Speaker 2: gos have a way of a foundation instead of being like,
Speaker 2: you know, playing out your contract starting getting franchise tag,
Speaker 2: getting franchise tag again. When you were going to that
Speaker 2: second franchise tag, were you like, man, I wish they
Speaker 2: just you know, obviously you probably just wish like, hey,
Speaker 2: just let me go so I can do my thing,
Speaker 2: or did you know Redskins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I did.
Speaker 8: I felt like if we won, I'd still be there.
Speaker 8: You know, we went seven and nine a year before
Speaker 8: I left. I just felt like the team said, hey,
Speaker 8: you know, seven and nine isn't what we're trying to
Speaker 8: be and uh uh and so let's let's move on.
Speaker 8: And uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I think if we had gone.
Speaker 8: Eleven and five, I'd probably still be there. And uh
Speaker 8: and that's fine. You know, life takes a different turns and.
Speaker 4: And I feel like I'm in Minnesota for a reason
Speaker 4: and I feel really good about it.
Speaker 8: And you know, yeah, long term contracts are nice, but
Speaker 8: as you guys know, things change so fast and you
Speaker 8: just never really know.
Speaker 4: Man. You mean, guys get traded.
Speaker 8: You just never know what the what the next year
Speaker 8: is gonna ring with injuries and stuff. It's just a
Speaker 8: crazy league.
Speaker 9: And even when you have a guaranteed contract, it's kind
Speaker 9: of like I'm sitting there with no butterflies the four games.
Speaker 8: I mean, you still got those those pre game jitters
Speaker 8: like everybody else, because it matters to you, and it's
Speaker 8: a it's a crazy league and it's it's a grind.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We always joke about it because Rabel, like, we'll be
Speaker 5: in our squad meetings and he'll kind of nobody. Nobody
Speaker 5: is an exception to not chupat or used as an example,
Speaker 5: like one time Taylor had an off day in practice
Speaker 5: and raabels up there showing film the Boy to day
Speaker 5: for the Boy and Vrabel showing film and he's like, hey, bro,
Speaker 5: how much are we paying you?
Speaker 1: Like you got to block this guy? Like shit like that.
Speaker 5: So obviously, yeah, it's no non butterflies in the stomach.
Speaker 5: But one thing I do, I do uh am curious
Speaker 5: about how important was the guaranteed contract?
Speaker 1: Like you were one of the only guys, if not the.
Speaker 5: Only guy, especially on that level, that has a guaranteed contract.
Speaker 5: Everyone knows that you got offered more money by other
Speaker 5: teams in the mix. I know Jets were one of them.
Speaker 5: How important was that guaranteed contract? And what was kind
Speaker 5: of the language you were having with your agent and stuff.
Speaker 5: You just that was just non negotiable for you to
Speaker 5: make that happen, and it kind of changed the layout
Speaker 5: of hopefully moving forward. Guys kind of get more of
Speaker 5: a deal that you have.
Speaker 8: Well, this is why it's so important to have a
Speaker 8: good agent who knows what you're doing, because they're just
Speaker 8: like there's good and bad football players, there's good and
Speaker 8: bad agents, and uh, you got to have a good agent.
Speaker 8: And so my agent, right when the season ended and
Speaker 8: I it looked like I'd probably be franchise tag got
Speaker 8: spring for the first time. He said, the only way
Speaker 8: you're not getting franchise tag, in my opinion, is if
Speaker 8: you do a three year deal. If the Redskins are
Speaker 8: willing to do a three year deal, it's fully guaranteed.
Speaker 8: And so that was that was basically he started the
Speaker 8: conversation right away that that was his vision. And obviously
Speaker 8: the numbers were a lot numbers were a lot lower
Speaker 8: at that point because salary cap was lower and it
Speaker 8: was a few years ago. But that was his vision
Speaker 8: all along, and I just don't believe that, you know,
Speaker 8: the Redskins agreed with that vision or caught out of
Speaker 8: that vision again, which is fine, that's their prerogative.
Speaker 4: And we went on and it was just kind of
Speaker 4: that same.
Speaker 8: Focus of let's try to do a three year deal,
Speaker 8: fully guaranteed with whoever you know is in the conversation,
Speaker 8: and and you know, fortunately the Vikings were willing to
Speaker 8: do that.
Speaker 4: As well, and that made it work.
Speaker 8: And you know, we took a little less per year
Speaker 8: to get that, and that's fine. You got to give
Speaker 8: some to get some, And ultimately I felt like taking
Speaker 8: a little less per year actually made some sense, you know,
Speaker 8: to help create a little bit of salary cap room and.
Speaker 4: Just you know, you know, be fair to the rest
Speaker 4: of the locker room. So I think it worked out
Speaker 4: for a lot of reasons. And yeah, I think it
Speaker 4: worked for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 8: And time will tell, you know, if that's the best
Speaker 8: structure to do in the future, depending on how well
Speaker 8: I play in what situation I'm in at that time.
Speaker 8: But it was something my agent brought up, but I said, hey,
Speaker 8: I'm all for it. It's kind of weird that every
Speaker 8: other professional sports league seems to have fully guaranteed contracts
Speaker 8: and we don't, so let's try to create that a
Speaker 8: little bit. And I always felt like it's only going
Speaker 8: to make a difference if everybody comes after me choose
Speaker 8: to do that same structure. But you know the reality
Speaker 8: is that you know, Aaron and Matt Ryan and throwing
Speaker 8: the guys spot after me, that just wasn't the structure
Speaker 8: they supposed to.
Speaker 4: Do and that's fine.
Speaker 8: They get more, you know, I guess they get more
Speaker 8: dollars per year, and then they give up to guarantees
Speaker 8: and that's okay by them, I guess. But the guarantee
Speaker 8: at least in this deal, we're just something I wanted.
Speaker 4: To try and see we could do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And if you if you heard in your answer,
Speaker 5: like you know, maybe it sorry to take a little
Speaker 5: less money so we can get more guys in the
Speaker 5: locker room. Did you just throw me a mill on
Speaker 5: the side. I'll come play for you guys for free.
Speaker 4: I would love to have you.
Speaker 7: Actually, I may have to get.
Speaker 8: This.
Speaker 4: He's to let me tell you, I had to get
Speaker 4: this in at some point.
Speaker 7: Now is your time of dreams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know him, I know him. A lot of
Speaker 4: people out there probably don't know him. Will Compston.
Speaker 6: In all my years high school, college, Thros is.
Speaker 8: The best, most dynamic leader I've ever played with.
Speaker 4: And I'll just let that send sit there and just
Speaker 4: let it be.
Speaker 7: I don't need to expound out.
Speaker 4: It too much. But the reality is he is a
Speaker 4: natural leader.
Speaker 8: He gets up in the morning, rolls out of bed,
Speaker 8: and he leaves with his personality, with.
Speaker 4: His work, ethic with his approach to professionalism. That's who
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 8: And you see his fun side here in the podcast,
Speaker 8: but when he's down the field, he plays with heart
Speaker 8: when you leave, when he brings people together from different
Speaker 8: backgrounds and he connects to the locker room and he
Speaker 8: makes it fun and he brings the soft side and
Speaker 8: a hard side to work and I love it. So
Speaker 8: that's why I'm on this podcast now with the respect
Speaker 8: I have for Will. And uh, there's.
Speaker 7: Thirty two teams out there, there's about twenty nine.
Speaker 4: If probably don't know him that well, take you take
Speaker 4: a look at him, dude.
Speaker 1: I love that. I appreciate you. Taylor's just staring at
Speaker 1: Taylor's staring at me.
Speaker 2: Oh you guys, the way Will's acted the less great guy.
Speaker 2: But no stopping before you before you compliment, because you
Speaker 2: don't need to because you're probably wrong. Let me let
Speaker 2: me just say, as much as I hate to a minute,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. Will does have the work ethic. He
Speaker 2: does everything right, and it's not his fault.
Speaker 3: He's white. You know, God got it.
Speaker 1: That's why I love that. Do we have the podcast
Speaker 1: because we can say.
Speaker 2: Shita, you gotta hell, you can't fight the guy.
Speaker 3: But no, you're right, dude. I think Will and I.
Speaker 2: I mean I know for a fact, Will and I
Speaker 2: in the beginning of this whole thing, before the podcast
Speaker 2: before I think we like we linked up like three
Speaker 2: days in him being with the Titans.
Speaker 3: I see what you see, man, He works his ass off.
Speaker 2: He's a great guy, and he's willing to have fun
Speaker 2: with the boys, but he knows how to be a leader.
Speaker 3: He knows how to go into a locker room.
Speaker 2: And have fun and at the same time go in
Speaker 2: the field chirp the boys and also get a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff done. So I think, well, the guy, the
Speaker 2: fact that you're making Yeah, did I appreciate both of
Speaker 2: you guys?
Speaker 1: One thing I want.
Speaker 8: To If I'm a GM, I may only pay him
Speaker 8: weak minimum, but.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna he's in.
Speaker 1: My locker room. Hey, man, he's he's grit, super gritty,
Speaker 1: lunch pail to work first and last out, high, high,
Speaker 1: high motor, even though I get very tired quickly, but
Speaker 1: apparently I have a high motor.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: That's funny. How structured is your life still? Do you
Speaker 5: still do every fifteen minutes as a written down?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 8: That kind of took its on, you know, don't let
Speaker 8: get in a way of a good story.
Speaker 4: But I did that initially because.
Speaker 8: My wife, you know, wanted me to have a little
Speaker 8: more of a plan. She felt like I was, you know,
Speaker 8: it was hard for her.
Speaker 7: I was never present.
Speaker 4: I was kind of even when I was home, I was.
Speaker 8: At work, if you know what I mean, absolutely, well,
Speaker 8: can you kind of can you kind of plan it
Speaker 8: out so that, you know, I know, when we can
Speaker 8: have time together. So I kind of sat down and.
Speaker 4: Said, all right, let's go fifteen minutes through the day
Speaker 4: from get up to go to bed. Did that for
Speaker 4: the first year. You know, there was the second year
Speaker 4: of our marriage, and it really helped.
Speaker 8: And so I'll do a lot of questions about, well,
Speaker 8: why did you play better this year?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 8: I said, well, you know, I think I have a
Speaker 8: little more structure, little more routine planning that out help.
Speaker 8: Next thing, you know, it was like Cousins is psychotic.
Speaker 2: He plans every every minute, absycle path killer every yeah.
Speaker 1: And then and then what's funny is like I've.
Speaker 8: Heard I've heard Tom Brady kind of does the same
Speaker 8: thing or has done something like that.
Speaker 4: In terms of planning ahead, and if you win, then you're.
Speaker 8: Like, oh my goodness, he said the professionally, he planed
Speaker 8: it out.
Speaker 4: And then when you go seven and nine and do that,
Speaker 4: he's a weirdo. He's too rigid. He can't play.
Speaker 1: And yeah, he's got to get he's got to get
Speaker 1: more loose. He's got to be more loose. How's that shame?
Speaker 1: How's Julie doing?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 1: How's the fan? How's how's everything? Kind of change? You
Speaker 1: got got a squad with you.
Speaker 6: Now, that's right?
Speaker 4: I got boys in my own. No, the fam is good,
Speaker 4: really great.
Speaker 9: I think we just we just reached our five year anniversary,
Speaker 9: so that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 4: We've got a year and a half year old.
Speaker 9: And a four months older, so they're just about a
Speaker 9: year and just about seventeen months apart.
Speaker 4: And uh, we got our hands full.
Speaker 8: And but I think I'm done. Man, two boys. Uh,
Speaker 8: I can't imagine having a third kid right now.
Speaker 5: So well that you're if you're done, then you might
Speaker 5: as well just show at this thing off and get
Speaker 5: a super Bowl.
Speaker 4: We did very capful, sir.
Speaker 1: Hey, how about this? Would you get a would you
Speaker 1: get a viseectomy for a Super Bowl. Yeah, I would get.
Speaker 4: One, then reverse it and get one again, then reverse it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got The thing about vasectomies is like, as soon
Speaker 2: as I'm done having kids, I got a two year old,
Speaker 2: tirthdays for asking and we'll think about I think orchards
Speaker 2: as well. But when I'm done, the minute we're done,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the doctor and say, take what
Speaker 2: you need take Would you.
Speaker 3: Leave me enough?
Speaker 2: Because the thing is is like I don't want to
Speaker 2: be that guy. That's like kids are graduating, you're looking
Speaker 2: in the future, and you're like, man, I got like
Speaker 2: a at least twenty years of my life left. I
Speaker 2: get to go did it? And then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden she started again something like that, and you got.
Speaker 3: In your fifteen year old, a thirteen year.
Speaker 2: Old and a six month year old, and your grandfather
Speaker 2: fathering a child.
Speaker 4: Call that my baby. Yeah, oops, baby, dude, baby oops. Yeah.
Speaker 8: For me, you know my goal when I came in
Speaker 8: the league and when I got married.
Speaker 4: I said, you know, I really want to play.
Speaker 8: Long enough that I have a son or a daughter
Speaker 8: who can watch me play and remember it.
Speaker 7: And even better would be if they.
Speaker 8: Can come to training camp, practice and play catch afterwards,
Speaker 8: and you know that whole thing. And so I'm getting
Speaker 8: close to you know, my my oldest probably needs a
Speaker 8: few more years. But uh, if I could, if I
Speaker 8: could realize that dream and then retire, I'd be a
Speaker 8: pretty happy man at retirement.
Speaker 1: I love that, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one more years, man, you're you might play with
Speaker 2: one of your kids.
Speaker 7: Being a quarterback, you never know.
Speaker 1: You did a hell of a job. But getting only
Speaker 1: three years on a deal, what's next?
Speaker 3: Where are you going?
Speaker 4: What's next for me?
Speaker 6: For this summer, for life, for life?
Speaker 3: After the nights you play for Minnesota Vikings? What do
Speaker 3: you want to play next? Go back to the Redskins?
Speaker 4: You know? But man, here's what I learned. Here's what
Speaker 4: I learned, and you don't know this, so you have
Speaker 4: to do it. I say, you're talking.
Speaker 8: About playing one year deals earlier. It's way harder to
Speaker 8: leave a city, a.
Speaker 7: System, teammates, the locker room.
Speaker 8: That you know, and move across the country and start over,
Speaker 8: even if it is on a long term deal. Doubt,
Speaker 8: and to play than to play in a place you've
Speaker 8: already been on success at one year deals, that's a
Speaker 8: lot easier. So I have no desire to have to
Speaker 8: get up and pack up and move again and start over.
Speaker 8: You know, if I had my brothers, I would be
Speaker 8: in Minnesota for the long haul.
Speaker 4: But I got to earn that. And there's probably a
Speaker 4: lot of Viking fans who were hoping in Brano. I
Speaker 4: don't end up in Minnesota for the long haul. I'm hoping.
Speaker 1: Hell, yeah, you go twelve and four. Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: the missing piece. He's gonna take us to the top. God,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you get enough of that too.
Speaker 3: I get what you're saying.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 3: I haven't had to go through a transition of moving
Speaker 3: to a different team.
Speaker 2: But they're gonna need They're gonna need a fucking army
Speaker 2: to get me out of here. Dude, I've I've played
Speaker 2: on my roots in Nashville. I'm not going anywhere, my babies.
Speaker 2: I'm staying as long as I gotta drag it. I'll
Speaker 2: get dragged out of that place. I gotta figure it out.
Speaker 5: Redskins friend, Kirk Cousins, Yeah, he makes a lot of money. Sure, Titans.
Speaker 5: I hey, they shipped the boy off. Okay, whatever, Hey Taylor,
Speaker 5: he's he's gonna sign a big deal. This is my
Speaker 5: next opportunity.
Speaker 2: Stop musing me. Yeah, this conversation earlier. Get back to
Speaker 2: Kirk's coattails. I'm done with it. I know right you're
Speaker 2: you're about to have a third son because I'm giving
Speaker 2: you will, Kirk.
Speaker 1: I'll come. I'll come, take the family pass and go
Speaker 1: watch him at practice.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Can drive my kids back and forth and I'll
Speaker 4: put them to work.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: See I try to put them to work. He just
Speaker 2: says no and then goes home the next day ask
Speaker 2: more money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for the bus.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I get this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get this this for the bust after
Speaker 2: the bus.
Speaker 5: Uh, dude, you just finished up a couple of football camps.
Speaker 5: You actually added one, right, You did one Minnesota.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we did Minnesota and then Michigan and middle school kids.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of fun, and then we do a
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 5: Dude, I know it's a lot of fun, but I
Speaker 5: know that is a grind trying to do a couple camps,
Speaker 5: like I had one in Missouri and then did Nebraska.
Speaker 5: After I did Nebraska, I was like, hey, I want
Speaker 5: to go back to just doing one because this is
Speaker 5: a lot of work.
Speaker 6: It's a lot of work.
Speaker 8: It's a lot of time, and you're doing the summer,
Speaker 8: so you're outside and the heat of the day all day.
Speaker 4: But uh, we have fun with it.
Speaker 8: I got a lot of great health, so I can
Speaker 8: just kind of have fun with it and walk around
Speaker 8: and high five the kids and uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, we get a lot of positive feedback. I
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 8: I think it's something we kind of stumbled into after
Speaker 8: my rookie year that I just kind of thought of
Speaker 8: and he falls. Over the years, we've added elements to it.
Speaker 8: But uh, it's been a blast to do it and
Speaker 8: and hopefully I'm hoping we can do it long after
Speaker 8: I'm done playing my goal. I tell the other coaches
Speaker 8: the camp, I say, we got to make this stamp
Speaker 8: so fun that some day the kirk Cousins football camp
Speaker 8: get go to it and they say, I have no
Speaker 8: idea who kirk Cousins is, but he puts on a
Speaker 8: great camp.
Speaker 9: Dude.
Speaker 5: That's a solid goal right there. That's a solid goal.
Speaker 5: You do it, and you do it for the you
Speaker 5: do it for Julian kirk Cousins Foundation. Talk about that
Speaker 5: for a minute before we get out, before.
Speaker 1: We let you have the phone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, after our financial situation changed so much
Speaker 8: from the franchise tags and the and the and then
Speaker 8: three year contract in Minnesota, it just became clear that,
Speaker 8: you know, we ought to start a foundation. And we
Speaker 8: had already been you know, very generous, but at you know,
Speaker 8: smaller levels and not as public.
Speaker 4: And then uh, you know.
Speaker 8: This foundation kind of get us opportunity to hopefully you know,
Speaker 8: tell a story with our giving and highlight a lot
Speaker 8: of the organizations we believe in.
Speaker 4: And and really be.
Speaker 8: Able to you know, increase our platform if you will
Speaker 8: allow other people to partner with us and our giving.
Speaker 6: And so it's been a great thing.
Speaker 4: We've we've been added out about a.
Speaker 8: Year with the Julian Kirk Cousins Foundation, and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: we're just continuing to try to look for a great
Speaker 8: organizations to partner with and.
Speaker 7: For you know, gid ways to really use our.
Speaker 4: Foundation to make a difference for the for the good.
Speaker 4: So you know, something we continue to grow.
Speaker 7: Hopefully there's more.
Speaker 4: Football contact up ahead so we can keep throwing the foundation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, man. I will we appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 5: You're like the first phone interview we've actually done on
Speaker 5: busting with the Boys. Like we've done some on our callbacks,
Speaker 5: but you're the first like episode that we've done.
Speaker 4: I love it great.
Speaker 6: Hopefully it went well enough that you can have more
Speaker 6: in the.
Speaker 7: Future and don't be afraid to invite me back.
Speaker 4: And uh yeah, a lot of fun. You guys do
Speaker 4: a great job.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's not easy to do a podcast. I
Speaker 8: would know I've done one, and you.
Speaker 6: Guys do a great job. I wish you well going forward.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Kirk.
Speaker 2: Anytime you're in Nashville, come hit usup, buddy. We'll put
Speaker 2: you on the Boys for real.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take you up on that. I usually get
Speaker 4: to Nashville once and off seasons.
Speaker 7: It's like.
Speaker 1: The bus. I can't wait.
Speaker 3: You come on the bus. We'll go to Losers. Well, Hey,
Speaker 3: it'll be amazing.
Speaker 5: We'll have Kirk Cousins do a shot. Hey, guys, never
Speaker 5: seen before. Kirk Cousins are gonna We're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 2: We'll get you real drunk and we'll videos get the
Speaker 2: whole thing. Dude, we'll sell the teams. It'll be fun,
Speaker 2: we'll have a good time with it.
Speaker 3: It'll be amazing.
Speaker 4: I love it perfect, wait, can't wait.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, but I'll talk to you soon,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: Fun fact that was Will Compton interviewing Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Is this what's happening?
Speaker 3: You're not the boy have a chance to ask a questions?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry dude.
Speaker 2: Times that podcast, You're like, Hey, one thing I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you, how many one things do you want
Speaker 2: to ask the guy dude about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's what I want to ask you, was you
Speaker 3: don't want one thing? I'm going to figure out though.
Speaker 2: One thing I want to ask myself is how can
Speaker 2: I cannot fucking read that?
Speaker 4: Dude? Let me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ig the dude here's okay, So let me speak
Speaker 1: for a second.
Speaker 2: Number one, I apologize, okay, because that's the first apology
Speaker 2: I've had in a week.
Speaker 1: Genuinely, I'm thinking of my mind.
Speaker 5: You might not like, think or care about the whole
Speaker 5: Redskins dynamic that was going on.
Speaker 3: It ain't that serious, dude. It was more of a
Speaker 3: joke than anything else you did. You want?
Speaker 1: Well, I can still apologize how.
Speaker 3: Many on this? And I'm not going to talk to
Speaker 3: you Jo