Speaker 1: Dragon ass right now, I feel it. Fuck, I'm tired.
Speaker 1: I'm almost like a little tired of myself since since
Speaker 1: you've sat on the bush, you little drink. Uh, how
Speaker 1: are we gonna? It's it's all we get this. Are
Speaker 1: we rolling or we're going?
Speaker 2: It's nice to see that Bosses picked up as games
Speaker 2: since I've left. I never sleep well after games, and
Speaker 2: last night especially it was like a two am piece.
Speaker 2: I was still up.
Speaker 1: I was like at two am, dude, I was up
Speaker 1: till two am. Dang. I can never sleep after games ever.
Speaker 1: Noon game. I know you got back up? What time
Speaker 1: I ate because you ran ran ta o'clock? Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got back like six forty five.
Speaker 2: First went off the plane, sprinted to my car, and
Speaker 2: I'm like boogiying, get kids going treating, Go to the
Speaker 2: Tomlin house, shout the Tomlins and make it there right
Speaker 2: after the Dune Tricker treating. So I missed the Tricker treating, but.
Speaker 1: I got to see the kids, which was cool.
Speaker 2: So were you dressed up? I was dressed up like
Speaker 2: a guy who just finished the football game. I was
Speaker 2: a football player.
Speaker 3: Halloween.
Speaker 2: You know that you put some webs on a dead
Speaker 2: football player. Dead football player, classic, that classic Halloween thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just use the jersey whatever you are, just
Speaker 1: put death over you.
Speaker 2: Just put a little blood on it. Yeah you want
Speaker 2: to Uh, you don't let the people know about Chevy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love to let the people know about Chevy.
Speaker 1: Chevy.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's it's it's hard to argue. It's hard to
Speaker 2: argue it's not it's the greatest vehicle ever made in
Speaker 2: the history of vehicles.
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm dressed like a Chevy driver. You are just
Speaker 2: like a Chevy driver.
Speaker 1: You know why?
Speaker 2: You look durable, you look reliable. That an ankle stability
Speaker 2: in those boots. Your ankles aren't going anywhere. No, those
Speaker 2: are Georgia boots.
Speaker 1: Yes they are. I'll tell you what. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's two for Yeah, that's a two for one special.
Speaker 2: As Mike Rabel would say. You know, those are beautiful.
Speaker 2: The Chevy Silverado is the greatest and most affordable, dependable,
Speaker 2: reliable vehicle in the entire world.
Speaker 1: Share we reading this thing.
Speaker 2: Silverado is strong, advanced, dependable, and hard working. I just
Speaker 2: said that, but we're doing it. See. Football season is
Speaker 2: in full swing. It's time to get your tailgate game.
Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Dude, there's a.
Speaker 2: Don't say, don't curse sorry, Oh yeah, yep them out.
Speaker 2: There's a primary tailgate which opens with a push of
Speaker 2: a button on the key fob of the inner gate
Speaker 2: folds to a large step for easily getting in and
Speaker 2: out of the bed. Dude, I just I'm thirty and
Speaker 2: I can't read.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: There's easy access configurations where the inner gate folds down,
Speaker 2: allowing you to reach farther into your bed. This just
Speaker 2: listen to Chevy Silverado does it all right?
Speaker 1: There's a ton of grit. That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: We are spiraling in about two and a half minutes
Speaker 2: into this podcast. But I'll be honest with you, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be here today if it wasn't Chevy. Why because
Speaker 2: any other vehicle I would have and probably want to
Speaker 2: start it up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love Freeland.
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 1: We love Freeland. We love the boys of Freeland, we
Speaker 1: love the boys of Feeling.
Speaker 2: Now we're not just about Freeland, like us personally it's
Speaker 2: our favorite, but any Chevy dealership in general just has
Speaker 2: it right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, National, it's a beautiful thing. Am I missing anything? No,
Speaker 1: you did great. I probably now that when you're reading it.
Speaker 1: I was thinking to myself like he was cancuss us.
Speaker 1: We guys, I should probably though about having a teen
Speaker 1: days since I was knocked out, so.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, Oh, it's good to be back, dude,
Speaker 2: It's nice to be back. Miss the hell out of you.
Speaker 2: If you're listening, you're probably like, hey, what's wrong with
Speaker 2: the boy. I'm just I'm just tired, man. So the
Speaker 2: energy is gonna be a little lower today. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have You're gonna have to keep me going here. I'm piggybacking.
Speaker 1: I'm riding your coat tails today on the energy train.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's a little down though, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like the Boys one, it's it is victory Monday,
Speaker 1: like we were excited that we're six and two as
Speaker 1: a ball club. Yeah, it's exciting, it's good stuff, but
Speaker 1: we lost the boy. Oh until until we get confirmed,
Speaker 1: Until we get confirmed, we're not here to I have
Speaker 1: no clue. And for people that are listening, like Taylor
Speaker 1: and I were telling each other we miss each other.
Speaker 1: We really don't see each other a whole lot. No,
Speaker 1: we don't see each other whole lot. We and this,
Speaker 1: we put a whole game of phone tag last week.
Speaker 1: He didn't talk at all. I know, I what did
Speaker 1: I do? I accidentally called you yesterday like FaceTime, and
Speaker 1: then I hung up. I said, oh, that's my bad,
Speaker 1: and you said wow, yeah, and then he goes, we've
Speaker 1: been playing phone tag all week and week he goes,
Speaker 1: You've been ducking me all week, is what he said.
Speaker 1: And so I sent him a screenshot of our calls
Speaker 1: to where I called him. He called me, I missed it.
Speaker 1: I called him twice, he missed it. He called me back.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I missed it, but I didn't end up
Speaker 1: calling him back. So who called you last? You called
Speaker 1: me there?
Speaker 2: But so if anybody's in the wrong, you you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, and we're not.
Speaker 1: I think we're here to take accountability, like you know,
Speaker 1: we can both. I'm not here to take account though.
Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna run for my problems today. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, I don't think we need to talk
Speaker 2: about the boy I don't think it's appropriate for me
Speaker 2: to speak on his behalf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely can't.
Speaker 2: Got going on, right?
Speaker 1: What I can say just talk over Taylor? Yeah you can't,
Speaker 1: but me I will say that.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm looking at these notes here, says Dereck Henry
Speaker 2: hurt and then the Biscuits is if tru.
Speaker 1: OJ might be the blame, what do you say?
Speaker 6: Nobody has separated themselves from the next player in their
Speaker 6: position like King Henry has. And you know, Dickerson and
Speaker 6: I have had a talk. We discussed a few times
Speaker 6: this year with seventeen games, if he's going to break
Speaker 6: his record, Well we got different opinions about that, but
Speaker 6: we'll just have to wait and see and talk about
Speaker 6: that a little later. In any event, Hey, guys, wear
Speaker 6: your masks. If you haven't got your shots, go get it.
Speaker 3: Take care.
Speaker 2: That's wild man. Hey, listen, OJ, you sound like me
Speaker 2: talking about Michigan Michigan State. Like, let's just let's just
Speaker 2: that thing up a little bit. But hey, regardless of
Speaker 2: what's going on with Derek dude, regardless of it as a
Speaker 2: football player, of what he was doing that, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's the man.
Speaker 1: We love him. Yeah, he is.
Speaker 2: I love that guy and my heart breaks for him.
Speaker 2: Whatever the situation is. He's the fucking man, dude. So
Speaker 2: I'm I mean, I'm bummed out for the boy. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm bummed out when when I talked to him yesterday
Speaker 2: after the game, but what was going on? And uh,
Speaker 2: I teared up a little bit, dude. That's how like,
Speaker 2: not because we lost a back or whatever, just because,
Speaker 2: like Derek is a person, how hard everyone knows how
Speaker 2: hard he works. Everyone sees how hard he works, and
Speaker 2: it's just tough to see that happen, man, for a
Speaker 2: guy that doesn't deserve that, And that's a that's a
Speaker 2: huge bummer, man. But I mean times are six and two.
Speaker 2: We'll put ourselves in a good little position.
Speaker 1: First in the AFC. Yeah, I'm righting high right now.
Speaker 1: You're right high right now, I'm riting high.
Speaker 2: Hey, that little instagram you put up yesterday of you
Speaker 2: and you in the exact uniform.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're right all white. That's funny. Dude, was Will
Speaker 1: here that day and David Long, who by the way,
Speaker 1: is playing like a stud. That man is all over
Speaker 1: the place. Huh.
Speaker 2: I do enjoy watching the buntering out there, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's just banging that drum over and over again, ripping around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he is. I'm a big big David Long
Speaker 1: Junior game. I'm a big fan just because of like
Speaker 1: to like the journey he's had since being in the league,
Speaker 1: like being a lower round dude, Like he's been somebody
Speaker 1: who's always who's like had to wait his turn, and
Speaker 1: even last year. Remember I was on Peace squad. You
Speaker 1: you had torn your acl by this point, and we
Speaker 1: were watching that Thursday night game. Remember he gave up
Speaker 1: that punt against the Colts, and then you know, everybody
Speaker 1: like wants to cut him and and do all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And then he gets COVID during the week that we
Speaker 1: go to Baltimore and then I get to play in
Speaker 1: the Baltimore game. Play well, he's probably at home, like
Speaker 1: like damn, Like I would have got to play this week,
Speaker 1: Like I would have played well against the Ravens because
Speaker 1: he did in the playoff game the year before. But
Speaker 1: just knowing like how far he's kind of came. I
Speaker 1: just know, like all the energy he plays with, like
Speaker 1: you just feel like you know where it comes from,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's a hungry ass dude.
Speaker 1: He is dude.
Speaker 2: He's yeah, you've said it all. He's a stuck I
Speaker 2: love the guy to death. Transitioning a little bit from NFL.
Speaker 2: We've got to hit college. We gotta talk about college
Speaker 2: foot we got to talk about we got to talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: And I will say, like I do enjoy like I
Speaker 1: enjoy like. I guess you guys are losing a little bit.
Speaker 1: But when you guys aren't playing Nebraska, I legit. Hang on,
Speaker 1: hang on, hang on, now, let me finish what.
Speaker 2: You're about to talk. You're like already you started. I
Speaker 2: enjoy you guys losing a little bit, but and now
Speaker 2: we're talking about both sides of our mouth. Well, can
Speaker 2: I explain myself first?
Speaker 1: I mean, you can, but it's gonna be the same.
Speaker 1: I feel like the only reason I guess I enjoyed
Speaker 1: seeing you guys lose is because of how much division
Speaker 1: we kind of created amongst ourselves. Dre in the Nebraska Michigan.
Speaker 2: You mean, after we said we're mending, like we literally
Speaker 2: said it's over exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's what I'm speaking too, That's what I'm
Speaker 1: speaking to.
Speaker 2: But we say it was over right right, So ultimately
Speaker 2: to the sides of the mouth, but no, no, keep going.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, go ahead, and I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, I do want you guys win like I
Speaker 1: wanted Michigan went, I want to Michigan to beat Michigan State,
Speaker 1: beat Ohio State. Start bandwiding with the boys a little. Yeah,
Speaker 1: only because of you, not the bandwagon. Like I'm a
Speaker 1: Michigan Wolverine, but like you know, my other half, I
Speaker 1: want his team to do well. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Hey, when after Michigan beat the breaks off in Nebraska, I.
Speaker 1: Went, come on, be real, though, I do get like
Speaker 1: we're going back and forth. You guys didn't beat the
Speaker 1: breaks off of us? Yeah, I mean whatever, we won?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you guys won the game by beating the
Speaker 1: breaks off the guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, after we did dominated Nebraska at Nebraska and we
Speaker 2: did our little tiff and we mended fences. I followed
Speaker 2: Nebraska football on Twitter. Why I'm a corn Husker too,
Speaker 2: Now you know what I'm saying. Yeah, they're my other
Speaker 2: team when they're not playing Michigan. Now in the locker
Speaker 2: room last week, was your boy talking.
Speaker 3: No question.
Speaker 2: I was getting a lot of jaw sets in Yeah,
Speaker 2: and who did in the press person. Oh yeah, every
Speaker 2: single person on the Tennessee Titans wanted Michigan to lose
Speaker 2: this game. Really, yes, they were all praying, your boy
Speaker 2: took a debt in his pocketbooks.
Speaker 1: All right, we took a debt. We are we talking here? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, per.
Speaker 2: NFLPA rules, it was two hundred fifty dollars Max, So
Speaker 2: I lost dollars.
Speaker 1: Let's just say it was a debt. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It hurt a little bit. And then the presser comes up.
Speaker 2: I'm actually excited to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Great job. By the way, thank you. Yeah, great job.
Speaker 2: Because when I was walking away and I'll Taylor, we
Speaker 2: were going to ask you about Michigan, Michigan State. Now
Speaker 2: before that, Chris Bryant, who is uh he works for you?
Speaker 3: Of him?
Speaker 2: Now, I actually hosted him on his recruiting visit.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: His family's amazing.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's a good friend of mine. He asked me ahead,
Speaker 2: Oh what is my hairline? We're sitting Stephen A Smith.
Speaker 2: We joked the hairline running away a Smith. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I know him. He's a very dear friend
Speaker 1: of mine. I love his family. Yeah, but bade Chris
Speaker 1: Brian friend.
Speaker 2: Anyway, he sends me a text or a DM He's like, hey,
Speaker 2: can you make a video to send to Michigan for
Speaker 2: the Michigan State and how much you hate Michigan State?
Speaker 2: Which I do hate Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Did you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Like, We're removed so far at this point it's fun
Speaker 2: for me to hate on Michigan State. And then I
Speaker 2: just go back to living my life. So I'm leaving
Speaker 2: the presser and as I'm walking away, like, hey, we
Speaker 2: were gonna ask you about Michigan Michian State, I'm oh,
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to do a video anyway, and actually I'm
Speaker 2: supposed to do a video on that. And actually the
Speaker 2: girl who works at the time, she's like, this is
Speaker 2: the camera right here. So I go on, do my
Speaker 2: rant Michigan buy a billion?
Speaker 3: Whatever?
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, great, yeah, I don't want to say
Speaker 2: the effort, but Michigan State, Yeah, Michigan State is our
Speaker 2: little brother. Now, I know what you're thinking. In two
Speaker 2: thousand and nine to twenty thirteen when I was there,
Speaker 2: did Michigan State donkeys? Yes, there's no question, and I'm
Speaker 2: not here to talk about when I was there. I'm
Speaker 2: here to talk about now Michigan's number two defense in
Speaker 2: the country. I'm not here to talk about Gorgia's number
Speaker 2: one Michigan. Michigan, the Boys in Blue are the number
Speaker 2: two defense in the Our offense, yeah, they say we're
Speaker 2: run heavy, they say we do that, but our past
Speaker 2: game's really coming along overall. Michigan State is going to
Speaker 2: get donkeyed at home in East Lansing. Whatever that po
Speaker 2: dunk count is, they're going down. Michigan's going home taking
Speaker 2: Paul Bunion and kindly, I'm not gonna say the effort,
Speaker 2: but Michigan State. You know, I'm saying, not gonna stay
Speaker 2: the F word, but Michigan State, Okay. And I knew
Speaker 2: in that moment when I did that video. Even before
Speaker 2: I did that video, I was like, if we win,
Speaker 2: great at age as well. If we don't win now,
Speaker 2: I'm strictly talking about my video and what I said
Speaker 2: doesn't fucking matter at all. Why because my Twitter there's
Speaker 2: a there's still bombs going off on this phone right now.
Speaker 1: It's on fire.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's on fire, and I just listen, it's not
Speaker 2: even on right now. Haven't read one comment because these
Speaker 2: people are burning my house down, my Twitter house down,
Speaker 2: and I'm sleeping easy, baby.
Speaker 1: It don't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 1: Did you see the young man you inspired?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I can say whatever the fuck I want about Michigan
Speaker 2: Michigan State because I don't go there anymore.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I can say anything I want.
Speaker 1: But you're you're a Michigan State Wolverine.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm a University of Michigan wolverine.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, my boy. Hey listen, d you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like I said, those things people got
Speaker 2: mad doesn't change my life. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like that's the transition of what happened. So do I
Speaker 2: apologize for what I said? Nope? Word, no, No. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, it doesn't It doesn't change
Speaker 2: my life. It was fun. I got to get in there.
Speaker 2: People got all fired up on both sides. Michigan guys
Speaker 2: loved it. Michigan State guys use it as fuel.
Speaker 1: It was a great game.
Speaker 2: We lost.
Speaker 1: That sucks.
Speaker 2: My heart breaks for Michigan Wolverines. I will say it
Speaker 2: seemed like you guys are playing against the rest a
Speaker 2: little bit oh standard, pretty standard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Aside from the Nebraska game, Yeah, yeah, exactly, we're playing right.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was hard. But I don't know who who
Speaker 2: this this kid is.
Speaker 1: And he said, seems like a good kid. He seems
Speaker 1: like a great guy.
Speaker 2: And you know what, as an athlete myself, if I
Speaker 2: can go and inspire one young gentleman to play a
Speaker 2: little bit harder, regardless of what team, I'm an inspiration.
Speaker 2: I might as well have YouTube videos of motivation coming up.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, you should look into. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm I might as well start doing that
Speaker 2: ship because now this guy he took lawan and he's like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna play harder because of it.
Speaker 1: You've changed his life. I changed his life.
Speaker 2: For the better. And I think I saw some redhead cat,
Speaker 2: some ginger cat ripping around the stadium after the game
Speaker 2: and he's like staying and they're like, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2: I think at the end he's like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say it, but Michigan and I was like, I'm a
Speaker 2: fucking inspiration, dude. I'm I'm an inspiring individual.
Speaker 1: And now you see there's dudes even making remixes to
Speaker 1: your video, Are they really?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I want to say it was who did I see?
Speaker 1: Acho Manuel? Oh he did? Oh the funniest ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he like he was chopping up your video. You like
Speaker 1: would stay a little bit, then he'd play a play
Speaker 1: of Michigan State beaten Michigan. Then it's a little bit
Speaker 1: more of your bit than show something else. That's number
Speaker 1: two defense in the country. You guys getting scored on
Speaker 1: us like that running back five tons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a Heisman candidate, right, Hey, I'm an inspiration.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 2: My life doesn't change it. I love Michigan and we
Speaker 2: should have won that game. We should have won that game.
Speaker 2: That sack fumble that uh Aiden Hutchinson should also be
Speaker 2: a Heisman candidate. Big fan of the ball falls in
Speaker 2: the falls in the end zone overturn kick like he
Speaker 2: should have that should have been a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Yeah not no pass interference called the end wild So listen,
Speaker 1: but hey, what I do?
Speaker 2: Went to eat that night like a fucking baby? Oh
Speaker 2: my god, dude, not on Sunday, And so you didn't
Speaker 2: sleep that well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't sleep well after games.
Speaker 2: Well, you go play the Colts, catch it dumb, and
Speaker 2: so in my life, everything's all good right now, Michigan.
Speaker 1: State, you're making waves. When you're making waves like this,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a bad feel. I guess I
Speaker 1: don't like now that you're saying all that. I want
Speaker 1: to go back on my words. I'm not happy when
Speaker 1: you guys lose. I think I just enjoy I enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching all of that unfold on Saturday. Oh yeah, like
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. My god, I can't wait see
Speaker 1: the man. I kind of hope they lose because I
Speaker 1: just want I want to see stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Hat and I mean, people are people are I mean
Speaker 2: I don't read the comments, but when you go to.
Speaker 1: Your or you could, you could read a few.
Speaker 2: You're getting a little bit yeah, no, no, no, don't scroll
Speaker 2: the things just a little a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit. Yeah, not reading all of them,
Speaker 1: not a little bit.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 1: Some guys like you put your fucking foot in your mouth.
Speaker 2: Foot in your mouth, You're such an idiot, But you
Speaker 2: fin like a fucking do fist for saying that. Nope,
Speaker 2: not at all.
Speaker 1: Choke, don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I could say anything dumb because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I think Krystal Leah said it best. Twitter is, if
Speaker 2: you're serious on Twitter, fuck yourself right well Chappelle.
Speaker 1: Chappelle said it recently too, like it's it's a fake world.
Speaker 1: Twitter's not real. It's not real, like just just have funny.
Speaker 1: And I got people saying to kill myself over that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, did that one's thing of just a tad? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: a tad. I mean, I'm not gonna say the effort,
Speaker 2: but no, you know you guys, William Golson. First off,
Speaker 2: that man has a great u straight like that right
Speaker 2: that right straight fist and.
Speaker 1: Yeah that right there, like he's Aduke and you then.
Speaker 2: It hurt physically and emotionally, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like back then, that shit hurt. That's like twelve years ago.
Speaker 1: This is new profile, big.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to his profile.
Speaker 2: He follows me, and he probably subscribes and rates five
Speaker 2: stars hopefully hopefully I love to have one.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: He's a boy. He's a boy.
Speaker 2: I don't want to month No, William, It actually don't
Speaker 2: care throwing them on, don't care. I don't want to
Speaker 2: hurt my feelings. But if he ever comes on and
Speaker 2: be pissed, no, William, come on, come on the bus dude.
Speaker 1: And I can. I'll just sit here and I want
Speaker 1: him to tell me to myself, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just bring here and I'll just eat verbal punches,
Speaker 2: not physical.
Speaker 1: I'm over that ship, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, little glass job over here and he starts throwing
Speaker 2: them bows verbally, let's go. Yeah, because it doesn't fucking matter, dude,
Speaker 2: None of it matters.
Speaker 1: It doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. It's his profile pick. I love
Speaker 2: the little delete this picture. That's my favorite funny. But
Speaker 2: it's so hilarious how people just take this so seriously. Now,
Speaker 2: the rivalry is what it is. Do I like Michigan State?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: I don't. When I was there, did I hate him
Speaker 2: way more than I do now. Yeah, because you're drinking
Speaker 2: the koolid.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You're drunk on being a
Speaker 1: Michigan man. Yeah, you guys. Both teams are undefeated. I mean,
Speaker 1: so it was an all It was a hell of
Speaker 1: a game. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was everything it was supposed to be. I wish
Speaker 2: Michigan won, but just once again the video, like.
Speaker 1: They are saying Hardball is, what's his record? Two and
Speaker 1: nineteen against teams in the top ten. I might be
Speaker 1: misquoting that, but it's something along the basically, it's along
Speaker 1: those lines of like it seemed like it was going
Speaker 1: to be different for Michigan this year, but now it
Speaker 1: just seems like the same old story again because they
Speaker 1: can't beat the premier teams in the Big ten. But listen,
Speaker 1: we lost one game, so you think you should be fired?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: And the thing is is that no. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say the effort, but no, dude, wait when when
Speaker 2: Portnoy was on here, I said, yes, right, And that's
Speaker 2: the beauty. And people don't realize that people can just
Speaker 2: change their minds about shit.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Like people think like if you say something publicly, forever,
Speaker 2: that's your stance forever.
Speaker 1: That is in the summertime, Portnoy said, do you think
Speaker 1: Harbor should be fired? I said yes, oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: I double fired. Should Harball be fired? No? And I
Speaker 1: fucking changed my why not?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 1: What's your opinion? We've only lost one game? The guy's
Speaker 1: turning around. He's doing a great job. Now do you
Speaker 1: think you guys losing four last year? Let's lower the voice,
Speaker 1: let's just just a little. Do you think you saying
Speaker 1: we might lose one game this year on that podcast
Speaker 1: after the Nebraska game, do you feel like that might
Speaker 1: have played into the loss?
Speaker 2: No, not at all, just words. It's just a question.
Speaker 1: I'm not playing the game.
Speaker 2: I'm not playing.
Speaker 1: I have zero effect on anything.
Speaker 2: I'm just a guy with a microphone and people subscribe
Speaker 2: to and we love you to death, We love you
Speaker 2: to death Tier once and I know you're bringing those
Speaker 2: tier twos up, and the tier twos are helping with
Speaker 2: the tier threes. It's like a ladder, all right. We're
Speaker 2: all just climbing it together. And I appreciate you listening
Speaker 2: to me say things. But here's the deal. This the
Speaker 2: words I say fluid. It could change it anytime. If
Speaker 2: you think I have a stance on something, it'll probably change.
Speaker 1: You know, I could just I could say whatever I
Speaker 1: want to, like in my head, like trying to think
Speaker 1: of a fancy said I'm like so what about this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like opposite. Now, even if I don't
Speaker 2: think I can just say whatever I want. That's a
Speaker 2: that's a crazy shit about this whole thing, right, I
Speaker 2: can say whatever I want. People are listening to it.
Speaker 2: They were either gonna hate it or love it, and
Speaker 2: then tomorrow I'll change it again and they'll foot flop.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Life is beautiful. Life is fucking beautiful, dude. But I
Speaker 1: feel like you're talking at me so heavy.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just you know, what is my face like
Speaker 2: that too? I'm like, the deal is I got here
Speaker 2: and I was dying, like is he.
Speaker 1: Talking about it so much? Or now does it mean
Speaker 1: something like in here? Like just even more and more?
Speaker 2: Like, Hey, it doesn't fucking matter. I think the reason why,
Speaker 2: the reason why I'm talking like this is because when
Speaker 2: I got here, I was so damn tired. I was like,
Speaker 2: how am I gonna even do this?
Speaker 1: I am pumped the energies up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now like you got it, got my motor
Speaker 2: running a little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm enjoying the banter. I am too,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I yeah, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go and set up already said it, but I
Speaker 1: thoroughly enjoyed the video. The presser all the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: This came about from it, all of it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: helps the boys, you know what I mean? It kind
Speaker 1: of oh cool, oh cool? You know yeah? And then
Speaker 1: I hated it, but I also respected it because it
Speaker 1: was a good move on your part. But you're saying
Speaker 1: I deserve whatever I'm about to get instead of like
Speaker 1: leaning in and playing in with more people, which I
Speaker 1: enjoyed doing more. Taylor just ended up said, Hey, I
Speaker 1: did this, I deserve whatever, go ahead and give it
Speaker 1: to me. Well, we're on the plane, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: fuck bro, go back and forth with some people a
Speaker 1: little bit. No blame some people. I love it.
Speaker 2: I loved it, dude, and people like, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't read it, but.
Speaker 1: Like, oh he's owing you.
Speaker 3: Motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: Somebody love some accountability, A straight shooter.
Speaker 2: I just don't give a shit, Like God, I had
Speaker 2: destroyed my Twitter.
Speaker 1: I love this guy's accountability. Yes, I don't read it.
Speaker 2: I saw it, you know, I don't read it, but
Speaker 2: I did see a couple Yeah, he clipped on. Sometimes
Speaker 2: I do like to read it.
Speaker 1: I just fued it. I lied.
Speaker 2: I'm fucking lie five minutes ago, dude, I just lie
Speaker 2: that food.
Speaker 6: Oh dude.
Speaker 1: I I did it.
Speaker 2: I flipped in the middle here and it's a perfect example, dude.
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Speaker 2: I had a conversation about cryptocurrency the other day with
Speaker 2: Matt Barkley. Apparently the guy's reel into.
Speaker 1: The cryptocurrency, well, can you give us something?
Speaker 2: I got nothing?
Speaker 1: God, dude.
Speaker 2: It bothers me that I was using big words, and
Speaker 2: I got mad at him that he thought he was
Speaker 2: better than me.
Speaker 1: You know, he just kept saying, I'm madumb it down.
Speaker 2: If you're having a conversation in every third word, I
Speaker 2: have to like ask Siri what that means. Then we're lost.
Speaker 2: Like just say smaller words that I can understand. But really,
Speaker 2: the whole thing started with the uh nft thing. And
Speaker 2: he's like showing me these pictures of like monkeys with
Speaker 2: like stubbles and a cigarette coming out of their mouth,
Speaker 2: and it's like two hundred thousand dollars like American.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Domestic, I'm like, I fucking just pay a guy to
Speaker 2: make that a sticker for me, and I own it physically.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Right, It's just confusing.
Speaker 2: And then these NFTs you have a gallery apparently, and
Speaker 2: people can go and check out your gallery as if
Speaker 2: you have your own little museum.
Speaker 1: There they are.
Speaker 2: These things are out of hand expensive.
Speaker 1: Some people have them as a profile pick.
Speaker 2: What what's the what's the currency the cryptocurrency that you
Speaker 2: have to buy these with?
Speaker 1: Sure? Yes, that is it. That's the one.
Speaker 2: What was called ethereum? Okay, I don't understand it at all,
Speaker 2: but I'm thinking I gotta hear one of these monkeys. Now?
Speaker 1: They do look sweet? Yeah? Is that two or fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars?
Speaker 9: Sweet?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't get what makes that valuable.
Speaker 1: It's like diamonds, Like why are diamonds expensive? And it's collectibles?
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, but one thing is the only reason
Speaker 1: why things are expensive because we put value on it.
Speaker 2: What that guy's wearing nineteen ninety four beety glasses?
Speaker 1: That's it?
Speaker 2: Like, there's nothing special about that it's not even that
Speaker 2: well done of art. Yeah, just some guys, some guy
Speaker 2: there is no I just don't fast right now.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I feel like that shit don't make any sense to me. Now.
Speaker 1: Do I want a monkey? Yeah? Not physically.
Speaker 2: I guess I'll just own it on the internet, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. But Barkley's all he's all about
Speaker 2: that ship, He's all about it.
Speaker 1: And there's just a lot of NFT stuff happening, like
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant's doing like a is it Player's Corner Personal
Speaker 1: Corner where essentially he he's creating n f TS for athletes,
Speaker 1: so athletes can outright own I guess whatever they're creating
Speaker 1: in NFTs per Personal Corner didn't. So can we make NFTs?
Speaker 1: Yeah we can. Okay, let's just do one then. But
Speaker 1: I that's the thing, I don't know how Well.
Speaker 2: Somebody who's listening send us to somebody who can make
Speaker 2: an FT done.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to get des Bryan on to
Speaker 1: see what he's actually like, what's going on, because I've
Speaker 1: seen he was with Max Crosby's making stuff for Max.
Speaker 1: But apparently his team makes like, say, you're with him.
Speaker 1: His team makes you n f T s for you
Speaker 1: to sell. Those things continue to get sold, right, but
Speaker 1: you always have a piece of ownership in the NFT.
Speaker 1: So it's not like I have a baseball card, sell
Speaker 1: you a baseball card. Now the baseball card is yours.
Speaker 1: There's still a percentage, Like, there's still ownership that I
Speaker 1: have forever now, depending on how it goes up, what.
Speaker 3: You get a percentage of that resale.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so anytime those monkeys get sold, whoever the originator
Speaker 1: was is going to have that percentage for life. Rad
Speaker 1: I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: I get what you just said, right, It's like that
Speaker 2: I dont don't get by This is a thing, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It seems like something we want to be in.
Speaker 2: I think I think we're showing our age. I think
Speaker 2: we're just old. You think what we're showing our age
Speaker 2: a little bit. But there's there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: I feel like our age. I mean, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: Steph Curry got one of those monkeys he did bo
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 1: To be cool with Steph Currey. Yeah, agree to get
Speaker 1: one of those dude. You know what I'm saying, You
Speaker 1: got a lot of animals at the house. You might
Speaker 1: as well add somebody in the digital world.
Speaker 2: As well, might as well, dude, Yeah, well we have
Speaker 2: next that's the one he got. No, monkey's so stoned.
Speaker 1: A little suit on him too, that's dope. How much
Speaker 1: that one cost? Are you kidding me? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I have like fomo. I feel like we're missing out
Speaker 1: on something, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I feel like that every single day with this bus
Speaker 2: we got to get Uh, I'm missing out with you guys.
Speaker 2: Fucking miss you guys all the time. Man, we miss
Speaker 2: you too, bro. Yeah, my opinion can change in five minutes, though,
Speaker 2: better you better just watch out, dude.
Speaker 1: You probably probably you just see the internet and you're
Speaker 1: probably like all those boys are having a great time.
Speaker 1: We argue all the time. Yeah, you and JP got
Speaker 1: a little like a thing. Is easy being around that man. No,
Speaker 1: look at his face?
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I peeple been loving your deal of the week.
Speaker 1: What was the deal of the week this week? This week? Oh,
Speaker 1: let's do.
Speaker 10: It this week. I've been giving people food the pastor
Speaker 10: you want to sit in the chair. We want to
Speaker 10: keep going, we can that's a that's a.
Speaker 1: Nervous tailors here home. That's what it is about your
Speaker 1: nervous tailors here.
Speaker 11: I want to come on, man, do your deal the week.
Speaker 1: I gotta sit here next to him? Should he sit
Speaker 1: on the couch? Hey, grab that camera, we'll do some work.
Speaker 3: Keeps last week credit walk away from Will? Yeah.
Speaker 10: Will had a voice crack last week.
Speaker 1: Alright, this should better be legit.
Speaker 11: Hey, this is a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 11: So I've been doing food right, Okay, voice crack.
Speaker 1: And he's this man's spiraling.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, no no, I'm not this week the
Speaker 10: deal of the week.
Speaker 11: You know how we were all at AMC movie Theater
Speaker 11: the other week. So I heard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah mouth yeah, this is no. I do know.
Speaker 1: It's really I called oh you call does somework? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 11: So movies are expensive.
Speaker 2: Right, allegedly? What to produce one? Or to go watch one?
Speaker 2: To go watch one?
Speaker 1: Watch?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Man? How much is a movie ticket?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 3: If I'm trying, You got your fourteen dollars ticket for
Speaker 3: a regular.
Speaker 10: Oh, god forbid, it's fourteen yeah, usually it's fourteen dollars
Speaker 10: on Tuesdays at AMC. Five dollars for your movie ticket
Speaker 10: and five dollars for popcorn and a drink.
Speaker 1: That's a hell that's a hell of a deal.
Speaker 11: But oh, it's not over.
Speaker 10: It's not over. You do have to sign up to
Speaker 10: become a rewards member. It doesn't cost you anything, but
Speaker 10: you just got to sign up. Yeah, you just got
Speaker 10: to sign up and then it's free. You don't have
Speaker 10: to Yeah, you don't have to use code av ship
Speaker 10: moneywise on the buzz AMC five dollars movies the O
Speaker 10: the Week.
Speaker 1: Damn, that's a solid one. I would use that. I
Speaker 1: would definitely use that. Let's go remember week.
Speaker 2: Five dollars Fridays he's done ever since the Deal of
Speaker 2: the week. You're ending ship. Here's the deal. I like
Speaker 2: his Deal of the Week. He just seemed real nervous
Speaker 2: when he's talking about it, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he you know, he probably the presence. Well,
Speaker 1: he needs to have a little presence, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Don't be worried about the presence around you. Focus on
Speaker 2: your presence, you know what I'm saying. Drink that in, bro,
Speaker 2: take it in, dude. Hey that's your deal of the week.
Speaker 3: That was free.
Speaker 1: Nebraska lot. Yeah, I mean, yeah, let's talk about that
Speaker 1: because I know we got Dennis Kelly. You got to
Speaker 1: deal with that. Yeah, he lost two hundred to Dennis.
Speaker 1: The only thing produced God is great aviation school. That's it.
Speaker 1: That you fight to Purdue, you land in the on
Speaker 1: the campus. Do you know that you play at Purdue?
Speaker 1: You never played at Purdue?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Oh really, I think we just host. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I ever played against Purdue. They were one of
Speaker 1: those teams where you know, how you play a team
Speaker 1: like every two years or three years or something. They
Speaker 1: were one of them. And so it wasn't part of.
Speaker 2: My righting the campus other than that. There's nothing the
Speaker 2: field awful. They have their their paints like burnt into
Speaker 2: the ground, you hit that, you hit the floor on
Speaker 2: that thing. Brutal, absolutely brutal. Anyway, that team just beat
Speaker 2: your team, and that's tough. But I think what was
Speaker 2: even tougher is that little joker thing you put up
Speaker 2: saying you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna have to yeah, continue to say, with the best
Speaker 1: three win team in the country. Look, man, what happened.
Speaker 1: Didn't even watch it. Seems like it was a close
Speaker 1: little deal. Too many turnovers. Tough, and I love Adrian Martinez, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the guy. You guys refuse to have any
Speaker 1: quarterback without the last name Martinez. We do, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we just lost, man, we fucking lost. We're
Speaker 1: we're stuck. You guys got beat? Or do the refs
Speaker 1: do anything? Was it a special teams thing?
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for the excuse.
Speaker 1: No, I don't really have an excuse really, because we
Speaker 1: lost the Minnesota before the bye week.
Speaker 3: That's tough.
Speaker 1: You're coming against Purdue now, Purdue is not.
Speaker 2: Like you lost the Minnesota before the bye week.
Speaker 1: That's a tough bye week. That's a tough, right, especially
Speaker 1: after coming after out of the gauntlet of like you guys,
Speaker 1: Michigan State and Oklahoma, and we're all feeling like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go on our way at some point, like
Speaker 1: you know, you you think we'll beat Minnesota, will beat Purdue,
Speaker 1: and then Ohio State toss up. Yeah, but I'm saying
Speaker 1: the trend that they were doing the way that they
Speaker 1: were playing all three of you guys in the top ten,
Speaker 1: like close, like down to the wire. You beat those
Speaker 1: two teams like you never know, like Ohio State could
Speaker 1: just be another one of those top ten teams. Michigan
Speaker 1: had overcome the refs and your team. But no, no, bro,
Speaker 1: Yeah we give flip flop that what's done is done.
Speaker 1: You guys won that game. I think everyone who watched
Speaker 1: in Nebraska Michigan game knows that we were playing against
Speaker 1: the refs. But I got nothing, Bro, I mean, we
Speaker 1: might not win a game the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you do what?
Speaker 8: What do you?
Speaker 1: What do you want me to say? I've done. I'm
Speaker 1: doing everything I can.
Speaker 2: Now he's talking to me like I was just talking
Speaker 2: to him. You see that yelling you can because it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You know.
Speaker 1: It means something to me.
Speaker 2: Man, you got you got on me about saying Michigan
Speaker 2: might lose a game this year, but you guys run defeated.
Speaker 2: But you just said we might not win a game
Speaker 2: the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: One hundred. I see what you're trying to do. But
Speaker 1: we have no wins to I have no winds to
Speaker 1: build on. I have nothing.
Speaker 2: Cats are watching this just hoping and praying that they
Speaker 2: have some support, and you just let them down.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm bleeding red till I die. I bleed red
Speaker 1: and shit corn DoD like I'm ready to go for
Speaker 1: like digestive I understand corn for real. Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like all I meant by that was I
Speaker 1: have no momentum to build on, Like we we dummy Northwestern.
Speaker 1: We going to you guys, like I legit thing to
Speaker 1: be proud of. Okay, we be We beat Northwestern worse
Speaker 1: than you guys beat Northwestern. Okay, but we still beat
Speaker 1: the shit out of them. Okay, well we still beat
Speaker 1: them worse. Like I see what you're saying. If we
Speaker 1: were undefeated like you guys were, and we just got
Speaker 1: them beating you guys and we're a top ten team
Speaker 1: in the country, I'm not saying. What I'm saying is, oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to the Natty, not we you know, we'll
Speaker 1: probably lose one this year. Yeah, why realist? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that's just gonna happen. How hard is
Speaker 1: to go and defeated, extremely hard, tough. But again, those
Speaker 1: kids were watching you like, damn, we might lose one
Speaker 1: this year, and they just creeped in a little bit
Speaker 1: of doubt creeped in, and the boom they blewed against
Speaker 1: Michigan State it was.
Speaker 2: No will. It could have been no but to go
Speaker 2: back to me saying leadership like Aiden Hutchinson. With leadership
Speaker 2: like that, no chance that that team is rock solid,
Speaker 2: rock solid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big Aiden fan, big Aiden fan.
Speaker 2: But also, do you think do you think Nebraska will
Speaker 2: like when?
Speaker 3: When?
Speaker 1: Do you think Nebraska will have.
Speaker 2: The potential to be a top ten team again next year?
Speaker 2: Will live in reality, buddy, win a couple of years.
Speaker 3: Two, three years?
Speaker 1: Possibly? I mean, Adrian's still there next year at the minimum,
Speaker 1: what's that? Adrian's still there next year? Who's Adrian? Adrian Martinez?
Speaker 1: Oh that's his name. Yeah Martinez, Yeah, Martinez. Still up
Speaker 1: and down? I mean, okay, okay, I'm not here for
Speaker 1: a roller coaster ride. You know what I'm saying. Before
Speaker 1: this last game, he's like the number one QB in
Speaker 1: the Big ten. All the numbers, all the numbers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's facts. And well I watched he
Speaker 1: had a couple of turn numbers while he's looking up.
Speaker 1: All I meant was we might not win another game.
Speaker 1: Is because we just dropped to Minnesota and Purdue right
Speaker 1: and next week we have Ohio State, we have Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and then we have Iowa. Yeah, Wisconsin, just donkey up. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say we could beat Iowa. I was like
Speaker 1: this look like Tarzan, play like Jane type of team.
Speaker 1: Like they snuck in the number two team in the country.
Speaker 1: They're all hype. They probably parted their ass off because
Speaker 1: they knew we're never going to feel this again for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. And since they got the
Speaker 1: number two they haven't won a game. Yeah that's true,
Speaker 1: that's tough. Yeah, what are they ranked?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: What's our rank? I don't know. They should be out
Speaker 1: of the top twenty five. Oh like that. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like I want I would have failed, but I
Speaker 1: need these Big ten teams to stay in the top
Speaker 1: twenty five so that way we can claim that they
Speaker 1: just being superior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how the Mighty have fallen?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Bro, they were ranked number two. Bro, what's Michigan nine?
Speaker 1: Then you lose the Hooper Doe and uh Wisconsin? Where's uh?
Speaker 1: Where's Nebraska on that? We've had a tough year, man,
Speaker 1: we had to get we went through the gauntlet, like
Speaker 1: we had a tough year. Now, if the if the
Speaker 1: Nebraska team that played against Michigan, Michigan State, and Oklahoma
Speaker 1: shows up against Oho State, you never fucking know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's according to you.
Speaker 2: That's according to you you said, just said, would you
Speaker 2: say the same thing?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Because I think Ohio State's a much more superior.
Speaker 1: You think Ohio State's like legit about that life. They
Speaker 1: just dropped one game.
Speaker 2: I mean they've been donking everybody. Besides, they lost that
Speaker 2: game to Oregon.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so you think there You think them is
Speaker 1: a one lost team, is different, a different look than
Speaker 1: Michigan's one lost No, I think Michigan can absolutely beat
Speaker 1: a hot State who you think is gonna win that game?
Speaker 1: I think Michigans will win that game by a billion.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forget it doesn't matter. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm being serious for now, by a billion fucking points.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 2: I really think Michigan beats a Hoistate. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: it's it's in Columbus, is it not. No, it's that
Speaker 2: Michigan by two billion. You know, we're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 2: beat the ship of that team. And I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: the Michigan fight song playing all throughout the hallways and
Speaker 2: make Mike Rabel listen to that the entire time.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want Michigan win just for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know what the thing about Rabel with
Speaker 2: Ohio State. Is he acts like he does and care
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, whatever we.
Speaker 1: Can raybacks Like he doesn't care about pretty much everything everything,
Speaker 1: but you know he cares about all of it, all
Speaker 1: of the things. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: So I listen rapes come back, who listens ones and
Speaker 2: probably subscribes. Yeah, we're coming for you. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be beautiful when we beat that ass.
Speaker 1: You guys got Indiana, Penn State, and Maryland, and you
Speaker 1: guys should I mean, Penn State was kind of like
Speaker 1: they're kind of like the same as Iowa. They kind
Speaker 1: of looked like Tarzan a little bit, but you kind
Speaker 1: of knew, like they went into thirty over times against
Speaker 1: Illinois Illinois and it was like there were it was
Speaker 1: like who was trying to fail? Like I forgot Illinois
Speaker 1: was in the Big ten. Yeah, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Illinois Champagne, Champagne Illinois. Nothing says Champagne about the town
Speaker 1: of Champagne. No, it smells like manure at the stadium.
Speaker 1: There make a wish football team.
Speaker 9: Okay, I love I love he Every time you like
Speaker 9: tantling your joke that, I was like, ah, that's the
Speaker 9: joke that always gets Taylor ed Okay.
Speaker 2: Damn chance. I mean, I mean Illinois in Penn State.
Speaker 2: It's just Penn State frauds, Iowa frauds. Michigan not a fraud.
Speaker 2: Michigan's no, no, no, you guys are a good team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're legit. Yeah, you guys are a good.
Speaker 2: For Michigan State. They we played that game again. We
Speaker 2: win that game by a billion, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But see that now, that's that. Now that's fake. Now
Speaker 1: the lucky like that guy.
Speaker 2: Their their heisman guy. I went for one hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety something yards and five tds. You play that a game,
Speaker 2: play again, Edgewall, swarm, They're take they're taking it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's since he's a Heisman candidate. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's what they're preaching all week. You do it better
Speaker 1: than next one, you know what I'm saying. And now
Speaker 1: now that the coordinators standing up there didn't want to
Speaker 1: take what we did in the practice field to the field.
Speaker 1: That's what we teach. That's a tough, tough deal. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to see that the boys.
Speaker 2: So I was playing against Quitty Pay Quitty Pay yesterday
Speaker 2: number fifty one for the Colts. He was a first
Speaker 2: round pick out of Michigan. And there was a play yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was a pick fumble we recovered. That's in the
Speaker 2: next play we scored it. Aj you had that fifty
Speaker 2: seven yard runner or pass.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, so they're like getting this dude on the cart
Speaker 2: or whatever. And I'm talking to Quitty. I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: brutal loss, brutal loss yesterday. And he looks at me
Speaker 2: then in the.
Speaker 1: Eyes he goes.
Speaker 2: I cried, like my man cried about that game. That's
Speaker 2: fucking wild to me. But he's still in it, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like he's a rookie. He was just in it last year.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's still that yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And I was like, dude, it's gonna get nothing. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't care. But it's just like, no, you definitely care,
Speaker 2: right right. You always get my days not being made
Speaker 2: or break by someone else doing something, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I felt I felt for it. Oh.
Speaker 2: I cried, yeah, And I was like, well we got
Speaker 2: I'm about to block you in this next place, so
Speaker 2: let's put let's go.
Speaker 1: You know, keep that attitude, you know, what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: keep that emotion a dude. Just oh dude.
Speaker 2: They were so hot after that too, because they just
Speaker 2: got a pick.
Speaker 1: I was hot, oh because I was playing and sa
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Speaker 2: Oh were you really?
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Speaker 1: and give the ball to Derek because he was on
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Speaker 1: I want to aj to do well, just not only
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Speaker 1: it's bragging rights in those group chats.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I'm I've lost every game but one of
Speaker 2: my fantasies.
Speaker 1: Do you care? Do you care about your fantasy though?
Speaker 2: The first couple of weeks I do, and then it
Speaker 2: kind of gets away from me. And then I'm watching
Speaker 2: Thursday and foot Oh shit, I probably should do my
Speaker 2: mind up. I got three guys on bye and I
Speaker 2: gotta you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that I'm not playing, I care about it
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Speaker 1: I'm out of here. Hey, so Von Miller's to the
Speaker 1: he's done. Yeah. I thought we were gonna laugh a
Speaker 1: little more with that. He's just zooming on Taylor's face.
Speaker 3: What a right? What?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 1: What about because Rabel goes to sports clips? Yeah, Boss
Speaker 1: is telling me the Rave goes to sports clips. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, Rave sniffed out bloss like it
Speaker 2: was nothing.
Speaker 1: That's what guy guy dugg in his phone on the head.
Speaker 2: He's that guy guy in the hoodie dug in his
Speaker 2: phone with a late tat your awareness is a ninety
Speaker 2: nine on matter. It's gotta be out to stand out
Speaker 2: at the Oh, we gotta get sport clips on business.
Speaker 2: There's only YouTube in there. I told Raves, you use
Speaker 2: a buster and you make yourself nice little deal. Tell
Speaker 2: him nas for the m v P experience, m VP experience,
Speaker 2: the m v P experience.
Speaker 1: That sounds good. We'll do the we'll do the lad Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well see it. Hey, it's been fun. It
Speaker 1: really has.
Speaker 2: Hey, just because Michigan lost, Oh, I gotta I gotta tweet,
Speaker 2: even though I don't read them. Uh, Michigan State. Michigan
Speaker 2: State wants their their own the boys shirts, Like, can
Speaker 2: we get the boy shirts?
Speaker 1: Who was asking you that?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Some random person on?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Was there several people I saw? I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: lead him, but I saw a couple.
Speaker 1: We're actually looking at doing like rivalry week. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Ohio State one, yeah and Iowa one. No, Why let's
Speaker 1: not do a Michigan State one this year. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: double down on my stance next year and we can.
Speaker 1: We'll let people sort it out, not only in the
Speaker 1: football field, but online as well. We'll see if Michigan
Speaker 1: wants to outdo Michigan State.
Speaker 2: I'm buying the boy shirts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll need an ambassador. Maybe it's William Goldsen.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe if he works as hard as he punches,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: All right, boys, great sign.
Speaker 2: I love each and every one of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boys, I'm gonna miss you. Do your thing, all right.
Speaker 1: Taylor just left. It was great to see the boy
Speaker 1: It was good to see him. The boys are six
Speaker 1: and two. Like I said, we're all right and high.
Speaker 1: We're also a little low because the King, as we know,
Speaker 1: could be battling uh a Jones fracture from what That's
Speaker 1: just what I'm hearing on the internet. And I also
Speaker 1: I also heard we're signing AP Is that confirmed? Where's Jack?
Speaker 1: Is that confirmed?
Speaker 3: Jack Jack?
Speaker 1: Per Jack McPherson, per Jack McPherson, which is also per
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter. The boys are signing an AP trade one
Speaker 1: angry runner for another trade, one goat for another. We
Speaker 1: reload in this motherfucker, dude, And I think that's what'll happen. Hey,
Speaker 1: could you imagine because Tannehill had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a neck deal yesterday, and I do want I want
Speaker 1: to clear the air on something. It is hard. It's
Speaker 1: a little more difficult to talk about tight stuff on
Speaker 1: the boys on because if I'm talking about even though
Speaker 1: I can speak for myself, if Taylor sitting next to me,
Speaker 1: it could it could be perceived or a narrative could
Speaker 1: be painted that like I'm an extension of what Taylor is,
Speaker 1: which is not true. So that's why we're gonna wait
Speaker 1: till he's gone, so we can talk shit or do
Speaker 1: you know whatever we gotta do about the boys? Uh No,
Speaker 1: but for real, like it's you hate kind of talking
Speaker 1: about injuries and all that stuff with like Derek going down.
Speaker 1: It does for the boy man, But to to what
Speaker 1: can I say to like, guess what am I trying
Speaker 1: to speculate? To speculate? What if the Boys go from
Speaker 1: the win that they just had against the Colts, Tannehill,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. So we're going next week? We got we
Speaker 1: got Logan Woodside and we got Jeremy Jeremy McNichols. It's
Speaker 1: as gritty as you get, dude, go in La. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see a good game too, because the Rams are
Speaker 1: The Rams are beefy, just like the Titans, just like
Speaker 1: the Boys. Could be a Super Bowl preview because the
Speaker 1: Rams are gonna come out of the division the NFC West,
Speaker 1: the NFC West over the Niners, which is I know,
Speaker 1: stuff for you to say, bloss uh, But yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: do you know this guy's not falling. It's not like
Speaker 1: Derek n Ruse, the entire team Jack, how you feeling?
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously everyone's upset. Jesus Christ, bro each Monday,
Speaker 8: my voice gets worse. I thought I thought I was
Speaker 8: gonna have a break yesterday, but it didn't. By that
Speaker 8: fourth quarter going into OT it was just yeah, you
Speaker 8: can hear it in the voice, but it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: As a man of the people. What is a state
Speaker 1: of mind most Tennessee fans are in right now? Like
Speaker 1: what were you at? Mentally? I want we need to
Speaker 1: check in with the boy.
Speaker 8: I mean, hey, it's a next man mentality thing, you know,
Speaker 8: next man up. We're just trying to get to each week.
Speaker 8: I think what they're saying locker room, just week by week,
Speaker 8: gotta go out there, show them what those eleven guys
Speaker 8: in the field playing.
Speaker 1: It's gonna work out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: We got a tough matchup probably coming up this week,
Speaker 8: especially with uh with von Miehler getting traded, scary.
Speaker 3: I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1: But so that's confirmed to von Miller's going to the Rams.
Speaker 1: I know we're joking, Taylor.
Speaker 8: That's now, that's that's officially confirmed. So we we got
Speaker 8: our work cutout for us next week. But I think
Speaker 8: that I saw a tweet it said when Ryan Tannehill's
Speaker 8: only game he has played without Derrick Henry. He was
Speaker 8: like one of his highest QBR passer ratings and three tds.
Speaker 8: Him and AJ have been linking up the last couple
Speaker 8: of games. I feel like they're like hitting stride midseason.
Speaker 8: So that's big, especially I Julio can come back from
Speaker 8: this this injury and get in there. I think we
Speaker 8: shake things up. People think we're always about Derrick Henry.
Speaker 8: So it's a really versatile moment for our franchise to
Speaker 8: prove to everyone in the NFL that we can compete
Speaker 8: without our our king. It's devastating that he's not gonna
Speaker 8: be with us, but they're saying that there's a big
Speaker 8: potential he comes back late in the late in the
Speaker 8: season and if he can be healthy right for the
Speaker 8: playoff run. I mean, that's the scariest Titans I can
Speaker 8: think of. We've been playing down the whole whole season.
Speaker 8: You know, I've had thirty guys on IR. You know,
Speaker 8: it's been crazy. So we're just gonna keep running gun
Speaker 8: and I think, you know, Taylor is sitting here. He
Speaker 8: seemed pretty confident. Just saw tweet like twenty minutes ago
Speaker 8: that Tanner Hill is feeling good, which was my biggest concern.
Speaker 8: With Derek being out. If Tannehill is gonna be out,
Speaker 8: we'd be really in trouble. But Tanni's just feeling good,
Speaker 8: So I think I think we just keep pushing forward. Man,
Speaker 8: it'd be good. Hopefully my voice gets better, I.
Speaker 1: Thought, Hey, tz and p s toe your voice. Bro, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's the man of the people right there. As well
Speaker 1: said you don't need Yeah, you don't need nothing else.
Speaker 7: What happens though, if AP comes in here and is
Speaker 7: averaging like one hundred fifty yards a game.
Speaker 1: What do you mean what happens?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: About Derek entering what he does? No, I mean Derek,
Speaker 1: like what man at that size is running twenty two
Speaker 1: miles an hour out of there.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 11: But I'm saying that would mean he is replaceable.
Speaker 1: Then, well, anybody in this league's replaceable, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 3: Like sure, Like, no, I don't know looking at his numbers,
Speaker 3: I don't know what looking at.
Speaker 2: What Derek's done over the last two years here three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it's like, okay, if a AP comes in
Speaker 1: and rushes and averages what one forty game for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: definitely like, oh, shit.
Speaker 3: You could.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's best get yeah, because then the boys are
Speaker 1: rolling if we're talking from the side of like us
Speaker 1: all being flabber gasped and this disillusion by Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't know. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a tough little question. You're trying to put the boys
Speaker 1: in a negative headspace right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not negative.
Speaker 3: Just something to think about.
Speaker 1: Ye, I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 3: Remember, I'm not a football guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not a football guy, uh, I yeah, I
Speaker 1: think like say, Derek being a two thousand yard rusher,
Speaker 1: it's it's that, dude. I mean, if you watch the
Speaker 1: guy run, he's breaking, he's breaking tackles like his his
Speaker 1: a yak was number two in the league up to
Speaker 1: some point, you know what I mean, It's like there
Speaker 1: was nobody doing that. There's nobody doing that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess if AP comes back and does it, it's
Speaker 1: not a question of like, oh, Derek Henry's placeboll It's
Speaker 1: just like, oh, who is this mad who's got this
Speaker 1: Benjamin button juice of Adrian Peterson? And is he back
Speaker 1: to you know, twenty ten form? Whenever he however a
Speaker 1: long he's played. Also think about it, was it back
Speaker 1: in twenty ten when he's just wrecking dudes and he's
Speaker 1: a legend. We need to get him on the bus,
Speaker 1: is what we need to do. And now you need
Speaker 1: to start thinking about do we get Derek Henry as
Speaker 1: a co host on Busting with the Boys? Yea for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season if if that's the case,
Speaker 1: or until he gets back to health.
Speaker 4: Well, even to double down on what Derek's done, like,
Speaker 4: think about how many great offensive lines there have been
Speaker 4: in this league with you know, strong running backs behind him,
Speaker 4: and nobody's doing what he's already done so.
Speaker 1: Right, and he did what he did last year and
Speaker 1: that was without the boy, without Taylor and not saying
Speaker 1: like Taylor is a huge part of that line. That
Speaker 1: line was bawling out. But you know Derek is he's
Speaker 1: put up incredible numbers and it's not like he's went
Speaker 1: untouched the whole time. Like he's one breaking those long runs,
Speaker 1: he's one hitting twenty two miles an hour. He's won
Speaker 1: stiffian dudes, what is that one, dude, share It's like
Speaker 1: a shotgun to the chest. He's deleting dudes with pump shot.
Speaker 1: He's out there, as Jack would say, But yeah, Derek's like,
Speaker 1: he's the fucking king dude.
Speaker 3: What else we have?
Speaker 1: I was thinking of something before Alex just threw off
Speaker 1: my little vibe right there with that. Yes, yes, I
Speaker 1: don't want to butcher CJ's last name Pong, c J Sapong,
Speaker 1: CJ Sapong, and Walker Zimmerman, two guys for the Nashville
Speaker 1: Soccer Club Studs. Dude, I'm not gonna lie, I was
Speaker 1: telling him when they when we got done with the interview,
Speaker 1: I was like, fellas, I was nervous because I had
Speaker 1: a little bit of anxiety because I didn't I don't
Speaker 1: play soccer. I don't really watch soccer. I don't do
Speaker 1: really anything soccer related other than watch Ted last so,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to look stupid asking certain questions.
Speaker 1: And there's two of them. Now, was you know, no pause?
Speaker 1: I was in between both of them, trying to go
Speaker 1: back and forth. It was it was getting dicey in
Speaker 1: the mental for a second. But dude, it really was
Speaker 1: a cool interview. We learned a lot about soccer. They
Speaker 1: sell kids, apparently they developed kids in this academy and
Speaker 1: they sell them off. When they get developed, they groom
Speaker 1: them and then they sell them. But the business of
Speaker 1: soccer seems pretty wild. And I had no clue there
Speaker 1: were so many leagues. I thought Europe was like the lead,
Speaker 1: Like I thought Europe itself was a league, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. They started rattling off Italy, Spain. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just thought those were the clubs, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I did not know those were leagues. So
Speaker 1: if you're like me and you don't know a whole
Speaker 1: lot about soccer, or you just know a little bit,
Speaker 1: I asked some questions to where you're gonna learn a
Speaker 1: lot about soccer by the end of this thing, And
Speaker 1: they have some They have some cool stories. I know
Speaker 1: Walker talked about his time getting traded, getting called late
Speaker 1: at night and like, hey, we're trading you, and he
Speaker 1: had no he was not prepared for it, and uh,
Speaker 1: what's up? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And CJ. CJ is
Speaker 1: going to be a mental coach of his own one day.
Speaker 1: It was awesome hearing about him and his mental health,
Speaker 1: the growth of the sport. I want to say it
Speaker 1: was in year four when he was like down bad
Speaker 1: and was getting introduced to meditation, so we have some
Speaker 1: really good mental talk as well about why both of
Speaker 1: them's driven and stuff like that. But it was just
Speaker 1: a really cool interview, and again, I learned a lot
Speaker 1: about soccer. I feel like all the boys did.
Speaker 3: JP.
Speaker 1: You're a soccer buff, right, so you kind of knew
Speaker 1: all about that from your perspective. How do you feel
Speaker 1: like that went if you're a soccer fan, Like, were
Speaker 1: you sitting there like, oh, this is good stuff, or
Speaker 1: you like I already kind of know all.
Speaker 10: I think it's a lot of good stuff for people
Speaker 10: in America because not a lot of Americans are real
Speaker 10: soccer fans. But getting to hear about what happens when
Speaker 10: you're traded and that type of.
Speaker 1: Thing, balancing the international.
Speaker 10: And international, it's just cool to see and to see,
Speaker 10: like from their perspective, how it changed when they were
Speaker 10: in high school. They're trying to go to college. Now
Speaker 10: that these kids are the kids in high school now
Speaker 10: are trying to get to the academies. Two different crops
Speaker 10: of players, and just their perspective.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was interesting too, Like when he's
Speaker 1: talking about his mental state when he gets done playing
Speaker 1: for another team and then he comes back to Nashville
Speaker 1: and he might not have a day off, or he
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot in that game so he has
Speaker 1: more energy, or he did play a lot so he's
Speaker 1: a little physically exhausted. And how he tried tries some
Speaker 1: balances playing for multiple teams.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, because he could play a game in
Speaker 10: Costa Rica on Thursday and then have to come back
Speaker 10: and play for Nashville on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's that's real.
Speaker 10: Big this, that's how it can happen. That's not happening
Speaker 10: this week, but that happens for those players. I'm like tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild I which is ignorant on my part,
Speaker 1: but like the boys are like going to the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, so Nashville A we gotta wrep the boys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start hitting up my man CJS. Yeah, his
Speaker 1: little no mistake celebration. I like the interview, dude, I
Speaker 1: thought it was good. Like I said, I was nervous.
Speaker 1: I just didn't feel like I was gonna know a
Speaker 1: whole lot and I didn't want it to. We were
Speaker 1: kind of alluding to a one point, like how they're
Speaker 1: sitting in certain interviews at times when people just like
Speaker 1: aren't prepared, and you kind of just sit there awkwardly,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, thank god that was not happening, because
Speaker 1: we're pros over here at bust with the boys. But uh,
Speaker 1: without waiting much longer, here you go. Here's the interview
Speaker 1: with CJ and Walker. Go follow the boys, shout the
Speaker 1: Boys out this episode. If you're watching on YouTube right now, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a great time. Here's a great time. Leave a
Speaker 1: real comment. Tell us maybe how your trick or treating went,
Speaker 1: your Halloween went, tell us how you support the boys,
Speaker 1: how you pub Nashville Soccer Club or the Titans. Maybe
Speaker 1: leave a comment on the whole situation going on, how
Speaker 1: we're six and two and still rolling. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do hope we are going to get into the interview.
Speaker 1: I just kind of ring a bell on something. I
Speaker 1: do hope the boys keep it fucking going though, because
Speaker 1: they are number one. The AFC Raiders are what number two? Three,
Speaker 1: they're tied for two. The good thing is like, again,
Speaker 1: this is all business, this is just all it just
Speaker 1: is what it is. Just like the boys are next
Speaker 1: men up. Mentality. If something were to happen throughout the year,
Speaker 1: I gotta be next team up mentality, fifty one is ready,
Speaker 1: fifty one's ready, I'm ready to go play ball. And
Speaker 1: if I'm not playing ball and the boys go down,
Speaker 1: but the Raider boys come up, like you got to
Speaker 1: be next team up mentality? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You just gotta be ready at any point to jump
Speaker 1: ship and go with another team. Is really really laying
Speaker 1: into that, lean into that like just a fraud? No,
Speaker 1: I do hope the boy spun crush it. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: Titans one Raiders too. All right, here's the interview. Well,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I appreciate you guys coming on. This
Speaker 1: is my first time honestly talking with soccer players, and
Speaker 1: you guys will have to teach me as we go.
Speaker 1: I got to know a little bit about you guys.
Speaker 1: But like I've watched Ted Lasso and that's about it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's a good start.
Speaker 1: Did you guys watch Ted Lasso?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 1: How? How much does this?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Obviously all the writing evolved, but as far as like
Speaker 1: the uh, the life around the locker room and everything
Speaker 1: like that, Like, how does that relate to you guys?
Speaker 1: Is there similarities?
Speaker 3: I think they pick up on, like the really small
Speaker 3: things that actually do happen and then blow them up
Speaker 3: to like make it a real storyline. So it's like
Speaker 3: even guys getting like rookie haircuts or like doing little
Speaker 3: the types of pranks and the types of jokes they
Speaker 3: make are pretty similar to what goes on.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think the the inside of like the
Speaker 5: different culture is really on point because you got different
Speaker 5: walks of life in the locker room, and like the
Speaker 5: cultural diffusion is in te Lasso, they really hit the
Speaker 5: nail on the head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when like as far as the the way Ted
Speaker 1: Lasso as a coach seems not I was not disconnected,
Speaker 1: but I guess removed from the coaching side of things
Speaker 1: to where it seems a lot more player ownership than
Speaker 1: it would be in like a football locker room. Like
Speaker 1: in football, you know you're sitting up there, it seems
Speaker 1: like when you're coaching soccer as a soccer team, you're
Speaker 1: kind of like asking your guys like what's the best
Speaker 1: route to go, or the soccer guys kind of know
Speaker 1: a little bit more about what to do than like
Speaker 1: what not saying football guys don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: But you're really leaning on your coaching and what plans
Speaker 1: are going to make, what adjustments they're going to make,
Speaker 1: Like is that is that.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 11: I would say, is that a topic?
Speaker 5: Let's go. You know, the thing about soccer, like once
Speaker 5: you get on the field, players have to navigate you know,
Speaker 5: the game and the adversity and and for the most part,
Speaker 5: our team I think does very well at managing that.
Speaker 5: But I would say, and ted Lasso, that's maybe exaggerated
Speaker 5: because a lot of coaches want to have, you know,
Speaker 5: complete control over what they're trying to do, and you
Speaker 5: gotta be careful if you veer too off, too far
Speaker 5: off like the path the coach is trying to set,
Speaker 5: then you know it might be tough for you to
Speaker 5: to stay in the lineup and to perform, you know,
Speaker 5: to the exact specifications of what the coach wants.
Speaker 3: You know, it's different for every coach too, Like some
Speaker 3: coaches want to have like it's more of a dictatorship
Speaker 3: and it's like they have their way, they have the
Speaker 3: way that their ship wants to sail and that's it,
Speaker 3: and there's no communication with players. Then you have other
Speaker 3: coaches who may be like completely player driven to where
Speaker 3: like they don't want as much responsibility, but the players
Speaker 3: have a little bit more so then there's there's a
Speaker 3: fun balance you gotta find.
Speaker 1: Are there guys like like what's his name, Jamie Tarr?
Speaker 1: Are their dudes like the Jamie Tart like? And I
Speaker 1: know those are like like as an athlete, you know
Speaker 1: those that role in the show is a little exaggerated.
Speaker 1: But is that does that happen in soccer? Because I
Speaker 1: see I could see soccer being a little similar to
Speaker 1: like basketball in the way that like one player can
Speaker 1: kind of like be a stud. And maybe you guys
Speaker 1: can correct me if I'm wrong on that. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: very new in the soccer world. I don't even play feast.
Speaker 3: I mean, they definitely get that stereotype from but they yeah,
Speaker 3: they give the stereotype that he can like we're gonna
Speaker 3: let him do whatever he wants, like I know in football,
Speaker 3: like there's not a dude who can just completely act
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Like maybe the only example that might be close that
Speaker 1: we would have had in recent years is probably like
Speaker 1: when ab was on The Raiders, right when he goes
Speaker 1: in and he's like got camera guys around him, he's
Speaker 1: doing his own thing. He kind of doesn't give a
Speaker 1: shit like I've heard stories about all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: is there is there characters like that in the soccer world,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: So, I'm trying to think of MLS guys, though I
Speaker 3: don't know if there's like that many. I think the
Speaker 3: difference is like in MLS you don't have like the
Speaker 3: superstars of the world, whereas like NFL is like the
Speaker 3: best league in the world for the sport. So I
Speaker 3: don't think you can have guys in MLS who can
Speaker 3: have like that big, like Jamie Tart type egos because
Speaker 3: they haven't really made it to the very top of
Speaker 3: their sport, gotcha. So yes, you'll have like the arrogant players,
Speaker 3: but it's not it's not gonna be like Jamie.
Speaker 5: Tart, Okay, Yeah, I mean in Europe, I'm sure every
Speaker 5: team has a guy like that, But in this country,
Speaker 5: this league a league that's really been built by like
Speaker 5: domestic players anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, grinders like guys that are willing to.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be hard for for somebody to come from
Speaker 5: outside the league onto a team, have an ego and
Speaker 5: then and still succeed, you know. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 5: guys will come and maybe the first couple you know kicks,
Speaker 5: They're like, oh, this is easy, Like I'm about to
Speaker 5: run shit over here. But after a while, like just
Speaker 5: the culture of soccer, guys start getting against you, and
Speaker 5: then once coaches see that, you could be out of
Speaker 5: the mix pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Damn okay, I got you. Where's the where's the MLS?
Speaker 1: Compared to like getting to is Europe the biggest league?
Speaker 1: This is how dumb I am. Like, there's probably soccer fans,
Speaker 1: god damn it, people listening like, God damn it.
Speaker 3: Comp This is how you learn though. Yeah, there's so
Speaker 3: many leagues in Europe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Italy, Spain, England, those are all leagues, their own leagues.
Speaker 3: And then they got divisions within the leagues. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: got like the Bundesliga one, two, three. So where's where's
Speaker 3: the MLS. Where's the MLS?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, if you ask MLS, they'll say like, uh, probably,
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, it's the number one league here
Speaker 5: and I know MLS.
Speaker 3: The goal is to be like a top they want league.
Speaker 3: They would be a top five league. But I think
Speaker 3: they said twenty twenty four was like their whole campaign
Speaker 3: like maybe five ten years ago. Yeah, I would say
Speaker 3: we're we're definitely probably a top ten league at this point,
Speaker 3: you gotta think EPL. So it's Spain, Italy, Germany. I
Speaker 3: mean you can argue some maybe a South American or Argentinian.
Speaker 3: But the problem is, like some of these leagues have
Speaker 3: such good top teams, like the top four or five
Speaker 3: teams are like better than MLS teams would be, but
Speaker 3: then their lower half are trash. But it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: is that league really better if they have four or
Speaker 3: five teams that are probably better than MLS teams, but
Speaker 3: their lower half is not. It's hard to say, but
Speaker 3: is that? I mean the quality has improved? When did
Speaker 3: you come to the league twenty eleven? Yeah, so, I
Speaker 3: mean like since twenty eleven I came twenty thirteen, it's
Speaker 3: night and day different. Like the quality, the types of
Speaker 3: players they're bringing in, it's it's gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1: How do you think they get to where they they
Speaker 1: they reached the spot to where they're a top five league.
Speaker 3: Keep paying, keep paying the players.
Speaker 1: Is that pretty much what it is. It's just all
Speaker 1: the money.
Speaker 3: It's got to be the commitment from from ownerships in
Speaker 3: the league to keep increasing salary cap, keep increasing the
Speaker 3: money that they're spending because that's going to attract other
Speaker 3: bigger players, and they're doing it. But you know, if
Speaker 3: they want the rapid growth that they're talking about, then
Speaker 3: got a dish out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess to generate the revenue, you kind
Speaker 1: of just need the popularity of the sport to grow.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like like America is doing a good
Speaker 1: job of growing the sport of the popularity in the sport.
Speaker 5: Yeah, from again, from when we started till now, I mean,
Speaker 5: social media has definitely helped a lot too. MLS importing
Speaker 5: players from different countries, very popular players.
Speaker 3: The quality on the field is elevating.
Speaker 5: So it's getting to the point where now like a
Speaker 5: typical fan who's used to watching you know, football, where
Speaker 5: there's big hits, touchdowns, basketball slam dunks, like, there's crunching tackles.
Speaker 5: There's like close shots like almost goal scoring opportunities. So
Speaker 5: it's a lot more exciting. That's that's what the league
Speaker 5: needs to continue to propel itself forward. It's a good
Speaker 5: time for us to be in the league. You know,
Speaker 5: we've been able to see it grow and I think
Speaker 5: me and Walker are similar and we're guys that like
Speaker 5: to just grind it out in battle.
Speaker 3: So it's it's chevyes. It's really cool. Yeah, So it's
Speaker 3: cool to be a part of that. It's interesting to
Speaker 3: see how far it goes.
Speaker 5: But I mean, shit, stuff like this, you know, helping
Speaker 5: you understand a little bit more, getting it out to
Speaker 5: more people.
Speaker 3: I think it'll it'll just organically continue to grow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to give perspective, like when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: or like my high school didn't even have like a
Speaker 1: soccer team until I was like a senior in high school.
Speaker 1: And you guys know the whole stereotype two like football
Speaker 1: players growing up Missouri. Okay, yeah, Missouri, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: growing up the whole stereotype of like, oh, why would
Speaker 1: you play soccer when you can play football type of thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't feel like I got rid of that
Speaker 1: myself until I was probably in college and realize, like damn,
Speaker 1: at the time, it seemed like closet soccer fans, right
Speaker 1: because they would have the jersey. Some of my teammates
Speaker 1: would just all about it when the World Cup and
Speaker 1: stuff will come on. I beg, how are you so
Speaker 1: into soccer? Like, bro, you're not into soccer? And it
Speaker 1: just seemed like it was huge to some of these guys.
Speaker 1: I'm like, where do they even grow up or learn
Speaker 1: that soccer is like, you know, soccer is life. And
Speaker 1: now I feel like now, I fact where we're at now,
Speaker 1: And like in twenty twenty one, especially with like shows
Speaker 1: like ted Lasso coming out, and I feel like just
Speaker 1: the notoriety you guys get a little more, how much
Speaker 1: more it's publicized. I feel like it's trending the right
Speaker 1: direction because again, coming from my ignorance self growing up
Speaker 1: in Missouri, is just like, oh damn, I didn't even
Speaker 1: know this was like extremely popular like this.
Speaker 3: And then the I mean World Cup twenty twenty six
Speaker 3: is going to be massive when it comes to the US.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be like a huge turning point
Speaker 3: where everything so far in MLS is kind of building
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty six, like when the World Cup comes
Speaker 3: to the United States, and then I think you're going
Speaker 3: to see an explosion of like even more interest, even
Speaker 3: more publicity. Even you look at like Nashville, you know,
Speaker 3: becoming a franchise, becoming a club, getting the soccer specific
Speaker 3: stadium will be thirty thousand, which is gonna be perfect
Speaker 3: you know it's gonna be Homeie, the biggest soccer specific
Speaker 3: stadium in the country, and you know our fans. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's great, it's awesome having you know, twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: thousand fans at Nissan Stadium. But you know, then you
Speaker 3: have fifty thousand empty seats. Like when you pack all
Speaker 3: those people into one place, I think we're gonna have
Speaker 3: a pretty cool environment. So you're seeing a lot more
Speaker 3: of those kinds of environments where you know, they're getting
Speaker 3: specific stadiums and they're selling them out, and so that's
Speaker 3: what's just gonna keep going. After the World Cup, I think, how.
Speaker 1: Do you guys feel about that? Like Nashville, like the
Speaker 1: expansion team coming to Nashville, because you guys got did
Speaker 1: you guys get traded here? Did you kind of move
Speaker 1: with the team?
Speaker 3: Well? Traded?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you you got traded. I signed as a free agent,
Speaker 5: so I guess yeah. For me at the time, I
Speaker 5: just wanted a team, and I wanted a team that
Speaker 5: would fit my playing style. But also I got a
Speaker 5: fam so wanted them to be comfortable. And you know,
Speaker 5: kind of like what Walker's talk about, what's it being
Speaker 5: a new franchise, new organization.
Speaker 3: They're building the right way, you know, and.
Speaker 5: It's cool to be a part of something that's getting
Speaker 5: built where the team itself, we're a very cohesive group.
Speaker 5: I'm very excited about that. There's definitely an opportunity for
Speaker 5: Nashville to become a bit of a dynasty in MLS.
Speaker 5: It just takes a little time, and you know, we're
Speaker 5: pushing for the playoffs right now. We're in playoffs. We're
Speaker 5: trying to get some some silverware. That's the number one
Speaker 5: way you can really propel your franchise to where you
Speaker 5: wanted to get to. But yeah, I love Nashville. It's different.
Speaker 5: I was in Chicago before. It's not as big of
Speaker 5: a city, but especially from Chicago, Chicago's a great city.
Speaker 5: Shout out to Chicago, but Nashville definitely.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 5: Good for family and like I said, when the experience
Speaker 5: for us as players, when the experience on the field
Speaker 5: in the locker room is top notch, it makes it
Speaker 5: a little easier to you know, get up every day
Speaker 5: and do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you feel the same way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: You like Nashville, love it.
Speaker 3: It's been It's been a great fit. And I think
Speaker 3: when you look at kind of your life and the
Speaker 3: transitions that come along. Like the timing of Nashville for
Speaker 3: me and getting traded, it was like an absolute bomb
Speaker 3: dropped on me and my wife. We were out in La.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, you came super secure like
Speaker 1: with where we were.
Speaker 3: Thought we were gonna be there for a long time.
Speaker 3: Random call one night out of the blue, and You're
Speaker 3: traded in Nashville and we were just like what, Like
Speaker 3: we thought I was gonna be there for a long time.
Speaker 3: So thankfully it was Nashville. We got here, fell in
Speaker 3: love with the city, even amidst COVID like not being
Speaker 3: able to do a lot of.
Speaker 1: Stuff, like when was it, when'd you get this?
Speaker 3: So I got the call on like basically mid February,
Speaker 3: So it's like pretty late in terms of trades because
Speaker 3: we're like in the middle of preseason at that point
Speaker 3: and we were preparing in La for you know, the
Speaker 3: first match in ten days I think it was, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then I got traded. Call was on a Monday night,
Speaker 3: got the Nashville on Wednesday night. I was under contract
Speaker 3: on the house. Saturday, was with the team Saturday afternoon
Speaker 3: in Tampa for preseason like the second half of preseason.
Speaker 3: It was insane. And then we got back. We closed
Speaker 3: on our house the day that everything shut down in Nashville.
Speaker 3: It's like March sixteenth or something like that. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: it was a crazy experience. But now, especially you know
Speaker 3: everything's opened up again. We're love our neighbors, love our neighborhood.
Speaker 3: We're Green Hills. I mean it's sweet. I love how
Speaker 3: convenient it is too right city, Yeah, every single place,
Speaker 3: and whereas La it's like we couldn't even drive to
Speaker 3: the stadium on a weekday game, so you have to
Speaker 3: take the metro.
Speaker 1: Were you pretty pissed off when you got traded?
Speaker 3: I was, honestly, I was, like I felt every emotion
Speaker 3: within like the two day span. It was like anger, frustration, sadness, confusion,
Speaker 3: Like I mean, me and my wife are just like
Speaker 3: bawling leaving the apartment. I'm like, it was just I
Speaker 3: didn't even know what was going on. It's hard.
Speaker 5: It's hard for MLS players too, because when we get traded,
Speaker 5: like we have to take control of so many of
Speaker 5: the logistics. Like I've heard so yeah, I've heard from
Speaker 5: like NFL players, NBA players, like when they get traded,
Speaker 5: like everything is sorted, you get to your maybe you
Speaker 5: get to the hotel, everything's already set up. You're just
Speaker 5: worrying about playing, whereas like you got to figure out
Speaker 5: the moving. Like, yeah, a lot of the expenses get
Speaker 5: taken care of, but you really have to like take
Speaker 5: control of that, and you explaining that. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 5: just imagining like right before season starting to you know,
Speaker 5: not only like are the colors of your jersey changing,
Speaker 5: but you got to go get a whole nother house and.
Speaker 3: Then mainly you're like leaving, Like Sally basically got to
Speaker 3: take care of the whole move and stuff because I
Speaker 3: go straight into preseason, so it's like now I'm in
Speaker 3: Florida for two weeks. She's still she has to do
Speaker 3: all this stuff, and like she's had to do a
Speaker 3: lot of that. Yeah, you know, it's just like I
Speaker 3: can't imagine.
Speaker 1: Was that kind of the first big thing, pivotal thing
Speaker 1: that happened in your career.
Speaker 3: I had gotten traded from Dallas to LA but that
Speaker 3: was more of like a mutual thing, kind of knew
Speaker 3: it was coming in the off season, so we had
Speaker 3: time to kind of prep it. Then. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: that was really the first. That was the first like
Speaker 3: big surprise.
Speaker 1: That was just like where you just see the teeth
Speaker 1: of the business. Yeah yeah, like damn, I'm just just
Speaker 1: a shoe on a shelf, dude.
Speaker 3: Going the next day, and like the whole team like
Speaker 3: obviously they're all surprised too, and you're just like never
Speaker 3: really seeing them again, right, like, hey, it was real,
Speaker 3: Like I'll see you guys next year. And then it's
Speaker 3: like with COVID, we didn't end up playing La right,
Speaker 3: so like I hadn't even seen that team in like
Speaker 3: two years.
Speaker 1: Bro, you'll like, dad people up and you'll be like,
Speaker 1: you know, you'll just kind of say the comfortable thing too,
Speaker 1: like as players like well, yeah, like we'll stay in
Speaker 1: touch man, or you know, we'll get up in the
Speaker 1: off season. Yeah, And honestly, like you might not see
Speaker 1: those dudes in LA ever again.
Speaker 3: I was. I was in Dallas. I went to the
Speaker 3: movies with Kyle Becker, wh wouldn't see a movie on
Speaker 3: like a Wednesday night. Thursday morning, he comes in, he
Speaker 3: gets called in the coach's office. Aaron's already out training,
Speaker 3: so I hadn't seen him yet come in that morning
Speaker 3: and he left because he got traded that morning. And
Speaker 3: I haven't seen him since. We went to the movies
Speaker 3: and I show up at training and he's gone, like
Speaker 3: he leaves. I haven't seen him since. It's crazy. I
Speaker 3: was like six years ago, seven years ago.
Speaker 1: Business is great. I mean, hell, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, they're playing fantasy just like us. Yeah, someone
Speaker 1: gets hurt on our our fantasy rosters here, you know
Speaker 1: you're dropping. Yeah, I had to let Derek Henry go.
Speaker 3: Dude, I already put my claim in for McNichols, as
Speaker 3: I think it was the right move.
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, they got they got Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson coming, but uh n, McNichols will still mgnick. Are
Speaker 1: you Are you in a Are you in a PPR league.
Speaker 3: Half PPR half PPR?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the reason four Lakes. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're in some kind of PPR league like Nichols
Speaker 1: is never a bad play because he gets all the
Speaker 1: third down stuff, like they're gonna want a third down back.
Speaker 1: I need the g I need. I think that you
Speaker 1: know that could shift a little bit toward ap depend.
Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, the dude's
Speaker 1: thirty seven. He can't be the work words. I need
Speaker 1: to cancel Nichols. I put like thirty one Waiverbucks on
Speaker 1: this guy. Really, yeah, because I mean, thankfully, my team's
Speaker 1: kind of stacked in this league. So I don't I
Speaker 1: don't really need him, but I want him if he's
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy he could though, it could be
Speaker 1: somebody you get and you see for a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks because he should get a.
Speaker 3: Good He's thinking, he's thinking, I'm going to my line up.
Speaker 3: In my head, I'm like, okay, well do I play
Speaker 3: gasking over like an ape or I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, I mean a p I just don't think he'll
Speaker 1: be ap coming right out of the gate.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know, you never know. I hope he is. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm talking business with my man right now.
Speaker 3: I want the Boys to win. I need I need
Speaker 3: Michael Thomas coming back. I've just had him sitting on
Speaker 3: the bench for yeah season, He's gonna be out in
Speaker 3: at least another week, but then maybe week ten.
Speaker 1: I got Montgomery, bro who I'm waiting on him return
Speaker 1: from Chicago. I've been waiting on him to come.
Speaker 3: Back, dude, just extra It actually makes it so fun now,
Speaker 3: like thinking about like if we were to play in
Speaker 3: Last Fantasy, like the fact that you get to like
Speaker 3: play with all your boys, like you can draft your friends.
Speaker 1: Like that, or like just bro, it's so funny. So
Speaker 1: because I had heard, I.
Speaker 3: Drop them and like send them a screenshot like all right, bro, bro, hey.
Speaker 1: You Like I remember when I was playing at Washington,
Speaker 1: I'd go up to Jordan Reid because I'd have Jordan
Speaker 1: Reed on my fantasy team as a tight end. I
Speaker 1: go up to Jay Reid like in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game like, hey, man, I'm gonna need a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I'm gonna need a little bit more, or
Speaker 1: when he's hurt, yeah, yeah, when he was hurt. Of hey,
Speaker 1: so I gotta yeah, I gotta make some decisions.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We need you, we want on the team. But when
Speaker 1: I heard about Derek last night, like immediately went to
Speaker 1: our group chat. I said, Hey, Derek's on the block,
Speaker 1: I said, I said, He's only got me twenty two
Speaker 1: points these last couple of weeks, so you know, I'll
Speaker 1: take I'm looking for a top ten running back and
Speaker 1: a top ten wide receiver. Gotta uh gotta West trade
Speaker 1: for Austin Eckler and Mike Williams, and he wanted Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and A. J. Green and immediately hit accept the
Speaker 1: trade's going through. But right now it's getting beatle because
Speaker 1: everybodys finding out about Derek now and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they think it's slimy in me. But I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: shame on you for thinking I'm a high integrity player
Speaker 1: in this business. Like we gotta make moves, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, talking to Derek, Like, yeah, man, let me
Speaker 1: know if you need anything, get on the phone, Like,
Speaker 1: hey man, Derek's on the block, send him packing. Oh man,
Speaker 1: what else we got? Hey, Alice, can you make sure
Speaker 1: and let Peggy know that we won't do Mercedes Bonteraire biscuits.
Speaker 1: I'm like fired up Bonteraire biscuits.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 1: It's a good day to be a biscuit man because
Speaker 1: we're winning right now. I'm four and four right now.
Speaker 1: But our league is built around on four and four.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of teams in the middle. We
Speaker 1: got one team that's seven and one. The rest are
Speaker 1: like four and four, and then you have a couple
Speaker 1: they are like two win teams are one win team.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go to five and three in two leagues,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to hopefully six and two and one.
Speaker 3: That's the that's the Nashville League that right now, the
Speaker 3: projections is within a point. That's the one where Boswell
Speaker 3: is hurt and it's Mahomes Butker the other one. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go to six and two if Mahomes and Busker
Speaker 3: put up twenty five.
Speaker 1: So you're sitting nice.
Speaker 3: I'm in a really good spot. Henry will hurt in
Speaker 3: this National League. I have some depth, but like that
Speaker 3: means Gaskins every day starter, and I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's what I need because Josh Jacobs, like he's he's
Speaker 3: always questionable, right, Like, yeah, Jones are running backs, you know,
Speaker 3: like you're you're basically I don't even know if I
Speaker 3: want to play him as a questionable tag. If Julio
Speaker 3: Jones is questionable, I'm not playing him. I mean, I
Speaker 3: love it, I love but how.
Speaker 1: Many I love seeing the GM come out of him? Dude?
Speaker 3: I mean, how many hours a day would you say
Speaker 3: you're spending on your not a lot? Not a lot, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: Sunday Sunday. I am like this, Yeah, just going from
Speaker 3: team to team I'm not even looking at the TV,
Speaker 3: like the red zone can be on and it's just
Speaker 3: this and it's in the charger because it lasts like
Speaker 3: twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It's so funny how different you watch
Speaker 1: the game, like just man, Like yesterday, I was telling
Speaker 1: Taylor like I was playing. The dude who I was
Speaker 1: playing against had a J Brown, and obviously I want
Speaker 1: to Timeans win every game, but when he was going
Speaker 1: on that long run, I'm like, just fucking push that
Speaker 1: motherfucker out of bounce, dude, like you want him to, Like,
Speaker 1: all right, now, give Derek the ball. The good thing
Speaker 1: about Derek UNDWN is I also have Jonathan Taylor and
Speaker 1: he's been playing well recently, you know, or the Titans
Speaker 1: fans listening, like again, it's just business. It's just been
Speaker 1: like it is. It's just like it's just the name
Speaker 1: of the game. Everybody else knows it. Titans fans probably
Speaker 1: have Jonathan Taylor on the team anyway.
Speaker 3: There's no loyalties to actual teams when you're in fantasy football, right, biscuits, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are your team's names? So my Dallas League team
Speaker 3: name is Cooy's Daddy Toys. Daddy KOI was basically a
Speaker 3: rookie when I was there and took him on my
Speaker 3: wing and just kind of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so beating him this week, hold the pocket home,
Speaker 1: my pocket.
Speaker 3: Him this week. So taking care of that. Next league
Speaker 3: injected into my veins. Okay, uh oh yeah? Is another name?
Speaker 3: Nashville League is milk me. That's great.
Speaker 1: The milk mean.
Speaker 3: Where do we go from here? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been nuts, man, it's been nuts that we've
Speaker 1: had a podcast for since mid twenty nineteen, since like
Speaker 1: June of twenty nineteen. We do like one a week,
Speaker 1: Taylor and I. When we first did it, the bus
Speaker 1: was sitting on this gravel parking lot. Everybody start the story.
Speaker 1: That's like listening. Everyone's like, all right, we gotta hehar
Speaker 1: the story again. And uh, we backlogged like probably five
Speaker 1: to eight episodes. We ran them, and we were only
Speaker 1: going to do the podcast for the summer, Like we
Speaker 1: were just going to like because again we're like the
Speaker 1: first pod where active players are sitting here and you're
Speaker 1: kind of letting it fly like the way we do.
Speaker 1: Like we're obviously super nervous and had anxiety about it,
Speaker 1: but we're like, all right, we'll do this in the
Speaker 1: summer and then when it's football, like we'll just play football.
Speaker 1: We won't do the pod because you know, you don't
Speaker 1: want like the distractions like all that stuff. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys don't want to talking about And I remember getting
Speaker 1: on the phone with McAfee, Pat McAfee, who does the
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Speaker 1: they he brought us. Do you know who pet is? No, see,
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Speaker 1: do it, be consistent, Like, if you're gonna do one
Speaker 1: a week, try to get as many as you can,
Speaker 1: to be consistent all your loan because the name of
Speaker 1: the game is like being consistent about it. And since
Speaker 1: that conversation with him, Taylor and I was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: we need to start getting start getting pods in the
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Speaker 1: I remember one week we did like twelve pods in
Speaker 1: one Week'd say, you guys would come on, then we'd
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Speaker 1: We would do like three in a day, bro. And
Speaker 1: you know how it is like you can only say
Speaker 1: so many joke, there's only so much humor in jokes
Speaker 1: on your mind in the day. Toward by the third one,
Speaker 1: you're kind of just like, what are we laughing about?
Speaker 1: And uh, so yeah, we did that, and then once
Speaker 1: we got into the off season, we were able to
Speaker 1: do a lot in the off season. Then COVID. Then
Speaker 1: COVID hit, so then we did started to do zoom.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been wild and then it's it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing because Taylor towards ACL last year and I
Speaker 1: was on the Titans as well, and two guys couldn't
Speaker 1: be on the bus at the same time, Like you
Speaker 1: couldn't have two players. You couldn't be seen outside the
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Speaker 1: you guys know what I mean, Like we couldn't give
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Speaker 1: in the building, you couldn't be with him after the facility.
Speaker 1: So Taylor was the only one that could do the podcast.
Speaker 1: And honestly, like as far as speaking from busting with
Speaker 1: the boys, so it was almost like a blessing that
Speaker 1: he was able to do some pods until I was
Speaker 1: able to start doing them again. But we just like
Speaker 1: kept it rolling.
Speaker 3: Dude, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: You guys thought about doing a pod.
Speaker 5: I've thought about it before. I just don't know that
Speaker 5: I have the ability to stay consistent, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 5: especially with a fan you'll be hearing kids screaming in
Speaker 5: the background. If I could get like a spot that's
Speaker 5: off site, yeah, Like I would definitely look forward to
Speaker 5: coming here and just like shooting the ship.
Speaker 3: But it's a commitment, bro.
Speaker 1: It really is. That's something like you you definitely sleep on.
Speaker 1: I slept on like coming into Like you think you're
Speaker 1: just gonna do a show like talk on Mike's How
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Speaker 1: And then like when you're first starting, I remember tailing
Speaker 1: I had to redo our first episode like so much
Speaker 1: because we're like, yo, what are we doing? Like what
Speaker 1: are we talking about? Like we're forcing our conversations.
Speaker 3: And then it's really hit or miss. I did a
Speaker 3: couple in LA They had me do a couple of
Speaker 3: different pods. Yeah, and it's like pretty hit or miss
Speaker 3: with like guests too. Yeah. Then if like if it's
Speaker 3: not flowing pretty well, you're kind of stressing yourself and
Speaker 3: you're like, Okay, let me just go to the next question,
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it becomes at that point it's like yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It's no good, and then you still have to put
Speaker 3: it out there because you're like, right'll be consistent with
Speaker 3: it exactly.
Speaker 1: And then you're putting out stuff to where it does
Speaker 1: It seems like scripted are like now we're actually sitting
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Speaker 1: We hit a block and I was like really anxious
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Speaker 5: Yeah, youth academies when it comes to soccer in this country,
Speaker 5: I mean anywhere, honestly, that's how teams develop their talent
Speaker 5: and you know the game, that's where a lot of
Speaker 5: the profit comes from. You develop players from a young age.
Speaker 5: They get to an age where they're becoming successful or
Speaker 5: have a lot of potential, you sell them to another
Speaker 5: team rinse Jesus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey that sounds kind of wild. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: get to where, oh they have potential, sell them yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not like some.
Speaker 5: Ten eleven twelve. You have twelve year olds getting paid
Speaker 5: by academies. You know, they're doing their schooling on site.
Speaker 5: They are getting paid everything, everything is getting paid for.
Speaker 3: On site.
Speaker 5: You know, they're getting the best of the best in
Speaker 5: terms of coaching, training, stuff like that. Uh, and are
Speaker 5: in this country the academy system is definitely developing to
Speaker 5: another level. The MLS has already had quite a few
Speaker 5: players get sold overseas, and I mean the return on
Speaker 5: investment there is outrageous for them.
Speaker 3: So uh, out let what walker you can follow up
Speaker 3: on that one.
Speaker 1: But get sold overseas the provins are yeah the business no, No,
Speaker 1: it's true.
Speaker 3: So It's like it's basically like ten years old, maybe
Speaker 3: ten twelve years old, the modern like academy system, because
Speaker 3: it was completely differenthen we were growing up playing you soccer.
Speaker 3: Now you have MLS teams that have their own academies.
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm you know, helping out with you U
Speaker 3: seventeen academy team coach them on the side. So I'm
Speaker 3: hopeful that you know, we sell them, maybe little bit
Speaker 3: that comes back, but I don't know exactly how it works,
Speaker 3: but maybe I put that plug in now rights bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly though that that happens a lot though, Like
Speaker 5: if a MLS team's academy develops a player and they
Speaker 5: sell him, if that player gets sold again, they can
Speaker 5: get kicked back from that next sale too, So.
Speaker 1: It's like an NFT.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can come back to the coaches, which honestly,
Speaker 3: they should put something in their contract, like for every
Speaker 3: kid that get sold to Europe because they're the ones
Speaker 3: that actually developed. Yeah, they're the one doing all the coaching.
Speaker 3: So something to think about, did you guys get sold? No,
Speaker 3: Like I said that, the system was different for us.
Speaker 1: We're talking about selling kids. We'll talk about developing, talk
Speaker 1: about developing kids and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is great. Yeah. So the system probably ten
Speaker 3: twelve years old, so I was kind of borderlined my
Speaker 3: age group of it was the first year kids were
Speaker 3: starting to go to academy, Like at you seventeen, I
Speaker 3: stayed on the team that I was with, like my
Speaker 3: club team, and then ended up I was already committed
Speaker 3: to college. I was like, I don't need to go
Speaker 3: now to this new academy system, and because I was
Speaker 3: already committed. But basically all the years after kind of
Speaker 3: my age group nineteen ninety three's you started seeing the
Speaker 3: top talents go to these academy teams. And then now
Speaker 3: it's like MLS academy teams. So you have Atlanta United
Speaker 3: for example, you have at landa United two, which a
Speaker 3: lot of their academy kids can then go play for
Speaker 3: Atlanta United two. Same thing, Sporting KC, Red Bulls, DC,
Speaker 3: Philly now Nashville, like all the teams basically have academy
Speaker 3: teams starting at you thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, nineteen, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And then at some point, if they're like developed really
Speaker 1: well in those age groups, like they get to where
Speaker 1: they're going, they could sell them early.
Speaker 3: You can either sell them, but majority of the time
Speaker 3: you're probably signing them to a homegrown contract. And so
Speaker 3: that means the incentive this seet we're gonna get real
Speaker 3: wacky because a lot of MLS rules if we go
Speaker 3: down this road.
Speaker 1: So I think, hey, I think it's interesting. So if
Speaker 1: you see, like, say, you guys are beasts, right, and
Speaker 1: I'm like head of the academy or this team, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, these two are savages at what's
Speaker 1: the youngest age?
Speaker 3: Sixteen usually fifteen sixteen would be.
Speaker 1: Fifteen sixteen would be the youngest to get into an academy.
Speaker 3: Would be the youngest to get where you sign a
Speaker 3: homegrown contract.
Speaker 1: Okay, but if you would do a homegrown if you
Speaker 1: realize like, hey, these dudes are going to be monsters,
Speaker 1: like get them under contract now for cheap, and then
Speaker 1: we got them locked and the perk of the home
Speaker 1: and the kid doesn't kind of you know, the kid
Speaker 1: in the family doesn't know because they're finally like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna finally start.
Speaker 3: Seeing a little bit of So now you got the
Speaker 3: mechanisms of how less works. So now it's like you
Speaker 3: look at the salary cat. So the incentives for MOLS
Speaker 3: teams is if you sign a homegrown player, their contract
Speaker 3: doesn't count against the salary cap. So it's the incentive
Speaker 3: to then have a roster player that you aren't actually
Speaker 3: hitting against the cat so to pay them but doesn't count.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so how would the team ben How would the
Speaker 1: other team benefit from from getting Why wouldn't the homegrown
Speaker 1: team just keep the kid?
Speaker 3: They would like, if you sign a homegrown contract, then
Speaker 3: you're staying with the academy team, like they get your
Speaker 3: first rights. Okay, So if there's a Nashville kid, he's
Speaker 3: a baller, they signed a homegrown deal, he has to
Speaker 3: stay with Nashville. He couldn't even sign with another MLS
Speaker 3: team because Nashville owns the rights of all academy kids. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you can't like have a Nashville player be like,
Speaker 3: oh I can go pro. I'm gonna go play for
Speaker 3: LAFC and then just leave. It's like, no, he is
Speaker 3: owned by Nashville, so they have the first rights to
Speaker 3: sign him and basically make money out.
Speaker 1: What if like another league, like what a europe league
Speaker 1: wing to.
Speaker 3: Sign him, then they could leave, but Nashville would have
Speaker 3: rights to get a percentage of the transfer feet and
Speaker 3: all that and MLS and then MLS on top of
Speaker 3: that just to MLS is single.
Speaker 5: Entity, right, so MLS owns basically well, MLS pays all
Speaker 5: the contracts. So when there's a transfer, I'm not sure
Speaker 5: what the rule is now, but just in the last CBA,
Speaker 5: MLS gets two thirds of the transfer fee and the
Speaker 5: team gets one third. In Europe, if you get transferred,
Speaker 5: the player gets ten percent of the transfer fee.
Speaker 3: Here, nah, you get nothing.
Speaker 1: So do you wish there was some uh, like the
Speaker 1: rules applied that are over in Europe over here in
Speaker 1: the US.
Speaker 11: I mean, like, are there some rules?
Speaker 1: You guys look at it like damn that?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Always in that league.
Speaker 5: There's quite a few, Honestly. It's just all we want
Speaker 5: to see is for a kid that is going to
Speaker 5: essentially forego their whole upbringing to put the effort into soccer.
Speaker 5: Perhaps they're trying to, you know, fee the fam I
Speaker 5: think every dollar counts, and if a kid is able
Speaker 5: to play their way to a position of having potential
Speaker 5: to succeed outside of MLS and gets transferred, they should
Speaker 5: get a little bit of that. Oh yeah, And then
Speaker 5: when you're looking at the fact that MLS is getting
Speaker 5: two thirds of the fee and then the teams are
Speaker 5: only getting one third. That starts messing with the fee
Speaker 5: they're willing to accept. So imagine paying a kid sixty
Speaker 5: thousand and a team wants to pay two million for him.
Speaker 5: But now everybody's like, well, my two thirds is only
Speaker 5: this much. Ah, we want three million, you know. So
Speaker 5: that's where it can get real, real messy. But ultimately,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, these players are in
Speaker 5: this country are getting an opportunity to maximize their potential overseas,
Speaker 5: which helps our country develop soccer. And as we're seeing
Speaker 5: with the men's national team, we're starting to have more
Speaker 5: and more younger talent develop their way into that squad
Speaker 5: and by twenty twenty six we're looking pretty good. And
Speaker 5: you know, we'll see when that time comes around, it'll
Speaker 5: be easier to kind of measure where we've gone, you know,
Speaker 5: from the start of these homegrown wheelings and dealings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's great, covered it all corrupt.
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Speaker 1: Is it kind of like like, would you say, kids
Speaker 1: grow up playing soccer in America, they're wanting to play
Speaker 1: in the MLS or you trying to go over to Europe.
Speaker 5: When I was growing up, it was wanting to go
Speaker 5: to Europe. But I think now MLS is definitely a
Speaker 5: good destination. I think the the stigma is like you
Speaker 5: can't be the best unless you go to Europe. But
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that that's true anymore, honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and narrative is probably shifting a little bit. Like
Speaker 3: I think if you're a kid and you're always dreaming
Speaker 3: of like I want to play in the World Cup
Speaker 3: or I want to play in Champions League, if that's
Speaker 3: still like the dream and it's true, like then yeah,
Speaker 3: you're gonna want to go to Europe. But like, at
Speaker 3: the same time, you know, the quality of NMLS has
Speaker 3: gotten so much better that it's gonna be pretty hard
Speaker 3: for most kids, even if they're gonna become professionals, to
Speaker 3: just go straight over, Like they have to be really
Speaker 3: really talented players to succeed right away in Europe. So
Speaker 3: I could see a lot of especially when you'll get homegrowns,
Speaker 3: like guys getting a chance to join a great league
Speaker 3: in MLS, get a lot of minutes under their belt
Speaker 3: in a professional environment and then make the jump. Because
Speaker 3: I think it is a pretty big jump if you're
Speaker 3: going from just you know, fifteen sixteen year old going overseas,
Speaker 3: it could be a little bit just because the competition
Speaker 3: is and then the other factors like okay, now you're
Speaker 3: just moving away from home, like you're still young kid,
Speaker 3: Like you don't know how that's gonna affect different kids. Yeah, certain,
Speaker 3: so there are obviously success stories of kids who do it,
Speaker 3: but it's pretty rare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are there many? Are there many like Americans that
Speaker 1: are over in Europe right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of young guys. So within our
Speaker 3: national team we probably probably have of the last couple
Speaker 3: of qualifiers, say we have twenty five people in the roster,
Speaker 3: probably twelve thirteen are guys who are playing in top
Speaker 3: good leagues overseas. It's probably pretty split in terms of
Speaker 3: the roster. Gotta get a little bit more European than MLS.
Speaker 1: Now when it's worlds, like when you do the big
Speaker 1: the international, the world tournament or whatever. Do you got
Speaker 1: to play for the country in which you like grew
Speaker 1: up in it kind of like the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Well you can have it's just what I mean, you
Speaker 3: can have different passports, right, don't player asking questions? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I know. It's because again you have some guys will
Speaker 5: have a grandmother that is from a certain country, like
Speaker 5: what you'll see a lot for like Spain, Italy, England
Speaker 5: teams that are always high in terms of global rankings.
Speaker 5: It might be harder to get on that roster. But hey,
Speaker 5: my grandmother's Jamaican.
Speaker 1: Also try and manipulator kind of.
Speaker 5: So then even though I grew up in England, my
Speaker 5: grandmother's jam make in and I want to play on
Speaker 5: the world stage. So I'm just gonna get a Jamaican passport.
Speaker 5: I'll play for Jamaica. You see like that, that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff happens a lot. I mean, even with the US,
Speaker 5: you have guys that grow up on base in Germany
Speaker 5: and spent maybe a year in this country in their
Speaker 5: whole life, but they're most likely not going to you know,
Speaker 5: make the German national team.
Speaker 3: So then it's like, oh, well I'll play for the US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a lot of the white dudes in
Speaker 1: America like German. Anyway. It's like, hey, I'm German for
Speaker 1: the German team. I can say that because I got
Speaker 1: some German you know what I mean? You might too,
Speaker 1: you're blonde, Yeah, you might have some German.
Speaker 3: Zimmerman's a German name. I don't know how far back.
Speaker 3: All I know is I do not qualify for a
Speaker 3: past So that's that's also a little frustrating. You know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you if you don't have passports, it's harder for
Speaker 3: you to go over and play in Europe so based
Speaker 3: on their work visas and things like that, so it's
Speaker 3: easier if you have. So I'm like, man, maybe we
Speaker 3: should go have our next kid over in Europe and
Speaker 3: then give him the opportunity if he wants it, to
Speaker 3: be able to have more flexibility in the Yeah, that career.
Speaker 1: But yeah, how does how does college fit into everything?
Speaker 1: Did you say you went to college? Did you go
Speaker 1: to college too? You went that route? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So how does James Madison?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, let's go went to a Halloween party
Speaker 1: there once. So do you guys get down though?
Speaker 3: You had a great time?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, JAMU it's a it's a fun, little party school,
Speaker 1: great school. But yeah, how does college fit in all this?
Speaker 1: And let's just say, how did college fit into it
Speaker 1: when you guys were coming up, And how does college
Speaker 1: kind of fitting into it now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So when again, when I was coming up, academies weren't
Speaker 5: that big of a thing, whereas today you're most like,
Speaker 5: like these sixteen seventeen year olds that are in an academy,
Speaker 5: they have chances to go to college, but there's usually
Speaker 5: somebody above telling them, now, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 5: Just stay here, You're going to get everything you need,
Speaker 5: you can develop. Whereas for me, I think that was
Speaker 5: the best thing that I could have done. Let's go
Speaker 5: to college because kind of what Walker was saying, for
Speaker 5: these young kids to like go up through these systems
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden be on their own
Speaker 5: having to manage themselves as a professional. Like the daily things,
Speaker 5: not having your mom, you know, cook and clean for you.
Speaker 5: Those are things that I learned in college, and like sometimes,
Speaker 5: you know, I've really had to rough it, like learning budgeting,
Speaker 5: like forty dollars a week, Like am I going to
Speaker 5: get somewhere?
Speaker 3: Or am I gonna get a beer?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, those are the experiences in college that
Speaker 5: I really really enjoyed, and I think looking back, I'm
Speaker 5: very thankful to have had that experience. I think the
Speaker 5: kids that are coming up these days, college isn't always
Speaker 5: the number one you know, for them, If they can
Speaker 5: sign a homegrown deal at sixteen seventeen, they would rather
Speaker 5: do that.
Speaker 1: Got you, got you, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that's what some of the problem is is
Speaker 3: like some kids, yeah, they're probably talented enough to become professionals.
Speaker 3: But the problem is, like the top one percent should
Speaker 3: probably go academy and try and maybe furgo college if
Speaker 3: they like really have the potential to make it, because
Speaker 3: it's going to be better training, it's going to be
Speaker 3: better for their development as a pro athlete or a
Speaker 3: future pro athlete, because the you know, with the academy system,
Speaker 3: like that's the goal is to develop guys who are
Speaker 3: going to probably not even go to college, but guys
Speaker 3: who go straight from the academy in the first team.
Speaker 3: The problem is when you start signing a bunch of
Speaker 3: homegrown guys and some of them aren't necessarily that good.
Speaker 3: Now they're risking their college education to go pro for
Speaker 3: a minimum contract on seventy thousand bucks. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 3: gonna get cut after two years and now they're like,
Speaker 3: oh gosh, I gotta find a college. But now that
Speaker 3: you can't play college because you've already been a pro
Speaker 3: like So I think it really depends on if you're
Speaker 3: the absolute like cream the crop. I think you got
Speaker 3: to develop academy pro. But for the guys that you know,
Speaker 3: maybe they'll make it one day, it's like it's a
Speaker 3: big risk if you're trying to sign a small deal
Speaker 3: to become a pro and you forego college. So college soccer,
Speaker 3: I think the quality overall is probably dropping a little
Speaker 3: bit because you're losing.
Speaker 1: Some of the very top talent to the academy.
Speaker 3: Stuff to the academies, but it is still relevant in
Speaker 3: the sense of, like, you know, even Nashville, for example,
Speaker 3: we got some great draft picks that are really big contributors.
Speaker 3: So two years ago we drafted Alishir Johnston. He's become
Speaker 3: a mainstay on the Canadian national team, been a starter
Speaker 3: for US for two years. Jack Mayer from Indiana played
Speaker 3: you know, two years of college and didn't play a
Speaker 3: lot last year, but now he's played like games this year,
Speaker 3: so it's like you can still find talent in college
Speaker 3: that can contribute to you, you know, whether they graduate
Speaker 3: early or leave college early. But it's just I'm scared
Speaker 3: for the guys that are chasing this dream of being
Speaker 3: a pro athlete and then they choose to you know,
Speaker 3: they're a little by disillusion with their capabilities and they
Speaker 3: become kind of washed up, lost in the system a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: You feel like the disillusion comes from, like you were saying, that,
Speaker 1: people telling them they're better than they might be, their parents,
Speaker 1: or maybe coaches or trainers that maybe aren't necessarily with
Speaker 1: the team, but they're trying to make their money as well, saying.
Speaker 3: Hey, you need to come, or like imagine being sixteen
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh my gosh, I can make like
Speaker 3: a real salary I can get I can get money
Speaker 3: for my family or like you know, myself.
Speaker 1: It seems like sixteen or seventy thousands kind of.
Speaker 3: Like that's like the minimum right in the league. So
Speaker 3: it's like they're pretty much unless again, unless they're like,
Speaker 3: you know, really really.
Speaker 1: Top you're thinking, yeah, I can make seventy is a
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen year.
Speaker 3: And live that pro life not have to do school.
Speaker 3: You're gonna that's like super tempting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The problem is it's not thinking ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not thinking ahead, and there's not enough resources available
Speaker 5: to them that project their whether even if we're just
Speaker 5: looking at a career, right, yeah, are they being spoken
Speaker 5: to about Okay, let's just say you play for fifteen years,
Speaker 5: like you should be saving this much every year.
Speaker 3: You know, these kids are right on stock x, ice
Speaker 3: box and fts now you know, like which, hey whatever.
Speaker 5: Like at some level there has to be a little
Speaker 5: bit of a risk, and you know you're in a
Speaker 5: position where you can take that kind of risk. But ultimately,
Speaker 5: like he's saying, sixteen years old, you sign a homegrown deal.
Speaker 5: You basically some guys they'll just train, right, they don't
Speaker 5: play in games. They're just training every day every day,
Speaker 5: two seasons, three seasons, never playing a game, and then
Speaker 5: boom your cut. You haven't gone to college, you have
Speaker 5: no degree. You haven't even thought about what you would
Speaker 5: do besides soccer because you always thought that soccer was
Speaker 5: the only thing that was.
Speaker 1: You're not like going to like a routine day throughout
Speaker 1: a routine day of like class or balancing this and
Speaker 1: hard to go back to literally just training, thinking you're
Speaker 1: going to do something and then you're.
Speaker 3: Then you're done. You're damn that wouldn't What was I thinking?
Speaker 3: What am I going to do now? You know?
Speaker 5: And and again a lot of the teams, they're not
Speaker 5: sitting there like yeah, you know, you're not with us anymore,
Speaker 5: but here's some resources for you, like hope everything, nah, peace, thanks.
Speaker 3: For your time. You ain't lying. You're not lying, bro,
Speaker 3: you know, Like that's wild. Whose fault is that? You know?
Speaker 3: I don't even know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like how do you even how do you
Speaker 1: even try? And like is that like a is that
Speaker 1: a big thing that happens?
Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of kids do There's plenty of
Speaker 3: cases of guys who problem we should have gone to
Speaker 3: college and then either played a couple of years and
Speaker 3: then they probably got cut from the MS team and
Speaker 3: they're like, well, I don't know what else to do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna drop down to the USL, which is like
Speaker 3: the league below MLS. Now they're probably making closer to
Speaker 3: like I don't know, twenty five, like something that's on
Speaker 3: my side. Yeah, you're right, having to juggle two different
Speaker 3: things to get by.
Speaker 1: But you're kind of like in the minors of baseball at.
Speaker 3: That yeah, exactly. Then they just become and there's always
Speaker 3: like the glimmer of hope that they hold on to
Speaker 3: of like making it back up. And it's just so
Speaker 3: rare to have guys who drop from MLSUSL and then
Speaker 3: get back up, very rare.
Speaker 1: So shit, yeah, once you college to go pro.
Speaker 3: Yeah you can. You can go pro at any time
Speaker 3: from college. So you could be a freshman and be like,
Speaker 3: be a freshman, play a freshman season, and you're out.
Speaker 3: So I mean, did you go? I went?
Speaker 5: I went all well, I left after three and a
Speaker 5: half years, but I played fourth seasons right college. I
Speaker 5: had an opportunity to maybe go after my junior year,
Speaker 5: but I was still like, well, hey, I still.
Speaker 3: Want to get this degree.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 5: I put in all this time and effort and I
Speaker 5: still ended up not getting it. But you didn't get
Speaker 5: your degree and a half years, but I had three
Speaker 5: and a half years. I have to, Uh, well, it always.
Speaker 1: Comes down and somebody's like, I got two or three
Speaker 1: classes left, I'm gonna do them online if fulfill my
Speaker 1: promise to my grandma back in the day.
Speaker 3: Basically right, like like if you get it from like
Speaker 3: s n h U would get.
Speaker 5: It because my major switched to a different major in
Speaker 5: my last year, so Keynesiology switched to sports management. If
Speaker 5: I was to go to another school, I would have
Speaker 5: had to like redo like two years worth of credit,
Speaker 5: which is just awful. But I mean we'll see, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe I'll go back and get that piece of paper.
Speaker 5: That's definitely gonna get me a job.
Speaker 1: You know, that's definitely gonna get me a job. It's
Speaker 1: gonna feel good.
Speaker 3: How long you've been playing.
Speaker 1: Since one twenty eleven, so you're over it, You're like
Speaker 1: over a decade?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is my eleventh season.
Speaker 1: What is like the average lifespan of a of a
Speaker 1: soccer player? I got on a football It's like two
Speaker 1: point eight years playing in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Damn that's pretty bad. Yeah, I'd say around like ten
Speaker 5: to eleven years. It depends on the position you're playing to.
Speaker 5: Goalkeepers can play for fifteen yeah, no, Forwards, midfielders, defenders, that.
Speaker 3: Three point two to three point five is your That's like,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's not like they're playing career, but that's
Speaker 3: like saying or like sting MLS.
Speaker 1: Right, Wow, congrats bro, Thank you man, like triple career
Speaker 1: link that I feel good. Damn? How about you? Did
Speaker 1: you how long did you go to college?
Speaker 3: Did you go? I left that to my sophomore year.
Speaker 1: Oh big dog? Hey, come on, you guys are both
Speaker 1: drafting the first round.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah?
Speaker 1: Big dogs?
Speaker 3: So, I mean it's a little different than like NFL
Speaker 3: first round pick is.
Speaker 1: How many rounds? How many rounds are there in MLS?
Speaker 3: Basically two and then it's third and fourth or like
Speaker 3: supplemental draft picks, and like a lot of those picks
Speaker 3: probably don't make the ross.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, so there's only two rounds in the
Speaker 1: MLS draft. Yeah, and then they're they're how many picks
Speaker 1: per round?
Speaker 3: How many?
Speaker 6: Eight?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Fuck, you guys are big dogs? What do you mean?
Speaker 3: True? I mean you look at it that way. Relatively,
Speaker 3: it's it is.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the NBA. Dude, Yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: had so right.
Speaker 3: So the process of like the college stuff, there's like
Speaker 3: a thing called generation of way right Tobe. Uh So
Speaker 3: there was a thing called generation of didas. It's still
Speaker 3: going on, and that's like an incentive for another MLS
Speaker 3: mechanism that they use to help teams draft these players.
Speaker 8: But uh.
Speaker 3: Every year in college they usually pick like seven eight
Speaker 3: guys that they identify as like freshmen to juniors who
Speaker 3: can qualify for like a Generation Adidas basically salary or
Speaker 3: pick whatever. And so the perk of that is if
Speaker 3: you draft a player that's Generation Adidas, that MLS will
Speaker 3: basically again, it doesn't count against the salary cap, So
Speaker 3: it's incentive for the teams to draft those players. Want
Speaker 3: to you just sound like you're just trying to have
Speaker 3: a reason why you're drafting them. So when you're not
Speaker 3: is because you know they don't have to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're on your nine. Yeah, same nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my ninth year. We have this running joke because
Speaker 1: I'm currently a free agent. I don't know if I'll
Speaker 1: play the rest of the year, but I always just
Speaker 1: hashtag like year nine, like I'm in your h The
Speaker 1: US national team, how do you make it?
Speaker 5: Walker can tell you about, Well, you gotta be a
Speaker 5: beast like Walker first of all, So.
Speaker 1: When does it happen?
Speaker 3: When?
Speaker 1: When does when does like worlds and all that stuff
Speaker 1: happen to where the US national team, you know, I guess,
Speaker 1: shows themselves. Is it like every four years World Cup?
Speaker 1: What am I saying, do you know what the World
Speaker 1: Cup is? I know what the World Cup is. My
Speaker 1: brother is obsessed with FIFA. Bro, that dude loves soccer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he loves soccer, like he gets some little jerseys
Speaker 1: and stuff like that and like he's all about it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, world Cup my fault. When does the
Speaker 1: World Cup happen every like four years? Okay?
Speaker 3: So we got it coming up in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Right now, we're in qualifying. So the big thing was
Speaker 3: last cycle for the twenty eighteen World Cup, we didn't qualify,
Speaker 3: and that process this year looks like there's eight teams
Speaker 3: and you play home and away against every team. Top
Speaker 3: three will automatically qualify. The fourth wide would playoff against
Speaker 3: another like region. That's the thing, the tricky part about it.
Speaker 3: So the region Conker calf is North America, which is Canada,
Speaker 3: the US, Central America which is a any different countries, yeah,
Speaker 3: an so Costa Rica. It is hard to understand, yeah
Speaker 3: for sure. So we have eight teams right now from
Speaker 3: that have made the final round of qualifying. We've played
Speaker 3: six games so far within that, so we have two
Speaker 3: more next week. Really, we play Mexico and Jamaica, So
Speaker 3: that'll be eight games in. But right now we're in
Speaker 3: second in the table for the qualifying process. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you have fourteen games because you have seven home, seven away,
Speaker 3: played six already and.
Speaker 1: You guys are sitting in second place. So right now
Speaker 1: you're right now you're looking to qualify.
Speaker 3: Yeah, looking to qualify. So two big games in a
Speaker 3: week and a half, and then we have basically three
Speaker 3: at the end of January, early February and three in March,
Speaker 3: and then it's done. If you're in the top three,
Speaker 3: you're in. You feel good about it? Yeah, I feel
Speaker 3: good about it. It's a real young team. We have
Speaker 3: a lot of inexperienced in terms of like World Cup
Speaker 3: qualifier or even like you know, World Cup, since they
Speaker 3: missed the last cycle.
Speaker 1: Were you part of that? So I was on the
Speaker 1: last cycle.
Speaker 3: I'd gotten called into some camps, was on the bench
Speaker 3: for some qualifiers but didn't play any and then, uh,
Speaker 3: you got to play in some of these the cycle.
Speaker 5: But some of them are all of them, some of
Speaker 5: them played in three out of the six. All right,
Speaker 5: captain had the captain band.
Speaker 1: Oh you're oh, you got the captain band. You break it,
Speaker 1: you break down the huddle and everything like that, like
Speaker 1: speech leave, sign the belief, sign up.
Speaker 3: Whatever it takes will be lost one zero. So I
Speaker 3: guess I don't know, guess it wasn't good enough.
Speaker 11: Like dream of being like captain, yeah kind of like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's for sure. Obviously, being a part of
Speaker 3: the national team in general has been a dream come true.
Speaker 3: Being the captain another dream come true. I think I
Speaker 3: told this story like a little while ago on something
Speaker 3: so interview, and I like vividly remember a time I
Speaker 3: was training probably before it's probably I was in college
Speaker 3: in the off season, just training to go back to
Speaker 3: college or either before my first year in MLS, and
Speaker 3: I was like working out the YMCA local YMCA back
Speaker 3: home Snumble, Georgia Lawnceville, Georgia, and I was on like
Speaker 3: the bike. I was doing like little triathlon type training
Speaker 3: for myself just to stay like really fit. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: I was on the last thing. I was on the bike,
Speaker 3: and I was like basically just doing some positive self talk,
Speaker 3: you know, like like drinding. I'm like, I don't even
Speaker 3: want to just be a part of the national team
Speaker 3: or the U twenty national team. I want to be
Speaker 3: on the full national team. I was like, I want
Speaker 3: to be on the full national I want to be
Speaker 3: the captain of the full national team. Like and remember
Speaker 3: like that moment of saying like that is that's the
Speaker 3: standard that I want to set for myself. It's like
Speaker 3: not just being there or being a part of it,
Speaker 3: but like being a key player, being a captain. And
Speaker 3: so like when I was the captain of that game,
Speaker 3: it was it really was like full circle. I went
Speaker 3: right back to that place and was like, man, all
Speaker 3: of the hard work, all of that suffering, Like that's
Speaker 3: how you get to accomplish these kinds of dreams. And
Speaker 3: so again we lost the game, which was a bummer,
Speaker 3: but I got to.
Speaker 5: Keep the band and gonna have that That's a visualization
Speaker 5: right there, all the youth speaking attraction.
Speaker 3: Man, So gonna have that band up in the room
Speaker 3: in the house. Uh yeah, the man cave one day
Speaker 3: and that'll be a good begin No.
Speaker 1: I did I love that, bro, because it is it
Speaker 1: always feels corny to talk about because it's really just
Speaker 1: like you and yourself and you're just coming up with
Speaker 1: all this ship. But no, that's that's dope. That's cool
Speaker 1: that it kind of came full circle. Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not corny. You feel that way. You're
Speaker 1: sitting in front of a couple of dudes. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like vulnerability. Vulnerability.
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Speaker 1: MLS play with international play?
Speaker 3: That's yeah, it's it's difficult. I would say normally, if
Speaker 3: it's not World Cup qualifying, if it's just a friendly,
Speaker 3: it's I don't really think twice about it, Like you
Speaker 3: just come back from the camp you're with all of
Speaker 3: one team, but you're excited to be back with your
Speaker 3: club team and vice versa. These qualifiers, though, have been
Speaker 3: different for me, like mentally, like the first window, we
Speaker 3: had three games, two on the road, when was it
Speaker 3: at home, and I remember I didn't even play a minute.
Speaker 3: I came back to the team and I was exhausted
Speaker 3: and Ashville, Like, mentally, I think you're so the importance
Speaker 3: of the games and like the responsibility that you feel
Speaker 3: of having to get results, like it does weigh on
Speaker 3: you a little bit and you don't realize it until
Speaker 3: like you finally get back and you're out of it,
Speaker 3: and then it's like you finally breathe and you're like whoa.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm exhausted, Like mentally, that was a lot,
Speaker 3: and so I felt that, and then the second time
Speaker 3: round obviously played, so then you're like physically tired. I know,
Speaker 3: at least in our case Nashville, we got five days
Speaker 3: off during the international break, but like if you were
Speaker 3: on an international break like with the national team, you
Speaker 3: didn't get any of the days off, so like everyone
Speaker 3: was at the beach, like in New York, like in Miami.
Speaker 3: It's just like we enjoyed those days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: No. You're looking on Instagram. All your boys are just
Speaker 3: like all over the country, like just freaking lounging. Marguerite's
Speaker 3: in hand poolside, and and you're like just on a
Speaker 3: bus to training, you know, like a normal day. So
Speaker 3: that's that's where, like you don't get that mental kind
Speaker 3: of tune up that after long nless season, like you
Speaker 3: need a couple of breaks here and there to just
Speaker 3: like really like it was probably great for everyone to
Speaker 3: get ready for like the last final push before playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: whereas if you're involved with the national team, don't get that.
Speaker 3: But never traded for the world, Yeah, you wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to be anywhere else.
Speaker 1: What do you guys cling to talking about? When you
Speaker 1: were talking about the lesson that he was given with
Speaker 1: the vulnerability and stuff like that, what do you guys
Speaker 1: cling to mentally? Because obviously athletes were training all the
Speaker 1: time physically, But what do you guys cling to mentally
Speaker 1: to help kind of keep you from whether you're in
Speaker 1: a tough mental spot or like overcoming something or just
Speaker 1: anything in general being a professional soccer player.
Speaker 3: Mister NaSTA, Oh yeah, bro, sure me. Meditation meditation and yoga.
Speaker 5: Yoga obviously also for the mind, but just physical keeping
Speaker 5: the body elastic. Obviously playing for eleven years, like I
Speaker 5: gotta do everything can to you know, keep giving me
Speaker 5: an edge over these these younger cats coming in. But
Speaker 5: the biggest thing is the meditation, and I think that
Speaker 5: comes in many different forms. It comes, you know, when
Speaker 5: you're training and you need that extra push, you know,
Speaker 5: to get the most out of your workout. The ability
Speaker 5: to do that on a consistent basis is not easy.
Speaker 5: It's something that has to be practiced, and I think
Speaker 5: you see with professional athletes, they're usually guys that mentally
Speaker 5: are strong. But I think if we can move to
Speaker 5: vulnerability in that space, then you know, you're one going
Speaker 5: to make sure that you're in the right mindset because
Speaker 5: we all know it doesn't last forever.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I've definitely heard of guys after soccer or any sport
Speaker 5: definitely struggle with you know, whether it's not you know,
Speaker 5: having value to the world or you know, not having
Speaker 5: something to take their mind off of, you know, the dark,
Speaker 5: the deep dark shit that we all have in our
Speaker 5: heads because we're human. So for me at meditation just
Speaker 5: kind of increasing my own self awareness. Taking moments to
Speaker 5: just breathe, you know, and be in silence has definitely
Speaker 5: helped me a lot.
Speaker 3: That's good man. I think you know, for me, a
Speaker 3: lot of it comes I think from a big faith background.
Speaker 3: So I think when I think about that and impact
Speaker 3: has had on my life and my career, it's like
Speaker 3: wanting to be the best version of yourself and utilize
Speaker 3: those gifts that you've been blessed with, like on and
Speaker 3: off the field. And so I think that kind of
Speaker 3: framework is a big part of like, you know, doing
Speaker 3: every rep in the gym, doing every rep outside on
Speaker 3: the field, like not cutting corners because one, like you
Speaker 3: want to be responsible with what you've been given, but
Speaker 3: then two you want to be like, you know, encouraging
Speaker 3: for your teammates to get the best out of them
Speaker 3: as well. And so I think we have a really
Speaker 3: good group in that regard of like guys are trying
Speaker 3: not to cut corners for the most part. You always
Speaker 3: have a you know, a couple of cases here and
Speaker 3: there that you gotta get on a little bit, but
Speaker 3: it's it's good. It's a really good group. And I
Speaker 3: think that's kind of what has been a key to
Speaker 3: our success is you got guys who take it seriously,
Speaker 3: like on an individual level to do their work. But
Speaker 3: then you also have the guys CJ included, who will
Speaker 3: like hold guys accountable to you know, even you know,
Speaker 3: for example, the other game, like we started out in Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: were playing the team it's one of the bottom teams
Speaker 3: in the league, and we go down, you know, to zero,
Speaker 3: and guys are kind of yelling each other in the
Speaker 3: pitch and CJ's like just positive vibes, you know each other,
Speaker 3: like team here done like two goals or however many
Speaker 3: goals he had later and we went six to three.
Speaker 3: And it's just like you need guys who can understand
Speaker 3: situations and find the right balance of like you know,
Speaker 3: feeling good pulse of the team, when's the right time
Speaker 3: to push, when's the right time to bring them together.
Speaker 3: And so I think, you know, we do a really
Speaker 3: good job of that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's really good, especially like when you're talking
Speaker 1: about awareness and everything else, because guys identify with what
Speaker 1: they do so much. Especially like you know, if guys
Speaker 1: retire or they get cut when they're not ready to
Speaker 1: be cut, they're so you know, wrapped up and oh
Speaker 1: what do you know, what do I do? Now? I've
Speaker 1: been this my whole life. I'm letting my family down,
Speaker 1: I'm letting people down around me, and they kind of
Speaker 1: like lose their own.
Speaker 5: Self defined by stats man. That's what led me to meditation, honestly,
Speaker 5: because I've.
Speaker 3: Always been a good teammate.
Speaker 5: Right that was placed on me, and like I always
Speaker 5: tried to fulfill that, but I was giving aspects of
Speaker 5: myself to everybody else. And then again like ultimately, if
Speaker 5: I didn't perform, I wasn't on the stat sheet being
Speaker 5: a forward, like you want to score. So like the
Speaker 5: more games you're not on that score sheet, you're like,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, Like I'm the lowest person on this earth.
Speaker 5: It's crazy that how powerful the human mind is, right,
Speaker 5: because I found myself in that position. I mean, my
Speaker 5: first three years in the league, I had an Open Cup,
Speaker 5: which is a domestic tournament that all American professional teams
Speaker 5: are able to participate in in an MLS Cup, So
Speaker 5: you know that in the first three years. Some guys
Speaker 5: play whole careers and don't get that right, And yet
Speaker 5: I found myself the next season like getting down on
Speaker 5: myself because I didn't score, you know, enough goals. And
Speaker 5: it was from that dark place for me that I was.
Speaker 5: I literally just went in Google and it was like
Speaker 5: how to deal with like depression. And it's interesting because
Speaker 5: meditation always shows up. I was scrolling past it. Bro
Speaker 5: I'm like meditation, What I mean to close my eyes
Speaker 5: and sit quietly for what?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I want the quick fix, the instant gratification, which I
Speaker 5: think that's our problem as people. You know, we don't
Speaker 5: want the slow and steady route. But all I know
Speaker 5: is I saw Hella Buddhas and people making little stances.
Speaker 3: The Noma state. This is literally my celebration now, you know.
Speaker 5: And it's an opportunity for me to bring awareness into
Speaker 5: the sport and also gratitude, you know every time I
Speaker 5: get a goal and I'm a stay to the fans,
Speaker 5: and you know, it's definitely uh it allows me to
Speaker 5: tap into a different different field for sure.
Speaker 7: Fuck with that, Like like the fact that soccer doesn't
Speaker 7: get as much recognition here. You guys don't get as
Speaker 7: much recognition here respect maybe as soccer players as you
Speaker 7: would in other countries.
Speaker 5: I don't I like being able to just go get
Speaker 5: some ice cream in my sweatpants, no shape up, you know,
Speaker 5: and not worry about it because other guys come from
Speaker 5: other places, and then they're telling us like wait, you
Speaker 5: guys go out like after you lose a game, like yeah,
Speaker 5: why Like nah, like we can't do that, you know
Speaker 5: in other countries. I remember Kaka, he's a famous soccer player.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know.
Speaker 5: It's Brazil in soccer players played in World Cups, won
Speaker 5: a World Cup. He was talking about in Italy after
Speaker 5: he lost a game. He went out with his fam
Speaker 5: to go get some dinner, and like he just happened
Speaker 5: to look outside and there's fans outside literally burning his
Speaker 5: jersey and like yelling at him. Just out to dinner,
Speaker 5: you know. So I don't want to know.
Speaker 3: I'm fine. I'm fine with it and the sport.
Speaker 5: I think eventually we'll get there, but by then I'll
Speaker 5: probably be just chilling watching everybody else.
Speaker 1: Shoot, you'll probably be be a mental leader for a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. You never know, hopefully, you know, is
Speaker 1: that something you want.
Speaker 5: To do with Yeah, for sure, I'm already building towards that,
Speaker 5: doing my life coach. I'm getting my life coaching certification.
Speaker 5: I'm building a digital marketing representation company that focuses on
Speaker 5: a line endorsements with guys life goals. You know, I
Speaker 5: think a lot of times, you know, hey, if you're
Speaker 5: getting paid, well, you'll smile for pretty much anything. But
Speaker 5: I just want to get in there with the players,
Speaker 5: and like, again, let's project outward. What are your interests?
Speaker 5: Do you have any financial interest? Do you want to
Speaker 5: start a business? Okay, boom, get all that understood. And
Speaker 5: then now when we're looking for deals, uh, we're coming
Speaker 5: from that vantage point, right, We're gonna get you deals
Speaker 5: that are tied to you know, your life goals. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 5: there you go shout out, shout out social sports? Sorry,
Speaker 5: go ahead, club.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just say like, since you're you guys are
Speaker 1: one of the boys. Like, if it's a boy, you
Speaker 1: shout them out, they get free shouts. But if it's
Speaker 1: a brand, you just say no free shoutouts. You're not
Speaker 1: trying to shout out the brand. But it's coming from him,
Speaker 1: so he can you can promote whatever you want to promote.
Speaker 3: Dude, what is it against social sports?
Speaker 1: Is there a website? Is there something that people can
Speaker 1: check out?
Speaker 3: Teamsocial sports dot com?
Speaker 1: You got anything?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go check it out. I didn't look at
Speaker 3: that work.
Speaker 1: I gonna go check it out.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen the website yet.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys coming on. Man, you got one
Speaker 1: of you guys gotta be somewhere to right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm getting my my coaching license through US
Speaker 3: Soccer because.
Speaker 1: You're trying to sell some kids.
Speaker 3: I don't know I would be associated with. But you know,
Speaker 3: if we can work out some kickback you can get
Speaker 3: in the contract. You gotta pay the new way for coaches.
Speaker 3: So I have a mandatory coaching call at two o'clock,
Speaker 3: and uh, it's just one of the things you gotta do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: allow me to coach college and then hopefully work up
Speaker 3: and get my a license. But I think college coaching
Speaker 3: is kind of what what I would end up doing.
Speaker 1: So nice man, Well, I appreciate you guys coming on.
Speaker 1: I am, I am. I need to get to a game.
Speaker 1: You guys are about to be in the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at me out of time. That's all right, though.
Speaker 1: We show up for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: One home game left, one regular season game left, one
Speaker 3: home game, and then we should have a home playoff
Speaker 3: game as well. So you got like for sure, for
Speaker 3: sure one well.
Speaker 2: Strong chance strong.
Speaker 3: That you got a home playoff game to come to
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's where focus. We got to get on board
Speaker 1: w bringing the boys to the game. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We're bringing the boys, baby.
Speaker 3: Sure. So our last regular season game is the seventh
Speaker 3: next Sunday, and then we're thinking it will be the
Speaker 3: twenty third of November will be the the home playoff
Speaker 3: game if we bring your families Thanksgiving week, dude, dude,
Speaker 3: I'm hosting. It's also kind of why I have to
Speaker 3: get back. I'm doing a friends giving right now or
Speaker 3: a name's giving. Got my neighbor's over there, and I
Speaker 3: was like, I'm hosting Thanksgiving for the first time for
Speaker 3: my family in Nashville. So my grandmother passed away this summer.
Speaker 3: We always went to Birmingham home mom sort of the family.
Speaker 3: So this year new traditions German household in Nashville. So
Speaker 3: I got a turkey right now on the tragger that's
Speaker 3: being smoked.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm I'm today is the names giving. It's
Speaker 3: the trial for me.
Speaker 1: I say, what kind of ship.
Speaker 6: For a week?
Speaker 3: No, So I'm trying to think I haven't.
Speaker 1: Been at eighty degrees right now. We got a few weeks.
Speaker 3: I got a sweet tea of cast role that's in
Speaker 3: the fridge squash cast role as well. Peanut butter pie
Speaker 3: I made this morning, So like I got my things.
Speaker 3: Peanut butter pie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, I need to check that out. I have
Speaker 1: never heard of that.
Speaker 11: I love peanut butter he's looking for an invite.
Speaker 1: I might have to check that out.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I got I got a lot of work
Speaker 3: in the kitchen this afternoon as well.
Speaker 1: But all right, I gotta love that. And then also
Speaker 1: you post a picture that peanut butter pie drop around
Speaker 1: your story or something, so you know we can do that.
Speaker 1: We can exchange a little bit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Get the recipe. I don't think the recipe is so easy.
Speaker 3: By the way, I don't give it. Don't give it away.
Speaker 3: Come on, it's a secret. This is a secret recipe
Speaker 3: my family.
Speaker 1: So all right, well I appreciate you guys. Man, this
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun. Sure, this is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Photo in front of the bus