A Bussin' Christmas, Nebraska Talk, Raiders Talk, Michael Chandler

got it? Okay? Good? We had a little coaching segment. You're gonna see it on under the Hood. I heard it in the last one and I about lost it, about lost it. I had to keep my composure, but exciting day, Christmas time. It's the end of the year. Dude, the boy Taylor he needed a vacation. He wanted to go what's it called, Breckinridge, Blackwater, BlackBerry farms. He wanted

to get a little getaway, take a little vacation. I guess he's done two episodes, so he's very He needed to get away from, you know, doing a couple episodes and doing his als ACL rehab. I was like, yeah, you know, the boy, I got it. I'll handle it. It'll be fine. I've done it before. Subscribe, rate and review. If you haven't subscribed to The Boys already, please subscribe to the podcast. We love it. Throw a little review

down there. Rate five stars. As always, tell your friends subscribe on subscribers all that fun stuff, but BUSTINWTB dot com if you want to see all of our other stuff, follow us bus and WTB all that fun, loving stuff. Dude, Merch gear up, gear up for the playoffs. The Boys Merch were restocking. We hear all of you guys say, hey, when you're gonna restock this, When you're gonna restock that.

The Boys had a good Black Friday through Cyber Monday sale so we're out of a few things, but we are going to get restocked up and make sure you guys prepare for these playoffs because the boys were coming. You know, I can't talk too much. I can't talk Titans too much like the boy Taylor, but but you gotta be ready to go. And speaking of Cyber Monday, if you're listening to this and you haven't gotten your Cyber Monday video, I do not want to point the finger,

but that's Taylor's fault. I've done all my videos two hundred and sixty. I gave Taylor a cool one nine hundred. He's got a folder if you haven't gotten your video, because I've seen, Oh, I got my merchant, not the video, that's weird. I've done my videos. Now, if I can't get much more out of the boy, I will go in that folder and start doing them myself because we're gonna grind here, dude. But again, I'm not pointing the finger at all, Taylor. It's it's it's Taylor's fault. But

we're not gonna We're gonna move on. Uh, let's catch up on a few things, a few housekeeping things. We gotta we gotta get straight my week though. As I'm sitting here talking, we just got done beating Jacksonville, so uh fired up. Obviously, when you drop a game against the Browns and you play like we did in the first half against the Browns and you have a good second half, it's all about recreating that second half against the Jaguars and putting the other four quarters. The Boys

did a good job putting together four quarters. Now we gotta keep We just gotta stay consistent. We gotta find a rhythm, get hot in December, because that's what it's about in the NFL. It's about getting hot and getting getting in your rhythm come December time, because you gotta

be on a roll going into the playoffs. You see with the NFC East Uh, people want to make fun of them, calling the NFC least all that stuff, But the Eagles, the Washington Football team, and the Giants, they're all kind of in it, and they're all catching a little bit of a weird stride here at the end. It's all about getting hot in December and getting that steam rolling going into the playoffs. Arthur wan Kenobi had a big game. How did a phenomenal catch? He gave

me a he gave me an all time meme. Now to have victory Monday lattes with his little with his little bobble catch look where he's got that crazy ass look going on. That's a hilarious picture. But Arthur wan Kenobi's crushing it. And I do want to say I noticed the Titans. They like to they like to piggyback on what the boys do. I personally love it. I love it because they shot us. You know, everyone knows where the ideas kind of come from. They just make

the idea a little bit better. The graphic they made of Arthur wan Kenobi is phenomenal with the little blue lightsaber. Whoever drew that? Who drew that? I want to shout him out? So we don't we give some credit because I know they tagged him. Click on the click on the Instagram thing because I think they tagged him in the bottom left corner. What that bottom of the picture? Click on that? Who's that? What's that? Say? Haley Hailey M draws. Hailey M draws. Shout out Hailey M draws

for the phenomenal drawing of Arthur wan Kenobi. I'm telling you guys, the Arthur one Kenobe. We need to get it to stick. I need I need Arthur One to do a couple more things. I need him to. I know he shied away from the force choke and push and the force push at the Indianapolis game because he did it but the camera didn't necessarily catch it. I talked to Darren. I talked to him and Darren Bates

about it, about their execution. I thought Arthur One could have held the force choke a little longer before the push. And again, guys, I understand that Arthur One, Kenobi, that's a good guy. We wanted to play off Obi wan Kenobi and all that stuff. And oh the force choke, that's a that's a sign of the dark side. I get that. For me, it's about people understanding what's happening

if you do a force choke. I feel like that's the most noticeable people for people in Star Wars fans around the world to understand, Oh, he's getting there, he's force choking them right now. So I feel like that's what stands out. If you sit there and do like a lightsaber battle or something like, people don't know if it's swords, they don't know what it is. I think if we're gonna hit the Star Wars lane. We have to do the Force choke. And I was telling him

in dB that, dB, you gotta sell it longer. You gotta be you gotta get choked out a little longer. And Arthur Wan, you gotta do the Force push. You gotta hold it a little longer and then do the Force push. After that, dB, you gotta sell the Force Force push a little more. They got a little upset. Hopefully, you know, we get that selling in the tank because again, I think if that Selly hits, I think if he hits that Selly, dude, it's gonna be big time. It's

gonna be big time. He's gonna be Arthur on Kenobi for life. It says we have a note Titan stole it. I you know whatever, I don't care. I know Taylor gets on people for stealing our stuff. I enjoy it because it's extra little, it's extra branding and stuff, like people know where the source comes from. Now, do I think we deserve the paycheck that goes to the Titans PR and their media team a little bit and then

we need we need a little bit of percentage. Nate Bain, I'm talking to you because you use the obviously the boys. I've seen the wolf being used before, wolf pack stuff, Arthur and Kenoby. I get it. We're all working together. We are all one team. But I do think we need to see a little percentage of that money. Somebody's gotta somebody's gotta help give these boys bonuses for Christmas time, because it's not coming out of my pocket. You know what I'm saying. I'm sorry Garrett and Josh that you

had to find out this way. What's this moved up to the one spot in number seven in the USA today Power Ring? Is that like the Titans?

out of my ass. You say a few things that you might regret. There's no predictions here. I just I believe in the Boys. I believe in the grit, the grind, the determination, the resilience of this team that we have. Because when we do slip, the Boys bounce back. The Boys always respond well. The messages are always articulated very well throughout the week by the coaching staff. We paint a good picture of what we have to do, and

the boys, you know, we find a way. We just got to continue to keep doing what we're doing and you know, just put our head down to work.

world right now. You might've been cramping and like, oh, I gotta go take a shit. I'm cramping. I'm gonna just jog, do my little limp jog while I go over to take a shit. No matter what, you ended up having to take a shit. You had the runs. People get and we understand what a baller my man wipes probably doesn't wipe that well, you know what I mean. So he he comes off the toilet into the game, throws a touchdown, Cleveland bounces back, and then Lamar drives

him down the kickingfield go in the game. But my man coat goes from the toilet to mak him plays And that's not even with the fully wiped that's not even with the that's not even with a fully clean whispering eye. Dude, that's going out there with a little mud butt. You're probably chafing a little bit. You're probably he's probably got some kind of rash right now after doing pulling all that off. But my man went from the toilet to make him plays out in the game.

That was crazy to see. And it was also crazy to see Baker bounce back, drive down and put together that drive. And then the thought is always there, too much time now for the Ravens. Ravens go down and kickingfield goal to win the game. I mean, you can't make that shit up, dude. And the way the production, the way the Monday Night Football crew production team set that up where Lamar was coming off the pot and

then they go to commercial right as Lamar Jackson's running out. Dude, it's like a w W You're on the edge of your seat. My god, it's Lamar Jackson. Holy shit, fire flames are coming out, you know what I mean? The music you drop the stone cold music on that, dude. That's TV. And kudos to them for everything kind of worked out. Shout out to Lamar for having the runs. I know it's a tough day. I get you want to say you were cramping. We've all kind of been

in the cramp game. So listen, we all saw the little, the little, the clinch butthole jog you had going to the locker room. It's all good. It makes it even better. Forget the cramping. Run with the I was shooting run with you. I had the runs and I was shooting down my leg. I had to go get the rest out of it and half half assed wipe and go out there and throw some touchdowns. That's what the people want to hear. What do we have after that, dude, Joe, we got we got gifts. Listen, we had a we

had a great episode. Obviously, it's a Christmas podcast. I'm already on a rant right now. We have Michael Chandler on. We talked about all of his fights coming up, and I butchered. I can't believe I said the wrong name, Gaichie. Is it Justin Justin Geighee? Yeah, gey Chee. I said Gaithey. What an idiot. But we talked to Michael Chandler about what's going on, how he transitioned from Bellator to the UFC.

The man's got an awesome journey and it's been it's been incredible seeing him, seeing him blow up and get his chance in the UFC because he's a three time Bellator champion. Just an insightful kat dude, really inspiring, really motivating, A great follow on social media because he's always posting his workouts, his inspiring stuff. He's one of the good guys.

He makes you want to be a better person. But we have him on and he gives us all the nitty gritty details of what goes on about him transitioning to the UFC. Corey Levin also came by to help to help be with the Boy and run the Christmas Christmas topics. We had a great time talking Christmas topics. I I didn't necessarily want to go about it all my own, because I feel like it's better having these conversations,

like when we go top Christmas movies. I don't want to sit here and be the only one that makes up the list. I need some banter. I need somebody to to go back and forth with me, go back and forth with me, bring up things that I'm not thinking about. So I had Corey on. Now, Corey came on and the Boy I personally have to be careful with all the COVID COVID rules and intensive protocols that you've heard about in Taylor's podcast recently, but we didn't

take any chances. Corey sat on the couch, we were six feet apart. We wore mass during the segment because again, you don't want to do anything to get the team fined or do any of that stuff, because you know it's a very the NFL is very buttoned up about it, and you just don't want to take any chances. So the boy, Yeah, I'm looking really a little ridiculous. I look like sub Zero from Mortal Kombat. I got the little medical grade mask on. Sitting in Taylor seat, Corey's

at the end of the couch. But we have a great time talking about Christmas stuff. This was a great pod and again we're gonna still talk about it because we want to get to I did a hashtag bust and mail, and we're gonna answer some We're gonna answer some questions and we're gonna do some things Before we do that, though, we got to read an ad read from our sponsors before I dropped this ad read. I just want to wish a very merry Christmas from our

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had COVID. Uh. But I'm a glass half full always kind of guy. I'm always optimistic. What I like to do after at the end of every year, every every seas, in every kind of situation, I'm men, you always want to reflect back on the year you had, because as stressful as it's been, and as much as everybody's had to adapt and we've all had to kind of do our own thing and figure out our own stuff, you always want to look back and see the things you've overcome.

If stuff work has worked out the way you wanted it to. If it has, why do you think so you know, what was the good energy that was happening around you that you want to continue to manifest? What was the bad shit that you know that's made you anxious or giving you anxiety that you don't necessarily want your life, you know, for the next year. Those are things I like to reflect in when thinking about my year.

But I did this hashtag to let people ask us whatever, because again, it's been an incredible year when you're being optimistic, I want to say before I get into the bus and stuff, I do want to talk you know, this year was a year of perseverance for sure for everybody. I think before COVID starts, or as COVID is hitting and we're locked down and you kind of had those first several weeks of like being in your house and

being like, yo, what in the hell is happening? Everybody started to be like you finally get that moment when you're at work or when you're doing your every day to day and you're kind of caught up in the monotony of everything. You're like, man, I wish I just had time off to do whatever I wanted and to take time and work on whatever is in the old

nogin that you've been wanting to work on. And everyone pretty much got that opportunity when COVID hit, we all had that pause in life to sit there and be like, Okay, now I do have time to do whatever it is that I've complained about or whatever. So a lot of us hit those crossroads of being tested. Did you do something with that time or did you just kind of drag your feet? And then you kind of play into the victim of like having that bad year, because you go through a lot of stuff, and I get it,

some real shit happen. People have lost jobs, people have been furloughed, People are going through a lot of shit. But when shit hit fan and your back is against the wall with your family or anything that goes on that goes on with you, you get to that point where you learn a lot about yourself. You learn how you react in those situations. Are you somebody that you know that's gonna find the good or figure out how you're gonna bounce back, because that shit happens to us

all the time. Like I my life solid, Like I got cut earlier this year and it's worked out for me now. But when I got that call, you know, obviously you're bummed. Or when you're not on a team, when I didn't get picked up and put on a team in in the springtime, like I was wanting to Yeah, you get you doubt yourself a lot, man, and you're in like this vulnerable state because you put yourself out there a lot. But when your back's against the wall

and you're you have all those options to make. Man, are you going to to fold and succumb to what people are saying about you? Or you're not this and you're not that, or you know you lost your job? Are you out looking or are you just going to play, you know, become a victim of whatever environment you're in, or are you going to find the good in whatever it is? Are you going to attack the next day? Because no matter what, the sun sets, you can as much as you want, and the sun is gonna rise

the next day. And you have the choice to am I gonna get up and put into this next this next transition or this next day, or am I just gonna float along? Because the world goes no matter what like I. You know, again, it's been a tough year, but you see companies and brands and everybody, you see a lot of optimism. People are adapting, New jobs are being made, New jobs are being created that you wouldn't

even think are being created. We're gonna spot to where the restaurant industry is like, yo, we never we never even thought that this might happen. This wasn't even something we thought of. But you see businesses adapting and trying to figure it out. Are you gonna be like one

of those people? Are you gonna be people that continue to try to, you know, figure out or blame everything and say, this is why I'm where I'm at because of X, Y, and Z. A finger pointer, or you can be a thumb pointer and be like, Yo, this

is on me. I gotta bounce back, or if I don't bounce back, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a victim to my mentality because I'm just gonna feed myself when I'm wanting what I'm wanting anyway, I'm just gonna tell myself, Oh, that's not working because of him or her or anybody or all of that stuff. Or you're gonna find something new to do. But I went on a little ted talk right there, and I apologize for that. But I get fired up at the end of every year because

I like looking back on how far we've come. Podcast wise. We went up and down with COVID because of listenership and this that the other we're big or we're a big podcast that have people on the bus. You love to have that connection of people on the bus. We got shut we got a wrench through in us because Taylor and I couldn't be around each other, so we each got to run the pots solo. So you work on zooming guys in or getting crafty on. You know, I brought Corey in. You got the masks and stuff.

But again, it's like it's like figuring it out, dude. It's like that's I enjoy those times because you learn a lot about yourself and you're hopefully you're sitting there and you're like, yeah, I did I didn't learn a lot of shit about myself. I ended up doing this with all my free time. I created that I'm starting

to dive into this new job. But I hope, I I hope you look back on the year and you're very optimistic about it and you're proud of yourself because no matter what's happened, you got to give yourself credit for getting through some shit like this because we're I mean, we're still in it, but uh, you know it fires me. I'm thinking back on stuff. Boys, I apologize that you know, how's your guys as your been did I kind of

did I miss anything? I know, I kind of went everywhere with that little ted talk, but hopefully I was hitting some kind of course. I mean, you guys, you guys now have a job with us, whether or not you're fired up with that, Josh, I know you. In the beginning of March, we put out an internship opportunity and there were three hundred people that were inquiring about it.

You were one of them, and you you stood out because you continued to write every day, even if it sucked or it was raw, but you continued to be in front of my eyes, you know what I mean. And I would look and be like, oh, this is shitty, but I do love that he's literally doing this every day. He's trying to make himself seen. And you're working at another job, you're working from home, and you're thinking in your mind, you saw this opportunity, here's what I'm gonna

try and go after. And you're a self taught kind of person. You've learned how to edit, You've learned how to get references. Josh, who I'm speaking about all the videos you see where the heads are on the bodies after every victory we have. Josh is the one who's taught himself how to do that. He was somebody who found an opportunity and wanted to make the most of it.

You were a free intern for how many months? Around six six months before we actually started paying you, you know what I mean, which is like, we should have done it sooner. But all I'm saying is you were looking at that opportunity, in that moment, in a shitty year where shit is up in the air, working for free, busting your ass and I don't know, man like stuff

like that. I feel like you got to look back on and you got to think, like, yo, I'm a perseverance son of a bitch because I'm figuring this out, you know what I mean.

attain those. And if you're somebody who's not you know, hasn't written stuff down or actually thought about that, I would tell you to sit with yourself and look into twenty twenty one and find the optimistic shit that you can be doing, and the good energy you can put in your life, the good people you need to surround yourself with. Eliminate the bad stuff. And when I mean eliminate, you don't just you don't just eliminate distractions. We're adults,

we're men. You deal with distractions, or you know, or we're men, we're grown men and women. You don't just want to eliminate distractions. You want to deal with them. You want to figure out why they're bringing you down, or anything like that. You want to learn how to deal with them and then you eliminate them. But you know, I would, I would, you know, ask and push off of you all to you know, do stuff because I'm

a huge believer in that. You know, this is why I believe that we have the bus, that we have the pod, just as somebody who sits down and journals a lot and writes a lot of shit down and tries to manifest a lot of things that I have written down. I'm just a huge believer in that stuff. But all right, onto onto the bus and mail and you know the topics that we have Twitter and we want people want answered. How's the wedding planning going. The

wedding planning is going well. We are wondering if you know how this COVID stuff is going to continue to progress. Hopefully all the vaccine stuff and everything it all goes well because we're getting married in June, so we still got time. But you're also st there like, man, I hope this doesn't drag out all the way to there, because if it does, you know, you're gonna have to adapt with that thing. But all in all, it's going good. Right now, we have a question people were asking about

Scott Frost and Nebraska. All right, I will die, I will dive a little bit in. I will dive a little bit into this. Now, me personally, I don't eat, sleep, breathe all the Nebraska football stuff like I know a lot of the fans do, just because I'm not in Nebraska, like I have the stuff going on. I kind of watched the boys from Afar and I'm always rooting for them because you know, Nebraska Cornhuser's black shirt, all that stuff you want your alma mater to to do awesome.

It does suck seeing the boys struggle and lose, but there's a couple couple of ways you can shape it, you know, Scott Frost. I am a fan of Scott Frost. I think you know, people are like, you know, let's go, let's find somebody else. He couldn't do it, blah blah blah blah. Number One, contractually you're married to him until I want to say, he was on a big deal. He got extended in a second year. So Scott's gonna

be the guy no matter what. And I think Scott is still the right guy for the job, because who are you gonna go out there and find that understands the history, the background, you know, and what Nebraska is about other than somebody like Scott Frost. Scott Frost was a quarterback for them. He won a national shaving with with them. He was in the nineties with them. The dude understands what it takes to be a winner because he did it in Oregon. He did it at a

Jonah Blank ucf usf uff. He was a winner there. He turned that program around. And you know we talk about all you got give him time. You gotta givehim time. I know he's been under on the hot seat this year because he's been three years and it just we haven't came really close to a winning record or putting a great product on the field. But you do, man, I think we have a good guy in the seat

at Nebraska because he understands it. If you go and get somebody else like number one, who are you gonna get and are they going to turn the program around? Because they understand what it takes At Nebraska, Scott does because he's he's done it, he's breathed it. He's there now. Like you don't think that man doesn't want to turn this program around. He's gonna. He's turning over every stoney can to figure it out. He is, I do. I think he's the right I think he's the right man

for the job to do that. If you look at it, if you dive into some of the stats, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull one up. But all sex with a couple buddies, and we were kind of talking about everything, and he pulled up one of my boys. He pulled up a good little stat. And let's talk about winning games, right. If you have Bo Polini, he had ninety five games in Nebraska. Now me, I played for BO. I played all my years with BO. I never thought that bow should have got fired. I'm a I'm a bowl leaver,

as some would say. But Bo had ninety five games in Nebraska. He had the amount of one possession games with eight points or less. The total was thirty. He won fifty seven percent of those games where they were eight points or less one possession games. He was seventeen and thirteen. You look at Mike Riley, he had thirty eight games in Nebraska. He had a total of eighteen one possession games, eight wins, ten losses. He won forty four of those one score games. Scott Frost in thirty

one games in Nebraska, uh one possession games. It's came It's came down. The one possess are less sixteen times for him. He's only won four of the sixteen, so he has a winning percentage of twenty five percent compared to the others who have forty four Mike Rowley fifty seven, Bo Polini. So if I'm being optimistic, right and you got those games, I know I'm diving into these little ass stats, But one possession there's only a couple of players

you're sitting there coaching. I know as a coach because I've been in the meetings. But it's like, you turn this around. It's a one possession game, you end up winning the game. Right, So if you if you win some of those close games, your record looks different. Everybody's feeling different about Scott Frost, and I feel like that's how close he is. I do think it is harder enow for Nebraska, and I'm just now coming on board with this because I was big in the US going

into the Big Ten. I do think going into the Big Ten probably hurt Nebraska recruiting a little bit more and here's why I think so. And again, I was talking with a buddy of mine, an X teammate who played in Nebraska, and he was kind of explaining this to me, and I was like, that's actually that actually makes it a lot of sense to me. He was somebody that was in Texas. And when you're in the Big Twelve, the farthest drive to a game is Nebraska.

If you have your kid and you want to send them to a school, and you send them to Nebraska as a parent or a family in Texas, because Texas is a huge state to recruit in, the farthest driver travel you got is going to Nebraska. Basically, a lot of games playing in the Big Twelve are down around Texas. In Texas, Oklahoma, a lot of stadiums are within three hours of the Dallas Airport, so you're fly in the Dallas. A lot of those games are right there, so families

are able to see their kids a lot. Now you move to the Big Ten and everywhere as far, your closest game is damn near in Nebraska. All those kids that you're recruiting in Texas and you're pitching on those families, Hey, you know, we can see you This goes that a lot of those families aren't going to be able to afford flying and watching their kids play, at least when they're in the Big twelve. You had, you got to compete in Texas a lot more for those big star

recruits because you're able to see them play more. People talk about talent a lot. I made a joke there's too many white guys on the field. Obviously that's a

clear joke. But if if we feel like the talent isn't up to speed to where we have four and five star recruits, any business company, brand, whatever, if you got a lot of three star players, a lot of three star talent in below, are you going to be a winner ninety percent of the time, You're not going to so to get these big dogs down in Texas around the South, I do feel like that we were able. It hurt us going into the Big ten because of that,

because now you're competing against the Northeast. When you're competing against the Northeast, why would you travel farther and skip over Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and all those schools that you can go to. I will now all the Penn State, all these schools that you can stay in the Northeast for families can be closer. Nebras is now the farthest away, you know what I mean. And the

tradition wasn't built in the Big ten. Our tradition was built more with the Big Eight before the Big Twelve. But in the Big Twelve, in those southern schools, we always got a lot. We got a lot of California kids. We had a lot of Texas kids in Florida when I was on the team. I don't know what it looks like now, but I would assume that it is harder recruiting the spots like Texas to the South because families aren't gonna want to send their kid up north.

I'm talking a lot about Nebraska, but I just want to kind of go on that rant because I know Nebraska fans listen to this podcast and a lot of people are very curious about Scott Frost and what I think and what you know, what Nebraska can do this, that and the other. I'm optimistic. We're married to Scott Frost. I want him to be the guy. I think he can be the guy because he understands what it takes and he's he has been a successful coach, coming all

the way up to Nebraska. He's got a great resume. I think he's the guy I'm sticking with the boys. I'm optimistic we're gonna get it rolling again. We were also in a pandemic. It's not like we're all professional. We're all not adults and professionals. We've been dealing with, you know, college kids eighteen to twenty one that you got to worry about. So it's been a tough year for everybody. You know, we got it again. I know

you hate to hear it. We got to give it more time and got to let that come moving on because the boys, you know, we got to get into our segments. We got a long, long pod. The Raiders parted ways with Paul Gunther. A lot of people asked about this. I played for Paul. I actually had a I got this question from Raider Cody. Shout out, Raider Cody.

like coach pg uh. But when you when you think about the ups and downs that have been there, you had to make a decision at some point you're either you know, you blame You're blaming players, You're and coaching all this stuff. I will say, you know, it was it was interesting being there at times because that you felt when I was taking ti Here's job, you felt like they were throwing tie here under the bus a

little bit. And being a player that was in those meetings during the game, understanding how the headset works and all that stuff, there would be blame pushed around that you just hate seeing because you don't want to be playing the blame game in the middle of the year. It's it's you know, it's take responsibility and accountability. And when you look at and again, I'm not a coach, but I being around being around football for a very

long time. Uh, what you want to see in the coaches is somebody who can coach, who can teach, who can teach game plans, who can who can help players understand why you're building a scheme in the first place. For game planning, you want to be able to inspire your athletes, like you want to be relatable to guys.

You want to be optimistic. You want to be somebody you go in and you're like, you know is going to have a good attitude because you're all going to figure it out together, and you want to coach at when bad stuff happened, somebody that you see take blame. Now Again, I don't want to get into too much of stuff, but PG didn't he in my opinion, he didn't check a lot of those boxes. He was. Uh, you know, there would be times where the communication would

be off kilter. There would be there would be there'd be a jam in the middle of communicating throughout the week. You know, there's a lot of stuff you didn't understand why we did things. An entire game plan was open on game day, whether or not you worked on it in the week. I remember sitting there, I was in I was on FaceTime with Charro, my fiance, and I was I was getting I was gearing up to play.

I want to say it was my first start. And again I'm still trying to catch up to a lot of stuff, and I'm sitting there, like going over a third down plan and I'm like, yeah, we got about twenty five thirty calls on just third down defense, which is a lot for a defense because you only have so many plays to run during the week, and when you're game planning and practicing, you have about thirty ish plays that you run during practice, you know, fifteen oerse.

You might be working on third down on Thursday, one day week you're working specifically on the third down. You tie it all together on Friday and Saturday you do a couple of plays. But to get through a lot of the game planning it would be hard because you run a lot of the new calls and stuff, and then when you get in the game, the entire book

was open. It's like a Madden It was like a Madden playbook, which is hard because you're trying to remember a lot of the communication and then when you'd win lose the other you know, you just it would be if you didn't play well, it would be you know, guys, I can't you open up the entire playbook. When we're winning and playing well, I can open up the entire playbook. I have all these calls at my disposal, and it's like, I mean, you know, when we're playing well, it's because

players are executing well. It's not because the calls this, that, and the other. You want guys to play fast, efficient and communicate. You want guys to be able to communicate quick and understand what's happening and what the offense is doing to them right out of the huddle. You don't want a lot of this stuff in your head. Blah blah blah. You know you're thinking, you're double thinking a little bit more like Joe, should we have this check or is it that check? There was just a lot

going on. I will say he was on the hot see a little bit. Last year. Defense ended up communicating and playing well toward the end of the year. I'm not gonna too my own horn, you know, I'm kind of just doing it. But we played well towards the end of the year. I think it saved him a little bit because I do think he was on the hot seat last year. And again, I haven't been around a lot. I don't want to you hate talking about because I'd liked being around the Raiders. I enjoyed my

time with the Raiders. I know PG. He was a he was all ticked. I didn't come in the summertime because they had offered it was a minimum deal, and I was like, look, I don't have to go anywhere because it's a minimum deal. Like if I if I end up on a team, it's gonna be a minimum deal anyway. So I could skip camp, not put all this wear and tear on my body, and just wait till somebody needs a linebacker. I don't have to I don't have to put my body through another training camp.

And you know, he was trying to talk to me and this. But I I enjoyed my time there. I like PG. That is just my take. I do think the Raiders made the right call. H We'll see what goes on from here. I'm a big fan of Gruden and I'm a big fan of the Raiders. The boys at the Raiders Uh, you know, I hope they get back in the thicket things man, because I'm always rooting for him and I love seeing the guys have success there. But that's you know, it's kind of my take with Gunther.

We're going to get into the Christmas pod A. Cory's coming on in a second. We gotta get geareduck because again we gotta put mass on social distance, don't don't trip the boy too much. And then after that we have Michael Chandler. So enjoy the rest of the episode. Merry Christmas. I hope you all get what you want. I hope you're in the gift giving season due because it's the best time of year. Puts you in a great attitude. Play that Christmas music, dude, have that hot chocolate,

drink those hot lattes, and again, Marry Christmas. From the Boys to you. Next week will be a best of so we won't be doing an updated pod, but again, thank you for the year. It's been a phenomenal year for the Bust with the Boys crew. We've went through the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs. We've persevered a lot to look forward to. In twenty twenty one, we're doing a lot of cool stuff with barstool, but again about to have Corey on hit these Christmas pod topics.

We're gonna have Michael Chandler on. He was phenomenal, big hugs, tiny kissing. I have to be might have to be it, or we might we might vote and find another one. As you guys see, I'm now in a mask. We had Corey come on the bus. We're just taking all all precautions in the world. But let's get into it. Man. Christmas, Hey, Josh, ask your question that you asked me earlier Christmas or Spooptober. Here's my answer. That's a tough that's a great question

because we the boys, we love Spooptober. I feel so ridiculous with these masks. I'm looking at you. I feel like you're just looking at me.

it's kind of done. Now. You're getting in the tailgate season. You're getting into Spooktober. It is a great time of year because you know, football is in full effect. But the reason I think Christmas beats Spooktober is because you just can't help but just being a great mood come Christmas time when you start putting your decorations up, dude, and your tree is up then and you're in the

giving season. So when you're giving the people and thinking about, oh how am I going to wow my wife, my girlfriend, whatever, my boy, like my family. You start getting in that giving mentality and you're just in a better mood because you got you got cookies, you got some comfort food coming.

he saw in the tree. So we grew up sawing trees, getting the family tree, getting the hot chocolate, the candy canes and stuff at the the you know, up at the little shed. When they net it, what do they call it? They put it in a little they put it in a little like condom deal.

mom should climb up on the roof. She's like the grizzwollls. She's like, I'm gonna get it done. My dad he's chilling, you know what I mean. Doesn't he goes to work, you know what I mean? He brings some of the checks. My mom does every other mainly responsibility that there is. She fixes cars, she's on the roof, she's putting up lights, she's she's making the whole machine go right. But that's what I grew up on. So don't judge me for

the fake tree. I like to I like to say my background in my resume, right.

gonna post pictures. We got the tree up. It looks beautiful. We have it sitting in uh, we have it sitting in one of our bus and helmets. Is the stand on the bottom. We got a little bus on the boys tree topper. We got a little mask as an ornament. We got a bow is an ornament, some socks. The gifts that we got with the cigars, we got some cigar ornaments as ornaments up there. I'll tell you what we are in this spirit. This is a this is pod, Josh.

What do we have next? Dude? What do we get to talk about next?

the pod. But you figure out that your parents, right, So you're putting together these lists. You know, you're I'm like a white kid growing up in high school. You want to get the You want to get the I want to say back in that time us he was hot. You want to get the Affliction shirts, you know what I'm saying. From Buckle. You want to walk in the buckle. You feel like that's what the kids who you know, who have some money they get. They always get shot.

You have your friends, they got the shop there all the time. So I'd have a list of stuff from Buckle, you know, same, a little simple, simple white boy, Hollister. You know what I'm saying. It never went Abercrombie always a little pricey, but dude, we get the Christmas. We get the Christmas and my mom got me wearing Aeropostle and.

and I'm like, what scary as fuck? Yeah, but it's Christmas, you know what I mean. It's like, yeah, it's not like it's not like, Hey, we got to get out of here. This someone's in the house. But she's like, she's like, hey, you gotta be quiet. Sanda is here. And I'd be like, oh my god, are you serious? And you know, I kind of get up out of bed and we be tiptoeing. You know, I'm a little kid, so I'm like really trying to tiptoe and like you're trying,

like to not breathe. And she would crack the door and my grandpa would be dressed up as Santa putting presents down. And I was young, you know what I mean. She's like, all right, we gotta shut the door.

I'd be arguing that. You know, I would be pulling out all the swears, you know what I mean, Like when you're a kid and you're just swearing on everything. I have seen him ready to go to the dirt with anybody that Santa is real. And then we would growing up in the Catholic family, you go to a

midnight Mass. Every year, we go to midnight Mass. A couple of years we come back, Presence would be under the tree, and I wouldn't know how to explain it, even when my friends are like doubting, like getting putting doubt in my head, like letting doubt creep in the Devil's like all my shoulders, like hey San, it's not real SA. And a little doubt creeps in your head. You're like trying to figure out, Okay, I'm gonna find out this year if sant is real or not. We

come on from midnight Mass. I got the whole family with me at midnight Mass. Ain't nobody leaving. So I didn't know how we did it or how my parents did it. Because we also had a mixed pit bull like a rescue, So he was aggressive toward anybody, you know what I mean, unless it was us. He was aggressive. His name was Buck. My dad found him hunting on Thanksgiving. He had duck tape around his collar. He was you know,

he was abandoned. So he found him turkey hunting. They played with him a little bit and they're like, all right, we got to go go to our stand. And him and my dad and my brother they drive to the spot to where they're going to set up to hunt, and they're they're sitting waiting on turkey.

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But Mike, welcome back to the pod. We've had you on a couple of times. It is good to see your beautiful face, dude.

But I would love to know how all of that works, because you got to be excited going into free agency after a knockout and getting set up for you know, now you're in the UFC. But walk me through how that works.

want to end on a high note. Each time that my contract was about to be up with Bellatour, they always made me an offer that was that was hard to refuse. And I also always looked at the landscape in the UFC. Each time that my contract was coming up with Belltour, there was always something kind of weird going on, or there was a log jam going on, or Connor was going off to fight in Floyd Mayweather, or there was some kind of weird, weird thing happening.

This time, everything worked out perfectly for me to go into my last fight and essentially bet on myself. Yeah, so I went out there knocked out Benca Henderson in the first round. Then I became a restricted free agent, as as you guys call it in football, where the current promotion I was with had right of first refusal, they had matching rights. The UFC could have made me an offer and Bellatour could have matched it, and I would have henceforth been kind of stuck with Belatore, if

you will. But Bellatore didn't match the UFC offer, which worked out really well, but it was you know, a couple of week process where I was fielding offers from all the major promotions in the in the in the world. Obviously, the UFC was where I always wanted to end up. I just didn't know if it was going to present itself in the most advantageous position for a essentially being

a good offer and the offer was great. Sat down with with Dana White and Hunter Campbell, the UFC brass, and I laid it out to them what I thought I could do in the UFC lightweight division. They laid it out how badly they wanted me, and here we are.

I still feel like I'm the best lightweight in the world at that time when I was making that decision, so I decided to better myself, you know, And you know, for me, the biggest thing was, Okay, I want to get offers from all the major organizations, of course because it raises your stock, but mainly from the UFC. And you know, I'll be honest, the UFC wasn't the biggest offer.

There was a lot more money being thrown around by a lot more a couple of different other organizations around the world, but the UFC seemed like the best place for me to a go compete against the best guys

in the world. Be know that that someday when I retired I'm going to be able to put my head on my pillow at night, sleeping soundly, knowing that I gave gave everything that I possibly could, and I took a chance on myself, just like that little young eighteen year old Michael Chandler, who was getting offers from the smaller schools. But I decided to walk on to the University of Missouri because I wanted to bet on myself. I wanted the opportunity to go Division one, ride the bench.

If I have to be a training dummy, if I have to end up quitting and puttering out taking the chance of all of those possible scenarios happening. But if I didn't make that leap, if I didn't take that leap of faith, then I would have never known what could I have accomplished. Same thing here with the UFC. If I never went to the UFC, how would I sleep at night someday saying I was a pretty good at fighting, but I never fought the best guys in the world. I never fought in the mat in the

biggest organization in the world. And the offer came in, I was ecstatic. I said, give me a pen, it's time to sign. And here we are.

guys in the Bellatoor organization. I believe that some of the champions in Bellator could very much give the UFC champions a run for their money. A few select guys, but as far as depth of roster, as far as worldwide recognition of the major sports organization that the UFC is, they are a well oiled machine. And that has been

very apparent since day one. Since day one that I signed with them, I got twenty five new contacts in my phone of people who are high functioning individuals that are getting stuff done from day and White all the way down to you know, the Gophers who are just kind of coming on to the UFC staff. They are a well oiled machine. You know, probably similar to it, probably somewhat rivals what a NFL organization team looks like. They have set it up that way and it is absolutely amazing.

absolutely the exact opposite of Bellotore. They don't have a huge staff, but they do a really good job with the staff that they have. But the UFC is just a well oiled machine, and there's a lot of pros and there's a couple of cons to that. Probably I'm sure that that some guys have kind of gone through. But for me thus far, signing with the UFC has been a huge, eye opening experience. It's been it's been

nothing but amazing. The platform is huge. Immediately, the growth of my platform, the growth of my name, the growth of everything happened overnight, and it's somewhat has worked to my you know, I guess detriment in certain regards because there was so much hype that has been me signing with the UFC and then becoming the backup fighter for that October twenty fourth world title fight that people feel like I've been signed with the organization for six months,

eight months a year because they've heard so much about me. But it's only been a little over three months now, and in that short period of time, we've got a lot of stuff done, built a big platform, and I can't wait to step into that octagon.

being the right time to sign into the UFC. Because you signed, you've been with Bellator so Bellatore so long that you kind of turned into their poster boy, and now the timing just seems right to go into the UFC. Do you feel like guys who are deeper on like the UFC roster, do you think guys who aren't in line for title fights and stuff like that should maybe look at the road that you've kind of taken to

get to the UFC. Because you've got to accomplish so much and become one of the poster boys for Bellator, you can kind of get spotlighted a little more since you're not in the running for all these title fights in the UFC.

All they want to do is get those uf gloves and they want to get that UFC fight kid on. They want to go out there. We don't want to fight in front of that in front of Dana White and fighting that octagon. Trust me, I haven't done it yet, but it's going to be the highlight of my career the first time I stepped into that cage, and then and then so on whenever I win that world title.

But there there is something to be said about the patient route that you're building brick by boring brick, and trust me, I've had to swallow my pride thousands of times. I've taken pictures for fans with my UFC fighter friends. I've been around my people like hey man, you trained him a I'm like, yeah, I'm actually the belto world champion. But whatever, man, yeah here, let me take a picture of Ryan Bader. It's and I've had to swallow my pride.

Now I've also been rewarded for that patience. You know, I'm now I've gotten a great now, I've gotten a great contract with the UFC. I've been thrust it into a top five opponent right away is what we're looking at and what I'm not settling for any less than and I made a great living with beltour the goal. And then this goes with any industry, your industry, you know, football, any sports industry, any corporate industry. Make yourself an indispensable asset.

And once you've made yourself an indispensable as set, your stock has risen so high that you can either continue in your course of action with your current company or be the hottest free agent on the market and it works out extremely well for you. And that's kind of where I was, and I was one of the biggest free agent signings of in mixed martial arts history. And that's what we've kind of seen over the last couple

of months. And it's it's been a great ride. And I owe a debt of gratitude to Bellatore and those guys who there who gave me a chance, gave me the platform. But then I also owe it to my coaches and my training partners, the guys who have helped build me up and now here I am. I still feel like the best version of myself. My last performance was arguably the best performance of my career. So how do you argue that I can't go out there and compete with the best guys in the world.

I'm heading to the meeting. He sent me John one to five, He who lacks wisdom asked for it, and God will give it to you. Uh and and that's really what it was. Man. And I just said, God, give me the wisdom, give me the wisdom of walking into this meeting, chess chest proud, chin up, letting these guys know that I'm going to be their, their, their

world champion in the next twelve months. We had a great I had a great conversation with Hunter Campbell, who's the number two and command in the UFC, the legal counsel, right, Dana White's legal counsel. He goes to him on everything, the one other guy in the organization who can make the big decisions aside from Dana White. We had a great conversation. I told him I was going to be world champion. I told him what I wanted to do.

I want to be the good guy. I want to I want to be a good guy for the brand. I want to I know you got all these guys who are who are paying painting in the rears to deal with the heels. Trust me, I want to be a good thing for your organization. Ten minutes later, Dana White calls me we have a five minute conversation. He essentially hangs up on me because of our conversation was going so well and he got so pumped up. He hangs up on me, calls me back two minutes later,

and he said, listen, I just talked to Hunter. I said, give him whatever, whatever the f we got to give you.

you haven't paid me one dime. And your name hasn't been on one of my checks over the last ten years, but indirectly, your name has been on every single one of the checks that I've casted because of you bootstrapping and quarterbacking and building this whole sport of mixed martial arts. I owe it to I owe it to you. All of the money, all of the all of the success that I've had is all off the coattails of what

you've done. And he's like, oh, that's awesome, and he hung He basically hangs out on me, you know.

whatever industry that you're in. And that's what we talked about, you know, because he was like, I think you can do this here, I think you can do that here. I think we can do this for you. It's just different. Trust me, It's bigger than all these other organizations that I'm like, Trust me, I believe it. I haven't not fought for you because I didn't want to. It just never worked out that way and worked out perfectly. Now he's my ball, So now I can't wait to go out there and fight for him.

Everybody's fired up signatures are on the dotted line. Now you're in the middle of a training camp and you're not necessarily knowing what's next. What do you think what is next? What is coming up for you? Is it GAYTHEE, is it Ferguson? Is it What do you feel in your gut? Because you haven't really heard anything yet, So what do you feel like is coming? What is on the horizon for you? What's going on in your world right now?

not so much. He just had had to be kind of pushed into that December twelfth card, which I guess was what he wanted. He lost to Olivera. Now, so Ferguson's kind of off the table. Olivera has now put his name kind of in that top five mix. Dan Hooker's in the top five mix. But Justin Gaigie's the fight that I want. Justin Gaigie, when he came over from World Series of Fighting a couple of years ago, he got a top five opponent right away. Justin Gaigie is the most highly ranked guy in the top five.

We match up really well against each other. We're actually cut from the same cloth. He's cut from our cloth. Man. He's a he's a he's a wolf. Yeah, a small, small, town wrestler. Like also like I got to meet his mom and dad. They both came out. They're both humble beginnings. You know, his dad works in the copper mines in Arizona. You know, we run with the same crowds. We're very similar, and then our fight styles are similar. We want to bite down on our mouthpiece, come across that octagon and

get into a fistfight. I think it's a perfect way to introduce myself to the UFC fans, finally give them what they want, which is me actually stepping inside that octagon. And I haven't not stepped into the octagon because I didn't want to. I wanted to fight October twenty fourth. I wanted to fight ferguson or Poria. It just didn't work out. Justin Gatgese's my number one My number one goal right now is to fight him, and I would love it to be January twenty third, on that Connor

Poorier card. They might as well have another lightweight fight on that card, another high profile lightweight fight on that card in case anything weird happens with injuries or COVID or whatnot. You always got to have a backup plan. In the era of COVID right now. So that's best case scenario for me, and I'm training like that's what I'm fighting, So we'll see.

be the backup fighter. You know, I don't get my full purse and there was a very small chance that I'm gonna fight one of those guys. So I kind of felt like, man, this sucks. I'm away from my family and I'm probably not gonna fight this time. I feel like I'm actually gonna fight. I'm down here training for in a training camp that will culminate in a fight. I don't know if it's Geechee. I don't know if it's Hooker. I don't know if it's Olivera. I don't

know if it's Connor Orporie. If one of those fights, you know, falls through in the next week or so, who knows. But either way, my body, my mind, my spirit needs to be ready January twenty third. So that's what I'm laying the groundwork for, laying the foundation for. So I have a goal in mind, and that's going to be a fight January twenty third. The opponent doesn't really matter too much, you know. There are one hundred and fifty five pounds. They got two arms, they got

two legs. They have certain different attributes and idiosyncrasies and habits that they that they all possess. Game plan is always going to be pretty much similar for all three of those. It's they're all five six of those opponents in the top five and just train and be the best me I can be when I show up in the cage inside that octagon January twenty third, hopefully.

lay like kind of the groundwork. Backstory, He had just lost his father a couple months before, and it wasn't just his father, it was his mentor, his hero, his coach, his everything to COVID too, Yeah, exactly, so you know he I think he was just carrying the pressure and the weight of all of that and wanted to step away. He is absolutely the best lightweight of all time, possibly pound for pound, best fighter on earth in the history

of mixed martial arts. He's ever he has failed to ever look even close to beatable in any of his fights. And yeah, I think the first moment being there cage side, and it worked out perfectly too. I had a mic on, I had a camera on me to get my reaction and kind of break down the fight as it was happening. Yeah, and then it was just it was we were all kind of just in awe to be honest, that that he was making this speech that he was talking about

walking away. He had just got done finishing Justin Gaechee, you know, one of the baddest dudes on the planet, in the early in the second round and starts retiring, and it was almost like the pressure in the weight that was on his heart, on his soul was getting sucked out of that octagon and he was just letting it, letting it off because he has been carrying that burden and the pain and the pressure for you know, six eight months leading up to that fight, and so part

of me my first thought was, man, this stinks. Man, I want to I want to beat that guy. That's the guy. If that's the number one guy in the world, if that's the number one guy in the history of the lightweight division, that's the guy that I want to compete against. But also I was also in awe of the spectacular career that he had had, and I kind of took my competitor hat off and I put my fan my fan had on and just enjoyed the moment.

So I I think kuld be because a man of his word, he has also said he can come back with his mother's blessing.

I truly believe in when he says it. You know, some of us guys, also us as fighters, can say, oh, I'm not gonna fight Connor. He he doesn't deserve to fight me, when really, you know, behind closed doors, we're saying, hey, I'm taking that money fight. But I truly believe when he says he doesn't want to fight Connor for the money because he doesn't think that Connor deserves it, I truly leave it. Because the guy's set for life. He doesn't need to fight. He doesn't and if he doesn't

want to fight, he doesn't have to. So we'll see. But I think I think twenty nine to zero is just an interesting, almost just weird number to end on your mind. Will make it even thirty, you know, I think that's what we all thought. We all thought he would make it to thirty and oh and then retire. So I think he's got one fight left in him,

if any. But then again, you never know this this sport when it's taken away from you, you know, for a short amount of time or a long period of time, you get that itch pretty quick and you don't know it until you get there.

is uh, what goes through your mind? What goes through your mind when you kind of see these influence or like you know the I mean really it's the Paul brothers trying to put these fighting promotions and all this stuff together. Like from a real fighter's perspective, Like, what is going through your mind? Did you see Nate Diaz react?

Would we be friends, absolutely not. But I'm not gonna hate on the man for what he's doing as a real fighter in a real sports organization and a real competitive bracket where we're all trying to just become world champions. It it scares me a little bit because the eyeballs are there, the the hype is there, the pay per view buys is there. Right there's you know, Connor goes out beats Poorier. I go out there beat Hi olivera whoever. And he's got a you know, one hundred million dollar

fight against Jake Paul. He's probably taking a hundred million to fight it out against Jake Paul. I'm not going to fault him for it. As a as a guy who wants to provide for his family, I would fault him for it. As as a legitimate athlete. You know, as a legitimate athlete, you don't take those you don't take those fights whenever you have good fights on the table.

But then again, like I said, if you and me are having a conversation, you know, if I got a hundred million dollar fight on the table, probably gonna go ahead and take that, you know. So, Uh, it's it's scary because just like I said, I didn't sign with the UFC years you know, two years ago, four years ago when my contracts were up because there was log jams and there was weird stuff happening, and Connor going

over to fight fight floor. Now now Connor talking about fighting Manny Pacio, and then now you're adding some YouTube stars who can sell, you know, millions of pay per views. You're just like, dang man, it's it's hard out here for the legit athletes.

I know you're not a big cursor. I got to get better.

It's crazy. Yeah, it's the same exact thing. You're like, we're legit, we're legitimate football players over here trying to make a living doing what we're doing. And it's uh, you know, it's it's uh, it's it's it's a little bit scary, like I said, because the call out was real. He brought his wife into it. He you know, he.

Da five thousand fought Kimbo Slice. Da Da five thousand was like in an underground fight club league and and was on YouTube and Kimbo Slice was a YouTube star and they fought each other, and you had Ken Shamok coming back and fighting Horse Gracy, all these like freak show fights they called it, but they got the most views, you know, and I benefit from it because I was always usually usually the co main event, and I got a lot of eyeballs. But you're like, man, what are

these freak show fights? And then now you got you know, Connor versus Floyd was. You know, they're both legitimate athletes, but there was no way in a million years that Connor was ever going to even come close to beating Floyd Mayweather unless he carried the fight, unless Floyd carried the fight, like kind of like you did. There's no way in a million years that Jake Paul beats Connor McGregor. But people are going to watch, if I know.

the skill level, right, if you will. But then again, if you're Jake Paul, go to the top, because the chances of you getting what you want are are highly a lot more likely than a lot of the rest of us.

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