Taylor's Journey Across America + CJ Uzomah Interview

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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Busting with the Boys. We are electric. We're happy to have you here, and we're also brought to you by the most durable, most reliable the vehicle on the road. That is the Chevy Silverado. That thing is strong and dependable, just like the people that drive them do. My favorite part of the show, the Chevy Sovrado is that multi flextail. Get everyone see you fucking press the button and at first am I confused?

Same, I did bed for real for like, uh, you know, when the girls would hit it when it's about to be like the homecoming parade or prom or something like that.

What's your homecoming? King? It fit you? If my day was doing.

That, I would go with her and do it, and I put the little sticker on my waistline.

Pretty that's so awesome. Yeah, little boy, bunny. Yeah, that's fucking me too. I did the same thing. No, I'm just kidding, do it, dude?

That for real?

When I was training for the combat with the boys, was like me is like Martin, Jack Muhort a couple of dudes, and we're all like, hey, there's the reason why black dudes looks so much more Jack than us because they're ten. Like we didn't know the tanning bed. And then for whatever reason, it became like a battle of egos of who had who could ten the best? Like, oh, man, like you boys, don't get twistled. You see this pale skin, I get tan it goes wild, he goes crazy, all

And by the way, man, ohs and ps, you get a spray tan in the winter time.

No, there's no way, because you bobbed out a spray tan. Bro, your boy came out like I was real pain for one yen, the next thay, I'm just super tan and here's what's gonna happen. I would, no joke, I would legitimately think about getting a spray tan during the season. However, you sweat, the shit gets streaky. That's true. Imagine your boy out there with streaky lines in his arm. You got you verbally assault for a while. This isla the photos, Yeah,

The game's over, dude, It's good to have you, beck, I mean, this is this is this is the first one that I know.

We grinded it on a couple of them last week, but no, this is uh the boys yourself, it's not funny at the clap for yourself. That hurt me. But damn, it is fucking awesome to be back. I missed each of you in your own special little ways. I'm looking at each of you in the eye right now, and it's fucking I just have like a blossoming flower going off in my head. That's how happy I am when I see each of you face while it's going Yeah

You got a nice fresh cut. You're looking tan from being on Canada on Lake Vibes the entire time. I love the shirt you got going on right now. You got it in Canada two x.

And I do have to say, I'm glad you brought up the lakes because there's something we need to talk about. Oh man, I didn't give Lake Vibes their flowers, and I need to give them their flowers at this moment. JP. I know, but just listen. It's only on the lake on a nice little tin or a Mastercraft or a Nautique, whatever one you want to fucking go on. You get out there. People are having a great time. You take the boats, you tie them up, you have every own

I had to stop. They were waving back. That's interesting. And you're you're outside of you're outside of the states.

Yeah, I'm out of the continental United States. We're out of there, you know. So I'm gonna assume I wanna go to Lake of the Ozarks with you one day. You know, hit the head Percy Priest or something like that, and I'll be waving every motherfucker out there. You know what I'm saying, m hm, But I don't. I didn't get and I still will land on the sword of boat waves just to wave homie. And you're either polite or or not when you're waving back. I wanted, I

So how about you bought you bought hang on, so you bought a U. So you bought our v how's the drive back? Do we have time? Absolutely your trip home? Like should we talk about that? Should we talk about our do our shout out no free shoutouts segment? Or is this like a send off episode?

Like I don't know.

You go to camp obviously people are listening now it's Wednesday. Subscribe everywhere where you're watching for the most important thing you want to do. You go to camp tomorrow, Like this is the week you go to camp, but you go in the this is where you go in.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's like God, I'm gonna miss the boys. I'm like, we will literally be here all year long. Said my man's texting me like he's going to Iraq tomorrow.

Bro. I really felt always doing that ship. I was like, man, I'm gonna miss the boy so much. I'm like, fucking I already feel it. And I was like, yo, we're literally three blocks away. Will I will, I will be here. I will be writing letters to the boys. I will be writing letters to the boys. We just built something beautiful.

Boys.

It has been honest. And you're gone for a month. I was gone for a month and I missed. I missed more than a year's worth of shit to do. I felt like it was incredible. So you come in, you come back, you pop on a couple of pods. Did you like the confused waiter out there? Passionate out dishes And I'm just excited to be back for the boys. And I go back to camp. So it's a bit of a deal. I'm gonna miss you, guys. I'll tell the r V story, but it's a bit of a deal. It's a fucking learney and I you.

Want to go through all the details, all the details, only one way to tell a story. I'm with you. I'm with you, but I don't think you answered the first question. Maybe it's unanswered and we still got it.

Am I gonna am? I gonna be gone forever? Yeah?

Like Aaron Hernandez are Yeah, it's just like our send off episode for Tailor one.

I'm not fucking leaving. I'm staying. I'm not what. I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. Wha what what I'm not fucking leaving leaving. I'm staying.

Dude.

Here's what I think is is a happy medium for the fans. I don't need to be here for the whole podcast, but get in here once a week, nice twenty minutes with the boys. Hit a shout out, no free shadow, hit it's here. Talk maybe, talk about current events, what's going on. Keep your presence sitting in the seat, make it feel warm and cozy. Don't feel like I'm too far distance away from the boys, because you know Jackie, he gets nervous if you leave alone for too long.

I think there's a couple of things though, like, yeah, maybe spouting off, but maybe there's been a little bit of gross Like Jack's been busting his ass. He's been doing a lot of good things for the boys.

There was flowers given to Jack. That must be the phrase of the day with me. When you and I were driving the other day and we literally looked at each other after Jack called me on my birthday and we sat there and we're like, Jack's looking through.

A shot saying, Hey, beach vibes over Lake bibes, because he was a Lake vibes guy, and I'm doing what I can to just be away.

I remember he called and said like, hey, where's will At he brought on the phone. He's like, hey, it's a beach. That wasn't the point of the conversation. That was like a side point. Yeah, he didn't just call for that, Yeah, but that was definitely a point he tried to make, right. I think, I mean, are we do we have any Lake five guys in here besides.

Will No, Jack was the last one. Jack was the last soldier that was standing with me.

I'd liked you in a perfect the world be able to be a lake and beach guy, but it just doesn't seem like you can in this plot.

I know, let talk to the Yankees. You have to pick one.

Yeah, but I feel like I'm easily persuaded. So like, if I go hit a really nice lake, you can, I'm fully back.

Oh, but I just came from.

The beach, so right now I'm like I should have worren my pukish on necklace. Like I'm riding the beach so hard right now, it's just unmatched.

Oh, I agree with you on that.

I think at the end of the day we forget JP and I we almost we almost threw fists in Vermont arguing about the lake and beach. Really we had some whiskey andness. We were going back and forth pretty hard. He'll do something different to you sometimes and then Jack and I we have a really good He tells me he was like, hey, I think I'm up.

I was like, so you're a beach guy. Now.

He's like over there doing his work or something. I like, sit down, I got my sunglasses on. I was like, talk to me, what gives And we had a really good conversation about it.

I do.

I wish there was a world where we could live in both, but unfortunately, what we've kind of done on this podcast is you got to like you got to die on a hill.

Yeah, which is a tough life to live because I'm not a big die on the hill guy. Yeah, I know. We live in the middle. Yeah, I love to like straddle the line one foot on each side. But once there comes to with whoever says something last right, But once there seems to be like a little competition about something that like competitive nature comes out, you gotta somehow whatever in our head win. I know. Speaking of you've been taking a lot of l's on Tier Talk lately.

How do you feel I don't I disagree with you, bro, Yes, very heavily. I do think I took an L on the Fast Food Talk, But obviously, like if you listen to the episode, you know, I'm like trying to pick different stuff. Remember, I really got down on myself or not picking there.

George really went actually and Dairy Queen was one that I think we both miss.

Yeah.

But other than that, dude, I feel really good about where I stand on the Tier top lists.

Well, you know how I feel about how you handle your tier talk, which we don't need to go into.

There's nothing to go into. You have this facade on how I do tier talk. I think like, I don't believe you get that when you see the results when it's your talk happens and you're like, I got to come up with something to I have to. There's there's got to be a reason Will's winning other than just actually beating me.

No, you're simp dude. You're like, it's not a big thing where whatever you say, brother, get out. There's no there's no.

Reason for me to come at you like your platform too, if you have to have been about something.

No, but there's not I know my boys about algorithms. I know my boys spends about thirteen hours of the day looking at how many numbers are popping up, how many sales are going, how the bus and stuff is going. You're learning more and more about what people like and dislike me. I'm more I don't know, I don't try as hard. I'm more like you caught it. I'm more like, uh yeah, I would say I probably you know, I know what I like and so when I put that out there, I think and I and a perfect example

So I'm kind of doing well in the social like putting stuff out there.

Murdering it.

Yeah, I'd say it's easy to say, like I look at numbers. I look at that like I'm just myself.

No, listen, there's I'm not gonna take away from the fact that you're absolutely murdering the bird game. You are fucking you're him.

Hey the when you post that photo that's them holding up our jersey.

Yeah that suf so funny. It is hilarious, dude, And you legit like you take that, you take the bird on as if it's it's your sporting event that day, like you take you take it into that's work. I put a jersey on, I put the face down on, like it's just yeah, you go, you do a full dynamic warm up and you go and play ball. Yeah yeah, no question, there's no joking. There's no joking about that. That's what you do. That's what Will Compton does. Yeah, I opened the app. I'm like, how do we get

To disarmy right now, there's no disarmy army.

Yeah.

Second ago, I'm trying to think how do I weather this storm? Felt like I was trying to weather and now you're using that weathering in your fucking disarm No.

I think you're fantastic. I think you're fantastic. You're so fantastic that maybe even subconsciously, that's why you're picking things that you know that Gen Pop is gonna really like the most. No, bro is there it is? That's all you needed. And I'm not trying to be mean to you. I'm just trying to tell you what the deal is. Please tell me, Please tell me.

In my sports movies, I like to put my first one that I think that I chose for Gen Pop.

I think knowing our demographic is very much a football demographic. You put two football movies in there, when in reality, there really only needed to be one because in my mind when I'm doing my tier talk, yeah, there's a lot of great movies out there, and everyone knows I'm a big hockey guy. Everyone knows I play football, everyone knows like i'm the sports I'm kind of about. But I didn't want to like myself in one genre of sport.

With you that fantastic Rocky because I think everyone's gonna be on my side. I'm choosing Rocky because I live and die by that shit.

Yeah, like you, here's the deal with your with your tier talk, I think they're fantastic. We're not going to go into how three movies are in your tier one because we've already had that conversation. But like Rocky fantastic, Remember Titans, it's a great movie. And I think what you do differently than what I do and tier talk. I go with, for the most part, what's affecting me the most right now in my life. I don't go back and jump backs when I was eight, ten, twelve,

Miracle is a great movie, Like this is your talk at the end of the day. It's not like I'm saying these are the only movies that work. These are the ones that has done it the most for me.

The speeches, I know, if you look at those, if you look at all these movies, ignore Your Boy Foster and The Knight's Tale, Oh hilarious, hilarious. Your three movies have more name recognition than any other movie on here. Your three movies would be one, two, three name recognition. My movies and I want to talk about his movies. My movies would not be that Warriors. Warriors are very good movie, very good movie. It's outstanding.

And Caddy Shack has made an appearance on two of those three lists.

Yes, but if you talk about sports movies, and you're talking about immediately what sports movies are the best sports movies? A lot of time people are gonna go away from the comedies. They're gonna go more into the serious stuff like remember the Titans agon a Friday Night Lights, those types of things, rocky, They're gonna have more of a serious connotation about them. Now we can see and argue

I think they're gonna keep doing That's what's getting me is you're saying that I'm playing a certain like I'm playing a fence right. But only only person that knows the truth about you is you. So why even get mad about it? Because you're trying to put me in different boxes. So I think I'll discuss that with my therapist next week. Yeah, absolutely, maybe you should unlock that away. Put away the mommy daddy issues for a little bit. There's no mommy and daddy issues. Oh it's friend issues.

How do I not identify with this so much?

Right?

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I think that is important for people to know as they see that. So now they can tell their friends, like, hey, what you're drinking? Probably it's not one hundred percent Righte whiskey if you're a right person, unless it's whistle Pig.

Right.

So, if you're seeing somebody that they're not drinking whistle Pig and they're like, oh, I'm a ride guy, and it's like, well are you really?

Yeah, what do you? I know? What you're drinking?

Right?

There is probably not one hundred percent right, Let's look it up, let's google it. Yeah, you're probably fix two percent, right guy, And then you're fake and you're a fake ass motherfucker. Dude. I like that that dude. Drink whistle pig. So drink whistle pick. It's delicious, and subscribe to the boys.

I mean, it could be believed we need like the Uzama one does Zach Wilson stuff.

It's outstanding sitting up there for us.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So let's.

Talk about Patty the Batty. Will move on. We don't talk about the van. I'll move on from the van. Do you want the van? I don't. I don't know.

What do you guys want? What do you guys think?

Oh no, I'm more than willing to talk about It's just a bit of a story.

So there's a bit of a story. Yeah, it's about a I mean, probably a fifteen minute story. If we nobody talks, it's a bit of a deal. Like if nobody says a word unless tailor go on like it's a.

It's a bit of a deal. And I'm a gave sparking notes is as much as possible. But I won't really get that verrado. It really needs maybe noted. And if we feel like we need to know what a detail is, grato the world word verrabo, verrado, ravado, ravado, bravado, bravado. It's bravon, not verrado. What what did I even saying that? What mean? He's got a bravado about it, like a base. He's got a tone to it, like a vibe. We're pro vibes. We are very much pro vibes, some more than others.

Too.

Tell you want to catch you up a good little good vibe. Dude, go hit up an ocean, your nearest one. You probably have the best time in your entire life. It's outstanding. Dude. Lakes are good too, though, Dude lakes are good too. If you can't get to the ocean, get to your nearest lake pro water, no fucking pro water. I'll just do it, dude, because we're gonna the longer we sit here, the longer we're just gonna wonder what home. Essentially,

We should we have a moment, Yeah, moment of silence for the Chevy, greatest brand of all time.

Of all time.

Stu it boys. So I'm staying in Lake Country, BC. All right. The main lake there is called the Okanagan Lake. The Okanagan is home to a very mysterious creere called the Oga Pogo. And there's actually a two million dollar bounty to anyone that can find the og Pogo. Such a high bounty indeed that the Japanese, just all of them came over and put a submarine in the water just to try to find the Oga Pogo. No signs, but there are still pictures of this day. So if

Totally flip my script on everything, so she when to leave the door open, So you want to change up? No, my wife, my kids, I gotta pick them my kids.

Bro, She fucking rolls her eyes at me and turns and walks away. I couldn't get Instead of warming up the van at all, I fucking turned that bitch on and we ripped out of there. Dude, ten hours and fifty two minutes later, your boys laying his head down in Nashville, Tennessee, three and seventy one miles. It was an absolute fucking deal going through all of that. It was too much. Probably won't ever do it again, but fuck I love that van. And that's the story. Thanks you suck.

A couple of boys was about twenty five I think that was twenty five minutes.

Holy shit, dude, that was too much gift the gab. You're great storyteller. Were you went there? Were you interested the whole time?

But yeah, because that was the second time I've heard it, so there's it comes as like it's been it's been a longer day, so I was getting a little like sleepy.

But yeah, you're a very good storyteller. Thanks, fue No.

I didn't mean that like a backhanded compliment. I'm just saying like I was in it the whole time, and I looked around at the boys and the boys. You hear him laughing about the entire store, Peter for the most most part working. You just knew he was about to have the floor and this is gonna be like that could be a movie, literally the entire time, Like

What'd you say, Manila with.

The flower wallpaper and the carpet like green brown and whatever you said, grandparents, fucking like, you can literally you can put yourself in this.

Vase in the first three minutes you can.

You can literally smell what that van smells like without and I still haven't been in it, Old Grandpa.

I'd like to think that the was it the dirty sevens, the old the bad sevens. I like to think that what they were trying to do by circling around you as they're all like spit on, like what the issue was for the van, and if you had jumped out, it would have fixed it in like three minutes, but instead he.

Just said to like this, So they just laughed, and I'm like, okay, I think this guy's will freak it out, like hey.

Like no, you needed this bart and whatever. They just ride off and they're not like there was help this guy.

They start walking.

He just takes off, going no, get out of here and get out there, like hey, we got it.

All right, Yeah, all right, d it was a crazy ride. It was a crazy ride. It was It was so much fun. Keith, shout out, Keith. There's a hero that shows up in every story in every movie. Keith was that guy. Like every hero starts to doubt, like, all right, let's pack it in, let's give up. They all want to they all want to stop, right, Yeah, but there's always somebody, some mentor that comes in the middle of the story that sparks that new flame. And then incredible, Bro.

So when you put that sweet out, I was like, I'm gonna retweet it. Who knows how many people's actually out where he's at. I had friends where somebody can help the boy, Like.

Bro, there was so many dudes, and it was like my dams were I think after an hour, like there was like two hundred and I was just going through and I saw one of that said Chevy, and I was like, this most reliable shit you can ask for, it is. I got a picture outside the Chevy like of everybody, like the sales team and uh the mechanics in the van and the big Chevy sign in the back.

It's fair to say these Tier ones and Tier two's created and welcome some new.

Fans of the podcast. Probably yes.

What I'm picking is if they had to build a carburetor and everything else, Like your van was there all day and there's probably a lot of other people locally that got their vehicle pushed back on the back burner because everybody was all at one point, every single mechanic was circling around my van.

There no other vehicles getting worked on. When I first pulled up, I was like, like, you's sound like a fucking NASCAR pit stop in that thing. Dude, Guys working rolling doling. Everybody's wiping their hands every chance they can get there, getting after it. Yeah, and then like thirty minutes into my van being there. They were all about it, dude. I had my helmet with me, fucking letting dudes try it on and stuff like that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,

Go.

And the crazy thing is the dude that helped me out, Davy, he wasn't even really a fan of the pod or the Titans. He was a Vikings fan. He's like, I don't even know, but the pad is I'll check it out. His boy, who's a Colts fan, hit him up and was like, Yo, this dude, blah blah blah, bust with the boys Titans player. He needs help. And that's how it word of mouth, A Koby fan, arrival fan that being for the boys.

That right there is an example of what being for the boys is out. We can refer teams in the season. Yeah, but outside of the gay, outside of those white lines, dude, you're for the.

Boys all time. Ship was all time, dude. That was a great story. I appreciate that. I was wondering if I was losing you guys at all. Did you ever feel like you were at one point I was like, I just.

Need to trudge do this a little bit. You gotta stuck. You were you were, We were in Ktown for a while. I was like, oh, and when we're gonna get on the road. It's like, we're gonna hit the road here, bro.

Just just that being that van ready for the ride was a fucking story in its own It was ridiculous. But I love that thing. And you know what, right now, if I went in my backyard I turned that thing on, it would start up, no problem. Vanessa is all time. Welcome to the family, Vanessa. I can't tell you that when you pull into my house, though, you'll see it right away. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it's in the driveway.

Do we hit our favorite segment, our favorite segment of the week, Yes, now you're to I feel like it's just a hits a little bit different.

So do we let Jack do it and see if you can perform right now? Like intro this segment, you want to it up to you you're back. Yeah, and you did. But you did a pretty good job. I was kind of proud of you.

I appreciate that, you know you I learned from the best.

I got a lot of words into but sometimes you don't slow down for nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our favorite segment of the week. Shut up the week and now finally checking off the demographic box we got blost Hernandez. Don't let yourself get stuttered out, buddy, You're gonna be just fine. We'll look away while he's talking. Don't make eye contact with him. I know you're gonna send us in the atmosphere. Let's have a hell of a shout out of the week.

All right, so my shout out this week. Have you ever been late trying to get somewhere? I'm sure you guys live right. So I was running late today to an appointment, and I was worried that I wasn't gonna make it on time.

So I was driving down there, and I know.

That there's a lot of red lights leading up to this this clinic that I gotta get to.

I show up to the first red light.

This is going It looks like it's gonna stay red, but I start to slow down and then it turns green, and I'm like, oh, let's go, oh, let's go get get to the next one.

Same thing happens hits green.

I end up hitting green all the way and make it with five minutes to spare, So my minutes to spare with five minutes to spare.

You and you told fucking the iPhone maps to fuck itself too, because you put it in there and it says three four minutes, you're gonna be three four minutes late, and you prove it wrong, which doesn't happen very often. The game. It's a fucking game. It really is one. An outstanding start to shut up of the week. Next up our boy, the mill hunk, Jackie boy, let's see her baby? What you got?

Uh?

So I kind of play over the weekend? Yeah, did its your deal?

We really did run into some interesting characters tarking that.

What's up?

But but no, it was pretty normal weekend. But I hit it on it earlier and I also tweeted about it.

But my shout out, no free shout of the week goes to one of the most elite lunch meals on this planet, and that is the white bread and turkey and cheese sandwich on the beach. It is something special about being out there in the sand for like three four hours, A couple of beers, a couple of cocktails, you hop in the ocean, you get back out your little you know, feeling a little hungry now, and then.

You go, oh shit, that cooler.

You open it up, and we also have a couple of surprises for both of y'all. Shout out to YETI they sent us some pretty badass coolers for you guys, really, and they're here.

At the shop today. So after this I'll show you guys.

Oh you know, here's the deal with Yetti. Also, I try to do a little deal with them my first couple of years in the league, but they didn't. They said no because of my character issues. So it looks like we're going full cool only Yetti boys let them go. Yeah.

So, but yeah, there's really nothing like that elite. It's gotta be a white bread sandwich.

What Wonderbread. Yes, that's exactly who.

I was, wonder Bread, and it was so perfect. Throw a couple of chips on there is twush it down.

That chip is a sleeper too. That could have been its own.

Shout out honestly, but yeah, that that is my shout out know for shut of the week is that elite ocean side white bread turkey and cheese sandwich with them doritas on top.

Holy's very good. I agree, fucking outstanding. I'm still a little hung up on this yetty thing because the way they treated me the first couple years. Would absolutely love if they sponsored the pod though, right Donald Trump has I would love if they would have sponsored the pods. Yeah, there's a lot of coolant over there, a lot of coolant.

I'm notorious for leaving my headphones whenever I go travel, and it Sucksmen. You just sit there in silence. There's a baby crying, and you just there's no escaping.

Probably rue, but every.

Now and then there is that one person when you sit down and they're just like the best person to sit by there entertaining, They're giving you good conversation. You might have even have a little deep conversation with them. So my shout out, no free shout out, goes to those good people on the plane who can keep you company.

Yeah, you don't have headphones.

That's two hours, stranger, dude, dude, balance right, there is the majority of time you don't want to be in conversation.

I want to be in the conversation. But that's a very specific feeling. Well yeah, my who I'm thinking of.

It was this like nineteen year old that went to Lipscomb and then his little eleven year old cousin Vietnamese descent American red or American raised.

The little cousin eleven years old American. Bresden's a little racist, doesn't it. Lit Vo, Little Vo he's a rapper.

Oh no, shit, eleven years old would show me all of this stuff.

It was so funny, dude, that's fucking all time. I had a situation like that from Chicago to Nashville, and we were flying back from Michigan actually, and the dude and I talked for I don't know a few hours or however long the flight was. He was awesome. I had a great time. Walked away from that experience all smiles. I absolutely love it, dude, I fucking love it. Next up on the list is the merchman himself, that dude

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Forward boy, And if you look at some shit that was probably out I don't know, let's say all of twenty twenty two, and you go, this shit fucking hints this hat will be out there eventually. There's a couple of new branding shirts we got out there. That is all our man. Who's up next, mister Garrett himself. Let's hear it, baby?

All right, my shout out is gonna be to an experience that Jack and I had this weekend.

I'm going to shout out this kid at the beach is Her name is Sarah, and we pig roasted her.

His name is Hans Simmons. What nickname hands Simmons with a Z. We were throwing the football on the beach. He's probably he's twelve years old. Kid was an absolute freak. Put our boys on skates. I was playing QB, so I didn't get embarrassed. Uh, but he most our friend Bobby and we took off down the beach, got up, got hype and he comes over and shows me his Instagram, So follow hand Simmons on Instagram.

Out for us real quick h A N d Z Simmons s I M M O N S. Going to the league.

A serious stadium on.

Saturday, Oh for real? Oh yeah, you try to sell him on Alabama and uh kind of Sea boys. We we did a little high school recruiting first. Where's he going? I don't know, he's transferrept the lips coming that what you're saying, No, we didn't.

One of our boys, yeah, Rob, one of our boys coaches at c p A.

Oh no way like that. He was like that, holy shit, how did you get hopped?

Like?

How are you grown? Us men? Hanging out the twelve year old? What's up with that? Work next to us? And you know you're in the water, you're drinking and you're like, oh, don't meet the ball. Yeah yeah yeah, but the kid ended up showing off himself.

Oh yeah, now how was your arm? It was money was underthrown, he went up and got it, came back. It was it was nice. You cover him.

Oh all day, all day, every day on Sunday.

Yeah yeah, yeah.

So he he's like smoking our friends and his dad's like his nickname is actually hands and our friends like this kid's actually a freak. Comes over and shows me his Instagram. He's got like four thousand followers. All his whole feed is just highlights seven on seven. It's just cooking kids, four thousand shouts to hands, to hands, to hands.

Having those hands as well. Oh yeah, fuck, dude, that was a decent one. Not usually get a just a stranded individual in Florida. Love. Have you guys been Florida? Right?

Yeah?

Fuck pretty all time? Stuff?

Yeah, I mean that's yeah, we just we might have put him on right there.

Yeah for real. Hey, you're welcome your first scholarship offers. You're welcome. Yeah, I'm a free and il deal. I'll probably get an offer from Nebraska and Michigan right now. There we go. There, it was right there. Next up is the best man on the bird. Will comme do and see what you got, baby, tell them what the people all want to hear.

All right, So my shout out, a free shout out sandwiches going to go to So you're on your way to the airport, you know you're cutting it a little close, like always, you get there, I personally get there probably in between fifty minutes to sixty minutes before takeoff, and you might survey the line. The line could be longer, the line might not be longer. Either way, you're thinking about, Okay, how quickly can we get through security.

I think I'll be all good.

When you're going through security and you start unloading into the trays into the bins and you hear leave everything in your bag and don't take your shoes off. Oh, and then you just get to walk through security shoes on, you feel like you're breaking the law, Like I'm about to walk through here and everything's gonna go off. Nothing goes off, but leaving your shoes on, leaving everything in your bag. You don't have to you don't have to itemize stuff in the tray. That is my shoutout, no

Thanks, guys, that's outstanding on. You know, it's a special move. Due. When you get out there and you're running on a time crunch and they say, hey, no shoes you're fine, sir dy even reassure you, sirkeep your shoes on, vibe goes fucking because you know, oh, because you know, you go, fuck my bitch, we made it. It's a good day. Yeah, for real, dude, that's an outstanding one. My shout out and over your shadow of the week is going to piggyback off of one that happened a couple weeks ago.

Did she went that.

Little honey if you wanted to let her wear your jersey, Hey, I know we've been talking for a minute and you want to wait till you're married, But if you want. You're trying to dry hunt. I would love if you could wear my practice jersey on Friday. And boy did they get fucking hype, so hype that they would low keep start showing off to all their friends, acting like

It sounds like if you witness somebody to take having the practicercy on, if they take it for granted in fing it a little bit like.

It was never about you know, being that guy towards girls. It was about, hey you, this is a this is a privilege. This is a privilege. Not right, yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like they get a jersey. There's only about fifty of these boys out here for us.

Because because we talked about this on the phone, where it was different it was lettermans jackets. Uh where where we were at. I feel like probably a lot of people might be lettermans jackets. But Taylor made a good point in Arizona's hot a ship and nobody's wearing their letters. So it's the practice jersey. My question is what's that

That's basically you're got a kid. Oh she was nasty. Look he'd be able to stand up by itself. You don't know what I'm saying. Stiff and stale, but they wear it. Dude, fucking shut out? Dude, shut out? Who would wear my jersey? I don't want to say names. Still clues close? Can you be given your letterman jacket out? Yeah?

What's her name? I mean, let's be a couple of different people. Yeah, but I don't want to give free shot outs on this podcast.

What I mean.

That's a good one though, anytime you bring them nostalgia from high school.

I feel like that's just a fucking winner.

Dude.

This brings you back to good time. Yeah, dude, high school was the fucking best. You know, talking to my wife about is how I'm thirty one now she's twenty nine.

Happy birthday. By the way, we didn't get to say the birthday. The birthday, boy, Taylor, he's thirty one. Appreciate that this is not a birthday.

It's more like you're getting the point where you're like, you're definitely not a kid anymore. You're getting older and it's like there's no slowing it down. I know, man, do you spend money on doing like facials and shit? Yes, saw the facial eye got in Canada. Yah. Oh Mike, your boy had that dream on his face. Dude, that fucking thickness. Oh man, I put that up to you. When I put that fucking picture up, I go, I know it's about to happen here. I just put my Yeah,

I Am?

Jordan hit me up like, hey, damn the Saints. Yeah, he said, hey, explain this bro, the camp din fucking text me himself if he wants.

Dude. I'm just you know, I'm just saying, that's crazy, bro. But yeah, I knew that she was gonna go down. But you know you kissed the dude in Vermont, so I guess it's all good. Yeah, I go off bard by that kiss? Bro? What'd you do it again? Yeah? Nice?

Yeah, that's crazy. It caught me by surprise. I did not expect that. And I want to say, like, by the sound of it, it seemed like I kissed back maybe close like the way I was setting it up. We did that photo. You guys are sitting there, we like did the photo tore. We're kind of like looking at the whiskey like we're all excited. They got a photo and then he kissed me on the cheek and so fights wasn't in that photo. So we brought Fiddleberg

Fights.

You get in the middle, and KFC and I will kiss you on the chic on each on each side. And so we were lining it up, and for whatever reason, KFC wanted to be in the middle. He goes, hey, I'll get in the middle and you guys kiss me on both sides. And I remember thinking in my head, like, weird, how you just want to be in the.

Middle of the kisses. I'm thinking, all right, that's fine.

Like lean down, I like, you know, I'm like gonna sell the photo, and I like close my eyes and I leaned down real low and I'm gonna puck her up real big. And then he turned and he kissed me. Man in that movie, uh from the Times? Yeah, yeah, yes, sir, three hundred times what happened?

He kissed me Man? So was KFC good kiss her?

I mean it was a pack You can't really tell a good kisser. There were a moist They were a moist, you know what I mean. They weren't dry, there wasn't any stickiness to it. Yeah, they were moist. Yeah, he didn't tell he's been there before he knew what he was about to deal and he makes it. He knew not a good impression. Once that happened, I was like, no fucking wonder you wanted to be in the middle.

Yeah, buddy kissed me and it was all being in the milk that Fidelberg Now, I don't think so.

If you see in the video, fights are still sitting there and he has like a delayed reaction to the kiss happening. He's like still like lean in. Then he realizes, oh, this is hilarious. Where's my where's my fucking kiss? But yeah, man, we interrupt this episode to bring you Romans. Shout out Roman, Shout out Roman, No free shoutouts boys. Testosterone affects a lot of aspects of men's fitness and health, from sex

That got out of hand.

But I have one question for you, one question that I want to start this entire podcast off with.

That crossed my lips to him.

You know, I think you need to prepare for this one. Does Zach Wilson have that dog in him?

I think that's a resounding yes.

Right like everyone in America, that's a resounding yes.

Do you not think he has that dog in him? I saw on my quarterback No, no, No, I think he does. But I think we all know what we're talking about here. You I saw your Instagram.

Seems like you guys had a great time out wherever you guys were throwing, slinging the rock.

It was a good time.

Obviously, rumors are swirling, rumors swirl. Does Zach Wilson have that dog in him?

I mean, if if that's what the rumor says, you know, like we just let you, just let social media take over.

Oh we wap in each other up the next day. Then now the stuff it comes out the next day it happens.

Are we no, Yeah, he gave me a call. He was like, Yo, how should I like approach, Like what do I say on social media? I was like, dude, we're about to go to Idaho. Don't say anything. Just go meet made the right move, Like, just don't say anything, like just let that ride and whatever happens happens, and then you react to it afterwards because you don't know what people are gonna say off of whatever you're gonna say. So yeah, smart, smart by him.

Very smart by him and the Internet. I mean he's elevated, like he's like he's in the conversation with Tom Brady, right, Yeah, like m v puts for him right now, We're great. It's kind of I mean, that's my quarterback, you know what I'm saying? Like, so we we we We also have a milfhund around the bus in the back.

Take a guess at which who you think it would be?

Probably not JP.

I mean.

What do you mean by that? Maybe that Joseph Paul maybe, but that JP. You know, he's got he's got a little class to him. Dang, what are we doing back there?

Man?

What do we know?

The one rumor gets started, I shout out Mother's Day and then all of a sudden.

I'm single moms.

Well I shout out all moms and I said, especially the single mom. And next thing, you know, I'm out here poaching women, but I'm respectful.

It's he talks about going on He talks about going on the lake, and we're like, and all the single moms will be out there, and he's like, hey, so now like this personality.

Is rememberg's like one mention in my tweets per tweet that's like, you know, watch out single mom something.

So we should you know, we can we can tone it.

Down, tone it down. I just elevated on well, I appreciate you for coming on bus with the boys. I think we have what we need a right, No, but that was is that a boy? Is he like one of the boys. Would he come on the bus.

Yeah, he'd come on the bus for sure. I think he's The more I get to talk to him, the more I like he opens up a little bit, like you would probably have to have a couple of conversations with him, just like yeah, so I just to like loosen him up. But he's only Yeah, I mean he's a quarterback, like when you're like a first round quarterback and stuff.

It's kind of like you're there in Utah, right from Utah went to BYU. Like they do it, you know, the Warms do it a little bit differently.

Right, it's a little it's just a little. It's a it's a cultural shop.

But you actually, you were saying right before we came on the bus, you bought a place out in New York and you'll be, yeah, building that relationship with the boy. Yeah.

No, I mean I live like two doors down from him, and I bought a spot that's two doors down, so we're gonna be right next to each other and we'll should be kicking it. He's got he's got his basement is the uh it's the film room. So he'll have the boys come over like watch film whatever, and then we're gonna jump two doors down. I got a bar in the in the bottom of my the bottom of my house. So we'll hang out there for a little bit. We'll drink responsibly, and we'll have a good time.

Try that is awesome, by the way.

Congratulations three year, twenty four million dollars deal with the Jets. Round of applause for the boys. J that's a that's a come up because you're a fifth round guy. Like you're, like we were talking about before you like fifth rounds the best round, like all undrafted and we went back and forth. But if once you hit the fifth round and beyond, like you're pretty much scratching to be on the roster.

Like, dude, take us through there.

Like, signing a deal like that has gotta like feel really fucking good knowing how you came into the Yeah.

I mean, yeah. The crazy thing is like junior year, I had a decent year in college. Senior year, I really didn't play too much, which is like the offense whatever, and so I was like Damn, I don't even know if I'm gonna get drafted, to be honest, like I thought I was gonna be a eighth round guy and then I fortunately got drafted, and yeah, it's been it's

I'm just like you were running the scout on special team.

So I was doing everything. Yeah, bro, I was. I was done. I was like I lost like thirteen pounds every day and I would just be like, this is fine, I'll be fine, Like this, this is what it takes, right it. We're developed you exactly, So yeah, something like this, I mean, it's I never thought it would happen, right, Like, you know, my parents are very like just satting, you know, like you have a better chance of getting shut by lightning twice and making its NFL and like, you know, the average.

Your parents are telling you this or outside people.

My parents, my daughter was like, hey, make sure you're under grades. Just letting you know. This is like it's tough, so like we believe in you, like you know, they give me so yeah, you know it's like the average is what three and a half four years maybe, like we're smacking that right now, go us, Like come on, I think it's two. So yeah, no, it's it, you know something like this was like got to spend it with my parents too, which was nice, and I hung

Do you appreciate them keeping it real with you when you're young kind of going through and they're saying they talk about the odds and everything else.

Yeah, I would have been a piece of shit probably like I got. I would have been not like not like I mean, my parents were me right, you know, but I think you know, throughout high school, like you start hearing some hype and you're like, oh wow, like I'm getting like colleges are coming to talk to me. Like I'm an only child, I talk a lot, like I would just like act up a little bit in class,

You played quarterback, wide receiver. You also said punter.

Yeah I was.

You went eleven and one as a junior, passing for seventeen hundred while also rushing for eight hundred yards like.

You So yeah, you were a stud.

Yeah, I mean our I won't say out of a side. I'll say the high school. Our high school was really good, and they still are really good. I keep I keep in touch with some of the guys. They are, like some of the coaches. But man, it was just like that football was like the essence of the school. Like Taylor Heineke. We played Taylor Henike School and hey Taylor, we beat that ass too.

What's up?

It was a good game.

It was a good game. But like that game was hype because.

We were both under there a beast in high school. Freak, here's a freak. I mean, do for what do you throw for over seven hundred yards in a college game?

Oh?

No, I know.

I kept up with him in college because I was like, dude, this guy's this guy's unbelievable. People just sleep on them. Yeah, and our county is really good. We have a lot of good whatever talent coming out. So again, like football in our county was like Taylor could probably do whatever

They hook it up like that in high school. It was one teacher, I'm not gonna because you're saying this like Friday night lights at your at your high school. It wasn't to that extent, but it was.

It was. It was like you could they're about ball.

Yeah, it was.

Yeah. It was very football oriented at the school for sure, in the county. And then you go to Auburn, YEP. You played with the you play with the fellow friend of the show, Darren Man. You play with him, right, I played stories on DV I got great stories with him. He's I mean, you know, this guy's he's crazy.

It's a lunatic bro speaker, always blurring. Kevin Gates in the locker room yeah, but the mad Ship to everybody. Oh yeah, he always he always controlled the oxyar.

I remember like like we played at South Carolina and this man is just like he's going crazy in the locker. I won't forget that. I was like, damn, this is sick. It is my freshman year too. I'm like, I'm inside of my mind. But the best story was we played Intinacy. I don't remember what year. It was, like second or third year with the Bengals. I see him across, maybe like fourth year, but I see him across and he's just talking ship the entire time, like, yes, he's on

He's a minute on special teams. That's funny that he hit you dialed in then all of a sudden, you get blind sauted on a double team.

My coach is not happy either.

Did you love your time at Auburn?

I did?

It was It was a good time. I got my best friends from there, like I was friends with only for the most part, like only walk Ons, Like those are my best friends. So we had like walk on parties. We call them wops just like nobody knew that we were talking about Hey, like in front of coach, like, hey, we got that wop. Later on, Coach like what the It's a dance, Like that's all I know and read

So you're like the gaykeeper. You're like the bridge between walk On and Scully. That was that was man, That's a good that's a good label to have.

I mean, dude, walk On dudes, they got treated like I mean, we're in the National Championship. They're in the cage, like they're not even the locker room. They're like a little separate cage like outside of the locker room. And I'm like this, did you almost go somewhere else. I kind of wanted to go to Florida because my godbrother

Did you get drafted in the fifth round to the Bengals. Yeah, you were kind of going through the ship. Like obviously you guys made it to the super Bowl, which we'll get into, but you were weathering the shitty years of Cincinnati.

Yeah.

I mean my first year wasn't though. My first year we were nice, Like we had everybody, like we had AJ was and we had Marvin Jones, we had most of knew. We had Andrew Whitworth, we had I mean, we had the boys, and we won the division and that was a while ago.

Andrew's on the Yeah, was on the Bengals. Yeah, that you guys were you guys were.

Nice then, Yeah, and we won the division and he gets hurt. AJ Matt comes in. He's leading us down like we're about to win the game. Then some stuff happens and like what happened? Remind us, like, you know, the our Defense kind of got into it a little bit with the Steelers and like game, that's.

How long ago that was.

It's like we were nice to talk about with with Tz and uh Tez and and a B yeah, a B and then and then like or locker room yeah, Joey Porter, Yeah yeah, like it was.

It was a lot.

And that's my again, that's my rookie.

Ye.

I'm thinking ships sweet. I'm like, dang, we're nice, Like this is great, We're doing great. I come into the locker room after we lose that playoff camp, I'm pissed. I'm like, dang, this sucks whatever. And then I'm like, dang, this is I mean it was it was tough.

So what is that locker room?

Like?

Oh, I mean people just yelling at each other like everyone.

Man tes not that I know them personally, but like you obviously hear stories, right.

Well, yeah, I'm gonna be honest. The craziest thing is like Tess likes me a lot, which is awesome. Like he I do some like car karaoke stuff, which is like it's just I do it for fun. And he would come in and be like, hey, bro, me and my girl watched that car karaoke. That's just funny. And I'm just like, hang on karaoke. Yeah, like you got a YouTube Channe No, no, I just I just hop in the car and I just like play some like

I mean.

What an animal? Yeah? Did he ever? Did he ever look you.

Over the middle of once? Yep, wasn't supposed to be. I mean, it was supposed to be like just fit like, you know, just fit up. And I'm running a shallow and I sit and I turned right into him and he just just lowers his head and I'm like, oh god, are you here off the ground? Oh my coach, I'm trying to stay off the ground. I just got smacked.

They would talk about how like, uh like, how smart he was, like instinctive he was, yeah, not show up to practice, but he'd be like he would know everything. Or when he would show up, like sometimes they say they'd come in, he'd be in the hot tub and he'd be like, no, I'm not practicing. The day they'd be trying to get him to come out to practice while practice and warm ups are starting and he's like in the hot tub.

He's like, oh no, I'm not practicing today.

But then he come out the next day, say it's like a fast Friday, and he would know everything, and he'd be on the field like pointing shit out.

Oh yeah. Like even when he was hurt, like when he was injured or like off the field or something, he'd be like the trainers would be on him. He'd be kind of talking to them, looking at the field and be like, it's a crossrout, just yelling it before the play and it's a cross And he gets pissed and then he's like, doesn't matter if he's hurt or not. He's putting someone on. He's going back in and I'm like, what are you? Are you serious?

Like how do you know that? Like?

And he's just smart. He's one of the smartest football players that I've been around. Like defensively for sure, but maybe in general, like he knew concepts really well. It was crazy.

When did when did Marvin get fired? Uh?

My fourth year? So going into my contract?

Yeah, so this last year? So no, no, no, because you had You've had Zach Taylor for a couple of years ago, three years. Oh and the Bengals extended you.

Yeah. So after the after those four years, Marga gets fired, Bengals extend me and I was there for three.

Years, okay, all right, and then that's when you guys kind of have you know, battle through some stuff. I will say the one uh pre draft visit I went on with Cincinnati.

What a hell hole it was at the time. Maybe it's maybe it still is. I don't know.

What more they did to But at the time that I went, there's a fucking like the cafeteria was in the basketball gym and they.

Were just set up tables. Yeah, they they they renovated that.

They switched it up for sure, because now it's I don't know if you remember or not, Like now you walk in, you take it right, and the cafeterias.

There, it was just just like a it was just like a room with a couple of chairs in it. Yeah, it's still okay. At the time, oh that was still the case.

From Yeah, but you talked to everybody around the league. Everybody's like, oh, Cincinnati has got the worst. Yeah, like that's the that's there's a couple of teams for sure that I hear. But yeah, it's it's up there.

So you were grinding there for what six seven years?

Seven years?

You wish you would have stayed Nah, I mean it was like was a situation going into this last year. Obviously you have you have a good year, but are you wanting to stay in Cincinnati?

Yeah?

I mean I think I think you're in a place for seven years, right, You're like, dang, like this is you know, you make it your home and you're like, and I talking to people that like one of my boys he's in the corporate world even, right, and he's like, yeah, you know, I've been this company for four years. And I'm like, dang, do I really want to take this other job? Like that's gonna be tough, like me and the family. I'm trying to start, like start a family

What are the certain things? It's just you know, like like trying to rotate other guys in there.

No, it's not that. It's it's more like just contractually stuff.

You know.

It's kind of like throw me a bone maybe, and you don't get that, and you're like, all right, well, you know, I know another team that has some young talent that is gonna you know, throw me your bone and and I'm gonna stick with them.

So it is in one of those situations where they're trying to start negotiating like way ahead of time and then like every player gets like disrespected in their first offer.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, and you're.

Either you either understand what's happening or like there's some guys who just get so pissed off that like, you know, they're trying to disrespect me type of things.

Yeah.

No, I mean I knew a couple of Yeah, so like I knew how they were going to do it. I knew how it was the first time, and I knew that's kind of the the way that you know that contract works. And it's not just sincey, it's most teams. Most teams are.

That's business.

Yeah, but it was the ending stages we were like okay, cool, like nice, We got a couple back and forth, like let's see if we can like actually plant something down, and it was just like not happening. And I was like, all right, well, I mean that's that's fine. Like it sucks right like seven years like dang, But at the same time, it's like a right nice, like I'll go somewhere and make something to shake with with the young team with some dogs in them.

Ooh, there you go with the dog in them.

Do you feel like you do a pretty good job of like keeping your emotions separate from like the whole business thing, Like, let's see, it seems by by the way you're talking, like you want it to work out, but if it doesn't, like you're all right with trying something new. Clearly that's the option you did. But some guys they want to stay with their team badly and

Yeah, I think, uh, I mean, I I mean I would have for sure, but it was it was. It was pretty bad, but dude, it is what it is.

Like George was on the pod a couple of weeks ago, and then we were talking about the Deebo Samuel situation and he goes, look, man, he's gonna have a locker, Like he's gonna have a locker here in San France, Like we hope he stays with the team.

But he's like, you only.

Get this small window for each individual or each athlete to capitalize on, like what they've worked their entire life for. He's like, who am I to like say, hey, don't go get your money, like you only have this much time to acquire it, Like you have to do what is best for you. Some guys, some guys, you know,

Yeah, I mean, and the guys know that. I mean, I still I still talk to some of the guys the locker room for sure. You know, the punter was probably my best friend, Kevin was probably my best friend for the past couple of years, you know, on the team. So we still talk. But yeah, I mean everyone knows, like you know, they they're gonna they're gonna have some problems just retaining Joey b back there, So I was like, yeah, I mean's no understand like.

If it's a lot, if it's like a longer deal because Joey Be's got what two more years or two more will they'll have to probably renegotiate.

But that he just finished his second year, right, Yeah, yeah, so no doubt, like they gotta.

It's like that time frame that everybody talks about, like in the media, like you have your quarterback on a rookie deal at the moment, you better build all around him to try and obviously win the super Bowl exactly. But no, I feel you, man, it does seem like you do a good job separating separating the two.

Though, well yeah, I mean I will definitely like hats off to my my agent for that because he was like, hey, like your job, like I know that you have emotion into this, but like like my job is to make sure that like I'm looking out for you and your best interest. Like if you're wanting to like take this, just no, it's not good, Like it's not something that I would recommend you taking. Like just talk to your

And now we're who always in the who always in the game for you. Jets came up, man, they had a good draft.

Yeah we did. You guys are gonna want to you know, a ballgame er two this year. Now we'll probably win way more than a ballgamer. I'm saying we got the MVP front runner right now.

There's no question. Bro Zach Wilson, the dog that everybody. This facade that is getting created is is pretty funny. But yeah, how do you feel about going through OTAs and everything with the Jets, Like getting acclimated to New York, like being out there in the city like you go from Cincy, that type of situation. I've heard the Jets have an incredible fucking facility where you probably go over.

There and you're like, yo, how do all teams don't have it like this?

I haven't been there, but like one of my boys who was at Nebraska would take videos of like there there were you at the nutrition table, like making shakes, like the recovery all of this stuff.

Like do you like getting acclimated to New York? Oh?

I mean it's New York as a whole. I mean it's I mean the city is amazing, right, Like I'm I'm happy that our facility is kind of a little bit further away Too's it's like forty forty five minutes shit an hour fifteen with try. I don't know, it just depends on the traffic. But yeah, so I like the city obviously, but then just the facility is in it's insane and I'm like, hey, like masking guys like hey, where do you get massages or like xyz whatever?

Now?

Just like oh yeah in the training room, Like what are you talking about? Oh yeah, we got dudes every day. Dude, like just go in there and write your name down and get whatever you want. I'm just like what right, Like are you serious? Like yeah, whatever you need? And I'm like all right, cool? Like who has like chefs around here? And like yeah, some people do, but like it's like check out the cafeteria, bro, they got anything you need.

In there and I walk in and I'm just like my god, Like this is because Sissy didn't have none of that?

Yeah, I mean not.

I mean yeah, it's.

Washington, like Washington that you'd have to go to like you know, like the third parties outside the facility to get your massage. And then you're in uh, you're in Vegas, bro And they got everything out there in Vegas massage people coming in like you said, like they're set up

There on the floor. But it's just it's unreal.

Yeah, I think, and I think there's talks about this. I think the PA needs to put like a ranking list of teams. Okay, this is what this is what's available for the facilities, Like, this is what the practice looks like, this is what you know, training like whatever.

It is.

So that and everyone has it like all the whole like everyone has it. So you're like, oh, nice, like you're a free agent and you're like, oh cool, Like

Yeah.

Yeah, because we'll be in the PA meetings and everybody be kind of arguing about the old like the training room set up and like the access you have because they want you to if you get hurt off site, it doesn't pertain or happen it's it does it doesn't involve your contract, right, But if you get happen on site, like at the facility, then they'll take care.

Of you, right.

And everybody just argues back and forth about like we would train there or we would be there, but everything is shitty compared to what you can get training somewhere else in the off season, whether it be Nashville, Austin, La Arizona, Miami.

Going back to your college is yeah, fucking insane, right, I'm like, dude, I go back. I'm like, how much did you guys spend on this? Like Donner money is paying for all of this, and like we can't have what like.

Right because NFL's money goes to players. Money in college goes to like getting recruised.

So yeah, you're right. It's like you you're better off going to your college and getting taken care of. But no, I agree with you on that. What do we have next?

I was sitting here thinking about all the different spostors Traine, because I do remember vividly.

Did you go to the Do you go to the PA meetings? Dude?

I went to some of them during the COVID stuff and I just had to get out.

Man.

I was like, you guys are asking the most absurd.

I say, the COVID stuff is this when they're zooming the PA meetings? Okay, yeah that's you never went to the in person ones.

No, I was supposed to this past year, and like this year I was I'm getting text like with Cincinnati guys. I'm like, hey, I'm not I'm not in this anymore. Like I'm gonna have to remove myself, so I haven't been to any of them.

Are you like an al were you like an alternate? Yeah?

Yeah, Hey, I got a question from someone who's not in the NFL.

To all of our listeners, when you hear about the NFLPA, the only general consensus from players is that you hate them. Can you all like go into more depth of why the NFLPA is like maybe poorly run, or just give us more insight to people who don't get to understand what the PA really is doing and stuff like that.

I think it's hard to because number one, even with that question, you already put us on the other side of the fence from our own union, the NFLPA. The NFL Players Association is our union, and guys have a lot of mixed reviews on the PA on how you know it's ran.

Guys always have a million questions when you go to the meetings.

It's like it's when I hear guys complain about it

Is we all signed.

Half the guys were signed before we even got to the NFLPA meetings, and so there's just always this like there's a lot of mixed reviews about it, Like if we had Dennis Kelly on here, Dennis Kelly is somebody who I look to who I always try and hit up because he's somebody who plays that side of Like you got to understand it from this point of view, because some guys will be really emotional about it and

There's thirty two of them sitting in a room.

They understand negotiating way more than any of us ever fucking will because they've been doing business their entire life. They're not like, yes, some of them could be people can argue like trust fund or legacy children or whatever the case may be.

But it takes a lot of work to be a billionaire.

And you're all sitting in a room and there's thirty two of you, and with us the NFLPA, you get two fifteen hundred guys. Now all of us aren't there at the meeting, but you get all of us in there, and we're just charged up athletes trying to argue, and we think we know what we need to be doing. But guys are just sitting there fucking arguing all the time, and it's like, Yo, this is not happening in the

But you can't get stuff done.

But to me, guys aren't locked in like they should be, and they would rather judge and have big opinions versus taking the time to think about actual situations.

And guys just they just like some guys just like hearing themselves talk like yeah, it's like it's dude.

Some dudes be on there thing they're spitting game like saying like.

Hey let me let me, let me, let me spit something to you, let me, hey, let me educate you. It's like, no, you're not educating anybody. You're just saying the same thing over and over again for ten minutes. And then they're giving you an answer, saying like hey, like we'll come back to you on it, and you're like, okay, what And you're trying to word it in a way

Well, there's not like full tendance with the reps or the representation the guys who get voted on and some guys who complain you need the money guys to show up, like yeah, that's like a that's a valid argument.

But like it's just it's way more. It's like guys are it's.

We don't spend enough time trying to get the actual stuff done. And I think on the flip side, as a player, you sit back and you see some of the stuff that does get done or the way it's handled, and sometimes like like I know, for me, it's like I would feel like you want killers going up against these, you know, going up against the NFL. Sometimes like guys feel like we can see a little too early, too much, which I would agree with on certain in certain situations

So I am for the NFLPA.

So I try and hesitate like talking shit, so to speak, because I want us to be better. So on my mindset, it's like instead of bitching about it, like like let's figure out a way to like be together on something or show up or you who are sitting here bitching about the whole time, like be on a phone call or show to a meeting, so that way you understand like what you're digesting and spitting out in the first place.

Yeah, no, I mean I'm that I'm with you. It's you just said it's just bitching. It's a whole lot of bitching, and there's no like, there's nothing constructive that comes out of it if you're just gonna yell or like talk or raise your voice, or if you don't get the answer you want or like yeah, like if you don't get the answer that you're looking for in your head too, then it's just all hell breaks. So then you freak out more and you spend.

Too much time talking on certain topics to where you waste all your time the dumbest stuff, the dumbest shit for the r answer are on the dumbest things.

It's not on the things that are important too, which is the which is why I'm just like, dude, I'm pissed off, Like I'll just mute myself. I'm kind of just like, all right, I'm gonna put my phone down

The people have left the phone call, were just like what have we done exactly?

But if you're a player listening to this, I advise everybody to go to these meetings that we have every year, especially the one that the Nation was like you plus one first class, like it's a little vacation. Sure, but don't just go for the vacation. Show up to the meetings. I know a couple of years that there was like an attendance problem because people would go get taken care of on like you know, hotel first class plus one, and dudes wouldn't show up to the show up to

On some like bullshit calls?

Can can you elaborate on that?

So?

I know one in particular against the Raiders that uh, that play in the end zone and the whistle was blown.

I think that was a bullshit call.

I don't I don't recall that one.

Bring it up, Jack, I don't.

I don't know what you're talking about. To be honest with you, this man, just Johnny on the spot out here, what are you doing?

He'll bring it, he'll bring it up.

I don't play.

It was like it was toys.

Definitely not the final player, No, no, no, it.

Wasn't the final play because the Raiders were trying to go down to score.

Yeah. I don't remember whistle on that one, and.

Unfortunately we stopped a rot pretty short from the end zone when it's the last play of the fucking game.

Yeah, I got cut the week before.

However, I was all about caping the boys going into the playoffs because I do strongly believe that I was a huge reason why we got there.

Yeah, I mean, for sure, just keep it straight face through the entire time.

Dude, Foster's a stud man, a very funny individual when you get to know his humor, because at first you kind of can't tell.

No, you have no idea, no clue. First time I met him, lat was was last tight in you, and I was just like, what.

You thought he was autistic?

Right now? I didn't think that. I was just like, this guy's got some he said. And he was like, you know, you're talking about Joe. He's like, yeah, you know, tell Joey said hey, like that's my boy, blah blah blah,

You got to keep up with him. Oh yeah, as we wait on as we wait on him bringing this play up. Uh, playing with Joe B dude seems.

Like the truth.

Yeah, he's he is. I mean he's he plays like a vet. You know, he's he's ow.

So like, explain what what what makes him comfortable enough to where he commands a huddle.

Like that to you play like a vet. I don't know.

He doesn't even like he doesn't even talk too too much. But when he talks, it's like, oh shit, like he's spoken like way.

And when you say talk, are you talking about like speaking in front of the team or are you talking like that?

Really doesn't speak too much in front of the team. When he does, it's like okay, like this is how it is. And and I think the main thing I think too is like an offensive meetings coach is talking and and it is kind of an open dialogue for the most part, Like people aren't like just absolutely going

So he's got the whole quiet demeanor until he wants to speak up or say something.

Sure, which is why I try to dress up for the for the games exactly which is dude, which is.

Like, is that a mind fuck?

If he's like got a quiet demeanor and then all of a sudden he's shown up to the plane or shown up for game day, like he's.

Let me tell you how fucking hilarious that is to me. Like seeing this man just like sit in his lock and not really talk, not really do much. Like he has a chessboard and in front of in front of his locker that like like low key, he'll play chess against himself, like certain moves. Bro, Like it's like, bro, it's super interesting.

We got a chessboard sitting in front of his locker, and so.

They got like a little golf cart, right or like a little cart whatever. And I played against him once and he thought I was gonna be He thought I was gonna be trash. I could tell like he was like, Oh, this is gonna be easy, sitting down. He's making some moves and he's like hmm, and he'll sit back. And it took like through meetings because he thought I was gonna be quick, right, like he slept on me. So it took a little bit, but he got out of

Like are you good?

Like are you just like that's smart to where you're playing. It's like what like what is this? And he won't say a word. And then I'll just get ready to go out to practice, like kind of smile a little bit, kind of joke around a little bit, be all serious, come back in, kind of sit there for a second. Like after games too, like depending on the game, he'll just sit there, no phone, no nothing, and his paths just sit there and I'm assuming just analyzing the game.

Just yes, that's against himself, us himself. Hey, that's iconic, Like that is awesome, that is legendary. And then all of a sudden, like when it's obviously a big game, he just pulls out the cigar and just yeah he didn't he didn't want to start seeing a little dancing in the rhythm.

He didn't want to smoke either, the cigar until the Super Bowl, Like he was like, yo, I want this I Like, he was like, I'll smoke this one now, like we just want like we're no chance whatever, but like I'm not smoking another one after we want a playoff game.

No, none of that.

It's going to be after we won the super Bowl. Like he's like, I'm I'm cool off.

That, all right.

He doesn't even I don't even know if he likes smoking cigars. It's just now that's that's that's him.

What a legend, dude? Did you find the play.

Here?

We go scrambled around? Did you hear that whistle right before he caught that ball? I know you fucking did?

Go back?

Wait go back? What? What?

What quarter?

Was? What even is this? This is the second quarter of this before halftime? Nah? Yeah, that's fine.

You saw my man back there below the fucking whistle.

I saw him put it. Look look look at me. I'm just looking at I'm just looking at TB.

Look at me. Oh yeah, listen to the whistle. I'm listening.

Oh no, I think that's a delayed that was the delayed TV reaction. I think that's what happened.

You got that little ship grint on your face. Man, hey, listen, you're not You're not on the Bengals anymore. Let's talk about it transparently.

Where you sitting there? Were you sitting there thinking like ship? All of us were like, what the hell is going on right now?

Did you think like, oh, I thought I heard the whistle? Like be real, did you personally on the field here the whistle?

Are you just saw? What?

Are?

What is the conversation even about? No?

No, no, I heard the whistle as the balls in the air, Like as I'm looking, I was like ball because the ball was throwing, like I mean, you hear it. He's putting the whistle in his mouth. He's not blowing it yet. He's blowing it like now, and I'm like, wait, what the hell? Like I was a little premature, like did he know he was going to catch that right now? Like what's going on? But you see me, I'm just like, Okay,

Was going on touchdown. Yeah exactly, I didn't know. It's all we needed.

But I do know, I do know that that was a touchdown. If you look at it too, I mean he's not gonna make it. I mean, yeah, he's probably not gonna make the play. However, like for argument's sake, for you, yeah, for you, for my narrative, for your narrative, you got it, for media, for everyone else's narrative social.

Media in the world that we need.

It's gonna be up to you to find the rest of this clip and post it yourself.

All right, cool, you got we got we got it.

We got it. I'm voice with the voice. Now we're good. We dropped when he drops the right here's the full entire quote. Yeah, because I got.

I was dealing one with Foster last week on saying that he's the team to beat, the Raiders of the team to beat in the AFC West, and we quote it like in big like a big graphit like that he said it. And then I'm like very small that people can't understand, and everybody's like arguing, that's crazy that he's already claiming that they're the best team. Blah blah blah blah, just to just to roll everybody up on the internet. Going to Tennessee. Talk about that game, obviously

After the game, I said, I gotta talking about clickbait and like things that blowing out of proportion. I said, you know, the quote was that they were scared of us.

That's what quoted. Saying that, that's what got quoted.

Bring that up, Jake, No, that's what got That's what got quoted. But the entirety, like I'm long winded, right, so like sometimes I.

Just explain the Yeah, explain the situation.

What I was saying was like the entire situation was, Hey, I saw the way that they were playing, right, Like the offense was trying to run the ball. They were trying to run the ball. They were trying to milk the clock. They weren't really like like, yo, you guys can come down and you guys can go win this game too.

Yeah, we're on the sideline and we're watching our defense and we're kind of seeing how Tennessee. Tennessee is playing dot dot. Oh they're scared of us dot you see that.

Yeah, there's nothing.

Can we get the ball back? We're gonna win this game. That was our mindset the entire time. They know if they give it back to us, it's game over. And then we get the ball back and we're like it's game over, it's over.

Yeah. So what I was saying was like, Okay, like it's a tie. It's a tie game, right, and time's winding down like heavily, and it's just we're still gonna run the ball. We're still gonna run the ball. We're still going to run the ball. It's and I'm like, oh dang, like yeah they're not. I mean, they've had some explosive runs. Like well, like we were happy with how our defense was playing. We're like, yo, this is we're playing great. It was a really good defensive game.

Yeah, when you do that, I mean.

Yeah, but I'm like, you know, certain, I'm like, you know, like you could throw the ball a little, it's third and however long like oh that thing, air that thing out like that's I'm a coach.

That's how we've been kind of playing.

Like in my mindset throughout the year, it's like all right, cool, like, yeah, we've been able to run the ball well, but like games coming down, we're putting the ball in and on our boy's hand and he's gonna we're gonna make plays on the perimeter. And so I'm just like, yo, we get this ball back like we're good, Like they're they don't want us to touch the ball for a second, like they don't want it. They don't want us to anything. And so I'm that's me. Yeah, that's just what I'm

So gotta explain yourself.

You can talk your ship and they standing up, how dudes are on the dudes are on the sideline and they'll walk up and down the bench back, Hey, they're fucking scared.

They ain't trying to the ball, like talk my ship, say what you're trying to back pedal just a little bit. I just I just want the record to show I didn't just be like, motherfucker scared of ship. Hey we we win and done.

I'm like, yo, like respectfully, one hundred percent. We wear them dogs great, like they should be scared of our offense. We you know, they're they're having a good game, they've got how many sacks whatever, but like nut crunch time, you know.

How Tennessee get nine none and none eat nine.

But we're still We're still there, like cool, this is what we do, like into the game and at halftime, this is what we do.

We make shit happen. And so that's that's that's that's how I felt. Cool.

I'm gonna say it, but like, at least hold me on the whole damn thing.

I'm just like, they're scared of us idiots.

Three game over if I'm the reporter, like that's obviously the headline there.

Of course. Yeah, like I gotta I gotta word word my stuff a little bit better maybe, but yeah, no, coming to Tennessee was sick. I mean, I live here in the off season, and so like the hotel we were staying at was like a seven minute walk from where I live.

Oh for real, and that's nice.

People were like, yo, you're gonna go back home, like you want to see your family there whatever. I was like, now, I'm gonna do the same thing that I always do. I'm gonna be in the hotel. If you want to see me, come to the hotel. Like it sucks because I want to go back to the crib like hang out, like get some decent food whatever. But like I do what I do every time. So now I was electric.

Man.

I got to have a lot of family and friends come too, because I mean, Nashville is supposed to close to Georgia where I'm from.

And.

It was it was sick when you're going to Nashville. I'm thinking of this now because you know how the boys like go out and eating stuff. Yeah, what spots are you putting the boys on coming to Nashville.

Oh, that's a good question. For the most part. The first thing that I say every time is Barcelona. I love a good tapas spot, tapas and wine. On Monday, you got half price wine. On Monday, you get tapas. Oh come on, I'm in big tapas guy Mann. But like, why now you can order it a you can order a lot more so. My wife, she's from DC. There's a Barcelona in DC, and she took us there one

Tell me my order. Tell me my order next year.

To get the croquettes, get to get the potatos bravos, get the klamari, get the What did I just have that was decent?

You know?

They have this spinach and chick piece something and it was actually pretty fire. Like I'm not like I kind of if you I don't even spinach and chick be's like, let's yeah, but it was fire. They have a oh, I don't know, they have this other like pork something. It's like a little like, yeah, the pork belly there, phenomenal. No, it's but then get the croquettes and the potatoes. No matter what. But ask the chef with their favorite thing.

I'll do that. Outside of Barcelona.

Outside of Barcelona. Oh, that's a good question. Where do I go out here, it's your favorite steakhouse in Nashville. I don't go to the mines here really. Oh yeah, I went to Yeah, Bourbon Steak. Went there, Bourbon's fire. Yeah, Bourbon was pretty fire, especially if.

You get the nice like view. Yeah, you get against the window like you get a nice view.

Bourbon Steak was. Bourbon Steak was really good. I went to Cane.

I like the apps say it again, Dane bro ammen brother, Yeah, the apps there. I will say this from Bourbon the fries, the trio sauce fire.

God, that was right, Okay. I wasn't ready for it either, because I'm talking. I don't forget. I'm like in conversation with somebody. He's explaining everything. And then I look and I'm like, damn what what? Like what are all these sauces? And and we took the boys there like it was me, Zach. It was for tighting you like, uh, Conk was there. One of my boys was there and their girls whatever. And I'm like, hey, bro, what what the hell? What are these sauces? I have no idea, just try and whatever.

My mind was it's like a flight of fries. I was just thinking, should we go there this week?

And boys, it's like a flight of fries with three different sauces, three different styles of fry.

I mean, it's incredible. It's like they're bread right, like they give that to you.

Yeah, I don't remember. They just came out.

Well, I think I think it is. I think it's kind of like their their version. Anybody from Bourbon listening, we're giving you a free shout out. We shouldn't be, but you should look the boys over.

But Camee Prime, I am fucking with you on their apps everything.

Like when it comes to actual steak, you can kind of figure it out at any of these steakhous, like they're all similar, they're all kind of in the same ballpark. But when it comes to everything outside of the steak, like the entrees came, Prime to me is hands down best appetizers, best bread, like the popcorn, lobster fire, the cotton Katie bacon.

The bacon if you were going to leave the bacon out out of that is the most fire thing that I like and in the world talk to him like actually, and I was kind of sleeping on it. The first time I heard it was was from a friend and she was like, yeah, you know, uh, you gotta go here, you gotta get this cotton candy bacon. I was like, no, that sounds just like I also think it was like cotton candy on a stick with bacon, and I'm like

Bacon kind of melts onto it. Yeah, I'm sold, bro, It's incredible. Yeah, they actually bring it out in this fig Oh you haven't well done, bacon, dude.

Oh my, put the cotton candy on it. It's like a nice presentation.

You're sitting there, like the ambiance and the incane prime is like darker, you know what I mean. It's got like the tended light vibe going on. And then they talk to you about the bacon a little bit and they're sitting there melting and you kind of like you're splitting it up a little bit. You want to take the whole thing down. But my mouth is water and talking about it it is a vibe in your mouth.

I come back for the bye week. I'll take you there. Oh yeah, I wasna boys. We got this bust with the boys. Uh team DINNERJ.

Well, I didn't wait, hold on, I didn't say team dinner. My fog got a little ahead of myself.

Now you can sit a table away from us.

Another good one in the Southern That's a good steakhouse in Nashville.

I've been there once and I didn't get I didn't get the steak.

So you can go up and choose your selection. Actually, yeah, like windows shopping, go up there and you get to pick your cut. Oh wow, it's a pretty that's pretty cool. That's pretty Check it out next time. All right, where were we before we got off the tangent of Nashville? Okay, playing the Titans. You talked ship tight were scared of the Bengals last year? You said, Derek Harry didn't want it to right.

You just said, right now? Is that what happened then, you guys? Yeah?

But they they went to the conference championship after that? Who'd you guys? Playing the conference Championship.

Chiefs k C after they're crazy game with the Bills.

The Bills, I know, man like, I like, I'm a fan of Casey, Like everybody loves Kansas City, the Chiefs. Like my mom her favorite team was Kansas City, and everybody in Nebraska they're pro team Cinserzo Prope.

Team in Nebraska is Kansas City.

But bro, like, there's something about pulling for the Bills that I was wanting them to pull it off.

I was wanting Josh Allen to pull it off against my homes.

I mean, they won, they have won a super Bowl, but I was rooting for the Bills to kind of like go to the go to the Super Bowl outside of the Titans and of course outside the Raiders. You guys would like to send a realer story running through everybody. Don't you feel that way? Don't you feel like you guys are the underdog? I mean yeah, to the out, to the outside for sure, Like oh not to the inside. I mean, like you just said, you gotta talk your ship. Like in the locker room, we were like, yo, we

We've been showing it, like you know we've had some hiccups throughout the year, but like, shit, we're here now, like come on, like we gotta we gotta try to on our respects. So yeah, no game was crazy. I mean I got hurt that game, like pretty early first quarter, messed my knee up, and I was fucking pissed.

Oh yeah, because you're in the playoffs, like You're like.

I'm like this sucks, like this is like the worst thing that could happen to me right now, and and low key, like I thought to the squad, I was like, damn, I'm not on the field, like this is just that sucks, Like I don't know, like kind of feel like I'm a little spark plug whatever. So I get and I like feel it and I'm like, damn, I might what happened?

What happened to your knee?

It was a a greade three MCL like they said like two and a half three whatever, And I tried to jump, and right when I jumped, I felt like twine a little bit. And then I missed the ball and I was like, oh shit, and I looked back and I landed awkwardly, and that's when I like heard something and I was like.

Oh shit, Like I think I just tore this like this sucks.

And then I like popped off the field, got on to the bench and they were like, yeah, we gotta get you in the locker room. They put me in a splint and boys came in at halftime and I like crouched out there like trying to like no. I was like, yeah, boys, let's go, let's go. I'm here with you, guys. I started jumping around and the trainers like, dide, you gottas you gotta you have to sit down, like you cannot be doing this. Get away from the sideline.

So you make it back for the super Bowl on a on a grade two plus three m c O.

What was that like?

Trying to get back for the super Bowl? That was the worst thing ever. That was like the actual worst thing ever. Like that's why I said, like nix the boy, like.

So you're not getting surgery. No, you're doing what you can to make the super Bowl. But like talk about yeah, talk about those next couple of weeks.

Yeah.

Well the crazy thing was when I like at halftime, I go in and they were like, yeah, it's like you won't need surgery for sure. And the first thing I was like, yo, Nick, like will I be able? Like can I play for the in the super Bowl? He was like I wouldn't count it out. And right when he said that, I was like I'm cool, Like I'm dope. I'm great. That's the first thing I said to coach after we won. I was like, ye'll be back for the super Bowl. I was like, okay, all right, yeah,

I have a little bed that like has a little foot lifter. You know what I'm saying.

Kept it there.

I was like, this sucks.

It's annoying as hell. I can't. Like I'm a stomach sleeper myself. I don't know what you are, but no, I'm I'm on my back or side back side. See I snore. I snore heavy when I'm on my back, so I can't do it. So I was snoring like crazy. No, we can talk about that after the point.

Yeah.

Yeah, because I got a couple I got do you like, would you rather sleep on your back. Do you like sleeping on your back like sleeping on my stomach?

Oh? You like sleeping on your stomach?

Yeah?

I like it. It's it's comfortable. There's no no. You like being on your tummy.

I'm just gonna say stomach.

I'm not gonna say it like that. That's what it is, man, It's also called it tummy. You like being on your ass? Yeah? You like being on your booty? Yep, being on these cheeks.

That's reckless.

So you're you're obviously elevating, You're doing everything possible, like there was never a doubt that you're gonna be able to play. Obviously you're resting and doing a lot of that ship. But at what point are you get on the field and and testing this ship out?

I mean three days before, like a couple of days before, like we we fly out to California. I forget when we did you.

Do stem cell or anything? P RP.

Stem Cell didn't do anything? Nope? Okay not then, you know what I'm saying Like that?

Just no.

I mean I was even like, hey, can we shoot this thing up like for the game, and they're like, nah, that's not smart, Like we're not doing that, and I was like, all right, well.

You wanted to put toward all in your knee, but I just asked. I was like, hey, can you nah?

I mean I will, like, yeah, you're about to play for the super Bowl, so you're willing to do whatever. Yeah, I understand that like any other time, like people are like that's like fucking varsity blues trying to inject the quarter zone and the knee and everything like that.

But you're at this is it, like you're at the finish line. I'm like, dude, I've been dreaming. I mean, I've been playing since I was six years old. I grew up like I played. I played Madden with my dad. We made a little out of a foam uh like pool float. We made a super Bowl trophy, the Lombardy, and we would play for it. And I was like, dude, this is like that's the only thing that was going in my head. I was like, dude, I gotta I

We get stuck through four lights because the bus is stuck.

On a hill. And if we're just sitting here, like, how the hell are we going to the super Bowl And we're stuck on a hill going to an indoor facility that's not like that we can't just walk to, Like this is absurd to me, So we're all thinking it. We go from that to California, February eighty seven degrees out. I'm walking off the plane like, yep, I feel fucking great. Money feels better already with this weather. So we're doing some ladder drills and he's like, how do you feel.

Yeah, And during this time are you thinking about because you're obviously in your contract year as well, are you thinking about those those things? And if not, is it something when you fast forward to when you're negotiating with the Bengals, You're probably, I would assume because one year. Obviously I've never signed a big deal, but I had a big deal. Oh, definitely, no question. I'm not sleeping on the boy. I'm just speaking from my experience. I played on a torn PCL to try and help get

I had like two tackles. But they want to be out there to signal, call and do all.

That kind of thing, which I was about, like you, you're ready to fucking die on the field for the boys, but being honorable doesn't get you paid. When you're going through the negotiations, are you thinking to yourself like working that hard to get back, especially for the Super Bowl, Like you're doing whatever it takes to be out there, even though you tore your mcl. Is there a bitterness that you carry with like when it's like, hey, are

I mean at the time, definitely not right Like at the time, at the time, my agent had been like, hey, like don't kill yourself out.

Your agent's probably trying to talk you out of playing, Like hey, he didn't go like he was just like good but usually they're like, don't do it, don't don't play injured, don't ever play injured, and the players A I was like, fuck it, like we're we're trying to win games.

He was more like, and to be honest, I didn't know how much I was. I didn't think I was gonna play the whole game. I thought I was gonna be like situational, like fifteen twenty plays. I'm out there for the first play because I was like, all right, nice whatever, and coaches like my position. Coach is like you're good, and I was like, yeah, I'm good, and he just kept He was like like.

Yeah, I'm good, but also take care of me, like pull me back when you think I need to be pulled leg.

But like first half good, second half, forty five minute halftime it's like holy, Like really if it's hell now is tough. But yeah, I mean at the time, I'm not thinking of anything, dude. I'm just like, yeah, I'm.

Fast forward to the negotiation period. Are you everything? Not like that?

That's that's you thinking like you guys should be taking care of me because I did X, Y and Z, But you're thinking like are we not? Is there no appreciation in fucking it seems like you guys are just slapping me in the face for everything I'm trying to do to play right, which is why, like.

In my head, I'm like, like, are you gonna throw me a bone? Like are you gonna like are you gonna like, are you gonna show a little appreciation with the fact that I was like it, like, screw this, screw the contracts, threw everything. I'm trying to make sure I'm out there with the boys to win a super Bowl and bring that to the organization and the franchise and like, you know, everything that the city has been

Fair, like that's the human being, the competitor, like the loyalty all that ins which sucks because you got to remove that when it comes to negotiating. But at the same time, you're like, man, like that's not coming from a place of like I feel entitled and I should I deserve this, and I you better give me this or you guys are fucking stupid.

It's just like damn like this is how it's going down right a bone at all.

Right, which is then then that takes that which helps take the emotional aspect of it out because you're like, damn, this is actually just cut.

Throat business, right, It numbs you up, yeah, like real real quick.

So it again that which makes it a little bit easier just to be like all right, like agent says, hey, just then you know this is how it is cool. I can see that. I can clearly see that. That's how it's gonna be.

Probably texting you what are you hearing? It's not good? Nick? Looking good buddy?

Hell do hey you look and we'll take we'll take a trip together.

We talk about the talk about the Super Bowl, like, are there situations that you look back on there where there's like pivotal moments or things could have shaped out this where they are Obviously you play that in your head no matter what. But I mean, this is the first off season removed from that Super Bowl. Are the things that looks back to like, damn, we win it if we do X, Y and Z right here in

To the boys.

Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm thinking about it just from my perspective, you know, like I don't know, like certain things like playing playing with my knee and stuff, and like I caught two passes. They were like it was

Was this sickening knowing that Jamar Chase was wide open on that last play? Yeah, sickening for sure.

I mean it.

Yeah, you think about that too sometimes, Yeah, Like that's.

What a game though, when like OBJ goes down, are you guys thinking like, all right, like when you guys are about to play the rain ms, you want to go get it Taylor? Maybe hopefully, as he texted the group chat, well then it might not be him.

What was I saying?

So OBJ goes down?

Oh yeah, yeah, like when you were about to play the RAMS, Like, obviously they're clicking as well. They're at the super they're in the super Bowl, they're fucking obviously we we bloss.

He's not here, but he's a huge forty nine Ers fan.

Wh're like blast so that safety doesn't drop that pick Niners are going, yeah, but are there?

Oh Steve Burns here our next? Yes? Fuck I keep losing. Oh oh I keep objs.

But like you know, as a as a player, like the human element of all the pieces that they that they have because they have a lot of fucking trilling on their team, obviously picking up von Miller late in the year, OBJ middle this season, but when OBJ goes down as one of those things to where you're like, all right, hey, we can get this even more because as one of their best.

Players go down, it was actually, that's not even like the thought process. The thought process was we knew, like we knew that the field felt kind of weird, right, like the paint, the paint they had to keep going over it in the middle of the field really, and so we kind of as a team, like offensively, we were like, hey know, like that's the spot you got to like control yourself, like you got to be way more controlled, don't run too full speed, Like that's what

Damn that sucks to here.

Yeah, Like that's like yeah, especially if that's where him doing it there too, Like that sucks.

That sucks.

That.

That was like a thing.

Yeah.

Have you played in London? Yeah, I feel like London is it's got a little slickness too. Yeah, but I'm biased.

I love London, dude. I'm a big soccer guy. So like, oh that was historic, that's historic. I was going crazy.

I hated having the whole fly over there thing. Did you guys fly over on Thursday or did you spend a week over.

This day doing rutal? Fucked?

Did you guys? Wait, did you do anything the night before? Like did you have a team activity or something? I don't think so. I just remember I was trying to catch up on sleep and shit like that. The first time we went over there, we had a team activity on London Tower Bridge.

You don't have no, we had nothing like that.

We did.

You don't have a police escort. We were in the car for like two and a half hours. We got there for thirty minutes, and they're like, damn, y, we didn't We didn't think this one through.

We gotta go back. Oh, I'm like, what the hell are we doing out here?

Because our practice feels like we had the bus for I felt like quite a bit to go over this little like middle school baseball field that we practiced on.

Brutal. Yeah, we did that.

So yeah, when you land, like your sleep is that night like as you're on the plane, you're supposed to be your sleep dudes are popping like the sleeping fields.

What is the ambience meloton?

Yeah, well I'm not talking the natural meloton and I'm talking, yeah, we gotta go out, Yeah, yeah, we gotta go out. And then you land and it's Friday morning, right, so fast Friday begins when you get all your.

Stuff at the hotel.

Brutal. It's a brutal experience. Due then you fly back right after the game. We played the Bengals and we fucking tied. When I was on Washington, that that.

Was that's the team. That's the time that I'm talking about. That's the time we were there.

You were there. Fuck yeah, That's when I'm like, yo, we had a we had a brutal was that game to go back and forth? And then hey we got the ball out on Andy?

When my god, we're over here too. And everyone knows I'm a huge soccer fan. Everyone knows I'm a huge soccer fan. And I'm like, I'm like, I can't believe we came over here and tide and everyone's like, yeah, these these British people, they are used to this shit. They watched soccer all the time. They're used to zero zero, one, one two too. That doesn't mean shit to them, that means something else. I was like, no, this shit still sucks, Like you.

Didn't know how to celebrate.

Yeah, you kind of feel like you won, but then you see the kicker and you know, like, hey man, it's all good because the kickers are basically missed.

So I guess you guys turned it over. Did your a kicker get a shot? No?

We had that turnover?

Yeah, bros, nuts man, and you don't know how to feel. You're like, are we going to party on the plane ride back? Or people still party?

I didn't.

I was like, I was like, dude, I'm just.

Everybody still party. I didn't party either, but everybody partied on the way back. I didn't party. No, No, I don't drink.

Definitely don't remember too much of the plane, right.

He was asleep. Is there anything I'm not hitting on? Boys? Super Bowl? Okay? Oh can you talk about that? It's right now. There are some there were some storylines out there. Can I can I you and k Adams?

Yeah?

Can I?

One of the hosts of Hang On, Let Me Ball, she's just touch she's for the boys. We're a big fan of k Adams over here. But there are obviously some tabloids going around, you know, the magazines of Walmart showing that you know, you and k Adams were a thing. Seems like you're both very private about your dating life, so there was never any truth to be brought from it.

However, are you dating Adams? No?

No, I wasn't, And I am relatively private about like I like, I like being private about my stuff, especially like honestly, especially now being in New York. It's reckless, like people like if someone I was talking to some of the Mets players and like, hey, like my girl like kind of deletes her or like goes private and does all this random ship because she would just get blown up by people. I'm like, all right, that's good to know. Good, Like even if you're not doing anything,

Up about him playing in the game.

No, just like him like, oh yeah, I was with Pete last night, blah blah blah, And she's like what the fuck, what the who the hell even is this?

Like I was with you last night.

Like yeah, so I'm private in that regard, thankfully, but I like then something comes out and they're like, oh shit, is this true? And I don't want to say anything because I'm like, dude, I'm private, I'm not trying to like say whatever.

But no, like we were.

We were homies, like good people like you said, she's for the boys, she's a good person, she's awesome being on like Good Morning Football. I was like, oh, this is dope. Whatever. But now we were not. We were not dating.

I'm not gonna. I'm gonna. I'm not gonna.

I'm no.

We were not.

We were not.

We were not just getting my hand out there. I know that sound's gonna look for from you, JB.

Then you're gonna put me like dre this water bottle right here in his hand. You're gonna like photoshop his hand there so it looks like.

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Back to the episode, should we get into tear talk. It's a fun one. We came up with this one. The boys came up with this one yesterday. So our tear talk this week is going to be best grades in school growing up, kindergarten K through or I mean, if you remember the preschool days, you want to throw preschool shout out preschool through grade twelve. That is what our tear talk's going to be, tearing them one through three? Your top three your favorite grades growing up? Do you want to go first?

Or do we make the back of the bus go first?

We make the back of the bus go first? For sure?

Is a collective effort?

For like, how we collective?

Do you do?

We usually do collective efforts.

Only done at once.

Usually it's just the guests and will who do the tear talks, and we'll do shout outs.

But I mean we can.

I think we can rattle off like a tier three pretty easily, at least for me.

We all might have different.

Yeah, I mean, go ahead, like JP might have got bullied in certain grades, so he might not remember him the right way.

Check the tape.

I was prom king, oh talk your shit senior year, my so my favorite were we all just going to say our favorite.

We're going to give you three.

Yeah, oh yeah, right, our favorite.

Fifth grade for sure, I was peaking athletically.

We had the fastest mile time, fastest pacer test, or most laps on the pacer test, fastest swimmer in the county in twenty five meter freestyle. I made a half court shot at a high school basketball game at halftime and everybody was going crazy and I.

And the coach came up to me. He's like, I can't wait till you're in high school.

Man.

Hey. I was like, oh my guys, I'm rap.

Which that's real though, bro, Like that's part of one of my descriptions, Like, but that is fucking real.

Yeah, So fifth grade.

For me, obviously honorable mentioned. Senior year is great for everyone. But if you senior years number one, you just had a shitty upbringing in high school means that you had to wait till your last year already.

You should You shouldn't have said that. I was hoping.

So for me, it's freshman year of high school.

You just love middle school and you were the top dog and now you're the lowest on the totem pole. You thought you were cool and you were like truly dog shit to everyone that walks the halls. But if you were special like myself, you might've been friends with a couple of upper upper classmens. Juniors and the seniors I you know, start running around with you start tapping up.

Some of the homies in the hallway. You think you're cool.

But I remember my sister she rated on me to my mom freshman year and she was like, Jack cannot be hanging out with kids in my grade anymore.

She's like, like they're starting to like.

Him more than me.

And like I'm like, hey, like I don't know what to tell you, like, and I was.

I was a like short, little fat kid freshman year, so it was like it was it was an adversity battle all uphill. But for me, freshman year there's so much potential and like opportunity for growth. You really don't have too much going on. It's easy classes and yeah, the whole change of scenery. So freshman year's tier one.

So you've you've been in the cougars off Rep Pine, you've always been.

What do you got, Garrett? Uh, I'm gonna go with sophomore year for some of the same reasons.

Hanging out with the older guys on our lacrosse team that used to just take me around all the time to all the parties. So that's always fun when you're a young dude and sophomore year because that's usually when you get your driver's license.

And so is that from it's that first time, like like you freshman.

Year's fusing your guys descriptions because like, oh damn, here's the senior year. It's okay, no, I'm talking about You're right about sophomore year when you get your driver's license.

Yeah, because you you you're still young, but then you get that little bit of like I'm free, like I can just drive myself places now now you can like pile in your homies to drive places.

So I think sophomore year for me was like that one year where you're like, all right, let's get it.

That's big time. Yeah.

So you guys just saying your tier ones. Yeah, this freshman sophomore I like those picks.

Boys. I do think that's very good. I think you guys are very fucking good.

All right, c J, I'm in I'm in Sara's seats, so I'm gonna go last.

No, no, no, no, no, You're first. No no, no, no, no, you're you you go first.

Actually, if Taylor is on today, I was gonna make the case that I believe I should go last because I feel like the record recently is displayed that I've earned the spot the right to go last.

I mean, I usually you all say, like guests is right, but that's fine, Yeah, I'll go first. I like, I like, I like what, I like what the first? Yes, that's usually go first. And it was a toss up for me, it really was. It was between for tier one. It was between start with Tier three, start with your three.

You build it up, build it up, and if you if you've listened, so if you get crafty, you can throw in a little.

Well, my honorable mention is pre k nap time.

Oh so you have a pre k honorable mention. I love that.

Always pre K nap time was goaded like and I remember it. I remember just being like, oh nice, Like on the playground, you're running around, you're going crazy, you get back in, you got your nap time. That nap time was I mean electric, like that's what more? Right now, we're in practice, right, we have the craziest we go through camp Coach says, you know what, no meetings, nap time.

I'm gonna be honest.

Nat Time was a nightmare for me because I went to bens as a teenager, so anytime I fell asleep, it was like Freddy Krueger's coming for me.

And I'd wake up with a soaked cot you know what I mean. And then I'm the kid.

I'm trying to blame the kid next to your figure out how I get out of this situation. So pre k, like you know, naptime was always like staying over friend's houses, like there was there's some chess being played. As I went over there, I would have the doctor told my mom that I had to stop drinking kool Aid by seven pm.

Stop drinking kool aid in general. Then just drink water or something.

Well, stop drinking liquid, like the liquid like there was no water when you're a young kid. It's like, give me some kool aid. That's facts, Like water was boring. You're not about like water tastes shitty when you're a little kid.

Keep going with my tears, but I just want to say that whatever your tier list is, if it is a grade that's under thirteen, like under the age of being thirteen. I'm gonna judge you a little bit because I'm gonna be like, damn, Like it's a good year for you still in the bed a little bit, like that's tough.

I still have some prime years.

That's fine. So Tier three we're gonna go one year after pre k kindergarten. Misshead A Summer loved the class thought I was. I thought I was the coolest person I ever had. Wait, what grade is this kindergarten? You're going pre king kindergarten for three, three and two?

No?

No, no, oh, mention my undergarten Tier three. And it's because it's a multi suit of things. But I thought I was the coolest person because in the classroom I had two girlfriends. I had Rebecca and Madison. I remember all my teachers' names through and through. Miss had a simmer coolest teacher. She was friends with my mom because

Me?

Popcorn? Madison? Madison would have popcorn me. I'd be like, damn, I'm.

Just getting tagged.

I'm getting hey, look you see what's going on. And then miss Hadmon would be like, okay, you have to popcorn someone else? All right, popcorn DJ. This other kid DJ was in my class. He would pop point it back to me. I'd be like, all right, cool, we did it.

We're back. We're back on what we're doing. So I thought I was hot.

Shit.

Man.

It was kindergarten. The Rebecca had an older sister. She was in fifth grade. I'd be like, hey, how are you doing. Her name was Kayla. I was like, hey, how you doing, Kayla. People be like, oh my god, he's talking with eighth grader boom. Tier three, kindergarten. How one was easy?

All right?

Tier two?

I love that story time. By the way, this guy.

Here two staying in elementary school, going fifth grade, fifth grade, that was a great I mean, fifth grade was amazing.

Fifth grade is a really good time.

So I actually changed schools in fifth grade and I went to McKendree or I went to I went to another school where my mom teaches. Now we're taught and at the time like she's a she's a teacher or whatever. I'm in fifth grade, like oh wow, Like, who are you gonna get for a teacher, Like, you're gonna get the best teacher. If your mom's a teacher, you're gonna get the best teacher out of school. And so I had Miss Thompson. Miss Thompson like my favorite teacher to

I was great.

You can pull this picture. I'll send you boys a picture so you can like the lead and humpty dumpty. No, come on, I was going crazy. It was it was fifth grade solid. I mean, that wasn't peak, but that was close. That was as close to peak as you can get. So that's Tier two, Tier number one. It got taken already.

It's okay, that's right, but.

I'm gonna go with g on this one. Tier one. Sophomore year of high school, absolutely electric, one of the most memorable times of my life. Started getting offers for for college there, started playing in varsity uh as a receiver at the time, got my license, didn't even use my license for the most part because I had a senior take me to class or take me to school every day. Senior senior girl.

Okay, if you're gonna say like.

Team she was, she was. She was captain of the basketball team. But she was my homie. So I met she was like an actual, like really good friend. So I met my prom date. Yep, I'll give you that. I met my prom date sophomore year through her, who was a volleyball player who went to Wake Forest six two. I'm sophomore year. I'm still six five six whatever, Like I'm still the same size. So you see two big ass people.

Coming to prom me this.

I was one of two sophomores that went to our problem fire.

Come on.

I was like, damn, this is sick. I come in with Megan. I'm like, damn, you see our tall asses out here, we're avatars. You see what's going on. It was, I mean, it was go to the playoffs, go deep in the playoffs, scoring the playoffs, like starting, I mean, it was just sophomore year.

Sophomore year is a good one.

Yeah, And I'm sitting here listening to you guys talking like man, I enjoyed my life growing up right, like life was fun, life was good. It's it's actually hard to choose out of these honorable mention. I'm with Jack on this one. Like I think everybody enjoyed their senior year. My senior year, Like senior year was fucking awesome. Homecoming King, all this stuff going to Nebraska, all that stuff coming king.

Yeah, wait, who was one step down?

Who was not who was not in? Who was not homecoming in here?

Yes?

No? What maybe maybe at your school, at our school was all about homecoming. That's early in the year, yea, ours ours was all about homecoming.

Was like a joke. You week spear week. Yeah, no, so we did.

We did the whole nights because I was homecoming thing too. So prom King and Queen for us was like, like you just picked two people that you want to date to be homecoming King and Queen that they finally just like kiss if we were just eggerman to kiss. So that's what our prom King and Queen was. So I'm with you, I'm with you.

I'm with you. He o, yeah, go off.

But yeah, honorable mention, you got to give shots. A senior year Senior was absolutely unbelievable. I think you guys said so many fucking good things. Has sparked a lot of memories. Uh the freshman year, vibe hitter, Sophomore year with the driver's license incredible. My tier three I'm going to shout out. Uh wait, it's not a shout out segment, but my tier three is junior year.

Junior year was all time.

Yes, as freshman year, you're like the you're like the little well no one gives a shit about you. Side note varsity freshman year, the boys, the seniors took care of the boy. I never got taped, I never got haze, so I could have I was thinking about putting freshman year in there, but Jack explained freshman year very well, if you were cool enough to be like have a couple of connects. Uh.

But as you go through high.

School, you are now like junior year, you're now close with the seniors, right like being being like a good athlete. You're in with the guys who are right ahead of you. They're the studs. You can like you play your role. You're a stud yourself, but you know, you let the seniors continue to do all that whatever that they want to do.

But you're tight. Everybody's tight with each other.

Junior year I was also I got my high my my high school girlfriend at the time, who was like my like my best friend growing up. So it's kind of like a one tree hill moment when you get like your girlfriend. It was junior year for me.

Uh.

The boy was all stay wide receiver. I started getting idea I wasn't as fortunate as you. My offer started to roll in junior year, so you just felt like the big dog on campus. You started to get ranked on like rivals and shit, I was a Nike MVP at one of the camps. Like junior year was a very prosperous year for young William, thank you, thank you.

Awesome. My tier two, my tier one, Tier two.

I'm sure with all of us these can all be interchangeable, because we'd all love to go back to school right now. But my tier two is going to be fourth grade, So fourth grade for me, and you guys know, the boy loves dairy Queen. I love blizzards, I love all of it.

Bro.

I went to a Catholic school in grades one through four, and every day because our class was made up of three grades, there were seven of us in the class. Combined three grades, there was four. There was four fourth graders, one fifth grader, and two sixth graders. And it was me, Logan Chuck like boys that I'm boys with to this day. And we just like we had dairy Queen for lung every day every day, Bro, you got to order dairy Queen.

I had the parents to wear.

My dad's on the sideline with me in my filming the entire game type of I had that kind of family.

It was fucking awesome. Those were the days.

And one day I scored six touchdowns boys, I'm talking four on the ground. I'm talking five on the ground and one on defense for a pick six. And I was living the dream. I was playing baseball that year. We're ten years old, so I'm on the ten year old team. I made it to the All Star team. Our ten year old team made it all the way to the Little League World Series in the cal Ripken Junior League. However, they didn't tell us until after we

Beat the team twice to win. In districts.

State, we walked through State. We sweep them. We fucking ten run rule those boys. We ten run rule those boys in four innings in State. It was Sikeston.

Hey.

Then we get to the regionals. We go up to Iowa, go to the Field of Dreams. We get to do that whole thing. We go to Iowa.

We're at regionals.

I find three hundred dollars under my hotel bed at a red roof in I thought I was fucking living. We go to like one of the big balls or whatever, and I'm like spending this three hundred thinking it came unclaimed. We took it to the front desk, but nobody claimed this three hundred dollars. So I'm rich. You're rich as a fucking ten year old kid with three hundred dollars. And then we go to regionals. We lose in the second round. We come all the way back and beat

So they basically just like they hosted us at the World Series.

We got to like step out in the middle of the field and wave and do all that. But baseball and football prime year's fourth grade. Now my tier one the way I just read it off, fourth grade that I might have to just say, that's.

My fot to make some notes because I'm gonna let you keep talking.

My my tier one I'm going to say is eighth grade was my most fun time in school because seventh grade, like you know, no, no, this is hang on, this is my time, Like let's not let's.

Not try to kill the vibe what we do with So eighth grade. Yeah, yeah, my tier one is eighth grade.

Let me tell you why, because we have a fucking hater literally right next to me.

But I will not let him. I will not let him bring this adversity to me.

So you know how I said in junior year, when you're tight with those boys that are seniors, when you're in seventh grade, they're kind of like when you're like that, how old are you then? Like when you're in those like early teenage years, twelve thirteen, those early like teenage years.

Like the boys are kind of like not you.

You keep it tight with your guys the grade above you are kind of like assholes are kind of dicks.

They think they're the man.

We're kind of You're kind of entering out of elementary school going into seventh grade. You don't feel like the big dog yet. But eighth grade when I say, we got to run around and do whatever we wanted because all my boys's teachers were moms, and one of my favorite teachers of all times, missus keeekik shot out miss key kick no free shoutouts. Pre algebra was the best fucking time. I'm talking. That's when you're wheeling and dealing candy bars for your baseball league.

Look at me all you want.

That's big time when you were making money side hustling and eating candy bars in class. Not only that, but eighth grade high jump record, four by one record, four by two record, relay high jump record, and I was also like the hurdle district champion. Maybe the peak of my entire athletic career was in eighth grade. But yeah, my tier one is definitely eighth grade. I felt like the vibes were the highest. We were the boys were

All right, you got them. There will be no honorable mention. There will be no honorable mention. You heard of me, said there will be no honorable mention. My Tier three is going to be my sophomore year of high school. It was a fantastic year. We won the state championship. We went fifteen to o oh wow, that is a good year. A good year. I made my like my best core friend group I've ever had, like for as long as we've been friends. It was unbelievable that hurt.

No.

I saw some sadness in the eyes.

So No, once you said a core group of friends forever, and I'm thinking, like, oh shit, like yeah, that's a pivotal time, Like you keep it talking.

Freshman year, like I was still trying to like figure out it was coming out of eighth grade, which was a fucking like, oh my god, a year for me. It was awful. And so freshman year was really just trying to get the training wheels back on and figure out how to go through this life without being a degenerate. And then sophomore year hit and I was like a part of this crew. We call each other the Sexy six.

I love it, And for me personally, my senior year kicked ass too. I love senior year. When we go check the tape, you will see how I had an honorable mention to senior year.

I I just think everyone senior year, hopefully, if you played your cards right, it was just out of this world. If you're saying senior year is God here, yes, but I didn't. I didn't say God tyre in there. I give it an honorable mention if I had played right, If you had a uh.

If you have to say senior year is your number one, then your childhood growing up was tough.

Basically you didn't have other grades to compete. Well, I have to just check the tape. Okay, guys, the way will very negative, I know, will I go, uh? They go? What would be your number one? Your schools like, oh, senior year and they both told I look at each other and I'm like, Yo, what the fuck did I say? Some wrongs are singing in my mouth? It's sing like, oh yo, yo, they were. You could tell when I'm afraid of Jack. When I said it on the bus, you could tell that there.

Was some very scary fear if you said senior year, you're going to get dogged.

But that that wasn't where I was going with it. But I read the maybe I read the room wrong, the energy wrong. Damn, bro. High school for real is the best, though middle school looks he is the worst fucking bro awful Like that's just when pebody's starting to hit Dude, you don't know which ways up? Yeah, but you get Seventh grade was a good year, though, because I learned to master get it roll. Say that's when

Look at a poster the wrong way, bro, So he's an ivy batman. Come on now what Well, now we're back to the episode.

Bro.

It got to where Baseball's.

Travel was all year round, and I was burnt out on it, and I was way more excited for like seven on seven. Like when I got asked to do varsity and partake in the seven on seven my freshman year, I was like, on cloud nine. It gives me goosebumps. I got chills right now thinking about it. When I got to go work out with the varsity early in the morning, you're like, you like having protein chicks for the first time, Like you're like the fucking like, you're

So I kind of just nicked baseball to that.

No, I forgot to talk about seven on seven on seven's are were I think now it's a little a little more political and there's like different teams and stuff, but seven on seven with your high school team, there was nothing better awesome. I mean, we we we traveled to Bama, we traveled to South Carolina like you guys, oh yeah, no, like even you guys traveled to different schools yea, and like Lil Wayne was bumping every single time.

Why the laughter on eighth grade, let's talk about it.

Middle school, like talking to middle school was the that's the worst of the three elementary middle high school. That's the middle school to me is it's the worst.

Oh, you start figuring out how to work the boy downstairs. You started learning about porn in eighth grade. I'm okay, cool, those are incredible times.

Cool, cool.

Learning about you can friend's dad clean up the computer because there were viruses all over it, and we tried blaming everybody else obviously except ourselves.

You have to at that point, it sounded so proud saying that.

I'm just saying, there's like good times in eighth grade, man, before you go to high school, before you have to grow up for real.

But you don't though, like, wait, well, how many people were in your high school because you.

Grade Okay, so it's different once after fourth grade, I didn't. We were out of Catholic private and then we went to uh we went to public school. So our graduating class, mind was two hundred and forty.

Okay, that's a little that's a little better, for sure.

I just loved eighth grade, bro, Like when I say, like all of our boys like their teachers, their their parents were teachers, and like one of my boys dad was like the principal, and you started like so a little league playing football growing up. The last year was seventh grade. They nicked the middle school football seventh grade program. Back when I was there, they were asking me to play in eighth grade as a seventh grader in the community the league or there were whisperserve rumors about it.

Did you guys have like an A B team or no?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're talking about eighth grade.

Yeah yeah, yeah, the eight TEA would play and then the B team goes out there for like a quarter or something like that.

Yeah.

Well no, we we had two just different teams. Like we had like an A uh North A and a North one at B. Like there were two separate teams.

It was like.

Both play on Friday, but just different like different team team A. Yeah right, yeah, but like not for like just like people would come out. You'd watched the B team play and then the eight team would play right afterwards, so you play four quarter. We had a big I mean it was a big school, so like we had a lot of people just playing. If it just sucked, dude, I don't know, like seventh grade socks. Sixth grade sucks, like damn, you got these periods. Now you're going out,

But before school, you would have like that home room and we would always have like certain games that go on.

So say you're a home room. Uh, Missus Whorley was my teacher.

Say you had the home room, right, you would have like inner murals before school, so we would have Missus Worley's class was a team. You would go and play like hockey in the gym before school started. Like to me, eighth grade is like fucking like in the morning, like early in the morning. Yeah, did we have to play like innermurals. Like that's when I played all four of the sports. I was probably played football, basketball, baseball.

And track.

And that was like the first time doing track, and I was really good at it, as like an eighth grader. And you know, obviously you guys heard the tear talk. I had those records, young king that might still seeing middle school. The one of the things I agree about middle school being like not at the top. For me, it was sixth grade. You have to like use the locker and like get books and go to class. True dress that was the first time you felt stressed in

Bro Like we did everything you were talking about, running around, but we were just get in so much trouble.

So eighth grade like you had to walk on eggshells. It took our eighth grade trip away. Dude, well it, yeah, we got we got some that sucks.

We got some. Back of the bus driving right now, talking about mid from middle school, I think that's that is exactly what it is.

Mid JP mid playing the mid I meant to get it up there when you were talking Will and then it just just to fucking be funny.

Like I have it up there.

Yeah, but even even like you're even like your eighth grade team one state cool? Right, we got number one instant your you said, the baseball Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, ranked first insteak Cool. Did you have three hundred dollars under your mattress when you went to a motel when you were traveling?

No, eighth grade. No, No, you're right.

But my man, if you if you listen, if you would have been listening to me, I said, I think we can all agree that all these are interchangeable.

Like it was I went. I went based off peak athletic career. I felt like, okay, so okay. In eighth grade to me was like I mean I was.

Don't get me wrong, I was a dog throughout all of it. But eighth grade, to me, those were I feel like the man for real. Like in eighth grade, you're walking around with like ankle weights on because you think you're changing the game, and you ordered out of an East Bay magazine. Like eighth grade, you're starting to figure out a lot more of the East Bay.

The East Bay magazine, Yeah for sure.

And again walking around the ankle weights you take them off right, you take them off right before the game and you feel light as hell on your feet.

Yeah, then they find out that that's probably not the best right, but at the time to know you you're right, I think. But like, when when did those uh one of those one of those damn balanced bands and the fighting things that's high school.

Power balance power when I we were talking about that not too long ago. I was in college when those came out.

So, Boomer, wouldn't you graduate high school eleven?

Yeah, I was two thousand and eight. We were walking around that, we were walking around the brasket tacking, like, hey, you got to get these on. It'll help you working out balance and ship.

Such a such a I mean, such a con but I mean cool, cool. But like also, they asked you why you didn't just stick with baseball if you're getting paid under the mattress before cop.

Hang on, I wasn't getting paid No, no, no.

No, it's cool yeah yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah, come on, I know what it is.

I know what it is.

I know what's going on here.

They're gonna go back and fucking find the coaching staff.

Like, hey, we know what was going on here. You were paying your players.

But yeah, man, I think that was a good tier talk. It brought up a lot of memories, a lot of memories.

I think we had a there was a good collective more of this side.

I respect what you're doing.

You've botched enough bus with the boys or where you want to create some animosity.

I respect it. I think this was a good conversation all around.

I just don't think that. I mean eighth graders just cool. Yes, okay, hang on, hang on.

Just to try and put myself in your shoes, I see what you mean by saying eighth grade is my tier one, like my top dog. Yeah, I can understand that, but I I I'm just staying in tintos down.

You hear what you tear? I get Yeah, I'm all in. If I could go back and be you think so, it is crazy, That's what I'm saying. Dude. You weren't getting paid eighth grade.

But I was getting mentored by the senior high school high jumper who also had the record, and I was going for his record in eighth grade. He was he was mentoring me. Yeah, I tied it five' ten as an eighth grader high.

Jump you, track, Guy, no but you tied.

It you. Didn't that's my name is up.

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