NCAA champion Parker Keckeisen joins the show to talk about his upcoming main event match against Carter Starocci at the NWCA All-Star Classic on November 16. 0:01 - Askren brothers 0:08 - Snug Life 0:12 - Identity 0:16 - Dominance, surrender results 0:18 - Sticking to the game plan 0:21 - Carter Starocci 0:31 - Top 3 favorite wrestlers 0:33 - Wins and whoopins 0:36 - Joke Time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 09, 2024•42 min
Johnni DiJulius joins in a wildly entertaining show discussing his Ayahausca celebration and role in Anthony Robles' movie, "Unstoppable". 0:03 - Ayahausca retreat 0:19 - Conversation w his dead mother 0:27 - Does Johnni have a job? 0:31 - Playing Matt McDonough in Unstoppable Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 3 min
3x NCAA Champion and Hodge Trophy winner Alex Dieringer joins the show to talk about his recent retirement from wrestling. 0:00 - Welcome to retirement 0:02 - Getting hooked on wrestling 0:07 - Recruiting process 0:10 - Grapple on the gridiron 0:13 - DSJ 0:14 - Thiekle & Ringers 0:18 - Golden era 0:22 - 2019 Final X vs Dake 0:24 - JB 0:27 - Retirement 0:32 - Sergei & Smith 0:36 - International travel 0:40 - Folk vs free 0:43 - Michigan recruiting coordinator 0:45 - Wins and whoopins 0:46...
Sep 18, 2024•50 min
2024 NCAA Champion Caleb Henson of Virginia Tech joins the show. 0:01 - Getting hooked 0:05 - Fan of wrestling 0:08 - Recruiting process 0:10 - Expectations 0:14 - Mental training 0:15 - Injury before ACC’s 0:22 - Not on the mat before ACCs 0:30 - NCAA finals 0:40- Wins and whoopins 0:44 - Joke time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 13, 2024•38 min
Olympic bronze medalist Kennedy Blades joins the show to talk about her impressive performance out in Paris as well as her move to compete for the Iowa Hawkeyes. 0:01 - First Olympic memory 0:03 - Adeline Gray 2023 0:06 - Transferring To Iowa 0:11 - 2024 Olympic Trials vs Adeline 0:14 - Nerves can take away all the hard work 0:15 - U23 Worlds injury got in her head 0:23 - Gold medal match 0:29 - MMA eventually? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 04, 2024•33 min
Northern Iowa All-American Ryan Loder just won The Ultimate Fighter reality show and joins Bader to talk about his experience with it along with some memories of Doug Schwab and West Gym. 0:01 - Doug Schwab 0:04 - West Gym 0:07 - MMA interest from COVID 0:16 - Training and evolving in MMA 0:23 - Taking a loss 0:25 - The Ultimate Fighter 0:49 - Wins and whoopins 0:52 - The final word Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 28, 2024•55 min
Donny Pritzlaff was named head coach of Columbia University and joins the show to talk about his college rivalry with Joe Heskett, his past coaching career and what is ahead for him and the Columbia University wrestling team. 0:02 - Joe Heskett 0:05 - Andrew Howe 0:07 - Howe vs Burroughs 0:14 - Thought he would be Wisconsin head coach 0:16 - Michigan vs Rutgers 0:20 - Head coach, finally 0:24 - Learning from Cornell 0:28 - Columbia coaching staff Buxton, Rivera 0:30 - NYCRTC and Kendall Cross 0:...
Aug 21, 2024•38 min
Northern Iowa assistant coach and wrestling junkie Lee Roper joins the show to talk about all things from the 2024 Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2024•50 min
The new Oklahoma State recruiting coordinator joins the show to talk about his time at Penn State under Cael Sanderson, coaching experience and new role with David Taylor at Oklahoma State. 0:01 - Arriving in Stillwater 0:02 - Wrestling at Penn State 0:04 - Coaching gap at PSU 0:06 - Cael taking over at Penn State 0:14 - Cael agreed to wrestle at Worlds 2011 0:26 - The Penn State Dynasty 0:27 - Coaching at West Point 0:33 - UPenn associate head coach 0:37 - Relationship with David Taylor 0:43 - ...
Aug 14, 2024•56 min
Joe Rau competed in his third straight Olympic Trials finals, winning in three matches over Alan Vera and earning his first trip to compete in the Olympic Games. 0:01 - getting hooked 0:05 - first world team 0:06 - 2016 olympic trials champion, no olympics 0:10 - just want to go to olympics 0:14 - Pan Ams and COVID momentum stopped 0:16 - 2021 controversy and retiring 0:19 - Lying to myself about retiring 0:24 - peace heading into 2024 trials 0:28 - Olympic Trials 2024, 2 out of 3 0:40 - Joe's c...
May 16, 2024•45 min
The 4x B1G Champion and 4x All-American from Iowa joins the show after announcing his retirement from the sport. 0:01 - Retirement 0:04 - Physical and mental toll 0:06 - Two torn ACLs 0:09 - 2020 & COVID 0:12 - Reflecting on his career 0:16 - The BULL 0:18 - Coaching and a different perspective on the sport 0:22 - Wrestling defining and not defining him 0:27 - Coaching the youth 0:32 - David Taylor 0:39 - Wins and whoopins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 16, 2024•48 min
J'den Cox had an illustrious career winning three NCAA titles and two World titles. He announced his retirement at the 2024 Olympic Trials and joins us to talk through his incredible journey through the sport of wrestling. 0:03 - Fall in love with wrestling first 0:05 - Retiring 0:12 - Dreaming big 0:19 - Mike Eierman 0:22 - Moments he will miss the most 0:25 - Who did he like wrestling? 0:28 - 2021 Olympic Trials fiasco 0:33 - 2023 Final X and the emotional fallout 0:45 - What’s next Learn more...
Apr 26, 2024•48 min
NCAA Champion Richie Figueroa joins the show to talk about his up and down season, catching fire at the end and how he gets himself into the zone. 0:01 - Wanting to be an NCAA Champion 0:04 - The Courtney Courtney 0:06 - Selma 0:09 - Ups and downs of the year 0:12 - Almost quit 0:14 - Confidence through the roof 0:18 - Don’t take it too seriously 0:20 - NCAA Finals match 0:23 - Finding the zone 0:28 - Olympic Trials Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 26, 2024•32 min
Adaugo Nwachukwu won the 2023-2024 USA Wrestling Women's College Wrestler of the Year award. She was the national champion at 136 and went 21-0 with six pins and 15 tech falls for William Penn University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 26, 2024•23 min
Iowa Hawkeye 3x NCAA Champion Spencer Lee joins the show to talk about his FloWrestling film Spencer & Austin: Wrestletown, USA. 0:01 - Wrestletown, USA 0:03 - Austin’s always been aggressive 0:09 - Wrestling w no ACLs 0:13 - Learning about yourself 0:17 - Post match interviews 0:23 - Austin showed up after his NCAA loss 0:29 - Last time he was this healthy? 0:35 - NCAA’s and being a celebrity 0:37 - Training with Gilman at Iowa 0:40 - Freestyle vs folkstyle Learn more about your ad choices....
Mar 14, 2024•50 min
Ava recently won her NCWWC regional and will wrestle in the National Championships next week, 0:01 - Following her brothers into wrestling 0:03 - Teacher told her girls don't wrestle 0:07 - Watching women wrestle in the Olympics 0:09 - Going to Wyoming Seminary 0:13 - Preparing for college 0:16 - The Iowa vision 0:18 - Developing a culture 0:21 - National Championships and North Central 0:24 - Ava's NIL deal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 14, 2024•31 min
NC State associate head coach Adam Hall has been announced as the head coach at Utah Valley University starting one day after the NCAA Championships. 0:04 - Why coaching? 0:07 - USAW internship grassroot RTCs 0:11 - Coaching at Columbia 0:13 - Wanting to be a head coach 0:15 - NC State producing head coaches 0:21 - NC State memories 0:24 - Read the person read the room 0:26 - Growing the fanbase, growing UVU 0:30 - Putting together a coaching staff 0:33 - Vision for the UVU 0:38 - Sweat it out L...
Mar 14, 2024•50 min
Little Rock head coach Neil Erisman is having a break through season with his program in their fifth year of existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 15, 2024•36 min
Sergio was a 4x high school state champion and wrestles at Michigan. Last week he upset and majored #1 ranked Real Woods of Iowa 14-2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 08, 2024•50 min
Vito Arujau joins the show on the same day his film, VITO: Out Of The Shadows debuts. We also talk about Vito's return to NCAA wrestling including his loss to Crookham and his quest for the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 31, 2024•43 min
USA Wrestling coaches Bill Zadick, Zack Esposito and Joe Russell join the show with updates on USA Wrestling and College wrestling talk. 0:01 - Esposito is in France! 0:05 - Bill on resident program back then 0:13 - Travel issues 0:16 - Olympic year 0:21 - DT JB, KD 0:24 - VITO 0:29 - College wrestling 0:31 - Dual meets 0:43 - Covid opened some eyes 0:45 - Get the weights qualified Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 24, 2024•51 min
Doug Schwab wouldn't take no for an answer when Utah Valley said they had to cancel their dual due to weather. 0:01 - Won’t take no for an answer. Wrestled UVU in Ames. 0:12 - Straight Outta West Gym, literally 0:18 - West Gym memories 0:21 - New wrestling room 0:27 - Ejections!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 19, 2024•39 min
2x Nebraska All-American Peyton Robb joins the show to talk about his crazy battle and against a nasty skin infection and how he was able to overcome it. 0:01 - Undefeated going into Big Ten 0:02 - Leg started to not feel right 0:05 - Heading to the hospital 0:10 - When it got serious for real 0:13 - Photos of the open wounds 0:32 - Back on the mat 0:36 - Taking a loss 0:39 - Winding down the college career Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 10, 2024•46 min
Northern Iowa Panther and #1 ranked 184 pounder Parker Keckeisen joins the show. 0:02 - Max Askren and falling in love with wrestling 0:08 - Thinking about positions 0:09 - Keegan story 0:14 - Cat and mouse game 0:17 - Chilled out scrapping vs trying to win 0:25 - Straight Outta West Gym 0:30 - Truax 0:44 - Visualization 0:48 - Wins and whoopins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 09, 2024•56 min
Michael Kemerer was a 5x All-American for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He announced his retirement from wrestling earlier this week and joins the show to talk about his career. 0:01 - Considering retirement 0:04 - Considering 7th year 0:06 - 2020 COVID Cancellation 0:08 - Overcoming adversity 0:10 - Big duals at Carver Hawkeye 0:15 - Best performance 0:18 - Iowa and Cornell and Young Guns 0:22 - First ever match 0:24 - Recruiting 0:33 - Lessons to Starocci and what’s next for Kem 0:37 - Wins and whoopins ...
Dec 20, 2023•45 min
Iowa freshman Gabe Arnold joins the show to talk about his journey through wrestling and his big recent win at 184 at the Iowa-Iowa State CyHawk dual. 0:01 - Introduced to wrestling, wasn’t for him 0:05 - Falling in love with wrestling, dad’s influence 0:09 - Talk from dad after youth states, you missed a rep 0:12 - Going to Wyoming Seminary 0:17 - Growing up fast at prep school 0:20 - Developing in wrestling at Wyoming Seminary 0:23 - Beau Bartlett headlocks him, need to jump levels 0:26 - Mizz...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr
Olympic gold medalist and PRTC head coach Brandon Slay, along with UPenn head coach Roger Reina join the show. 0:00 - College wrestling is changing 0:02 - Changes on the senior level 0:03 - Impact of 3 point TD 0:06 - Coaching Brandon Slay 0:13 - JB at 74kg 0:16 - Kazakhstan 0:23 - PRTC Keystone Classic 0:26 - Keystone Classic to determine starters 0:29 - Vibe to the Olympic year 0:32 - Coaching Mistakes 0:37 - JB in the tunnel, “I’m scared” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Nov 16, 2023•46 min
Sammy Sasso joins the show for the first time since getting shot in August. He reacts to the Young Bucks series and talks us through his long road to recovery. 0:01 - Young Bucks 0:05 - Sammy’s reaction to the series 0:07 - Friday night at NCAAs 0:11 - Getting shot 0:25 - Progression to recovery 0:32 - Physical therapy 0:35 - Today’s progress 0:38 - Returning to Covelli 0:41 - Current role with the team 0:43 - The school side of things 0:46 - New perspective 0:49 - Don’t worry Learn more about y...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr
J Jaggers joins the show to talk about the new series, Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State. He also gives some updates on wrestle offs and line up news. 0:01 - Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State 0:03 - CKLV was rough last year 0:05 - Injuries and more injuries 0:08 - How the freshman have changed in one year 0:12 - Playing mafia 0:16 - What a finish! 0:20 - Sasso Strong 0:23 - Wrestle offs & line up news 0:30 - Wins and whoopins 0:34 - Jokes Time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Oct 31, 2023•41 min
2023 World Champion Stevan Micic joins the show to talk about his incredible at the recent World Championships. 0:01 - Co-host and buddy Tyler Meisinger 0:03 - Rethinking 65kg 0:07 - Comparing NCAA vs International seasons 0:10 - Tyler’s story about Stevan 0:12 - Repping Serbia 0:17 - Galaxy RTC 0:24 - Musukaev 0:25 - Making weight rumors 0:29 - Training w Musukaev as kids 0:40? - Watching Stevan win 0:47 - Abakarov 0:53 - Gold medal match 1:04 - Joke Time 1:09 - Final word 1:10 - Paul Petrov Le...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 17 min
