JuJu Smith Schuster, Will Compton, Grit Week Stream Prep And More

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Speaker 4 On today's part of my take, Grit Week marches on, and we have a two-fer interview for the people. Juju Smith Schuster from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Awesome interview with him.

Speaker 4 And then our colleague, Will Compton, who is currently a free agent in the NFL, talked to us about grit, about making an NFL roster, being one of those end-of-the-roster guys, what you need to do.

Speaker 4 Awesome interview with him, and also kind of a full circle because he was coached by Bo Polini, one of the first ever Grit Week guests.

Speaker 4 We also have Hot Seat, Cool Throne, Guys on Chicks, and we're going to get ready for our 24-hour stream coming on Wednesday.

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Speaker 6 So we've got, in addition to all the different activities we're going to do, which we'll get into in a second, I feel like we should discuss the hourly challenges that we will each be undertaking because there's been some debate going on back and forth about who has it the worst when it comes to these hourly challenges.

Speaker 6 Big cat's going to be eating a hot dog.

Speaker 4 One hot dog every single hour. I will go back and forth between buns.
I will probably eat more buns than less, but there will definitely be some hours that I raw dog.

Speaker 6 He will be switching back and forth between his buns and his meat. Billy will be doing 26.2 miles.
A marathon. He's doing a marathon over the course of the day.
He's

Speaker 4 on a treadmill.

Speaker 6 On a treadmill. He's also going to be trying to get a new topic trending every hour, wearing a t-shirt with that topic, and he's just going to have to keep every single t-shirt on.

Speaker 6 So he'll change shirts or add an additional shirt every hour until he's wearing 24 t-shirts by the end of it.

Speaker 4 By the way, we should start.

Speaker 4 You should, if everyone can help, the first one should just be Gritstream. Yep, I like that.
GritStream should be the first one at 12 o'clock to kick it off.

Speaker 4 So as soon as you wake up and hear this, let's start tweeting GritStream. We'll get it trending, get it ready.

Speaker 4 We also, this was a G, I don't even remember who came up with the idea that Billy was going to be on a treadmill, but it was a genius idea because we've essentially neutralized having to hang out with Billy for all 24 hours.

Speaker 4 We just put him away. We're like, it's like walking a dog.

Speaker 4 The only, you know, a good dog is a tired dog. Yep.
Billy will be tired out, and we don't get full Billy the whole time.

Speaker 6 Billy has been trying to negotiate with me behind the scenes a little bit this week, trying to switch up tasks because I have to drink a beer at the top of every hour. One beer per hour.

Speaker 6 I'm still a little bit nervous about that. I don't think I've ever drank 24 beers over that long of a period of time before.
Yep.

Speaker 6 Maybe once or twice in college, I might have crammed those 24 beers into a shorter time frame, but this one is going to be interesting. I don't know how my body's going to react.

Speaker 4 I think what's going to happen is at the beginning of the stream, it's going to be very easy. At the end, when we're low on sleep, you're going to start getting drunk.

Speaker 6 So Billy was trying to negotiate and say, hey, how about we trade off where he can drink 10 beers and I can run 10 of his miles. And I was like, wait, Billy,

Speaker 6 I'm not going to drink 14 beers and then get onto a treadmill afterwards. I don't think that anyone's going to like that.

Speaker 6 Also, I was telling Billy, it's for his own good that we're not letting him drink 14 beers on this correct stream.

Speaker 4 So, and then Hank has to read, what, a page out of a book every single hour?

Speaker 6 That's the worst, actually.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's the worst.

Speaker 6 It should be a Jane Austen novel.

Speaker 4 Jake is going to be doing a Revellion pack of cards every single hour.

Speaker 6 So he's hoping for that Fauci card.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so it's going to be, it's going to be.

Speaker 4 I think Billy has it the worst.

Speaker 4 I think it might, I think I might have it second worst.

Speaker 6 I don't know. I'll trade myself.

Speaker 7 The real question is, is obviously, and me and Jake are probably excluded from this because it'll be easier for me to read whatever, 24 pages. Jake can open 24 packs of cards.

Speaker 7 The real question is, which one of you guys is going to bow out the earliest? Like, and like, will PFT, how many... Beers out of 24 will PFT drink? How many hot dogs out of 24 will Big Cat eat?

Speaker 7 And how many miles out of 24 will Billy actually do?

Speaker 4 So, that is the best

Speaker 6 people should be judging on. He'll bowl out first.
He's going to have some major shits after like five or six days. I'll be fine.

Speaker 4 I'm going to eat them all. Yeah, you can poo.
Can I throw up? I don't know.

Speaker 6 Yeah. You can poo.
Okay, I might throw up at some point. I actually think, I had this idea of a bad thing.

Speaker 7 I think you guys are both going to, all of you will be closer to like 15.

Speaker 6 Could we barter behind the scenes? Could I be like, hey, Big Cat, take two of my beers. I'll take two of your hot dogs.

Speaker 4 No, I want to eat 24 hot dogs. I want to be up for the challenge.

Speaker 6 Now, with Hank, I had this idea last night. Tell me what you think about this.

Speaker 6 Instead of reading a book, or maybe in addition to reading a book, you remember that game, the 24 challenge, challenge 24?

Speaker 6 The cards that have four numbers on them, and you have to figure out how to get to 24 using those four numbers.

Speaker 6 What if we gave Hank a three-dot card at the top of every hour, and he's not allowed to participate in whatever fun activity we're doing until he solves the three-dot one?

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 4 I like that. Where are we going to get that? I ordered him.
Okay, perfect. So we're good to go.

Speaker 4 Hank has to do a puzzle. What, Billy?

Speaker 8 Do I have to do 26.2 miles or 24 miles?

Speaker 4 24 miles.

Speaker 4 A little less than a marathon. Yeah, 24.
That's fair. We're doing 24 beers, 24 hot dogs, 24 miles.
Bakers bears. 24 packs of cards, 24 puzzles.

Speaker 6 It's going to be great. You say a Baker's Marathon?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I like that. I like that a lot.
And also, kudos to Billy for waiting approximately seven minutes into recording this to trying to get out of what.

Speaker 4 Oh, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 4 Billy, time and place for Billy is just irrelevant when it comes to like, hey, Billy, you got to do this. Yeah.
Like, maybe takes a breath. And he's like, do I really have to do that?

Speaker 4 So we have a lot planned, though. It's going to be fun.
24 hours. We're going to be raising money for the Children's Miracle Hospital Network.

Speaker 4 So if you have, you know, money that you, you know, want to donate to a great cause, it's

Speaker 4 dollar sign, part of my take on the cash app. So we're going to raise money throughout.
We're going to dump it all into the Children's Miracle Hospital Network at the end of the stream.

Speaker 4 We'll do that live on the stream. You can watch us.
So that will be great. It's going to be a great cause.
And then we also have some fun things planned. We're going to play some Jenga.

Speaker 4 We have some ping pong. I think we are going to do a couple interviews.
We have maybe Danny Woodhead, who's going to be putting us through a workout at like 6 a.m.

Speaker 4 We're going to play some video games, maybe against some guests of ours.

Speaker 4 We're going to do an episode of Chopped for dinner. Two episodes.
Two episodes and for breakfast.

Speaker 4 We're going to do a spelling bee, and then at the very end, we're going to do dozens trivia with jeffd low and brandon walker which should be just horrendous by us so i actually want to nominate by the way i saw the teams i would like to i would like it's it's uh hank pfd and myself versus jake billy and and brandon i would like to make an amendment to those teams i think that it should just be billy and brandon i think billy and brandon billy brandon's gonna have such a heads up like a uh leg up on us because we will have not slept and brandon you'll be

Speaker 4 I'll be sick.

Speaker 6 Anytime Brandon's not on camera, he is sleeping.

Speaker 4 He's a hibernator. So Billy and Brandon, though, the combo of the two of them dealing with each other.

Speaker 6 So I don't mind that at all. I actually like that.
The problem is, Jeff has it in his head because he runs the dozen trivia contests where he has like these graphics set up and the boxes set up.

Speaker 6 Jeff doesn't like having an off-kilter screen where there's a ton of people on one side and two people on another. So if we can convince Jeff...

Speaker 4 Well, we can all sit in the screen together.

Speaker 6 Well, we could be in one screen, but the way that he has it set up on screen, like the way that the graphics package is going out, is that there are two screens, one on each side.

Speaker 4 Right, but I'm saying it could be like the four of us could sit on one screen together, and the two of them could sit on one screen.

Speaker 6 He just doesn't like the off-balance of the screen.

Speaker 4 Right, right. Okay, well, we'll have to.

Speaker 6 We'll have to negotiate that with Jeff.

Speaker 4 You just want to lock me in a room with Brandon Walker. I think it would be very funny.

Speaker 6 I want Brandon Walker to actually murder you.

Speaker 4 Right, and Jake would be too much of a speed pump because Jake is like a reasonable human being that Brandon Walker can reason with, so that would eliminate the tension between you and Brandon.

Speaker 6 Can I give you a sneaky little pick into who I think will be the first to murder somebody else? Because I don't think that it's going to be Brandon murdering Billy.

Speaker 6 I think that might be the second murder of the live stream. I think that there's an outside chance that Hank murders Jake.

Speaker 4 Ooh.

Speaker 6 Because they're going to...

Speaker 4 You don't think Hank versus Billy?

Speaker 6 Hank hates Billy. Yeah, but we're going to be playing ping pong in the second hour or the second segment.
And Hank and Jake have an actual rivalry, an actual like Pittsburgh, Baltimore.

Speaker 6 These teams don't like each other very much rivalry.

Speaker 4 Good thing they'll get mad at each other and then we'll just have 22 more hours to hang out. And instigate them, yeah.

Speaker 6 Remember that when you were a kid and you'd have like one sleepover with your best friend, it was the best night ever. You're like, this is sweet.
Let's do it again.

Speaker 6 And then by the end of the second night, you just wanted to kill each other.

Speaker 4 You're like, get out of here, dude.

Speaker 6 It's going to be like that, except in the second hour for us.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so we're very excited. Again, if you just started listening this year, we usually do a grit week and a training camp tour.
Obviously, we can't.

Speaker 4 So we thought this would be a fun way to do something that follows all the CDC rules and the pandemic rules. We're all together and we're going to make the best of it and it's going to be fun.

Speaker 4 Hop in when you can. And by the way, we'll tweet out, but we are going to watch two movies.
We're trying to figure out exactly how we can do it so you can watch it with us.

Speaker 4 So you can just pull up the screen and see what we're seeing, mystery science theater type. So we'll do that in the middle of the night.

Speaker 4 And we're also going to record reviews of that that will be on Friday show. So we'll let everyone know what those movies are.

Speaker 4 So if you can't stay up, you're not up with us, you'll be able to watch it. And we're going to pick some classics so everyone will be able to probably have seen it before.

Speaker 4 So that is coming noon tomorrow. Get excited.

Speaker 4 Other news. Baseball is

Speaker 4 all the way back, except the Marlins are just done.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, I would have bet my ball sack it was going to be the Mets that would have all their players infected and every other team be fine.

Speaker 4 So that's actually saying that's what I bet my ball sack? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it just came off the touch.

Speaker 6 It's pretty cool. It's got a literal already.

Speaker 6 I would bet my ball sack.

Speaker 6 I would wager my beanbag that it would be the Mets. So I'm shocked that it's the Marlins, but it's like, what, 17 players?

Speaker 6 And the way that they handled it was probably the worst way that they could handle the situation where they had a bunch of players, I think, four tested positive on Monday, right, or on Sunday, over the weekend, I believe.

Speaker 6 And then they all got on a group thread together and they were like, hey, do you want to keep playing? And the team was like, sure.

Speaker 6 So then Don Mattingly said, yeah, we're going to play this this game. There was no checks or balances put out by Major League Baseball.
So now the whole team is sick.

Speaker 4 Listen, I love baseball. I stayed up till one in the morning watching the Cubs almost blow the fucking game to the Reds.
And I had that moment where I was like, why am I doing this?

Speaker 4 Because this season could just be canceled at any moment. Why am I investing my time? But I'll still watch every game.
But I think I'm like a lot of people right now.

Speaker 4 Every bad news, my first thought is, what does this mean for football? Because I don't know if you have to cancel the entire season for a single team.

Speaker 4 And I don't think they're there yet, but they did say they're canceling the week, which I don't get how they're going to rectify the schedules and everything.

Speaker 6 The schedule for the Marlins is canceled until Sunday. So everybody will be fine by Sunday.

Speaker 4 And so the Marlins are canceled for a week. We had a bunch of people in the NFL, no big time, big-time guys, but a couple notable names opt out for this year.
And it just makes me nervous.

Speaker 4 I'm just nervous. I just want, I'll say it again.
Maybe it's been too long. Maybe I haven't been forceful enough.
Nerds, come up with a fucking vaccine.

Speaker 6 Feel what you feel, though. Do it.
Feel what you feel. You're allowed to be nervous.

Speaker 6 I think we're all in that same boat together where every little bit of bad news, you're like, well, how much longer is this going to go on?

Speaker 6 When you say no big names, you're kind of right, but the entire Patriots defense is basically like, what, five or six guys?

Speaker 4 So do you think that this is Belichick being like, we'll just get Trevor Lawrence?

Speaker 6 Well, there was a quote given to Adam Schefter today from an anonymous GM, and it said, You know, Bill is masterminding all of this somehow. For what reason? I don't know.
That's why he is who he is.

Speaker 6 So, everyone.

Speaker 7 GMs are just like us. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Everyone assumes that Belichick has his shit together. I think that the Patriots might be putting together like a shadow team and just getting through camp.

Speaker 6 And he's got all these guys that he knows wants to be impact starters. He's like, They're going to be my shadow team.
They're going to stay healthy.

Speaker 6 And then I'm going to bring him in before the season starts. That's just me being too woke because Belichick is always up to something.

Speaker 7 And have way more cap room.

Speaker 4 And he also just doesn't, I mean, he has the ultimate, whatever, not like 100% job security, he has like double that.

Speaker 4 So he knows that he could probably tell his guys, like, hey, if you don't want to play, you don't have to play.

Speaker 4 Look like a good guy and then possibly draft Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 6 Have we gotten the take from Gottlieb yet that all these players are dropping out on the Patriots because Cam Newton's a bad leader?

Speaker 4 Yeah. Or they're just not having fun.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 That's another one that could become I don't get the Trevor Lawrence thing. Like the Patriots are the exact opposite of a team that would be like, we need Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 7 it goes against everybody you don't need trevor lawrence but it would be better to have trevor lawrence but the the like six players opting out like the patriots they're like the dolphins last year like everyone thinks they're going to be bad but even when they're bad they're going to they're going to yeah they're not going to be in the patrick conversation takes care of his body okay

Speaker 6 yeah don't you think he's also about to have a baby yeah oh well that that makes sense there are a lot of guys that are in like the high risk factor right like if i think it's your if your bmi is over a certain point which is not saying that you're not an excellent athlete because those guys are usually the best athlete.

Speaker 4 No, you see, though, like Eddie Goldman from the Bears opted out. I think the nose tackle from the Vikings opted out.
Some of the bigger guys are probably like, yeah, this is not worth it.

Speaker 6 Marquise Goodwin opted out from the Eagles, so they're back to having no wide receivers again.

Speaker 6 I actually think that Goodwin is just, he's saying, I'm going to train for the Olympics next summer.

Speaker 4 I was wondering this. If you opt out, like David Price, right? He opted out.

Speaker 4 If the Dodgers, which they will make the playoffs if the playoffs happen, can he just be like, fuck it, I'm opting back in. I want a chance at a ring.

Speaker 6 There are probably some rules around that, I would imagine.

Speaker 4 Because that would be the ultimate, like, I'm going to opt out and I'll just wait and see how my team does, and then I'll opt the fuck back in.

Speaker 6 I mean, Roger Clemens did that for four years.

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 6 Brett Favre did that several subscribers. I have a genius.

Speaker 6 The more people do opt out, the more I start thinking, maybe, you know what? Maybe Brett Favre could come back. Yes.
He might have another year left in him.

Speaker 4 I'm just, I'm getting nervous. I am not.

Speaker 4 There's also this, you get like a million retweets now on Twitter to be like, Why is sports media? Why are sports media people

Speaker 4 rooting against sports happening? It's like, I don't think anyone's really doing that. I think we're just nervous.
We just don't, it's an unknown.

Speaker 6 I'll be the first to admit that I have no idea what's going to happen, and that makes me terrified.

Speaker 4 I'll be the first to admit that I have no idea what's happening, but I am very much rooting for there to be a football season.

Speaker 6 Yes, if there's a football season,

Speaker 4 I'll be happy. There's zero part of me that doesn't want football to be played, but I also don't know what's going on, and it sucks.
So, yeah, that it just

Speaker 4 it's just one step forward, two steps back every single time.

Speaker 6 So,

Speaker 6 there should be a punishment for the Marlins or for baseball.

Speaker 6 I don't know, because you could make the argument that it's not necessarily the Marlins' fault, because most baseball players would say, yes, we want to play this weekend, you know?

Speaker 6 Like, I don't think that most players, maybe a few here or there would say, no, I don't want to show up. But for the most part, they want to play baseball.
So, do you punish Mattingly?

Speaker 6 But he's not like an infectious disease expert. No.
Do you punish baseball? I say you punish Derek Jeter. Okay.
I think that that's fair. You make Derek Jeter go out there and he plays.

Speaker 4 I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Like an old timer.

Speaker 6 Tell me you wouldn't watch a game where the Marlins, it was just like Derek Jeter, Gary Sheffield, all the old Marlins fucking superstars getting out there and just whiffing on every pitch.

Speaker 4 Yeah, as long as it's just nice to see sports, it's nice to have like the ability to go home and be like, oh, there's a sports game coming on, and I'm just scared that's going to be taken away from us.

Speaker 4 Although, the bubble life seems to be working because NBA is going to start on Thursday, and it feels like they're good.

Speaker 4 Knock on knocks. Knock on knock on.
Because I did start Monday's show saying baseball is all the way back, and then it was like, boom, the Marlins have been canceled.

Speaker 6 Well, I think when you see the bubble life, it's worked for MLS. It's worked for the Women's Soccer League.

Speaker 4 I don't know. Yeah, I think MLS have they done it?

Speaker 6 MLS season is officially over.

Speaker 6 Somebody won. Who won? That's not true.

Speaker 6 It's still going. They play their games at like 1.30.

Speaker 4 Good job, MLS. You did it.

Speaker 6 MLS plays their games as if it's a Korean World Cup soccer match match at like 1.30 in the morning. I can't keep track of what it's going on.

Speaker 6 But MLS, I don't think they've had a single positive case after people have been quarantined in the bubble. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So hopefully it works.
By the way, the talking soccer at 2.45 tomorrow, Swansea's got their game to try to get to the final game before they can go up.

Speaker 6 The semifinal is to reach the peak of the lower league. Correct.

Speaker 4 So we'll have that on. We won't be able to show it on the stream, but we'll have it on somewhere in the stream.
Okay.

Speaker 4 All right, so let's get to hot seat cool throne before we get to Juju Smith Schuster and Will Compton.

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Speaker 4 Okay, hot seat cool thrown Hank.

Speaker 7 My hot seat is the Chainsmokers.

Speaker 4 My.

Speaker 7 They had a quote-unquote social distance concert in the Hamptons last weekend, and they like, for whatever reason, put out a video themselves being like, look at how successful this social distance concert was.

Speaker 7 it was a drive-in

Speaker 7 And everyone had to stay in their own camps six feet apart from everyone and in the video you don't see any cars You just see it looks like a regular concert people like wall to wall Yeah, right next to each other freaking out their hit song is closer not like maintain a safe distance away from yeah

Speaker 7 And so and then and then the articles that came out This was the headline, which is just a ridiculous headline.

Speaker 7 Organizers defend the chain smokers Dicey Hamptons concert for fuck Jerry's tequila brand.

Speaker 7 And apparently, the opening DJ was also the CEO of Goldman Sachs.

Speaker 4 Oh. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 That guy, that guy, like, he's a pretty prolific DJ. I've seen him around a few places in the news.

Speaker 4 I think that might be the douchiest sentence you can actually come up with. Yes.

Speaker 7 Organizers defend the Chainsmokers Dicey Hamptons concert for fuck Jerry's tequila brand.

Speaker 4 No, no, no, no, no, not that one. Opening set done by DJ, who's also an executive at Goldman Sachs.

Speaker 7 The CEO of Goldman Sachs did a DJ set in the Hamptons, opening for the Chainsmokers.

Speaker 4 That's the douchiest sentence ever created in English language.

Speaker 6 It sounds like a Gary Vee mad lib.

Speaker 4 That's so bad. Oh, my God.
Holy shit.

Speaker 6 You should just add, like, as an undercard for a Paul Brothers fight. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah, they're in the hot seat big time. People are mad.
Cuomo's mad.

Speaker 4 Everyone's mad.

Speaker 7 And then my cool throne is.

Speaker 4 Are his nipples leaking?

Speaker 6 Or his nipple ring?

Speaker 7 I saw his tweet. I don't know how his nipples were going for that tweet.
And the cool throne is LeBron, literally.

Speaker 7 So you guys, I'm sure you guys have seen how they're doing the NBA media interviews, and they'll tweet like the behind the scenes of a player sitting on a stool in front of a Zoom call.

Speaker 7 LeBron was literally sitting in a throne, and like he was like, I need to lower my chair. Someone was like, Hey, it looks like you're sitting in a throne.
And he said, Absolutely not.

Speaker 7 It's one of these hallway chairs everyone sits in.

Speaker 7 Frank Vogel did the next interview. He was back in the stool.

Speaker 7 So it was literally only LeBron James that was sitting in the throne, and he was acting like it was like, oh, yeah, this was a coincidence, total coincidence.

Speaker 6 Okay, I need to look up and see if this was actually a throne.

Speaker 7 Yes, please.

Speaker 4 LeBron throne. Okay.

Speaker 4 Let's see. I like it, though.

Speaker 6 LeBron sits in throne-like.

Speaker 6 This is from LeBronWire.com.

Speaker 4 Oh, no,

Speaker 4 that's a throne. No, you know what it is?

Speaker 4 It's one of the

Speaker 4 hallway chairs. No, it's a lobby chair.

Speaker 6 It's a lobby chair. It's a lobby chair.
It does look very thronish.

Speaker 6 You're right, because it's got the red velvet on there.

Speaker 6 By the way, I had no idea that USA Today had a website. Like a subsection of USA Today is called LeBronWire.usa Tor.

Speaker 7 Look at Frank Fogwell's chair that's immediately after. He's sitting in like a children's kitchen chair.

Speaker 4 It is a lobby chair. I respect the hate, Hank.
I think

Speaker 4 you're on the right path.

Speaker 6 Did you see that video of LeBron pulling out a big sack of ice from just right on his penis? He was just sitting on the sidelines in a game and just had an ice pack on his penis.

Speaker 4 Damn, he's got the grades, too, in his beard. Big time.

Speaker 4 That's

Speaker 7 just saying. Washed King.
Not anymore.

Speaker 4 He's not getting any younger. All right, PFT, what's your hot seat? Cool throw up.

Speaker 6 My hot seat, actually, Hank, is Taco Tuesday because there was an NBA Reddit account.

Speaker 6 Let's see, it's

Speaker 6 you slash Angry Centrist. So probably putting up some threads on Twitter.
Cool. Yeah, seems like.
Probably works for the Lincoln Project, I would imagine. So he did a statistical analysis of...

Speaker 6 Every single LeBron James game played on a Tuesday night before the Taco Tuesday era and then during the Taco Tuesday era. I like that.
What he found might shock you.

Speaker 6 He found out that pre-Taco Tuesday, he had a win percentage that was 4% higher than normal. So Tuesday nights were LeBron James nights.

Speaker 6 He would win at a higher clip than he would any other night of the week almost. In the Taco Tuesday era, it's minus 2%.

Speaker 6 So he's doing statistically way, way worse

Speaker 6 on Tuesday nights because he's eating so many tacos.

Speaker 4 Or maybe he's waiting to eat them till after the game and that's all he can look forward to.

Speaker 6 He's hungry.

Speaker 4 So he's like an IP stomach. He's like, I just get through this game so I can get to Taco Tuesday.

Speaker 6 That's actually probably why he had the ice pack on either his penis or on his testicle anus area because it was too spicy.

Speaker 6 He had the taco seasoning on his hands.

Speaker 6 My cool throne is the fullback assist. The fullback assist is on the cool throne.
Chris Collinsworth replied to our initial offer, and he has a counter-offer.

Speaker 7 Would you like to hear it?

Speaker 6 Yes. Okay, so he addressed it to

Speaker 6 New York, New York, Barcelona HQ, July 28th, 2020. Dear Mr.
Cometer, PFF agrees to add a new state-of-the-art metric, the PFT Cometer Fullback Assist.

Speaker 6 The Fullback Assist will chart all touchdowns assisted by fullback. Both parties enter into a full commitment to normalize this long-overlooked metric.

Speaker 6 In exchange, Barcelona's PMT and PFF agree to split profits on a luxury line of affordable fullback assist and here's a guy merchandise.

Speaker 6 In addition, PFF agrees to give Big Cat a free PFF Elite account with personalized concierge service to prove that even a Bears fan can win money.

Speaker 6 Cheers, PFF. Little diggers.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and that's that. You know what, Chris? I don't like that because I have had an Elite account and I suck at gambling still.

Speaker 6 But you didn't have the concierge.

Speaker 4 No, I did. I had everything.
I fucking paid everything. So jokes on you, dude.

Speaker 6 So he's made a counteroffer. I don't hate it.
I like the idea of the here's a guy line of menswear. I like the idea of creating a fullback assist merch.
And I think this sounds good to me.

Speaker 6 He power shifted on us, by the way. I tried to pull the art of the deal, but then he power shifted.

Speaker 4 He also realized that

Speaker 4 we weren't going to do any follow-up. So he just took it into his own hands.

Speaker 6 Well, no, I wrote a blog.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, yeah, but after that,

Speaker 4 it wasn't going to be.

Speaker 6 I said the ball was his court.

Speaker 4 I would have just died forever.

Speaker 6 I said the ball was in his court. Yes.
He responded, which means that I think we should just take this.

Speaker 4 Yes, no, take the deal.

Speaker 4 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 Add. Additional.
25 Chick-fil-A switches.

Speaker 6 I was going to say maybe just like a $50 gift card to Chick-lo-Love.

Speaker 4 25 Chick-fil-A sandwiches.

Speaker 6 And 25 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. 25 Chick-fil-A.
A mix of spicy and regular. Yes.

Speaker 4 More spicy than regular.

Speaker 6 13 spicy, 12 regular, and some Polynesian sauce. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4 Extra Polynesian sauce.

Speaker 6 And one milkshake. That can be your choice.
Yes. Flavor is up to you, Chris.
Yes. The ball is in your court.
Deal.

Speaker 4 Done. All right, my hot hot seat is Aaron Rodgers.
I don't know if you guys saw, but he has taken to the bottle, which

Speaker 4 is scary stuff. He said that when he found out that Jordan Love got drafted,

Speaker 4 he used some tequila to cope. So, problem drinking.

Speaker 6 I thought he said that he likes scotch.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So he's problem drinking.

Speaker 6 He's mixing his liquors.

Speaker 4 He's problem drinking. He was like, I need the hard stuff.
I'm going to the tequila. So I don't know.

Speaker 4 I'm just reporting what I heard.

Speaker 4 I'm not making a decision one way or the other.

Speaker 4 Just ask yourself if you're a Packers fan, do you have a problem? He broke up with his girlfriend. She might have

Speaker 4 put a crystal curse on him. He's getting older.
You just drafted Jordan Love. He's drinking way too much tequila.

Speaker 6 Is there a problem? I think it doesn't bode well for him. He's going to be very, very wobbly on that bike ride out to Lambeau Field with the kids this year.

Speaker 4 Yes, yes. And then my other hot seat is all of us because

Speaker 4 we had to basically live with a

Speaker 4 getting a FaceTime. We had to live with a Clay Travis versus Darren Revelle feud on Twitter.

Speaker 6 That was tough to wake up in the morning.

Speaker 4 That was hell.

Speaker 4 Hell.

Speaker 6 When I opened up Twitter before my car... Who's FaceTime me?

Speaker 4 Trying to do some kid time. Okay.
You know,

Speaker 4 being a dad. Yeah, FaceTiming.

Speaker 4 The rapper? People said that I need to get him on. Currency.

Speaker 7 Dude,

Speaker 7 I would love to get currency on.

Speaker 4 Can we get him on what was the tweet that he said uh it was he's like my kid doesn't even realize you tell me yeah hold on i'll find it when did your kid learn how to use face time

Speaker 4 uh it's not my kid who's using the impressive yeah oh um hold on it said

Speaker 4 currency is his name we need to get him on he said my son is the homie straight the fuck up man this kid doesn't even know man made my life full as fuck bro my heart i was like yes i believe that my son is my homie he doesn't even know don't you actually think it's more valuable skill to teach him how to face time as opposed to holding the camera up in front of him all the time?

Speaker 4 Yeah. So he'll get there.

Speaker 6 Give a man a FaceTime. He'll get there.
He'll sext for a day. Teach him to FaceTime and he'll.

Speaker 4 I'm talking about my son. I mean, your son's going to learn about sexting out there, Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 6 One. Listen, I'm just saying.
One.

Speaker 6 He's going to want to talk to his girlfriend eventually.

Speaker 4 Cool throne, Kirk Cousins. Cool throne Kirk Cousins because he wears socks with his sandals and gives himself a toe wedgie.
Which, you know what? I'm going to say it for Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 4 We always bash him. He's consistent.
That is a man who uses tinfoil on his grill for his steaks. That is a man who is as corny as possible.
I'm happy that he is consistent in what he wears.

Speaker 4 Holy shit, what a look.

Speaker 6 So it's the socks and then the thong sandal that goes in between your big toe and your second toe? Right.

Speaker 6 I don't know what it is about that look. It just makes me like shiver thinking about it.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 It's gross.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 He came out of the womb as a dad. Yeah, he's just embraced dad life his entire life.
Also, he got the 14th, it was either 14th or 15th best quarterback in Sando's annual quarterback tier rankings.

Speaker 6 So, that's good for Kirk Cousins. He's up, he's normally, like, you can pencil him in.

Speaker 4 He's number 16 all the time, he's right in the middle.

Speaker 6 Now, he's all the way up to 14th.

Speaker 4 So, good for him. Wow, great for him.
All right, uh, Billy, your hot seat, cool throne. My hot seat is reoccurring guest Paul Rabel.

Speaker 9 Oh, Paul Rabel, the commissioner of the PLL, has has not been playing well as a player. Interesting.
So he might get cut from his own league.

Speaker 6 He might cut himself.

Speaker 9 Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 Can we cut him?

Speaker 8 No, he's not on our team.

Speaker 6 But we can make the Paul Rabel clown shirts. Right.

Speaker 4 Yes, definitely. Because they are big.

Speaker 4 Yeah, why did you say that?

Speaker 4 You're a fucking Atlas fan, you asshole.

Speaker 9 Well, he's on the Atlas and he's playing terribly.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 6 Zero goals, zero assists.

Speaker 4 What do you think the reason is?

Speaker 9 I think he's wearing shorts too short.

Speaker 4 Okay, good analysis, guys. I think he's too much of a...

Speaker 6 Anyway, he's a quad father.

Speaker 9 He's not getting involved in the offense enough. They're not getting the ball enough.
Anyway, my cool throne is Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes buys into the Royals.

Speaker 9 And if his quarterbacking doesn't work out, he can fall back on being a baseball owner.

Speaker 6 Wow. Or is $500 million.

Speaker 4 Hey, you guys hear this joke?

Speaker 4 Patrick Mahomes now owns two teams, the Royals and the 49ers.

Speaker 6 That's pretty good. I don't think that

Speaker 6 I would like to own the Royals.

Speaker 4 Why not?

Speaker 6 Especially if there are no fans at the games.

Speaker 4 I think it'd just be like... It's not going to be forever.

Speaker 6 It'd be a lot of paperwork.

Speaker 4 I don't think he's just buying it for this 60-game season.

Speaker 6 Yeah, just going and having to watch 163 Royals games.

Speaker 4 Dude, it's right next to the facility.

Speaker 6 Yeah, still.

Speaker 4 Baseball team. Baseball team I'm in for.
I'd buy a baseball team.

Speaker 9 Honestly, like the owner's box after a practice, just like with all the food there.

Speaker 4 Right. It's not even for the baseball team.
It really is the same.

Speaker 4 They never show. They don't really show it.
When they show Arrowhead, they don't show the Kauffman Stadiums right there, but it is right there.

Speaker 4 So I think if there's any, if you're going to buy in on a team, you might as well have it right next to your job anyway.

Speaker 6 He's definitely going to try to play at some point, right? Yeah, he's got to. Are he going to listen?

Speaker 6 Throw batting practice.

Speaker 4 Yes, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 9 Is that the first owner player in sports?

Speaker 4 Well, LeBron, I think, under the table is taking money from the Cavs, Jackie Moon, the Heat, the Lakers, all those.

Speaker 4 Nice. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I think also there's.
I think there's a bunch of

Speaker 9 player coaches, but not owner players.

Speaker 6 Jerry Richardson.

Speaker 4 Who owns the Nets with Jay-Z? I thought there was like a whole group and maybe a couple players.

Speaker 6 That's

Speaker 6 a Russian billionaire.

Speaker 4 No, I know he teaches, but I'm saying like Jay-Z and then,

Speaker 4 I don't know. Okay, we'll look into it.

Speaker 7 The Williams sister own part of the Dolphins, I believe.

Speaker 4 Who? The Williams. The Williams Sisters.
Oh, and that's right. Playing Jay-Z

Speaker 6 own the team. And Serena Williams' daughter owns part of the new NWSL.

Speaker 6 And so she's probably going to play on that team at some point.

Speaker 7 That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 All right, let's get to our interviews. We got Juju Smith Schuster up first, then Will Compton before we do that.

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Speaker 4 Okay, here is Juju Smith Schuster.

Speaker 4 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver, Pro Bowler, Rose Bowl champion.
I got to mention the Rose Bowl, greatest bowl game in America.

Speaker 4 It is Juju Smith-Schuster. Juju, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 4 We got a lot of things we want to get to, but let's start with just how are you feeling about the season starting? And are you ready to go? Do you know, like, is there a plan?

Speaker 10 I mean, first thing first, you know, I just like to thank you guys for having me on here. This is pretty big.

Speaker 10 Honestly, you know, I feel great. You know, I felt great with my body where I'm at with training.

Speaker 10 As far as the season goes, you know, that's something that's still up in the air between the NFL PA and the NFL.

Speaker 10 What we're doing right now is basically that we report hopefully next, the 28th of next week. And there's definitely, we're being tested like every

Speaker 10 two days and coaches coaches and like are being tested like every day pretty much so far. So I think our first test would be Tuesday.

Speaker 10 And then from there, it's every two days you're causing getting tested. And we'll do that for about two weeks, hopefully, and then see if we get something to stir up.

Speaker 10 So, and I hope you have a season, man. You know, obviously, like, sports is pretty much one of the reasons why, you know, a lot of a lot of people, you know, live.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we go insane when there's no sports on. We barely made it through the last four months.
It was like tooth and nail to get through.

Speaker 6 As like a veteran, as an established guy on your team, is a part of you kind of excited?

Speaker 6 You're like, hey, I only have to do like nine practices this preseason, and maybe half of those are just, you know, wearing shells and shorts.

Speaker 10 Oh, most definitely. You know, when I came in my rookie year, I was definitely the guy who I was practicing every day, you know, scouting, offense scout team,

Speaker 10 you know, pretty much doing everything I can. But yeah, as a vet, my practices and my playing time is not so hot as I, you know, as I would want it to be.

Speaker 10 But that's just how it is during the preseason. So you'll see very few of me during the preseason.
And then, you know when the season starts you know that's when we get rolling

Speaker 4 so big ben have you have you thrown the ball with him he's he's looking so skinny what the hell happened

Speaker 4 do you guys actually call him big ben now or what do you guys call him well i call him ben like slim ben yeah slim ben i mean we have a walk have you ever seen him in a walking boot I've never seen him in a walking boot.

Speaker 4 That's a lie. Not true.
You're lying. That's fine.
That's fine.

Speaker 6 He keeps walking boots in his closet like they're Tim's.

Speaker 4 He just slaps one on in the morning.

Speaker 6 He's like, yeah, it feels like a walking boot day.

Speaker 4 Come on. So

Speaker 10 with him, this

Speaker 10 offseason that we've been working together. That's something that, you know, he brought us together as, you know, as a team, as a union, just to talk to us and, you know, also to throw and work out.

Speaker 10 And that's something that, you know, working with him this offseason, he's pretty much back to where he's at, you know, back to 100%.

Speaker 10 As you guys know, he... lost some weight and that's probably the better for you know for him and the better for our team so i'm super excited what he's going to to bring to the table.

Speaker 10 You know, like I said, he's he will always be big Ben to the Stillers fans.

Speaker 4 Yeah. I mean, the NFL is more fun with Ben in it.
Does he, when he's in the huddle, what's he like? Is he ever like, fucking Juju, just get open? Like, I'll fucking hit you, dude.

Speaker 4 Like, I'm going to throw it wherever I want.

Speaker 10 Bro, I wish.

Speaker 4 I mean,

Speaker 10 I wish. In the huddle, he's more of like, you know, come on, boys.
Like, we've been here before. This is nothing new.
This is just practice.

Speaker 10 You know, we worked on it, you know, since in day one, you know, like, especially when it goes to like two-minute offense where you have to drive down the score um you know i was a kid you know i grew up watching him doing that and then when

Speaker 10 fast fast forward like five six years later i'm in the same huddle as him and he's you know he's talking to me and i was like this is what it feels like um but it's it's fun man like you when you're in a huddle you don't want to leave or let nobody down so it's all about you know your teammates yeah was there a like adjustment period learning how to play with him at quarterback because a lot of times you'll run your route and then ben will somehow have like two defensive ends on his shoulder pads.

Speaker 6 Like a stray cat ran on the field and like bit his leg, and he's dragging that around. He's got another guy around his waist, but he's still like extending that play and looking for you downfield.

Speaker 6 Like, were there some times when you cut off a route and you're like, oh, he's sacked right now? Oh, shit, he's still up.

Speaker 10 Yeah, man, with him, but with Ben, you just never know what's going to happen.

Speaker 10 It's hard to, you know, back him, you know, obviously with his size.

Speaker 10 And that's something that, you know, in practice, we do a lot of scramble drills, a lot of drills that, you know, you you pretty much

Speaker 10 are running, you know, left and right. And I would say half of my plays that I've made this season is obviously off of just broken up plays.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 How is Bougie doing? Your dog. Very cute dog.

Speaker 10 Oh, Bougie's lit, man. I was just with him right now.
He's with his girlfriend, Portia. They're hanging out.

Speaker 6 Your dog is cooler than I am.

Speaker 4 Dude, 223,000 Instagram followers.

Speaker 6 And right now he's lit and he's hanging out with his girlfriend, Portia.

Speaker 4 That sounds like better than anyone else is doing right now.

Speaker 4 Man, that's awesome. How long have they been dating for?

Speaker 10 Honestly, I would say since they first met. So I would say about almost two years.

Speaker 6 That's what, 14 dogs?

Speaker 4 Bougie better put a ring on it.

Speaker 10 Oh, no, for sure. You know, Bougie's, you know, we're going to try and, you know, get some babies out of them.

Speaker 6 I read that you played for Snoop Dogg as a head coach back in the day. Is that right?

Speaker 10 I did. I did.

Speaker 6 Yeah. what's he like as a head coach like compared to mike tomlin is is snoop dog a visor guy is he a big whistle guy

Speaker 4 high

Speaker 4 yeah i

Speaker 10 at the at the end of the day it's like whatever he says it doesn't really matter because he's snoop dog and

Speaker 10 our team that we have was legit like legit like all the players we had on our team we all pretty much went d1 um just because you know he had the most lit team it was his league and it was fun man i played with this son too so it was a fun experience.

Speaker 6 I can see a little bit of similarity actually between Snoop Dogg and Tomlin in that, you know, they're probably polar opposites personality-wise, but they both have this ability to say things that don't really make sense, but you understand exactly what they mean when they say it.

Speaker 10 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for sure.

Speaker 10 I mean, one of the things is like, you know.

Speaker 10 One of the things that Coach Tomlin would say would just be like,

Speaker 10 like, no matter like who you are, how you get here,

Speaker 10 doesn't matter. All that matters is that we got to go out there and win.
And it's just like, I don't, what we take out of that is just like, oh, we just got to win.

Speaker 4 That's it. Once by the time

Speaker 10 he is extra stuff, but he says it. But at the end of the day, like, it gets all of us pumped up, fired up.
And we go out there, we get the job done, we win a game, we go home, and that's it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, how many times a day do you think Mike Tomlin says at the end of the day?

Speaker 4 I don't even know.

Speaker 10 That's a good question.

Speaker 4 You should count.

Speaker 6 You should bring a clicker like they use at bars to count people and just kind of time them out one day.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Probably like five or six, ten.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'd say probably double figures.

Speaker 4 Does he ever say shit that you're just like, what is he, what is he talking about?

Speaker 4 We have a couple, we've done a couple segments, Mike Tomlin quotes, because I think he's one of those coaches that he's obviously a big-time player coach, but then sometimes he'll say something, very relatable, actually,

Speaker 4 where in your head it's like, this is going to be profound. And then it comes out and you're like, wait, what did he just say?

Speaker 4 What was the big one that we had last year?

Speaker 6 I mean, he came up with the standards.

Speaker 4 The red barn thing. Remember, he had something about, fuck, now I can't think of it.
I'll bring something.

Speaker 6 Bring your own paint.

Speaker 4 Does he want a barn? Yeah, does he have quotes that you're just like, wait, what is he saying right now? I don't fully follow, but I know he's hurting the right person.

Speaker 10 I mean, when you have someone who's, you know, who's been coaching for you for what, the past three years, you know, you kind of like, it's repetitive. You know, you hear the same things.

Speaker 10 You know, some things may change a little bit, but at the end of the day, so like when someone gets in trouble trouble or like someone gets like a fine, all he says is bang, bang.

Speaker 10 So, like, if like, if you're late, you get fine for 5k, or if you don't make a practice or a meeting and you walk in late, or your phone goes off, he's like, bang, bang,

Speaker 4 I like that.

Speaker 6 I like that. I'm going to start using that for Billy, our intern, when he fucks up.
I'm just going to point the guns at him.

Speaker 4 Bang, yeah, gotcha,

Speaker 10 fine, $500. Intern, gone.

Speaker 6 GG, I have a bone to pick with you because I was watching one of your videos that you put up on Twitter the other day. It was your garage workout thing that you did.

Speaker 6 You set up a garage to work out, but you left out the most important part of a garage workout, and that's the fridge that you keep in the garage that only has beer in it.

Speaker 6 And then you drink your beer after the workout. Every garage has to have that fridge in it.
Why did you not have a beer fridge?

Speaker 10 I don't drink, man. That's something that's personal to me.
I've never been a drinker.

Speaker 10 I mean,

Speaker 10 I

Speaker 10 drunk one time in my life, and

Speaker 10 It wasn't the best feeling. Actually, it was in college.
I was playing beer punk for the first time. You know, I'm not, I'm a football player.
You got this rat party.

Speaker 10 You know, I'm having a great time. You know, this guy, this, my teammate's like, yo, let's play, man.
Like, we're going to beat these kids out. You know, my teammate, he was really good.

Speaker 10 I would say that he was probably one of the best players I've ever seen. And that night, he had too much to drink.
So we lost. So I'm drinking beer.
I don't know what type of beer it is.

Speaker 10 So I'm drinking beer. and like the next morning i'm supposed to be on like fox sports west talking about pike 12 football football stuff.
And I ended up like not making it like blacked out

Speaker 10 because I had too much beer. Like I woke up, my voice was like all like raspy.
And ever since then, like I've never, like, I've stopped, you know, drinking.

Speaker 10 And that's why that's why I don't have the beer in the fridge.

Speaker 4 You're probably going to live longer than all of us.

Speaker 4 Probably like that probably, you can feel it in like doing athletic stuff.

Speaker 4 This is a dumb question that I ask most wide receivers we have on, but do you ever have a moment where you're just like, it's fucking awesome to be this fast?

Speaker 4 Like you're just running and you're like, this is sick. I'm fast

Speaker 4 It's a dumb question. I'm a slow guy, so I don't know what it's like to be fast.
Like, is it ever just like, oh shit, this is cool, man. I'm fast.

Speaker 10 No, for me, it's not more so about,

Speaker 10 I would say, like, when I think about, oh, I'm fast. I'm like, yeah, I think I'm fast, like fast enough to get away.
But I'm not like fast.

Speaker 10 Like, you're talking about like, we talk about other guys fast. Like, I look at them like, damn, he's fast.
Like, those guys on the team he's fast where for myself i'm like

Speaker 4 yeah i can get by like the second defender and see how much i can get before i get tackle okay okay i like that answer um i'm a huge college football fan i do believe that i i love traditional powers i do believe usc not being good the last few years has uh hurt the pac-12 and college football overall because we need usc to be good how the hell do they get good again what's going on man honestly bro like i think

Speaker 10 we just got to recruit better.

Speaker 10 And then the biggest part for us is like recruiting is we got to go down south, need like those big guys, you know, who's going to be in the trenches because we're going to have the athletes.

Speaker 10 We're going to have the skilled players, you know, California, like that's what we're just known for, receivers, running backs.

Speaker 10 We're going to have a quarterback. You know, that's most definitely thing we're going to have.

Speaker 10 But our biggest problem is, I think, where we can be great at is like, I think we can be better in the trenches.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 6 That's an interesting problem. I've never really thought about it that way, that like the state of California is too healthy to produce great offensive linemen and defensive linemen.

Speaker 6 Would you say that's accurate?

Speaker 10 Yeah, I mean, I would say it's up there. You know, if you think about the downstop, like you think about like Alabama, you think about those top-tier teams, like they're a running game team.

Speaker 10 Like they're going to run, they're going to run the ball, power on the ball. They're going to throw it to.

Speaker 10 I think in the Pac-12, like we throw the ball a lot, you know, and I think it's awesome. You know, it's cool.

Speaker 10 I like when we throw the ball, but at the end of the day, like, I think we have to be able to just run the ball more and just dominate on all aspects of the field.

Speaker 10 So I think USD, you know, like I said, we started off, you know, we've been slow the past couple of years, but, you know, I think we're on the rise.

Speaker 10 And I think we're going to be a team, like you said, a traditional team that's soon to come up.

Speaker 4 So one thing I love about you is you seem to be like a guy who doesn't take life too seriously. And you do little things that are always very funny.

Speaker 4 You went trick-or-treating as yourself in full uniform.

Speaker 4 That's a hilarious move. How many people, like, how long did it take for people to realize, like, wait, that's Juju? Like, he's wearing his full uniform.
That's Juju.

Speaker 4 For a while, man.

Speaker 10 I went on to the game where there was like a lot of kids. And, like, obviously,

Speaker 10 when you're going out, you're wearing Suzu uniform. I wear like the whole legit, like,

Speaker 10 oh, my gosh, it's Juju. It's Juju.
But it's like, is it really Juju?

Speaker 4 Because if

Speaker 10 I have a visor and they can't really see my face until I took it off, they're like, oh, my gosh, it's really Juju. So

Speaker 10 it's just something that's that's just my my personality my life you know i don't i feel like we have a lot of uh

Speaker 10 we have a lot of nfl guys you know who are you know pro athletes who legit just focus on their own sports which is totally fine i don't have nothing against that you know i think that if you love football if you love golf hockey basketball whatever it may be like that's all you but um like you said like like lebron he's more than an athlete like those are a few guys who are just like out there who just like show more of your personality and you know with football players it's so hard to do that when you have a helmet on.

Speaker 10 So outside of football, you know, I live my life to the fullest. I make YouTube videos.
I do things that, you know, I can't be doing. I do collabs with other YouTubers.

Speaker 10 I do stuff with other Instagram people. But at the end of the day, you know, I do love football.

Speaker 10 And that's one thing that I always get shit for is that like, because you really love football, does you really care about football? But at the end of the day, I'm just a human being, too.

Speaker 10 And I love what I do. I love football.
I love my teammates. I love to play football.

Speaker 10 But at the end of the day, I want to be, you know, juju myself because when football is done, like, what am I going to hire?

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 6 I think it's more than possible for somebody to play in the NFL, excel at the sport, and to have a personality off the field, too. I think that we're starting to see that more and more.

Speaker 10 That's like, I would say that's one of the hardest things to do is to dominate on the field and also to be, you know, active off the field. Because

Speaker 10 once you start doing bad on the field, and people look at other things, oh, he's doing YouTube videos, he's playing too much video games and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 Well, the Twitch part is great because you get to interact with your fans. And I know you're big, you know, Fortnite.

Speaker 4 So we rated, pardon my take, Twitch, rated your stream like two weeks ago. And we brought, I don't know, like 10,000 or 15,000 people over.

Speaker 4 And what I don't understand, I hope you can explain this to me. You play in the NFL.
You played at USC. You play in front of hundreds of thousands of people, millions watching on TV.

Speaker 4 But when your stream went from like 600 people to like 10,000, you're like, holy shit, all these people are watching me. Why? Well, how is that that nerve-wracking when you play in the NFL?

Speaker 10 It's like, it's totally different.

Speaker 10 You know, when you have millions of people watching you, like, the fans and the people on TV who are watching you through TV, it's different because, like, you're out there by yourself.

Speaker 10 And I mean, you're out there with your teammates and everything. You have a helmet on.
No one's really focusing on you unless you make a big play, right?

Speaker 10 And then you get on the computer and now you have like this camera that's just right in front of you. And it's just one-on-one.
And you're interacting with your friends. And it's crazy.

Speaker 10 Like when people raid anybody like it can even be a thousand viewers and people go crazy you know and it's just that you know i'm excited i'm happy um you know i want to when you guys rated me when other people raid me um it's cool because like you said it's it's a different platform for me this is not my original platform you know if they had like a football streaming i'm pretty sure you know my view is probably a lot higher but you know to be on twitch it's it's unbelievable man like it's so awesome like um what you can do on twitch yeah you know it just gets me excited man when you get like even like a thousand views i'm like oh let's go let's go this was it yeah and i saw that you started your own esports organization team diverge is that it yeah man so uh growing up as a kid i always been a huge gamer it was always a passion and um you know at one point i was part of phase and you know being with them like i i've learned so much and it's unbelievable what they do and i was like man like if i'm if i'm so into gaming i love gaming and if i would start any business of my my personal from the bottom up what would i do and then it came down to gaming.

Speaker 10 And that's something I've been passionate about. And hopefully, you know, we'll be launching soon within the next two weeks.

Speaker 10 And, you know, we'll be an organization where we're not just gamers, but we're also lifestyle.

Speaker 4 Oh, I like that. I like that a lot.
All right. So, Juju, I had one last question.
It is Grit Week. So we're going to run this during Grit Week.
That's next week.

Speaker 4 And we're sponsored by Body Armor Grit Week. You can go get Body Armor at drinkbodyarmor.com or any of their flavors on Amazon.
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Speaker 4 So go get body armor right now. So my body armor question.
So it is grit week. We always ask our guests, what does the word grit mean to you? And when have you had to use it in your career?

Speaker 4 I mean, what is,

Speaker 10 give me an example how you would use grit.

Speaker 4 All right, well, making a team or,

Speaker 4 you know, what it takes to be excellent in the NFL, like that extra bit when your talent doesn't get all the way there. You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 Like Like when your talent isn't enough, you have to put in that extra work, that extra effort.

Speaker 4 Like, you know, has there been a moment where you said to yourself, you know, okay, I have God-given talent, but I'm going to have to do X, Y, and Z to make sure that I'm getting to the next level.

Speaker 10 Yeah, man, that's a good one. For myself, I would say grit is something that,

Speaker 10 you know, I've always been, I was always, you know, fortunate to be on a good team and I was always fortunate to make the team and to be, you know, do enough, you know, to get by.

Speaker 10 And then, when I got to NFL, like, that's when I had to face, you know, adversity.

Speaker 10 And that's when Gert came into my life because, you know, I was hit on a team on the side of me where, you know, I had AB, I had LeBion, I had Big Ben, I had, you know, James Carner coming in.

Speaker 10 He's from Pitt. I had so many other, you know, Marte Disbrane.
We have so many other skilled players that

Speaker 10 I've never, ever had to face of like not starting a game. Like my whole life, I've always started a football game, whether I was top warner going to high school.
I was always top tier, number one.

Speaker 10 And when I got to NFL, I kind of got like,

Speaker 10 sit down. Like, you're not starting this game.
And it even got to the point where like, am I even going to suit up this game?

Speaker 10 And that's probably one of the hardest things that I've had to face, you know, being behind, you know, A.B. Martavius Bryant and like those guys and Eli Rogers not being able to start a game.

Speaker 10 And that's where Grit came in. Like, that's where I had to put in the extra.
That's where I had to, you know, stay after meetings, talk to my coach, put in an extra film mentally, you know, because

Speaker 10 that's the only way I was gonna play. It wasn't the physicality, it wasn't the mental thing.
Like, I had all that. Like, that came to me gifted.
I was naturally with that.

Speaker 10 The only thing that was the hardest part was

Speaker 10 how much do you know of the playbook? How much playbook do you know? Like, where can you play?

Speaker 10 Where do I fit in this?

Speaker 10 And that's an example of great, being able to know all the positions and all the players, you know, on the team because at the end of the day, you know, like everyone's a savage and everyone's going to get their way.

Speaker 4 I like that answer. I like that answer a lot.

Speaker 6 We're going to let you go. Before we do, let me just grab one quick headline out of you.
What is your record going to be this year? Is it going to be 11 and 5 or 12 and 4?

Speaker 10 You said 11 and 5 and 12 and 4?

Speaker 10 Which one am I taking?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Man,

Speaker 10 I'm going with the

Speaker 10 13 and 3.

Speaker 6 13 and 3, even better.

Speaker 4 13 and 3. I got to find these.
I really want to go back down the rabbit hole. Next time you come on, oh, if you have, oh, here it is.
If you have red paint, you paint your barn in red.

Speaker 4 That was a Mike Tomlinson.

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah. He was talking about

Speaker 6 Mason Rudolph getting into the game.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. If you have red paint, you paint your barn in red.
Simple as could be.

Speaker 10 I mean, that's saying is that like

Speaker 4 no way. Right, right.
It's Mike Tomlinson quotes. Yes.

Speaker 10 I'm going to put that something together. That's like, okay, if you run a 14, if you have a 14-hour route, run your route at 14.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I think the context of that quote was: Mason Rudolph is our starting quarterback this week, so we're going to start Mason Rudolph.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he also had, I think, about duck,

Speaker 4 like, he hasn't killed us yet. I hope he doesn't kill us, or something like that.
It's like, what's going on? I love Mike Tomlin. He's fast.
That's awesome.

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Speaker 4 Ooh,

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Speaker 6 I actually like that one, too. We like strawberry banana and the watermelon, too.

Speaker 10 Yeah, strawberry banana, watermelons is is go-to.

Speaker 4 All right. Well, Juju, thank you so much, man.
This has been awesome. And let us know when you, when we're down to play some video games, let's do it.

Speaker 10 Let's do it, man. Thank you.
I appreciate it.

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Speaker 6 And now, our good friend Will Compton.

Speaker 4 Okay,

Speaker 4 Grit Week. We now welcome on our co-worker.
He has played in the NFL. He played for Bo Polini at Nebraska.

Speaker 4 Currently a free agent, so someone sign him. Also a podcaster, busting with the boys with Taylor Luan.

Speaker 4 It is Will Compton. Will, I got to say, we got to start with Grit Week.
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Speaker 11 I do not, but I've been seeing, I've heard you guys. I actually listened to you.

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He is one of the best free agent linebackers available in the game, and he's a podcaster.

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Speaker 11 Dude wipes are incredible. I use them anytime at the facility.
I brought a boxing last year for the boys.

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Speaker 11 Everyone's wiping their ass. Didn't even need to take a shit.
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Speaker 6 No, I wipe before I take a shit. That's how much I love these things.

Speaker 4 Will, we wanted to have you on Grit Week because we read your blog to the gritty undrafted NFL players, and we thought it was awesome.

Speaker 4 And we thought, thought, what's the perfect guy to have on for grit week is a guy who,

Speaker 4 you know, the guy who has to find a way to make the roster, not the, you know, first-round draft pick, the gritty guys that fill out a roster, the guys that don't get the acclaim as some of the glory boys out there.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 you're the perfect guy.

Speaker 4 Let's start with, actually, can we just kind of go through some parts on your blog?

Speaker 4 Because I thought the best part was you gave tips to guys like, how can you be gritty and make an nfl team yeah let's start there okay shut the up and lay low was the first tip what what uh what is it like when you first go into a locker room in the nfl and you're thinking like oh i played in nebraska i played some big time football and then bam holy this is a different different world yeah i mean you're nervous as like you're walking in a locker room with grown men you're not in college anymore no one really knows who the you are and no one, like over the years, you see rookies come in, you see guys do well, you see guys do poorly in camp.

Speaker 11 And no one likes when rookies come in with some type of run in their mouth at all, talking too much.

Speaker 11 A saying I always heard, shout out Sean Laval. He was like the first one to say it.

Speaker 11 don't speak unless spoken to. He would tell rookies at the table, Jason Hatcher, who came to the, who came to the football team, he would say, he would tell rookies, hey, don't speak unless spoken to.

Speaker 11 No one wants to hear a rookie speak. Keep your head down, work.
So that was kind of the first thing because for myself, writing a blog, I have a podcast now. Obviously, I'm on social media a lot.

Speaker 11 I put in there, I love the fucking circle jerk as much as the next guy. Like I love joking.
I love talking a lot of shit. I love having a great time.
But when you're a rookie going in, don't.

Speaker 11 don't follow suit of all the social media you've been doing. Don't follow suit of everything you see around you.
Don't follow a veteran.

Speaker 6 You got to fucking put your head down, shut the fuck up and you're there to make a football team so where where does the line get drawn because i know a lot of players come in especially if they're a high pick you are undrafted but if if they're a high pick they come in they've got some pride right they've got uh like almost like a small sense of entitlement sometimes especially if they're a high first round pick where does that line get drawn between like hey you can stand up for yourself you have to respect me as a human being and yeah i'm a rookie i'm going to shut up and do whatever the fuck you ask me to do and keep my mouth shut Yeah, I mean, it never gets, it never really gets that disrespectful.

Speaker 11 It's kind of just assumed that you understand.

Speaker 11 And if you don't, as you guys know, like sitting around a table with all the boys, like somebody gets chirped at and jokes on and usually guys are able to take jokes well.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 if you're somebody who has like, say, for instance, you go up on a rookie for a rookie skit and you're like, what's your sign-up bonus? And somebody's like, you know, a million dollars.

Speaker 11 Everybody just starts going crazy. Like, oh, shit, he's a paid guy, blah, blah, blah.
Like veterans don't

Speaker 11 care

Speaker 11 how much like a rookie comes in because that guy who's like a high-round draft pick, like you still got to prove yourself. And a lot of those guys understand that.

Speaker 11 Like we actually just had AJ Brown on and he actually seemed like an awful rookie, by the way. Arthur Juan, you're a shitty rookie.

Speaker 11 But apparently he was like, no, I'm not going to take no shit. Like he's somebody that kind of was like, went against the grain.

Speaker 11 I want to say Des Bryant might have been like that, saying, I'm not going to carry pads around and do this and that. But it's just kind of like the fraternity of entering in the NFL.

Speaker 11 Last year when I was on the Saints, this rookie he didn't want to do a rookie skit and if you suck at doing rookie skits and you don't have anything to perform or make fun of or do a presentation they usually make you get up and sing and this one this one rookie he was actually an undrafted cat it was tough to watch dude i just watched him basically crash and burn right there i knew he was gone and um he didn't want to get up to sing kind of the whole prideful thing like you know i'm not going to be disrespected blah blah blah and demario davis stood up and this was i was only on the saints for like 10 days and um demario davis stood up and kind of went off about how close the saints were to a super bowl and how it came down he started asking guys hey how many plays away were we from going to the super bowl hey how many play obviously that one play that everybody knows about and um he's like it's not about yourself like you're in this room you're in a you're in a you're in an environment of a team like Cameron Jordan spoke up in the back and you kind of just felt that like, dudes, the team police themselves.

Speaker 11 And I'm sitting back listening to DeMario.

Speaker 11 Very well-spoken spoken cat a lot of respect for demario and he's explaining to this rookie like hey you got to get outside yourself and i don't care what what the fuck people tell you to do like you're a rookie you're doing it because you're on for the sake of the team not your own individual self like yeah you're gonna get laughed at and people are gonna wad paper and throw it up at you and boo you off and it's just part of it like you're getting like initiated you're part of the you're part of the fraternity like everyone's taking you in outside of that like it's just part of the gig we're doing this for the for the team not not your individual self.

Speaker 11 So, that was that's where I guess I would explain a line being drawn because that shit does happen. Guys get a little, guys, get a little uh defensive and prideful about having to do something.

Speaker 11 It's something as small as like singing a song.

Speaker 11 But uh, but you know, when leadership stands up and speaks, like somebody like DeMario and Cam Jordan, you got all those guys kind of standing up and speaking to you.

Speaker 11 Everybody kind of just shuts up and listens.

Speaker 6 What was your skit that you did?

Speaker 11 I made fun of all the coaches, so um,

Speaker 11 I

Speaker 11 sit, I would sit in the

Speaker 11 linebacker room and I would kind of take mannerisms and stuff that my linebacker coach would do, like his one-liners, and I can I would mock him with a clicker, with a laser pointer at how we watch film.

Speaker 11 I would make fun of, I made fun of the decoordinator about how he presents film. And so I kind of just did a bunch of different coaches.

Speaker 11 And then I had guys kind of reenact like what they actually did at film, like if they had a dumb answer and how I would respond to them, whether it's somebody like London Fletcher compared to if somebody had the same answer if they were a rookie, and how I would shit on the rookie, but be like, oh, that makes a lot of sense, London.

Speaker 11 That makes a lot of sense. And I also did it on the Titans.
I made fun of Brabul. I had a great skit with Brabel.

Speaker 4 Would you cut your dick off?

Speaker 11 No, that was before the dick cutting.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 11 Brave, you guys know Brave.

Speaker 11 He's a football guy, dude.

Speaker 11 He was super fun to do. Him and his assistant, Stretch.
Shout out Stretch.

Speaker 11 We put together this whole highlight film of of like, you know, Taylor got turned around by Jason Pierre Paul in our joint practice and busted Taylor's ass about, hey, how much, hey, John, how much do we fucking pay this guy?

Speaker 11 And just did a whole bit, but that's kind of like my stitch, making fun of mocking people.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 I'm always wondering when you talk to NFL guys, you know, they truly do just care about what you can do for the team on the field.

Speaker 11 As a guy who went in and, you know, was, you know, towards the end of the roster, was there a moment where some of the guys who've been there for a while looked at you and was like wait this guy can actually help us and that like validates why you're there yeah those are that's probably one of the better feelings to get as like a rookie or going into my second year when i actually made the team because the first year i just i was on practice squad um but when those vets because when you go into camp and like guys who have been there like your room is already predetermined um not predetermined but everybody kind of has a sense of like when somebody gets drafted each year and if it's a linebacker you kind of understand that that backer might be there.

Speaker 11 You're not thinking of any undrafted guy that they bring in. You already think your room is set.
And then once you get there and you start witnessing

Speaker 11 like an underdog type guy showing out and the coach talking about him in meetings and bringing him up.

Speaker 11 And then a vet comes over to you and talks about, hey, man, like you can make this team like you, you legit have a shot. And you don't know how stuff's going to work out.
You can't think about that.

Speaker 11 Don't think about it, are they going to keep an extra DB? Are they going to keep this?

Speaker 11 Like, just keep doing your thing, man, because I'm telling you, like, coach doesn't say this or guys don't think this way about it.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 once you start to feel that from a veteran,

Speaker 11 that's when you feel good about where you're at because guys just, it's like, it's like you guys, like if you guys already understood who you were going to be working with.

Speaker 11 and then some person that you never even heard of or was on the list in front of you, they're kind of showing out and you're kind of like, yo, I respect that dude. Like, who is that?

Speaker 11 Like, that should be our intern or somebody who works with us. And then you kind of validate them.

Speaker 4 It's probably like, you know, fucking waking up on Christmas morning and and the reverse happens too like not to name names but i i've i've heard stories where guys have said like yeah we would bring in you know our first round draft pick or our second round draft pick and almost instantly the veterans on the team be like no this guy's this isn't like he doesn't have it like he doesn't yeah he doesn't have he's not going to be an nfl guy for long and it's crazy to think that like just playing with a guy on the practice field you could probably figure something out faster than a scout could do watching a guy for four years Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 11 I mean, obviously, between players and like scouting department, players think scouts suck. Scouts tell players to probably stick to playing.

Speaker 11 There's always like that division of like who can judge talent and shit like that. Because as a player, you're like, yo, I fucking do this, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 11 And then you got scouts who judge you and people in the media who could try and place you in a box. But yeah, like I always hate it for those high-round guys who

Speaker 11 might not be showing, tapping into their potential yet.

Speaker 11 And guys are already trying to say, you know, use the word bust or something else, just because it's like, you just know it's a young mind still stepping into this grown man's game.

Speaker 11 So however he's being talked to, whether your arms around him or you're hyping him up or giving him confidence, like it affects everybody mentally.

Speaker 11 I mean, it's, it's not like anybody's Superman in the head. Like everybody's susceptible to any kind of criticism.
So it sucks to see when that happens.

Speaker 6 One of the things that I saw that you listed here was you need to get to know the special teams coach if you want to make the team as an undrafted guy.

Speaker 6 Obviously, special teams coach controls a lot of the numbers because he can be like, I use this dude on kick return, I use this dude on punt return, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 6 And it kind of gives you a home. So, in other words, you're saying, like, be a suck up, be a little bit of a suck up to the special teams coach.
What did you do?

Speaker 6 Did you like bring Danny Smith extra packs of chewing gum?

Speaker 4 Or like, how did you get in with him?

Speaker 11 How I got in with him? Well, I was always, it took me a little bit to get

Speaker 11 to be a better special teams player because I didn't play it at Nebraska and I wasn't the best special teamer.

Speaker 11 That's probably why I was on practice squad my first year because I was always solid at playing linebacker. Like I could back up every spot, but special teams I would struggle in for whatever reason.

Speaker 11 In my second year, Adam Hayward took me under his wing. Shout out the boy Adam Hayward.
And he's like a minutes. He was like a minute special teamer, played like nine, ten years in the league.

Speaker 11 And he was brought to the Washington football team as a special teamer.

Speaker 11 And so Adam and i were super tight he kind of took me under his wing so the fact that i was around him and he would joke with me and tell the special teams coach like no coach like i got him he's my guy blah blah blah this and that that helped me out um i wasn't necessarily a suck up but you know you gotta you gotta have some good jokes in the old belt you gotta you have to play the game man hey PFT, you know, you're going into these, going into the world of football, like you're trying to rub some elbows every now and then.

Speaker 11 You got to learn how to play the game without seeming too much like a tryhard.

Speaker 6 Yeah, me and Pep, we were just playing grab ass for a while on the sidelines there because I knew that at the end of the day, he was going to be the one who decided if I made the team or not.

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 if you're a fringe guy, they're going to ask a special teams coach, how is he at special teams?

Speaker 11 More specifically, the punt team, because that's the most trusted unit. And that's the coach that's going to kind of stand on the table for you.

Speaker 11 So you want to make sure he has good words to say because if he shits on you and he's got a lot of respect in the coaching department, like, you know, you're going to be cut.

Speaker 6 That was my problem.

Speaker 6 They asked, like, how is he at special teams? And they're like, well, he sucks. That's his entire job.
He's to play special team. He's not good at that.
So it was tough for me.

Speaker 4 So, Will,

Speaker 4 we always hear about guys, you know, hurt versus injured and trying to make a roster. I'm sure you were in that spot a lot where you were banged up and had to show up and work.

Speaker 4 What was like the worst moment, the lowest moment when it comes to like, holy shit, I don't feel good, but I got to go in and I got to practice.

Speaker 4 And I can't give up reps if I'm trying to make this team.

Speaker 11 no doubt um yeah that's a good question and there's so much gray in that question because it's hard to judge how somebody's like feeling because stuff that we might play through some other guy can't I mean whether or not we want to say he's a pussy or not it's just it just is what it is but um my hardest moment and probably my most pivotal moment um was my first year when I was obviously fighting to make any kind of part of the roster.

Speaker 11 I was seventh on the depth chart out of seven linebackers. So there's a first team of two, a second team of two, a third team of two, and then me.
And it was brutal. It was very humbling.

Speaker 11 And you just realize that, oh, these guys aren't Bo Polini, and they don't, they're not as close as Bo makes it sound to where everyone knows who you are.

Speaker 11 And they know I'm some heady, savvy football player. Like no one gives a fuck.
And

Speaker 11 the first day of training camp, Keenan Robinson tore his peck. The first day, he was out the year before with a peck injury.
And

Speaker 11 the next year at training camp, it was supposed to be like him and London Fletcher, and he tears his peck. So immediately I go up to the threes.

Speaker 11 And there was another undrafted cat ahead of me named Jeremy Kimbrough.

Speaker 11 And in the second week of training camp, Kimbrough strains his hamstring. And so I now get to move up with the twos.
And mind you, all summer long,

Speaker 11 I'm breaking down the Redskins offense because I'm trying to figure out Shanahan, McVay, LaFleur, they were all in the offensive staff.

Speaker 11 I'm trying to figure out every tendency that they have based on what they're going to try to get better at in practice during training camp, which is going to be some fundamental stuff.

Speaker 11 But I knew that the couple reps I would get in practice, I had to be perfect at those reps. I had to like vocalize.

Speaker 11 Like if I knew what the play was, like I was going to just fucking scream it and yell it.

Speaker 11 And if it worked out, if I'm yelling, hey, watch play pass, play pass, play pass, blah, blah, blah, and it happens.

Speaker 11 You want coaches to know, like, yo, this guy kind of knows what the fuck he's doing out there.

Speaker 11 And so then I got thrusted into the twos.

Speaker 11 And that week that I got thrusted into the twos was the week week leading up to my first preseason game.

Speaker 11 And I actually tear my hamstring that week and I didn't know it at the time that I tore my hamstring. I just thought I had a really bad strain.

Speaker 11 I like woke up the next morning and I could like barely walk. And we go out to walkthrough and like, you know, obviously all the undrafted, like all of us, we were, we have to do the walkthrough.

Speaker 11 Like we have to be the service team.

Speaker 11 And I kind of like weaseled my way into the back and didn't show face and kind of skipped the walkthrough because I was trying to figure out how I can get through and practice.

Speaker 11 Because in my mind, it's like, this is my opportunity. And I can't, this is, this is, this is fucked because my hamstring is fucked right now.
So I went to a trainer that I trusted. I called him Dr.

Speaker 11 Evil. Shout out Dr.
Evil.

Speaker 11 And I basically told him, I'm like, hey, do whatever we can to basically duct tape this thing to where I don't have a lot of flexion kicking up and because I have to practice.

Speaker 11 Like the guy ahead of me is out with an injury. He's, you know, running stuff on the side.
Like, you know, he was an undrafted cat and he chose to, you know, do rehab and stuff.

Speaker 11 Like, this is my chance to show stuff so he like tapes me up i'm taking tour it all you know i'm doing the shit that guys you know obviously you read bad stuff on that you don't necessarily that's not the healthiest route to go i'm not saying you everybody needs to do that but that's what i chose because the most important thing at that time was making the redskins or the football teams football team

Speaker 11 and um that day i go out there fortunately my mentor flies in that same day he's like making sure it just works out that he flies in that day he's just asking me he's like you know what do you think i'm like,

Speaker 11 there's truly like, I have to try and go. And if I can't, I'll just get injured while I'm out there on the field in front of them.
Because right now, they don't necessarily know what happened to me.

Speaker 11 I kind of didn't say anything. And then I woke up and it's way worse than it was, than I thought it was.
And I go out there and have two interceptions in a PBU.

Speaker 11 And that day was the most pivotal day for me personally because Shanahan comes up to me, Coach Mike Shanahan. He's like, hey, I'm going to have to start calling you like Mr.

Speaker 11 Interception. I get the nod to be the number two that week in preseason.
I led the preseason that year in tackles. Like all of my opportunities came to make the practice squad that year.

Speaker 11 And that kind of set me up for the next year because I was on everybody's radar at that point.

Speaker 11 But that was probably my toughest like injury. The whole be a fucking wolf mentality thing comes from is like, that's the moment that I feel like.
made my career in the NFL.

Speaker 4 So then how long did you, did you have the torn hamstring for the entire season?

Speaker 11 Yeah, so the docs, like, I mean, PFT, I mean, you might know being around the facilities and stuff, like, you know, it's, you don't get the best treatment.

Speaker 11 Washington football team doesn't have the best name in the training room.

Speaker 11 I was told that it was a strain and I didn't know until the next year from like an outside source because you start learning. Like, I start asking vets, like, how do you take care of your body?

Speaker 11 And this and that. And we're using other, we're using other sources to go visit and get checked on and get body work done.

Speaker 11 And that's finding out from another PT, I found out he was like rubbing over this huge scar tissue. He's like, hey, do you

Speaker 11 tear your hamstring before? And I was like, no, not that I know. He's like, man, it feels really bad up here.
Like, it was at like the bottom of my ass. It was like the worst part to have it.

Speaker 11 And that's how I kind of found out I had a torn hamstring. But I was always told I had like a strain.

Speaker 11 And I would just kind of do the whole ice and stem and, you know, all this stuff, the bullshit that they do in the training room nowadays anyway.

Speaker 6 At least it wasn't like a cancerous growth on your scalp. They're like, oh, no, it's actually not your hamstring.

Speaker 4 We're just not going to operate on that for a while.

Speaker 11 No doubt, doubt, dude. And hey, I'm glad you're like a Washington fan because you know a lot of these stories.

Speaker 4 That was pretty fucked up. It's fun.

Speaker 11 Oh, for sure fucked up. And

Speaker 11 I have a story where I was my first year at free agency when I signed with the Titans. Before I went to the Titans, the Bills had just, I think Preston Brown just signed with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 11 And so the Bills had a void at middle linebacker. The Bills call me within like probably 10 minutes to fly out and do a physical.

Speaker 11 I actually found out that I had a growth, a white mass growth in a C-spine MRI.

Speaker 11 And the doc at the Bills was actually saying, hey, we're not talking about football anymore. Like, you need to go get this checked out.

Speaker 11 That the Redskins, we looked back on stuff and the Washington football team kind of missed my C-Spine MRIs because I was getting checked out because of some stinger history.

Speaker 11 So that's why I had an MRI up there. And the Redskins had missed seeing that white mass in my skull.
So I had to, I flew back. The Washington football days took care of me.

Speaker 11 Like, I know I have, there's some sketchy stories in there, but they also take a, they took very good care of me when I got in. And they found out that fortunately it was, it was just a cyst that

Speaker 11 I had had for a while. But the neurosurgeon or the neurologist or whatever that does the brain MRI readings, he thought it was cancerous at first.

Speaker 11 And that entire night, after my bills visit, because they were like, obviously we're not going to offer you because you have this growth that we have no idea what's going on in your brain right now.

Speaker 11 That you need to get checked out.

Speaker 11 Fortunately, it turned out it was just a cyst, but dude, going off your story with Trent Williams, like it's uh for it to happen twice in the same locker room is not that's not like a ringing endorsement.

Speaker 6 Like, I'd rather have field surgery in the Civil War.

Speaker 4 And you pushed back on me when I said Alex Smith's personal position cleared him. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that is a good thing. Yeah, you should, you should use your personal position.

Speaker 11 I know, I heard, I listened to your guys' episode with Dion.

Speaker 11 Hey, that was phenomenal.

Speaker 6 I had a question about when you get offered to be on the practice squad or when you get told that they're going to try to put you on the practice squad and at that point you still have to clear waivers, right?

Speaker 6 You have to go through like any other team can sign you to their active roster.

Speaker 6 It's obviously not like dejecting like getting cut, but you're probably not super pumped either that it's a practice squad, right? Or did you have like,

Speaker 6 did you think that that's what was going to happen?

Speaker 11 Yeah, you're not you're not super pumped because so going into the fourth game, a scout had came up to me.

Speaker 11 I was like, hey, man, you actually, you have a shot at making this team like if you just black out and make a couple plays on special teams and i was thinking in my head at the time i was like like i hate special teams and um

Speaker 11 he was like you got a shot and um unfortunately like i didn't make the team but they call you uh that morning you wake up you understand cut days coming the grim reapers coming for you you walk in the facility there's usually the grim reapers are the scouts are standing all over the rails and you're just waiting to be picked off if you can make it down it's kind of like walking into a buckle if you can make it to the back of the store without being talked to if you need help if you make it down to the locker room without being asked to bring your ipad to the facility or to the office you've made it so i walk i get i get the phone call like hey man we have good news and bad news like bad news is we're going to cut you i'm like okay i don't know how it goes up from here

Speaker 11 but the but the good news is we want to bring you back on the practice squad yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 11 uh but the good news is we want to bring you back on the practice squad if you clear waivers i'm like all right and so you're kind of in the shuttle with the boys like all of us are getting cut you're kind of just sitting there like what they tell you and you're like oh you just got a phone call kind of texting your you know the people that are in your circle you're like hey i'm i'm getting cut and then i i gotta clear waivers for 24 hours but um you know they say they want to bring me back on the peace squad and it was um nerve-wracking because there was nine of us on the shuttle And there's only eight guys who were on the P squad at the time.

Speaker 11 Turns out they bring us all. They were trying to sign us all.
And they realized they had nine guys. and they ended up having to let one guy go after they told me he made the P squad.

Speaker 11 It was devastating.

Speaker 11 We're all in the room. Like once we cleared waivers, like guys were like, hey, comp, like you might get picked up.
Like you're number three linebacker right now on PFF or whatever.

Speaker 11 And I'm all like, oh, hell yeah, let's go. Obviously, don't get picked up because it doesn't matter that much.
And then, so the next day, I'm like, okay, we can do P squad.

Speaker 11 Solid money to practice a few days a week. And you're just hoping you don't get cut in a few weeks.
And so, we all get in the room to sign our paperwork, and somebody comes in.

Speaker 11 They're like, Hey, I don't know if you guys know this, but we can only have eight, and there's nine of you sitting in here. They're like,

Speaker 11 My man, I won't say his name. They're like, Hey, my man, you got to come with us.

Speaker 4 And he like stands up.

Speaker 4 I love it. Who's surviving?

Speaker 6 Whose job was it to count, though? I feel like that's a pretty basic football operation.

Speaker 6 Like, JPP was in the back of the room trying to figure out how many guys are there and how many get to hang out.

Speaker 6 Like, you should know it should be it should be eight guys right that's not that difficult yeah we understood when we were all sitting there like

Speaker 11 hey um we all think we're making the practice quote but there's nine of us sitting in here so we're all kind of just sitting and waiting but hey pft man you know it's it's that operation well it's probably also the number they probably thought one of you guys was gonna get picked up so it's like by someone else possibly but that's 24 hours right yeah but that's 24 hours the next day you're still in the hotel they got to send you a shuttle to bring you over at that time you got to know, like, the ninth guy, the odd man out, you should have already let him know once the waivers happen.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so now that this year is going to be a little bit different, you addressed this a little bit in your blog, but um, as an undrafted guy, if you only have, it looks like what eight or nine practices where you're where you're going full speed to show off and show what you have, uh, no preseason games, it doesn't look like.

Speaker 6 How are you, how, how is the evaluation process weighted towards like if you do it in a preseason preseason game, does it mean a whole lot more than if you're just super consistent in practice?

Speaker 6 Or have there been guys that you know absolutely sucked in practice, but then killed it during like game two and three, and they end up making the squad?

Speaker 11 Yeah, all of those situations, like preseason games are definitely weighted for guys that are bubble guys, guys that aren't seen that are going to make the team, for all those young guys that are trying to fight for a spot.

Speaker 11 Preseason games matter because you can ball out and practice and and be terrible once you get under the lights in the game because when you're out there coach isn't holding your hand he's not there the plays aren't scripted for you you can't go back and watch days before and realize okay i'm in run period right now they're all going to be runs and maybe one play action pass in my set so you can't guess like you can't say okay we're in seven on seven we're in team blitz period we're in team third down like you're out there trying to think the game as the game's going with tempo and coaches want to see you guys execute that without a coach stopping the play, stopping anything.

Speaker 11 Oh, wait, he needs to fucking tie a shoe. You're doing it out there and trying to communicate with all the players and you're trying to prove that you can take from the practice field to the game.

Speaker 11 Also, the opposite happens that you brought up where there might be a slappy in practice where he kind of gets a bad rap out of the gate

Speaker 11 and he shows out in the game to where eyes get open and coaches might be not forced, but advised to give a little more attention and see if that guy has something to him at practice because he could have had, say, he could have given a bad first impression or done shitty rookie skits and he just got a tarnished name.

Speaker 11 But then he balls out in that first preseason game. Everybody's like, oh, he the man can play a little bit.
So all of those things happen. That's why I hate that preseason isn't happening.

Speaker 11 Like being older, it's nice that preseason isn't happening. But for those guys who are trying to make it the way I kind of came in,

Speaker 11 it's going to be fucking hard, man.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 All right. So I had one last question.

Speaker 4 It is our body armor question: you drink body armor, right?

Speaker 4 Love body armor, drinkbody armor.com, check it out, you can also buy it on Amazon. Uh, love the strawberry banana, body armor is the best.

Speaker 4 Um, so my last question was: we, this is actually kind of full circle. So, our first, I think it was actually the first grit week ever, we talked to Bo Polini, who you played for at Nebraska.

Speaker 4 So, uh, what was

Speaker 4 the biggest like life lesson, grit lesson that Bo instilled in you when you were playing for him in Nebraska?

Speaker 11 Oh, that's easy, dude. It's his full, it's his full mantra.
It's his creed when he's, when he's coaching and leading, it's focus on the process, compete every day.

Speaker 11 And it sounds stupid, it's cliche as fuck, but Bo would always say, like, I am not here to babysit you. Like, you're either like, he had a standard of going to class.

Speaker 11 Like teachers would email him notes, and he would read them. He would read them in the team meeting room.
And fucking, you can only imagine how he is in the team meeting room. But he'd be like,

Speaker 11 Josh Molech. And Josh would kind of like pick his head up and he got it.
He'd say his name wrong. He'd be like, Josh Molech.
He'd be like, Molech, sir.

Speaker 11 He'd be like, stand the, he'd be like, stand the fuck up. And he'd talk about sleeping in class, this and that.
He'd fucking chuck a water bottle. And he would say like,

Speaker 11 basically, I'm not here to babysit you guys. You're either an all-the-time person.
or you're none of it. Like you're not just going to show up on Saturdays and play.
You're going to go to class.

Speaker 11 You're going to to practice. You're going to prepare.
Like everything is all about the process.

Speaker 11 Like if you live in a results-oriented world, you're going to fail because you're going to be moved by external factors all the time. People are going to label you.

Speaker 11 You're going to buy into it because all you give a shit about is what results are being said to you and what you're trying to attain and what you might miss out on.

Speaker 11 And he's like, it's all about the fucking process. And that was probably the biggest thing Bo instilled in myself.
And I know he carries it for everywhere he coaches.

Speaker 11 It's focus on the process, compete every day. And it's funny because he coached Dion in San Francisco.
I was listening to your guys' interview with Deion, which is awesome.

Speaker 11 He is the best to ever do it. But he had a story about Dion because guys would want to, you know, wear, you know, be swaggy or dance or do stuff in college.
And not that Bo

Speaker 11 made guys do it his way or the highway, but he would kind of tell stories and bring up examples of somebody like Dion, who he got to coach in San Francisco.

Speaker 11 He said, one time they were watching film and this guy, he messed up on a play, and the teammate was like, Oh, don't worry about it, I'll get it on Sunday. And he said, Dion,

Speaker 11 um, those words, not mine.

Speaker 11 I don't know if Dion actually put him against the wall or grabbed him by the shirt collar, but he said, Dion told the man that, Hey, you're either going to get it all the time, or there's not going to be a Sunday.

Speaker 11 You're either going to put it on film all the fucking time, or you're not going to be out there with us on Sunday.

Speaker 11 And he would always say that lesson, and it's, it's just always stuck with me, dude, because it just, the world doesn't give a shit what's what's going on with you.

Speaker 11 like you i say it in the blog like you're the one who lives with your stress at night like hopefully fortunately everybody gets to have a wife and they kind of take some stress with them but even she doesn't know exactly what's going on at night when you're laying there thinking about what's coming the next day and the day ahead and the sun's gonna rise the next day and you have a fucking choice to either bring that big dick energy or to shell up and let external and let external people and factors move your emotion because when you rely on that you're just going to fail.

Speaker 11 Like, you got, I mean, we scroll on Twitter all the time. You read bad shit about yourself and you're, and external shits moving you, like, you're going to feel shitty about yourself.

Speaker 4 But if you know what you're doing and what you

Speaker 4 say, you're going to get me. Do you feel me?

Speaker 4 I'm reading like medium average dick energy, which is huge dick energy. It's a great energy.
Yeah, it's not great enough. I don't know if I'm going to have it, but that's what I roll with.

Speaker 4 But I have to ask with that message, what did Bo,

Speaker 4 we were texting last night. I happened to be just flipping through the channels, and there was a game on the Big Ten network.

Speaker 4 What did Bo say

Speaker 4 after the Big Ten championship when Wisconsin won 70 to 31? And hold on,

Speaker 4 Wisconsin, Kurt Phillips, the starting quarterback for Wisconsin, his stat line, 70 points, PFT. Guess his stat line.

Speaker 6 Wait, when you were texting with Bo last night?

Speaker 4 No, I thought that was

Speaker 4 Will.

Speaker 6 Oh, I have no idea.

Speaker 4 He did say that. I was texting Will before the show.
Oh, okay. I thought you were texting with Bo.
No, with Will. Okay.

Speaker 4 You played on on Nebraska when they lost to 70 to 31.

Speaker 4 And what was the quarterback for Wisconsin's stat line?

Speaker 6 I think he probably had a, was it like 21 for 22?

Speaker 4 He was six for eight for 71 yards.

Speaker 4 And Wisconsin put up 70.

Speaker 6 How is that possible?

Speaker 4 Oh, I'll tell you how it was. But you were a linebacker.
Yeah. Eight rushing touchdowns, 539 yards.

Speaker 6 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 4 Hey, dude, hey,

Speaker 11 Big Cat was texting me, and he's like, hey, I'm like, that game legitimately, like, I know Alec Ingold, he played at Wisconsin and he talks about the game.

Speaker 11 Like, I try and trip Wisconsin, but truly, I never feel good about bringing up Wisconsin's name ever because I am so fucking destroyed about that performance.

Speaker 11 He's like, hey, at least Taylor Martinez, he had a solid run in the first quarter trying to make a battery.

Speaker 4 Yes,

Speaker 11 it doesn't make it hurt any less, dude.

Speaker 4 What did Bo say after that? Because that has to be like the Bo that you don't want to see.

Speaker 11 No, honestly, you didn't see that bow because we

Speaker 11 yeah you got we got our shit pushed in so bad that i don't think anybody understood what was happening to us at the time so when uh we were in the locker room it was

Speaker 11 it was fucking sad dude it was uh it was just quiet like everyone's just quiet and it's just like

Speaker 11 you know there is not a lot to be said i think everybody understood what was at stake what we shit down our leg and that's a great example of knowing like the sun is going to rise the next day, and you have a fucking choice

Speaker 4 to

Speaker 11 put that game behind you or, you know, as everybody likes to say, let it define you. But, but, man, that was dark.
That was, that's the worst game I've ever been a part of.

Speaker 11 And as a middle linebacker, I think I told Big Cat that three running backs might have had over 200 yards.

Speaker 11 And everyone alludes to Melvin Gordon having 400 the next year, which thank God he broke the school record because it kind of took some spotlight away.

Speaker 6 We don't talk about the three guys that had 220 on you. Yeah.

Speaker 11 From what actually happened the year before, which I was actually like, okay, Nebraska lost, but thank God we get to kind of be put on the shelf a little bit. But man, that was

Speaker 4 the worst game I've ever been a part of. Melvin Gordon had 216 yards.

Speaker 4 On nine carries. On nine carries.

Speaker 4 It's such a ridiculous stat line to see 70 points and eight pass attempts and then have Melvin Gordon nine carries, 216 yards.

Speaker 11 Hey, dude i i think i missed a big run dan like we we we sucked that game dude but i will say bow if you listen to this podcast and i would tell you to your face now dude that we didn't adjust and we only called one call in that person now

Speaker 6 and now now now that i'm older and understand the game a little more i'm just thinking why in the didn't we send pressure off the edge away from of a speed sweep guy like we didn't adjust that game so we take it as a team dude i love you bow i miss you yeah all right well thank you will this has been awesome yeah busting with the boys will compt he was a legend of the uh i think i have you guys ranked as the number four r words team of the last 30 years the uh the nine and seven 2015 red season that was the you like that year right

Speaker 11 Yeah, that was a fun year, dude. That was that you like that game is when I actually got my first start that year to finish the rest of the season.
So big fan of that game.

Speaker 6 There you go. I would say that it was more you coming in.
That's what turned the tide and not cousins yelling at a tom cousin sports reporter or whatever

Speaker 6 hey no doubt hey pft did you were you even aware were you even aware of the boy back back in my uh washington football days yeah i i remember watching you play and i was like this guy is actually good like i have no idea where he came from you know every time you get an undrafted free agent from a big school like a traditional power school you think you think in the back of your head like Nebraska.

Speaker 4 This could work.

Speaker 6 That's why I said traditional.

Speaker 6 Not a modern power school, but like early 90s power school. You think, like, oh, this guy's got something in the tank.
So I remember watching you play a little undersized, a little gritty.

Speaker 6 So, yeah, that was a magical season.

Speaker 11 You believe him?

Speaker 4 No, because he said that

Speaker 4 he was like, damn, this guy's good.

Speaker 11 Hey, now we're now on the same team, boys.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, true. And we love having you on the team.
Hopefully, we'll see you soon, man.

Speaker 6 Oh, do you want to make an announcement real quick? Get us some headlines here.

Speaker 6 Are you going to play this year? Are you going to opt out?

Speaker 11 No, I'm playing this year.

Speaker 11 I respect anybody who wants to opt out, but

Speaker 11 I'm trying to get it for another one.

Speaker 4 Well, we just frame it. We'll do a press release.
We'll have Jake Marsh set up a press release. Will Compton officially opting in?

Speaker 6 Well, respecting players who choose to opt out.

Speaker 11 I am officially opting into the 2020 season. Yes.
My door's open.

Speaker 4 My phone's open. Everybody knows where to find me, man.
Get your name going in the circle. We got you, bro.
We got you.

Speaker 11 Yes. I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 4 All right. See you, man.
Thanks. Thanks, Will.
See you, fellas.

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Speaker 4 Okay, before we get to Guys on Chicks and finish up the show, let's go over Billy's sheet real quick.

Speaker 4 So if you're a reminder, Billy has been tasked with coming up with the hottest things of the day and giving it to us before the show. We have UFOs real.

Speaker 4 Everyone knows they're real. This is so stupid.
I'm sick. I'm sick of the alien shit.
Just tell us that we know that the aliens exist. Tom DeLong proved it.

Speaker 6 Tom DeLong from Blink182 proved this a year ago.

Speaker 6 So this is old news by this point. Aliens came.
We didn't care. You tried, news.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 You tried to get us interested in the fact that aliens have invaded in the past and that we're not alone in the universe. But honestly, it's boring.

Speaker 4 They exist. We know that.

Speaker 4 You said demon sperm. Billy then said parentheses.
Just say that and don't say anything else.

Speaker 6 I think that would be a sick name for the Washington football team. Demon Sperm.
The Washington Demon Sperm.

Speaker 4 That's a really shitty goth-like band name. Yeah.
Demon Sperm. Screw it.
The Yellers.

Speaker 6 Hot Topic is stocked with those t-shirts.

Speaker 4 T-Bat Farm.

Speaker 4 Last chance you're back. Sports Illustrated supplements.
Billy, we've tasked you with coming up with a PMT supplement. What do you got? Well,

Speaker 9 so Sports Illustrated is making their own supplements. Honestly, their supplements kind of suck.
Really? Yeah, they're basically just kind of like

Speaker 9 Kool-Aid with caffeine for their pre-workout and just like really bad.

Speaker 4 I love, by the way, that... The Sports Illustrated is doing supplements.

Speaker 4 The entire internet roasts it because Sports Illustrated is getting the supplement game, and then Billy takes the zag on it and he's like,

Speaker 4 Listen, you have every right to make supplements, just don't make shitty ones.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, that's the first thing that occurred to Billy: I want to see what is actually in these things. So it's beta-alanine and caffeine in their pre-workout, right?

Speaker 9 Well, there's not even that much beta-alanine, and they're all proprietary blends, which means that they don't actually have to put the amount they say.

Speaker 4 So, what's in our supplement?

Speaker 6 So, if we were to make a part of my take mass gainer, I think we should make a bacon blast whey protein first of all you need you need to work on the branding I like that we're doing a mass gainer but if it's barstool it should absolutely be like zoom ass should be the name of it zoom ass gainer zoom ass

Speaker 4 unlock the power of harambe oh

Speaker 4 so it would just be like bacon bits whey protein chocolate and uh creatine and austerine and that would be an awesome mass gainer okay just toss that in there like like listen it's just pretty much like bacon and chocolate and just a little bit of steroids and just a little touridol, and it's fine.

Speaker 4 Totally fine.

Speaker 9 Okay, good, Billy. Then we got a pre-workout.
Okay. And we'd call it Not a Drug Guy pre-workout.
And it would just be beta-alanine, taurine, sildenophil, and then

Speaker 4 DMAA is

Speaker 4 the worst spin-off of breaking bad.

Speaker 6 You also had nitrous oxide, right?

Speaker 9 Yeah, nitrous oxide booster.

Speaker 6 And what were the other things in there?

Speaker 9 Oh, no, it's a nitrous oxide booster, and sildenophil is for a pump. It just gets your veins.

Speaker 4 But what about the Viagra and mass? Yeah,

Speaker 9 sildenophil is the active ingredient in Viagra, but it's sick for pumps.

Speaker 4 Okay, it gets your blood.

Speaker 6 I'm going to stop you, Billy. I like where we're at with a mask gainer.
I'm on board with that. It sounds delicious.
I like where your head's at with part of my take, Viagra. That's a good idea.

Speaker 6 Well, it's a pre-workout. No, yeah, but people just get it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's multi-use.

Speaker 6 They put it in their kitchen cabinet and they say, like, this is my pre-workout, but it's actually just Viagra. It's disguised Viagra.
And it's called Harden My Take.

Speaker 4 Oh, I like that.

Speaker 4 All right, so, and then the bar stool recovery bar?

Speaker 9 Yeah, it's just like a protein brownie with Delta 8 THC, CBD, and I like this.

Speaker 4 So we take, so we take steroids, meth, Viagra, and weed. Yes.

Speaker 4 Okay, good job. What do we get jacked?

Speaker 6 What do we do to recover from the heart attack?

Speaker 9 The Delta 8 THC. We contact 3C, be like, we want to make a protein brownie with some THC just to go to sleep.

Speaker 6 We should sleep. We should actually make a stool softener.

Speaker 4 I like this. Stool softener.
I like this. Good job, Billy.
All right. You also had bizarre scam as Chinese students in Australia kidnapping themselves.

Speaker 9 Yeah, basically they're like, you have to pay this fine, so kidnap yourself and pretend.

Speaker 4 That actually happened when I was at Wisconsin. Her name was Audrey Seeler.
She kidnapped herself. She just

Speaker 4 went in the woods for like two days.

Speaker 4 They found her. Or no, she came out, and then they're like, yeah, why'd you go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of rope right before you disappeared?

Speaker 6 Interesting. So did you get money, ransom money?

Speaker 4 No, I think she just wanted attention.

Speaker 6 I think she dropped out after that.

Speaker 4 Okay. It's kind of cool.
Yeah, it's kind of cool.

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 6 if you're a product of the Chinese one-child policy, I imagine that that shoots your value way up in the eyes of your parents, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah, true.

Speaker 6 Because if you got two kids and your parents are like, fuck it, I can get rid of that one. I got to back up in the shed.

Speaker 4 And now the last one was just Ellen Sucks.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 4 Sure. Oh, wait.
Oh, Mike Tyson.

Speaker 6 Mike Tyson joins Shark Week. Again, I think we're out on Shark Week.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 We're out on Shark Week.

Speaker 4 Because they don't kill anyone. Yeah.
It's lame. I want death.
Okay.

Speaker 6 More like Shark Week. Yeah.

Speaker 9 It's going to sight violence from the sharks.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Do Stark Week, and it's just shark decapitations.

Speaker 4 We need something to get the juices flowing. All right, Hank.
Guys on chicks, and then we will see everyone at noon on Wednesday for today for our stream.

Speaker 7 And if you're tuning in after noon, just tune in now because we're probably still live. Yeah.

Speaker 9 I could be dying from heat exhaustion under 24 shirts.

Speaker 7 Over under 10 miles for Billy.

Speaker 6 He's going to get over it because he's going to. I know Billy.
He's going to burn himself out. He's going to do like 12 miles in the first two and a half hours.

Speaker 6 And he's going to be like, do I have to keep going?

Speaker 4 Yeah, the calculation is going to be when is Billy bitching at us like untenable? And we're just like, you know what? Fuck it, Billy. Will you just quit?

Speaker 7 Yeah, he's going to fake fall.

Speaker 6 That would actually be very funny.

Speaker 4 Just took that away from him.

Speaker 7 Yeah, let's go and think about that.

Speaker 6 Put a Neymar.

Speaker 7 I got an update from the bread boy, we'll call him.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. It's me again.

Speaker 7 So in the short time that I texted you and up until now, things have become worse.

Speaker 7 I was shocked y'all actually read my issue and my boyfriend, let's just call him Parker, found out through a friend who listens to your show and is now convinced that it's normal because y'all thought it was awesome.

Speaker 7 So thanks for that. Yep.
I don't know how these things are supposed to be, but I'm just going to tell y'all that everything...

Speaker 7 I'm just going to tell y'all everything because the bread really isn't even the worst thing. So like I said, he eats bread with literally everything.
It's not like a freaking utensil to him.

Speaker 7 He scoops soup with it. Cereal, obviously, he uses four slices when making a sandwich.
Two on top, two on the bottom. I can't wrap my brain around this.

Speaker 7 My friends all think it's super gross, especially when we go out to a restaurant and he has to get a couple of bread baskets for himself.

Speaker 6 I'm fine with that for the record. Like getting the hot bread delivered to your table, getting a restock of that.
As long as you tip well, I think that's an alpha move.

Speaker 7 He isn't that overweight, but what worries me is if his metabolism slows down, he's going to gain a ton of weight.

Speaker 7 He doesn't work out, and when he isn't working, he mostly plays video games or watches movies. I love Parker.

Speaker 7 He's super funny and is very smart, but I feel like he's going way too far with the fucking bread.

Speaker 7 I'm not scared that he hears this because he already knows how I feel, and he just shrugs it off always with something like, you're overreacting, it's just bread, or so what? I fucking love bread.

Speaker 7 What are you going to do? Break up with me. I mean, seriously, am I overreacting? I'm officially giving y'all a final say as to who wins.
Help.

Speaker 6 I don't know what to do. I really don't.
Like, it sounds if you didn't have a problem with the bread, then there's no problem. If you're cool with it, then it's not an issue.

Speaker 6 But if it's reaching the point where you're embarrassed that you're basically dating a duck in a park, then, yeah, then you need to have a conversation. If you can't adapt, then it's time to cut.

Speaker 4 I think you just need to just suck it up. There's a lot of bad things in the world.
Eating too much bread is not one of them. What, Apilia?

Speaker 9 I have a solution for her. Yeah.
What she's got to do is she's got to take laxatives and just keep poisoning him with laxatives. And so he's shitting himself all the time.

Speaker 4 Then be like, oh, maybe you become allergic to gluten. Gluten-free.
And then you convince him he's gluten-free. Ooh.
Okay. That's a good one.
Sounds like Not a bad one.

Speaker 4 By the way, I saw someone tweeting being like, I can't believe you guys thought that was real. I just want to make a PSA real quick.

Speaker 4 This goes for the Waffle House guy, too, which I've heard may be not real. I don't give a fuck, okay? We are, what? What?

Speaker 4 What? You think we're just going to get more fake thing? That's fine. I don't give a fuck.
If it sounds remotely real, I'm going to read it. It's like wrestling.

Speaker 4 Just shut up and let me have a good time. Don't be the guy on the internet who's like, fake, fake, fake.

Speaker 6 Shut up. Yeah, you don't need to Snopes check a guy's on chick's question.
Correct.

Speaker 7 And this girl followed back up. Yeah.
And without anything funny, just being like, no, this is serious. Like, what the fuck do I do?

Speaker 4 If it's a great tale and it goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks and has plot twists and everything, I'm just watching, you know, Real Housewives. I don't care.
It's fake.

Speaker 6 I think this girl sounds awesome, the fact that she's just dealing with this. Yeah.
She realizes it's strange.

Speaker 6 It becomes a problem when you forget how weird it is.

Speaker 7 Hey, PMT boys, especially you, Honk, and Cat Cat Daddy.

Speaker 7 I've recently been getting into arguments with my boyfriend because he has really been making me feel guilty about going out with my girlfriends again.

Speaker 7 Last night, he told me that he refuses to get sick because I want to go out and get wasted at a bar. Now he does everything without me.

Speaker 7 He cooks dinner and takes it outside while going for a long walk to avoid eating with me. He sleeps on the rug in our room because he apparently can't be in the same bed as me.

Speaker 7 I've told him countless times that I have other people I want to see. Is he being a paranoid little bitch or do I need to understand his concern? How do I go about this?

Speaker 4 Wait, what's his concern?

Speaker 7 Getting sick.

Speaker 4 Oh.

Speaker 7 She's going and hitting the bars with her gals.

Speaker 4 Oh, okay. Oh, it's coronavirus.
Got it.

Speaker 6 He doesn't want to get sick.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you're kind of being the jerk here.

Speaker 6 Yeah, just get an antibody test. Yeah, you're.

Speaker 4 So you're going out all the time, and then you're like, can you believe my bitch boy boyfriend doesn't want to get coronavirus?

Speaker 6 But her complaint is that he's hanging out around. He's sleeping on the bed or on the floor next to the bed.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's just basically staying away from her.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but if you're going to try to not get coronavirus, you want to put a little bit something more than like two feet. Yeah, he's not even doing a good job.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'd say you probably should have a talk and be like, hey, maybe I won't do this all the time. No, I don't think he's being the bitch here.

Speaker 7 We also asked for suggestions for staying up for 24 hours, and this person said for 24-hour grit day, have Kate come on the stream and show you how to make Ranger dip and use hot sauce under the eyes to keep you awake.

Speaker 6 Is it like Beezen? We might want to bring Beez to be shut down.

Speaker 4 People said that was a bit too big.

Speaker 6 Beezen is cool as shit.

Speaker 6 Let's get some bees.

Speaker 7 Hey, PFT, Big Cat, and future OBX star, Hank.

Speaker 4 B.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. Congrats, Hank.

Speaker 7 Thanks. I don't know what for.

Speaker 4 You're going to be on Our Banks, too. Wait, you are?

Speaker 7 I don't think so. I think my girlfriend is trying to get on.

Speaker 4 Rhea's trending about it.

Speaker 4 I feel like that's...

Speaker 6 I think you are. They can't say no.

Speaker 4 Can you invite me? Yeah.

Speaker 6 How mad would you be if Rhea got on and she didn't invite you?

Speaker 7 Not mad. I mean, I didn't even like the show that was.

Speaker 6 A little mad?

Speaker 4 Anyway!

Speaker 7 My boyfriend and I recently moved into a one-bedroom apartment, our first place together. Every time I go poop, I turn on the shower so he cannot hear me growing

Speaker 4 dude bomb.

Speaker 7 He recently asked me why I shower in the middle of the day, and I have told him that it is my midday sanitation to avoid COVID.

Speaker 7 The other day, I came back from running errands, and he was in the shower around noon, saying he was joining the midday sanitation idea. Do I tell him I am not showering, or do I keep it a secret?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 7 What happens when we have a COVID is a thing of the past, and I am still pooping with the shower on? What other alternatives do you two have for me?

Speaker 4 Dude bombs! You can dude bomb it. Literally, dude bomb it.

Speaker 6 He'll never know. He walks in right after you, and it smells like a ball.

Speaker 4 The dude bomb is the thing that dude products are selling, where you put it in the toilet and it neutralizes all the smells. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Take 10. I think what the boyfriend.
You start doing your hair.

Speaker 6 The boyfriend probably just saw, like, oh, my girlfriend takes a shower every day around noon. I'm going to do that too so I can crank one out.
Yeah, he's jerking off. He's jerking off.

Speaker 7 How do I get my boyfriend to suck my toes?

Speaker 6 Ask him, hey. Peanut butter.

Speaker 6 Yep. Good call, Billy.
There it is. Good call, Billy.

Speaker 7 How do I get my boyfriend to stop making that slurping noise when he's blowing me? I've asked him before because it grosses me out, but he must keep forgetting in the moment.

Speaker 7 I don't want to interrupt and kill the mood. Also, you guys should try caffeine.

Speaker 6 Caffeine to stay up. Yeah.
Okay, how do I get my boyfriend to stop blowing me?

Speaker 7 No, making that slurping noise.

Speaker 6 Oh, okay. It's the noise that's an issue.
I suggest just getting earplugs.

Speaker 4 Peanut butter.

Speaker 6 Yeah, peanut butter. Smear peanut butter on your penis.

Speaker 7 I mean, this is a weird, weird addition to guys on channel.

Speaker 4 Smooth.

Speaker 7 Hi, everyone. In the past month or so, my boyfriend has developed a weird habit of licking me all the time.
We will hug, and as he pulls away, he will lick the side of my face.

Speaker 7 I reach to hold his hand, and he will grab my hand and lick it. I've told him to stop, and then I don't like it, but I think he's doing it without even realizing it.

Speaker 7 I get that quarantine is hard, but any advice on how to get this weird habit to stop. I'm tired of feeling like a lollipop and not in a hot way.

Speaker 4 Not peanut butter. No, that will be worse, Billy.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I just

Speaker 4 fucking mental pretzeled you. You're like, wait.
Or wait.

Speaker 4 Wait. I forgot to say peanut butter.

Speaker 6 Is he allergic to peanut butter? How about no? Because then peanut butter.

Speaker 4 Well, how about poisonous peanut butter?

Speaker 9 Super bitter peanut butter.

Speaker 4 Spicy peanut butter. All right, well, let's end there.

Speaker 4 Or do you have one more?

Speaker 7 I got one more. Okay.

Speaker 7 Let's keep it weird. Hey, sexy cat, PFT, frat boy, hunk, hank, and big dick, Billy.
My boyfriend has started to call me Milkmaid.

Speaker 7 Anytime he wants to have sex, he says in a child voice, he wants his milk. And he says it until we do it.

Speaker 7 That's it. They didn't even ask a question.
They just.

Speaker 4 Fuck yes. I like that.
I like it too. What a nice guy.

Speaker 6 My milkmaid.

Speaker 6 Do you see there was one of those obviously fake Reddit things going around today where this girl was like, I date a 19-year-old guy, and he gets upset at me because when we fool around, my nipples don't lactate.

Speaker 6 And he thought, the guy thinks that that's when girls come.

Speaker 6 They just shoot milk out of their nipples.

Speaker 4 Keep going with it. Keep going.
All right. Milkmate is.
That's a very good compliment.

Speaker 6 Yeah. You could be called a lot worse than that.

Speaker 4 That's a great nickname. All right.
We'll see everyone on the stream. Billy, you want to talk to people? Give them a little.
You've done a terrible job with this, by the way.

Speaker 4 You were supposed to give a speech at the end of every show.

Speaker 6 Closing thoughts. Please do it.

Speaker 4 Love you guys.

Speaker 4 Well, honestly, there's aliens.

Speaker 9 according to the government, but I don't think the aliens come from outer space. I actually think that they come from within the center of the earth.
Because think about it. What's more likely?

Speaker 9 People or beings traveling from thousands of millions of miles away in different universes to a place with life or a place with life having more life just deeper underground? Because think about it.

Speaker 9 There's two sources of heat and energy coming to Earth. It comes from the center of the earth and the sun.

Speaker 9 We live on the surface of the earth, so we get energy from the sun, and that's how photosynthesis works.

Speaker 9 But there are life forms down in the deepest parts of the ocean that get energy from the center of the earth, geothermal energy. So it's very plausible that there are beings at the center of the earth

Speaker 9 that are coming to the surface, and those are actually the aliens.

Speaker 7 What about the UFOs?

Speaker 6 They fly.

Speaker 6 Where do they come from?

Speaker 9 They come from the center of the earth.

Speaker 6 How do they fire?

Speaker 6 Where there's a lot of air.

Speaker 4 They come, yeah. They just know how to travel through the water.

Speaker 6 Like, people say UFOs sometimes come

Speaker 4 from a triangle. Alright.

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