Best of the Bus: Leonard Fournette On His NFL Journey + Was He Better Than Derrick Henry In College?

Summary

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Bussin’ With The Boys: Best of the Bus – Leonard Fournette on His NFL Journey & The Derrick Henry College Debate

Podcast: Bussin’ With The Boys
Host(s): Will Compton & Taylor Lewan
Guest: Leonard Fournette (with additional input from other players)
Original Air Date: November 22, 2025
Episode Theme: Leonard Fournette joins the Boys for a candid deep-dive into his NFL journey—his roots in New Orleans, high school and college stardom, the ups and downs of his pro career (including his controversial exit from Jacksonville), life with the Tampa Bay Bucs, mental health, and the iconic question: Was Fournette better than Derrick Henry in college?

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Episode Overview

The episode spotlights Leonard Fournette’s tumultuous but inspiring football journey, starting from his upbringing in New Orleans, stardom at LSU, and a rollercoaster NFL career (notably his transition from Jacksonville to Tampa Bay). The Boys and Leonard jump into spirited debates about football culture, player fights, SEC legends, and offbeat topics like gas station breakfasts and the best fast food. They wrap with a “Tear Talk”—ranking the best fast food breakfasts—and settle the perennial debate between Fournette's and Derrick Henry’s college careers.

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Key Topics & Takeaways

1. NFL Joint Practice Fights & Locker Room Stories

• Training Camp Scuffles: Leonard dishes on the inevitable fights during joint practices, particularly a heated exchange with Jeff Simmons.
  • “It’s always gonna be a fight no matter what… Hype everybody up, like, hit me, hit him two times. Then it’s like 100 Titans came out of nowhere.” (Fournette, 03:18)
• Locker Room Antics: Hilarious tales about on-field brawls, instigators, and social media drama follow.
  • “Yeah, dude, just sell the fight, dude… Don King. I was up there.” (Fournette, 03:56)

2. Louisiana Roots & LSU Legacy

• Culture & Food: Unfiltered love for Louisiana culture, from thick accents to legendary breakfasts.
  • “Thick lives matter, man. That’s what it’s about… Seafood, the seasoning. Guys like us—we’re big and fast, so that’s what we breed down there.” (Fournette, 11:15)
• High School to LSU: Leonard lists New Orleans products—himself, Tyrann Mathieu, Odell Beckham Jr., Peyton & Eli Manning, Ed Reed—and proudly distinguishes New Orleans from Louisiana at large.
  • “I played with Trey (Turner) my freshman year. I was the only freshman to play varsity.” (Fournette, 11:50)
• When He Knew He ‘Was Him’: Became the number one player in the nation as a high school sophomore.
  • “My sophomore year, I made my mother retire… My first four games, rushed for a thousand yards. After that, it was history.” (Fournette, 13:21)

3. The College vs. Pros Transition; NFL Setbacks

• Jacksonville Departure: Fournette breaks down the “breakup,” clashing with coaches, being cut, and his emotional reaction.
  • “When I got cut from Jacksonville… I wasn’t so hurt. I was just embarrassed.” (Fournette, 21:04)
  • “I was pissed off about it… even when Tom [Brady] reached out to me, I just didn’t really care. I just wanted to spend time with my kids and be mad… That’s one of the—I don’t wish that on nobody.” (Fournette, 25:37)
• Tampa Bay & Playoff Lenny: Details his frustration at not starting, requesting release, and the turning point.
  • “First time in my life, ever gotta play behind somebody… I told Coach B.A., ‘Man, fuck it. Release me.’” (Fournette, 27:07)
  • “I thought about my kids… you gotta keep fighting, you never know what’s at the end of the tunnel.” (Fournette, 28:40)

4. Mental Health, Brotherhood & Player Support

• Checking on Each Other: Candid on the challenges of maintaining mental toughness as a pro athlete—relating to both Ben Simmons and Antonio Brown.
  • “My goal is, because Ben is my brother, I check on Ben, make sure mentally he’s okay. At the end of the day, football is just something we do. That’s not who we are.” (Fournette, 20:28)
  • “My two years with him [A.B.]—I love A.B. No player worked harder than him.” (Fournette, 68:25)

5. The Legendary SEC Running Back Debate

• Derrick Henry vs. Leonard Fournette in College:
  • Leonard makes his statistical case: “His last four games, he [Derrick] got the ball over 40 times... He played one more game than me… I finished with 19-something [yards], but one less game… That says it all.” (Fournette, 69:12)
  • The Boys counter: “All I heard in that situation was Derrick got 2,000. You didn’t.” (Lewan, 69:39)
  • They deep-dive yards-per-game, strength-of-schedule, and the different situations LSU and Bama faced.

6. Inside Jokes, Team Dynamics, and Ice Cream & Cakes

• Failed Running Joke: The infamous “ice cream and cakes” question, an inside joke from LSU days, flops on air—revealing Fournette’s genuine, playful dynamic with teammates.
  • “He looked at me and just goes, ‘Okay.’ And then I said, ‘I’m lost.’” (Podcast Host, 46:12)
  • Foster Moreau, LSU buddy, gets referenced as the “fifth Fournette brother—but you can’t because you’re white.” (Fournette, 47:07)

7. Fast Food, Gas Station Breakfasts & ‘Tear Talk’

• Gas Station Breakfasts in New Orleans: Fourchette proclaims the best breakfast is at local gas stations—not chain drive-thrus.
  • “Our gas stations cook better than half of these on here… I was late to school every day—stop at Mama’s, get my whole class donuts.” (Fournette, 52:49)
• Favorite Fast Food Breakfasts: The Boys rank McDonald’s (McGriddles!), Hardee’s, Carl’s Jr., Taco Bell, Chick-Fil-A, and more.
  • “If you’re hungover, there’s really no better spot to go than Waffle House… get the hash brown smothered, covered…” (Fournette, 45:03)
• Burgers: Strong feelings (pro–Five Guys/Wendy’s, anti–In-N-Out/Whataburger).
• Crawfish & Home Cooking: Fournette can eat 15 lbs solo; insists nothing beats a real New Orleans crawfish boil.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On NFL Fights:
  “It’s always gonna be a fight no matter what.” — Leonard Fournette (03:18)

• On Growing Up in New Orleans:
  “Thick lives matter, man… That’s what it’s about. …Guys like us, we’re big and fast. That’s what we breed down there, bro.” — Fournette (11:15)

• On Being Cut by Jacksonville:
  “When I got cut… I was just embarrassed. I’ve been number one my whole life at everything.” — Fournette (21:04)

• On Not Starting in Tampa:
  “First time in my life ever gotta play behind somebody. So that shit ran me hot—mad as shit every day coming into work. …I told Coach B.A., ‘Fuck it, release me.’” — Fournette (27:07)

• On Mental Health & Brotherhood:
  “My job is, because Ben is my brother, I check on Ben, make sure mentally he’s okay. At the end of the day, football is just something we do. That’s not who we are.” — Fournette (20:28)

• Debating Derrick Henry:
  “So me and Derrick, we used to train with each other… His last four games… he got the ball over 40 times… He played a game more than me. …I finished with 1900 [yards] …but one less game. Okay. That says it all.” — Fournette (69:12)

• On Gas Station Breakfasts:
  “Listen, our gas stations cook better than half of these… I was late to school every day, stop at Mama’s, get my whole class donuts.” — Fournette (52:49)

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Important Timestamps

• [03:18] – Joint practice fights: “It’s always gonna be a fight no matter what…”
• [11:15] – Louisiana food & athletic culture: “Thick lives matter, man…”
• [13:21] – On his high school breakout, mother’s retirement.
• [21:04] – Getting cut from Jacksonville: “I was just embarrassed…”
• [25:37] – The immediate aftermath of his release.
• [27:07] – Asking Bucs to release him, “That shit ran me hot…”
• [46:12] – The “ice cream and cakes” inside joke confounds.
• [52:49] – Gas station breakfasts over fast food chains.
• [69:12] – Fournette makes his case vs. Derrick Henry in college.
• [68:25] – Memories of Antonio Brown: “No player worked harder than him.”
• [45:03] – The group Waffle House breakfast love.

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Tone and Language

The episode is casual, funny, and full of the spontaneous swagger that defines league insiders chatting behind closed doors (“the bus”). The guests repeatedly roast each other, trade personal stories, and show real camaraderie and vulnerability, especially when mental health and the business side of the NFL come up.

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Who Should Listen?

Anyone interested in raw, unfiltered stories from NFL players about life behind the scenes—on-field fights, mental health, locker-room dynamics, and the food that fuels them. Hardcore football fans will love the LSU vs. Bama debates, SEC lore, and player ranking squabbles.

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Final Thoughts

Leonard Fournette holds nothing back, giving listeners an honest look at the undulating journey from being the #1 high school player to NFL champion to humbled backup. The Boys keep it playful but real, bridging the gap between football legend and everyman, with a healthy serving of New Orleans spice.

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Listen if you want:

• Insider NFL fight stories
• Unfiltered takes on getting cut and bouncing back
• Southern food and fast-food breakfast rankings
• Debates on who’s really “Hemi” in the SEC
• A lot of laughs and a little wisdom on life after the game

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Transcript

[Leonard Fournette]

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[Leonard Fournette]

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[Podcast Host 1]

That'S our intro. Boys. We're gonna jump into this London Fortnite episode. I think you guys are gonna like it. Again. Comment, subscribe. Like the pod. Do all this stuff for the boys. Big hugs, tiny kisses. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.

[Leonard Fournette]

Gonna be honest, it was way better when you guys came up here than it was. It's hot as Tampa. It is an absolute swamp down there. Dude, it was.

[Podcast Host 1]

You went to Tampa to practice.

[Leonard Fournette]

We went to Tampa last year, but your boy was coming off the acl, so I was kind of like I was enjoying myself.

[Podcast Host 1]

Right?

[Leonard Fournette]

And it's a cool city too. Like there's like you have like a water everywhere and there's bridges, a lot of places to eat, water. We got a lot of stuff, dude. It's got a good little beach vibe to it. Tampa Bay. But we'll. We'll. Tarantino, we'll go. We're the end. Real quick.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yesterday.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

What's up with you and Jeff Simmons, dude?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was just.

[Podcast Host 1]

I heard. I heard from somebody that you got your asshole by Jeff Simmons.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Huh?

[Podcast Host 1]

I just heard that from somebody.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Well, you know, I did see.

[Leonard Fournette]

And then you. And I saw you kind of like, get dazed, and then somebody caught.

[Podcast Host 1]

You got dazed.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, he, like. He got hit like this. Yeah. And he goes, man, what'd you say? And then Jeff. And then he could see him go to sleep. And then. And then Vita ve caught him and he goes, come on, let's get you out of here.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, I love Vita, man. Even if it did happen like that, which. I don't know. It's a couple guys who love football. You know what I mean? Yeah, but. Nah, nah. But, you know, thought about football. We got into, you know, a couple. You know, it was off and on because yesterday or the day before, they got the best of us, you know what I mean? We came off flat. They whooped our ass. You know, I mean, he was talking his talk, but we came out the next day like, yeah, this is Jeff talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's talking his talk. So after. Afterwards, going there, you know, who's gonna fight eventually? It don't matter.

[Leonard Fournette]

There's always gonna be a fight.

[Podcast Host 1]

It's always gonna be a fight.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It's gonna be a fight no matter what. So hype everybody up, like, hit me. Hit him two times. Then it's like 100 Titans came out of nowhere. Then my team came.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, for real. Hey, he messed up. He messed up because we were doing, like, at the end. We were doing, like, end of game situations or whatever. And you walked towards him, towards our sideline. My man wasn't using his. He wasn't using his situational awareness. His maturating with that a little bit. He was over to the sideline, bro. He's like, jeff, what's your. And Jeff turned around, and Jeff didn't really talk. You could just see him.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Bing.

[Leonard Fournette]

And then Lenny put it in there. And then all of a sudden, there were a lot of blue shirts. Everybody came, and you see some white shirts running in. I'm in there instigating.

[Podcast Host 1]

Love that. Don King.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, dude, just sell the fight, dude. I was up there. We had a couple girls in bikinis walking around round one. They were going, who's. Who's the dude? He's a three. Technique 56. He's always at the grilling Nacho. Because I was in there saying a bunch of stuff, and he turned around, looked at me, and I was like, oh, he's taking me serious.

[Podcast Host 1]

Hey, my man.

[Leonard Fournette]

All right, listen. I got two kids. I ain't trying to fight nobody, you know?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Definitely, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

So you guys thought we won that first day, huh?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, yeah, we came out flat. So y' all definitely got us that first day.

[Podcast Host 1]

What happens in the. In the meetings after? Because I've been a part of the joint practice because there was one time it's a. Washington Vrabel was with Houston, the Texans. Rabel's in there obviously scrapping it up.

[Leonard Fournette]

He loves this when the big nose tackle took that center to the back of the quarterback who was the play for the Patriots for a long time. Huge guy.

[Podcast Host 1]

A D line. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

What is his name? Played for Vince Wolford.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes, bro. Yes. And massive fight broke out on, like, both sides, and essentially, like, they canceled the third day of practice and practice the rest of the day. But there's always, like, a fight that's going to happen because day one happens, and whoever feels like they get the better. Like, the coaches kind of r you up.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, they do let them.

[Podcast Host 1]

Blah, blah, blah. Kind of like when y' all came.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Down there when he was going against gpp.

[Leonard Fournette]

Uhhuh.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I seen it all. I was like, oh, they. They getting after that.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, the first time, I don't know if you were with Tampa yet.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was like they told me the story. Jvp win against everybody, buddy.

[Leonard Fournette]

Let me just tell you something. The first we got to do one on ones. In my head, I'm like, I'm about to beat this dude's ass in one on ones and then trip his hand because he just blew his hand off.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

But I tripped the fuck out of his hand right now. He comes in, dude, I thought he was going out, so I went to punch, and he. He, like, clubbed me with that massive club. Closed me, and I'm like, oh, shit. And I try to, like, go back, and he hit me again. Spun me in a circle. Is the best move that's ever been put on me in my life. And he touches the bag and goes. And I did that with one hand. I'm like. He took everything from me, dude. I didn't stand a chance.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yes.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. The whole day we had. We had to get going, but, yeah, that was. And then Buck's Twitter put that on there. Buck's Twitter's out to get me Bucks.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. You said, oh, the JPP. The JPP 101 reporter buck as well. Yeah, yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

The Buccaneers put that out. JPP move. And it's your boys getting put in a blender.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

And then they show JP that is amazing. One handle, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

Amazing. He's a stud. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm not throwing shade at the man. He's a student and he does that. And they're, like, getting better. And then what happened?

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, they had Shaq Barrett doing a bull rush.

[Leonard Fournette]

Bull rush. Okay. Because I did sit on it. I'm glad. I'm glad I pulled that up. And it just says getting better.

[Podcast Host 1]

And it's just me, like, going, like, backwards. And then he ends up flipping somebody and goes down. And that's a whole pile.

[Leonard Fournette]

And he. He put me in the ground, too. Oh, man, I gotta stop doing them hard counts.

[Podcast Host 1]

You do the pr. Do you run the social account? Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

We'd have to get the mics out first. Yeah, that was tough, dude. Tough.

[Podcast Host 1]

So let's talk about the. The off season, the weight, all the fun content that was going around about you gaining weight. How much were you weighing?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I was like, around 251at the time.

[Podcast Host 1]

And what do you usually play at?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I play like 240.

[Podcast Host 1]

So you eat.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's 11 pounds.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. I mean, 11 pounds, it's not terrible.

[Leonard Fournette]

But, yeah, the jerseys, he's definitely an.

[Podcast Host 1]

Exhaust with the boys.

[Leonard Fournette]

An exhale pick.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, yeah, we. We yell. Because we talked about it on bus.

[Leonard Fournette]

He just ran a hard runner.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

You know, you put that thing out there.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You know what I'm saying? Definitely, definitely. But, you know, at the time, no, football wasn't going on, so they wanted to find something to talk about and I guess that was it. Yeah. You know, I mean, but I think I didn't care. Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

No pause on this.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But I didn't. It didn't bother me too much, you know, I mean, I knew who I am and my team, who I am, when it. When it came from, for the game and time to play in practice. I'm coming with it.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

By June and July.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's free, boys.

[Leonard Fournette]

A little thick.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah. For free time.

[Podcast Host 1]

When are you your thickest? What month?

[Leonard Fournette]

Five. March.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, I say, you can say when the season's over with. I'm at Waffle House. Six o' clock in the morning. All Star special.

[Leonard Fournette]

Professional athlete out there at Waffle House at 6 in the morning. Were you waking up at 6 in the morning or we're up.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Not waking up.

[Podcast Host 1]

We've been up.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Just doing whatever on the Game on the game till like probably five o'.

[Leonard Fournette]

Clock and then in the morning.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah. Then I get up while I'm hungry. Know my chef might cook some healthy. I say, nah, nah, nah, nah. Let's come. Come for lunch. Come for lunch. I'm about to go to Waffle House.

[Leonard Fournette]

And then he comes to the lunch. Hey, come for dinner.

[Podcast Host 1]

Does your alarm go off like for like 5:50 and it just says Waffle House?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, I just naturally, my body just. Just know what time it is. You know what I mean?

[Leonard Fournette]

The New Orleans guys, man, I'm telling you.

[Podcast Host 1]

He's got the thick accent.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, no, yeah, he's. Yeah, New Orleans is like. I dated a girl from. From Baton Rouge. First off, lsu. Probably my favorite SEC school.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

For football, obviously. Baseball. We're a Balls. We're a Vols team here. But bro, I would go down.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We kick your ass, though.

[Leonard Fournette]

We. I went to Michigan. You know what I'm saying?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Balls don't matter.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, okay. Excuse me.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's what you represent.

[Leonard Fournette]

Why you got to pick on the balls? They haven't been like, really it. Since like the 90s.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Right, right. I'm saying. So LSU was. Is the school for baseball?

[Leonard Fournette]

Is it this? Dude, I did go to a baseball game at lsu and it's crazy.

[Podcast Host 1]

LSU is known for their baseball just.

[Leonard Fournette]

As much as I went Mike the Tiger.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

When I was in. When I was in college, it was. I was number one player in football. We had Ben Simmons for basketball. And I want to say Alex for baseball.

[Leonard Fournette]

He went.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He played for Houston, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Are you boys with Ben Simmons?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's my guy.

[Podcast Host 1]

What's up with all the. I don't even watch.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't know. Brock, you know, I can't get in. I can't get into all that.

[Podcast Host 1]

He not have that dog in him.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Alex Brigman. There it is.

[Leonard Fournette]

Addicts.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Brigman, first rounder.

[Leonard Fournette]

So Ellis usually just stacked like that?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Always, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

That stadium is. Is pretty dope, I'm not gonna lie. But what's the. What's the place to go to? And was it Tiger? Tigerland? What's it called? Breads? Mike's Bogeys.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You know all that.

[Leonard Fournette]

Man, I told you I dated a girl in Baton Rouge. What I was really going to say, because you're on that Waffle House.

[Podcast Host 1]

You're a man of the world. Like you've been.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, I've traveled all over the continental United States.

[Podcast Host 1]

Been around the block.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, yeah, I've been around the block. I've been around these streets.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I mean, I You've been there more than me. Probably.

[Leonard Fournette]

Probably.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I went out two times in college.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, buddy. Dude, bogey's a spot now. Bogeys is a spot. We would go there, and they almost didn't let me in because I had tattoos.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

They thought you was a gangster.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, look at me. Hear my voice. I'm not against.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, but all your tats.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Come on.

[Leonard Fournette]

I had just my form, though.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

T. Come on.

[Leonard Fournette]

Just. Just a form. Just a form. Done. And a red T shirt. And they're like, hey, you can't come in. And my ears pierced then, too. Like, no piercings and no tattoo showing. And then eventually the manager came up and he's like, you can just come in. But bogeys is really so much fun. But what I was really getting to with the Louisiana stuff is that the food there is. You can't eat healthy in Louisiana. What's with. What's the deal? You guys just don't believe in health? Don't like that.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Thick lives matter, man. You know, that's what about. That's what it's about. You know, the seafood. I think it's just the culture we have down there, man. The seasoning. You know what I mean? And, you know, guys like us, well, like myself, know we're big and fast, so that's what we breed down there, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

Louisiana is really good.

[Podcast Host 1]

Where do the best athletes come from in New Orleans?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

New Orleans, Yeah. Some people say Louisiana, right?

[Podcast Host 1]

But they have a lot of, like, competitive, like, schools go at it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

But they argue about who the best high school is, how many guys come out of here.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, but. But everything is in New Orleans, though. Like, a lot of people say, you know, some people. Somebody might say I'm from Louisiana, you know, I said, I'm from New Orleans. Yeah. Cause this is a different culture. It's just different out now. You know what I mean? Like, my high school, you know, it was me, Tyrone, Matthew went to my high school. Lorenzo Dawson, Trey Turner. So we have a lot of guys who went there. And I played with Trey my freshman year. I was the only freshman to play on varsity around that time.

[Leonard Fournette]

You just been him since the beginning, huh?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah. Number one ninth grader. Number one player coming to my senior year, Hemi Fournette. Dude.

[Leonard Fournette]

Dude, this man's really just been playoff. Hemi always picked first in school for all sports.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You can say that.

[Leonard Fournette]

When were you. When did. You know I'm going to league?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

To be honest.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes, we won.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Honestly, to be honest. Like, when I. I guess my second year, L.S.U.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, really?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, I thought I was going in.

[Leonard Fournette]

The fourth and be like. Yeah, I was. I was just in puberty.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, because you got to think about, like, you know, I went through some. You know what I mean? And I got put out of six schools coming up, so I had to.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, you got pulled out of six schools coming up?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Put out for fighting and all type of things. So I went to St. August, St. Augustine's like a. It's all boys, black school, you know, trying to kind of help you with your behavior and things like that. Because we had to paddle. You know what I mean?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. With the holes in it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, yeah. For discipline and things like that. So carry on. I came number one player. So I got my sophomore year. Right. I'm talking about. This is a true story. My mom, if you watch this, you know, I mean, my mother retired from work.

[Leonard Fournette]

For real?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

When?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

My sophomore year in high school. I mean, in college.

[Leonard Fournette]

So you were getting paid in college?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Nah, I thought I was gonna make it.

[Leonard Fournette]

Really?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

I love that.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So my first four games rushed for a thousand yards. After that, it was history.

[Leonard Fournette]

It was over.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was over with.

[Leonard Fournette]

You did have a crazy highlight.

[Podcast Host 1]

You made her retire before you even went to the league.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Definitely.

[Podcast Host 1]

Now, did you get a little. A little something to go?

[Leonard Fournette]

I wish I did, Eli.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I would have. They look, hey, trust me, look. They would have seen it. I would have brought the baddest car. They had Mercedes.

[Podcast Host 1]

We're trying to offer. We're trying to offer that little, you know, that little envelope, that little brown bag.

[Leonard Fournette]

Alabama Ole Miss, we take it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So my. My two schools were LSU in Alabama. Burton Burns went to my high school. The running back coach at Bama.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

And Frank Wilson went to my high school. The running back coach at lsu. So it was so hard for me because, like, the backgrounds we have is the same thing. You know what I mean? So it just came. You know, I had a daughter around that time, too. And I went to Obama, like, during the off season, like, just to check them out and things like that. It's boring as shit up there. It's boring as hell. So I'm like, coach, this ain't for me, coach. And I gotta go way back and forth to see my kids and things like that. I just stayed home, man. Cause before that, Landon Collins was the number one player in Louisiana. He went to Bama. And I remember how much hate he got for that. But they was mad as shit at Landon, too.

[Leonard Fournette]

Where's Landon from?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

New Orleans.

[Leonard Fournette]

From New Orleans?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Everyone's from New Orleans. Where's Odell from?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

New Orleans?

[Leonard Fournette]

No, he's not. Is he from New Orleans?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yes.

[Podcast Host 1]

Do y' all have the best.

[Leonard Fournette]

Is Baton Rouge. Does Baton Rouge have anybody?

[Podcast Host 1]

I mean, there's probably definitely some.

[Leonard Fournette]

Who. Oh, Edwards, Allaire. Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Does New Orleans produce the best players in the game?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

On the. New Orleans small. You know, you got Florida too. You know what I mean? Florida got.

[Podcast Host 1]

Florida's a state.

[Leonard Fournette]

Florida's a. Yeah. Florida's a different world now.

[Podcast Host 1]

City of New Orleans versus.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You could say that. You could say that. I mean, you look up, look up, you look up some of the great, great names who come from my high school. Like talking about just athletic wise. Just put St Aug. I don't know what you'll put on there. High school athletes, 10 dog. At least in New Orleans we have basketball players.

[Leonard Fournette]

When are you done you to play in New Orleans?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, no.

[Leonard Fournette]

Are you gonna live in New Orleans?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Sorry, no, no, I'm not. I'm not.

[Podcast Host 1]

Wait, you just.

[Leonard Fournette]

You've been hyping New Orleans the whole time.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, but it's too close to family. Like, wow. Why would I do that? Marshall Falk. Jesus. Peyton Manning and Reed.

[Podcast Host 1]

Hey, Manning came from New Orleans.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yes. Yeah. Don't.

[Leonard Fournette]

Come on, L.A. i don't think he's from New Orleans. Oh, no, he is from New Orleans. Ed Reed, Terry Bradshaw.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Look at the name. This is crazy.

[Podcast Host 1]

Hall of Famer, Anias Williams. Hall of Famer.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Come on now, it's my guy. Rail Park.

[Leonard Fournette]

Eli Manning.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Pete Manning. Yes, sir. Warren Dunn.

[Leonard Fournette]

New Orleans. Really? Like that.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Come on. Deck. Dak Prescott. I forgot about deck.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, man.

[Podcast Host 1]

Ben Simmons.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Jarvis Landry Simmons again.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love a lot of. He took a. He's taking a lot of.

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[Podcast Host 1]

Because apparently he like sits out of injuries and stuff like that. I don't know. It sounds like, you know.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

I think there's somebody elaborate here that knows all about that.

[Podcast Host 1]

There is somebody here that will be able to confirm if.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey. Hey, Benny. What's up, dude? It's Lenny and he's like, what's up, Elbow?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, talk to Ben, bro. Ben is doing fine, man. You know, we all go through our own things. Yeah. So we talking about sitting out. So when I set out, I was the first person to skip a bowl game or whatever, right?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. And it was rewriting history and it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Was on my ass. Like when I came to the draft and things like that, there was questions, do I love the game of football. Things like that.

[Leonard Fournette]

But just put the tape on.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

They don't know. I played the whole year hurt.

[Leonard Fournette]

What'd you hurt?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I had a high low angle sprain but I played. I heard it when the training camp we had a game against Wisconsin. Two weeks later I still played on a bum ass ankle. Right? So my thing was how can you question my passion for football when I'm still playing half the season with a bum ankle? That's when I ran for 16 carries. 284 against Ole Miss when I ran over the dude and things like that on a hurt ankle.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, that fucking. That was so crazy. Would you say you're the best running back in college football history?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So there's a lot of guys I can't. I can't really say that. I can't really say that.

[Leonard Fournette]

What about who's another good back?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

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[Leonard Fournette]

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[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

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[Leonard Fournette]

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[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yep.

[Leonard Fournette]

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[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

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[Leonard Fournette]

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[Podcast Host 1]

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[Leonard Fournette]

I want to maybe place for the titan.

[Podcast Host 1]

I want him to continue to elaborate on him, the whole sit out thing.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, hold up. I heard what you said, right?

[Leonard Fournette]

We'll get back to that. We'll get back. We will get back to that conversation. That'll be a fun one. All right.

[Podcast Host 1]

All right.

[Leonard Fournette]

Because I know whose side I'm taking.

[Podcast Host 1]

Because I think you're trying to preserve yourself for your future. Definitely for compensation for going to the. Yeah, the Ben Simmons situation. The compensation's already there. You're already in the league. We're in playoff time. Doesn't sound like he's like a playoff Benny.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't know. I feel like everyone goes through their own problems, their own situations, and you never know what's on their mind or how they feel.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You know what I mean? For my job, my goal is because Ben is my brother. I check on Ben, make sure mentally he's okay. You know what I mean? Because at the end of the day, football is just something we do. That's not who we are. At the end of the day, you know, we all go to the mental battle. Of course you play football. You know how it was. You know how it was, too.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It could get. It could get rough. Some dark times out there.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You know, especially when you're trying to be the best you can be. You have other problems going on. So I don't know. That's. That's kind of like a. That's a hard situation because I've been through it too, and I know how I felt like even when I got cut from Jacksonville, too, like, I was. I wasn't so hurt. I was just embarrassed.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Because I've been number one my whole life at everything.

[Leonard Fournette]

You get cut, then you get cut. Feeling of, hey, GM wants to see you.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, definitely. Which I've never experienced that before. You know what I mean? So when I came up there, like 7:30 in the morning, we're getting ready for eat breakfast and things like that. They say, coach want to see you. But I'm thinking he want to talk to me because, you know, I made the team practice like that. You know, we had the things going on with the Black Lives Matter thing. Right. And we had a big, big back and forth and go should we practice or should we go in front of the police station and take a stand? So my biggest thing, like, we did the marches. We did everything right. We did all that. One day of us is going in front of police station. Not gonna change it. Not gonna change nothing. Yeah. You know, let's go put this work in. And we took account as a team, and that's what we did. And I felt like the next day that's what it was about. And he cut me, you know, and that's when I had to really understand the business of the NFL football.

[Podcast Host 1]

Was there my fault.

[Leonard Fournette]

What did he say to you when they. When they cut you? What. Like how they handle that situation? Because was it. Was it did. Was there anything at all to you that was like, this might happen?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

What's your contract? Talks going on, and you were kind of like a cap casualty.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You got to think about it. So that's when they got rid of Jalen, rid of Yannick, they got rid of Kalez. So it's a lot of other guys.

[Leonard Fournette]

Saxonville time.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah. Who made the team was.

[Podcast Host 1]

Those are good players, too. Like, I know Janik. He's a good leader. I played with him at the Raiders last year. He was like. Like, when he spoke, you listened. Yeah, Calais is kind of the same way.

[Leonard Fournette]

He legit. Like, Claes seemed like he came in and changed Jacksonville.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

They brought him over from Arizona, and it kind of seemed like he just revamped everybody. You know what I'm saying?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

So was there a coaching change that year?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Nah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Why do you think you got cut?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We just didn't see eye to eye, you know, it'd be times like the 2019 season. We lost a couple of games where I was like six, seven points. And they get on the plane, just smiling, happy. I mean, I'm not built like that. You know what I mean? So when you go to question the coach, like, man, you doing all this, man, we losing. Like, what's up? Yeah, I know how I feel to win and what happens to our team and you talking about the money and things like that. When you win, that's when all that comes. And I just think he didn't respect me, how I came at him. I mean, that's all I knew. I got a father who was hard as shit on me, you know, just keeping it real, you know? So when he said, man, if y' all have a problem, come talk to me like a man. I had a problem. Yeah, we losing. How can we fix this?

[Leonard Fournette]

Right?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I want to win.

[Leonard Fournette]

Now, when you look back at that conversation, how did you approach it? Was it like a. Did you come at him? Or was it like, hey, I'm closing the door.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Hey, let me highlight you. Like, yeah, we walked in the middle of the aisle talk. And from my understanding, I felt like he understood me, but I guess it's two alpha males going at it or whatever the case. So now I just carried on to the next off season. You know, we walk by each other in the hall, don't say a word. But then you my coach, you know, you my head coach. No matter how old I am, You a man. I'm a man. I'm respect you. You go tell my coach. Well, why Leonard not talking to me? You come ask me that, right? And I tell you why. Like, I'm. I'm not gonna have my hand draw rock. And how my. I'm tell you what's on my mind. So it was just about time for me to get out there, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

That's wild, dude. So when you. All right, so you get cut after you get cut, how long are you on the street? Until like a week. A week.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But I just wanted to take.

[Podcast Host 1]

Clearly I remember that headline. It's like, Leonard Fournet.

[Leonard Fournette]

I was like, let's go.

[Podcast Host 1]

You know what I'm saying?

[Leonard Fournette]

We gotta play him twice a year.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Every time you play Lenny, it's like, hey, we got the run. Yeah, yeah, you gotta stop the run. This guy, he's gonna. They're in the ball 30 times a game. So for us at the Times, and for whatever reason when you were there, like, we would just. Even when you guys were Saxonville, for some reason, we just win.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

You know, say, man, like.

[Leonard Fournette]

Good at any moment. I'm saying, back then. Yeah, back then, every year's a new year.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

So you're on.

[Podcast Host 1]

You're my worst. Titans got that Jacksonville ad.

[Leonard Fournette]

Would you relax? Hey, Rabel's now putting this up in a team meeting. Making me look like Will, though.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's not your words. He's hearing you like, hey, Will, shut the up. No, I'm just saying.

[Leonard Fournette]

Headlines all say the same thing. Busting with the boys. Say, hey, Titans, beat the Jacksonville's ass.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That is true.

[Podcast Host 1]

And it's just. It's just a photo. I quote tweeted. It's just a photo of me fucking.

[Leonard Fournette]

Just flexing in front of the kids the entire time. So you're. You're on the street for a week and I'm sure there's a bunch of teams calling you. How soon after you get cut, do you go from being, like, kind of sad, upset, to being like, okay, there's huge, huge opportunities out here. I can kind of go where I want to go?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, I was still pissed off about it. Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

You still mad now?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Like, even when, huh?

[Leonard Fournette]

You mad right now?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, not right now.

[Leonard Fournette]

No.

[Podcast Host 1]

You good?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I'm good.

[Leonard Fournette]

All right.

[Podcast Host 1]

Chip on your shoulder you carry with you because obviously it's like a humbling thing to.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You got to. Even when Tom reached out to me, you know, I'm like, all right, I might go here. I might not. I don't know. I was still like. At the time, I just didn't really care, you know what I mean? I just wanted to spend time with my kids and just whatever. So just be mad. Yeah, I'm gonna keep it real. That's one of the. I don't wish that on nobody.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, sometimes you just wanna be mad for a couple of days.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So I went to Tampa, you know what I mean? Started playing and things like that. Still pissed off about it. Like, I'm with a whole new team, I'm forced to learn a whole new playbook and things like that, so. And then, you know, got to meet the mid season and I wasn't starting. First time in my life ever gotta play behind somebody. So that shit ran me high. Mad as shit at each and every day coming into work. So then we played against Carolina, away in Carolina, and got on the plane, we won a game with her guy on the plane. And I'm telling Coach B.A. i'm like, man, I need to holler at you. Like. Like, man, y' all told me all this shit about playing. I'm gonna come in and start. And we in like week nine and I'm still behind somebody, you know what I mean? So he was like, man, he's like, what you gonna do? I'm like, man, fuck it. Release me.

[Leonard Fournette]

In Tampa.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

In Tampa.

[Podcast Host 1]

And this is a conversation where you're like, release me.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah. And he was like, now, did you make that.

[Leonard Fournette]

Did you make that decision emotionally or did you really have, like, think about it?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was. It was emotionally, probably because if you.

[Leonard Fournette]

Go from Jacksonville, get cut, go to Tampa.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's my ass.

[Leonard Fournette]

And then a month later or two months later, they're like, leonard Burnett asked to be released.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

And then it's all of a sudden, like, hey, who wants you? Don't want to touch this guy.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was. It was. It was from emotion. Emotion. Standpoint of view, you know what I mean? And the thing. What I respect about Coach B.A. he's old school, too. He was like, well, motherfucker, I don't want to cut you, but if you want to, I'll do it. He's like, man, you're a great player. One of the best. I've seen this, that, and the third. He's like, man, just make the decision and let me know when we make it home. I would think about my kids, my family, you know, this is how I provide for my kids.

[Podcast Host 1]

Are certain guys reaching out to you? Are they aware of the situation with your teammates?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

This happened on a plane.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, damn.

[Leonard Fournette]

I didn't see Lenny in the exit row mad as, hey, no one talked to him right? Now, check this out. Exactly how I probably went, hey, man, you see this?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

And it's just, all right, it's on the plane. So I had to make the decision. And from now on, man, like, I flourish.

[Leonard Fournette]

What changed in your mind from that conversation? Saying, hey, release me. Sitting there fuming on the plane. And then obviously, it had to be, what, 24 hours if we had another conversation.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

What changed your mind? Saying, hey, don't release me. Like, do you think I'm just gonna beat this dude out? Who's starting in front of you?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Ronald Jones?

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't know. I thought about my kids, man. You know, I thought about, really, my family, you know? Cause just the whole year, they was there for me, talking to me, pushing me, you know, just trying to keep my head on a swivel, make sure I'm doing the right thing. So, I mean, you have to keep fighting, you know, you never know what's at the end of the tunnel. To be honest.

[Leonard Fournette]

I get that.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's. That's. That's. That's a wild timeline.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. Now he's like, become playoff Lenny.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, yeah, right. The playoff Lenny stuff is hilarious, by the way.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Going back on the Jacksonville stuff, like, I. You hear a lot of stories. I don't know. Did you ever play with Marshall Speight? No, but Spade was a linebacker. That was in Washington. And then he ended up going to Jacksonville. We ended up playing them in the game, and then afterwards, he's like, bro, playing in Jacksonville is wild. You got coaches fighting on the sideline, players fighting on the sideline. Just seemed like a real toxic organization.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, dude, back in that.

[Podcast Host 1]

Back in that, back. Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't think we ever had fights on things like that with the coaches, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

Even last year, Miles Jack, we were playing them, it was at home. And Miles Jack's like. It was like the End of the game, we're winning. He's like, just get us out of here. Like, why are we calling timeout? We're trying to run it, like, four minutes. And he's like, can we just stop calling timeout? Like, let's just get the out of here. Like, great guy, dude. I'm a fan of Miles.

[Podcast Host 1]

Athlete, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

That dude can move. Yeah, but when you're, you know, it's on the front, it's on. Like, Rabel will never let that happen. You know what I'm saying?

[Podcast Host 1]

Like. Like, if that was a situation, he heard about it. Yeah. I think there's a difference between.

[Leonard Fournette]

Here you like Ray, because rape is a dude that, like, he's going to shoot to you straight. And he always says his big catchphrase is, I'm going to treat you how you treat the team. And so if you're out there, you're working, he's going to. He's going to treat you right.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

And guys that aren't, he's gonna get on your ass.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

So going back to. I won't. I've heard stuff, but I won't ask about ice cream and cakes. But let's talk about some memories at lsu. The pain cave. What's the pain cave?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, the pain caves. So they made a wooden gym, right, with liff in there. Just fun memories, you know? I mean.

[Leonard Fournette]

What happened?

[Podcast Host 1]

Wooden gym.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

So what y' all doing there?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We just left. We had to lift.

[Leonard Fournette]

Lift wood weights, but attached to wood. Yeah, Basically Google the pain cave, dude. See if we can get a picture of this thing.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

They don't have it on a. Oh.

[Leonard Fournette]

It'S just like a secret society at lsu. You can't see nothing in there, huh?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

Was this the thing that happened when he got in trouble or something? Like the pain cave? No, it's just like a punishment.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, it's just. It was like our weight room was getting built and this is me. Like a wooden weight room in an indoor or whatever the case may be. And just look. We tonight.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, I got you.

[Podcast Host 1]

Is there any more context to ice cream and cakes?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Ice cream and cakes.

[Podcast Host 1]

Ice cream and cakes.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What is that one?

[Leonard Fournette]

What is that?

[Podcast Host 1]

I was told to ask you about ice cream and cakes.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Who told you to ask me about that?

[Podcast Host 1]

Can't give up my sources. A good reporter never gives up his sources.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, bleep it.

[Podcast Host 1]

He seemed to think that Lenny would really laugh at that, and clearly there's been no reaction.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, we're in a tough stall.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like, maybe I was Given some bad information right now, we're looking bad. He said, say it exactly like this. I won't ask you about ice cream and cakes, but let's talk about your time at lsu.

[Leonard Fournette]

And he just said. He goes.

[Podcast Host 1]

Looks at me and just goes, okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Look, it's my guys, Levante and Vita.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, they're here.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I love them.

[Leonard Fournette]

He said, I love them. Are you guys a close group? Tampa?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We.

[Leonard Fournette]

Are you guys really like that?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Where's Tom been? What's he up to?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, he's chilling, man. I love Tom.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, everybody loves Tom. We love.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love Tom.

[Leonard Fournette]

I don't even know Tom, but I love Tom.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I love him outside the football field. But when y' all play against him.

[Podcast Host 1]

What about with him?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, obviously we don't like him when we play against him, but, like, you're kind of flexing us as you know Tom.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Well, that is.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yo.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That is.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's really just the goat of all goats, right? Best athlete of all time.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He works his ass off. Yeah. There's no question, like, the physical standpoint, he might not be the biggest. You know what I mean?

[Podcast Host 1]

We've seen the photos.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, we saw his combine.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

The mental aspect of it, though, he'll fry your.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, there was a. He was miked up or you were miked up or something like that. And he's going to fake a play. Action goes cover two.

[Podcast Host 1]

I remember that cover, too.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

So you just don't really have to think.

[Podcast Host 1]

Does he make your game easier?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I mean, having a great quarterback makes anybody games easier. You know what I mean?

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, but as far as.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But now that kind of detail, it's not. Yeah, he does. But now, like you had. You had guys like Julio got Mike got Chris have to come back. Yeah, we shall see.

[Leonard Fournette]

How's Julio doing there?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He's great. And he's funny, as.

[Leonard Fournette]

Is he practicing a lot.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, he is.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's going. Huh?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He's going.

[Leonard Fournette]

I saw him in pads the first day. Oh, my God.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Damn.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's gonna be him again, huh?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, he is.

[Leonard Fournette]

You're in on me. So, my bro.

[Podcast Host 1]

My. My source. Hang on. I'm doing. Oh, yeah, my source. Awesome.

[Leonard Fournette]

You gotta go back to this ice cream thing.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, no.

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay, good.

[Podcast Host 1]

This is a new topic. I heard that you like Post Malone White. Iverson was your favorite song until you found out Post Malone was white.

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[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir, Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships. No band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years. The Beatles broke up in seven and a half years and we're going on 35.

[Leonard Fournette]

Listen to earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Podcast Host 1]

White that's just what I heard.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

White Iverson. I love that song. But but who the fuck is your source?

[Podcast Host 1]

I Heard you, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

You're killing us right now. This is hard.

[Podcast Host 1]

I'm sorry. It's not, you know.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, you just asked this man if. Hey, do you not like white people that rap?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I love Vanilla Ice.

[Podcast Host 1]

Were you surprised when you found out he was white?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Definitely.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, well, yeah, that's probably where it came from.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That doesn't mean I didn't like that he was white.

[Podcast Host 1]

You can. You can probably understand. You can probably understand. Next to him, who would you think would get. Would try and give me this information?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He went to LSU with me.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Gotta be a linebacker.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Nah, nah, it's not. He played offense.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Gotta be my third with my fifth fournette brother.

[Podcast Host 1]

Your fifth four? You got a fournette, brothers?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He wants to be a fournette, but he can't because he's white.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, I would love to know this.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

And you might be right, Foster. And by the way, I love Foster. Yeah, I love Foster ass.

[Leonard Fournette]

So do you have any idea what this ice cream thing is then?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, I really don't.

[Podcast Host 1]

He literally. He was like, say it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I can't remember. I don't know.

[Podcast Host 1]

He said, he'll laugh.

[Leonard Fournette]

Definitely gonna watch this.

[Podcast Host 1]

Loosen him up. Not that he wasn't already coming on here.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I'm lying. Foster.

[Podcast Host 1]

I know, because.

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[Podcast Host 1]

Because he saw the clip where Foster talked about the time he got his ass whooped in the LSU locker room. Man, he ends up hitting me up. He goes, hey, everything Foster said was true because apparently Foster got, like, jumped by everybody. Well, he knew he was going to get his ass whooped because he, like, started a fight.

[Leonard Fournette]

Why did he get his ass beat?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, so one of our guys got beat, I guess. Got beat on the football field. So I told the coach, I was like, man, look, before we start this shit offense, somebody got to fight somebody, right? So our offensive coordinate, like, gang, like, circle it up. So our coach is like, yeah, we.

[Leonard Fournette]

Going, da, da, da, da, da.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Which I'm not thinking one occurs is going to do that, right? Yeah. Till we get into this fight, man, Foster, just crack. Back the shit out. Donnie, my guy. Donnie played linebacker from New Orleans. Of course. Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Apparently everyone is now.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He went, ball.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love the pretty strong from New Orleans.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

And he went like. I thought he went so high in the air, right? So we get into a team fight. Whatever you hear Donnie walking down the hall. I'm sick of this motherfucker. So I'm like. I say, foster, run. I'm like, foster, run. So Foster, you know, he just. He's like, what? I'M like, foster, you about to get your ass whooped, Foster. So the. On the bathroom. Bathroom floor is already slippery. They got cleats on.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, that's a horrible bad. Yeah, take your shoes off first. Like, talk shit. Hey, you piece of shit. I'm gonna get your ass off.

[Podcast Host 1]

It all on. Because he knew he was about to be in a fight with some.

[Leonard Fournette]

So he had his shoulder pads on too.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Everything on.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, I had my helmet on too, if I was him.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But I'm like, why?

[Podcast Host 1]

Protection?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Ain't no protection. Not gonna get jumped. You didn't crack back the hood. You crack back one person. Yeah. So he's just standing about a. It's about. He's about a bathroom. So it's the. So, Chris, it's the stalls right here. You know what I mean? And you wash your hands on the other side. He's just standing there, just looking. So he watched. Donnie punched him, right? He watched the ass whooping.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, I think he says that, right. Yeah, because he knew he need. Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, man, he's leaking everywhere, right? He leaking down. Hit him one time. He's leaking. He's like, come on. So I'm like, nah, nah, nah, nah, we're not gonna do that.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So they kind of started wrestling. I'm like, so then dudes in the.

[Leonard Fournette]

Bathroom wrestling, full equipment on, right? Hey, you guys. Punches in the face. And then he goes, hey, we're not gonna do that. Yeah, get on the ground. Wrestle.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So they started wrestling, right? We had to bring him up, Blood everywhere and like that. So then he got. Foster gets up. Oh, we good now. I'm like, foster, you didn't do nothing.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. So they. They move on. Are they boys now?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

So if you were to see Jeffrey Simmons right now, you guys be boys. You guys are cool now.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, of course.

[Leonard Fournette]

I love that.

[Podcast Host 1]

That was just a heat of the moment football, definitely. And I was joking about the whole asshole. I mean, I didn't know that you got like hit in the mouth or something.

[Leonard Fournette]

No, actually, I didn't even see it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

The only thing I heard, I didn't.

[Leonard Fournette]

Know he started it. And then he's all mad. He was walking like, lenny, what's wrong?

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, I forget who I heard it from, but I just heard he wasn't in and he just comes out of nowhere to go, like, fight Jeff Simmons. Because he wasn't even over with.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was like. It was in a practice.

[Leonard Fournette]

It was the last play. We're done.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We can all go home now for a practice.

[Leonard Fournette]

Right.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We did the two minute thing or whatever. They catch the interception, then the second team went. And then he came. He came out on the sideline. He was talking to one of our officer linemen. I'm like, I'm going to break it up. Really?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

He was like, what the. What the you doing?

[Leonard Fournette]

I don't. Hold on. Listen.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What?

[Leonard Fournette]

We just met, and I'm really trying to navigate our new friendship.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What?

[Leonard Fournette]

But you can put the film on so you're not trying to bring up. Your team's over there and you're walking.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But we had a play over there.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So it's a hundred of y'. All. It's two of us. Then he already tripping at him the whole practice.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So, you know, gotta think. Think fast.

[Leonard Fournette]

What'd you say?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Can't really say it right here.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, but so something that instigated a fight, you wasn't really trying to break it up.

[Leonard Fournette]

The film was awesome. The film stayed on like the play was over. And they kept the cameras running.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Did they pull it up? They both swung up.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Who swung first then?

[Leonard Fournette]

Jeff.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

All right, that is.

[Leonard Fournette]

But who said words first?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We both were saying words.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, no, Jeff was walking away.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, he wasn't.

[Leonard Fournette]

Jeff was, bro. I'm telling you. Here's what happened. The play's done. Teams are literally walking in like this. You see one guy, you walking this way, and you see Simmons. Literally, he says something, whatever. Turns around and takes three full steps. No. To our sideline. The day is over. We're bringing it up.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Why turn back?

[Podcast Host 1]

And then you.

[Leonard Fournette]

Because you open them out. Dude, they asked. White teeth, dude. You see him say yelling something, and it turns around and you can see justice. I'm like, what'd you say? Bink and hit him? But then you came back with two. You got two pieces of biscuit real quick, just real fast. And then all of a sudden, a.

[Podcast Host 1]

Lot of blue jerseys. A lot of blue jersey.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, behind it. Trask, the quarterback, you piece of.

[Podcast Host 1]

Were you wondering where all the red jerseys were?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, I didn't care. I'm gonna hold my own. That's one thing about me. I know how to fight.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

90 of us.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

The most they can do is jumping out. They gonna kill me. Yeah, right.

[Leonard Fournette]

Well, we could 90 guys on one. We could easily kill you.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

How many y' all gonna get charged for murder then? What?

[Podcast Host 1]

That's what you said.

[Leonard Fournette]

Not all of us. We have a fall guy like that 4 string guy.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Guess what? I'm bringing the Whole New Orleans to Tennessee.

[Leonard Fournette]

No, you're dead.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, no, no. They're gonna ride for me if I'm dead or not.

[Podcast Host 1]

We don't want New Orleans to come out here.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, New Orleans. You don't want to mess New Orleans now.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Definitely.

[Leonard Fournette]

You boys are racy.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, racy's all time now.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Who's this?

[Leonard Fournette]

Thirteen? He's a wide receiver for lsu, baby. He studied. I think he's from Ninth Ward.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

New Orleans. I'm out the seven Ward. Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

You gotta know.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's why. That's why. That's why I went number seven.

[Leonard Fournette]

Really?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

For my hood.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, man, you could have brought that up in the beginning. Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Right now.

[Leonard Fournette]

No, you had the Sevens for me.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I thought, nah, we ain't gonna. That's too. That's too much. Yeah, that's too much.

[Leonard Fournette]

Even though I always think of that, though. This guy got tattooed for me.

[Podcast Host 1]

Should we get into our tear talk?

[Leonard Fournette]

We gotta get into it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Let's get it.

[Podcast Host 1]

So, you know, Are you familiar with our tear talk?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No.

[Podcast Host 1]

Basically, we tear. It's like our top three things. Yeah, but we just call it tear talk. Okay. Yeah, but our tear talk for this show is going to be fast food breakfast.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, Now, Waffle House is fast, casual. Like, it has to have a drive through.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, this is. You can't say Waffle House.

[Leonard Fournette]

But hey, I'll tell you what, Waffles is a fire breakfast spot. We can just put that in God tier to make you make you happy.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Though, like, Waffle House has its holes, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

It's better than. But if you looked at all the other places.

[Podcast Host 1]

No, I think it's good, but I'm.

[Leonard Fournette]

Just saying it doesn't have its holes.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It's the same.

[Leonard Fournette]

No, if you're looking for. Hey, if you're hungover.

[Podcast Host 1]

D by Waffle.

[Leonard Fournette]

House, they just don't know if you're hungover. There's really no better spot to go to Waffle House. Get the hash brown smothered, covered.

[Podcast Host 1]

I don't know, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

Get it all done.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, you. Oh, you seem like you did that a couple of times.

[Leonard Fournette]

What you talking about? But if you look at Waffle House, wall, House beats out ihop, beats out Denny's.

[Podcast Host 1]

Does it beat out Cracker Barrel?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yes. Oh, I think Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel. You're talking about the menu.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I love Cracker Barrel pancakes.

[Leonard Fournette]

Really?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

The best.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm not even a pancake guy, really.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Waffle guy.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm a waffle guy. Dude, you're literally eating Cake for breakfast? What are you talking about? That's the most childish thing you can do.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Ice cream. Oh, my God.

[Leonard Fournette]

All right, so are we gonna do the back, too? All right, so basically. Basically how this is gonna go. You're gonna go first. This is tough. I feel for you. It's gonna be fast food spots. These are just references you're looking at here. So you're gonna go your top three, your. Your number three, your number two, and your number one. And feel free to give as much of an explanation as you like. And if you want an honorable mention, you're more than welcome to do that, too.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Okay.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'll give you a minute.

[Podcast Host 1]

Boss. Yo, so I'm sitting here with your boy, Playoff Lenny, and I say exactly what you said. I'm not going to talk about ice cream and cakes, but let's talk about your time at lsu. He looked at me and just goes, okay. And then I said, I'm lost. Fox pivoted to the pain cave. And then I tried going back. I'm like, what's going. What's going on with the ice cream? Ice cream? He goes, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm lost.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

False. What is that? Nah, I don't.

[Leonard Fournette]

I don't know if I remember.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't know if I remember Lenny. I don't know if I remember either. Okay, so listen, maybe it's like a.

[Podcast Host 1]

Side conversation not to have a.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Let's clarify this. Right? You ready? Let's clarify this. You listening to me? False. Yo, what is your last name? Oh, last time I checked, just started with an F. Right, But. But what? Last name? My brother right there, he said.

[Podcast Host 1]

He said you're his guy. You're like, you're his fifth fournette brother or. Yeah, yeah, fifth fournette brother. But you can't really be in the family because you're white.

[Leonard Fournette]

As long as he knows I'm not his son.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, we straight.

[Podcast Host 1]

All right. That's all I had because they said to call you on the whole. Ice cream and cakes, you.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You beautiful bastards. I love you both. I.

[Leonard Fournette]

All right, bro.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I love you, too.

[Leonard Fournette]

What a squad, dude. What a crew.

[Podcast Host 1]

All right.

[Leonard Fournette]

Lenny's loved by his teammates. Yeah, you can tell. We're gonna see how they interact when we all. We're gonna watch that. Make sure you get on film.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Because Atlanta just walks out the door. We know Tampa's in trouble. All right, top three. I kind of gave him the rundown.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, you can.

[Leonard Fournette]

Do you have to do your tier Three. Three and then two and then number one for you. And I told him, you can give an honorable mention. I myself, I'm not ready. I'm not prepared. So I'm anxious to see.

[Podcast Host 1]

I feel my heartbeat.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Can I. Can I speak the honest truth?

[Leonard Fournette]

Go ahead.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I never had a Starbucks breakfast.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, Yeah, I think I've never had it. I. When I do have my free time off season, my daughter, I bring it up every day to go for school. She loves white hot cocoa. Like $17, right?

[Podcast Host 1]

The white mocha.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, whatever. It's like $17. That is too high.

[Leonard Fournette]

Too high.

[Podcast Host 1]

But you just know Starbucks is getting a little crazy.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Starbucks, though?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. You're Starbucks over Duncan.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I know the owners with the owner.

[Leonard Fournette]

Of Duncan and Starbucks of Starbucks. Yeah, Starbucks. Starbucks.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I wish you invested soon.

[Leonard Fournette]

Let's go, buddy. All right.

[Podcast Host 1]

All right. Yeah. So start with three again. You can throw in an honorable man, somebody off.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Man, McDonald's, because it's just a childhood thing for me. The McGriddle. Nice biscuit. Love it.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Who.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Burger King has breakfast?

[Leonard Fournette]

That's obviously not yours.

[Podcast Host 1]

Toast sticks.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Kind of kick a little bit, but.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, man, I never knew that.

[Podcast Host 1]

I do have breakfast. You don't have to pick off this list either. Like, if you're thinking, like, if you're driving around and you want fast food breakfast, like, what three spots are you trying to go to, too?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But it'll be spots I never heard of, though.

[Leonard Fournette]

Like, that's okay. That's okay.

[Podcast Host 1]

You can do your thing. You might get drugged by the Internet, but that's, you know, into all that's.

[Leonard Fournette]

Between you and them. Yeah, yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I'll one of y' all up. So.

[Leonard Fournette]

Not if there's 90, though.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So in New Orleans, got this famous place called Mamas.

[Leonard Fournette]

Mamas Fire. What do they serve?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Anything you want.

[Leonard Fournette]

Is it fast food?

[Podcast Host 1]

Are we talking about you, like, have a drive through?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Nah. All right. Drive through. Damn, bro.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, there you go again.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You don't have drops. You gotta walk in and, you know, get your stuff.

[Leonard Fournette]

Old school.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

All right, well, I love Chick Fil A.

[Podcast Host 1]

So is that your 2?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I just stopped right there. I ain't got an honorable mention. I stop at Chick Fil A.

[Podcast Host 1]

You got three and two, and you're.

[Leonard Fournette]

You're like, no one.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No one.

[Podcast Host 1]

You don't have a number one?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, I don't have a number one.

[Leonard Fournette]

That's wild.

[Podcast Host 1]

And that's what we should put in there. I don't have.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You gotta think about it, like, where we from like our breakfast spots are like our gas stations.

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[Leonard Fournette]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir, Night Piece how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friends. No, no band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years. Like the Beatles broke up in seven and a half years and we're going on 35.

[Leonard Fournette]

Listen to earsay the Audible and iheart audiobook club on the iheartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Podcast Host 1]

Tell me I'm not having a favorite.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Listen, listen. Our gas station cook better than half of these on here.

[Leonard Fournette]

What are you shaking your head for, Garrett? You're not from New Orleans.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, but I can imagine, like, yeah, listen, listen. Mama words to my mother and my kids. I was late to school in high school every day. Every day. Right?

[Leonard Fournette]

Because I believe it.

[Podcast Host 1]

I do believe it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Breakfast.

[Podcast Host 1]

If you got pulled from six schools, I do not doubt for a second that you were late every day to school.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Every day. I stop at Mama's and they sold donuts, too. Get my whole class donuts.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, you never get in trouble.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But what he was.

[Podcast Host 1]

Man.

[Leonard Fournette]

Dude, he was the man. It must have been amazing being the number one.

[Podcast Host 1]

Push his dominance on the bus because everybody. He's like, the gas station we got. And literally everybody back there see what he says.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I was like, two minutes late. But, you know, it's right around the corner, like, right down the street, walking distance. So I just drive there. I wait. I put my order in, wait for it to school. Feeding my whole team.

[Leonard Fournette]

And you couldn't go two minutes earlier? Look at that.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Sleep, I love way somewhere else.

[Podcast Host 1]

This man doesn't have a tier one.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm literally blown away right now.

[Podcast Host 1]

Now I'm blown away because.

[Leonard Fournette]

Because then just go one and two and don't have a three. Hey, no, no, no. You. You've already set yourself in stone.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Three and two. There's no one.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love it. I'm just blown away that.

[Leonard Fournette]

That's how mamas. I wish.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's the goal.

[Podcast Host 1]

I don't have one.

[Leonard Fournette]

Would you. Would you say beignet are overrated? Or is that. Is that just a tourist thing?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Depends.

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I mean, I've had it my whole life, so. Yeah, I can go without.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, you've had. You've.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Are you trying to figure out if you were. You're a man in New Orleans or, like, if you just did. I'm from Daddy B's thing.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm from New Orleans, from Garden District.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Okay, hold up. Now, let's talk about the tattoo bees chicken. Right? All right, I gotta. I gotta. I got an issue with that right now.

[Ad Read Announcer]

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[Leonard Fournette]

Speak your truth.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, you know, we had it a couple days ago.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. The whole team. All right, now, did they bring a whole bunch of food there?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

They brought. They had the everything. The spicy, the hot chicken. Yeah, whatever catered it.

[Leonard Fournette]

Then they brought it in. So you already know food's always better when you go to places than when you get it buffet style.

[Podcast Host 1]

Just as long as you understand that before you say what you're gonna say.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ad Read Announcer]

You.

[Leonard Fournette]

Like. Like, if you. If you. You've obviously played. What are you talking about? Think about when you get California and they all get a bunch of in and out burger for people. Burgers are a little soggy. Burgers.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, that's my. That's what I need.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

My best burger spot.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. Don't. Swear to God. There's one in my head. If you say one, the interview's over.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Let me tell you. You might get ready. I don't like getting out. Get ready.

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't. What? I hate Whataburger.

[Leonard Fournette]

All right? I have no. No disrespect to that. You're taking nothing from that.

[Podcast Host 1]

Trending the way I need you to trend.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What else?

[Leonard Fournette]

What's your. What's your number one spot? Okay. What's your number two spot? Because you don't do number one about.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

This food period, right now, right?

[Podcast Host 1]

Burgers.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Burgers. Oh, man. The Baconator.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, Wendy's.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, fire.

[Leonard Fournette]

Running back.

[Podcast Host 1]

Dude.

[Leonard Fournette]

We gotta talk about that too. We were arguing.

[Podcast Host 1]

Vein sticking out of our neck. About what? The best Wendy's.

[Leonard Fournette]

The best fast food.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What?

[Leonard Fournette]

He says Wendy's is the best fast food burger.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, he probably says best fast food too.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I mean, if you're the nuggets from Wendy's, Fire, what's another burger?

[Podcast Host 1]

Because we can't. We all know what I'm trying to.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Give him to say.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's trying to get the five guys you like.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Five guys love five guys.

[Podcast Host 1]

There we go. That's what we need. Big dog, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

I never knew that was the most basic thing I've heard from you.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Why?

[Leonard Fournette]

I thought you were innovative. You're talking about my man. Seems like he seems outside the box. Perfect idea.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You're eating the penis while you're waiting on your food. You know.

[Leonard Fournette]

What are you doing?

[Podcast Host 1]

Hyping them up.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Up.

[Leonard Fournette]

Crazy. Dude. You don't like in and out?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No.

[Leonard Fournette]

Have you ever been to this place?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I have.

[Leonard Fournette]

You went inside?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I went to one in California.

[Leonard Fournette]

What you get?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't know. Some. Had my stomach hurting for weeks.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's from New Orleans. He's from New Orleans.

[Podcast Host 1]

No, I know, I know. Listen, I.

[Leonard Fournette]

Everything they have is fried.

[Podcast Host 1]

What the. The. The beginning of that conversation was like, if you get Chick Fil A after a game, it don't taste the same as when you go into chick Fil A and order Chick Fil A Facts.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Who says that?

[Leonard Fournette]

I do.

[Podcast Host 1]

I do too. I think I would rather go in.

[Leonard Fournette]

And order on away games. Like who? There's always food there. What do you guys have?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

We bring our own food.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm saying. But they have food there too, don't they?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Come on. Like, like everybody literally brings their own food.

[Leonard Fournette]

Really?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

100. 100 wings from Wingstop. Chick Fil A's Burgers, nuggets.

[Leonard Fournette]

Wingstop is fire, right?

[Podcast Host 1]

You get the rookies to go.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, no. The older guys go sometimes too.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. Wow. Take it easy, brother.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, like, we don't. We don't, like, let people live.

[Podcast Host 1]

That boy has no judgment on food. I respect it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

But I think it's just. It's mind blowing to think that, like, if you get something tatered, that's what.

[Podcast Host 1]

I want you to do.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Right? I'm invite you to New Orleans. Right.

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm going.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I'm gonna send you a pj.

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Right.

[Leonard Fournette]

And I'm all in.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I'm letting my mother cook for us.

[Leonard Fournette]

Done.

[Podcast Host 1]

We'll be there.

[Leonard Fournette]

We'll film the whole thing.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Red beans. I want bell peppers.

[Leonard Fournette]

Sure.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Cheesecake?

[Leonard Fournette]

Sure.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Say less.

[Leonard Fournette]

But you didn't say a protein at all in there. You just said. A bunch of you just said this.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Off time, this 270. Lenny, right now, talking to you.

[Leonard Fournette]

Okay. Y. Oh, my God.

[Podcast Host 1]

My roommate in college, his name's Terence Moore from New Orleans. Proud New Orleans native. And his mom would come up and make like, the red beans, the rice, cornbread. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Listen.

[Podcast Host 1]

And it, it is fire. It's like a home cooked meal.

[Leonard Fournette]

Survive on crawfish for you.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

For me, right?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I can eat 15 pounds by myself, man.

[Podcast Host 1]

I. I see. I'm not sold on crawfish.

[Leonard Fournette]

No way. Too much work. You're not just gonna have a bucket of crawfish to yourself. Like, you're gonna have like a barbecue. Hey. So you can have a little bary out there.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What?

[Podcast Host 1]

It's just too much work for little ass meat. Dude. I'm trying to get some. Some meat out of my. You know, if I'm working, you know what I'm saying? No pause, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

No pa. Hey, I'm with you. I support you in this. Dude. I'm telling you. No, Crawfish is awesome, but it's a social thing.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

You know what I'm saying? You're not eating enough. You just eat some of the potatoes, some of the corn in there too. Wait for a couple batches to go. So it's extra spicy.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

And you're good.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. So you don't like Hattie B's? Is that what you're trying to get at?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You gotta go to Princess Hattie's Bees. Okay, but where I'm from, Manchu is the place. Manchu.

[Leonard Fournette]

M A N C H U.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yes. You can listen. You can get. Listen to me, right? My people back home, they know.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love how he engages with.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Y' all know you can get a 10 piece, right? 10 piece for 7.99 with double fried rice.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, it's definitely not organic.

[Podcast Host 1]

JP back there, you call my name.

[Leonard Fournette]

JP will blow up.

[Podcast Host 1]

Should I get my tear talk?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, yeah, sorry. Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

There it is.

[Leonard Fournette]

We went off.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, there it is. That. That is, baby.

[Leonard Fournette]

Are you canes or Zaxby's?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What?

[Leonard Fournette]

Canes or Zaxby's?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Canes.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

100 candy combo, baby.

[Leonard Fournette]

Extra piece of toast, extra sauce.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I need like six. Six sauces.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, 100.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Gotta drown it.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, 280.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Lenny.

[Leonard Fournette]

Dude, he keep. All right, go ahead.

[Podcast Host 1]

So in your bag to get it going because I know we have a couple guests out here.

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[Podcast Host 1]

Waiting.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

And we have. We have Tear talking in our final question, brought to us by Roebuck, which we'll learn about. But my tier three, I think Taco Bell's breakfast is very.

[Leonard Fournette]

Wow.

[Podcast Host 1]

I've only had it a couple times because I learned about it through the. Through the bird app. I talked about the crunch wraps. The. The up. It's like the sausage. Sausage and egg crunch wrap. I'm telling you, Taco Bell breakfast is fire number two. Hang on, brother. It's. It's. You had your time.

[Leonard Fournette]

He was. You.

[Ad Read Announcer]

We, we.

[Leonard Fournette]

He was very respectful of your time when you were going.

[Podcast Host 1]

Thank you, man.

[Leonard Fournette]

Go ahead.

[Podcast Host 1]

My number two. My number two, Hardee's, I think they're. They're extremely versatile on their menu. Their biscuits and gravy, their sausage, egg and cheese biscuits, all. Everything that Hardee's does at breakfast time is phenomenal. And their burger, their five dollar burger is incredible as well. Well, you love. What is it? The. The Western bacon cheeseburger.

[Leonard Fournette]

Bacon cheeseburger from Carl's Jr.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But Hardee, it's like the same thing called the Western.

[Leonard Fournette]

What? Western bacon cheeseburger.

[Podcast Host 1]

Check it out.

[Leonard Fournette]

You got bacon on there. You got cheese. You got onion rings.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Pork. You talking about pork?

[Leonard Fournette]

Swine. Yes, swine. You don't eat pork.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, you definitely eat pork. Didn't you just.

[Leonard Fournette]

You just said the baconators are the best burger.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's all season in season, I don't eat the pork.

[Podcast Host 1]

This is just a segment of our general life.

[Leonard Fournette]

You're living your life life.

[Podcast Host 1]

And number one, you already alluded to it as your tier three for nostalgia. But I think you cannot beat McDonald's breakfast. Like, when you grow up, when your parents take you to McDonald's breakfast, like, you think you're doing something. And then when you watch Big daddy and the McDonald's breakfast is kind of built around that scene. I think it's just a McGriddle. The. The little sausage breakfast burritos. Yes, they're McMuffins. Their biscuits like burritos.

[Leonard Fournette]

I. E. Like six of them things. Yeah, no problem. And their hot sauce is kind of good.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like, it's like. I like the mystique of calling them hotcakes.

[Leonard Fournette]

You just move them up for me.

[Podcast Host 1]

And that little styrofoam box, too. Like, it's just. They do it right. So that's. That's my.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's my point. In high school, this when the high spicy came out. Right.

[Podcast Host 1]

All right. This is pretty. I feel like this is really serious.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I love honey. Yeah, it's serious. So you know, we play on Saturdays.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I eat at least 2 high spicy before the game. Right. Every game, rest for like 290. Okay. So maybe I should have started eating high spices again.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. Except unless you play the Italians, you might be on. Unless you play Italians. Absolutely.

[Podcast Host 1]

You might be on to something hot spicy.

[Leonard Fournette]

All right. You lost me in the beginning, but I think you picked it up at the end.

[Podcast Host 1]

Just try it. It just in future, like, you know.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. My tier three is going to be jack in the box.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

For.

[Leonard Fournette]

From a nostalgic standpoint, as a kid, that's where we would go. It was right by the ranch. There was a jack in the box. We'd go over there, we get some brekkie. It was. It was really good. My tier two is gonna be Carl's junior Which you referred to as Hardee's. The breakfast burrito at Carl's Jr. Is unmatched. Dude. The amount. Hold yourself now. The amount of meat.

[Podcast Host 1]

Talk about it in that burrito, about it, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

It's thick and there's like. It's not like little specks of meat where it's like, hey, we check the box. You're talking about. About a piece of ham folded in there. There like a big ass piece of ham. Yeah, that's swine. I'm talking about little pieces of sausage, a lot of cheese in there. The egg. It's A great ratio. I think you can't beat that. My tier one's got to be Mickey D's. That's a big gotta be McDonald's. It's a bay turn events is the more because I thought about it. I know it skipped with the McGriddle I think is probably the best thing they have. It's unreal. Dude, it's so good. The breakfast burritos are delicious.

[Podcast Host 1]

And the fact that nobody tries to recreate and make their own version of.

[Leonard Fournette]

A McGr, all of them, if they can't figure it out, maybe they can't.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

I just think that. I think the McGriddle's fantastic. The pancakes, for real, you feel like it's a home cooked meal. Yeah. When you get the pancakes, it's. It's awesome. And then obviously I'm a big breakfast burrito guy. I love the hot sauce they have there too. It's outstanding. Okay, let's go to one thing. You lost me on Taco Bell.

[Podcast Host 1]

I'm telling you, try it out. I've only had it a couple times, but it really is like it made.

[Leonard Fournette]

It tier 3 after just trying it out.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. Trying it out a couple times. You know how you can do a couple. A couple, you know.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

You dip your toe in a couple times and it can kind of climb the ladder.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Another example of that is I learned about Penn State.

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[Podcast Host 1]

Hey everyone.

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Ed Helms here and hi, I'm Cal.

[Leonard Fournette]

Penn and we're the hosts of Irsay, The Audible and iHeart Audio. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I choose me to discuss the new.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen.

[Leonard Fournette]

Classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer.

[Podcast Host 1]

What role would I play?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy.

[Leonard Fournette]

You got a little call in first.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett here.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Listen to Earsay the Audible and iHeart.

[Podcast Host 1]

Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Wherever you get your podcasts.

[Podcast Host 1]

I learned about Penn Station subs. Never had it when we did the sandwich tear talk and there's a Penn Station over. Over in like the. Is it Belmont? Belmont area? Bellevue Belmont.

[Leonard Fournette]

You live in. You live near that area?

[Podcast Host 1]

Either one of those areas. Like there was a Penn Station there and I tried it out and it is fire. Yeah, Tori, if I did the sandwich thing again, I would kind of re rank some stuff. Really? Yes, bro. I swear that is fire. You get the Italian heated.

[Leonard Fournette]

Say less.

[Podcast Host 1]

I'm telling you. And the meat is packed in. I know. I. People get me on this all the time.

[Leonard Fournette]

But it is how you hold the sandwich, right?

[Podcast Host 1]

It is though, because I went and got Penn Station and Jersey Mike's because I feel like I never gave Jersey Mike's a real shot. So I would have both sandwiches, Italians on each, side by side. And Jersey Mike's is just like, there's too much bread. There's just. There's too much going on.

[Leonard Fournette]

I think Jersey Mike's is delicious.

[Podcast Host 1]

What was the vibe like when you saw a B take his pads off?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I wasn't there game.

[Podcast Host 1]

You weren't there?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I was hurt.

[Podcast Host 1]

What was the vibe like around that whole situation?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

To be honest, I didn't watch the game. I was sleeping.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Cause like we playing the jets outside of the game.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like what was that whole vibe like? Like Was it something that you were not surprised about?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Something that I was definitely surprised.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey.

[Podcast Host 1]

Right.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I was definitely the greatest.

[Podcast Host 1]

I wasn't at the game. I was. I was sleeping.

[Leonard Fournette]

While his team was playing.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yes, I was.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, my. To be honest, it was the Jets.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I hurt my hamstring. You know, recovery is the key to get the hammy back.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. What you think when you woke up and you saw that turn of events happen?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It was crazy, man. Like, my year, my. My two years that with him. I love A.B. i mean, no player worked harder than him.

[Leonard Fournette]

That's what I've heard.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I'm not gonna lie that.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, a lot of people, unanimously, it seems like that's the.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

The answer for a be Never worked harder than him. But, you know, once again, you know, it's like going back to Ben. The Ben situation, you know, everybody has their own turn of events they go through, so. But still, my boy, we talk every day.

[Leonard Fournette]

You and A.B.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah, I bump his music every day.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, you like his music?

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, the.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Everything.

[Podcast Host 1]

Put that on. Can you do the dance? Can you give us a little. Hey.

[Leonard Fournette]

Derek Henry, College football. Who you got?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Who we got?

[Leonard Fournette]

Who I got? No, I know who you got, but, like, give. You. Give me your argument. Why?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So me and Derek, we used to train with each other, right? And I fuss with him every. We talked about this, right? Yeah. So, you know, his last. On my sophomore year, his last four games, he got the ball over 40 sometimes in the last four games, right? Yeah, he played a game. He played one. One game more than me. He wanted to finish with 2007 yards or whatever, and I finished with 19. Oh, and whatever, y'. All. But what? One less game. Okay, that says it all.

[Leonard Fournette]

Really? Because all I heard in that situation was Derek got 2,000. You didn't.

[Podcast Host 1]

So if you look. If you look up yards. If you look up yards per game. Yards per game.

[Leonard Fournette]

We looked it up.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Remember?

[Leonard Fournette]

We were talking about. No, we were talking about this.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

The Russian.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, that's right. We were talking about it here.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Whatever. The SEC, Russian thing. I had 162 yards per game.

[Leonard Fournette]

No, that's solid. He was.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, no, no, no, no, it's not. Not.

[Leonard Fournette]

He's a grown man.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, would have h u up, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

You think so?

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, the talk, of course.

[Ad Read Announcer]

What?

[Podcast Host 1]

Talking about Nebraska with a dogged lsu.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Nebraska, yes, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

But when you just say, wait till.

[Podcast Host 1]

My dog gets on the bus. Come on in here, Boogie.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You went to Nebraska, right ass.

[Podcast Host 1]

We wouldn't.

[Leonard Fournette]

Have you heard about Nebraska. Michigan.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No, you haven't.

[Leonard Fournette]

Heard the news?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No.

[Leonard Fournette]

The greatest trophy game in the history of all trophy Games is happening November 12th for the first time. The bus and Bowl. Nebraska will fight Michigan to take home a bronze trophy. With this bus on top of the it. The bus and bowl for the next eight seasons. For the next eight seasons.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I like that.

[Leonard Fournette]

And I will say. I'm going to say it now. I'm going to say it now. Michigan's going to win every single one of those games.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Question.

[Leonard Fournette]

Answer.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I need you with the Michigan. You think Michigan could be LSU right now? When?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yes.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Whenever.

[Leonard Fournette]

Right now? Yes. Why garbage last year.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What that mean?

[Leonard Fournette]

Your. Your head coach uses fake Southern accents. We're going to. Yes.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Mr. Mr. Brian Keller.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. Yeah. My family out here.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Whatever the.

[Podcast Host 1]

He was saying that basketball game win everywhere he goes.

[Leonard Fournette]

Oh, he wins everywhere. I can't believe he left Notre Dame.

[Podcast Host 1]

But why not? You go to lsu.

[Leonard Fournette]

I know, but he was. He had been a forever coach there.

[Podcast Host 1]

But think about how much you can. The resources you have to win and the guys you already have in New Orleans. Yeah. That are going to just come to lsu.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah. I mean, they pay.

[Podcast Host 1]

Notre Dame is harder to recruit because they're in the middle of nowhere.

[Leonard Fournette]

I will say this like, you guys pay. You guys pay players. There's no question in I.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

They probably do. I don't know.

[Podcast Host 1]

You know they did before Nil.

[Leonard Fournette]

You're the number one player in what that mean United States.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

In the world. Craig.

[Leonard Fournette]

Bags were just thrown at you, dude. Bags were thrown at you. I've heard too many stories from too many other people.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

So the nil, Right?

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

How much money would you would have made?

[Leonard Fournette]

I'm an office alignment, but I. I have an outstanding personality. I probably would have made $7,000.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What?

[Leonard Fournette]

Bro, I don't know if it's a lineman. You would have made eight figures.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Millions.

[Leonard Fournette]

Plural.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes, Millions would have made based off stuff you see out there.

[Leonard Fournette]

Like the longest last robot question ever.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I don't know because you gotta think about when I was in school. They had my beard, my braces, around the whole stadium. Then seven is like a legendary number there, right? Yeah. So they always had that. And I probably made $10 million when I was in college.

[Podcast Host 1]

Did you say figure?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

But I would have stayed in college. Awful years.

[Leonard Fournette]

You would have.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Why not?

[Leonard Fournette]

Because.

[Podcast Host 1]

Because at the nil now, like, I think if like you left early, right?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

After your junior year.

[Leonard Fournette]

Like, Derek only started one year, one Heisman. But keep going.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Got the ball 80 times.

[Leonard Fournette]

My man doesn't slow down. He Just keeps going, man.

[Podcast Host 1]

But say he would have been projected a first round pick. Would you make. What'd you make the first year? Your deal.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Think I was four. Four? Yeah. I don't know.

[Podcast Host 1]

They had the big early.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I mean of course it's on here somewhere.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. But let's just say it was a. I don't know, you guys were both first round picks. Like what you guys making your first year?

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What number you went 11.

[Leonard Fournette]

Let's just say.

[Podcast Host 1]

Let's just say you made $10 million. Like LSU would have had to like the nil world would have had to compete with keeping them there.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

There well also receive 17.8 million signing bonus.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's a four year deal. Four year rookie deal. So. Yeah, you would had to make like eight figures to stay at lsu probably.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

It's like, why not stay in college another year. He's kind of always looked old like that.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Yeah.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, he legit when you saw him in college playing? Oh, you're like, oh, that's a grow 25 year old man.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, yeah. It's like piece of paper with the.

[Leonard Fournette]

Picture says I am 12 for the 20 billion. It.

[Podcast Host 1]

It's like when Rashawn Evans got to the league. Like ran had the beard, bald head.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Oh, man. With the bama.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did.

[Leonard Fournette]

Hey, I'll tell you, he went to.

[Podcast Host 1]

He went to high school with Ruben Foster. Popped you in college.

[Leonard Fournette]

It was more than my four years. My first guy right back up. Yeah, but he was more than my first four years.

[Podcast Host 1]

He was a dog. I mean, you're a dog.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Kickoff though. I don't really.

[Podcast Host 1]

It doesn't matter, bro.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It doesn't count.

[Podcast Host 1]

Reuben Foster like, like laid, licked him, bro. In college.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

You can do it.

[Leonard Fournette]

No, dude, I don't, I. We're all about no pause here. We're all about the no pause. Yeah, yeah. We let things ride around here. You know what I'm saying? Do it. Do it.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

I did it in my mind.

[Podcast Host 1]

Appreciate you for coming on, bro.

[Leonard Fournette]

That was awesome.

[Podcast Host 1]

Hey, it's something about the running backs, bro. Him and Melvin Gordon, bro. I mean there's an argument about him versus Derek Mel. Him and Melvin.

[Leonard Fournette]

Amazon five Star Theater presents real customer reviews performed by a real serious improv podcaster. Tonight's review, Furby.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I bought a Furby as a nostalgic joke.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Joke's on me.

[Leonard Fournette]

Day one, adorable giggles wiggles its ears. Says me love you. Day three, woke me up at 3am whispering in Furbish. I think it summoned something. Day five, I'm starting to ask it for life advice. Day seven it blinked at me like.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

It knew I blinked back.

[Leonard Fournette]

We've reached an understanding. I fear it. I love it. 5 stars. Aaron M. Find your perfect gift. This holiday on Amazon.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

What a matchup we got, y'.

[Leonard Fournette]

All. This is that classic HBCU vibe.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Non stop back section. The band is rocking and the crowd.

[Leonard Fournette]

Lit chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride.

[Podcast Host 1]

Game like this. Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola.

[Leonard Fournette]

Ah, crisp and refreshing.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

That's a game changer right there.

[Leonard Fournette]

Yeah, that taste always hits the right note.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

Just like the band at halftime.

[Leonard Fournette]

And just like that, we're back at it. As you fans, school colors everywhere. And in ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going. You know what a girl's best friend is?

[Leonard Fournette]

Not diamonds. Her lawyers.

[Guest Player (Likely Leonard Fournette)]

From executive producer Ryan Murphy comes a fiery new legal drama. It's our own boutique women representing women you can't afford to miss.

[Leonard Fournette]

Make it, Ray. Showtime, ladies. Stand up straight and breeze into that room like a storm no one saw coming.

[Podcast Host 1]

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