Bryce Harper On Being Called "Not Elite", Leaving Nationals For Phillies + MLB Salary Cap? | Bussin'

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bussin’ With The Boys – Bryce Harper On Being Called "Not Elite," Leaving Nationals For Phillies + MLB Salary Cap

Podcast: Bussin’ With The Boys
Hosts: Will Compton & Taylor Lewan
Guest: Bryce Harper (Philadelphia Phillies, 2x NL MVP)
Date: February 17, 2026

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Overview

This episode features an in-depth, wide-ranging conversation with MLB superstar Bryce Harper. In classic Bussin’ With The Boys fashion, Will, Taylor, and Bryce riff on everything from food takes and travel, to the mental grind of elite sports, navigating fame since youth, free agency, MLB culture, fatherhood, and controversies around PEDs and the notion of a baseball salary cap. Harper addresses being labeled "not elite," details his exit from Washington, and weighs in on the current and future state of baseball.

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Key Discussion Topics & Insights

1. Getting to Know Bryce Harper (51:44–1:01:00)

• Introduction: Multiple attempts over time to coordinate the podcast; Harper finally joins during his offseason in Nashville.
• Early bond with Will Compton from their shared time in Washington, D.C.
• Harper’s transition from being a Dallas fan to adopting the Eagles and Phillies due to his career moves.

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2. Playing in Philadelphia & Handling Intense Fan Bases (54:46–57:51)

• Philly is a great but challenging sports town: “If you’re not ready to play there, don’t come. They’ll chew you up and spit you out real quick.” (Bryce Harper, 55:56)
• Compares Philly to other passionate cities: New York, Boston.
• Feels the city’s passion aligns with his upbringing and mentality.

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3. Early Life, Pressure, and the Journey to MLB (1:14:11–1:34:35)

• Harper left high school early, took his GED, and played JUCO at 17—a controversial, high-pressure decision.
• Candid on mental strain: “It was probably the most pressure I’d been under in my whole life…you have to be number one or there’s nothing else.” (Bryce, 1:22:45)
• Family made the decision together; focus was always about being an athlete and following Bryce’s work ethic, not just specializing too early.
• On burnout and parental pressure: “A lot of kids get burned out because their parents just hammer on them…my dad would hammer on me, but then also pull me aside and say ‘I love you, kid.’”

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4. Baseball Mindset and Handling Slumps (1:34:35–1:58:39)

• The mental grind: Stresses importance of consistency, self-talk, and being able to “turn the page” after good or bad outcomes.
• On dealing with slumps: “Motivation comes and goes but having that determination to be great always has to be there no matter what.” (Bryce, 1:41:42)
• Superstitions and routines help break out of mental funks.
• Harper is obsessive about his body and recovery, using advanced recovery techniques (NAD IVs, avoiding sugar, obsessive PT).

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5. Food Takes & Nashville vs. National Food Scenes (1:01:16–1:72:05)

• Harper offers strong food opinions, favoring San Francisco and Philly over Nashville; rates Nashville’s food scene as “okay” but agrees it has “blind spots.”
• Recommends Folk for pizza in Nashville, Kakari for Greek (San Fran), Uchi for sushi (Denver), and an Argentinian steakhouse in Minneapolis.
• Hot takes on burgers: Harper and Lewan both side with In-N-Out over Five Guys or Shake Shack.
• Throws playful shade at overhyped Nashville Mexican spots and at the “torpedo bat” trend, comparing it to other overrated food places.

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6. Baseball’s Unwritten Rules & On-field Rivalries (1:93:24–1:100:51)

• Discusses the fine line of celebratory bat flips vs. disrespect: “You want to celebrate with your team, that’s cool. But looking at the pitcher, that’s disrespectful.”
• Stories about charging the mound with Hunter Strickland after a six-year-old grudge.
  • “Halfway out there, I’m like, oh crap, we’re doing this.” (Bryce, 1:95:55)
• Reiterates that once the game is over, he harbors no real animosity: “I walk away, I’m a dad of four and a husband. The game is just the game.”

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7. Leaving Washington & Choosing Philly (1:101:26–1:110:22)

• Candid account of the free agency process.
• Reveals Nats' owner made a deferred-offer in a game rain delay (!), but 70% deferred pay made it a “bad offer.”
• Teams in the mix: White Sox (best meeting), Padres, Giants, Dodgers (late four-year offer), Phillies.
• Loved Washington, roots for old teammates, but needed a change.
• On being booed by Nats fans: “I have no bad animosity…but they boo me every time I go in there. It’s sports, it is what it is.”

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8. Changing Positions, Recovery, and Biohacking (1:111:12–1:117:53)

• Transition to first base after Tommy John ("TJ") surgery: “Being able to pick a ball, help my guys out…if I miss, I killed him.”

• Claims fastest return from TJ for a position player (five months).

• Emphasizes obsessive focus: “I went on an extreme diet, stayed away from all sugars, NAD IVs—did everything I could to get back.”

• Deep dive into peptides, recovery optimization, and the frustration that peptides are banned in MLB for athletes but not for the general public:

  “Why can a teacher, a pilot, a chef, why can they all do it, but athletes can’t take peptides…for longevity, they’re unbelievable.” (Bryce, 2:06:16)

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9. On Being Called “Not Elite” (2:153:00–2:156:42)

• Addresses Phillies’ president Dave Dombrowski publicly saying Bryce is "not elite”:
  -- “There’s things within the organization you probably shouldn’t say outwardly...if you have a problem, talk to me.” -- Stresses public comments don’t motivate him; prefers direct, private feedback.

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10. Fatherhood & Balancing Family with Baseball (2:137:31–2:143:33)

• Harper, father of four, speaks candidly about “dad guilt,” being present, and wanting to set an example for his kids regarding work ethic.
• “No better job in the world than being a dad.”
• Bryce has no desire to push his kids into baseball, wants them to make their own choices and find their own path: “I want him to be his own; I don’t want it to always be ‘you’re Bryce Harper’s kid.’”

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11. Hardest Sport to Play & Athletic Debates (2:175:04–2:183:01)

• Spirited debate: Is baseball the hardest to play among the “big four” (baseball, football, basketball, hockey)? Harper and the hosts agree: baseball is #1, hockey #2, football #3, basketball #4 on difficulty.
• “Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson always say there's nothing harder than hitting a baseball—and that’s a trump card.” (Bryce, 2:184:09)

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12. MLB Salary Cap? (2:187:23–2:188:22)

• On whether MLB should have a salary cap:
  • “It’s just not going to happen.”
  • Points out that MLB ownership is profitable; teams’ values have exploded.
  • “Players need to be compensated the right way for their career’s longevity.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On pressure as a prodigy:
  “It’s a blessing and a curse…You have to show up or you’re going to be the biggest story in sports and you don’t want to be a bust.” (1:79:13 – Bryce Harper)

• On fan pressure in Philly:
  “If you’re not ready to play there, then don’t come.” (0:55:56 – Bryce Harper)

• On the “not elite” comments:
  “If you have a problem, talk to me... That doesn’t motivate me... If you want to blame someone, blame me. I didn’t play well.” (2:154:50 – Bryce Harper)

• On longevity and recovery:
  “If I could be on peptides I’d play for another 10 years, but I can’t be on those.” (1:117:28 – Bryce Harper)

• On what he would do for a World Series ring:
  “I would do it…I would do anything.” (2:186:33 – Bryce Harper)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & Catching Up: 51:44–1:01:00
• Philly & Fan Pressure: 54:46–57:51
• Food Takes & Nashville food: 1:01:16–1:72:05
• Prodigy Pressure & Mental Health: 1:14:11–1:41:42
• Free agency breakdown: 1:101:26–1:110:22
• Changing positions and surgery: 1:111:12–1:117:53
• PEDs/Peptides/Recovery: 2:117:53–2:128:54
• Being called “not elite”: 2:153:00–2:156:42
• Dad talk: 2:137:31–2:143:33
• Hardest pro sport debate: 2:175:04–2:183:01
• Salary cap discussion: 2:187:23–2:188:22

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Collegial, irreverent, and highly personal—“the boys” often rib each other, tangent on food and travel, and share stories with a lot of laughter.
• Harper is candid, thoughtful, and open, showing humility about his past, firm opinions on the game and its future, and a grounded, family-first worldview.
• The hosts keep it light but probe deeper issues around sports, legacy, and the realities of modern professional athlete life.

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Useful for:

• MLB/baseball fans looking for insider perspective on the pressures and realities at the highest levels of the game.
• Anyone interested in athlete mental health, recovery, and the debate around modern sports medicine.
• Fans of Bussin’ With The Boys’ signature mix of bro humor, sports talk, and real-life reflection.

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For Further Listening

If you enjoyed the Bryce Harper episode, check out other Bussin’ With The Boys interviews with NFL stars, or dive into their ongoing discussions around athlete recovery, sports culture, and the intersection of sports and everyday life.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Bryce Harper]

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[Taylor Lewan]

Hanging.

[Bryce Harper]

With the fellas betting on a game. No woman's gonna tell us what to do and I've been over here just Drinking beer and making that noise, baby. I'm hanging with the fellas, busting with the boys, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another beautiful episode of bussing with the Boys. Before we get into things, I would just like you to do one thing for me. Maybe two things that's subscribe and just leave a little comments key on the old YouTube. If you're watching listening on Spotify or anything like that, just go ahead and give it a follow. Doesn't hurt you at all, but it helps us a whole bunch. We have a massive episode today with the one, the only Bryce Harper, two time MVP guy. Yeah, we can give round of applause. Nice job. Sure, give him a round of applause on that. One more just thing I want to tell you is massive things coming to the audience in 2026 for Bus with the Boys. We're putting a quick bow on that. We're going through some legal stuff but once we figure out all those things, trust me, you the viewer are going to truly enjoy what we're doing for you. Because this year, coined by Will Compton itself, this is the year of the audience. Now, a lot of things change in 2026. One thing doesn't that's busting with the boys. Presented by FanDuel Sportsbook, America's number one sportsbook. We got another weekend of college hoops headed your way and fanduel's here to give you guys exactly what you need to turn your bets into buckets. The boost builder. Let's break this thing down for you a little bit so you get the boost builder to use on any plus leg basketball parlay. You can start building your combo. Add one leg, add another. Because every leg you add increases your boost all the way up to 105%. So you can take it easy. Stick to a two leg. Not so fast with Will Compton though. Or you can stack another two on that better closer warmer to Will Compton. Maybe another two. Now we're absolutely talking. And take your parlay to the moon. The more legs you add, the bigger potential boost grows. Just open the FanDuel app, choose your college football hoops market, apply the boost builder token and watch the percentage climb with each of your picks. Head to fanduel.com bussin to get started. How we feeling boys?

[Will Compton]

Feeling great. We are the week. So as you guys are watching this or listening to this, we recorded this episode last week. We were also recording this intro from the previous week because the boys we are going to be on vacation. As you guys are listening. Yeah, you'll be up North. North of the wall.

[Taylor Lewan]

North of the wall, you'll be down.

[Will Compton]

In Hawaii, hopefully catching some rays, catching some sun. Hopefully.

[Taylor Lewan]

If I could just. If I could switch with you, I would.

[Will Compton]

So how did the Canada unfold? Because at first it was Canada and then Canada was off. Right then you were talking try to find maybe some sunshine. Yeah, so we do a little sunshine vacation.

[Taylor Lewan]

Obviously we had that announcement on for the dads that is also coming out this week.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah, yeah, you're on for the dead. Yeah, yeah, I was on tomorrow.

[Taylor Lewan]

Tomorrow I'm on for the dead. By the way. Round of applause for me for the dad shout out pt. 6. All right, dude, like shockwave taking place on for the dads. But I had myself a quick little announcement and one of the things about that announcement that Talents had going on is this little kind of like tear type thing that's not dangerous. But hey, if it gets worse and it could be dangerous, we need to take a little peekski at that, make sure everything's good. So then it was, are we gonna go to Canada? Because we bought a house in Canada. December 1st, we closed for me.

[Bryce Harper]

Okay.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hell yeah. Good EP so far. I'm having a hell of a year vacation home. So we were gonna go up and then it seemed like maybe we couldn't. Then we got it checked. It's like, hey, you seem like you're in a good spot right now. And then with super bowl week, it was like, maybe we just will drive somewhere and you know, take the easy way out of all these things. Get back from super bowl and tell talen. Like, listen, anything the family wants to do, I'm down. So much so that we actually looked up flights to Italy. Like, that's how we're like just trying to get somewhere. Iceland, Italy, somewhere. I in my brain, you guys know me. I'm always headed towards the warmth. How do I get warm in the winter time? That's kind of where my, my, my brain kind of goes. But you know, as always, keep looking. It's like, why don't we just get to Canada, get the house, get in the house for the first time, see your family, take the kids up to Big Bear or wherever it is. It's not Big Bear. It's some sort of mountain that kids can go skiing in. I'll stand there at the base and just be like, cold. But like, watching my kids and enjoying it a whole lot. Yeah, so that's kind of.

[Will Compton]

I'll go try a local craft right here by the bar, right? Kids out there just Sit there, get.

[Taylor Lewan]

Myself a gym beam and lemonade or something like that, pop it at Kevin's Natural Foods and just chill, Sit back while my kids learn new crafts in the snow. And they're like, dad, you should do. It's like, honey, I'm drunk, you guys. By the way, Jared Beeman sitting in for Mitch Carson. Let's give him a round of applause.

[Will Compton]

Applause.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude's got crazy.

[Will Compton]

He produced for the dads last week too. So he sat in and produced that as well.

[Taylor Lewan]

What can't Jared Bean do?

[Will Compton]

It's funny, right before you gave me.

[Bryce Harper]

That shout out, I like, cut to.

[Will Compton]

The wrong camera to that empty chair.

[Bryce Harper]

And then you're like, give it up for Jared.

[Will Compton]

I was like, I just up good.

[Taylor Lewan]

But yeah, dude. So we ended up just booking a last minute flight to Canada. We're going to go up there, hang out. I'm fired up, dude. I'm fired up to go out there. The cold. Not fired up about that.

[Will Compton]

What were you pitching? Other destinations.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

And then when it landed on, when it landed on Canada, you're like, I'll bend the knee.

[Taylor Lewan]

Here's how it started. I was like, man, I really. It was like, we should have just gone up to Canada. And then t's like, yeah, but the way your schedule worked and how you were talking, like, I kind of sat back. She explained all the things I did wrong. And I go, so you're telling me there's nothing you could have done differently in this situation? And then she started explaining. I was like, you're right. Absolutely. It's 100% on me, which it usually is. So then Canada's kind of off the table. But we've spoke about it. For some reason, Cabo San Lucas is like not okay with kids, which I disagree with. 100. Then I'm thinking about 30A. But the weather is not that great in 38. That. I'm like, hey, Saint Barts, we can just go there. That'd be sick. To hit the islands a little bit, get a little tropical on them. That flight was like the same amount of time it would take to get to Canada. Then I'm like, yo, Italy, you've been wanting to go to Italy. I will just get on a plane and go to Italy. Italy in February? Yeah. So I start putting this in together. Four people this. I look at the price. I'm like, that's not bad. It's not bad for all four people. So I started like dialing it in. It's like, yo, first classes like this. We're going to be money going to Italy. Turns out that one price wasn't for four. It was per. And then the price was over $50,000. When I get to the checkout, I'm like, hey, Italy's off the table. We are 100% not going to Italy.

[Will Compton]

Iceland.

[Taylor Lewan]

But those. Those direct flights don't. How long.

[Will Compton]

How long were you thinking about going to Italy too? Like Italy as well?

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, oh, when we were having this conversation, my. So my daughter, she's in piano class at a certain time, and there's like a 30 minute break. Then she has an hour long songwriting class. So during the hour long songwriting class on Monday, I'm just in the car vegging out, and I'm just like on the phone with Taylor and Willow and we're just talking about what should we do. So this is. The conversation took about an hour.

[Will Compton]

But I'm saying. I'm saying the. The duration of the. Of the trip. How long are you going to be? When are you getting back from Canada?

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm getting back Friday the 20th.

[Will Compton]

And is that what it was like? We're going to leave Thursday. Back the next Friday.

[Taylor Lewan]

Back the next Friday. Get in, get off, get out for. If you're supposed to going to Italy. But I feel like eight days is solid, right? Yeah, eight days is solid.

[Will Compton]

You talking about if you went over to Italy? Yeah, yeah. It all depends too, like, how much you're trying to hit or what.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's right. I forgot. You're like my idiot Italy idiot. You're my idiot dude. You're my dumb idiot. You're my Italy.

[Will Compton]

Like, you're there. Yeah. If you're there. I forget how long we went. Was it two weeks? Was it 10 days?

[Taylor Lewan]

I know something like that. I think it was just under two weeks because I want to say we.

[Will Compton]

Hit like three different places. So if you're going for eight days and you chose two spots that you wanted to hit, like, yeah, that'd be more than enough.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because Taylor, she's been in Italy a handful of times. Her best friend is like, her husband's off the boat Italy. So Taylor has like, whatever connects in Italy to get to all these places so we could just go and rip. But yeah, once I saw the price tag for flying there, I'm like, this is not gonna happen. Yeah, not gonna happen. But we looked all over the place it ended up on. Let's just deal with what we know. And that's Canada.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Defend the wall. Check out Stick my. Stick my claim. Look around a little bit. You Know.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Get behind enemy lines before the Olympics take place.

[Taylor Lewan]

My favorite thing to do when I'm in Canada with Taylor's family is just talk about how great America is and then egg them on about becoming the 51st state.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then they talk to me about.

[Will Compton]

Just play the hits.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, play the hits and him with the hits. The best of soundtrack. What is that? Is that Japan? That's Japan.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, this is.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is that Mount Fuji?

[Will Compton]

That's Mount Fuji.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right. Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And those are the cherry blossoms around it. This is the largest amount of Americans to travel to Japan in the history of the world. Was this year it. Japan is like totally on the map now of hey, where should we vacay?

[Will Compton]

So I was just throwing it out there for you guys, maybe. I do feel like Japan has been hitting the. The headlines. Been hitting the priority.

[Bryce Harper]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

The priorities.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, it's crazy. When I googled best. What. Where is the best place to go this time of year in the world? It had like the sunny ones and it had the. The snow ones. I don't know where Japan's at, but Japan popped up and I in my brain, like I went to the website and I was like, popped in like BNA to it. I went to japan.com.

[Will Compton]

Japan.Org.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. And 23 hours of flying and that quickly.

[Will Compton]

That's. That's.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we're out of here, dude. We're not doing that one.

[Bryce Harper]

I didn't realize that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

So japan.com. we need direct. We need direct flights. Direct flights from BNA.

[Will Compton]

I guess I'll check.

[Bryce Harper]

I'll check out japan.com.

[Taylor Lewan]

Sure. Japan.com gets us, dude. But yeah, clean take. Clean take. Yeah. It's beautiful. Warm weather vacation in the winter time is the move. That's a clean take.

[Will Compton]

That's a clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a clean take. Right. But.

[Will Compton]

But also I would say like snow spots in the winter time. Like if you want to go somewhere sick. I don't even know where I'm saying that group of people too. I feel like that's a clean take for them.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. If you're a snow person.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like if you want to hit the slopes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. Everybody had Wrecking Ridge. If everyone had Taylor Lawan brain. Clean take. Got to get to the beach in the winter time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd rather be in the sun. Yeah. Yeah. You get a pasty white. Get a little gross looking.

[Taylor Lewan]

You can come back with like a nice P. I hope so.

[Will Compton]

I hope so.

[Taylor Lewan]

Come back with a nice pink on you. It'll turn to brown about late Feb. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Maybe two weeks.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yep. Yep. You'll hit. You'll hit the second week of March. You'll look the exactly like this again.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

But you have a nice little story arc taking place that's about to happen with your skin, which is nice.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very excited.

[Bryce Harper]

Very excited.

[Will Compton]

Flying out to the islands.

[Taylor Lewan]

Island one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I'm flying out to an island, but I'm saying islands because all the stuff going on right now in the world, you don't want to say I'm flying to an island.

[Taylor Lewan]

What island are you going to?

[Will Compton]

I think the big one.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotcha.

[Will Compton]

I think.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is that the actual title?

[Will Compton]

Kona. Is that an island, Kona. Or is that a place?

[Taylor Lewan]

I know Kona is a pepper song, and that's a great song, so think about that.

[Will Compton]

Did you tie. Did you type in?

[Bryce Harper]

I typed in the big island, which is the island of Hawaii.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh.

[Will Compton]

See if. See if Kona's on that island.

[Taylor Lewan]

Everybody listening.

[Will Compton]

Where is Kona?

[Bryce Harper]

Hawaii.

[Taylor Lewan]

We got Washington Nationals and Philly fans listening. Like, who the are these guys right now?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, like we said the year, the audience. We're getting smarter together this year.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah. We're learning geographically.

[Will Compton]

I tell you what step one is. So is it the island? The big one? Big island for Kona.

[Bryce Harper]

The big island is commonly known as the island of Hawaii.

[Will Compton]

But there is also type in, where is Kona, Hawaii? Not which island is the biggest in Hawaiian island chain.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do you feel right now, Sean?

[Will Compton]

Like I just said, where's Kona? You're talking about where. Which one's the biggest island?

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, he's misspelled a bunch of on this thing. Which one's Kona?

[Will Compton]

It looks like Kona's down on the big one. The biggest one.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Kailua. Kona.

[Will Compton]

Which one's the biggest? I don't know. I don't know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because you hit Maui, right last year.

[Will Compton]

Dude, I've hit. I don't know.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know.

[Will Compton]

This will be our.

[Taylor Lewan]

We don't know, dude.

[Will Compton]

This will be our what? Fourth year.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fourth year going to Hawaii.

[Will Compton]

Fourth year in a row going to Hawaii. Third or fourth year.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's an absurd amount of times.

[Will Compton]

Gorgeous.

[Taylor Lewan]

No doubt about it. But, like, that's a lot of flying. Gotta go to lax, Sit there.

[Will Compton]

What's the flight duration? What's the flight duration?

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, you've been there four times.

[Will Compton]

I think it's like seven hours.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's not bad.

[Bryce Harper]

Where y' all you're flying, say flight.

[Will Compton]

Time from which island? Nashville to Dakona. The Big Island.

[Taylor Lewan]

11 and 14 hours.

[Will Compton]

That doesn't sound right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because you said seven. Like it takes me seven to get to Kelowna B.C. then I stop in Calgary or Seattle or Vancouver and then I pop over. So ain't no way I'm getting to west coast Canada in the same time you're getting to the big island, Kona.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I'll have to do some math.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because usually they just did it.

[Will Compton]

I gotta do, I gotta do.

[Taylor Lewan]

What is this?

[Will Compton]

Oh, west coast Canada.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. That's direct though. And if I, I would love for Kelowna and Nashville to have a direct, I would salivate at the opportunity of that. Salivate. So you're there a lot, ma'?

[Bryce Harper]

Am.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll be there. I'll be back there in April for Easter.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, really?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, dude, we just go.

[Will Compton]

Oh, so for you to get up there, you're traveling nine or ten hours?

[Taylor Lewan]

No, no, no, 7:13 is my timeline. I will go in this trip. I'll go from Nashville to Vancouver, which is actually past Kelowna, and then to Colonial, which is like a 25, 30 minute flight. But the layover.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then, but usually it's the best one is 6:45 and it's Nashville to Calgary, Calgary to Kelowna. That's when you're. That's when you're living nice.

[Will Compton]

Got you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Calgary. Don't want to around with good.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know.

[Will Compton]

We love, we love Hawaii. We love getting out to Hawaii.

[Taylor Lewan]

How?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, there's a little bit of suck with the travel, but it's like I've been to Bora Bora.

[Taylor Lewan]

You've been all over the place.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I bet. We've been.

[Taylor Lewan]

You've been around the world?

[Will Compton]

We travel around the world.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I love that.

[Will Compton]

It's like there's like short term pain with the travel and everything.

[Taylor Lewan]

Long term gain.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

But being there, it's magical.

[Taylor Lewan]

And for ruins guy to sit there when they're, you know, in their 20s, they're on a date and they're talking to the individual about like what you do as kids. Like, oh my, my parents would take me to Hawaii every year. We would go, fly to Hawaii, we go to Italy, we go to this Destin. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

American Italy.

[Taylor Lewan]

We go to American Italy over and over and over again. Like that's kind of badass. Yeah, I guess. Like where'd you go? Canada?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Like four times a year.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, four times. Dude, we got Canada all the time. It's like great Taylor's got it. Taylor's got family. She's close with them.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Family up there.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, she's. And the thing about Taylor and I wish I possessed this ability, which is like checking in with people. I'm so bad at it. Like, if I'm not. If you're not in my day to day life, I probably don't check on you very much at all. And when I see you, it's like I'm expecting us to pick up where we left off, where my CTA brain decides we left off at. But she, she will call her family every single day. Grandpa. Grandpa wins on there. Nana, Mom, Quinn, she's always talking to him.

[Will Compton]

She's keeping up with the fam all.

[Taylor Lewan]

Day, every day, man.

[Bryce Harper]

Same.

[Will Compton]

You gotta love that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, my Verizon Bill is crazy, but, yeah, you know how that goes, boys. You know? You know, I've been like 288 last month. You know what I'm saying?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

You got me having that.

[Bryce Harper]

If you're trying to pre game Hawaii, Will Chief of War is a really sick show. I feel like both of you guys.

[Will Compton]

Would really enjoy it.

[Bryce Harper]

It's a like period piece of Hawaii kind of break. Breaking free of all of the tribes and trying to come under one king. It's like Game of Thrones set in Hawaii.

[Will Compton]

Oh, that's all you had to say. Game of Thrones of Hawaii.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's all you gotta say. I'll tell you what, I love you putting this wreck up, but I don't want you to give Will any wrecks until he watches Entourage.

[Will Compton]

Oh, okay. He's gotta watch that. That's fair. Because I do want to watch Entourage. It's like stuff gets in front of me or gets in the way and I, I, I see, I see a photo. Right?

[Taylor Lewan]

And you get excited.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And since that's newer, if I go on Apple plus and see that, I'll be. Oh, yeah, I gotta watch this show.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we gotta watch the show. Have we. Have you guys seen Sopranos?

[Will Compton]

I've watched two seasons of Sopranos.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. I've. I have now.

[Will Compton]

Sicko Soprano. Sicko.

[Taylor Lewan]

Last night.

[Will Compton]

Tell your dad this.

[Taylor Lewan]

Tell Billy this. He's actually watching right now. I watched the finale of Sopranos last night, the last episode, and buddy, it makes, I think it makes the whole show worth it. People hate it. Apparently. People hate it. You were telling me in San Francisco that people hated the.

[Will Compton]

My dad was. Felt a little.

[Taylor Lewan]

I gotta get.

[Will Compton]

This cup wasn't full.

[Taylor Lewan]

I get on the phone with Bill.

[Will Compton]

If I can remember right, when him and my mom were watching the finale when it was airing. I remember coming out. I think I was probably playing like, you know, WWE or something like that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I'll take a little potty break.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

And it seemed like they were kind of not in love with the finale.

[Taylor Lewan]

And I know Bill and I think similarly, except for now that I have the power of, like, true Internet. When this show came out, the show ends last night. And Taylor looks at me, goes, do you get it? And I go, no, I don't get it. Like, what? What? Like, that was terrible. Why would it end like that?

[Will Compton]

Does that have something to do with the gas station?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. No.

[Will Compton]

Is there, like, pulling up to a gas station or anything?

[Taylor Lewan]

And then in the last episode, there's a lot of pulling up to gas stations. But the last episode, the last.

[Will Compton]

I'm just trying to remember that the.

[Taylor Lewan]

Last scene happens at a diner. It happens at a diner with his entire family. And I mean, you're probably never gonna watch a show, are you?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I'll probably watch it.

[Taylor Lewan]

You probably will watch.

[Will Compton]

I probably will watch Sopranos. And it's definitely on a wave of.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's slower. It's a very slow movie. And like. But the ending, the end scene, like, the last four minutes, you can feel the intensity because you know it's the last episode. You know what's happening. And then when the show just abruptly ends, you're like, why the. Would you finish a show that people argue is the greatest show of all time like this? And then I, like, literally spent the next 20 minutes, like, on YouTube listening to the director and the reason why he did it. And once he was putting the pieces together for me, I was like, oh, that's an incredible ending of the show. That is amazing. What a way to end a show. Because I, My, My artistic brain couldn't fathom that is the final scene right there. And, buddy, it kind of rattled me where I had a harder time going to sleep that night. But you know how invested I get into things. Characters.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Arthur Morgan explaining Game of Thrones season eight.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah. You hated it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I think everybody does, really.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's universal.

[Will Compton]

There might be somebody in the comments that says, oh, no, season eight of Game of Thrones was good, and they might explain why, but they're wrong.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know what I mean?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Majority of people hated season eight. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And I, I, I've always been a guy that has started Game of Thrones, but then I get three episodes, and I'm like, this is too much right now.

[Will Compton]

A lot of different webs going on, webs going on.

[Taylor Lewan]

And I learned more that like, that web webs falter and break all the time and then there's new webs that are coming in and then everybody dies. And then nobody dies. And then one person's alive and then he dies, they die, she dies. Whatever it is. It's pretty insane. It sounds pretty insane. But then I hear about season eight and I'm like, I don't even think I need to. If everybody hated the finale, then why would I watch this?

[Will Compton]

The only people I feel like might have enjoyed season eight is if they watch it all the way through in succession. Like, you know, you wait till all the seasons come out and then watch it all the way through. Yeah. Which is because the pain point where the. I would say the majority hated it is the majority lived in that, like two year pocket of season eight being created with season. Because season six, season seven, those finales, those seasons were awesome. There's so many theories and so many things to break down. Like, that was one of the rare few times where I'm seeking out Reddit threads and other things, breaking it down and talking about it. All the callbacks and the pictures and people would circle, circle. Oh, look at this from a, from an aerial view. This is a sign that was in like this march that was happening just every.

[Taylor Lewan]

You.

[Will Compton]

You went down every rabbit hole imaginable on what we're about to see in season eight. And then for it to go the way it did. No real fight with the Night King between Jon Snow and the Night King. They sit there and stare at each other and you're like, this is the battle. And then the Night King raises. There's a billion White Walkers. And somehow, you know, everybody in the CA surviving and kind of defeating them. And then the Night King dying just from. What's her name?

[Taylor Lewan]

Arya.

[Will Compton]

Arya. Just from Arya coming out of nowhere and stabbing them.

[Taylor Lewan]

So we're just doing, we're giving all of it away.

[Will Compton]

Well, it's Game of Thrones. Like, that's like she haven't watched by now. Like, that's not right. Were you wanting to watch it? I.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's always on my brain too. Hey, if I should watch a show, should I put Game of Thrones on? That being said, spoilers don't ruin my day. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And even when you get there, like, it's like you won't remember all this happening, but when it does, you'll be like, oh, yeah, now I see why.

[Taylor Lewan]

That, that now that you've explained to me the finale of Game of Thrones. Can I explain to you the finale Sopranos?

[Will Compton]

You can. Is there. And I want to ask this too.

[Taylor Lewan]

I was kind of sitting there and I was like, do you.

[Will Compton]

Are you gonna watch? There's a part of me. Isn't there a movie that got made that kind of showed the back part of that last episode of Sopranos? Cuz I want to say I feel like I've seen this scene that you're talking about where they're in the. Where they're in the restaurant.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

For some reason I feel like I've seen it. And if not, like, I'm sure I've seen it on the Internet. Is there?

[Taylor Lewan]

Because I was talking to Dave Lawan and he was saying, wise guy David chasing the Sopranos.

[Bryce Harper]

That's a finale that covers, like, the.

[Will Compton]

Making of Sopranos will.

[Bryce Harper]

But I'm not sure.

[Will Compton]

There's something where I feel like I've seen the scene that Taylor's talking about. And then when you brought up the picture, I remember I've seen this scene somewhere. Like, and there's so many clips. Everybody uses so many clips of Sopranos. You feel like you've kind of seen a lot of the show. You just don't know what order it's all in.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, because the show is like, it's 21 episodes a season, and every episode is like an hour long. Like, you're really. You got to put in time to watch the show. And you get to the finale. And Taylin, she said she's already seen the finale. Like, she already knew what the finale was. So I'm kind of going into a blind while she knows. So I'm gonna tell you now if that's okay.

[Will Compton]

Go ahead.

[Bryce Harper]

All right.

[Taylor Lewan]

So in the show, basically, before they go into the diner, this. This ending scene, like, his son's having issues, but his son kind of like, writes his issues, and he seems like he's on a good track. His daughter, he didn't agree with what she was doing. But then they have a dinner, and he's, like, proud of where she's going. Carmela, his wife, they seem like they're in a really good spot. So you feel as things are going into this last scene that, like, oh, this is now a change that's happening. A new season of life is taking place for the Soprano family. Instead of having dinner, which Carmela always cooks, they are going out for dinner because she doesn't want to cook that night. They sit there and there's this whole thing about he's there by himself alone first, and he's sitting at this diner, and he looks up. Every time the. The door opens, there's like a little bell, like, old 90s Bell. And he would look up and different characters would walk in. Not you would know, but like races, ethnicities, people just walking in. And his wife walks in. He sees her. They have, like, they exchange menus or whatever. And there's a guy sitting at the bar. And then his son comes in. He's like, hey, where's Meadow at? Meadow is his daughter. And it kind of cuts the. Meadow, she's trying to parallel park and right outside the street, and she's like, not getting it right. Every once while, we'll cut back and forth or having a little, you know, back and forth conversation, whether it's like, regarding the onion rings or regarding AJ and what he's gonna do. And the guy at the bar gets up and walks to the bathroom. My brain goes to. That's a Godfather type of situation, which is like, hey, Lee, leave the gun. Take the cannoli type of situation, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

He goes away and, like, you see Soprano kind of look, and maybe your brain's like, does he recognize this guy? Does he not? But the. The visual of this man, you're like, I could see this guy being in the mafia based on everything I've watched these six seasons. And then Meadow finally, like, parks the car and he hears that. He hears the door open and the bell ring. And he looks up, shows over, cuts to black. And you're just sitting there like, as. I'm like. I'm like, my mouth's open, and it's like counting down. Big Bang Theory or the Big Bang Theory show, season one, episode one. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's done. That's just it. That's the end. And then kind of raises out of bed. She goes, do you get it? I'm like, no, I don't get it. Like, what happens? And then we start talking about it. I go down the YouTube and throughout the show, Sopranos asked Tony Soprano. He's asked, like, what is it like when you die? What do you think it's like when you're. When you finally get taken? He's like, I think everything just goes black. Like, I don't know. I don't really believe in nothing. I just, you know, I think everything goes black. So the idea was he got killed, he got assassinated, and it's up to the viewer to think about what happens after because you see people in the show get killed in front of their wives, in front of their children. You see their reaction, and you're just left wondering to yourself, like, how did Carmela, Meadow and AJ React to all this? Because before this all goes down, this guy named Phil, who's like the mafia guy in New York, he's trying to kill Soprano and kills, like, his two number one guys, or puts one guy in the hospital, kills another one. And so they're kind of on the run. They have a secret meeting between families. They shake hands. That the guy who's the right hand man of Phil, who's the New York mob boss, he's like, I can't tell you where he is, but you do what you got to do. Like, we need to make sure this is all over. They end up killing Phil and at a gas station. And you're like, oh, Soprano's gonna win this thing. Like, he's gonna become like the next don. You know, it's the last episode. You're not gonna know how it happens, but you think, okay, he's in a great spot. And then cuts to black and it leaves you just wondering, like, oh, the last thing Tony Soprano saw was his daughter walking through the door. And then what was his daughter's reaction? What was all that? And I'm laying in bed trying to fall asleep right after that. Like, this is up my day a little bit.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's a sign of a good finale, though.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a good finale.

[Bryce Harper]

You're like, visceral reaction. Like, that is a sign.

[Taylor Lewan]

And dude, when I was watching something on the director, I don't like it. I was watching. I hated it at first. I hated it at first. And then I watched, like, the director and he's like, the idea of it, is he. Yes, he was assassinated. No, he was killed. But like, if that finale left you feeling, like, confused, angry, empathetic towards the family, which were all the things I was feeling in the moment, he's like, then I did my job. That's what I wanted the viewer to feel. And then it's up to you. It's up to you, the viewer, to decide what happened next. It's like, art. Yeah, art's crazy.

[Will Compton]

Or he just silver tongued it to where you're like, oh, yeah, I guess I felt all those emotions. He just said that.

[Taylor Lewan]

I had no doubt. But you know how I work. If you could silver tongue me in the bed.

[Will Compton]

If you hated season eight of Game of Thrones and you had this massive, you know, emotional reaction, of anger and disgust and confusion, then I did my job as a writer.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

If you're sitting there watching YouTube. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I guess it was. I guess it was brilliant.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, he's silver tonguing me into hating the finale. That's what's happening right now. Because you're right. So any director could be like, if you felt these things, I did my job. And it's like, yeah, you just say all the emotions. The core four emotions.

[Will Compton]

He's like, yeah, I did my job.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're like, oh, I guess I didn't feel all of those things.

[Will Compton]

You're confused.

[Bryce Harper]

I did my job. Confused.

[Will Compton]

If you're angry about labeling everything that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Feels happy, it's like, I kind of.

[Bryce Harper]

You're hungry.

[Will Compton]

I do my job.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. If you get hungry in the next 24 hours, if you say up and.

[Will Compton]

Looked over at your wife and said, what the was that? I did my job. Yeah, it's exactly what I wanted you to. Oh, he got me.

[Bryce Harper]

A football coach has to do that after a really bad loss. Extremely bad loss.

[Will Compton]

Can you explain that loss?

[Bryce Harper]

Hey, if the fans just, like, they.

[Taylor Lewan]

Feel like they don't want to be.

[Bryce Harper]

A fan anymore, they don't want to show up anymore. They're confused. They're crying, they're sad.

[Will Compton]

Like, I didn't make the right calls.

[Bryce Harper]

I did my job.

[Will Compton]

They felt like we were predictable. We're doing our job.

[Taylor Lewan]

We're doing our job.

[Will Compton]

Oh, but, yeah, it was extend him.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, he. He's playing chess on us.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's so funny. It brings up the. Yeah. If I would have just said X, Y, and Z, I'm like, yeah, I bought it. And now I'm buying what will say. I'm now back to that Sopranos finale, dude, Because I'm.

[Will Compton]

I'm with you. Like, I. I haven't seen it, by the way, so I'm just literally assuming. But I would, like, if he does get. If he does get offed, I'd want that to happen. And then I would want to see the reactions.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. Family around the family losing their mind.

[Will Compton]

They put a bow on it, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

There's no bow.

[Will Compton]

Not just, like, mystery or a. We ran out of budget.

[Taylor Lewan]

So did you like it? Did you like the movie Inception?

[Will Compton]

I kind of can't remember.

[Taylor Lewan]

Inception in the movie is when you go to a dream within a dream dream, but the last scene, so he's always fighting, looking at his kids the whole entire time. In the last scene of the movie, he spins his dreidel or whatever the hell it is his little thing that tells him whether he's in a dream or not. Because if it wobbles, he's not in a dream. If it stays up and doesn't move, he is in a dream. But he spins it and he hears one of his kids go, daddy. And he looks up and he walks away. And you just see the thing, the end scene, it goes slowly down to the dreidel or whatever it is. And it kind of like does this, but then the movie cuts off and it's over. So it leaves you, the viewer, wondering, like, is he in a dream? Is it real? Was his psychotic wife, was she right, and she was in a dream, she had to kill herself in order to get out of the dream? Or was he correct and he finally got home, got to America, all the.

[Will Compton]

Things, and saw, like, which dream that you're in, Right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Are you in the reality dream? Are you in this dream dream? So is there reality? I would say that what is real?

[Will Compton]

The difference there is the movie being Inception and the whole concept of it being that that's where it's like, it could be left up for interpretation. Whereas the Sopranos, it's such a. I'll.

[Taylor Lewan]

Be honest with you, dude. Will took Alpha Brain today because the way. The way he's taking these questions to be like, Yeah, I really don't know. Like, he's just answering it. I'm like, he's right, man. The concept of the movie is to make you question things. Sopranos, the concept is not the question. Things is to have, like, the Mafia, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a game. Yeah. I gotta watch shows with this, man.

[Bryce Harper]

Dude, he's. He's dialed.

[Taylor Lewan]

He took. What'd you take? Alpha Black or whatever the.

[Will Compton]

It's called, those pills Charles got in a shipment of this bullet. Bulletproof type of creatine. Oh, you want creatine coffee?

[Taylor Lewan]

You want my colostrum?

[Will Compton]

I try. I tried it this morning. Yeah, I put a little scoop in the hot. You know, I heated up the hot water, put a little. Maybe that's it. Maybe it's the bulletproof. No free shot. It's a bulletproof.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, dude, is it mold for. You gotta make sure it's mold free.

[Will Compton]

I think bulletproof is a pretty good brand. They had a massive run back in. I felt like, what was it, the 2010s?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, but it was.

[Will Compton]

Everybody's on bullet. Was on bulletproof. Pretty heavy.

[Taylor Lewan]

But bulletproof isn't a coffee. It was a. Like, you put in.

[Will Compton]

It's like butter.

[Taylor Lewan]

You put in Certain things. Yeah, it was like a keto.

[Will Compton]

Like. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

This, you, you take this. It'll jump start your day because of like, what would you put like amino acids in there? You would put like. Yeah, ketones. You put butter in there and you drink it. Because I was on that for a minute kind of when I met you.

[Will Compton]

That was when we were on the 1% edge chasing. Yeah. Like Christian McCaffrey.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

It was back when we were like feeling in our primes of like, how do we just get.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do we change the game? Oh, this coffee is going to help me be bulletproof. Yeah, I'll do that.

[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

People love it.

[Will Compton]

You've been loving. I've been seeing the. People love the fart. Everybody a great fart.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll tell you, this man will doesn't have sneaky farts for whatever reason. That one was rancid and I was in a. I was in a position of discomfort for a while.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I do apologize about still funny.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because it's hard to laugh and it was stuffy. And then. Yeah, it was stuffy. I go for the big inhale for my laugh half and it's all poop.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, it's poop in my mouth.

[Will Compton]

Christian McCaffrey, chasing the, chasing the edges.

[Taylor Lewan]

Chasing the 1%. Fighting being white. That's what he's doing. Yeah, he's fighting. He's fighting the process of becoming white because he's doing a great job. But at some point, like, it's not gonna be Father Time that gets Christian McCaffrey. It's going to be being white that gets Christian.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I love how he keeps chasing edges, though. Keep chasing it. Shout out. No for shout out to chasing the edges.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

It's a clean take week.

[Taylor Lewan]

I thought he handled the. The power plant questions pretty well, too.

[Will Compton]

That's what I was gonna ask.

[Bryce Harper]

Was it, was there any, like, off camera conversations? Like, does it. Does the rabbit hole get deeper?

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll say this. Do you mind?

[Will Compton]

I was gonna say I'll say this, but go ahead.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll say this.

[Will Compton]

You say it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Conversations always happen after podcasts.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

But that's why they happen after podcasts.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Right?

[Bryce Harper]

Yup. Is that a Kevin's Natural food clean T take.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's Clean Take Clean day. If someone tells you something in confidence, you keep it to yourself.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Kevin's Natural Foods Clean take. These conversations that happen post pod are with Kevin's Natural Foods. And then when you're eating Kevin's Natural foods, you can't help to feel a little bit more authentic and dive a little deeper, break bread, into the clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hell yeah. Clean take, clean.

[Will Compton]

I'll also say this. You sit there and listen to the CMC break down. Everything he does, whether it be in training, diet, chasing, chasing every edge that he talks about, whether it's grounding, hot, cold therapy, all the things, timing of the day, everything. You know that that group of boys is on to the, to the power station.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean tech.

[Will Compton]

Clean tech. Then that's not speaking for him. I'm just saying, like, if we were in that 49er locker room in those parts that we're talking about with bulletproof and every bulletproof coffee and all the edges that we chase, the minute that starts to gain traction and make noise, us guys, like in our groups, we're excited about that because that's something that we, we would sit there and be talking about without question.

[Taylor Lewan]

Once it gains traction publicly, we're like, thank God it's finally being talked about because we have felt X, Y and Z because of the 1% chase.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And that's how you and I would be. Not saying Christians like that. Just you and I.

[Will Compton]

Right, Right. We're speaking for ourselves. Speaking for ourselves because we dive into it a lot too. With Bryce on, like, with peptides and everything else. We dive into that conversation. The 1%. Why wouldn't owners want or make this stuff legalized? And it's like. Well, on the counter side of it, if your best athletes are going in their second contract, third contract, where the money's exponentially higher, they wouldn't want you to reach those deals. They want you to. Yeah, they want to win the championship, but they also don't want to pay you money.

[Taylor Lewan]

They want to find bigger, younger, faster.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they wouldn't want all the money going into. We're talking about the Niners, so just using that example, but into like cmc, George. They want them to have as long a career as possible, but they don't want them to have every edge in the world that makes them play for 20 years. Because that amount of money, when they're re upping and getting new deals, they want to find the next generation of Georges and Christians because they're. Yeah, they're cheaper.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

You got them on their rookie deal.

[Taylor Lewan]

You, you are once again handling business the correct way. But Bryce. Yeah, the peptide game, the BPC157, the TB500, all those things like, yeah, gotta get those into sports. Gotta get those into Sports.

[Will Compton]

I think TB500 has been something that's been. I don't know enough about it. I just know the lore of TB500 was almost like the, the peptide for like, racehorses and. Oh. So that's, that's always been on the list. But the new wave of peptides, I don't think nad is on the list. I think you can do nad.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're right. I'm speaking in the fact of, like, by just biohacking in.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Optimizing your entire body needs to be more of like a promoted situation for athletes as opposed to being like, oh, you're. You're taking a peptide and peptide has this blank.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like that's. You shouldn't do peptides.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. And peptide being like almost coexisting with PED and steroids and everything else. It's like all the stuff that has all this data backed research that's coming out. There are a lot of different people with the Health 3.0 wave. It's like a lot of these things that help you with longevity of life should not be seen as like some performance enhancing drug in sport. Yes. We are kind of cooking right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

We are cooking. But I do have to leave.

[Bryce Harper]

You gotta leave.

[Taylor Lewan]

I want to have so much more fun.

[Will Compton]

I want to have so much more fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

I just got this thing to do that'll be announced on for the dads and I gotta get to it. I have to. Yeah. So I have to go. I have to go.

[Will Compton]

Like, there's a mouse in the office. Sherman. The team's going to get it. They've been around that wheel of cheese, that wheel of cheese. That clay.

[Taylor Lewan]

Matthew, office cat. Should we get an office cat?

[Bryce Harper]

I can bring Ms. Biscuits up here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Should we get an office cat?

[Bryce Harper]

We should.

[Will Compton]

The mouse is currently in the stream room. Office cat can live in the stream room.

[Bryce Harper]

We get a nice little tower.

[Taylor Lewan]

Would you be down to get an office cat?

[Will Compton]

An office cat. Like, like an animal.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like when? When. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

[Will Compton]

Yes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Feline. Yep. Yes. Will, he was on fire before, too, and he lost it.

[Will Compton]

My mind is being like, the ranch. At the ranch. Want to have a pet animal around here?

[Taylor Lewan]

At the ranch, we would have barn cats. Like, we'd have. There was three barns on our ranch and we would have three cats and they would catch all the rodents and everything and just kill them. They just bring them to your doorstep. Look what I did for you.

[Bryce Harper]

Hey.

[Taylor Lewan]

And they just live, bro. They just live.

[Will Compton]

I'll go to. I'll go to petsmart today and go get the cat.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, listen, we know how Will works. He starts at no. We'll get him to yes. Right now is not going to be the yes that we want.

[Bryce Harper]

Hey, I got recommendations on automatic litter box.

[Taylor Lewan]

First off, every 30 animals around, I'd be pissed off because Now I have 30 animals in my house and I'm like, why the did I do this? And I realized like, half of these things.

[Will Compton]

Billionaires, though.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Just like hamsters and gerbils. And everything I got you love. You had a rat craze there for a second.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, when I was a kid, yeah, I love. I had a rat named Queezer.

[Will Compton]

There'd be a rat, it'd be queer.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes. I saved him. He died. I cried for like three months. I love them.

[Bryce Harper]

It's not like you saved him.

[Taylor Lewan]

I saved him from being a. A snake. Snake food. I was at, I was at. I was at a petco or a pet Smart and a guy pulled it out. I'm like, what are you doing with that? And he's like, I'm gonna feed this to my snake. I was like, not this one. And I bought it and it was like 385. Yeah, 3.85 cents. Bought him, took him, dude. This rat would live mouse with me. No rat. True rat would follow me. I put him on the ground, he'd scamper across. I've told the story too many times. He would sleep on the pillow next to me. At night we'd watch movies. He'd sit there, stare the TV and eat a half eaten grape. That's how me and Queaser operated every day together. He would. I would walk, he'd be on my shoulder. I was like, I was like the birdman of this rat dude.

[Bryce Harper]

It was like Ron.

[Taylor Lewan]

I was rat man.

[Bryce Harper]

Ron and Scavas.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, exactly. Except my rat was a pure.

[Will Compton]

Pure.

[Taylor Lewan]

He wasn't a piece of dude.

[Bryce Harper]

He was not.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, he wasn't. No spoilers. No spoilers. But he would never work for the dark lord. He would never work for the dark lord.

[Will Compton]

Good dude. Yours is more ratatouille.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes.

[Bryce Harper]

Dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

I woke up one day, I'll finish, I'll put a bow on this and I gotta go. I woke up one day, I get him out of his cage, he's bleeding out of his bum. I'm like, oh no. I'm in Loomis, California with my grandmother.

[Will Compton]

We go to the vet.

[Taylor Lewan]

The vet goes, he's got an issue internally. I was too young to know the exact words. It's gonna be $2,000 to operate on this rat. I look at my grandma go, all right, like right, we're gonna get this done.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And she goes, I'm not spending $2,000 to fix a rat on a three dollar rat. I'm not doing that. So they euthanized his ass.

[Will Compton]

Oh, not queasy you, Glenda.

[Taylor Lewan]

And we. I remember my mom calls me and I'm holding the now hardened rat.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh no.

[Taylor Lewan]

Who's in my hand. And my mom's like, hey, Tay. Like, how's queasy? I was like, well, I'm holding him right now. And he was dead, and we buried him under a tree. And I did not recover from that. That no joke years. I'm 34, and I'm still feeling affected by it right now.

[Will Compton]

That rat, now that you're bringing it up in the full story, I'm sure you are feeling.

[Taylor Lewan]

I was. Yeah, it was really sad. It was a very hard time in my life, too. A very difficult time. And that rat was a good boy. He didn't save me. Like, I wasn't like that. But, yeah, Kevin's natural.

[Will Compton]

I was. I was.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right. Clean take.

[Will Compton]

Kevin's natural food. Clean take. Having very fond memories of your old pets.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Great.

[Bryce Harper]

Cle.

[Will Compton]

He's back.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a clean day. He's bulletproof. Is back. It had a bit of a relapse for a second. You guys talking about a cat? Like, yeah. Yep. Like an animal. Yes. Well, that being said, we should have an animal. Let us know in the comments if we should have an office cat for the rodents. We need to know. We will take your poll very seriously. We'll take it very seriously and enjoy Bryce Harper. I gotta go.

[Will Compton]

You can go. But to address a top priority for the audience out there listening, now that we are in week one, outside of essentially the super bowl, we're done with this season. So we get the review recap, do all the things, dive in, Right. We will be cutting down automated ads on Spotify and audio play. We will be doing that. We will be doing that. We will swing it. Whoever. We get a lot of. We get a lot of counsel. We get a lot of advice. We get a lot of suggestions. But over and over, especially after the variable one. And a couple people came up to me at the super bowl, people that I respect in the industry talking about so many ads. I'm like, dog. I keep seeing that. I keep reading it. And when I pop on the episode. You are right. Right. You were right. So we will get that corrected. Yeah, we got to get it correct. Who needs money for the audience?

[Taylor Lewan]

Who needs money? Not us. We actually do. We all do. We do.

[Bryce Harper]

We actually.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a lot.

[Will Compton]

But Bryce Harper's awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

Please don't need it. If I had. Yes. I'll tell you what, I'd save him now.

[Will Compton]

Bryce Harper is an incredible interview. And just. I don't think we understand even sitting here with him. Like, I was going back and we're having dinner last night, and I Was kind of telling Charl how awesome the interview was and everything else. And you're kind of just sitting there. It's like, yo, this dude. Dude was in such a different world. He's kind of like. He was kind of like a. I hate saying it because it feels kind of like I don't even know, but he felt like it was a child superstar. Based on his upbringing and life just in the major leagues, being coined as already the next, like Babe Ruth, Aaron Hanks, just all the big dogs. It's going to be the greatest baseball player to ever live as a teenager to. When he get. He leaves high school in the middle of high school. Just imagine that and you have cameras in your face right away at that age with the expectation. Because he talks about you talked about thoughts of, you know, wanting to stop. After his fall season, the first time he was in Juco. Yeah, we dive into all of it. It's a. It's a really cool interview. But I sit there, I'm like, yo, he ripped, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, he was awesome.

[Will Compton]

And it's just nuts to think about. Yeah, he's like, he was like a prodigy type baseball player coming up.

[Taylor Lewan]

And the thing that when people are in the limelight at such a young age, it's very easy to think, okay, this person is like away from reality a little bit. Yeah, this dude sat down. He was a bro. Immediate daily. Like he. Even without having two years of the social experience of high school, he was extremely engaging. He was great to the boys. He just like, you'd be like, oh, this dude's been our friend for a while.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, he's a friend of the show.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, friend. Friend of the show.

[Will Compton]

When he dapped me up, first thing he says, like, I'm surprised you got out of your driveway. Just knowing like he's a boy, like he's a fan of bus and we all are content and everything else. I was just like, oh, but it's. It's fascinating to me because you talk about the social life stuff. Like I wonder at what age it started for him because we didn't ask that question. But just assuming like his social. His social stuff was just blown up from the get go.

[Taylor Lewan]

Absolutely.

[Will Compton]

Whenever he's taking the mountain, people are identifying like, hey, he's got that. And selling out crowds at juco and everything else. Like I would assume every kid who played against them and they're like, oh, that's. That's the one.

[Taylor Lewan]

There's guys that are in on. Those guys are like, this guy. I'm Just as good as him.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Everybody's best shot time. Can I say one thing, please? I gotta go.

[Will Compton]

Gotta go.

[Taylor Lewan]

I gotta go, I gotta go.

[Will Compton]

Enjoy the pod with Bryce Harper. We love you. We appreciate you. Big hugs, tiny kisses. Leave Comments subscribe make sure you're following on all of our social platforms. Boys, listen this episode we are brought to you by Jim Beam. As you all know, we have now entered what could be the worst time of the year. That's right, football is over. What we are supposed. What are we supposed to do on Sundays now? Or Monday or Thursday? So much time. So little football.

[Bryce Harper]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

I get it. It's like you're taking the lemon of football being over and turning it into lemonade.

[Taylor Lewan]

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[Taylor Lewan]

Gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. We have a very special guest, a man who resides in Nashville, Tennessee. He's an eight time All Star Star, two time NL MVP 2012 Rookie of the Year, four time Silver Slugger. Can't wait to figure out what all those things mean during this podcast. Signed a 300 wait. Stick with me. $330 million Contra with the Phillies. That runs through 2031. Please, ladies and gentlemen, give a round of applause for the one, the only, Bryce Harper. Yeah, Bryce, we're fired up to have you on. Let me just tell a quick story how we got connected.

[Bryce Harper]

Connected.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gentleman goes, hey, I'm boys with Bryce. You were doing, like, a celebrity softball thing for Coach V. He's like, you should connect to it, guys. Get you on the podcast. We start going for a little bit, and I'm like, hey, yeah, we should absolutely get you on. All of a sudden, you get busy. I don't hear anything from you. Clump. My boy over here, who's a huge Bryce Harper fan, is like, hey, what's going on with Hart? I'm like, I think it's just not happening. I think it's, like, over now. Check in. Last week before we go to the super bowl, you hit me up. You're like, hey, I have two weeks. Do you want to do the show or not? And I'm like, yeah. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, we could absolutely do the show.

[Will Compton]

He's saying the same thing. Taylor hasn't followed up. Like, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And it probably. If I were to look back at those texts, I think history has shown it probably was on me a little bit.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm a terrible text.

[Taylor Lewan]

So awful. I'm like, hey, we can hit Monday, 11am what do you think? Let's lock it in. And sure enough, the boy shows up. So that's big time of you, man.

[Bryce Harper]

No, I appreciate you guys coming in. I know it's an off day for you guys, so. Especially super bowl weekend, all that kind of stuff.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we're. We're about to hit a little. Little break. I'm gonna take a little vacation.

[Bryce Harper]

Hawaii.

[Will Compton]

I know what they've been talking. One of the ones of the islands.

[Taylor Lewan]

Make sure you have that mic up to your face.

[Will Compton]

The mainland, maybe.

[Bryce Harper]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

But they're talking about storms happening.

[Taylor Lewan]

Be the buffalo.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So gotta run towards the storm.

[Bryce Harper]

Kawaii. Really good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Fun fact. Bryce and I, we used to run the city of Washington back in, like, the 2012, 2012 era.

[Taylor Lewan]

Did you guys ever cross?

[Will Compton]

No. No.

[Taylor Lewan]

Two different spots.

[Will Compton]

Two different.

[Taylor Lewan]

Two mafia families.

[Will Compton]

His team kept reaching out. I'm like, guys, I gotta focus on football.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I gotta get off this practice squad.

[Bryce Harper]

They found out I was a Dallas fan growing up, they hated me even more.

[Will Compton]

Dude. Same, same. I remember when I was on P squad and we were knocked out of it, and I'm like, rooting for Dallas. There's a Couple times I'm rooting for Dallas against us. Crazy to say, but this is before.

[Taylor Lewan]

When you were playing.

[Will Compton]

Not when I was playing. Playing.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. I was gonna say, but when I.

[Will Compton]

Wasn'T when I was on P squad. And then the next year, I only played, like, three games. I spot started like three games due to injury and we weren't in the playoffs. That was the year DEZ Bryant did he cat. But I'm like, hoping.

[Bryce Harper]

Did he catch it?

[Will Compton]

He caught it.

[Bryce Harper]

He caught it.

[Will Compton]

Last game of the year is against us. And I'm like, okay. I'm glad they beat us because they need momentum going into the playoffs is what I'm like. My. The little kid fan in me is thinking, like, as we lost that game.

[Taylor Lewan]

So the first time you saw the Dallas Star on the field, it was incredible.

[Will Compton]

First time playing, really playing in Dallas and seeing the star and seeing everything. Jerry's world, all of it. I'm like, this is all time.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's cool.

[Will Compton]

This is big time.

[Bryce Harper]

I've never seen. Seen it. My dad grew up big Dallas guy. Obviously, we're huge Eagles now. Just because I'm in Philly and I know the guys and I root for him and stuff. But my daddy grew up Emmett Smith. I'm like, all those guys.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

That. The documentary on Netflix was sick.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's what he was saying. I haven't seen.

[Bryce Harper]

Really, really good. Yeah. This is the whole story. Like, you kind of. You understand the madness of it all.

[Will Compton]

When we were at a. We were at Samcom and got to meet Emmett Smith, and I'm like, maybe I wasn't fumbling over my words, but I'm thinking that I am because I'm nervous to meet him. I'm just trying to tell him how much he meant to me. I'm like, I know you've heard it all the time. Probably means nothing to you, but I pretended to be you out in the backyard with my dad and was telling him all this stuff. Was super nervous. But meeting Emmett Smith, bro, Unbelievable. Unreal.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, he's a great dude, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

Handled yourself well in that situation. I was right there watching.

[Will Compton]

If you ever come to Nashville, I'd love to have you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey. He started talking about Nashville. He started to get a little too excited about Nashville.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's really. He's like, having flashbacks. Like, ptsd, War veteran flashbacks. I'm thinking like, oh, my God. And this person.

[Will Compton]

Nashville. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, dude. Obviously, the NFL, the Eagles, the fan base is insane. Is that bleeding over to the Phillies as well? Like, do you have the craziest fan base of all time there.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, it's, it's such a great city to play in. Obviously. It's a really hard city to play in for a lot of people. And if you're not ready to play there, then don't come because. Yeah, because I mean, it can, it can, you know, chew you up and spit you out real quick. Obviously they're very passionate and they work hard for, for their hard earned dollars. So when they come and buy a ticket for us each night, if that's, you know, NFL, NBA, mlb, NHL, like they want you to go out there and give it your all, no excuses or anything else like that. So I love that. I mean, obviously I kind of feel like I grew up like that. My dad, no excuses, like, go out, play your game. Doesn't matter how you're feeling or what's going on. Just play hard and have fun. But I, I love playing there just for the fan base and knowing that they're gonna, you know, kill force each night. They want to beat up the other team more than us, so.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do you think early in your career you would have been able to handle it as well as you are now?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, D.C. was such a different vibe. You know, I think it, it's just different. I mean, I think each fan base is different. So when you understand what Philly is all about, I mean, if you think about New York, Boston, Philly, like just the, the big places like that, that fans really show up each night, understand that they live and die by, you know, if their team wins or not. Not when you kind of understand it in that perspective, like, okay, you know, I'm all about it. I understand it. D.C. is just different. It's just, it's just different, you know, I mean, it was, it was just a different spot comparative to what, what Philly is. And I love it. I've, I've said this numerous times. I wish I would have started my, my career there just because of the way it was. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Abanyas, like all these guys, just that whole era of Phillies baseball was, was really cool and just seeing kind of the fans rally behind them and you know, as an opposing player going in there, there was, there was nothing like it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it was always fun going to those Caps games when they were in the playoffs.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

NHL for sure. Before we get in all the baseball talk, because the bus with the boys, we're known for, we're known for our baseball substance. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, We've had some people on one. Have we had anybody else other than Coach V? I don't think any baseball guys ever.

[Will Compton]

No, because I used to.

[Taylor Lewan]

My first love was baseball, like as a kid. Silver Hawks. You might not know.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, I grew up in Arizona. Right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Arizona, yeah. So, I mean, big baseball State.

[Will Compton]

But you, you quit baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

I was scared of getting hit, he said.

[Will Compton]

I grew up loving baseball.

[Bryce Harper]

I know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, that was like, that was like the first.

[Bryce Harper]

You could have been the white Aaron Judge. 7, £290.

[Taylor Lewan]

I had the Luis Gonzalez. I had the Luis Gonzalez stance because that's when they, the Diamondbacks won it legit. And you like step into the ball. I would just keep my leg out there. I was so afraid of getting hit. That's why I quit football when I was little. That's why I quit hockey when I was little. Just scared. I don't know what my question was going to be because you kind of rattled my brain.

[Bryce Harper]

It's funny when the NFL guys come in, they're like, nah, dog, I ain't trying to get hit. But I'm like, guy coming over the middle, you know about that little ball.

[Will Compton]

Just ripping by you at 100 miles an hour.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, I got, I got hit in the face. Shoot. Four years ago and with 98, just bang. And it was one of the probably scariest moment on a baseball field I've ever had. And it took me a minute to come back, but like, I don't know, like just coming across and Ray Lewis just absolutely dominating me. Like, I don't, I don't want no part of that.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, I've been dominated on a football field as well. That's no fun. Yeah, but something about you, like. Yeah, it's the little bit ball.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just cruising in there and it does all these weird movements. I couldn't.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. What was going through your mind when you got rocked in the face sleeping? Like, is my eyes still there?

[Bryce Harper]

So that was the biggest thing. So like I, I went to the ground and I pressed on my face as hard as I could just to see, like it was broken and it wasn't. And I mean, I definitely had a guardian angel over me because there's no chance, like, I mean, I've seen guys get hit and just their face is gone, you know, like surgery here, surgery there. I was, I had nothing.

[Will Compton]

Is that one where you're like, you hit up the pitch or something? You're like, yo, what the was that?

[Bryce Harper]

I actually felt bad for him. He was a rookie and it kind of just got away from him. I think he was in year two maybe, but I actually texted their head, their manager at the time and was like, hey, like, tell him don't worry about it. Like, it's not a big deal. I don't want this to, like, ruin him or mentally, like, mess him up or anything. I. I really felt bad for him at the time. Just. I mean, obviously it sucked getting hit in the face, but. But I was kind of worried about him just because I didn't want that to kind of determine, like, his. The rest of his career. You know what I'm saying?

[Will Compton]

Sales. He smokes. Bryce Harper.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. No, I mean, the problem was too. He smoked the next guy too, so he was. I mean, the game just sped up on him a little bit and they just got kind of crazy for him. So kid got rattled a little bit. Yeah, he's still pitching now. He's actually with the Phillies now, so we just signed him, I think, to a minor league deal.

[Taylor Lewan]

Have you talked to him about it?

[Bryce Harper]

I haven't, no.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yeah, That'll be a fun conversation. Hey, good to see you, man. You see, I'm. I still very handsome.

[Bryce Harper]

So thank you for not, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, no doubt.

[Will Compton]

Hey, being in Nashville, here's. Here's a deal. Yeah, you're gonna want this dub right here.

[Taylor Lewan]

So, yeah, you were saying we're not going to talk about baseball because.

[Will Compton]

There'S been some opinions on. In busing in recent weeks about Mexican food, food scene, restaurants. So start the first question. What is your opinion of the food scene in Nashville?

[Bryce Harper]

I think it's okay. I mean, it's not.

[Will Compton]

It's not bad. He didn't say bad.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, you're right. And it's okay.

[Bryce Harper]

I think.

[Will Compton]

I think it's good.

[Taylor Lewan]

I fallen back on that. That opinion. That opinion of mine was like a too strong opinion, you know, like you're talking to the boys and you're on.

[Will Compton]

The Walkers and you're like, I'm wrong.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah. Now I'm like, okay, Yeah. I could see where saying bad is not. That's not what Nashville is. Nashville has definite blind spots.

[Bryce Harper]

I won't say bad. I mean, I think it's okay. Like, I've been. I mean, obviously we've all traveled around the country. Like, I would say there's probably better.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. San Fran was.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, San Fran. Scottsdale, Louisiana. Miami, New York, Philly. I mean, Philly's got one of the best food scenes in America.

[Will Compton]

You. You get around and eat at a bunch of restaurants. In Scottsdale?

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, when I'm out there.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, because they do spring. You do spring training.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm in Florida. Yeah. But like, I mean, just traveling out there and playing and stuff.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right, so. But you. You've spent some time in Scottsdale. Yeah, Eating for food.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I like it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, if I said the name Zips to you.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I'm sorry, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, how far are we into this podcast?

[Will Compton]

Hey, Taylor. It's not even close, dude. It's not even close. He's got a couple more. Do you think that you can find good food in Mexican food in Nashville?

[Bryce Harper]

In Nashville, yeah. I think there's one place that I've been to and I had it last night for the Super Bowl. But, like, I mean, it was berea tacos, and I thought they were very, very good.

[Will Compton]

You know the name of the spot?

[Bryce Harper]

It's in the gulch. And there they had a truck in East. I can't on the top of my head, because, I mean, it's the first time yesterday having it. One of my buddies ordered it for us.

[Taylor Lewan]

Look up Gulch. Mexican food spots.

[Will Compton]

He talked about some of the best he's ever had.

[Bryce Harper]

No, it was that it used to be a tortilla factory, and now they changed it into a restaurant. The one's kind of white tablecloth a little bit, I think they said. And then the truck in east was really good. They said. But I think they're michelin recommended.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm pretty sure Michigan Michelin recommended Mexican food to me. It doesn't. Doesn't.

[Bryce Harper]

I agree, I agree, I agree. But like, this wasn't like. So this wasn't like, sit down. Like, white table. Like, they have that type of restaurant for, like, they have like a steak there or like mole or whatever, all that kind of stuff. But the brie tacos were top notch.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Very good.

[Taylor Lewan]

How'd you look into that?

[Will Compton]

A beloved restaurant, but everybody thinks about Noco, right? And I don't like beloved restaurant. I don't like the boys is nocoming.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, partner Kase, very good. But the Noco, like, everybody's on Noco and I'm just not.

[Will Compton]

And you're like, no, it's overrated.

[Taylor Lewan]

And just so we're clear, Noco is the East Nashville on the curve that JP was talking about, right?

[Will Compton]

Yes.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't want to piss people off in Nashville yet because I've only been here for freaking eight months.

[Taylor Lewan]

They shouldn't get mad, just like, give you an opportunity.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, hey, let's try what's the best city in America for food. You think?

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, see here's my problem is I have opinions. Like, I naturally there's blind spots of food, but I'm not like a foodie.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, I'm from Vegas, born and raised. And like, it's decent.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

Because people, people go, hey, it's got some good food.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, but like you're talking about the strip and all these, like, it's just like. Yeah, but it's. I mean, it's all the same stuff that you can get all, all over the place.

[Will Compton]

If I go into a city and I have one good place, I'm like.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, this is like San Fran best.

[Taylor Lewan]

Exactly.

[Bryce Harper]

San Fran. Best Greek food I've had is Kakari. Like by far my favorite.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like you've been to Greek cafe in Nashville.

[Will Compton]

Tell them about that. I'll tell them about Greek cafe.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, they load your ass up. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I tell you what, Abba is a nice little spot over in. No.

[Bryce Harper]

You don't think so.

[Taylor Lewan]

You could just tell the way he uses it. Like, even restaurant lingo, he's like white cloth. It took me a minute. Okay. White cloth, I think is nice. Do you realize he knows, he knows food.

[Will Compton]

How many different angles he just kind of hit around us? He's like, oh, one of the best.

[Bryce Harper]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

I'm just some of the best I've ever had.

[Bryce Harper]

What's your favorite burger?

[Taylor Lewan]

In and out.

[Bryce Harper]

You do like in and out?

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So you're five guys. Where you're paying so much for five guys, man.

[Will Compton]

It's all right. It's an incredible burger, but it's everything.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fast food, that's fast casual. There's no drive through.

[Will Compton]

So that's where the easy fast food.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Okay.

[Taylor Lewan]

Where it is. Where's your stance on the best burger?

[Bryce Harper]

In and out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I'll tell you.

[Will Compton]

I think in and out. Great.

[Taylor Lewan]

We could eat together.

[Bryce Harper]

But the thing about in and out, like, like, so, so the other night we were going to in n out here and it was like a four hour wait or whatever because the line and I was like, I'm not waiting that long. It's not going to happen. So I go up to the front, paid a guy like 100 bucks to take my order. He did it for me. But we got the wrong order because they were the first time at in and out. And we got their order and they ordered ter. I mean, they got a double, double plane with pickles.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And so I'm thinking about, like, people love Whataburger. And I'm like, If Water Burger has to have one a chicken, like, then. If they have to sell anything but burgers, then it's not very good. But like, people in Texas will die on that. They love.

[Will Compton]

People will. Yeah, people in Texas.

[Bryce Harper]

There's a certain way to order in and out, and everybody's always like, oh, you can't do it like that. Like, you have to order like the actual burger with the fries. Like, I think they have some of the best fries and people are going to kill me for that. But if you get well done fries from In N Out. Unbelievable.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, see, that's where I kind of fall back a little bit. That's where I bend the knee. When the argument comes in and out, it's like, yeah, the fries. Fries.

[Bryce Harper]

If you get well done. If you get well done fries, I'm.

[Taylor Lewan]

Telling you, these, I rip with the animal fries.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't like those. Okay, but like, but I like. I like grilled onions on my burger. So I'll do like. So I do three by one. Grilled onions, pepperoncinis on the side, mustard on the bun.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a. That's an order right there.

[Will Compton]

Being a DC Cat vibe on a Shake Shack.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hold on. Before you go.

[Will Compton]

What? See, not. I honestly. I kind of.

[Bryce Harper]

You like their fries?

[Will Compton]

Fries, yeah. I'm not talking about their fries.

[Bryce Harper]

I know, but their burger, I mean, it's. I'm not gonna. I like their chicken. I like their.

[Will Compton]

They have good chicken.

[Bryce Harper]

I like their chicken sandwich. I think it's good.

[Will Compton]

Especially if you're like.

[Bryce Harper]

But I'm not gonna say like. I. I think they're. I think Shake Shack's good. I think it's good. But I'm not gonna say like, oh, yeah, it's one of my favorites. But if I go to Shake Shack, I'll eat one of their burgers. I think they're good.

[Taylor Lewan]

The best argument.

[Bryce Harper]

I like their bun.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, A little potato progress.

[Taylor Lewan]

The best argument for in and out you had it is you went to in and out. And there's a four hour wait.

[Bryce Harper]

Wait.

[Taylor Lewan]

You go anywhere in the country, there's in and out. There's always going to be some sort of a weight that takes place.

[Bryce Harper]

There's always a weight.

[Will Compton]

And also the hit on it too is you talk about the A plus customer service knowing that he got a kind of a botched order. I think it's also part of.

[Bryce Harper]

But that wasn't, that wasn't my fault. They. The kids that ordered my food, they gave me the wrong bag. So it was the Kid's fault, right?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, the customer.

[Taylor Lewan]

You blaming children?

[Will Compton]

Hey, we out here, we run an operation. And now we're known for this standard, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm with that.

[Will Compton]

When it drops. You know what I mean? Mean, you're not getting the full in.

[Taylor Lewan]

And out of pedestrian. You're talking about a pedestrian that's sitting in the front line. Bryce is like, hey, I'll give you 100 bucks to order food for me and those kids. It up. They have, they have. They're not with in and out.

[Will Compton]

They got their moment. That was their super bowl.

[Bryce Harper]

Right?

[Will Compton]

And they threw a pick.

[Taylor Lewan]

But their super bowl has nothing to do with in n out being the champion of fast food burgers.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's. It'll always. It'll forever be an argument.

[Bryce Harper]

But I think. I think a lot of people don't like in and out. Like from like Arizona over, like to this side of the country. Country. I don't, I don't think people like in and out very much.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's because they like, have it.

[Bryce Harper]

They like Waterbird, Shake Shack five Guys like, they.

[Will Compton]

I think everybody hates like the, the pompous that it is the best, bar none. Nothing's close to it. So then there's friction that gets created to talk about other burger spots. Because there are other burger spots that are just as good, if not better.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, there's good burger spots. I mean, burgers in general are like. Yeah, it's like.

[Bryce Harper]

There's one in Barstow, California that is unbelievable.

[Taylor Lewan]

What? California?

[Bryce Harper]

Barstow. Barstow, right next to the in and out in Barstow, California. So you got. Oh, you. Have you ever been to Del Taco?

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You like Del Taco? You ever had their Double Dell?

[Taylor Lewan]

No, I have not.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, so their burgers are actually pretty good too. When I was growing up, I mean, not anymore, probably. I haven't had Del Taco in, I don't know, 20 years.

[Will Compton]

But dude, strong food, Strong food opinions. I.

[Taylor Lewan]

Strong food. He seems like he's a well versed individual with this food. Like I. My range is like, like burgers to middle class eats. So you start getting the upper echelon white tablecloth is.

[Bryce Harper]

No, no, I'm not. I'm just saying like that restaurant was a white tablecloth. They said, I've never been there. But like.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, hey, that's.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, they'll. They'll talk about.

[Will Compton]

You see how he kind of had all these different angles. Whenever he said he had some of the best tacos or burritos he ever had were like dapping. Oh, Taylor L. And then he's like, oh, Nashville. When you walked out, he's like, yeah. I mean, Nashville food pretty subpar. I was like, oh, God. And then JP's like, hey. JP comes in, like, hey, you ever had no CO? He's like, Overrated. J's like, oh, God. I'm like, oh, my God. He's hitting all these different.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I walk out. I pretend to take. I hear him say that, I gotta.

[Bryce Harper]

Get out of here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Walk out. He just proceeds to kill everybody else in the food tank.

[Bryce Harper]

But, like, I mean, too, like, what. Like, if you're having a steak, like, where you gonna go get a steak here?

[Taylor Lewan]

I think, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Franklin Farmers Market, Cane Prime, Kane Prime. Yeah, I think Cane.

[Taylor Lewan]

Rubes. I think Rubes is good.

[Bryce Harper]

But, like, you think. You think you can. You think you can make.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, the se. The. The scenery in Bourbon's nice. On the scenery Overlook Nashville.

[Will Compton]

And as far as, like, the apps menu and the sharable stuff like it.

[Taylor Lewan]

You ever French fried the French fry?

[Bryce Harper]

You been down 40?

[Taylor Lewan]

This podcast is about to suck the rest of the time. Dude, we did it. We did a pot with. With Josh Allen. It was 25 minutes of us just, like, uncomfortably trying to get each other dick jokes.

[Will Compton]

And then we got done with the pot. We're like, this show was not very good.

[Bryce Harper]

Yo, the Phyllis one was great, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, poor Jack. Thank God he's not here. He actually had to take a leave because of that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that was take leave.

[Bryce Harper]

Best, best cheese steak in Philly. Which one? Angelos.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is Angelo's? The one that Big Dom was trying to put us on? I think. So it was closed that day, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Really good. I haven't been yet. I haven't been yet. Yeah. Fire. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Damn, Mitch.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I think. I mean, I've been to Angelo's, and I love it, like, really good. But the thing is, like, cracker thin, like, crust pizza. And I mean, I think Angelo's is really, really good. Tacinelli's is great.

[Will Compton]

What's your favorite pizza out here in Nashville?

[Bryce Harper]

Folk.

[Will Compton]

Folk.

[Bryce Harper]

Okay. Yeah. So they have, like, a sourdough. All right. It's really good. They do a good job.

[Taylor Lewan]

You don't know what folk is, do you?

[Will Compton]

I know. Don't.

[Bryce Harper]

Don't.

[Taylor Lewan]

What's your opinion about, like, Nashville pizza?

[Bryce Harper]

I think it's the. The folk one was really, really good.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Bryce Harper]

But I haven't, like. Is that it right there?

[Taylor Lewan]

Looks like it. It looks thin to me.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, it's. That's really good.

[Taylor Lewan]

See, pizza is another bar. It's like, I. The bar is so low for pizza. Like, you're going to have it. You're like, yes, pizza is good.

[Bryce Harper]

But like, I think deep dish is terrible.

[Will Compton]

Agreed.

[Bryce Harper]

Chicago deep dish is awful. But like, there's a. There's a place in Chicago and they have cracker crust, like thin crust pizza. And I. It's legit.

[Will Compton]

You've read emos in St. Louis?

[Bryce Harper]

No. Cracker crust.

[Will Compton]

It's thin.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Squares.

[Bryce Harper]

Is it good?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Provolone cheese emos. I'll get you hooked up.

[Bryce Harper]

All right, Sounds good.

[Will Compton]

We have a free of frozen. Appreciate you.

[Taylor Lewan]

When we were in San Francisco, we were going Alcatraz and this guy was just on the boat asking people where they were from. And they'd be like, he's like, I'm from St. Louis, Missouri.

[Will Compton]

And the guy said, volunteering. He had no clue.

[Taylor Lewan]

No clue. Clue.

[Will Compton]

He's like, what's close?

[Taylor Lewan]

But this dude had like a. He was in the spectrum. That's clearly. And he just knew, like, you would say, like a city. That's wrong.

[Will Compton]

Well, I'm just saying, you said it and you did the thing. You looked over at me for a second, so I just held my face and then now that there's a crack, it's like, oh, okay. Was that the. Keep going.

[Taylor Lewan]

And his superpower was knowing cities and all the places to go and eat. And that's what he was doing on the boat. And he said, emos.

[Will Compton]

Next.

[Taylor Lewan]

Onward. God damn. Bring a box. Autism. Everyone's like, oh. It's like, you know, that's a superpower. I have an autism.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. The accountant.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes. Yes. I did. I seen it recently.

[Bryce Harper]

Unbelievable.

[Taylor Lewan]

Ben Affleck.

[Bryce Harper]

Yes, sir.

[Will Compton]

There it is.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You're not a movie guy.

[Taylor Lewan]

I do love movies, newer movies, because of having kids and all that. I just. I don't get it the way I want to now.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

But yeah, I mean, I. I mean.

[Bryce Harper]

I haven't been to a theater movie in a long time. Same time.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's. That sucks, man.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because theaters sitting down. Like my rookie year in Nashville, like every, like Thursday afternoon, I would go solo to the movies during the season and just sit there and watch whatever they had and just popcorn. Love that big can of nicotine.

[Will Compton]

That was my. I went a couple weeks ago. Zootopia.

[Taylor Lewan]

How good?

[Will Compton]

Incredible.

[Bryce Harper]

And.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, amazing.

[Will Compton]

I saw House Made Housemate on Netflix.

[Bryce Harper]

Nah. Me and my wife went. It was really good. It was gnarly.

[Will Compton]

Something like that. I thought it was on.

[Bryce Harper]

I thought, no, it's on. Like, okay, you can get it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Have you guys been on F1 yet?

[Bryce Harper]

Movie? Yeah, I haven't seen it.

[Will Compton]

Yes, Body watched it.

[Bryce Harper]

Last one I watched, like, sport wise in the movies though was Ford Vers. Ferrari.

[Taylor Lewan]

But that movie's incredible. Yes. That one probably edges out F1, but Brad Pitt in this F1 movie is unreal.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So baseball.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Are we getting there?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, we don't have to. That's really good.

[Will Compton]

How is it, dude, Playing in the major leagues? Major leaguer.

[Bryce Harper]

Grande liga, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Grande. How is. Dude, I mean, you, like, quit. You quit high school. You said, I'm. I'm gonna just grade out of this and be done because of baseball. Like, you were called the chosen one at one point in Sports Illustrated. What kind of pressure as a child.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, you're.

[Taylor Lewan]

Baseball is LeBron James games.

[Bryce Harper]

That's what they said.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. I mean, I think the thing was that. So when we were going through it, I mean, I grew up playing football, baseball, basketball, snowboarding. Like, I did everything. Like, it wasn't just baseball all the time. And, you know, my first love was football. Like, I love playing football. And then obviously I got to high school and it was kind of like, pick one. Like, what are we gonna do? And I picked baseball. And it's very hard to walk away from a lot of other stuff, but obviously baseball took over and it was what it was at that point. High school baseball in Vegas just is. It's okay. But, like, as you go and play on travel ball teams or tournaments over, you know, over the summer, you kind of realize, like, man, it's kind of hurting me a little bit playing high school baseball, because I'd go to these other tournaments and I kind of would get dominated a little bit, but also, like, play well sometimes. And so me and my parents kind of sat down, was like, what. What could be the next step? Like, what can we do? I did really good my freshman year. Did really good my sophomore year. And then we talked to a coach over at CSN College of Southern Nevada, and I took my GED tested out of school. And that was a tough thing for me too. Cause, I mean, you're giving up your junior and senior high school, right? Like, it's supposed to be the best years of your life, but I was kind of a ghost in high school. I was kind of. I'd, you know, go to school, do my thing. I'd work out all the time. Like, I had early bird weights, lift after school, and then, like, have. Have baseball practice and do my thing. So it's kind of. I wasn't really missing out on. On much besides hanging out on the weekends with my buddies and having that.

[Will Compton]

Group of friends that you rock.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. You know, like, I mean, but a lot of my friends, you know, played baseball, played other sports, and went to a lot of different schools across. Across the valley. So I'd go across town, hang out with them, come back to my school, all that kind of stuff. So. But the transition into JUCO wasn't as easy of a transition as it kind of looked. It was probably the most pressure I'd ever been under in my whole life. Even now to this day, just because, you know, you drop out of school and then it's like, you have to play well, because if you don't play well, like, there's nothing else in all these headlines.

[Will Compton]

And this idea of you was already there for sure.

[Taylor Lewan]

When. When were those headlines starting? Because you talk about. I was probably all the sports. And then you get to your freshman year and you have to pick one. Yeah, I know in, like, in Arizona of people were like. With hockey and baseball, it was like, you get to like, 10, essentially. You have to be, like, all in on one thing. So it sounds like you're just good at everything, and you're like, I guess I'll just be great at baseball.

[Bryce Harper]

No, I mean, I just think my dad wanted me to be an athlete. I think that was the biggest thing. I think that's what kids kind of lack nowadays is like, they. All the parents think their next. Their kid's gonna be the next Mike Trout or the Next, you know, LeBron or the next Joe Burrow or whatever. You know, it's. I think they kind of lose the sight of the kid, you know, of, like, letting them be a kid, understanding that they have so much time to be great at what they want to be great at. You know, maybe. Maybe the kid actually wants to play piano and he wants to be great at piano. Like, you never know, right? And so I think that's the thing that my dad never pushed me to, like, do something I always wanted. I mean, I come back on a weekend, I'd play six games, and that Monday I'm like, dad, let's go hit. You know, like, let's go. Let's go get some work in. You know, like, I love the working mentality. Like, I love to get out there and try to get better at anything that I do.

[Will Compton]

Did.

[Bryce Harper]

And so for me, like, just understanding. Once I got into high school, like, it kind of all started when I was like probably 10 or 11 years old.

[Will Compton]

And by traveling around playing travel ball.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. So I, I mean my first competitive game I played at 7 against 10 year olds. Like it was just like I was very competitive from, from a very young age. And I wouldn't probably wish that on anybody because like, obviously like I loved it. But I don't know if many people want to do it for that long. Right? Some guys get burned out or they don't want to do it anymore. By the time they're 16, they're like, man, that's way too much baseball. I mean I had buddies that were really good. They got burned out because their parents just hammered on them all the time instead of like hammer, hammer love, you know, Like I always think about that. Like my dad, like he'd hammer on me, but also he'd pull me aside. But hey, I love you kid. Like this is what it's all about. Like this game might not last forever, but you know, we're family, we're blood, we're all this kind of stuff. Like so we're in this together kind of thing. And so, you know, once I got to that point, you know, I got into, to June to junior college and like you said, like the Sports Illustrated came out and that's kind of a blessing and a curse at the same time. It's really cool, right? Like you want to be on a Wheaties boss box, you want to have a tops card.

[Will Compton]

Like it's like what you think about growing, no doubt.

[Bryce Harper]

Like you want to be on Sports Illustrated and all that kind of stuff. But it comes with a sense of you have to be good. Like this is, this is it is what it is. Like you, you have to show up or you know, you're going to be the biggest story in sports. And you don't want to be a bust. You don't want to be the next buster. You know, everybody talks about you for 20 years. Like, oh, hey, what if, what if.

[Taylor Lewan]

What if what could have been with this kid, right?

[Bryce Harper]

And focused, you know. So I think, think getting there, I was playing against guys that were, you know, five, six, seven years older than me because there's a lot of, you know, juco drop that guys from, you know, D1s and stuff like that. We had a really, really good team. So we had a lot of drop, drop back guys from D1 that just couldn't make grades. And so I actually got dominated in the fall, like just. And we were wood bat. So our, our division was wood bat. Everybody else was aluminum and so it kind of gave me a sense of like, hey, this is. This is real baseball. Like, we're playing wood bat. We don't have aluminum combats. And so, I mean, I kind of. I came back and said to my dad, I don't want to do this. I want to go back to high school. And so we actually met with principal A.D. my coach, everything. And they were like, you can't come back. You test it out. And so I was like, this is.

[Will Compton]

After your first fall.

[Bryce Harper]

This is my first fall in juco. And so they were like, you know, you can't do this. And I'm like, man, all right, well, I got to figure this out. And so obviously I figured it out and had a great year, but was tough. It. It was probably the toughest year knowing that, like, either you have to be the number one pick or there's nothing else, right? And so, like, you have to be the number one pick out of junior college. And thankfully I had a great coach, great guys around me. My brother played with us as well, so I had him all year, but had a lot of guys that had my back. And I think that was the biggest thing going in and playing against all these other teams and all these college guys was, you know, I got chirped at a lot, which was, which was great. I loved it. You know, that was probably the best time. But yeah, I mean, a lot of guys came in and, and helped me a lot. And so it was. It was nice to have a group around me that like, kind of pushed me along as well, you know, because I don't think I would have got to where I needed to be without, you know.

[Will Compton]

How did some of those conversations shift mainly for you? When you're not around the group of guys, Obviously you have a good group around. You got your dad, you have. It seems like you have good people that surrounding you. But also when you go back home at night and you're thinking to yourself, like, what were some things that helped you on top of that? Because a lot of. Lot of that self talk stuff that athletes have and go through, I would assume too, it's like, yeah, you're around guys that are lifting you up and everything else, but when you're driving home and you're by yourself, like a shift have to. Has to happen, like, you know, from within, from yourself.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, obviously I think like motivation, it comes and goes, right? But like, having that determination to be great always has to be there no matter what. I think that's in Life today, too, right? Like, I mean, there's certain times where you do a job or you do certain things, you're like, man, dude, I got to get in there again. Got to get it, get it done, get it done. I mean, you guys know, like, season gets monotonous sometimes, too. Doing the same thing every single day all the time. And staying consistent, for sure, you have to stay consistent with what you do. So, I mean, consistency is key to being great every day. And so for me, like, good day, bad day, I had to be the same guy because we had, you know, a thousand scouts at every game. Like, I obviously was 17 years old and made a lot of mistakes when I was 16, 17, 18 years old. It just is what it is, right? High school kids, kid on the field, off the field. Like, it is what it is. But for me, like, understanding, like, this is what I have to do. This is a dream. If I don't do it, then I'll be working with my dad side by side, you know, building hotels in. In Vegas. And that's not terrible, but, like, it's not the dream that I had for. For myself.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

So what was that conversation? Like, who came to who? When you're in high school and you made the transition, like, who started that dialogue? Was it your dad that started that, or was that you being like, hey, seems like the next step for me is this.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I think it was a family decision at that point. I mean, obviously my dad. So in America, you have to be out of school for a year to be eligible for the draft, or you have to. Excuse me, you have to test out and go to junior college. So I could either go and play in Japan. I could either go play in winter ball or in the Dominican or something like that overseas, or I could go test out and go to junior college. And I played for a great coach in junior college. And so it was kind of. We went and met with him, told him, you know, what it was all about, what we thought, and he goes, absolutely, let's go. Let's roll with this. And, you know, I looked at csn. I looked at two schools in Texas as well at the time, a school in Oklahoma as well. And it was just nice to be able to stay at home, being able to be around my family. I don't think it. I think it would have been a lot different if I was going somewhere else. So making that decision. We talked to my advisor at the time, Scott, now my agent, and the big thing for him was me getting out of school to have the opportunity to be on a big league deal once I got drafted. So after my year it was minor league deals only. And so big league deal means you're right on the 40 man roster and you have a chance to be up in the big leagues within, you know, two or three years if you play well. And so that was the last year. Me getting drafted was the last year for that. And so there was a lot of things that kind of went into our decision and obviously there was a lot of people that were like, you're crazy. You're robbing this kid of two years of high school. You know, he's, you know, he might not be this guy. He might not be this guy. But I love that notion. Like I love people kind of saying this about me or saying that about me and then, you know, doing my thing and not really worrying about it. But having the, the group around me that kind of helped me get there was huge for me.

[Will Compton]

Which is, which is wild because, because you're in such a, it's like a, it's like a one of one type situation. You know what I mean? Like not going to high school, getting out. Do you ever look back and think, like, I wish I would have stayed in high school. Obviously it's all worked out, but there are, are there parts of you that's like, oh man, I should have played football, I should have done more sports knowing that maybe you could have still accomplished or been where you're at now?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, my dream was to be a two way guy at an SEC school like somewhere. And being a two way guy like that was always like my dream game. Like playing football somewhere, playing baseball somewhere.

[Will Compton]

You a beast.

[Bryce Harper]

I played outside linebacker until my freshman year and I, I mean I played well. I mean, I'm not gonna say I was the greatest, but I was.

[Taylor Lewan]

This is the best part. Yeah, that's where when you reflect and no one can really argue.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Like, yo, were you nice on the edge or you like stand up?

[Bryce Harper]

I would stand up.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Bryce Harper]

So I was like Lawrence Taylor coming around the edge trying to kill the quarterback. So that was because, you know, people.

[Taylor Lewan]

Are gonna doubt right now. White guy playing the outside.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Taylor Lewan]

Outside linebacker.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, you can say whatever you want.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, that's okay. But like I, I, I, I enjoyed it. Like I, I absolutely enjoyed playing. I love, I love hitting guys. I, I didn't like getting hit, but I love to hit, you know what I'm saying? So that was really hard for me making that decision. Of hey, I can't do this anymore. I remember walking in going, hey coach, like, I'm not gonna play anymore. And he was like, slap dick baseball player. That makes sense.

[Will Compton]

That's pissed, dude.

[Bryce Harper]

Like so mad. And then my coach was sitting across, across the way and was like, trust me, in the spring you'll understand. And so like he came and watched me in the spring and was like, oh, okay, like this makes sense. And so, but yeah, I mean it was always like that. Like slap dick baseball player, bro.

[Will Compton]

It's always like that. Especially when baseball starts getting, you start playing like all year round. And summertime, you might be playing summer ball, it takes away from whether it's seven on seven or I gotta miss workout.

[Bryce Harper]

And I loved, I loved hell weeks in the summer. Like, I mean we, I mean, you know, I was in Arizona. Same thing in Vegas, like 180 degrees outside.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right?

[Bryce Harper]

I love that though. It was fun getting out there and like, doing that and waking up. I mean, I still did early bird weights with the football team in the morning for high school, and that was just something I love to do. I mean, I wanted to be the absolute biggest guy in the weight room and, and do my job and stuff, but I missed that feeling of walking out on a Friday night crowd going nuts. And I'm not saying Vegas is anything like Texas, Arizona, California, Florida for football.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love that you put Arizona in there. I love that.

[Bryce Harper]

But I mean, the thing about Arizona, like in when you were playing though, Chaparral, Horizon, Brophy, I mean, hear him right now, they were all good schools.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hear him, you hear him talking right now, he understands Arizona football.

[Bryce Harper]

Lorel, huge baseball school.

[Will Compton]

No matter what level you're playing at, no matter what state you're in, no matter the stage, doesn't matter. Friday night lights.

[Bryce Harper]

There's nothing.

[Will Compton]

Like, it's pure.

[Taylor Lewan]

Could be a hundred thousand people in your mind that are there to watch you play that night.

[Bryce Harper]

But like, that's why I love watching, watching high school football and I love watching college because it still has that demeanor of like this means more than anything, you know, like there's nothing like this moment of walking out here and playing for our school, the tradition of it and everything else.

[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

You want you talked about like being a two way player at an SEC school. A bunch of SEC coaches just set up in their seat watching this, like, what was the school you wanted to.

[Bryce Harper]

Go to so early on? It's funny because early on I love Texas so like I love the University of Texas. Those orange uniforms were it unbelievable? And so like I love that feeling of like, oh, I want to go play for Augie Garrido at Texas and you know, their football program is so historic and Austin obviously a great place. I saw them bunt Taylor Teagarden, their three hole hitter to get Drew Stubbs the second base and I went, I can't go there. Because I want to hit homers. And so anywhere from like LSU to Florida. I mean I, I think any type of baseball school that like you're looking at has to be the right like approach for you, especially nowadays. I mean it's so crazy with nil and stuff, but LSU was probably one of my top picks just because they were so legit at the time. Arizona State was really good at that time too. So like staying close to home. But I didn't like the Pack 12.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just type SEC baseball. Seems like it's the top.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, but like when I was growing up it was like Irvine, Cal State, Fullerton, Arizona State, Stanford, Fresno State, like it was very like west coast more than anything. I mean you had all your Cinderella stories in Fresno, Irvine, like all these teams coming in. And at that time it was all Pac 12 baseball comparative to now where it's all SEC, you know, SEC. I mean I would have loved to play for Tony V, you know, at Tennessee. Yeah, I mean it would have been unbelievable playing for him. Just the way he kind of, his demeanor and everything. Like you want to coach like that, you know, you want a coach that is, you know, has your back and lets the kids be kids. But also like he still teaches as well.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

It's just not like go out and.

[Taylor Lewan]

Play and like us not being like a big baseball, like we don't know a lot about baseball. But meeting Tony V, seeing like the bad boys, like the balls, the way they handled themselves, like just cursing guys out, talking like that, that it juiced me up as a guy that doesn't watch baseball, I'm like, yeah, I want to be a part of this.

[Bryce Harper]

But like it's so, it's so gibberish to do that in baseball because it's such a classical sport.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right?

[Bryce Harper]

Like that's what everybody thinks. And so I mean the old head heads in the game, it kind of. And I love the old headness of the game. Like you know, being able to respect the people that played before you and all that kind of stuff. 100 like they paved the way, they did their job, but they're gone now. Just like in you know, eight years or whatever, when I'm done playing, like I'm done. So like the kids that are playing now, they need to understand that it's their game now. Like they need to go out there and play their game game and they're going to do it the way they want to do it. Like I, I can't tell the young kids coming up to not do it a certain Way, like, I need that kid to help me win a World Series. So, like, I want him to be himself no matter what, whatever that looks like. I don't care where you're from, who you are, what you do, what the team you played for before. I don't care, like, if they liked you or not. I don't really care. Like, I want you to come in here, I want you to be part of our family. You're part of our group. Don't be an asshole, you know, like, obviously, but, like, you know, I want my rookie to come up and have fun and enjoy the first time he puts, puts his cleats on the dirt, on the infield or in the grass, in the outfield or in the batter's box. Because for us or for me, if he's in a big moment on the field and we're in the playoffs and he doesn't think that we have his back, then he's probably going to be, you know, shitting bricks.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, on the batter's box. Like, it's just. It's just not fun. I mean, I think all sports kind of are like that where they get so hammered down all the time. It's just like, guys, hold on. He's trying to help us win. He's a stud. He's a superstar. Like, let him be his, you know, let him be that and be a guy, you know, for us and let's, let's win this game. No matter, like I said, who you are, what you do, where you come from, like, I don't care. I just want to win.

[Will Compton]

So you see a young guy crack one home run and just start riding the bat.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm being pissed.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, we're not doing that. Yeah, but I mean, there's an extent to, to that, like. Because the thing is, the thing is though, if guy does that, he better be prepared that his next guy up teammate is probably gonna get drilled, you know?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So, like, then, no. So now I don't need that guy to come in the dugout and break the guy's jaw.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? Because he's pissed that he just rode the horse like Happy Gilmore on a baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

What are, what are those, like, unspoken rules in baseball? Like, how high is too high of a bat flip?

[Will Compton]

Like, like, what's a celebration you've done that might have touched the line.

[Taylor Lewan]

You've done a little something, haven't you? You boys in some trouble?

[Bryce Harper]

To an extent. I mean, I. I mean, I think. I mean, I I flipped my bat in D.C. when I came back.

[Will Compton]

Are we talking boom? Then you stood there and you just flipped it already.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, I'll. I'll stand on stuff, but I'm not. I'm not disrespecting the pitcher. Like, I don't. For me, like, I don't want to. I'm not going to look at the guy. Like, when a guy like, like, pimps, it looks at the picture. I think that's very disrespectful. But, like, when you make it about yourself and the team, like, I'm cool with that. Like, you want to celebrate with your team and, like, have fun with that. Like, and, you know, whatever. To the dugout. Cool. Like, I don't care if any team does that. That's totally fine.

[Taylor Lewan]

So if a guy gets hit, cracks one, saddles the horse and then just faces his dugout and does it, is that.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't think anyone's gonna ever saddle the horse.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

No.

[Taylor Lewan]

So saddling the horse just off limits.

[Bryce Harper]

I think one of the cooler. I think one of the cooler ones I've ever seen was a walk off that Prince filler hit and they did the bomb at home plate. Everybody explodes. And so I thought that was cool, you know, But I. I love that vibe in football too, when, you know, defense runs back and they do the tush push into the. Into the end zone.

[Taylor Lewan]

Or like, you don't love the tish.

[Bryce Harper]

No, I'm just saying, like, I'm saying, like, the celebration of it was really funny, like, seeing those guys do it or. You know, I think I rode the.

[Will Compton]

Horse after a pick. It was Russell Wilson, actually.

[Taylor Lewan]

I've seen the clip you showed me.

[Will Compton]

The horse acted like I was slamming. Like, I celebrated to the max. But I love that the camera looked at it, winked.

[Bryce Harper]

But that's fun part of it, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. You gotta. You gotta have a little savviness. Like, why these pitchers getting so upset about stuff.

[Will Compton]

The stare.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, but that.

[Taylor Lewan]

When people brought up the stair. Can you explain what is the.

[Bryce Harper]

I think when people provide provoke. Like, if you provoke, then, like, I'm gonna come right back at you. Like, I. I don't play that.

[Will Compton]

Have you had a situation with the pitcher to where there's kind of some beef and then you've taken them yard and you're, you know, you give them like a Kurt Signetti.

[Bryce Harper]

I think our biggest one was probably me and Strickland. But, like, I think that was so, like, overplayed. Like, it was just. It was dumb. Like, I Don't even think that should have happened. I mean, it was six years later after it happened, and they drilled me and then we fought and then it was like, over, you know, like, I mean, when I charged up mound, the new one was. That was crazy, though, because Strick is. He's a big boy. And so I'm running out there halfway, I'm like, oh, crap, we're doing this. You know, like, here we go.

[Will Compton]

I'm committed now.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? Like, I can't just run to first base now, but I think the big one was probably in the playoffs in 23. Second base. Yeah. No, shortstop.

[Will Compton]

Oh, you caught. You caught him.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, he snuck his ass right there.

[Bryce Harper]

He duffed me, man. He duffed me in the arm.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, really?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Right when I came up to get over top, he duffed me and it kind of went sideways.

[Taylor Lewan]

Now, when you're going up to bat right there, are you thinking to yourself.

[Bryce Harper]

He was going to drill me?

[Taylor Lewan]

You knew it.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I told J before we went up there.

[Will Compton]

I said, because of something six years earlier.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So whatever. We were like, we have no clue.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm, I'm.

[Will Compton]

I'm enjoying story time.

[Bryce Harper]

Right, Right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yeah. So when you're, when you're saying something, you're probably thinking like, oh, people know.

[Bryce Harper]

Watch the helmet throw, though. Damn, you guys are going, hey, hey, that helmet throw. Samar. Samar ran in right there. Jeff. Sama. Samarja. Yeah, wide receiver, Notre Dame. So he. Yeah, he runs in trying to kill me. Hits Morse. Watch this, watch this.

[Will Compton]

Oh, that's dang.

[Bryce Harper]

That's Samar, the wide receiver from Notre.

[Will Compton]

Dame with a two bar running back. Really good.

[Bryce Harper]

Hey, stud. Yeah, stud. Love them when you're. When you're running after that.

[Taylor Lewan]

But I love them when you're running out there. You thinking to yourself, how fast can my boys get out here and get my back?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, so my problem. So your problem is you got. But the thing was, is Strict told them before the game. I know this for a fact. So Strict told them before the game. Hey, if I face Harper in this series, I'm gonna get him. You guys need to stay back. That's why Posey sat back there and didn't stop me. And so you see Brandon Crawford and all these guys, like, sitting back and whatever. So look at Posey. You see Posey.

[Taylor Lewan]

And also, hey, Strickland, him, he's a big boy. Back up, back up a little bit.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, ready to go. Throws the glove down.

[Taylor Lewan]

Put that glove down there. That Was hard.

[Bryce Harper]

Watch this.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, you want to do it? All right, let's go.

[Bryce Harper]

No doubt.

[Taylor Lewan]

So he tells his boys that he's gonna. He's gonna get you.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then they need to stay back, which is, by the way, it's cooler every single time. And you're like, I'm gonna throw.

[Bryce Harper]

This should happen more often in baseball because I think it would eliminate guys throwing at each other.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? So it's just like hockey. Like, hey, you want to go? You want to go? And so I think it would eliminate a little. A little bit.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude. Baseball.

[Will Compton]

Baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

Mass.

[Bryce Harper]

Massive viewership.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Viewership rise.

[Bryce Harper]

But, like, also, like, I think it would stop. Right? And like, this is part of the game. Like, obviously, I don't want to fight anybody on a baseball field. Like, I didn't want to fight Strickland or anything else, but, like, there comes a time where it's like, hey, dude. Like, you get drilled. Like, it is what it is at that point.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And so I think that was probably one of the main ones that everybody talks about. I have no bad blood with him at all anymore. It that happened, it was just like, we're done.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Like, not a big deal. Catch wind that it was going to happen before the game started.

[Bryce Harper]

Started. Yeah. Because after the fact, I was like, hey, guys. Like, why'd you guys all sit back? And so, like, I talked to some guys and they were like, well, this is what happened.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. But again, like, so what happened six years before that?

[Bryce Harper]

I hit a homer in the postseason.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nice.

[Bryce Harper]

And some stuff happened, and then I hit another. Like, some stuff was said. And then I hit another one against him, and I kind of stared him down at that point.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, so you were provoking.

[Will Compton]

Oh, he's just.

[Bryce Harper]

Something happened before that that provoked me to do that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, we. We not talk about. It's okay. That's.

[Bryce Harper]

But so. But then, like, the next one after this was Aria. So Aria was talking about some stuff, overheard it, and so that's. That's where the stare down came from.

[Taylor Lewan]

God.

[Will Compton]

Hard. Yeah, that's hard. Post season too, by the way.

[Bryce Harper]

That one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, that. That's. So you knew walking up you're gonna.

[Bryce Harper]

Get a hit against the. Against them.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I think it was just like the. The moment of I gotta do this. Like, everybody's watching. Like, this is what it is. What it is. And yeah. Trying to have my back for myself as well.

[Taylor Lewan]

Give the people what they want.

[Bryce Harper]

But again, like, all this stuff happens, and, like, I have zero animosity towards anybody. Like, it is what it is. Like, you have such a different demeanor. Like when you walk onto a football field or a baseball field or anything. And so know, like, when I walk away from the field, there's no. Like, I don't care about it. Like, it's just. It is what it is. Like, if I saw him in the parking lot, I wouldn't, like, you know, try to fight him. Like, I'd probably say hi to him. Hey, man, how you doing?

[Taylor Lewan]

Have you guys spoke since this pitch?

[Bryce Harper]

No, I've never talked to him.

[Taylor Lewan]

Really?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I wonder if he feels the same way.

[Bryce Harper]

No.

[Will Compton]

Who knows?

[Bryce Harper]

I just don't. Like, it's just. It does nothing for me to, like, think about all this stuff. Like, it just. But again, like, in between the lines, I think it's just such a different. Different demeanor. And then, like, you get out of the lines and I mean, I'm a dad of four and husband.

[Will Compton]

You know what I'm saying?

[Taylor Lewan]

At some point, for sure.

[Bryce Harper]

No doubt, no doubt. I mean, you got to flip the switch and understand, like, the game is the game. And then once you get away from it, it's just. It's life. You're a dad. You're. You're just like anybody else.

[Will Compton]

So crack a cold beer with them, have some laughs.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't drink, but yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Are you guys got sponsored?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bud Light? You don't know, but they're good.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Neutral is also fire.

[Bryce Harper]

You had a teammate called Boite Boite These? No. Oh, Bo Boite, Sorry.

[Will Compton]

Hit me with the bu. Gotta catch up for a second. Leaving. How was it during the either breakup or just separating paths with walking Washington? Is that a decision there to where, you know, you might have made the decision that some people don't understand or. How was that. Was that like a bad. Was that a bad blood breakup? Because I know, I mean, you're in Washington, so I'm sure everybody was just hoping that you would stay with Washington.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, I. Mike Rizzo, I loved him. He was. He was our GM and president at the time. He was awesome. The team, we were great, man. We were always a pitcher away. And so for me, when we got into that offset season, I remember sitting on my couch in Vegas and they had signed Patrick Corbin, and this was like November or December. And I remember looking at my wife, Kayla, and I said to her, I go, they're going to win the World Series this year. They finally got the picture they needed. And so they ended up going like, 14 and like 27 or 14 and 36 or something in the first, like, 50 games, and they turned it around and ended up winning the World Series. So when they did that, obviously, like, as a player, player, I. I rooted for him. I. I love the guys that I played with. I understood, like, I was with them for seven years and all the guys that I made relationships with, I was very happy to see them do it. Obviously, I want to win one, because I haven't yet, but organizationally, this was the best thing for me to go to Philly and play there. I think it was just time for me personally to get away from there and. And do my thing with a different organization. And I made the right decision. I absolutely love Philly. I enjoy, Enjoy it. The breakup. I don't know. I mean, I don't have anything bad to say about the fans or anything else. They boo me every time I go in there. You know, it's sports. It is what it is.

[Will Compton]

It's kind of fun.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. I mean, it's just weird more than anything.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, just because. I don't know, I feel like I. I did a lot for their organization and their team and stuff, but at the same time, like, it's sports. It is what it is. But I have no bad animosity towards anything else.

[Will Compton]

Watching them when the world's here.

[Bryce Harper]

No, because, I mean, for me, like, I understand the hard work that goes into it and understanding the guys that I played with and built relationships with. Like, I was so pumped for Trey Turner and Ryan Zimmerman and all these guys that have done it. And so obviously I would have loved to been there and won one, because we did get so close and understand we were such a good team at all those points of when I played there. I mean, we. We never had a losing record. I don't think, think in the, you know, seven years that I was there, made it to the playoffs, maybe five out of the seven. And so, I mean, just a. Just a great time and had a. Had a really good, you know, ride with them, but turned the page to Philly. I mean, it's been. It's been unbelievable.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

How does the free agency in baseball work? And how did you end up on. On the Phillies? What other teams were involved?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. So it was very quiet at the beginning, I would say. I mean, it was funny. So going back to the Nationals. So we actually, actually. So we had our last game in. In D.C. and then we went on the road that year to play. I think the final was in Colorado and So we were in a rain delay. It was like the sixth inning. And my coach walked over to me, or my manager was like, hey, old man's in the office. And I was like, that's weird. So I go in, and I sit down with old man. Old man Learner. And he's their owner. He was their owner. And so I remember sitting there, and he goes. He hands me an envelope and says, this is an offer you won't be able to refuse. This is during a game. Like, middle of the game.

[Will Compton]

Middle of the game. Old man wants to see you.

[Bryce Harper]

Middle of the game.

[Taylor Lewan]

Rain delay.

[Bryce Harper]

Rain delay.

[Taylor Lewan]

The right time to come to Bryce and tell him it's time.

[Bryce Harper]

And so I was like, what? Like, are we serious right now? Like, this. This is how it's happening right? Right now. Obviously, my agent wasn't there, had no idea this was happening, nothing. So I go back to my chair, and I'm sitting at my chair in my locker, and I was like, hold on. So I text my wife. I'm like, hey, come down to the. To the door. Like, I need to talk to you real quick. She's like, what? I was like, okay. So she comes down. I hand her the envelope. I'm like, he just offered me, you know, X amount of dollars. Like, she goes, she. He did this during a game. I said, yeah, isn't that weird? And so I called my agent, and he goes, go down to the fine print. And so I go down to the fine print. It's like, 70% deferred over the next 30 years of your life. And so it was like the deal with the deferrals of, like, 70% of it. And so he's like, yeah, that's not a good offer. And so I go back to my locker. But just the. The moment of that, like, I was just like, that's wild. You know, like, why?

[Taylor Lewan]

What would make him not want to.

[Bryce Harper]

Go through the agent just in that moment? It was just kind of weird. Like, it was just a.

[Will Compton]

Feels like, what. You know, you watch the doc with the Cowboys, like a Jerry Jones, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Like, it was just a. It was a really weird perspective as I was sitting there, because, I mean, my season's not over yet, obviously, like, and I understand, like, you want to get a deal done. I get that. Totally. Like, I had people come up to me all year, throughout the whole year, kind of trying to get things done. Trying to get things done. And so that was different. I mean, obviously, the. The. You know, when the off season kind of hit, you're not allowed to talk to anybody until the World Series is over. And then you have like a brief period and they go to GM meetings and then they have winter meetings and stuff. Winter meetings were in Vegas where I was. So that was kind of cool, like being able to go down and meet with teams. But I had some really good meetings. We had the White Sox, Padres, San Francisco Dodgers came in late and then Philly talked to them as well at that point. So I had five teams kind of talk to me. My deal with the Dodgers was less money, but very similar to what Kyle Tucker's on right now that he signed. Obviously not to the extent of what Kyle's at right now, but very similar 4 year deal, opt outs, all that kind of stuff. I had one team offer me a one year for. For 48. I think it was one year 48 or one year 50. And I kind of was like, I want to take that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And the team, the team that it was was really good. And so I was like, man, I would have. I would have loved that.

[Taylor Lewan]

He doesn't want to say one team offered me. And I was like, I kind of want to go to that team. It's like, okay, what's the team? Did the. Is. Did this team have pinstripes?

[Bryce Harper]

No. No. The Yankees were not in at all.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because you grew up. I'm Corey.

[Bryce Harper]

I grew up.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yankee fan.

[Bryce Harper]

Yep, I did.

[Taylor Lewan]

And they've never been in the loop with you?

[Bryce Harper]

They were never in the loop at the beginning.

[Will Compton]

Were you hopeful that the Yankees would come into the.

[Bryce Harper]

I think you're always hopeful for big market teams to be in just because it drives money or anything else. Right. But I loved the pinstripes growing up. I loved all the players that played there and the winning mentality had. But at the same time, they had just got Giancarlo Stanton from Miami and so he was on a big deal. They had some young guys coming up that they believed in more than me and stuff. I told teams I could play first base and they didn't believe me that I could play first base. And so they all just wanted me to play the outfield, which was fine. But now it's funny that I'm at first base and, you know, top three, you know, in Gold Glove every year. But I don't know, it's. It was cool to be kind of wanted. Right. Like, you kind of go into the situation and you. You talk to all these teams and it's weird. Kind of also sitting there understanding that you have to put your faith in These teams without even knowing these organizations besides what they tell you, right? Like you, you can talk to anybody on other teams. But like, I mean, I talked to White Sox guys. They're like, oh, it's a great organization. These people are great. If I would sign with the White Sox, I'd probably already been traded out of there because they've been in a rebuild for, you know, the last 10 years or ever since Canary Marco left, you know. So like, I mean, it's, it's been a, it was a, it was a whirlwind. I mean, making the decisions that I did. Having the Dodgers come in late was. Was tough for me, you know, because they're a really good team. And you're sitting there and you're like, four year deal. And I was like, man, I don't really want to go through this again. I didn't want any opt outs. Like, that was a big thing for me.

[Will Compton]

So you were close to the finish line with the Phillies and then that's when the Dodgers come in. It's kind of like, oh, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So I was close with. So San Diego had signed Machado maybe like two weeks after, after my deal or two weeks after I met with them. They wanted a third baseman. They kind of told me that they're like, hey, like, we want an infielder, we need an infielder. And so they went with Machado. But my best meeting actually was the White Sox. They actually came in. I believed in a lot of their stuff and they're young guys. Jim Tome was in there with me and actually I said to tell him, I said, what do you like hitting better though, White Sox or Phillies? And he kind of was like, they're both great. You know, he's, you know. But I asked point blank too, to Bochi, I said, hey, is this your last year coaching in San Fran? And he was very upfront with me and said yes. And so I was very. I'm happy that he told me that because I would have loved to play for Bruce Bochy. Obviously, like he one of the greatest managers in baseball of all time. But for him to be upfront with me in that situation was huge for me and my coach career, because I probably would have went and thought about San Fran a lot more because of Bochi comparative to, you know, anybody else.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

But I mean, at the, at the final stretch, I felt like it was always going to be philly. They offered obviously 330. San Fran was at like 3:15. And then at the last moment they came up to 3:30. Every. Every. Every team was pretty much a 330. Like, every team, they were all kind of in cahoots about. About that and talking and stuff. They say they don't, but it is what it is.

[Will Compton]

So saying Frame could have been a move.

[Bryce Harper]

It could have been, but my life just doesn't.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Match that city. So. He's great. I mean, Tony B's the man. You know, I think he's going to do really good, good things up there. I think having a guy like that, just the way he coaches. He's got a lot of Tennessee boys on that team, too, so it'll be cool.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm sure that played into it.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, right.

[Will Compton]

Exactly.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's like, test. He's a test subject a little bit. Right. Coming from college, for sure.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, I think he's one of the first ones to do it. Come straight to college and being mlb. I'm pretty sure, yeah.

[Will Compton]

In your opinion, how big of a difference is that? Like, is it wild that he's getting this opportunity, or is it kind of saying, like, oh, it's kind of nice to see somebody take a chance like this because you feel like it'll work out?

[Bryce Harper]

I think it's one of the best hires around. Like, I don't. I don't think it's. I think Buster did a great job. I mean, Buster wanted them. I think the being able to have Buster as your president gm, like, there's nothing like it. I mean, Posey's one of the best to ever do it as well. So I think the big thing for Tony was like, hey, I. I want to be able to come in and be myself. Like, I don't want to have to change or I don't want to have to listen to this guy or this guy. And I think Buster was like, no, like, we want you to be Tony V. You know, because Tony V is what's got. What's. What's got you here. His path in baseball has been incredible.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And for him to go into Tennessee and change around that, you know, program, and then, you know, every time we play them, I hope we beat him, obviously. But I wish him all the. All the success just because of the person he is and who I know, you know, that's on that team. Like, he. He's going to be great for that organization.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's awesome.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

How. What's it like? What's it like changing positions? Because you. Early, you were a catcher, then you're in the outfield, now you're at first base. And as A dumb baseball guy. You watch Moneyball. And Chris Pratt had the hardest time, hardest time going to first baseball.

[Bryce Harper]

Part of that movie, though, because Ron Washington's the coach. I don't know if you guys knew that, but Ron Washington, he's like. He's one of the best to ever do it, like, infield coach wise. And so they. That's the. That's the actor that's playing, or he's the guy that's playing him is, yeah, for Ron Washington. And they go, how hard is it? And Billy Bean's like, it's not that hard. And they look at Wash, and Wash goes, it's extremely hard. So Pratt's, like, sitting there like, oh, crap. Yeah, I guess I can do it, you know, like. Yeah, can't really throw anymore, but, you know, I got it. But no, I mean, just being. Trying to be an athlete. I mean, I grew up playing the infield pretty much all through college, high school, and then college. I mean, I caught, but I played, you know, shortstop and third base as well. But it was nice to kind of get into something new, you know, I think when, you know, kind of gets monotonous just standing out in the outfield all the time. And now I don't have to hear all the people behind me yelling and screaming at me either. So that's good, you know, so. But it's been fun, man. I think just trying to be the best I can over there for. For my infield, understanding that I got guys out there that can win Gold Gloves, you know, because of me or not because of me. Right. Like, if I pick a ball, like, I'm helping them out or if I miss a ball, like, I just killed him, you know, it's an error on him, you know, so just trying to help them as much as I can for them to be great. I think that's, you know, kind of what first base is all about. You know, I think obviously, at young age, they kind of just put the young fat kid over there and they're just like, go play. You know?

[Will Compton]

But now it's swing the bat. Well, put him at first base.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dinger have a lot of movement.

[Bryce Harper]

All of them wear number 25, too, because of Mark McGuire back in the day.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. St. Louis. Stand up.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because you made the switch after. You made the switch after Tommy John's, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. So I had tj.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love how you got a nickname for your injury.

[Bryce Harper]

Tj.

[Taylor Lewan]

Tj. You got the TJ Handle that business right there. How hard is that? People say that you Come back faster than that now, right? Like, some guys come back better.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, I think it kind of depends on, like, your rehab and stuff. I was super lucky. I mean, Ellatroch did my surgery for me. Yeah, he's the man. He's the best. Yep. So didn't go see that guy in Alabama.

[Will Compton]

The guys to go to Alabama stop.

[Taylor Lewan]

When I got my ACL done a second time to get it fixed. I was a walker Bueller, and he just had the Tommy Jones. And Elliott is like, yeah, but these guys now with the surgery, like, some guys, like, throw harder. Better with it.

[Will Compton]

Because you came back the fastest of any player that has.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Position player. So I came back in five months, which is. What is it usually, like, eight to nine? It's like an ACL or, like, for pitchers, it's like 12 to 14, depending. Just kind of depends on the guy or the player. But I was super lucky, too, because we had the dh and so they just came to the National League with the dh or I would have missed the whole year. And so being able to kind of have the dh and it didn't hurt when I swung. And so I was able to play through it that whole rest of the year. And then had the surgery in the off season, rehabbed it, and was back, I think may 1st from. We had. I had surgery November, like, day before, day before Thanksgiving, had surgery, and then came back home after that and started rehabbing it, but I cut the cast off off, too. Really started moving it. And so I was like, just like.

[Will Compton]

Oh, what is it? Tall digging nights? He's just sawing off the couch.

[Bryce Harper]

It was crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bryce Harper and Will Ferrell.

[Bryce Harper]

I texted Ellatross. I was like, hey, how quickly can I get this thing moving? And he was like, just hold on. Like, we don't want any infection. I was like, so the only reason I can't move it is because of infection. He goes, you really want to move this thing? I go, yeah. And so I remember, dude, I was sitting there, I took the cast off, and I was sitting there like this. I had him send me a video, and he was like, all right, so stabilize against your knee and just try to go down as much as you can. Like, just like, three or four times. Hold it, you know?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And I think that really helped me, like, moving my body. But, like, I went on an extreme diet, too. Like, stayed away from a lot of stuff and just tried to get my body moving, you know, the best I could, so.

[Will Compton]

Ain't it crazy how obsessed you get with like, you know when you get injured and you realize you're going to get a surgery? And the first question, how long does this usually take? And they might say six months. And then in your mind, you're like, I'm gonna get back. I'm gonna blow everybody's mind.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I'm doing three. I'm gonna cut it in half.

[Will Compton]

And you just get obsessed with beating whatever the expectation is.

[Bryce Harper]

No doubt.

[Will Compton]

Where you change your diet, you're, you know, you're. You're like, hey, relax. Infection. You're like, so it's just infection. Send me a video because I'm gonna get this thing moving. I'm gonna show everybody that I can get back.

[Bryce Harper]

I think it's just like wanting to get back. Right. And I mean, sometimes. Sometimes it's dumb. Sometimes that's good. I mean, it's worked out for me. My arms felt great. I've had no pain.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And it's going to first base, too. Is that like in. In your mind, like a. A longevity factor?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, I think trying to.

[Will Compton]

Pipe one in from the outfield versus, you know, scooping them up. Pitcher gets a strike on. Whip it around the door.

[Bryce Harper]

Diamond.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

If I could be on Peptides, I'd play for another 10 years, but can't be on those. So. No, I think. Yeah. I mean, being able to. Obviously, longevity comes with understanding your body and what, you know, you want to put into it, what you want to do. I mean, I'm. I'm like 100 in more than 80, 20 with food or anything I put into my body or, you know, just everything. Yeah, it's just, like, all the above.

[Taylor Lewan]

Obsessive.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, very obsessive with what I do, which is. Which is good and bad. Right. Like, it's very hard for me to just go out and, like, eat a, you know, good meal.

[Will Compton]

Eat some in and out.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no doubt. Like, it's really, like. It's really hard for me, like, to mentally do that. And so whenever I can just, like, understand, like, you got to live two at the same time. Right.

[Will Compton]

When the families want to go out where your wife's kind of itching, get a little stirker. Let's go out to eat. Like, I just don't want to go out to eat.

[Bryce Harper]

It better be really good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Bryce Harper]

Like, it better be. Oh, you know what? January. Really good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. At South Hall.

[Will Compton]

Yes, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

I've never been to South Hall.

[Will Compton]

South hall is unreal.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is that.

[Will Compton]

They got a couple restaurants Is that.

[Taylor Lewan]

The restaurant that we went to for your birthday or Charles Birthday Pro?

[Will Compton]

I don't think so, because we sat right outside. There's, like, two restaurants. You know, it's like, you got the main entrance. Entrance of South Hall. You go in, they got the breakfast. You have the breakfast spot that we ate for dinner. We didn't eat at the restaurant called January. I want to say they rebranded it over the past couple years, but, yeah, January.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. There's, like, the breakfast spot you're talking about, and there's January. Yeah, yeah. January's legit breakfast food, too. Yeah. Oh, really?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Excuse me. It all comes from that farm, too.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So that's awesome. Yeah, it's a farm disable.

[Taylor Lewan]

It literally just sounds like a BlackBerry Farms, but closer.

[Bryce Harper]

Have you been to BlackBerry Farms? Yes. I heard it's awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

It is, is. It is unreal. It's insanely expensive.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

But, like, they have, like, the barn and, like, chefs from around the world will come and do, like, seasons there, and it's like a. It's like a big honor, I guess, to go and do that. But they.

[Bryce Harper]

The.

[Taylor Lewan]

The food everywhere is awesome.

[Bryce Harper]

It's like the. Have you guys been an almond property yet? No. So we went to Turks this off season. Went to almond, and it's like the same thing, man. I mean, people just come in. I mean, this place that we stayed at in Turks was. I'll show you guys. Pictures I gave was unbelievable, Unreal. Like, insane works.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotta have it well, gotta do that. We were talking about being extremely disciplined in your craft.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then going into what good food is in Nashville.

[Will Compton]

First base.

[Taylor Lewan]

Cut down the timeline of injuries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? Yeah. What was it? At what moment did you know, okay, I'm gonna be able to come back in five months. Like, was there, like, a day? You're like, holy shit, boys, I think we're gonna be able to do this.

[Bryce Harper]

I remember getting to spring training, and. Well, take that back. Like, I remember, like, going through the whole, like, first month, and I felt great. Like, I was moving it. My PT was awesome in Vegas, and we worked every day. Like, we weren't. I was like, no, we're doing this every day. Like, weekends. I don't care. Like, we're. We're working, and so just understanding, like, what was good for my body and pushing through, like, when I needed to or sitting back when I needed to. I don't do a really good job of sitting back, you know, but, like, when I needed to, I did. But understanding all the things away from it. NAD IVs, cold tub, hot tub, Staying away from all sugars. I mean, everything that I could do to get me to that point, I did. I mean, it wasn't. There was nothing else. Like, it was. This is how it's going to be. This is what I'm going to do.

[Will Compton]

And I'm going to get back that nad drip.

[Bryce Harper]

We should have done one on the bus.

[Will Compton]

That would have been awesome, dude. Well, how do you guys do it?

[Bryce Harper]

Like, do you do the whole bag of nad ad or do you guys do like the last. Like this little bit, like the seven.

[Will Compton]

The 750 drip that takes like an hour or 45 minutes?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I do. I do.

[Bryce Harper]

Really?

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, how many L bags? And I do a half liter bag. Like a smaller bag.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, but, like, how many? Like, how much? Like 1002-003004-50450.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude.

[Will Compton]

But in the season, we, like, we'd be running with a. Wasn't it 750 milliliter?

[Taylor Lewan]

I thought it was 450. So when I first met Bobo, who owns air, he had it. He was like, just leaving to start erite and he's like, yeah, this nad thing, it's like the fountain of youth drug you can take now. FDA has done studies up to 800. 1850. So he's like, we'll just. We'll do 1850. So he would go to my house and for like, three and a half hours.

[Will Compton]

That's right. I would do the introduction type. Like, yeah, here's where you start the NAD process.

[Taylor Lewan]

1850, I would do 1850 would take three and a half hours. And he. Me and my wife would just play like Mario Kart while I just laid on the.

[Bryce Harper]

Where do you feel it the most?

[Taylor Lewan]

My nuts. Yeah, dude, bro.

[Will Compton]

Internal.

[Bryce Harper]

See, I get so all my.

[Taylor Lewan]

I would get stomach and stuff, but I felt like my. My sack was, like, vacuum sealed against my nuts. That's how pain. Like, I was in so much pain. And I would feel them and I'd be like, they legit feel vacuum sealed. Like, you just feel like each nut I'm being dead.

[Bryce Harper]

You got a.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's horrible, dude. It is the worst. But as soon as you're done, it's kind of torturous.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's like a slow, like, level of torture. It's like, intermediate, but you feel like you're getting tortured.

[Taylor Lewan]

We had a guy named Roger Saffold. Yes. He would take a syringe, like, with a, like that big of a syringe, and he Would just shoot.

[Bryce Harper]

You guys are crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

450 or 70, whatever the number was that we would do. And he would sit there, dude. Oh, vitamin T is. That's every game we have crazy. We'd have diclofenac, and we'd just be like, yeah, two dicks a day. It keeps dying her away.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Die glow was through the week. And then game day.

[Taylor Lewan]

Game days toward all.

[Will Compton]

I'd walk in the room.

[Taylor Lewan]

No. No clothes on at all. Completely naked. Just bend over, let the doctor. And then, yeah, you've all the. All the bad pain goes away. You know, you get a good.

[Bryce Harper]

That's gnarly.

[Will Compton]

How much are you doing in the nad?

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, like, 450.

[Will Compton]

So let's just say you're 450 bag.

[Bryce Harper]

That's. That's when I'm at the highest. So, like, if I. I don't go any higher than that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, so. So, yeah, we did that for a while, and then we realized I was like, okay, this study has gone this way the most. The best is, like, the fourth.

[Bryce Harper]

Well, that's the thing. So, like, it's whatever's good for your body. And so, like, if you're at 200 and that's good for you, then, like, you do it at 200. You can do it, like, bi weekly or whatever. Like, any higher you go, it doesn't have any benefits for you after, you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Know, the psychopath mentality of life.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, for sure. Yeah, for sure.

[Will Compton]

He even went into the syringe, like, say, the back. They would stand over him, and he would just lay on his back like this, and they would just squeeze the. Out of the bag, and he'd get done in 18. He got done in 18 minutes. Like, say, a 450 bag or 750.

[Bryce Harper]

Dude, that's gnarly.

[Will Compton]

And his. His. His eyes would just be bloodshot as he lays on his.

[Taylor Lewan]

He'd be drenched in sweat. And then, like, be quiet for, like, a minute and a half, and then he just lay like, all right.

[Bryce Harper]

Football's different, man.

[Will Compton]

You thought that. That. That was. I've only seen that. Was it just Roger.

[Taylor Lewan]

Roger do it? And then Nate Davis. But Roger was the only one ever sell. I do the syringe where they legit. Just take the syringe but nad and put it right in.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Everybody else were bags around 45 minutes.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then it'd be like, if you. If you go over 45, guys are gonna be like, really? That's.

[Bryce Harper]

I put it at the bottom of the bag.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I put at the bottom of the bag. And I get it in like 10 minutes.

[Taylor Lewan]

See that. That to me, I. I would. I would throw up.

[Bryce Harper]

Really?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I think it was in my nuts at the 1850 and then at the 450, I feel chest and like right at my stomach.

[Bryce Harper]

So I get the stomach because that's where I keep all my, like my inflammation and stuff.

[Taylor Lewan]

Really.

[Bryce Harper]

Like all my inflammation and stresses in my stomach. And so like, that's where it attacks the most. I would say.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

The NAD is no joke.

[Will Compton]

Have you involved and developed.

[Bryce Harper]

Have you done eboo?

[Will Compton]

What's he done? Ibu.

[Bryce Harper]

So EBOO is where they take your blood out of this arm and it goes through red light oxygen, another filtration system, and it comes back out and right into your other arm. So. So one third of your blood gets out of your body within the hour and it comes right back into your. Your body.

[Taylor Lewan]

I've done. I've done.

[Bryce Harper]

That one's gnarly.

[Will Compton]

It kind of sounds like some o. Like another layer.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. So ozone's like. So ozone's just your blood. You put it up and they put it back in. So this one, the blood is actually filtered, get through red light, everything, and then comes right back in. So it looks like super dark, kind of like this chair, like a little bit darker as it comes out and then super red as it comes back. You got it. What?

[Will Compton]

You can get this in Nashville, I think.

[Bryce Harper]

I think Bobo does.

[Taylor Lewan]

Does he just 10 pass where like it goes up and there's like a. It kind of like shakes like this and it puts the ozone in it and then goes back in. But I didn't know about what's called ebo.

[Bryce Harper]

EO or Ebo or whatever. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I've never, never seen that machine before.

[Bryce Harper]

I got that done. It was cool. Oh, something.

[Will Compton]

I was. Go ahead.

[Bryce Harper]

No, you're good.

[Will Compton]

I was gonna say something. I remembered.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do you mind if I pee real quick?

[Will Compton]

I had a p. Well, I kind of need you. Because he's one of the highest profile MLB players. It's active right now. I was just gonna say how much is it that we can't use peptides?

[Bryce Harper]

Right. It's terrible, cuz. No, ser. Well, you.

[Will Compton]

No, I agree.

[Bryce Harper]

You want to wait for him or.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we can wait.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't care. We don't have to.

[Will Compton]

But like. Yeah, I feel like peptides should be allowed and be able to be like. I feel like there's so much research on it now to where it's. There's it's just, you can benefit.

[Bryce Harper]

So why can a teacher, a pilot, you know, firefighter, a chef, why can they all do it? But athletes that travel the world or travel all over the country can't take peptides, even if it's not, even if it's not a grow. So there's growth hormone peptides. Okay. And then there's non growth hormone peptides that are good for your gut, good for healing, good for recovery, you know, all that kind of stuff. Like, why can we not take that kind of stuff? Because longevity of that, they're unbelievable. You know what I'm saying?

[Will Compton]

Like, the longevity from the stigma of thinking that it, it's, it feels too close to ped for sure, and everything. Obviously baseball, they had their own thing, but it's been, it's been all sports.

[Bryce Harper]

Right. I mean, that. I think that's a big issue too though, in our. I mean, obviously in the world today, like, they're so locked in on, you know, so many different things. Like you, I don't know, there's just, you, you can't do wellness stuff that you really should be able to do in the States. You have to go somewhere else to do it. And it's like, what are we doing? Why can we not do it? For the longevity, longevity of life. Obviously. Obviously there's other things that, you know, people believe and stuff, but for me, like, I want to be able to put stuff into my body and my system that worked for me. And if that, if that works for me, then I want to do it. And the longevity of that, like I could be able to play. And I mean, when I'm done playing and I'm able to take peptides, like, I'm gonna feel better than I was when I was playing.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, like we travel for 162 games across this, across the, across the country. Country. And we're traveling, getting in at, you know, three, four o' clock in the morning, have a day game the next day sometimes. And it's like, what are we doing right? You know, like, why can, why can this not be regulated to a, to an extent? Like every guy should be able to do this, like this thing, you know.

[Will Compton]

They, you know, they can find ways to regulate it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Are you guys on bpc?

[Will Compton]

Haven't got there yet. We're just. I was like, how much is it that we can't use peptides? Like, I remember before BPC157, 11 got banned. I want to say, what year was it? Maybe 2019, 2020, I think.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. 2020, 2021, I think, was like, it was like this decade.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Because in 2016, I started doing it because I listened to, like, a Ben Greenfield podcast where he was on Rogan. And then I started listening to Ben Greenfield, and I'm like, all this stuff's out there, and he's talking about. It's not on these lists. Like, BBC 157 is. What's it called? Like.

[Taylor Lewan]

Body Protection compound.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So.

[Will Compton]

And so I started doing it. It helped with my injuries, no doubt. And then when it became ban, you kind of feel like you're a badass because you. You found something from the system. Yeah. You found, like, a podcast a few years ago from people who think in the health 3.0 or the. The new wellness stuff that goes on. And I'm just thinking, how can they not give guys access to this stuff? Because, you know, it. You know, it helps you.

[Bryce Harper]

Well, it's good for the longevity of life. It's not just for sports. Like, it's longevity of life. I was saying to him, like, pilots can take it, teachers can take it, chefs can take it. Police, fire, firefighter. Like, anybody can take it. And it's taken the right way. It's. It's great for you. Like, why can professional athletes not take this product? It's not a ped. It's not a steroid. It's not like I'm going to GNC and grabbing the best thing I can or, you know, going somewhere else and getting something illegal like. No, this is something that's very, very good for you.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

And you should be able to take it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Going to a GMC as a kid.

[Bryce Harper]

Though, nothing like, it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Something getting like, C4 or something. You see, like, all the stuff behind the no explode.

[Bryce Harper]

You guys remember? No explode.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I never did Jack.

[Taylor Lewan]

I never dejected it, but I had no explode. I had the nitrics that came with it as well. That was like, for, like, blood flow because I had. It was like red with a silver cap, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I remember I'd be on all.

[Bryce Harper]

I remember going to my buddy's house. I was like 14 years old.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And he was like, yeah, dude, this is my brother's. It's like blue raspberry, no explode. I'm like, yeah, dude, let's do it. We go to, like. We go to 24 Hour Fitness or whatever. We're like, you know, pumping. Whatever. Like, five minutes go by. Dude, I got another bathroom.

[Will Compton]

Like, it's just like, bang.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, I'm out. You get that Beta Alanine, like, Your mom.

[Will Compton]

That beta Alanine hits your system, you get that little, you know, it's working.

[Bryce Harper]

But isn't that crazy? Like you take the littlest thing during season or something, you're like, oh, I feel like an absolute monster. And it's just like the lowest level of something you can put into your system.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, and then like people get on BPC or whatever, any peptide, and they're like, I feel like, I feel like an absolute animal.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, the BBC thing was wild to me, me, because when Will came over from the Redskins, he put me on bpc and it was kind of the first couple times, like taking a needle and drawing it and putting.

[Will Compton]

You're like, I don't know, I'd mix it and everything. I'd be like, this is it, bro. This is the move right here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, come here, dog.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, exactly.

[Taylor Lewan]

You take it, pinch it, put.

[Will Compton]

You just do. And I'm like, yeah, just. You do it yourself.

[Bryce Harper]

Will. Why? Do you have a lighter, dude?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Spoon. I had like an ankle, my ankle, I got really swollen. I rolled it and it was like a Wednesday. I was like, I don't know if I can play this week. And I put BPC in there like twice a day, like acutely right in the spot. By Sunday I felt fine. Yeah, I was like, oh, this is. It really does help. Then the TB 500, which I was never big on that.

[Will Compton]

Well, TB 500 is something that you would, that would show up, you get like pop for. But now that we're done, you mix like BPC157 and TB500. It's kind of like got, you know, racer.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I saw, I saw a list, I don't know, maybe like two months or maybe like two months ago about peptides and it wasn't on MLB's non approved list or approved list. But if you test positive for it, you're in trouble, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

You're responsible.

[Bryce Harper]

So it's like, it's like, well, it's not. Well, it's not FDA approved.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotcha.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, so that's why, like, that's why. You know what I'm saying? Right? I don't know. It's wild.

[Will Compton]

Then you start thinking like, do these owners, do they want us to grow? Well, I think they do.

[Bryce Harper]

Well, that's the thing, I think, think. Well, the thing is, is I think owners do want it because they are paying the a crap ton of money for all these players and they're a little bit older. Like why would they not want players to be on Peptides.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? Like, I think this should be in our bargaining agreement coming up. Like, Peptides should be in it.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

I really do think that's a big thing for, well, older player.

[Will Compton]

In the minute you get into another free agency cycle, the market's always higher. Whereas if, you know, you want to get younger, especially in NFL, like, I know you guys play a lot longer than we do, but you want. Want it to be a younger crop. Because younger is cheaper.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, no, for sure.

[Will Compton]

No teams part of the conspiracy. Why I put the tin foil on, it's like, yeah, you'd think that them paying you 300, 330 million. They want you on whatever you can. Then it's like, okay, when he comes up again, if he's still at the top of his game, we can't find.

[Taylor Lewan]

Whoever the next price was.330 look like now is, you know, 660.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, no, you're right. I think. I think there is that type of.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's what BPC does for you.

[Bryce Harper]

Who is that?

[Will Compton]

That's me. Oh, goodness.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, you see them top two Pocono traps look crazy too. Yeah. What year was that? When was that?

[Will Compton]

That was at Surviving Bar Stool.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, for real?

[Will Compton]

I know. I'm looking at him like, man, I've really.

[Bryce Harper]

What's the heaviest you ever played at? You too?

[Will Compton]

237. Damn.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I was the heaviest I ever was. Was like 318, but that was like, in the summer. And like, I drink a gallon of water. I threw up right after. I was like, oh, I was gonna have to gain weight, but I played between, like, 308 and 3.

[Bryce Harper]

How terrible that feeling your body, dude. How great do you feel now?

[Taylor Lewan]

I feel way better now, for sure. Like, you. I, like, I didn't know how much pressure that was in my body until I lost weight. Like, once I knew I couldn't play anymore, like, in three weeks, I was like 285. Because if I didn't eat and wasn't like, like, seriously working out, I would lose weight so fast. And then once I hit, like, the 260, I'm like, right around 250 now. But once I hit like, that 260, I was like, oh, I can definitely tell. These things that I thought were just, like a part of life, like, wear and tear of life. It's way different.

[Bryce Harper]

Go for a walk, you're out of breath.

[Will Compton]

I'd say, yeah. I'd say for me, I've more of.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just look at that.

[Will Compton]

Shows incredible. You Say what I say. I feel like more for me, I've just kind of chosen not to feel incredible because I see some of the old photos of playing and just taking355 or325.335 on a ride for six rides, refs and I can't even. Yeah. That was the strongest I ever got.335 like that.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's my bad. I didn't know your game was like.

[Will Compton]

And now it's, you know, got the low back issues, little sciatic.

[Bryce Harper]

S1.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And then hearing about the E. Yeah. Yes. The SI and the L5. SI. Yeah, absolutely.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

That'll get you.

[Taylor Lewan]

That is the big. A big win about being so big when you play is like people are like wow, you look so great. I really don't do much. I just have lost a lot of weight. And then Willis stayed the same weight but he's not. Not crazy.

[Will Compton]

Hang on. I've lost. You know, I'm down around 220 so I haven't like lost that much. But as far as the way my body feels, I just haven't even come close to taking care of it the way I did when I played. Which is a massive red flag.

[Bryce Harper]

We look the same. Me and you. We're the same.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

225. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You listen, you talk about that Eboo. It was like, yeah, I kind of need to just get back in the game.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. But it's all about taking that step. We got this.

[Bryce Harper]

It's always about the first step goes up.

[Will Compton]

Like let me just get this.

[Taylor Lewan]

I had the same thing happen this morning. 6am Alarm goes off. I'm like this dude, no shot.

[Bryce Harper]

Should have text me and said hey, never mind.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My wife wakes me up at 8:30. She's like, hey, on your calendar it says you have something in 30 minutes like spring up. I'm like, oh my God. Because I hit the. I didn't hit snooze. I just took the alarm arm off. And I'm a guy that if you're like, hey Taylor, you sleep as long as you want. I'll sleep till noon. Still to this day, I'll tell you.

[Will Compton]

What, there's a new chapters turned because I got the plunge now in the. In the room.

[Bryce Harper]

Nothing like it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, nothing like your son is hit.

[Will Compton]

The shockwave this morning and got in there a little hot.

[Bryce Harper]

How goes the shockwave?

[Taylor Lewan]

Is that the clickers of the horse thing?

[Will Compton]

I'm talking more Papa Team 6 Lord Shock Wave. I hit the roller coaster.

[Bryce Harper]

Okay. Got it.

[Will Compton]

Dude. So the shock. You talking about the shockwave therapy?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Greenfield, when he's talking about boosting T levels, he talk about getting like injections, like in his piece, in his pipe.

[Taylor Lewan]

Ben Greenfield.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, dude, in his. In his piece, you see the guy.

[Bryce Harper]

That just died a billionaire. Yeah. Like two days ago. Probably can find it from shockwave therapy. No, because he was trying to get his piece bigger and he. For. Yeah, billionaire. A billionaire. See you later.

[Taylor Lewan]

See, what are you chasing crazy?

[Will Compton]

I want to say Ben Greenfield put stem cells and then was doing shockwave therapy to like give it some more, you know, vascularity, get the blood vessels back.

[Bryce Harper]

I get. I get stem cell and like PRF into my eyes and stuff like that. Like my face.

[Will Compton]

Oh, what?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, like in your eyeball?

[Bryce Harper]

Yes. No, like down here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, got you.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

What does that help with?

[Bryce Harper]

Getting old. You know, I'm getting old, so.

[Will Compton]

Oh, talk about the. When you have like viral videos going on, people talk about. People would talk about. Your eyes on my man. My man needs to get some sleep.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't sleep. I got four kids.

[Will Compton]

What do you mean?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I got a six year old, five year old, one and a half and newborn.

[Will Compton]

Oh, I'm in the thick, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

What do you mean you were fired up to come to this podcast?

[Bryce Harper]

Where are we going after you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Actually, you go by 6:00pm tonight. Be like, longest podcast, they probably have to cut four or five hours.

[Will Compton]

She should have text. Hey, buddy, I got two weeks left.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's all coming together.

[Will Compton]

It was probably around 7 o' clock at night when. When the little one's like, no, I'm not going to. Baby, when we do five.

[Taylor Lewan]

Both of my. Both my kids were born in July and my first one was on July 20th. Appreciate you.

[Bryce Harper]

That's awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

But it was when I was playing and I remember like when my kid was born and camp would start like July 25th. So those five days, like by the fifth day, I'm like, oh, my God. I had to get to football because it's so exhausting.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

The newborn stage. Now I'm about to go through it all over again, man.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, it's crazy, man. It's. Yeah, there's nothing like it.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a war. Yeah, it's a war and a half.

[Bryce Harper]

You have to understand that you really love your wife.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, like it's. Hey, it's me and you against them.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, exactly.

[Bryce Harper]

Who's dying first?

[Taylor Lewan]

And you got four of them things just ripping around.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Two on one, everywhere.

[Bryce Harper]

Everywhere. No matter what.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's like in baseball season for you as a dad, it's got, I mean, you talking about all the traveling, you're gone all the time.

[Will Compton]

It's gotta suck, right?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. So. No, you're right.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're absolutely.

[Will Compton]

There's pockets where he's probably like, you know, I'm just, okay, I'll talk, I'll talk for myself. But I'm sure there'd be pockets. You're traveling. Okay. This would be a nice little break. But then there's gotta be sometimes, like, man, I kind of like, it sucks having to be on the road all the time. Especially when you're talking to your wife, you're hearing what they're going through. When you are home and present and doing all the things, you then get a perspective on knowing what they go through all the time. So then when you're on the road, you kind of, of feel, you probably think dad guilt kicks in.

[Taylor Lewan]

I think about all the we did.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

From a week to week standpoint, like Monday to Sunday, just getting ready for the game and I would come home. I mean, Will had his kids after his career, but like my kids were young, in the middle of it, and I'm sitting there like, yeah, I want to hang out, but I know I have all these things I need to like mentally check off a box to know that I can be ready for Sunday.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, no, I think the biggest thing for us, man, is like we play 162 games. 100, like 80 days or something. Something like that. And so we're, I mean even, I think maybe 175 days, something crazy. But you have to understand, like the hardest for me, the hardest job in the, in the world is being a stay at home mom with your kids. Because like cortisol levels, stress levels, like everything is through the roof. Could you imagine being home all day with four kids or like your kids.

[Will Compton]

And all of them need you, need.

[Bryce Harper]

You, you know, 24, seven, like. And so I'm very lucky I get to go to the field and play baseball, you know, because I get, I get the, you know, hanging out in the locker room and that's not my wife, but damn sure there you go.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's funny.

[Bryce Harper]

But no, I mean, I think just having that perspective of like, you know, understanding what their job is too, you know, they, they have a job to do as well with four kids at home and keeping them alive and understanding like what's going on. But I have them travel with me as much as possible. Like, I, I, I love them being with me, obviously it's tough with a newborn and you know, one and a half year old and going through season with that. Like you don't sleep. Like it is what it is. Like you got to be dad too. Like you can't just like, I don't want to look back on my career obviously, and sit there and be like, man, like I wish I would have put more into my career. I put a lot into my career. But also I don't want to miss these stages of life for my six year old, five year old, one and a half and newborn. Like, I don't, these are all stages I want to be part of, you know, because one day I'm going to look back on and my kids going to be, you know, 15, 16 years old and I'm going to want to, you know, hold them again and they're not going to let me, you know what I'm saying? Like, there's no greater feeling than having your kids. There's a song by Luke Combs called Front Door Famous.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Fathers and Sons.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. And so like hearing that and understanding, like no matter what I do at the baseball field that day, when I walk through that door, my kids are me screaming and yelling, daddy. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's no greater feeling than that. There's no better job in the world than being a dad, you know, so.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, I mean, I think, I think.

[Bryce Harper]

There'S one thing that somebody talked to me about it the other day and they were like, what's, what's the thing that you think holds you back the most in your career? And I would say my kids, because I do have that and it's not a bad thing. Like I, I love it. Like I, I, I love being a dad, but also like I, I have dad guilt a lot because I don't want to go and work out every single day because I want to hang out my kids, I want to be around them. Right. But also there's a give and take with that where I want them to see I'm working. I want them to see the work that I put in because one day I want them to be able to do that as well. Those are my nieces and nephew.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just.

[Will Compton]

Keeps pulling up photos.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's hilarious.

[Bryce Harper]

But like, I mean, I think like, understanding, obviously I only have, you know, a couple more years left of this. I want to enjoy it and I want to love it as much as possible. You know, it was a big thing for me and I want to enjoy these moments with them. But, you know, at the same time, like, baseball isn't just, you know, my world, you know, it's just. It's something that I do. And, you know, I'm very fortunate to have a great career and be. I'm super grateful for it, but my family, you know, means the world to me with that stuff.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nothing shocks you out of main character syndrome more than having kids. Like, you realize, okay, like, we're. We're partners in this whole thing. We're going to go and get it done together. But once a kid comes in to the fold, it's like all the things that seem so important, like whether it's the game or how you feel about your practice that day. Day, like, it's. The weight is much less because you feel like this. This thing is so much more. I may need to make sure I have time with no doubt.

[Bryce Harper]

And I think. I don't think people realize that with professional athletes either. They're just like, whatever, figure it out. You know, like, you got this, you got that. And they're right. Like, we're very fortunate, and I have a lot of things right, but I still go through the same problems everybody else does. It's like, you know, somebody down the street with family or friends or anybody else, you know, so. But realizing, like, being a dad is the greatest job in the world is something that I love to do because, like you said, like, the game's going to be the game. Obviously, it's not going to be there forever. And I'm not going to be Bryce Harper, the baseball player forever.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm just, you know, in the next.

[Will Compton]

And not taking over to that. Like, your wife isn't number one. But when you're. You guys, when you get married and you both know what each other does, you. You both essentially understand what you're signing up for in this life of professional sports, anybody's career. Then when kids come in, it's like with football or baseball being like a number one priority. When your kids come in, you. You start. Your perspective starts to shift that I want fatherhood to be such a number one priority, too. So it starts to. It starts to pull from you a little bit, right in your career, in your sport, because you realize how precious those moments are, how much I'll give.

[Bryce Harper]

Away every single hit. I'll give away every single single hit just to be able to have my kid be successful at baseball. You know what I'm saying? Like, if he plays baseball or plays another sport, I hope he doesn't play baseball. I have no Desire for him to play baseball. But, like, at that moment, like, sitting over and watching him play or play any sport or my daughter or anybody, I will give away every hit, every mvp, anything that I've ever done in the game for him to have the success, you know, that you had. 100.

[Taylor Lewan]

Why. Why do you have no desire for your kid to play baseball? Is it the all you understand, all the pressures that took place that you. You had?

[Bryce Harper]

I think it's just more of. I want him to be his own, you know, And I don't want it to always be, oh, you're Bryce Harper's kid, right? You know what I'm saying? Like, I want him to have success if he wants to play baseball. He loves baseball. He does. He loves baseball, hockey, football, like, everything right now. But. And also, like, I don't want him to get so locked in on one thing, you know, I want him to be able to just go and do his own thing. Like, he plays piano right now, and he loves it. Like, he's all about it, but, like, he loves hockey too, you know, like, he wants to go out there and crush kids and, you know, like, it's. It is what it is, but I don't know, I just want him to kind of make his own decision and not think that because dad does it, he has to do it, you know, and he's going to. To a fault. Like, he's going to sit there and go, oh, well, you know, I want to play, or.

[Will Compton]

Well, yeah, because you're his hero for sure.

[Bryce Harper]

No doubt.

[Will Compton]

And it's nice, too. He's got piano in his bag. He's gonna have some games.

[Bryce Harper]

No doubt, no doubt. Imagine walking into, like, a hotel and being able to play the piano absolutely right. Wasn't that such a, like, crazy thing growing up, though? You were like, bro, you're in band.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

What's wrong with you, bro? Jeez.

[Taylor Lewan]

Play piano. The. You trying to say piano?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Now I see CMC doing it at concert.

[Bryce Harper]

That was.

[Will Compton]

Dude, I did not know he could do this. It was awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

If I go back in my childhood and do two things differently, I would learn a different language and play an instrument.

[Will Compton]

No doubt.

[Taylor Lewan]

If you could do those two things. Well rounded.

[Bryce Harper]

Very well rounded.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well rounded.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well versed in the 90s Midwest dads. You want to do what? You want to play piano? Hell, no question for you.

[Will Compton]

What if your son had this similar ability that you have and he was at that school spot, sophomore year, high school.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, man, I don't know. I'm really not sure. I don't. I mean, it would take all of me to try to make that decision with them. I. I don't. I don't know. I really don't have an answer for you because, I mean, I'd probably call my dad.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, and, like, hey, what do you got? You know? Like, what do you think? Like, what should I do? I would never want to give up on my kid. Like, of, like, yeah, I don't think you can do this, you know, so I'd want to, like. But it's such a hard place to be. Like, I. I've never talked to my dad about this, actually. Like, what? Like, what if it would have not gone the way we wanted it to, you know? Like, that would have been, like, crazy to think about. Like, he had to have had those thoughts with my mom or, like, people. Right.

[Will Compton]

Like, I hope we're making the best decision for him.

[Bryce Harper]

No doubt. Like, that's probably. Yeah, that's crazy. I've never thought about that.

[Taylor Lewan]

She's like, forego, high school.

[Bryce Harper]

School, right? Like, they put all your eggs in.

[Taylor Lewan]

One basket for real. And the fact you tried to go back to high school, too, and they're, like, just nuts.

[Will Compton]

Hey, buddy, you can't.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I wonder what that conversation is like with your. With your wife. Like, as if. If I'm your dad, like, sitting there, just laying in bed, being like, this kid. Better. This.

[Bryce Harper]

What's the. What was the football player. It was Marinovich.

[Will Compton]

Marinovich.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Right.

[Taylor Lewan]

What happened?

[Bryce Harper]

Like, wasn't he like, the, like, all time?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he's supposed to. To be, like, basically, his. His dad was kind of, like, stretching him from the crib and was just trying molding him to.

[Bryce Harper]

It's kind of like Spike from Giants. Little Giants.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Goat's milk on the Cals.

[Will Compton]

All the training. Yeah, but he would just train him.

[Taylor Lewan]

Come on. I saw you peek over at me. I'm like, oh, he saw me. He picked me up. You guys are laughing.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm like.

[Taylor Lewan]

You. That little look you gave me. I'm like, he knows.

[Will Compton]

He knows, man.

[Bryce Harper]

Spike don't play with girls, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

I know that line. I know that line.

[Bryce Harper]

Icebox.

[Will Compton]

Got to watch Little Giants. I got to watch movies, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

What you going to watch? The Rock?

[Will Compton]

I got. I got. Yeah, I got to watch movies as a football guy. Not seeing a little Giant.

[Taylor Lewan]

Watch Entourage.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I do Entourage really good. Yeah, I got mov.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a great question.

[Bryce Harper]

You don't watch. I'm just kidding.

[Taylor Lewan]

Favorite comedy. Those Wedding Crashers oh, really good, bar none. Without a doubt. But like, favorite movie. Oh, when I was like 8 years old, I was obsessed with the movie Titanic. Really came out in VHS at the tv.

[Bryce Harper]

I thought those two, like, I thought the two actors were real. When I watched that for the first time when I was younger. Yes, That's a real story. 100.

[Taylor Lewan]

It has to be.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. And it wasn't.

[Will Compton]

We all see our first boob.

[Bryce Harper]

Leonardo gets me every time.

[Taylor Lewan]

That was the first boob I saw.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, same.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I was in Loomis, California, and I saw my grandmother and that. And she's like, I want to you to paint me like one of these French girls. I don't know what the hell he's saying, but the next scene, she's naked. My grandma's like, cover your eyes. And I'm like, oh, God, you got.

[Bryce Harper]

To be kidding me. Favorite movie?

[Taylor Lewan]

First boobs.

[Will Compton]

First boob was Titanic.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

In a movie theater. But favorite movie? I don't know. I hate putting up that type of pressure.

[Bryce Harper]

So many good one.

[Will Compton]

Rocky. The Rocky series is up there. Okay, man, you should play Redemption. The Dark Knight. When we went out to Philly, I.

[Taylor Lewan]

Got some merchandise movies.

[Will Compton]

But I did love those movies.

[Bryce Harper]

Highest.

[Taylor Lewan]

But Dark Night, though, isn't like I.

[Will Compton]

Saw it on tv. Watch the rest of it. I mean, Jurassic Park, Free Willy.

[Bryce Harper]

Heath Ledger in that movie was incredible.

[Taylor Lewan]

And they killed him when he passed away. And everyone's like, it's because of his role at the Joker was so, like, torturous to him. It just makes that movie that much like. Oh, my God.

[Bryce Harper]

The best part was when the. He's has the. The little thing trying to blow up the hospital.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know he ad libed that, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. Yes.

[Bryce Harper]

That's crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

It didn't go off right.

[Bryce Harper]

It was supposed to go off first.

[Taylor Lewan]

Click. Yeah. Have you seen. Have you seen the extended scene of this when he gets in the bus and it stays with him on the bus for like a minute?

[Bryce Harper]

Yes.

[Taylor Lewan]

And he just stays in character the whole time and like, the scene's over. It's nuts, man.

[Bryce Harper]

It's crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

You see some of the interviews. What's your favorite movie?

[Bryce Harper]

The Town.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. Great movie.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Who's taken?

[Bryce Harper]

Yep. Who's copy we taken? No, I love anything Ben Affleck, man. I think he's unbelievable. Argo. Have you seen Argo?

[Will Compton]

No, not seen.

[Taylor Lewan]

I haven't seen that. Seen the Accountant, though. We already checked that box.

[Bryce Harper]

Great.

[Will Compton]

You were a football guy growing up. What's your favorite football movie?

[Bryce Harper]

Remember the Titans.

[Will Compton]

What's two?

[Bryce Harper]

Man, I don't know. The Replacements is hilarious.

[Will Compton]

Replacements is nice.

[Taylor Lewan]

I haven't seen the Replacements.

[Bryce Harper]

Why, what's yours?

[Will Compton]

Remember the Titans and Friday Night Lights?

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, Friday Night Lights is great.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, because since you were coming.

[Taylor Lewan]

What.

[Will Compton]

Year were you born?

[Bryce Harper]

92.

[Will Compton]

92. Okay. You would have been like. You'd have been in middle school or something when Friday Night Lights came out. I just remember I went with the varsity team.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, the boys.

[Will Compton]

The seniors team picked me up from my house cuz we rented out our coach, rented out the theater, and we all watched Friday Night Lights together in that movie.

[Bryce Harper]

What would you guys spot after the football game on a Friday night?

[Will Compton]

Dairy Queen.

[Bryce Harper]

Dairy Queen or just Sonic?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, Dairy Queen. I remember catching like full cramps in the box booth. I played both ways.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, you're bad, dude. I mean, All American. You were, bro. I mean, why not? You know, town of 500, right?

[Will Compton]

American 4000.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, dude, Dairy Queen was my. I went to two high schools. The first one was Dairy Queen. The second one was Zips. After every game, go to Zips. Hey, who's having a party at. You know, what's going on?

[Will Compton]

Are they going to be girls?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Was Zips like a. I mean, what's Zips? Like, what is it? No, he's like the greatest.

[Taylor Lewan]

If I was on death row, it would be from Zip.

[Bryce Harper]

So this is it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Zips. The origin of Zips is Goldies is a. It's right next to a bunch of baseball diamonds in Arizona. You would love that. You can go play baseball and then go, where's that? I don't know where the Goldies is.

[Bryce Harper]

Or if it's Ballpark USA or whatever.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, no, no, it's not that area. But zips. There's 16 locations of zips and recently just. They just got raided by Homeland Security because they're allegedly forging Social Security numbers. That's not important.

[Will Compton]

Fifteen of them are shut down.

[Bryce Harper]

You're going to buy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I tell you what, if they let me, I'll get it. I'll get a team together right away. But Zips, dude, it's a. It's a. It's a classic sports bar. You can go there, play shuffleboard, do all the things. But you're gonna go. You're gonna walk in, you're gonna tell them, I want the Monaco Focaccia with extra jalapeno dipping sauce. Half and half with the onion rings and the fries.

[Bryce Harper]

Wow.

[Taylor Lewan]

Then you're gonna get the Golden Wings, medium, extra crispy Extra sauce, extra ranch inside. Are you rancher blue cheese ranch? That. That was a test, that meal, buddy. I'm telling you, like one of the best, best moments of my life. That picture doesn't even do it.

[Bryce Harper]

Just.

[Taylor Lewan]

What is that? That does. That's a. That's the fakasha. And that's not the Monaco.

[Bryce Harper]

That's not forasha.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a fakasha.

[Will Compton]

It's like the bar food type fakasha.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a bar fasha.

[Bryce Harper]

Not the white tablecloth.

[Will Compton]

There's. There's not like the.

[Taylor Lewan]

There's your mono right there.

[Bryce Harper]

Price.

[Taylor Lewan]

I need your eyes. There's your monaco right there. That's. That's the one, buddy. You eat.

[Bryce Harper]

That looks like an Arizona cheesesteak.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right.

[Will Compton]

The fear I have is you paying as the greatest meal of all time. And he might go at some point.

[Taylor Lewan]

You have to go to the one on via Linda and Hayden. You go to that one.

[Bryce Harper]

Okay.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're not going to be disappointed at all. But one of my favorite moments was all the boys. We went out to Arizona and what.

[Will Compton]

We did was it super bowl, the spring. I thought it was a spring game.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, is it Arizona State?

[Will Compton]

Arizona State?

[Taylor Lewan]

Arizona State. And I'm like, I've been talking to zips way more than I even have on this podcast. And we go there and all the boys were like, we understand the hype. They.

[Will Compton]

Elite.

[Taylor Lewan]

Elite. Wow. There he is.

[Will Compton]

I've always been there. I've never left.

[Taylor Lewan]

You've used different, different verbiage. Elite you haven't used in a while, but it is. He's correct. It's elite.

[Bryce Harper]

Wow.

[Taylor Lewan]

Get a zip.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know about elite things, cuz I'm not elite anymore, so.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey. What the.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Was that the gm?

[Bryce Harper]

That's a good word right there.

[Taylor Lewan]

Was that the GM that said that President. The president comes on, he does a press conference. He says, Bryce is no longer an elite player.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, it is. I mean, what are you going to do?

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, hold on.

[Will Compton]

So he can play great instead of good, but stay great instead of good? It's something like that. But that feels like it's like unheard of for anybody that high of a level to come on kind of talk about a player like that.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I don't. I don't think it's. I think there's things within the organization that you probably shouldn't say in an outward, like, expression. Right. Like, if you, If I had a problem with you, I'd probably You know, if you were on my team, I'd probably bring you to the side and talk to you. And so I think that was one thing. When I signed, there was like, hey, like, we don't say anything about the organization outwardly or anything else. Like, make sure it's behind the door, closed doors, and if you have a problem, like, we'll talk about it. Keep a family, no doubt. And so I think that's the kind of where it rubbed me the wrong way a little bit with that kind of stuff. Stuff like, I respect Dave and everything he's done in the game and everything else. He's great at his job and stuff. But, you know, I think for me, personally, like, if you have a problem, like, you know, you can talk to me and have an issue with it, like, the way I'm playing or whatever, like, it's not going to motivate me. Like, that's the thing. Like, anything that people say like that, like, that doesn't motivate me. They kind of just like.

[Will Compton]

But that kind of transparency is always helpful, like, within the relationship.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

No one, you know, just us being on the side. Same page.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're doing, like, exit interviews or something like that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, hey, where do I stand? Like, hey, this is how we're evaluating you right now. It's up. Let's change your mind.

[Bryce Harper]

And I don't even have exit interviews. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's something in baseball. Like, I mean, some guys might have them, but we don't. But, like, again, like, if he had something like that to say, like, obviously I'd want him to say it to me.

[Taylor Lewan]

I assume he has your phone number.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, so that's probably. That'd probably be a good way to go.

[Bryce Harper]

I think the tough part is, like, it's just a story that doesn't need to be out there. So, like, when we get to spring training, it's gonna be a story. Like, people are going to talk to me about it. People are going to ask me about it. It's just, like, it doesn't need to be a story. Like, there's no. There's. There was.

[Will Compton]

That was my boot.

[Bryce Harper]

Nice, dude.

[Will Compton]

I do, like, a good rip.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, a good rip.

[Bryce Harper]

But, like, I think that's the thing. Like, there's. You don't want stories like that in spring. Like, you don't want that to be right when you get there. Like, hey, what do you think? You know, like, great. This is what I have to answer.

[Taylor Lewan]

Besides, everyone's got their Opinion Onward.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Exactly.

[Will Compton]

Where were you when this took place? I assume you just found out, like everybody else or somebody might sent you a link.

[Bryce Harper]

Where did I see this? I don't know. I can't even remember. I was just shocked more than anything. I was just like, that's. That's kind of wild. It's a wild take.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, have you. Obviously I didn't have the greatest postseason or like the year that I wanted to have, but if they want to talk about, like, you know, what stats mean or anything else, like, they have their numbers. Like, they know where I'm at, like, number wise for, you know, the, the tier of the league and stuff like that, like, it's still there, you know, so.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Was there any beef with you guys, like, throughout the season to where it could have led them saying that?

[Bryce Harper]

No, no, I, like, like, that's the thing. Like, I have a good relationship with, you know, Dave, so it was just like, kind of weird, you know, for him to even.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So I was just shocked.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Makes you wonder, like, what would make. What would go through his mind that he's like, yeah, this is the appropriate time to bring up a comment like this.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. I mean, again, like, obviously we didn't have the postseason we wanted to. We got beat. It didn't end the way we wanted to. And I know all those things. Like, and if you want to blame somebody, I don't mind you blaming me. Like, I didn't play well, you know, like, I didn't have my best series and I'm totally fine taking the blame for anything that happens. Like it comes with, you know, the territory and things like that. But things like that just don't motivate me to the extent. Like, you know, I know I need to be better.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? Like, I get that. Like, I need to have a great year this year. Year. And I plan to do that. Like, I don't plan to not have a great year. So we'll see.

[Taylor Lewan]

Where does your mind go when people, like, obviously people reference baseball as a game of failure? Like, if you hit 3 out of 10, like, you're, you're an all star. You're a stud. When you get into these situations where you maybe don't have the. The best year and, you know, you have to have a great year this year, maybe it doesn't start the way you want. Like, what is the superstition? Like, how do you get yourself out of those mental funks?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, my dad always says it's a season for a race reason, right? Like, you play the full season, you have six or seven months of baseball. And so if you have one bad month, it doesn't really mean anything in baseball. Right? Like, you have five more months to be great. The years that I won the mvp, I didn't have a really good, you know, month and a half or, you know, I lost out on two months or something, and then bang, I bang for four months, and I'm the, you know, hottest player in the world and best player in the world, and there's the mvp. You know what I'm saying? So I think just having a plan for yourself, understanding, like, what works for you, you're not going to feel great every day. Like, but Dustin Pedro always used to stay too. Like, you rake. Like, any given day, like, you rake. And raking means, like, you're the best hitter on the planet.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, like, you rake. So it doesn't matter how you feel in the batter's box, doesn't matter how you feel in the cage, doesn't matter anywhere else. Like, you rake. So just understanding that you're a really good baseball player, a really good football player, or, you know, anything that you do, like, be great at it and don't lose that motivation or that confidence to be great at it. Even if you're going through a little bit of. Of a lot lull and staying as. Even kill as you can throughout the whole process of that.

[Will Compton]

You know, how hard is it when you're in it, when you're reminding yourself you rake or it's a season for a reason, and it's. You might be in week three.

[Bryce Harper]

It's like walking on glass where you're.

[Will Compton]

Like, man, like, I keep. You know, I'm trying to get out of this thing, but it seems like it's not coming together.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. Coach over there, you're trying to.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Then you feel good. Then you go out there and you're still thinking like, man, you know, is this. Am I who I think I am? Right? So you'll use a little.

[Taylor Lewan]

Little superstitions. Like when we went to that Cardinals game where I threw that first pitch, the. The catcher, he had, like, a bat in the corner, and I went to grab it, and then I think somebody was like, you probably. You probably should ask. And I asked the. I was like, hey, can I touch the bat? He's like, no, you really can't touch it. Like, there's so. There's so many, like, things you have to get right or superstitions. I Guess. But yeah, Will's question.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, No, I think for me, like, every. Every day. Every day you come in, like, you could feel good or you could feel. Feel bad. Like, I mean, there's days where you feel great in the cage or in bp, you go over four or three punch outs. You know what I'm saying? So, like, there's no. There's no get. Like, you can't buy in so heavily on BP or heavily on, you know, feeling good. Like, I could feel my worst and have a great series and get nine hits in a series with, you know, two homers, and I'm like, dude, how'd that happen? You know, but you can go a good month and a half and then you lose it for a week, and you're like, where'd it go? Go like, what. What just happened?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know, and that's just how baseball works. Like, you run into some good pitching and, you know, you face Paul Skeens on a Friday and then Jerry Jones on a Saturday, and then you're facing somebody, you know, out of the bullpen, a lefty out of the bullpen throwing 98 to 100, and you're like, uncle.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, what are we doing? Like, give me the average white righty that throws 91. You know what I'm saying? Like, what are we doing?

[Will Compton]

That's what I'm talking about. That's what we needed today.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, geez Louise. But, like, there's so many good pictures nowadays. There's so many, you know, different type of pitchers. Lefties, right? He's throwing a, you know, bajillion miles an hour. I mean, Araldis Chapman is the fountain of youth right now, and he's throwing 104, you know, 105. Like, it's just. It's crazy. That's disgusting.

[Will Compton]

Dear God.

[Taylor Lewan]

Can't have that. Peptides.

[Will Compton]

What's worse, like, being in a. Being in a slump or like, making a crucial error that I lose the game?

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, man. I mean, the crucial air sucks because you never want to lose a game for your team. But if I'm in a slump, I'm probably losing more for my team in a slump than I am at first base making an error for one game. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. You know, because I'm not doing my job at the bat in the batter's box, so we're probably not doing very good as a team. And not saying I'm everything to this team, but, like, if I'm not playing well, then that's probably not very good. For my team. So I'd probably rather make the air.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Than go on a prolonged slump. Because if I'm hitting, we're probably winning a little bit more.

[Will Compton]

What's the self talk like? Like, when you're in a slump, are you just verbally abusing yourself mentally?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, I mean, all the time. I mean, how you even hear me? And, me and Trey Turner, we play shortstop for us. We just sit next to each other and just like, should we just go home? This is stupid. Like, we shouldn't do this anymore. Like, we're the worst freaking guys on the team. Like, dude, we are absolutely, honestly terrible. You know? Like, you suck today. Good job. Yeah, we always do that. We'll, like, walk in and go, hey, nice game today. Yeah, you suck today.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you got the yips, buddy.

[Taylor Lewan]

God damn. It's so funny because that's exactly how football goes to. You sit next to your boy and you guys are both having a bad game. You're like, we're terrible. How do we even get to this position in life? How do they let us fake it this long? Yeah, just mentally.

[Bryce Harper]

But isn't that crazy? Like, you probably never thought that in high school or college.

[Taylor Lewan]

High school, I thought this is, you.

[Bryce Harper]

Know what I'm saying? So that's how I think to myself. Like, though I'm like, dude, I want to think how I was in high school or college.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, ignorance is bliss. Like, you kidding me? Like, I'm the greatest player in the world. Like, there's nobody better than me tonight. Like, no chance this guy's getting me out tonight.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Now it's like, dude, I gotta face that lefty throwing 100 out of the pin. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, he's on over. You want the first couple guys go before you and you're like, God damn, he's really on right now.

[Bryce Harper]

He's gonna throw me a sinker, break my bat. I'm not gonna swing. Whack. Breaks my bat. Bat roll out the first basic back in there. Told you guys.

[Will Compton]

When I'd struggle in college, I'd literally go back to the rival site and watch my highlight tapes. In high school, I felt like I used to be good. Was I good? How do I move like that again?

[Taylor Lewan]

I'd never stressed in high school. Well, high school, I was just bad until my senior. Then I was all of a sudden good. But like, college, I never stressed. I was like, this is like without. In the NFL, if you have a two minute minute drill and you're an offensive lineman, that's when your Heart rate's the highest, the anxiety is the highest. Like you just got to make sure you keep your boy alive. When I was in college, we have a two minute drill. I'm like, oh, I'm about to get all pluses on this right now. It's not like this is just going to add to my grade tomorrow. And then you go in a couple spin moves happened by Whitney Merciless and you're like, how the. Do I ever. If a man puts another spin move on me, I'm done. I'm dead. It's just crazy, man. It's crazy.

[Bryce Harper]

It's the, the mental part is it's wild and like guys that can kind of get through the mental like mental grind of the, of the year or the game or anything like those are the guys that you see that are at the top because you know, like baseball, man, it's. It goes downhill quick, you know and it's like quicksand. I mean it's just like Shane Falco said in the Replacements.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

More and more you try to climb out of quicksand, bro, the deeper you go.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm sure it was a great movie.

[Bryce Harper]

It was awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I'm sure it was a phenomenal scene.

[Bryce Harper]

No, I mean just in the Replacements.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, just that little Giants and replacement replacements. So that happened on this show I made.

[Will Compton]

I know I must not have caught the replacement. That's crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

You've known me for eight years.

[Bryce Harper]

Shane Falco, man. Ohio State.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dang, dude, that's. Yeah, that's why I didn't watch it. Ohio State. Have you ever been around a guy that like doesn't worry about a thing? I've been around players that like are stress free and I'm like, how.

[Bryce Harper]

I think that's BS dude. I think that's so.

[Taylor Lewan]

I think so.

[Will Compton]

I do.

[Bryce Harper]

Man.

[Will Compton]

Anybody that like again, college. I remember Rex Burkhead. It always felt like he kept himself so poised.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Where I feel like I'm. There's mental warfare happening my. In my head.

[Bryce Harper]

Shout out to Rex Burkhead.

[Will Compton]

Shout out to me.

[Bryce Harper]

He won me a fantasy league on a. On a. Whatever. On the. What's it called when you fancy football? Yeah. But PPR no Touchdown.

[Taylor Lewan]

Championship.

[Bryce Harper]

I sound like an idiot.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's okay. It's okay.

[Will Compton]

He's only gonna.

[Taylor Lewan]

Sorry.

[Bryce Harper]

11Th and 12th week for the Texans. He put up like 50 points back to back weeks. My guy.

[Will Compton]

But I always felt like he always kept himself so poised and I'm like, hey, is there anything that you do? And he ended up Giving me this book called the Mental Edge by Kenneth Baum. He's like, read this. And I will say, reading that book, it was a whole different perspective. It was like four agreements are the fifth agreement.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Where you just have this whole new perspective on using your brain as something that could be an advantage or helping you versus. Versus how you learn about yourself, where you just talk to your. You talk down or you have so much doubt and how to compartmentalize. And it kind of just opened my mind up. But Rex was a guy. I always saw himself, the way he carried himself. I'm like, what does this guy have? Like, I need whatever. It seems like he's posturing to me, but it seems real.

[Taylor Lewan]

I always think with the Trent Williams story you tell and how he's sitting.

[Will Compton]

At breakfast, but that's the guy who had the same. The same mental that you had in, like, college and high school. Like, he just still had. Had that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. That's what I'm saying. Like, guys see guys have that. Like Trent Williams, when he goes to a game, he's like, man, I'm a ball today. And I was always like, I hope I don't get found out today.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he was a dude that just was. He was so dominant. Taylor's referring to a time after practice where me and Logan Paulson, a couple white tryhards, are just like, man, like injuries. You just talk about practice, being tough and everything else in survival.

[Bryce Harper]

The original exciting whites.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, exactly.

[Will Compton]

The original. The OG keys. And Trent came and sat down, and he was kind of participating in the conversation. He's like, man, I'll be honest, I'm just waiting for a day that somebody walks. Walks in those doors and challenges me at practice. And he said, in a way of not like, us laughing or being arrogant. He said it so innocently, where it's like, that dude just has the Jesus.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right? And did he say it right in front of Brian Oracbo, who we go against every day?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right in front of rack.

[Bryce Harper]

But I think that's. I think that's how you came up too. Like, that's how, like, the people that around you to kind of put you in that, like, in that light and then. And, like, I mean, I don't know, my dad did such a good job of, like, building my confidence. Like, unbelievable job of building my confidence. And so I think it's kind of just carried over to where I am today. Like, I feel that way when I walk into the clubhouse every day. Like, nobody's better than me, obviously, like when you're going through this, you know, through a funk or anything else, like, it sucks. But at the end of the day, like when I walk out on that field, like, my name's still my name.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, right.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, you know what I'm saying? There's a guy that always says, says that before we walk out on the field, he's always like, hey, everybody, remember your name. Steal your name. And so like, that's the thing that I always think to myself, like, man, you're right. Like, your name's still your name as you walk out on the field.

[Taylor Lewan]

What are some things that your dad.

[Will Compton]

Like that to me, what are some.

[Taylor Lewan]

Things your dad would do to instill a type of confidence in you?

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, for me, like, this is, this might sound weird, but like, he would always buy the best baseballs. Like, I grew up in, you know, lower middle class, like we, we couldn't afford pearls all the time. But like, he would always go out and get like the best baseball. So when I'm hit, hitting balls would fly and so the confidence there, like, you know, I'd hit on a. He would always tell me, when I was younger, I'd go to, you know, hit on a baseball field, he'd be like, oh yeah, this is only like 250ft. Like, don't even worry about it. I'm like, all right, like, whatever. It'd be like a 300 foot fence and I'm hitting balls over it at like, you know, 11 years old. And I'm like, dude, this is nuts. And my dad be like, hey, today that actually was a 300 foot fence. And so like, he would always like, give me that demeanor and I'd be like, are you serious? But yeah, like, this is what we do.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's awesome.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? So, like, I mean, we, we did so much stuff. Man, he was such a good. Just, you know, I don't know, he just, he did such a good job of kind of motivating me and my, you know, my brother and my sister as well. And he grew up tough, man. And so for him to be able to go right where my grandpa went left, like, was pretty incredible. So, I mean, yeah, just really, really good motivator and all that. He did too. Like, I mean, he, he ran job sites of over, you know, 500 guys and did a great job doing that and was able to just like, he was a, you know, builder of men in that, in that type of work. You know, he'd get 18, 19 year old guys in there with him. He'd have to build them. And they loved him, you know, just because, you know, the way he was. So. And he did that as a dad, too, so that's cool, man. Yeah. Really good.

[Will Compton]

You got the Team usa. You about to do the Olympics. Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

This is a hockey. This is one of the hockey ones.

[Will Compton]

Winter Olympics. Yeah. Yeah. We was watching some of the skating.

[Bryce Harper]

Baseball classic.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll tell you what, I was sitting there laying there last night with Taylin and there was like, I don't know what sport they were in, but some guys were asked, like, how do you feel about representing America?

[Bryce Harper]

That's crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

And the way they answered the question was, like, because of the stuff happening in America, like, it feels weird to wear the flag. And just that patriot me was like, hey, I know there's stuff going on that we're not all excited about, but, like, to represent your country, regardless of what country you're representing, if you're from, from there, like, you should be so proud.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, 100. You just said it. Like, obviously, there's things that are going on in the country that, you know, aren't good or people don't believe in or whatever. Right? Like, politics aside, like, for me, when you're going and representing your country, you're representing your country, man. Like, yeah, block all that out. Like, it's sports. Like, we want to put something on the TV that is happy and good and just great for everybody to watch. Right? Like, and so representing your country, there's nothing greater than representing your country.

[Taylor Lewan]

Country.

[Bryce Harper]

There's really nothing, I mean, at all.

[Taylor Lewan]

Think about your relationship with your wife. Like, I'm sure there's things that you guys have arguments about. Sometimes you're like, I wish she did this different. I wish she probably thinks that about you. We all, like, in a relationship, want different things sometimes. Like, and same thing goes to your country. Like, there's things that happen in America that I'm not, like, super fired up about, but I still love America, for sure. I still love being a part of.

[Will Compton]

You're not going to go out when you get a moment on the pod to be like, yeah, my. You know, there's. I don't always feel the best. I have the last name of Luan right now. And there's some things that we can fix at home, right, Coop? This is. By the way, this is a rare sighting of Cooper Comstock, our graphics designer, on the bus during. He never comes on for any interviews.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Coup likes to live in the shadows.

[Will Compton]

He's a Graphic designer, but he loves baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

Baseball fan.

[Will Compton]

So, Coop, I just want to give you the mic for a moment. I don't know if you have a question for Mr. Harper here.

[Bryce Harper]

I kind of have one. I mean, I'm about to sound like a reporter after all that.

[Will Compton]

You love baseball.

[Bryce Harper]

I do love baseball. I want to know. I mean, we're kind of cool talking USA like, you didn't get to play in the wbc, what, three years ago? I think it was same time as the tj. Yep. Like, who are some guys you're looking forward to playing with? Maybe against? Yeah, I think Judge is probably my favorite. I'm really excited to play with him. I mean, he's an absolute stud. Has had a, you know, couple unbelievable years. So, yeah, just really excited to play with him, you know, talk to him, be around him. But, yeah, I mean, first time I represented my country was when I was 18 or, sorry, 16. And then in the Junior Olympics, and then 18 the year after. So being able to kind of do it now and put USA on my chest, I'm really looking forward to it, so. Be a lot of fun.

[Will Compton]

That was a reporter question. I just pictured him being in Florida or Arizona for spring training, and that's like, one of the first questions. So, you know, Aaron Judge, I'm excited. You know, get around him. Rattle some bats with the boys.

[Bryce Harper]

That be sick. I'm excited.

[Taylor Lewan]

Get after a lot of good guys out there.

[Bryce Harper]

It'll be dope.

[Taylor Lewan]

You brought up a Judge. Torpedo bats.

[Bryce Harper]

Torpedo bats. Wow. You do watch.

[Taylor Lewan]

We a fan. Well, yeah, I was.

[Will Compton]

That headline did come across.

[Taylor Lewan]

It came across. My timeline.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. I'm not a fan.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

Not a fan of torpedo bats.

[Taylor Lewan]

Why not?

[Bryce Harper]

It's kind of like noco to me.

[Taylor Lewan]

Overrated.

[Will Compton]

So you think torpedo bats are just overrated? You don't think. Think it's like, you know, if it.

[Bryce Harper]

Works for somebody, then that's great, but I don't think.

[Taylor Lewan]

Have you ever put your hands on a torpedo bat?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And you've swung it. And it's not like it doesn't strike out as much as you think.

[Will Compton]

What you struck out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Struck out.

[Will Compton]

This piece of.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, isn't it crazy, though, to think, like, in the next six years, I could strike out 1200 times?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's nuts with a torpedo battle. Be like 14.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, I hope it's not that, because that'd be crazy. But, like, it's like, if I. I could strike out a thousand more times.

[Will Compton]

My career, how many at bats would be over the Next. However many years you just said. Or you could have 1200.

[Bryce Harper]

Do the. Do the math. 600. 606. 3600, right? Yeah. Somewhere in there probably. Y. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

3600 at bats and still be a beast.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Strike out a thousand times maybe.

[Taylor Lewan]

So we don't like the torpedo bat.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Just not into it. I like. I like the model icewing.

[Taylor Lewan]

The model icewing?

[Bryce Harper]

The model icewing. Like the bat model.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotcha. The icewing.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I try to with ice about the old tpx, bro.

[Bryce Harper]

Hey, I use the Demarini voodoo, but nice. Yeah. But I grew up using like Omaha Gold Y and then like the. Try to think of the air response Air Gen 1X. Yeah. And then I switched to double wall Vexam D Marini, which one were you.

[Will Compton]

Using for the 500 foot home run in high school? Is that. And is that true?

[Bryce Harper]

True. Because you've never hit one.500 in the MLB. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. Come on. No, no, no.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm saying.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is it true that you had 500? You've literally never wearing the Phillies hat. Dude, what a piece of that was.

[Bryce Harper]

Philly fans right there, buddy. My next question's even worse.

[Will Compton]

Did you actually hit 550ft or was that just kind of fake because you're in the MLB and you've never done that.

[Bryce Harper]

Well, because the metal bat is like. Yeah, it's different.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's.

[Bryce Harper]

That's the demarini voodoo, actually. But yeah, I mean I. I hit it pretty far there. Was it 500ft this one? They said it wasn't. It was on like, like the trackman stuff that they use now. So that was like 504.

[Taylor Lewan]

I think they said that one right there. We're watching right now.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, but I don't know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Pretty decent.

[Bryce Harper]

I always had a coach that said it's not how far, it's a how many.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, a bar.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

That go the way you want to clump.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Well, outside of my dumb.

[Bryce Harper]

Outside of my terrible question, what's the meanest thing a Philly fan has ever said to you that you remember and you walked away like what the man. Like, meanest thing a Philly fan has said had been early in my career. So I probably don't remember actually. Yeah, I don't really remember.

[Will Compton]

He blocks out the noise.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Who's one of the. Who's one of the best tricks trash talkers you came across in the mlb?

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a great question.

[Bryce Harper]

Trash talkers. I don't know. It's so weird in baseball, man. Like, they don't really, like, you can't really, like, talk from across the dugouts. Like, it's kind of just like. You know what I'm saying? Like.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but you're.

[Taylor Lewan]

At first. Guy hits a single, he's sitting over there. Maybe you trip him a little bit. Hey, nice shoes.

[Will Compton]

Or maybe after a game when you shake hands, you get a little pat the head comment.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, we don't do that. That either.

[Will Compton]

You don't shake hands after a game.

[Bryce Harper]

No, we never did.

[Will Compton]

Lost our. We've lost the.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we've lost our edge. Where's the sportsmanship in baseball, man?

[Will Compton]

Who do you think holds the. The best athletes?

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, man. We're going to have this conversation right now. Well, pro sport baseball.

[Will Compton]

You think so?

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, can a football guy come onto a baseball field and do it 100%.

[Will Compton]

I just decided.

[Bryce Harper]

You think that a football guy can come on a baseball field and hit a basketball? Baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Really?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we can do. If we had a.

[Bryce Harper]

You want to face. You want to face Paul S.K. or Scubal.

[Will Compton]

I'll stand in there.

[Taylor Lewan]

We'll take Paul S.K. that's nothing.

[Will Compton]

Hey, this is. This is a. That's Willie C. Right there. Show that. Just make a play. And you see the cleats too. Like, that's when I was.

[Bryce Harper]

What kind of athletes are we talking about? That's what. So this is the thing. Like, are we talking? Because the best athletes in the world are Olympic.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hold on, hold on. Will showing you right now is him doing Yalls job. And this man was on practice squad his first year in the league.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Maybe you should have picked baseball, man.

[Will Compton]

Hey, he's better.

[Bryce Harper]

No, because like, I think there's always these conversations about, like, what's the hardest sport? And I think baseball is the hardest sport to play. And it's not even close. Because if Dion think it's even close. Deion Sanders played ball. Both, right?

[Will Compton]

Bo Jackson.

[Bryce Harper]

Bo Jackson. But Deion Sanders always says there's nothing harder than hitting a baseball. And I really think. I don't. I don't think there's anything close to hitting a baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

Your argument that you're having right now is not between baseball and football or basketball. It's between baseball and hockey. That's your argument. Right now, the hardest to do, like, the barrier of entry is the hardest.

[Bryce Harper]

So like skating backwards and all that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Kind of skating using a stick. Like you're. You're going from hands to. Now you have an extension of your hands and that's how You. You have to operate for sure.

[Will Compton]

It could be easy, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm not, but I'm just trying to support you saying.

[Will Compton]

I just.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know.

[Taylor Lewan]

You see this pitch?

[Will Compton]

Let's watch Taylor.

[Taylor Lewan]

You tell me this shit's not hard.

[Bryce Harper]

50 cent half dollar.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll tell you that chick in the yellow, you can go back. She was saying some mean. Yeah, I had to this piece of. To watch this pitch. This is right after I drunk a base.

[Will Compton]

Can NFL players play? Got the pitch I liked.

[Bryce Harper]

Sinker, bang, bang.

[Will Compton]

You like that?

[Bryce Harper]

Ground up a second. You got me. Bryce, what would you have done with that pitch? Probably grounded out to second. No. What do you think? What do you. I mean, what's the hardest thing to do in football?

[Taylor Lewan]

Play every single snap.

[Bryce Harper]

You're right.

[Taylor Lewan]

You have durability. You have to have athletic ability. You have every shape and size on the football field. Guys have to cover dudes with. One guy knows what he's doing, the other guy doesn't know. Just has to be reactive. Another guy has to put a ball in a place that only the guy he wants to catch the ball is going to catch it. I. I would have to stop these guys that are 284% body fat from getting to a quarterback.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, coming across. I mean, yeah. 100% like toughness coming across. Across the middle guy running a 43 and he's £285. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Covering Jameer Gibbs out of the backfield.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Come on, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, that. That one didn't do it for you? Like hitting a baseball is hard. Yes, no doubt about it. Field. Is it that hard?

[Bryce Harper]

John Carlos Stanton coming and trying to hit a ball 150 at you. I mean, I don't think you're scared of the baseball for. Right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Was. That was when I was 12.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, like, how many, how many, how many times do you think you can get a hit in like 100 at bats against, like Jacob deGrom?

[Taylor Lewan]

1.

[Bryce Harper]

You really think you can get a hit off him in 100 at bats?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I think enough. Yeah. Well, you play 95 by Rep. 95. I'm like, I've had enough in the tank here to make connection, but the first 15, I'm. Those balls are going by so fast.

[Bryce Harper]

I just think. I think everybody talks about just the heater, right? Everybody always just talks about like 102 or like 101. Like they're not talking about the slider or the change up or the curveball. Or the 101 mile cutter that he throws or that's you know, 96 mile hour slider that he throws too. Or like, or like my bag right now. Zack Wheeler throwing a. You know, we get it, dude.

[Will Compton]

You play baseball. I mean he explained it to me.

[Taylor Lewan]

Here we go.

[Will Compton]

He just starts cooking us. All right, we get you play baseball.

[Taylor Lewan]

We get it.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean I couldn't imagine like guarding a guy obviously. Like it's just, I mean being out on the edge and trying to, you know, get somebody out of the backfield. Like you hit those, you know, school. I mean that's what MLB player you.

[Will Compton]

Think could play in the NFL or get closest to playing in the NFL.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean John Carlos Stanton was an all time California wide receiver, was going to usc. Aaron Judge, same thing.

[Taylor Lewan]

Judge kind of got the, he got the.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean J.T. realmuto was a quarterback going to Oklahoma State. Archie Bradley was an Oklahoma guy going to Oklahoma. You think Trey Turner could. Trey didn't ever play. So I don't know. I mean I feel like Trey would get kind of broken in half.

[Taylor Lewan]

What's this photo? Is that right?

[Bryce Harper]

No, you're right. That's Judge.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, I thought that was Bryce in the middle.

[Will Compton]

Not even close. Got his ass smallest in the photo.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, my bad.

[Will Compton]

I thought that was Bryce.

[Taylor Lewan]

Damn. Oh, that go.

[Bryce Harper]

That's funny.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Okay. Get it.

[Will Compton]

Baseball. What is.

[Bryce Harper]

No, I mean I, I think every sport has something right. But like I mean I think it just depends on what you call like athleticism and like who has the best athletes or like whatever. Like, I mean.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, it'd be hard to argue. Try like what track and field. Right.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying? Like so I mean if it's, if it's straight down the middle, like what are. Like if it's, if it's how who can run fastest, who can jump the highest, like all that kind of stuff, Stronger, faster, you know what I'm saying? Then it's a little bit different. Yeah, but like I mean if you have to be an athlete to play baseball, you think? Yeah, or baseball athletes or pitchers.

[Taylor Lewan]

Baseball players.

[Will Compton]

You have to be an athlete to play baseball. I'd say no.

[Bryce Harper]

No.

[Will Compton]

Right. There's some heavyset cats out there. It's like they ain't. Yeah, but as far as hand eye and understand playing the game at a very high level, the hardest sport to play, I would say it's not like you, you have to be like an all world athlete, A world class type of athlete with as far as like Genetics and bigger, faster, stronger, and all. All that.

[Taylor Lewan]

What is like.

[Will Compton]

It's the hardest, I would say. Yeah. Baseball, say, is the hardest craft out there.

[Bryce Harper]

So you agree, argue with.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I'm just trying to stir the pot as far as, like, hardest thing to do. Take into account. Again, it's. What about L. Who?

[Bryce Harper]

What about L? Just kidding.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, lion.

[Will Compton]

Oh, like going down the street. Yeah. Look at my man right there.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lion Kirby hurling. This guy.

[Bryce Harper]

I think that's. That's a chef. That's. No, that's. Doesn't that look like action Bronson?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, that's a big ass. Boys with that. Give me your ranking of the core four. So hockey, baseball, basketball, football, hardest to easiest.

[Bryce Harper]

God, I'm gonna get crushed. Baseball's one for me.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Bryce Harper]

Hockey's two, football's three. NBA is four.

[Will Compton]

Nice. I'll take that. I'll take that.

[Bryce Harper]

What do you think?

[Taylor Lewan]

I was thinking, I. It just all depends on the argument we're having.

[Bryce Harper]

Well, that's what I'm saying. So like, there's. There's so many arguments you can have about the sport.

[Will Compton]

So, like running, jumping.

[Bryce Harper]

So like, is there any better athlete? Okay, who. Who has the better athletes, NFL or NBA?

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, don't get well cut up on this.

[Bryce Harper]

But like, that's what I'm saying.

[Taylor Lewan]

NFL too.

[Bryce Harper]

But like, okay, so are guys in the NBA because they couldn't catch or like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, I don't know. Like. You really think that?

[Taylor Lewan]

I think. Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So like, LeBron, like, probably one of the greatest. Like, one of the best athletes. Right? Like speaking just athlete. Right?

[Taylor Lewan]

What? He was all state.

[Bryce Harper]

He was all state of football. Right. So, like, could he have went and played football at Ohio State or like, you know what I'm saying?

[Taylor Lewan]

So, yeah, you know, like, he's an outlier.

[Will Compton]

I feel like as far as barrier to entry, NBA is the hardest because you have to. You have to just be. You have to have some barrier.

[Taylor Lewan]

Barrier of entry. Basketball is the easiest.

[Bryce Harper]

NBA, you're saying, is the hardest.

[Will Compton]

Highest barrier of entry is the NBA.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, you talk about entry. You're talking about, okay, entry and stuff. Ceiling entry is like just to play the game. It's the easiest game to just play from an equipment standpoint.

[Will Compton]

I'm talking about just getting into the NBA.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh. But also, like, if I ran on a court right now, they put me in a pretzel.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

You know what I'm saying?

[Will Compton]

Lowest barrier of entry is baseball. No point at them. What are you talking about? More people could play baseball than basketball.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's easier to go and play basketball from a. Just an equipment standpoint. How much it costs to go to do it. How.

[Will Compton]

Like, I'm talking baseball diamonds are harder.

[Taylor Lewan]

To find than basketball courts. Talking pure numbers.

[Bryce Harper]

NBA versus MLB is what you're saying.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

His phone. You can tell he's over that.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. All right. No, no, no, I. No, I enjoy this conversation because I don't. Like, I respect all athletes, so, like, I respect everybody that does their craft the right way. But, like, we never. Like, that's why I always go back to Deion Sanders or Bo Jackson, because Dion and Bo always said, say that baseball is the hardest sport to play.

[Will Compton]

And those are a couple.

[Bryce Harper]

And those are trump cards. You know what I'm like?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, those are big trump cards.

[Bryce Harper]

And so for me, like, what NFL player is going to come onto a baseball field and play, like, and be like, be really good? Like, I. I feel like I could take a baseball player that was an all American. It's completely different game. I'm not saying this at all.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Taylor Lewan]

But I understand what you're saying, though.

[Bryce Harper]

But, like, give him a camp or a year to get ready for the NFL, and I think he could probably remember how to go play, be more.

[Taylor Lewan]

Successful faster than a football player.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, you think Aaron Judge can go be a tight end at 6, 9 and 200, you know, 75 pounds and play? Right. Like, can. I mean, I don't know.

[Will Compton]

Michael Jordan wasn't able to do it.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Oh, you're right.

[Will Compton]

I mean, you're right. We talking about trying to go play some baseball. He couldn't do it.

[Bryce Harper]

But, like, you take. I mean, Matt Stafford, he probably played all the way through high school, right? Baseball. Baseball, probably. So, like, you know, I mean, can he come out after a month in spring training and come face to grom and be. Well, Tim Tebow did it, but, like, couldn't play at the highest of levels because he was like.

[Will Compton]

But we've seen footballers go from a football to going in and shaking the world in the mlb. Oh, Bo Jackson was an awesome examples.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Are there any examples?

[Will Compton]

There's no examples of just.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just like a baseball player going to play football.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Or a basketball player going to play football.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, Brandon Whedon, is that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yep.

[Bryce Harper]

Right. Quarterback, Oklahoma State. So he got drafted, played in minor league baseball. Russell Wilson, same thing. Minor league baseball.

[Will Compton]

Kyler Murray.

[Bryce Harper]

Kyler Murray, like, no chance. I don't want to do this.

[Taylor Lewan]

A.J.

[Bryce Harper]

Brown, you know, like, guys.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Guys are like. I don't think that's for me.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

And they come back in the NFL and they're superstars.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a good argument.

[Will Compton]

Argument.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a good argument.

[Will Compton]

Oh, Grok. Grock has an answer.

[Taylor Lewan]

The hardest part is sport is boxing.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You just.

[Taylor Lewan]

You can see how. AI Distilled.

[Bryce Harper]

Was that chat. GPT.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yeah. That is. That's not it.

[Will Compton]

You want to hit him with the Bud Light question.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

The boot light, the blue light.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bryce, you know, anyone would do anything for an ice cold, crisp Bud Light. What is something that Bryce Harper would do anything for? Can't say. Family?

[Bryce Harper]

World Series.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's the only answer. That's the only answer. Think about it too much.

[Will Compton]

Be real. How far would you go?

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, I would do it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

You would even take half. You do the whole assignment.

[Bryce Harper]

If we're talking about it, then, yeah. I mean, I was thinking.

[Will Compton]

But the way he looked at me, he's like, I'll do it. Something else needs to be said. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, Jeffrey Simmons said he'd kiss another man.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bryce. World Series, game seven. You're in there getting ready. Some guy in a cloak comes up and he's like, hey, you can win, but the only way you're going to win is if you kiss this man right here and Will pops up for the boys. That's how you get it done.

[Will Compton]

This was a great episode.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was a great episode.

[Will Compton]

I hope we ask all the baseball fans tuning in.

[Taylor Lewan]

They're gonna be mad about something. They're gonna. We're gonna get off this pod. Why don't you ask about the salary cap?

[Bryce Harper]

I got one more.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Why don't you guys have a salary cap? That's kind of crazy. You're kind of the leader of it, too.

[Bryce Harper]

It's just not gonna happen. It's just not.

[Will Compton]

No. If I was a player, I'll be fired up. That being like, we ain't getting no cap, dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, cap. Yeah, guys like, 330, no cap.

[Bryce Harper]

I just feel like for our game and the way our game is going and how much. I always say this, like, I rather be an owner than a player. Like, and there's teams lining up, like. Or there's people lining up to buy teams. So, like, we must be doing okay. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's so many things that, like, the Rockies were bought for 200, 100, you know, $50 million or something crazy like that. And now they're worth, you know, 2 or 3 billion. You know what I'm saying? So, like, teams are making money, right? And obviously, like, everybody has down years and things like that, but at the end of the day, like, players need to get compensated the right way for the longevity of their career.

[Will Compton]

So in a way, you could be saying, like, all the organizations and people that kind of complain about the. The separation or the gap, it's like, there's owners that can be out there if you want to get in this game this way, way organization can kind of approach it.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Better than what they're doing, I think, too. Like, that's why I say the Dodgers always do so good. Right? Like, I'm not. I'm not saying, like, I want to be a Dodger, right? Like, everybody's. Oh, you know, that's crazy. No, like, they do it the right way because they draft well. They get guys in their organization that are Dodgers. Like, there's teams that, like, you know, like, oh, yeah, that's a Cardinal. Like, he definitely plays like a Cardinal. Oh, this guy plays like a Dodger. This guy plays, you know, like a Philly. Like, there's certain teams and certain individuals. You get into your organization, you're like, he's going to be a guy for us because he matches the mold of our team, our city, our organization. Right? And so when the Dodgers go out there and do their job, like, and, yeah, they have more money than everybody. Like, I get that. But you still have to put pen on paper and go out and play. Like, you can't just be like, oh, yeah, we're. We're better than everybody. Like, no, you still have to go out there and do your job and play well and whatever. And so for me, like, they still have to show up. They have to do their job, and they run it the right way. They run a business. They're smart. They understand what they need to do off the field, on the field, in their clubhouse, you know, management, everything. And so they do it the right way. And so I don't think they should be reprimanded because they go out and spend money more than Colorado or whoever. Like, they're just. I don't know, they do it the right way from the ground up. And I think more organizations can learn from them how to run their organization because they do draft well and they do things the right way in their minor league systems that make their players great, too. You know, they. They have some random guy. They have some random guy that comes in and throws six innings in the postseason. Like, it's nothing. You know what I'm saying? Like, some guy that was sitting in Arizona. I can't remember the guy's name. Probably not. I don't know. There was a guy that shouldn't be.

[Taylor Lewan]

Find that guy's name. Random guy. Postseason, six innings for L. LA Dodgers.

[Bryce Harper]

I can't remember. No, but seriously, like, he was sitting in Arizona. He got the call and then came in and threw like six shutty against. I don't even know who they played in the second round, but they played Milwaukee. They played the brewers in the second round. Yeah. Is that what it was?

[Will Compton]

Coop would be the guy. Was it Milwaukee?

[Taylor Lewan]

Cooper shaking his head yeah, I don't.

[Bryce Harper]

Remember the guy's name, but. No, not oral.

[Taylor Lewan]

He'll find it. He'll find it.

[Bryce Harper]

No, but I mean, he just, like, he came in and just did his job and everybody's like, who's this guy? And he dominated. But like, that's. That's who the Dodgers are. Yeah, they have all these great players, but also they have guys like that just come in and, yeah, they develop.

[Taylor Lewan]

They draft, develop 100 and they sign.

[Bryce Harper]

Exactly, you know, so, like, I can't. I can't be mad at them for what they do.

[Taylor Lewan]

You. You brought up something. Talking about watching a guy play like, oh, that's a Cardinal. That's a Philly. Have you ever gotten the, The. The title of. Hey, this is a guy that plays like this franchise for me. Yeah, I feel like.

[Bryce Harper]

Like I'm very Philly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Very Philly. What do you think?

[Will Compton]

Philly got the Philly hat on.

[Taylor Lewan]

What makes a Philly guy?

[Will Compton]

He don't know CL Though.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, no, I think just hair on fire, hard nose. Like, passion, passion.

[Taylor Lewan]

Blue collar. Blue collar. Type of embracing the fans when they boo you, but they cheer for you because they love you. Yeah, for sure.

[Will Compton]

How much. How much longer do you have to play?

[Bryce Harper]

I want to play till I'm like 42. If I can, I can. That's like the number I want to get to. I mean, I'll. At the end of this deal, I'll be 39 and I'll have like a couple more months to 20 years.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

So I'd love to get to 20 years. For sure.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotta get the 20 years.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I think when you, when you reflect on your career, is there a moment, a decision you made, a conversation or a situation that happened that you look. That you look back on and wish you would have handled it differently or you felt like I kind of failed in this instance?

[Bryce Harper]

I think for me, growing up, you have to learn from what you do. And so I'm glad everything's gone the way it has, just because I've learned from each situation I've ever put myself in for that kind of stuff, like on the field or in the clubhouse or anything else. So the decision I make in the clubhouse or that I've made prior to being in Philly or infil or whatever has really helped me go this way instead of this way.

[Will Compton]

Gotcha.

[Bryce Harper]

And so the things that I've learned from guys over the years, good and bad, has helped me, you know, with guys around me or giving them talks or anything else, like, it's. I think everything I've done has got me to where I am today, so I love that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I feel great. This is awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

Awesome. One recommendation for people in Nashville to go eat. Where would you put them on?

[Bryce Harper]

Say, if I had that name of that place yesterday, I would say that place.

[Taylor Lewan]

Really?

[Bryce Harper]

Because it's a Mexican spot, and, like, there's not many Mexican spots in. In Nashville.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, fair enough. Best restaurant you've ever been to in your life.

[Bryce Harper]

In my life.

[Taylor Lewan]

In your life.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, my gosh.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're like, man, if you. I. If I could have one meal again, it'd be this meal. What's your zips?

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, my zips. Probably Kakari, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

What is Kakari?

[Bryce Harper]

So it's a Greek place, but they got, like, lamb chops. And in San Francisco, in San Francis, Kakari is very good.

[Taylor Lewan]

And it sucks that we were just in San Francisco. Go. Two days ago.

[Will Compton]

She's been talking about it since.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, Uchi is very good. Sushi.

[Taylor Lewan]

Where's that at?

[Bryce Harper]

So Denver, Colorado. Really Crazy, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Denver.

[Bryce Harper]

Is that wild?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that's wild.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. There is a place. Argentinian steakhouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Banging.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah. Unbelievable.

[Taylor Lewan]

Shout out. Minneapolis. That's crazy.

[Will Compton]

We got to travel the country, dude.

[Bryce Harper]

We.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, we gotta do. We gotta get off our asses when we travel.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we just go and do what.

[Taylor Lewan]

We'Re supposed to do and then go to the hotel.

[Bryce Harper]

Sunday, Monday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Shoot. I don't want to screw this up. I think it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Philly. Whoa. Very good, too. Yeah, there it is. Is that it?

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't think that's Brazilian. No, not Brazilian.

[Taylor Lewan]

Argentina. Yeah. You got to get the zips, man.

[Will Compton]

What parts of the year are usually back.

[Bryce Harper]

Back home right now?

[Will Compton]

For how long?

[Bryce Harper]

November. Till I leave Saturday. November, Saturday.

[Will Compton]

We have to get Up a. To next year or to the end of the year. We'll just have to get the boys back together.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

We need some food.

[Taylor Lewan]

We gotta become we're Philly fans now. We're Philly fans. We're San Francisco fans.

[Bryce Harper]

That's it.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's it.

[Will Compton]

No. Cardinals.

[Taylor Lewan]

Cardinal.

[Bryce Harper]

Cardinals. This place right here, what's it called?

[Taylor Lewan]

Bellshrome. It's called Minneapolis.

[Bryce Harper]

Very good. What's your guys favorite hotel? Like chain. You guys graduate?

[Will Compton]

Graduate. Graduate is fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I like to graduate. Any like college town you go to, they have like the culture of the school there.

[Bryce Harper]

We didn't talk about any college football, man, I'm so sad. We didn't talk any college football or anything. This is. This is.

[Will Compton]

This is a new Willie flavor. But I've been this few four seasons and they do. Hey, thank you.

[Bryce Harper]

Thank you. Hey, Four Seasons Elite, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is it that good?

[Bryce Harper]

What?

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah, bro.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, Four seasons.

[Will Compton]

First one I went to is the one on. On our honeymoon. Where we go. Where we go? Bora Bora Bora Bora.

[Bryce Harper]

Hey, they say the one did. I know this, man. The one in Philly is the number one rated four seasons in the country.

[Will Compton]

In Philly.

[Bryce Harper]

In Philly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Damn.

[Will Compton]

Bro.

[Bryce Harper]

Some Hyatt.

[Taylor Lewan]

See, I gotta. I gotta do that.

[Bryce Harper]

You must have not liked it too much if you don't remember.

[Will Compton]

That's just the cte. But that was.

[Taylor Lewan]

And the funny thing too, bro, he talked about Bora Bora three weeks leading up to it after I've heard about Bora Bora shitload. And this time he's just his brain working.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it just stopped. Yeah, it happens. Lights flicker.

[Taylor Lewan]

Here's the problem with this place, man. That place is too damn far away.

[Bryce Harper]

It's way too far.

[Will Compton]

But it is amazing.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't mind flying.

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, I. I enjoy flying. I enjoy flying with my boys here. And talking about the plane going down every time we fly.

[Bryce Harper]

See, I don't care about crash and burn.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Bryce Harper]

Like, I'm just. It's like, what are you gonna do? Hey, man, it's been fun.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I just think about like if you're up. If you're up like 35, 000ft and it starts to not go well, how do we handle that? Last 90 seconds.

[Bryce Harper]

Are you grabbing stern wheel?

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, I can get us out of there. I've done 20 hours.

[Bryce Harper]

Really?

[Taylor Lewan]

I've landed a plane.

[Bryce Harper]

Wow.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So grabbing the steering wheel. I'm just trying to get a tweet off.

[Bryce Harper]

Hope they got Starling.

[Taylor Lewan]

You said you Were bumbling. Talk about college football. What?

[Bryce Harper]

No, I just.

[Will Compton]

He's Ohio State boy.

[Bryce Harper]

Oh, nil. I mean, there's so much stuff, like. It's just. It's crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a crazy world. World, huh?

[Bryce Harper]

It's crazy.

[Taylor Lewan]

I know. It's ridiculous.

[Will Compton]

Have you put any money into some Nil?

[Taylor Lewan]

And wait. How are you, Ohio State guy?

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know. Maybe you have. I don't know.

[Will Compton]

Maybe Ohio State.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do you think Jeremiah Smith stayed there last year?

[Bryce Harper]

Yeah, right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Not that much at 4.5. Oh, yeah, no problem. How are you, Ohio State guy?

[Bryce Harper]

My wife went there. She played soccer there.

[Will Compton]

That's a good time.

[Bryce Harper]

Sorry.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, it's an okay tie.

[Will Compton]

So.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hang on, man.

[Bryce Harper]

I'm an honorary member, you know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Be your own man.

[Will Compton]

Have you put toward the nil fund for Ohio State?

[Bryce Harper]

Not for the football team. No.

[Will Compton]

For the baseball team.

[Bryce Harper]

Girls soccer. Girls soccer, women's soccer. Noble.

[Taylor Lewan]

How'd they do this year?

[Bryce Harper]

They made it to the lead eight. Yeah, I think Michigan won it or Final Four, actually.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know that at all. I don't know.

[Bryce Harper]

Florida State actually won it and they're nasty. Really, bro? They got two girls on the team and they are.

[Will Compton]

How's Nebraska legit?

[Bryce Harper]

Probably just big and.

[Will Compton]

Whoa, shots at our girls, man.

[Bryce Harper]

That's not a bad one. They played different soccer, man. The Midwest is different, bro.

[Will Compton]

Probably just hilarious.

[Bryce Harper]

Midwest, dude.

[Will Compton]

It is what it is.

[Taylor Lewan]

No doubt.

[Bryce Harper]

There's a type of soccer that they play, bro.

[Will Compton]

Compared it to like 12.

[Bryce Harper]

I mean, it's just different.

[Will Compton]

I remember when I was in college and there's a soft.

[Taylor Lewan]

There it is. Picture this bunch of big girls right there getting after it.

[Will Compton]

There's a softball player. She just walk around with a can of Copenhagen in her pocket. Swear to God. Put a lip in, we'd be at the cafeteria. I kind of did. These softball players don't around.

[Taylor Lewan]

They don't. Yeah, Michigan softball, dude. They went hard. We had a pitcher that was like three time All American. We were getting some BP with them one time. Terrifying. Still stepped outside the box. You think it hit softball? Hey, you.

[Will Compton]

As he did the.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, you hear the. The argument is like, softball's harder to hit than a baseball.

[Will Compton]

Is it?

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know, guys. Just saying, man.

[Bryce Harper]

I don't know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's. Let's get out of here. What do you say? What do you guys say, huh?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Sweating my low bag.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's get a round applause. Bryce Harper, man, making the time right before he goes to spring ball man. Big hugs. Please subscribe Tiny little itty bitty kisses. See ya.

[Will Compton]

That was awesome.

[Bryce Harper]

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