George Kittle’s Achilles Comeback With The 49ers + March Madness Final Four Predictions | Bussin’

Summary

Bussin’ With The Boys – George Kittle’s Achilles Comeback With The 49ers + March Madness Final Four Predictions | March 17, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of Bussin’ With The Boys features NFL star George Kittle, who joins hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan for a deep-dive into his Achilles injury recovery, the 49ers' player culture, NFL off-field life, and candid bracket predictions for March Madness. Alongside signature locker room banter, the Boys field audience questions, swap stories from youth through pro football, geek out on Pokémon and collectibles, and get a uniquely open, upbeat look at both football and real life with one of the NFL's most charismatic tight ends.

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Key Topics & Highlights

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1. March Madness Vibes & Bracket Banter

Time: 03:34 – 21:00, 65:05 – 66:21, 161:31 – 166:14, 174:33 – 176:06

• Tourny Energy:
  • Will and Taylor hype up March Madness, review Michigan's 1-seed, make lighthearted picks, and dig into upsets.
  • Taylor: “This is March, boys!” (04:26)

• Bracketology & Final Four Picks:
  • Will leans Michigan and Purdue, Taylor likes Duke, Arizona, Michigan, Nebraska.
  • George calls Duke, Arizona, North Carolina, Illinois (later subs in Purdue/Virginia based on region). • Memorable analysis: “If you’re good at basketball and you shoot it in the hoop consistently, you got a shot to win it.” – Will (19:17) • The group laughs about trends, “chip on shoulder” teams, and West Coast March Madness futility. • Audiences are invited to follow alongside their brackets and playful bets.

• Audience Bracket Question:
  • Kittle: “If four Big Ten teams could make it to the Final Four, I would love that. I love Big Ten dominance in these situations." (162:16)

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2. The Bussin’ Format & Community: 'Year of the Audience'

Time: 04:28 – 08:05, throughout

• Greater Audience Involvement:
  • The show introduces new ways for fans to engage: hashtag “~tear talk~”, upcoming guest question submissions, readouts of favorite comments.

• Emphasis:
  • “We know this podcast would be nothing without the people that watch, listen, subscribe, comment…It’s about time [we] start giving back to you.” – Will (06:37)

• Fan Callbacks:
  • Shouts to recent guests like Luke Combs, Patrick Willis, and memorable fan moments (fried bologna sandwiches!). • Running “guess the guest” games for future episodes.

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3. Locker Room Stories, Pro Day Embarrassments, & Phases

Time: 08:05 – 13:50

• Fashion Phases:
  • The Boys share anecdotes about bad pro day outfits, cringe youth fashion (board shorts, Affliction, Ed Hardy), and the relentless locker-room roasts. • Memorable quote: “That’s like looking old NBA, you know, draft day suits type of fits.” – Taylor (08:39) • Hilarious debates on Aeropostale pronunciation.

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4. Coaching, Leadership & The Gridiron Mentality

Time: 25:17 – 31:19

• Coach Wyatt Compton:
  • Taylor describes his brother’s new role as a high school head coach, driving home the grit and “why not us?” mentality. • “You now have to see yourself as a leader in the community…because you can get canned at any moment.” – Taylor (27:13) • The Boys riff motivational speeches: "You're molding men." (30:08)

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5. NFL Free Agency, Titans & Raiders Talk

Time: 36:02 – 48:54

• Titans Uniforms:
  • Roundtable “tear talk” reaction to new Titans jerseys (“clean”, “smooth”, “candy ass”). • Taylor: “They look great…[but] those don’t scream playoff football to me.” (37:46)

• Offseason Moves:
  • Tennessee, Raiders, Vikings quarterback battles, and Detroit’s NFC North chances are lively debated. • “The Titans last year put together a really good draft class, so I have a lot of faith that they're gonna continue to do so this year." – Jack (47:04)

• Raiders & Max Crosby:
  • Breakdown of near trades, salary cap maneuvering. • George weighs in: “I think the biggest question for them is their salary cap…they signed all these guys, and on top of it, they still have Max’s contract.” (48:12)

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6. Pokémon & Collecting Culture

Time: 54:42 – 63:38, 90:06 – 91:41

• Collector Vibes:
  • Will, Taylor, and George compare prized cards, the cards-as-assets trend, and the thrill of “ripping packs.” • George: “I did get to rip a pack of cards on me and Claire’s podcast…10 minutes before [I] had to tell what Pokémon represented our wives the best…and then I ripped a first edition Gengar holographic!” (90:26) • Dissection of nostalgia, the difference between “battle” and “collector” cards, and the market insanity (“A PSA 10 first edition Charizard just sold for $526,000.” – Will, 60:27).

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7. George Kittle’s Achilles Rehab & The Niners’ Player Culture

Time: 109:21 – 113:50, 126:27 – 126:59

• Comeback Timeline:
  • George shares, in a light and positive tone, how his rehab is going (“Great, actually. I’m on and off crutches. I got out of a boot like two weeks ago…rehab's going great. I got one of those nice anti-gravity treadmills at the house.” – George 112:29) • Details on surgical luck: “Tearing your Achilles is terrible…but this is the best case scenario for what you did. How you tore it, where you tore it – couldn’t have been any better.” (116:05) • On injury cause: “I think it was week 20 of an NFL season. My body’s broken down…all the weight was on my right side…” (124:19)

• Niners Facilities & Player Treatment:
  • George describes 49ers org: “We have a fantastic culture…our owner does everything he can to put money back into the team, from lay-down beds to chef to full-time nutritionist.” (103:40) • “Richard Sherman goes, ‘We’re not doing that anymore. Players are laying the lay down beds’…we’ve done it ever since.” (105:54)

• Football Recovery & Wellness Routines:
  • Nerd-level breakdown of all the recovery techniques: acupuncture, red lighting, sauna, chef, etc. • “I used the shotgun approach. I tried everything, then I saw how my body responded…acupuncture four days a week in season.” (102:06)

• EMF/Health Theories:
  • Candid but measured discussion about 5G towers, soft tissue injuries, and the “tinfoil hat” side of NFL injury conspiracies. • “If there’s something that could potentially make you 1% worse, wouldn’t you want to know about it?” – George (99:31)

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8. Kittle Family, Locker Room Tales, & Podcast Stories

Time: 113:01 – 114:36, 120:04 – 125:29

• Surgery Nerves:
  • Light debate on whether anesthesia mishaps really happen. • “Every time I go under I’m like, what if? What if I’m one of the one in a million guys?” – Will (118:06)

• Football Gods & IR Question:
  • The infamous “Would you take an IR trip for the Super Bowl?” question returns, with George’s wife Claire still (jokingly) holding a grudge against Will and Taylor for “cursing” him. • “My wife hates you, Will.” – George (120:04)

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9. NFL Player Lifestyles & Recovery Philosophies

Time: 100:32 – 104:32, 138:04 – 142:22

• Extreme Routines:
  • Will and George riff on where to “draw the line” with nutrition, red light therapy, PMEF mats, fad gadgets. • “You can get into it as much as you want to…early in my career I tried the shotgun approach and saw how my body responded.” – George (102:06) • On Trent Williams: “He sleeps…when he’s in a gym he trains so hard…box jumps…watching him lift is a crazy thing to see.” (140:29)

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10. NFL Insiders: Culture, Free Agency, Player Moves

Time: 103:38 – 106:16, 129:04 – 130:47

• Mike Evans & Free Agency:
  • George recalls text chain with Mike Evans about why to join Niners. • “One of the biggest things I said is…the Niners org puts so much money back into the players and how they take care of us…” • On tampering: “Can players tamper? I don’t think so either.”

• On Dre Greenlaw’s Return:
  • “I was a huge fan…he’s fantastic, makes everyone better, Dre makes Fred [Warner] even better…the Bash Brothers.” (129:38)

• Brian Daboll, Robert Saleh & Titans Outlook:
  • George: “Saleh knows how to inspire. Great messaging…put people in good positions…just give him some time, he’s gonna drive the bus in the right direction.” (131:03)

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11. Pop Culture, Video Games, and Movie Talk

Time: 91:32 – 96:13, 107:46 – 108:12, 204:39 – 213:16

• Gaming & Collecting:
  • Favorite game systems, Gengar pulls, emulators for Pokémon, GTAV business empires, Red Dead Redemption Easter eggs.

• Movies & TV Hot Takes:
  • Outing favorite movie snacks (popcorn tricks, frozen cookie dough, missing Raisinets, 111:00) • Deep recommendations (“Rogue Heroes,” “Silo,” “Entourage,” “Back Rabbit,” “Peaky Blinders”)

• Wrestling Fandom:
  • George shares love for WWE, his dream of having a "promo moment" on the mic, and respect for the grind:
  "I just love being a fan of it, and I don't ever want wrestling fans ever not like me because I'm not good enough to be a wrestler." (178:10)

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12. Audience Q&A (Tear Talks, Career Choices, Audible Stories, Life After Football, etc.)

Time: 69:22 – 84:05, 116:06 – 127:08, 135:13 – 147:40

• Best Audible Calls:
  • “Prison,” “Folsom,” and “Boucher” (Bobby Boucher having a “stutter”). • Inside football hand signal and code-word breakdowns.

• Career Alternatives:
  • The Boys imagine being pilots, zookeepers, fishing guides, construction workers, teachers, marine biologists. • George: "I’d probably want to be a vet. Just work with animals." (79:53)

• Illegal Moves, Fines, and Football Locker Room Fun:
  • On illegal moves: “Who does something illegal on the roster? Not me. Not that I'm aware of.” – George (138:13) • On big league fines, Bud Light picking up a $16k bill for a t-shirt, and playful banter.

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13. Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On the 49ers’ Culture:
  “We hit people really hard in the face and we play really well.” - George Kittle (105:28)

• On His Own Recovery:
  “I’m exactly where I want to be. My surgeon, Dr. Ellatrasch, visited my barn...said I was exactly where he wanted me to be.” (114:18)

• On Locker Room Camaraderie:
  “I'm a lifer for the Bus, for the Boys.” – George Kittle (128:52)

• On The Football Grind:
  “You do have to take it serious like that. I'm being dead ass serious.” – Taylor (28:17)

• Tumultuous Path Back:
  “My biggest thing that I thought it was...my body's broken down. My biggest thing that I thought it was...I was compensating really bad.” – George (124:19)

• Childlike Wonder Remains:
  “Back when times were simple. Back when times were actually, I'm replaying Fire Red and Leaf Green...I am ripping that right now.” – George (92:24)

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14. George Kittle: Life Outside Football & Future Dreams

Time: 173:57 – 177:27, 207:03 - 222:52

• Boys’ Road Trip Wish List:
  • The group teases future segments: road-tripping to Applebee’s, Chili’s, or Zips, doing “Official Visits” with Luke Combs, boys-only Vegas pack-ripping sessions.

• George’s Post-NFL Aspirations:
  • “Just experience fall for the first time in my life...I want to go to all, like, prime time games at all the best stadiums.” (173:57)

• Podcast with Claire:
  • Kittle shares the fun (and chaos) of doing a joint podcast with his wife, and guests as wide-ranging as Kevin Garnett, Charles Barkley, and John Party.

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Notable Timestamps

• Kittle’s Achilles Update: 112:29 – 114:18
• ‘Are the 49ers too injured?’ EMF/5G Talk: 99:31 – 109:21
• NFL Uniform Reactions: 36:02 – 43:10
• Audience Questions/Audible Calls: 69:28 – 72:23
• Football Career Alternatives: 77:30 – 82:49
• Pokémon Collecting & Lapras Pull: 54:57 – 63:38, 90:06 – 91:41
• Final Four Picks: 65:00 – 66:21, 174:33 – 176:06
• Kittle’s Favorite Iowa/Nashville Eats: 150:08 – 153:39

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Tone & Language

• Warm, irreverent, open, and authentically “locker room.”
• Camaraderie, friendly roasts, playful self-deprecation, and honest discussion of real-life and pro football highs/lows.

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Outro

George signs off with love for both the Boys and the fans:

“Looking forward for you guys listening to this. It’s a great time with zero direction and some substance.” (234:35)

Big hugs, tiny kisses, and much love from Bussin' With The Boys – an episode that truly delivers the most wholesome and entertaining intersection of sports, pop culture, nostalgia, and friendship.

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Recommended for:
Any football fan, collector, 49ers follower, or anyone who loves authentic athlete conversation and a locker room lens on sports and life.
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Transcript

[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lawan]

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[George Kittle]

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[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lawan]

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[George Kittle]

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[Taylor Lawan]

All right, we're good.

[George Kittle]

Busing with the boys,

[Will Compton]

hanging with the fellas,

[Taylor Lawan]

betting on a game.

[George Kittle]

No woman's gonna tell us what to

[Will Compton]

do and I've been over here

[George Kittle]

just

[Will Compton]

drinking beer and making that noise, baby. I'm hanging with the fellas, busing with the boys, bro.

[Taylor Lawan]

Guys, again, welcome to episode 372. As always, we are presented by the FanDuel Sportsbook. The tournament was here. This is March. This is March, boys.

[Will Compton]

March, Willie.

[Taylor Lawan]

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[Will Compton]

It's time to dance.

[Taylor Lawan]

This is March.

[Will Compton]

This is March.

[Taylor Lawan]

Taylor and I a few episodes ago, we're talking about the year of the audience. Things that we're going to do to incorporate the audience. We've been in the think tank with the boys. One necessary thing that we are doing is we are going to do a much better job of including you guys into our conversations. All the tier ones out there who comment week in and week out who have been following us for how long

[Will Compton]

we've been going, buddy, it's been. It's been longer than my brain can remember.

[Taylor Lawan]

Well, I think we're going on year

[Will Compton]

seven this Is your seven. I think it'll be seven in May. Yeah, seven in May.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's. That's big.

[Will Compton]

Gotta respect that number.

[Taylor Lawan]

Respect this evidence, respect this ev. But for everybody who's been rocking with us for so long, we need to do. We are making it a priority to do a better job of engaging with you guys because you guys have been ride or die with us for going on your seventh. Okay. A few different ways now. We saw the comments. You guys absolutely loving the Luke Combs interview. We're going to get to those in a second. Which episode?

[Will Compton]

That was 371. This is 371.

[Taylor Lawan]

This is 3.

[Will Compton]

So that is the last episode we saw the comments of.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Got you.

[Taylor Lawan]

Go ahead.

[Will Compton]

My fault.

[Taylor Lawan]

For future, when we talk about doing hashtag tear talk, you're gonna have to follow us on our social channels at BUS&WTB when we drop our tear talks. It's usually around every Sunday, Sunday evening, Monday morning, you guys can chime in. All you have to do is use hashtag tear talk. Those tear talk questions, those tear talk comments will be featured at the end of our intro portion before we get into the interview. Now, the interviews. There's been a change with the interviews. You guys will now know who we're going to be interviewing ahead of time instead of the guest. The guest that we've been doing for the last however many years, all the years, long time. So you guys like George Kittle right now, he's going to be joining the boys. We have not interviewed him yet. It is Monday morning, the 16th of March. George is coming this afternoon. That tweet is right now up to gather any comments, questions that you guys might have for our guests. So. So we will ask those questions to our guests. Those are three different options, three different ways for you guys to engage in the comments on YouTube, in the comments on Spotify. I don't know if there's a comment section on Apple Pods. Wherever you're getting your podcast on social media at Bus and wtb, that is where you will find all of that stuff.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Now there, that was first off, Will incredibly well put. The glasses are on. We saw a comment earlier. The minute the glasses come on, that's when you start to get very in depth about this. Now there's a lot of blue collar boys ripping to work right now who are just. All they're hearing right now is, hey, you got some change coming my way. You talking about change on the podcast? I like my podcast the way it is. Listen, we're rounding out, we're getting. We're starting to stare down. Hey, there might be a decade. We might be looking at a decade. It's a far away still in the future, a buster with the boys. We could say for the last 10 years, we've been doing something now that we're hitting year seven. And we know that this podcast will be nothing without the people that watch, listen, subscribe, comment, and do all the things to engage with this podcast. It's about time that Will Compton Taylor, one the boys in the back of the bus and all bus with the boys in its entirety, start giving back to you. And that's going to be a big thing this entire year, hence the phrase year of the audience. Now we're just taking those beautiful comments you guys put on our podcast every single week. And we're displaying for more people who might be a little shy to put their fingers on a keyboard, might be a little shy about putting their thumbs on a smartphone to type in what their thoughts, their ambitions, their words, their comments might be. And we wanted to display that because at the end of the day, boys, we're just a village. And as this bus grows into a pre, we just want you guys to know it takes you guys to help build this up too. All right, we got some nice, fun things. You see more microphones in the back going on here. Jared lost his because the HDMI cord kind of got jingled a little bit. But we got callbacks, and those callbacks have come from the Luke Combs episode.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

If you don't mind, I'd like to read the first one, and it has to do with you. This is at Mutts SA8 Mutza 8. All right. This man says year 10 board shorts for his pro day are killing me. And he's got too many cry laughy faces to count. I love this comment because we spent not just one episode of the intro for the Luke Combs, but the one that I was not a part of with Clay Matthews where you guys talked about your pro day and buddy, the choices you made from stylistically. Yeah, that's like looking old NBA, you know, draft day suits type of fits.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I. We broke that down. When I watched that video, I. I am, like, amazed that that was for whatever reason, I thought that was high fashion.

[Will Compton]

That was high fashion.

[Taylor Lawan]

I thought it was sick.

[Will Compton]

You put the whole black on and you're like, I can see the V. My jawline looks strong. I know my ass always looks great in these types of shorts. Is my favorite shorts.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And you went out there and you got those little arms and you started running.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's. It's one of those vibes. Like, I feel like we all know those. We go through those phases. Like, I had a long hair phase back in middle school. I had, like, Mitch, we busted his balls before about his neon phase. When we looked back and he was fully neon Doubt. I went through a phase of that. Like my rookie year because I saw Alfred Morris and some of the studs operating with all the neon. I feel like that was just a face. I look back on and I'm like, ah, maybe that was hot. Maybe that was hot.

[Will Compton]

If we're being vulnerable right now. If we're being vulnerable about phases right now. Yeah, I went through a Hollister face, pink collared shirt face.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I felt like that I had

[Will Compton]

true religion jeans on for a minute. Yeah, I did. Okay, guys. Yeah. Maybe some of them were bedazzled. And sometimes that's just a face.

[Taylor Lawan]

Remember the what, what was the phase? The UFC shirts? I remember I got.

[Will Compton]

Oh, Affliction.

[Taylor Lawan]

Affliction, Affliction.

[Will Compton]

I went through that phase too.

[Taylor Lawan]

I went through that phase going into Buckle. I got my first Paige Jackson affliction shirt.

[Will Compton]

Ed Hardy, anyone? Ed Hardy. Yeah, they were all. Ed Hardy was way more expensive.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But I remember going to these, like, stores and be like, $100 a T shirt. My mom be like, you can get one and let it work. Let it cook for you for a month. She didn't say it that cool, but, you know.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I got it done. I was heavy in the aeropostel and Hollister in the

[George Kittle]

aeropostale.

[Will Compton]

Aeropostle, I believe it was. Oh, you okay?

[Taylor Lawan]

Wait, wait. Is that not glasses?

[Will Compton]

Come on. The pronunciation gets crazy. I think it's aeropostal.

[Taylor Lawan]

Aeropostale.

[Will Compton]

Is it? I know there's a T in there, but I think the T. Silent apostle, I believe. Look it up, look up, look up. The phonetic spelling of aeropostal. I think it's aeropostal. While you're breaking down the aeropostale. Aeropostale situation. I want to just be one more hand up Britney Spears. Oops, I did it again. I'm 8 years old. I remember getting that CD, putting it in their little system we had playing it and dancing to it. And I specifically remember Dave Lewan looking at Kelly Reilly and going, it's a phase, right? It's a face.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, but it was, I think. But that song still, that was everybody in that phase song still. It's not one. Like, if you say the Britney Spear cd. Everybody's kind of like, yeah, I was rocking with the. With that too. Not one where you start like, this

[Will Compton]

is with the shorts.

[Taylor Lawan]

When I see the shorts and we all kind of laugh and I'm like, oh, I guess I missed on that one.

[Will Compton]

See, I think back then it's like, yeah, it's tough to look at now. You're looking like a T. Rex from Jurassic park running the 40. But, like, the form was great. The hand. The hardest thing I had was with the hand whisk, like, you're like claw. It looked like you're trying to swim through that air.

[Taylor Lawan]

I could get out, though.

[Will Compton]

Allegedly. That's still.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's not.

[Will Compton]

That's still allegedly.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's not alleged good vibes. It's not allegedly like, that's. It's fact.

[Will Compton]

I need one scout to come out and say, I we clocked him at a 4, 5, 6.

[Taylor Lawan]

They clocked so many 40s, I'm sure they don't even remember.

[Will Compton]

You gonna remember a short white boy running a 4, 5, 6?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Like, I can hit up my teammates from that day.

[Will Compton]

I want sue to admit it.

[Taylor Lawan]

I knew sue wasn't there.

[Will Compton]

Team stalled, Stole aeropostal. So you were right. Team stall. You were right.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hostel. The glasses.

[Will Compton]

Come on.

[Taylor Lawan]

The glasses.

[Will Compton]

Come on. Clark Kent, he's in the building right now.

[Taylor Lawan]

This is just a simple. Because again, Nicholas Lopez, 6814, he's the one who said, willie C. Puts on the glasses and now explains stuff deeply now. And now explain stuff deeply. Unnecessary amount. Lol.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he. He spells.

[Taylor Lawan]

He doesn't have glasses.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he doesn't have glasses. I think that might be one of my burner accounts that wrote that. That's tough.

[Taylor Lawan]

The macro and the micro.

[Will Compton]

But yes, do your breakdown of Max Crosby and the situation, because at the time we were filming this intro last week, it was Max Crosby going to the Ravens. And now what's leadership going to look like?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, it was kind of like Max versus the Raiders. Yeah, now Max is back.

[Will Compton]

Now Max is like, yeah, fuck it. I'm not leaving.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, now he's all in.

[Will Compton]

He's all in.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey, did I not. Can we just. Do you guys feel like I was dialed in the Max situation last week?

[Will Compton]

Like, you. You seem like you knew inside ball.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay. Because people were thinking, oh, it's just business. It is just business. Like, the Ravens didn't do anything illegal. Like, they made a very evil genius play.

[Will Compton]

You want to break that down a little bit?

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, what I mean by that?

[Will Compton]

No, no, I'M I saw the tweet and when I saw the tweet the night that they failed Max Crosby for his physical and you started. Was it Ryan?

[Taylor Lawan]

Ryan Grant.

[Will Compton]

Ryan Grant.

[Taylor Lawan]

Smaller.

[Will Compton]

Pull him out.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Insert somebody like, I saw that, I was like, wow, that'd be diabolical if that actually happened. Then Troy Hendrickson happens literally the next

[Taylor Lawan]

day, the next morning.

[Will Compton]

So Crystal ball Willie is kind of what we're looking at right now.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, because you called.

[Will Compton]

You also called Mike Evans. Mike Evans called Mike Evans. And didn't he call Kyler Murray to the Vikings? I was hopeful.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was hopeful.

[Will Compton]

But hey, hopeful. Called it. Whatever. You said something before it happened, then it happened. Therefore, you're a wizard. Dude. If this was. If this is the 1700s and we lived in Salem, your ass is getting lit on fire.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I was. I was on top of it last week.

[Will Compton]

You were on top of it?

[Taylor Lawan]

What was on top of it last week?

[Will Compton]

What do you have for us this week?

[Taylor Lawan]

I don't really have nothing this week. Nebraska is going to be. Troy clean take. Clean take. Nebraska's taking down Troy first ever win in the March Madness tournament, which did you.

[Will Compton]

I know, I know you saw it. I commented on it. But our team putting that graphic up that Nebraska basketball is 0na all time and NCAA tournaments.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's fine.

[George Kittle]

I saw that.

[Will Compton]

I'm just like, what are we. What are we trying to accomplish here?

[Taylor Lawan]

Just make will 4, 6, 40. Nebraska's lost every game. I didn't mind that graphic. People need to know that we are set to make history this year. We've never been a 4 seed. We know what we start 20 something and oh. Never did that in the Nebraska's history of Nebraska basketball. Nebraska ball. We don't have Tominaga anymore.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he was excited.

[Taylor Lawan]

Y' all have rink mast. Sam Hoiberg. Hoiberg family. That's right. Fred Hoiberg is the coach, right? Yeah. Stud. Yeah, that's. He's a good coach. That's about as deep as my bag goes, but I'm diving in this week. Nebraska fans hate it, but we're four seed, we're in the tournament. We got Troy and we're about to set history this Thursday.

[Will Compton]

Get one. Yep. Get one and get out.

[Taylor Lawan]

Get one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, get out. What do you mean?

[Will Compton]

Right. Make history and then let's.

[Taylor Lawan]

We're a four seed, bro.

[Will Compton]

I know.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, we got a shot.

[Will Compton]

It's really good.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, it's a very uphill battle. Like, Michigan's really good.

[Will Compton]

From what I hear Michigan's a one seed.

[Taylor Lawan]

Duke, what do you know? They're still amazing. Yeah, Blue Devils, they've been amazing forever, Right?

[Will Compton]

Little sacrilege. Maybe change that.

[Taylor Lawan]

I heard about Arizona. Florida just learned. They. They won it last year.

[Will Compton]

Just learn.

[George Kittle]

What do you mean?

[Taylor Lawan]

We were about it last year. We were about it for the first couple rounds. This is what y' all will be.

[George Kittle]

Y' all got Troy in the first round.

[Taylor Lawan]

Then you play the winner of Vandy and McNees. McNeezy, McNe. They were our dark.

[Will Compton]

Hey, that. That was our. We had a massive bonus bet from that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, shout out Vandals. And then say you win those. And then say Florida beats Iowa because Iowa will beat Clemson.

[George Kittle]

So it will be a matchup of

[Taylor Lawan]

the four versus the one. Nebraska versus Florida. And honestly, when it comes to 1 seeds, Nebraska, they just lost. I mean, Florida just lost to Vandy in the SEC tournament.

[George Kittle]

Florida is very good.

[Taylor Lawan]

But when it comes to one seeds, that might be the one seed that you want to see. True.

[Will Compton]

Here's one thing about losing right there. Losing your conference championship when you are a one seed. I think his motivation, that's chip on the shoulders. Hey, we haven't made it yet.

[Taylor Lawan]

They probably don't care. If you already know you're going to be a 1 seed, you're probably not even. Why do you feel that way?

[Will Compton]

What do I feel that way? I just think, you know, teams that are really good and they happen to be 1 seeds and they lose their conference championship, they're probably like. Like Will just said, we don't care. That's actually the motivation we needed. We needed that. Somebody. Somebody told me I fell off. Ooh, I needed that. That's a Drake quote. All right. That's how they felt right there.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a Drake lyric.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's a Drake lyric right there. So I feel like they played that song bang. And now we're in the tournament. Florida's probably feeling that way. Who whatever other teams might have lost their conference championship as well as a one seed. They, I promise, feel that way. I promise they feel that way. By the way, Completely.

[Taylor Lawan]

Purdue's good.

[Will Compton]

Oh, I don't even think it about. Yeah, Purdue's good. The clean take. Purdue's a good ball club. They won the Big Ten championship.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's good at basketball.

[Will Compton]

On a completely separate Note, Michigan's A1 seed.

[Taylor Lawan]

Michigan's A good basketball.

[Will Compton]

That's a good ball club. That's a clean take. Michigan's good at basketball as well.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Also, we're number one in hockey too. Okay. Michigan's having a good little year. Yeah. Sports here, football. Got to pick it up a little bit.

[George Kittle]

Right.

[Will Compton]

We got to pick up J.P. you got the bracket for me?

[George Kittle]

Yes, sir.

[Will Compton]

Hit me with the bracket real quick.

[Taylor Lawan]

So Michigan.

[George Kittle]

And they got it. They'll play the team that's playing in this first four. Easy dub. Probably next round they would play the

[Taylor Lawan]

winner of Georgia versus St. Louis.

[George Kittle]

Then they would have to take on probably Texas Tech.

[Taylor Lawan]

And then let's see.

[George Kittle]

It kind of gets tricky when I'm

[Will Compton]

on my phone and I'm trying to zoom.

[Taylor Lawan]

Sure. I know you're walking off the bus, but when you get back to the computer that we're rocking on the episode, can you pull up the bracket? Michigan has. As the 1 seed.

[George Kittle]

Michigan has the best path to the

[Taylor Lawan]

final four because at the bottom of

[George Kittle]

their bracket is Iowa State, Kentucky and Virginia, which I've.

[Taylor Lawan]

I've saw a couple things. Kentucky could be. They have a tough first round matchup.

[George Kittle]

They do.

[Taylor Lawan]

They could be one of those Santa Clara. I hear Santa Clara. They. They hustle kind of Nice. A 7 to 10 matchup is always a fun one. But yeah, man, I mean, if you're. Again, if you're the one seed, this

[George Kittle]

is the, this part of the bracket you want to be.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's. That's everything I was seeing on Michigan Twitter last night is like, if you're going to be a 1 seed, you want to be in the bracket that Michigan's in. The quotes at the bottom are now we just don't got to fuck it up. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Texas Tech, Honestly, as the 5 seed,

[George Kittle]

they might be the sleeper team.

[Will Compton]

And Texas Tech having a couple.

[Taylor Lawan]

This is the whole game, dude. If you have size and you can shoot and you have shooters size shooters, you get boards and buckets. That equates to a W. Can I add.

[Will Compton]

Can I add one thing to that? Can. I want to think that. Great passing as well. Right. Fundamental.

[Taylor Lawan]

Don't turn the ball over.

[Will Compton]

Day a boom. Which is kind of the couple of Michigan games I've watched. The one against Nebraska, we had like 11 turnovers. If you're good at basketball and you shoot it in the hoop consistently, you got a shot to win it. You guys, do we have a couple more callbacks? You want to hit these boys real quick. Give them their. Give them their flowers.

[Taylor Lawan]

Fried bologna sandwich. This one comes from Yukon. Corneli 73 fried bologna sandwich. What an all time.

[Will Compton]

We do the Bud Light question. We do the Bud Light question every single interview. What would you do anything for this man looked us dead in our eyes and he said, fried bologna sandwich much? That's how you know Luke Combs is the man.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's a clean take.

[Will Compton]

I've had multiple texts this week being like, hey, Luke Combs, he is genuine. As he comes off, I'm like, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

If you look at. Dude, everybody loved the interview. A plus interview. All time interviews. One of the best interviews. This is also Mount Busmore. Who was the one before that? Patrick Willis. People raving about that.

[Will Compton]

People were a little bit of a heater of great guests.

[Taylor Lawan]

I know. That's why we gotta have George. Hopefully George comes through, man.

[Will Compton]

Okay, Whoa.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was just saying people are out there. They're, they're seeing like, hey, you guys got momentum. You gotta build.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. But I just saw fear and take over your body. Tell them. Yeah, you said he's 100. The tweets already out. He's coming at 3 o' clock today. Do you want to say why you're a little bit nervous? There's a hiccup today.

[Taylor Lawan]

There was a hiccup. We had a guest flying in. Yeah, not a hiccup. A code red.

[Will Compton]

It was a code red.

[Taylor Lawan]

It was a code red. Flight got canceled. So that interview got canceled day. We were kind of sputtering a little bit. But fortunately George Kittle's here in Nashville is coming through. But we lost a guest. We won't give too much away. Tight end. Milk check is all we can.

[Will Compton]

Can I say one more?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

National champion.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay. Yeah, national champions. Those are hints. If you can put it together, you'll know who the guest is in the future. Now we have to.

[Will Compton]

There's no way. There's no way they can put that together. We were way too big. Guess the guess.

[Taylor Lawan]

Guess the guess the guess. There you go.

[Will Compton]

His or maybe her flight got canceled. We're not going to say the airline, but there's been some tough. There's been some tough flights lately. Bit of tough flights. My poor family had to go through

[Taylor Lawan]

one where out of.

[Will Compton]

I think it was Florida.

[Taylor Lawan]

Well, that. This guy.

[Will Compton]

His flight.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, his flight.

[Will Compton]

His flight was from Florida to here.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, really specific.

[Will Compton]

And then he was flying to the Midwest. Flying to the Midwest after that. Got it later that day, actually.

[Taylor Lawan]

So he's down. He's down. The clown, though, he wants to come.

[Will Compton]

He wants to come up. Fun fact about this guest. Should I tell the story about when I saw him at the super bowl and he's like, when I was at this place, I was.

[Taylor Lawan]

No, no, don't do that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

[Taylor Lawan]

You might give it away.

[Will Compton]

You're right. Not gonna do that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Because that'll be fun to break down when he's on the bus.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And he's a. He's a boy. So don't show him on the board.

[Taylor Lawan]

Don't show him on the board. Don't do.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, don't show him on the board.

[George Kittle]

Okay, kind of back to the fried bologna sandwich.

[Taylor Lawan]

Are you a fried bologna sandwich fan, Will? I've only had a few, if I'll be honest. And it was back in the day. I haven't had a fried bologna sandwich years, maybe. Maybe at least a decade, I think. In honor of Luke Combs, I have not had this fried bologna sandwich yet, but there's a place in East Nashville called Turkey and the Wolf, and they

[George Kittle]

have a phenomenal burger. But apparently their fried bologna sandwich is,

[Taylor Lawan]

like, top in the country. In the country country. So in honor of Luke Combs, we might have to. We might have to go there.

[Will Compton]

Well, if we're gonna do fried bologna sandwiches, turkey, the Wolf's great. And it's a super good hangout outside. Used to be, like, a dog park they basically made into, like, a food truck. Hang out outside. But Robert's Western World on Broadway, for the real locals, that is the best deal you can find on Broadway. It's a beer, it's a fried baloney sandwich, and a bag of chips for $7.99, I believe. And it is like, you talk to people about fry baloney sandwiches, they're going to bring up Robert's Western World. It is real, authentic Nashville cuisine, and you can't beat the price. So maybe we can do a little a tour of fried bologna sandwiches, decide

[Taylor Lawan]

who's best with Luke Combs.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And I don't believe I've ever had a fly fried baloney sandwich before in my life.

[George Kittle]

What?

[Will Compton]

I've had bologna for sure.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, no.

[Will Compton]

Comes in a little case with a little plastic at the yellow. I've had that as a kid. I don't think it was ever fried. But I want. I just. I feel like we're all being vulnerable with our different styles. Aeropostale. You know, I just wanted to come clean to my boys.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, that's crazy. Oh, well.

[Will Compton]

Well, don't make me insecure. Will. Will, come on, man.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm just joshing.

[Will Compton]

Are you? We'll do fried bologna sandwiches, ma'. Am. All right, this last one comes from Kyle B. Pike. Boys, the official visits for Luke Home has to be A thing made me laugh out loud for five minutes. Please make this happen with the receiver gloves posing. Lol. Lol. So good, dude. If we get Luke Combs to travel, travel with us sometime in the spring or fall and get him a full wide like, like a number five, some sort of wide receiver number, the back plate on dark visor sleeves, the whole thing, half impose. It'd be incredible.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. If we could get all the guests that we wanted to do some of these idea.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Ideas with like we'd be headed to the moon. Because I. I love the idea of the official visit. He seems on board.

[Will Compton]

We're on board.

[Taylor Lawan]

But we all know that the timing and everybody's schedules and. Why are you killing the fun? I'm trying not to because I. I was so excited.

[Will Compton]

Clean take. It'll be hard.

[Taylor Lawan]

I get so excited thinking about it and then I just bring myself back down to reality. Like, are we going to be able to make that happen? Probably not. But I mean, it's a fun idea. Yeah. But clean take by Taylor that like getting cool guests in our content could be kind of nice. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Cool. Yes. That's. Hey, Shroom, way to put a bow on that clean take. That was a Kevin's Natural foods clean take right there. Yes, that was absolutely beautiful. Weekends, boys. How'd we do? How was the weekend?

[Taylor Lawan]

My brother, Shout out, the head coach of North County High School, he came to visit.

[Will Compton]

Did he give you a little scouting report on the boys?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, we were working through some stuff. I was, I was probing. I was seeing what he's got going on. How is it. Because this is his first job. This is first head coaching job. Like, he is the head coach of our alma mater, high school. Like, he's hit it, he's on it.

[Will Compton]

He's.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's the head man.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like I was telling Charlie before he pulled up, he showed up around 10pm he got. They left after school. They drove up late at about 10pm I told Charl. I'm like, hey, we're like watching a show and she's laying on the couch. I'm like, hey, stand up. Like, we have the. The head coach of North County. He's coming in our house. This isn't just little bro Wyatt anymore.

[Will Compton]

No, no, no.

[Taylor Lawan]

This is royal.

[Will Compton]

This is an authoritative figure walking in. You say, yes, coach.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just calling him coach. We were driving to Bare Bones Butcher Shout out. Bare Bones Butcher. No free shoutouts. But I'm like, I'm sitting there driving with Wyatt and knowing the answer. I'M like, north K's never won a state title, have we? He's like, no. I was like, you gonna be the first, like, just starting the conversations, like, where's your mental. Yeah, like this. You got an opportunity, and not only to bring a state title first ever to North County High School. Like, do you understand that? That pressure, that expectation, that burden? And if you don't, because everybody's so lax and okay with quarterfinals or semis a couple times throughout our history, it's like, if you're good with that, like, you ain't gonna win.

[Will Compton]

You ain't gonna win. Yeah. I want to know the first words that come out of his mouth. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I mean, it'd be awesome.

[Will Compton]

Oh.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, no. It was something like that. And I'm like, you have to put yourself in a state of this must happen or I fail. Like, you can't just pretend that.

[George Kittle]

All right,

[Taylor Lawan]

Wyatt Compton is now the head coach of North County. And this is going to be the wave you ride for the rest of your life. If you don't win and you don't perform and you don't stack W's like, you can get canned at any moment.

[Will Compton]

Any moment.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, I'm telling them, like, you got to start thinking about, what do you want this team to look like in five years? And I'm also being dead serious when I'm telling this stuff. I'm like, how is the entire community? Because you're not just the head coach of North County High School like you are now. You have. You now have to see yourself as a leader in the community. Like, how do you want the system as far as youth and middle school and high school to be on the same page? Because this is the crop that's down in peewee and middle school right now that you are one day going to be coaching. Like, you got to start developing. You got to start thinking developmental wise, how do you want these kids to be? Because you can't just sit back like, all my players aren't good enough. Or, you know, we had good size, but we couldn't develop their speed or their hand. Like, all these things with their length. And you just chalk it up to, we just don't have a good enough team to compete with Festus. We don't have a good enough team to compete with Hillsborough, Farmington people in the county.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

You know what I mean?

[Will Compton]

No, I'm 100.

[Taylor Lawan]

You do have to take it serious like that. I'm being dead ass serious.

[Will Compton]

If people are laughing, they don't understand leadership.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because you're absolutely right. Like Bonter, Missouri. Are we just going to be complacent or we want to chase greatness? Yeah, that's what we want.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So you need to go in there, start talking to peewee kids.

[George Kittle]

You.

[Will Compton]

You can't. This shouldn't be a good night's rest for the next five to six years. Like, you need to grind, make sure these boys develop and show. I don't. What was the record last year? Do you have any idea? Let's just say it wasn't good enough.

[Taylor Lawan]

Wasn't good enough.

[Will Compton]

Wasn't good enough. If we show some promise now, there's a couple middle school kids that might be in seventh and eighth grade. The dads go, hey, you might want to play for this Wyatt character. This guy, He's a young cat. He's a young cat. Coming up, you know, his brother's Will Compton. He played in the league for 10 years. He might know one or two things, but you got to take steps. Also, I need to see a lot of photos of him picking up recycling on the side of the highway. Gotta have it. Gotta get good publicity for a boy.

[Taylor Lawan]

Wyatt got a community building.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. The whole team. The whole team. Matching uniforms. Like, you look at the college when people put on the blue collar shirts. It's like high school. I want it. I need it. I gotta have it. I need these kids outside of their local grocery stores selling those cards that are supposed to give you coupon deals, but who knows what really kind of coupon deals you get, but you're just raising money for your high school. Am I right?

[Taylor Lawan]

I love the coupon.

[Will Compton]

Do you remember that? And there was always, like, a prize. And I need the best pro. I need that prize to be something that even the kids that, like, aren't fully invested, that are, like, the cool kids, the parents are making them do it. I want them to be like, we got to win that prize. Yeah, that's what we need. What kind of motivation are we going to instill in these boys that not only help them for the next four years and possibly chase greatness, but when they come back 20 years later and Wyatt Compton's got a little gray on his cheeks and they say, you changed me forever.

[Taylor Lawan]

You are molding. You are molding men.

[Will Compton]

You're molding men.

[George Kittle]

And his name is no longer Wyatt Compton.

[Taylor Lawan]

It is Coach. Coach.

[Will Compton]

Coach.

[Taylor Lawan]

Coach Compton.

[Will Compton]

Coach.

[George Kittle]

He goes, It's. What's up, Coach?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And you finish. You finish every statement with yes or no, sir.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Because my question is, why not Win it this year, right? Like, why not?

[Will Compton]

Right?

[Taylor Lawan]

Why not at least think that way to where you're so psychotic about it?

[Will Compton]

Like, I hope.

[Taylor Lawan]

I hope you're harder on the kids because you got trust, you got relationships when you're a young minded coach, like, yeah, you can call plays, but dude, everybody can call plays. It ain't about calling plays. It's about building culture.

[Will Compton]

Right?

[Taylor Lawan]

So we, we had some good combos.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. You need Wyatt to go in there with the Coach Carter mentality. I did make all the boys sign a contract. And it's like, you follow this contract, you'll be successful.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

And I'm like, who you listening to? What are you reading? You know, what are you reading? Like, listen to Coach Saban. It's about coaching coaches. It's not just about coaching players, man.

[George Kittle]

You.

[Taylor Lawan]

Where you hit the. Where you turn down the music and you're like, you know, he might laugh at a couple things I'm saying. And I'm like, yeah, I'm being. Were you wearing your glasses? Because you know what, you know what Farmington is saying? He only got this job because his brother.

[Will Compton]

Oh, God, are they saying that?

[Taylor Lawan]

And it's. And this is the season that you put it to rest that you make Von Tier forget that there was ever a Will Compton. You remind them that it's only Wyatt Compton. Him. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Damn. I can't believe.

[Taylor Lawan]

Go be great, bro. Do we have to go to a game? Yeah, I'd love to go to a game. Fall tour, week one. Yeah, fall tour. Get them on the schedule.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Lsu, Ole Miss. The next week we're going to North County. Farmington. We should.

[Will Compton]

That's the competition right there.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's Farmington.

[Will Compton]

God.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's the rival school.

[Will Compton]

That's the rival school for sure now. I'm not gonna. And they're wearing all black.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Those are the villains of this story.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I mean, I bet you there's some good kids in there, but. There's. There's probably a couple good boys in there. But I'll tell you what, man, I need varsity jacket. I need guys bumping chess in the middle of wherever the hangout spot is between these two towns.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And I need Wyatt Compton to somehow just be there and break it up. Hey, you want to prove something to them, you prove it on the field. Come with me. He drives them home and gives him good talking to.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And some old, like, beat up Trans Am type of car, you know.

[Taylor Lawan]

Whitewash jeans.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. White wash jeans.

[Taylor Lawan]

Overall, it's A good weekend, though.

[Will Compton]

A good weekend.

[Taylor Lawan]

Good weekend. The in laws were in town. We hit the pool on Saturday. We hit. Oh, what's the flower garden farm we went to and picked flowers. Just strong weekend. A very good one. Now I have to go to that this weekend. Is a Farmer Sean. No free shout outs to farmer Sean. But we're going this weekend now because

[Will Compton]

I guess y' all posted that or something.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah. So thank you.

[Will Compton]

What's farmer Sean at Underscore?

[Taylor Lawan]

Will Compton. He's, he's, he's. Honestly, he's a good follow on Instagram.

[Will Compton]

Is he?

[Taylor Lawan]

He posts some funny stuff. Like when the ice storm hit, he's doing. He posts like a selfie and he's like writing like dearly beloved, talking to his wife, talking about how he has to stay back, tend to the flowers. Then he talks about offering up a rose to the storm so it kind of calms down because I guess the storms are probably, I would assume, very bad for flowers. But he's a fun follow on.

[Will Compton]

If I had to guess ice storms are bad for flowers.

[Taylor Lawan]

He does. It's not that one. Let me just go, just go to my recent Instagram post. I tag him, I tag him on the flower pictures and because then he commented and said like, great meeting you, something, something. I gotta go buy a hat now on at Girl Dead Co. And I'm thinking to myself, bro, you just got to go to bwtv.com that's for somebody else. That's a different company.

[Will Compton]

Different company. Can't have that while you're pulling it. Do you have it?

[Taylor Lawan]

So that one right there, the most recent one and you tagged them in? Yep. Keep going to the right, keep going to the right.

[Will Compton]

Slide over.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, slide. Time out. Sa right there on the comment. SE Daugherty and Sons.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Shout out him.

[Taylor Lawan]

It was his birthday yesterday. Happy birthday for fox farmer Sean.

[Will Compton]

Happy birthday, farmer Sean.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's got some good posts, so if you want to go check him out.

[Will Compton]

All right. Might have to go check that out. It is garden season, boys. Like we're getting in the middle of spring right now. I'm looking over, all over. With the ice storms done to my property, it's time to get to work. Time to get these hands dirty a little bit.

[Taylor Lawan]

Time to go harvest moon on that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, time to go harvest moon on my property. Just had one little area, one little patch. It's been a. A bit of a for us last couple years planted. Irrigation wasn't great. A lot of things died. Tree wasn't doing well, we just mowed the whole thing down. That's all dirt now. About to get some mulching in a little bit. And I'm just telling you boys, three years ago I sat on this bus, said, three to five years, I'm gonna have the best garden in Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, we remember now.

[Will Compton]

I look at what I see, We've made progress, and that's great, but we're not where we need to be just yet. This year's a big year for the guard in the lawn. The lawn household. Compton estate is what they actually call it, the Compton Estate.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's facts.

[Will Compton]

That is actually. That is fact. I'm waiting for the day that will comes up with a deed and is like, by the way, this is mine. I got shit.

[Taylor Lawan]

Do you have mineral rights? I have no clue if I have anything.

[Will Compton]

Don't look into it. All I say that we should.

[Taylor Lawan]

Don't even. Don't even. He's got a Compton graveyard out there.

[Will Compton]

There's a book that's literally this thick. It talks about the Compton family. Like one of the original settlers of Nashville, Tennessee. Compton's Vanderbilt. I'm being so serious. The cabin on that property, him, his wife and the 11 children lived in that cabin. Gotta get mineral and his last name, Henry Compton first. That's his full name, but his last name was Compton. So. Still a clean take. Still a clean day.

[Taylor Lawan]

Clean day. Natural foods. Yeah, yeah, we love them.

[Will Compton]

Your boy Sean. Sean the farmer. He was talking.

[Taylor Lawan]

I do. I love.

[Will Compton]

Oh, anyway, dude. Anyway, bro. Farmer Sean talking about the merch. Titans came out, new uniforms. We got some Titans merch ourselves. Same colors. Right. BWTB.com is where people can go pick it up. Right at this very moment. You can go to bwtb.com, pick up the Titans merch. I want one word. Just like our original tear talks from all the boys. I want to go around in a circle real quick and just ask, how do we feel about the Titans uniforms? Mitchie, we'll start with you.

[Taylor Lawan]

History. Hyphenated candy ass. What?

[George Kittle]

What?

[Taylor Lawan]

Hold on.

[Will Compton]

Let them.

[Taylor Lawan]

Let them all go.

[Will Compton]

We'll break it all down. You're right, you're right, you're right.

[Taylor Lawan]

Clean take.

[Will Compton]

Happy. That's good to hear.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hyphenated. Six string. I wanted to say clean, too. Clean. Smooth. Awesome.

[Will Compton]

Elite. Now, we all pretty much feel the same way, but there was a crazy comment by Jeremy Clump.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, explain the candy ass.

[Will Compton]

By the way, for those you don't know if you're tuning for the first time. This is the biggest troll in the office. Go like, what was your.

[Taylor Lawan]

I want to preface this by saying

[Will Compton]

I think another podcast sometimes calls jerseys candy ass. So I don't want to be copying anyone, but.

[Taylor Lawan]

So you're copying. I might be copying the.

[Will Compton]

I think the Titans uniforms are great.

[Taylor Lawan]

They look great. Great rebrand. The problem is those don't scream playoff football to me. Those scream. You got those in the playoffs in the cold. Those guys, they're gonna look cold in those uniforms. They're gonna get their ass beating, those ones. That's. That's my take on the Titans new uniforms. Jesus club. What are we talking about?

[Will Compton]

Just like. It just feels like he's talking to talk. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right there. That wasn't even a take. It's just like they're gonna look cold in those uniforms.

[George Kittle]

Come.

[Will Compton]

That's. That's a 65 year old guy. That's an old man in a reclining chair and a carpet. A shag carpeted room with a couple beers in his hand. Be like, look at them out there. They look cold. They look cold as hell out there. What the hell?

[George Kittle]

What?

[Will Compton]

Baby blue. Speaking of teams that got their ass beat, we forgot to talk about how clumps flag team got their shit. Okay, So I don't know if we want to make sure we're going over that.

[Taylor Lawan]

What.

[Will Compton]

What do Yalls jerseys look like?

[Taylor Lawan]

Clump is the.

[Will Compton]

Hang on.

[George Kittle]

Timeout.

[Taylor Lawan]

Time out. Clump is the head coach of this flag football team. What's the age group? What's the age range? Five to seven. And you guys got your pushed in over the weekend.

[Will Compton]

What was the score like? 12 0.

[Taylor Lawan]

12 nothing.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, 12 nothing. Just because you say it different doesn't change the score.

[Taylor Lawan]

We did get shut out. 12 nothing. But you know what? The kids had fun. That's all that matters, man. Having fun. I'm helping him out. Jj, My son, first flag football game, he pulled four flags on defense. Really proud of him. None of them were the actual ball carrier. He was just running after the quarterback and ripping the flag after he handed the ball off and was very proud that he did pull a flag. So shout out to JJ.

[Will Compton]

Shout out, JJ.

[George Kittle]

Man.

[Will Compton]

But hold on.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey, he. He did have one temper tantrum as well. He had a 12 yard run made someone miss. I saw a flat. I'm like, oh, JJ, what were. What were his stats on offense? One carry, 12 yards. One carry, 12 yards.

[Will Compton]

Same.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Zero tackles, zero tackles, one temper tantrum. One temper tantrum. And then the ref tried to calm him down. He got tackled on his run because they couldn't get his flag.

[Will Compton]

And the ref was trying to calm down.

[Taylor Lawan]

He looked at him and he's like, there's six minutes left.

[George Kittle]

I can't wait till there's zero.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm like, oh, damn it, jj.

[George Kittle]

The ref's dying.

[Will Compton]

That's awesome.

[Taylor Lawan]

Head coach. It was a lot. Zero points.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we.

[Taylor Lawan]

We.

[George Kittle]

We.

[Taylor Lawan]

We did not score.

[Will Compton]

Sherm. Shout out. Sherm.

[Taylor Lawan]

Sherm was in attendance.

[George Kittle]

We're a little undersized compared to some

[Will Compton]

of the other teams.

[Taylor Lawan]

Qb. Okay, so first of all, we're hearing excuses.

[Will Compton]

We just had a full conversation about Wyatt Compton and how he needs to change the game and how he needs to mold these men.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Imagine if we were near Bonter, Missouri, and that's one of the teams. Wyatt's probably trying to get you fired right now. 120 is terrible. What were you gonna say, Sherman?

[Taylor Lawan]

I was just gonna say the Bengals, the 49ers. I mean, these kids are juice to the gills, some of which were taller than me. I stand at a 5758 stature, not to. You're not the Tigers from kicking and screaming. They're. They're a good team, but they are not built like some of these other teams. But they do have some dogs, and they had, like, a nice little 40 yard pass. His QB can sling it. He's got some guys out wide that are fast, tall, can catch. They got some speed out wide. We're not the team we want to be yet.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Now I'm hearing that they have talent. So with talent, like, who's going to develop these kids and put some points on the.

[Will Compton]

It's.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's on the coach, and he is the offensive. I mean, when the offense goes out on the field, the Green Binder and

[Will Compton]

Jeremy Klump are out there as well.

[Taylor Lawan]

I mean, he's right. He is the oc. The Binder that put up the goose egg. What's in there? We might need new

[Will Compton]

clubs with the full Philadelphia Eagles playbook. He's got run down the middle and quick slants, only angle balls.

[Taylor Lawan]

I knew it was over when he was talking last week and talking about, I got a quarterback who can throw the ball. And I'm like, how old are these kids? He's like, like five to six, seven. I'm like, you ain't throwing the football?

[Will Compton]

No. Hey, no.

[Taylor Lawan]

We could throw the football. They can throw the football.

[Will Compton]

Can they catch the football?

[Taylor Lawan]

We can catch the football. He's got some dogs out wide.

[Will Compton]

Can't score, though.

[George Kittle]

There was an issue that I saw. I saw Sherman put up a post,

[Taylor Lawan]

and if this says anything about the culture, and I'm glad we can address this week one, it was a photo of you in the huddle, and unfortunately, you know, everybody's locked in and you coach his son allegations. JJ is all on you, arm around you, and it's like, I think you got to nip that in the butt. And you got ye stick him in front of you. And the next photo needs to be you in his face. Like, will. Will Vane coming out and letting him know, like, this is unacceptable. It's one of the best photos ever. Thank you, Sherm, for that. It's awesome. Jay is, like, just hugging on me as I'm calling the play. But I did. I ripped JJ mid game. He was waving to the crowd. I'm like, jj, lock in. Come to find out, it was actually Sherm yelling to JJ getting him to wave mid game.

[Will Compton]

Well, jj.

[Taylor Lawan]

JJ yelled to me. My bad.

[Will Compton]

JJ did yell.

[Taylor Lawan]

Now you're blaming the five. I. I did. It's fine.

[Will Compton]

I love how we got on a tangent about how cool the Titans uniforms are, and we got to clumps a terrible coach. That is an adorable photo of you guys. Adorable.

[Taylor Lawan]

I do think the Titans unis are awesome. I do trade away everything. That clump was kind of talking about him. I got him as a top five.

[Will Compton]

I. Yeah, I would put them top three. I would put them top three right now. The only thing I would change about the uniforms, I would have a red face mask. That's the one thing I would change. And people would be like, well, it's too oilish. It's like the Oilers uniforms are it to me. I think those are the number ones. We talk about the retro uniforms. Those are the best. These have it, bro. These are that.

[Taylor Lawan]

I wanted those socks.

[Will Compton]

That's a good. Hey, I didn't even think about that. Whatever. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

The what?

[Will Compton]

Not the stirrup. Stirrups. You pull over the heel. But it has, like, the stripes around.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, the horizontal stripes.

[Will Compton]

Those go hard.

[Taylor Lawan]

I thought that would have been sick.

[Will Compton]

The Titans still do have two other jerseys. They have the rival jerseys that will be announced at some point for 2026. And then there's also an alternate jersey that I believe the rumors are that'll be navy. And I think there's enough talk about red face masks that. Who knows? Maybe they're going to throw that in because I'd love to see a red face Mask because the red is an iconic Titans color for us and I would hate to see us completely get away from that. But I'm happy, man. And what makes even more happy is all the sorry ass Houston Texans fans crying. Yeah, crying on Twitter. Acting like that. That's their culture. The Houston Texans, the Houston or excuse me, abandoned their franchise and they came to Tennessee in 1997 and 98 there in Memphis and they go. They are no longer the Oilers. That's not their history. I want all Houston Texans fans listening. Shut the up, okay and and stop crying.

[Taylor Lawan]

Stand on it.

[Will Compton]

They talk about the the University of Houston. We copied their jerseys in 2023. The Titans made the Oilers throwbacks. You know what happened after that? The Houston University school made their Oilers colors afterwards.

[Taylor Lawan]

Jared.

[Will Compton]

I'm over it just for the clip.

[Taylor Lawan]

I did enjoy seeing some back and forth between the Titans fans and yeah,

[Will Compton]

it feels like a tired argument to me. I know the Titans have been sorry as of recently but I do hope to see a good rivalry come out from Houston and Nashville. I know people want to see that. So I'm excited for that game.

[Taylor Lawan]

Get a good ball club on the field this year.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we need it, man. I mean there's been a lot of good moves in free agency for us. I think the coaching's starting to take a turn. We'll see we're at a good place in the year where you can be a Titans fan and it's not ruining your life. So yeah, we'll see how we feel in October. Titan's been on a heater. You said a couple weeks ago, right. We get Salah really excited about salt. It's a great hire. Dable. He becomes the oc. That's exciting. Soon everyone's going bald in Nashville, Tennessee. And you were saying right before this uniform reveal. This is the perfect time for the Titans to go and something up and they even took another step forward. So now everything in the off season they have a couple great additions. Wandell Robinson, massive fan of him. We were talking about him a bunch was with the Giants and Malik Neighbors goes down great fantasy like this kid. I I was a big fan. Dan Orlovsky, he had some different words me personally big fan of Wanda Robinson and that who is the guy we got from Denver. He used to play for the Jets. Big defensive end John Franklin Myers. I think he's a great pair. Now the question remains is what do you do with number four? You go in there and get Jeremiah Love which I know is one of our tear talks today or do you get Reuben Bain Jr. Do you call Carnell Jones, Cardinal Tate, Excuse me, Carnell Tate, the wide receiver. A lot of great people are going to be there at 4. Or do you trade back, get some more draft equity? What are your thoughts, Jack? I. Up until free agency, I was kind of iffy on taking a running back at 4 because I feel like, I mean, Jeremiah is obviously, he could be a generational guy who's going to play, you know, seven, eight really tough years in the league and be a great player. Now that we've filled in a lot of holes in our defense, especially with the edge guys in the line, I think why not take a shot at a really good running back and take him at 4 and I, I, that's where I'm at. But all I know is that the Titans last year put together a really good draft class, so I have a lot of faith that they're gonna continue to do so this year. But it'll be interesting. Draft's gonna be here before we know it. That's gonna be crazy.

[Taylor Lawan]

People also forget we squashed the beef with Big Jeff. I feel like that's huge.

[Will Compton]

Beef's been squashed.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. For, like, vibes going into next season.

[Will Compton]

We need it.

[Taylor Lawan]

That was a fun episode.

[Will Compton]

That was a great episode. A lot of layers of Big Jeff in that episode. That was nice. Yes.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dude. Hey, how much we. We kind of brushed over with Max and the Raiders, but I feel like the Raiders have made a lot of great progress in free agency. Oh, yeah, they send a lot of cats. Last week before all the, the Max Crosby trade stuff fell through, and then when Max, when the Ravens back out of the trade and Max is now officially back with the Raiders during that next 24 hour slot, it was kind of like, well, what's going to happen? Are the Raiders kind of stuck holding the bag? Are they going to have to deal him? Is he still wanting to be traded? And then Max comes out. Everybody's aligned in Page. You now have Max back around with all those. Like, they, they signed who? Nicobe Dean and who's the other linebacker that they signed? The Raiders. They got a couple offensive linemen. Yes, yes. Quay Walker, who's a stud. Now they got Max in front of him again or not again, but now they got Max in front of him. I feel like the Raiders made a lot of great progress last week in free agency.

[George Kittle]

I think the biggest question for them is their salary cap because they, they got, they signed all of these guys thinking they were offloading Max's contract. Right now, they signed all these guys, and on top of it, they still have Max's contract. So I'm not sure. I think the biggest question for them is that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's Mark Davis just getting creative. Him and his. His department. His finance department is being like, hey, we'll just. Yeah, restructure Max. Let's give him it into a. A signing bonus. Okay. He's gonna make 3 million bucks this year, and now you have all. Now you have more room to make

[Taylor Lawan]

free it all up. Because a lot of it, too, is Max's frustration. Him, like, wanting the trade. Now that they're all aligned, it's like Raiders kind of.

[Will Compton]

Kind of nice.

[Taylor Lawan]

Kind of came up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Kubiak, too, I think. I just think it's gonna be great for their offense.

[Taylor Lawan]

Kyler Murray to the Vikings.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you called that last week. I think that's awesome. What does that mean for J.J. mcCarthy or. We have a quarterback battle on our hands.

[Taylor Lawan]

There'll be a quarterback battle, but I think it'll be Kyler Murray.

[Will Compton]

Really?

[Taylor Lawan]

I do. I think so. Dude, Kyler Murray's good.

[Will Compton]

He is.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's like, yo. The memes that people post with Kyler Murray are so funny.

[Will Compton]

That is hilarious.

[Taylor Lawan]

I hope he laughs as much as everybody else now that it's. It's just, like, such an ongoing thing with. Yeah. With Kyler Murray being. Being small, his stature.

[Will Compton]

The. If. I mean, if they had better. If I can say a better quarterback play last year, they'd be in a much better. They'd be a playoff team. Crazy. But, yeah, Kyler is a stud.

[Taylor Lawan]

You think it's.

[Will Compton]

No, no, I think it'll be a quarterback battle. You're. How much did Kyler get paid? I guess is my question. Did he. Did they take on.

[Taylor Lawan]

The Cardinals are still paying, like, the majority of his salary. I want to say the Vikings got him on their books for cheap.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they get him on their books for cheap. And you have a. Yeah. You've gotten this first contract with Kyler Murray. That's as clean of a competition as you possibly ask for with a veteran. I think maybe. I think the move would be. If everything's kind of like 50. 50, you go, JJ to start the season knowing that, like, Kyler can come in halfway through if it doesn't. If it keeps not going that way. Because the minute you bench jj, he's now been put into the. The Sam Darnold, the Daniel Jones, the. Putting up a bus parentheses around him, and he's got to go somewhere else. Improve it the way those other two guys did. But if you go JJ first, similar to 2019, Marcus Mariota, Ryan Tannehill, you had the guy who's kind of been there for a little bit, okay, let him have the reins, prove that he can't do it. And if that comes in, bring in Kyler. He'll have juice, he'll have the locker room. Everyone knows he can play. That, to me, is the safest move for the Vikings. Now, o', Connell, if he. If things don't go the way they want to go this year, things could get loud. And I don't think it's the correct move, but you know how fan bases are. You know, front offices get. When coaches don't do well for a couple years. That's when things like Mike Vrabel getting fired, The Titans happen. McCarthy happens almost. Matt LaFleur happens this year. So he'll need to make a decision quickly, within that first month of the season.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I just. We've seen it to where the position that's going to happen is. It's going to be a quarterback battle. But if they feel like they got not even lightning in a bottle, because Kyler Murray is damn good. Damn good in the moment. He's showing that, like, they're like. Kyler Murray is going to like he's still relatively young. And you've had guys where you've had Kirk, you've had Daniel Jones. Like, you've had guys come through the building to where now they, you know, they went on with other teams. Obviously, Kirk was there for a few years, but you got a shot to have Kyler for several years. Like the moment Kyler. And they're sitting and he's. He's learning the Kevin o' Connell system and everything else, and he's out there sleeking. As far as talent goes, like, it's not even close. Yeah. As far as KYLER Murray and JJ, I'm not saying JJ McCarthy's not good. I'm just saying Kyler Murray is a stud. Like, right. Where did he. He was high in the draft. He was high in the first round, wasn't he?

[George Kittle]

Number one.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Number one overall, I think. As high as you can get.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, he's as high as you.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's.

[Taylor Lawan]

But even. Even as.

[Will Compton]

As glasses that was in depth.

[Taylor Lawan]

As long as he's. Yeah, yeah. On the micro. As long as he's been in the league, you can. You can start to forget. But Kyler Murray is a baller.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. No, he's.

[Taylor Lawan]

I think him. Him going to the Kevin OConnell School. Like it's. Vikings will be tough.

[Will Compton]

The longest. Call of Duty chills. We're good.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Clean take.

[Taylor Lawan]

I see it as a battle for the public, but it's going to be Kyler Murray.

[Will Compton]

I could. I mean that's definitely. That's a. That's a clean take. That's a clean take. The only issue is like, essentially by doing that, you're now giving up on J.J. mcCarthy who started how many games last year? Six, eight. Some. Something small because he had a couple of injuries take place. He had a couple of games are like, what the fuck are we doing out here? And then if you're like, okay, yeah, I could see why he was, you know, top 15 pick or whatever. So it's kind of been. It's been very hot. Sorry. Very cold and hot at times. It's like a minute you do that, it's like, okay, now let's say Keller Murray gets hurt in October. Now you have a team that is behind a quarterback that essentially lost the front office and probably the locker room as well. So it's more of an insurance policy if everything's the same. Like you have both these guys and you're like, we don't know. The decision we make, I think it falls to J.J. first.

[George Kittle]

First.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. I just. We know how this works. It's a win now.

[Will Compton]

League, no doubt.

[Taylor Lawan]

And Kyler's the better player. They're going to play Kyler.

[Will Compton]

Yep.

[Taylor Lawan]

Now you have Kyler Murray, Jared Goff, Caleb Williams, Jerem Jordan.

[George Kittle]

Love.

[Will Compton]

Jordan Love. But three of the four guys were first overall picks at one point. That's just nuts that that division is NFC North. That's number one. Right. It's gotta be the number one division.

[Taylor Lawan]

You got NFC West.

[Will Compton]

True. Yeah. The super bowl winners.

[Taylor Lawan]

Rams.

[Will Compton]

What's going to happen with the Niners this year, man. But okay, I agree with that. Like Niners, Seattle Rams, great. Cardinals, nothing. Cardinals, muffins. But then you got the Lions, who seems like some weird stuff's going on there. But last few years they've been dominant. Packers, Same thing. Caleb Williams, if he keeps training in the way he's going there, that's a scary ass team right there. And now the Vikings. If Kyler Murray is as good as Will Compton's words and his glasses are saying like those are four teams right there that are contender type teams and have well built teams all around them. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

So it's gonna be fun. Division.

[Will Compton]

Could be the number one division going this year.

[Taylor Lawan]

Niners too. They. Speaking of, they Got Dre Greenlaw back.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Pairing it back with Fred Warner. Big signing.

[Will Compton]

Gotta have that splash. Would have loved to see Fred Warner play in the playoffs this year. Would have loved to see it, dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

And there was stuff going around, too. We can ask George about it, but I want to say he was doing an interview before free agency and everything opened up. He's like, what? Who knows? We might get new friends or we might get old friends back. Oh, in free agency, really? Maybe he kind of knew that.

[Will Compton]

George. George kind of. He's in the weeds with the boys, huh? Him and Lynch.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

They're figuring all the answers, dude. But yes. March Madness, bwtb.com what are we missing? Dude, I see. I see. Streamyard holiday. We rip packs this weekend. We rip some packs.

[Taylor Lawan]

How'd the Pokemon did the.

[Will Compton]

Not great hunt. Not a great hunt. Went out there. Antioch, Tennessee. Nice group of people out there. A lot of bus with the boys. Fans. A lot of Titans fans out there. That was awesome. But not. I was looking for a Quasa Poncho. Pikachu. That's what I was looking for. PSA 10. I'm looking for that. Then I'll have the full entire poncho set. And then I can kind of sit and just chill for the next five, six years.

[Taylor Lawan]

I see you got a Lapras.

[Will Compton]

Got that. Lapras. You see, you see all the things that unfold with a Lapras. Rip that boy out of a Fossil pack base set. I go to look it up and I pull the photo of the Lapras base set. Because if it was a first edition, in the left bottom left hand corner of the picture, it would have a one, which means it's first edition. Those are holy grail type cards. This one doesn't. Looked it up. It says, if it's a PSA 10, this is a $20,000 card. I'm getting juiced up. I put it on the bird. People are like, should we tell them? Should we tell them? Everyone keeps saying that. I'm like, holy, what happened? I look it up. Base set, first edition 10 is $4,000. Still a great pull. But that's not. That's not a 10 card. That's not a tank.

[Taylor Lawan]

What is it? PSA 5.

[Will Compton]

No, it's probably like. It's probably a 9 or an 8. I mean, it's still nice, but like, the. The difference between, like sometimes like a 5, a 5,000, like a PSA 10, $5,000 card. Like, once it goes to 9, it could be like a $1,000 card. It's it's a dramatic chip. Well, give them your glasses.

[Taylor Lawan]

So when he explains. Yeah, because I got a question for you too.

[Will Compton]

Go ahead. When you're breaking down like, like booster packs are great, jungle packs are awesome. But if you're looking for OG 151, the things that you want are the first edition on the side because you get like even non hollow squirtles.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Those will be like 58, 60 bucks. Like those are holding value because they haven't been printed for so long. They're from the 1900s. They're the first edition. So those types of things is what you want. These glasses are killing my eyes. Jesus. What is your question so I can

[Taylor Lawan]

put it back on my question. So you got the card where the grade eight or nine or whatever.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

And it's $4,000 card. If you put that card and paired it with the Energy cards for the Lapras, does that bump the value higher? Like if you come in there and you're like, I don't only got a Lapras. I got the three Energy cards. You need to hit him with the attacks

[Will Compton]

you're talking about. He's talking about playables as opposed to collectibles now. I am not.

[Taylor Lawan]

I you not. I won a badge at a flea market when I was young. I battled back in the day.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you're the man. I, I, I, I, I. When I started to get into. You're a legend, bro. When reaction. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

The boulder bag on the macro.

[Will Compton]

If you're looking at making an investment, the, you know, the elements or the little energies, those don't mean anything. Those are kind of just like you see a kid, you'll hit. Hey, you want a little energy? Oh, I really like the water. Okay, give him that one. The card itself, this the pristine level. How old it is, how sought after it is, how many have been PSA 10, how many been graded, how many are left? Those are all the things that go into the whole supply and demand chain. That card right there, that's a requires of Poncho Pikachu. That's we're hunting hair. Put your glasses back on. Squint for a second. You get that car in a PSA 10. That card is probably. I, I don't know the exact. Because they're all different, but they're probably a ten thousand dollar card. I have.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a big boy.

[Will Compton]

Okay. It's a $25,000 card. That card, that's a big boy. So that pack came from. Those were only printed in Japan and you had to enter a raffle to get those cards. So there's only so many that are printed. There's gonna be a lot of Pokemon people that are like, you're an idiot. This is actually outwit. But these cards right here, there's only so many in the world. And out of those so many, there's only probably 2000 total. 2200 total that are PSA 10. So that value, that car is very hard to get. It was printed in 2016, so it's 10 years old now. That's getting it. Now it's going from a modern set to more of a vintage set. The more things get older, the more they're sought after, the less they're printed. All those things, the basics. So there is a Poncho Pikachu set that's like two different Charizards, a Magikarp, a Gyarados.

[Taylor Lawan]

Gyarados. That's a Gyarados Rips.

[Will Compton]

And then there's a newer one that I. An Umbreon, I think. Then there's this one that is the whole entire set. It might be six or seven different Poncho Pikachu's. I have all of them except for that one. If I can just get that one more. That someone was selling that set for $600,000 the other day. Did you say Charizard? Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

So that whole set, Pikachu's.

[Will Compton]

That's a Charizard. Charizard. That's the. I can't even pronounce it. What's that one? Umbreon. And then these ones are different. I have these two as well. These two are like 40,000 a piece. Those two right there. But I have these. And then there's the Magikarp right there. And then there's one Gyarados that. Oh, sorry, that's the Gyarados.

[Taylor Lawan]

And this is just Pikachu wearing different fits. Like different fits.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. But people are obsessed with them. So you get that. You hold on to them. Vintage will hold better. So you get those and you just sit on them and that's when you see like 2000. I saw a clip the other day. I was like, 2016, you can get like a first edition Charizard for like less than $100,000. First edition. I think one just sold. It might have been a Beckett gold. So it's a little bit different. But it was $526,000. That's how this market goes.

[Taylor Lawan]

Jesus.

[Will Compton]

And there's pops every couple of years.

[Taylor Lawan]

The Pikachu's like, what kind of damage are they? Doing.

[Will Compton]

These are collectibles. These are collectibles.

[Taylor Lawan]

Does any of that matter?

[Will Compton]

You're not winning a badge with these boys. These are. These are your show ponies. Not. These are not your gladiators.

[Taylor Lawan]

Charizard. He gets after it. That's.

[Will Compton]

He gets after it.

[Taylor Lawan]

You do the fire spin. That's 100 damage.

[Will Compton]

What is it? That's a first edition Charizard for sale for a million dollars right now.

[Taylor Lawan]

But is it going to sell for a million dollars?

[Will Compton]

Probably. Maybe. Eventually. Eventually. Yeah. But it's cool, dude. I got that collector app right now. No free shots to collector. Get to see how your shit goes. It's like a stock. It's fun. And then you go rip packs. Dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. At any point, are you going to battle?

[Will Compton]

No. No.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay. I just.

[Will Compton]

Look, maybe, maybe I'll never say never. Justin Bieber coin that phrase. I will maybe. I will maybe battle. But I don't know how that'd be. I'm so new to this. I've been doing this for two weeks and I just happy you know, you

[Taylor Lawan]

have a collector set. But then you got a battle set.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

What is a Pikachu? Do you know what the these Pikachu are doing battle wise?

[Will Compton]

No, I don't think anyone's talking battle at the. No one's talking.

[Taylor Lawan]

I got you. All right.

[Will Compton]

Those are like mascots.

[Taylor Lawan]

Battles. Gay. I got.

[George Kittle]

It'd be such a flex to rip

[Will Compton]

open like a $100,000 card and just be battle. Someone at this place would be so sick. Toss it on the ground, don't even care about. Like it's bend the corners. Yeah, whatever, dude. Like it's baccarat. Yeah, whatever.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm. I'm thinking too, like why. Why is this one worth more than what I have when my cards can whoop yours? You know what I'm saying?

[Will Compton]

It's a great point, that logic. By that logic, yeah. Your cards would be more valuable.

[Taylor Lawan]

You'd be great to negotiate.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Hold on. This guy. This guy's attacks 10. He's not very strong. We didn't think about. There's only 10 of these printed. Yeah, they're 10 weak ass little Pokemon. I should beat yours. Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I see why they stopped printing them.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. But dude, it is. It's a fun little game. I got into like some. Some of the sports card stuff this weekend too. It's awesome. The thing with the sports card is like, I know like tops. And there's a couple others that are like here your basics. But I walked in, there were like cases. $1,000 for one card. And it's from like 2018 rookie season and it's a signed card and you could just get totally. Or hit like a Mahomes or something like that. It's nuts.

[George Kittle]

Foul. Foul. Works for a trading card company and like wants to do something with you guys. It's called Shout Out Wild Card sports cards. They have like, they are. It's like tops and panini and then

[Will Compton]

it's like Wild Card. Got you. Got you. Yeah. I'm. I'm seriously interested in ripping packs. It's so much fun. We did it. I did for what, two hours the other day on live Instagram. We had a good group of boys in there. Had over 205,000 watching. It was fun. Gave away three cards. It's a good time. What are these? What am I staring at here?

[Taylor Lawan]

You give away some potions.

[Will Compton]

We'll do Compton packs, a couple of trainers.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, that is.

[Will Compton]

But yeah, it was fun. I'm excited for George to get on because I know he's like, you can tell George is into the more of the modern. He like, he's been following the modern stuff, so I'm sure he's way deep in the weeds compared to me. I'm like, still vintage.

[Taylor Lawan]

So is Georgia Collector.

[Will Compton]

I'm sure he is. He's got three. He's got 50 Pokemon tattoos all over him. He loves Yu Gi oh too.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And then what's that Yu Gi oh card? That's like the blue, Blue Eyes White Dragon. The blue Eyes White Dragon. Dude, that card is going nuts right now. To fuck. Could you imagine, dude, just going back in time and like looking at your 8 year old self and be like, buddy, keep all of these.

[George Kittle]

I went when I was home for Christmas, I was like, mom, where are my cards? Because like I. I have fouls. Telling me they were blowing up. You saying that they're blowing up?

[Will Compton]

Couldn't find them. God.

[George Kittle]

Pissed.

[Will Compton]

It is. It's a fun hunt, dude. They have like, there's like a collector con, I think in like June here or something like that. It's like the one of the biggest ones in the entire country. There's one in Vegas. Like we should. What's up, sir?

[Taylor Lawan]

The one in May at the fairgrounds.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we should go.

[Taylor Lawan]

That would be sick, dude.

[Will Compton]

It'd be fun. Make a little, little team vlog out of that and just rip packs. Yes, rip packs. And hunt the strongest Pokemon for Will.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Get all the potions.

[Taylor Lawan]

We'll bring our own table. And whoever wants to Battle.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Do you know how to battle?

[Taylor Lawan]

I'd have to. I'd have to get familiar refamiliation.

[Will Compton]

If we could get a battle will Compton table. That would be elite.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah. I'd be down to battle.

[Will Compton]

All right, so we gotta play the Preds at a hockey game. We gotta build this. Yeah, we got a lot of. You're the audience.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, you're the audience. You're the audience.

[Will Compton]

Not a bad problem to have though. Not a bad.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey, this is March.

[Will Compton]

This is March.

[Taylor Lawan]

This is March.

[Will Compton]

We're here.

[Taylor Lawan]

Who do you guys have winning the whole thing?

[Will Compton]

Who do you got?

[Taylor Lawan]

I don't know. Duke. Yeah, I'm gonna be pulling for Nebraska. Absolutely.

[Will Compton]

He seems like the one win. He just wants Troy to go down.

[Taylor Lawan]

No, no, no, no, I. Because we can beat Vandy. Like Florida's gonna be tough, but they are beatable. But I'm saying like who I actually think is probably gonna win. I'm thinking just like. Yeah, those one seeds you got like Florida. It was Arizona, Michigan, Duke.

[Will Compton]

Nice.

[Taylor Lawan]

Just rattled. That was off the top.

[Will Compton]

Nothing to you, huh?

[Taylor Lawan]

Boys in war mode right now it might be on the only four important

[George Kittle]

teams because last year all one seeds

[Taylor Lawan]

made the final four and there was really only one upset and that was

[Will Compton]

McNeese beating Clemson, which we called by the way, as a team.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, everybo like, oh, the jackpot. We needed everybody.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Michigan, they're plus 320 in the FanDuel futures to win it all.

[Taylor Lawan]

See? Yeah. So you guys have an insane.

[Will Compton]

We have a great. Yeah, we have a great shot.

[Taylor Lawan]

Who's got the best shot to win? Is it Duke?

[Will Compton]

I didn't look at that. I went to the Midwest bracket, saw it, we were one. I was like, what's the future on this? And it said plus three, zero. Like that's pretty. That's good. I'll take that. So I put. Put a house on that one. Need. Need Michigan to win it all.

[Taylor Lawan]

I can't wait to just drop so many little bags on first attend. Two and a half. Yeah. What was that? Yeah, responsibly. Always. What's the two and a half bit again?

[Will Compton]

Over two and a half points in the first two minutes of play. Is it first one minute? The first minute. Yeah, it's the first minute. Over two and a half points. You're just praying for a splash. Three.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's the rush.

[Will Compton]

Man, that is so much fun. It starts what this week? Thursday.

[Taylor Lawan]

Thursday.

[Will Compton]

Thursday, boys. Gonna watch it again. Watch the first couple games.

[Taylor Lawan]

We know basketball, we know ball there's one thing.

[Will Compton]

Sometimes you want to ask questions to give people more confidence on answering to you.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. You know, let them. Allow them to teach us.

[Will Compton]

Right, right. What's TSU Possible?

[Taylor Lawan]

So the odds to win the Natty, duke is number one at plus 370. Arizona two plus 330. Watt. So plus 330 is the best.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Arizona 370. Now from Fanduel, Arizona's the favorite, plus 330. Then you got Michigan and Duke plus 370. Florida plus 800. That's a big drop off. So we got the three juggernauts right there. A lot of Arizona, Duke and Michigan. Put them in your final four brackets. A lot of the people were telling me about the. It was you telling me about the Boozer twins last week, right?

[Will Compton]

Clump or Ryan Nolan was.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah. Carlos Boozer's son.

[Will Compton]

Well, both of them.

[Taylor Lawan]

The twins. But the one is like, unbelievable.

[Will Compton]

Top five pick.

[George Kittle]

There's like a sports center featured on him. Like, the only. Like, I don't know if it's the only reason, but they're. They have an older brother, Carmani, I

[Taylor Lawan]

think his name is.

[George Kittle]

He had sickle cell and they had like, the reason they had these two twins, Cameron and Kaden. I think Cameron and Kaden, they had the. The reason, like, the Boozers had the twins was to, like, save Carmani's life and then like, to sit like they did stem cells and everything. And Carmani, like, was cured from sickle cell.

[Taylor Lawan]

Really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Damn. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Their whole family's like a cool story.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I was wrong on the 320. I got Michigan last night. Plus 390 to win.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey. To win the Natty or to win the Natter or to win your region.

[Will Compton]

Win the Natty. And then I put. I got them also. Minus 120 to make the final four. A lot of those stat guys.

[Taylor Lawan]

A lot of those mistakes on social media. They're saying west coast is due. That's all I'm hearing. I am not some kind of expert on this, but a lot of people are saying west coast is due. It's been almost 30 years. A lot of people riding Zona.

[Will Compton]

Good, good. More for us.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

More for me and you.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. A lot of people breaking down that all the national championship winners like their top 25 and offense. Top 25 in defense. So just a little tip. I hope so. Just a little hack. When you're thinking about. They are saying that. Top 10 in net. Yeah. Yeah. Size shooters, boards and buckets.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Passing turnovers.

[Will Compton]

Fundamentals win the turnover game. Gotta have it. Do you guys want to get some tear talk before we get into the episode with George Kittle?

[Taylor Lawan]

Let's do some tears.

[Will Compton]

Let's do some tear talk. This one's coming from Devin Grover. Hashtag, tear talk. What are the best audible play calls that you've heard? For instance, Omaha or Ric Flair?

[Taylor Lawan]

William, part of me is having a flashback.

[Will Compton]

Go ahead.

[Taylor Lawan]

Was it with Clay where we were talking about Folsom in prison?

[Will Compton]

Those are.

[Taylor Lawan]

That'd be my story. Like to answer. To answer. Our boy, Devin Grover. Folsom and prison were jailbreak screens.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I would have locked in studies.

[Will Compton]

I would have the number two on the perimeter on that one.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. We were zeroed in on pressure, mugged up in the eight gaps. Jay Cutler, chicks. Folsom, Folsom, Folsom. I just start yelling, screen, screen, screen. We keep them out of field goal range or we keep them deep and feel from field goal range. They miss the field goal, we win the game.

[Will Compton]

We had to have a play. That's nice.

[Taylor Lawan]

Salt and pepper. Who was calling prison? Which team was that? Because that seems that coach hopefully was fired the next day. Yeah, it was the Bears. Oh.

[George Kittle]

So.

[Taylor Lawan]

So when you're. When you're reviewing the TV copies, you're trying to get beads on. You know what code words they use. Like Eli Manning with the Giants, a lot of it would be like mascot base, where he says a city or he says the mascot. And based off that, you. You'd identify what style, what concept of run that they were going to do based on the formation that they were in. Because he did a lot of check with me at the line of scrimmage. And so when we're doing a TV copy with the. With the Bears, you're getting in all their situations where they're using their verbiage. In one game, he was saying, prison, prison, jail. Break. Screen to the right.

[George Kittle]

Right.

[Taylor Lawan]

With the R in there. It's just so easy. Is right. Sometimes when you're. When you're game planning week to week, it is a little. It is simple because they have to keep it simple for 11 guys that are on the field.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So, yeah. And then what we would do as an offensive, we would call places. We had the same thing. Folsom in prison, those would be the same thing. Prison. We'd take a set and then you'd go, I'd have number two the next day, I would have number three, and so on and so forth. And then the receiver would kind of bubble in, catch the ball, they'd have a convoy of people. But we would say that TV copy. And then we would go review the TV copy or the coaches would they come to us. But hey, we have to change Folsom. We have to change prison, we have to change these other ones. Change it into these little things. So you would learn the base calls that would happen. And then after like week one, sometimes if you did a lot of like no huddle type stuff, they would then change those calls. So this Folsom is now Alcatraz and this is now that. So you would be able to like stay ahead of the TV copy because the, the good coaches, the good players, they would go review it so they would know where it was all going.

[Taylor Lawan]

And then defensively, when they're a team that changes arc on the micro. Your staff. Yeah. Your staff is trying to give you like a bucket of, like a bucket of words that they use and be like, it'll be something similar or related to a sword. Right. And they might just change an iteration. Like say like a different sword name. It's so funny. Brand of a sword on our. Correct. Yeah. Saber.

[Will Compton]

Saber. You would say saber.

[Taylor Lawan]

It might be sword one week and then saber the next week.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Taylor Lawan]

And it'd be the, like, it's like the Mannings, like the sicko quarterback, high level next level thinkers. It's not the coaches trying to change it every week. It's a coach quarterback who's going in there being like, we have to do this if we are going to fool this defense.

[Will Compton]

Right? Yes.

[Taylor Lawan]

What were you going to say, jp? Oh, I was say it's just funny when you like hear that that's what's going on in the NFL and our high school football team, legit, our jailbreak screen was Capone. Capone. Capone. And I just remember sitting there thinking, like, this has got to be the most obvious thing in the world.

[Will Compton]

Hey, Capone was one of ours too. It would be the same thing.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Our rocket screen was NASA.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. But it's also like. Yeah. Are you gonna really be able to differentiate? You gotta execute the whole thing. It's different. Yeah. My favorite, one of my favorite audibles we have, we would have a play called Stutter. It's open side power. So there'd be no tight end. So everyone's kind of gapping down. Guard would come around and our, our call for that would be Boucher for Bobby Boucher, because he had a stutter. So that was like my. One of my favorite.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because it was like layers to that One. I like that a lot. That's really all I got. Always a kid's game, man. Well, did you.

[George Kittle]

I feel it'd be more for you rather than offensive line. Like, did you guys have any, like, hand signals that would mean anything? Because I feel like for me, when I played, like, our offensive hand signals, some of them were, like, kind of funny and sort of up.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, we. Everything is like hand signals and communication through.

[George Kittle]

Just have any, like, favorite ones that you had?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I guess if there was a blitz and they'd go, like, say it was something that it was like a blitz for that week that I was involved in, they call it like Husker. Like, they would use stuff for guys where a package was around, whether it be, like, Trojan. Any mascot that you came from, they try and come up with something in that. In that vicinity. So it, like, triggered your brain that, hey, this is a new blitz that we're putting in this week. But even with, like, right, left calls, defensively, you wouldn't want to just say, you know, close left, angle, right. Like, you would want to. We would use west coast and East Coast. We'd use cities to talk about where a pressure is coming from or how you're going to set it. Because even on the offensive side, if they're waiting to hear us set something up, if we go more than just a close left, you know that you're probably facing, like, a base call, like a base coverage call. But if it's closed left tag with something else, then if the quarterback's hearing it, they're assuming that there could be pressure coming. In this instance, in that instance, like, universal stuff.

[Will Compton]

Like, cat will be an outside blitz. Like, any sort of, like, animal would be like an outside blitz. Abel Baker, that's a gap linebacker blitz, B, gap linebacker blitz. I mean, everything's kind of universal. You look, you are on the offensive line, like A, B and C is back side of zone, single, double. Triple is front side of zone. And they would start to understand that. So you do, and then, you know, then you get into cadences. Yeah, it's a whole. Like, that's like, you gotta learn. You to learn your base stuff. And then a whole new game unlocks of. Like, how do we trick each other on the line?

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, if quarterback's going out there and he says, you know, black, black, you know, it's left. Do what?

[Will Compton]

Oh, go ahead. So what are you gonna say?

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm just saying, in some instances, it'd be like, okay, you know, they're gonna dummy call first. So don't show pressure when. If you hear black.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. What would we say for dummy?

[George Kittle]

I can't remember.

[Taylor Lawan]

Remember? And then you're like, hey, we've been showing this pressure for the last three weeks. They're going to expect us. If we're, you know, signaling whatever. If we want to show this pressure and then come from the other side or show this pressure. But then play coverage,

[Will Compton]

we would do like dick and balls. Dick was on one, balls is on two. Well, we'd say Kobe for jumping somebody. We would say a bunch of stuff like that. But then we would flip them the next game to where we go. Dick is now on to. Jeter was now going to be on, too, because he wore number two. Like, so now you're saying things that would mean something differently. Hey, this is so clearly obvious on two. But now it's on our. On one. And then we'd have a code word to say, like, this is fake. And then we would say that it's just. It's a lot. It's mental warfare for those 15, 20 seconds around the line of scrimmage.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. And you're thinking you might have packages. Say we have 30 different variations of defense going into, like on the call sheet. Like, you're taking in all that information and then also doing all these adjustments. Adjustments on the fly. So, like, in theory, if we simply talk about prison and Folsom, like, yeah, that would be very telling. And that seems simple and easy. But when you factor it into everything that goes on throughout a game and you're doing it all in a split second, some guys just line up and play. They want to know the call, they want to know where to go. But when you have all the over communication going on, you got guys watching TV copies. Like, that's where it becomes such, like a. A chess match game that goes on. When it's like the game within the game within the game, like Pokemon battling, like Pokemon Battle.

[Will Compton]

Boom. I love it.

[Taylor Lawan]

You could also challenge. I know some players out there, a lot of college players out there listening to the show. Maybe they want to work bus in into their vernacular for some of their calls. They don't have to.

[Will Compton]

They don't have to. But they'll get shouted out if we hear it. They'll get shouted out. They'll get shouted out. Good. Shouted out.

[Taylor Lawan]

We got another from Paulie V. Who? Big tier one of the show. My brothers, the boys. This question is for all the boys. Which career choice would you choose if you win another route in life? And why a police officer in parentheses, love you, Bloss, Firefighter, underpaid athletes, car salesman, etc, Tier one. Love you, boys.

[Will Compton]

Love you, Paulie.

[Taylor Lawan]

Mine is coaching. Like, I'd be. I'd. I'd be a sicko in coaching.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you would.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I'd love just.

[Will Compton]

I bet you sitting there with white, you thought to yourself, maybe I'll just drive to Bonaire tonight a couple times.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm sitting there, I'm like, man, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

That legit composition.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

What about fully separate from football?

[Will Compton]

Oh, man. Dude, mine would be pilot. I would want to be a. I think it'd be awesome to be.

[Taylor Lawan]

Growing up, I always put, like, engineer, but it wasn't nothing that was, like, passionate of mine. Like, you have, like, doctor, lawyer, engineer, like, all the ones that pay well in high school.

[Will Compton]

If I wasn't eligible for football, I was just gonna go work construction. So I'll just go. I'm doing manual labor for the rest of my life.

[Taylor Lawan]

You just wanted to.

[Will Compton]

I was like, I'm not gonna go. I'm not gonna be able to get into college. I'm not gonna go the juco route. I was like, this is. It's either I'm going to college or I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna work construction.

[Taylor Lawan]

So when you thought about academics and everything, you're like, I. Football has to work out, or I blew it.

[Will Compton]

I didn't think about academics until I was good at football. I was like, shot. Oh, my God. Like, I need to make it to college, dude. I failed seven classes my freshman year.

[Taylor Lawan]

So you're like, thank God.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, four. I failed three my first semester for my second semester.

[Taylor Lawan]

Seven, buddy. Sounds like that's all the periods, man.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I mean, you. You guys know the story. I was doing a full online. A whole semester online in my senior year. And then. I don't know if it was this way for you guys, but your senior year, you, like, get done at, like, noon, and then you go and do whatever. Now my ass was there with the freshman and sophomores till 2. 45. Come on. Hit that workout. And I'd be doing online classes. Shout out Jackie Scully doing a lot of those online classes for me.

[George Kittle]

Come on.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, come on.

[George Kittle]

Shout out Ziggler.

[Will Compton]

Shout out Ziggy also.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, the film.

[George Kittle]

The Vietnam War film.

[Taylor Lawan]

We Were Soldiers. There's the pilot that's very tall in there.

[Will Compton]

His call sign was too tall.

[Taylor Lawan]

That could be your call.

[Will Compton]

It could have been me. Could have been me.

[Taylor Lawan]

What would you guys. He said it's for all the boys. Would you. What would you guys do in another passion?

[George Kittle]

I would probably want to be a vet. Just work with animals.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, bro, now you're getting my brain going. I wanted to do something with like, orca whales, dolphins, marine biology.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we want to look at seaweed.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Not a whole lot of money in

[Will Compton]

there, but marine biology.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, bro. Marine biology.

[Will Compton]

I love jobs.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's like mowing like some kind of

[Will Compton]

like, like just where you could completely

[Taylor Lawan]

shut off your brain and just throw on some music, throw on a podcast and just go. I think being a maintenance guy at

[Will Compton]

like a golf course or some kind

[Taylor Lawan]

of resort would be legit.

[Will Compton]

Just live in a beautiful spot.

[Taylor Lawan]

You got no worry in the world. Just doing your thing.

[Will Compton]

That kind of went hard.

[Taylor Lawan]

Zookeeper. I don't know how you go to school to do that, but I would be a zookeeper now. I mean, I love my job, but God would be so sick, dude. Yeah, some with animals would be fun. Matt Malone worked at the Nashville Zoo and he like talks about like it

[Will Compton]

was a bad job, my dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

That sounds like the most fun thing

[Will Compton]

on earth because of the people that work there.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, probably.

[Will Compton]

So about you, clump.

[Taylor Lawan]

Not a football coach. Damn lawyer.

[Will Compton]

Hey, okay, that would work for you.

[George Kittle]

You just be rage baiting the.

[Taylor Lawan]

See how emotional he is. Hey, Lauren. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You seen suits? No. You watch Suits, you'll be all in on being a lawyer.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I would be. Ah, man, I feel I would want to do something outside, but not. But not like landscaping or anything. Just career long lifeguard. Landscaping's tough. Career long beach lifeguard

[Will Compton]

dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I mean, I would love to be a teacher. I think being a teacher would be fun. So. Yeah, I'll go with teacher. JP would rip at being a teacher.

[Will Compton]

He'd be a teacher like the one that you give your jersey to.

[George Kittle]

The ones those videos give me every time.

[Will Compton]

If we're just like no money involved whatsoever. Definitely something outdoors. Maybe like a kayaking guide or like a white water rafting guide.

[Taylor Lawan]

White water rafting guy would be saying, that is awesome.

[Will Compton]

I feel like if you've ever been white water water rafting, you met like, you know, like a 20 to 25 year old guy where you're like, this dude's got it figured out. Yeah. Like he's just out on the river every day chilling.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Just seems like he's got good stories. So that. Or like, maybe in the realm of like a TWRA agent, like, which is just like wildlife resource recovery type stuff. So I don't know somewhere where I'm outside by the water. Be. You know, that wouldn't be bad.

[Taylor Lawan]

Jack as a fly fishing guide would be by.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

It would be vibes.

[Will Compton]

That'd be a great life. God, it would be kind of nice. Pilot kind of sucks now.

[Taylor Lawan]

Pilot's a good one.

[Will Compton]

Dude. There was when my kids were going skiing up in Big White. The guys were from Australia and they just did that in the winter time. And they were like ski instructors. And there was like a little town where they would just booze that night, come out, teach the kids to ski, and then you'll fly back to Australia and do whatever else they did. I was like, this job looks sick.

[Taylor Lawan]

I met a guy this weekend that he lives here naturally, does a bunch of like, just kind of odd jobs. And then every summer he's from Alaska, he goes back and does commercial salmon fishing just for the summer in Alaska.

[Will Compton]

Perfect.

[Taylor Lawan]

I know that he, like, does the

[George Kittle]

plane tours in Alaska.

[Will Compton]

Buddy. That's awesome.

[Taylor Lawan]

So fun. Those Aussies chase the snow because of the hemispheres. They can do our winter and then they go right back down to Australia, do their winter. So they're in constant winter. They just. They hang on the slopes their entire life.

[Will Compton]

I made me sick, dude. Dr. Boozle, he says, are the boys hitting cool spots for the spring tour slash spring college football practice. Hashtag tear talk. Oh, we got something spicy coming up.

[Taylor Lawan]

We got stuff in the.

[Will Compton]

We got something nice coming up. We got stuff in the works last spring. Well, I think we unlocked exactly what we want to do in our spring. And we have gone out to schools. Seems like we have tentative ones already locked in. Clump. Tentative locked. Tentative lock. Tentative, tentative lock. Looking for dates.

[Taylor Lawan]

Just. Just tentative.

[Will Compton]

But if you. If you're watching this right now and you want to give a suggestion of where we should go, leave it in the comments.

[Taylor Lawan]

And if you want to check out what Taylor's referring to as far as. And we kind of unlocked what we want to do. Go check out the Oregon spring football vlog.

[Will Compton]

That was it. One of the most fun days I've had on busting with the boys. Are we going to get a second showing of Will Compton versus a college athlete? I have to have to redemption.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I got right fully padded. Yeah, I got to get right.

[George Kittle]

I don't want to give anything away.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, don't give anything away. Don't give anything away. But yeah, Will Compton will be in pads again. This. It's gonna be fun season this spring season. This is Will's football season. It's coming up Right now. Time to get right. Saw you were in the gym too. I've hit you with the personal dmi. Let's go.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Juice me up to see you getting.

[Taylor Lawan]

After getting the zone two back in my life.

[Will Compton]

Zone two.

[Taylor Lawan]

I got some stuff I gotta. I gotta meet with the doc. Talk to the doc again this week. And some of my blood work came back. Nothing. Nothing. Emergency. Not an emergency, but want to talk to you about cholesterol and your vitamin levels.

[Will Compton]

It's all right.

[Taylor Lawan]

Cholesterol's been high for. For a bit now.

[Will Compton]

Okay. Let's just get right. Yeah, let's just get right. And while we're getting right, we're listening to just smash at XYZ 780070. Should the Titans take love at 4 instead of an edge? Hashtag tier talk. A lot of fans hate on the idea, but the Titans team has always been better with a clear number one running back, George Johnson. Henry kind of touched on this a little bit. Jack, you don't hate the idea of getting love anymore? No, I think it's great because we've started to fill those, those holes on defense with free agency guys. And again with Eddie George, Derrick Henry, Chris Johnson. I mean, the Tennessee Titans have had legendary running backs and they typically carry us through some drought years. So I think it's time for us to get another one of those guys back the clubhouse. I love, I love Jeremiah Love. I'm of. I'm of the stance that if you've fixed some holes that you believe, you feel good about defense. Get Cam Ward as many weapons as you possibly can. You saw Jeremiah Love early in the season, in the middle of season two, he was playing out wide a little bit. Also catching threat. Clearly a running threat. So I, I like it. I think anything to help Cam Ward out to stable because I hate the question marks revolving around this kid. He's clearly got the mentality, he's got the talent. Now let's just get that production on the field so we can start looking at the Titans as, hey, maybe a team here that can go get. Go chase one in a couple of years.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dangerous.

[Will Compton]

Little dangerous getting the boys a little dangerous out there.

[Taylor Lawan]

Why not win the whole thing this year? Why not go get State, go get the Super Bowl. Ask Wyatt. He knows. Why not us?

[Will Compton]

I mean, it'd be cool, right? Yeah, according to Coach Compton. I mean, yeah, it'd be cool to win a state championship. Yeah. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

We're gonna get right into the interview with George Kittle right now. Okay.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's coming at 3:00 clock today, bwtb.com for merchandise. Big Cuck signing. Kisses, enjoy. George Kittle. We interrupt this episode because we are brought to you by Jim Beam. Listen, boys, as you all know, we have now entered what could be the worst time of the year. That's right, football is over. What are we supposed to do on Sunday? Or Monday or Thursday? So much time, so little football.

[Will Compton]

Whoa, whoa, easy now. Just because football is over, the hang doesn't have to stop, because believe it or not, there's still a ton of stuff to get excited for. We're talking basketball, hockey, tennis, baseball, and soccer right here in the good old US Of A. All to be enjoyed with a crisp, delicious, and oh, so refreshing Jim Beam and lemonade.

[Taylor Lawan]

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

[Will Compton]

Correction. I'm taking the lemon of football being over and turning into Jim Beam and lemonade. Because Beam and lemonade is always the right call. It's light flavor, it's refreshing and so, so delicious no matter what you and your boys are watching.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dude, you're so right. Because at the end of the day, no matter what sport you're pivoting to this offseason, it's all best enjoyed together.

[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lawan]

Guys, as always, this interview is brought to us by Bud Light.

[George Kittle]

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[Will Compton]

Sure is.

[Taylor Lawan]

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[Will Compton]

Oh.

[George Kittle]

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[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah. Absolutely delicious.

[George Kittle]

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[Will Compton]

Nice.

[George Kittle]

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[Will Compton]

Who's our guest today?

[George Kittle]

The guest today is Taylor Lawan.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey.

[George Kittle]

Welcome, Taylor.

[Will Compton]

Thank you, man. Thank you. Glad to be here.

[George Kittle]

Now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

So we say this. This is every week. Your name comes up every week on our podcast. Podcast. So what's up, man?

[Will Compton]

We did spend 45 minutes just sitting and talking about Pokemon. Yeah, you said you're going to. You're going on a golf outing with your boys.

[George Kittle]

I'm going on A golf outing.

[Will Compton]

Was it Sukon?

[George Kittle]

What? They do have room 40 there.

[Will Compton]

Do they really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Will, you've been to room 40.

[Taylor Lawan]

What are we doing? So what happens? The tone we're setting, you know, the

[George Kittle]

Phillip works at room 40 at suck on.

[Taylor Lawan]

Did you know that? I did not know that.

[George Kittle]

Oh, wow.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

That's crazy. We were talking about a lot of Pokemon, though.

[Will Compton]

I know. And I asked you because I've been big into ripping packs. Love. I don't necessarily love repeating packs because you never really get what you really want, but I've been buying a shitload of slabs.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

A shitload of PSA 10 slabs. And I'm nervous that it's just gonna. The bottom's just gonna fall from all of us, and I'll just have these slabs I spent ridiculous amounts of money on.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And be like, okay, what do I do with these now? But you're not as into it as.

[George Kittle]

I'm not as into ripping packs. I will say I did get a rip a pack of cards on me and Claire's podcast. And like, 10 minutes before he ripped the pack, me and Juice had to tell what, like, we thought Pokemon represented our wives the best, and he picked like, a dragonair for Kristen, and I said my wife was Gengar. Right.

[Will Compton]

Okay. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

And then 10 minutes later, I ripped the pack and I had like, a first edition Gengar holographic. Dude, what are the odds of that, though?

[Will Compton]

Look up a PSA 10. Gengar holographic.

[George Kittle]

I don't know if it's PSA 10, but I have it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, but when you rip a car, it's like, let's just hope for the best. Right? Because I bet you it's like, that's

[George Kittle]

the one on the right. So it's like 70 bucks.

[Will Compton]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[George Kittle]

That's random graded.

[Will Compton]

That's wrong. Yeah, that's wrong.

[Taylor Lawan]

Gengar too. Like, not great attack.

[Will Compton]

Slowpoke.

[George Kittle]

Don't.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, dude.

[George Kittle]

I would say Psyduck, dude.

[Will Compton]

I.

[Taylor Lawan]

With Psyduck, bro, you should.

[George Kittle]

He's confused sometimes. A lot of head trauma, always has a headache. But he does have special abilities.

[Taylor Lawan]

Powerful.

[Will Compton]

Side note. Side note, Golduck is one of my favorite Pokemon of the OG150.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, really?

[Will Compton]

I think Golduck is so badass.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

He's got psychic abilities and water abilities.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But when you're playing the game back in the day, like, you can't beat a kadabra.

[George Kittle]

No.

[Will Compton]

Okay. You're not being Cadabra, bro.

[Taylor Lawan]

Alakazam.

[Will Compton]

See, here's the issue With Alakazam is you at the lunch table and you're like, the only way to get a Gengar or an Alakazam is you had to trade. So I would have my. My Cadabra and I would go to like you and be like, hey, would you trade with me real quick? And the cords this long connect. Game Boys. I would trade you and then you would just have to go to the bathroom and you could see him is now gone.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So it's kind of.

[George Kittle]

I usually have to leverage it. You do the same thing with. To get him a champ too, which I always thought was really annoying.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's pretty lame.

[George Kittle]

Look, why are the coolest ones the most difficult to get playing the game?

[Will Compton]

Cuz really like the 151. The psychic Pokemon were so sick. They were the best.

[George Kittle]

They were so sick.

[Taylor Lawan]

Back when times are simple.

[George Kittle]

Back when times were actually, I'm replaying Fire Red and Leaf Green just came out on the switch and I am ripping that right now. I'm doing it the old fashioned way where I only train my Charizard. So my Charizard's a level 40 and I haven't even beat the third gym yet.

[Will Compton]

Oh no. You're just running through people.

[George Kittle]

It's not.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's so easy on the switch with them coming out with that, with those, with those games. Can you swim at the bottom of the island and get up the rare candy? Is that still available?

[George Kittle]

So I, I think they. I, I think.

[Will Compton]

Great question.

[George Kittle]

Will I believe that's only in the original, but I mean, I haven't played fire Red in 10 plus years. I replay Soul Silver and Heart Gold every. You know, probably once every other year I play. That's what I do on road trips. Like I'll sit in my. I also have an emulator on my phone. So I just sit there. I play all the ROM hacks. They're so difficult, but I love them. Lapras.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's what Taylor pulled over the weekend.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I pulled that over the weekend, but it was a. It was a base set pack. It wasn't a first edition because I thought a PSA 10, that's $20,000. 19. 5.

[George Kittle]

Holy cow.

[Will Compton]

And I looked up and it was like PSA 10 base is actually.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, we got breaking news. Rare candy hack has been patched.

[George Kittle]

Oh, I did. There was. I found out. I did find out a hack though, on Fire Red. I. I found this on Tik Tok. So awesome. Before you beat Misty and Cerulean, there's this thing called the Nugget Bridge, and you have to beat five trainers. At the very end, there's a Team Rocket Guy, and basically, you beat the five trainers, and then you get rid of all of your good Pokemon, and you get your worst Pokemon out, and you go. Because the last guy, the Team rock guy, he gives you a nugget which is worth $5,000, and you just lose to him, and you go back to the Pokemon, and you go back, and he gives you another nugget. So I lost to him 20 straight times to get 20 nuggets. So I'm gonna have $100,000, and by the time I get to Cerulean, I can then buy a Dratini, and then I have a. I have a Dratini before I even beat the fourth gym.

[Taylor Lawan]

You're playing chess.

[George Kittle]

Well, I found on TikTok. I didn't know that was a thing. And I. You know, I will say morally, it feels completely wrong, because you want to go through the whole game without ever losing.

[Will Compton]

You want purity.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. You don't ever want to lose. But to be able to get a Dratini by the fourth gym and be. And you'll have a Dragonite, which is my favorite Pokemon. Pretty sick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Whenever you go through the phases of playing replaying games that have been out for a while.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And your algorithm, like, syncs with it, and it shows you all the cool things to do. Red Dead Redemption 2, when I played it about six months ago. Dude. All the fun things it shows you you can do. Then you think about Red Dead. Who was the first guy to do this? Like, how did you go through this entire process?

[George Kittle]

They find out.

[Will Compton]

It's incredible.

[George Kittle]

Did you. Wait, did you see the Red Dead one? It was on. I found this, like, a couple months ago, but it was. There's something to do with, like, light poles or something. And, like, there was, like, a marking on the light pole, but it was only there at a certain day, and it would point in a direction. You went to the next direction. You found another light pole that had another clue on it. And it's like. I don't know. It was some patch. And it's, like, taking people, like, eight months to, like. And they're working together to solve this thing. And no one's even solved what the. In the end game of this patch is. But there's just random instructions throughout the game to do random things.

[Will Compton]

God, no. I have not heard of it.

[George Kittle]

But there's not even a finish to it yet. Like, people are just like, okay, well, we got this far but we don't know where to go from here.

[Will Compton]

What's the next step you have to take?

[George Kittle]

I'm just like, but who found that?

[Will Compton]

Dude, Rockstar Games. The way they just have all these secret, like you can go and go into the little cave and get 10, like $10,000 worth of gold. But it has like all these pillars. You have to touch them at specific times and then go to the middle one. It just pops out of nowhere. Like, how do you think of that type of stuff? It's just crazy. I can't imagine what this RD3 is going to be like when it comes out in 2036. GTA 6, which I, you know, I played the first couple, you know, 10 years old, you go pick up the hooker and you lose a dollar in the alleyway. You just see them just doing this. But I, I. So I never really got a G.

[Taylor Lawan]

Trying to take five was awesome. I was talking with Jared the other day. He's telling me about how he's got businesses with his boys and they just like run shop buddy. Because I got out of the online world kind of early. I was back, I was back where you just ran the same. You ran. They never stopped updating it. It's like truly like there's probably a hundred different businesses that you can run. It is unbelievable.

[George Kittle]

It makes sense why you should be like a firefighter. Okay, so you can be a firefighter now.

[Taylor Lawan]

You can be a postman, you can be a pizza delivery guy, you can run meth operations. Or you can be like a, like legal operations.

[George Kittle]

You'd be good at that one.

[Will Compton]

Meth?

[Taylor Lawan]

What the hell does that mean?

[George Kittle]

I don't know.

[Taylor Lawan]

From Missouri now, our county was top five in the country once upon a time.

[George Kittle]

In meth, I grew up next to

[Will Compton]

a. Gotta take your accolades where you can get them.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Jared will go on like RD2 and just play blackjack with his boys. Like, they'll all go to a table and play for hours on end.

[George Kittle]

That's awesome.

[Will Compton]

And you just think, just do that in real life.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. We all live in different cities. No, he's trying to build some community with the boys. Yeah. You can go to the GTA casino and play blackjack or you can do an RD2. You can play like poker and stuff like that.

[George Kittle]

That's outrageous.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Jerry Beeman, Big Minecraft fan as well.

[George Kittle]

I never got into Minecraft. Who is it? Dalton Schultz, the tight end. Big Minecraft guy. Spent a lot of time on it. Like, I'm pretty sure. Oh, he has a Minecraft tattoo.

[Will Compton]

Does he really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

There's your kind of person right there.

[George Kittle]

I saw. He showed me his, like, gaming setup, and it's. I think his wife games, too. So you have a room where I'm pretty sure they sit back to back or they each have their own room, but his setup is like, multiple screens. Everything's super nice. I'm just, like, blown away by it. I'm like, yeah, I just, I have my one monitor.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. PC piss method.

[George Kittle]

It is what it is.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Knowing how big of a. How much of an avid gamer you are.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Who's got the best setup that you know or have heard about across the league?

[George Kittle]

I know. His setup's crazy.

[Will Compton]

Who's this?

[George Kittle]

Dalton Schultz.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. His setup is silly. Besides that. I know, I know Kyler Murray's got a cool setup because, like, I mean, he's. What isn't he with the phase gaming? I don't know anything about the gaming clan stuff, but there's a couple guys that I don't say, I don't take it that seriously. I, I, I spent too much time doing football stuff and, like, working out to then play for six to eight hours. I wish I could, but I just don't have time for that, dude.

[Will Compton]

The game, you know, looked at that a good setup is Dan Dawkins. When he was zoomed in. Yeah, seemed like he had a setup.

[Taylor Lawan]

And new teammate of. There's Mike Evans, I hear is an avid gamer.

[George Kittle]

Loves Fortnite.

[Will Compton]

Really?

[George Kittle]

I got Mike Evans Gamertag back after the 2019 Pro bowl, and literally, for the last seven years, I'll be online, and once or twice a year, he'll just pop into my discord and be like, hey, what do you guys play? I'm like, mike, what's up, dude? He goes, anybody want to run Fortnite? I'm like, oh, dude, sorry. We're playing Call of Duty. Goes, all right, see you guys next time. Like, sick. Mike Evans.

[Will Compton]

Already a bro. Yeah, already a bro and a new teammate.

[George Kittle]

I'm super excited about Mike Evans.

[Will Compton]

Did you have any idea before possibly that he could be a teammate? Or were you surprised everybody else when he saw the line?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, because I was on it. I told everybody to keep an eye on Mike Evans. To the Niners. Weird instincts.

[George Kittle]

Can. Can players tamper?

[Will Compton]

I don't know. I don't think so.

[George Kittle]

I don't think so either because, like, I see guys like Sauce Gardner tweets at everybody every single year.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Like, like, so I don't know if Tampering is a real thing. I don't think so. But, I mean, Mike just asked me, like, the. I mean, a couple. Was that, like, whatever. Two, three weeks ago. And he was like, hey, man, like, sell me on the Niners. And I was like, okay, I'd love to.

[Taylor Lawan]

Let's start with the EMF station.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

No, he didn't even ask me about that.

[Taylor Lawan]

He didn't ask?

[George Kittle]

Not even ask.

[Will Compton]

With all the soft tissues, he had this.

[George Kittle]

Well, basically, here's my whole theory behind emf, and we can talk about as long as you want is football. And, like, this is. I got this from Juice. I thought it was a very Harvard, like, response, but he was like, as a professional athlete, you're looking for anything that adds 1%, right? Get 1% better every day, whether it's red lighting, ice tubs, massages, acupuncture, whatever that is. And if there's something that could potentially make you 1% worse, wouldn't you want to know about it? And so, like, that's where I'm at with it. Like, is it making us 1% worse? Like, I don't know. Like, if it is, hey, let's do something about it. If it's not, then. All right, whatever. So that's kind of where I'm at on it.

[Will Compton]

Sounds like Juice was listening to the Bus with the Boys podcast with Christian McCaffrey.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, we were talking about it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, all the things, the 1%, all that stuff.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. But it makes sense. It's like, yeah, if it's going to affect you negatively. 1%. Or it's like, is practicing on a turf field making you 1% worse every single day? Probably. And we don't. We don't practice. We practice on grass. But still, like, all right, well, what does take away the things that are making you a little bit worse so that you can only be working on getting better? So that's my biggest thing on it.

[Will Compton]

We also talked about, like, with Christian, like, all the layers of, like, when you're younger and you think, okay, protein is good, so I'll just go to McDonald's or KFC or whatever. I'm like, yo, I'll have, like, chicken sandwich, and I'm solid. But then you just learn more and more and more, and there's obviously a level you get to. To where it's like, do you even have a life? Like, how far do you go into the biohacking world before you're like, okay, I'm maxed out. I can only do so much nad. Oh, so much red. Light so much. Pimp mat, sauna, cold tub, everything. Roll out massages, balls in the sun. What's the vasper system like? There's so many things, and I'm sure there's a thousand other things you're not doing. Like, where you're like, has there ever been a thing? It's like, hey, George, you could be better by doing this. And you're like, truly, at this point,

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm maxed out where it starts taking from you because you're stressing about doing correctly.

[George Kittle]

Let's see, food wise, like, I just know, like, to eat healthy and to not eat healthy. Like you. Like, I don't eat fast food most of the time. Like, hey, if you have fast food, you know, if you have t bell after night of drinking, like, once a year, is that really going to harm you? Probably not. Like, I don't know.

[Will Compton]

Rips too.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. So, like, I don't really have a big thing with that. And I hired a chef, so, like, I get good food for, you know, all the meals that I eat with him. And then I just try not to, you know, be an idiot and now eat bad food. And I mean, the only thing I've really just taken out is like, I don't. I haven't touched a soda besides, like, an occasional root beer float once in a while. Because those things are gas.

[Will Compton]

Ruper floats so hard.

[George Kittle]

So good. Like, I just. Yeah, I'm just like, all right, well, I drink water, Gatorade once in a while, like when I'm working out. But, like, it's just. And I drink Bud Light.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Four simple ingredients. Yeah, it's so easy to enjoy.

[George Kittle]

Easy to enjoy. Crisp. Some would say. Yeah, but so it's just like, you can get into it as much as you want to. And then early on in my career, I kind of use the shotgun approach. Like, I tried everything, and then I saw how my body responded to it, and then I got rid of some things, and then I've kept. Kept some things. Like, I discovered acupuncture in, like, my second or third year, and I hate needles, but I do acupuncture four days a week in season, and I'm obsessed with it. And I think that's what. Like, that's my. Probably one of my favorite things that I do is acupuncture. And it's like, that'll always be a part of my recovery. Red lighting, the PMF mats. Like, there's a time and place for everything. And then. But yeah, I know, like, Christian does different stuff. Juice does different stuff. And, like, I'll ask him like, that. One of my favorite things about being teammates with Christian was he did he thought outside of the box on a lot of these things, and he was also coming from a different team, so he didn't have access to the things that me and Juice has because, like, me and Juice were like, by the end of it, we're like, redo a lot of the similar things because that's what our team provides us. But Christian came in with a whole new mindset and so, like, picking his brain. Like, I've added a couple of things that he does, but I don't know. I've kind of found what works for me. And I'm going into year 10, so it's like, it's obviously worked decently for. For me.

[Taylor Lawan]

Year 10, baby. So how did you. Let's get back to the. The what?

[Will Compton]

I just got nine.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, yes.

[Will Compton]

Fist bumped.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh.

[Will Compton]

So it's like, yeah, he's getting.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's getting there. He's gonna get what we didn't touch. I touched, you know.

[Will Compton]

You touched it.

[George Kittle]

You touched it.

[Will Compton]

You should grasp it.

[George Kittle]

You tickled it.

[Will Compton]

It walks away from me.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I saw it, buddy. Mike Evans selling him on the Niners when he hit you up and said, sell me on the Niners.

[George Kittle]

Yep.

[Taylor Lawan]

Before we went off on that tangent of.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, sorry. I think one of the biggest things I said is that the Niners organization puts so much money back into the players and, like, how they take care of us, how we travel, how we, like, how our facility is ran. Like, we have. I mean, I. I hear, like, one of the things that make sense to me, like, if you were playing in the NFL, like, you're like, oh, I'm going to the NFL. They provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner for you seven days a week, Right? Well, not every team does that. Like, which is insane to me. Like, there's teams that like, hey, the kitchen's closed at noon on Thursday. You guys are on your own. I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. Like, our kitchen's open all the time. We have a nutritionist that's full time. There's teams that have a part time nutritionist. Like, how does that make sense? And then, like, the way we travel, all the starters, we have, like, 30 lay down beds for all the starters and people that are over, like, 6 foot 4 so they can travel comfortably. Because we're traveling. What is it, like, 45, 000 miles this year? We're on, like, a lap, and we're going a lap and a half around planet Earth with almost travel. We're doing. It's like, that's the way you should travel. And then our owner does everything he can like to put money back into the team. Like, we have health days twice a week that they pay for everything from massage to acupuncture to body specialist to fascia therapist. So it's just like Jed does such a good job of putting money back in the team so that we can be at our best. And yeah, unfortunately, we were incredibly hurt last year. But I mean, some of that's luck. Some of it's. I mean, I don't even know what the answers are. Like, we're looking into that, but I just think our organization is ran like an NFL team is supposed to be like, if you ask a 10 year old kid, like, what would you expect an NFL team to do? We do all that, plus more.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

So I kind of just sold him on the organization also. We have a fantastic culture. Like, we. I mean, you've probably played on teams before that. You're like, I couldn't stand like 10 guys on the team. I mean, the last five years there's maybe like one guy, I'm like, ah, he's not my favorite, but like, I don't hate him.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

And so like, we have a great culture that was built by the players that are still there. And I don't know, we hit people really hard in the face and we play really well.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a good sale.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

The Niners grayed out on the, the report cards.

[George Kittle]

I think we finished like top 10, which is fine.

[Taylor Lawan]

There's. There are teams that come out hearing about the 30 late. The beds on the plane is.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Like the travel stuff.

[Taylor Lawan]

Amazing.

[George Kittle]

And I mean, that's shout out Richard Sherman. We used to like, my first three years I sat in economy and I was like, oh, this is what you do for every single flight. Then Richard Sherman came in and goes, we're not doing that anymore. Players are laying the lay down beds and they're like, that makes sense. And we've been laid on beds ever since.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Shout out Richard Sherman.

[Will Compton]

We got to sit in the front of the plane one time and it was just go to London and come back. Other than that. Yeah, yeah, we're in the back always.

[Taylor Lawan]

The only spot I. I experienced that for one preseason game was the Saints.

[Will Compton]

Oh, they remember that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Remember when we traveled and I'm like, yo, I'm sitting on first class. Just because I was an older, like, I Was a vet. I was on first class with New Orleans because Sean Payton or the ownership with the Saints, they allowed their starters and vets to sit on first class. I'm like, yo, this is nuts. That is badass. Never seen this before.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, it's also like when my average travel day is four to six hours course, like it's like you kind of have to put like, are you really going to put Trent Williams in an economy seat?

[Will Compton]

No doubt. And when you're talking about are you lay down beds for every flight except for like Seattle, like essentially division games.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. May like like maybe LA, which is a 40 minute flight. Yeah, we're on a small plane. But like, all right, so I'm on an airplane for 45 minutes. I don't really care.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's nice. But even Seattle.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, Seattle. We have a lay down.

[Will Compton]

How long is that flight? An hour 15?

[George Kittle]

No, like hour 40, I think.

[Will Compton]

Okay, you're lay down. That's crazy.

[George Kittle]

I mean like, it's not like I actually lay down, but I actually have space to kick my feet up. Guys can have, they can do. What is it like the game ready stuff, like whatever you want to do. Like, it's just everything that the Niners organization does to me is top class

[Will Compton]

when all these injuries are taking place, not just this year, but last year. Like you guys have kind of been had some injuries last few years.

[Taylor Lawan]

Big ones too.

[Will Compton]

Is it ever like, is a competition locker room ever about that 5G network station that's right next to you guys?

[George Kittle]

I mean that wasn't because it became

[Will Compton]

news, what, right before the super bowl, was it?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, and I think it's, I mean it's a fun thing for media to like blow up because it's like, oh, like conspiracy. Is this a real thing? And then you can point to, oh, the Niners do have a bunch of injuries.

[Taylor Lawan]

And I had the tinfoil hat on.

[George Kittle]

Sure. And I love tinfoil hat and I love conspiracy theories. I don't, again, like, I don't have the knowledge to talk about it really because like, I don't really know. I do know. I think someone told me this when I was in like, I think it was like my third year in the league. It was a vet, he told me that. And you can fact check me on this. I don't know if this is true, but when 5G towers first came out, like the five cities that they were first out in, like those five teams were like top 10 in injuries, like immediately. And I was like, that's interesting. I Don't know if that's true, so you can fact check me on that. But the only thing, like, when I was young and I said this already, but there were trees in between our practice facility and the power plant, and all the trees that were over the fence, all. There were no leaves on any of the trees. And I, like, I didn't notice that. It's like, my second year, I was like, oh, that is interesting. And now the trees are gone because the. I think the NFL cut them down for the super bowl now. They cut them down last. Ota. So, like, this was last, like, April. They got cut down.

[Will Compton]

Got you.

[George Kittle]

But I was like, oh, that was really interesting because I pointed out to Shanahan, like, in 2021, and he was like, I have been here for five years. I've noticed that. I'm like, it's just an interesting thing to look at.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

So, like, yeah, let's go play some ball.

[Will Compton]

But, yeah, we're just playing ball.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'd be curious if there's somebody who's had, like, a. Like a replacement surgery where they have some metal in their body that. I wonder if they get close, they feel different.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Being by the. Being by the 5G than if they're farther away from it, you know, on the grass or get.

[Will Compton]

Get in the weeds with that one.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

But, you know, hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements. Yeah, stuff like that.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's like when people would say, like, oh, I know a storm's coming today because my knee. I start to feel something in my knee.

[George Kittle]

There's one of them. I see it every time I drive to work. There's a 5G tower on the side of the road. And this is, like, I don't know, 15 minutes from the stadium. But they made it look like a tree. Like, they covered it, you know, with, like, branches and, like, fake foliage. Foliage.

[Taylor Lawan]

Foliage.

[George Kittle]

Thank you. Learned something today. And every time I see. I'm like, yeah, I see you.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Taylor Lawan]

Arizona.

[Will Compton]

For me, Arizona will have fake cactus. Cactus cacti.

[George Kittle]

That's so.

[Will Compton]

That's just up there, and it's like, that's just a metal 5G network.

[George Kittle]

I see you 100.

[Will Compton]

Have you seen. Have you seen the movie Hopper?

[Taylor Lawan]

Not yet.

[Will Compton]

Dude, it's incredible.

[George Kittle]

Is it good?

[Will Compton]

It is one of the best kids movies ever seen.

[George Kittle]

I can't wait to see it.

[Will Compton]

You'll remember this conversation. Anybody want to give any spoilers?

[George Kittle]

Was one of the animals try to hide in a 5G tower?

[Will Compton]

Listen, just.

[Taylor Lawan]

No, just go check it out.

[Will Compton]

I'll Just go check it out. Have you seen it yet?

[Taylor Lawan]

No. No. We want to. We're excited. We're excited.

[Will Compton]

It's a great one.

[George Kittle]

We're in a theater. I'll be there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'll run a theater.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. It's not even that expensive.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

It's actually crazy.

[Will Compton]

Will's gonna rent a theater wall.

[George Kittle]

You're in a theater, and then you say, hey, can everybody just throw me 10 bucks? And then.

[Taylor Lawan]

So you're charging at the door.

[George Kittle]

I mean, my friend. My friends are actually just.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was gonna say, yeah, this is.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we'll start to make a profit on this. Now.

[George Kittle]

My friends are just nice enough that every time I get a theater, they everyone just like venmo's. Me between 10 and 20 bucks.

[Will Compton]

Wow.

[George Kittle]

I don't even ask.

[Will Compton]

George has got way better friends than you.

[Taylor Lawan]

I know.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, you should do that.

[Will Compton]

You should run a theater for the boys.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

We're gonna watch Hopper.

[Taylor Lawan]

And if you guys want to, you can throw a Venmo away.

[George Kittle]

I'll buy your snacks. That might cost more than the theater.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

The snacks are nuts, dude. We'll get something going nuts.

[George Kittle]

What's your favorite movie theater snack? Like, if you go to. What's one thing you have to do?

[Will Compton]

Sour Patch Kid. Watermelons.

[George Kittle]

I'm frozen. Cookie Dough Bites.

[Will Compton]

Oh.

[George Kittle]

Like out of the cakes. Movie theater started doing that. They have, like, the fridge or the freezer.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Chocolates in there. Now I'm a big cookie dough.

[Taylor Lawan]

What's crazy is they've taken. I believe they've taken Raisinets out of the theaters.

[Will Compton]

Why would they do that?

[Taylor Lawan]

I don't know. Maybe they didn't strike a deal. I don't know.

[Will Compton]

Raisinets is on the up and up.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Regal couldn't afford it.

[Taylor Lawan]

The last handful of times I went, they haven't had Raisinets.

[Will Compton]

Can I put you on some popcorn game?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Are you a fan? Are you a fan of flavored popcorn?

[George Kittle]

Sure.

[Taylor Lawan]

You like popcorn?

[George Kittle]

I mean, I don't know. I don't know how to do popcorn. I like white cheddar popcorn.

[Will Compton]

Okay. But when you go to the theater and you get the popcorn, you say, hey, go ahead and put some butter on that thing. Layer it up for me so it's real good all the way through.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And those little seasonings on the side.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

A lot of times, amateurs, they'll go and they'll season the top, and then you get, like, just a layer down, and all of a sudden you got regular ass popcorn.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You do that paper cup. I'll tell them to give me two and you give a little scoop and then you can season that little layer right there. Give a little shake. Now you have a whole cup full of flavor, the way you like popcorn.

[George Kittle]

It's very smart.

[Will Compton]

It's a nice little. Just a little something for you guys. That's a clean take. That's a clean tank. That's a clean take. Something think about, dude. That's easy sometimes to think about. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

So how's the Achilles doing?

[George Kittle]

Great, actually. You know, I'm. I'm on and off of crutches. I got out of a boot like, two weeks ago, which was thrilling because being in a boot is horrible, but got out of that. I'm in these awesome dad shoes with heel lifts in, and I'm like, I can kind of. I can function around my house without crutches, so I just can't, you know, be on my feet all day. But, you know, it's coming along. The rehab's going great. I got one of those nice anti gravity treadmills at the house.

[Will Compton]

Nice.

[George Kittle]

I know Alter G blew you up,

[Will Compton]

give you a wedgie there.

[George Kittle]

It is an interesting. It definitely because, like, the Niners have one and it's one of the older ones and I got like the brand new one that just came out. It is the most easy thing to possibly use. Like, I could show you to use it one time and you'd have no issues with it. It is super easy, straightforward. Like the old one, you had, like, hook things. Step. It was super awkward and really annoying. This one, I haven't had a single issue with it, and I've used it like 30 times and I've had no issues. Super easy. I actually enjoy using it, so I'm having a great time with that. But, yeah, no, my trajectory is fantastic. I think I get off of crutches in like a week or two. And then it's just because they told me, like, the hardest thing to do is walk after an Achilles. I didn't notice. They're like, walking takes three times your body weight. Which I was like, that's crazy. Running's only like five.

[Will Compton]

Hold on now.

[George Kittle]

Like, each step, like, that's the way it puts through your Achilles, like, the force. And they're like, that's the hardest jump is to go from crutches to walking. And then after that, they're like, you'll get to running so fast after that. And I was like, what? That's. That's the thing. I'm just like, I've been so he's pulled up. Troy. That's funny. That's funny. You. Are you saying that I'm not handsome or that's my weak link?

[Will Compton]

A little bit of both.

[George Kittle]

A little bit of both. But no, everything's going great with it. I'm exactly where I want to be. It was actually cool. My surgeon, Elliot Trash flew to see me in Nashville. He's like, well, I have a golf tournament in Florida. I'm just going to stop in Nashville and see you. He was at my barn for 45 minutes. Said I was exactly where I want, he wanted me to be. And so we're trending in the right direction.

[Will Compton]

How much confidence does Dr. Ellatrosh exude from his body?

[George Kittle]

Oh, my gosh.

[Will Compton]

His. His poise, his calmness, his stoic, poised walk. It's beautiful.

[George Kittle]

I want to hang out with him,

[Will Compton]

but I've had the. The awesome opportunity to hang out with him. He's so cool. At his house with him and Andrew Whitworth. Him and Andrew with our best friends.

[George Kittle]

Yes, they are. That's who. That's this. I like, I tore my Achilles and I mean I got so many people reached out. You know, just condolences, you know, rooting for you'll be fine, that type of stuff. Whitworth, he texted his wife, texted my wife and said, you have to see Alatrash. Like, like, he will fix it. He'll do a great job by you. And I was like, oh, well, I mean it's comfort you. I mean I had actually like 10 people say you have to go see Alatrash. I was like, sounds good. For me, it's also 45 minute flight from the bay. It was either that or there's a guy in New York. I know. But I was like, I'm not gonna fly on a commercial flight with a torn Achilles to New York. Right In. In. In January.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. All the. Yeah. Possibility of slipping inflammation.

[George Kittle]

All that stuff would just be on a. Like, like.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

That just sounded horrible. Yeah, you can get on a PJ pretty cheap to go from the bay to LA and back.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[George Kittle]

That sounds more up my alley.

[Will Compton]

Absolutely. How long did you stay in la?

[George Kittle]

Actually, they. I was there only there for like two. I. They did my surgery. Call it. They did my surgery Wednesday morning. I was on a flight out Thursday morning so I could go see the boys before they went up to play Seattle.

[Will Compton]

And can you put me on game of like. I've obviously never had an Achilles, but is. There's like, there's two different injuries Right. Like, one's from the heel and one's from the calf.

[George Kittle]

Sure.

[Will Compton]

So one better than the other. How does it. How does it all go though, everyone?

[George Kittle]

So, like, I tore it and I got my mri, and first thing was my team doc was like, you couldn't have asked for, like, tearing Achilles is terrible, but because you tore Achilles, this is the best case scenario for what you did. How you tore it, where you tore it couldn't have been any better. Like, you got super lucky. Ellatrous said the same thing to me. My PT in LA said the same thing to me. And basically is how I understand it is the most normal one is, like, people tear it down low by, like, you know, by their heel. And when you tear it down there to anchor it, like, to give it strength again to let it heal, you have to drill holes in your heel bone and then lace it through that, and then you have to wait. And, like, part of that recovery is letting your bone heal. So, I mean, like, you break a bone, was it like, six weeks? So that just adds that much time on to your recovery. Mine wasn't. Mine was up super high and had, like, a really nice tear. So, like, he was just able to thread it only in the calf. And so there's no heel bone. There's none of that. There's no bone that was affected. And the nice thing is when you tear up higher, there's more blood flow, so it heals faster. Like, you don't have to. Like, when you tear it way down there, like, there's just less blood flow in your feet, so it takes longer. So he's like, you are right where you want to be, and, like, you're gonna play next year. A lot of football. And I was like, sick. Yeah, it could be way worse.

[Taylor Lawan]

You couldn't have had a better torn Achilles.

[George Kittle]

Couldn't.

[Will Compton]

Couldn't have had a better one.

[George Kittle]

Yes. Like, that's where most people tear it. For those listening on the podcast, we're looking at a photo right now. But, yeah, it's like, you'd have to there. You know, it's super weird, too. Like, right after I tore my Achilles, I didn't even type Achilles into my phone, and I got, like, 10 videos of how people repair Achilles, and I was like, I don't want to see this. I haven't even had surgery yet. No, it's so weird how people.

[Taylor Lawan]

Right?

[George Kittle]

How the algorithm.

[Will Compton]

How many surgeries have you gotten in your life? 4. And are you nervous every time they start to put you out?

[George Kittle]

Oh, I love It.

[Will Compton]

It. You like it?

[George Kittle]

I love it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Asking a way of, like, going, like, going on.

[Will Compton]

Like, when they're like, hey, yeah, count down for 10 from us. And like, that moment, like, for me, I've only had. I take the handful of times I've. I've gone down.

[George Kittle]

I take the deepest breaths.

[Will Compton]

You want to feel it all. You're gone.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I love it, dude.

[Will Compton]

Every time, like, they. They'll like, took my vitals. They shave you, whatever you got to do to, like, get you prepped for surgery. And they'll always checking like, oh, your heart rate's a little bit. Are you nervous? I'm like, yes. Because you hear the horror stories about, like, I don't know if it was a TV show when I was little, but it was like the story of somebody going under anesthesia that had to get surgery. And they're like, I felt everything. I was aware, but I couldn't move, couldn't speak. You guys know exactly what I'm talking about, right? Oh, dude. Every time I go into. I'm like, what if, man? What if I'm one of the one in a million chance of, like, being the dude?

[George Kittle]

Like, wouldn't your body respond and like, when your heart rate.

[Will Compton]

No, because they paralyze you. You like, if you have. If you have bigger surgeries, they paralyze you so you can't move. And I think.

[Taylor Lawan]

I think you should pay your eyes open and stuff.

[Will Compton]

Dude, you're. They got the thing on you.

[George Kittle]

No, he's saying that 20, 20.

[Will Compton]

You got things all over your face.

[George Kittle]

What's the. What's the movie with Gerald Butler?

[Will Compton]

Where?

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, law abiding citizen.

[George Kittle]

Law abiding citizen.

[Will Compton]

What a movie.

[George Kittle]

That's what he's thinking of. Like, you're paralyzed or you feel everything, but you can't.

[Will Compton]

The fish.

[George Kittle]

That's what he's thinking of.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, basically, dude's eyes still open. Like, he knows doc's in there and your eyes are open, but you can't move.

[Will Compton]

And you're just like, no, I don't think you can even do that.

[Taylor Lawan]

You're just sleeping.

[George Kittle]

You're.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, allegedly.

[George Kittle]

Like, what were you watching? I was gonna say, what TV show is this? Like, er, back in like 2000.

[Will Compton]

I know we'll get to meme possibly saying something stupid, but that movie is so.

[Taylor Lawan]

And you said horror stories. Like, this is plural. I feel like we should be able to figure out, like, what these situations are. You know what I mean?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm with you.

[George Kittle]

Nightmare, actually.

[Will Compton]

And if. If you Guys can debunk this for me. That'd be incredible because this is a little bit of a fear for me.

[George Kittle]

Well, hopefully you don't have any more surgeries.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, hopefully not. Hopefully not.

[George Kittle]

Is there too many reasons you feel

[Taylor Lawan]

like this injury happened that it might be sitting on the bus? Oh, we do. We, you know, we do. Throwing out. Hey, you guys want to ask George any questions? This one here is from Matt Schram at Shramer308 on X. How does George Kittle feel about the boys cursing him for his injury?

[George Kittle]

My wife hates you, Will.

[Taylor Lawan]

Why me? Why just me?

[Will Compton]

Well, hey, hold on. Take your licks, man. I'll speak for myself. Go ahead.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like you did make you. I caught wind of that.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, no, she's not very happy with you. They actually. I can't remember why, but Claire's mom was like, hey, I don't know what. It came across her feed like someone else had posted it. And so she sent it to me where you asked me if I would go to IR with a season ending injury to go to the Super Bowl. Like, I mean, I say a little aggressive just to ask a football player that question. Because then you asked that to McCaffrey.

[Taylor Lawan]

Possibly. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I can't remember.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. And I think at this point, hindsight 20 20, I probably cannot recall. I probably just pass on the question is what I would probably do now.

[Will Compton]

Do you think that. Go ahead. Sorry.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was just gonna say because we did have a conversation about. I was like, I listen, I loved Hand up. Love Claire, love your family. Take full responsibility and accountability for it.

[George Kittle]

You take full responsibility for me tearing my Achilles. I. I appreciate that. That.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay, maybe not full. I'll take a lot of it. I'll take most of it. Because my question is also at what point did the football.

[Will Compton]

He can take whatever he wants. I'll. I'll have my turn.

[Taylor Lawan]

At what point do the football gods come into play? Because say you go down and we are now reliving this moment of you're now on the the IR for the rest of the season. Now it's. It's written. You guys are going to the Super Bowl. Then when you fail to do so, how is that part I want to see. Because then if you do go to super bowl and win, that is.

[George Kittle]

That would have been.

[Taylor Lawan]

We're making a movie over this.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. But no, instead I'm just doing rehab every day for like four hours a day for my Achilles.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Look, hindsight, you know.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I hate living with that.

[Will Compton]

I think what Will's trying to say is Will gave the gods an opportunity. You fulfilled it, and they didn't hold their end of the bargain.

[George Kittle]

I'll never argue with the football gods, man. I want to point a finger at them.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's just.

[George Kittle]

That's just life.

[Taylor Lawan]

I think everybody across the.

[George Kittle]

If you're not in football, you don't

[Taylor Lawan]

understand what the football guards are screamed at the football gods. When they took you from us.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, it wasn't very fun.

[Will Compton]

The.

[George Kittle]

I will say, when I did go down, you know, this is actually crazy. I did do a. It was super bowl week, right? And so I'm there in a boot and on, like, a scooter, and I'm about to do this interview, and they. It's on zoom. And they show, like, a highlight reel. And it's basically like talking to George Kittle. He's coming up next. What do the ners have to do differently? And they show Fred Warner breaking his ankle. A highlight clip of me, him doing that, Me tearing my Achilles, Trent Williams pulling his hammy. Brock Purdy going down with the tow energy. Like, highlights of just all of us getting injured. I'm like, I don't really want to see me tear my Achilles again. No, guys, could you, like, relax? But I will say when I did, because I knew it before I even hit the ground, I was like, that's gonna suck. I'm laying there on the ground. Juice comes up to me, goes, hey, man. I'm like, yeah, give me a cart. Like, I'm not walking this one off, bud. But then my second thought was, this is really going to mess up my golf game for the entire off season. I'm laying there in Philadelphia on my back, looking up the sky like, this is gonna up my golf game for the next. This whole.

[Taylor Lawan]

There goes the off season.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

God, I was so disappointed about that. I will say, too, like this. The first question I asked Alatrosh out of surgery when I was still loopy was, will I be able to golf in a march at Bandon Dunes with the boys? And he was like, you will be. And he said he was.

[Will Compton]

He was about it.

[George Kittle]

Oh, yeah. He goes, yeah, he's. Don't be an idiot. I was, like, sick. Like, I don't know if I can hit a driver yet, but in a boot, I can hit up to. I can go eight. I can go eight iron and n. And then I have the automatic club that shoots at 260.

[Will Compton]

So what's Claire mad about?

[George Kittle]

I mean, I didn't get to play in the Playoff game. I ruined the golf. Still, I don't think my wife cares that much. Yeah, I don't think my wife cares that much about my golf game.

[Taylor Lawan]

She heard the question come up. We asked a question. He's now hurting. We. Or I asked the question.

[George Kittle]

There it is.

[Will Compton]

Huh?

[Taylor Lawan]

I can see why.

[George Kittle]

I will say this. I don't hold anything against the boys. I'm. I am a big boys. I'm. Well, I. No, that's everybody in here.

[Taylor Lawan]

I couldn't believe you got it over here.

[Will Compton]

Trying to. Trying to stay out of this.

[Taylor Lawan]

Well, taking a tackle like that.

[George Kittle]

Someone asked, I think I.

[Taylor Lawan]

Because when you went down and you didn't get up, I kind of. Before I knew it was an Achilles, I'm watching, and I kind of chuckle. I'm like, joe, get up. You can't go out like this. Like, that wasn't even a. Yeah, no.

[George Kittle]

The.

[Taylor Lawan]

So you didn't get up.

[George Kittle]

My. My biggest thing behind it was like, people like, well, why did it happen? Because I had, like, these. Rehab. You were like, what? Like, what occurred? Like, what were you doing that was wrong? I'm like, I don't know, dude. It was week 20 of an NFL season.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

My body's broken down.

[Will Compton]

Really.

[George Kittle]

Like, my biggest thing that I thought it was was when I played the Colts on Monday Night Football. I. I tore, like, two ligaments in my ankle. And then I heard it again because I kept playing on it. And so then I was, like, very lopsided or I was compensating really bad. So I think it was a. I think that was a big part of it, too. Like, I was compensating for the last three weeks on one ankle. And, like, this was. All the weight was on my right side. I was basically running. Everything was on my right side then. Plus, it was a weird position. I was like, yeah, I mean, that'd be my best guess. Like, I don't know. Besides it being week 20.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Did you feel like, any soreness in your Achilles?

[George Kittle]

No.

[Will Compton]

We had a guy, Charlie Whitehurst, on the tight. His biggest fear was the Achilles tear.

[George Kittle]

If I was terrified of. My dad tore both of his at the age of 50.

[Will Compton]

Really?

[George Kittle]

I beat him. Damn it.

[Will Compton]

He sat there and he was like, damn, if he had a sore Achilles, he wouldn't practice that day. Like, that's how fearful he was of tearing his Achilles.

[Taylor Lawan]

Achilles is scary.

[George Kittle]

I mean, I had double Achilles tennosis back in 2021, and every mean. Like, every step felt like I had knives and razor blades in my Achilles. Both Sides. And I was like, please. And like, every. Because I. I practiced every day. Didn't miss a single day, but every step I was like, don't go down. Like, please. Please, God.

[Will Compton]

No doubt.

[George Kittle]

Somehow survived the whole season, though.

[Will Compton]

Survive the whole thing. Sure. And pull up that thing again because we have to do a little call back here real quick. Boom. Yes. Is theoretically possible to be under general anesthesia. Experience anesthesia awareness where the patient wakes up, hears conversation, or feel sensation during surgery. Thanks for putting that only one to two out of a thousand.

[George Kittle]

That's. I wish I was at one out of a million.

[Will Compton]

Right? I thought it was. I was that way bigger than that.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's kind of low.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, it's kind of low.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's kind of feels like 10%.

[George Kittle]

This is your friend. Guys,

[Will Compton]

What do we have to do to Claire? What do we have to do for Claire?

[George Kittle]

We have to do my wife.

[Will Compton]

Whoa, whoa. What do we have to do for Claire for us to patch up this relationship.

[George Kittle]

Yep. You guys can come to Titan you and be our host of Titan you for the day of practice.

[Will Compton]

Host of Titan you.

[George Kittle]

We're doing it live from Vanderbilt Stadium with an open crowd.

[Will Compton]

What, you want us to host it? Do we get to wear what we want?

[Taylor Lawan]

What does that mean?

[Will Compton]

Like, have headsets on? Like, are we commentating it?

[George Kittle]

I think you guys, like, walk around. You'd be like, MCs of practice. Like, you just go around and interact with the whole crowd or, like, and interview guys on the field.

[Will Compton]

And this is how we would make it up to Claire.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes, William, I'm in.

[Will Compton]

Okay. We're in. Return to you maybe have a conversation about it, but. Yep, we'll do it.

[George Kittle]

Sick.

[Taylor Lawan]

Where's Bruce at?

[George Kittle]

June 23rd is the practice day.

[Will Compton]

Perfect.

[George Kittle]

That's a Tuesday.

[Will Compton]

Taylor's birthday is 21st. I can do that.

[George Kittle]

Well, you should just take her to the Titan you and friends concert on. That's the Same day, the 23rd.

[Will Compton]

We do we know who our guests are going to be?

[George Kittle]

Actually all like, I. I will be cold calling about 20 artists here in the next two weeks.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey, but is the one gonna be there?

[George Kittle]

I cannot confirm. Or to die.

[Taylor Lawan]

I mean.

[George Kittle]

But so, like this thing last year when Travis told me that Taylor was coming, like, to tighten you, I was like, that's sick. If she wants to go to anything, here's the events that we have planned. And she showed up to everything. And then the only reason that she sang was because my mom and Claire's mom, we're like, you should totally sing and, like, kind of bullied her into doing that. No one bullies Taylor Swift. I'm kidding. But. But then, because then, because Taylor did it, we got Luke Combs to do it, too. That's the funniest thing, too, is, like, Luke Combs saying, buy dirt, and. And then two artists later, Taylor Swift comes out and just brings the house down. I've never actually heard a venue be that loud before.

[Will Compton]

That was awesome.

[Taylor Lawan]

It was incredible.

[Will Compton]

She owned the stage, too. She knew exactly what she was doing, how she was doing it.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, she's incredible.

[Will Compton]

She's a pro. Yeah, she's a true outlier.

[Taylor Lawan]

I like to envision tight end. You. They're just in the. They're in the war room. They're like, we need to get Taylor Swift, and we got to get busting with the boys.

[Will Compton]

If we didn't get these two dominoes to fall, that's how we outdo next year. So we're in June 23rd. We'll be emceeing live at Vanderbilt practice facility.

[George Kittle]

No, with the stadium.

[Will Compton]

Vanderbilt stadium?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, live as a make right for.

[Will Compton]

As a make right for Claire.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. All right. And she might have other demands past that, but you guys already agreed.

[Will Compton]

Well, hold on.

[George Kittle]

No, no, no.

[Will Compton]

I asked what do we have to do to make it right? And you said this one thing.

[George Kittle]

No, no, no, no. I said this would help. Don't go back and check.

[Will Compton]

Run it back. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did it.

[George Kittle]

They already added to the schedule.

[Taylor Lawan]

See, we got the boys on top of it.

[Will Compton]

Yep. God, we're in it. All right. We can do that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dude, we're lifers for tight in you.

[George Kittle]

I'm a lifer for the bus, for the boys.

[Will Compton]

That's my boy right there. That is my boy. Yes. We want to get some questions for sure.

[George Kittle]

Okay.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, also another one. So you talked about tampering earlier.

[George Kittle]

Oh, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

There's a clip that came out last week after you guys signed Dre Greenlaw.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Were you in an interview and you're like, oh, maybe.

[George Kittle]

I had no idea.

[Taylor Lawan]

Maybe old friends.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. I was just trying to be interesting. I have no idea. Okay, well, dude, I got it. I got asked about Debo, like, 10 times Super bowl week, and I think that was just later in my interview. So I just like, oh, yeah, we might sign some old people back. Because I was just tired of getting asked about if we're going to sign Debo or not. I have no idea. They don't call me and ask.

[Taylor Lawan]

Got you. They do not care what my Opinion is in there.

[Will Compton]

He doesn't want. Yeah, they don't get you in the war room or anything like that.

[George Kittle]

No.

[Taylor Lawan]

Getting Dre back, though, is huge.

[George Kittle]

I was a huge fan of that. I mean, one. He's fantastic when he's on the field. He makes everybody around him better. Like, I've never. I've never seen a player play with more juice than he does. And the cool thing is, like, you look at Fred Warner, who's an amazing football player, but, like, Dre makes him even better because Fred can feed off of his juice. And then they just are like, you know, the Bash Brothers or whatever they call them.

[Will Compton]

I love that.

[George Kittle]

And so, like, that they call themselves. Yeah. So, like, I'm just. I'm very. Look, I'm looking forward to dragger in on. On our football field again.

[Will Compton]

Put me on some Robert Sala lore.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, actually, I've been. Can I text Robert Sala? Is that. Is that tampering? I don't know.

[Taylor Lawan]

Can you shoot him a message right now? All right.

[George Kittle]

Okay, good, good. No, but shoot him a FaceTime. Sal has been.

[Will Compton]

Call him. Dude.

[George Kittle]

He's a big golf guy, and so I've been helping him look at golf clubs in the Nashville area, and.

[Will Compton]

Okay, nice.

[George Kittle]

I already, like. He went golfing with my strength coach, Josh and Rob Tanyan. He went golfing with them the other day and had a great time. He loves golf.

[Will Compton]

Loves, loves it.

[Taylor Lawan]

What is. What does Nashville have to look forward to? You know, he's an absolute sickle for the Titans.

[George Kittle]

Let's see. I would say this year, I. I talked. I talked to Salah more this year than I did in the four years that I was with them. I'm talking, like, twice a week. I would just go sit in his office from anywhere from five to 30 minutes, and we would just talk. He's a big conspiracy theory guy. I'll say that.

[Will Compton]

Love that.

[George Kittle]

Loves conspiracy.

[Taylor Lawan]

Big year for the conspiracy theories.

[George Kittle]

Yes, it is. But he. Oh, this is me giving Robert Sala smelling salt. So he's one of the boys for sure. What do you have to look forward to? He knows how to inspire. He has great, great messaging. I think he's. I mean, he kind of. And I mean, he's part of the invention of that, like, defense that he coaches. And I think. I mean, our defense was mauled by injuries, and we somehow. He was a part of us winning 13 games. Like, he knows how to put people in good positions to succeed. I think you give him, like. I think the Titans are going to do Good by him and give him a lot of. Of, I don't know, like, control of his team. And I think when he wants to run the team that way, he wants to do it. Just give him some time. And I think he's gonna really put some good games out there. I really do. Especially, I mean, you guys, Cam Ward's a hell of a football player. Like, he's special.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Brian Dable is in there too. Like, they got.

[George Kittle]

Oh, yeah. So, like, I, I mean, the Titans are gonna be good. I just, this is my thing. Like my friend. My rookie year with Shanahan, we started the year off 0 and 9. We were 1 in 10 and we won what, five straight games in the season. And then the next year we had a couple injuries. We were 4 and 12. So it's just like, just give him a couple years because be becoming a good team in the NFL is incredibly difficult unless you already have a stacked roster. But he does not have a stacked roster.

[Will Compton]

That's not. Shanahan went, no.

[George Kittle]

So like, just give him a couple years. Like, don't, don't get. He's gonna turn the. He's gonna, he's gonna turn around. He's gonna drive the bus in the right direction.

[Will Compton]

That, yeah, we don't make those decisions. But yeah, if it was up to us, we definitely give him a lot more time.

[George Kittle]

Him.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's getting several years.

[George Kittle]

That's what I think.

[Will Compton]

We'll give him a half decade.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Five years. Show us what you can do.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I. I mean, I love listening to him talk like early in my career, like, Shanahan would let him talk the team like the night before games and stuff like that and I always enjoyed his conversations. But the crazy thing for me though, like, I've never had a defensive coach as my head coach. Like, I've always had Shanahan. And so like meetings are ran a certain way. So like, I mean, people always tell me, like defensive coaches, this run, like their mindset for teams is different than an offensive offensive coach. So I don't know what that's going to be like. But overall, like, I have a ton of respect for Sol and you know how he operates on a day to day basis.

[Taylor Lawan]

You look at the Seahawks and Mike McDonald, defensive minded cat.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, it works now. They were a good team when he got him and then they just got way better. They draft really well up there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And Sammy D. Out.

[Taylor Lawan]

Seahawks are nice.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, they are.

[Will Compton]

They won the Super Bowl.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. But with even going in next year with George being a Niner. I'm just saying, like, Seahawks are nice.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, they're a great team. And they. I. I think the Seahawks have.

[Taylor Lawan]

They're my favorite in that division.

[George Kittle]

I think your favorite team or like the team that you pick to win the most games.

[Taylor Lawan]

Team I picked to win the most games.

[George Kittle]

Hey, look, your gambling guide is what it is.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Just like. Just like on Nebraska's. You know, they're five and a half.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay.

[George Kittle]

Wins next season.

[Taylor Lawan]

All right.

[George Kittle]

So, I mean. Yeah, you pick whatever team you want to back, man.

[Taylor Lawan]

Made a real person with that one.

[Will Compton]

Have you guys made good on your guys. Bets together from the last game?

[Taylor Lawan]

What did we have last game?

[George Kittle]

I don't even. I don't think we even talked about the Iowa game. The Iowa. Nebraska game.

[Will Compton]

Football. That's how, you know it's gotten bad. Like, there's got to be, like.

[Taylor Lawan]

He went on. He went on a PR tour on Scott Van Pelt.

[Will Compton]

That's right. That's right.

[George Kittle]

That was a hell of a promo.

[Taylor Lawan]

That was a great.

[George Kittle]

That was completely.

[Taylor Lawan]

I would.

[George Kittle]

I was on. The only heads up I had on that whole thing was right before I go on, he goes, hey, George, you want me to tee you up to go off on Will Compton? And I said, sure, Team me up. And then I just. I felt good about it and I just kept rolling. It was so much fun.

[Will Compton]

I feel like it's getting to the point where, like, Nebraska needs to win a couple.

[George Kittle]

Well, I mean. Yeah. What is.

[Taylor Lawan]

Is what it is. That is correct.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you gotta. We had to win a couple that way. It's like we got a rivalry back. They're talking about rivalries.

[George Kittle]

Still think about the old athletic director saying that Iowa has to win a couple games before they get to set the big. The big kids table with us. And now, ever since then, I think the record is like 12 and 2 in the last 14 years. So.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, look, we gotta win one.

[George Kittle]

I don't even. Not like Nebraska. I just don't like your old athletic director because I just. Why would you say that? Yeah, it is what it is. We don't dive into that one.

[Taylor Lawan]

He cashed a check his ass can't cash or something, whatever that saying is. Yeah, he wrote a check his ass couldn't cash.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

This one comes from Johnny Toner at Tone or Johnny George.

[George Kittle]

That's clever cover.

[Will Compton]

What would be your stat line if you. If Will had to cover you for a full game?

[George Kittle]

How many targets do I get?

[Will Compton]

You get 12 targets.

[Taylor Lawan]

He wouldn't get 12. That's what everybody's missing. He might pop one.

[George Kittle]

I'd go 11 for 12 and the only non catch would be an overthrow. And is this like true one on one or does he get help over the top?

[Will Compton]

One of one on one. Oh, this is you guys. You guys spread him out. He tries to check rat. The coach goes, no, we got a bad coaching staff.

[Taylor Lawan]

We got to do some internal work here.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, that's like when Iowa played Christian McCaffrey in the Rose bowl. And we thought putting a linebacker on him one on one the whole game was a good idea. He broke every record.

[Taylor Lawan]

Did you get on the field when we played against each other.

[George Kittle]

Special teams, probably a couple reps.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Look at the best of me.

[George Kittle]

What yard line are we throwing from?

[Will Compton]

Is it the first game you're playing the game?

[George Kittle]

150 minimum.

[Will Compton]

How many touchdowns?

[Taylor Lawan]

What's the most you had in the game?

[Will Compton]

Three.

[George Kittle]

Three is my most. Yeah, three. I know. I mean like, because like someone else is going to tackle me. Like, unfortunately I. I don't run a 4, 3 40. So other people are going to catch me at some point.

[Taylor Lawan]

I mean, I'd hawk you.

[George Kittle]

No. What?

[Taylor Lawan]

He's a 4, 5 guy. I'd be playing chess. So like you'd already be on my fantasy team. So I wouldn't even sweat it.

[George Kittle]

He'd have a hell of a parlay set up for me.

[Will Compton]

People come to Will in the locker.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm like, get cook this game.

[George Kittle]

He's gonna, he'd look at it, be like, okay, over on catches, over on yards, over on touchdowns. Three touchdowns. Score $10. Win a TH000.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Easy.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Go viral. Get popped, get locked up. Go out a legend.

[Will Compton]

Go out a legend. Go out with a massive bag.

[George Kittle]

You leave the locker room with a briefcase.

[Will Compton]

Yes. Fandom meets you on the outside.

[George Kittle]

Hey, good job, Will. Oh, yeah. Look at that thing.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. McCaffrey going off.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, that was. I was on the sideline for that one. That was really fun.

[Will Compton]

That is just crazy. Him too. Putting the team on his back. This year you try. I try to go.

[George Kittle]

So this is four. He had 431 touches, which I don't know when's the last time someone had that many touches in an NFL season besides a quarterback? I have no idea. He's. He's incredible. Like the way he takes care of his body, his mindset, everything that he does, how he prepares, he is a true one of one creature.

[Will Compton]

Is Christian part the number one most health conscious guy on the team?

[George Kittle]

Just like he does anything that Is legal for him to do to stay healthy and be on a football field? Like he.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's somebody that does something illegal? Well, it's currently on the roster.

[George Kittle]

On this bus or on the roster? Not me on the roster. Oh, no one that I'm aware of.

[Will Compton]

Dude, will, just.

[Taylor Lawan]

Let's go a little deeper. Who does some illegal on. I don't know when Taylor asked that question. Are you thinking in your head, like, I probably take care of myself the best out of everybody on the team

[George Kittle]

between. I think me and Christian probably go the most above and beyond. Like, trying to. Trying new things, spending money on it. Like, I think us to probably go the above and beyond.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, what'd you pay for that alter G? What are the. What are those?

[George Kittle]

I'm renting it for two months.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, nice.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Which actually isn't that cheap either, but I mean, I think the ultra GS are like 40 grand, which is. I thought it'd be significantly more than that, but I'm just renting it for a couple months.

[Will Compton]

What does Trent Williams do for his body?

[George Kittle]

Sleeps.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a dude that just has to wake up.

[Will Compton]

I mean, I envision Trent Williams like a. Like a vampire. Like, what are the vampires sleeping? What are those things called? A coffin cough on these nuts? Dude. Yes.

[George Kittle]

That was good.

[Taylor Lawan]

Damn.

[George Kittle]

You got that one.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, my God. Yeah, that surprised me.

[George Kittle]

Did anybody else

[Will Compton]

sitting on that boy right there?

[George Kittle]

Thank you, boys. Thank you. Thank you. That was good.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's a hats off.

[Will Compton]

Thank you. Thank you.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Damn, my heart was racing too. When you said probably just sleeps. I'm like, here we go.

[George Kittle]

How many have you used that before?

[Will Compton]

I tried to use in the locker room. They didn't think it worked. In my mind, it worked. I'm two for two. I'm two for two on the vampire. And I like, looked around like, hey, guys. There was like, I guess. No, no, that one.

[Taylor Lawan]

That was that example right there. Now you can go side by side and see, like, why we don't got to do that.

[Will Compton]

Don't clip that.

[Taylor Lawan]

That was a plus, us.

[George Kittle]

That was great. Delivery was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it, man.

[Will Compton]

I don't even know what else we can do in this podcast anymore.

[Taylor Lawan]

God damn.

[Will Compton]

But yeah, Trent, he doesn't do for his body.

[George Kittle]

My. My next. My next three days are just going to think about that moment. Just turmoil in my brain.

[Taylor Lawan]

Son of a.

[George Kittle]

Son of a bread biscuit. That. The. The crazy thing about Trent is that he literally sleeps and he like, well, Casey, this is the thing that Trent does. That People don't see when he's in a. When he's in a gym, he trains so hard. Like, it's like he doesn't practice on Wednesdays, but he's in there for two hours on Wednesday doing every workout possible. Super high weights, explosive movements, box jumps. I mean, watching him lift is a credit. Crazy, crazy, crazy thing to see. So. But, like, that's kind of what he does for his body.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's currently. There's a negotiation going on right now.

[George Kittle]

I've no idea anything about it. You guys act like I have the insider information on a lot of this stuff.

[Taylor Lawan]

As you're talking about, I started thinking about my head. I was like, oh, yeah. I did see him come across my timeline for. I don't even know what it is.

[Will Compton]

Can't lose track, man. Can't lose Trent. So the wheels fall off with Trent. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. I mean, he's still the best. What he does.

[Will Compton]

He said two hall of Fame careers on two different teams.

[George Kittle]

That's pretty cool.

[Will Compton]

That is pretty badass.

[George Kittle]

God damn. Wouldn't that be nice?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, right. Him and who else, Tom?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, maybe.

[Will Compton]

Essentially it. I mean, dude, he really is the goat.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Who else? Anybody?

[Will Compton]

Christian played on one team. Sherwin. Yeah. CMC's a good one.

[Taylor Lawan]

What are we. What's.

[Will Compton]

The guys that have played for two separate teams have had probably two separate hall of Fame careers.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. I mean, you got CMC raining Moss. Did ball with the Patriots.

[Will Compton]

Did ball with the Patriots. How long did he.

[Taylor Lawan]

How long? Yeah, how long was he with the Patriots, though? I don't think he was.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but it's like three or four years ain't gonna do it.

[George Kittle]

Was that the year they, like, how

[Will Compton]

long Trump played with The Redskins? Like nine. Because he's in like year 16 or 17 now, right?

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Eight or nine, I think. Yeah. Gosh, dude.

[Will Compton]

Patriots.

[George Kittle]

AP in his prime was so sick. Oh, yeah. What about Peyton?

[Will Compton]

One year at the Broncos or two year?

[George Kittle]

He was there for like five years.

[Will Compton]

No, he wasn't. Was he really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. He went to two Super Bowls. He was there at least four years.

[Will Compton]

Peyton Manning.

[Taylor Lawan]

There's some. There's some brain stuff that happens on this bus. It's all good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I used all my powers in the deez nuts joke. I'm. I'm cooked now.

[George Kittle]

Four years.

[Will Compton]

Okay. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

He balls with the Broncos too.

[Will Compton]

He did.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. It wasn't the year they were the high. The year they lost to the Seahawks and Super Bowl. They're the number one offense. That was when the opening night, didn't he throw for six touchdown passes? I would love to just be in a game like that where my quarterback throws seven touchdown passes. Like, how fun would that be?

[Will Compton]

God, Imagine being in that game and not being a guy that caught a touchdown.

[George Kittle]

That'd be so tough.

[Will Compton]

But that's really great for everybody else.

[George Kittle]

So happy for everybody.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. That's insane. Seven of them, huh? Peyton, couldn't come this way at all, could you?

[George Kittle]

That was like, we played the Cardinals a couple years ago, and Christian had four touchdowns, one rushing and three receiving. And then, like, me, Debo and Iuk were just like, hey, I'll take one.

[Will Compton]

Listen, you brought up a guy just now. Ayuk, what's the deal, man?

[George Kittle]

Oh, let's see. Speak totally freely. Uninhibited.

[Will Compton]

Unhibited. No one's listening to the show.

[George Kittle]

No one's listening to the show.

[Will Compton]

Driving by stadiums at 98 miles an hour. Hour.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I don't know about that. The last time I saw a UK was because he was kind of at training camp, kind of not. And then he was, like, in and out of the building throughout, like, those first couple weeks. And I started going out to, like, see him, like, in the weight room, because he didn't go into the locker room or the train room anymore. So he would just go to the weight room to do his rehab.

[Taylor Lawan]

And was this, like, the, like, a holdout thing he was doing?

[George Kittle]

No, this was. This was this past year. Like, he, like, he was under contract. This was. Yeah, the year after this was this past season. So there's no holdout or anything like that. And I just got there and talked to him because I didn't go to meetings or anything like that. And so I was like. I just talked to him like, hey, let him know that, hey, I'm your guy. Like, just letting know I love you. And then literally, like, I started doing that call week six. I don't really know what week it was. And then literally a week later, that story came out, like, all the crazy stuff. And then I didn't see him again.

[Will Compton]

Really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. So, like, I don't really. I don't. Like, that's not something I bring up to, like, John lynch and Kyle Shanahan very often. Like. Like, that's on you guys. And I just try to be there for the players if there's something going on because, you know, like, you always want to be there for the boys. But, like, I. I don't know. I. I don't know. I don't have A, I don't know what's going on with Brandon. Like, I don't know what he's thinking about or you know, what he's thinking. So I, I, I really have no idea.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's harder when you see a guy struggling and you don't know all the pieces and you just want to help. Help?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, Like, I just, hey, man, like, we played together for four years now. Like, I love you, I love playing football with you. How can I help? And then like, literally two days later the article comes out and I don't see him again. So just like, all right. He did text me though, after I got hurt.

[Will Compton]

Did he?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Said, thinking of you.

[Will Compton]

Good teammate.

[George Kittle]

Said, thanks, dude.

[Will Compton]

Good teammate.

[George Kittle]

That was. Yeah, so I haven't really talked to him. So like, I, I really don't know. No clue.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, we have a question here from Josh Evans. George, if you could steal one ability from any current NFL player, who would it be and what would it and what would it be?

[George Kittle]

Any ability. I mean, can you imagine being 245 and having tire kill speed?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it'd be pretty nice.

[George Kittle]

That'd be really, that'd be really cool.

[Will Compton]

That'd be awesome. Yeah, I think, I think that's Kenyan Sadiq, Right?

[George Kittle]

Is that the new tight end coming out?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

What are you in, like a 4 4?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, something crazy.

[George Kittle]

4 3, right?

[Taylor Lawan]

439.

[Will Compton]

439.

[George Kittle]

Vernon ran a 438, right? Or 436.

[Will Compton]

Dude, that's nuts. Even when you see that's a DK.

[George Kittle]

No, it's insane.

[Will Compton]

You look at him in pads, you're like, Jesus Christ. Built in the lap.

[Taylor Lawan]

How big is he? Yeah, how big a boy is he?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Get some eyes. Get Compton eyes on that body real quick. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Does he.

[Will Compton]

That kind of speed would be awesome.

[Taylor Lawan]

Good quads.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I think, I mean, that would just be fun. What?

[Will Compton]

He doesn't bad anything, buddy. You've seen this dude. He's the dude that wears like kind of the Michael Bennett pads. But they look good.

[George Kittle]

You said that 10 seconds ago.

[Will Compton]

Who did? Oh, did you really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Loud enough too for everyone to hear it.

[Will Compton]

There you go.

[George Kittle]

That's actually. Dude, Taylor, what are you doing?

[Will Compton]

Think about that joke. I got. I'm kind of done. I'm kind of done now. Dude, I'm kind of over it. Look at that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, yeah. It's a good looking cat.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Hey. He didn't want to see the top half. He wants to see the bottom half. Show him the Dies.

[George Kittle]

Just type in his legs. Yeah, didn't he. I mean, he said like three combine records.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Some guys are just freaky, man.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's twitchy.

[Will Compton]

Twitchy. Twitchy.

[Taylor Lawan]

Good cast.

[George Kittle]

Do you see college football? The NCB has made it. You have to wear socks now. You can't go calves out.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. How do you feel about that?

[George Kittle]

I mean, when I was in Iowa, you were required to wear the. The half striped socks.

[Will Compton]

Oh, really?

[George Kittle]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

We were always required to wear the knee braces. But the sock thing, I always thought it was kind of cool. The little skin show.

[George Kittle]

I'm indifferent to it. If guys want to do it. I never really cared. Like, oh, we want everybody to look the same.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I just hope they don't go to the knee pad thing. I like how guys can kind of have the knee.

[George Kittle]

I mean, you can't in the NFL.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. You can't at all. No, no, you get find a lot. I think they changed that.

[Taylor Lawan]

College football.

[Will Compton]

Am I wrong with the sock thing? You have to have your knees covered now you have your knees covered also. I believe I could be wrong, but I think that's what they're trying.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, that's top of shoe to bottom of the pants is what it says right there.

[Taylor Lawan]

What's the. What's the biggest find you've taken?

[George Kittle]

My Dallas T shirt. That was like 16 grand. And then the best thing was Bud Light paid it.

[Will Compton]

Really?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes, he did, man.

[Will Compton]

God, that's awesome.

[Taylor Lawan]

Clean, crisp.

[Will Compton]

I Venmo'd you15, I think that day when it happened.

[Taylor Lawan]

As an Eagles fan, fun fact.

[Will Compton]

As an Eagles, like Jeremy Clump. Very nice. True story. Jeremy Clump did that. Any more questions for George?

[George Kittle]

I gotta go back.

[Taylor Lawan]

There's one right here from Florida Gator. I haven't read this one yet. Has he ever felt like his last name Kittle is just a little bit gay? Because I do not like a whole lot gay, but definitely a little bit. Okay.

[Will Compton]

Your gaze got quieter and quieter.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, just kind of read most.

[Will Compton]

You're just. You're reading a comment. Those aren't Will Compton's words.

[George Kittle]

Like an orientation or like happy?

[Will Compton]

That's for you to decide.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, no, I don't think so.

[Will Compton]

You don't think it's at all either of those?

[George Kittle]

Respect the Grateful Dead. Respect the Grateful Dead. No, not that I'm aware of. I mean, Lawan lay on these nuts. I don't know.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's trying to get back in the

[Will Compton]

game a little bit. He's trying to walk up back to the.

[George Kittle]

No, I Haven't. Is that your Burner account?

[Will Compton]

No.

[Taylor Lawan]

No.

[George Kittle]

Is that the bus with the boys? Burner. You tweet your own question.

[Will Compton]

Listen,

[George Kittle]

That's definitely. Yeah, that's. That's.

[Will Compton]

Or Mikida. Just wanted to know.

[George Kittle]

I don't think so.

[Will Compton]

All right.

[Taylor Lawan]

I think your last name's Gay.

[Will Compton]

What do you think? What do you think to that question, Will?

[Taylor Lawan]

Do you think I like Kittle? Makes me think of Skittles.

[Will Compton]

Nice. Yeah, it does.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I've always thought that.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

So I have a good.

[George Kittle]

What does Compton make you think of?

[Taylor Lawan]

Compton goes hard.

[Will Compton]

Compton does go hard, man.

[Taylor Lawan]

It is good.

[George Kittle]

Great.

[Taylor Lawan]

Gangster.

[Will Compton]

All right, let's get the out of here.

[George Kittle]

That's a wild question.

[Will Compton]

What was. What's question?

[George Kittle]

No, this. The Gator one.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[George Kittle]

Oh. Favorite Iowa City bar and food spot. The bar that I would always go to back in the day was Summit. I had a great time there. Drank a lot of beverages there. Still have a good relationship with the owner. He sends me like a care package once a year with all the new T shirts.

[Taylor Lawan]

Nice.

[George Kittle]

Absolutely love it. He loved me. Yeah, he loved me and C.J. bethard. Well, I mean, C.J. was like the golden boy of Iowa though. When you go 120 as a quarterback, people kind of like you.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, yeah.

[George Kittle]

Let's see. Food spot. Pancheros is what, you know, that started, you know, remember Ponch?

[Will Compton]

Poncho is the Mexican spot.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, the.

[Will Compton]

The Chipotle esque place.

[George Kittle]

Way better. But yes, I agree.

[Will Compton]

It's better. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Hey, George, could chime in with some of the. The Nashville cuisine.

[George Kittle]

I just got into chili burritos down there in Brentwood. Have you guys had that yet? It is.

[Taylor Lawan]

What is your overall thoughts on.

[Will Compton]

Can I just say, okay to say one thing about chili burrito.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I had the one in Brentwood, so.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Right over there. By Resilient. I was underwhelmed.

[Will Compton]

Underwhelmed.

[George Kittle]

I've gone there four times now and I've had a great experience all four times.

[Will Compton]

Taylor, you went to chili burrito and did not get a break burrito though, correct? Yeah, he had tacos. My daughter got.

[George Kittle]

It's called burrito.

[Will Compton]

Okay. And T, why do you have it in the menu if it's not going to be good, bro? Go to Zips, dude. You're not going to find something on there you're not going to like.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dude, don't.

[Will Compton]

Don't all God me guys go to Zips. Have you been to Zips, George?

[Taylor Lawan]

Playing in San Fran.

[Will Compton]

Hey, hey, hey. Have you Been to Zips.

[George Kittle]

I don't even know what that is.

[Will Compton]

Go ahead.

[Taylor Lawan]

George, you come from a great city of cuisine out in Francisco. What are your overall thoughts on Nashville's food scene?

[George Kittle]

I love Nashville's food scene. I mean, I went from, I went from Iowa to Oklahoma to my rookie year there and then I was here since. And I mean, like, I had never had a barbecue taco before and that opened my eyes. I have a barbecue catfish taco from Edley's. Kind of gas.

[Taylor Lawan]

I live brisket tacos. Very good. Good.

[George Kittle]

I lived at Ed.

[Will Compton]

Very good.

[George Kittle]

My first like three offseasons here, I had Edley's twice a week. So, like, I thoroughly enjoy Nashville food.

[Will Compton]

What's your take on Nashville? Mexican food.

[George Kittle]

We talked about this. I chimed in already.

[Will Compton]

Did you?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I texted you, I text you a place to take your kids out by my house.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

El Jardines.

[Will Compton]

It's fantastic. I don't know, maybe if you want to publicly say it, but yeah, I would go there.

[George Kittle]

I might go there for lunch today. Who knows? They make margaritas that are like this big. It's fantastic.

[Will Compton]

They really.

[George Kittle]

It's like $8.

[Will Compton]

God, that fires me. Sauce at a well decorated Mexican restaurant. That is.

[George Kittle]

This is something I would love to do. I would love to do this with the boys. I. I can't remember. I saw this like on Twitter six years ago and it was like something about just going to an Applebee's and just getting hammered with the boys. And I was like, I've wanted to do that for so long. Just go to the bar, order half priced apps, drink a lot of alcohol and just sit there at the bar at an Applebee's or a Chili's. Does that sound really fun?

[Will Compton]

It sounds like an amazing time.

[Taylor Lawan]

A lot of fun.

[Will Compton]

You know what the best time to do that is probably March Madness.

[George Kittle]

I am in. I'm in. Let's do it. I would love, I would love to go. Just give me a day. Give me like a Tuesday afternoon. I will be there. Does that sound like a great time, though?

[Taylor Lawan]

It does sound like a great time. I'll be honest.

[George Kittle]

Like show up at like, show up at like 11:30 noon. Get some apps, get some drinks. You like, you can take an Uber home at like 4:00'. Clock. 4 hours at the bar.

[Taylor Lawan]

Say like, keep them coming. We're going to be here a long time.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, do that Strawberry Marg. I want another.

[Will Compton]

Just four and a half hours of drinking with the boys.

[George Kittle]

Does that sound fantastic?

[Taylor Lawan]

Bud Light after Bud Light, kind of sounds nice.

[George Kittle]

I know. I got to go do rehab.

[Taylor Lawan]

He says he's going to be gone this.

[George Kittle]

This weekend and next week is. That's my abandoned trip. And so. But when I get back from that, I'll be here.

[Taylor Lawan]

Group chat will be up. We'll get it. We'll spark it up to talk through it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I'll tell you what, you're gonna have to be the one that I will, because I'm down, but I'm already thinking about the next day. I'm already thinking about being hungover, the kids being X, Y, and Z, but that's putting the kids down.

[George Kittle]

And hear me out, though. That's why you do it, like, noon, you're done drinking at 4, chug some waters by the end of it. You go to bed at a good time. Your next day is not that affected.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's got it. That's.

[Will Compton]

I'm not saying the day drinking is truly the move.

[George Kittle]

Oh.

[Will Compton]

But I'm just thinking about you and me because I know I'm. I'm a little more hesitant to it since I've had kids. We just gotta do it. I have to have, like, an IV lined up for the next day. Like, I'm 34.

[George Kittle]

We can do an IV that night, buddy.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm 36.

[Will Compton]

I know. Yeah. You could die from old age.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Oh, dude, I'm down to do this.

[George Kittle]

I thought you were 40, dude.

[Will Compton]

Weird thing to dap.

[Taylor Lawan]

I know. I. I don't know why.

[George Kittle]

I don't know why you got.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's been a bit of.

[George Kittle]

I have a blender pod, dude. I have a take.

[Taylor Lawan]

Just dap. Anytime somebody puts a hand out, I'm dapping, so.

[Will Compton]

Hell yeah, dude.

[George Kittle]

I wanted to do this Applebee's thing in California, but then I looked up the reviews for Applebee's and Chili's in, like, the Bay Area, and it was like, half a star.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's how it is, though, on those chains.

[George Kittle]

So.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

No, no, but like, in. Like in Iowa, and I'll tell you, probably in Nebraska. Applebee's was kind of nice. Like, you're looking at a three to four star review on most of those. And I was talking about this just the other day, and I came to the decision that I think that chain restaurants aren't as good in California because you can't just work that job because you can't afford to live there. And so it's like, constantly, like, you don't have the same, like, chef that's been there for 10 years. Like, you Do. There's an IHOP in Corville that's had like the same guy in the back. Corville, Iowa, that's had the same guy in the back since I was a little kid. So, like, he knows how to whip that shit up.

[Taylor Lawan]

Up.

[George Kittle]

But these other places in, like, California, like, the turnover is just so high because people can't work there very long because they can't afford to live anywhere.

[Will Compton]

A lot of turnover.

[George Kittle]

A lot of turnover. And so it's just like, that's why they have these terrible views because it's always someone random making your food. They don't know how to do it. The service is really slow. And like, they just. They never have enough people that work there. So, like, I don't know how these places are alive anymore because I went into one with Claire one time. Should. We walked in, we're like, yeah, that's not gonna happen. Turn around, walk right back out.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

So I'm hoping that. I'm hoping the ones in Nashville maybe are a little bit better.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Clean take when we talk about.

[George Kittle]

Right.

[Taylor Lawan]

But also, it's like when you. When you're growing up in, like, small town, middle of America, small town, usa, like, you, you're surprised when people like, oh, Applebee sucks.

[George Kittle]

You're just thinking, well, what are you talking about? Like, I'm pretty sure Texas Roadhouse is the best steakhouse in America.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

That's how I grew up. I was like, oh, we're going to Texas Roadhouse tonight. Oh, like, this is the greatest thing ever.

[Will Compton]

I want to stick on this Applebee's thing for a second.

[George Kittle]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

If there was. If a specific. Do you want to do Applebee's, Chili's? Do you want to go a little more Cinco de Mayo esque, B Dubs. I. I like B Dubs is kind of a hitter.

[George Kittle]

Oh, B Dubs is. Yeah. Great.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

You guys ever do Wingstop?

[Taylor Lawan]

Should we do some wings?

[Will Compton]

I got a package today.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I got a present from Wingstop. It was a giant. Their new 32 ounce ranch.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I have a bowl. It says Wingstop on it.

[George Kittle]

It.

[Will Compton]

That's awesome. White.

[George Kittle]

Their answer ranch is insane.

[Will Compton]

Hit so hard.

[George Kittle]

Let's just go to Little Caesars because that's one of my sponsors. We should just go there.

[Will Compton]

They don't have beers.

[George Kittle]

We could. We will bring beers.

[Will Compton]

Do we.

[George Kittle]

We'll run it out. Like Will's gonna run out.

[Will Compton]

Do we get somebody to sponsor Applebee's or Chili's? Just this possible vlog or maybe some Social stuff is just getting us getting tanked at this. Or do we just keep it boys?

[Taylor Lawan]

I was gonna say, what if we just. Just have a boys day.

[George Kittle]

Keep it, boys. Keep it, boys. That'd be hilarious. And then some. Just one selfie from the bar at the start and then at the end, just to see how banged up we are.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

The Chili's by Bandy. The bar scene there actually rips.

[George Kittle]

Oh, man.

[Taylor Lawan]

They have an active bar scene at that now.

[Will Compton]

Are you a table booth or bar guy?

[George Kittle]

I mean, just for this instance, I feel like we just take over the bar.

[Will Compton]

I like it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Here's what I want to say for all of our.

[Will Compton]

And I really. I want to make sure we nail it down, because I want to do this, but I need to be talked into doing this.

[George Kittle]

All right, cool, cool. I'll talk you into it. I'll talk you into bed too.

[Taylor Lawan]

I want to say this to protect us, because Claire's came after us about the clip we had.

[George Kittle]

Claire wants me to do this?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes. Now she does. But if there's any setback with George. Yeah, that's one thing. If it's vlogged, like, people. People will be like, oh, I'm just saying, like, just to protect us.

[George Kittle]

Oh, that's good. From Claire.

[Taylor Lawan]

If there's any setbacks, we could be the culprits.

[Will Compton]

No, we can play match right now. Right now. One crazy thing has happened.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That we. You said happened to George. If a second thing happens, it's. It's no good.

[Taylor Lawan]

We can't have fall micro. It sounds like a great. On the macro. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

I think you're saying this is the thing. I think you're thinking too hard. I know you have a big Nebraska brain, but.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

Are those blue light glasses? Glasses?

[Taylor Lawan]

They have some blue light.

[George Kittle]

Oh, nice.

[Will Compton]

Those are prescription. Prescription.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Taylor, put them on. He's like, yeah, my eyes hurt looking at those, dude.

[Will Compton]

I had those on for maybe a minute time. I still have a headache.

[George Kittle]

I know. Is it nice? Do you have good eyes?

[Taylor Lawan]

No.

[George Kittle]

You had surgery.

[Will Compton]

They're awful. Still haven't.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was curious if these would just help.

[Will Compton]

Like, I was kind of hoping when I put them on, I was like, man, I hope, like, all of a sudden, everything's clear. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can see everybody, but, like, the font, like, dude, hey, look.

[Taylor Lawan]

I could see people.

[Will Compton]

I could see people. But, like, these outlines of people. Super details. And, like, driving at night, buddy. It's not great. Scary. It is not great.

[Taylor Lawan]

Use a little toot no, no, no.

[Will Compton]

You did a hard lean. I thought you were hitting a tooth on me.

[Taylor Lawan]

A little adjust. I had, like, a wedgie.

[George Kittle]

So we need to.

[Will Compton]

We need to figure out. We need to hit the group chat. We need to find a day.

[Taylor Lawan]

We're not gonna do it, though.

[Will Compton]

We're not gonna do it.

[Taylor Lawan]

We're gonna keep this one off the books.

[Will Compton]

Off the books. We're keeping above board.

[George Kittle]

In a couple Tuesdays from now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, for sure. Tuesday, huh?

[George Kittle]

Because Wednesdays are my easy day.

[Will Compton]

Okay, then we got to make sure that Wednesdays are easy day.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Like, we're structuring around George.

[Will Compton]

Like. Yeah, yeah. It's got to be around George. 11. 11 to 5. So we're saying 11 to 5. 11 to 4.

[George Kittle]

You do 12 to 4 for all I care.

[Taylor Lawan]

Earlier.

[George Kittle]

I mean, if it's during March Madness,

[Will Compton]

I'm thinking, like, 9 to 3.

[George Kittle]

Schedule the timing around the games a

[Will Compton]

couple weeks from now.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

We're not basketball. Your game's still happening a couple weeks.

[Will Compton]

We. We are basketball.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

We'll have a sweet 16 at least.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Which Nebraska.

[Will Compton]

But that's a night time. That's a night time.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, you're right. We'll figure something else against Florida.

[Will Compton]

I wonder if, like, Chili's or Applebee's, like, let us, like, play games or something maybe, because it kind of. What if we just go to somebody's house?

[George Kittle]

We have beer. No, the. The point of it.

[Will Compton]

You're right. You're right, you're right. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

The point of it's to go to a Chili's and. Or Apple.

[Taylor Lawan]

We just go to Miles.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Just get hammered in my backyard.

[George Kittle]

Let's do beer Olympics. Sponsored by Applebee's.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

And Little Caesars.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you're right. You're right. Applebee's or Chili's.

[George Kittle]

What does BLQ mean?

[Will Compton]

Good question. That's a great question.

[George Kittle]

We could even get Bud Light to sponsor.

[Will Compton]

Oh.

[George Kittle]

Oh, Bud Light. Question of the day.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, question.

[George Kittle]

Some would say I'm Sherlock Holmes. I can deduce.

[Will Compton]

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[George Kittle]

Sure. I've watched one game this year, and it was one overtime. Iowa versus Nebraska, where Nebraska won. It's the only college basketball I've watched. I know anything.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, you got making the Final Four.

[Will Compton]

Oh, hey, Michigan's a one seed.

[George Kittle]

I think it's Michigan is. So they're gonna lose in the 16 probably. That's, you know, my. My goal is crazy shot. No, what I want. No, that was me. That was all I want. All I want are if four Big Ten teams could make it to the Final Four, I would. I love that. I love Big Ten dominance in these. In these situations. So, like, who are the one seeds?

[Will Compton]

Michigan.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was gonna have to get past

[Will Compton]

Michigan, Florida, Duke, Arizona.

[George Kittle]

All right, so I got Duke. I feel like. Is it Arizona? Not always a one seed.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but fun stab the shrimp. It was like no. 1 west of what? Where. Who. Kansas has won the. The national championship since 1989.

[George Kittle]

That's crazy.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I almost got all that out.

[George Kittle]

Oh, that's a fun little bracket. Is Vanderbilt good?

[Taylor Lawan]

Vanderbilt's nice. Yes, Vanderbilt's nice.

[George Kittle]

In the SEC Championship, they beat Florida. Oh, and Florida's a one.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Oh, that's cool. So are they hiring riding? Are they riding high and mighty, or did that one win first? Florida. Tank them.

[Taylor Lawan]

You're getting high.

[George Kittle]

Okay, cool.

[Taylor Lawan]

Good question for the. The inside the bus boys.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I don't know us.

[Taylor Lawan]

Your guess is as good as ours.

[Will Compton]

I think Michigan's really good State.

[George Kittle]

And they're in Martin Madness.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I think Michigan State's always. They're always good at basketball. Right.

[Taylor Lawan]

Michigan State's got one kid. Seems like.

[George Kittle]

Don't they have the one kid that kicks dudes in the dicks?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Michigan State.

[Will Compton]

Do they have a guy that kicks Dudes in the dicks. Oh, sure, sure. You got it. Pull it up. Pull up, pull up.

[George Kittle]

Well, it's been going on all year. That's the only thing. Because El Prez always talks about it.

[Will Compton]

Dude, Michigan State. Just a gross scroll. That's a gross place. East Lansing.

[George Kittle]

He's actually my old Titans coach from Iowa, who's still really close friend of mine. He was a special teams coordinator for Iowa and they've been like top two in the. In college football for the last six years. Yeah, that guy. But he just. He took the special teams coordinator job at Michigan State. He went in there with. Was it Fitzgerald?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

That's interesting.

[Taylor Lawan]

Fitzgerald.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Fitzgerald.

[Taylor Lawan]

Culture guy. They're over.

[Will Compton]

They're going to be better. They're going to be. They're. They're going to be a lot better this year. But they lost Childs.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, just.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, but I. Something about Patty Fitzgerald.

[Will Compton]

I know. Gritty wins. They'll have at least four gritty wins.

[George Kittle]

Is that that restaurant that Taylor was.

[Will Compton]

That's Zips. Yeah. Do you want to talk about Zips?

[George Kittle]

Where is it?

[Will Compton]

It's in the great state of Arizona, arguably the best state in all 50 states.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I don't really go to Arizona that often.

[Will Compton]

Oh, I thought you like golf anyway. Zips. You go to Zips.

[George Kittle]

I do. Love wecopa.

[Will Compton]

Buddy Monaco. Focaccia, extra jalapeno dipping sauce. That's what you're standing right there. And these will be the best wings you ever have in your life. You get the golden wings. Get the golden wings.

[George Kittle]

Sandwich.

[Will Compton]

Yep. You get the golden wings.

[George Kittle]

Is that a sandwich or a burrito?

[Will Compton]

That. Hey, that's the best question you can have possibly asked. Who knows? Dude, it's a focaccia. It's a focaccia. Golden wings. Medium, extra crispy, extra saucy. Get you some extra ranch, too, because the ranch goes hard.

[George Kittle]

I was sure. Do you think there's a way on your phone where you could, like, set a reminder and it only reminds you when you're in Arizona? Wouldn't that be a cool thing?

[Will Compton]

When's the last time you've been in Arizona besides football game?

[George Kittle]

Like three years. Bachelor party.

[Will Compton]

So you gotta get back. You gotta get back.

[George Kittle]

I like Arizona a lot.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Arizona's great.

[George Kittle]

Arizona. January, February, March. Fantastic. Even April.

[Will Compton]

Even April. Literally, October to April, you're living.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That's where you want to live in that time.

[George Kittle]

Hey, that's me and Peter Peaker. That's my guy. He played tight end at Iowa.

[Will Compton]

Nice.

[George Kittle]

Is that us at wecopa?

[Will Compton]

Could be. Could be. But next time you're in Zips, dude.

[George Kittle]

Is that. We go paw.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Will Compton]

And we have.

[George Kittle]

It takes you. I've been like four times. They have taken such elite care of me every time I go there.

[Will Compton]

What if we take. We fly to Arizona.

[George Kittle]

Yep, I'm in.

[Will Compton]

In the morning, go to Zips, have like 17 zipper readers between all of us and fly back same day.

[Taylor Lawan]

Put that. Add that to the list for the March Madness.

[George Kittle]

No, that sounds like.

[Will Compton]

No, not. Not the. Not the list. That'll never happen.

[Taylor Lawan]

But then we're saying that list is going to happen. It's our wish list. What.

[George Kittle]

What's your wish list?

[Taylor Lawan]

We just started building.

[Will Compton]

We just. Yeah, we started building in regards to what? Right now our wish list is. Luke Combs travels with us so we can put him through like, like different photo shoots with teams. Like, if you went to lsu, he's got like, the back plate on with the jersey and he does the gloves. It'll be awesome. We want that. And then this zips, there was other

[Taylor Lawan]

ones we had on there.

[George Kittle]

That's really cool.

[Taylor Lawan]

Once upon a time with the spring tour, the wish list was like, each spot we go to, we have like an alum.

[Will Compton]

We take you.

[George Kittle]

I would at a heartbeat. Anyway, be really fun. You can take me to. You take me to Michigan State because I know the special teams coordinator is my guy.

[Will Compton]

Well, I don't want to go to Michigan State.

[George Kittle]

I know, but you could. You could, like, big brother them so bad. Just walk around. Yeah, that's.

[Will Compton]

That's a place they'll. They'll. I think they'll actually rally on me, you know?

[George Kittle]

I mean, that'd be good content.

[Will Compton]

It would be good content.

[Taylor Lawan]

Will the COVID play like we're gonna.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but that'll happen.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's a wish list.

[Will Compton]

So that's. That's a. That's a going to happen thing, because it's already happened. The wish list. The zips trip to me. Like, if I hit the lottery and I only play the lottery when it's over a billion, I'll get the jet.

[George Kittle]

You guys ever want a fanny pack?

[Will Compton]

Kind of when I'm seeing your fit today, I'm messing with what you're wearing.

[George Kittle]

Well, the fanny pack has been so great for me because I was on a scooter for a while, right? And like, I. I was non weight bearing for two weeks. I was in a cast, and so I was like, I couldn't fit stuff in my pockets because as soon as you get on the scooter, like things fall out of your pocket. So Claire got me this and I haven't taken it off for eight weeks now. I love this fanny pack. It's got all everything I need. I got headphones, my wallet, candy, and my car keys. It's so convenient.

[Will Compton]

It looks convenient.

[George Kittle]

It's been very fun.

[Will Compton]

Is it comfortable?

[George Kittle]

I don't even notice it. What the.

[Will Compton]

That's what you need right there.

[George Kittle]

I. I looked into like, like different, like multi colored fanny packs. And Clark, she goes, absolutely not. You're gonna wear the most easygoing fanny pack because you're wearing a fanny pack. I was like, yes.

[Taylor Lawan]

Keep it simple, keep it simple.

[Will Compton]

Have you thought about going the strap?

[Taylor Lawan]

No.

[Will Compton]

Around the hips.

[George Kittle]

Look, I'm just a Midwest kid from Iowa. I don't need to be doing that type of stuff.

[Will Compton]

Fair. Fair enough.

[Taylor Lawan]

What type of stuff?

[George Kittle]

I don't need to be doing cross straps. That's just. I don't think that's. That's not good for me. I don't think. I don't think I'll. I don't think I'll fit that.

[Taylor Lawan]

If you could describe what you're talking about in one word, what would it be?

[George Kittle]

Riz. I'm not really a Riz guy. I'm just going to be me as

[Taylor Lawan]

much as I possibly be George.

[George Kittle]

Just let me be George says. And as I sit here wearing a fanny pack and a tie dye grateful that shirt.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Very Midwest.

[George Kittle]

California has changed me.

[Will Compton]

That's okay.

[George Kittle]

That's a hell of a.

[Taylor Lawan]

Is there anything in the off season that you had in the works that now is no longer in the works and that makes you Sad because you're AES.

[George Kittle]

The big one was me and Claire were going to go to Milan for the Olympics for like a week, then go to a bunch. Like we had a whole thing planned out. And then I somehow still ended up going to watch USA vs Sweden in hockey because I was in Germany and It was a 45 minute flight. So I went up for a game and I came back and I'm really happy I went to experience that.

[Will Compton]

How cool was that?

[George Kittle]

It was amazing. I mean, just watching the Olympics is really cool. I mean, I had a great experience. Watching hockey is like my. It's my favorite sport to watch live. I think I don't really watch a lot of football life besides like sitting there playing in it. So like watching hockey live and just the cool thing about the Olympics is like everybody's so good. It's all Star teams and I'm pretty sure, like the usa, their whole team is NHL players. Sweden, I think, was all NHL players. So just like the level of play is insane.

[Will Compton]

Like so fast.

[George Kittle]

Like they're fourth. Like they're fourth string guys. Whatever. The fourth shift, like, those are all starters on or like second shift guys on other teams.

[Will Compton]

Gosh.

[George Kittle]

Should foot ball. Dude, this is so distracting for me.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it can be tough. Can be definitely tough. Sherm's off of it now.

[George Kittle]

That's okay. Sure. Go.

[Will Compton]

He's done. Sure. What are you gonna ask?

[Taylor Lawan]

Football be an Olympic sport?

[George Kittle]

No.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I don't think so.

[George Kittle]

It would be so like flag football. I can see, but like football, football. No. Like, what. What are you gonna do versus Trent Williams or like the Bosa bros on the edge?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, this. That's. That's a. That's a stat pattern for America.

[Taylor Lawan]

We flirted with the idea. Let us know what you think about this. Instead of like four nations, it's four

[George Kittle]

regions that I feel like I saw you guys talked about this at one point and I thought that was a really good. Because someone brought that up. They should do that for the Pro Bowl. And like, you did, like, whether it's where you're from or whether where your team's from and you break it up that way, I think that could be really entertaining.

[Will Compton]

I think it'd be awesome where you're from.

[Taylor Lawan]

I was gonna say you get where you're from. The way guys argue is Texas the. The best state with football? Louisiana, California, Florida, Arizona.

[George Kittle]

Midwest is pretty heavy.

[Taylor Lawan]

Midwest. Everybody's got pride when they start arguing about it in the locker room.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I feel like where you're from, I think that would be really fun. Like a four regions tournament.

[George Kittle]

I. I always love listening to guys argue about like, dude, my high school dominated your high school. I'm like, what are we talking about? Sick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Awesome, dude. Congratulations.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. That's 2006. You Falcons, though. Nice.

[George Kittle]

I was on a very okay team.

[Taylor Lawan]

So you got whooped. That's probably why you were like, that's why you're like, sick, man.

[George Kittle]

I had a five star running back who had like 30 touchdowns in like eight, nine games. I had one of those guys. But like, besides that, I was like, yeah. I mean, I think we won 10 games both, like my junior, my senior year, we didn't win state. Like, I mean, unless you're one of those, like, prodigy schools like BOSA went to, like, does any high school really stand a chance?

[Will Compton]

There's like, what, 2006 catch shadows.

[Taylor Lawan]

Falcons Academy.

[George Kittle]

We practiced at IMG one time back in 2019. That was cool. We did like, an east coast trip. We stayed down there for a week. Very cool facilities. I can't believe that's a high school.

[Will Compton]

It's nuts, man.

[George Kittle]

It's insane.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I trained there for the combine. Yeah. It was unbelievable.

[George Kittle]

That's so sick.

[Will Compton]

Stayed around right there. Right in the apartments.

[George Kittle]

We do a lot staring at you,

[Taylor Lawan]

but I'm just thinking about four regions.

[Will Compton]

Probably the Southeast.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Probably the segue.

[Taylor Lawan]

I think Northeast.

[George Kittle]

Northeast is good, too. I'm gonna go to Southeast, though.

[Will Compton]

What, New Jersey, Virginia.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, Just something about them. Gritty. Ohio, Pennsylvania.

[Will Compton]

Pennsylvania goes hard.

[George Kittle]

Wait, so is. Nor is Ohio northeast or is it Midwest?

[Will Compton]

Ohio is Midwest. Because Ohio.

[George Kittle]

That's one of my favorites.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, but if we're doing. If we're doing four regions, then you got to kind of. There is no Midwest. It. You'd have to. You'd have to.

[Will Compton]

You'd have to give the Midwest to the Northwest because there ain't going on up there. There. That'd be crazy.

[George Kittle]

I mean, like. Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

If you.

[Taylor Lawan]

If Ohio. If Ohio's in the Midwest. And I think the Midwest is sneaky. I'm not saying that they win it. I just think that they would surprise the people.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I have.

[Taylor Lawan]

Southeast would just. They would obviously have the talent, but are they going to get out over their skis? Because they're so arrogant and confident.

[George Kittle]

Can we play the game in December in Iowa?

[Taylor Lawan]

Exactly.

[George Kittle]

Did you guys see that? Yesterday, USC was playing Northwestern in baseball and it was a blizzard.

[Will Compton]

No way. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

They posted a clip of it. I was like, welcome to the Big Ten, boys. I'm pretty sure USC still won, but it was cool.

[Taylor Lawan]

Still whipped our ass.

[George Kittle]

It was cool to watch. Yeah. Look at that.

[Will Compton]

It's just a bliss pack stands, huh?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. I'm not going to a baseball game in the snow.

[Will Compton]

No doubt. Gotta go to a baseball game in Baton Rouge. Man, LSU baseball. So much fun.

[George Kittle]

I'm. One of the things I'm looking forward to when I do retire is I want to go to all, like. I want to do like a prime time game at, like, all the best stadiums. That's. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to.

[Will Compton]

I think somebody asked that question, actually. Sorry. I mean, did I just hit your bad foot?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. It's okay.

[Will Compton]

Sorry.

[George Kittle]

Claire. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Says, has George started thinking about life post NFL career? We're going to broadcasting, coaching. Etc. Thanks, boys. That's from Matt. And a last name. I can't pronounce zerito as a rito. As a rito. But things you want to do after football, prime time games.

[George Kittle]

I think, like, just like, experience fall. For the first time in my life, I think this would be. That'd be cool.

[Will Compton]

Have a real spooktober.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, it just. That sounds like a great time. Like, just experience you fall. Like going on a vacation in August. Sounds really cool.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

The first year you're done playing, when you wake up August 21st and it's like nine, and you're like, I know there's boys out there dying right now. So much anxiety. It's the best feeling in the world, I think.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, just like experience fall. That'd be cool. I think I'm gonna have several opportunities, so, like, I'm just gonna see what kind of comes my way and I'll just roll with it.

[Will Compton]

I love that.

[Taylor Lawan]

With the boys.

[George Kittle]

I love the boys. And I said it, Morty. For the boys, for life. I literally said that earlier.

[Will Compton]

That's binding.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, it is binding.

[George Kittle]

Unless my wife says something, then it's not.

[Taylor Lawan]

But yeah, prime time stadium throughout the season. It's something. Something that, you know.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

There's some fun things that we could do. What if we just got, like. We got like a John Madden style bus and then we took it on the road for 12 weeks and went

[Will Compton]

to every single Applebee's in the States and just got hammered.

[George Kittle]

We did that. We did it on Fridays and go to the game on Saturday.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And just at the end of the year, we put out our list of our favorite Applebee's.

[George Kittle]

That'd be sick.

[Will Compton]

Kind of got something boys.

[Taylor Lawan]

We're giving Applebee's a lot of free shots.

[Will Compton]

All right, call it Chili's then. Yeah, yeah. But no free shot.

[George Kittle]

Call it Little Caesars.

[Will Compton]

Little Caesars.

[George Kittle]

Don't get mad at me. Pizza. Pizza. Pizza. Pizza.

[Will Compton]

Pizza. Pizza. Pizza.

[Taylor Lawan]

How was the. How have you enjoyed the podcast with the wifey?

[George Kittle]

Oh, it was really fun. It was cool, too, because we started off. We, like, we literally started at the American Century Classic, the golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. We did our first, like, three episodes there. And literally, I think, like, clear, because she's never podcasted before, she figured it out very quickly and, like, kind of became her own. Like, she didn't have to lean on me at all. Like, maybe the first episode, like, she kind of looked at me for a little bit of help. But after that, she crushed it the whole way, and it was just really fun. And it was cool, too. Like, we got to invite some of our friends on. Like, the Forsbergs came on, the juices came on, McAffrey came on. But then other people, like, like, John Party was one of our last episodes. And that was hilarious. Him and his wife, like, that was so much fun. He was running around his living room pretending he was a quarterback, like, on camera. So he's like 20ft off the camera, just going hike, hike. Like, just throwing, like throwing a fake football. Like, he was hilarious. But I gotta meet guys like, dude, I gotta interview Kevin Garnett, like, and Charles Barkley. Like, that was sick. Kg. Oh, people who have great setups. Kevin Garnett setup is so sick. For gaming, he has for like, so he does, like, I think he has his own podcast. And so he has like a super cool. Like, his camera system is so nice. Like, he's for 4k, 8k for all I know. And then like he panned the camera and he has just like a boys lounge that has like, it has a basketball hoop in it that's like half of like a three point line in it. So they'd shoot free throws in there. And he's got huge couches, pool table. Like, he's just got an ultimate like, bro layer. And I'm like, I want that someday.

[Will Compton]

That's awesome.

[George Kittle]

That's what I want someday. But yeah, all the guests, I had a great time. Like, I got talked to the Miz about wrestling and like, he kind of pulled the curtain back about certain things too, which I always love seeing that stuff because I have a respect for wrestling because I don't know how those guys do it for 52 weeks a year. I literally can't even imagine. That sounds insane.

[Will Compton]

Was that, is that something you would do wrestling?

[George Kittle]

If I feel really healthy when I'm done, sure. But like, I've seen how those people, like how wrestlers walk after a match. I'm like, that. I don't know if I want to do that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you want like cameos, you want spots.

[Taylor Lawan]

But I've seen videos of like John Cena walk around like getting out of a car and everything else.

[George Kittle]

Oh, dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

What he put his body through, Dude,

[George Kittle]

I'm telling you, like, like a lot of those guys at 52 weeks a year for like 10 years. And like, you're getting chairs, you're landing off a. Like you're got a top of a ladder falling through another ladder. Like, you can't fake that stuff. Like, that's just. You're going from the top rope to the announcing table 10ft away. And it's 10ft lower. Like, come on. That's crazy. Yeah, I just have a huge. I just love. I love being a fan of it. And I don't ever want to, Like, I don't want wrestling fans ever not like me because I'm not good enough to be a wrestler. I've also been in a wrestling ring like, three times in my life, so I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. So, like, if I ever did that, I would buy a ring and I would spend, like, a good amount of

[Taylor Lawan]

time in it before I ever drop another career.

[George Kittle]

It would be.

[Taylor Lawan]

You'd want to put into it, like, oh, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

I mean, I want to do it. I wouldn't be great at it. So, like, I can't wait to ask.

[Taylor Lawan]

And you respect it enough.

[George Kittle]

Oh, dude, I'm not just going to pretend like, yeah, I'm a good athlete. I played in the NFL. I'm going to be good at wrestling. Like, that is not. Not how it is. Like, the intricacies and, like, what they do. They're very talented people. It's awesome. I would like to get on a mic, though. I think that'd be fun. You ever seen, like, there's highlights of, like, WWE where, like, who was it? Like, one of the best ones I saw is, like, the really, like, the top guys, like, who are really good on a microphone. So, like, John Cena is, like, one of the best ever on a microphone. And this is probably like, like 10 years ago the Rock came back and not talking about you, Rock, you're fantastic. Don't hurt me. But, like, he came back and he hadn't been on WWE for a while and, like, he had, like, part of the promo on his, like, arm written because he wanted to remember it. And John Cena roasted him for doing it. Like, called him out for it. Put him up in front of, like, everybody was on a. It was like on like a Friday night, Smackdown. Roasted him. And I'm just like, there are certain guys out there that when they have the microphone in their hands, they can. They can make the crowd do anything they want to do. And, like, that just is always so impressive to me.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[George Kittle]

Just can take complete control over it. So that'd be cool.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, that's why. Because the Rock was phenomenal on the mic back in his hate.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. But when you. When you're off it for five plus years, scary. Especially when you're that famous and everybody knows who you are, they expect greatness.

[Will Compton]

They're expecting you to be right back where you left off.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Which is this. That's crazy. Speaking of, I gotta go to WrestleMania next month too. It's actually, it times up perfectly. Wrestlemania is in Vegas. And then the following Monday is the first day of ota. So I get a fly to Vegas. They just bounce right back up to San Jose for OTAs. It's not like I'm practicing or doing anything. I'm just rehabbing for four hours a day.

[Will Compton]

Money easy.

[George Kittle]

Can't wait. I can't wait to go. Have you. I mean, you guys obviously spent a lot of time in Vegas. Have you golf? I mean, you're not really a golfer.

[Will Compton]

I don't golf at all. Zero percent. I haven't even looked at a golf course in Vegas.

[George Kittle]

That's fair.

[Will Compton]

Inside most times.

[George Kittle]

Never mind. Then I won't share my golf dreams with you.

[Will Compton]

Tell you what though. You should come to Vegas. We could rip packs.

[George Kittle]

Get a rip packs at the, at the blackjack table.

[Will Compton]

Sure, absolutely.

[George Kittle]

You, you win ten thousand dollars. Rip a pack.

[Will Compton]

Exactly. Then buy a ten thousand dollar pack.

[George Kittle]

That'd be cool.

[Will Compton]

And then we just get a ditto and we get. Oh, we have to go back. And then we lose all of it. Win it back somehow.

[George Kittle]

Look, the last time we things are spoken to existence on this bus, I tore an Achilles. So let's just talk good things in existence.

[Will Compton]

We're gonna win a billion dollars. We're gonna bankrupt Las Vegas and buy all the Pokemon cards.

[George Kittle]

That'd be so sick. Do you have a favorite hotel in Vegas?

[Will Compton]

Red Rock.

[George Kittle]

All right. Stay there for everything.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Red Rock's awesome. I stayed at Caesars this past trip as well. Their, their suites are unbelievable.

[George Kittle]

I'm pretty sure they just redid them. They're sick. Sick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they're. They're incredible. But like Red Rock, you cannot beat the service. Like I remember I was, that's cool. Getting on the elevator. I called when I was like, hey, I left my key. Can you meet me by my room? And they're like, oh. Right away I went up the. I was in the elevator. The elevator was closing. I said okay, bye. Hung up, got to the. My, the 20th floor, walked out. He was already there with a key in his hand.

[George Kittle]

Was he sweating?

[Will Compton]

No.

[George Kittle]

That's so sick.

[Will Compton]

They have never seen him out of breath in my entire life. Just like the way Red Rock treats people people is incredible. If like you play enough, it's off the strip, it's like 20. Like if you like the golf, it's probably where you want to stay?

[George Kittle]

All right. Gotcha. The. I always have trouble with Caesar's palace just because I call it Little Caesars.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

And then it never shows up on my map. I'm like, okay, I'm going to go back to Little Caesar's Palace.

[Will Compton]

I'm like, nah, that's a weird. They'll send you a weird spot there.

[Taylor Lawan]

Probably.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Caesar's. Dude, their. Their suites are crazy.

[George Kittle]

Super cool.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Which hotel have you seen has the best suites?

[Will Compton]

Probably Caesars.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, really?

[Will Compton]

Caesar's was like over 6, 000 square feet. We had one. We were in one. Super cool Thursday night. It was like, Dana, his crew, Kid Rock, his crew, and they're like playing music and like Kid Rock singing. A bunch of people are just like singing stuff. It was awesome. But I had a balcony walk over there. Overlooks the strip. You see, like the Parasite Tower. It was awesome. And the one I stayed in had like its own, like, spa room, had its own pool, had a movie theater room.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like, the kid had an aquarium in the room.

[Taylor Lawan]

Jesus.

[Will Compton]

Any pool table, like, you walked in there, you're like, oh, this is insane. It's like borderline intimidating because I know, like, I have to go play now, and I'm kind of scared.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And they're like, you see all this? You get. There's a reason why we can afford it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Come help us afford it. Thank their ass, though.

[George Kittle]

I had my first time ever in Vegas. Was my rookie year of OTAs. And me and Trent Taylor. There was a 36 coupon on Southwest to go to Vegas, one way from San Jose. I'm pretty sure it was 36 there and back. It was like some special they were doing for Memorial Day weekend. And so I go down. If my wife call me. My wife's calling me. I'm gonna answer this. So you can't get me ignoring my wife's phone call. Hey, Claire, how are you? I'm on busing right now. I answered it so they couldn't say I ignored your call on camera.

[Taylor Lawan]

Tell Claire we miss her and we love her.

[George Kittle]

Will. Will misses and loves you. Taylor said nothing.

[Will Compton]

I also miss and love you.

[George Kittle]

And then. But the back of the bus says that you're fantastic.

[Will Compton]

What the.

[George Kittle]

And then.

[Will Compton]

Good thing that'll be on camera.

[George Kittle]

And then Will apologized for turning my Achilles. She said apologies, honestly. That's nice. That's all. She left it at that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Tell her we're doing a make right.

[George Kittle]

Oh, but they are doing a make right. They are gonna. They're coming to Tighten you. And they're gonna emcee the practice day, which is one of our goals. All right, cool. I know I'll be done a little bit. Okay. Okay, I see you. Love you too.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, nice. Nice smooth conversation.

[George Kittle]

George, I need an ice towel around my neck.

[Will Compton]

Stressful $36 coupon. Southwest Memorial Day weekend.

[George Kittle]

So, like, I had nothing. I knew nothing about Vegas. And so me and Trent Taylor, I'm like, hey. Because I like, I knew that there was a strip and I thought hotels were special. Like, my dad helped me book a room. We got like a. We got a one bedroom with two king beds in it. Me and Trent stayed down there for the Memorial Day weekend. Had no plugs, any club. We waited in every single line, went into everywhere, paid for everything. No tables, no bottle service, nothing. Just, oh, this is what Vegas is. That was kind of cool. Gambled. I think I brought like 500 to gamble a little bit different than what, you know, you and the boys probably do. And then like, the next time I went was I had the 2018 season. We're in 2018 season where I was Pro bowl all probably. And Richard Sherman's like, hey, I'm gonna show you what Vegas is really like. And he got me a two bedroom penthouse at the Cosmopolitan. And I was like, what the is this place? Yeah, it was insane. And like, he, he literally took up like, he got like eight rooms for us and the boys. And so like, we had a good group go down there. But like, I'm staying at a penthouse.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm like, this is what a move by Richard.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Sherma is very much for the boys. I. I love Sherman. And so that was really cool. And then like a couple years ago. Have you guys been to Fountain Blue yet? Yeah, they let. Because there's like a brand, like a grand opening. We had a preseason game in Las Vegas like three years ago, and it was like their grand opening. And they let Claire and Chris and us check. Have like the presidential suite, which is the entire top floor of the whole hotel. No, it was the biggest thing I've ever. The biggest room I've ever seen. I like, it was a four or five bedroom suite with multiple living rooms, multiple kitchens, multiple bars, 360 view windows all the way around the entire thing.

[Will Compton]

That is awesome.

[George Kittle]

It was, I. I walked in there, I was like, yeah, this is going to ruin Vegas for me. Because now this is what Claire's going

[Will Compton]

to want to stay at, right?

[George Kittle]

Nothing against you, Claire, you're great.

[Taylor Lawan]

Put a whole fantastic. Claire.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Found blue super nice. They have the poodle club in there. Do you have the poodle club?

[George Kittle]

I have no idea. I don't think I did. I mean, obviously I visited her like after her practice. I went back to the, the hotel.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they had a nice setup there. Very nice, very clean, beautiful place.

[George Kittle]

Vegas is kind of made for like big events.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, absolutely.

[George Kittle]

I'm, I am a believer that I think like the super bowl should basically just be in Vegas.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm.

[Will Compton]

I'll co out on that.

[George Kittle]

It's just easy.

[Will Compton]

Absolutely.

[George Kittle]

Everything's right there.

[Taylor Lawan]

You it fun?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it was a blast.

[George Kittle]

It was fun. It was great. I just like the way the Vegas is set up. It's made for blockbuster events.

[Will Compton]

Absolutely.

[George Kittle]

That's what it's built for.

[Taylor Lawan]

I thought when it was in Arizona that was fun.

[George Kittle]

Arizona was sick. The only negative was if you're working Arizona, like you'd have one event at like the Meteor Row and then you'd have some company, would have something reserved like a 30 minute drive away. It was just so spread out.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Phoenix for all like the NFL stuff. And if you're like Scottsdale, you're just,

[George Kittle]

you were just everywhere. I was in a car for most of that, that trip, which it's, I mean, I love. Like Arizona was sick, dude.

[Will Compton]

That's how San Francisco was this year.

[George Kittle]

It was.

[Taylor Lawan]

I felt like some stuff was spread

[George Kittle]

out in San Francisco, like the San Jose stuff. Like I didn't have to do that. Like I was in San Francisco and all my events were within 15 minutes of my hotel.

[Will Compton]

Dude. We drove an hour and a half away to some like a fanduel thing. It was beautiful, but like, the drive was nuts.

[George Kittle]

Nuts. Did you. Wait, were you north, like over the Golden Gate Bridge or something?

[Will Compton]

Don't know. Couldn't tell you.

[George Kittle]

Did you cross the Golden Gate Bridge?

[Will Compton]

No.

[George Kittle]

Okay, so you probably went south then. So you went down, you went down to San Jose?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

Like that's why, like I've lived in San Jose or. Yeah. So I live like the stadiums in Santa Clara. I go to San Francisco less than three times a year.

[Will Compton]

Gotcha.

[George Kittle]

I go up to eat at my favorite restaurant up there is House of Prime Rib. I eat up there. I go to a Warriors game and like that's really about all I did.

[Taylor Lawan]

Did you go to San Francisco during the super bowl week?

[George Kittle]

Like, yeah, I stay, but I stayed up there. Like I stayed in a hotel up there. Like it's a, with no traffic. It's a 45 minute drive from where I live with Traffic. Like if I go to a Warriors game and the game's at 5 o', clock, like it is a. Or 6 o'. Clock. It is an hour and a half drive up there. Whatever you do with parking, watch the game and then it is an hour plus drive home. So it's just like a six hour deal to go to one basketball.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. I feel like everybody was raving about how great San Francisco was, and then people were combating and saying they just cleaned up the city for the week.

[George Kittle]

I mean, look, I think San Francisco is like every other city. There's awesome parts of it and then there's pockets that you just shouldn't go. I think that's every major city.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

So, like, I think they do. I think they did a great job. I had a great time in San Francisco. I loved every second.

[Will Compton]

We were on one corner for a minute. We just saw everybody. We saw the McCordy brothers. Who else? We see Brandon Marshall. He put us on game for 25 minutes, by the way. Guy could still play, buddy.

[Taylor Lawan]

He.

[George Kittle]

He should have just moved to. He should have moved to office of. I mean, tight end.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, offensive tight end for sure. Boy, look at my cat Caffrey rocking the.

[George Kittle]

For the day.

[Will Compton]

Or the. Oh, yeah, the boy's hat. Just incredible.

[George Kittle]

I think that might have been the same night that. Is it Zendaya or Zendaya? Zendaya. Zendaya and Tom Holland were at the game because I think she's from Oakland. And I spent the entire game doing this at Tom Holland. And he finally. She saw me in the third quarter during a timeout and he looked at me and I was just doing this at him with Sam Darnold. And he waved at us and laughed and I felt really good about myself.

[Will Compton]

Kind of wish he did it back.

[George Kittle]

I don't. Don't even care. He might have done it back, but like, by that time I was like infatuated and I was passed out. Yeah, it's that same game that is awesome. She like, she saw it tapped and she was laughing and I was like, I think I've peaked at this moment. Spider man saw me shooting webs at him.

[Will Compton]

Is that the number one celebrity you've seen and had an interaction with? You're also like, oh, I've made it.

[George Kittle]

The Tom Holland one was crazy because, like, I love Spider Man. Him and Batman are my two favorites of all time. So seeing that was insane. Actually, I stood last year at Bottle Rock, which is a concert in Napa Valley over Memorial Day weekend, which I'll Be going this year again too. Because I love that place. Oh my gosh. Who was the original Peter Parker to. He was like standing six people away from me. And I. I didn't say hi to him. But it was funny because. So everybody at Bottle Rock is like very bright and colorful. Like I would not stand out in this shirt. Right. And he's in like all black with a black hat with no logo on it and like dark sunglasses. Like he stood out like a sore thumb because everyone else is all colorful. I'm like, not really doing the hiding thing very well, man.

[Will Compton]

Like maybe blend in once, be super bright as well.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, yeah. All black. That's all he was in. I'm like, dude, everybody else is just like bright yellow, bright green, all the colors. And he's an all black. I'm like, I know exactly who you are.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So sick. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

I think meeting. If I could meet like Viggo Mortensen from. Because he's Aragon in Lord of the Rings, like that'd be. I. I'd lose my mind. That one. Or Gandalf. That'd be Peak Ian McClellan. Is that how you pronounce it? Yeah. I would lose my mind if I met one of them. Also underrated movie. He's in Hidalgo.

[Will Compton]

I haven't seen Hidalgo.

[Taylor Lawan]

No.

[George Kittle]

You ever seen Lord of the Rings?

[Will Compton]

No.

[George Kittle]

Oh, okay.

[Will Compton]

When I first came out, there was the one where the little guy was getting chased by black horses and I got scared and left the theater.

[George Kittle]

That's what your age was that?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

What age was that?

[Will Compton]

That's probably 12, maybe less.

[George Kittle]

The.

[Will Compton]

When it, when that movie come out. Look up when that movie came out.

[George Kittle]

2001, I was 10.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's 2001.

[George Kittle]

I'm so when it came out, I didn't go to it in theaters, but when it came out on vhs. Vhs for those kids listening, that is a tape that the movies used to be on. Wasn't all streamed. But then I remember it wasn't the horses that scared me. It was the octopus thing outside the door. Remember that? Outside the door that scared me. And then when the watcher in the water. Yep. And then there was the. The elf queen. The girl when like she was like went like full mystic power and like changed colors. I think I cried ride. God, it was so scary. Oh, that's a vhs.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. The horse thing for me though, I couldn't handle that. I had to get it. I don't know. I think it was like 20 minutes into the movie. He was going, I told my grandma I Was like, we gotta go. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Actually, so I'm the godfather of Felix Forsberg, Phil Forsberg's and Aaron Forsberg's son. And we're riding to the airport yesterday. And he loves cars. Cars. Right now, like, they said they've seen cars. Yeah, that scene that. That killed me for a little.

[Will Compton]

Ruined.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, that was very scary for me because you just don't. It just happens. And. But anyway, so he's addicted to cars. And they've probably watched it like 200 times in the last three weeks. Just always on, no sound. He doesn't even need sound or subtitles. He just watches it because he likes Lightning McQueen.

[Will Compton]

Hell, yeah.

[George Kittle]

So sick.

[Will Compton]

Just for the love of the game.

[George Kittle]

Just for love of the game. But, like, he would. Like, we're on the car trip and, like, he really wanted to watch cars. And so I just pulled up.

[Taylor Lawan]

Up.

[George Kittle]

Fellowship of the Ring, extended cut. We got through 15 minutes before he got bored. Like, he stared. It didn't move for 15 minutes. I was so impressed.

[Taylor Lawan]

Not bad.

[George Kittle]

I was so impressed. So we got him started. That scene is actually hilarious. The twins.

[Will Compton]

What? What is that?

[George Kittle]

They flash him. Fun fact. That's like the opening scene.

[Will Compton]

Okay, gotcha.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. They throw their hat, their lights up. So, like, they flash him. Get it?

[Will Compton]

It. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it.

[Taylor Lawan]

I get it.

[Will Compton]

So they're kind of horses, Jack. They flipped on the Dinoco so fast. Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Please be 18. Oh, that's funny, dude.

[Will Compton]

Last one I'll say. About getting scared. The movie Anaconda, when a guy gets strangled and his cheek pops and he winks.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I.

[Will Compton]

That.

[George Kittle]

I'm not.

[Will Compton]

As a kid.

[George Kittle]

I don't watch scary movies.

[Will Compton]

That's.

[Taylor Lawan]

You know. You don't to this day.

[George Kittle]

Absolutely not. They stick with. So I was. I was traumatized as a young child.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's the part right there.

[George Kittle]

But I was traumatized as a young child. The ring came out.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

And so we're watching it. When I was a kid, I mean, I could have been. I was like, first. First or second grade? No, no, it was probably like fourth or fifth grade. And we brought it home. I'm watching it with my sister and all of our cousins and we have hardwood floors. And it gets. I made it to the scene, like, when, like, the. And she first starts to come out of the well and it's like dripping water. And I was getting kind of scared. So, like, I put my feet down to stand up and someone had spilled a drink on the ground. And so the whole water, like, Mountain Dew on it. My feet hit water as she's coming out of, like, the tv and the water's on the ground. I don't think I slept for, like, a month. I really don't. I just. I can't do it. Yeah. Like that scene. I made it to that. And I step on the hardwood and it's covered in water.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's.

[George Kittle]

Got a feeling.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. It was real for you at that point.

[George Kittle]

Point. I'm pretty sure I was, like, 12 or 13 years old. I didn't belong in that movie.

[Will Compton]

No doubt.

[George Kittle]

I didn't belong there.

[Will Compton]

That movie was PG 13, too, which is crazy.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. I don't need anything to do with that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. So, so hard to pass you guys. Anything else you want to talk about?

[Will Compton]

Well,

[Taylor Lawan]

you know, you never. You never gave us your Final Four.

[Will Compton]

Oh.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, we. We frame it as.

[Will Compton]

All right. All right. I gotta pee.

[Taylor Lawan]

College basketball sicko expert George Kittle. This is Final Four.

[George Kittle]

Okay. I'll give you my answer. I'm sorry.

[Taylor Lawan]

First time. It's all right.

[George Kittle]

You can charge me for that. I've actually sat in this seat a

[Taylor Lawan]

lot, but with the view here is

[George Kittle]

so much better because I get to see. See them.

[Taylor Lawan]

You get to see the reaction.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Gosh. I would say I'm gonna go Duke. Is that a good pick? I think it's good.

[Taylor Lawan]

Be confident.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, you're right. You're right. I've watched every game of every team this year. Okay. I'm gonna go Duke. I'm gonna go Arizona. I'm gonna go North Carolina, and then I'm gonna go Illinois.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Let's see if it lines up. That feels good.

[George Kittle]

Is that possible?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. We gotta see where they're at.

[George Kittle]

I have no idea. Duke.

[Will Compton]

Duke. And easy.

[George Kittle]

Be good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

All right, cool.

[Will Compton]

Duke doesn't play any of those teams.

[George Kittle]

North Carolina. Oh, Illinois. North Carolina. In the same bracket?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Okay, I'll go. I'll go with Illinois.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay.

[George Kittle]

Okay. Give me the other side.

[Taylor Lawan]

Duke, Arizona, Illinois.

[George Kittle]

And I'm gonna go the Midwest. I'm going Purdue because I. I always pick Purdue.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a good final form.

[George Kittle]

The year that Purdue lost in the first round, I had them winning the whole thing. That was tough for me. I know.

[Taylor Lawan]

Wait, Purdue's playing Arizona.

[George Kittle]

Oh, wait. Oh, no. Sorry. I read it wrong. Who's the two seat down here?

[Taylor Lawan]

No, wait.

[George Kittle]

Michigan. Who's a two seat on this side?

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, he. You gotta come out with more.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

It's not going. It's not going. There we go.

[George Kittle]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

I would Stay.

[George Kittle]

Not picking them.

[Taylor Lawan]

Virginia, Bama.

[George Kittle]

I'll go. Virginia, Michigan. I'll go. Virginia's a good pick. Yeah, Virginia seems like a good pick.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a good Final Four for the sick.

[George Kittle]

What was your. What was your pick?

[Taylor Lawan]

I don't think I've done a pick. I think I'm gonna go.

[George Kittle]

Oh, I'm sorry. Will told me to sit here. He didn't. I'm lying.

[Will Compton]

Duke,

[Taylor Lawan]

Nebraska.

[George Kittle]

I did my Final Four pick.

[Will Compton]

What was your Final Four?

[George Kittle]

I picked Michigan to win the whole thing.

[Will Compton]

Did you really?

[George Kittle]

No.

[Will Compton]

Oh, Go, go.

[Taylor Lawan]

Go to the west. Zoom in on the west. Sherm. Let's go. Duke, Michigan, Purdue and Nebraska.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

And Duke. What? I say Duke, Michigan, Purdue and Nebraska. There you go. It's my Final Four.

[Will Compton]

Final Four. Michigan.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I can't see that far.

[George Kittle]

But you can see people. How do you drive? I see dead people.

[Will Compton]

This is crazy.

[George Kittle]

118. Just get up in there.

[Will Compton]

Hot. Purdue.

[George Kittle]

I think Purdue's a great pick. Duke's top right there.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dude, Duke's going, bro.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Don't fight it.

[George Kittle]

32 and 2. And one of their only losses was North Carolina.

[Will Compton]

Duke. You're distracting me from Houston. Houston.

[George Kittle]

I love it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Woman.

[Will Compton]

Purdue, Michigan, Duke, Houston. Sure. I think that's. What kind of guy.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a good Final Four.

[Will Compton]

It's kind of nice.

[George Kittle]

Is there still a thing? Is someone gets a perfect bracket. Warren Buffett's paying him money, so can't

[Taylor Lawan]

say they brand is giving away a

[Will Compton]

billion dollars for a perfect BR bill.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

B.

[Taylor Lawan]

Who's giving away.

[George Kittle]

If we do it here. If we do it here in Tennessee, do we get taxed on it in Tennessee?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

You know, they come for the taxes, man.

[Will Compton]

There's a price in no state income tax.

[George Kittle]

Will someone ask me about the lottery after we get off air?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, we got you Bud Light. Question.

[Will Compton]

Honestly, the thing Georgia said got me so, so interested.

[George Kittle]

I know. My question really messed me up when I found this out.

[Taylor Lawan]

You know how people would do anything for a nice cold Bud Light?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

What would George Kittle do anything for?

[George Kittle]

Oh, wait. Can it be a Bud Light?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, if you want to be.

[George Kittle]

I would do a lot of things for a Bud Light. A nice cold, crispy one right out of the fridge. Would you rather have a Bud Light out of the fridge or out of the cooler?

[Taylor Lawan]

Cooler.

[George Kittle]

I. Cooler.

[Will Compton]

Cooler.

[George Kittle]

Because that means you're out and about with the boys.

[Will Compton]

A cooler. Bl.

[George Kittle]

Oh.

[Will Compton]

Sitting there and it's like,

[George Kittle]

am I relaxing or am I going after it? Because then if I'M going after. I'm going to shotgun it. But if I'm relaxing, the bottle just having. I want a bottle.

[Taylor Lawan]

Drinking one.

[George Kittle]

I want a bottle. Yeah. It's so tasty.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Take that bottle. Nice summer day. You're by the water, you put it down. You just watch the thing sweat for a little bit.

[George Kittle]

Just sweating.

[Will Compton]

God.

[George Kittle]

Watching the river go by. It's actually been very convenient. My sister got a little cabin off of a river three minutes from my house. So I am in a lawn chair with my feet in the water with a beer next to me. Often was Zach Brown band playing that or Noah Khan. Big Noah Khan guy. I know. I'm excited to see that. He is so cool. Have you gotten him on the bus yet? He lives in Nashville.

[Taylor Lawan]

Who's this?

[George Kittle]

Noah Khan, you know, he said, really? Oh, cut that stick. Season Northern Attitude. This is like Dial drunk. Yeah, Dial drunk with Post Malone.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dial drunk.

[Will Compton]

Dude. That was the move in middle school. This song name.

[George Kittle]

Oh, really? I. I don't listen to a lot of rap, but then I spent three seasons with Charvarius Ward, who we. He went to the Colts. We call him Mooney, but he was my locker buddy. And he listens to NBA Youngboy and that is it. It's like every day in his locker. The nice thing, too, is he doesn't have, like, a loudspeaker. He just listens to it on his phone out loud. And like, after, I know, three weeks of OTAs, and then four weeks into training camp, I'm like, dude, who am I listening to? He goes, it's that young boy NBA. I'm like, I kind of like this music. And so now I have an entire NBA Young Boy player list, courtesy of Charus Ward.

[Will Compton]

Nice.

[George Kittle]

And I thoroughly enjoy it, too.

[Taylor Lawan]

Mitch put us on a slapper last week.

[George Kittle]

Dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

Was it called Mitch Control?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, that's Mooney's, my guy.

[Will Compton]

Know the first three lines of it.

[Taylor Lawan]

NBA Young Boy, what was the song

[George Kittle]

that you walked out to at your wedding?

[Will Compton]

It's probably ZZ Top Sharp Dress, man.

[George Kittle]

No. Was it like, Expensive Taste or something like that? No.

[Taylor Lawan]

Masterpiece.

[George Kittle]

Masterpiece. That song.

[Will Compton]

That song.

[George Kittle]

That song is sick.

[Will Compton]

That song does rip, so.

[George Kittle]

No, it's fantastic, bro. That song is so. It's so good, especially for a wedding.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Hey, shout out your wife.

[Taylor Lawan]

Was I going out to that?

[Will Compton]

I don't think I went out to her.

[George Kittle]

No, no, but that's what you were like to the party section.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, yeah.

[George Kittle]

You guys came down the stairs.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, that.

[George Kittle]

That was a top Tier video that I've ever seen. Thanks for the invite that.

[Will Compton]

Oh, did y' all know each other back then?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

What year was that?

[Taylor Lawan]

I think we missed it.

[Will Compton]

2019.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

No, it's okay though.

[Will Compton]

You married? 21. When's you married?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. When's your anniversary?

[Taylor Lawan]

What year are we in right now? 26.

[Will Compton]

26.

[Taylor Lawan]

2021. June 26th is.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I think I've only been on the bus like seven or eight times by then.

[Taylor Lawan]

No, not by 2021.

[George Kittle]

Maybe like four.

[Will Compton]

I don't want to.

[Taylor Lawan]

You might have been on once.

[George Kittle]

I was on it. I was on it twice by myself. And then I co hosted for Hawkinson and Tanya and that was in at least 21.

[Taylor Lawan]

2021 might have been the year of the birth of us. Our birth year.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

That's hot.

[Will Compton]

What happened to our birth year? Will?

[George Kittle]

You guys made out.

[Will Compton]

You got invited to my wedding?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

What was that sound?

[Will Compton]

We're just literally I just put the car and drive right there and I'm just looking at you.

[George Kittle]

It's a neutral new wheel for three

[Will Compton]

months and forced him to go to my wedding.

[George Kittle]

Are you glad?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, I was trying not to go.

[Will Compton]

He was. He was trying not to go.

[George Kittle]

Another off the. Off the bus. Topic is your wedding was. Had some memorable moments. Remember I texted you last year,

[Taylor Lawan]

Taylor's wedding.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. No, that's my phone.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I can get to our text. Oh yeah, can you.

[George Kittle]

You can unlock my phone.

[Will Compton]

Let me see real quick. Does it have to do.

[George Kittle]

It's with one of your. It's with one of your wedding guests.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I'm assuming I know who.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, you know exactly who it is then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. That was always fun.

[Will Compton]

Can I tell you something about my wedding?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Didn't like it.

[George Kittle]

Did your. Did your wife. Did your wife like it?

[Will Compton]

Oh, she liked it.

[George Kittle]

That's all that matters then.

[Will Compton]

Said so much drama going on. So much drama.

[George Kittle]

There should be drama at a wedding.

[Will Compton]

So when Taylor and I got married the first time, it was so quick. It was so nice. It was something I remember.

[George Kittle]

What'd you do?

[Will Compton]

Some church over here. I couldn't even take you to it. And was it like me, her, and then the guy that was online and we got married, we knew each other for.

[George Kittle]

Is that Covid?

[Will Compton]

No, it's 2016.

[George Kittle]

Oh, so what do you mean like online? Like you have.

[Will Compton]

Oh, we found a guy online to do the wedding because we like. It was like April.

[George Kittle]

Did you have any guests?

[Will Compton]

18th? I think there was one person. I think My mom was there.

[George Kittle]

Sick. That was me and Claire's. Me and Claire's first wedding was just immediate family, and we did it at a jewelry store in Iowa City.

[Will Compton]

How cool is that?

[George Kittle]

It's fantastic. It was one of my favorite times. My second wedding, though, only had. We only had bridesmaids and groomsmen, so we only had 30 people at our wedding.

[Will Compton]

That's dope.

[George Kittle]

And it was at my house.

[Will Compton]

Like, the location we had. How beautiful it was. Like, it was cool.

[Taylor Lawan]

Big, sir.

[Will Compton]

So Big Sur was.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, Big Sur is sick.

[Will Compton]

And like, we had the whole resort. It was very cool. But then, you know, there's just too much drama going on. Those are probably my favorite three people that were there.

[Taylor Lawan]

Me and. Oh, camping there.

[George Kittle]

Is that my camp?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hell yeah, bro.

[Will Compton]

He.

[George Kittle]

He. I get so many texts from my camp campus. You are a different human being.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

You look like you're yoked in that one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

You look strong.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, it was that boy.

[Will Compton]

Neck's crazy back then.

[George Kittle]

Neck is crazy.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Let's get back to that.

[Taylor Lawan]

I know.

[George Kittle]

I need you to come work out the barn ever.

[Will Compton]

Yeah,

[George Kittle]

that's it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That's a no.

[George Kittle]

That's a hard no.

[Taylor Lawan]

We'll get there. I'm gonna get there.

[George Kittle]

But you work at like 10am We've been doing. Yeah, 9, 39, 45 is what we've been doing. Because I'm not running right now, so I'm literally only doing upper body too.

[Will Compton]

Do.

[George Kittle]

That's all I'm doing. Four days of upper body. So it's great for you guys.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Just come in there. Got machines, press. I did. What did I do? I had like a. What is. Yeah, I had like a bench machine with some pull downs and then single. Single arm. Single arm dumbbell with some rows, some curls, some triceps.

[Will Compton]

And I was out kind of money. Huh. Kind of felt good about that.

[George Kittle]

I mean, I can only do so much right now.

[Will Compton]

Chef cooks you a meal right after

[George Kittle]

you have breakfast before and then lunch after.

[Will Compton]

Your guests get food too.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

When's your gaming window?

[George Kittle]

Video games. I don't really game in the off season.

[Taylor Lawan]

Really? You just game in season, so.

[George Kittle]

Because. So. And here's the thing. In season. In season, my gaming, because I like to detach myself from football because I think about it way too much. And if you think about football too much, you get too much anxiety. And then, like, it's hard to perform. And so I do Tuesday afternoons. I do all my rehab in the morning. Like massage, acupuncture, all that stuff. Little workout. And I come home and I play video games from like 12:30 to 3:30. I get a three hour, two and a half to three hour block then. And I don't play again until Saturday afternoon after walkthrough. And that's just home games. And I play for like two hours then that's all I do. In season, I used to play all the time, and now I do not. Flair doesn't really love video games. She would much rather us hang out.

[Taylor Lawan]

I feel that TV shows, a lot of.

[George Kittle]

We watch a lot of TV shows. Lots of spot.

[Will Compton]

I don't even want to get. Have you seen Entourage?

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Okay. He needs to get an entourage. The conversation.

[Taylor Lawan]

Well, what's going on? I'm just.

[George Kittle]

You should watch.

[Taylor Lawan]

I like TV shows, too.

[Will Compton]

I know, but you're on every single TV show, bro.

[George Kittle]

Except for Entourage.

[Taylor Lawan]

Single tv.

[Will Compton]

He hasn't seen Entourage, but he's always like. He gets a little. Someone sends a nugget. Like, have you seen this show? You should watch this show.

[George Kittle]

And he watches it, and he watches

[Will Compton]

it, and he's all on that show.

[George Kittle]

I have a nugget for you. Have you guys seen back here?

[Will Compton]

We're like, bro, you just need to take a step back from that and just watch Entourage.

[George Kittle]

So much fun.

[Will Compton]

It's.

[George Kittle]

I will say this. I don't think I watched the last season.

[Will Compton]

That's crazy.

[George Kittle]

No. Or the second to last season. So I remember I was.

[Will Compton]

I watched.

[George Kittle]

I think I watched it in college and one of my buddies was like, that was his favorite show all time. He was just like, just watch this. You can skip this. Watch this. And then I think I watched up until the movie came out. So I went to the movie in theaters.

[Taylor Lawan]

I watched the movie.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I think I missed a couple episodes.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, I saw the movie on throughout movie.

[Will Compton]

Solid. Yeah, yeah, it was good.

[George Kittle]

It was fine. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

The thing I love about the movie is they didn't try to do anything special. They just made it a longer episode.

[George Kittle]

Try to spell Entourage again. Watching you spell that was hilarious.

[Taylor Lawan]

What's. What shows are you on right now?

[George Kittle]

My suggestion for the buses, which I doubt anybody has seen, is called Rogue Heroes. It is. I don't know if you like World War II. The. I am blessed with my wife. She loves conspiracy World War II government TV shows.

[Taylor Lawan]

So, like, nice.

[George Kittle]

She goes, let's watch Saving Private Ryan. I'm like, absolutely. Great call, sweetie. But like, Rogue Heroes. Yeah. This one, it's. It's based off of like, you know, kind of a True story. It's in the uk. It's basically guys who are considered unfit to serve. Like, they're all in, like. Like they're all arrested by their own military. Like, their military prison. And this guy's an idea. Like, hey, how about you send us out? And also, this is when the Nazis were trying to take over, like, Africa, and they get dropped off in the middle of the desert because, like, there's, like, a supply train across the coast. They get dropped in the middle of the desert and they just sabotage Nazi bases for the entire three seasons.

[Will Compton]

It's badass.

[George Kittle]

Lots of violence, lots of fun explosions. It's. It's a little bit silly, too. The main character, though, he's awesome. Go back a little bit. This dude is a psychopath and he just recites poetry, but he's a crazy person the entire time. And he's like, yeah, I'm a huge fan of the show. Very entertaining. I mean, I think they have two seasons out, maybe three, but season one was electric.

[Taylor Lawan]

What platform?

[George Kittle]

It's owned by mgm, so whatever the hell that's on. No idea. Maybe hbo.

[Will Compton]

What was the show you were talking about the other week? No,

[George Kittle]

I loved it.

[Taylor Lawan]

His and hers.

[George Kittle]

I haven't. I read the book too, because I liked the story so much.

[Taylor Lawan]

It was paradise.

[Will Compton]

No, you were talking about heated rivalries. You said you're all about that.

[George Kittle]

I got. I got tricked into doing a heated rivalries. Tik tok when I was in Milan for the Olympics.

[Will Compton]

He. He was telling me about it. Is this not the show you're telling me about? The hockey players?

[George Kittle]

I've never seen that after the game, Christian, because he got his tickets through one of his sponsors, and so, like, we had to do some stuff in the stands after the game, and he, like, people were just approaching us, like fans at this point, and they were trying to get him to do some tick tock. And I. I'm sitting there on crutches in my boot and, like, I'm talking to somebody else, and he goes, oh, no, George will do your tick tock for you. And I'm like, all right, I'll throw you a bone, Christian, because, you know, you set this whole thing up. And then he gets me to say a quote from the show. That one? Yeah, that show. And I guess it's a very. Oh, shout out. Hank's Coffee Shop. That's in Franklin.

[Taylor Lawan]

Oh, good coffee shop. Great coffee coffee shop.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

And, yeah, that. I guess I. I said something that leads to whatever the show's about, Right?

[Will Compton]

Yep.

[George Kittle]

Got Tricked into that one. Had. I mean, I probably would have done it regardless, but I had no idea

[Will Compton]

what I was hit me up about this show. She's like, have you seen this? I was like, no. She's like, we should watch this. I was like, no, I. What? Like you got to tell me what it's about.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I need a little.

[Will Compton]

What it was about. Like, what do we.

[George Kittle]

I need a little bit of background.

[Will Compton]

What are we doing here?

[George Kittle]

I need.

[Taylor Lawan]

What's it about?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, gay hockey players.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

It's like five minutes of hockey and then just dudes.

[George Kittle]

I. I can't confirm that. I cannot confirm that.

[Will Compton]

Oh, no. I did not watch it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Sorry.

[George Kittle]

I cannot confirm. I can't confirm that. But I'm. I think that's what. He's telling the truth.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's like a thing going around right now.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, no, it's very, very popular. I asked my mom's neighbor. My mom's neighbor in Santa Fe is gay. And I asked him about it because. Right, right when the Tick tock came out and he was like, love, love that show. I'm like, all right, so you're gonna love my Tick Tock.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you're gonna love what you see.

[George Kittle]

Sick. I think the back of the bus, they should do tick tocks like weekly. Like the dancing ones. I think that'd be really funny. I think they should just do trendy

[Taylor Lawan]

Tick Tocks can dance low key.

[George Kittle]

He's a white boy with a little motion.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

God forbid.

[George Kittle]

I said. I said about play this one.

[Will Compton]

Sure.

[George Kittle]

Half people loved it, half people hated it. And I was like, what's wrong with that quote? That was so sick. Isn't it? Football's a lot easier when the boys are having fun. Specifically the quarterback.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

If his vibes are high. Everybody's vibes are.

[Will Compton]

No question about it.

[George Kittle]

Yes. If they're not in a good mood, no matter what you do, the locker room's just down a little bit.

[Will Compton]

Yep. At the quarterback is in a bad vibe. It's bad for everybody. This. This needs to be the boys in the back of the bus, right?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

I think you guys should do like once a week, do like a. Do a fun tick tock.

[Taylor Lawan]

That easy, J.P. that's it.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Just do the basic ones. I think that'd be hilarious. You guys do the cheerleader outfits too.

[Will Compton]

Matching fits.

[George Kittle]

Are we still recording?

[Taylor Lawan]

We are, bro. This is just old fashioned podcast. Yeah, it.

[Will Compton]

How long we been going?

[Taylor Lawan]

We were talking TV shows.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I thought we were about to dive. We ever had Black Rabbit you watch it.

[George Kittle]

Oh, I. I did not do Black Rabbit.

[Taylor Lawan]

Black Rabbit's a good one.

[George Kittle]

Trying to think the other one I'm really excited. Looking forward to. They're doing. You got Star wars, guys. Yeah, they're doing the Darth Maul one. It's animated and it looks. It like. It looks like PG13ish. So it's action to have action and murder. And I love Darth.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's gonna go. Yes.

[George Kittle]

And it's the storyline too, is he. It's like him surviving, getting cut in half, and then he wants to destroy the Empire. So it's like he's the bad guy who's now going after the bad guys. And it just seems so evil and dark and I'm so in. I love.

[Will Compton]

I want to get into Star wars so bad.

[George Kittle]

I saw a really good question online. It was, would you guys rather the Grogu and the Mandalorian and Grogu or the new Avengers movie be a 10 out of 10 movie? Like, best we've all time for me.

[Taylor Lawan]

Like, which, basically. Which, like, if you'd rather have a 10 out of 10 movie.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, like, which one? Because, like, right now the rumors are like, because what is it? The Mandalorian trailer came out and people were very disappointed in it. Like, yeah, people are disappointed in it. And then the Avengers stuff. Like, to be honest, like, Marvel hasn't really done anything good for, like, since Endgame. They've had a couple good, you know, one offs here and there, but a majority of it's been pretty brutal. So they're like, everyone's expectations are pretty low. So, like, if you could pick one of those two movies to be like, one of the best movies you've ever seen, which one would you pick?

[Taylor Lawan]

Star Wars.

[George Kittle]

I'm an Avengers guy. I. I'm. I've seen every. Besides, like, there's two movies like, or two shows I'm not gonna watch, but I'm addicted to Marvel.

[Taylor Lawan]

I love. I love Marvel, but again, they've had so many. I mean, I guess Star wars has too, but I feel like that feeling of Star wars just being a plus hasn't been there for so long.

[Will Compton]

Rogue.

[George Kittle]

Rogue Heroes was fantastic. Not Rogue Hero.

[Taylor Lawan]

Sorry.

[George Kittle]

Rogue One.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Rogue One. That was such. Did you watch and or TV show Fantastic. Season two? I. And I. I finished season two. I watched three episodes. I'm like, I'm just gonna watch Star wars now because it goes straight into Rogue One. Like. Like, it's like 10 minutes later as I started Rogue One and then I ended up Watching Rogue One, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and the Jedi Returns all in the same day. I watched like 12 hours of Star Wars. Well, I woke up actually like at 7am and I had like, I was sick and so like I literally had someone come and gave me an IV at like 8 8am So I started at 8am and I watched until I went to bed at like 10 o' clock it was. And Claire didn't even expect me.

[Will Compton]

One of the best days ever.

[George Kittle]

12 hours straight. Couldn't eat, was projectile vomiting. But I watched 12 straight hours of Star wars and it was so good.

[Taylor Lawan]

I feel like Star wars, like with the history they have, the entire franchise, I feel like you can do more.

[George Kittle]

You can juice you knew so much

[Taylor Lawan]

than you can the Avengers one. They're both great. No, if I want an A plus franchise out of either one, I see Star Wars. They have so much more range. Well, I mean, you know, you can't

[George Kittle]

talk about range because Avengers and Marvel has multiverses and so like then it's unlimited range. You can do anything you want with any character from anything. Just wait till the day that DC and Marvel, they do an actual movie together. And you, you see Henry Cavill as Superman again. We took him for granted. I just wanted to tell everybody that he was so good, so good as Superman.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. But Avengers has. It's more of like the same. It's more of like the same time frame. They do have like multi universes, but it's all within like the same scope of the same time that's happening. Whereas Star wars are so much more. You can go back and you throw in Palpatine, anything, whether it's an ancestor. You can go so far back in the Star wars lore. Sure you can put more quality things together.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. I mean, what's the earliest saying is what Captain America is like the earliest superhero, right? Yeah. I mean that's fair. The time range is bigger.

[Taylor Lawan]

Do you watch Thrones?

[George Kittle]

Yeah, I love giving Thrones. I've not watched the Seven Kingdoms thing yet.

[Taylor Lawan]

That's a great. That's an awesome show.

[George Kittle]

I'll watch it. I don't like waiting weekly, so I just want to be able to binge it. So I was just waiting.

[Taylor Lawan]

But like with Thrones, all the lineages that happen, all the houses, all the history, I feel like Star wars is in the same. Same stratosphere.

[George Kittle]

The Game of Thrones blow the last season.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yes, yes.

[George Kittle]

100 ruined it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Have you seen this Church?

[George Kittle]

No.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's angry about it. It's. It's it's really good.

[George Kittle]

Is it?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

All right, I'll give it a shot.

[Taylor Lawan]

Goonies meets Star Wars.

[George Kittle]

Tick Tock was crushing it, so I'll give it a shot. I do love Jude Law, though. He's fantastic.

[Taylor Lawan]

Jude Law. He's in Black Rabbit.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, he. He is good. Taylor, give me a TV show

[Will Compton]

shy.

[George Kittle]

Oh, buddy, I have so much bulldog gear.

[Will Compton]

Let's.

[George Kittle]

I love sh. I talk to. I talk to some of their cast all the time on Instagram.

[Will Compton]

Really? Yeah, dude, it would be awesome. Keys on the bus. Yeah. He was a professional.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. IDM him and him and him. I love you are.

[Will Compton]

If there's one thing I could take from you and have, it would be your DMing abilities.

[George Kittle]

I can do a lot of people.

[Will Compton]

Your ability to stay in contact with people is incredible.

[George Kittle]

I'm. Yeah, it's impressive.

[Will Compton]

It is amazing when you go to Kittle Fest and your boys that you just met online, they're just hanging out. It's like, it's.

[Taylor Lawan]

Hey, how'd you meet George?

[Will Compton]

The rarest, best fun things I've ever seen.

[George Kittle]

That was funny. I had to convince Claire to let me invite them. That was fun. But they were. They were a hoot, weren't they?

[Will Compton]

They were awesome. Yeah. I was trying to get the boys on this show for the longest time, and I finally got dressed on it and Jack was like, yeah, it's it. Dude.

[Taylor Lawan]

I watched one of the seasons that

[Will Compton]

you watched a couple episodes, right?

[Taylor Lawan]

No, I watched a full season of one.

[Will Compton]

That's right. My House.

[Taylor Lawan]

Because once before Shores.

[George Kittle]

Letter Kenny.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay, so I watched Shorsey.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, Letter Kenny's solid. This show, I just think is so great. I'm on Game of Thrones at this very moment for the first time. I'm on season two.

[George Kittle]

Oh, well, congratulations to episode one.

[Will Compton]

Or two right now.

[George Kittle]

Does it make sense to you at all?

[Will Compton]

So, weirdly enough, yes. Taylor's like my spotter.

[George Kittle]

Well, then you're good.

[Will Compton]

So when I'm asking questions, because that was always the thing for me, like

[George Kittle]

the first three or four episodes doesn't make any sense.

[Will Compton]

So much going on. And now I'm just like. She was like, no, you. This person's supporting that. I know. First off, when I saw Ned Stark rip, I couldn't believe it.

[George Kittle]

It.

[Will Compton]

Because I always knew Joffrey was a shit stick because of. Everyone talks about it long enough, you

[George Kittle]

just know he gets worse.

[Will Compton]

And when he.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's one of the greatest villains.

[Will Compton]

When his daughter talks him into, hey, just bend the knee. Or whatever. Say you were wrong, they'll have Grace with you. And then he beds him, beheads him. Yeah, that was crazy. And then who's a Targaryen? The girl, Daenerys. Is that her name? Daenerys? First off, her and Jason Momoa, that relationship, I wanted to go forever. Her. The fact that he goes down, she walks into the flames because that ass witch, she saves her and then she all of a sudden wants to put the boy in a vegetative state.

[George Kittle]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

That's crazy to me.

[George Kittle]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

Crazy. Love that they burned her alive. So. Yeah, I mean, this guy, what's his name? Rob.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, he's a dog.

[Will Compton]

I'm a fan of him. He just got dubbed King of the North. As you should on my storyline right now. So I'm in, I'm in it right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm excited because I'm finally like, my brain's finally processing everything that's going on.

[George Kittle]

No, it's, it's very fun.

[Will Compton]

Star wars is the thing I want to get into. I think the kids would really enjoy that.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, there's a lot of good animated content with Star wars.

[Will Compton]

The Avengers thing. When you guys are breaking it all down, it's just, it's just there's so much of it. I don't know where to start. I, I watched the Iron Man. I watched the first Iron man like

[Taylor Lawan]

a week ago that you can go by. I was so bought in 32 movies.

[Will Compton]

I'm thinking there's a lot of start this.

[George Kittle]

No, no, just watch it. And rel. I'm a big fan of release order because it makes more sense in my brain. Because if you go, if you go numerical order, you're going to get some movies that were made in like 2023 and then the next movie is going to be made in like 2006. And it just is not going to level up. It's just weird.

[Taylor Lawan]

And it's fun too, cuz it really became popular with the end credit scenes.

[George Kittle]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

And it made your mind wonder like, are they going to make this? Are they going to make that?

[George Kittle]

Watch it. Release order highly suggest that. I mean, they don't really do anything bad. Two of the Thor movies are atrocious, but a majority of, I mean they, they're, they're hitting like 75. They were batting like 900 up until like 2021.

[Will Compton]

All that money.

[George Kittle]

So what? Yeah, you know, if you go back and watch again, it's not as bad as you remember it being, but it just should have been way better. That's how I view it.

[Will Compton]

Weird casting.

[George Kittle]

Very weird. Cassie. But when I saw Angelina in that, I was like, this movie's gonna rock. No, her character has CTE the entire time. Yeah. What up? And. Yeah. And what's his face?

[Will Compton]

Jon Snow.

[George Kittle]

Oh, yeah. Jon Snow is in it for seven minutes. You're like, oh my God. Jon Snow. He's supposed to be his big character. Never happened.

[Will Compton]

Really?

[George Kittle]

Yeah. It was disappointing. Do you guys watch? Was it Moon Knight? That was also a fun show. Wasn't great, but it was fun.

[Will Compton]

I like that one with Oscar Isaac.

[George Kittle]

I love Oscar Isaac. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Have you seen the. I mean, it's old, but Sopranos? Yeah, buddy.

[George Kittle]

I watched. No, I lied. I've seen. I think I watched one season.

[Will Compton]

Okay. It is a slower burn the entire time.

[George Kittle]

But that's like for me to watch shows now. Like, I don't really have a lot of time on my own to watch shows and so I. Claire has to like it it. And so I think that's too slow for her.

[Will Compton]

Right. That's why Shorzy.

[George Kittle]

She actually likes short.

[Will Compton]

So fast paced. It's 20 minute episodes, six episodes a season. Bang. Always it makes you want more because it'll come out. You'll watch it.

[George Kittle]

They also pump them out quick. That's why I like it. Like they did like three seasons in like 18 months, I think.

[Will Compton]

Jay, this last season, they came out the last season, right? I believe so. I haven't started it yet. I need to watch it.

[George Kittle]

I've watched two of the episodes and they were both so much fun.

[Taylor Lawan]

Fun. A good one. Right now that I'm. I started watching is Paradise.

[George Kittle]

O. I haven't watch that.

[Taylor Lawan]

About the one that we had the cameo in.

[Will Compton]

Oh, for real?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah.

[George Kittle]

Because you had the cameo.

[Taylor Lawan]

People were bringing to my attention, like, oh, what a cameo. Because I. I knew that we did it, but I didn't know that paradise was like a very popular show. And then when that started happening, I'm. I'm asking the boys. No, we just signed away. Did we?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I don't remember. But I was like, is this show popular? And they're like, oh, big time. And then everybody's like, all the. All the shows that I posted about, they're like, you would let. You would really like paradise because it's

[George Kittle]

only kind of give me like a 22nd, like, sell me on it right now.

[Will Compton]

Better pitch. Go.

[George Kittle]

I'm out.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

I'm thinking of the best way to do it because it's an Underground world. They're taking this population that they all put together that would survive basically the apocalypse or the. I don't know what happens to the world world that it hasn't gotten to that point yet. But basically everybody on Earth, they go into this underground world in Colorado, and they get, you know, these thousands of people and put them in this new world, which, like, lit up with lights and everything else, but nobody's went to the surface, so I haven't. I don't know what's going on with the surface yet.

[George Kittle]

So, like.

[Taylor Lawan]

But it's like conspiracy to where, you know, Spoiler alert. See, I can't.

[George Kittle]

So, like, do they, like, they're down there and, like, are they just down there, like, as a test or is like, are they really.

[Taylor Lawan]

No, they're down there to re. To relive this new world.

[George Kittle]

World that's interesting.

[Taylor Lawan]

And people get curious. It's kind of like the spot that I'm in now. I haven't seen Silo. The spot that I'm in now. People are curious about what's going on on the surface, like, if it's still livable. Because everybody down that's on the elite level is saying that there is no life. Like, you can't live up there. But people are starting to get curious enough now, so they're wanting to go up there and experiment and see if they can create new life.

[George Kittle]

Sounds like silo. It's like silo.

[Taylor Lawan]

And there's conspiracies that happen that go on underneath in the ground where I don't want to give away. So, spoilers. If you watch paradise, because they're only on season two, Click on that.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, Silos. You guys would enjoy silo. You would really enjoy silo. The world ends, and everybody lives in these random silos that go, like, hundreds of floors down. And basically, like, the floor that you live on is basically, like, you know, your value to society.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah. Like your st. You watch Fallout.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. Love Fallout. Yeah. In a way like that. Except. Except they know that there's other silos, but they're not connected. But they can. The silo has a video camera that shows what the outer world looks like, and it's like, desolate, you know, that type of stuff. But the only rule is that if you say you want to leave the silo, you have to leave the silo, and then everyone watches you leave the silo, and everybody that leaves the silo dies.

[Taylor Lawan]

That sounds like a fun show.

[George Kittle]

It. And, well, like, the conspiracies, everything. That's because of like one of the, one of the people on it. Like there's conspiracy about like the up the outer worlds. It's like the video screens of. It's a lie. Like all this crazy stuff.

[Will Compton]

Stuff.

[George Kittle]

I didn't watch season two because everybody told me that was terrible. But season one is very fun and Claire loved it too.

[Will Compton]

Each.

[George Kittle]

It's one of those shows too that's it's a cliffhanger like every episode. So you're like I gotta keep watching it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

I like a good cliffhanger episode.

[Taylor Lawan]

Paradise is like I do and I

[Will Compton]

don't like when it's 11 o' clock at night and it's finishing up and I'm like, I know.

[Taylor Lawan]

Okay, it's a 42 minute episode. Do I go 42 minutes? Is that 11:30?

[George Kittle]

That's how. That's what me and Claire do. Like in season like I spend most of my time watching like I get home at 6, 6, 6, 6 o', clock, 7 o' clock and we watch shows and like that 8:45 hits. I'm like am I gonna watch one more hour episode and then I'm not in bed before 10:30 or do I go to bed now?

[Will Compton]

Right.

[George Kittle]

And get a full like. And the episode always wins like 90 of the time.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[George Kittle]

Wins. It usually depends on for me is if am I leaving on Friday for. On a six hour flight. So that's the case. I'm going to bed right now. But if it's a home game, I'm saying up and watching.

[Will Compton]

That's going to be so tough about playing on the west coast.

[George Kittle]

It's very weird.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it sucks man.

[George Kittle]

And the fight's always longer on the way home.

[Taylor Lawan]

You know what the prime time games done early.

[Will Compton]

Prime time game is done early. Which is really nice if you're just watching as a fan. But playing like when you're in Tennessee. Yeah. You're flying just your hour and a half, two hours, bro.

[George Kittle]

West coast once a while you'll go

[Will Compton]

hit a, a Rams and it's like okay, we have four hours.

[George Kittle]

But the prime time game on the west coast is the greatest because we play at 5:15. I'm home before 10 o'.

[Will Compton]

Clock. I feel like west coast or the west part of the country watching ball way better. It's way better. Yeah, because you're getting up 9:00am ball starting and then ball ends at like what, nine? Like you, you have good.

[George Kittle]

No like 8:30.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. East coast prime time games insane.

[George Kittle]

The fact that, the fact that that's a thing Is terrible.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they gotta change that up. It's big time.

[George Kittle]

I was I the opportunity to talk to some dude in the MLB and he said that their team like the team came to them like the, the players and was like, hey, we're tired of waiting on the Runway. We want you to get a plane for just the players. And so they, they did it. Players, game ends, they go on their own plane. It's the players only with like the head trainer and like an equipment staff guy and a security guy just for like in case something weird happened. And they like literally get off the buses again, the plane, they take off and they like saved almost an hour per travel session.

[Will Compton]

That's, that's awesome.

[George Kittle]

Is that sick? Yeah, it's like, wouldn't that be funer than the NFL? Like not to wait for the equipment to get loaded. That's like one of the worst things about us is like, okay, we play. Dude, we played in Buffalo Sunday Night Football. All right. So that game started at 8:15. Okay. Game ends. We're on the airport at 1:00 clock and then we're sitting there for an hour plus waiting for it to get loaded. And then something happened with snow. Like we didn't take off until like 3:30.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. At that point it's like, can you just.

[George Kittle]

And then, and then because you're going back west, it adds like an hour to your flight time because of the wind. And so then it's a six hour flight. No, the owner gets it because he, he rents it out. It's his, it's his United flight.

[Taylor Lawan]

And sharing with questions like that, you can just ask them on the mic.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, yeah, I can hear you.

[Taylor Lawan]

Can y' all build miles with Yalls team flights?

[Will Compton]

No, the owner gets it because he rents it.

[George Kittle]

I mean, I'll assume so. I don't get it. Like I don't ever check in or anything like that. I just get a text that says Your seat is 12A.

[Will Compton]

Oh, you guys have assigned seats.

[George Kittle]

Yeah, because we're lay downs. Yeah, we're lay downs.

[Will Compton]

With us it'd be like you just get on. I think there'd be like name tags on the. Yeah, sit wherever.

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

It's like you sit initially in your seat to get your stuff down and then everybody moves. Yeah, that's kind of how we do it.

[Will Compton]

The lay down move is so awesome.

[George Kittle]

I was Severance never watched it.

[Taylor Lawan]

Lay him in.

[George Kittle]

I watched season one and then it just like the drama and like the. When it. Whenever there's oil is being talked about. Sick. Like, the off the oil field stuff is just too much drama. I don't care about it. It's too silly.

[Will Compton]

Like, he's gonna hate season two.

[George Kittle]

That's why he's gonna hate season two for a while.

[Taylor Lawan]

But it really gets. It gets spicy there at the end. But he's right.

[George Kittle]

It's just right again. I don't have, like, if I'm watching show, I want it to be. I want to be vetted, and I want it to be good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you're not a guy that jumps on first. You're gonna be the first guy guy.

[George Kittle]

I mean, unless, like, I'm really like, the Darth Maul show for Star Wars, I'm gonna be the first guy to watch that because it's Darth Maul and I don't care. It's Star Wars. But like, a lot of, like, Landman. Like, I do. I. I found Landman on Tick Tock. Like, everyone's posting videos about it. And then Claire watched like, two episodes without me, and she goes, you gotta watch this. And I was like, all right, I'll watch it. And I enjoyed it. It was really fun. I love. Was it Tommy? It was the main actor, Billy Bob Thornton. Billy Bob Thor. I don't know why I said Tommy, but I like Billy Bob Thornton.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he's.

[George Kittle]

He's hard to beat.

[Will Compton]

But speaking of Tommy, Tom Hardy, was it.

[George Kittle]

Mom.

[Taylor Lawan]

Dude, great show.

[George Kittle]

I think I started that. I started. I need to continue watching it.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah. The finale of the season one is unreal.

[George Kittle]

I think I started that. I love Tom Hardy. Do you guys ever see what's it called?

[Will Compton]

Legends?

[George Kittle]

Taboo?

[Will Compton]

No.

[George Kittle]

It was a passion project by Tom Hardy. It was on Hulu. Like, I think I'm made my rookie year in the NFL. Yeah, he's like. He's like a rich British dude who disappeared for like 20 years or 10 years. He was in Africa learning, like, witch doctor. Oh. And he comes back because his dad owned. His, like, family was rich. And he comes back and like, basically up like the. The British military back in, like, Civil War era. It's very fun. And he just kills a lot of people anytime.

[Will Compton]

The vibe of that top hat like that is. That's right.

[George Kittle]

I'm so excited for Peaky Blinders movie.

[Will Compton]

I gotta watch Peaky Blinders, man.

[George Kittle]

I got Claire to watch it.

[Will Compton]

The subtitle thing, I. I can't understand without subtitles. That's okay.

[George Kittle]

You get used to it. But yes.

[Taylor Lawan]

And I'll say this. The first couple times I watched Peaky Blinders I fell asleep.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Taylor Lawan]

So I had to really. Because everybody talked about it so much that I wanted to. To fully buy in.

[Will Compton]

That happened to me with Sons of Anarchy, and I just kind of never picked it back up.

[George Kittle]

I feel bad about it. I got like three and a half seasons in, but I was in college, when I was watching, I was like, I just don't. I would rather be outside Breaking Bad.

[Will Compton]

I got probably the same amount of time in, and it's like, I didn't finish it.

[George Kittle]

I didn't finish it either. And I feel bad.

[Taylor Lawan]

Breaking Bad. Great show. Great show.

[George Kittle]

Look up. I mean, Paradise McCaffrey did a peaky Blinders fit for a game one time. It was so sick.

[Will Compton]

How's his haircut?

[George Kittle]

He always. He's always high and tight. Way to pick you for combiners.

[Will Compton]

Let his fit.

[George Kittle]

I don't know what that is. Breaking Bad. What'd you Google?

[Taylor Lawan]

They had a special edition DVD collection where it came in a meth barrel.

[Will Compton]

I always thought that was kind of collectible. Yeah, collectible, collectible. It's gotta be worth like 20 GS now. I'll Google, start sniping things. Rip packs. Rip packs.

[George Kittle]

Catan never played it. I have a lot of buddies who never played it. No.

[Will Compton]

David Bakhtiari put me on Catan. I think he tried with his wife.

[George Kittle]

He tried to put me on it.

[Will Compton]

We played. They bodied us. I've played that game probably a hundred times since then. It's been like two months. It is amazing. So much fun. Three games.

[George Kittle]

You have like wood and grain.

[Will Compton]

Wood, grass, stone, brick. Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

Have you had a game where you expand to the.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah. That was the newest addition. We kind of just did because we had four. We were playing with four people and it was like a little congestion, but it's like, okay. It's a new strategy has take place. You have to really, like, get your resources where you want to go. That two for one. The three for one is really going to play for you. And then Quinn was like, we should do the expansion. And we did that. It's kind of free for all, really. It comes down to like, what's the dice that's gonna get rolled? And it's sick. It is fun, dude. It's a. That is a great game game.

[Taylor Lawan]

We hit some clue and code names.

[Will Compton]

I saw the code names.

[George Kittle]

Have you guys played sequence? Yeah, Love sequence. I've spent hours playing sequence.

[Taylor Lawan]

Show me Sequence. I don't know if I played that.

[George Kittle]

It's like bingo with a part. It's like Bingo with cards.

[Will Compton]

Oh, you know what I did place. I wasn't a fan.

[Taylor Lawan]

I haven't played sequence.

[George Kittle]

You got body, didn't you? For some reason my wife caught hands. My wife is so good at this game. My overall record. So like anytime like we go on the bye week, we'll bring this and we'll probably play it 20 times. My usual record versus her is like 5 and 15.

[Will Compton]

But hold on. There's not a whole lot of strategy in that game.

[George Kittle]

I don't know how she look at the draw. I mean I would say 75 luck, 25 mild strategy.

[Will Compton]

Have you played fishbowl? Yeah, is awesome. From a group like game night type of vibe.

[George Kittle]

Fishbowl's fantastic.

[Will Compton]

Classic fishbowl.

[George Kittle]

I played it at his house.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he. Dude, that guy loves his games.

[George Kittle]

Yeah. He likes interacting.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[George Kittle]

He's also. He's a big. He's an entertainer. He does that well. Like he. He's a host. He's good in front of the crowd. He knows.

[Taylor Lawan]

Charismatic.

[George Kittle]

Very. And he's massive.

[Will Compton]

A lot about many subjects. So you never run into a dead end with him. You really got something for you.

[George Kittle]

Have you had him on the podcast?

[Will Compton]

Of course.

[George Kittle]

A while ago.

[Will Compton]

Friend of the show a while ago.

[Taylor Lawan]

He's been on a couple times.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lawan]

But it has been a while. Not since.

[Will Compton]

Dave likes to live in the shadows a little bit. He does more class of offensive line now way. He likes to have his family do his thing.

[George Kittle]

Me and Dave just. We sent each other so many memes on Instagram and then I was actually a bad friend. He was about 12 deep and I hadn't responded well. I hadn't said any. Any back.

[Taylor Lawan]

Right.

[George Kittle]

And I felt bad. So I owe him several God great zod.

[Will Compton]

I mean this intro, this could be our longest one. I think it could be.

[George Kittle]

Don't. Don't tell my wife that. I was like it's gonna take an hour. Well, thanks for joining us saying Bus with the Boys. Are we still recording sign off?

[Taylor Lawan]

Yeah, go ahead, sign it off, man.

[George Kittle]

Thanks for joining us. This episode Bus with the Boys. I'm George Kittle here with Taylor Lawan and Will Compton. Looking forward for you guys listening to this. It's a great time with Zero direction and some substation. You guys have a great one. Big hugs, tiny kisses and I love you all

[Will Compton]

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