Green Beret & Florida Gator Strength Coach, Rusty Whitt | Tier1 Live

Summary

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Tier1 Podcast – Episode Summary

Podcast: Tier1 Podcast
Host: Brent Tucker
Episode: Green Beret & Florida Gator Strength Coach, Rusty Whitt | Tier1 Live
Date: July 31, 2026

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Main Theme and Purpose

This episode features Rusty Whitt, former Green Beret and current strength & conditioning coach for the University of Florida Gators. Host Brent Tucker (former Delta Force operator) guides a rich, freewheeling conversation that blends elite military experiences, coaching insights across top-tier college football programs, the culture of service, leadership, and the evolution of athlete preparation. The show frequently pivots through listener questions (super chats), producing a dynamic and candid dialogue ranging from football strategy to tales from Special Forces selection.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Rusty Whitt’s Strength and Conditioning Journey

• Career Overview at a Glance
  [02:32] Rusty lists his journey:

  • Midwestern State, University of Texas, Olympic Training Center, William & Mary, Louisville, Sam Houston State
  • Six years in the Army (Green Beret)
  • Returned to NCAA programs: Rice, Louisiana-Lafayette, Texas Tech, Army West Point, Troy, Tulane, and finally Florida Gators

• College Coaching Culture
  [03:14] “Every single one of those stops is a story of its own.” (Brent)

  • Relationships and networking are critical; ability matters but so does who you know.

Memorable Stop: Army West Point

• West Point’s Unique Environment
  [09:10] Strict code of conduct, “They are so internally driven...incredible work ethic and their standards.” (Rusty)

  • Players exhibit uncommon maturity and self-motivation.
  • Army football’s on-field continuity comes from maintaining classes throughout four years (no transfer exodus).

• Competition and Grit
  [10:04] Story about underestimating Army: “Our players were making fun of them because they’re so small...you might want to zip it up.” (Rusty)

  • Army can “own the clock” and physically and mentally wear down more talented opponents with their grinding, disciplined style.

• PT and Military Realities for Athletes
  [08:43] Army athletes used to run two-mile PT tests, which reduced possible lineman size; recent accommodations (bike, rower) let them bulk up more in-season, followed by weight-shedding for schools/assignments.

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Military Selection, Leadership, and Mindset

Green Beret Selection Insights

• Attrition Reality
  [16:20] On SFAS: “I can’t imagine there was ever a selection class where they didn’t have multiple double digit [quitters].” (Brent)

  • “Half the guys that went into our log PT quit.” (Rusty)
  • “Some were just completely smoked out...they couldn’t move.” (Rusty)

• Cadre Standards
  [25:08] “I just let our guys know what the standards are going to be...I’m not here to be liked...it’s about the standard.” (Rusty) – On intimidation/coaching style

  • Cadre just state the standard and hold you to it, rarely berating: “They talk to everyone like men.”

• Notable Quote
  [26:46] “Left my rifle more than arm’s length. I turned around and he’s holding it going ‘Did you lose something, candidate?’...Wasn’t angry, just like disappointed. And this is a guy ... I just felt like this deflation of confidence. He really let me down, man.” (Rusty)

Lessons on Officers

• Balance of Leadership
  [24:01] “I got to my team, we had a very solid captain. He was all hands-on.” (Rusty)
  • Brent: “Officers are a good thing ... I always respected officers that are worthy of respect.”

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Coaching Philosophy and Athletic Training

• Advice to Aspiring College Linemen
  [20:46] For a 15-year-old, 6’2”, 230lbs hoping for D1:

  • “10 grams of creatine a day, drink whey shakes, eat grams of protein per your goal weight...Front squat Tuesday, back squat Friday, get really good at squatting for depth...Don’t chase weight, chase technique.”

• Evolution of Training
  [27:34] “Is there a point where you saw a big change to strength and conditioning?” (Brent)
  [28:09] Rusty: “We do something called velocity-based training now, where we measure how fast the bar moves...Less likely to have an injury...In last 5-15 years, that’s been a major change.”

  • Data tracking (Catapult system, bar speed monitors) now enables personalized workloads, injury prevention.

• Notable Physical Specimens

  • [30:41] Ricky Williams (Texas/Dolphins): “An absolute mutant.”
  • [32:01] Patrick Mahomes (Texas Tech): “Wired differently ... not just his physical tools, but the discipline, the extra work.”

Athlete Size and Genetics

• [34:55] “How do these guys look 30 at 18? D1 Genetics.” (Brent)
  • Rusty: “They matured early, set them apart in high school, got on the radar.”

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Leadership, Adversity, and Anecdotes

• How Hard is D1 Football vs. Deployment?
  [48:15] Rusty: “It’s just different ... to play D1 requires regimentation and sacrifice, but doing a 20-mile ruck march with 100 pounds is different.”

  • Brent: “When I was getting shot at on deployment, I’d like to think that was harder.”

• Endurance, Strength, and Maximizing Potential
  [50:02] At Florida, athletes might run 21-22mph for a session, then squat 500 pounds – “Difficult in a compressed timeframe.”

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Listener Q&A and Candid Moments

Super Chats: Highlights and Humor

• Bigfoot, UFOs, AI Deepfakes
  [38:12] Rusty on UFOs: “How do they get here? It defies the laws of physics. I think Bigfoot existed, we’d have a carcass by now.”
  [39:03] “With AI, how can you even believe a picture or video anymore?” (Rusty/Brent)

• Headbutting and Bleeding in Bowl Game
  [53:23] Legendary story: “New Orleans Bowl 2011 ... linebacker dislocated his kneecap, another player headbutts me in the locker room ... I met him like two rams. The blood, like Ric Flair, covers my face ... I ran into the face of an ESPN HD camera.” (Rusty)

• Gator/NCAA Football Culture
  [84:33] On the SEC’s depth: “You play a gauntlet – LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia — you never get a reprieve ... by week 11 or 12, you’re running on fumes.”

• On Fan Bases
  [118:10] Rusty: “Louisiana Monroe fans, there’s no filter ... at Troy, a fraternity behind us, same thing. They take it a little too far, but it’s part of the game.”

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps & Attribution)

• On Army Strength Training:
  “They have a code of conduct … easiest place for me – just hand them a workout, turn on the lights. They’re so internally driven.” (Rusty, [09:10])

• Selection Attrition:
  “Half the guys that went into our log PT quit.” (Rusty, [16:33])

• On Coaching Philosophy:
  "I'm not here to be liked ... it's all about the standard and we are a gatekeeper for that." (Rusty, [25:08])

• On Bar Speed Training:
  "When you measure bar speed, it’s more about intent to move the weight fast ... less likely to have an injury." (Rusty, [28:52])

• On Athlete Genetics:
  “Early to physically mature, which set them apart in high school … large men in that gym.” (Rusty, [35:02])

• On D1 vs. Operator Life:
  "To play D1, the regimentation ... but doing a 20 mile ruck with 100 pounds is different.” (Rusty, [48:28])

• On Elite Performers:
  “Ricky Williams — an absolute mutant … Patrick Mahomes, just wired differently, had discipline and would do extra work after practice.” (Rusty, [30:41],[32:01])

• On Sports and Military Crossover:
  “Natural segue ... living a very regimented lifestyle ... wrestlers, the fittest guys I’ve been a part of, just like human pit bulls.” (Rusty, [110:28])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:32] Rusty Whitt’s coaching and military resume rundown
• [09:10] What makes Army West Point special
• [16:20] Green Beret selection and attrition realities
• [20:46] Advice to high school linemen on nutrition & training
• [25:08] Rusty's approach to coaching, intimidation, and standards
• [28:09] Changes in strength training: velocity-based training
• [30:41] Stories about Ricky Williams and Patrick Mahomes as athletes
• [35:02] Discussion on athlete genetics and maturation
• [48:28] Comparing D1 athletics to Special Operations deployments
• [53:23] Rusty's famous bowl game headbutt and bleeding incident

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Camaraderie & Good-Natured Banter:
  The episode captures locker room energy—friendly ribbing, in-jokes about height, gym stories, and sports rivalries abound.
• Expertise Without Ego:
  Both Brent and Rusty share high-level experience without condescension; the tone is open, encouraging, and matter-of-fact.
• Candor About Struggles:
  There’s humor and humility in discussing injury, selection failures, or being “humbled by the catapult training data.”
• Community Engagement:
  The hosts constantly honor super chat questions and stories, fostering a Patriot/insider network vibe.

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Additional Noteworthy Moments

• Height Banter:
  Several minutes of live height measurement and ensuing jokes, with Rusty ribbing Brent about being 5’11½”.
• Injury Stories:
  Brent’s “taint” injury riding a mechanical bull (and the aftermath), receives much lighthearted attention.
• Fan/Rivalry Culture:
  Discussion of best/worst NCAA fan bases, stadium experiences, and tailgates (LSU, Death Valley, Army-Navy).

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Conclusion

This episode delivers a rich mix for listeners who appreciate:

• Unvarnished accounts of military and elite sports culture
• Leadership lessons and tactical training wisdom
• Candid Q&A on injury, psychology, and athlete prep
• Locker-room humor and honest rivalry banter

Brent and Rusty deconstruct what it takes to perform and lead at the top, with the recurring lesson that whether in the armed forces or on the football field, it’s all about discipline, standards, and serving something bigger than yourself.

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Go Gators!
(And cue plenty of SEC vs. Big Ten banter for the next live show...)

Transcript

[A]

Boom.

[B]

Hello, America. Welcome to Tier 1 podcast. Yeah, it is a Thursday again, which can only mean one thing. The Patriots have gathered, and it's time for the Tier 1 podcast Thursday night Live. It's almost like we just did it last night.

[A]

I don't know what day it is. No, I just feel like it was record.

[B]

Thanks. Dale Comstock has thrown off everybody's week.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

By having us do a live on Wednesday. Wednesday anyway. But we don't have Dale with us today. We have a very, very cool guest, Rusty Witt, former Green Beret, current strength and conditioning coach for the University of Florida. Welcome to the show, brother. That's right. Go Gators. On the couch as always, we have magnet from lion arms, the number one Patriot here. Self proclaimed number one Patriot. He's. He's assuming patriotism is measured by the length of your beard. And if that's true, you. You're in the running. You're in the running. Thankfully, service matters more than that.

[C]

That's a Patreon, and I didn't do that. That's a Patriot beer.

[B]

And making it all happen is my brother, Drew Tucker.

[C]

Hey, guys. It feels like it was the only yesterday since I was with you. It was. It's good to be here.

[B]

All right, let's do it. All right, Rusty, we just did a recording of a deep dive into your whole life, week by week, month by month. That'll come out in a. In a few weeks, in fact.

[D]

Winding road,

[B]

you know, we. We did the wave tops on. On your college strength coach career. You've been to a few places. Real quick, just name off all the places you've been.

[D]

All right, how much time do we have? Midwest. Midwestern State University of Texas in Austin, the Olympic Training center in Colorado Springs, College of William and Mary in Virginia, and University of Louisville, Sam Houston State. Then I joined the United States army for six years.

[B]

Well, got out.

[D]

Went to Rice University, Louisiana Lafayette, Texas Tech, Army, West Point, Troy, Tulane. And here we are, Florida Gators.

[B]

And so I want you to run down that list because

[C]

I'm.

[B]

I'm. I'm sure each one of those stops is a story of its own. As in, like, what, you know, what brought you there, what happened there, you know, lessons learned from there, what you liked about it. You know, what, what just every single one of those stops is. Is a story. And maybe one day we'll have you back and we'll just. And we'll just concentrate on. On. On your. On your coaching, climbing the ladder.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, but that's. It's Such a. We talked about it on, on the episode. It's super unique because of course, part of it obviously has to do with your ability and how good you are at your job, or else no one's going to ask you to come with them or, or ask you to come to them. But it's also, it's also who you know, it's also really a relationship driven business and a lot of, and that's, that's not unique to college football. There's a lot of businesses, a lot of networking.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Are. Is. Is unique to that. I don't even know if I can put you on the spot like this or that or that I should. Was there. If I can word it right, it'll, it'll. It'll dampen it. Is there a place you liked the least? I was like, you know, that just wasn't a good time for me.

[D]

Well, when I was at Midwestern, they were trans. They were moving from NAI to Division 2.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And so there was a lot of funding issues there. They've resolved some things. Like for instance, the, the weight room. When I got the job, there was a converted ballet studio with hardwood and there was the balance beam the ladies used to do. Their warm ups was still installed.

[B]

You're working around.

[D]

Yeah, well, no, they were, they were no longer a functioning.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

They didn't have ballet anymore, but they had just taking rubber mats and laid it on top of the hardwood.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And so when you're dropping weights on the, the mats, crushing, breaking the wood below it. So it was kind of a mushy, like a bounce house feel to it.

[B]

Yeah. So I'm, I'm interested as well because we, you know, these are things that we covered a lot of. Of your military career. But at the, at West Point, when it comes to their football program and their football programs are kind of crazy. Has a crazy history. I mean, they're, they're national champs. You know, it's. It's been a hot minute and I don't see a national championship in their future. But they've beaten some big teams and the way they play football based around the talent they do have is, is, is really cool. But they are a. I don't want to frame this correctly as well. We're in this really weird mindset that if, if you're not Alabama, you're not Ohio State, if you're not currently winning national championships, you ain't nothing. And that's crazy. And some people will go, well, Army's football is, you know, is Trash. Oh yeah.

[D]

Did you get, I disagree.

[B]

Did you get recruited to go play football for Army? Yeah. You couldn't even, you couldn't even your high school football team and you're going to trash, you know, RV football. That has put a wallop on some very big schools. I was watching a bowl game. Now I'm going on a tantrum, but I was watching a bowl game. It was a few years ago, but they were playing, they had a nine win season. It was a really good season for them. They ended up putting 70 points up on that, on that bowl game.

[D]

University of Houston crushed them boys and

[B]

I was like wow, nice. But anyway, I digress. Just want to show Army's dangerous.

[D]

Army can they have something going on called continuity that they're not going to lose as many players to transferring nil and all. Man, there's so continuity of giving, getting a freshman class and maintaining them till they're seniors.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And they do an exceptional job up there with their strength, condition, developing their, their young men and they actually do develop 17, 18 year old guys until they into the early 20s. Connor Hughes does a awesome job up there.

[B]

Here's something. I, I don't know the specifics of it. I heard it a little bit ago and it, and it even has to do with army versus Navy as well. And I don't know if army's changed it but there was something that army does and maintains that Navy doesn't has something to do with weight standards and weight class and their weigh ins and saying, you know, saying well they, they

[D]

used to have to do the old PT test.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

So the Navy and the Air Force with their linemen, they made them do

[B]

like a bike, you know, an alternative event.

[D]

An alternative to my. Well army was late to adopt that so they were competing with linemen that had to run two mile tests.

[A]

Right.

[B]

In 15 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So not a lot, not a lot of size, not a lot of high performing linemen are, are going to knock out a solid two.

[D]

But they got to the bike routine and I think they might be doing like a Row Renault but they feel large, large guys. I mean 300 pounders, they can, they can get guys that big.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And but then they gotta shed the weight. So right after their last season of playing they usually have about five months and they'll, they'll reduce weight significantly and.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Because they're gonna have to make heightened,

[D]

heightened weight and they go to ranger school, they go to airborne school.

[B]

That's right. Yeah. Yeah. What is it? And I I. I would assume so. That's. But is. Is West Point. It's got to be different. They're just culturally and how they run things, who they are. You have to. I'm assuming that you see that and you're like, yes, this is unique unlike any other school because this is West Point. And there's so many differences.

[D]

Well, they have a behavioral standard they have to keep.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

You know, they have a code of conduct that's. That's. It is very strict.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And it was the easiest place for me to ever go. Hand them to work out, turn on all the lights in their facility.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, and then they're so internally driven.

[B]

Right. Just fired.

[D]

Forget like I was assigned to four racks. Was around 16 players. And they were just incredible. You know, their work ethic and their standards and they. You know, they've had leadership, a continuity of leadership that. That keeps them all in check. You know.

[B]

Yeah. So it's a. It's a tough question because you can't bring their attitude with them to the next spot. But is there anything you. You saw them do in the way that structured that? I'm sure who you are now is a. Is accumulation of things you've picked up along the way.

[D]

Yeah. Let's back up to when I was at Louisville and we played Army West Point. And Louisville at that time had several NFL players. We were pretty talented team. And we played West Point early November and they show up and during their warmups, our players are making fun of them because they're so small. Their cornerbacks are like five, eight wearing like size nine shoes. You could tell. And our guys were mocking them. And I was like, you might want to zip it up because. Well, the first play of the game, they kick an onside kick recover it

[B]

that I do love about.

[D]

We had like 10 penalties for 100 yards. They had one penalty for five yards. So.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

They're sneaky.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

In that how they.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Hold the ball for.

[B]

That's right.

[D]

We played them last year when I was two lane and we defer kick off to them and they spend it for 12 minutes.

[B]

That's right. Because you can't get off the field. Yeah. I mean, they are set up to own the clock, grind you down. They just want three yards per play.

[D]

Exactly. And.

[B]

And fourth and one. They're gonna go for it because if

[D]

it's from the 30 on the minus 30, and they're gonna go for it and.

[B]

And more times than not, they're gonna get it. And I love that aspect of.

[D]

Of army football in 2019. We go play. When I was at West Point, we go play Michigan in a big house, you know, 110,000 people. And Michigan was as big as Michigan ever has been. And we took him to overtime.

[B]

I love that.

[D]

And we missed like a 54 yarder to win. And they, they, they beat us, you know, and they scored. We couldn't keep up on, you know, they sacked us in the last play, like a fourth down and they win. And you know, Harbaugh comes running out on the field and you could tell, he was like, yeah, yeah, they were ranked.

[C]

That was a loss for them mentally.

[D]

Yeah, they were a top 10 team

[B]

and not after that week.

[D]

And110,000 people you start hearing USA.

[B]

All right, so now, now you got, now you got me remembering my little brother was a first sergeant at Fort Seal, Oklahoma. He gets tickets to the. And Drew went there. We went as a family.

[C]

Yeah, we did.

[B]

He got tickets to the Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, the Sooners and West Point. That's right.

[C]

Overtime game.

[B]

Who. Kyler Murray was their quarterback.

[D]

Correct.

[B]

We took him to overtime and let me tell you, it was really, really, really cool. I, I only know Florida football and that's SEC football and everyone hates everyone and it's, you know, I mean it's, it's not that bad, but it's. Well, for some people it is. There's a lot of animosity, whether it's, whether it's jovial animosity or not. Let me tell you, we took them on their national title hopeful season to overtime, almost beat them. And they were the nicest crowd to us. They were the nicest crowd.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

Hard. It's hard to dislike them. And then, and then we leave when we, we got, we lost and you know, the guys are on their hands and knees crying and they're so upset, you know, usa, usa. Monkin calls him up in the locker room and says, hey, you know, that wasn't good enough. You know that we, our standard is higher because we expect to go in and beat those guys. And then we clean the locker room. It was tidier than it was. So the locker was. Locker room was spick and span. Like so, you know, they're a high class organization.

[B]

Love to hear that.

[D]

Coach Monkin is, I mean he deals with, you know, just cutting edge mentality, some of the highest operating kind of athletes and you know, like we're getting ready to play Tulane of all place people up there. And we have guys who won the medal of honor talking to us in the locker room pregame, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

So it's just a special place. And whenever you, whenever you schedule them, you're going to be in the middle of a season and you're going to have to run against a triple option team that has 3 inch splits. So you better strap your helmet up.

[B]

What I always wondered this if army going against bigger, more athletic opponents because. And I get the science behind it, they're reacting to a snapped ball. You already have a little bit of momentum like fourth and one like you. You can get it. If army has that mentality, I don't know. And has proven it's very effective. What do you think more football teams

[D]

don't adopt that because nobody wants to play in that option offense. Well, I'm on. I mean let's.

[B]

If you want 4th and 1, regardless of how you got there.

[D]

Well, yeah. Okay. Well then you got the Philly special. You know, the, the, the ankle to ankle split.

[C]

So.

[D]

Yeah, it works in that regard. Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

It takes a lot of repetition.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

It's. It's hard on your linemen.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But I mean, as far as. Why don't more teams run the triple option? It's going to be you.

[B]

Well, that. Yeah, that I get.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

But I mean look, you look at Philadelphia Eagles run their.

[A]

They.

[D]

I don't think they've ever been stopped. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, I said Philly special, that's a different play. My bad. It's the tush push.

[B]

Yeah. Did I think they ended up finally making a rule against that? Did they. Did it just get brought up?

[D]

No, they brought it up, but they said how do you stop a quarterback sneak? How do you make it illegal to run a quarterback sneak?

[B]

Right. Yeah.

[D]

That's really all it is.

[B]

You're gonna have to say no one can.

[D]

Can hit you, push you from behind. You know, I guess that's, that's.

[B]

Yeah. Drew, let's go to the super chats and see what the Patriots have to say.

[C]

All right.

[A]

My man.

[C]

And as usual, our man solely is the top three in the lineup. TK said in Sean Ryan show in his SFAs no one quit. Klaus had many athletes extra motivation due to 911 ex Green Beret told me this is wrong. Quitting didn't decrease in Guat. True.

[B]

Yeah, that's a, that's a crazy statement to say nobody quit in selection. I, I can't imagine there was ever a selection class where they didn't have multiple double digit.

[D]

Had to have been around 50 to 60, 50 to 40%. Look, I mean Half the guys that went into our log pt pick quit.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Right.

[B]

Yeah. Take rifle pt and log pt alone and you'll get 20 quitters.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

If not 30, you know, total. Just that day.

[D]

I wouldn't even say they quit. They just were completely smoked out. Couldn't. Couldn't operate anymore. They couldn't move.

[B]

Yeah. If you, if you don't have even enough energy to say, I quit, but if you're no longer participating, you're gone. Oh, man. One of my favorite, when they took SFAs and they brought it down to two weeks, I had a friend from myq course that was an instructor that time. It was called like two weeks in Hell or something like that.

[D]

Of course, in that Geo special, one of my.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

My senior Charlie was a instructor in there.

[B]

A lot of Green Berets were upset. Like, they took selection down to two weeks. That's bull crap. And I was talking to that instructor and he's like, no. He goes, they brought it back up to three weeks and we were so glad they did. Like, that was the most brutal selection you could go to because they took the three week selection and they crammed it into two weeks. Like, it was horrible on the instructors because. And on the students because they didn't phase anything out. He just crammed everything in two weeks. It was, it was miserable. I remember on that episode, this guy's rolling the pit. Rolling the pit, rolling the pit, and he throws up. And instructors like, put in your pocket. Pick up your puke and put it in your pocket.

[D]

I would.

[B]

I've never gotten to be an instructor like that. But there are times.

[D]

Candidate, put it in your pocket.

[B]

It's got to be fun. It's got to be fun. To say the most ridiculous things like that.

[D]

The part where they were. That one instructor said, these guys are. They took the rickshaw and instead of building the apparatus or just carrying it.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And he goes, these guys are trying to defy the laws of physics.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So they didn't. They didn't make it very far.

[B]

You. You were talking about 50 for the fallen. You know, the. And, and, and you're friends with one of the founders of that. As. As I am. I should say. Beau is a. Is a main member of it.

[D]

Chad Connolly.

[B]

And Chad Connolly is, Is your friend, but from 10th group as well.

[D]

Correct. We actually went to Sopsy and Selection together and then, you know, the Q course, you kind of lose track and then you regain it later on.

[B]

Right? Well, I was. When that part of it, I had a soft heart towards because me and Bo were in selection together and we got the telephone pole with the two pipes and the tires and the lashing and he's got a. We did not do it right. Not the first time, not the second time, the third time, the fourth time. We never got it right. We, we basically built a plow is what we built.

[D]

In the sandy road.

[B]

In the sandy road and then structure. At some point we're like 3/4 through it and he's like, you guys are never going to get there. And we physically were exhausted and he gave us many times to get it right and try it again and try it again. We never figured it out. And when he showed us, we all felt stupid. We all felt stupid. So. Yeah, I, I get it.

[D]

Fixing the wobbly tire.

[B]

That's right.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yep. Yeah. Oh, that was so, so painful. So, yeah, I, I took pity on those guys for not doing. Really. I've been there. I've been there.

[C]

All right. I had a, I had a request question from the wife of our favorite command sergeant major in the army. Brent and Drew have a nephew that is a sophomore in high school. He's 6 to 230 pounds. What advice would you give someone focused on working out for D line, possibly O line with hopes to make it D1?

[D]

How old is he?

[C]

He's sophomore, so 16. Almost 16. He's still 15, I believe.

[D]

Yeah, he's 15 and he wants to play O line.

[C]

He wants to play D line. O lines in, in the, in the, you know, it's, it's in the cards. But any six, they don't really want to maybe gain that much weight.

[D]

Is he six two?

[C]

He's six, two, two. 30 right now at 15.

[D]

Okay, good gosh.

[B]

Well, I would, I was five to one. 30 at 15.

[C]

I was half both those numbers.

[D]

I would take 10 grams of creatine a day.

[B]

I sent some creatine.

[D]

I would drink whey protein shakes at least four times a day. Eat however many pounds you want to weigh in grams of protein. So if you want to weigh 290. 280. It's going to take a long time.

[A]

Right?

[D]

You don't want to pile on a fat. But okay, so 280 grams, when you do the math on that, every 30. 30 or 40 grams per per sitting.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

That's a lot of eating.

[B]

It's a lot of eating. But you gotta, you gotta eat big to be big.

[D]

Exactly. And then a four day split where you go upper lower, upper lower. Okay, look, front squat Tuesday, back squat Friday, get Really good at squatting for depth. So your group, your glutes and your, your legs will grow correctly.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

All right.

[D]

Don't chase weight chase technique. That would be my.

[B]

There you go. You heard it from the top.

[C]

All right. Solely says Air Force PJs have seven day pre selection for officers. Those that pass don't quit training. Should other soft have similar pre selection. So those who attend soft training won't quit.

[D]

They do.

[B]

Yeah, we. That's right. I believe the Navy has it as well. Most positive. They do. Almost, almost everyone does. Has, has a pre training before selection. Now I do believe the army was the first to do it with SOP C. At least that I know of. That may not be true. I'm saying from what I know of.

[D]

Well, I know that SOP C hold was basically another phase of SOPSY for us.

[B]

So so glad I reported on day of I didn't have a subsea hold. And he said that was seven day pre selection for officers. Now I don't know why they do that just for officers, but I will tell you selection for officers almost everywhere you go isn't exactly the same. There is almost always a point where the officer has to brief something, has to, has to plan something. They, they do get something that, that evaluates their, their role.

[D]

They had more sleep deprivation than we did in sut.

[B]

Yeah. And you were talking about that in sut.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That the officers had a, had a, a little bit harder because, because of things like that.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The officers, they get, they get the screws put to them. They, they do. I've never been an officer hater. I've always seen the extra stuff that they've done and been put through. I've always respected officers and specifically officers that, that are worthy of respect. Officers are a good thing. We, I've heard people say ridiculous things like we don't even need officers. I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

[D]

I got to my team, we had a very solid captain.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, he was, he was the kind of guy that would be like, I'll get in truck one. I'll get on the gun.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, so love that.

[B]

Was he the same captain that said, hey, that was like left to Mogadishu or right to Little House of the Prairie. I will go left.

[D]

Yeah, screw it. Let's watch Blackhawk down here.

[B]

You had a good officer. You had a good officer. And I don't let bad officers ruin it for good officers. I think that's, that's a Ridiculous mentality to have. I don't do it with anyone else.

[D]

He was all hands on. I mean, yeah, I mean he was, he was carrying like we went to Florida and we're carrying, carrying boats on the beach and he was right in the middle of all that. So he wanted to be, he wanted to be respected and worked for it.

[B]

Love it. It's easy. It's easy. Just work hard. Work hard like the boys. That's what, that's what the boys respect, competency and hard work. It's not that hard.

[C]

I like this one solely says, do you try to be intimidating when coaching?

[D]

I don't try to be intimidating. I just let our guys know what the standards are going to be and that we are, we are going to adhere to them. And I'm not here to be liked, you know, maybe if you, if you like me later on. But it's all about the standard and we are a gatekeeper for that. So if I'm, if I was a 17, 18 year old and I encountered me at 5:30 in the morning and somebody was late, it might, they might get intimidated, but because of the, the temperature that's turning up.

[B]

Right, right.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

But I just try to, you know, Coach Summerall has set a, a very high bar of standards and, and that's my job, to enforce it and to teach our, our guys proper movement patterns and, and how to run. Right. How to lift. Right. And it's all about the details. So I just don't put up. We don't have time to, to be, to, to B.S. we don't have time to, to goof around and, and be la. Or just very businesslike and almost like you would see a cadre, you know, at, at selection, you know, they weren't screaming, they were just holding the standard. I don't remember very many situations where, yeah, a cadre member would just berate people. They just say, hey, this is a standard. You're not meeting it.

[A]

Right.

[B]

It happened during log PT and rifle PT because they intentionally wanted to put the stress up in those situations. But outside of that, you're absolutely right. It was. They talk to everyone like men and this is a standard. It's just business. And I'll let you finish. I have a question after that as well. If you had a.

[D]

Well, I mean, we were doing the rickshaw and we stopped for a minute and I took my rifle off and I leaned it against a tree and I stepped away to relieve myself and I left the rifle more than arm's length. I turned around and he's holding it, going, did you. Did you lose something? Candidate? And he didn't. Wasn't angry. He was just like disappointed.

[A]

Right.

[D]

You know, and this is a guy like, I just felt like this deflation of confidence. He really let me down, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And I want to be in a position where I don't want our players to feel like they let us down or let down the standards, you know, so. And I don't try to answer the question. I don't try to scare or intimidate. I just.

[B]

You just do it naturally.

[D]

I want to be.

[B]

And I don't know. We'll put a magic number. The last 20 years, 10 years, five years. Is. Is there a point where you saw a, A big change, fundamental change to strength and, and conditioning? How it was looked at, how it was applied. Some. Some old things like, you know what, we used to really concentrate on this back in the day, but we don't. We found out that's not effective. What, what has been the, the curvature on that? Or is it kind of always been lift, heavy, eat big.

[D]

There's a place for that. But because we have so many players coming in with limited eligibility, so many transfers, you know, we had, you know, several guys from programs like, like Oklahoma or Penn State or wherever might be from, you know, and they've already had that juice squeezed out of them from a high pressure standpoint. They're 22 years old. They got one, they got one season left. You can't train them the same way as you would a freshman. There's a lot. Half your team is in that, in that maturity rate. So we do something called velocity based training now where we measure how fast the bar moves. And you were there, you watched that?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And when you measure bar speed, it's more about intent to move the weight fast. You can still get strong as hell doing that, but the emphasis on, you know, grinding out very heavy repetitions at like 3.3 meters per second.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Kind of gone away.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And then you're less likely to have an injury when you do velocity based training. So to me, that in the last, you know, the last five, 10, 15 years, that's kind of been a, a major change in our industry. Yeah. And the advent of the catapult tracking system, we can really dial in how much volume our players need to move. If a wide receiver for Florida has to go 8,000 yards during the game, you have to be careful how you prepare them for Saturday. If they go 8,000 yards on Monday, you're going to squeeze their Juice too, too soon. So you got to be able to give them that immediate feedback that hey, this guy went 4, 700 yards and he went 5000 yesterday. Hey, we gotta to back off, right? There's rep count.

[B]

Well, you know, it's obvious but they're. It's the human body. It's not a car. A car can live in the red line, you know for seven. For seven days a week. The human body can't like you can't. You can't redline it for six days. Expect to show up on Saturday at peak performance.

[D]

So the velocity but. And it's all technological basis. The velocity based training and the catapult GPS track. There's other companies besides catapult.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

That DO Zebra is one of the other ones.

[B]

Is there anyone? I'm. I'm. Something tells you there might be a few names. Is there anyone you've trained? Out of all the different programs you've been at that jump out at you? I mean, sure, every now and again someone just comes along like you are an absolute physical freak.

[D]

The one that stands out the most was Ricky Williams. The running back at University of Texas.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Really?

[C]

I remember Ricky.

[D]

I mean played here in Florida at the Dolphins. Yeah, he was an absolute mutant.

[B]

And in what way?

[D]

Well, I mean when I, when I arrived at Texas late May his sophomore year, he was playing for the Philadelphia Phillies in the summertime, making money in the minor leagues. And he showed up having not trained at all and ran a crazy fast 5, 10, 5. We measured him in a 5, 10, 5 agility race. He ran like a 41 or 42 something. You know, for a 230 pound man is really impressive. We ran a one mile run test, he came in dead last. And I was like there's probably something to that because.

[B]

Right.

[D]

He's not twitched for a mile, he's twitched to run 20 yards.

[B]

Yeah. All facts which muscles.

[D]

But we played Oklahoma State, he had like 240 yards rushing or something. He just was just a man amongst boys out there and was the first. I think he was the first guy picked in the draft when the Saints. I think the Saints picked him in the very first.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

With Ditka, when Ditka wore the dreadlocks. But he was, he was an absolute Bears. Yeah. So. And then Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech, he was wired differently. Still is. He's just a professional. His father played major league baseball. So he had growing up with that level of preparedness. You know, throwing when he was throwing Ambie, when He was a kid. He just was very highly developed and. But not just his physical tools. You know, he had a good enough GPA where after practice, when the wideouts and other players are going to tutoring and they gotta go to. To, you know, they got to go to study hall. Well, he didn't. So he's throwing to our equipment managers or throwing in trash cans. Yeah, he just had a very durable arm. And it was. Yeah, he did a lot of abdominal work on his own and throwing medicine.

[C]

He was just.

[D]

He was very fierce in his. He knew where. He knew where he wanted to be.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And he had. He had a good idea what was gonna take to get there.

[B]

There's some big names that you've. You've come across and in your career, I mean, and.

[D]

And I've learned probably more from them. They learned from me, you know, but obviously in Patrick's case, because I only was with him for one year, but it was his last year that he played in college, then he got drafted.

[B]

Yeah, it's. It's always. It's always funny when you. When you look at players on a field. I mean, I remember going to football games as a kid, and even now, to some degree, you see a football field on TV and it looks a quarter mile long. It just. It just looks massive. And then you get there, you're like, it's. It's not. It's not as big as I thought it was.

[D]

22 guys that run 20 miles an hour make that feel really small.

[B]

Yeah, well, the. On top of that, you see a bunch of guys who are. Yes, they're bigger guys, but they look like normal guys that are bigger in pads. But it's not until you show up to the University of Florida to their weight training session, and when I first saw them, they're all sitting down, right? And you show up and now you're standing beside them and you're like, I'm the shortest. I'm thinking I'm.

[C]

You.

[B]

You were.

[D]

You were the shortest guy in there.

[B]

And I'm six foot. Guys. I'm six foot.

[C]

I know that.

[B]

I know. That was a top of discussion last night.

[C]

I'm still a subject tonight.

[B]

Okay. Okay. And I was the shortest guy in that. There were just some monsters in there. Six, six, eight, nine, massive. And I'm thinking these guys are. These guys are 18 to 22, and

[A]

he's still taller than you.

[B]

I was looking down on him a little bit, but these guys, these guys are, you know, they're 18 to 22 years old.

[A]

How?

[B]

They look like they're 30. How did they get so grown so fast? D1 Genetics.

[D]

Well, early. They were pretty early to mature.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, physically mature. Pretty early. Which set them apart in high school. They stood out as their sophomore year, and then they get on the radar.

[B]

But yeah, gosh, large men in that gym. It's crazy. All right, what else we got?

[C]

Just another 11B says, Brent, you've mentioned how you dislike risers on a rifle optic. Believe you said they were gay. DJ Shipley said your old unit ordered 300 of the Hydra mounts from GBRS. Has the unit turned gay? Alice in Chains, what the hell have I outro?

[B]

Man, he really wants. Didn't we already play that?

[C]

He said no, you didn't play it last week in the chat.

[B]

Okay. Oh, okay.

[C]

So for a hundred bucks, Alice in Shane, right?

[A]

So. So he got a tier one personally and put a riser on it.

[B]

Who did?

[A]

Just another.

[B]

Oh, did he?

[A]

Yep.

[C]

And if.

[B]

As long as you buy the gun, you, you can do that?

[C]

I mean, if you want your gun to.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I told him you were gonna make fun of him.

[B]

I don't

[A]

know.

[B]

I'm not at the unit anymore. Oh, man. Once you leave that unit, it's pretty much black hole. And I try not to overstep my bounds. Maybe I could find out what the boys are doing with a phone call, but I, I, I have a hard time believing that. 300. 300 went. Went where? To what part of the unit? Here's another question and only. And, and DJ wouldn't even know this.

[C]

The gay part.

[B]

Are they, Are they set up, Are they setting up guns specifically for chemical bio situations that they're in those suits that SWAT teams really like a riser when they're in their gas mask, so I, I understand that. And you're not going to be in a hostage rescue situation in a chem bio environment, so there's more.

[C]

Dang, Brent, you know your stuff.

[B]

Well, it's almost like I was tier one, but I, I don't, I don't know. I would, I don't want to accuse DJ of, of, of hyping it up for sales. DJ. I'm just kidding. DJ's a nice guy. He wouldn't, he wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that. But those are just. Those are some questions. There's some questions I have. But thanks for bringing that up to my attention and allowing me to at least give you a couple things to think about before you go all in on that.

[A]

And he wrote that down. So you can make a phone call later.

[B]

I will make a phone call later.

[C]

All right. Holy fook. Some people are saying things are starting to look blurry. Some people are saying it's okay. I don't know. We'll see what the video is doing. Holy fook. Hi, Rusty. All right, here you go, rusty. Bigfoot or UFOs. Any stories you can share and do you believe for 10 bucks. Outro song Conjunction Junction by Schoolhouse Rock.

[B]

I'll take one of those stupid songs. Is gonna get it.

[C]

He did that last night.

[B]

I know.

[D]

So UFOs, how do they get here? I mean, it defies the laws of physics, right?

[C]

Yes.

[A]

So.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

And there's. I mean, of all the experimental aircraft out there that we don't know about.

[B]

That's what I say. Yep.

[D]

Bigfoot. I think Bigfoot existed. We'd have a. A carcass by now.

[B]

That's what I said.

[C]

I like this guy.

[B]

It's almost like he uses logic and reason to get to his. His answers.

[C]

I. I like guys who believe it too.

[B]

Well, they're entertaining.

[C]

They're fun to listen to.

[D]

It is fun to talk about.

[B]

Right. You could be wrong and entertaining.

[C]

Yeah. And I love to hear the evidence for it. It's fun.

[D]

It's fun to talk about.

[C]

But, yeah, there it is.

[A]

When you were looking at all those large men, those are Bigfoot compared to you.

[B]

Gosh, some of them were. I Bet there is a 17 size 18 shoes somewhere in that now with

[D]

AI, how can you even believe a picture or a video anymore?

[B]

Did you. Oh, man, no kidding. Did you see the video of Trump getting into his is Suburban, and it shows him falling and having to. To get picked up.

[D]

And it looks so real, and it's not.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's not real. And people are going out there talking about it, talking about it. And then there's another video that. Then some guy's like, this is going around. Here's the actual video. And it opens up and he gets. And he gets right in the vehicle. I'm like, I loved it. I loved it When AI was a little bit earlier.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And they'd have like six fingers, you know, or something was always wrong.

[D]

You cannot believe a video. And I was like, UFO anymore?

[B]

They've gotten too good. They've gotten. They have. They've gotten too good. When you can't tell what's real and what's not real anymore.

[C]

The whole society has turned into our grandparents.

[A]

Right.

[C]

Because for a long time we had to always, like on Facebook, we had to message our grandparents and say, no, Grandma, that's not real. That's just computer generated. Now we're all swallowing it.

[B]

No, Grandma, that's not a real African prince that wants to give you his savings.

[C]

Yeah, the whole African prince email. Oh, boy. That's. That's. That's back there. All right. Holy fook. Here it is. Brent, did you measure your height last night? And what were the true results? Have you shrunk in your old age from carrying heavy rucks?

[B]

Keep it going.

[C]

Outro song Pod alive. All right, you guys made Brent go to the garage for something. He's. He's getting a tape measure. That is what he's doing. He's getting a tape measure, but he's got his shoes on. You guys got to tell him about his shoes.

[A]

Take your shoes off, Brand.

[C]

Gotta tell him, take the shoes off. Oh, yeah, but he might have some flip flops on.

[D]

Quarter inch.

[C]

We're waiting for him. Oh, somebody in the chat, Rusty said that Ricky Williams son is playing for LSU right now.

[D]

Yeah, that's. That's correct. I've heard that.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I mean.

[C]

Good luck, Tigers.

[D]

Good luck.

[C]

Yep. I knew it. This is it.

[D]

All right. You got to go barefoot.

[B]

No, I meet people in shoes.

[C]

Yeah, he meets people in shoes. People. But is. But is that how tall you are?

[B]

That's how tall I am.

[D]

When you meet me. Here we go.

[C]

We got a tape on.

[D]

I'm gonna break your heart.

[B]

You don't have to.

[C]

5, 11 and a half. 5, 11 and a half. 5, 11 and 3 quarters. In his flip flops.

[A]

In the flip flops.

[D]

I gotta go get another tape.

[C]

You can't trust the Milwaukee tape.

[D]

Measure.

[B]

Measure twice. You know, it's go.

[A]

Cut once.

[B]

I knew I shouldn't have done that. After this, we could have kind of altered it a little bit. What I say on Patreon.

[D]

I say, on Patreon, you're built for endurance.

[B]

I'm built for endurance. I'm telling you, I used to be six foot tall.

[A]

I told you, I'm six foot.

[B]

Oh, gosh.

[D]

Yeah. If you can get one of those. Those trainers you hang from like the Batman.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Stretch that vertebrae out.

[B]

If I remember right, I believe astronauts come back, like three to four inches taller. Now they maybe it's two to three, something like that.

[D]

Decompression of their discs.

[B]

Right. But after. After a little bit, everything settles again. That's crazy.

[C]

That's really tall. Is it really that much difference?

[B]

Someone look it up.

[C]

Someone look it up.

[D]

I know. They're both.

[B]

I Could I could be wrong but I really hope I'm right.

[C]

Probably tripping. I don't know about that much.

[B]

I love it when I'm right. All right, well, I said I, I hedged my best. I said maybe it's two to three.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Holy fook. Ten bucks. Pod Alive Ultra song. Okay, so that's right up there with Conjunction Junction. All right.

[A]

It is.

[B]

Me and Russia had a good jam session before the live. It was fun. But you're good on the guitar. That was, that was a lot of fun to. To work watch. You play.

[D]

I dabble.

[B]

You do?

[C]

He does a great. Hank Williams Jr.

[B]

Yes. That was, that was a good one. I enjoyed that one.

[C]

I, I laid back with a cigar listening to that. I was in a good vibe.

[B]

Yeah. I'm going ask for an encore after, after the live, if you don't mind. I'm serious.

[D]

I have a couple more Hank Juniors I can go on.

[C]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

[D]

Merl Hagard.

[B]

We had a decent duet on Cumbersome. You had. You did some little harmony on that.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Holy fook. Rusty. Any cool stories from living in Colorado Springs? Any cool adventures locally? Did you get to ever visit Cheyenne Mountain? Go inside Outro song. Should be the Florida Gators fight song.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Well, when I arrived to 10 Scoop, I thought I was pretty cool. So me and my friend that we graduated course with drove to Shine Mountain. We got to the security guard and we go, hey, we'd like to gain access. And he said, who are you? And turned us around. And that was, that was my experience. I didn't even get past the gate. But Tejon street, lots of, lots of live music. Then we got the 180 Liberty pass to go skiing and at Breckenridge.

[B]

That's awesome because lift tickets are so expensive. Yeah, like 100 bucks a day.

[D]

Well, even back then. Well, now they're like 2, 300, 400. But yeah, I mean we would, you know, our, our sergeant major really enjoyed skiing. So he. We would work till Thursday during the winter months and he would give us Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

[B]

Nice.

[D]

We would, we would go skiing almost every weekend, so. And even just to drive up in the scenery and, and then every Sunday, me and my roommate would do the Manitou Springs incline.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

I've told you about it earlier and it's a popular destination, but it's a cardio smoke fest.

[B]

I was at the unit. We got a, we got a. A team trip approved for, for a cold weather down, cold weather downhill movement course. And we went skiing and it was awesome. David Hookstead texted me and confirmed that. The same thing that I think you're about to say. Magnet. What? What are you about to say?

[A]

I'm not about to say anything. I'm listening to you.

[B]

I know. Does it pain you that much to say that? I was right. Ladies and gentlemen. I was right.

[A]

They.

[B]

They can. 3%. Which depends on what your height is. Can be up to 3 inches from spinal decompression while they're up there. There you go. Thanks for backing me up. David Hookstead.

[C]

Nice.

[A]

What does he know?

[D]

But you also lose bone density in a zero.

[B]

That's right. Yeah. Yeah. That is true.

[D]

So the challenge is doing resisted training in a zero gravity environment. So.

[B]

So what would have happened if I was wrong? I guess we'll never know.

[A]

And you're not six foot tall.

[B]

Why are you bringing up old stuff? Magnet.

[C]

All right. Gooch Gooch Parmesan says welcome to the effort show. Crusty.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Let's see if he keeps his wits about him tonight. More witty puns to follow. I can do this all day. Captain America. Voice jokes aside. Stoked for your episode. Brother.

[B]

I can do this all day. It's funny you say that because on the whiteboard there at the gym is a really well drawn like dry erase marker of Captain America kind of bleeding.

[D]

That's Coach Jesse wrote that. Really?

[B]

And it says I can do this all day.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

That was really cool.

[A]

He. He put. We.

[D]

We had him draw that. Or he. He wanted to draw a Marvel character. So I was like how about Captain America to start off the summer conditioning. Because it's a long day. So I can do this all day.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What's crazy is I look just like Captain America. So just draw a picture of me. I'll just do a thumbs up.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Just a little taller.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm six foot tall.

[C]

Teddy Roosevelt says which is physically harder Playing high level college sports or being an operational on deployment? As a soft member.

[B]

I can tell you the deployment I got shot at. I'd like to think that was harder than. Than playing high level sports.

[D]

I think it's. I think it's a different. It's just a different.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I mean to live as clean and the regimentation it takes to play at the Division 1 football level. The sacrifices you guys have to make in their social life and to perform on a daily basis. It has its own difficulties. But doing a 20.20mile ruck run with a hundred pounds.

[B]

Right.

[D]

It's a different.

[A]

It's.

[D]

It's just different. Yeah, but both are hard. I mean, you know, like we do a one hour, a one hour team run and I tried to get our guys to a level where it's, it's so hard that they have to, to dig, dig down deep. But the time isn't the same time allotment that, the time under duress isn't the same.

[B]

Right. So I think it was, man, I think it was Mike Tyson, but it might have been Mahony, but think it was Mike Tyson when, when he was doing sit ups or push ups or a physical event and it was the last one to failure. Those are the ones he's struggling on and he's like. And he's. And he basically says, I did all those just to get to these and that. And what's that?

[C]

Say it with Mike Tyson voice. That's a lot of ths. I did all, I did all those,

[B]

I did all those to get the D's. Okay, but you take. Yeah, but you run 55 minutes to get to those last five minutes of, of absolute.

[D]

But something that we do, we have our athletes do that I think is extremely challenging. That I think it'd be hard for somebody, you know, a special operations unit to do is run 21 miles an hour, 22 miles an hour, sustain that, that tempo, that pace for 45, 50 minutes to an hour, and then go in and squat 500 pounds.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So they do some difficult things in their own. In a more compressed time frame.

[B]

You know, just. I don't know why I'm doing this. Just, just to, just to impress you, I guess, you know, the curved treadmill, which has some resistance to it. One of my last trips to Syria and that was a big goal to try to get to 20 miles an hour on the curve treadmill. Of course, I got that. And then of course the old 1200 pound club is, is a standard for strong men on, on a deployment. But it's tough to main. It's tough to be in the 1200 pound club and run 20 miles an hour on the, on the curve. And still, both of those are still short term and still look at your teammates in the eyes and be like, if we have to go up and over a mountain, I, I can do that too. Like, it's, you know, what's, what's the old adage? Speed, strength, endurance, Pick one or pick two. It's one of those. But you, you don't get. Yeah, you don't get all three.

[A]

What do you notice the difference between the two lane players and The Gator

[D]

players, just physical size, you know, that's, that's the main thing in the, the defensive secondary. It might be a little more compatible, but the linemen are just taller and long. Their arms are longer and legs are longer. Bigger, Bigger body guys. Defensive line, same way. Larger men. Running backs, slightly larger. But there's, there's, there's a lot of commonality, you know, but, but the linemen are overall much larger.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

All right. How arms. There it is, my man. ETA till I'm back on the couch. If you could pick a gorilla sized cat to fight or a cat sized gorilla. What say you always love Thursdays. Animals. Buy Nickelback for 50 bucks. Animals.

[B]

That's a good one.

[A]

Gross.

[B]

Don't you dare go back.

[D]

I think you'd be insane to want to fight a gorilla sized cat with their.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, that's an easy. It's a fun, it's a funny one. But, but, but it's an easy one. I can, I can punt that thing and, and the fight's over. Can't. I'll tell you actually, that'd be dangerous. A cat sized gorilla with those claws and that's speed.

[D]

Yeah, it's like a lion. I could be a bigger version.

[C]

We're right back to the saber tooth. That's right.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Just another 11. Bravo says just cause I love this podcast and community.

[B]

Thank you, sir.

[C]

Thank you for your support, Dusty. Go Tigers. Rusty standing on the sidelines bleeding from his forehead after headbutting a player is a classic. Attended several games while he was here at ull and I know he misses the food.

[B]

Rusty, did you do this?

[D]

Can I, can I tell the story?

[C]

That's what you're here for.

[B]

After, after that comment, I want you to.

[A]

All right.

[D]

New Orleans Bowl 2011. Okay. All right. So to back up, I was in charge of curfew and waking the team up.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

So we arrived.

[B]

Sure. Can you pull up that picture? So can you pull up that picture by chance on the fly while he's, while he's doing this?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

We arrive. Am I, are we good to go here?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

We arrive in New Orleans on a Tuesday, we get a briefing from the police department. Hey, avoid these areas. New Orleans, you know, stay in groups. They get a 3am curfew on Tuesday night.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

I've got to do curfew check. Right.

[A]

All right.

[D]

Then I gotta wake them up at 7. So I decided I'm not going to go to sleep Tuesday night. So I went to a, to a jazz bar. Long story. Short. I hadn't, I didn't. I did the same thing on Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, didn't get any sleep and I was drinking Red Bulls, like, like it was my job, right?

[B]

Okay.

[D]

So Saturday, it was 8 o', clock, Saturday night kickoff, and we were on ESPN and it was something like the very first HD ESPN game. Had these different kind of cameras out there and the energy. It was the first real bowl game you ever had been to versus San Diego State. And it was the. I mean, there's a huge crowd for UL game in the Superdome.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

It was electric. Everybody was just so excited. Devin Lewis Buchanan was our best linebacker, okay. He legitimately was, was, had NFL aspirations. During pregame warm up, he dislocated his kneecap. Oh, yeah. It was tragic.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And he tried, they tried to put it back in place, tape it, brace it, gave him a torto, all that. And he just couldn't, he could start but he couldn't stop. So we go in the locker room after the team warm up, you get like a 20 minute break, right, for kickoff. Coach Hudspeth, who's really good, really good at motivating people, he's like, hey, we're down a man, but we have 110 other guys who are going to get him going. And you know, we got your back and if you got, you know, D. Lou's back, stand up and then we're all like, you're all jumping up and down. I'm not wearing a helmet, you know, I'm a. My eligibility is up. But there was, I was a. We had a gunner on our kickoff team and he had his helmet on and his mouthpiece in and he was, you know, he's like the guy that goes and blows up, you know, back before they changed the rules, right? He was like the, the rocket or the missile, they would probably call him a missile. And he's like, looks at me and he's like, you ready? I was, I'm ready. He goes and he rears back and I'm like, I guess I got to take it. And I met him halfway like two rams, you know, and, and he, and I felt a crunch in my skull and I was like. And then the blood, like Ric Flair cover my.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And he goes, leave the blood. Mother effort.

[B]

Leave the blood.

[D]

And he's like raging Viking with blood lust.

[B]

Like, leave it.

[D]

So, yeah, I, I was gonna change my sunglasses into my clear frames and I forgot. So I put my sunglasses on and I ran into the very face of a HD ESPN camera. And they're like, oh, this guy looks like an idiot. Let's keep our camera.

[C]

So.

[D]

Yeah, and. And they finally put. They put some glue in my head at halftime.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then I came out with clear frames. And then in the fourth quarter, the same kid, we scored a touchdown and he came and did the same thing.

[B]

No, got it twice.

[D]

Got it twice. So I had it. I had a several instances of like the Ric Flair.

[B]

Yeah. Is it up on screen now, Drew?

[C]

Yeah, look. Look at the concentration there with just

[B]

the blood rolling down, all the way down. Y. Yeah, it's we.

[D]

We. Brett bear kicked a 50 yarder with two seconds left to win that game. Oh, man, it was amazing.

[B]

But the locker room was rocking at the end of that game.

[D]

It was. It was a hell of a night for that. That school. I love it.

[B]

I love it.

[A]

And you were concussed and don't remember any of it?

[D]

No, he remembers it. I remember every bit of that night.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right. It is 9 o'.

[A]

Clock.

[B]

It is halftime for us. Drew.

[C]

Yes, sir.

[B]

Are you ready to start the halftime show?

[C]

Yes, sir.

[B]

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[B]

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[D]

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[B]

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[D]

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[B]

Anyone pushing back against the Medical matrix

[D]

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[B]

They are the problem. We are the solution.

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[C]

Did I do cloud defensive? I don't know if I did.

[B]

If you've ever been to any of my tactical training class.

[A]

I did.

[C]

All right, now let's see. We're going to do this here for the first time. Oh, there we go, guys. Look at that.

[B]

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[C]

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[B]

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[C]

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[B]

I love it. Good job, Drew. Crushing it. Just crushing it. All right. No one, no one headbutted each other during the break. That's good.

[C]

It's tempting.

[B]

That's good.

[D]

We're pretty fired up right now.

[B]

Pretty fired up. Ready to go. Ready for a few more super chats.

[A]

You better watch out. I've been drinking mountain dew all day.

[B]

Cod. I've been drinking code red one up you. I'm all hopped up like a spider monkey. All right, what do we got, Drew

[C]

back to this year? Let's see if. Yep. Oh, man. Thanks, Dusty, for bringing up that Forehead story. That was great.

[B]

You were going to hold that one from us.

[D]

Yeah, I probably have too many stories. I'm not.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Bacon Ford says. Good evening, Tier one fam. Hope everyone is having a great Thursday night. Brent, you forgot to post the video of you showing us how tall you are Thursday nights for the Patriots. But you just made the video.

[B]

I did it. I did one better. I did it live.

[C]

That's accountability, folks. Transparency.

[B]

I just want to make sure. I don't know if you've ever measured another man, but were you. Was your. Was your hand kind of angled down? When you put your hand on top of my head, was it kind of angled down?

[D]

Measured guys for living.

[B]

Should have had magnet measure me.

[C]

Looks. Looks scared.

[B]

Like you're 61. Sorry. That's the wrong guy.

[C]

It's too easy. I'm sorry. Right wing nut says welcome. Rusty. I'm one and a half hours from ULL in a place called De Rider. Is that how you say that? The. Ritter, the writer. It's a hole in the wall. Played baseball at McNeese, though.

[D]

The McNeese Cowboys.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Small world. Naibab says, I ordered three bags of tasty games, and they are not so good. I felt like I was lied to. Man.

[B]

I eat days. I do. I eat Tasty gains every single day.

[C]

I just had these right here. Just tonight. Boom.

[B]

Yeah. I don't. Of course. And I get it. I have flavors that I. I just don't pull punches like I. I'm. Just. Because I don't like it, someone else may like it. Tasty Gains. I'm. I promote their stuff because I believe in it. I truly believe it is a good way to get your. Your creatine. Even though the watermelon's right there and you can see the bag's actually open because I took some. It's not my favorite flavor. I wouldn't call it bad if you had the strawberry flavor. I know for a fact the strawberry flavor and the mango and the peach. Of course, the peaches for the. If I remember right, that's actually the female one. But I've tried it out. I don't. I don't know. Did. Did you own. Which. Which flavors did you get? Because I. I eat it every day, and I did not have that.

[C]

He told me in the chat said strawberry, mango, and sour watermelon. But I've only. I've had all the flavors. I've only had one that wasn't a big fan of. But all the other ones are pretty good. But, Brent, it's so easy to take the creatine. I'd take it if it wasn't even flavored.

[B]

Yeah, well, because it's so easy. I hate to hear it. I'm not saying you're lying, obviously, because if. If you didn't like it, it's unfortunate, because I. I wish. I wish the palette did agree with you because it's the easiest way to. To get your creatine. But I hate that for you, brother.

[C]

Put it in the text. What's your favorite flavor? We'll see what we can do. All right. Kane Corsov says. Wife says she's worried that if she lifts, she'll get too big. How do I convince her that, respectfully, that really won't be an issue.

[B]

Look at that. Look at you. A question for hormonally.

[D]

She will not get that much bigger. She might get more tone.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But as far as putting on mass. No.

[B]

It kind of reminds me of one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes. Do you know this, Drew? You remember it?

[C]

What?

[B]

Some guy comes up to Arnold Schwarzenegger and says, I think all your big muscles are gross.

[D]

I don't.

[B]

I would. I would never want to be big like you. And he looks at him and goes, don't worry, you won't.

[D]

So for your longitudinal.

[B]

So there you go. That's my two.

[D]

I can't reckon. Recommend lifting enough for your longevity and health and to combat osteoporosis. I mean, seriously, lifting weights three, four days a week.

[B]

All right, well, there's nothing better. There you go. There you go. Kane. Don't worry, she won't.

[C]

But women come up with all kind of excuses to do things they don't want to do.

[D]

You know what I mean?

[C]

Come on. But, yeah, can't tell her that. All right, Chad Rucks, you better hide your Gerber knives. Rusty will rip off your pocket to get it.

[B]

Is that true?

[D]

Well, do you remember in Sut when we had to do ambushes?

[B]

Like the 24 hour ambush?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And we had the gorilla. We were going against the guerrilla force of regular army guys or. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. So we wanted us to exhibit violence of action on the. You know, right on.

[B]

On target.

[D]

Yeah. So there was an lmtv and we shot, you know, blanks, but we shot it up and I grabbed the driver and. And I picked him over my head and I threw him like WWE style. Right.

[B]

It's perfect because it's way up here.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it just naturally just went.

[D]

It sound like just a bag of just junk hitting the ground. And then I. I grabbed his pocket. I saw his Gerber on the clip and I ripped it out of his pants and I held up Gerber because you're supposed to. Supposed to say what?

[B]

We found you right.

[D]

AR M16 aka Gerber. I was so excited.

[B]

It's a great battlefield recovery.

[D]

I was so amped up.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I won't say if I kept it or not.

[C]

Range wizard says. Hey, coach. Proud dad of a current Division 2 linebacker here. Nice. Who was the most gifted linebacker you have ever had the chance to coach and why don't back down. Outro for Gator Nation 10 bucks. Oh, don't back down.

[A]

Great.

[D]

I've coached a lot of really good linebackers. It's all a mindset. One of them is interning for me right now by the name of Sam Howard and his grit, determination. He recently he got cut by the Buffalo Bills and he might go back. He's. He has a UFL tryout. A six foot and a half. Six foot one 230 pound guy. Not overly big, but big enough. But we played, let's see, East Carolina last year and he thought he sprained his ankle in the fourth quarter. Kept playing on it and he'd broken his fibula and kept playing on it. Had a rod inserted in his leg the following Monday. Yeah. A couple days later. Like an 8 inch rod. We. We go to UTSA the very next weekend. He leads team warm up and he looks like he could play and still has the stitches and everything in his leg. And then he played the following weekend. He played two weeks later. So if that don't work out for him. Sam Howard, very rugged, tough team leader, high accountability.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Grew up watching Ray Lewis videos.

[C]

Yeah. Ray Lewis it was.

[D]

And he likes to, to you know, bring, bring that out.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And yeah, so of current Sam Howard, but we have a couple of guys at Florida that might surpass him in the next couple of years.

[B]

Love to see it.

[A]

You got shot. You should have rubbed some dirt on it. Where is that guy with the motivation?

[B]

I didn't miss a deployment, I'll have you know. All right. You want, you want to test me?

[A]

Anything?

[B]

I. I met the whole troop on the Runway the night they got home and was in the back of the 5 ton taking all their bags off of them and stacking it in. In the truck for them.

[D]

Was a cast on.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah. With a, with a sling. One handed. I went. I was doing a. A shooting. A squadron shooting competition within. Within two months which included rope climbs and you had to slide Down a rope. I, I did it one handed but. But I still use my, my other hand. I, I didn't miss much. I'll have you know.

[A]

Good job.

[B]

Well, good job.

[C]

Speaking of missing much, did you. Did, did anybody miss? Did any miss how. How coach talked about the linebacker's height. He specifically said he's 6 foot and a half. And then later he just said he was six. One

[B]

is a coach.

[C]

Yeah. So. So I guess a half inch.

[B]

Five eleven and a half. Or am I six foot?

[D]

Let's just say Sam is six foot and a half.

[B]

Six foot and a half. And he's. And that's big enough for the NFL. It could be with his talent.

[D]

If you are in the right place, the right time.

[B]

Yeah, so you're saying.

[C]

But he also said six foot one.

[B]

You said so you. So you're basically saying the NFL isn't outside my reach. That's what, that's what I, if I

[D]

understand Drew Brees was 5:11. There's a lot of cornerbacks in the NFL.

[B]

I'm not fast enough to be a quarterback.

[C]

T chambers, I read Mr. Wit was an 18 echo. Does he have any funny radio stories? Any tips to setting up antennas in less than ideal conditions?

[D]

My biggest achievement in max gain was making a Kahlua jungle antenna. And it functioned and worked correctly. So pretty excited about that.

[B]

Love it.

[D]

I already rehashed the one in the earlier interview about just the using your brother's body heat.

[B]

Right.

[D]

And, and yeah, if you know, you know. And then the guy acting like he was a space invader to keep us entertained. But, but how about, how about this? The, the hand crank for the batteries. So for those who don't know, we had to. We had these rechargeable batteries and we had a hand crank and you put your feet on it to hold it and you crank and you. The static electricity start charges the batteries.

[B]

And not very fast.

[D]

No, you had to do it for hours and hours. So you didn't sleep. You were either making combo shots, trying to maybe get 20 out, 20 minute nap if you were lucky. But the rest of the time we're sitting around cranking this and we go, wow. Well, after sleep deprivation, not eating very many calories, for some reason my brain had tricked it to going, why me? Why me? Why me? So whenever I would hand crank, it just, it was just saying, why me?

[B]

And once you hear it, you can't unhear it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you. You got me. Think about Max game. That the combo exercise. You're Talking about. And the satcom's pretty straightforward. You're gonna hit your SATCOM shots, but with HF bouncing, bouncing radio waves off the atmosphere, trying to get it back to the base station. And you got this. I don't remember what it is. You might do like a five minute window, maybe three minute window to make this com shot. You're on the clock. You have to make this comm shot during this window. And if HF and the antenna you're built, you get to. You, you have a class. There's seven, eight different antennas you can build. You can build them quarter wavelength, half wavelength. It's. It's up to you to make the shot. And when it's not making that shot, it is time to get desperate and creative. Let me go raise it. Let me go lower it. Let me go separate it. Let me go. Check this.

[D]

Make sure there's no tree limbs in the way.

[B]

Oh my gosh. When, when you're on the clock. And I, I remember getting one out with like, like 10 seconds left to go after. After some adjustments. And they're kind of blind adjustments because it's called antenna theory. We don't really know what's going on. We got a good guess.

[D]

Well, I, I had a couple really helpful guys that were, that were brainiacs that helped me out once in a while. The ABCs. Antenna battery connection settings. And it's always one of those.

[B]

It is.

[D]

Antenna battery connection. It is. There's the advice. ABCs.

[B]

That stupid little riddle of ABCs has saved my butt so many times for making common combat. Just makes it real simple. Just go down this checklist. It's one.

[D]

It's and give your. And. And I always had to give myself more time than you would think to do a crypto changeover. I'd always give myself at least an hour more than expected. I don't know if it can go wrong. It will go wrong.

[B]

I don't know if you've ever experienced this. I think I did it once, but someone told me and he was right. And he said. And I didn't listen to him. And at some point I changed it. He goes, when you do crypto comm changeover, you fill your radio first. Because what you'll do is you will fill everybody's radio and you'll forget. Forget yours and you'll forget yours. And I was like, that's crazy. Why wouldn't I fill all the radios from filling all the radios? Luckily I have the kick 13 so I can fill my own radio. But that sure Enough. Like on my second deployment, we're getting ready to do. We're doing combo checks and I check everything and, and no one's getting my, my combo and my embitter. And I'm like, I don't think I filled my radio. And then I remembered him giving me that advice, like, dag. Now he was right.

[D]

The kick 13 was, was easy to work with. I love that little thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Let's see. Eric Wakowski says Coach Whit and Coach Sum Raw going to bring bring the Gators back to the promised land. Drew, thanks for taking my comment seriously about reaching out to Coach Wit. How about Won't Back down for the song for the Gators tonight? Love it. $50 for won't back Down. And I believe it was. It could have been Mike, could have been me in the comment, but could have been Nick, so don't remember. All right, good Timber. Song request still born by Black Label Society. Brent, have you heard bls? Just curious since you never heard Crowbar.

[B]

I've, I, I, I'm going to upset some people. I wasn't that impressed with the Crowbar song, but of course I've heard of Black Label Society and Zach Wild. Anyone who plays guitar knows who Zach Wild is at almost any level.

[D]

Black Label Live.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

In Alabama. Cool show.

[B]

Heck yeah. I'd love to go to a Black Label Society show. And which, which song was it for Black Label Society?

[D]

Stillborn.

[B]

Stillborn. That's right.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yep.

[C]

Good Timber says, would you rather be in a firefight alongside USMC 0311s or 11B bravos?

[B]

This is gonna upset some people. And of course, 11B's is so random, like across the board. There's a lot of different divisions. They're not all the 82nd. They're not all the 101st. Even within the 101st of the Rockisons, who are very proud. So if it's just. But you didn't specify. So it's the whole 11Bs or the whole 03 11s? As a general rule of thumb, I'm probably gonna pick over three 11s. There's something to be said about standards. And the Marines meet standards. And I always.

[D]

They're all riflemen, and I always respect that.

[B]

There you go.

[C]

Brad Freeman says UFO are fake. No astronomer has ever seen one in space coming to Earth. Thousands of astronomers and no sightings. But sightings in our sky. What the frog?

[A]

Well,

[D]

I digress on that. We talked about earlier. When you have Navy pilots and you know how, how well trained they are, swearing that they see something that's they're tracking and they're chasing and it goes into the ocean and comes out like, what? What in the hell is that?

[B]

I don't know.

[D]

Is it something that it's unidentified? Yeah, but I just. As far as coming from a different planet to get here, I don't see how that's possible.

[B]

Yeah, I know there's.

[D]

Have you seen the Skinwalker Ranch show that talks about.

[A]

No. Oh, yeah.

[D]

All right. So like they believe that there's UFOs that can. That are so far advanced they can basically fly into a mountainside and like they live in a altered state of reality than us. I mean, it's really far out there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Someone's got to put the lead down at some point. You know, someone's got.

[D]

Psychedelics are strong.

[A]

I don't care. There's aliens out there.

[B]

Someone's got to put the white lightning down at some point and come back down to reality.

[A]

Never know. I could be an alien.

[B]

You're alien like, I'll tell you that.

[C]

Good timber says the phrase is measure twice, cuss once.

[B]

We've all been there.

[C]

David Hookstead, Rusty, in your opinion, why has the Big Ten won three straight national titles with three different schools in football? What changed and how will the SEC adapt?

[B]

That's a good question. And before you answer that, give you some time to think about it. And let me tell you, it is. It's absolutely crazy what Indiana did last year. Everyone doubted them the whole year. And they've had a good football program for. They didn't come out of nowhere. But if they're Indiana. So you just don't think. Think they're going to win the championship. And then they beat everyone. They beat Ohio State, they beat Ev. They handily beat every. I believe they played Alabama, if I, If I remember correct. On. On their way. They didn't have an easy way to it and they beat everyone. They. You know, sometimes you have people who kind of. It's harder now because it's a playoff system, but before that you had some national champions that weren't necessarily the best team in the country. They just won all the right games at all the right times. But now we fix that. Indiana was the best team in the country last year and that's crazy. And he's right. Three different teams, three years.

[D]

Yeah, it was Signetti, you know, he came from jmu, won a lot of games there. He's been coaching for a long time. And his standards, like you say, our standards aren't just words on a wall. So he gets it as far as the minute by minute accountability. Exceptional coach, very demanding of his staff. They run a very tight ship. Had a very good strength conditioning program. I think there's a lot of parity due to the nil and you don't have the depth like in the sec. You don't. Nobody has the depth they used to have. So if you're offered to go project to be a starter someplace, whether you've been a backup at, let's just say Georgia, right. There's more opportunity for players to, to have options to leave. And, you know, Michigan's always been a powerhouse program. They've always been good years. I just, I just think it's, I think the parody, the ability for these, these teams to strategically recruit players to come in and pay them enough, and they're not backing up at Tennessee or any place else they can come in and start.

[B]

I got, I got two questions that I'll pose for you once. When it, when it comes to that. Sometimes I've thought about this and I know people are going to go, well, the SEC isn't the best. They haven't won the. In the past three years. Every year we have the most teams in the top 25. And if you back up a little more than three years, the SEC is the most dominant conference in the nation.

[D]

It's also possible to beat each other up too much.

[B]

And that's where I'm going with this.

[A]

Play each other.

[B]

So what is, is it a thing that all these, all these best in the nation teams, it's the toughest conference.

[D]

Well, they peak at the right time.

[B]

And that's. And you, you have to, you have to go in. There's. You get, of course, you get two easy, easy games. And that's if you, and that's if you decide to pick two easy games and everything after that is just a slug fest every Saturday. By the end of the season, you boys are pretty tired. You know, is, is that, is that something to consider or an element to it? Tired, beat up, hurt.

[D]

It's emotionally challenging to, to, you know, you, you play a gauntlet of lsu, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia. You never get a reprieve. Yeah, I'm not, That's no knock against the Big Ten because.

[B]

No, no, I'm not a knock against.

[D]

You're going to play Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana, you know, you're going to have a gauntlet in here in its own right. So.

[B]

But it is different when you, I believe it was last year, Was it last year that Florida had the toughest schedule in the nation last year. Last year might have been the year before.

[D]

I think it was the year before.

[B]

Okay. It was one of those.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

When you look at that schedule, I'm not saying Florida is one of the best teams the nation. It's not back then. It's not, it's not what I'm saying, saying we're about to be. But not then is that when you look at that type of schedule and still when you look at generally a Big Ten schedule and you line them up, they're just not the same. They will have two to three tough games and that's. And that's all they have to get through.

[D]

And that's just the fact intelligence, scheduling and you know, I think you know from the outside looking in the SEC, but by the time you get to week 11, week 12, you're running on fumes. Probably.

[B]

Yeah, but.

[D]

But they're still highly competitive in their own right.

[B]

So we talked about this. My second question is. We talked about this a little bit. A lot of teams have talent and it's doing the small things. Right. It's really about getting buy in from these guys working at a high level as a team. Do you think at times it's almost a detriment to a high, high level school that can get four and five star recruits and make them play together and when you have a school that's just slightly below that and they have a bunch of three and fours but don't maybe have that primadonna complex where they've been pampered their whole life. I think just generally it's a little bit easier to coach them and to get buying from them and to have. I don't. Probably the wrong word I want to use, but use it. Have control, more control over them to get to where you want to go.

[D]

I think it's, I think that's possible wherever you're at whatever level player you have, if you have all five stars. I think if you the art of coaching, you can get everybody to buy in and you know, like most SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 ACC, they might have 80 to 90 people in their staff room. Okay. So a head coach that can get everybody to align their messaging, everybody who has any interaction with the football players, your nutrition staff, strength staff, sports medicine, your tutors, your counselors, everybody. You know, I think you can get that messaging and that alignment even with the, the players that are the, the premier talent guys. You can, it can be done and it's going to be done. I think Indiana you know they, they had really good, you know, watch their defense play. I mean they, they're exceptional up front. They had good talent. They played really hard. Yeah, everybody has talent. But I think it's the art is these young men now that they are getting paid just like the NFL. The NFL is the best of the very best. Right. Well, most teams go what, seven and ten.

[B]

Right, Right.

[D]

So the messaging and getting everybody to buy in and put the team in front of self, that's a continual, never ending story. So.

[B]

Yeah, and I'd agree with you, I mean I don't think anyone or if so very few people had more five star recruits in Alabama and Alabama got buy in from Nick Saban, got them to buy in a whole bunch of five star recruits to buy into to

[D]

that two undefeated seasons.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

At that level, you know, and playing the gauntlet schedule. So it can be done. Yeah, it's just, you know, people, it's easy to say other they're we're paying these guys and now they're soft. It's easy to say that, cop out.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

They're still competitive athletes. They want to compete.

[B]

Right.

[D]

And, and you know, I've known this for a long time. I've been doing this for a long time. But if I get a group of young men in a line of offensive linemen and I say, hey, I want you guys to all work, work hard Today, that means 10 different ways to 10 different guys working hard.

[A]

Right.

[D]

But if we make you compete against bar speed and if you had the slowest bar you got, you got three up downs and then you make it offense first, defense, and you tap into their competitive instincts, I don't care who it is they're gonna, you're gonna get, you're going to extract the most out of them.

[B]

I would, I would play devil's advocate to that is that they're getting paid now so they're soft. I think there's, there's a lot to be said for a player that comes in the money, let's say in his freshman year and now he has a taste of money, whatever that is, whether it's a lower paid player that's making numbers up, that's making $50,000, that was $50,000 more than he was making was ever going to make or a million dollars or more. He wants that money next year too. And so the, it, it's all, it's just as much as an incentive as, as well you want to con. There's only one way to keep getting paid and that's to perform.

[D]

And they're always recruiting the next guy to replace you.

[B]

That's right, always.

[D]

So you've, you know, if you. If you have a mature mindset and you have the right guidance, you understand, hey, my window of opportunity is always closing. I've got to. I've got to get after it.

[B]

Okay. All right, good questions.

[C]

Next one is from our man, Brad Freeman. He says, did you know the Iowa Hawkeye football strength coach who was accused of being mean and unjustly fired?

[B]

If you didn't know him, have you at least heard of the story?

[D]

Heard of the story.

[B]

Okay. Do you know enough to speak about it, of honestly, what was going on?

[D]

I just heard rumors.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

He was very successful for a very long time. I don't know exactly what happened. I really can't speak on it. If I would have been in the facility and seen it. But I'm not gonna go on what I heard, you know?

[B]

Well, in this day and age, there's some really soft people out there. And you do have to. You do have to concern yourself with being mean because just being mean will get you a 25 million dollar lawsuit from a Seal Team 6 member.

[C]

It's true.

[B]

That's just because we were being mean, Drew.

[C]

It's a fact. Dwazi says. Rusty, have you known anyone else to pull their taint?

[D]

What was the question?

[C]

Yeah, right. So I learned.

[B]

I knew this was coming up.

[C]

I learned just yesterday where the taint is because I think they talk about it all the time. I don't know. So, Rusty, it's okay if you don't know, because I didn't know till yesterday. Do you know where the taint is?

[D]

Absolutely.

[B]

Okay. I couldn't believe Drew didn't know where.

[C]

I didn't know where it was. I don't look stuff like that up on the Internet. And nothing has ever happened to my taint, so.

[B]

And nothing happened. Nothing happened to mine for a very long time.

[C]

So. Rusty, have you ever known anyone else to pull their taint?

[B]

I know there's a better word for that. I just don't know what it is. And I know that's an accurate location of where I pulled that muscle.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

It's like. It's actually called, I think, a pelvic. Lower pelvic floor muscle, something like that.

[D]

Well, I've heard of the pubis symphysis injury, but that's the closest I've heard.

[B]

Okay, so let me paint now. I gotta tell him. I. I hate it when you guys do this, and I have to tell this story every time. And you were just talking about. You ever seen Hank Jr. Live? And I was like, I did see Hank Jr. Live. Well, I was at that concert, and I rode, and he was bull riding, and I wrote, and I was bull riding at the concert. Okay. On a mechanical bull. But I'm bull riding at the concert, and the. This guy was taking it easy on all the girls in front of me. I'm like, well, I'm gonna crush this. Like, this bull. This bull ain't bucking. And so I get on there and he decides, oh, it's. There's a guy. Let me. Let me turn it up. And I squeeze my legs really tight on this bull, and it bucks about two or three times, and I feel a pop in my. In my taint.

[D]

Your pubis synthesis or my taint?

[B]

Okay, well, you know, exo facto.

[C]

You know, pubic emphasis.

[B]

Let me say. And I fe.

[D]

I lost all bladder function.

[B]

No, no, you were.

[A]

You were wearing black jeans, so you

[B]

couldn't tell, like, muscle function in my. My. In my hip fl. Not my hip flexors, but my ability to hold on, the ability to squeeze

[C]

your cheeks so you sh. Yourself.

[B]

I just fell right off. And everyone's. And the person I was there was like, what happened? You just fell right off the bull. And I'm like, I just pulled my taint. It was the first word I thought of, is the first thing I thought of.

[C]

And.

[B]

And it's. And we're in this dangerous moment where it's. It's. It's a weird way. It's almost euphoric feeling down there, and it's either gonna get cold and really tight, or it's just gonna go away. And. And. And I walked away just fine. I'm like, I think it's fine. A couple hours later, it started to get a little tight. And when I woke up the next day, I couldn't walk.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

I couldn't walk for about two or three weeks. I had to lean on walls to walk. It was one of the most. Outside of getting shot. It was the. It was the worst injury I've ever had.

[A]

Oh, I have it on video, too.

[B]

It was not a pretty sight.

[C]

You have it on video? We've never played it here.

[A]

Oh, we can clip.

[C]

Come on. We also need a. We need a. We need a T shirt with a bull riding picture and something about a taint.

[B]

Something's gonna happen when this is over. Hand me your phone. Show me where it's at, and step back a few feet. Come on now. Come on, that's good stuff.

[C]

That's, that, that's content for the Patreon. All right, join the Patreon behind the scenes exclusive content.

[B]

All right, I'll, I'll post it to the Patreon. Everyone's gonna have to sign in an NDA that it doesn't leave the pat.

[A]

All right. If you pay me enough.

[C]

All right, let's see. Johnny C. 69 says, I've seen athletes quit on Special Forces, World's toughest test. Good.

[B]

Again, just real quick on that.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It doesn't mean that athletes aren't tough. And there's a lot of things that special forces guys couldn't do in the outfield where it's, it's, it's a weird thing where there's a lot of, like, when it comes to mentality to some degree, when it comes to athleticism to some degree, there's, there's carryover and there's also a lot of, of massive differences as well.

[D]

Well, I think it comes down to the self confidence thing you were talking about earlier. When you're doing something that you're not very confident with and then you have an injury that you're not, that you're scared to push through or you never have been hurt before. Yeah. And yeah, I've saw all shapes and sizes. Quit. There was a, a guy, you know, because they put us in the, our huts by alphabetical order. Got right next to me was a tenth mountain guy who had just got back from deployment and he was like, sprained his ankle. He's like, I got my career ahead of me. I don't feel like, you know, wasting my ankle doing this, you know, so everybody has their reasoning.

[B]

It's a crazy mentality to guys like us.

[D]

And it's like, I've seen all I saw. One guy, he was a, he was a high school football player, good athlete, took us, took a nap on a land nav iteration and the cadre had to wake him up. He was under his poncho liner during his land nav star and he decided to lay and take a nap because he was too tired. He said he was tired. So I've seen, I think a lot of it, though is that you get to a point where you're, you're hurting and you think you're doing further damage to yourself.

[B]

Yeah, there's a bit of, of self, self protection, self preservation, self preservation. I have a theory and I don't think it's, it's a general theory. It doesn't run. It doesn't run across the board 100. But in almost every selection class I've been to, there have been large, large men. And almost every time at the end of it, they're not standing. And of course, there are some scientific things you look at. Well, they, it requires. They're not built for endurance. It requires a lot more calories to. To keep them moving. And there's, there's some, some truth of that. But I think the bigger thing is. Excuse me. Most big men, everything's been fairly easy to them physically. I don't think they've ever really been challenged. I don't think they've ever been really pushed because no one else can physically challenge them and push them.

[D]

Well, you got to carry a heavy load for a long way without any calories.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And they're just not used to that. They're not built for that. Like, the fittest guy I ever witnessed in all my SF experience was a. I'll just say his name was Luke. I think he still might be in. And 6 foot, 190. So tu.

[C]

His.

[D]

Listen, his last name started with a V. Okay. I'm w. I'm behind him in the line doing the p. The initial PT test. He did 48 pull ups and wasn't done.

[B]

Gosh.

[D]

And then. And you know, he's far surpassed the standard, but they always wanted to see what he could do.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then he got to 48 and the cadre said, enough, you're boring. And then, and then we did the casino. And then I come to find out that he and his brother, his twin, had gotten second in the best Ranger two years in a row. And they weren't ranger bad guys.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So they had gotten second in the best Ranger, which.

[B]

Yeah. And there's some luck that goes in the best Ranger as well.

[D]

Look at, look at the. The regimen of the best Ranger contest. So we're doing the ruck for unknown distance.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And I'm standing right next to him because I'm like, I want to be with this guy. Because when I found out he was the best ranger, I'm like, this guy can ruck his brains out. So he rolls up his pants over his boots, took off his PC, put it in his pocket. I'm like, okay. Then he tucked in his pants into his. Or his shirt into his pants so the ruck wouldn't, like, rub.

[B]

Yep. I knew exactly what he was doing.

[D]

And he took off and just slowly starts trotting. So I stay with him for about two miles, and he was just like, just steady, steady, steady. And, and he, he won by like 10 minutes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which is a long time.

[D]

And he said, well, I can, I can ruck with 50 running about a 10 minute mile.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So it was phenomenal. So he probably, you know, some people who watch this know who I'm talking about, but that size, that 6 foot, 190 time frame, he was built for strength and built for the endurance.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But on the flip side, there was a guy in my CU course who's about 6 foot 6, 220, and he was a rock monster too, so. But yeah, I think there's probably a. A230,240. Those kind of guys you've got to lose weight to, to sustain the distance, duration and lack of calories.

[B]

Yeah, we, we just need a yes or no answer on this. We don't need to get into the, into the weeds about it. Just for. For brevity's sake, we got to move on. Am I the strongest podcaster you've ever been on a podcast with?

[D]

Absolutely, Yeah.

[B]

I just.

[C]

Yeah, no question.

[B]

Give me the title.

[D]

Look at the triceps.

[B]

Give me the. I call them dops. Try. I don't try anything. That's a defeatist attitude. They're douceps. Randy, Rusty.

[D]

Randy, Rusty. I worked at a college not too long ago, and a certain member of the admin would always call me Randy.

[B]

I had a guy at the unit that called me Brett non stop. And I would. At the beginning, he was a senior guy on a team, so I didn't correct him. I'm like, yeah, I'll be. I'll be your Brett. And now I've been there for a few years and I decide, all right, it's time for you to get my name right. And I go, hey, my name's actually Brent. He goes, oh, why didn't. Why don't you tell me that? Yes.

[D]

Well, you know. You know what?

[B]

Well, he kept calling me Brett. He never called me anything other than Brett, and I knew that he knew better. And now he's just. Now he's. Now he's just doing it.

[D]

All right, now that I said that, I got to recant. You ever heard of Michael Hearn?

[B]

We'll edit this out.

[D]

Have you ever heard of Michael Hearn? No.

[B]

Spell it.

[D]

O, H, E, A, R, N. Look at that guy. Military, pressing 315 behind his head at 56 years of age.

[B]

He's a podcaster.

[D]

Yeah, he's a. He's like a major fitness influencer.

[B]

Oh, is he? You're on this podcast.

[D]

He was in the. He's been on, like, Flex Magazine, Muscle and fitness. He's a huge voice in the health, wellness, strength industry for, like, the last 35, 40 years.

[B]

You know what? I know that because I. I was. I was looking you up on some podcasts before you came on the show to. To get some.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Some background on you, and I forgot,

[D]

you're a close second.

[C]

Well, I mean, he's the. He's the strongest. Figuratively.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Speaking. You know.

[B]

You know the strongest Will.

[D]

How's that there?

[B]

I told you. Yes or no. Nothing else. And let's move on. And you refuse to play according to the guidelines that were put out. So anything after that is frivolous.

[D]

I can't.

[A]

Just guidelines. All right.

[D]

Physically strongest. Mike.

[C]

I wish we could go back in time and so that Rusty could just say no,

[B]

and then Brett would be

[C]

like, well, now I want more information.

[D]

There's. There's several kinds of strength. Let's go. Let's go. Willpower. You've got the strongest willpower.

[A]

No, don't.

[B]

Don't try to. Don't try to make me feel better. Now the damage is done.

[D]

All right, well, good night, everybody. I'm good.

[C]

Tractor boy says. Who's going to be the most disappointing team this year and why is it always Arkansas? We're so bad. Trent Bucker can be our sub. Six foot quarterback. Could be that

[A]

we're making a teacher sub.

[B]

I'll have you know Drew Brees was 5 foot 11. You just learned that today.

[C]

He's used that material. Thanks for that, Rusty.

[B]

Oh, I. Arkansas is one of those bubble teams that every year someone's talk about how this could be their year, they're getting better, and they. They never really do it. They've had some great players come through that program, but just holistically, they never really put it together.

[C]

All right. A lot of A's says, any strengthening tips for an injured taint? Asking for a friend.

[B]

That's it. I'm not telling you guys anything personal ever again. I'm just. I'm not doing it.

[A]

I will.

[D]

Guys, squeeze your glutes.

[C]

All right, Dusty. Go Tigers.

[A]

Do more squats.

[C]

Dusty. Go Tigers. Oh, I'm gonna let the help Dusty out because his last super chat, the end of it, he asked, do you miss the food there around Ull?

[B]

He did?

[D]

Oh, let's see. You know, I. I never really got too much into crawfish boils. So much work for so little. But I do like. I do like the fresh cut Like Redfish. There's a lot of restaurants in around Lafayette. And then the old time grocery shrimp po. Boy. If you haven't had one of those. Okay. They're led. People stand in line for those mothers.

[A]

Nice.

[D]

So about once every two weeks that have me an old time.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Grocery shrimp poboy. And it's legit.

[C]

Well this time. Dusty says those years at ULL changed the program and built a lot of training facilities. That program now it was some fun years for that program. We miss coach Hudspeth. That coaching staff was Jack.

[D]

Yeah. We were initially in that small weight room that was about 5, 000 square feet.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

For all sports. We beat San Diego State in the New Orleans Bowl. Then we beat East Carolina in the New Orleans Bowl. We beat Tulane in the New Orleans bowl the next. So we won four. Four consecutive.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

And we got a lot of booster support and we were able to raise funds and we built 13, 000 square foot room and I was able to outfit that. Yeah. And that was nice. Good times.

[B]

I'd. I hate that to some degree. I understand it. That's just the way life is. But I hate it when winning teams and the boosters start giving money now that they're. They're needed it before. That's right.

[C]

You needed it on.

[B]

You need it on the down years to become a winning team. And it's just a little bit backwards. It's so funny.

[D]

But we had. I think. I think some of the boosters look for the direction. Is this going to be meaningful? If I do know, you know is there is the right leadership in place to.

[B]

Yeah, that's a good.

[D]

That's a good point. To make the. Make the best of my resources.

[B]

Right.

[D]

If they believed in the leadership and.

[B]

Right. Even if. Are you saying essentially even on a down year if they believe it's going in the right direction, the right people in place they probably would still invest. But they're not going to throw money at a bad cost reward.

[D]

That coach husband did a really nice job of.

[B]

See what you're saying.

[D]

Of. Of interacting with the donors and. And going out to eat with them and give them a positive vibe that it's going to go into the right place.

[B]

Real quick, guys. Bring it to me.

[C]

Drew.

[B]

Yes. It's there. We're going to start the one month countdown. Now that it's all together in one month we are going to give away this sweet thing over here that I cannot touch lest YouTube immediately take us off the air. But I will post pictures of it tonight. On the Patreon of this custom. Pew pew, we'll call it. So join the Patreon. That's all you have to do. Join the Patreon. And you're automatically entered to win it. You don't have to join the Patreon and then join Instagram and then hashtag this and invite a friend. That stuff's ridiculous. Just join Patreon and you will be eligible in three more Thursdays from now to win that completely free of charge, all you got to do is join the Patreon.

[C]

All right, six's mom, guys, he's five, eleven and three quarter. It's important that three fourths. No cowboy boots, on, which he always measures in. Aloha from Kauai.

[B]

All right, thank you, Sixes mom. Thank you.

[A]

Those three quarter inches is.

[D]

What can I say?

[B]

Yeah, no, they're very foamy flip flops. I'm like 208. It smashes down. The flip flops are. Are basically nothing.

[C]

They are pretty thin flip flops.

[B]

Thank you, Drew.

[C]

I was looking at them. All right. Holy food, Brent. You can gain a half inch if you measure yourself horizontal versus vertical.

[B]

I just saw that on a. On like a social media post tv. Just the weight of yourself standing up is worth half inch to three quarters an inch. You can weigh your. Weigh yourself. You can measure yourself laying down and gain up to like half an inch. That's crazy.

[D]

If you want me to, it'll make you feel better.

[B]

That's the picture I'm posting. That's the picture I'm posting.

[D]

Yes, in a supine position and I can pull on your legs for about five minutes, not get that extra quarter inch.

[B]

All right, all right. I'll get it.

[D]

Any way I can provide some traction.

[A]

Right?

[C]

All right. Just another 11B back in says, would an extra 1/4 inch in height change your view on risers? Well, just kidding. I'm only 511 2, but have legs.

[B]

Legs.

[C]

Oh, man, that's funny. Joe Saunders. Epic says. Honest question, do you think having a background in sports directly translates to having a military career? Grunt tanker support sf. It's all about the team, right?

[B]

Yeah, I. I'll answer that real quick and I'll throw it over to Rusty. I played sports growing up, and sports was a great thing. It was a great thing that everything about sports does for you as a. To develop you as a young man, to work as a team, to be challenged, to have to overcome a challenge. I had a. I played football, baseball, basketball, and that athleticism at the tier one level absolutely helped me out simple things like, you know, getting instructions from someone and just by someone telling you what to do and then being able to translate that to, to your actual body language. I don't. That makes sense or not. There's a lot of people, you give them advice and they don't have the, I don't know if it's the creativity. They don't have the, the ability to translate this correction into the actual body movement and guys who can do that or that's what really makes up someone's easily coached. And I was always easily coached. And when I got to the highest levels, I got small corrections and you didn't have to tell me twice because what I thought I was doing is what I was really doing. We don't have time to take a video of you and say, hey, this is what you think you're doing, but this is what you're actually doing. So sports, sports provides that. Absolutely. And I tell you who really did well as far as the physical challenge and the, and the mental challenge to it is there's a lot of wrestlers. Even at a high school roller. A lot of wrestlers are make it to the unit level because of that strong foundation that they get 100% agree.

[D]

I mean coached at West Point and it was a natural springboard for them to be in that team setting, taking direct instruction on the daily, going to challenging environments, you know, with a unit that you've all sweat with your brothers and then, you know, going and play a Michigan, going to play ou. And it was, I think it's a, it's an easy switch over from that mindset. So on top of being physically fit, taking instruction, living a very regimented lifestyle. Yeah. Having to get up early and do difficult things, I think it's a natural segue into it. And like you mentioned wrestlers, I, I coached wrestlers. The Olympic training Center. The fittest guys I've ever been a part of, they were just like, like human pit bulls. Yeah. And there was a gentleman named Ray Brinzer, a world class wrestler, probably in a 201, 190 pound range. He would walk in in the morning. The first thing that he would do is put two 45 pound plates around his waist with a chain and just start doing pull ups. Like multiple pull up with £90. So I mean I was. They just. They're built different.

[B]

They're built different. They are physically and mentally.

[A]

But.

[D]

And they start at such a young age.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

To be that good you have to start when they're you know, four or five years of age. So, yeah, that regimentation leads into. Would lead into that successful military career.

[B]

Yeah, you got to get him in the Gogi early. That was a Spartan reference. I don't care.

[C]

Remic says the Big Ten won the last three championships because the SEC aren't the only ones paying players now. Go blue.

[B]

I see what you did there. I see what you did there. All right.

[C]

And now. Did you have to use the word now? All right.

[A]

And they all recruit from Florida.

[B]

That's true. Yeah. You're winning championships with Mendoza from Florida.

[C]

You're welcome. Brad Freeman back in says, I was done super chatting, but I will not take this Big Ten slander. Funny how other conferences are kicking sec, but now every team can pay their players years.

[B]

Well, I can't stick around for this season. I can't wait. That's why I love college football. I love it.

[A]

Can't wait.

[C]

Just another 11B says, would you rather do CQB and football pants real world op or play football in full kit televised game?

[B]

That's just a funny picture in my mind. And let me tell you, those the. The football pants are getting shorter and shorter these days.

[D]

They don't care anymore. They don't measure it. Yeah.

[B]

I mean, there are guys out there essentially in thigh pads and shorts way above their knees. It's crazy.

[D]

Just too hard to on the minute by minute keep up with those players.

[B]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna wear football pants. Do it. Do it. Cqb. Yeah, there you go.

[C]

Instead of the pads, you could put clip. You can put your magazines in your. In your pad.

[B]

You created with it. You created with it.

[A]

It.

[C]

Yeah. All right. Michael Hendrick says, Brent, please finish this. O h.

[D]

I don't know.

[B]

I know what you want me to do.

[C]

Yeah, you know what you do.

[B]

I know what you want me to do. You're not getting it from me. You're not getting it from. From. From a Florida fan.

[C]

Is that a Buckeyes fan doing that?

[B]

Yes. Yes.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, they're not going to want to remember one of our national championships. We blew the doors off Ohio State, but. And you want me to finish that.

[C]

Look, Ohio is basically a subcategory of Florida Gators because they got Urban Meyer later.

[B]

That's right. You're welcome. Another Florida product related to a national champion.

[C]

Every time Ohio wins, we say, go, Gators. All right. Holy fook, says Brent. Why are you making excuses for the SEC versus other conferences? Where can we send a box of clean Outro song? No more tears, Osborne.

[B]

Because I'm not a fair weather fan. I have been a Gator. And, And. Which makes you an sec. We hate everyone equally, but we're still proud to be in the SEC because it is the greatest conference in college football and has been for a long time. And it doesn't matter if the Gators go 1 and 11 this year or, or 10 and 1. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll be at a game this year, if not too. And I'll be. I'll be rooting for them and watching them every Saturday. It's the only thing I do. I don't fish. I mean. Oh, regularly. I don't hunt. I don't. Whatever. I don't golf. I don't do anything. Every Saturday, I am by a TV watching the Florida Gators every Saturday.

[C]

And every other Saturday. He's mad.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I'll tell you this. I've gotten better in my old age. I used to be that guy. I'm not that guy that yells at the tv. I'm actually the opposite. I get really quiet and just angry, and I, and then I would. I used to let it ruin my whole day if the Gators lost, it ruin my whole day. Now it ruins my day for about an hour. And, And I'm like, all right, there's. There's bigger things with Amanda.

[A]

She's a Florida State fan.

[B]

I know. I, I, I don't.

[A]

I took her to the game, and Florida State beat the Gators.

[B]

I know. I, yeah, we. I took Link into that game. We should have been that year. Ah, we just let that one go. Gosh.

[C]

All right. Last super chat so far says this is from the War Boner. Don't talk bad about my hogs. Make sure y' all beat Texas.

[B]

Okay?

[C]

Hell yeah. You wouldn't know.

[B]

Oh, another great song. That's a good one. Hell, yeah. Super. What they call that super band when they put a bunch of big names together.

[C]

T Bone says, I love Tebow as an athlete, but he is also last decade. Hey, T Bone, George is still talking about Herschel Walker. All right, so you. We still got another decade or two.

[B]

You keep Tebow's name out of your mouth. I will go Will Smell. I'll go Will Smith up here and smack you. Don't you dare. Tim Tebow is a saint.

[C]

Keep his name out your mouth. Ah, Timo, you know what you play.

[B]

But you know, and I love it now. I love the chats of, of everyone being proud of, of their team and the back and forth that goes. That Goes along. That's what makes college football special.

[C]

Win or lose. Win or lose. Stand by your team.

[B]

Yeah, Abs. Absolutely. And. And, you know, I've never. I've never done this to Florida State. I've never done anyone else. I. I don't. I just root for my team. You know, I don't. I don't ever want to talk crap, you know, to. To a fan next to me. I just think that's. That's. I think that's just trashy. Yeah. You know what I mean? I just root for. And I've left stadiums before and I've shook in the hand of the other team, you know, their fans. But hey, you guys. You guys did a. Did a. Played a great game, and it hurts, actually. It's.

[A]

It's.

[B]

It's hard to do that. But I just. I don't know if you feel like you just want to make sure they have a good experience in the swamp and. And you represent Florida the right way. But. But I love.

[C]

It's not like going to worst fans

[A]

are the Florida State fans. When they win, they still want to try to fight you.

[C]

Tennessee is the worst.

[B]

All right.

[C]

Tennessee's the worst.

[B]

Last question for Rusty. Like I said, I want to be real respectful with my question, but I think this is an easy one. And I'm.

[D]

You've.

[B]

You've been a part of a bunch of rivalry games there, watching it. Is there a fan base that sticks in your crawl and be like, you know what? They just. They weren't the nicest fans.

[D]

Let me think about that one. So when you go play at Louisiana Monroe.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. They sit behind you and they just. There's no filter. They are calling our players every name you can imagine that it was. And then I coached at a Troy game and we had a fraternity behind us on the visiting side.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And there was no filter. The language, and it was just like they. They took it a little too far.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Then I coached at Troy, and then, you know, it seemed to be. They, they. The fan bases at some of those schools can be very just. I mean, there's no filter and.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

But when. You know it's going to be that way. I mean, they want. They want to affect the outcome. They want to get under your skin.

[B]

Right.

[D]

I've been to a Texas A and M game in the, in the crowd. They are obnoxious in a good way. I mean, they. They don't sit down for like four hours, and they're pretty amazing fan base.

[B]

But I love it when fans and and you and frats are usually really good at this. If you have a, if you have a good friend where, where they. They. They really heckle the other team, but in a really creative and funny way. Those are the, Those are the funniest ones.

[D]

Has an art to it. They. They know how to heckle without just being demeaning.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Today.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I mean, I was stretching. This is 2011, back when our players did wear jocks, and I was stretching a guy five yards from the wall and one of the fans goes, hey, hey, dude, can you sniff his jock from there? You know, like, call me a jock sniffer or whatever. Right?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But Kansas State, they practice it, they have an art to it. And I think there's a way to do it that still maintains a little bit of class.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, yeah, those are the ones I love.

[D]

But yeah, I mean, it's, it's.

[B]

I love it.

[D]

And, and we played at Texas State a couple years ago when I was at Troy, probably three years ago, and the, you know, the alcohol was flowing freely. Third quarter and they got the course, the big 20 ounce Coors lights, and they're like trying to throw it on us. And it got our guys ramped up at like, The more it hyped us up. So. Yeah, you know, and, you know, I got him. Like, I've heard coaches, you know, or fans say, hey, dude, you missed a belt loop. And I didn't mess about, but they wanted me. They want to distract me.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you damn if you do. Damn if you don't, you know, or you definitely damage you do. Because if you check, I go check. That's funny. That's funny.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, man. Let's. It's. It's time to hang out with everybody with a Alice and Chains. What the hell have I. Here you guys go. You're just playing Nutshell earlier on the. On the acoustic man. One of my favorite relax songs. All right, let's see what we got here. Last super chat just flowed in. Coach Wit. How was Cormani McLean look in the weight room so far? That kid transformed himself the year prior because unfortunately we were lacking in that area big time. Chromatic McLean.

[D]

Yeah. Chromatic McLean has gained around £12 since January.

[A]

A lot.

[D]

It's a lot. His power clean went from around 225 to 300.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

So he, he just committed himself to the weight room and changed his body. And he's running 22 miles an hour.

[C]

Easy.

[D]

Love it.

[B]

So what position you play?

[D]

Cornerback. Defensive.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

And he has NFL sides.

[B]

NFL speed.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Where'd he come from? Remember, offhand, he'll. Eric, Eric. Let us know where he came from. I'll look at it. Reginald Dr. Ford. K State has the best tailgating. I'll take your word on that. But sometimes there's a lot of people in the super chats are going to have a different opinion on that. Let's see. Sports are fake. There is no question. It's silly to pretend they aren't. Like, who's the. The Lulu here? By Animal Mother. Sports are fake. No, I got nothing for you. I got nothing for you. I got nothing for you. That's so ridiculous.

[A]

Oh,

[B]

another arguing about that. Are you on the spectrum, buddy? Let's see. Animal Mother now says. Whiskey. You're not qualified to even know what that is. All right, we have. We have a. We have a kerfuffle in the chat room right now. Heard you couldn't make the football team. What's going on in the chat right. Right now? Oh, gosh. Joe Saunders. Yay. Says great live. Y' all chat. Brent, Rusty, Drew Magnet. Tier one team. Chris. I'll ask as he asked, do you live in the villages?

[A]

No.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

I don't know why he asked that, but that'd be a long drive to work every day.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I hate 75.

[D]

The old Gainesville Country Club.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Of course, Animal Mother now says sports are fake because he knows loan sharks.

[C]

Loan sharks from liars.

[B]

Tav G. What is Magnet's real name?

[C]

Argyle Legend.

[B]

Okay. Brandon Bailey. Go Army. Be Navy. Absolutely. There's. There's only one other game all season that can ruin my day, and that is the Army Navy game. Oh, do I hate it when army loses.

[D]

You've been to one before.

[B]

I've been to three, and they're special. They are special. It was really, really cool.

[D]

If you love college football, you have to go to one, and you need to go to a Army home game.

[B]

Yeah, I need to do that. I. I foolishly told my dad I was in Syria, and I told him, I said, hey, if I was. I was actually. I was watching a Gator game on. On my phone. We didn't have enough bandwidth, like, to watch it live, so I forget what it's called, but I'm basically watching the. The football field and the ball move, like, three yards, and it says, you know, so and so rush for 3 yards. That's how I'm watching the Gator game in Syria, and I'm getting nostalgic, and I'm like, yeah, I might Die sooner than later. I need to take my dad to a Gator game. And because he took me to Gator games, and now it's time to return that favor. And so I call him on the sat phone. I say, hey, Dad, I tell you what, if I want, I want to take you to a Gator game. And we were talking about the presidential race and Trump and Hillary at the time. And he goes, he said, I can't remember how we got there, but eventually, this was the deal we made. If Hillary wins, you could take me to a Gator game, but if Trump wins, we're gonna go to an Army Navy game. And I said, deal. I didn't know anything about the Army Navy game or they don't want to take my dad. And that's what I found out. The Army Navy game's a big deal. You want to know how I know the Army Navy game's a big deal? I'm thinking it's two unranked teams. This should be easy. Tickets. They're like. And they weren't nice tickets. They're like 500 bucks a pop for tickets. I paid 500 bucks to go watch the Gators play in the Citrus bowl with Tim Tebow.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And that's what it cost me to get a seat. And I was like, this is a bigger deal than I thought. And it was when I got there, the whole thing. Show up early, watch the whole pageantry from beginning to end. Such a, such a cool thing.

[D]

I got to watch it. And the next year I coached in it.

[B]

Yeah, pretty cool.

[D]

And having not you guys win. We did not. In 2019, we got smoked. They had a really good quarterback.

[B]

Yeah, I know which one you're talking about. We had a good run there for like seven or eight years.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And, and they had a good run before that, like 10 years now.

[D]

Navy's resurgent again. They have a really good quarterback. But we were in the pre game, you know, before we went out to flex, and a Secret Service agent walked in a locker room and said, the president is now entering the room. So we all got, we all stood by our locker, and President Trump shook everybody's hand. Is pretty cool.

[B]

I, I, I do love that he shows up to those games.

[D]

I, I do something different to everybody as you walk past him. It's pretty cool.

[B]

The. All right, one, One more song and we will be out of here. But we're right back to the chat.

[A]

Yes. Yeah.

[B]

All right, let's see. Rusty, do you work with soldiers to sidelines? Ask Rack Shadow. Ever Heard of soldiers the sidelines. Sounds like a non profit of some

[D]

sort guys in like in the coaching field.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

I, I mean it sounds like a great idea. I've helped some guys get internships and but not as a formal organization.

[A]

All right.

[D]

I've worked the 50 for the following. I, I give to that and give some time on I can cuz Animal

[B]

mother Brit, come on man. Don't read some random chat trying to get back at me. You're not wrong. I did not, I did not see the entirety of the conversation. But that was magnet Y. But that, that was all that was there. That was all. That's, that's all I had to to to go off of big Glock LSU tailgate hands down. Gator on the pit. I'd say it just infuriates me. You want to know gets under my skin. And I don't want our players to do it either is when an opposing team scores on us and starts doing a Gator trial. I just, oh man, I, it, it gets me going. I almost want to run out into the field tackle the guy myself.

[A]

I just.

[B]

Disrespectful. Disrespectful.

[A]

Coach hasn't experienced this song in.

[B]

Oh yeah, I have as a visitor. Oh, have you?

[D]

Oh, awesome.

[B]

Day game, night game.

[D]

It was a day game.

[B]

Night games even Cool because they turn the lights off and everyone turns their cell phone light on and it's, you know, night games are always, always special. Yeah, I prefer. Yeah.

[C]

Because they're not as hot.

[B]

That's true. That's true. Does it matter to you? You care about day games, night games

[D]

early in the year. I'd rather play night because the hydration issue.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I can say could matter to you.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

That being a conditioning coach. It's like when you have a two o' clock kickoff, you know, you're concerned about the hydration, sweat, cramping, all that.

[B]

Yeah, I get that.

[C]

Dwazi has a complaint.

[B]

Oh no. That doesn't sound like conjunction junction. Well, you're, you're listening to it wrong. You're listening to it it wrong.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What's your function? It could. Coach Harris Bernstein from STS Soldiers the sidelines could use your knowledge on his seminars. Rusty Big lock. No place like Death Valley. I would like to go to Death Valley for a game. I, I, I, I love going to Oklahoma. I thought that was a, a, a classic stadium, you know, to be at and to be a part of. I haven't done a good job of seeing other iconic stadiums and I think Death Valley would be a cool. Here's the reason why I don't. Because I'm a baby. I'm a poor sport. I would love to go to Death Valley and watch the Gators play. Here's why I won't do it, because I know it's going to cost me a thousand dollars to fly out there, get a hotel, get a ticket, eat, and come back. And then if we lose, I'll be so upset. I'd rather just lose in.

[C]

In.

[B]

In my living room.

[C]

I want to lose cheap, you know?

[B]

I know. That's. Let's see. Well, that's. That is what we got. Dwazi. I'll give you this one. I will give you this one. Did we ask Glock or Sig?

[C]

We didn't.

[B]

Which one do you prefer, Glock or Sig?

[C]

That's their fault.

[A]

Both.

[B]

I know you're gonna answer that, but we talked about this.

[D]

I. I own four Glocks and one Sig, so.

[B]

All right. Well, there you go. There you go, guys. That is the show. As always, we get to go around the room and everyone gets their last word. Magnet, what do you got?

[A]

Nothing, really. Just. Oh, the new shirts are. Are dropped. I have one on right now. Go onlinearmsusa.com and pick you up a shirt. All right. Go Gators.

[B]

Go Gators. You ain't wrong, Drew, what do you got?

[C]

Well, guys, truth, I'm gonna be in Daytona this week, so I'll be out of pocket. So no truth in the dark this Sunday night, all right? No live this Sunday night. Okay. But you can make up for it by going frcc shop. Get yourself some good cigars, some really cool torches, great coffee. It's on sale. Check it out.

[B]

Thank you. You are the guest of honor tonight. Rusty, what do you got? You get the last word.

[D]

Awesome meeting you guys. Yeah, and I met you. Well, we already met, but being in your domain, awesome experience.

[B]

It's cooler going to your work than you come to mind, I assure you.

[C]

Go Gators.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And it, like, looks forward this this year and excited to be here and hopefully can do this again. This was a lot of fun.

[B]

Heck, yeah. All right, guys. We will see you next Thursday right here. See you up.

[D]

That was cool.