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Bear With Us, Episode 2: Do you drink milk with dinner?
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Believe it or not, we’ve actually made it to Episode 2 of the “Sooner to be named Will Bruin Podcast.” Nope, still don’t have an official name. Yes, we’re still listening to your suggestions. If you have any, please feel free to share and apparently Will has softened his stance on “no puns” (but please send us some that aren’t bear or Will puns).
Anyway, we talked about a lot of things this week. The new Sounders owners, MLS expanding to Will’s hometown of St. Louis, the upcoming Timbers game...
Oh, and we’re trying out a new segment. Will is going to start dishing out advice. Because we didn’t get many suggestions, we decided to hit up Yahoo Answers and found out that Will apparently drinks milk with dinner. If you’d like to get in on the phone, you can rest assured that we’ll keep your name anonymous but shoot us an email at NosAudietis@gmail.com and we’ll be sure to answer it on the next show.
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Transcript
The Art of Naming a Podcast
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Speaker
Welcome to another edition of the sooner to be named Will Bruin podcast. We, I believe, are getting closer to a name, but we don't want to put too much pressure on ourselves.
00:00:29
Speaker
Don't stifle creativity. Yeah, I was gonna say we were kind of close kicking some around and then I'm just gonna say you Jeremiah decided to push it off. Yeah, I know like in the moment I was just like, you know what? Let's not do this, right? Because we were literally sitting at the table here discussing this and I felt like let's give it some more time to breathe. I mean, I saw you pulling up in your jump bike down the street right here. It was nice. It was funny.
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that's
00:01:13
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Will Bruin of course is with us, with his show, so of course he's with us. He got here first as all hosts should do. I'm Jeremiah Shan, we're here with Likit at Optimism Brewing in Capitol Hill.
Recording at Optimism Brewing
00:01:25
Speaker
Just hanging out, talking sounders, figuring out what's going on in the world. So this has been kind of an interesting week.
00:01:33
Speaker
for the Sounders.
New Celebrity Ownership for Seattle Sounders
00:01:35
Speaker
Let's just start there. 12 new owners, 12 new ownership families. So even more than 12 owners, I suppose, if you're going to want to break it down. Well, yeah, it's getting crazy. I know. But you were at the, you know, there was like the introductory, I don't know if you would call it, something wasn't a press conference.
00:01:54
Speaker
Good word at Yesler Terrace nearby here actually and you know there was a couple hundred people. There were Sierra, Russ Wilson, Macklemore, a bunch of the other owners. Actually mainly them.
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, and
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You know, as a player, I'm like, um, excuse me, Mr. Owner, can I, can I please get a picture? It's kind of funny, but yeah, it usually goes the other way. Happy wife, happy, happy, happy wife, happy life, right? Yeah. Uh, so how was that? That was, um, it was kind of an interesting event. You know, even in a world where Drew Carey was a kind of celebrity owner of this team, these people are at a completely different level of fame, I would say.
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, and
00:03:19
Speaker
Yeah, I can't look it up right now, but look it's on it. So we'll see But yeah, that is interesting. It's an interesting 30. Yeah, I thought he was right around my like class almost It's it's an interesting group of people in that It's a diverse group. It's you know, you got men and women you got people of all races. It's not too old white guys Yeah, exactly kind of a cool thing. I think it's awesome. Yeah, it's really cool.
Family-Inclusive Ownership Model
00:03:43
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And a lot of younger people, it's like they seem to really sell this idea that it wasn't just like the dad essentially buying in, it was this whole family thing. And it was kind of a, I think the way they sold this was a clever marketing thing, to be cynical about it. That was a clever move, I thought. Yeah, I mean, that's why we brought Liam, because the whole motto is family.
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I
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and then
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Very broad broad. I remember growing up and watching prices right with when Bob Barker was Was the host with I was like my mom's favorite show. So I think it's pretty cool that Drew Carey's hosted it No, but owners are cool. Yeah No, it's it's it's kind of been a funny thing and I guess a couple weeks ago Drew Carey almost blew the the cover on this thing because he was out at the March of the match against for the sporting Kansas City man Yeah, and he was with one of the guys the Fox executive
00:04:57
Speaker
Thomas and I think is his name is and he introduced him as like oh, this is one of the new owners and people like what What's going on here and and we asked Alex about it and Alec Alex Caulfield Who's the the head of media relations? I guess you would I'm sure he's got a more formal title. Yeah, but that's his essentially his role and
00:05:17
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and he was like,
00:05:38
Speaker
you know, Paul Allen or something like that, or the Paul Allen estate sale. So he got you guys. He dilly got us. Yeah, he dilly got us. That's great. And so kudos to Alex for keeping that under wraps, even though Drew Carey's out there trying to, trying his best to like blow the lid off the thing. That's all right. But it was kind of a cool event. You know, just having the energy of a Russ Wilson, of a Sierra, of a Macklemore out there,
00:06:06
Speaker
hyping up the crowd and it's not just being, you know, they're now owners of the team. It's like, I don't know, it was kind of a neat little thing. And I thought it was cool that as I guess it was a day off for you guys. Yeah. Yeah.
Training Facilities vs. Location: What Matters More?
00:06:17
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The team got back from their trip, I think, yeah, Sunday. So day off Sunday, Monday, and then back in Tuesday. But that doesn't really matter. It was a cool event.
00:06:28
Speaker
Yeah, there's like a dozen players there. Yeah, there's there's handful of good good handful of ideas and mariaga morris rolled on and wanga Yes Yeah, it's odd Lierdom. Yeah, it was a good turnout Yeah, I mean it was a mix of starters and and kind of other guys on the roster. It was good Yeah, you don't you don't expect necessarily to see
00:06:52
Speaker
that kind of turnout for an off day event in Yesler Terrace. Most of the players don't live nearby. Yeah, that's true. I thought it was good for the guys to come out and show their support. And I'm sure Adrian appreciated it as well. So you always want to make the owners happy.
00:07:10
Speaker
Yeah, and then the one of the things one of the guys that was there is this guy named Peter Tomakawa I want to say is how you say is They blow his name. I'm probably blew his name. Anyway, he's the new president of business operations He's apparently also the 12th owner of the 12th new owner and it was oh, so he did buy a One of the owners Tomozawa Tomozawa, thank you. Um
00:07:33
Speaker
whose son actually played for the Sounders Academy for like three years. They moved from Hawaii to Bellevue just to play for the Sounders Academy. And now his son is a... So now we should have Hawaii hookups, huh? Right, exactly. Exactly. If Zach Scott wasn't enough of one, now you have another one. And this guy definitely seems to have some connections in Hawaii. I'm sure he does. But he's like his sons at Stanford playing for the Stanford team. He was like a youth national team player anyway. But one of the things I thought was kind of...
00:08:03
Speaker
Aside from the age, aside from the non-old white guy-ness of this ownership group, one of the other things that struck me is that most of these people had, for the most part, self-made millionaire types. They had worked and they had maybe not started with nothing, but they started with reasonable means. They didn't inherit a nice small loan of a million dollars.
00:08:30
Speaker
They didn't inherit or in some cases a team in Portland. I thought that was kind of a cool little detail and I just thought it was kind of a neat narrative. Hopefully it leads to
00:08:49
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ultimately better resources for the team. Yeah, no, I think it will. I think there's excitement among the ownership group. And I know Adrian's been talking about plans for a new training facility and all that. And I don't know. Timelines are really anything on that. But I think that all. I believe what you're supposed to say. Yeah, but I think that'll be. Yeah, you know me. I would say it if I don't. But I don't. But I think that's going to get momentum going forward with things. And it's only going to be great for the organization.
00:09:19
Speaker
So how much do players care about stuff like training facilities? Is it something that players talk amongst themselves about, about the facilities that teams are using?
00:09:30
Speaker
Yeah, I'd say a lot. I mean, that's where you spend 95% of your day's training facility. For me, it's training room, you know, so weight room, just things like that's where you spend a big bulk of your time. And guys, you know, you want it to be nice and spacious. And, you know, it's just something that that is where you spend your time. So one of the things that Adrian has said is that when when the Sounders came into MLS, Starfire was
00:09:55
Speaker
right up there at the top. Maybe the one of the top two or three training facilities. And not that Starfire has gotten worse, and I would imagine it's probably improved slightly since then. But in terms of its ranking among MLS teams, MLS teams now are building these elaborate, really fancy training facilities. How does Starfire compare to what you guys had in Houston? So my first year in Houston, we were at University of Houston away
00:10:24
Speaker
the away team football team locker room. Nice. So we had feral cats in the roof and we trained on the the college soccer field. And then second or third year in Houston, we got our own training facility. It was like a sports complex, got our own field. And we were in a kind of like a I won't call a house, but like a trailer on the
00:10:47
Speaker
outside of the field while the facility was getting built. And one of my stories from the trailers, one time a guy was going to the bathroom in a urinal, just fell off the wall. Perfect. He had a heavy stream. Yeah, exactly. We'll blame his stream. And then their Houston facility got built, and it's nice. It's a nice locker room. It's nothing.
00:11:10
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like some of these new teams have, but it's got a big weight room, good size locker room, training room, you know, and I haven't really seen other people's because, you know, I've only been on these two teams and, you know, I'm sure like you see renderings of of other things and you wonder how realistic it is. But like you said, the better training facilities you have, the better facilities you have for everyday stuff, it's only going to help your organization.
00:11:37
Speaker
Do you think that plays a significant role in recruitment and that sort of thing? I do, yeah. Because if you have something that's state of the art, best technology, best of the best, you want to show people around. You want to show it off. If you don't have something like that, then maybe you don't want to show it off so much.
00:11:55
Speaker
so if you if it's up to you and you had to choose between just having the prime facility or the best location what would you choose if you if it's up to will ruin prime facility okay i mean i'm not gonna have any ownership stake on the rent on the land and
00:12:11
Speaker
Sure, but you got to get there, right? Yeah, that's true. But for me, I want the best facilities. That's where I spend almost all my time, except for 34 days of the year, 17 away, 17 home.
00:12:26
Speaker
Yeah, I guess that's pretty easy decision, I guess. So speaking of new teams, one of the teams that came that just the last team to get to announce is St. Louis. You have, I would presume, some feelings about St. Louis getting into Montserrat, St. Louis boy. Yeah, born and raised St. Louis. You know, I think they've got a really good hotbed. A lot of talents come out of St. Louis. And I think it's a city that
00:12:53
Speaker
needs it and deserves it because the Rams left, you know, the downtown hasn't really kind of turned over. It's I won't say it's been dumpy over the years, but it hasn't been as nice as it could have could have been. Obviously, I haven't lived there in a long time, probably 12, 13 years. But, you know, I think the city deserves it. The community deserves it. And it's going to be I think it's going to be a big success.
00:13:17
Speaker
And really, the only team that they're competing with, like, is it the Cardinals or the only team? The Blues just won the Stanley Cup. Come on. Sorry. We're going to have a hockey team here in Seattle. You got to know these things. I know, I got to know that stuff. The Blues, that's their first ever title. Yeah, first ever Stanley Cup. And they were a team that's always in the playoffs, but you know, always gets bounced out. And so they pulled the Sounders in 2016. They fired their coach midway through there at the bottom of the table. I don't remember if the Sounders were at the bottom of the table,
00:13:44
Speaker
The Blues were at the bottom of the table. Fire of the coach made it up pretty high on the table, got hot, and playoffs came and won the Stanley Cup. You can ride a hot goalkeeper in hockey. You sure can. Curtis Joseph, right? Kujo. Kujo. That was one of my first real like, for some reason, when Kujo was getting hot, was one of the early times I first got hot. Probably like the only hockey memory you have.
00:14:08
Speaker
No, I grew up in the Bay Area of San Jose, so I grew up a Sharks fan, so I have a lot of sad hockey memories. Teams falling flat despite them being one of the better teams. So St. Louis is coming in, they have some interesting plans. What's your expectation for a St. Louis MLS team?
00:14:30
Speaker
I haven't seen like all the renderings all I know is you know what the league website has put out that they'll start in 2022 they'll start in their own soccer specific stadium which I think is huge I think some of these expansion teams that come in and maybe a little too premature play in a makeshift stadium for a year and then move it's like
Environmental Concerns at Miami's Stadium Site
00:14:50
Speaker
I don't
00:15:05
Speaker
Why did Minnesota launch three years ago? I think they were trying to push the momentum of expansion. Because if you go a few years without it, it's kind of just like out of sight, out of mind, like, whatever. You want to keep the momentum slowly going upward. But look at Minnesota now. Their stadium now is amazing. I haven't really seen their training facilities. Of course, I haven't seen them.
00:15:27
Speaker
Everything about that stadium is really cool, because I did play there before. We actually did play that game, right? I should have scored that game at the Post. I'm remembering this now. We won't talk about that. No, but you know, that was, it seems like years ago when I played soccer. But it's been what, two months maybe? Right, exactly. It is, but it's interesting how the stakes keep getting raised. Supposedly, St. Louis paid something like $250 million expansion fee, which is like,
00:15:56
Speaker
100 million more than the last one so I remember going right so with Miami Coming in Beckham from what I've heard through the great vine of the years when he signed his deal here Yeah, he was able to get I don't know if it's true But he put into his deal that he could get have that Miami team at a 25 million dollar expansion fee No, it's a hundred percent what I've heard as well. It's a league's folly the league's probably like ah goddamn
00:16:21
Speaker
that we need to just upcharge everybody else to make that up. So I mean, it is funny. And I don't know if you just saw this Miami. Also, the the place where they were supposed to build their permanent stadium has like is completely polluted with like arsenic and all other kinds of stuff. I think of is Chernobyl. I'm just like, I don't want to play there. I mean, it does. It's like it is like it was like literally a dump site. Yeah. That has all this. I think. I mean,
00:16:50
Speaker
Talk about trying to force something. You're going to build a stadium on a, I won't say it's radioactive, but on a dump site. Right. I don't know. It's funny the way that Atlanta, I mean, that Miami seems to be playing at like kind of like a different from a different deck than everybody else. Yeah, they got their own deck. They have their own deck. That's how the league works sometimes. So here's a tough one for you.
00:17:15
Speaker
I don't know what your allegiance to St. Louis is anymore, but let's just say, St. Louis is coming in, you're coming off a solid season, Garth comes to you and says, look, do you want us to leave you exposed in the expansion, Jeff, to go to St. Louis?
00:17:31
Speaker
Do you want to play in St. Louis? Or do you feel like Seattle is where you are? Seattle's great. Right now, honestly, I'm just focused trying to get back to playing because I would say that this is somewhat of a serious injury to come back from. But then again, I take that as a challenge. It means I'll come back better. But let's just get back and then get through preseason next year.
00:17:58
Speaker
You don't want to put down your marker now two years ahead of time. I've been known to say things that I kind of look back on a few years back and say, why did I say that? So maybe I'll maybe I'll just keep a filter here for once in my life and just, you know, say the politically correct answer. Don't answer. Jeremiah, he'll just keep he'll keep it. Yeah, exactly. When we have like a fallout sometime. Remember when we did this? How can I get him? I definitely need to be exposed in the expansion draft.
00:18:25
Speaker
I'm sure by then the rules for the expansion draft will change. They might not even have an expansion draft. Who knows? I don't know. Could there be an expansion draft even?
00:18:34
Speaker
I think it's fun for the fans. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. I think there's a lot of stuff that go on behind the scenes with it that obviously never comes out. So I think these teams know who they're picking well before they pick them. And they may. Are you suggesting that the expansion drop is not actually live? No, it's on the clock. It's like you're on the clock now. So you know how it is. Yeah. I know. Let's throw the ball down and disappear. Right. He's gone.
00:19:05
Speaker
No one had any idea that Tyler Miller was going to get selected. All right. So we are getting ready for a big week in Sounders big game tomorrow.
Sounders' Mood Before a Big Match
00:19:19
Speaker
Game tomorrow. Yeah. Today. If you're probably listening to it today on your drive down. How fast are you going to get this turned over? We'll have it ready. I guess I'm not sleeping. Yeah. I was like, why are you staring at it? Look at it. I know. It's got job interviews and stuff. I know. I know. That's rough. But the big game tomorrow.
00:19:35
Speaker
Without well, I'll ask you this. What's the mood of the team right now? Um, I wouldn't say I'm around the guys as much as I'm playing all the time, but it seems it seems fine guys seem Seem good. You can tell there's more eagerness. There's some more intense in this which I mean, it's only normal for
00:19:53
Speaker
for how it's going right now. But every team goes through a period like this. Ours just happens to be right now after a big road trip, maybe some home games that got away. But it's normal. Every team does it. It just depends on when you do it is when it gets put under the microscope. And you know how this league is of how tight points are. And you can go from 10th. Well, not first in the West this year, but you can go from 10th to second in two or three games.
00:20:22
Speaker
So that's crazy to me. So you feel like the mood is okay, at least, going into this thing? People aren't... Yeah, I would say it's getting... It's getting there. It's getting tenser. There's more urgency. That's good for... It's not like, oh, who cares? You know what I mean?
00:20:44
Speaker
What is I've been part of those teams or it's like, ah, whatever those aren't fun last few years of Houston, right? so the The the week you've been through a few of these of week leading into Portland What is the in general though? What is the do you get excited more excited for this game than you do for a game against Houston?
00:21:09
Speaker
I mean, yeah, no, every game in this league, there is no easy game. But when it's a rivalry game like Portland, it's heightened a little bit, especially what happened last time we played them in in Seattle. I think there's a little chip on our shoulder. But I mean, I can't.
00:21:24
Speaker
speak too truthfully about it right now because I'm not out of training I'm not in general is it does the intensity matchup is that do you guys actually get excited I would say we stay in our same routine you don't want to you know blow one game out of proportion compared to another game because
00:21:40
Speaker
But at the end of the day, it's still three points, whether you're playing X or Y. But it's a big game. Given the circumstances right now and where we are and the rivalry, it's going to be a big game. And I think the guys are going to be up for it. What do you think is the best rivalry in MLS? Easily Seattle, Portland. Easy.
00:22:04
Speaker
You can say that. Yeah, I mean I said it. Are there any rivalries that surprise you like watching from a from player standpoint?
00:22:19
Speaker
Not really, honestly, maybe a few years ago, the New York, New York one. Um, but recently nothing pops out right away, but, um, you know, that, that changes year to year. Sometimes even rivalries year to year change from what MLS soccer.com wants it to be. Um, you know what I mean? So like, for example, let's just say when I was in Houston, we had a big rival. That's our biggest rival was Kansas city.
00:22:46
Speaker
But it always was drummed up that Houston Dallas was the big rivalry because that's how it should be. You guys played them a bunch of times at playoffs, right? Yeah. Yeah, my first few years there was like, Canier vs. Burmese, Houston, Seattle, or Houston, Kansas City. We always ended up playing each other. And I think when you have things like that, when you end up playing them a lot, that's when it becomes more of a proper rivalry. Did Dallas Houston feel like a big rivalry at the time?
00:23:13
Speaker
I mean, I was young in the league, and if somebody tells you it's rivalry, you want to believe it's a big rivalry. So you would go out and play. They didn't know he was a big rivalry. But I mean, for example, you are playing a rivalry game in Dallas, and you look, and there's 8,000 people there. And then you play a rivalry game, Seattle, Portland, at CenturyLink, and you look, and there's 60,000 people there. So I mean, it's a little different from a player perspective. Do you know the name of the trophy that you played for in Houston?
00:23:43
Speaker
it was the canon. It wasn't called the canon, though, was it? I think that kind of speaks to it, right? It was the canon, okay? I've been in Seattle three years. I can't remember what I was doing one week ago. I know. I wasn't trying to put you on the spot. I'm just trying to make a... No, I like it. Put me on the spot. No, it's okay. Well, it goes around and comes around, huh? Yeah.
00:24:06
Speaker
But you were on the team last year that got to hoist the Cascadia Cup. Yeah. What is, is that, like, does that feel at the, in that moment, does it feel like it's, you've won a trophy, like a real trophy? I mean, anytime you get to lift something up that's hardware, it's a trophy you get to add to your trophy case. So, yes.
00:24:24
Speaker
And is it, does it, I mean, is it, I don't know, does the team like have that as a goal?
The Significance of the Cascadia Cup
00:24:31
Speaker
Is it something that they are looking at like? So when, when we go into the year, you want to win Cascadia cup as a trophy, open cups, a trophy, MLS cups, trophies, supporter shields, a trophy. And I guess if you want to get nitty gritty, it's Eastern conference and Western conference and trophies too. So anytime you can, like I said, any, any time you can put a trophy in, you want to, you want to do it.
00:24:51
Speaker
I noticed you didn't mention the Heritage Cup. Well, I think they first have to find out where it is. We have too much fun at the Heritage Cup's expense. I understand it's a very heavy trophy. It looks heavy. Get a forklift. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's probably a good place to call it a segment. We're gonna come back. We have a couple
00:25:15
Speaker
Segments next one will be fun. I think yeah, we're gonna do it from will we're gonna do dad stories and we're just gonna get some other stuff, but you're listening to the sooner to be named
00:25:34
Speaker
To be named will broom podcast we have sooner now soon even sooner. It's like we're that much closer We have so we wanted to try out a new segment Emily Cummings one of the Friends of the podcast. We'll call her a executive producer of the pocket ass. Oh, okay
00:25:51
Speaker
So she's, you know, she's like giving us ideas. She's our auntie. I know. I love her. But yeah, we just do a big title on her. Yeah. She doesn't like set anything my way. But you know, she made the start the the meme video. No, I know. I know. But I'm saying for the podcast, she like goes to you guys to go to. Right. Exactly. That's just your nervous power trip. That's right. Yeah. I don't want to be the I want to be the middle man. Yeah. So we do a advice column esque thing. We.
00:26:21
Speaker
urged you listeners to send in queries and no one really took us up on this offer. Well, this begs the question, does anybody listen to this? People listen to it. Are you sure? Well, I've listened to it at least a hundred times. Okay, so we have 103 listeners.
00:26:41
Speaker
You know, Johnny Football said he listened. That's Johnny Football. I don't know. Speaking of Johnny Football. We have to have a weekly Johnny Football segment. He shaved his beard off. No, he didn't lie. I hate it. I'm so mad. I told him this morning. Why did he do that? Because he wants to look like me, he said. And I said, Johnny Football, come be on the podcast. And now he's scared. Are you being serious? I'm being serious. I cannot believe he shaved. That's like he has the best beard on the team. I know. Maybe him and Steph. And here's the thing. The day before, I saw him.
00:27:10
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that's like
00:27:30
Speaker
He should at least got a sponsor for it. I know. His influencer program should have done it. But I'm not going to spend as much time talking about Johnny Football this podcast as I did the last podcast, because I think it's getting to his head. It probably did, yeah. So that's the end of Johnny Football. We're not going to have a formal segment, Johnny Football segment. If he gets on the podcast, if he can get on the podcast, if he chooses to come on the podcast, then. OK. How long does it take you to grow a proper beard?
00:27:56
Speaker
What are we talking? Proper beard. So like your style beard. Yeah. Like what? You consider that a proper beard. Sure. Yeah. For Jeremiah's proper. Say like three to four weeks. OK. Because you look like you wait. You seem I was going to say two to three and you seem kind of happy with the three to four. Yeah. I mean, that's probably how I've basically had a beard. But like when it's that length for me, it gets itchy and I just want to get rid of it.
00:28:22
Speaker
Yeah, well that's the thing that's amazing to me is that when you get a beard as long as Johnny Football had, that's like a real maintenance. Yeah, but he had like, see we're going back to Johnny Football, he had the highest of the high quality from the influencer world to make it feel nice and soft, like a pillow, you know, like a baby's bottom. Mine definitely does not feel that way. No, neither does mine, because you know, I don't have that influencer life. No. And that is the end of Johnny Football. Okay, that's the end. We're moving on.
00:28:49
Speaker
We're moving on into bigger and better things. I was really curious, though, about your beard prowess. Mine? You've never really grown a full-blown beard on me. You like to do this 12 o'clock shadow, right? I'm so sick of shaving all the time. It sucks. And I don't even shave. I just trim. It sucks. It's really awful.
00:29:11
Speaker
I know, because I remember the best advice I got from my parents. Well, I don't know if it's the best advice, but they were like, the first moment you shave, you're going to be shaving for the rest of your life.
00:29:21
Speaker
that's my dad told me the same thing and now I'm just like oh my god you weren't lying it's thicker it's longer it's hairier yeah and we're talking about the beard yeah we're definitely talking about the beard yeah I I had a very distinct thing where I decided in
00:29:43
Speaker
a long time ago that was just like
00:30:07
Speaker
And I shaved off my beard and I hated it more than I could not believe how disgusted it was with my face. See, we're on different levels here because I like it when I shave it off. Oh, I hate it. Because, you know, I need everything to make me look younger just because I've got an old looking face from all those years in Houston without sunscreen. So any time I can look younger, the better. But at the same time, it brings out my chins and I don't know if I like that.
00:30:35
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that's
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I just I'm just lazy. Yeah. OK. That's the other thing I hate. I hate shaving. Yeah, I know. It's like it's a chore. It is a real. And you know what else? The chore going to get a haircut. Yes. I can't stand it. I. Wow. Well, you and I are just how often you get a haircut. Well, it just depends on the circumstances. Like if we if I were playing and we had a big rivalry game tomorrow, if you're listening to it, maybe today, then I would for sure get a haircut for it.
00:31:28
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I love that that's a thing. I do. But look, I'm rehabbing. I'm not on TV. I'll let it go. So what's letting it go? Like how long you go between your legs? So I make my wife trim my neck. And I know when my beard hits my neck hair that it's time to... I need to start doing something here.
00:31:46
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This is so normal. I love this. I'll probably go like four to six weeks with a haircut. OK. Well, that's OK. That's what? What are you going to say? I'll go months sometimes if I can really get rid of it. Yeah, well, look at your hair. It's like flowing. I know, right? I can't do that. Mine gets flaky and thick and coarse and just not good. I got to keep it short. Who's the player on the team who is most meticulous about the way they're keeping their hair?
00:32:15
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You're gonna make me... I know where this is going. We need like a music bumper for Kainen. I'm not even gonna say it. Yeah, we need like a beeper.
00:32:30
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I don't know. Steph likes to make his hair look good too. The thing that always amazes me is players who seemingly have the exact same, like their hair doesn't change at all through the season. But here's the thing. But Steph does. Steph clearly is going for different styles. Yeah. And he can pull it off. I can't pull off a different style. I always say I want to grow my hair out. And then the moment it gets
00:32:55
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it doesn't like flip over like yours right there mine just like goes into a mushroom okay and i'm like this sucks so i just cut it the only one i can do is shave it like go full-on rambo nothing yeah that was the thing i kind of appreciate the older i get i don't like to do as much
00:33:12
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I kind of appreciated that about Clint was just like he seemed to really literally just like pull a yeah like a What's it called a razor? Whatever a hair cutting thing. Yes out and trim his own hair So anyway, we wanted to do this thing where we solicited we gave you an opportunity to give advice because that was I felt like the one of the best moments of the first episode was you just giving advice and
00:33:38
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Really? Because you said to me that I'm a good advice
Will Bruin: The Advice Guru
00:33:42
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giver. Are you being facetious, or are you being honest? No, I thought I was good. I thought you were being facetious. No, I wasn't being facetious. I actually thought you did a good job of creating a narrative out of the advice. I actually thought it was a clever narrative turn. I actually was very impressed, especially when I listened back to it. Jeremiah told me he likes to surround himself with smarter people than him. Exactly. Well, I like to think I'm the smartest in the room. Exactly. For the record, just kidding.
00:34:08
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All right, so I'm gonna get us started. Well, I think I mean licked Wow So this is the we we decided to just go to Yahoo answers because Yahoo is The best way nobody sent in questions. No one sent in questions because they're scared. I told you we have no listeners We have listeners. I swear to God. I don't think we do
00:34:36
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I hope that's not true. I probably had more people come up to me and talk about the podcast. It might be. We have a bunch of ghost listeners. Yeah, exactly. We want interaction. Exactly. So people, you need to be part of this. Keep that in mind. Don't be a ghost listener. Don't be a ghost listener.
00:34:58
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I know there's certain influencers that are hearing this right now, but they'll probably act like they didn't hear it. Hence, ghost. So you went to college and you graduated from college recently. Yeah, I did. What's something you learned in school that is absolutely useless in life so far? Well, everything aside from that.
00:35:25
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12 year undergrad so just got that mail the other day actually just got the diploma in the mail one week ago yeah but here's here's the kicker
00:35:36
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It was on the ground, not even in the mailbox. And I just laughed to myself. I was like, that sums up my whole education. Just thrown in the ground. It took 12 years. But no, on a serious note, it was a big, big accomplishment for me personally. I'm very happy to have it done. My dad's probably more relieved than I am. But I told Caitlin, I was like, hey, can we just frame it and put it right on the wall when you walk in? And she's like, I've had mine for
00:36:05
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Seven years. Well, let's do the math. We're the same age. I left my junior year. She stayed and finished. Oh, god, it's more than seven years. It's like 10 years. So to her, she's like, what's the big deal? I've had mine. We're still talking about this thing that we did as children. Like, I don't even remember that long ago. And I'm like, I just got it. Hey, can we put on the fridge?
00:36:29
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So is there an item that you think of as the most useless though finite math finite man I Remember there's a class I see it was this is when I was in school in Bloomington many moons ago There's a class called finite. What was it? It was some math class. That was just like the biggest waste of my time That doesn't sound like a class they assigned to athletes
00:36:53
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No, they probably didn't think I was going to be an athlete. They're like, oh, this guy. Let's see. What's he doing playing soccer? Let's get him to flunk out. So is there something that you have figured out that you wish? What's something you figured out that you wish you learned? I don't even understand the question. What's something you figured out you wish you learned?
00:37:17
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Well I guess, okay, so something that you figured out, I'm guessing it's the interpretation of this is you figured it out that you could have, someone could have actually taught you that you had to figure out yourself. Okay, so. Like, so anything that has a parent. Being a people person. I think that's a good one. I think learning social skills and. Can you learn, can someone teach you to be a social person? No, I took public speaking at school in Bloomington and I remember being so nervous to give my speeches in front of the class.
00:37:47
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I will say that's actually something that is a, so like draw, I took a speech class and that actually in a lot of ways was the most useful, it was a very useful class. I think through the years I've learned just networking is very important and that's not something they teach you in school per se. Yeah.
00:38:08
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That's true. That's a good point. Is that a good advice answer? All right, so this is a little bit more in-depth I have to get to it. All right So the question was should I go to college and I'll give you the whole premise of the question I used 12 years of my life doing homework and going to school and being one of the best students and no one paid me anything Is there anything 12 years of your life?
00:38:34
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Yeah, well, 13 technically, I suppose, because they were presuming we went to kindergarten. Maybe they would be there. Oh, OK. I thought he was having a jab at me for undergrad. No, no, no. Is there any guarantee that using four a year and going into thousands of dollars of debt going to make me a good high paying job is going to get me a good high paying job? I'm just a kid and I don't even like having an idea of what I want to do. It seems like a weird thing to do just because my parents say so.
00:38:59
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Do you think, should the kids, should the young people listen to this podcast? Because there are a lot of young people. Oh yeah, that's our main audience. Our main demographic is 10 to 12 year olds. Should they go to college? Yes.
00:39:13
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Right? Yeah. What do you think? Like, should people go to, like, if you don't know what you're going to do with your life, should you go to college?
College Education: Path to Passion or Career?
00:39:20
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Well, they shouldn't go to college just because their parents told them to. But yeah. If they're interested in having a life beyond living at home. So I guess I guess I have a skewed view on this because I was lucky enough to go for a sports scholarship. So I guess that changes the things like I didn't have to take.
00:39:41
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on a bunch of student loans and stuff. Would you have gone to college if you hadn't? Yes. Have you spent much time thinking about what you, if you had not gotten a scholarship, what you would have done? Been a lawyer, right? Yeah, of course. Probably a doctor right now.
00:39:59
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I've gone through a lot of things. For a long chunk of time, I wanted to be a psychologist. For a long chunk of time, I wanted to be a stockbroker. So things change. I know. That's what I'm saying. They change a lot. I think the one thing, if you go to college, you can find something that you're passionate about.
00:40:17
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See, that's what I think. And I actually think if you don't know what you want to do, college can sometimes be better. It will help you sort it out. Right. Because as a high school graduate, it's hard to know what you want to do. And there's not that many opportunities, frankly. Because there's not a lot of people out there that are going to hire you to do anything, frankly, other than change oil, which is a perfectly fine profession.
00:40:42
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that was a
00:41:03
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I know it wasn't me. Or was it? We'll ruin the robot. Ownership and sound are at heart. Yeah. Here you go. No, I think college is a great opportunity to figure out what you want to do in your life. And especially if you don't want to do even vocational work, I think is. I don't think graduating college is as important as getting the college experience and just learning. Further education. Yeah.
00:41:34
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learning how to learn that's that's a tough one that's always a tough one learning how to learn to learn there you go all right this is a good one for you as an athlete should i drink milk i don't like it hey i really don't like milk but i keep hearing that it's good for me at all should i drink it anyway and if so how often when would you recommend that i drink it oh my god what is
00:42:00
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That's a good one. That's a good one.
Chocolate Milk: The Athlete's Secret Weapon?
00:42:02
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So I was raised. I was raised. You drink milk every time you have dinner.
00:42:08
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That way I was joking you guys had milk with dinner. Yes, always group in Indiana. No, I grew up in st. Louis I grew up st. Louis my wife My wife grew up in Indiana, but listen my wife does not drink milk. She hates milk. Yes, and I was just Not only nutritious
00:42:32
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You can get strong bones. We were supposed to drink two glasses of milk a day. Yeah. In like the 50s? No, no, the 40s. So did you know chocolate milk is like one of the best recovery drinks? No. Yes. Yeah, it is. Kelly O'Hara told me so. No, it really is. Really? Yeah. Just chocolate milk you can get from the grocery. Really? Yeah. And what is the... A lot of calcium, a lot of protein.
00:43:14
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See, this is what makes me mad about my wife. It's like, she's never had it. I don't know. I've never seen her drink milk. And I'm like, how do you know you don't like it if you haven't tried it? Cream in my pocket. Oh, it looks bad. It doesn't look good. It does look bad. Like, shut up. Does she drink, like, fancy coffees? No, don't even drink coffee. Oh, wow. What did you drink? Just water? Wine and water. Peach green tea lemonade. Or peach green tea from Starbucks.
00:43:22
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I mean I'll accept that it might be true.
00:43:40
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I don't even know if it's lemonade. Lemonade she drinks. Water. Prosecco. Prosecco. Now we're getting to the start. Rosé. Just not milk. Yeah. So you're a milk addict. Yes. How are you not? You still drink? Like with dinner, you drink milk with dinner? Yeah. Like last night, I had milk with dinner.
00:44:02
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I feel like it's good for you. It probably is, I guess. I drink so much water that I get sick of drinking water. That I want something different. And milk's a nice little change. Okay. I can't... So, I'm guessing nobody in your household drinks milk. No, my mom totally drinks milk. Like, she'll come over to my house. No, in your household right now. No. Like, what are my kids? My kids drink milk. Oh, so your kids drink milk, but you don't drink milk. Right. So, why do they drink milk?
00:44:25
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Oh, because it's better than soda, I guess. But water is better than soda. It is. I got nothing. The purest form of like we have a newborn, Liam, all he eats is all this food is milk. Yeah. So like if a newborn baby can only have milk for X amount of time, then how would you think milk's not good for you right now?
00:44:52
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It's amazing logic. I can't. It's science. So do you have any other changes subject? It was great. Did I win that one? You won. Let's go. Let's go, Johnny. Let's change the topics here at all. This is just one of those classic Yahoo answer questions. Yes, absolutely.
00:45:11
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Will, I made Jesus-shaped pancakes, but I burnt them. Am I going to hell? I'm going to say yes. If you're going to put that much effort into making Jesus-shaped pancakes, and then you're going to neglect it and let it burn, maybe you're an atheist. Probably like Jesus on the cross or something like that, probably. You know, one thing I learned about making shaped pancakes, you got to have a squeeze bottle. Yes.
00:45:37
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I've never made shaped pancakes. Or a cookie, a sprayed cookie. Yeah, shapes. Right. But if you want to do custom designs, you got to do it. Because it's got to be a thin line. Right. Anyway. Interesting. The more you know. Yeah. You got any more? Me? That's the best one you had? You all that for that? All right, here's a good one.
00:46:08
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the
00:46:30
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If you get two days in Disney, one of those days definitely going to Epcot. What's the other day going to? Harry Potter worlds and doing the around the beer tasting thing. Are we talking about just for me or are we talking about like whole family for you? For me, I'm going to the Harry Potter world. Yeah, but also I've heard the things or what's what's the one where you can have the beers for a different country? It's Epcot.
00:46:56
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Oh, is it? Then I'm going to Epcot. Yeah, I've got someone that has like a lot of things. Then what is it? Is it butter butter beer or something for Harry Potter? Harry Potter. Oh, yeah. It's it's a claim. He doesn't know. Yeah, it's just full of milk. I'm old. It's basically a glass of milk. I miss the Harry Potter. I've seen some of the movies, but I was too old to have been. So what's your genre of movies?
00:47:20
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Like as a kid as a kid Oh National Geographic No, I was like as a kid I guess I mean I was into like kind of sci-fi ask how cows produce milk, but there wasn't out yet I would have totally been in Harry Potter if Harry Potter was More around when I was young enough to be like in that that I mean by the time Harry Potter came out I was like in my late 20s and
Harry Potter World vs. Disney Trip
00:47:48
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So it was tough to get into it. Yeah. Understandable. Understandable. Did you read Harry Potter like it? Yeah. Like on your own? Yeah. He's going to say as an adult. Really? Yeah. Oh, I mean, it seems like I can get it. I get why people are into it. Yeah.
00:48:08
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Thank God he gets it. He's relevant. He's relevant to the kids. Yeah, thank God he gets it. I mean, our demographic is 10 to 12-year-olds. Remember that. So I recently, though, it's funny, I recently looked into going to Disney World. It's really expensive. Not even like, oh, that's kind of expensive. Jokingly expensive. For a family of four, just for park tickets, you're looking at like $600 a day.
00:48:57
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Because they're probably listening. Yeah, they're our hundred and fourth listener. Exactly. Getting a call right now. Yeah. Oh, Disney's calling. I got to go. Something like for a 60 trip, three days of which would have been spent to the park, we were looking at something in the neighborhood of like six to eight thousand dollars for just like that's flight. Ridiculous. Hotel and tickets like to the park where we've spent money on food, which we'll probably have to spend money on. Picture. Well, yeah, you kind of got to eat. Yeah, you got to eat.
00:49:05
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just to get into the park just to get into the park
00:49:24
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I mean, do you, though? Yeah, you got to eat. You got to eat. You got to eat. String glass of milk before you go in the morning. Exactly. You know, milk also fills you up. So if you have a big glass of milk in the morning, you don't have to have breakfast. And look, that's saving money. This is going to come back to haunt you. I think we needed the milk board for sponsorship for this. He needs some milk. You guys have seen that meme or not? I don't think so. Nah, just forget about it. Maybe our viewers have.
00:49:55
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He needs some milk. If you've seen the bit, make sure you send us a tweet. Yeah, because we've seen the milk bit. It's not a bit. It's just OK. I'll leave it. It's a it's a meme. It's like the American Chopper meme. Kind of. I don't know what the American Chopper meme is, but I haven't seen it. It's a good one. It's a good one. So, yeah, Disney is expensive. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very.
00:50:23
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You what should we okay? Let's just air it out right now. What should we name the podcast?
Deciding on a Podcast Name
00:50:28
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Oh, we're gonna do this We're gonna do it right now on air because I don't want to keep pushing it off Okay, so do you want to like do a top three and like have our Miriam listeners are five listeners choose choose so bear with us you like God beat me to it Bear with us is good
00:51:15
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Yeah. The Will Bruin podcast starring Will Bruin. Oh, I like that one a lot. The Will Bruin podcast featuring Will Bruin, starring Will Bruin and guest appearance by Will Bruin. Yeah. Now we're not going to have listeners vote on it. So the Johnny football talk show.
00:51:15
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like it look at your up
00:51:33
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the
00:51:47
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that's
00:52:08
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a Schmetzer game face on it. He always warned that they were great. We need more. This is we need more banter like that in the locker room. Yeah. I wonder where those came from. I know. Where did those possibly come from? Interesting. Well, anyway. So that's the that's that's the podcast. But we didn't figure out a name. OK, it's even sooner.
00:52:36
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than the
00:52:58
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that's
00:53:19
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All right. Well, with that, that's a good note to end on while I shame myself. Yeah. I'm Jeremiah Shan. I don't know. You want to sign off, Will? Do you have a sign off that you want to do?
00:53:33
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I'm Will Bruin. Who has a torn ACL? Just trying to stay busy. This is the Will Bruin podcast that will eventually be named at some point. Featuring Will Bruin and starring Will Bruin. An executive produced by... Well yeah, if you just put the whole credits down it should be Will Bruin.
00:53:53
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I'll get on that. I'll get on that. It's like Star Wars, just willed room. Yeah, absolutely. That could be the intro. It could be. Like the theme, but nobody would see it.
00:54:05
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when we get to video. That's the next level. Talk to your boys Russ and Ben. Yeah, I know. They're going to be on the next show. Macklemore was like, hey, when are we doing the podcast? So I have this little podcast. I was like, yeah, well, we got 103 listeners. So easy.
00:54:26
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All right, bye see you guys till next time we don't know when that'll be