In part two of our live show in Tampa, Erin and Charissa welcome Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offensive tackle, Tristan Wirfs to the stage to talk about inspirations, adapting to new situations, protecting Tom Brady and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And oh, by the way, Tom Brady was recording get Hurt.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, don't let anybody touch him. I was like, all right,
I'll try my best. I'll try my best. He's fragile.
He's old. Not that, not that, not that old, badies,
not that old.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Tristan, he's a year older than me.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Calm down, he's the same. He's like two years younger
than my mom.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Oh right, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Calm down with Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, this next guest makes a living playing football and
does it very very great for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And he doesn't need to filter. His name is Tristan
Wurfs and he's joining us. Now give us a second
while we add a chair for our star of the show,
who's wondering why it is he's got to be stuck
in between us. But Tristan, I can't wait to ask
if you heart text messages or take selfies?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Give it up.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
This is our theme song. Tristan, you just did Ryan
Clark's podcast, right, how is that compared to this? He said?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We'll say, look at Tristan, we're sort of he's.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The badst do we have a mic for our guy.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You're probably in the hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
There we go?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you heart?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Do you do you feel pressure to heart? Text messages
or excavate? Are you that guy?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm terrible at that. I'm terrible at texting like text
people back.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh you're you're the guy that doesn't text back? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
When did that start? Forever?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
For a while, for a while.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
But the liking thing, I don't know what is that.
I don't know what that is yet. It's I feel bad.
I heard you saying you feel bad.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's always like, yeah, I for you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Do I have to like it? Do I need to heart? Yeah?
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well you're liked in this town? How great is he?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
How many?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
How many text chains do you think you're on? I'm
sure the offensive line has one, right, just do you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Then you probably have one with your quarterback Baker manyfield
correct ye, And.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Then we go shout out Baker, shout out Baker.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And then what other group one? I mean that you
can tell us about on the team. And then is
there a whole team one?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
They usually the whole team on is like a TeamWorks
like this app that we use to send a message
to us.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But we have the O line. We make a new
line whenever you're obviously the turnovers crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Love to know what the nickname for it is, but
you don't have to time.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Ye came up with it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, we have one. It's called the Council of Elders.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's like cute.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It's like the line Baker. And then we have Grand Barton,
our rookie, so it's like Council of Elders. Plus Graham
is what the name of he's a rookie. He's got
three more games into the second year, then he's not.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
A rookie anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's so cute. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You're not a rookie.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I can't believe you're headed into your sixth season. Has
it gone by fast?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Really fast? Too fast? Almost? Yeah? Yeah, year six is crazy.
I don't know where it when. I don't know where
it went.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
If you could go back and tell your first yourself something,
what would it be? I love that?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, I think. Just enjoy it. Enjoy enjoy every moment
of it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You know, the days off, the days you know you're
just with your guys because like, well, I was my
best friend Robert Hainsey like he's gonna be he's gonna
he's a free agent. He's gonna be going somewhere, and
it's gonna be weird, like not not seeing it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like we've got our talks, we've got our cries.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Such a hard part of the business, right, People don't
get that, especially when you have kids, your families, relationships.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's the worst part about the business one percent.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
But just that's the bit that's the biggest thing, is like,
enjoy the friendships and enjoy the memories because it goes
It goes by so fast, like I can't believe going
into year six, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, that's what we try to do a Chris and
I because we're a lot older and as we were
getting ready to do this Super Bowl this year for Fox,
we just kind of thought to ourselves, like, we don't
know when this is going to come around. Well we
know in four years, but it could look different every
single time we do it. So, yeah, I remember the
videos of you on draft day and I don't cover
(04:06):
football anymore or college football anymore, but obviously when you
had signed a certain quarterback to come and the Bucks
were on a mission to get that line in order
to protect him. I remember watching the draft and seeing
two pieces of footage.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
One you jumping out of the pool. Had you ever
seen that?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
One?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Freak? Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Where can you?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
If you guys have ever seen it, You're literally jumping
out of the pool in the shallow or the deep end.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's a shallow.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
It's a shallow and three six inches I'll take you know.
It's it was fine.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was just back. It was just back in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It was here, not with the flight attend.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Sure, yeah, it was just back in Iowa.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
At the at the local pool, we had.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
A Iowa Yeah, who's that?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Who's that? Standup? Shout out Iowa. There we go, there
we go? Is are we doing? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The local pool is like to our running back to
my teammate in college, He's like, oh, I saw this
on on social media.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Let's try it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And I was like, there's no way any one of
us can do that. And we all tried and then
I go up and I got up there and like
but fell back in the water. I was like, somebody
go get my phone. I said, I'm going to get
up there. Yeah, yeah, and I did.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's awesome. And then, of course the other clip I'll
never forget is you walking your mom on the makeshift
red carpet. Of course that was twenty twenty, the gear
of COVID the Draft, which I thought was one of
like the best. Well, we all needed something right at
that point, and the Draft was such great television for
all of us stuck at home. But you walking your
mom down the red carpet, which I loved so much,
that resonated with me.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We talk.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You have a new baby. I have a new baby
eleven months twenty twenty me the one without the kid.
Whooh you knowing? Probably because I don't have a kid.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Kids are great.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kids are great. I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I was out last night with a bachelor party. Don't
you have two dogs?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You love your dog? Actually, you have a lot of
dogs on your ranch.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I didn't realize how much mom guilt I would have
with having my baby because I'm never six months out
of the year I'm not home, and this one is
always in my ear, saying, listen, your kid is going
to be so grateful when he learned what you do
for a living. And all that, and and how hard
you work. And I love your quote about your mom.
I think it was an interview in twenty twenty. She's
one hundred percent the driving force behind what you do
(06:18):
and all that. What do you remember about how hard
your mom worked to get where you are?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Oh, my goodness, I said this to some of the
other day. It's like it's like a core memory. I
remember when my mom got her first house, little thing.
We lived in the trailer park with with my with
my grandma. We moved into this house. We didn't have
any furniture. We have had two mattresses and we put
them together in the living room, like that's what we
slept on. Like that's a that's a big memory. Yeah,
her first house. And I remember how excited she was.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think I was. I think I was five or six.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But just her giving me everything I needed to to
go out and play these sports, like I want to
be as successful as I could, you know, and give
them everything I had because she's doing everything she can
to just you know, buy me cleats, buy me a
baseball glove, a new baseball bat, you know, whatever it was.
She's just doing everything she can to to allow me
to have fun with my friends. So she's always been,
you know, the driving force in in my you know,
(07:10):
in my athletic career, you know, take care of me,
my mom and my sister growing up. You know, it's
a little our little pack. But yeah, she's she's the best.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And it's interesting when I listen to you to tell
that story. It's not about what you didn't have, it's
about what you did have. And I say this to
Aaron all the time because she's like, I just feel bad.
I'm like, my mom worked three jobs growing up. We
came houses on Saturdays. I get five dollars if I
dusted well, you know, and I don't remember being like,
oh I didn't have this. I just remember how hard
(07:38):
she worked. And all of you, if you have kids
or you don't have kids, is that you're doing something
that somebody is saying that they're proud of you for.
So don't feel guilty for that. And it's like to
just listen to you talk about you never thought about
what you didn't have. It's more about what you have now.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, it's like that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The multiple jobs, like on the weekends when she'd go
clean a headphone at the cemetery, and like the I
would collect, you know, whatever he found.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know, the guy she worked for would collect on
whatever there was, like sometime to be baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
There's it's close to like a baseball complex. But he'd
get put him in a bucket and given to me.
But like I'd go, yeah, I had like a little thing,
I'd dust off the headstone.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But it like it was like it was it was fun,
like gotta do something, to do something.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But no, it's it's it's you know, she did everything
she could for us, and uh, and here we are.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And now as a father yourself, how much more do
you appreciate providing knowing you know how hard it was
for her, but she did the best she could, and
you are now providing for your son and just being
a father in that perspective.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, it's a it's a pretty incredible feeling. Have to
get a shout out to my to my son's mother,
you know, she's like we're gone. I mean he was
he was born in April, so like the first six months,
you know, during the season, I'm going to leave.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, I leave six thirty in the morning, I get.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Home at six pm, and uh, he goes to bed
at he would go to bed at seven, so I
see him for an hour.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But she's she's holding it down with him all day.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So yeah, that was she's she's incredible and just being
able to to have that now, be able to go
home and see your son like after after a long
day and like he smiles when you walk in the door.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now, it's it's insane.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's awesome. Hey, we talk a lot. Is the chance
to have a little bit of fun. Our significant others
get annoyed when we kind of there are material, right
Chris and I are and you are right now.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Re entry you're home now though.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I haven't had one yet, but re entry being back home,
it's different, Like it's different than all of us, Like
your hours are crazier than Chris has and eyes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
What's re entry like for you with your lady, with
the baby, with all? It's different, right, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It has been.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
It has been fun though, like just being able to
be home more like with him and now he's like
he's just just starting to walk, so like that's cool. Yeah,
I mean getting getting back to a routine right now,
Like I go train in the mornings and I go
home and we get to we get to hang out
and do it, do whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You're nicer.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I was saying Chris the other day, I love my husband,
but the way he's chewing, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We got to turn on to music. I can't lie anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Shut up. I don't know, I don't know what. She's like,
you're smack and I was like, I'm sorry, Henry.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, it's like you're breathing.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's like, okay, I'll stop.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
No, it's all right though. It's all right though.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What's what's something that you're looking forward to this year?
I mean, you mentioned, you know, headed into your sixth season.
It's gone fast. You need to enjoy it. But what
excites you? I mean, Erin and I have been in
this industry. We've been lucky enough for a very long time.
And every time, I mean even as soon as the
super Bowl was over, we're like, oh, we're excited to
get a great break with them. We also like we
want to get back at it again. So what are
you most looking forward to this season?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I always love when the guys come back, like I
stay here, I stay here year round, and it's like
you're with these guys twenty four to seventeen. All day,
every day you're with your teammates and then like a
lot of guys leave, they all go they'll go home,
and so it's like I'm kind of hear by myself
a little bit, and I kind of missed the guys.
So I always love that, you know, when the guys
come back, because it's just it's just a different level
of camaraderie. But is just excited to get back going.
(11:06):
You know, it's we get this time off, and I
think I took four weeks off. I was like, I
need to start training again. You just love being around everybody.
I think that'd be the biggest thing, is just when
the guys come back.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Aaron asked a great question to me earlier when she
was saying, what is it about football that you love?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know? I said football. I'm not even a player,
and it's given me everything. Yeah, what is it given you?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I don't want to be cliche, but everything as well,
Like it's friendships, you know, memories that will last a lifetime,
an outlet growing up like I was. I mean, I
grew up in a small town. There's four thousand people.
As me and my sister were like the only black kids.
So it's like I got bullied in different ways. Was
like I can go now, like it's just a little escape,
like go play football, like go go have fun.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And you felt like you belonged.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. That's a good that's a
good way to put it. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, but
it's fun. I mean, this is my life now I
get to play. I get to play a game for
a living. You know, it's I always say I always say,
people's you we have to go do this. We have
to go to practice, the heat, we have to go,
we have to go train, we have to do whatever.
You know, we get to like we're yes, what we
do is in heart. It's it's it's a it's a game,
and we're we're blessed to be able to do this
(12:11):
as a as our job.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
But I was.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I was referenced to the children's hospital, the children hospital
back in Iowa, like we used to go there and
it's just it's so it's so hard, like what those
kids go through. It's not even in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And we got the city stadium. You tell people a
little bit, they don't know what Tristan.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, so the greatest tradition in college football. We started.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It started in twenty I want to say twenty seventeen,
my or my my freshman year. But the children's hospital
overlooks Kinnick Stadium, and after the first quarter, everyone turns
in the stadium and waves the kids up there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It's amazing looking up on YouTube, look it up.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Look at you cry. You'll cry.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I cry right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Especially now that you have a baby, it's even hotter.
I mean, that's one of the things I love so
much about professional athletes, how you guys give back what
you do, how you are such a light for a
lot of the children's hospitals, and you know, all your
initiatives and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But yeah, once you have a baby, it hits you differently.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Oh, I thought, what give us your first memory of
doing that at Iowa? Do you have one or even
going into that hospital of my first memory of the hospital, Yeah,
that whole moment.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
The biggest one I remember is it is around Christmas
time and there's a me and my roommate had gone
up there and there's a little boy room we're going
to and I can't remember how old it was. He
might have been ten, but their house had burned down
and he ran inside to get to save his little
sister and he was, you know, burnt head to toe,
like his life's completely changed. And we just went in
(13:42):
and like tossed a little nerve football with him for
twenty minutes and he was smiling and his mom was like,
he's he hasn't smiled in weeks, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Like actually had goosebumps.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
But it's just a little thing like that, and it
can go change someone's change someone's life, you know, and
you don't know how much that means to them, but
it meant a lot to me, and it stuck with
me for for eight years now, seven years now. But yeah,
that's a pretty pretty heavy, pretty heavy memory, but it's
it was. It was a nice one.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, My niece was she diagnosed with a brain timber
when she was six, and she was at children's hospital
and the thing that she would get excited about two things,
watching the Seahawks on Sunday and Taylor Swift, So her
whole thing was like as soon as she got out
of the hospital, we went to a Taylor Swift concert
and there was like nothing like her. You know, her
head shaved and she's and the other one she wanted
(14:29):
to see Aerin at Dancing with the Stars, which Aaron
made it happen. She got a front row seat and
it was amazing. So just that I so many sparkles
in spray tamp so many sparkles spread five, six, seven, eight.
But it is sports is the great unifier. And whether
it is what you guys have seen here in your
own backyards with hurricanes or us with the fires, or
any kind of devastation after nine to eleven, I mean
(14:50):
anything that happens, sports is the great unifier. It brings
people together. It doesn't matter about politics, it doesn't matter
about religion. What is it that you love most about
being a part of this organization and football?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Oh my gosh. I think this organization is the impact
we have in the community. There's so many different initiatives
that we have a line. Specifically, we do aline lights
up Christmas. We do a thing where a bunch of
kids in Tampa get to come have like kind of
a shopping spree. We do Turkey Time with you o line.
We last year we gave out over a thousand Thanksgiving
meals at Thanksgiving. There's just so much stuff. I mean, Darcy,
(15:25):
you know this right here, the sheat football something like
it is incredible. There's so many initiatives that that the
Bucks do and it's just great to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And watch love that.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I love that. And I also remember back in twenty twenty,
your first year. I mean, it was such a difficult
year and thank goodness, the NFL, the teams, Darcy, the
players figured out a way to provide relief and actually
have a season that year, your first season, which is
bananas if you think about it, how different that season
(15:55):
was for you as a rookie to come in with,
how bizarre it all was. And oh, by the way,
Tom Brady was recording.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, they're like, don't let anybody touch him. I was like,
all right, I'll try my best.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I'll try my best. He's fragile, he's old. Not that
not that old, ladies, not that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Old, Tristan. He's a year older than me.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Calm down, he's the same. He's like two years younger
than my mom.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
All right, Oh my god, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
As he shined his Super Bowl ring, So you're good.
We've absolutely shipped on Tom Brady let's uh. I want
to get your biggest just your biggest lesson or the
biggest thing you took away from playing with him?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh wow. I think a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I think one just his I think I've always been
a very competitive person, but like seeing him like he's
he's the most competitive person like I've ever been around.
I think a big thing for me was as a
young player, like you battle through injuries, you battle through
you know, aches and pains all that. I remember in
my head as a rookie, I was like, it'll go away,
it won't you know that just come from colleges like
(17:03):
stay out of the training room, don't you know, don't
tell anybody if you're hurting, Like it'll go away. And
then Tom's like, you can't do that. He's like, especially
him playing for twenty some years.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
One hundred and twenty some years.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, he's his first year was what was this Tom's
first year? Two thousand?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Well nine, no, ninety nine? Do you want to hit us?
What he's checked?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Ninety nine?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
So that was that was a year I was born.
So it's like that's he's been playing since I've been alive.
And he's like, you got to take care of your body.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You have to. He's like, he said, that's the key
to playing this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well, you're just gonna keep telling the story. And we
all laughed. Sorry, And you've probably done this every single
speaking engagement you've gone to.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
When was he born? Oh that's when I was or.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
When yeah, you got to you got to.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh it's so good. You're just taking care of you
in high school when you were born?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh my god, you graduated high school?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I said, yeah, because it's two thousand, Ryan Soil, there
was confirmatives two thousand. You were born in ninety nine?
Oh my god? What was the song of your childhood
if you grew up in two thousand? Like, what was
a jam of your childhood?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Then? My mom loved Prince Lorraine? Oh, well, time, all
the time?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay? Was it out in two thousands? I was thinking
of like two thousand radio ninety eight degrees. I don't
know what do we think now?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's just me? Okay? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
What was your jam in the Iowa locker room?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
We didn't have music in our locker room?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, okay, different questions. What would be your walk up
song if you were a baseball player? Your walk up
to the play song, think about it, think about it?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What's that? My gosh, I don't I can't remember the
name of it.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I'm not good with this. I just know how what
it is?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
My walk up song, my walk up.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I had to pick a walk up song for the combine.
It was going to be a Johnny Cash song. It
was going to be a oh, it was going to
be it was totally ban.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
A list of songs.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What do you have, Ryan, top Johnny Cash songs?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's looking, He's looking ring a fire? No, great movie?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You ever seen that?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
With Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I walked the line, Jaquin Phoenix is a n Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
With Joaquin Phoenix. Great movie, was it?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I walked the line, No, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You're gonna tell that a long song right away?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I liked him. He's right here. Just no do it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You were saying the rambler, the gambler, the black writer.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You guys, no, gonna cut him down.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Gonna cut him down something like that, shoot writer or something.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I'll take songs I don't know for a hundred and
wait leave it to Anne and knows that that's.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ann and nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What's the name of the song her Colon's great.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This is incredible. Yes, that one. That was gonna be
my walk up.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Song for the comedy playing it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Just play play and then we'll start singing.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh damn it. Okay, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, that was good. I would say that. I would
say that's what I would walk up to if I
was playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Okay, Hey, you know what I was dying to ask you?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Week four this year, right against the Eagles. My man,
the hottest game I've ever worked in my life.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I thought it was one.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Baker needed to change his pants at halftime, he said,
sweat right through them.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, I should have.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
An Iowa kid playing here in Tampa. How did you, ever,
how do you adapt to that? And what was your
first Like, holy shit, it's another level of hot here.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Ye uh you?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I think you adapt pretty quick because now, like I
used to love the cold, and now I hate the cold.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm like, I think I'm a Florida that's Brady.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, it was the worst experience I had was when
I first moved down here, Like I moved down in
June after I got drafted. I remember stepping out of
the car and I was like, this is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh yeah, your legs on your Carsinately.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Immediately started sweating and I was like, we have to
play in this with pads.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I was like, yeah, this is gonna be tough. That's
why I moved down. It's like I have to come
down and run down here. I have to train down here.
Before my first training camp, I was like, I can't,
I can't cramp up or anything. And then that's immediately
what I did the first day. But yeah, it's it's tough.
But it is like now that I've been down here
for a while, like acclimated to it, Like I stay
down here year round.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It's nice.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Like when teams come, especially up north, Like you come
down here and it's one hundred degrees and you're like,
you see them dying if I'm tired, Like, if I'm tired,
I know they're tired, so that makes me feel That
makes me feel good. It's like I see them breathing hard,
and I'm like, okay, I got a.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Little more in the tank. I said, I know you're
I was like, I know you're tired. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's definitely hits hot here. It's I mean it's hot today.
I was sweating on the way here.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, it was freezing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
See that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's the new.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Expression is you're not in Kansas anymore. So you're not
in Iowa anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Twenty mom, My mom still isn't I was twenty last week?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
What does stories about Gronkowski and the first couple of
practices here, they were leg and dairy. Robbie g was
like throwing up on the sidelines and stuff. He was soaked,
like in his shoes or something like that.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You get the swampy shoes, like the water like your
sweat starts like pouring out of your shoes, like it's
all squishy.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
If I ever hear the word swampy shoes again, I
will like, yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, you dump your shoe out like after practice, it's
like the sweat comes out.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's terrible. It's terrible. Yeah, rob was, I mean he
hopped right in.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
He's like running routes like he's like he's a young
guy still and he's like, oh, He's.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Like I don't know why can do that here? You
know it is toasty.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But come back to the show that him and Tom
had and the fine that was great, but you were
able to adjust. And this is my television broadcaster transition
into this question. You were also able to adjust when
you went from right tackle from left tackle to right tackle,
and you were very thank you what a transition. Thank
you so much. Yes, yes, I'm available, Guini a stylist,
(22:52):
but the uh, you were very honest that you got
in your head about that. So explain to people that
don't know football or you know, the intricate of how
difficult it's not just changing I mean, it's changing a position,
but it's a whole, entirely different thing, and how difficult
that was for you, and how important it was though
to understand that you can reinvent yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, that was. That was tough.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I mean, I put I have very high expectations for
myself and I felt like them asking me to do that,
you know, they had high expectations of me, and I
didn't want to let anybody down. That was my biggest thing.
I didn't want to I didn't want to not live
up to those expectations. And it was tough, Like I was.
It was the beginning of the off season. I'm having
like nightmares about it, like giving up like clean sacks,
and like it's crazy nightmare to have I was like,
(23:34):
I was like, why am I I was like, why
am I dreaming about this right now?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's March.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But it also makes you a real person, which I
think is so refreshing. I mean, you're the best of
the best to do it. And when somebody like you
says I'm having night, I mean that makes you so
real because that's you.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Wait, let me pinch you and see if you're real.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
No, it is. It's so refreshating. Here's somebody like you
would have, you know, anxiety or nerves about it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah. Yeah, it was tough, you know. I think that's
the main thing. I just didn't want to didn't want
to let anybody down. And I knew the more reps
I had, the more comfortable feel I knew.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Take time.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I was told everybody it's like wiping your ass with
your left hand, and it's like.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
How do you do with the long nails that? I
don't know what?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You know, I'm a more common one might be like
using a mouse with your left hand, but it's like.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
No, I like the wiping your ass, Let's be honest,
come on, that resonates, you know, give it up for everybody,
And it's like I should have never sent that bitch
that wine.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
But no, it's a I knew. I knew it would
take time, and it uh, it paid off. It worked,
it worked out.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But you were also very honest. You wanted to talk
to somebody about it, which I also think is incredible
because why do we try to mask the fact that
we need help. Yes, so you can applaud that, and
I love that you went public with it. You're like, listen,
I want to talk to somebody. Was that something you
were guided to do, like, hey, you should talk or
you just thought this is the best way to deal
with it.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Robert Hainsey. Actually, he told me I should meet with
doctor Joe. Doctor Joe Carella are our sports psychologist. Shout
out doctor Joe.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
He's the best. He kind of just just sat me down.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
We'd meet once a week and kind of just talked
through like what I was feeling, my thoughts, and it
was just nice to to verbalize those and kind of
realize how crazy it sounds in my head. I was like, like,
I'm in my head, I'm like I can't take a pass, that,
I can't throw my hands whatever football talk, but it's
I couldn't I couldn't ge those negative thought out of
my head. He's just replaced these with positive thoughts, like
you can do it, you can, you know, just stuff
(25:30):
like that, little things, little tools to to help me
kind of get over that, that fear of failure, and
which I think that's always going to be there in
our profession, like that's you know, our we're judged on
our success, you know. So it's but just being able
to talk to somebody about it and and get it
out in the open and and get some feedback on it.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It was incredible not.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
To get all Oprah our doctor Phil on you depending
on what show you like, that's so old, by the way,
you probably don't know who anyone who Sally Jesse Roth
I was trying to say that, or Phil Donna Hughe.
I remember watching those with my mom. What a legend
like you can use that with everyday life as well.
(26:09):
You know, whenever you have a negative thought, just try
to fill it in with a positive one.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We should do that more.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We're little we're negative self talkers over here. Because it's
because I heard you say, we get to do this,
We get to play the game of football, we get
to practice. In one hundred and twenty degree humidity whatever
it is. Were you always like that oh okay.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
No, no, no, no college where you're like, I mean college
is some of the hardest stuff. Like they tell you like, hey,
the strength conditioning program, like it's gonna suck. Yeah, and
you're like, oh, I don't want to go run twenty
five sixty yard sprints today.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't want to go do this. I don't want
to go back squad.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
You know, It's it's I think it's just in our nature,
like you know, it's it's it's hard to do hard things,
you know, and so getting changing that mindset like no,
we get to do this. I think one of the
childrens hospital is a big, a big help, like realizing
what these these kids are getting poked and poked in
pride with needles all day, like going through chemotherapy, getting
skin grafts, and I'm like, I have to just go
back squad. I have to go yeah, to go play
(27:02):
a game, to go play football. So it's like realize
in that perspective, you know, it's like, yeah, we get
to play football. I get to do for a living
what we would do at recess, you know as a kid,
and those kids don't have that anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So it's just all perspective. But it's it's it's it's
it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We are filled with a bunch of a room, with
a bunch of wonderful, successful women. And I always think
it's really important to ask athletes, when given the opportunity,
the best advice that you've gotten along the way, whether
you know, whatever respective business that everybody in the audience
is in, sort of what life advice has stuck out
to you that you've received that you're able to apply
to your profession.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh my goodness, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
You need time eron and I can fill a lot
of space.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Can you can you do that for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I have no problem. They should shut my mic off.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Sometimes. Ask the guys in the bachelor party last night,
They're like, Jesus, I was talking to them about pre
Now I did I go, hey, we got to get
a clean out? I go, Not for you? I was like,
you know, is your lady a gold digger? No, I'm kidding,
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I think uh.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I think some of the best advice I've gotten was
was probably back in college from coach Parents and and
Coach Doyle. It was just you know, His job wasn't
to make us a better football player. His job was
to make us a better man, a better husband down
the road, a better father down the road, you know whatever,
may be a better member in your community. And just
trying to live every day trying to do that. I
think that's that always. That always told me. It was
(28:21):
like one of my first meetings at my freshman year,
and he's kind of that was his introductory speech to us,
and that always, I don't know, that's that stuck with
me since since then, I've just been trying to That's
what I've been trying to do.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You're a great football player, and you're great man, and
thank you for spending a little bit of your off
season time with us and eight women.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You had to do.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Thank you did it, and we very much appreciate.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Enjoy your off season what you have of it, and
thank you so much for being an inspiration for all
of us. You're a class act.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Thank you, guys, Love you, Tristan, Thank you, guys, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
He's off to a colonoscopy now, guys, just kidding.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We're going to play a drinking game called colony soon.
If we say it one more time again and I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Give it up for Christian works.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
An he guesses what that group chat is called. Calm
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And oh, by the way, Tom Brady was recording get Hurt.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, don't let anybody touch him. I was like, all right,
I'll try my best. I'll try my best. He's fragile.
He's old. Not that, not that, not that old, badies,
not that old.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Tristan, he's a year older than me.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Calm down, he's the same. He's like two years younger
than my mom.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Oh right, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Calm down with Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, this next guest makes a living playing football and
does it very very great for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And he doesn't need to filter. His name is Tristan
Wurfs and he's joining us. Now give us a second
while we add a chair for our star of the show,
who's wondering why it is he's got to be stuck
in between us. But Tristan, I can't wait to ask
if you heart text messages or take selfies?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Give it up.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
This is our theme song. Tristan, you just did Ryan
Clark's podcast, right, how is that compared to this? He said?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We'll say, look at Tristan, we're sort of he's.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The badst do we have a mic for our guy.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You're probably in the hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
There we go?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you heart?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Do you do you feel pressure to heart? Text messages
or excavate? Are you that guy?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm terrible at that. I'm terrible at texting like text
people back.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh you're you're the guy that doesn't text back? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
When did that start? Forever?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
For a while, for a while.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
But the liking thing, I don't know what is that.
I don't know what that is yet. It's I feel bad.
I heard you saying you feel bad.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's always like, yeah, I for you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Do I have to like it? Do I need to heart? Yeah?
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well you're liked in this town? How great is he?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
How many?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
How many text chains do you think you're on? I'm
sure the offensive line has one, right, just do you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Then you probably have one with your quarterback Baker manyfield
correct ye, And.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Then we go shout out Baker, shout out Baker.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And then what other group one? I mean that you
can tell us about on the team. And then is
there a whole team one?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
They usually the whole team on is like a TeamWorks
like this app that we use to send a message
to us.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But we have the O line. We make a new
line whenever you're obviously the turnovers crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Love to know what the nickname for it is, but
you don't have to time.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Ye came up with it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, we have one. It's called the Council of Elders.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's like cute.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It's like the line Baker. And then we have Grand Barton,
our rookie, so it's like Council of Elders. Plus Graham
is what the name of he's a rookie. He's got
three more games into the second year, then he's not.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
A rookie anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's so cute. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You're not a rookie.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I can't believe you're headed into your sixth season. Has
it gone by fast?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Really fast? Too fast? Almost? Yeah? Yeah, year six is crazy.
I don't know where it when. I don't know where
it went.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
If you could go back and tell your first yourself something,
what would it be? I love that?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, I think. Just enjoy it. Enjoy enjoy every moment
of it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You know, the days off, the days you know you're
just with your guys because like, well, I was my
best friend Robert Hainsey like he's gonna be he's gonna
he's a free agent. He's gonna be going somewhere, and
it's gonna be weird, like not not seeing it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like we've got our talks, we've got our cries.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Such a hard part of the business, right, People don't
get that, especially when you have kids, your families, relationships.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's the worst part about the business one percent.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
But just that's the bit that's the biggest thing, is like,
enjoy the friendships and enjoy the memories because it goes
It goes by so fast, like I can't believe going
into year six, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, that's what we try to do a Chris and
I because we're a lot older and as we were
getting ready to do this Super Bowl this year for Fox,
we just kind of thought to ourselves, like, we don't
know when this is going to come around. Well we
know in four years, but it could look different every
single time we do it. So, yeah, I remember the
videos of you on draft day and I don't cover
(04:06):
football anymore or college football anymore, but obviously when you
had signed a certain quarterback to come and the Bucks
were on a mission to get that line in order
to protect him. I remember watching the draft and seeing
two pieces of footage.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
One you jumping out of the pool. Had you ever
seen that?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
One?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Freak? Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Where can you?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
If you guys have ever seen it, You're literally jumping
out of the pool in the shallow or the deep end.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's a shallow.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
It's a shallow and three six inches I'll take you know.
It's it was fine.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was just back. It was just back in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It was here, not with the flight attend.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Sure, yeah, it was just back in Iowa.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
At the at the local pool, we had.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
A Iowa Yeah, who's that?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Who's that? Standup? Shout out Iowa. There we go, there
we go? Is are we doing? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The local pool is like to our running back to
my teammate in college, He's like, oh, I saw this
on on social media.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Let's try it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And I was like, there's no way any one of
us can do that. And we all tried and then
I go up and I got up there and like
but fell back in the water. I was like, somebody
go get my phone. I said, I'm going to get
up there. Yeah, yeah, and I did.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's awesome. And then, of course the other clip I'll
never forget is you walking your mom on the makeshift
red carpet. Of course that was twenty twenty, the gear
of COVID the Draft, which I thought was one of
like the best. Well, we all needed something right at
that point, and the Draft was such great television for
all of us stuck at home. But you walking your
mom down the red carpet, which I loved so much,
that resonated with me.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We talk.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You have a new baby. I have a new baby
eleven months twenty twenty me the one without the kid.
Whooh you knowing? Probably because I don't have a kid.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Kids are great.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kids are great. I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I was out last night with a bachelor party. Don't
you have two dogs?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You love your dog? Actually, you have a lot of
dogs on your ranch.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I didn't realize how much mom guilt I would have
with having my baby because I'm never six months out
of the year I'm not home, and this one is
always in my ear, saying, listen, your kid is going
to be so grateful when he learned what you do
for a living. And all that, and and how hard
you work. And I love your quote about your mom.
I think it was an interview in twenty twenty. She's
one hundred percent the driving force behind what you do
(06:18):
and all that. What do you remember about how hard
your mom worked to get where you are?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Oh, my goodness, I said this to some of the
other day. It's like it's like a core memory. I
remember when my mom got her first house, little thing.
We lived in the trailer park with with my with
my grandma. We moved into this house. We didn't have
any furniture. We have had two mattresses and we put
them together in the living room, like that's what we
slept on. Like that's a that's a big memory. Yeah,
her first house. And I remember how excited she was.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think I was. I think I was five or six.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But just her giving me everything I needed to to
go out and play these sports, like I want to
be as successful as I could, you know, and give
them everything I had because she's doing everything she can
to just you know, buy me cleats, buy me a
baseball glove, a new baseball bat, you know, whatever it was.
She's just doing everything she can to to allow me
to have fun with my friends. So she's always been,
you know, the driving force in in my you know,
(07:10):
in my athletic career, you know, take care of me,
my mom and my sister growing up. You know, it's
a little our little pack. But yeah, she's she's the best.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And it's interesting when I listen to you to tell
that story. It's not about what you didn't have, it's
about what you did have. And I say this to
Aaron all the time because she's like, I just feel bad.
I'm like, my mom worked three jobs growing up. We
came houses on Saturdays. I get five dollars if I
dusted well, you know, and I don't remember being like,
oh I didn't have this. I just remember how hard
(07:38):
she worked. And all of you, if you have kids
or you don't have kids, is that you're doing something
that somebody is saying that they're proud of you for.
So don't feel guilty for that. And it's like to
just listen to you talk about you never thought about
what you didn't have. It's more about what you have now.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, it's like that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The multiple jobs, like on the weekends when she'd go
clean a headphone at the cemetery, and like the I
would collect, you know, whatever he found.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know, the guy she worked for would collect on
whatever there was, like sometime to be baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
There's it's close to like a baseball complex. But he'd
get put him in a bucket and given to me.
But like I'd go, yeah, I had like a little thing,
I'd dust off the headstone.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But it like it was like it was it was fun,
like gotta do something, to do something.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But no, it's it's it's you know, she did everything
she could for us, and uh, and here we are.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And now as a father yourself, how much more do
you appreciate providing knowing you know how hard it was
for her, but she did the best she could, and
you are now providing for your son and just being
a father in that perspective.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, it's a it's a pretty incredible feeling. Have to
get a shout out to my to my son's mother,
you know, she's like we're gone. I mean he was
he was born in April, so like the first six months,
you know, during the season, I'm going to leave.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, I leave six thirty in the morning, I get.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Home at six pm, and uh, he goes to bed
at he would go to bed at seven, so I
see him for an hour.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But she's she's holding it down with him all day.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So yeah, that was she's she's incredible and just being
able to to have that now, be able to go
home and see your son like after after a long
day and like he smiles when you walk in the door.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now, it's it's insane.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's awesome. Hey, we talk a lot. Is the chance
to have a little bit of fun. Our significant others
get annoyed when we kind of there are material, right
Chris and I are and you are right now.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Re entry you're home now though.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I haven't had one yet, but re entry being back home,
it's different, Like it's different than all of us, Like
your hours are crazier than Chris has and eyes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
What's re entry like for you with your lady, with
the baby, with all? It's different, right, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It has been.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
It has been fun though, like just being able to
be home more like with him and now he's like
he's just just starting to walk, so like that's cool. Yeah,
I mean getting getting back to a routine right now,
Like I go train in the mornings and I go
home and we get to we get to hang out
and do it, do whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You're nicer.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I was saying Chris the other day, I love my husband,
but the way he's chewing, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We got to turn on to music. I can't lie anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Shut up. I don't know, I don't know what. She's like,
you're smack and I was like, I'm sorry, Henry.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, it's like you're breathing.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's like, okay, I'll stop.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
No, it's all right though. It's all right though.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What's what's something that you're looking forward to this year?
I mean, you mentioned, you know, headed into your sixth season.
It's gone fast. You need to enjoy it. But what
excites you? I mean, Erin and I have been in
this industry. We've been lucky enough for a very long time.
And every time, I mean even as soon as the
super Bowl was over, we're like, oh, we're excited to
get a great break with them. We also like we
want to get back at it again. So what are
you most looking forward to this season?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I always love when the guys come back, like I
stay here, I stay here year round, and it's like
you're with these guys twenty four to seventeen. All day,
every day you're with your teammates and then like a
lot of guys leave, they all go they'll go home,
and so it's like I'm kind of hear by myself
a little bit, and I kind of missed the guys.
So I always love that, you know, when the guys
come back, because it's just it's just a different level
of camaraderie. But is just excited to get back going.
(11:06):
You know, it's we get this time off, and I
think I took four weeks off. I was like, I
need to start training again. You just love being around everybody.
I think that'd be the biggest thing, is just when
the guys come back.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Aaron asked a great question to me earlier when she
was saying, what is it about football that you love?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know? I said football. I'm not even a player,
and it's given me everything. Yeah, what is it given you?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I don't want to be cliche, but everything as well,
Like it's friendships, you know, memories that will last a lifetime,
an outlet growing up like I was. I mean, I
grew up in a small town. There's four thousand people.
As me and my sister were like the only black kids.
So it's like I got bullied in different ways. Was
like I can go now, like it's just a little escape,
like go play football, like go go have fun.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And you felt like you belonged.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. That's a good that's a
good way to put it. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, but
it's fun. I mean, this is my life now I
get to play. I get to play a game for
a living. You know, it's I always say I always say,
people's you we have to go do this. We have
to go to practice, the heat, we have to go,
we have to go train, we have to do whatever.
You know, we get to like we're yes, what we
do is in heart. It's it's it's a it's a game,
and we're we're blessed to be able to do this
(12:11):
as a as our job.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
But I was.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I was referenced to the children's hospital, the children hospital
back in Iowa, like we used to go there and
it's just it's so it's so hard, like what those
kids go through. It's not even in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And we got the city stadium. You tell people a
little bit, they don't know what Tristan.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, so the greatest tradition in college football. We started.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It started in twenty I want to say twenty seventeen,
my or my my freshman year. But the children's hospital
overlooks Kinnick Stadium, and after the first quarter, everyone turns
in the stadium and waves the kids up there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It's amazing looking up on YouTube, look it up.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Look at you cry. You'll cry.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I cry right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Especially now that you have a baby, it's even hotter.
I mean, that's one of the things I love so
much about professional athletes, how you guys give back what
you do, how you are such a light for a
lot of the children's hospitals, and you know, all your
initiatives and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But yeah, once you have a baby, it hits you differently.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Oh, I thought, what give us your first memory of
doing that at Iowa? Do you have one or even
going into that hospital of my first memory of the hospital, Yeah,
that whole moment.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
The biggest one I remember is it is around Christmas
time and there's a me and my roommate had gone
up there and there's a little boy room we're going
to and I can't remember how old it was. He
might have been ten, but their house had burned down
and he ran inside to get to save his little
sister and he was, you know, burnt head to toe,
like his life's completely changed. And we just went in
(13:42):
and like tossed a little nerve football with him for
twenty minutes and he was smiling and his mom was like,
he's he hasn't smiled in weeks, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Like actually had goosebumps.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
But it's just a little thing like that, and it
can go change someone's change someone's life, you know, and
you don't know how much that means to them, but
it meant a lot to me, and it stuck with
me for for eight years now, seven years now. But yeah,
that's a pretty pretty heavy, pretty heavy memory, but it's
it was. It was a nice one.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, My niece was she diagnosed with a brain timber
when she was six, and she was at children's hospital
and the thing that she would get excited about two things,
watching the Seahawks on Sunday and Taylor Swift, So her
whole thing was like as soon as she got out
of the hospital, we went to a Taylor Swift concert
and there was like nothing like her. You know, her
head shaved and she's and the other one she wanted
(14:29):
to see Aerin at Dancing with the Stars, which Aaron
made it happen. She got a front row seat and
it was amazing. So just that I so many sparkles
in spray tamp so many sparkles spread five, six, seven, eight.
But it is sports is the great unifier. And whether
it is what you guys have seen here in your
own backyards with hurricanes or us with the fires, or
any kind of devastation after nine to eleven, I mean
(14:50):
anything that happens, sports is the great unifier. It brings
people together. It doesn't matter about politics, it doesn't matter
about religion. What is it that you love most about
being a part of this organization and football?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Oh my gosh. I think this organization is the impact
we have in the community. There's so many different initiatives
that we have a line. Specifically, we do aline lights
up Christmas. We do a thing where a bunch of
kids in Tampa get to come have like kind of
a shopping spree. We do Turkey Time with you o line.
We last year we gave out over a thousand Thanksgiving
meals at Thanksgiving. There's just so much stuff. I mean, Darcy,
(15:25):
you know this right here, the sheat football something like
it is incredible. There's so many initiatives that that the
Bucks do and it's just great to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And watch love that.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I love that. And I also remember back in twenty twenty,
your first year. I mean, it was such a difficult
year and thank goodness, the NFL, the teams, Darcy, the
players figured out a way to provide relief and actually
have a season that year, your first season, which is
bananas if you think about it, how different that season
(15:55):
was for you as a rookie to come in with,
how bizarre it all was. And oh, by the way,
Tom Brady was recording.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, they're like, don't let anybody touch him. I was like,
all right, I'll try my best.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I'll try my best. He's fragile, he's old. Not that
not that old, ladies, not that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Old, Tristan. He's a year older than me.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Calm down, he's the same. He's like two years younger
than my mom.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
All right, Oh my god, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
As he shined his Super Bowl ring, So you're good.
We've absolutely shipped on Tom Brady let's uh. I want
to get your biggest just your biggest lesson or the
biggest thing you took away from playing with him?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh wow. I think a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I think one just his I think I've always been
a very competitive person, but like seeing him like he's
he's the most competitive person like I've ever been around.
I think a big thing for me was as a
young player, like you battle through injuries, you battle through
you know, aches and pains all that. I remember in
my head as a rookie, I was like, it'll go away,
it won't you know that just come from colleges like
(17:03):
stay out of the training room, don't you know, don't
tell anybody if you're hurting, Like it'll go away. And
then Tom's like, you can't do that. He's like, especially
him playing for twenty some years.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
One hundred and twenty some years.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, he's his first year was what was this Tom's
first year? Two thousand?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Well nine, no, ninety nine? Do you want to hit us?
What he's checked?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Ninety nine?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
So that was that was a year I was born.
So it's like that's he's been playing since I've been alive.
And he's like, you got to take care of your body.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You have to. He's like, he said, that's the key
to playing this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well, you're just gonna keep telling the story. And we
all laughed. Sorry, And you've probably done this every single
speaking engagement you've gone to.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
When was he born? Oh that's when I was or.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
When yeah, you got to you got to.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh it's so good. You're just taking care of you
in high school when you were born?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh my god, you graduated high school?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I said, yeah, because it's two thousand, Ryan Soil, there
was confirmatives two thousand. You were born in ninety nine?
Oh my god? What was the song of your childhood
if you grew up in two thousand? Like, what was
a jam of your childhood?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Then? My mom loved Prince Lorraine? Oh, well, time, all
the time?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay? Was it out in two thousands? I was thinking
of like two thousand radio ninety eight degrees. I don't
know what do we think now?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's just me? Okay? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
What was your jam in the Iowa locker room?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
We didn't have music in our locker room?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, okay, different questions. What would be your walk up
song if you were a baseball player? Your walk up
to the play song, think about it, think about it?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What's that? My gosh, I don't I can't remember the
name of it.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I'm not good with this. I just know how what
it is?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
My walk up song, my walk up.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I had to pick a walk up song for the combine.
It was going to be a Johnny Cash song. It
was going to be a oh, it was going to
be it was totally ban.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
A list of songs.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What do you have, Ryan, top Johnny Cash songs?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's looking, He's looking ring a fire? No, great movie?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You ever seen that?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
With Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I walked the line, Jaquin Phoenix is a n Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
With Joaquin Phoenix. Great movie, was it?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I walked the line, No, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You're gonna tell that a long song right away?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I liked him. He's right here. Just no do it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You were saying the rambler, the gambler, the black writer.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You guys, no, gonna cut him down.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Gonna cut him down something like that, shoot writer or something.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I'll take songs I don't know for a hundred and
wait leave it to Anne and knows that that's.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ann and nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What's the name of the song her Colon's great.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This is incredible. Yes, that one. That was gonna be
my walk up.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Song for the comedy playing it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Just play play and then we'll start singing.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh damn it. Okay, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, that was good. I would say that. I would
say that's what I would walk up to if I
was playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Okay, Hey, you know what I was dying to ask you?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Week four this year, right against the Eagles. My man,
the hottest game I've ever worked in my life.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I thought it was one.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Baker needed to change his pants at halftime, he said,
sweat right through them.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, I should have.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
An Iowa kid playing here in Tampa. How did you, ever,
how do you adapt to that? And what was your
first Like, holy shit, it's another level of hot here.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Ye uh you?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I think you adapt pretty quick because now, like I
used to love the cold, and now I hate the cold.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm like, I think I'm a Florida that's Brady.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, it was the worst experience I had was when
I first moved down here, Like I moved down in
June after I got drafted. I remember stepping out of
the car and I was like, this is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh yeah, your legs on your Carsinately.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Immediately started sweating and I was like, we have to
play in this with pads.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I was like, yeah, this is gonna be tough. That's
why I moved down. It's like I have to come
down and run down here. I have to train down here.
Before my first training camp, I was like, I can't,
I can't cramp up or anything. And then that's immediately
what I did the first day. But yeah, it's it's tough.
But it is like now that I've been down here
for a while, like acclimated to it, Like I stay
down here year round.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It's nice.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Like when teams come, especially up north, Like you come
down here and it's one hundred degrees and you're like,
you see them dying if I'm tired, Like, if I'm tired,
I know they're tired, so that makes me feel That
makes me feel good. It's like I see them breathing hard,
and I'm like, okay, I got a.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Little more in the tank. I said, I know you're
I was like, I know you're tired. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's definitely hits hot here. It's I mean it's hot today.
I was sweating on the way here.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, it was freezing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
See that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's the new.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Expression is you're not in Kansas anymore. So you're not
in Iowa anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Twenty mom, My mom still isn't I was twenty last week?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
What does stories about Gronkowski and the first couple of
practices here, they were leg and dairy. Robbie g was
like throwing up on the sidelines and stuff. He was soaked,
like in his shoes or something like that.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You get the swampy shoes, like the water like your
sweat starts like pouring out of your shoes, like it's
all squishy.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
If I ever hear the word swampy shoes again, I
will like, yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, you dump your shoe out like after practice, it's
like the sweat comes out.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's terrible. It's terrible. Yeah, rob was, I mean he
hopped right in.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
He's like running routes like he's like he's a young
guy still and he's like, oh, He's.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Like I don't know why can do that here? You
know it is toasty.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But come back to the show that him and Tom
had and the fine that was great, but you were
able to adjust. And this is my television broadcaster transition
into this question. You were also able to adjust when
you went from right tackle from left tackle to right tackle,
and you were very thank you what a transition. Thank
you so much. Yes, yes, I'm available, Guini a stylist,
(22:52):
but the uh, you were very honest that you got
in your head about that. So explain to people that
don't know football or you know, the intricate of how
difficult it's not just changing I mean, it's changing a position,
but it's a whole, entirely different thing, and how difficult
that was for you, and how important it was though
to understand that you can reinvent yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, that was. That was tough.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I mean, I put I have very high expectations for
myself and I felt like them asking me to do that,
you know, they had high expectations of me, and I
didn't want to let anybody down. That was my biggest thing.
I didn't want to I didn't want to not live
up to those expectations. And it was tough, Like I was.
It was the beginning of the off season. I'm having
like nightmares about it, like giving up like clean sacks,
and like it's crazy nightmare to have I was like,
(23:34):
I was like, why am I I was like, why
am I dreaming about this right now?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's March.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But it also makes you a real person, which I
think is so refreshing. I mean, you're the best of
the best to do it. And when somebody like you
says I'm having night, I mean that makes you so
real because that's you.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Wait, let me pinch you and see if you're real.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
No, it is. It's so refreshating. Here's somebody like you
would have, you know, anxiety or nerves about it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah. Yeah, it was tough, you know. I think that's
the main thing. I just didn't want to didn't want
to let anybody down. And I knew the more reps
I had, the more comfortable feel I knew.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Take time.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I was told everybody it's like wiping your ass with
your left hand, and it's like.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
How do you do with the long nails that? I
don't know what?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You know, I'm a more common one might be like
using a mouse with your left hand, but it's like.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
No, I like the wiping your ass, Let's be honest,
come on, that resonates, you know, give it up for everybody,
And it's like I should have never sent that bitch
that wine.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
But no, it's a I knew. I knew it would
take time, and it uh, it paid off. It worked,
it worked out.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But you were also very honest. You wanted to talk
to somebody about it, which I also think is incredible
because why do we try to mask the fact that
we need help. Yes, so you can applaud that, and
I love that you went public with it. You're like, listen,
I want to talk to somebody. Was that something you
were guided to do, like, hey, you should talk or
you just thought this is the best way to deal
with it.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Robert Hainsey. Actually, he told me I should meet with
doctor Joe. Doctor Joe Carella are our sports psychologist. Shout
out doctor Joe.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
He's the best. He kind of just just sat me down.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
We'd meet once a week and kind of just talked
through like what I was feeling, my thoughts, and it
was just nice to to verbalize those and kind of
realize how crazy it sounds in my head. I was like, like,
I'm in my head, I'm like I can't take a pass, that,
I can't throw my hands whatever football talk, but it's
I couldn't I couldn't ge those negative thought out of
my head. He's just replaced these with positive thoughts, like
you can do it, you can, you know, just stuff
(25:30):
like that, little things, little tools to to help me
kind of get over that, that fear of failure, and
which I think that's always going to be there in
our profession, like that's you know, our we're judged on
our success, you know. So it's but just being able
to talk to somebody about it and and get it
out in the open and and get some feedback on it.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It was incredible not.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
To get all Oprah our doctor Phil on you depending
on what show you like, that's so old, by the way,
you probably don't know who anyone who Sally Jesse Roth
I was trying to say that, or Phil Donna Hughe.
I remember watching those with my mom. What a legend
like you can use that with everyday life as well.
(26:09):
You know, whenever you have a negative thought, just try
to fill it in with a positive one.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We should do that more.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We're little we're negative self talkers over here. Because it's
because I heard you say, we get to do this,
We get to play the game of football, we get
to practice. In one hundred and twenty degree humidity whatever
it is. Were you always like that oh okay.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
No, no, no, no college where you're like, I mean college
is some of the hardest stuff. Like they tell you like, hey,
the strength conditioning program, like it's gonna suck. Yeah, and
you're like, oh, I don't want to go run twenty
five sixty yard sprints today.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't want to go do this. I don't want
to go back squad.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
You know, It's it's I think it's just in our nature,
like you know, it's it's it's hard to do hard things,
you know, and so getting changing that mindset like no,
we get to do this. I think one of the
childrens hospital is a big, a big help, like realizing
what these these kids are getting poked and poked in
pride with needles all day, like going through chemotherapy, getting
skin grafts, and I'm like, I have to just go
back squad. I have to go yeah, to go play
(27:02):
a game, to go play football. So it's like realize
in that perspective, you know, it's like, yeah, we get
to play football. I get to do for a living
what we would do at recess, you know as a kid,
and those kids don't have that anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So it's just all perspective. But it's it's it's it's
it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We are filled with a bunch of a room, with
a bunch of wonderful, successful women. And I always think
it's really important to ask athletes, when given the opportunity,
the best advice that you've gotten along the way, whether
you know, whatever respective business that everybody in the audience
is in, sort of what life advice has stuck out
to you that you've received that you're able to apply
to your profession.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh my goodness, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
You need time eron and I can fill a lot
of space.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Can you can you do that for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I have no problem. They should shut my mic off.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Sometimes. Ask the guys in the bachelor party last night,
They're like, Jesus, I was talking to them about pre
Now I did I go, hey, we got to get
a clean out? I go, Not for you? I was like,
you know, is your lady a gold digger? No, I'm kidding,
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I think uh.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I think some of the best advice I've gotten was
was probably back in college from coach Parents and and
Coach Doyle. It was just you know, His job wasn't
to make us a better football player. His job was
to make us a better man, a better husband down
the road, a better father down the road, you know whatever,
may be a better member in your community. And just
trying to live every day trying to do that. I
think that's that always. That always told me. It was
(28:21):
like one of my first meetings at my freshman year,
and he's kind of that was his introductory speech to us,
and that always, I don't know, that's that stuck with
me since since then, I've just been trying to That's
what I've been trying to do.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You're a great football player, and you're great man, and
thank you for spending a little bit of your off
season time with us and eight women.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You had to do.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Thank you did it, and we very much appreciate.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Enjoy your off season what you have of it, and
thank you so much for being an inspiration for all
of us. You're a class act.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Thank you, guys, Love you, Tristan, Thank you, guys, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
He's off to a colonoscopy now, guys, just kidding.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We're going to play a drinking game called colony soon.
If we say it one more time again and I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Give it up for Christian works.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
An he guesses what that group chat is called. Calm
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