3 Guys Before The Game - Ed Vesterinen (Episode 645)

The story of WVU football player Eddie Vesterinen reads like a movie script.  The teenager, who saw an online video showing massive collisions in American football, began a quest to learn about the game. 

It began a life-changing journey for the native of Helsinki, Finland who is ready to begin his final season on the Mountaineer defensive line. Along the way, the affable and multi-talented Vesterinen has defined what good can come from the opportunity that college athletics offers. 

In this episode, the "Guys" learn about Ed's fantastic story, which includes a live musical performance. 

It's a 3 Guys Summer Series visit that won't soon be forgotten.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
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(02:00):
Edward Vester Rinnan is our special guest Mountaineer football player.
His appearance here on three Guys before the Game is
brought to us by our good friend, fine looking Phil
at Daniel's Men's Store here in Morgantown. They not only
outfit three guys They also outfitted Eddie V when he
was at media day. Nice last week, you looked special.

(02:23):
You look good, didn't you?

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Thank you, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So, and that shirt he wore there is of course
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Speaker 1 (02:32):
So when you went into you went into you go
into Phil to get fitted over there, a film comes
over right, he does it either way, like what do
you tell him that that you're looking for? Like what
suit did you go like last year? What suit did
you go with when you guys got suits?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
When we get suits, especially for the media day, I
just walk in and I mean he has I for
for what people like, and usually I just go with
whatever he wants because I do too.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Sam.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, you know, I'm myself. I'm not a very big
you know, but I just trust Feel's hands.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, that's basically the whole thing for Phil right there, right,
I just go in and trust what Phil says.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I think that's it.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's he just nailed it.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
The best way to approach it is like, let Phil
dress you. Most guys don't have that gene in them
that they just let fill and me makes people look
better than they're supposed to look. Yeah, it's an honor
to have you here.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I mean that, I'm not I don't say that to everybody.
And here's here's why I say that. I think you're
one of the all time great stories in Mountaineer football.
I truly believe that, and I've got incredible respect for
anyone who even plays football at this level. But in
your case, you did so many things that don't happen

(03:45):
in order to get where you are. You come from
a different country. Obviously English is not your first language.
You were completely raw as a football player when you
got here, and I remember they had to tea literally
start from like the from zero in teaching you how

(04:05):
to play this game. And you get through that to
the point where you are a contributing regular member at
the highest level of college football.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
All Big twelve designation. Yeah, he's got all Big twelve
honorable mention honors and academic honors.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's what I was going to say. And then academically, obviously,
this is again as I said, this is not you know,
this is not your first lane. And you get all
academic honors. You've already got your bachelor's you're working on
your masters, so to me, like you become one of
the all time great stories. You define what this is
supposed to be, this being collegiate sports. So I love it.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
That means a lot to me, you know, definitely, I'm
so proud to be part of the mount of your
football team, and especially being here in Morgantown for four
and a half years, you know, and the Morgantown feels
like a home to me, and I'm just very happy
to be in this position.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, we'd love to go back to figure out exactly
how in the world you got here. So you get
here and we hear Eddie v he was in the
Finnish Army, like, so let's go, let's go all the
way back. Let's go, little guy Eddie. Were you ever
little guy Eddie or were you always big kid Eddie?

(05:18):
I was.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I was a little big kid, yeah, maybe a little chumpy,
a little chuppy may when I was thirteen years old,
twelve years old, I mean I was into music, you know.
I was in a part of a church choir and
played my little saxophone. Yeah, and I was a little
choppy kiy until really I found sports.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, so you're singing in the choir.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah, singing a church choir at bit a lot of
young boys.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, good singer, maybe not the best.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
They never put me as a solo, you know, so
I figured I might not be the best.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're just kind of a girl team player, and you're
you're enjoying that.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
I mean there's times, you know, you know, especially during
Christmas when you're part of a church choir, you have
so many, so many concerts, like my Christmas time December
was booked like every weekend and practice every week, you know,
twice or three times a week practice, and I mean
it's kind of hard to describe, you know, it's it's

(06:23):
there's a discipline too. You know, there's there's our conductor.
You know, uh, he ran the whole thing, and he
held discipline on us.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know what do you mean by discipline? Will he
hit you?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
No, he wasn't.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I just discipline.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Your house, like immediately my dad.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, that was discipline for me. You didn't do something
righty whack you?

Speaker 4 (06:46):
No, it wasn't like I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
I mean it's your feeland, I didn't know, yeah, feeling.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, we know, we don't really do that they don't. Don't.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
They don't beat their children.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
What what countries over their heads? Answer that, don't answer that.
He was going to tell me what country was.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Just maybe maybe more the southern European.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, don't let him get you off the rails.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Don't ignore that. Ye all right, I'll strike that from
the record. So so were you did you always do
well in school academically? Academically?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I mean, uh, not the best, but you know I
was hanging in there, and you know, I went there
just to see my friends and you know, have fun
at that time.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
So academics became more serious later in life? Is that
what you're saying, when you got here became more well focus?

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, they didn't really. I mean the school in Finland
is pretty hard. Ah, and you know, once I got here,
I was kind of prepared.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
You know. That's a nice way of saying like it
was more difficult there back.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Home, definitely, high school was a little more difficult for me.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay. Interesting, So you're a chubby twelve or thirteen year
old kid when you're doing this choir or is that
is that outside of school or is that a part
of school?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
So everything is outside of school? We don't have many.
We don't do clubs within schools. It was outside of school.
It was part of the It was a big church
in Finland. It was a it was a known boys choir.
A lot of famous singers came from that choir.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Really.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Do you do any shows at the famous Helsinki Cathedral?

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yes, that was our cathedral every Sunday usually we had
our Sunday meth at the hell.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's a famous cathedral and famous.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, very famous cathedral. Yeah, so I bet you
it's big and the sound there is probably wow.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
And yeah, when we used to do this tour around
Finland to gout these different cathedrals and like sing and
then we used to have like we used to know
how some cathedrals had a really like echo. It was
really long, so really hard to sing when you can
like hear your own voice coming back at you. It
was really hard sometimes.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes we have that at the stadium. Yeah,
when the very rarely it's happened at the football stadium
where someone sings the anthem and it bounces back at
him and that can flip you out. So you're a
twelve thirteen year old chubby kid in the choir. Let's
talk about sports. What are you playing if anything when
you're twelve thirteen as a club.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well, I was playing tennis with alongside saxophone and church
you know boys choir. So I was playing tennis for
maybe eight years. I did the choir for maybe ten
saxophone probably eight years. Okay, so singles, doubles both in
ten I did singles. Yeah, singles pretty good. I wasn't

(09:31):
the best, but I know how to play definitely.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
So you could get on a court right now.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah, I could definitely get on court right now. Maybe
my start, you know, the slam is not maybe perfect,
but I'll definitely give you a fight.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
You can serve.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, that was I was the serve, you know. That's
the hardest part for me. And the tennis is serving right.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah. Could you beat every current Mountaineer football player in tennis?
All of your teammates? Could you beat them all? I
would say so, yeahah me too, I.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Would say.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Okay, So let's get into where does this football thing
start for you? So the football things in a second,
this is before give me give me the army. I
want to know about the army, the army. So was
football before the Army.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Football was before Army Army was after high school.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay, so when was the first time you were introduced
to American football.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
The first time I was introduced to American football was
probably thirteen years old, right, maybe it was maybe I was.
It was probably like The Blue Mountain State, the Netflix series, Okay,
but I think before that maybe I saw some It
was really I remember just this highlight, this compilation, a
big hit compilation that was really that started everything. I

(10:43):
saw it on YouTube. We had a great song and
a big hits and I was like, wow, you know
this is like this looks fun. You know.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
So you're saying dudes just crashing the other just big
hits in American football, and you're going like, I like that, yeah,
and what's that about? You know?

Speaker 4 (10:59):
I was kind of like the just getting into puberty,
and I felt like maybe I needed something more handsy
or something you know, more physical.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Or yeah, something you know yeah bang people.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, and like maybe I had a lot of frustration
in me that I needed to get out. And well, well, also,
you know I haven't told you this. You know, I
had a brother. I had a fourth brother, okay, and
he passed up. He passed away when I was thirteen
years old, and I think, you know, that's probably what
really got me started playing football, is because I had
a lot of frustration that I had to deal with,

(11:31):
you hat, a lot of anger, a lot of anger.
You know, why why now?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Why me?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
You know why my brother? You know a lot of
questions and you know, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
And so that's a that's a difficult time when you're thirteen.
Just if you're thirteen when you lose someone like that,
I'm sure it was just a horrific time for you.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
He was, I mean, he was my best friend, to
be honest, and it was he had an alcohol problem
and that's what that's what led him, you know in
the pass right right?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
And so that takes you into the world of football.
How much of that was around you? How did what
was the club level like there? How were you introduced
to it?

Speaker 4 (12:11):
So after the video, I kind of I went on
the internet Google looked up the team on Helsinki and
I didn't know it was the best team in the nation.
So I just texted him, the junior head coach, and
he told me to come to this practice the other
at this time. And remember my first practice, you know,

(12:32):
they put me in an O line. I didn't know
what I was doing, and you know, I was.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I was there.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
I kind of met the guys that I made friends
with the people, and you know, that's it was a
group of a good group of people that I met.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
So at that point, you had not seen an entire
game or even parts of a game, or by the
time you went to the first practice, you'd seen some games.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Well I've never seen a live game before that, or
I've never even on TV, not even I mean they
hit the highlights were Yeah, I never had I probably
did not know that they had four downs, right.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, So when you say zero, you started for zero?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, that was completely zero. Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
And how long did you do that at a club level?

Speaker 4 (13:13):
So club level, I think I did the first year
I did juniors it was maybe like fourteen fifteen year olds,
and then after that I kind of got bumped into
the men's team very very early. I was starting in
the men's team when I was seventeen years old, and
like we were are my team, Like we were they
were winning the national championship every year, like the men's

(13:36):
at men's level, so it was like the highest level
of American football in Finland.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
So are you still playing offensive line at that time?

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, I was playing both sides, offensive line and defensive line.
You know, I was very much a team team first guy.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Is the coach from Finland or was it an American
person that came over to coach the team?

Speaker 4 (13:54):
So the the Helik Roosters is my hometown team, and
they have impoor players. They usually have four Americans that
they bring in every year. And usually they there's at
least maybe one American coach somewhere, maybe a position coach,
sometimes a head coach, you know, and that's really what
you know, Americans come in.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
So how did you get to West Virginia?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
So how did I get to West Virginia? So I
came in to see everyone was telling me, you need
to go overseas. You know, you're really good at this naturally,
and so okay, and I go to football games one year,
maybe like twenty nineteen or eighteen, no, seventeen, probably, Well

(14:39):
it didn't work out for me. You know.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I came in in bad shape, not conditioned. So when
you went to these camps, were they home or were
they over here in the United States? They were in
the United States. Okay, so they ground up a bunch
of guys from Europe, right, yeah, and they bring you
guys over yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
For two weeks and then you take busses from from
all over the East Coast, you know. And then that
didn't work out for me the first year, but then
two years after, I was posting a lot of videos
on Twitter, and that's how I was posting every day
videos on Twitter, and that's how I got recruited by
West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Okay, first, for.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
You, go back to the first time you came through
camp here. Did you walk away saying, oh, no, I'm
a long way from this, or did you say I
can see the path there, I've just got some work
to do.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
So I didn't specifically come to West Virginia, but I
went to like big schools, you know, Big ten or
you know big schools, and well, my first thinking was like, oh, man,
like this competition is different. You know. I didn't think
it was gonna be this hard because man, everyone's out there.
It's kind of like a free for all. And then
I realized, you know, you have to skip lines, Like

(15:47):
I was skipping lines and people are mad at me,
and I was just like, I don't know what you're saying, you.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Know, going through drills, you made Yeah, going to a drill,
you're jump you're jumping ahead, yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
And that was like you you might have to do it.
It was like you had to or you're not even
being being looked at if you didn't jump lines. I
see what you're And then I was like, I didn't
go yet, even though I did go like three times,
you know, I didn't go yet. But that's the only
that's it's very brutal, like from all these camps, you know,
it's I was like, man, I got to put in

(16:15):
some extra work and I really started working harder.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
You you have something that the finish call se Sue Yeah,
ccil s s I s U C Sue yeah, which
is about grit and determination, which I think fits right
in with Brad. What a mountaineer is grit and determination.
Do you see the parallel between ce Sue and the
mountaineer spirit?

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Definitely?

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I see it. Yeah, the relation, big correlation. Yeah, in
what way I mean, CISU. It's hard to describe. I mean,
it's like not giving up ever. It's kind of like
if you say something, you do it, you know, and
just going all the way, even though if you have
some you know, it's kind of like just never giving
up and it's uh, it mean, it's great everything. And

(17:02):
you know that's what finished people are. They're very stubborn.
That's what also cis is like you're stubborn. You don't
listen to anybody else. You know, you have your own
anything you want to do and you want to finish it.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Then isn't that doesn't that fit perfectly?

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Brad with us with West Virginia. Yeah, we should adopt
Finland as our sister country. We should. Yeah, that's a
lot of.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
A T shirt we might take.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
That is very good. That could be. So this is
really fascinating. So you get over here the first time
and you go like, I can't play with these dudes.
You go back when you say you do more work
when you go back? Is that lifting? Is that drills?

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Is?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
What? Is that? What made you better?

Speaker 4 (17:43):
What made me better is working out every day? I
increased a double amount of work workouts. I did, you know,
late night workouts, running out the hill. You know, it's
just I figured, you know, I've kind of like found
out that there's a lot of people, thousands of tens
of thousands of kids that I'm racing against like right now,

(18:04):
you know, like the time is running out. You know,
I'm getting older, just increased a lot of workouts.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know, you just turned on your You maximized your CISUS.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Is what You're definitely maximized. Yeah yeah, well clip.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
That and send that out to some kids. Right that
right there is the key realized he was competing against thousands.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
You had to.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Step it up.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, not entitled.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Not entitled. So when you said, Eddie that you started
to put post on Twitter each day? What were you posting?
What were you showing on your videos that caught the
eye of West Virginia.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
So I was posting I mean football adrills, weight room workouts,
single lenks, squats, you know, walking on my hands anything.
You know. It was kind of like I was trying
to sell my brand and I had to figure out
something every day, Like if I didn't have content today,
like I had to figu something so I didn't have

(19:01):
like handwalking you walked on my hands for ten yards?
Because you know, I had to post every every day
was the thing. Like I was posting every day so
I knew somebody was seeing it.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wow, where'd you get those ideas? Were you following people
that were doing that or you just thought of that?

Speaker 4 (19:15):
I just thought of that, really, you know, I mean
walking on my hands?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
This is all you've been doing that for.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
I mean I haven't been I didn't do it a lot.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
I just did it just for the videos. Okay, yeah,
like so we couldn't get you up here today and
start walking.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Done in a couple of years. But yeah, give me
a couple of days, dude.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, I know, I don't want to get you. Last
thing I want to do is get you hurt. Go
back to the Finnish army there.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Okay, let's so you come over here. It doesn't work
out as far as getting any offers. You go double down,
you go full mode, see sue, you start putting out
things on Twitter. Where does the Finnish Army come into this?

Speaker 4 (19:50):
So after I finished high school, every male in Finland
has to do it before they they're thirty years old.
So I figured, you know, I might as we'll just
do it right after high school so I don't have
to think about it anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
How long do you have to commit? So I did
six months of army.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I was in a I got into this sports academy
which is kind of like the best athletes from Finland
that got you know, we're basically trained as urban recon
like soldiers, and and kind of like they give us
a little more free time to like during the day
maybe like you can go to your workouts or your

(20:30):
team practice, or they give you a little like they
also had a nice weight room. You know, they had
a little more thing like a snack room for you know,
they had a little better things, a little better for
the top athletes. Yeah, Finland urban what was that urban
area reconnaissance?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, give me an example of what that would how
would learn? What would you need to do here? What
could you do?

Speaker 4 (20:50):
So my uh so, my wartime assignment is to be
in this group of maybe ten people and we're basically
basically going to be up maybe close to the enemy.
And it's kind of like just uh, I mean, I mean,
we're we're supposed to recon recon the urban areas kind

(21:12):
of like the suburban city areas, and I mean it's
kind of I mean simplifying. It is kind of like
looking on roads, like writing down what kind of equipment
do you see and then just like giving the information forward.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's a that.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Is a that is significant and maybe hard for some
in this country, ex of those observed in the military
to relate to, because you share a long border with Russia,
and Finland is now a NATO member, So if push
came to shove, you guys would be on the good
guy's side, on NATO's side, right.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, definitely. I mean the current uh, you know, the
status of you know, there's a lot of things that's
been going on with the Russia and Ukraine, and especially
when they attacked Ukraine, you know then and you know,
we understood like we might be next.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
That's why we joined NATO.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
And I mean throughout the history, we were always trying
to be neutral, were always trying to play both cards,
you know, the West and the Russia. But now with
the Ukraine, we had to design and we decided to
all with the West.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
So you could be called back in to military service.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yes, I'm I'm in the reserve, so anytime, you know,
they could ask for me to come back.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah that's a while. Yeah, yeah, who reaches out to you. Well,
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Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, it's a big smile when you see tutors.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
How many? How many could you eat? If you're hungry?
Could you take down too easy?

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Could you do three to three?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Three? I think if I'm really hungry the first three guys.
That's for three guys on three.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I believe it.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, I don't doubt anybody. So Hey, By the way,
Tutor is getting ready to debut some new barbecue sauces.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Excuse me, is that on the Three Guys biscuit?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
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And so for those of you that are looking for
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Speaker 2 (24:34):
So we're getting those barbecue sauces in is that what
you said?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
In the next short while, they're not out yet, but
that's coming up here. How many three different sauces? Yeah,
three different sauces.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
We get to sample this confirmed?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Confirmed?

Speaker 3 (24:49):
So Eddie, if given the choice between a big old
biscuit or a slice of curly and pie.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Big biscuits please, okay?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, on the Karlan pie, I don't know what. I'm sorry,
I didn't say. How do you say it right? Karelian? Karelian? Yeah,
Karelian pie. Okay, I don't know about.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
That now you so, what's in that?

Speaker 4 (25:15):
It's it's a rice pie, rice around like a bread. Yeah,
it's it's a traditional finish.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
What else is it's? What's in there?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
What goes with the rice?

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Anything?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Butter and some yeah, rice, bread and butter. Yeah, it's
in like bread.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Then then put the rice in the middle and it's cooked, baked,
and then you put some butter on it.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Korea Karelian pie.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
It's uh, Karelia is the area right next to Russia.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
You know it's Oh, so it's the name for a town.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, like the.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Area regient region region region.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
A favorite meal, favorite meal, like finished meal.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, well we'll do both.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
We'll do finished meal, then we'll do an American meal
finished meal, favorite.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Finished meal, smoked salmon with potatos and some sour Korean
gravy with some deal lemon squeezed in there?

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Big deal?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
How do the what form of the potatoes?

Speaker 4 (26:11):
And just like a small golden pato, small.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Roasted You guys like that deal? Yeah deal, You guys
are big because it goes with the fish relishes. You
guys are in the relishes a little bit too or
that more? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, fish dessert a dessert go with that blueberry.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Piece vanilla sauce?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
What about over here?

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Have you.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Have you had a food? Have you had a food
over here that you hadn't had back home that when
you ate it for the first time, you went like,
holy goodness, what is this? You fall in love with?
Any of our food? Barbecue?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Good? Uh baby wreck ribs, some good barbecue sauce, like
really like I don't like some smoke, you know, good
smoked ribs.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
That some really good stuff. I mean, we got a
guy that does that for us.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, we we'll have to get him fall We'll get
some of those. What's your favorite training table meal? What's
your go to over there?

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Chicken?

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Just if they have chicken wings, like chicken thighs whatever, Yeah,
whatever chicken is whatever chicken.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, I bet you could crush some chicken thighs. Man,
and you do eight, you can probably do eight to
ten to twelve chicken thighs.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yeah. Probably if I'm really hungry, if you gets what
about you?

Speaker 3 (27:34):
What about you? You're really hungry and you they put
down a whole chicken.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Whole chicken?

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Easy, yeah, easy?

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
If it's if I'm really hungry, you know, the whole chicken.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
The whole chicken.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Will breakfast? What do you go with with breakfast?

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Have to get the old meal every morning, every morning?
You start with that, started with that and then some
egg omelet?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
What do you put in the omelet?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Omelet? Everything they have?

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Why wouldn't you that's bulls.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Hams, pepper, tomato, onion, ham, mushroom, every Finich mushroom, cheese, cheese, cheese, whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah. Have you ever like walked into the training table
and said to yourself, I cannot believe what I am, where
I am and what I get here every day? It's
got to be I mean you, dude, you've been in
the Finnish Army.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah, the Finnish Army used to get these packs. They
sent you for like a week into the forest, and
they gave you these packs. You gotta put boiling water
into the packs and then like training tables. Better than that,
you're a lot better. Yeah, training table man. I you know,
sometimes you forget in what kind of position I am.

(28:42):
You know, you kind of get used to the routine
and you kind of have to stop sometimes and kind
of like realize that, hey, this is not normal. You
know you're getting You're getting everything, you know, breakfast, dinner.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
They take care of you.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
You know, we have the doctor you can see in
the morning, whatever you have, Like, everything's you know something
I was gonna appreciate those things.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, it's like it's like football Disneyland. Yeah, like they're
always there to take care of you.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
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to win. You went through an injury last year, my friend,
first time you ever got significantly hurt?

Speaker 4 (29:27):
First time, Yeah, like a major injury. Yeah, with the
knee definitely.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, University of Albany. It's early in the season. You
went through the whole off season trying to get ready
to go and then boom. What do you remember about
the play? What do you what are your lasting memories
about the rehab?

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Well, uh, the play, I remember it was in the
second quarter. You know, I was mad at they They
were taking talking trash. The old line was talking trash.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
I was kind of talking trash. They're talking trash to.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
You, yes, David talking trist to me. And I was,
you know, very angry or you know, and I really
wanted to, you know, show them and then give them sue.
And then one play I kind of like showed them
a little too much because I kind of torqued my
upper body and then when I got out from the

(30:19):
pile something, you know, my knee kept locking up and
jamming up. I mean, it wasn't painful, it was just
a you know, it wasn't working right, and you know,
I just went to the hospital. I was in the
hospital the second half, you know, and when I was
in an MRI machine for forty minutes, and definitely was
a rock bottom for me because you know, I understood that,

(30:42):
you know, this will not take you. This won't be quick,
and this will take a lot from me and me,
I'm very I appreciate our training staff. They you know,
they've helped me a lot. And you know, injuries are
not easy.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
It's definitely I've grown a lot, you know, mentally and physically.
You know, it's you definitely get something of it too.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Freaking Albany, did you learn so mentally?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
All due respect, did you learn that you can't lose control,
because maybe if you didn't lose control, you wouldn't have torqued.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, perhaps you know not not to get so emotionally,
you know, you know, to too visibly emotionally, you know,
just just do my thing, you know, trust my technique.
I got out of my technique. You know, that's what
cost me.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
You said you grill out. Mentally? Was that harder with
the injury the mental part of not being out there
every day with the guys than it was the physical?

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Definitely? You know, seeing my guys run off the field,
like out the tunnel into the field, and my body
was also getting ready to play because I heard you know,
the you know, it was hard, you know, and you know,
watching everything from a sideline was terrible. You know, I
couldn't do anything. All I could just they you know,

(32:01):
just hype up them, hype them up. But you know,
just being not being able to participate contribute was definitely terrible.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, you grow up a ton, You grow up a ton.
You've gone through a coaching change. Now Coach Brown and
staff are gone. Whole new staff comes in. Obviously for us,
we've been here once before when Rich was here, and
this is your first taste of Rich. I would imagine
he's unlike anything you've ever had to deal with when

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it comes to a coach.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah, definitely. It was a learning curve during the spring.
But you know, now it feels like they've been here
longer than six months. You know, it's definitely a difference
from last year.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
What has changed. Their style is different. What is your
noticeable difference of how the game is played and introduced
to you guys?

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Well, I could start off with intensity, you know, I
didn't know you could crank up intensity. I practice like that,
you know, and intensity is definitely you know, everything matters.
You know, it's there's a very vocal, you know, very yeah,
very well, but you know it's it's good. You know,

(33:14):
he kind of brings the best out of you when
you're put into those situations every day. You know, they
make practice hard and so games will feel easier, you know. Definitely,
I'm very excited too. I didn't think I was going
to be in this position. You know, like when the
last season ended, I had uncertainties everyone had. I didn't

(33:35):
know what was going to happen. And you know, I'm
so glad that I made the right decisions, you know,
And I'm glad, so glad to be part of this team.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Zach Ally was here with us and talked about how
aggressive he likes to be defensively. You're seeing that, right,
You guys get after it and come from everywhere, right.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, we get after it so much. He can present
so much to the offense. And I mean, I mean
he's a best of mind. He can He's a lot
He has a lot of plays, a lot of me
definitely maybe doubled, maybe triple the amount of plays we
have from last year. There's a lot of learning too.

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You know, you got to make sure you're on top
of your playbook.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Have you reached that point where you've played enough now
that you're totally comfortable with anything that comes in from
the sideline. Are you good? Like are you just I
guess the question is this are you playing? Instead of thinking.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, I think, I think now I am. I mean
that used to be something you know I thought about
previous years. Maybe I'm thinking to him much instead of
just like you know, people like to make it, make
football a little harder than what it did. At the
end of the day, it's just a kid's game. You
gotta go fight the guy in front of you. You
get him out the way, and find a ball. At

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the end of the day, people make it really very complicated.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Perfect fight the guy in.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Front of you and get the ball.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
That's what it is you have since the day you
got here. The oftentimes the phrases that you have an
incredible motor that doesn't stop, which fits right into you
know what, what you're going to be asked to do anytime?
Where Where did that come from?

Speaker 4 (35:18):
So where the motor comes from? I mean, I would
say the way people back home play the game. You know,
we have grown men playing the game just for fun,
Like we have to pay to play the game. You
have to buy your own pants, helmets, like you're not
you know, there's a different motivation to play the game,
and I think I just like to present represent where

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I'm from and the way they play there.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Speaking of where you're from, here's a quote from you
about the difference between Finland and the United States, especially
a place like West Virginia, which you said going you
said here, there's just a culture of speaking more and communicating.
Back home, we don't talk to strangers much, so truly different,
just maybe more like word, everybody just talks to everybody

(36:05):
and not like that in Finland. That was an adjustment definitely.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
You know, I wouldn't be this talkative if I hadn't
been here for four years. In Finland, you know, it's
kind of like stay to your friends, do you know.
It's really people don't like to open up. In Finland.
It's a very cold climate and the people who are
also very cold.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
So you're saying, like you Elsinkie might be walking down
the street and nobody's making eye contact or speaking, and
here everybody's talking everybody all the time.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yes, that's the biggest difference.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yes, which do you prefer?

Speaker 4 (36:39):
I mean, I like this, you know, and people chatting,
you know, just to talk how you doing good?

Speaker 1 (36:44):
You know?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
It gives a little more something, you know, Finland is
just maybe you get a little more lonely. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, I'm stunned to hear that, because you, when it
comes to personality, are one of the more outgoing people
that we've come across in the football program. So to
come from a place that isn't necessarily warm and bubbly,
you're on the opposite side of that, which means that
you have to stay here, you can't go back. Yeah,

(37:12):
what do you think you think you might stay here for?

Speaker 4 (37:13):
I think I might stay We'll see. I have a
little time, a little more time to think about, you know,
see how my career goes, and I think I let things,
you know, figure out themselves.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
So what is that? What are you thinking about a
path next? Try to make it in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
First, definitely, you know number one NFL be the first
finished player, an NFL active player.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, what would you be doing if you had not
come here to play football?

Speaker 4 (37:41):
What would I have been doing? I would probably be in.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
The forest defending Finland.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah, it's hard to say. I would probably just be
in Finland right now doing some studies in the university,
probably like engineering or just living my life in the
happiest country in the world, Finland.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
So you had to say that, so they let him
back in. Yeah, otherwise getting.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
It's interesting because that is true about obviously what Eddie said,
but also it gets consistently rated as one of the
happiest countries in the world.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Definitely.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
So yeah, it's it's because of all the metrics they
account for, like healthcare, academics and all that, you know,
but they don't account for you know, social talkativeness and
you know.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Sitting in the coffee shop and steering into your.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
If you ask to be finished people, they wouldn't agree,
as they say.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah, we've americanized you a little bit.

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Speaker 2 (39:40):
That's you don't know that, that's true, So don't tell
Eddie that. Then he'll think that that's not You don't
know that or work in the time that firm.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
But I do know this. I do know this that
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Speaker 2 (40:30):
Both think they're choices of the things you can pull
behind your boat. Yeah, looking for a rat, not rafts,
but things yeah, right that you can ride on.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, certainly. Yeah, those things in the bast.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
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that you have at Chuck's garage that you tried to
put off on men't even.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Mentioned Chuck and you brought it up. Chuck stuff. Shunk
has good quality stuff. Anyway, we need a truth meter
on Tony. But you were about your about four to
five that time.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Well, I'm just saying I think it's true. We have
been able to confirm that. But anyway, so you like
James Bond. I love James b movie. You said you
were watching Netflix and you saw some football stuff as well. Yeah,
so do you have an opportunity now to watch much
television or stream What are you watching now?

Speaker 4 (41:17):
What am I watching right now? I watch a lot
of YouTube documentaries?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Oh? Really? What? What kind of topics?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Well?

Speaker 4 (41:24):
The latest I watched yesterday it was it was a
YouTuber who uh it's a very weird topic. But it's
like the immigrants, the immigrants who come from South America, right, Yeah,
they have to go through the jungle in Panama. Yes,
Panama and separates the Panama and Colombia.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
It's called the I know what you mean.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Yes, So I watched a YouTube documentary about this guy
with his one camera walking the same route that the
immigrants were walking through to get to Panama from Colombia,
and it was just it was amazing to see how
like it was straight jungle, but it was so much trash.
There's people, hundreds of people walking it every day.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
And that's the path.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Yeah, it does the path And it was like, you
know there's the dairyen gap. Yeah, it's it's supposed to
be very dangerous because it's there's no law, like you're
in the middle of it takes six days to walk
through the Darian jungle and families and with little kids.
You know, there's no help. If something happens, you're done.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
You know. I like to watch some documentary, No, I understand,
what about like true crime, like uh, you know guys
guy murderers this, and they go and they find them.
That's not that's kind of intriguing to us. Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Think he would like your Somali pirate videos.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Wat you ever see those Somali pirates try to take
over those ships.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yeah, they had the upper hand early. That kind of changed,
I know, that kind of changed out. They went like, okay,
you want to go, we'll go. Yeah. They get on
there with those machine guns through.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Hours in the evening watching smally pirate videos.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
I mean I would I would't mind watching little boats
get blown up.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, exactly. You know what that is. I mean that's
the classic you know, blank blank and find out. I mean,
that's what they're that's what they're learning.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Do you watch football games? I watched football games, Yeah,
of course, not games. Not I don't mean game film
like film that you're studying. I mean just regular other
college football games or NFL games. Now do you watch?

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Was definitely the NFL once you get to the playoffs,
and I watched calling college game games when they're on
the same day if I have time, Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Who on the defensive line that's in your room? Is
going to surprise people? Good question? I think i'mond Russell.
He's coming in.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
He he's coming and I think people are definitely gonna
know his name after the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah. Yeah, he's coming along there.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
He's coming alone. I've seen him grow so much throughout
these four years. Man. Yeah, I'm so happy I got
to share this of him, you know, the journey with him.
Good guy, good guy.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
You ever heard of the moth Man mosth Man? Yes, yeah, yeah,
the West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah, a month man.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
There's a statue somewhere in Yeah, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Why are you asking about mothmn? Nothing to do with
the moth Man today, just what.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
I wanted to know. I know him. But anyway, that's
besides the points that story later. But here's what happened
earlier today.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
I know I know he's doing.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Here's what happened earlier today. Like I said, we went
over to Gomart out there just off seventy nine in Whitehall,
and so my boy, look at.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Hen't tell him what it says.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Those don't see it. Those are moth Man potato chips
from mister B.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
And you can get those chips mister Parker's great chips.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Look at him like that, look at his face over
their eyes. He didn't. He wasn't real happy that he
saw that, because he's scared of it, Eddie. He's scared
of the Mothman, like the Mothman is gonna come over here, Yeah,
and then Scared's not right.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I'm just saying you should respect the moth Man and
not taunt the moth Man because I don't need the
karma of the Mothman.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
This is what made him happier though. So when he
got the bag that said the Pepperoni roll potato chips
from mister V. But the smile.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
So it's not a store, but they have the Pepperoni role.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
No matter what you need, Yeah, no matter what you need.
They got from potato chips to uh recy cups. We
had a lot of fun in there and I, uh, well,
maybe you'll see here. In the next couple of months,
we did get the six foot slim gym you know
slim gym is. Yeah, yeah, we went. They got a
six foot in there. Yeah, about a five ft cup.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
To the recy cup thing's massive. Yeah, there's probably twenty
seven cups in there.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
What's the most popular motor vehicle in Finland? What are
people driving over there? Lovos? Really Volvo Sweden?

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Right, yeah, yeah, I think it's maybe Chinese nowadays, but
it's from Sweden.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
What do you and your car of choice?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
What?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
What will you down the road? What would you like
to drive?

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Probably a nice Mercedes. I think Mercedes kind of like
a status symbol back home.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, well here too, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Maybe more in Finland everyone just says that people who
drive Mercedes are just hire people.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
I understand he'd be good in the Ford truck though,
you put truck have a big truck, yeah one.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Do you see those back home? Do you see many
pickups at home in Finland?

Speaker 4 (46:36):
You know, it's kind of trending to I've seen more,
but not really. You don't see as much trucks back
home at all.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
So when you're in the parking lot at the pushcar center,
and it's all pickup trucks. You gotta like giggle a
little bit and go like, this is America. This is
America people.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
I mean I can see people have a lot of
stuff to carry around, like move around, a lot of
moving around.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Yeah, we move a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Plus gas is more expensive.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, oh yeah. What do you find what do you find?
Just we're just what do you find comical about Americans
that you didn't that you didn't know.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Maybe just saying Surrey all the time at the store
when somebody just walks by and says sorry.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
They bump into eye.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Like by home, it was just nothing, you know, well,
they wouldn't communicate, right right.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
People are polite here. People are polite. This is a
unique plate this state. The state is different. There's fifty
obviously this state's different. These are very friendly people. Like
your name will be remembered long after you're gone. Wow,
Like people will always remember Eddie Vesterrin and the kid
from Finland. The kid was in the Finnish army. Like

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they'll always remember and you know how else they're going
to remember you. Let me tell how els are going
to remember you. They're going to remember you because the
six hundred and forty five episodes of Three Guys. You're
going to be the first one that plays a musical
instrument during the show.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
So you said that you sang in the choir. Yes,
when did you pick up the musical instrument?

Speaker 4 (48:12):
It was the same time. I just started at both
the same times. So you're saying ten years old or
younger around Yeah, then maybe not eights. I think choirs
started at eight. Maybe a saxophone like ten.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
And who encouraged you? Mom? Dad, mom?

Speaker 4 (48:26):
Of course my mom?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
She said, Eddie, what does she what does she call you?
Do you haven't or a two? Yeah? At two?

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Two? Okay?

Speaker 1 (48:37):
The finished name at two? All right? Do they watch
your games?

Speaker 4 (48:41):
My mom watches the game sometimes at four am? It's
so six are you six hours seven hours or your seventhead?

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah? Yeah, you're seven hours ahead. So we got an
eight o'clock game. Mom's at three am? Yes, finished time? Yeah, wow,
And she watched you. Do you think she understands? Uh?
Does she get in some understanding or feel for the game?

Speaker 4 (49:01):
I think so, not very much. She doesn't know very much,
but she knows the fourth downs and you know, on
a basic level, what maybe a average audience member would do.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
She knows when she sees her son throw the quarterback down.
Good good day, yeah, you know, a good day. Yeah.
So she encourages you to play the saxophone. You enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
I enjoyed it. Yeah. But I had so many hobbies
when I was a kid, you know, from choir to
the saxophone. And I remember I used to have these
really awkward situations where so I had to do these performances. Right.
It was it was just all the students who would
play saxophone, and it was like let's say this auditorium
of fifty parents and all the kids were playing, you know,

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one song at a time, and it was my turn
and I hadn't like practiced at all, and it was
I remember, it was just very humiliating, you know experience.
So after that, I never do anything unprepared ever.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Oh I see, okay, so that's your Okay, that's an
interesting life life lesson, right, Like you took the pain
and went like that ain't happen.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
An it's terrible feeling when like you were in front
of the spotlight. Then you didn't practice like you were
supposed to practice. And yeah, and it was kind of
easier to like. I thank god it happened like at
that setting, you know, kid's parents.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Sure exactly.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
So speaking of practice, as in preparation for your big
moment here playing, where'd you just practice this week?

Speaker 4 (50:27):
So this week I practiced that. So I leave an apartment,
so I didn't want to bother on my my people
who live next to me. So I went to the
music school parking lot over the yeah, next to the colors.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah yeah, see yeah, I just pulled into the parking.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Lot, pulled in the parking lot to go under the
trees play those saxophone.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Yeah. I drove by the other day. The drum guys
were out there. Yeah they were.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
I saw then, That's why I went through the same place.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
You didn't hear him playing the saxon.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
I know, I just heard, but not respectful.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
He didn't want to bother people in his apartment.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
So so would you could you play for us?

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Yes? Can play? I can play?

Speaker 1 (51:01):
This is this is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
So he's got to get suited up here.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
H Eddie Vester in In is going to be the
first ever musical performer, and I think it's the beginning
of something here on three guys we may bring, we
may bring more and more musical performers in now.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Well, even the great Charles Wesley Godwin was here and
didn't know.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
He didn't form, Really, he didn't play.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
He didn't play.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Chuck didn't.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
We'd have to pay him if he's I think, how.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
About a duet? How about to do it with Charles
and uh, Charles on the guitar and Eddie V on
the on the solos? He said it was a solo
sex Is that what that was? That what he called it? Soprano?
Excuse me, soprano soprano sax at your at your legion.
Don't worry about that. We're we're good to go. Three
guys before the game making history as we speak, how

(51:46):
many episodes as we do? This is forty five six
four five six four six four five sixty five, and uh,
Eddie V is about to become the first. Go ahead, Eddie.
The state age is yours, ladies and gentlemen. Let's give
a big three guys, welcome to Eddie vest Rinnan. Please outstanding, fantastic,

(53:22):
you give him a standing no.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
You know he was practicing a little bit before before
the show, and Brad and I said that sounds like
Simple Gifts, right, Brad. But it's not. It's called prelude
to the t E d e U M t DM
t DM, which is a French tune from the sixteen hundreds,
and Simple Gifts is from eighteen forty eight.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Weddings. That's a big wedding song right there, very big wedding.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
But it sounds similar to Simple Gifts. Yeah, that was outstanding, wonderful, wonderful.
You're very You're a talented god.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Let's think about this, dude, talent. That's why I told whim.
I started to show what my guy plays a musical instrument.
My guy's been in the Finnish army. He was a
chubby kid in the choir. He comes here, he gets
all academic Big twelve, he gets honored by the Big
twelve for his football. He's playing high level college football.
Are you kid me?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Universal Man, you over sell a lot.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah, you did not over sell that.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
It's one of the great stories in West Virginia football.
He did not over sell that, which is unusual for Tony.
It is unusual.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
You got balls, right, you know what I love?

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Man?

Speaker 1 (54:25):
You got balls. You got balls. You got to have
balls to come to a different country and just say like,
I'm want to play a game at the highest level
and I don't really know how to play it, but
I'm going to do it and I'm going to get
a degree and I'm going to be successful. Like, we
have people that are scared to leave their house that
are from here, and you're my man, you're going like, Okay,

(54:46):
let's freaking go to labor.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
To labor the right right, well said perfectly.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
To belabor the point, see Sue, Yeah, yes, that's what
it is. It's grit determination. I'm gonna do it, but
it will not fail, which is again equal to what
we like to think is the mountaineer spirit. Correct.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
See what you what you've done in your life is
a throwback to what people used to do. That's what
people used to do. They used to come to this
country and just start from absolute zero scratch and they
made themselves that and that doesn't happen unfortunately as much.
And you did it.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
So I give a guy like, well, that's why his
fan favorite. How many West Virginians have that story? Oh yeah,
right now, especially from Italy. A lot of them from
Italy coming over have that exact same story.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yeah, that's why he's popular. My dad did the same thing.
He was thirty two years old, didn't speak a word
English and came here.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
It's hard, really hard, Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
That's yeah. You gotta have guts very yeah. See Sue,
Sue a lot of moy and seasue my two new
finish words. Happy.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
You got listen during your play by play when Eddie
makes a big play, you gotta work, see Sue into.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
I think I can I think I can do that.
I think I can do it. Okay, Yeah, yeah, this.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Is fun, Jeff fun.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
I had very much fun.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
So actually I haven't played taxophone in a year until you.
I talked to you about it and you had me
bring in so I had to practice, yes, yesterday last night.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
That wasn't too much pressure, right, that was okay?

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
We don't want to take time away from the playbook,
of course.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
Yeah, but there's a great time for me to actually,
you know, get on it. If someone doesn't tell me
to do it, you know, it's hard for me to
get out.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah. He keeps me accountable, you know.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
Do I actually play saxophone, you know, yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Because I don't get him too much.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
We were on the field there in Dallas.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
And oh, what did you did? You bait him?

Speaker 1 (56:40):
No? I just said, is it true? I said, I forget.
I said, is it true? You play goes? Yes, I said,
would be willing to come out of the podcast. Our
guy Daniels, Right, finally can film. Finally can film makes
it possible for him to come. Thanks to Phil for
doing that. Daniels men story dresses the Mountaineers, he dresses
you know, everybody in the free world. And he said, yeah,

(57:02):
I'm in And he had heard about the podcast already,
so I said, yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
We had Ren Baker in here. We had Ross Hodging here.
I mean, you know, Rich, Zach Alley and Zach all
was here. Rich was here, by the way, real.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Quick on Daniels, he just got that throwback logo in.
Excuse me what the throwback logo stuff just came in
that stair step WVU with the light blue state behind it.
But Jerry West blue, No, not to Jerry westbou the light. Yeah,
it's the football throwback uniforms that are coming this year.
The logo that goes with those, right, that's on the
gold helmet with the side of the diagonal WVU and

(57:38):
the light blue state. A lot of discussion, whether it Wasoise,
whether it was Tea.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
You saw it when you had your shift out there.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Yeah, I've worked on folding some had to fold some
of the garments. Put him out for sale force.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
I was here yesterday too with Daniels. At the same
time when they.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Were working, he was just walking around. I was over
there working folding Sony.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
You know, you know they're not giving you guys any
love for what you guys are supposed to do this
year when it comes to wins and losses. You know that.
I know that. You know you guys talking about that
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
Yeah, It's it's like we have he posted on our
walls mayer d Line room. Yeah, they were talking about
us having the least saxe in a big twelve exactly
the locker room.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
This is a perfect opportunity for a West Virginia setup, right, perfect. Yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
When people think West Virginia can't do it, When when
you think it's a slam dunk, watch out. But when
you think they can't do it, it's opportunity.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
You know, the great boxer Muhammad Ali fought this guy
named Oscar Bonavena, and he had just changed his name
from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, and Oscar Bonavena wouldn't
say his name Muhammad Ali. So Muhammad Ali went out
there and just absolutely just beat him, but wouldn't knock

(58:57):
him down on purpose. And he kept saying into him,
say my name, and he'd punch him in the face.
Say my name and he'd punch him in the face,
or knock him down. Say my name, he punch him
in the face. That's what you guys have to do.
You see, all right, you're gonna learn a little mountaineer
back football right here right say our name, say our name.

(59:18):
You don't want to say our name. Now you're gonna
say our name. You're gonna say our name. So post
game this year, that's good.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
You got to work that in at some point this year.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
When they say like they didn't respect us, and at
the end of the game they had to say our name.
I love it. I love it, buddy. You've been as
good as advertised. We appreciate it very much. Number one
in our heart. Eddie Vester f the first ever, the

(59:48):
first ever musical performer on three guys before the game,
don't want be the last. I'm gonna get any of
your other teammates playing the instruments that you've heard of.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
Nobody to like, He tells the teammates, they will probably
make chokes them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
You got a lot of guys over there that think
they're rappers, right, They think they go in that little
thing and they go yeah, yeah. They'll tell them you
can play the instrument all right. Outstanding episode six forty
five into the book with mountaineer Eddie Vester Rinnan brought
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before the game. See y'all,