July 30, 2025 • 41 mins
This Andy Nagel on assignment, Big Moe Barrett is joined by Chris Gray for this week's Big Moe Podcast
This week we are joined by
Soccer Players:
Tee Munafo '26 Tiago Improvola '26
and Cross Country Runners
Duncan Shirley '26, Brock Grubert '26, Max Herzog '26
This week we are joined by
Soccer Players:
Tee Munafo '26 Tiago Improvola '26
and Cross Country Runners
Duncan Shirley '26, Brock Grubert '26, Max Herzog '26
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
WMOE and the MOLA broadcasting nowhere probably was that the
Big Mo Podcast. The Big Mo Podcast is brought to
you by Craftsman Electric and Revey Landscaping, and now your
hosts Andy Nagle and Big Mo Barrett.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here we go rocking and rolling on another rendition to
the Big Mo Podcast, and we are I guess live
when we're doing it, but as you listen to it,
recorded here from the Jerry Fouls Athletic Complex, the Goat
Chris Gray my co host because Andy Nangle is on assignment.
Chris Gray here sitting in the the confines of Andy
(00:36):
Nagle's headsets? How's it feel to put on the headset
of another giant in the Moeler family.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We stand on the giants, or the shoulders of giants
that come before us.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What's great? Let me ask you something. When you walk
up here and I think you do something over and
over and over. Sometimes you don't. You take for granted? Right,
everybody in life you kind of take for granted. But
as we broadcast high top the Jerry foulst Athletic Complex,
and I look across the field and I see Coach
Foul statue and obviously recently passing you think about guys
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like Jerry Faust, Bob Crable. I mean, there's ji I
could go on for an hour about the names, the
legacies that built Molar High School. Is that is it
something you guys consciously think about or is it something
you pull the guy's attention to and say, guys, look, guys,
got a statue is kind of a big deal, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I think it's a it's a great question. It's something
I thought about a lot lately. My first year, I
think it was a trying to learn a little bit
more of just Molar, the tradition to tradition, the history,
the foundation on which we've been built. But now in
my second year here, especially after the late great Jerry
Faust is passing to me, there's there's more to that
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comes with the foundation that which Molar has been built
on and those that have come before us, And I
think there's an important as the responsibility or to go
with that comment, I think that this is an importance
to ensuring that we maintain the legacy and we set
up future men of Molar for that same level, if
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not greater level of success that come after us. And
it's something we've talked about more and more. But I
think it's unfortunately you know that when you know deaths
and marriages and great things of magnitude that bring us together.
His passing this past year, I think has just rekindled
that thought of this school, this institution has been is
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really permeates faith, family, and in his legacy football right,
and he is the foundational I guess, cornerstone for that.
So while we try to integrate and talk about it
amongst ourselves, I think it's still obviously hard to put
in true perspective the men like Jerry Fauss and the
people that have come before us, what they've actually done
to get us to this point. But I think it's
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really important, and you said it, there is a level
of importance that we're putting on how we may pain
and continue to grow.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, I was we're talking to Chris Carey here. I
was just I was telling you to keep going because
I was going to try to looking up your official
title because I never get it right. I always say
the Director of Strength and Performance. But what is the
official title? Again?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know it changes every day. For days, I want
to be the Minister of Culture, other days I want
to be strength Conditioning and I think we're trending more
towards sports performance at this rate as the department's grown,
and I think that's a huge piece to in a
testament to the institution and what we're doing here.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Chris, I'm going to I'm going to give you some
prosc and I'm going to lead you into that because
when I played football, it was who was a lifting
coach and the guy that is job was to just
be a coach of guys that are lifting, And that
job has transformed tremendously since the nineties when I was
in school. You what you're doing here not just from
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a lifting standpoint. You talked about culture. You talk about strength, conditioning, athletics,
student athlete that they're performing. It's spiritual stuff and there's
things that we can't talk about on this radio show
that are just ahead. You're also a facilities planner and
all these other things in these upgrades. How is the
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job that you do change so much in so many years?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Again, another good question, I'm sure I ask particulation.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's all I ask is good questions, but the.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Front of the horse. But I think the more you
learn and the more you really try to saturate yourself
with your prior question those that have come before, what
this institution stands for in terms of faith and family,
and just I know that Christian or doctor brook Bank
has done a great job with this real, this authentic
learning style. You just continue to steal, and good coaches
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steal ideas they try to just re engineer them in
a way that's going to help be a better leader
of men. And I think that's just something that I've
tried to latch onto. Here is it started off as
you're a strength in the coach. We added another assistant,
a full time assistant, We've added an internship program, and
now you are a department director, right And to your point,
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as you get to learn more, you get to absorb more.
And I think it's a it goes to that adage,
right you want to get something done, give it to
someone who's busy rather than bored, right, right. And I
try to stay busy. And I think by staying busy,
by staying saturated with all that Molar has to offer
and all that we continue to do, it allows me
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to kind of be a creative problem solver on how
to enhance the experience. And that's what I talk about
with a lot of our men, our coaches, how do
we create a great product and how do we continue
to enhance the experience. Because we are building men to
be able to withstand and be resilient for a lifetime.
There's gonna be a lot of hard things that come
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their way. But if they are rock solid on their faith,
if they are great men of Molar and who they
are to their family and more importantly, their friends and people,
that for me at these walls, they're going to be
a great representation of Molar and a better representation of themselves.
And I think that's what we continue to just boil
things down to, is how do I, as someone that
just has a lot of responsibility for leading others, continue
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to impact our men in a positive way day in
and day out, whether that through handling adversity in the
weight room, continue to push them spiritually, or just problem
solve the adolescent problems that they're faced with on the.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Day to day, which a lot of kids do. I mean,
I was just talking to somebody yesterday. The instilling just
confidence in these guys mental illness right now is off
the charts across the country. What I've been seeing out
here and not just football. I see soccer across the
way across country here working out as well. What I've
seen most the thing that's most special about Molar and
(06:50):
what you've done is build the self confidence these guys
and to make them mentally strong. And I don't think
that can be underscored of the importance to that, because
we see in our society today what I would call
mental weakness, and what you guys are doing not just
from a physical standpoint, but mentally as well.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think it goes back to enhancing that experience right
and putting them in positions or bouts of adversity in
the weight room, in the confines of highly structured training
that allowed them to build confidence in who they are,
how they handle these problems on a small scale. So
when they are faced with the bouts in real life,
and I guess it is real life in the weight room,
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but when they're faced outside of the weight room with
these similar challenges that may seem more vast or grandiose
to them at this time, just due to perspective, they
will have had countless reps not just of a bench press,
but of handling things that are hard day in and
day out. And we always tell them that between the
whistles in that weight room, right, it's business, not personal.
(07:51):
We're in the business of teaching you a skill set
for a lifetime, how to take care of yourself. We
are in the business of presenting you with challenge, just
both physically and mentally, so that you can handle adversity
on the day to day, but done so in a
carefully curated way so that they leave with a confidence
and this aura about them so that they can withstand
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the day to day.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What I love too is everything you've done which has
been special. And trust me, when we get off the air,
I'll tell you what I really think of you. But
what you what you? What you? And you know that
what you've done with the football cram Foot program initially
was like rock solid. The one complaint that I heard,
not complaint feedback was he's so good working with those guys.
(08:36):
I wish my student athlete could get that same. You know, love, whatever, drive,
what you whatever do you want to call magic, We'll
call it. And this year you've done that, You've expanded
the program, You're getting more guys in the weight room.
The soccer team, I don't think i've ever seen them
weightlift before. I mean, that's an example you really now
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that you've been here and you drinking out of a fire
is right out of the gate, right in what limited
facilities at present we currently have. But you've really expanded
that and now you're getting more guys involved, bigger, stronger, faster,
more mentally tough. Even makes his whole athletic program stronger.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah. And I think it's first attestament to our institution
and President Kneehouse class in ninety three or Athletic Director
Jonavan Hayes, like they have bought into the vision of
continuing to provide more and enhancing the experience for our men,
and that has resulted in, like I mentioned earlier, the
addition of a full time staff member. We have now
grown our internship curriculum and program that now spans three
(09:34):
different institutions locally, and we've got two full time interns
and we've had three at times, we've had one at times.
But we continue to have to and fluctuate quality young
i'd call them students and young men and women to
come in and lead our men. And I think it
speaks volumes as you increase our capacity in our weight
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room to surround yourself with the best, and it kind
of segueys into the like when I was a young man,
my dad always told me, you want to surround yourself
with two types of people in this lifetime, people that
share similar values, morals, goals, dreams, and visions. And I
think we have a lot of those people here at
right We want to be successful, have real authentic learning.
We want to win, win championships. You want to be
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around those people that share those values and goals and morals,
but you also want to be around people that can
push you to a place you couldn't get to alone.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Don't want to talk about specifically what's in the pipeline,
but I do want to talk about how excited you
are about what we can't talk about what's in the pipeline.
How excited are you right now? You know?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Selfishly, I think that that would be a term that
I'd use. But what I'm very excited for, probably to
use this word at nauseam, is that I do believe
we are on the cusp of doing something here at
the institution that and maybe on a national scale that
may never be replicated again, and we may be what
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we are in a lot of other areas is the standard,
the leader, the forefront of experiential education in the strength
conditioning world, the human performance world, and just learning how
to give men an opportunity to build strength, confidence and
the life skills are going to want on a physical
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side of things. And I forget about spacing. This is
still about the people. And I think we're on the
cusp of doing something. Dare I say elite in terms
of taking care of our young men today and for
the future.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You could outseat Andy Nagel. He may not be back.
It may be the big mo bear at Chris Gray Show.
What do you think about that? Well, I ring to
it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It would make me feel north about standing. I think Andy,
if you're listening, Bud, he's down.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
On a beach somewhere on special assignment. I'm sure he'll
be listening to this. Pillar to post, we are talking soccer.
We're going to put football on the shelf for today's podcast.
We're talking soccer, moll or soccer and also country. We'll
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(14:05):
podcast eminating live from the Jerry here on the campus
of Molar High School. And I have a little cross
country talk going on right now. We have Duncan surely
a now rising senior. Are you still rising? Or is
it like on your on the first day of school?
Are you officially senior? Duncan? How does that work?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I'd say first day of school is when you officially
embrace the role, so.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're still you're still a falling junior.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Then say, I'd say, I haven't earned it yet, so
I think you got to earn it all right. I
think that comes on the first day of school.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So I want to talk cross country because I know
you're not a good poker player, so we're not going
to talk poker. No, no, no, That's what I'm told. Anyways,
we're going to talk cross country here and this Molar
cross country team. First of all, let folks know how
long you've been running. I've done track for four years.
That's how I got into the sport of running. I've
(14:59):
always been runner. Where'd you go to grade school?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I went to Saint Columban. Before that, I went to Fairview.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. St. Columban is the second greatest feeder school to
come to Moulor High School.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
You know, I've only went there for two years, so
I'm not too loyal, but so I'll let that.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I was looking for you to talk some smack a
little bit. I have no loyalty when it comes to
great Did you go before Saint Clumbn I went to
Loveland and then before that Fairview. That's that's when I
started actually running. I did the runners Club. But uh
so four years of track.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
At More Yeah, and it'll be my second year across country.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Is it hard to believe before we talk across country
that you were going to be a senior? Now? I
mean I remember you guys walking in. You guys were
all dorks. Some of you still are coming into mouller,
and now you're going to be one of the seniors
in this school, one of the mentors for a lot
of guys. What's that process been like, just in the
last couple of weeks realizing dude, I'm a senior now.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, it's I would say, humbling. I feel like it's
an honor to be able to take control of school
and take up leader position within the school. I remember,
I was just thinking about the other day freshman orientations
coming up, and I remember my freshman orientation and thinking, Wow,
I've got four years. I can't wait to spend it.
It's going to be a long four years. And now
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it's on us up.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So great. It's cool you say that, like the anxiety
you had being nervous. I mean, there's kids that probably
aren't sleeping right now having no clue what and parents included,
we have no clue what the journey's about to happen
for them.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, it's a it goes by quick, everyone says it,
and it is very true that it goes by insanely fast.
You have to take care and take in every moment,
so enjoy the little things on the process.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's awesome, you guys, We got pressing coming on after
we go to a break here in a minute. But
you guys have been on the cusp of the precipice
four years ago of a cross country track program that's
really been a transformational program. You guys have now become
one of the elite programs from a whole six standpoint
cross country and track in the state of Ohio. What's
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that been like to have a front row seat to
see this, this program become one of the elite programs
in the Buckeye State.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I'd say it's a giant reward. It's definitely not given,
it's earned. We work hard every day. I'd say we
are the hardest working team in the city. I would
say in the state as well. We work like no
other team. Our training is brutal. It takes curse come
out here every day and say I want to run
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nine to ten miles.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
So it's definitely rewarding.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
We're sitting greatness as a new standard, so and that
starts this year and winning a state title, so that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I want to bring Preston On real quick in Preston
Wesley another rising or falling junior, rising senior. However, you
want to look at it. You're gonna be a senior
now to you? Is that scary?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Not really? I mean we've been on molar for four
years now. I've got to know so many people. It's
more of a like getting to know everyone better, and
it's like getting to lead all these younger freshman and sophomores.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
What are the expectations for Moller Cross Country this year
when GCL?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I mean sant X has won it for the past
twenty years and we're hoping to win it this year
and then go on to hopefully on state.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Awesome, Alright, what's it like running for coach Pranger?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
He's an amazing guy. I mean, he knows what he's doing.
He's been he ran for a while and he's been coaching.
I don't even know he's.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Rained for a while. But he hasn't run for a
while either.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah we say that, Yeah, we could say that.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
We tried to get him to do some warm up
laps with us once he will never do him.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's awesome, all right. What is the expectation? What is
a good year for Moller Cross Country?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I mean, just win GCL championships. I mean take down
that street that sant X has had and go as
far as we can into the tournament.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
We're gonna slide. Max herzog in also a rising senior. Correct, Max,
where'd you go to grade school?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I went to Saint Sansannah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Saint Susannah the third best grade school in Cincinnati, after
Smolly Saint clumb That you do that, I don't know.
You don't agree with that?
Speaker 7 (19:02):
To you?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It might be first first? Thank you? All right? Max?
Talk about cross country? How excited are you for the
cross upcoming cross country? I want to ask you about that.
That night race it's called the at christ Church? What
do we call that? Again?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Primetime?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
The prime time? How cool is it to run under
the lights in front of the thousands of fans?
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's pretty cool. My first time running it.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Was last year, So yeah, it was a great experience
because I've never run on the lights before.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Is a different runn under the lights? Yes? More challenging
or a bit more fun or what? It's more fun.
It's almost like a festival like atmosphere. I mean they
got food, trucks and tents and everything else. It's really cool.
It's especially vent a right. What defines a successful season
for Max hers Off? Really?
Speaker 7 (19:48):
I just want the team to do well when when GCLs.
But I'm trying to go sub seventeen this season. Last
season I didn't do too great, but with a great
track season, I think I can do That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Let's pull Brock on here, because Brock is another falling
junior rising senior, also a bad poker player. I'm told, Brock,
can you confirm that, if any not at all? Are
you the guess? You're the best? Right? Whoever I get
on the mic and I ask them, they always say
I'm the best. I believe, so yes. What's cool about
you guys, is you guys in the soccer guy A
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lot of the soccer guys. You guys got a close
knit group, don't you, sir?
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Just coming in like a couple people knew each other
and like, as we started to meet more people in
our sport, we brought people from other sports, so kind
of created a diverse group.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Brock, I want to ask you about being a leader
of the school. Obviously you you run, you also played
basketball as well. You're one of the leaders of the school.
How do you see your rule? And I'm talking kind
of stepping out of the cross country conversation more into
the school. How do you step out of a how
do you step into that role of a leadership rule
of the school? Not being a junior anymore, you're one
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of the dudes. You're you're leading the these guys, these
freshmen that are about to have orientation. How does that
work mentally? How do you process all that?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah, I think it kind of just starts with talking
to the younger people. I know, coming in as a
freshman and sophomore, Like, there's still a lot of stuff
I needed to learn and having that experience is very important.
So just being with them all the time, make sure
to really matter them, to talk to them, and something
I think is really important.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Rock, what would be a successful season for a cross.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Country I think it starts with us going to the
state championship, doing something I haven't done a while, and
then definitely win in the gCO.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Awesome, Frock, thanks for joining us on the Big Moo podcast.
We're gonna be talking molar soccer when we get back
to a break. That's a little glimpse into the cross
country program. We're gonna be talking molar soccer when we
come back from a break. You're listening to the best
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Back in a big Bow podcast, and we are now
talking molar soccer. We're live here at the Jerry the
facility that the legend the Goat g O. You know,
(23:05):
Goat stands for Thiago time. Thank you, you knew that already.
We got Thiago from the soccer team here, both the
football and the soccer team in preparation. Now, the soccer
guys got up a little earlier than the football guys.
Let's make that clear, crystal clear? Are we right?
Speaker 9 (23:20):
I mean yeah, no, I mean we're out here. We've
been here for two days already. Today was the third
What time did you guys get here? I mean we
got here at six fifteen about.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Frustrutching and and this is a little bit of a different,
a little different preseason for you guys. Last year, you weren't.
You weren't getting up running four miles to start your day.
Had been like I mean, definitely. I mean, the body's
really been feeling it. I mean I haven't stored these
few days. But now I feel like it's gonna be
good for the voice. I mean, we should be able
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to outlast every ten for the eighty minutes. The eighty
s would probably feel like the fortieth for our team
after this, Thiago, you guys got a lot of expectations,
a lot of question marks too. I think you had
some guys to part by way the FC the what
if it. We've talked about that in the podcast before,
whatever that program is called. You lost some guys. You've
got some new young talent in as well. There's a
lot of people around the state saying, what how good
(24:11):
is Mueller soccer gonna be? What would you say to them?
I mean, We're still gonna be good.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
I mean, I think if you count us out, uh,
you will be making a mistake because we still have
a lot of talent on our team. Uh. The coaching
staff is still very strong. Even with the new coach.
I really like him. I think he has a he
has a good game game plan for our season. And uh,
I think we we will be We still will be
good and should still be contenders.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Right. No, you're rising senior. Yeah, what's it like to
be I've asked a lot of these other guys. Now
you're not You're not a little You're not a underclassman anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I mean you're you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Say, finally, what's it like now to be a leader
of the school.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
I mean I take you with a lot of pride
and courage because I see I always used to look
up to the seniors like everything that that they would
say or do. I mean, I feel like you'd mean
a lot more than hearing it from someone else, because
is that you know these guys, it's it's their last year,
it's our last year. We want it bad, and I
feel like if we can set the tone a lot
of people follow.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Were some of the big matches. Obviously got Saint Charles
a really good soccer program, Beaver Creek extremely talented. I
gotta believe I know the answer to this, But what's
the one that you have circled on your schedule? One
hundred percent? Charles? I want it bad.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
I mean after last year going out in penalties, I
mean that really hurt had We had an insane season
last year and I really just want to get our
revenge on them.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
All right, What's what does a successful season from what
with soccer look like?
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Win in the GCL and hopefully the regional championship as well.
I mean, I feel like with those two with those
two titles, I mean, I feel like we can't be
mad at the season that we'll have.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's awesome, Tiago, best of luck this year. Excited to
watch you step in in a leadership role. And there's
a lot of good leaders on this soccer a lot
of good leaders in that class at twenty twenty six.
Class T Monofo always you know, I've always, for as
long as I've known your family have called you guys Monopho.
But your uncle Mike goes with Monopho. But it's but
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it's spelled m u n. Now how do you pronounce
m n mone? But how do you pronounce your last name?
See something's wrong there and I have figured that out.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Just might be the Italian you know.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, say like Italian from here there you go, perfect, T,
one of the goalies on this soccer team. You are
a class of twenty six as well. I'll ask you
the same question because I love that question. You're no
longer an underclassman anymore. You're like one of not just
the leaders on the soccer team, but one of the
leaders in the school. What's that? What's that mean to
you now? To especially with your your dad and your
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uncle and the legacy they built. What's it like now
to be that guy to etch your name in the
in the storied history book of Muller High School.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
Well, it means a lot because I know my dad
was kind of more of a leader in the school,
and I feel like, you know, I've become a really
good leader on the soccer team. But I know when
I was younger looking up to guys like Bradley poppol
Austin Doac, just wanted to be like them when they
were seniors. So kind of just becoming one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Can you harken back? And I talked to some guys
on the on the show already about when you because
the freshmen are about to do their orientation. I remember
you specifically coming in because you were there was a
question that at one time where you were going to
go to school right, and you were discerning that process
and seeing you walk through that door, it feels like yesterday.
Do you remember those emotions and walk me through that
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I do.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
I remember it was my birthday and I was time
to go into Buller and like, you know, sign up
and I was like I just woke up. I didn't
even think about it. I was just like, let's go
and I was ready to get.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Talk about the nerd were you're nervous the nerves, the
anxiety that.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
I was a little nervous, but I was excited because
it's following the legacy and I wanted to continue it
because you know, I knew my cousin Tyler is going
to be here, then Bennett, and now my cousin Andrew.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So we have like forty five moors in four grades.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So now that you are a senior, you've obviously spent
a lot of time here. What's Muller High School mean?
Not just to your family but to you personally?
Speaker 10 (28:06):
I would say it means a lot.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
It feels like it's like home, you know, coming into
my senior year, I love going to school here.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Waking up every day, you know, it feels good.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What are some expectators? Now we know you don't handle
a camera like your brother Bennett does. Let's be crystal
clear on that. What are some things that you have
personal goals for you maybe on the soccer field, off
the soccer field, maybe as a leader. What are some
goals that you have for yourself going into your final year.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
I would say for the soccer team to win a
say title is probably the end goal. And just become
brothers with my teammates, you know, make my senior year
the best year yet. And I would say for school
going in there and just you know, building the brotherhood
from freshmen to senior and just getting close with everybody
in all four grades.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
One last question. A lot of guys we just talked
about coming into camp, coming onto campus here in the
next few weeks that have never been here before. Maybe
they've been here for shadow orris or whatever. What can
a young man who's about to become a man of
or what can he expect coming in for his freshman year?
And what would you say to him and the parents.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
I would expect a lot of inclusion. And everybody in
the hallway is always you know, high five in hugging
each other's messing around. There's not really like groups. It's
all we're all together, and that's what I expect, like
a family. You know, they might be nervous for the
first couple of weeks, but I think they'll real ast
soon that it's not scary at all.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I'm going to ask you the most difficult question I've
ever asked him oler or a student, and see if
you how good you are at this. Everybody talks about
more where they talk about the what brotherhood brotherhood Now,
I've always challenged guys because I'm sure there's rival schools
that always say they have brotherhood. Now, I've been to
other schools that have said they have brotherhood, and there
might be an element to it, but it is different here.
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You know that. I know that Thiago knows that he
was just on who's sitting right here too. I'm challenging
you to articulate how it is different, why it's different.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
I mean, I know everybody says, but in the hallways, classrooms,
and even with the teachers, it's like a brotherhood. Like
they don't even feel like teachers sometimes, you know, they're
like kind of like your parents had sometimes and I
feel like it's just like you're altogether.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
I don't really know. It's you gotta like feel it.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
It's hard to like the best way that you did
it great And what you just said is the way
I think John Rodenberg once told me, you can't explain
it like it's a feeling. It's he goes. I think
it's in the water here. It's just something beyond that
family spirit that you just can't articulate. I think you
just said that at the end. It's awesome. Te best
of luck this year. T Monopho. Certain best of luck
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this year to you your soccer compadres. That's T Monopho
on the best coverage of Molar Soccer. It's MOE and
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It's going to be a great day on the links
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Speaker 12 (31:12):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
Back in a Big Move podcast live from the Jerry Palace,
half Let Complex and outstanding podcast. Great to catch up
to some of the senior leaders of the cross country program,
the soccer program. In Chris Gray, You've got to take
so much pride hearing these guys talk about well, what
I'd called them is falling juniors now rising seniors, and
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the leadership role that they really are embracing. You hear
it in their voice. It's not bs because they have
a headset on. It's authentic and real, and it's fun
to see these guys come in as freshmen and then
to step into that rule of a leadership role is
pretty special.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, it is, and I think it's again it goes
to what we're doing here on an institutional level, both
that extends outside of athletics into the classroom, into the hallways,
and that these men are around some of the best
human beings I've had the pleasure of being around in
my experience seventeen eighteen years of coaching experience. But we
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continue to just provide them with the resources to be successful,
to gain that confidence, to gain those leadership skills. But
more importantly, it's still the people. The people make the place.
I think it's both the young men that we have
in this institution, but also those are that are leading
them and the experience that they get to share with them,
and the education they get to share with them too.
And I can't say enough about Moler as a place
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coming from an outsider's perspective, but to your specific case
of our rising, falling or stationary seniors, however you want
to articulate it that it's great to see our young
men grow and continue to raise the bar for who
they are in our society and more importantly, how they
lead the future men of Mold.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You were talking earlier, and it kind of reminded me
what Jonathan Hayes said the other day, right when we
had the football team had their lifteth on. You saw
this campus coming in and there were kids coming up
for the wrestling camp, and Jonathan said, you know, we
may at present. I say that at present have the
elite facilities that we want and desire at I'm going
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to put bold that at present, however, nobody in the
city or the state does it the right way with
the right people like Molar High School does. And he's right.
I mean, what we don't have in maybe a football
stadium at present or this weight room present, what we
have in people and what we have and the people
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that really truly care about this place and just I'm
watching out here in the football field. These aren't just
coaches walking around blowing a whism that you can see it.
It matters to them. And I've been around at a
bunch of schools. You've been around a bunch of schools.
It is different here and it's fun to watch and
have a front row seat.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, it really is. And I think it's reminiscent back
to the times I spent at the NFL level and
the Division I level. I mean, as we look down
on the field now, I can count a number of
coaches that are down at eye level with these young
men that are standing behind them, and they're having qualities.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And I'm going to stop you. People always ask me
what is the Mojo Muller football specifically? Why have they
become such a juggernaut? And I really and I believe
this one hundred percent, two hundred percent. It's bringing in
college level guys, guys that have been at an elite level.
It doesn't have to be the bit at it to
be Michigan, Ohio State, whatever. It's bringing the elite guys
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in that that have coached at an elite level know
the expectation to be great and bring that down to
the high school. I think that's been a game changer.
You look at Mark Elder what he's done. You look
at Burt Beathy, Andy, all the assistant coaches that you
just mentioned that have come yourself, who've come and really
competed at the collegiate though. That's been the game changer
for Molar football specifically, and it has been awesome to watch.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, And when I took when I ended up coming
in and taking the job at you know, it was
I looked at it from an outsider's perspective, It's like, Okay,
it's Archbishop Molar High School. But how we've really reclassified that,
at least from the strength conditioning department, in the athletic
department inside out over the last sixteen months has been well,
you're a true college prep institution, right, This is not
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just a high school. This is going to be an
experience in education and just an overall comprehensive approach to
growing a young man so that then they walk into
that college level they are they feel like a college senior,
not a college freshman or first year. And this is
truly and that's the word we talk about all the time.
It's truly a college prep approach, and how do we
continue to enhance that college prep aspect to this both
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in our training, in our vocabulary, mentally and physically day
in and day out.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Chris, what does a successful year look like? Not on
the football field, now on the soccer field, not holistically
from your seat, what does a successful year look like
for more or high school?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
It's a deep and loaded question. I think quantitatively, I
would love to continue to see our reach grow both
within depth. And I know this is going to be
a hard one to put up. I guess a button
on right now, but I want we've when I first
got here, we had a already to forty percent reach
in terms of strength and conditioning and just that experience
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that we provide. Since then, we've almost overdoubled that we're
in that seventy percent plus range right now in terms
of our reach and our experience. I'd like to see
that continue to grow. I mean, the end goal is
still one hundred.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
PARENT mean by reaching experience. Explain that to somebody's like, well,
what does he mean by reaching experience?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So for those that have not been on campus, I
think our weight room is We're blessed to have a
great facility. You know, we have twelve racks and a
smaller room probably about three thousand, maybe thirty five hundred
square feet. The challenge with Moler having over seven hundred
plus athletes here and almost over almost one thousand young
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men here at this institution, and then the desire to
have reach into the community. The faculty staff as well
as all the others that are in the building. We
just we find limitations right and we want to still
continue to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and
everybody has the opportunity. The word we use internally is accessibility,
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and just given the way the days lay out, it's
challenging to be able to get all seven hundred and
fifty in with quality touch points in a week. So
when I say when we're hitting at a seventy percent clip,
we're about seventy percent for multiple occurrences or multiple instances
of accessibility during the calendar week for our men. I
want and our goal is to exceed one hundred percent
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and then to create space and opportunity for those that
are in our community to find other opportunities to take
care of themselves from a mental health standpoint, a physical
health standpoint, but to be around our men more. What
a world would we create if we have our professors,
our teachers, our instructors in the classroom with them yet
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working side by side and seeing them go through the
trial and tribulations together, Because that's only going to create
a better experience, more realness that permeates up and down
that chain of leadership, and just a better community for
everybody here at Bowler.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
You should be called doctor, doctor Chris Gray.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
It seems like a lot of years of doctor of Culture.
Minister of Culture. I thought Minister Cauthey, McConaughey and Texas
kind of came up with that one, even though he's
not really there all the time, and I always had
that none of the Hollywood that right right, the Minister
of Culture just sounds so very prominent in defining you know.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
But I'm looking down here right now. We're going to
wrap up the show here, but I'm looking down at
some of these guys that are on the sideline in
front of us working out. I'm going to give you credit.
They didn't look like that five six, seven, eight years ago.
And I'm talking holistically. I compared some of the guys.
The physicality whatever you want to call the physique of
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some of these guys and seeing them coming in as
freshman a bag of bone, soaking wet to what they
are now is a true testament to what you and
your staff has done it. It's it has been unbelievable
to watch.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
All the credit goes to them, right. We always joke,
we give them a hard time. They're the ones that
put in the work. And again, I can't take full credit,
even probably half credit or partial credit for that statement,
even though it feels great and I thank you for it.
It's the men that make this exciting, energizing and awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Michael Blum usually takes all the credit for it.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Just so you now, that doesn't come as a shock
to me. You were probably anybody else listening out here.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Chris Gray, thank you for co hosting another rendition of
the b MP of US Flying Solo. You stepped in,
you said, man down, man up, I'm gonna take the
headset from Mandy Nagel, and that you did.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Meggs, don't say the beach too long, brother.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
That's Chris Gray. Big Mo Barrett on another rendition of
the Big Mo Podcast Live from the Jerry Faust Athletic
complex excited. I think next week we're heading to Masslin.
I'll be hanging out with the Faust family up in
Akron at least, meeting up somewhere in between Megan and
hopefully Jolie as well for lunch. I know and Megan
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will be heading to the scrimmage at Maslin. It'll be
great to reconnect with the Foules family. We love them dearly.
For Chris Gray, this Big Mo Barrett for another rendition
of the Big Mo Podcast, and we'll see you next week.
We've got a special guest. I think Norm Charlton, Nasty
boy Cincinnati Reds, will be joining us. Worse you heard
from Rob Divil last week. Norm Charlton is next on
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the best coverage of high school sports in Cincinnati, the
greatest high school in America. It's the Molar Crusaders on
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here we go rocking and rolling on another rendition to
the Big Mo Podcast, and we are I guess live
when we're doing it, but as you listen to it,
recorded here from the Jerry Fouls Athletic Complex, the Goat
Chris Gray my co host because Andy Nangle is on assignment.
Chris Gray here sitting in the the confines of Andy
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Nagle's headsets? How's it feel to put on the headset
of another giant in the Moeler family.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We stand on the giants, or the shoulders of giants
that come before us.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What's great? Let me ask you something. When you walk
up here and I think you do something over and
over and over. Sometimes you don't. You take for granted? Right,
everybody in life you kind of take for granted. But
as we broadcast high top the Jerry foulst Athletic Complex,
and I look across the field and I see Coach
Foul statue and obviously recently passing you think about guys
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like Jerry Faust, Bob Crable. I mean, there's ji I
could go on for an hour about the names, the
legacies that built Molar High School. Is that is it
something you guys consciously think about or is it something
you pull the guy's attention to and say, guys, look, guys,
got a statue is kind of a big deal, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I think it's a it's a great question. It's something
I thought about a lot lately. My first year, I
think it was a trying to learn a little bit
more of just Molar, the tradition to tradition, the history,
the foundation on which we've been built. But now in
my second year here, especially after the late great Jerry
Faust is passing to me, there's there's more to that
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comes with the foundation that which Molar has been built
on and those that have come before us, And I
think there's an important as the responsibility or to go
with that comment, I think that this is an importance
to ensuring that we maintain the legacy and we set
up future men of Molar for that same level, if
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not greater level of success that come after us. And
it's something we've talked about more and more. But I
think it's unfortunately you know that when you know deaths
and marriages and great things of magnitude that bring us together.
His passing this past year, I think has just rekindled
that thought of this school, this institution has been is
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really permeates faith, family, and in his legacy football right,
and he is the foundational I guess, cornerstone for that.
So while we try to integrate and talk about it
amongst ourselves, I think it's still obviously hard to put
in true perspective the men like Jerry Fauss and the
people that have come before us, what they've actually done
to get us to this point. But I think it's
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really important, and you said it, there is a level
of importance that we're putting on how we may pain
and continue to grow.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, I was we're talking to Chris Carey here. I
was just I was telling you to keep going because
I was going to try to looking up your official
title because I never get it right. I always say
the Director of Strength and Performance. But what is the
official title? Again?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know it changes every day. For days, I want
to be the Minister of Culture, other days I want
to be strength Conditioning and I think we're trending more
towards sports performance at this rate as the department's grown,
and I think that's a huge piece to in a
testament to the institution and what we're doing here.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Chris, I'm going to I'm going to give you some
prosc and I'm going to lead you into that because
when I played football, it was who was a lifting
coach and the guy that is job was to just
be a coach of guys that are lifting, And that
job has transformed tremendously since the nineties when I was
in school. You what you're doing here not just from
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a lifting standpoint. You talked about culture. You talk about strength, conditioning, athletics,
student athlete that they're performing. It's spiritual stuff and there's
things that we can't talk about on this radio show
that are just ahead. You're also a facilities planner and
all these other things in these upgrades. How is the
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job that you do change so much in so many years?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Again, another good question, I'm sure I ask particulation.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's all I ask is good questions, but the.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Front of the horse. But I think the more you
learn and the more you really try to saturate yourself
with your prior question those that have come before, what
this institution stands for in terms of faith and family,
and just I know that Christian or doctor brook Bank
has done a great job with this real, this authentic
learning style. You just continue to steal, and good coaches
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steal ideas they try to just re engineer them in
a way that's going to help be a better leader
of men. And I think that's just something that I've
tried to latch onto. Here is it started off as
you're a strength in the coach. We added another assistant,
a full time assistant, We've added an internship program, and
now you are a department director, right And to your point,
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as you get to learn more, you get to absorb more.
And I think it's a it goes to that adage,
right you want to get something done, give it to
someone who's busy rather than bored, right, right. And I
try to stay busy. And I think by staying busy,
by staying saturated with all that Molar has to offer
and all that we continue to do, it allows me
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to kind of be a creative problem solver on how
to enhance the experience. And that's what I talk about
with a lot of our men, our coaches, how do
we create a great product and how do we continue
to enhance the experience. Because we are building men to
be able to withstand and be resilient for a lifetime.
There's gonna be a lot of hard things that come
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their way. But if they are rock solid on their faith,
if they are great men of Molar and who they
are to their family and more importantly, their friends and people,
that for me at these walls, they're going to be
a great representation of Molar and a better representation of themselves.
And I think that's what we continue to just boil
things down to, is how do I, as someone that
just has a lot of responsibility for leading others, continue
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to impact our men in a positive way day in
and day out, whether that through handling adversity in the
weight room, continue to push them spiritually, or just problem
solve the adolescent problems that they're faced with on the.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Day to day, which a lot of kids do. I mean,
I was just talking to somebody yesterday. The instilling just
confidence in these guys mental illness right now is off
the charts across the country. What I've been seeing out
here and not just football. I see soccer across the
way across country here working out as well. What I've
seen most the thing that's most special about Molar and
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what you've done is build the self confidence these guys
and to make them mentally strong. And I don't think
that can be underscored of the importance to that, because
we see in our society today what I would call
mental weakness, and what you guys are doing not just
from a physical standpoint, but mentally as well.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think it goes back to enhancing that experience right
and putting them in positions or bouts of adversity in
the weight room, in the confines of highly structured training
that allowed them to build confidence in who they are,
how they handle these problems on a small scale. So
when they are faced with the bouts in real life,
and I guess it is real life in the weight room,
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but when they're faced outside of the weight room with
these similar challenges that may seem more vast or grandiose
to them at this time, just due to perspective, they
will have had countless reps not just of a bench press,
but of handling things that are hard day in and
day out. And we always tell them that between the
whistles in that weight room, right, it's business, not personal.
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We're in the business of teaching you a skill set
for a lifetime, how to take care of yourself. We
are in the business of presenting you with challenge, just
both physically and mentally, so that you can handle adversity
on the day to day, but done so in a
carefully curated way so that they leave with a confidence
and this aura about them so that they can withstand
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the day to day.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What I love too is everything you've done which has
been special. And trust me, when we get off the air,
I'll tell you what I really think of you. But
what you what you? What you? And you know that
what you've done with the football cram Foot program initially
was like rock solid. The one complaint that I heard,
not complaint feedback was he's so good working with those guys.
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I wish my student athlete could get that same. You know, love, whatever, drive,
what you whatever do you want to call magic, We'll
call it. And this year you've done that, You've expanded
the program, You're getting more guys in the weight room.
The soccer team, I don't think i've ever seen them
weightlift before. I mean, that's an example you really now
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that you've been here and you drinking out of a fire
is right out of the gate, right in what limited
facilities at present we currently have. But you've really expanded
that and now you're getting more guys involved, bigger, stronger, faster,
more mentally tough. Even makes his whole athletic program stronger.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah. And I think it's first attestament to our institution
and President Kneehouse class in ninety three or Athletic Director
Jonavan Hayes, like they have bought into the vision of
continuing to provide more and enhancing the experience for our men,
and that has resulted in, like I mentioned earlier, the
addition of a full time staff member. We have now
grown our internship curriculum and program that now spans three
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different institutions locally, and we've got two full time interns
and we've had three at times, we've had one at times.
But we continue to have to and fluctuate quality young
i'd call them students and young men and women to
come in and lead our men. And I think it
speaks volumes as you increase our capacity in our weight
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room to surround yourself with the best, and it kind
of segueys into the like when I was a young man,
my dad always told me, you want to surround yourself
with two types of people in this lifetime, people that
share similar values, morals, goals, dreams, and visions. And I
think we have a lot of those people here at
right We want to be successful, have real authentic learning.
We want to win, win championships. You want to be
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around those people that share those values and goals and morals,
but you also want to be around people that can
push you to a place you couldn't get to alone.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Don't want to talk about specifically what's in the pipeline,
but I do want to talk about how excited you
are about what we can't talk about what's in the pipeline.
How excited are you right now? You know?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Selfishly, I think that that would be a term that
I'd use. But what I'm very excited for, probably to
use this word at nauseam, is that I do believe
we are on the cusp of doing something here at
the institution that and maybe on a national scale that
may never be replicated again, and we may be what
(10:58):
we are in a lot of other areas is the standard,
the leader, the forefront of experiential education in the strength
conditioning world, the human performance world, and just learning how
to give men an opportunity to build strength, confidence and
the life skills are going to want on a physical
(11:19):
side of things. And I forget about spacing. This is
still about the people. And I think we're on the
cusp of doing something. Dare I say elite in terms
of taking care of our young men today and for
the future.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You could outseat Andy Nagel. He may not be back.
It may be the big mo bear at Chris Gray Show.
What do you think about that? Well, I ring to
it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It would make me feel north about standing. I think Andy,
if you're listening, Bud, he's down.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
On a beach somewhere on special assignment. I'm sure he'll
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We're talking soccer, moll or soccer and also country. We'll
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podcast eminating live from the Jerry here on the campus
of Molar High School. And I have a little cross
country talk going on right now. We have Duncan surely
a now rising senior. Are you still rising? Or is
it like on your on the first day of school?
Are you officially senior? Duncan? How does that work?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I'd say first day of school is when you officially
embrace the role, so.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're still you're still a falling junior.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Then say, I'd say, I haven't earned it yet, so
I think you got to earn it all right. I
think that comes on the first day of school.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So I want to talk cross country because I know
you're not a good poker player, so we're not going
to talk poker. No, no, no, That's what I'm told. Anyways,
we're going to talk cross country here and this Molar
cross country team. First of all, let folks know how
long you've been running. I've done track for four years.
That's how I got into the sport of running. I've
(14:59):
always been runner. Where'd you go to grade school?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I went to Saint Columban. Before that, I went to Fairview.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. St. Columban is the second greatest feeder school to
come to Moulor High School.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
You know, I've only went there for two years, so
I'm not too loyal, but so I'll let that.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I was looking for you to talk some smack a
little bit. I have no loyalty when it comes to
great Did you go before Saint Clumbn I went to
Loveland and then before that Fairview. That's that's when I
started actually running. I did the runners Club. But uh
so four years of track.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
At More Yeah, and it'll be my second year across country.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Is it hard to believe before we talk across country
that you were going to be a senior? Now? I
mean I remember you guys walking in. You guys were
all dorks. Some of you still are coming into mouller,
and now you're going to be one of the seniors
in this school, one of the mentors for a lot
of guys. What's that process been like, just in the
last couple of weeks realizing dude, I'm a senior now.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, it's I would say, humbling. I feel like it's
an honor to be able to take control of school
and take up leader position within the school. I remember,
I was just thinking about the other day freshman orientations
coming up, and I remember my freshman orientation and thinking, Wow,
I've got four years. I can't wait to spend it.
It's going to be a long four years. And now
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it's on us up.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So great. It's cool you say that, like the anxiety
you had being nervous. I mean, there's kids that probably
aren't sleeping right now having no clue what and parents included,
we have no clue what the journey's about to happen
for them.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, it's a it goes by quick, everyone says it,
and it is very true that it goes by insanely fast.
You have to take care and take in every moment,
so enjoy the little things on the process.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's awesome, you guys, We got pressing coming on after
we go to a break here in a minute. But
you guys have been on the cusp of the precipice
four years ago of a cross country track program that's
really been a transformational program. You guys have now become
one of the elite programs from a whole six standpoint
cross country and track in the state of Ohio. What's
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that been like to have a front row seat to
see this, this program become one of the elite programs
in the Buckeye State.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I'd say it's a giant reward. It's definitely not given,
it's earned. We work hard every day. I'd say we
are the hardest working team in the city. I would
say in the state as well. We work like no
other team. Our training is brutal. It takes curse come
out here every day and say I want to run
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nine to ten miles.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
So it's definitely rewarding.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
We're sitting greatness as a new standard, so and that
starts this year and winning a state title, so that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I want to bring Preston On real quick in Preston
Wesley another rising or falling junior, rising senior. However, you
want to look at it. You're gonna be a senior
now to you? Is that scary?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Not really? I mean we've been on molar for four
years now. I've got to know so many people. It's
more of a like getting to know everyone better, and
it's like getting to lead all these younger freshman and sophomores.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
What are the expectations for Moller Cross Country this year
when GCL?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I mean sant X has won it for the past
twenty years and we're hoping to win it this year
and then go on to hopefully on state.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Awesome, Alright, what's it like running for coach Pranger?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
He's an amazing guy. I mean, he knows what he's doing.
He's been he ran for a while and he's been coaching.
I don't even know he's.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Rained for a while. But he hasn't run for a
while either.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah we say that, Yeah, we could say that.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
We tried to get him to do some warm up
laps with us once he will never do him.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's awesome, all right. What is the expectation? What is
a good year for Moller Cross Country?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I mean, just win GCL championships. I mean take down
that street that sant X has had and go as
far as we can into the tournament.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
We're gonna slide. Max herzog in also a rising senior. Correct, Max,
where'd you go to grade school?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I went to Saint Sansannah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Saint Susannah the third best grade school in Cincinnati, after
Smolly Saint clumb That you do that, I don't know.
You don't agree with that?
Speaker 7 (19:02):
To you?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It might be first first? Thank you? All right? Max?
Talk about cross country? How excited are you for the
cross upcoming cross country? I want to ask you about that.
That night race it's called the at christ Church? What
do we call that? Again?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Primetime?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
The prime time? How cool is it to run under
the lights in front of the thousands of fans?
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's pretty cool. My first time running it.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Was last year, So yeah, it was a great experience
because I've never run on the lights before.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Is a different runn under the lights? Yes? More challenging
or a bit more fun or what? It's more fun.
It's almost like a festival like atmosphere. I mean they
got food, trucks and tents and everything else. It's really cool.
It's especially vent a right. What defines a successful season
for Max hers Off? Really?
Speaker 7 (19:48):
I just want the team to do well when when GCLs.
But I'm trying to go sub seventeen this season. Last
season I didn't do too great, but with a great
track season, I think I can do That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Let's pull Brock on here, because Brock is another falling
junior rising senior, also a bad poker player. I'm told, Brock,
can you confirm that, if any not at all? Are
you the guess? You're the best? Right? Whoever I get
on the mic and I ask them, they always say
I'm the best. I believe, so yes. What's cool about
you guys, is you guys in the soccer guy A
(20:23):
lot of the soccer guys. You guys got a close
knit group, don't you, sir?
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Just coming in like a couple people knew each other
and like, as we started to meet more people in
our sport, we brought people from other sports, so kind
of created a diverse group.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Brock, I want to ask you about being a leader
of the school. Obviously you you run, you also played
basketball as well. You're one of the leaders of the school.
How do you see your rule? And I'm talking kind
of stepping out of the cross country conversation more into
the school. How do you step out of a how
do you step into that role of a leadership rule
of the school? Not being a junior anymore, you're one
(20:58):
of the dudes. You're you're leading the these guys, these
freshmen that are about to have orientation. How does that
work mentally? How do you process all that?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah, I think it kind of just starts with talking
to the younger people. I know, coming in as a
freshman and sophomore, Like, there's still a lot of stuff
I needed to learn and having that experience is very important.
So just being with them all the time, make sure
to really matter them, to talk to them, and something
I think is really important.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Rock, what would be a successful season for a cross.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Country I think it starts with us going to the
state championship, doing something I haven't done a while, and
then definitely win in the gCO.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Awesome, Frock, thanks for joining us on the Big Moo podcast.
We're gonna be talking molar soccer when we get back
to a break. That's a little glimpse into the cross
country program. We're gonna be talking molar soccer when we
come back from a break. You're listening to the best
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Back in a big Bow podcast, and we are now
talking molar soccer. We're live here at the Jerry the
facility that the legend the Goat g O. You know,
(23:05):
Goat stands for Thiago time. Thank you, you knew that already.
We got Thiago from the soccer team here, both the
football and the soccer team in preparation. Now, the soccer
guys got up a little earlier than the football guys.
Let's make that clear, crystal clear? Are we right?
Speaker 9 (23:20):
I mean yeah, no, I mean we're out here. We've
been here for two days already. Today was the third
What time did you guys get here? I mean we
got here at six fifteen about.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Frustrutching and and this is a little bit of a different,
a little different preseason for you guys. Last year, you weren't.
You weren't getting up running four miles to start your day.
Had been like I mean, definitely. I mean, the body's
really been feeling it. I mean I haven't stored these
few days. But now I feel like it's gonna be
good for the voice. I mean, we should be able
(23:49):
to outlast every ten for the eighty minutes. The eighty
s would probably feel like the fortieth for our team
after this, Thiago, you guys got a lot of expectations,
a lot of question marks too. I think you had
some guys to part by way the FC the what
if it. We've talked about that in the podcast before,
whatever that program is called. You lost some guys. You've
got some new young talent in as well. There's a
lot of people around the state saying, what how good
(24:11):
is Mueller soccer gonna be? What would you say to them?
I mean, We're still gonna be good.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
I mean, I think if you count us out, uh,
you will be making a mistake because we still have
a lot of talent on our team. Uh. The coaching
staff is still very strong. Even with the new coach.
I really like him. I think he has a he
has a good game game plan for our season. And uh,
I think we we will be We still will be
good and should still be contenders.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Right. No, you're rising senior. Yeah, what's it like to
be I've asked a lot of these other guys. Now
you're not You're not a little You're not a underclassman anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I mean you're you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Say, finally, what's it like now to be a leader
of the school.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
I mean I take you with a lot of pride
and courage because I see I always used to look
up to the seniors like everything that that they would
say or do. I mean, I feel like you'd mean
a lot more than hearing it from someone else, because
is that you know these guys, it's it's their last year,
it's our last year. We want it bad, and I
feel like if we can set the tone a lot
of people follow.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Were some of the big matches. Obviously got Saint Charles
a really good soccer program, Beaver Creek extremely talented. I
gotta believe I know the answer to this, But what's
the one that you have circled on your schedule? One
hundred percent? Charles? I want it bad.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
I mean after last year going out in penalties, I
mean that really hurt had We had an insane season
last year and I really just want to get our
revenge on them.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
All right, What's what does a successful season from what
with soccer look like?
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Win in the GCL and hopefully the regional championship as well.
I mean, I feel like with those two with those
two titles, I mean, I feel like we can't be
mad at the season that we'll have.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's awesome, Tiago, best of luck this year. Excited to
watch you step in in a leadership role. And there's
a lot of good leaders on this soccer a lot
of good leaders in that class at twenty twenty six.
Class T Monofo always you know, I've always, for as
long as I've known your family have called you guys Monopho.
But your uncle Mike goes with Monopho. But it's but
(26:08):
it's spelled m u n. Now how do you pronounce
m n mone? But how do you pronounce your last name?
See something's wrong there and I have figured that out.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Just might be the Italian you know.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, say like Italian from here there you go, perfect, T,
one of the goalies on this soccer team. You are
a class of twenty six as well. I'll ask you
the same question because I love that question. You're no
longer an underclassman anymore. You're like one of not just
the leaders on the soccer team, but one of the
leaders in the school. What's that? What's that mean to
you now? To especially with your your dad and your
(26:44):
uncle and the legacy they built. What's it like now
to be that guy to etch your name in the
in the storied history book of Muller High School.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
Well, it means a lot because I know my dad
was kind of more of a leader in the school,
and I feel like, you know, I've become a really
good leader on the soccer team. But I know when
I was younger looking up to guys like Bradley poppol
Austin Doac, just wanted to be like them when they
were seniors. So kind of just becoming one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Can you harken back? And I talked to some guys
on the on the show already about when you because
the freshmen are about to do their orientation. I remember
you specifically coming in because you were there was a
question that at one time where you were going to
go to school right, and you were discerning that process
and seeing you walk through that door, it feels like yesterday.
Do you remember those emotions and walk me through that
(27:30):
I do.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
I remember it was my birthday and I was time
to go into Buller and like, you know, sign up
and I was like I just woke up. I didn't
even think about it. I was just like, let's go
and I was ready to get.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Talk about the nerd were you're nervous the nerves, the
anxiety that.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
I was a little nervous, but I was excited because
it's following the legacy and I wanted to continue it
because you know, I knew my cousin Tyler is going
to be here, then Bennett, and now my cousin Andrew.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So we have like forty five moors in four grades.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So now that you are a senior, you've obviously spent
a lot of time here. What's Muller High School mean?
Not just to your family but to you personally?
Speaker 10 (28:06):
I would say it means a lot.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
It feels like it's like home, you know, coming into
my senior year, I love going to school here.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Waking up every day, you know, it feels good.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What are some expectators? Now we know you don't handle
a camera like your brother Bennett does. Let's be crystal
clear on that. What are some things that you have
personal goals for you maybe on the soccer field, off
the soccer field, maybe as a leader. What are some
goals that you have for yourself going into your final year.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
I would say for the soccer team to win a
say title is probably the end goal. And just become
brothers with my teammates, you know, make my senior year
the best year yet. And I would say for school
going in there and just you know, building the brotherhood
from freshmen to senior and just getting close with everybody
in all four grades.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
One last question. A lot of guys we just talked
about coming into camp, coming onto campus here in the
next few weeks that have never been here before. Maybe
they've been here for shadow orris or whatever. What can
a young man who's about to become a man of
or what can he expect coming in for his freshman year?
And what would you say to him and the parents.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
I would expect a lot of inclusion. And everybody in
the hallway is always you know, high five in hugging
each other's messing around. There's not really like groups. It's
all we're all together, and that's what I expect, like
a family. You know, they might be nervous for the
first couple of weeks, but I think they'll real ast
soon that it's not scary at all.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I'm going to ask you the most difficult question I've
ever asked him oler or a student, and see if
you how good you are at this. Everybody talks about
more where they talk about the what brotherhood brotherhood Now,
I've always challenged guys because I'm sure there's rival schools
that always say they have brotherhood. Now, I've been to
other schools that have said they have brotherhood, and there
might be an element to it, but it is different here.
(29:47):
You know that. I know that Thiago knows that he
was just on who's sitting right here too. I'm challenging
you to articulate how it is different, why it's different.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
I mean, I know everybody says, but in the hallways, classrooms,
and even with the teachers, it's like a brotherhood. Like
they don't even feel like teachers sometimes, you know, they're
like kind of like your parents had sometimes and I
feel like it's just like you're altogether.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
I don't really know. It's you gotta like feel it.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
It's hard to like the best way that you did
it great And what you just said is the way
I think John Rodenberg once told me, you can't explain
it like it's a feeling. It's he goes. I think
it's in the water here. It's just something beyond that
family spirit that you just can't articulate. I think you
just said that at the end. It's awesome. Te best
of luck this year. T Monopho. Certain best of luck
(30:36):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
Back in a Big Move podcast live from the Jerry Palace,
half Let Complex and outstanding podcast. Great to catch up
to some of the senior leaders of the cross country program,
the soccer program. In Chris Gray, You've got to take
so much pride hearing these guys talk about well, what
I'd called them is falling juniors now rising seniors, and
(32:17):
the leadership role that they really are embracing. You hear
it in their voice. It's not bs because they have
a headset on. It's authentic and real, and it's fun
to see these guys come in as freshmen and then
to step into that rule of a leadership role is
pretty special.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, it is, and I think it's again it goes
to what we're doing here on an institutional level, both
that extends outside of athletics into the classroom, into the hallways,
and that these men are around some of the best
human beings I've had the pleasure of being around in
my experience seventeen eighteen years of coaching experience. But we
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continue to just provide them with the resources to be successful,
to gain that confidence, to gain those leadership skills. But
more importantly, it's still the people. The people make the place.
I think it's both the young men that we have
in this institution, but also those are that are leading
them and the experience that they get to share with them,
and the education they get to share with them too.
And I can't say enough about Moler as a place
(33:15):
coming from an outsider's perspective, but to your specific case
of our rising, falling or stationary seniors, however you want
to articulate it that it's great to see our young
men grow and continue to raise the bar for who
they are in our society and more importantly, how they
lead the future men of Mold.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You were talking earlier, and it kind of reminded me
what Jonathan Hayes said the other day, right when we
had the football team had their lifteth on. You saw
this campus coming in and there were kids coming up
for the wrestling camp, and Jonathan said, you know, we
may at present. I say that at present have the
elite facilities that we want and desire at I'm going
(34:00):
to put bold that at present, however, nobody in the
city or the state does it the right way with
the right people like Molar High School does. And he's right.
I mean, what we don't have in maybe a football
stadium at present or this weight room present, what we
have in people and what we have and the people
(34:21):
that really truly care about this place and just I'm
watching out here in the football field. These aren't just
coaches walking around blowing a whism that you can see it.
It matters to them. And I've been around at a
bunch of schools. You've been around a bunch of schools.
It is different here and it's fun to watch and
have a front row seat.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, it really is. And I think it's reminiscent back
to the times I spent at the NFL level and
the Division I level. I mean, as we look down
on the field now, I can count a number of
coaches that are down at eye level with these young
men that are standing behind them, and they're having qualities.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And I'm going to stop you. People always ask me
what is the Mojo Muller football specifically? Why have they
become such a juggernaut? And I really and I believe
this one hundred percent, two hundred percent. It's bringing in
college level guys, guys that have been at an elite level.
It doesn't have to be the bit at it to
be Michigan, Ohio State, whatever. It's bringing the elite guys
(35:16):
in that that have coached at an elite level know
the expectation to be great and bring that down to
the high school. I think that's been a game changer.
You look at Mark Elder what he's done. You look
at Burt Beathy, Andy, all the assistant coaches that you
just mentioned that have come yourself, who've come and really
competed at the collegiate though. That's been the game changer
for Molar football specifically, and it has been awesome to watch.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, And when I took when I ended up coming
in and taking the job at you know, it was
I looked at it from an outsider's perspective, It's like, Okay,
it's Archbishop Molar High School. But how we've really reclassified that,
at least from the strength conditioning department, in the athletic
department inside out over the last sixteen months has been well,
you're a true college prep institution, right, This is not
(36:02):
just a high school. This is going to be an
experience in education and just an overall comprehensive approach to
growing a young man so that then they walk into
that college level they are they feel like a college senior,
not a college freshman or first year. And this is
truly and that's the word we talk about all the time.
It's truly a college prep approach, and how do we
continue to enhance that college prep aspect to this both
(36:27):
in our training, in our vocabulary, mentally and physically day
in and day out.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Chris, what does a successful year look like? Not on
the football field, now on the soccer field, not holistically
from your seat, what does a successful year look like
for more or high school?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
It's a deep and loaded question. I think quantitatively, I
would love to continue to see our reach grow both
within depth. And I know this is going to be
a hard one to put up. I guess a button
on right now, but I want we've when I first
got here, we had a already to forty percent reach
in terms of strength and conditioning and just that experience
(37:05):
that we provide. Since then, we've almost overdoubled that we're
in that seventy percent plus range right now in terms
of our reach and our experience. I'd like to see
that continue to grow. I mean, the end goal is
still one hundred.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
PARENT mean by reaching experience. Explain that to somebody's like, well,
what does he mean by reaching experience?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So for those that have not been on campus, I
think our weight room is We're blessed to have a
great facility. You know, we have twelve racks and a
smaller room probably about three thousand, maybe thirty five hundred
square feet. The challenge with Moler having over seven hundred
plus athletes here and almost over almost one thousand young
(37:45):
men here at this institution, and then the desire to
have reach into the community. The faculty staff as well
as all the others that are in the building. We
just we find limitations right and we want to still
continue to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and
everybody has the opportunity. The word we use internally is accessibility,
(38:05):
and just given the way the days lay out, it's
challenging to be able to get all seven hundred and
fifty in with quality touch points in a week. So
when I say when we're hitting at a seventy percent clip,
we're about seventy percent for multiple occurrences or multiple instances
of accessibility during the calendar week for our men. I
want and our goal is to exceed one hundred percent
(38:28):
and then to create space and opportunity for those that
are in our community to find other opportunities to take
care of themselves from a mental health standpoint, a physical
health standpoint, but to be around our men more. What
a world would we create if we have our professors,
our teachers, our instructors in the classroom with them yet
(38:49):
working side by side and seeing them go through the
trial and tribulations together, Because that's only going to create
a better experience, more realness that permeates up and down
that chain of leadership, and just a better community for
everybody here at Bowler.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
You should be called doctor, doctor Chris Gray.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
It seems like a lot of years of doctor of Culture.
Minister of Culture. I thought Minister Cauthey, McConaughey and Texas
kind of came up with that one, even though he's
not really there all the time, and I always had
that none of the Hollywood that right right, the Minister
of Culture just sounds so very prominent in defining you know.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
But I'm looking down here right now. We're going to
wrap up the show here, but I'm looking down at
some of these guys that are on the sideline in
front of us working out. I'm going to give you credit.
They didn't look like that five six, seven, eight years ago.
And I'm talking holistically. I compared some of the guys.
The physicality whatever you want to call the physique of
(39:46):
some of these guys and seeing them coming in as
freshman a bag of bone, soaking wet to what they
are now is a true testament to what you and
your staff has done it. It's it has been unbelievable
to watch.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
All the credit goes to them, right. We always joke,
we give them a hard time. They're the ones that
put in the work. And again, I can't take full credit,
even probably half credit or partial credit for that statement,
even though it feels great and I thank you for it.
It's the men that make this exciting, energizing and awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Michael Blum usually takes all the credit for it.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Just so you now, that doesn't come as a shock
to me. You were probably anybody else listening out here.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Chris Gray, thank you for co hosting another rendition of
the b MP of US Flying Solo. You stepped in,
you said, man down, man up, I'm gonna take the
headset from Mandy Nagel, and that you did.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Meggs, don't say the beach too long, brother.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
That's Chris Gray. Big Mo Barrett on another rendition of
the Big Mo Podcast Live from the Jerry Faust Athletic
complex excited. I think next week we're heading to Masslin.
I'll be hanging out with the Faust family up in
Akron at least, meeting up somewhere in between Megan and
hopefully Jolie as well for lunch. I know and Megan
(41:03):
will be heading to the scrimmage at Maslin. It'll be
great to reconnect with the Foules family. We love them dearly.
For Chris Gray, this Big Mo Barrett for another rendition
of the Big Mo Podcast, and we'll see you next week.
We've got a special guest. I think Norm Charlton, Nasty
boy Cincinnati Reds, will be joining us. Worse you heard
from Rob Divil last week. Norm Charlton is next on
(41:27):
the best coverage of high school sports in Cincinnati, the
greatest high school in America. It's the Molar Crusaders on
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