Delanie Walker's First Show with Will Compton & Taylor Lewan | Titans Uncut Ep. 1

It is Titans Uncut with Delaney Walker. I'm Rep. Bryan joined by the greatest free agent acquisition in Titans history. >> Wow. >> Number 82, tight end Delaney Walker on his brand new show. >> Going to me. >> At first, I thought he was going to Will too first. >> But I'm going to introduce these gentlemen. Number 51, >> Will Compton, wore Titans Blue. Number 77, left tackle. Taylor Dean, wore Titans Blue. Collectively known as Busting with the Boys. The first guest on your show. You started out right, man. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. This is your show. Interview the guys. Go. >> Yeah. So, uh, like he said, we got, uh, Will Compton, Taylor the Wan. Some of the guys I consider my brothers, my friends. They actually put me in this space. So, I'm thankful to have them as my first episode. So, guys, how y'all feel, man? How y'all feel to be on the show? How have y'all ever been interviewed before? Like, >> like I want to know like cuz y'all interview everybody. So, like, >> do y'all usually get interviewed? >> We've been Yeah. First off, I just want to say Electrostatic to be here. The Titans could not have picked a better host than Delaney Walker. Uncut. There's going to be a lot of editing that takes place with you, I assume, is going to happen. >> I'm hoping so. >> Um, but yes, been interviewed before. >> Yeah, >> it's fun to sit in these chairs where you don't have to think of all the questions. What's going to come up next? Maybe I should grab something else. We can just kind of sit back and hang out. >> Yeah, we can kind of just say whatever's on our mind. Whatever you ask, we can give it back. But I am, Dude, it is cool. full full circle moment to be on your first chapter of your first episode. You were also on ours. So pretty pretty dang cool first episode. >> Pretty dagum cool. >> Pretty dagum cool >> for you to be doing this. >> I know, right? With the Titans. >> Yeah, with the Titans. >> With the Titans. >> Shout out the Titans. And also the intro. You were 53 as well, right? >> Like Willie was 53. >> You're the owner of this franchise. >> 51 53. That's how That's how much of a >> 50 number 51 and 53. >> The only two. >> Yeah. >> You wore another number though. You had a third number, didn't you? In >> No, you talking about in the NFL. >> Yeah. >> Um, my first ever number was 57. The one game I played my rookie year during the practice squad, like when I was in training camp, I was 46. >> You was 46? Yeah. >> You wore You wore the full six? >> Yeah, I wore the >> Did you know about me? >> Of course. That's why I got it. >> Sure. I'm sure they just put it in your line. >> They did. It was the same as Alfred Morris, so I thought I was getting cut right out of the gate. >> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. >> Coming off a Pro Bowl year. >> What year was that for him though? >> He was coming off a Pro Bowl year. So it was either year three, year three or year four. >> So I know they started to hide him a not hide him, but kind of suppress some of his touches when he was going into his contract year. >> You know how that game works. >> The dark game of the NFL. >> Get on the goal line, give it to the fullback. >> Yeah. Something the Titans would never do. some varsity blue stuff. >> They would never do that, dude. >> No, they No, >> they would never do such a thing. Other teams may, but not the Titans. >> You don't have to like sugarcoat it. >> So, yeah. Listen, we're pro Titans. >> No. Most definitely. But let's get to it. So, I want to start off from the beginning. Just really let our fans know like where you guys came from, how y'all get to where y'all's at. So, I want to start off with the high school. I'm gonna start off with Will since you went to North County High School. You you play linebacker and receiver. receiver, running back, safety, linebacker. You know, your boy was all state in high school. >> I mean, >> just I'm just throwing that out there. >> How many people went to your high school, though? >> My graduating class was around 250. Graduated top 10% of my class. >> I mean, scholar. >> What was your GPA? >> Yeah, tell us your GPA. No, tell everybody your GPA. The real one, >> the ones you said. Listen, I'm going to 10.6 out of 11. >> 10.6. >> Please, Titans fans, check that. Is there anybody in the country who grades their high school students? >> Has anybody in here of an 11 point grading scale? >> No one. No one has ever heard of that. >> Nobody. Bro, that's not LRC classes. No. You're doing so good. >> That's advanced PE. >> That's Boom County. >> Advance PE, dude. Yes. >> That's Boom County. >> Yeah, that's Boom County, Missouri. >> That's Boom County, Missouri. When I go there, I'm going to ask about that situation about the See if anyone else does that cuz I've just never heard of that, man. You're native. You, you know, you got some, you're native to Missouri with central >> central Missouri. >> Central Missouri. >> How far is that from? Uh, >> you're closer to Kansas City, aren't you? >> I'm closer to Kansas City. >> Yeah. So, you're probably four hours away. >> God. >> Yeah. >> So, you near >> We're down. I'm like two hours north of Arkansas. Okay. >> Is where Bontter is? Two and a half. Yeah. >> So, you considered a Missurian or Arkansas? >> Missouri. Okay. Missouri full-blooded. >> Without hesitation, he answered that, too. >> I'm shocked. I just I'm just shocked. I got a question for you later on, but uh so Taylor, your turn. Three years at Cactus Shadow, >> then transferred to >> Falcons, >> huh? >> Shout out the Falcons. Catch your shadows. >> You had no stars there. >> Zero stars. >> Nose tackle. Horrendous. Horrendous ball. >> Nose tackle. >> Yeah, I was a nose tackle for the first three years in high school. Fresh uh freshman year, we went eight and0. I was ineligible for the the last game of the year because I did not have a 10.6 GPA. Sophomore year, I was eligible. started on varsity, won the only state championship in Cactus Shadow's history >> as a sophomore. >> As a sophomore, yeah, we were in like a barefoot though, so there was five defensive linemen. Shout out Bobby Wolf who was trying to take my job. Um, >> and then my junior year we went three and seven and we were horrendous. And then you were going to finish up by saying, >> "Yeah." So when you went to chaper, what made you switch to O line to And then one year as a old lineman there? What? Five, four star. >> Four star. Yeah. Didn't get five. was just happy to get any stars to be honest. So my after my junior year ended um this coach I played one year of Pop Warner in third grade I was a corner on my team and then the my fourth grade year I was going to be the quarterback but I quit because I was afraid to get hit and uh the same coach Trace Carol who's now actually the head coach of Chapperel his father came up to my dad after the football season ended and was like hey what is your plan with Taylor and he's like I don't really there's no plan the plan is hopefully he stays out of jail or does construction work or does something and uh they're like hey there's this kid named Craig Row who's number 60 in the country. He's got 20 offers. He's going into his senior year. There's going to be a lot of scouts that come down and see him. Taylor's clearly more of an offensive line build. He should come down to Scottsdale, Arizona, play for Chapperel, and I can get you in touch with the head coach, Charlie Regel. So, uh, the decision was made for me. I did not want to do that. I want to stay with my friends and hang out. And it was clearly the best decision I ever made because I I moved down there. Craig was he also went to Michigan as well. And then I played two football games. I sent that tape out. And then 3 weeks later I had 20 offers and was an Under Armour All-American. >> Jeez. >> Yeah. So it was crazy. It was a huge blow up for me >> all this time knowing you and I didn't know that. >> Yeah. I was uh and then I mean I the reason why I went to Michigan was because Jake Long was the first overall pick and he wore 77. So that's why I wore 77 my senior year because my dad's like, "Hey, this guy named Jake Long, he's incredible. You want to be like you want to be in the NFL? This is the guy." And then I got offered by Michigan and I was like, well that's where that's where NFL guys go. So that's where the great go. That's where I'm going to head. I'm going to head to Ann offer. I had no idea about rivalries or the Midwest or snow or anything. Just thought I have one path and the path is the NFL. >> I you know I I had a question about that cuz both of you guys coming you're from Missouri, you're from Arizona, you're going to Nebraska and you going to Michigan. Like I hear you tell yours why though? Why those schools when you had I think Notre Dame on the table. >> Yeah, Notre Dame was late. Notre Dame. Notre Dame was offered twice actually. >> Yeah. Not offered me this past offseason when we went out there to visit for spring tour. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> But Notre Dame was a laid offer. Like I grew up uh Notre Dame fan. Like I I like Missou, but Missou very fair weather. Like they didn't get hot until it was Chase Daniel and Jerry Mlin, which was like in my high school time. >> Uh but I wanted to go to Notre Dame. I was a Catholic school, you know, through fourth grade. We had a class. There was one class that held three grades. There were uh seven of us. Four of us were fourth graders, one fifth grader, and two sixth graders, all in the same class. And our principal was our teacher. And our principal would go to a Notre Dame game every year and bring back memorabilia of Notre Dame. Then you have the uh movie Rudy. Notre Dame was just the team that I wanted to go to growing up. I went to camp after camp. I want to say I went to two camps. I went to the overnight camp when I was a sophomore. Um, and then I went to the senior rising camp going into my senior year and just didn't get offered by him until very late, like after the Under Armour or the Army All-American game when a couple guys didn't commit. Then they offered me, but they offered me as a fullback. Um, and so I was just kind of like uh I was bitter in my mind about that. I was like sensitive to like, you know, being being um, you know, being the leftovers for them. But in that time when all the commitment and everything was happening, I was down to Missou, Illinois, and Nebraska. I was committed to Nebraska my entire senior most of my senior year. I committed to them in the summer because coach Callahan, they had like a top five recruiting class that I was a part of. Bla Gabbert was on the class. Jonas Gray was committed there. We had a lot of cats. Kenny Demons, who was a linebacker that ended up going to Michigan, but we had a squad that was committed to Nebraska >> and they just had a horrendous year to where Callahan gets fired. So everything is up in the air. Missou was hot during that time. Again, that was Chase Daniels. That's when they had taken down Oklahoma, number one in the country. people, everybody storing >> 2007, right? >> Uh yeah, 2007 or '08, one of those. Illinois was also hot with Rashad Mendenhal, Juice Williams, you had Jay Layman on the defensive side. They went to the Rose Bowl and ended up getting beat by USC where they had Ray Malugan, all those cats and they were both within three and a half hours of my hometown. So, there's a lot of instate pressure to go to Missou. Um I really like the way that they recruited me at Illinois. And then there were still Nebraska. Tom Osborne flies down to my school and all the teachers, all the old heads were like, "Yo, Tom Osborne, legend, legend, legend." People are running out of the classroom to go meet Tom Osborne. Like teachers, bro. And uh we didn't have a head coach yet and he said, "I think you're you're really going to like who we bring in. We can't let that be known right now." They didn't tell me who it was going to be. And then insert Bo Pini who came up from LSU. They were coming off a natty run. And so I remember telling my mom that I was down to Illinois or Missou and Nebraska was kind of out of it. She ends up crying because we went on our official visit. Bo took her to church on Sunday. Like, it was a great visit. I just wasn't I was kind of wanting to stay closer to home. It was either Missou or Illinois. And then during uh championship weekend in the NFL, Bo calls me after we get done visiting my mom at school with Missou. And I'm kind of telling my boy Logan at the time that it's either going to be Missou or Illinois. And I'm like, "Man, I kind of really want to go to Missou." Bo calls me and he's like, "Hey, comp, can I do one last thing before you make your decision?" And I'm thinking that hey, he's already in the barn. Like, you're kind of overrecruiting at that point. And I was like, "Yeah, sure." Like, "What is it?" He's like, "I want to fly the entire staff down on championship weekend to watch the NFC and AFC Championship with you and your family." They come in, we have an incredible time. They leave the house. And I remember being like, "Oh, that's the spot I want to be at." And so, that's that is kind of how I ended up going to Nebraska. First time he comes and visits my school, he dashs me up and does his thing. He's like, "Hey, I got an envelope for your boy Logan." He gives Logan this envelope. Logan opens it up. There's a card in there. Logan opens it up and it's a stick of gum. And he's like, "There's more where that came from." And then the visit when they all the whole staff came to watch the championship weekend with us. He comes in and he got like this, not permanent, but like this temporary threemonth tattoo that just had the black shirt logo and it had my name in old English under it. And he's like, "I just want to show you how committed we are to landing you and everything else." But just dude, they recruited their ass off and I that's probably the best decision >> I've made outside of getting married. That's a that's a very close number two. Maybe number one still. >> Only time. >> Yeah. Hazing the ball with the ball. >> He's in the ball with Nebraska. >> Exactly. >> So, but what if you would have went to Notre Dame and became a running back? What type of would will he be like? >> My boy selling insurance. He going to be a running back. >> Hey, I would he said he was a double. >> He a fullback. He would have been a fullback. So, hey, hey, hey, you remember that neck, bro? Listen to that. Those neck and those teeth. That's that's that's full bullback category. >> So, my very first offer I ever had was Wake Forest and it was for wide receiver, >> wide receiver. >> Arkansas offered me for the Hback. Hback coach calls me the running back's coach. He talks about Pton Hillis. We want you to be him. Notre Dame offered me as a fullback. When I got to the league and I was on P squad, Shanahan came up to me because again on practice squad you're running both sides the whole practice, but I was a fullback and Shanahan pulls me aside and brings up some name of who he used to coach in Denver that would block for Terrell Davis and he would talk about my future in the NFL as a fullback. From that moment on, I fullback. I didn't try very hard the rest of the time. Really? Yeah, bro. I did not want to go. >> You had coaches telling you you could be him at fullback. >> Yeah. I was he would have me stand up and he would talk about like he'd shout out a practice squad player every week, but he had me stand up one time and talked about how good of a fullback I had been like serviceable fullback at linebacker. He puts his face in the fan every day at practice and he kind of doing this thing where he's like giving flowers. But I remember when he talked when he talked to me about potentially moving to fullback. I was like, "No, I'm not going to go. I'm I'm not going to be the A gap protector." That is the first time in our friendship that I've heard you push back on a coach so early in your career. >> Cuz it only sounds >> I didn't tell him. I was like, "Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir." I was like, I went home and I was like, "Man, I got to play. I got I got to start finding a fullback." It's the same thing. >> You still got to hit the A gap. You still got to set it. You still setting guards. You putting You going sticking your face. >> Let's Let's Let's bring it in. Let's use your brain a little bit. How many fullbacks are in the league right now? >> I mean, now it's fullbacks is obsolete. It's no such thing as a fullback. You got to be a Hback tight end. Yeah. >> If you're talking about longevity in the league and just like strategic moves to >> try to have a career in the Again, I was on practice squad at the time, but it wasn't going to for me. It didn't I I didn't want it to be a fullback. >> I mean, it doesn't exist. I get what you >> just not on the field a whole lot. >> Well, back then you were. We ran a lot of 20. >> Not not not back in the like 2013. >> You came out in 2013. >> You're That's That's >> starting to change a little bit. I'll give you that. The league was changing a little bit. >> That's RG. Like it was guys like yourself that came from San Fran. Like it's a tight end >> that's in the back field that could be a running back. He can kind of do everything. A lot more versatility cuz a fullback was just getting replaced. >> Yeah. Was officially like a fast 12 personnel. >> Well, I say if he would have grown a little bit, he could have been a tight end. >> And again, you you >> my boy's hands are nice. I know. I kind of came. Yes. >> I think he dropped. >> He was state wide receiver. >> I did. You're right. Even in high school, I would drop pick >> with the cutters on though. If I know >> over here swinging the sword. >> I know. I appreciate it. >> But as tight end, if I know the ball is coming to me, I'm nice. When it surprises me, I'm Oh, >> get you. >> Taylor, I heard you say like, you know, you said your coach was like, he got to just stay out of trouble, go to jail. But you was the you was the fifth best player in Arizona. When did recruiting really like hit you in the head like, man, I could probably do this. I could probably be a first round draft pick if if I >> uh I think like delusion is the way with me. I think anytime like I decide like I think something's going to happen, it's like I just am an ultimate optimist. So my when I transferred in spring of my junior year from Cactus Shadows to Chapperel, wearing we're in basically underwear, we're in shorts and t-shirt running around and um Utah State is at practice and they came up to me and they're like, "Hey, would uh would love to have you a part of Utah State." I'm thinking, "Oh, that's I appreciate you. That'd be awesome to be offered by Utah State." And they walk away and there's not a whole lot of clarity, but Charlie walk, like, "Hey, how you feel?" Like, "Yeah, it seem like a nice coach." He's like, "They just offered you a full ride scholarship." And my first response to that was, "Yo, I'm going to the NFL." I that's how >> way you said it off the first off the first offer. >> The first the first offer Utah State because I got going into the season just off of like running and like uh doing like scout combines and the the 247 thing. I got Utah State in spring and then my dad, he's from Minnesota, so we went up to Minnesota and met with Brewster and them and they had like a little combine, like a junior combine thing and I ran like a crazy 40 for an offensive lineman. So they offered me and I take a redeye go back to Arizona and go to ASU and do the same thing and they offered me. So I had three offers with with essentially no tape on offens other than like he's tall and he's athletic and so hopefully we can make him something. >> And then uh yeah, those two games happened. We played like Marina High School, which you guys aren't going to care about at all, and then one other school. And I just took those raw game films out. My dad made some some DVD and sent it out to a bunch of schools. And truly, bro, >> in three weeks, I had uh 20 or maybe even more than 20 offers. And it was like, you know, from Oregon, I got Miami, I had u Michigan came in a little later. Notre Dame came and looked at my transcript. They're like, "No shot. >> We love him, but I don't know." >> Yeah. Stanford laughed. That was when Harball was there. Stanford saw it, laughed at me. He's like, "There's no way we can get you into Stanford, man." And they kind of went out of there. >> Such a great >> Yeah. But like in all like the back and forth like I played the game in my head like I really liked like the three schools I wanted to go to in high school was USC, Texas or LSU. None of those schools offered me and because like that was when Pete Carol was there. I have a whole story about when I went there for a junior camp, crushed day one, got killed day two. Pete Carol saw day two, not day one and I didn't get offered. Texas, they're hazing the barn. like they're three years ahead in their scouting department. >> Yeah. >> And then LSU, I don't think I was on their radar, but I was like fired about those three schools. But the whole Jake Long when Jake Long was the first overall pick and I got offered by that school. >> I didn't know anything about the winning culture. I didn't know anything about the pageantry, the Mais Blue and Arbor, Michigan. I had no idea about any of that stuff. I was just like, if that's where NFL offensive linemen go then and that's my best option, then that's where I'm going to go. >> So you didn't even know they had the big house. >> I knew about the big house. Like I knew like it's like when you get offered by Michigan, they're like, "Hey, you know, they have the biggest stadium in North America." It's like, "Oh, for real?" I had no idea. Like the third biggest in the world, but like truly it was in my brain, it's like I'm going to the NFL. Like there was there wasn't a whole lot of thinking behind the things of like making choices to get to me to the point of being drafted by the Titans. So it was it was Michigan all the way. And trust me, like that first snowfall being from Arizona, like if there were the transfer portal was alive, I probably I would have dipped. I was like, "This is horrendous. This is awful." like the fact that it's snow. I'm walking to class and they never cancel class. So, I had to do it every single time. >> That first that first winter I would have definitely left. But, so I'm glad >> I wasn't in the NIA era cuz I was like not playing. I was 254 pounds. All the things I'm like, I don't want I don't want this kind of smoke. It's too much. >> Well, so your dad was an old lineman at the University of Minnesota. Correct. >> Yeah. He walked on at Minnesota. He played he was from Edina, Minnesota. played high school in London, Ontario in Canada and then walked on at University of Minnesota as a Dlineman. They moved him to offensive line and then his story is he was about to earn a scholarship. He was he would have made the league, but he had like a lung collapse and broke his like he has a crazy something happened to him and he like had to not play anymore. But you know how it goes. Like the guys that don't make it have a reason why they didn't make it. Yeah. >> Maybe he was close though. Like maybe he's telling me I'll tell you what I saw I saw a photo of Dave in that little like hands like he's on a ticket and knee. >> Yeah, >> he's a handsome cat. He was 285 jacked up and Yeah, he looked like he was ready to play some ball. I just don't know. >> Did he Did he tell you much about his glory days when you were younger? Did that persuade you to play offensive line or did you just knew after you you start balling off his line? Did he come in like, "Hey, let me tell you about my glory days." >> No. No. He so like my dad was like the way my dad communicated was through sports like he always wanted us to play sports but like being from Minnesota he had us in hockey I played baseball I did B I did all like the those core four sports and it's like the reason why I got into football is I get into this like nitrous circus metamalitia like punk phase of my life like 11 or 12 and I get into a little bit of trouble and my dad's like you're playing football like you don't have a choice you are playing football your freshman year and I remember sitting there this is probably the best thing my dad's One of my favorite things my dad's ever done for me in my life was it's it's summer, it's July and Cactus at Cactus Shadows and so they're doing like freshman through senior. There is no fresh freshman team, JV team or varsity team and we're out at camp and we're running around. It's like 120 degrees in Arizona and we're doing we're just dying and I am I look like uh Mike from Monsters Inc. like skinny arm, skinny leg, and kind of had myself a little belly. Like I was kind of just figuring myself out. And I go up to my dad. I'm like, "Dude, um I can't do this. Like I I it's too much. It's too hard." And my dad looks at me. He points to the head coach, Chad Degr, and he goes, "Go tell that guy you quit. I'll be in the car." And he goes and sits in the car. And I just didn't have the heart to go and quit. I couldn't like go up to a guy and be like, "Hey, I'm done playing. I don't want to do this." So he says he woke he sat in the car for like an hour and a half. I get done. I'm pouring sweat. and he just tells me he's like, "I want you to know what it's like on the other side of adversity." >> And that was I mean, if he would have just let me quit right there, I would obviously wouldn't be sitting here. So, it was like a really cool probably one of the coolest moments between me and my dad. At the time, I hated him for >> Nebraska Michigan, man. Like, I don't know if we want to open up those cans of worms, but like we both got our lick like senior year. >> If Dinard Robinson doesn't get hurt, we probably win that game. >> That's what he says, >> bro. Dar sho Dar down, bro. He got hurt in the second quarter. >> Let's get this one out of the way. They whooped us in the fake house. Our first year in the Big 10, we go up to the bake house. >> I want to say it was like 40 >> 4517. It was something like that. We got destroyed. >> But my senior year >> going to Nebraska, we earned the black shirts against Michigan. >> We shut down Dinard. He taps out. Another quarterback comes in. >> You guys, you guys essentially ended his career. He had nerve damage where he couldn't throw the ball anymore and had to move to >> No. had to Yeah. >> Yeah. Still got dropped in the fourth round. That's the kind of talent we're talking about. >> Yeah. No, shoelace. Like he he was a man. He was our entire team. >> He was he was a beast. He was a beast. I remember. >> But we end up getting him there because I want to say the their rushing stat was like they average under three per carry. >> And so we get to he had one where he was bowling me to the side. He was like he was ODing it to the sideline toward the end of the game. >> It's called effort. >> Yeah. And I'm like trying to get over top of him and he just rised me like plays plays finishing up. I'm not going to say it's dead. And he just kept going. Plays finishing up to where it's like he's just doing so much, bro. >> Yeah. Taylor and he got me closer to their side, man. Get up off me. >> I mean, what what Titans fans know is I played through the whistle. You know, it's good and bad with that. There's a lot of laundry on the field, but hey, >> we got some movement off. My arms are short, so I'm like kind of I like >> He took a swing at me. I like take a swing to push him and Taylor Mey goes to the ref. Hey, DO YOU SEE THAT? >> DID YOU SEE THAT, HOMIE? GOD, that's funnier to you guys if you haven't heard it 15 times. >> Yeah, dude. I took him to the sideline. >> Yeah, I I blindsided Will. >> Is it Is it funny? >> I got over top and I see in the back end the tackle's happening. So, I'm kind of eased up. >> No, I mean I put him on the ground that game still. >> First mistake, dude. >> He's like, "Play over, buddy." >> He's still blind. >> But to answer your question, I knew about Compton. I knew about Compton going. You know about me? Uh just through like the scouting report stuff. >> Just through like the scouting report stuff. I mean you you were you were a dude on Tennessee. So just like game >> Oh no no no. Like honestly, but also like it's teams do it differently like in in the NFL. It's kind of the first time where they're like uh you know the Dcoordinators actually breaking down the opposing roster or the depth chart that you're going to be seeing like hey you could be seeing Delaney Walker where you have a color next to your name where you're like a dude in elite guys are like just a guy yellows light blues like all that different stuff to where you're learning about a roster. In Nebraska we we just we never did that. Everybody was just like a number. It was all scheme. It was all tendencies. We We were honestly never broke down like who would be starting or what. Like if you knew about guys, you just knew of Dinard Robinson just because he was like he was like the face of the sport. He was the face of the game. >> He was a he was a man runner, right? He was >> Yeah. Like you know about those guys. >> Like he's on the wall at Michigan for being an all-American running back his sophomore year >> and he would play quarterback. >> Yeah. I just crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to ask you, Taylor, do you remember back when you were a rookie in your first year or two? This time slot, Wednesday nights, 6:00 p. p.m. Central on Titans Radio, was the Taylor Lewan show. Do you remember that? >> Second year, dude. Yeah, we do it at um what was the Don't Say the Restaurant. Say the Was it Longhorn? No, >> Logan's Roadhouse. >> Logan's Roadhouse. Yes. With Mike Boy, man. Every Thursday. and Mike Keith. I think that's where Mike Keith and I's relationship went astray because I tried. >> I tried to push the envelope. Uh I don't know. I hope not. I hope not. I have a lot of respect and love for Mike Ke. No, we would do the show uh Titan me, him, and Titans Amy. And it dude, it was so much fun. I I had a great time. I still didn't know like the league. I didn't understand it fully, but I remember after my freshman or my freshman, my rookie year when they like called and they're like, "Hey, we want you to do like the radio show." I was like, "Yo, huh? This is sick. I would love to do this." And then we just break down the game plan. And I remember being pulled in the office so many times by Ken Wizenhut being like, "You've got to stop saying the game plan on the radio." I'm like, "Well, he's asking me the questions about the game plan." So then I would essentially lay out our game plan a handful of times. But yeah, we we had a lot of fun doing that. That was that was a good time. I hope Mike Keith enjoyed it as much as I did. I think he did. I think that's I think that's an easy answer there. I want to ask you both about this man right here, Delaney Walker. It's his name's on the show obviously. Um I call him and I mean it when I say he's the greatest Titans free agent acquisition in Titans history because you look at the numbers he had. I mean think about this. He's round six picks 175. They already had Bernard Davis earlier in that draft in 2006. 14-year vets. Seven of them here with the Titans. And there was a span in the NFL in a window of time where he was the tight end. Like people talk about Rob Gronkowski a lot, but it was him. 183 career games, over 500 catches, over 5,000 yards, 11.7 yards per catch in his career, 36 touchdowns. The one that gets me though, I mean, yeah, he had the captaincy, he had the Walt Payeyton man of the year, all of those things, but five seasons with 50 plus catches, led the Titans in four straight years in receptions, explosive plays of 20 yards or longer. He has 80 of them in his career. >> Like 82 was always sneaky fast. But I just I call it the Delaney Walker effect in that window where you guys were there because and and that's what I want to ask you first will and then you can follow in Taylor is why did Delaney Walker matter in the Titans locker room >> culture? Delaney was a guy that he had the he had the coolest vibe >> dude >> about himself. Yes. >> Like as a free agent coming in and just kind of vaguely getting to know him like you you you be in the song again. I was like a defensive guy and new to the team like Delaney had been there, but then you get out of the sauna, you go to the steam room, he'd have the boom box going in the steam room and he just seemed like the guy you wanted to chop it up with at all times. >> Um didn't practice the most because he was already you were already you were you were like you were already him. Like everybody knew how hard you worked. Everybody knew how hard you you just grinded period. When I was at Washington, I joke with you about that game, but Raheem Morris, who was our DB coach at Washington, when we're calling back to breaking down the scouting report before a game happens, he would talk about how you were the best in the league and do not sleep on this guy. Just nobody watches their games, nobody goes to their games, whether it's Gronowski, who else was a bigname tight end during that during that era. >> Uh Kelsey was big. >> Kelsey was still was blowing up. You had uh >> uh who else was out there that year? Oh, you had uh u from Carolina, our boy Greg. >> But you talk about all these household names, but he it would be like Delaney Walker. This is the guy we have to worry about whether in the red zone, middle of the field, doesn't matter. We have to have eyes on him at all times. So coming and being his teammate, it was cool because we talked about the practice squad 46 and everything else. anytime I'd see you on the Niners. I remember watching cuz I wasn't in the league yet at that point, but I remember watching you in the Super Bowl and watching games in the playoffs and be like, "Oh, this dude is a dude." Like, everybody talks about Vernon Davis, but look at this dude, the one who blocks a little bit more, who's still just as much of a receiving threat, but coming and being his teammate, just the culture aspect and the leadership aspect, like he was like a unanimous captain for the team. He's somebody who you just knew you just knew would always keep it real with you in any conversation. If you going on in the locker room, Delaney would be the one that would check those conversations and do it in a way to where Delaney has that voice and kind of just tells you the way it is and then just pauses and then there's a space in between the reaction to where you're like, "Oh, this dude's serious." I mean, you you've nailed every bit of it. coming in in 2014, Delaney had an attitude about him where like he knew he was the man. I didn't know who was the man in the locker room yet. Like you kind of felt it like I see this dude 82 who is talking like it and then you get out and you start watching the games and you're part of the games. Like the first five games of my career I was sitting as a backup before Michael Ruse gets hurt and then you start to realize like no disrespect to any other wide receiver that's on the field, any running back on the field but our truly the number one guy we're going to at all times is Delaney Walker. So then you start to realize like all the words that are said in the locker room and on the field like he's backing up every single day in and out. And it it would be funny because like there would be times where we go, you know, you have your break in the offseason, you come back for OTAAS and Delaney's just like 20 more pounds of muscle on them and less body fat somehow. You're like, "Oh, Delaney, you must have got after this offseason." He's like, "Yeah, man. Stopped eating pork." And that was like his that was like his example of why he got so dumb. >> I remember that. Yeah. And I I just I always looked up to Delaney. Delaney and I like very quickly became friends in the locker room. My first experience with Delaney was I remember walking through and it was like the old locker room and they had these like giant boxes that you hit every other day. And Delaney was like four or five lockers away from the front doors that you would go out before you go to the facility. And I'm walking I'm so excited. I'm like, "Yo, I'm in the NFL now. This is incredible." Have no idea what to expect as we get into like rookie mini cap or anything. Delaney's like and towel gets out, got that Greek god body, and he goes, "Hey, you're the uh you the first round pick we just drafted." I was like, "Yeah, I am." He goes, "Man, you look way bigger with pads on." And that was like his first his first interaction with me. And it was like body bagging me, but at the same time, I was like, you had this feeling of like, I need Delane's I want Delaneie's approval because I like you start to realize how good he is and how he handles himself throughout the building. It was so consistent every single day. And that to me was the biggest thing. He was always going to talk trash. He was always gonna the practice part was the question mark. Is he going to go out? Is he not? But it was he's going to be on the field telling guys what to do, talking to the other tight ends. And my favorite memory of Delaney was I believe it was 2016 or 2015, I can't remember, but it was at Indianapolis. And it's like there is no receiving threat other than Delaney on the team. And we run like this out route and it's like a 20-yard out route. the the video of it is four guys are covering Delaney and Marcus puts the ball and the only spot that Delaney can catch it and he gets a perfect catch and I don't know if you ended up scoring on that or not but it was like this is that's like epitomizes what Delaney was like against all odds like clearly he's got so many eyes on him on the defensive side of the ball he's still going to be successful >> and you talk about all the highlights like every kind of record thing that he has or the explosive plays and everything else. Another reason it was just everything was kind of uncontested with everybody is because the Delaney before the superstar who was a Pro Bowler and everything else. Delaney was a late round pick. He was a special teams guy. So even when he spoke you just knew he was unchallenged because he had sat in every chair to earn the spot that he was in. So that's like the underlying thing that is like everybody knows Delaney Walker 82. He's the man. But when you were on San Fran and making the team and being a special teams guy and having to get it that way is where a lot of that respect comes from. I think everybody. >> Yeah. And like you nailed it in the beginning too with like um Morris talking about Delaney was the best guy like the best tight end in the league. Like this is not a shot at the Tennessee market, but the media market's much smaller here. Like if he plays for a Giants or a Cowboys or one of those markets like he's a household name. >> This is a this is a Hall of Famer we're talking about. Like we're not we're not having the conversation of is he is he not. It's like, yeah, it's not if it's win, Delaney's gonna get in. >> Taylor, you you hit it on the head and both of you great answers on that because it's what I expected to hear from you. Put aside your friendships and and that you were teammates like the the player and the man is it's real. You said consistency and that's true because he still holds a bunch of receiving records for this franchise. My late broadcast partner, the late great Frank Wchek, held a lot of the tight end records for a long time. He was that basically in this his era. Like Frank was that for Steve McNair. He was that safety valve and ever reliable. >> He holds the Frank holds the franchise record for 99 straight games with a catch. He's second with 83. >> Wow. >> 83. That's like a hit streak in baseball. >> Yeah. And that that's without a quarterback. >> Ridiculous. like the name of Steve McNair. >> Yeah. >> I'm just saying like the the the the quarterback situation that Delaney was also going through as well. Like there was there's I mean a handful >> 83 straight games that speaks to that. All right. One followup and then you can finish up because it is your show and I'm not trying to take it away. >> You're doing a great job. >> Can I say one more thing about >> Taylor? My hope my hope for uh the Tennessee Titans fans and this this franchise is when this new stadium opens up, they induct this man into the the Ring of Honor. He deserves to be in it. I think it needs to happen. >> It's it's more people. I I like that. Thank you so much. But I think it's more pe for the Titans that >> there there's there's a handful of them there, but you need to be in that. I mean, I I you know, I mean, >> I don't have a vote, but you have my vote. I mean, for sure. I'm glad you brought that up because this Sunday at Nissan Stadium at halftime of the Titans Jets game, they are putting a 20th member into the Ring of Honor, and that's Chris Johnson, CJ2K. And it's well documented uh this year, the battle of his life with ALS. Shocking to see him in the shape that he's in. Uh, I call him superlative the most electric Titan in Titans history. Guy could hit a sixth gear like a Ferrari and be gone once he got to the line of scrimmage. I've never seen anybody as quick as him side to side and north and south, but he'll be put in the Ring of Honor. And, you know, I think one day 82's got a shot in there for sure. One follow-up question because clearly you guys vibe and you do great work together on y'all's platforms. Why does Delaney walk walker work so well with the busing with the boys platforms? >> Man, that's a great question. >> That is a great question. >> I think uh cuz I'm trying to figure out the PC answer. >> Yeah. And we need that. This is Titans Radio. We'll remind you that >> sports world is like begging for authenticity. Like they want it. They need it. like um the time of like suit and ties and very formal getups on not only like in podcast world but like mainstream media especially like the the person sitting on the couch listening in their car they want to have some sort of like I'm the same as them. I'm sitting with my friends and I'm hanging out. And that's what Busting with the Boys is kind of founded on is like the locker room, the the conversations, the camaraderie and the authenticity. And like you're not going to like Will and I when we started our podcast the first 20 episodes it was the biggest second guess you could ever feel in your life. Like it was me and Will calling each other should we should we change this? What if we do this differently? What if people this or like having a lot of our not decisions but thought processes be influences by exterior noise and Delaney which was so so much help for us in like episode one is what Delaney was in the locker room. He just came on the bus and did. And that's like that's the secret sauce of busting with the boys is like we have like just fun conversations. We talk ball, we talk about sports, but it's like you're getting a real inside look at what real athletes talk about in the locker room on their downtime, not X's and O's and all these things. And that's what makes Delaney such a huge part of Bust with the Boys universe. And that's a huge reason why these our fans like love him. Like they they want the meal. I need the meal cuz he comes in, he says things like doodoo pants or whatever he just said a couple minutes ago and like you s you're like yeah then maybe whatever he just said was doodoo pants and it's like you just you really uh you just enjoy it man it's easy to get along with >> you you hit on something because this is a this is what we call a tease in radio next week on Titans Uncut with Delaney Walker we're going to start a feature called tell him unc he's unc comes in and tells you the truth >> he's old I'm not that old >> no he's not that old but >> you're Yeah, needs to tell about tell the youngsters about you know what it was like in two days and you know just there'll be plenty of things to talk but he's unc comes in on the bus and he tells it like it is. That's he's a grounding accountability type partner for you guys. >> Accountability buddy. >> Yeah, he's an accountability buddy. >> That >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> That's what you are. You're an old accountability buddy. >> I'm not that old. >> You are old dude. You should have a great skin. >> 4 done. >> Don't do me like Kevin Hart. >> 42. >> Yeah, I'm 42. >> Dude, you are so old, >> man. >> I play for >> I would have guessed 40, but 42. >> You look older than me. >> No, I don't, bro. >> You You do. >> He has a great skin routine. >> I'm on a good I'm on a good skin routine. >> No doubt. >> I'm just saying like >> No doubt. I'm just saying. >> You know the phrase. >> You think I look old older than D. >> Listen guys, I'm not here to fight between you two. I will say this, Delena looks incredible for 42 years old. >> You do. >> Four 42 years old. >> Look older than all of us. So, we're good. >> Just a straight >> a stray for club right there. >> Club. My god, I love club. >> Club's been club last couple weeks. Come get the camera frame so we can see how old you look, dude. >> Who going to tell the truth here? Who actually came up with the idea Busting with the Boys podcast? Because I've heard stories that Will Compton used to sit in the locker room and create ideas in a notebook. >> Yeah. I don't think so. >> And then I thought I don't think Will's Will was Will was going to do a podcast with or without me. And you can I'll I'll speak for you, I guess. And he felt more comfortable doing one with me because of our friendship. Okay. >> And I was like, "Yo, I'm into that." when it comes to the bus and like like putting your foot down be like I want the bus. I think this is a great idea. Like >> that's also that was me. >> So like the the decision to have the bus in the studio was me. The decision as a whole to start a podcast was Will. >> Yeah. I knew the bus thing was you cuz I tried to buy it from you >> tried to buy it for episode one. >> Yeah. When you when you first got it. No, I knew about it. Remember I was like you showed me this like look at this bus I just got. >> Yeah. >> And I'm like >> you trying to do like a thrift shop. >> Yeah. like, man, I can do that. Would be a dope thrift shop where I can I can just be mobile with it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You you was into doing that cuz the the group we were working with, we were sitting down when we was like I want to say you were traveling in. >> I don't know if you were in town yet. >> I was like flying back. >> I was like sitting down doing a meeting with the with the production crew that we were working this and they were like, "Hey, what do you think about doing the doing it on a bus in the back?" And I was like, "Well, let's go see it." I saw the bus. It was destroyed. >> Destroyed. >> And I'm thinking, I mean, I don't want to, but I know Taylor's going to love this thing when he gets in here. >> I loved it. And Taylor's like, "Look, man, I'll put 10 grand into it." He bought it for two and he was like, "If it doesn't work, I'll just keep it in my backyard because I love it." >> Said, "But if it does work and we get it turned around fast because we had to start doing episodes because you you were going to go away again in the summer." >> So, we kind of staying though, right? Because we worked out at Vanderbilt that >> I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you're thinking you just have that OTAA time to, you know, do the things that we >> No, no, it was uh we had to bank for the season because I was like, I'm not doing pods during the football season. That's right. I will not for pods. So, we had to bank essentially. Yeah, >> the week's coming and then 16 more weeks cuz my biggest insecurity was like you have a bad game or the team loses then the fingers being pointed like look this guy's not focused on ball he's >> oh buddy and that that that year was the the peed year. >> Yeah, I got suspended for the first four >> that was and and and uh like I'm a free agent cuz that's when I I I uh I got injured with the Saints. I got injured with the Saints. Uh but I remember sitting on my couch on Sundays watching I remember the Chargers game. was a goal line situation and uh you guys one loss I forget what it is but I just remember you beat the Chargers >> that was when I was back we went two and two to start. >> That's right cuz we watched a couple games together >> and Yeah. And there was a couple of weeks like when we would lose a lot of like the noise in the media would be like when Taylor comes back everything's going to be fixed. I'm thinking what are we talking about? >> Yeah. And then the penalties were happening and people like he's focused on the pod. But a lot of that feeling there because we when we were decided that we were going to do the pod. I didn't know and I don't think Taylor knew at the time too that he was going to leave and go to did you go to Arizona or California? >> California. Carl's bad. Yeah. >> Cuz we were going to get rolling there in the offseason and he's like, "Hey, I'm going to I'm going to head to the West Coast for training." Kind of like threw me off and I was like, "Are you sure you're going to do this pile with me? Cuz I'll wait for you." The whole Titanic. like I'll wait for you, but if not, like your boys got to get going cuz again, I was going to be a free agent, so I didn't even know if I was going to be on a roster. >> And that's why I just wanted to take a shot at doing podcasting, but he's like, "No, I 100% I'm in. I'll do it." So, we waited until April. Then this bus thing comes up. We got to do work on the bus before we actually get rolling. >> Got done in 10 days, though. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, they've turned it around just like you were like, "Dude, I'll do this." They get it done in 10 days and it works out. >> I'm like going to Home Depot looking at paint. I'm like, I kind of like this gray. It's kind of gray is kind of And I'm like sending Will's like Will's like whatever you want. Will never cared about the interior design. >> Didn't we have an air conditioner in there the first episode? >> No. No. Well, we got an air conditioner installed. We have to turn it off cuz it was so loud. And then we're by the train tracks and then our brains thought, "Oh, it's hot. Looks tarpet, so there's shade." Which really just made it more hot. >> And so, dude, it was a sweat box in there. >> One week we shot 12 episodes. >> Yep. I remember. >> And one week, like end of July, early four cans. After me, it was just back to back to back. Is that how y'all did it? We just start taking shots. It's like we knew Jaylen Ramsey was in town. Like we messaged, DM Quinton Nelson came to town. Like we just think of >> think of people like Sean Johnson. You weren't on for that one, but there was like, you know, anytime you could just figure out, okay, this could be a potential guest for the bus. >> Michael, too, or you knew Mike, but like I met Mike for the first time on the bus. >> Yeah. And Mike had like a performance coach. It's like, okay, let's bring him on. Just anybody who who could be on the bus. We're just trying to get him in because we were gonna backlog because again whenever I got injured I knew that I was still going to play that year. It was like I knew I could leave at any time. So you would you would also structure to where you had enough you had enough in the library because before games like when we'd be in the hotel I'd sit in the closet with the uh with the recorder just doing the intro for the interview. >> Just knock that out. We'd put you know we had a few >> Why would you sit in the closet? >> Sound. I'm just thinking in my brain like let me go to the quietest place up >> guys that tarped a bus in the >> We're new to the game. >> That makes sense. That makes sense because if you're, you know, near the hotel door and people going in and out, you know. >> Yeah. I'm just thinking be in the quietest spot I could be. Let's just hurry up and rip an intro. I'll send it off. >> But why podcast? What made you even think about starting a podcast? Like who was doing podcastes at this time where you felt like I can be great at this? cuz I I I think y'all introduced me into podcast. Like I don't think I ever heard of a podcast until you guys was like, "Come on to podcast." I'm like, >> there was uh so like our friendship when he came over from Infree HD, it' be him and Mike Camper. They'd be having their own breakfast club and I would like kind of walk over like, "Yo, what are you guys laughing about? I kind of want to laugh." And so I'd sit down with him and then Will and I the foundation of like our friendship kind of came over like Ben Greenfield, uh a couple other podcasts, Joe Rogan, those types of things that we would listen to. And Ben Greedfield was like a biohacker. So it was like how do we get that 1% better during the season? Well, he says the best way to like hack this and do that protocols sauna protocols. So we would listen to that stuff all the time and that's like kind of like how our friendship started. But you were you would write that down like starting a podcast actually having that this is like I mean clearly Rogan was already so massive but like podcasts were kind of starting to become a thing and there I like I'm not saying this is like a look at us but it felt like and we should be checked on this is like I think there was no NFL players doing a podcast. There was no like athletes really like that were active doing a podcast and so when he approached like I don't think we ever thought about it as like being the first but it's I'm so glad we were. >> Yeah. I I just I always found myself listening to podcast over music in the car and when I started writing this down I think it was either 2016 or in the offseason going into 17 but just kind of talking goals and goals beyond football whether it was real estate. So I wanted to do something like entrepreneurial like in my head and I listened to when I was on IR um I remember listening to I consumed a lot of Bigger Pockets podcast there were real estate podcasts. Joe Rogan I listened to a lot of his stuff. uh McAfee was going. You had JJ Reic, the old man or he he was at first it was the JJ Reic pod, but then he left the ringer. Ringer wouldn't let him have his IP. He he changes the name to old man in the three. But I was just always fascinated with podcast and comedy podcast I was into. But I would just always listen to those. And yeah, I just remember writing in my journal like be first NFL active player to have a podcast with a million downloads. I have to go find that notebook. I still have the notebook at my house. And then um when that year happened with Tennessee where I didn't play because Rashan like in my situation, I would need somebody to go down or get hurt. And so I was behind, you know, Rashawn they drafted in the first round. They traded up and drafted him. I was coming off my Liz Frank. Uh Wesley Woodyear was ahead of me in base. Nothing happened to where I'm getting that tape out there. Cuz when Titan signed me, it was like a one year, $2 million deal. It's like you already know you're going to be on the team. Now I'm going to be the guy with this oneear resume. I'm going to be the guy that's probably another minimum guy in free agency because there's not a whole lot of tape. And so that was kind of the moment when my wife was challenging me to. I remember being around whether it's Taylor, uh, Derek Morgan, uh, Logan Ryan, and they had sent some off-hand stuff of like, yo, you should have a podcast. And that was almost like the peer that I heard it from was almost validating what I had written in the in the notebook to where I felt more comfortable about like, yeah, man, this would be really cool. And then whenever I got Taylor to do it with me, it was just a massive relief on like, you know, doing it alone versus like with a best friend of mine. So that's where the whole conversation started to take place. We end up shaking hands at at Best Walk over there off Charlotte >> after the winning end game where we lost to the Indianapolis Colts in 2018 >> and that was the infamous Blake Gabbert watch daddy spin it game. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was just something I thought would be sick. I felt like they're listening to enough, especially with the ringer stuff with JJ Reic and seeing that, you know, the way ads and everything else is, it seemed like there was opportunity there and then trying to trying to stand up or build something just in my mind or in my world didn't know what industry it was going to be in yet. Doing something where hopefully you could eventually turn it into something where you control your time and you know do something that helps you transition out of football cuz the game was going to end for us at some point. I was thinking I mean it seems like I'm on my back nine the way the year with Tennessee went. So that was kind of just the the element of, you know, jump when you can afford to drown. And that's kind of all I thought of when we started standing this thing up. >> I mean, I know y'all blown up. Everyone y'all everywhere, but did y'all think that the universe was going to be like it is today? >> No. >> No shot. Zero. Like, yeah, I remember just being like, "Hey, it'd be safe to get a couple of sponsors." And like Ajax Turner came around, which is like a like a regional anniser. >> Regal Realy. >> Shout out. Like I truly would never have guessed this. We had uh Kirk Herbs here on the podcast a few weeks ago as we were like announcing our ESPN show or he we were talking about it and he's like what is the goal? Like what is the like what do you want? What pinnacle? And we're kind of like I think we're just going to keep doing what we've been doing and just continue to watch doors open up because eventually like I mean entertainment anything that you go and like try to accomplish that is like a harder thing to do. It's like eventually someone's going to tell you you're not good enough and that eventually will come to us or ESPN will tell us hey we're done with you but it's like we're just going to keep enjoying this thing because it's awesome. We get like guys like you and Clay, Chase Daniels is now a part of our universe, this ESPN show, Josh Pate, and it's like we have thoughts of like what could be next and what to do, but it's always like we've been lucky enough where things just kind of fall in our lap like this option or that or like, hey, what do you guys think about doing this and just continue to have as much fun as possible because if you're not having fun, like the audience will notice, they will see it and then then it takes away from everything. >> The whole thought was we just have a podcast. Yeah. I was like optimistic that we could have a podcast, a once a week podcast to where you're able to get paid for something that you love doing and you get paid to be yourself. But to think about the vlogs that came from it, the locker room that came from it, you know, all the pods that we're with or all the shows that we have now, plus working with ESPN and everything else, like that was never that was never the thought. It's like, hey, try and do something that you where you can be yourself and if you can make money doing it, that would be fantastic. But now we're kind of just in a pocket to where opportunities come up and hey, do do we think we would love doing this? Do we think it takes away from kind of the time or the priorities we do want to have and we get to sit and kind of have those kinds of conversations where it's like, oh, these problems are a positive thing. We just got to figure out what we want to do. >> Man, that's great. I think that's something we can unless you have another question. I think I think we're about to wrap. >> Yeah, I think that's something we can end off on, man. Just really hearing about it and and hearing it come from your mouth is crazy cuz, you know, I remember just seeing you guys doing it. >> And I remember the first episode, I'm like, I had a great time. Even though it got me in trouble, I was just like, they're actually good at what they're doing. And then I remember y'all calling me was like, you want to do a show? I didn't know what to think at first. I'm like, >> yeah. I'm sure the mule was born, man. The mule was born was born. >> S&P 500. That was a fail. >> Yeah, that's that was a fail. >> It was a It was a fail, but it was It was a It wasn't a fail. It was a fail maybe because of the name we was being was we been kind of being sued and stuff, but for the name. >> One of the iterations we threw at the wall. We're like, "Ah, let's >> I mean, the characters end up not working out for us. >> It didn't It didn't work out. The character stuff, but >> I mean, at the end of the day, we still doing the show." >> Turned into the locker room. >> Turned into the locker room, >> which is awesome. >> Ah, yeah. Go ahead. >> It uh I remember when you guys were ideizing this in the locker room. I remember having a conversation with your locker in the corner and you go, "Yeah, I think we're talking about doing a pod and I found this bus and I think we're thinking I'm like I stood right there. I was like, I think that could work." >> Oh, you thought that? >> Yeah, cuz I'm like it's different. It was different. The Listen, the camaraderie that y'all have is what literally drives the bus. But the whole bus concept, I'm like, that's literally thinking outside of the box. And I'm like, that that could actually work. And here you are like it's I mean you guys are crushing it. >> I had a buddy who I went to high school with Rob Muji and he came into us like last year. >> Yeah. >> And he's like sitting with us and he's like I'll be honest man when you called me and told me about this I thought this was going to fail. I thought it sounded so terrible. There's no way this is going to work out. He's like look at you guys now man. >> Just the basic idea though like you went through you didn't go like full tilt boogie with the what you explained but I was like I think that works. I hell everybody is starting to jump on this platform, you know, and starting to get these things. Go for it. And >> here you are. I think it's great. >> Well, uh, this has been an incredible show. An incredible first show for you, Delaney Walker. >> Dude, pretty. >> Thanks to our special guests, >> Taylor Lewan and Will Compton busting with a voice for being the first guest on Titans Uncut with Delaney Walker. For Delaney, I'm Red Bryant. Thanks for listening to Titans