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Today's guest is a man who is an inspiration to people all over the world. He was once the Ohio football player of the year. He was a big 10 freshman of the year. He's a guy from Ohio who has turned his life around in incredible fashion.
Ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise for Maurice Corrut. Get arrested, guess who, get the message. Ladies and gentlemen, Maurice Corrut, baby. When we were trying to think of guest here after Anthony Gonzalez in front of mine, send her, told me to go fuck myself.
We were trying to piece together a list of humans that we would appreciate. And you had been on our show before and we loved everything that you said on the show. But we had no idea about how you would feel about coming back to Columbus. And then when I reached out to you, you said you stay here.
What does Columbus mean to Maurice Corrut? And not only just your story, but now everything hindsight looking back in life. Oh, this is a basically home. I first thought of by saying, oh, it's.
Thank you, Maurice. I appreciate that. There we go. A lot of them.
You guys know a lot of them. I mean, too many. But what does Columbus mean to Maurice Corrut? Oh, no.
So it's like a redemptive side. You know, I came here as an 18 year old kid. We came out. You know, we won the championship.
You had, you know, every hottest you could possibly want to have as a kid. Oh, yeah. You know, this is this is also the same city where, you know, I committed a robbery case and whole life kind of like flipped upside down, you know, a few blocks away, I was in jail and then to go and everything I've done in life to redeem myself in prison, get my life back on track. My family's back there to get my family back in line.
My wife, she's not my wife yet. We'll get married next time. Congratulations. I have a congratulations.
There we go. But I said, it's 14 years, 14 years we've been together. She graduated from my house. But to get it all the way back, to bring it all the way back and to redeem yourself in front of people who rooted for you, who cheered for you.
This is where I basically built myself. This is how the world known, had a chance to meet Maurice Corrut. Of course, I came from Youngstown, but there's no place like Columbus. There you go.
Yeah. But if you hear, you know, that the city's growing, the city's booming, it's people everywhere. It's a great place to live, a great place to be. And the reception from people now is a more human reception instead of athletic where, you know, they may have a cousin, a brother, an uncle who had been through something and danced to see me redeem myself.
I get that sort of interaction from people. So this is a great scene to be and a great scene to live in. I live right up here in Westerville, but I love it. I'm so thankful that you said yes to join us here tonight because your story, although it's inspirational, it doesn't get talked about enough, when you were on a football field, you were a fucking animal.
You were an absolute animal on the field and between the white lines there. How would you describe the way you played and whenever you would go into a game, what was the mindset whenever you were playing for the Buckeyes? Because you were young, you were a freshman, you were just a little kid out there. Yeah, I tell you what, a lot of my personality and how I play got shaped from two things.
Our high school coaches, you know, was Tommy Daniels, he was a Josh McDaniel's father. Right? Well, uh, Patriots, Patriots, right? Well, he was almost a coach.
Yeah. He literally turned the plane around. Just a wild move. I'm sure his dad's a much better guy.
Sorry. No, a lot came from there. So, um, he was a guy who set me down and broke the entire game down to me. So as much as I was like, you know, very physical and super aggressive, I modeled a lot of what I did after him just breaking the game down, understanding from like an artistic standpoint.
But the second half came from, I used to watch a bunch of takes of my Tyson, so I used to watch my Tyson how aggressive he was. And, uh, you know, I would, um, for about 10th, 11th, and 12th grade year, I trained in a boxing gym. So anybody who's ever box before, you start to realize that if you box or fight, you become like naturally aggressive towards people. And that's what kind of happened on football field.
But I was like, the magic sauce, everything. That's what I did for putting to it. That's kind of my thing. This is the, I don't, I don't know how anybody feel.
I felt like a game coming out. This, this has to be like some of the funniest shit. I've heard of telling you, I didn't know what to expect. Like I had no clue what to expect.
Honestly, right? It's like, you get like, I got a feeling right now to just feel like so fucking good and you forward can have it. Yeah. I don't know what y'all got going on.
It's like everybody can feel it. You're an incredible talker. You're, you do, uh, you have podcasts. You do a lot of great things.
You're an incredible speaker. Do you feel obligated at this point to kind of give back to, to people and to be this role model and leader for, uh, not just Ohio, but basically for a lot of people who've been through a struggle or anything like that. Yeah. I just thought this, um, when I was going through it, you know, life is a lot more information is a lot easier to share.
But when I was going through, like my stressful time, right, uh, I kicked out of school. Just thinking about this 19 years old, I kicked out of school. Um, at that time, I couldn't do the work because I had some, I didn't do the work for me. Uh, so I couldn't go back to school to.
Oh, wait. Yeah. Yeah. I was expecting.
I was expecting that for me. Let's do it. I was a doctor. No, but it's, it's serious stuff.
You know, so you kicked out of school. You have no money. You're separated from your friends and I don't care who you are and I got my scholarship check. So as a kid, that's a lot to do.
If you're an adult and here and somebody catch a job and catch friends and cut these things off as a ton for any kid to like, I just, and so, um, so, so, to understand how to feel and to understand like the depression and stress to get that off of me and getting past it now when somebody comes to me, that direct message meeting and call me, uh, I only, I only drug and I call Triggerson. So when they come to a facility, they come in and they're a broken spirit. You know, so, so, no, so, but when they come in, some people can do a response where other people can't. Sorry to interrupt you.
I know I got unbelievable. It's just, it's great to share the mentality with people that it takes to get over their shit. You know, say it's only a shit. So I'm not not getting anybody who drinks.
I just don't drink a drug anymore. And for me, it just wasn't a place in my life, right? Hey, I'm like, you know, it's a, you're really like, honestly, I have friends who have become completely sober individuals and people that have changed their life. I mean, I go through bouts of every once in a while, except for whenever people literally pay me to drink.
That happens. I mean, a natural light was just like, um, so this is what we want to do. We want to pay you this amount of money. We want to animate one here, stand up stories.
And then we want to take you to like three events where you just chug natural light for our smart friends. And I'm like, I mean, I guess I can do that for you, but I'm going to kill myself up there. That's what we're looking for. But your, your story is so I honestly can say personally that whenever I'm like going through something, there might be a day where I wake up.
Everybody assumes that I wake up every morning just ready to take over the world, which is the case normally. But whenever I'm not, I look to Maurice, I look to like your posts, your Instagram, your Twitter, and then listen to the things that you've said. So you've done a lot for me. That's why I've been very thankful that you've come out here.
Thank you. The boys have some questions for you, if you don't mind. Can I ask you a question about the big case? Is that okay?
You go around the country talking about this, right? He's a cop. Okay. So, wait, how deep is this question?
There was a day. I want to be involved. 2006, I think you're going through a trial and there was a day where a police officer tried to stop your car, led to a pursuit. When they stopped you, they found you with a bulletproof vest, assault rifle, two handguns, and a katana sword.
My question is, what do you have for breakfast on a day that starts like that? That's a hell of a day you had planned. Why do you start with, oh, Bill, I don't know how you get that one going. All right.
Today's the day. Today's the day. Well, there's a back story to it, right? So you don't have anything to tell.
I have a real question for you because you're such an inspiration to not only me but everybody in this room. I mean, and to looking at you where you're at now from where you were is less than to be learned from everybody. There's no doubt this is going to be a movie one day. If I have to pick somebody to play you in the movie about your life, who would you hand pick?
Hey, Maurice, be your own man here. You make your own decisions. You don't listen to these people. I don't know.
I don't know. Somebody, what do you say? I don't think it's going to be easy. Easy.
Just get on your phone real quick and Google that. It is the big 10. Whoa. No, have you thought about?
I assume that guy's the he's saying me from puking earlier. So I guess I know from alcohol. The thought of having a movie about you in this whole thing that has to be a pretty cool feeling though. Have you given much thought of that or any steps about that?
Yeah, I'll tell you like this man. I try to inspire myself. But even more, I want my life to represent like somebody who just like never fucking gave up. You know what I'm saying?
Like seriously. I mean, you know, somebody says CSG. Oh, different. They say discipline.
Yeah. Oh, it's not what I would have guessed. I didn't know what she was saying. No, no, no.
That was like a married thing like different days. I thought it was a dentist. What was that? What is that?
No, so like, so you know, you have to find out different things that motivate you, right? And, uh, it's going great. This is necessary. You're serious.
I'm sorry. I told you. So, this is great shit. This is great.
We'll edit that out. I'll tell you what, Maurice Claret, very much loved in Columbus. Very much an awesome man. Very much the best.
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So I used to say, you know, different discipline, same day. And I would find things that I would be disciplined on that would help me move forward. Right. So I use Twitter or Instagram as a space for accountability, right.
So I post stuff and just to kind of make sure that I'm doing the same shit that keeps me moving forward. And sometimes we put yourself out there. It's a lot easier for like, people don't even know they hold you accountable. Like, you know, where the fuck you at or you run the day or you exercising.
So I used to tell myself, like, take a exercise about 10 years. Pretty fucking discipline group up here. But thank you for acknowledging it. But that's sort of like my thing.
Keep your track. I don't know, man. You know, as an athlete, you have so much energy. Once you're done playing.
Please, please continue. That's not funny. But you would imagine. So we go through all these years, we do all this practice and you have so much energy and aggression and find a platform to put that on on a daily basis.
It's important because if not, you go fucking crazy. And I'll say this in a serious way, you all can have fun and have a good time and drink it. There's a lot of guys who know who are fucked up and they'll end up drinking and holding their problems there. And so you know, you have to encourage me to go to this platform.
This is like a fucking great time. I'll tell you that you're right though. It is something that's real. And I think there is something to be said about speaking something into existence.
Like, whatever I say something publicly, normally I have no idea if it's really going to happen. But if I say it enough, I'm kind of forcing myself to have to back it up, right? So it's like, yo, I'm going to be the WWE Universal Champion at some point like that. All right, that's going to happen.
That's going to happen. That is going to happen. Now, I don't know how many hand jobs I'm going to have to give. These are things that are going to happen.
And now if they don't, everybody's think I'm just a lion asshole. So it's like, I ain't going to do that. I ain't going to go out like, no, bitch. I'm going to make these things happen.
But to do that, I think it's a real thing to do that. And a lot of people, I don't think appreciate the fact of when people put their goals out there, when people are willing enough to expose the things that they're going through, they don't even think about how it's potentially helping the person that's putting it out more so than helping everybody else. Absolutely. Accountability is a big, I'll tell you this man, accountability is a motherfucker.
And the woman back there was building me for 14 years. My brother's also back there. Good beard on him too. He's got like a Rick Ross.
Oh, yeah. He was the first one to turn the corner. And I was like, fuck. They're your accountability.
Accountability. Oh, no. I can't build it, but it's a real thing. Yeah, but you know, man, you start from nothing.
I got a prison for $400. You know what I'm saying? And to go around the world and speak to save money, to end up building business, you know, I'm probably 140 people now. What?
I have 12 employees and I think about disappearing every day. No, it's serious. But like, so this is the story. You're like, you build your life, you put it back together, you're staying home, you're staying hungry, and you're constantly moving forward.
I want to be somebody in here at whatever point they may be if they go into some shit, but like, yo, fuck, I did it. You know what I'm saying? I went for $400. I went from the NFL.
My lady, she went to Walmart. My family saw me struggling. My family saw me struggling. Drinking my family saw me struggling with all the shit and to get your shit back together from now.
Like that's everything. Oh, yeah. You're awesome. The guy is about to ask you the next question.
Zero discipline. Zero accountability. Name's Dick. So I watched a documentary recently on prison.
Easy. Take it easy. Are you a question? Are you a question?
Me? Can you not? It's a serious question. It's about prison.
Adam Sandler went to prison. He stole his wife's Bentley and got a DUI. He was a football player. And the warden recruited him strictly to play for his prison football team.
Did that happen to you? Is that a real thing? The documentary, man. So I will tell you this in a summer proud.
I didn't play prison football. I didn't let a championship basketball. Let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, prison basketball champions.
Maurice. Cora. Did you play other prisons? But there was a football team?
It was real question. By the way, this is again once for me. So you guys like gone on a bus and went and played other prisons? No.
So you play intramural. We played a hard team name. No. So if you have a prison, you have 2200 guys inside of institution.
So everybody picks their seven or eight guys and you play the whole institution. To be honest with you, the crowd is like this in prison door basketball. So prison, they got the alcohol. They got everything and they enjoy watching the guys play the game.
So were you the first one on draft? I was. I was taking this fucking damn near Heisman. I don't know if he can play basketball for shit, but he's going to be on our team for sure.
What you guys got over there in the D-block, bro? That's all. Are you good? You about 10 years ago.
I just jogged now. But I can shoot. There we go. That's the ice blower.
I can't see too many people back there back here. Yeah. That's that one fucking guy. That's the guy from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Diehard, Michigan, over, Reins van. Jeffrey Gorman has a question. Well, when you come on our show and get nice and deep and talk about your personal ideas, I want to switch it over to football. Is that Dr.
Phil? That's a bad Dr. Phil. I want to know.
Here's the thing I remember about you. You ran violently. A violent ball carrier. Who did you want to be when you were this big and you saw those guys in the NFL playing?
Who did you model yourself at? I'm not sure if people remember this guy. You've heard of Christian. That's where he went.
I did Nigerian nightmare. Yeah. So whenever I used to see him, he would violently run through people. And I remember since I was a bigger guy, I used to watch Jerome Bennis.
What's up? Hey, Donner, Steelers. Get off the wheels on the bus. Go Randy, Randy, Randy, Randy, Randy, Randy.
That was forced in like every kid's ears that grew up in Pittsburgh. I swear to God, I popped out of my mom's vagina and they were like, here's a deal. Jerome Bennis is a boss and the wheels on the bus go round and round. Pledge of allegiance.
Wheels on the bus. You weren't that big, my friend. He was a big boy. By the way, you walked in today and I think all of us, we all had side conversations behind your back, no offense.
We're like, oh, Clarence looks like he could really fucking do it right now. You're sticking on a pretty, you're on a pretty, why boys, I don't know. All you get, I don't know. Wish us now.
I just jog. That's it. Same. You do know what her body and your tits are decubbed.
Jesus. You look like you can play right now if you had to. That's what I'm talking about. Next guy, he crashed an RV into a MetLife stadium.
Allegedly, allegedly. That would definitely go. No, that's a definite. That's a true story.
Totally true. Yeah. There's a video out there that's kind of screwed us over now. With the Red Zone, is that what's called?
Yes. For all the things that, for all the people that you helped and like changed lives, are one that sticks out the most seriously. Is there one that sticks out? I don't know.
They all come to say, you know, you'll find somebody, you know what, this one guy, Corey, I'll say this guy Corey, he wouldn't mind if I said his name, but he was the guy who struggled at other treatment institutions. And I kind of told him like, you know, how treatment works and trying to get stuff together. And I really didn't think he was going to stick it out just because when the guy goes to treatment, there's so much discipline, you know what I'm saying? When he stuck it out and he graduated, you know, he's been with us for about, I want to say about a year and a half now.
He's clean. He does his music. He goes and throws his concerts. You know, God is, he has a relapse.
So it's encouraging to see guys like that. But I'm telling you, some of the most powerful conversations I remember, was a mother who had called me and her son was a college baseball player, but he had seen my show on TV and was like, you know, maybe if you call him, maybe he could get you some assistance. So I remember, you know, talking to her and then like encouraging people just to get inside treatment. So I don't know.
There's a few people, I just a few instances where, you know, you're just happy that people get themselves back together. You know, if you ever wonder. I want to see with that question. That was a great question.
Zito, fucking journalist Zito. That was my first question. I'll go to the second one. It's on me.
Next guy, he was a big 10 angler, a fisherman for Iowa. Never casted a single cast. So we alluded to it earlier. Maurice, you were, you were built like a frick shit house when you were still playing, but I think you were built at like five eight.
And when you walked in here, I thought you were like fucking six five. So you turned like eight inches since you graduated. No, no, try to lean up a little bit. Maybe it might be the shoes I guess, well, a paper max is all right.
When you came in, when he was doing his gruden and he was talking about your quarterback, you were the back going wild. And I thought if you guys maybe had a different quarterback during that run, you might have one each game by 60 instead of 20. Yeah, I know motherfucker. I watched the game.
I'm 10 doors. He was no better. No, I love great crits of crakers. I did a lot for to.
I wish he was here somewhere. He might be. I don't fucking know. To piggyback on the seats question, do you really feel like you were talking about God's plan or whoever's plan or whatever, like that one life had to be sidetracked for a while in order to improve like literally thousands of lives now.
You know what I mean? Like that's an incredible thing to think about. So I can set the microphone down. If my family came here, I decided this conversation coming down here on 71.
I said, man, I don't think my life was, I wasn't meant to play football. I just really said, and as weird as it sounds, when I was a young grubby grayer, I was like, man, because I really want to play football. I really want to go out there and score touchdowns and get like my ego on it. Right.
And so just the way I see things play out and how peaceful I am, how happy I am, how how center I am with life and how much advice I can give to others, how many people that I help now in comparison to what I would have been doing for play football. I 100% in my mind, I firmly believe that that just wasn't for me. I think it was a gift I played for a year. It was wonderful.
But my body, I wasn't supposed to beat my head. I wasn't supposed to beat my body up. I wasn't supposed to do it. And now I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
You know, I have a family. I'm happy. And I'm just like, yeah, you're supposed to be a different kind of hero. And you are.
Murray, I have a question, please. Oh, thank God you're about. Jesus Christ. That was a great answer, man.
I was pissing back here. We were. No, for yes. No, for yes.
This is not, this is not bang. It's paying. Nick, did you ask your question? No, I'm about to right now.
This is going to be a good one. Yeah, it's going to be hard hitting because I am a published journalist in the New York Post. That's up today. So I just want you to go.
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In the guy, the suit that he was wearing, the NHL player, in the pocket, he forgot one of those like pocket squares. So he actually used his wife's panties and put them in there. So this video from the NHL Awards has got like 200 million views. And he's hugging this kid in the jacket.
This is his wife's black thong. And Nick, uncovered this information and tweeted it out. Now he's in a New York Post. He's in the fucking UK Daily Mail.
This guy literally is the penny band over there. Just doing my job. Yeah, you are your legend. As a man with multiple degrees, I have to ask you this.
Go ahead. You went to Ohio State. I heard some things. Maybe you received some verbal tests.
What was the toughest course in your tenure? What's a verbal test? A verbal test would be if I were to ask you a question, when did Christopher Columbus sail to America A, 1700? B, 1400 and 92?
C, 1800. Is the NCAA out there? Is that how you mentioned it earlier that people were doing your work for you? Whenever you were cutting like, oh, you couldn't go back to school.
How did that work? West Virginia, we had something called athletic coaching education was a major. And guys would literally go in there and watch movies. They would write a review on it and have to give a test.
Like the Rudy was the final. Like movie Rudy was the final. They were like, what did he do to do this? It was like A, have fun.
B, work hard. C, have grit. Or D, all the above. And guys were like, D, they're like, that's right.
You can graduate with fucking honors. Fake story, by the way. Rudy. Fake story in case anyone didn't know.
See? Yep. Easy. Joe Montana, is that a fake story?
Fuckin' Joe Montana can't have anybody else getting any shine. He's in those sketches commercials doing a fucking old man role. But the story about academics in college is something that comes out on a very regular basis. Your story is a real one.
What was it like though? What was it? I really speak for most places. I think for those who don't know, we have a group of athletes who come in from Felling School District, which a lot of these guys do.
It's really a racket. I can only talk about it in a serious way. And you have a bunch of smart people who fool the kids to believe like, hey, come to African American Studies or Communications. And the kid thinks he's getting over on a program.
But they're actually putting you on a fluff class to keep you eligible. And so that's what happens. You know, you get put inside of these classes. And as the kids are saying, hey, all I got to do is go to class and show up in everything.
It's taking care of everything. It's kind of taking care of. And that's kind of what happened in my situation, in most young kids' situations. But you know what it is?
And even when I go speak now, it's to make the kid aware, and if you're not really getting over on a program, you're actually being used in an college with so many people who's educated, you should be, I do this story. This one less smiles was down in LSU. So at that time, Litter Fortinet was there. And I asked Litter Fortinet, you know, what do you want to become?
And he said, I want to become a physical trainer. I said, you motherfucking live, right? By the way, the fact that you're just building the state of Tylenor for Nett, who has looked like a 50 year old man, he's in the same. No, but I really said it.
And just to have like, look, you can't, I don't see you can't out here. And so I say, unless my house, would you put your kids in the same class that you put your star athletes in? And he had like a dumb ass look on his face. But it was a serious question.
I said, because you're purposely mis-educating people. And so even if these guys couldn't qualify, I say this everywhere, I go, I speak towards administration and athletic directors, where it doesn't matter. Even if these guys can't are not prepared academically, well, let's set up this okay, you read on the eighth grade level right now, but you perform very well. Let me bring you to a 12 grade level by the time you hear you'll have kids, you'll have a wife, you'll represent our university.
Let me improve the core person of who you are. So that's the conversation that you'll be had. Like me going to one of the studies or me going to African American studies or me going to these bullshit classes does nothing for me as a human being. You know what I'm saying?
Yep. And so these are things I'm talking about. It's real. I have a lot of teammates that their schooling in high school was non-existent.
They were just getting pushed through strictly because they were such good athletes. It was like, we can't have these kids fail because then they won't have a chance to go to college and change their life. So they just get pushed through. And then when they get to college, same thing, that athletic coaching education, things are real thing.
And then the only hope is you make it to the NFL. If you don't make, yeah, only 2% of people make it to the NFL. If you don't make the NFL, your entire rest of your life is fucked. You got nothing because you can't.
Most guys, like whenever these wonderlick scores come out and they're like, oh, this guy scored a four. I was like, that guy can't read. So we should, let's not, that guy, great football, but the reason why you got to force because he can't read it. And he's probably about a semester away from getting a degree from that college too.
So let's go ahead and think about that. I think you're doing like incredible work for the community whenever you push that. And also, don't you think, hell yeah, I think you're doing great work for us. I've said this.
If you're, I've said this on numerous occasions, somebody else said it. They got a lot more pub out of it. But it's what I'm here for. More ideas will come.
People can take them all the time. There should be like a professional athlete major or like a life major that college athletes can get that teach you how to do taxes, that teach you how to do your bills, that teach you how to read if you can't read, that teach you how to be a great husband, that teach you how to do all these things. That is something that should happen. And if we really care at all about people, I think that's something that should happen, honestly.
And I was saying this, man, just like think about this. People would know me in Columbus, Ohio, in America, for five, right? And so some of these athletes are some of the most notable people from their communities, the most notable. And you know, what is, if the greatest thing you can do is take a camp back to your community after going to college, you kind of feel yourself.
You know what I'm saying? So most of these guys, when they done playing football, they'll say, you know, let me throw a camp and let me entertain people even more. And I say, not as not really the goal when you've been around any elite university, you've been around boosters and business owners, and you have social equity. You know what I'm saying?
And so like, these are conversations I try to have with these young guys. And so now you're not just getting pushed through a system to falling out and, you know, just a piece of shit. And now, you know, and I'll take honestly, right? That's what a drinking comes from, because you depress, you're stressed, you're scared to go out in public, you can't communicate very well.
And I'm just bringing up the conversation for guys who may not be like, have the courage to say it. Yeah, because there's real fulfillment in that type of stuff. And when you don't have any fulfillment, you fall back on everything else. You fall back on everything else.
And I'll just keep up. I'll push this conversation. My life only changed. It didn't change for some like, you know, hocus pocus reason to change for fucking reading, you know, I made a change from when I was in prison.
I fucking ran every day at the book reports, the economist fortune for anything I can possibly and one basketball champion. Jesus. But that's it. That's how you fucking change itself.
It's the information you consume. Now we have to internet now you consume new stuff and then you become a new person and you start to figure out who you are and how you can launch who you are from the platform that you have. So hopefully an ex-athlete hears this and it pops into the brain and say, hey, you know, either I'm fucking working on audio books and working on a physical book. I just got excited.
My girl just gave me a book before I came here. You know, so I can't wait to dig into that. But that's the shit that changes you. You know, I'm saying I know we're entertaining ourselves here.
I'll show it bad because no, no, listen, this is incredible stuff. This is incredible. This is last night. Last night, I got like 50 beers thrown at me to chug and tonight I feel like I'm learning so much about the world.
I mean, I did chug a bottle of wine earlier and a seven dollar beer from the alcoholic kid down here that you're calling. But Maurice, I can't, when I say this, I mean it. Tonight's conversation exceeded my expectations. You choosing to come here is absolutely incredible and for myself and all of these people, thank you so much for everything you're doing for the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, one more time, Maurice, correct. Hey, that was awesome. So when I was showering with a dude, I don't know how you follow that. No, Maurice, that was amazing, man.
I can't thank you enough for doing that. You're doing literally the Lord's work, dude. You're the best. I have no idea what to do right now.
Hey, that's really safe. That guy, I got literally, 140 employees. I would kill myself. Honestly, I'll wake up in the morning and get a text message from one of these guys.
And I'm like, how the fuck am I there boss? He's changing the world one step at a time. I can't thank him enough for stopping by. His ladies awesome, his brother is great.
Maurice Clairette's a living legend. I learned so much there, man. Whenever we were sitting on stage with him, it's very difficult. Because right before I brought him out there, I introduced all of you, but right before that, I did like an hour long stand of comedy set, right?
Where I'm telling stories about doing dumb things and a crowd is having a good time. And the people that came out to our shows were the greatest humans owners. I cannot wait to get to Detroit, Iowa, and Minnesota to reschedule those shows because we had so much fun. And I think I speak for everybody there.
This was an awesome weekend because the people that listen to our shows are the people that are the backbone of this entire operation. They really are. I mean, the backbone of this entire operation with people. So to get out there and get a chance to really see people and meet people and chat with people and feel the love was awesome for me.
I think I speak for everyone. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Todd, you've done a lot of shows. How would you compare these podcast shows that we did the last couple of nights to other shows that you've seen or done?
I have more fun on these shows. How come? Because of the variety. Like you said, I get to watch your stand up.
We had a chance to do to be funny and then to have these interesting guests come in and learn about them and mix it up and see them have a good time intermixed with something that at least Lee Morris case really hadn't done before. Like that was that's incredible to me. I agree. The way he explained to us how he felt during it afterward made it all worth it.
The way the fans reacted during the show and after made it all worth it to watch everybody that I work with every day shine in their own moment made it absolutely worth it. I love it. I love it. I love it so much.
I agree. I had like a proud dad moment whenever and I'm not older than most of it. It is a is an interesting thing. But whenever I would bring you guys out on the stage and it was like, all right, here's your time to almost listen to people saying thanks for everything that you've done.
That was so cool to me and to watch you guys battle your fears which every some people had some real fears of speaking in public. I think it was a really cool thing. Maurice Cleret said that whenever he was standing side stage and he was about to come in, he said he had the same feeling as if it was about to be a game again like pent up energy. And I want to know was it like that for you guys as well?
Yeah. So like the first night in Pittsburgh was like a real nervousness I think because I haven't ever been on stage before. But then once you do that, the second and third night was more of an excited nervousness like you got before you were playing a game like it's just like, I don't know, there was there was no way there's no way there's no real way to describe it unless you do it like walking out there and you are in front of like literally the greatest fans on earth. And then you make it you made it so easy for us because you literally have them eating out of your hands out of your palms after an hour of stand up and then we go out there and just have to do a minute of our just dumb bullshit and luckily people like us for some reason it seems like it was one of the cooler experiences of my entire life.
It is so interesting because everywhere we went there like okay what time does the opener go up? And I was like there's no open. Like so what's happening? I'm like yeah I'm just going to go out there at seven o'clock.
And what's the run of shells? I don't understand like 30 45 maybe an hour. And then the boys are going to come out and they will have a guess. It would be a lot easier if you gave us a runner show.
Why not? I don't know. I'm sorry but it was I absolutely man we should probably do that more often. We had a late night ride home.
We were supposed to stop by brothers in Columbus directly afterwards. We had another fucking van issue. We almost ran out of gas. We almost had a real situation in the middle of Columbus at about midnight.
So we apologize for not being able to stop at brothers. We'll have to make it back for that. But we're talking about talking. I think we should do more of those.
I think we should do more of those. The act of just surprising the shit out of the audience with who the guests is going to be. You don't get a lot of moments like that anymore I don't think. Every time you came out I was always very excited for what you're going to potentially say.
The John Gruden went over everywhere by the way. John Gruden loved everywhere. I was I don't know it was weird. It was kind of like Digs was saying like I was almost like tearing up before I went out.
Like I get just like this big like swell of like pride almost. It's like obviously everyone's a fan of Pat and what we do and then just like kind of by proxy us. It's like no no Jesus Christ. Like there's no reason people should be going Ape for me.
But it's I don't know it was just awesome. And yeah like Columbus more so than any other because I kind of knew who I was going to say. But I was looking for some like deep cuts from Ohio State football. And then we kind of had a little bit of a switch up at the Columbus show.
So it was like okay get your shit together. Oh yeah. I know what you're going to say when you go out. So it was but it was it was like before like any kind of sporting event just like that nervous energy that I haven't felt in a really long time.
It was awesome to get back. Zito your outfits. He chose the wear on stage were incredible. Impeccable.