Best of the Bus: Troy Polamalu Talks the Art Of Defense, Chasing Ed Reed + Life After Football

Bussin' With The Boys

Bussin' with the Boys

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Recorded: February 8th, 2024 | The boys were joined by the one and only Troy Polamalu. This interview was a football player’s dream — just a couple of older guys talking inside ball, breaking down X’s and O’s, and having some good old-fashioned dude time. Troy opened up about how relentlessly he studied other players, his love for watching film, and how he decided to make those legendary plays jumping over the line.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:07.0	The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years,
0:14.0	until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
0:20.9	America, y'all better work the hell up.
0:22.9	Bad things happens to good people in small towns.
0:32.5	Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:38.9	And to binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts.
0:46.5	I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight.
0:50.1	And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.
0:54.7	A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old.
0:58.1	And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago.
1:02.9	How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?
1:09.7	Listen to heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app,
1:12.8	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:18.1	From NBA champion Stefan Curry comes shot ready,
1:21.9	a powerful never-before-seen look at the mindset that changed the game.
1:25.6	I fell in love with the grind.
1:27.7	You have to find joy in the work you do when no one else is around.
1:32.6	Success is not an accident.
1:34.4	I'm passing the ball to you.
1:36.4	Let's go.
1:37.3	Steph Curry redefined basketball.
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