Danny Olszta | WUW 502

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Hawkeyes, Sports, College Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Athletes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Danny is from New Lenox, Illinois and attended Providence Catholic High School, which is also Kevin's alma mater. He actually helped coach special teams for PC Kevin's senior year. Danny found his way on to the team by attending the Iowa Special teams summer camp, and having a self confidence like no other. He tells the story of his naïve assumptions about how easy it would be for him to play and start for the Hawks. In the line of Long Snappers, it was him, then Andy Schultz, the Kreiter, then Kluver. He discusses learning to snap, and eventually making his way on to the field, as well as his philosophy within the specialist meeting room and carrying on the tradition that Baker and Kaeding set before him. We talk about his favorite memories from wearing the black and gold, talking crap to punt returners, going back and forth with Coach Doyle, and more. Then on the back end we talk about his unique position in the Hawkeye community as he is married to Dan Gable's daughter. We talk about his time around Gable, the time he asked Dan to train him for a wrestling tournament, legendary Gable Tales, and more!If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more!Find us on social media @washedupwalkonsVisit TheWashedUpWalkons.com for all of our episodes, merchandise, and more!

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0:00.0	Very cool guests on the show today. Podcast heats up. We start slow. This thing gets hot at the end. This guy married Dan Gables daughter and we get some gable stories at the end that are just mmm chaff's kiss. Danny also joins the show, went to Kevin's high school,
0:14.9	knows Kevin, but ended up preceding me as long snapper at Iowa, so there's a lot of
0:19.8	connections here. You're gonna enjoy this one with Danny O. Let's have a day. Let's go. Oh, I was just crapping all over our intro
0:56.1	music that we do play while we record the show. I edited it in afterwards so that it's a little bit
1:01.6	more crisp. I've got nothing against the music itself.
1:05.4	It's just the waste of my time.
1:07.2	Play it while we're recording because it's just us staring at each other for 30 seconds
1:11.0	when you can put it in. You got to get in the zone.
1:14.0	We didn't move the zone.
1:15.0	See, our guest here knows exactly what we're talking about.
1:18.0	A fun guest today, two connections here,
1:21.0	one on the long snapper front.
1:23.4	We love long snappers around here.
1:25.0	This is the Watch the Blockons podcast,
1:26.7	but also a personal connection to Kevin for this one,
1:30.4	a Providence Catholic.
1:32.3	This is, I'm the odd man out tonight actually,
1:35.0	since Grant is also a Catholic school kid.
1:38.0	Tough one for me, but we have Danny O on the show.
1:42.0	How are you doing Danny? How did it feel not winning any like state championships? It sucked. It sucked bad. I thought for a second you asked me that. I was, do I need a? What's going on here. We got two. I think I got more than you. You do.
1:57.4	Danny is a so you're the snapper before the snapper before the snapper before the snapper before me.
2:04.0	So it was, yeah, so was me and then Shelfly and then Casey.
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