David Pollack joins Josh Pate - Pate State Speaker Series
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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David Pollack is the latest guest on the Pate State Speaker Series.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:20.0 | David Pollock in Nashville, what are you doing here? |
| 0:22.9 | Right down the road, man. |
| 0:24.9 | This dumb defensive lineman wrote a book. |
| 0:28.5 | And so I've been doing some stuff with the book, with the publishers and stuff. |
| 0:32.0 | And by the way, hardest thing I've ever done. |
| 0:34.4 | Like, you know, it's hard to, first of all, it's hard enough to get still, |
| 0:37.6 | but then read about it over and over again. And like, I told my wife at one point, I'm like, |
| 0:41.3 | will you please read this and make sure it's accurate? Like, um, so writing a book and then, I'm then speaking with a bunch of folks about it and stuff and getting, getting situated, and then I got to talk to you. |
| 0:50.1 | So perfect. |
| 0:50.6 | It's funny you mentioned the book. |
| 0:51.7 | I don't know anything about, |
| 0:52.6 | oh, snap, here it is right here. |
| 0:54.4 | There it is. |
| 0:55.7 | Everyday counts. |
| 0:56.6 | Everyday counts. |
| 0:57.9 | This is thick, okay? It's an easy read, though. Serious work. I promise it's an easy read. Like, it's big font, thick pages. It's not as bad as you think. It's not about the good things in my life.'s it's definitely about the difficult yeah and the struggles that we've had so you got you got schley ball writing this thing yeah thank god yes thank god yes that's i've known mark since high school by the way like yeah i remember talking to mark i was like mark where should i go to school should i go to georgia like and so that's how long i've known him so it was kind of easy to have somebody that knew your background and your family and your wife, all of it. Well, here's what I want to know. Why didn't you wait this long to write a book? It took four years to do it. Honest to God. Like, I'm not lying. Like, it took so much time because you write and then you hate it. and then you read about yourself and you hate it and then you hate it and then you write listen read about yourself and you hate it and then |
| 1:46.3 | you hate it and you it's just it's just so much but like really my wife like with it with her |
| 1:50.6 | stuff the last year and a half it's kind of been the catalyst to because I've been a lot more still than |
| 1:55.8 | I'm used to like we had a good three or four months stretch when after her surgery after her last |
| 2:00.3 | surgery that I mean I was just a nurse and so I sat there all day every day so I had a good three or four months stretch after her last surgery that I mean I was just a nurse |
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