Welcome to Greenlight Pod. I'm your host Chris Long, Joe Barkstale on today. So I'm excited about that. Joe Barkstale, an

Old teammate of mine, good football player, played at LSU, Oakland, St. Louis, the charge was only retired a year to a go and

I'll do a late-night mail bag afterwards.

I'm excited to have Joe on. And yeah, he was a very good player. We battled a lot in practice. 101 pass for us team period.

You know, Iron Sharpens, Iron that whole thing. You know, there's always, you know, I played with a lot of guys. I you know, I don't know if it was in the thousands

of times, but sometimes it seems that way. And there was a lot of turnover in St. Louis, but I'll always remember guys that I had individual battles with in practice. And I think there's a kinship there that goes far beyond football. And I do keep up with Joe from time to time. And he was a good football player. But what I'm most proud about

Joe is his ability and willingness to talk about his struggles with mental health, outwardly, very outwardly.

And you know, when I played with Joe, he was the guy who was the life of the party. He was the guy who cracked jokes, keep things light.

You know, sometimes he had a temper, but we all kind of had tempers at times. We all got into some scuffles and fights and whatnot.

You know, Joe wasn't anything out of the ordinary in that way. But he had his good days and bad days like all of us. I never would have expected that he would have been battling

those issues.

So when I read it, obviously I was shocked, but I was also proud of him for having the

the strength and the courage to come out and talk to somebody with a major publication newspaper like that.

You know, it takes vulnerability and bravery. And so I think that whenever there's a player like that who comes out in a very alpha male sport and speaks on that stuff authentically, it's valuable.

So appreciate him for doing that. We're going to talk to him about that. We're going to talk to him about his musical career, his budding musical career.

I do remember in around 2013 when we were teammates and he picked up a guitar. And you know, it was one of those things. You're like, okay, cool hobby.

We all want to be good at guitar, but about seven years later he has an album out already. He's got a single out right now. And then this fall he's got an album out called

Cerely coming in the fall. I don't have a date. I'll try to get it from him. But the music sounds good. I'm as I said, I'm proud of him on on a few counts as a teammate. So let's hear from Joe.

You're joining me now on the Green Light pod, former teammate, turned rock star. Dude, you're saved in my phone rock star, Joe, barc style in all caps.

You got a name and a claimant, baby. Name it and claim it. Dude, you see I got my Jimmy Hendrix shirt on you. You know, you can see me on the zoom, but yeah, I know.

I know. Is that what you know Jimmy Hendrix, Joe Barxtale, Jimmy Hendrix.

I'm going to take Joe Barxtale. I'm going to take Joe Barxtale.

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