Storytime with Wildes: Stop Curbing Your Enthusiasm

First Things First

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Basketball, Football, Sports

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠FIRST THINGS FIRST YOUTUBE CHANNEL Kevin Wildes reacts to the 2025 NFL Draft and breaks down why enthusiasm is a key factor in getting drafted. He also tells the story of why it’s important to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us on this podcast thing that we still haven't figured out what exactly it is.
0:04.8	You know what the one difference between me and Larry David is?
0:09.0	Enthusiasm. I'm a fan.
0:11.1	Watching the NFL draft last night and I couldn't get over how much enthusiasm there was in the whole program,
0:18.8	but especially from everyone getting drafted.
0:21.3	And I understand like, wilds, of course, dreams are coming true.
0:23.8	I totally get it.
0:24.6	But just a few years ago, Mack Jones got drafted and confidently strode.
0:29.9	Strode?
0:30.9	Is it strode?
0:32.4	Strided?
0:33.2	It wasn't exactly a strut.
0:35.3	I'm going to go strode.
0:37.1	I don't know if that's it.
0:39.0	In any event, Mac Jones confidently, briskly walked, and the entire narrative is like, wow.
0:46.6	Look at Mac Jones confidently walking.
0:50.5	That was not normal, just a long, confident stride.
0:55.6	This year's NFL draft was the most enthusiastic draft I think I'd ever seen.
1:01.2	Here's what happened.
1:02.1	Old school.
1:02.9	You get a hat.
1:03.9	You dab up Goodell.
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