Happy hump day. This is your host Chris Long. This is the Green Light pod and I got a fun show today. The main event.

I'll just get it out of the way is going to be John Weinbach. He is one of the producers along with Mike Tolen on the last dance.

They did a magnificent job stating the obvious and they did a great job under time crunch. They finished ahead of schedule and then like warp speed on top of that to get it out remotely.

As my producers are sitting on the other end of this thing listening to me do a pod. They're probably nodding in agreement that doing a pod remotely is really fucking hard.

Doing the last dance remotely is insanity and I can't wait to tell him how appreciative I am of what they did because this transcended just something on TV.

I mean it really did. We will always remember this time and we will always remember the last dance. There's a lot I want to ask him about we'll get to that in a little bit.

By the way he's been nominated for a couple sports Emmys. He's done a couple 30 for 30s. He also did and this one's a little personal to me because of the Raiders and my pops air but straight out of LA.

So John did a great job so really honored that he would come on the pod and we'll get to that in a bit.

Couple housekeeping items here yesterday happened to be and I didn't know this until I saw it on Twitter. One year for me outside of the game of football.

One year retired although I was mentally outside of the game with football before before I retired.

That was the day I announced it so sort of a significant day for me and on that same day coincidentally and I put these two things together today.

We exceeded the one million download mark on this pod which is pretty awesome and that's more of a thank you than it is congratulations to myself because y'all are the ones listening downloading so I appreciate you if you're if you're listening and you like what you're hearing subscribe or a telephone share the pod you know like maybe for my one year out of football present you can pass the pod on to somebody that you think might like it.

And if you don't think anybody would like it I'm wondering why you're listening but you know it's funny I might start celebrating what is it May 18th was as I record this Tuesday night was was was my first day as a retired normal human being and it's pretty cool it's been an awesome year.

I'm not a big birthday guys I've ranted on before I think that when you're born it's undoubtedly the thing that takes the least effort in your entire lifetime.

I mean it takes zero effort yet we celebrate it post about it and pat ourselves on the back about it when we should just be calling our mothers.

I'm going to celebrate my first day out of football like it's my birthday starting next year I'm not going to do a late party this weekend although listen I didn't even mention it to my wife yet my lovely wife Meg.

I might I might with any luck walk downstairs after I finish this pod and bring it up and say that I I own myself a night of drinking this weekend on a zoom call with my friends maybe I will celebrate but I got to say you know when I retired from football when I consider

that there's a lot of fear there's a lot of anxiety late my career throughout my career I often feared what you know stepping off that ledge would be like your horse stories you hear anecdotes that just make you feel like you have this really dark destiny.

And maybe that's down the line for me I don't know but I gotta say so far so good been one of the best years of my life saved for my childhood I mean this is this is the life I got two healthy kids I love them very much I got a wonderful wife my lovely wife Meg and I got a job that excites me I mean learning new things I'm closer to a whole person than I was my entire career being able to just follow leads that interest me.

And talk to more people and and kind of widen my broaden my horizons a little bit more wide my scope of of knowledge and I got a long way to go a lot to learn but you guys helped me a lot along that way pushing me when I wake up in the morning and I get ready to do a pod I am thinking about the fear of failure just like when I played you know I was on bus with the boys last week with Will and Taylor shout out to those guys.

And I asked me jokingly are we competing you know our pods and I really do believe this I don't track where we are from a ranking standpoint like where we are on the Apple page or any of that shit like I have no idea I literally just tried to do the best I can and try to be myself because I would hate to be misrepresented in climb the ranks like so competition is not a thing you know competition would only be a thing is it if I wasn't getting the job done and I molded what I was doing or saying to catch up to whoever it was I was going to do it.

I was competing with this isn't a winner lose thing like football where there's one outcome where it's a you have to you have to score more points in the other team like that's the only significant marker of success for me it's enjoying my job being push mentally and delivering a product that people enjoy so thank you for the downloads thank you for listening and thank you for telling a friend when you're out of football million downloads coincidence I think not thank you all.

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