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On the field, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are warriors. Scoring touchdowns, sacking quarterbacks, and bringing Rider Nation to their feet. But off the football field, they’re just like us – they have big dreams, they’re raising families, and maybe even nurturing a hidden talent. Hosted by Daniella Ponticelli, Air It Out will bring fans even closer to the players, coaches and staff of the Green and White with topics that go beyond the Xs and Os and to the heart of what makes the Saskatchewan Roughriders so special to its fans and its community.
Pete: Final question, Anthony Lanier the second, How does it feel to be my roommate?
[laughter]
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Anthony: Oh, hmmm, it’s an honour.
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Anthony: There's never a dull moment in that room.
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Daniella [Narrator]: There is no shortage of personality – and laughs – when we sit down to
record this podcast.
And in some cases, there are more moments we want to share!
I am Daniella Ponticelli, the host of Air it Out: A Saskatchewan Roughrider podcast.
This week we have a short bonus episode of unheard audio from Episode 3: Best Football
Friends.
That episode is already out – featuring heart-felt conversations between Rider players Anthony
Lanier the II and Pete Robertson, plus Jake Wieneke and Trevor Harris.
After we wrapped recording, each player was given a chance to ask their friend a question,
starting with Anthony and Pete.
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Final question, Anthony Lanier the second, How does it feel to be my roommate? [laughter]
Anthony: There's never a dull moment in that room. Five in the morning, it's a race to see who
wakes up first, because whoever wakes up first is goin’ to knock on the door, ‘Yo, you up?’
Pete: Or instead of knocking, you just hear, you know, I'm not going to yell in the mic, but it like,
‘Hey dirty, you up?’ You just hear, ‘Yeah.’
Anthony: Yeah. so it’s dope being his roommate. It's very fun. It’s like the perfect co –
Pete:. And we are roommates on a road too, when we travel. Yeah, we were roommates on the
road, so. And all the other people that complain, used to complain last year about Ant’s
sleeping, now he complain about me sleeping.
Anthony: Oh, my gosh.
Pete: ‘Cause once Ant go to sleep it’s hard for them to go to sleep. But me, it don't matter for
me. I don't care. The TV could be on a hundred. Lights can be on, sun could be out. I’m going to
sleep.
Anthony: It’s true, I had to beat him to sleep because if I don't beat him to sleep, then I don’t get
no sleep.
Daniella: snoring?
Pete: I sound like a –
Anthony: that's what you want to call it?
Pete: I sound like a Dually, like a big old truck, like a diesel truck.
Anthony: With a flow master, and a cool-air intake. Don't forget the nitrous boost, you know?
[Laughs]. Whoa! Hey! I thought he was kidding the first time. That was really it.
Pete: It's funny because Kevin Francis was my roommate one year and he questioned me one
day, he woke me up. Like we woke up in the morning and he even asked me, he was like, ‘Bro,
do you even prepare for bed?’ [Anthony laughs] I was like, ‘what?’ Because I would legitly, as
soon as I get in bed, like I'll be fully clothed. I'm out, out. If anybody– me trying to watch movies
with my kids at nighttime? Does not work.
Anthony: We literally talk for two seconds. ‘Hey, bro, you know, what you want to eat?’ He’s like,
‘Yeah, man.’ I said [Pete laughing] ‘Hey, wake up! Come on!’
Anthony: What is the worst, or the one that hurt the most, comeback or joke that ever has been
told to you? That really just, just got your blood just boiling. What's that Number One one that
just hit you right on the chin and knocked out?
Pete: The number one joke from you?
Anthony: Anybody. That number one.
Pete: So Number one joke that got me, and this was in high school, so. All right, this was in high
school. So I don't know if you guys have seen the movie Next Friday? So It’s with Ice Cube, you
know, So, you know, he produced three of them. It was Friday, Next Friday and Friday After
Next. Classic movies. Funny, hilarious.
Anthony: and best directors.
Pete: Best directors. So the second one, Next Friday, it’s this lady – and I forgot the actor name.
She was like this aunt, but she was like one of them cougar-looking aunts, you know? But she
looks like my mom, like in person. Yes. And I'm cracking jokes. You know, we all cracking jokes,
playing and one of my friends back home, and he know who I'm talking about. He said my
mama looked like Sugar. (Anthony laughs) And when I tell you, I lost it, like, cause he was like,
you know when them older women that love young dudes? Well, that's what type of aunt she
was in the movie and that joke was not funny to me. And I wanted to fight him because he was
talking about my mama and I actually called my mom and told her and she wanted to whoop
his, you know, as well. [Anthony laughs]. So. But that joke right there, you know, I didn't call a lot
of jokes.But that one there, that one hit me in my gut. [Laughs] I think was mad at my homeboy
for like months. Like, legit. I ain’t even want to joke with him no more, like that's how good he got
me. Like I kid you not. I kid you not.
Anthony: Okay, okay I got one more question. Who do you think you had the best pass-rush
move for the best sack?
Pete: Up here?
Anthony: Anywhere. Anywhere. The best quarterback that you got a sack on.
Pete: Mm. I finna tell you something. I hate how I sacked him because he end up getting an
injury. But when we played B.C., when I came back from my foot injury last year, you know,
Rourke was turning the league up last year. When he was in the league, whoa. Speed, power,
strength. Throwing power. Accuracy. The man, Rourke, and he in Jacksonville now I'm
assuming? Yeah. Man, coming back that game B.C. I was, you know, coming off the injury –
what’s funny is I wasn’t even 100% healed – and um, you know, I hit my normal move, what I
do, you know, set it up. When I got the sack on Rourke. You know, he end twisting his foot and,
you know, the injury happened, but I think out of all the sacks, that one was a big one for me at
that moment in time because I was first game back off a foot injury for me. He was a number
one quarterback in the league.We needed, you know, at the time to me for me to help my team.
I didn't, you know, I don't intentionally try to hurt anyone. And I feel like that was like a big play.
And I feel like after that sack, like it was I got a target on my back because it got to a point I
didn't get no more single blocks the rest of the year, but that was a big sack for me, man,
because I, I slowed him down. You know, he was a guy that, you know, he was man, Rourke is
–
Anthony: Definitely a quarterback you give respect to as far as his play like, yeah.
Pete: Then again I put a target my back because then all the coaches like, ‘ We do not let him
just rush.’
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We will be back with Anthony and Pete a little later – when I ask them to answer questions
about each other.
They do claim to have the best friendship on the team, after all.
I also sat down with friends Jake Wieneke and Trevor Harris for Episode 3. Here is the unheard,
final moments of our conversation…
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Daniella: I gave Anthony and Pete this option as well, but I'd like you to ask each other the final
question. Whatever it is. And it could be silly. It could be, it could be serious, it could be
whatever it is. But –
Jake Wieneke: I got my question.
Daniella: Oh, perfect.
Trevor Harris: I've got a question too.
Jake: What is what is second Peter, 1-5?
Trevor: 1-5?
Jake: You could give me even 1-5 through7. You could even give me a second Peter one three
through seven. It doesn't matter.
Trevor: For this very reason. Make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness. Your
goodness with knowledge, your knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance,
Endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection and brotherly affection with love.
Jake: Amen. That's beautiful. So it's 5 to 7.
Trevor:Okay, here's my question. But here's the thing. I'm going to have to have Jake plug his
ears.
Daniella: Okay?
Trevor: And you're going to give me the name of a famous athlete or celebrity. And I'm going to
I'm going to snap this to him and he's going to be able to tell you who it is.
Daniella: Really?
Trevor: Yeah.
Jake: Maybe we'll see you.
Trevor: You just gotta whisper this to me.
Daniella: Okay, well, I;m going to have to pick a legendary Rider here, I think.
Trevor: Okay.
Daniella: George Reed?
Trevor:. Okay.
Daniella: George Reed. Okay, I'll go with that.
Trevor: Got it. We're going to play some snaps.
Jake: Okay.
Trevor: Get ready. [snaps fingers twice on one hand, then four times on the other] Ready? Get
ready [Two more snaps]
Jake: Oh, did he wear number 34?
Daniella: What!
Jake: Is he arguably the best Roughrider of all time? You talking about George Reed?
Daniella: Yes!
Trevor: Okay, We should probably do it one more time. There's no way.
Jake: There’s no way we could do it again. And I mean, I was thinking about him last night. I
mean, they were talking about him. He was up on that screen.
Daniella: Yeah, that’s fair.
Trevor: You shouldn’t pick a Rider. Pick somebody like famous.
Daniella: Yeah, I’ll pick someone completely different.
Jake: that was a good one, though. That's a legend right there. I think we've got to do it again
though.
Trevor: Okay.
Daniella: Serena Williams is what I whispered in.
Trevor: We'll play some snaps again.
Jake: Okay.
Daniella: [Laughs] This is wild! I love this.
Trevor: So listen closely [snaps twice] Ready [two more snaps] Now you got it [One snap].
Jake: Oh oh! Tennis, Wimbledon is going on right now. So we’re talking, Serena Williams. Yeah.
Trevor: And that’s all folks!
Daniella: I know what you're doing after this football thing. You're going to Vegas. You've got a
show lined up with the snaps. I think that's part of it. Thank you guys so much.
Jake and Trevor: [Laughs] Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.
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Daniella [Narrator]: I’m still wrapping my head around how they do that!
The final piece of unheard conversation from Episode 3 goes back to Anthony and Pete… who
were game to test how well they know each other …
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Daniella [host]: So you have to answer this for each other. What is your friend most afraid of?
Anthony: Swimming.
Pete: Oh, my God. I knew you were gonna say that. [Anthony laughs] Geez, Louise. I got a fear
of water. I'm scared of water. A large body of water. So in college, we went to a bowl game, San
Diego, and you know, the bowl game, like in the stands, you do like events and stuff like that.
And we went to the, uh, the ships, the, um, I don't know if it was like the Navy was out there in
San Diego? It was like, but what was it like on the ships in the States. And I didn't know we was
like going up to the top, like where you can see, I passed out.
Daniella. No.
Pete: Seeing all that water, fainted. Passed out.
Daniella: That’s awful.
Pete: Passed out. [Daniella and Anthony chuckle]
Daniella: I'm not laughing at you.
Anthony: I am.
Pete: Yeah. Yeah. And, and and that's funny because he knows like I’m not really scared, but
like, that's the only thing they will get me. A bunch of water.
Daniella: Okay. But you do fish, right? So that doesn’t affect you?
Pete: Yeah. I fish here now. Yeah, for sure. For sure. But I'm more like, Ant more of the fisher,
I'm more of like the hunter. I do like the hog hunting, deer hunting and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm a
land guy. I ride the horses, yeah yeah.
Anthony: I like ocean.
Pete: Honestly Ant, I don’t know man.
Daniella: What do you think Anthony is?
Pete: [Whistles]
Daniella: You have no fears?
Anthony: I mean.
Pete: Man, I'mma be honest –
Anthony: I ain't even got nothing to tell him. Like to help him.
Pete: Yeah, see, like me knowing him all these years. He has always been like, in any situation,
he’d be like, ‘et's do it.’He always, he’s the one. I'm the one kind of like, ‘I don’t want to do it.’
And he’d be like, ‘let's do it.’ I'm like, ‘okay.’ Like, you know. [Pause as Pete thinks] He have a
fear of turbulence. So when a plane get to shaking, you know.
Anthony: Yeah.
Pete: He will grip that seat If you sitting in front of him, he will grip that seat so hard. Turbulence
For sure.
And what's funny? Me and him, actually, every plane ride, we pray together. Me and him pray
together before we take off so yeah.
Daniella: Where would your friend go if he could go on any vacation?
Anthony: Oh, if I had to say Pete was going on vacation somewhere. I think D-R. Dominican
Republic.
Pete: Yeah.
Anthony: Yeah. That suits his style a little more.
Pete: That’s my style.
Daniella: You've been there before?
Pete: Oh, I have. I have. I have. And, um, you know, I've got an alter ego. That's why he's
saying that. My alter ego trying to come out sometimes. But I try to keep him away, you know, I
keep, I keep him put up.
Daniella: Oh, okay.
Pete: You know, sometime when he come out, you know. But I do got an alter ego. You ever
seen Nutty Professor:
Daniella: Yes.
Pete: You know when he was switching?
Daniella: Mhmmm.
Pete: That’s it kind of yeah, yeah, yeah.
Daniella: Okay, so we're learning a little bit here.
Pete: Um, Anthony, vacation wise? Anywhere with some water.
Anthony: Yeah.
Pete: Anywhere with some water. Cause he guarantee gone fish wherever he go.
Anthony: I actually just came off a cruise with my girlfriend. She took me to the Grand Caymans
and Turks and that. So literally what he says. If I could think there’s fishing there, like I'm
definitely taking my fishing pole like I'm not one of the people who need a whole bunch, you
know, give me my fishing rod. Give me some nice fresh fruit to eat. I'm Good.
Pete: Yeah. So even at one of our away games last year. [Anthony laughs] Our first year we get
on the plane. Yeah. We was going to Calgary. He walked on a plane with fishing poles as we’re
about to get ready for a game. [Daniella laughs] So.
Daniella: Oh that’s awesome.
Anthony: It's so bad at home, my mom even calls my cousins and my uncles and everything,
‘Make sure he’s not out fishing in the rain.’
Pete: There be times I call him, or if I call him, he be sending me pictures of him fishing, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Daniella: Fishing in the rain. I love that. What do you do to make your friend laugh the hardest?
Pete: Be us [laughs] everything. Yeah, because we both off the wall. So it's like I say something
crazy. He'll say some crazy or if something going on because me, you know when you with your
close friend, you always got them insider jokes. So when somebody's doing some, we'll just look
at each other, you know what I mean [laughs]
Anthony: The funny thing that he do for me, I got an answer for this, the funniest thing he do for
me is when he get caught off guard. That's the funniest one, because he like, ‘whoa, whoa’
[laughs].
Pete: Doing surprises and stuff, like, I don't know, when I get caught off guard, I'm like, I'm like,
blown away. Legitly.
Anthony: And it’s the funniest thing I ever seen.
Pete: Yeah, we crack jokes and stuff like that. But he's like, even, like that prank stuff, it’s funny
because we never, ever even talked about it at all. But we both hit that vibe of like we can mess
and kid with each other. But for us, that pranking and how we, yeah nah. We not big prankers.
Yeah we don't do that pranking.
Daniella: Okay, again, answering for your friend here, what drives him crazy.
Pete: One thing that drives Anthony crazy, and it’s funny, when somebody's come to talk to him
about something or trying to tell him about something and you loud and wrong? If you loud and
wrong [Anthony laughs] and you wrong you trying to tell him something you wrong? And he
right?. Aw, man. Aw, man. You might as well just stop talking. Best bet to stop talking about two
days. And honestly, if it's not me approaching him, on certain situations anyway, he will flip the
script.
Anthony: People will go get him to come talk to me [laughs].
Pete: They always call me up be like, ‘Man, go holla at Ant. go talk to your boy.’ And first thing I
say, Ant, man, you know, people have been calling me. [Laughs]
Anthony: what they calling him for? [laughs].
Pete: He says, ‘I don't know why they calling you.’ You know why they calling me. Yeah.
[Laughs].
Anthony: Um. Okay. I get what annoys him. Um It’s like normal life, you know, occasions, things
that happen. Like he put on a sandal one day to go to the shower and the shoe broke. And he
was like, he look like he wanted to loose it. I was, ‘Bro, it’s just a sandal.’ But he was like,’Bro,
can't believe I just did that.’ And I’'m over there like –
Pete: inconvenience.
Anthony: Yeah, inconveniences because yes, if it's inconvenient for him and also if he's
inconvenient for you, you become an inconvenience to him for being an inconvenience to you.
Pete: I do not like inconvenience, anything.
Anthony: So now, you just became what? Inconvenient.
Pete: On the way down here from camp, I had an inconvenience. Yeah, I. But I had an
inconvenience and I lost my mind. Like snapped.
Anthony: And this the thing about it now, I never ever get a call. I have never. He's used to being
the one getting the call about me. I got a call and they was like, ‘Please, just check him, make
sure he's okay.’ And I'm like –
Pete: I snapped.
Anthony: I call him. And when I tell you, I was like, ‘Hey, Buddy, it’s okay.’ [laughs]
Pete: He was like, ‘Bro, you need to calm down.’ You need to come down. Well, at that point,
he yeah, That's the biggest thing with me because I got so much like I do so much and I feel like
everything is kind of planned and I think everything should go as scheduled, within my mind,
and anything within that schedule don't go right? And it's an inconvenience within anything at all
man.
Daniella: Oh my goodness. Okay, this is honestly the last question. I want you to name three
things that you both completely agree on.
Anthony: We don't have an issue when – and I’m saying this in football terms – agreement is
when the other person says this is what we're about to see.
Pete: Yeah.
Anthony: Or this is the game we're about to run.Because it's like, what we arguing about? You
know what I'm saying? It's like you don't even need to talk about that, basically.
Pete: You said that we agree on, right?
Daniella: Yeah. Just things you agree on. That can be football. That can be –
Pete: Cooking.
Anthony: Cooking.
Pete: For sure. Like we definitely because we both kind of eat clean. You know. We try our best
to eat clean, so we agree with our cooking habit, our eating habits.We don't just try to follow the
same, you know, routine, but we try to stay within that ordinary kind of healthy, you know, the
right things, What we need within our body and stuff like that. And we, like I said, when we cook,
we do, you know, we go back and forth with the cooking. We definitely agree on like, like with
the food and stuff like that, for sure. Um, one thing we agree on is bustin’ O-linemen’s head. 24
Seven. That's what we agree. And that's one time before a game, it don’t matter.
Anthony: I don't know what it is about them, it’s just –
Pete: I don't like them. Oh, I don't like them, nah.
Anthony: And they can be great guys off the field, but as soon as they got a helmet on –
Pete: yeah, every time we see one of them bigger guys. Ew.
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Daniella [Narrator]: A HUGE thank you again to Anthony Lanier II and Pete Robertson, along
with Jake Wieneke and Trevor Harris.
This bonus episode of Air it Out came together during the recording of Episode 3: Best Football
Friends. If you haven’t listened to those compelling and candid conversations, you can do so
now.
Our next full episode will be released, as scheduled, on Thursday, July 27th.
Air it Out is hosted, written and edited by me; Daniella Ponticelli
With technical and editorial support from Blake Tiedeman and Arielle Zerr.
Our podcast graphics are designed by Angela Bailey.
Air it Out is a Saskatchewan Roughrider podcast.
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