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Danny Woodhead - former NFL running back and CEO of Arise Ventures and Paul Lanphier - managing partner of Arise Ventures - talk life, sports, business, faith and more for an hour each week.
And let me tell you about leadership
Danny Woodhead:real quick. No. We're not doing that. Hey. What's up, everyone?
Danny Woodhead:I would I would say welcome back, but we've never been here. Never been here. We're starting a podcast. I'm Danny Woodhead. This is my business partner, Paul Lanfear, Arise Ventures, we got a cool logo up here because our guy Blake Beecham just did some really cool things with our business.
Danny Woodhead:Made us a cool logo. We're gonna have him on hats. Hopefully golf balls because I
Paul Lanphier:play a
Danny Woodhead:lot of golf. I like it.
Paul Lanphier:But I like it.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. So not welcome back but welcome. We're gonna we're gonna probably hopefully every week have a have a podcast put out there and yeah. Paul, do you have anything to say? I mean, I've kind of just been talking.
Paul Lanphier:You've you've been on these, man. I I just get to enjoy and just, you know, just be a normal guy on a podcast today.
Danny Woodhead:That is that is not what's really gonna happen. But as Pretty
Paul Lanphier:calm person normally, so
Danny Woodhead:As as we go forward, we will see that this unless he starts becoming a different person when he's on camera or has a mic, then you're you're gonna you're gonna learn something here in the next weeks, months, whatever it is. But yeah, we're starting a podcast. Do we know the name? No. And it's our first episode.
Danny Woodhead:But I promise before this first episode launches, we will have a name and we will probably have an intro too. I
Paul Lanphier:mean what song are we thinking for
Danny Woodhead:an
Paul Lanphier:an intro?
Danny Woodhead:I don't even know if we're going have a song. Really? That's not really
Paul Lanphier:So that's not podcast y? That's
Danny Woodhead:not No. It's very podcast y but I just I don't know. And I think there's copyright stuff. Okay. We'll probably have some like instrumentals.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Do you remember do you remember the band Korn back in the day?
Danny Woodhead:Do I remember
Paul Lanphier:Were you a lot did you sneak listening to Korn?
Danny Woodhead:I grew up in a I grew up in a family where Christian music was the only music. Okay. So do you think I listened to a lot of Korn? Did you sneak it? I never snuck Korn.
Paul Lanphier:See, was one Now you give
Danny Woodhead:me Matchbox twenty, Third Eye Blind.
Paul Lanphier:No. That was the first. Did I tell you that's the Korn? The Matchbox 20 is the first non christian CD I had and I hid it from my parents. Sorry mom and dad.
Paul Lanphier:Remember the song Push?
Danny Woodhead:But corn? Corn. Do you listen to corn?
Paul Lanphier:No. I love the song Freak on a Leash.
Danny Woodhead:So that's Paul Lanfear. He's a like I won't say he's a freak on a leash. But yeah. Hey, Paul, would you could we could we have you introduced yourself to the world a little bit and just kinda who you are? Actually, give us a story.
Danny Woodhead:Don't even like say, hey, I'm Paul Anfear. I'm married, have x amount of kids, whatever. Give us if you would, us your story a little bit.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Yeah. So we obviously, Danny and I are just hanging out today. And this podcast I think is just gonna be us hanging out talking about life.
Danny Woodhead:Most of the time but who are you? Oh. I don't I don't wanna know about I wanna know who you are because there's a lot of people out here. Not everyone knows that you ache.
Paul Lanphier:That's true. Achilles was the Achilles was what put me on the scene. It's only thing that put me on the map in my life other than I will say in fifth grade or fourth grade, I got sixth place in the Midwest Junior Olympic hundred meter dash. I think I
Danny Woodhead:Can I can I give a time out quick? Yes. The thing with Paul Lanfear, everyone will notice is he loves how good he was at sports from like the ages seven till like 12 or 13.
Paul Lanphier:Fact check that. Blake, look it up. Paul Lanfear, Midwest, sixth place. I don't think any Junior Olympics.
Danny Woodhead:I don't think anyone well, sure. If they have a sight for that. If they're if they record that. But everyone will hear that Paul Lanfear thinks he's the greatest athlete of all time from eight to 13 or 14.
Paul Lanphier:I will challenge. Obviously, you made it a little further than me but I would say up until the age of 13, I I would have See, this the time. Gonna find some videos. One day, we're gonna play here. This
Danny Woodhead:this is why I wanted to do a podcast. But Because I wanted people to hear your nonsense hot takes that don't make sense.
Paul Lanphier:Heath, You claimed that you were the best athlete in Omaha, Nebraska. Until 13. Until 13. I mean, that's not that's not pride. That's not it's I will verify that.
Danny Woodhead:Guys, I watched him before he tore his Achilles. And bless your soul, you're great.
Paul Lanphier:Do you think
Danny Woodhead:I had it? We act no. You had nothing. What ended up happening is he decided on a whim to play a flag football game with a bunch of 20 year olds.
Paul Lanphier:Was it 12 was I 12 out of retirement?
Danny Woodhead:You're twelve years out of retirement. That's what it was. Hadn't it didn't look like he had done an athletic thing for years. He ran he he ran marathons and stuff but we all know that's not a like it's not a sport like football.
Paul Lanphier:It's a sport of During
Danny Woodhead:the day, we're like, alright, let's see. He's he's he committed to playing flag football with this group of 20 some year olds. He went out. We went in the front yard. We went to the park.
Danny Woodhead:We went to the by the parking lot. There's a little grassy area where we went to church or where I go to church, and he started running routes. Nothing in me. Nothing in my and I'm not saying I'm a general manager.
Paul Lanphier:You've evaluated talent. I I've seen pretty good players Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:Of just all sports. There wasn't one route that looked like you were a good eight to 13 year old player.
Paul Lanphier:I would challenge at 13 years old, I would have challenged Julian Edelman, you.
Danny Woodhead:Oh my gosh. At
Paul Lanphier:13?
Danny Woodhead:So what happened then?
Paul Lanphier:That fast twitch muscle never developed. I in all in all fairness, I I did not really start developing or hitting puberty till I was 16, 17, 18 years old. I grew after high school from the age I think I grew till I was twenty twenty years old. I joke around that my the first night I mean, no no no details, but let's just put it this way. There was a I'm just happy I hit puberty before my wedding, which was twenty two
Danny Woodhead:years ago. Oh my gosh.
Paul Lanphier:I'm happy I'm happy I hit puberty before my wedding.
Danny Woodhead:It is wild, I guess, in all my years of athletics, had never had someone have that big of an excuse for their athletic abilities.
Paul Lanphier:Did you ever have anybody that thought they were as like could have played with you or as good as you? Like
Danny Woodhead:Well, yeah. Guys that I played with.
Paul Lanphier:Oh, yeah.
Danny Woodhead:I've never had anyone in high school or I've never had anyone talk about their glory days in Pop Warner say like, I think I could have probably played with you. If I would have if I would have hit puberty earlier, I would have fight in the NFL. Never heard that.
Paul Lanphier:If I would have hit puberty if I if I would have hit puberty we would have seen we won't we don't know. I mean, we don't know what would
Danny Woodhead:happen. We all know. We don't know. This is the finished product right here. And we saw what you did the night of your first game.
Danny Woodhead:Third time. We were starting to Was
Paul Lanphier:it third time?
Danny Woodhead:We were starting to talk about your life. Let's get back to that.
Paul Lanphier:Oh, yeah.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. No. After we talk about that night. So what happens is we go through the whole deal. He'd dress you don't always have the greatest look of a football player.
Paul Lanphier:I mean Or of like
Danny Woodhead:an athletic My styles. And your styles.
Paul Lanphier:Your style's not bad. Like look at my water cup to yours. It's like
Danny Woodhead:So Kobe and I, Kobe works for us. Kobe Ballard. We have been praying over the last four years for you to turn a new leaf. And I will say this, you're wearing some stuff that's actually decent. I mean, got unreal on, your hat's fine.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:He actually has jeans that fit him now. So that's good. But he looked terrible going into the game. Looked terrible and this is this is gonna turn into a little bit of an interview because I wanna know I haven't asked you this question. Okay.
Danny Woodhead:Going in, did you think you answer this honestly, don't answer this in like a funny poll. Did you did you think you might be able to make an impact and help the team? To be honest. You did, didn't you?
Paul Lanphier:I thought I was I thought I was gonna come back and it was gonna be you guys were gonna be like, man, Paul is athletic. Paul can do this. So you Third play of game, tore my Achilles by
Danny Woodhead:the way.
Paul Lanphier:I think it was second.
Danny Woodhead:Third play of the game, but your second
Paul Lanphier:my second play, I think.
Danny Woodhead:And it was just out of his stance. You what were you gonna do? Run a go route or something?
Paul Lanphier:We'll show it someday. I was gonna do a go I was gonna do I think a cross route and I was What's a cross
Danny Woodhead:route for everyone?
Paul Lanphier:It's the route where you cross. You go one
Danny Woodhead:this is the guy that should have played in the NFL if it weren't for puberty. He doesn't know what a cross route is or he just made up a cross.
Paul Lanphier:Well, mean What's a cross? You take a step and you cross. You take a step and you cross. If they so
Danny Woodhead:That's that's not a route.
Paul Lanphier:Isn't that what we did for our flag football league? Is that is that a is that a route? Cross route? What do you call it?
Danny Woodhead:Crossing route.
Paul Lanphier:Oh, see it? Crossing route. There you go. See, I just I I wanted to make it more sensible for the people on here. It's a cross route.
Danny Woodhead:I guess. I've never heard it. Anyways, that night Tore Tore's Achilles kind of forever changed his life.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. It was a good change. Yeah. Had a baby six days later, fifth baby. Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:Four girls, one boy.
Danny Woodhead:So so Paul, where where are you from? You grew up here in Omaha.
Paul Lanphier:Grew up in Omaha.
Danny Woodhead:Give give us your life story without Yeah. Me interrupting your football Yeah. Path, your NFL.
Paul Lanphier:Grew up in Omaha. Went to grew up with great parents, four three brothers and well, I guess two sisters, one brother. We grew up in South Omaha. We had a just, you know, normal normal life, like nothing nothing crazy. My parents both worked jobs.
Paul Lanphier:My mom has a dance studio. My dad's a worked in the government. I, at six years old, started my career, is what I call it. I would the first day of school, I challenged people to races, that's where I found that's where I found out the speed. You don't know.
Paul Lanphier:The first every single kid.
Danny Woodhead:Everything goes back to your I I challenge your athletic days in elementary.
Paul Lanphier:I literally elementary cross Lutheran no longer exist. I would challenge every kid everywhere I'd go to races. This is where I knew there was something there. And then about fifth fifth grade, sixth grade, I started seeing other kids developing. And I started seeing hair under their armpits and didn't know what that was at the time.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. I like it.
Paul Lanphier:Didn't find that out till about sixteen seventeen years old what that was at the time. And
Danny Woodhead:That's actually true though. You probably really
Paul Lanphier:I think I was five one and a half going into my freshman year of high school and I was about a year older than everybody else. So anyway, went to Bellevue West High School, was you know was one of those kids was raised as a Christian
Danny Woodhead:Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:In high school decided to
Danny Woodhead:Start toking it up.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. You know, enjoyed enjoyed one of these plants right here. Or this isn't no, this isn't
Danny Woodhead:a plant. No. No. No. No.
Danny Woodhead:No. That's that's that's not what you were smoking.
Paul Lanphier:No. No. I was something green. Was something green and started enjoying that, started enjoying some beverages with malt in them and became a became an amazing beverage drinker. And it was something that you know, had to had to give that part up a little while back.
Danny Woodhead:I remember when you because you did say, because my argument always was like, if you were that good in middle school and elementary, you'd at least have played in high school and you're like, yeah, but I just I made some dumb decisions. I smoked weed and
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Smoked weed
Danny Woodhead:That wasn't it. Like to drink Well That wasn't the reason
Paul Lanphier:you the didn't disappointments of life, you know. It's like when you're when you're
Danny Woodhead:Don't think you would play.
Paul Lanphier:You're going from mean, imagine, you know, imagine being at the pinnacle
Danny Woodhead:I don't see it.
Paul Lanphier:In Pee Wee Football League being basically, I mean similar probably how you
Danny Woodhead:felt I when didn't want you to make.
Paul Lanphier:When you were with the Patriots? Probably similar to that feeling.
Danny Woodhead:Probably similar.
Paul Lanphier:Probably a little similar.
Danny Woodhead:But since I stayed away from stayed away from weed and alcohol, I was able to.
Paul Lanphier:Well and you And I grew. You grew. And you developed that fast twitch muscle even though I am two inches taller than you.
Danny Woodhead:You are. It's That's that's why I don't it doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyways, you started drinking alcohol Having Getting in the wrong crowd probably.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah, wrong crowd.
Danny Woodhead:When did you start smoking cigarettes?
Paul Lanphier:Oh, 17 years old, I was at a car wash and a guy that I was with that we worked with, he started he told he he I did not know. Stole a pack of cigarettes. I was actually going over to my girlfriend's house at the time. Stupid stupid decision. I end up smoking a cigarette.
Paul Lanphier:I was like, oh, I kinda like this. Yeah. Then I smoked another, kinda like this. I think I smoked another, kinda liked it. Ended up going to my girlfriend, she's like, did you smoke?
Paul Lanphier:I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. She's like, I don't I don't like that. She found out I smoked because she could smell it. Yeah. Weird.
Paul Lanphier:Right? Then and then you know the rest is history. Had a had about a five year marriage with cigarettes even though this this one's wild.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. That's what I wanted you to share.
Paul Lanphier:Okay. So got anyway, got saved after high school too, gave my life to Jesus
Danny Woodhead:Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:Back to Jesus, whatever, you know, whatever your theology is You're following Jesus. Following Jesus, trying to not have any didn't have any Christian friends and and I I but I had good people in my life. I had people who loved me. I had I'd hang out with my dad, go to coffee shops. I really did get rid of a lot of like people that I was hanging out
Danny Woodhead:with Mhmm.
Paul Lanphier:And ended up basically at 20 or went to nursing school thinking I was gonna be a doctor. So, am a nurse.
Danny Woodhead:Wait. Wait. Wait. You went to nursing school thinking you'll be a doctor?
Paul Lanphier:Well, was like I was practical. Was like my dad's like, hey, have a job while you're waiting for med school. So I was like, yeah, I'll do that. That sounds like
Danny Woodhead:dad's a nice guy. That sounds like not a great idea.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Well, it was it was either that. I was I was playing. I was starting to play a lot of basketball at that time too. So I knew I could have I was thinking about like I was actually thinking should I go play college basketball somewhere in a weird way.
Danny Woodhead:I seriously thought this
Paul Lanphier:in my in my well, I was like nineteen twenty. So
Danny Woodhead:this is this is what I love about you. This is one of my favorite things about being your business partners. You're a dreamer. I mean, that's a dream that wasn't gonna happen. That was a dream.
Danny Woodhead:I think That wasn't a daydream, that was like you woke up and you're like, oh, that was a good
Paul Lanphier:dream. We're we're gonna have some people on that I played basketball with at some point and we're gonna ask them, could Paul Lanfier played college basketball?
Danny Woodhead:So my thing is though What
Paul Lanphier:do think? Did you've seen me shoot them.
Danny Woodhead:I think you Did you? No chance. Really? Maybe some bad NAIAs. Like, you're a good shooter.
Danny Woodhead:I've seen you you're not since I've known you, you've never been fleet of foot. I know when you were six, were fast. But that's the wildest thing I've ever heard in my life. I didn't know this part of you and I know you well. But for you to say, you were thinking about playing college basketball and you didn't play high school basketball?
Paul Lanphier:I mean, I That's played till my sophomore year.
Danny Woodhead:Do you know what this is saying though?
Paul Lanphier:But I didn't and I never got cut.
Danny Woodhead:You're telling all those NAIA basketball players or d two or anything that involves college basketball. You're saying, you guys are pretty bad.
Paul Lanphier:No. I think they're great. No. In shooting If
Danny Woodhead:you if you are saying you could play, you are saying, you guys suck. I've not played. I'm gonna come here and play at your school.
Paul Lanphier:Well, it'd be like
Danny Woodhead:I remember I
Paul Lanphier:could have played d
Danny Woodhead:two football.
Paul Lanphier:It would be equivalent to saying, think But that's what
Danny Woodhead:I'm saying.
Paul Lanphier:Do you think but here's the question. Do you think you could have played d one? See, I'm I'm coming from the outside. I think I could have played d two.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. But you didn't even play d nine.
Paul Lanphier:You could have made the step up and played d one.
Danny Woodhead:I mean, maybe, you know, maybe with
Paul Lanphier:I mean
Danny Woodhead:with what happened, maybe.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Yeah. There was I I could have. But We'll get to that later.
Danny Woodhead:But you you somehow believed that you could have. Anyways, get back to that. The dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Paul Lanphier:So I got to so I so I was in nursing school That's dumb. And still, by the way, still smoking cigs. You know, I gave my life Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:Hey. Can you imagine a guy rolling up to practice smoking a cigarette?
Paul Lanphier:I kinda I mean I
Danny Woodhead:think That's like a record league.
Paul Lanphier:I'm pretty sure Michael Jordan did. I'm pretty
Danny Woodhead:sure That is not true.
Paul Lanphier:I'm pretty sure
Danny Woodhead:He smokes cigars on the golf course. I think Jokic does. Oh gosh. Maybe in the off season.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. I wouldn't and and by the way, right now, I haven't the day before my wedding
Danny Woodhead:Get back tonight.
Paul Lanphier:I was smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day. My wife, God bless her soul, did not know I was smoking while we were engaged. I would I was really good at I would in the morning smoke, I was cutting back, but I was one of those guys, I was living it was hard. I was sad. I was I was living in a world how would I say this, Danny?
Paul Lanphier:I was I was fearing I was I loved I loved her so much. I didn't want her to know my whatever sin pattern, whatever it was. Yeah. And so she just I just decided to let her marry me.
Danny Woodhead:Did Wait. Did Emily have like crazy bad allergies?
Paul Lanphier:She might my sister's joke
Danny Woodhead:because I her my sister's joke Not
Paul Lanphier:so that her nose might have been like she might not have a good perspective of smell. But I would I would I would always shower. So like when we started dating
Danny Woodhead:Did COVID happen back then to where they took
Paul Lanphier:I I did I did
Danny Woodhead:Emily Emily was dealing with that. Dealing with COVID.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. We we had COVID before COVID COVID was cool. Yeah. So I was so I was, you know, I was smoking the last day I smoked a cigarette was the day before my wedding. And yeah.
Paul Lanphier:That's true. And then I had I've smoked cigars since then and stuff, know. Yeah. But but it was crazy. And I would sit there for six months.
Paul Lanphier:I remember I got three packs of cigarettes and I would throw them out. I would just be like, oh, God. Give me like, I don't wanna do this. I did tell my wife about a month and a half after. I was so convicted by the Lord.
Paul Lanphier:Was like, hey, just to let you know, that was the beginning of about a two year period where we had to get to know each other. And I think my wounds my wounds, I'll call it hiddenness and just not being known had to get and we say wounds in a Christian world, but it's like just things of I'll call it insecurities, know, trying to be somebody I wasn't. So and I and you know, that's a that's a I had to I had to work through that part and my wife was so amazing through that. She only beat me three times and you
Danny Woodhead:know It was just something you
Paul Lanphier:had to do. And it shaped it shaped me. Those beatings literally shaped me. No. She didn't beat me, but there was but there was a lot of there was a lot of healing and then her parents who we'll get to that part, but her parents were such a big part of that.
Paul Lanphier:Like just loving on me, just like Paul, we see greatness in you, we see whatever. With that greatness, I I promise one day we're going to find out if that's true. Yeah. We're going to find out.
Danny Woodhead:Hey, could you share with was this before Bethel? Yes. Or no. Yes. This was but was it after Bethel or before Bethel that you thought you're gonna like live in Peru?
Paul Lanphier:Oh, yeah. So we got married. We got married our we got so when we got married, we got married within twelve months. I knew I out I mean, when people say they outkicked their coverage, look at me, look at my wife, I outkick my coverage. Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:And some guys don't. You know, it's not it's true. We can look at why we can look
Danny Woodhead:we at can look at
Paul Lanphier:people and say, are you good looking?
Danny Woodhead:We're fortunate that we did. But there's some people that's like not sure what you're looking at.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. I joke around. There's some people that just like they go they do they do a spinning thing. You know like a spinning thing on your head where you do that game Yes. As a kid.
Paul Lanphier:And then you walk out and you just point at the first one and say I'm gonna marry you. I think guys and girls do that. And not judging, looks is not looks are not everything.
Danny Woodhead:No. But I I haven't met many guys that personality is number one.
Paul Lanphier:No. There's there's few out there. There's a few out there. I mean, you know, you see those every once in while on Facebook and different, probably podcasts like For sure. So we thought so my wife You're
Danny Woodhead:gonna move to Peru.
Paul Lanphier:Well, we thought we were gonna I was like we're gonna spend six months there right after we get married and we're going to we're going to I'm gonna learn Spanish. Turns out while we're down there, week three, the guy asked me to invest in a house with ladies that do stuff with men for money. Yeah. Poor house I think is what they're called. Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:In Peru. And he was like talking about the mayor and all I'm not gonna say what's He's trying to get he almost got involved in something terrible and I'm pretty sure they were dealing drugs. I could be wrong but the do you
Danny Woodhead:how do you get yourself in this?
Paul Lanphier:We found this random school. We found a random school and it was like looked up online and it was we get there and there was five or six people that were doing and I was learning Spanish and I I realized after about three three weeks of that like I said, or actually about a week or two of that I was like my my brain doesn't learn other languages very well.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Can see much of a Spanish guy.
Paul Lanphier:My wife my wife is she hates when I say this but she got she has her Spanish degree. She was pretty fluent.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. But I I So I thought it was
Paul Lanphier:gonna translate to me because
Danny Woodhead:It didn't. It didn't. It didn't.
Paul Lanphier:But so anyway, we're down in Peru, get back and realize I'm not smart enough to be a doctor. Like if we really were like being honest like Yeah. I mean I mean maybe I could try hard like your brother's a doctor. Maybe I could try hard just like I did in sports and you know become
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. If you would have tried harder and didn't smoke weed Yeah. Drink alcohol, you probably would play in the NFL. Yeah. Most people would.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Most people would. And so we I mean because it's like speed and those things you know, it's like we know those are just secondary. Yeah. So anyway, we go we go back
Danny Woodhead:What made you not wanna invest in that business, Paul?
Paul Lanphier:Well, I was still love my wife, still was, you know
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Didn't wanna do something terrible.
Paul Lanphier:Didn't wanna do something terrible and we end up in that was that was an interesting yeah. Anyway
Danny Woodhead:So go to go to so go to
Paul Lanphier:we get back two years here and we're like, it's that time in 2008, everybody people couldn't like find jobs. I was lucky. I had my nursing degree. So I was able to my and about after a year, I was getting ready. I was taking some pre reqs from med school thought and then I realized my wife's like, you don't want to be a doctor.
Paul Lanphier:She's like, you just want she's like, you love entrepreneurship. You love business. So I was like, you're right. And then we so we were thinking like, I was like, in my mind I was like, I gotta do like all these business, you know, I mean, you've never experienced that with me. Right?
Paul Lanphier:Thinking
Danny Woodhead:thinking Where your mind goes.
Paul Lanphier:Thinking through businesses, all this stuff. So anyway, I was like, Lord, my wife and I are praying. We're like, what should we do? And we felt like he said, take a year and just go and just like and my father and always said father-in-law would always say, in your twenties, live like a shotgun. Like experience and then it gets narrow as you get into your forties.
Danny Woodhead:Almost 40, dog. I am 40.
Paul Lanphier:Oh, yeah. So we but we so we went to Bethel, which is a ministry school. Everybody can, you know, look it up. There's a lot of stuff on Bethel.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Some people hate it. Yeah. Some people love it. We love Jesus here.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. We loved Bethel. It's the best experience of our life. A lot of stuff you're gonna read maybe not is not true. There's some weird people everywhere, sure.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. But it was the most formative year of our life. And we got back and we thought we were gonna take over the world, my wife and I. Really made it. I did.
Paul Lanphier:And we went through, I would say, about, I mean, a year of hell that led to another three years of hell. That's four. So that's four years of hell.
Danny Woodhead:But That's great.
Paul Lanphier:But I mean, in the midst of that, God was building our character. So we Yeah. So we got back, end up end up end up to get out of nursing, basically. My wife, when we had a young kid living with her parents, what and and she was pregnant with another one on the way, she's like I she's like, you gotta get out of nursing. Like she that's where she's always been like that person that's like, I want you to pursue your dreams.
Paul Lanphier:So we end up what do we do? We end up going trying to remember this. So we end up I get with a home builder in Omaha, interesting experience, and end up in about a year or two kind of running most things and end up going through a pretty nasty had some stuff in his life he had to figure out, and that's a nice way of saying that. Yeah. If business, you know what I'm talking about.
Paul Lanphier:If you've dealt with that kind of picture everything times it by a 100, and that's what we were dealing with. In the midst of that, her her my mother-in-law and father-in-law are killed in a car crash. So that was when our third baby was, my wife's pregnant with our third baby, and and we were very close to her parents, and they in this, they were pastors, I ran a nonprofit, amazing people, and it's it's one of those seasons in life where it's like you either choose to really get bitter and you can go down a path. It's like we pressed in. And it wasn't didn't mean it was easy, but we pressed in.
Paul Lanphier:We pressed into what God had for us, and we and then life was just perfect from then on out. That's my story.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. No, I'm joking. That
Paul Lanphier:is We That's the least true statement. So we end up going into the nonprofit realm
Danny Woodhead:For how many years were you in that?
Paul Lanphier:So it's so about a year into that, so I actually started or I bought my first business during that time with one of my business partners who's now been a business partner Yep. I think in seven or eight ventures, and I met you during that time. Yep. And so we met, Danny was speaking at church. I think you played for the you are just were still with the Chargers I think.
Paul Lanphier:And then then you were figuring out what you're gonna do if you're gonna with them, what was gonna happen and we and we just clicked two peas in a pod.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. I think that's exactly
Paul Lanphier:the first time
Danny Woodhead:we We meet probably did.
Paul Lanphier:And hold hands or something?
Danny Woodhead:I will say this, you were
Paul Lanphier:did you say hold hands? I don't did we?
Danny Woodhead:We didn't. But we could've I could've seen
Paul Lanphier:us Paul doing that
Danny Woodhead:Lanfear will do anything for his friends. I remember I was in Baltimore and I needed a vehicle and I didn't want to ship it. Paul Lanfear drove out my vehicle to Baltimore. That's that's just a side that's such a side note.
Paul Lanphier:That was probably like six months. That was probably six months after we were like, we were but we're starting to get close. Like we were talking through life and that I didn't realize. So the fun part was that was that was a season where you were probably waking up at 04:30 in the morning Yeah. To go work out.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:And I was I mean, because I was on that same training schedule. Land fear has never been on that training schedule. Consistency may not be.
Danny Woodhead:That was not your forte.
Paul Lanphier:That was not. It got better though.
Danny Woodhead:Anyways, had many years in two different nonprofits.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Two different nonprofits, ransom nonprofits end up we end up buying into a couple businesses together and then we started we're like, let's start this let's start a business brokerage m and a firm thinking we're gonna just rule the world.
Danny Woodhead:Do know what? Let me let me share my I think we I think we should let me share a little bit about me, and then I think once we once I'm up to when we start business, I think we should go in together in that I love that. And then tell the story because the last four years have been A little interesting. A wild a wild ride. An an absolute wild ride.
Paul Lanphier:I wanna hear about Danny.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. So I'm Danny Woodhead. I played in the NFL for ten years. That's where most people would know who I am. Grew up in a Christian home.
Danny Woodhead:For everyone that's listening, they're like Christian. I grew up following Jesus. I grew up in the church. My dad's a PE teacher. He was a PE teacher.
Danny Woodhead:My mom stayed at home. I was homeschooled from kindergarten through eighth grade. Those were some interesting times. I think my mom wanted to kill me. Like, literally wanted to kill me.
Paul Lanphier:Because You kinda have an intense personality at Testament.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. I mean, and I think so there are three boys and a girl. And my two brothers and I would play football. Me and my older brother did. I I still remember to this day, there's one I don't know how many times in the living room, family room area, there was like a lane where we could play football and it was on carpet.
Danny Woodhead:Well, there's doorways also and I don't know how many times it said don't play. Well, Ben throws throws a pass because if it's one on one, if you're gonna throw a pass, have to throw it up and then go dive. Well, he dove for one. Dove hit a door jam in on some like moldy like on the baseboards, but it's like an older home. His eye just got slit way open, like so bad.
Danny Woodhead:I went upstairs, he had a pool of blood and I'm crying. I said, I was apologizing that we were playing football because I knew we were in trouble there too, But I also thought Ben was dying because of the amount of blood. He didn't end up dying, but that's what our house was like. We play sports all the time. K through eight, I was homeschooled, played in the all the city league stuff was pretty pretty good at sports and Like how good?
Danny Woodhead:Like probably not as good as you were from eight to thirteen. I would have But I would say I would say if you would have asked me to race at six, no chance I would have beat you from the sounds of it. I mean, if you if you owned Omaha like you owned it, like you say you owned it, I probably would have I would
Paul Lanphier:have struggled. Six in the Midwest conference, junior Olympic champion.
Danny Woodhead:But anyways, I I grew up in a Christian home. I mean, Jesus was the focus. Family was the second focus. School and then sports. So sports was never really I mean, we loved it, and that was our thing, but it was sports just weren't weren't number one.
Danny Woodhead:My dad was a teacher and a coach. Sports were we were very involved, but I mean, we had rules. If I were to cry from losing or being in a bad sport, I wouldn't play. I wouldn't get a play. My dad would be like, no.
Danny Woodhead:You're not playing. Like, if you're not
Paul Lanphier:If I lost, I cried.
Danny Woodhead:I could I probably would have struggled with a guy like you. Would you
Paul Lanphier:have gotten spanked? I don't think I would
Danny Woodhead:have gotten spanked but I would have not been allowed to play.
Paul Lanphier:Okay.
Danny Woodhead:I mean passion. It's passion. Yeah. That's that's kind of make believe. I mean that's what that's what everyone that yeah.
Danny Woodhead:I I don't wanna go there. But yeah. So I k through eight was homeschooled, ended up playing high school at North Platte High. That's where I grew up. Probably should have said that.
Danny Woodhead:Born and raised in North Platte, Nebraska. End up having a pretty good career. I I still remember to this day, we were in training camp, football training camp. They called it fall camp freshman year. And I remember some kids, everyone's like sizing each other up.
Danny Woodhead:They're like, what position are you gonna play? What position are you gonna play? I was like, I think running back. And they go, well, we already got two really good running backs. So like, you might wanna try out another position.
Danny Woodhead:Was like, shoot. I think I'm just gonna try. I think I'm alright. I think I probably could be pretty good.
Paul Lanphier:Did did you know then? Did you know?
Danny Woodhead:If I was good?
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Danny Woodhead:And end up setting, they didn't have records but I set like the person before who was the best running back. I don't wanna say before, but before me, I ended up breaking those records and ended up being pretty good. I was I played as a freshman in basketball, was the second leading scorer. A lot of people don't know this. I was I was probably as good at basketball as I was football.
Paul Lanphier:We I've I've seen him play. It's true.
Danny Woodhead:I was probably as good. Soccer, was pretty good at too. Played soccer as a freshman. So ended up I think it would have been you know how like they have the letterman jackets and stuff? Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:And you're like, I lettered two years. I think I had 11 letters. So the only I didn't How many letters do
Paul Lanphier:you think I had in high school? None. I did buy a Letterman jacket though. It just had no letters.
Danny Woodhead:No, you didn't.
Paul Lanphier:No, I didn't.
Danny Woodhead:I was just saying I could see you I could see you buying it. I didn't buy a Letterman jacket either. But so like I was good as I was pretty good. Started getting recruit recruited and end up being Nebraska Gatorade football player of the year and Nebraska athlete of the year and a lot of good things happened. I didn't I didn't get offered by any division one schools like Nebraska.
Danny Woodhead:I mean, it's been talked about a lot.
Paul Lanphier:They have they do they do like they have penance to
Danny Woodhead:you though. Nebraska is amazing. I I would say the last two or three coaches have been amazing. Like when once I've been back, I have great relationships with them. Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:They've made it's kind of wild even though I didn't go to Nebraska and I felt overlooked. They've I don't want to say made it up, but kind of have. And they've they've been great to me. So that went great. Didn't get division one offer, but went to division two school with my brother, Chatham State.
Danny Woodhead:And it was four years of man, those are definitely I will remember those years. Those four years were so amazing. God knew what he was doing.
Paul Lanphier:He also dated his wife since a freshman in high Yes. They gosh. A long stayed term relationship. I hope she doesn't listen to this. No.
Paul Lanphier:That's
Danny Woodhead:I was just trying to get through so we can get to the business and She was with my wife, a math teacher. Yeah. She she was not she was not planning. She actually told me in high school, senior year we're hanging out, her grandma's there and we're meeting with someone that her grandma took care of. And her grandma goes, you're going to the NFL.
Danny Woodhead:And Stacy goes, no, he's not. That's wild. Isn't it? And I was like, who are you? Like, who's this lady?
Danny Woodhead:This girlfriend of almost four years.
Paul Lanphier:I love grandma.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Grandma's the best.
Paul Lanphier:How's she doing? She's doing good. Good.
Danny Woodhead:Still lives in North outside of North Platte. But she said that and I mean, I I always remembered that and I definitely have told her since. It's wild. But end up having four great years, end up winning the Harlan Hill two years in college which is the Heisman.
Paul Lanphier:Is that kind of like
Danny Woodhead:a like a blue ribbon and track? It's very similar to the Junior Olympics.
Paul Lanphier:Okay. Like it would be like I got like a per because I was sixth place Yeah. I didn't get like a gold but
Danny Woodhead:It it's very eerily similar.
Paul Lanphier:Okay.
Danny Woodhead:So end up playing ten years in the league, didn't get drafted, didn't get invited to the combine. Felt like everything in my life was I felt like the answer was no to everything that I wanted to do. But my mom always said, she said, just walk through the doors that God's opened. And if you really think about it, if a door's closed and it's locked, why are we trying to open it? Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:Like, then we're just breaking in. But God has God had doors open for me that I had to walk through. He obviously knew exactly what needed to happen. And so I had four years there, amazing. End up not getting drafted, going to the New York Jets, tear my ACL.
Danny Woodhead:I remember on my way to the I missed my brother's wedding because I was in training camp. My best friend, I was his best man. I wrote a best man speech and had him read it.
Paul Lanphier:But Do you know what'd be crazy to just just a side note to see what I was doing and what you were doing at that exact same
Danny Woodhead:Probably you were smoking cigarettes.
Paul Lanphier:No. No. No. I wouldn't have been would I have been smoke oh, might
Danny Woodhead:have been You were smoking
Paul Lanphier:probably cigarettes. Was having a heater while you while you Yeah. Blew your
Danny Woodhead:I and I'm in the the doctor's patient room and I I remember because my wife said, hey Danny, she's at the wedding or it was the day before she goes, Danny, don't overreact. She goes, this might not be the thing. So I'm like, I'm retiring. I'm I'm done with football. I'm gonna go do whatever.
Danny Woodhead:She goes don't and I was got mad at her. I was like, you have no idea about football. I mean, you didn't think I was gonna be in the NFL. Didn't say that. But and then it's crazy God.
Danny Woodhead:I think in my story and in your story, God shows up so many times. Like in in this situation, God showed up and he said, no, you're gonna play. He goes, you need to take care of what you can take care of. I'll take care of the rest. So I was like, alright.
Danny Woodhead:I'm gonna do my best to rehab hard and yeah, just get better and end up coming back probably stronger and faster than I ever was. And still that didn't help me make a team. I mean, look at me. We can all see what I look like from height to weight to everything. Right?
Danny Woodhead:But I mean, at that time, running backs weren't nor the norm.
Paul Lanphier:Still aren't. Cam Scataboo wasn't the norm back
Danny Woodhead:then. No. Ended up We're
Paul Lanphier:gonna get into that someday too, Danny versus Cam. We we won't. We will not.
Danny Woodhead:But end up having play a couple years there, get fired, and then thought my career was over. Didn't have a lot of great film. So like
Paul Lanphier:Do they send you a letter that you're fired? No. Do they I was I was sit down and say it's not you, it's me. I was at Or what did they do?
Danny Woodhead:Back then the jets were invite some of the jets were invited to Eric Trump's golf tournament, like charity golf tournament. I was at the golf tournament on like Hole 5 and they called me and I find out I'm fired.
Paul Lanphier:So just they just call you?
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. So I had to drive back. I was so mad. I was so so mad at the organization. I can't tell you how mad I was at the organization.
Danny Woodhead:And I'm driving from Upstate New York not Upstate, but more into New York down to New Jersey. Wasn't it's probably good that no one was in there because I was probably yelling and screaming. But, yeah, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. End up end up getting signed by New England the weekend after and who ended up becoming a good buddy of mine. Kevin Falk towards ACL that first week and I ended up getting an opportunity.
Danny Woodhead:And then really, I don't wanna say the rest is history, but then I played seven more years. And and I had a touchdown in the Super Bowl, a lot of cool stuff, a lot of other injuries, not a lot of stuff that I really need to go into, but it was an unbelievable ten years. And then I will share this in Baltimore, last year after my last year. I get to the end of the end of the year and I had a torn hamstring and I remember in my little prayer journal asking God to take the love of football away from me, like, when I'm supposed to retire. Not like take it away, but when I'm supposed to retire, take the love of football away.
Danny Woodhead:And I I still remember to this day in January, I think it was January of 07/18, and I and I did not wanna play. But I had two years left on my contract. So like this is kind of odd. I don't know what to do.
Paul Lanphier:I remember talking to you about that a lot.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. And I asked God to give me the love to play or like to where I'd be okay or have him fire me. And it's funny he gave the love. He kinda gave it back to where I I'm like, I can do this. And then they end up trying to renegotiate.
Danny Woodhead:I get fired and it's funny. I right after I get fired, I wanted to fight them. And I wanted to sign on any team that played the Baltimore Ravens. And it's twenty four to forty eight hours in
Paul Lanphier:you're competitive a little bit?
Danny Woodhead:No. Not at all. That was just Just a sweet.
Paul Lanphier:Just sweet moment in life. That's the dumbest thing I've ever you say a lot of dumb stuff. You wanted the sweetest moment. The Well
Danny Woodhead:The sweetest moment in your life. No. Yes. I'm competitive, Paul. But I had I I started negotiating with a couple other teams.
Paul Lanphier:I remember that.
Danny Woodhead:And kind of going back and forth. And then I'm in my in our master bedroom and I was kinda having a conversation with God and I felt like he was like, what are you doing? I was like, no. You answered my prayer to get me fired and I'm trying to go against it now. And right then and there I walk in, my wife's putting Will down at the time.
Danny Woodhead:I said, I'm retiring. She I go, yeah, I'm retiring. Doug got me fired like I asked him to. I'm gonna I'm gonna retire. And she goes, are you sure?
Danny Woodhead:I go, yeah. It doesn't matter how much money. I go, they could offer this is wild. I remember saying they could offer me 10,000,000, I will not take it. I I had I had too much of the fear of the Lord in me.
Danny Woodhead:That's wild. Like I was like, no chance I'm signing. Because it was like, oh, I'll play for this much or I'll play for this much. And I talked to my agent. I go, no.
Danny Woodhead:He goes, do you wanna make I go, I'm putting an Instagram post out and I'm doing it how I want to. And he goes, are you sure? Like, do you need to take some time? I go, Chris, I'm done. I I'm done.
Danny Woodhead:God answered my prayer. And it it was more so too out of like obedience because like God asked me, he goes, what do have to prove? Like, what what are you what are you chasing? And I was like, oh, crap. Like, I'm am I just chasing money or am I chasing continuing to play or significance?
Danny Woodhead:I was like, I'm done. And then the next next year was one of the toughest times of my life because I dealt with anxiety, panic attacks, just all kinds of crazy stuff. And man, God was so near during those times and he kind of got me through those. We can talk about stuff like that later and on future podcasts, but that's when that's when I came home. And then I had four years, didn't think I'd ever work.
Danny Woodhead:That sounds really bad, but didn't think I was gonna have a job again. And I think four years in, which gets us to our business, Arise Ventures, you had this crazy idea and I'm like, if you would've asked me a year earlier, there's no chance I would've done it. If you would've asked me two months earlier, probably no chance I would have done it. But God like released me and was like, no, you need to do something. And so here we are now.
Danny Woodhead:And, yeah, we've been business partners for four years now. We we have a business that we we get to help people sell their businesses. We get to help them sometimes a lot of times experience maybe some financial freedom they've never experienced or nothing close to it.
Paul Lanphier:We get we get a walk alongside people too. Yeah. We when we started this people like, what's your strategy? What's this? What's your specialty?
Paul Lanphier:It's like me and Danny both probably felt called. It's like we're gonna love people. We're gonna I mean, I always felt called. I I was I remember leaving when I left the nonprofit world, the one of the CEOs that I worked with, he said to me, he goes, Paul, you're called to pastor business people. Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:And I always told Danny, was like, Danny, I told him I think I told you when I was at Abide or we met, I was like, you're gonna be a pastor someday. By the way, we're both pastors also.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Yeah. Which is kind of Which kinda wild too.
Paul Lanphier:If you which I apologize to anybody that I've met that knows I'm a pastor now because
Danny Woodhead:And then they found out you've smoked so much weed
Paul Lanphier:Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:And tons of cigarettes.
Paul Lanphier:Oh, Oh,
Danny Woodhead:yeah. It's I don't think he still smokes cigarettes.
Paul Lanphier:No. No. No. No. I I mean, I'd smoke a cigar.
Paul Lanphier:Yes. But I don't but you know, had to cut out some stuff. Don't drink anymore. Don't do you know what? I mean, it is not fun.
Danny Woodhead:We'll get into the thing.
Paul Lanphier:That's but it's like, you know, the cigarettes, maybe that is I mean, I could start that again. I don't know if my I don't know if my church would be okay with that, but, you know, for there's freedom.
Danny Woodhead:Don't freedom and smoking cigarettes.
Paul Lanphier:I don't wanna start again. That was expensive.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah, it was. I I have no idea. I would never waste money like that. Okay. But, yes, we've been business partners for four years.
Danny Woodhead:It's funny. Not funny. But if you if you ask why would why would a former athlete and a former athlete you're a former athlete just at a younger age. Why would they start a podcast? It's crazy but we felt like God told us to if a certain business closed.
Danny Woodhead:And Paul, kinda what what what are you envisioning why why we're doing this? What you wanna see out of this? Or even a little and I'll just kinda add to it.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Our heart is like we wanna or at least I wanna see people's lives changed. And I want our stories. It's like I wanna be open, vulnerable, like all the things I feel like growing up that I wasn't. It's not because I I was people would have said, oh, Paul, you were always real.
Paul Lanphier:You were always authentic. It's like, yeah, I'm real and authentic, but I wasn't I think you said it once. There's a difference between being transparent and vulnerable. Mhmm. And I wanna be vulnerable in life.
Paul Lanphier:I want people to know I want people to know me. I want people to know you. It's like we like, yeah, you've lived a crazy life. I think people are gonna find out a lot of cool things. I mean, it's like you've had a I I've I've got to be vicarious, but it's like
Danny Woodhead:I
Paul Lanphier:think
Danny Woodhead:Just living vicariously.
Paul Lanphier:I live vicariously but it's like I but it's like you look at life and I just think it's I think it's cool and people are just real, honestly. Like I don't I'm not impressed like we sit down with so many business guys who have money, who have conquered so many different things, and it's like, and yet their lives are broken. Yeah. And my heart is like, I want people to experience Jesus. I want people to have fun.
Paul Lanphier:I want people to talk about faith. I want people we're gonna talk about sports. We're gonna I think I think it's just gonna be and I want our business. It's like, at the end of the day, it's like, this is this is our business is right there. But Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:This is more about just, I think, me and you just talking about Jesus. Yeah. Talking about life. Yeah. I could be wrong on that.
Danny Woodhead:Don't know. I think I think you're very accurate on it. I think think what you hit on is talking about just being real. I think there's so many people unfortunately that it's almost like they're just hiding. Their lives are in hiding.
Danny Woodhead:And you're gonna hear probably a bunch of crap about us that like, gosh, they were total losers. That's okay, we don't care. Like I wanna be fully known, I want people to fully know me. I don't care who you are, I don't care if you're my best friend. I think there's such a freedom in being known.
Paul Lanphier:Yep.
Danny Woodhead:I don't want anything in the dark in my life. Yep. And when we're talking about anything in the dark, we're talking it could be sin patterns, it could be whatever. It could be
Paul Lanphier:you try to impress people.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Secrets like fear of man, like worried about what people think, your self esteem. In everyone I think as men too, it's so hard and like they're like, I don't want people to know who I am. I'm supposed to be big and strong and it's like, I think one of the strongest things that we can do as men is actually show our weaknesses. Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:Because when we show our weaknesses, God actually kinda he kinda takes care of them then.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Isn't there a bible verse about weak?
Danny Woodhead:There may be a bible verse about when you are weak, I am strong as in God is strong.
Paul Lanphier:Isn't it? It's Jonathan twenty five twenty five. Right? Isn't that isn't that the verse? Is it Jonathan twenty five twenty five?
Paul Lanphier:Hey.
Danny Woodhead:Are are you are you making your own books of the bible? Jonathan? Jonathan.
Paul Lanphier:Well, John. I don't think there's a 25.
Danny Woodhead:You said Jonathan though.
Paul Lanphier:I am a pastor. I'm I'm kinda joking about You're
Danny Woodhead:kind of you kind of are. You're not joking about the verse. No. Maybe where it's found there's no Jonathan. Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:But we man, I really we're actually talking about this earlier like if our podcast affects one person, one, not two, not three, not 50,000. If there's one person it'll be worth it. God told us to do it. If a certain business closed, a certain business closed and we're doing this out of obedience but we also want people to see our lives. Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:And we want people to see that like our lives are messy. Like we are the furthest things from perfect and being pastors, we're the furthest things from being perfect. Like that's just we're just not that.
Paul Lanphier:I mean, speak for yourself.
Danny Woodhead:I'm just messing. Yeah. So that's what a lot of it's gonna be on is we want we wanna share some things. Well, there's gonna be a time when we interview people, have cool stories. I don't know.
Danny Woodhead:What what are you doing?
Paul Lanphier:I was gonna I was gonna say I literally I literally had this Don't cut this out.
Danny Woodhead:This is stupid and people need to see this. What you're
Paul Lanphier:just holding up I love what you were saying. I was literally gonna be like, sometimes
Danny Woodhead:I got an empty cup?
Paul Lanphier:I was gonna be like, Kobe, can you get more water for me? I was just like, you know how I love to I get compulsive. Sorry. I get compulsive drinking water.
Danny Woodhead:He does. Get back to the Hey, Kobe.
Paul Lanphier:Can you
Danny Woodhead:get him some water? Quickly.
Paul Lanphier:Gosh, Kobe. Kobe works for us.
Danny Woodhead:Kobe works for us. We love him but get him water. Yeah. But yeah, we we just wanna we wanna share our lives and and do show people how we do life, show that we're we are the furthest thing from perfect but we love Jesus. Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:At the end of the day, we love Jesus. We care more about that than anything. We love our business. We really do. We love the people that we're involved with and we're excited to see where the podcast takes us.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. We we really are. We don't know where it's gonna go. We do know that we're gonna be a part of it and Blake's gonna be a
Paul Lanphier:part of it too. Blake Blake is. Blake's gonna be a part. Yeah. Whoever whoever we have on, we're excited to have people.
Paul Lanphier:We're excited to talk to people and just get to know them.
Danny Woodhead:Yeah. Real quick. Oh gosh.
Paul Lanphier:So tomorrow, Nebraska's playing USC.
Danny Woodhead:Okay. Well, this is gonna probably be out later but still we can give predictions.
Paul Lanphier:What's what's your what's your guess?
Danny Woodhead:I'm happy Matt rules around.
Paul Lanphier:Didn't he he got a he got a contract extension?
Danny Woodhead:He got an extension. I'm hoping
Paul Lanphier:Okay money wise or is that why they had to give an extension?
Danny Woodhead:Seriously. That's probably that's probably why they had to get an extension. Okay. It's because he didn't have enough money.
Paul Lanphier:What's it? What was it for like 10,000,000
Danny Woodhead:Can I can
Paul Lanphier:I Sorry? Sorry.
Danny Woodhead:I'm just you to say if you think Nebraska is gonna win or not?
Paul Lanphier:My prediction is that we win I think I actually have this weird thought. I think it's 3521.
Danny Woodhead:I was gonna say '34 to 31 we win. I think we're gonna win. I think we're gonna win too. I do. I'm also picking with my heart.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah. Ruelly, that's what we call Matt.
Danny Woodhead:No. We've never called him Ruelly.
Paul Lanphier:I just feel like he's got a crap you know who I love?
Danny Woodhead:A dumb name. Ruelly. Yeah.
Paul Lanphier:R h u l e Ruelly. He's he's a friend. He wouldn't know my name but he's a friend. A friend of yours so therefore he's a friend of mine. That's biblical.
Paul Lanphier:I was
Danny Woodhead:on it. I I don't think that is. I was on his podcast and Paul was there and you said hi to him and said a few words.
Paul Lanphier:I was kinda it's weird like because I'm around Danny but I was a little like starstruck. Was like, hey hey Matt. And then he's like, dude.
Danny Woodhead:It's like whatever you He's like whatever you should have punched him. It's bro, like he's a normal human.
Paul Lanphier:Remember when he said to me, he's like, hey man, if you need anything also. I don't think that was true. I don't I don't There's no way.
Danny Woodhead:No I've showed way. I was
Paul Lanphier:trying to get on the sidelines last week. Was like, hey Matt, can you let and it was like, he act like he knew me. It was kind of weird.
Danny Woodhead:This is not true.
Paul Lanphier:No, this is not true. I was at the game though. Took my son to the first game north of But I
Danny Woodhead:will say this. I'd if you ask if you ask him, I'm sure he'd remember there was someone there with me.
Paul Lanphier:Yeah.
Danny Woodhead:Could he pick you out in a crowd now? And I'm not giving I'm not trying to like say Matt wouldn't but he wouldn't.
Paul Lanphier:No, he wouldn't. He sees too many people. I'm a realist.
Danny Woodhead:Mate, you are not a realist.
Paul Lanphier:Oh. Well, I think I think Matt, don't I know. Do you okay.
Danny Woodhead:You guys, we are gonna every week have different Paul hot takes. Paul says some of the controversial not even contra like just dumbest stuff I've ever heard. His evaluation let me quickly go through a couple evaluation of people. So you will always hear Raven's predictions, forty niners predictions, and they will always be off base.
Paul Lanphier:Brock Purdy will be the best quarterback of all time.
Danny Woodhead:I like Brock Purdy. Right now, that's a really dumb take. That's just not smart. Beginning of the year, the Ravens are doing good against the Bills. The Bills come back.
Paul Lanphier:I thought He doesn't even know that the
Danny Woodhead:Bills won and beat the Ravens. We get to the gym. He goes I fell asleep. He told me that he told me, he said, I believe that this Ravens offense looked as good as the Patriots offense of like 11 or 12. I can't remember.
Danny Woodhead:Guys, those Patriots offenses had Wes Welker, Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez How's Brandon Lloyd, not but I was on that team. You have five guys that can get open. Yes. Lamar Jackson's good. Also, they're three and five.
Danny Woodhead:That's the dumbest take in the history of any sport.
Paul Lanphier:They are not my favorite team but
Danny Woodhead:I'm gonna predict ten and
Paul Lanphier:six this year. Ten and six.
Danny Woodhead:That that's impossible because they play 17 games.
Paul Lanphier:I'm gonna predict eleven and six this year. Oh my gosh.
Danny Woodhead:See like this is this is where Hey. Hey. But tell me you don't know football or sports with
Paul Lanphier:tell me without telling me it. Alright.
Danny Woodhead:One The stuff that you say is so stupid.
Paul Lanphier:So here's a serious question though. You take out you take out Rob Gronkowski and you put me at you put me at tight end alongside Aaron Hernandez, we would not hang out at night I promise.
Danny Woodhead:We Oh, no.
Paul Lanphier:And I would not have hung out with him.
Danny Woodhead:No. Yes.
Paul Lanphier:Okay. But they but who who actually I mean, were
Danny Woodhead:in your cigarette years but
Paul Lanphier:That is true. But who okay. Do are you still good? You have me. And I was pretty athletic at that time.
Paul Lanphier:I mean, I'm
Danny Woodhead:still Yes. We'd still be the better offenses, you just wouldn't have played.
Paul Lanphier:No. No. No. I you had to Bill had to start me.
Danny Woodhead:Bill had to start you? Yeah. Do we because you had some like dirt on him or something? Yeah. I mean No.
Danny Woodhead:Think I think you were that bad of a player that we would have turned into being bad.
Paul Lanphier:So one player does make
Danny Woodhead:a Well, 10 on 11.
Paul Lanphier:At that point, I mean I'm thinking at my I was I was actually in pretty good shape at that point, literally. Like I think I think they could have put me at a slot. Would not have played, but I wouldn't have been good, but
Danny Woodhead:I think This is like straight up delusion.
Paul Lanphier:No. I could have been a decoy. Like because they would have thought like they would have thought like Bill would have thought, oh,
Danny Woodhead:so in a week fifteen they're still gonna no one's gonna cover you. That's it. But you couldn't run of your shadow.
Paul Lanphier:But that would be an interesting statistic to see. It wouldn't be If an NFL team had the best offense ever, if you put someone in there,
Danny Woodhead:it doesn't isn't even a human being almost.
Paul Lanphier:That's true. I mean, well,
Danny Woodhead:dog, you know I love you. You would've we we would've not made the playoffs.
Paul Lanphier:We always joke. It's like I would've cried work or being in the NFL. My personality
Danny Woodhead:Before we end with how we're gonna end every episode, I want to let you know, not even in football, business, whatever. If Bill Belichick was Paul Lanfear's boss, he would be fired within hours. Within hours. Do you you don't He'd be like this guy.
Paul Lanphier:You don't think we would have gotten along?
Danny Woodhead:He would have he would have got up there and he was
Paul Lanphier:like I would have loved on him. Paul like Like he would have felt valued. What are you doing? He would have felt valued though. Like Bill, like there's a value to feeling valued.
Paul Lanphier:Right? Right, Cobers? Blake, is there a value to being valued? There's a value to being valued. There's value well, how would we say that?
Paul Lanphier:I don't know. There's something
Danny Woodhead:died if you would have played in the NFL.
Paul Lanphier:We have talked about trying out for a A college
Danny Woodhead:he this was his idea. He said and this is not happening. He goes once we once we once start the once we start the podcast, do you think I should try out for a football team? A college football team? This this came out of his mouth.
Danny Woodhead:That's when you know that he's just like, yeah, make believe. And I think what we should do, I think I think at the end of every this is just thought right now. At the end of every podcast, I think we should just pray.
Paul Lanphier:I love it.
Danny Woodhead:You or me. You got this one. Alright. God, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for, yeah, anyone that might listen to it, anyone that might accidentally listen to it because we know that can happen.
Danny Woodhead:But Lord, we ask ask that you just bless everyone. You bless everyone listening. You bless everyone that's on our team. And, yeah, Lord, we just thank you that we can do cool things like this and have nice things like this when you probably know that Paul and I probably shouldn't have nice things. We thank you and praise you, Jesus.
Danny Woodhead:In your name, amen. Amen.
Paul Lanphier:See you. See you.