Fearless Leadership: Gridiron to Greatness with Jared Allen

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motor. And I'm like, you're actually using those in a negative connotation at that point. Everybody's talented. So the fact that I'm willing to outwork you, just shows that mentally you're weak. And that's how I equated.

I wasn't willing to work out to meet the standard that I thought was acceptable. We're going to hang on for paychecks and racked up five sacks a year into the middle. But that's just not who I was and so it's I take that same philosophy of what we're doing. So if that passion for something burns or if I'm not willing to put that effort in, then we get out of it.

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I'm Rudy Rush and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Ladies and gentlemen, today's guest is a female. If you look up the word or the term man's man in the dictionary, you find this guest. Bethel Hall of Famer, Legendary and everything that he does, Man of Faith, and a man who

is the owner of the best verb and I've ever had in my life. I am talking to none other than the goat himself, Mr. Jared Allen. Jared, how are you doing today, brother? I'm doing great. I mean, I need you to just be around my house 24/7.

“Every morning with that intro, I think you gotta have a great day after that intro.”

A dog barking over here, my goal to do it will think she's a wrought-wiler. Oh, good. Oh, good. I'm doing great. How about yourself?

I am great now that I am with you. I'm honored to have you on. There's so much I want to talk to you about because you're someone who on and off the field, I've been my or alone time. You're someone who when you play sports, even the things you do off the field.

You don't hide your faith.

You never hid your faith and that's something I truly admire about you, man, because

you know, when you have the spotlight on you like you did and all the things that you were doing, you still gave honor where honor was doing, I've always respected you. Well, I appreciate that, you know, you know, like a lot of people, you know, I grew up in the church. I had my abs and flows, right?

I always laugh and stick growing up, you know, heart rate monitor, relationship, right? You know, Sunday morning was always an apology for Saturday night at some point, right? And as I got older, as I grew, you know, going through challenges in my life, you know, I had great people around me, I have a great family, you know, for other flaws in my mom and dad or fantastic people and, you know, even though, you know, they weren't, they

weren't married. They were married. My whole, my, there's nothing like that. I married him. He got divorced when I was young, but, you know, my step dad's an amazing person.

So, you know, I got great influences, I thought I'm just trying to say, and you know, I had to go through life like that.

You can't always come back around to your foundations, right?

And so as I got older, my mistakes, and, you know, I had my grandfather's big part of my life. I love people who haven't talked about him. And then my best friends dad growing up was our pastor.

“And, you know, I remember, forget it, he said, you know, I'm never forget that.”

I was 20, roughly good and I guess I was 24 years old, 25 years old, maybe, I guess 26 years old and rather. And that's where he said he said, the world needs more moral heroes, you know, it's enough assholes in the world. And when your pastor cuts his asses at you, you're kind of like, okay, yeah, you know, what

I need to, uh, I need to, uh, I need to, uh, I need this relationship. Yeah. Yeah. Right. That's right.

Everybody's in the mirror. I'm going on 16 years of marriage. I thought my friends do. I said, you know, you know, you know, my peaks and valleys, right? This is flatlining in marriage is a great, is a great thing, you know, consistency.

Um, and so that's kind of where, where I was at, you know, and I'm always, so I think,

you know, it gets my long-winded version of getting back to kind of why I always wanted to lived the way I lived and be so transparent with people is that, you know, I understood that feeling of, you know, when people would ask you, what's the one they people don't know about you? I'm a Christian. Like that's not what you want to say, right? And that's not being a role. So through that process of growing up and learning that you are a role model, whether you want to be one or not, right? So what is it? And that's, you know, kind of going back to how I was raised is like, who are you? What is that authentic person that you look like, right?

And if you stand, if this is how you're raised, would you stand on, then you need to live by those, those, those, those factors too, that you stand on, right?

And so those are kind of those maturation process of maturing and stuff like that and, you know, I realize, you know, that, again, I'm just going to be me. Yeah, I don't know how to be any people, but it else but me, right? It's too hard to try to be a different version of yourself or different people. I said, tell my kids, just be authentic with you. And so I tried to pass that along and then I think I also had a greater understanding of, I genuinely loved what I did for living, right?

“And I had a lot of respect because, you know, I came from, I didn't have a lot of money growing up, I mean, we had, we had prosperous times and we had really, really poor times, you know, still, right?”

You know, I understood and would read fan mail when people would talk about, you know, football was their escape, right? Or, this guy was making a couple hundred bucks a week and he's spending a couple hundred bucks a week on his season tickets, you know?

Yeah, you know, making me so you understand the importance of what football was bringing to people, whether it was a distraction, whatever that fan, whatever the fan was for.

And so for me, I'm like, people are going to pay their heart and money to come watch me play. I mean, I'm just, I'm going to give it all, I'm going to be me. And part of that me was, was my faith and I think people saw me growing there. You look at me as a rookie, running around to where I was, you know, at the end of my career, you're like, man, there's, there's a maturation process of being right there, right?

“And I think that was important for me to show people that, you know, and I didn't, I didn't know it at the time. It was like my goal was to show this, you know, this process of change.”

When you look back out, you say, you know what, I think I did a good job of being me and setting a example of listen, young, fun, dumb, immature, growing into responsibility, you know, you getting married, having kids that whole life change that you could be an example for people that are out there running and gun and that don't think they're ever in a slow down or those people that, you know, hey, I can stand on my faith and it, and it doesn't have to be this legalistic view of what people think your faith is, right?

Of this list of dudes and don'ts, you know, Christ calls us to be a light to the world, not to hide in the darkness and not to judge others, you know, so I just tried to, I just tried to live it out authentically and be who I was and to, again, like I said, it's too hard to try to be multiple people. Hey, that is the truth, bro. That is the truth. And this is a great, you know, conversation. I had my kids who were older, they're in their 20s now, but my, my, my middle child, my oldest son is a football coach now.

And we watched your Hall of Fame induction, we wound it probably a hundred times, no exaggeration, because I'm like, that's freaking Jared Allen right there, right? And you talk about authentically being yourself and that is you. And I like to call it your be cause or your purpose, right? Like you do so much that people, the ordinary person doesn't know about, right? Like I know how connected you are to veterans. I know the things that you do for kids that that you don't ever glow about or talk about, because it's about those individuals now, like,

if I were to say Jared Allen in 2026, what is your be cause, what is that thing that's deeper than your why I like to call it like your true purpose, that foundation, what's your be cause, brother.

“You know what, I think, I think it's my kids right now, honestly, it's, and I know that's kind of generic and cheesy, because we're still doing stuff with the foundation, I got a great team that that handles most of that.”

But, you know, right now, like my kids sports, my kids are in volleyball and, you know, they're at that pivotal point in life or teenage, right? Well, I've one teenager and one, you know, preteen, right? And so, they're at that pivotal point in life where we're decisions matter, and I'm not talking about football decisions, like life decisions, right? So, you know, and they're deep into sports and I think mom and dad being present, you know, my kids are in two different clubs, so we're constantly here like, we're now a band of a week in Atlanta, like we're all over the place, right?

But it's, it's that being present, you know, and I think if you look, you go really deep into it, you know, look at society today, there's, I think a lot of the issues we have on society today, because there's a gap in parents being present, you know, and it's, and I'm not just talking about, you know, people from, you know, poor communities and that, you look at a lot of the athletes, I mean, my kids go to an affluent school and there's a lot of unpleasant parents, you know, there's a lot, you know, and no, no disrespect to people that are,

that have nanny isn't that are working and they're career and I, and I fully understand that. But for me, and we've been blessed, you know, my wife and I decided, you know, when we decided to have children, that we were going to be ever present in our kids lives, right? And I think that's one of the greatest gifts you can give your kids, so my biggest purpose right now is making sure through these transformed old years, that the dad is present, you know, and, you know, and that I'm, I'm continuing to show them what hard work looks like, right?

Right, he has crazy thinking about it man, I got, you know, I mean, I have a 14 year old, I mean, 10 years, she could be getting married, right?

I mean, you, you think about that, you know, like, wow, 10 years ago by so quick, so that's really my main purpose right now is that,

“and obviously we dab on a lot of stuff, but I think, again, just teaching them to, to define that passion and to be, and to be passion driven, right?”

And so, you know, if that's kind of been what our, our family centers around right now is really making sure that that we can be ever present and, you know, they don't know what they don't realize it now. One day they'll look back and say, holy crap, mom and dad, we're pretty awesome. And I'm, I'm going to continue to give you praise and applaud you for that because here's the truth and I just got off stage two weeks ago and told this story of,

I grew up in a two parent household, but really was raised by a single mom.

My dad was physically there, right? Yep, but he wasn't present. And I'm tying everything to what you're saying because you're right, your kids are going to remember that and look back. And, and you're, you're not just present physically, you're present emotionally, right?

“You're present mentally, you're, you're active when we talk about Jared Allen, everybody talks about his motor, right?”

And you talk about action there, like, what you just said was your present, yes, but you're being active, right? 100%.

I would love for you to talk to the folks that are listening and watching about why and how that is so important in the day to day, not just with your kids.

Yeah, but also in the businesses that you have the communities that you with, you can be present, but you really better be active. Absolutely, I love that, I love that phrasing right there, I'm, I'm going to steal it. I tell you, I have no, I have no original thought, everything. I've heard it take, I take some, but you know, so I, I'm one of these weird people.

“When I, when I hear something or read something that sticks to me, I can't forget it, right?”

It's, it's part of the reason why we, you know, we eat the way we do, we, you know, as far as we like to grow our own food, we can't actually, you know, we'd everything, but you know, try to, that's certain education process. But point being is that when I know something, I have a hard time making a conscious decision against it. If, if I believe it, right, if it comes out of my, my core belief system, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, can't actually make that decision go against it. And so I say that to say when I was young, I mean, I would, I didn't have kids at this time.

I can't in the city of early 20s. I read an article that said, seven, your child, your children will have a 70% less chance of poverty for just two parents being present being there. You could be crabby parents, but if two parents are there, right, you have it, your child will have a 70% less chance of growing up in poverty. And I, and I don't know why that struck me in that moment. I didn't have kids. I was reading, I was like, oh my gosh, and then the article continues to talk about now, if both parents are active, right, if you're present, if you're active, you're now you're a good parent, right now you know, you're, you know, parents are going to have, you know, struggles.

But, and that stuck with me. And so, you know, when we decided to have kids, and you know, aim beside a stay home and, and be it's either stay home mom, which is the greatest gift you can give your children, right? And they, when I retired, I knew it was like, it was already going to be meeting and I'm like, no, like my kids were at that age. They were like, you know, excuse me, they're like kindergarten, my oldest was like starting kindergarten when I retired. So again, fully blessed to be able to do that. And I just knew I'm like, this is my time now to, to dive in, right, you know, and share the load with Amy and, and I could have easily taken the job of media.

I could have taken, you know, run and done whatever, but again, I think there's that there's that level of being active in your kid's life. It's huge, you know, and so for me, that's just what it is. And then when I do something I go all in, right? And so I mean, what greater, what greater mission or greater purpose to be all in on the new kids in your wife and in your face, right? So like, those, those things that actually matter, I mean, because we have this, we have all this goes away, right? And we're, you know, we, when we go, when we go in front of our maker, whoever you believe you're maker is when you go in front of them.

You're dollar size and zero is your bank account. I mean, absolutely nothing, you know, and so, you know, so for me, I think I've had a great understanding of that, even when I was young. And so I just tried, I just, I tried to be active, and like I said, and then, and then, and you go into the business world things, right? I literally was on a call with with a distributor, the other day, you know, again, my buddy called me one day years ago back in 20. Yeah, because I guess it's 2021, because I want to buy a coat barrel of bourbon, I was like, quote, he's a bourbon efficient auto. He's, I like, I like to say, I know a lot about bourbon, I enjoy a great glass of bourbon, my buddy's bourbon geek.

And so, I was like, yeah, sure, I had some connections over the MGP, so we bought some barrels, and actually, you know, we bought some more barrels, and we're going to age it till it's 10 years old.

“And it's not all these things for four or five years, and in front of me, and somebody might say, it's pretty good. You should probably sell this, like, oh, and then I just get down this rabbit hole, and now I have a bourbon company, right?”

And we were talking about that as well. But this story, he said he goes, the ones that make it, the brands that make it are the people that show up, right? The people that are active, you have to be active in your own company, you have to be active in what you're doing, you have to be active in your future, right? If I accept my kids to have a good future, but if I wanted to set a good role, I'd be sample for them, I have to show them what it looks like to be active. Now, anybody who's raising teenagers know, have the time, I don't think they see what we're doing.

But they will, they will at some point, I hope, so that, you know, we always tell them, like, where are you so lazy? If I couldn't, your mom and I work are butts off around here.

So I think that's just, that's just the way I've been, you know, it's like, it's that mentality, is that all in mentality, it's that, you know, if you're, you know, and there was the old attitude, right? Anything we're doing is we're doing well. And so that's trying to, that's kind of what to get, and then when I don't have the time, that's one of the reasons I retired for football.

“I wasn't willing to put the six hours in the gym anymore, right? I wasn't willing to work out in the off season to meet the standard that I thought was acceptable, right?”

And we'd hung on for paychecks and, you know, racked up five sacks a year and it did down the middle, but that's just not who who I was. And so it's, I take that same philosophy of what we're doing. So if, if that passion for something burns or if I'm not willing to put that effort in, then we get out of it. All right, or we don't do it in the first place. And so that's just kind of what was ingrained in me is hard work growing up, you know, very blue color family, my dad was a raining cut and horse trainer, grandfather was 20 years in the United States Marine Corps, which means that we were all in the Marine Corps.

We were raised, we were raised bootcamp style. And so again, I just, that just kind of translates into again, I try to put that kind of work into my marriage, my faith, my kids. Any any business we're doing. So yeah, just since it's a mentality and it's, you know, again, you joke about, I was joke about it with them all up to lifestyle. It really is, it's a choice. It, it's a choice to be, be this way. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So, Jared, I'm going to give you an unplug truth right here. And I've said this to anybody that will listen to me. I think I've said this on film too.

I hate the saying, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't show up. And here's what? Because I've said this before.

When hard work and talent shows up, you got a monster. And that monster is Jared Allen. You were the epitome of hard work, motor, but then talent too, right? Because yeah, hard work does beat talent when talent doesn't show up. But a lot of times though, when you mix that talent in you get a hundred and thirty six sets. That's the right. Yep. That's the adventure. I tell that to kids these days that might, you get to the NFL. Everybody's fast. Everybody's strong. Everybody, everybody's, if they weren't first in all America, they were some form of an all-American problem. Like so, so all the accolades are there, right?

So what makes, what makes all these people in college that are the one percent of one percent, right? I think I love math, right? And then I had a high school coach talking one time. And this is when he.

He was basically trying to tell me like, I shouldn't get my hopes up for college scholarships. And I was like a freshman, right?

He was like 20,000 colleges in the country, right? And you know, hundreds of thousands of high school students and high school athletes in this. That only about 20,000, then get to go to college on the scholarship. And then out of that, another only five thousand, this level of this. And it was just like, you know, one percent of one percent kind of keep coming down.

“And I think when you get to those levels where everybody's good, everybody's great, it is a mindset and is your work ethic, right?”

And I used to laugh about it because guys and leave that work hard, that are hustler, like that motors, all that you know, high motor, you know, try hard hustle guy. And I'm like, right? You're actually, you're using those in a, in a negative connotation, right? You're trying to say like, hold up. I only have 1306 actually because I work hard. Because I try hard, you know, and again, why is working hard and trying hard and hustling ever, what has that ever been a bad news or quality? I'm trying to teach my kids, right?

Right? We have to put the work in and that's why I love sports, right? That you said because at that point, everybody's talented. So the fact that I'm willing to outwork you, just shows that mentally you're weak, right? And that's how I equate it. And so I'm with you. I don't, you know, yes, I would, I would take someone that has a great work ethic that might not be as naturally gifted.

Yeah. And I remember having that conversation with Everston Griffin when he was a young kid or, you know, young player.

I said, do you, you have more natural athletic ability than I ever had. I mean, this dude was, this dude was running off sub 4, 5, 40 after practice with pads off. You know, I mean, right, 270. I mean, this dude is just a, a absolute physical specimen. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I told him I said, but when you get this right, when you, when you, when you, when you, when you, when you, when you, when you, when you know your play, but when you know, what that offensive tackles in the set, when you, when you know the game so well, now you're actually using those physical attributes as a, as a, as a tool in your toolbox, right?

But you're just, you're just surviving on those, you know, but when, when that, when that work ethic and that's what it's saying, the hard work isn't just in the weight room, you know, it isn't just, you know, practicing hard. It's all, it's fine tuning the details being willing to pick yourself apart. And you know, I, the 136 are great. I probably remember all the ones I missed more, right? And it's, it's those missed opportunities of what could have been, you know, dang, that could have been even better.

And every season, I would just go back and I would just rip myself apart, okay, you're only as good as your last season. How can we get better, where can we get better, where are we, where are we lacking, you know, writing down goals and giving those to my coach to hold me accountable. And stuff like that. So yeah, I mean, I think, I, I'm with you.

“I think, you know, talent, a lot of people get by on talent and, and all aspects of work, right?”

You know, it's, it's like, you got, you're a person that naturally really smart.

So I don't have to try very hard to school, but imagine they did.

You know, imagine where you could go. And so I, I couldn't agree more with you. I think, you know, you look at, you look at anybody that's successful. You know, it takes grit and determination. The talent is a given.

You know, what do you do with that talent? That's on you and that comes down to your work ethic and what? And that's why you see guys wash out, right? It's not because they weren't talented. You know, it's not because, you know, and then you got, you got guys that overachieve.

You got guys that underachieve and it comes down to that work ethic, like you said. Yep, yep, absolutely. All right, Jared, I'm going to get in trouble in a good way. This is my hot take of the day. But I need some help with this hot take.

Okay. So sitting right here to my right. I have this bourbon. Full ride bourbon. And not only is this take hot, this bourbon is hot on fire.

We're talking 122 proof, 61% alcohol content. But it's the presentation, bro. Like, got some signatures right here on the side, right? We got some limited edition stuff that I love. So I wanted to do this live.

We're going to open this. Oh, I like it. Okay. And we're going to open this and I need everybody to see this right here. This is amazing.

This is amazing. And this blend is number one of 25. South Special Jared Allen is to me. This has become my favorite bourbon. And that's all I'm going to get in trouble.

I love it. And I'll tell you what, that is fantastic. And it's not in a clock. I don't know if I should have this live. I didn't say if it was not a clock.

A.M. or P.M. It's just mine a clock. Hey, no judgment here. You don't know if you've even swallowed it. So that.

So that. So there were special about this one too. And this one is our is our higher price because so this was actually. I when we when we made this blend. This was only for my Hall of Fame party, right?

So we made this blend, especially for my Hall of Fame party. So that was batch one that we bottled in 2025. That's for the 125.

“So you, you're, you should have a number on your canister.”

That'll tell you what. Yes. A bottle of, of, of, two 28.

So after the Hall of Fame party, I was never going to release this into the public.

Right? And then we had, we had some issues with our, we had some delays in our glass. Because our, our, our batch two is our 115, which is cool. It is, is Prima. We softened the front end up a little bit.

And so we had 228 bottles sitting in a tote over at our bottling company in the west. So we said, you know what? Let's, let's, let's make a custom canister for it, right? I'll sign all of them individually. Because, you know, our brand isn't built around me as an, as an athlete, right?

It's built to braw the bourbon. Like, that's it. Me too. It's like, you know, when you do something, you got it. I think like, there's a ton of celebrity brands, actually brands.

“Like, that's why we put all of our focus into our, our, our, our juice.”

And that's why we have, we sat on our MGP until it was eight years old. Right? Right? I went out, we bought 13 year old barrels of Kentucky bourbon, matter of fantastic.

And we literally created this blend. While we were, we were there to, to figure out how we were going to blend out our MGP with our middle west.

Right? I mean, we just were like, yeah. The juice is going to lead the way. We're going to do what it takes. So anyway, we did this.

We signed this. We got this out.

“And that is why it's at the elevated price of 295.”

Our, our batch two retails at 99.99. But this is, this is one of my favorite, just because this is, this was like, this was that completion of an idea. Again, right? We just hadn't, we my buddy sitting around, called me up one day like, yeah, let's do it. And then knowing nothing of the spirits world, just just worked the process and took our lumps and just worked, worked, worked, worked, worked, worked, worked, worked.

And, and this is what we got, you know, in time for the Hall of Fame party. You've got to give that as gifts to everybody. And then, like I said, to have that left or be able to release a very, very small limited run to the public, which if you are lucky to get one, it is cool. And I will say, it is, it is fantastic, neat. But I'm, I'm a cube guy, too. And that one twenty two on a cube is a leesimo, I don't even know a leesimo means.

That's amazing. Not, but I'm a cube guy, too. But, like, this is so great meat. Yeah. And, and by the way, that canister was one twenty two of two twenty eight. Okay, okay, perfect. And here we go. We released a video, I sat here in this office and I signed every single one of those gannisters.

I freaking love it. I freaking love it. Here's what I'm going to do because I need to do this right now before the rest of them get sold.

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and buy another two bottles. Okay. If they're available, I'm going to check. Yep, they should be. They should be.

Yep. So, here's what I want. People that live here near me, so my friends, so John Moro, my cousin Randy, my cousin Torrents. We're going to do a special, we're going to film it. We're going to do some cool things for social to really push this brand out here.

I love it. Well, we'll get you set. We'll get you set. We'll get you set. We'll get you set.

No, no, no, no. We might call our FaceTime Jared Allen and get them all with this, too. But we're going to go celebrate this right here. We're going to celebrate Jared Allen, but we're going to celebrate full right burden. I love it.

Because if you're watching, if you're listening, it is the best burden you're going to have. And this is where I'm going to get in trouble. Because everybody that knows me knows that, you know, I love the difference. Chris Voss, one of my very good friends. Chris, we're now number two, Nick.

We're number two, full ride is my number one. They know I love a vintage Yellowstone. Yeah, my vintage Yellowstone is now number three. I love a Jefferson. Jefferson is now moved to number four.

Yeah, which you know what you'll ride is that truth. I appreciate you. And so I do do this too.

“And we can send you a bottle of our batch too, right?”

And taste them against each other because that's that's the coolest part about.

If you have both of them is, you know, everybody's kind of figuring out what we always did different.

And so we have about 10% more wheat in our batch too. Okay. All right. So again, one of the reasons, one of the reasons that we got to the 122. And this is this is the reason, everybody's the high proof verb.

Like the reason I love high proof verb is the complexity of the blending process and the making process, right? The, the ability A because we're not drinking like we're going to the clubs anymore. You know, like 20, right? I'm going to give you a glass, I'm going to sleep a glass. I'm going to sit for 30 40 five.

You just enjoy it. Exactly. And as Fred said, you, you graduated from a drinker to a taster. And, and so high proof. And is, so we'll be able to get so scared of it.

And I'm like, but it's like, it's like feeding up your spices or, you know, toasting your. You're nuts before you make, make a meal, right? And as a complexity of flavors to it that you can't get any other way. And then the challenge is making it drink like a low proof. Yeah.

And that's, and that is why I love it. And that is why, you know, we have the partners we have a verb in a west and, and our blenders, you know, they just acquired old elk, which is a great brand as well. And so we, we get, we get the ability of just being able to source. And that's why we like the source too.

Because I'm not going to sit here pretend I'm going to be a distiller and make and redo the world of verb. There's so many great barrels of urban out there. The key is finding those putting together and creating the blend that again. I think it's great. You think it's great.

“Some people might not, but that's what I love about the challenge of it.”

And then with our batch too, you know, we wouldn't say, okay, how can we, how can we, how can we make, you know, the batch different, right? I like, I love orphan barrel for that reason. Like, they go out.

It's, it's all, it's always different.

It's always floating, right? Yeah. And they say they have some staples like Barnard houses, which is fantastic. But that's kind of the premise blindful ride. It's like, well, always let the juice lead.

You know, we have, we have, you know, we have our barrels that will base it by If someone comes up to me is like, hey, I just found something insane.

with our premise of what we're trying to put out, then we'll do it. But that's why so our batch too. We just, we softened it up just a little bit. It came to proof came down to once it seemed based on, based on the extra wheat. So the 122 was hard to hit because the wheat, our we did

Bourbon was only coming in at like 101 13 out of the barrel. Right. It was a little lower out of the barrel. And our Kentucky was like 130. So we were trying to balance like how we were trying to get this,

just to meet a standard. And I really want, really wanted to kind of be in that 120.

I above 120 for that first for that first one for some really special.

And we think we nailed it. And then the 115 is our batch too.

“I always call it by their proofs because I think we're right now.”

We did a proof for our batch too. I would love for you to taste them together and give me your thoughts on it because it has, it has a little, it's going to be a little softer on the front end, not as grain for now. It depends on which is like I love the taste of the grains of a bourbon.

Right. Like I'm just, I want to taste what I'm drinking. Yeah. And so again, it's such a fun process. And you get kind of, you know, the science behind it. You're just trying to get into this like this play.

I'm trying to, you know, how can we soften the mouth? How can we do this? How can we do this? And hopefully we can take it through our good products. So I'm glad you love it. And I look forward to you.

I hear what you think about the other one too. Yeah. So that's what I'm going to do. Then I would get another bottle of this one because this one's mine. I'm not sharing that one.

I would get another bottle of that one. And then I would get batch two. And then next weekend, I'll have someone my guy's over. And we're just going to sit and talk and share about it. I love it.

I love it. Yep. And she may texture face time man. And I'll pop in and get my two cents if you want it. Yeah. And I'll share, I'll share a toast with you.

I love it. I love it. So I'm going to get you out of here in a moment.

But I always like to ask this question.

I call it the room. And you've done so much on the field off the field. Was there ever a room, a meeting, a dinner that you can look back to and say,

“that meeting, that room, that moment changed my life?”

Man. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't. And not from a full, not from a football standpoint, right?

Yeah. And say, I think it's again, it's well documented that in 2006. I got a little trouble. And it's in bad decisions. And you know what?

I was on a phone call in my grandpa. I was literally, I was in the car. So the memory of the room was my car. And my grandpa told me, said, I didn't drag this last name through multiple wars and conflicts for you to eff it up.

Right. And in that same year, I was in the locker room talking with my pastor. Right. My best friend's dad. And that he was the one, and that was in locker room.

I was sitting in my locker and with the cheese. And that's when he said the world needs more moral heroes. We got enough assholes. And those are those two moments right there, changed my life. It refocused me.

It took me from a child, a child's mindset, to understanding what responsibility really was, you know, on and off the field. It took me to a place of, you know, you worked so hard. I worked so hard at my football career, right? That, you know, again, I had this idea that to play on the edge.

I had to live on the edge. Yeah. So in that moment, in that year 2006, those, those two phone calls really showed me how you can separate. Right. You can, you can live a conservative responsible life over here.

And you can play with your hair on fire, borderline, illegal on the field. Yeah. And so, yeah. So those were, that was the, those were the room, right? Those would be my, my room.

But the most impactful one is in the car with my grandfather. Because he used my he's my hero. And, you know, it's so, again, I think sometimes you need those moments of truth. No.

And, and, and then, and I was blessed to have people around me that would give them to me when I need it. I love it. I love it. All right, brother. I'm going to get you out of here with my rapid fired top five. Okay. Let's do it.

I'm plugged five as I like to call it. All right. You can't have a favorite child, but you can't have a favorite teammate. Who is your favorite teammate of all time? Kevin Lambs. Kevin Williams, I like it, big sexy.

The sack you remember the most. My one and only on Peyton Manning. (laughs)

It was my first favorite because it was my first one for Minnesota.

(laughs) What it is. It is. What's one thing that you do every day without fail?

“What's one thing you have to do every day?”

Drink coffee. Okay. Okay. I like that. I like that.

If you had one moment, one sit down. I think I know the answer. Who would that be with? Oh, that's a rabbit fire. I mean, the obvious is Jesus.

And I'm going to meet him one day. But if I went away from that, oh my goodness.

So I'm reading the Ethiopian Bible now, right?

And learning more about, you know, the original. We're that originated from. Yeah. I would love to have a conversation to sit down with the Ethiopian.

“You know, I think it was that was on the road who became a Christian.”

I think when we ran into Paul, Peter, Peter Paul, I can already lose that on the road. Because there was such, that dude's life was changed right there. And then now knowing what I know about what has transpired, I need the Ethiopian for a thousand of the years.

I would love to sit down with that dude and see what that transition looked like.

That would be super cool for me. I love it. I love it. I love it. Last one.

Personal. I want you to finish this sentence. I refuse to leave this earth until. Oh, man. I refuse to leave this earth until.

Oh, my goodness. That's, that's heavy one. That's, that's, uh, I'll be honest.

“I don't, I don't, I don't feel like I have anything that's unaccomplished.”

I don't, I don't, I don't live, I don't live a life with regret-looking backward. Yeah. So, I mean, if I have to say, I mean, I don't want to leave this earth until, you know, I have, see my grandkids at the minimum. Great grandkids would be cool.

There it is. I love it. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been Jared Allen. All of fame are on the field, all of fame are off the field. Someone who, I've looked up to for a very long time just because of the person that he is.

Jared, brother, I mean this when I say it. If there's ever anything, I can personally do for you. I'm there. You don't have to ask. I'm here.

I preserve everything I got, bro. I appreciate that. And, uh, right back at you. Uh, this, this has been, this has been fantastic. Are you, do you?

Fantastic show. Great, great conversation. Like you. Like talking to someone I've known my whole life. There it is.

I love it. There it is. All right.

“Ladies and gentlemen, always remember your because is your superpower.”

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