The Bader Show

Sammy Sasso joins the show for the first time since getting shot in August. He reacts to the Young Bucks series and talks us through his long road to recovery.

0:01 - Young Bucks

0:05 - Sammy’s reaction to the series

0:07 - Friday night at NCAAs

0:11 - Getting shot

0:25 - Progression to recovery

0:32 - Physical therapy

0:35 - Today’s progress

0:38 - Returning to Covelli

0:41 - Current role with the team

0:43 - The school side of things

0:46 - New perspective

0:49 - Don’t worry

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J Jaggers joins the show to talk about the new series, Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State. He also gives some updates on wrestle offs and line up news.

0:01 - Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State

0:03 - CKLV was rough last year

0:05 - Injuries and more injuries

0:08 - How the freshman have changed in one year

0:12 - Playing mafia

0:16 - What a finish!

0:20 - Sasso Strong

0:23 - Wrestle offs & line up news

0:30 - Wins and whoopins

0:34 - Jokes Time

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2023 World Champion Stevan Micic joins the show to talk about his incredible at the recent World Championships.

0:01 - Co-host and buddy Tyler Meisinger

0:03 - Rethinking 65kg

0:07 - Comparing NCAA vs International seasons

0:10 - Tyler’s story about Stevan

0:12 - Repping Serbia

0:17 - Galaxy RTC

0:24 - Musukaev

0:25 - Making weight rumors

0:29 - Training w Musukaev as kids

0:40? - Watching Stevan win

0:47 - Abakarov

0:53 - Gold medal match

1:04 - Joke Time

1:09 - Final word

1:10 - Paul Petrov

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Rob Koll joins the show to talk about his most recent move to become head coach at University of North Carolina.

0:00 - Retired from Cornell

0:01 - Why wrestled at UNC… bc not PSU

0:05 - Rob struggled 

0:06 - Coleman leaving

0:10 - Propped up by Stanford $$$

0:12 - Getting resources

0:15 - Coaching staff

0:17 - Have vs have not

0:22 - Chasing a team title

0:24 - NIL and transfer portal

0:26 - Mistakes, recruiting the wrong kids

0:31 - Chapel Hill

0:33 - Wins and whoopins

0:36 - Joke time

0:38 - Final word

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Zack Esposito leaves Oklahoma State after 21 years for a job with USA Wrestling as the resident developmental freestyle coach.

0:01 - Getting into freestyle

0:05 - Preferring freestyle

0:09 - Becoming the USAW resident developmental coach

0:12 - How college coaching has changed since he’s been at OSU

0:18 - Recruiting kids to the OTC

0:25 - Working with John Smith the savant

0:29 - Wrestling against John Smith

0:32 - OSU memories

0:37 - Coaching future

0:41 - Wins and whoopins

0:46 - Joke time

0:48 - Final word

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Iowa NCAA champion Cory Clark joins the show to talk his wrestling career and his new situation coaching at Montini Catholic and his new club CC Wrestling.

0:01 - Becoming obsessed with Halo

0:02 - First match 38 pounds

0:06 - Facing Thomas Gilman from a young age

0:12 - Became obsessed with following wrestling

0:15 - NCAA Runner-up two years in a row

0:16 - Injuries

0:23 - Seth Gross

0:28 - CC Wrestling

0:32 - Wins whooppins

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OG Eloy Boy and Arizona State sophomore Emilio Ysaguirre joins the show to talk about the film series on Flo and his first full year of college wrestling and college life.

Check out the FloSports Original Series The Eloy Boys

0:02 - Reacting to The Eloy Boys

0:10 - Transition to college life 

0:14 - Transitioning to college wrestling

0:17 - Advice to incoming freshman

0:19 - Communication with coaches

0:22 - Taking risk

0:26 - Moving to Big 12

0:29 - Best and worst of last year

0:31 - Izzy ice prank

0:34 - Joke time

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Roger steps in as the new head coach at Oklahoma after building a solid program at North Dakota State University.

0:01 - Starting at NDSU

0:06 - Coaching opportunities 

0:09 - Success at NDSU

0:12 - Coaching opportunities

0:16 - OU greats

0:17 - Meeting the OU team

0:19 - The message to the OU team

0:21 - Breakthrough moments

0:29 - J Rob

0:32 - Scheduling

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Ryan Warner is the host of Wrestling Changed My Life podcast and audio documentaries.

0:01 - Intro into wrestling

0:06 - Starting the podcast

0:17 - How did wrestling change his life?

0:21 - Getting into documentaries

0:29 - Surprising interviews

0:43 - What’s next?

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Chance Marsteller joins the show on the heels of knocking off Jordan Burroughs in a wild three match series at Final X.

0:01 - Chance the wrestling fan of Final X

0:05 - Training situations

0:08 - Coaches taking a chance on Chance

0:11 - 2022 vs 2023 perspective

0:15 - Between match 1 and 2 at 2023 Final X

0:21 - Remembering details from matches

0:23 - Match 3 vs Jordan Burroughs

0:39 - Russian Nationals

0:42 - Wins and whoopins

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