 The pride of Ford Dodge Isle, so the dirty dog on dodge. Mr. Teske, how's it going man? Good. So you kind of back home, pretty close to home. Not too far. So you Ford Dodge and do you train with Carl Valley? Were you a Carl Valley guy? Yup. Alright, so coming up Ford Dodge, Carl Valley, do a stint at Penn State and then you find yourself back in the UNI room. Talk a little bit about that journey coming back here and kind of how it feels to be back in Iowa and be in this room and be around these guys. Well, shoot, I mean not even two weeks ago I planned on winning a national title for Penn State. Life is crazy, things happen and it wasn't one specific incident or something. You know, it wasn't one thing that I was like yeah, I'm ready to leave. It wasn't like that. It was more of just getting myself back to Brody Teske and that involved coming home and so, you know, things change. Obviously this march isn't a thing anymore but we move it to now April for the World Team Trials and I'm home. I'm getting back to myself and feeling good and I'm surrounded by a lot of good people and I'm ready to elevate. So, talk about being back home. You had unbelievable, unbelievable career in Iowa. You were a four-time state champ. One loss to Thompson. You and him had two of the craziest matches that I've watched in high school. It was a council bluffs and then the other one was another one an overtime match. So you won the first one, he won the second one, right? So, had a little history with him. What about those matches pushed you? Because obviously, you know, you go pretty dominant through high school in a very tough wrestling state. Talk about if it did. What those matches did, how it elevated you and you guys were two different weight classes. So, you all kind of made a effort to find each other throughout the season, right? Yeah, I mean, we both were chasing four titles from day one. Everyone was like, oh, winter over me, you know, and, you know, the way things work out, you know, again, life just kind of, it goes this way. But yeah, we met up and we were at the same weights, 126. I mean, that was that was the weight I needed to be at, not cutting much and just living life as a senior in high school. It was the same for him and paths crossed. We banged it out and, you know, it was more of just, you know, learned so much about ourselves through it and just that, you know, what else came from it? You know, we grew the sport, we grew Iowa wrestling and we got our names out there a little bit more and it was just the growth, you know, for ourselves and also the sport. But as far as learning for myself, you know, the preparation going into it was a little bit different. It wasn't just another, well, here's another Saturday tournament, you know, let's kind of go through the motions. You know, things had to make sure, you know, we had to make sure things were in line and things were gonna work out the way we needed them to. And the first time we met was in Council Bluffs and that's a pretty, pretty tough tournament. It is. And actually, dang near, seeing the feet, the match before, I actually wrestled him in the semis. It was pretty crazy back and forth match and, you know, maybe looking ahead too far, maybe just, like I said, not doing the things exactly right on that I needed to be doing. But I don't know, we just learned a lot and carried that into the future. And again, we met up in Cedar Rapids not too long after, maybe two, three weeks. And which is again, it's a pretty tough tournament and it wasn't just another let's go through the motion Saturday. It was make weight the right way, feel good, rehydrate, get ready to go. And again, we had another tough battle. As far as shaking hands and wrestling, I mean, on the mat wise, I learned a lot about myself and, you know, that I could go with anybody. You know, where he's at now, he's starting for Nebraska. He's wrestling tonight against Penn State, so it's kind of cool how things work out. But it's just a lot was learned, you know. You talk about need to get back home and get back in touch with Brody Teske. Like, can you put that into words and can you talk about what you've experienced or what you've figured out just in the short time you've been here or what the goal is to get back to maybe, maybe you got a little away from who you are or your core values or talk about that. What do you mean by that? Oh yeah, definitely you hit it right on. I mean, my core values, that's not something that I got to get back to. I mean, that was kind of a bad reference that I put. You know, it's not getting back to Brody Teske, it's just become Brody Teske and just continue to become a better version. You know, not so much go back to this or that, you know, because I'm so much different than I was, you know, when I was recruited and committed to Penn State and now, you know, to where I am and being a Northern Iowa Panther, it's more about just the evolution of who I am and now the revolution of who I want to become and that's what's exciting, man. Ready to just take off and catapult towards my goals and as far as that reference of getting back to Brody Teske, that's kind of a bad way to put it, but just remembering who I am and what makes me who I am and it's not, you know, I could have done that out there. I was, you know, that's who I was. That's always going to be a part of me. Them experiences at Penn State, I'll never forget. Them experiences I'm going to carry with me forever and the values and the lessons I learned priceless wouldn't change anything. Some experiences that I did go through were kind of, you know, a struggle, but again, that's making me who I am and some of them were major reasons on why, you know, I decided to, you know, come home or come closer and here I am. Yeah, if everything's perfect, man, you're not really finding your limits, finding really who you are. And Doug Schwab is one of those people, I mean, he's got an amazing staff behind him with Pew and Roper and B-Raw, but I feel like you and Doug Schwab are a special pair when y'all get on the same wavelength. Is that one of the reasons that you ended up in UNI, just what you think that Doug Schwab can put you, Teske 2.0? Yeah, absolutely, man. I mean, it's, that's, you're actually not the first person that's told me that. He's a great guy, you know, and like you said, we kind of clash, you know, that's, that goes back to my values. What makes me who I am, what makes him who he is, you know, they correlate and that, that relationship is something that, you know, we built a long time ago while I was being recruited and now we just, you know, we're together and now it's ready to clash, but and that doesn't take anything away from where I was, you know, Cody Sanderson and Coach Kale and Coach Casey kind of him and the guys I've spent a lot of time out there with, you know, it's nothing that I'm going to bash on them and I'll never look back and, you know, take anything away. I mean, they, they, they did a great job and that's the thing that a lot of people don't understand. You know, it's not something that I, you know, wasn't an experience that I needed more from them or they didn't do something or did do something that made me like, all right, I'm leaving. You know, it wasn't anything like that. It was just a build up of things that, you know, just pointed me to here where I was like, I need to get back and this is where I am and having Doug Schwab right down the road. That's a plus, man. What else you got for me, man? You're welcome aboard the UNI Panther train, first and foremost, but you got anything else for us, man? No, just a big thank you to everybody that's been supportive and helped me on this journey. It's, it's crazy, but you know, all glory to God and let's see where this is going to go.