 Joey the man of the hour how do you feel being on the field incredible it's like we were telling you guys before me my wife got engaged just about 50 yards that way I love Ross said I think it's an underrated stadium and it's awesome being out here I love it thank you for having me of course we're lucky to have you thank you so you know we've talked about a little bit but why are you a Purdue Boilermaker fan so grown up in Indiana especially as a Catholic school kid it was like you're there no-name fan or you're not so I kind of rolled with them for a little bit but I grew out of it and then I met my wife today and she's a Purdue cheerleader and so I was up here for every game I went on the road I was up Purdue all the time Ross say there's like my second home and from that point on I just fell in love with the campus I fell in love with the people I fell in love with the team and I'm rocking black and gold forever you know you visited the Purdue football team earlier this season but like what is all this Boilermaker spirit in this family that we've kind of adopted you as a Boilermaker what does that mean to you man it means the world because obviously like I said I grew up I'm an Indianapolis kid and I went to a small D2 school so I didn't have the big college experience the big college community so the fact that a university as great as Purdue would adopt me take me in allow me to be a fan I mean it just means the world and it makes me and my wife so happy so very thankful and you're a media person yourself how did you get on this track to like your career now yeah so I worked in local media for a while after college and in college being in Indianapolis and then on the side I just kept was like I want to I want to be funny I want to make people laugh and some of my buddy Ben Polizzi who you saw at Chipotle the other day we decided that we were gonna do some you know comedy sketches together and kind of pursue that on the side and we did that for about three years and it was a small following but then I started doing impressions and stuff too and that really popped off and kind of gave me my following and me and Ben still work together thank God and you know every day the goal is still just to make people laugh so that's what we're doing and if that makes people happy then I'll keep doing it and what was it like when you got that call from Barstool surreal I mean I'm talking to Dave Portnoy and I've been following and watching them forever and him forever and all of a sudden he's like yeah come out to New York we got a spot for you oh my I just can't come out there like it's that easy and yeah it's pretty much that easy and you know once he once he saw me and called me and wanted me then I said yes we've been on that journey ever since and it's just a dream come true and you talked about impressions you're very famous for your impressions what would you say your personal favorite impression that you do is you know I try to I try to add to the arsenal a lot I've really enjoyed doing Owen Wilson lately so I added him Jimmy Fallon is a personal favorite of mine you know everybody loves like Nick Saban Colin Cowherd all that Chris Collins worth people like that so I have fun doing all of them I really do I mean when I can get paid to just be a goofball on camera that get much better than that so you know I have fun yeah my personal favorite is Colin Cowherd oh thank you what would you say like after all your fans and stuff what's their number one you know like thing that they gravitate towards yeah I would say either Saban or Collins worth people really have gravitated towards Collins worth a lot they really really request that a lot and like they take to it for some reason I don't know if it's the slide in that I do you know on camera or what but they really seem to like that one so either him or Saban and I always have a soft spot my heart for coach oh you know yeah you just went out to visit them too yeah you know so we got the Ripple Tigers together and that was great so have a soft spot for him yeah what do you think of all these coaches and people that you impersonate you know they all have fun with it too yeah like what does that mean to you that they actually enjoy it well that's the thing is that like I always say the reason that I can impersonate them like I can is because I'm a fan right so I respect them because so much and I watch them so much and listen to them that makes it's where I'm able to pick up on them more so it's never out of like a bad place or disrespect it's all out of good fun and out of respect and I've been really lucky that pretty much everybody has enjoyed it that I've been personated so I've been lucky okay and when we talk about Purdue again who's your favorite Purdue athlete of all time I mean the easy answers drew breeze so I won't say that I got two for you okay one of them is probably lesser known but is near and dear to my heart because he grew up in the same town that I grew up in Jason Werner he was a captain on the 2009 team linebacker number 29 number 24 Jason Werner is my guy and then also I'd say Carson Edwards yeah I mean see Boogie I mean the amount of fun I had watching that guy play is second to none should have been a final four team I won't get into that but you know a lot of the guys on this team right now George Karloftus David Bell is an indie guy so I'm a big fan of them too awesome any predictions for Purdue basketball what do you think oh national title this is the year this is the year they're they're taking it they're taking the big 10 turning they're taking the national championship they have the team to do it they have the coach to do it they have the experience to do it we've been waiting we've been waiting for a long time I think this is the team that's gonna make it to the final four to New Orleans and make it to the national championship I really do I really believe that I love it okay and when we think about all these awesome students at Purdue what advice would you have for them if they want to get into you know media kind of your career track or any type of you know comedy any advice you'd have yeah I'd say a couple things I'd say one you got to find something that you would do for free except people pay to do it so if you enjoy doing it that much that you would do it for nothing eventually it'll pay off and somebody will pay to do it and then second I'd say if you don't have a job right out of school create a job do a blog do a podcast make videos do you know there's so many avenues to create and be creative that if it doesn't work out for you right away because it didn't work out for me right away to create on your own and then eventually you'll make something happen yeah and when you talk about that persistence that you had to keep pursuing this you know not everyone gets to work at Barstool how did how did that change you know the way that you look at life and and how you keep going I think it's just I reflect back on you know where I came from and there you know I have to remind myself a lot of those times where nobody was watching nobody was listening nobody cared I was doing it for free just out of the enjoyment of doing it and then I go back to that place and I say it doesn't matter if I'm at Barstool or working for Purdue or ESPN or SNL or whatever it is you know as long as you're doing it for the good of your heart coming out of that enjoyment then you're gonna be alright so I gotta remind myself of that but that's key it's key I love that yeah what's your favorite sports experience that you've ever had you're a big sports guy yeah yeah so like a live event or I mean beat from Indy the Indy 500 every year is pretty hard to beat I mean you know when they're doing taps and they're doing the national anthem and they're God bless America and then the green flag that's really really hard to beat I mean the Indy 500 is tops but as a fan I probably say when the Cubs won the World Series I wasn't there I didn't make it to Cleveland but I was you know I'm a diehard I have them tattooed on my arm for God's sake right there that's a Cubs tattoo so when they won the World Series that's tops yeah and what was it like growing up in Indiana you know like we always think of big media as in LA and New York what's it like being based in Indiana pretty wild because everybody I went to school with it's like you know that's fine but everybody's like a teacher or an accountant or a lawyer all admirable jobs that are very needed but when I say you know hey I want to be in comedy or I want to be an actor that's not really something that goes over too well you know so very kind of weird but in my heart of hearts how to just keep going for it and follow my dreams and that's what I'm you know continuing to do what's your favorite stadium arena sports venue Indianapolis motor speedway and Wrigley Field and obviously Mackie and Ross a obviously got engaged outside in between them for Lord's sake so yeah big time that's a true Purdue fan getting engaged at Purdue yep right outside the stadium it's kind of unfortunate it's great that we're doing the renovations that are gonna happen but I was joking through I'm like yeah eventually we're just gonna be like a beer stand you know our spot where we got engaged it's gonna be like a beer stand you can you propose that a concession stand but like it was different then I'm Joey Molinero and you're listening to this is Purdue Boiler up