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Heart Attack Awareness with Cardiologist Dr. Lou Kohl

Cardiologist Dr. Lou Kohl will join me tonight. Dr Kohl is my cardiologist, the man who saved my life just over nine years ago. On August 21st, 2015, I had a Widowmaker heart attack, and I was dead for over 20 minutes. I have a brain injury because of this experience.
I realize we all want to be talking about football.
I feel like I wouldn’t be doing my job as a survivor if I didn’t make other people aware of what it’s like to go through a heart attack and what it’s like to deal with heart problems. There is a massive amount of anxiety, anger and depression that comes with a heart attack.
There’s a good chance you or someone you love will deal with this during your lifetime.
Look at these statistics from the CDC:
Heart disease in the United States
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups.1
One person dies every 33 seconds from cardiovascular disease.1
In 2022, 702,880 people died from heart disease. That’s the equivalent of 1 in every 5 deaths.12
Heart disease cost about $252.2 billion from 2019 to 2020.2This includes the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to death.
Heart attack
In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.3
Every year, about 805,000 people in the United States have a heart attack.3 Of these, 605,000 are a first heart attack, and 200,000 happen to be people who have already had a heart attack.3
About 1 in 5 heart attacks are silent—the damage is done, but the person is not aware of it.
We will discuss, from my side, what it’s like to go through and survive a heart attack and from Dr. Kohl’s side, what people overlook at about heart attack - common misconceptions, etc.
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Five Heart Podcast: The Elite Leaders for Husker Football 2024 Season

On the newest Five Heart Podcast, Greg, Minnie, and the finest group of truehearted Chatterfields will discuss all the current events of Husker Football.
We will discuss the takeaways from press conferences with players Micah Mazzcua, Mikai Gbayor, and Turner Corcoran. As well as Special Teams Coach Ed Foley and Head Coach Matt Rhules’ key points.
We got to see the 2nd episode of Chasing 3, Fall Camp, which gave us superfans another taste of the intense Husker training camp.
Single-digit uniforms were voted on and given by the players, so who was added? Were there any surprises? Is there anyone we thought should have received a number that didn’t?
Lastly, our favorite (especially Minnie’s) 5-Star Freshman Quarterback has been named the starter against UTEP. This in and of itself is reason enough to celebrate! Or is it? Will Greg try to rain on the parade?
Looking forward to a fun night. Please join us!

Husker Talk with Minnie: Interviews Adam Carriker

Today I got to live out a Husker fan’s dream and “throw the bones” with one of the most iconic blackshirts of this century, Adam Carriker.
As a former player and representative of his brand Carriker Chronicles in the media, Adam offers a unique and thorough perspective on our beloved Husker team;
Unlocking athletic potential as a multi-sport athlete.
How difficult is it to switch positions as a player?
Defined success for the Husker football season.
No stranger to adversity, Adam recounted the bleak reviews he received when he arrived in Lincoln. He also shared how at one point, he thought playing football at Nebraska was too lofty of a goal. So, what changed?
His mindset, he used the naysayers to get fired up!
He learned to lean on his strengths as a player
Dedication, Adam managed to add roughly 50 pounds of muscle by his senior year
With this tremendous attitude, his dream of becoming a blackshirt and representing the elite level at Nebraska came to fruition.
I hope you thoroughly enjoy this interview as it reminds me of this quote:
“It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.” -Branch Rickey

CN’s ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES - Clear Eyes, Full Hearts - FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

The movie based on the book which let you know Texas is batsh*t crazy about its football. Like really crazy.
Last week, we kicked off a 2-week Texas High School Football run with Varsity Blues which, while not based on the FNL book, didn’t try very hard to hide the fact the writers and director definitely read it.
While changing a few things around for dramatic effect, this movie stayed pretty true to the real story. It let you in minds of these people and definitely let you know how over the top Odessa was/is about their football while still being a top-notch sports film and making cheer for these kids whose only responsibility is winning state for the entire city.
No pressure at all.

Let’s Get Ready for the 2024 Nebraska Football Season w/Connor of Corn Crazed!

Tonight, Connor Hayden from Corn Crazed joins me as it is time to prepare for the 2024 Nebraska football season.
I have been overwhelmed with a “get this done” regular work schedule and it has been difficult to keep up with everything that our beloved Huskers have in store for 2024.
Perhaps, if you’re the same as me, where you’re just getting back in things, and you’re getting back into college football, and maybe you didn’t spend the entire off-season looking reading every bit of Husker content that you could - this is the show for you.
Because maybe we can go through what’s about to happen to our beloved Huskers and talk about this Nebraska football team, what are its strengths, what are its weaknesses, what does the schedule look like, what does the new Big Ten offer, what does the entire season offer.
We’re going to have a 12-team college playoff, we’re going to have an 18-team Big Ten. There’s NIL. There’s the open-ended transfer portal. This year will change college football forever.
Connor has put together preview videos for this season. He’s done depth chart videos, he’s done a prediction video, He built a custom Nebraska football helmet.
He has bold predictions.
Let’s talk!
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Husker Talk with Minnie: Wilson Dittman Discusses Nebraska Football Expectations

Recently, I interviewed one of my favorite Husker football fans, YouTuber Wilson Dittman of Wilson Dittman Sports.
Wilson’s enthusiasm, research, and dedication to our beloved Cornhuskers are why his channel has exploded over the last 9 months. He tells us that once he decided to commit to his channel, he made a video that garnered over 10,000 views in one night. Quite impressive, when you consider the Huskers haven’t played an opponent in football since the end of November.
Success, as Wilson puts it, is something that only comes from hard work. He also defines what success will look like this football season. Spoiler alert: it isn’t just making a bowl game.
Will our Huskers be in the mix for the B1G title game?
How important are “moral victories” in recruiting?
What will game planning and clock management look like this year?
Wilson reminds us, that it’s not just players who develop but coaches as well. Baby steps as a program is the only way to have sustained success.
It doesn’t hurt to have some competitive advantages for a winning season, as Wilson outlines:
favorable game schedule this year
the 3-3-5 defensive scheme and its flexibility
Veteran players=success in CFB
depth in positions
We have plenty to be excited about for the upcoming season. I hope you enjoy the video. GO BIG RED!

Five Heart Podcast LIVE: Husker Football, the Kool-Aid drinking episode

Tonight we invite you to partake in the big pitcher of Kool-aid we will be serving as Greg has promised to showcase his pent-up joy and enthusiasm for our beloved Husker Football season. As the Chatterfields and Minnie have endured an entire off-season of Greg’s expectant misfortunes of gloom for the Huskers, tonight we will witness and share in his exuberance and excitement.
We will also be discussing the Big Ten Network’s stop in Nebraska on Wednesday. Why Pat McAfee called out Head Coach Matt Rhule on his show today. As well as the latest in Chasing 3 docuseries.

What are the expectations for UCLA in the Big Ten with James Williams!

Tonight, I’ll be joined by James Williams, who is the UCLA football reporter for the Orange County Register and a host of the Bleav UCLA podcast.
We’ll be talking about UCLA joining the Big Ten.
Everyone got acquainted with Deshaun Foster as UCLA’s coach, as he had a particularly memorable first speech at Big Ten Media Days. What are the expectations for UCLA football?
Nebraska and UCLA meet in November in Lincoln! Will anyone from LA actually come to Nebraska in November? (Other than the football team and staff because they’re under contract.)
What are the expectations for UCLA men’s basketball? What do they think about joining the Big Ten in basketball as compared to being in the Pac-12 after all those years?
What other sports besides the two major sports should everyone else be aware of with regards to UCLA joining the Big Ten?
What is most shocking about UCLA joining the Big Tens?
Why does UCLA have to pay Cal when Cal is massively in debt, also a state school, and nobody wants them? The ACC took them because.... well, I don’t understand why they did that.
Cal and Stanford went to the ACC. I’m glad they didn’t join the Big Ten. I don’t think they care about football, and I think everything about making money going forward is going to be about football. We’re going to get into that as well. At least I hope we do. It’s a chance to bash Cal and Stanford!
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CN’S ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES: Jon Moxon Doesn’t Want YOUR LIFE! - VARSITY BLUES

Friday Night Lights meets raunchy 80’s comedy, we discover Paul Walker, the coach does Hitler salutes and Dawson drops dimes as a 22-yr-old HS senior. Varsity Blues was so wrong and so glorious.
“Playing football at West Canaan may have been the opportunity of your lifetime, but I don’t want YOUR LIFE!!”
Somehow, some way, the academy failed to hand a gold trophy to James Van Der Beek after delivering that glorious line, but Varsity Blues is still a timeless classic of high school football glory. As well as painkillers, naked whipped cream bikinis, undersized wide receivers who truly belonged in prison, coaches with mid-50’s ideas about minorities scoring TD’s, “Puke & rally!!” being a battle cry instead of a call for AA, etc, etc.
Yeah, we’re gonna have some fun with this one as the college football season is close enough to taste. (Although, the taste of college football is pretty awful if I think about it.)

Corn Nation Overreaction Revisited: It was a Black Friday Indeed when Nebraska Lost to Iowa

This week on Corn Nation Overreaction Revisited, Greg and Hoss are joined by Corn Nation’s very own Nate McHugh, by special request from Mister X’s and O’s himself.
The trio discuss the 2023 Nebraska-Iowa game, which the Hawkeyes won 13-10 with a walk-off field goal from the backup kicker.
Nate went the extra mile and re-watched the game via the Big Ten in 60 on YouTube, so his rage was fresh, which is the opposite we tried to achieve with this series.
Why is it that our offense couldn’t get going? Was it simply that they were gassed? Or were there deeper underlying reasons?
In this war of attrition, one team had to wind up on the short end of the stick, and for the seventh time in eight years, that team was Nebraska.
BUT...there’s a lot of optimism from this crew that different days are ahead.
Listen/watch for all the good times (and the bad). And GBR!