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Hosted by Austin Merrill · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 576 episodes
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Austin Merrill hosts The Daily Drive, a sports show with 576 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Tim Howard played goalkeeper for the US men's national team while living with Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive tendencies, in the one position on the field that leaves you standing still with n
Send us Fan Mail Andre Agassi told a story about the moment he knew he would never beat Rafael Nadal, and it had nothing to do with tennis. Agassi prided himself on being the last one out of the locker room. Nadal walked
Send us Fan Mail Austin uses Cars as the way into a principle most elite athletes already run on: the growth usually is not inside your own sport. Lightning McQueen thought he knew how to race until a cop took him onto a
Send us Fan Mail Shawn Green's book The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 mph opens with him in Toronto, put in timeout by his manager, everything stripped away except hitting off a tee. Hitting off that tee over
Send us Fan Mail Tarik Skubal, a two-time Cy Young winner with Detroit, was traded to the Dodgers and asked before his first LA start whether he was nervous. His answer was essentially yes, of course, and if he weren't h
Send us Fan Mail Stuck late in his career chasing a newer, more advanced sound, Johnny Cash sat down with Rick Rubin, who asked him to do one thing: get out his guitar and play like he did as a kid coming up. That return
Send us Fan Mail Two earthquakes in the sevens hit Venezuela and Colombia with death tolls in the thousands and hundreds, while a seven point something off the coast of Peru in 2024 killed nobody and Japan absorbs nines
Send us Fan Mail Austin connects a Michael Jackson detail to self-doubt: while making Thriller, Jackson hated his first version, broke down in front of the room, and forced a full remix, with Billie Jean alone taking 91
Send us Fan Mail Austin breaks down a comment from Freddie Freeman on the 6-1-1 podcast: Freeman refuses to swing at a pitch on the corner even when he knows it's coming, because it's outside his "honey hole," the exact
Send us Fan Mail Episode 574 looks at Fernando Tatis Jr.'s recent power outage and the instinct everyone has to explain it: a swing change, a new approach, something must be different. Austin argues that's usually wrong.
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Send us Fan Mail In today's episode of the Daily Drive, we explore the power of humility through Tim Duncan's quiet greatness—how the NBA legend built a dynasty by staying coachable, ego-free, and laser-focused on team s
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode of the Daily Drive, we explore how true creativity flows from mastery of the fundamentals. Stephen Curry's effortless 35-foot bombs, Patrick Mahomes' jaw-dropping no-look passes, and P
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode of the Daily Drive, we unpack the healthy hegemonikon like fire, straight from Marcus Aurelius. A divided mind is a fragile candle—easily blown out by wind, needing perfect conditions
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode of the Daily Drive, we explore Occam’s Razor in the Arena: how the simplest mental model survives under pressure. Athletes often drown in a cluttered multi-step execution loop—checking
Send a text In today's episode of the Daily Drive, we dive into Jordan Peterson's profound take on the Garden of Eden: no matter how meticulously you wall up your garden—building barriers, creating perfect order, or stri
Send a text In today's episode of the Daily Drive, we explore how being "poor in spirit"—a biblical humility that manifests as radical openness—serves as the secret sauce for the world's greatest investors. This isn't ab
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