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Will Compton recalls hill sprints on a mining waste dump

Taylor Lewan needs a definition before Compton's childhood training story can make sense.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 139,933 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (5,694).

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"What's chat?" Taylor Lewan asks. Will Compton has mentioned a massive dump across the street and over a creek from his childhood home, and the conversation needs to pause for vocabulary.

The answer makes this an unusual football-conditioning story. In a Bussin' With The Boys Short, Compton recalls that his family's yard had to be dug up because it contained lead. Nearby stood the "chat dump": a pile of mining waste. An on-screen definition explains that the material can contain rock fragments and toxic heavy metals.

Then Compton supplies the connection to his childhood workouts. When he was in second grade, he says, his dad would take him there to run sprints and climb the pile. Lewan and fellow guest Josh break into laughter at the revelation.

The clip drew about 91,000 views in 11 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts. The conversation beneath it includes a comparison to comedian Theo Von's storytelling and a viewer recalling climbing the same dump.

Bussin' With The Boys regularly trades in NFL memories. Here, the memorable detail comes well before Compton's professional career: a childhood training hill that requires its own mining glossary.

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The facts
Subscribers
741,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
8,457,903
Channel views, pace per day
1,472,933 (on a normal day: 867,334)
Video published
October 29, 2026
Video views so far
91,161 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
139,933

The numbers

Compton's childhood story has already drawn far more views and comments than a typical first day for the channel's Shorts.

the video's first day
usual first day here
5,694
this video
139,933
subscribers
741,000
▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days
total views
522,779,429
views per day
1,472,933
typical day: 867,334
the video
views
91,161
likes
2,070
comments
58
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
The Fellas
834,000
As of October 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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