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).
Will Compton’s Dad Made Him Run Hill Sprints At A Toxic Mining Waste Dump 💀 | Bussin'
"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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What viewers say
There‘s Theo Von elements to Will lol
@pmackie123See it on YouTubeThat chat dump is no joke! Been up that thing many times
@jamestarh33l54See it on YouTubeThis is a top clip
@benh2215See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Bussin' With The Boys
- 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.
💡 Test your knowledge
What does "chat" mean in Compton's story?
The clip's definition card identifies chat dumps as piles of waste material from mining.


