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And boys, that's the best episode of Hard Knocks I've ever seen.

Hard knocks. We made it. That was really fucking cool.

It was. It was pretty awesome. Almost didn't happen for me. I forgot to sign the release until, like 3 hours before the actual airing of the episode. Of course, I'm bad with paperwork. That's a theme on this podcast. But, yeah, it was. It was cool. It was kind of surreal. Myself, big cat, Max, and memes were all on hard knocks. It was pretty much the whole squad.

Was on hard knocks.

Yeah, had a blast doing it. And I think that they took a fair representation of what the interview is encapsulated into. Hard knocks.

Yeah, so it was. It was very cool. We always. We had our interview planned with Caleb Williams last Tuesday, and we went up to Hollis hall, and we're like, maybe there's a chance, like, we get seen in the background at hard knocks. Turns out the majority of the hard knocks film crew is fans of ours, and we're fans of them. And, like, they were the coolest dudes ever.

Like, hey, they're awesome.

Do you mind if we, like, punch into your sound and then. So they listen to the whole interview, is that right?

Well, they listen.

All right, go ahead. What did I say? What I say wrong?

That was good.

They passed. Patched it.

I love hearing you talk shop. Yeah.

What they didn't do, which I was Missoula.

Hank and thin.

And Hank thought that there was a possibility this could happen before the interview. We're waiting in this room for Caleb to shower or get ready after practice.

We were waiting in another room. Yeah. We weren't waiting in the room where Caleb was showering.

We're waiting in a different room while Caleb was showering.

Yes.

Caleb was showering in a bathroom.

Yes.

We were in the interview room.

Yes.

That did not have running water.

Correct.

And so we're waiting there, and we got into a big, just, I want to say debate, but it was really just Hank versus the world, you know.

Like, just a regular day, you know?

You know, like in the roman empire, when they would, like, tie up a bear to a stake and then have a bunch of wolves just stand around it and try to kill it. That's what we were doing to Hank for about 20 minutes, and Hank thought that they might use some of this. This just Hank baiting.

It was. That was when we knew the guys, like, liked us and knew us because they were chuckling in the background, and I was like, you see, like, we just never turn off the podcast. We're just doing it right now.

Well, Hank was in the mood, too.

Yeah. So he was in a mood, but.

It was a great mood.

It was really cool.

Yeah, I said a mood. I didn't say what kind of mood.

So they patched into our sound. Yeah, they punched into our sound. So we were like, this is awesome. Maybe they'll use a clip. Cool. And then, like, maybe a day later, I got a text from someone at hard knocks. They're like, hey, can we get all your footage? I was like, yeah, no problem. And at that point, I was like, boys, I think we're going to be in hard knocks.

Yeah.

And then they. They sent us the edit. What is Sunday? And we watched it, and we're like, well, this is the coolest thing ever. So, yeah, the show that we've been watching for 20 years, we all made it. Yeah.

And Caleb was a cool guy, confident guy. I like talking to him. I think the way that he came across or the way that he's coming across on hard knocks is also what we saw in person.

Yeah.

Seemed like a good dude. Uh, he would have pressed the button. He would have killed. Oh, he was smashing that kill bears button on his leg. And I would imagine, just from the replies that I got on Twitter tonight, um, there are probably thousands of Bears fans. Everyone was saying that would willingly die for ten Bears Super bowl if you.

Got the credit for it, for sure.

Yeah, yeah.

Get the statue. Um, it was. Besides us, we're not such narcissists. That that was the only hard knocks recap. I I mean, I obviously.

No, I think we're good.

I loved. I loved the episode. Just because it was. The hype is at an all time high. I understand that it was the Bengals second defense. I understand that. But I'm gonna. I'm gonna ride the hype wave. The way they edited it, the way they ended it. What do you. What do you do?

We got a text while you were talking big cat. It was from Max. Max is now putting into the show via text. He says, hank, take your hand out of your pocket. It looks like you're jerking off. It did.

I looked over.

I did look, like, on camera. It doesn't look good.

It did.

I I did that off air because I thought it would do it. I didn't want to blow up a spot on the show.

We couldn't tell Max because you touch your balls all the time.

That's true. That's true.

Welcome to. Welcome to any new listeners apart. My team. We get. Actually, Hank does this every episode. He jerks off. At some point. You got to figure out when.

Usually during the lighthouse segment.

Yeah. So, yeah, no, it was an awesome episode. I mean, they were. I feel like they finally, like, started hammering in on different players. That was really cool. Like, Tory Taylor. Yeah, he looks like Chef Donnie. He's a weapon. He.

He doesn't like the nickname. The crocodile Hunter, which. That was the classic, like, media thing.

Yeah.

Oh, there's an australian guy. Let's ask him if his nickname is the only australian person that we know. And he was like, no, I don't know. Like, call me literally anything but that.

Yeah.

I actually thought he looked like Brogan Roback, and I thought that his nickname should be Bogan Roback.

Ooh, I like that. He looks like Chef Donnie, too.

Yeah.

And then we had. Tyson pageant was great. His dad is a world class arm wrestler.

Well, not world class. Like, he is universe class. The best in the history of left handed arm wrestling.

Yeah, he's. He's the best. Austin Booker. The ferret king.

No, the different guy.

Oh, no.

Who was so the ferret is it vellus or Vilas Jones?

I don't think Felix Jones is the fair.

I thought he was the fair king. Yeah.

Oh, he might have been.

I think he's a fair king, which is. It's a red flag for me that he's a fair guy.

Yeah. And very.

And he may have murdered his ferret.

Oh, yeah. It was Felix Jones. What was Austin Booker. He had a nickname, too.

Austin Booker. I don't know.

I like, he was just doing nicknames.

Forever is nicknamed Austin Reid.

Austin Reed. Yeah, that's probably it.

They're very similar. They just switch names.

Yeah. The Austin Reid had a nice moment singing to everyone. Yeah. That was a lot of fun.

Keisha Cole.

Yeah. Um, and then we also had a pretty cool, uh, situation where we learned about the Judah trade, which we actually are going to talk about in hot sea. Cool.

I don't think we pretty much covered it.

I had some nice spin zones. Um, but it was good. I'll say this. I wish I had seen the episode before we talked about hot sea, cool throne. Uh, Hank, did you watch that part? Uh, Ryan polls has guardrails, and he doesn't want to go too far.

I saw the one. I saw, uh, Eber flu stalking the guy on the sidelines. He was like, you think it's going to happen? They're like, yeah, yeah.

It's like, if you're driving your car and you're like, you think we're going to crash? Oh, no. The guardrails there, I love it.

Because big cat was prepping for Hank to come at him, and the. The line of defense he had set up was just guardrails.

Guardrails just.

Should we drive straight? And they say, yes.

No, no, no, no. You're going to crash. You're going to crash. Which would have been trading for Matthew Giudon. It would have been. We would have totaled our car. Instead, the guardrail saved us.

Like, Hank, if there was a guardrail.

Guardrails being in the guardrails are just Matthew Judah and saying, no, no, no.

It was the guard.

Hank doesn't understand. If there was a guardrail around that telephone pole in the parking lot, my car be fine.

Yeah, I don't think you understand what a guardrail is. We're gonna do the Mount Rushmore things that are hard to explain. It's a guardrail.

And so, yeah, so, like, I just saw the clip where they're like, yeah, we really. We're going for him. We're gonna get him, but then we're gonna get him. And they're like, yep.

But that right after that moment, which you probably didn't see and watch the episode, he hit into the guardrail.

Got it.

Yeah, yeah.

There's a full room in there. I wasn't really. I was gonna squeeze in.

He had a binder ready. Poles had a binder.

He was just ran off. Fake stat was set.

He was.

Well, yeah, he's off 50th and wins.

That stats for every NFL player. Like, could you tell me, like, via, like, a punter, how many wins added you get with a punter?

That that scene was. I think Kevin Warren put it in the hard knocks contract that he has to be in at least three scenes an episode.

Oh, well, let's not downplay the. The scene where he was talking about the different chairs that you. That was riveting television. They're designing suites for their stadium that doesn't exist.

Yeah.

And Kevin Warren's making. He's making executive choices about whether or not you want a high top chair with a back. If you want people, like, sitting up, if you want people standing. If you want an Adirondack chair, like, that's what you pay a guy. Like, he's president of the team, right?

Yeah.

These are the decisions that a president has to make.

Listen, I'll squash my beef with Kevin Warren for canceling the big ten football season when Covid happened, if he gets the Bears a new stadium. But that was. I assume Ryan polls when he has to do these scenes where he just, like, I can just say any stat. Yeah, it will be good. Yeah.

50Th in added wins for a defensive end. Montez was 19th last season.

Oh, I see. Right here. He's 32. Looks like we hit a guardrail.

That's one of the guardrails we talked about earlier. Oh, he's from Louisiana probably. He probably wants to go to Atlanta.

Listen, listen. Don't spoil the hot sequel drone spin zones that I had hooked up some good ones.

I had a question for you. After the game, they gave Caleb Williams the. The ball from his first touchdown pass. Or was it run? His touchdown run. Is that the first time that you think football has been put into an alligator purse?

Yeah. That wasn't his purse. I think that was his carry all. His purse was next to the carry all. Yeah. Yeah. Is that the first time? Please. PF. Is that the first that learn men's.

Fashion football has been put into alligator carry?

No, definitely.

Dude's been rocking forever. Yeah.

Yeah.

I. Are you serious? There's. I don't know.

I asked. We're asking the question.

There's got. Yeah, that. That's a common. The. The first next to the carry all. If you put in there. Yeah. Maybe you'd have an argument. The carry all is guys walking. Think about the tunnel walk. Like ESPN countdown how many they're all wearing. They all have the carry.

It's all gator.

A lot of them.

I got to get into some gator.

Yeah, and we're gonna get into a kill. I'm probably gonna buy whatever that european handbag he has is.

Yeah, the gator one.

No, I'm gonna get the carry all. That's carry all. I'm also.

I thought it was a matching set.

I'm also gonna get the hand back. No, I don't think they're matching sets. Good episode, though.

Yeah, I liked it. I liked it a lot.

It's so funny. The Matthew Judahn trade was like a five minute segment after we taped. We. The Wi Fi is not great here, so we're trying to get the upload as fast as possible so people can listen. And so we taped a lot of the show earlier today, and we had an extended spin zone for me about where places are in America. Yeah. Only other thing I had before we get to hot sea cool throne is. Are you guys sitting down?

Yeah.

J lo and Ben Affleck have broken up. Really? I never could have seen this coming. Do you think he's dead?

You think maybe the band's getting back together?

I don't know a rods. If I know a rod, he's not going to call first.

This has a rod. Soft fingerprints all over.

Listen, if we see J Lo, it's a Minnesota. She is a Timberwolves fan. Yeah, die hard. So wouldn't shock me, but, yeah. Is it? I mean, you guys thought they were going to be together forever.

I did. But you know what? This is a good opportunity.

I honestly didn't even realize I got married again. Yeah, they had gotten divorced.

How?

They just started, like, dating again.

It's a good opportunity for us because, you know, I. We. We can't date Taylor Swift. She's off the market. But, Hank, maybe you could slide into JLo's.

D. Yeah, I've been to multiple of her houses before.

Multiple of her houses. How about that? You've been in her back doors.

We have been in multiple of her houses. That's weird. And she smelled nice in all of them. Yeah, she hate she.

Only I don't think they let me walk inside the. One of the Hamptons or just like, showed me.

Oh, we never went inside.

Show me around. And then the backyard.

The LA one.

She's got a great backyard.

Dljdev. The La one. She. I've never seen someone more angry. To see two guys in someone's house like that weren't outside of someone robbing. Actually, I think she would have been less angry if it was robbers. Cause she'd been like, I'll just call the police. She saw us in her face, immediately dropped. And she's like, these fucking guys are in my blog.

Boys are here again.

Yeah, that was bad, Hank.

Between you and J. Lo, you'd have perfectly normal sized ass.

Yeah. Yeah, dude.

Hey, just last reach. Send her DM.

Okay.

Send her DM. Right?

I want to see it.

Like, heard you got divorced.

Hey, remember me?

Yeah.

I was the guy that was in your backyard.

Oh, wait. No, no, no. Just. Just write so, divorce question mark. Oh, no.

Hey, do, do. So dot, dot, dot.

Yeah. Divorce question mark.

Look, here's a picture from her former backyard.

Oh, yeah. That is.

Let me see a picture.

Really nice backyard.

Yeah, it's really nice.

I said so dot, dot, dot, divorce, question mark.

No, you follow up with a divorce.

Yeah, I'll wait till tomorrow. Mission point on that. Be like, you must have missed this.

I heard you like guys from Boston.

Well, no, that's a bad time for that.

And she's also. Yeah, she's going back to Iraq.

That's true.

Yeah. So we're good, but, yeah. Shocking news in the love world, which we cover extensively.

It's tough on the show. Also, there was a fire at the Cowboys hotel today.

Oh, yeah.

So everyone's safe. Who started it? If I had to guess, I would probably say, jerry, this might be a Vesuvios thing. He needs money. He's got to pay dak and CD. You might trade CD.

Yeah, you're right. I get. I'm surprised there's still a camp. I feel like camp ended.

Camp broke for a lot of people. Yeah.

Yeah. Because they just announced, like, a lot of these preseason games. No one started.

Honestly, if we're being real, if Michael Irvin was around.

Yeah, that was his.

That's my guess.

That was his fire for sure. Okay, we got a great rest of the show, so we'll kick it to ourselves with hot sequel to Roan Mount Rushmore of things that are hard to explain. And Caleb Williams. Before we get to hot seat, cool throne. Game time. Football season is here, and we can't wait to get out some games this fall. With the help of game time, the official ticketing partner Barstool sports. You know how much we love game time. Now with their brand new game time picks feature, they're making it even easier to get to a game. Game time picks filter filters out the fluff to show you only incredible deals on great seats so you don't have to waste time searching through thousands of tickets. Hank, give us the football is so close to being back. The Thursday night game it is. Ravens Chiefs AFC Championship rematch give us some prices.

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Oh, it's not the lions though. It's the Ravens and the Chiefs.

Oh, okay.

But we should send spring. Send sprinkles. We should send sprinkles.

The funniest part about that, it was after about a 20 minutes pause that we took to get the microphone set up.

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Hank.

My hot seat is the Chicago Bears.

Why?

We talked about the Matthew Judah trade, and basically it worked out for the Patriots. The Bears and the Falcons had very similar offers. So the Patriots gave Matthew Judon the option of which team he wanted to go to, and he chose the Falcons.

I mean, he's from, uh, Louisiana, I think, so not too far from Atlanta.

Yeah, they, they love the Falcons in Louisiana.

Yeah, they love them. I, I'm honestly happy that we didn't trade. Uh, yeah, I think Ryan polls has got it set up perfectly.

They wanted to see.

Well, they offered.

Yeah, you made the offer doing that.

It's not. No, but I was like, the bears drove up the price for the falcon.

Yeah, exactly.

No, it's the same price.

No, they have two offers. Drove it up.

No, they drove it up.

They drove it up because the Falcons had to match.

So you've trying to, so the guy that you said was definitely still on the Patriots, you're now saying it's a loss for the Bears.

I think if it gets presented in the way it got presented, where it's like a player had the choice, like, not the not.

I saw this tweet.

It was like a couple days ago.

It was a week old. Well, let me see.

Albert Breers tweet was, was the, really the mean one. And I don't even think it was fair.

But wait, Hank, I thought you were saying that it's okay to lose Matthew Judah because he's getting older.

Two days. Would that be good?

Should I be happy that he's not on the Bears? He doesn't really fit with his scheme either.

Albert Breer said New England, believing the Bears and Falcons were in similar category and with third round offers from both, gave linebacker Jude on his choice of being dealt with Atlanta or Chicago. And then Brewer said Judah obviously picked Atlanta.

Obviously.

Well, obviously that was, that's probably where.

He ended up and he's got more.

Chance to play starter from Louisiana.

I think the obviously part came from the fact that he is indeed a Falcon. So obviously he did pick the Falcons. Also not fitting into Matt Iberflew scheme. That. That's a very good thing.

Historically, Matty was a good defensive coordinator.

I mean, just as a head coach.

Yeah. But he's a good defense. He turned that defense around when our defensive coordinator left for various reasons.

Was it various reasons?

Various reasons, yeah. Matthew Giudon, he's from Louisiana, close to Atlanta, and he went to high school in Michigan. Probably hates the Bears because he liked the Lions. That makes sense. Yeah. Actually, if you do Detroit and Baton Rouge, Atlanta's probably right in the middle.

Also net positive for the Bears because he wears the long sleeve sweatshirt.

Yep.

That's not a tough Chicago bare weather guy.

Listen, we're not in full wind now mode.

We're in winded up.

I never find me a tweet where.

I said I wanted, no, the bears.

I'm saying, you like, I think Ryan polls just, he's just, you know, he's, he's wheeling and dealing. He's out in the business. You gotta at least call.

I would say the win now they offer is open, though. Bears.

Yeah. Win now win window might be open.

I think it's open. We got a nice little draft coming.

Yeah.

Then my cool thrones back.

Trying to yuck my yum.

No, I just, you know, it was a, it was a topic of conversation on this show. This is Hank is an interesting follow up.

That's a. Hank is in the depths because he actually, I saw him off camera the other day. Admit that the patriots are gonna be terrible this year. He's trying to drag us down.

That's just, I mean, if we're doing admit. Admitations off camera, and that's a slippery slope, but.

Oh, what I meant, no, I'm not.

I'm not gonna stoop to that level.

What it would admit. What's going on, Hank, what's in your mind?

I'm not gonna stoop to that level. My cool throws back.

I.

Wait, why begin? I mean, I got a laundry list of things I. There's a code. There's a code.

I mean, saying that you think the Patriots are bad. That's a bad. That's a code that I broke.

I didn't say it. I think they're bad. I just think there's a lot of games.

Yeah.

Statistically. Yeah. My cool throws backyard baseball.

Okay.

Oh, yeah, it's back.

It's back.

Yeah.

Released a video someone found there. They started an instagram a couple weeks ago, and someone uncovered the Instagram, which is one of the crazier, like, that's just a weird Internet thing where, like, someone's, like, I found this backyard baseball Instagram account. It has 200 followers, but it follows, like. Like, how do you find that?

That seems like it was planted, maybe.

Cuz then it came back this week.

Didn't we talk to them?

Yeah, we did.

What? I was.

No, I don't know.

I'm pretty sure they came into the office because we were talking about maybe making a level, I guess our office.

I got a text about that from somebody and I passed it along.

Yeah.

I don't know if you follow.

This is a bad admit offline.

No, you're. This is your thing now.

Well, I'm asking you a question. We did.

Yeah, that happened. I didn't happen publicly, but it definitely happened.

I'm gonna have sorry for what I. Strike that, admit chats from now on.

Strike that, admit the.

I mean, it would have been sick.

It would have been sick. I'm.

It still might happen.

Yes, I have a.

This actually makes it probably better chance.

I haven't hit it. I have an on camera admission, Hank.

Okay.

I've never played backyard baseball.

I also have never.

It seems like it's fun because we're.

Yeah, we're a little older.

This is. This stinks for you guys.

I'm not knocking it. I would love to play it.

Pablo Sanchez.

When did it come out? Like night in the night?

I don't know. What was it, Kenny?

At least like 99.

I don't know.

Because, like, the players were definitely your era of play.

Pablo.

Yeah, seven.

Yeah, I'm sorry I missed it.

How old are you guys?

Here's the thing. My family, we were always like two generations behind the most current game system. So it would take me a good, like eight years to catch up to whatever was popular.

Sunny day, Chuck downfield.

I really wanted Matthew Judah on the team.

That's Dante Robinson, Kenny Kal Gucci. That's what it was on us.

Like that.

Vicky Kawaguchi was trash.

I got. I got my fifi's hurt the other day because there was one. Yeah, there was a twitter poll out there that said, which quarterback would you rather have retweet for Jaden Daniels heart for Drake May. And of course, Drake may want.

That's dirty trick.

That's what I don't like. I don't like that. That's election interference. When you do that.

You could. Dirty trick.

You could put up a poll that said which cast member. Part of my take is taller. Retweet for big cat heart for PFT. And I would win that. Maybe not. Maybe we should do a social experiment on that one because I feel like those polls, those polls are skewed. They're, they're skewed.

And I don't like.

They are skewed. They are skewed. Yeah. I'm excited for backyard baseball.

Backyard football. Also elite.

It was a computer game. Maybe I did play it a little bit.

No, no, you're not.

No, no.

You're not allowed to know.

If you would know, you would know their power and speed.

I'm not saying I ever played it to like, I never played it, but I've, like, I have played one time, maybe Kenny Kawaguchi, because I forgot.

So it was all. I did not on a gaming system.

It was a computer game.

Ms dos.

Yes. Yes. CD Rom starting to come back to me. But I did not play it. I'm not saying I played it. I'm saying I was aware of it more than I realized.

That would be a good mount Rushmore, too. Is Mount Rushmore of computer games?

Yeah.

Not, not video games.

Nude. One. One. I love snooze.

Doom.

Power. Pete.

Backyard baseball would doom.

Boomer. Doom.

Doom and quake.

Chocolate chunk.

I used to play, Matt. I used to like MVP baseball and computer, but I should just.

That was my. Yeah, the. No, it was n 64. Ken Griffey. Baseball was my jam.

The free pinball on.

Yeah.

I hate free pinballs.

Great. I've never been a pinball.

Not only.

No, no. In general, I hate.

But the space pinball on the computer was.

Hank puts like 18 hours of pinball in a week.

When Hank complains about coming to when he takes a vacation, he's actually mostly taking vacation.

Yeah.

Ball.

Yeah.

It's basically, it just trades off he and spider and whoever, whoever has the record. You just can just take the other person and scratch off their entire week knowing that that's all they're going to try to do.

There's times where Hank's like, all right, I'm heading home. See you guys later. And then like 3 hours later, you walk over into the kitchen.

It's like, what?

Dude, you're still here.

It's the ultimate because it's free. It's like ultimate. Like one more game. And then it's like, yeah, yeah.

You know, pinball used to be like a badass thing to do back in the day. And like, yeah, the sixties, seventies. Dads would be like, don't date that boy. He plays pinball.

Pinball.

This one game. Addicting.

Probably why.

It's like addictive personality syndrome.

Good hot seat. Cool Toronto.

Thanks.

Yeah, you and spider, two real rebels of the office. My hot seat is that guy sinner, the tennis player.

Oh, steroids.

Steroids.

Oh, no.

So sinner just won at Indian Wells, I think last week he beat Tiafo and a report just came out today, he tested positive not once, but twice for a banned substance. The tennis community, this was like months ago. They found out about it, they gave him a slap on the wrist, and they accepted his explanation of how he got the steroids in his system. And the explanation is his trainer was performing like, I don't know, you get calluses on your feet during a tournament or something. And his trainer said that he had a scalpel to cut off part of the calluses, accidentally sliced his thumb, and then used like a. One of those new skin type sprays on his cut to heal it up, and then later on in the day gave center a full body massage and that's how the chemical got onto sinner's body.

Okay, so two things. One, his name is sinner.

Yeah. Okay, so hate the sin.

Yeah, yeah.

Love the center.

Two, I think I defend him because if you come up with such a bullshit excuse the first time and they buy it, why wouldn't you keep doing it? Being like, they'll just come up with this, they'll accept anything.

Well, it was the same excuse. He tested positive twice for it. But he said, again, that's how he got it.

Yeah, again, I think. I think I have his back because, like, that's on the tennis community. What's the federation?

So I actually saw this. They have a ridiculous name. I'm trying to look it up right now. It's called, like, the Federation for Fairness and Tennis.

But you see what I'm saying? Like, if you. If you use such a ridiculous excuse the first time and they buy it, what is the disincentive to not keep using that excuse?

There's none.

Right? So I would just keep doing it. Like, it makes no sense. RFK is going to keep collecting bear cubs in his car because he didn't get in trouble the first time.

That's just a fact, right? He got away with it. He's gonna be a serial massager, right? So, yeah, he said that it came from a spray used on his trainer's hand, and then his trainer put the chemical on his body via a full body massage.

And then he tested positive.

And then he tested positive.

Got it.

Later.

Yeah, but this is.

The other tennis players are pissed.

This is essentially like, no, honey, the glitter on me is not from the strip club. I actually went to a sprinkles party.

I was.

I was going home, and there was a huge stop in traffic, and there was a three year old's birthday party happening, and I got sprinkle bomb.

I actually stopped by Michael's craft store to pick up some things for the house because I know you like decorating.

Right. And if she buys that, then you're going to keep doing that.

Yeah. So Sinner said, I will now put this challenging and deeply unfortunate period behind me. I will continue to do everything I can to ensure that I comply with the ITiA's anti doping program. It's called the International Tennis Integrity Agency. If an agency is named that explicitly. Cornily. Cornyly.

Cornily. Yeah.

There's no better mark that that agency is completely full of shit.

Yes. Agreed. If you have to add more the word salad agencies are always the most full of shit agencies in the world. Yeah. Okay, good. Hot seat.

It's the same drug that Fernando Tatis got suspended for.

Did he also get a massage?

I'm sure he did.

Yeah.

I'm sure he's always hurt, so probably. So my cool throne is going to be Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins on the playlist. He got the ox cord the other day. It was his birthday, so they let him choose the workout playlist at practice. I'm just gonna run through it, because when I saw that it was a Kirk Cousins playlist, I thought that there would be a lot of nickelback Creed. Thought there'd be some creed, some cold play, maybe some DC talk or jars of clay if you want to dip into the spiritual side. But his playlist is the middle by Jimmy World. Move along by the all american rejects. There's green day, Stacy's mom. Fountains of Wayne, maybe got a little. Little New York jets quarterback in him. Former jet, current Bronco. All the small things by blink 182. The anthem by good Charlotte, Mister Brightside.

It sounds like an awesome playlist.

The best of you by the Foo fighters. Another good Charlotte song. Lifestyles with rich and famous. Dirty little secret sugar we're going down, somebody told me by the killers, dear Maria, count me in by all time low this guy has good taste in music now. Or maybe. Maybe we're just washed.

No. Yes, we are. Yeah.

Why not?

True.

Can I. I was gonna say, why not? Both because you and I are.

Good point. Yeah, yeah. Listen, this, um.

You don't have to see. 31 is not washed. It's not wash tank.

This is.

31 is a spring chicken.

This is a great playlist.

Yeah, it is.

Like, Kirk Cousin surprised I saw, and.

I wanted to roast it. Like, all these songs rock.

This is good. It's actually 90% of a pop punk playlist. Yeah, this is that. These are actually. This is our set. Listen.

Oh, Kirk Cousins singing a pop punk song on stage would be awesome. You might just have to start doing shows in Atlanta. Yeah, if you do it, like, if you build it, they will come.

Yeah.

Just a residency in Atlanta.

Kirk, listen, anytime you want, you can get on stage, sing a song with us. You don't have to sing the f word parts. Yeah, we'll bleep those out.

We will. Okay. My hot seat is us. This is a theme. Now we're just talking about.

Watch.

Actually, Hank, you might be in this. Max, you might be in this, too. I was thinking, so. We have a great life. We have a great job. Everything is awesome. But there are definitely certain times when you're like, man, I missed that. And every year, no matter what, it's these last two weeks of August when I see kids going back to college, I'm like, fuck, that was. That's it. So I want to just give a psa to anyone listening to this right now who went back to college or maybe starting college. It is the fastest four years of your life, so just embrace it and, like, close your eyes and live in the moment. But I I don't know. Something about these, like. Like, college football starting next week. Those first few games on campus when it's hot and everyone's partying and everyone, like, the first September is such a joke in college, you don't go to your classes. You don't have to worry about anything. Midterms feel, like, so long away. Yeah, we it Wisconsin welcome week, where it was just an entire week where everyone went back just to rage. I. Yeah, I miss it.

It is a very, very good week. And it's funny because when you're in college, you take summers off, and then you go home, you party with all your friends from your hometown, and then when you go back to school, you don't have that downside of, God damn it, I have to go back to school. You have. Oh, yeah. I get to go hang out with all my friends from college, and it's a great week. And, yeah, I do miss that, too.

It is, because there's a lot of things about college. I do nothing. And, like, you know, living in squalor.

And I kind of miss that every now and then.

I. I talked to you guys. I told you guys my wife was out of town last week. I kind of went back to that. I was like, I don't think this is for me anymore. But, yeah, there's. Every now and then, I'm just like, man, I miss that welcome week. You know what I'm talking about, Hank.

I kind of miss the idea of just having an apartment where I would not care if everything in there got lost in fire.

I've lived in squalor for sure, just not at college.

Breaking shit.

Yeah. Putting holes in the wall. That's artwork now.

I threw a backwards ass. I lived in the same apartment for two years in Madison. Didn't. Somehow. Didn't really break a lot of stuff. Like, you know, wear and tear. Last day before we moved out, I threw a behind the back pass beer can right through the window.

That rocks.

Sauce. I mean, it's no money. And it was like, $300 to fix.

Yes.

This fucking sucks.

Yeah, forget about that glass pane. It was. I think I was living with the bee at one point, and we had so much trash in the kitchen. And our landlord came over. He was like, you guys got to get rid of all this trash. And I was like, okay, be careful.

What you wish for.

And so I took it out on the porch, and we had. It was, you know, like one of those second story apartments. So you had, like, a little deck area that was maybe, you know, the size of. I don't know, just, like, a large closet. And then you had a deck above you and a deck below you. I took all that trash out there. We gathered it, and then we had a controlled burn. We just lit it on fire. And then the landlord came by later, and he was like, you can't be lighting fires. I said. I said, okay, dad, you told me to take the trash out.

Not our fault. Not our fault. Okay. My cool throne is so. Yeah, just embrace college if you're going to college. If you're going back to college, if you're starting college, fucking embrace it. Because the beginning, the first few weeks when it's just beautiful weather and you don't have to go to class, is just. There's something special. All right, my cool throne. I have two. One is for Aaron Rodgers. Because when we had Aaron Rodgers on for chill week, he told us, make football hard again. That was one of the things he wanted. And he said that the camp, the jets camp this year is much harder and maybe the hardest in the last seven or eight years of his career. And he said that Robert Salah is, like, really cracking the whip, and the boys are hitting hard, and it's tough, and it's making football hard. So good job, Aaron Rodgers. Made football hard again.

Good job, Aaron Rodgers. And it sounds like everybody on the jets is there.

Yeah.

Right.

Assault Reddick. Update, memes.

Memes. Is Hassan Reddick not hard?

I means, the season's about to start.

He'll come.

He'll call.

He's got to be hard before he comes.

He's gonna come. No, he's gonna come. He'll get hard. He'll come.

He's gonna come.

Positive. He's gonna come.

Okay, well, so he has not come yet. Right? And he owes, what, like, $3 million? That's an expensive come.

What will you do if he doesn't come?

We just wait for him. But Matthew Giudon is helping him come.

Why?

He said today he. That he wants to show off for the Falcon so we get. He could earn his contract.

So how does that have anything to do with Hassan Reddick?

Oh, Hasan Reddick just needs to show up, and he'll get that contract.

So you think Hassan Reddick saw Matthew Judah and said that and said, you know what? He's right.

Well, it doesn't help his case.

What?

Hasan Reddick. Because he hasn't showed up.

Well, Hasan Reddick is watching another man come for the Falcons, and he's not coming yet.

Also, Hassan Reddick is three years younger than Matthew Junior. Matthew John knows that this is his last chance at a contract.

Could be Hasan's, too.

Okay.

I guess. Yeah. Yeah, right?

29. Could be his last big one.

Kyle Shanahan taught us we might die tomorrow.

Yeah. Memes, I don't think you're gonna get him to come.

I think. I think we will.

I really don't think you're gonna get him to come. I don't even think he's hard. He hasn't been at camp.

He can't get. Yeah, you have to be at camp to get hard.

Right? So he's not. He's. He's soft as could be right now, and you're telling me he's gonna come?

I think he's gonna come.

No, you got. You gotta walk before you nut.

All right. My other cool throne is Tua. Tua's on my cool throne. Yeah, because he went on Levitard show and basically said that Brian Flores was doing mental torture on him, and he said, if you woke up every morning and I told you that you suck at what you did, that you don't belong, that you don't belong doing what you do, you shouldn't be here, that this guy should be here, that you haven't earned this right, and then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude, you're the best fit for this. He said, how would it make you feel listening to one or the other talking about Brian Flores basically shitting on to every single day? And so, normally, I saw that clip, I was like, yeah, that sucks. But who knows? Like, to might be exaggerating. Brian Flores actually came out and said, like, I've evolved, and, yeah, I kind of fucked that up. Yeah.

Also, I think Tua said he was a terrible person. Yeah, you don't really hear quarterbacks say it that much. It sounds like Tua is to Brian Flores as big cat is to the chat.

What do you mean?

Like, the chat is your brian.

Oh, yes. Yeah. They get. They. Every time I log on for the streams, for the Doug streams, they're like, you're terrible at what you do. You shouldn't be here. Someone else should be here. You suck. I hate you. Sliders. Cheat. Code glitch. Play.

You just need more positive energy.

Learn more plays.

Learn more plays. Oh, yeah. Four played playbook. You're never going to win the big one. You're a piece of shit.

No composure.

No composure. You're fat. We hate you. We hope you die.

This does give you pre recorded.

Pre recorded.

This does give more credence. Our theory, though, that former New England Patriots coaches, they go places, they become head coaches, and then they absolutely tank those teams so that the Patriots would have an easier walk through their division. It sounds like if you were to tell me that Brian Flores was sent on a mission to the Miami Dolphins to destroy the team and destroy their new quarterback, it sounds like that's exactly what he was doing.

Flores admitted it was true, so two is not wrong, but, yeah. His last two seasons with the Dolphins, they won 19 games. Mike McDaniels first two seasons with the Dolphins, they won 20. Okay, so it's not like he was the, like, the worst coach in the world. Like he was getting semi results. No, they missed the playoffs.

But let's look back at Brian Flores tenure as a Miami Dolphin. He destroyed the confidence of their young quarterback. He sued the team, and he narked on the team.

I think he won some games, but.

It'S also just as simple as everyone would leave Belichick's coaching tree and try to be Bill Belichick. And turns out when you tell someone you suck, you don't know what you're doing, you're a piece of shit. It's something that you can listen to when the person has six rings and when they don't, they're just an asshole.

Or it's easier for you to accept that criticism.

Correct.

If you're already good.

Yeah.

Or if you're Tom Brady and you have a guy that's telling you, like always. On your case, I'm sure that sucks a lot.

Yeah.

But it's probably easier to digest that than it would be if you're a first year quarterback and your coach is just destroying your confidence before you have an opportunity to get any.

Yeah, it's, it's carrot in the stick there. If you know there's a carrot at the end and someone says, oh, they're hitting you with the stick, it's like, well, I'm gonna get the carrot.

Actually, that doesn't work. We have to change, we gotta change that entire analogy, too, because who gives a fuck about a carrot?

If you're, if I'm getting hit by a stick, I'd rather have the carrot.

If you were to say, like, cool ranch Doritos.

Yes. Did a rabbit write that?

Yeah.

That makes no sense.

It should be Coors light and stick.

Yeah. Mountain Dew in a stick.

Yeah, that's what I said.

That would, I would get me off. That would get me to get off my ass. Mountain Dew. Shout out Mountain Dew. The best. Okay, Hughie, you're up.

My hot seat.

I got a question for you.

Yeah.

When you do. Who's back? Someone mentioned this. Do you say Hugh is back?

No, I think people want me to start saying Hughes back.

Okay.

Um, yeah, I got a couple DM's from that. They're like, you should do Hughes back.

Oh, I thought you might have even said it was kind of like, yeah. Dress, you know, is it, whatever, green or gold?

Yeah. Mahati godster. Children. Childress.

Oh, yeah.

So as a former lion, first round pick, he at one in the morning, took a flight. Took, apparently, in his apology, took a couple of sleeping medications that he's not familiar with.

Okay.

And he peed on a woman.

On a flight.

On a flame, yes, on a plane.

God, stir. Godster.

Children.

Children.

A big, like, big guy.

Churlis Church.

Yeah.

He's like 6566. He was a tackle and mean big, big son of a bitch. Peeing on you.

Peeing on a flight.

01:00 a.m. flight.

Yeah, it was a. Yeah, I mean, those. If you do take sleeping pills, you can have crazy things. Yeah.

Crazy things can happen to flight.

Yes.

Absolutely insane things.

Hank, would you see a picture of Godster? See if it's your speed? No. Okay. Just seeing.

Not into that stuff.

Okay. I do love every time you're into.

Planes, when somebody goes viral for anything that happens on a plane, just the first response is, Hank, are you gonna date them?

You just started dating Godster, childress. Okay.

My cool throne. A man by the name of. Oh, boy.

Why do you pick the hardest names?

Well, also, isn't it cheerless? I don't think there's a D in the last name.

We're just going with childress. Okay. Godster. Cheerless.

Dukerus Duplasse. Dupless.

Are you talking about DD?

This guy?

Yeah.

The UFC guy or D. No, Ds. DSP. DDP. Yeah, I just think a DDP.

Drake is Duplah.

Just go with DDP.

Duplexants.

This is great, because we can't get sued for this, even if we get the story wrong.

Yeah.

He beat Israel, Adesanya, and, oh, nailed that. Round four of a UFC fight. Round five. Sorry. Round five, championship fight. But in round four, it was a. It was a rough, rough round for decrease, and he was not looking good. He looked like he was clearly going to lose that fight. And then fifth round comes in. Izzy didn't work.

Is your. Is your cool throne the UFC fights from Saturday?

Um, Michael Throne is decreased.

Duplass.

Yeah. Coming back out of nowhere.

Coming.

Waking up from the dead.

It's like a magic Johnson tweet.

Yeah.

Just like, just four days later. Decrease. Way to go, dude.

So is. It was a good fight?

It was great.

Yeah, it was awesome. It was just, you know, we didn't see it coming. And now he's. Now he's got the world in front of him.

Yeah.

Good for him. Yeah.

Cool throw.

DDP.

Where'd you find that story? Was that just that?

No, I was watching it on Saturday.

And then I just kind of forgot about.

Yeah, kind of was like, let's bring it up. I wasn't watching that.

I was. I kind of wish saved this for Friday. Show would have been nicer if you've got even more time in between.

I just started doing UFC recaps on Friday.

Yeah, just a week later.

Wait, did you say that you were. You weren't really watching the fight? You were watching mostly for Joe Rogan?

Well, Joe Rogan had a commentator.

Oh, you watched the fight commentary. Yeah. Companion.

I knew it was happening. Yeah.

Yeah, he was. He didn't buy the pay per view. He watched Joe Rogan and Brendan shop. Watch it. Yeah. Commentate on it.

I like that.

That's a hell of a way to watch.

Second screen is just his first screen.

So they must have said his name a lot. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

No, they will.

They would say, like, they would say.

His last name a lot.

Okay, where's he from?

South Africa.

Yeah.

It was the battle of Africa.

I'm from South Africa, sir.

All right, good. Hot sequel. Throwing. Everyone, let's do the Mount Rushmore of things that are hard to explain. Okay, Mount Rushmore time. It's brought to you by our friends at Mountain Dew. You see us, we're a camp. This is going to be the funnest week. We're basically kids again. Mountain Dew. They were a wonderful sponsor of grit week as well. You know what we all need to do? We need to get off our ass with bold flavors, refreshing citrus kick. Mountain Dew will get you off your ass and have you feeling like you're an actual mountain. Hank just dropped a couple of the mountain Dews. A mountain where the weather is always perfect. Your friends are ready to hang in. A day of epic proportions awaits. We're going to play. I think we're going to swim. We're going to be doing some softball. We're gonna do some rock climbing. It's all Mountain Dew. So I've been drinking this mountain Dew. It is. This mountain is one of those sodas where it's like every time I have, like, I need to drink more mountain.

I got the code red right here. No soda. No soda. Changed the game harder than code red. When code red drop. Well, it was. It was the beginning of.

They changed the game multiple times. Oh, the Baja changed the game. Then they changed the game again.

Yeah. Hank actually taste tested the Baja. Bless. Hank invented Baja. Yes.

And they were there. A powerhouse. Before they even changed the game.

Yeah, right. They were. They were powerhouse and they changed the game. Then everyone's like, oh, there's a new game. They're like, whoops, we just changed on you again.

Code red.

Yeah. So thank you, Mountain Dew. Okay, Mount Rushmore. Of things that are hard to explain right now. We are with five mount Rushmores left. Max is already clinched. Whatever.

Congrats.

Good job.

Thanks, guys.

I have 54, so I'm still in danger. Pft is 47. Hank has 44.

Yes, I am anybody's game technically.

Q, when you throw that in there, that's nice.

Hank, if you if you rattle off the next five going number one and I pick up a point, I'm screwed.

I mean, Hank should have gotten number one last time.

I know the voting.

How do you vote?

You blame the voters.

No, I don't.

Stop the steal.

Yeah.

On your mount Rushmore picks.

Yeah. Hank looked at it. He was the first vote, and it had 100% for him. And then all of a sudden, in the middle of the night, they changed all the votes.

It's crazy. So are you feeling.

I feel good. I mean, I feel like this is.

A perfect Mount Rushmore for you because a lot of things are hard to explain for you.

Well, there's a lot of material for Hank to work.

Yeah.

Yeah. I'm excited. I'm blessed to have the opportunity, and I'm looking forward to the end of the season.

Okay.

You sound like a belichick.

You sound like you're about to retiree.

No, it's a hard game. You know, sometimes, you know, you. You finish the season, you want to get. Get ready in the offseason, go for next year, and I might have to do some thinking.

You got circle the wagons right now. This is, this is the time where you got to circle the wagons over the playoff push.

Hank's thinking is going to be, wow, I don't have to do this anymore. And then next year, he's like, wait, this is back?

Yeah.

That's going to be the extent I.

Think we should do teams like, I don't know. I don't know. It's kind of weird how this was.

Next year, Mount Rushmore. We're just gonna have to do, like, we'll have me, Max, and PFt will have all three of my kids. We'll just use their picks versus Hank and just see how he does.

I should get the first four picks and then you guys go.

That's actually not. Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Well, I mean, the truth is, Hank, you could very easily beat me. It's not like I've been great this month.

No, you got it. You of year.

So, no, I'm three points ahead of you. How does the point system work now? Okay, so there's a good chance, Hank, that you could even surpass me this game.

That's literally impossible.

No, but he. You could tie.

Yeah.

Yeah, you could tie.

Good masking.

If you get four points and I get zero points.

No, one point. You get one. You get one for just showing up. This is like the SAt.

Hank said 43210.

Yeah, he just. But count that.

Fifth place gets zero.

Mike's first bit. My first word gets zero.

How is snake draft work?

Okay, what's the order?

It's gonna be Max, me, big cat, Hank. Okay, cuz Hank went first. Last.

Now we gotta be. We gotta be took. Boobs. Yeah, feeling boobs. We gotta be. We gotta be smart here, because we're zigzagging across the room.

We're gonna mess up a thousand.

Yes. Yes. All right, so, Max, you're up first.

I am first.

Max is like, do you feel. You feel good about, like, making it not competitive? It's not fun.

I mean, it's.

Where was last summer?

You didn't let me pick anything last summer.

Yeah, actually, that's a great point. I didn't even realize that, that you had the best Mount Rushmore picker on your team last year. You still lost.

Hank was going for one week. I think I got first every time.

Yeah. And since you've already clinched, you can. You can open up the book here. How do you go about making your. Your relatable selections?

I don't know.

Meatballs. If you have a chance, take meatballs. Take me. Yeah.

Just if every other food draft is a food draft like the big boys are gonna eat.

Yeah. Okay, Max, one, you're still blaming food drafts?

Yeah, we haven't done a food draft in, so.

Yeah, feeling boobs number one.

You said, like, there, it's a bad thing to do.

Okay.

Things that are difficult to explain. First pick, the female anatomy.

Oh, good pick.

Including boobs.

Yeah, good pick.

Sure, sure, sure.

Female anatomy. That's a good pick. Would you have done that one? One? No, we're at camp, so. You just heard over the loud speaker. We'll probably cut that. But we have announcements. We actually woke up this morning, Corey was over the loudspeaker, waking us up, being like, food is ready.

He said, breakfast has been canceled due to lack of hustle.

Okay, that would have been a good quote. Movie quote.

All right. Yeah. My first overall. Hmm.

Well, you said, this is hard.

No, my first overall. Hank, my person, he said his first overall. Hank, shut the fuck up. This is hard because I've got a lot of different ones on here. I have no idea.

I'd hope you'd have a lot of different ones.

I have no idea how to rank them, though. That's my problem.

Go goofy style.

Okay, I'll go goofy style.

Yeah, you're clenched.

Okay. First overall for me, I'm going to go with how money works.

Ooh, good one.

How money works slash finance.

Yeah.

No idea where, where does money come from?

And why is it valuable? What's.

I think it's because you say it's valuable. Then I also agree that it's valuable. So it's valuable how money works. Yep. Big cat.

My pick, the universe.

So you're taking everything?

I. I guess the technical pick could be. I having a hard time explaining just what my pick is because it's so confusing. The.

The big bang or, you know, start the.

God, how big the universe is is so hard to explain. I watched a video the other day where they zoomed out, and that will fuck you up.

Are you talking a while? Are you talking about watching the Grateful dead at the sphere?

No. Kind of similar, but it was. Yeah, it was like. It showed. It was someone sitting on a beach in California that zoomed out. So that actually does sound like sphere zoomed out, and then just kept on zooming out. And it's like, here's our Milky Way, or here's our universe. Here's a Milky way, then there's millions.

And they just make that shit up, though.

I don't know, dude. It's. Do you.

A new universe drops, like, every other.

Week, but, like, when you are deciding that. But when you think about it, it's not hurt your brain.

I had outer space, so it's like. Yeah, kind of similar.

Yeah, it's like, yeah, I guess the.

Infinite freaks me out.

Yeah.

Thinking about something as infinite makes the.

Infinite space of the universe.

Well, here's the thing, is, the universe is not infinite. There's, like, an end to the universe, and it's expanded. It's getting bigger.

Yeah.

But it's. Yeah. Try to explain being behind us.

Yeah. Right. I think this is a good pick.

Because we don't know the universe is. It's finite, but it's getting bigger.

Yeah.

And there's, like, me during football season.

Yes. And there might also be multiple other universes.

Got it.

And in other universes.

Milky Way is a galaxy, and then that's in a. What?

Milky Way is a candy bar.

In what? What is Milky Way?

In my pantry?

No.

Milky Way is a galaxy. That's the universe. But I think the Milky Way galaxy is part of a cluster of galaxies.

Yeah. In the. And then there's another, like, then that's all a cluster. And there's another cluster. And there's, like, this is just one of those things that if you don't think that there's other life somewhere.

You're crazy.

You're crazy. Okay. Did you have that on there? Nope. Oh, so you got it down pat.

Yeah. I mean, I don't. Who knows even exists?

This might not exist simulation.

I will go with sight to a blind person.

Mmm.

Okay.

Been doing that recently.

Have you ever tried to do that?

No.

Have you?

I've been with blind people and tried to explain. I've had moments where I've said things out loud and I've been like, oh, you don't have no idea what I'm talking about.

That's kind of mean.

Yeah, no, I know.

It's like you were like, like, what were you explaining?

You're like, oh, look at that. Blind. Look at those boobs.

No, like, we, like, we had a kid in our old office and in Boston that was like he could kind of see, but not really.

And then I was explaining why Mike project net.

Yeah, I was telling him a story.

Shout out, you.

No idea what I'm saying cuz you can't really see.

You're like, Mike, I totally dunked. Yes, it.

And then I will go with the taste of water.

Mmmdh okay. All right. Good pick.

Yeah.

What does water taste like?

You tell me. Explain it to me.

Tastes like life. Tastes clean.

What's clean?

I don't. I don't know what the taste.

Well, different water. The. Honestly, the freakiest thing I ever saw a human do was Jeff D. Low taking five different types of water from five different bottled water companies. And then we wrote the names of them on the bottom of the cups and he went blindly and took five for five just on taste alone. And then he did it again.

That's insane.

Yeah, he's a freak.

Yeah, he is a freak. Okay, my pick. Hmm.

Is it?

Yeah, I don't know.

It's a good bit.

I don't. I can never explain or, I mean, I don't know how it works. Big airplanes, how they fly. I don't get it. Mmm. I'll never get it. Rosters.

All people say the pilots don't even know.

Dude, I saw there was a picture where, like, it was all the fuel that's in a 747, it's all in the wings and it's like, so much fuel. I don't get how they get that in the air.

Yeah, it takes like, I don't know, 45 minutes, an hour sometimes just to put all that fuel into the plane.

Fucking crazy.

Same thing with, with like, aircraft carriers, how they float.

Yeah, that's a pick you could take.

I could take that.

I did read a thread about that the other day, and everyone was just like, water displacement.

Yeah.

Okay, what does that mean, if the.

If the space of the ship moves out, water that is heavier than that space, the ship is. I don't know.

Don't understand. Never will understand that.

Just say magic. Yeah. Planes fly.

Yeah.

Magically. Is it my turn?

Mm hmm.

Hank.

Yes, it is.

Okay, my second pick. I'm going to take the rules of craps.

Hmm. Okay.

I've had the rules of craps explained to me. Probably ten or eleven times in my life I've forgotten them. Ten or eleven times in my life I've played craps.

I think that's just because you were drunk.

Yes. Yes, I was definitely drunk, but that's not the point, Hank. The point is, it's hard to explain, and it is harder to understand.

Yes, well, yeah, well, it's always in the setting of being drunk.

It was that hard to explain. They won't put it in every casino. Oh, you know the world. But the good.

A lot of people play craps.

Yeah, a lot of people do. But they're all drunk, and they all just had the rules explained to them that night and the next day that. You ever go to a crap stable in the morning? There's nobody there because nobody knows how to play in the morning.

True. True. Okay, Max, he's probably gonna have, like, some awesome pick right now.

I'm gonna go with the NFL cat.

Yep, that's a good one.

Good pick.

Yeah. I think Max's key is that he also picks things that are less words.

Yeah.

So the graphic always is bigger.

Yeah, yeah. Meatballs, boobs.

It's simple, simplistic. I have a simple mind, simple brain, simple graphic.

Okay.

Going off of that one word. We've talked about it on this show.

Are you going one word?

Yep.

Calculus.

Yeah, I had up.

I actually don't know what calculus is. Nope.

No, I just.

I just know it's the math that comes with the most expensive books that we've said before.

I've never even met calculus.

No.

No one's even shown me a calculus.

Goodwill hunting. That's as close as I. Calculator is.

About as close as I've gotten.

Yes. You like? I know. You could show me any. You could show me a math formula. I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's calculus or. No, it's two plus two.

Yeah. A squared plus b squared equals c squared.

That's.

That's why.

Equals Mx. B. Yeah. I'm just saying, letters.

Those are equations.

Yeah, they are.

Okay.

I feel like calculus is one of those things that smart people made up. They just invented a puzzle for themselves to teach other smart people so they could all feel smart.

Yeah. Oh, it's Pft. Sorry.

Oh. What? It's not Hanks turn.

It's Pft.

Yeah. Okay. We got lost.

I was wrong.

We got lost in the snake.

I was wrong.

I'm going to go with.

Good pick.

This is very difficult for me. What a catch is.

Yep.

In football.

Yeah. Okay.

No one knows. We still don't know.

That is true.

They change it all the time.

Um. That's good pick. That's good pick. I had a football one. I. Two football ones. Mmm. I want to do one of them. Uh, yeah, you know what? I'll do one of them. Uh, it's hard to explain why Matt Lafleur kicked a field goal down eight.

It is.

It's really hard to explain.

No, it's. It's easy to explain to.

Really fucking hard to explain that.

It's very easy to explain. Um, he. He just got dumb for the brain fart.

It sucks that I hate. I like Matt Lafleur as a guy. Uh, because obviously, I hate the team he coaches for, but we really have kind of tortured him.

Yeah. Well, it's out of love because he's. He's not going to make that mistake again.

If he makes that mistake again, then I don't.

I would actually respect it.

Yeah. If he was just like I. He was just like, you know what? I want to give the PMT guys a little more fodder.

Yeah.

Okay, Hank, you have two picks.

I do have two picks. I have three choices.

You have three choices and two picks. You want to sound them out? You want us, you want to. You will do a group help? You want to say all three, and we'll pick your best.

I got my fourth. I'm.

He's still competing with.

How do you. Fourth.

It's not over.

This is the coddling of Hank that I talk about.

Yeah, no, this is cock. Yeah.

Yeah, we're coddling.

Hey, I didn't ask you to do this. Big cat just said it.

I was coddling you.

Yeah, he was coddling you.

And then he also.

Honestly.

Oh, I could still lose. You do that like, I could.

Technically.

Mathematically, yes.

Could you say you've clinched if you haven't mathematically clinched.

If you're. If you're competing, why are you also coddling? But if you do want to speak down, because you're.

You're. You're so bad at this. And it, like.

But I would still beat you. That's where it's like, which one is it? If I'm so bad at this, fuck off, Hank.

You suck at this. And you're a little bitch all the time. Not Rushmore sees.

Alright, I'm gonna go with your bad. Pick your dreams.

Bad pic.

No, I think you're mistaking that with like the lamest.

Yeah, yeah, that was a bad pic. Things legit a bad things.

Your dreams are very easy to explain. You're either my teeth fell out or I almost had sex.

Yeah, there's no one wants to hear you explain your dreams. Yeah, that's it.

Because if I'm about to have sex in my dream, I'm definitely telling myself, like, wait, this is definitely a dream.

And then I'm gonna.

Well, you're gonna. Are you gonna back your pickup?

No, because you guys are gonna say that no matter what.

No, no. We're being honest that your dreams are. No one wants to hear you explain your dreams. Explain our dreams.

One of the best movies of all time. You know, Christopher Nolan, inception. And it's basically the whole concept is how like, you maybe should have taken the plaza. And then you wake up the next day and it's like you. You kind of remember some details, but you can. And then you wake up.

I had the crowd of inception would have been very.

Exactly. Stellar.

Yes, I said, my pictures.

You're just gonna tear it down. I don't give a shit. I'm gonna go with.

Easy.

Var.

Also easy.

Basically, just like the challenging in football, the camera.

The camera.

Legends.

The camera, like the most popular casino games in the history of the world.

Hank. Hank, could you explain it to me?

Yeah.

It's a game on table.

There's rules.

I don't play craps, but it's like, if it's hard to explain why. Explain to me your dreams.

Okay, so sometimes my teeth fall out in my dreams. And that's when you turn your brain off.

Explain Var.

Okay. That's when the video does the robot thing and gets it right.

What's the robot thing?

How's the robot sky? Hawkeye technology.

What is like the rule, though? What are they determining?

1984? There's cameras everywhere. Gotta pick everything up.

Good.

Thanks. That was really helpful. I get it now.

You know exactly what Var is.

I.

What is it when a camera that tells you if it's a goal or.

Not, how does it determine it?

Because it's a camera.

Is a camera like AI, like it's sentient.

It's a camera that can see on the field and know when the ball crossed line.

Interesting. Yeah. I'm confused, though. But that's. I guess it's really easy.

Well, you must be pretty dumb.

Yeah, I definitely am.

Piece of shit.

That was nice.

I like that. I enjoyed that.

I like how big cat and I just kind of tapped out and let you guys go.

Locked in a battle for last place.

The gloves are on. What are you typing? Who are you typing to? What are you typing? He's learning. He's googling crap. Because you don't know.

No, I'm looking up. I'm looking up. Picket. Ask. Talking about Var.

Oh. I mean, Var is just.

It's easy.

It's very easy.

What are you looking up, Hank?

Nothing. Honorable mentions.

Well, I guess big Hannah, you just don't want us to pick.

Oh, I forgot.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. My last pick. Good one. I screw up my last picks every time. Oh. Internet jokes slash memes to non Internet people.

Yeah. Like when we were talking about very aging big justice the other day.

Yes.

We realized very quickly this is a conversation that needs to stay between a.

Man and screen and the Internet. Yeah. Because, like, if you just go out and out of. There's a lot of people. A lot of people listening to this right now don't have Twitter, Instagram. They're not, like, just scrolling all day like we are. And then when you have a conversation with them, it's. I had one where I explained. I just explained to people. Big Mike.

Yeah.

So you know who Big Mike is. You know who Big Mike is. And people are like, what are you talking about? I was like, yeah, no, it's a. It's a big thing. Big Mike. Okay.

Mine's actually kind of similar to that.

Wait. Oh, what?

You're not up mas.

Oh, damn. We get Hank. Hank is tapped out, by the way, anyone who's listening to part of my take for the first time, this is when Hank taps out.

Mmm. I'm thinking about getting real political. Last pick here.

Thanks, Hank.

Real political.

I liked your dream pick. I just had to shit on it.

I think dreams are very easy to.

He's not giving me icon.

Okay, so for my last one, I'm gonna take wind.

Mmm.

Good pick.

Yeah, that's a good thing. Break it down.

The earth.

Yeah.

Yeah. Tell me about where we're spinning really fast.

Yeah.

So.

So winds. Only it always comes in one direction.

Yeah. Fuck.

Wind was a bad pick, actually.

No, I don't. I think.

I think when it's not gonna look good. When doesn't pop.

When probably doesn't.

It doesn't pop.

Max, probably has something that's gonna pop.

Yeah, it's gonna pop big time.

I do have one that could pop, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna go more niche because it's.

Cuz you're just running up the score on us.

Yeah, basically. So I'm just gonna go with our job to someone who doesn't, who doesn't know Barstool.

Good one.

I had.

Good one.

That's not gonna look good on a, on a graphic because it's literally only hard for us to explain.

Mm hmm.

And it's also people voting. Know what parcel is correct. Yeah.

But you can just say you. I just, I just say, like, if someone. If I don't want to have the conversation, I just say I do, like or not anymore, but I'd say I still say it to get out of the conversation. Like, just, you know, video production, video and audio.

Yeah. You guys, we say when we go.

Yeah, like, there's a little, you know, like, we just do try to explain.

What we're doing, like, right now, this.

Weekend to someone who, like, doesn't understand.

Why would you be explaining that? Like, why would they be like, people.

Ask what you do and then I'm like, like a podcast. And they say, like, oh, it's like a hobby.

Yeah.

And I'm like, no, I actually make.

Money just trying to. For other people's picks to be bad.

Yeah, there's nothing more.

Oh, I mean, that's a bad pick on the ground. It's pretty to be like, oh, yeah, it's doing video and audio production. I'm like, oh, yeah, you know, like, you know, the pizza guy.

Like, yeah, there's nothing more embarrassing.

I just basically say, you know Miss Peaches, I work for her daddy.

Yeah, I miss Peach's assistant.

Yeah, like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.

Writing down podcast or on occupation on, like, a customs form to coming into the United States is tough.

A customs form. How about like a fucking elementary school form for your kid? That's the worst. I'm just like smut blogger slash podcast.

Yeah, you're like, I'm a podcast with like, free lunch then.

Yeah. Okay. What? Honorable mentions, Hank.

A color.

Is that what you were gonna decide between? Yeah, actually. Awesome pick then dreams. Yeah, I. I'm not gonna let you switch that.

Might even know when.

Okay. I know.

I was gonna say the afterlife. That was gonna be my one.

That would. Yeah, that would pop. Yeah. Death to a child. How babies get made to a child had this one was a niche one, but trying to explain to someone that you can't dunk from the free throw line while shooting a free throw.

Impossible.

It's really hard to do. I had that. You can't tackle the quarterback playing tackle. Football.

Yep.

Rules of baseball.

Yeah, I had batting average.

Yeah.

New kickoff rules. Tax batting average.

Batting average is so easy.

Explain it to me.

What? It's you. If you bat the amount of times.

And you get three hits, you understand fractions.

In seven outs, you get your batting. 300.

Isn't there more to it than that?

No. You're thinking if you walk like count as a poor war, would pitch ten.

Balls to you, and if you get.

Three hits, your batting average would be 300.

I'm thinking, well, slugging, you'd have to get on.

Slugging is still pretty easy.

Yeah.

It's more like war hits.

Well, yeah, you have to get a hit to get on base.

Slugging is real, basically, per. At bat.

I'm glad I didn't take batting every.

Yeah, that would have been. That would have been one of the worst.

When Hank says, do not understand fractions, that's how you know that you fucked up.

Here's one that I was trying to. I was thinking about, and I was. I think there's something there, but it'd be hard to. But it. It's hard to explain to people that you're not triggered online, because the minute you say you're not triggered online, you're triggered online.

I'm not owned.

Yeah. Right. So it's. By definition, it's hard to explain it because people are like, yeah, you are. You're responding to me, right?

Yeah, I had taxes explaining emotions via text.

Yeah.

Emojis. That's what they're.

No, but, like, if someone would be like, oh, like, you're mad. It's like I just sent, like, I sent a text message with. No. There's no emotions to the sentence.

Trying to.

Deciding that.

Well, that's specifically you.

What do you mean?

You give off. Multiple people have told you that you give off asshole vibes over text.

Just give short answer.

Yeah, yeah.

Question like, yes. And they'll be like, why are you mad?

You. You say yes, period. Though.

No, I don't.

Yeah, you do.

You think I'm adding extra. Extra grammar. No, that's true.

It's a good point.

I. I did have the plot to interstellar.

No, people just decide, like.

But Hank, emotion.

Yeah. You're. You. You're a big. Okay. Yes.

Oh, okay.

Is one that big time okay guy.

Hey, we're going to do this.

Okay, but you could be like, yeah, that's fine.

Yeah.

Like, if you, like, say a sentence.

No, this is getting way Hank can. Can't exist.

No, no. If I said to you like, hey, let's. Or if you said to me like, hey, the plan today is we're gonna do this. This. I just write back, okay. That does feel a different vibe. It does. Okay. Is different. Yeah, that's. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Sounds great, right?

Yeah. Okay.

We could pull every single person at this company and everyone be like, yeah, I don't know if Hank likes me over text replying.

Just. Okay. Definitely gives a vibe of like, okay, fine.

You know what, Hank?

That's. No, but, like, that's.

You're deciding that that's all right.

Tell me the plan today.

You're going to do the yak, that we're going to draft teams for Camp Barcelona. Then we're going to do the first field day stream activity for Mountain Dew.

Okay. Yeah.

If you said it like that.

Or say it again. Say it again.

We're gonna do the yak. We're gonna draft teams. We're gonna do that.

Sounds great. Exclamation point.

Yeah, that would be that gear sarcastic.

Fuck off, Hank, you seem like the kind of guy that would put the dot, dot, like, two periods after. Okay, okay. Dot, dot.

You're basically rolling your eyes.

I.

It's okay.

Texting is a means to an end.

All right.

Other honorable men, a lot of probably should have taken.

I had trying to explain that you went to the strip club, but you didn't get a lap dance.

Mm hmm.

Or go to the back room. You just went there with the guys.

Why?

Other people did.

Why you liked an Instagram post.

Well, that one's pretty easy. Lebron picked it.

Yeah. Uh, artificial intelligence.

Yep.

Black holes.

That you're not paranoid. They're just out to get you. Very hard thing to explain. Really, really hard thing to explain to people. Love. Yeah.

The number zero.

Yep. What about that? The CIA is behind a lot of shit.

No. Yeah, that's. You just said it, though.

Yeah, but like what I just said, I said a lot of shit. It's more than that.

I actually think the CIA is behind so much shit that they're behind the idea.

Right.

That the CIA is behind everything. So now you. The CIA is super powerful.

Right. That the Bears have never had a 4000 yard passer in over 100 years of playing.

You know, Jason Campbell almost had that.

Yeah. Cutler got. Was close and he got hurt.

I almost said Ben Mintz.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Magnets Yep. How do they work?

Yeah. Rico Bosco would be another one.

I had both of them. Those are the two Barcelona employees I have on my list.

How Pete Carroll didn't run with Marshawn on the 1 yd line.

Tough to.

That's very hard to explain.

Very hard to explain. Good pick there. The new kickoff rules.

Yep.

So that, like, four times.

You have.

Am I wrong?

You want to explain them?

No, I'm saying I've just.

You.

You clearly don't understand that.

What if after you clinch big cat, we just let them go?

Yes.

I think that would be.

We'll just do it.

Yeah, we'll do hell in the cell. Right?

Put them in an actual. In a gulag. So I'm in the gulag.

It's like a post scene. Yep.

For.

For every part of the fall.

They should have to pick eight.

Yes. Oh, that would be fun.

Oh.

But I don't know if Hank can stretch. You can't stretch. Hank is. Hank is like a shitty middle reliever. He can maybe give you one and two thirds innings if you make him stretch out to five innings. No way. Although color, buddy.

I could still beat you.

Yeah, you can. Color. You should have picked color.

Color was a great pick. Color was actually color. Could have been one. One.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Yeah, I always.

This is my mom. My honorable mentions are usually better than my picks.

Yeah.

The way she goes.

Okay, any others? Any other honorable mentions?

Time zones.

Time zone. China only having one time zone is crazy.

That is why.

Blows my mind every time I see it.

Yep.

They have one time zone, Max.

What? Why doesn't the world just have one tax? Can you answer me that?

They only have one time zone.

Because then people would be, like, sleeping it.

Yeah, but that. It's just, like season. So you could say, like, noon here in the United States is midnight in Hong Kong.

That sounds like that song.

They just know that noon is nighttime.

That sounds terrible.

It's just one clock for everybody.

Max.

I'm looking at the, like, a globe of time zones.

Yeah. China has one time zone. Because 97% of China is all lives, like, on the east side.

Mm hmm.

But there's people who live all borders. Yeah, they get screwed.

Tibet.

They're just absolutely screwed by the time zones.

Free Tibet.

Russia has eleven.

How does Russia have eleven? And. And China has won.

Well, China has more. But they just said we only have one.

Okay. They only acknowledge.

They only acknowledge one.

It's like if you built an entire country out of Arizona.

Yeah, I thought this was one of those like, Atlanta is closer to what.

You know, the other weird one that I saw the other day is Spain is the same. Spain is the same time zone. I think is like Germany or something. There's something weird with that where they're, like, flopped. There's just weird time zones. Think Spain. In World War two, the spanish government wanted to align closer to Germany. They. They took their time zone. Yeah. So Spain is like, you know. You know where Spain is on a map? It's right underneath France.

Yeah.

And they have different time zones.

That's a try hard move on Spain's.

Yeah, it's a cuckoo.

Yeah, it's like, hey, guys, you're taking.

Another man's time zone.

Exactly. Yeah.

That's ridiculous. Okay, good job, guys. Good.

Mount Rushmore.

Yeah.

Good vibes all around.

It's one of those things I love whenever we have a big hit interview because we're about to get to Caleb Williams and. And maybe some new fans. And they listen to that.

Yep.

And they're like, I had a friend text me. He was listening to the Mount Rushmore of cheese and with his wife in the car.

Wait, Mount Rushmore?

Yellow. Yellow. He's making us listen to part of my take where they're arguing over yellow foods and whether certain foods are yellow or golden. Pure gold is a rich orange yellow color. It's been going on for 15 minutes. The freshest pasta is always yellow. It's still going. That's a great one.

That is good.

Yeah.

I just got a text from a random number. Hello. Are you Lisa?

Hmm.

I think I have to be Lisa.

No, this is. This is scam.

Yes, Lisa.

I like how you know it's a scam and you still.

I'm gonna scam them right back. It's Lisa.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. It is QB one of the Chicago Bears, Caleb Williams, Heisman Trophy winner. First of all, Caleb, thank you for joining us. I was very close to saying savior of the franchise, but I'm not going to put that on you. How's camp going? Let's start with that.

Camp is, camp is good. The defense has been, the defense has been challenging me throughout camp, otas, all of that. So it's been great offense, we've been starting to pick it up and it's been fun.

The hard knocks cameras around.

Yeah, you don't really notice them. They do it, they do a pretty good job. Other than the times when, you know, you're having, you're having talks and you're like, oh, I got a mic above my head. But other than that, you know, it's, they've been great.

Did you watch week one of hard knocks?

I watched the beginning. I haven't gotten back to it. I watched, heard that the bulls, the bulls introduction was, was, was happening, so I went and watched that part, and one of the nights I had to, I had to go to sleep.

There's some good slow mo shots of the spirals. Yeah, that's what we tune in for the sprinklers going on. We tune in for the spirals.

They might have gotten mad at me or not mad at me. They, they made fun of me because I got triggered because I thought they weren't showing enough touchdown passes.

Okay.

So I was defending you. I was like, let's get some more highlights going.

Yeah. Hopefully this, I think the next episode comes out in a few days. Yeah, hopefully the next episode. So we got a few more spirals and touchdowns in there.

Yeah. So, I mean, you're, you're obviously a very confident guy has the transition. Obviously, we haven't started the regular season, but the transition to the NFL been what you kind of expected?

Yeah, I mean, I knew it was going to be challenging. I knew it was a offensive wise, I knew it was a new language for me, a new way of doing things. And so just understanding my situation, understanding that the guys are, you know, they're going to push me, coaches, the players, and then they're also going to be gracious with me, learn that throughout this process. And so now just picking up the speed, you know, getting better with things, processing things a lot faster, checks, alerts, all of that. So it's been great, it's been fun, it's been challenging, but the transition wise, you know, I've had to move a couple times, whether it was transfer from Oklahoma to USC or all of that stuff. And so, yeah, it's been, it's been, it's been a normal transition.

I feel like people kind of memory hold the whole Oklahoma part of your career because, you know, you were, you were obviously the number one pick for two years, which that's tough because people are going to poke holes in everything. But you went to Oklahoma, you weren't the starter, and then you won the starting job halfway through the year. And everything I've read, it was like the minute you showed up, there was a story about how at 06:00 a.m. they wouldn't let freshmen lift, but you basically forced your way in there. Is that just been your mindset from, from the beginning? Like, even if they don't let me come in here, I'm gonna go compete?

Yeah, I would say my mindset has always been, you know, compete. Ever since I started, you know, ever since I really switched to the position of quarterback around ten years old, I understood that I may have started later than most QB's at that time because a lot of QB's in my class have been QB's for their whole life. And so I switched to that and I just was competing verse people. I mean, somebody that I was competing verse and training, just working out, working hard and not actually like QB training was like Blake Coram and he's unbelievable. Like, his work ethic and all of that is unbelievable. So, you know, just, just getting in there, competing versus people that are older than me, bigger, faster, stronger. And then, you know, when I get to those positions that I've been in with Oklahoma and high school, all those other positions that I've been in, just go out there, compete, work my tail off and get after it.

Yeah, I mean, I want to bring up, because winning the job as a freshman with a starter in place, that's dog mentality. But then you go to USC and everyone's like, oh, la soft. There's a whole perception there, but I just want to remind people I'm an east coast, kidde. You want it? Yeah. You won that starting job as a freshman.

Yep.

Yeah. So the story about you deciding I'm gonna be a quarterback now.

Yeah.

You're playing defense, right?

Yes. And linebacker. A little bit of safety. And then we lost the game. Lost FBU game, which is. I think y'all know FBU is.

No.

So it's basically like an all star team from each. Each region.

Okay.

So they have. And state and things like that. That. So they. For us, they had a couple different. Cause DMV, we kind of bunch everybody together. So it was FBU Maryland national team, and we went down. We were whooping up on a bunch of teams. We lost to actually, Harrison Bailey, I think he just left UnLV. He's a quarterback there, but we lost to him. And I didn't like the way we were playing. We were playing kind of daddy ball with the coach and the QB on our team. I switched and my kind of thing was spread the ball around. Everybody go win games and, you know, be a big reason why.

So you're ten years old, and you decide, I'm going to be a quarterback now. And that was that a complete lifestyle change for you?

It was more of. I was probably because I went more into, like, I already decided what I'm going to do. And then I, you know, my dad and godfather and all those people kind of put together a plan and from training to eating to, you know, when I wake up and things like that.

That's incredible. So you're ten years old, and you're like, this is my plan to be in the NFL. Cause I did the. I had a plan to be in the NBA when I was ten years old. Didn't really work out. Like, do you ever think back, like, we set ourselves to do something at ten years old, and now we're here. That's nuts.

Yeah, it's nuts. I do think about it, and I don't know if I'm gonna classify it as nuts in a way. Like, it's. It's.

It's.

I don't really know the exact word, but, you know, I expected myself to be here, but it is. It is crazy. I wake up every day and I'm.

Like, it's gotta feel like a superpower that you were able. Cause, like, we were joking about it. There was a draft story when the draft happened. Like, someone. There was a story about some kid wrote down when he was like, eight, I'm gonna be in the NFL draft. And we were joking, like, every eight.

Year old writes that every day, but.

There'S only a few guys get drafted. So to see that and have that plan, at what point in, in that plan, like, what age were you like, okay, this plan is actually like, this happening.

It's probably. It was probably after I started training and getting. After probably two years after I started training is when I was like, okay, this actually, you know, it's gonna happen. Can happen. You know, that's when I started getting to what was. I was probably 7th grade, and then I hit 8th grade. So around 9th grade is when I was like, this can. This can really happen because I started getting out there playing with guys that were older than me. All the training was kind of, you know, working and things like that, so kept all that going and then starting getting some offers. Played well first year of high school, and then the offers and everything started climbing. Confidence kept. Kept rising, growing because of the work that I kept putting in and was putting in before high school and things like that.

Yeah, I would. I want to. I read a story about when you were 16, you broke your offensive coordinator's wedding ring. I would imagine that was also a moment that you were like, oh, shit, I got a cannon.

Yeah.

So he. His wife always told him, don't. Don't, you know, catch footballs with the wedding ring on, wedding band. And he was. He didn't, didn't listen. And then one day, his hands started bleeding. He looks at it and he was trying to figure out what happened. And then I realized that it was cracked a little bit and it was pinching his skin.

Home wrecker.

Yeah.

She was like, what the hell is this?

Home record.

Yes.

I read that you ate the same meal every day for, like four years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's eggs. Eggs with ham in it. And then I'd have an insure in my vitamins.

And how old were you when you started doing this?

Ten. So that's when everything started.

So not buffalo wings and ice cream?

Not buffalo wings and ice cream.

What about candy? You're a candy guy.

I love candy, actually.

Everyone has to have advice, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's my. That's my vice. Not big into all the other stuff or do any of that stuff. And so candy was my. Candy was my getaway. I'm bad in video games.

I like that.

Yeah.

I'm a big food guy myself, and if I. If I had seen Coach Riley's brisket before I went to Oklahoma, would never have gone.

That thing is actually pretty good, though. It was. It was pretty good. It was pretty good. No, no, no. We. We give them.

We give.

We give Coach Riley some shit.

Yeah, but. But it was actually picture.

But that wasn't one we ate. We ate one that he. Another one that he cooked, and it was. It was. It looked good.

He violated rule number one of the Internet, which is don't post.

Don't post.

Yeah.

Never put your meat online ever. People are gonna roast it.

Don't let your meat on.

Yeah.

Number one rule. Don't put your meat on that.

So your transfer from Oklahoma to USC, I have a very specific question that is gonna make me feel like a fool. I went to Wisconsin. Okay?

There was the Wisconsin story of rumors and stuff.

Was there any truth to it ever?

So my best friend and his dad. So what? Dean Ingram was at Wisconsin, right? And his dad was a coach, and so we reached out to them. We were trying to just, you know, get the vibe and see what was going on, how it was up there or whatever or over there and all of that. And, you know, somehow it caught. It caught wind that I was, you know, in contact with them, which I'm consistently in contact with, with those two, because I've grown up with them, so. But somehow caught win, and it blew up on instagram. But it wasn't like, it wasn't too huge.

It was never really.

It was never too. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't too crazy.

Was there any, like, badger fans, like, dming you still?

There were a lot of badger fans.

Any, like, 37 year olds dming a 20 year old being like, hey, we could sell a lot of t's, probably. Yeah, I did that. Yeah, it was pretty embarrassing for me, especially because in my heart of hearts, I was like, he's never gonna go to Wisconsin. But I still shot off a couple DM's being like, dude, we could sell some t shirts.

Yeah, yeah, no, it, uh.

I fell a little short on the fellow.

Short wasn't. I don't think it was going to happen in the end, but much respect to the Badger fans.

Okay. Okay.

You tried.

Yeah, I tried. I tried my best, and I did feel I just was the best thing to do. For the record, I felt weird dming you out of the blue, being like, hey, man, you should come to Wisconsin. We could sell, like, over a hundred t shirts. It was a low point, but I was trying anything.

That's all right.

But now you're here, so. Now here. Yeah. So I'm excited. The. Do you. I've seen your quotes, but you. You basically like, listen, the history the past is the past. I'm here to be myself. Has anyone explained to you the history of Chicago bears quarterbacks?

I just know that there's never been 3000 or 4000 and a 30 plus touchdown pass, things like that.

It's an insult me that goes around.

Yeah. So I always see the, the edits of like all 31.

Yeah. And then there's, yeah, so I think you got to change that.

Yeah, we'll try and change that. We got the guys to do it.

I saw when you had the quote, like, my job is to rewrite history. And people like always so cocky. I was like, no, it, it actually shouldn't be that much.

They brought me here for reasons.

Yeah.

Because if they had people like Aaron Rogers or anything like that.

Yeah.

It wouldn't be that. It wouldn't be.

Well, not him.

He's, yeah, sorry, he's with the jets now.

Yeah, we don't care anymore.

Yeah, we had people, you know, like that and in a history, in a lineage.

Yeah.

Of QB's that were ripping it up in this later stage of the NFL where, you know, they were thrown at 30 times a game, then I, you know, that would be the case, but it hasn't been the case. And, you know, they obviously bring, they obviously bring people in like Keenan and DJ and myself and, you know, all the offensive linemen D line people to change history.

Do you ever like, what's the line between cocky and confidence? Because I feel like you get accused of being cocky when it's everything. I've read all the stories. It's like, no, he's just supremely confident in himself, which, why wouldn't you want a guy who's confident in himself?

Yeah, I think the difference is knowing yourself. I also think the difference is it's the people around you and how hard you work. I think those are the three biggest things. And I think the biggest part is the people around you. And the second one is probably how hard you work. And I say that one first because the people around you, you got to have the right people around you to tell you when it's time to, all right, like, you know, you're pushing a little bit. You're doing this and that. Like, you know, you have people around you as no people as they say, and not yes men and yes women. So having people around me like that and then getting after it, I'm always, you know, hard work always builds confidence and hard work always pays off. It always, you know, at the end of it gives you a check mark.

Yeah, I'm glad that you're post draft because leading up to the draft it felt like that. That took a long time to get there. There were all, you know, a lot of bullshit out there.

There was a lot of, a lot of bullshit.

The anonymous scouts, you had one scout or I think it was a GM compared you to prince. But like that's the greatest.

I don't get that one. Just because I. Yeah, he picked the worst.

Like was like wait, he's going to be the prince of quarterbacks? Sign me up.

Yeah, yeah, I actually saw that. Yeah, I actually think I saw you say it popped up on my explore page or something. Yeah, I didn't, I mean it was a lot of, lot of bullshit.

Yeah, prince I, even before.

It's the nicest thing that I didn't.

Mind being a prince because he's, it's a great compliment.

You're gonna change your name to just the Lombardi trophy.

Yeah. If someone said we were the prince of podcasters, I'd be like awesome. Yeah. The revolution credible. So was there ever a moment though where the stories were get, I mean at one point they got like kale boys wants to own the bears.

Yeah. I mean I, and I trolled a little bit.

Yeah.

I mean I was bored. I had so much free time. I was just chilling in my room or working out and so just like I'm gonna, you know, step in every once a while and just kind of.

You should mix up. You, you had one of our co workers, you made them change their profile picture.

His name Jack.

Yeah, Jack. You just replied to him. You're like your profile pictures crazy. And then he changed the Internet. It was a kill.

Yeah, he always, he always. I've actually, since high school he's, he's responded to a couple of my stuff so I was, I was joking with him.

Yeah, yeah. The pink cell phone at you were watching Juju play.

I actually did not. I think my cell phones over there.

Yeah, still pink.

No, I actually broke my pink cell phone on accident.

So. So what are we doing?

So I have, I have to get a new one actually right now it's black.

Okay.

I'm trying to get a new pink one.

Okay.

Yeah, the phone was pink though. Everything else was not pink with the.

Case was pink or the phone was.

The phone is pink.

Oh, that's cool. Hey listen, are you getting another one?

I'm trying to.

Alright then I will too.

I had a red one for a while. It went hard and so it, so.

Yeah, they got, they got cool colors.

Yeah.

And they got yellow and blue and also stuff.

Don't apologize.

No, I didn't. Pause.

Yeah, you're holding the pink phone. And then Jack McGuire, Jack Macfp says pink phone is crazy. Not gonna lie.

Yeah. And I said you're profile or your.

Profile Pfe is crazy. And they changed it.

Yeah, I don't see that. I saw that.

Thank you for your service.

Yes. Yeah.

The stories before the draft, it was just like what? Every week it was like.

It was something new.

How can we poke holes in? Caleb Williams is seemingly what was put out there. There were rumors like you didn't want to go to Chicago at some point, but was there a team going into that last season that if they had the number one pick overall, you decided that you didn't want to be in that situation?

I don't know. I think within the NFL, I think they've done a good job, you know, of whether it's the owners and the coaches and the things like that. I wasn't against going home, as people said also throughout the process, it was just, it was going to be, it'd be like Katie, you know, Katie didn't really want to go home and it wasn't cause necessarily the team or anything like that. It was more of the, like everybody in my family is there and, you.

Know, they buy a lot of tickets to a game.

Family or it's the family that's not family that I've known for so long or been around or haven't known or the new family that everybody talks about. So it was more or less having to deal with all of that and make it a huge distraction for me and, you know, take away from the thing that I enjoy doing. I love doing every single day.

I would have been happy with that. I'm a commander's fan from northern Virginia myself.

So they've been doing a great job.

Yeah, they've been doing a great job recently. I think it worked out well. I think you've got a great home here. I think Jaden's going to be a great quarterback, too. So I told big cat, it's cool with me if you guys win six Super Bowls, I'll take three. I'm not going to be greedy.

He's very nice.

I hope it works out for both of us and we all get to look back on this.

Great.

Yeah. Things turned out well for you. So now that you're playing football, you mentioned all the guys that you have to throw the ball to. There's just one ball.

It's just one ball. It's just one ball always is.

So you've got three excellent receivers.

Yep.

Well, and Cole Comet.

And Cole Comet and Deandre Swift.

Yep.

How are you going to spread ever? How are you going to keep them all happy?

Everett's beast.

You're going to keep them all happy with just one ball?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say it's easy. It's obviously, you know, it's going to be a fun part about it within the coaches and us scheming it up and with us also understanding early in the games and things like that. Get your guys a ball, keep them engaged. And then when it's time to go win games, all these guys also understand when it's time to go win games, it's time to go in games, you know, so. Which that means out of half time and things like that, it's, it's, you know, who gets the ball. Go make plays. Let's go win this game. But early in the game it's important to one scheme up and then two, you know, figure out what the defense is doing, what they're going to be doing for the game. And then three, you know, where, what points can you get your guys? The ball and easy touches.

Yeah.

Just blame coach. Just be like, sorry, DJ, coach told me.

Well, I'd assume all those guys too, none of them ever been like, I'm not open right now.

They all, no, they're always like, they're open. Which is, I mean, you want what you want. Yeah, you want guys, it's like, throw me the ball, I'm open. But we also have to under, have an understanding of like, you know, I have reads, I have progressions, I have, you know, I saw this, I didn't like how you ran this. We didn't, we didn't agree on the same page. We weren't, you know, I was hesitant on your route so I moved on, you know, things like that. But also constant and open communication with the guys is also important so that we can always be on the same page and keep growing.

Yeah. So I don't. You, you haven't signed up for this but I've signed myself up for it. I'm a Caleb Williams protector online. I appreciate it and I'm just wondering if there's anything that I need to like any, you know, standard lines like people do, the fingernails, like, who cares? Like, you can't.

Yeah, I'm gonna do it this year, so.

Yeah. Oh, you are?

Yeah, I just haven't done it for, I try to love it for games all like, you know, regular season things like that. Playoffs also. Cuz I've been doing it for so long now, I'm trying to like, make sure I can do it for games, cuz I'll run out of ideas.

So what should I say to people just being like, mind your own business. I mean, should I do it for games?

I mean, I think Prince paint is nails, right?

Yeah, yeah, that's facts.

Okay, put the f word on there.

I will not be doing that.

Roger Goodell would have. He would have some things to say.

Yeah, he'd have some things to say. I'm trying to keep, you know, good spirited things on my nose.

But it fires you up, right?

It does fire me up.

All right, so that's the answer. I'm gonna say it fires you up.

I can use other stuff that'll fire me up. Okay, all right, I can. Yeah, there's other things.

What about words?

Maybe some acronyms, maybe SMDGB.

Yeah, I like that.

I don't know what that means. I just.

I mean, I don't know.

Came up with those letters.

Yeah, yeah.

What about the people always like, oh, well, he cried after a loss. Like, dude, I. Guys can't cry and also care. Like, I want my.

I mean, if I want to, if I win the Super bowl, you know, at some point, I'm hoping that we have multiple people out there crying tears of joy. So when I lose, I know how important it is that these games that we win and lose. So trying to win every game is what we go out there to do. That's why we're here now. That's why we have practice throughout the week. So, you know, teardrop, it's also, you know, there's a time and a place for it, but I, you know, if a tear drops, I mean, it's. It's. It's how much I care for.

Right.

Winning.

Right means that you care.

I would much rather someone have that emotion than laughing.

No emotion or laughing.

Yeah, or. Yeah, or like, just being like, I don't care, I'm just getting paid.

Yeah.

No, with the Super bowl thing, this is very important. Are you planning on wearing a visor?

This is very important.

Are you gonna be wearing a visor in your face?

If you take anything away from this interview, this is the most important part.

Yeah, I don't switch. I wouldn't need a switch unless it was, like, raining.

Okay. All right, good, good.

It'll be indoors.

Quarterback with the visors, everyone. A Super bowl?

That's sick.

I don't know if you knew that.

Yeah. Also long hair. I don't know how long you're gonna get your hair.

Yeah. It's gonna be long.

How long?

It'd be pretty long. However long it's gonna grow.

Let's cut it right where the Super bowl winning is. That's the length.

That's why I've never won a Super bowl.

These are the analytics that we go through. Yeah.

What about the people with short hair, though?

They wave.

Win a lot. Winners won a lot of Super Bowls.

Yeah. Think about.

What about the ones that lost?

They have lost his one Super bowl when he had one of his Super.

Bowls, when he had long, yet long hair.

The same with Big Ben.

Yeah, Big Ben. When Big Ben had advisor to in the Super bowl that he lost.

Yeah. These are really important things.

Got it. Yeah, yeah. No, you know football. We know twice about it, though.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're just gonna go out there and run the score up.

Okay.

I respect that.

I like that. What about the Notre Dame game? People. People love to talk about the Notre Dame.

People love talking about it.

It's crazy. One game.

My one tough game in three years. It's all right. I mean, it happens. I'll have a. I'll have a tough game and hopefully my long career in the NFL, and it's going to happen. It's how you come back and, you know, the confidence and hard work that you put in to come back and recoup and go out there and go win the next game.

I like that. I have my marching orders. I'm defending you online. And now what about, like, people who get maybe a little too excited? Should we. Should we just, like, try to take it one game at a time?

You can take it. You can take it one game at a time. You can. You can have at it. You do your thing. Whatever. Whatever floats about you. Yeah, just be you.

Yeah, just be you. Because. Yeah, there was someone said, I saw this one guy say, you know what? I'm done being mature. I tried for an hour, and it sucks. Caleb Williams is a guy I need to get out of my own head. He's gonna be so fucking good. I'm gonna be so fucking happy, and life is gonna be amazing. Suck my dick for. From the back haters. I might have said that after an hour of your preseason game.

All right, I won't retweet it. I won't like anything.

You can like it now. That's what's great about Twitter. There's no likes. How crazy are you? Going with the likes these days.

Not crazy. No, not crazy.

Yeah, I would do.

I'm so fearful that, like, they're going to change. I don't really go in and liking stuff.

I flip it on and we're all just going to be, like, standing there with our clothes off, like, what the hell did you.

I got some stuff I gotta clean up. Gotta go back into the history here.

Yeah.

I read that you drink four ginger beers a day.

I back down from that diet wise and things like that. It's a lot of sugar in them.

That's a lot of ginger beer.

Yeah. I'm actually trying to create my own ginger beer with not as much sugar.

Oh.

Cause I love it so much and I wanted to make it. It's so good and it's always. And I actually learned I gotta start drinking it. Yeah.

I'm gonna have to just do everything.

It's pretty good. Have you tried it?

No, I've had ginger beer before.

You got to try. You got to try the. Right now. I'll get to y'all on what, you know, it's going to be. You got to try fever tree. That's the best one right now.

And then when yours comes out.

Yeah, we're going to blow that up and it's going to be the best one.

My grandfather used to drink old time ginger beer, really? When I was growing up, and so I would have some.

I don't know what that is.

I liked.

It was powerful. It had that taste to it.

Yeah.

And I feel like kids don't drink ginger beer anymore.

You might.

So good for you. It's good for your stomach and all. Like, it's a bun. It has a bunch of. A bunch of awesome benefits from it, but it is a little bit of sugar. I'm back down from it.

I back down from bring it back. You're doing a work with the foundation? They just started. Right.

Caleb cares.

Caleb cares. Where does Caleb cares?

Yeah. So Caleb cares is like a. It's an anti bullying and mental health, you know, nonprofit that we're. We try and try and do our best with anything that we can do. And a lot of times it's with boys and girls clubs that we try and help out with and reach out and show up in person. We've done it in LA, DC, now here in Chicago, trying to grow it. I want it to be a huge thing globally and be able to use, you know, my platform and anything that I can do to help in those ways. And it's just trying to provide a good spokesperson, a good person to be able to, you know, help and reach out if, you know, people need to reach out to Caleb, Caleb cares and, you know, get help or whatever the case may be or just talk to somebody. Things like that. You know, we. We're trying our best.

That's awesome to do. We'd love to help in any way you ever need it. Awesome. Yeah.

Remember that show? I forgot what channel it was on where there would be a bully, and then they would invite the bully out to do something there, being an MMA fighter, that was basically.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Well, we don't do it like that.

But we don't beat up bullies.

Yeah, we don't beat up bullies, but we. I mean, for people that, you know, grades or they get in trouble or whatever the case may be, just trying to shed, you know, some good light on. On what, you know, things should be and how they should be. And we've had, so far pretty awesome success through that, through the process that we've been through. And, you know, showing up, being in person, going to the boys and girls clubs, you know, providing gifts and presents for certain things. You know, we call it the Caleb Cares hero award for people that change their, you know, their attitude, their mindset through all of that, and they, you know, the teachers or the helpers or tas are showing or they, you know, they tell us about, you know, their progress and things like that, and then they get award and they get some. Some gifts or they get some, you know, some beats or whatever. You know, it's been in the past.

That's awesome. I mean, we can't beat up. You don't beat up bullies. No. Can't beat up bullies. But if you ever get to a point, we need us to ratio a bully. We could do that online or we could drop a quick ratio on some.

Guy to make a bully change his profile pic.

Yeah. Right.

Sounds good.

Yeah, we get them.

That's. Yeah, that's another one.

I wanted to bring up one story that I loved and, like, says what you are as a teammate and, you know, the media goes with all these different stories. Like I said, I think two years being the number one pick.

Yeah.

Everyone's gonna poke holes.

Yeah.

But you. And you won the Heisman, you brought your entire offensive line, and you demanded that they would come. Was there any pushback when they. When you're like, there was not going if I don't bring my guys.

Well, there was pushback. I said, I want to invite them, and then there was pushback. And then I said, I'm not going unless, and that's awesome. And then it ended up happening.

Yeah.

And then we ended up having a great. We had. It was. It was like, I'll never forget that. That. That night. Cause we all went and sat around. We end up getting a suite after you win. You all. You get a suite after you win the heisman. And so we end up going up to the suite, and we just. I mean, we had chicken fingers pizza. I mean, yeah, the big man had beers and. And drinks and stuff like that. And we were just. I mean, we were. We were having a blast. Just sitting around a round table and just music, laugh and joking. Think about, you know, all the. All the good times and having stories and stuff like that and just enjoying. Enjoying each other.

I love that because, you know, there's that. I mean, that's just that, especially in a moment, because I was reading the story that, like, all your offensive line being like, we don't know when we're gonna be all together again, and we're just gonna enjoy this moment together. Hanging out, getting room service.

Yeah.

Like, that's old school fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, so I. Yeah, I love that story. That's a great teammate. So I just wanted to highlight that stuff.

How do you fly back with a Heisman trophy? Did you just bring it on the. Did.

You know, so. So USC provide. Provided the private place.

Okay.

For that. And then, you know, we hopped on the private, and it was sitting pretty in the private plane.

Love it.

So, I know that you've received. I read that you've received a lot of media training, so you're ready to deal with the media that tries to get you to say stuff. I don't know if they prepared you for this question. All right. If there was a button, if you had a button, and if you pushed it, one Bears fan would die, but you would win ten Super Bowls. Do you press the button?

You can kill me. What if you don't?

You don't know. You don't know what's gonna die. One. Just one.

Just ten super Bowls.

Ten. I do it. I feel like most Bears fans would be like, I'll. I'll throw.

I press the button for you.

They sacrifice.

Yeah.

Wow. That's love.

It is love. So, do you press the button?

I think I'll take it. I'm saying I'll take it.

I'm reading. Pressing the button many times.

Yeah. You're getting 30 Super Bowls.

Yeah.

Smashing it.

I like that. I would press the button.

That's a lot of Super Bowls.

Yeah. That's great.

All right, I know we got to wrap up and we appreciate your time. I have one last question. Roback question. Rhoback.com promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. Cusps, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com so I'm a big college football fan as well, and I had one very stupid question. Utah. Can you tell the difference when it goes from day to night there? Because I have a theory that if Utah, like, you tell me Utah is playing a game, you just tell me what time they're playing because if it's nighttime, I'm going to bet on Utah. If it's daytime, take the other team and you have that one game where.

We started, started in day seven, day ended.

And I, and you guys were awesome. Yeah. And it was just like, yeah. So can you feel the difference in that crowd? It's only, and there's always a crowd.

That that crowd was actually an awesome crowd. Loved the, love the stadium, love all of that. Love the crowd. But, man, I don't even.

They're tough football team.

I mean, I don't know how we didn't win any of them.

It was, it got dark.

Yeah.

I mean, that's literally all it was.

It was packed. After. After dark. Yeah. After dark. Yeah, it was, it was tough.

Yeah. Is it weird now that you're in big ten country and you're gonna come play?

Yeah, it's weird. It's gonna be cool, though. Yeah, it's gonna be cool. Hopefully I can, hopefully I can try and get to, you know, that first game. If not, you know, they'll be around here.

Hopefully.

Yeah. Well, Caleb, thank you so much.

Awesome.

Appreciate you. I wanted to say I love you, but that would be weird cuz we just met.

No, it's all good.

All right. Yeah, yeah. But no, seriously, seriously, thanks so much. And we're excited for this season.

Yeah, same here.

And let us know if we can ever ratio someone for Caleb cares.

Yeah.

Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Much love and the bears.

Yeah.

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Okay, let's finish up the show. We got guys on chicks. Hey, boys.

Long time awo here. Congrats to pug on 98. That was electric. See how easy that was, Max? Anyway, that was electric.

Pft.

What?

See how easy that was?

Yeah. I'm beyond impressed with Pug.

Shout out to one guy who said that he had been picking 98 for an entire year because of Connor Berdard. When the Blackhawks got Conor Berdard and he's like, all it took was pug to pick it once. And we're back. Like, the guy's just. He's magic. Puggy is magic.

Anyway, any advice on asking guy out? There's this guy in my apartment complex that I'm borderline obsessed with and I'm curious whether he's interested. We've hung out a few times, walking our dogs and getting drinks with mutual friends, but never one on one. Should I just assume that if he was interested, he would just ask me out and accept it's never going to happen?

No, no, that's not how it works.

No, we're stupid.

Right now the guy is probably leaving a voicemail for another podcast asking whether or not he should ask you out.

Yeah.

So on life advice right now, here's the thing. Just ask him out. I don't know a single guy that's intimidated or has like a turn off to a woman asking him out. If he's interested in you and you ask him out, then it's actually the best thing that could ever happen to him.

What's going through his brain right now is there's a cute neighbor of mine who I walk dogs with, and we've had some beers and I really want to ask her out, but I'm super afraid that if I ask her out, she says no, it's going to be awkward every time I see her. That's exactly what's going through his brain every day when he wakes up. So if you just ask them out, you're good. Yep. And then when you guys break up, one of you will have to move because that will be the awkward time. Yeah, but you'll, you know, have some fun in between.

Are you guys dogs become friends?

Oh, yeah. Then you gotta explain, don't get a third dog.

No.

Then you'd have to figure out who gets the third dog when you break up.

Yeah.

And it will be a messy breakup.

It also matters if you live on the same floor, I think.

Yeah. Oh, even messier.

Yeah.

Hey, PMT boys. I went to a college party last weekend of school in May. The last weekend of school in May. Me and this guy had a lot of fun dancing and hanging out there. He brought us. He bought us an Uber back to his place, but he threw up in the uber into the trash sack. I wanted to go back to his apartment, but he said he's too fucked up and unable to perform. Do you think he was lying to me or is that true?

I don't. That's definitely true. That's definitely also credit to this woman. She shared an Uber back with the guy. He puked in the uber.

Yeah.

And then she was like, you want to go fool around?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's a real one right there.

Yeah. I mean, he's. He was just so bombed that. Wow.

And then she's like, do you think he was faking it?

Yeah. Imagine if the guy could puke on command just to get out of hookup. Bad hookups.

Yeah. I'll take the $500 cleaning charge as you know.

What, now that you're saying it, yeah, he was faking. He faked the whole thing. You gotta think about something else. Okay.

Sub dad cat. Jinko man and bell ringer. My husband is not a football guy and loves museums and art fairs with a particular interest in modern art. He'll watch football with me and scroll his phone con. Is that getting a call? Sorry. Doesn't particularly enjoy it. And when we get together with friends to watch a game at a house or bar, it's pretty awkward because he doesn't understand the lingo or rules. Is there any hope he will come around?

No.

Sounds like you just. You have an art guy.

Yeah, this is. This is like. Remember when we went to dinner? Pft. We might have told this story. And there was. We went to dinner with a friend, and he invited the guy who wrote the music to succession.

Yeah.

And there was a moment during dinner where I actually. I felt like an idiot, but I was like, hey, man, can I ask you a question? Like, it's kind of a weird question. He's like, yeah, what do you do on Sundays? And he was like, what do you mean? And then he explained, like, yeah, I just go to the park or in. Like, he lives a regular day. And it just was. It's so foreign to me. Like, what do you imagine having your full weekend clear every single weekend?

He's productive. He does things to improve himself.

Yeah, but even summer. I mean, there's still some sports, but. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's summer. Yeah, yeah, but imagine having that all year round, you know? Very bizarre feeling. Like you. You'd have all. You get all the stuff done around your house. Yeah. Go do things.

Well, listen, admiring art isn't that different from watching football. Yeah, hear me out. You. You spend all day, you pay like, $15, you go to a big building, and then you look at a screen on the wall, and then that screen makes you feel emotions.

Not only.

That's exactly what I do every single Sunday.

Add to that a lot of times when you go to the museum, you. You get the headset and someone's explaining the art to you.

Yeah, exactly.

So it's a complimentary piece.

You've got, like, a play by play guy.

Right.

For the art.

Right.

And it makes you feel angry sometimes. Other times it makes you feel happy. Other times it makes you feel like you want to get into a fight with another guy that's in the art museum.

Yeah. And then you go to the gift shop, which is similar to when we order, like, $500 worth of wings and pizza. Yeah.

Or you buy, like. Yeah, you're getting, like, your. Your fifth, like, on field replica jersey.

Yeah.

For your favorite team.

Yeah.

That's what you're getting when you get the rembrandt calendar.

Right.

It's actually the same thing as being a sports fan.

Yeah. Okay, Hank, last one.

Hey, PMT boys. My boyfriend is a longer time listener, and I've gradually become a reluctant fan of your show.

Whoa, whoa.

There's a lot of qualifiers in that sentence right there.

Chill out.

When my boyfriend gets drunk. He will often eat whatever is available. Most recently, pulled out five tortillas and made a bunch of quesadillas. But he also included mayo and peanut butter along with the cheese.

Ew.

I find this disgusting, but wanted to get your thoughts. What has been your trainest junk food creation?

I mean, that's. That's not.

That mayo and peanut butter together is gross. Yeah, but I'll stand on that.

I would agree, but with a putting yourself into. Into a drunk person's mindset, where you just take anything that you see and put together. Like, I've heard worse.

Yeah, he probably likes mayo and peanut butter, and, like, he was just like, oh, let's just.

Yeah.

Play the hits.

How many times have you. I was very. I never did like, the. A ton of crazy ones. It's just usually just a frozen pizza. How many frozen pizzas have you guys burned to almost burning your house down? I can think of three times.

I was gonna say seven.

I can think of a few.

Yeah.

I once with a pizza in there.

And it's just a brick when you. When you wake up.

I used to keep my, like, buns and, like, bread in my stove in my old apartment. I never, like a lot of space.

Yeah.

And I accidentally. I thought I took them all out. I left one in there and then, like, lit an entire. Yeah.

Oh, no, that's a bad place to keep plastic.

Yeah, it's bad.

That's a great Hank story. I wish I had heard that before.

What I used to do was I used to just go into my closet and add chips. Like, I would always get, like, the flaming hot chips or the takis, and I would add those to just anything. If I had, like, leftover fried rice from a restaurant. Guess what makes it better. Put some flamin hot doritos in there.

Yeah.

I would leave the stove on once a week in college. Like, my. It became a thing that, like, my roommates had to. Had to be there when I was using the stove because they knew I was going to. To leave it on.

Yeah.

Every time.

Yeah. I just.

I wasn't even drunk either. That was just, like, I would cook something and then leave the stove on.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you were just yours.

I was just dumb.

Well, all right, hold on. To back you up, it was obviously, if it was a college department, it was the coils.

No, it was one of the electric ones, but it wouldn't be red. Like.

Yeah, the coils are like. You leave those on. I.

You can see the foot. I couldn't see. See the fire?

Yeah, if it's an open flame one, like, if it's a burner, then you're an idiot. Anything else? I have your back.

Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Good show, boys. Hard knocks. That was fun.

Yeah.

Holy shit.

Thank you. Also, any of the awls that didn't spoil it after I accidentally said it on Donnie's livestream at, like, 11:00 a.m. today. So good job.

It's been a. It's been cool seeing. Seeing part of my take make it to the big screen again.

Yeah, this podcast might actually work out.

As a tv show?

No, as just a podcast. All right, let's kick it back to ourselves for lottery balls. Okay, let's wrap up the show. We're back in studio for numbers. Pug. Can he do it three in a row?

First ever.

Three.

Pete.

Pug, you got to go first. I think.

I think I'm gonna go 97.

Pug. Wow.

You crazy bass.

You are fucking psych.

Maybe work my way down.

Wait, Hank's mics not on. Hank's Mike's not on.

This is good.

Yeah. Best part of the show.

You're good.

What are you gonna say?

I kind of had. My first line was the killer line.

Yeah. I just pretend. Just pretend. Hey, pug, you go first.

I think I'm gonna go with 97.

Oh, you're sick.

Do you think that just going down in order is gonna work?

I mean, that was a good line hanging.

Yeah, the first of the first one.

Wait, was that because that was your strategy at one point, but you put.

Pug won't miss numbers. True. He's just gonna get them all.

Pugs is better. Yeah, pugs a better. He's a better human being and dog than all of us.

Yeah, I'll go 20.

I'll go back to eight.

Pug might be a better picker of numbers than human.

I don't know. He's a better dog than pick.

I mean, he's elite at picking numbers. He's. He's a very great humor. Or human. We love him, but, uh, he's not. Is he elite?

I think he's probably the best on this show.

Yeah, by far.

Thanks, guys. That means a lot.

See what a good guy.

All right, uh, what's your number?

70.

70.

You just try to pick all the seventies.

Seventies, Max.

Have you ever gotten the lottery ball?

I've gotten the number 56.

21.

You've never gotten the lottery ball?

Eight. This is 97. I quit.

Two.

Two is the number. Love you guys. I'm coming for your love of peace

needless to say after me they for better to be safe and sorry say after me they so better to be safe and sorry things that you say every little I just play that you.

All think I've got to remember shying away from anyway shine how can you.

Anyway take off don't take my take on me take on me.

Take on me.

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