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Yeah, baby. We're The best week of the year.

Yes.

That's the intro we got. Yes.

Football is so back, too. Going to training camps and just smelling football, hearing football. Hearing football, I think, is the best.

It was so awesome being at Chargers Training Camp today. We have an awesome interview with Jim Harbaugh coming up. We also got to interview Ben Herbert, their strength and conditioning coach, which we'll release probably next week. But it is grit week. It feels good to be back around football. We've got some awesome interviews coming this week for the AWLs, some big-time training camps we're going to, and we all are dressed ridiculous.

We are. Most of us. Most of us. We're all dressed pretty ridiculous right now. Everyone is.

I realized the mistake we made was... So PFT was traveling all last week, and we had the idea. He was like, I don't know what to do because I'm going to be traveling and I have no new clothes. We came up with the very genius idea of like, Hey, let's just buy new clothes every day while we're out on grit week. So I did this. I don't know. Max also was in Europe, so he needed new clothes. I packed a single backpack.

I love it.

Hank maybe cheated a little. He packed full clothes, but he's wearing the bought clothes by Huey today. It dawned on me, though, that this- They have full suitcases as well. Yeah, that's true. They have a suitcase.

They have a suitcase with dirty clothes.

I brought just a backpack.

Max's clothes smell like France right now. You don't want that.

Looking at us right now, though, it dawned on me that this It only hurts me, Max, and Hank. It doesn't hurt PFT at all because he's just dressing like he always dresses.

Pft has matched a thousand times better than he was earlier today when he was wearing a striped polo and polo and shorts.

Hank, when I was wearing the part of my take branded polo shirt with the Blue Mountains. It's a great shirt.

It was just... No, the outfit was horrible. You can have a nice shirt and if it doesn't match, you look like you got dressed in the dark. That's your thing. Listen- This is green shorts with a green shirt. Yeah, you do look- You look sick.

I'm the first to admit, there's usually two days a week where I look like I accidentally dressed like a six-year-old.

I'm going to kindergarten, basically. I look like Bryce Young walking in a barstool. I get it. It was my last set of clothes that I had available. Actually, what's messed up is last night, I set that out. I had two options of what to wear. I was like, This is my better outfit, so I'll set this out for tomorrow when I'll be on camera.

You went with your winner.

I went with my better outfit. Yeah, the other was a Lemme from Motorhead T-shirt and pink shorts.

So this was the winner. Either way, if we all walked down and saw each other first thing in the morning, everyone be like, What the fuck are you wearing, Max? What the fuck are you wearing, Hank? What the fuck are you wearing, Big Cat? And everyone be like, Oh, PFT is dressed.

I'm just wearing a John Cina shirt. I actually do own these shorts. I have these same shorts, but they're- Well, those are just normal shorts.

They're darker blue. Those are normal shorts. The pants we're wearing- The pants between me, Big Cat, and Hank versus BFT is insane.

Max looks like- I'm wearing the Super Bowl pants.

You look like you're- We're fine.

Dude, I'm wearing a generic football jersey. I don't even know what this is.

I actually like Max's outfit. He looks like- This looks like something that you would wear.

You look like a guy that runs a disco in Scooby-Doo.

Yeah, no.

He looks like a cop. He looks like a cop from the '70s, like a movie about a cop from the '70s, and they cut to a scene where they're having a barbecue.

Yeah, but he also looks like a guy who just was in Amsterdam, and he was like, Oh, I'm back, and I'm not doing this American dressing anymore. That's That's where you are. You look like a drug dealer. You look like a guy in Amsterdam. They'd be like, Hey, five bucks. She'll give you the best night of your life. You look like Euro Max right now. You're standing on the street corner. Euro Max. So Huey's dressing us. This is day one.

So the nice thing about... I knew that when I walked out here, you guys were going to say, Well, PFT doesn't look any different than he normally does. You look better. Yeah, it's great. I look better, maybe. But the thing that you don't notice here that I thought somebody would bring up is they got me a crop top shirt, but the crop top, it looks like a normal T-shirt on me. I thought that you guys would bring that up. But fortunately, I guess just my normal ridiculous look covered up for the fact that I'm short.

We're going back to Chargers Camp tomorrow for another interview dressed like this. We have some other big interviews coming up that we're going to be dressed equally as ridiculous.

I stand out the most in my outfit for sure, correct?

Yeah. Hank does have child pornography on his shirt.

Dude, I'm wearing a football jersey. What are you talking about?

It's football. You're a football guy. You're wearing football.

I look like I'm going to a NASCAR event. Well, the top half of me does. The bottom half, I don't know what I am.

Pft said I'm wearing- I'm wearing bellbottoms.

I could just say that I woke up late and had to run out to the RV and didn't have time to change.

You were just like, Oh, man, I'm a little groggy. This is what I wear. I wear my Snoopy.

This is what I wear to eat breakfast, and then I got changed for the days.

That is on brand for Hank. Hank looks like he's still in bed right now.

Do you want to hear the funny Hank story?

I do more than anything.

You want to hear it? Yeah. Max heard it. Yeah, whatever. No, this is a funny Hank story.

I want to hear the funny Hank story.

We'll talk about sports in a second. Can I tell you the funny Hank story? This is vintage.

This is going to be vintage.

Hank, I don't want you interrupting trying to gaslight the audience.

I want to hear what actually happened. You stop me when I'm wrong.

I'm on Hank's side for this, though.

But you stop me when I'm wrong.

But it's just funny coming from Hank, but I'm on Hank's side.

Just to set the stage.

I'll set the stage with, This is what we do all the time.

Okay, all right. But the The timing of it was- We talk about schedules all the time. But the timing of it was very fun.

Tell the story.

The timing of it was very funny. Last week was vacation. Hank just got back from a vacation. And the week before. And the week before, Hank just got back from vacation. On that work on Thursday. Saturday, he texted me. We flew Saturday. Saturday night, we're flying out.

Can you let Big Cat tell the story? Sorry.

You were basically, I'm fucking Nashville in Ohio.

Work trip.

I'm pulling up to O'Hare, and I get a text from Hank, and he I want to get ahead of something. I'm really- Fucking hate him. I'm really drunk right now. He texted me that on Saturday. It's 6:00 PM. He's just like, I just want to get ahead of this. I'm really drunk right now. I was like, I don't care. Whatever. Then he shows up. We're about to board. He walks up. Again, we had just got off vacation. First thing he says to me, he goes-Not very first. Yeah, it was pretty much the first.

Not long after.

It was like, Hey, what's up? How are you feeling? Then he said this. He said, I was looking at Christmas week and how many days we can have off. No, I was thinking about the show schedule. That was the first thing. He pulled up his calendar. He's like, Look at the Christmas week. I was just like, We just got done with the vacation.

What are you planning, Hank? You got a trip?

No, I was literally sitting at my house on Saturday doing nothing.

Just wondering about Christmas vacation.

I'm looking at the calendar. I'm just curious, looking at the calendar. Again, obviously, I do love vacations. A huge vacation supporter. That is a vacation week. But I was thinking about the show and obviously, depending on when Christmas and New Year's is, how we do the shows differentiates because-I understand this concept. I was throwing out ideas because there's a world where we could get two weeks.

Yeah, it was like, it's the perfect Christmas, New Year's, we get two weeks off.

That is sweet. I'll get Hanks back on this. When you're in school as a kid and you see that Christmas and New Year's lines up magically, where you get This is a magical year, that's great. The difference is we're not in elementary school right now.

And football is our job.

Yeah.

And there's a lot of football being played in those two weeks, including the entire college football playoffs. There's Christmas Day games.

I had it all planned out, and Big Cat won't even let me get out my words.

Because I was like, it goes through two Sundays.

College football play- We're going to record them on Sunday. I wasn't saying we're taking those weeks off. There's a world where we record Sunday. I'm not going to get there.

No, I'm on Hank's side here. I'm looking at it now. We always have to record on New Year's Eve or on Christmas Eve and Christmas, which sucks that we have to do that. This year, we don't have to... There isn't going to be Christmas Eve games, right?

There's going to be Christmas Day games.

Yeah, but that's a Wednesday. Yeah.

So we would-We'll record on Thursday.

So we'll record on Thursday. That does rock, and I'm on your side.

But again, it's just a funny of like- Hank was trying to get two weeks off. We're in the first week of August, and he's just like, I've been looking at the Christmas schedule.

It's also very fitting. The start of Grit Week, the hardest working week of the year, he comes in hot with planning a six months from now. Or in LA.

Well, drunk.

Yeah.

Oh, you're going to do that? Go ahead. Be Frani Leiden for a second.

This is our second Grit Week in LA that we've done.

Yeah, I'm sure there'll be people be like, Why didn't you go to the Rust Belt again? Although There was a lot of people who were mad that we did Buffalo in Detroit last year again. We go where the interviews take us. It's like, if you build it, they will come. We are going to three different training camps and have six unbelievable interviews coming. That's what we're doing. We also are going to find ways. What's grittier than the Pacific Ocean? Nothing. Maybe there's a lot of things, but we're going to try to surf tomorrow, and I'm very worried about that.

That's where the Mariana Trench is, lowest pad level on Earth.

We asked Huey if he knows how to swim, and he said, I haven't drowned yet.

Yeah, shout out Huey.

I've swam within seven to eight years ago.

Within the last seven or eight years. In a pool in a controlled environment, I'm good.

This is the Pacific Ocean.

We said, Huey, do know how to swim? And he goes, I think so, which is not the ideal answer. I want to. We're going to get you in floaties tomorrow in the ocean.

Either way, people, they'll be haters for anything. I can just trust us that we have some awesome interviews, and we've also been on an awesome interview kick.

Oh, yeah.

When we were going through the takeies, I went through... I was going through episodes to think of stuff that happened last year, and I went through our last summer episodes, and we were just scratching and claw for anything. Yes. That was a transition. No, I know. It was funny when you didn't think about it, but I was looking back and I was like, Oh, wow. If you compared last summer's guests to this summer's, it's...

Night and day. Yeah, it's way different. It's crazy. Big guy, you do look funny, though. You look like a cop. You look ridiculous. Yeah. Like showing up undercover in an ICP concert.

No, I'm a cop at Alpine Valley where there's just all the undercover cops go. I'm at a fish concert being like, Hey, who's got the two balls? We We should say, by the way, we need an AWL's house for Hard Knocks. So Tuesday night is the premiere of Hard Knocks. Bear's Hard Knocks. I'm very excited. Awl, Costa Mesa. Give us Costa Mesa. That's where we'll be in that approximate area. Where are they going to... Who are they going to contact? Huey? I don't know about that. Who are they going to reach out to? I think it's going to be Huey.

It's got to be Huey. I impressed Huey. Our usual criteria is if it's It's always better if it's a couple.

Yep, we need a male, female.

Male, female.

Or male, male. Or male, male, female.

Oh, Hank.

Yeah, I get freaky with Hank.

Oh, baby.

Okay. How many extra chromosomes do we need, Hank?

I said male, male first.

Yeah, but you... Yeah.

Yeah, we'd like it to be a couple, generally less creepy that way, and preferably a dog.

Yeah, dog.

So there it is. Those are our criteria. Or we would make an exception if Rebecca Romaine Stamos. Excuse me, Rebecca Romaine O'Kunal. Yes. Wanted us at her place.

Yes. So include a picture of your watch set up because that will take out a few people who just don't follow directions. The email is... Yeah, go ahead. Pmthard knocks@gmail. Com. Okay. So PMThard knocks@gmail. Com, Costa Mesa area. We want to come to your house and watch Hard Knocks on Tuesday night. It's one of our favorite things we do every great week. It's awesome. Remember the time we went to a house in Milwaukee and the girl was a big fan, and her boyfriend was like, Who are these dudes that are invited into our house? That was wild. She was like, I'm a huge fan, and the guy was like, didn't want anything to do with it.

All right, I'll be Yeah, it was crazy.

It was crazy.

For some reason, she asked us to show up just bringing a bunch of pineapples. It was really strange.

Yeah. So guy, girl, or Hank would like to fuck girl, girl. No fucking. No fucking.

I saw guy, guy first. Yeah. Yeah. Guy, guy is his first choice.

You did the guy, guy. Well, I wasn't trying to- Rank your choices. Rank your choices. Rank your choices.

You look like you're doing math right now. What the hell? Just say it. Are you counting holes?

Rank your choice.

Guy, guy would be honestly hilarious.

It would be very funny.

Okay. Girl, girl would also be hilarious. Yes. And then guy, girl.

Okay. Okay. And dog. We want a dog.

We'd like a dog. What about guy-girl-guy?

No, that never works. Yeah.

Okay. All right. So, yeah, Tuesday night, we're going to watch Costa Mesa area. We'll be down there. We'll bring the bus. It's going to be great. What else we have? Grit Week is we're ready to go.

It's upon us. Chargers Training Camp was awesome today. We'd be remiss if we didn't say how nice the facility was, the building. We interviewed the building today. I think that building is worth five wins, at least, just on building alone for the Chargers.

We got our neck strength tested by Coach Ben Herbert. Yeah, I got the strongest neck out of the three of us.

Yeah, great neck. Big cat, great neck.

Great neck. I think he thought we were all pussy.

Yeah, of course. Well, we are.

Yeah, that's true as well. All right, let's talk some sports. Should we talk some sports? Should we talk some Olympics?

Let's talk Olympics. Where do we want to start?

Where do we want to start? What?

A 100-metre dash?

100 Meter dash? 100 Yard? No, 100 Meter.

100 Meter.

100 Meter. Noah Lyles with Painted Fingernails, could it be the year of Painted Fingernails, wins by 0.05 of a second. We all watched it, and we still don't really understand. We're like, this looks like the Jamaican guy wanting... The announcement said that as well. Completely ruined the moment by saying, and Jamaican takes it. But Noah Lyles backed it up because he was talking a lot of shit.

He was talking a lot this week. If that Jamaican guy had been a French Pole vaulter, he would have won. That's how close it was. It was his head crossed the line. I think it was 0.0005. It was a period of time that doesn't exist. Yes. Ahead of the Jamaican guy. And I guess no, Lyle's big anime guy, big UGO guy.

Yeah.

He called his shot, too, because there was a big deal.

He finished second in his first in the first quarterfinals, whatever it was. He was 12th overall, ran real slow, over 10 seconds. Everyone was just bashing him, being like, This guy sucks now. He even said, he was like, Yeah, it's the Olympics. Everyone's going to give me my best shot. I should probably run a little harder. Then he went and won the 100 meters and USA's on top in gold medals, I think, and total medals. We just dominated. We're tied with China for gold.

China. We're smoking them and everything else.

Yeah, that's true. It's a big, big day for just declaring people to be on Mount Rushmore. And apparently before Noah Lyles went over in an interview, he said, I'm envision myself returning home as a gold medalist, and that puts me on Mount Rushmore. Hell, yes.

Him and Joe Biden.

A lot of people. A lot of people going on Mount Rushmore these days.

Nancy Pelosi is literally trying to end Mount Rushmore season.

It's tough. We won't let her. She probably shorted Mount Rushmore and then talked about it. Now she's going to buy.

She's going to buy. You did mention the French Paul Voltaire, who, if everyone missed it, he basically got disqualified or whatever the bar came down because his dick was too big. Which, the best way to lose? Because everyone's like, Oh, your dick was too big? I'd say- Now everyone knows your dick's too big?

It's without a doubt the best way to lose. He's from France, so if he was from another country where they circumcised, he probably would have been fine. Yeah, that's true.

I think it was actually his balls more than anything. I think it was It was his whole package.

I think it was the dick. Yeah.

Djokovitch is the goat, one gold.

Wasn't on TV. No big deal. Couldn't watch it.

No big deal. On clay, Beat N'Dahl beat the whole country of Spain.

I was there.

You were there?

I was there.

For the winning? For Jokowitch?

No, you said he beaten Adal.

Oh, yeah, he beaten Adal. We had also John Rom with an all-time choke, and Scottie Scheffler is Captain America, so he won gold. It was John Rom was plus five on the back nine. Scottie Scheffler was minus six on the back nine.

He shot 62 today.

John Rom was minus 600 with eight holes to play.

If John Rom had shot par on the back nine, he would have won by a stroke, and he ended up losing. He came in fifth. He did a medal, yeah. Yeah. Scotty Shuffler, what a beast.

I think he won $38,000. I think that was the purse for today. Really? Yeah. Andy won like a gold- Andy won $3,800 today.

Not sponsored by Liv in the Olympics?

No.

He got the gold medal and they gave him a cube. A gold cube? Yeah.

Is that everyone that's getting that or is that just golfer?

That was the first time I saw someone holding it.

It looked like something that a villain would steal and die hard and bury underneath the Statue of Liberty. It was like a piece of gold from Fort Knox that he got to go home with. Good for Scotty. Where's the course today, Hank? Do you know?

I think it was the same place that the Ryder Cup was at.

Oh. Oh. So it is actually right next to Versailles then, which is the original Louisville.

I might have just made that up.

Yeah, I think he did. Okay. But that's okay. Sky Scheffler is the man.

He is the man. Captain America.

Legolf National.

Wait, it's called LeGolf?

Legolf National.

People were trying to make the Olympic gold as the fifth major. It's that one in Connecticut, right? They were giving Jogler. Travelers? Travelers.

The road to Dubai.

Yeah, that's true. But Jogler said that career grands land. Yeah. If it's the fifth major for tennis, I feel like it is.

But they don't have the Travelers in tennis.

True.

But they probably did.

They might. Or the players. They might. Also, Team USA lost to Mickey Mouse in the mix. I didn't even know they did mixed relays. Pretty cool. But we lost to the Netherlands and Mickey Mouse. I don't know if you guys have heard this woman's voice. Nothing will prepare you for it, but here it is.

You know exactly what to do indoors. How was that for you?

It was amazing. That's her real voice.

It sounds like one of us doing a girl's voice. Yeah.

It was amazing. She also looks exactly like Pete Holmes' wife in Crashing.

Lauren Lapkins. I saw her. Yeah, she does a lot. It's weird to hear, even weirder to look at. We should not be losing. I feel like for as long as I've been an adult person watching the Olympics, we always dominate the 4 by 100, except for Jamaica that one time. But I feel like that's That's the thing that we should dominate. It's sad to see. The US women's soccer team won. That was a great game. No, they beat Japan. Trinity Rodman scoring goals all over.

Where are we in the tournament?

I think semifinals now.

Okay. Our basketball team is going to win gold. Our draw is insane. Yeah, pretty good. Everyone good is on the other side of the bracket.

So that's a wrap. And Embiid dominated. Yeah, he did. He had a good game.

Yeah, he did. I told you. He had a good game.

He scored easy buckets off easy as this.

You didn't tell us because you released a video that you were addressing all these things that we just didn't say.

Well, you were going to. No, we weren't. I went back and listened. You got pretty mad. You guys just wanted me to get mad first, but you were going to make fun of him. But I thought you were going to make fun of them and then kick it to me.

I think if we're doing, though, let's look at the- I was mad. Let's look at the team as a whole. I would say that Embiid is having a much better Olympics than Tatum.

I didn't say that.

They both have one did not play. Max, do you want to address-The country.

Where's your patriotism?

Why are you saying that? Because you know I'm right.

No, I'm saying it because- If you thought I was wrong, you would be fighting.

No, all that matters isn't gold because we already won gold. We're playing for basically who can be the best on Team USA.

That's a fact. It was the Ryder Cup course. It was. 2018.

Okay, nice. Oh, 2018. Okay. Max, would you like to address the fact that the Phillys suck?

They won today.

Okay. And they lost six. I actually was thinking- You're only as good as your last game. I was thinking about it. Is there a chance that you cursed? You took a week off, you were off on vacation, and the Phillys didn't win a game for the entire time you were off.

That was crazy.

I know that sometimes you think that this show is a curse to you because you just keep finishing second. What if in a weird twist of fate, if you ever left PMT, you actually would lose everything?

I thought about that.

Be a loser like us.

Also, MB didn't play. There was a lot of bad things that were happening to Philly Sports while I was gone. There were a couple of moments where I was just sitting, thinking, and getting angry, and I was like, I can't be angry right now. I can't let this bother me right now.

You can't be angry while you're holding a baguette. Yeah.

So many baguettes.

So many baguettes. So much cheese. You forgot one important team. Your Philadelphia Water Dogs have been eliminated from the playoff. They fucking They suck.

I think it's fire everybody.

They suck, dude. They were down 11 to nothing on Saturday. They suck. It starts with us.

They're turning me into Dan Snyder. Yeah, but it actually does.

I've become who I hate. It does start with Max because they are the Philadelphia the Water Dogs. We never were this bad when we were just the Water Dogs.

Well, before we got Max, we won a Championship. Then we got Max, they came in second. But yeah, Max, you might be... On this show, the series of heartbreak that you've had for Philadelphia sports, you might be completely be maxing out Philly's ability. This is as good as it gets. Right.

So Philadelphia should be thanking me?

Well, you're not winning anything still, but you can just never leave us. Okay. Is what we're basically saying.

Also, I'd like to apologize to you guys, if I could. When we went into this-You're not texting me after my big horrific fall and seeing if I was okay?

What fall? What fall? When I fell in my ass.

Did you fall?

Yeah, I felt really bad.

Are you okay?

Thank you for asking. Are you all right? I am. Okay.

Did you break anything?

I almost broke my wrist in my telephone.

You basically have a broken hand. Pretty much. Like LeBron. But yes. No, but I'd like to apologize because going into baseball season, we were trying to figure out which team to bet against every single day.

Oh, this is my who's back.

Okay. Yeah, it's my who's back. All right.

Yeah. It's my Who's Back. We'll talk about it. Every day.

I have some stats. Every day, I think about it. Every single day.

That team was actually mentioned. But yes, it's my who's back. Do you guys want to get mad about a list?

Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Tyree Kill was named number one NFL player.

And Patrick Mahomes is number four. Yes. I'm- Insane. And Tyree kill won't even race speed.

That's true. He's a coward. Yeah, he is. I don't understand this list. I mean, I get it because they're trying to make people mad, but no, because this is- Who voted on it?

Was it players?

I think the players voted on it. So this is just hater?

I think, yeah. It's because there's a lot of teams that despise Patrick Mahomes because he beats them.

You can't I have a top one- Who's two and three? Lamar and Chris McAfree. I think it's Chris McAfree then Lamar. You can't have a top 100 list of NFL players and not have Patrick Mahomes number one.

Correct. Right now. Mahomes should be number one. Tyereek should be anywhere between two and four. Fine.

But Mahomes is number one.

But the gap between one and two is significant. Right.

It makes no sense.

Yeah. It's just people that have lost a Patrick Mahomes. Yeah.

It also opens up... If I were a Dolphins fan, I actually I didn't want to have Tyrie Keel be the number one player because it just opens up Chiefs fans to be like, All we care about is rings. Then they could just do that to everyone.

Well, hypothetically, what would happen if the Chiefs ever played against the Dolphins in the playoffs?

What would the weather be?

Pretty cold.

It wouldn't go well for the Dolphins. Okay.

It would not go well for the Dolphins. It would be a helmet breaking cold.

Yes, it would not go well for the Dolphins. All right, what else in the sports world? Hall of Fame inductions were this weekend. Devin Hester. That was pretty cool.

He said, I'm hopefully the first of many to get in.

Yeah, and he said, I'm the best of all time, and he is. He is the best, yeah. That's not even a question. Steve McMichael, obviously battling ALS. Very sad, but great that he got the recognition. Yeah. Julius Peppers. Who else? Patrick Willis.

Is it basically going to be impossible for another kick returner to get in?

I think he was talking about Josh Cribs and- Brian Mitchell.

Yeah.

Maybe Dante Hall.

Dante Hall, Human Joy. I feel like he was the His career was too short for Dante Hall.

Yeah, he was. But it was very fitting that Devon Hester went in on the weekend that started the new era of kicks, although the new kick is supposed to allow for more returns.

I think we've been thinking too much, myself included, about how teams are going to take advantage of it on the return. I think it's going to be a bigger advantage for the kicking team to do it than the returning team. I feel like a smart special teams coach is going to be able to pin them with a fucked up kick every kick kick off.

Yeah, really high kick. You can fair catch, though.

I'm not sure. You probably can. Yeah, you can fair catch basically anything.

This is the second show in a row where we don't know these rules.

No, that makes sense. You can fair catch anything. But there hasn't been more games.

Yeah, true. We haven't seen it enough.

Yeah. My prediction for this NFL season, I think people are going to really hate the kickoff because we hate new things until we just get used to it and then we're like, oh, it's fine. It's basically the same. We get the same amount of returns. Yeah, exactly.

Technically, if you go to the NFL website, says Promotes more returns. Okay. So we believe them on their- You're saying they'd lie? Yes.

I think eventually it'll be better. I think overall it's going to be better, but because it's a safer game. Because it's new, people are going to hate it.

Correct. We hate everything now. Yeah. That's a fact. Okay. Any other sports stories?

I've got one thing I want to get ahead of. I alluded this to Hank earlier. Over the course of the weekend, we were in Nashville. Pup Punk played at the Barstool Nashville bar, and It was a great time. I had a blast. Before the show, I was getting my guitar tuned up. I was setting up the amp, all that stuff. And a lady came up to me on the side of the stage. She was probably, I'm going to guess, 45, maybe 50 years old. She was very obviously there on a bachelorette party, which is the number one reason people go to Nashville. And the beer games. And the beer games, of course. And she came up to me and she was saying something. I walked over to her. I was like, What's that? And she was motioning over. She's like, I'm on a bachelorette party It's a scavenger. And I was like, Oh, okay, cool. Got finished setting some stuff up. And she was still there like, Come here, come here. So I walked over to her and she was like, Put your number on my phone. And I said, I can't do that. I was like, I'm not going to give you my number.

And then she was like, I just need it for scavenger hunt. Please just give me your number. I was like, I don't know. I can't check this off. You're going to have to find somebody else to ask. Then she's like, just put in any number. I don't care. So I can just check it off and say that I did. So I reached over and just hit in 10 random numbers. There were people that had cameras out at the time. You should have put it 911. And it might look like I gave a 50-year-old woman my number. I wanted to just get ahead of this. That's not what happened. So So in case that video comes out, I'm ahead of it. That's good. That's what we call getting ahead of a story.

That's smart. See, this is the National Barstool bar?

Yes.

Any other videos you want to get ahead of?

What?

At the National Barstool bar? All right. No, I think we're good. Huey, anything? No. Okay, we're good. You should have put in 911. I should have put 911. And then just hit dial.

Yeah.

Was she hot?

I think- Why did you give her my number? Yeah. Your number? Well, Hank, I thought you'd be busy. There was another crazy plane lady that went viral this weekend. I thought maybe you'd be reaching out to her. You see the naked plane lady? Yeah. Totally nude.

Totally nude. Wait, was this one or not?

I think maybe back in her day. Okay. Yeah.

Canons?

I don't know. Respectfully, I did not look. Respectfully? Yeah. Respectfully.

Nancy Pelosa should have just done a press conference being like, My canons are on the Mount Rushmore. Yeah. Then like, Okay, crazy.

Just put them like underneath Abraham Lincoln. Just have the boots. Yeah.

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Who's Back of the Week is the Chicago... No, I'm just kidding.

You don't have one? No.

You don't have one? He was planning his vacation earlier.

He was planning his vacation.

Who's Back of the Week is Disgrace.

Oh, okay.

Our three-on-three basketball team got eliminated. He sucked.

So bad.

Jimmer was hurt, right? I'm going to blame this on Jimmer being hurt. I think he played. Jimmer's hurt.

He did not play against Lithuania. I don't know if he played the last game. We were 0-2, then he didn't play, then we lost again. I think we won one game? I don't even know. How the fuck is this possible? Also, why don't we just send our... Why isn't Jalen Brown in three-on-three?

I think it's a different type of training. I don't know. It's disgrace.

No, it's basketball.

Payton Pritchard.

Just send our next three guys.

Wait, once we're over there and we got guys like Jason Tatum and Joel Embiid that can't get minutes, why don't we just put them over on a three on three?

That's what I'm saying.

Joel Embiid, it's a fast-paced game. That's true.

He's too fat to go all the way to the three-point line and back. It's insane that we lost this early. We didn't even make it to the knockout stage.

No. Disgrace.

Absolute disgrace. Why isn't goal on the team?

Good question. There's a lot of people. I think they're going to have to bring Coach K and save our country again.

Yeah, probably. We should take our best basketball-playing football players. The women's three on three team does have WNBA players.

Why the fuck don't we have NBA players in our three-on-three?

This is crazy. Yeah, that's not good.

All right, what's going on? Max.

I just thought it was funny. Huey loves talking about WNBA. Oh, yeah. It doesn't matter what. He I love it. If Who's Back is coming up, he's always talking about the WMBA.

He's got a WMBA back for us. All right, PFT, who's your Who's Back?

My Who's Back of the Week is John Gruden. John Gruden was at Chief's Practice today.

He's also a beast on cameo.

Is he? Really?

What's he doing? Number one on cameo. Let's get a cameo.

How much is he?

Got to be expected. We should actually try to do a full interview with him on cameo. Yeah. Oh, fuck. That would rule.

Yes. Yeah, let's get John Gruden.

Let's just do a full interview. We'll run it. Yeah, all right. Okay, we're going to do that. Let's write 15 questions.

Can we just be like- $130?

This is going to be the most expensive interview we've ever done.

One of the questions should just be... We write his answers for him, right? What if his The answer should just be the text of one of the emails that he sent. Good question.

Yeah. Thanks. Good question. Yeah. Okay, yeah, we're going to do that.

But yeah, he was at Chief's practice today. He was wearing a Chief's uniform, and he was advising Chief's coaches. So I think John Gruden might be secretly on the Chief's coaching staff.

Dipping his toe?

I think he's dipping more than that. Wow. He's like mid-schaft right now with the Chiefs, and he used to work with Andy in Green Bay, right?

I believe so.

So I feel like Andy Reid would be the guy. If there's any coach right now in the NFL that does not give a fuck what the League office thinks about them, it's probably Andy Reid. Yeah. He's too successful.

Yeah. He's untouchable.

John Gruden would be fun to have back.

I thought you were going to maybe do your Who's Back RFK Jr. Can you explain the bear thing?

Oh, the bear thing. Yeah. This doesn't make any sense. It's a fun story, and he got out ahead of it just like I got ahead of the old woman story. From what I understand is RFK Jr, back in the day, he was driving behind his friend. They were going on a hunting trip. The car in front of him ran over a bear, a bear cub, like a young bear. Then RFK Jr pulled over, picked the bear up, put it in the back of his van.

This is not very Kennedy-like of him.

Yeah, he actually- He's going back to help something that might have been him. Helping him thing? Yeah. So stepping out a little bit on that. So he put the bear in the back of his van because he was going to skin it and then take the meat later. Naturally. Because he had a bear license as one does. So he then proceeds to go back to New York. He forgets he's got a steak dinner at Peter Luger's. So he's like, okay, I'll just duck in for the steak real quick. I'll leave the dead bear in the back of my van. No deal. Go inside, eat the steak dinner. Then the dinner ran a little bit long. Okay. So he goes back and he's like, oh, crap, I got to get to the airport. I don't know what I'm going to do with this dead bear cub that I've got in the back of my van. So then he drives with his buddies that he was just drinking with or they were drinking. He drives with them.

Now it's getting more Kennedy-like.

Yeah. So they get in the car and they have a great suggestion that he says he played along with, which was to take the bear to Central Park and stage it and make it look like a bicycle ran into and killed the bear cub. Okay. It's a pretty common prank.

And many bear cubs in Central Park.

A lot of them, yeah. So this is going to be a funny thing they were doing with the boys. This actually is like a guys being dudes moment. Somebody has a bad idea, all your friends are hammered, and then you think that it's a good idea for some reason. So then he drives the dead bear cub to Central Park, stages it to make it look like it got run over by a bicycle, which I guess would kill a bear. But at the time, there were a bunch of bike related fatalities in New York City. So they were doing that as a joke about all the bicyclists hitting people. They're like, even they're hitting bears now.

Oh, it was a comment on society.

It was satire. Yeah, right. So they put the bear there, and Then the next day on the news, they wake up and they turn it on, and it's like national news that a bear cub got run over by a bike. It's a crime scene. And for the last... I don't know, what's the date on this? Can somebody look that up when it happened? But But ever since then, it's been a big mystery. How did this bear cub die in Central Park? Turns out that RFK Jr. Put it there.

And how did we find this story out today?

So we found it today because RFK Jr. Was doing a podcast with Rosanne Barr. Okay. And so he found out that the New Yorker was going to write a story about it. Okay. So he was getting ahead of the story by telling Rosanne the whimsicle story about how he hid the bear carcass in Central Park. Oh, my God. Ten years ago. Ten years ago. Yeah. So for the last 10 years, New Yorkers have been wondering what happened with this bear. It turns out RFK Jr.

What if we find out that RFK Jr had a hand in Flacko the Owl?

It's a possibility.

That could be a possibility.

Yeah. Let's not put anything past him at this point.

We're going to close that case yet.

So get ahead of that one.

What an insane headline. Yeah, pretty wild. Okay. I think. I don't care at all, but it's still a cool story. It's still here.

I actually appreciate what RFK Jr is doing in this in this political season where everything has been very intense, and he's just coming out with stories left and right about being a weirdo. Yeah.

I mean, there was the famous when a reporter asked if there was any more sexual allegation things coming out about him, he just said, We'll see.

Yeah.

Which is a hell of an answer.

He's been on a heater, too, like the brain worms thing.

Wait, we don't think he killed the bear.

He claims that he didn't.

Because that part feels- He says that there was a car in front of him that- It sounds like Billy football, the way he's like, Yeah, This dude killed a bear and I got it.

They both believe a lot of the same things politically. But if you hit a bear and you kill it, and I'm assuming you're going to notice that it's going to hit your car and probably caused some damage. Do you just keep going or do you pull over and you're like, What the fuck was that?

Yeah, I don't know. That's why that part doesn't really… I don't think you see a bear get hit and then pull over immediately being like, I want this bear.

I want this bear meat, and I want to skin it.

It's a bear cub?

I want to skin this bear cub, yeah.

That doesn't feel like a lot of meat.

That's also a valid point. Would you want a bear cub skin in your house? There's nothing cooler than having the bear that standing up looking like it's going to kill you. A little baby bear. But a tiny little bear is fucked up thing. That might be a bigger red flag than putting in the back of your van. Then you put in the back of your van like it's a hostage for 15 hours, and you're like, Oh, I can't leave it in my van because it'll smell. Let's drive from Brooklyn to Central Park to drop it off.

This story doesn't really make sense anymore.

It makes all the sense in the world to me.

Okay, my who's back. I got two of them. First is, we were alluding to it, the Chicago White Sox, who are on a 20-game losing streak. Now, PFT, you mentioned it, but we did have the debate before the season, should we bet against the A's of the White Sox?

Yeah, it came down to those two teams.

We chose incorrectly because we are betting against the A's every day, and I think we're down eight units, which isn't disastrous. But the White Sox have lost 20 games in a row. They have also have a streak of 14 losses in a row. They're 60 games Under 500. If you just erased their 14-game losing streak and their 20-game losing streak, they would still have the worst winning percentage in baseball this year.

And we'd be rich.

And we'd be rich. If you took their 20-game losing streak and 14-game losing streak and magically made them a 20-game winning streak and a 14-game winning streak, they would only go up one spot in the AL Central.

It's bad.

That's how bad they are. They are so, so bad. Here's another one. The last White Sox win was closer in time to the Celtics winning the NBA Finals than to right now. That's bad.

That's really bad. I feel bad for White Sox. Part of the reason why we didn't bet against the White Sox every day, or at least me, why I didn't really want to do that was because new in Chicago, I'm trying to enjoy the city. A great way to make enemies here is by hating all their sports teams.

But it turns out we should have done it because White Sox fans hate the White Sox more than anyone at this point.

I know.

Because Jerry Reindsorff is completely made like this. It's a joke. Here's another one. This is from Jay Cuda. Only two managers in baseball history have at least 200 games managed for same team in a winning percentage under 333, which is insane winning percentage. Pedro Grifoll and a guy named Dr. James Prothro, who was a licensed dentist who managed the Phillies during World War II. Love that. That guy had to manage the team because everyone was fighting the Nazis. And then it's Pedro Grifoll.

Stepped up. That's insane. I'm not the step coach. I'm the coach that stepped up. It's one of my great regrets in life, not fading the White Sox every single day this year. What would you, If you at the start of this losing streak, if you had bet $100 on them and then you let it ride, what would that total be? I don't know. Someone's going to have that step. We're not math guys.

That's going to make us really bummed out. 21, I think is the record.

Yeah. What are they at? 19 now? No, they're at 20. They're at 20 now.

Yeah, they're at 20.

Every time I see this happen, I just think of how much more money I would have.

They're so bad. It's like getting to a point, too, where they're basically circling the The Rotations, where I think they played the Twins. I think they just finished playing the Twins, or maybe they were playing Twins this weekend, or maybe it was during the week. But there was a game, August third, where the last time they won a game was against Bayly Ober on the Twins, and then they were facing Bayly Ober again three weeks later.

And 60 games out is so many games.

So many games out.

It's ridiculous.

It's 27 wins. 27 wins, and we're in August. It's And then my other who's back is, I don't know if you guys saw this. I'm setting myself up for some insults, but there was an account called Brooksgate that did a thread of all of the most retweeted and liked tweets of all time by NFL teams. Did you guys see this? So there was some good ones in there. The Bear's one was, Welcome to the Chicago Bear's Justin Fields. That hurt a little. The Bills and the Bingo's had, it was all about DeMar, sending thoughts to DeMar. Cowboy's one was, Jerry Jones taking a knee, which we forgot that he did that.

Oh, no, it's so great. Yeah.

Then the one that really hurt me, Hank, you'll get a laugh out of this. The Packer's one is actually, I think, the oldest one on this. It just says it's 42 to nothing, Packers with 14 seconds left in a quarter two. That was the game we watched together where Aaron Rodgers-That was before they juiced Twitter numbers. Yeah, that's from 2014. I don't know what the Commanders were. Oh, the Commanders was when you guys broke the Steelers' undefeated season.

That's right. Yeah, that was a pretty good one. That was the worst 11-0 team of all time, those Steelers. What about the Chargers P. F. Changs?

I don't think the Chargers P. F. Changs was on there.

Patriots has got to be a 28 to 31.

The Patriots was something about Tom braided. Oh, the Eagles's one was a big-time cuck one. Said, Time's yours, Andy, after he won the Super Bowl in 2020. That's brutal. The number one liked, favorited tweet by the Eagles is celebrating someone else's Super Bowl.

We respect Andy. I love Andy. I'm happy that he won the Super Bowl. You can't. Sorry. No respect.

Yours, Patriots was, Congratulations to the greatest of all time. Oh, that's another one. That was after the Bucks won the Super Bowl. Brutal.

Brutal. Yeah.

Just piece that together.

Big time cuck energy over there. I thought the Patriots one would be when they accidentally tweeted out a racial slum out of six of rules.

Yeah.

I was just backing up. I was like, They don't know anything about respect. The saddest one-Or organizations, and you're just trying to be an asshole.

That's big time ACC congratulating Katie Ledecky. Yeah. Stanford University. Yeah.

The saddest one, besides, obviously, the one I mentioned about the packers just shitting on the bears, was the Dolphins. Can you guess what the Dolphins one was? It has to do with their new quarterback or their new contract for their quarterback.

No. No.

It says, Tua has been taken to a local hospital for further evaluation. He is conscious and has movement in all his extremities.

Okay, so that was probably also big prayers up.

Yeah, but that was the most light retreat. I think it was the bangles game when he got really concussed.

What did the Panthers be?

Oh, the Panthers. Let's see. It's a fun little trip down memory lane. Oh, yeah, the Jaguars.

Happy Jeans Friday, everyone.

Jaguars had a good one about just like, shitting on the Steelers. I'm looking for the Panthers. I'm looking for the Panthers. Someone give me a line. Oh, Panthers. It was Lou Keekley retiring.

Okay. Thank you. It was a lot of that. Yeah, a lot of that.

And then obviously, Demar had a lot. Okay, Huey, your Who's Back? Yeah, my Who's Back is Ohio State fans back on their bullshit after After all the allegations coming out today of Coach Moore.

Findings?

Findings? No, it's allegations. What were the findings? He deleted a couple of text messages in regard to Connor Stalians and his possible knowledge on the-52 text messages. That's not as much as 200. And so he's just doing his job, his due diligence. I know this is not going to be a big deal pass today. I don't think anyone's going to talk about this in a week from now.

Yeah. Blip on the radar, yeah.

Yeah. I think I know what he's talking about it today. They also confirmed that Connor Stalions was on a Central Michigan sideline. That's good for them. That program, the Mac, needs a lot of help. Yep. That program is going to be a powerhouse. Yeah.

It might have been just like Michigan Sharing one of their assistants with CMU.

Yeah. Nothing inappropriate going on. We interviewed Harbaugh a couple of hours after this. We weren't going to ask him about this. I don't know. I'm sure there'll be people like, Why don't you ask him? We have a relationship with Coach Harbaugh. I really didn't feel like being like, Hey.

Putting on her big J hat.

What's going on with Sheron Moore? Yeah.

Listen, we're here to talk about his team right now. Yeah, right. Also, suck his dick a little bit about Michigan.

Also, it was an awesome interview. I am still as crazy as the Connor Stalian story is, I still think that everyone was doing something similar, and they were just mad that Michigan... This all comes from Ohio State being jealous that Michigan was beating them. Ryan Day having that firm that wasn't his brother created a firm?

Something about his brother and worked up in New England somewhere. It's the best college football story of all time. It is.

Connor Stalian is just a hilarious character.

Yes, he's an American hero. He's like the American dream. Hank, what are your thoughts on this as a veteran of someone who's been accused of spying on teams and as a veteran of a fan of a team who's deleted a lot of text messages.

Yeah, I think you got to get every advantage you can. I think if you're not going to do it and other teams going to. To Big Cat's point, The only reason they got caught is just because people were mad. They were doing it so well.

They were winning. I mean, there's a chance if Ohio State beat up Michigan the last two years, we don't even know Connor Stalian's name. That's true. Good point. It's a good point, Huey. You quitted yourself quite well. Okay, Should we get to our interview?

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest, recurring guest. It is our Grit Week. Start a Grit Week presented by Coors Light. It is Coach Jim Harbaugh, a national champion, back in the NFL. Coach, you know how Grit Week works. You've given us this answer before, but it's been a while. How would you define grit?

I would define it as that gravel in the gut. And Even that you personally have that overcomes that situation when you doubt yourself, those pressure moments. The guys that have it, athletes who have it, men or women, whoever has it, then they are able to give their best when their best is needed most.

Yeah, I like that. Overcoming a little adversity from time to time. Do you enjoy a little bit of adversity just so you can get a nice little W, a nice win over maybe your inner demons or whatever the case may be?

Well, I mean, there's the level of the W would be, yeah. I mean, you just love a W no matter what. You win. But yeah, there's even better levels. If you have to overcome something, yeah, that makes that even better, right? For example, that come from The walk behind win is even... Nothing makes you feel better than that. Or that win where you did it in an opposing stadium and you feel like your team walked in there and the fans were against you, it was just you overcame that. Some tough environments that there's just no better feeling than coming out with a win in a place like that. And then if you can throw the elements in. There are some real cold or real hot or some rain coming down sideways, and you feel like you overcame the elements as well. To overcome an opponent it, overcome them in their stadium, and to overcome them in their stadium with the elements, then I would say, yeah, there's nothing that would make you feel more like a man than that. Beat the weather. All three, beat them all.

It's great to see you back in the NFL. I wanted to ask you, though, how hard was that decision to go come back to the NFL? Leaving Michigan, you went there, you proved everything you set out to prove. Took a while, but you did it. Beat Ohio State three years in a row, national title. But was it tough? Because I assume you were a dream job, but to then be like, I got to leave this and come back to the NFL. Was that a tough decision?

Yeah, it was. I love these guys. This was All the players there, all the guys that recruited, the coaches, just everybody. It was like, Love you guys. There's another thing where, okay, Here's a challenge. Here's somebody that likes what you do and how you do it and presenting you with this challenge. Whether it's a blessing or a curse, that's always what's been in me is like, Let me see if I'm up to that. That was the overarching.

I would say there's only so many sayings left in the hour glass.

Yeah, I shot at that. I want to see if we can stand up to that. So, yeah, it's been hard. Man, this is my two great loves that I have in my life is my family at home and my family at work. And there's There was that Michigan family. And also my dad lived right next door to me in Ann Arbor. Maybe the toughest thing of all has been that they haven't moved out here. Hopefully, they will. Mom and dad, I hope you, please. I need you living next door to us here in Los Angeles. But I got to say this family I have here at work, I love these guys. I love these guys. And that's players. That's players, that's the coaching staff we put together. Just a tremendous All-Star staff. I know it. I know that. And the entire organization, quit The apartment room, the ownership, the trainer, the doctors, the grounds crew. I mean, everybody here, John Wiedemier, Christina, Marco, on and on and on. And I finally put my finger on it, which is why do I love these? Why do I love these? Everybody here is so much, so fast.

If I had to say one thing, it's just that everybody here treats their job like it's the most important job in the entire organization. And they are just double check it, triple check it. They want to be so good that I just love that everybody, players and all, are doing everything, anything and everything in their power to try to make this team win and be successful. I love that.

I love these guys. And now, one thing you didn't mention, which I would assume was part of it, is your brother has a Super Bowl. Did that get in your head a little? Like, I got to go get a Super Bowl?

Yeah, I think people would automatically think that. I think it's been said. That's part of it. Yeah.

But we know you. We know you well. It's got to be a little part.

I'm not denying that. I'm not denying that. Yeah. I got to say that, and maybe Maybe, but I know everybody says you got to do one thing first. You got to make the first birdie before you can do anything else. But it's so good here, this entire organization, the Spanos family. Joe Ortiz, my brother said I would love Joe. That's what he said, Oh, you're going to love Joe. You're going to love working with Joe. He undersold it. He undersold it. He's one of the best evaluators in the game. I don't think there's anybody better after going through this offseason and draft with Joe R. T. And he is who he is every day. And he pulls the best out of people. It's just been spectacular. Those draft meetings we I mean, there could be like a TED talk of just the leadership style that he has. He's a normal guy. He's a football guy. He's a grit, weak guy. So my brother He did say I love him. To me, it's like he still undersold it. How much I'm going to love Joe Hortese? So that's been amazing. Just everything's amazing. If it goes good, it's got to be because Everything is in place and the players that we have, and we can start talking about those guys, too.

If it goes bad, it's because I'm a bad manager. But we're chipping away at it and getting after it every day.

Listen, I wanted you. I was very publicly wanting you to coach the bears. I was reading it back. I made you a video, a hype video, trying to be like, Hey, maybe I can get some old flame going in Coach Harbaugh's heart, where he's like, I got to go back to Chicago. Your response was the nicest, I don't care about this video ever. Can I read it to you? It was the nicest ever. You wrote back, I sent you the video of you, old highlights of you in a bear's uniform, all this stuff. You said, Thanks. Cool. All glory to God. Sure do value our football and family relationships and good times. Cherish them. Thanks for caring and supporting. They're enough doubters and haters in the world. Much respect and gratitude for you and yours. That was the nicest, I don't care about this video.

That's not at all. No, I appreciate you both. I mean, Big Cat, PFT commentator. I mean, there's so many young people, and I don't know everything you do and say, but what I do know is people, there's a whole young generation of people that like, Oh, you're a football guy. You're a football guy. We know you. I asked a couple of like, Do you know me? What do you... Well, we watch Big Cat and PFT comments. So I appreciate. You are an ultimate football guy. All the wonderful things you said about our family. So I meant every word of that. And I know my brother John feels the same way. And my dad Jack Harbaugh, who's doing great. He'll be out to LA.

Move to LA, Jack.

Jack, come on, please.

Are you sending them links to houses? Are you looking at real estate? You're like, Hey, look at this basement. This one's got a pool.

Yeah, it's a great question. It's a great question. There's strategy. I'm always thinking of the way to do this. Now, when I went from San Let's go to Michigan. One of the last things I said, Dad, what do you think I should do here? What do you think I should do? And he thinks, I think you should go back to Michigan and coach Michigan. And I said, Okay, well, if I do that, you're going to come, right? You're going to come to Ann Arbor, and you're going to help me coach. And he said, The last thing he said is that he would. And I got him saying that. And then it took a A full 12 months before he actually did. So I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful that we'll find a way here in a year. I'll do anything. I'll just buy a house next to my house.

You got this new facility. Just get them a house in the facility. Just get a whole...Find a apartment in here.Find a role for them here.

Special advisor. It sounds like it's a really cool relationship that you have with them, and it's awesome.

It's my mom, too. My mom's the greatest ever. And between my mom and my dad, and the relationship they have with our kids, there's so many times Living right next door to their grandparents, my kids would be down there. And my dad would take kids to school. He would go to their games. The conversations, driving my son Jack to his baseball games. Me and my dad watching baseball games. It's like we were at the Church of Base in the summer time watching games on Sunday. That was just priceless. I just got to the point where I'm taping those conversations. That's my favorite part, is the ride to the game and the ride back. Just talking to Jack or to Addie or to Katie to Johnny. I love those conversations. I really don't even care that much what happens during the game. The best time for me is the ride to and the ride back. And my dad would be right there. So often, the three of us doing that, it's priceless. It's completely priceless.

Unless you catch a foul ball at the game. That's probably better, right?

That's good, too. Are you still wearing a glove?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. You got to wear a glove when you go to MLB.

Yeah, I always wear a glove. I mean, that's like... Your chances improve dramatically if you have a glove at a baseball game. There's no question about it.

Success is when preparation meets opportunity, right? Yeah. I just got to change.

I've only gotten one foul ball. I've got 22 career foul balls, like legitimately in a game, a foul ball, a home run. But it happened during the game, not batting practice before. I don't count those. I've only gotten one in the last 10 years.

Oh, Some people are saying you've fallen off.

Yeah. I've done it to myself, really. I've gone a lot of games. Bob Melvin is a really good friend of mine. Played on the same team. What's the American Legion team? When we were in high school, he was a couple of years older, and he was the star player, and I wasn't. But anyway, he's been great to me. It just went to the Angels game. They were great to me. Padres, I know some people there. The tickets they get me are too good. They're too good. They're in a spot where your percentage of getting a foul ball is... You would have to hit the net. And the nets now. Oh, yeah. The nets, it would have to hit off and then bounce back.

So you got to ask for the worst tickets.

I got to get worse tickets.

You got to get the worst tickets.

You got to be on the beach. I'm in a suite, and the only chance I got is if the ball were to come through the suite, video just over the screen.

Are you bringing a glove to the sweet?

Yeah. I'm ready. I'm not putting myself in position to be in position. Yeah, we got to get that fixed.

We got to get that fixed. Twenty-two and then only one in the last 10 years, that's fallen off.

I got to get to some better spots.

When you said that you tape your conversation, were you being literal? Do you record your conversations that you have with your family?

Yeah. I don't even listen to them right afterwards, but I'm just keeping them. I'm just keeping them. I got to start doing that. I just want them for maybe just some time down the road. That those rides to the car, listen to them talk about the game or what they were doing or the excitement that they had. It's the best. Yeah, and I always got to get my... Now I got to call my dad and I got to be taping it, which is I can do because it comes through the car. But yeah, that's just priceless. That's just priceless moments. And my mom, too. They just give this wisdom and stuff that if I don't write it down, I'm going to forget it. My mom actually has given me the best advice I've ever gotten as a player or a coach, and that is one play at a time, one game at a time, one day at a time. And she texted me that every Before every single game, the morning of every game. I need that text.Yeah, that's it.It's a little reminder. It's one play at a time, one game at a time, one day at a time.

A football question here. Obviously, it's new. You guys just got started not too long ago here in LA, but is there anything that's changed, anything big that's changed in the NFL from the way that you did business back on the Niners compared to now?

That's a great question. I've been asked it a few times by lots of people. From the time I played, from the time I coached at the Niners to now, I would say probably the biggest change is 2013, '14. I didn't think the NFL could get any bigger. Than it already was. I didn't think it could be any more popular than it already was. But it's doubled. It is 2X, at least in popularity. You can see in what the salary cap is, twice as much. And just the popularity of the game of football, it's awesome. Right around that time, too, just as a perception of football, too, and the fun that everybody has. And the popularity. I saw it firsthand. And back then, there was a... And football had a bit of a crisis back then. Is it too dangerous? Is it too much of a sport that a mother wouldn't want their son to play? And then I went into college ranks in 2015, and I saw just growing from there. And everywhere I went around the country, it's like, well, football is popular. It's never been that popular. It's still king, yeah. And a lot of the rule changes have been good.

I mean, it's definitely a safer game. The horse collars out, the blows to the head. I mean, some of these rules of engagement are so good and so much better. And player safety is the most important thing. But I just see it coming back, and they're doing all the right things. And Commissioner Goodell has done a fabulous job. Brian Rollup, I don't know if you know him. He's another great guy at the NFL. You Very high up. I had a chance to coach his son, Will, at Michigan. And there's this fabulous people that have made this league, and everybody's made it. And the players, there's no question, they're bigger, stronger, faster, smarter. No question about that. Us, older players, guys who played a long time ago, we still maybe say, Are they tougher? Are they tougher? I don't No, I have no. It's all subjective. We probably aren't as tough as these guys are because they're just so much more harder to break because the way they train. Coach Herbert. Coach Herbert and others. Just their passion, love, and desire for the game is at an all-time high as well. I'll tell you a quick story.

Zion Johnson, who is our starting left guard, he He had a root canal at 2:00. I think he got done at 2:00, 2:30. And was out to practice, didn't miss a rep. And then we did conditioning at the end, we say, Hey, if you're in a lead condition, go on this sideline A. If you're in good condition, go on sideline B. If you're in average condition, go on sideline C. And he went to A and Led the offensive, excuse me, led the offensive linemen. It's just like, Okay, who would have done that? Most normal human beings probably would have taken a week off. Who weren't Yeah, right? Most football players, most all football players were at least taking a couple of days. If you're a root kid out. Just about all would have at least taken that practice off an hour or so after. So I can't even say that we were tougher back then. So what's really changed? And the equipment's changed, and the equipment is much better. But I think it's still the same is the work ethic and the passion to be good and get really good at what you do, get good at football, get good at your craft.

So a couple of things have changed, but I more things are the same.

You left that one small detail about the game has grown so much since 2015, 2016. A little podcast called Part of My Takes started in 2016.

Came on the scene.

With the mission to grow the game.

How much did that Guys, raise the time.

Roger's got to pop us a check.

We always say, grow the game. That's the big thing for us. Yeah, Goodell.

Take a deep long bow. I believe that. There's no doubt.

No, we're on the next plate. We're on the next plate. You guys are.

That's good. But sometimes You can't say it, but allow me to say it. There's no question about it. Like I said, all of a sudden, I got popular with people in their late teens or 20s. Football guy, yeah.

No one knew what football was until part of my take start.

That's exactly right. I can personally vouch for you because I asked several people and players, my own players were starting to look at me like I was cool. I start calling myself Cool Jim. These guys think I'm Cool Jim. Cool Jim. I love that, yeah. I'm Cool Jim now, in big part to you two. We appreciate that. I appreciate you.

Yeah, I love that. What about the new kickoff rule? Are you ready for it? Now, your former player, Sam Schwartzstein, was the one who came up with this idea with the XFL.

Sam, my man. Yeah. He created a creative mind.

Sam actually sent me. I asked him because we've known Sam for a really long time, and I think he actually helped us the first time we had you on back in Michigan in 2017. I asked him if he had any training camp stories. He said that you have three rules. I don't know if you still have these three rules for training camp, so you can tell me. He said the first rule was no cupcaking, which is talking with your girl on the phone during bed check. Number two is never cut the chow line, and number three is never bear-ass another man's stool.

Those are Those are three rules still in existence.

Okay, all right. Yeah, that's a rule.

We had to make that a rule.

Never bear ass in the other man's stool. He also said that you once told him that you...

You know what's amazing about that is that the guys were listening. That Sam remembers them.Oh, yeah.That's cool. Because sometimes you talk to them and they're like, Are they even listening? Are they even getting any of this stuff?

He told us a great story that when you first got to Stanford, you stripped Stanford of all the traditions and everything because you're like, You guys are losers, and I have to figure out what makes you losers, and then we'll build you back up.

I don't ever... It sounds like you might have, and you then built them back up.

Just trying to find the common denominator of what is wrong with this, so we have to make it better.

Yeah. I mean, just the traditions that weren't helping us win. Is the ones I remember. How is that helping us to do that? And one of them was like, if they had like... Because I always have this, there's a no fighting, punching rule. One, it's going to get us a 15-yard penalty to ever punch another man. But let's think about the intelligence of punching guy who's wearing a helmet or a face mask. You will do nothing to him other than break your own hand. Yeah, that was a rule. Then the ingenious Stanford guys, they decided that they were going to, since they couldn't fight and throw punches on the field, that they would take it into the locker room and they would make a circle and they would make the two guys fight in the locker room. So, yeah, I got wind of that. And that tradition ceases to exist. And some of the other Southmoreic things that weren't helping us. The Stanford Walk was another one that I took off, which was right the last minute before team warmups, we were walking a half a mile in full equipment. And Let's not do that.

How do we do this? We make our locker room at the stadium better, and we walk over in the sweatsuit, kept the walk. We're walking by the Grove there, and Shaded, nice, leisurely stall, instead of being in full equipment for a 15-minute walk. I think that's a better idea.

I wouldn't want to do that. No.

The other one I think it changed, too, was Yeah, we were playing UCLA, my first game ever at Stanford, and we're on the visitor sideline, staring right into the sun. I'm looking at this going, that's about 20 degrees cooler on that other side where the press box is. And we're here in the sun for a good solid three quarters until the sun goes down, until we got any relief. So, well, we couldn't do because the band had to be in the opposite side. That was the thing. We just moved to, here's what we do. We just moved to the band, to the other corner. Yeah, the little thing. Just get us in the shade. Yeah. Well, the season ticket holders, they're going to love having their own team on their sidelines. Yeah. They love winning football. Yeah, those are the traditions I remember. There were some silly stuff, and then there were some just some good practical stuff to try to help us win.

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Com. And save some dogs. Okay, back to Jim Harbaugh. I had never heard this story, and I'd love to hear your telling of it, but you created a rivalry flag when you were at San Diego with Dayton. That's true. Because we love this. This is You, Conn and UCF had this where Bob Diaco just created a trophy out of thin air, and UCF never said, Hey, we're playing for this trophy. You did the same thing with San Diego and Dayton, where you just created a flag, and you're like, This is what we're playing for. Any other coaches was like, What? What are you talking about?

Yeah. That happened.

What made you do that? What did the other coach say when you told him, Hey, we're actually playing for this?

We hadn't beaten dating in 10 years, and we were like, Man, this is the team we got to be. If we want to win the Championship, they're winning it every year. We better set our sights to get... And if we can get playing at their level, then good chance we'll be able to beat the other ones. So that was the idea. And we were just like, We don't have any trophy games. There's no trophy. You come from the Big Ten, where there's trophies.

Every week's a trophy game.

Stanford. You have the ax. That was just a cool thing. So we didn't have that. And I said, By golly, we're going to make a trophy here for the USD-Daten game. So I don't know where it came from. It was just one of those ideas. Came up with, let's make a flag, a big old flag that was half SD and half Daten. So we made it. And we had won the year before So I said, Hey, we made... I just told our own guys, Hey, we made this trophy flag. You guys want it? So that whole week of practice, we had the flag. I remember. So cool. Tim Drevnau, who was our offensive coordinator at the time, we took our bus to the San Diego airport, and he had the great idea of... He was on the curve, waving the flag. We were flying commercial, USD. Anyway, fast forward to the game. We're at Dayton now. We had the flag. We had put it right behind our bench, secured it with some tape and stuff, and it's flapping back there. Yeah, so we won the game and run across and, Hey, Mike, good game. You're probably wondering what that flag is.

Now, our guys were out carrying it around and doing stuff with it. I said, We made this flag out of respect for the rival between USD and Dayton. Since we just won this one, we'll keep it. But next year, if you guys win, then it'll be... Yours. Be honest. I probably should have called you about this. Then you won it again. You never gave up the flag when you were there. No. We want it. Be honest. If you had lost that game, though, that first rivalry game with the flag, would you have given him the flag? I didn't make it until after we won the first one.

Then he made it. Then he made it.

Then he made it. Then really use that as motivation for the next year.

Then you go to Dayton and you've got the flag.

He doesn't know that you've got the flag. If you lose-He doesn't know I had the flag. I guess for our own purposes, we were using it.

We didn't want to motivate them to think that there was a flag.

They didn't know it was a flag game. I don't know if this is a flag game. I would love to know where that flag is right now.

If somebody has that, I would buy that.

What I read was, Dayton won it the year after you left, then they took it, and then it never came back. Yeah, I think the two coaches after that got it.

It doesn't mean anything.

No, it didn't mean anything to you. I think it ended up in Coach's garage. Somebody said that it was like he was-We got to find this. I think I read an article where Mike was using it to to rake leaves onto his-Maybe-as a leaf collector. Somebody out there probably has this flag. I would be interested in buying that flag. We can find it, but maybe we make you a flag here. You got a rivalry against Kansas City.

They're like what Dayton was doing. They've been on fire.We do a flag game.You're getting to that level. We do a Chargers Chief's flag game. Maybe we'll do it in our studio.

We'll just flip it over back and forth.

You guys have done stuff, cool stuff like that.

We can make you the flag. But PFT asked a good question. If you had lost that second game, would Did you have given them the flag they didn't even know existed?I.

Would have, yes.Okay, that's good.

That's an honorable man.

I would have given them that flag. That they didn't know it existed. I would have, yes. He's handed it to him like, Here you go.

I'm going to tell you, I said, Yeah, we made this flag.

You won.

Now it's your flag, and we'll play for this every year.

Yeah, I love it. I would have done that. I love it. Last time we sat down and talked to you-And there's no tougher thing than having to give. Yeah, so your rival. That feeling of given the brown jug Fortunately, I didn't have it. Well, as a player, I did when I was playing. But coaching, we didn't have to give that up. The Paul Bunyan, we had to give Michigan State that. Yeah, that time.Oh, that one game.It was not bringing up.How long did it take you to...I mean, that was just insane.I'm not fully over that. I'm not fully over that. We got a punt blocked with 10 seconds left in the game. It's left an indulableIt was insane.bruze there. That was insane.Bruised there. Yeah, that was... I mean, top five worst thing has ever happened to me in my life.It's good life.It was that.That's top five.We carry those scores with us. That's top five. But it led to some... It led to eliminating that college punt, that spread punt.

Yeah, it looks like every time they do it, you're like, How are they going to block this?

We're not going to do this spread punt ever again. We're going back to good old fashioned pro-style punting from here on out. Yes. Punter's got to be at 14 yards.

He can't be at 16 yards.

You can tell this one bothers you. You think of all the... I play that scenario out quite a bit.

Yeah, but it helps you get better. You evolve. One thing you evolved on was you used to be anti-chicken. Yeah, that's a fact. You changed your tune on chickens because it was a nervous little bird. When I heard you talk about it, I was like, You know what? He's right. You are what you eat, right? You gain the energy of the animal. If it's a nervous bird, it's going to be bad for my fast twitch muscles. But then you change your tune on it.

Change back, yeah. Because you admire, you respect chickens now, right? Correct. So what flipped the switch for you? Getting chickens, raising chickens from chicks and the respect I have for chickens. I really I mean, you probably got to put bees a little bit above chickens. Yeah. But I mean, they're in the same ballparts.

Why bees above chickens?

Because they pollinate, what, 20 % of the world's food. Anyway, people are going to look at this and go, this guy's weird or something. No, but here's the entire thing was Brian Jennings, who I love dearly. He was He was our long snapper at the San Francisco 49ers. And he was one of those players I just had to talk to every day. Got to be around and just get his insights on life and things. And he had this great breakfast that he would eat, and it was steak on toast and protein, he getting his carbohydrates, and it really tasted good. And I started doing it that way. And then one day, I I was eating a chicken, something, chicken sandwich or something like that. And he goes, Yeah, you really shouldn't eat chicken. And then he was the one who explained to me that chickens were a nervous bird, and it was part of their immune Their immune system and their nervous system was just... You could probably make that case with the pecking and things. Yeah, I maintained that chicken's a nervous bird and really bought into what Brian was saying. He had this whole thing documented how when United States went from meat eaters, meat consumption, mainly to a higher rate of chicken consumption, that nervousness went up.

You would have to get to Brian, Jay. We got to talk about correlation and causation, just a little bit. Get with Brian, maybe, and maybe he could explain But I bought into it up until the point where it was the pandemic, it was Easter, and I went to Tractor Supply, got eight chicks right in the box, and we raised them.

And the kids loved them for about a month.

And then after that, it was me exclusively taking care of them.

And just the production that they have. It is an egg every 26 hours. You And they're low maintenance. I mean, they're not high maintenance. I mean, it's low maintenance and high production with the chicken. And there were some times in there where I actually felt like the chickens liked me and liked seeing me. And I went to a lot to make their life better and kept their pen good. And I enjoyed Enjoyed working with them, with the chickens. It was a huge relief for us because we got to eat chicken again. Because we stopped eating chicken when you told us not to eat chicken. Go back. I was wrong. I was raw. I think I was dead raw. I like that. You evolved. So what are you on now? What's the latest thing that you're fascinated by or something that you think you're ahead of the curve with? An insight into life or nature. I just like living that strenuous life of always trying to think and always trying to have an idea or work or just feel like you just got to go. And love being on my feet. I love doing stuff. I mean, Love thinking of something and then doing it.

We'll see. I'll let you know if something works or if it doesn't.

But I don't know, just that feeling that you can't slow down. In a I'm at snow to something could change.

Just keep going about it that way. Are we still watching SpungeBob and respecting everything SpungeBob does?

Yeah, not as much because my youngest Yeah. My youngest guy, he's evolved more to the YouTube and the different daredevil things that are on that. Are we worried that his-People screaming because they, What the heck? Are we worried his work ethic is going to be a little off that he doesn't have Spongebob as someone he can look up to? Because you told us when we... I think it was maybe the second time you're on that Spongebob, he's someone you look up to. He's a hero. There's no doubt about it. When you talk about attacking each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind, yeah, that's Spongebob. It's unknown to mankind. It's not of mankind. It's a sponge.

I think that enthusiasm comes from God. It's like that Jesus juice.

I had that... Something you'd get in a good sermon where you feel it, really feel it. I feel it in a good sermon at church. But also from football, I get that juice That love of the game from football as well. Training camp being back, just the pads being on, is that something that the first day where you're like, Man, this is where I should be.

This is the feeling that I need. Yeah, without a doubt. I always get that feeling. As a player, I got it.

It's not as good as a coach, but it's the next best thing. But I get it as a coach. I don't know. Some people say it's not worth to find you. It shouldn't be. I understand that difference, that case. But I actually like myself better when I played. You put on that armor, you put on that helmet, you put on that jersey, you look in the mirror and go, Jim Harbaugh, football player. Today's the day. Great things are going to happen. Somebody says, Have a nice day, and I say, Well, that seems a little risky. I think I'm just going to make it a great day. Take the try out of it. When I put When I put on that uniform, it felt like putting on a Superman cape, if you will. I still get some of that from coaching. I put on my outfit and my hat and get my whistle and coaching football today.

You got to rise to that. You got to rise to that challenge. We had a debate when we were watching you in the National title game, seeing how jacked up you were on the sideline before the game.

We thought that if the NCAA allowed it, you could have put on pads and probably played that whole game. Do you think you could have gotten out there and been like, You know what? I'm just going to quarterback today. I'm ready to go. Now, and even the feeling of winning that game, it was so good. But it's long past being for myself. It's like, I can see JJ McCarthy or Blake Corm or any one of those players. This is their opportunity to be a champion, to go undefeated, for them to know that, and for their mom and dad, for Jim and Megan McCarthy to know that their son is a champion. For each of those parents, uncles, grandparents, that they get to feel that joy of their son or their grandson or their friend, whatever it is, and for themselves to know, You did that. Pull it down or pull it in, but you did that. And that's where all the joy comes from, is is them experiencing that. Yeah, and that game was an ass-kicking. That was a beautiful thing to watch. At what point in the game did you realize, They're not stopping us?

I mean, that's my goal. My goal is that we get ahead, we stay ahead, we get so far ahead that I can't screw it up. I guess when Mikey Sanchez still picked off that pass and then returned it 50 yards, he We're going to win this if we don't screw up this.

If we don't give a kickoff return here, and that thing. I guess you never really feel that until your team has taken a knee in victory. But I don't know, somewhere along the line, I felt it. That's one of those feelings.

It's not going to wash off in the shower. That stays That stays with you. It was crazy watching Michigan this year. It was just the tackling, the physicality, the running the football. It felt like it was a perfect team built in your mold. Even we were talking to Coach Herbert about the Penn State game, which I know you're watching on TV, but running the football down their throat and being like, You can't stop this. We're going to keep running it, had to have felt like everything I've wanted in a football team. Yeah, this is the only part I'm uncomfortable with is that team was in my mold or something like that. I mean, these guys were so much better than I was and so much more connected than just about any team I had ever been on.

So unselfish.

I mean, talk about adversity. They overcame it at every point. It got to the point where it was white noise, and then to the point where you couldn't even hear it. That all came from their parents and their families that had poured all that into them.

It came from them, who they were, and they just kept getting better at being them.

They never got a big head. It was tremendous. To the extent of the other thing people say is is like, Oh, you've went everywhere you've been, or this and that stuff. It's only because you have good players. There is no good coaches with bad players. It's all about the players and I learned that from Dave Adolf.

When I was a young coach, the great Dave Adolf.

When I put up a Mount Rushmore of coaches, if I'm going to the very tip top, it's Jack Harbaugh, it's John Harbaugh, It's Dave Adolf, Bo Schembechler. I mean, those four are right at the very top. And he said that. I said, Dave, how do we make this team USD? How do we get better? He goes, You got to get better players. And he said, there's only two ways to do that. I mean, you got to coach them better or you got to recruit better players.

Pro football, you got to coach them better or we You got to acquire players through the draft, etc. But yeah, you can't be a good coach without great players. Yeah. I noticed you left Tom Crean off your Mount Rushmore of coaches. Tom Crean is right there. He is at the top. For us, too. Yes. There's no question about it.

Tom Crean, Jack Harbaugh, John Harbaugh, Dave Adop, Bo Schembeckler. And I said those four football coaches. Coaches? Now we're going to just straight coaches. Tom Crean is standing right there next to those four great coaches that I Matt. You would look great on Mount Rushmore. Tom Crean. Yes. Yes. Got a good tan. And we'll put you on there, too. Yeah, you can be on there. Because you can't be far away from your dad. Or your brother. Well, you got to win a Super Bowl. Yeah. That hurt a little. It's good. It motivates me. There's more you got to do. There's more you got to do. Absolutely. You got them on Thanksgiving week this year, right? What's that? Thanksgiving week this year. I think Monday Night Football before Thanksgiving. November 25th. You know the date.Exactly, yes. Absolutely know the date. There's a little backstory why I know that date so well, because that's going to be my parents' 63rd wedding anniversary. Oh, wow. That was mean by the NFL. 63. No, I think it's great by the NFL. They're so good at stuff like that. The last The last time John and I played a regular season game was 2011.

It was a Thursday night game. It was on Thanksgiving, and the date was November 25th.They know what they're doing.In 2011. They know what they're doing. They know what they're doing.It's all there. Yeah. Are mom and dad going to be at the game? Yeah, they'll be at the game. Have to be. God willing in the creek don't rise. Jack and Jackie Harbaugh will be there. Yeah, that's great. I got a couple of fact or fiction real quick, rapid fire, because you didn't speak the media in Indianapolis for the Combine, but you had so many players at the combine. There was a story I read where they asked players for stories about you as a coach. Did you ever get a haircut during a recruiting visit in the players living room? Yes. Sommage Morgan's house. No, wait. No, it's Braden McGregor. It's Braden McGregor's house. His mom was a hair stylist, and you just were like, Hey, I need it. What happened there? Yeah, I I got a haircut. I needed one. I needed one. I've been on the recruiting trail for... I'm sorry about that. No, no, no. That was Braden's mom. Yeah, it was a great haircut.

Yeah.

There also was a story from Michael Barrett that...

Braden also got me the tattoo.Oh, yeah, that's right.He.

Didn't do it, but his guy did.

Yeah, that you were on the recruiting trail hungry, and you went to Michael Barrett's house, and you ate an entire pizza yourself. I might have been pretty hungry. I mean, That might have happened. Yeah, okay. Then the last one was, Josh Wallace said that he came in one day and you were in the ice tub full khakis and Polo.

Yeah, that These are great stories. I don't see the problem with it.

No.

I don't see the problem with that. You just finish your workout, get in the ice bath.

Yeah. I love it.

I mean, these are... They're almost like athletic pants. Yeah. Are Are you getting away from the khakis or would the khis be regular season? Just the color.

I just wanted to change it up sometimes and not be... What's going to happen when the regular season starts? They're the same pant as the khie.

Okay. But is this going to be the color during the regular season? I've gone darker lately. It's the new me.

These are things we need to know before because these are important things.

I've gone darker the last three years. The last three years, I've gone to the blue. I mean, they're still khakis. That's true. But the colors, the colors are different. That's your big change. You don't want to You don't want to get stale. Yeah. Got to change your khaki color. You don't want to be like burnt meat or overwrite fruit. Yeah, then people expect it, and then you got to change it up because then they'll start game planning for the khis.

You got to change it up. Yeah. I don't mind you wearing them in the cold tub either. You're going to wash them at the end of the day. Right. Those pants, they've outlived their usefulness for that day. Might as well just get them wet right then. Yeah, I don't see the problem.

Yeah, I don't see the problem at all. There's no problem. They're pretty good at the... I mean, I've loved how you're discussing players and the health concerns with the media because you've got a phrase that you go back to, They're working through something, which I think is a very... You can use that for anything. So I'm just going to start saying that about myself. We're all working through something, right?

Because it's like a game of poker that you have to play sometimes where you don't want to give up too much to the media.

But if you say we're working through something, then they're working through something.

It's just a matter of I'm not qualified. I'm not qualified to say anything more than they're working through something.

I don't have a medical degree. I look at my office and there's a lot of stuff in it and some things I've accomplished.

But there is no There's no medical degree in there.

I didn't take biology or any of those in college either. I don't think I'm even qualified to relay what the doctors say. Or the trainer says.

It's just a question of what you're qualified to do, and I'm not qualified on it.

Yeah, that's HIPAA. You can't discuss them. That's what I would say.

It's against the law. Yeah, Is or isn't, we're going to definitely comply with all the...

It's pretty transparent when it comes to the games. But no, it's just a matter of How's he feeling?

How's Big Cat feeling today?

Working through something. Well, I'm not qualified to search his feelings either.

I'm always working through something.

Big Cat's working through something. That's really it.It's an official report. The way I look at it, that's all I'm really qualified to.

All right, so this has been unbelievable.

We love having you on. I had one last question.

It's the chevy.

Com question for Grit Week. Chevy Silverado, best truck out there. My last question for you is, you told us when we first interviewed you, all you cared about was, I want to play football for as long as I can play football, then coach football, then die.

Has there been any change in that, or is it the same of No, still on track.

Still on track. It's going to coach football then die.

God willing.

When the creep don't rise, we're on track. That's it. It's just the love. That's, I think, because you are, for us, one of the ultimate football guys for that quote and for everything you do for the game of football. But it's football means that much to you. Love it. Love football. And I thought it was really cool this week, Tony Jefferson, who's played for the Ravens, played for my brother John, and now he's playing here.

And somebody asked him the same question, what's the difference in them? And a lot of people go to whatever they go to, whatever their perception is. But I really like what Tony said. Tony said, They both love football. I think it's really accurate and true. That meant a lot. I think that's somebody who's seen both of us. I know my brother loves football. It was a very nice compliment for him to say that. Yeah. Coach, we got to ask you about the RV because we drove up here. We have an RV. It's grit week.Oh, yeah.We're going to be staying in the RV.We need to know where we're staying. We don't have a great spot for it. I know that you had a good spot.

I don't know if you're still in the RV there. You moved out.

But we're looking for a spot for the RV. Yeah. Do you have any recommendations? Where to put your RV? Yeah. Yeah, about 150 yards.That's where you were?To the south is where you could go. Yeah. I was in Huntington Beach. I was I was right across the street from the beach and the Great Ocean and the big blue. It was right there. It was great. I love RVing. I wish I could do it more. That was a great four-month window to be in the RV. It's a simple life. That's the best life.

Right now, it's not in the cards for me.

With a whole family. With still four kids at home and a full-time job. But someday I think about that. That would be... Yeah, just traveling around in an RV. I just hopped on that opportunity. And I was a big fan of the Rockford Files growing up. Jim Rockford living in the trailer at the beach in Malibu. That's the way I grew up. That was my favorite TV show.

And you're just sitting there laying on stomach in front of the TV, watching the cars and the palm trees and his trailer. Yeah, someday I want to live in California.

Someday I want to live in California. And if I ever do, then I'm going to live in a trailer like Jim Rock. That's core memory. 11-year-old Jim.

Well, Coach Harbaugh, best of luck.Thank you.You know we're the biggest fans, and we appreciate you anytime you come on the show. And go win some football games. Amen. Yeah. Appreciate that. Right back at you. I love it. Right back at you. You guys are the best. Just keep doing you. Keep doing you. It's working. And piece of advice, want to get a little bit better at something? Just work a little bit harder at it. And whatever you do, don't get a big head. That's a trap. That's a deep, dark, lonely trap. And we also, I should just say, because I don't want you to think that we're scumbags, we might have offered-Greedy guys don't get big heads. Yeah, no, they don't. We might have offered Coach Ben Herbert $10 million to come be the Barstool sports trainer. I just want to let you know we might try to poach him. We're going to try to poach him.

I don't have the $10 million to pay him, but we'll find a way because we want him to make us tough. Yeah, I have to counteract it somehow. I'm going to have to follow away. I can't lose him. I don't lose Ben Herbert. I don't think he will.

I don't want to ever I don't want to ever be forced.

I'd do it if I absolutely had to, but I don't ever want to coach a football team without Ben Herbert being our strength coach. I'll tell you, I think you're safe because I think he liked us, but I don't think he really liked us because we told him that a lot of our day is sitting on the couch eating chicken wings and hanging out. I love Ben Herbert. Yeah, he's the best. I love him. He's the best.He's the best.Me. All right, we'll let you keep him. We'll let you keep him. Yeah. I'll put him on Mount Rushmore. There we go. He needs to be there. We can't compete with that. Yeah, that's it. Done. Tom Crean, Ben Herbert, Jack Harbaugh. This is the hell of a Mount Rushmore we got done. John Harbaugh. There it is. That's the new Mount Rushmore. I love it.

Thank you, Coach. Thank you so much.Thank you.

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Mount Rushmore of Things You Wish You Weren't Too Old For.

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Max is running away with it. Max, you're running away with Mount Rushmore season. First time you ever ran away with it. Yeah. I also just had my notes up on my phone, and Hank definitely tried to look at them. Hank, I got a question for you because we just had to switch out cameras, so we had to take a quick break, and you said the stock market is crashing.

I wish maybe we knew anything about Econ, and we could actually know what's happening. Yeah, Hank, That's a good point. What's happening? Black Monday. But we're economically illiterate because we've never been taught.

I tried to tell you in the airport.

That was actually the first thing I said.

What did you say? I said, Black Monday is coming. Get ready. But you understand we don't have the-December. We don't have the building blocks to understand this because you never taught us. What is Black Monday? It's when everyone loses all their money that they've saved up. On a Monday? Does it always have to be on a Monday? No, just this Monday. Could it be Tuesday? In theory. Yeah. Okay. It could be a Friday? It could be. Why is it doing a Black Monday? People are just panicking and selling stocks. Everyone's just panicking. I have no idea. Why can't they just turn it off like they did when everyone was making money off GameStop? Can't they just turn the stock market off? They're going to stop selling shares. Of the stock market? Yeah. Just don't turn it on tomorrow. I want to buy-I hope that Tuesday is better. But now is a good buying opportunity. True. I'm going to invest in one share of the stock market tomorrow. This is when we get rich, boys. Yeah. This is the greatest- Buy the dip. This is the greatest opportunity of our lifetimes. Hank, are you going to ever explain to us Econ?

Yes. Go. I will. Okay. Not today. Okay. But not tonight. You just did with Black Monday. No, all he said was Black Monday. He didn't say anything else. He said that it's going to be bad. Right, but he just read that. He told me earlier that Warren Buffet sold, so that means other people are going to sell. You did teach Max what Black Monday was. What? This was going to happen. You were hammered, so I didn't know what you were saying. You did say that. I mean, yeah, we're going to have to buy the deal. Wait, hang, you called this? He did. He's been talking about it since I've seen him. You called the recession? He did on Saturday. Yeah, you're a fucking genius when it comes to the economy. You're the new Warren Buffet.

So teach us. Okay, things you wish you weren't too old for.

Max is running away with this. I'm in second.

Pft is in third. Hank is in fourth. How are we feeling, Hank? I feel great. I feel relaxed. I was able to get in the right headspace over vacation. I'm ready for a big second half of the year.

Max also did say, let's just put this out there.

There's not going to be any more food draughts. Was Friday a food draft?

Hold on, I didn't finish. Max also did say, I'm trying to figure out my magic number.

Oh, that's too early. Early to do that. You're too early to be playing that.

Early to do that.

Yeah, this has this has potential to be heartbreaking. I mean, this would be an all-time blown lead if you ended up in fourth because it doesn't matter if you're second or third.

I know.

And all the Philly teams are doing that this year.

It's impossible. It's impossible. It's not going to happen. Let's say WLs.

Let me be the first to congratulate Max.

This is bullshit.

On winning Mount Rushmore season.

This is bullshit. Congrats, Max. You're the one who said you're going to figure out your magic dumb.

I actually don't think it is possible.

No, I don't either.

You have nothing to worry about.

Hank would just have to go on a heater.

Heater, yeah. Yeah, so you're good. Hank, have you figured out where your tragic number is? No.

No, I mean, you're close.

You're losing me by a point.

I'm holding up five points, and you're up two points on them.

Who goes first? Bft. And then who goes second? Me. And then who goes third?

We're in the correct We're in the correct order.

We're in the correct order. Let's go, boys. We're good.

Things you wish you weren't too old for.

I like this.

It's open-ended. All right. Things I wish I was not too old for.

First pick, going to three-day long music festivals.

Good one. Lala was all over the timeline this weekend. The Chappell Roan concert, when she's spelling out H-O-T... Was it H-O-T-D-O-G-S? Is that what Max was saying?

Yeah.

It looked like the best time ever, but it also looked like the last place on Earth that I would want to go right now at my age.

Yes. Max just got that. You got it? No, I'm trying to think. Say it. Can you get it? H-o-t-d-o-g-s. I love hot dogs. They're the best. Nice.

I saw someone on TikTok saying that. Shout out that person. Shout out that person. Shout out that person.

Okay, good pick because I agree with that. Yeah, I had that on my list. The one thing I do appreciate, I think we can still participate in when it comes to these three-day long music festivals is seeing old-school, awesome NBA jerseys and then just buying those and wearing those around.

When I see a Bryant Reeves jersey at Lala, I'm like, damn, that's sick.

Yes. Do you think you're too old to go to one day?

One Day?

No, One Day is a concert.

I can do a One Day. I can do a One Day music festival. I'm going to do that at Ridefest this year, I think.

I got to pick out either Friday or Saturday for that.

But three days in a row just feels like, what do you do on the third day?

It's part of your face off.

It's four days now.

Really? Yeah. It starts on Thursday.

I would show up and just complain all day on the third day.

Okay, good pick.

My first pick, sleepovers.

Sleepovers with your friends. Okay. Too old for it. Would be cool, though.

Those were the best when you were kids.

Aren't we doing that this week? We're not sleeping in the same room.

It's also work. Also, Hank's not anyone's friend. Yeah. But sleepovers were the best. I wish it was socially acceptable to just every now and then be like, Let's just watch some games, play some video games, have a sleepover. I I had sober sleepovers with your boys because sometimes, I guess maybe not you, with the family and stuff, but I also have sleepovers with my boys sometimes. Yeah, drunk? Yeah. But that's like you were too drunk to go home. Yeah. They're staying over for a night or whatever.

We're going to do a sleep.

It's also like the little things, being a little too loud.

Then the dad comes down and yells at you. Oh, my God, what's going to happen? Who's going to go to sleep first?

Sneaking out for a second. Yeah. Sneaking upstairs to get some snacks.

Yeah. Sleepovers. Pretty good. Max and Hank did a sleepover at the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. That's true. We also did a non-sleepover. Oh, so you regular day? No, but we spent... Well, Hank's left.

They spent a night together, but they did it in two more days.

That was sleepover vibes, though. Yeah, that was a great time. Video games. We tried to do a... Hank. That was. Hank was the worst puzzle doer I've ever seen in my life.

That was sleepover, yeah. Yeah, because you don't really sleep in sleepovers either.

Yeah, right. Okay, Hank. That was going to be my one.

One, that's a good pick. I will go with not paying bills. You miss not paying bills, yeah.

Don't you?

Yeah. But you're not too old for that. You could do that.

You do do that.

Not intentionally. You don't pay your bills sometimes.

I do pay my bills.

But sometimes you don't. No. There was a grace period when I moved where some stuff was not getting sent to my condo and whatever. That's the only one, though.

I guess That was your first week when you moved in. Half the lights in your apartment weren't on. You don't even think about it when you're a kid, though.

But yeah, that'd be nice. Max, the guy who clinched Mount Rushmore.

You don't even need to go. Meathballs.

Battling through a bad hangover, drinking through a bad hangover. Yeah. Hank does that all the time. What? You don't do that? I'm saying Like, waking up. You're not getting hung over.

The sleepover that we just talked about, you woke up and just fought through it. Went to the Eagles's game. Started drinking.

That wasn't by choice. No battles by choice.

I'm thinking like when you're in college, Friday night, you get absolutely- What you're trying to say is being able to drink with no hangovers.

Yeah. That would be the- Because you get older and then you have hangovers. It's a battle through hangovers. Yeah, that makes sense. Get his ass That makes no sense, battling through hangovers. That's what you do.

That's what everyone does.

What do you mean that you didn't have a choice when you're at the Super Bowl? I mean, I had to go to the Super Bowl. No, but battling through with the next day, parting through.

Okay, I guess being hung. Yeah. No, actually, I'll take you to say you had to drink that day. That was the only way you were going to make it.

Being hung? Yeah. I just used to not get hangovers, and that's basically what I'm saying.

What is the thing that you miss? Not being hung over?Yeah.

Drinking without getting hung over. Right. That's the answer.

Okay. Well, Hank-We're just giving him that? Throw a flag, Hank. Throw a flag. Your first answer was battling through hangovers, and then we just gave them an an infinitely better one. I just didn't understand. Hank's right.

I mean, I'll just not take…

Battling through hangovers. No pick. No pick. Meathballs. No, that's not happening. Battling through hangovers.

That was Do your pick. All right, fine.

I don't care.

I think that somewhat makes sense.

I think it's starting to see the punishments getting closer and closer.

I mean, let's also say that I'm in first, and I also I got the most shit for all of my pics, and always have to get my pics changed.

Take a deep breath.

What?

I couldn't get bullseye. What pick got changed? You guys made me do bullseye.

What pick got changed? No, not pick that got changed. Okay, but people were- You said you always were still mad about Fortnite season, OG Fortnite.

No, there was another one recently.

No one made you change a pick.

No, there was...

Oh, Dragons. People were pissed that I didn't get Dragons. That's not a fucking animal.

He got fucking Patrick Mahomes. That's literally an animal.

It was a terrible pick. I'm just saying. You're awfully upset for a guy that's in first place by a significant margin. Oh, yeah. You clinched Mount Rush.

I also think that's a fine pick. People are going to... Yeah, it is. Whatever.

It's a good pick. Just think about what you're saying before you say it this time.

Playing competitive sports. Okay. Okay, yeah. Yes. What do we do on Thursday? Is that okay? What? That is not competitive.

If you can have a beer in your-I like this thing. If you can have a beer in your hand that's not competitive sports.

Do we do a What do we do on Friday to get the office? You guys are just...

This is just going to be the rest of Mount Rush.

No, I think you're faxually incorrect.

I got a simple question right now. You can have a beer.

Bier Olympics, was that not sport?

No, that is not a sport. I'm talking about high school sports, college sports.

One of my pics was, I'm sad that I'm too old for Little League. But that's not what you said. Okay.

You guys are trying to tell me how I'm not going to do my Mount Rushmore, and I'm the fucking best at this.

You are. What is the- Playing competitive sports.

Are you going to keep playing on your softball team?

You guys are. That is not competitive. Wow, the pugs. That It's memes. You're part of that team. You guys are just going to make me quit Mount Rush.

I compete. That'd be real shame.

I show up to compete. If you didn't get to win. It'd be real shame.

I like what you guys are doing here because I'm dominating this game way too much that you're just trying to muddy the water.

You quit Mount Rush for a season, and then your points stayed at the exact same total for the rest of Mount Rush.

Whoever was going to be in first of this-Impossible, you idiot. You idiot. That's impossible. What was the word you were about to say?

You fucking idiot, but I was just like, Whoever was in first at this juncture of Mount Rushmore season was going to get this type of heat.

It just happens it's you.

All right?

No, fuck you guys. I think the lights might be too bright for Max. Yeah. He clenched. Yeah.

You guys are just upset. You guys are upset. You're like the Yankees.

Yeah. Okay. A lot of choices here. Let's go with climbing random trees. I had climbing trees on my list, too.

When you were a kid, you would just climb whatever tree you could see.

You see it with some branches low, and you're like, I can get up there. Now, you'd probably get the police call them.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Playing with Nerf guns, I wish I wasn't too old for that. Playing with Nerf guns as a kid was the best.

Now, when you do it, it's just like, who cares?

They've gotten so much better over the years, too.

So much better.

You have automatic weapons. You've got laser sights on them. It's incredible. Playing with Nerf guns was so much fun as You get to...

Yeah. What's that look for, Hank? Nothing.

No, there's a look.

Stop gaslighting everyone.

I have nothing to say for the rest of this Mount Rush.

What?

So you have no more pics? I will take my pics, and I will have no comment on anyone. Come on. Only the facts.

Come back.

No. No comment. Maybe like Barcel, when we did the nerve, we did a nerve video.

We did?

Years ago. We did do that nerve video.

We did it in the New York office.

Was I part of it? You were a captain? Yeah, that was fun. I wish I had We could do that all the time, but we don't.

That was also three years ago.

I didn't bring it up. I was just curious. I was curious if Max was going to bring it up.

I think the name of this is Things that you wish you weren't too old for. That was in the past, right? Yeah, that was. It was three years ago. Max, come back to us from out of Rushmore.

I'm done critiquing your picks. Yeah. No, I'm ready. All right. Do you think that was a good pick? Sure.

Okay. Okay. I'm up. I just imagine waking up Imagine waking up as a member of the Pugs on Black Monday and finding out you're not playing competitive sports.

Yeah, well, I mean, if he's managing the team, they're not competitive. It's true. You're a leader of that team. Talk. He hasn't been there.

No, yeah.

Oh, no. Neither of you. I'm talking about me. This is awesome.

You went to that game and didn't play because your bicep hurt. Is that true?

Yeah, I was worried about golf.

Oh, my God.

Now, actually, your pick got stronger. Because a guy who doesn't play because he's worried about golf, that's not competitive.

Okay, PFT. Who is the playoff I would have played?

Hank and He gets in multiple competitive golf tournaments a year that he cares about. Yeah.

All right, so I have two. Okay, so my first one, I'm going to go trampolines. Trampolines rock. Dude, have you guys been on a trampoline recently? No. Okay. I was on a trampoline two weeks ago with my kids. I was doing popcorn with them where I was jumping and they were just popping everywhere. Maybe eight minutes, completely gassed. Sweat, had to get off the trampoline.

That shit just kills you. Yeah, I was watching it at the Olympics, too.

Every time the guy would jump up in the air, I'd be like, That guy's going to die.

They're so high up. But trampolines were so fun. There's trampolines in the Olympics?

Yeah, there's trampolining. What?

They go 50 feet in In the air.

It's crazy. Damn. That's nuts.

They should do trampoline in the Olympics, but it should be a battle, two people at the same time trying to bounce each other. And maybe with a hoop and a ball? And then you can tackle the guy in midair.

Yeah, I like that. But yeah, trampolines were so fun. You'd always go to your friend's house that had a trampoline, and his parents obviously just didn't care, and they were okay with everyone getting hurt.

And then you'd go on it for like... All you'd want to do is be like, Let's go to the trampoline. And they'd be like, I'm sick of the I broke my arm there two months ago. No, I wanted to do the fucking trampoline. They're awesome, but you can't do it as an adult. My next one, I'm going to go power wheels.

Power wheels was so fun because you couldn't drive yet, but goddamn, if you weren't behind the wheel of what felt like a car at the time, power wheels were the absolute best. Agreed. Okay, I got to pick.

Any smart comments about that?

Max, lock back in. No, you're pretty good. Lock back in. You know what the power wheels are? No, I have no idea what power wheels are. I think that's a 1980s. You know what power wheels are?

No. Power wheels?

Everyone knows power wheels. Power, power, power wheels. No, I don't know that. There's one in the office for my kids. It's a mini car. No, that's something different. But I have a mini truck that my kids come on Saturdays and just whip around in them. They're awesome. I don't know. I never had one of these. He was driving until he was 14. That's hilarious. Hank. Hank's so funny. That's a good one, Hank. That was a good one. Okay. Yeah. They're just mini cars, mini trucks. But you can just drive real cars. Well, not when you're...

Yeah, true. Now that you're old.

Yeah, but like- This draft is the things that you wish you weren't too old for.

Right. But he's saying you could drive a real car, which is- I could also probably still drive a power wheel.

Yeah.

That would be- We got to test that out now.

When you're right, you're right. Hank's right.

That's why I'm a really good driver is because I was training up there all until I got my license.

It's been almost a year since you last wrapped your car around a pole in the parking lot. Well, the pole that Hank clearly intentionally mislabeled.

All right, easy one for me, building forts. I just love building forts.

Now I'm in the fort building game on the other side where I build the forts, but I don't get to go in the forts.

But building forts, just being inside of a fort, you build a good fort at the start of the day, it's I got this fort for the rest of the day.

Pillow forts. Pillow forts. Stick forks down by the creek.

Yeah. I mean, the best.

Building a fort and just being like, This is my spot.

I got it. Okay.

I feel like it's been a lot of kids' stuff, but I'll go a little bit older. I'll just go with college parties.

Yeah, that's a good one. College parties were the best.

I think the last college party I was at was with you, Hank, and it was 10 years ago, and it was very uncomfortable for us.

Yeah, I had a stretch. I mean, we did the Dixie tour when I was 22. That didn't feel weird. You were fine. There was a couple of years after that. I think it was 24, and I was like, This is super weird.

We were at Ohio State.

I was like 20 when we did this. Yeah, playing beer pong or flip cup, and I was probably 29, and I was like, I have to get out of here. This is not good. I need to get out of here. But yeah, college parties from 18 to... Give yourself 22, can't beat it. Yeah. You know the Olympics this year, they were basically the same thing as a college party.

That's every single Saturday in college. Yeah. Caring very deeply about a game of beer pong. I miss getting into fights in beer pong games.

That was fun. That was a good pick.

Max? I don't know where this is going to go.

This is also something that I didn't really get to do at my own school, but I did it at other schools, and that's watching games at a student section.

Okay. I know that you guys did that recently.

Yeah, you can still do that. But you got to get over the uncomfortable.

Yeah, that's what this whole... I mean, technically, you can do anything that we're doing today, but it's uncomfortable.

That's a good pick. Yeah.

I have a pick coming up that you cannot do, but okay. Okay, that's interesting. Okay. I have one that I really want to do, but I think that you're going to give me shit for it. No, go for it. You're in the lead. You're never going to blow this lead. We won't give you shit.

I won't give you shit. I don't know.

Say it, Max. As long as you're too old to do it. I am too old to do it.

Okay.

Fuck it. This is another thing that I was- Shook it off with your voice.

That I was never able to do, and I was just in France studying abroad. I'm too old to study abroad. I could never do it. It's the coolest thing ever.

Yeah, that is. I wish I did. The whole time I was over I was like, I cannot believe that kids did this for a full semester and fake went to school and then just went all through Europe.

What?

Hank said same, but you'd have to go to college to study abroad, Hank. Hank goes to college for one semester Study Abroad. I thought you guys were going to give me shit for that. I don't know why. No, that's a good pick. That's a good pick. Study Abroad literally translates to look at that check. Yeah. Okay. That took me a while, but yeah. I will stay on brand, considering you take a day off and it's like you killed someone, but just having the whole summer off.

Yeah. Nothing better.

No, you're doing that this year. Last day of school, no. I'm here.

I took less than a week off.

I was here on Thursday, here on Friday, playing on Saturday. But yeah, last day of school before you were, I don't know what, 13, 14, maybe you started to have and do some type of job in the summer.

But when you're an elementary and I guess just elementary school kid, the last day of school was like, I'm just going to play with a ball and baseball for the next two months and go to the pool. Winter College break, too, was great. Yeah, I feel like it was like a month. Yeah, it was like a month. I did it for once. And then my friends and then- Wait, wait, wait. You went to school for one semester, right? No, two. Oh, two? Oh, all right. I finished out strong. But then when I was working- Be funny if Hank was still technically on his winter college break. No, I think if you did both of my semesters, though, I have one semester's worth of credits.

Finish out strong? Yeah.

But When I was working at a young age in the workforce, and my friends would be home, and they'd be off, fucking off for a month straight. I'd just be at work being like, When do you go back to school? How are you still doing this?

It's Wednesday. Yeah, that was the best.

All right. I got two that I want to... Should I do one or two? Max, you pick. I want the one that you said that you definitely can't do. Having a wet dream. A handjob from God. I wish I... That was rocked. It was basically virtual reality, and it was awesome, but you can't do it anymore. I I haven't had a wet dream since I was 12 years old, 13 years old. You've had one? No, I haven't.

Oh. I don't think I ever had one. Couldn't you do it? I don't know. Even just don't jerk off. I guess it has to come out.

I guess that Robbie Fox was also very young when that. He was 19. Okay.

I mean, it was just the bet.

You went to sleep and you fucked a hot chick.

And then, yeah, I mean, the clean-up was a little weird, but who cares? I think if you didn't come for two weeks or a month or something, it may have just happened.

I don't know. That'd be very funny.

I don't think so.

Explain to your significant other like, No, we can't do it.

I'm trying to get myself a wet dream. I'm trying to get a wet dream.

Just bear with me for the next couple of weeks. It was only a little stretch for me, and it rocked for that little stretch.

I had exactly one wet dream my entire life. Really?

It was incredible. Yeah. Then I'm like, Maybe I'll have another one. But then I psyched myself out. Now, every time I'm dreaming, I'm thinking about about to have sex with a hot chick.

I'm like, Wait, you idiot.

This is a dream that hot chick will never have sex with you. Then I wake up and then I try to go back to to get back into the dream where I think about that dream, put myself back, and then it's fucked up. It would rock to be able to have a wet dream. It would rock to be able to know, too. Just being like, I'm going to maybe put on a condom before I go to bed.

No clean up. But yeah, we're too old for that. Huey, you ever had a wet dream? No. No? No, I don't remember a single one. Okay. So you might have had one. It's a possibility. Okay. All right. Pft, your last pick.Do you think it's a dream where you're swimming? Yeah. I won't drown, probably. I was being in those dreams. A bunch of mine got picked in this last round.

So this is going to be tough for me. I miss the possibility of being taller. Like, I'm not done growing. That's a good one. That's a good one for you, especially. Yeah, thank you. Until I was 19 or I was like, maybe. Maybe I'm not done yet. Because I stopped growing when I was in ninth grade. I was like, maybe next year's the growth spurt. I started eating a lot of food, just got fat for a little bit because I was trying to convince myself that it was a growth spurt, that I'm hungry all the time. No, you're just getting fat. But I wish I could still have that feeling where it's like, maybe this isn't it for me. I'm tall, PFT, or taller than you. Oh, you're not tall. I'm not tall. I was this height in seventh grade, and my dad is 6'2, my uncle's 6'4, my brother's 6'3, and they told me that I was going to be the tallest person in my family.

Oh, no. Never grew again. That's brutal. The fat guy equivalent to that is like outgrowing your baby fat. When you're a fat child, it's like, It's okay, it's just baby fat.

Yeah, I won't have tits. Then you get to that, and then you do outgrow it, and then it all comes back. An older relative is like, Look, this is what I looked like in middle school, and now I'm skinny, and you're like, Oh, that's It's going to be me.

Then you think genetics is going to do all of it.

Now you have to rely on Ozempic.

Yeah. Or like we're doing, we're working out. Yeah, working out.

Me and Big Cat are getting in the best shape of our lives.

Diet started today. Yep.

What are we having for dinner? Pizza. Small amount of pizza.

The one who said we should add some salad. Salads, yeah. What got left off? The one I was thinking that I would have picked, but I feel like maybe a little too much pushback, Pissing Outdoors without It Being A Crime. No, golf course. Yeah, true. You can pee anywhere in a golf course.

But it was awesome when you were a kid and you're just like, I pee anywhere. No one's going to say shit.

In college, we had two bathrooms that were right next to outside, and we would just go outside, and we were like, I'm using the urinal. Yeah, but even that would be a crime if someone saw it.

When I take my son to T-ball and he's like, I got to pee, I'm like, All right, there's a tree right there.

No one's going to say shit. If I peed behind that tree, big I had Getting Hyped for Christmas morning.

I had that, too. Yeah, I thought about that one. Gravity Bongs. The excitement. No, we're bringing those back. Yeah, we are bringing those back. But the excitement of the magic of Christmas.

Yeah, and also your birthday, too.

Yeah, birthdays.

That was a big deal, and now it's just like, Fuck, I'm getting older.

What, 18 is probably the last? No, 21 is the last birthday that you're excited for. 25, you can rent a car. I think it's 21. 21, I think it's it. You can rent a beach house. The rest is just like... Yeah. But dude, remember waking up being like, I'm 10 today? A fucking rock, double hand. Cupcakes? Yeah. School. Yeah, your birthday party, pizza. Velcro sneakers. If you're an adult man wearing Velcro sneakers, people are like, Something's wrong.

And they are so much easier than tying your shoes. I wish I wasn't too old for those. But then you actually get… It does come around. When you're 90. Yeah, when you get way old, you can do it.

Diapers and Velcro. They make a comeback. I had quitting a job that you don't care about. That is one of the best feelings in the world. That's good.

When you have a job in your early 20s and you just hate it and walking away from that job, it is better than drugs.

I walked out on a job on a lunch break. That's awesome. Yeah, It was the worst job.

It was the one I had where I called people asking them for money for Wisconsin alone.

So I'd call them during dinner.

I quit a dishwashing job to go to a free Mac Miller concert. Hell, yes. I had this one.

I would have gotten some pushback because I'm currently doing a little of this, but I do wish I could just play video games all day.

Yeah, I had that. There was nothing better than getting a new video game being like, There's my next 12 hours. I'm just going to beat this video game. That was the best. Having imaginary friends. Oh, yeah. Slash world building with your toys. I wish that you could have that, though.

No, imagination, I think. It's not imaginary friends. Imagination, you lose your imagination.

That Yeah, you have stuffed animals and you have a whole world in your brain.

What was your world? It depended. Depend on the day.

What were your stuffed animals? I had a Chip Beanie Baby.

That was my ride or die. Then it was just a random collection of other stuffed animals that my dog used as like, yeah, toys.

Yeah, you had your dog's toy. Yeah, I had my Ace. He'd be in the bed with me and then everything else was just whatever was in the house.

The one having energy. Yeah. That's working out, though. Yeah, but I'm talking about kid energy. I'm pretty sure my kids are solar-powered because they'll just be in the sun all day and they just won't be tired. It's just like, How did this happen? Yeah, you're super excited to wake up, and you're super upset to go to sleep. Because when you go to sleep, you might miss out on fun stuff.

He's over, yeah. Sleeping in was one I had as well.

I'm too old to sleep in. It would be awesome to sleep in until 11:00.

Yeah. I mean, I sleep in sometimes as well. I'm so jealous of that. Are there Saturdays? But are there Saturdays when you'll sleep till 11:00?

Oh, yeah. You motherfucker. I slept in four the other day. Four is crazy. I'd kill a man to be able to do that. Wait, you almost slept through the sun? I was in bed pretty much until the sun came down. See, that's a young man wanted to battle through that. That was also awesome.

I had Happy Meals.

Happy Meals, the joy of Happy Meal and the tiny little shitty toy. What about school parties?

Yeah. House part. Oh, yeah.

Like Valentine's Day, you had all that stuff.

You had the Christmas parties. There always be big activities. Yeah. Field day. Yeah. Now you try to do that.

It's always alcohol or something.

Yeah. But just a sober fun party.

Clean, old-fashioned fun. Yeah. The holiday theme stuff. Yeah. Dress up parties for the holidays. That's a good one. Swingin' on swingSwinging on swing sets. Swinging on swing sets. Awesome. You get the cops called on you.

Yeah.

Especially for. No, I'm saying you're with your kids going to a park and you see a normal adult by himself swinging on a swing set.

What the fuck is going on? Yeah, for his own good, I would call the cops on him, probably. You can still swim in a pool, but being a kid swimming in a pool, there was nothing better.

I would never leave.

Just being in a pool all day, going underwater. You guys gone underwater recently?

It's not as fun.

I did. It's just like your ears pop. I remember I was used to just fucking go underwater all day. I did. Yeah, it was awesome. I was at the pool. I go underwater. My buddy was at the pool, and he's got a six-year-old son. And so he was like, Let's see how deep we can go to touch the bottom.

And so I was in the deep end and you just push yourself down, touch the bottom. It's exhilarating. But then you do it once and you're like, All right, I did it.

Being a kid, you do it for hours. Yeah, the kid stayed there and he kept doing it.

Just pool games in general. Pool games in general, definitely.

I did I had being able to go out with a $20 bill. Oh, that's good. I wanted to do that.

That was another one I was thinking, then you're going to be... But then the alternative is, Okay, well, now you have more money, so you don't need to do that.

But when you're in college and literally all you need is a $20 bill and can have the best night ever, I can't even fathom that.

Pft and I have going out without smartphones. Yeah, it was excellent.

That was so awesome. It was good.

Going out with a flip phone, just being like, no one was on their phone.

I didn't have a smartphone until six months into working at Barcell.

Really? You had a flip phone?

Were you texting? Were you doing T9?

I had a MV1.

It was a flip open keyboard.

And then I had an iPod touch WiFi shit.

I didn't have a smartphone until I was like 24.

Is it Blackberry? Yeah. All right. Anything else? Anything else we missed?

Being a kid rocked. Yeah. Really was the best. Coloring? Coloring. How's bad at coloring?

Being able to be completely oblivious to all politics.

I try really hard to be oblivious, but it seeps in. But when you were a kid, who the fuck cares?

They're not having a frontal lobe.

Yeah.

Well, you're getting there.

There were a couple of things I thought of that were close to both of yours.

One of them laser tag. The laser tag is a good one.

I have a take. I think laser tag is the most overrated thing. I don't think you went to the right laser Laser Tag is awesome.

They're all bad. No, not Ultrazone.

Every time I play laser tag, I wish I was playing paintball. But paintball, you have to wear... I don't want to get... It's the fun of paintball without getting hurt.

And laser tag, it's dark.

You got black lights. You're sneaking through mazes and shit. Painball was fun last year. Paintball was a lot of fun. And then also Go Carts.

Oh, Go Carts. Yeah.

Go Carts. But I thought it was close to- And they also do have adult Go Carts.

We did it. We did it in Nashville a few years ago.

And for an ad, too.

Yeah, it was fun. But that's different. If it's for an ad, it's different. Man, I used to just want to stop at every Go Cart place. My dad would just not let me. I was just like, Fuck. I feel like roller coaches are like, you can't just go to an amusement park and just like, I guess you can. Yeah, having the thrill of being on a golf car, too. Going on a golf car when you're a kid was awesome. Yeah. Water parks? Yeah. Water parks. Although water parks are still fun. They're still fun, not the same. Not the same. Batting cages, still fun, not the same. Yeah. Batting cages. All right. Good show, boys.

We have the random number generator because we forgot to do the lottery balls.

So do you want to win this?

Yeah, of course. Okay.

I I don't. I don't want this.

We'll go 56.

I'll go 20. I'll go 11. Okay. I have to wait. I'll go 8. Huey? 42.

42 for Huey. Do you want to? 47.

3 for Memes. Shane? 21. All right.

Shane, you're watching? 11. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, it says 11. Wait, did you get 11?

Yeah, Max gets 11.

Hey, congrats, Max.

Congrats, Max. That's awesome.

Huge. Yeah, Max. Max finally got it. Shane, you're looking at it.

Does it not say 11? Wait, you actually got 11?

Yeah, I mean, it's...

No. It doesn't count as the lottery ball. Hey, Max. Good job, Max.

Yeah, you've got your random number generator. That's so sick.

100%. It was actually 11, Shane.

Good job, dude.

Was there a camera on it? Good job. My eyes, but...

Yeah. Beam's eyes. Good job. Congrats, Max, that's so sick, dude.

Show the fucking thing. That's so sick, Max.

That's so sick, dude.

I still think you're fucking with me.

I mean, because it's the lamest thing to win is this.

I mean, I don't care. You can't ask the question anymore. No, I can.

Have you ever gotten the lottery ball machine? I got the number. Have you ever gotten the lottery ball machine? I got the number.

Answer the question. Have you ever gotten the lottery ball machine? I got the number.

No, you've never gotten the lottery ball machine.

All right, fine. It's better.

I'm taking This is a win. No, it's not.

The best part is there's always going to be a shred of doubt in Max's mind that was actually true. It wasn't 11.

It's okay.

It was not 11. How did you do that? I just kept on hitting it until it became 11. Yeah. I got my guy back here. Wait, was it 11? Yeah, it was 11. It was 11 chain? Look, 11. I know that, but... Yeah. 11. Easy. That was easy. That is the number 11. Ask our Econ guy. Get this. So it's firmly in there. 11. Bang. Way to go, Max. I'm happy. That's aThat's a win. I can tell how happy you are. Yeah, that's a win. All right. See everyone on Wednesday. Love you guys. I'm talking away. I don't know what I have to say. I'm saying it anyway. Today is on my date to be safe and sorry. Say up to me. I need to be safe and sorry. Say up to me. I need to be safe and sorry. Things that you say, who's it alive? Just to play that bird, the reason why. You all.