Hey, pardon my take, listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon music on today's pardon my take, the finale of Grit Week, although we have some other interviews from Grit Week coming next week, some big ones. We have coach Sean McVeigh on the show. Awesome time with Coach McVeigh. We've known Coach McVeigh now for seven years in our relationship. I feel like he's in a very good spot. He's very comfortable with us. Yeah. Told me to shut the fuck up at one point.

Yeah, he was a good dude. He came in, started joking around right off the bat. Back slapping.

Yeah.

Cussing, talking shit.

Good time. Great time. So we're going to do Fyre fest, end of Grit week. Grit week memories. We also have one of my favorite Mount Rushmores that we've done so far because it got contentious and very funny. The Mount Rushmore of yellow things, which we taped on the bus. We are now back in Chicago for the beginning of the show, we wanted to make sure we talked about the USA big win over Serbia. So we got a great Friday sending into the weekend.

We did bring back some of the animosity from the Mount Rushmore debate. We just, after the game was over, the USA Serbia debate, we were just in the game like cave and we're still screaming at each other.

Yes.

About the picks that we made.

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Yes. So the end of great week. Great week was great. We have some, the Rushmore and fire fester still in the RV. We got back tonight because we have rough and rowdy tomorrow. Go. Go to buy r and r.com. it's going to be great. But we got back and we watched one of my favorite basketball games. Like that was a thrilling, thrilling basketball game. Serbia versus USA. Serbia gave us everything they had. Jokic played 38 out of 40 of the minutes. They were hitting wapping threes in the first half. But our guys, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Joellen Bead and Devin Booker, the five guys who basically played the entire fourth quarter, they can ball.

Yeah. And it's awesome. It's awesome to be able to root for those guys.

Yeah.

Like, I now I get it. I get it. I haven't had a lot to root for as a Wizards fan in recent memory. You, as a Bulls fan, it kicks so much ass being able to root for LeBron James.

Yeah.

And being able to root for Steph.

Curry in that moment.

Being able to root for Joel Embiid. I was rooting for Joel Embiid today.

Joel Embiid, I'll say. He's more of a rollercoaster. He was incredible in the fourth quarter. There's no Joel Embiid slander on this show today. But, Max, I also had a little peek into why you are the way you are. Because Joe Embiid was on fire. He was, he was playing great, setting screens, hitting shots, and then he had, like two or three possessions where he looked like he didn't know how to walk. And then he went back to being great. And I was like, this is why Max is probably going to have the shortest lifespan of any of us in this room.

He was just standing still at times.

Yeah.

And he would just, like, forget to walk down court, but not slander. But then, but then he did. He would do something awesome.

Like, right.

He got the ball out at the perimeter and he drove to the basket. Probably got fouled a little bit on his arm, threw down an awesome dunk. And then. I've never seen a player do this before, but he somehow landed on his head after he let go of the rim.

Yeah.

I don't know. It looked like he got tased on the way down.

It was crazy.

And just, I, I saw some people saying that maybe he was trying to minimize the impact on his knees, so he's just not landing on his feet anymore. He's the opposite of a cat. He just, I've told his head, I've.

Told you guys that. Not, not the head. Not landing on the head. But he chooses to fall because it's less. Well, it's less impact on your knees if you, if you fall to the ground.

Yes.

Well, he certainly did that because I think he landed on, like, his ear, but it was still cool. It was funny to watch. But I was rooting for Joel Embiid. It was fun to root for your country.

One of the greatest Americans of all time.

Awesome american hero.

He also was on the court at the end. Last guy to leave the court, just playing the heel versus the french fans, which I love. So that's.

The French are going to hate him on Saturday.

Electric. But, yeah, that was, that was such a fun game. And it was, it was fun, too, because of Serbia and how well they played and also how much shit they talked. Bogdanovich doing the. He was, he was talking shit to Mello, who Mello should be the coach in next olympics. Mello literally called a play for Kevin Durant from the far sideline. He was like, clear out, clear out. It was when Kevin Durant had the sauce. I think that's what. I think that's. What was his name?

Dwayne Wade?

Noah Eagle. No, Eagle used a kaboom as well.

He used to kaboom. He said he did the cross.

The sauce. Yes.

The cross and the sauce.

Yes.

So that's that at communion where you do. You do the stations. You touch your shoulders, then you throw back the wine.

Yeah, that was. But it was every guy. That was the best part. It was like, Devin Booker hit that big three off the inbound. Steph Curry was insane. 36 points, couldn't miss. Joe and Bede had big moments. LeBron's two layups that were just so impossibly good, driving the lane. He had a triple double. Kevin Durant being like, get out of the way, everyone mellow. Just called my number. I'm going to score this. It was just fun. I don't like, that was. That was a top basketball game I watched.

It was fun. And when they were kicking the ball around the perimeter, it would be like, okay, LeBron. Lebron's got this. And then he passed it to Katie, who looked kind of open. I'm like, fuck, yeah. I get to watch Katie make a basket for the United States. Then Katie would pass again, and it's Steph Curry that's got the ball.

Yeah.

I'm like, oh, shit. These are all awesome players to watch. Why have they not all been on the court at the same time for the entire game?

Yeah, well, and so Steve Kerr. I'm actually going to give Steve Kerr credit because he threw changing up the lineup so much, and then when the. When we cut it to, like, six points in the third quarter, and he's like, let me just throw in the bad lineup again. And then they went the lead balloon back to 13. Steve Kerr, sense of the dramatic, he gave us that. That finish. If he had just kept with his best players the whole second half, we probably would have won by double digits.

Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I thought going into this tournament, it seemed like he wanted to get some of the close games out of the way, and that's maybe why he was tinkering with the lineup, but I don't know why he just continues to do.

It well, I think. I think our guys are old, which that was also the cool part. Like Kevin Durant, Joe Embiid, LeBron, Steph, I don't know how many MVP's they have between the four of them. A lot, but they're all older, and so they probably need their rest. But there was. There was that one moment. It was the end of the third quarter where we cut it close, and then it went back to 13, and I think, bam. Was shooting a corner three, and it was just like, what the fuck?

Don't.

What are we doing, guys? What are we doing to. But credit Steve Kerr for making an interesting game and one of a highlight Olympic basketball game, because that was more fun than the US just killing everyone. And Serbia was awesome. Jokic was awesome. All their guys hit threes in the first half, and I just. It felt like we all could come together and we all had a part in this game.

Yeah, Hank, like, when you.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I'm an American first and foremost, before anything else, so I was happy for our country. I think Steve Kerr is a fucking idiot.

I thought you were Californian first.

I'm an American first. California is part of America. Didn't know if you knew that.

They don't want to be.

Even his own player, Draymond Green was chirping him on Twitter, saying, you know, you got to mess with the lineups. They're clearly not working. In the first half. You have Jason Tate of one of the best players in the NBA, didn't play at all.

He didn't play.

Didn't play DNP.

I actually do think Tatum should have played, and that made no sense. There was the first half when we were going under these screens and not switching, and it was like knocking rebounds. Just put Tatum out there. You can switch on everything. Yeah.

Crash the board, score. It was weird, but at the end of the day, it was fun to root as an American for, you know, for the boys. It was.

It is.

It would have been an all time choke if they didn't even medal.

Yeah. Yeah. It would have been really bad. And this is what I love about the Olympics. This is what I love about the World cup. This is what I love about just all international competitions. You get to just be like, fuck the world. We're America. Suck my dick. We're the bullies. We're gonna beat the shit out of you, and you get to root for your country, and you get to feel good about it. After the game, Kevin Durant, they asked him what it's like representing America, and he said, there's a lot of bullshit that happens in our country, but there's a lot of good stuff.

I love that quote. Slim Reaper.

Yep, that's. He said it. Yeah, that should be. That should be a presidential slogan. Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit, but there's a lot of good stuff, too.

So that's a very positive way to handle it, Hank.

It's also like, Jason, Jason, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, they're going to have all the motivation world. That is a good thing for the, you know, I'm rooting for America, but after this is over, the Celtics, like, they're going to be set up for a repeat.

You're. You're in the spot now where you would actually prefer Jason Tatum not to play in the gold medal game because you want to full on revenge Jason Tatum to be like, you played a bunch of old guys and it's my league kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I do want to give us some credit, too, as Americans for this victory, because we did something that we sacrificed for this, too. We actually rooted for LeBron James today.

Yeah.

Like, with our whole hearts. I was. I was so happy watching LeBron. We was driving to the hole.

He was incredible.

He was awesome. There was. There was no snark in the back of my head watching him. I wasn't thinking about how maybe he looks a little bit older in France, that maybe. I don't know how time zones work. He's like five and a half hours older than normal.

Yeah, I was. I did maybe say that his legacy was on the line at halftime.

You were motivating him.

Yeah, right. I was. We also found out that the key for Embiid to play against Jokic is he just needs LeBron to cover Jokic.

Yes, he needs. He needs LeBron to put a big body on.

He was doing everything. Lebron.

Yeah.

What about Jokic guarding Embiid?

What about it?

What about eight of eleven and Joe gets was guardian beads.

Yeah, no worries.

We just played 38 minutes.

We just said that that would literally be played an awesome game.

Yeah, we're not. Listen, we're positive.

Beat was great today. Everybody on the team contributed today. Almost everybody on the team contributed today.

Yes.

And Drew Holiday, Devon Booker, Devon, Derek White and Bam all played a total of 61 minutes, nine points, three rebounds.

That was. That was the death lineup. The reverse death lineup.

Yeah, but everyone contributed it. Everybody. Everybody in this room, everybody in that room.

We all came together.

Listen, rooting for. You have to make sacrifices for your country sometimes, and I can't think of a bigger sacrifice that we would make then openly rooting and admiring LeBron James.

I'd agree with you. So.

And I don't regret it, and I'll do it again against France.

Credit to us for being the bigger men here. So, yeah, it was. It was an awesome game. It was a lot of fun to watch. Olympics are great. We also had. So, no, lyles won the 100. We talked about that on Monday, I want to say. Or maybe it was Wednesday. I don't know what time it is.

You won by .5 seconds.

Yes, but he lost in the 200, and then he did the savviest thing ever. He got into a wheelchair because he had Covid.

Yeah.

Wheelchair.

Well, he's got asthma, too.

Yeah.

So the old Covid asthma double threat now.

Incredible. The 100 meters race was awesome. I did see a clip of him before the race today. He was just, like, using all his energy, whooping up the crowd, going crazy with COVID That's.

That's.

No, but again, wheelchair, that kind of negates it all.

It doesn't negate it all. There was also an awesome, awesome moment where a french lady won a race. I think it was the 1500. And then she ran over to the stands, and then she proposed to her boyfriend in the stands. She brought him down to the front row.

Yes.

Got on a knee and proposed to him. Didn't that happen in the Boise state game right at the end of that bowl game? And people got mad at the football player because they were like, why are you. Why are you making the proposal, like, you know, at your biggest moment?

Yeah. I think you're allowed to do that.

Love is love.

There was another time earlier in the Olympics, wherever believe it was, a chinese ping pong player came off, and her boyfriend proposed to her after she won the gold. That's fucked up.

That is fucked that you can't steal.

Her mom basically was just stole the whole moment. So everyone's like, oh, you got engaged. Oh, yeah. And also, I guess you won a gold medal. Yeah.

If you're that guy, you have to. Was he pressured into saying yes in that moment? Because you can't run away.

You have to say yes.

She'll catch you. She's fast as fuck.

Yeah. I also watched a steeple chase today. That was awesome. Some. Is it called steeplechase?

Yeah, some dude ate shit.

Yeah, he ate shit. And then that one maybe was a steeple chase. Might have been another race. There was actually a finish. The second place guy finished .3 seconds ahead of the third place guy.

Yep.

I don't know how they do this technology.

I don't know either. So what do we have left? We have. We got more track and field.

Marathon.

Marathon.

Marathon always ends it, I think. Right?

Does it know? I think. I thought breakdancing was last this year.

Is it? I thought the marathon always, like, they run into the stadium on that Sunday morning.

That's it. Might be one of the last ones.

Yeah. We're up right now, 30 to 29 on China. The total medal count over. We've won that easily. But we got to win the gold.

Got to win the gold. And if you look at that, like, per capita, we're absolutely dominating China.

Yeah.

They've got like 2 billion people over there.

Is it 2 billion now?

No, I'm grown. I just knew was more than a billion. Once you get over a billion, it's. It's 2 billion.

Yeah. You lose track.

You lose track of it. They've got enough. I'll put it that way. There's.

Okay.

China. We get it.

The marathon is the last women's marathon.

Yeah. They do it. They go into the stadium. It's very cool. Okay. Other things. Pedro Griffall got fired White Sox manager. So I don't know why. They should give him a little more time.

So, yeah, he hasn't implemented his system yet. We're going to see what he can do. I would not coach the White Sox if you.

Grady size more is coaching him.

Yeah. Grady size more is going to step in as. On an interim basis for him. Not. Not full time yet, but if you offered me $3 million a year to coach the Chicago White Sox, I would say no to manage that team. Think about how shitty.

10 million a year.

10 million a year. No. No, I wouldn't.

Because remember, what is a three year contract?

Three year contract guaranteed. So 30 million total.

And, I mean, Pedro Griffald didn't get fired for a very long time.

Do I get unlimited milkshakes that they have at. At the White Sox field?

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Then I'm in.

So funny that they fired him now. Like, what. What's even the. They've. What's the point?

I think it's like, you did they lose two out of three to the A's and then that did it? They're like, okay, well, they.

But they also broke their 21 game losing streak.

They did. Yeah. I would not. No, I would not want to manage them. Imagine what a shitty job that would be.

No, it'd suck.

It's just miserable. Everyone's upset all the time. It's hot. You have to go to that shitty stadium with nobody in it, but you.

Also would have no pressure.

Well, you might get fired if you lose the ace.

No. But again, Pedro Grafal didn't get fired for a very long time. Speaker zero.

Long time.

Speaker zero. He had a. The longest leash. I think the, I think there's. I saw some stat where it was maybe over 100 games or 150 games. He was the third worst manager of all time base. They've been playing baseball really long time.

Really long time.

A really long time.

Kind of unfair to put that on him for his managing job.

Yeah.

Was that really how much of that was him versus how much was the team? Just the overall vibe of the organization.

Yeah. Yeah. And again, I think I mentioned it earlier this week. The worst is the guy, the doctor when everyone went to war. Dentist.

Yeah.

Who managed, I think, the Phillies pretty bad. Bad company. Um, okay. Uh, anything else? I mean, grit week was great.

So we got a, one of our guests from Grit week was in the news the other day.

Oh, Jim Har. Yes. You told me you saved this for me.

Yes, yes.

I asked what a show cause was and you said, I found out a couple years ago, but I forgot, but I'm gonna find out again.

Yeah. I just need to jog the memory.

Okay.

So I did. So I was 75% correct with what I thought that it was. So Harbaugh just got a show cost penalty from the NCAA. They found a bunch of, like, I don't know, I don't know the level one, level two, level two a infractions. Nobody knows what any of this bullshit means. It was just like, okay, you did some stuff, you wouldn't cooperate. So we're going to hammer you on stuff.

This is. Because it's very confusing. This is from. This is not stallions.

Yeah. I believe there was some stallions involved.

In this, but this is, I, I think this was the co, the cheeseburger, the COVID recruiting.

So this is a four year show cause for recruiting violations.

Yeah. So this is, this isn't even stallions yet. Cause the NCAA moves so slow.

So what they did was they tried to interview him and he was like, I'm just not going to talk to you. And then they tried to. Which, legally speaking is the right thing. He watched too many of those shut the fuck up Friday commercials on YouTube and he's like, yeah, I don't have to say shit to you. I'm going to plead the fifth. There's no fifth amendment in college football because the NCAA considers themselves to be like, bigger than the constitution. So he did not cooperate. Nobody cooperated with the NCAA at Michigan. Some people did, some people lied. Harbaugh got punished for all of it. Harbaugh is getting a four year show. Cause. Which means. So he's not college football anymore. Right. But if another team were to hire him in the next four years, they would have to go in front of the NCAA and explain why that school shouldn't get punished more for hiring. Harbaugh got it. On top of all the other stuff that he would bring to the table.

I mean, he's gonna just stay in the. He's never gonna go back to college.

Probably not.

That was his dream job.

Yeah.

The question is, this sounds like. I know right now. If you. If you listen really closely, if you listen to the wind go outside right now, or if you're in the car, roll down your. Your windows and just pause the show and listen to the wind. And that sound you hear is Mike Florio typing away on how Roger Goodell should actually punish Jim Harbaugh, because the NFL should not be a safe harbor for someone who does something illegal in the NCAA.

Florio's already done that.

Okay, there it is.

I hope you did that four days ago when you were driving to work. Yeah, that was Florio. That was the only.

This is gonna be his favorite story for at least a week. I know. Cause I remember when he did it with Jim trestle.

Yeah. Well, what. I love this, what he did, and that was the earthquake we felt on Tuesday night. When we recorded was Florio just banging away at the space bar on his computer. He took the. He took the line of reasoning of when Trestle did that at Ohio State, and he got fired, basically, for letting his players get tattoos.

Yep.

In exchange for merchandise, which sounds. It sounds. Everything that was illegal ten years ago sounds so stupid now.

And also kind of awesome.

And awesome. Yeah, it's good. Things. Things that were crimes ten years ago are just awesome now.

Yeah. Game cleats for a tattoo. Cool. Awesome.

Very cool. Very normal, actually. So, Trestle, the NFL told him that they reserved the right to punish him if he were to get a job at the NFL for stuff he did in college. Florio is now saying, well, remember what you did to trestle. I wonder if the NFL is going to take that precedent that they've already set or if they're just going to completely ignore it for Harbaugh. So, something that nobody was thinking about yet. Florio raised his hand, right. Florio did the thing where he was like, you didn't collect her homework yet when the teacher wasn't going to do it. So Goodell is not doing anything. And Florio's like, hey, I'm. Remember trestle? Are you going to do that with Harbaugh. Are you not going to do that with Harbaugh?

Speaker one. This story. Yeah, this was made for Mike Florio. He basically got a gift from heaven, and he's just, this is, this is an entire. The rest of his summer is this.

It makes no sense, though, to punish somebody at a new job for something they did at their old job.

Well, tell that to Mike Florio.

It doesn't make any sense.

He doesn't like that. He doesn't like that. You got to do, you got to keep him. Keep the, keep the, keep the torch, writes Jim Harbaugh. Don't let him run to the NFL. I, yeah, I mean, we like Jim Harbaugh, so we're biased, which very, very biased. We very much admit there are a.

Bunch of training camp fights, too. Nice. A lot of training camp fights. DK Metcalf took his helmet off, swung it out of the guy.

Love that.

Yeah, I think the guardian scrum caps are actually doing more harm than good. Yeah, I think they're, they're players are ripping them off, and they're like, oh, it's not that hard of a helmet. I can swing it at a guy's head now.

It's like a pillow fight.

It's like a pillow fight. It's encouraging bad behavior, Hank. Yeah, like a nerf fight. It's basically a nerf gun. It's like, oh, I can shoot you in the head with this. It's just a suction cup.

Hank, what's going on in this Patriots game to Drake may play. Yeah. Two for three. Okay.

19 yards, drives.

That is. I mean, in terms of preseason games, that's pretty much a perfect game. You also had.

I've never had to pay attention before either. This is, this is a new thing.

We had a, quite a glimpse into the battered brain of memes, which means, and I talked the other night about we just have to stick together more because our franchises are like a joke that everyone just kicks our ass about but memes. I was asking him to do something, and he was like, I want to watch the first Patriots drive. I was like, why? He's like, I want to see if they're going to suck or not. It was Jacoby Brissette in the rain against the Carolina Panthers preseason game one.

Yeah.

And he was going to make his judgment on this entire Patriots season.

But you never know. Never miss an opportunity to see your, your biggest opponent. Just thinking it up.

Well, I think it was also, like, haunting thing that he was saying, because he. I think he thinks and knows that they're not going to be a good football team. But he just sees the jersey and he's like, I can't actually believe it. I have to see it with my own eyes. Is that fair to say, memes?

That is correct.

I completely understand where you're coming from.

Yeah. There's some weird shit going on with the new, the new NFL graphics to the landing zone of the kickoff is wild. Is it the blue area? Oh, they wrap it in blue.

What happened to green?

So the green zone that, remember that still exists when it's like, that's how far you have to get. Where's the green zone?

Uh, green zones, like, uh, I don't remember what the.

It's a bunch of yards that you have to get for field goal range, maybe?

No, what was the green. No, the. I think the green zones. First down, like from.

No, that's yellow line.

No, no, but, like the in between.

Was it greens?

Oh, no. Yeah, but that mean it's been.

We've been out of practice.

We're gonna do our new. New faces, uh, new places or same faces, new places on Monday to get ourselves a little sharper. The green zone NFL broadcast. I feel like they, I think do.

It to green zone might be to get to the field goal line.

It was bad because they stopped the area of the field from the offenses own 15 yard line to the opponent's 20 yard. What? I I. NBC did it and then they took it away, did they not? I thought they kept it. Oh, cuz it would made no sense.

We'll figure it.

All right. All right, I got it.

Preseason for podcasters, too.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Say, sit. Talk amongst yourselves for a second. Hank and pft.

Hank, what was your favorite moment of the week?

I like surfing. Surfing was fun. Videos out now. Uh, it felt more fun than it looks on camera, but, yeah, it looks.

It looks very lame. It looks like we've got our dad behind us pushing us on a tricycle.

But it was fun.

Yeah, it was fun. It was really good time. Do you feel like what's up?

Memes is right.

Shout out, memes.

It's when the sky cam and they do the green zone, so it gives you better depth perception on how far you have to go to the first down.

So just goes to the other line.

Yeah.

Okay.

And it actually was going to be the gray zone.

Yeah, I don't like that.

Feel good about that.

Feel really good about it.

All right, last thing. So tonight is rough and rowdy, West Virginia. Please buy it by R and R.com. i'll be singing the national anthem. We have 25 fights. I believe it's going to be a great night. So we had to get back from grit week, but we still have a lot of grit week content coming out. So we did. We have two, three more interviews coming out. A big one on Monday. Big, big one on Monday. A couple videos, some vlogs. It was a great grit week. You guys all have fun. I had a great time, had a blast. Yeah. I always get off grit week. And you'll hear because we were taping Fyre fest while we were still on the bus, and I was talking about feeling old, but the minute we get back from grit week, I'm just like, I miss the boys. I have that moment where it's like, it's almost a feeling of, like the end of a bachelor party, you know?

Yeah. By the way, Phyllis, what happened on a great week? We don't, we're not gonna talk everything, right.

Yeah.

Some things are just kept amongst us.

That lunch we ate where we all just had explosive diarrhea right after. It was just one after.

That was one of the craziest.

Going to the bathroom. Pft is like, I got to go to the bathroom. I was like, oh, man, I think I recently. And then when we got to the Rams facility, I was like, I got to go to the bathroom. I went for, like a half hour.

Mm hmm.

I went three times while we were still sitting at the restaurant.

Yeah. My butt hasn't recovered yet.

It was crazy.

I got one of those neck pillows that you put around your neck on a plane. I just sat on it for the entire flight back.

Yeah. So great crit week. Thank you. Everyone who saw us, who came out, we love doing grit week. We're already thinking about next year. We've already talked about maybe a couple NFC east places.

Yeah, we heard you loud and clear. If you don't think that California was gritty enough, we're thinking about the French Riviera.

Yeah.

For next grit week.

Yeah. I do think the, the people we interviewed was very gritty. And also the surfing video. I mean, go watch it right now. That was getting us into wetsuits and trying to tame the Pacific Ocean.

Max looked like Joe Burrow walking around with just no back at all in his wetsuit.

Yeah. Zipper was broke.

It was broken before I got it.

Max just screamed. He was just like, just so everyone knows, the zipper was already broken.

Mm hmm.

Okay, well, now we're gonna talk about this. We did the random number trader generator in the bus. Let's just do the real numbers, right?

Yeah, we'll do the real one now that we're back.

Yeah, the real one.

No numbers.

Numbers. Max, have you ever gotten the lottery ball?

I've gotten the number.

2017.

342.

Eleven. You said eleven.

Yeah, well, I thought for some reason, I thought Hank was gonna say 56. 811 was a good number.

42.

99. Pugs on here.

Yeah. What does she say? 21.

33. Great.

Larry Bird jersey.

33.

Love you guys.

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My fit right.

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Hank, you'll never guess. Honestly, this is a little teaser on which guests we had on the bus wearing this hat. You'll. You'll truly never guess it.

Yeah, actually, you will never guess it because we're never gonna air that interview.

Okay.

Yeah, no, we are. Okay. Mount Rushmore. Yellow things.

This is gonna get contentious.

This is gonna get contentious.

We should say before saying why.

It's already contentious right now.

Cut and dry.

Well, we should know.

It's nothing.

We should do a quick update. Hank has won Wednesdays. Mount Rushmore. Congratulations to Hank.

Thank you. Thank you.

He is now four points up on PFT.

Shout out to all the pregnant women.

I am, by the way, that one got me in trouble. I might have gotten a text being like, you picked Navy SEALs over pregnant women, and I was like, I was just trying to get Hank a win.

Pregnant women never killed Osama bin Laden.

Yeah, so thanks for that, Hank.

You had the chance.

I did. I had one. One. But I was trying to get you a win. That's what we're going with Hank. Congratulations on the win. You were up four points on PFT. Who's in last? I am up six points on Hank. Max is running away with it. So it's max, 50 points, me, 42 points. Hank, 36. Pft 32.

It's not looking great for your boy right now, but that's fine. There's. There's a lot of season left in Mount Rushmore season. A lot of time for Hank to collapse. He's feeling himself right now, which I like. No, Hanks acting like he's in first place, which I absolutely love. Yeah, no, you're gonna get confident. I'm a sneak up on you like a little monster. I grab you by the ankles. I'm gonna drag you down into the ocean. I'm gonna hold you under till you die. Let's go, pf t. And then this is. This is what's gonna happen, Hank. You're gonna have. You're gonna have to take a punishment out of the hat.

It's not meavers.

Then you're gonna complain about it, and. And you're going to say it's unfair that I'm predicting the future right now.

I want to see you do the punishment. I want to see PFT, because PfT is my dear friend and co host the show. And the punishment is going to happen during football season, and we work a lot during football season while you sit on the couch and scroll Twitter. So I would. It's not going to get contentious. I would like pft not to have to devote whatever. However many hours this stream is going to take. And I want to see you.

What.

I know your Twitter screen time is.

Probably 20,000 times, but I say what I say what? I say what? During the show, right? Yeah.

Yeah. It's not that high.

You sit on the couch. The couch that we do the show about.

The proverbial couch.

Oh. I mean, I know you said.

I said on the show. You never said on.

Okay, couch. I was thinking about the fiction. The couch that you sit on in the. During the show.

I have multiple couches up, so I'm sitting on a couch.

JD, Hank, over there.

Yeah. You want to fuck a couch, you got a couch fucking problem.

You say couch. I don't instantly think of the studio.

All I think about is that couch.

What I noticed in the. I think what happens more often than not is I either strike out completely or I hit a home run. I'm either first or fourth. That's it.

You're Adam done.

I'm actually actually saber metric a very good baseball player in today's game.

Yes. Okay, so let's not get contentious. No, it's. We're on the bus. It's great week. We've had a great, great week. It's been fun.

Great week. I think that, you know, the coaches have taught me. It's like, I do love every question. What does grit mean to you? And it's like, it's. It's about. It's not about how you act when you're down. It's about how you act when you're up and just staying focused.

Yeah.

And you're acting. You're acting real sharp.

Real sharp and a little fresh.

That's a compliment, but I'm not going to take it as a compliment.

I'd like to put a bar of soap in your mouth. Okay. My rush wore of yellow thing backwards hat.

Colin Coward would hate that.

About this heartbreak motel had on for.

Mm hmm.

It's good hat.

Ladies. You've been warned. Wait, who's got first pick?

I think I do.

Oh, wow.

Yes. Hank, Max me big.

We'll never, will never love it. Like, just dive in.

I was ready.

I get surprised every time. Wait, the order comes.

Pretty worried that hanks gonna take my one one.

Oh, no. There. Is there a one one?

I have a one one.

Does it go?

That's it.

SpongeBob Square.

That's a reach. That's reach.

I had a different one one. And then I was relooking at the board, and I said, you know what? Fuck it. Let's take a shot. Like, the other one one was kind of obvious and, like, it doesn't really pop, so I want to SpongeBob and audible, and I feel good if the guy that's in first place.

Wait, were you gonna take that if I didn't say, I think you're gonna.

I.

But I had a different one one up until, like, 20 minutes ago when I was.

Oh, nice.

Okay. That's a really good one one. I was really bent.

I almost didn't take it, but I. You were the one I knew was gonna take it. Like, I was gonna maybe try and.

Get it around, but right now, I was definitely taking that. That was those easy. First pick for me. Okay. I will go with lemonade as my one aid.

Number one.

Nice.

Well, I am very. I'm very happy that this fell to me. I'm gonna go beer.

Yeah.

Beer is the one one yellow? Oh, yeah. Look it up.

Yellow Google.

If beer is yellow, I'm being.

I have to be. I have to be fully transparent here. I had beer, so I'm gonna defend PFT.

Beer is yellow.

Okay?

So that's where. That's where we're going. That's where we're going with.

What do you mean yellow?

It's not yellow.

Craft beer yellow.

Oh, memes. Look at memes. His face. Oh, that is not yellow.

Oh, I'm looking it up.

If.

If you google. Yeah, if you google is beer. Yellow beers are often yellow.

Mm hmm. It's a good pick.

I think you need to pick, like, a specific type of beer.

Yellow beer. All beer that's yellow. Coors lights. Yellow. No, it's not golden. And golden is yellow.

Yeah. I mean, I had it, so I'm gonna defend you. Pft.

Yeah, I mean, I. I think you guys.

Yeah, the golden. All right, you know what year it's yellow? Coors light says golden beer. Golden jello.

I think.

I think gold in Colorado.

Oh, thanks for making my point.

That's not.

I don't. I don't think that's for the color.

No lagers ales. Those are both yellow.

Honestly. Honestly. You need this one.

No, I don't need your pity on this yellow.

Do you or do you not need.

This stands on its own merit.

Fact or fiction?

No, I don't need it.

You're on the ground.

I don't need.

He was about to pour Coors light out on the ground. That's yellow.

I just need Hank to be worse. That's all.

Okay.

I'm not even thinking about you.

I have two picks.

Yep.

I'm free up there.

All right, I'm gonna go. Cheese. Good.

Pick cheese.

Any specific type?

I mean, all yellow cheese.

Orange.

I like cheddar, but that's orange.

I had. I had cheese on my.

I. Well, I thought I had cheese. I looked it up, and then it was like, most cheese is orange. Bright orange. Look up.

We just made a fucking noise.

Cheese is yellow.

Bright orange. It's what I looked. That's what I saw.

Not all cheese is yellow, but a lot of cheese is.

Okay.

That's what I'm saying. You have to pick a yellow cheese. Like, there are, like, you have to pick a cheese. I'll give you cheddar cheese.

Yeah.

Like, pft. Should be coarse.

Like.

Okay, fine.

My cheddar.

My.

Like, there's beers that are brown.

I'm not taking those.

Cheese that is white.

But there's a lot of beer. There's yellow.

There's a lot of beer. That's nile.

Yeah. And there's a lot lemonade.

What kind?

Oh, that's a good question.

Well, there's pink lemonade.

Yeah.

You have to say yellow lemonade then.

No, no.

There'S no. There's, like, white lemonade.

False.

It looks white lemonade is yellow.

No, go down this path.

I've seen a lot of very pale lemonades.

Yeah. Oh, this is good thing we're not contentious.

No, you guys know what you're doing. Me and Hank are playing this game the right way. You guys are muddying.

Cheese is yellow.

Cheddar cheese is yellow.

So is american all cheap? Why can't I get all cheese lemonade?

But, like, lemonade, all beer. Generic lemonade.

You should take in beer before lemonade, weirdo.

Yeah, but that's not fucking yellow. Beer is not yellow.

It is.

It's tan beer, like beer is tan.

All right, well, this one might get it. This one might then spiral you even more. My second pick. French fries.

Beige.

They're golden.

McDonald's french fries are yellow.

Okay, we're just picking any color now.

What are you. I will say.

Will say this.

If you're.

If you were giving like a. I'm gonna let. Can I speak fucking fake picture. If you were.

That's not a real.

That's a cartoon, basically.

Oh, my God.

If you were to give a little kid of a french fries and told them to color it, they would get yellow crayon to color.

Thank you, Hank.

Like that?

Yeah.

If there is a color that's french fries are yellow.

Hank, if you were to ask a kid to color in beer, what color would they choose?

Yellow, probably yellow.

There we go.

You also wouldn't, like, blink.

I think that's.

Would be orange.

No, it wouldn't.

No, no.

Great point, Henry. What color cheese?

I didn't pick cheese. It's.

I know, but the.

No, but, Hank, that's c h e.

E Z. Yeah, exactly.

With real cheese.

Thinks that someone here's upset that they took lemonade in the first round.

Yeah, lemonade looking yellow. Yellow things for a yellow draft.

French fries are yellow.

No, you guys need this.

You guys.

Need this.

Now I understand why Max was gonna get contentious. He's color blind. He just. He said before, you guys don't know.

You guys don't know colors.

You guys don't know low.

You said that memes was gonna be the decider. Memes. French fries are yellow.

Go through all of the. All of their picks.

And SpongeBob want them to get one.

Pick that's actually yellow.

Memes would have given a. C'mon, memes well, I think french fries are yellow.

Yes. Thank you. Cheese. Cheese, fine. You know what? I won't take cheese. Take cheese off the board. That's fine. My first pitch. No. Ya know, my first pick will be the Simpsons. There we go. I have french fries in the Simpsons.

I thought about the Simpsons, but I don't, I don't. I never watched it.

Thank you. He just mumbled, great pets.

A good pick.

Cheese is still on the board.

I'm not gonna lie. There is a. I just want to.

Take a pick off.

No, I didn't. I said I want.

All I wanted you to take was.

A specific type of cheese. Check the tapes. I just wanted a specific type of Simpsons.

French fries.

You know who would be on our side? Big cat.

Who?

Bubba.

Yeah, I was just about to say.

Yeah, he's colorblind. No. Okay, I can see this getting contentious. This should be an easy one. We should all agree. Gold.

Good pick. Good pick.

Isn't it?

Honestly, I'm.

Gold medals. Isn't gold a color?

Gold. Gold is yellow. Gold is a shade of yellow. Gold a shade of yellow, but gold is gold. If you were to give.

I wanted back on beer, it's. It's literally a. Gold is a color.

Is gold yellow? I'm gonna, I'm gonna search.

This.

Is gray and silver the same thing?

We're not doing the.

I mean, maybe I'm way off, but isn't gold a color?

Pure gold is a rich yellow, orange color.

Orange. I just assumed gold was gold. Okay, we did a gold draft. Gold would go first.

Gold would be the metallic variation of the color yellow.

Okay?

According to Reddit, that's always.

My draft is just going to be yellow things.

Well, lemonade again. I can find you a lemonade right now. That's not yellow. I can find you a lemonade right now.

That's not yellow.

Boy.

I'm gonna go with the first down line. Any any, any qualms there?

Well, it's not official.

Well, yeah, it's not official, and it's only on the tv. It's not on the field.

All right, fine. Next, next time you watch tv, you don't get to watch the. Look at the yellow line.

Okay?

See how you like watching football then, buddy.

Okay, next time we watch football, you can't eat any cheese, buddy.

I like cheese, and I wanted to take it, but I looked it up, and the first color it said was orange.

Mmm. You had to look up what the color of cheese was.

Yes, because I didn't. For this reason, because if I picked it you know, if I picked it, I would have got fucking.

That's not true at all, because I had. I was very honest when Pft picked beer. I said, I have beer on my list.

Well, Pft's in fucking the basement right now.

Yeah.

Well, guess what.

Guess what, buddy? Sometimes you gotta be in last place, and you gotta have grit, and you gotta build your way out of it.

No, yeah. It's okay.

Okay, Hank, you have two picks.

I'm going to go with thing.

This isn't contentious.

Yellow parentheses. Coldplay.

The song.

The song.

The song.

Yellow. I'm gonna allow that.

Yeah.

It's a yellow thing.

Sure. Yeah, allow it. Yeah.

Because I'm very easy going when it comes to this.

Well, I don't. I mean. Yeah.

And I will go with.

Can you give us a bar of that song?

And it was all yellow.

I like. I like.

Yeah, I will go with pepper jack cheese.

Wait, pepper Jack's white. What are you talking about? All right, Hank, you think it's also white and red. I'm green.

I would allow Hank to take that for.

You don't know what pepper jack cheese is. You don't know what pepper jack cheese.

Is on the same side here.

Red and green.

It's yellowish. It's got a yellow.

No, no, no, no.

Pepper jack's white. It's got the specks of peppers in there. It's.

Pepper jack cheese is not. It's white. Look at this. Is pepper jack cheese.

That's yellowish.

That's. You picked a white cheese.

That's not white.

You picked a white cheese.

If that yellow, then no cheese should have been allowed.

You know, there's lots of cheeses that are yellow that. Jesus, you had.

You basically could have picked burana.

Hank, I was really. I wanted you to be on my way.

Jack is way more yellow than burrata wank.

They're both white.

Oh, there's, like, other colors in it.

So, like a yellow pepper.

French fries are yellow and brown.

Oh, now you're going back on french fries?

I mean, I'm just saying, like, I know it was pure, straight up walking.

You're yellow. Pepper jack is not. If you like, maybe yellow cheese. No one's like pepper jack.

Jello ish.

Cheddar. I said cheddar.

Yeah.

All right, I'm just gonna go fucking balls to the wall.

She's not getting picked.

Yeah. No, I mean, that's. If pepperdogs not yellow, no cheese is allowed.

I think we should let Hank take pepper Jack.

No, I'm taking pikachu.

Oh, okay.

On my list.

I'm not a pokemon.

Never seen pokemon.

Pepper Jack would have slapped there.

Been around a pokemon.

I'm gonna go see it with it. You mon go.

I'm gonna go with buttered popcorn.

Mmm. Had it on my list. Good pick.

Wait, good pick.

Butter to popcorn is yellow.

Yes, it's yellow. You're thinking of, like, smart food.

Like, if you gave a kid a crayon and told him, here's some pepper jack.

Okay, I'm gonna step in white. I'm gonna step in. I'm going to go with the sun.

Mmm.

The fucking sun.

The fucking sun.

Mm hmm.

Which also could have been out on the Mount Rushmore of tough things.

Mm hmm. Yep. Okay.

Any one complain?

No. I almost picked a one.

One.

Yeah.

I like it.

I like it. Okay.

It's a good third round. It's a good third round.

It's good value.

I would have taken. I probably should take it to coaches son.

Okay, I got my last two.

I need spun. I need. I need to. Anime freaks step up.

That's. That's.

That is the thing about the people that follow. The part of my. Take account. It's a huge crossover with the anime freaks.

Yeah. All right, I'll go. I have two picks, one I'm probably yelled at for, but this one should. Everyone should agree with.

No, this whole draft is pointless anyway. So what? I'm not yelling anymore.

No, I would like you to yell if you don't like it. This one you like, though. Yellow Labrador retriever.

Yep. Yellow.

Right. Yellow labs are all Rachel.

Yellow labs.

Yeah, there is yellow lab.

What?

Just admitted that I would like it.

No, I.

What?

What did I say?

Dogs.

I didn't know that there was a difference in yellow and gold.

There's nobody. What did I say? What did I pick?

Yellow.

Yellow what?

Labrador retrievers.

And what did you say? Right.

I didn't know that there was a difference.

There is very much.

Got it.

Like, you would know.

The dog in a lab. The dog.

Marley and a golden retriever. Two different dogs.

Marley and.

Now the pepper jack thing. Makes sense.

Yeah.

I'm colorblind.

Okay, last one.

Take it. I'm not gonna get mad, I promise.

Pasta.

No, I'm actually. I'm all right with that. There are yellow pastas.

Yeah.

Fresh pasta.

Fresh pasta. The freshest pasta is always yellow with a homemade pasta. Delicious yellow. Okay with it.

Could pick.

Yeah. Hank still in a. Like, he just found out that golden retrievers and yellow labs are different. I.

This is.

That's trying to. He's trying to spy me his whole. I thought for sure you would have taken poss.

You know what? He's had two picks that have been presented to Hank today that Hank could have taken in the things that I just learned recently. Draft that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yo, Robson. Golden retrievers and pepper jack cheese. Max, pepper jack cheese.

I know people on the planet gonna have your.

Absolutely not. Max, I was convinced. You take pasta. You took lemonade over pasta. What kind of lemon are you?

Is obvious. I was thinking more classically yellow.

Like, I mean, pasta's yellow.

I know, but I was thinking, like, I'll be honest.

I didn't have lemonade on my board.

I didn't even have. I didn't even. Lemonade.

Lemonade, lemonade.

And you went, one one.

Well, I. Well, I was thinking of things that are.

This.

You don't understand what one one is.

This might be the end. First of all.

You don't. Don't understand what one one is.

This might be the end.

You don't understand what one one is.

You're one one.

That. This is one two.

You're one one.

My one one was SpongeBob.

Yeah, he's won one with SpongeBob. It's. You still have a first round grade on lemonade.

Let's get back to the fact lemonade. All right, fine. You know what?

Go for? Let's go out and find somebody like lemonade.

We're going to yell anymore?

Let's. Let's agree to. Just remind everyone that Hank thinks pepper jack cheese is yellow.

Yeah, that's a good point.

It's yellowish.

Where did you just go?

Oh, nice. Thanks.

Good job. Good job, Huey.

Wait. You're up.

All right, my turn. Last pick. I'm gonna go with the pass interference icon that pops on the screen.

Great job. Horrible pay.

When your team throws an incompletion.

It's a terrible pick.

Why is that terrible pick? Do not. Do not almost nut yourself if we were.

Sorry.

The passes. The pass interference icon that pops up after your team throws an incompletion.

It saves you color with comp.

How is that gonna look on a graphic?

Well, it looks cool on when it happens.

No rush. More graphic. That's.

I don't think about that, Max. I don't think about that.

I go, you're.

You're a big fucking panda bear, aren't you?

That's not true.

I bet.

Yeah. Submitted to pandering, to the graphic.

He does pander.

Wow. Oh, Max Panders. That's why he's in first. Yeah.

Correct.

He's pandering bulk contingents.

I go with my heart.

You don't think this guy likes meatballs?

No, I'm just saying you've been pandering to fat meatball.

And you know what? I actually think the people will like the pass interference thing. We've all been there.

Yeah, no, I mean, pft is kind of right. Peter Schrager just walked in.

Peter, I got a question for you. When you're. When you're watching football and you're rooting for team Max, we shut the fuck up. Okay, five questions. Yeah, actually, I should lead off with, we have so many grieving. Sit right there.

Sit in the middle. Sit in the middle. Sit in the middle. All right, all right. First question. Peter Schrager, NFL Network. You can find him everywhere. We're actually going to have you on next week. Great. So, yeah, hard knocks.

Hard knocks podcast.

Peter Schrager, what color is pepper jack cheese? It's a white, but with, like, a red and orange tint of, like, red. And correct answer. Is there a difference between a golden retriever and a labrador or yellow lab? Yes. Okay, good answer. Beer's brown. Oh, no, beer's not brown.

Beer's not brown.

Oh, no. French fries are yellow. Yes. Thank you.

Beer's not brown.

What do you say is like, I don't know, ball, what color is lemonade? Oh, now this is a good one. I say pink. Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah. Yup, yup. But if there's, like, a lemonade stand, it's usually yellow. Okay. But I'm at a restaurant, I'm ordering lemonade.

It better be pink.

But the person didn't say lemonade stand. They said lemonade.

Then if you order a lemonade and if you're like, hey, can I get a lemonade? And it comes out pink, you're like, I didn't order a pink lemonade.

I just think it's interesting conversation.

All right, so wait, what was your pick?

All right, so, Peter, if you're watching football, right, and your team is playing, it's third down, third and ten, and they throw an incompletion, and then, like, half a second later, the pass interference icon pops up on the screen. How exciting is that for you?

That's a.

That's a quiet fist pump. But I understand. People go nuts.

Yeah.

Okay, flag, flag, flag.

But to me, you got some respect. Like, it wasn't a true first down.

It was like, all right, well, you're bailed out.

You bailed out. It's a quiet.

I think this is more relatable. For people that root for teams that historically have quarterbacks that can't complete titles.

Yes.

Of which there are many.

Yes. And it's also. So it's just for the interception play.

On an incomplete pass.

Okay. Okay. Because obviously, that yellow. That yellow score bug is bad.

Sometimes it can be bad. Yeah.

Be very bad.

I'm saying, when you're on offense.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, Max, your last pick.

I'm gonna go with the minions.

Oh, okay. Nice. I actually like the minions.

Lines are great.

Minions fan. Make me laugh every time you want.

You wanted to get mad at me.

There, but, you know, I've been honest the whole time. I had his back.

You're right, you're right, you're right. Defensive right now. Defensive? I'm defensive?

Yeah.

What color is gold?

Gold. I. Oddly. Gold can be brown as well.

Okay. Yeah.

Peter Peters, color blind. He's got shit for brainstor. Okay, Hank, I got it.

I can't.

Okay. I haven't watched any olympics this entire two weeks. Are you guys in on the Olympics or out on the Olympics in ish.

I was halfway in. I enjoy that gap that it fills in the summertime.

Yeah.

There's nothing else going on. I can convince myself to care about things that I normally wouldn't hot take.

Yeah. Not enough bloopers anymore. Everyone's awesome. Well, we had the penis. I saw the penis. Yeah, we saw the guy. The diver, like, back and hit his back. Yeah, but, like. Yeah, that was an old clip. See, that's exactly right. Like I said, I just saw it online. I'm like, oh, there's a blooper. It used to be there would be guys fucking up now. Yeah, everyone's great. Yeah, and it's great. And also, this is me. Just. I got the polish chick. You like the polish checks.

You good?

It was more the one that looks like a Bella danger.

Yeah, I don't know that name. You fucking dog.

When you say you saw the penis, are you talking about the opening ceremonies?

That guy was weird. Okay, wait, what do you say? An obsession with all the celebrities, and. Yeah. Snoop Dogg's getting paid. I saw that report. Yeah. All right, Hank, your last pick. Yeah.

Yellow Starburst.

Okay. All right. Some people would say the worst of.

The Starburst flavors, but I don't think they're the worst. They're just clearly not the best.

But they're yellow there.

You could. But Max already took pink lemonade, so you could have taken pink Starburst.

I don't think I could have.

All right, what do we miss? On the yellow drop.

We missed a lot.

Sunflowers of colored.

Yes, sunflowers would eminem.

I was fire Salomon.

I was staring at it and I didn't have it on my board. And then I saw it. I was like, that would be dishes.

I thought about it.

Yeah, the lays chips too. Right, next.

Yeah, yeah.

But lays chips are not like, if you're talking about, like the best chips. Lace chip.

Yeah. If we're talking.

I like lace chips with a sandwich because it's a good salt crunch. Salty crunch.

When somebody serves me yellow lays original, I feel like I'm eating in prison. That's like what they give inmates.

Yeah.

They're good with a sandwich.

Yes.

Yeah.

I had construction machinery.

Oh, that's a good one.

Excavator.

Really cool.

I had butter.

I had butter, I'd mustard, I bananas.

Buttered butter was a mistake.

Yeah. Honey, honey, honey.

I had that good one.

Beavis and butthead.

Yeah.

Tweety bird.

I was pretty heavy. I could lemon board.

I think beavis, he has yellow hair.

Okay, beavis. I meant beavis's hair.

Yeah.

Tweety bird. Wolverine.

Not. Oh, this was something that that would be like. His suit is yellow. Wolverine suit.

Sure.

The person is not sound playing somewhere.

I think it's just a car outside heart.

No, I think.

Where was that in the Bella danger video?

Peter walked on to say hi for two minutes. He's already regretting it.

Dealers steal a black and yellow. Yeah. I had Hank's belly.

Yep. Elbow.

He's chicken shit.

I'm slow today.

Yeah, I had a field goal post.

Just definitely going today. Yeah, field goal posts. I don't like. I don't like field goal posts. This is.

This is the most wild mountain Rushmore we've had this year.

You like one field goal post you just don't like.

Yeah, the Tour de France jersey.

Oh, yeah. Yep.

The guy's shout out, Harbaugh.

Shout out Harbaugh. Bees.

Huh.

So fire salamanders would accounted.

Yeah.

Are they yellow? I thought black, orange.

Oh, then yeah, they would account it. What about tortilla chips?

Yeah, that can be yellow.

I think they're.

Yeah, just as yellow as fucking pepper jack.

No, it's got a chill with the pepper jack.

So wrong about pepper jackets. Crazy chips are not yellow.

Some of them are.

They definitely are.

Which ones?

The yellow ones are the ones that.

Come in the yellow bag. Santitas.

That's a specific type. But the general tortilla chip is not.

Yeah.

Some of them are made from white corn, some from yellow corn.

Queso fundido.

Now, that's more white. I think that one's more white.

Hey, probably right.

Kind of hanked yourself on that one.

That's a yellow chip.

There's cheese. There's.

I understand. I found nacho. What? You.

Nacho.

You missed it, Peter. He took off cheese. He made us all not pick.

That's not true. I said, I told you to take a specific cheese. I just wanted you to take cheddar cheese.

You could take in the packers cheese heads.

That's not a good.

Has a mild buttery flavor and a pale yellow color with a compact and supple texture.

Okay, what else did we miss, Peter? Any yellow things? Yeah. The Simpsons. I had it. That was my first pick. After cheese got taken off. Yep.

Saxophone cheese.

You took cheese off.

You took cheese off.

I just wanted a specific cheese.

You. You took cheese and pasta off.

No, pasta was a good pick. I told you it was a good.

Charlie Brown's shirt. Yep.

Oh, yeah.

The man in the yellow hat.

Yeah. Oh, I was a good one.

Curious George.

Wait, Hank, is that the man, the yellow hat, or is that the man in the yellow hats hat?

Probably the hat.

Same thing.

Yeah, yeah, that, that. Yeah.

But that would play the savannah bananas.

Yeah, sure. I watched.

Where do you stand on those guys?

I watched the game of theirs last week. I was out on them and then I watched the game and I was like, this actually kind of rocks.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it's also been. Their rise has been crazy.

Yeah, the rise has been crazy. Tracy.

Dick Tracy.

Yep. Good one. Didn't date you at all. Madonna. The starring role. Yes. Oh, yeah.

Just blondes. Blondes in general. I know you're more of a brunette guy, Peter, but I think you'd have to.

You would have had, like, you couldn't have gotten blonde. You'd have to say blonde hair.

Why are you. Why are you arguing me over something I didn't take?

Because I. Because I'm justifying why none of us.

Doesn'T.

Mention it means no being contentious.

Lemon bars. I could have gone all lemon. Lemon bars rock. You guys are the.

What about pink? Lemon bomb.

Lemon heads.

Lemon heads. Lemon heads. Good pick.

Corn.

Just corn.

Hank.

Corn. Oh, my God. Hank. Hank loves corn.

Yeah.

And what did you pick? What are your four picks? Hank.

Hank, out the day.

Hank, what were your four picks? Good.

What were your four out of it.

What were your four picks?

Doesn't matter.

No, no. I want to hear him again.

Spongebob.

Great pick.

Yellow. Coldplay.

Mmm. That went down.

That's got to be corn. But that's got to be corn.

Pikachu has to be corn. What was even my fourth pick?

I don't even know.

Unmemorable.

How do you not know your own pick wasn't corn?

Yellow starverse.

Oh, dude, all three of your last picture.

I would. I would like if I had the choice between corn or yellow starburst for the rest of my life. It's corn.

A lot of people are saying that Hank got out of last place. That rocky.

Now that's a mistake. But again, like, it doesn't matter cuz it's over. But that will keep me up.

Yeah.

Not just because of the. I don't care that I would have done better on the graphic just for personal, like, just.

Yeah. You betrayed yourself. Yeah. Kind of like Max imposter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love that.

I know. I wanted to get mad about it, but I. It's. It's the right color spot. Fresh pasta is yellow.

Yeah. Okay, good Mount Rushmore, boys. Good Mount Rushmore.

Yeah. Just great. Great combo.

Yeah.

Pleasure all around.

It got contentious, but it was fun.

Thanks, Pete.

Thank you, Peter.

I love coming in.

Yeah, yeah.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.

It is time again.

Yeah, I know. It's. You can probably recognize that voice is our grit week interview presented by Coors Light. It is head coach, Super bowl winning head coach. So I think the last time you were on, you had not won a Super bowl yet.

Sean McVeigh, you guys enjoyed the box, right?

So we start every grit week interview with the same question. How would you define the word grit?

How would I define the word grit? I think it's. It's about persevering, being at your best when the times are toughest. You know, I think the separator in anything when you talk about people with grit is when they're in the storm. It's easy to lead when things are going well. But, you know, people that have grit, they lead when they're in that storm and they get out of it quicker.

You could also have just said the 2022 lesson. Rams season.

Fucking right.

That was it.

Or the start of last season.

Yeah, and that's. And, well, yeah, you know what I thought you were saying. I wasn't even. See, I'm a bad listener there. I thought you were talking 23, you dick. 2022.

That was bad.

I don't know if I'd call that grit almost broke me. Yeah, but, no, last year, that was a cool example, you know, because when you really say, all right, how do you really work through? How do you stay the same? Even though we're three and six, everybody's kind of writing you off. And I think the best thing about that team is a lot of people said, all right, well, what was the difference? There really wasn't one. You know, he started making some plays, having the games going the right direction, but the guys kind of stayed the course. Last year was a fun year.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was. It was fun to watch you guys. I. For the record, I believed in you when you're at your worst. Did you. I put money on the line on.

You guys to make the play.

I said, they're going to make the playoffs.

At what point did you make that bet?

At your darkest hour.

So you made that bet when we were three and six.

I believe you're three and six.

Yeah. It was right in that zone.

That's awesome.

I looked at the schedule and I.

Was like, money did you put on it?

It was about four or five units. So it was a successful guy.

You didn't believe in us.

No, no. I think, I think I ended up getting five figures out of it.

Yeah.

So congratulations for betting on.

I appreciate you. Yeah.

So it was a gritty season.

Yes.

You guys were down then. Then you come back, you turn things around. Everyone was saying before last season started that you were, I guess, in the midst of cap hell. Like, there's been two seasons where you've been to cap hell.

Yeah.

What is it like to fight through cap hell and come out the other side?

It's not fun. It was, you know, I think when you look at it, there was a lot of decisions that in the moment, you know, you feel very, you know, you feel like these are the right things. And I'm not saying you would do anything differently, but what you do want to make sure you understand is all right, what are the possible ramifications down the line? And there were some decisions that, you know, I take some responsibility in, but there was a lot of good memories in the midst of that. But it was challenging when you're operating and you're going to have to part ways with a lot of guys that you really shouldn't have to, but, you know, those guys went and did their thing, and I think it was a cool opportunity to see a lot of rookies get opportunities and really take advantage of chances that kind of were forced upon us, and they certainly made the most of them.

So kind of on the same lines of cap hell this past offseason, you finally had a first round pick.

Yeah.

So you'd never had a first round pick.

We had never had. We, you know what? We traded out of it in the 18th season. We traded back, but other than that, we had not had a first round pick in seven years.

Yeah. What was going through the, the I, we were, we saw less in the hallway and I asked him if, like, he needed an epi pen in the draft room, like. Cause I, we had a theory that you guys were just not going to be able to do it. You were like, at the last second, like, no, we can't do this. Yeah, we don't want to do it and do it. Some trade where you trade a bunch of future picks, that's all you guys were doing.

So what, there's a possibility, yeah, but.

You have a first rounder this year. Is that a little weird?

He's a stud. It was weird. And, you know, there were some instances, when you look at it, there's a lot of options. Even the previous year, you know, we had discussed trying to go up to get a couple players. It didn't end up working out, but it certainly felt weird. You know, my wife, we've been together for a long time, been married for, you know, a couple years. And you look at it, and she's, I'm going to the draft on Thursday. She's like, you know, what the hell are you doing? You know, there's actually picks this night, so it was the first time we've had to work on a Thursday night of the draft, and it felt weird.

Yeah.

You were used to just, like, setting up next to your pool. I remember they showed your house was in 2020.

Yeah.

And you were just, like, chilling on night one.

Chilling. You know, it wasn't Kingsbury set up, but it was close.

Now, you do look like you've been in. You're in good shape right now. What are you doing? What are you benching?

Well, you know, I'm not benching.

I don't.

I don't know. A lot of body weight. You know, running a little bit more.

You're kind of. You're borderline a thirst trap. Have you posted pictures of yourself without your shirt on?

Only to my wife.

Okay.

You know, hot body. I appreciate that, man. You know, I've been. I've been working out with Cooper and Pukas trainer.

Okay.

He does a great job. And, you know, staying away from the carbs. A little minimizing.

Yes. And their facial hair looks good.

Facial hair looks great.

I'm embarrassed to admit. I had to get Prp for that.

Did you?

Oh, it's a. It looks a little fuller. You know, I was stressed. My beard, I mean, I was getting. I don't know if you want to say alopecia, but it was getting thin.

Yeah.

You got shots in your face.

Absolutely did. Okay, so here's how it started. I'll give you this. This is how it started. I'm so l. A. Now. So a couple years ago at the draft house, they got this over the top shot. You go back to the year that puka naku is drafted. They want to show this. They're showing these. We're talking about the vision for Puka, all that stuff, you know, I'm just, you know, selfishly looking at my hairline, like, what the fuck is going on with.

Find out. Yeah.

All I'm seeing is bald, you know? And actually, Raheem Morris's daughter, Malia, she always used to say, you are balding. And I thought she was just joking with me, so I told my wife, I said, why didn't you tell me? I'm actually going bald? And the back of my head looked terrible, so I started getting PRP shots there.

Smart.

Starting to come in. You know, I'm feeling good about that. And I said, why the hell not? The beard?

Yeah.

You know, saying you believe. Are you just saying that?

Are you?

No, listen, it does look good.

If he's gonna get this, he's probably gonna google it right out.

It's a pleasure pain when you do it.

So I got it, like, four years ago, and it bought me a couple years, but now it's going to get.

So you did the PRP?

I did it on the top of my head, yeah, it bought me a couple years. Oh, no, it's bad now. It's a disaster back there right now, but, yeah, the pr. It hurts when they know.

The lady said, though, you know, if you're. The healthier you are and if you still have some hair growth, the more likely it is to actually work.

I'm super healthy. You are healthy. That's why I work for a couple of years.

So the facial hair. Yeah. I mean, we've given you a little shit. Sometimes you've gone pretty boy. I remember we saw you in Indianapolis.

A few years ago.

Why are you guys giving me shit?

I remember what it was. It was so when you. When you first came on the scene, it looked like you spent a lot of time lining it up just perfectly.

Yeah.

And we were like, he spends too much time on the facial hair. It needs to be, like, a little bit more jagged. He cares too much about the facial hair. And you saw us at the combine.

Exactly what you said.

But those are my good luck.

I forget those are our.

You guys have to be careful what you say now.

Say whatever the hell. Yeah.

We'll talk a lot of shit about. On your back.

We now.

It was a great moment for us because we're like, wait, Sean McVeigh? Like, listen to us. Give him shit about his facial hair. I love it. You.

The hair looks good, too. What kind of. Did you switch your product recently?

No, you know what? It's. It's same product as normal.

Yeah.

It's a little fresher since I just got off the field. Wanted to make sure it's freshened up.

Yeah.

Do you want to do some of the. Whenever someone interviews you, they do like, hey, week ten. Oh, no, I got one for you. Okay.

No, see, like, here's the thing. I will preface with that. Okay, that has gotten way blown out of proportion. It's one of those deals where when you go back through stuff, you remember it. But, like, I don't. I don't have that recall like I used to.

Okay, well, I got one that I think is going to stump you.

Okay, good.

Okay. Okay. Fourth and 14. 440 left in the game at Detroit. Playoff game.

Yeah.

What offensive play did you call?

Yeah, you know what? I didn't. Unfortunately, I'm upset that there wasn't a call on the previous play. Hey, I'll be. You know what? You're right. And you know what? I should have done, too. I think I should have called the third down differently.

Yeah.

To give us a better chance. I did not like the way I did that. And I was incredible playoff game. It was an incredible playoff game. But I look at it, and I'm being dead ass serious about this, too. Some of the red zone sequencing, you know. Cause I thought defensively, we settled in, they got going, they came out hot offensively, and we were kind of matching them with. With our offense. But then I thought defensively, we slowed them down. We had a chance. We're removing the football. We had some possessions that we didn't come away with, points that we really should have. But that stings. And. And I'll tell you why, and I'm not afraid to admit I would do that differently. I would have called probably the sequence leading up to that differently. Whether it works out or goes down the way we want, I don't know. But I think to take the ball out of Matthews hands and to then sit there and because of some of the timeouts, different things, to not give him another op at the ball, shame on me for that.

From a fans perspective, it was such an awesome game because that building was on fire.

It was the loudest, so I thought the loudest place I'd ever, you know, been a part of coaching wise. NFC Championship 2018 New Orleans we're getting ready to go out. All right. We test it. We had been there earlier in the season. It was rocking, and I remember it was so loud, you couldn't even hear anything. Golf's mic went out right before. He's got the backup helmet on. You're like, what the hell's going on? But they did a genius thing. I remember they showed, you know, Robert woods had been interviewed during the week, and they said, all right, what, you know, do you think the noise is going to be a factor? And Robert's kind of on my shoulder, and he answers it exactly like what you would want him to. He's like, no, you know, we're gonna handle, you know, handle it with poise. It's not gonna be a factor. Well, they show this shit during a tv timeout, and then the fan, he, and the fan just start screaming.

I.

Look, why the hell did you say that? But that was the loudest by far in Detroit was way louder.

Yeah, yeah. And it was just like, it was everything you wanted.

It was sick. Yeah, it was a sick atmosphere. I mean, like credit to Detroit. And I'm telling you, my dad loved it. They were already out on the field. I came out like 60 minutes before kickoff. The stands are full. My dad said, I heard these people booing their ass off at somebody. I watch you walking out. He was laughing so funny. Everybody's booing, talking to me. It was, it was great.

And that was the, that was why we were frustrated, because we were like, this is going to be one of those classic finishes where they're going back.

And forth and I ruined it for you.

And then they just run out the clock. But that's okay. You got. Now you have a in game coordinator, right? We did.

You know what, so what is that?

What, what exactly does that guy do? Because you, you hired someone who's going to help you. Is he just guy.

Guys do that before. So it's John Stryker. He's been in Tennessee. I think rabes and those guys, the last handful years did as good a job of understanding the nuances of rules, clock management, timeout usage. And that's something that, shoot, I got to be better at and to be able to have somebody that you lean on now. Hey, the, ultimately, it still is my responsibility to improve, but to have somebody that's charged with that task, he's a stud. Think he's going to really, you know, be beneficial.

So does he come up to you, like, just every few minutes being like, hey, here's what we got. Timeouts left.

He'll be on the headset and, you know, there's a dialog that's a free flowing dialog throughout the course of the game with really, your coaches, but, you know, possible four down scenario or. All right, this is, this might be something where if we get to this, let's go for it. And if there's a flexibility and a fluidity to the flow of the game. But the main thing is, is I've done a poor job, especially as it relates to that big cat is burning timeouts in the second half. I mean, we had two games last year, we were saying against Pittsburgh and against Detroit where, you know, does it change the outcome of the game? Who knows? But at least we have a chance to possibly get a possession back or, you know, be able to use that to our right.

We've been saying for years that teams should have a coach that just plays video games. It just plays Madden all the time. And if they play Madden all the time, then they understand better than anyone else those end of game, end of quarter, end of half scenarios when it comes to timeouts. Does he play a lot of video games?

No, he does not play video games. I don't know if Madden's gonna simulate the game situation.

Does yours?

Yeah.

Example, pressure.

The pressure of playing Madden now, the.

New college football game. The stadium pulse place going crazy, your controllers vibrating. Yeah.

It's just like the real thing.

Here's, you also have to understand from a fans perspective, like, we sit on the couch, we're dumb. We don't know football. We can't be like Sean McVeigh. Oh, he should have called a different route for his tight end on that last play. But we do know a shouldn't have used your time out there. That's what we can complain with that.

Yeah, I can agree with that.

That's all we have.

Crazy.

We're just like, off.

He used the timeout, all the answers and no accountability, right?

Yeah, exactly.

I never would have done that.

There will be some times where I might, you know, say, you know, I'd see it differently. That one shouldn't have punted away on fourth and 14.

Yeah.

Maybe in a few years. You know, I don't know how long.

You'Re gonna never seen the movie anger management.

Yeah.

You know, the early parts of it when, you know, he's like, I thought we said we weren't gonna listen to the game. Iverson missile a. You know, and you got a dunk. That's not going to give him another hypothetical.

So his mind sharp.

So I. If you have another hypothetical. I actually was gonna ask him that, that same hypothetical.

I was thinking the feet.

I was. Yeah, I had that as a question. But, yeah, there's another one. If you're, if you're in the NFC championship game, hypothetically. And it is fourth and. Was it fourth and eight?

Fourth and goal from the eight.

Fourth and goal from the eight yard line.

And you're down, my buddy.

And you're down by hypothetical.

This is a hypothetical. This is not happened.

Okay. So it's fourth quarter, you're fourth and goal from the eight. You're down by what? Five. Eight points. Eight points. And you're going up against the best quarterback of all time.

Let's call him Tom Brady.

Hypothetically, it's Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In that scenario, would you kick a field goal, which is worth. How many points is that? It's worth three points. Or would you score a touchdown, which is worth six, and then you can go for two?

Here's what I'm sitting there as I'm watching that game. I'm sitting there riding with my buddy Matt Lafleur right there.

Oh, that's.

Let's. Let's get the stop, let's kick the field goal, and let's win the damn thing.

Now, were you thinking, let's take the field goal, then we'll kick another field goal? Then we'll kick another field goal?

No, I don't think I was thinking that.

Okay.

All right.

Some people might have been thinking that. That's nine points.

Do coaches get piss tested? Cause I thought that he should have gotten one after that game.

He's gonna text us after this because he. We bring this up.

Remember when I had you come up to him at Indianapolis?

Yes.

Yeah.

That's my guy, though. You know what, though? Here's what I will say in all. And when you look at it, especially, like, going into year eight, it's amazing the amount of situations you go through where you're saying, it seems so clear. And, man, that 42nd clock goes real freaking quick. And if you're coming out of a timeout and it's 25 seconds and such a big deal of. Is learning from some of your mistakes or things, if you would do it differently. I don't know that there's as clear cut of a right or wrong answer as what we're talking about with me. And I actually do mean that just based on the flow of the game and where they were going and how their defense was playing at that point in time.

But that's where I. In the video game, that's where I hit the start menu so you don't have to burn a timeout.

So how would. How would you guys have played third and eight to fourth and eight?

Third and fourth and eight? I probably would have run the ball.

Yeah.

Run the ball in third down.

Yeah.

Make it manageable.

And I. You know what? I can't say that. I don't think that's a sound thought process.

Yeah, that's what I know. Army does that. Well, they run the ball anyways. But they. When they. When they plan out their scenarios, they just anticipate. Okay, we're going to go four and fourth down.

Yeah.

Like, almost every time. So we treat it like it's first and eight every time.

That's how a lot of these teams do handle it. If you know you're going to get to a certain thing so you can play some percentages, do it a little bit differently.

Yeah.

I mean, you hit the nail on the head. We, we have zero accountability for anything. So we do get to feel smart when we come out on the right side of it. But nothing gets me more upset as a fan than when, if a coach makes a mistake and then they just dig in on it afterwards and they don't admit that it was a mistake and they don't learn from, from it. So there are probably a lot of Rams fans listening right now. They're like, well, at least, you know.

No, you took accountability right away moving forward.

No. You know what, though? If we tell our players that, like, you know, all kidding aside, if we're saying, all right, let's have accountability be one of the most important things, and it's hard for us to move on if we can't acknowledge, like, all right. Where we're wrong.

Right.

And let's be, let's be selfless and secure enough to be able to admit that. And if I'm asking something of our players, then I better be willing to do it. And then there are some times when you say some things didn't go down, but was the thought process sound? Yeah, and usually when I get the most, you know, when I get mad at myself or when you're saying, all right, you didn't either. Either. Think about this beforehand. You didn't play it right in terms of the sequencing of what led up to that fourth down. Or sometimes it doesn't go down for you. Like, there was some play calls, like in the Super bowl drive, the one play that Stafford no looks. That was a terrible play call. It was the worst coverage ever. He no looks, a hook defender dropping right off into that zone. He has enough field for the backside player and it's a 20 plus yard gain, you know, and then on the flip side, you're saying, all right, fourth and one, we go forward on the jet sweep cup, makes a great run. Well, if he trips, is it a bad call?

No, I don't think so.

Right.

You know, and so that's where you have to be honest with yourself. And it's hard because there's stakes at hand and it's so public.

Right.

You have to be able to make sure that, you know, your process, not results. Yeah. And, but it's also like all right, let's make sure that, you know what led to it, and it goes both ways, right? Like, if it works out, you still have to acknowledge, even though it doesn't sting as much, that shit wasn't in.

The fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. I have to imagine you're talking about, like, the adrenaline earlier. How did that affect you? Like, were you actually feeling. Was the heart rate up? Were you feeling different? Were you trying to actively calm yourself down?

Yeah, you know what? I would say this because I handled the 18 Super bowl so poorly, and really, it was such a blur. Like, I mean, honestly, I think the games that are the clearest, you know, and it's all mental for us as coaches are. When you're just there, you're seeing the game, you're able to make adjustments, you're able to communicate clearly to your players. You're getting the stuff. If things go a little bit different than what was expected. And even though early on we kind of saw it, it was just such a blur where it just went. It was, you know, whether you want to say I wasn't doing a good enough job. So I wanted to make sure you say, just try to be in the moment. Don't make some of the same mistakes twice. And there was an element our defense was playing so well. You know, we obviously had some injuries losing Odell. You know, even Van Jefferson was banged up at that point. But I thought our guys stayed the course. The defense gave us an opportunity, and then when we had to have it, I felt like our guys did an excellent job executing, and I did think there was at least some clarity of thought, even though all the play calls weren't exactly what you would want.

So I actually had this question. The 18 Super bowl you've talked about, like, hey, that was my first Super bowl. It didn't go well. I could have done a better job. Did winning the Super bowl in 21 kind of take a little bit of that sting away? Or is it something that you still are? Like, man, I let that one go.

You know, I'll still always feel like I let guys down that had an opportunity, you know, the John Sullivan's of the world, the coaches that were there, you know, even, you know, you want to win that so bad for your players. Todd Gurley's, you know, Michael Brocker. There was a lot of special guys that were a part of that football team, and I felt very responsible for that. But I think you want to always channel things the right way, and here's what I will say to that. You know, in the 21 season, it was cool because there were so many guys that you wanted it for even more than yourself. And. And there was a clarity, and there was a purity in that journey. And I think the adversity we face where there was real grit that had to be established wasn't something that you can fake. And when you have a lot of guys that it meant something to them, but they didn't want to let each other down. Whether it was people for Aaron, people for Whitworth, Eric Weddell, Jalen Ramsey, Vaughn Odell, Matthew Cooper, the Rob Haven Steins. You know, even though Higbee wasn't able to play, there was a lot of special guys that were a part of it.

And so, you know, that was cool. It, I don't know if they say it took this thing away because there were still other people that you feel responsible for, but it definitely was a lot of learning lessons because in some ways, too, it was a cool thing. And then afterwards, you start, you know, buying into your own stuff a little bit and you get away from the stuff that, you know, that is when you're at your best for these guys.

So after you win the Super bowl, there was that period of time where people were like, Sean McVeigh might retire, take a walk away from football for a little bit. How close were you to actually walking away? Because it felt like it was close.

You know, it's funny. I think the lies I told myself were, once we'd win it, then I'd be happy, and that's something that I'd always had interest in. And then there was some real opportunities, you know, with, with real, you know, opportunities to, you know, have financial rewards and things like that. What I didn't want to do is disingenuously lead people down a path. If I really knew, I kind of still wanted to coach. But, you know, I don't know, it was such a blur. I never really. It never got close. Like, I never took the meeting. You know, there was. There was people that I work with, you know, had conversations and pre dialog about what it would look like, but I didn't want to lead people on, especially if that's something way down the line that you're interested in doing. So it never got serious, but then you start, you know, it does get. It does catch up to you a little bit if you lose the perspective. And there was definitely some times I did, and then I think it got exposed by some of the results we had in 22. And that's real.

Well, we're happy you stayed in football. Yeah.

And I love you in football. Well, I appreciate that. And here's the thing, too. I would drive my wife crazy if I was around at home too much. I mean, she loves me, but, you know, I know she's ready when these breaks come back. I think my little man gave me a different perspective.

Congratulations, by the way. Yeah.

How is it being a best thing ever? It really is. I mean, and now he's getting to that age where he can recognize you. He's got personality, smiling. He's doing a bunch of cool stuff. And so it does give you that purpose and perspective, having the family that I have. But I do love coaching. You know, there's so many things about it that you love when you have the right head space. And, you know, I'm hopeful to do this for a lot longer and for a really long period of time and then down the road, if, if that opportunity presents itself. But hopefully they'll have to kick me out of here.

Wait, how old is your son now?

My son is. No, shoot, he's. He's nine months.

Okay. Nine months. Yeah. Starting to smile a little.

He's smiling. He's, he's getting around the house. He's flying around in his walker and, you know, he's always jumping, man. He's a little, he's, he's crazy, though.

He doesn't like they're trying to just kill themselves by going upstairs all the time.

It's wild. You can't take your eye off.

Yeah. Are you.

Let him play football if he wants to.

Oh, yeah.

Nice, nice. Good answer. So I feel like you love the chess match. That's inherent in football. The pre planning, watching it pan out. Do you ever call plays knowing that they're not going to work to set something up for later?

That's a good question. I wouldn't say knowing that they're not going to work, but even if I don't think it has a great chance for success. But you still want to have an efficient play if it can pay dividends. There's been some opportunities where you're saying, all right, let me get this play off, because I think it's really going to open up something later on. But there's usually a little bit more luxury based on if you're in a rhythm, you're getting plays off. You can only sequence a game the way you want when you're able to get opportunities to do that present things. If you're going three and out, it's hard to get into any sort of rhythm, whether it's offensively or even as a play caller, but I wouldn't say intentionally not to work. But if you feel like, all right, I. This is to set something up that you feel like definitely has a great chance to relate, you know, end up, you know, resulting in a big play.

At what point this season are you going to text Aaron Donald and be like, come on, dude, tomorrow? Yeah. Has that happened yet here?

Let's put it this way. I talked to Aaron pretty frequently. He texted me the other day asking about the Chargers practice next week. I wanted to say, what you thinking about, man?

Yeah.

You know, if he wants to the door and the invitation is open.

Oh, wow. That's very gracious.

Speaker two. Right. Here's the thing, though, and I think you guys would. Would understand this. If there's a man of man of men, it's Aaron Don, right?

Yeah.

When he looks you in the eye and you understand what he's about and what he puts into it, and he says, hey, I'm gonna. I feel full. I feel complete. I'm putting everything I can into this. Then you let him say, if there ever is a situation where he gets that itch, but I got too much respect for him, honestly, to ask him about it, and I think he kind of understands, but I don't think there's any chance. I think when you talk about a complete and a full resume and where he's at in this part of his life, he's earned the right to say, I can walk away with no regrets. And even though I could still play at the upper echelon of this league, I got four beautiful kids, a wife. I got business ventures, and he's set. And he's got some other interests, too.

Yeah.

Super bowl ring. He's financially taken care of. Feel like it's probably pretty nice this time of year for him not to have to go to camp.

But you should keep texting him, Aaron.

You can. You don't even have to practice.

I know, right?

Yeah.

How about that? You just offer him no camp. You don't have to show up every time.

He didn't come to camp. He won defensive player of the year.

Yeah. So there you go.

The less practice, the better.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Him. Yes.

Yeah. I feel like you should maybe everybody consider doing that.

What's. Speaking to the defense side of the ball. So your college best friend is now your defensive coordinator.

He's earned it. He's studded.

But what is that like? Is that. Is it like you have this relationship where you guys have known each other forever. You were friends before you got to this level. Is it, do you find yourself catching yourself at moments being like, wait, we're, we're high level co workers here. We're not.

I think it's because he's earned the right. You know, I think it's funny. So his dad, Dave Shula, was the head coach of the Bengals when he was 32. Obviously, his, his grandfather is Don, Mike is his uncle. And, you know, one of the things when we got here, you know, I've got a bunch of friends on this staff, but they've all earned the right to be here. And, you know, it's like, we're not doing favors. You earn the right, and, oh, it's cool to be able to trust somebody, and we've been together from day one. He lived with us, you know, my first year, he lived with me and my wife, and then, you know, ended up, you know, moving out. But to have somebody you trust that much, he's coached on all three levels of the defense, comes from a football background. It's really special to have, and he's done a great job. I'm really confident. Leadership, we think very much alike. But what his dad said is, you know, I wish, seeing what you guys have been able to do, that I wasn't so worried about, you know, hiring friends if I thought they were worthy of it.

Because you wanted to go, you want to be careful, and, you know, and this is a high pressure business, but I wouldn't have done it. He's been ready for a while, but I think it worked itself out that with Raheem getting that opportunity that he'll go do an awesome job in Atlanta. Chris is in a position and, you know, had an open mind and let guys compete for the interview, and, and he earned it. He's done a hell of a job so far. I got a ton of confidence in him.

It's also got to be hard. I mean, you have an incredible coaching tree at a very young age, and all the guys that feel like they come in this building and then in a year, they get snatched up. Is there a part of you that's like, man, I wish we didn't have this type of turnover, but you're obviously happy for him, but it's got to be like, man, this keeps happening over and over.

It's not ideal, but you know what? It keeps you fresh. Like, it attracts high level people. And I think about this, I was so lucky, and I was 30 years old when I got this opportunity, and it's not just me. These guys are contributing to me. I'm learning from these guys that have been through here, and then they go on and they put their own spin on it. But things have been good because you have guys like Raheem Morris, Kevin O'Connell, Zach Taylor, Matt Lafleur, Staley's of the world, Shane Waldron. You know, you get a lot of guys that have gone on. Jed Fish, you know, a lot of great coaches that have gone on. Liam Coleman, Zachary Robinson, our oCs. And so they've all been a part of good things here. And if there's not an opportunity based on, you know, what their chances are to elevate themselves, then I think that's the best thing ever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Does it make it harder? Yeah, but you know what? It does, too. It keeps you fresh every year, and, you know, you don't take things for granted. And I think we've gotten good at figuring that out. But it's all because of the right people that come in here.

Yeah.

If it's a good job, then good people are going to want to have.

It, and you're going to have.

Have very talented people coming in. I do have to. I do have to bring up one thing that I don't like about what you've done in the last year. Motivational shirts that you made.

Yeah.

And I saw one the other day when we were at the chargers. Which one did you practice mentally and physically? Tough players who play smart and love to compete.

That was an old one. Then if you saw that one, that's old.

Yeah.

They're still wearing it out there. But what was the thought process behind putting so many. So many words on a t shirt?

Well, I've learned, you know, it's a lot. That's a lot of words, but they all actually do mean something. What don't you like about mentally and physically tough players?

I like that.

Okay.

That would be.

That would be a great t shirt.

What about a. You want guys who play smart?

Yes. That would be a great t shirt.

You want guys who love to compete.

You just made three great t shirts.

That's what we did this year.

Oh, you got them on.

Coachable to have the paragraph totally fucking yes.

It was too much reading.

It looked like one exhausting agree.

You ever get those, like, auto populated ads that are served to you that show, like, very specifically, like, what. What sign you are in in the horoscope and, like, what job you have? It's like, on Facebook. They know who you are, so they try to send you. These shirts that have, like, he's not.

I can imagine, and I tend to agree with you that that's an old shirt. You would never see something like that now.

Great job.

Simple, crisp, to the point.

Yeah.

Job model.

The way this year, we're going for it on fourth and 14th, we're making three different t shirts.

Yes.

I like that. Evolution. I think perhaps you're a smart guy. I had a question for you, kind of along the lines of what big cast earlier to test the memory, but it's not about a play. We do this game a lot with different players, different coaches that we have on. How many Johnsons have you ever coached as a head coach? Just on the Rams.

Do you actually know the answer?

I've got a list of Rams players named Johnson here, so we can go through the list.

So, since 2017.

Since 2017, how many Johnsons have you played? Played with?

If I had to guess, how many Johnsons I've coached or played with.

Oh, sorry.

Okay.

With coach.

How many Johnson's.

How many have you played with?

Johnson's have you watched being played with?

Yeah.

Well, what the hell is your question card?

Sean McVeigh has played with this man.

How many. How many Johnson's have been on while you coach them?

Right? Pretty simple.

How many players with the last name Johnson?

If you want to put it that way.

Yes. That's a. That's an accurate.

I'm going to say galley, man.

Well, can you name them? Can you just name the Johnson?

Well, two guys come to mind. John Johnson. Isaiah Johnson. All right, Tyler Johnson.

Okay.

How many more do I have?

Johnson's, man.

It looks like there's one more.

One more. All right, give me the side of the ball.

Defense.

Defense.

Big D. You said Isaiah, right?

I did say Isaiah Johnson. I said John Johnson. I said Tyler Johnson.

Mm hmm.

And I said, give it to him.

Give it on it. Yeah. Yeah.

You want the Johnson?

Yeah, I want the Johnson.

Give it to him.

Okay, I'll give you the Johnson. Wait, I just had it and I lost it. Here we go. Tremaine Johnson.

That is bad. That I didn't remember. That's bad.

Yeah. Sometimes you forget Johnson when you play.

With a lot, perhaps. All right, well, uncomfortable artists.

He's looking around like, what is he gonna say?

He's gonna be looking for a new head coach tomorrow. We keep this going.

Listen, this isn't a schrager. Sit down. Okay, well, we love Schrager, too. All right, last question brought to you by Chevy. Chevy.com. chevy Silverado. Toughest truck out there. So we. We started with this, but what happened with the Super bowl suite? We. Are you going to give us one next time you're in the Super bowl?

Let's understand the parameters, all right? You know, I don't think I understood the. You know, what are we looking for? What's something that. All right. If we get there again, what's a. Okay, now, here's the thing, too. You guys don't need it. No, no, I forgot.

All right, so here's what.

Here's. I'll make a deal with you, okay? No Super bowl suite. I just want to be able to call one player and I have dialog.

I can't promise it'll come up.

But you want. You want to play?

As long as I think that we agree it's a reasonable decision.

Ready for this play? Yeah. Fake punt. Punt.

I'm fucking confused.

Okay. You snap the ball to the fullback or someone standing about five yards behind the center.

But why? And then he criticized me punting it on fourth.

I understand, but no one expects the fake punt. Punt. Because they say, oh, fake punt. Then he lateral punches. Any pun? Are we doing this second down?

Why would we just give away a possession?

It's just. It will fuck everyone up. Sometimes you gotta fuck people up.

You know what? Sometimes you gotta shut the fuck up.

Fair. Fair.

Make them think you're crazy.

Yeah.

Just be like, this guy's lost his mind.

Turner's gonna, like, come up and he's gonna try to tackle the fullback, pass it back to the punter, kicks it, pins him deep at the one, then you get a safety.

Yeah. Okay. All right. I lost my play calling privileges.

Well, what would you say if someone actually did that?

I'd be like, fake pun. Pun. I would just ask him for years.

What if the Bears do that in a one possession game with three minutes left and they're down?

Did it work?

I mean, it pins them deep, but then they never see the ball again. The fake pun is not what you're like.

Honestly, I think I'd die with the fake pun punt. I'd be like, that was sick.

I appreciate it.

I could see Iowa actually doing that. Yeah, that would not shock they.

They'd find a way to come away with the dub.

Yeah. No one's ever expected the fake. Punk, punk. Someone's gonna do it.

And I think that the other coach was insane. I'd be afraid of them.

Yeah.

That's what I would say.

I'd be like, that's.

Yeah.

It'd be concerning.

Yeah.

Well, coach we really appreciate it. We love having you on the show, being a recurring guest. We're rooting for you guys. Best luck this year.

You guys, too.

We're happy you stayed in football. Yeah.

Yeah, I am, too, man. It's good to see you guys again. It's been a while.

Yeah.

How was the hardball interview?

He was great.

He was awesome.

Awesome guy.

Talking chicken.

Yeah. We can eat chicken again. We can eat chicken again.

And he invented a rivalry trophy. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's a man.

Yeah.

Oh, I have one last, last question. Would you coach us soccer? How long do you think it would take for you to become, like, an excellent soccer coach?

I got a lot of here's Arsenal. So I've had some interactions with Mikael Arteta. I tell you what, I played soccer when I was growing up. The technician, the tactical approach. Unbelievable. No way. Those guys do a great job, but I'd work my ass off to figure it out. Like Ted lasso.

Yeah.

I think you could do it. I think if we gave. If we gave you, like, five months, you'd be better than Greg or whatever his name.

Yeah. You would.

Hey, it's. It's hard. Coaching is hard.

Yeah. All right.

Thanks, fellas.

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Okay, let's wrap up grit week. A great grit week with our fyre fest.

The week, Henry, was a fyre fest ire. It was a. It was a great week. I love grit week. I love la. I had a great time.

Yeah.

You want to move here?

Like, if Hank told that, I mean, I have like, four fire fest. One of them was that every time we come to LA or California, Hank just says, I want to move here so bad, and I hate you guys.

Yeah.

Not the ladder.

Well, no, I mean, you want to move away from us. It's it hurts every time, but that.

Like, we came here when I was 20. What did I say? Like, we've. We've come here.

Oh, no. I know. You've been hurting my feelings for over a decade now.

Yeah. Hank will let you know that he.

Or moved to New York. I was like, we should move to California. Form of Chicago. I was like, we should move to California. I'll never stop. I don't think you've made. Every time I come back, it kind of reinforces it.

You've made it very clear that you don't want to be with us.

Yeah.

And that's okay.

It hurts.

I've always wanted to live in California.

Yeah, with none of your friends?

I have friends here.

I was born.

Oh, he wants all the boys. He wants all the boys in Cal.

Yeah.

I wanted to. I want to be in California with my bros, which is what we did this week, which is why it was a great week.

Yeah.

We had active mornings. We did fun stuff. We did fun interviews.

So nothing bad. You got enough naps in, so. Yeah, you were good all week.

Hank, when your fire fest be that you're about to go back to Chicago and you're just gonna be thinking about.

California, you'll never be near a beach or water ever again.

No, I. Look, I like Chicago, too. It's all good. It's all good. Good things. It's been a good week. I don't like. Is there some bad I'm forgetting about?

No, no.

You've been a pleasure to be.

You've been fun.

Yeah.

Yeah. I've had a fun time being around you.

Me too.

Mm hmm. Every minute.

Well, wait. Me too.

I've had fun being around you guys, too. Like, I like.

I like.

I like being out of the office. Less corporate nonsense, less meetings. There's just bros. Yeah.

Bros on the road, corporate nonsense meetings, summer games. I actually wish that we were there for the summer games. That look like fun.

Well, we got camp Arsenal.

Camp Arsenal coming up. That's facts.

I just like being, you know, it's. We have more fun when we're on the road.

Yeah, no, we've had a great time. We've had. We've had some. What it was. That was a max.

Well, I mean, this is Hank just. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of.

Work, but we've had. Our fights have been very fun, jovial fights.

Is Hank gaslighting it? Is that what you're saying?

No, it's just Hank. Hank forgets the.

No.

Well, that's a part of it. This is a fact. And, I mean, I. I was in your guys shoes for. For five years. It's not as fun, you know? Oh, you guys do.

Yeah, but I used to have to.

Do that, and now it also puts in perspective, and I don't have to do it.

That.

It's like. It is.

Shout out the boys on Tuesday night, all the behind the scenes boys, and Max, who's both behind the scenes and on scenes or in front of the camera, they. I think they all slept like 1 hour. Yeah, I know. People are like, where's the podcast? Where's the podcast? And I know that's a running joke, but they are always getting the podcast up.

Yeah, it was a late night, and there, I mean, shout out pug edited through. Through an earthquake.

Yeah, that was one of my big fire fest. I was really upset.

If you're gonna be in an earthquake, you want to feel the earthquake.

Yeah, but the thing, back to grit, week one, when it was like we had to drive the bus, clean the bus, set up like we had one person.

That's facts. There was.

There was about. So I'd say, like, this week, wherever the bus smelled like absolute piss. Yeah, I don't know what that was. Was that.

I think it piss.

Hughie made a face.

Bus life.

Huey made Hughie. I wasn't gonna say that. You made a face like.

No, it just smelled bad, and it was that. Nothing to do with me.

Okay.

Okay.

It's very suspect if you saw his face on that camera.

It.

It made me think.

No, I. I think it was the bus driver. Oh, the one who's not here to defend.

Shout out Charlie. Charlie. He was great.

That are Utah, but, yeah, the one who's not here to defend himself.

Utah number two.

Yeah, he's from Utah for those.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah. This is his experience. Um, yeah.

Did smell.

I did find some febreze, and that helped.

Appreciate that.

Thank you.

It smells great on.

Okay.

All right.

Pft. He's like a press conference after, like he just blew a game.

Yeah.

Huey under the mic. Okay.

Hey, did great, Huey.

Pft.

I got. I got a few of them.

I guess funniest moment of the week is probably Huey. I don't know.

I want to see. I want it. No, I want to see. Well, no, we have two funny huey moments. One will save for next week, but the other one, I want to see if he's going to use his fyre fest. If he doesn't, I'm going to say it.

I won't say it as my fire fest, I'm assuming.

I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. Are you. You go, um, okay, Jonah to our sound guy who always comes with the best.

He's the best.

The best.

Just listens us bitch at each other for.

Yeah, he just sits there and giggles. Jonah could write a great, like, tell all article and just being like, this is what these guys really are. Like. They are the same on the show as they are in real person. They're just always bickering and making jokes at each other's expenses.

You won't write a tell all novel, right?

I record. I actually wouldn't mind if you wrote an article just for us. Just like, this is what I think.

You ever thought about. You ever thought about blogging, Jonah?

I haven't. No.

Jonah, what do you think? Good answer. Jonah, what do you think when you just watch us in our. Like, we're just all making fun of each other, kind of fighting? Like, are you ever, like, do these guys even like each other? No, it's very much friendly. Yeah. You know, entertaining. Because it is pretty much. We do the show when we're not doing the show. Yeah. Well, shout out, Jonah. Jonah's the man. Okay, Hughie, back to you, buddy.

My fyre fest. Sweating.

Oh, okay.

Can't stop it.

Yeah. Yeah, I.

After the great time with musk the other day, we. I took a shower. A cold shower. Didn't help.

Yeah.

Still sweating.

It was hot. Gym.

It was a two hour gap in between the shower and the meet and greet. Still sweater.

Yeah.

And I think the meet and greet made me nervous. Didn't want to fuck up any pictures, you know, wanted to be nice to everybody. It was a tight, narrow area, so, you know, trying to maneuver. I think. I just think I got hot.

Yeah.

And it was. Yeah. So. And I. Hands. I have not been. I mean, hands are just wet.

All the wettest hands in the world.

Oh, I feel so bad for. For our friend. I don't know if I. Mister Rosilla.

Yeah.

I mean, when I shook his hand, it was. It was bad. It was what he. I mean, it was a blatant wipe off, and I couldn't. Couldn't say no.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so I. That wasn't what I was gonna say, what your fire fest was. I thought what your fire fest was gonna be on all the way back to Sunday when we were at Chargers camp and we finished taping with Coach Jim Harbaugh.

Yeah.

And you're a big Michigan fan.

Yeah.

And Coach turned and pointed at you. And he said, what, did this guy win a contest or something? Yeah. Yeah. He's like, how'd you get here?

Yeah, I got that vibe. Yeah, I realized that. And then it hit me a couple. About an hour later is when I realized, oh, that didn't sound good. They didn't sound good.

In a way, you kind of did win a contest.

Yeah.

And it was, like, my first day on, like, an actual, like, shoot like that. So I really didn't know what the hell to do and where to go, so I looked like a fool. Yeah. And so, yeah, I mean, I was. I was just kind of. Yeah, I was. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. I think he thought I was from, like, a make a wish or something.

Yeah, no, that he said, what, he win a contest or so.

Yeah, like, so that's. That's rough.

But he. But you got your picture.

Yes.

And then we were like, no, he's our intern. He's like, that's awesome.

Yeah, yeah, and he's a cool guy, you know. We'll meet him again. Yeah. Yeah, well, he won't be. The end of the paths will cross.

Yeah.

So, yeah, it'll be all right. But, yeah, no, it was that one. Definitely. I sat in my bed that night thinking, oh, fuck. I fuck that one up.

Huey, like, later on at night, put his head on his pill. He's like, oh, shit.

Oh, like the Racilla. I regret it. I regret voting for Angel Reese for.

Oh, yeah, that didn't go well. Yeah.

Cuz I was like. It just clearly, Caitlin, I mean, she's averaging, like, 20 and ten. I might. I panicked.

Yeah, that's okay. It's doing a good job. Yeah, that's okay. That's a little tease, tease, tease. You're. You're doing a great job, huey. Yeah.

Thank you.

The hardball thing is nothing compared to the.

Yeah, we'll tell that on Monday.

Yeah, it's so good.

I wish we had that on film.

I'm so pissed that we did that.

We have a good laugh. Yeah, that was a good one today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was the most nervous, I think I was the whole weekend.

Week, which is crazy, because you've been nervous all week, all new week.

Say who it is.

No, I won't, but. Oh, boy. Yeah, oh, boy.

Okay. I've never seen memes laugh like this.

Huey, how do you spell that?

Well, h I b. B I d y d I bb.

Think of the language of origin, please, huey.

I d. Yes, that's correct.

Yeah, you nailed it. Yeah.

Yeah. As a test. Yeah, you hate tests, but you did good.

Yeah.

Finally. About time.

All right. Pft, your fire fest.

I got. I got a few fire fests. I guess it's been a good week. When I echo what Hank said, it's fun hanging out with you boys. It does kind of take me back to, like, the first grit weekend and the second great week when we were, like, in a van or we were on a bus that was breaking down. A lot of fun being out here on the road. And I do love you guys, and I love all the awls, and I tell them at the end of every episode that I love them, and yesterday I said it, and then it didn't end up in the final cut, so they thought that I didn't love them. So I don't know. I think. Was that Hank? Were you editing Hank? I did blame Hank on Twitter.

Oh, that was your fyre fest, Hank? You didn't get included in the production picture.

Oh, yeah, no, that was. That was funny, though.

Yeah.

Banter.

Yeah, that was. That was my fault. And the backends fault because I fixed it, and then it didn't fix.

Sounds like. And is the fall guy here?

I also might have told you when we did the UFC part that you didn't say. You just didn't say UFC, UFC.

What UFC thing do we did this week?

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I tried to fix it, and I tried to fix it just so the awls know. I tried to fix that and added an hour. It legitimately added an hour of me waking or being awake that night.

Mm hmm.

Which put my sleep from what would have been 3 hours to 2 hours.

It was. It was definitely my fault for not saying it was my at the end. Oh, it's my fault also. This my fault. Off.

This is a good time to announce that we're gonna start releasing the video of the podcast at the exact same time every. Every morning. Right, Hank, what time?

07:00 a.m. 07:00 a.m. eastern.

Eastern.

Eastern. The podcast will come out as soon as it's ready, but it's better for the algorithm. It's also better for pug. 07:00 a.m. east.

People aren't gonna be still gonna be so mad.

That's okay. I understand that people are gonna be mad. But you can listen to the podcast, and it will be out at 07:00 a.m. eastern.

Podcast will be out.

It helps the algorithm.

We appreciate everyone helping listen the podcast whenever it's done.

Correct.

And if you're fiending for the YouTube, you can wait till 07:00 a.m. that's fair.

That's very fair. Yeah, it's very fair. But you're looking at Max.

There's awls that are taking a picture. I thought they were gonna try.

That's cool. I love them.

Shout them out.

I love those guys. Shout out awl shatter aw els.

Hey.

So I do love you. Despite. Despite the end of yesterday's episode, other fyre fest. It's been. It's been about two weeks since I've been home. I don't know if the El Camino is gonna start. I think the line on that is, like, plus 250 for whether or not it starts. It's one of those things you gotta. You gotta, like, pump every thrill, though. It is a thrill.

Tomorrow.

Yeah, I think it's. It's probably not likely to start the first time. I don't know. She's been on a hot streak, but I miss her, and I'm gonna go home, and I just remember today I got a weed plant. I got a weed plant the day before I left, and I put it. I put it in my backyard. It's dead. Has it been raining in Chicago?

I don't think so. I think it's been beautiful.

No, it rained once. One day, but not enough.

Okay, well, does that mean maybe that's perfect because I'm trying to grow shitty weed?

Because we were. We didn't have enough guys for a softball team. We had and we had to forfeit.

Okay, well, maybe. Maybe I'm growing, like, tough, shitty, resilient weed, so it might be perfect for what I'm looking for. Yeah, so the. Yeah, the El Camino and then pre fire fest, the air and water shows on Saturday, and last year was a disaster when I misidentified the f 16. So I haven't done any research as to what planes are flying at all. I have no idea. But it's a big redemption story for me on Saturday, so, God willing, I'll nail it.

Okay. My fyre fest has Hank hurt my feelings? I didn't feel an earthquake. You love California more than us. It's fun. You hurt my feelings. I love you more.

I want us to move together.

I love you more than the state of California.

I love you more than the state of California. But I would love to love you in the state of California.

Quote card. Yeah, Shane. Quote card.

That's a quote card.

That's one of the first states where that would have been allowed.

Yeah. All right, so, yeah, I guess my real fire fest is. I love grit week. It's always fun being on the road with the boys. We got ups and downs. Fun. I'm just. I'm feeling my age. This was the first grit week where I was feeling my age. We were doing a lot of activities, and my body is not responding well.

Yeah, the days are like 16 hours long.

Yeah, we surfed, played Frisbee golf. We did a workout at USC. We did a bunch of interviews. I'm just. My bounce back is not there, so just facing that is. Is tough. But I still love grit week. Still fun. Also, I won't apologize for getting triggered about Caleb Williams, because then after the show on Wednesday, he went viral again. Cuz he has a purse.

Yeah, we. I can't believe purse.

I'm gonna get the same purse. I'm gonna start carrying it around. Listen, my guard is up.

The person. It's like, people.

What if his playbooks in there?

If you're in a facility, like, it's a. It's a basically backpack.

Yeah, basically.

This is why I didn't want hard knocks.

It's pretty much a suitcase.

Yeah, it is. I'm gonna get the same one, and I'm gonna start carrying around a purse.

So, you know, get a purse. You're gonna paint your nails?

Yeah, I'll paint my nails.

Mm hmm.

Well, if we start winning football games and paint my nails, it is.

It's sad that we didn't pick it up in real time, though, that we didn't see it happen.

Yeah. I was just thinking about his ass.

Yeah.

And any HBO slender. Yeah. So. All right. Good week, boys. Fun. Always love grit week. Had a blast.

Great times.

We learned Hank doesn't know what color pepper jack cheese is. I still can't believe that. All right, should we do numbers?

I guess another fyre fest is. Max, I didn't realize it as we did the show. You actually got the number.

I know.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah.

But it's not a lottery ball.

It's not the golden number. You didn't get the ball.

You got the lottery ball.

You got the number.

Question.

You've never gotten the lottery.

The question is, have you ever got the number?

No. The question is, have you ever gotten the lottery ball?

No.

Well, I changed. I just changed the question. Yeah. All right, so we do numbers.

22.

28.

Go. 56.

42.

I mean, I already won this.

99. Three, four memes. Tim, you want a number?

33.

33. Jonah. Two. Shane back there? No, he's trying lemonade. He's trying lemonade. Okay.

He's not feeling very well.

1515.

Love you guys.

Tiva.

Love you guys.

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