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Technically alive. Technically alive. Brains might be dead, but our body, our heart still beating. And it's still beating because we had such an electric first round of the NBA draft.

Oh, my God.

It was thrilling for everybody. I think I actually had second round grades on everybody selected in this draft. The entire first round and the second round included.

Yeah, I mean, the. The most notable things have happened so far in the draft. We're actually recording this right before we think brawny is going to get drafted by the Lakers. Apparently, Rich Paul's been calling everyone, saying that if he doesn't get drafted by the Lakers of the suns, he's going Australia.

Get ready to put another strip on the barbie.

Yeah, get ready to learn australian, buddy. Uh, but so we're waiting for that. Oh, Cam Spencer just got not drafted. Drafted. Cam Spencer just got drafted by. Wait, I thought, oh, yeah. Can't. Spencer. Celtics are up the draft. The biggest note I had was, Alex are the second pick. Your Washington wizards, baby. Wimby does look like Caitlin Clark.

That's fine.

Did you see that? That viral tweet?

I did see it.

And it. It's hard. It's like the Troy Aikman Jay Z.

She's a winner.

Yeah, well, kind of never.

I mean, I would. I would be ecstatic if the Wizards lost, like, three NBA championships in a row. Yeah, that would give me so much fun stuff to root for.

True.

Hey, I'm into that.

What if the cells did the funniest thing ever and drafted Brunny.

I would love it. It'd be amazing.

All right, we'll find out in a second. Yeah. This was the least notable NBA draft, I'm hoping this draft we took, we go back to it and we're like, it was so loaded. Everyone got it wrong there.

Maybe there's some people in the second round that are gonna be great. I got two things I'm a little bit pissed off about. Permission to go there.

Yeah.

Do your fucking trades like a normal league.

Correct.

Do your trades normally.

Don't announce them normally.

Announce them normally.

They do them normally. They don't announce them.

Announce them normally. What the. What the hell is going on? Via, via, via. No, just put a different logo on there. I'm dumb. I can't understand. I see the first team and then I'm like, oh, their logos everywhere. That must be who this player is getting picked by. Do it normally.

And then he announced it way after.

Yeah, just tell me what happen. We know what happens.

Yeah.

Every other league has this figured out. Why does the NBA, what is it that's different about basketball?

I don't know.

That makes them do it all.

Very bizarre. Very bizarre.

I hate it. Figure it out. Number two. The other team should draft brawny, take and hold them hostage for LeBron James to come rescue him. I think we. We talked about that, like, three weeks ago when we did our big draft preview. Huge draft preview. But now everyone's giving credit to Bill Simmons for it.

Yeah. Oh, well.

Oh, it happens.

It happens. It happens. In the podcasting game yet, brawny. This has been the whole broadcast, by the way. It's just brawny. That's why they went two days. They did not need to go two days. I don't know why. Here's another one. NBA. I like it. I love basketball. I love the NBA. You're not the NFL. You don't get two days. Okay? Like, the. The first round was already a bunch of french guys and people that we didn't watch play basketball last year, and now you're gonna make us do two days of this?

That's another thing. Too many French.

Way too many French.

Too many. This is kind of.

The takeover is happening.

Doctor Naismith is rolling over in his peach basket.

Yeah, I did. The Bulls drafted Matas Boozulis, and I did actually see him up close and personal because he worked out at barstool chicago, and I had a first one, one grade on him.

Oh, did you?

Yep.

That's tremendous value.

Then yep. I saw him. He made some shots. No one was guarding him. How's he going to pair with that guy is awesome.

How's he going to pair, josh? Giddy.

Fine.

Good.

Get along.

He's french.

No, he's. He's from hindsight. Hinsdale.

Hence.

And he's got. He's.

It's how parkers like the biggest town in.

No, it's just that's where we just played sunset. That's where we play golf.

Like a lot of people are from highland park.

Matas, what we're gonna say.

I was going to call out hank for laying down on the couch.

I'm trying to watch.

Well, that's why I turned it off. And you were like, you, but you asked what I was gonna say.

That's what I was gonna say.

Hank, you got baylor. Sharman, he's another guy you can think for. Christophs przingas.

He's a lefty. I love. I love, love what I saw from baylor. I didn't have mon.

Lefties are the best.

Yeah.

I shoot the rock.

I based my entire graph draft profile on. What was that guy's name from Duke line?

Christian Laetner.

No, no. Drafted by the piss not singler.

This hurts our NBA street cred. What the fuck was his name? He was a lefty. He. I think he's still in the NBA. He was a lefty and he. And he. Josh ribble behind his. His back. Lefty and hard.

Oh, yeah.

Luke Canard there is. Where does he play? For now, Clippers.

Sounds like he'd be duck.

Luke Knarge. What does he play for? Memphis? No, Memphis.

I, Hank, you have selected Anton Watson from Gonzaga.

Hell, yeah.

Watson. Quick thoughts.

Ha ha. Anton. What it's from gonna take Anton. When I hear Anton.

You think Gonzaga?

I think. Haha.

And Anton Walker.

Anton Watson is from Idaho.

Nice.

It's like the France of the United States. Probably about the same size. They both love potatoes.

Oh, this is a fun fact about Anton Watson. He went to Gonzaga prep school in Spokane, Washington, and then went to Gonzaga.

That's fun.

That's pretty cool. He's only played for Gonzaga. Yeah, this draft is pretty unremarkable. Yeah. Max, how do you. How we feel about your fingernail bros.

Hold on. Memes just said that.

Bronte.

Breaking news.

Breaking news. Breaking news. AJ Reddick looks weird in the Lakers hat. I'll say that right now.

Breaking moose memes.

What's the breaking point?

My brain is over. I almost said the Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Lakers are selecting Bronnie. James with the number 55 pick in the 2024 NBA draft. Sources say LeBron and Bronny James to become the first ever father son dude be in the NBA at the same time.

Of all the shocking things I've seen in my life, this has got to be number one. Wait, isn't he.

Nepotism strikes again.

Isn't he going to go to Australia? He said if any team drafted him.

He'S going to Australia. Shams keeps getting his account locked.

All right, I'm looking forward to Bronny on the Lakers. This is going to be good for the storylines.

Yeah.

How bad?

Fall this way. How do you fall that far? That's crazy.

Are they going to live together like I said?

What? Oh, no. We actually said it in the Jimmy Chatro interview, so I can't say it again. I'd be ripping off my own line. All right, congrats to Lakers.

Congrats to Brawny.

Congrats to Bronny. Well deserved. I'm gonna say that I'm gonna be really nice. Humble.

You know what stinks, though, for Bronny? Going on your first, like, road trips with an NBA team. You're a baller. Maybe you got a contract, few dollars in your pocket, and then your dad is hanging out with you.

Yeah, but you dad, I mean, he'll show him. It'll be cool, you know, they'll have fun together, so. But doesn't JJ look weird in the Lakers hat?

He looks weird in a hat.

Yeah. We need to get Will Compton's thoughts on that.

Sounds like you're being a hater.

Do you hate JJ? All right, so, Bronny to the Lakers official. No one could have seen that coming. Max. Fingernails.

Fingernails. I've painted my fingernails today for this.

For this 5 seconds.

For this 5 seconds. I regretted this.

Yeah? Why?

Like, immediately after I did it, I regretted it.

Who talked you into it? Oh, look at. The Lakers are shaking hands. We got them.

Got her, man.

How'd we do this? Wow. Incredible work. So, Max. Yeah? The fingernails, or is that it?

No, I like Jeremy Kane. I think he's good. I was like, I was fired up about him last night, and then I text, good. He is good. He's very good. And then I texted Paige, and I was like, can you bring the fingernail? And I did the fingernails thing this morning, and then I. More time has passed, the less I care about it, and now I just have white, white painted fingernails.

It's gonna be like that for a while now.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I can take them off.

Yeah, I.

But I had, like, last night, I was like, I'm gonna recreate all. I'm gonna recreate his tiktoks. I'm like, I'm not doing any of that.

Yeah, you should recreate one.

Maybe I. Maybe I'll recreate one. Yeah, but he's the best shooter in the draft. He's the best shooter since Steph Curry.

Better than Reid Shepherd. Reed shepherd led the league in three point percentage.

I'll read you this stat. There have been two freshmen in NCAA history with a point, 611 plus true shooting percentage, 210 three point attempts and 150 plus rebounds. And that's Jeremy Kane and Steph Curry.

Okay, but.

Reach out David Murphy.

But Reed shepherd shot better from three.

I don't think you understood my stat that I just said.

Yeah, because I. I don't think you understand my stat that I just said.

You can choose your stats. I'll choose my stats.

Okay. I. You know what? I'm. I'm excited to see LeBron and Brownie.

No, it's gonna be good.

It's a beef.

Gonna be good for talking about basketball.

Yeah. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna get annoying because it's gonna be all. A lot of people talk about basketball, but I'm excited to watch them play together. It's cool. Father son. That's. That's fucking cool.

If they throw. If one of them throws an alley up to the other, that's gonna be a good moment.

This would be crazy, but, yeah, this is cool. I think it's kind of weird for bronny, but it's cool.

I think it's a little bit weird for both of them.

Yeah. Oh, not for Lebron. He's Lebron. I don't think anything's weird for him anymore.

It's a little bit weird. And we'll get to that with Jimmy Tetro.

Yeah. Okay. The other. The only other story I had from this draft, well, Zack eaty to the grizzlies. I was worried the Bulls were going to take him. I wish him luck. Congrats to Zach eaty. For real, being a top ten pick, because I think that was. A lot of people were ripping him. I always ripped him for different reasons. Not that he couldn't play basketball, but a lot of people, like, oh, you know, get ready to learn, like, slovenian, buddy. Top ten pick pretty good. Made a lot of money.

We'll see how he gets officiated in the NBA.

Yeah, that's fine. Any other notable draft? I mean, Dalton connect fell all the way to 17, which was a little shocking. And I don't have any other big things except Kyle Philpowski story is very weird.

It's. It's a beyond weird.

Also weird that we didn't find out about this till today. Yeah.

That he didn't. We didn't know about his old girlfriend who is potentially recruiting him to be a Mormon and he doesn't talk to his family.

Yeah. He's got a 28 year old girlfriend who has been dating him since he was a senior in high school.

It is funny that he got drafted by Utah.

Yeah.

This is all part of the plan.

Oh. But I think he fell in the draft because of this.

To Utah.

Yeah, maybe Utah.

Maybe Utah told everyone.

I think he fell in the draft because I think he was going to be a first rounder and he had apparently weird answers in his interviews and. Yeah. Didn't know that.

It's very interesting.

Didn't know that.

It might have been the exact same thing as brawny. It's like if you draft him, he will instead just move to Utah.

Yeah.

So don't draft him.

Yeah. All right. Any other big pictures? Any other t. You know what? I'm going to. I'm going to say it. Everyone filled a need.

Yeah. You know what? Everyone got a nice developmental project that we would not be surprised looking back five years from now and saying, that's a good role player.

I'm really rooting for this draft to be awesome because it would be great to just shine it on everyone's face. Like, no one knows ball. That would be great. Yeah. But I think they even had it on the ESPN broadcast after Zacharie Rousseau, the first pick overall. I think someone said, like, he's a great three and d guy role player type.

Yeah, that's. That's what you want to hear with the number one overall.

Yeah, that's never, that's never a great sign. Okay, anything else before we kick it to ourselves again, quick reminder about our schedule. Coming up. Monday we have Dungeons and Dragons. Wednesday we will have an update of all NBA free agencies. So it'll be a fresh show, but it will be also dingers only and Gunnar Henderson. So that is our schedule. No show Friday. And then we come back strong with Joe Burrow on the Monday after July 4. Anything else?

I think that's good.

Okay.

NFL Sunday ticket lawsuit. The NFL has to pay $4.7 billion.

But Mike Floyd said it's just going to stay in appeals forever.

Probably. But what does that mean, 4.7 billion? Does that mean, we all get like $200.

Sure.

Okay.

Debate thoughts before it happens.

Oh, America loses.

No, here's, here's my problem with the debate tonight. This should have been my Fyre fest, actually. I don't know who to vote for. I'm undecided. I think they're both great candidates and I think they both made a lot of outstanding points tonight and did a great job. And I think this is gonna be a very hard decision because they're both. I'm. I'm an undecided voter and this is. It's making my life very tough.

I wish you not asked this question. America loses. All right, we have a country of 360 million people and all we can find is two guys that are fucking 80 years old and America loses.

280 year old guys with coke head sons.

Yeah. Yeah. Good debate thoughts.

That's actually the best part about them.

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It's a great one. Shout out the guy who left the comment. I don't know his name, but you know who it is. Shout out, our listeners.

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Massive, massive anxiety. And I think we're all still dehydrated from it.

Oh, yeah.

Hank's still wearing the shades right now.

Shout out body armor.

Yep. Body armor's helped for sure. It was a fun episode. It was good to hang with the boys.

Yeah. Gigi Reddick, what are your thoughts on Gigi Reddick?

What are your thoughts on the Mikhail Bridges trade?

Max G. Reddick?

I woke up with a ton of I, like, drunk DM'd McCall. No response. That was a tough wake up. And realized I was like, why did I do that? Like, that was so weird of me. Yeah, no, I don't love the Macau trade, obviously, but that was the.

It's like, the best friends in the whole world that were also your best friends are now. Excuse me, playing for the team you don't like.

Yeah, no, that sucks.

And they're having a great time.

And Jay Wright's going to coach him. Yep.

But why do I hate JJ Reddick?

What?

No, Max doesn't like JJ.

That's what will say.

Big enemies. Okay, so this is gonna be good one memes. Can you get a little bit contentious? Because the last one, I feel like we were. It was just like, good pick, good pick. Very supportive.

Where is it?

It's in the ax, cuz.

It was things you say to your drunk friends. We were all drunk, so, like.

Yep.

True.

Yeah, we do say that.

Yeah.

Yeah, we do. Mount Rushmores. All right, so the draft order this time, I'm going to start it. Then it's big cat, then it's Hank, then it's Max. And then we circle back, then Max. Okay.

Max is grabbing my Lucy's. Where's memes? I don't know. What's. Something's off with Max and memes today.

Yeah.

They feel like a little off.

Are they at each other's throats?

I don't know what's going on. They're just a little off. Maybe it's because their boss is massively hungover and not shit rolls downhill.

They did great work yesterday. No, I supervised the hell out of them.

You did kill nothing. We'll get to that with Firefo. Negative, negative, negative. Okay, so, pft, you have first pick.

Yep.

Mount Rushmore. Of hobbies that become a person's personality.

One. One. Crossfit. Oh, Crossfit. It consumes your life. You have to start recruiting other people to go to CrossFit. You put stickers all over your cars, stickers on your laptops. Crossfit.

Okay, as a crossfitter.

What? As a crossfitter, I was once a crossfitter. I was able to stay out of the. It becomes my entire personality. But there are definitely a group of people who do Crossfit, and they only become friends with other Crossfitters. And they talk about doing Crossfit.

They talk.

Kind of faded. The fat of cry. Like it was. The peak was probably about, what, maybe ten years ago?

There's a lot of gyms that are Crossfit adjacent now that open up. Yeah, that. But the crossfitter I'm talking about is. Yeah, no, that uses all the lingo. The one that they speak in Crossfit language.

Yeah.

And they ask each other constantly, how'd you do on the workout of the day? And then they end up getting massively, massively injured. Yeah, Crossfit. And then they become a former crossfitter, and they try to rehab so they can get back into cross, and they get injured again.

They vacation in cross, like, oh, there's a competition in San Diego. Let's go do some crossfit.

You remember what, they tried to put the CrossFit games on tv. They might still be on tv.

Yeah. Yeah.

And then they're like, yeah, this is the sport of the future. People watch. You know, the original Crossfitter was Jesus.

Yeah, I had that on my list. It wasn't my one one, though. I have a very clear one one.

I. That was. That was my one one.

Okay. Obviously my one one. Or I guess one. Two. Swifties. Fuck.

Had that on my list.

I mean, they're number one. Yeah. Right now they're the number one. Yeah. That is their hobby. That becomes their entire personality. Swifties. If you. If you see a swifty online, that's all they want to talk about. Swifties. And they talk about, you know, Travis and all that. Stuff that was.

Yeah, that was gonna be my pick. I thought I was gonna slip. Yeah, it's a good pick.

Swifties. I was thinking about it late last night, and I was like. I was going through the ones that will probably get picked. I was like, swifties are just. They're all over.

They have an entire world that they've constructed.

Yeah.

It's almost like a cinematic universe around Taylor Swift.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was my one n two also.

Yeah. Yeah. Tough. Okay. Hank, with the sunglasses on, I think.

I might have just made us a last minute switch. I don't know if this is smart, but I'm gonna go with it. New parents.

Okay?

Oh, yeah. New parents for mommy bloggers.

They have. They have a kid, and then their entire feed is just, you know, everything about the kid.

A hobby.

Having a child. A hobby.

Hobby. It. Sure, I'll take it, but is it a hobby?

Yeah.

Okay.

Something you do for.

I don't.

I guess.

I mean, I think the. The making of the child is something you do for fun.

Yeah.

No significant other have counted as well. Like, that's all. That's.

That's. I think that's a different category. Being, like, a wife guy.

Yeah, but that. No, that's okay. We.

Wife. Yeah.

It's a hobby.

Okay.

Loving your children is a hobby. And it's so hilarious. It's so funny how you, like, your entire life becomes around, you know, raising your kid.

But post, that's a different thing than, like, your whole personality online becomes.

Yeah. New parent.

Yeah.

Yeah. Are you looking at me right now?

No.

Hey, take the sunglasses off. I can't tell what you're looking at.

Are you looking at me?

I just haven't.

There are some active aws who hate that I give, like, one anecdote a week about my kids. There's also a lot of people who like it because they're.

No, but, like, you're.

You're.

I'm talking more about your, like, people's social channels. Yeah, it's like that. That is not you. But it is a lot of people.

Yeah, no, I. You get. Yeah. Becomes. It's kids. Become a lot of everything that happens in your life. That's a fact. I just didn't know if you were looking at me.

I wasn't.

Has it become my whole personality? No. Okay.

Just leave the sunglasses off, Hank. It's disrespectful.

I bet some bad eye.

There are some of these that are hurtful to personalities. Go ahead.

Sports gambling.

Yep, that was the one. That was that one. You could accuse me of.

Yep.

But I've been doing that for a very long time. But it's. It's become more. I actually had it. My. On my list is not sports gambling. I had parlay guy.

Yeah.

Cuz, like, it's the, you know, I have seven more legs in my parlay, Jerry. Yeah.

And it's also the thing, like, if you go, if you, like, don't know about a couple guys out.

Yeah.

It's like, you got. You got anything today?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That'S a good pick. I had it. And it hurts me because I know that I'm guilty of that for sure.

Yes.

Also being a swifty.

Yep.

Next one.

I'm gonna go. Car guys.

Our guys. Yeah.

Mmmdh okay, that's a good one. That's a good one.

If two wishes, I will never know enough about cars to make it my entire personality.

Yeah, it's kind of cool to be like, I don't know.

I respect it. You know what?

A lot of these is their personality.

A lot of these. It's not necessarily disrespect to put them on this list, because guess what? As you get older, your hobbies do become a big part of your personality.

Yeah.

You just don't. This is a list, though, of people who, like, it becomes their entire personality. All these things can be part of your personality and it be normal. But if it just is the only thing you talk about, you become that person. You're a swifty, you're a crossfitter. Like, that's. If people think of that as number one, that's where you get into, you know, issues.

So dealing with a lot of car guys recently, I. It's made me realize how little I actually know about cars, because the first thing that they ask me is like, okay, so what's your level of automotive experience? I tell them nothing, and then they say, okay, well, take this part and then do this. I'm like, I don't know what either of those two parts. So I have to make them dumb it down to, like, three levels of magnitude low. I was. Are you talking about the black thing that makes noise?

Yes.

Okay. That thing. Okay, there are two of those. Which one of those is that that you're talking about?

Yes. Yes. Okay, good picks. We got some hot picks, Hank.

I'll take it before someone else does golf.

Oh, good pick.

I didn't even have it on there.

You know anybody like that? I had it.

Fun. I had it. Yeah, no, I had it on it. I had it.

I was debating between car and golf.

But, yeah, I mean, it's tough. You know, usually they're not even that good.

We're just baring our souls.

Right.

It's all they talk about. It's.

I knew this was gonna happen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it is. I don't care that it's. I don't think it's from my whole personality, but it is.

It's large, 100%.

It consumes my brain. I enjoy golf. It's a hobby that I like to play. I enjoy, you know, gambling and golfing and having fun with my friends.

Yeah.

But, yeah, it's definitely on that category.

Yeah. Okay.

You were wearing a shirt that was made out of golf balls yesterday.

Mm hmm. Yeah.

Shot a robec. It's a six year.

It is.

It is a six shirt. Okay, I'll go with another new age one. Crypto people.

Yeah, crypto people.

It's when you see nft bitcoin, that's literally all they want to talk about.

Have fun being poor big cat.

They just want to tell you about every crypto that's ever been created, and you're like, do you. Do you live in the real world still or you just crypto?

Are you telling yourself for not being at bank zero?

I do not have banks. I do have a little bit coin. I don't know how to get it, but, yeah. Crypto has become a big time personality trait. Yeah.

Your eyes are definitely not illuminated right now.

Yeah.

I'm going to go my second pick. I actually had this first round talent. Weed.

Mm hmm.

Just being a weed guy, just big time stoner. I think we all know some. Some real pothead friends that. That becomes everything they talk about. Was it like that more back in the day?

Yeah, I don't think that people.

It's more casual now.

Yeah. Because it's so. It's so everywhere, and it's legalized that I don't think it. It's become as much, not as cool to be error.

It's. It's like before when it was illegal, it was, like, frowned upon. Then you had to kind of stand your ground back. I'm a weed guy. I don't care what the rules are now. It's like everyone just kind of accepts that people casually smoke weed.

It might also be because we're a little bit older, but I'm sure that once people start getting into weed, like, at a young age, there's still that sweet spot of being, like, 15 to 27, where that is your entire life. It's just think about weed bringing over different types of. We'd be like, hey, man, smell this. Weed. Yep, smells like weed. But you don't understand. It's got. It's got crystals on it. All right, for my next one, I'm gonna go with supporting a political party.

Yeah.

Politics across the board that just becomes all that you think about, and it consumes every moment of your being, and it's all you talk about. You don't want to be friends with anybody that has different political opinions from you. You kind of put half the United States into a box of people that you either think is a pedophile or someone that's not to be trusted around, actually, yeah, both pedophiles. No matter what party you're on, you're like, they're pedophiles. So, yeah, politics number three.

Okay, well, I had something similar. I don't know if it could count, but I had just Trump good or bad.

That's kind of.

All right. All right. Because that is, like, the people who are obsessed with Trump good.

Like, those are the.

Yeah, yeah. But, like, there's also. It goes even further, more non political.

Join the Trump good. But.

But it's deeper with the. Just like, they don't even think political parties anymore. They literally just think, what is Donald Trump doing? And then decide their life on that. All right, I'll go with who? Disney adults. They're the weirdest people in the world.

Now, do they only become, like, activated when they're in Disney world?

Don't know. But if you've met a Disney adult, it usually is a sign. It's. There's a lot of people out there that get married at Disney World, get proposed at Disney World.

Yeah.

They dress up as Disney characters. And I actually think in, like, all this whole entire list, some of these people, their hobbies become their personality traits just because they throw themselves into it. I think Disney adults, their hobby becomes their personality traits because the rest of the world no longer accepts them.

So they find.

Yeah, they have to find each other. That's what they become.

Yeah. There is a phenomenon, though, of people that you think are just normal, everyday dudes and girls that walk around, walk amongst us, able to blend in. But the second they set foot inside the Disney theme park, they just change.

Yeah.

Their entire body, their mood changes.

Yeah.

They just want to stay there for the rest of their lives.

Max, you have that. You had that on your list.

I didn't, but you're doing a very good. I'm just not confident in my. My list right now.

Okay. All right. Get the confidence up. You got two picks coming up. You got two big picks coming up. There's a lot of pit. There's a lot of, like, I have, I think, great picks that are gonna be left on the, on the cutting room floor.

Yes.

Same.

I think I'm gonna shift, which I did run one, which might not have been smart, but just sports fandom.

Yeah, that's a good one.

The people that you know, and we deal with them all the time, especially me, where, like, there's people who make, you know, the Patriots or their Celtics, their entire personality, and then if you don't know every player on the roster and don't watch every single game, you're casual and it's like, that's all they want to talk about. And if you talk shit about one of their teams on the show, the people that have made that team, their personality will come at you and be like, how dare you?

Yeah.

Talk shit about this team. Like, you don't know what you're talking about.

Right. Agreed.

Okay. My next one is runners. Marathon runners.

Yeah, I had it. I had it. Good one. Great one.

The guy with the stickers on the back of their car.

And just also, any screenshots, even people, like, who start training for a marathon, they just tell you that they're training for a marathon non stop.

Yeah. They spend all their free time on message boards looking up other marathoners and trying to prove that they cheated.

Yeah.

The last one is. I'm struggling to word it.

I like the cars that have the 0.0 sticker on the back. That's. That always plays. Yeah. Get it.

The last one. I will do. I get, like, fashion. Like, people are super into fashion. I don't know. I don't.

You could have sold me with more.

Just, what an example of this.

Like, I'm talking more of, like, the fashion influencers on tick tock that, like, they do the outfit of the day and they. The next new. I was going between that or sneaker heads, but fashion, I thought it was maybe more of like a. Whatever. Fuck it. I lost this.

I lost this.

Mount Rushmore. It's fine.

Jesus Christ.

Sometimes even. Sometimes you just don't feel like you had a good. You had a good Rushmore.

I think you got complacent after your last one. You got a big win.

No, I just.

Look at that.

My mind was. My mind was going elsewhere.

Issues were horny guys.

Yeah.

What?

Horny guys.

Yeah. Look at that chick.

Fashionista, I guess, is the right word.

You're making it worse.

Whatever.

Fashion guys.

Not guy. It doesn't have to be guys.

Fashion girls.

Yeah, just fashion. Yes. That is. That is like a hobby.

I mean, but that having a kid, you have a person out, like, having that be a hobby, that becomes your personality trait. So your personality, trace, you just dress really well.

No, but it's like, going to, like, spending your Saturday waiting in line for, like, the new, like, separate drop to happen that.

Okay.

Having a kid's not a hobby. What is it?

It's. How is that? I think it's pretty much the building blocks of life on earth.

But, like, what. What would it qualify under?

Just living. Just life? Yeah, it's just.

It's literally, if you don't have kids, there is no more life.

It's literally life.

A hobby is considered to be a regular activity, is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time.

I think Philip Rivers qualifies as a hobby at this point. You want to have another.

What the.

Having the kid is the.

It's activity.

Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna go with this one. This, I mean, this is similar to my third pick. Basically, all my friends have split in between golf and fishing.

Oh, fishing.

People that are super into fishing, that's, you know, all they talk about, all they do, they wake up 04:00 a.m.

I had that on my list.

Yeah. Okay.

And then you take your picture for all social media profile.

Literally, my friend group is split between. And it's like, we'd, like, joke about it. Cuz it's like half my friends are obsessed with fishing, and they don't give a fuck about golf. And the other half love to play golf. Don't care about fishing.

I think it. Yeah, because you don't have time to do the other, right.

Yeah. Okay. My last pick, I'm actually surprised it left. I thought it. I thought it would go before fashion, but it didn't. Ipa guy slash. Brewing his own beer.

Yeah, beer guy.

Beer guy who's just snobby about all his beer, and he's gonna brew his own beer, and he's. You haven't tried this and. Come on, man.

Don't try to give that guy a Coors light.

It's okay. Okay. You can just drink the beer. We don't have to talk about the beer. Just drink the beer. The cans and everything. I mean, there are some cool cans out there. I'll give them that.

Yeah.

Waiting in line for breweries.

Yeah.

Like when breweries do drops and camping out.

Yeah. Yeah.

You go to a big festival and you don't you're not even allowed to spend money on them, so you got to go to a table and buy, like, raffle tickets.

Right.

And then you give the people with the beers the raffle tickets.

And then if you go over to their house, they're like, you got to try my beer.

I mean, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn was, was big time.

Was big time. It was.

That was everywhere.

Yeah. You go to a bar and you're just like, can I get a Coors light? And they're like, no, we don't have that. We have every other type of beer. Microbrew.

It used to be a big attraction, too. When you're moving to a new town, it's like, yeah, there's a lot of microbrewers.

Yeah.

Now, that's every city. Now every city has them facts. And I like beer.

I do, too.

And I like all kinds of beer.

Yeah.

But I would never, I've never, like, gone and gone to breweries and remembered. No, the beer that you liked anyway. It's like, even if I found a beer I liked, I'm like, all right, I'm moving on.

Yeah.

Mm hmm.

Okay, last pick.

Okay, my last pick. Hobby that turns into a personality. Vegan.

Mmm.

Being a vegan.

Yeah.

Because it doesn't just become your per. It has to rub off air in, and it becomes other people's personalities, too.

Yes.

They have to adopt it around you.

Yes.

Or else you're not there.

And they got to tell you about it, because every time you go out or anything. Yeah, well, I'm a vegan.

Yeah. Aaron, was that Erin was rare vegan slash atheist combo.

Yeah. Never been done before.

Yeah. Great party guy. No, he's no longer a vegan. He saw the light. And if you are vegan by choice, that's fine, but just know, probably live longer than us. Yeah, definitely. You'll.

I won't eat the.

One day you'll try to eat the.

Try to get us. Eat the bugs. I won't eat the bug.

Those aren't vegans, though.

The bug.

True bugs aren't vegan.

True. True vegan adjacent. All right, what do we miss? I did have dog dad or mom on. Yep. Cuz that's a big one. When, like, oh, I got a dog. And like, do you want me to.

Switch mine with that?

No dog. Dad or mom especially. I I gotta say, listen, I have a dog. I love dogs. When the, when, when a person wishes themselves happy mothers or Father's day on. When you have just a dog, that's the, that's the craziest thing I've ever fucking seen in my life.

What about what?

That's a fucking. Actually. No, I know. I take that back.

He. Cat. Fur babies.

The cr. Yeah, fur babies. The craziest thing was actually our guy Tony P. In DC, he had a post saying what Father's Day means to me as a person who would.

Aspiring father.

Aspiring father. I like that. Claiming it beforehand, I was a little too much. I do love when dog people say, like, raising a dog. I know what it's like to be a father. I know what it's like to be a mother, because, you know, raising a dog is its own challenge. I just love how much that irritates real parents. So that's.

Oh, that's. That is a funny thing.

That's a funny.

Yeah, I did that to you with. For a while, too.

Well, but you actually don't. I still don't think you understand what kids are because you put it under hobby. No, it's a joke. You're doing it, and you don't actually know.

I used to do it to you as a joke and get you very mad. But.

But, no, but again, I don't think you're joking because you put a down below. No, Aaron. Is a hobby.

I I. So I said it. I said it right before I switched. I switched at the last second. I was gonna just do, like, significant other. Like, when a guy gets a new girlfriend or a girl gets a new boyfriend, and they just start posting about them.

Not a hobby. Thinking about things. Take over people's lives. Yeah, it not always that a hot.

That's like.

It is funny, though, is a small glimpse into the mind of Hank, who has, like, no worries or cares to think, like, the most important thing that you'll ever do on this planet has totally become your entire personality. Isn't that weird? No.

All right, so, yeah, that was a bad pick. Whatever. I think significant other is more. That's. That's more hobby ish.

Meme said just rattled off a bunch of good ones right after my last pick back here.

Oh, no, Hank.

Now, what I think would play is people that have kids that think that they're the first people to ever have kids.

Correct.

And so I was actually in a fancy football league, like, ten years ago with multiple people who independently change their fantasy team name to so and so is dad.

Yeah.

And that's. That's kind of weird.

Yeah, no, there's definitely. I know what you're saying. They just become, like, everything is just the kids, and they don't have a life outside of the kids.

And same with significant other.

Yeah.

But.

Yeah, I guess I don't. I probably lost it with that. I had conspiracy theories.

Yeah, that's actually a really, cuz. Then once you go over the deep end, you can't come back.

The iceberg, baby, sucks you down.

What about your job?

Your job? Yep.

Is that a hobby? That's explained, I guess. Yeah, it's a hobby for now.

Everything's big.

Yeah, I get it now, Hank.

Everything's making sense.

I had a swinger on there. Yeah, that's a guy. Sex guy. Becomes your. Your whole life.

What about a grilling meats guy?

Yeah, guy.

If you have, like, if you get that. If you get the big green egg. But you also have a flat top, and you also have charcoal, and you also have the wood chip, and you're like.

Mm hmm.

Hey, what are you doing this weekend? Well, I'm slow cooking a brisket for 48 hours.

Yeah. I'm gonna spend 16 hours sitting in the room right next to my patio.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, no, I had. I had the hobbies kind of passed.

Me, but we never know how it's gonna look on the. On the graph.

I had guy, like, sobriety.

It's a hobby.

Yeah, but, like, that becomes people's. Yeah, no, that was. I might have sobriety.

You spend all your time going to meetings.

I mean, you're still gonna be me in this.

Like.

Like. But, like, self help or, like, meditation. Like, ah, I would say yoga.

Like, some. Some minor mental illness becomes someone's hobby. Like, minor. I'm not saying, like, actual, like, someone who has to tell you, like, well, I have OCD, but they don't actually have OC.

Oh, being an empath.

Yeah. And they're like, oh, I have OCD. It's like, no, you actually don't, because it's not you. You can, like, you know, they'll just. Self diagnosed mental illness becomes someone's hobby.

We miss allergies. We missed a big one. Yeah, allergies is a good one. Missed a big one. Collecting trading cards.

Yeah.

Being a card slash collectible guy.

Autograph guy.

Yeah, that's. Yeah. Falls into the same, like.

Yeah.

Mm hmm.

Yeah.

If you quit your job and start a brand new company. All around collectibles and loving collectibles.

Call it clit.

Yeah, call it clit. That's. That's a major red flag.

Yeah. What were memes? Ones that rattled off memes. Get on the mic.

Yeah.

I said video games. Yes. Good one.

What about just memes?

Memes is a good one. Oh, I think actually there is the. And this is all of us in a little bit, but it is also our job. But the two online guy, where it's like, they're. The way they speak and the way they converse is just really deep online. Things that people wouldn't know.

You can tell that they're in some weird message boards.

Right.

Trevor Bauer kind of like that in.

Yeah, he is. The Internet can't speak to us like a regular human being.

Yeah.

Like memes.

Memes also said Barstow listeners.

No, that's what meme said. I mean, I got a job doing it. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you are that. You are that. Okay, what else? Memes. You had another one. You just. That was two max that you rattle off a bunch of really great.

I have said gym. Like, going to the gym after crossfit or.

No. Yeah, I think that also plays. Yeah. Because there's different. There's different. There's a different gym person than the crossfit person. Yeah.

Like, yeah, yoga definitely qualifies in that.

Yeah. Doing, like, Rasilla's not a crossfit guy, but he's definitely a gym guy. Yeah.

Like, what are the other new ones? Pilates. That's not really that new, but Pilates can become your life.

Aloe.

Yeah. Aloe.

Yeah, that's.

They don't. They would never let us in there.

I think we could go for, like.

A day, but they would be like. They would sound alarm being like, uh, go day.

Opposite of planet fitness.

Yeah. They'd be like, we're doing a. Make a wish. We're gonna let a few, uh, go podcasters in. Everyone, please. If you do, if you feel uncomfortable in the workplace today, you can work from home. We're gonna have the, uh, goes stop.

By, um, hobbies that become your entire personality. Losing championships in sports could be one. What about just also winning championships in sports could be another one.

Yep.

Becoming a fan of a bandaid.

Yeah. Bands.

Yeah.

Yeah, that will happen.

Swifties.

With ease.

Yeah. B's. Right.

There's other, like, Zach Bryan. Grateful day.

Yeah, sure. If it becomes your whole existence. Yeah, absolutely.

Skateboarding.

Skateboard.

Yeah, that's true.

I should have said that over fashion. That. That was the one. The two I was going between.

I should have said that cooking different than grilling, but cooking is definitely on there.

Cooking and also becoming a foodie.

Yeah, foodie.

It's like I'm. I'm different from a lot of people. I enjoy food.

Yes.

Foodie.

Oh, you haven't tried that restaurant, foodie.

I really. I really like food.

Pissed about this.

Yeah, that's a big mess you had fashionista, though. That was good.

Fucked up.

What about just, like, dancing? Okay, no, go on.

No, like, tick tock. Like, with the tick tock nowadays, like, people dance and that becomes their entire personality.

I feel like tick tock could be an answer, too.

Yeah. Yeah. Star Wars.

Star wars.

Good wars. After you said Disney, but I thought it was too close, so.

Yeah, it is a little adjacent.

Yeah.

But about.

Also said podcasting, but he doesn't want to.

He's too scared to say ain't no hobby.

Yeah, it's not a hobby for us.

For us.

What about knowing quotes from the office?

Yeah. Brandon Walker quoting the office. Yeah.

And that could go across the board for just comedy movies.

Yeah.

If you're really into saying quotes from them. A lot of times people will think, oh, you're funny.

Yeah.

No, no, it's just, you know when to put those quotes in.

Yep. That's a really good one. What else? Anything else? I mean, that is a good topic.

Mm hmm.

And again, we probably. There's a bunch on there that hand up. Would you say that the gym.

So Taylor Swift.

I do that too much.

Liking Taylor Swift is a good pick. Would you also consider not liking Taylor Swift to be a hobby that turns into your personality?

I think that's a little more rare.

Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know many. I think there's people who don't like Taylor Swift, but I don't think they make it their entire personality.

Yeah.

Don't you think, like, that's a little harder to do because then you just don't like anything. Making a hobby, your personality is. Has to be liking more than not liking.

Well, just being a hater in general could be your whole person.

That's true.

Yeah.

Being a negative person.

Hating things. Yeah.

Yeah. Being the negative guy. Okay. We good? It was a good.

Good mount rush voice or reason. Why could say voice a reason for.

About you.

But the negative guy, the hypothetical negative guy.

Oh, you're. We were. We weren't talking about you there.

We're talking about you.

Was I?

Yeah.

I'm just devil's advocate for that hypothetical person, right?

Mm hmm.

Just being negative on every turn.

I'm not just being a realist.

See, right now, you're being negative. You're disagreeing with me.

Agreed.

I said that you're the most negative guy we've got, and you just said, I'm not.

You didn't say that.

Okay, well, you're the most negative guy we've got.

Agree to disagree.

See, he's being negative right now.

Everyone's entitled to their.

I hate these cliches.

Yeah, well, I'm trying not to be negative.

Being disingenuous.

I disagree to agree.

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But it might. You might be able to watch it.

July if you happen to log on early on the fourth.

Okay.

Oppenheimer.

Yeah.

That's what they're saying, right? Yeah.

I'm so excited for this movie. Real bros. If you haven't watched it, it is. Can we watch all of it in one place? Actually was my fuck.

We actually went to show you the trailer when we came in.

Okay.

I don't know. Should we still show them? Oh, we could eat up too much time. It's like we in it.

Because you said we get a cameo and I can't remember if we filmed it.

Oh, that was the day the Wi Fi was down. We meant to add.

It would be great.

I sent you that facts.

Yeah.

I don't know if you guys get that.

Yeah, I did. On that facts. I think you said, like, we can just use a clip from this interview at the very end of the movie.

Right?

It did say that. So congratulations on making a movie and having us in your movie.

Yeah.

Yes. Yeah.

I.

You guys, I don't know what it would. I don't know what we would have done without you guys.

Yeah, we should do at the end of this interview, you guys both should be like, yeah. And that's our idea for a movie. And then we put it at the end of the movie.

Wow. What we're thinking. Absolutely not. And then that's the end.

So I'm pumped for. This is gonna be awesome because it's so funny. So, first of all, can we watch real bros in one place? Because you guys have hit the bit we last time.

Yes. We were trying to go to every single platform it was wrote.

Is this the first time on Roku?

It's the first time on Roku, yes.

So we're hitting the bingo card.

Yeah. So we're checking as many platforms as possible, but right now the whole show is on YouTube.

Fucked. Yes. Okay.

So that's something I was pretty pumped about. Yeah, we. We got negotiated with the movies. We got all the episodes back, so they're now all on YouTube.

Perfect. So everyone catch up before you watch the movie. I guess the. The other thing that. That's so great about this show and now a movie. And I'm wondering what you guys. Christian, I'll ask you this. Like, is it weird having a show that it's been difficult at times to watch because it's been on different platforms? We'll just say that. But I would say it's one of the most viral gift shows out there that I think there's a whole group of people that don't even maybe know what show they're giving, but the gifts are so fucking funny.

Yeah.

That, like, there's. There's an untapped audience, and if they. If we can connect their brains and be like, no, that's actually real bros. And they have a movie out, it's like, you. You have to watch it because they're using the gifts constantly.

Yeah, it's especially with, like, tick tock coming up, like, 2020 to, like, now. There was a moment where we weren't really using tick tock that much, but we saw the real bros meme fication, right. Really going wild on there, and it surpassed, like, talk had surpassed the views anywhere else. We're like, what the fuck? We're not even on here.

Do people even know it's account with 140,000 subscriber followers? Yeah. Pumping out real bro money off of.

Yeah.

There'S, like, a whole underground scene of TikTok accounts that they do with podcasts, too. Well, they'll just take clips from podcasts and be like, hey, check out this clip. And then they're getting all the money from which I always look at as being a good thing overall because they're promoting, like, when I see an old part of my take clip surface on there, I'm like, well, they're just doing, like, a free advertisement for part of my take, so. Yeah, but at the same time, it can. I can see why people that, like, put time and creative energy into, like, writing a show might be like, hey, kind of fucked up that you're just putting my shit out.

I think if it's. If it's not taking up space that you're already trying to fill, like, we didn't have a presence on tick tock at the time that it took off on tick tock. If we had accounts that we were putting time and money into and they. Those accounts still exist, I'll be fucking pissed.

Yeah.

The fuck you're taking it away from us because we didn't. I was like, I think ultimately it's going to come back to us full circle once we find a way to reclaim.

Yeah.

Audience.

It was like someone was just doing it for us, kind of because we didn't have the TikTok, but I used to get really upset about that, like, when you would, like, steal clips, you're.

Like, this is piracy.

We need laws out here in the wild west of digital media. Yeah, this is bullshit. Because there was this video that we posted that was supposed to air on, like, a show for the first time, and someone recorded it on the show before I could even upload it to YouTube and posted it on YouTube, like, a recording of a screen on tv, old school. Like, 15 million views. Like, on Facebook.

Yeah.

I was like, this. This is fucked. And it was that video of the little kid running for a touchdown.

Oh, yeah.

Grant a wish, kids. Touchdown. And then he's running, and then a guy comes out of nowhere and smashes him.

And they probably acted like it was a real clip.

Yeah, well, everyone. That was. What was funny about that one. Everyone thought that one was real.

Yeah.

What's his name, man? Michael. Michael Irving. I think he tweeted one time, like, this is so fucked up.

That's the best price you could ask, I would imagine. Xander Schofley winning the PGA championship was huge for you guys.

It's big for xanders.

It's the summer of xanders.

I saw on the clip of you asking him if he had seen real bros of Steamy Valley. He was like, no, but sometimes people yells on it. That's pretty good.

Is on the show. Is Xander's name Xander, or is Alexander Xander?

Yeah, yeah, he's using, I think, Xander on the birth certificate.

Okay.

Yeah.

But we have decided that Hawks middle name is tour.

Oh, I like that.

Yeah.

It's been to this whole time.

Yeah.

To a sanders.

That's crazy. You guys were in front of that.

How old is Hawk?

So Hawk is hold. Well, I think this is. This. What day is this coming out?

This is coming out on Friday.

This Friday?

This Friday.

I feel like we can say.

We can say, like, he's older.

He's older.

He's older than me.

Yeah. Jimmy's character has a son.

Yeah.

And they've aged him so rapidly. He was a baby, and then all of a sudden, he was, like, nine. And now he's older than you.

Yeah. Now he's twice the age of his parents.

Yeah, he's. He's in his fifties, maybe, and. Yeah, because I remember, I think I told you last time I was on here, you're like, how old's hawk gonna be? I'm like, he definitely needs to be older. Xander.

Right.

So, yeah, to begin in the middle of the movie, he's. He's a definitely, like, in his fifties, sixties, and then. Just keep watching. Just keep watching.

What was that like for the. For the old guy that's playing your son?

Like, oh, man.

Well.

Well, the guy was playing his son, and this one is actually a legend. Oh, it was pretty nice.

Wow.

Yeah. We can't say too much, but the name Hawk is a pretty big giveaway.

So you guys got Kevin Spacey?

Yeah.

Right?

Dude.

Holy.

I just think he needs a chance.

What did he really do?

Oh, my God.

He called me, actually, like, Jim. It was like, one of those weird, creepy videos. He was in front of his fireplace, and he's like, let me play Hawk House of cards.

I can do this.

Yeah. Remember when he did that Christmas video where he's like, yeah, Frank Underwood. We're like, why is Frank Underwood, like, lecturing us on Christmas?

You need people like me.

That didn't get enough attention for how weird it was.

I think we all tried to look away.

And then he did one in Italy one year where he was, like, on a bench or something. Spacey checking in. Yeah, I'm still, like, on the run.

I'm still fucking weird.

What if I'm a pedophile? Y'all need people like me. So it's funny because you've actually worked with Kevin spaces since you were, like, 1213 years old, and you were, like, his protege, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. Cool. Really full circle there.

I pretty much credit. I credit him with a lot.

Yeah.

Not career wise. Just, like, how I am.

Yeah.

General.

So it is Tony Hawk playing. Playing your son. That's cool.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm not gonna say any names, but the name Hawk is, you know, it's definitely. It's involved in the name of the man.

Yeah.

I forget where I read this. It was maybe six, eight months ago, but I read that you used to make skateboarding videos when you were a kid.

Yeah.

Like, a real young kid.

Right, yeah.

That.

Was that your first, like, foray into online videos?

Absolutely. Yeah. Not online, because it wasn't online yet, but it was a, like, little. I was, like, the videographer of my little skate group in Venice, and I was the guy with the video camera, but I, you know, there was no editing, so it was just like, I'd have a boombox start, stop, and I would go, you know, hit play and then hit stop and just try to keep it so there'd be a soundtrack that kind of went through that was, like, you know, Lincoln park, like. And sometimes, like, if someone missed. I'd rewind both. Try to. So it was like, this soundtrack was.

Just like, you know, that's awesome. So. So you guys were in a frat together? Arizona. That's how you first met.

Yeah.

And. And Christian, are you a diehard Clippers fan?

No. Oh, no, no.

Oh, yeah.

But I also hate the Lakers.

Okay, good.

Yeah. JJ, honestly, I think it's probably a good move for him, for the organization. Yeah, yeah, he seems.

Yeah, he kind of turned his back on podcasting.

It's kind of a shitty move. He said he's never. He's gonna stop doing podcasts on his coach. Like, podcasting is not a stepping stone job. No, no. Like, he used us, I feel like.

And we had a moment where, like.

He'S that type dude.

Representation matters. We're like, JJ Reddick went from podcasting to NBA coach. So could we. But then he just turns his back on the family. Don't know.

Yeah.

What are you guys gonna do about that?

I don't know.

We. We always say.

We always say, like, podcasting, it's the brotherhood.

Yeah.

And for a guy like that to turn his back on the brotherhood, it just hurts a lot more than anything, I guess next time I won't be so nice to former players that then become podcasters, I think.

Yeah. NBA coaching is like gladiator rules, too. If you do fight him and you do beat him, you're the new Lakers head coach.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you want that life.

I never thought about how this was affecting the podcast community.

We're not narcissists.

Right.

That's exactly what it is, man. It's a story about podcast.

You'll actually love this. We did. We did a. To promote season three. We like went on the news, the Daily News, and this guy showed up in a Clippers uniform, not texting the night before.

I'm like, what are you wearing tomorrow? And he's like, I think we're more at Lakers Jersey. I'm like, alright, cool. Pull up in a Clippers jersey. Went out, got a Clippers jersey. Clippers.

Serious hater stuff right now.

I love that.

Yeah, la news. You got to show up.

Yeah.

Like, I like that.

It's a Clippers town.

Exactly.

Right, right.

Yes.

Everyone knows that.

You know, you're always saying that.

Yes. They got the new stadium ballmer.

It's a Clippers Paul George, basically there for life.

Yeah.

Kawhi, you're set up.

You see the. The name of the Clippers show, the billboards, they say the other LA team, I'm like, you guys have a show and it says the other LA.

So you guys met in your fraternity at Arizona. When did you start doing, like, creative things together? Was it. I would imagine there was just some. Just hanging out and being frappro.

We started second half of freshman year, but we took it seriously sophomore year.

When we started black. Oh, blackmailing. Yes. Yeah.

That's how we got our rise.

Yeah, blackmailing. Yeah, it was like. I was like, either you're involved or I'm fucking telling them.

I was like, I don't have a choice. Yeah.

Fuck.

That's actually a part of my take start. Big cat made me do cocaine.

That actually is true. You guys are joking. This is true. I also cocaine up his nose.

It was also the worst blackmail ever because I really wanted to do the cocaine. I was psyched that my new friend was offering me, and he was like, if you don't do this podcast, I'm telling you, I was like, I don't give. Yeah, I tell it to the podcast. Good idea.

Shoved it up his nose. And I turned to Hank and I was like, we got him.

To wait.

So that. That's awesome. Because what year was this?

What was 2010?

So this is early, like, Internet, too.

Yeah.

Early Internet. Like YouTube.

Funny or die.

Yeah, early Internet.

And the fact that, like, today, everyone in college. Tick tock. And it's trying to be a content creator. You guys were doing it before it became something that, like, everyone is doing. Yeah.

People would say, what do you mean? You're dropping out of school to be a youtuber.

Yeah.

Yeah, that doesn't exist.

You drop out of school, too?

I didn't. I finished.

Okay.

Right. I bring it up all the time.

Yeah. You should get paid more.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah.

Roll it out.

So when you guys started.

When you guys are so annoying.

Communications from Arizona.

Yeah.

No different than Harvard.

When you're doing shit for YouTube. At that time. Are you using phones to record things? Are using a camera?

Started on a flip cam.

Yeah, I had a little flip cam. That was like. At the time, it was like, for how small this is, this is great quality. Yeah. And that was what we. That was the first few videos were on that.

Then we got a camera.

But, you know, it's funny about the flip cam. I always think about this. You know how Apple bought flip cam today? Bought flip cam and just ended it.

That's crazy.

They're like, we don't want any competition. So they bought the company and then just ended the company. I kind of love crazy baller move.

Yeah. Like, buy your competition.

Yeah.

And them.

Some guy spends his entire life perfecting this design for a great product, and he's so proud of it, and then finally, like, a big payday comes along, he sells it. He's like, okay, your products dead now. Yeah, that's business.

But, I mean, look, what could they have done to Apple? Nothing.

Yeah.

Annoying little competitor.

Yeah.

Heels.

So, all right, so you guys have been writing together then for almost 15 years. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So how is it, like, evolved your writing styles and just working together? Because it's. It's like, working together for 15 years, that's. That's kind of rare. Like, that's not. There are not a lot of writing partners that can do something like that for that long and kind of stay on the way, same wavelength. You've seen it a million times where guys will do something that's a hit and then kind of splinter off and do their own thing. Yeah, but you guys are still doing it. That's awesome.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Like, has it evolved? Do you guys feel like you've ever had a moment where you're like, oh, we're. We're maybe not on the same wavelength, or has it been kind of seamless that you've always been a perfect writing partners?

No, we've definitely had our ups and downs.

Yeah.

But I think, like, working through the, you know, the ups and downs would eventually, like, makes it, like, a. I don't know, more secure, stable situation.

Right.

To, like, you know, we've had our moments where we were not on the same page about things and took some. Some talking out, but I feel like that's just naturally gonna happen with any long term partnership.

Right.

And either, like, you kind of split and. And go your separate ways, or you just kind of keep working through it constantly.

Well, I imagine, like, being writing partners is. That's a very vulnerable thing to do, because you're. You're basically saying, like, my ideas, I hope this person thinks it's funny and, like, back and forth, and you have to throw out ideas, and they're not all gonna work.

Yeah. I don't think we've ever really gotten too, like, hurt about shooting each other's ideas down. We don't like, which is kind of cool. People get, like, super personally, like, effect, where, like, I think there's something better. That might be it. They might fuck up their day. We're just like, okay, next idea.

Yeah.

Are there moments where, like, one of the two of you is way more passionate about a certain project or a certain element that you're working on than the other, and then, like, how does that work out? Do you just have to say, well, I'm gonna trust them. If they're more passionate, let's go along? Or is it like, okay, you take the lead. Do whatever you want to do on this, since you care about it more.

Yeah, I mean, I try to. If he's fired up about an idea and I just, like, don't see it, I just trust that I'm just, like, not seeing it right now. I'm like, he is so fired up about this. Like, I'm gonna just trust him and look, go along with this because it's not a good idea. We will realize it along the way. There's no point in me, like, really hitting the brakes on this.

Right. You know, I mean, how was writing the movie? How was. Was there, you guys, it's obviously been something that you guys been working on for a very long time, and it's, again, so, so funny, but, like, actually having to put it together, a story that might. Might be the finale. I don't know if you guys have another. Whatever. It's a little bit different. I would assume, writing a movie than a tv show because you have to kind of tie it all together. Right? Yeah.

It's a lot less time, too. I think it's, like, with the season three, we, like, 220 minutes total. Something like that.

Yeah. Like 250 or. Yeah, minutes total.

In the season with the movie, you have half of. Less than half, right?

Yeah.

So it's. You have to condense a lot of storylines. You got to kill a lot of your babies. You got to just really keep nice.

Abortions about that, we had to drop, like. Like, a lot of, you know, the little random moments in the show, you know, where you just, like, spend a minute and a half on something that's, like, completely pointless to the final story. You don't. Can't really do that with a movie.

Yeah.

But because that is a lot of the show, it's like, you want to preserve some of those moments, so there's a lot more editing in the writing process and, like, condensing.

I feel like that would be the worst part for me.

Yeah.

That you've worked so hard on that you. You thought was so funny, and a lot of times, it probably is very funny material, and then having to just cut it for the sake of brevity and, like, losing out on all that effort that you put into it. Yeah, that must be tough.

That was definitely the hardest thing about them, about the movie, just because it was less time and it did start as a show. So it was a lot of, like, how do we make this a movie that was like, that would probably. That was definitely the hardest thing about making the movie. And because we shot it in ten days. Yeah.

Ten days?

Yeah.

Like, on day one, were you organized, ready to go, or. Yeah, I feel like most times when you plan out all the stuff perfectly, you sit down, you spend the first, like, 4 hours bullshitting anyways. They're like, oh, shit, that's 4 hours out of our ten days that we have budget gone.

No, there was no bullshitting.

There's no time for bullshit. Like, you show up, you have a schedule. You know, we need to shoot. We need to shoot this, this, this, and this today we have this. We have to be done by this time. There's a whole, there's a whole regiment schedule. But then you show up and they're like, oh, it's raining on Thursday. So that got fucked.

Yeah.

And that actor's schedule was only lined up for Thursday. So now we need to figure out a. When they're available. And then it ended up like the schedule. We ended up shooting like four days, one week, one day, another week. And in like three, two.

It was like the map, everything around the budget and, like, how much time you have and how much money you have. And then also, like, even though we were dialed the fuck in on day one, we still had, like, actors we needed to cast. We had roles we had to keep moving. We couldn't stop the trash. But we said, you got the facts.

Yeah.

You didn't have any.

Could have been there.

Like, we were desperate for two actors. Short guy and a big guy.

Yeah.

We need to find anyone.

Podcasting is the future. So we gotta figure out two podcast.

The problem was, look, I wasn't gonna ask you guys to fly across the country to say what would have been it. Literally, a line.

Perfect. We could have nailed that, you know?

Yeah.

Guys are busy guys.

I mean, we would never travel anywhere to burn a day just, like, hanging out and drinking beer with a fella.

You guys have any enemies? Because we tried, but the up top, they were like, no, we can't. We can't.

Yeah, we do actually have a lot of enemies.

Okay, big Hollywood, maybe. Yes.

Hollywood is not. They don't really understand us or like us. We went, Dave and I went and pitched Hollywood the barstool rundown in 2014. And we went into, like, probably about ten different rooms, like Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, walked out of every single meeting, like, we fucking and crush that. Not even a single callback.

Damn.

Yeah.

So then we realized that's probably not our cup of tea.

Yeah, we tried with the studio was like, not those two.

Yeah, that makes sense.

I'm not hot enough. I'm not hot enough to sexually harass. So they see me and they're like, I have no use for this guy.

That happens a lot, man. Yeah.

I mean, I'm so pumped for this movie, though. How long did it take you guys to write it?

Longer to write it than it did to shoot it.

What? Hope so.

Yeah.

Shot in ten days. We wrote it in a day and a half.

Yeah, we have. We did the Tyler Perry business model. No, we. We wrote it over the course of, like, five months, but it was like, on and off. Like, halfway through, I, like, went to Atlanta. We were doing it over Zoom. I think if we were sitting down every single day together for, like, 8 hours, I think we could have done it, oh. In under half that time.

For sure. Two months for sure.

But also, if you didn't move out. Right. Yeah, he moved out. Right?

You moved out.

Didn't you guys live together for a long time?

That was a while ago.

Yeah, but then he moved out.

Right, right. Yeah.

Right. So he should have done that.

You're bringing up old wounds for me. I was ready for this.

Yeah. Wait, did you live together when the bees attacked?

You know, that was a two. Those two houses later.

Okay. Yeah, those bees were gnarly.

I think we've asked you about the bees every episode that you've been on. Like, how the bees doing? You're like, I haven't seen those bees in years.

In a minute, actually.

You're a huge bee guy.

It's. I'm a big bee guy. I was actually, I saw, you know that movie the Beekeeper with Jason Statham?

Yeah.

I haven't seen it yet, but I saw the billboard, and I was like, that's me. Called my agent. I was like, what the fuck? I don't ask for a lot. Yeah, but you're telling me they did the beekeeper and I didn't even audition?

Yeah.

I mean, would that. Are you interested in doing, like, action roles where you just kick everyone's ass?

I would love to do that.

Yeah.

That seems like it'd be a very, very fun genre movie to film.

So Marvel drops the b man. Oh, you want it to be you? The beaming.

If it wouldn't. If it wasn't, I'd be hurt. Yeah.

Yeah.

Christian, you're getting an insight into our interview style. Yeah. How stupid we are that we're like, hey, Jimmy, how about those beats?

This is a serious question.

Yeah.

That reminds me, speaking of big Hollywood business meetings, right. What's going on with Boner dogs?

I meant. Yeah. So we're working on it. Yeah.

Yeah.

We have a movie.

You.

You actually. We'd love to have you as a writer.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's loosely attached.

Loosely attached.

You want to hear the pitch?

Yeah.

Okay. So it's like Hansel and Gretel combined with Rudolph the red nosed rain. It's a cartoon, and one of the dogs has a boner the whole time.

Oh, shit.

That's pretty much. It's in production.

Red rocket in the. In the. In, like, the arctic. And they're like, how are we ever gonna find our way back?

It's just.

And this guy's like, dude, my boners been dragging this whole time.

So his nose isn't right. It's just a dick.

No, it's a dick. And then all the other dogs make fun of him because they don't have boners.

Right.

Like you. What's that gross lipstick thing?

Right.

And he's insecure about it. Yes, he is. But then it becomes a tool for power at the end.

Wow.

He realizes, oh, I'm not so weird after all. I can use my differences to own your flaws. Make a difference.

Like, that's the kind of message I feel like kids today.

Right.

I think really would resonate.

Stay hard, kids. Right?

Yeah. There you go.

Exactly.

What, just tuck them up in your waistband.

Oh, wow.

We just bring PfT's laptop. We're like, see?

Yeah, yeah.

I've been attached, I think, for, what, six years now?

Are you playing? You're playing the dog?

No, you guys got attack.

I think he's a voice of the boner.

I thought Adam Sandler was the voice of the boner.

No, I thought, well, Ferrell was told me this pitch, you know, 2018. I said, this is a home run. I mean, yeah, actually, I think I started off as loosely attached.

Yeah.

But then I saw the names that you guys had involved.

Yeah.

It's like, this is gonna be huge project.

So we pitched probably twelve different comedians when they come on the show, if it, like David Spade, a bunch of people that would sit down with us would be like, okay, here's a pitch for boner dogs. And then finally we interviewed Adam Sandler, and it was him and Kevin Garnett at the same time. And so everyone was expecting us to pitch Adam Sandler. Because we've been talking about this Adam Sandler movie with boner dogs for years. So instead, we just. Kevin Garnett.

That's fire.

And then Adam kept trying to jump in, be like, not right now. And then he was like, I'm in. Adam Sandler told us he was in a little behind the scenes. We apparently had, like, an actual deal in the works with Happy Madison.

Yeah.

To make this into a series on Netflix. And then all of a sudden, I just stopped hearing about updates.

Well, not all of a sudden. We interviewed Rob Scheider. It didn't go well.

That might have had something to do with it. Well, I thought it went well.

I thought it was part of his recent tear.

So we.

It was, like, right at the beginning.

Of it, he's gone out there.

We interviewed him, and, like, he didn't laugh at one part of the interview. It wasn't even, like, a big problem with the interview. It was just, like, a minor thing that didn't get that reaction.

It was a stupid joke. One of our guys wrote a blog that is clearly tongue in cheek that was like, every time Rob Schneider releases a big movie, an oil spill happens. But if you look at it, like, if you actually want to look at it like there's an oil spill all.

The time, you connect the dots.

Yeah.

Right. So that was the joke. And yet didn't.

If he didn't laugh, that means he's hiding something.

He's like, how'd they find out?

They know.

Yeah, they know about the oil making flak. It means you over the right targets. So he didn't react to it at all. And then afterwards, it's crazy.

Like, maybe.

Maybe four people online. Maybe four. It could be less than that. Responded to the tweet that we put out promoting the episode, and they said, like, rob Schneider sucks. Maybe four people said that. Then we heard behind the scenes through RPR people, that he wants us to delete the entire interview and take it down and act like it never happened.

Yeah.

And then we're like, well, no, we're. We're not gonna do that. Like, some people, like, the interview, it wasn't bad. We never. We didn't walk away from the interview being like, this guy hates us.

Yeah. We never even thought it was. Yeah, we did. We doing it. We didn't think that anything was wrong.

And so he, like, threatened the litigation.

Yes.

And eventually, we were just like, we're not going to take it down. We'll delete that one tweet. If there's people responding to it that are making you angry.

Yeah.

So here's what I'm thinking.

Boner dogs died.

I know I'm not writing on this film yet, but if I was. Here's my pitch. We make the new antagonist, the villain, a big oil tycoon.

Ooh, yes.

Schneider. Robson.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's a mean guy.

Listen, let's, let's.

Let's defend Rob Schneider for a second. There's a chance he doesn't. He like, I don't think he killed the movie, but it. There's a chance he could have killed the movie because he cares about the environment and he didn't want another oil spoon.

Yeah, that's a fair point.

He was like, I can't do keep doing this.

Right. Especially with this dog being in the arctic.

Right.

Ice and all that.

Right?

Yeah. So one of the ideas that we had was to have it be like an Olympics event where each team is made up of, like, the irish wolfhounds or a bunch of irish drunks.

And then tiny dicks.

Yeah, little tiny dicks. Everyone's got tiny dicks. But then you could have, like, these. You could just do stereotypes of people from those countries as all the competitors.

Yeah.

And then the mutts. That's the boner team. That's the team with the boner dog. The mutts ends up saving the day even though they're not allowed to compete in this big race.

Right.

And they have to call him out at the last second because they're like, we need somebody with a boner to help, and none of us have them.

Shit. Yeah.

That's deep. People love stereotypes.

They do? Yeah. What's your favorite stereotype?

Oh, man, I got a bunch.

Mine's Iowa. Maybe a casio. Trying to think of other electronics companies that make stereos. And this joke isn't going well.

No, it's going. Keep going.

No, that's it. I'm out.

JBL guy.

JBL. JBL. Maybe.

So. No beats.

Actually. Sonos. I got a fucking bone to pick with Sonos.

Yeah. Yeah.

Go off. I agree with you guys.

I've Sonos this people know.

But we always do this with our guests, like, hey, do you want to say anything about Sonos?

Figure it out. Guys, what's up with this app? Why do I need the app to play? And if you're gonna require me to have the app to play music, at least make the app good.

Yes.

You know. Yeah, I'm going my Spotify. And just click a speaker.

Yep.

You can do with everything else go off if you're gonna require me to have an app, make the app good.

Tell us.

Just hire somebody on Fiverr. It's not that hard. Fix the app.

Yeah.

Also, the app is the problem.

It's open. Yeah. And then you have to open your Spotify.

Yeah.

And it makes no sense.

The connection is not seamless between those two. Yeah.

I just don't play music in my house.

It's. And recently, whole spirit.

Yeah. It's just killed. It's killed at all. Music.

Play something.

There's just too many apps in general, and Sonos is a perfect example. They had an app that kind of worked, and you got used to it. You got used to their fucked up app, and then they have to update it and change it.

Yeah.

They want to make it look like the next generation of apps or whatever. Now it's fucked up, and no one can use it.

You think big Sonos is, like, low key, trying to make people hate music?

Yeah, I think they're anti podcast.

Damn.

I think that's why they're doing it.

Not narcissists again.

I would imagine JJ Reddick had something to do with it.

Probably, yes. Son of a bitch.

Dude. He's gonna. You think it's gonna work? We, like. JJ is actually a friend of ours, I think so. We're.

We're optimistic. I think there's a chance.

What do you think about LeBron saying that he didn't have anything to do with the process, even though he did a four month interview on a podcast with him?

Funny.

Okay.

Yeah.

Raises some questions, for sure. Maybe some collusion there.

But you're. You've always been a LeBron over Kobe guy.

Yep.

You're big.

Big on. Big on that. He'll die on that.

The slander is tough. I, uh. Look, I was happy to get him. I just don't want to be the team that drafts brawny just for the novelty of me.

It's happening.

Yeah, yeah, I know. But, you know, and it's. It'll be cool for, like, a game. And then it's like, well, fuck. Did we just ruin our future just to have Bronny?

Yeah. It's gonna be a real life. It's gonna be real life. Xander and Hawk, where they draft Bronny junior. He gets in, and he's way worse than his dad.

Yeah, he looks older somehow. Older? Yeah.

His body's breaking down on him.

What do you think? What is Bronny gonna say? Like, on the court? Is he gonna be, like, screen left, dad? Yeah. Like, is he gonna say, yeah, dad.

Damn.

And how do you talk shit back to people, you know? Says something about him being his son. He's like, no, I'm not. You are, man.

You have to eat those. That's gonna happen a lot.

Yeah, but I was just thinking about that. Yeah. Like, in, like, what does LeBron do? Like, the passive aggressive. You know, how he always. Whenever a teammate fucks up and he, like, yells at them, does he do that to his son?

For sure.

You have to.

You gotta give it to everybody.

Does he spank them?

Like, ground him right there.

Misses a three.

Get over here.

He's gonna do it again. We see Bronnie missed a shot.

Jimmy, real quick. I want to glaze for a second, because, like, when we first had you on in 2018, we've talked about this before, but Hank was a big fan. We didn't know who you were. That's bad job by us. But we're like, yeah, let's do it. And then it became a real friendship. And you've been on a bunch of times, and it's a pretty damn awesome to see, like, your career take off. How much money do you think you owe us?

I don't even want to get into that, because it's a lot.

Yeah.

You know, like, we have certain guys.

That we feel like they're. It's a different connection. Cause it's like, we like them before. Maybe they're. You were already big, but, like, the next. Like, Josh Allen is up there for us because we were on Josh Allen before he even got drafted. Who else? A Brooks kind of won a bunch after.

I think he had one major. I like this conversation because it's like, Jimmy was already massively successful, but because we discovered him to ourselves then, we're like, now we own you because we just found out about you.

Yeah, we're kind of the podcast Illuminati, not narcissist. Come on.

Yeah, yeah. I mean. Yeah, there's. I mean, since I've been on it, just. There's the. In the industry plant allegations.

Yeah.

Just. They've just been going around.

Yeah.

Industry plan. Interesting.

I'm like.

I just. You know, I just like going on. Pardon my take.

Yeah. Christian, you're about to feel this.

You're.

You're going to be the next one.

But, yeah, it has been awesome. I mean, both you guys, like, watching this become a movie. It's. It's fucking awesome. Because we, like, this is the comedy. I actually is a real question. Like, do you guys think that comedy movies are gonna make a little bit of a comeback because we have had a lull. Like, it has that, whether it be with Shane and what he's doing, like, it does feel like we're finally getting back to a point where we can start making, like, truly funny comedy movies because we had that run in the early two thousands, you know, wedding crashers and. And Anchorman and, like, all that stuff that was, like, truly hilarious movies. And there's been. It's almost been a void of it.

Yeah.

I will say, like, there's a gazillion things I love about the movie we just made. But, like, every month that goes by ever since, like, you know, we've been deep in the editing process and I see the lack of comedies coming out, or I see the movies coming out that are kind of comedies and I watch them, I feel like they're mid and lacking in comedy. I get so fucking excited for ours to come out.

Right?

I'm like, fuck, yeah. The world needs this good for you in that way. Yeah. I mean, I was not even thinking about, like, how good it is for us. Just, like, people. I want people to, like, laugh at some shit. Yeah, it's just for laughs.

And it does feel like the pendulum swinging back to that, where it's like, hey, we can start making, you know, shows and movies that are just, hey, they're funny and they don't have to.

Be deep in super high stakes dark.

Right.

Yeah, it's like, all the comedies for a while have gotten, like, just so serious.

Right.

Where you're like, is this a really a comedy? There's a couple moments where I laugh.

Yeah.

Like, just because I laughed, like, doesn't mean it's a comedy. Like, I laughed in sopranos the whole time.

Yeah, I think sopranos might be comedy.

Sopranos might be a comedy if it.

Had a laugh track on it. Be the funniest show on tv.

Sopranos is hilarious, actually.

Yeah.

But, yeah, I'm also. It's. It's. It's gonna be nice to just have, like, a just for laughs type of movie out there. And I do think that the industry is starting to finally go, oh, yeah, maybe we can. We can make some low stakes, right. Just solid, straight through comedies that aren't, you know, trying to unpack serious issues.

Right.

Yeah, that's.

That's really what it is. It's. It's like, can we just make a comedy that just lives as, hey, this was really fun to watch. Yeah, that's okay to do.

Yeah.

I feel like we've lost it a little bit. Yeah.

When you put a comedy on, you drop your guard, right?

Yeah.

When you put on, like, the hangover, some shit like, oh, your guard just goes away.

Right.

I'm ready to just immerse that in this.

And you feel better after it's over.

Yep.

You just get all the laughs out, and it, like, elevates your mood. So, yeah, the hangover, I think, is probably the last massively successful comedy. Right?

Yeah.

Hangover. Have you watched Hangover recently?

I did, literally on Sunday.

It's one of the best movies I beat for beat. It's so good.

So it's, like, a perfect comedy. And it also looks incredible. Like, it's Todd Phillips, the guy who made Joker. You know, it's like, the. The shots. The hangover is beautifully shot. And also just like, man, if. If tick tock was out when this movie came up, like, came out, all of these moments were.

Yes.

Yeah.

Oh, I knew this whole wolf pack speech.

Yeah.

The whole song. He sings to the tiger.

Yeah.

There's so many iconic moments from that movie.

Yeah, yeah, no, it's true.

So this is gonna be massive. You guys are gonna have a big hit on your hands, and then you're gonna be a listers. And then at that point, are you gonna just be. Are you gonna do the thing where you become, like, serious movie stars at that point, are you gonna turn your backs on comedy? Are you always in comedy?

I'm not gonna drop out of the boner dog project.

Here's. Here's another way to put it. Christian, when do you think Jimmy's gonna change his phone number and not tell anyone?

He just got back from Japan, and I think he's about to do it.

Yeah. Where I text him, and it's just goes green.

Yeah, I think he's about to be there. Yeah.

Like, that's the last. I'll talk to Jimmy.

How many. How many. Pardon my takes have you done?

It's like, probably five.

I think it's like six.

Yeah.

I think that's about the time you switch your number up.

Yeah, this is probably it.

I actually have been insistent on not changing my number. My number got leaked when we were in college by someone in El Paso. They put me in a group chat with, like, 90 people and said, everyone say hi to Jimmy Tatra. And then for, like, months, I would just get blown up. And this was before it was easy to block people on iPhones, so I had to, like, call Verizon every time and be like, hey, I have this number I need to block. And at one point I was like, hey, can I block El Paso, Texas? I was set on not changing my number.

Yeah.

So I kept that same number. And now you get those spam calls, you just go, boom, boom, block.

Yeah.

Have you gotten the calls where you pick up and it's somebody else that's in your phone book, and then they're acting like you called them, too. That's happened to me, like, six times in the past year. You pick up and you think it's a call from somebody that you know, and then you're like, hello? And they're like, hello? I'm like, you called me. And they're like, no, you didn't. You called me. And who is it?

It's just like they before when we've been sitting in the room together.

Here goes right now, bro.

Yeah. Where it will be like, are you calling me right now? It's like, no. Are you calling me? We're just sitting across from each other.

Really?

Yeah.

And why do people do that?

For fun. Yeah, it's actually a great joke.

Well, there was that whole TikTok trend that went around that was like, call someone. Then you're like, hey, I actually got to go right now.

Yeah.

And they're like, what? No, you called me. And they're like, sorry, I can't talk right now. Yeah, like, huh?

Yeah, that's kind of what they're doing, but just they don't get to evenly into it.

They don't listen to it. Yeah, so it's really just like, I'm inconveniencing somebody. This is funny, which is really the core of comedy. You guys know that.

Yeah, that's the frontline martyrs of comics right there.

That's like when you would call, when you made your voicemail. Hello? Yeah, hold on 1 second.

I still get.

God, I'm kidding.

I get so pissed.

You feel like a dog. Like getting faked out by a tennis ball.

Yeah, yeah.

Just like, God damn it. Why did I chase that ball? It's not. Damn it.

Who are you guys? Like, first, like, comedy what? Your first comedy experiences that you got into his kids, like, were you too young for the jerky boys and like, the prank calls.

I remember the turkey boys, the Jerky.

Boys, they were big prank call. They would just record prank phone calls and then they became super famous.

I was a big like. You talk about Internet people.

Yeah, just like whoever you're like when you're a kid. I who remember seeing a comedian being like, this is awesome. I want to do that.

Oh, yeah, for sure. Chappelle was that for me, Chappelle show. I was like, this is brilliance. Like as a kid. I mean, she's like record episodes on blank vhs and watch them over and over again.

Yeah, Chappelle show. SNL. Yeah, I like that, SNl. I like the digital shorts. Like, when Andy Samberg started doing digital shorts, I was like, ooh, I like this. Yeah, whatever this is. I like this.

Yeah, yeah, I like mad tv a lot.

Yeah, mad tv was great. Will Sasso.

Oh, all that.

Oh, yeah.

And then that was just like, funny. For the sake of being funny and, like, silly and goofy, I was about it.

Yeah, yeah, mad tv. There was that stretch for mad tv. Felt like it's like you almost were doing something, like, wrong because it was, you know, SNL was the established thing and.

Yeah.

Would take more risks, like, yeah, Edgier, badass mad tv fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that felt good. All right, this has been awesome. Roback, question rho back.com promo code take 20% off first purchase. Qzips, polos, hoodies, joggers shorts. Roback.com promo code take. So July 5, real bros of Simi Valley out on Roku. What do we got next? Coming down the pipeline after that?

I mean, that's the main thing right now.

But do we have another thing? Well, let me ask you a different way. What is, is Jimmy a list yet? Is he b list?

I think he's a. I think he's a minus. No, I think he's like, maybe second team.

Second team a. Yeah, definitely not a.

Team a. I think he's second team all.

AI appreciate that, but you, you drive a Tesla. That's true.

So that's kind of, that's pretty like.

Going on vacation with Sean White.

He's dating somebody big up, you know?

Yeah. Did you go on vacation? Miles Teller?

No, I didn't know. I didn't make it to that one.

Who did you go, you were on vacation with someone famous?

Yeah.

Does that make you more famous though?

Like when you're on vacation, when you're, like, in the south of France, it's like, oh, it's Jimmy and Bradley Cooper, right? Oh, fuck.

He knows the circle, right?

Right? Yeah, we just, the three of us just sit at home, be like, yeah, we need to know that guy.

Right, right. But they did crop him out of all the photos, which was weird.

Yeah, that one hurt. That one hurt just being in the photos but not tagged, you know? So I just got back last night.

Yeah.

This is gonna sound like a lie, but my brother is on the Team USA deaf volleyball team.

Okay. Go on.

Wait. Death or deaf?

Deaf.

Deaf.

Yeah. So, is your brother deaf? He's, like, 50%, like.

Sounds like he's cheating.

No. So there's a. There's a threshold on a second you have to submit a hearing test in order to be qualified as deaf enough. I'm pretty deaf, too, actually. But I didn't qualify.

Wait, a hearing test? Could you just be like, what, you can't fake it?

My mom's an audiologist. I had this argument with her, like, two days ago about being able to fake a hearing test. She said, you can't do it. I said I could do it.

Yeah. Yeah, you could literally just have to say. What?

Oh, it's two types of hearing tests.

Okay.

So, like, if they don't match up perfectly, they know you're lying.

Got it.

And it's hard to. It's hard to fake it.

Got it. But your brother figure out a way to fake it?

He.

Yeah.

So. But, yeah, he's, like, 50% deaf. You have to take your hearing aids out. But it was a world championships of deaf volleyball in Okinawa.

Wow.

So I was out there supporting John Petro.

Nice.

Team captain. And win for Team USA.

Well, he was the team captain.

He's the team captain.

Was that because he can hear the most? Right. That's a real question, right?

No, he was.

He's.

He's not. I think he's naughty. There's people who can hear more than him.

Okay. Okay.

How'd we do?

We did all right.

Oh, no, we.

We definitely are qualifying for the Olympics in Tokyo.

This is when people say, like, the end of the empire of us, like, when we lose death volleyball. I don't know.

No, I mean, Eastern Europe, they have volleyball and lockdown also, if you tell.

That, like, we played turkey, we played Italy, you could tell those teams have been playing together for a long time.

Okay.

Our def. Volleyball program is newer here.

Okay.

We haven't really made an effort.

Buy your stock now.

Okay.

Okay. We will be, I think, in the next few years, now that Johnny's the team captain.

Yeah. You know what you do when you say, this is a golden generation?

Yes. I will say Johnny Tatro, a lister a list.

Great name.

Johnny Tatra, USA men's team captain.

We actually.

We had a. We had a beach volleyball duo team for a while called Team Jimmy John's. Oh, and I got Jimmy John's merch for us, and we competed in beach volleyball tournament.

How'd y'all do?

We got second place, actually.

Wait, I got a question. So, wait, your brother's 50% deaf? You said you're kind of deaf.

I'm like, not 50%, but I've worn hearing aids since I was four.

Okay. And your mom's an audiologist and my sister's an audiologist. How did that, is that, like, how did that work out?

Yeah.

Is that a. Is that a chicken and an egg? When did you become an audiologist?

She became an audiologist before we had hearing losses. But her, her parents, her dad had a hearing loss, and I think that influenced her.

That's interesting.

And we've had. And then her two kids. If hearing losses got it genetic, I.

Just have to imagine that, like, the Russias of the world and the teams that are already cheating at the real Olympics, like, if they're doping their people up, they're definitely cheating at the.

For sure, 100%. Like, I'm out there. It's funny too, because like, they. They blow the whistle.

Yeah.

And they're just like holding the ball because, like a whistle. That's like, none of these guys out there can hear high pitched sounds, right? I can barely hear Wesfeld and they all have their hearing aids out. So, like, when they're like, the play is dead, it's like they just kind of keep going.

No one stops them.

Let them just go.

Stopping him, like, you gotta like, give him a little. A little wave.

That's a very cool move, though, to go all the way to Japan to support your brother.

Yeah, cuz that's not proud of him, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a long flight.

It was a long flight.

That's a long game.

Straight here.

Ready for. Yeah, we're tape. We're gonna release this on Friday so people will know how much of a debacle. Beer games.

Oh, yeah. You guys competing?

Yeah, we're gonna go.

Fuck, yeah.

We actually got kicked out.

I saw the state.

Yeah. What happened?

We got kicked out because we threatened to quit.

We kept on saying it'd be a real shame if it got canceled. Canceled? Yeah. And then they. We just shit on it so much that they're like, we don't want you. And then we, we talked to Will and Taylor and we're back in. It's been a long. This has been a tough games to pull off.

Yeah.

You. I don't know if you guys understand what tumultuous.

Yeah, some of the headlines.

Yeah, yeah. Actually that probably if you. If someone claims you're an a lister, you could just be like, well, no, because I complete competed in the beer games.

Yeah. I think this where any progress I had made, right? We're going back a little.

Cancels out the vacation.

No. The height of the beer games was Travis Kelsey, and Jason Kelsey were going to compete, and will legitimately thought there was a 30% chance Taylor Swift was going to show up to the four of us competing. So that's where we've got.

I can imagine, like, Taylor just watching us drink beer and, like, clapping her hands, be like, yeah, that was so fast. Good job.

Even our producers are competing. Max is competing.

Okay.

Yeah. Hank is competing. So we're just grabbing everyone off the street.

Are you guys competing last year?

We did not compete last year. Are you guys nervous about the events and how it's gonna shake out?

Yes.

Yeah. I mean, we're going up.

This is my wake up alarm, by the way. This isn't, like a, you know, get off of the show.

No.

Just so you know, the.

We're going up against, like, a bunch of offensive linemen, so we're gonna heard.

That's. Yeah, yeah, that's.

You know what? Let's just have. We'll be the vibes crew. Yeah.

I've seen Taylor chug a beer. Yeah, that was actually the first time I met him, was at the. The machine.

That's how he greets people. He's like, hey, I'm telling Luan. What? Aren't you impressed by this?

We. Cheers. And he was like, you guys want to chug these? And I was like, I just got here to this premiere, but nice to meet you. And I, like, I was still tilting up when his dropped.

Yeah, yeah.

And then. So that. What's. That's in my head, there's a chance.

There's a very good chance that we're all getting invited to Taylor's house just so he can beat us in beer games.

Mm hmm.

Which. I respect that. Like, if I were him, I would do the same thing where I'd be like, let me just invite a bunch of people I know I can beat. Just boost my ego for.

If you do that, though. I'm not coming to your birthday party, then.

Yeah.

This is your birthday party.

Yeah, this is his birthday party.

That's a fact, Bakti. Ari's in the games, and. And I think that guy can definitely.

He can.

Yeah.

You know, I've seen him, Chuck.

He's. There's a good chance he tries to fight me because I'm gonna get drunk and serve, talking shit about Aaron Rod.

Yeah, that's a good possibility, but, yeah. Competing against offensive linemen and beer drinking competitions does not feel like a winning recipe for. For men of our stature.

No.

Right. I'd say, you know, guys like us in this size category.

510.

510.

Yeah, me too. Same.

This actually is probably the biggest. This is the biggest sporting event.

So how do we. What's our. Yeah.

Arizona. Like this. You guys are never going to go back to a final. So this is the.

Wow. Oh, you don't think so?

Okay.

No, probably not.

Oh, wow.

I went to Wisconsin, so we stopped.

I don't hate many schools. I hate.

We had this debate because of Kaminsky, right?

Yeah. Both his back to back years.

Yeah.

Yeah. You guys had really good, better teams. You had teams that. Let's just say you had teams that if you were picking teams, you would have picked a lot of Arizona players before Wisconsin players. Yeah.

Right. We still have. I mean, Aaron Gordon still going strong.

Yeah.

True.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

Basically.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he's not the guy that I thought was gonna be. I thought it was gonna be. What's his name?

Aiden.

Yeah. Deandre.

No. And before that, like, I thought Nick Johnson was gonna, like.

Oh, yeah. He didn't do shit.

You're not a scout.

My gage was all off on that one. Pretty weird.

All right, well, thank you, boys, for coming on. It's been awesome. Christian, great to meet you.

Yeah.

Been a fan from afar, and we're pumped for this movie. It's gonna be. Everyone, go watch it. Watch it, and then watch it again. And then leave it on. Leave your house. If you're going away for July 4, put it on repeat.

Yep.

Just have a go.

I'd say watch the entire series before you watch the movie.

We figure also, everyone, July 5, you're gonna be laying around, not gonna wanna do anything. You go on Roku, you put on the real bros. Movie.

Yes. Yeah.

Perfect.

All right, well, thanks, guys.

Thanks for having us.

Thanks for having me.

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Kentucky sports radio, pardon my take. Takeover. We have a big guest coming up in a minute. If you missed the start of the show, we want everyone to just remind us that we are ball knowers. If you call in, because we were the first to put coach Cal in the hot seat, and then we. Everything that we said was going to happen turned out to be correct.

Exactly right. No, Sadamus, if you had listened to us seven years ago, you would be much happier right now. You'd be in a better place. Better place. So we do know ball.

Yes, Shannon. Has he called back in? Do you want to try to call him? Oh, maybe Shannon's talking to him.

You might be talking.

Sounds good. I feel like that's good. Okay, here we go. All right, so for the first time ever in Kentucky sports radio history, we want to welcome on a friend of ours who's been on pardon my take. He's a legend in the state of Kentucky. He's a horse racing aficionado. It is St. John's head basketball coach Rick Pitino. Coach, are you there?

I am. Good to be with you guys.

It's great to hear from you. We're very excited to have you on. So we've hosted this show eight. Eight years in a row whenever Matt is on vacation. And we were the first to say that Cal was on the hot seat eight years ago. So today has been a victory lap for us, and we thought, there's no better guy to have on to pump up big blue nation, your relationship with Mark Pope than coach Rick Pitino. So let's start there. I have some St. John's questions, as well, but what. What are we getting out of Mark Pope as a basketball coach?

Well, obviously, I'm extremely biased because he was my captain of the national championship team and was a great captain, a tireless worker, and I absolutely love him and what he did for our program. But that being said, when I was not working, I traveled out to see him coach a small school, division one school in Grand Valley or something like that, and I was blown away for how good a teacher he was. And then I watched every game I could at BYU and love their offense. It was. It was great ball movement, great player movement. And I just think Mark does a fabulous job at communicating with his players. He has a great way about it, and he has a quality that very few of us have. He has incredible humility. And for somebody who, at a very young age, just as a tireless work and is accomplishing things, he's always maintained the same humility that he had back when he was a player. And Mark would, you know, obviously, guys like Antoine and those guys, all guys from inner cities. And my language wasn't the greatest, either. But every day with Mark, if he made a mistake, he would say frick, and constantly, frick, frick, frick.

And finally, after a week of this, I said, mark, I can tell you whatever God that you pray to, he knows what you mean. So why don't you just say it or drop it?

Just words.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter if it's a. If it's an r, if it's a u. I think the message is getting across, coach, when they. They hired Mark Pope, you. You were saying that, you know what? It might be time for Rick Pitino to cut a check to Kentucky's nil program. Is that something that you're actually considering doing?

Well, I actually cut a check to the football program because I'm a casual friend of Mark and Eddie Gran, and I cut a check to the football program, but I would definitely cut a check if Mark needs me for anything, no matter what. Except for my first born, Michael, he can have it. I absolutely love Mark and would do anything for you for his program. I'm very. I had. I always called University of Kentucky Camelot for me. I never had a bad year, never had a bad day. They treated me like a king. They treated me with great respect. So I only had. Obviously, I didn't get treated great when I was at Louisville, but sitting, sitting back on it and examining it today, I totally understand why. So I am very, very fond of the University of Kentucky rooting for football. I sent the baseball coach a text wishing him good luck. So I'm very bullish on Mark and the football program and hope they do great.

I love it. And I think the thing that Kentucky basketball fans should be excited about, and maybe you can speak to this more, is Kentucky basketball in the last few years. Now, obviously, Cal had success at the beginning of his run, but in the last few years, it feels like the actual coaching X's and O's maybe wasn't there all the time. Mark Pope, if you watched him at BYU, the guy knows how to coach basketball, and maybe you could speak to this specifically, but, like, being able to coach guys and put them in the best sets to be able to, you know, draw up winning plays the end of games, I feel like Marc Pope is the perfect guy for that.

He is. Look, Mark Pope is. He tried to become a doctor, and it wasn't his niche. Mark Pope was a Rhodes scholar candidate, and he's just an extremely bright person. And combining his credentials about being bright, he's an excellent teacher of basketball. He also has, you know, he was also a terrific basketball player that got the maximum of his abilities because he gave it all every single day. Great leader. He showed great leadership. Everybody in the team just thought he was the best guy in the team in terms of. Never said a negative word about a teammate, never said a negative word about his coaching staff. Loyal to the point that you couldn't quite believe it. And his wife and children are the same way. Just wonderful, wonderful people. And, you know, look, Cal did a terrific job, but what happens with a lot of coaches, I mean, there are exceptions to the rule. I think Bill self and I think Mike Scheschewski, you know, you run out of. Familiarity breeds contempt. You're there a long time, you get a little stale. You need another journey. And so, everybody, this is. This is now Mark Pope's time.

Yeah.

And Cal. Cal was great for the University of Kentucky. He brought them a lot of success and we wish him certainly well at Arkansas. And then now it's time to move on and have a whole different brand.

Yeah.

Yep. You said it, coach. Do you have any message for the Kentucky fans that are listening right now? I don't know if you've had an opportunity to address them over the last few years here, but we've got a lot of them listening right now that care about you, that care program.

Look, I love, the Kentucky fans to me are very, very special. They were and treated me, my family, with great reverence. I got nothing but great things to say about the Kentucky fan. I totally get it today. Why they were bitter at me at going to University of Louisville. I was going back because the reason I was going back is I love Kentucky so much from my UK days and wanted to relive that love of, love of the sport. But right now they have a fabulous program with, with all sports. And I think that, I think that it's going to be a special, special time for Mark Pope and the University of Kentucky Wildcats because I think he's, I think the fans are going to fall in love with Mark.

Yeah.

Because the thing about him, the pope, pope didn't matter. The name on the back never mattered to Mark. He could care less about individual glory, could care less about if, if anybody mentioned that he played a great game. It's always about team. It's always about Kentucky and the Jeff Shepherds and, and Ron Mercers and mash burns and all those guys that I coach, it was always about Kentucky, Pelfrey, Bellhouse, farmer, all about them. And I used to always kid, those guys in the locker room, they always give, every time they put the jersey on, Pelfrey would tear up and I'd say, something wrong with you, john, you're not feeling well? He said, no. Every time I put that uniform on, I just can't believe I'm putting it on. I said, we'll get over it, john. We got a big game, man.

And that's great. Yeah. Playing for the, playing for the name on the front of the jersey is important, especially in today's college basketball. So speaking of that, you, you have practice in about 20 minutes. How is your team looking this year? Cause it looks like you guys added some really talented players. You were right on the cusp last year. It was your first year. How, how do you feel like this team is going to shape and put and be put together when you guys start playing ball in November?

Well, we're much bigger with seven one seven foot, 610 six nine a back court. I never thought I'd coach another guard as fast as Peyton Siva, but I have a young man from utah, Davion Smith, who is faster than as faster, if not faster than Peyton Siva. I have Kadari Richmond from Seton hall was a first team All Big east basketball player. Have Simeon Wilshire, who's a sophomore now, who's also a terrific guard. So the backcourt is really strong. The wings are very strong, and the centers, although they don't have great experience, are very big. Big and talented and athletic. So I'm really bullish on this basketball team. We were supposed to play Kentucky but couldn't work it out. And I'm hoping that we can come to Lexington next year for our 30th reunion, and Kentucky can go back to the Madison Square Garden the following year.

I love that.

Yeah. Kentucky. Quit ducking pitino.

I love it.

You step up to the plate, give. Give the people what they want. Coach, are we planning on wearing more suits this year? That's very important for us.

I wore all suits the whole season, just about, with the exception of a white out where I wore white jacket and jeans. Outside of that, I wore suits the whole year.

I like that it doesn't feel right when you look on the sidelines and you see coach Pitino wearing a, like a polo shirt. We want to see the suits every game, coach.

I'm definitely going to be in them. And you know what? I believe in it. It's something I've done all my life. So why not continue? Why change? There's certain things you have to change. You have to change the way you coach players today, the way you run, your offenses, defenses treat them in off the court as well. But certain things should not change, and that's one of those.

Coach, in these spring and summer practices, what are you looking for this early on as you're putting a team together? What, what are you keen on in practice that's telling you, okay, we could have a good team this year.

You know, I made a mistake last year. I did not have my team ready early in the year because I was just focused on player development, working on this skill development, and I didn't work on a lot of team things defensively, and we were not ready early. We were ready late. And it probably stopped us because the NCAA no longer cared about the last ten games of the season. They were treating the first ten equal to the last ten. So now I understand that. I don't think the net means a whole lot. I think it's really quad one wins. Quad two wins. Making sure you don't lose, like we did to Michigan, a quad three. We never expected Michigan to be a quad three game, but it was. So I'm going to have the team more ready defensively going into September.

I love it. Coach, I have one last question. I missed you. I saw you were at Saratoga for the Belmont Stakes. I was there as well.

Yep.

How did you do? I hope you did better than me. I lost about $20,000 that weekend. Not great. Not great. I was. I thought I had figured it out. I did. The one thing you can't do on a horse racing weekend is win the second race of the first day, because then you think you got it figured out, and then I don't think I want to race for like, 15 races in a row. But how did you do and. And what, do you guys have some horses coming up?

I do. I'm racing tomorrow. I have a horse called Agalos the Great, who's the name of my agent in Greece. And Agalos the Great is running at aqueduct, getting ready. It's a prep rates coming off a long vacation to get ready for a big steak at Finger Lakes. I was. I believe I was two for 22.

Okay.

And getting destroyed. And I went back and tried to renegotiate my contract with St. John's, but I did get out on the last race when I was leaving, and if you could win the last race, you could cut your losses in half.

Yeah. That way. Was it the last. Last race or the second? I won the second to last race on Saturday. That was like a. Like a 14 to one shot. And I was like, oh, man. Maybe I did for.

Yeah, this was a. It was a long. Yeah, I think it was the same.

Yeah, it was on the turf. He came out of nowhere.

Yeah. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. That's right.

Yeah. You need to. When you have a bad weekend at the tracks, you need to just turn to our good friend Mike Foley and be like, come on, let's go.

I told my wife I'm never. I'm never going to the track again. And she said, I've heard that now.

1100 times, I'm retired from horse racing for the rest of the week. That's what I do. And then I wait for the weekend.

So you said, aglos the great, he's racing at Aqueduct tomorrow. What race is he in? Because I'm going to. I might sprinkle a few nickels on.

Him, you know, I don't know. I think it's the fifth race. I'm actually traveling to Tampa for an, unfortunately for a funeral, and I won't see it, but I know it's, I think it's the fifth race of my other friend, Chris Mara, who owns his family, owns the Giants. He has a horse in the race, and we're betting dinner to see which horse finishes ahead of who.

I like that. I like that.

High stakes coach. I'm actually, I'm taking a trip to Greece next week, and I was hoping that you could, you could maybe teach me something to say. Good phrase to say or any tips about when are you going to be.

When will you be there?

I'm going to be there Saturday through, I believe. Saturday full week.

I'm going July the 6th to see them try and qualify for the Olympics. I try to help the federation a little bit there. And you're going to Athens?

I'm going to be traveling around a bit, yeah. Athens. Then checking out some of the beaches, too.

Great. So obviously, you say you have to understand the greetings. They always say calimar for. For good morning, Kelly Sparra for afternoon, Kalanita. That's good night. And you always, just by just saying yasas. That's hello. Goodbye, Palak. Hello. You're welcome. Hello, Paul Sisee. Say you got about seven, eight expressions, and of course, the firm expression that you have to use if somebody cuts you off Malacca.

Okay. Okay. Lock a guy. I love it. Well, coach, I know you got practice coming up. I want to thank you so much for calling in. We're excited about Mark Pope. I'm excited about St. John's this year. Thanks so much and have a great practice.

All right, guys, tell Mark I love him.

Okay. Thanks so much. That was coach Rick Pitino calling in Kentucky. Sports radio history has been made.

Full endorsement. Hatchet buried.

Hatchet. Well, no, I wouldn't say so.

You don't think so?

Us on this day? Yeah. Rick Pitino is always welcome on this day.

Yes.

But thank you to coach Pitino. I told everyone they got it. They got to stay tuned in for all the people who usually say they turn it off after two minutes. I think we deliver.

You can tell this guy loves Kentucky.

Yes.

He really cares about the state of Kentucky. And it sounds like he kind of feels bad about going to Louisville.

Yeah.

He's like, I get it. Well, maybe not. He doesn't feel bad, but he understands the hate that he got Louisville.

Yeah. And so, you know, you know, it's good to see that, you know, everything's being mended and he's clearly rooting for Mark Pope, as are we. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll finish up our one. We also want to hear from you, Kentucky sports fans. 859-280-2287 that's a Clark pump and shop phone number. We're going to take a break. Quick break. We'll be back right after this. All right, who do we got next?

We got, we got Jack on the line.

Jack from Oakland.

What's up, Jack?

Jack, what's going on?

Hey, guys.

How you doing?

How you doing?

We're good. We're good. So, Jack, we've been taking a little victory lap today because we, we called coach Cowell's firing eight years ago and he ended up getting fired. So I, you know, we know ball. It all kind of came to a head when they played in the tournament this year. I don't know. Did you catch the game? I caught a little bit of it.

I caught a little bit.

Yeah. So, so basically what happened was because Cal has a great team and they go up against Oakland and there's a guy on the other side, Jack goalkee, who they just didn't guard. I don't know if you saw that at all. This guy, like, if you're. If you don't ball at all, like, you would have guarded a guy like Jack Colkey, right?

I mean, yeah. Like, you would think that a guy like, like me or him, that's, that's really just stroking it like that. They would pick him up full?

Pretty much, yeah. During the second half. Were you surprised that, that they were still letting Jack goalkee get these open looks?

Yeah, it's kind of like, like I said, pick him up full. Like deny every catch and just make it tough for him. Like, don't let. Don't let him catch the ball. Don't let him get a shot up because you know the result that's going to come from that.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, anybody that watched that, who knows ball knew that you should guard Jack goalkee. And, you know, at this point, me and big cat mentioned in the first hour, but Jack Goalkee kind of could be responsible for the second coming of Kentucky or I guess the third coming of Kentucky when they return to glory in the next 510 years. Do you think that Jack Goalkee should be present at whatever Kentucky's next banner ceremony is? Because he was the man that inspired Kentucky to make a change.

I think they should definitely invite him. I hope he gets a warm welcome when they do bring him out and maybe even throw him some of that collective money.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. And then if there's, like maybe two radio hosts that inspired Jack Wolkey to attend that ceremony, they should probably get a cut of that nil money, too, right?

Yeah, I think it should probably be split three ways, evenly, I would think, you know?

Yeah. So, Jack, at what point during that game did you know you were on fire, man?

It was, it was early. It was early. I saw that green light and I just started gunning.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Have you gone back and do, do you watch the highlights of that game?

I've definitely rewatched the game a couple of times. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't.

It's a lot of fun. Have you had a moment since where you're like, they really just didn't want to guard me at all? I think.

I mean, I don't know. After the game, I just kind of rewatched it and I was like, there were definitely some open looks I had, but at the same time, like, I think they were, they were definitely trying. Like, it was, it wasn't like they were just, just out there walking around.

You know, that actually hurts more because that means you were just better than them.

Like that.

Hey, Jack, are we. I know the answer is probably no, but, like, maybe. Is there a chance your name gets called today?

Man, I got my fingers crossed. I'm not expecting it, but that would be a great surprise for sure.

Well, I mean, you can look at Kentucky. There's guys that are coming off the bench at Kentucky that are getting drafted pretty high. You came off the bench and I think that the formula is right there. You might be picked in the second round. I'm rooting for you, man. And if you don't get drafted, I'm assuming that there's going to be a team that at least invites you in for a look, right?

Yeah, that's the plan right now. It'll kind of all shake out today and tomorrow, honestly, and I'll kind of figure out where I'm going to be headed, hopefully for summer league, and maybe I'll see you guys out there.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, Jack, one last thing, because I think maybe some listeners right now are like, this is a prank. This isn't actually Jack Colkeye. Can you explain to us the set of your favorite three against Kentucky that you hit in the first round of the tournament?

Yes, sir.

So favorite set we ran against Kentucky, first round of the tournament, the first one I made is called UCLA. A side elevator screen sprint out towards our bench and hit a fade away three.

And there's a lot of people in Kentucky that are listening right now, and I. I hope that maybe you'd take the time to just say I'm sorry for beating him so badly.

Yeah.

I just like to apologize that they got their hopes up. I'm not going to apologize for winning, but I know there's a lot of final fours in the brackets and champions in the brackets, so I like to apologize for that.

Okay, big man.

All right, well, Jack, thanks so much for calling in. You know, we're big fans of you, and good luck with wherever your next spot is for summer league.

Yes, sir. I appreciate you guys for having me.

Take care.

See ya.

Thanks, Jack.

That was Jack Golke. Jack from Oakland, personal friend of ours.

Cool guy.

I think we deserve that one after getting repatino on.

Yeah, we can do. No, well, this is the danger that you run into right now. Me and big cat, we feel like we can do a heat check.

Yeah, we. We should have stopped after an hour. We should have walked off and been like, look, we finally repaired our relationship with, with big blue nation. Instead, we stuck around, and that's when it. We start to just be like, hey, we could do anything.

It is an abusive relationship that we're in. We just treat. We just took you out to the nicest dinner that you've ever had at the best italian restaurant in town. And then right afterwards, we just. We go ahead and cheat on you again.

Yeah. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll take some more calls. We have Sam Decker and Frank Kaminsky coming up. Okay, let's go to the next caller.

All right, let's go to Cliff.

Cliff, what's up? What's up, guys? So I'm a little. I'm a. You guys definitely know ball. Yes. Thank you, Cliff. Right there. Cliff. Cliff wins the Don Franklin auto call of the day. That's it right there. Just saying. We know ball.

It's a great point.

Yeah. What do you get? Do you get a free car from that? I think so, yeah.

Okay. Go to the dealership and say, I won call of the day. Where's my truck?

Yeah, Matt Jones said I get a truck. So in going to take you back just real quick. In 1997, I went to a book signing with Rick Pitino. He was doing success as a choice. And of course, I'm a UK fan. And as a little boy, I went up to him and I said, hey, you're not going to go to the NBA. And he said, I promise I'm not going to go to the NBA. So he lied to me, but I didn't care because we started getting a lot of players to go to Boston, which was fun to watch, you know, UK players go there. But when he went to Louisville, that was a slap in the face. And I don't know if I. I've forgiven him yet. But today's call, I think you guys finally kind of helped me turn that corner with him. I want to say thank you for that. But you know, ball and you know how to get to our heartstrings, too, here in Kentucky, because that was absolutely. It was a great call by him. And hopefully Pope succeeds. You know, we love pope out here. And go bills.

I love it, Cliff. So, so little. How old were you when, in 1997? I was 14. Okay, so 14 year old Cliff can finally let go of a grudge. A 20. Almost a 20 year grudge or no more than a 20 year grudge today. We did that. Yeah. Thank you so much for doing that for me. I love it, Cliff. I love it.

It's a good moment. I love hearing that because you've been walking around with, you know, that. That tension in your shoulders for this. This past 20 years. Years, just hating Rick Pitino now. You know what? He came home.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, Cliff.

Thank you.

Yeah.

This is important for sure. Now, when you did call in and you said, when I was a little kid and I got my books, I thought you were going to say you were six years old and you said, don't go to the NBA.

14.

You were in high school.

Yeah, little kid. But, I mean, 14. I mean, I was not driving. So anything below, I guess, 16, I would consider a kid. You know, that's fair. Yeah, I was stupid. 14. I can't believe. Luckily, we didn't have the Internet then or not like we do now. True.

It's a good point. I don't. I don't think that you're going to run into that problem with Pope. I feel like this is. This is the job that Pope wants. It's not a stepping stone. He's not going to leave because a chicken farm offered more money. This is the guy, and he wants to be here.

And I do have a question for both of you. If you could share a story, share a story about Matt Jones, because y'all get to know him a little bit more than we do behind the scenes of. And he doesn't talk about everything. He talks about a lot of stuff. But is there something like a silly story he tried to fit into something he couldn't fit into? Y'all have a good rest of the day. All right, thanks, Cliff. That is the call of day. I don't know what story comes up in your head right away. Pft.

I want to share. The first time that I met Matt Jones, first time I met him, I was living in New York City. Great bourbon in New York, great racehorses up there. And I was in my apartment in the West Village, and I get a knock on my door, and I go to my door and it's this guy with a funky haircut, no sideburns, wearing a Kentucky polo shirt, but he had a clipboard in his hand. I said, how can I help you, sir? He's like, I'm here canvassing for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Would you like to sign up to be a member of her campaign staff? And I said, no, thank you. And then I shut the door on him. And then I found out two years later that was Matt Jones. He was, he was nice as could be in the moment. I just didn't feel like talking to him.

Yeah. So my. That's a great story. My first time meeting Matt Jones, he actually. So it's similar. I was minding my own business, get a knock at the door, two big men in suits, put a burlap sack over my head, threw me in a van, and then I ended up at a meeting of the Illuminati. And Matt Jones was there, and he tapped me for the Illuminati and he said, you're part of us now. I said, I don't want to do this, Matt Jones, please. And he's like, no, if you're in the Illuminati, you're in the Illuminati. So I am part of the Illuminati now because of Matt Jones. So I do have to thank him for that.

And I'll say something very nice about Matt. He sells the best adrenochrome. Yes, it is. It is delicious. And I feel, I always feel better the morning after drinking it. So thank you, Matt.

And Kentucky sports radio listeners who love Matt. You should know that he is going to live to about 300 years because he's been drinking baby blood for a very long time. What did you say, Shannon? Shannon, all this is true. Yeah.

Yeah.

It's all true. Yeah.

I wasn't going to be the one.

To say those things, but I'm glad that you did first. Yeah.

One thing I appreciate about Maz, he saves all his best radio and his best takes for when he's doing ESPN radio, when he's doing like, pre game shows in the morning on Sundays.

Yeah.

And so a big audience gets to listen to him and then he goes back on Kentucky and he's got the leftover scraps for you guys.

Yeah.

But he does a very good job on national radio. Radio.

Yeah. So, no, Matt's a great guy. We've known him for a very long time. He's, because it's kind of a funny relationship because in all honesty, when we started, we weren't huge. We had a little bit of a rocket ship with, pardon my take, but he invited us on to host, and it was one of the funnest days that we have every single year. And he's been a supporter of us. There's been times when it's been hard to be a supporter of us, so we always remember friends like that. And he's, he's a loyal guy through and through, and I think that's, that's a real thing. The Illuminati is real as well. But Matt is very loyal and he's been a loyal friend for many years.

And he does actually care about the state of Kentucky very, very much, very deeply. No matter how big his audience gets, if he's doing tv shows, if he's on get up debating against Stephen a. Smith, whatever the case might be, he cares first and foremost about Kentucky sports. And I, that's never going to change the matae. He's a very, very nice guy.

Yeah. This is actually a real true story, and I hope he doesn't get mad at me for this, but I don't think he will. Shannon, Matt obviously talked about possibly dipping his toes into politics.

Yes, yes.

Correct. So when he was thinking about it, he called me and he was like, hey, I'm thinking about this. Just so you know, if I do end up doing this, there will be people who will come after me and they will come after you because your association with me. And he was trying to give me a heads up and I was just laughing the whole time he called me because I was like, dude, you don't think we've heard everything that's been said about us, the people that hate us? Like, this is going to be nothing. I don't know how it's going to go for you, but he was nice enough to, like, he was thinking of his friends in that moment of like, hey, if I go down this path with politics, it could affect the people in my life. And he was nice enough and aware enough to give me a heads up, which I didn't need, that it could be a ripple effect or a waterfall effect, that if he does this, we could be in the crosshairs as well. And I always appreciated that from him.

Speaker two and on his side of that, I guess, equation he was going through on whether or not to pursue politics or not, he got his hands on some opposition research, and he said, they will attack you or they will attack me for being friends with the part of my take, guys. And never once did it occur to Matt to distance himself or anything like that. He's like, I still love you guys. I'll still defend you. Come on. Kentucky sports radio once a year. I like this relationship. So he's a loyal guy. He's not going to turn his back because his back's against the wall.

Yeah. This is actually turning into a sappy Matt Jones segment, but it's, it's a great point because there's been, we've had, through the course of our podcast, and when we were on tv for one episode, we've had people who we thought were our friends not be our friends and not defend us. And Matt Jones is the opposite. He's, he's someone who has always defended us and never been ashamed of his relationship with us. And you, as you get older and you realize that there are a lot of people that will be nice to your face, but not nice when you're out of the room, it's guys like Matt Jones who are the authentic guys who, you got to hold on to those guys, because those are the real ones.

Yeah. Whenever Matt needs a favorite, we are there for him.

Yeah, this is Shannon. Is this disgusting? Yeah.

I'm like, come on.

Should we go to a break now? And in this now, right now, Matt's, listen, he's probably crying, and he's on his yacht with Greta Thunberg, and they're sailing across the Atlantic Ocean right now, and he's listening on satellite radio. And so, Matt, just know that everything that we just said about you, we were just saying because you pay us, what is it this year, like, $500,000 to host Kentucky sports radio each year.

So I think it works out to, like, something like $10,000 a minute.

Mm hmm. Well worth it.

You guys.

Cut me in a little bit.

Yeah, we can cut you in a little.

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Wrap up the show with Fyre fest. Henry? Yes? What is your fyre fest of the week?

I mean, we can. We can kind of recap the beer games. My Fyre fest is pretty much all beer games related. The hangover that it caused me sent me back. Maybe lifetimes, maybe years have fallen off my life.

You have a terminal hangover?

I have. So far. It's been two rough days. Like, yesterday was rough, but the first days.

Oh, what happened yesterday?

Yesterday I was just, just really, really hungover. We had to travel. We got to the airport. I left my wall in the uber. We had to wait.

Okay, though. You're going too fast. You're going too fast. I'll explain what yesterday we had to work. We had to travel to Cincinnati to interview Joe Burrow, which is coming out Monday, July 8, when we're back from break. Just another reminder, we're going on break this week. We'll have dungeons and dragons on Monday. We'll have our dingers only draft with Gunnar Henderson. Join the show quickly before on Wednesday. And we'll also update any NBA free agency that show day and then Joe Burrow on that Monday. So we all were very hungover from beer games. Beer games was a lot of fun. I'm happy with my retirement. It was a lot of fun to hang out with the boys. The hangover and the getting beat up in the pool was not as much fun.

The hangover anxiety is the worst part.

Yeah. I get.

I get tremendously anxious the morning after, and it's gotten so bad that now I give myself a pre hangover before I start drinking. So before I start drinking, I think to myself, oh, my God, I'm gonna be so hungover the next day. I'm gonna have all this anxiety then that gives me anxiety going into it.

Yeah.

So it's like, just thinking about drinking now gives me anxiety, but I still love it.

Yeah, it was. It was. It was fun. Like, it was fun hanging out with the boys. I did want to go home around 04:00 in the afternoon, but that's just that. That could have been at a bar down the street from my house, and I would have been like, I'm ready to go home. So it was fun. You had fun, Max.

Yeah, it was. It was very, very fun. We were talking a lot of. Lot of shames on it before, but looking back, it was great.

It was great. It was great with the boys.

The second I showed up and walk a flock, I was in the building, I was like, this is shout out, David, back to.

I know we said it on Wednesday. He's the man. So is Graham Glasgow. Watch those. Quinton Nelson. Yeah. They're all like, everyone was awesome.

The boys. It really was.

It was.

It was the boys.

There's a boys.

There was the boy having a great saw.

Chris Long.

Chris. Chris Long. Who? We love doctor facts. Yeah, all of it was a blast, but so the. The one part that wasn't a blast was waking up the next day, super hungover in Nashville, having to go to Cincinnati. Hank woke up. We got, like, an hour of Hank energy at lunch. Then we got to the airport.

You know, when we burned the Hank energy, we went out to lunch, and that place had a line, and then we had to turn back and abandoned that lunch plan. And at that point, Hank switched.

Yeah.

The first inconvenience, he was like, well, I tried.

We got to go to gumbo.

He had. He had, like, good hyper, like, I'm okay energy for the first hour of the day. And then from that moment on, he just was a zero. Because we got to the airport, we get ready to our pilot. Yes. We flew private. I know that sounds crazy, but we were. We had to go Nashville Cincy sensei to Chicago, all within, like, a five hour spot. But we're sitting there ready to go, and our pilots like, all right, here we ready to go. Let's get on the plane. And Hank stands up. He's like, I don't have my wallet. He had left his wallet in the uber to the airport. That delayed us, like, 45 minutes. Really had no remorse.

He made it our problem.

Yeah, you kind of was just like, whatever, guys.

That's not true. I just went and hit outside. Yeah, I acted like I was gonna do anything outside, but I just didn't want to deal with you guys staring daggers at me. Yeah, just went and sat outside, then.

Slept on the flight, slept on the bus ride to the Joe Burrow interview. Kind of slinked around at the Joe Burrow interview was just.

I gave Hank an hour and a half to give me one question for Joe Burrow.

The question got the people. The question that they question out is.

Tremendous band, tremendous banter. I can't wait to release that question. We'll make a clip.

We should not preface it with that. I said it in the interview, and people will be like, the best question. Interviews, speaker zero.

We'll make a clip out of this, and then we'll attach it to the actual question. Let's see if it will let the people decide if it gets the banter going. But I asked Hank for one question for Joe Burrow an hour and a half before the interview. I checked in with him after 45 minutes. I was like, do you have a question? Hank was like, I have nothing. I have absolutely nothing to add. But you did get one to me eventually. But we determined that the real issue was what's at the core of Hank's surliness is that he's had such a great last two weeks that now he can't get excited about anything anymore. If it's not him having an all time life experience, Hank will just not be happy at all. You've been spoiled. The last. Last two weeks have spoiled you, Hank.

It was literally the first day that he wasn't just winning something. It was.

It was the first day that one I opt out. First day that one of his heroes didn't ask him to come hang out.

Yeah.

And he's like, this stinks. I'm just hanging out with my co workers.

No, I just. I'm old. And the hangovers hit differently. You guys. You guys battled through. I tried to, and I lost the battle. But my fyre fest was going to be, and it'll probably be in PMTV, I think. But people probably saw the screenshots in the video. Max, big cat, PFt, Will and Taylor roughhousing in the pool. And, like, they had Max and a chokehold, and you guys were trying to defend them. And I was.

We were all defending each other. PfT came to my defense. I came to Max's defense. Max came to PFT defense. It was basically like a great reminder that when the chips are down, the boys will have each other's back.

And I saw the cameras rolling. I was kind of, you know, I was joking. Also didn't want to get, you know, assaulted. And I was, like, laughing, being, you know, had my hands up, my feet up. And then I waited for Will to take his hands off of Max, and as a joke was like, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. To kind of, you know, take credit for, for helping out. And Will was still very hyped up and then just took me and basically waterboarded me for ten minutes. So I actually got what was coming worse than anyone else. My, I looked like a ghost, a bald ghost just getting rinsed. And I also can't chug beers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which I love going into round. I love having you around.

Yeah. I was happy I got the invite in, but I knew I was not gonna be able to compete. And then I think the most viral clips from the beer games were me not being able to chug and then me and Will, like, waterboarding me.

Yeah.

And those got around. I heard, heard back about it. It wasn't great.

Yeah. What did we expect showing up to this? Cuz I I don't think we actually expected to win. I just want to have you guys.

Thought you're gonna win.

No, no, I want. I wanted to compete, and I knew that. I, listen, I'm not a good chugger either. There's.

I can actually beat PFT, but no.

One saw that I can drink all day.

Yeah.

Max and I would have been third if we were a team.

I beat you by golf, I beat you by second, Hank. Interesting per jersey Jerry.

Hank, I love having you around and being part of the team because what happens is whenever you. Yesterday, I joked if, if we had a plus minus for pardon my take, you were like a -26 in four minutes played.

I stepped in three turnovers and airball the shot of, then subbed out for the rest of the game.

It wasn't just that you were having a bad day. You were blaming us for your.

Mood. He goes, I could have just not come. He just tries to disinvite himself. From everything.

It's our fault. We've.

No, I want you here. I love you.

We walked into the Joe Burrow interview, which was a body armor shoot. And I walked in, Hank was behind me. We get inside, I noticed that. The first thing I noticed about Hank is he's carrying a big water bottle of a competing sponsor to body was on the bus. I wasn't in the body armor.

I wasn't.

And then when we told him about that, then he blamed me for not telling him not to bring that in there.

Well, no, I yelled at then Ppt. He was like, I saw that. I was like, you didn't say something to me. You're like, no, I just watch you do it.

No, I was in front of you. So you're still doing it. You're still blaming.

Well, cuz I got. I got. I got a stern talking to from one of our co workers, and she was like, put that bottle away right now. Like, oh, fuck, I'm so dumb. And Pete's like, yeah, I saw that. I was like, you could have said something.

Well, I saw it as you put the bottle away. It's again, my fault, Hank, for.

No, no, it's.

We should not have brought you on the trip.

Yeah, I was. I was a minus. It's fine.

Good guy, though.

Thanks.

Oh, Hank.

Yeah, yeah.

I love Hank. I love having around. Even when he submits a -26 and four minutes played.

I think I was a plus overall on the trip. Probably close to even.

Yeah. I mean, you getting told that you were. That was the other part that we forgot. I might be in PMTV, which has her whole trip. But Hank was late to the airport on Monday night, and he was like, I might miss the flight. And that was when I found out that Rowan was sick and that I offered up Hank services to compete. And I deliberately waited till he got to the gate to tell him that he was competing, because I know that if I had told the one he was in his uber, he would have just pretended that he didn't make it in time. His face dropped. He was so mad.

Well, I just.

And it's true.

Like, I had the yak case race. I was fucked up for three days after that, the parade. I was fucked up. Still basically going to the airport.

Yeah.

And so I was like, it wasn't that I didn't want to play. And once I started playing, I was having a blast. But I was like, once you told me, like, you're in the beer games, I just. I was not ready for that.

Yeah, I yeah. Yeah.

I basically had three of the most drunk I've ever been in the past, like five years. In the past week.

Yeah.

No, I was July 4 coming up.

I was saying to someone, I think I drank more beer in the last seven days than I have in, like, the last two years. It's a lot.

I think Hank said that he's retiring. He's done drinking, effective at the end of July.

Is that true?

Yeah.

I was like, I gotta take a break after July.

But then August, Labor Day. I know.

Well, usually I wait till September, but it's like, we've had a really early start.

It. We did.

You're not gonna have any beer on grit week.

No, but I need to. I take a break. Like, maybe like a weekend or something.

Like, just don't drink on a sack. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Pft.

Okay. Yeah. My fire fest is also that I stink at chugging, but I knew that I stink at chugging. I've never been able to chug, so I knew that was gonna be bad category for us. But we. I feel like me and big cat responded well in some other events.

Three beers is a lot listeners, people.

It's.

It's like golf. It's like everyone's a pro, but, like.

Well, no, I mean, Max and I are pros. Yeah.

Yeah. But three beers is a lot for just a normal person. For an average person.

8.19 seconds. Yeah.

Chugging three beers. Yeah.

Thank you.

Are we. Is this passing the torch moment right now?

Taylor would be throat. Cody did in 5 seconds.

Yeah, we sang out with Jeffree Star.

It's insane.

So that's one of my fire fests. The other is that. So it's also airport related. We get to the airport on what day was that?

Monday.

Monday night to fly out. And security is. It's a very long line going through there. Usually it's pretty smooth. At least if you have clear. Not to brag. Pay for a clear subscription. It's TSA pre check on steroids. Turns out it's actually not because sometimes they shut the clear down and you can't even use that. My fyre fest is more that. I've been meaning to get TSA pre check for the last 15 years of my life. And it involves making an appointment and then going to the appointment, usually during business hours. And then you just have to, like, answer some questions. And then they just say, okay, you're now. Your airport experience is gonna be 20 times better.

Yeah.

Here on out. And I still haven't done it.

You guys. You guys. Were living off my TSA pre check for a while because whenever we booked together, you would get it automatically, which seems like really weirdly loophole.

Yeah, you're cool. That means that all your friends are cool. Yeah, no, it's not necessarily that. It's just that usually clear is pretty good. Yeah, it's, it's not bad. But there's, you know, two or three times a year where the clear does nothing to help.

Yeah.

Or if you go to a specific airport that doesn't have it. So I am traveling internationally, which is going to be. I can already tell that they're probably not going to have clear in Greece. So that will be an issue for me. But it's just about getting pre check and then going to that appointment.

It takes like 20 minutes.

I know. And I've ever done. It's. You know what I'm gonna declare right now? I'm never gonna do it.

Okay.

I'm never gonna be a precheck guy just because I know myself. And going to an appointment, there's probably an email involved in it too that you have to click on. This is just not.

And you get it and you just have it forever.

It's just not thing.

Shout out to my dad when I lived in Boston, so it was that long ago, he got me TSA as like a gift and. But the appointment window was like eight to twelve months ahead.

Yeah.

And so I never, I never ended up going to it and I never have.

Okay, so here's what.

Shout out to my dad. Well, he.

Sure, he tried.

He tried.

Yeah.

He was, he was. It was, it was a good, kind gesture. I just didn't, I wasn't going to schedule an interview for twelve months from now. I didn't know I was doing in a week.

Yeah. Here's the moment I knew I would never get TSa pre check.

Right after I got easier now, right.

After I got to Chicago, I went to a place and it's like Tsa pre check while you wait. I drove there, walked in the door, talked to the person at the front, and they said, do you have an appointment? I said, I didn't know that you had to make an appointment. They said, yeah, you do. If you just walk in right now, it's about a two and a half hour wait. So I left. And at that point, that's my shot. Yeah, I took my shot at it.

Yeah.

And I. I can't do it again. It's just not for me.

Yeah, it is nice having TSA pre check, except for when the only time it sucks is when you. I've clear anti say pre check when they don't have the two separate lines. So sometimes I'll show up and you'll do clear, and then I'll. They'll walk me past everyone in the TSA pre check line. Yeah, I'll cut everyone. And that's always a weird.

You get. Yeah, you get the plus.

Yeah.

What usually happens to me after going through clear, they usually take my bag out anyways. And then I have, like, my microphone and a computer in there if I'm going on a vacation or a trip. And I have to have it in case we podcast. And then they look at me and they say, oh, are you in a band? And then I have to say, no, I'm a podcast. Yeah, I have to clarify that.

Yeah. All right. My fyre fest is. It's similar to Hanks. I've just. My brain is empty. It's been a long seven days, eight days also. I just. I miss this fear. I don't think my life's ever gonna be the same. I gotta get back. Everything just seems like there's been multiple times where I've just been sitting being like, man, I wish I was at the sphere right now.

It sounds like the sphere is quite a trip. It sounds like the sphere is better than real life. It's like you. You're experiencing the Avatar.

Yes. Correct.

Where people go to see Avatar, and then they get depressed when they leave because the world is an avatar.

That's exactly how I feel.

What if they played avatar in the sphere?

It would rock. Anything would be cool.

That'd be heaven.

Yeah. So I don't know. It's just. It's just not the same life. Max fire fest.

I do have one, but we don't have to talk about it.

Okay, good. That's good podcasting.

Well, I don't know if we. If I do. Like, I don't even do fire fest yet.

No, you do now. Get ready to learn fire fest.

We've had, like, a really busy past couple weeks, and I was doing a really good job of working out every day and, like, trying to eat healthy during the week. And the past couple weeks, when you go through some of the footage from, I'm feeling fat. Like, fat is fuck their games.

I don't know how it happened, but every time I turned around, another piece of your Jason Kelsey jersey was gone.

And the funniest part is that you kept it.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You ripped that jersey up to shreds to the point where it's basically like a. Yeah, no, not even a poncho is just a caddy bit look.

Like, it looked like a dog guy got a hold of it and tore it up, and you're like, fuck it, I'm gonna wear it anyways.

And then you're like, I'm gonna come and hold onto it.

Like, but if we ever do the beer games again, I would have to wear it again.

You know what? It looked like? It got so bad at the end that it looked like a jersey you would wear because it's your lucky jersey and you're never giving it up. So you're like, I have to put this on. I know it looks like shit, but I gotta wear it.

Yeah.

Max, you also had a moment that we should probably address during beer games where. Who came up to you and said, I can't believe Jason Kelsey got here. Who was that?

Was backyard.

Backyard was in. He's the man. But he came up to Max and was like, wow, I thought Jason Kelsey was. Wasn't going to be here. And Max didn't think he was joking.

Well, it was the way he worded it. It was the way he worded.

Well, how do you word it?

He was like, I want you to know, it would be like, yo, like, big fan. I've been following, like, I think Dave back.

Kelsey said, big fan.

Well, that. That's what he said. And he was like, I love what you and your brother are doing. I'm like, well, I don't know what that means. Means none of this went through my head. And he was like. And I was like, shit, dude. Like, why are you. I was like, that's crazy that you're coming up to me like a fucking idiot. And then I. And then he was like, yeah, Jason, right? I was like, oh, my God.

You.

Were a fan of myself, which is so embarrassing for me to think. And then I just. And then I just kept, like, hitting it, like, slapping him on the arm. I was like, ah, that was a good one.

I don't know.

I. I turned around and got out of the conversation as quickly as possible because I was so embarrassed.

Yeah, no, was striking to me is because there were so many big dudes at beer Olympics, just a ton of offensive linemen, and they all look like they're in much better shape than us.

Yeah.

So it's like, stereotypically, you think o linemen. You think big fat guys.

I feel like that's. That's old o line, these guys.

Yeah.

Like the new age of o linemen are all red.

They're all in great shape.

That's the scariest part of going to beer games, too, because I always just. Size is age to me. So, like, I was talking to a couple guys. Who is it? Zach? Who's the guy on the Eagles now?

Trevor Keegan.

Trevor Keegan. And Zach, who got drafted, I think. Was it Zach minter?

That was another thing. Michigan, man, I got outed as not being a ball knower.

Yeah. Yeah. That was very bad. But they are. They both got drafted. They're both bigger guys because they're offensive linemen. And I'm just thinking in my head, like, you're big. You're at least 35. They're like 22.

Yeah.

Like, God damn it. Yeah.

I felt like I was a different species.

It was not Zack Minter. I'm thinking of a bear. What the fuck am I thinking of? Who is. Who's the guy who was. All right, we. Who knows? Draft picks, Michigan draft picks. Who do we talk to? Who's your guy? Who is your guy?

The Eagles guy?

Yeah.

Trevor Keegan.

Trevor Keegan, Michigan. Awesome dude.

He was like, you're such a big. You're such a big Eagles fan. Who am I?

Trevor Keegan. Awesome dude. And I want to shout out the other guy, because I'm fucking this. Oh, Zack Zintein. Yes. Zach Zinter. Also awesome dude. Plays for the Browns now. They're both, like, 23 years old.

Large humans, and they could kick our.

Ass in beer games and in life. We got to get back to Arian, though. He is that. He is the guy I love. I. He was. The fact that he got Max in a blender like that was awesome. Okay, good show, boys. Great show. Reminder. Monday, dungeons and dragons. Wednesday, dingers only. Joe Burrow the following Monday. So there'll be no Friday show. We're taking the 4 July week off as we always do. Numbers 830.

20. This is the one.

Three. This is the 156. 399. Pug. What do we send you off? Max, if you get this?

Send me off of what?

4 July.

Oh, yeah.

No, 46. 46.

Said that last show.

Love you guys.

Another day to find you shy away oh, I'll be coming for your love okay.

Shine away I'll be coming for your love okay.

Take on me take me on say I won't say after me it's no better to be safe than sorry say.

After me it's no better to be.

Safe than sorry take on me.

Take.

Me out I begun.