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Yes. He survived.

He survived.

He survived. Memes was offline yesterday and, and off the thread and this morning and just not existing. I think memes just came back to life about an hour ago.

I don't even think he's back to life. I don't even know. He seems, what's going on? Memes, in the back there, you had some choice words for us. You resigned.

I'm physically here.

Physically here. So, memes, you, a lot of greats.

Have resigned by using a napkin from the New York jets.

Yes. That's an means you lost one game. What's up? The defense looks so bad. So, so you're. Oh, no, it did. He's right. He chimed in, memes, this is, if this, if you take this one loss like this, the way you reacted was a playoff loss. You, you went, you, you took yourself off the group chat. You didn't show up to work till 01:00. I deleted everything off my phone, too.

What?

It's one loss.

Wait, what do you mean you deleted everything off your phone? All I have is my bank app.

And the Roku app for my tv.

And this is why everything's gone. Because this, this reaction is what, I could understand it if it was last year's game. Yeah, this is the, this is a delayed react. You should have done this last year and then flip flopped and done last year's reaction this year or a Super.

Bowl loss is how you're acting right now. You lost one game. If you look at the jets schedule, it going off of last night, the two biggest takeaways I had was the 49. Ers are still fucking awesome. And Aaron Rodgers, well, limited running, like, he doesn't have the same mobility. His arm is still there. Yeah. Aaron Rodgers is best. Well, he's not, because he definitely is not the best.

He also. Did you notice that he didn't throw to the right at all?

Yeah, he's our. His mobility is like. He's. He's looking.

Do you see his pass chart, though? His pass chart is just all the left side of the field.

He hasn't played in two years. I don't think he can. He can't move.

He doesn't see. Right.

Yeah, but he. He can throw still. They can still rip it. So what? Why is this loss so hurtful to you when again, like Pft said, last year should have been way worse. I mean, we waited all this time. Our defense was supposed to be really, really, really good. It's week one. You're gonna get Hassan Reddick back, right?

I don't know. I don't think on a day like today, especially, there could be a lot worse news involving the jets.

Yes, that's a fact.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah. Okay.

Perspective.

Will you do if they lose, like, a playoff game?

Yeah, I don't know.

Me, I don't think. I don't think memes is capable of handling even an eight, nine season at this point, which is shocking. Aren't you used to this? Yeah.

No, but memes, how old are you? 29. Okay, nevermind.

Yeah, he should be mean. It's shocking. Don't. You haven't learned in seasons past that you're gonna have some bumps in the road?

What is going on? I don't understand being sad, which. I get sad. I mean. Well, not to. I don't understand what it's like being on one. Max, Hank, you guys agree that is actually unfathomably sad, but I get sad after I don't delete everything on my phone. Yeah, that was probably a mistake, but memes, you guys are playing the Titans next week. You have the Patriots, Broncos, Vikings in the next four weeks. Those are all winnable games.

Also kind of loseable.

Also lose both. Good point, Hank. It's true.

The kids, I mean, they can't stop anything.

They can't. They could. Defense look so bad. Every play was bad.

You guys need a pass rusher.

Yeah.

If there's one out there that's available.

But I asked Max during the game. He said Hassan Reddick's not good against the rush. Oh, and also, why did Sauce Gardner come off the field for a while? I believe it was his head. Oh, his head.

Sleeves look great, though.

Maybe he's addicted to golf. Can you tell me that's going around?

Yeah. It does make you miss a lot of work. I know that. What's the deal with the sleeves?

What sleeves?

Well, Aaron Rodgers had, like, you know, the standard floppy quarterback sleeves. Sauce had some floppy sleeves.

Garrett Wilson.

Garrett Wilson had some floppy sleeves. What's going on with that? I don't know.

I think it looks clean.

Memes, can I give you something that will make you cheer? Cheer you up? Sure. Because this is. This is sad, is weak.

Dramatic is what it is.

Very.

It's not even sad. It's dramatic. Week ones being dramatic.

He's a messy bitch.

It's week one. And the biggest thing about this game was get Aaron Rodgers through this game healthy and hope his arm is still his arm. And it is. So that's good. But. And you're playing the 49 ers. 49 ers been in, like, six Super Bowls in the last ten years. I don't know what the status.

Yeah, but now with. Not with Jordan Mason running back.

Yeah. Jordan Mason was carved. Get to Jordan Mason. We got to talk about that meme. Memes got nasty on the group chat. I said, you started it. What? You started. Yes. It jet stinks in. But then you said, it's game one, guy. Which I agree. It's game one. And then you said, cale Williams looks like Zack Wilson. That was very. That was nasty work.

You want to apologize for that? Me?

I apologize. I know. I don't need your apology. You were. You were right to say anything you wanted to say in that moment, but.

You are being very dramatic right now. I can't. We can't have this happen after every week. I just can't.

I would. I am 100% with you. If this was your reaction in a, like, season last year or end of season playoff game like this is, I would be like, memes, take a couple days off. That sucks. It's week one. No.

What are we.

What the fuck are we talking about?

Take a couple days off after a loss.

32Nd.

Worst moments are always after. I act like a bitch and I get killed for it. It's. Yeah, you're right.

No.

Does. He doesn't talk? No.

Mean, I'm not killing you for it. I just think that it's unusual that it happened after a pretty standard loss.

Yeah. Like, the Niners are really good, dude.

They were okay.

We look so good in the first quarter. I think he thinks that I. I think the problem is, I think he thought the jets were, like. Like, day one. Best team in the NFL.

Yeah.

I think that's. Defense looks so bad. Yeah.

You. You might also have early onset Fleming.

Yeah.

I watched this game with memes.

Oh, yeah? Please tell us. I watched it with him and our other Jets.

Jets fan in the Chicago office, Tom Lay.

After the drive that Aaron Rodgers took.

The team down the field, they legitimately looked at each other and said, this is the best moment of my entire life. Like.

Like, they were legitimately talking about other.

Good moments in their life, like, different.

Milestones in their personal life. And they were like, I think this feeling right now feels better than anything else. That's. It wasn't, like, a hyperbole.

They were comparing it to other moments. What was the score at that? .76.

We were going. We were going to the Super Bowl. I love it. Memes. That's how you got to ride the roller coaster. But now the roller coaster. You gotta. You gotta come back to Earth. Did it come back to the show? You quit. Yeah, I. So I watched the game with Hank. I took in a directv refugee.

That's nice.

You came over.

Good for you.

We had a great time. Also, Hank explained to me that I accidentally just paid for, like, six different cable packages.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't realize. I have full YouTube tv.

Yeah.

And cable.

Yeah, same.

Whoops.

Yeah, I got. I got that, too.

I thought it was just through my cable that I got YouTube TV and Hanks, like, no, dude, you're just double paying for it.

Yeah, yeah, I do that, too. I. If you gave me, like, a technology audit, I'm probably pissing away $600 a month.

Yeah, no, it was bad.

Lovely house, though. I got. I got the full tour. Yeah, it was like a. One of those children's books and, like, a doctor's office where you're, like, trying to spot something, and it was just like, spot the tv in this room?

Yeah.

In every room.

Yeah. There's a lot of tvs. Every room has a lot of tv.

Were the snacks good enough for Hank? Was.

Okay. He's on. I said before he came over, I was like, do you want any snacks? You want any food? He's like, I'm healthy.

All right.

So he didn't even eat.

Let's go.

Offered a mini starburst.

Would you have for dinner?

Chicken sandwich.

Wow.

He's been a health guy, but it was great. I've taken my directv refugee. I did promise that DirecTV would fix it. They did not. So then I had to do the right thing and bring in Hank.

I almost bought the YouTube TV and did the double cable packages, but I'm holding on for one more week. Okay, if we go another week, then I might have to do it or just cancel my DirecTV. But I was. I was close to doing it. And then you. You texted me, and I was, you want to come over? I was like, I'm just gonna forget about dealing with this now, and, well.

You'Re welcome to come over next week.

Yeah, I was. I was in a hotel room, and then I put it on ESPN, and it said, you can't get the game. They're doing the dispute right now with DirectV and ESPN. And then I was like, shit, I'm on, like, two pain pills right now. I can't go out to a sports bar and watch the game there. But it was on ABC. So is the solution just change the channel to ABC?

No, cuz that. That's how it started for me on Saturday with the Tennessee game. I was trying to watch the Tennessee game on ABC, and it was on ABC or ESPN, so I don't. I don't know.

They're picking and choosing.

I also didn't check last night about that, but.

Yeah, was checked, and.

But maybe we had fun. I want. I. It was fun having you over.

It also might not be on ABC. In every market, this whole thing is above my pay grade.

Yeah.

I'm just mad at everyone. I don't.

I don't any of.

At this point, I don't care who's right and who's wrong.

Yeah. I'm just making sure. I basically have a apocalypse bunker for cable services. No matter what, I'll have it.

Yeah. Like, when hard knocks went off, guess what? I had it. I had it locked.

Double pay.

That's why you waste all that money every month.

Yeah. It's just.

Just to feel superior over people.

Yeah. For that one moment. As for the other part of the game, the Niners did look really good. Jordan Mason was awesome. He. He's been like. I think he had, like, 5.8 yards per carry in his career. Obviously, he's the backup, but, like, Niners fans know he was. He was the real deal. He did slip up and said afterwards that he knew he was starting since Friday. Fantasy owners are very upset about that.

Mm hmm.

Very upset about that. But I'm sure Florio is going to have a long piece.

Yeah. This is going to be a federal investigation. Actually, this might be what gets Congress to do something because they were talking last year about the whole Joe Burrow thing when his hand injury wasn't reported correctly. Remember that?

Yep.

But I guarantee you one of these dorks in Congress had Christian McCaffrey on their fantasy team and obviously didn't binge him going into the weekend. It personally affected them. Now it's probably like Nancy Pelosi is going to do a full investigation.

Yeah.

We're going to get to the bottom of it finally and figure out what's going on. Cannons. So he said after the game, Jordan said that he was told on Friday that he was going to get the start.

Yeah.

And then Kyle Shanahan said afterwards that he misspoke and he told him on Friday, be ready to get some action on Friday. But not that you're starting on Friday. We need you on Friday.

Which Niners did have. Christopher Caffrey's questionable.

Yeah. And that it's not the worst explanation ever. Like, if you didn't know if Christian was going to play, you're going to be getting a lot of touches. I'm going to let you know. You better be ready on Monday night.

I felt bad for him because afterwards he was like, I. This is why I don't talk to the media. I mean, he made a mistake slipping up and now that's the story when the story should be. An incredible night.

Yeah.

Looked awesome.

Is this, if we're grasping that straws for Panthers fans to be excited about, is this as close as you've gotten in a long time to having a dub that Christian McCaffrey didn't look as irreplaceable as some people thought that he was?

I was actually thinking the Niners should trade curse Christian McCaffrey.

It's a system.

He's a system.

Running back.

More picks. Yeah, keep it going.

System running back.

They did look awesome. Like they. The jets defense. Every guy was open every single play. Rock party. Didn't even have like, his numbers weren't crazy, but I thought he played pretty well.

He did. There always seem to be a guy that was streaking open. Cal ushek even caught a wheel route.

Deep bomb, fullback wheel route.

I had him to score 17 to one. That was. That was tough for me. Did you take him?

I had him with Aaron Rodgers also.

I don't want to jinx it. Just spreading awareness. The field goal bets hot right now.

Yeah.

Four and oh, right now. Go kickers.

Are too good.

We're 60%. No, this last, like, two and a half years.

I know, but they're like. They're. They're getting to the point where they're.

Just automatic every 60%. And it's always plus money. And it's really the only bet that enables me to bet other things in football season. It's the only thing that keeps me afloat. Primetime field goals. And it all started because we had a dumb idea that it looks like the ball travels farther at night.

And it does.

And it does.

Also, my other note from the game was, shout out Ricky Pearsall for wearing the Rolex. That was awesome. Yeah, he was on the sidelines and they were showing him and talking about the fact that he got shot through his heart or through his chest. And the story is obviously that he was mugged. Look, you know, the guy was trying to rob him of his Rolex. Had the Rolex on. That's a flex.

Yeah.

He's going to be back, dog. Also, Zach Wilson got the worst stray of all time when Troy Aikman just said point blank, the jets have had the worst quarterback play in the history of the league in the last three years. Yeah, that's gotta suck, sitting there and watching that.

Yeah.

And the history of the league, that's the silver lining.

Memes.

Yeah. Memes. Can you say that again? He said it wasn't a stat. It was. He's so checked out. Drakeman said the jets have had the worst quarterback play in the history of the league in the last three years.

That's true.

Okay, so it's bad. You don't. Now you don't.

Congratulations. It's better.

Congratulations.

And Aaron Rodgers, he did not look bad last night.

No. There was an insult. Graphic, though.

What was the insult last year?

Week one. Zach Wilson's stat line was similar. Oh, and they won. Oh.

But passing yards are down this year. And the huge sample size that we have of one week.

Memes, pick yourself up and dust yourself off. You're gonna be fine. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I've been in your shoes a million times. Yeah, it gets bad, and then you got to get up and be like, hey, next week's gonna be awesome. I. Again, I don't know. I am one to know. So it is hard to talk.

Memes is like, racini's laughing. She's loving this. Did you fall asleep thinking about Mike Florio dancing in your head?

He didn't sleep. Mike Florio had a good article this morning.

Oh, okay, about the jets are better.

Owen one with Aaron Rodgers than 10 with Zack Wilson.

Yes.

There you go.

It's not even close.

Duh.

Wait, you needed Florio to tell you that?

Yeah, I need some. Needed some reassurance. Oh, my God. Yes. You are a mental mess, Mandy, I'm concerned about you. Seriously, we were legitimately, like, he might not show up today, week one. Okay. Yeah, there was possibility. All right, memes, here's another positive.

What can mean? What made you decide to come in?

My dad call me a pussy. Ah, good shout out, mister memes. Way to get your boy in, into work. Here's another positive, memes.

Did you cry last night or today?

Yeah.

What? Wait, was it like a steady stream of tears throughout the entire game or was it one play?

I was like, fuck this. Oh, my God. I mean, no one can question your fandom.

No.

Yeah.

And this is all because you have expectations. Like, imagine if Aaron Rodgers had run for vice president. Actually, you would have no expectations and you wouldn't care.

Yeah. I also didn't blow up, so that's good. Yeah.

Yeah. Just. You should see come memes. This is the second time that. That Aaron Rodgers has lost to Shanahandhe. That's the actual vice president for.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There you go.

Thank you.

I didn't know. I didn't know that person.

Yeah.

Existed.

Max knew. Max is big, big politics guy. Big, big politics guy over here. Which is. Which is left? Which is right.

Right is red.

Yep.

Publican.

Yep.

I'll never get that one wrong.

Me means. Here's another positive, because it's Wednesday. We're gonna talk college football. I'm gonna. I'm gonna give you my. My top twelve. You could stop me whenever you want. Pft. When you. When you disagree. But Georgia is my number one team. There we go.

Disagree.

Number one team.

Okay, I got Texas.

I have Texas two. Georgia's one. Georgia is my number one team. Texas two. Ohio State's three. Tennessee, Penn State, USC, Miami, Alabama, Ole Miss, Missouri, Iowa State. Because they beat Iowa in northern Illinois.

I might flip flop. Penn State and USC.

Yeah. Penn State has. I mean, the West Virginia at West Virginia true road win was pretty impressive. Yeah, but. Yeah, I mean, and they did. Penn State didn't look great this weekend against Bowling Green, but the big story from the weekend. So we talked about a little bit, but obviously we're going to talk about. With Thomas Hammock coming on NIU, not ending Notre Dame season, but they cannot lose another game. It also is the first time since the AP poll came out in the, since the AP top 25 that a conference has six of the top seven spots. So the SEC has six of the top seven spots. Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Missouri and Tennessee. And we get what everyone thought was going to be the only ranked matchup this weekend. Missouri and BC.

Yeah.

Everyone expected that.

Yeah. BC juggernauts.

Yeah, I have. So my big winners for the first two weeks are USC and Tennessee in my mind. Cause I, like, I'm not counting Georgia and Texas because we figured they were going to be top teams. They, they were the, you know, either the first, 2nd or third odds to win the championship.

Well, no, I'm going to go horns up and say that not everybody thought that Texas was going to be here.

What do you mean?

A lot of people thought that Texas was going to lose to Michigan.

I mean, they were seven half point favorites.

Yeah, but I mean, if we, if we go back and talk about Texas Road.

But they were, they were preseason. They were the third favorite to be a national title.

I'm just. Maybe, maybe it's a recency bias thing, but the way that they looked against Michigan, the final score, I don't think does that game justice. Well, I think could have been a lot worse.

I think Texas is very good. I think Michigan is very bad. Not very bad, but very, like they're going to win seven or eight games. I think they're going to get. They're in trouble offensive.

They're flawed team.

Yeah, but USC and Tennessee were my two teams that I looked at. I was like before the season, people had questions. USC's defense looks awesome. Tennessee, Niko is the real deal and they both have had statement wins in the first two weeks. Those are the two teams that like the big climbers in my mind when you talk about preseason to two weeks in.

Yeah, Niko looks amazing. Look, they looked amazing against NC State and who knows, NC State might even compete for the ACC still. Like, they. I don't necessarily write them out. The ACC is kind of garbage.

So they've looked pretty bad.

They've looked bad, but you never know. The ACC hasn't looked great yet.

I'm right. I'm okay writing them off.

USC, the last game of the season for USC. Notre Dame. Right.

Yeah.

That's. If you're out there saying that Notre Dame is disqualified from the playoff for this loss, that might be a playoff game for Notre Dame.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

They are in the playoffs. If they win the rest of their games. Until that USC game.

Yes.

In fact, their playoffs start right now.

Their playoffs do start right now. Yeah. Purdue. And then I think they play Louisville, which. They're good, but, yeah, that. That will be. And I. USC, to me, is like, it's just been the question forever of if Lincoln Riley ever got a defense. Obviously, Utah State. You can't judge at all. But they did hold LSU to 20 points, and they shut out Utah State. Looks like they learned how to tackle.

Yeah.

Changes everything.

Yeah. It's a pretty big part of football.

Yeah. And they didn't do it for a really long time, and it helps your.

Offense to big time.

The other one was, Oregon has looked bad.

Organ looks real bad.

Yeah.

I.

Where are they right now? In the aP? I feel like there's maybe they're like, 17. No.

What?

I. I would have them at 17.

Oh, you're saying where they are or where you have. I would not 17. I would.

I would drop them big time.

Yeah. I mean, they are two and o, but they didn't. They needed two special teams touchdowns to be Boise as 20 point favorites. They struggled with Idaho.

I also really like Boise.

I would imagine they're like, 8th, if I had to guess. What are they?

9Th? 9th. I really. I really like Boise State.

Yeah.

Running back is a beast.

Yeah. Ashton Gente, he's got nine touchdowns and 450 yards through two games.

I just love the balls on a guy who. Who goes to a group of five school that does the Heisman pose.

Yeah, he was. He was great. And he's. They got more shots. They. I think they play some more power. Five teams. I play Washington State and maybe Oregon State. So they have a couple more shots at it. I also had the. I love Iowa State versus Iowa. The. The. What is it? El Asico is what they call it.

Elastic. Oh, mine.

Yeah. But you just always know it's gonna be a weird game, and it's usually especially a weird game, like, either goes one of two ways. Iowa beats the shit out of them or Iowa state wins. And it's a weird game, and. And it was a weird game because it looked like Iowa was gonna beat the shit out of them, and then you get weird scores going on, and they won 2019. I just. It was a great game. I was. I was like, damn. Iowa State down 13, not giving up. I was impressed. Yeah.

The weird thing is, whenever you see Iowa do anything on offense, you're like, they're. They're one of the best teams in the country.

Yeah.

Score like this. And so at the start, they started scoring points, and you were like, shit. I was. For real. This year. And then they just went back to old Iowa.

Yeah.

Like pretty quickly. That flipdenne. It's very easy for them to flip that switch.

Yeah.

And just go back to what we've always seen out of Iowa.

They also had Kirk Ferenc came out to many men.

Yeah.

Which was awesome from his one game suspension. Yeah.

I'm sure that's his favorite song.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then the only other one I had that we had to talk about was Colorado. Well, Nebraska's back. That should be said. Nebraska is back. That was an electric, electric place in Lincoln on Saturday night. It was so much fun watching that game. But Colorado, it's bad vibes everywhere. Like shadow saying, blaming his offensive line. They tried to basically do a patchwork offensive line. I think they have an 18 year old starting at guard. It was bad. It was bad.

And then shadow went to the locker room before the game was over.

Yeah.

Like two minutes left in the game.

Right.

Took himself out of. Yeah, it was not good.

And their defense played like, going to that game was like, they're not gonna be able to stop Nebraska. Their defense actually played well. Their offense stunk.

They played. Yeah, they played pretty good on defense. I'm just glad that this game was never really in jeopardy because it had maybe, maybe the worst 15 minutes stretch of officiating that I've ever seen in any sport.

Yes.

It was so bad. Who's the ref analyst that they were using for this one? Terry McAuliffe.

It might have been.

Might have been Terry, but they were just laughing. They ran out of. Because some, when you're a former ref and your job is to analyze ref calls on tv, you don't always say like, wow, they really blew this one. You find ways to be like, maybe this is what they saw. After, like the fourth bad flag in a row, he just started laughing and he was like, I don't know what they're looking at on the field. This is very strange. So I'm just glad that there was no, nothing consequential came out of all those bad calls.

Yes.

Because it was, it was terrible. And Colorado, there are. The wheels could fall off. Oh, yeah, the wheels could fall off.

I mean, I think the wheels are going to fall, fall off and. Yeah, it's going to be, I mean, shadow is going to go to the NFL. Yeah.

And then what happens?

Hunter is going to go to the NFL.

What happens when shadow leaves? Is Deon gonna, is he just, like, committed to Colorado? He just loves that program. He's going to stick around for a while I would say probably not.

Yeah, it does. It does feel. And I don't know how many wins they have left on their schedule. They do play Colorado State this weekend, which will be. That game was so awesome last year.

You see the story about what they. What they asked the home stadium to do after shadow scores a touchdown.

What?

I don't think this is true.

You don't think so? Okay, then I don't want speaker four.

Per Deion Sanders junior.

I don't want to spread mad at.

Barstool for posting the speaker three.

I don't want to spread misinformation online.

What were they going to do?

Well, the story was that whenever anyone scores a touchdown for Colorado at home, they play the fight song afterwards. Yeah, except when shadow scores a touchdown, then they play shadows own song.

Yeah, that seems fake. It seems fake, but obviously people will buy it.

I just. Barcelon posted. Someone on Barcelona wrote that article with basically that headline, and then I saw Deon Sanders junior, like, quote, it was like, come on, man.

Yeah.

Well, who on Barstool wrote the article?

I don't know.

We have sources that are more.

I still like Deon, but, yeah, it does. It's not good in Colorado right now. He'd be the first to say it's not good. Yeah, that was a bad game. And Nebraska is back. It's fun that they. That crowd was awesome. And it's. They have a very winnable schedule going up to week eight against Ohio State, which. It would be awesome if they're, like, highly ranked going into that game.

Yeah, that'd be very cool. Also, I think I flipped on. On Raiola and how he dresses like Patrick Mahomes. It's dress for the job you want, not the job you have.

Yeah.

And it's weird, but it's funny.

Yeah. Again, it just really comes down to the facial hair and haircut.

If you win, you can do whatever you want.

Yeah. If he had one of the others taken, like, if he didn't have the facial hair, I'd be like, all right, he's got Patrick Holmes haircut.

Hank smirking about something.

What do you not smirk is big propaganda.

What?

Big T. Oh, Bill.

Big T rode. Oh, big t got in that. He wrote the article.

Oh, he wrote the article about it.

Damn.

Are you saying Big T's fake news?

Might be.

Yeah, I am.

Because exactly what he's saying.

Okay, I'll get comment from Big T.

It's exactly what he's saying. But, yeah, college football is awesome. It's. It's rolling. Not a great slate this weekend.

Do you think that Michigan is bad? Because I think that their offense is.

Oh, no. I think it's horrifically bad offensively because.

They have, they've got like a. I don't know if it's two headed monster is what they're calling it at quarterback, but it's so. It's so confusing why they put orgy out there and they expect anything to work.

Yeah.

It's like he's just going to run the ball.

Well, I think they're going to. They're going to probably start Tuttle. So it's three headed monster, but yeah, he. They just don't have any burst whatsoever. I mean, they lost ten guys on the offense, I'm pretty sure. So it's, it's not crazy that this is happening. It does feel like Michigan was. They were so all in for last year. They kind of forgot that this year was going to happen.

Yeah.

Which is. Listen, flags fly forever. You can't, like, any Michigan fan would take that deal 100 times out of 100, but it's just now this year is going to be, I think, tougher than they expected.

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Should we do hot sea cool throne?

Oh, also, I love the idea of a bunch of, like, libs from Berkeley going to Auburn.

Yeah.

And being like, look, we care about college football.

That was a tough loss, Rob.

That was a really bad loss.

Really bad loss.

Hugh, freeze. Hot seat.

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My hot seat is the term defending the title.

Yeah.

Friend of the program, friend of mine. I saw this family member, favorite guy ever. Joe Missoula, Celtics coach, was doing an interview, and they asked him about how he feels about defending the title, and he basically, you know, just. Just took down the term forever. He said the phrase defending a title is very passive aggressive term. If you look at the animal kingdom.

Yeah.

Of the strongest animals don't defend.

Yes.

They're the most aggressive and they attack the most.

Yeah.

So we're attacking the title.

You're attacking the next title.

Yeah.

I love that. You knew he was gonna come out with something. Is it already training camp for NBA?

I think media days, like September 22.

They have the work too fast.

I feel like they have the worst offseason. What?

Mmm.

They get the whole summer.

Summer, yeah. But get to go to, like, Europe.

The Olympics.

Yeah.

If you're.

Yeah.

Not chase.

Twelve.

If you're Jason Tatum or.

Yeah.

Jalen Brown. Had a good summer.

No, I mean, the best offseason by is the NBA.

You think so?

Definitely.

No, I disagree.

What, with hockey?

No, golf. Golf, we talked about. We talked. We're going to talk about it with Scotty Scheffler. But golf is the best offseason because you get basically the entire fall.

Yeah.

That's the best offseason.

I only probably.

I mean, we talk about this all the time, but, like, I feel like you'd want your offseason to be in the summer. Hockey might have it better, but football.

Yeah, football.

Imagine having to play in an NBA game while football games on.

Yeah. If you're me, if you're a golfer, you got to. You got to pay the price for it, though, because in the spring, in college basketball season, you have to play Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which is tough.

But then you get all football season and all summer.

And also your job is to travel to nice courses.

But you can skip masters after March Madness. You can skip the tournament during March Madness.

Yes.

That's what I would do. That's what I would do. I'd skip that tournament.

I mean, it's basketball and close disagree.

Because we like football here.

The problem with the basketball and hockey situation is that your season is so long.

But the, but, but the seasons don't even really matter until after football season's over.

But you can't travel anywhere. You can't, like, if you're in training camp or whatever they call it in hockey.

Hank, think about having to play in an NBA game on an NFL Sunday.

Yeah, that's tortures. No, it's.

No, that's torture.

I would always guys, fans of one.

That's why I'm not playing in the NBA.

And they're probably, and they're only, you know, they're either playing it, if they're playing during the day, they can watch at night.

That's why I'm not in the NFL. Because if I was in the NFL, then I'd miss all the other NFL action.

Also true golf. All right, good. Hot seat.

Thank you. And then my cool.

I do like that, though. We're not defending the title. Yeah, look at Nate hacking it.

They were attacking the title.

Yeah. You knew he was gonna drop something.

Like this or attack a 19. Yeah, my cool throne is social experiments.

Oh, okay.

Did you guys see what's the mukbanger?

I did not understand it, but I want you to explain it to me because I saw it and I was like, don't understand it. Pass.

Yeah, I did some research today. I had some conversations because I also was, was a little bit confused. But it's fascinating. I think it's. It's one of the more fascinating stories I've read in the last week. Nikato avocado, I'm sure.

Avocado.

I'm sure you guys are familiar with legend.

Oh, him. Yep.

He is a YouTube mukbanger. Ok, now for those who don't know what mukbang is like, I didn't for the most part. Up until a few hours ago, I was generally aware, but I was like, is there any sexual element to it? Or is it just cuz it sounds like super sexual? Yeah, but it really is just YouTube videos of people eating large amounts of food.

Love.

Yeah, that's a mukbang. So you just be like, oh, you know, if we could do them every Sunday if we wanted to, our gambling.

We do.

I basically just a giant raisin canes. Mukbang.

I think we've been unknowingly mukbanging each other like seven years.

Yeah. So this guy, Mukbanger by birth.

Nakato avocado. If you look up his old video.

His real name?

That's. Yeah.

Oh, sure.

I think it's Nikoto. No, nicot.

Avocado.

I was trying to think of what a full name for Nikato would be, but I couldn't even.

I think that's the full name.

You need a name that rhymes with avocado.

He is a mukbanger, okay. And he was huge. He would post these videos of him just eating disgusting amounts of food.

Huge numbers.

He's like 4 million subscribers. And he's also fat as fat. Was fat as fucked. He's been posting videos for the last two years where he's large in doing these mukbangs. Then this week, he posted a basically reveal stating that he pre recorded two years worth of mukbangs and has been putting them out periodically and just losing all the weight. So if you're a fan of, you're a fan of this guy, you've been watching his videos regularly. Every few weeks. He looks exactly the same. And then I, this week, he just came out of the clouds, like, down 200 pounds.

That's, that's awesome. That's a very, very smart strategy genius. And then did he, did he lose fans or people happy?

People are mad. That's why I initially saw what people being like, you know, fuck this guy. I can't believe he did this. I was like, looked into what he did. I was like, this is actually incredible.

Yeah.

Why are they mad?

He did, he did 50 videos, then didn't work for two years.

Why are people mad about that? I. It took some balls on him, though, because I'm assuming that when he dropped his first video, when he, like, pre record all this stuff, he probably didn't have a massive following yet. And he just knew, like, I'm gonna put these out. I'm gonna record two years worth of videos, and I'll be, I'll be a big star. And then by the end of them, boom. Skinny.

That's incredible. Yeah, huge payoff. And he's also skinny now. Yeah. So. But does he lose the people because that was his whole thing, being fat?

He probably does. Or also, I don't know how he's gonna be able to, you know, mukbang as much food now that he's super, super skinny.

That's what people are upset.

Has also said that there's another conspiracy that says that these new pictures are actually old pics. Oh, so he's back to being fat again.

That, like, he, this right here, the social experiment.

Just eat the food.

And so the social experiment is to see whether or not people did support him getting skinny or not.

And the real one is going to be him getting even fatter.

So you're saying he pre recorded the social experiment video. So this social experiment video is like four years old. It goes back then he got super fat to record all these other mukbangs.

I saw one theory, that there's no loose skin and there's a video with his cat that's no longer alive. Oh, it's always the cat. It's always the cat.

But that would be saying that he recorded a video and he was super skinny, then got super fat so that there's still a two year. A two year gag.

I did that unknowingly.

And no, this difference in your way.

Like, let me show you the picture. I see no picture. Oh, I didn't see a fat picture. I saw the skinny picture. Everyone's free. I also, he dropped this on an NFL Sunday, I'm pretty sure, which didn't care.

I don't think the mukbang communities is worried about.

Well. Well, it's. Therefore they should have watched Joey Chestnut at halftime. Yeah, they would love that.

They would have loved that.

Now, wait, is it a possibility because taking a picture of yourself and being like, look how skinny I am, I'm going to put this up online after I'm done being fat. That's a thought that would occur to a fat person to be like, I'm going to lose all this weight, then I'll gain it back by mukbanging, and then I'll reveal that I'm actually skinny. So maybe he was fat, then skinny, then he got fat, and now he's skinny again. Yeah, we don't know how deep this goes.

This goes very deep. Oh, wow. Those are crazy pictures. Okay. Yeah, he looks fat and then skinny again. He could have just. He could have just had time do this. Like, I don't. I did the Nakato avocado thing. Reveal over the last ten years at barstool by own unknowingly muck banging all the time and then getting really fat.

So that second one, I don't know how people can say that. There's no loose skin on him. He's wearing a shirt and boxers, so it's probably covering up any loose skin that would be there, right?

I would agree. Hmm.

He does look. AI cat.

Remember the cat?

Yeah, the cat.

Yeah.

It's all.

Yeah. That came back to life. Cat came back.

Oh, wow. Could it be a different cat?

So he was just eating just to eat.

I mean, mukbang videos are disgusting. I watched a few. There. There.

Yeah. They sound revolt. That looks like he's got the skinny guy. The. The loose tits. The second picture. Yeah, it's loose tits.

It's a little loose tits. And he's got, like, the.

The kind of big skin on his neck.

Big face.

Yeah. Okay. I believe him. The gava. Nakato. Nakato. Avocado. Way to go.

I always thought that Mukbang was something that, like, horny guys watched, but apparently not.

I feel like it's like Ben Stiller's character in dodgeball.

Yeah.

Would watch mukbangs.

Yeah.

Well, he.

Yeah.

To just, like, make himself not get fat.

Yeah. Okay, good. Cool, throne. Thanks.

We should mukbang.

Yeah, we do.

We should call it mukbanging.

True. All right. Pft, your hot seat. Cool. Throng.

I couldn't. I thought about it. I was like, if I didn't.

You can't have three at all.

Three bites.

Yeah. Yeah. You can be the worst mukbanger out.

You could only mukbang on vine.

Yeah.

You'd be really good at that.

The accidental mukbangers would be a good, you know, channel.

Yeah.

Where someone just for band.

It's just people eating. Is there one of these for people sleeping?

Probably that.

That's the next thing. Just like all the things in your hierarchy of this is I'm gonna do a mukbang, but it's just me having shelter.

Yeah. Me sleeping so hard.

Yeah.

Okay.

Pft, my hot seat is my bald spot.

Yeah.

So thank you. I put a video up online yesterday. The whole premise of it was to make people think that I did something really, really bad. And then at the end of it, I was like, psych. All that stuff is not true. And I'm just getting my hair read on so that I hope that will be studied by lawyers in the future that if you're. If you're your client is on trial for, like, armed robbery, you just confess that he murdered a bunch of people. And then at the end you say, psych. He didn't murder anyone, but he did rob a bank.

So. Yeah.

And then people won't get mad for it. But, yeah, we're not rebuilding. We're recalibrating.

I love it. You're attacking it.

I'm attacking it. I'm not going to defend getting. Getting a hair procedure. I'm just going to attack the people that, that come at me for trying to shame me. Because guess what? Women do makeup every day.

That's true.

People do ozympic speaking. I'm reclaiming it.

Speaking of which, on that video, Marlins man hit me up. He left a comment underneath saying, pft, here's the deal. You and your mom are invited to go to the commanders game with me. First row. Still love you, man. Mom too. And he said, it's nice. Please forward to PFT since bloggers run his account. Ooh.

Oh, yeah.

Going on since like 20.

Wait, wait, wait. So, so Marlins man believe. He believed the video because in the video, I said, I'm not actually a commanders fan. Dan Snyder has been paying me for the last seven years. Pretend that, correct, that I bought my account, I'm not the original PFT commenter, and that I don't even do my own tweets. Yes, I have somebody else that does that for.

Yes, that was part.

So he believed all that and he.

Wants to invite you to a commander's.

And my mom.

Yeah, and your mom. You got one guy.

I got one guy. I got one guy at least. But, yeah, it's a. It was a, like three and a half hour thing yesterday. In six months, I'm gonna have my hair back to 2016 level. Yes, I'm gonna feel pretty good about it.

Let's go.

So, yeah, I'm 2016.

You keep saying 20. Is that your peak hair?

And I think so. Yeah, I was thinking about that earlier.

I think on that out a few times, and I feel like that, well.

2016, my hair is winning championships. My hair was a dynasty and then got a little older, lost a few pieces. We had to recal. It's like when the Ravens drafted Lamar Jackson. That's what I just did.

Yeah.

Like, my hair right now is Joe Flacco. He was sick a few years ago. Then he started some, you know, pieces not working so good. Bring in a new guy, then we're gonna be competing again.

How much did you losing? Like 30% of your hair on the case race influences?

The doctor said almost 100%. So I had a perfect head of hairdouse until the case race, and my hair got stuck in that leaf blower and then big cat cut it off, and that's what made me bald.

It would have been funny if you had brought the leaf blower with you because we have that hair implant. That hair could have used it. Yeah.

Also, I just realized that in my analogy about my new hair being Lamar, my old hair being Joe Flacco, Max's hair is just Patrick Mahomes.

Yeah.

No matter what I do, Max's. Max's hair is going to kick my.

Hair'S ass kicking your ass.

Yeah.

But, yeah, I'm happy for you.

I feel good about it. I'm just gonna be wearing a hat for the next, like, three months as it grows in, and then.

Which is a good thing, because I got the willies when I saw the. The points in your head.

Well, no, it's. Yeah, it's a bunch of scabs because they, like, grinded that shit.

Yeah.

But it was cool. We're taking it back.

Taking back the hair.

We're taking a walk in love, not being ashamed.

I love it.

Because my options, I think I told you this before, but my options to me were either cut it off and just go bald naturally.

Yep.

Or two, become a guy with long hair who's bald. And that is the worst.

Rocked. The skull, it would have rocked.

It works on Terry Bradshaw.

The skull, it would have rocked.

But I decided that that was not the future for me.

Okay.

My cool throne is Deshaun Watson being a better football player than he is a person.

Yes.

So in a recent update to the debate on how bad he's gotten at playing football versus personal life, he has been accused of sexual assault.

Yes.

And it seems like the details are pretty bad. If true, he should not be in the NFL. But you could say that about any number of accusations against Deshawn.

Yeah.

And also about his football play, too.

Yeah. Not a good guy.

Not a good guy. So the NFL is, like, looking at it and monitoring it. And the upshot of it is if he. If he is, like, credibly accused and he can be punished under the NFL code of conduct, then the Browns might be able to cut him. They'd still be like a giant cap hit.

Right.

But I think it would be better for the Browns to get rid of him any. Via, any means necessary, any way you can. And the bottom, it goes back to what we've said about Deshawn for the last, what, three years, which is either he is the victim of the biggest, most coordinated, most ruthless smear campaign against an individual, maybe in the history of sports, or he's a discussing human being who should be in jail.

Ding.

Either way, he sings a quarterback. Yes, but those are really your only two options that you have right now. Yeah, but, yeah, it's pretty ugly. And also, I've noticed that this is taking a lot of the sting off Russell Wilson's Denver Broncos contract being the.

Worst contract, $85 million cap hit, I think when they. When they got rid of him.

Yeah.

So it can be done.

And it could be worse if you're the Broncos.

Yeah.

Like, every time you. You write that check, just be like, listen, at least. At least he wasn't Deshawn.

Yeah. And now the Browns. You start Jamus, start James.

Deshawn might also have a burner account. Oh, maybe.

Do you have it?

No, it's, uh. I think Tate blogged it.

Oh.

Leroy Bickerstaff.

Oh.

Which is a great name if you're gonna create a burner.

It is.

It's a great name. He only responds to things about Deshaun. Watson refers to Deshaun as four.

Oh, yeah.

Fours back all day long.

Okay.

You never played the sport. You don't know for, like, that.

If. Oh, no, I'm gonna say it's not if.

Burner culture.

There's.

There's. Especially with NFL. Like, people are so five head that they know. There's so many examples of burners getting busted that they know, like, fake burners.

And the first one is, if four had a tackle like Trent Williams, he. He'd be able to show his greatness. Four can't succeed when he's got no chance back there. That this is someone cosplaying as a Deshawn burner.

Okay, see, also get.

He's.

He has guaranteed money.

Why does he care?

Yeah, well, because here's the carried.

He would just play better.

Well, no, because here's the thing about people. No matter how rich you get, you still want to get online and get your takes off.

Yeah, but this fact.

Elon Musk bought Twitter to get his takes off.

Yeah, but that is.

That's fair.

But this is. Yeah, he. This is too obvious. There's no way he would. Burner accounts wouldn't tweet their. Like, they respond to things they don't tweet. Oh, I for had Trent Williams. That's a. That's not a burner account.

I don't know the real one.

Oh, that was.

That might have been a fake.

Think that was a fake.

A fake.

All right, so the. Maybe it's bad.

The Internet sucks.

So read one of them for got the respect of his teammates, and that's all that matters. Nobody care what the fools on the app got to say about a man they don't know. Hmm. Okay, guys in the locker room got fours back all day long. It's y'all. I. That never played the sport and don't know for, like, that.

This four thing is bothering me, and they're all force.

This is bothering me. Okay, maybe it is.

So the one about Trent Williams, that's definitely a fake one. Yeah, because it was. That would have been set up too perfectly to have, like, oh, is this deshaun's burner account? Requesting, saying that another player by name is better than her own teammates?

Right.

That's red flag. But the ones that I'm looking at right now.

Well, did he do a halftime?

Did you give it a doom?

Yeah, I'm going to give it a doom.

He's responding to one that says Deshaun Watson's career is over. And he says, coach is ruining the career of one of the best athletes of the generation. That, to me, seems like a little heavy handed.

Yeah, that's too much. Yeah, that's too much. Because Stefanski is a great coach.

Who is Leroy Bickersteth, regardless of whether or not legit. But Leroy Bickerstaff is a great name.

Yeah. Okay, well, we'll keep looking. All right. My hot seat is the Miami police because the cam footage came out for the Tyra kill arrest, and that guy was. What the fuck? Yeah, he was crazy.

Yeah, he. They were, like, three or four guys that were just ready to go. Right.

They were trying to. I didn't even realize they were trying to arrest Johnny Smith, too. Yeah, it's crazy.

And Clays Campbell came up to deescalate and Glaze Campbell, great friend, great teammate, also very smart, because he realized he knows that he's a big man.

Yeah.

And so he's just, like, walking backwards the entire time, just, like, showing, I'm not approaching you, but you're going to hear my voice.

Yeah.

And Kalais Campbell, if you're trying to de escalate any situation, the best way to do it is to have Klaise Campbell stand there and start talking.

Yeah.

That will de escalate any situation.

And. And we do. We did find out also how Drew Rosenhaus got there so quickly. Tyreek was just on the phone saying, get Drew here. Great. Get Drew here. Get through here.

Yeah, there. There was another thing that came out earlier today, a quote from Miami police, and they said that they were booking him on speeding because they visually identified that his car was traveling approximately 60 miles an hour.

Speaker one told you it's the car. They just see a sick car, and they're like, that's going too fast.

There was a video that you could see of the car going by, and you see the cop turn the motorcycle around and follow him. Tyreek's car was going faster than the other cars, but the initial reports that it was going 100 mph.

Speaker zero. Yeah, it was not even close.

Not true. And when the cop says, visually, we think the car was going 60 miles an hour, then that's when you know that there's about to be some cop again.

Correct. They just. They were like, yeah, his car looked fast, but, yeah, that was. That was crazy.

And listen, Tyree kill, from what we know of his past, has probably done stuff that warrants him getting thrown onto the ground by police officers.

Yeah.

This was not one of them.

No.

And if you just take Tyreek out and in his place, you put, like, one of those sovereign citizen guys, and they make it their entire life's mission just to, like, record themselves talking to police to outsmart them.

I love those guys.

Yeah, they're the best.

They're so ridiculous.

They're so funny. What Tyreek did was he rolled his window down, gave his information over, then rolled his window back up. That stuff that I see all day, every day from the sovereign. You can do that to a police officer? Yeah, you don't have to talk to a police officer.

It was nuts. All right. My cool throne is the people of Orlando because I taking up a new fight. I don't know if you guys saw the news, but they're changing the Orlando airport, and the chili's is going to be gone in 2025, and what? We're not gonna let this happen. We're not gonna let this.

Why are they taking it out?

I don't know, but we're gonna fight. I'm gonna fight for the people.

I am going to announce a travel boycott to the Orlando airport after 2025.

If they actually take it away.

If they actually take it away.

They're taking. They're replacing Chili's or they're taking the whole stairway to.

They're taking, I think, the whole stairway to heaven. The chili's. I, by the way, if they ever do an auction, I would like to buy some of that stuff by the escalator chili's. But they. I did. I did contact the Orlando airport.

By what?

By what stuff exactly?

Whatever they got, like, a fajita plate just by the escalator, anything. Those stuff on the walls. The Orlando airport responded to me when I asked for comment, they said, we love Chili's just as much as you all do. Our partners will still be around in their current location through September 2025. There's still time to score delicious fajitas and chicken crispers and ride that sweet, sweet stairway to heaven. That was just like. They were patting me on the. On the top of the head.

Yeah.

I will not accept this. We will figure out a way to get that Chili's. And if we don't make sure someone tells me when they auction stuff off.

Because I want to buy it now they remodeling because they just. They don't like the look of it and they want to do no clue.

Pfg.

A visual overhaul.

It's crazy. It's crazy.

It's not news. I predict that people are going to stop visiting Orlando, Florida entirely because this.

I'd agree with you.

What else is there to do in Orlando?

Nothing.

Nothing. It's no. There's no amusement found in Orlando.

There's Chili's.

Yep.

And the stairway to heaven.

In fact, I won't even take a connecting flight through Orlando.

I agree. I won't either. Fact, I mean, I'm never taking my kids to Disney cuz I never went as a kid. Gotta pass that.

You gotta pass that forward.

Yeah, yeah, pass. I hold that with me.

That's what you gotta do. Share. Share your trauma with your children.

Land. Maybe not going to Disney World. I always wanted to go as a kid. Never.

Yeah, but universal.

I can't. I can't. I.

One of your kids is gonna start liking.

My wife can take them. I'm not going.

Whatever one of those movies is. And you're going like all of them.

They don't know that Disney world exists yet. I'm. Wait till one.

Wait till one.

That was.

That was. It's. It's the kids in their class.

Did you go? No, but okay, so stand with me.

I'm with you, but I just feel like you're.

You're.

You're gonna get rolled over. I went to Disneyland.

Yeah, so we'll go to Disneyland. I'm fine with Disneyland or whatever. The Universal studios.

Yeah, Universal Studios is fun.

We do that.

But if you're at Florida, Disneyland is in California.

Yeah, I'm going to Disneyland. I will not go to Disney world. I never went as a kid. I wanted to go so bad.

I went. Almost died.

What?

I roller coaster.

No, I went too bad. I like, ran.

Too fat. I know. I ran away.

Jumped and jumped in the pool without any floaties. I was three years old.

Oh, some random, like ten year old dad happens. Yeah, my daughter did that. She just dropped to the youngest of four. Yeah. And I picked her up and I was like, don't do that again. She was mad at me.

You know what the only. The only acceptable substitution I would take in that airport for the chili's. Medieval times.

Yeah.

If they put a medieval times in an airport, I'm fucking in.

Or wing nuts.

Or wing nuts. Yeah, you can do that too.

Nuts. Or part of my cheesesteak free. We don't pay rent. Yeah, we can. Listen, we're normal dudes. We can negotiate no rent.

Yeah, but medieval times let the people watch a battle before takeoff.

I agree. That kind of tough, getting the swords and stuff through. Oh, no, it's not.

I think it's pre TSA.

I think it's post.

Well, they should be allowed to go through the line with the pilots and the flight attendants.

Yeah.

In your night suit.

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Scotty, first of all, congrats. 62 mil.

I did read that. Yeah, I think so.

I don't. What do you mean? You read that one.

I don't really have much to say on that.

Is it in your bank account yet? You. I mean, that's 62 mil. That's incredible. Congrats.

Thank you. Yeah, it's been. It's been a fun year. I really. I don't really think about the money very much. I think that that kind of becomes a big deal just with the FedEx and everything. But, you know, at the end of the day, just playing golf, and the money's just, you know, a gift on top of that. I mean, it's really all it is.

That rocks, that you have to find out how much money you made by reading about it in an article. I think it's something that we should all aspire to one day. Like, the news tells me how much money I make.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I know you're. You're a humble guy, and you do feel like you. Whenever we. You talk to the media, like, the one thing I like is you're very honest. And it's like, these are the things that are important to me. But there has to have been at least one moment where you're like, holy shit, that's a ton of money. That's pretty damn cool.

Yeah. I mean, I remember playing my first PJ tour event as a pro, and I didn't, like, play great. I finished maybe 40th place. It was like, two weeks after graduating college and made, like, 30 or 40 grand or something like that. And I remember looking at Meredith when I got home, when I got the text. You get, like, a text from the tour after each tournament telling you how much money you made. And I kind of looked her. I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, I just got paid for that. That's insane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's. It's pretty fun. You know, I still feel. I mean, I really do. I still feel like a kid just because I like. I'm sure you guys can relate to that a little bit. Like, you just sit around at your job and have fun all day, and, like, that's what I get to do. I get to go play golf and have fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, we. We definitely can relate to that because we. Today is the start of football, and we're like, oh, this is gonna be awesome. We're gonna sit on the couch and hang with the dudes for the next six months, so. Yeah, yeah. We're equally as blessed, that's for sure.

Your caddy probably feels pretty happy about it, too. Your caddy is probably, like, looking at his phone. How does that work? He gets. He gets a text from the tour, too?

No, no, he just gets. He just gets, like, we have a girl that helps us, like, pay bills, basically, because I'm a child and I can't keep track, all that stuff. So she quickly took over that. That job, and she just. She texts me at the end of her week, like, hey, this is how much for paying tae? I'm like, that's great. Perfect. Send it over.

Yeah. Thumbs up.

Yeah. So we. We know, you know, where you went to high school. Obviously, it's a long history of sports grades that went there. Do you know Jake felt personally?

No, but I've heard of Jake felt. Is he. Was he Stafford's guy?

Well, no. Yeah, Stafford was his guy.

Yeah.

Jake felt is one.

Yeah.

Yeah. What he did, he scored a bunch of points in the state finals.

Five touchdowns. Five touchdowns. He's. He was better than Clayton Kershaw and Matthew Stafford. Jake felt is the true, true Highland park champion. He's our guy.

Yeah, yeah. So I do. I listen to the podcast a little bit during the season. It gets kind of tough to keep up, but, like, this time of year, I'll listen to a bunch just because football's back. And I did. I listened to part of that Stafford interview, and it was pretty funny. You guys messed with him about the how park stuff. Like, do you know Clinton Kershaw went to your high school?

Wait, wait. So. All right. Thank you. That you listen to the show at all. How dumb are we when we talk about golf? Like, we're really dumb, right?

I mean, I've heard a little bit of the golf stuff. Like, I know that, you know, Hank's a big fan of the live. The live golf.

Yeah.

I mean, you're not great about golf.

Yeah.

So maybe this is a good opportunity for you to educate us. What do we get wrong about golf? What's the hardest part about being a great golfer and sustaining that?

I don't know.

Either.

I'm not a podcast.

Yeah.

We also root for the course.

Yeah, we. We root for the course a lot.

Is that, like, you want us to shoot over par?

Yeah. Yeah, we.

Like, especially in the US Open, when they grow the fescue out and it just becomes just a jungle of weeds and it's impossible golf to play. And I'm sure it's very frustrating, but for us at home, we root for the course to just swallow up golf balls. Have guys cussed? I. I did hear you. Scotty, would you like to apologize to America for. For saying the f word on the golf course last week?

Yeah. I'd like to formally apologize to all of America.

Okay.

Thank you.

My accepted.

Formal apology.

Yeah.

My four year old son, Chris, saw that, and that's. That's the only word that he says now. He's going to get kicked out of school.

Yeah.

When he eventually goes to school.

Yeah, the. So, yeah, we're. We root for the course. We don't really follow the rules. Oh, here's one. You. You are. You follow the rules. You're a consummate pro. Do you think it's uncouth to just fill out whatever score you want at the end of a round? Like, for instance, I shot a 72 at Shinnecock.

It's really up to you. I think that's a great part about golf, you know, you sign your own scorecard.

Yes.

If you're gonna rest easy at night, then, hey, man, more power to you.

Oh, I sleep like baby yeah.

If you can live with yourself being a liar, then go ahead.

Yeah, I can. I have no problem living with myself. Just filling out fake scorecards. Okay, that's great. So, Scotty Scheffler, basically. You. You basically just signed my scorecard at Shinnecock.

Not really, but. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. All right, perfect. I'll take it.

Yeah, that's. No, that's great. I love that. This might be a tough question for you, but have you personally thanked Jeff Darlington for being there during your arrest?

I actually did. I spoke to him at the end of that week because he actually came up to me and apologized. He's like, hey, man, like, I'm really sorry. And he was. I mean, awesome about the whole thing, because he was worried that. Because he obviously was on tv a bunch after that, so he was worried that I thought that he was doing it to, like, help himself. Like, he came up and apologized. Like, listen, man, I'm just so sorry. Like, they got. It's my job. I gotta do all the tv stuff. I'm like, listen, man, I was glad that somebody saw that.

Yeah.

What happened? And that was just there because he helped. Like, he. He was getting yelled at by the police, and, like, coming up, being like, no, no. Like, this. This is not. He's like, no, no. And they're like, get the heck out of here. And eventually, he came up to the car and was like, who should I call? And I was like, did you call Teddy? That's the first name I could think of. And so he got hold of Teddy, got hold of Blake, and then all this stuff started happening from there. And fortunately, it's all. It's all over now.

It was great that he was there to chronicle it, because if there was nobody there at the time, then the report is just Scottie Scheffler arrested. Then an hour later, we see what the charge would be, and then everybody's like, what the hell is going on? But since Darlington was there and he had eyes on it, it almost seemed like from the very start, the narrative was free Scotty, which is. Which was great for you.

Yeah, well, I mean, the. The part that still just really blows my mind is like, yeah, I got arrested, which is one thing, but the reason I got arrested was the police officer charged me with second degree assault. That's a.

Well, his pants. His pants were damaged beyond repair.

Yeah, yeah, but I mean, it's. I mean, it's like, at this point, it's. For the most part, I'm over it. Like, talking about it a lot throughout the year. Like, it really was very traumatic. But, like, at this point, I feel like I'm getting over it in a sense, to where, like, when people, like, when my friends would ask me about it, like, I would literally, like, start shaking. And just because it was such, like, a wild thing that happened.

Yeah, just.

But now I feel like I'm kind of on the other end of it. Like, things are starting to calm down, and it's like, yeah, I went to jail.

Yeah, it's a good bit. Yeah, it basically is. Like, as much as it sucked in the moment, it had to really suck. Especially you're playing a major now. Hopefully, you have enough time where it's like, it kind of worked out perfect that not only did you get a little street cred with your mug shot, but every. Every. Basically every moment after it happened, you got more and more vindicated that you did nothing wrong. So it's just like, oh, it was even more like, Scotty did nothing wrong, and now you can look back and be like, look, that's a pretty cool t shirt. Free Scotty.

Yeah. Yeah. Free Scotty. Yeah.

Yeah.

My friends. My friends have had quite the field day with that. That experience, but, yeah. Glad it's kind of in the rearview mirror now.

Yeah. So. So this season was incredible for you. At what point in the season were you like, this is different. I'm. Did you know that you were like, I'm playing the best golf of my life. Like, I can feel this, and everything's just working.

I don't really know. I don't. Like. I'm not very intuitive with that kind of stuff. I kind of just, like, really do live day by day. Like, I can barely remember what I did yesterday, and I don't, like, make a ton of plans for tomorrow. I kind of just try to live in the present as much as possible. And so in terms of golf, like, you just go from one thing to the next. And, like, sometimes, like, Meredith and I, like, we got home this week. The last couple years, when we get home from the season, you know, I haven't been able to win. He's like, the. The two years before where I had the lead and then I lost it. And so you come home and, like, just pretty sad. And, you know, coming home this time, like, we just kind of sat there and we're like, how amazing is this? Like, just won the last tournament of the year. Like, we can just. Just chill and it's been great because I'm really, really tired.

Yeah.

Been a long year, but, yeah, just sometimes I feel like I'm living in the simulation because, like, I really do feel like a kid still. I still feel sometimes like I'm in high school because I just play golf and play golf for a living. That's pretty much what I do. I go practice, play golf, come home, hang out with my family, and then go back out on the road. Like, it's not nothing crazy.

Yeah. How awesome is it that your offseason starts football season? Like, that's the best. That's the best offseason ever.

Yeah, it's the best. Yeah, it's the best. Like, Sundays. Sundays are such great days. Like, I love the NFL, and, like, we got into a good routine last year of, like, waking up. I'd watch sports advisors, and then, yes, we'd go to church, come home, play some bats, and then just sit around and watch. Football is awesome.

Wait, hold on, hold on. Timeout. You would watch Stu finer and then go to church?

Yeah.

Well, that's the correct order to do it.

That is incredible.

You know what you know what's really funny is I told Meredith, we're driving home from our Lancashire, and Meredith is my wife, just so everybody knows. And we were driving home yesterday. I was like, yeah, I got the podcast with the, with the parcel guys tomorrow morning. But that's pretty much all I got tomorrow. And she's like, okay, you did it with, like, the guy. I was like, who are you talking about? She's like, the guy. The favorite number guy. And I was like, stuff finer.

That's incredible. Oh, that makes me so happy that, like, just see, I mean, you're. You're. You're the best because you're just watching, stupid. Yeah.

I love that. But, yeah, if you hear Stu say 15 1530 enough, then, yeah, you have to run to church. Yeah. Find a preacher to talk to immediately after watching.

Yeah, yeah, that's.

She's like, she was wondering. She's like, well, can I come say hello? I was like, well, Stu's not gonna be on. On this show. And she's like, okay, never mind that.

Yeah, listen, you have a, you have a free invite to come to our office and watch a taping of advisors. That would be the funniest thing ever. You. You can see, you can also see that we cut out a lot of the stuff that Stu says that he has. He doesn't even know we cut it out. He'll. He'll. He'll be like, great show. And we're like, Stu, we can't use half the things you said. We might have to start sending you a director's cut.

The bleep button.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. All right, so how. How are you feeling about the cowboys this year?

Typically, I go into every year with a ton of hope and then just get crushed. This year, for some reason, my hope's not as high. I've kind of, like, moved the hope over to the Longhorns. But the first game is gonna start. I'm like, they're gonna win every game this year. It's gonna be awesome. Like, we're on that cowboys member. It's like, we're gonna win the Super bowl. We're gonna go the playoffs, do all the stuff, and then just never even comes close to happening.

Yeah.

Last year was tough. In the playoffs. Were you. Were you at that game?

No. We were. We were playing a tournament in California that week, and I remember we. It was a Sunday. We were out. It was before the tournament started. We were out playing golf. Just somebody's like, sam Burns, a couple other guys, and Sam and I are like, all right, we need to get home and get to the game. We were having a chipping contest and, like, the game had started, but we were, you know, gambling and so we had to finish the. Finish the match. And then, like, by the time we finish the match, like, we're just watching the score. I'm like, I'm not going home to watch. This is already, like, getting blown out and, like, my phone has now been, like, tossed to the other side of the green. It's like, it's over. And we went over. Watch the second half. But, I mean, it was tough.

Yeah.

You think Dax, the guy?

Yeah, I mean, I think the team's good enough. They just, they just don't, like, seem to perform when it matters the most. And sometimes that's, you know, bad luck. It could be a mental thing. I mean, like, the team last year was so good and then just the first game, like, I don't know how fluky of a sport football is, but if it's anything like golf, like, stuff can just happen really fast and just gets away from you at the wrong time and it's tough, man.

It's tough. Yeah, we. Well, we did our preseason awards on Wednesday show and Dak won an award, so you should be. You should be excited about that.

What. What was the award?

It was least improved player of the year. We don't. I mean, we just think he's going to be the same.

Yeah.

He's not going to improve.

He's not bad. He's going to be good. He's going to be back, Prescott, but he's not going to get any better.

Yeah. Right.

So to be fair, like, he had a great regular season last year. Like, he played awesome for rest of the year.

Yeah.

Right.

He's going to have the same regular season. Could be very good this year. He's just not going to improve.

I hope you can improve.

We might have to submit you for least improved golfer for next year because you're so good.

That would be an honor. If you didn't improve, you just stayed the same. You're number one. I guess you probably do. You, too. You do want to improve.

You want to improve. Yeah. So actually, that's a serious question, though. If you're at the top of your game right now and you're playing really good golf, what's that line, like, between going out and trying to practice something and. And find an area to improve and also not screwing up what you have right now?

Yeah, I think that's. That's where guys can sometimes run into trouble when they, in golf, you always feel like you can get better because it's so hard. And that's one of the things that I find funny about people always, like, if you root for the golf course, I don't understand why golf is the sport where, like, we want to watch this guy suffer, but every other sport is like, we want to see the best. We want to see football players at their best. Like, we want to watch guys duck the basketball, make long threes and golf, we're like, no, no. We want to watch these guys suffer.

Yeah, it's because we, it's because we stink. And so we watch you on tv and we're like, we want you to experience just, like, a taste of what I experience every single shot when I, I play, you know?

Yeah, well, I shanked one last week, so there you go. PFDI.

I saw that.

That was nice. Yeah, yeah. I was like, one of us. One of us. But, yeah. Do you have, do you have stuff that you go out there and you're like, I need to improve on this, but I also have to make sure that I'm not screwing up my normal swing.

Yeah, I would say most of the stuff I do on my full swing is mostly maintenance. So in terms of just, like, making sure my setup's good, making sure I'm taking the club back properly, and when I practice at home and I'm hitting balls, I'm with my coach most of the time. And so full swing is mostly just maintenance. As far as a short game goes. Like, you can always get better. Like, trying to improve my bunker game this year. My putting, I think, can still improve every offseason. I kind of have one point of emphasis because you always got to be working on everything. And some years it's been my diet. Last year is my putting. One year it was doing a lot of stuff in the gym. And I think as I'm thinking more and more about this off season, I think I'm going to focus more on, like, kind of my endurance and eating better. Like, I'm going to go back to kind of the diet and workout stuff this offseason to be my, like, point of emphasis. Just so as the year goes on, you know, I can really kind of maintain the same level of performance.

Probably just feeling better at the end of every round.

Yeah.

At the end of a weekend, you don't have more energy at the end of it.

Yeah.

And a part of your putting improvement was just switching putters, which is genius. I do that, like, six times a year and never seen work out for me, but was. So the story goes that Rory said that you should look at a different putter, and then next thing you know, you're. You're using a different putter, and now Rory just shot himself in the foot because now Scotty can put. I don't know if that's something that you actually heard from Rory or if that's something that you had planned for a while.

No, it's something that I thought about. But, I mean, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story, okay?

We never do.

Yeah.

Yeah. Never do. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was something that my putting coach and I had thought about. And then that week, at the beginning of the year, I had improved a little bit, but I still wasn't where I felt like I could be. I felt like we could keep getting better, and that was something that it was nice for me to kind of get out of my own head, look at something different. Like, I used to line up the ball where I wanted to hit it when I was putting, and it would kind of get in my head a little bit. And so now I'm just trying to get more athletic where I'm just getting over it, trying to see the break and just hit the putt and kind of let the results be the results. And with the spider putter specifically, I don't use the line on the ball. I just put the ball down and just try and be as athletic as possible.

Yeah. Do you have a. Do you have a favorite round from this year? I mean, you have so many of the masters. You were incredible. The gold medal. I mean, that one, I feel like we just pass over that. What you did in that final round to win the gold and come back was you just on fire. But do you have one that if you look back, you're like, yeah, that was. That was my favorite round. I played in competitive golf this year. Year.

I think. I think the Olympics is probably a pretty tough one to be, just. Just the way it happened there late in the round and with it being the Olympics, and that was pretty, pretty special day.

Yeah. Yeah. You just started ripping birdies, like, nonstop down the stretch.

Yeah. Like, we. We made the turn, and I had birdie the first three holes, did. Made par on the net, made pars on the next six holes, and kind of missed some birdie putts. Like, I missed some pretty makeable opportunities early in that round on the front nine. And when we made the turn, I just, you know, teddy kind of kept me in a good headspace. And then I just started making birdies. But there was a time that we almost felt out of the tournament. I had switched my attitude to be like, all right, let's just try to see if we can get a medal. And all of a sudden, I started making birdies, and I saw those guys made some mistakes. And then I remember looking at the scoreboard when I was on 17, and I saw that Tommy hadn't birdied 14, which was a reachable par five, probably the easiest hole in the back nine. And I think Rahman made double. And so all of a sudden, I thought I was going to be one back and have that putt to tie for the lead. And then all of a sudden, I was like, oh, my gosh, this putt is to take the lead.

And Rahm has now fallen even further back. And so now there's only one guy, really, that has a great chance of catching me. And it was kind of just one of those things where everything fell into place and I had a great back nine and was able to win.

Yeah. Thank you. I mean, you want it for us, for America. Yeah.

Yeah.

We needed that. We actually.

I think we serve.

I think we beat China by one gold medal.

Yeah, that's you.

I think we tied China.

Like, we tied them, but we won because we had more other goal.

Yes. So, yes. We would have lost outright if you had not done that. So you are.

Yeah.

America.

Captain America. And we say that to every single person we've interviewed that won a gold medal.

But it's a big deal.

You're the gold medal that did it.

Well, to be fair. I mean, it's true.

Yeah, you are.

It's. It's all, you know, everybody that got a gold medal without each one of us getting the gold, you know, would be a different story.

Yeah. Yeah.

So what's your. What's your favorite trophy? Or. Or I guess you can include the green jacket in this. Some people would put that on the Mount Rushmore of green things if you win a green jacket. But if you were to compare a gold medal and a green jacket, what's better?

I don't know. That's tough. The. You know, they're just different. The green jacket is something that I always grew up dreaming about and thinking about, but when you get the green jacket, there's a lot of rules. You can't really do a ton of stuff with it because you're out. Like, I'm the only person that has the green jacket outside the gates of Augusta national, and so when you're out with the green jacket. You're representing the club, and it's a tremendous honor, whereas the gold medal. It's a great honor, but there's no real rules. You. It's just a gold medal. You can kind of do whatever you want with it. And so, like, the amount of people that have seen the gold medal taking pictures with the gold medal, that part's been really fun.

Yeah.

Whereas, you know, it's more of an honor and representing the club, and so there's not a whole lot that I. That I do with it other than just kind of chills in the closet. I'll put it. Put it on every now and then.

Yeah. Well, you had the story that you told to the media that you just, like, you put on. Was it the green jacket? And then held a couple trophies, and you're like, look at me now to your wife. I mean, you got to add the gold medal to that. What was going through your hair? Like, you know what? I'm gonna flex once a while. Cause you are too humble. I. That would be my only tip to you. Every now and then, you should just flex on people and just show up randomly with a green jacket or, you know, gold medal and be like, I'm Scotty Scheffler, and you're not.

Yeah, I remember that day. I don't know what kind of mood I was in, but I put on because, like, some of the tournaments I was wearing earlier, they all give you, like, a jacket. Like, there was a. I had a cardigan from Bay Hill. I had, like, a plaid jacket that I had a green jacket. And I just, like, decided to put them all on one morning because Meredith would think it was funny and just grab a couple trophies. Walked into the kitchen. I was like, what's up?

Yeah, you deserve that.

Down to the coffee shop.

Yeah.

Just wearing the green jacket. Oh, I forgot this whole thing.

Yeah.

Didn't you know I had it on?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Totally forgot I was wearing it.

One of the best things that you did, I thought, was your. Your champions dinner that you set up for people at the masters. Your menu was impeccable. I think it's the best that I've seen. And. And some people said that it was like, oh, this is perfectly Scottie Scheffler. But they said that in a way, like, oh, this. There's nothing really crazy on here, but your menu was cheeseburger sliders, firecracker shrimp tortilla soup, Texas ribeye steak or black and red fish, and then the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie. That is a perfect, perfect champion sitter. So congratulations on that. Did anybody get the red fish, or was everybody eating the steak?

No, some people definitely got the fish. Like, that's part of, one of the things you have to do on the menu is you have to have a meat and a fish. And so at the time, I didn't even really eat red fish. It was just like, hey, this is from Texas. Like, let's just put that on the menu. If I did the same menu this year, I'd probably eat the fish. Like, I've gotten, as I've improved my diet, I've kind of added some of that stuff in. The only really funny thing that happened at the champions dinner was there was tortilla soup was on the menu, too. And like, at the champions dinner, I sit at the head of the table. When you're. When you're the defending champion, you sit at the head of the table with Ben Crenshaw and then chairman Ridley, and everybody kind of sits in their own little areas. Like, you have groups of guys where they sit year in, year out. And so most of the older guys are on my left side, and they bring out the soup. Everybody sits down and they start eating it. And it was unbelievably spicy.

And, like, all the old guys on the left side of the table just started coughing and, like, looking over, you see them sweating. They're all looking at me like, dude, what are you doing? I'm like, I didn't know it was going to be this spicy. I'm sorry, guys.

Oh, man.

I like that.

Took out all the old guys.

Yeah, yeah. But I mean, maybe. Maybe this time. Have you given any thoughts of what, what it's going to be this year? Because maybe you could put some really spicy in there.

Maybe. We do wing nuts. We get you. We get. We get Ed and Alicia from Buffalo to come down and make you guys.

Win some buffalo wings, some chicken wings.

Them. And them in Ed and Alicia gust. That would be all time. We should maybe think about it.

It'd be perfect. Yeah, but I mean, if you give something that makes everybody else uncomfortable, that's a legend up for you in the actual tournament, right?

Yeah. Unfortunately, it only really took out the guys that had been retired for.

Everyone else was fine with it.

Yeah.

Yeah. So maybe this is a dumb question or you don't have a good answer to it, but I'm always curious. This season has been incredible. You've had an insane stretch the last few years. Was there ever a moment in your journey with golf, where you were like, I might not make it. Like, I'm. Cause I know we know how hard it is. We know the struggles everyone goes through. Was there ever one of those real moments where you had to sit down and be like, is this actually going to be my future? Am I going to make the tour? Am I going to be able to, like, be a player that stays on it for a long period of time? Did that ever happen?

Yeah, all. All the time. I feel like, yeah, I went through. Yeah, I went through a couple. A couple of years in college where I battled some injuries. Like, I battled a bad back, and it affected my swing for years. Where I was, I was a really good junior player, and I had a great freshman year in college, and my sophomore and junior year, I mean, I could not keep the ball in the point I was hitting all over the map, and it was really hard. I spent two years there not playing anywhere near the best of my abilities. And, yeah, that stuff runs to your head all the time. Like, can I do this? Is this really going to happen? And then I remember when I turned pro, I turned pro in 2018, and I started by playing Monday qualifiers. Like, do you all know what the Monday qualifiers are?

Yeah.

Yeah. So I was playing on the corn ferry tour. There's more spots. So I was like, I'm just going to go try and play corn ferry tour Mondays, and I would show up to the Monday qualifier, shoot six, seven, eight under, not make it, go to the next week, fly to. Like, I remember I flew to St. Louis, I flew to Buffalo. I'm flying all over the country to these random places, playing Monday qualifiers, playing really well and not getting in. I'm kind of sitting there myself, like, just failing time and time again and not. And playing, you know, good enough to where I feel like I should be succeeding. And then. And you kind of get home, I look at Meredith, I'm like, you know, this is hard. This is not what I signed up for. You know, this is. It's like you, I think, you know, it's going to be a grind, but at the same time, I think in the background, you just expect things to go the way that you think they should go. Like, you just think that you're just going to show up and play great and everything's going to be awesome.

But there's a lot of times in golf where it's just. It's really hard. I remember missing my rookie year on tour. I had a pretty solid fall, and then the spring started and I was, like, missing cuts left and right. And I remember we played a tournament, Torrey Pines, and I'd shot like seven right under the first round on the easier course. Then we go over to play the south course, which is much harder. And I shot, I may have shot 80, and I bogeyed like the last five holes or something like that to miss a cup by one. I remember coming off the course and calling Meredith to come pick me up and she's like, hey, how'd sudego? And I'm like, not great. I missed the cut. And she had no idea because I was so far inside the cut line. Also, I miss another cut. And I'm thinking there to myself, like, am I ever going to make another cut again? I mean, I just bogey the last five holes to miss the cut by one. Like, what, what am I doing out here? And so golf can be challenging like that. I mean, as, as things are going great, they can flip and go bad just as quickly.

And so, you know, I'm trying to get better at soaking in the good.

Times, but yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the golf, I don't know how you guys do it week in and week out, because it is the most frustrating game. And to have your livelihood be like, I have to mentally be there every shot. And like you said, like moments where you're shooting well and then all of a sudden you don't make the cut. The only thing I would say is you guys need to just do a better job of when someone likes, you know, clicks a picture or something, and then you're like, oh, man, I can't take my shot. That's a little soft. But everything else about golfers is tough as hell. You'd agree to. Yeah, I do agree.

We actually, yeah, we experienced that this year. So most of the tournaments in the states, that almost never happens. When we went to the Olympics, I remember getting to the second hole and it's par three down the hill, over water. It's like, I think it was a five iron the first day. And like, a lot of the people at that tournament hadn't been to a golf tournament before. And I think there may be a law in France where they like, have to have the sound on when they're taking a picture. And so, like, you take the club back and all of a sudden, like a hundred cameras go off and we're like trying to silence them and then like, there's a language barrier. We can't get them to stop. And so basically, we just played four days of the tournament with people just like making camera noises, basically the whole tournament.

Yeah, that's, that's something that the Ryder cup is usually really good at.

Yeah. And I'm thinking myself, I'm like, man, this is really bugging me. Like, I better. Better figure this out.

Yeah, it is. Yeah. All right, so, yeah, we should, we should. We get more clicks. We need to be like France. I actually like that law that you have to have the sound on so people can't take pictures, but it is.

A law in certain countries where you can't just be out, like, taking pictures of people. So, like, maybe the way the phone is programmed to where, like, you. Even when you silence it, it doesn't silence the camera sound.

Yeah, I like, it's not a bad. Yeah, you should stand, you should stand on business. When you take a picture public, you.

Should let everyone know.

Yeah, I did it. What are you gonna do about it? Yeah, but the Roger cups really good about that, where you've got like a, I don't know, 10,000 people from England just chanting and singing songs, and then the second you step up to the ball, it's just pure silence. They just, they, they know what to do there. That's got to be a fun environment to play in.

The Ryder cup is, I would say, probably the most fun tournament to be a part of. You know, I remember the one, the one we played over here at Whistling Straits was just nuts. You know, we don't have as fond of memories of Rome, but still hanging out with the guys and, you know, making some, some putts and stuff like that is fun. But the memories aren't as great in Rome as they were here in the States.

Right.

Yeah.

Next time up. It's going to be fun, though.

Yeah, it's going to be nuts. Keegan is captain, too. It's going to be. It's going to be pretty fun. Pretty fun vibe.

Yeah.

Yeah. Have you considered. I know some football coaches actually put this rule in place where they tell their players not to be, not to be intimate with their wives between the months of January and like April, so they don't have a baby during the season. Have you consider considered planning out your future children based on when the masters is going to be.

Not quite.

Okay.

Yeah, not quite. We. It's pretty difficult to have babies, so whenever, you know, the next one decides to show up, I think we'll be pretty grateful.

Yeah. Do you feel like you're a better golfer now that you're a father? Because I, when I started having kids, I was like, I'm a better podcaster. I'm podcasting for them. I gotta. I gotta make sure I elevate my game for them. That's just me, though. Do you feel that?

You know, I think part of it has helped me mentally because, like, like you said, golf can be tough. And I think, you know, sometimes I'm. You know, we can all be our own harshest critic. And so when it comes to, like, how I'm performing on the golf course, sometimes, you know, when I get off the course and after a tough day, I'll kind of look at myself and be like, well, what? You know, what would I. If this was Bennett, you know, what would I tell him after the day? And so part of that has been really helpful. And then, you know, when you get home, I mean, it's one thing for your parents and Meredith and everybody to say that they don't care what you shoot, but at the end of the day, you know, it means a lot to me. But when you get home and you see Bennett and he just, like, sees you walk through the door and he's like, hey, man, what's up? Yeah, you truly do just kind of forget about everything else. Like, it's. It's pretty amazing.

Yeah, I'm. When my kids come running to me and to give me a hug, I'm. I still remember, like, all the money I just lost gambling. But, yeah, kind of. I definitely don't let it. I bring that home perspective.

I feel like a really good thing for golfers because you have, you know, you can be your own worse than me. You can get in your own head, but if you have, like, a well rounded perspective in your personal life, then you are less likely to just psych yourself out and you're able to go out there and play well.

Yeah, I mean, golf's tough in a sense, too. Like, I had a great year this year, and I still lost a lot more than I won. Like, you. Like, golf is, you know, you. You kind of live a little bit of a life of disappointment. Like, you don't. You don't really win that often. It's not like football where you're winning most your games, or, you know, a lot of the team sports where golf, like, if you're struggling, you're just going to play bad. Nobody can pick you up out there. Like, you're just going to have to live through it. And then even when you're playing great, you still don't win that often, so there's still a lot of disappointment that goes with it.

Yeah. And I will say the. The way you were saying about your son and what I have with my kids, like, the bad days when you come home and, like, it kind of gives you that escape where you're like, oh, this is. I just throw myself into this, and it's. I don't even think about the bad day. I don't think about the. The golf. I don't think about, you know, whatever's going on. It's like, this kid is just fun to be in his world. World.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, you just want your kids to be happy. And, like, I mean, Ben is. And he's so young right now. Like, he learned how to smile in the last, like, month and a half, but, like, getting home and, you know, when he, like, finally finds where you are in the room, and he's like, oh, there you are. And he just lets his big smile, it's, like, just awesome.

Yeah.

That was one thing I did not understand going into fatherhood. Like, how. How great something little feels like that. I mean, it's. It's. It's awesome. But I.

By the way, we had your back when it was the whole, like, Scotty will leave the masters thing. You got done dirty by the media. They just took a quote that you would. You would hypothetically leave if your wife went into labor, and they were like, oh, she's gonna go in labor, like, any minute now. You never said that.

Yeah. No, and she wasn't going to. She was due at the end of that month. We were probably more worried about her going too late and getting into the, like, bennett was going to come, you know, during the PGA, and I was either gonna have to, like, leave or not go to the PGA, something like that. Whereas he was due, I think, two weeks after the master. So there's always a chance. But, like, Meredith hadn't been feeling any signs or anything like that. And, yeah, it's like, you always gotta create a story, right?

I mean, yeah, they should ask every golfer.

But there wasn't. There wasn't, like, a great chance that she. She was gonna go into labor. I'm not even really sure how airtight of a plane we had if she did go into labor.

Yeah, we felt we fell for the initial headline because we're big time. Like, read a headline. We don't really like to read, like, a lot of words, guys. But then when we dug into it, we're like, no, Scotty did nothing wrong. This is the media just trying to make a story out of this. Like, they're pretending that he's. He basically is like, I'm leaving the second it happens. But you never said it was about to happen.

Yeah, I I mean, I think. I'm sure I alluded to he was due at the end of the month, and I think somebody asked me, like, would you leave? Your wife's going to labor. Like, yes, obviously, it's the first time. Of course I'm gonna leave. Like, what are we talking about? Yeah, of course I'm gonna leave. Like, that's. That's a once in a lifetime experience, and. Yeah, but at no point was anybody like, well, when she really do, I'm just kind of, like, sitting there. Like, nobody ever asked. I try to keep my life off the course as private as possible. Like, I I don't love being, you know, I feel like we live two separate lives. Like, we have our life on the road where we travel and play golf, and then we come home. Like, we have our friends from high school and college, and they've been our friends for forever. And they. It's the same way. They really don't care whether or not I won this week or not. Like, we're gonna be doing the exact same thing this weekend. It's not gonna change what we do.

Yeah. That's a very smart way to live life.

Did you get. Did you get dad strength immediately?

Sadly not.

No additional. No additional yardage on your drive?

No additional yardage. I would say the first couple months of Bennett being alive, like, when they're born, like, you're so nervous holding him that you're going to, like, somehow break your child so that you, like, tense up and hold them. And it was actually really bad for my back the first couple months. Now that I've relaxed a little bit, it's a little bit easier to hold it. But it was like clockwork. We get home from a tournament, and two days in, rib would pop out or something like that.

Yeah.

Holding them, bouncing on, like, just soft little golf injuries.

Yeah. Yeah. Dad strength also is just your kids thinking you're strong. That's really, like, my middle child is three, and she said that I could lift a school bus, and then my. My oldest was like, no, he couldn't. His arms would rip off. So I was like, all right, this is a fun discussion, but at least I have one kid who thinks I'm strong, so that's. That's the majority of dad strength. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, all right, well, Scotty, this has been awesome. I I'm still just laughing about the fact that you, like stufiner's in your life. Like, stuff. I was part of your life. It's. It's one of the funniest things ever.

Yeah. Yeah. When. When Meredith said that yesterday, I was kind of like. There's definitely a weird feeling because stew's a bit of a loose cannon, and I was kind of like my sweet wife. Even I have corrupted her now a little bit.

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Of course. Glad I could help. I'm sure. I'm sure if I start losing money, it'll go in the opposite direction just as fast, but that's part of the life. I'm glad I could help him this year. Gambling is tough. So glad I could help him out a little bit. Yeah.

You were probably the top earner at Barstool sports this year for Dave. Like, when he looks at the big board, he's like, who brought in the most revenue? It's like, Scotty Scheffler's on that list.

He probably made more than your caddy.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah.

Yeah. I think he did. Which is crazy. He just wrote it. He was. He's a Scotty guy through and through.

Love it.

Yeah.

Appreciate.

Yeah. Well, Scotty, thank you so much. Anytime you're in town. Yeah, we'd love to listen, open invite. If you ever want to watch the live barstool sports advisors. We have a simulator here. We get on that. You could teach us some things. So we appreciate it, man. This was so much fun. And congrats again. Incredible year.

Thanks. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me on this. Enjoy it.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies off their big win in South Bend on Saturday. Coach Thomas Hammock. Coach, first of all, congratulations. Incredible game, incredible story. How are you feeling right now? I want to say great job with your schedule, having a bye week after this, but how are the vibes? Are you guys still kind of processing everything that happened on Saturday?

No, still a lot of positive vibes. I'm certainly excited we got a bye week. We get a chance to lock them back in on the practice field, but the kids are excited. There's a lot of positive momentum for our program and I'm anxious to see how we can use this to catapult us into a higher level.

Yeah, it was awesome seeing you guys on Saturday. It was one of those stories where I feel like most of the country, if not all the country, besides Notre Dame fans were rooting for you guys super, super hard, and it was cool to see after the game. You got kind of emotional in the interview on the sidelines, which is completely understandable. I got emotional watching you get emotional. Was that something that just hit you like a wave after the whistle was over or what did it take until, you know, you go about your business, shake hands, and then you start talking on the sidelines for reporter, and then it just, it comes over you all at once. When did that, when did that strong, strong emotional pull take over?

Well, it was such a competitive game back and forth that you never really had a moment to, you know, relax and understand what was happening. And then when we blocked that kick, the emotion was shock, elation. I couldn't believe it. Our kids believed. They stayed in the fight. They continued to work. I told them all week we didn't need luck, and that wasn't a lucky win. I thought that was a win where we showed a level of physicality that we were able to match that team.

Yeah. So I would make a terrible coach because I'd freak out at the first second of something bad going on. I know you've said afterwards that you, you gave the message to them that they can win this game and you believed it. But trust tree, the game starts, Notre Dame, goes right down the field, scores seven points. You get the kickoff, kind of a messed up kickoff. You start at your own two. Tell me, was there a little part of you being like, ah, maybe we can't do this?

You know, I think that's natural, right? We played Michigan in 2021 and got the brakes beat off of us and came back and won a championship. So when that ball hit the ground, you know, I started thinking about what type of message will I give to these guys if it doesn't go our way. But we stayed in the fight. We ate that touchdown by Ontario Brown, 83 yards pitch and catch. That. That settled us down. And then we was able to continue to move forward from that point.

Yeah, because it is. When you have these games where it's like a Mac team, a g five team going up against a power five team, it is like, you know, the beginning of the game is really important because you want to have your guys believe that they can do it. And it couldn't have started worse for you in that sense. And still the guys stayed in it and fought.

Yeah, no, we talked about handling the environment early and we didn't do a good job early in that game. And so in a game like that, momentum, the crowd, you know, if they would have went up 14 nothing, it would have been hard to come back. But we recovered the ball, got it to the two yard line, was able to have a 98 yard drive, and then from that point, it became, who's going? Who's going to want it the most? And obviously we did at the end.

Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

I was just going to say, when you're playing against team like Michigan or against Notre Dame, was your message kind of the same going into both of those games? Did you, did you see something from Michigan that you saw at Notre Dame? Or was it completely opposite? Like, do you always say we can beat these teams when you go up against a powerhouse like that?

No, the message was definitely not the same. And I actually got myself in trouble with our football team when we played Michigan. When we played Michigan, I thought it was the best team I've seen in college football at that point. And after they beat us pretty good after the game, I said they built a team to beat Ohio State and they haven't lost to Ohio State. Since that team was different from a physicality standpoint, from an offensive line, the tight ends, the D line. And I really felt, you know, it was not a good matchup for us, whereas that was three years ago. We've had three years to mature and grow into a more complete football team. And so when we walked into Notre Dame, even though they were a really good football team, I thought we matched up well in the trenches, which normally makes the biggest difference in those type of games.

Yeah. And the message after, like PFT said, the wave of emotion. But I thought what you said, too, was so cool because college football has changed, and it's, you know, you have to admit that it's changed. The nil, the transfer portal, and your message about, you know, family and keeping these guys here. I know you guys lost a few guys to the transfer portal, but what kind of, like, going forward, having a win like this, it has to be huge for your program knowing that, like, you have that message and you could see it on the field and people are watching that game. Like, we're different here, right?

No. You wouldn't believe how many, you know, young people have been in my DM's talking about, I want to come play for you. It's almost like that Jerry Maguire moment when he hugs him, when Ron had. He was his only client, and he hugged him when he made good plays at the end. And then all the other players started thinking, why can't I have a relationship with my agent like that? And so that's been the moment since that game is. A lot of people want to come play for us, unfortunately, you know, we. We don't have many spots left, but I think we can build upon, you know, genuine relationships because there's still a lot of people that want that.

Yeah. And it's just such a cool story. And it really is like, what we love about college football shown through on a Saturday has it set in that it's weird to say, but that was the biggest win in northern Illinois history. I mean, I know you guys beat Alabama in 2003, Jordan lynch finishing third Heisman, you know, Mac championships, but is that weird to have that happen and be like, wait, that was the number one win in NIU history and you're an NIU lifer?

Well, you know, I went to a catholic school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, so I am well aware of everything about Notre Dame, you know, from all of my buddies being big, huge Notre Dame fans to watching them growing up. So I was aware of, you know, what a win against them would mean. And just to find a way to get it done. How many times have you been in games or seen games like that where, you know, the guy jumped over our safety and the game changes. Right. But we were able to stand the fight and find a way to make a couple plays at the end to give ourselves a chance to win.

Yeah.

Did you have any friends and family members that were upset with you for beating Notre Dame?

You know what? All of my, all of my buddies and family, although they are Notre Dame fans, they said for one day they were rooting hard for the Huskies. So that was, you know, meant a lot to me.

Well, they probably said that afterwards just because they were like, yeah, I was totally rooting for you the whole time, coach. You know damn well during the game, they were, come on, irish.

Yeah.

Make this.

When it turned the other way, they figured they couldn't lose either way.

Yeah. So your pregame speech, I have a question about that. You said, rocket Ishmael is not walking through that door. There's no chance a room full of 18 to 22 year olds knew who you were talking about. Did you? Was there a moment? You're like, I need, I probably should have done a different name here.

Yeah. You know, when you, when you work on those speeches, you get yourself all prepared all week and you like, I'm a really get them this week, you know? And so I walk in there and I'm like, hey, man, Rocket Ismail is not running through that tunnel. And to me, Rocket Ismail was one of the best college football players in college football history. And they kind of looked at me like, I'm not understanding what you're saying. And so then I had to give a couple more names so they can, you know, people that played and know the name that's had tremendous careers. So I gave Joe Montana, you know, everybody knows Joe Montana. Jerome Bettae, Ricky Waters. But, you know, in my mind, I thought it was going to go a different direction because I have tremendous amount of respect for Rocket Ismail.

That's perfect. Did you think at any point in your pregame speech be like, hey, guys, I know this is Notre Dame, but we've been, you know, we've gone to Kalamazoo on a Tuesday night with, you know, 30 degrees in sideways snow. Like, there's Maxim's tough. You guys, you guys, like, the south bend is something, but, but you, you have to go to, you know, play ball state when it's, when the wind is whipping and there's like 20 people in this crowd that's tough, too.

No, those are tough moments, because you know what? It takes a lot more to get them excited to play, but Notre Dame had a tremendous atmosphere. A lot of fans, you know, those guys get up for those type of moments, especially on national tv, so. But I understand your point.

Yeah.

Yeah. Now you got the tough job of making sure you don't eat the rat poisonous, because everyone's saying really nice things about you, right? Like, you guys, you guys are America's sweethearts right now. And I'm sure that all your players, they enjoyed themselves after the win, as well they should. It's a massive, massive thing. But now you almost have to, like, bring that back down to earth, be like, we got the rest of the season ahead of us.

Yeah. I think our players know me well enough now. They, I've recruited all of them. They understand what I demand at practice, what I expect, the standards and expectations. So when we get on the practice field tomorrow morning, they understand full paths. It's going to be physical, like a training camp practice, and we're going to get better on the practice field. And those are the things that's going to help us continue to stay grounded.

So I saw that you offered to help out Marcus Freeman after the game. Like, was that right after the game where you said, coach, if there's anything we can do to help you guys for the rest of the season, if you want to, if you want any of the stuff that we saw on tape that we took advantage of, you're happy to help him. That's. I feel like that's an unusual thing for a coach to offer to an opponent that they just beat. Do you think he's going to take you up on that?

Yeah, I mean, he has taken me up on it and we've talked on the phone a couple times and exchanged text messages. It was my first time meeting him. Obviously, I have a lot of respect for him as a head coach. I want him to do well, you know, for obvious reasons. And, you know, just because we competed don't mean we can't help each other or try to assist each other to make each other better. You know, sometimes when you become a head coach, you don't have many people you can really rely upon because nobody's going through what you're going through. And I understand, I don't understand what he's going through, but I have an idea of some of the things he's going through and if I can help him and help him achieve the type of things he want to achieve, that's what it's about. You know, paying it forward. They're never going to play us again, so we will never be a common opponent. And, you know, I want him to. I want to see him win a national championship. He's had a program that can win a national championship.

That's very cool. Plus, if they. The more games they win, if they do make it to the playoff eventually, and they do win a national championship, then you can just say we're actually the national champions because we beat the national champions.

Yeah.

Also, I want them to win. I want them to win a lot of games.

Yeah. Don't sell yourself short. I mean, g five gets a spot in the. In the playoff. You could see Notre Dame again. You don't know.

Yeah. What if you give him all this advice and he uses it to beat you?

Come on.

Hey, listen. Hey. We'll go over that bridge when it happens, all right? But, but, but certainly, I just wanted to, you know, be a resource for.

That's fair. I have another question about a different coach. You were roommates with PJ Fleck at NiU.

Yes.

Was there ever a moment where you're like, hey, PJ, just chill out, man. Like, I don't need any more motivational sayings. Like, I'm good.

You know, I've known him a long time, and he understands who I am and what I'm about, and so he has a Persona, you know, that, you know, has worked really well for him. But when he comes around me, he understands, you know? Listen, I'm Thomas, and you, PJ, and we gonna. You know, we're gonna address each other as such. You know, like we knew. Like, you know, like we know each other.

Yeah. Sometimes friends.

Sometimes he called me coach Hammock. I said, don't do that.

Yeah.

You know, we're not gonna. We're not gonna play that type of game.

Yeah.

We are great friends. And, you know, it was exciting that he was able to, you know, share that type of message and the pride that he has for NiU.

Yeah. PJ is a friend of our show, too. I mean, he's got the motivational sayings. He gets everyone pumped up. I have one last question for you. It's. It's not about Niu, but I'm just curious. Cause I'm a Wisconsin badger, and you were a coach there. Two. Two different stints. You were the running backs coach, though, with a room of Melvin Gordon, Monty ball, and James White. What was that like? Just being like. Look at the. Like. Like the talent. Melvin Gordon, I think his first year didn't even get many carries because. And he ended up being, you know, whatever, second all time or third all time in a single season rushing. What was it like being in that room with those guys?

Well, first of all, I'm glad the transfer portal wasn't around when I was coaching those guys because there was not a chance in hell that you can keep all three of those guys in your program. But they were highly, highly competitive. You know, it was fun to coach. If one guy did something, the other guy tried to do more. I actually have James White on my staff now. He's working for us and doing a great job, but all three of those guys were unique in their own way. We also had two fullbacks that got drafted, Brady, Ewen and Watt, you know, Derek Watt. So we had five guys in our room that all got drafted, you know, off the same approach, and they were very professional in college. And what a, what a great, it was a great time to be coaching those guys.

Yeah. And you must have, I mean, as a running back yourself and a running back coach, that big ten championship game against Nebraska must have been like, that's. That's the peak of running back. That's.

You can't.

You can't do better than that.

That was the most fun time I've had. Or, hold on, second most.

Yeah, I.

From Saturday.

Yeah.

But, you know, the roll up, 500 and something yards in Nebraska. And the thing about it, we played them early in the year at their place and lost by three. And so they thought they had a real good tendency on how we would block in the jet sweep. And so we changed some things up during the week. And you know all, I think Melbourne had over 200 yards, Monty had over 200 yards, and James had 150 yards. So those three guys won us the championship.

Who use those line?

Who's that linebacker on? Was it will compton? Yeah, that was a linebacker on Nebraska. When you were, when you were watching film, getting ready for that game, you were like, I'm going to run that guy over. We're just going to run right at him.

No, he was a, he was a heck of a player in college. He will, he would hit you hard in your face. But we ran around him. We got the ball to the perimeter.

Yeah.

So he wasn't as involved.

Hard hitting, but maybe not the fastest guy in the world.

Yeah.

Good game plan. Yeah, yeah. Great game plan. So, coach, I had one question, actually, about your full back. Is it Brock? Is it lamp lampy?

Brock.

Brock lampy. That dude was knocking people over left and right. So we do an annual award here on the show that gets handed out to the nation's top collegiate fullback, and I think we're putting them on the watch list as a running back. With your running background, how. How nice is it to have a dude like that that can take two guys out of a play at once?

Listen, he's so valuable for our offense and getting our run game going. He does a lot of the dirty work that people don't see that don't show up in the stats, but are very noticeable to the coaching staff. And we wouldn't be able to run the ball the way we like to run the ball without a guy like him. So to have him on your watch list, I can't think of very many guys in the country that's going to be better.

Yeah, he's very high up there. I almost give him credit for a full back win, but we don't do that. It was a great team win.

Yeah. Well, coach, thank you so much for your time. Best of luck. Rest of the season, might have to get out to a game. I mean, I love matching more than anything, so we appreciate it. And, yeah, go, go get in the playoffs. I need a Mac team in the playoffs.

That'd be great.

Thank you. And go, Huskies.

Yes.

Go, Huskies.

Go, Huskies. Thanks, coach.

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Okay, let's wrap up the show. Hank, Faqs.

Did Big T give a comment?

Yeah, Big T. I'm speaking with him right now.

Okay.

Big T says, all I can confirm is that the song plays after touchdowns. Chidora song plays after his touchdowns, and someone else had reported it. And then he sent me a link of the North Dakota State game says, go to 1350 and turn your sound up. It plays after the touchdown.

Does it play the fight song first?

Stand by.

Can we get a pinky bet before the start of week two for Panthers Giants and maybe throw in Washington? That's a little premature.

Pinky.

Huh? What pinky bet?

I think he's asking for you. Wants your pinky team, maybe.

Oh, no.

My pinky team comes after week two.

But those are three bad teams.

Yeah, those are.

Would not be.

They have to be teams that are reasonably. You could see winning the Super bowl, not Washington.

Russians.

No, I told you we're not thinking soupy right now.

Yeah.

We're one week at a time.

Or Panthers. Definitely not Bengals. Bengals are making me nervous because they're playing the Chiefs and I don't want to do that because they could definitely win the Super Bowl. I have to feel it, too. It's not, I'm not going to just pick a team. It's a team that I'm confidently saying will not win the Super. Super Bowl. I think the Bengals could go Owen two and still win the super at the Falcons. Falcons could be on that list. People had some buzz about the Falcons.

Yeah.

Jets could be on that list. The one scary one that has come in my head. Packers.

You couldn't do that.

I couldn't do that. Imagine if the packers won the Super bowl and I also had to cut my, the tip of my pinky off.

It would make you feel better, maybe so. At least this is my pain.

Yeah. For the jets, Aaron Rodgers, the boogeyman would also be, he doesn't hurt me anymore. It was night when he. Yeah, yeah.

You can't do the jets because you're, you're inviting the boogeyman back in.

That's true.

You're like, I miss you, boogeyman.

Yeah, that's true.

What are good old interviews or shows that newer listeners should give a listen to or personal favorite?

That's a good question.

Someone asked me this the other day. I think the, it was the funniest when it happened, and it still holds up. Is the, the Martin Shkreli interview.

Yeah.

Was so funny.

Shrelly was good because it was so ridiculous.

Like, what? 50 got actually heated.

I think I told him I would fuck his mom.

So ridiculous.

Yeah.

Gary Busey is another one.

That was a wild one.

Barry slept on stone cold.

Oh, dog the bounty hunter. I, he hit me up. We got, he hit me up. Was like, I, I don't think I've dmed him in six years. He hit me up yesterday out of.

The blue to find the poop eating guy.

No, he was like, we got a, it was like a poster. I think it was maybe a missing kid or something that he's looking for. And he, he was like, hey, your last message went to spam. Hope you're well. And I was like, what do you need from me, dog? And then he sent me a number. He's like, hit this person up. We'll coordinate a three way call. So I might be back on the dog. I might, I might be back.

Part of the, tell him that you'll help him find the kid if he helps you find the guy that said he'd eat poop out of solo cup.

Yeah, I mean, this is. If my number gets called, I'm not there, dog. But, uh, who else? Other ones, not.

Not Kareem, actually, the first time, well, is the only time, but it was the first grit week, and we swung through Youngstown and interviewed Jim Trestle.

Jim Trestle was very.

Jim Trestle, I thought was a good interview.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I think any of the ones that we've had on multiple times, if you go back to the first one, they're always great. Like the Harbaugh first one. Joe buck first one.

Cherry O'Connell first one. Probably pretty good.

Yeah. Any of those are really fun because it's like you can see the beginning of the relationship and it.

John Cena first one.

Great. John Cena first was great. Yeah, yeah. John Cena first one. Great one.

Sounds so good. Hey, guys, on faq, but more looking for advice from my boyfriend who works for a famous politician who has recently come under heat for using songs to walk out to with without getting them cleared first. Do you think that he should tell the person he works for to keep doing it and keep playing the song, using the song, or hold off until the legal teams figured out everyone really loves a song he comes out?

That's a good question. So I guess I'm not. I'm not a legal expert, but from what I know about copyrights and songs, if you're using somebody else's song, even if it might not even be the person who wrote it, but sometimes publishing companies own the rights to the song that somebody else wrote. If the publishing company finds out that you're using a song that is their property, then they will sometimes engage with you, and you don't know what your liability is. And then you have to wait for all the dust to settle after the fact. And if you've been using it for a while, then you want to make sure that you're not giving them anything else to talk to you about when they're talking about all the other times that you've done it.

Also, I I'm just assuming this is Trump, and Trump's a guy who talks about everything, so if he's not talking about this, there's probably a reason. So you, like people probably ask him, yeah. Why aren't you addressing this? It's like, he would address it if he could.

That's a good point.

He probably can't.

Or he would find some way to, like, subtly address it without talking about.

Right which the subtlety maybe not, but.

Yeah, maybe not that. Yeah, some people might think it's subtle. Some people that would listen to would be very confused and not understand he's.

Talking, but some people would understand the.

Subtle and those people that would get it right. He would appreciate.

And if I know Trump like I know Trump, I know he would work hard to figure out a way to care about. Make it work.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

So my network right now. But he's gonna find a way to make it work.

Ask him. He's probably not gonna be able to answer it.

And he probably just say, like, bear with me. Yeah, I'm on your side.

Yeah.

They're only coming after me because I'm standing in front of you.

Yeah.

That's what he would say.

I didn't get shot.

Yeah, he didn't. Or did.

He didn't. Did.

Oh, he did.

You think he didn't know what?

His ear is fully recovered.

Yeah. You. His ears spontaneously bleeding.

Hey. Yeah.

No, he did not get you.

Okay.

Okay.

All right, that's a take.

She did not.

Okay, that's a take. I said that's a take. I don't agree with it, but it's take.

Hey, can we unpack this for a little bit?

Yes.

Somebody died.

True.

They got shot in the head. Somebody.

Are you just finding this?

Unfortunately, no, I know, I know.

Okay.

And then his ear was bleeding, and then there's a picture of the bullet going past the back of his head. And then the FBI said that he got shot.

Have you seen pictures of his ears?

A close up of his ear currently.

Hanks. Right. They did regenerate pretty quickly.

But your ears have a lot of blood flow. They regenerate, does not have it.

Know, that's. That actually is. That actually is maybe, like, I didn't dig too deep into it. I saw. It's like a Vander holy field here has not regenerate. Trump is totally fine.

I think there's a difference between regenerate. It's not like a lizard's tail where if you pulled my ear off right now, I'd come in in a week and have an ear that wouldn't he.

Be talking about it more.

You don't think I talked about it? He's been talking about.

I also think he's like, I mean, if you get. If you come that close to dying, it's got to fuck you up bad. Bad.

Yeah.

I don't care who you are, it's got to fuck you up.

All right, maybe you got shot. I don't know why I even said that last.

Epic. You. I like it. You took a shot at a take.

It's important.

Good.

It's important to have a take.

This part of my take. Take your shot.

Last one. I feel like this is it. Is there any other good ones? Oh, last one, I guess out of the last ones. Long time listening for a time texter with the Patriots. Big upset on Sundays means summer Hank is still going. Oh, summer technically isn't over.

No, I do not think the summer Hank is still going because based on Hank's body language on Sunday after the Patriots won, he wish he was golfing. Yeah, you can't deny that you did not care. Yeah, you can't deny Sundays were tough.

Sundays and Fridays have hit hard. That is sign Sundays of the.

How are Fridays hitting hard?

Cuz I'm here later on Fridays, I was like. I was like, every Friday golfing every. That was the. Yeah, it was yak my yak. Fridays, those are over cuz I have to be here later on Friday. And then Sunday also. It was like Friday, like 01:00, Sunday at 01:00. Those are pretty much every day.

Every weekend in the summer you have the Friday scaries.

Yeah.

What do you do on Fridays now?

To wait for advisors.

Damn it, damn it, damn it. You do your job.

I know it's fun, but.

Yeah. No, I think the summer hanks over because he summer Hank means that Hank is doing whatever he wants to do and living his best life. He was not living his best.

I think the official conclusion of Summer of Hank was when he lost Mount Rushmore, when he lost the duel. That was the end of it. Because now you've got this big, big dark rain cloud that's hanging over the back of your head, and you're gonna be thinking about the nine darters and the nine darters. You have to get it. Although.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm not getting a nine darter.

Yeah, you are. Not. Without attitude, you aren't.

Just do it.

Come on, Hank. Just do it. Hank, you gonna watch Kent State Tennessee on Saturday?

Fuck no.

I think you're not gonna get your tv situation.

Probably ESPN.

Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna do that on purpose. All right, good show, boys. Numbers 23, 56.

Eight.

Come on, memes.

Nine.

Someone did say, and it was very mean thing to say, that BFT and memes have the same number of lottery ball wins as their teams have wins.

That is a very mean thing.

Very mean thing to say. I said, no, no, no, don't say that.

Yeah, thank you.

I appreciate that I told that person. You're a bad person.

I don't even care.

What was that? Pug? Say it again.

Eight. It's gonna be eight. Why would I care? I'm gonna get it right now.

1212. Did you guess twelve recently?

No, I don't think so.

I think it's the second timer in.

The past couple weeks.

Names? I was rooting for you.

Love you guys.