Dan Quinn, Deebo Samuel, 1 Question With A QB With Jayden Daniels, Mt Rushmore Of Chain Restaurants And The Return Of Vanny Woodhead!

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Speaker 2 On today's part in my take,

Speaker 16 we're back.

Speaker 15 Vanny Woodhead is back in action.

Speaker 2 We're podcasting from the back of Vanny Woodhead.

Speaker 10 Hank has completed his task.

Speaker 18 It is running again, and we're finishing grit week in Vanny Woodhead. We have an awesome show for you.

Speaker 25 We have one question with a quarterback with Jaden Daniels alive from Commander's Training Camp.

Speaker 20 We have an awesome interview with Dan Quinn and Debo Samuel.

Speaker 24 We're going to do the Mount Rushmore

Speaker 19 of chain restaurants. Non-drive-through chain restaurants.

Speaker 8 Non-drive-through chain restaurants.

Speaker 33 We have a fire fest that's a whole show fire fest.

Speaker 17 And then we're going to talk some MOB trade deadline.

Speaker 25 Football's back.

Speaker 35 Grit week.

Speaker 13 Maybe some people asking for a trade.

Speaker 13 Who knows? Micah.

Speaker 36 Is Micah, yeah?

Speaker 13 Micah, bad things for Micah. Bad things for Micah.

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Speaker 45 Today is Friday, August 1st,

Speaker 41 and football is back.

Speaker 24 Technically.

Speaker 48 Technically.

Speaker 13 But also literally football is back because we did have Jim Harbaugh on the sideline actually trying to coach, which was wonderful. We had Dan Campbell's team looking like maybe

Speaker 13 Coordinators Matter.

Speaker 36 We had Trey Lance.

Speaker 19 Maybe. Hall of Famer.

Speaker 50 Maybe QB won controversy.

Speaker 13 Hall of Famer.

Speaker 23 They should have started with Trey Lance.

Speaker 19 Jim Harbaugh was that

Speaker 18 got me pumped up because Jim Harbaugh sitting there or being interviewed on the sideline before the the game when

Speaker 53 he said, football chooses you, you choose football.

Speaker 2 I think he was trying to say, like, you don't choose football, football chooses you, but he just went choose on both of them.

Speaker 54 He was like, yeah.

Speaker 8 Football chooses you and you choose football.

Speaker 13 But it's more beautiful that way. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 27 So it's perfect.

Speaker 13 It's a mutual relationship where it's like we both want to be in here, but we're in here for life.

Speaker 42 Jim Harbaugh knows you can't get divorced from football.

Speaker 13 No.

Speaker 57 That doesn't happen. No.

Speaker 36 And tonight, listen, we know it's a Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 36 It doesn't really matter at all whatsoever, except for the fact that watching Chris and Mike Tarico, seeing the colors on the screen, seeing the helmets, it all just feels like, hey, we're close.

Speaker 62 We're right there.

Speaker 6 It's the first taste, and it felt good.

Speaker 41 And we watched the majority of the game.

Speaker 18 I think we just left the gambling cave with like nine minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 25 So we love football. Football's back.

Speaker 30 Also, Vanny Woodhead's back.

Speaker 56 Vanny Woodhead's back.

Speaker 13 We're chilling in the back of Vanny right now, and it smells the exact same as it did when we got it, what, seven years ago? Yeah, years ago. Smells literally the same.

Speaker 13 It looks actually a lot better. The guy cleaned it up really nice.

Speaker 13 There's one key piece that's missing right now with Vanny Woodhead, though, and that is

Speaker 13 the part that covers up the engine.

Speaker 13 So we have the exposed engine inside of the van. So when we drive it around, I think you could either roast a marshmallow on it or you could get knocked out by carbon monoxide.

Speaker 13 I don't know which would happen first. It's kind of perfect.
It is kind of cool, but a lot of memories in this van.

Speaker 43 Yeah, and that was why, so we alluded to it on I think Tuesday or Wednesday show.

Speaker 20 We said we had an old friend coming back, and that's why we flew back to Chicago because Vanny Woodhead, it's you can drive Vanny Woodhead now.

Speaker 6 We have not probably gotten it to the point where we can drive it on the highway, so we had to come back for it, but we were like, hey, let's get back in the back of Vanny Woodhead to end Grit Week.

Speaker 66 And it feels great.

Speaker 67 Just four guys hanging out in the back of a van.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 69 It does smell the same. The signatures are still here.
Shout out to Mike,

Speaker 69 Grand Rapids guy, helped me fix it up. Let's go.

Speaker 69 Help me. I mean, he fixed it all up.

Speaker 71 And they brought us up. I feel good.

Speaker 30 I feel good. We look good.

Speaker 60 By the way, we should have shouted out the four Hall of Famers that are going into the Hall of Fame this weekend, right?

Speaker 13 Right. So

Speaker 13 Jared Allen's going in.

Speaker 13 Who else do we have going in this weekend?

Speaker 74 Anyone got the list?

Speaker 42 Oh, who? Antonio Gates? Antonio Gates going in.

Speaker 75 Former basketball player.

Speaker 13 Max? Anybody else?

Speaker 8 You got it, Max?

Speaker 76 I'm looking it up.

Speaker 13 Anyone else, Max?

Speaker 13 Oh, is one of the Sharps going?

Speaker 13 Is it Sharp something, Max?

Speaker 13 Max. I'm looking.

Speaker 77 Is it Sharp? Darren Sharper.

Speaker 37 Oh.

Speaker 55 Darren Sharper?

Speaker 69 Isn't he in processing safety in the league?

Speaker 78 Oh, wait, you're pro-rape.

Speaker 13 Is it pro-rape? Max is pro-rape.

Speaker 5 Oh, no, Max.

Speaker 70 No. Darren Sharp.

Speaker 13 Are you shouting out Darren Sharper on a national sports podcast?

Speaker 37 Oh, man.

Speaker 13 Do you have any idea what Darren Sharper did, Max?

Speaker 77 This is like the worst bit that you guys got going.

Speaker 80 But the fact that you fell for it, we were like, hey, we'll just list the four Hall of Famers and pretend we don't know who's going in.

Speaker 81 And if we just say sharp, sharper, or something, you're going to say Darren Sharper.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 82 And you fell for it.

Speaker 13 We planned this out like 30 minutes. Maybe our best bit yet.

Speaker 82 Yeah, that was an incredible bit.

Speaker 83 Job well done.

Speaker 77 So many people are laughing. Yeah.

Speaker 37 Yeah, we are.

Speaker 37 I'm laughing at it. The entire van thinks this is so funny.

Speaker 6 There's four people laughing. Are they listening for us?

Speaker 77 You still don't have it. No, I don't.
Sterling Sharp.

Speaker 85 I started to look it up and then Sterling Sharp.

Speaker 86 Jared Allen.

Speaker 87 Sterling Sharp?

Speaker 13 Sterling Sharp. Yeah.
Shannon Sharp's brother. It's his brother.

Speaker 13 When Shannon Sharp got in the Hall of Fame, he said, I'm lucky enough to be in the Hall of Fame, but I'm not even the best football player in my family.

Speaker 88 Yeah.

Speaker 64 Also, let's just say this about Shannon Sharp.

Speaker 2 He got fired from ESPN.

Speaker 89 I do think that's kind of bullshit that it happened the week of his brother going to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 53 Yeah. He probably deserved.

Speaker 9 There's a lot of stuff going on with Shannon Sharp right now, but he was like, I'm disappointed they did this kind of stealing from my brother's moment.

Speaker 24 I kind of agree with that.

Speaker 91 They could have done it last week or the week before or a month before that.

Speaker 13 It was nice that Sterling also shouted out his brother. He was like, he's with me through thick and through thin.

Speaker 13 Recently, it looks like it's been through more thick than thin, but it seems like a good brother.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Shout out families.

Speaker 71 What's that?

Speaker 37 No, that was a part of the part.

Speaker 13 I added the second part on. He said the thick and thin.

Speaker 90 That was an exact quote.

Speaker 93 He meant thick.

Speaker 18 Eric Allen is the last Hall of Famer.

Speaker 45 How did it take you that long, Max?

Speaker 60 Oh, he's not. He's scrolling.

Speaker 42 He's scrolling Twitter now because we got him in the pro rape allegations.

Speaker 13 So next year, I'm looking forward to next year in the Hall of Fame. Yeah.
Phillip Rivers. Philip Rivers.
I'm looking forward to the family.

Speaker 94 Julian Edelman.

Speaker 69 Julian Edelman.

Speaker 6 Larry Fitzgerald, fat ass.

Speaker 13 I want to see what face they put on Phil Rivers.

Speaker 41 Not what jersey, what face?

Speaker 66 What face?

Speaker 13 I agree. Because he's got so many faces that he's put out there in the NFL.

Speaker 10 Did you guys see

Speaker 95 Wanna Be Be Bummed Out?

Speaker 96 Phil Brewers is a grandfather.

Speaker 70 Wow.

Speaker 97 Did you see that?

Speaker 55 He's a grandfather.

Speaker 71 Which, I mean, like father, like son, he doesn't, you know, his kids don't.

Speaker 55 It'll wrap it up. Wrap up.

Speaker 19 Isn't that insane?

Speaker 13 We know what his bus is going to look like because he's got 10 of them walking.

Speaker 48 That's right.

Speaker 98 Right.

Speaker 43 Okay, so Vanny Woodhead, Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 33 But the real story.

Speaker 13 Oh, there's one more thing in the Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 88 Oh, okay.

Speaker 13 We got introduced to a new piece of technology. That's true.
We should talk about that. Yes.
The Hawkeye, they're putting tennis in our football. They mix tennis in with football.

Speaker 13 And what they did was on the first down, they showed the AI slop 3D cam that they hit a button and then they put a graphic on the screen and then the yellow line appears on the screen.

Speaker 57 The yellow line,

Speaker 13 that's not new technology. We know that's a 10-yard measurement from where the line of scrimmage was.
The ball is still spotted by the rack. Correct.

Speaker 13 So it doesn't really have anything to do with anything. They're just like, look at this cool robot program we came up with that makes you think like you're watching football in the year 3000.

Speaker 24 We got something that hopefully people won't bitch about.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but guess what? I'm bitching about it because.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, we're bitching about it for other reasons.

Speaker 99 But like I'm saying,

Speaker 7 the Bills Chiefs game.

Speaker 100 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 13 But they still have the chain gang on the sideline. Yeah.
And they're just standing there with their dick in their hand watching like a bunch of cucks while a robot takes their job. It's bullshit.

Speaker 13 Like they didn't bring them out on the field. They might as well be sitting in a leather chair in a hotel room corner.
They're just sitting there like, okay, yeah, go to the robots.

Speaker 13 Go to the robots, Chris. Thanks.

Speaker 9 I also don't like that they clearly set it up for the first, the debut of it to be a first down, a clear first down.

Speaker 36 They didn't want that smoke.

Speaker 21 They didn't want to be right up against that yellow line.

Speaker 13 And they're trying to figure out a way to make it a presentation. You don't know what's going to happen until they inch the yellow line out there.

Speaker 13 Because when you first look at the ball, there's no yellow line. And they're like, now we'll show you where the yellow line is.
Yep. That's fucked up.
I don't like it at all.

Speaker 24 By the way, breaking moves.

Speaker 25 The over in the Hall of Fame game has just hit.

Speaker 102 Cash it.

Speaker 31 So can't go on to feed if you don't start 1-0.

Speaker 77 I thought you were going to say that Terry was traded.

Speaker 37 No, come on, dude.

Speaker 77 That would be breaking moves, wouldn't it?

Speaker 69 It would be of moves.

Speaker 37 All right, we should talk about it.

Speaker 77 It could happen at any minute.

Speaker 17 We should talk about it.

Speaker 52 Micah.

Speaker 97 But

Speaker 24 before we do that, I'm kind of blinded by...

Speaker 66 What's that orange hat you're wearing, dude?

Speaker 103 I got this orange hat at Pastrada Land.

Speaker 13 But wait, isn't that the orange hat that they only gave out to like 42 people in the world?

Speaker 103 Low 40s, yes. And I was gracious enough.

Speaker 8 Travis Prada uh uh gracious enough to uh award me with one you got awarded with one i was awarded with one by travest pastrada for my 30s you were gracious enough to accept it's uh wholeheartedly yes yeah yeah you were but yeah so for people who don't know uh pm tv out already incredible video we went to pastrana land travis pastrana is the coolest guy ever it was so much fun dream come true dream come true and zach uh stole the show because he was He was the most badass guy we got.

Speaker 51 And now he's got a hat that you can only get if you get medvaced out or do a new trick that's never been done.

Speaker 41 Your new trick was the barrel roll.

Speaker 37 It was a barrel roll, yeah.

Speaker 103 Yeah, we managed to barrel barrel roll, boys.

Speaker 55 Yeah, we did.

Speaker 103 Not quite sure how, but we did.

Speaker 13 Zach, my favorite part of the video is when you're going back, getting ready to hit the jump, and you're just repeating, you keep repeating the mantra to yourself, just like, was it full throttle?

Speaker 13 No kill switch.

Speaker 103 Kill switch, it's like kill switch, go straight, don't go right, or something. It was

Speaker 103 strict instructions, and I just didn't want to forget them. So I just pounded, I just kept repeating them as much as possible.

Speaker 13 You pounded the instructions. Yeah,

Speaker 69 we were, we were doing the

Speaker 69 interviewing Travis while you were practicing.

Speaker 69 What percentage of

Speaker 69 I can do this were you at while we were doing the podcast? Like, where was your head at during it, beforehand?

Speaker 103 So while you guys are doing the podcast, Street Bike Tommy shot to Street Bike Tommy.

Speaker 103 He was teaching me how to ride a dirt bike for the first time.

Speaker 103 And for a majority of those lessons, which he was great at teaching me everything, slowing it down, repeating stuff, because I did ask the same questions probably multiple times.

Speaker 103 I didn't feel too good about it.

Speaker 37 No, zero is the answer.

Speaker 106 You're at a zero.

Speaker 103 It was not looking good on the bike at all.

Speaker 5 You just kept on going slower and slower and falling off.

Speaker 103 He kept saying, speed it up, speed it up.

Speaker 90 And I was like, okay, I'll go a little quicker.

Speaker 103 And then I just went the same speed every time. It was not good.

Speaker 13 When Travis sent the 15-year-old girl to do the backflip right in front of you to show you how it's done,

Speaker 13 did that make you more confident or was that demoralizing?

Speaker 103 I think it gave me a little bit of confidence because I was like, okay, someone just safely went in the phone pit. Okay.
So you can safely go in. And I was like, hopefully I can safely go in.

Speaker 37 Well, she didn't barrel.

Speaker 103 True, she ripped a backflip, though.

Speaker 19 Yeah, but that's been done a million times in Pastranoland.

Speaker 103 That is true. A lot of guys backflip.

Speaker 103 I'm sure many will barrel roll, but we did barrel roll the other day at Pastranoland. Yes.

Speaker 88 That is so unreal day ever.

Speaker 109 You admit it.

Speaker 110 It's awesome.

Speaker 2 You're the most badass on this podcast.

Speaker 103 You guys are badass, too.

Speaker 103 But we did rip a dirt bike into the phone pit the other day, and it was was sick.

Speaker 111 We don't have hats.

Speaker 31 Yeah, we don't have hats. That's very true.
We don't have hats.

Speaker 112 Terry.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 54 Terry McLaurin has requested a trade.

Speaker 37 Requested.

Speaker 38 Max just perked up.

Speaker 13 Requested.

Speaker 48 Max just perked up.

Speaker 13 There's a difference between requesting a trade and demanding a trade.

Speaker 113 Okay.

Speaker 13 He hasn't demanded a trade. He requested a trade.
Okay. Everybody requests a trade.

Speaker 48 That's not true.

Speaker 13 Three guys requested a trade in the last five years.

Speaker 13 Three receivers. Guess how many got traded?

Speaker 62 Zero. Zero.
Not a.

Speaker 69 Memes is only up one thing, girl.

Speaker 104 One. Who, Mimes?

Speaker 114 Debo Samuel.

Speaker 37 Oh, Debo Samuel's on your side.

Speaker 13 No,

Speaker 13 he went back to camp and played a full season for the 49ers.

Speaker 77 But then what happened?

Speaker 13 Then he got traded to the commanders because the commanders are a better organization.

Speaker 91 Who were the other three?

Speaker 13 There was T. Higgins.
Okay. Requested a trade.

Speaker 45 Yep.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 13 someone else did it too. Ayuk, I think.

Speaker 93 Okay.

Speaker 13 Ayuk did it last year, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 66 So, and Terry wants over 33 million.

Speaker 13 The numbers I've heard are that we've offered 27, 28, and he wants 33.

Speaker 20 And it's a big gap.

Speaker 13 And you want to try to keep your El Camino. I would like to, but if you listen to later on in the show, I might have already given it away.
That's true.

Speaker 37 That's a problem. I've got to buy another one.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 78 So where, you said 110%

Speaker 13 confidence. I did say that.

Speaker 57 And so

Speaker 57 we're at now.

Speaker 113 111.

Speaker 57 Got it. It's a lot better today.

Speaker 50 The request of a a trade actually got you more confident that it's going to be it makes me want him more.

Speaker 113 Yeah.

Speaker 13 That's probably what he's doing.

Speaker 51 It does feel like, though, this is a little bit of a game of chicken where this probably, the request of a trade should have probably happened a while ago.

Speaker 21 Now that we're in camp,

Speaker 71 like what's going to happen?

Speaker 13 Well, the way I'll put it, Hank, you're actually a good person to ask this question too.

Speaker 13 You had to do summer reading as a kid, right?

Speaker 117 Yeah.

Speaker 13 When you got to August 1st,

Speaker 13 did you ever have it done?

Speaker 118 Never.

Speaker 24 Well, no, wait, hold on. You got to, that's, that was a load of question.

Speaker 45 Hank, did you ever do your summer reading?

Speaker 16 No.

Speaker 55 Did you?

Speaker 110 That's a problem.

Speaker 13 Did you ever do the spark notes for your summer reading?

Speaker 69 I don't, this is pre-internet.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I don't think so. The spark notes also.

Speaker 83 This is a book.

Speaker 52 But did you ever have opened that? You don't know how to open those.

Speaker 13 Did you ever try to do your summer reading at any point?

Speaker 88 Yes. Did you ever open it up?

Speaker 16 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 109 When would that typically have been?

Speaker 69 August.. 20th.
There you go. Later.

Speaker 13 There you go. So we're pretty much doing a book report with Terry.
Okay. So we just have to get it done by the the first day of school, and then Terry will get it.

Speaker 69 In this analogy,

Speaker 69 in this analogy, you guys would be trying to get the deal done during the first quarter of the first game.

Speaker 92 And you wouldn't get it done.

Speaker 69 No, and then you'd be like, hey, did you guys get the deal done? You'd be like, fuck.

Speaker 37 And you'd get an F on the trade. Yeah.

Speaker 65 Use anyone else but Hank.

Speaker 13 No, I think this is a great example. I think what I'm saying is we're just, we're just, there's no sense of urgency right now.
It's whatever.

Speaker 24 I think the urgency is coming.

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, it's here. It's here.

Speaker 37 He's ride.

Speaker 37 We were at camp.

Speaker 69 There's plenty of fans out. People are ready for the season.

Speaker 13 If that's really what the holdup is, if we're talking about a difference of $6 million,

Speaker 13 I say just give him $33 million.

Speaker 90 I say pay Terry. Okay.
I say pay Terry.

Speaker 13 He's not your money. He's worth $33 million at least minimum.
He's done it. I'm on Terry's side of this.
We got to figure out a way to get it done because Terry is the perfect teammate.

Speaker 13 He's an awesome guy, great football player. His numbers last year were incredible.
You need him if you want to be inside the Super Bowl.

Speaker 13 If Terry's not on the team, I think I might have to exclude this year from the Super Bowl window.

Speaker 42 Because we're in the window.

Speaker 13 I'm not thinking Soupy. I'm not saying we're going to win the Super Bowl, but we're in the window.
If he's not on the team, this is not a window year.

Speaker 31 The window.

Speaker 69 A great quarterback doesn't need star wide receivers to be in the window.

Speaker 13 I'm closing the window. Top five.
Top five. This is actually, it's worse for Max because Max,

Speaker 13 you have a lot of credibility lining on Jaden being a top five quarterback.

Speaker 77 No, I've been told that top five five quarterbacks, it doesn't matter what their wide receivers are. If you have good wide receivers, it's actually worse for your standing in the quarterbacks.

Speaker 13 Who told you that?

Speaker 77 Everyone in the media who says that Jalen Hurts, having good wide receivers, makes him a bad quarterback.

Speaker 13 Everyone in the media said that?

Speaker 77 Yeah, and Justin Herbert being a top-five quarterback because he has bad wide receivers.

Speaker 95 Well, that's Trey Lance's job now, buddy.

Speaker 104 Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 69 Brady never had great receivers.

Speaker 77 So it actually helps my standing if Jaden Daniels doesn't have good wide receivers because that's the only thing that people care about.

Speaker 117 Brady did have good wide receivers.

Speaker 13 That's a lie.

Speaker 67 He had a Hall of Fame tight end, probably the best tight end ever.

Speaker 22 Memes has a smirk on his face.

Speaker 89 You think Hernandez is the Hall of Fame?

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, well, Memes has

Speaker 8 a huge smirk on his face.

Speaker 66 You can't see him from this angle.

Speaker 50 Many Woodhead angles are a little tight.

Speaker 13 You know why you can't see memes from this angle? Because his fat ass won't fit in the seat without hitting the horn.

Speaker 13 He tried to climb into the driver's seat a second ago, ass cheek right on the horn.

Speaker 57 He's like, well, I can't do that.

Speaker 119 memes would you like to would you like to yeah you're you're smiling you're you're because i'm unfortunately i'm it looks like terry mclaurin might get traded and i have pft's side in the fact that i said he's not gonna get traded so i will be wrong with pft but memes and max have been the trolls memes go ahead you're gonna take a victory lap right now

Speaker 37 uh

Speaker 13 not yet but the jets do have the best odds to land terry oh oh my god and i do like alcaminos terry also terry has a lot of experience playing with bad quarterbacks so that would be a good fit for him.

Speaker 121 What are you going to say to that?

Speaker 122 We don't know. This is Justin Fields' best opportunity.

Speaker 13 I do like Justin Fields. I just like making fun of memes more.
But we got to get it done.

Speaker 13 And tell you what, my official stance, I'm not trading Terry.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 77 What are you going to do if you don't get it done?

Speaker 13 Request refused.

Speaker 88 Are you going to politely?

Speaker 77 Give up any other cars or?

Speaker 93 No.

Speaker 48 Cry?

Speaker 93 No, I'm going to cry.

Speaker 13 Okay. I promise you this, if we trade Terry, I will cry.

Speaker 69 Would you rather Terry go to the Jets or the Patriots? If you had to pick one?

Speaker 13 If I had to pick one? Definitely. Jets.
Jets. Not even a question.
That didn't take me half a second to think that to, Hank.

Speaker 77 I would prefer Patriots.

Speaker 113 Same. Yeah, I know you would.

Speaker 13 But if the shoe was on the other foot and it was A.J. Brown, you would say go to the Jets, right?

Speaker 48 It'd be coming for the Patriots for April.

Speaker 77 But there's one difference there.

Speaker 77 Terry McLaurin has requested a trade in Brown.

Speaker 13 That's the politest way.

Speaker 13 People aren't talking about how polite it is to request a trade instead of a trade.

Speaker 37 Well, that was how Schefter put it.

Speaker 36 We don't know. He might have demanded.

Speaker 13 No, I saw many reports saying that was a request. Well, they all just copy Schaefer.

Speaker 13 Well, Jordan Schultz came out with it first, which is somewhat of a red flag that his agent went to Jordan Schultz first.

Speaker 107 Well, he probably got some Uber stock.

Speaker 104 Probably.

Speaker 13 Yeah, that's what this is about. This is probably an entirely made-up story just for Jordan Schultz to keep forking over money to Terry's agent.

Speaker 13 Glad we got to the bottom of it. Okay.

Speaker 90 So let's talk about Micah.

Speaker 68 Yeah, yeah. Micah.

Speaker 36 What do you got about Micah?

Speaker 104 He's not happy.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 91 He should probably get traded.

Speaker 37 He's unhappy.

Speaker 13 I would consider Terry for Micah.

Speaker 9 You already said you already tried to trade Terry for Big Dom.

Speaker 13 I did, but I realized that was a pipe dream.

Speaker 86 Yeah, I turned that down.

Speaker 13 If Big Dom came to Washington, he would 100% just be a mole for the Eagles.

Speaker 104 You can't take the Eagles out of that guy.

Speaker 71 Absolutely.

Speaker 13 I would trade, yeah, Terry for Micah. I think that makes sense.

Speaker 83 Yeah.

Speaker 52 Okay.

Speaker 66 Any other football stuff?

Speaker 18 Oh, Antonio Gates will be the first Hall of Famer to be inducted that never played Adonai College football.

Speaker 62 Kind of cool.

Speaker 63 Stud.

Speaker 48 That's pretty crazy.

Speaker 37 That's very cool.

Speaker 96 That's very cool.

Speaker 36 Any other football stuff?

Speaker 125 We just got training camps going.

Speaker 42 Crazy training camp stuff.

Speaker 18 The fat guy in Tampa is still fat.

Speaker 13 It's very much. Yeah.

Speaker 37 That's the update.

Speaker 103 We just had him in his jersey on the sideline today.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 68 He's not even walking anymore.

Speaker 92 I could use, he was leaning on some

Speaker 103 practice equipment.

Speaker 13 It didn't look too, it was a little disheartening i hope they get him on the field so soon yeah it's messed up how they have a camera just following him i know as he's just walking all the time like it's a wildlife trail cam that you set out for a deer yeah you're like oh he's here he's back best place to lose weight though yeah straining camp they're just making him walk and stand in the heat and probably like judging what he puts in you know in his mouth

Speaker 103 that florida sun's 103 degrees he'll get it off quick yeah he'll get it off real quick uh he's never played in florida before

Speaker 103 different heat closer to the beach maybe yeah is it it?

Speaker 83 Yeah, probably. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Okay, yeah. Listen, I want him to play, so I hope that he is able to shed the weight.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 98 Okay.

Speaker 22 Should we talk MLB trade deadline?

Speaker 89 Yeah. So it happened.

Speaker 41 A few of us have teams that were active.

Speaker 101 I could start.

Speaker 17 Cubs trade deadline recap.

Speaker 16 That's what that got.

Speaker 52 They got no plan.

Speaker 66 They got a bunch of rental arms. A super utility man, which I like that.

Speaker 18 That's cool. Anytime you can get a super utility man, it's awesome.

Speaker 45 But it feels like Kyle Tucker will not be re-signed.

Speaker 41 The Cubs had,

Speaker 64 they traded a prospect,

Speaker 4 a really good prospect in Cam Smith for Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 17 They traded Cody Bellinger to free up cash.

Speaker 25 Everyone thought this was like, oh shit, they have a window to go all in.

Speaker 2 And then they did nothing at the trade deadline.

Speaker 18 And they're holding on to prospects. And then they're probably not going to sign Kyle Tucker.
And then they're going to have the prospects come up next year.

Speaker 17 And they're going to be like, well, we'll just be cheaper than we've ever been.

Speaker 22 And yeah, it's a disaster.

Speaker 36 They essentially said today, we're not actively trying to win the whole thing.

Speaker 91 We're just trying to get in the playoffs and hope every single player plays to their best of ability.

Speaker 22 And then even then, it probably won't be enough.

Speaker 13 That's not a great feeling to have. No, because

Speaker 53 it's just so stupid.

Speaker 45 Like, you get, you should actually, they should have traded Kyle Tucker today.

Speaker 13 Especially when other teams in the National League made a concerted effort to get better.

Speaker 20 The Padres, the Mets, the Phillies

Speaker 33 all got better.

Speaker 2 The only thing that I keep saying to myself, the only way that I will

Speaker 64 believe in the Cubs actively trying to win a World Series again is I do not think, I think this basically

Speaker 54 is Kyle Tucker's not going to resign because they have outfielders in the minor leagues that they could have traded for high-end pitching prospects.

Speaker 18 They didn't.

Speaker 43 I don't know if there was a bunch of guys available.

Speaker 45 I don't know if the price was too high, but this was a chance to go all in.

Speaker 61 You have a very good team and you could have, if you got a top-end starter, you're like actively, hey, we could win the World Series.

Speaker 38 If they don't re-sign Kyle Tucker, the only way they can make it right is if they bring back Kyle Schwerber.

Speaker 104 I decided on that.

Speaker 121 I'm going to start putting the pressure on that because he's a free agent.

Speaker 13 But you also just kind of did the same thing thinking that they had a plan.

Speaker 53 No, they don't.

Speaker 13 But you just kind of assume that they did based on the fact they didn't trade their young outfielders that are in the system because in your mind, that means they're not going to re-sign Tucker.

Speaker 56 Correct.

Speaker 13 That would indicate that they had a plan.

Speaker 1 But the plan doesn't make sense because

Speaker 2 if you are signing Kyle Tucker for a one-year rental, that should be the time you go push the chips in and be like, we have him.

Speaker 13 I think that they've got like,

Speaker 13 their plans are so bad that it's identical to not having a plan. Right.

Speaker 8 And they, they also got, they, they traded Cody Bellinger to free up cash.

Speaker 105 And like, it was like, oh, okay, this is going to be used at a later date.

Speaker 2 And now it's not.

Speaker 77 And it just sucks.

Speaker 37 It sucks.

Speaker 22 And they don't, yeah, I mean, they're starting pitching.

Speaker 16 Like, we got, we got some arms, but we still have not a great i mean we got guys coming back from injury but it's just not going to be enough i don't think it's going to be enough against the mets the phillies the padres the dodgers there's a lot of good nl teams how much do you believe right now uh i do think i mean listen the the most frustrating part is the cubs did get better as a team like today like they're better today than they were a week ago which is a crazy thing to say, obviously, because I just was very down on the trade deadline.

Speaker 22 They are better because they have more depth, but they don't have enough to be like competing for an actual World Series this year.

Speaker 2 Their starting rotation is just nowhere near World Series worthy, unless everyone just decides to be the best version of themselves for an entire month.

Speaker 22 And then, even, again, still, I don't know if that's enough.

Speaker 92 Phillies and Mets, though, they actually went for it, right?

Speaker 16 Yeah,

Speaker 77 I'd say B plus for the Phills.

Speaker 66 That B plus is a lot better than Metal. B-plus is good.

Speaker 77 The number one need was getting a back-end reliever, and they got probably top two one that was on the market, him and Mason Miller. Mason Miller is probably one, he was probably two.
And Johan Duran,

Speaker 63 but

Speaker 77 they went pretty safe. They also needed another bat in the outfield that could hit

Speaker 77 left-handed pitching. They got Harrison Bader, who is like an okay guy, but well, okay, baseball.

Speaker 55 What?

Speaker 121 He's the okay baseball player.

Speaker 34 Okay, baseball player?

Speaker 67 Yeah, sure, he's a nice guy. Yeah, no, he's a nice guy.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 37 Right, right. His old tweets.

Speaker 77 I don't know. I don't remember that.

Speaker 66 Oh, it was an all-star game?

Speaker 77 I'm not familiar.

Speaker 13 That's good. Keep saying it.

Speaker 110 Well, just yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 107 Don't learn.

Speaker 52 Because we don't want to add another thing on your list.

Speaker 77 Okay.

Speaker 77 He's an okay baseball player.

Speaker 77 He's having a pretty good year. He's close to an 800 OPS, but like.

Speaker 77 There were other bigger names out there that you could have gone all in for, and we didn't really address the

Speaker 77 cleanup hitter. We have the worst cleanup hitter in baseball right now, and it's tough there, but they got a lot better.

Speaker 77 They got a lot better, and then they signed some other guy from the Tigers reliever that people like, Matt Manning.

Speaker 52 Oh, wait, Harrison Bader's not the guy we're thinking of, PFT.

Speaker 63 What?

Speaker 13 We both thought of the wrong guy? Yeah. Who are we thinking of?

Speaker 6 It's Bader, right?

Speaker 91 The Brewer's reliever.

Speaker 77 Oh, that's Josh Hader.

Speaker 128 Oh, yeah. Because when he started talking about OPS, I was like, what the fuck?

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Josh Hader.

Speaker 78 Harrison Bader.

Speaker 129 Josh Hayter. Sorry, Harrison Bader.

Speaker 13 But that was us being found. That's on us.

Speaker 108 That's on us.

Speaker 110 Hey, Big Cat. Hey.

Speaker 57 We take accountability on this side of the bar.

Speaker 77 Josh Hader, that I am familiar with.

Speaker 55 Yes.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 37 We Baronstein Baird at the same exact time.

Speaker 57 Literally the same exact time.

Speaker 13 Somebody look up Harrison Bader's tweets.

Speaker 55 We might be right about it.

Speaker 13 Me and Big Cat were so in sync on that one. There might be something in the universe that we don't know about yet.

Speaker 77 I hope he's in AWL and he's listening to this.

Speaker 37 He's like, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 Everyone who tweeted us correcting us, please update your tweet now because we're going to get a lot of those.

Speaker 33 Yep.

Speaker 37 All right. So overall B?

Speaker 77 B plus. And Duran has the sickest closer and entrance of all time, which is going to be so fucking sick in October.

Speaker 130 Oh, that's what is it?

Speaker 77 It's some song that I don't know. It's a.

Speaker 8 How do you say his first name?

Speaker 77 Johan.

Speaker 77 Johan.

Speaker 88 You just said it three different ways.

Speaker 74 I know.

Speaker 55 Yo, Adrian.

Speaker 77 I'm still, I'm still, I've heard it three different ways. Like, I've been listening to, like, reports, and multiple people say it different ways.
Johan, I think, is like the white way to say it. Yes.

Speaker 77 And, like, Johan is like how, is, like, the real way to say it. Okay.

Speaker 74 Like.

Speaker 55 What's the fucking thing?

Speaker 22 Also, I think we should just normalize saying names wrong.

Speaker 52 Yeah. Yeah.
Bullshit when people come at it.

Speaker 83 Right. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 16 Right, Henry? Yes.

Speaker 69 Yeah, exactly. Ben saying that.

Speaker 77 Especially baseball, it's like you follow your team and then new.

Speaker 57 But he's on your team now.

Speaker 77 I know, but that's what I'm trying to learn.

Speaker 105 You did.

Speaker 19 You were like in the car when it happened.

Speaker 32 You were just like, how do I fucking pronounce his name?

Speaker 33 How do I pronounce his name?

Speaker 52 All right.

Speaker 61 Memes?

Speaker 85 I'm also giving the Mets a B plus.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 13 We stacked the bullpen.

Speaker 114 We got three guys and we got a center fielder.

Speaker 120 Did not get a starting pitcher.

Speaker 114 Everybody thought they were going to get a starting pitcher, possibly a Grom.

Speaker 64 Do we think starting pitchers were just not available? Because that's

Speaker 30 the people who are.

Speaker 2 There's very few people who are defending what the Cubs did, but the only defense I've seen is, well, the price was just too high for starting pitching.

Speaker 20 I just can't, I can't believe that no one wanted to give up anyone.

Speaker 19 Like, Mackenzie Gore didn't go.

Speaker 36 I'm glad.

Speaker 110 I'm glad.

Speaker 37 Yeah, Merrill Kelly went to the Rangers.

Speaker 132 He would have been nice. Zach Allen didn't move.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 37 I don't know.

Speaker 13 I'm guessing there weren't too many guys that were like real quality starters that were available.

Speaker 55 But I just feel like there's always a price.

Speaker 2 Like, you can always go ahead and get it.

Speaker 77 Alcantar's another one that didn't go that people thought were going to go. Sandy Alcantar.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 But, like, you,

Speaker 45 maybe I just don't know how baseball trades work, but there's always a problem.

Speaker 36 Like I'm convinced the Cubs could have said, hey, let's go all in and get a guy who could be controlled for a couple of years, like Mackenzie Gore.

Speaker 97 All right, so B plus?

Speaker 114 I'd say B plus.

Speaker 25 Okay. We also had

Speaker 24 who else made big moves?

Speaker 66 The Padres?

Speaker 13 Padres got some bullpen help.

Speaker 105 Yep. The Padres.

Speaker 13 I might be back in on the Padres. I feel like it's every time of year for me when I start thinking about the Padres and I was thinking about them today.

Speaker 35 Great.

Speaker 13 They had maybe the best bullpin last year, and their bullpen's better. Yeah.

Speaker 105 And

Speaker 66 they got Ryan O'Hearn from the Orioles.

Speaker 67 The Orioles actually did a pretty good job of maybe, like, they still have their young core of maybe trading pieces in a season that's been very disappointing for them.

Speaker 13 Orioles fans are not happy.

Speaker 21 Well, I mean, they were

Speaker 133 in the contention for like they were a World Series talked-about team going into this season, and they just were really bad.

Speaker 77 There were lots of things that the Mason Miller Padres trade was an absolute flea thing, that the Padres gave up way too much.

Speaker 37 Ooh, I love that.

Speaker 69 I think the pods always do that.

Speaker 52 Did you look on my new, the new account that

Speaker 77 I told you about? I did not look at that.

Speaker 53 It could be total bullshit.

Speaker 17 It's just a Twitter account that I found that grades every trade in baseball and says the computer model grades this like a fair trade or overpay.

Speaker 77 I was, yeah, I was reading something that like the Padres

Speaker 77 like for the only reason for it to make sense for the amount that they gave up for Mason Miller is that

Speaker 77 they must see him as a starter like going forward because

Speaker 77 I think they gave up like a top 10 prospect plus like two other top 100 guys for a closer which is insane like I think they gave up like a number seven prospecting though you can't prospect hold all the time these guys not every farm system in baseball has a top 10 prospect list and like five of those guys won't be big leaguers no that was top that like overall it was it was like that's different it was a top 10 overall okay oh overall overall because I bate in

Speaker 53 I hate the like, oh, we traded our seventh best prospect.

Speaker 15 It's like that guy might not make it to the big leagues.

Speaker 57 You don't know.

Speaker 83 Like, you gotta go. Chances are they won't win.

Speaker 114 Sometimes they turn out to be PCA, though.

Speaker 48 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 45 PCA, pretty good.

Speaker 13 The Blue Jays got Shane Bieber. Yep.
Which is

Speaker 13 the only takeaway for me is that Blue Jays' Bieber jersey is going to sell like hotcakes.

Speaker 34 That's huge.

Speaker 134 The Yankees made a bunch of moves.

Speaker 52 Oh, oh, I have this.

Speaker 22 This is the best Bob Nightingale tweet.

Speaker 64 He's such a fucking weirdo.

Speaker 103 Oh, and I bookmarked it.

Speaker 13 All right, here we go. I love his avatar.

Speaker 91 If the Yankees and Dodgers meet in the World Series, look for new outfielder Austin Slater to start against Dodger Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw.

Speaker 66 His numbers against Kershaw, 9 for 30, 4 home runs, 5 RBIs, 31 plate appearances.

Speaker 19 Huge.

Speaker 55 What the fuck was that?

Speaker 13 9 for 30? Was that 324?

Speaker 1 The Yankees traded for Austin Slater because he might face Clayton Kershaw in the World Series?

Speaker 13 He's the only hitter in baseball that can beat Clayton Kershaw in the playoffs.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 37 It's never happened. It's crazy.
It's crazy.

Speaker 13 I don't even know if he's saying that because it's a good stat for him or a bad stat against Clayton Kershaw in the playoffs.

Speaker 88 Yeah.

Speaker 10 No, that's true.

Speaker 36 He might be bad against Clayton Kershaw because Clayton Kershaw is mostly bad in the playoffs.

Speaker 48 Bad move by the Yankees.

Speaker 98 Right.

Speaker 66 Okay, other winners.

Speaker 13 Hank, you got a guy, Dustin May?

Speaker 69 Yeah, they didn't do much. Everything I saw from the Red Sox where they were pussies didn't do anything.
I did read up about cheap owners.

Speaker 13 I read about Dustin May, though. It's a good story.
So I think it was two years ago, maybe two and a half years ago, he almost died.

Speaker 13 He choked on a salad, went down the wrong pipe, and then he tried to drink water to wash it down, and all the water spilled over and went into his lungs.

Speaker 13 He had to go to the hospital, emergency surgery, and then he had Tommy John right after that. That's a great story.
Yeah, but he almost died.

Speaker 104 I'm happy he's with us. Don't eat salads.

Speaker 37 Don't eat salads.

Speaker 13 Salads are killers.

Speaker 77 Twins literally gave up their entire team. They have nobody left.
Correa back to the Astros. That was a big one.
Yep. And Yoane Osuarez back to the Mariners.

Speaker 44 Yes.

Speaker 61 Mariners could be dangerous.

Speaker 117 Yep, for sure.

Speaker 118 Yeah.

Speaker 48 What else we got?

Speaker 13 I think that was it. That's

Speaker 13 everything that happened. That was around the diamond.

Speaker 37 That was around the diamond.

Speaker 48 Oh, I have a quick update for you on

Speaker 49 players in training camp who have been dubbed war daddies.

Speaker 72 Okay, I like that.

Speaker 101 Jaden Reed in 2023, Puka Nakua in 2024.

Speaker 78 This year, we have two new war daddies,

Speaker 36 Chubba Hubbard and Rico Dowdle.

Speaker 13 Really? Yeah. Rico DeDewe.

Speaker 90 Yeah.

Speaker 13 I don't feel like a running back can be a war daddy.

Speaker 30 Well, war daddies should be.

Speaker 113 Two of them are.

Speaker 13 Like guards, defensive tackles. That's a war daddy.

Speaker 122 That was two.

Speaker 20 The Coach Speak Index, which is a big follow.

Speaker 37 That's a war daddy.

Speaker 51 They both have been called War Daddies.

Speaker 79 I also saw that there was a...

Speaker 85 What are you guys looking at?

Speaker 13 I got breaking news for my stats guy, Hank. Okay.
Stats Guy Hank just pulled this up.

Speaker 55 Stat guy, Hank.

Speaker 83 Go.

Speaker 13 Terry McLaurin, next team odds.

Speaker 69 Let's go two through four.

Speaker 13 All right, two is the Patriots, plus 450. Yep.
Raiders plus 500. Titans, plus 1,100.
That's two through four.

Speaker 69 Tied for four?

Speaker 13 Tied for four. Chargers, plus 1,100.
Whoa, Shane. Yeah, that's two through four.
Number one,

Speaker 13 the Commanders, minus 250.

Speaker 88 We're not trading them.

Speaker 13 What about the Jets? They're number six. They were next to.

Speaker 125 Memes did an Aaron Rodgers top five.

Speaker 135 I read a different tweet.

Speaker 115 No,

Speaker 69 they're number six, but they're next to the right of the commanders.

Speaker 13 Memes, you did not read a different tweet because the tweet I'm looking at right now.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it was 21 minutes ago, and the Jets look like they could be number two because they're in the top right corner, but they're actually number number six if you follow the numbers sorry memes it says jets for list 300.

Speaker 13 i listen if i if i could make the call i would trade him to the jets way before i trade him to the patriots way before

Speaker 17 me too you don't want either of those i don't

Speaker 18 i mean memes hank is like the devil you know memes is the one you just he just the smile the smirk calling you little guy he's a fat ass he's a fat ass he could probably he could probably manhandle you.

Speaker 2 He could probably sit on you and suffocate you like a bug.

Speaker 13 Choke me out with his farts.

Speaker 105 These are all bad things. These are bad ideas.

Speaker 77 Did you release that Debo video yet?

Speaker 84 What?

Speaker 77 Did you release that Debo jersey video yet?

Speaker 24 Debo's on the show today.

Speaker 101 Past memes.

Speaker 13 I don't know.

Speaker 55 It's coming.

Speaker 77 All right, then I won't.

Speaker 16 So that's just a little teaser.

Speaker 37 A little teaser. Yeah,

Speaker 13 we tried on

Speaker 13 smaller, smaller Debo jerseys until I look fat.

Speaker 83 Yeah.

Speaker 64 Great science experiment.

Speaker 9 We should have said Gilbert Arenas also got arrested for having a

Speaker 32 poker game at his house, high-end poker game with maybe an Israeli mafia member.

Speaker 13 He got released.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 13 My understanding per Gilbert Arenas is that he rented a house that happened to have a poker game going on.

Speaker 94 Now, I don't know.

Speaker 100 Oh, that's the classic, like, oh,

Speaker 36 those drugs in my trunk, someone else put them there.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I don't know

Speaker 13 how the poker table that says Arenas on it, I don't know where that comes into play. I don't know know if you rented that too, if somebody else made that.
Might not have been his table.

Speaker 19 Gilbert Arenas, say what you want, but he's going to go down as one of the all-time card players because

Speaker 66 everything

Speaker 31 bad is just surrounding cards.

Speaker 13 Yeah, is he a problem poker player?

Speaker 83 Yeah.

Speaker 18 I mean, guys can't have any fun anymore. That was my initial reaction.
I think I'm going to stick with it until something bad comes out from it.

Speaker 13 You should be allowed to run illegal poker games.

Speaker 37 I agree.

Speaker 98 I agree.

Speaker 18 Okay, I'm trying to think if there's anything else that we missed.

Speaker 32 Anything we missed? Big.

Speaker 48 Anything?

Speaker 13 Boys? Memes, what you got?

Speaker 120 This might not be big, but Maverick Carter met with Jokic's European agent on a yacht.

Speaker 104 I saw that.

Speaker 13 Sounds big when you say it. Yep.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I mean, LeBron James is just going to start his own league. He's going to retire from the NBA.
He's going to start an international league, and he's going to try to destroy the NBA. Yeah.

Speaker 69 Which cousins

Speaker 69 cousins was on a podcast, and he said when he shared a locker with Jokic Jokic, he was like, I heard someone, or we saw on the news, like someone signed for X amount of money, and I was like, damn, like, Jokic, you're going to get a huge contract.

Speaker 69 He's like, I might retire after this one. Yeah.

Speaker 66 He wants to be with his horse.

Speaker 69 So Jokic, I could easily see signing for, doing, you know, signing for a bag and then

Speaker 69 just chilling.

Speaker 60 We also had Daryl Maury just basically cemented that the bubble championship doesn't count.

Speaker 13 What did he say?

Speaker 9 He said, had the Rockets won the title, I absolutely would have celebrated it as legitimate, knowing the immense effort and resilience required.

Speaker 18 Yet everyone I speak to around the league privately agrees that it doesn't truly hold up as a genuine championship.

Speaker 20 Perhaps the lasting legacy of the NBA bubble is that the NBA should be proud of its leadership at both the beginning and end of the pandemic, even though the champion will forever be marked by an asterisk.

Speaker 37 So the real championships are the same.

Speaker 69 The leadership counts, though. What? Like he was saying he would have counted it.

Speaker 53 Well, no, he's saying he would have celebrated it like it's real, but he said around the league, people.

Speaker 13 I think he's saying that Adam Silver should have celebrated the championship for himself. Yeah, right.

Speaker 6 P, the NBA staffers.

Speaker 13 Yeah, we did it. We brought sports back.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 18 The person who stitched Reading Matters on the back of Michael Porter Jr.

Speaker 67 shirt.

Speaker 13 What was the one that said group economics? Yeah. On the back.
I got to get that jersey.

Speaker 95 Wild times.

Speaker 121 Wild times.

Speaker 57 Okay.

Speaker 18 I actually do have one thing I want to finish with just to get everyone excited. I know Hank doesn't like this because he loves the summer so much and he's going to be mad.

Speaker 64 This is from Matt 2Frosty. It went viral, but it deserves to go viral.

Speaker 22 He said, I've already got my eyes set on the best weekend of the fall.

Speaker 64 September 27th.

Speaker 82 Here's what we got.

Speaker 4 Saturday, Ryder Cup.

Speaker 87 Yes.

Speaker 18 Bama versus Georgia. Nice.
LSU versus Ole Miss. Oregon versus Penn State.

Speaker 72 Whiteout.

Speaker 18 September 28th, Sunday, Ryder Cup.

Speaker 97 Yeah. Eagles versus Bucs.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 Ravens versus Chiefs.

Speaker 114 Packers versus Cowboys. Fuck yeah.

Speaker 60 That's coming, guys.

Speaker 18 It's coming.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 89 It's coming.

Speaker 48 Yeah, I'm ready.

Speaker 94 I'm ready. I am too.

Speaker 107 My body is ready.

Speaker 13 That did something to me.

Speaker 52 Yeah, it really did. I read it.

Speaker 67 I was just like, oh, my God.

Speaker 38 Yes. Yes.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 133 You versus Che.

Speaker 126 And Zach.

Speaker 114 And Zach. Oh, man.

Speaker 114 Do well against Eagles.

Speaker 69 They do do well against Eagles.

Speaker 89 Yeah, you do do well against Eagles.

Speaker 83 Look at that hat.

Speaker 122 So you look like Bobby Bacala

Speaker 89 hunting.

Speaker 104 It's a great look. Great episode.

Speaker 13 Zach, I think in the future, when you get on the bike, the glasses off was a great move, I think, on the bike.

Speaker 59 That's Daredevil's act.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but there's one more piece. You got to put the earrings back in.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Dude, you'd look smoking hot.

Speaker 118 What are they called?

Speaker 37 Dents with diamonds or hoops?

Speaker 90 I wouldn't mind seeing you have some gauges.

Speaker 46 Is that what they're called?

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Gauges? I can't do that. I can't.

Speaker 54 Just stretch those earlobes out.

Speaker 103 It's so permanent in your earlobes.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 103 You never get them back.

Speaker 13 Wait, do you just have the one hole on each side?

Speaker 28 I do. I would like

Speaker 37 to go hard and everyone away.

Speaker 13 Was it the diamond stud? It was like, yeah,

Speaker 13 but it was like the fake diamond stud from Clayers, like the

Speaker 103 eight bucks.

Speaker 13 No, we'll get you some real diamonds.

Speaker 115 I want one of them to be

Speaker 95 like the Barry Bonds.

Speaker 68 All dangly.

Speaker 116 The cross? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 37 Maybe you get like

Speaker 13 a three-carat stone on one side and then a dangly cross on the other side.

Speaker 51 Not even, maybe, maybe, maybe like a lightning bolt.

Speaker 37 I don't have the kind of speed.

Speaker 13 But that's also a Z.

Speaker 37 The lightning bolt is also a Z.

Speaker 110 Zach, we saw you on the bike.

Speaker 69 You got speed.

Speaker 103 Well, if we do group pierce, we all just send it.

Speaker 37 Earrings. What do we do?

Speaker 14 I'm out.

Speaker 111 Out. Okay.

Speaker 37 But I'm in for you.

Speaker 28 I'm already holed up.

Speaker 28 Are you?

Speaker 131 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Let me see.

Speaker 93 When'd you hole up?

Speaker 13 When I was like 16.

Speaker 51 Yeah, but you don't have the holes like Zach has holes.

Speaker 69 I do on my left. They say they close.

Speaker 13 Oh, you don't have holes, Hank.

Speaker 31 No, Zach, dude, you can see that.

Speaker 37 I got big ass holes.

Speaker 133 Big earlobes.

Speaker 82 Big ears.

Speaker 93 No, you're good.

Speaker 68 You're not. Don't do that to yourself.

Speaker 75 You can see the hole, Hank. Can you?

Speaker 69 I can feel him.

Speaker 103 You just do a little ice cube in the back, numb it up.

Speaker 83 We can poke them through.

Speaker 69 Yeah, that's how I did it the first time.

Speaker 22 Zach, before I do the ad to get us to Mount Rushmore, like in your house, I pierced my ear at my friend's house.

Speaker 69 Yeah, just pierced my ear with the earring.

Speaker 41 Zach, before we get due.

Speaker 80 There was a clip on.

Speaker 6 You just shoved it through.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 16 That's awesome.

Speaker 84 That's such a Hank story, too.

Speaker 13 You went home. What did your parents say when you went home?

Speaker 69 Oh, my God. My mom was furious.
My grandmother was a little bit more.

Speaker 8 Would your mom write a chapter in the book?

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 71 It would be so awesome.

Speaker 69 My mom was furious.

Speaker 37 She was just raising Henry Lockwood.

Speaker 86 Her mom was incredible.

Speaker 69 She was living at our house at the end of her days.

Speaker 69 And she was like, go show your grandmother. She's going to be so mad.

Speaker 37 And my grandma's like, oh, you look so nice.

Speaker 69 My mom was so mad.

Speaker 37 Oh, backfire.

Speaker 13 Dude, yeah, we should actually have her.

Speaker 10 Just like, just give us a couple Hank stories.

Speaker 83 Just a couple Hank stories.

Speaker 18 Zach, can you, before I do the ad to get us to Mount Rushmore, can you just maybe look into the the camera and just give the people just a peek of Daredevil Zach?

Speaker 104 Yes, sir.

Speaker 92 What's going on, guys? No, no, you know what Daredevil Zach.

Speaker 48 Do I deglass? Yeah, and then

Speaker 107 you got to talk with confidence and be like, I'm here to fuck some shit up.

Speaker 103 We're going to fuck some shit up.

Speaker 37 Okay, there it is. Let's do it.

Speaker 69 No kill switch.

Speaker 13 No kill switch. You got to have the kill switch.

Speaker 37 That was one of the rules.

Speaker 69 Oh,

Speaker 69 I thought I said full throttle, no kill switch.

Speaker 103 Ghost trade, don't go right, kill switch. I was just trying to remember where it was at because they said if you end up like in the phone pit with the bike for too long, you got to kill it.

Speaker 16 Oh,

Speaker 69 I thought it was full throttle, no kill switch.

Speaker 13 And then, Jack, the dismount out of the phone pit. Can you talk us through that? Oh, because that was the part that actually worried me.
I thought that you were going to break something.

Speaker 103 They did have a crane that grabs a bike and scoops you out of the phone pit. So they picked me up.

Speaker 103 I was holding on, or thought I was holding on, and then there happened to be like a wasp's nest or a bee's nest underneath.

Speaker 103 So they started shouting that out, and I kind of freaked out, and he's like, all right, go a little quicker.

Speaker 103 And then I guess Travis thought he was telling the other gentleman to drop me on the ledge, and then he brought me over the ledge, and I just didn't have the upper body strength to stay on the bike, and I went down.

Speaker 13 You were hanging for a long time.

Speaker 103 I appreciate that. I hang for as long as I could.

Speaker 13 Yeah, yeah, it's hard to hang. It's hard to hang.
It is.

Speaker 64 There's no reason to appreciate that.

Speaker 77 It's like a. He's telling him he was respecting his upper body.

Speaker 103 He said I had some body weight exercise in me.

Speaker 133 We would still be in Travis Festrana's

Speaker 55 light driveway if I had let that keep going.

Speaker 103 It just is such an an unbelievable experience.

Speaker 37 Yeah, I know, but you attracted him

Speaker 42 because he kept on saying you did a great job and you just kept on saying I appreciate that.

Speaker 18 Like, and thank you so much for giving me the hat and I appreciate that.

Speaker 52 And then he would thank you and then you'd thank him.

Speaker 93 And then

Speaker 13 Zach would try to give the hat back and then Travis would be like, no, no, you earned it. And then Zach would say, I really appreciate that.

Speaker 64 I really appreciate that so, so much, sir.

Speaker 37 It was great.

Speaker 104 All-time day. Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 67 I felt like Mills Lane. I just had to break it up.

Speaker 55 Like, all right, break.

Speaker 108 So you're never going to end.

Speaker 110 I was like like that other thank you off.

Speaker 13 That other boxing ref that was just like, oh, yeah, I was loving it. Watching you guys go back.
Oh,

Speaker 37 how's he going to thank him here? Oh, that's nice. Got him with the left.

Speaker 36 All right, let's get to Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 109 Mount Rushmore time.

Speaker 31 Let's get it. Mount Rushmore time.

Speaker 94 Hank was

Speaker 13 Hank's got the giggles.

Speaker 138 No screen watching?

Speaker 90 Zach is being cute.

Speaker 13 No screen watching? No screen watching.

Speaker 43 Let's all agree, no screen watching?

Speaker 26 Well, I mean, Max and memes.

Speaker 119 Should we talk about memes, the controversy on Wednesdays, Mount Rushbourne?

Speaker 66 Yeah, I think we should.

Speaker 119 So memes and Max won.

Speaker 138 I think, what's the standings right now?

Speaker 62 Standings are.

Speaker 77 This is a non-story, by the way.

Speaker 121 It's not a non-story.

Speaker 13 We let the listeners be the judge of that, Matt.

Speaker 77 There was more votes.

Speaker 10 Max and memes, 26.

Speaker 107 Big Hat and Zach, 24.

Speaker 138 Hank and PFT, 22.

Speaker 23 Okay, so we all are separated by two.

Speaker 68 On Wednesday, we were at Eagles Camp.

Speaker 26 The poll went live on the Pardon My Take Twitter.

Speaker 80 So everyone should go vote.

Speaker 139 We do it live at 12 Eastern every single Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Speaker 5 No tampering with the poll.

Speaker 41 We can't retweet.

Speaker 25 We can't like all this stuff.

Speaker 71 Something interesting happened, though, because it was a very close poll.

Speaker 140 I think Zach and I were actually in the lead to start for the first 2,000 or so votes.

Speaker 26 And then all of a sudden, Max and Memes got in the lead by a percent.

Speaker 56 and then would you look at that memes decided hey I'm gonna start tweeting from the pardon my take Twitter account and burying the poll he put out a picture of Pug he put out a video of Big Cat he retweeted Hank and memes not even Hank was a compliment it was

Speaker 37 a comment

Speaker 13 memes would never in a million years retweet a compliment regarding Hank Lockwood and he chose to do it three tweets within the span of

Speaker 13 15 minutes all right after they took the lead it was like it going to the polls and then somebody causing a bomb threat to the polling location. Just shut down the votes.

Speaker 13 We ended up with like barely any votes on this Mount Rushmore. And we lost what we normally get.
We lost by half a percent.

Speaker 47 Zach and I lost by half a percent.

Speaker 137 Half a percent.

Speaker 1 Because you decided to start going on a Twitter spree.

Speaker 14 As soon as we tweeted out the poll, the Eagles were nice enough to bring in a Super Bowl ring.

Speaker 102 Tacky. Tacky.

Speaker 37 Tacky ring.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 96 And it was a cool moment.

Speaker 15 And you had to get it out right then.

Speaker 120 Yeah, I felt the need

Speaker 16 to do your job.

Speaker 16 You felt the need to do your job.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 77 Also, out of the past five Mountain Rushmore polls that had the second most votes.

Speaker 13 Not nearly as much as Monday's, though.

Speaker 77 What about the other four?

Speaker 141 Talk about Grit Week.

Speaker 37 It's Grit Week.

Speaker 55 Grit Week Buck

Speaker 69 is our biggest year of the year.

Speaker 37 Get the Grit Week Ball. Grit Week Buck.

Speaker 142 So, what should their penalty be?

Speaker 96 They have to drive to Mountain Rushmore.

Speaker 121 All in favor, say aye. Aye.
Aye. Aye.

Speaker 13 I think they should just have to. Zach, say aye.

Speaker 103 Yes, sir.

Speaker 37 Say it.

Speaker 104 yes I there we go that's four four to two

Speaker 26 what do we do now

Speaker 13 you guys gotta dress just stop with this and let's do the mount rush but just do the mount rush we just wanted our complaints heard that's all we just wanted on the record that memes would never in a million years do that so don't tweet for the two hours it's posted it's no no no no if if if zach and i are in the lead you can tweet all you want okay and if it's if it's a nice compliment like you can you can that was a nice retweet you can do that so you're all right with that one yeah i'll say that i'll say this there's The rings could have waited.

Speaker 119 Behind the scenes of Grit Week, the one thing I'm excited to be done with on Grit Week is

Speaker 53 all of us together watching the poll.

Speaker 124 It's very, very

Speaker 139 stress-inducing because we all just sit there and refresh and we're like, oh,

Speaker 100 it's over. It's over.

Speaker 2 And I'm excited to maybe not be with you guys when the poll drops.

Speaker 13 We have a pretty clear idea of who wins after, what, five minutes?

Speaker 119 No, it's after memes starts burying the poll.

Speaker 104 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 110 That's usually when we know.

Speaker 36 But don't you guys agree?

Speaker 4 It's tough when we're all in the same room.

Speaker 13 You can't watch the numbers.

Speaker 62 It's stress-inducing.

Speaker 13 Okay. Hank did a great job in theory with

Speaker 13 Monday's Mount Rushmore. Didn't work out in our favor, but Hank has recommitted, and he says he's all the way back.

Speaker 13 So even though we finished third place after two first-place victories, I want to say for the record, I don't hold that against Hank.

Speaker 90 Okay. Thank you.

Speaker 37 Love that.

Speaker 69 Daenerys was, I had her, her tits clouded my judgment, and I shouldn't have taken her.

Speaker 37 Bad pick.

Speaker 100 I'll say this, that pull on on Wednesday.

Speaker 69 I thought people were going to be horned up and like, yeah, good pick.

Speaker 9 That poll on Wednesday was as close as close could get.

Speaker 139 So I don't even know if anyone can, because you were beating yourself up about the Aunt Becky pick, because you pulled the trigger on that one in the second round.

Speaker 126 It was a bad auto.

Speaker 1 I don't think it was bad.

Speaker 62 I think that poll was just showed that it was kind of up to chance and memes bearing the poll.

Speaker 25 That was pretty much all that was going to happen.

Speaker 57 All right.

Speaker 26 We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of chain restaurants.

Speaker 140 Crazy we haven't done this.

Speaker 96 Rules are no drive-thrus.

Speaker 26 Yep, yep. No drive-thrus.
Chain restaurants.

Speaker 98 What's the order?

Speaker 13 Are we first? I believe you guys are up first.

Speaker 104 Okay. We're up second.

Speaker 69 Yep. Yeah, we're second.

Speaker 37 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 52 All right.

Speaker 45 Well, let's just get to it.

Speaker 17 Our first pick.

Speaker 2 I don't think it's going to be much of a surprise to anyone here.

Speaker 82 We're going to go with chilies.

Speaker 37 All right.

Speaker 75 Chili's one-one.

Speaker 6 I still, as a 40-year-old, do my birthday at Chili's.

Speaker 10 I love Chili's.

Speaker 18 The sit-down, get bottomless chips and salsa and and queso instantly.

Speaker 37 The menu's got everything.

Speaker 13 Margarita is fantastic.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 45 They also have the

Speaker 82 fun games that you can play, like the, you know, those little portals that you can play little video games on.

Speaker 13 Those are cool. I saw a picture of some dude that made boots, like cowboy boots, out of the leather from a Chili's booth that they had, and it had like the Chili's pepper on it.
That's awesome.

Speaker 13 It was fucking sick.

Speaker 69 I wore a Chili's jersey on 4th of July that had the chicken wing. We had it for the Three For Me contest.

Speaker 69 One of the only sponsored, like, you know, we get them for a video shoot. I kept it because it was such a cool jersey.

Speaker 119 Yeah, I don't know if it should be like a depressing thing, but I did, because there's no chilies in

Speaker 135 Chicago. I think there's one.

Speaker 96 What was the one we got?

Speaker 69 Outside, like 40 minutes away.

Speaker 139 Yeah, so I got my whole family into the car as a 40-year-old and drove them all like an hour just so that I could get Fajita's Trios and bottomless chips.

Speaker 66 Did they like it?

Speaker 43 They did, but I think it was more special for me.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 79 And my wife kind of gave me a look like that.

Speaker 23 It's three little kids, and we just put them in the car at like six o'clock at night during rush hour so that you go to Chili's.

Speaker 139 I'm like, yeah, that's the rules.

Speaker 111 Worth it. That's the rules around here.

Speaker 102 All right.

Speaker 100 You guys are up?

Speaker 77 We are going to go with Applebee's.

Speaker 117 Okay.

Speaker 83 I think it's a safe pick. Clubbe.

Speaker 53 Oh, you're on safe.

Speaker 13 It's a safe pick. Safe pick.

Speaker 69 Have you guys been to Applebee's?

Speaker 90 Yes, we went as a team during Chili.

Speaker 69 No, I know. I'm just making sure.

Speaker 48 They got the 2 for 25. Our waitress.

Speaker 55 She was 2 for 25 now.

Speaker 89 Hot. All time.

Speaker 60 She was hot, too, but she was awesome.

Speaker 13 Applebee's a good pick. Safe pick.
Safe pick.

Speaker 77 She was classy.

Speaker 83 Safe elevated Chili.

Speaker 38 She was elevated. Yeah.

Speaker 38 Safe pick, guys. Safe pick.

Speaker 66 Yeah, you went right down the middle.

Speaker 97 That was like a.

Speaker 13 You're not going to catch me complaining about Applebee's. I think it's probably had

Speaker 13 second to third round value on my book, but you guys do it.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 97 That was like a 240-yard drive down the middle. Yeah.

Speaker 116 Good job. Plays.

Speaker 33 Didn't really fully swing.

Speaker 13 So it's on us? Yeah.

Speaker 94 All right.

Speaker 13 Number one, I'm going to go with Waffle House.

Speaker 37 Okay. Fucking love Waffle House.

Speaker 37 Hank hates that pick.

Speaker 69 I love it. I love that pick.

Speaker 86 We're going to get a tight shot on Hank's face.

Speaker 16 Don't.

Speaker 69 This is there. Don't listen then.
They're trying to break us up.

Speaker 89 Do you hate the pick?

Speaker 117 I'd like to pick it up.

Speaker 141 We're going to get a tight shot on Hank's face right when you made that pick.

Speaker 69 I love the pick. You're being

Speaker 69 picked.

Speaker 75 I don't know if I can trust Hank. That's what they want.

Speaker 55 That's what they want.

Speaker 129 Okay, number two. Wait, can I tell your Waffle House story?

Speaker 103 It's not really my story

Speaker 63 to tell.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 48 But we can get into whatever.

Speaker 52 Okay. All right.

Speaker 41 I'll redact any names.

Speaker 26 Fair.

Speaker 98 Okay. Super fair.

Speaker 119 I asked a friend once,

Speaker 23 they mentioned that someone in their family worked at Waffle House for many years. And I asked that friend, I was like, hey, did that person ever see like a classic Waffle House fight?

Speaker 26 And

Speaker 23 they replied, well, actually, there was a triple homicide at the Waffle House they worked at, and they had to clean up all the blood.

Speaker 126 Tough night for their friends. And

Speaker 67 I bet they were only closed for like four hours.

Speaker 103 Quick turnaround, I think. Yeah.

Speaker 91 Yeah. Waffle House is.

Speaker 43 Not the fight I was looking for. I was thinking more like a throwing of a chair.

Speaker 13 Yeah, maybe like the basket of eggs gets tossed.

Speaker 134 I think the words execution style were said.

Speaker 84 Okay.

Speaker 37 All right.

Speaker 103 That might just be the first one that comes to that guy's mind when he's thinking Waffle House. Yeah, really.

Speaker 13 But listen, if you had to pick anywhere to die, a Waffle House is a pretty good spot.

Speaker 38 In the freezer?

Speaker 13 No, just like if I... The freezer?

Speaker 103 I believe he told us it was the walk-in freezer.

Speaker 13 Oh, they got escorted into the walk-in freezer and shot?

Speaker 83 Really grisly.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's not great. I overheard it.

Speaker 37 Great restaurant, though.

Speaker 110 Not going to dissuade me from going to Waffle House.

Speaker 13 Great waffles. Love their sausage, the bowls that they have.

Speaker 13 It's just a perfect place.

Speaker 48 It's a great place.

Speaker 13 All right. Number two for us.
I'm going to go

Speaker 133 Hooters.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 131 Hooters.

Speaker 13 Change the game.

Speaker 109 We're going to go Buffalo Wild Wings. Okay.

Speaker 142 Also had on our list.

Speaker 71 Good picks, boys. Good picks.

Speaker 77 I thought for sure that one of those two from PFT would be Buffalo Wild Wings.

Speaker 104 It wasn't. I took Hooters.

Speaker 13 Listen, I know a guy like you doesn't like TFing, and I get that.

Speaker 13 So Hooters might not appeal to you.

Speaker 68 Sure.

Speaker 65 This is kind of where the draft starts because that was we

Speaker 23 in our pre-show discussion, we were like, hey, this is what's going to happen.

Speaker 80 There's going to be a Hooters pick. There's going to be a Buffalo Wild Wings pick.

Speaker 82 We got to plan for this.

Speaker 92 All right.

Speaker 130 We ready?

Speaker 22 We got to stay strong.

Speaker 48 Don't break. Can't break.

Speaker 92 Cannot break. All right.

Speaker 95 We got him. I think we go

Speaker 62 three

Speaker 96 and six. Six.

Speaker 90 I like it. All right.
We're going to go

Speaker 37 out back.

Speaker 55 Yep. Outback.

Speaker 77 I just showed that to me. That would have been our next pick.

Speaker 138 Brown bread.

Speaker 48 Fucking unbelievable.

Speaker 114 So good.

Speaker 13 Cooker Barrel Wings.

Speaker 136 Oh.

Speaker 52 Bloom and Onion.

Speaker 37 Oh. Yep.

Speaker 26 Shane.

Speaker 32 Bloom and Onion.

Speaker 96 Okay, he said no.

Speaker 138 And then we're going to go with the classic

Speaker 137 Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 37 Got pick. Go pick.
Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 14 Good pig.

Speaker 42 Hey, we stayed strong.

Speaker 13 We stayed strong. Plus, you get the old country store.
Yeah.

Speaker 55 Oh, my God.

Speaker 138 You got to buy so much shit from there.

Speaker 13 The country store is great. Did you ever do the tea game?

Speaker 36 Oh, I get bodied by that.

Speaker 13 Just playing Igno-Ray Mousse?

Speaker 122 There's something about Cracker Barrel, too, where it's just like, I just always end up with some form of

Speaker 2 gravy, and it's so good.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 13 The white gravy? Yeah, the white gravy. Yeah, the white gravy is actually fucking good.
Walk out of there with some Duck Dynasty merch. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Great spot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it really has everything.

Speaker 92 You really don't have to go anywhere else.

Speaker 13 It's like a waffle house if you have to take a shit.

Speaker 21 Yeah, and you also get way better back.

Speaker 99 And there's a gift shop.

Speaker 113 Yep.

Speaker 100 You guys are up.

Speaker 77 I know.

Speaker 90 Oh, no.

Speaker 5 Oh, no. Were you going to go Cracker Barrel or Outpack?

Speaker 132 We were going to go Outback.

Speaker 48 We were going to go Outpack.

Speaker 77 Cracker Barrel was on the list, but I don't think that's where we're going next. All right, should we do the what do you emphasize?

Speaker 137 Oh, no.

Speaker 114 I believe so.

Speaker 77 Okay. I mean, this is literally whatever.

Speaker 62 What?

Speaker 77 We're going going to go Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 37 Okay. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 46 Have you guys? I have a question for you guys.

Speaker 96 Good pick we had on our list.

Speaker 27 Have you guys been in a Cheesecake Factory recently?

Speaker 77 Yes. I went to the mall a couple months ago, and I went to the Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 1 Okay, because I don't know if this is just a personal experience, but when I was growing up, Cheesecake Factory to me was like literally the nicest restaurant you could possibly go to.

Speaker 77 It was like a birthday. Yeah.

Speaker 15 It was fine dining.

Speaker 64 It was like, holy shit, we're going to Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 25 I went to one and I was like, this is not what I remember.

Speaker 52 It's a chain restaurant.

Speaker 48 You go to it now and it's like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 43 In your head, in your kid head, you're like, well, like, you know, you're going, oh, you're going to go to Morton's?

Speaker 97 You're going to go to, oh, no, you're going to go to Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 78 Yeah.

Speaker 91 You're going to go to Michelin, the Michelin star-rated Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 13 Well, it's great when you're a kid because they have everything on the menu. Their menu is gigantic.
It's massive.

Speaker 69 It's overwhelming.

Speaker 13 It's a little bit overwhelming.

Speaker 13 I think I read one time they've never closed one down.

Speaker 130 I don't know if they still have that record going but yeah i mean they print money at a cheesecake factory yeah also bread awesome oh you know what though i wish which bread do you do i do the brown bread i do the baguette i love oh we'd be perfect together we would uh they they took away though a sandwich there was a there was like a i think it was like the fry bread did you ever get that this was like

Speaker 5 fry bread the monte cristo that they had yeah i don't know but they i they didn't have it when i went and i was very upset i used to work there really

Speaker 95 the bus boy what was your favorite meal

Speaker 120 I like the burger.

Speaker 114 They also have a bunch of pastas that are really good. The creamy pasta.

Speaker 38 A lot of the creams. They don't have anything bad.

Speaker 37 It's crazy.

Speaker 77 We went through a phase of getting it delivered often in the fall.

Speaker 77 Yeah.

Speaker 133 It's a good phase.

Speaker 114 It's a really good phase.

Speaker 63 It's a good phase.

Speaker 71 Okay. Phase up.

Speaker 77 Phase up.

Speaker 77 Zach's not allowed to talk about that. Okay.

Speaker 62 Our pick?

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 114 Shit.

Speaker 13 All right, Hank, what do you like? What do you like on this list? I'm panicking a little bit. I like, like, I'll tell you what I like.
I like number six.

Speaker 13 I like number 10. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 69 I like them both. Do you like those?

Speaker 13 All right, number six. We're going Texas Roadhouse.

Speaker 37 That was next for us. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Like Outback Steakhouse, but like a little bit of a southern twang to it.

Speaker 13 Great place.

Speaker 13 And then for our final pick, we're going to go with a classic. When you're here, your family.

Speaker 56 Yep.

Speaker 13 Olive Garden. Good pick.
Unlimited breadsticks, unlimited salad, unlimited soup. Great place.
Good pick.

Speaker 71 So Italian.

Speaker 77 I thought of it. That's a good pick because that'll appeal to the masses and everything.
But

Speaker 77 Olive Garden is absolutely fucking disgusting. As a true Italian, I could never get it.

Speaker 37 As an Italian Italian.

Speaker 77 But it's a great, but it's a good pick.

Speaker 76 For the graphic, it's a great pick.

Speaker 37 Unlimited bread in real life. Unlimited bread fucking clothes.

Speaker 69 No, that's good. Absolutely.

Speaker 111 Their breadsticks are awesome.

Speaker 16 It's crazy. It is

Speaker 74 good.

Speaker 77 The pasta is

Speaker 77 probably about 20 minutes overcooked.

Speaker 69 No, this pasta is so good.

Speaker 129 The red sauce comes straight from the bottom.

Speaker 13 You've been spending this the entire 20 minutes in Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 37 You've been talking about bread. The red sauce is a good thing.

Speaker 115 You've been talking about bread.

Speaker 13 And are you going to tell me that the breadsticks at Olive Garden are not good?

Speaker 77 I'm telling you it's a good pick.

Speaker 69 It's the best Sicilian sauce I've ever had.

Speaker 13 I'm telling you it's a good pick. They actually call it gravy there because they're telling you it's a good pico.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 63 All right. Good, good.

Speaker 104 I like where we're at. Thank you.
I like where we're at.

Speaker 112 Which one?

Speaker 77 Remember, I texted two? Yeah. The second one? Oh, you think that one?

Speaker 132 I think that one's more.

Speaker 77 Yeah, you're right. You're right.
We're going to go to TGI Fridays.

Speaker 13 You know, they don't even have like an oven or a stove there. They just microwave everything.

Speaker 111 We thought they were close.

Speaker 13 How can you possibly say that Olive Garden's bad food and then take TGI Fridays?

Speaker 117 Just in case you guys take it.

Speaker 77 It's just the Italian in me. It's bad Italian food.

Speaker 92 Are you American? Bar food.

Speaker 13 Are you American?

Speaker 37 Yeah. Are you Italian?

Speaker 13 Yes. Are you America first?

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 13 Well, then how come you can't be offended to go to TGI Fridays as an American?

Speaker 77 Because American food is meant to be had in a chain restaurant.

Speaker 13 Oh, so you're now you're putting down America. You're saying American food's bad.
American food.

Speaker 77 Correct. Italian food.
Food in Italy is better than food in America. Italian food in Italy is better than American food in America.

Speaker 131 Correct.

Speaker 77 I have never been to Italy, but I imagine.

Speaker 131 Oh.

Speaker 55 Also,

Speaker 119 not even a weekend? Nope.

Speaker 10 Fridays?

Speaker 104 Oh, yeah, sure.

Speaker 30 It's work week.

Speaker 25 What are we going to do here?

Speaker 96 I'm getting nervous.

Speaker 63 Me too.

Speaker 37 I'm very nervous.

Speaker 43 This one is

Speaker 22 kind of crazy.

Speaker 96 I don't know if it's a I don't know.

Speaker 100 Why is my fucking phone recording everything I say?

Speaker 126 It's recording everything you say.

Speaker 77 I know Alan Iverson once spent like $20,000 out of TJ Fridays.

Speaker 143 What happened?

Speaker 77 Alan Iverson once spent like $20,000 out of TJI Fridays.

Speaker 104 Is that true?

Speaker 77 Damn. Might be true.
I'm like 85% positive it's true.

Speaker 55 I'll look it up. Fact check.

Speaker 116 DJ Fridays.

Speaker 107 Fact checking endless apps.

Speaker 37 My buddies ran up like a thumbs up.

Speaker 89 I've been doing that too.

Speaker 107 I think it's Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 13 I think Max is mixing up his athlete stories. I like it.

Speaker 138 We don't know what to do.

Speaker 37 We're going to pass.

Speaker 37 What? You're the last pick.

Speaker 84 I know. We're going to pass.

Speaker 119 There's a full send pick that I might get contentious, but I don't.

Speaker 27 Because it's the chain restaurant part.

Speaker 37 Definitely chain restaurant.

Speaker 64 Let me ask you guys a question.

Speaker 119 Do chain restaurants also have like entertainment?

Speaker 110 I think we had this. We had this restaurant.

Speaker 77 We had this on our list, but we thought it was too much of a gray area.

Speaker 77 It's a good pick. It's a good pick.

Speaker 2 No, you're just saying that now.

Speaker 77 Well, I mean,

Speaker 77 we can guess it. Also, I just sent you guys the

Speaker 37 TGI Fridays.

Speaker 13 The link that you sent, Alan Iverson denies a claim made by a former TGI.

Speaker 37 I'm going to.

Speaker 13 That he spent $40,000 at a strip club when he was a 76er. First of all, it was $9,000 at most.
Never any strippers at the TGI Fridays on City Line.

Speaker 77 Yeah,

Speaker 77 so it was $9,000 at the TJI Fridays.

Speaker 1 I'm going to let you decide.

Speaker 118 Oh, boy.

Speaker 108 Oh, boy, he's right.

Speaker 128 Those are the two.

Speaker 103 Those are the two.

Speaker 9 And I'm going to let you just rip it, and

Speaker 6 we just go with what we got.

Speaker 48 You also could go Rogue.

Speaker 141 You could go Rogue. You could go Rogue.

Speaker 48 No, because

Speaker 41 I've seen his Rogue and they were

Speaker 37 literally They were literally all drive-thrus.

Speaker 111 Go Rogan.

Speaker 37 They were all drive-thru.

Speaker 13 Follow your hearts. Teams did say Arby.

Speaker 42 They weren't all drive-thrus. Zach said Shake Shack.

Speaker 130 Is that a drive-through?

Speaker 13 There are drive-thrus. You look at it.

Speaker 126 Follow your hearts.

Speaker 62 There are drive-thrus.

Speaker 37 Listen to your heart.

Speaker 103 We would like to take

Speaker 103 Dave and Buster's. Okay.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 121 It is a chain restaurant, and they also have a lot of fun stuff there.

Speaker 13 We had that on the list, too. Okay.
It is a gray area. Yeah.

Speaker 107 What's the gray area?

Speaker 34 What? What's your favorite meal?

Speaker 107 All of it. Chili.
Question memory.

Speaker 49 Chili, the green chili.

Speaker 13 That was a great question about it. The buffalo wings?

Speaker 77 Pigs in a blanket wings.

Speaker 77 You could always say the buffalo wings.

Speaker 38 I was waiting for somebody.

Speaker 71 Gotcha on that one.

Speaker 31 Tinders.

Speaker 71 The hamburger.

Speaker 137 Ever heard of it?

Speaker 98 All right. Good pick.

Speaker 119 I let Zach decide between was that or P.F.

Speaker 82 Changs?

Speaker 13 Yeah, we had P.F. Changs on the list too.
PFF Chanks is a good one, though.

Speaker 48 PF Chang's probably better.

Speaker 89 PF Changs kind of fell off. I have to think about that.

Speaker 48 Yeah, it kind of fell off.

Speaker 77 My parents were at PF Changs before they came and met us on the RV the other night. That's why they were late.

Speaker 69 I wanted to take Subway on ours because I think it's the most popular restaurant in the world. But PFT wanted Max to take it.

Speaker 13 So we could call him a pedophile.

Speaker 55 Wait, hold on.

Speaker 64 Wait, I want to hear what you said, but also, Zach's got to stop.

Speaker 77 You just admitted to whatever. You just admitted to playing to the graphic.

Speaker 53 Zach also, yeah, well, they pander.

Speaker 77 You just said I wanted to take Subway because it's the most popular restaurant in the world.

Speaker 16 Subway has nothing to do with whether you like Subway.

Speaker 77 I do like Subway. You just admitted to doing the same thing I did.

Speaker 28 Max likes Subway.

Speaker 104 Guess what?

Speaker 13 Hank wasn't making the picks today.

Speaker 77 He just admitted to wanting to do that.

Speaker 51 Sorry, I missed that because Zach was whispering into the mic and my ear, which is probably not great for the podcast.

Speaker 22 He kept on whispering, I've never been to a PF Janks.

Speaker 137 So what did you guys say?

Speaker 13 Hank put Subway on the list, and I said, no, let's not take Subway because I want Max to take Subway. Gotcha.
Because then we can be like, okay, Jared.

Speaker 13 And then memes can do a face swap of Jared and Max's face. Why? We can call him pedophiles.

Speaker 53 Why don't we just do the face swap anyway?

Speaker 13 Just to see what it looked like.

Speaker 19 Let's do it.

Speaker 13 That would actually be a great. You talk about numbies.
You're a numbies guy, right?

Speaker 119 That is good numbies. That's big numbies.
That's good numbies.

Speaker 77 You're just doing a face swap for something I didn't say.

Speaker 113 Wait, no, you're on a diet, right?

Speaker 13 You don't like Subway. You said that you're on a diet.

Speaker 77 I am on a diet. So is Jared.
I tracked all of my calories today, starting today.

Speaker 13 Jared was on a diet, too.

Speaker 8 All right, what did we miss?

Speaker 73 Benny Hanna?

Speaker 85 Yep. Benihana, yep.

Speaker 2 You guys fuck with California Pizza Kitchen? I do.

Speaker 68 I like California Pizza Kitchen.

Speaker 37 It's pretty pretty good.

Speaker 77 Bread lobster was what we were going between for the last one.

Speaker 77 But it was right after you were talking about bread, and it's basically just because of the cheddar bay biscuit.

Speaker 13 Cheddar Bay Biscuit's so good.

Speaker 77 Those are that's like we could do this rushmore just off of like the opening bread of the yes, yeah.

Speaker 13 We had uh medieval times, but I wasn't sure if that was a chain restaurant, but I do love medieval times.

Speaker 66 Yeah, never been Fudruckers.

Speaker 5 You ever been to Fudruckers?

Speaker 126 Yeah, Fudruckers.

Speaker 13 That might be the goat regional though.

Speaker 13 After your youth sports season's over, that's where you have your team party.

Speaker 32 Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks, good.

Speaker 13 Boobs.

Speaker 37 Boobs. Boobs.
Wings.

Speaker 42 Boobs play. Wings and boobs.

Speaker 32 Tilted kilt.

Speaker 54 Tilted kilt.

Speaker 57 What do you guys think about IHOP?

Speaker 55 IHOP. Love IHOP.

Speaker 37 I love IHOP. Excellent.

Speaker 16 Love IHOP.

Speaker 37 IHOP is great food.

Speaker 104 I don't like cheesesteaks. Yeah, eat cheese steaks.

Speaker 13 It's too international.

Speaker 37 You think so? Yeah. They got

Speaker 37 a lot of people.

Speaker 124 There's a couple that I was

Speaker 20 thinking about

Speaker 40 that are like classier ones, like

Speaker 37 Bonefish Grill.

Speaker 37 Oh, yeah. Yeah, Bonefish Grill.

Speaker 38 Or Capital Grill.

Speaker 77 Or Ruth's Chris. Yeah.

Speaker 85 But those are.

Speaker 77 You don't really think chain when you think of those.

Speaker 13 Would you have accepted Maggiano's?

Speaker 130 I would have.

Speaker 77 Yeah, Maggiano's

Speaker 77 better food than Olive Garden for sure.

Speaker 115 Bucco de Pepe, great food.

Speaker 88 Spaghetti factory.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 77 I don't know the spaghetti factory.

Speaker 92 We're familiar.

Speaker 141 Chipotle.

Speaker 69 Chipotle. Chipotle and Panera are on our list.

Speaker 134 That's fast food.

Speaker 77 I like that we all kind of stuck with traditional.

Speaker 77 Yes.

Speaker 53 Chipotle I was thinking about, but it is fast food.

Speaker 77 This was an honor play, except

Speaker 116 one gotta go. Except what?

Speaker 77 David Buster's little gray area.

Speaker 113 One gotta go.

Speaker 33 Waffle House, IHOP, Cracker Barrel, Denny's.

Speaker 104 Denny's. Denny's gone.
Denny's goes.

Speaker 42 He's gone.

Speaker 109 Denny's gone.

Speaker 131 I like the Golden Group. I'm gonna go to the worst chain restaurant in Golden Corral.

Speaker 77 Fucking sucks.

Speaker 126 Golden Corral,

Speaker 13 here's what I like about Golden Corral. They have everything in Golden Corral.
They've got the chocolate fountain at the end.

Speaker 28 Where have you ever been?

Speaker 13 Dude, it changed your life.

Speaker 13 Make you like probably 200 pounds fatter, but they have wheels on the chairs as you sit there, which I think is great because a lot of times people go to Golden Corral after they've been put into a wheelchair by eating too much at Golden Corral.

Speaker 13 So it's like we're all in this together. They don't feel shamed that they have to scoot around there because everybody's in those chairs.
Respect.

Speaker 47 You guys fuck with Red Robins?

Speaker 95 I've never even, I don't know if I've even been.

Speaker 37 My grandma likes Red Robin.

Speaker 13 I like Red Robins. They got good, good fries, good burgers.
Enless fries. Endless fries.
Bottomless.

Speaker 13 I told Stephen Shea that I was going to Red Robin, and he said, when you go to Red Robin, the steamed broccoli

Speaker 13 is a must-buy. And I I was like, what do you mean, the steamed broccoli? He's like, it's the best broccoli.
It's literally just steamed broccoli. There's no seasoning.

Speaker 13 There's no spices or anything on it. You can get it.
That's a different dish that's like sauteed with the spices. And Shay was like, no, you just get the pure steamed broccoli.

Speaker 13 And I go through two to three of those every time I'm there. He's gross.
He's a gross man. He's

Speaker 55 a gross man.

Speaker 41 Ruby Tuesday. Great salad bar.

Speaker 13 Great salad bar. That's the best part of Ruby Tuesday.

Speaker 77 That's the only part of it.

Speaker 16 Yep.

Speaker 128 I was

Speaker 37 also looking at the fat salad bar.

Speaker 77 Like you go there and you're like, oh, I'm just going to get the salad bar, and

Speaker 77 you can get super fat off that salad.

Speaker 124 I don't know if it would have played, but they're because it's kind of gone out.

Speaker 80 But Pizza Hut, like, had a, that was kind of like a chain restaurant for a while where it was like more sit-down.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 122 Pizza Hut Buffet was the best.

Speaker 38 Pizza Hut Pizza.

Speaker 69 That was my birthday meal.

Speaker 34 Pizza Hut Buffet?

Speaker 69 Just Pizza Hut Pizza. Oh.

Speaker 38 For my whole life.

Speaker 10 Pizza Hut Buffet was so fucking good.

Speaker 13 Dead Great Arcade Chain. And the clock.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 71 But I don't know if that's like

Speaker 64 that's not really a chain restaurant.

Speaker 118 What? They the clock.

Speaker 138 What was the for your birthday?

Speaker 77 The one you're... What was the.

Speaker 69 We got

Speaker 77 the pizzadillas or something?

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 115 Pizza dias. Pizza dias.

Speaker 37 Pizza diaz.

Speaker 52 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Papa John's.
That was Papa John's.

Speaker 77 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 131 That hurt.

Speaker 22 The Pazone?

Speaker 117 Good job, Chicago. Chai Caroni?

Speaker 55 No, they're not. Nah, Wingstop.

Speaker 69 Papadillas. Wingstop? I got Papadillas on my birthday.

Speaker 13 I don't eat that much at Wingstop, but I've been told by like four or five people in the last month that Wingstop has good wings.

Speaker 126 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 90 Like legitimately good.

Speaker 37 Yeah, they do. They do.

Speaker 104 I gotta try it.

Speaker 52 Here, you want to hear Zach's?

Speaker 137 What do you got?

Speaker 103 What do you guys feel about the A ⁇ W Rubier place?

Speaker 13 Probably fast food.

Speaker 75 I like the Rupeer.

Speaker 6 Oh, the Quaker State, too.

Speaker 5 You ever go to Quaker State? I have.

Speaker 46 Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 77 AW is also, I think, drive-through.

Speaker 104 Yeah, we said fast food. Fast food.

Speaker 77 My bad, my bad.

Speaker 77 My bad.

Speaker 65 Can I throw out one that I just want to see what you guys would have said if we had picked it?

Speaker 22 Because Zach was saying that this could play.

Speaker 32 Coldstone Creamery.

Speaker 13 Could have played. We had Baskin-Robbins too on our list, but I just felt like because they didn't serve any meals,

Speaker 41 it made it a little bit.

Speaker 34 I wouldn't call it a restaurant.

Speaker 88 I wouldn't call it either one of those restaurants.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 20 Cinnabon.

Speaker 37 Auntie Anne's. Yeah.

Speaker 95 Zach, maybe we'll do a different one where it's just

Speaker 120 like

Speaker 76 rest stops and

Speaker 41 airports.

Speaker 13 Yeah, because that's. Sprinkles cupcakes.

Speaker 38 Oh, yeah. Sprinkles.

Speaker 55 I love sprinkles.

Speaker 37 Yes, I do. Yes, it's it's true.

Speaker 37 The best cupcakes in the world.

Speaker 37 I love sprinkles.

Speaker 70 Yes, I do. Yes, I do.

Speaker 90 Yes, I do.

Speaker 13 There's also some really good regional chains, but I don't think that that does well on a Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 77 No. Bertucci's was my favorite restaurant growing up.

Speaker 77 They have those in Massachusetts, too, right?

Speaker 13 Trouche was good. Torchies tacos.

Speaker 104 That's like an expanded regional teacher.

Speaker 2 You took us there in Austin.

Speaker 13 That was a good place. So good.

Speaker 77 Bertucci's was literally like every time my parents were like, where do you want to go to dinner? It was Bertucci's.

Speaker 69 Yeah, it's 99. Is that not a 99 restaurant? 99 reasons.
You'll always come back for more?

Speaker 141 Gas.

Speaker 37 Blaze pizza?

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah, Blaze Pizza. Mod Pizza? Which one is LeBron's?

Speaker 30 Blaze is LeBron.

Speaker 70 Blaze is LeBron.

Speaker 14 Always come back for more.

Speaker 13 Pop Bellies or no? Captain D seafood?

Speaker 69 Pop Bellies and like.

Speaker 59 It's like just, it's a tweener.

Speaker 69 Pot Bellies and Subway.

Speaker 76 James Baja.

Speaker 6 Pop Ellies is different than Subway because of Jersey.

Speaker 69 That's all not really restaurants.

Speaker 5 No, but Pop Ellie's definitely.

Speaker 69 I feel like a restaurant and you have to get sat down by a hostess.

Speaker 2 I agree with that, but Pop Ellie's is definitely a tweener in the fact that

Speaker 58 they'll have live music.

Speaker 55 Subway doesn't have live music.

Speaker 114 But I hate the live music.

Speaker 76 No, I agree, but I'm just saying that definitely steps it up.

Speaker 71 And the wooden booths feel like it's a little bit different.

Speaker 103 Yeah, Sam's Club Food Court is fantastic.

Speaker 37 Oh, yeah. But that's

Speaker 37 close to what we're talking about.

Speaker 55 Costco close to the drive-thru.

Speaker 103 I was thinking no drive-through.

Speaker 59 You're right about the fantastic.

Speaker 13 Costco, the $1.50

Speaker 37 hot dog.

Speaker 90 Come on.

Speaker 38 Jack, come on. You're Jack.

Speaker 77 Zach, I'm very proud of you the way you're holding the mic. That was one rule that I said to him is that he really has to put the mic close to him, and he's doing a really good job.

Speaker 131 Yeah.

Speaker 77 I got you, man. Too many acts around here.
Okay.

Speaker 37 Tons of acts. I get it.

Speaker 88 Sorry.

Speaker 88 I'll make sure. I'm corrected myself.
No, you're good. I'm going to make sure to hold it nice and close.

Speaker 62 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 119 Let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 32 We're going to go Jaden Daniels, one question with the quarterback, Dan Quinn, and Debo Samuel from Commander's Camp.

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Speaker 3 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very special guest.

Speaker 2 We're on the commander's practice field right now at training camp.

Speaker 10 It is Jaden Daniels, QB1.

Speaker 5 We're doing one question with the quarterback.

Speaker 23 I'm going to pass the PFT. He's going to start us off, and then we all are going to do one question.

Speaker 13 That's all you're right to start off with.

Speaker 13 All right.

Speaker 13 My question, Jaden, is, I love you.

Speaker 13 That's not a question, so if I were to rephrase it into a question, I would just say, a lot of people ask you for stuff. Everybody's like, you know, you're in high demand.

Speaker 13 They want, you know, your face on everything. They want your autograph.
What can I do as a fan to make your life easier? Whether that's like wear the same jersey every weekend.

Speaker 37 I mean, if we win, why won't you wear the same jersey?

Speaker 13 Keep it going? Yeah.

Speaker 37 Okay. For the whole season.

Speaker 13 I can do that. What else do you need?

Speaker 37 I don't need much.

Speaker 52 No, nah, not right now.

Speaker 37 You don't need a car? Not right now. Not right now.

Speaker 13 Okay, I got a good car if you want one.

Speaker 136 What do you got?

Speaker 13 1970 El Camino.

Speaker 92 Okay, I love that.

Speaker 37 You want it?

Speaker 66 You still driving it?

Speaker 90 Where's it at?

Speaker 110 It's in Chicago.

Speaker 13 I'll give you the keys right now.

Speaker 90 How am I going to get the car? Are you going to ship it?

Speaker 13 That's a good point.

Speaker 37 I'll ship it.

Speaker 85 If you want the car,

Speaker 110 I will literally give you the keys. Tell me the picture.

Speaker 62 Okay. All right.

Speaker 13 Good question, PFT.

Speaker 69 Jaden, a lot of talk this off-season about your 3D QB simulator. Have you ever thought about using it as a flight simulator? And if so, would you like a friend to do it with you?

Speaker 69 Hypothetically, I know a guy.

Speaker 13 I have not tried it, but who do you know?

Speaker 69 I just a friend who really, really loves planes and flight simulators. You do?

Speaker 13 Flight simulators are fun.

Speaker 85 I think you have to be right behind Sam Hardman.

Speaker 13 Okay, all right, that's fair. That's fair.
I'll be the wizzo. Yeah.
All right.

Speaker 136 Good question, Hank. Thank you.

Speaker 37 Thank you.

Speaker 77 Good question, Hank. Good question.

Speaker 103 Hello, Jay, and thank you for your time today, man. I was just a super quick question.

Speaker 103 My bad, man.

Speaker 103 Super quick question. I was just wondering, from a fan's perspective, looking in, you have such an ability to keep things kind of cool and collected under pressure.

Speaker 103 And I was just wondering if you had any tips for other guys who might want to keep it as cool as you oh man um

Speaker 109 it's kind of hard no worries it's kind of hard uh totally fun yeah just if you don't have any it's good man i'm just saying like you can calm down a little bit yeah i like that i appreciate the advice be be more nonchalant okay so so to be nonchalant is what we're working for yeah okay i got you

Speaker 109 that's great advice look up what kids call like aura you got to get some more aura okay so we got we got aura farm yeah 100 aura farm

Speaker 109 thank you for the advice jayden Jaden. Yes, sir.

Speaker 16 Good question, Zach. Hi, Jaden.

Speaker 77 Hi, Jaden.

Speaker 77 Obviously, incredible season last year, but I feel like with that comes some added expectations going into this year.

Speaker 77 Like, do you feel any more pressure that the entire media is calling you a top five quarterback now?

Speaker 52 I don't even pay attention to that.

Speaker 14 All right. Good answer.

Speaker 37 Good answer. Good answer.
Bad question. Good answer.

Speaker 59 All right, last question.

Speaker 138 We'll cut this. We don't even have to run this.

Speaker 25 The Hail Mary, that was lucky.

Speaker 37 Let's just be two guys talking.

Speaker 59 We'll cut this.

Speaker 59 That was, come on, a little bit of luck.

Speaker 128 It's better to be lucky.

Speaker 109 Yeah, right.

Speaker 43 But so you admit it was like there was some luck involved.

Speaker 109 I did my job.

Speaker 37 Okay. Which was to throwing it short of the line.

Speaker 52 Give my guy a chance. Okay, all right.

Speaker 137 But a little bit of luck.

Speaker 52 I'm going to leave that up for speculation.

Speaker 37 All right. All right.

Speaker 137 Well, here, you can finish this off for PFT.

Speaker 13 Okay, that was a great round of one question with the quarterback. I think there were nine questions with this quarterback, but good luck, Jaden.

Speaker 90 Happy birthday, Sam Hardman. Happy birthday to Sam Hardman.

Speaker 110 What a good teammate. What a good teammate.

Speaker 13 And seriously, like, if you need anybody to do any illegal shit to get your back, I'm your guy.

Speaker 57 I appreciate it.

Speaker 35 Like, I will get down dirty.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Let's not keep this off the record.

Speaker 13 If you do anything that you need to pin on somebody else, but let's keep this off the record.

Speaker 13 We won't even include this.

Speaker 110 I'll go to jail.

Speaker 62 Appreciate it. I'll do it.
Much love, man. Appreciate it.

Speaker 37 Much love. Appreciate y'all.

Speaker 145 Respect. And now for something completely different.

Speaker 3 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest, recurring guest.

Speaker 140 It is Grit Week presented by Hey Dude.

Speaker 119 It is Washington Commander's head coach Dan Quinn.

Speaker 2 Coach, thank you for sitting with us.

Speaker 138 First question every week every interview on Grit Week is what does the word grit mean to you?

Speaker 75 I love the word.

Speaker 133 First thing that pops to mind for grit that you can get it on for a long time. Okay.
Like it's not, you know, do it once. Okay.

Speaker 133 Like you're down for the fight that it may take a while. But like people that are gritty, like this might be hard, but I'm down for the fight.

Speaker 133 fight like takes me a long time to learn how to do this like that has grit you know it takes a long time to go in this game that takes grit so i think it has there's a time element in my mind of like i'm ready to get down how long ever it takes four quarters overtime parking lot like i'm down whatever it takes parking lot like you know what i'm saying like that's like it's never quitting yes yeah so that's what i think of when grit like not not this ain't done in a race and like this is not 100 meters that's you know that's not the grit like it's man this is gonna fight and it's gonna drag it out But it has a time element in my head.

Speaker 133 Like, it's going to take a while. I'm like, but I'm going to get it.

Speaker 70 Yeah.

Speaker 133 Let it fucking rip. Yep.
All the way.

Speaker 13 Is that your favorite thing to say?

Speaker 133 No, I think it's also like a mindset. Like, when I say let it fucking rip, like, it's not like, let's just see what happens.
Like, you put all the work in, man.

Speaker 133 And so, like, now you can go let it fucking rip because of all the preparation that you did.

Speaker 133 Like, so there's confidence that comes from like putting in the work, long practices, putting extra training in, your conditioning, because then it's like, I wish a motherfucker would right now.

Speaker 133 Like, I am ready. And so you have to go through those tough training readiness to have like a mindset that's gritty to say, like, the longer it goes, the better this is going to be for me.
Yeah.

Speaker 133 And that's why we like these end of the games.

Speaker 133 Like we practice them a lot, you know, because when it gets time to the end, and like you have to call on your best and you have to like practice that way hard.

Speaker 38 Yeah.

Speaker 46 I got a question for you.

Speaker 40 This might be weird, but like, do you lack in confidence ever as a coach?

Speaker 130 Because

Speaker 100 like, so last year, incredible year coaching.

Speaker 97 You get hired.

Speaker 9 You're maybe not the sexiest name in terms of how the league has gone.

Speaker 40 You know, it's like if you have a cup of coffee with Sean McVay, you get hired.

Speaker 121 We know how it works.

Speaker 139 You get hired and what you did for this franchise, this organization was incredible.

Speaker 58 Did it build your confidence back up?

Speaker 19 You're like, yeah, I know I can coach football.

Speaker 34 Like, I know I can.

Speaker 133 Yeah, I didn't have a lack of.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 133 Because I don't like the outside narratives or voices. Like, I know that's like a thing, but I knew the standard of how to do it.

Speaker 133 And so I was fortunate, you know, with Adam being here, like I wanted to have somebody partner up with and like bring the best out of both of us to go do that.

Speaker 133 So, but as far as confidence goes, like, that was internal, you know, to say that. But you have to also, like, when you're starting a program, like there's belief.

Speaker 133 And sometimes the belief has to happen before it even like does. Right.
Like showing that, like, hey, man, you can do this.

Speaker 133 And so, that's what I liked about, you know, gaining confidence, gaining belief with the team, because it doesn't happen right away.

Speaker 133 Like, you got to go through a three-game losing streak, you know, get back up off the mat and say, all right, man, like, let's go fight. So, the confidence didn't waver, but

Speaker 133 I think that's human nature, you know, sometimes where it goes up and down, like it's not going right, or in your head, you're like, why isn't this going faster?

Speaker 133 Or, you know, so you just have to know that, like, keep doing it right. And then, like, eventually.
Yeah.

Speaker 133 And it's not easy all the time, but I think there's like an element of grit into that to say like, this is hard, but we're like, we're hitting the right steps.

Speaker 58 Well, congrats because it was an incredible year.

Speaker 133 Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 58 To do that as a first, obviously you've coached before, but to do it a first year at a new organization, it's like, it was incredible.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 133 There's definitely some lessons I learned previously as a head coach to say like, if I get a chance, there's some different things we're going to apply.

Speaker 133 And so as a coach, you want to evolve too, you know, like, as opposed to, hey, man, this is how we always did it. Like, I hate that line.

Speaker 37 Right.

Speaker 133 Like, what's best?

Speaker 41 Yeah. Evolving.

Speaker 13 I read that you did a 360-degree review, right? So after you left Atlanta. Right.

Speaker 13 And that involves reaching out to people that you worked with, maybe people that, I don't know if you fired or people that parted ways with you. Both.
And you asked them, like,

Speaker 13 what was I doing wrong?

Speaker 13 What could I work on?

Speaker 58 What could I?

Speaker 133 A better name for it is a blind spot report. Okay.
And think about asking people, man, hey, what would something that I need to know maybe that I'm not aware of?

Speaker 133 And so think of it in that term, like, hey, man, keep doing this. So there was definitely parts of like,

Speaker 133 and then on the other side, hey, man, think about changing this or going back to that. And it wasn't about anybody's name.
In fact, I asked not to have anybody's name.

Speaker 133 I just wanted to find any common themes and say, man, like, was there some blind spots that I needed to know about?

Speaker 133 Because sometimes as the coach, you know, you don't get the feedback and you want to make sure that you're like, I want the lessons from this.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 124 Yeah.

Speaker 127 was part of that being more aggressive on fourth down because you were very aggressive on fourth down.

Speaker 25 Was that part of the review where you're like, Hey, we need to kind of change how I think about four downs and everything?

Speaker 133 That's an awesome question. It wasn't because

Speaker 133 it was more around

Speaker 133 what could I do better and different. And the fourth downs weren't as big of it when I got let go, but that did evolve, you know, probably during my time in Dallas.
Um,

Speaker 133 when do you be bold? You know, what's the right decision? And quite honestly, you know what's also a big factor, man? Like the quarterback. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, like with Jaden, because

Speaker 133 some of the plays that went in weren't the play that actually happened. You know, like he scrambled, you know, for a first down.
So he has the ability to create and a new one can take place.

Speaker 133 You know, it wasn't like, you know, get to the best play or get to the best check, but his instincts and like in these moments, like he is really strong. Yeah.

Speaker 133 And so you'd be surprised man like coaches get confidence from players too yeah when when did you know that Jaden was the guy

Speaker 133 after our first game we played a home game against the Giants well I'd say many times but it was my first like in-game experience we were you know down by field goal you know less than two minutes to go and like absolutely like I'm going over to walk to him before we get into the two minute and like smiling like absolutely knowing like this is that time and that that feeling of like man i know I put the work in.

Speaker 133 And like we drove down the field, we kicked a field goal to win. But sometimes that moment you hear, whatever thing's best, you know, like they're two.
And he was like, man, let's go get this.

Speaker 133 Like he was like so cool, you know, underneath where I was like, okay, like this, this is a real one. And then there were moments after that that you just kept seeing, but that was the first one.

Speaker 133 And then from then on, it was like, and again, again,

Speaker 133 and all these cool moments. And some are in the losses, too,

Speaker 133 that you gain from it. But that was the first one.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 i mean the dallas loss that was a crazy game yeah crazy in that game but that the throw they added to terry yes for that long touchdown it felt like okay we're gonna win this game now yep that's a moment in a loss where you can say okay we did some some really positive things in a game that we happened to lose at the end yeah and uh those ones sting the worst yeah I can almost live with any result when you hit every marker, you're like, man, turned over every stone, like hit it all right.

Speaker 133 And so when there's some mistakes or things that you're like, ah, those are the losses that are like crushing to you as a coach.

Speaker 133 Because if you hit all the right markers, like some games, man, it's back and forth. It's just a kick-ass game.
You lose by a field goal, like that hurts, but like it was a fight and you knew it.

Speaker 133 The ones that like, you know, like turn the ball over, don't get takeaways, give up a big play, those are the ones that like, man, there's not a wink of sleep.

Speaker 48 Yeah, you know, because you're like, shit.

Speaker 13 With the fourth down stuff, is that going to change at all because your defense has changed? So like when you got here last year, new roster brought in a lot of guys.

Speaker 13 There was some turnover too, but the roster I would say you can look at it and say it's improved a bunch.

Speaker 13 And even the defense last year over the course of the year improved a lot, which is testament to you.

Speaker 13 But is that going to affect how often you're going to go for it in fourth down if you know you have a little bit more confidence on the defensive side?

Speaker 133 We'll be bold

Speaker 133 still. Like that's who we are.
That's how we get down. And, you know, kind of referencing, you know, Jaden and Cliff and situations.

Speaker 133 Oftentimes it's the opponent too.

Speaker 133 Not everybody plays third and fourth down the same. Sometimes it's like fourth down.
People want to put like 10 toes on the line, say, we're going to blitz. This is it.

Speaker 133 Other teams treat it just like third down.

Speaker 133 And so

Speaker 133 kicking scenario, defense, really just by like, what do we need to do to win this game?

Speaker 133 And sometimes that means get an extra possession going forward on fourth, being bold enough to do that. So it'll be by the game, but we're confident.

Speaker 133 with the people that we have that if that's how we want to get down, then like we're ready to do that.

Speaker 114 Danalytics. That's what we call it.

Speaker 133 Do you call call it danalytics we do not we 100 do not should you should it's a good name we'll not call that that what's not going to kick just big ball yeah what would just come

Speaker 138 what would 2025 dan quinn say to 2015 dan quinn after he kicked that field goal against the 49ers on the one-yard line man you'd beat his ass right yes 2025 dan quinn would beat 2015's ass 100 love that yes now i feel full i know i brought it up last time you came on but now it feels full circle because absolutely watching you this year so aggressive on fourth down yeah we always joke when we're watching the games,

Speaker 124 you should just do whatever the opposing fan doesn't want you to do.

Speaker 37 Like, have you ever thought about that?

Speaker 125 Maybe putting an opposing fan next to you and be like, what would you like me to do?

Speaker 42 You want me to punt here?

Speaker 135 All right, I'm going for it.

Speaker 68 Oh, you want me to go for it? I'm going to punt.

Speaker 124 Because it usually is the right call.

Speaker 133 I would say it probably is because they don't want that to happen. Right, right.

Speaker 119 Because there were moments this year where you guys were in like fourth and two.

Speaker 58 We'd be watching Max and the Eagles fan.

Speaker 135 You'd be like, I don't want them to go for it because they're going to get it.

Speaker 82 You know, so it's like, that's, you got to go for it.

Speaker 133 There's a boldness with it, but

Speaker 133 you do have to grow in it. Like, and now that we do it more, it's scripted more in practice.
So it's part of what we do.

Speaker 133 So there's not a tightness that comes up on the sideline of, hey, man, we're going for it here. Okay.

Speaker 133 You know, like, so like even in today, it was a, you know, first down, first down, second, third, fourth, and four.

Speaker 133 Where normally you just kind of go to the third down and then, hey, new group comes out. So we include our fourth downs into our practice.
So that is just part of how we, how we do things. It's smart.

Speaker 133 It makes me feel comfortable knowing, hey, it's another fourth down play. It's another fourth down play.

Speaker 92 Yeah.

Speaker 91 Can I ask you a favor?

Speaker 138 Yeah.

Speaker 119 Can you let us know when Shark Week is happening this year?

Speaker 25 Because that was kind of bullshit that we didn't know about Shark Week until

Speaker 133 yeah, we can get that out.

Speaker 4 What happens in Shark Week?

Speaker 133 Well, I think the first thing

Speaker 133 that like, you know, like sharks don't care what week it is. It's Monday.
It was really hard the week before.

Speaker 113 They don't sleep.

Speaker 133 No, they just like go around biting people and reminding everybody that they're scary. Yeah.
And so it usually comes up on like a cold. It's a long road trip that took place.

Speaker 133 And then all of a sudden Shark Week just emerges. Like, you know, the sharks don't care that it was a five-hour flight back after the game.
The next week, they're just sharks.

Speaker 133 They just go out and remind people that they bite them and they're scary and they get things done. So it doesn't have a calendar date on it.
Okay.

Speaker 37 It's a feel.

Speaker 7 Yes.

Speaker 5 Was there a moment where you almost brought out Shark Week and you're like, nah, it's not right.

Speaker 56 Oh, you did?

Speaker 133 And you can't, it doesn't really work to like do it twice in the same, you you know, like it's like a yearly thing. I've tried it twice in a year.
It's like, yeah, I've tried sharkweed.

Speaker 90 So maybe in Spain?

Speaker 133 Yeah, you don't know. Maybe it's after Spain.
I don't know.

Speaker 37 I mean, you got to just go by vodes against the dolphins, right?

Speaker 107 Yeah.

Speaker 71 Sharkweed's natural enemies.

Speaker 133 Well, see what happens the week before.

Speaker 119 Yeah, I just need to know when sharkweeds.

Speaker 37 We can definitely prepare.

Speaker 133 It happens on a Monday. So like you'll definitely have preparation time.

Speaker 135 Yeah, I mean, there was the famous Mike McCarthy smashed a watermelon. Were you on the Cowboys cup?

Speaker 85 I was not.

Speaker 119 Okay, yeah, but that, I was like, I need to know that before.

Speaker 133 Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 119 Because that changes everything.

Speaker 13 He stopped smashing watermelons, though.

Speaker 133 Yes, during the time I was there, there wasn't any watermelon smash.

Speaker 33 There was zero watermelon.

Speaker 13 Did anyone encourage him to be like, hey, Mike, might be time for a watermelon?

Speaker 57 I'm not sure.

Speaker 22 How much would it hurt to know that maybe he did smash a watermelon while you were there, but he didn't invite you?

Speaker 37 Yeah, it would hurt.

Speaker 55 Okay, yeah, I would imagine.

Speaker 133 That would really sting. That would kill me.

Speaker 43 Like, I didn't get invited to the watermelon smash.

Speaker 37 That would sting bad.

Speaker 13 There's one dude on the roster right now that I feel like exemplifies grit, at least in my eyes, and John Gruden's eyes too. He loves this guy, Mikey Sanders still.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 I remember after you visited him at Michigan, you said, that's a guy that I would love to coach.

Speaker 13 Which is like a fascinating thing to hear somebody say, like you watch a player play and you're like, I want to coach that guy.

Speaker 13 What was it about him that made you say like, I want to make that guy better?

Speaker 133 There was such an energy about him being around him.

Speaker 133 He was running routes at the Pro Day with McCarthy and the other receivers.

Speaker 133 as a receiver and because he had played receiver there.

Speaker 133 So like seeing the skill and the hand, like it wasn't like a DB, hey, I'm just running go ball, like he was running crossers and like real routes.

Speaker 133 And I can imagine, I also asked one of the leaders on the team: if you could only bring one player from Michigan with you, who would it be?

Speaker 133 And the guy was an offensive player, and he was like, Mikey, like, why are you asking me this question? You know, like, like, everybody knows that. And

Speaker 133 there was

Speaker 133 like you felt his love of football,

Speaker 133 the leading, the playmaking abilities. So, I thought he had rare traits on the field, but he also had future leadership to him off the field.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 Do you just let him rip out there? We do. He's a guy that's like, I trust you.
You're prepared. If you see something, you have full permission to go.

Speaker 133 Yeah, green like that. Yeah.

Speaker 23 All right, we got a couple last questions.

Speaker 25 I know you got to run in a second.

Speaker 25 In the NFC championship game, the tush push, how far were you willing to go with jumping over lying?

Speaker 75 If the refs didn't get involved, four quarters, you were just gone forever.

Speaker 37 We'd still be watching that?

Speaker 14 Yes.

Speaker 133 So I know they have the ability to grant that. And I knew that going in.
That was not a surprise to me.

Speaker 133 But we do have an attitude that, like, we're never out of the fight. And so there was a topic about the conversation of that play, and people asked me what my thoughts were.

Speaker 133 And I spend way more time thinking, how are we going to stop it, not

Speaker 133 about the play? Right. And like.
give them credit to say, hey, this is like something that they do that is effective, but that's our job as coaches to say, how will we do it differently?

Speaker 133 The The one for Frankie going over the top was a technique to grab shoulder pads, pull them back, you know, as opposed to trying to go underneath, you know, the offensive line with the size.

Speaker 133 So there's definitely strategy involved. Yeah.
You know, and saying, like, this is how we are going to do this.

Speaker 105 Because if he times it right, that's it.

Speaker 37 You get it.

Speaker 133 That's right. And so when it's inside or at the one-yard line, it's worth it.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 133 Like we're talking about offsides or a penalty of like, okay, it's right there. You know, so now at midfield, maybe that's not the call, you know, where it could be a first down.

Speaker 133 But like talking about defending a touchdown, like this is worth it to take this type of risk in this spot.

Speaker 13 Yeah. Yeah.
I thought it, I thought it was a good play call. I, I didn't expect the refs to say, we're going to award a touchdown after doing it twice.

Speaker 13 I thought that they would give you like three or four chances at it. Yeah.

Speaker 133 Think of it like

Speaker 133 they would jump just off sides. Okay.
If you can't just keep being off sides, you know, they'll eventually just award it.

Speaker 133 So I knew that was the case, but I felt like we will time it up and like doesn't mean we're not going to get it. Like I was thinking the other way, like we're going to stop the next one.
Yeah.

Speaker 133 This will be the stop. Yeah.

Speaker 96 It's not like, oh, they're going to score.

Speaker 133 It was like, no, we're going to stop it.

Speaker 90 Yeah, we're going to jump it.

Speaker 13 I'm thinking out loud here. And feel free to tell me I'm an idiot.

Speaker 13 What if you just had everybody on the defensive line puke? at the same time? Right.

Speaker 133 It's harder than you think on command. Yeah.
You know, like maybe the big guys could do it, but like, I'm not sure Mikey could do that. You know?

Speaker 13 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 42 Probably that wouldn't be too much puke. But I mean, you get like Deron Payne puking.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 94 You don't want to run into that public.

Speaker 133 No, it's way different. Yeah.

Speaker 13 I don't think they'll flag you for it. it either.

Speaker 133 No, they wouldn't for sure not. But it's way harder than you would think.
Just like on command for sure.

Speaker 88 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 13 My last question was just going to be, I love you. Yeah, I love you.
I love everything that you've done for the city. We don't tell our bros that we love each other.

Speaker 13 And I know all the work that you put into and how hard it was. And what do you say? Like, it's fun to do hard shit with good people.

Speaker 133 That's the truth.

Speaker 13 And you did some hard shit with good people last year. And we really appreciate it.
All the Commanders fans, like, thank you, and we love you.

Speaker 133 Thank you, man. I love you too, man.
This is a team I would be dying to be a part of. Yeah.
There are so many cool guys that are all about it and like have really high standards.

Speaker 133 And so they connect, and the best teams have that. And not just on the roster, but I'm saying like they are connected.

Speaker 133 And so during these times of camp, you push it, you're finding new roles for people,

Speaker 133 and

Speaker 133 people develop. And so a guy like Sander Steel, like we're not asking him to become a leader, we're developing that leader.

Speaker 133 And I think there's a big difference in that because you don't just tell someone, hey, you lead now.

Speaker 133 Like you train them, you teach teach them and then they become a leader it's not you know it's just like practicing like you have to learn how to do that if you just say we want you to lead more like how do i do that you have to give them the tools to do that and mikey

Speaker 133 has done that and others have done that and so

Speaker 133 as much as coaching is i'd like to develop the leaders here too they're not going to be leaders just in like football in their lives they're going to be leaders or businesses one day so like this is going to carry them out and not everybody leads in the same way some that's in the meeting room some it's on the field some is in the locker room, but like there's a lot of them here.

Speaker 23 Yeah. All right.
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Speaker 17 The new.

Speaker 133 You said that one a couple times. Oh, yeah.
Right on.

Speaker 51 Oh, yeah. I got it.
I got it.

Speaker 58 I could call it into the huddle easily.

Speaker 106 The new locker room.

Speaker 83 Yeah.

Speaker 58 Are we a little worried it's a little too nice?

Speaker 116 We're not.

Speaker 133 Okay.

Speaker 127 Because like, I saw some people saying it's like the four seasons.

Speaker 139 It's the Ritz.

Speaker 122 Like, was there part of you that was like, hey, let's take, let's maybe keep a little something back?

Speaker 96 Maybe like have a toilet break or something.

Speaker 133 Yeah, no, we were pretty grimy. We were out in the spring using, you know, portable showers and trailers.
So, like, yeah, we haven't lost our grimy. What about a ping-pong table?

Speaker 90 Is there a ping-pong table?

Speaker 133 There is not.

Speaker 5 Okay, but you could add it and then take it away.

Speaker 75 100%.

Speaker 85 Okay, yeah, because that's a great trick that every coach does.

Speaker 83 Yeah, so much.

Speaker 133 So often. That's how you know you're in the doghouse.

Speaker 37 You took the ping pong table.

Speaker 13 Yeah, get it out of there.

Speaker 13 Trust White just wants a ping pong table.

Speaker 130 Yeah, he's excellent at it.

Speaker 133 You don't have to create

Speaker 133 like mandatory fun. There's just spaces that people have.

Speaker 133 And locker rooms are like that. Sometimes meetings rooms are like that.
I've always felt like, and you can work your ass off, but like you can have like a really good time doing it.

Speaker 133 Like they can cope. They don't have to be in opposition of each other.
And so if one is just, hey, grind, beat down, like you probably. won't be able to sustain that.

Speaker 133 And if you don't have discipline, like, hey, this is a good party, but like you don't have the work, yeah, you're out of balance. So that's probably what happens with some people.

Speaker 133 I don't see seeing too much of this, but just, man, keep it consistent on both. Like energy's high, work ethics high.
Like, it doesn't get off track in one day. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 133 Like, just watch it, man. Like, you'll, you'll see if somebody's trying to slip a corner once and twice, and then all of a sudden, like, that's the new standard.
Like, no, bro.

Speaker 133 Like, so I try to keep my eyes open and say, hey, if I see it once, say, hey, what's that? Yeah. You know, and so you don't have to be an asshole, but you do have to point it out and say it.

Speaker 133 So that ain't cool.

Speaker 37 Be aware, yeah.

Speaker 13 And before we we started me and big cat told you that we got tattoos here for the commanders bears bets yeah based on who loses that game you said you might want to pick the tat design the tattoo yeah if we i'm down i'd do it if it was a shark

Speaker 13 if that's shark week if you make the

Speaker 37 watermelon right now smashed watermelon

Speaker 133 i can't claim that's mike's you know like mike's got to be the watermelon but um the shark has a lot it maybe okay i'm not calling it shark week early i don't know what i'm trying to make sure it's that's uh you know like that is that is something that's on the table all right well we'll be in touch after the game and you can maybe maybe

Speaker 137 talk with you.

Speaker 5 Maybe you can decide it.

Speaker 89 Right on.

Speaker 116 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 139 Thanks so much, Coach.

Speaker 82 Appreciate it. Yeah, thank you guys.

Speaker 145 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 3 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.

Speaker 54 It is Grit Week presented by Hey Dude.

Speaker 139 It is Washington Commanders wide receiver, Debo Samuel.

Speaker 139 And we start every Grit Week interview the same.

Speaker 119 How would you define the word grit?

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 28 It's just that dog mentality for real.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 38 Do you have it? Oh, for sure.

Speaker 119 When did you first know that you had grit?

Speaker 96 Oh, is there a moment where you're like, oh, shit, that's, oh, wow.

Speaker 135 Like, you know, when a kid grows like over a summer and they like get their growth spurt, did you have like a grit spurt where you're like, oh, shit, I got grit now?

Speaker 28 Nah, I just always had that grit, man. You know, since Pop Warner football.

Speaker 87 Yeah.

Speaker 37 We played that real Pop Warner football.

Speaker 28 Like lay on your back, get up and go hit something.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 56 You've had that dog.

Speaker 13 What kind of dog would you say?

Speaker 12 What breed?

Speaker 141 I'm a rock roller.

Speaker 72 I like that.

Speaker 13 That's a good, sleek dog. Strong dog.

Speaker 97 Fit dog.

Speaker 13 I was actually, I was looking at some of your tweets because you posted a video.

Speaker 13 This was, I think, a couple of months ago with screenshots from people that had said mean things about you online.

Speaker 141 It was like a week ago.

Speaker 85 It was a week ago? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 28 It was like a couple of days ago, actually.

Speaker 13 So I have some of the screenshots, and we're just here to dispel all the rumors. So the screenshot said Washington got slow, fat ass Debo Samuel.
Debo Samuel is trash, slow, and fat.

Speaker 13 Anybody see Debo Samuel running a route looking slow as the ice cream truck? And

Speaker 13 you are not slow. We saw you play today.

Speaker 18 Not fat.

Speaker 13 You're best shape of your life?

Speaker 44 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 48 Right now.

Speaker 33 Best shape of your life. Right now.

Speaker 81 Was that partially because everyone called you fat online?

Speaker 121 No.

Speaker 125 Don't care. That would put someone into a diet.

Speaker 56 No.

Speaker 9 Because there was a lot of people throwing.

Speaker 28 Everybody got to have something to say, something to talk about. Yeah, that's just life.

Speaker 58 I actually have a real question about the fat rumors because it was like you're at the 49ers, you have a great career with the 49ers, you get traded, and then that report comes out, and it's like anonymous reporting that he's 25 pounds overweight.

Speaker 4 You're like, what the hell?

Speaker 58 Why are people now talking about this?

Speaker 28 Have no idea.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 97 You kind of were done dirty in that respect.

Speaker 28 I mean, it's, it's, you know, it's the media.

Speaker 28 So, you know, you don't really get into it.

Speaker 28 They probably took a picture of me when I had fucking pneumonia about to die out there.

Speaker 130 Right.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Couldn't breathe. Right.

Speaker 1 Because that was the thing, too.

Speaker 58 Last training camp, I remember there was a lot of talk about how you were looking like, you know, fast, in great shape, and then you unfortunately got pneumonia and that kind of derailed.

Speaker 141 That came out of nowhere. Yeah.

Speaker 87 I swear, like, it was ridiculous.

Speaker 107 How did you get pneumonia?

Speaker 114 I feel like that's an old person's disease.

Speaker 28 So one night I was literally, I was asleep. And like three o'clock in the morning, I just wake up and I'm just like coughing.

Speaker 28 And I didn't go back to sleep, but I stayed up until it was time to go for uh time to get ready to go for the game and so like me you know i never had pneumonia didn't know what it was i thought i just had a little cough and so uh i called my iv lady and she come give me iv do some breathing treatment and like you know trying to get back in motion to get ready for the game and so like i'm putting my clothes on and i feel myself like

Speaker 28 like i cannot breathe i'm like what is wrong with me so i drive to the stadium And I'm just like, I don't know what's wrong. I keep coughing.
It's hard for me to breathe.

Speaker 28 They're just like, yeah, we do a lot of breathing treatment, give you iv maybe you just need some food

Speaker 28 so i do all that i attempt to walk out the pregame and like my body's like nah you like don't do it and so i instantly walk back in the locker room i get another iv and i get the feeling a little better so i go out there for the game i do like three plays and like i feel like if i would have did another one i would have just cracked it was that bad yeah i went to college i was like i don't know what's wrong but i cannot breathe holy shit how long did that take you to bounce back uh it took a while but i left the hospital like three, four days afterwards and then played the next week.

Speaker 28 So

Speaker 37 you're a tough guy. That's a dog.
That's Grins.

Speaker 104 That's Rockweller.

Speaker 56 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 13 I also feel like if you get the nickname Debo as a child, you probably already had that's confirmation. Like, yeah, he is a dog.
How young were you when you got the nickname?

Speaker 28 Probably like five or six.

Speaker 13 So what were you doing at the age of five?

Speaker 117 I feel like that's Debo.

Speaker 28 I was just running around fighting, taking stuff from people.

Speaker 28 My dad gave me that nickname. And the crazy story is: my stepmom was like, you know, when you get to college, nobody's calling you that.
And then I get to college, everybody still likes Devo.

Speaker 28 She used to hate it.

Speaker 54 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Didn't she try to change it? She tried to give you sweet feet?

Speaker 28 Yeah, but she called me Tasha Undo.

Speaker 84 Yeah. Uh-huh.
Dee Devo.

Speaker 28 She gave me sweet feet when I was playing pop warner ball.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you don't fuck with a man named Debo.

Speaker 94 That's my number one rule of thumb.

Speaker 92 That's a fact.

Speaker 135 I want to talk about college real quick.

Speaker 58 So your third year, or was it your fourth year where you got injured?

Speaker 7 You were about to have like.

Speaker 38 It was crazy.

Speaker 97 So it goes the

Speaker 1 first game of the season, first opening kickoff, you run back for a touchdown. I think the third game of the season,

Speaker 40 your first touch in the game, you had like a 65-yard touchdown, and then you got hurt.

Speaker 127 I feel like you should just go around and be like, I was about to score 40 touchdowns.

Speaker 28 No, thanks. Because first game, first game of the opening kickoff, I had three touchdowns.
And then the following game, I had a kick return. And then I had another one.

Speaker 28 And then opening play against Kentucky, you know, first play of the game, slammed to the crib. I'm like, bro, this is about to get wicked.

Speaker 37 I know.

Speaker 28 So that's six touchdowns right there.

Speaker 37 Like, off the bat.

Speaker 137 Yeah, two and a half games.

Speaker 28 Yeah, and then I run a curl route, and the guy jumps on my back and just

Speaker 28 ankle just gets stuck and just boom.

Speaker 79 All right, so we got to maybe we'll start the lore of like, do you know who the best college football player of all time was?

Speaker 122 It was Debo Samuel when I played two and a half games that season.

Speaker 13 You were the one with Heisman.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Oh, I was, I was, I was into my bag then. I was in that mode.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I do have a question about your coach, Will Muschamp.

Speaker 7 Why was he always wet?

Speaker 143 Huh?

Speaker 13 Always wet. He just looked wet.
He was always wet and red.

Speaker 7 He just looked wet.

Speaker 57 You know what we're talking about. You know exactly what we're talking about.

Speaker 110 Like when the hair starts sticking to me,

Speaker 94 did he say, hey, Debo, one thing you got to do for me is never talk about how wet I am.

Speaker 13 He gets that confused look on his face, and then he just gets redder and wetter.

Speaker 59 There's a picture of him. He's wet.

Speaker 1 Like physically wet.

Speaker 13 Like trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Speaker 37 Yazzi gonna keep doubling down.

Speaker 86 You're right.

Speaker 62 We're right. We're right.

Speaker 138 These are the things we notice.

Speaker 37 You just never notice?

Speaker 28 I never pay attention to.

Speaker 13 Maybe this is TV. Maybe the TV adds like a bunch of water.

Speaker 127 I feel like you got to look at some pictures and be like, damn, my coach wasn't wet.

Speaker 28 So you Googled a wet must champ.

Speaker 109 No, I would just see his press conference and be like, why is he wet?

Speaker 19 Did it rain? No, it didn't rain.

Speaker 57 He's just wet.

Speaker 88 I am going to Google wet must champ right now.

Speaker 142 That's

Speaker 71 a great idea.

Speaker 74 That's a great idea.

Speaker 13 Are you a wideback still?

Speaker 139 I'm a receiver.

Speaker 13 Okay, so no more wideback. I don't know yet.

Speaker 13 Do you want to be wide back?

Speaker 28 I'm a receiver right now.

Speaker 37 Oh.

Speaker 13 If you were to wave a magic wand, I'm a receiver. okay do wide backs get paid more money uh i don't know it's only one

Speaker 28 who is it i don't know you tell me

Speaker 13 wait but you just said that you're not right now but then you said you actually wide backs get paid more

Speaker 13 if i were to tell you that wide backs get paid more than wide receivers i'm a receiver sir okay all right all right

Speaker 13 You want to see this image of wet must chat?

Speaker 88 He is.

Speaker 59 He's wet all the time.

Speaker 37 I've never paid attention.

Speaker 37 You probably were more.

Speaker 33 I was going to get on y'all ass about that. That's fine.

Speaker 112 I mean, listen, look.

Speaker 137 I'll take him to court. Look at that.

Speaker 53 That's a wet guy.

Speaker 136 Look how wet he is.

Speaker 100 Listen, I'd go to court for this.

Speaker 137 I would.

Speaker 119 I'd be like, go ahead, release the documents.

Speaker 82 You've been wet for like 20 years.

Speaker 110 He doesn't want discovery on that.

Speaker 37 It's only a tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 13 Under the water, there's more.

Speaker 13 Real question for you. Do you need a fall guy?

Speaker 58 Do I need a what? Fall guy.

Speaker 13 Like, anything goes wrong. I'm volunteering to be your fall guy.
No, I don't. You got to pin anything on anybody.

Speaker 121 That was smart because now you can ask them after when we turn off the cameras.

Speaker 117 I don't need a fall guy. Yeah.
Wink.

Speaker 121 Yep. That was smart.
Just like Will Musk Champ isn't wet.

Speaker 42 Wink.

Speaker 97 When you got your 2021 year was insane.

Speaker 58 That was like,

Speaker 82 you know, peak Debo.

Speaker 58 Is that guy still there?

Speaker 54 100%.

Speaker 139 Is it going to be this year?

Speaker 33 Hope so. Okay.

Speaker 2 Because that was, I mean, I would just remember, you're such a joy to watch.

Speaker 58 Like, I'm not a Fortnite Irish fan, but I would just be like, Debo Sigma.

Speaker 37 What fan are you?

Speaker 83 Bears.

Speaker 121 Oh, I'm not wearing the Bears hat anymore.

Speaker 135 I thought I had it on. I had it on earlier.
The Debo Samuel catches, runs, runs through people.

Speaker 119 Just everything you did on the field.

Speaker 25 It's electric.

Speaker 40 Do you like, are you looking for contact when you get the ball?

Speaker 62 You're like, I want to go to the bottom.

Speaker 28 I don't necessarily say like, I look for contact when it presents itself.

Speaker 141 Like, I'm ready for it at all times.

Speaker 28 But I'm not just going to get the ball and just run straight into somebody. Yeah.

Speaker 6 But if it's, but if it presents itself, if it presents itself,

Speaker 28 I'm always ready for it.

Speaker 7 What's the key to you?

Speaker 17 I mean, you're incredible at yards after catch, too.

Speaker 127 What's the key to that?

Speaker 58 Is there something? Because not everyone has that.

Speaker 25 You can't teach it.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 54 So when did you know you had that?

Speaker 28 So like growing up,

Speaker 28 my father was my football coach.

Speaker 28 And so always like, I used to panic when like, I used to see one person, I just hear my daddy in his head, like in my head, like, if he tackle you, it's not going to be good.

Speaker 28 Like, if one person tackle you, then we're going to have a problem.

Speaker 28 So like, that always been like my mentality and like everything I do, like, especially out there on the field, like, if one guy tackled me, then like, it's not a good play.

Speaker 121 Yeah, that's a good mentality to have.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it seems like you're pissed off sometimes when you run.

Speaker 37 Ah, it's just me.

Speaker 103 It's just you.

Speaker 28 Love of the game, man.

Speaker 13 It's fun. You are.
I think we gave an award like three years ago for the football player that we most like to watch play football. I think you won that award.

Speaker 28 Be having a good time.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you're a joy to watch when you carry the ball. Now, here in D.C., it's a different offense, right? Different from what Kyle was doing out on the West Coast.
How do you like it?

Speaker 44 Smooth.

Speaker 28 Real up tempo, no huddle.

Speaker 28 Cliff do a good job of moving everybody around, so you never know what anybody's going to be. And, you know, it's just, I think it's going to be hard for defenses.

Speaker 70 Yeah.

Speaker 13 How do you like playing with Jaden?

Speaker 73 I love it.

Speaker 13 He's pretty good. Pretty good, yeah.
Yeah. You had a nice route today against Sandra still.

Speaker 13 I like Mikey. Beat him on the seam.
Yeah, Big Cat came out there, and I was like, watch, Big Cat Debo's in awesome shape right now. He goes, I'll be the judge of that next play.

Speaker 82 Yeah, you look at the seam route.

Speaker 37 Appreciate you.

Speaker 37 Appreciate you.

Speaker 40 Would you guys have beaten the Eagles in the NFC Championship game if Brock hadn't got hurt?

Speaker 28 That was like, what, three years ago?

Speaker 117 Yeah.

Speaker 104 Leave it away or say it.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 89 That was a good answer.

Speaker 127 I was trying to set it up because we have an Eagles fan here, so I wanted to get him mad because he gets upset when 49ers fans are like, we would have won that game.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 135 How awesome is George Kittle, though, in the huddle?

Speaker 58 And he's a friend of ours.

Speaker 135 Is he as funny and thoughtful of life in the huddle and on game days as it seems?

Speaker 82 Because it sounds like he's a little kid out there.

Speaker 135 So it's like, like, love George. Yeah.

Speaker 28 Awesome in the huddle, great player, person, everything.

Speaker 28 Sometimes it'd be a little much when we'd be in a huddle and we can be losing sometimes, but he's still always the same, whether we're losing or winning.

Speaker 28 And like, when we losing, he's still like the little jolly little kid in there. And I'd be like, bro, we're losing right now.

Speaker 37 Lock in. But that's like him being locked in.

Speaker 38 So it's just like, it's just him being him. That's who he is.

Speaker 28 I'd be like, me and Brock be like, George, come on, get in the huddle.

Speaker 30 He's

Speaker 38 just, you know.

Speaker 10 That's a guy that likes contact. George is great.

Speaker 34 Yeah. George is great.

Speaker 13 He will run at somebody. He's a great dude.

Speaker 13 When you got traded to the commanders, did Brandon Ayuk hit you up and be like, hey, man, I was asking for the trade to the commanders for the last two seasons.

Speaker 34 No.

Speaker 13 You're a lucky guy.

Speaker 15 Nah.

Speaker 13 How did you find out?

Speaker 28 My agent called me.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Were you surprised?

Speaker 28 Nah, I wasn't surprised. I actually was so crazy.

Speaker 28 I was on the way to the tank and roach fight. Me and the bros had just landed in New York.

Speaker 81 And we was getting off the plane.

Speaker 28 And I see my phone ring. I'm like, whoa.

Speaker 28 Like, why is he calling me? Like, it's probably like nine o'clock. I'm like, why is he calling me right now? It's nine o'clock.

Speaker 28 You know, if your agent call you at a certain amount of time, I'm like, what are you going? And so he called me. He was like, yo, it's about to be done.
I'm like, what?

Speaker 141 What happened?

Speaker 28 And then, like, I just instantly got excited. Cause like.
Him and AP and, you know, guys was going back and forth of, you know, where I was going to end up. And, you know, this is kind of home to me.

Speaker 28 Well,

Speaker 28 close as he can get get besides, you know,

Speaker 28 I got family in Baltimore and like it was, it was just a lot of excitement in that day, for sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 65 Give us the amount of yards you're going to have this year.

Speaker 28 You know, it's crazy.

Speaker 28 My whole career, like, I've never been a guy to like make goals.

Speaker 143 Okay.

Speaker 28 Because I feel like like if you make a goal say if i say 1500 right and i'm at 12 yeah you're gonna try to do so much like internally but not like like your mind is like yo you said you're just gonna get 15 so like just try to do extra and then that's when bad shit happens so i just go out there day by day play by play game by game and let it just do what it's gonna do what if we do the goals for you you can tell us if they're good or not uh i'd rather you keep them to yourself okay maybe you'll tweet them that was smart because one of my goals was gonna be debo i was it was going to be debo samuel admits at will must champs wet

Speaker 84 so you you were you're smart on that one

Speaker 13 we're about to say one yard huh

Speaker 13 i just say one yard then

Speaker 55 i'm not setting up for failure one yard at a time yeah one play at a time yeah yeah but listen thank you for for joining us you are in very good shape to dispel all the rumors yeah hank our other producer here was saying you were fat right before you got in here swear to god did he not say that he did well when we got on the practice field Hank looked at you and then he looked at me and he was like, hmm?

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 13 He gave me that look and I was like, that dude is in better shape than you've ever dreamed of being.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 37 So we'll fight on your behalf.

Speaker 13 If you're looking to run somebody over on the way out, that's your pitch, right?

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 41 Well, thank you, Debo. We really appreciate it, man.

Speaker 46 Best of luck to you.

Speaker 66 Yes, sir. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 61 Okay, Firefest of the week time, grit week finale.

Speaker 5 Hank, you're up first, buddy.

Speaker 69 Yeah, my firefest of the week.

Speaker 69 My best friend hates me. That's one of them.
Damn.

Speaker 69 Sometimes it'd be like that. Nice.
What's his name? His name is

Speaker 69 Daniel. Oh.

Speaker 102 I don't hate you.

Speaker 10 I don't hate you. I hate the decisions you make.

Speaker 67 I don't hate you.

Speaker 13 There's a big difference. Should we talk about it?

Speaker 77 We could talk about it. Decision time.

Speaker 13 It's kind of a group Fire fest. Yeah.

Speaker 140 Yeah, it was. It was.
It's not.

Speaker 77 This could just be the entire fire fest.

Speaker 37 Yes. Well, no, like, because I also, I also, my

Speaker 69 one.

Speaker 43 Okay, go with your other one first.

Speaker 77 I screamed in your ear.

Speaker 69 Well,

Speaker 69 that's part of it. No, that's part of it.
It's part of the overarching one is I've just realized, you know, I'm 32 years old and much like a child.

Speaker 69 Like, if you get me in a moving vehicle, I will fall asleep.

Speaker 69 No matter if I'm fully rested, if I'm tired, like,

Speaker 69 if it's a car, if it's a plane once that thing gets moving even on a train it gets going and I just fall asleep and that's something that your mouth doesn't maybe

Speaker 69 yeah my mind is still cooking mind never stops but you know that I've realized like that's that's maybe not a good thing I don't know

Speaker 135 it's probably bad it's probably a great thing you get to sleep all the time Yeah, but it just feels like I, you know,

Speaker 69 my brother and sister have kids and like, oh, you know, you always hear like, oh, if, you know, your kids can't sleep, just get them in the car and drive them around.

Speaker 69 Like, I'm basically still like that.

Speaker 13 Next time you're grumpy, we're just gonna put you in the back seat and just drive you around the block until you get in a better mood.

Speaker 69 Uh, but yeah, okay, good fire fest, and yeah, my best friend hates me.

Speaker 116 I don't hate you.

Speaker 106 Uh, all right, so we do the group fire fest, I think we should just do the group fire fest.

Speaker 15 Okay, so we should put a disclaimer on the group fire fest.

Speaker 72 Uh, first disclaimer is: uh, we know that part of this story is not super relatable and it's probably not gritty, not gritty, but also we're when we did a packed three days, and then we wanted to get back to make sure that we could film in Vanny Woodhead.

Speaker 95 That was the whole plan because we got Vanny Woodhead fixed.

Speaker 48 Shout out, Hank.

Speaker 71 Good job, Hank.

Speaker 117 Shout out, Mike.

Speaker 42 So we wanted to kind of go back to our roots with, so we needed to get back to Chicago.

Speaker 41 So yeah, not very relatable, not very gritty, but

Speaker 56 yeah, who wants to start?

Speaker 90 All right, I'll start. Okay.

Speaker 88 I'll start.

Speaker 13 So we were going to fly private back late night on Wednesday night after we're done with the Eagles. Meet.

Speaker 37 Great.

Speaker 30 Oh, by the way, shout out all the fans.

Speaker 13 Everyone that came out, it was great. And Max's family came out, which was awesome because they all looked like a different version of Max.
And it broke me and Big Cat's brain

Speaker 13 to the point where we were just, we would see a family member of Max's and we would just look at memes and be like, dude, you're such an asshole for all the face swaps because they all looked like they were a face swap version of Max.

Speaker 13 Like on so, like a real life, you would see someone be like, memes did it again with this guy.

Speaker 53 They walked in.

Speaker 95 I was like, i know you guys yeah

Speaker 13 you're maxes yeah you're just a group of maxes uh so so we leave the meet and greet which was awesome shout out to everybody that showed up great people as always and we drove to the airport because we're going to fly private back so we get to the airport and the pilot comes over and the pilot is asking for all of our IDs.

Speaker 41 A piece of shit.

Speaker 13 We produce their IDs and he looks at all of them. He's like, yeah, he looks at Big Cats and he's like, this isn't real ID compliant because they made that switch a couple months ago.

Speaker 13 And Big Cat's like, okay, I've got a picture of my passport. If you can take that.
And the guy was like, I'm sorry, we can't accept that.

Speaker 42 Got my clear card, got my TSA pre-check, just throwing documents at him.

Speaker 13 So all of us happen to have either a real ID or we have passports that were in our book bags.

Speaker 13 So he goes to the plane, gets all those out, checks them. And we're thinking at the time, like,

Speaker 13 he'll figure out a way to like let Big Cat on the plane because private pilot, you can just, when we flew out there i think they looked at our ids and they were like okay good that's all you guys look at our ideas did not even check our ids when we flew out there but in the past they've looked at ids that were not real id and been like okay that's dancats yep all good let's get on the plane um so then big cat starts talking to the guy be like well i've got my clear i've got all this stuff and he's like you're not going to get on that plane

Speaker 2 so well wait before that he didn't this is the part that really pissed me off with this guy he didn't say you're not going to get on the plane He said I have to make a call and and talk to some people and see giving me hope giving me hope that I was going to get on the plane and also delaying my chances of getting on a different plane so he like prolonged the whole thing and

Speaker 65 There was never hope he had already made up his mind.

Speaker 2 He's a piece of shit.

Speaker 13 So big guy gets told no I get on the phone with security mike and I'm like, hey Mike, Big Cat's going to probably have to get out of here.

Speaker 13 I don't know if he needs to go back to New York to catch a flight or what's going on, but he's not getting on this one. So you should probably come back and pick him up.

Speaker 13 Also knowing that Mike is really good at just talking to people and Mike can talk his way into, it's his, it's, he's the best person at talking his way into things that I've ever seen in my entire life.

Speaker 13 Facts. Barnes.
So I was like, maybe you can just talk to the guy and figure out a way to get him on the plane. So Mike comes back, shows up.

Speaker 13 We were looking up some flights for Big Cat to see, is there a possibility that he can leave Philadelphia on his own? So that leaves the rest of us and Big Cat's not in a great mood.

Speaker 13 And he's like looking at his phone, trying to figure out what other flights he can get on, if that's possible.

Speaker 13 Big Cat, I would have been in a bad mood, too. He was sitting over in the corner.
The rest of us are sitting there like, fuck, fuck, what do we do?

Speaker 15 You helped.

Speaker 13 I tried to help. You were helpful.
I tried to help. You had my back.
Max tried to help as well. Max was looking at flights too.
And then

Speaker 13 we eventually realized that Big Cat cannot get on this plane. And so

Speaker 13 I did the internal calculation in my brain. I was like, the flight's already been paid for.

Speaker 64 Which is the craziest part that that guy wouldn't let me on the plane.

Speaker 13 There's no chance that he's going to let Big Cat on this flight. And Big Cat can't fly back private anyways if he doesn't have that ID.
So he's going to fly back commercial. It'd be a real shame if

Speaker 13 we didn't get on the plane and fly it home.

Speaker 22 So my regret, which I expressed.

Speaker 88 You have no regrets.

Speaker 13 No, I express this to these guys on the plane. I should have gone up and been like, Big Cat, I insist that we stay one more night right here by your side for a week.

Speaker 13 And then you would would have said, I would have said absolutely not.

Speaker 9 Absolutely not.

Speaker 94 And then we would have gotten on the plane and flown out.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 53 So, all right, so here's what I'll pick up.

Speaker 82 So, this is so this sucked beyond belief because it's like long week trying to get on the plane, paid for it, getting on the plane.

Speaker 64 Guy says no, he's a total prick, just an absolute dick about it.

Speaker 22 And I would never have told you guys not to get on that plane because obviously it's paid for.

Speaker 27 I was in a situation, so I then drove from Philadelphia to Newark, got to Newark, booked a 10 o'clock flight, back of the plane, and we want to say maybe won the Grid Award this week.

Speaker 95 I don't know.

Speaker 19 Maybe.

Speaker 119 Maybe stop saying Diva Dan when you're taking naps everywhere.

Speaker 84 Who is that?

Speaker 91 No, that's you. That's you, Hank.

Speaker 38 That's you, Hank.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 81 Drove to Newark, drove to Newark, got through, which is the craziest part because I have clear NTSA, so no problem getting on a commercial flight.

Speaker 80 Couldn't get on a private flight, could get on a commercial flight.

Speaker 51 And then my flight was delayed for two and a half hours while we sat on the tarmac i got home at 3 a.m it was when i put my head to pillow uh hank was asleep in his bed at 10 30 p.m

Speaker 66 um i also then had to get up at set no you said before 11.

Speaker 65 he also slept on the flight he slept on the flight as well uh and really again all i all i wanted in that moment of i was just shit out of luck obviously i put some blame on myself because i should have real ID, but

Speaker 25 if I had, if we had, if they had been consistent flying to Philadelphia or to Baltimore on Sunday, if they had said, hey, you need a passport, I would have been like, great, I'll go home, get my passport.

Speaker 57 We'll leave in an hour.

Speaker 2 They didn't say that. Didn't even check an ID.

Speaker 27 So the consistency was what fucked me there.

Speaker 25 I will obviously always travel with my passport going forward.

Speaker 89 All I needed in that moment was for just my guys to be like, hey, we're not getting on this flight.

Speaker 95 And I would have been like, no, you got to get on this flight. And then I would have been fine.
It would have been great.

Speaker 2 but then I spent the next seven hours in hell

Speaker 21 knowing, knowing that they had already landed and Hank was already asleep.

Speaker 13 So, we get on the plane, and we were all thinking the same thing, and then we said, Fuck it, let's just talk about it.

Speaker 13 If the plane had crashed, no cat would have been secretly happy.

Speaker 36 Nope, nope, but what a moment that would have been.

Speaker 30 No,

Speaker 37 I told you guys, my honesty.

Speaker 137 But you're not thinking about the moment.

Speaker 13 Like, no, you all go down, you weren't allowed on the plane, and you're like, No, for the grace of God, crazy survivor guild.

Speaker 32 I actually, the only two things I was thinking about plane crashes was: can this plane, can your guys' plane crash and only the pilot die?

Speaker 15 And then, can my, can my plane crash so you guys have survivor?

Speaker 110 We talked about that too.

Speaker 37 That's what I wanted.

Speaker 97 So I was ready to die. We talked about that.

Speaker 13 We said, if our plane crashed, and then Max was like, I kind of hope that our plane crashed.

Speaker 15 No, I do not want you guys to come.

Speaker 13 And then memes goes, fuck that.

Speaker 56 Better him than me.

Speaker 10 Yeah, memes is a piece of shit, too.

Speaker 100 He didn't say anything.

Speaker 13 But be honest, be honest, big cat, because we talked about this. If our plane had gone down,

Speaker 13 would there have been a podcast on Friday?

Speaker 130 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 13 And it would have been awesome. And then I said,

Speaker 43 I would have fucking shit on Hank.

Speaker 108 Yeah, and I would have,

Speaker 13 I said, guys, if Big Cat's, what if Big Cat's plane crashes, the one that he was forced on?

Speaker 126 That would have been awesome.

Speaker 13 I said, we got to put out a podcast Friday because Big Cat would have won us.

Speaker 137 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 57 Absolutely. Yeah, so the whole situation sucked.

Speaker 2 Again, this is not like super relatable.

Speaker 9 It was just more like this is a shitty end to Grit Week and also Hank.

Speaker 43 Then, so

Speaker 78 I got, I was, I was mad.

Speaker 65 I was mad.

Speaker 14 I actually said

Speaker 69 speak to me, walked in the office, and walked past me five times without leaving.

Speaker 115 I didn't want to talk to you.

Speaker 69 We had a meeting that we were in together.

Speaker 108 I was like, smiling, and you go, I wasn't.

Speaker 134 You sent me a text in the morning going, hey, we got a bunch of tasers.

Speaker 104 I was trying to move it forward.

Speaker 105 Okay, well, but you could have just said, hey, my bad.

Speaker 108 My bad for what?

Speaker 1 See, this is the part that sucks because even PFD is like, hey, we probably should have just said, hey, we'll stick around.

Speaker 105 I 100% would have said, no, you cannot stay.

Speaker 2 You have to go.

Speaker 43 Hank then said to me that the reason why he didn't say anything is because I didn't say goodbye to him when I was trying to fucking rush and get a flight to Newark.

Speaker 53 God damn it, I should have said goodbye to Diva Hank, who was just sitting there, not saying shit, getting ready to sleep on his plane

Speaker 129 and then get on his flight. I was hoping that he was a fighter.

Speaker 108 I was there for a flight.

Speaker 37 I was there for an hour fighting for my life and not a peep from Hank.

Speaker 53 I think he was eating his snacks.

Speaker 115 Oh, it was not eating his snacks. I think it's snacks that we love.
I think it's snacks that we got.

Speaker 38 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 69 I thought that we were going to find a way to get you on the flight. Spider was on the phone.
Mike was talking to the guy.

Speaker 69 It wasn't like, even though the guy was like, you're probably not getting this flight, I had not given up hope. I regret not going up and trying to help.
I just put myself in the field.

Speaker 115 I didn't want to help.

Speaker 69 I should have, I should have.

Speaker 115 I didn't want to help.

Speaker 69 I should have texted you and said,

Speaker 69 sorry, you're not on this flight. I know.

Speaker 37 That's also the other thing.

Speaker 129 I misjudged the situation.

Speaker 64 I misjudged the situation.

Speaker 37 The only one who didn't text me in the entire

Speaker 134 Vanny right now who didn't text me was Hank.

Speaker 65 Well, everyone else texted me saying, like, sorry, that's not.

Speaker 69 PFT didn't text till we landed, and Max had texted you on the plane and was like,

Speaker 69 he hasn't answered me, so I don't want to piss you off more. I misjudged the situation.

Speaker 69 I apologize.

Speaker 69 Well, PFT didn't text you until after we landed. And when we talked about that,

Speaker 22 he was texting me during when I was driving up to Newark.

Speaker 104 So that's not true. Yeah.

Speaker 106 I was answering him then.

Speaker 104 So that's just false.

Speaker 37 You're lying. We were on the plane.
flight.

Speaker 69 You're lying. On the plane.

Speaker 37 Early on the plane flight.

Speaker 37 I'm very sorry.

Speaker 13 Earlier on the plane flight, memes had texted with you about something unrelated. You were like, I don't know what you guys were discussing, but you had texted memes at some point.

Speaker 13 And then Max was getting really, really nervous because you hadn't texted him back.

Speaker 13 So then I decided it would be a great thing for me to do to lie to Max and say, yeah, I've been texting with Big Cat this whole time, making Max feel worse about not getting a text. I was anxious.

Speaker 13 So then I was lying about that. And then that got Max all worked up.
He started talking loudly.

Speaker 35 And then that woke Hank up, and then Hank got involved.

Speaker 59 You don't want Diva Hank to be

Speaker 110 so mad at him. Furious at

Speaker 57 the end of waking him up.

Speaker 53 He's got to fly private. He's got to sleep.

Speaker 69 I'll never fly private.

Speaker 69 I feel so bad.

Speaker 69 You don't? I misjudged the situation.

Speaker 108 Here's why you don't feel bad.

Speaker 59 Here's why you don't feel bad.

Speaker 119 And I'll tell you, because so last night I was very mad.

Speaker 6 The delay was what killed me.

Speaker 43 I didn't get in until three.

Speaker 105 If I got in at 11, I actually probably would have been like, okay, that sucked, but whatever.

Speaker 134 I came in today.

Speaker 57 I was like, you guys saw right away.

Speaker 119 I came in.

Speaker 2 I was like, what's up, PJ boys?

Speaker 69 You didn't say anything to me.

Speaker 105 I'm joking about it.

Speaker 1 And then your first thing you said to me when we started talking about it, you said, you didn't say goodbye.

Speaker 55 And I was like, that's like, no, no, no.

Speaker 69 You were like, you didn't come up and say anything.

Speaker 140 And I was like, you said you didn't say goodbye.

Speaker 69 But we were waiting. My point was saying goodbye.
Again, my point was like, if you would come up and be like, yeah, I'm not making this fight. I got to go.
Maybe someone would.

Speaker 69 Me and Mimes had said, like, should we all drive to Chicago?

Speaker 6 Freddy, was there, was there ever, like that hour that I was sitting there, it was very clear I wasn't making that flight.

Speaker 69 But me, but like, it was very clear.

Speaker 108 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 37 It was a problem.

Speaker 45 Mike was our

Speaker 77 as soon as he said no to Mike is when I thought that

Speaker 37 was ample time.

Speaker 100 So I should have said goodbye.

Speaker 8 There's ample time that you guys all knew that I was fucked.

Speaker 115 I fucked up.

Speaker 69 I'm very sorry. I gotta know what to say.
I'm the goodbye thing. I meant like you, like, you were like, you didn't say anything.

Speaker 69 And I was like, if you had said, like, when you knew you were leaving for sure, we might have been like, hey, we won't get on this flight.

Speaker 69 That was where I fucked up saying that. I fucked up not texting you, even though you didn't text Max back.
And I'm sorry. I misjudged.
I misjudged situation.

Speaker 69 I thought texting you would piss you off more. So I and actually pissed you off even more by not texting you.

Speaker 85 Actually, the only reason I was like, I misjudged my situation, and that was a fuck up.

Speaker 1 Max back because Max, memes was like, this sucked.

Speaker 27 Zach was like, this sucked. PFD was like, this sucked.

Speaker 17 Max texted me being like, I should have stayed.

Speaker 30 And I was like, well, you're already in the air.

Speaker 41 I knew that's it's too late for that.

Speaker 110 Yeah, that was why I didn't text Max.

Speaker 13 When Max told me that's what he said, I was like, yeah, yeah, dude, that's great. Be like, if I could change places with you,

Speaker 44 I would.

Speaker 115 Yeah, all all I needed was that.

Speaker 53 All I needed was that that fucking sucked.

Speaker 13 Also, shout out to Zach, because Zach was sitting next to me, and he sent, he like typed out text messages constantly for about 30 minutes and then deleted them.

Speaker 13 He was just typing them all out and then deleting them.

Speaker 92 Can I

Speaker 113 settle on, Zach?

Speaker 65 He said

Speaker 119 that was a terrible situation.

Speaker 67 Like, I'm sorry that happened.

Speaker 2 All I want, because I'm not mad, I'm happy we talked about it.

Speaker 125 All I want is, can we do a vote?

Speaker 97 It should be Diva Hank now, right?

Speaker 37 It's always been D. Va Hank.

Speaker 78 But

Speaker 59 you got a lot of sleep.

Speaker 13 It's also impossible to argue against Hank because you just become a real-life version of the meme of those ladies screaming.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 136 And then Hank's just the cat. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Looking back at you. And he's napping.
And he's napping.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 75 Yeah, Diva Hank.

Speaker 46 Yeah, it was a tough, it was a tough,

Speaker 112 whatever.

Speaker 90 We made through it.

Speaker 93 We're good.

Speaker 31 I won the grid award this week.

Speaker 13 Be honest, though, if our plane had crashed,

Speaker 94 there would have been a moment where you've been like,

Speaker 6 I swear to God, no, because the survivor guilt would have killed me.

Speaker 64 I just wanted the pilot to die.

Speaker 77 The weather was also bad.

Speaker 38 Oh, my God, are you okay?

Speaker 77 No, but I'm saying, like, there was a point where we all looked at each other, where we were like, this isn't a joke. Like, this could happen.

Speaker 2 Hey, Max, I flew through the same weather just, like, seven hours later.

Speaker 77 I made peace with you. I'm not saying that as, like, I'm just saying that we were talking about it and then it almost happened.

Speaker 77 I was the one who said I wanted to land in Indy.

Speaker 66 Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 13 I preferred to land in Indy and not get here until that was what we came up with. We said when we were descending, we're like, it would actually be the best if we weren't able to land.

Speaker 13 They diverted us to a nearby hotel or a nearby state and then we had to stay overnight and then drive back or whatever. That would have been the perfect situation.

Speaker 13 Then Zach was like, yeah, like if we had to land in Nevada.

Speaker 37 I was like, yeah,

Speaker 37 just far. So far.

Speaker 105 All right. Hank, are we good? I love you.

Speaker 69 I love you too. I'm sorry.

Speaker 45 I think we should. Two rules.

Speaker 94 I'm sorry I didn't say goodbye.

Speaker 13 Rule number one. I'm sorry I didn't stay back.

Speaker 43 I didn't want you. I would never.

Speaker 36 You guys know deep down I would never make I was even thinking about it.

Speaker 77 I was like, I was like, fuck. I could have stayed back.
We could have got dinner with big, we could have got dinner with big Dom and we could have like made like a nice night out of it.

Speaker 57 And I sometimes you just got to do that dance. I know.
You're like, hey,

Speaker 37 I'll pay. Yeah.

Speaker 105 Like it was never, I would never have made you guys fucking stay.

Speaker 43 It was always, you got to get on that plane. We should have drove.

Speaker 69 That's what me and Memes were saying. And I was like, I looked at you.

Speaker 71 We could have talked about it.

Speaker 16 I looked at driving.

Speaker 72 All right.

Speaker 94 So rule number one.

Speaker 55 We've No more

Speaker 70 plan.

Speaker 94 Rule number one, Diva Hank.

Speaker 13 Rule number two, we always say goodbye. We always say goodbye.
We always say goodbye.

Speaker 22 Rule number three, I got to make sure I bring my passport with me all the time.

Speaker 80 Rule number four, fuck that pilot.

Speaker 85 Rule number five, don't talk when Hank is sleeping.

Speaker 37 Don't talk when Hank is sleeping.

Speaker 143 Rule number five.

Speaker 69 Max was fucking screaming in my

Speaker 69 head.

Speaker 13 I did think to myself, though, like, if this pilot is being such a dickhead, he's probably a super safe pilot.

Speaker 37 So we're not going to crash. True.

Speaker 107 That probably knew what was good by the end.

Speaker 133 He waited to get up out of the seat because you guys gave him the business.

Speaker 1 That's what I said to memes. I was like, hey,

Speaker 1 all you can do, I was like, all you can do for me is just tell that pilot he's a piece of shit.

Speaker 13 So here's what Zach detected. Do you want to say what you said when the plane landed?

Speaker 103 I remember most of it. So I just tried to say, I just tried to reiterate to the pilot, like, you know, goodness, you know, somebody, somebody works hard all week.

Speaker 103 They just want to get back to their family, their wives, their children.

Speaker 13 But you said it to us, but you were angry towards the pilot

Speaker 136 speaking to him.

Speaker 13 So you said, man, I really just feel bad for Big Cat. Somebody works so hard all week.
They want to get home. Their wife, they've got three kids.
It's just a bad situation that he was put into.

Speaker 103 Somebody made a judgment call off a sticker.

Speaker 38 Yeah. That was a line.
That was a line. Yeah.

Speaker 64 What did you say, memes?

Speaker 119 So my ears were hurting.

Speaker 62 So I was.

Speaker 37 Oh, God. I'm sorry.

Speaker 52 No, no, but I was screaming everything I was talking.

Speaker 37 So I was like, yeah, we found this guy's Instagram.

Speaker 62 I think he's a cat guy.

Speaker 143 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 107 That guy really threw a wrench in our relationship for

Speaker 62 that moment.

Speaker 37 It is first world problems.

Speaker 76 No, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 That was the part, too, where I was like, I can't even tweet about this because you can't complain about the situation. There's no one to do that.

Speaker 33 I just know how lucky we are and how lucky I am.

Speaker 22 And so it was one bad night.

Speaker 2 I just had to get through it.

Speaker 38 A little grit.

Speaker 102 I swear to God, if that fucking,

Speaker 95 that second, the commercial flight I took, if it just hadn't been delayed, I would have been home like maybe two hours after you guys.

Speaker 92 And I would have been like, all right, that sucked, but I'm good.

Speaker 71 It was the sitting on the tarmac for three hours fucking killed me.

Speaker 66 Nice hiccup. Do we have any other fire fests?

Speaker 91 Do you guys anyone have a personal fire fest?

Speaker 13 I think that's good. Good pod fire fest.
Yeah, I think that's good.

Speaker 137 Yeah, it was a good grit week. It was a great grit week.

Speaker 62 That fucking pilot could get fucked.

Speaker 30 He really could have hit him. Yeah.

Speaker 90 It was such a good week. I could have taken him.

Speaker 114 Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 62 Easily.

Speaker 78 Easily, right?

Speaker 13 I thought about hijacking it.

Speaker 103 He hid behind the wings. 100%.

Speaker 37 Yeah. He hides the hidden.
Hid behind after. No, I'm just saying.

Speaker 104 He hid behind the wings.

Speaker 37 He hid behind the uniform.

Speaker 143 Definitely.

Speaker 1 I really, and it really was like

Speaker 2 just an avalanche of events where if he had just given me the straight answer right away, I would have been like, all right, see you guys.

Speaker 68 Like, I can get on a flight right now.

Speaker 48 Appreciate it.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 67 And I would have said goodbye in that situation. Yeah.
It would have just been like, and you would have been like, oh, let's not go. We do our hugs.
I'm like, no, you have to go, dude.

Speaker 7 Danny would go. Let's drive.

Speaker 71 What is that?

Speaker 6 What's the surfer?

Speaker 13 Oh, the one where they say Eddie would go.

Speaker 57 Eddie would go.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 65 I would have given you guys that. I would have been like, Eddie would go.

Speaker 51 You got to go.

Speaker 112 All right.

Speaker 46 Great

Speaker 46 week, boys.

Speaker 100 Great grit week.

Speaker 116 Happy we got back to Danny Woodhead. Doesn't this feel good?

Speaker 75 It does feel good.

Speaker 92 It feels like home. I love you.

Speaker 105 You also knew that it was not going to be like I'm mad for weeks.

Speaker 78 It was going to be

Speaker 37 like 12 hours.

Speaker 108 You gave me the hardest cold shoulder this morning.

Speaker 46 I did because I was giving you the hardest.

Speaker 37 And

Speaker 37 the best was Jerry.

Speaker 53 Jerry, Jerry added to all of this.

Speaker 76 Well, yeah, driving.

Speaker 69 I was feeling Jerry out, and then I knew. I was like, I think this is related.
And then Jerry and Big Hat were in the same room. I was like, Jerry, why

Speaker 69 am I dead to you? Jerry didn't say a word. Big Cat walked away.
I was like, oh, yeah, this is related.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the other part of this story that maybe elevated this whole thing is I got back in the car with security guard Mike, who is one of our favorite guys, and he's the best.

Speaker 22 Keeps us safe. He's a former NYPD detective, like Staten Island guy, tough guy.

Speaker 95 And he just from Philly to Newark just ranted the whole time about how there's no loyalty left and it's bullshit that none of those guys got off the flight.

Speaker 6 And he just worked me into a lather.

Speaker 137 I was like, yeah, it is bullshit.

Speaker 97 I didn't even think about it until he started going.

Speaker 43 And then Jerry called him on speakerphone and Jerry was like, what's the deal?

Speaker 10 Tank's dead to me.

Speaker 119 He actually said he's going to snap your driver.

Speaker 69 Yeah, no, he texted me. He's like, I'm dead to you.
And then I called him 20 times and was like giving him every.

Speaker 31 Oh, so you called him, but not me?

Speaker 69 This is when I landed. Yeah, I was like, well, I was like, I was trying to figure out if they were related or not.

Speaker 69 And then, yeah, they were. Yeah.

Speaker 130 All right. Should we do.

Speaker 69 Well, no, I texted him. I'm like, why? And then I'm like, are we still golfing Friday? He's like, yeah.
And then I was like, yeah,

Speaker 68 he said, I'm going to snap Hank's driver over my fucking knee.

Speaker 48 All right.

Speaker 36 Numbers? Three.

Speaker 77 You want me to go FaceTime from inside? I think we should do it from in here. I think it'll be fun.
Yeah. 21.
I'm going to do 85.

Speaker 103 19.

Speaker 31 What's wrong? 21. 20 will get its whole fame game.

Speaker 13 47.

Speaker 13 47.

Speaker 75 15. 15.

Speaker 24 What was your number?

Speaker 25 21.

Speaker 52 21.

Speaker 53 FaceTime me, Max.

Speaker 12 LT, Jet Legend.

Speaker 35 Great week, boys. Great week.

Speaker 37 I'm sorry. Great week.

Speaker 6 We don't have any other Firefest.

Speaker 33 Oh, my other Firefest.

Speaker 42 Shit. Max just left.

Speaker 62 The fact that he might be a,

Speaker 28 you know.

Speaker 13 You know. My other Firefest's Max might be a, you know.
You know. You know.

Speaker 62 I I call PFT little guy.

Speaker 37 What?

Speaker 95 Oh, you're on? I can hear you.

Speaker 60 Yeah, we need to get a truce on this.

Speaker 122 All right, here he goes.

Speaker 91 What was your other Firefest memes?

Speaker 120 I call my boss PFT little guy.

Speaker 114 That was funny.

Speaker 13 That was funny, though.

Speaker 5 Chris, say a number.

Speaker 100 No, say one.

Speaker 64 73 is his guess.

Speaker 38 78s.

Speaker 21 78s.

Speaker 52 Imagine if he got it, memes, in your fucking face.

Speaker 13 That'd be awesome.

Speaker 84 All right.

Speaker 6 Great grit week, boys. Love grit week.

Speaker 20 Vanny's back.

Speaker 67 Vanny's all the way back.

Speaker 13 Love you guys.

Speaker 37 Bye, Hank.

Speaker 137 Goodbye, Hank. Bye, Hank.

Speaker 13 Everyone say bye to Hank.

Speaker 52 Goodbye.

Speaker 109 Is there anything else you want to say? Goodbye. I love you guys.
Okay, great. Love you guys.

Speaker 13 Goodbye.