2025 Takie Awards, Guest Presenters And Award Winners, 25 Awards Including Blake Of The Year, Podcast Listeners Of The Year, Bonk Of The Year + We Talk About The Fox/Barstool Deal

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Speaker 13 On today's part in my take, the ninth annual Takey Awards.

Speaker 18 We are all dressed up if you're watching us on YouTube.

Speaker 24 We have 25 awards that we're giving away, including Blake of the Year, Podcast Listeners of the Year, Bonk of the Year, Ratio of the Year, Just Log Off, and many, many more with some guest presenters.

Speaker 29 Some of our winners might be joining us to accept their awards.

Speaker 30 It's going to be great.

Speaker 32 We're also going to talk a little bit about the Fox deal because I'm sure people have questions.

Speaker 18 And PFT has promised us a big surprise.

Speaker 35 Major surprise.

Speaker 24 No, I said special. I said special.

Speaker 36 Huge surprise.

Speaker 24 I'm going to reveal the.

Speaker 9 You told us we're going to want to sit down.

Speaker 24 Yeah, I'm going to reveal the results of me and Hank's golf game for you.

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Speaker 51 Today is Friday, July 18th, and it is the ninth annual Takey Awards.

Speaker 57 Woo! All the boys are suited up.

Speaker 58 We look great. We look great.

Speaker 24 We really do. Got the ties on.
Hank's rocking the bow tie.

Speaker 59 Hank looks like Peewee Herman.

Speaker 24 Extra saucy. Yeah.
Peewee Herman, all-time handsome guy. Yeah.
Great dude. You look really good.
All the boys in the booth, too.

Speaker 24 The big concerning thing was Memes has been wearing the suit all day, which kind of creeps me out a little bit.

Speaker 60 He came to work in the suit.

Speaker 25 He looked like he was going to court.

Speaker 61 for a custody battle.

Speaker 24 He looks like a guy that your office brings in to fire people. Yes.
Like an outside consultant to be like, you're fired.

Speaker 64 A cold, heartless man. Yeah.

Speaker 29 Who just comes in, no, no emotions.

Speaker 24 Puts you on a pip.

Speaker 61 Just see you. See you, buddy.

Speaker 54 All right.

Speaker 53 So we have 25 awards we're giving out.

Speaker 66 If this is your first takeies, welcome.

Speaker 12 We do this every single year, this week, every year, when there's no sports going on.

Speaker 69 We have,

Speaker 4 you know, a year that we look back at the past year.

Speaker 13 So it's also also kind of confusing because it always, the takies kind of go from July to July.

Speaker 62 So we're looking at that,

Speaker 67 that,

Speaker 30 you know, time space.

Speaker 24 One thing I always like about the takies, though, is the time frame of it because this is what the calendar should be. Right.

Speaker 24 Like, the calendar should start football season starts the year, and then we have a sports calendar that ends at the end of the NBA playoffs, the Stanley Cup playoffs, and that's the year.

Speaker 24 That's the year in review that we do. Shit, you know what? I just realized we didn't do something.

Speaker 72 What?

Speaker 24 We should have done in Memoriam.

Speaker 73 Oh, well, we can do it at at the end.

Speaker 24 How about we just do it off the top of our heads?

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 75 Bill Walton.

Speaker 24 That's a great one.

Speaker 75 Rob Ford.

Speaker 31 Rob Ford. That's a good one.

Speaker 9 I watched that documentary last night. Yeah, it's really good.
A few years ago. Really good.
Yeah. In Memoriam.

Speaker 41 Bob Barker.

Speaker 24 Was that this year?

Speaker 65 No, I have no idea. Okay.

Speaker 76 Is he still?

Speaker 24 He's dead? Dead. He's dead.

Speaker 52 He's for sure dead. Right?

Speaker 56 He's alive. Bob Barker? Bob Barker.

Speaker 77 All right.

Speaker 24 Probably still alive.

Speaker 8 Hmm.

Speaker 24 O.J.

Speaker 79 O.J. was this year?

Speaker 24 That was in Adam Schefters from this year, right?

Speaker 73 That's right. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 80 Anyone in the booth have a death that they.

Speaker 25 The years kind of blend together, boys. David Bowie.

Speaker 38 Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 82 David Bowie.

Speaker 83 Yeah, R.I.P. Yep.

Speaker 84 R.I.P.

Speaker 81 David Bowie.

Speaker 16 The Queen?

Speaker 24 That was a couple years ago, because remember they made it up.

Speaker 56 That's close enough.

Speaker 55 That's close enough.

Speaker 24 They made us do like a minute of silence before opening kickoff for the Queen.

Speaker 22 Yeah, that's close enough, though.

Speaker 24 Yeah, I think that's about it. Yeah.
I think it's everybody that died. Yeah.

Speaker 20 All right, so before we get to the takies, obviously some big news announced on Thursday.

Speaker 86 Fox Sports Barstool Collab.

Speaker 2 Pretty exciting stuff.

Speaker 29 I'm sure there are some people who are like, hey, how's this going to change this show or any shows?

Speaker 22 I'll say right now, it's not going to change this show at all.

Speaker 23 We made sure of that.

Speaker 70 It's going to be a great, like, this is very different than the ESPN partnership back in 2017, the faithful barstool Van Talk.

Speaker 18 Fox is a very willing partner.

Speaker 30 They're very excited. We're very excited.

Speaker 25 They believe in us.

Speaker 94 We believe in them.

Speaker 25 A lot different than what we went through with the SPN.

Speaker 37 So

Speaker 95 what is it going to look like, though?

Speaker 25 So we have the college football show that we've been doing for a very long time.

Speaker 29 That's actually not going to change.

Speaker 67 We are going to, the only change on that is we used to go on the road six to seven times a year.

Speaker 25 Now we're going to go still on the road six times a year, but we are going to do it in conjunction with big noon kickoff.

Speaker 25 So we're going to have the barstool college football show take place right next to big noon kickoff, right before big noon kickoff, but it's still going to be the same show.

Speaker 52 So it's going to be the same show.

Speaker 48 There'll be seven or so shows from studio, six or so shows from location.

Speaker 29 Dave's going to go on big noon kickoff.

Speaker 67 So that's very exciting.

Speaker 22 I think there's a couple dates that he can't make that I might have to go on big noon kickoff.

Speaker 67 So that will be that.

Speaker 101 That's the college football portion.

Speaker 50 And then also, there will be a TV show that will run out of this office, the Chicago office, from 7 to 9 Central every morning, Monday through Friday, on FS1, which is going to be Barstool.

Speaker 101 It's going to be an ensemble.

Speaker 26 So PFT will be on it from time to time. I'll be on it from time to time.

Speaker 29 But it's not going to take away from what we do here.

Speaker 24 It's going to be, yeah, it's going to be a mix of everybody in this office and people that might not be in this office right now that might stop in.

Speaker 24 It's just going to be a big melange of people that work here at Barstool. And yeah,

Speaker 24 I don't expect to be spending a full-time job's worth of time going on the show, but I'll try to make it on like once a week is what we discussed.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 24 In that neighborhood. And that way it's not going to cannibalize Pardon My Take.

Speaker 22 Yeah, and I think that it tonight probably won't go on at the same time just because we don't want to be like, oh, they're just doing Pardon My Take on TV, but we will both appear on the show weekly.

Speaker 52 We keep that for you guys.

Speaker 47 Yeah, we keep that for you.

Speaker 24 That's just for you.

Speaker 24 The only show I think it could cannibalize is Wake Up Mincy.

Speaker 24 I'm concerned about that.

Speaker 105 Let's move to the afternoons.

Speaker 24 Okay, well, that's good.

Speaker 95 So we're good.

Speaker 24 Well, it's going to preempt Wake Up Mincy.

Speaker 61 Yeah, that's true. Okay.

Speaker 62 But I'm excited.

Speaker 2 It's actually

Speaker 22 a very odd feeling because we've been through this and we've been through the congratulations.

Speaker 106 And I'm always, that maybe jaded me a little of like, hey, there's no congratulations until it starts happening.

Speaker 68 Kind of like when people congratulate us on the book.

Speaker 106 Remember, we got to write a book?

Speaker 24 We haven't started, though.

Speaker 22 I did have someone congratulate me when we were doing the baseball stream the other night on the restaurant.

Speaker 71 I appreciated that guy.

Speaker 24 That's good.

Speaker 81 He's like, congrats on the book and the restaurant.

Speaker 107 Yes.

Speaker 24 I actually think, think about it this way. Every single day that goes by, it's going to be harder to quit the book.
Like, there's never going to be an easier time to quit the book than right now.

Speaker 24 Right now? Right this very second. It's only going to get harder.

Speaker 99 Do you.

Speaker 22 I mean, listen, AWL has better promise to buy this book.

Speaker 24 They better promise. Because I'm promising to write this book, right? Yeah.

Speaker 91 We need a promise off.

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 22 You promise to buy it.

Speaker 24 We'll promise to write it. But I'm pumped about the TV show.
It's going to be cool to get back on the air a little bit. And you're right.
Fox Sports, they want to work with us.

Speaker 24 We want to work with them. They're going to let us do us, which is a very cool thing.
They trust us. Balls in our court.
Go fuck around. Do whatever you want.

Speaker 24 I'm excited to share the airwaves with Colin Coward. Yes.
I really am. Yes.

Speaker 110 Who might be up for a takey.

Speaker 24 He might be up for a takeie.

Speaker 90 He might be up for a takey.

Speaker 79 But yeah, it's exciting.

Speaker 111 It's big for Barstool.

Speaker 90 And my excitement is like, it's just different than it was 2017, but I think it's better because, like I said, this is a partnership that feels like it can work because they wanted us.

Speaker 96 And we're like, hey, let's do this instead of trying to beg to get, you know, a time slot at 1 a.m.

Speaker 24 Yeah, and if you are an AWL that owns a gym, if you own a gym, we're going to need every television on FS1 in the morning. That's on you.
First of all, congratulations on owning a gym.

Speaker 24 That's fucking sick. You're probably in really good shape and hot.
So that's cool. But we need you to have our TV show on Monday through Friday, 7 to 9 century.

Speaker 22 After you watch all part of my take on YouTube and listen to it on all your podcasts.

Speaker 38 Correct, correct.

Speaker 24 But we're counting on you guys. Yeah.

Speaker 22 So yeah, we're not, it's not like, hey,

Speaker 31 boomers in the fall are now going to be on FS1.

Speaker 29 No, no, this show is not changing at all.

Speaker 52 I made sure that was a very big sticking point. We love this show.

Speaker 98 We've learned through the years that this is our audience.

Speaker 93 We love you guys.

Speaker 19 We'll see if you win a podcast listener of the year, but we love you guys so much, and we don't want to change any of that.

Speaker 52 This is in addition, so we're excited for it.

Speaker 46 Hank, are you excited? Very excited.

Speaker 24 Hank, does this make Tom Brady your co-worker?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I think it does. Yeah.
Your peer? He might be involved in this show later, too.

Speaker 73 In this show? Yeah.

Speaker 46 In today's show. Takeies.
Oh. No way.

Speaker 109 Okay.

Speaker 85 You say he might be and he's not?

Speaker 56 He might be. He might be.

Speaker 110 Okay. That would be very funny.

Speaker 22 We need to start doing that.

Speaker 81 Be like, hey, listen, this is the ninth annual takeies.

Speaker 25 You want to do something special?

Speaker 9 Dr. James Andrews.

Speaker 29 LeBron James might be involved in this.

Speaker 47 Actually, can I tell you a funny story?

Speaker 27 So we have guest presenters.

Speaker 25 I tried to reach out to Dr. James Andrews for Injury of the Year.

Speaker 22 Did not get you. Which one?

Speaker 113 The one that we had on nine years ago who correctly diagnosed Kyle Schwerber's injury.

Speaker 61 I emailed him.

Speaker 86 Yeah. Professor, have not heard back.

Speaker 115 We should revisit that, though.

Speaker 62 I did make the effort.

Speaker 24 We should have him on again.

Speaker 71 Yeah, we should absolutely have him on again.

Speaker 83 That will be in the book.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Did we do that with Aaron Rodgers, or we almost did it with Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 24 A different guy named Aaron Rodgers? I think we talked about it. Yeah.

Speaker 9 I think we almost did it.

Speaker 62 I think we did it the exact right amount of times once.

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Because if we had just done an entire podcast where every single day we had a guest name that was similar to a famous person, people would get mad.

Speaker 24 I think so. Yeah.

Speaker 117 Okay, PFT, you're surprised?

Speaker 24 Yeah, so last night, if you watch the Takey Awards, or excuse me, the Espy Awards, Shane Gillis hosted, and he did the monologue at the start of it.

Speaker 24 I thought it was pretty funny. I thought he told some pretty funny jokes.
Shakespeare's incredible. Shane's a funny guy.
Shout out, Lil Sass.

Speaker 24 Our dear friend Lil Sass wrote some of the jokes for him, which I thought was very cool. So I know how these award shows go.
I know that he probably wrote a lot of jokes that didn't get included.

Speaker 24 So I reached out to Lil Sass this morning and I asked him if he had any leftover jokes.

Speaker 82 Oh, nice.

Speaker 24 And I got some leftover jokes from Lil Sass that were meant to be on the SBs, didn't make the cut, maybe too spicy for TV.

Speaker 24 And I want our good friend Zach to do the opening monologue.

Speaker 56 Oh!

Speaker 119 For the takeies.

Speaker 6 I love this.

Speaker 24 With Lil Sass's jokes. So we have an opening monologue this year.
And Zach has not read these. I just now, as I'm talking, sent him the jokes.

Speaker 24 So this is going to be Zach reading Lil Sass's jokes for the first time.

Speaker 2 And that's so perfect because Zach actually

Speaker 103 did a Daniel Day-Lewis method act this morning where he, much like Little Sass, woke up at 11:30 in the morning.

Speaker 59 He did, yeah.

Speaker 24 He was a little bit late this morning. Yeah.

Speaker 76 This is my first time reading through these jokes, and I am happy to present them to you guys.

Speaker 41 Okay, okay.

Speaker 109 Great.

Speaker 120 What about the part about the

Speaker 76 deplorable move on my end? I can't apologize enough to anybody who, everyone who is here at the scheduled time,

Speaker 76 I want to apologize for

Speaker 76 not respecting your time to the best of my ability, and it's not a good move, and I couldn't be more. Anything you guys need me to do to make up for it, I'm willing to do.

Speaker 76 And I'm sorry for being late today.

Speaker 90 What did I say to you, though?

Speaker 22 Don't do it again. No, that's not what I said.

Speaker 121 Well, I did say that, but I also said

Speaker 80 if we fired people for sleeping in, Hank would have been fired a thousand times.

Speaker 122 Fact.

Speaker 24 And he did walk in the room and give the best apology of all time. And instantly, I was.

Speaker 25 For people who don't know, so we had a commercial day today.

Speaker 26 We had a tape bunch of commercials.

Speaker 68 We were here at 8 a.m.

Speaker 22 was the call time.

Speaker 71 Zach, what happened?

Speaker 75 Did your alarm not go off?

Speaker 120 I didn't plug it back in.

Speaker 119 So you have your phone?

Speaker 24 He's got a plug-in alarm clock next to his bed.

Speaker 76 So it's Alexa, but I use the top volume on it. So usually I can't tell her in the morning, Alexa, cut off the alarm because she can't hear me because she's going so loud.

Speaker 76 So I pull the plug out the back.

Speaker 119 Every morning?

Speaker 41 Yes.

Speaker 13 So you yell at Alexa every morning and she doesn't listen and then you have to pull out the plug.

Speaker 76 So I just go to plug usually. And I pulled the plug.
I didn't re-plug.

Speaker 123 Why does she use your phone?

Speaker 76 Not loud enough.

Speaker 9 You gotta go too long. I'd like to.

Speaker 73 But I was like,

Speaker 124 I came in and Hank goes, as a sleep-in guy, Zach is a quintessential sleep-in guy.

Speaker 110 He, like, no, he, it was a Spider-Man meme.

Speaker 81 He's like, I know Zach.

Speaker 18 He's also a sleeping guy.

Speaker 9 People were like freaking out being like, Zach, I was like, I, you know, I think he's going to be all right. I can tell, like, that's a guy that just slept it.

Speaker 125 Police was on the way to Zach's apartment.

Speaker 95 Did we, did someone go and wake you up?

Speaker 9 Well, no, we brought someone there. His building wouldn't let them up.
And then they were like, basically, only if a police comes and says we, you know, have to go check, will they let someone in?

Speaker 9 Our security guard is a cop and has a friend that's a police officer. So, like, we were sending someone there to find out.

Speaker 24 Got it. So, we were very relieved when you came in this morning.

Speaker 76 I'm so sorry you guys went through that this morning. I was unaware of that aspect.

Speaker 24 I agree. Like, the alarm clock situation.
We talked about this a couple of weeks ago. The alarm clocks aren't annoying enough anymore.
They're too relaxing.

Speaker 125 What would have gone through your face? What would have gone through your head if you saw a police officer at the door to wake you up?

Speaker 125 You would have been.

Speaker 76 I would assume that

Speaker 76 first thought I would have known.

Speaker 76 Do I know what time it is when I meet the cop at the door?

Speaker 9 It's time to go.

Speaker 47 It's laid out.

Speaker 76 Is there just a police officer or is there someone else accompanying the cop that I would recognize to meet?

Speaker 9 We had said someone else because I was worried for that reason.

Speaker 9 I didn't want you to be too concerned.

Speaker 88 What was the worst text message you had in your phone?

Speaker 76 The worst text message I had in my phone, there was some, are you okay?

Speaker 63 Are you alive?

Speaker 76 And I was like, oh my goodness gracious. Yeah.
This is not good. It's a bad feeling.

Speaker 62 Terrible feeling.

Speaker 29 Max got Matt at like 9.20.

Speaker 91 I just fired off a text.

Speaker 19 You said, are you coming in? Question mark. And Max was like, that's going to kill him.

Speaker 76 That one, I was in the Uber and I was like, okay, well,

Speaker 76 my time here was very short. I appreciated all the opportunity.

Speaker 73 And

Speaker 76 I knew I'd fuck it up, but I didn't know it would be this soon.

Speaker 125 I tried to get him not to send it because I knew that you would have ⁇ that one was going to set you off.

Speaker 6 It's all right. We love you, Zach.
It's all right.

Speaker 86 Just don't do it again. All right, yes, sir.

Speaker 24 So, Zach, maybe start the show with a monologue. Welcome, everybody, to the 2025 Takeies.
I'm your host and presenter, Zach. And then just rip into the jokes.

Speaker 76 I would like to welcome everybody to the 2026 Takeies Awards.

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 76 I'm Zach here, and I'd like to... I'd like to.

Speaker 76 Warm welcome. Let's get things started here, gentlemen.
Happy Takeies.

Speaker 24 Happy Takeys. Happy Takes.

Speaker 76 Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season.

Speaker 24 51.

Speaker 76 If you count the 17 million in his transfer portal.

Speaker 127 Okay.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 107 Wait, in his transfer portal?

Speaker 108 Okay,

Speaker 24 let's run that one again. Let's read this one slow.

Speaker 76 Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season.

Speaker 76 51 if you count the 17 million in his transfer portal.

Speaker 24 51 if you count the 17 million his

Speaker 46 his

Speaker 76 Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season.

Speaker 76 51 if you count the 17 million his translator stole.

Speaker 73 Okay, that's good.

Speaker 39 Transfer portal. Transfer portal.

Speaker 76 Tough read.

Speaker 41 It's on me.

Speaker 76 Shadora Sanders slid to the fifth round in the draft because teams were worried he would be a distraction in the locker room. But luckily, the Browns needed a distraction from their distraction.

Speaker 76 Anything to pull focus from the ankle monitors.

Speaker 56 Nice.

Speaker 128 Love that. Yep.

Speaker 55 Love that.

Speaker 76 How's everybody doing tonight? Everybody feeling good? Feeling loose?

Speaker 56 Everything takes?

Speaker 73 Hell yeah. That's awesome.

Speaker 82 I love that for you guys.

Speaker 76 Let's take it up here.

Speaker 76 Angel Reese spoke out online against the WNBA after a bad call from the officials.

Speaker 76 Bold move considering she could face up to 25 push-in fines.

Speaker 24 Okay, yeah, I think that was supposed to be bucks, but it auto-corrected push.

Speaker 107 Okay, if I'm guessing. Yeah.

Speaker 76 Kylie Jenner and Timothy Chalamay went to the NBA finals together. Kylie said it was rude how players were coming up to the couple being flirtatious all night.

Speaker 76 But in Kat's defense, he didn't realize Timothy had a girlfriend.

Speaker 39 That's good.

Speaker 73 All right.

Speaker 28 I like that one.

Speaker 24 It's a good one.

Speaker 76 Mike Tomlin looks like he washes his eyeballs with soap every morning.

Speaker 39 That's right to the point.

Speaker 38 That's the closer right there.

Speaker 107 Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 24 All right. Good job, Zach.

Speaker 129 Good job, Zach. Good job, Zach.

Speaker 56 Good job, Zach.

Speaker 28 Great monologue.

Speaker 24 Great monologue. It was cool seeing Sash his name in the credits.
Yeah. That was funny last night.

Speaker 22 Might have been misspelled.

Speaker 77 That's okay. Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 64 That's fine. They added an extra L to him.

Speaker 18 I think, actually, they probably did that on purpose to fuck with him.

Speaker 13 Great SPs, though. Shane is the man.

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 79 Should we do it, boys? Do it.

Speaker 49 Let's get to our takeies.

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Speaker 5 Boys, it's time.

Speaker 14 Here we go.

Speaker 13 25 awards we're giving out.

Speaker 131 And I think we do this every year to start off with the take of the year.

Speaker 29 This is not our preemptive take, which we will do later.

Speaker 131 The take of the year,

Speaker 58 we had a lot, a lot of

Speaker 70 nominees here.

Speaker 62 Thank you to

Speaker 100 Freezing Cold Takes.

Speaker 34 He always helps us out.

Speaker 6 He's the best.

Speaker 103 Go follow him. Buy his book.

Speaker 6 He helps us out with compiling a bunch of these.

Speaker 24 He's a great litmus test for people that if he reposts one of your bad takes, if you get mad at him, you're probably a dickhead. Correct.

Speaker 24 And if you're able to laugh at yourself, you're probably a good hang. Correct.

Speaker 101 Because we have some bad takes all the time.

Speaker 100 But these are the

Speaker 25 nominees for Take of the Year.

Speaker 111 So I actually separated this year because he did such a good job of sending me them.

Speaker 55 I have a

Speaker 32 rent came due category that I just want to briefly touch on because there's some takes that happened a couple years ago, but they finally came due this year.

Speaker 87 Yep.

Speaker 30 Robert Salah in 2022, Robert Salah and the Jets are keeping receipts on those that mock the team.

Speaker 25 He said, I'm going to be more than happy to share them when it's all said and done.

Speaker 96 Robert Salah finished with a 20 and 36 record and was fired after five games this year.

Speaker 24 Unceremoniously.

Speaker 59 Rent came due.

Speaker 71 Zach Rosenblatt said in 2021, Daniel Jones still has a lot to prove, but I think it's safe to say he's a lot better than Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 59 That one came due this year in a big, big way.

Speaker 51 Adam Koffler two years ago said Jameer Gibbs is the stone-cold worst pick the Lions could have made at 12, but whatever, Dan Campbell.

Speaker 26 In two seasons, Jameer Gibbs has 3,190 yards from scrimmage and 31 touchdowns

Speaker 56 in two years. Pretty good.

Speaker 24 Pretty good start.

Speaker 100 We also had this famous one.

Speaker 93 Maybe you guys can tell me who wrote this.

Speaker 81 Man.

Speaker 25 Bronnie, definitely better than some of these cats I've been watching on league pass today.

Speaker 84 Shit, lightweight, hilarious, four crying face emojis.

Speaker 24 Just my thought thought as a sports junkie, regardless, my own sport I play.

Speaker 25 That was LeBron James in 2023.

Speaker 94 Bronnie averaged 2.3 points per game and 0.7 rebounds.

Speaker 22 And then finally, for the rent came due section of this, which none of these are eligible to win, but I thought we'd have to say them.

Speaker 50 Deion Sanders.

Speaker 96 A year and a half ago said in a response to a tweet that said, tell your son, stop acting like he the coldest one out there when he put up a four and eight season.

Speaker 71 Deion Sanders said, he will be a top five pick.

Speaker 22 Where your son going?

Speaker 137 L-O-L-O-L-O-L-O.

Speaker 26 I got time today.

Speaker 137 L-O-L-O-L-O-L-O.

Speaker 24 It's a lot of out louds. Yeah.

Speaker 138 It got community noted.

Speaker 18 He wasn't a top-five pick.

Speaker 3 Top five for five rounds.

Speaker 38 He was, yeah, top five rounds.

Speaker 67 Top five rounds.

Speaker 121 All right, so this year's takes, and then we will get to the winner.

Speaker 111 We have our good friend, Peter Schrager, who before the season last year said, Aaron Rodgers is my pick for the 2024 NFL MVP.

Speaker 20 What he's about to do for the Jets fans this season is something even he couldn't grasp or foresee.

Speaker 59 Memes,

Speaker 62 did he do that for you?

Speaker 91 That first drive against 49ers.

Speaker 139 Thought we were in the Super Bowl. That was it.

Speaker 69 That was great.

Speaker 3 We also had

Speaker 20 new Bears punter Tori Taylor said he got this text from Caleb Williams.

Speaker 26 Hey, you're not going to punt too much here.

Speaker 48 The Bears were the second

Speaker 118 highest team in punts with 82 in the 2024 season.

Speaker 24 I like the confidence. I like the confidence from him.
Also, memes, let's not forget that Aaron Rodgers is top five in virtually every category. Does that justify Peter Schreger? He was.

Speaker 139 Better stats than Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 25 I think I had to throw a couple of these in here because I also had some really bad takes about the Bears.

Speaker 94 Obviously, last season, you could just, I mean, you listen to this show.

Speaker 22 I had some really, really bad takes.

Speaker 121 But Nick Wright also said in August,

Speaker 90 the Chicago Bears were his pick to go to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 31 We had Albert Breer

Speaker 135 last summer said, I think Gerard Mayo's a special coaching prospect.

Speaker 81 I think he has special qualities.

Speaker 74 He does. He had special.

Speaker 73 He didn't say what type of special qualities. That's true.
That's true.

Speaker 24 Special is a wide spectrum. Yeah.

Speaker 25 And then Kurt Signetti on Indiana versus Notre Dame, we don't just beat top 25 teams. We beat the shit out of them.

Speaker 96 They lost and they were down 27 to 3 in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 24 At the time, he was correct that they had done that.

Speaker 36 Well, except for Ohio State.

Speaker 24 Also, he, I mean, he

Speaker 24 did have, he was the king of making scores look better at the end of these blowouts.

Speaker 56 Yes. Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 103 But the take of the year is going to actually come from a one subsect of topics here, and it's Max.

Speaker 135 You're going to be happy about this.

Speaker 19 There were a lot of takes about the Philadelphia Eagles this year.

Speaker 96 So here are the official nominees for take of the year.

Speaker 22 We had Nick Wright during the Super Bowl.

Speaker 29 He said Chiefs down 10, which means finally the game can start.

Speaker 68 It's a weird part of the dynasty that they're totally unable to play well in Super Bowls until they're down exactly 10 points, but it's verifiably true.

Speaker 134 The Chiefs lost the game 40-22, and we're down 34-0 and 40-6 after being down 10.

Speaker 50 Bobby Spence said, I honestly believe when all is said and done, Saquon's biggest regret of his career will be signing with Philadelphia.

Speaker 86 That's a tough one.

Speaker 50 Skip Bayless also said, Saquon Barkley to Philly does not scare me one bit.

Speaker 101 And then we had finally the last two nominees.

Speaker 66 The Eagles are going to miss out on hiring Bill Belichick because they're too big of cowards to fire Nick Siriani.

Speaker 127 True.

Speaker 52 That was from App Barstill Jordy.

Speaker 68 And then finally, the winner of Take of the Year.

Speaker 56 Drum roll.

Speaker 141 It goes to our new colleague, Colin Coward, who said

Speaker 14 before the Super Bowl this year, the Eagles may not get into the red zone against Kansas City.

Speaker 96 And then the Eagles scored 44 points and had 345 yards total offense.

Speaker 26 That is our winner for Take of of the year.

Speaker 14 Listen, if Coward said may not get in the end zone, that's one. May not get into the red zone against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 24 Now, to be fair, they did score a couple touchdowns where they didn't get into the red zone.

Speaker 57 That's true. They did have a long term.

Speaker 38 From beyond the 20-yard.

Speaker 62 They did have a long touchdown, but they also had a field goal where they got in the red zone.

Speaker 41 That's true.

Speaker 6 But yeah, that is our winner for take of the year.

Speaker 37 That is so, so abysmally bad.

Speaker 24 And I love Colin. Yeah.
I do. But this is an honor, Colin.
I hope you appreciate it. Yeah.

Speaker 135 Come collect your takeie in person.

Speaker 9 He's got to be double digits.

Speaker 82 Oh, yeah, he's definitely won a lot of Takeys.

Speaker 24 Yeah, he's got a lot of hardware.

Speaker 63 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 29 Next up, PFT.

Speaker 24 Okay, so we have the Just Log Off of the Year award. I believe we started this a couple years ago.
A relatively new addition to the Takies. And the nominees for Just Log Off of the Year are

Speaker 24 RG3 for his ongoing feud against Ryan Clark.

Speaker 73 Ooh, that one's a spicy one.

Speaker 24 RG3

Speaker 24 for deep-throating the croissant at the Olympics. Yep.

Speaker 48 That was.

Speaker 57 We couldn't.

Speaker 81 We were shocked when we were putting together takeies that happened this year.

Speaker 24 Yeah, that felt like it was a while ago. And the final nominee for Just Log Off of the Year Award, RG3,

Speaker 24 for his post regarding Angel Reese, where he posted an image that nobody had seen for the world to see, and then said that Angel Reese's inner circle was contacting him to discuss how she's jealous about Caitlin Clark while he asked people not to bully Angel Reese.

Speaker 107 Okay.

Speaker 24 Three great nominees this year. Who's going to win?

Speaker 24 The winner of the 2025 Takey for Just Log Off of the Year Award

Speaker 24 is RG3.

Speaker 40 And it was a tie for all three of them.

Speaker 28 Oh, it was a tie.

Speaker 24 So great all-around performance, historical year, big numbers. We might not ever see him again.
Just put the phone down once in a while.

Speaker 83 I actually think we will.

Speaker 16 Yeah, we will.

Speaker 13 Do you think that he, like, at any point, was like, hey, maybe I should just chill out?

Speaker 24 No. Just log off? No, Twitter.com.
I live for this. Okay.
That's RG3. He likes the interactions.
I think sometimes he pokes the hornet's nest and he enjoys the swarm.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 99 RG3 with the second take he giving away today.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 4 We have next up, bet of the year.

Speaker 120 Very important category.

Speaker 12 We actually should go through our history of the takeies and see how many different awards we've given.

Speaker 120 Because we have some repeats, but we have a ton that are just

Speaker 82 on this. Yeah, we do.

Speaker 9 We do. It's like 150.

Speaker 24 anyone could be nominated for anything i woke up in the middle of the night last night in a cold sweat panicking because we are not doing southern of the year this year ah i was like oh shit we forgot that one but that makes it more illustrious that you don't you don't know when what what year your award may come up right like if you're doing the oscars and there are no good movies right you could just be like we're just going to do best best uh cinematography we'll do best costume design we're not doing best picture you all suck yeah it should there should be like you should be able to change it year to year and there should should be an award like it was an okay movie of the year.

Speaker 24 Yeah, there were no good documentaries this year, so we will not be giving that award out.

Speaker 31 Yeah, movie I'd like to most jerk off to.

Speaker 24 Now that's an award. That should be an Oscar award.

Speaker 36 Swordfish. Yeah, Swordfish.

Speaker 24 That's a good one. Good call.

Speaker 4 All right, bet of the year.

Speaker 70 We have some really good nominees. We have,

Speaker 12 first off, the K-State burrito guy who tweeted if K-State loses to BYU, I'll shove a beefy five-layer burrito up my ass.

Speaker 22 BYU won the game 38-9,

Speaker 96 and then he went on to shove the burrito up his ass.

Speaker 120 And BYU tweeted Liv Moss with their final score.

Speaker 24 That's fourth meal.

Speaker 36 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 115 We have next up the FSU poop guy who really set the tone for bets of the year this year

Speaker 48 when he said that if Florida State loses to Boston College this weekend, I will eat dog shit out of a red solo cup with a spoon and post a video of me doing it.

Speaker 78 Book it.

Speaker 52 Florida State lost 28 to 13 to Boston College.

Speaker 27 He did not.

Speaker 70 He actually deleted his account.

Speaker 18 He's a coward.

Speaker 91 He's a fraud.

Speaker 52 We should never forget.

Speaker 24 It was a disgrace. He ruined Florida State's season.
Yep.

Speaker 2 Next up, we have the Travis Hunter-Heisman bet by all of us.

Speaker 147 Good job, David. Good job.
Yep.

Speaker 81 Good job, nominee.

Speaker 147 Great bet.

Speaker 136 We also have Hank saying he could dunk.

Speaker 24 This was a good bet.

Speaker 73 Well, defined good.

Speaker 24 I got in good shape.

Speaker 39 Okay.

Speaker 6 Well, actually, that's funny because the next nominee is Hank saying he'd he'd have a six-pack.

Speaker 18 This was old.

Speaker 2 You've been saying it a lot.

Speaker 9 I almost had a six-pack at one point at the dunk bet.

Speaker 105 Okay, and then finally, Hank saying he could outdrive PFT.

Speaker 9 This was a bad bet. This was a really bad bet.
Really dumb. You kind of bullied me into it, and I regretted it every day ever since.

Speaker 24 It was on the heels of losing the dunk bet, and you had to try to reclaim your masculinity at that point. Yeah.
I understand. You were under pressure.
Okay. But hey, eight yards.
Yeah.

Speaker 109 Not bad. Could have been a lot worse.

Speaker 56 Could have been a lot worse.

Speaker 107 Good bet. All right.

Speaker 60 Bet of the the year.

Speaker 22 The winner is

Speaker 48 K-State burrito guy.

Speaker 31 He shoved a full five-layer burrito up his ass.

Speaker 134 He wins the takeie for bed of the year.

Speaker 24 Salute to that guy. Great follow-through on his part.

Speaker 22 I remember seeing it, and I was like, wow, he did it.

Speaker 82 Okay.

Speaker 6 I don't know if we actually wanted this, but okay.

Speaker 24 Yeah, when you crap out a seven-layer burrito, or what is it, five-layer? Five-layer. Five-layer that you shove up your ass, does it look different than if you had eaten it? Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 24 I feel like it's probably pretty similar.

Speaker 48 This, though, this is the bed of the year because it was right off the heels of the FSU poop guy, and he basically was like, this is how it's done.

Speaker 85 At K-State, we shove food up our ass when we say we're going to win a game and then lose that game.

Speaker 38 Imaw.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 64 Every man a Wildcat. All right.

Speaker 24 Next up, PFT. Our fourth award of the night is a very special one.
It is the 17th best quarterback of the year award.

Speaker 24 17th best quarterback in the NFL. And last year, who won?

Speaker 56 Dak Prescott.

Speaker 24 It was Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott won the 17th best Best Quarterback of the Year Award.

Speaker 24 He is nominated again, and the nominees for the 17th Best Quarterback of the Year of 2025 are Geno Smith, Dak Prescott,

Speaker 24 Daniel Jones, Joe Flacco,

Speaker 24 Kyler Murray, Bryce Young, Tua,

Speaker 24 and Sam Darnold.

Speaker 107 Great pack.

Speaker 24 Great pack of nominees this year, and we have a special video for the 17th Best Quarterback of the Year Award.

Speaker 18 I'm Excited for this. Excited for this.

Speaker 148 I heard

Speaker 149 PFT and Max talking about Takey's.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 149 College football top personality.

Speaker 148 What do you beat on Andy Staples?

Speaker 149 Dave's not weighing it.

Speaker 148 No Cornelli.

Speaker 149 Big Cat's really impressed.

Speaker 149 This is a bit.

Speaker 149 What are you doing?

Speaker 148 I'm the one.

Speaker 113 Have you been sent here?

Speaker 149 I only sent myself. I overheard Max and PFT talking 17 minutes ago.
Why do you know 17 minutes?

Speaker 149 CJ, do you agree he's been weird?

Speaker 148 I feel like Martin's always been kind of weird.

Speaker 149 I guess speaking of 17,

Speaker 149 Dak Prescott finished eighth in the 17th best quarterback award takeie.

Speaker 149 So that's pretty cool.

Speaker 56 What are you doing?

Speaker 122 Why are you telling me the results of the Takeys?

Speaker 149 Because I'm an informant.

Speaker 149 And I support you. I look out for you.

Speaker 150 How long have you been here?

Speaker 127 Right here. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 113 How long have you been here?

Speaker 149 November up at December 2023. And you've been my greatest ally.

Speaker 148 You've never informed me of anything before. That's untrue.

Speaker 149 Last week I gave you roughness info.

Speaker 149 That's just because I was ignoring the group chat.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 149 I tell you things here and there.

Speaker 74 He didn't announce a winner.

Speaker 24 He didn't announce the winner. That was quite a conversation.
It was a nice peek behind this.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 24 And for everybody that says Brandon Walker, he's different. He plays a character when he's on the air.
I think that's a pretty good conclusion that he's not. That was good.

Speaker 24 But the winner of the 17th best quarterback of the year is Geno Smith. Oh, Geno.

Speaker 46 Geno Smith.

Speaker 151 Oh, Geno did it. Let's go.

Speaker 24 Strats Dak did finish in eighth place. Okay.

Speaker 24 So something to play for next year.

Speaker 128 Very close.

Speaker 2 Okay, next up.

Speaker 32 Congratulations, Geno Smith.

Speaker 15 Next up, we have the Can't Win the Big One

Speaker 23 of the Year

Speaker 75 Award.

Speaker 64 I said that wrong.

Speaker 15 Can't win the big one.

Speaker 24 No, it's the Can't Win the Big One Award of the Year.

Speaker 128 Award of the Year.

Speaker 70 The nominees are

Speaker 129 Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 64 Can't win the big one.

Speaker 22 Cannot win the big one.

Speaker 133 Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 110 Didn't win the big one. If we're doing this year, he can't win the big one.

Speaker 24 What have you done for me lately?

Speaker 146 Connor McDavid

Speaker 110 has not been able to win the big one.

Speaker 20 Sadly.

Speaker 97 And Arch Manning, Texas quarterback.

Speaker 24 Yeah. Did you see that his grandfather signs all his texts to him?

Speaker 63 Archie?

Speaker 24 Oh, after every text that he writes? That's cute. I thought that was nice.
That's very cute.

Speaker 23 We have a guest presenter for the Can't Win the Big One of the Year award.

Speaker 97 Max, can we bring in our guest presenter?

Speaker 11 It's time for the takies.

Speaker 76 And I'm here to announce a big award for Big Cat, you know?

Speaker 11 And it's the award for

Speaker 76 choking in a big game.

Speaker 56 Choking on the spotlight.

Speaker 99 Yes, that's right.

Speaker 76 The guy who can't win the big one. And

Speaker 9 slam poetry.

Speaker 76 You know, you just can't win a big one. Best player, but can't win the big one.

Speaker 99 Great a regular season, but can't win the big one.

Speaker 76 Booked him on camera. And there's only one person that could be.
Connor McDavid.

Speaker 56 Oh! Okay, Connor, Connor.

Speaker 76 Always the bridesmaid, but never the bride. As he watched the

Speaker 76 Panthers once again go for a victory ride, as Lord Stanley continues to bask in the sun of Florida and the Oilers just wallow, wallow, wallow. Ah, yes, Connor McDavid.

Speaker 76 Once again,

Speaker 76 he can't win the big one.

Speaker 9 And Wit,

Speaker 76 oh well,

Speaker 38 just think.

Speaker 76 Wit wins no matter what. One of his teams wins the Stanley Cup.
I know he liked being in Edmonton more than he liked being in Florida, but

Speaker 76 Connor McDavid just can't win the big one.

Speaker 84 And he gets the takey.

Speaker 76 Well, that's something he got. He won the takey.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 76 But he can't big one.

Speaker 76 Can't big one. Way to go, Connor.

Speaker 2 Way to go. A couple things.

Speaker 33 Thank you to Frank.

Speaker 54 I booked that cameo.

Speaker 124 You can go book Frank the Tank on cameo.

Speaker 48 I was able to secure that.

Speaker 80 I just thought of the idea we should, we should, this might be mean, but like, what if we did a hidden camera and we rewired Frank's house for the clap on, clap off lights?

Speaker 24 That would be such a good prank.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Yeah, put it to his blender.

Speaker 20 Also, for this award, it's Groundhog's Day because he did win this last year.

Speaker 12 And it's also Groundhog's Day because for two years in a row, I asked our good friend Ryan Whitney to be the guest presenter and he declined to the point where I actually called him and I was like, hey, I have a favor to ask for you.

Speaker 18 And I asked him and he was like, dude, you asked me this last year.

Speaker 19 I said no. I was like, oh, fuck.

Speaker 77 Yeah. I just forgot.

Speaker 68 He just keeps not winning the big one.

Speaker 24 Well, this is a big one, but it's not the big one. Yeah.
Right? So he can't win the big one. Maybe until he gets traded.
Maybe until he's a free agent and he resigns with an American team. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Maybe then he'll be able to win the one. Yeah.

Speaker 50 Whitney did say that if they don't get to the finals next year,

Speaker 83 he will guest present for the Can't Win the Big One award.

Speaker 24 If they don't even get to the finals.

Speaker 25 If they don't get to the finals.

Speaker 24 I mean, they're going to get to the finals again.

Speaker 143 They might, they might, they might not.

Speaker 143 Okay.

Speaker 50 We ready for our next award? Yes.

Speaker 65 You might have someone on who can actually accept this award.

Speaker 24 So this is a very special new award, never given out before in the history of Part of My Take. It is the Part of My Take Citizen of the Year Award.

Speaker 24 And this is maybe the biggest honor that we give out. Yes.
Because it means that you've gone above and beyond as a citizen. And we have some great nominees.

Speaker 24 We have Paul Bissinet, our great friend, for taking the defense of all the staff at the restaurant, getting into a fight with the Irish travelers, and

Speaker 24 kind of getting bootfucked in the face outside the CVS. Yep.

Speaker 24 We have Steph Curry nominated for Citizen of the Year for his performance in the Olympics, delivering the gold medal to the United States of America in the gold medal game. Yep.
Great game.

Speaker 24 Good job, Steph. We have Bonnie Blue nominated for a Citizen of the Year.

Speaker 107 Why?

Speaker 24 I'm not sure. That was not my addition to the nominee list.
Okay. But she's made a lot of people very happy.

Speaker 123 Yep. It's about community service.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 144 She serves the community.

Speaker 24 It's C-U-M-M

Speaker 24 Idity service. We have the Saints Defense has been nominated for Citizen of the Year for giving Mike Evans 10 more yards on the last catch of the season.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 24 And letting him continue the streak of 1,000-yard seasons. Okay.
Okay. A lot of good nominees.

Speaker 24 And this year, the Citizen of the Year Award

Speaker 24 goes to

Speaker 24 our dear, dear friend, Paul Bissinet.

Speaker 107 Yes.

Speaker 62 Let's let him in.

Speaker 129 We have Paul Bissinet here.

Speaker 24 Thank you for your service, Paul.

Speaker 24 Congratulations.

Speaker 126 Guys, I didn't realize it was this intense.

Speaker 104 We have Paul Bissinette here.

Speaker 1 He has won Citizen of the Year.

Speaker 142 Congratulations, Paul.

Speaker 32 You are Citizen of the Year for the 2025 Takeies.

Speaker 126 Well, you know, you mentioned yesterday via text that that was going to happen, and you gave it to me originally. I didn't realize you guys had an annual award show for it.

Speaker 126 And I remember like gambling it away. Remember, I was trying to like promote gambling, which I suck at.

Speaker 126 And I put it on the, I believe, the Nordre Dame Fighting Irish QB to pass for a certain amount of touchdowns, a certain amount of yards.

Speaker 126 I think it was a three-leg parlay, and I don't think one of them hit. So I completely mushed the fighting Irish.
So I thought I actually lost Citizen of the Year. No.

Speaker 40 Gave it right back to you. Yeah.

Speaker 75 Okay.

Speaker 126 Despite my horrible gambling efforts and trying to draw attention to DraftKings, I still get to retain the award. So

Speaker 126 if I have to, do I have to give an assignment? Yeah, oh, yeah.

Speaker 124 Speech, please, please, please.

Speaker 126 I just thank the people at Barstool, man. What a company to work for.

Speaker 126 Just, yeah, I'm just grateful to be a a part of this crazy pirate ship, obviously you guys included. And, yeah, I'll dedicate it back to Barstool.

Speaker 75 Okay,

Speaker 46 what about the people of Houston's?

Speaker 105 Yeah, what about the people of Houston's?

Speaker 53 The fine staff, fine family establishment.

Speaker 126 Well, that's a given.

Speaker 126 I thought I said that very clearly in my post-game comments when through the officer body cams where I fully tire pump the staff and saying it's one of the best restaurant establishments on the planet.

Speaker 126 As far as like price point, consistency, the way they handled efforts. People told me that I was wrong in saying it was like

Speaker 126 military-like.

Speaker 146 Yeah.

Speaker 74 Or did I say that?

Speaker 24 Militaristic? I think you said militaristic, but I think you're referring to their discipline.

Speaker 126 The discipline. Yeah.
And I just marvel at it, and it's why I frequent there.

Speaker 126 And especially at the end of playoffs, when I was like completely gassed, like going 10 months, the full season where the last thing I want to do is cook or do groceries.

Speaker 126 Like, guys, I was going there like nine times a week.

Speaker 126 I think I have a Houston's addiction.

Speaker 24 Well, yeah, you stopped going there and then you got gout. What does that teach you?

Speaker 126 So I would always get the steak there, the fillet. I would do the traditional salad and then follow it up with the fillet with the potato calcone or sometimes the baked potato.

Speaker 126 Sometimes I'd go to the rice if it wasn't a certain time where they had made the calcone or baked potato available. I think that's before five o'clock.

Speaker 154 But yeah, what a speech.

Speaker 126 But going back to it, I think there were other elements that were

Speaker 126 hurting my gout. I read something recently that like glucose intake has a lot to do with it, where I don't drink alcohol anymore, but like my treat is I drink pops.

Speaker 126 Maybe a couple pops a day. And I was shocked, though, that, you know, even at 40, I wouldn't be able to do at least a couple Coca-Cola.
People told me to go to Diet Coke. I fucking hate Diet Coke.

Speaker 126 So, but I've cut out pop. I've cut out a lot of sodium intake.
And I think it just kind of brings it all back to Houston's. They saved my life.

Speaker 83 Yeah, I think you. They saved my life.

Speaker 24 I admire how the links that you're willing to go to to say that it's not the two steaks a day that cause the gout. It's got to be something else.
Yeah.

Speaker 126 Well, I've been threatened by the carnivore society. Yeah.
If I blame it on red meat.

Speaker 147 It's a bad society to get threatened.

Speaker 126 I'll have a fucking red dot on my forehead if I blame the red meat.

Speaker 73 That way.

Speaker 120 I'll get sniped.

Speaker 126 I'm in Jackson, Wyoming right now. The last thing I'm going to do is blame

Speaker 126 steak or any type of red meat to blame for anything.

Speaker 83 That's smart.

Speaker 154 They're hardcore out here.

Speaker 73 That's smart.

Speaker 49 Well, Biz, citizen of the year, incredible title.

Speaker 105 You mentioned at the beginning here, you've never seen a takeies.

Speaker 25 You didn't know we were doing this every year.

Speaker 29 This is our ninth annual takeies.

Speaker 137 Do you want to stick around for just one more award just so you can see how it goes?

Speaker 126 I would love to. Okay.
I was also going to ask you guys quickly, though, you got to go to that golf tournament in tahoe like that must have been an unreal experience shout out to joe pavelski yes

Speaker 86 badger

Speaker 126 he's a he's a wisconsin badger one of the most well-liked guys uh to play the game uh and and i would probably say top 10 who never won a stanley cup where people even from other teams who rooted for other teams would say ah i wish pavelski would have got one yeah i wish joe thornton would have got one Ovi would have been on that list if he wouldn't have won one, but he did.

Speaker 146 Maybe next year we'll do a takeie for giving away a Stanley Cup.

Speaker 24 That's very nice. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Yeah. That's great, Paul.
I also think it was a big win for the NHL over the NBA to have Pavelski beat Steph Curry. Yes.
That's huge for the sport.

Speaker 126 Big hockey's on the rise, man.

Speaker 56 Hockey's on the rise.

Speaker 56 It's on the rise.

Speaker 126 Hockey's on a heater, as we always say on the podcast. The last two years.
And on top of that, boys, we're heading into an Olympic year. Yeah.
All four nations nonsense whole money.

Speaker 73 Stakes are going to be high.

Speaker 147 Yeah, they are. All right.

Speaker 2 So, Biz, you're going to stick around for this next award.

Speaker 104 Can you maybe do whatever the award ends up being?

Speaker 2 Can you do an accepted speech for that? Because that was such a great acceptance speech for Sins of the Year.

Speaker 17 All right, great.

Speaker 104 All right, so the next award is Exhibition Win of the Year.

Speaker 48 So this is

Speaker 2 who had the best win in an exhibition game that ultimately did not matter.

Speaker 24 One that was just kind of for fun. Yeah.
Laughs. Yeah.
Nobody took too far.

Speaker 56 Who the fuck cares? Okay.

Speaker 73 No one remembers.

Speaker 126 Who doesn't even remember an exhibition game?

Speaker 86 Right. So

Speaker 16 we want to let everyone know, like, hey, these these wins, like, hey, this was the best exhibition win.

Speaker 3 It doesn't really matter at all, but we're giving a takeie.

Speaker 70 All right, so the nominees are Shaq OGs in the NBA All-Star game.

Speaker 66 Huge win for Shaq OGs.

Speaker 24 What an exciting game that was. Who could forget? I think there were four teams.
Yeah. And they emerged the champion.
Yeah. I mean, it's like March Madness, but

Speaker 24 for the NBA, it was an incredible experience, and I think we all remember where we were when Shaq's OGs won. Yep.

Speaker 42 What was the final score?

Speaker 28 No, no. Don't care.

Speaker 126 Geez, isn't that an important detail about this award?

Speaker 56 Well, this is the exhibition of the year.

Speaker 110 It's the game that literally does not matter.

Speaker 75 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 126 You guys also said that about the Four Nations.

Speaker 21 Okay, so here we go.

Speaker 14 Next up, we have Team Manning in the Pro Bowl.

Speaker 156 Team Manning won the Pro Bowl.

Speaker 55 I don't know which Manning it was.

Speaker 41 If it was Peyton or Eli.

Speaker 56 Yeah, I see.

Speaker 24 I think it was Cooper.

Speaker 105 Next up, we have Mexico versus U.S.

Speaker 14 Mexico won that game in the CONCACAF final exhibition of the year.

Speaker 105 And then finally, the last nominee is Team Canada in the Four Nations.

Speaker 4 And the winner is Team Canada in the Four Nations.

Speaker 24 That was a great exhibition match.

Speaker 37 All right, and Bish, you promised that you do an acceptance speech, so accept the award of Exhibition of the Year for Team Canada.

Speaker 126 I actually was, I kind of was ahead of the answer.

Speaker 73 Yeah, you did. I saw it coming.

Speaker 86 Caught on after Team Manning, you caught on.

Speaker 126 That might have been the smartest thing that's ever happened.

Speaker 126 Holy fuck. Will I get the Biz Idiot title removed?

Speaker 62 No. No, because you accepted this.

Speaker 109 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 126 When you got Matthew and Brady Kachuk

Speaker 126 and all the guys on that team starting fights in a round-robin game,

Speaker 126 exhibiting exhibition.

Speaker 24 That was a different game.

Speaker 126 It was a fucking exhibition.

Speaker 126 It's literally

Speaker 28 my wife.

Speaker 104 Exhibition win of the year.

Speaker 126 Don't tell me how to fuck my wife. I'll tell you whether it's exhibition or not.

Speaker 109 Okay. Well, business.

Speaker 126 That was a win for Canada and a precursor to the Olympics coming up. It ain't the Olympics.

Speaker 55 We all know that.

Speaker 126 But don't act like they weren't playing for something. They were playing for pride.

Speaker 105 They were playing for Exhibition Win of the Year, which they got.

Speaker 71 So accept the award. Do you accept?

Speaker 64 I decline. No!

Speaker 112 I decline.

Speaker 21 I decline. Biz Idiot is gone.
Biz Idiot is gone.

Speaker 24 So by declining that award, you're admitting that Conor McDavid can't win the big one.

Speaker 24 Because you just said that's, I'm not accepting it, exhibit, blah, blah, blah. It's not a big one.

Speaker 126 Oh, double jumping. I have a phone of friend here.

Speaker 56 No.

Speaker 41 Which one do you want?

Speaker 126 Could I get a phone of friend?

Speaker 24 I'm trying to do a really nice thing by acknowledging the beautiful, beautiful state of Canada.

Speaker 77 Phone a friend.

Speaker 126 Should I call Connor McDavid, even though he would never know? Should I just call him?

Speaker 41 You try.

Speaker 126 He's like, oh, I thought I had your number blocked.

Speaker 126 His agent doesn't know, Judd, so I'll have to go through him. I do not accept accept

Speaker 126 your

Speaker 126 whatever you're,

Speaker 126 what do you say when you're spouting off?

Speaker 55 Talking? Anyway, everything you're saying.

Speaker 41 You're saying you can't win the big one, screw you.

Speaker 126 You guys jam me up, all right? Jam me up.

Speaker 126 And if I could have a phone of friend, it would actually be Oldie. Yeah.
He was kind of brought into the whole fold during all this.

Speaker 41 Who supplied him? Call him. Go ahead.
I'll give him a call.

Speaker 143 You can call him right now.

Speaker 126 Call Oldie? Yeah,

Speaker 115 do you have your phone yeah let's see all right i mean that was it was an exhibition match for his for his nuts all you have to say though you have to you have to say oldie they should we accept the exhibition win of the year takey or not okay that's all you got to say

Speaker 18 Biz is getting smart.

Speaker 126 I don't have his number stored, which is shocking, so I have to go find it back and text. Oh, here, I know how to find it.
I'll type in in my search bar.

Speaker 8 There you go.

Speaker 104 Busy, busy.

Speaker 126 Busy, busy. Do you have his number?

Speaker 22 Yeah, I'll send it to you right now.

Speaker 24 I bet if you search busy, I bet it comes up.

Speaker 13 It's probably gonna be the first result.

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 39 Gotta go.

Speaker 126 Oh, he supplied me with all my weed at the writer cup. Oh my god, dude.
I couldn't even fucking think straight there.

Speaker 126 Okay, you're right. It was busy, busy.

Speaker 109 Oh, no.

Speaker 46 Nope, that's not it. I just said it to you.

Speaker 107 Okay, thank you.

Speaker 126 Thank you for your patience.

Speaker 126 And what's the question?

Speaker 65 Do you accept the exhibition of the win of the year taking on behalf of Canada?

Speaker 65 Hey!

Speaker 109 Aldi.

Speaker 126 Aldi, it's Biz.

Speaker 126 So I'm being presented an award right now

Speaker 126 on behalf of Canada. I have to accept on behalf of Canada.
Keep in mind, this may or may not be a trap. Okay, just keep that in mind before I ask it.

Speaker 126 Would you accept an exhibition win of the year on behalf of Canada in the Four Nations tournament?

Speaker 126 An exhibition win? Yes, exhibition win of the year.

Speaker 126 If you were being offered that award, would you accept on behalf of Canada or would you decline?

Speaker 159 I think you got to say yes on that.

Speaker 41 Yep.

Speaker 159 Off the boys' wheels. Got to go.
Busy, busy. No, I don't know.

Speaker 159 What do you say? Do you say no? I think you say yes, babe.

Speaker 155 You gotta go.

Speaker 151 You gotta say yes.

Speaker 73 No, but you gotta go.

Speaker 73 I don't even know what you

Speaker 126 because I declined because I feel like they're trying to discredit the victory that Canada had by calling it exhibition. It wasn't exhibition.
The boys were playing for keeps. So fuck you.

Speaker 126 We were playing for keeps. This is not an exhibition.
I'm declining.

Speaker 145 Oh, an exhibition game. Oh, yeah, no, we're the all-star.

Speaker 159 No, no, no, no, no, no. It wasn't an all-star game.
It wasn't an all-star game. It was a Four Nations Cup that four competitive hockey teams played to their best ability.

Speaker 73 That's right, Russia.

Speaker 159 That team Canada won the Four Nations Cup. That's what that was.
It was not an exhibition. It was not an exhibition.
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 159 I thought they were saying, like, give a little grief a little award for this. No, no, no, I don't think so at all.

Speaker 75 I agree with you.

Speaker 126 And thank you for being there.

Speaker 145 That's off their rocker, Paul.

Speaker 126 So on behalf of all these.

Speaker 159 I'm excited because I said an award. I just heard award.

Speaker 151 I've never got an award.

Speaker 126 I've seen everyone in my life get awards around me my entire life i'm just not an award guy that's why i asked if i could phone a friend and and and you were the second person i thought of who did i say originally connor mcdavid oh i said connor mcdavid but i knew that he wouldn't answer

Speaker 159 yeah you can't be you can't be doing that i was just literally i'm cleaning the cabin air filter my my little whip here honda and all of a sudden my daughter's my youngest she's like yeah dad your phone's ringing i said okay she's like okay i'll answer it i'm gonna see who it is and i say she grabs them i said who is is it anyway just who's cooking with us she goes it's biz and I said gotta go past the phone you're not answering this when I go

Speaker 39 all right well

Speaker 126 I love you I love you too buddy great seeing you at the writer cup uh I couldn't see straight for a few days I don't know what you brought over there we were we were hitting straight gas but I appreciate you brother

Speaker 159 Whenever the boys buzzed over there for the barn for us, going for the little mission for us. So that was beauty.
But yeah, that was an absolute light show. That was a good rip and a half.

Speaker 159 It's always good. It's always good during the day, but it's even better at night just hanging with the boys, Real deal.
Talking it out, having a class with the boys, pumping and grinding, right?

Speaker 159 That's what it's about, bro.

Speaker 126 Pumping and grinding, baby. I love you.

Speaker 145 Good to see you, Biz. Good to see you, buddy.

Speaker 75 Love you.

Speaker 158 All right, so we declined.

Speaker 104 We declined.

Speaker 147 All right, so that was perfect because that was Canada's two greatest minds coming together, trying to work out a puzzle, trying to work out a two-piece puzzle to figure out if they should accept the exhibition of the year award or not.

Speaker 24 Biz, what do you call it in the NHL when it's like halfway through the season and you take a week off before you get back for the second half and the playoff push? What's that called?

Speaker 126 Oh, just, I mean, like all-star breaking.

Speaker 86 Oh, so it was the all-star game.

Speaker 24 Okay, so it was the all-star game.

Speaker 77 Gotcha. Okay.

Speaker 126 No, they canceled that, and then now they replaced it. And then now they actually canceled next year's in Long Island.

Speaker 126 And then that's why people think that the Islanders got the first overall pick as like a sari because I think that was part of the agreement for them to take state-funded money to help help build the arena.

Speaker 126 So

Speaker 126 I love a tinfoil hat conspiracy just as much as the next guy. So shout out to Matthew Schaefer and the Islanders, man.

Speaker 126 He was on our podcast. The kid carved me for $45.
Yeah, he was great.

Speaker 109 He was great. So I wasn't sure.

Speaker 151 I don't think he was on his job.

Speaker 126 Frankie Borrelli and the Islanders.

Speaker 126 I might hop on the wagon with a fisherman.

Speaker 85 All right.

Speaker 105 Biz, thank you.

Speaker 95 Official scoring.

Speaker 2 He has accepted Citizen of the Year.

Speaker 29 He has declined exhibition win of the year.

Speaker 60 Appreciate you. We love you.

Speaker 5 And congrats on Citizen of the Year.

Speaker 126 Love you, boys. That was awesome.

Speaker 21 Okay,

Speaker 28 what an award that was.

Speaker 13 I mean,

Speaker 24 very un-Canadian to decline an award.

Speaker 158 So we have the official scoring.

Speaker 66 Citizen of the Year award has been accepted, and the Exhibition Win of the Year award has been declined, but we are giving it to Canada, so it will just...

Speaker 85 it will just stay out in the open.

Speaker 24 I guess we'll keep it. Yeah.
Hang on to it for them. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 66 So did we win Four Nations?

Speaker 24 Yeah, congratulations to us.

Speaker 138 All right.

Speaker 134 That was so funny, just Biz and and Oldie.

Speaker 22 Like, I could watch them.

Speaker 81 We got to get them in an escape room.

Speaker 24 A reality show together. Holy shit.
Yeah, if they were on... Talking it out.
If they were on an amazing race together, trying to navigate their way across Florida.

Speaker 128 Oldie just saying, I heard the word award and I blacked out.

Speaker 24 He's never been an award guy.

Speaker 21 He's never made awards.

Speaker 56 Everyone else is sweating him around him. Yeah.

Speaker 143 Not him.

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Speaker 49 Okay, PFT, are you up?

Speaker 24 I am, yes. Another award.
We have the I Can't Believe They Put All That In Their Mouth of the Year award.

Speaker 35 Okay.

Speaker 24 Big Year for Mouths. That's huge.
First nominee is, again, Bonnie Blue. Wow.
She's been nominated again.

Speaker 24 Joining her is Lily Phillips,

Speaker 24 Joey Chestnut, and RG3. Wow.

Speaker 107 For the croissant.

Speaker 39 For the croissant.

Speaker 24 RG3 are already bringing home some hardware tonight. We'll see if he can make it two trophies in his case.

Speaker 24 And the winner of the I Can't Believe They Put All That In Their Mouth of the Year award is RG3. Robert Griffin III.

Speaker 142 Congratulations.

Speaker 24 Just enjoying a nice croissant on the balcony with his lovely wife, Greta.

Speaker 30 Still an outrageous.

Speaker 61 I think if we look back at that picture,

Speaker 97 it's the cupping of the croissant's balls.

Speaker 24 It's the cupping. It's the passion in his eyes, too.

Speaker 83 Yeah, the mouthful, the cupping.

Speaker 62 It's everything. He felt it.

Speaker 85 He felt it.

Speaker 23 So he is the winner for his second takeie today.

Speaker 24 Second takey. Big winner of the day so far.
Damn.

Speaker 35 RG3.

Speaker 62 Okay, next up, the ninth award.

Speaker 66 Jordan of the year.

Speaker 24 This is a. Anyone's game.

Speaker 29 Anyone's game.

Speaker 48 Some very big names in this one.

Speaker 52 First up, we have Jordan Speeth.

Speaker 18 He's still out there playing golf.

Speaker 109 He is.

Speaker 24 He's swinging it.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 94 Next up, we have Jordan.

Speaker 73 Bill Belichick's Jordan.

Speaker 109 Jordan Hudson.

Speaker 24 Jordan Hudson. Jordan Belichick.
Jordan Belichick.

Speaker 136 Next up nominee, Jordan Davis won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 83 He did.

Speaker 24 Won a Super Bowl. Big boy.
Good season. Big boy.

Speaker 66 And then finally, Jordan Schultz

Speaker 13 for breaking news and also maybe fighting Ian Rapport.

Speaker 24 That was such a funny interaction. Outside the Starbucks, nonetheless.

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 128 Okay.

Speaker 60 The winner of Jordan of the Year goes to.

Speaker 36 Jordan Belichick. Wow.

Speaker 39 Arthur.

Speaker 9 That's not her last name. Arthur last name.

Speaker 21 That is her last name. That's not her last name.

Speaker 24 I did see a picture of Bill's hands, and he's wearing a ring.

Speaker 41 Got a ring on

Speaker 24 his finger. He's got a ring on there.

Speaker 9 He does. That's not her last name.
The Punch Buggy clip. I saw that.
Yep.

Speaker 55 Jordan Belichick.

Speaker 50 The queen is going to take UNC football to new heights.

Speaker 24 I'm so excited for what happens this season.

Speaker 45 Oh, my God.

Speaker 29 She's a shining star.

Speaker 24 Do you think that before the end of Belichick's tenure at UNC, she will try to launch a shit coin for Bill Belichick. No.

Speaker 66 If she does, please make it Jordan of the Year.

Speaker 25 Yes.

Speaker 94 And I'll buy it.

Speaker 68 Let me know before.

Speaker 138 We'll rug pull the shit out of that.

Speaker 124 Okay, PFT, you have a award up.

Speaker 24 Yes, the next award is the Heisman of the Year Award. Okay.
The Heisman of the Year Award, and we have a special guest presenter as well. The nominees are Travis Hunter.

Speaker 39 Ooh, he won a Heisman, did he?

Speaker 24 He did win the Heisman Trophy. Okay.
Ashton Genty. Great season from the running back from Boise State.
Excited to see what he does in the NFL. More than deserving of a Heisman.

Speaker 92 More deserving. More than deserving.

Speaker 24 C.J.

Speaker 36 Kirst from the Water Dogs.

Speaker 59 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 25 He won whatever the Heisman is for La Crosse.

Speaker 24 Heisman, La Crosse-Hisman, yes.

Speaker 122 The Rabel.

Speaker 83 The Rabel.

Speaker 24 The Paul Rabel. Also nominated Dylan Gabriel.

Speaker 24 Great season from Dylan. Great season for the Ducks.
And also nominated for Heisman of the Year, O.J. Simpson.
Ah. Heisman winner.
And Heisman loser.

Speaker 55 And yes. And then winner again.

Speaker 24 And then winner back? That was Reggie Bush. Oh,

Speaker 24 he tried to steal it. I think he was Heisman winner.

Speaker 24 Heisman loser. Heisman thiever.

Speaker 25 Temporarily winner because he had it back probably for a minute before he got arrested.

Speaker 24 He cared so much about the Heisman Troll. He went to jail for the Heisman Troll.
For the Heisman.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 24 For nothing else. Nothing else.
That's it. Yeah.

Speaker 107 Hank.

Speaker 77 Yes.

Speaker 24 We have a guest presented.

Speaker 9 We do have a guest presented for this.

Speaker 24 Okay, let's see who it is.

Speaker 57 Oh, what's up?

Speaker 160 Very excited to be announcing the Takey Award for Heisman of the Year.

Speaker 49 A lot of great nominees this year, guys.

Speaker 160 And look, I myself, not a Heisman winner, but I did play against a Heismanner.

Speaker 24 That's right.

Speaker 160 Cam Newton, the best football player I've ever seen live. The Frieza of college football.

Speaker 49 Stiff arm Pat P on the way to the end zone and winning a Heisman.

Speaker 28 But this year, it's about one man.

Speaker 104 And I'm proud to announce that the Takey for Heisman of the Year is Ashton Genty.

Speaker 56 Wow.

Speaker 151 Wow.

Speaker 24 Ashton Genty. I mean, the stuff that he did as a running back at a mid-major, it was incredible for a group of five guy to show that much flash, that much burst.

Speaker 24 We've never seen a running back like him in the history of the sport of college football.

Speaker 33 And I think that more than anything, I'm happy for Boise State fans.

Speaker 25 They should be...

Speaker 48 celebrating this in the streets of Boise because this is a huge, huge accomplishment for the program.

Speaker 20 They now officially have a Heisman of the Year takeie.

Speaker 24 That's so cool. So they got the Low Man of the Year award.
Yep. And they also got the Heisman of the Year award.

Speaker 156 They don't have much room left for all these trophies.

Speaker 24 This is incredible. Great season from Ashton.
Great season from Boise State. The most deserving on this list of the Heisman of the Year.

Speaker 45 Heisman of the Year.

Speaker 61 Okay, next up, we have a new,

Speaker 48 this is a new takeie.

Speaker 142 It is Innocent Person of the Year.

Speaker 55 A lot of people on trial this year.

Speaker 24 A lot of exonerations.

Speaker 101 Exonerated.

Speaker 143 First up, Karen Reed.

Speaker 38 Yeah.

Speaker 136 Innocent.

Speaker 122 Yep.

Speaker 49 Jeff Nadue, who was accused of being on a no-fly list.

Speaker 24 He can fly. Innocent.

Speaker 50 Josh Bartlestein, the son's exec.

Speaker 70 Innocent.

Speaker 24 Maybe innocent.

Speaker 47 Maybe innocent.

Speaker 73 Diddy.

Speaker 24 Possibly innocent. Not guilty on three charges.
On three charges. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 41 Completely innocent.

Speaker 24 Completely exonerated. Can we stop talking about this guy?

Speaker 86 Young thug.

Speaker 24 Innocent-ish.

Speaker 24 Innocent-ish.

Speaker 24 Innocent. Not allowed in Atlanta.
Go ahead, Zach.

Speaker 76 Completely innocent.

Speaker 119 Completely innocent.

Speaker 55 Completely innocent.

Speaker 118 Okay, the winner for Innocent Person of the Year

Speaker 85 goes to

Speaker 62 Jeffrey Epstein. Wow.

Speaker 28 Everyone, please drop it. Congrats.

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 105 In Memorial, but also, everyone, just please drop it.

Speaker 147 We drop it.

Speaker 13 I don't know why we made a big deal of it.

Speaker 105 Let's move on. Hey, gals, boys, what's up?

Speaker 24 In many cases, gals. Yeah.

Speaker 114 We're just, listen, we're moving on.

Speaker 24 He's the man who won't die.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 161 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Did people obsess about it for a lot of years and then one day we just said we had to drop it?

Speaker 110 Yeah, maybe.

Speaker 24 And was the video that was uploaded and sent to the media, was that edited several times and then re-saved and put in Adobe Premiere and then re-saved and then sent out as raw footage?

Speaker 74 Who's to say? Who's to say?

Speaker 105 That's actually the sign of an innocent man.

Speaker 24 I'm not an expert. Yeah.

Speaker 29 So Jeffrey Epstein, innocent man of the year

Speaker 96 or person of the year.

Speaker 81 All right, next up, PFT.

Speaker 24 This is a big award. This is a really big award.

Speaker 24 Every year, we do this award, and we take it very seriously in part of my take. It is the Lib of the Year Award

Speaker 24 for excellence in libbing.

Speaker 24 We've got big nominees. First nominee, Jack Mac.
Oh, okay. Having a great sit-down with Harry Sisson, talking through some things, platforming them.

Speaker 9 We should give him a lifetime attack.

Speaker 55 I do love Jack Mac.

Speaker 53 Unpack with Jack Mac.

Speaker 25 That's my number one news source. Yep.

Speaker 24 But he is a lib. It was an excellent moment in libery.

Speaker 107 Yep.

Speaker 24 Kyle Long nominated for lib of the year. Many time winner.
Many time.

Speaker 73 Chris Long nominated for lib of the year.

Speaker 24 Chris Long.

Speaker 56 Lifetime.

Speaker 24 Lifetime achievement in Lib.

Speaker 82 In Lib.

Speaker 24 Kamala Harris nominated for Lib of the Year.

Speaker 75 Kamala.

Speaker 24 Kamala.

Speaker 24 And Jersey Jerry. nominated for lib of the year.

Speaker 24 He met with a would-be Pfizer executive to do an ad. Yes.
That would maybe, may or not have been set up by us as a fake Pfizer executive to see if he would do the ad, which he agreed to.

Speaker 24 He has also been discussing immigration more. Changed his stance on immigration.
Completely flipped on immigration.

Speaker 24 Very welcoming to immigrants, law-abiding immigrants who have not been accused of violent crimes. Thinks that they should stay in America.

Speaker 3 Also drives a minivan.

Speaker 32 And when I say drives, his girlfriend drives him in the minivan.

Speaker 6 He sits in the back seat.

Speaker 24 How progressive. How progressive.

Speaker 29 So, oh, that's that's him in the minivan right now.

Speaker 24 We got him in the minivan. And it's a foreign minivan too.

Speaker 62 Yeah. Sweet, who's the winner?

Speaker 24 Well, we have a very, very, very special guest presenter for Lib of the Year Award.

Speaker 24 Let's bring him on it.

Speaker 11 Hey, Jersey Jerry, I have the honor of congratulating you on not just winning Lib of the Year, but defending your title as Lib of the Year because this is the second year in a row.

Speaker 11 And the takeies are right. You have earned this from your evolving perspective on immigration to being open to the idea that vaccines actually work.

Speaker 11 I want you to really relish this moment.

Speaker 11 You know, your commitment, your passion to being a lib, right alongside your fidelity to Mitch Trubisky or your commitment to losing wacky sports bets over and over again, really captured the spirit of being the lib of the year.

Speaker 11 And I'm looking for you to make a three-peat. So we'll talk again a year from now.

Speaker 73 Wow, Mayor Pete.

Speaker 74 Actually, Mayor Pete.

Speaker 24 Secretary Pete.

Speaker 144 Incredible.

Speaker 24 Your hero, Jerry.

Speaker 104 Jerry, congratulations. Lib of the year.

Speaker 24 You know, Dan, you know, you just know how to ruin a great day.

Speaker 72 What? You just know how.

Speaker 24 TJ Watt got paid.

Speaker 163 TJ Watt got paid.

Speaker 155 Oh, okay.

Speaker 73 Congratulations. Really good.

Speaker 156 And listen.

Speaker 24 Big win for organized labor.

Speaker 49 Yeah, and you would be more than happy to make sure that TJ Watt pays a lot of taxes.

Speaker 164 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dan.

Speaker 163 Listen, let's cut the bullshit with these awards, okay? Where's my catch prize? Where's the 20,000 I was promised last year?

Speaker 36 I don't remember, Dan.

Speaker 138 I don't remember that.

Speaker 46 Maybe we taxes this year.

Speaker 82 Taxes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 85 But

Speaker 151 well, actually,

Speaker 163 this year's 40 then.

Speaker 49 Wait, but no, last year you said that you would take your $20,000 and you wanted us to donate to Kamala's campaign, which we did in your name.

Speaker 163 Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that, Dan. Yep, yep, I forgot.
Listen, bro, listen, these fucking tankies, you two, two, they're fake awards.

Speaker 151 No, they aren't.

Speaker 24 They're very real awards.

Speaker 107 They're not real.

Speaker 55 What makes an award not real?

Speaker 9 Do people ever say anything to you outside in public?

Speaker 163 Yes, they do.

Speaker 165 So then it's real.

Speaker 62 Yeah, so then it's real.

Speaker 56 And people should keep saying.

Speaker 163 Where's my plaque? I want a plaque then.

Speaker 28 Done. Okay.

Speaker 56 We will make you a plaque. That's the easiest thing out there.

Speaker 35 Bumper sticker.

Speaker 73 Yeah, bumper sticker.

Speaker 62 That's your bumper sticker for the band.

Speaker 132 Black bumper sticker.

Speaker 105 Please, everyone, tweet at Jersey Jerry. Congratulate him if you see him in person.
He is the two-time Lib of the Year winner.

Speaker 46 Yeah, Ero.

Speaker 24 You have anything to say to Mayor Pete? He had some very nice things to say about you.

Speaker 163 I don't doubt one word for that guy.

Speaker 165 Okay.

Speaker 99 Because you're just out of words.

Speaker 23 Speechless.

Speaker 24 Emotionally.

Speaker 107 Speechless.

Speaker 79 Seeing him makes you speechless.

Speaker 164 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Broke down inside. Yep.

Speaker 158 Jerry, I got a question.

Speaker 31 As Lib of the Year, two-time Lib of the Year winner, congratulations again.

Speaker 156 Are you zooming in from your minivan?

Speaker 163 It is still mine, correct. Yes, I made a different purchase, correct.

Speaker 151 Okay, but it's still mine.

Speaker 105 All right, and I can see you're in the back seat because your girlfriend's driving in the front seat.

Speaker 163 Are we done, Dan? Are we done?

Speaker 145 Are we done?

Speaker 24 And Jerry, are we done? Jerry, where was that car made?

Speaker 164 Korea, right?

Speaker 38 Yeah, okay. Yeah, foreign.
Yeah, import.

Speaker 40 Okay, nice.

Speaker 73 Yeah, you really

Speaker 49 believe it. Yeah.

Speaker 163 Who was up in the running with me? Was there anybody else who was just like, let's give it it to Jerry again?

Speaker 64 No, it was Kamala.

Speaker 86 Kamala, Jack Mac, Chris Long.

Speaker 165 Okay.

Speaker 163 All right. I don't know how I'd beat Kamala, but okay.

Speaker 40 I mean,

Speaker 40 she lost. She lost.
Yeah.

Speaker 119 You didn't lose.

Speaker 95 The fight goes on with you.

Speaker 163 So how many years are we going to do this in a row, Dan?

Speaker 24 Well, yeah, we should make a bumper sticker that's I'm with Jer.

Speaker 36 With the arrow pointing forward.

Speaker 73 Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 128 I love that.

Speaker 113 You guys, man.

Speaker 56 Congratulations.

Speaker 163 Thank you guys for the award, and I'll carry it with dignity and honor.

Speaker 166 Oh, okay.

Speaker 151 Thank you.

Speaker 105 Love it. Thank you, Jerry.

Speaker 33 Appreciate it.

Speaker 128 What

Speaker 103 a beautiful moment.

Speaker 24 You can tell that meant a lot to him. Yeah, Jersey Jerry, lib of the year, back-to-back champ.

Speaker 62 Incredible.

Speaker 24 You can tell it's a big lib award. Right when he got it, he was like, well, let me get some money from you.

Speaker 24 Let me get some of that money from you.

Speaker 15 Yeah, let me get, give me the money. Give me the money.

Speaker 3 But yeah, incredible job by Jerry.

Speaker 25 He's done it again. He's done it again.

Speaker 24 Excited to see what he has in store for next year. year.

Speaker 105 Okay, next up, we have a Ratio of the Year Award.

Speaker 16 By the way,

Speaker 73 to the panel, I think this should be Ratio of the Year award

Speaker 13 in name of Shane Dawson because he is still the number one ratio.

Speaker 32 If you don't remember, this was, what, 10 years ago, six years ago?

Speaker 99 He won Ratio of the Year because he tweeted, I didn't fuck my cat.

Speaker 22 I didn't come on my cat. I didn't put my dick anywhere near my cat.

Speaker 29 I've never done anything weird with my cats.

Speaker 25 I promised myself I wasn't going to make apology videos after last year's thing, so I'm just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible.

Speaker 20 But just in case you didn't get what I said, I did not have sex with my cat.

Speaker 24 This Tre Sand effect.

Speaker 52 Yes, he is the ratio of the year forever winner.

Speaker 31 So, ratio of the year, nominees, we have Representative Josh Williams from Ohio, who said, I am proud to introduce the OHOIO

Speaker 115 Sportsmanship Act to make flag planting at midfield a felony in the state of Ohio.

Speaker 53 Behavior that incites violent brawls and puts our law enforcement officers in danger has no place on the football field.

Speaker 13 This got 16.4 million views, 32,000 replies

Speaker 137 for

Speaker 25 this take after Michigan won at the shoe and then decided to plant the flag.

Speaker 24 Back in the day, we used to build statues of guys planting flags at midfield.

Speaker 88 That's a fact. That's a fact.

Speaker 66 We have the Hollywood Reporter Hollywood meet your new A-list.

Speaker 132 From

Speaker 32 staggeringly talented TikTokers to the Instagram stars we can't look away from.

Speaker 25 These are the names who will and should be dominating the business of new and old media.

Speaker 91 And it's just a picture of a bunch of TikTokers.

Speaker 20 I can't name any of them except I think Brianna's in there.

Speaker 24 Maybe Josh Richards. Rizzler?

Speaker 94 Rizzler's not in there.

Speaker 24 Oh, that's a bullshit list.

Speaker 53 25,000 retweets, probably all of them quote tweets, and 7,000 replies.

Speaker 76 Pretty good.

Speaker 71 7,000 replies.

Speaker 61 We have

Speaker 52 Katy Perry, when it was announced that Katy Perry donated all the revenue she has made from her album 143 to the victims of the California Fire,

Speaker 68 she was quote-tweeted by Liam Fennesey, The Wildfire Victims, and it's a clip from the hit movie Super Bad, which is, I'm going to play the clip real quick.

Speaker 149 Are you fucking serious?

Speaker 166 Seven bucks?

Speaker 71 Yep, that was a big-time ratio.

Speaker 85 The quote-tweet ratio always hurts.

Speaker 20 Tyrese Halliburton, who Ben Stiller said

Speaker 25 during the Knicks Pacers series,

Speaker 53 Tyrese Halliburton said, Hallie pulled up to game six in all black fit.

Speaker 27 Ben Stiller said, good thing he brought his duffel for the flight to New York for what he was alluding to as game seven.

Speaker 94 And Tyrese Halliburton said, nah, was to pack y'all up.

Speaker 83 And that one ratioed the fuck out of Ben Stiller.

Speaker 64 Packed him up.

Speaker 120 Packed him up.

Speaker 45 And then finally, our last nominee is Kevin Durant

Speaker 69 replying to Emmanuel Acho when Emmanuel Acho had his legacy formula.

Speaker 52 And Kevin Durant, so the legacy formula was championships one divided by teams played forward equals player legacy. So Steph has a 4.0, Braun has a 1.3, and Katie has a 0.4 legacy rating.

Speaker 81 Yep.

Speaker 20 Kevin Durant replied, according to the great Kevin Durant's legacy formula that was created in the best labs at MIT, Emmanuel is the worst linebacker of all time.

Speaker 93 You sure want to listen to this guy about greatness.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 24 I think that we should have an award for Equation of the Year. Yeah.
The legacy ratio has changed the way way that sports talk is done.

Speaker 18 He had 73,000 likes compared to Emmanuel Acho's 10,000.

Speaker 24 Really good.

Speaker 50 Okay, and the winner is

Speaker 74 Kevin Durant.

Speaker 73 Yeah, good job, man.

Speaker 1 Kevin Durant for his legacy formula, formulated, the Kevin Durant legacy formula that was created in the best labs at MIT, and he ratioed the fuck out of Emmanuel Acho.

Speaker 24 In the great words of Kevin Durant, there's no relax, champ. No relax when I'm on Twitter.
I'm on 10 until the second I close the app. You relax.
Love it. Love it.

Speaker 27 So congratulations, Kevin Durant.

Speaker 134 Please come on the show to accept your award.

Speaker 24 Next up, we have the AI Video of the Year award. Now, some of these might be controversial because we're still not 100% sure on if they were AI or not.

Speaker 24 The first nominee for AI Video of the Year goes to the kangaroo trying to get on the airplane. Oh.
The emotional support kangaroo.

Speaker 83 I remember that one.

Speaker 24 Little Joey. Hank thought it was real.

Speaker 12 So did you.

Speaker 24 The next nominee.

Speaker 24 The whales being cleaned off by heavy machinery. Heavy machinery.
Heavy machinery.

Speaker 1 Heaviest machinery.

Speaker 24 Full-on crop dusting. Whales are huge.

Speaker 24 So it made sense. And stable.

Speaker 75 Yeah. And stable.

Speaker 147 The power washing of whales.

Speaker 24 The dog diving video that we all saw and love.

Speaker 9 I think I tweeted this one too.

Speaker 18 Well, I tweeted at you and said, is this real?

Speaker 24 The dog weightlifting video. from the Olympics.
I did not see that live when it happened, but it was an incredible display of strength from the dogs. Correct.

Speaker 24 And then the lady diving and sinking an entire boat has been nominated. She's actually been doing that a lot.
It happens over and over again. If you see that lady come and you're on your boat,

Speaker 24 you tug the other way.

Speaker 77 Almost every day.

Speaker 24 And Hank, we have a guest presenter for that?

Speaker 9 Very special guest presenter. Okay.
Ooh. I alluded to it earlier in the show.

Speaker 24 Is it Mayor Pete?

Speaker 24 Nope.

Speaker 90 Was that AI?

Speaker 24 No, that's real.

Speaker 152 Hey, everybody. Tom Brady here, seven-time Super Bowl champ.
And apparently now, take you presenter. Life comes at you fast.

Speaker 152 First off, big shout out to my guy, Hank. I know you're a massive fan.
I appreciate the support over the years,

Speaker 152 even when it borderlines on obsession. And don't worry, Hank.
I'm going to come on the show eventually, right after you figure out how the internet works.

Speaker 152 Seriously, how many times is this going to happen, man? Send me a text. Brady, look at this kangaroo getting on a plane.

Speaker 154 Hank, buddy. Oh, you text him?

Speaker 152 That thing has fakered my retirement for the first time. You know who else isn't getting on a plane anytime soon? Tiffany Gomez.
Bing bong, hanky.

Speaker 152 All right, let's get to it. The nominees for AI video of the year are the dog diving in the Olympics video,

Speaker 152 the kangaroo boarding the airplane video,

Speaker 152 and the whale barnacle cleaning video.

Speaker 152 All incredibly fake, all incredibly watched by Hank multiple times.

Speaker 152 And the take he goes to

Speaker 152 the whale AI video.

Speaker 152 Congrats to everyone who contributed to that beautifully fabricated undersea lie. Enjoy the rest of the Takeies.

Speaker 152 And Hank, seriously, if it's M4K and makes you say no way, it's probably not real champ.

Speaker 73 Thank you to Tom.

Speaker 133 Thank you, Tom. That's incredible.

Speaker 161 Incredible. He's going to come on.

Speaker 9 That was right.

Speaker 46 He texted you.

Speaker 24 Why haven't you asked him on text?

Speaker 9 I have many times. Okay.

Speaker 116 Okay.

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Speaker 62 Okay, next up, we're at

Speaker 31 number 15.

Speaker 124 We have the fight of the year.

Speaker 30 We had some really good fights this year. Great fights.

Speaker 91 First nominee is our good friend Paul Bissonette

Speaker 94 for his fight against the Irish travelers in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Speaker 24 Took some, gave more. Yep.

Speaker 25 Next fight is the recent fight fight from Tarnasky or Taransky.

Speaker 32 Taransky.

Speaker 53 No, Tarnasky. I screwed it up.

Speaker 38 On the course. On the course.
Bang, bang, bang.

Speaker 73 Bottom of lake.

Speaker 13 Also very Canadian for both those guys to go on media afterwards and apologize.

Speaker 24 It's a good Donnybrook. Yeah.

Speaker 54 We also have Jordan Schultz versus Ian Ratport, which you got the inside source on PFT.

Speaker 24 I mean, what an incredible fight between those two.

Speaker 73 You could forget. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Security was called.

Speaker 13 Security was called.

Speaker 105 And then finally, Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul.

Speaker 1 Remember that fight?

Speaker 73 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 24 That was awesome. I kind of.
I kind of remember that.

Speaker 13 It was on Netflix. Yeah, Jake Paul has basically spent nine rounds being like, I don't want to hurt Mike Tyson.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 47 Great fight.

Speaker 31 The winner of the fight of the year

Speaker 135 for the 2025

Speaker 81 Takey Awards is Nick Tarnaski.

Speaker 24 Yes. Congratulations, Nick.

Speaker 41 Bang.

Speaker 73 Bang. Walk away.

Speaker 62 Incredible.

Speaker 128 What a fight.

Speaker 81 We're so lucky to get something like that.

Speaker 24 And Rob Mack was right. It was incredible to watch.

Speaker 118 It was the best. It was the best.

Speaker 18 Okay, PFT, you have our next award.

Speaker 24 The next award goes to the GM of the year.

Speaker 24 The General Manager of the Year award nominees are Brick Johnson, General Manager of the New York Jets.

Speaker 50 Nico Harrison.

Speaker 15 Remember when he GM'd?

Speaker 24 I do remember. Via Madden.
Incredible. Nico Harrison, general manager of the Dallas Mavericks, pulled off the trade of the year.
He got the number one pick. Got the number one pick.
Cooper flag, AD.

Speaker 24 Now I'm hearing Braun wants to go there. What an exciting movement that would be.

Speaker 24 Joe Shoan from the New York Giants.

Speaker 47 Ooh, yeah.

Speaker 24 For not being able to sleep at night anymore and still GMing.

Speaker 68 Yeah, having Saquon Barkley have a career year right in his face, right in his division, and then win a Super Bowl title.

Speaker 24 Rob Palinka from the Los Angeles Lakers for accepting a meeting with Nico Harrison and saying, yes, please, thank you.

Speaker 82 Yes.

Speaker 24 And And then Joe Dumars from the New Orleans Pelicans. He's just been an all-around great GM.
Yep. The General Manager of the Year for 2025 award goes to

Speaker 24 Nico Harrison. Wow.
Securing the number one overall pick, Cooper flag, the future of the draft, and getting rid of some guy.

Speaker 24 He wasn't that good. Yeah.
I forget who it was.

Speaker 81 Fuck Nico Harrison.

Speaker 39 But also.

Speaker 9 I think how unbiased the committee is. Yeah, very unbiased.

Speaker 24 We are. I also think that Brick Johnson got hosed on this.
He did. It probably should.

Speaker 79 Should we give it a Brick Johnson?

Speaker 24 Yeah, let's give it Brick Johnson.

Speaker 24 Brick Johnson gets it.

Speaker 115 Let's do Nico Harrison.

Speaker 104 Ha ha, motherfucker.

Speaker 24 We're brick guys.

Speaker 35 We punked you. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Nico, I can't wait to see Nico's face when he's listening to this show and he thinks he won and then he didn't.

Speaker 24 Hey, Nico, trade proposal. You get the General Manager of the Year award, and then you have to give it back.
Ha! You receive nothing.

Speaker 84 Absolutely nothing.

Speaker 24 Brick Johnson deserves this.

Speaker 59 He does.

Speaker 22 I mean, whenever you can be a GM from Madden, his name is Brick Johnson.

Speaker 25 His name is Brick Johnson.

Speaker 20 And he's definitely a Stoolie.

Speaker 41 Yes. 100%.

Speaker 100 Okay.

Speaker 146 Next up, we have Injury of the Year.

Speaker 79 So this is kind of a sad one.

Speaker 122 Yep.

Speaker 124 Don't love celebrating injuries.

Speaker 29 We don't celebrate.

Speaker 24 Don't root for them. We do watch them on repeat.

Speaker 111 Yeah, but there was a lot of injuries this year, so we need to at least talk about them.

Speaker 79 The nominees are Jason Tatum for his Torn Achilles.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 26 Any thoughts?

Speaker 9 Minor setback for a major comeback. He's already rehabbing.
He's looking good, working hard. Okay.
Good here.

Speaker 150 Tyrese Haliburton for also a torn Achilles.

Speaker 121 Any thoughts? No.

Speaker 56 Okay. Good.
Well said.

Speaker 24 You're in a much better position.

Speaker 36 Yes.

Speaker 94 We had Max's ankle when he decided to walk drunk.

Speaker 125 Well, the ankle, I had an ankle and a foot.

Speaker 119 Which one was the drunk walk?

Speaker 125 The foot was the broken foot was the dunk.

Speaker 119 Well, it's all the same.

Speaker 89 Funk.

Speaker 125 What was the ankle? The ankle was when I was at the AWL's bachelor party. Okay.

Speaker 41 Were you drunk?

Speaker 24 So they were both drunk walking.

Speaker 73 I could have been drunk walking.

Speaker 24 I was probably tipsy.

Speaker 125 I was definitely, whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 88 Next up, nominee.

Speaker 50 The first time I got kidney stones.

Speaker 32 The first time PFT got kidney stones.

Speaker 50 The second time PFT got kidney stones.

Speaker 88 And then the second time I got kidney stones.

Speaker 9 Now, is that one nominee or four?

Speaker 40 That's four nominees. Four nominees.

Speaker 56 Four nominees.

Speaker 56 Packed pairing. Yeah.

Speaker 132 We also have Hank's panic attack.

Speaker 147 Yep. Yep.

Speaker 9 Don't smoke and think, kids.

Speaker 39 Injury of the injury.

Speaker 2 And then finally, we have Anthony Richardson for being tired that one time.

Speaker 65 Yep.

Speaker 24 He was very injured.

Speaker 158 Took himself out of the game. All right, we have a guest presenter for this award.

Speaker 48 So let's go to it.

Speaker 169 All right, very excited to present the Injury of the Year award at the Pardon My Take 2025 Takeies. I think this is my fourth appearance on Pardon My Take.

Speaker 73 Not quite as many as Jerry, but who's counting?

Speaker 169 No, I'm kidding. I love you, Jerry.
I love you, Jerry. With teammates, you're my guy.
House call this fall. Check it out.
But anyway, Injury of the Year. It's presented to Max Delente.

Speaker 73 Yeah. World Series regional runner-up.

Speaker 169 Never made it to the World World Series.

Speaker 63 Might have been a little too heavy.

Speaker 169 Is what it is. Nobody's counting.
Is what it is. They're just kids.
He was a little kid. They're just kids.
Still fat now, but it is what it is.

Speaker 151 Injury of the year.

Speaker 169 Got drunk

Speaker 169 with Jackie Tables. No surprise.
Hurt, tripped his foot. You know, hey, some people say it's hard to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Speaker 169 I guess it's hard to have, you know, too many and walk home and make it home safe. You couldn't do that, Max.
No surprise to me.

Speaker 24 But yeah, you and Jackie, maybe find new friends.

Speaker 169 Find yourself yourself hanging out with people who do better for you push you uh but injury of the year max delente your first um

Speaker 169 you know pretty pretty bad i think the ankle was tore up a little bit uh not as bad as you tore up your hero shane victorino's sunglasses what a fucking fumble that was and you're talking to a guy who fumbles uh so yeah injury of the year 2025 max delente congratulations you finally won something you couldn't make it to the little league world series uh but you took it down wait a minute max oh congratulations

Speaker 56 best presenter yet Rico Bosco.

Speaker 24 He makes a good point.

Speaker 24 He couldn't make it to the World Series unlike the guys that we all remember, like Big Al, who hit all those dingers in one of the game.

Speaker 56 Oh, squad.

Speaker 125 No, he was a Little League World Series legend for sure.

Speaker 64 Absolutely.

Speaker 125 I wish that I could have done that.

Speaker 156 Monet Davis, who won the whole thing.

Speaker 41 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 24 That's incredible.

Speaker 24 She was the best.

Speaker 125 She was the most talented Little League World Series winner ever.

Speaker 56 Ever. Ever.

Speaker 73 Ever. Number one.
Yeah.

Speaker 89 Okay.

Speaker 24 Shout out to the umpires there, by the way. They do a great job.
Excellent job.

Speaker 22 Max, do you accept?

Speaker 73 Of course I accept. Love that.

Speaker 125 Yeah, no, it's an honor to win a takeie, no matter how you're going to do it. I wish I didn't break my foot, but I'm happy that I got some hardware out of it for sure.

Speaker 9 And you never had to do the pitching thing, so it worked out.

Speaker 39 Well,

Speaker 125 I will do the pitching thing.

Speaker 56 Oh, okay. Sure.
I will.

Speaker 125 Sure.

Speaker 125 I've been talking, whatever.

Speaker 112 We don't have to talk about the pitching thing.

Speaker 125 It's not going well, but

Speaker 125 I've sent out some feelers.

Speaker 24 Important. Yeah.

Speaker 17 Okay, PFT.

Speaker 24 We have the newcomer who steals steals the show of the year award.

Speaker 29 So, this is an award that we named after the famous Jaguars fan woman.

Speaker 65 Can you play that video?

Speaker 82 They're not listening anymore.

Speaker 125 Memes didn't get the joke of the.

Speaker 125 He just kept, he was like, he was like, Big Al didn't make it.

Speaker 39 Big Al didn't make it.

Speaker 153 That's what got distracted.

Speaker 125 That Rico gets mad when people say that Big Al was

Speaker 56 keep all this in.

Speaker 140 Monet Davis.

Speaker 46 This is, listen, we're not the Oscars.

Speaker 124 We don't run seamlessly here.

Speaker 108 All right, all right, we're back. Yeah.

Speaker 46 Okay, so this is a new award, Newcomer of the Year award.

Speaker 49 No, no, no.

Speaker 105 Play the video of the woman, the Jaguars woman.

Speaker 162 As far as picks, they say they have the best draft in the entire NFL. Are you surprised to hear that?

Speaker 170 Certainly not. The first year we took it to the limit.

Speaker 170 And I was in Miami with my new beach house. Well, it was a couple minutes from the beach.

Speaker 149 It's been 20 years since then.

Speaker 162 We haven't been too strong in the last few few years.

Speaker 84 Oh, we've been strong.

Speaker 170 We're just playing by the rules. You can't have a newcomer come in

Speaker 170 and steal a show.

Speaker 170 Thank you.

Speaker 24 Love it. Love that woman.
Love it. R.I.P.

Speaker 13 So that is that this is the award is named after her.

Speaker 24 Yes. The nominees for Newcomer Who Steals the Show of the Year award are

Speaker 24 Jaden Daniels. Came in, stole the show.
Great rookie season. Great rookie season.
Won all the accolades from Max Delente.

Speaker 24 Bo Nicks, also great rookie rookie season. I've got a boner,

Speaker 24 Jacob Misrowski for coming in, starting what four games? Yep, making the all-star team,

Speaker 24 flamethrower,

Speaker 24 and Zach on part of my take. Our guy, Zach, our guy, Zach, nominated the winner of the newcomer who steals the show of the year award.

Speaker 64 Is we have a video:

Speaker 11 the 2025

Speaker 11 Newcomer of the Year Takey, goes to

Speaker 9 no one other

Speaker 11 than Zach.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Congrats on Tana Margarita.

Speaker 73 Welcome to the club, Bob.

Speaker 126 Welcome to the club.

Speaker 133 Love it.

Speaker 114 That is our good friend Julian Edelman from Italy.

Speaker 24 Maybe the first award presenter to actually do a thirst trap while presenting the award.

Speaker 48 Yes.

Speaker 132 So, Zach, congratulations.

Speaker 57 Are you now?

Speaker 120 We should say, clarify for all the people who are on the committee and voting.

Speaker 81 We did give him, we decided the winner last night before we found out that Zach was going to sleep in past

Speaker 68 the commercial shoot.

Speaker 13 But he still wins Newcomer of the Year.

Speaker 76 I would like to say I appreciate you guys for nominating me for Newcomer of the Year and allowing me to,

Speaker 76 ultimately, the committee allowed me to win. I just want to say PFT, Big Hat, thank you very much for the opportunity.

Speaker 76 Memes, Max, Hank, Shane, Jack, and Pog, thank you guys for being so open to any questions I've had so far.

Speaker 76 And we're back to ground zero because we were late today, but

Speaker 76 I'm free to help the team anyway I can.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 24 Thank you, Zach. Love that.
Well earned. Great job, Zach.

Speaker 119 Okay, we're wrapping up.

Speaker 97 We have 19.

Speaker 114 It is the Still Alive Person of the Year, which is a prestigious award that we give out every year.

Speaker 25 To Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 12 We gave last year's award out to Jimmy Carter the year before, I think, was Queen

Speaker 18 Elizabeth.

Speaker 25 I think it was Tommy Lasorda the year before that.

Speaker 129 Quite quite a list.

Speaker 24 This is an award that at some point I would love to win.

Speaker 75 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 48 All right, so still alive person of the year nominees are

Speaker 158 Frankie Valley.

Speaker 24 He's still out there, kicking it.

Speaker 36 Jersey boy. Crooner.
Yeah.

Speaker 161 Lee Corso.

Speaker 26 Last game day coming up. Still alive.

Speaker 41 Love Lee Corso. Still alive.

Speaker 55 Joel and Biede.

Speaker 24 Still alive. Still alive.

Speaker 37 Right?

Speaker 132 He is. Max?

Speaker 125 Yeah, no. There's just a great article that came out on Joel and Biede.

Speaker 107 Okay.

Speaker 128 Regarding

Speaker 128 being alive?

Speaker 125 Yeah.

Speaker 125 Being alive and thriving.

Speaker 107 Okay.

Speaker 125 And people are mean to him.

Speaker 8 Oh.

Speaker 41 Oh, no.

Speaker 100 And then

Speaker 22 finally, last up, another Philadelphia legend, Bill Cosby.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Bill Cosby, yes.

Speaker 22 So the winner, do you have a guest presenter?

Speaker 24 For Still Alive Person of the Year Award, there is a guest presenter.

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 109 Oh, wow.

Speaker 12 This is huge.

Speaker 8 What a gap.

Speaker 171 Death is nothing to joke about.

Speaker 171 The fact that Burton MyTake has this award tells me that they have achieved zero personal growth. I mean, one time I knew a guy that died, not funny, but congrats to Bill Cosby.

Speaker 171 He is the winner, still a live person of the year.

Speaker 24 Wow, that was John Cena. John Cena joined us.
It is nothing to joke about. He's right.

Speaker 50 Yeah, but Bill Cosby has won the still alive person of the year.

Speaker 115 It would be a real shame.

Speaker 24 Fantastic. Good for Bill.
Hope that this award comes with all the trimmings of the past award winners.

Speaker 147 Yes, yes.

Speaker 23 Enjoy it for an entire year or maybe less. Or maybe less.

Speaker 118 Maybe less.

Speaker 61 Okay, PFT, you're up.

Speaker 35 Next award is for Pope of the Year. The Pope of the Year award.

Speaker 24 The nominees are Mark Pope

Speaker 24 from the University of Kentucky.

Speaker 156 Pope Leo.

Speaker 24 Wow. The American Pope.

Speaker 24 Pope Francis, the not-American Pope.

Speaker 39 Okay.

Speaker 24 Not nominated for still alive person of the year.

Speaker 24 The broken Pope Bobblehead. that you got as a gift, big cat, that got smashed.
Beautiful. And put back together.

Speaker 29 Right there, Shane. Shout out to Shane.

Speaker 120 He got me that bobblehead bobblehead that broke.

Speaker 24 And also nominated Mike Francesa.

Speaker 41 Oh. Sports Pope.

Speaker 24 Sports Pope. Great job by Mike.
Had a great review of the Superman movie recently. If you haven't checked that out, give it a look.
The winner of the 2025 Pope of the Year Award

Speaker 140 is

Speaker 147 Pope Leo.

Speaker 151 Wow.

Speaker 147 We got a Pope.

Speaker 24 We got a Pope.

Speaker 122 Pope.

Speaker 119 Wow. Pope Leo.

Speaker 24 Chicago Pope.

Speaker 73 I kind of wanted him. I want him to just talk English more.

Speaker 110 That'd be great.

Speaker 22 Just more viral clips and maybe some tweets from Pope Leo.

Speaker 24 And he definitely watched the hot dog eating contest, right? Absolutely. First Pope to ever do that.

Speaker 64 Absolutely.

Speaker 24 I just would like a little more.

Speaker 144 Just a couple tweets. Yeah.

Speaker 109 Here and there.

Speaker 24 I liked it when the old Pope used to accidentally tag the Saints. Yeah.
That was always good for a laugh.

Speaker 100 That was great.

Speaker 132 Okay, next up, we have the Just Chill Out Man of the Year Award.

Speaker 18 This is a very important award.

Speaker 68 Someone who maybe got a little too excited about something.

Speaker 27 Just chill out, man. Just chill.

Speaker 25 We have Daryl Dussette.

Speaker 29 Why is he nominated?

Speaker 59 Memes?

Speaker 139 Daryl Dussette got mad at NFL players trying to participate in flag football.

Speaker 73 Ah, that guy, the quarterback. Yes.

Speaker 161 Yes.

Speaker 147 Who could have forgot?

Speaker 161 Who could have forgotten Daryl Dussett?

Speaker 9 Household name.

Speaker 24 He's right, though. Yeah.

Speaker 38 No.

Speaker 24 Patrick Mahomes is nowhere near his level.

Speaker 38 He's not good at football.

Speaker 25 Mel Kuyper for his takes on Shador Sanders on draft weekend.

Speaker 24 That was good. He almost cried.

Speaker 64 He almost cried.

Speaker 25 We have Elon Musk when he got upset about Trump.

Speaker 24 Yeah, he got upset about the Epstein files. Just chill out.
We already said, no one cares. He's innocent.

Speaker 32 Innocent person of the year.

Speaker 25 I don't know if you listen to that part of the show, Elon, but he's an innocent person of the year.

Speaker 54 Trevor Ogilvie, the guy who lost the golf fight to Nick Tarnasky.

Speaker 24 I think he may have already received his award.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 22 And then we finally have Jerry O'Connell at the Bet Gala for screaming into Hank's ear, which actually wasn't why Hank lost his hearing.

Speaker 13 It was his ear not popping.

Speaker 113 Mm-hmm. Yep.

Speaker 9 But he also was rock hard and just thrusting in my face.

Speaker 73 That might come up later.

Speaker 24 Enjoying sports. Hank should be nominated.
Just Chill Out Man of the Year. Your ear was fine.

Speaker 116 Yeah.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 29 The winner of the Just Chill Out Man of the Year award is.

Speaker 161 Mel Kuyper.

Speaker 24 Mel, congratulations. Congratulations.
You really laid your emotions out on the line this year. It was a great bit of television.
I hope you've chilled out since then, though.

Speaker 94 Yes, you spent an entire weekend getting upset about Shadora Sanders falling in the draft to the point where, I'll say this, it was great TV.

Speaker 48 I was glued to it.

Speaker 22 I've never been more glued to a fifth round of the NFL draft watching him.

Speaker 109 Oh, breaking

Speaker 153 it.

Speaker 8 Breaking news.

Speaker 9 Nine-time NBA All-Star Damian Liller is finalizing a three-year $42 million contract to return to Portland Trailblazers SourcesTell ESPN.

Speaker 73 Wow. Wow.

Speaker 24 It's coming home.

Speaker 134 That moves the needle 0%.

Speaker 24 This feels like he's retiring. Yeah.
Like he's going to get paid for three years to not really do all that much. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Three-year $42 million NBA is basically nothing.

Speaker 172 Ashtray Mark.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 24 But he's still getting paid by the Bucs, right?

Speaker 109 Yeah. Probably, yeah.

Speaker 24 Yeah, so he didn't need to get paid that much.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Good for him.
Good for him.

Speaker 9 You're saying that wasn't even breaking moves worthy?

Speaker 81 No, I'm just saying it doesn't.

Speaker 107 Who cares? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 22 Mike Francesa, who cares?

Speaker 24 Yeah, he's just getting paid to go back home.

Speaker 50 Like, I guess maybe the Trailblazers will make the playoffs at least once in his last three years.

Speaker 25 Well, he's not going to play this year, so last two years.

Speaker 26 That would be nice.

Speaker 129 Maybe he'll want, you know what?

Speaker 36 He'll hit one big shot. They're just signing old guys.

Speaker 172 They're just going old.

Speaker 56 He'll hit one big shot.

Speaker 36 Huge.

Speaker 24 The next category for the 2025 takeies, the preemptive take of the year award.

Speaker 35 Okay.

Speaker 24 Preemptive take of the year award. So we're going to go around and we're going to give our preemptive takes.

Speaker 13 This is a take that we will then grade later.

Speaker 106 We don't remember what our takes were last year, but that's okay.

Speaker 121 That's how the show runs.

Speaker 24 Big Cat, what is your preemptive take of the year nomination?

Speaker 146 My preemptive take of the year

Speaker 32 in the year 2026, it will be.

Speaker 21 So the back half of the next year's takeies.

Speaker 90 The tush push will be banned.

Speaker 129 Feels like I'm not saying I want it to be.

Speaker 2 Yep. But that is my preemptive take.

Speaker 103 I'm staking my reputation on it.

Speaker 26 I think it will be banned.

Speaker 25 I think that more teams will start complaining.

Speaker 24 And I think that the NFL wants it banned. Yes.
Even though it is a wet dream of a play.

Speaker 62 Yes.

Speaker 53 Max, I am on the side of the tush push.

Speaker 22 I do not want it banned.

Speaker 32 I'm just, this is my preemptive take of the year.

Speaker 125 I just feel like that's not a very hot take. What do you mean?

Speaker 108 We've done it every year.

Speaker 125 Everyone's talking like it's going to come out next year.

Speaker 9 That's a chalky preemptive take. Yeah.

Speaker 140 Okay.

Speaker 50 Sorry, guys. I didn't know I was going first.

Speaker 62 I had to fucking go fast.

Speaker 64 I'll come back around. It's snake draft.

Speaker 24 You might be right. Yeah, you might be right, though.
Yeah.

Speaker 109 Okay. Hank?

Speaker 9 My preemptive take of the year, Shador Sanders

Speaker 9 is going to lead the Cleveland Browns to a wild card spot and make the playoffs.

Speaker 172 Wow.

Speaker 24 That's a good take, Hank. That's a good take.

Speaker 90 That's a good take.

Speaker 24 I appreciate somebody going off with their first.

Speaker 39 That's a good take.

Speaker 9 Maybe an injury. I think we did it with the NFL schedule release.
I think after like week four, he's not going to start.

Speaker 9 Something's going to happen. Maybe Flacco gets injured.
Shador steps in.

Speaker 9 Leads him to glory. Okay.

Speaker 26 I have a new preemptive take. Okay.

Speaker 82 This is a hot take. All right.

Speaker 20 The Philadelphia 76ers will make it to the Easter Conference finals.

Speaker 56 Whoa.

Speaker 39 Wow.

Speaker 86 Now that.

Speaker 140 Is that not crazy?

Speaker 74 I mean, we just

Speaker 9 schedule the opposite of chalk. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Still alive. Yes.

Speaker 107 Okay.

Speaker 55 Memes.

Speaker 139 Just so we're on record, my preemptive take was right last year.

Speaker 24 Which was?

Speaker 139 I said the 76ers were going to implode.

Speaker 56 Oh, okay.

Speaker 73 With the trade of Paul George. You're dead right.

Speaker 70 Do you know anyone else's?

Speaker 139 Not off the top of my head.

Speaker 28 You just remember that one. Okay.

Speaker 139 So I have an NBA and an NFL one. Okay, go both.
So NBA is kind of wild. I think Nicola Jokic is going to force a trade out of Denver at the end of the season to the Chicago Bulls.

Speaker 56 Whoa.

Speaker 139 Number one Serbia population in America.

Speaker 40 Wow. That's just a wild one.
I love that.

Speaker 128 And then then NFL.

Speaker 9 Fun fact, too.

Speaker 82 That's a fun fact.

Speaker 139 The Washington Commanders are going to miss the playoffs.

Speaker 108 Duh.

Speaker 139 And Jaden Daniels is going to finish dead last out of the 2024 QBs in that draft class.

Speaker 24 You're such a piece of shit, memes. Wow.

Speaker 137 Wow.

Speaker 59 Okay, Matt. It's a good take.
Like,

Speaker 24 I respect you putting your balls out there, memes.

Speaker 9 Thank you. You've got to split booth.

Speaker 24 Honestly, like...

Speaker 9 One of them thinks he's going to be all-time great. One of them thinks he's going to fall off a cliff.

Speaker 24 Well, I mean, listen, I I don't want memes to hear this, so just between the three of us, the fact that he's going after Jayden Daniels like that, kind of racist.

Speaker 24 Kind of racist, memes.

Speaker 24 We would never say such a thing about Justin Fields.

Speaker 139 You had him as bad question mark.

Speaker 24 Question mark. It was a question.

Speaker 73 We're having a conversation.

Speaker 24 It's a question.

Speaker 40 Douche.

Speaker 125 I read the Joel and Bead article last night, and I went to the DraftKings Sports book to place this preemptive take of the year.

Speaker 125 And then I read a little bit further in this article and I took it away, the bet away. But I will be saying that Joel and Biad will be winning the MVP.

Speaker 119 Wow.

Speaker 56 Wow, MVP.

Speaker 74 Well, that's not really.

Speaker 110 He's won one. He's 70 to 1.

Speaker 50 Has he ever been to the Eastern Conference Finals?

Speaker 33 It sounds like mine's a little crazier than yours. Yeah.

Speaker 125 We can look at the odds of that. But then I went back.
I was going to make the bet, and then I went back, and then it says that he will not be returning until he's 100%, and he will not be

Speaker 125 prioritizing the regular season this year, year, which made me second-guess that take a little bit, but I'm going back to my original idea. It's like when you're

Speaker 125 in school and you're taking a test, you always got to go with your gut. And my gut said that Joe Ellen Biat is going to win MVP this year, and I'm sticking with Joe Ellen Bi will win the MVP.

Speaker 24 Okay, I mean, that's a wild take on DraftKings Sportsbook, 72. Down year for the East.
Yeah, I could see it. Zach?

Speaker 76 My take is that

Speaker 76 I watch a lot of Commanders football back home because my mother and my brother are Commanders fans, so we're house-divided there.

Speaker 24 I love Zach's mom. How are you doing?

Speaker 24 Respectfully, of course. Respectfully, yeah.

Speaker 76 So I do have a lot of fun watching Jaden Daniels play football, and I think that he's going to defy the sophomore slump and have a fantastic season. Love that.

Speaker 24 Got all his guys coming back.

Speaker 105 Are you guys going to say anything about that?

Speaker 49 That was way chalkier than my take.

Speaker 74 Terry, no, he's right.

Speaker 73 That's a great take. That's crazy.
Zach, that's an awesome.

Speaker 57 Jaden Daniels is still going to be good.

Speaker 24 Zach's mom knows that.

Speaker 129 That's crazy. Hank, back me up here.
That's not a great take, Zach.

Speaker 73 Well, yeah, no, it's a good take.

Speaker 123 It's a really good take.

Speaker 9 It's a newcomer of the year right there.

Speaker 40 Strong take.

Speaker 24 I love it, Zach. We got Fast Debo, probably Terry, probably.

Speaker 24 Sky's the limit.

Speaker 76 He may do it the entire season with a smile on his face.

Speaker 24 He might, yeah. And no.

Speaker 9 What about girls? Will he get a girlfriend?

Speaker 9 That would be a hot take.

Speaker 24 There was a video that came out the other day, Hank.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 24 I don't know if it's real or not,

Speaker 24 but he was having a good time with Juju. Ooh.
Yeah, real good time.

Speaker 24 Oh, like cousins or something? I would like, no. What, memes?

Speaker 73 What are you laughing about?

Speaker 139 Nothing, nothing. I thought you were going to say he was having a good time at a fast food restaurant with D-Bo.

Speaker 73 Nope. Nope.

Speaker 74 He was not.

Speaker 107 Okay.

Speaker 146 Yours?

Speaker 113 My take.

Speaker 24 Hey, do you have one?

Speaker 76 I'm kind of scared to say mine because it's in the same vein as last year's.

Speaker 109 Last year,

Speaker 73 we'll remember that.

Speaker 63 Well, I was going to refresh.

Speaker 24 Last year, I said Gus Edwards would lead the league in rushing touchdowns.

Speaker 76 Okay. And I couldn't have been more wrong.
So I'm going to go Omarian Hampton, offensive rookie of the year.

Speaker 63 What about Najee?

Speaker 119 Don't have an eye.

Speaker 24 Doesn't have an eye. Allegedly.
There's no eye in Najee.

Speaker 1 Also, let me just toss him one more preemptive take.

Speaker 25 I think this is the year that Shane's going to start liking onions.

Speaker 36 No. He sleeps with an onion.

Speaker 57 Could.

Speaker 24 That's true.

Speaker 75 Could.

Speaker 18 I want you to storm out so bad.

Speaker 64 All right.

Speaker 24 My preemptive take of 2025, 2026, I truly believe this, by the way. I think that the situation that Caleb Williams is in right now

Speaker 24 is the best situation in the history of second-year quarterbacks

Speaker 24 in the entire NFL? Think about it. They short up the offensive line.

Speaker 24 Big weakness from last year, right?

Speaker 24 They got rid of Matt Eberflus. That's good for six wins right there.

Speaker 24 They finally have a GM and a coach that are lined up on the same contract.

Speaker 24 They've got an offensive wizard at head coach who's got a bag that's deeper than the Mariana Trench.

Speaker 41 Bars.

Speaker 24 And he's just a good quarterback.

Speaker 147 He's still got the physical tools.

Speaker 24 The physical tools were there. He had a good season last year.
Statistically, it was okay. Not as bad as many of the haters said that it was.

Speaker 24 This is the best setup possible for a second-year quarterback in the history of the NFL. Do you know what you just did?

Speaker 79 What?

Speaker 134 You just made me almost go to six and a half out of 10.

Speaker 55 I didn't, but you almost made me get there.

Speaker 24 I'm at a 10. I'm out of 10 on Caleb.

Speaker 90 I like that take.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 79 Good takes of the year. Preemptive takes of the year.

Speaker 83 All right.

Speaker 58 We got three left.

Speaker 67 We have Bonk of the Year.

Speaker 52 We have Blake of the Year.

Speaker 18 We have Podcast Listeners of the Year.

Speaker 24 Three huge awards. Massive.

Speaker 99 Huge, huge awards.

Speaker 87 Uh,

Speaker 53 next up, Bonk of the Year.

Speaker 70 The nominees are

Speaker 79 the entire internet for Sidney Sweeney breaking up with her boyfriend.

Speaker 113 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 134 And also the soap thing.

Speaker 24 And also, Hank, you should probably try to get with her.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 9 I am, I'm actively.

Speaker 100 You should.

Speaker 69 We have J-O-C.

Speaker 45 Our good friend Jerry O'Connell for not wearing underpants and being rock hard in Hank's face during the Celtics Knicks game at the Beck Gala.

Speaker 24 Pretty incredible.

Speaker 103 Pretty incredible.

Speaker 54 PFT

Speaker 138 for whatever you said.

Speaker 24 For the whole thing.

Speaker 132 Steve Smith.

Speaker 73 Kind of a story we forgot.

Speaker 38 Yeah. Noted.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Noted.

Speaker 46 One of the best times.

Speaker 9 How about PFT for when he tweeted Casey Anthony is back?

Speaker 24 She's so back. Yeah.

Speaker 18 She is so back, huh?

Speaker 81 She looks good. She's looking good.

Speaker 20 Steve Smith, let's just read the text real quick.

Speaker 81 This is with the guy that he cocked.

Speaker 48 Or no, sorry, this is with the girl that he was having sex with.

Speaker 52 He was having sex with a married woman.

Speaker 79 She said, take me deep down your throat like you kind of like.

Speaker 26 Or no, so he said, take me deep down your throat like you kind of like you wanted to suck me off.

Speaker 121 She wrote back, I did.

Speaker 68 I would have gagged on it,

Speaker 120 but I had to come home.

Speaker 30 He said, you enjoy it.

Speaker 12 You like to feel it.

Speaker 65 She said, I like feeling it deep in my wet pussy he replied me too letting you taste uh though would be a turn on i would have shot my nut all inside your pussy she wrote back i love making you come i enjoy it more when you come inside me he replied noted

Speaker 24 wasn't there some iud rearrangement that went on in that too

Speaker 25 yeah i think he stirred things up a little bit oh man noted that is very bonk worthy uh and then our final nominee for Bonk of the Year, Shannon Sharp, just for everything.

Speaker 24 The Instagram Live, everything.

Speaker 150 The rest. Everything.

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 26 The winner of Bonk of the Year for the 2025, pardon my take-takeys, is

Speaker 103 our good friend Jerry O'Connell.

Speaker 24 Jerry, congrats, buddy. All right.

Speaker 111 And he is here to accept his award.

Speaker 38 Wow.

Speaker 72 Wow.

Speaker 166 What an honor.

Speaker 166 I got to tell you, I didn't.

Speaker 164 It's an honor to have this.

Speaker 166 I want to thank the Academy. By the Academy, I mean the three of you and Max and Zach and memes.

Speaker 166 But, you know, I wasn't expecting to be aroused when I got there. And then when the Knicks came back from 20 in the fourth quarter and Hank was next to me and Hank was dressed like a cowboy, I just,

Speaker 126 I got to move for a second because I'm actually, I'm sitting next to my daughter right there.

Speaker 151 I got so,

Speaker 164 I got so fucking rock hard and excited because the Knicks were going to beat the Celtics

Speaker 165 and they did.

Speaker 164 And I just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 163 And just blood started blowing everywhere.

Speaker 164 And you know what?

Speaker 166 At first, when you said I got the bomb of the year award, I was kind of ashamed. But no, now I'm proud and I'm excited.

Speaker 166 And I just want anyone to know, or any man, I'm sorry to assign gender who's feeling not like vital, not alive.

Speaker 165 Just let Mr.

Speaker 164 Bing Bong, Mr.

Speaker 165 Bing Bong, flow through

Speaker 165 your bloodstream, through your veins.

Speaker 166 And there's nothing quite like it.

Speaker 165 So I accept this award for Bonk of the Year.

Speaker 166 And I'm really excited. Now let me go sit down next back.

Speaker 126 Back to my daughter.

Speaker 36 Congratulations, Sherry.

Speaker 166 You hear what I said, honey? Honey, I'm a part of my take. Hello, testic testing.
Yeah.

Speaker 153 Bonk of the year.

Speaker 157 She'll never know. Her mom will never know.
It's great.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 166 It was a good one. I would have preferred it if maybe if it had something to do with Tiffany Gomas, but

Speaker 166 as I was rubbing up on Hank, I just want to say

Speaker 164 Hank and I have

Speaker 166 a thing now. We have a connection.

Speaker 39 It's a family.

Speaker 157 It's a lifelong connection.

Speaker 166 And Hank, funny, I'd like you to meet your new dad.

Speaker 154 His name is Hank.

Speaker 39 That's your dad.

Speaker 165 He's going to teach you golf.

Speaker 151 We're a modern family, Hank. You and I.

Speaker 39 We're a modern couple.

Speaker 151 Get with it.

Speaker 164 Be cool with it, Hank.

Speaker 166 I know you're like a little weird about stuff like that, but just be open. All right.

Speaker 154 Be open to the universe.

Speaker 151 Say hi to your new dad.

Speaker 113 Say hi.

Speaker 173 Fucking kids. All right.

Speaker 158 Thank you, Jerry. Fucking kids.

Speaker 154 You believe this shit?

Speaker 105 Yeah, you're the best, Jerry. Thank you.

Speaker 104 We can't wait to see you.

Speaker 105 Camp Barstool.

Speaker 24 Love you, Jerry.

Speaker 17 Love you.

Speaker 157 Love you. All right.
Bye.

Speaker 39 That was incredible.

Speaker 86 That was great. That's our guy.

Speaker 24 I like that Mr. Bingbong isn't something that lives inside Jerry's brain.
It's actually his dick. Yeah.
He's Mr. Bingbong when it gets hard.

Speaker 13 Oh, I'm so happy we didn't tell him that he was winning that award.

Speaker 23 We need to do that with more of these winners.

Speaker 25 Just bring them on and just be like, hey, you won this award.

Speaker 99 Jersey Jerry, Biz,

Speaker 64 Jerry O'Connell.

Speaker 24 It's been a great takeies. Yeah.

Speaker 16 And now we have one of my favorite awards.

Speaker 23 We have the Blake of the Year Award, one of the greatest awards that we give out every single year.

Speaker 22 This is our eighth time giving out Blake of the Year, so let's get to Blake of the Year.

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Speaker 141 Okay, it's time.

Speaker 25 Probably the most important take you we give out every single year.

Speaker 18 It is the Blake of the Year time.

Speaker 22 Blake Bortles, Blake Griffin, Brooks Kepka,

Speaker 22 they are all nominated for Blake of the Year, and we're going to do it like we've done it a few times before, old school style.

Speaker 134 We are going to send a Zoom link to all three Blakes.

Speaker 15 They've been given a window.

Speaker 25 So I told them there's a three-hour window that we could decide Blake of the Year.

Speaker 18 So they're at least aware because this was a time zone disaster.

Speaker 22 Blake Griffin's in Hawaii. Blake Portals is in Florida.

Speaker 18 Brooks Kepka's in Northern Ireland.

Speaker 24 Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, the big storyline at home is, can Blake win the big one? Yeah.
Because Brooks Kepka has not won. He has not.
And that weighs heavily on him.

Speaker 37 So what is the actual tally?

Speaker 102 Do we have, I think it's, is it four for Blake Griffin and three for Blake Bortles?

Speaker 24 I think Griffin's got four. So he's going to

Speaker 24 one for the thumb for him. This is going to be a big one.
This would be just dominant. Yep.
Dynasty.

Speaker 24 But yeah, we don't know.

Speaker 24 Can Brooks Kepka, can he kind of dig himself out of that hole? He only cares about big tournaments. Yeah.
This is the biggest tournament of them all. Yeah.

Speaker 24 And he still has that glaring empty space on his mantle.

Speaker 62 It would be a shocker if he wins this.

Speaker 103 I think every year, if you had to release odds, it's like Blake Griffin minus 150, Blake Portals probably plus 120.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 128 Brooks Kepka, 40 to 1.

Speaker 24 Yeah, I would say that's fair. I mean,

Speaker 24 there's a lot of doubters out there for Brooks Kepka. Is he even a Blake?

Speaker 73 People are starting to ask.

Speaker 29 Some people then also reverse it and say him not caring about this makes him the most Blake.

Speaker 24 I would say that that is 100% accurate. Like when he didn't call in for about two hours.
I think it was like two days.

Speaker 74 He was in Portugal, I think.

Speaker 24 Yeah, and that's the most Blake move that there is. But unfortunately, this is the way that we decide the award.
Yep. And yeah, may the best Blake win.

Speaker 25 All right, so what do we have, memes?

Speaker 139 It's four to three, and it does look like Blake Griffin has won all phone calls and Zoom calls.

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 109 Wow.

Speaker 22 There was a time that Blake Bordle was like, yeah, he lost by like a split second.

Speaker 73 That was a heartbreaker for him.

Speaker 138 All right, so here we go.

Speaker 86 We have the Zoom up.

Speaker 31 We have all three Blakes on one text chain.

Speaker 22 Are you guys nervous? I'm always

Speaker 9 timer. What do you guys got for over-under on time?

Speaker 31 Cool shirt, hang. I think we're going to have our first Blake.
Hey, you too. I think we're going to have our first Blake within a minute.

Speaker 115 I also like, this also is one of those things.

Speaker 41 Did you send it? Are they...

Speaker 55 No, I haven't.

Speaker 50 Like, is your Zoom set up? Sometimes you have to update.

Speaker 2 These things matter.

Speaker 24 Are you connected to Wi-Fi?

Speaker 77 Yeah.

Speaker 9 I feel like Blake is the only one. Blake Griffin is the only one that would remotely have a Zoom set up.

Speaker 24 He trains. Blake Griffin trains for the Blake of the Year.
He does reps.

Speaker 64 That's why he's got four.

Speaker 24 He's the only one. He puts it in his calendar.
He preps. He stays close to the router.
Remember the year that he sat close to the router? Yeah. To get the better Wi-Fi?

Speaker 60 Five to three three would be a commanding lead.

Speaker 55 Yeah,

Speaker 9 this is going to be Blake Griffin.

Speaker 138 But a four to four would be an incredible

Speaker 119 turn of Blake of the Year.

Speaker 24 I think four to four, obviously, like what a storyline that would be. Five to three, you start to have the

Speaker 24 starts to feel like Brady Manning.

Speaker 9 And if it's Brooks, we're going nuke.

Speaker 127 Oh,

Speaker 62 we should get champagne.

Speaker 24 I think we got a party if he's. Yeah, we have a party.

Speaker 21 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 151 All right.

Speaker 29 You guys ready? Count me down.

Speaker 109 Five.

Speaker 109 Four.

Speaker 24 Start at five.

Speaker 138 Three.

Speaker 24 What do you want me to say?

Speaker 32 I want you to start at 20.

Speaker 39 30.

Speaker 24 31.

Speaker 112 Meme said

Speaker 41 29. What did Meme said?

Speaker 82 Meme said he thinks it's going to be within five seconds.

Speaker 125 26.

Speaker 73 I think 23.

Speaker 24 25.

Speaker 24 24.

Speaker 24 23.

Speaker 41 22.

Speaker 28 21.

Speaker 41 20.

Speaker 116 19.

Speaker 109 18.

Speaker 24 17.

Speaker 41 16.

Speaker 151 15.

Speaker 77 14. 13.

Speaker 109 13.

Speaker 113 12.

Speaker 39 11. 10.

Speaker 122 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6.

Speaker 151 Woo!

Speaker 115 It's been sent.

Speaker 110 That was awesome. And now we wait.

Speaker 24 You guys countdown should have been on the Mount Rushmore seas.

Speaker 24 Ooh, yeah. That was, that was awesome.

Speaker 28 Oh, my God. Oh, shit.

Speaker 153 Oh, my God.

Speaker 73 Dear God. Fuck it.

Speaker 28 12 seconds. Oh, wow.

Speaker 9 12 seconds. Oh, no.
Oh, no.

Speaker 145 Oh,

Speaker 145 no.

Speaker 153 You win.

Speaker 151 You win.

Speaker 56 Blake of the year. Blake of the year.

Speaker 42 Is it just me? Yeah.

Speaker 158 Blake Bortles joined about two seconds after you.

Speaker 24 That's five.

Speaker 49 Oh, my God.

Speaker 105 Can we get Blake Bortles in here?

Speaker 119 That's five.

Speaker 112 Five.

Speaker 21 All the way from Hawaii.

Speaker 105 From way downtown.

Speaker 109 Blake was right there.

Speaker 153 Blake.

Speaker 142 Blake Bortles again is second place.

Speaker 42 Can you hear me?

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Yeah, you came in second by like two seconds.

Speaker 62 It was that close.

Speaker 42 It's devastating, dude. It's just devastating.

Speaker 105 I mean, Blake Bortles, you have to ask yourself, it feels like every year we're in this exact same spot where you join the Zoom and Blake Griffin's already here.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I think it just comes down to like, I'm bouncing my head off my ceiling. Like, this is just as good as I get.

Speaker 24 Yeah, it's like running into Patrick Mahomes every year. That's right.

Speaker 42 There's no way around it. Seconds just got to be where you live.

Speaker 145 Oh, man.

Speaker 41 All right, Blake Griffin, you are now a five-time Blake of the Year.

Speaker 104 Blake Bortles has three championships.

Speaker 132 This is the separating one.

Speaker 105 Like, it was four to three.

Speaker 39 We were saying beforehand, if it went four to four, you'd be like, hey, we got a real rivalry.

Speaker 60 Now you're peerless.

Speaker 23 You have no peers.

Speaker 3 You have five of them.

Speaker 42 Listen, I put in the work. I flew out to Hawaii.
I've been holed up in a house in Hawaii for the past two weeks waiting for this.

Speaker 42 Oh, my God.

Speaker 42 It does feel good. I would like to talk about Brooks.

Speaker 42 What's going on?

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 24 But we were saying this is the most Blake thing that you can do, arguably, is just not care. Not care.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 54 He,

Speaker 49 he, yeah, I don't know if he'll join.

Speaker 105 Like, he is in England.

Speaker 71 He's about to play in the Open Championship.

Speaker 29 Maybe next year we'll find a different weekend that he's not this many time zones away. But yet again, it's Blake versus Blake, and Blake has won.

Speaker 42 Blake always wins.

Speaker 24 Would you say this? Is this the hardest one that you've had to win, being in Hawaii and all?

Speaker 42 Yeah, I think just like, you know, you can become complacent sometimes. And I think,

Speaker 42 I don't know, I just, every year I know Bortles is bringing it.

Speaker 42 We don't really have to worry about Brooks, which is kind of nice. Yeah.

Speaker 42 So, I don't know. Wasn't it like two seconds last year as well?

Speaker 24 Yeah. Yeah.
I think this is the fastest one.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 100 So, so, Blake Bortles, are you, you have lost back-to-back years, uh, maybe four seconds total that has separated you.

Speaker 49 Is there anything you can do?

Speaker 29 Are you going to train?

Speaker 13 Is there like, are you just like, hey, this is what I have?

Speaker 29 Like, I'm just going up against a monster.

Speaker 42 Yeah, it's definitely, it's going to be an obstacle to overcome. I just, I don't know how much better I can get.
I've maxed out my potential.

Speaker 42 You know, the first 15 minutes of this window, I was staring at my phone. Then I got briefly sidetracked by children, and then I locked back in and couldn't have clicked on the link any faster.

Speaker 112 That's

Speaker 102 heartbreaking.

Speaker 24 Did we make sure that Zoom was updated? Was that good to go?

Speaker 42 Yeah, I was on a Zoom call earlier today. Everything was fine.
I mean, everything was ideal for a win today.

Speaker 42 And I lose again.

Speaker 24 There will be people who ask, is it time to change the format of Blake of the Year? Because Blake Griffin's been so dominant on the phone. I don't know if we're ready to have that conversation yet.

Speaker 42 Should we go back to the lottery balls? That was fun.

Speaker 56 Yeah, we could.

Speaker 24 We could do seating for next year.

Speaker 83 Yeah, we could do seating.

Speaker 42 I'm open to switching up the format. Okay.

Speaker 24 I mean, could you imagine if the one versus 16, if Brooks Kepka somehow beat Blake Griffin in the first round next year? Yeah. That would be incredible.

Speaker 42 That's a true Cinderella story.

Speaker 147 Yeah, I think our odds were exactly right.

Speaker 53 We said beforehand, our odds are Blake Griffin minus 150, Blake Bortles plus 120, Brooks Kepka 40 to 1.

Speaker 115 And it feels like that just proves true every year.

Speaker 24 I mean, it's also kind of unfair. He is playing in a major this weekend.
Yeah. So he's, you know, he's probably on the course grinding.

Speaker 42 Well, isn't it? He's in England. Isn't it like 8 p.m.
there?

Speaker 46 Yeah, it is 8 p.m. Yeah, the

Speaker 56 course

Speaker 151 grinding.

Speaker 175 I mean, on the course grinding.

Speaker 128 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 61 Blake Portals, have you finished your house?

Speaker 42 Yes. It's complete.

Speaker 151 We're living at it.

Speaker 32 Are you sad that your construction guys are gone?

Speaker 42 I am. Yep.
I think they

Speaker 42 I made friends with them. I bring beer, and I think that could have caused it to take six to eight months longer than it should have been.

Speaker 42 But I enjoyed our Friday afternoons together, so I wouldn't have changed it.

Speaker 24 Blake Bortles, did you hear any of the interview with Trevor Lawrence that we had this week? Because he had nothing but the nicest things to say about you.

Speaker 42 I did not. I missed it.

Speaker 42 How'd it go?

Speaker 24 Trevor's the man.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 24 He just said that your reputation was pristine in that locker room. He could still feel your presence in there.
So he actually said he might cut his hair if he wins the Super Bowl in a tribute to you.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 42 I mean, if I could, I'd have his hair and I'd trade in a heartbeat with him. Mine is shaved, you know, by default.

Speaker 115 Yeah. He also said that he would let us stay at his house without him there.

Speaker 10 Wow.

Speaker 57 Yeah, which is something you, Blake Griffin, we never asked you that.

Speaker 115 Would you let us stay at your house without you there?

Speaker 42 Yeah, I'm in Hawaii. You guys want to pop over to the house?

Speaker 73 Perfect. Swing by the crib.

Speaker 77 Perfect.

Speaker 52 Yeah, because Blake Bortles did do that once where he forgot we were coming over to stay at his house and he was like, oh, just here's the code.

Speaker 96 I'll be back in like five hours.

Speaker 29 And we just hung out at his house waiting for him.

Speaker 42 That's, I mean, that's a true Blake right there. I mean,

Speaker 42 shirt off your back, house off your property.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 42 You guys had filmed a whole music video on the back walkway by the time I got home.

Speaker 41 That's right. Drink paint.
Drink paint. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Blake Griffin, have you thought about legacy yet?

Speaker 42 I've, I've, I've,

Speaker 42 it's sort of been washing over me. I've been thinking, like, do you do the thing, you get, try to get six and then retire like Jordan?

Speaker 42 Although you can never truly retire from being a Blake? I don't know. I'm just soaking it up right now, to be honest.

Speaker 71 Yeah. Okay.
All right. Last question for both of you.

Speaker 22 I don't know if you saw the news that we're writing a book for the 10-year anniversary of Pardon My Take. You guys are both going to have to write at least one chapter.

Speaker 42 All right. Well, Chat GPT will be on it.

Speaker 41 Yeah. What about you, Blake Portals?

Speaker 111 Can you write a chapter for us?

Speaker 42 No, I mean, you you remember my research in work ethic towards the book club that we had for a short period of time.

Speaker 42 I can give you a sentence.

Speaker 112 Okay. All right.

Speaker 86 A sentence. I'll take a sentence.

Speaker 24 You just talk to our ghostwriter for five minutes and he writes the chapter.

Speaker 42 Why don't we each give you a sentence and then we just we don't know what the other one's writing and we hope that those two sentences flow together.

Speaker 41 Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 24 Yeah, we'll finish Blake Griffin's and then it's choose your own adventure to read Blake Bortle's section. Turn two pages.

Speaker 21 All right. Well, thank you, boys.

Speaker 29 We appreciate it so much.

Speaker 20 We love doing this award.

Speaker 80 And

Speaker 22 we'll keep the Zoom open for Brooks Kepka.

Speaker 83 He'll probably never arrive.

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 82 We'll see if he does.

Speaker 51 Congrats again to Blake Griffin.

Speaker 60 Five-time Blake of the Year.

Speaker 86 Back-to-back champion.

Speaker 33 Is it three in a row?

Speaker 41 Is it three in a row?

Speaker 42 No. Bordel's one.
It's two in a row. Blake won.

Speaker 42 No, is it?

Speaker 42 You won

Speaker 42 three times ago. You've won two in a row.
Yeah, two in a row.

Speaker 83 You've won two in a row, yeah.

Speaker 42 Blake won those

Speaker 42 2023 Blake of the Year.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 111 So next year's going for a three-peat.

Speaker 121 That's historic.

Speaker 42 Yeah, we got to break that up.

Speaker 24 Well, next year, is that the 10-year anniversary? Yeah. Of Blake of the Year?

Speaker 14 Nine-year. I think we didn't

Speaker 24 first year. Okay.
All right. That's going to be a big one.
That's going to be the diamond one.

Speaker 67 Yeah, because there's been eight Blake of the Years.

Speaker 52 Blake Griffin has five.

Speaker 30 Blake Portals has three.

Speaker 25 Never been a three-peat.

Speaker 25 Wow.

Speaker 24 I got to say, the real winner is the listeners because this was a great competition. Yeah.
Like, neck and neck. Fair fight.

Speaker 73 I feel

Speaker 42 shout out to the AWS.

Speaker 42 Yes.

Speaker 24 Yeah. No losers in this one except for Blake Portals.

Speaker 41 Well, and Brooks Kepka. Yeah.

Speaker 42 There's two losers. Yeah.

Speaker 173 Yeah.

Speaker 105 All right. Thank you, boys.

Speaker 6 Should we just stay on till Brooks joins?

Speaker 63 Yeah, we'll stay on till Brooks joins.

Speaker 140 We'll let you guys go.

Speaker 115 Yeah, we'll see you guys. There you go.

Speaker 83 Congrats, guys.

Speaker 42 All right.

Speaker 21 Oh, there he is.

Speaker 42 Why is this happening every time I'm overseas?

Speaker 33 So, Brooks Kepka finishing in third place in Blake of the Year for yet another year yep

Speaker 33 the timer was up I think it was I think you joined let's see you joined a solid

Speaker 68 17 minutes after Blake Griffin won the award I'm not surprised Blake won

Speaker 42 are we shocked he's got five now

Speaker 141 joining us

Speaker 54 five and Blake Bortles Bortles has three, and you have zero.

Speaker 49 We said beforehand, we put the odds at you.

Speaker 83 I think you were 40 to 1 to win this.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I think it was a longer shot.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 42 As a gambling man, I think it was a lot longer.

Speaker 46 What do we have to do to get competitive next year?

Speaker 42 I really think we

Speaker 42 maybe do this while I'm on the same time zone.

Speaker 38 Okay. That's actually not the same thing.

Speaker 42 We got to push it back a week.

Speaker 24 Okay. Do we push it back or do we move it forward?

Speaker 42 i i gotta i gotta figure out what i'm doing next year i gotta look at the schedule yeah yeah i still think we should try to do it all three blakes in the same place we gotta we gotta maybe figure that out because it would be yeah there's kind of some kind of competition or some kind of something where we're all together yeah that's the first

Speaker 42 but uh hey props to blake for winning wow what an effort It's just been an incredible run for him.

Speaker 24 Where were you when you saw the text? And what went through your head?

Speaker 10 Uh,

Speaker 42 the same thing that usually goes through: God, I am so late on this.

Speaker 33 Was there even a small percentage of you that was like, hey, maybe I just got lucky this year?

Speaker 42 Ah, I was hoping, but there's, yeah, I'm an idiot. I don't know.

Speaker 109 17 minutes later. Yeah.

Speaker 38 I mean,

Speaker 24 I think that saying I forgot is a completely acceptable reason.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 42 I think it is.

Speaker 42 You know, it's funny. I looked at my phone and I saw the

Speaker 42 text that was like, hey, it's open.

Speaker 42 We're good. All right.

Speaker 42 And I was like, okay, all right, great. And I felt like I literally checked my phone five seconds later and then, boom, here I am, 17 minutes late.

Speaker 39 You blacked out.

Speaker 105 Yeah, because I sent the text right at the beginning of the window saying, hey, we are now officially open for Blake of the Year, just so you guys were all aware.

Speaker 67 And then, yeah, it just, you blacked out. And

Speaker 42 I'm going to blame it on the bad Wi-Fi.

Speaker 42 okay that's that's that's the excuse I'm going with that's what I'm gonna stick with good excuse you also have a fair excuse you are literally playing in a golf major this week and the other two Blakes are currently unemployed so that's a big that's a big difference I do have that going for me yes yeah I do have that going that I'm still an active participant in a sport how how are you feeling about this weekend I feel good.

Speaker 42 I feel good. I swear we're going to, if I win this week, we're going to have to organize all the Blakes get together.
All of us get together. Because we're coming to Chicago, I think, soon.

Speaker 102 Yeah, I actually, I'm going to say this right now.

Speaker 97 I think if you win the Open Championship, you win Blake of the Year this year.

Speaker 74 I think Blake Griffin should agree to that.

Speaker 114 I think Blake Griffin should agree to that.

Speaker 41 Hold on, I'll call him real quick.

Speaker 24 I think he would say that's fair. Yeah.

Speaker 41 I'm going to call him real quick. Bordos would be great.

Speaker 24 Bordeaux might get upset because Bordeaux was about two seconds after Blake Griffin this year. Wasn't he?

Speaker 140 He didn't win, so he doesn't

Speaker 24 have those.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I'm going to say that I definitely called first. It's just the Wi-Fi is bad.

Speaker 114 Blake, we're talking to Brooks right now.

Speaker 42 Literally just called in two minutes ago.

Speaker 105 This is 100% your call.

Speaker 13 I do not want to force you into anything, but I have proposed the idea that if Brooks Kepka wins the Open Championship this weekend, he officially gets your Blake of the Year title this year.

Speaker 110 Are you willing to do that?

Speaker 109 100%.

Speaker 109 Okay.

Speaker 151 So he's got a chance.

Speaker 39 He's got a redemption.

Speaker 138 I'm not dead. I love it.

Speaker 129 He's not dead.

Speaker 24 You're playing for something bigger than yourself this weekend.

Speaker 39 Oh, absolutely. You're playing for Blake.

Speaker 42 I'm playing for all the Blakes.

Speaker 175 I would like, at some point in the interviews, I would like acknowledgement.

Speaker 155 Okay, yeah,

Speaker 155 that's fair.

Speaker 112 That's totally fair.

Speaker 151 That's totally fair.

Speaker 42 I think it literally might just be a mic drop.

Speaker 42 I got to acknowledge at least Ricky Elliott, my caddy.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 63 It doesn't have to be like the

Speaker 175 course interview, but you know, the press conference or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he just said in the press conference.

Speaker 14 He said it doesn't have to be on the course.

Speaker 88 It could be in the press conference. Whatever.

Speaker 42 I literally would just say Blake Griffin and then walk right out.

Speaker 158 Yeah, no, all you got to say is, and this means that I'm now Blake of the Year.

Speaker 32 Thank you to Blake Griffin for so generously giving me this opportunity.

Speaker 42 Verbatim, that's what it'll be.

Speaker 112 Okay, all right.

Speaker 158 All right, we're good. Thank you, Blake.

Speaker 73 All right, later. I mean, what a story, right?

Speaker 24 What a story this would be. Yeah.

Speaker 49 Blake of the Year is not.

Speaker 34 We've decided it, but it's still open.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Oh, man.

Speaker 56 I love it so hard.

Speaker 73 I'll tell you what.

Speaker 24 Tiger Woods, Jack Nicholas, Arnold Palmer, they've never won a Blake of the Year on the same day they won a major. Yeah.

Speaker 41 No, that's very true. Yeah.

Speaker 42 I mean, that's, that would be the, if I won this week, that would be the seventh major.

Speaker 104 Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 86 You got to hold up seven and have everyone be confused.

Speaker 155 Like, what the fuck?

Speaker 39 He's only got six.

Speaker 115 No, he's got six.

Speaker 126 I've never wanted to win a golf tournament so bad.

Speaker 173 All right.

Speaker 115 Well, Brooks, thank you.

Speaker 105 You're the best.

Speaker 2 Best of luck this week, and we're rooting for you hard.

Speaker 41 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 42 No, I'm rooting for myself very hard right now.

Speaker 147 All right. All right.
See you, man.

Speaker 42 All right. See you, boys.

Speaker 17 Okay.

Speaker 41 I think we're done, right?

Speaker 38 Yep. No.
Oh. No, we're not.

Speaker 122 What?

Speaker 24 We got one more award.

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Speaker 73 What's the last award?

Speaker 24 The last award of the Takeies is the Podcast Listeners of the Year Award.

Speaker 39 Ooh.

Speaker 24 Now we've got

Speaker 24 some huge nominees. We've got one that has just been a constant mainstay, and that's the award-winning listeners.
Part of my take.

Speaker 24 They've won eight takeies.

Speaker 90 Eight takeies. Eight takeies.
Bad for the league.

Speaker 24 Bad. Very bad.
We've got TalkTua. The TalkTua fans have been nominated for Podcast Listeners of the Year.

Speaker 24 They followed their leader off the cliff.

Speaker 64 They got rug-pulled. Yep.

Speaker 24 Great podcast, though. Really enjoy TalkTua.
I consider myself a TalkTua boy. Also nominated for Podcast Listeners of the Year award are the MD Foodie Boys fans.

Speaker 36 Yes.

Speaker 24 Great podcast. Highly recommend.
Give them a shot.

Speaker 75 Snackrap.

Speaker 24 The snack wrap. Good.

Speaker 57 Good.

Speaker 24 Awesome review, Hank.

Speaker 24 Two Poppies.

Speaker 24 Their listeners have been nominated for a personal.

Speaker 45 I'm a fan here. I'm a listener.

Speaker 24 I forget who they are.

Speaker 67 They are the Arizona State Frat Boys.

Speaker 106 And remember the clip

Speaker 62 they were boys and they fought?

Speaker 24 The boys, yeah. And they threw hands?

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 73 You said they were boys?

Speaker 24 They were boys, yeah.

Speaker 101 No fucking way.

Speaker 24 We have another nominee for the Podcast Listeners of the Year award. That is the Daddy Gang.
Daddy Gang just stays winning.

Speaker 24 Daddy Gang doing everything to support their girl Alex, including giving a massive round of applause at Wrigley Field during the seventh inning stretch. Just an incredible scene for everybody.

Speaker 24 And our final nominee for the Podcast Listeners of the Year Award, it's one guy.

Speaker 24 One single guy. The guy who clips parts of the episodes of Part of My Take, whenever we mention Darren Revelle's name, and then sends it to Darren Revelle.
That guy is also nominated.

Speaker 39 Okay.

Speaker 24 And the winner for the 2025 podcast listeners of the year.

Speaker 24 It's a nine, Pete. Wow.

Speaker 36 It's a nine, Pete.

Speaker 24 The AWLs have it again.

Speaker 24 Just dominance. Dominance in the field of listening to podcasts.
Fuck yes. We do appreciate each and every one of you.
I was thinking about you guys earlier today, how lucky I am.

Speaker 24 I do think about it all the time. Oh, yeah.
The best job in the entire world.

Speaker 24 I am the luckiest man on the face of the earth because I get to do this podcast with my friends, and there are so many people that listen to it, and it's remarkable.

Speaker 24 And I love you guys more than you love me. I promise you that.

Speaker 24 I appreciate each and every one of you, and it means the world to myself and to everybody else who's lucky enough to work on Part of My Take that you guys are out there. So shout out to you guys.

Speaker 24 Couldn't do without you. Love you.

Speaker 31 Well-deserving.

Speaker 84 Listen,

Speaker 30 PFT said it, but it is the greatest job ever.

Speaker 67 And I was actually thinking about it as well because we have to write this book and AWS do have to buy it now that they've won nine in a row.

Speaker 25 But it's like it's pretty crazy, especially in the media business and everything that goes on, and it's a hard business to be in.

Speaker 20 And there's people who lose their jobs, get their jobs, new shows, all this stuff,

Speaker 20 to do the same show with the same guys for nine years and still love it just as much as day one.

Speaker 94 And that's really the truth.

Speaker 22 Like, we love coming in and working together, and we love doing a really stupid podcast for all of you that listen and watch.

Speaker 70 And can't thank you enough because you guys are

Speaker 25 the reason why we have this, and you are the reason why

Speaker 25 we do it every single day for you guys.

Speaker 52 And if it weren't for your support,

Speaker 93 none of this would be possible.

Speaker 25 And we do not take that for granted a single day.

Speaker 14 And so, well-deserving nine-time AWLs out there.

Speaker 85 There's a lot of you out there that are nine times.

Speaker 14 And even if you're a five-time, six-time, three-time, one-time, doesn't matter.

Speaker 45 We thank you so, so much from the bottom of our hearts that you listen and you participate and you enjoy this show because we're going to keep making it for as long as we can.

Speaker 9 I'd like to hear from the one-timers. Yeah.

Speaker 41 Uh-huh.

Speaker 74 It's probably interesting to see.

Speaker 9 Probably really confusing episode of a one-timer is actually one I'd like to be interested to hear.

Speaker 24 I want to hear from somebody that this is their very first episode of Part of My Take that they're listening to. Someone's girlfriend.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 140 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Shout out to you. You just won an award.
Hit us up.

Speaker 2 We promise not to sick Zach on you.

Speaker 121 Zach, Lady Killer, or Lady Stealer.

Speaker 77 That's a fact.

Speaker 32 Hank, you have any you want to say to the nine-time AWLs?

Speaker 9 Love you guys. Love seeing you guys out there.
Supportive, you know, say mean stuff online, but they're always nice in person.

Speaker 107 Well, why'd you throw it

Speaker 56 a grip online?

Speaker 24 This is the Spotify wrapped all over it.

Speaker 147 Yeah, what the fuck, dude?

Speaker 105 Why'd you say the mean stuff online?

Speaker 129 No, I don't know.

Speaker 9 That's how I feel about it. It's like sometimes people are like, oh, like people people are mean.
It's like, I've never had a bad interaction with an AWL in person, and that is all that matters.

Speaker 24 But also, I appreciate that they do give us shit sometimes. We fuck up a lot.
So we're human. When we fuck up, make fun of us.

Speaker 65 I also don't think we know the full strength of the AWLs because we don't weaponize them.

Speaker 97 You know what I mean?

Speaker 24 We don't. Memes does occasionally.

Speaker 30 Memes does occasionally.

Speaker 61 But we know you're there and we love you.

Speaker 96 And even for the people that aren't online, who aren't responding or, you know, commenting, we love you and we appreciate you so much.

Speaker 45 And you're heard and seen as well.

Speaker 94 Max, you want to say something to the AWLs?

Speaker 125 No, I was just, Memes was just talking about whether he weaponizes the AWLs back here.

Speaker 56 Oh, he does.

Speaker 36 Yeah, he does.

Speaker 125 But yeah, no, they're the best. I love seeing you guys out in the wild all the time.

Speaker 125 It's funny, though, because probably the number one thing that I get is fuck Hank.

Speaker 125 So, yeah, so that's great. And I love you guys.
I've only haven't been here for nine years, but the time that I've been here has been great. And hopefully, there's nine more years in the future.

Speaker 74 Yeah, and more.

Speaker 156 And more.

Speaker 108 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 24 And if you do see memes out in the wild, just make sure to give him some advice on the lottery ball. Yeah.
He appreciates it always.

Speaker 24 No, but

Speaker 24 it's a very lucky thing that we have. And

Speaker 24 so doing this job changed my life, changed Big Cat's life, changed Hank's life. And from the bottom of our hearts, we really do appreciate you guys.
And we love you very deeply.

Speaker 25 Very, very much.

Speaker 45 Very, very much.

Speaker 12 And you guys deserve this award because you are year in and year out.

Speaker 134 We see the numbers.

Speaker 73 You're there, and you deserve it.

Speaker 31 Okay, we're going to do a quick, quick Fire Fest.

Speaker 22 Before we do that, PFT, your last two ads, then we'll do lottery ball, and we'll send everyone on the way

Speaker 137 for the weekend.

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Speaker 24 Should we accept this award now? No, I don't know. It seems like it's a two-faced deal.

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Speaker 178 Man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 179 When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts.

Speaker 178 That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed.
Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate. It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 178 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out gets your head back in the game of life satisfying your hunger remember this snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else snickers satisfies man that's a winning play okay fire fest real quick hank not too bad more of an ice fest uh

Speaker 9 ice fest i over it's it's nothing crazy but just drunk purchase that was

Speaker 9 One of the probably top top tier worst drunk purchase I've ever made. I think I bought a bean bag once drunk that was like four times too big than I thought.
And it filled up.

Speaker 9 I lived in a loft that filled up my entire loft space.

Speaker 31 You ever break one of those?

Speaker 9 A bean bag? Yeah. No.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 96 It's pretty cute. Shout out my college friend Tommy.

Speaker 94 He cut one out of anger.

Speaker 19 And it literally takes forever to clean up.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare. But over 4th of July break, our coworker, Francis, made a video.
He's like, I bought this ice maker. It makes like clear cubed ice.

Speaker 9 and i was i was blasted i don't even remember ordering it but i like you know clicked the link ordered one for myself i came home i was like francis what is this and he's like it was like 400 bucks too it was like it'll change your life it's the best ice you'll ever have if you drink old fashions which i don't and i don't really drink like i don't make drinks at my house

Speaker 9 and but he's like if you drink old fashions it'll change your life it's these big

Speaker 52 clear ice cubes you don't drink the drink that you need it for but you still

Speaker 9 correct okay like this was after i bought it i was like i got home so why'd you saw the package because i was drunk i really don't know i like i came home didn't know what it was opened it and i was like oh i think francis posted a video about this i was like francis what is this like is this ice going to change my life he's like yeah it's great for old-fashions it's like the you know the ice the big ice cubes that you'd buy at a cocktail bar okay super clear and i now am uh owner of one of those and you don't use it I have used it.

Speaker 9 It takes eight hours to make a single. It takes eight hours to make four cubes.

Speaker 41 Four cubes?

Speaker 56 Eight hours?

Speaker 24 You could just get an ice tray with four cubes in it and put that in the freezer.

Speaker 9 That's cloudy cubes, though. That's

Speaker 8 fair point.

Speaker 56 Got you there.

Speaker 24 And a guy like you that needs your cubes clear, that's just not going to cut.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 9 So that I've just been, I've thought about returning it, but it's like, what am I? Am I going to return something? Probably not.

Speaker 9 Am I ever going to use this?

Speaker 75 Doubtful.

Speaker 9 I have just been making ice like every day and just putting them in my freezer so I have big cubes, but really, I thought it was like, oh, this will be cool to have. It's not.

Speaker 9 It's pointless.

Speaker 24 Can I put you on a different ice maker?

Speaker 9 I might have to become an old-fashioned guy. No, no, I know.

Speaker 73 No, but Hank, I have an ice ice maker.

Speaker 46 I have

Speaker 39 listen to me.

Speaker 147 No, hear him out.

Speaker 74 Hear me out. Hear him out.

Speaker 3 You have a four-cube eight-hour maker.

Speaker 24 I used to sell ice makers, by the way.

Speaker 73 Of course, you did. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Hank, I've got an ice maker that will change your life. This thing, it's like the sonic ice and it's on your countertop.
It's soft, it's chewy. It makes it really, really fast.

Speaker 24 It makes probably like six or seven glasses at a time. Is it cloudy? No,

Speaker 24 it's clear, but it's the tiny, soft little pebble ice, the nugget ice. And you can get that on your countertop for the little, little price of about 300 bucks.

Speaker 24 I got one ahead of Thanksgiving this year, had some people over. It was the biggest hit.

Speaker 9 I can't go and get the four figures on ice. I think you haven't seen financially.

Speaker 86 Does your refrigerator not make ice?

Speaker 83 Oh, no, it does.

Speaker 107 Oh, I was going to say, like, what are we talking about?

Speaker 9 It's cloudy ice, though.

Speaker 24 The one that you bought, you said was like 400 bucks. I'm selling you one for 300 bucks.

Speaker 66 Wait, so I've been just using cloudy ice?

Speaker 140 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Sorry, so cloudy.

Speaker 147 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 24 Getting air bubbles everywhere. Yeah.
Damn it. No, this will change your life, Hank.
Get the soft, get the pellet ice. Text me.

Speaker 9 I'll shoot you a text this week when I'm drunk, and then maybe you do that pitch again, and I'm in.

Speaker 24 I'm probably just going to send you a link at like 12:30 on Friday night. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 90 Friday. Yeah, don't do Saturday.
He's going to be watching UFC.

Speaker 24 That's true. Well, Friday is also a weekday, so I don't know if he's going to be drunk.
That's true.

Speaker 172 Cold Cups game.

Speaker 47 Okay, so you're going to be drunk.

Speaker 24 Good Fire Fest. Great Fire Fest.

Speaker 26 Can you please make a video of you making the ice? I'd like to see them.

Speaker 9 Do you want a time-lapse? Yeah. Eight-hour time-lapse.

Speaker 24 Can you put a GoPro inside as it freezes?

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Well, yeah. I've had some failed missions.

Speaker 9 I'm like two for four on successfully making it because it makes it over the course of eight hours, but if you don't take it out in a certain amount of time, it melts.

Speaker 22 And so, like, you have to time it up perfectly.

Speaker 24 How many old-fashions does Francis drink?

Speaker 9 I guess a lot.

Speaker 9 I have literally never, I've drank it in old-fashioned, maybe with you, like you've ordered one. I'm like, hey, I'll get one of of those too.
I have never made one. I don't even know how to make one.

Speaker 9 And I don't want to make one.

Speaker 46 I don't even like old-fashions.

Speaker 97 Wait, why don't you just set up the ice maker before you go to bed and then when you wake up?

Speaker 9 That's what I've been doing, but the timing sometimes.

Speaker 94 Oh, 10 hours sleeping.

Speaker 9 No, or it's less. Yeah.

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 24 It sounds like a job for the cream team.

Speaker 34 Give Zach the ice cream.

Speaker 9 I also don't, but I have like eight cubes in my freezer. I'm good.
I'm cubed up.

Speaker 24 So you freeze the cubes. So then you move them to your freezer, and then they stay in the freezer.
Yep. Do they get cloudy in the freezer? Nope.
They stay clear. Yeah.
All right.

Speaker 24 That's a good purchase.

Speaker 122 Nope.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 24 My firefest of the week is spider-related. Hank, you might be interested in this, or you might have some advice for me.
I was down in my basement the other day, and I was taking a big shit.

Speaker 24 And as I'm taking the shit, I see a giant spider that's walking across the floor. And I'm in the position where I'm physically shitting.
There is shitting happening at this point. So I can't get up.

Speaker 24 I'm just looking at this spider as it's crawling across the floor. It was big.
It was brown. It looked mean.
I took a picture of it. And it just keeps walking.

Speaker 24 And all I want to do is get up, grab it with some toilet paper, and then flush it because this thing is fucked up. But I'm shitting, so I'm at the point where I actually can't get up and do that.

Speaker 24 By the time I finally end taking the shit, the spider has disappeared behind my sink. It's nowhere to be found.
So I took a picture of the spider.

Speaker 24 There are websites that you can go on to where you can upload pictures of a spider that you took, and it'll identify what kind of spider it was.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 73 It's a brown recluse.

Speaker 24 I had a brown recluse in my bathroom. I had every opportunity to kill it and flush it.
It's gone. And it's somewhere now.
It went away. What do I do? Spider expert?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 9 I got some ammo, like firepower, if you want to keep it strapped in your bathroom. I have a, I have, shout out to my dad, he got it for me.
It's like a big fighter, spider repellent spray gun.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 9 That, you know, whenever I, whenever there's a sign of a spider, I just go out and just fire away. Is it spray or is it?

Speaker 24 It's spray.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 9 And it's, it's strong spray.

Speaker 36 It kills them on contact.

Speaker 24 Well, my problem isn't that I'm afraid of killing a spider. I'll kill him.

Speaker 9 This is like it's preemptive. Like I used to, I spray every corner.
Like I'm

Speaker 9 on the offense.

Speaker 9 No, no, outside. Outside, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 It's been a two-year battle, but I think I'm spray the outdoors with spider repellent.

Speaker 24 I think it's a good thing. The spider's like, we better stay inside.

Speaker 31 You're just carpet-bombing your balcony.

Speaker 109 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 24 My problem, though, is...

Speaker 9 Well, they're outside on the other side, but it's like if they want to come towards my balcony, they're going to be like, nope.

Speaker 24 So I went looking for the spider after I finished taking the shit in the bathroom. I looked everywhere.
I opened up the medicine cabinet. I looked under the sink.

Speaker 24 I saw that there are pipes that aren't necessarily like fully fitted to the wall. So there's a small gap that a spider could easily go into.
I think the spider might have just gotten out of town.

Speaker 24 I think it just might be like living in my walls right now. Shit.
Waiting to come out. Yeah, that's scary.
Scary.

Speaker 68 You have to move.

Speaker 24 I think I have to burn the house down. Yeah.
It's going to be like Vesuvio.

Speaker 110 Yeah, you got to. Oh, my God.

Speaker 24 Yeah, it was not a pleasant experience.

Speaker 24 Why didn't you act?

Speaker 24 Because the spider had me hostage. I had poop that was literally coming out of my butt.
At that point, you know, big cat, you're a poop.

Speaker 9 You could have used your legs.

Speaker 68 I'm a hand in the trash bag guy.

Speaker 24 Yeah, but you know, like, when you're taking, when the poop is happening,

Speaker 24 what am I going to do? Walk across the room and just drag a trail with me?

Speaker 156 If you had known it was a brown recluse, would you have done that?

Speaker 24 I would have pooped on the spider.

Speaker 70 So now you know.

Speaker 156 If I can't get you.

Speaker 73 Except for when you sleep.

Speaker 24 If anybody has to. Every single night.
And Blake.

Speaker 81 Blake would probably fuck the spider up.

Speaker 24 Blake would fuck that spider up. Yeah.
He'd eat it. He's a good boy.
Yeah.

Speaker 71 What happens if you get bit by a brown?

Speaker 51 Oh, it's not fatal.

Speaker 53 Cause significant localized tissue damage and require medical attention.

Speaker 9 I can't have that.

Speaker 24 I've been bitten by a brown recluse before. Oh, so you're fine.
Yeah, maybe I'm immune, like Spider-Man.

Speaker 41 Yeah, you're a survivor.

Speaker 92 Okay.

Speaker 53 My Fire Fest.

Speaker 24 Lifespan one to two years.

Speaker 125 Yeah, so maybe who knows?

Speaker 9 Swade him out. Maybe he's two years old.

Speaker 119 It could die.

Speaker 125 It's at least going to be gone in one to two years.

Speaker 56 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 73 That's a great point.

Speaker 49 If it was a baby, you got two years.

Speaker 24 Still alive person of the year, the brown recluse spider that was in my house.

Speaker 2 All right, my firefest is pretty simple.

Speaker 67 My body is broken.

Speaker 134 I'm too old for some of this shit.

Speaker 30 I did tweet that I was thinking about retirement.

Speaker 26 Not retirement from this show, but retirement from our physical challenges.

Speaker 25 We did six-hour stream on Tuesday night.

Speaker 94 How many swings did we take?

Speaker 172 200-ish.

Speaker 18 200 plus.

Speaker 22 And then the boys played softball on Wednesday, rallied for a big win, but oh my God, I can't walk right now.

Speaker 41 So I'm done.

Speaker 24 It was a lot of twisting. It's just the.
How are the hands?

Speaker 64 Hands Hands hurt so bad.

Speaker 47 How's the back?

Speaker 84 Back hurts so bad.

Speaker 24 How's the legs? Got a weird thing.

Speaker 96 I made an error in the first inning in our softball game, and I felt a little twinge in my knee.

Speaker 64 And then thankfully I don't move fast, so I don't think I re-injured it, but I don't know what's going on there.

Speaker 5 Yeah, my body's broken.

Speaker 56 I don't know what to do.

Speaker 45 I think I need to retire from sports.

Speaker 83 We need to be a walking guy.

Speaker 24 We got to get one of those cryo chambers. Dude,

Speaker 134 I got to start stretching because I did the same same thing I did every single time when softball ended.

Speaker 96 I just got in my car, went home, got out of my car in my garage, 10-minute drive, could barely stand.

Speaker 24 That's the thing. You never stretch after physical activity.
Yeah.

Speaker 22 Proud of the boys, though. Big win in softball.

Speaker 48 We've rallied because

Speaker 12 it was looking bad because I couldn't hold a bat.

Speaker 73 Holding a bat hurts right now.

Speaker 125 Yeah, I had to be, I wore one batting glove because I just couldn't do it. I had two knee blisters on my hand to roll it off.

Speaker 24 That's a sick look, though.

Speaker 63 No, it's a bad look for softball.

Speaker 24 It was kind of of like Michael Jackson. It's kind of a sick look.

Speaker 100 Zach, do you want to finish this off?

Speaker 53 You got a Firefest?

Speaker 76 Very quick, Firefest. My Fire Fest is showing up extremely late today and getting a text message from Big Cat at 9:30 saying, are you coming in today?

Speaker 76 And then not knowing what to say to that and just thinking, like, all right, well, it's over.

Speaker 112 You're not.

Speaker 91 It's not over.

Speaker 25 Quick, I know we don't have to talk about it, but you did go on the date and it went well.

Speaker 76 I did go on the date. It did go well.

Speaker 41 Love that.

Speaker 74 That's all you need for the cap.

Speaker 34 Was she pretty?

Speaker 76 I would say, yeah, 100% PT. She's very pretty.

Speaker 24 I do have one question about the date. What did you wear on the date?

Speaker 76 I just went...

Speaker 76 Black shirt. Black shirt, black pants,

Speaker 76 these shoes.

Speaker 24 I just love it. Sneakers.
Keep it simple.

Speaker 64 And it was a long-ish date.

Speaker 63 It was a couple of hours. Yeah, love that.

Speaker 2 Good for you, Zach. Thank you, BK.
Excited.

Speaker 34 Will there be a second date?

Speaker 76 There will be a second date. Let's go.

Speaker 24 Yes, let's go, Zach.

Speaker 133 Fuck yes.

Speaker 24 That's our guy. Do you have any thoughts on what the second date activity is going to be? Arcade.

Speaker 66 This is when you hit her with the arcade.

Speaker 24 They already did the arcade.

Speaker 56 Oh, yeah, that's that's right.

Speaker 73 Arcade was day one. Yeah, they went on two dates.

Speaker 74 Hit her again with the arcade.

Speaker 62 Back to back? Just be like, we're an arcade couple.

Speaker 85 We're either arcades or nothing.

Speaker 24 Well, he did say that of all the games that they played at the arcade, they ended up tied. So now you got to be like, we got to go back and figure out who's winning the arcade.
Yeah.

Speaker 76 No, I think she might be up one on this one.

Speaker 41 Oh, no. Okay.
She might be up one. You let her win.

Speaker 76 No, I was trying to win.

Speaker 39 In full transparency, I was trying to win.

Speaker 34 All right. Happy for you, Zach.
Good job.

Speaker 28 All right.

Speaker 147 Memes, have you thought about

Speaker 48 what this would be when we're doing the takies numbers?

Speaker 36 99.

Speaker 39 Wow, Max took it.

Speaker 139 I'll take nine for our fans.

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 108 Actually, Puck, I don't want 99.

Speaker 99 No, you already said it.

Speaker 74 Yeah, you already said it.

Speaker 146 You already said it. Scumback.

Speaker 115 What?

Speaker 125 We give up numbers all the time.

Speaker 73 Scumback.

Speaker 73 He doesn't want it.

Speaker 71 He's not accepting it. Yeah.

Speaker 86 He's not accepting it. Scumback.

Speaker 125 Pug, that was my way of scumbag.

Speaker 125 That was my offense for you.

Speaker 24 I don't want your sloppy second.

Speaker 107 Oh,

Speaker 28 okay.

Speaker 125 I swear to God, I did that to beat memes to getting it so that I could give it a bad one.

Speaker 168 You were always going to give it back.

Speaker 125 That was the goal.

Speaker 151 I don't know.

Speaker 84 All right. I swear to God,

Speaker 125 because you don't have the headphone, so

Speaker 125 you can't play the offense, so I was playing offense for you.

Speaker 107 Scumbag. All right, well, you have the

Speaker 108 already.

Speaker 14 Pug, you got 99?

Speaker 168 I'll go with a 99.

Speaker 150 Doesn't cast. Doesn't count.

Speaker 56 It counts.

Speaker 151 It counts. Don't count.

Speaker 86 Matt Stray.

Speaker 105 We do pass numbers.

Speaker 151 We pass numbers all the way.

Speaker 56 Fuck off.

Speaker 24 Wait, Pug, you're the president. You get to decide.
Does it count?

Speaker 41 He wants it.

Speaker 120 Great point.

Speaker 168 I'm democracy, so if the people vote,

Speaker 56 Pug has 99.

Speaker 24 That's a majority. Zach, put your hand up.

Speaker 155 Thank you.

Speaker 39 Bullshit. Okay.

Speaker 109 Then it counts.

Speaker 69 All right.

Speaker 56 So Hank has three.

Speaker 124 Memes has nine.

Speaker 26 Pug has 99. Nope.

Speaker 39 I'll go

Speaker 24 11 six six I'll go 11 okay that was mean I'll go 61 30

Speaker 25 21 memes have you thought about what this would be if you win the lottery ball on the takeies with number nine

Speaker 24 uh this would be incredible kind of a dickhead move honestly stealing the thunder away from the awful yeah the awl should get nine yeah

Speaker 22 i'm an awl fan first you were you're kind of obsessive i like our fans unlike hank

Speaker 73 Took off his headphones.

Speaker 112 Hank doesn't have his headphones.

Speaker 39 He does not give a fuck.

Speaker 28 We're laughing at him right now.

Speaker 39 Look at that fan.

Speaker 28 We're laughing at him. He doesn't have no idea.

Speaker 56 82.

Speaker 24 Love you guys.

Speaker 56 What'd he say?

Speaker 46 I like our fans. I'm like Hank.