Rams HC Sean McVay, USA Basketball Is Back, Mt Rushmore of Yellow Things Gets Contentious + Fyre Fest And Grit Week Recap

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We have Coach Sean McVay on the show uh awesome time with coach mcveigh we've known coach mcveigh now for seven years in our relationship i feel like he's in a very good spot he's very comfortable with us yeah told me to shut the fuck up at one point yeah he was a good dude he came in started joking around right off the bat back slapping yeah cussing talking shit great time great time so we're gonna do fire fest uh end of grit week grit week memories we also have one of my favorite mount rushmore's that we've done so far uh because it got contentious and very funny uh the mount rushmore of yellow things which we taped on the bus uh we are now back in chicago for the beginning of the show we wanted to make sure we talked about the USA big win over

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Today is Friday, August 9th.

USA.

USA.

USA.

USA.

USA.

USA.

USA.

Suck our dicks, Serbia.

Suck our dicks, rest of the world.

Yes.

So, the end of Grit Week.

Grit Week was great.

We have some, the Rushmore and Firefests are still in the RV.

We got back tonight because we have Rough and Rowdy tomorrow.

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It's going to be great, but we got back and we watched one of my favorite basketball games. Like that was a thrilling, thrilling basketball game, Serbia versus USA.
Serbia gave us everything they had. Jokic played 38 out of 40 of the minutes.
They were hitting whapping threes in the first half. But our guys, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, and Devin Booker, the five guys who basically played the entire fourth quarter, they can ball.
Yeah, and it's awesome. It's awesome to be able to root for those guys.
Yeah. Now I get it.
I get it. I haven't had a lot to root for as a Wizards fan in recent memory.
You as a Bulls fan, it kicks so much ass being able to root for LeBron James. Yeah.
And being able to root for Steph Curry. In that moment.
And being able to root for Joel Embiid. I was rooting for Joel Embiid today.
Joel Embiid, I'll say, he's more of a roller coaster.

He was incredible in the fourth quarter.

There's no Joel Embiid slander on this show today.

But, Max, I also had a little peek into why you are the way you are.

Because Joel Embiid was on fire.

He was playing great.

Setting screens, hitting shots. And then he had like two or three possessions where he looked like he didn't know how to walk.
And then he went back to being great. And I was like, this is why Max is probably going to have the shortest lifespan of any of us in this room.
He was just standing still at times. Yeah.
And he would just like forget to walk down court. But not slander.
But then he would do something awesome. Right.
He got the out at the perimeter, and he drove to the basket, probably got fouled a little bit on his arm, threw down an awesome dunk, and then I've never seen a player do this before, but he somehow landed on his head after he let go of the rim. Yeah.
I don't know. It looked like he got tased on the way down.
It was crazy. And just I saw some people saying that maybe he was trying to minimize the impact on his knees, so he's not landing on his feet anymore he's the opposite of a cat he just i've told his head i've told you guys that well not not the head not landing on the head but he he chooses to fall because it's less he falls well it's less impact on your knees if you if you fall to the ground yes well he certainly did that because i think he landed on like his ear but it was still cool it was funny to watch but i was rooting Joel Embiid.
It was fun to root for your country. One of the greatest Americans of all time.
Awesome American. American hero.
He also was on the court at the end, the last guy to leave the court, just playing the heel versus the French fans, which I love. The French are going to hate him on Saturday.
Saturday's going to be electric. But yeah, that was such a fun game.
And it was fun, too, because of Serbia and how well they played and also how much shit they talked. Bogdanovich, he was talking shit to Mello, who Mello should be the coach in next Olympics.
Mello literally called a play for Kevin Durant from the far sideline. He was like clear out, clear out.
It was when Kevin Durant had the sauce. I think that's what – what's his name? Dwayne Wade.
Noah Eagle. Noah Eagle used a kaboom as well.
He used a kaboom. He did the cross, the sauce.
The sauce, yes. The cross and the sauce.
Yes. That's at communion where you do the stations, you touch your shoulders, then you throw back the wine.
Yeah, that was... But it was every guy.
That was the best part. It was like Devin Booker hit that big three off the inbound.
Steph Curry was insane. 36 points.
Couldn't miss. Joel Embiid had big moments.
LeBron's two layups that were just so impossibly good. Driving the lane, he had a triple-double.
Kevin Durant being like, get out of the way, everyone yeah mellow just called my number i'm gonna score this it was just fun i don't i like that was that was a top basketball game i watched it was fun and when they were kicking the ball around the perimeter it would be like okay lebron lebron's got this and then he'd pass it to kd who looked kind of open i'm like fuck yeah i get to watch kd make a basket for the united states then kd would pass again and it's steph curry that's got the ball yeah i'm like oh shit these are all awesome players to watch why have they not all been on the court at the same time for the entire game yeah well and so steve kerr um i'm actually gonna give steve kerr credit because he uh through changing up the lineup uh so much and then when the when we cut it to like six points in the third quarter, and he's like, let me just throw in the bad lineup again, and then the lead ballooned back to 13. Steve Kerr, sense of the dramatic, he gave us that finish.
If he had just kept with his best players the whole second half, we probably would have won by double digits. Yeah, maybe.
I don't know. I thought going into this tournament, it seemed like he wanted to get some of the close games out of the way, and that's maybe why he was tinkering with the lineup.
But I don't know why he just continues to do it. Well, I think our guys are old, which that was also the cool part.
Like Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, LeBron, Steph, I don't know how many MVPs they have between the four of them a lot,

but they're all older, and so they probably need their rest. But there was that one moment, it was the end of the third quarter

where we cut it close, and then it went back to 13,

and I think Bam was shooting a corner three, and it was just like,

what the fuck?

What are we doing, guys?

What are we doing?

But credit Steve Kerr for making an interesting game and one of a highlight Olympic basketball game because that was more fun than the U.S. just killing everyone.
And Serbia was awesome. Jokic was awesome.
All their guys hit threes in the first half. And I just – it felt like we all could come together and we all had a part in this game.
Yeah. Hank? Like when you yeah yeah i mean i'm an american first and foremost before anything else so i was happy for our country uh i think steve kerr is a fucking idiot so you're a californian first i'm an american first california is part of america didn't know if you knew that um well they don't want to be even his own player draymond green was chirping him on twitter saying you've got to mess with the lineups.
They're clearly not working in the first half. You have Jason Tatum, one of the best players in the NBA.
Didn't play at all. He didn't play? Didn't play.
DNP. I actually do think Tatum should have played.
That made no sense. The first half when we were going under these screens and not switching, and it was like, dude, Tatum can just put Tatum he could switch on everything yeah crash the board score it was weird uh but at the end of the day i'm i'm it was fun to root as an american for you know for the boys it was it is it would have been an all-time choke if they didn't even medal yeah yeah i mean it would have been really bad and this is what i love about the olympics this is what i love about the world cup this is what i love about just all international competitions you get to just be like fuck the world we're america suck my dick we're the bullies we're gonna beat the shit out of you and you get to root for your country and you get to feel good about it after the game kevin durant they asked him what it's like representing america and he said there's a lot of bullshit that happens in our country but there's a lot of good stuff i love that quote slim reaper yep that's he said it yeah That should be a presidential slogan.
There's a lot of bullshit that happens in our country but there's a lot of good stuff i love that quote slim reaper yep that's he said it yeah that should be that should be a presidential slogan yeah there's a lot of bullshit but there's a lot of good stuff too um so that's a very positive way to handle it hank it's also like jason jason uh jason tatum jalen brown they're gonna have all the motivation in the world like that that is a good thing for the you know i'm rooting for amer, but after this is over, the Celtics, like they're going to be set up for a repeat. You're in the spot now where you would actually prefer Jason Tatum not to play in the gold medal game because you want full on revenge, Jason Tatum to be like, you played a bunch of old guys and it's my league kind of thing.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I do want to give us some credit too yeah as americans for for this victory because we did something that we sacrificed for this too we actually rooted for lebron james today yeah like with our whole hearts i was i was so happy watching lebron we was driving to the hole he was incredible he was awesome there was there was no snark in the back of my head watching him i wasn't thinking about how maybe he looks a little bit older in France.

I don't know how time zones work.

He's like five and a half hours older than normal.

Yeah.

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

Well, you were motivating him.

Yeah, right.

I was pushing him.

We also found out that the key for Embiid to play against Jokic is he just needs LeBron

to cover Jokic.

Yes, he needs LeBron to put a big body on him. He was doing everything

LeBron. What about Jokic guarding Embiid?

What about it?

8 of 11

and Jokic was guarding Embiid.

We just played 38 minutes.

We just said that Embiid played an awesome

game. Listen, we'll be positive.

Embiid was great today. Everybody

on the team contributed today. Almost everybody

on the team contributed today. Drew Holiday, Devin Booker, Derek White, and Bam all played a total of 61 minutes, 9 points, 3 rebounds.
That was the death lineup. The reverse death lineup.
Yeah. But everyone contributed.
Everybody in this room, everybody in that room. We all came together.
Listen, you have to make sacrifices for your country sometimes. And I can't think of a bigger sacrifice that we would make than openly rooting and admiring LeBron James.
I'd agree with you. And I don't regret it.
And I'll do it again against France. Credit to us for being the bigger men here.
So, yeah, it was an awesome game. It was a lot of fun to watch olympics are great we also had so no liles won the 100 we talked about that on monday i want to say or maybe it was wednesday i don't know what time it is i think it was it is you won by 0.005 seconds yes um but he lost in the 200 and then he did the savviest thing ever he got into a a wheelchair because he had COVID.
Yeah. COVID wheelchair.
Well, he's got asthma too. Yeah.
So the old COVID asthma double threat. Now, incredible.
The 100-meter race was awesome. I did see a clip of him before the race today.
He was just using all his energy, whooping up the crowd and going crazy with COVID. That's no lie.
But again, wheelchair, that kind of negates it all. It does negate it all.
There was also an awesome, awesome moment where a French lady won a race. I think it was the 1500.
And then she ran over to the stands and then she proposed to her boyfriend in the stands. She brought him down to the front row.
Yes. Got on a knee and proposed to him.
Didn't that happen in the Boise State game, right? At the end that bowl game and people got mad at the football player because they're like why are you why are you making the proposal like you know at your biggest moment yeah i think you're allowed to do that yeah you're allowed to love is love there was another time uh earlier in the olympics where i believe it was a chinese ping pong player came off and her boyfriend proposed to her after she won the gold that That's fucked up. That is fucked up.
That you can't steal her moment. He basically was just stole the whole moment.
So everyone's like, oh, you got engaged. Oh, yeah.
And also, I guess you won a gold medal. Yeah, if you're that guy, you have to.
Was he pressured into saying yes in that moment? Because you can't run away. You have to say yes.
She'll catch you. She's fast as fuck.
Yeah. I also watched the steeplechase today.
That was awesome. Wait, is it called steeplechase? Yeah, some dude ate shit.
Yeah, he ate shit. And then that one, maybe it was the steeplechase today that was awesome some wait is it called steeplechase yeah some dude ate shit yeah he ate shit and then that one maybe it was a steeplechase might have been another race there was actually a finish the second place guy finished uh 0.003 seconds ahead of the third place guy yep i don't know how they do this technology i don't know either so what do we have left we have uh we got more track and field marathon marathon always ends it i think right it doesn't know i think i thought break dancing was last this year is it i thought the marathon always like they run into the stadium on that sunday morning that's it might be one of the last ones yeah we we're up right now 30 to 29 on china the total metal count over we've won that easily but we got to win the gold got to win the gold and if you look at that like per capita we're absolutely dominating china yeah they've got like two billion people over there is it two billion now no i just grow i just knew it was more than a billion once you get over a billion it's it's two billion yeah you lose track you lose track of it they've got enough i'll put it that way there's okay china we get it i think marathon is the last women's marathon.
Yeah, they do it. They go into the stadium.
It's $2 billion. Yeah, you lose track.
You lose track of it. They've got enough.
I'll put it that way. Okay, China, we get it.

I think Marathon is the last women's marathon.

Yeah, they do it.

They go into the stadium.

It's very cool.

Okay, other things.

Pedro Grafala got fired.

White Sox manager.

I don't know why.

They should have given him a little more time.

So, yeah, he hasn't implemented his system yet.

We're going to see what he can do.

I would not coach the White Sox. Grady Sizemore is coaching him now.
Yeah, Grady Sizemore is going to step in on an interim basis for him, not full-time yet. But if you offered me $3 million a year to coach the Chicago White Sox, I would say no to manage that team.
Think about how shitty. $10 million a year.
$10 million a year? No. No, I wouldn't.
But remember, what if it was a three-year contract three-year contract guaranteed so 30 million total and yeah i mean pedro grafala didn't get fired for a very long time do i get unlimited milkshakes that they have at at the white socks field yes okay yes then i'm in so funny that they fired him now like what what's even the they've what's the point i think it's like you did they lose two out of three to the a's and then that that did it they're like okay well they but they also broke their 21 game losing streak they did yeah uh i would not know i would not want to manage them imagine what a shitty job that would be no it sucks it's just miserable everyone's upset all the time it's hot you have to go to that shitty stadium with nobody in it but you also have no pressure well you might get fired if you lose to the ace no but again Pedro Grafau didn't get fired for a very long very long time he had a the longest leash I think the I think there's I saw some stat where it was maybe over 100 games or 150 games, he was the third worst manager of all time.

They've been playing baseball a really long time.

Really long time.

A really long time.

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

Yeah.

How much of that was him versus how much was the team,

just the overall vibe of the organization?

Yeah, yeah.

And again, I think I mentioned it earlier this week,

the worst is the guy, the doctor, when everyone went to war. Yeah.
Dentist. Yeah.
Who managed, I think, the Phillies. Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Bad company. Okay.
Anything else? I mean, Grit Week was great. We've got one of our guests from Grit Week was in the news the other day.
Oh, Jim Harbaugh. Yes, you told me you saved this for me.
Yes, yes. I asked what a show cause was, and you said, I found out a couple years ago, but I forgot, but I'm going to find out again.
Yeah, I just need to jog the memory. Okay, so I'm excited.
So I was 75% correct with what I thought that it was. So Harbaugh just got a show cause penalty from the NCAA.
They found a bunch of, like, I don't know, the level 1, level 2, level 2A infractions. Okay.
Nobody knows what any of this bullshit means. It was just like, okay, you did some stuff.
You wouldn't cooperate. So we're going to hammer you on stuff.
This is, because it's very confusing. This is from, this is not stallions.
Yeah, I believe there was some stallions involved in this. But this is, I think this was the cheeseburger, the COVID recruiting.
So this is a four-year show cause for recruiting violations yeah so this is this isn't even stallions yet because the ncaa moves so slow so uh what they did was they tried to interview him and he was like i'm just not going to talk to you and then they tried to which legally speaking is the right thing yeah he watched too many of those uh shut the fuck up friday commercials on youtube and he's like yeah i don't have to say shit to you i'm gonna plead the fifth there's no fifth amendment in college football because the ncaa considers themselves to be like bigger than the constitution yep so uh he did not cooperate nobody cooperated with the ncaa at michigan some people did some people lied harbaugh got punished for all of it harbaugh is getting a four-year show cause which means so he's not in college football anymore right but if another team were to hire him in the next four years they would have to go in front of the ncaa and explain why that school shouldn't get punished more for hiring harbaugh got it on top of all the other stuff that he would bring to the table i mean he's gonna just stay in he's in. He's never going to go back to college.
Probably not. That was his dream job.
Yeah. The question is, this sounds like I know right now, if you listen really closely, if you listen to the wind, go outside right now.
Or if you're in the car, roll down your windows and just pause the show and listen to the wind. that sound you hear is mike florio typing away on how roger goodell should actually punish jim harbaugh because the nfl should not be a safe harbor for someone who does something illegal in the ncaa oh florio's already done that okay that there it is i hope you did that four days ago when you were driving to work yeah that was flor was Florio.
That was the earthquake. This is going to be his favorite story for at least a week.

I know because I remember when he did it with Jim Trestle.

Yeah.

He's going to love this.

What he did, and that was the earthquake we felt on Tuesday night when we were recording,

was Florio just banging away at the space bar on his computer.

He took the line of reasoning of when Trestle did that at Ohio State,

and he got fired basically for letting his players get tattoos in exchange for merchandise which sounds it sounds everything that was illegal 10 years ago sounds so stupid now and also kind of awesome and awesome yeah it's good things things that were crimes 10 years ago are just awesome now yeah game cleats for a tattoo cool awesome very cool very actually. So Trestle, the NFL told him that they reserved the right to punish him if he were to get a job at the NFL for stuff he did in college.
Florio is now saying, well, remember what you did to Trestle. I wonder if the NFL is going to take that precedent that they've already set or if they're just going to completely ignore it for Harbaugh.
So something that nobody was thinking about yet, Florio raised his hand. Right.
Florio did the thing where he was like, you didn't collect her homework yet when the teacher wasn't going to do it. So Goodell's not doing anything and Florio's like, hey, remember Trestle? Are you going to do that with Harbaugh or are you not going to do that with Harbaugh? This story, yeah, this was made for Mike Florio.
He basically got a gift from heaven and he's just, this is, this is an entire, the rest of his summer is this.

It makes no sense though,

to punish somebody at a new job for something they did at their old job.

Well,

tell that to Mike Florio.

It doesn't make any sense.

He doesn't like that.

He doesn't like that.

You gotta,

you gotta keep him,

keep the,

keep the,

keep the torch right to Jim Harbaugh.

Don't let him run to the NFL.

Uh,

I,

yeah,

I mean,

we like Jim Harbaugh,

so we're biased, which we admit, very biased. We very much admit.
There were a bunch of training camp fights, too. Nice.
A lot of training camp fights. DK Metcalf took his helmet off, swung it out of the guy.
Love that. Yeah.
I think the Guardian scrum caps are actually doing more harm than good. Yeah.
I think their players are ripping them off, and they're like, oh, it's not that hard of a helmet. I can swing it out of the guy's head now it's like a pillow fight it's like a pillow fight it's encouraging

bad behavior hank it's like yeah like a nerf fight it's basically a nerf gun it's like oh i can shoot you in the head with this yeah it's just a suction cup hank uh what's going on in this patriots game did drake may play yeah two for three okay 19 yards couple drives that is I mean, in terms of preseason games, that's pretty much a perfect game.

You also had hate i've never had to pay attention before either this is this is a new thing we had a quite a glimpse into uh the battered brain of memes which memes and i talked the other night about we just have to stick together more because our franchises are like a joke that everyone just kicks our ass about but memes i was asking him to do something and he was like i want to watch the first patriots drive i was like why he's like i want to see if they're going to suck or not it was jacoby brissett in the rain against the carolina panthers preseason game one yeah and he was going to make his judgment on this entire patriot season but you never know never miss an opportunity to see your your biggest opponent just stinking it up well I think it was also like a haunting thing that he was saying because he he I think he thinks and knows that they're not going to be a good football team but he just sees the jersey and he's like I can't actually believe it I have to see it with my own eyes is that fair to say memes that is correct i i completely understand where you're coming from yeah there's some weird shit going on with the new the new uh nfl graphics too the the landing zone of the kickoff is wild is it the blue area yeah they wrap it in blue what happened green so the green zone that remember that still exists when it's like that's how far you have to get where's the green zone uh the green it's like i don't remember what it's a bunch of yards that you have to get for field goal range maybe no what was the green no the i think the green zone's first down like from no that's a yellow line no no but like the in between was a green zone no yeah but that made – Shit. We've been out of practice.
We're going to do our new faces, new places, or same faces, new places on Monday to get ourselves a little sharper. The green zone NFL broadcast.
I feel like they didn't even do it too. Green zone might be to get to the field goal line.
It was bad because they stopped the area of the field from the offense's own 15-yard line to the opponent's 20-yard. What? NBC did it, and then they took it away.
Did they not? I thought they kept it. Oh, because it made no sense.
We'll figure it out. All right, all right.
I got it. It's preseason for podcasters, too.
Hold on, hold on, hold on say sit talk amongst yourselves for a second hank and pft hank what was your favorite moment of the week i like surfing surfing was fun videos out now uh it felt more fun than it looks on camera but yeah it looks it looks very lame it looks like we've got our dad behind us pushing us on a tricycle but it was fun yeah it was fun it was really good time do you feel like you just got out what's up memes is right shout out memes it's when the sky cam and they do the green zone so it gives you better depth perception on how far you have to go to the first down so it just goes to the yellow line yeah okay and it actually was going to be the gray zone yeah i don't like that like that. Feel good about that.
Feel really good about it. All right.
Last thing. So tonight is rough and rowdy, West Virginia.
Please buy it. Buy R&R.com.
I'll be singing the national anthem. We have 25 fights, I believe.
It's going to be a great night. So we had to get back from Grit Week, but we still have a lot of Grit Week content coming out.
So we have three more interviews coming out, a big one on Monday, big, big one on Monday, a couple videos, some vlogs. It was a great Grit Week.
You guys all have fun? I had a great time. I had a blast, yeah.
I always get off Grit Week, and you'll hear because we were taping Fyre Fest while we were still on the bus, and I was talking about feeling old. But the minute we get back from Grit Week, I'm just like, I miss the boys.
I have that moment where it's almost a feeling of the end of a bachelor party. Yeah, by the way, fellas, what happened on Grit Week, we're not going to talk about everything, right? Yeah.
Some things are just kept amongst ourselves. That lunch we ate where we all just had explosive diarrhea right after.
It was just one after another. That was one of the craziest things ever.
All of us going to the bathroom. PFT was like, I gotta go to the bathroom.
I was like, oh man. Instantly.
And then when we got to the Rams facility, I was like, I gotta go to the bathroom. I went for like a half hour.
I went three times while we were still sitting at the restroom. My butt hasn't recovered yet.
It was crazy. I got one of those neck pillows that you put around your neck on a plane.

I just sat on it for the entire flight back.

Yeah.

So great Grit Week.

Thank you, everyone who saw us, who came out.

We love doing Grit Week.

We're already thinking about next year.

We've already talked about maybe a couple NFC East places next year.

Maybe, yeah.

Possibly.

We heard you loud and clear.

If you don't think that California was gritty enough, we're thinking about the french riviera yeah for next grit week yeah i do think the the people we interviewed was very gritty and also the surfing video i mean go watch it right now that was getting us into wetsuits and trying to tame the pacific ocean max looked like joe burrow walking around with just no back at all in his wetsuit yeah zipper was broke it was broken before i got it max just screamed he was just like just so everyone knows the zipper was already broken okay well now we're gonna talk about this uh we did the random number generator in the bus let's just do the real numbers right yeah we'll do the real one now that we're back yeah the real one no numbers uh numbers max have you ever gotten the lottery ball i've gotten the number 20 17 3 42 11 you said 11 yeah well i thought for some reason i thought hank was going to say 56 8 11 11 was a good number 42 99 pug is on is on here. Yeah, 99 pug.
What does Shane say? 21? 33. Great Larry Bird jersey.
33. So many threes.
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Hank, you'll never guess, honestly,

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

You'll truly never guess it.

Yeah, actually, you will never guess it

because we're never going to air that interview.

Okay, yeah.

No, we are.

Okay.

Mount Rushmore of Yellow Things.

This is going to get contentious.

This is going to get contentious, we should say, before.

I don't understand why.

It's already contentious right now.

It's going to be cut and dry.

No, it's not.

We should do a quick update.

Hank has won Wednesday's Mount Rushmore.

Congratulations to Hank.

Thank you.

Thank you.

He is now four points up on PFT.

Shout out to all the pregnant women.

By the way, that one got me in trouble.

I might have gotten a text being like,

you picked Navy SEALs over pregnant women?

I don't know. um i am by the way that one got me in trouble i might have gotten a text being like you pick navy seals over pregnant women and i was like i was just trying to get hank a win pregnant women never killed osama bin laden yeah so uh thanks for that hank uh but i had the chance i i did i had one one but i was trying to get you a win that's what we're going with sure yeah great uh hank congratulations on the win you were up four points on pft yep who's in last i am up six points on hank max is running away with it so it's max 50 points me 42 points hank 36 pft 32 it's not looking great for your boy right now but that's fine there's there's a lot of season left in mount rushmore season a lot of time for hank to collapse he's feeling himself feeling himself right now, which I like.
Hank's acting like he's in first place, which I absolutely love. I know how this goes.
Now, you're going to get confident. I'm going to sneak up on you like a little monster in the dark.
Let's go, PFT. I'm going to grab you by the ankles.
I'm going to drag you down into the ocean. I'm going to hold you under until you die.
Let's go, PFT. And then this is what's going to happen, Hank.
You're going to have going to have to take a punishment out of the hat it's not me and you're going to complain about it and you're going to say it's unfair that i'm predicting the future right now i want to see you do the punishment i want to see pft because pft is uh my dear friend and co-host of the show and the punishment is going to happen during football season and we work a lot during football season while you sit on the couch and scroll Twitter. So I would...
It's not going to get contentious. I would like PFT not to have to devote however many hours this stream is going to take, and I want to see you do it.
Your Twitter screen time is probably 20,000 times more than that. But what did I say? What did I say? What? During the show.
Right. Yeah.
Yeah. It's not that high anymore.
Oh, you didn't say that. Yeah, I didn't say that.
You sit on the couch. The couch that we do the show with.
I was talking about the proverbial couch. Oh, I mean, I...
No, you said it on the show. You never sat on the show.
Okay. But the couch, I was thinking about the couch.
Back to fiction, the fiction. The couch that you sit on during the show.
I have multiple couches. I'm sitting on the couch right now.
Oh, Mr. Fancy Pants got a lot of couches.
We got JD Hank over there. Yeah, you want to fuck a couch? You got a couch fucking problem? When you say couch, I don't instantly think of the studio.
All I think about is that couch. What I noticed in the standing, however, is that I think what happens more often than not is I either strike out completely or I hit a home run.
I'm either first or fourth. That's it.
You're Adam Dunn. I'm actually sabermetrically a very good baseball player in today's game.
Yes. Okay, so let's not get contentious.
No. We're on the bus.
It's grit week. We've had a great grit week.
It's been fun. Great week.
I think the coaches have taught me. It's like I do love every question.
What does grit mean to to you? It's not about how you act when you're down. It's about how you act when you're up and just staying focused.
Yeah, and you're acting real sharp. Real sharp.
And a little fresh. That's a compliment, but I'm not going to take it as a compliment.
I'd like to put a bar of soap in your mouth. Okay.
My rush for yellow things. Backwards hat.
Colin Coward would hate that Yeah What about this Heartbreak motel hat on forwards Mm-hmm Mm-hmm That's a good hat Ladies you've been warned Um Wait who's got first pick I think I do Oh wow Yes Hank Max Me Big Cat Love it We'll never be able to just dive in. I was ready.
I get surprised every time the order comes out. I'm pretty worried that Hank's going to take my 1-1.
Oh, no. Is there a 1-1? I have a 1-1.
Does it go? Bah! That's it. SpongeBob SquarePants.
That's a reach. That's a reach.
I had a different 1-1, and then I was re-looking at the board, and I said, you know what? Fuck it. Let's take a shot.
The other 1-1 was kind of obvious, and it doesn't really pop. So I went with SpongeBob.
It fucking popped. That was an audible, and I feel good if the guy that's in first place wanted to take it.
Wait, were you going to take that? If I didn't say, I think you're going to take my 1-1? But I had a different 1-1 up until like 20 minutes ago when I was ready. Oh, nice.

Okay.

That's a really good 1-1.

I was really...

I almost didn't take it, but you were the one I knew was going to take it.

I was going to maybe try and get it back around.

Yeah, right.

No, I was definitely taking that.

That was an easy first pick for me.

Okay.

I will go with Lemonade as my 1-1 overall.

Lemonade number 1 overall.

Nice. Well, I'm very happy that this fell to me.
I'm going to go Beer. Yeah.
Beer is the one one. Yellow? Yeah.
Look it up. Yellow.
Google if Beer is Yellow. I'm being...
I have to be... It's brown.
I have to be fully transparent here. I had Beer, so I'm going to defend PFT.
Beer is Yellow. Okay, so that's where we're going.
That's where we're going with it. What do you mean? Is beer yellow? It's not yellow.
Craft beer is yellow. Oh, memes.
Look at memes' face. Oh, memes is thinking.
That is not yellow. Oh, I'm looking it up.
If you Google, yeah, if you Google is beer yellow, beers are often yellow. It's a good pick.
I think you need to like, a specific type of beer. Yellow beer.
All beer that's yellow. Coors Light.
Mm-hmm. Coors Light's yellow.
No, it's not. Golden, and Golden is yellow.
Yeah, I mean, I had it, so I'm going to defend you, PFT. Yeah, I mean, I think you guys are.
Yeah, the Golden, all right. You know what? You guys are reaching.
If you're saying. Beer's yellow.
Coors Light says golden beer, golden's yellow. I think it's brooding golden Colorado.
Oh, thanks for making my point. What are you trying to do? I don't think that's for the color.
No. Lagers, ales, those are both yellow.
Fine. Honestly, you need this one.
No, I don't need your pity on this. It's yellow.
Do you or do you not need this? It stands on its own merits. Fact or fiction? No, I don't need it.
Hank was about to pour it on the ground. I don't need it.
He was about to pour Coors Light out on the ground. That's yellow.
I just need Hank to be worse. That's all.
Okay. I'm not even thinking about it.
I have two picks. Yep.
I'll have a rent-free up there. I love it.
All right. I'm going to go cheese.
Good pick. Cheese.
Any specific type? I mean, all yellow cheese. Orange.
I like cheddar, but that's orange? Yes. I had cheese on my list.
Well, I had cheese. I looked it up, and then it was like most cheese is orange.
Bright orange. he just made a fucking noise cheese is yellow bright orange that's what i looked that's what i saw not all cheese is yellow but a lot of cheese is okay that's what i'm saying you have to pick a yellow cheese like there are like you have to pick a cheese i'll give you cheddar cheese like pft should be cores should be Coors Light.
Okay, fine. Cheddar.

Because there's beers that are brown.

Cheddar cheese.

I'm not taking those.

And there's cheese that is white.

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

There's a lot of beer that's not yellow.

Yeah, and there's a lot of cheese that's...

What was your pick, Max?

Lemonade.

What kind?

Oh, that's a good question.

Yellow lemonade.

Well, there's pink lemonade.

Yeah.

You have to say yellow lemonade then.

No.

No.

No.

There's like white lemonade.

False.

It looks white.

Lemonade is yellow.

You want to go down this path?

I've seen a lot of very pale lemonades.

Yeah.

It's a good thing we're not getting contentious.

No, you guys know what you're doing.

Me and Hank are playing this game the right way.

You guys are muddying the wall.

Cheese is yellow.

Cheddar cheese is yellow.

So is American.

You can't get all cheese.

Why can't I get all cheese?

You got all lemonade.

But like lemonade.

He got all beer.

Generic lemonade.

He got every SpongeBob.

I did get all beer.

I didn't want him to get all beer either.

He should get all beer.

He should get all beer.

He should get light beer.

I got it.

You should have taken beer before lemonade, weirdo.

Yeah. But that's not fucking yellow.
Beer is not yellow. Yes, it is.
It's tan. Beer is tan.
All right. Well, this one might get it.
This one might then spiral you even more. My second pick, french fries.
Beige. They're golden.
McDonald's french fries are yellow Okay McDonald's french fries are yellow We're just picking any color now I will say this I will say this If you were giving like a That's yellow Can I speak? That's a fucking fake picture No it's not's not. That's a cartoon, basically.
Oh, my God. If you were to give a little kid an outline of a french fries and told them to color it, they would get the yellow crayon to color it.
Thank you, Hank. Like that.
If there is a color, french fries are yellow. Hank, if you were to ask a kid to color in beer, what color would they choose Yellow Probably yellow There we go Thank you Thank you Hank You also wouldn't like blink I think that's I would think The beer is a lot I would think Let me just say this And cheese would Orange Cheese would be orange No it wouldn't Yes it would No no Cheese yellow You guys Cheese it's What color are cheese it's Great great-Its? I didn't pick Cheez-Its.
I know, but the best. The cheat, Adam.
No, but Hank, that's C-H-E-E-Z. Yeah, exactly.
Made with 100% real cheese. He thinks that someone here is upset that they took lemonade in the first round.
Lemonade is fucking yellow. I'm taking yellow things for a yellow draft.
French fries

are yellow.

No, you guys

need this.

Let's keep going.

Now I understand why Max

was going to get contentious. He's colorblind.

He said before. You guys

don't know colors.

You said that

memes was going to be the decider. Memes, French fries are yellow.
Go through all of their picks. And SpongeBob.
I want them to get one pick that's actually yellow. Memes would have given it a six.
Come on, memes. Well, I think French fries are yellow.
Yes, thank you. Cheese? Cheese.
Fine. You know what? I won't take cheese.
Take cheese off the board. That's first pick No, no, no My first pick will be the Simpsons That's yellow There we go I have french fries and the Simpsons I thought about the Simpsons But I don't I never watched it Thank you He just mumbled.
It's a good pick. Cheese is still on the board.

I'm not going to lie.

There is a... I just won on the record

that Max made me take a pick off.

No, I didn't.

I said all I wanted you to take

was a specific type of cheese.

Check the tapes.

I just wanted a specific type of cheese.

Simpsons, french fries.

You know who would be on our side, Big Cat?

Who?

Bubba.

Yeah, I was just about to say.

Bubba.

I was literally about to... Yeah.ba.
I was literally about to.

Yeah.

He's colorblind.

No, okay.

I can see this is getting contentious.

This should be an easy one.

We should all agree.

Gold.

Good pick.

Good pick.

Isn't it gold?

Honestly, I'm.

Gold medals.

Isn't it?

Isn't it?

Isn't gold a color?

Gold.

Gold is yellow. Gold is a shade of yellow.
is yellow i'm gold is a shade of yellow gold's a shade of yellow but gold is gold if you were to give i want it i've listened i had you back on beer it's it's literally a gold is a color is gold yellow i'm gonna i'm gonna search this is gray and silver the same thing we're're not doing the- I mean, maybe I'm way off, but isn't gold a color? Pure gold is a rich yellow-orange color. Orange was the first word there.
I just assumed gold was gold. Okay.
If we did a gold draft, gold would go first. Gold would be the metallic variation of the color yellow.
Okay. According to Reddit, that's always right.
My draft is just going to be yellow things. Well, lemonade, again, I can find you a lemonade right now that's not yellow.
You guys can play your game. I can find you a lemonade right now that's not yellow, big boy.
I'm going to go with the first down line. Any qualms there? Well, it's not official.
Well, yeah, it's not official, and it's only on the TV. It's not on the field.
All right, fine. Next, next time you watch TV, you don't get to watch the, look at the yellow line.
Oh yeah. See how you like watching football then, buddy.
Okay. Next time we watch football, you can't eat any cheese, buddy.
I like cheese and I wanted to take it, but I looked it up and the first color it said was orange. You had to look up what the color of cheese was?

Yes, because I didn't for this reason.

Because if I picked it, you know, if I picked it, I would have got fucking that's not true at all.

Because I had it on my list.

I was very honest when PFT picked beer.

I said, I have beer on my list.

Well, PFT is in fucking the basement right now.

Yeah.

Well, guess what?

Guess what, buddy?

Sometimes you got to be in last place and you got to have grit and you you gotta build your way out of it. No, yeah, it's okay.
Okay. Hank, you have two picks.
I'm going to go with... Good thing this isn't contentious.
Yellow parentheses Coldplay. The song.
The song? The song Yellow. I'm gonna allow that.
Yeah. It's a yellow thing.
Sure. Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to allow it.

Yeah.

Because I'm very easygoing when it comes to this.

Well, I don't.

I mean, yeah.

And I will go with.

Can you give us a bar of that song?

And it was all yellow.

I like British Hank.

Yeah.

I will go with Pepper Jack Cheese.

Wait. Pepper Jack's white.
Pepperjack is white, dude. What are you talking about? All right, Hank.
It's also white and red and green. I would allow Hank to take that for the shot.
You don't know what pepper jack cheese is. No, I do.
Time out. You don't know what pepper jack cheese is.
We're on the same side here. It's all white, red, and green.
It's yellowish. It's got a yellow hue.
No, no, no, no. Time out.
You don't know what pepper jack cheese is. We're on the same side here.
Red and green. It's yellowish.
It's got a yellow hue. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Pepper jack's white. It's got the specks of peppers in there.
It's pepper jack cheese is not. It's white.
Look at. This is pepper jack cheese.
That's yellowish. You picked a white cheese.
That's not white. You picked a white a white cheese If that's not yellow then no cheeses should have been allowed There's lots of cheeses that are yellow That cheeses You basically could have picked burrata Hank I wanted you to be on my side I know so is pepper jack Pepper jack is way more yellow than burrata They're both white, they're both white.
No. There's like peppers in it.

It also has two other colors in it.

So?

It might be like a yellow pepper.

French fries are yellow and brown.

Oh, now you're going back on French fries.

I mean, I'm just saying.

I didn't know it was pure, straight up fucking unfiltered yellow.

There are a lot of cheeses that are yellow.

Pepper Jack is not.

If you like, hey, name me yellow cheese.

No one's like Pepper Jack.

It's yellowish.

Cheddar.

I said cheddar. All right, then I'm just going to go fucking balls to the wall.
Cheese is not getting picked. Yeah, no.
I mean, if Pepper Jack's not yellow, no cheese is allowed. I think we should let Hank take Pepper Jack.
No, I'm taking Pikachu. Oh, okay.
It was on my list. I'm just hoping.
I'm just being honest. I'm not a Pokemon.
Never seen Pokemon. Pepper Jack would have slapped.
Never been around a Pokemon. I'm going to go with Buttered Popcorn.
Had it on my list. Good pick.
Buttered Popcorn is yellow. It's yellow.
You're thinking of smart food. Like if you gave a kid a crayon And told him here's some pepper jack cheese Okay I'm gonna step in They're not gonna just leave it white I'm gonna step in I'm going to go With the sun The fucking sun? The fucking sun Which also could have been out on the Mount Rushmore of tough things.

Yep.

Okay.

Any one complain?

No, I almost picked a 1-1.

Yeah, I like it.

I like it.

Okay.

It's a good third round value.

It's great value.

I probably should have taken it.

It's the coach's sun.

Okay.

I probably should have taken it.

I got my last two. I need the have taken it.
It's a coach's son. Okay.
I probably should have taken it. I got my last two.

I need the anime freaks.

I need them to step up.

That is the thing about the people that follow the part of my take account.

It's a huge crossover with the anime freaks.

Yep.

All right.

I'll go.

I have two picks.

One I'm probably going to get yelled at for, but this one everyone should agree with. No, this whole draft is pointless anyway.
What? I'm not yelling anymore. No, I would like you to yell if you don't like it.
This one you like, though. Yellow Labrador Retriever.
Yep. Yellow Labs.
Great choice. Yellow Labs are all called Yellow Labs.
Yeah, there is Yellow Lab. What? I just admitted that I would like it.
No, what did I say? I didn't didn't know that there was a difference between Yellow and Golden. There was a big difference.
No, but what did I say? What did I pick? Yellow. Yellow what? Labrador Retrievers.
And what did you say? Right. I didn't know that there was a difference.
There is. Very much.
Got it. You would know.
The dog in a lab? The dog in Marley and me. Yellow Lab and a Golden Retriever are two different dogs.
Marley and me. They're the same dog.
Yeah. Different dogs.
Now the pepper jack thing makes sense. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm colorblind. Okay.
Last one. Oh, man.
Max. There's golden.
Take it. I'm not going to get mad.
I promise. Pasta.
No, I'm actually, I'm all right with that there are yellow pastas fresh pasta the freshest pasta is always yellow with homemade pasta delicious yellow good pick Hank's still in a like he just found out that golden retrievers and yellow labs are different no that's that's he's trying to he's trying he's by me his whole i i thought for sure you would have taken pasta you know what he's had two picks that have been presented to hank today that hank could have taken in the things that i just learned recently draft that yeah yeah yellow labs and golden retrievers and pepper jack cheese max pepper jack cheese one i know people are gonna have my back i'm not a single person on the planet that's gonna have your back absolutely not max i was convinced you'd take pasta you took lemonade over pasta what kind of italian are you is is obvious i was thinking more classically yellow like i mean pasta's yellow yellow. I know, but I was thinking like...

I'll be honest.

I didn't have lemonade on my board.

I didn't even think about lemonade.

Lemonade.

And you went 1-1.

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

You don't understand what 1-1 is.

This might be the end.

First of all, you don't understand what 1-1 is.

This might be the end.

You don't understand what 1-1 is.

You're 1-1.

This is 1-2. You're 1-1.
My 1-1 was SpongeBob. Yeah, his 1-1 was SpongeBob.
Shit. You still had a first round date on lemonade.
Let's get back to the fact that. Lemonade.
All right, fine. You know what? Max.
Let's go out and find somebody who doesn't like lemonade. We're going to yell anymore.
Max. Let's agree to just remind everyone that Hank thinks pepper jack cheese is yellow.
Yeah, that's a good point. It's yellowish.
Where did Huey just go? Oh, nice. Thanks, Huey.
Good job. Good job, Huey.
Wait, you're up. All right, my turn.
Last pick. I'm going to go with the pass interference icon that pops on the screen.
Great job. Horrible pick.
When your team throws an incompletion. It's a terrible pick.
Why is that a terrible pick? Do not almost nut yourself. Wait, what was your pick? Sorry.
The pass interference icon that pops up after your team throws an incompletion. And it saves you.
How is that going to look on a graphic? Well, it looks cool when it happens on the TV. No, it was a Rushmore graphic.
It's a paragraph. I don't think about that, Max.
I don't think about that. That's why you're in the last place.
Well, you're a big fucking pander bear, aren't you? That's not true. You just admitted to pandering to the graphic.
He does pander. Wow.
Yo, Max panders. That's why he's in first.
Yeah. Correct.
He's been pandering to the entire meatball contingency. I go with my heart.
You don't think this guy likes meatballs? No, I'm just saying you've been pandering to fat meatball. And you know what? I actually think that people will like the pass interference thing.
We've all been there. Yeah, no, I mean, PFT's kind of right.
Peter Schrager just walked in. What's that, Peter Schrager? We're yelling about yellow things.
Hey, Peter, I got a question for you. When you're watching football, you're rooting for a team.
Max, will you shut the fuck up? I've got like five questions for you. Actually, I should lead off with...
Let's all go one by one. We have so many grievances right now.
Sit in the middle. First question.
Peter Schrager, NFL Network. You can find him everywhere.
We're actually going to have you on next week. Great.
Yeah, Hard Knocks Podcast. Peter Schrager, what color is pepper jack cheese? It's white but with a red and orange tint of speckles of red and orange.
Correct answer. Is there a difference between a golden retriever and a Labrador or yellow lab? Yes.
Okay. Good answer.
Beer's brown. Oh no.
Beer's not brown. Bang.
Beer's not brown. Oh no.
Beer's not brown. Oh, no.
Bang.

Beer's not brown.

Oh, no.

Beer's not brown.

French fries are yellow.

Yes.

Thank you.

Beer's not brown.

What do you say?

What color's lemonade?

I don't know, Paul.

What color's lemonade?

Oh, now this is a good one.

I say pink.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yup.

Yup.

Yup.

But if there's like a lemonade stand, it's usually yellow.

Okay. But I'm not a restaurant.
I'm ordering lemonade. It better be pink.
But the person didn't say lemonade stand. They said lemonade.
Then if you order a lemonade, if you're like, hey, can I get a lemonade? And it comes out pink, you're like, I didn't order a pink lemonade. Okay.
I just think it's an interesting conversation. All right.
So wait, what was your pick? All right. So Peter, if you're watching football, right, and your team is playing, it's third down, third and ten,

and they throw an incompletion, and then like half a second later,

the pass interference icon pops up on the screen.

How exciting is that for you as a fan?

Yeah, that's a quiet fist pump, but I understand people go not to like,

yeah, okay, flag, flag, flag.

But to me, you've got to have some respect.

Like it wasn't a true first down.

It was like, all right, we'll take it.

But you bailed out.

You bailed out.

It's a quiet fist pump. I think this is more relatable for people that root for teams that historically have quarterbacks that can't complete passes.
Yes. Totally.
Of which there are many. Sure.
And it's also, so it's just for the interception play on an incomplete pass. Okay.
Okay. Because obviously that yellow score bug is bad sometimes.
It can be bad. Yeah.
It can be very bad. I'm saying when you're on offense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, Max, your last pick.

I'm going to go with the minions.

Oh, okay.

Nice.

I actually like the minions a lot.

Minions are great.

Big minions fan.

Make me laugh every time.

You wanted to get mad at me there, but you-

No, I've been honest the whole time.

You're right.

I had his back.

You're right, you're right.

I'm defensive right now.

I'm defensive.

I'm defensive.

Yeah.

What color is gold? Gold, oddly, gold can be brown as well. Okay, so Peter doesn't know anything.
Peter's colorblind. He's got shit for brains.
Okay, Hank. I got it.
Okay, I haven't watched any Olympics this entire two weeks. Are you guys in on the Olympics or out on the Olympics? In-ish.
I was halfway in uh i enjoy that gap that it fills in the summertime yeah there's nothing else going on i can convince myself to care about things that i normally wouldn't hot take yeah not enough bloopers anymore everyone's awesome well we had the penis i saw the penis yeah we saw the guy the the diver like back and hit his back first yeah but like yeah that was an old clip see that's exactly right I just saw it online. I'm like, all diver, hit his back first.

Yeah, that was an old clip.

See, that's exactly right.

I just saw it online.

I'm like, all right, well, there's a blooper.

It used to be there would be guys fucking up.

Now everyone's great.

And it's great.

And also, this is me just... The Polish chick?

You like the Polish chick?

It was more...

The one that looks like a Bella Danger?

Yeah.

I don't know that name. I've never searched that name.
You fucking dog, Peter. When you say that you saw the penis, are you talking about the opening ceremonies? That guy was weird.
Okay, wait. What do you say? An obsession with all the celebrities.
Yeah. Snoop Dogg's getting Ah, I saw that report.
Yeah. All right.
All right. Sorry.

Hank, your last pick.

A quick shit on the yellow bricks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yellow Starburst.

Okay.

All right.

Some people would say the worst of the Starburst flavors, but-

I don't think they're the worst.

They're just clearly not the best.

But they're yellow.

They are yellow.

They are yellow.

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

I don't think I could have.

All right. What did we miss on the yellow drought? We missed a lot.
Sunflowers would have counted. Yes.
Sunflowers would have counted. What about peanut M&M's? Peanut M&M's.
I was staring at it. I was staring at it, and I didn't have it on my board, and then I saw it.
I was like, that would be disrespectful. I thought about it, yeah.
The Lay's chips, too, right next to you. Yeah.
But Lay's chips are not, like, if you're talking about, like, the best chips, Lay's chips. Yeah.
If we're talking about- I like Lay's chips with a sandwich because it's a good salty- Crunch. Salty crunch.
But when somebody serves me yellow Lay's original, I feel like I'm eating in prison. That's, like, what they give inmates.
Yeah. But they're good with a sandwich.
Yes. Yeah.
I had construction machinery. Oh, that's a good one.
Yeah. Cool.
Shit. Big excavator.
Really cool.

I had butter.

I had butter.

I had mustard.

I had bananas too.

I love mustard.

Butter was a mistake.

Yeah.

Honey.

Honey.

Honey. Honey.

I had that too.

Honey is a good one.

Beavis and Butthead.

Yeah.

Tweety Bird.

I was pretty heavy.

I could have gone a full lemon board.

I think Beavis.

He has yellow hair. Oh, okay hair I meant Beavis' hair

Tweety Bird

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Sure. The person is not yellow.
Is there a sound playing somewhere?

I think it's just a car outside.

Heart.

No, I think.

Oh.

Is it in my shirt?

Was that in a Bella Danger video?

Peter walked on to say hi for two minutes, and he's already regretting it.

The Steelers?

Steelers, black and yellow. Yeah, black and yellow.
I had Hank's belly. Yep.
Yellow belly. He's a coward.
Yeah, yellow belly. Chicken shit.
I'm slow today. Yeah.
I had field goal posts. Just definitely go to that.
Field goal posts. I don't like field goal posts.
Pepper Jack and Cheese was yellow. It is yellow-ish.
I don't like field goal posts. This is the most wild Mount Rushmore we've had this year.
You like one field goal post. You just don't like two of them.
The Tour de France jersey. Oh, yeah.
Bees. Shout out Harbaugh.
Shout out Harbaugh bees. So fire salamanders would have counted? Are they yellow? I thought they were orange Oh Then yeah, they would have counted What about tortilla chips? Yeah, that can be yellow I think they're yellow That's just as yellow as fucking pepper jack No, it's not Gotta chill with the pepper jack You're so wrong about pepper jack It's crazy Tortilla chips are not yellow Some of them are They definitely.
Which ones? The yellow ones.

The ones that come in the yellow bag.

Santitas.

That's a specific type, but the general tortilla chip is not yellow.

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

Queso fundito.

That's more white.

I think that one's more white.

Yeah, you're probably right.

You kind of hanked yourself on that one.

That's a yellow chip.

There's cheese. I understand.
I found it with cheese. Nacho cheese.
Oh, what? Nacho cheese on it. You missed it, Peter.
He took off cheese. He made us all not pick cheese.
That's not true. I told you to just pick a specific cheese.
I just wanted you to take cheddar cheese. You could have taken the Packers' cheese heads.
That's not a good pick. It has a mild buttery flavor and a pale yellow color with a compact and supple texture.
Okay, what else did we miss? Peter, any yellow things? Yeah. The Simpsons.
I had it. That was my first pick after cheese got taken off.
Yep. Saxophone.
You took cheese off. You took cheese off.
I just wanted a specific cheese. You took cheese and pasta off.
No, pasta was a good pick. I told you it was a good pick.
Pasta was a great pick by me. Charlie Brown's shirt.
Yep. Oh, yeah.
Charlie Brown's shirt. The man in the yellow hat.
Yeah. Oh, I was a huge curious George guy.
Wait, Hank, is that the man in the yellow hat or is that the man in the yellow hat's hat? Probably the hat. It would have to be the hat.
If you're making a stink about Wolverine, kind of the same thing. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that hat is way more iconic than, yeah, but that would play. The Savannah Bananas? Yeah.
Sure. Where do you stand on those guys? I watched the game of theirs last week.
I was out on them and then I watched the game and I was like, this actually kind of rocks. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it's also been, the rise has been crazy. Yeah.
The rise has been crazy. Dick Tracy.
Dick Tracy. Yep.
Good one. A lot of yellow.
Didn't date you at all. No, I didn't.
Madonna. The starring role.
Yes. Oh, yeah.
Just blondes. Blondes in general.
Oh, blondes. Blondes is a big one.
Fuck. Oh, no.
I know you're more of a brunette guy, Peter, But I think you would have to, you couldn't have gotten blondes.

You would have to say blonde hair.

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

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

It doesn't matter.

I'm just thinking in my head.

It means nothing.

You're still being contentious.

Lemon bars.

I could have gone all lemon.

Lemon bars rock.

You guys are stupid.

What about pink lemon bars? Lemon heads. Lemon heads.
Lemon heads. Good pick.
Lemon heads. I could have gone all lemon.
Lemon bars rock. You guys are stupid.
What about pink lemon bars?

Lemon heads.

Lemon heads.

Lemon heads.

Good pick.

Lemon heads.

Good pick.

Corn.

Just corn.

Corn.

Hank.

Oh, corn.

How did you pick corn?

Oh, my God, Hank.

Hank loves corn.

Yeah.

And what did you pick?

What are your four picks, Hank?

Hank got the grossest corn today.

Hank, what were your four picks? It was good. What were your four picks? I tore the hell out of it.
What are your four picks, Hank? Hank got the grossest corn today. Hank, what were your four picks?

It was good.

What were your four picks?

I enjoyed the hell out of it.

What were your four picks?

Doesn't matter.

No, no, I want to hear them again.

SpongeBob.

Great pick.

Yellow.

Coldplay.

That's corn.

That's got to be corn.

Dude, I like that.

But that's got to be corn.

Pikachu has to be corn.

What was even my fourth pick?

I don't even know.

Unmemorable.

How do you not know your own picks?

It wasn't corn.

What was your first fourth pick? I don't even know. Unmemorable.
How do you not know your own pick? It wasn't corn. Yellow Starburst.
Oh, dude. All three of your last picks should have been corn.
I would rather... I would...
If I had the choice between corn or yellow Starburst for the rest of my life, it's corn. A lot of people are saying that Hank got out of last place and got cocky.
No, that's a mistake. But again, it doesn't matter because it's over, but that will keep me up.

Yeah, that's tough.

Not just because of the...

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

Yeah, you betrayed yourself.

Kind of like Max and Pasta.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Honestly.

I love that I got it.

I know.

I wanted to get mad about it, but it's the right color.

Fresh pasta. Fresh pasta is yellow.
Yeah. Okay.
Good Mount Rushmore, boys. Good Mount Rushmore.
Yeah. Just great, great convo.
Yeah. It was fun.
A pleasure all around. It got contentious, but it was fun.
Thanks, Pete. Thank you, Peter.
I love coming in. Yeah.
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It is head coach, Super Bowl winning head coach. So I think the last time you were on, you had not won a super bowl yet yeah sean mcveigh you guys enjoyed the box right i'll get to that yeah uh so we start every grit week interview with the same question how would you define the word grit how would i define the word grit i think it's uh it's about persevering being at your best when the times are toughest you know i the separator in anything, when you talk about people with grit is when they're in the storm.
It's easy to lead when things are going well, but, you know, people that have grit, they lead when they're in that storm and they get out of it quicker. You could also have just said the 2022 Los Angeles Rams season.
Fucking right. That was grit.
Or the start of last season. Yeah, and that's, well, yeah, you know what? I thought what i thought you were i wasn't even see i'm a bad listener there i thought you were talking 23 you dick 2022 that was bad i don't know if i'd call that grit you know that almost broke me yeah but uh no last year that was a cool example you know because when you really say all right how do you really work through how do you stay the same even though we're three and six everybody's kind of writing you off and i think the best thing about that team is a lot of people said all right well what was the difference there really wasn't one and they started making some plays having the games going the right direction but the guys kind of stayed the course last year was a fun year yeah yeah yeah it was it was fun to watch you guys i for the record i believed in you when when you were at your worst.
Did you? I put money on the line.

You bet on you guys to make the playoffs.

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

At what point did you make that bet?

At your darkest hour.

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

I believe you were three and six, yeah.

It was right in that zone.

That's awesome.

I looked at the schedule and I was like-

How much money did you put on it?

It was about four or five units.

You're a successful guy.

You didn't believe in us. No, I think I ended up getting five figures out of it.
I love it. Yeah, so I appreciate it.
Hey, congratulations for betting on us. I appreciate you.
Yeah, so it was a gritty season. Yes.
You guys were down. Then you come back.
You turn things around. Everyone was saying before last season started that you were, I guess, in the midst of cap hell.
Like, there's been two seasons where you've been in cap hell. Yeah.
What is it like to fight through cap hell and come out the other side? It's not fun. It was, uh, you know, I think when you look at it, there was a lot of decisions that in the moment, you know, you feel very, you know, you feel like these are the right things.
And I'm not saying you would do anything differently, but what you do want to make sure you understand is, all right, what are the possible ramifications down the line? And there was some decisions that I take some responsibility in, but there was a lot of good memories in the midst of that. But it was challenging when you're operating.
And you're going to have to part ways with a lot of guys that you really shouldn't have to. But those guys went and did their thing.
And I think it was a cool opportunity to see a lot of rookies get opportunities and really take advantage of chances that kind of were forced upon us and they certainly made the most of them so kind of on the same lines of cap hell uh this past off season you finally had a first round pick yeah so you'd never had a first round pick we had never had we you know what we traded out of it in the 18th season we traded back but other than that we had not had a first round pick in seven years yeah what was going through the the i we were we saw less in the hallway and i asked him if like he needed an epi pen in the draft room like because i we had a theory that you guys were just not going to be able to do it you were like at the last second like no we can't do this yeah we don't want to do it and do it some trade where you traded a bunch of future picks so that's all you guys were doing so what it was a possibility yeah you know but you have a first rounder this year. Is that a little weird? He's a stud.
It was weird. And, you know, there was some instances when you look at it, there's a lot of options.
Even the previous year, you know, we had discussed trying to go up to get a couple players. It didn't end up working out, but it certainly felt weird.
You know, my wife, we've been together for a long time, been married for, you know, a couple years. And you look at it and she's, I'm going to the draft on Thursday.
She's like, what the hell are you doing? There's actually picks this night. So it was the first time we've had to work on a Thursday night of the draft.
Yeah. It felt weird.
Yeah. You were used to just setting up next to your pool.
I remember they showed your house, was that in 2020? Yeah. And you were just chilling on night one? We were just chilling.
It wasn't Kings kingsbury set up but it was close now you do look like you've been in you're in good shape right now what are you doing what are you benching well you know i'm not benching uh i don't i don't know a lot of body weight you know running a little bit more you're kind of you're borderline a thirst trap have you posted pictures of yourself without your shirt only to my wife okay body guy i appreciate that man you know i've been i've been working out with uh cooper and puka's trainer okay he does a great job and uh you know staying away from the carbs a little minimizing on my guess and the facial hair looks good facial hair looks great i'm embarrassed to admit i had to get prp for that did you oh it's hey it looks a little fuller you know i was stressed my beard i mean i was getting i don't know if you want to say alopecia but it was getting thin yeah you got shots in your face absolutely did okay so here's how it started i gotta get that i'll give you this this is how it started i'm so la now so a couple years ago at the draft house they got this over the top shot you go back to the year that to the year that Puka Nakua was drafted, they want to show this. They're showing these.
We're talking about the vision for Puka, all that stuff. I'm just selfishly looking at my hairline like, what the fuck is going on with this thing? That's when you find out, yeah.
All I'm seeing is bald. And actually, Raheem Morris' daughter, Malia, she always used to say, you are balding.
And I thought she was just joking with me. So I told my wife, I said, why didn't you tell me? I'm actually going balding.
The back of my head looked terrible. So I started getting PRP shots there.
Smart. Starting to come in.
I'm feeling good about that. And I said, why the hell not the beer? Yeah.
Are you just saying that? No, it does look good. If he's going to get this, he's probably going to's probably gonna google it right now yeah it's a pleasure pain when you do it yeah so i got it like four years ago yeah and it bought me a couple years but now it's going to get so you did the prp i did it on the top of my head yeah it bought me a couple years let me see oh no it's bad now it's it's a disaster back there right now it's not great but uh yeah the pr it hurts when they know the lady said though you know if you're the healthier you are and if you still have some hair growth the more likely it is to actually work i'm super healthy you are healthy that's why i worked for a couple years so the facial hair yeah i mean we we've given you a little shit sometimes you've gone pretty boy i remember we saw you in indianapolis a few years ago i can't remember you came up and was like why are you guys giving me shit i remember what it was it was so when you when you first came on the scene it looked like you spent a lot of time lining it up just perfectly yeah and we were like he spends too much time on the facial hair it it needs to be like a little bit more jagged he cares too much about the facial hair and you saw us at the combine exactly what you said but those are my good life those we have i forget those are our favorite you guys our favorite you guys have to be careful what you say now we can say whatever the hell we want your shot yeah we'll talk a lot of shit about your back we we it was a great now it was a great moment for us because we're like wait sean mcveigh like listen to us give him shit about his facial hair i'm a fan i can admit i'm a fan i love it um it looks good.
The hair looks good, too. Did you switch your product recently?

No.

You know what?

It's the same product as normal.

Maybe it's a little fresher since I just got off the field.

Wanted to make sure it's freshened up.

Yeah.

It's good.

Do you want to do some of the, whenever someone interviews you, they do like, hey, week 10.

Oh, no.

I got one for you.

Okay?

No, see, like, here's the thing I will preface with that okay that has gotten way blown out of proportion it's one of those deals where when you go back through stuff you remember it but like i don't i don't have that uh recall like i used to okay well i got one that i think is gonna stump you okay good okay uh leave it okay uh fourth and 14 440 left in the game at detroit playoff game yeah what what what offensive play did you call yeah you know what i didn't unfortunately i'm upset that there wasn't a call on the previous play hey i'll be honest go for that you know what you're right yeah and you know what i should have done too i think i should have called the called the third down differently. Yeah.
To give us a better chance. I did not like the way I did that.
That was an incredible playoff game. It was an incredible playoff game, but I look at it, and I'm being dead-ass serious about this, too, some of the red zone sequencing.
Because I thought defensively, we settled in. They got going.
They came out hot offensively, and we were kind of matching them with our offense. But then I thought defensively we slowed them down.
We had a chance. We were removing the football.
We had some possessions that we didn't come away with points that we really should have. But that stings, and I'll tell you why.
And I'm not afraid to admit I would do that differently. I would have called probably the sequence leading up to that differently.
Whether it works out or goes down the way we want, I don't know. But I think to take the ball out of Matthew's hands and to then sit there

and because of some of the timeouts, different things,

to not give him another op at the ball, shame on me for that.

From a fan's perspective, it was such an awesome game

because that building was on fire.

It was the loudest.

It was crazy.

So I thought the loudest place I'd ever been a part of coaching-wise,

NFC Championship 2018 New Orleans.

We're getting ready to go out. We tested.
We had been there earlier in the season. It was rocking.
And I remember it was so loud, you couldn't even hear anything. Goff's mic went out right before.
He's got the backup helmet on. You're like, what the hell's going on? But they did a genius thing.
I remember they showed, you know, Robert Woods had been interviewed during the week and they said, all right, what, you know, do you think the noise is going to be a factor? And Robert's kind of on my shoulder, and he answers it exactly like what you would want him to. He's like, no, you know, we're going to handle it with poise.
It's not going to be a factor. Well, they show this shit during a TV timeout.
And then the fan just starts screaming. I look, oh, why the hell did you say that? But that was the loudest by far, and Detroit was way yeah yeah and it was just like it was everything you wanted it was sick yeah it was a sick atmosphere i mean like credit to detroit and i'm telling you my dad loved it they were already out on the field i came out like 60 minutes before kickoff the stands are full my dad said i heard these guys these people booing their ass off at somebody i watch you walking out he was laughing so funny everybody's booing talking to me it was it was great yeah and that was the that was why we were frustrated because we're like this is going to be one of those classic finishes where they're going back and i ruined it for you and then they just run out the clock but that's okay you got now you have a in-game coordinator right we do you know what so what is that what exactly does that guy do because you you hired someone who's going to help you is he just guy we've had guys do that before so it's john striker he's been in tennessee i think raves and those guys the last hand four years did as good a job of understanding the nuances of rules yeah clock management timeout usage and that's something that shoot i got to be better at and to be able to have somebody that you lean on now hey the ultimately it is my responsibility to improve, but to have somebody that's charged with that task, he's a stud.
I think he's going to really be beneficial to us. So does he come up to you just every few minutes being like, hey, here's what we got, timeouts left? Yeah, he'll be on the headset.
And there's a dialogue that's a free-flowing dialogue throughout the course of the game with really your coaches, but possible four-down scenario or, all right, this might be something where if we get to this, let's go for it. And if there's a flexibility and a fluidity to the flow of the game, but the main thing is I've done a poor job, especially as it relates to that big cat, is burning timeouts in the second half.
I mean, we had two games last year where you're saying against Pittsburgh and against Detroit where, you know, does it change the outcome of the game? Who knows, but at least we have a chance to possibly get a possession back or be able to use that to our advantage. We've been saying for years that teams should have a coach that just plays video games and just plays Madden all the time.
And if they play Madden all the time, then they understand better than anyone else those end-of-game, end-of-quarter, end-of-half scenarios when it comes to timeouts. does he play a lot of video games uh no he does not play video games good he's uh i don't know if madden's gonna simulate the uh end of game situation it does it does it yeah it does give me an example how the pressure the pressure of playing madden now the new college football game the stadium pulse place going crazy your controllers vibrating yeah it's just like here's you also have to understand from a fan's perspective like we sit on the couch we're dumb we don't know football we can't be like sean mcveigh oh he should have uh called a different route for his tight end on that last play but we do know a shouldn't have used your time out there that's what we can complain with that yeah i can agree with that's all we have crazy we're just like off he used the time out i wouldn't have done it all the answers and no accountability right yeah exactly that's what we specialize in yeah but you know what you get it i never would have done that there will be some times where i might you know say you know i'd see it differently that one shouldn't have punted away on fourth and 14 yeah maybe in a few years you know i don't know how long you're gonna be you guys ever seen the movie anger management yeah you know the early parts of it when he's like I thought we said we weren't going to listen to the game Iverson missed a layup you know and you got a dunk ditch that's how I feel about should we give him another hypothetical to kick his mind sharp if you have another hypothetical I actually was going to ask him that same hypothetical well I was, I was thinking the one.
So you were going to do that too if he didn't? I was, yeah. I had that as a question.
But there's another one. If you're in the NFC Championship game, hypothetically, and it is fourth and, what is it? Eight.
Fourth and eight. Fourth and goal from the eight.
Fourth and goal from the eight-yard line. And you're down.
Get out, my buddy. And you're down by.
Who? I know where you're going with this. This is hypothetical.
This has not happened. Okay, so it's fourth quarter.
You're fourth and goal from the eight. Yep.
You're down by what? Five – No, you're down by eight. Eight points.
Eight points. And you're going up against the best quarterback of all time.
Let's call him Tom Brady. Hypothetically, it's Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
In that scenario, would you kick a field goal, which is worth how many points?

Three.

It's worth three points, or would you score a touchdown,

which is worth six points, and then you can go for two.

Here's what I'm sitting there.

As I'm watching that game, I'm sitting there riding with my buddy

Matt LaFleur right there.

Oh, that's –

Wait, that happened?

Let's get the stop.

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

Now, were you thinking let's kick the field goal, then we'll kick another field goal, then we'll kick another field goal? No, I don't think I was thinking that. Okay, all right.
Some people might have been thinking that. That's nine points.
Do coaches get piss tested? Because I thought that he should have gotten one after that game. I love you guys.
He's going to text us after this because we bring this up. Remember when I had you come up to him at Indianapolis? Yes.
That's my guy though you know what though here's what i will say in all and all when you look at it especially like going into year eight it's amazing the amount of situations you go through where you're saying it seems so clear and man that 40 second clock goes real freaking quick yeah and if you're coming out of a timeout and it's 25 seconds and such a big deal of is learning from some of your mistakes or things if you would do it differently i don't know that there's as clear cut of a right or wrong answer as what we're talking about with me and i actually do mean that just based on the flow of the game and where they were going and how their defense was playing at that point in time but that's where i in the video game that's where i hit the start menu so you don't have to burn a timeout so how would let me ask you so how would you guys have played third and eight to fourth and eight third and fourth and eight yeah i i probably would have run the ball yeah run the ball on third down yeah make it manageable and i i you know what i can't say that i i don't think that's a sound thought process yeah that's what i i know army does that well they run the the ball anyways. But when they plan out their scenarios, they just anticipate, okay, we're going to go four and fourth down like almost every time.
So we treat it like it's first and eight every time. That's how a lot of these teams do handle it.
If you know you're going to get to a certain thing so you can play some percentages, do it a little bit differently. I mean, you hit the nail on the head.
We have zero accountability for anything. So we do get to feel smart when we come out on the right side of it.
But nothing gets me more upset as a fan than if a coach makes a mistake and then they just dig in on it afterwards and they don't admit that it was a mistake. I don't get that either.
And they don't learn from it. So there are probably a lot of Rams fans listening right now that are like, well, at least, you know.
No, you took accountability right away. At least he's moving forward.
No, you know what, though? If we tell our players that, like, you know, all kidding aside, if we're saying, all right, let's have accountability be one of the most important things. And it's hard for us to move on if we can't acknowledge, like, all right, where we're wrong.
Right. And let's be selfless and secure enough to be able to admit that.
And if I'm asking something of our players, then I better be willing to do it. And then there are some times when you say some things didn't go down but was the thought process sound yeah and usually when i get the most you know when i get mad at myself or when you're saying all right you didn't either either think about this beforehand you didn't play it right in terms of the sequencing of what led up to that fourth down um or sometimes it doesn't go down for you like there was some play calls like in the the Super Bowl drive.
The one play that Stafford no looks, that was a terrible play call. It was.
It comes up, yeah. But, you know, that's like the worst coverage ever.
He no looks, a hook defender dropping right off into that zone. He has enough feel for the backside player, and it's a 20-plus yard gain.
Yeah. You know, and then on the flip side, you're saying, all right, fourth and one, we go for it on the jet sweep.
Cup makes a great run. Well run well if he trips is it a bad call no i don't think so right yeah you know and so that's where you have to be honest with yourself and it's hard because there's stakes at hand and it's so public right yeah you have to be able to make sure that you know your process not results yeah and but it's also like all right let's make sure that you know what led to it and and it goes both ways, right? If it works out, you still have to acknowledge, even though it doesn't sting as much, that shit wasn't sound.
Yeah, so in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, I have to imagine you were talking about the adrenaline earlier. How did that affect you? Were you actually feeling, was the heart rate up? Were you feeling different? Were you trying to actively calm yourself down? Yeah, you know what? I would say this.
Because I handled the 18 Super Bowls so poorly, and really it was such a blur. Like, I mean, honestly, I think the games that are the clearest, you know, and it's all mental for us as coaches, are when you're just there.
You're seeing the game. You're able to make adjustments.
You're able to communicate clearly to your players. You're getting to stuff if things go a little bit different than what was expected.
And even though early on we kind of saw it, it was just such a blur where it just went.

It was, you know, whether you want to say, I wasn't doing a good enough job.

So I wanted to make sure you say, just try to be in the moment.

Don't make some of the same mistakes twice.

And there was an element.

Our defense was playing so well.

You know, we obviously had some injuries losing Odell.

You know, even Van Jefferson was banged up at that point. But I thought our guys stayed the course.
The defense gave us an opportunity. And then when we had to have it, I felt like our guys did an excellent job executing.
And I did think there was at least some clarity of thought, even though all the play calls weren't exactly what you would want. So I actually had this question.
The 18 Super Bowl you've talked about, like, hey, that was my first Super Bowl. well i could have done a better job did winning the super bowl in 21 kind of take a little bit of that sting away or is it something that you still are like man i let that one it's funny um you know i'll still always feel like i let guys down that had an opportunity you know the john sullivans of the world the coaches that were there you know even you know you want to win that so bad for your players todd, Todd Gurley's, Michael Brocker.
There was a lot of special guys that were a part of that football team, and I felt very responsible for that. But I think you want to always channel things the right way.
And here's what I will say to that. In the 21 season, it was cool because there were so many guys that you wanted it for, even more than yourself.
And there was a clarity and there was a purity in that journey. And I think the adversity we faced where there was real grit that had to be established wasn't something that you can fake.
And when you have a lot of guys that it meant something to them, but they didn't want to let each other down, whether it was people for Aaron, people for Whitworth, Eric Weddle, Jalen Ramsey, Vaughn, Odell, Matthew Cooper, um, the Rob Havensteins, you know, even though Higby wasn't able to play, there was a lot of special guys that were a part of it and so um you know that was cool I don't know if they say it took the sting away because there were still other people that yeah you feel responsible for but it definitely was a lot of learning lessons because in some ways too it was a cool thing and then afterwards you start you know buying into your own stuff a little bit and you get away away from the stuff that you know is when you're at your best for these guys. So after you win the Super Bowl, there was that period of time where people were like, Sean McVay might retire or walk away from football for a little bit.
How close were you to actually walking away? Because it felt like it was close at some point. You know, it's funny.
I think the lies I told myself were once we'd win it, then I'd be happy. And that's something that I'd always had interest in.
Um, and then there was some real opportunities, you know, with, with real, you know, opportunities to, you know, have financial rewards and things like that. What I didn't want to do is disingenuously lead people down a path.
If I really knew I kind of still wanted to coach, but you know, I don't know. It was such a blur.
I never really, it never got close. Like I never took the meeting.
You know, there was, there was people that I work with, you know, had conversations and pre dialogue about what it would look like, but I didn't want to lead people on, especially if that's something way down the line that you're interested in doing. So it never got serious, but then you start, you know, it, it does get, it does catch up to you a little bit.
If you lose the perspective and there was definitely some times i did um and then i think it got exposed by some of the results we had in 22 and that's real well we're happy you stayed in football yeah and i love it now well i appreciate that and here's the thing too i would drive my wife crazy if i was around at home too much i mean she loves me but you know i know she's ready when these breaks come back um i think my little man different perspective. Congratulations by the way.
Yeah. How is it being a dad? It's the best thing ever.
It really is. I mean, and now he's getting to that age where he can recognize you.
He's got a personality, he's smiling, he's doing a bunch of cool stuff. And so, um, it does give you that purpose and perspective having the family that I have, but I do love coaching.
You know, there's so many things about it that, um it that you love when you have the right head space. I'm hopeful to do this for a lot longer and for a really long period of time.
Then down the road, if that opportunity presents itself, but hopefully they'll have to kick me out of here. Wait, how old is your son now? My son is, no, shoot, he's nine months.
Okay, nine months. Okay, yeah, starting to smile a little.
He's smiling.

He's getting around the house.

He's flying around in his walker, and he's always jumping, man.

He's crazy, though.

He doesn't like to sleep like he's dead.

They're trying to just kill themselves by going upstairs all the time.

It's wild.

You can't take your eye off. Are you going to let him play football?

If he wants to, oh, yeah.

Nice, nice.

Absolutely.

Good answer.

So I feel like you love the chess match that's inherent in football. The pre-planning, watching it pan out.
Do you ever call plays knowing that they're not going to work to set something up for later? That's a good question. I wouldn't say knowing that they're not going to work, but even if I don't think it has a great chance for success, but you still want to have an efficient play.
If it can pay dividends,

there's been some opportunities where you're saying,

all right, let me get this play off because I think it's really going to open up something later on.

But there's usually a little bit more luxury

based on if you're in a rhythm, you're getting plays off.

You can only sequence a game the way you want

when you're able to get opportunities to do that, present things.

If you're going three and out,

it's hard to get into any sort of rhythm,

whether it's offensively or even as a play caller. But I wouldn say intentionally not to work but if you feel like all right this is to set something up that you feel like definitely has a great chance to relate you know end up you know resulting in a big play at what point this season are you gonna uh text aaron donald and be like come on dude tomorrow yeah has that happened yet here let's put it this way i talk to aaron pretty frequently he texted me the other day asking about the chargers practice next week i wanted to say what you thinking about man yeah you know um if he wants to the door and the invitation is open oh wow that's very gracious you think you can still play no shit right here's the thing though and i think you guys would would understand this if there's a man of man of men it's aaron donald right yeah when he looks you in the eye and you understand what he's about and what he puts into it and he says hey i'm gonna i feel full i feel complete i'm putting everything i can into this then you let him say if there ever is a situation where he gets that itch but i got too much respect, honestly, to ask him about it.
And I think he kind of understands. But I don't think there's any chance.
I think when you talk about a complete and a full resume and where he's at in this part of his life, he's earned the right to say, I can walk away with no regrets. And even though I can still play at the upper echelon of this league, I got four beautiful kids, a wife, I got business ventures.
And he's set. And he's got some other interests too yeah he's got a super bowl ring he's financially taken care of feel like it's probably pretty nice this time of year for him not to have to go to camp but you just keep texting him but yeah just be like hey listen aaron you can you don't even have to practice i know right yeah how about that you just offer him no camp you don't have to show up every time he didn't come to camp he won defensive player of the year yeah.
Yeah. So there you go.
The less practice, the better. Yeah.
For him, yes. Yeah, I feel like you should maybe consider doing that.
Speaking of the defensive side of the ball, so your college best friend is now your defensive coordinator. He's earned it.
He's a stud. But what is that like? Is it like you have this relationship where you guys have known each other forever, you were friends before you got to this level.
Do do you find yourself catching yourself at moments being like wait we're we're high level co-workers here we're not I think it's special because he's earned the right you know I think it's funny so his dad Dave Shulop was the head coach of the Bengals when he was 32 obviously his his grandfather is Don Mike is his uncle and um you know one of the things when we got here know, I've got a bunch of friends on this staff, but they've all earned the right to be here. And, you know, it's like, we're not doing favors.
You earn the right. And, oh, it's cool to be able to trust somebody.
And we've been together from day one. He lived with us, you know, my first year, he lived with me and my wife and then, you know, ended up, you know, moving out.
But to have somebody you trust that much, he's coached on all three levels of the defense, comes from a football background. It's really special to have.
And he's done a great job. I'm really confident in the leadership.
We think very much alike. But what his dad said is, I wish seeing what you guys have been able to do that I wasn't so worried about hiring friends if I thought they were worthy of it.
Because you want to be careful. And this is a know and this is a high pressure business but I wouldn't have done it he's been ready for a while but I think it worked itself out that with Raheem getting that opportunity that he'll go do an awesome job in Atlanta Chris is in a position and you know had an open mind and let guys compete for the interview and and uh and he earned it he's done a hell of a job so far I got a ton of confidence it's also got to be hard i mean you you have a incredible coaching tree at a very young age and all the guys that feel like they come in this building and then in a year they get snatched up yeah is there a part of you that's like man i wish i wish we didn't have this type of turnover but you're obviously happy for him but it's got to be like man this keeps happening over and over it's not ideal but what? It keeps you fresh.
It attracts high-level people. And I think about this.
I was so lucky. I was 30 years old when I got this opportunity.
And it's not just me. These guys are contributing to me.
I'm learning from these guys that have been through here. And then they go on and they put their own spin on it.
But things have been good because you have guys like Raheem Morris, Kevin O'Connell, Zach Taylor, Matt matt lafleur staley's of the world shane waldron you know you get a lot of guys that have gone on jed fish you know a lot of great coaches that have gone on liam coleman zach robinson now are ocs and so they've all been a part of good things here and if there's not an opportunity based on you know what their chances are to elevate themselves then i think that's the best thing ever yeah yeah does it make it harder yeah but you know what it does too it keeps you fresh every year and you know you don't take things for granted and i think we've gotten good at figuring that out but it's all because of the right people that come in here too yeah if it's a good job then good people are going to want to have it no doubt and you're going to have very talented people coming in yeah i do have to i do have to bring up one thing that i don't like about what you've done in the last year the motivational shirts that you made yeah and i saw one the other day when we were at the chargers practice mentally and physically tough players who play smart and love to compete that was an old one then if you saw that one that's old yeah they're still wearing it out there but what was the thought process behind putting so many so many words on a t-shirt well i've learned you know it's a lot that's a lot of words but they all actually do mean something what don't you like about mentally and physically tough players i like that okay that would be that would be a great t-shirt what about hey you want guys who play smart yes that would be a great t-shirt you want guys who love to compete you just made three great t-shirts that's what we did this year oh you split them up yeah there you go okay hey see i'm coachable too we're back hey having the paragraph totally fucking unnecessary too much reading it looked like one of those exhausting i i i agree you ever get those like auto-populated ads that are served to you that show like very specifically like what what sign you are in in the horoscope and like what job you have it's like on facebook they know who you are so they try to send you these shirts that have like he's not online like i can imagine and i tend to agree with you that that's an old shirt you would never see something like that now great job simple crisp to the point yeah job model the way this year we're going forward on fourth and 14 we're making three different t-shirts yes i i like that evolution i think perhaps you're you're a smart guy i had i had a question for you kind of along the lines of uh with big gas earlier to test the memory but it's not about a play yeah um we we do this game a lot with different players different coaches that we have on um how many johnsons have you ever coached as a head coach just on the rams do you actually know the answer? I've got a list of Rams players named Johnson here,

so we can go through the list.

So since 2017.

Since 2017, how many Johnsons have you played with?

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

Oh, sorry, sorry.

Played with.

Coach, how many Johnsons have you watched being played with?

Yeah.

What the hell is your question?

We're going to have to... with coach how many johnsons how many have you played with johnsons have you watched being played with yeah what the hell is your question we're gonna have the quote card sean mcveigh has played with this man how many how many johnsons have have been on the rams while you coach them right pretty simple how many players with the last name johnson yeah if you want to put it that way yes that's a that's an accurate i'm gonna say galley man well, golly, man.
Well, can you name them? Can you just name the Johnsons? Well, two guys come to mind. John Johnson, Isaiah Johnson, all right, Tyler Johnson.
How many more do I have? Johnsons, man. It looks like there's one more.
One more. All right, give me the side of the ball.
Defense. Defense.
Big D. You said Isaiah, right? I did say isaiah johnson i said john johnson i said tyler johnson and i said give it to him you want it yeah yeah you want the johnson yeah i want the johnson give it to him okay i'll give you the johnson wait i just had it and i lost it uh here we go tremaine johnson that is bad that i didn't remember 2017 that's bad yeah sometimes you forget a johnson when you play with a lot of them sometimes perhaps um all right well uncomfortable artists right now yeah he's looking around like what is going on here what is he gonna say he's gonna be looking for a new head coach tomorrow we keep this going listen this isn't a schrager sit down okay oh well we love schrager too uh all protein bars generally taste the same but not one bars one made protein bars are actually delicious with reese's and hershey's only one reese's peanut butter lovers protein bar is made with reese's peanut butter and only one hershey's cookies and cream protein bars is made with Hershey's cookie bits while delivering 18 grams of protein and three grams of sugar.
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When are we doing this? Second down. Why would we just give away a possession? It will fuck everyone up.
Sometimes you've got to fuck people up. You know what? Sometimes you've got to shut the fuck up.
Fair, fair. Make them think you're crazy.
Just be like, this guy has lost his mind. Turner's going to come up, and he's going to try to tackle the fullback, pass it back to the punter, kicks it, pins him deep at the one, then you get a safety.
Yeah. Okay, all right.
I lost my play calling privileges. Well, Coach.
What would you say if someone actually did that? I'd be like, fake punt punt. I've been asking for years.
What if the Bears do that in a one-possession game with three minutes left, and they're down? Did it work? I mean, it pins them deep, but then they never see the ball again. The fake punt punt is not what you're liking.
Honestly, I think I'd die with the fake punt punt. I'd be like, that was sick.
I appreciate it. I could see Iowa actually doing that.
Yeah. Fake punt punt.
That would not shock me. They'd find a way to come away with the dub.
Yeah. No one's ever expected the fake punt punt.
do it and i think that the other coach was insane i'd be afraid of them yeah that's what i would say i'd be like that's yeah that'd be concerning yeah um well coach we really appreciate it we love uh having you on the show being a recurring guest we're rooting for you guys best of luck this year you guys too we're happy you stayed in football yes yeah i am too man it's good to see you guys again it's been a while yeah hey how was the hardball interview oh he was great he was awesome awesome guy talking chicken and bees yeah we can eat chicken again we can eat chicken again and he invented a rivalry trophy yeah that was pretty cool yeah yeah he's the man yeah oh i have one last last last question would you coach u.s soccer how long do you think it would take for you to become like an excellent soccer coach i got a lot of here's what arsenal so i've had some interactions with michael arteta i'll tell you what i played soccer when i was growing up the the technician the tactical approach unbelievable no way those guys do a great job but i'd work my ass off to figure it out like ted lasso yeah i think you could do it i think if we gave if we gave you like five months you you'd be better than Greg or whatever his name was. Yeah, you would.
It's hard. Coaching is hard.
Yeah. Alright, thanks coach.
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Okay, let's wrap up Grit Week, a great Grit Week with our Fyre Fest of the week. Henry.
I think this was a Fyre Fest IRE. It was a great week.
I love Grit Week. I love LA.
I had a great time. Yeah, you want to move here.
Hank told that. I have like four Fyre Fests.
One of them was that every time we come to LA or California, Hank just says, I want to move here so so bad and i hate you guys yeah not the latter well no i mean you want to move away from us it's it hurts every time but that like we came here when i was 20 what did i say like we've we've come here oh no i know you've been hurting my feelings for over a decade now yeah hank will let you know that he moved to new york I was like, we should move to California. Before we moved to Chicago, I was like, we should move to California.
I'll never stop, I don't think. And every time I come back, it kind of reinforces it.
You've made it very clear that you don't want to be with us. Yeah, and that's okay.
It hurts. I've always wanted to live in California.
Yeah. With none of your friends.
I have friends. I was born here.
He wants all the boys in California.

Yeah, I wanted to be in California with my bros,

which is what we did this week,

which is why it was a great week.

Yeah.

We had active mornings.

We did fun stuff.

We did fun interviews.

Good food.

So nothing bad?

You got enough naps in,

so yeah, you were good all week.

Hank, wouldn't your fire fest be

that you're about to go back to Chicago

and you're just going to be thinking about California? And you'll never be near a beach or water ever again? No, I like good all week. Hank, wouldn't your fire fest be that you're about to go back to Chicago and you're just going to be thinking about California?

And you'll never be near a beach or water ever again?

No, I like Chicago, too.

It's all good.

It's all good things.

It's been a good week.

I don't, like, is there something bad I'm forgetting about?

No.

Yeah, you've been a pleasure to be around.

You've been fun.

Yeah.

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

Me, too.

Every minute.

Wait, me, too.

I've had fun being around you guys, too. like i like i like being out of the office less corporate nonsense less meetings there's just bros yeah bros on the road corporate nonsense meetings the summer games i actually wish that we were there for the summer games that look like fun well we got camp arstool coming up that's facts i just like being you know it's we have more fun when we're on the road.
Yeah, no, we've had a great time. We've had some, what was that, Max? Well, I mean, this is Hank just for, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of work.
But we've had, our fights have been very fun, jovial fights this week. Is Hank gaslighting it? Is that what you're saying? No, it's just Hank forgets the.
No, well, that's part of it. This is a fact.
And I mean, I was in your guys' shoes for five years. It's not as fun doing what you guys do.
But I used to have to do that. And now it also puts in perspective when I don't have to do it, that it's like it is just a little more chill.
Shout out the boys on Tuesday night, all the behind-the-scenes boys, and Max, who's both behind-the-scenes and on-scenes, or in front of the camera they i think they all slept like one hour yeah yeah i mean i know people are like where's the podcast where's the podcast and i know that's a running joke but they are always getting the podcast up yeah it was a late night and they're i mean shout out pug edited through a through an earthquake yeah maybe that's a fire fest i didn't feel the earth that was one of mine big fire fest i was really upset if you're going to be in an earthquake you want to feel the earthquake. That was one of mine.
Big fire fest. I was really upset.
If you're going to be in an earthquake, you want to feel the earthquake. Yeah.
But the thing back to grit week one when it was like we had to drive the bus, clean the bus, set up like we had one person. That's fact.
It sucked. There was about, I'd say like 40 hours this week where the bus smelled like absolute piss.
Yeah. I don't know what that was.
I think it was piss. Huey made a face- That's his bus life.
Huey made a- Huey, I wasn't going to say anything. You made a face like- No, it just smelled bad, and it was- That had nothing to do with me.
Okay. Okay.
It sounds very suspect. Mims, if you saw his face on that camera, it made me think.
No, I think it was the bus driver. Oh.
The one who's not here to defend himself. Shout out Charlie.
He was great. Shout out Utah.
But yeah, the one who's not here to defend himself. Utah, number two.
He's from Utah for those. Oh, okay.
Yeah. This is his experience.
Yeah. Did smell.
I did find some Febreze and that helped. Appreciate that.
Thank you. It smells great on here now.
It does. Yeah.
Yeah. It did smell.
I did find some Febreze. That helped.
Appreciate that. Thank you.
It smells great on here now. It does it.
It does it. Yeah.
It does it. Okay.
All right. PFT.
He's like a press conference after he just blew a game. Yeah.
Huey under the mic. Okay.
Yeah, you did great, Huey. PFT.

I got a few of them, I guess.

Funniest moment of the week is probably Huey.

I don't know if we're not.

No, I'm going to see.

I want to see.

No, I want to see.

Well, no, we have two funny Huey moments.

One we'll save for next week, but the other one,

I want to see if he's going to use it as Fyre Fest.

If he doesn't, I'm going to say it.

I won't say it as my Fyre Fest, I'm assuming. I don't know if you know what i'm talking about all right let's go all right you go um does this audio sound bad when we do this no okay good uh jonah too our sound guy who always comes with us on the best the best he's the best the best just listens as much bitch at days.
Yeah, he just sits there and giggles. Jonah could write a great tell-all article and just being like, this is what these guys really are like.
They are the same on the show as they are in real person. They're just always bickering and making jokes at each other's expenses.
But Jonah, you won't write a tell-all novel, right? That's on the record. I actually wouldn't mind if you wrote an article just for us.
Just like, this is what I think. You ever thought about blogging? Jonah.
I haven't, no. Jonah, what do you think? Good answer.
Jonah, what do you think when you just watch us in our, like, we're just all making fun of each other kind of fighting like are you ever like are

do these guys even like each other no it's very much friendly yeah you know entertaining because

it is pretty much we do the show when we're not doing the show yeah well shout out jonah jonah's

the man uh okay huey back to you, buddy. My fire fest, sweating.

Oh, okay.

Can't stop it.

Yeah.

After the great time with Musk the other day,

I took a shower, a cold shower.

Didn't help.

Yeah.

Still sweating.

It was a hot gym.

It was a two-hour gap in between the shower and the meet and greet still sweating yeah and then i think the meeting greet made me nervous didn't want to fuck up any pictures you know wanted to be nice to everybody it was a tight narrow area so you know trying to maneuver i think i just think i got hot um yeah and it was yeah so and i hands i have not been I mean, are just they're just wet all the time the wettest hands in the world oh i feel so bad for for our friend uh i don't know if i mr rusillo yeah i mean when i shook his hand it was it was bad it was wet and he i mean it was a blatant wipe off and i couldn't couldn't say no yeah yeah Okay, so that wasn't what I was going to say, what your firefest was.

I thought what your firefest was going to be all the way back to Sunday

when we were at Chargers camp and we finished taping with Coach Jim Harbaugh.

Yeah.

And you're a big Michigan fan.

Yeah.

And Coach turned and pointed at you and he said, what, did this guy win a contest or something? Yeah. Yeah.
And coach turned and pointed at you and he said, what did this guy win a contest or something? Yeah. He's like, how'd you get here? Yeah.
I got that vibe. Yeah.
No, no. He said that.
Yeah. I realized that.
And then it hit me a couple, about an hour later is when I realized, oh, that didn't sound good. That didn't sound good.
In a way, you kind of did win a contest. Yeah, and it was like my first day on an actual shoot like that, so I really didn't know what the hell to do and where to go, so I looked like a fool.
Yeah. And so, yeah, I mean, I was just kind of a – yeah, I was – I mean, I'm going to be honest with you.
I think he thought I was from like a Make-A-Wish or something.

Yeah, no, he said he would win a contest or something.

Yeah, like, so that's rough.

But you got your picture.

Yeah.

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

He's like, that's awesome.

Yeah, yeah, and he's a cool guy, you know.

We'll meet him again, you know.

Yeah.

It won't be the end of me.

Your paths will cross.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It'll be all right. But yeah, no, it was, that one definitely, I sat in my bed that night thinking, oh, fuck.
I fucked that one up, huh? I'd love to see Huey, like, later on at night, put his head on his pillow. He's like, oh, shit.
Oh, like, the Rosillo thing. I regret it.
I regret voting for Angel Reese. Oh, yeah, that didn't go well.
Yeah, because I was like, it's clearly Caitlyn. I mean, she's averaging like 20 and 10.
I panicked. Yeah, that's okay.
You're doing a good job, Huey. Yeah, that's okay.
That's a little tease. Tease, tease.
You're doing a great job, Huey. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
The hardball thing is nothing compared to the- Yeah, we'll tell that on Monday. That'll be, it's so good.
I wish we had that on film. I'm so pissed that we didn't.
We'll have a good laugh. Yeah, that was a good one today.
That was the most nervous I think I was the whole week. Which is crazy because you've been nervous all week.
Oh, yeah. Don't say who it is.
No, I won't, but oh boy. Yeah.
Oh boy. Okay.
Bitty-dabitty. I've never seen memes laugh like this Huey how do you spell that

well

H-I-B-B

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can I get the language of origin please

Huey

I-D-Y

yes that's correct

you nailed it

it's a test. Yeah.
You hate tests, but you did good. Yeah.
Finally. About time.
All right, PFT, your Fyre Fest. I got a few Fyre Fests, I guess.
It's been a good week. I want to echo what Hank said.
It's fun hanging out with you boys. It does kind of take me back to the first Grit Week and the second grit week when we were like in a van or we were on a bus that was breaking down.

A lot of fun being out here on the road.

And I do love you guys.

And I love all the AWLs.

And I tell them at the end of every episode that I love them.

And yesterday I said it.

And then it didn't end up in the final cut.

So they thought that I didn't love them.

So I don't know.

I think, was that Hank? Were you editing Hank? I did blame Hank on Twitter. Yeah, that's fine.
Oh, that was your Firefest, Hank. You didn't get included in the production picture.
Oh, yeah. No, that was funny, though.
That was just banter. That was my fault and the back end's fault because I fixed it and I didn't fix.
Sounds like you're using the back end as the fall guy here. I also might have told you when we did the UFC part that you didn't say it.
You just didn't say it. UFC? UFC? What UFC thing did we do this week? It's been a long week.
I tried to fix it. Just so the AWLs know, I tried to fix it and it added an hour.
It legitimately added an hour of me being awake that night,

which put my sleep from what would have been three hours to two hours.

No, it was definitely my fault for not saying it.

No, it was my fault.

No, it was my fault.

Also, this is a good time to announce that we're going to start releasing the video of the podcast

at the exact same time every morning, right? Hank, what time? 7 a.m. 7 a.m.
Eastern. Eastern.
Eastern. The podcast will come out as soon as it's ready, but it's better for the algorithm.
It's also better for Pug. 7 a.m.
Eastern. People are still going to be so mad.
That's okay. I understand that.
People are going to be mad, but you can listen to the podcast, and it will be out at 7 a.m. Eastern.
Podcast will be out. It helps the algorithm.
We appreciate everyone helping the algorithm. You can listen to the podcast whenever it's done.
Correct. And if you're fiending for the YouTube, you can wait until 7 a.m.
That's fair. That's very fair.
Yeah. That's very fair.
What are you looking at, Max? There's AWLs that are taking a picture. I thought they were going to try.
That's cool. I love them.
Shout them out. I love those guys.
Shout out AWL. Shout out AWLs.
So I do love you despite the end of yesterday's episode. Other Fyre Fest.
It's been about two weeks since I've been home. I don't know if the El Camino is going to start.
I think the line on that is like plus 250 for whether or not it starts. It's one of those things you've got to pump every.
That's a thrill, though. It is a thrill.
That's going to be a thrill tomorrow. Yeah, I think it's probably not likely to start the first time.
I don't know. She's been on a hot streak, but I miss her, and I'm going to go home.
And I just remember today, I got a weed plant. I got a weed plant the day before I left, and I put it in my backyard.
I think it's dead. raining in chicago i don't think so i think it's been beautiful no it rained one one day but not enough okay well does that maybe maybe that's perfect because i'm trying to grow shitty weed because we were we didn't have enough guys for our softball team we had and we had to forfeit okay well maybe maybe i'm growing like tough shitty resilient weed so it might be perfect for what I'm looking looking for.
Yeah. So yeah, the El Camino.
And then pre-Fire Fest, the air and water show was on Saturday. And last year was a disaster when I misidentified the F-16.
So I haven't done any research as to what planes are flying at all. I have no idea.
But it's a big redemption story for me on Saturday. So God willing, I'll nail it.
Okay. My fire fesses, Hank, hurt my feelings.
I didn't feel an earthquake. You love California more than us.
It's fine. You hurt my feelings.
I love you more than California. I want us to move together.
I love you more than the state of California. I love you more than the state of California, but i love you more than the state of california but i would love to love you in the state of california quote card yeah shane quote card yeah that's a quote card that's one of the first states where that would have been allowed yeah um all right so yeah i uh i guess my real fire fest is i i love grit week it's always fun being on the road with the boys.
We got ups and downs, fun. I'm just, I'm feeling my age.
This was the first Grit Week where I was feeling my age. We were doing a lot of activities, and my body is not responding well.
Yeah, the days are like 16 hours long. Yeah, we surfed, played Frisbee golf.
We did a workout at usc we did a bunch of interviews i'm just my bounce back is not there so just facing that is is tough but i i still love grit week still fun also i won't apologize for getting triggered about caleb blames because then after the show on wednesday he went viral again because he has a

purse yeah we i can't believe we missed the person real time i'm gonna get the same purse i'm gonna

start carrying it around listen my guard is up the first thing it's like people what if his

playbook's in there if you're in a facility like it's a it's a basically backpack yeah basically

this is why i didn't want hard knocks it's pretty much a suitcase yeah it is i'm gonna get the same one and i'm gonna start carrying around a purse so you're gonna get a purse you're gonna paint your nails yeah i'll paint my nails well if we start winning football games and paint my nails it is it's sad that we didn't pick it up in real time though that we didn't see it happen yeah i was just thinking about his ass yeah and any hbo slander yeah so uh all right good week boys fun always love grit week had a blast great times we learned hank doesn't know what color pepper jack cheese is i still can't believe that all right should we do numbers oh ire Fest is, Max, I didn't realize it as we did the show. You actually got the number.
I know. Yeah, you did.
Yeah. But it's not the lottery ball.
It's not the ball. You didn't get the ball.
It's not the lottery ball. You got the number.
But you've never gotten the lottery ball. The question is, have you ever got the number? No, the question is, have you ever gotten the lottery ball? No.
Have you ever got the No. Well, I just changed the question.
Yeah.

All right.

So we do numbers.

22.

20.

8.

Go 56.

42.

I mean, I already won this.

99.

3 for memes.

Tim, you want a number?

33.

33.

Jonah?

2.

2.

Shane back there?

No, he's a...

Thank you. James.
Tim, you want a number? 33. 33.
Jonah? Two.

Two.

Shane back there?

No, he's trying lemonade.

He's trying lemonade.

Okay.

He's not feeling very well.

15.

15.

Love you guys.

Tebow.

Love you guys. I'm to say I'll say it anyway.
Today is another day to find you. Shine away.
I'll be coming for your love, okay? Shine away. I'll be coming for your love, okay? Needless to say, I've got a sentence.
But I'll be stumbling away Slowly learning that life is okay Say up to me It's so better to be safe than sorry Say up to me It's so better to be safe than sorry Things that you say Is it a lot bulb just to play my memories away. You're all the things I've got to remember.
Are you shying away? I'll be coming for you anyway. Are you shying away? I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me Take on me

Take on me

I'll be gone

Take on me

Take on me Take on me Take me up.