Aaron Rodgers, Xander Schauffele Owns Golf, Mt Rushmore of Animals We Wish We Could Be + Politics In Strictly Ice Cream Terms

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I was bad. We're going to talk about the Open Championship.
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Today is Monday, July 22nd. And boys, Xander Shoffley is the golfer of the year.

How about that?

Two majors.

Everyone thought it was going to be Scheffler.

Racking him up.

It's like crazy that the year has been Scotty Scheffler.

I know there's still some golf left.

But Xander winning two out of the four majors and winning it in incredible fashion in Scotland on Sunday. Where he he went to the back nine.
He was down two strokes, I believe, and he basically was like, fuck this, I'm winning this tournament. He had the eye of the tiger, and I mean woods, and he was making shot after shot, shot four under in the back nine, won by two strokes, and he now has half of the majors in this year.
And we saw his dad finally get to celebrate with him wearing his Panama, was it Panama Jack? Is that what the name of the hat is? I believe so. Yeah.
Tommy Bahama, maybe? Yeah, he was wearing the hat. He had a flask of whiskey.
He was looking awesome. Haas.
Haas. Big time Haas.
Absolute Haas. And Xander is now, you can't say that Xander hasn't had a better.

I know Scottie has all these wins on the tour.

Two majors to one.

That's it.

Xander had the better year.

Well, it's crazy because Xander Shoffley could not win a major.

Yeah.

And then now the lid's off.

He broke the seal.

He did.

We've all been there.

And this is a big year for the United States of America.

Yes.

We had all four major winners.

That was the first time, I want to say, since it's been a very, very long time.

2000.

Jack and Arnie.

And it was all Tiger.

No.

No, because remember?

He did the Tiger Slam.

So it was not all four in the same year.

It was 1982.

Jack and Arnie?

First time since 1982 that the winners of all four majors are American.

Who was that in 1982?

Don't have it. It's got to be Jack and Arnie.
Probably Jack and probably Jack and Arnie yeah she's gotta say that but it's still USA is back yeah it was uh suck my dick world I I stand by my take that I don't want to play golf in uh England links golf but I like watching it because it looked miserable Friday especially Friday looked like hell on earth and they actually said that I think someone i can't remember who it might have been scotty said it was the gates of hell when you when you make the turn to nine and the winds just right in your face guys were hitting uh like actually there was one guy who i can't remember exactly who it was but he said he almost hit driver on a par three but he's like i can't do that but he thought about it because the wind was that miserable. I think Scotty, it was that long par three.
It's like 230 yards, and Scotty hit a three-wood, I believe, and stuck it to like two feet. It looked so miserable.
Guys were struggling left and right, but Xander was the best, and it did calm down. I know that Link's – it's fun to watch because it's fun to watch them struggle with it and have to hit these crazy shots.
But I just watched it and was like, if I had to play that, infinity shots for me. I'd say there's some holes where the bunkers are so deep that if I got in there, I would just take my bag and I would just drive the opposite direction.
That was that one guy on Thursday who just left. Yeah, I'm out.
It looked like me. I like that move.
He was like, he hit such a bad shot. He's like, I'm not going to go pick that up.
Yeah. I can't say my back hurts.
I'm leaving. I can't look for this thing.
Yeah. Brooks today.
He was it today or was it yesterday where he lost his ball? I think it was Saturday. Yeah.
He lost his ball and then he hit another provisional. And that was also a very tough one to find at that point when you're provisional is not when you can't see it.
That's another one where it's like, I'm going home. Yeah.
It's notander just i mean that shot on 11 where he's like fuck it i'm going right for it yeah it's so awesome i hank i have a question for you as our golf expert uh but we should at least mention um that we are that was really cool when max cheered that loudly to make the cut and that has everything to do with the fact that he's a friend of ours and we're completely biased. Cut of the year.
Cut of the year. Takeies are coming up next week.
Might be cut of the year. That was one of those moments where I'm like, that's our guy.
Yeah, he's a good dude. Right.
We wouldn't make fun of it if it was someone else. That's our fucking guy.
Good golfer, even better human. This year, he's been a better human being than golf.

In the majors.

Yes.

Except for the first three rounds of the Masters.

I will say, if he had done that for the US Open PGA or the Masters,

it would have taken a lot for me not to say something.

I can understand being like, I don't want to have to fly all the way back home.

I'm here for this tournament. And it's across the pond all that shit you probably that's actually got to be nice you probably paid for your Airbnb already yeah might as well just use it for the weekend right like if you lose the if you don't make the cut at masters yeah it's a bummer but you can be home within five hours yeah also if if he hadn't made the cut he might not have been able to get home with the airline delays.
That's true. So think about that.

Right.

The Claret Jug,

I think is the best golf trophy.

Embrace debate.

Best one to drink out of.

Are we counting the green jacket?

The green jacket is a trophy.

Yeah.

In which case,

I would say, yeah, green jacket.

But besides the green jacket.

What about the one

that they wanted us to take a picture with?

Oh, the FedEx Cup?

Yeah, that one.

I mean,

the aura on that one.

Really, it's all eyes forward to the road to Dubai. Rory told us that's the most important one of the entire year we listen the people at the PGA have been incredible to us and they've gotten us some great guests but when you're like yeah the FedEx Cup trophies coming by do we want to do something with it and Hank and I were like um I don't know what we would do with it drinking cords light out of it.
We didn't win. I would feel wrong doing that to a trophy.

We have no business yeah i'd look at it i would point at it yeah like there it is and be like one day one day this could be ours no but it's uh the clear jug is i think it's an underrated trophy yeah it's one of the most underrated in sports did you hear xander's dad said he's drinking wine out of it it'd be sac sacrilege to drink beer out of it. No, you could drink.
It has to be room temperature beer. No, he said it would be sacrilege because it, let me get the exact quote.
I think you have to drink whiskey out of it. Well, he was drinking whiskey out of a flask in the back of the media room.
Yeah, you got to stay warm. It was awesome.
Hank, questionank question for you yes in terms of this golf

tournament uh what first of all rank your majors which ones you'd want to win masters open u.s open oh opens too what about the rider cup that's not a major that's not a major in my mind that's a good answer so open is number two you have more history there's a lot of history birthplace of golf there's a lot of history uh hank and it's like more more random there's always more random winners i feel like in the open like even what was the guy's name tristan tristan yeah uh this is what i thought it was thurston for most of the weekend yeah the yeah same until i turned it on the broadcast i was like oh it was tristan uh this is what xander's dad said he said xander said he uh he himself's not a big drinker so when a reporter asked what he would drink out of the claret jug he joked he couldn't wait to see what his father would put in here first so then a gaggle of reporters rushed over to stefan to. He solemnly looked down from the brim of his Panama hat to remind the reporters claret means a red wine from Bordeaux.
Of course it's a claret jug. If you put beer in it, that's sacrilege.
I'm not fighting with that guy. He was a hoss.
I would put beer in it. I'm going to let him do the wine, then maybe sneak in a little beer at the end.
Americanize that trophy. My question for you.
Billy Horschel. Was kind of rooting for him.
Seems like a really nice guy. Didn't love.
Didn't feel like he dressed to win a major today. He's got a unique vibe, though.
He always kind of dresses. I don't know.
I think he dressed to win the Open. Yeah.
You can't wear that anywhere else. I don't know.
It just didn't feel like killer you know it's a little too nicely it's a little too nice that's uh what's the what's the guy who is a the the kids who read the kids books who was a u.s sniper mr rogers yeah that guy not not really no no there's a rumor that he always wore the cardigans because his arms were just tatted up like a motherfucker my favorite rumors favorite rumors um billy horschel so i was rooting for him because i was like i didn't have i bet on brooks i bet on hovland because we thought he was you know questioning death one of the dumbest bets ever uh so i was just i was watching as a golf fan on sunday and i was rooting for billy horschel his putting like set up when he set up for a putt on maybe four I was like that's it he's done I don't know if that's like I know it's what his setup is but it looks so nervous and so not steady that I was like he can't win a major it's also hard sometimes like I you like that where you're hard in your sleeves guys but also sometimes when they're like overreacting to miss putts and stuff when it's that early in the round you're like yeah you got it you got to get it together you can't let like xander just doesn't react to anything anything he was he was just staring like he would hit a great shot and he would just stare down like put his head down be like next shot billy horschel was practicing his putting technique while someone else was putting on like the fourth or fifth like Like this guy's cooked. And I wanted him to do while I was rooting for him.
But I just maybe he's got to. Do you think as a golf expert, he's got to change his putting stance? No, I think whatever.
I think it got him that far. Okay.
He's come a long way in the last year. Because I just saw it with my eyes and I was like, nah.
Doesn't have it. Doesn't have it.
I do think that the winner of the Open is usually the one that's most likely, when you look at their Wikipedia page, to just list their golf accomplishments and nothing else. Yeah.
Just like, this is what this guy's known for, made the tour in this year, two, like, top ten finishes, then won the Open. Yeah, like a Masters champ might have a DUI.
They might have a DUI, something fun in there. Right.
Maybe they played football in high school. Yeah.

Open championship, there's so many guys where it's like, he joined the web tour in 2011.

Stuart Sink.

He was born on the web tour.

Everyone, Stuart Sink won it?

Yeah.

That was cool.

The other thing about him.

Tan line?

Tan line.

Yeah.

At least he's got that.

Also really cool that his name's Stuart Sink.

Yeah, it is.

He got to sink putts.

He's fucking badass.

Mm-hmm.

Anything else from the golf?

Did you watch it all, Hank, or were you golfing?

No, I watched.

You did?

Yeah.

I'll see you know last three or four hours but it was kind of like you wake up and guys have played 18 but it's nice like on a Saturday and Sunday it's a nice change of pace being like oh it's gonna be over by like one o'clock it's just nice it is fun to wake up and see somebody have like the worst hole of their life to start your day yeah they're doing the recap of what happened what you missed while you were sleeping like oh that guy had a much worse day than i'm gonna have yeah this is good i also had a very dumb i can't wait for football to be back thought but just seeing the stands full of people in sweatshirts and jackets I was like i can't wait for like thanksgiving yeah i can't wait for thanksgiving football i got a text from our good friend uh mike vrabel this morning just of a picture of the muni lot oh and it said like i can't wait for that yeah uh seven weeks the muni lot will look like this and look just look at these dudes getting ready to watch football in cleveland this is going to make you excited. Yeah.
Very excited. Look at that.
That's football. Almost back.
We're almost there, guys. Yeah.
I'm ready for it. I'm ready for football.
My body is ready. I mean, golf is great, but football is football.
That's just the difference. Have you seen the clips coming from training camp? Yeah.
It's awesome. I mean, we fucked up.
We fucked up by letting Patrick Mahomes have Xavier Worthy. Yeah, that yeah that one we did that that was a clip where it's like get ready to see this a million times you gotta be especially bad for bills fans to watch that yeah fastest guy out there um okay other things i guess we should probably talk about uh politics but only do it in a sports way uh your boy memes casianos could not be more back he's dialed castellanos hit a home run today i know it was after uh joe biden dropped out of the race but he also did it uh a couple hours after the announcement that tom brenneman is back uh calling college football games that's my who's back in a week was yeah it was old tommy b and Castellanos, like, I would imagine the sportsbook lost all their money today on Castellanos hitting a home run.
Yeah. The minute Biden's out, you know he's going to hit a home run.
You've got to Pokemon go to DraftKings whenever something bad happens. Yeah.
Because Castellanos is dialed in. He's got his pulse on all the tragedies.
Yeah. So I got a question.
The only question I got is is uh the whole biden thing is he he now is just uh that coach who got fired at long beach state and then made the tournament that's what's happening kind of yeah so he's gonna ride it out he's gonna coach the bowl game what if what if just russia loses the war against ukraine what if the economy goes through the roof yeah can he jump in first week in november be like i think we're gonna run it back we got some momentum we got something going here it took me stepping down to make it happen it it is kind of like the backup quarterback situation you know the whole the whole weekend was was we we said this a couple weeks ago but it really is political political people not understanding sports fandom because all the leaks that were coming out saying there's no way he's dropping out yeah we're just what happens before coach gets fired yeah or if it's if it's a quarterback it's like kamala are you right are you really ready to see trevor simeon start yeah why not think you want a trevor simeon start let's go until he steps up and then throws three picks in the first half and you're like fuck i kind of i kind of miss zach wilson yeah and there's factions inside the coaching room yeah it's like oh this trevor sim. Well, Trevor Simeon was drafted by the GM.
Trevor Simeon's a solid player. Yeah, well, he's been around for him.
He was drafted by- Kamala's had a job for like 20 years. He was drafted by the new GM.
Yeah. And they're like, we got to make this switch.
So yeah, that's politics as it relates to sports. So that's about it.
Yeah. They're probably still going to lose.
I do think it was fucked up they made him do it on national ice cream day guy loves ice cream yeah he fucking loves ice he didn't wait right till the open was over too which was nice maybe he had he like ate a bunch of ice cream and he was like i could just do this every day yeah like i don't have to have a job i don't have to worry about running the world anymore i can just there probably is like a bunch of national ice cream days right that's one of those days we days. We should.
Listen, Jill. Dr.
Jill. Ice cream day, dog day.
Donuts, coffee. It's like there's 17 of them.
There's a bunch of women's days too. Yeah.
And then whenever that happens, everyone, like international men's day trends because everyone's like, how come there's no international men's day? And weird. All that.
There's only one steak and a blowjob day. Interesting.
That's fucked up. Interesting.
Huh. Interesting.
Trying to trying to keep us down i think this week is uncle's day shout out to all the uncles out there the real heroes uncle's day national uncle's day baby yeah big time you don't even become an uncle like by you don't do anything well you don't you don't choose to you you're born and then you have a birthday yeah i know but it's just very funny to be like uncle's day you don't you don't choose to be uncle it's it's bestowed upon you you can't turn it down you can't yeah you can't be like no i don't want to be an uncle thank god there's a holiday for uncles yeah the parents that pick up the kids and then just get rid of them at the end of the day once every month i love it you deserve a day off you could also just tell joe biden just every day is ice cream day yeah jill just tell him that just be like for me honey guess what ice cream day again today yeah i'd be like oh it is for me the uh my apple fault doesn't fall from the tree my son is now pulling my own tricks on me where we went to the ice cream store last night or saturday night and uh we got the same exact ice cream and he was like hey can i try yours i was just like god fucking damn it yeah you never know it might be better had like half my ice cream i was like this is bullshit there's nothing better than vacation gelato or vacation ice cream every day every single day if i'm if i'm out of the office if i'm in a different city you bet your sweet ass i'm getting gelato like a hot day at the beach or the pool and then ending it with a fucking huge ice cream cone that's it you know what living baby but you know what i like about the cups is the tiny spoons so you don't think that you're eating that much gelato you're like i'm just i'm just nibbling i'm just a cone guy through and through same same same waffle it's regular i used to be a regular and then my lifestyle just got too big i just you know those are a lot i know i need i need the i need it to be able to hold all that ice cream yeah but i like i'm usually like one scoop right yeah no i'm a two scoop guy and two scoops don't go in sugar cones or or the cake cones you need the waffle cone i just is what it is you got it it's like going from xl double xl same scoop or two different flavors sometimes i'll'll mix and match, but the problem is you got to make sure the bottom flavor is the... If you're taking a risk, if you're in between two flavors and you fuck up the bottom flavor, you got to restart and just get another cone.
That's why I'm more into the cup because you get the two different flavors, two scoops, two flavors, and then you get all the toppings. If they can put extra toppings, then the cup catches at the bottom.
But it sounds like you're the same type of eater I am, where if you get a plate and you've got three or four different things on that plate, you save the one you really want until the end, right? The last bite is the most important bite. I dive into whatever fucked up vegetable that somebody made me get.
Yeah, you got to get- I eat that first, and then you save the real action for the end. I have to a great last bite want to know real fat guy moves i do go ahead max not the your fat guy no you go you mentioned the the toppings yeah i gotta get the whipped cream got to gotta get the gummy bears gotta get chocolate syrup sometimes i'll go real fat guy and i'll get a bowl with the toppings and a cone on the side and i'll just be like it's like you can basically have like six cones because you just keep scooping it in no you keep adding more to the cone you lick then add more and then you finally eat the cone real fat guy move but pros pro move i got a great great spread this weekend i got it's a combination i didn't know that this existed shout out michigan they have more fat guy flavors than any other state in the union yeah um it's a combination peanut butter and marshmallow fluff mixed into one spread it is fucking awesome that's pretty good yes that's pretty good what are you gonna say max i was gonna ask if we get ice cream tonight yeah we should yeah we should okay we should i'm so down this is good this is actually a perfect i i'll i will throw it out there to AWLs and anyone listening to this maybe who just showed up to the first episode for Aaron Rodgers find me a breakdown of Joe Biden stepping down better than this one where we just talked about ice cream deep dive into the sweet creamy treats this is how politics should be discussed can we have ice yeah can we have podcast outside today fuck yeah it's the summertime yeah do whatever we want what are what flavors you guys gonna get i'm gonna do i'm gonna do a mix of mint chocolate chip and then chocolate chip cookie dough mint chip mint chip mint chocolate chip yeah i had i had double scoop mint chocolate chip last night i wonder if there's summer walk i don't like it when the mint chocolate chip is white ice cream.
Yes, green. It's got to be green.
Make it green. It's got to be green.
I want that weird fucked up color of green that doesn't exist in nature besides in mint chocolate chip ice cream. Matthew, since you're sitting here and just nodding your head, I know you love ice cream, so tell us your favorite flavor.
Chocolate. Okay, there we go.
The more solid the better. That's good.
That's basically just running power offense. Yeah.
Run the ball. Run the football.
Stop the run. Four yards will get your first down.
We're playing Steelers football right now. Also...
Peanut butter chocolate is my favorite. Peanut butter chocolate's not bad, but when you combine the peanut butter and the...
In ice cream, it's good. I don't like peanut butter chocolate cookies.
I think peanut butter... Wait, what do you mean? Like, if it's a cookie that has peanut butter flavor and chocolate flavor, I don't like peanut butter chocolate cookies.
I think peanut butter. What do you mean? Like if it's a cookie that has peanut butter flavor and chocolate flavor, I don't like that.
Drives my mouth out. Oh, I agree with that.
In an ice cream. He's saying like an actual cookie.
Yeah. Like a peanut butter cookie.
I'm not a big fan of peanut butter cookies, but I love peanut butter and chocolate together. Yep.
I'll eat peanut butter or anything. Hank and I are maybe like the foundation of our friendship is peanut butter and chocolate anytime we have reese's we'll just give each other a slice um speaking of matthew are we going with huey as his name i someone said to me well i'll find the tweet so holes out hole is 100 out yep it just doesn't work we tried It doesn't work.
But shout out the AWL Mikey Memberships. Great fucking name.
Mikey Memberships. Intern Matthew is a Huey if I've ever heard one.
Don't even need to see him to know he's a Huey. I mean, I think he is a Huey.
And I kind of like the idea of him having to introduce himself to, like, football coaches. And Aaron Rodgers being like, hey, I'm hey i'm huge now let's talk about the spelling because i think he's an h u e correct h u e y huey not h e w e y baby huey yeah huey the the the comic yeah you're huey yeah you're huey you're baby huey you're a big duck you look like baby you there's a lot of great Hueys out there.
Yeah. Huey Lewis and the news has baby, baby, baby.
He's a gigantic and naive duckling cartoon character. I mean, what? That's perfect.
Huey Jackson. Great football coach.
Huey Jackson. Yeah.
Huey Lewis and the news. Yeah.
Yeah. Sports iconic album one of boomers favorites yeah uh so yeah he's huey we're gonna try out huey for a while is that cool with you huey yeah that'll work okay okay good job um back to ice cream uh yeah it's the best yeah it's the best ice cream really is the best rank your ice when I say ice cream, I mean ice cream, custard, gelato.
I'm not sure you include frozen yogurt. Frozen yogurt, I think, is two just because it's a specific time and place.
Like frozen yogurt, a swirl, towered fucking so high in a cone on a summer day with sprinkles on it. Rocks.
I'm going to go gelato one. Then I'm going to go soft serve two.
Then ice cream. Oh, I see what you're saying.
Then frozen yogurt. Soft serve is what I'm really talking about.
Yeah, soft serve. Yeah.
I'm not talking about frozen yogurt. I'm talking about soft serve.
Frozen yogurt, it's manageable. Anything that comes out of the machine, I just say frozen yogurt, which is stupid, but it's soft serve.
Also, those places also have all the candy you want. Yes.
You can make it taste however you want. I would say- Oh, yeah.
16 handles? Yep. Or the one here, what's- Forever yogurt.
Forever yogurt. Yep.
So good. I would say frozen yogurt is the Brock Purdy of ice creams.
You can win with it. Ideally, would you take it number one? Probably not, but you get all the great toppings on it and it becomes great.
Right. The key to frozen yogurt is to trick yourself into being like, it's not as bad as ice cream, but then you put an entire candy bar on it.
Yep. That's what you do.
Yep. And it's great.
Okay. Anything else going on in sports or politics? This is good sports.
We crushed the politics. We might be the best politics.
Move over to the Johns. We're pretty good.
We crushed the politics. USA almost lost to South Sudan.
Oh, yeah. More politics.
That was fine. Update for back here.
Huey has already changed his Twitter name to Huey. Oh, nice.
I love it. A man of action.
I fucking love it. Love that.
I love it. So we scored with eight seconds left, right, to take the lead.
We're down by like 14, 15 points in the first half. LeBron.
I'm convinced that Steve Kerr told the guys, like, fuck this up. Like, tank a little bit, and then let's see if we can come back.
South Sudan, Luol Deng has like put that like entire program put it together and they're they're they're scrappy yeah they got some decent players yeah so um it's a wake-up call steph and lebron saved the day steph hit that big three derrick white derrick white uh that lobbed to ant i don't know what happened there and that wasn't derrick white's fault it was ant's fault or not sorry not sorry ant Anthony Davis. But yeah, are we worried? Does this count against USA? Max, did you see Joel Embiid's quote? Oh, that was what my Monday reading was.
We should talk about it after. I thought it was satire.
Yeah, let's talk about it after. Okay.
Because it is, you have one quote, I have another. You have the one about LeBron?

Yeah.

Yeah, I have another.

We'll do that after Aaron Rodgers because it is quite, he did a New York Times profile.

It's quite something.

Can't wait.

I thought I was like, oh, this is butt crack sports.

It was quite something.

Okay. Okay.

Let me see what else did I have on my list of sports topics.

The Celtics gave another extension. Yeah.
Where the fuck are you guys getting all this money? They don't, so they're selling the team. So the current ownership is like, fuck, I'll give everybody a contract.
I'd never have to pay it. Good for your friend Christoph Porzingis.
Yeah, I mean the- Wait, who got the extension? Sam Hauser. Oh, yeah, yeah.
But they have Porzingis. They have everyone signed.
They had the- Sam Houser made $45 million. And the penalty that they have to pay on it's insane.
Why not? But who cares? That's just great ownership. Yeah, you want that.
Like, go spend all the money. Go for it again.
You got the young guys, like, locked up for a long time. Every ownership should look at this and be like, I mean, mean the warriors kind of did that remember when the warriors just spent money like it was going out of business why wouldn't you do that if you have the core of a championship team yeah here's the thing money's not real yeah not to get all aaron rogers on you but money only has value because we say it does yeah 210 million tax penalty that's that's what bhtray money.
That's what Biden is. Now Biden's out.
Who knows? Taxes might go down. That's fucking easy.
I love it. There's also some Oakland Athletics news.
Maybe you have, what you should do is you should have Zelensky buy the Celtics and then no money problems. Yeah.
It's not bad. Think about that.
Okay, yeah.

Big circle.

What was the Oakland Athletics news?

I'm not smart enough to understand exactly what it is.

But apparently there have been Oakland area investors, like business leaders that have money.

Okay.

That want to either invest in or try to purchase a lot of the A's and keep them in Oakland.

And Major League Baseball has allegedly been telling them that they're not allowed to talk about their interest because they want the a's to move to vegas so badly because it's going to you know mean increased value for every other mlb team but apparently there are some people that want to kick money into the a's and keep it in oakland but for some reason i don't know how the MLB is making them just shut up about it, but they're not allowed to talk about it. Fuck John Fisher.
Again, this is where we stand on this. I don't know how deep this goes and how they're able to keep the people from being quiet about their rumored interest, but it just stinks to high heaven.
Yeah. And I don't like it.
It's bad. It's bad for sports.
Very bad. Did you see Jose Conseco throughout the first pitch? Oh, how do you do? He actually did all right.
Okay. Good.
He flexed. Good.
But yeah, this sounds suspect. It's very suspect.
Sounds very, very suspect. I see people keep posting the temperature, like first pitch temperature, and it's crazy they're going to play in Sacramento.
I know that Vegas will be indoors, but Sacramento's not. So the other day it was like Oakland first pitch temperature 75 degrees, Sacramento 105, Vegas 119.
So I just looked it up right now. Apparently what's happening is the people that are rumored to have interest in investing in the ace and keeping them local major league baseball is saying don't talk about it publicly you're not allowed to say anything because if you do we're going to prevent you from investing in any other teams in the future oh that's how they're making them shut up about it that's bullshit so fuck john fisher fuck uh man fraud fuck man man fraud's a dick that's bullshit yeah okay um the only other thing i had was uh lamar has diarrhea again yeah yep that's how we know football is officially back yep lamar jackson missed the first day of of uh of training camp right yeah he had to be sent home yeah he he i guess showed up at the facility and then they sent him home because his butt hurt.
That's a classic first day of school move. I could imagine Hank missed a couple first days.
No, first days were fun. You show up.
First day's fun, the second day sucks. Show up, get your fit off.
Especially in college where you just get your books. Yeah, do a little couple icebreakers.
Yeah. up again yeah syllabus day also they had the mlb uh hall of fame induction today didn't realize that great timing baseball yeah jim leland i hope when did he give a speech today i think so it's jim leland todd helton adrian beltray and joe mauer jim leland i he should have been smoking a cigarette i don't know if he was during his induction, but he should have been.
I don't know what. I guess now's the time, but why wouldn't you do it during All-Star break or something? I don't know.
It was just I was listening to the Cubs game on the radio, and they were like, oh, yeah, and Jim Leland's going in today. Oh, okay.
Cubs can't hit. Cubs cannot hit at all, Hank.
They had a walk-off walk today. I had my statistical model had them at 0% chance of winning that game when Shota had a no-hitter with like 9Ks going through six innings.
And I was like, he gave up one home run. I was like, that's it.
It's the statistical model at zero. They found a way.
No, they suck. You went?'t hit it's brutal to watch i went friday i also can confirm they can't hit yeah no they cannot hit at all it's boring baseball you guys lost two out of three to the pirates it's true but we won today two out of three the pirates one out of one that's a big rivalry yeah for bragging rights in the state of pennsylvania uh okay let's do who's back of the week and then we will do our mount rushmore i used to think that sandwiches were just you know basic until i realized how easy it is to level them way up it's all about starting with the best ingredients lately i've been obsessed with this sandwich boar's head ever little smoked gouda, arugula, sliced avocado, and a drizzle of balsamic glaze on toasted ciabatta.
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Okay, Hank. My respect, we get Conor McGregor.
Oh, yeah. Jake Paul fought this weekend.
I fought Mike Perry. I think it was supposed to be the Mike Tyson fight.
And McGregor, I think, owns the boxing company that Mike Perry is the face of. Okay.
And after the loss, he basically was disgusted by what he saw. He said, you're fired.
Mike Perry. And Mike Perry is?

A UFC fighter.

Yep.

We knew.

Some people at home might not know.

Yeah, I didn't know that either.

But then about Jake Paul, I said,

Jake Paul is the biggest piss bag I've ever seen in my life.

40-pound weight difference, juice out of his head,

still shitting himself in there,

and just basically going after him for steroids. So is he going to...
Wait,gregor was going after jake paul for steroids yeah interesting okay oh by the way last time we talked about conor mcgregor on this podcast robbie robbie fox reached out to me he was very concerned that we thought that conor mcgregor might be done as a fighter he wanted to clarify that he's not done oh okay good yeah but this sounds like i mean as far as conor mcgregor taunts go this is pretty low it's not that bad he said a lot worse about a lot of other guys yeah maybe he's lost his fastball he might chirping yeah because he i mean he was calling habib a terrorist yeah i swear to god a fat can of bitch piss oh that's better yeah most valuable piss bag and with the irish accent that takes it up a notch fat was it fat bag of fat can of bitch piss fat can of bitch piss is pretty good Connor is not done Robbie said not done as long as he doesn't have any more movie premieres as long as there's no movies that he stars in I saw that face as long as you keep him away from ecstasy he's oh yeah I saw the face the movie premiere well he didn't know where his face was uh okay that's good. Oh, yeah.
I saw the face at the movie premiere. Well, he didn't know where his face was.
Okay, that's good. Who's back? He also was going over a bridge? That video is the funniest video I've ever seen.
I don't know when that was from. Yeah, he was just like going over some super high bridge and it was super cloudy.
And he was just talking crazy. That's the best Conor McGregor.
Yeah, it is. I'm going to defend him on that one.

Driving over big bridges freaks me out, too.

He goes.

He was walking over it.

He goes, what's past this?

And the guy just goes, the end of the bridge?

The end of the bridge, yeah.

No, I want Conor McGregor to be back.

He's so electric.

I'd like him to fight our good, close, personal friend, Michael Chandler.

I'll be rooting for Michael Chandler.

100%. Or Michael Tyson.
Yeah. By the way, I think Beer Games is out today.
They finally put the video out. Oh, enjoy.
Yeah. Hopefully no spoilers.
Okay. BFT.
My Who's Back of the Week is Tom Brenneman. Dear close personal friend Tom Brenneman.
He's back in a big way he's going to be calling acc games on the cw yep so the cw according to the athletic uh they have a money ball approach as it creates its sports division and tom brenneman is an undervalued asset love that so yeah this is good he should actually given his background he should probably call live golf events yeah i feel like the kingdom of saudi arabia would love to have him on board yeah cw is where we had our bowl game yeah so the cw president whose name is by the way dennis miller is kind of crazy uh he hired him because he's taken full responsibility for his actions i think he spent the last couple years just talking to gay people he did do i did see him doing like a bunch of speeches yeah in front of people so maybe that's what it was yeah he's been apparently like hanging out at like local gay alliance meetings just talking to people for the last three years that would actually be awesome if in the broadcast booth he just had a big sign that like number of days since i've since i've used yeah i've used this word or if he just came out but it'd be great if it was like number of days since I used this word and he does the whole season and then all of a sudden it's like a Duke game in the middle of November and it's at zero and we're like what? something happened or he just only calls Liberty University's games, that'd be good too alright so Tom Brenneman's back. My Who's Back of the Week, I have two.

Well, Huey, do you have the WNBA All-Star Game?

Okay, all right, you do.

All right, so I'll do my other one.

My Who's Back of the Week is clearing your search history

because the attempted assassination of Donald Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks,

they basically went online, they tried to search through all this stuff and his last search was porn. Oh, so you just, I don't know.
Just use the private browser because any day that you could go, someone could be like, Hey, what was the last thing they looked up? Yeah. So what, what kind of porn was it? I think it was the only fans.
Cause you would have to think that he would, like, if you think it's going to be your last one, make it a good one.

It was OnlyFans, I believe.

But, yeah, that's just a reminder to everyone out there that, you know, you could go at any moment.

This one, he went because he was trying to kill a former president.

But, yeah, clear that browser history.

Use the private browser because you don't want to be like, hey, this guy died and he

was jerking off a couple hours before he went mortal.

If you die, I will clear your browser history.

Yeah.

I'll make sure.

Thank you.

I will too.

Thanks.

Hank?

Clear your browser history?

Would you like us to clear yours?

I don't really care.

Okay.

Let the people know.

Yeah.

Once you're dead, you're dead.

Would you like Max to stay signed into your Snapchat? Sure. My tick tock.
Tick tock. Sorry.
Tick tock. Tick tock.
Tick tock. Yeah.
Okay. That'd be nice.
Uh, big T is signed into my, my tick tock right now. I think he's posted a few things on there.
So now I get notifications on my phone that constantly every day it says, uh, real Donald Trump Jr. Has just posted someone that you've interacted with before that's nice nice like that nice um all right last who's back huey uh the wnba yes yes i mean what a game last night that was awesome well explain to maybe some people who didn't watch it i don't know who wouldn't not me i watched it we we, so for the All-Star game format this year, we had Team WNBA versus Team USA.
Oh, that's awesome. So, yeah, a lot of Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese got to play against Team USA.
Kind of, you know, a little revenge. Kind of let them know.
Did they win? Team WNBA won by eight points. Wow.
And really it was. That should have been for the chance to go to the Olympics.
They should just swap teams. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
And really what is it actually got closer towards the end. The WNBA was kind of in charge of that game for the most part.
Team USA got a little closer, but it was impressive. The rookies did great.
Hugh, I got two questions. Who won the three-point contest? It was the same girl.
The same girl won the three-point contest and the skills contest who was shout out to mrs gray mrs gray okay and then who like a teacher my second question is who won the slam dunk contest there was none okay so that's the kicker who balled that is the kicker who balled out for the team wnba so uh so let's get in i know the answer and so we have. I want to see him say the name.
Arike. Okay.
That's the first name. Yep.
And the last name. Give me a couple more minutes.
Oh, boy. Do I have to? Yeah, you got it.
Come on. You got it.
Agulambana. Arike Agulambana.
Agulambana. Oh, boy.
Okay not art. Arike.
I go, but not, I go, I go, not, but oh boy.

Okay.

I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go,

way there yeah i can go i can go yeah it's it's a dog and boale uh it's a doozy all right but with that being said boale a goon boale a ricka a goon boale i think it's erica right nope that

that one i know. Her brother plays for the Texans.
Badger. Yeah.
Yeah. She played at Notre Dame.
34 points, 6 assists, a 6 from 7 from the free throw line. Only not, you know, 8 from 13 from 3.
And she should have been on the team. Very much should have been.
She was actually like, Kaitlin Clark was the one that everyone was saying, oh, she got, why not put her on the team? Arike should have been on the team. Yeah.
She's better than players on that team. I saw Kaitlin Clark, she got picked up full court by Kelsey Plum, right? Yes.
Yeah, face guarding her. Face guarding her.
And still got past her and threw a diamond. The Team USA took it personally, it felt like felt like a little bit more than the wmv they probably should have taken it more personally because they lost yeah yeah and angel reese had five offensive rebounds uh i mean she was a beast on the paint wait so this means even when they if they win the olympic gold they're not the best team asterix they literally lost now isn't this the plot of like mighty ducks too yeah where they become the u.s national yeah they should let them be the u.s national i agree yeah okay thank you huey good job um okay should we do our mount rushmore and then get to aaron rogers let's do it uh mount rushmore is brought to you by our friends at game time game time is the exclusive ticketing partner of barstool sports Did you know you can get tickets to Cubs Brewers this week at Wrigley for as little as $45? That's right, with Game Time, the official ticketing partner of Barstool Sports.
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Mount Rushmore of animals you'd like to be.

So what is the standing?

Hank coming off his big not fourth place.

Congrats again, Hank.

Thank you.

That was huge.

Appreciate it.

Nothing but success in this Mount Rushmore season. Terrible job.

Terrible job.

Yeah, you did.

Brutal.

So what are the standings?

Do we have them?

Max in first, 26.

Big Cat second, 25. PFT third, 22.
And Hank, 17. Okay, and who goes first? That'd be Max.
And then who goes second? Me, PFT. And then who goes third? You.
Okay. It's good that we know the order.
The order confuses me every time. We get lost in the snake.
Very stupid. It's a circle, though.
I understand it's a circle.

I'm saying I always think when I go fourth, I'm going first the next time, but it's going fourth to third to second to first.

I don't know.

I'm stupid.

Okay.

Mount Rushmore of animals you'd like to be.

No pander picks.

I don't even know.

I couldn't even think of what a pander pick would be. Well, I could think of one for you.
Oh. No, I'm not going to pick it.
I can't... They have to be real animals.
How are we... What? I want to pick dragon.
I was watching House of Dragon as this was sent, and I was just thinking the whole time

how sick it would be to be a dragon.

I think it has to be a real animal.

Yeah, Komodo dragon.

Yeah, you could be a Komodo dragon.

I don't even think that a dragon would be that cool.

What?

If we're talking about House of Dragons.

Come on.

That's wrong.

Come on.

Terrible.

Now that makes you want to let it.

No, no, no.

Hear me out.

What's the mortality rate of dragons in Game of Thrones? I't care They all get their throats bit open You're a massive Just fireball people Fire breathing beast That everyone fears You've got this Vegas lived for like 300 years But then you've got this What about the one in the frozen lake? You've got like an incest guy with an eye patch Riding you around Rubbing his inc all over you yeah i think it'd be pretty it would be awesome to be a dragon be sick that's a tough take but also not a real animal not a real animal okay so let's but that would be a great pick yeah you don't get any downtime if you're a dragon yes you do yeah you do you get so much down chilling your cave when you're when you're locked in your prison and you're just pissed off the whole time. I mean, there's dragons.
Before that happened, dragons lived free. They were just going around.
A free dragon would be awesome. Doom of Valeria.
Okay, your pick. Okay, my pick will be Bald Eagle.
Good pick. You can fly and everyone in America just loves you.
Yeah. Bald Eagle.
What about when your team loses a Super Bowl? Next pick. I'm going to go this is my 1-1.
Miss Peaches. I think Miss Peaches would be a great animal to be.
You just get all the most expensive shit bought for you. You just love Dave, huh? Very little oversight.
You can destroy anything, not get in trouble for it. You want to sleep in the same date? You want to sleep with Dave.
You want to sleep with Dave. Miss Peaches has her own bed.
No, she sleeps in Dave's bed. Oh, because that's her decision.
You want to sleep with Dave. That's her decision.
You're anti Miss Peaches. Dave was right.
No, I like Miss Peaches. No, Dave was right.
I thought that pic and then I thought it out. It was like, eh.
The one thing with being Ms. Peaches is those dresses he puts Ms.
Peaches in don't look comfortable. Ms.
Peaches has an awesome A-plus life. The galas seem a little difficult.
Yeah, you wear a dress once every 30 days. It's not that much different from my 2018 to 2020.
That's true. That is true.
Okay. Yeah, you want to sleep in Dave's bed.
I want tummy tacks. I didn't know we were doing specific animals.
Yeah, I was doing breeds. Yeah, I was doing...
We said... You asked before we started, right? Can we do specific animals? I wanted to be a dragon.
Okay. It's not an animal.
Okay. Which season? What? I'm just kidding.
All right. I'll just pick my one one I would love to be just a great white shark and just fuck everything up swimming so fast and just everyone's scared of you and you get so big and you're just an apex predator and it's awesome top of the food chain is pretty nice sick you don't get to really sleep at all though sleep.
Sleep is death. Yeah, but you don't have to sleep.
You have to keep moving. That's awesome.
Yeah. Not having to sleep is awesome.
Maybe that's why they're so grumpy all the time. Are they? I think so.
I haven't talked to a great white shark in a while. We should have one on the pod.
Yeah. Greg Norman.
Okay. I'm going.
Come on, Hank. Let's go.

Wait, you're in last place.

I'm just trying to pump you up.

I'm trying to pump you up.

I'm going to go. No, I was saying, like, let's go.

You got this.

Hank.

Hank.

Hank.

Hank.

Hank.

Hank.

Hank.

You were such a sourpuss on Friday.

You know what we're doing right now?

We're doing the Trey Turner.

It's a Hank.

He's in a slump.

Come on, Hank. Let's go.
Woo! Come on, Hank. You know what we're doing right now? We're doing the Trey Turner.
It's a Hank. He's in a slump.
Come on, Hank. Let's go.
You got this. I'm going to go...
I won't do this. I won't do this to you, Hank.
You got this, Hank. I know you can do it.
I saw the... You heard the click.
I've seen you do it before. Okay.
I'm going to go Panther. Ooh.
Coolest looking animal, I think. Ooh.
King of the jungle. That's the lion.
I know, but it's cooler than a lion. It should be king, yeah.
And I will go with a blue whale. All right.
Biggest animal. I knew you were going to go whale.
Had to go whale. Had to go whale.
Smartest animals, biggest animals. No one's hunting you.
You just get to cruise around, breach, talk to your other whale friends. It's good.
It's a good pick. It's a really good pick.
You think blue whales are the smartest animal? I'm pretty sure they're up there, right? Yeah. Are they? They are up there.
I think dolphins might be smarter, but whales are pretty fucking smart. Man, there's some really good animals on this list.
I don't know what I want to do now. You know what? I'll stick with just being apex predators.
I will go with lion. I want to be a lion.
Those things fucking rock. They just hang out.
Okay. They eat whatever they want.
Yeah. They just hang out all day.
They look cool. Sleep.
I mean, it's like a cat's life is cool, but it's cat you don't even have to go but a lion is like that's a badass cat if you're a male lion you don't even have to work yeah you just ladies go out there they hunt they bring your food back for yep every day is taking a blowjob day if you and you got like your family hangs out with you yeah you know you just and as long as you don't have like a shithead brother that tries to kill you you're good yeah you know okay okay i'm gonna go with racehorse i've talked about on the show before what what i don't okay we're wincing now i Have you? Let's keep going. Kentucky Derby winning racehorse is my official pick because you're done working.
You just get to have sex for hundreds of thousands of dollars every time you bone. They put you out in a pasture.
You don't get that money. And you just hang out.
It also. But that's your job.
Race horses have not been doing well recently. But the Kentucky Derby winning ones.
Yeah, there's, I think, one of them... Which one, Doc? Are you taking us back to Barbaro? No.
There's been some bad... There's been some bad things that have been happening to race horses that I would...
I like race horses. It would be cool to be a race horse.
It feels like that's, if we're talking like life expectancy, all that stuff, it's been a little hit or miss. You got out on your sword at least.
But I'm saying specifically, Kentucky Derby winning racehorse is my pick. Okay.
They've got a good track record. Okay.
I'm going to go with a cheetah. Oh.
Because I'm slow and it would be fun to be fast. That would be fun.
It would be fun to be fast. And I'm going to go off of the specific animal that I get that PFT has started here.
And I'm going to go with Ugga. Oh, good one.
It's a good pick. That's a great pick.
Although they talk life expectancy. But they're treated.
they're treated like kings everywhere. Each one.
And everyone in Georgia absolutely loves you. It would be great to be Ugga.
Not the current Ugga, but the last Ugga before this one. I forget what number it was, Roman numeral.
That was the goat Ugga. Yeah.
That Ugga had it together. Yeah.
Okay. All right.
Good picks. I'm going to get specific again.
In the same vein as max college mascot mike the tiger mike the tiger's got a good life living in captivity oh have you seen his pen his pen rocks his pen is like the size of the pentagon it's not that big it's very cool though it's very cool plus you get to live in louisiana you get to go roar in It's pretty cool Yeah, no, he does have a pretty big pen Mike the Tiger's got a good life Gets that meat when they play a different team And they put the logo out The meat's in the shape of the logo and then you eat it Alright, I'm gonna go a little I'm gonna go off my list because we're getting a little We're going specifics and everything Yeah Patrick Mahomes I would like to be Patrick Mahomes. What are you talking about? He's an animal.
Does that count as an animal? No. Are humans not animals? No.
PFT, are humans animals? Did titties make the list for meat? Are humans animals? No. Yes, they are.
What are you talking about? Scientifically, they are. They literally are animals.
PFT, you know that. A human is an animal.
Yes. Big Cat wants to get cute with it.
He can get cute with it. I should get dragon.
How? What? An animal. We just said humans are it.
I agree with that. If Big Cat gets Patrick Mahomes.
You just said the Kentucky Derby horse. Yeah.
I want to be Patrick Mahomes. You can say Kentucky Derby winning horse because that's a commonly accepted animal.
But are humans animals? They are animals. Technically, they are.
How am I? What am I doing wrong then? Humans are animals. I guess.
They are literally animals. We are animals.
I think we let the voters decide. What do you mean? You guys have to decide.
Memes is the one who actually has to decide. Well, I think you guys have to vote, and then if it's 2-2, then I decide.
Well, I have no chance. I mean, technically, they're animals.
I'm not going to- I don't think you knew that until right now. No, that's true.
But I'm looking it up now. It's valid.
Yeah, they are animals. Maybe against the spirit of the competition, but that's fine.
If you want to- They're animals. Technically, humans are animals.
They are. And we said you want to be any animal.
If you could pick any animal to be, Patrick Mahomes would be a pretty fucking sick animal to be. You could have been a bear.
I could have been a bear. I want to be Patrick Mahomes.
He's got three Super Bowls and probably a lot more coming.

No, Patrick Mahomes could have been a bear, too.

Yeah, he could have.

Almost.

All right, you guys letting me keep it or no?

Yeah, I'll let you keep it.

I say I'll allow it, and we'll see what the voters say.

Okay.

I will go.

Wait, that's not your.

It's not your.

Oh, it is your pick, too.

Yeah, in a row.

I got lost again.

Fuck.

I got lost again. Fuck.
I got lost again. Say Tom Brady.
I'm going to go hippo. Okay.
Good pick. I had it on my list.
Probably the most gangster animal. Yeah.
Just chill in the water. Just kill humans all the time.
Fuck anything up. They're awesome.
A hippo running in the water is some of the coolest, coolest videos out there. Yep.
And then I will go. Australian shepherd dog.
Oh, nice. I think a shepherd dog would be the best version of a dog.
Like if you're actually a dog living on a farm and you just get to herd sheep all day like that's a dog's dream and that's like the best that's a good dog that's the best case scenario for your dog like you're literally just living on a farm all you have to do is just run and wrangle up these sheep that's a good smart too yeah good dog yeah fun yeah when they run on top of them that's awesome yeah those awesome. All right, my last pick, I'm going to pick a pig in the Bahamas where the Instagram models come and take pictures with you.
Pablo Escobar's pig? No, the ones in the Bahamas. You know them, the Instagram, the hot chicks.
Yeah, yeah, but I think, weren't those around the islands that Pablo used to own? I have no idea. Maybe.
Because I think they were in that Fyre Fest documentary. Yeah, they just get fed by Instagram models.
Yeah. They don't have to do

anything but just swim around and get

pictures with hot Instagram models. It's pretty good.

Every now and then there'll be one that bites

one of them. I wouldn't do that.

That's pretty good. I would just hang out.

Okay. For my

last one, I'm torn between

two here. I'm going to

go with Giant Panda. Giant Panda is on my list.
Pretty good life. I love Giant Panda videos.
I think they're actually the best ones to watch. Yep.
Because they're just flopping around all the time, rolling down hills. Yep.
Then someone has to take you and pick you up and bring you back up the hill. You don't have to worry about shit.
You just hang out and you eat your bamboo leaves all day. Yep.
That's a great pick. It's a great life.
I had that on my list. They're the funniest animal.
Yep. Yeah.
They just hang out and you eat your bamboo leaves all day yep that's great it's a great life yeah i had that on my list they're they're the funniest animal yep yeah they just hang out oh no i'm torn i'm really really really torn between two right now okay i'm gonna i'm gonna go with i'm gonna go with grizzly bear i'll go with grizzly okay just big. Big Bear.
Scary. Yep.
You don't even have to deal with winners. You just get to sleep through winter, which is sick.
Yeah, the hybrid. But you miss football season.
They also don't actually sleep the whole winter. You miss the Super Bowl.
They just kind of lay in bed. They're just hungover.
That's fine. You just get to chill.
So you could have a TV on in your cave. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Bear was on my list. I should have picked.
What was your other pick? It was a koala. I had koala on my list too.
I had sloth on my list. Just like.
Sloth would be cool. Just out of vibes.
Koala's cool. Great vibes.
You're high all day because you're eating eucalyptus and it fucks you up. Oh, you get STDs though? Not a drug bear.
That's the downside. I think like 90% of koala bears have chlamydia.
Yeah. All right.
That's good to know. Yeah.
That's good. I didn't know that.
That would have been a downside. Downside.
You just have an itchy dick. What other ones? I had Peregrine Falcon, fastest animal alive.
Yep. That'd be cool.
That would be so sick. Yep, I thought that.
I had capybara. Capybara.

I don't know how you pronounce it. Oh, they're like big rats.

The big rats, but they're chill.

They're like the chillest animals.

An albatross.

They just fly.

That's just golf.

No, they fly.

You just did golf.

No, they don't land.

They'll just fly and never come down for years.

You just did golf.

No.

They can fly hundreds of miles, probably.

They have big-ass wings. I mean, it's a golf term, too, but it's like.
What do you think of when you say it? A two on a par five. They're sick animals though.
That's not like it's a coincidence, but albatrosses are sick. I think a wolf would be awesome.
Wolves would be cool. A little bit bit endangered.
I think being a penguin would be pretty sick, even though you could probably get eaten by an orca or something, but they do seem like they have a fucking awesome time all hanging out together. Yeah, they seem to have a good life.
It's like they're all at a big music festival. Right.
Yeah, it's Bonnaroo. Every week.
I had... We're just thinking of Happy Feet.
Yeah, of course. Happy Feet's definitely good.
Giraffe. Oh, monkey? Elephant, but like if they get hunted.
Yeah, monkeys feel like they're the pranksters of the jungle. They're just having a great time.
What kind of monkey were you talking about? I don't know. One in the jungle? Yeah, jungle monkey? I don't know what kinds there are.
Rhesus monkey? Like the skinny orangutan maybe? No, they're kind of... That's an ape? Yeah, they're too fat.
I'm talking about the little guys that swing from tree to tree and they're always fucking with each other and hitting each other, building stuff. They look like they just have the best life.
An island gorilla? Yep. But then sometimes...
Gorilla's my 1-1. Gorilla's your 1-1 Gorilla's your 1-1 It's the closest to a person You kind of know the shape you're getting into You're in the middle of the jungle No one's ever out there You're with all your people all the time You're just surrounded by trees and woods And other gorillas You're not being hunted that much, I don't think.

You might have to fight another gorilla, and that would suck.

Yeah, but it's kind of fun.

It's like big, loud.

It's monstrous.

It's like the closest you're going to get to a wrestling match out there.

Yeah, just boys will be boys.

You know how to handle yourself.

You got hands, you got feet.

I don't hate it.

What about kangaroo?

I think kangaroo would be fun, too.

Turtle?

Turtle?

One of the ones that lives forever?

I don't hate it. You got feet.
I don't hate it. What about kangaroo? I think kangaroo would be fun too.

Turtle?

Turtle?

One of the ones that lives forever?

I think one of the ones in the Galapagos that lives like 160 years. Yeah.

Or the one from Finding Nemo that's just mad chill.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good turtle.

Like Australian?

Was it like a surfer turtle?

We're still talking about real animals, Max.

Yeah, we're doing real animals.

Dragon. Dragon got snubbed.
Dolphin? Dolphin would be good. As long as you're not captured.
Yeah, if you're in captivity. Same with a gorilla, by the way.
If you get put in captivity, if you're a gorilla, you might have somebody teaching you how to do sign language. So you spend all day learning what emotions are.
Yeah. You're like, you are sad now.
Yeah, fuck, I'm sad. Wish I was in the jungle.
Yeah. A house cat wouldn't be the worst.
You just basically get to be a dickhead all day. Yeah.
And you live inside. Try to hurt people.
Yeah. Right.
Like, they're like, here's your food again. And they're like, oh, that's so cute.
You try to trip me going down the stairs and kill me again. Yeah.
Take a baby's soul. Yeah.
What about, would it be cool to be commander Biden? Basically no rules, No rules, but I feel like. Because if you think a sheepdog would have a great life, I feel like you do all that shit at the White House, except with the Secret Service.
Commander Biden tried to warn us about the Secret Service. Yeah.
He did his part. I think Commander Biden would suck, though, because if you're a dog, being in a house where it's constant people showing up would suck.

That's why you bite.

You want some alone time?

Yeah.

Dogs don't really like when the doorbell rings.

White House doorbell is just ringing constantly.

Yeah.

That would drive you nuts.

Sheepdog was a good pick.

I knew you could do it, Hank.

Yeah.

Miss Peaches was a great pick.

That will play.

You do have to sleep with Dave, but that will play. I also have an option of my own bed which is probably Louie it's probably Louie yeah no Miss Peaches has a has an incredible incredible life I agree when you go for walks you can just get carried around in a wagon you don't have to exercise yeah um any others that we missed I'm trying to think oh Hank a fox on a golf course

that'd be pretty sick Um, any others that we missed? I'm trying to think. Oh, I would Hank a Fox on a golf course.

That'd be pretty sick.

Like a cute little Fox Foxes.

People don't fuck with Foxes.

They're right in that perfect zone where like you're kind of scared of a Fox, but you're

not like hunting it.

And I don't know.

They can kind of, they can kind of be in regular like world without getting fucked with too bad Fox would be nice like being the apex but like I was thinking about if I was the animal with all the other animals you just want to be the biggest animal or the fastest or strongest Kennedy Goose on a golf course pretty good no one really fucks fucks with you there. Yeah, you just have to be.
That is miserable. Yeah, you're a miserable life.
Yeah. Yeah, miserable life.
This is a good Mount Rushmore. I liked it.
Be an animal. Shout out to Huey.
He came up with this one. He's got a list for us.
Way to go, Huey. Yeah, way to go, Huey.
Thank you. Any other ones that we miss, Huey? No, it feels good.
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And now here's Aaron Rodgers. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very- How many cameras do you need for this? Oh, I love it, very, very, very special guest.

Wait, you're probably recording it too, right?

Yeah, you definitely are.

You just hit record.

It is our Chill Week interview presented by Coors Light and Chevy Silverado.

It is my good friend.

You have two different sponsors for this.

My good friend.

You guys are moving up in the world.

Not bad, man.

Aaron Rodgers.

Almost.

Did you see how many berries I said for you?

Last time I said a guest. It is Robbie.
He's on TV back there. Yeah, Robbie Gold's on TV.
Listen, you and I are good friends now because you're out of my life, and I wanted to do this interview just to be like, thank you. You're out of my life.
Let's start. But then the Bears lost to J-Love and the Packers twice last year.
I got some other issues I'm dealing with that are not – it doesn't pertain to you anymore. i got other issues i'm more i'm working through that found new love we got new we got a new quarterback i'm gonna figure out how we feeling feeling good about caleb and all the changes so andre swift and you like him you like you think caleb's a good quarterback yeah i do yeah i like swift i like uh keenan dj i like the receiver from washington yeah rome oh and then of Of course, and you still got DJ.
Yeah. I like Swift.
I like Keenan. DJ.
I like the receiver from Washington. Yeah.
Rome. Oh, and then, of course, you still got DJ.
Yeah, DJ. And Iberfluss.
I think the team is almost good enough to beat the Packers. You got out at the right time.
Almost good enough. Come on.
You got out at the right time. You knew that it was changing.
So you're like, I got to get out of here. I don't know about that.
So you can finish with your record. Who do they got on defense? Montez.
Montez Sweat. Yeah, Montez Sweat.
Our secondary is pretty good. I like Edmonds.
Edmonds is a player. We're going to be – and I know that you're kind of – I think it would be a close game with the Packers.
I don't like how you're doing this. Do you still take any pleasure when the Packers beat the Bears? Are you like, yes? Okay, I love it.
Yeah, I love it. But you're a Jet now.
I am. Once you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way.
That West Side Story. That's where you are.
How's it going? You a jet all the way. You start singing, and then you get into a street fight.
Then you get in a fight. Yeah.
All right, so how's the – A fight? Yeah, like knives. What's his name? Danny Trejo.
Yeah. Oh, that was crazy.
Maybe he's a little old for that. What time? Once you hit the eights, do you stop fighting? Yeah, probably.
He thought he had that throwback where he just was like, I'm going to throw the first punch, and it'll be over. And it's like, nope, that didn't work out.
How's the leg feeling? Yeah, it feels great. Yeah? Thanks for caring.
I do care. I know.
I know. That's why I said thank you.
I saw that video where everyone was freaking out in training camp where maybe you had like a blister or something. I had terrible blisters that day.
So that was all it was, right? Yeah. Yeah, you're fine.
Have you ever tried to even walk with blisters? It's tough. No, it's tough.
And 41 is the new 25. I mean, I was a warrior out there just to be able to get through an OTA practice.
You know how many quarterbacks have thrown a pass at the age of 41? Yeah. How many? I think it's nine.
I think nine quarters. Like, a bunch of guys have done it at 40, but not at 41.
But you kind of skipped 40. I'm 40.
Yeah. Yeah.
You're 41? I'm 40. When did you turn 41 december oh thanks for caring so before

the end of the season we'll see you get real nice gifts mid 40s really nice 39 oh nice thank you

people keep trying to say here yeah we're a day apart yeah you're old yeah 1985 yeah so i mean

so you're feeling good yeah feeling good obviously last year i want to ask one question that's

difficult it sucked how it started did you ever watch back the video of you with the american flag

because it was badass that was fun yeah it was fun did you watch that as somebody who's patriotic who sings the national anthem yes you have to respect that it was a it was like a 9-11 coming out with the flag one of those moments where you just you're thankful you didn't do something real stupid right before that i'm thinking'm thinking, my dumb ass, this is my 19th season. I've never run the field with anything.
Right. Just run out there, do my low fives, and move on.
Right. That's an amateur move by you, by the way.
Well, the problem is we're dealing with trying to get a bunch of people to let us have space here. But I almost didn't run out there with it.
Yeah, really? I saw everybody took a – I thought it was going to be like a couple guys.

Like the left tackle – well, the first guy introduced takes one out and maybe Garrett takes one out.

So I'm like, no, I'm not going to do that.

Then I saw everybody take one.

I was like, here, give me that thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was badass.

It was awesome.

It was very cool.

One of the coolest moments of my career.

The clip of like behind you.

Other than beating 2013, the week 17 at Chicago.

All right.

2011.

Chris Conti just – listen. He got lost.
listen he got lost sometimes you get lost on the field at what point in that play did you like he doesn't know where he is it's not him major right had a uh penalty on the play right it was a legal contact they didn't call john coon blocked pep you know i had a great cut block you had two he four on three on the backside. You should have got home.
But once I got out, I knew it was. It was the most wide open anyone's ever bet.
I don't know about that. It was pretty close.
It was pretty close. It was pretty, yeah.
It was one of those moments like, there's no way someone's standing down there. But you know why, right? Why? Because it's a zero blitz.
Yeah, you got to get. Which means you're blitzing one more than you can protect.
Right, you got to get home. So the defenders play one move.
So he didn't think he'd have to cover for four seconds. Yeah, it's a Greg Williams special.
Dr. Heath.
You're a Jet now. Why are we talking about Packers-Bears? Who cares about that? Who cares about that? How close were you to playing last year? Well, if we'd been in the hunt, I was going to try and play.
healed that quick what'd you do to me listen in 2014 i played in a small circle when i ripped my calf up a couple times and it would have been like that it would have been shotgun and pistol and um you know no like keepers no hard action stuff it would just would have been kind of playing in a small circle yeah yeah when you sat down with your doctor you're like what kind of news can you give me that i can stay in the headlines for the entire year basically yeah so that was mean of me you're a jet i like you that's it's kind of can we swear on this we got two uh two sponsors yeah no you say whatever fuck you want okay good yeah how was egypt amazing yeah amazing did you see the uh Yeah,'s all of them pyramids temples did you find out anything about the world yeah i mean you go out there you think about the history of that place a little bit differently i think yeah yeah i actually want i want to talk to you about egypt because there's there's like a lot of different theories about what went on in ancient egypt like civilizations that could have started there did you look there's a lot of interesting things about it I mean you go we did all the like other temples in Aswan and Sohag and different places before and they're like floor to ceiling hieroglyphs it's weird you go in the pyramids there's nothing no hieroglyphs no nothing really there's also never any bodies been found they told us there was like burial chambers and in Khufu the main temple it's the main room is the king's chamber and there's a queen's chamber there's no bodies ever found there's no bodies found in kafra the second chamber or second pyramid so that's all very strange i think the the fact that the stones came from a quarry which is 300 miles away or whatever is strange because those things weighed you know uh 20 to 50 tons i think them. The weathering of the Sphinx.
I'm more in the Graham Hancock camp as far as like that the age of those structures is much older than they tell us. Yeah, because that's like natural erosion on the Sphinx.
It's something that would have taken place over like thousands and thousands and thousands of years. I mean, he talks a lot about the younger dryness and going back 10,800 years, I believe it is.
And to me, that seems more in line. It's ancient.
It's an interesting country. I mean, I wouldn't maybe recommend people going there in the summertime.
It's like 120 in Aswan. They also might have OTAs.
Yeah. But you could get an excuse for that.
Some people could. Yeah.
I'm sure. Was that a problem? Was that a problem? With what? Was it, was it a problem that it was inexcused? Oh, I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure I'll get fined for that, but yeah. The thing that I think people don't understand is that when, when I was in the NFC North and playing for that team, uh, there used to be a real thing called mini camp where it was,

you had one of them usually.

Sometimes it was right after the draft, but either way,

it was five practices in three days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

So two practices on Friday, two on Saturday, one on Sunday.

Now it's not mini camp.

They can arbitrarily put a tag on whatever week of OTAs they want.

So this is the mini camp week, which makes it somehow more mandatory than the other weeks. But it was an OTA schedule.
That's how it's, you know, how words can be a little deceiving from time to time. You can make a story out of the fact that I missed a mini camp when it was really two OTA days.
Right. Interesting.
That came to the first 10. Right.
So this is a media thing. And you would never like change the meaning of a word or deliberately tell people one thing.
No, of course not. Right.
Exactly. I have your back.
Well, I mean you want to go into the etymology of words at this point? No, I'd love that. I'm just saying I have your back.
I'm your protector now. I want you to have nothing but success with the Jets.
Listen, if the Bears can't win a Super Bowl, you winning a Super Bowl for the Jets would make me happy. Seriously.
All right, man. Because then I could just be like, I kind of remember him as a Jet.
That's what I'd tell everyone. And I could just erase 15 years out of my brain.
And it'd be great. Yeah.
All right, cool. And then would you go in the Hall of Fame as a Jet if you won two Super Bowls? Yeah.
You went two new york you'd have to you got to i think you have to now i'm rooting for two yeah now i'm rooting for two that would be so mean is it a little different like talking about the media going to new york can you feel a difference between the new york media and the green bay media i mean it's hard to say i mean there's there's more beat writers in New York. You know, I've always felt like I had good relationships with, you know, a lot of the members in Green Bay.
But it wasn't like they weren't. Media is media.
They're trying to get a story. The worst.
Well, I don't know about that. They stink.
There's a few good ones in there. Name one good person that owns a microphone.
That microphone yeah pat mcafee yeah that's true we love that so yeah that's a fact yeah that's a fact he paid you to say that though yeah i guess he did yeah exactly you became like mr new york when you moved i loved i had such a good time that's why i was so heartbreaking to play fucking fucking four plays. Yeah.
You didn't complete a pass, though. I didn't throw a pick either.
But maybe you were going to have a bad season. Think about that.
Maybe you were never going to complete a pass that season. Imagine that.
That's true. So, like, that might have saved you.
That would have been wild. Yeah.
It's like Aaron Rodgers is – we're in week 10, and Aaron Rodgers has yet to complete a pass. What are you saying? I'm just saying this is – You never know.
I'm using a spin zone all this stuff. It might have been a good thing.
It might have been. You just got to recalibrate that whole experience.
It's like it's a blessing sometimes. I'm sure you learned some things during the season not being able to play.
A lot, yeah. Being on the headset, listening to all the crazy things that get said on there.
Yeah. Wow.'ll hack it making a lot of like gold member references uh not many a few from time to time there weren't a lot of things to be excited about our red zone percentage was pretty low and our yeah points per game and other things yeah what uh where do you live in new york you live in new jersey yeah nobody lives in yeah you can't live in if you, you can.
But still, I don't know why you would, just because of the traffic into a tunnel.

Yeah.

All of our stuff, I joke about.

I know that the stadium used to be on Long Island, but we're the New Jersey Jets.

Yeah.

So we're the Giants.

Yeah.

The Giants play in New Jersey.

There's only one team that plays in New York.

Yeah.

It's the Buffalo Bills.

Bills Mafia.

Yeah.

Bills Mafia.

Yeah, you guys, I mean, the Jets, people forget.

The Jets won week one, right? Yeah, I'm 1-0 as a starter. Yeah.
Yeah, that's true. That.
Bills Mafia. You guys, I mean, the Jets, people forget the Jets won week one, right?

Yeah, I'm 1-0 as a starter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's true.

That's also a great point.

Yeah.

Highest winning percentage ever for the Jets.

Jets a legend.

You've never lost.

I'm salty about the 13 game against Chicago.

We were ahead 3-0 when McClellan landed on me.

He was just making a football play.

Yeah.

That was just a goal.

But I got the L for that.

Yeah.

I was out of the game.

We're ahead.

I celebrated.

Thank you. when McClellan landed on me? He was just making a football play.
Yeah. That was just a goal.
But I got the L for that. Yeah.
I was out of the game. We're ahead.
I celebrated that so hard. Was that the one where you – Why do you celebrate people – Because you ruined my life.
And it's like, he's hurt. He's done.
He's never coming back. And then every time you get hurt – I mean, remember week one? Now you've caught me in the trap.
Week one when you were – When the Bears – When Khalhalil mac debuted and it was like this is awesome and the bears are awesome my favorite rogers is hurt oh yeah yeah that was fun that was a good comeback i knew we were gonna win that one

but my favorite all-time clip that i've seen has got to be you at the detroit game oh yeah yeah

yeah i mean that was i was literally doing it as a support thing for detroit don and super fan i was

there for the mac championship uh which was friday night and i was like let's just go to this game

Thank you. I was literally doing it as a support thing for Detroit Don and Superfan.
I was there for the MAAC championship, which was Friday night, and I was like, let's just go to this game and root against Rodgers. Found their tickets, got a seat next to them.
I was like, I'm here for your support. Like, fuck this guy.
Let's beat him. And then it's Hail Mary right in their face.
And the way they were talking before, and I do the same thing. Crazy.
But Detroit Don was saying that he did the calculations, and he's like, once we win this game, there's like an 80% chance we're going to the playoffs. And I think the Lions were like 5-6 or something.
So you just crushed everything, man. No, it was, yeah, what was it? We were 6-3, and they were 4-5.
4-5, yeah. So they were like, yeah, and he's like, once we win this game, because it was like mid-third quarter, they're like, I've done the calculations.
Like, we're going to win this game. They're going to win next week.
I was like – Sounds like a Bears fan. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I sat there and I was like, yeah, go guys. You guys always feel good about your team though.
Every single year. Every year.
Every year. It's like, this is our year.
No, that's what football is about. Jets fans feel the same way.
Trestman maybe. The second year, Trestman got a little not great.
And John Fox, it was not. Who's your favorite all-time Bears quarterback? I mean, it's Jay.
It's actually Kyle Orton, but Jay as well. I love Kyle Orton.
I think Kyle Orton doesn't get enough credit for it. Dude got the ball out fast.
You know Kyle beat me on three different teams? No way. Chicago.
Yep he ended our 13 or 19 game win streak in 2011 when he was in kent city yeah and 14 he was in buffalo yeah remember when he just retired he just like it's the ball out he just drove away he was like i'm done yeah he's just like i've ever gone out with him no but i want to so bad he's a great dude he's just a dude's dude yeah like when he just yeah he's a guy's guy like bft said he just he told the uh media he was like yeah i gotta go get something from my car he just never came back really week 18 or week 17 then the season ended and he hadn't said if he was gonna retire or not and they're like hey kyle we have a couple questions uh after the game and he's like yeah let me just grab something out of my truck drove off retired never came back i love that pretty sick that's incredible i know that's that's the best way to retire it's like low-key but it also makes people respect you more afterwards barry sanders did something like that i feel like calvin johnson didn't have a big a big deal yeah he just went off are you are you gonna do that yeah jay yeah hey he was on the dolphins that was awesome he had that yeah he had a couple that was a that was like a quiet quitting you You go down to Miami for a little bit, just chill out. That's a thing now, right? Yeah.
That's a young person. Yeah, Adam Gase paid him like $10 million.
No, the quiet quitting part. Yeah, yeah.
Hank quiet quit like three years ago. Yeah.
Nice. But he's still around.
Smart. He just slowly quiet quit.
So what do you think about the Jets this year? I always like our chances. You sound like a Bears fan.
Yeah. Jets fans are probably as tormented as Bears fans.

Yeah, I would say so.

It's a different level of torment.

Yeah, because the Bears have been in the playoffs at least once in the last 13 years.

Right.

But it's kind of the same like what you did to Chicago.

That's what Tom Brady did to New York.

And now you're just traveling around just trying to continue that hatred. hatred.
Of what? Well, you're just trying to, you're now you're trying to take over Boston, but you stole big cats joy. You stole big cats joy for like a decade.
You made him significantly less happy. Yeah.
That's, that's, we always say that that's like the next level of athlete. If you become the thief of joy, like my homes has reached that level where, you know, like if you're a bills fan or you're a Niners fan,'re like this guy has just ruined it for me you did that to me that's the that's the like elite quarterback then thief of joy above that well thank you yeah you you hit that you definitely hit that i appreciate that portnoy's got to be riding kind of high right now right why because he's got a dog that's like a billionaire yeah that and the celt, yeah.
He's happy about that. Hank was on the duck boat with Joe Missoula, the coach of the Celtics.
What was that? He personally invited him. The coach was pouring beer on Hank's head.
It was great. He basically won a championship.
It's pretty insane. That's the ring? Yeah.
It's like Kramer going to the Tonys. Yeah.
That was essentially what it was. He just got ushered off and he's like,'m just part of the celtics now all right so what uh yeah what when does training camp start 23rd okay you'll be there yeah probably unless you have to go i might have a trip planned we'll make a clip of that just say yeah probably probably that would be a great headline that will make a lot of people where where on earth could you go uh that would make you miss the start of training camp I mean, anywhere.
what do you mean? Is there a place where it's like, this is, I would, yeah, I'd skip work to go to Mongolia. Oh, Mongolia, yeah.
Yeah. Well, how much does training camp suck? Like, it has to, if you've been in the league for a really long time, it's like, I know what to do.
It's a different suck. Back when football was hard, you know, a long time ago, when there's real double days yeah physically it was the worst but mentally it wasn't i don't feel like it was as bad just physically you're just now it's all mental yeah you're sitting around all day long in you know interesting meetings and the hot days yeah yeah and the practice is short it even that hard.
Yeah. And you don't play in preseason.

We used to play in preseason.

Right.

You know, we'd play, we'd like play, you know, 15 plays,

then a quarter and a half, then into the third quarter.

Yeah.

You know, now you don't even play in the preseason.

You should play in the preseason this year.

Why?

Why not? Just make football hard again.

Aaron Rodgers is making football hard again.

Don't steal that.

That's fine.

Yeah.

All right. We'll print the shirts.
Also make America hard again. Yeah Print the shirts Also make America hard again Let's get tougher as a country Let's get that callus built up You should run for office You should run for president I think you set your sights too low I agree You're not a backup quarterback How close were you to running for vice president? I know you were thinking about about it yeah i thought about it and i just kept on living my life yeah did it was football the main factor in that equation yeah i think so yeah yeah so wait you you love you love football more than you love america then oh he got you there that's true he got you there that's tough that's tough i support the troops yeah okay that Wait, so where's next for you to travel? What's the spot you got on the- I'm not telling.
Come on. No, I'm not telling.
Can I give you a rec? Yeah, please. I feel like you would love the Galapagos.
Ooh, nice. Love it.
What about it? All the nature out there? Yeah. And then, and this is serious, it's just like a two-hour boat ride, Ayahuasca.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Ecuador. Nice.
Yeah, but no, the Galapagos is great. You got the giant tortoises.
They weigh like 400 pounds. They look like dinosaurs.
Can you ride them? You can try. I'll give you a tip.
The Sphere in Vegas. Oh.
It's fucking sick, dude. Is it really? It's so sick.
What did you see there? I saw it dead in company two nights in a row. Awesome.
just uh saturday it was they've been there for like a month and a half it was like three weeks ago don't you love that they had a last tour last year around this time my wife has been giving me shit for it for the last five years because every year i'm just like shows have you been to are you a big yeah i am uh i don't know probably over 30 but how many performance enhancers are you on during a lot a lot uh i ate a lot of mushrooms in the in the sphere, which I probably didn't need to. Chocolate or actual mushrooms? Chocolate, yeah, chocolate.
It's kind of amateur hour. Oh, you think so? I'm not 22 anymore.
I mean, I'm not like, yeah. 22 is for the chocolates.
No, 22 is when I would eat the caps. And? And now I've graduated and I'm just like.
Now you're mature, you're doing the chocolate? Mature to the chocolates. Like a mature adult? Yeah.
But wait yeah but wait what's that get it in a store it's like you could buy drugs at a store it's the same thing right yeah it is no it's not what's different well i definitely tripped more when i ate the well first of all what's in chocolate uh mushrooms chocolate and mushrooms what other it's chocolate and mushrooms um cocoa chocolate and chocolate okay and sugar probably some probably some like mini plastics and stuff maybe maybe a vaccine who knows but yeah you should enjoy the debate i love the debate the debate it was fantastic i watched great tv that made me fall in love with america i was like we got the two best guys for the job i'm happy about that sure i don't they started talking about golf oh yeah trump just actually said recently yeah a million dollars he's giving he would give joe 10 strokes aside 20 yeah yeah we were saying we were saying that that my fault uh biden already lost because you can't take that you can't you can't take 20 you can't even if you if you lose by 18 you technically win the but then what? You won the bet because you didn't lose by 20? Yeah. My favorite part about it that kind of got under the radar was that Biden's, like, get him, whereas you got to carry your own bag.
This is a guy who couldn't even walk off the stage. I know.
He couldn't even walk off the stage, but, yeah, you got to carry your own bag. I love it.
Just two old guys yelling at each other about golf. That's America.
I say get them in singlets, let them wrestle it out. Yeah.
Yeah. We were saying do Frisbee golf, but no one else is allowed out there, and they're just both like break their hips in the woods.
They don't bother us anymore. I love that.
Because it is crazy that the best we can do as a country is two guys 75 and plus. No, it is.
I know I'm saying it's not the best, but it's the current options, which is nuts to me. I just can't believe we can't have like an election day that's a national holiday.
It takes weeks to count all these votes. That makes no sense to me.
Make election day and the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday holidays. That's's it it should be a holiday for election day you should run be doing and then be my vice president i would yeah on election day there should also be football tuesday at football oh yeah no yeah there should yeah there should it's something to distract us isn't that the old romans right like the bread and circus yeah bread and circus we need that for sure you just you just feed them with food How often do you guys think about the Roman Empire? Almost never, actually.
Only when somebody asks me that question. I think I think of World War II a lot more.
Yeah, all the time. That feels like it was...
I understood the meme. How come? I don't know.
I just... You like to drop in the bombs or...
It's just the whole thing is just fascinating. Good versus evil.
Yeah. It's like really the only war that's good versus evil.
We were the good guys. We were the good guys in World War II.

Save the world.

We're always good guys.

Care to debate that?

Team America World Police.

Yeah.

I think about-

Great movie.

Great movie.

We flexed our industrial might all over the place.

We were building ships that we didn't even need.

Have you read about that?

Yeah.

In Japan, we had an ice cream ship.

I'm not joking.

We had-

An ice cream ship?

We had such a better production.

Who the fuck are we?

Us.

USA.

Our industry was so far advanced.

Japan was fighting with old wooden ships,

and we had an ice cream ship that just made ice cream

and just gave it to all of our other ships.

Nice.

I love that.

That's badass.

It's great that we can talk about World War II. I was in the war, yeah.
I was in could talk about world war i was in the war yeah you know i served long days long days long nights what are you doing yeah feeding ice cream yeah it works it works soft serve i i think about the jfk assassination way more than any of those other things too yeah yep there's some weird shit that came out about that recently you think so well yeah the secret service agent he said he's the the one that put that bullet on the gurney. Well, yeah, that's obvious.
And he said that he found it in the back of the limo, meaning it was like one of the deflection shots. It wasn't the magic bullet that they said that it was.
What a great bullet that was. Yeah, well, they said...
I mean, how can... It's like your pass in Dallas that was not real.
That one on the sideline? Yeah, it kind of kind of curved back yeah don't equate a fake magic bullet theory with me hitting a dime on the sidelines they both happened in dallas you mean i don't it was jared cook on the sideline the one that was like it was a magic bullet you basically assassinated jfk where were you in november of 1963 better ask Better ask former, you know, former head of the CIA where he was at. Yeah, George Bush.
That's what I think about, too. Before that.
There's another? He was also served in the Warren Commission. Right.
He also has an airport named after him in Washington. Oh, you're talking about Dulles.
Yeah. Yeah dulles bad guy but also george bush old george bush h yeah hw bush he was director of the cia he didn't know he couldn't remember where he was when kennedy got shot yeah well you go even back in that family even farther back yeah some other stuff yeah there is prescott bushes i read 10 pages of a book about it hey congrats yeah i bought the book it's about the bushes and i really 10 pages.
Since you got lean you're a big reader now yep you're positive do you meditate i like you what are you yeah we're friends now it's awesome what uh when we had sex with a woman i have three kids i have three kids do you really yes three. So I've proved three times.
Do you remember their names?

I remember all their names.

I don't say their names.

I'll tell you after.

Why not?

Yeah.

I don't say, because I think that, this is real talk,

I hate people who exploit their children online.

Like David Bakhtary?

Does he do that?

I don't know.

That was wild to just throw that out there if he doesn't do that.

I think it's hard enough. I thought that's where he was going.
No no i think it's hard enough to be a kid in today's day and age that if you you know you're in high school and it's like oh my my parents have been making videos of me my entire childhood and posting it that is insane to me like let a kid be a kid yeah so i protect their privacy a lot but i'll tell you after okay cool yeah um i might not care after no you probably won't yeah well here's here's a question for you uh when we text do you love the power that you have over me and hold over me i do yeah because you just don't respond for months and then you'll give me one response and then i'll do a like a follow-up instantly because i'm like i know he's looking at his phone right now and then you'll go another four months. Yeah.
It's just the way it goes sometimes. And I know I'm sitting there like, he's fucking doing this and he's fucking with me and there's nothing I can do.
Every now and then I get a good chuckle. This motherfucker's looking at his phone right now.
Not going to text him. I even pulled out the trick with Bakht back to re where i texted back to re and you pretending that you weren't on the text chain i thought that was gonna get you and it didn't no you just amateur you should respond and then quickly delete it unsend the message so he gets a notification that you sent him something can't you still see the deleted message though i don't know you can edit a message i know I got that part.
You could edit it instantly. Just figure that out.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just blank.
It comes in handy. Do you have any burner accounts? What is that? Burner accounts? Your burner guy? Yeah.
That was a yes. How many burner accounts do you have? That was a yes.
I feel like you're heavy in the replies of Elon. Yeah.
Yeah. Love you, Elon.
Tremendous gambit. Elon your tesla's so sick yeah uh no wasn't there some athletes who supposedly had kevin he got exposed for it really but he i kind of liked he he's somewhat cop to it i don't really do any social media, honestly.
I mean, it's super minimal. Like posting stuff super rarely on Instagram.
Only on Twitter if I have to put out a major fire. So where do you go for your info? Oh, good question.
Info Wars. Info Wars? Alex Jones? They're about to take that away from Alex.
Yeah. I don't know.
Twitter, I think it's. Yeah, you just read the comments on posts.
posts that's where you get all your info on what like you you see a tweet and you just read all the people who are experts underneath oh yeah of course oh the day that that bridge in baltimore went down i learned so much about how it was a distraction from puff daddy yeah yeah yeah they brought the bridge down because p did he got of course yeah of course it makes total sense yeah absolutely it all starts coming together innocent yeah uh memes you got a question for aaron as many as you want uh he's he defends you to hardcore against who he thinks that the the media has it out for you and the jets they definitely do he thinks everyone's a florio walking around he ranked his florio what is it is it? Mike Florio's number one Florio. That's one of the questions.
Diana Rossini's number two Florio. And Matt Miller's number three Florio.
I don't even know who that is. Well, he does.
Memes does. He's in the weeds for you.
Yeah. I was going to say, do you ever see any of the hater ass media like Mike Florio? Good question, Memes.
I don't. I don't.
Now, i've gotten a couple texts from the other uh diana yeah but i never respond she is she's a friend of ours oh really very very strong reporting yeah oh yeah okay decent reporting yeah uh how are you feeling how's the arm how's the leg you look strong yeah leg is good blisters are gone. That's good.
I feel great. Yeah.
Running fast. Also, another question I think you missed is you look strong.
Oh, thank you. You do look very strong.
Thanks. Just a beautiful man.
Do you think the NFL scheduled the 49ers game on Monday Night Football on purpose? I hope so. Because it's on grass.
Yeah. But.
I never say no to grass. But you.
Yeah. You versus the 49ers.
It's not me versus the Jets versus the 49ers, bro. Come on.
But you versus the 49ers. You've got a 49ers problem.
Why? You know why. You know exactly why.
What do you mean? They own you. We beat them last time we played there.
No, they own you. Last time we played there, we beat them.
The 49ers own you.

That's a fact.

The 49ers, I've done the meme.

What the fuck team are you on now?

You're jumping ship back again.

It's true.

It's true.

I strike it from the record.

I strike it from the record.

I strike it from the record.

The 49ers used to own you.

Sorry.

Will a couple of mispractices have any effect on the season?

Yeah.

Big effect. I'm glad you said practices, thank you Yeah OTA practices, yeah But you were there for voluntary, it's fine Yeah Bunch of haters This one was just, do you want to hang out? Yeah Yeah, alright You win the Super Bowl, Memes gets to ride up front with you.
Yeah, Memes gets the treatment. Yes.

Okay, deal.

Will we get to see you for more than five snaps this season?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay.

Good question, Memes.

And that was it.

Great one.

Hey, thanks.

Good job, man.

Nice.

Good job, Memes.

That was Memes' first time conducting an interview.

That's strong.

He's good with Memes.

Not a talker.

He's a Memes guy.

He lives on the internet.

Guy behind the guy.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

Are we in phase me right now?

I don't know what that means.

You know what phase me is?

What?

Robert Salah?

Oh, phase me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, probably, I guess.

You don't really know what phase me is, though.

I don't know.

Not really.

He's doing it right now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is actually a great example of phase me.

Yeah.

Yeah, killing phase me.

Wait, how's your golf game?

Are you going to win this thing this week? No. My game's not that good.
What's your handicap? It doesn't matter. This is no handicap side here.
I know, but what are you usually golfing? I mean, I'll be in the 70s probably. Okay.
That's pretty damn good. This course, I own this course.
You own this course? It's like Soldier Field. Oh, come on.
What are you doing with my dad. What are you doing now? We were 49ers.
Own your ass. It was a little bit off.
Yeah, all right, all right. Put our guns down.
Let's put our guns down. Isn't it embarrassing you got to go to another team to say anything? No embarrassment whatsoever.
I made the meme with the little kid laying in bed and, like, the missiles coming, and it's the 49ers standing there taking all the missiles and guarding me at night. Really?

Yeah.

That's a good man.

I have no problem.

Isn't that the defensive end from last year, from the Bills?

He's on the Niners too, right?

Is he really?

Yeah, same guy.

Who?

Who was it?

Who was it?

Leonard Floyd?

Leonard Floyd.

He's on the Niners.

He is a pair for life.

Monday Night Football.

Starting the season out. Same guy.

I'm going to have to sweet talk him a little bit.

Yeah.

Pay him off?

Just tell him.

That's a breath far.

Let me get through play five.

Yeah.

Wait, what's the strength of your golf game?

Short game.

Yeah.

Yeah, putting.

Oh, putting?

Yeah.

Not like.

Chipping's decent, but putting.

Yeah.

How long are you?

Long.

Real long?

Yeah.

Okay, nice. I mean, I saw your tee shot.
It wasn't that great. Okay.
Which one? The one that went way far off to the right. What hole? Like your politics.
It was 10? It was 10, yeah. That was a bet.
It did go far right. I love when people try and cancel me.
When I play golf with Obama, I was like the leftist, the other right try to cancel put you in a box then i you know then i was on team kennedy so everybody tried to cancel me politically and then i didn't shake trump's hand so the right tried to get after me again yeah you're your own man i realized i actually had shaken his hand yeah and then they reversed course yeah reverse course a little bit people are unfair to aaron rogers i've always been consistent with that politics i've said from the beginning is an absolute sham yeah and if we've seen anything whether it's you talking about what they did to bernie sanders in 2016 that we saw in the podesta emails or the fact that uh nothing really ever changes nothing changes all they do is just talk about what they're going to do and then nothing and life doesn't actually get better for any of us whether it's a republican or democrat and we're still just doing the same fucking two-party system and not letting bobby get in or anybody else yeah pft and i always said if you want to be president you should be disqualified i like that yeah that's it's you have to be an egomania you have to be a psycho to want to be president right and to actually like common sense politics some common sense like let's not let uh anybody 75. The Packers have a rule.
Yeah. 70, you got to retire.
Yeah. Right? Yeah.
Going to board emeritus, but 70, you got to retire. Yeah.
That seems to make pretty good sense. You know what they used to do in ancient Greece was they had this thing called sortition.
They chopped their nuts off? No, they probably did that back then too. Yeah.
But it was more along the lines of like a lottery to see who was going to be the the mayor or the governor and so it could be anybody like they just randomly gave to somebody which is kind of terrifying because there's terrifying in today's world a lot of weirdos out there but at the same time yeah it made them really focus on their education system because like any of these psychos could end up being president how about term limits yeah yeah how about you can't insider trade i love it dave's jumped on the on board with that yeah those apps that track. Like you can track Nancy Pelosi's.
Yeah. She's a hell of a stock trader.
It's crazy. I don't know what Davey's doing.
She's Wolf of Wall Street. I don't know what Davey Day Trader's doing.
He should be fucking following the old Nancy. Yeah.
Nancy's got it down. I agree with you.
It's embarrassing though. It's embarrassing for our country.
And it's also embarrassing. Like, I know we're getting deep into it, but it's embarrassing that people can't, there's no one who can just have like the common sense approach that like don't not everything has to be one or the other there's a lot of middle that no one ever like the loudest the loudest people is the 10 right and there's five percent on both sides yeah the most of the country you travel on the country you guys do regular guys great people right who don't you just want to kind of be left alone they want their freedoms they want to be told what to do with their bodies they don't want to be fucking taxed crazy percentage uh you know and they're not looking for a bunch of handouts I just want to kind of be left alone.
They want their freedoms. They don't want to be told what to do with their bodies.
They don't want to be fucking taxed, crazy percentage. And they're not looking for a bunch of handouts.
They just want to be happy. They want to be kind of happy and left alone for the most part.
I think standout of politics is probably a good choice just because you have to answer for everything. When that article came out about Bobby where he's got a barbecued dog behind him, there would have been people asking you, do you support eating dogs? You'd have to say, I do not support eating dogs.
And they'd be like, why are you even addressing this? Well, they're scared of people that can't control. True.
That is a fact. That is a confirmed fact.
The media in general is scared of people that can't control. Yeah.
Which you're kind of. That's why, you know, to talk about your company, you know, like that's why those bullshit articles would come out when the earnings.
earnings earnings every time yeah every single time why because they because dave and you guys built this brand that can't be controlled right that we don't have and you try and then you try and get after them you don't have you know your women part and oh no no we have a woman ceo or this thing or that thing it's just like people that they they can't truly control are dangerous people they've hopped on every single uh like angle to try to take us down throughout the years it's literally just gone from like one thing to the next and it's just like all right we're still here it's so it's i would say the majority of them too are so unethical yeah oh yeah like the practices now is just it's a fucking joke yeah and that's politics there's bias in all of it right which is should be journals and then to get back to the the core of what the hell's going on right now we have a guy who's been uh you know whether rightly or wrongly a kangaroo court or whatever been indicted on felonies and a guy who's shitting his pants it's pretty good and then we got bobby who doesn't give a chance to even be in the in debates yeah and if you know the insides about how ridiculous it is for a third party candidate to get on the ballots oh yeah in 50 states it's a fucking sham yeah like it's certain colors in some states a certain person people you got to submit it to in other states a certain amount of votes in certain states it's a fucking joke i feel like it used to be easier back in the day ross perot was always running. Yeah, no, he was a real, he was on the debate stage.

Yeah.

When we were kids, yeah.

No, it's crazy.

It's crazy.

So football.

Yeah.

Who do you like this year?

I like us.

The Jets?

Yeah.

And who?

You got to play somebody in the Super Bowl.

Bears.

Not the Bears.

Yeah, because that would ruin you.

Why?

Oh, that would.

That'd be a great way to go out, wouldn't it be?

I actually don't know if I'd be able to handle that game because there would just be so much at stake. That would ruin you.
Why? Oh, that would. That would be a great way to go out, wouldn't it be? I actually don't know if I'd be able to handle that game because there would just be so much at stake.
That would ruin you. It would ruin me.
Yeah. That would ruin me.
I would be surprised if the Bears were there. That's not a disrespectful thing to say, but like.
I would too. I would be surprised as well.
The NFC is tough, and you have a rookie quarterback. Yeah.
I think he could do it. Yeah surround him with a lot of really good pieces.
But I think in their division, on paper, can you not say that they're not... You can't say they're better than third on paper in the division.
I think I would say that objectively. I can.
I can say whatever I want. Objectively.
Objectively. Do you think that they're better on paper than Detroit and Green Bay? I think they're better than Green Bay.
Paper? Really? On paper. Paper? We're talking about paper.
We're talking about paper? I don't know what paper you're using in Chicago. We're talking about paper.
Zigzag. No, I'd agree with you.
How much time do you put in here? We're done in a second. We're unproven.
We're unproven, but I love that Ryan Poles feels like they've built the team. You're a big Ryan like they've built the team huge ryan even though he shined you we you guys were doing a let's facetime the person on the phone you want to facetime and see who picks up and i fucking picked up back to re i was like yeah i was like let's facetime rogers because we're gonna be in tahoe try to get him on he's like no problem he's like but you have to facetime poles and try and just say that you you're me.
He didn't want a job with the Bears, but I was like, I want to watch you try to get me on the Bears, and Poles didn't pick up. So, yeah, that sucked.
He kind of did what you do to me. All right, last question because I know you've got to go.
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Roback.com. Aaron Rodgers.
That was good. That was nice.
Thank you. You've done that before.
I've been doing this. Wow.
41 years old. 40.
Guy told me I looked 32 yesterday. I don't know what he was smoking, but I liked it.
Yeah, he was fine. Then did he say, can I have your autograph? No, he didn't.
Oh, okay. That's awesome that and you just brought it out yeah i've been in the league 20 years yeah you're a quarterback when you're 12 uh which is also the funny part when people are like did you play did you play with uh against steve young and john elway i was in high school when they retired all right but speaking of that how many more years i don't know i'm not sure this one for sure this one for sure i'd like to do i wanted to do two good ones and to give us a chance to retire a jet you know win two superbowls yeah and then do the kyle orton yeah is that how you retire legend of course it's like take take a sip of uh of psychedelic tea just disappear in the locker room oh i like just fade away all an illusion yeah rainbow body yeah was it heron rogers ever real yeah you want i'll be happy to say no this is a simulation so what is right exactly no you're

right you're right about that i think it actually is a simulation yeah it's got to be right i don't

know mathematically think about that throw to mathematically what time of math terrence howard

math or terrence howard math one times one is two do you know math yeah is it weird that you went to

cal yeah that is weird yeah what's eight times five i don't know do you know calculus not really i wasn't good at calculus never been in the same room geometry yeah fantastic me and calculus never met i don't even i don't even if you show we're using calculus today show of hands nobody they've got calculus this not exactly the greatest. It's a swath of the population here.

We are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to that shit.

But still, none of us.

Yeah, none of us.

That's true.

Yeah, they have machines that can do that.

You got calculators.

You got computers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

What are we doing?

What happens when AI takes over, though?

Bad.

Yeah.

I actually think we're probably the only ones that are safe.

You probably are fucked.

How come? I don't know if AI is going to go. Taking the strong ones out to start? No, they're just going to be.
Yeah, that might be true. Can AI do a podcast? Yeah.
No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
Can AI play quarterback? Yes. Yeah? Probably.
Can AI drink ayahuasca? Good point. You could probably code ayahuasca somehow.
The virus. So we're all safe.
Yeah, we're all fucked yeah no chance they're editing and everything that's all yeah good thing about us i feel like we're too dumb to have ai take our job like you can't train ai to be this stupid right it would break yeah right i don't know like how do you say to ai like intentionally fuck up facts all the time just like program it with like i don't know the current state of our politics uh intelligence level okay okay yeah or just use our brains maybe they were the model for the dummy are you smarter than than joe biden or not i would say yes at this point really yeah i would say so probably probably yeah i haven't shit my pants in i think it's been a year and a half it's been about six months for me that's good which is pretty good that's good yeah i'm definitely not smarter than hunter that guy rocks i don't sniff any hair he's figured a lot of stuff out yeah how to make money painting yeah i would like to party with hunter i think for one night maybe six hours six hours with hunter yeah i just gotta go yeah out of his life. There's some gerbils in there or something.

Aaron, this has been awesome.

Hey, thanks, guys.

I'm a big fan of yours.

Yeah, well, you said 10.

It was been about an hour.

We're going to cut this, right?

We're going to cut it?

Yeah.

Hey, thanks, guys.

It's good to see you.

Good to see you too, Aaron. We're friends.

I'm at least a man of my word.

You are.

It took a lot to get the word out, but yes.

I thought I would do this.

That's a fact. You are a man of your word.
So I'm going to turn over a new leaf. You are.
It took a lot to get the word out, but yes. That I would do this.
That's a fact.

You are a man of your word.

So I'm going to turn over a new leaf.

You put me through hell to get it, but you're a man of your word.

And look at us now.

Yeah, and I'm rooting for you.

What?

Look at us.

Who would have ever thought that we would be friends?

Yeah, we're friends.

This is our second time we've done this.

Yeah.

On the third date, you guys got to go all the way.

Interesting. Okay.
Yeah. That's just doing ay you guys got to go all the way.
Interesting.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's just doing ayahuasca.

Okay.

All right.

Throw it back to Bob in the studio.

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Before we do these quotes, so memes made a mistake in the Aaron Rodgers interview. Oh, no.
And I didn't realize it in real time. Otherwise, it would have helped him.
Yeah. I thought it was just a very awkward question that he asked he asked aaron rogers if he would play more than four plays this year if he would play five plays this year it kind of was weird we all were like what's going on here memes forgot to say the part where will you play five plays this year because if you don't i'm going to have to strap a bomb to my chest and go bomb nfl headquarters yeah memes famously made that promise a couple months ago and that was the context for the question yeah so because it sounded like you were like being a dick jets fan but in reality you were just trying to save your own life yeah i was just mainly just trying to ask questions if he's gonna play because all i know is five snaps.
But I should have referenced the bomb. Yeah, the bomb would have been good there.
But it was a good interview. You did good memes.
Yeah, all questions but the one awkward one. Yeah, but you did a good job.
I was proud of you. That was your first time asking questions in an interview, right? Yeah, first time ever.
Wow. And I asked one question with a quarterback, just everybody's hand size.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, you want to read these quotes?

They're great, PFT.

Let's hear them.

Do you see them?

I did not see them.

Oh, I love it.

So we'll get your honest reaction.

Okay.

Go ahead, Hank.

You go first.

Yeah, I woke up to this one on Saturday, and I was like, this is just fake.

I scrolled by a Buckrock Sports tweet. It said, this is from Legion Hoops via the New York Times, Joel Embiid on if he has any doubts, Team USA will win the gold medal.
You look at the talent that the U.S. has, but there's equal talent on other teams.
And the talent that's on the U.S. team, you also got to understand most of these guys are older.
The LeBron now is not the LeBron that was a couple of years ago, so it's a big difference. Everybody would also tell you, and you can see for yourself, the athletic LeBron, dominant that he was a couple years ago, is not the same that he is now.
I think people get fooled by the names on paper, but those names have built throughout their career, and now they're older. They're not what they used to be.
Okay. Those are his teammates.
Yep, they're his teammates. And a very accomplished teammate who's been to – has LeBron ever – Oh, so now we're LeBron stands on this show? No, I was going to ask a question.
So now we're LeBron stands on this show? I was going to ask a question. I was going to ask a question.
Hank, has LeBron ever been to a conference finals? A lot. A lot of them.
I think a lot, a lot. Like all of them, basically.
Yeah, yeah maybe joel and beat is just he's shocked because he's never been on a team with this much talent before yeah no i think he's saying this team sucks it's interesting playing on such a good team he's like eh we're not that good yeah interesting move for uh for a new american yeah max if you're in that locker room and you see your teammates head about you and your team leader, what would you?

Well, that was a quote taken out of context.

You didn't watch the full thing.

What was the context?

I don't know.

I did read the article that he had in the New York Times.

It did make sense.

He said that Cameroon is home, and if Cameroon had made it to the Olympics, he would have been on Team Cameroon. He was deciding between France and U.S.
France put, like, a time limit on him. U.S.
was like, hey, let us know. And he was like, I'm picking U.S.
So he did make that clear. So it wasn't like he was very clear about that.
But he also said in this one, essentially without freak injuries, he'd be in the goat conversation. Anthony Edwards says shit like that all the time.
And you're like, oh, Anthony Edwards is so great. I don't think he's ever said that.
If Anthony Edwards said that 10 years into his career without getting to a conference final, I'd probably be like, that's crazy. Also, I don't think Anthony Edwards has ever had the type of injuries that Joel Embiid has had yeah but you do see the difference you're backing up Joel Embiid's point no no no I know I'm saying Anthony Edwards would never say that because he hasn't had those injuries yeah he wouldn't say freak injuries you understand that if Anthony Edwards in 10 years time if he hasn't won anything and he was like, I'm the goat.

You want

your guys to have confidence.

Yeah, I guess.

If you're a fan of the team, you should think that

your best players... He doesn't though because he's

going to get hurt. He's talking about LeBron.

He doesn't have confidence in his team.

This isn't...

You guys can't...

You guys... This is such bullshit because all you guys ever do Is just shit on LeBron Shit on LeBron He's a piece of shit And then the one time That like it comes Against me You're like Oh LeBron Like he's the fucking best I can't believe anyone Would ever say this About LeBron You might be right I don't even think About it like LeBron.
It's not a present thing. It could have been any teammate.
It could have been anyone

on this team. Well, he did say, and the other guys

on the team have built their reputations off what they have

been. You might be right.

He said his teammates are not what they used to be.

Let me try something different then, Max, from this

article, okay? We're just hopping

around. I think Joel Embiid just needs to,

my motto is never tell anyone outside the family

what you're thinking again. Yeah.
Keep it in the family.

Let me ask you this one. He said, quote, the best cheesesteak is Subway cheesesteak.
Tro L.M.B. He's a big Jared fan.
That's a great troll. He said, I don't eat cheesesteaks.
And the reporter said, you don't eat cheesesteaks? He said, no, you want to know the real answer? The best cheesesteak is Subway cheesesteak.

He's a good troll.

It's a great troll.

Could you imagine Bryce Harper saying something like that, Max?

Yeah.

I mean, Embiid's a funny guy.

I actually did come out of this interview liking him more because he's been through a lot,

and it was a good interview.

I want to make one thing clear. I have nothing against Joel and bead i like i think he's a funny guy actually you just have something against me no i i love how mad he makes you there's certain people out there and certain things are just i only see them through the lens now of being pressure points on max's body where i can press the joel and bead button and get max worked up about it i can press the second place button get you worked up about it there's a lot of things so i appreciate him for that but i do think he's a good guy yeah and i think he's he's funny and he's intentionally a troll sometimes i respect that like i could see him posting a black and white steak photo and being like perfect steak i like this guy it does sound like he likes subway cheesesteak so He might.
Yeah. Yeah, I like the interview.
It was a good interview.

He's been balling. Not really, but that's fine.
It's preseason. I mean, he will ball.
It's preseason. He's calling out his teammates.
It's also such bullshit that they – this is a personal thing. What? Why are they playing four hours away from Paris? It's Olympics oh cause you wanna go I wanted to go to the game I wanted to go to the game it was four hours away have you ever seen how the Olympics work though take a train oh man I'll I'll pay for you to go I can't go I'll pay for you to go cause imagine if Max got to see Joel Embiid get a freak injury in fucking France where are they they playing? I don't know.
If you saw, that would be the most Max thing ever if he was out for the year with Max is watching him in France. You wouldn't be able to come back.
You'd have to stay there. Yeah, I would choose to stay there.
Yeah.

You'd look good in a beret.

Oh, we should get some.

Can we get a couple max, you know, baguettes?

Yeah, for sure.

I'll tell you what.

The baguettes in France.

I can't wait.

They are so much better than the shit we eat here.

It's insane.

You just become.

I remember I went to France for like 10 days.

It just became like two o'clock would hit. It'd be like time to eat an entire baguette.
I just want to eat bread and cheese. Like I don't want to go to any nice restaurant.
I'm going to. Something in the water.
The only thing, I just want bread and cheese. Something in the water.
Bread, cheese, the wine is good. Oh, by the way, one last thing about the Rogers interview.
I know we got into the JFK conversation. I wish I had seen the fact that his driver was the one who shot him before we interviewed Rogers.

And obviously we taped that before the Trump assassination thing and Joe Biden dropping it.

Yes.

Obviously.

Did you see the video of the driver shooting him?

Did we watch it?

Yeah, but you saw it.

You've been converted.

I mean, that's just not a real video, but. I don't want to talk to you anymore then.
All right. Numbers.
20. 3.
12. 8.
42. 56.
Hank, I'm starting to get that thing where people just DM me strategies of how to get the number, and it's so fucking annoying because there's no strategy. It's a random number generator, but there's no way you're actually

going to know. There is a strategy.

You can just pick the right number, which

all of us pretty much in this room have done.

Basically.

99.

21.

This feels like a 99 day.

35.

35.

C-Max, you should have picked 35. That That's an easy strategy Try the 1 through 100 Love you guys Love you, show me away.

I'm coming for you, love of faith. Love of faith.

Take on me.

Take on me.

Take me.

Take on me. Take me up.
I'll be gone. I'll be gone.
I'll be gone. So needless to say.
A lot's and ends. But I'll feed some little way.
So that then life is okay. Stay up to me Thank you.
Take it on me Take it on me Take it on me Take it on me Take it on me So, so, so Thank you. Thank you.