Baker Mayfield, Mt Rushmore Of Video Games, Jalen Brunson's New Deal + Monday Reading

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have good friend, recurring guest, been a long time, Baker Mayfield on the show. We taped it during Chill Week, awesome interview.
We haven't talked to Baker in like four or five years. We get into that.
There was a concern that maybe we were outside of the inner circle. We are not.
We're back in. And it was an awesome interview.
It was great catching up with Baker. We're so, so happy for everything that's transpired in the past year.
Talk UFOs with him. Yeah.
That short week that he had going out to L. LA.
It was an awesome interview and great to have him back on the show.

We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of video games in honor of EA Sports College Football

being back today, which we will talk about some more.

We have a lot to recap.

There were some Euros.

There were some Wimbledon.

There were some Copa.

There were some other sports. It all happened happened jalen brunson signed a deal it was a big weekend in sports and we'll get to all of it in a minute 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, I've been obsessed with this sandwich.
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Today is Monday, July 15th. And let me be the first to say we are are listening right now to the only, as far as I know it, the only sports podcast that is 100% against assassination.
Anti-assassination. That's us.
That's the type of take you get on this program that you don't get on your first takes. You don't get that on your get-ups.
You don't get that your ryan rossillo shows i'd like to see greenie come out and be 100 anti-assassination oh no greenie will never do that no greenie will never in a million years it's too controversial for way too controversial yeah that was crazy we don't really talk about the political world but uh when there's an assassination attempt on a former president who's currently running for president uh we have to come out and say that we are very much against assassination pretty wild uh one turn of the head and that's all it took missed by inches also a hell of a picture by trump to stand up like that to have the the thought in the moment being like this is gonna rock did you see some of the pictures that have the bullet actually going by the back of his head nuts it is crazy it's nuts and uh yeah crazy times we live in uh we are uh an escape from those crazy times but we had to say anti-assassination i noticed one person in this room has not come out and said anti-assassination we as a podcast are anti-assassination okay okay all right wait i am good wait i assassination so you are hank personally i am personally and as? I am personally and as a podcast. Same.
I didn't know that the podcast was going to be anti. I knew that I was going to be already.
It sounds like Hank just kind of followed suit when he heard that we were anti-assassination. I'm anti-assassination.
There we go, Max. There we go, Max.
Memes? Anti-assassination. Yes.
Chalk it up. That is a consensus, boys.
How about- That's the only consensus we ever had on this podcast. Also, just goes to show you Nick Castellanos' tremendous timing.
I mean, memes. Are you...
Like, your meme just lives forever. He hit a home run, and he also hit his 45th and 47th RBIs yesterday.
Incredible. Maybe the funniest guy in baseball.
Memes? I thought it died down there for a little bit and thought it was over, but he just keeps coming back. Now, he did hit it before the assassination attempt, but I still think Nick Cassianos anytime he homers, you just gotta look over your shoulder.
On high alert, yeah. I regret drafting him onto my Dingers only team.
Feels like it's just every time something good happens for me, something bad's about happening to somebody else yeah poor richard simmons as well passed away and no one i mean we all thought he might have been dead for years and then when he did die he's like i'll just you know a random saturday in july no it stinks to have your own death overshadowed by somebody else almost dying yeah instantly instantly and i found out that richard sim Simmons died because Trump almost got assassinated. Yeah, because you were looking at, like, the 4U? Yeah.
Yeah. I also found out that Ben Simmons is still alive.
Because he was probably also true. Yeah.
I've looked at the shooter. Yes.
The 4U page on Twitter was popping off. I think there was one headline that was, like from NBA star to to Trump rally prankster.
Here's what Klay Thompson's up to now. It's just like, OK, and we're going to settle this at the at the battle bot.
That's what that's what Biden said tonight. The battle bot.
We're going to sell this at the battle bots. OK, so by the way, that show rocked.
We also should probably do... I think we've done, like, manliest moves, Mount Rushmore,

but in terms of most badass things,

surviving an assassination attempt is 1-1.

It's definitely up there for sure,

and I always wonder at what point do you reach assassination status?

Like, plenty of people get killed,

plenty of people get murdered or attempted murdered,

but at some point, then you can be assassinated.

I think it's political, right? Like, if Hank were were to die would that be a murder or an assassination murder well i maybe an assassination and we're anti it so there you go hank yeah we have your back but yeah we had we had to say we're anti-assassionate suspects one and two uh yeah they call the boyfriend kind of thing yeah yeah that probably you're probably right does anybody here have a middle name that that they include in their main name? Because if so, that's target number one. Actually, Christopher Max Delente.
Christopher Maxwell, yeah. Yeah, that's an assassin name.
We'll just have really strong alibis. Yeah.
UFC and I were doing the pod. That's actually pretty good.
We don't know what happened. That's rock solid.
Yeah, we don't know what happened. Okay, let's talk sports jalen brunson wind horse meme what's going on in new york because jalen brunson signed a deal for uh four years 156 and a half million dollars he saved the team 113 million dollars now not to take away from LeBon's 3 million that he saved but this was an insane deal that makes him i don't know one one of like current new new york athletes memes would that be fair to say he's got to be one one new york athlete right now grimace yeah one one right now i mean that is the most like the he obviously still has to win a championship to like take it all the way but just in terms of the path and what his last year looked like and then doing this I don't know what's going on maybe it's his father who Rick who is an assistant coach is going to be the highest paid assistant coach in the NBA or maybe because he works in the financial capital of the world.
There's something that might make that sweeter. That'd be very funny if there was a New York based name image likeness collective that got together for the Knicks.
And so it's like, yeah, don't pay them as much because you know what we're going to do. We're going to have him just be a spokesperson for MetLife.
Yeah. It's married to a supermodel? I don't think he's married to a supermodel.
I have no choice but to take it at face value. I know there's conspiracy theorists and everyone's going to run around saying he's getting that money somewhere else.
Pretty much the coolest move you can do if you're a fan of the Knicks. I don't think players – I think players should get what they're worth, but I wouldn't complain if I were a Knicks fan right now that he just left $113 million on the table to make his team better and deliver a championship to the Knicks.
Yeah, so he got paid about 58% what he could have gotten paid. He just waited until next offseason.
How are they going to allow this? Someone is definitely petitioning CJ McCollum right now and being like, this is not allowed. It's probably his agent.
Yeah, sir, please. That's off about this.
Please someone someone is definitely petitioning cj mccollum right now and being like this is not allowed it's probably it's probably his agent yeah sir please off about this please someone do this maybe they're going to take that money that they saved and give it to jay wright which would be a repayment on the loan that jay wright paid jalen brunson to go to villanova also not a bad idea yeah i this isn't this is shocking though like when you guys saw this were you not like, because guys take hometown discounts. He took half.
Yeah. He took half of what he's eligible to take, and he would have been paid every single dollar of that max.
And now, I mean, the Knicks have to use that money wisely, but holy shit. Well, there's another element.
Maybe he thought to himself, I don't know if I can play for another season under Tibbs' watch. So by signing early, he removes the chance of getting injured, not getting that next contract.
It's crazy. Does it make you nervous, Hank? Max? No.
No? Oh, that was a... You just threw that off.
It's the Knicks and it's Nova. Okay.
What is two things I'll never be worried about? Nova won two national championships. That's true.
That's true. But that didn't worry Hank.
He wasn't worried. Yeah, I don't know why he included Nova in that to try and piss me off, even though they won two national championships.
Are you like, what the hell is going on, Max? Yeah, I don't understand it at all. I don't understand it at all.
I mean, I would love for a player that I root for to do this.

This would be the coolest move ever.

And Knicks fans should be over the moon happy.

But it's still, I'm just sitting here like, what is going on?

It is crazy that a superstar NBA player is turning down that much money.

That doesn't happen.

Hall of Fame guy. It only happens with guys at the end of their career if they want to go somewhere to make it happen.

Ring chasing.

Ring chasing.

I guess he's ring chasing at home.

Also, LeBron did.

Also, the $3 million.

Yeah, $3 million.

Under the apron, second apron.

But yeah, he could have set a $270 million contract next summer.

I feel like this all comes back to the fact that maybe James Dolan is just not around a lot anymore.

Because if Jalen Brunson knew James

Dolan better, he'd probably be like, fuck that.

I want all his money.

Right?

Yeah.

Because like this, like you can't be like, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to do

you a solid James.

I just think he did it because he might be afraid of getting hurt next year.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I mean, it's, it's an all time team guy move and there is obviously people

like, well, you could have enough money.

There's definitely that limit.

But still, you're an NBA basketball player in the prime of your career,

and you don't know if you'll ever make that type of money ever again.

No one passes that up.

It's also New York.

No one does.

It's also New York.

You're going to need that extra $30 million.

Yeah.

Tom Brady did because he had Giselle.

Who's Jalen Brunson dating? That's what I'm trying to think. I think it's like New York you're gonna need that extra like 30 million dollars yeah Tom Brady did because he had Giselle who's Jalen Brunson dating that's what I'm trying to think it's like a high school sweetheart she must be rich oh his former high school so got got it okay for a second when you let off with yeah high school you made it sound like yeah it's sound weird I also don't know if that's 100% sure okay well we'll go with it we're not a fact show.
So, yeah, that was the biggest story to me this weekend. I know that we also had some Euro finals.
Yeah, it's not coming home. Not coming home.
It's never going to come home. It left.
It walked out the door. You got empty nest syndrome.
It's not coming back. England soccer is just, it's got to be brutal to root for.
Yeah, I would think so. Gareth Southgate can't win the big one.
It felt like they were the team of destiny this year. The way they were winning.
Yeah. And just like they weren't the best team, but they were just finding ways to win games.
And then Spain just late. That was like the 86th minute.
Finishes it off. Some great soccer today.
They ran out of luck where it was like their game plan this whole tournament was just uh just kind of sleepwalk after the opening whistle get scored on and then play really hard yeah and equalize the game then hope that you can win in extra time or at the end or maybe in pks yeah and then spain was the best team and yamal is now 17 years old oh he turned 17 he turned 17 like two days ago oh shit which sounds a lot less impressive that a 17 year old won the won the euros yeah. Yeah.
They should have, they should have hurried that up. Yeah.
They should have a 16 year old got to the final, 16 year old got to the final. And then the 17 year old took over.
So I'll take it from here, little boy. Yeah, he's got it.
Uh, and then the, the Copa, which is going on right now. Um, another sign of we'll never win a soccer tournament because the fans climbing through like the air ducks uh basically trampling and ruining the escalator in miami those fans that those are real soccer fans we don't know what's going to happen after the game's over because there are thousands more fans in the stands than there are actual seats yeah so who knows apparently what was happening is people were just going to the seats and then the tickets were like 1500 two thousand dollars to get in so people that had tickets were going to their seats the seats are occupied and then security can't do shit about it to kick the people out so people are just losing seats losing money real you know what this is a real black eye on the miami dolphins yeah the fact that this has never happened at a dolphins game before game before.
They're not used to having such passionate fans show up early. That's true.
Bad sports time. They need to start charging the gates.
Yeah, the game was delayed like an hour and a half. That's real soccer fandom.
And now we have an opening in coaching, and no one wants the job. Now I want the German butt fingers guy.
Okay. That low guy.
The guy that would stick his hands in his armpits and smell them that real freak i'm in why not because it seems like everybody else they're talking to is just the same iteration of greg yeah just greg under a different name where it's a guy that just kisses uh u.s soccer federation's ass jesse marsh doesn't want the job nah because he's smart fuck this is why we need to kidnap somebody and force them to be their head we're hiring burr halter Halter back. That would rock.
At this point, I'm in. Like, fuck it.
Bring him back. Third time's a charm.
Yeah. He's learned his lesson.
Add another G. Hank, you look like you want to say something about soccer.
Well, no, yeah, not really at all about soccer. It's an extremely regional complaint or concern because this is only happening to people in Chicago.
But they've had this weather tornado. Oh, yeah.
Full screen for the entire game. Yeah, we got a tornado warning.
Soccer is in like a lower box. We got a tornado warning.
Which means it's got to be bad. You got to worry about the tornado.
Tornadoes don't hit cities, though. That's good.
Like big cities. I think it's something about like the wind or something.
In the buildings? In the buildings? Stopping it? I don't know. Yeah.
All right, let's see. would think that a tornado would hit, like, Dallas, Oklahoma City at some point.
Hit big cities. Okay.
Tornadoes do not hit big cities. False.
Tornadoes can hit anywhere at any time. Okay.
Yeah, I just made that up. I guess we just haven't had a massive one.
Yeah, I completely made it up. Okay.
Yeah, I okay yeah i made a list oh yeah f3 tornado hit the bank one tower in fort worth in 2080 percent of the 35 stories windows were destroyed okay so i did make that up 100 that was something i just told myself to make myself feel better okay tornadoes don't hit big cities i did uh i did put together a list of my top five preferred u.s soccer coaches okay let me hear it and this is for project 2026 that's what we're calling the world cup starting now okay uh number one i still think we can get that clop guy yep he rebuffed us but now we need to rebuff his rebuffle yep and go back and add a zero to the order and be like yep too bad you're joining our team number two is butt fingers the guy that eats his own boog I think his name's Low, and it's got the umlauts on there. Pretty cool.
Number three, Burr Halter again. Fuck it.
Number four, I think Dan Campbell could do it, actually. Yeah, absolutely.
Because what we need is we need passion out of our players. I think Dan Campbell will figure soccer out.
And then number five is anybody except Alexi Lalas. I think that's fair as well.
I think we can make that happen. I like that as well.
Here's why I thought this. Maybe even Dan Hurley.
Dan Hurley would be great. He said that he'd be a better football coach than basketball coach.
You think so? No, he said that. Let him do both.
He said that he thinks he was born to be a football coach, which he could do. Yeah.
Absolutely. Okay.
What else do we got? Oh, Wimbledon happened. Djokovic might be old well spain happened today spain did happen spanish sunday we had we had uh alcatraz yep won wimbledon oh crushed jokovic he's 16 years younger yeah still crushed him though oh i think he was a straight sets i just pretended that match didn't happen and then spain won, and also Sergio Garcia won the live event.
Just threw himself in there. Yeah, Sergio.
What was his tweet today? He's like, we have the opportunity to make this the biggest sports day ever for Spain now that I've won. After he said, if the soccer team wins tonight, it will be one of the biggest days in Spanish sports.
He's the dragon meme. Like, Spain winning the Euros, Alcaraz winning wimbledon and then sergio looking all goofy being like live event wherever it was yeah the big three yeah triple crown they did it i couldn't who would have thought spain would do that i do feel bad for for british sports fans though i like i love i love the fact that you can set your watch to certain things in sports.
You know, you can count on certain heartbreak and misery,

but it does, it looks sad when the shirtless hooligans are like walking out of the stadium, holding their heads in shame

after they gave so many great chants to the Germans.

They're the Buffalo Bills.

They are.

They are.

It's sad, but it's the truth, right?

Is there a pit in England?

I don't know.

I am watching this one video of this guy.

He's doing, he's traveling the river Tames from source to sea. Okay.
Every day he updates it. Is he like on a boat? He started walking.
Now he's on a kayak. He's a really cool guy.
Yeah, he probably... He got a fraud alert, though, because he was like, I'm not leaving the river.
And then like day three, he's like, thank you so much to the people. Let me stay at their house today.
And then he had to correct himself. He's like, look, I am sleeping other places.
But yeah, it's cool. He's doing it.
Source to see. If you do that, you've got to either be in a canoe the entire time or you have to walk the entire time.
Yeah, well, he's got that. He's like one of those chipper English guys that's just very very happy who probably doesn't even watch soccer that's why he's got a completely different personality a good head and all the other english guys but yeah he's uh i don't know i somehow got that in my algorithm i'm following him it's going source to see check him out in a box in a box in a box lizzie's in a box in a box you remember when we delayed our kickoff for for NFL week one because Queen Elizabeth died? That was disgusting.
That was crazy. What was the point of the Revolutionary War? That was nuts.
And we should never have to do that. We should never, ever have to do that.
Okay, what else we got in the sports world? It's All-Star break. All-Star break.
Christian Yellich not competing in the home run derby. I'm nervous about this because I texted him asking him, and he was like, he said, let's just call him real quick because I'm nervous that he's going to somehow compete in the Home Run Derby.
He's got to say that he's not going to do it ever. Is he, do we have a Dingers Only update for All-Star break? I am in second to last place.
I'm beating Jerry by two. Oh, nice.
I don't know who's ahead of us. If he doesn't pick up, we'll just cut this.
Hey, Christian. Hey, Big Cat, pardon my take here.
You're live to take. Could you confirm that you are not competing in Monday's Home Run Derby? I can confirm I'm not competing in this year's Home Run Derby.
Okay. Not the future, though.
Yeah, so why are you not competing this year? I just feel like you've had a tough year so far. We'll give you a break.
Okay. All right.
But then you are making a pledge right now to compete at some point in the future in the Home Run Derby? That's the plan, I think. That'd be a good goal to have, don't you think? No, I think that's a terrible goal.
You're not getting younger, dude. I'm not.
So it's going to have to happen ASAP, I think. Okay.
Hey, Christian, PFT commenter here from part of my take, you're live to tape on the podcast. Can you confirm the sources that are saying that you were scared to compete in this year's home run derby? Well, this is some big J journalism I hear from you guys.
Yeah. Are you scared? Are you afraid of home runs? No, I think, like I said, you guys have had a tough year, and I felt it was only right to give you all a break.
And you are right about the age thing. I think we're going to have to get it done in the near future uh when we do it not if we do it but when we do okay i don't like that um happy birthday by the way uh you're 37 years old tomorrow i think so okay all right we're gonna start the rumor that he's really old that way he can't compete okay christian have fun are you are you you're an all-star right yeah yeah i'll just be watching the derby tomorrow but i don't just be uh i'll be thinking you guys the whole time you're 100 not competing correct 100 not this year all right i'm still nervous that he's gonna be like haha just kidding i'm competing yeah hey christian were you upset when nobody took you in the dingers only draft? Yeah.
Were you upset about the Dingers Only draft?

You know, I didn't see the Dingers Only draft,

but I heard about the Dingers Only draft.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that's going to be another reason why we're going to have to compete in the derby at some point.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

All right.

Well, Christian, have fun at the All-Star break.

You're having a great year.

Don't eat any ass.

Hopefully this isn't your last good year.

Let's hope not. Yeah.
That would be a shame. I'll probably see you all in Chicago here in a few weeks.
Okay. We can hash it out then.
Perfect. Don't ruin your swing.
All right, see you. All right.
All right. Thank God.
Okay. That's good.
Confirmed not. Because I was still nervous that there was like one slot open and he was going to just slide in, but he really thinks he's going to do it at some point.

I don't think so.

I think that one year, the year after we made that bet,

that was the danger year for us where he got hurt right before the home run

derby.

Yeah.

That would have been really bad.

Yeah.

But now I'm not even going to wax.

Yeah.

I was thinking about waxing just to be a good teammate.

You were thinking about waxing?

I was thinking about wiping.

No, waxing and wiping.

Okay.

Showering.

I won't wipe. Okay.
Any other sports stories before we do who's back uh marty fish won the american our guy chip marty fisher guy awl marty he might be listening to this dude marty fish we got to get him on he might be he already listened he already listened to it marty fish we have to get him on legend we met him in tahoe he's AWL. He came up to us.
It was, what, Wednesday morning? Yep. And I was like, oh, good to finally meet you.
David Wells actually mentioned you on the show today. He's like, yeah, no, I listened.
It was like 9 in the morning. Yeah.
He'd already listened. And out for maybe four hours.
Yeah. He is a true AWL.
I fucking love the guy. Marty's been ride or die with us for a long time, so very cool to see him win.
He's a great golfer. Great golfer.
He's actually a really, really good golfer. Good tennis player, even better golfer.
Yeah, and we had Thielen, who we had on, came close. Joe Pavelski, Badger, was second.
A-Rod was second to last. Yeah, I think he was last.
I think Alex Rodriguez finished in dead last. I think Blake Griffin did pretty well.
Josh Allen's a good golfer. He got good.
He's legitimately. Much better than he was at the match.
Yeah. All those guys, too.
It's funny. Who's out? Oh, no.
Messi's crying. Oh, no.
Oh, he's out? Did he get hurt? There's a tornado warning he's worried about. Yeah, it looked like a hamstring.
That's not good for Messi. Who hurt Messi? I think he just ran.
This is a bad day for my... All your goats are dying.
Hamas took him out. Hamas took him out? Okay.
That's how Hank pronounces... Hummus.
Hames? James? Oh, you're actually talking about a real person. Yeah.
Got it. LeBron Hamas? There's a player on Columbia.ia hymie no you're thinking that guy in england that's going from the river to the sea they said his name on yeah hymie broadcast hymie rodriguez hummus it's hummus rodriguez this is a cool way to say james hank pronounces it hamas lebron hamas yeah is it james yeah spell james i heard the announcer say spelled j you spell James? No, it's spelled James.
Oh, it is. Yeah.
Hamas. LeBron Hamas.
LeBron Hamas. Okay, let's do Who's Back and then we have a great Mount Rushmore for everyone.
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Coors Brewing Company, Golden, coldest beer out there the best beer out there Coors Light okay Hank my who's back of the week is Petty Wars oh okay the so Angel Reese uh had a double double streak going she was at 15 and then today she was playing the Liberty last and in the game before I think she had like four rebounds in the last two minutes. Kind of stat-padding a little bit.
True stat-padding. So today she had 8 points, 16 rebounds.
They were giving her the ball at the end of the game and the Liberty were quadruple teaming her. The videos and pictures are very funny.
They just said, we're not letting the record happen on our watch. No easy buckets.
Petty wars. Yeah.
And she kind of outed herself as a broke girl because she was talking about all the guys

that keep asking her to fly them out for games.

And she's like, I'm not flying any guys out for games.

I guess she doesn't have it like that.

Oh.

Yeah.

The stat padding is crazy.

Angel Reese is a good basketball player.

I'm a Chicago Sky fan.

It is insane that anyone thinks that Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are on the same level

in playing basketball. Angel Reese is so much better much better yeah she wouldn't have to add Caitlin Clark is so much better than Angel Reese she got another 20-10 game it's crazy now the rumor out there is that Diana Taurasi is going to have to back out of the Olympics and then Caitlin Clark will be the next person brought in fly her out there they're going.
That would be cool. They're going to fly Kaitlin Clark out.
That would be cool. Have they decided who's going to be? Is it Derek White officially? Yeah.
Who's there? Yeah. All right.
When do they start? Was it two weeks? Olympics? I think it's in, yeah, end of July. I want to say July 26 is opening ceremony.
I saw Jokic versus Wemby was yesterday or the day before, and it's so funny watching. Jokic looks like he's six feet tall.
Yeah. I'm going to say right now I'm not okay with just a gold medal.
I want domination. I want utter domination.
I'm going to put it out there. I will not be celebrating a gold medal if we win the semifinals.
If the semifinals or the finals games are within 10 points, either of them, I will not be celebrating this gold medal. I want to see domination like the original Dream Team.
That's the status. Yes.
Where you don't use a timeout at all. Yeah.
I want to see that type of domination. Just mow them down.
By the way, so the dingers only, which we briefly touched on. Actually, Max is in last place.

Oh.

With 12.

Wow.

Brandon's got 24.

I have 20.

Hank has 16.

Jerry has 15.

PFT, 14.

Max, 12.

Okay.

That's tough.

Okay, Max.

Long season.

What if you drafted Trey Turner, though?

I would have been doing much better.

I was planning on drafting Trey Turner until Gunnar Henderson fell to me.

What about if you drafted Christian Yelich or Schwarber? Yeah, I don't know the math here. Okay.
You hate your boys. Bad math.
Okay. PFT or who's back? My who's back of the week is also Olympic-related.
Breakdancing is back. Yeah.
Did you guys know that breakdancing is a sport in the 2024lympics i think it was in the last olympics too i don't think so i think this is the first time oh really yeah i think this is the the uh inaugural season for break dancing at the olympics that one if we don't win gold in break dancing then i'm out on the usa i could see some some other country being nasty no dancing no we can't we can't lose break dancing that we need we need a clean sweep and break dance i can't wait to see how it's judged how it's scored what kind of music they're allowed to use i'm i'm very excited for break dancing yeah i'm on are they b-boys is that what they call these guys just flop all like every two seconds they're just breaks in the action these guys are dead and then they hop right up. Come on, Hank.
Have some passion for soccer. No.
It's the best. Yeah, no, they do flop.
Oh, that was a real trip. No, because the Argentina guy flopped.
It's always funny when the guy who looks like he should be injured doesn't flop, and the other guy does. It was great earlier, too, because Messi got fouled when he was in the box and then he like he rolled out of bounds and then he realized he was out of bounds and then rolled three times to get back in because that way they had to stop the play yeah they had to bring the the trainers out onto the pitch gotta do what you gotta do that's gamesmanship yeah uh anyone else i would have called a foul yeah hank do you have any comment about breakdancing i don't know that the u.s is.
is a favorite. You know what I'm saying? No, dude.
I feel like Japan might sneaky be nice. I don't know.
There's some other countries that probably are really good at breakdancing. Italy? Yeah.
Isn't there? No, that's... There's like a subculture in Japan that has like...
They all look like 1950s, like the greasers, like Fonzie. Oh not break dancing but snow that's swing dance there's got to be something else like a gap commercial that's in the break dancing i could see uh i could see south american countries being good really asia all of asia i think could could put up a fight in break dancing yeah but we have to are those uh those russian dancers the ones that like bend their knees and get real low those could probably break probably breakdance.
You know breakdancing is called b-boying? Yeah, I thought that's what it was. They're like b-boys.
B-boys are doing it. Are they b-girls? B-women? Yeah.
B-women. For sure.
There's got to be female breakdancing as well. Korea, Netherlands, Japan, Britain, France, Russia, Ukraine, USA.
We can't lose to anything like japan's gonna be ukraine i might bet on japan if there's odds you think ukraine's got it like that yeah they might they might um okay my who's back i have two one is jerry rice did you guys see him at the american century classic and was beat the shit out of a reporter so the the uh chiefs reporter a kansas city reporter basically asked if the chiefs have a good enough wide receiver uh court to win a super bowl which innocuous question but could be trolling jerry rice was basically like you want to start something like i'll fucking i'm about this and challenge him to a fight and then afterwards said told the question was like but he was clearly trolling i love this from jerry rice because a guy going that ride or die with your franchise so far after you played is so awesome that's the best goal argentina yep oh offsides argentina offsides should be taken out of psych there should be no offside no i i do like that I do like that. Why does Jerry Rice have a rivalry with the Chiefs? They've beaten him twice in the Super Bowl.
Was it about that or was it about going back to his playing days? No, I think they beat him twice in the Super Bowl. He's so ride or die, Niner gang.
I fucking love that. I respect that then.
Yeah, I do. That's awesome.
I gained a lot of respect for Jerry Rice this week because I found that he was staying

at Margaritaville.

Yeah, he was with the boys. Which dude likes to get after it.
Yeah. Margaritaville rocks.
My other who's back is the Espes. I had no idea they happened.
Yeah. It was fun.
The highlights I saw were Serena Williams making fun of Harrison Bucker and Drake. and then Lamar Jackson winning play of the year for his pass to himself in the second quarter of a game he lost yeah that home favorite that was funny what were the other nominees for play of the year was it just a bad year of plays Drew Tranquil's uh tackle on Lamar Jackson was a better play yeah it was in that in that play or how about Snead's forced fumble yeah that those were better plays in that game yeah it was uh it was a very underwhelming uh play to win play of the year but stay woke that's probably how ESPN gets people talking about the ESPYs true yeah also we had Steve Gleason who's a hero love Steve Gleason who's been battling ALS for a long time they did uh he said I should have been dead years ago and then the camera cut right to demar hamlin oh no yeah oh no it's great the one thing that the espies are great for every year is when i know they're on i don't watch them but what i do is i go to youtube and i watch norm mcdonald's yeah introductory roast that he did at the espies they definitely and that's awesome that was that was not theYs.
They, they, like they slipped it in on a Thursday when no one was expecting it. I think that's what they do every year.
I think you never expect it. But yeah, the play of the year, that was quite something.
Speaking of which, the takeies, cause ESPN has decided we used to run the takeies opposite of the ESPYs. We are going to run the takeies the last week of july so get ready

awl is being your best behavior that will be when we run the takeies and you guys are up for

eight time yeah eight time nine 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 9 9 9 pete guys suck at math i hate

why is it so hard to count years because you have to count the first one because we did it year one

Thank you. 21 22 23 9 9 9 Pete guys suck at math I hate it why is it so hard to count years because you have to count the first one because we did it year one that's true nine times yeah there was near no year zero we've been doing that what are we gonna do for a decade live show no that's with the blakes no fucking no yeah yeah you're crazy live show you're crazy.
I've you're crazy Hank. Fuck that.
You're crazy. But yeah.
Yeah, we should. A decade.
What about when when this show is old enough to drive? That's going to be crazy. Think about that.
Yeah. OK.
Any other who's backs? Some good who's backs, boys. Let's do our Mount Rushmore.
Jordan Addison's back. Oh, yeah.
Did he? DUI. Apparently, he was parked in the left lane of a highway next to LAX.
Oof. And so this is the same Jordan Addison that I think was driving 140 miles an hour last year.
Oof. And so this time, make up your mind, California Highway Patrol.
Do you want your guy driving 140 miles an hour or zero miles per hour yeah because it seems like he can't do anything right jordan addison can't exist dang you should get a jordan addison jersey uh we're about to find out how many duis or how many times drunk driving kevin o'connell has under his belt why is that to see how what the suspension is like for him yeah that's true's true. If he's thousands of times.
By the way, we have, I believe the Bears are the first. Who are the Bears playing in the Hall of Fame game? I should know this.
The Bears are reporting to camp today. That's crazy.
So, football is so so close to being back. They are playing the Bucs.
Texans, that's right. Texans.
Who's going to the Hall of Fame for the Texans? The Texans? I don't know. Not Arian.
Yeah. Okay.
That was mean. That was mean.
I'm sorry. That was mean.
Andre Johnson. Andre Johnson.
Is he? He's going in, yeah. Oh, there you go.
By the way, we should actually mention a couple sad losses. We lost Jacoby Jones.
Yeah. That was very sad.
And what are you looking at me, Max, for? Jacoby Jones passed away. Raven legend.
Obviously, the incredible catch in Denver and the kick return in the Super Bowl. And then Monty Kiffin, all-time football guy.
So we've had a string of deaths. Yeah, they said.
Tampa 2 defense architect, Monty Kiffin. Jacoby Jones also had that iconic play where Mike Tomlin tried to trip him on the sidelines.
Remember that? Where he accidentally stepped on the field on purpose? Yeah. Really sad.
I think he was 40. I just gave that look because I didn't know that.
Yeah. That was breaking news to me.
Yeah. Yeah.
Very sad. And then Shannon Doherty, too.
Oh, really? 2-1-0. Yeah.
Damn. Happened like a flurry.
It was a tough weekend. I know.
Okay. You know what? No, I was about to say something crazy.
Should we just be an anti-death podcast? Well, we have the still alive person of the year award, which we just gave Jimmy Carter another three weeks. Yeah.
Jimmy Carter's never going to die. He's never going to die.
What? He just doesn't wake up some days. That's totally different than die.
Yeah. Um, all right, let's do our Mount Rushmore before we get to Baker Mayfield.
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Okay. Mount Rushmore of video games in honor of EA College Football coming back.
But before we do that, we have tasked ourselves with coming up with Mount Rushmore punishments that we are going to then decide for and then pick out of a hat.

Yep.

So, boys, do we have them?

I've got some, yeah.

I've got a couple.

I've got two.

I brought two of them to the plate.

I brought four, but two of them are really bad.

Hank, how many do you have?

One.

Max, you got two?

Memes, how many do you have?

Memes has got one.

Memes has one.

All right, how do we want to start this?

Can't watch a single NBA game or highlight until January 1st. Can't watch highlights.
How do you please the highlights? That's not fair. Or a sports podcast.
I don't like that either. It was because of Bulls and the Wizards.
It's going to be taking. It is going to be bad basketball, yeah.
You literally cannot see a second of NBA until January 1st. I don't like that one.
Okay. All right.
We'll keep working. Was that one of your good ones or your bad? That was one of my bad ones.
Okay. Good.
I was hoping that was a bad one. I have a bad one and a good one.
My bad one, you have to be locked in a dog crate for 12 hours. Oh, my God.
That's bad. On Mitt Romney's car? Yeah.
And then driven around town. Okay.
I had coach seat middle for the rest of the –

for the – God, that's bad. On Mitt Romney's car? Yeah, and then driven around town.
Okay. I had coach seat middle for an entire year.

Every time we take a trip.

That'd be bad.

That'd be really bad.

Bad, but for the viewers.

Yeah, there's really no concern.

That was my other bad one.

I have two ones that are good for the viewers.

One is almost impossible. Yeah, I have two viewer ones.
Okay for the viewers. One is almost impossible.

Yeah, I have two viewer ones.

Okay, here's my first viewer one.

Loser has to build a full-size Chevy Silverado out of Legos.

I looked it up.

It takes, like, days and days and days.

Okay.

That's not bad.

I mean, it would be pretty bad.

Yeah, but it's not a bad punishment yeah yeah okay mine was uh you have to make a tiktok every day until you get a hundred million likes whoa okay tiktok a day wait a hundred million like like total or it sounds like a lot of likes no total oh it's like times. Okay.
But. Okay.
I don't hate that. Now, does this have anything to do with the fact that you're in last place and you've kept on saying, muttering under your breath this past week, I got to get my TikTok popping off? No, I'm just thinking.
Do you mean like. Okay.
You mean on your personal TikTok? It can be on the PMT one. So for reference, memes, how many likes does our biggest TikTok have? Our biggest post? Let me pull it up.
Okay. 100 million is also like we could change the number.
That seems like a lot. Yeah.
Yeah. The whole account has 97.4 million likes.
So 100 million seems like a lot. Yeah.
So 50 million. Yeah.
Okay.

All right.

So is that one going in the hat?

I think that would be because it would be miserable.

It would be good for the viewers.

But what are they?

So if you don't get that many likes, what's the punishment? You just have to keep making TikToks every day.

Yeah.

What's the punishment if you get?

You can't stop.

Soul patch?

You have.

If you miss a day?

I guess. Yeah.
Well, PFT would choose to do a soul patch. Okay.
Would I? Soul patch if you miss a day. Why would I choose to do a soul patch? I don't know.
You do weird shit with your facial hair all the time. It's true.
Okay. We can modify it for PFT.
Our most liked one is 1.4 million. Okay.
Soul patch if you miss a day, though, Hank. Because I think you would miss a day.
I think we need to work. The number is a lot.
Memes have been doing this. He's been posting like six a day for like years.
It's got to be a punishment. So let's call it 50.
Even 50 is so many. Hey, it's a punishment.
No one wants to do a punishment all right pft what's your real one that uh you have to make a swimsuit calendar and be a ring girl at rough and rowdy oh i like that yeah i like that a lot compete you have to compete in the ring girl competition too okay and then the swimsuit calendar is obviously like the ring girl i like that that a lot. Yeah.
I like that too. Okay.
Max. I have two.
The first one, you have to lock in a room and get a nine darter. Oh, man.
I like that. What's the nine darter again? 100.
You have to get. 501, but it's three triple 20s.
There's different combinations to do it. Oh, that's a good one.
That seems hard. Nine to order.
Okay, mine was similar, but... That would be impossible, but...
Break LeBron's all-time scoring record. 40,000 points.
Okay, so like... And you'd have to do it...
20,000 shots. You'd have to do it.
You couldn't just stand underneath and shoot layups. Like, we would break it down.
We'd have Kirk Goldsberry get us the exact breakdown. You have to hit every shot.
Mid-range, three-pointers, free throws, and, you know, dunks would obviously be. Maybe we'd get a trampoline and you'd have to do dunks.
Yeah, I like that. I like that.
The dunks would be funny. Maybe we'd lower the rim for the dunks.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think you'd have to dunk, too. Yeah Because that would take a long-ass time, and it would be a funny stream.
We think, like, an eight-foot rim? Yeah, we'd reel in an eight-foot rim, so you'd have a dunking rim. Yeah.
And you'd just have to go, like, we could actually get Goldsberry. You'd probably break it down year by year.
Well, Hank will be able to use a normal rim by then. It would take a long-ass time.
I mean, how many threes has he made? LeBron's threes. All right.
And then, so wait, that's, and then memes. You have one? He's hit 2,400 threes.
Okay. That would take forever.
Really long time. What about, okay.
So one of the other bad ones I had that I just kind of forgot about until just now. Do you think we could get a cast like a doctor would put? Oh, yeah, actually.
So, like, get your right hand in a cast for, I don't know, two weeks. My friend, Dr.
Dan. Sounds legit.
Yeah, he well, he actually did this. This was a yak challenge.
Once he put a cast on Roan. Roan had to have a cast for an entire week.
That's right. Yeah, yeah.
I forgot about Dr dan uh hit me up and he said uh what he said you could do uh a full cast full body cast for an entire sunday would be pretty funny yeah uh or for a week yeah you cast your legs and your hands yeah both both legs in a cast we both hands both. That would be pretty good for an entire week.

I think we should throw that in there.

I also like the idea of maybe having to read a script,

like a screenplay of a really long movie and act out all the characters.

Ooh.

Put it on a performance. I like that.

Yeah.

I also had another one of a disc golf hole-in-one.

Oh.

I love that. Okay, so we got some good ones that we put in the hat.
So we're going to put... Wait, memes, what was yours? Loser has to complete the dune hike in Michigan.
What's that? I saw this on TikTok yesterday. That looks miserable.
You have to go up the dune? Yes. Do you know what that...
Yeah, I know the dunes, but how... Max it up.
It looks... I went through like a TikTok rabbit hole of this.
Okay. All right.
So we have fully going into the hat. PFT's ring girl.
My LeBron points with dunks. The...
Should we do the cast? Yeah. Throw the cast in there? Should we go both arms and both legs, or should we go...
Both arms, both legs for a week. I think it would be better if it was either only arms or only legs, because if it's arms and legs, you can't get around.
All right, so a person gets to decide. Yeah.
Hank's TikTok one, which... Hank, just grow your own TikTok, dude.
You know what, Hank? You can do that. Yeah, you can do that right now.
You wouldn't want to do it. That's why you don't want to do it.
Yeah, no. That's why I put it in there.
Yeah. It counts.
And then the nine darter. Wait.
And then the dune hike. Okay.
What? The nine darter might be the hardest thing ever. Those will all be in a hat, and the loser of Mount Rushmore will have to pull it out.
Maybe we can do... Maybe we could do...
I think the details might change, but what we pull out of the hat will be the thing yeah like we may have to do some stipulations for some of them yeah that's fine but those will all be the things in the hat right okay i like it okay i like we all brought one there's a ton there's ones that you clearly wouldn't want to do and then and i'll say this too when we do the hat so there'll be like five or six things i think you're i think you're allowed uh a veto but you have to say it before you pull it which one you don't want yeah no no you have to say veto before you pull oh veto like i'm pre-vetoing yes yes okay yes um okay uh so let's the Mount Rushmore today. Mount Rushmore video games in honor of EA College Football.
Best video games ever. In honor of EA College Football being back.
We streamed it tonight. It was incredible.
Yeah, it was the best. The game is back in our lives.
It feels good. Yeah.
Dougs, we decided a new team for Dougs,

so I'm going to stream 730 Central on all of our channels tonight,

Monday night, and I'm going to be the OC of Washington State,

so the Pac-2.

It's going to be electric.

But let's do this.

What does he order?

So I'm going first, right, because Max went first in sandwiches.

What's the standings to, Memes? I think I went first and sandwiches what's the standings to memes I think I'm last yeah say the standings no wait yeah no it'll be PFT big cat Hank me yeah I'm pretty I'm pretty sure that's what it was that Hank under your breath another person's on the ground oh and talk person on the ground so also for all the heat last week you beat me by one percent and sandwiches oh yeah I should say, yeah. We should say, too, because the guy, PMT Stats and Info, does a great job of calculating and following along.
Shout out to him. He's an awesome AWL.
Meme screwed up the poll, and he set it for 24 hours. So we watched it, and three hours is what we've been setting it for.
So we called it final after three hours. Yeah.
But I don't think anything changed. No, I won.
No, it did. I won the sandwich, but then.
He won the three hours, but I won the 24. 24, okay.
We agreed on it. We agreed on it.
But my list was good. Okay.
Hank, I don't know why you felt the need to come at me, Hank. We're just in a positive mood today.
It's bigger sample size, so you could argue that. Now you're just being a jerk about it, Hank.

No, it was just a fun fact. A little note.

What was the fun fact? I got a lot of

heat in PFT only being by 1%.

Tell you what, I'm happy with my sandwich draft.

I looked at it and I was like,

that is, to me, a perfect draft. Same.

Stayed true to myself. Same.

Okay, so memes, what are the standings?

Big Cat, 18. Max,

18. PFT, 13.

Hank, 11.

Interesting. Someone did note Max, unfortunately for us.
They're like, no shit, Max and Big Cat are in the lead. They've done two food drafts in a worse place as to shit.
Yep. Yep.
Touche. We've done other ones.
Touche. Touche.
That was just this past week. Fastballs groove down the middle at you all right so this one video games i'm gonna say right now pft and i might be at a disadvantage because i have not played video games for a long time uh we'll see how the voting goes i mean this is hank this is hank right the my my i'm i i did a brain dump of all my favorite video games and there are very few that are recent but we're gonna do it

all right so who's what's the order i go first then big cat then hank i'm second yep shit and we agreed if you take a franchise you get the whole franchise you don't it not years you can pick a specific year but uh yeah okay okay but if you pick a specific game no one else can pick something from that franchise.

Correct.

Yes.

Okay, first off the board, I'm going Grand Theft Auto. Okay.
GTA. Classic game.
Reinvented game. Badass game.
Every release that they have, it's all you play for the next two, three months. You can do anything in that game.
Fantastic great pick definitely on my list uh okay i will go um with something more recent but i've played it for 20 years now because i remember playing it in like 05 06 i'll go with call of duty yep call of duty is just a. Whenever they come out with a new one and it has everything.

You can play the story mode.

Obviously, playing online is awesome.

I was playing online Call of Duty in 06, I want to say.

Fucking rocked.

So much fun.

Okay.

Hank.

I will go with the timeless classic, Mario Kart.

Good pick.

Great pick.

Great pick, Hank. Probably the game.

I don't know. I was trying to think of the games

I've spent the most time playing and that one's

definitely up there because you play when you're a kid.

You play when you're older. Beerio Kart.

It's a timeless

classic. Yep.
What's Beerio Kart?

It's when you drink while you're

playing. You start the race and you

have to finish a beer before you finish.

And you can't drive while you're drinking. so it's only when you like spin out no you have to like pace yourself it's like like you have to stop drink so you have to drink as fast as you can and then also race got it okay we used to play up up in my up in my friend's loft just hours and hours and hours that's awesome play that in stillwater too great great pick hank thank you favorite uh mario kart is n64 yeah yeah although the during during covid i played the new mario kart on the switch i know switch yes also very fun dude i played i played it over hours fourth of july i played my son and his friend so it was just me versus some five-year-olds and uh like the best feeling ever because uh not my son but his friend was like have you ever played this before and i was like yeah buddy and he was like i'll probably beat you and i fucking killed him killed him still i was drifting i was doing everything still came back to me felt yeah they're five but still felt awesome and every iteration of

mario kart has been good too yeah it's the best uh okay max you have two picks um well i'll just i'll take ncaa football okay college football all right nice pick um pander pick not i mean it's a you don't like that game i love that game that's what yeah it's a great it's one of the greatest sports games of all time.

And Halo.

I never was a Halo guy.

Oh, Halo.

Halo. I never was a Halo guy.
Oh, Halo 3. Halo's awesome.
Halo. I know.
I just never was. Multiplayer.
That's it. I popped my online multiplayer cherry.
Yeah. With Halo.
I was never a Halo guy. Back to you, Henry.
I'm going to go with FIFA.

Ooh.

You're a big FIFA guy,

huh?

Big FIFA guy.

I don't like soccer,

but FIFA and NHL,

like I didn't,

you know,

I didn't play hockey or like hockey.

I love playing NHL.

I love playing FIFA college,

the dorms.

I feel like that was,

you know,

I wasn't,

I wasn't doing any learning in my freshman year of college.

I just was playing FIFA all day.

Yeah. Okay.
I'll go with Madden. I'll take the specific one, though.
What was the Mike Vick cover one? That one was probably the best. They had that string.
It was Eddie George maybe on one. It was like 2000.
Eddie George and Ray Lewis might have been on the same one. There was like that string, like had just was the Madden mini games yeah Ray Lewis the game oh that was a hit stick on it change the game yeah that was that was the best but yeah Madden I mean it's timeless I remember playing that when it first came out when you could change all the when the ambulances go on the field that was so goodden, actual Madden was on the cover.
But yeah, timeless game.

Okay.

Okay, next up.

You have two.

I'm going to go with Zelda.

Also never a Zelda guy.

Love Zelda.

People love it.

Love Zelda.

I understand that.

And then Goldeneye.

Yep.

Goldeneye.

Great pick.

James Bond.

Great pick.

Great pick.

Great pick.

Great pick. Playing his odd job, messing with people.
Great pick. Okay.
This is where it gets tough. This is where it gets tough.
There's a lot of really good games. But I'm going to stick with what I know.
And I'll go Tony Hawk's pro. Fuck.
Good pick. Had that on my list too.

Loved that game so much.

That was probably like right at the end of what happened, Hank.

That was my pick.

It's a good pick.

Are you going to now tell me it wasn't a video game?

No, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 Elite.

It is.

It's such a fucking fun game.

And incredible soundtrack.

Incredible.

A lot of ska.

Yeah. This is a loaded draft draft everyone's got a loaded team you're up hank it's a fun game i'm gonna go probably the only game that i've really i guess you know single player story game assassin's creed okay very fun spent a lot of time playing it.
But we're an anti-assassination podcast. Oh.
It's a video game. That's fine.
Role player game. That's fine.
Okay. Nate.
Yeah. My last two picks.
Yeah, two. I'm going to go Super Smash Bros.
Okay. Great game.
I never played that game. It's a good game.
I mean, that was like my my childhood was playing my brothers in that game it was shocking seeing like donkey kong in the same game as like mario yeah great game um mario kart yeah kind of like mario kart yeah and you definitely yeah yeah i get you though yeah is that what's the difference between that and mario party which i played way different okay one of them's a fight is a fighting game got it Got it. There's so many, though.
Yeah. What's the difference between that and Mario Party, which I played? Way different.
Okay.

One of them is a fighting game. Got it.
Got it. There's so many good games that are left off the list here.
Yep. And my last one is early Fortnite.
Early Fortnite. Like, when Fortnite, prime Fortnite, because then people got angry with it once people started to get too good.
But there was never a game that took over an entire generation like early Fortnite. Where are we dropping? Yeah.
Where would you drop? People who didn't have video. Where would you drop? Oh.
Where would I drop? He's asking you a question. Where would you drop? Tilted if we're with the boys.
But Junk Junction was my, if I'm trying to win. That was my spot early on.
Were you Bush's guy? Tomato Town. Tomato Town was great.
Yeah, you would go to Tomato Town. You were Italian.
No. Yeah, Tomato Town was good.
Yeah. My one buddy used to play with the Tomato Man, Matt.
Shout out. He's definitely listening.
Shout out, Matt. Shout out, Matt.
Would he kiss you? Probably, for sure. Okay.
Yeahnight okay good pick hank i'm gonna go with i was gonna take fortnight even though it was a pander pick i didn't play that much fortnight um i'm a personal pander pick well i'm just i'm fighting at the bottom of the leaderboard i'm looking for points but i will go with with my I said, the game I played the most, Star Wars Battlefront II.

Ooh.

Okay.

Great game.

Not familiar with that game?

Great game.

It was like original Call of Duty.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm going to have to go with one classic.

I have a lot of games that are honorable mentions, as I'm sure you guys do,

and people are going to be very mad at this list because there's some like heavy hitters that have not been mentioned uh nba jam okay all right jam was the best growing up the sega game gear ah yes oh you don't know what that is yeah it's when they had it was a game boy but with color but not not Game Boy Color. Sega Game Gear was, wait, that was what it was called, right? Game Gear was the handheld.
Yeah, the handheld Sega. Yeah.
But also playing it on Sega was the best. I think it's NBA Jam 2, but whatever.
Oh, no, Tournament Edition. Tournament Edition was the one.
Yeah. That was so awesome.
But yeah, that game was the best. It was.
They don't. He heating up i don't know you guys can maybe speak to it like um basketball games but like i i kind of never got into basketball games except for nba jam oh i love 2k 2k i i used nba live game and then like 2k i think seven switch over to 2k and and 2k 7 to like 2k i mean it's still good had, I mean, because I would just play, me and my brother would play a one-on-one game.
So like Madden, NHL, 2K, and 2K, we would play like best of seven series where you have to win a seven game series to win a game. NBA Jam was just, it was super simple.
That's what made it so fun. Yeah.
It was the best. Dude, you couldn't stop the Charlotte Hornets.
No. Alonzo,zo.
Or Chris Mullen on the Warriors. Chris Mullen on the Warriors is really good.
Put him in the corner. Yep.
All day. Mark Price on the Cavs was awesome.
All day. Michael Jordan was not in that game.
No. He was not.
Interesting. You could play with Bill Clinton.
Could you? Yeah. There was a code to play with Bill Clinton.
I didn't know that. Yeah.
Okay. Oh.
Okay. So for my last one.
Last pick. Last pick.
This is a big one. This is a big one, and I was thinking about going with 2K on this one.
NBA. There's no way you play that made 2K.
So I'm going to go with MLB The Show. Oh! MLB The Show.
Okay. Great baseball game.
You know the one that I'm talking about, too. Yeah, but listen, there's been a positive Mount Rushmore.
I had a different baseball game on my list. What was it called? What was the one with Manny Ramirez? MVP Baseball 2005 was the greatest baseball play.
Was that the one with Manny? Yeah, the greatest baseball game. I think 04 as well was very good.
04 was the one with Pujols. I think that was awesome.
That was the greatest baseball game ever created. I fucked up.
That was the greatest baseball game ever created.

It was so fucking good.

I don't think you fucked up BFD.

I fucked up BFD.

That's the game I meant to pick.

MLB The Show will be more popular on the graphic, but I don't know.

That's not even the second best because Ken Griffey Baseball was better too.

Ken Griffey Baseball was the second best behind MVP Baseball.

I meant to pick MVP Base baseball. I meant to pick MVP

baseball. I meant to pick the one with Manny.

Nope. You didn't.

Remember like they had the

mode where you could play in like a living room?

Yeah, I didn't get funky with it.

I'm also now remembering I used to play

Ken Griffey baseball

for N64 was awesome as well

with Randy Johnson would throw so fucking

fast. But yeah, that

MVP baseball, 04 and 05

Pujols Manny, those

Thank you. Baseball for N64 was awesome as well with Randy Johnson was so fucking fast.
But yeah, that the MVP Baseball 0-4 and 0-5 Pujols Manny. Those two versions were so, so elite.
I can't believe I just did that. Sounds like you didn't play it.
No, I did. That was my favorite game.
I'd never make that mistake. Not the show.
Yeah. That's tough.
I might look into it, though. I might look into it.
There might be enough the show fans out there. show fans out there yeah all right we have so many honorable i know i missed one that i wish i i forgot until i after my fourth pick nfl blitz ah yeah and mlb mlb hits yeah also had a short one fast was another one or that's what i was like an nlb slugfest i think it was nhl hits the old one the old guy games that i had i dumped uh, NHL 94, Elite.
When I was nine years old, my parents didn't want to get me a video game console because they were like, you'll just be addicted to it, which credit them. They were right.
So for my birthday one year, I got to rent. I think it was, what was it? It must have been Sega Genesis.
I rented Sega Genesis for the weekend from Blockbuster, and I just took it with me everywhere. I remember I had to go to a family party or something, and I literally brought it in a suitcase and was like, where's your TV? And just went to their basement and just kept on playing NHL 94.
I was like like, I have three days to play this game. I'm going to play it and not sleep.
And it's such a good game, too, with blood on the ice. Yeah, the best.
The wraparound was unstoppable. Yeah.
So NHL 94, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Yeah, Mortal Kombat.
Classics. Yep.
Classics. Mario 64 was an incredible game.
Mario 64, I was kind of upset that i didn't pick that yeah that is an incredible incredible game because i feel like that was the first ever game that like you could walk everywhere and that's this game that came it was like when you bought the nintendo 64 it came with the mario one it came with it came with uh uh cool our uh Wave Runners. What was that game? Wake Surfer? No, Wave.
Fuck. It was like Wave Runners or something.
That was the game that it came with. I know what you're talking about.
Wave Race. Wave Race was the game that I think it came with.
But Mario 64 was a hugely popular game for that. I had some old ones, i had doom on my list okay doom changed video gaming for sure uh mortal combat was on my list sim city yep we sports yep that was a great game yep um just windows pinball yeah this one where you're the astronaut nokia tetris nokia snake was was a lot tetris is a good one digital Digital Combat Simulator, DCS, a classic.
Everybody knows that one. Mario.
Mario Party 2, but I didn't want to do Mario Kart and Mario Party 2. Yeah.
Mario for Game Boy was great. I always thought Mario Party was a little boring.
I played it a lot because it's a good group game to play, but I always thought it was a little bit boring. You could never play it by yourself.
Yeah, my parents wouldn't let me have a video game system either until I was way older, so my neighbor would just play the four-player game. Crash Bandicoot.
Actually, genius by our parents to be like, if we don't buy a video game system, they'll just not be here. Yeah.
That was essentially what they did. The second I could go to my neighbor's house, I would be there.
The other one was my- You said Banjo- Banjo-Tooie. Elite four player game.
What was Banjo-Tooie? It's the sequel of Banjo-Kazooie. Yeah, I didn't even know.
Crash Bandicoot. The other one was my best friend growing up.
We would... Star Fox 64.
We weren't allowed to play Zen 64 during the week, and his dad would take the power cord, so he would hide it, and we spent the entire week looking for it, and then after, like, I like i don't know six months we realized he was just literally putting it in his car and taking it to work every day it was fucking brutal so he'd spend like every day just looking for a power cord smart guy yeah uh pokemon red i was just about to say that pokemon game boy guitar hero guitar hero hero rock band sonic yeah Sonic 2 was the best. Battle Toads I hated because it was so hard, but I played it so much.
Let's see. What else did I have? Oh, did you guys ever play? This is actually one of my, if I did like personal, personal favorites that I don't even know if anyone else played Twisted Metal 2 for PlayStation.

I never got into that, but I've heard it's.

Thumper, Axle, Sweet Tooth.

SSX Tricky.

What's that?

PS2 was a snowboarding game.

It was sick.

I never played that.

Red Dead Redemption.

Yeah.

That whole series.

Minecraft.

People love that.

Star Fox.

Star Fox 64.

Oh, you said Star Fox. Yeah.
The best. Oh, we have a tornado.
Is that tornado? Tornado in this area. Take shelter now.
People are going to be so mad about this. Yeah, this is going to fuck people up.
Yeah. I almost like don't want to cut it either.
No, don't. Let them live it.
I mean, all that talk about it. I told them not hitting the city earlier.
Yeah, I looked it up more. It's because there's 3% of the country is city.
Update. Another player on the floor.
Oh, that's a good update. All right, this was a good Mount Rushmore.
I think this graphic, like, people are going to be pissed that we missed a couple of them, but we did say them in honorable mention. Yeah.
So just wait until you get to this point. Oh, memes.
Memes. God of War would have looked good on a graphic.
Destiny is also one of the greatest video games of all time. This is where this is going to piss people off so bad.
Yeah, people are going to be so pissed. And also, nerds are going to be mad about our list.
Yeah. Skyrim.
Well, that's where, like, what memes just said. I never played any of those games put i picked games that i played like i know that i'm not i stopped playing video games probably in like oh six oh seven like you know religiously and so i missed some means what was the game you could play at disney characters oh final final final final kingdom hearts final fantasy that was my favorite game but it like super nerdy, and I was always embarrassed to say that I loved it.
My cousin played that a lot. I played it with him.
I played it all the time, and I got like everyone, like the day it came out. Final Fantasy, you just had to start the game and then just sit on your couch for like an hour while it told you what the story was.
That's the part I never got past with that game. I know that people that play it, they absolutely love it.
The Batman video games are also the greatest video games of all time. Oh yeah, and Spider-Man.
Yeah. Those were good? Was it Arkham City? Spider-Man games are so fun.
Yeah, I'm out of it. Did you guys play Cool Borders? Never heard of it.
Damn. Was that like California games? 1080.
No, it was actually just snowboarding. Last of Us, also a very good game Which was turned into a movie Or a TV show Paperboy? I stopped watching it after the second season No wait, that's not What was the one? No, I stopped watching Shoot, Mount Rushmore shows you stopped watching What was the one Game of Thrones 1-1 Where the apocalypse killed half of the world and then they all had to like convene somewhere?

Sounds like The Last of Us.

No.

Yeah, it sounds a lot like The Last of Us.

How many seasons was The Last of Us?

One.

No, it was something else.

It was with that guy, Justin Theroux.

Fuck, this is going to drive me nuts.

1080.

The President of Canada?

No.

Different guy.

What was the wave on our game on N64? Wave race. No, there was another one, though.
Mike Tyson's punch out. He was PST.
Oh, yeah. You've been on the list, yeah.
Great, great, great game. Justin Theroux.
What is his name? NBA Street. What was it? There was NFL Street, too.
Jet Moto, was that what it was called? The Leftovers. Did you guys watch The Leftovers? Never watched it, no.
Jet Moto. Jet Moto? On PS2, yeah.
Cruising USA. Oh, yeah, that's an arcade game, a great game.
Yeah yeah i think it was also for like wait we might just get hit by a tornado now i think we might have we might have mushed a tornado this is crazy reverse jinxed it let's see well now we can't because we have direct tv this is the last part i'm gonna take you over listen to that nuts. I can't die before NFL season.
God damn it. That would suck so bad.
I can't. We made it this far.
If we die, well, if we all die. Bears and the Commanders are about to be so good.
Hopefully this goes out. Make sure you release all the interviews we did because we did some awesome ones.
How much do you think this episode would be worth if we all died but someone could go to the computer and get the image? Shkreli would buy it for sure. Yeah, only one person can listen to it.
Yeah, and then they would listen to it and be like, these motherfucking idiots. They were saying the tornadoes can't hit cities.
All-time mush job. Wow, people would never know we're anti-assassination.
All right good mount rushmore people are gonna be pissed but i think we nailed it i feel i feel strong about everyone's four i i feel great about my three the show that's up in the air now but max is right mlb show might play better on the graphic even though yeah some people love it but real ones know they're yeah yeah uh okay let's get to our interview with baker mayfield pft yeah before we get into our interview with baker mayfield he's brought to you by cars.com i love cars.com i went shopping for an el camino on cars.com whoever wins the cars.com parking spot here at barstool sports will have plenty of extra time to create an account with cars.com and track their cars value we've got a parking spot right out front. That's right.
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It's Baker Mayfield. It's been a while.
It's awesome to have you back on. We were just saying it.
You've been through everything since we've last had you on. Butats on the contract let's start there yeah no settled into tampa now um yeah like we were talking about went through a couple dirty laundry cycles there for a little bit toss and turned didn't come out clean a couple times but uh no we love tampa now um so much that we're going to try and sell our texas house and be full-timeians.
Oh. As a proud Texan, it's wild to say.
Yeah. It's weird.
There's that natural rivalry. Like, the certain states that think of themselves as their own country, you've got Texas, California, Florida.
Texas is its own country. It was.
That is true. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and now you're like a Floridian. You're a Florida man.
Yeah. Florida man, Baker Mayfield.
I feel like I have to start wrestling Gators now. Yeah.
Wrestling Gators. Yeah.
Trust me, Beth. Or become like a floridian you're a florida man yeah florida man baker mayfield i think i have to start wrestling gators now yeah wrestling gators yeah or become like a retired wwe star that's all tampa they all go retire there he's like i'll have to wait on that yeah yeah we just do a cycle and then after you retire and then yeah you're probably gonna get a test after this okay i can't wait i can't wait to retire so yeah yeah like that that one comment you're definitely gonna get a random test all right so i mean it's been incredible i i feel like the story of like everything that's transpired in the last four years or three years um it's so much fun to watch because everyone you know is like oh baker he's get cast off by the browns on on the Rams, goes to the Bucs, maybe a temporary solution.
Now you get re-signed. You're the quarterback, the franchise quarterback there.
Was there ever a point in this whole long list of things that have gone down where you're like, is this it for me? Is the league going to move on for me? Because it happens. Yeah.
No, it does.

I mean, you see it quite a bit.

But I'd be lying if I said no.

There was definitely a point in Carolina where, you know,

going through a couple injuries there, team wasn't playing well,

traded Christian McCaffrey.

I'm like, where the hell am I right now?

Right.

And just needing a fresh start and going to L.A.

just for that, like, last five games of the year was so unbelievable for me. Like, getting a fresh start, like, they weren't making the playoffs regardless.
McVay was kind of in a bad spot at that point. They had so many injuries that year coming off the Super Bowl.
And, like, for us to, like, both come into it at that, the timing was perfect. Like, I needed that to that to go out and like say, screw it.
Let me go find the fun in football again. Cause the two years prior weren't so fun.
Like the last year in Cleveland is banged up as I was like looking back, like everything, I truly believe everything happens for a reason, played through injuries and whatnot. Like, and I wouldn't, I wouldn't change it now obviously, but in the midst of it, should I have probably gotten surgery and sat out? Yeah.
Yeah, probably. But you know what? I wouldn't change it.
Yeah. And so it got me to this point, and I learned a lot of lessons about, quite honestly, how damn stubborn I am.
Yeah. But then getting to L.A.
was that it started to need it. And then going to Tampa last year and just trying to meet everybody, get that chemistry going, and it's a great spot.
Yeah. I understand how why people want to be there i remember when it was happening with the browns we were saying it at the time we're like baker's toughness is actually hurting him because he he's so hurt but he's still out there and then everyone's like oh baker sucks like dude he's so hurt yeah no i like watching the watching the film from those games like now because after i got surgery surgery, I had to read, like, reteach myself my throwing motion.
I got with a coach and redid everything because I like I manufactured having an arm stuck to my body. Leg was all beat up, too.
It's just so many things and factors that, like I said, hindsight's 20, 20. But, yeah, I was a stubborn asshole.
Yeah. Yeah.
But it's it's damned if you do damned if you don't sometimes, because if you take yourself out and you say, okay, I need surgery. And then people are like, well, which shoulder is it? It was your non-throwing one.
Right. Like, well, I'm getting surgery on my non-throwing shoulder.
There'll be people that are like, Baker's not tough. He should have played through this.
Yeah. But then you play through it and you're obviously impacted by it.
Yeah. And I think part of it was, was partially like feeling like I was a part the cleveland community and like the blue collar attitude of like we're gonna fight through this um it's not like i'm blaming the cleveland people by any means but like i feel like that's just that attitude that we had going into it and everybody kind of embraced it but yeah i wasn't able to play to the best of my ability by any means yeah so you get out to la i remember that week because i i think we were all you.
It was such – was it – you had four days to learn, five days to learn, something like that? Oh, it was last. I got there on Tuesday night.
We played Thursday. That's right.
It was a Thursday night game. Yeah.
Who did you guys play on that Thursday night game? Raiders. Yeah.
Yeah. So what was the process like? You land, you get off an airplane, and then you just go straight to the facility or what? Yeah.
Landed LAX. They had a driver pick me up, got to the facility at like 10 p.m.
And I've been on East Coast time. It was in Carolina.
So it was, I mean, for me, it was late. And we met with OC, who's now, Liam Cohen, he's now in Tampa, Zach Robinson and OC in Atlanta now, and then McVay.
We sat down for a little bit, crushed some stuff for about two hours, and they were like, hey, you probably should go to bed. Wake up the next morning for practice, and they do a walkthrough, and they throw me in there.
I'm like, what the hell is going on? They're actually trying to get me to play. At this point, I'm communicating.
Emily can't travel out at that time, so I'm like, you don't need to come to the game. There's no way I'm going to play.
It like as hours go closer I'm like okay there's a chance I'm gonna play this might actually happen and then on on Wednesday like we did a walk through in the morning lunch and then went back out to practice and John Wolford who's with us in Tampa now his neck was all banged up and he couldn't throw so the only live sessions they had like the short weeks are so different practice schedule wise but the only live sessions we had i was throwing to those guys and i was like okay this feels pretty good yeah i think i might be able to do this thursday morning they make me cram a little bit more study and day of the game day of the game yeah and like they let me normally they make the guys stay in the hotel the night before they're like hey just stay in the hotel study as long as you want so in the morning after ride down with uh carter who's sean's assistant and mcveigh we ride down the sofa together from thousand oaks and the whole way i'm like shit let's just do it let it fly like what do we have to lose yeah but like one of those things that i look back on um like how wild is that like 48 hours yeah they simplify the playbook at all like guys i know he's got long names for plays no i tell sean he's an asshole all the time because he gave me a they gave me a wristband he didn't call one single playoff and but like looking back on i wouldn't change a thing were there points in the game where you call the play and you're like i think i know where everyone's going and then it you snapped and you're like nope that's that's wrong, but I'm still got to get rid of the ball. There was definitely a few times where I'd say the play in the huddle, say it right, and then I'd be like, okay, what does that mean? Then we break the huddle, fake it until you make it type thing.
I'm like, okay, I know what I'm doing now. There was a few times like that.
That's crazy, man. It did totally rejuvenate your career to the point where it's like you saw a good baker again people know that it's somewhere inside him yeah and then now you've got teams that want you to be their starting quarterback next year so yeah brought the fun back and like that's when i'm having fun talking trash enjoying it like that's when i'm at my best and yeah i needed that it's also i mean again this is nothing against uh cleveland because we i love you know love rooting for the Browns from afar.
I'm not a Browns fan, but it's like that city wants football so bad. But there is a lot of pressure in Cleveland because they are so starved for success that it just is probably a totally different vibe than a L.A.
or a Tampa. It is.
It really is. Like in Tampa, like in Cleveland, you get the stories of like, these tickets have been passed down from my great-grandfather.
We've done this. We've been partying the Muni lot for years and all that.
And in Tampa, they talk about like old Sombrero Stadium, like the creamsicle jerseys. Like it was cool that we brought that back.
But you get some fans like that, but it's just different when you get like thoseeastern teams that are truly generational fans. Right, and the pressure of this whole city being like, you've got to do this for us.
Yeah, that's a lot. All right, so this past year, it was great too watching you play this past year because it felt like Old Baker where you were doing shit where you're like, I'm just going to run the ball and try to run over a linebacker, sometimes to success, sometimes not.
but in the like you were doing shit where you're like i'm just gonna run the ball and try to like you know run over a linebacker sometimes to success sometimes not but and like you were just jacked up in the huddle and like pumped up all the time so did you feel like that like you're playing some of your best ball this past year in the second half yeah second half of the year for sure um we definitely caught a groove there like we started out hot three and one bi-week was early and then after that we i mean i think we went one and six and like in a seven game stretch right there that it was it was bad but we we finally turned it around but uh yeah it was like all right simple is better especially with the guys that we have in tampa like mike evans and chris godwin mike evans we were a big mike evans podcast We did a whole thing on it last year where we're like, Mike Evans does not get talked about in the way he should be. Then the fact that if he plays three, four more years, the way he's been playing, he's a top five receiver of all time.
No, he is. It's nuts.
The numbers he puts up. If he has an average year stats wise for his records, he'll still be top 10 and touchdowns.

He's up there in yards.

I mean,

he's had 10 seasons in a row of a thousand yards.

Yeah.

And I mean,

I know he's had some good quarterbacks,

but also he's had a bunch of different ones.

Yeah.

Right.

He is the consistent one.

Right.

And like,

he doesn't get that recognition.

And like,

I'd be remiss to say like Levante David as well.

Another one of those guys in Tampa that gets no recognition. The dude is a Hall of Famer.
Yeah. He's unbelievable.
He is. He's so, so good.
It does feel like the Bucs have had awesome linebackers for like 30 years. Yeah.
Just nonstop. You've got one guy in there that should be in the Hall of Fame.
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So, yeah, it was fun. I remember week – was it week one you guys played the Vikings? Yep.
Yeah, so there was one run that you had. You tucked the ball, you ran.
You ran through someone's face, and then you got up and you did the, like – you kind of flexed and your teammates on the sideline were just jumping up in the air. They're like, yes, fuck like at least from the outside when I saw that I was like I think I think the Bucks are in love with Baker Mayfield I think they're like fully behind him did you know going into the season that like you had a locker room behind you ready to run through a wall or was it was there a point uh it's tricky because like the whole offseason and and throughout most of camp I was still in a battle with Kyle Trask to get the starting job.
And I think a lot of the guys knew what I was capable of, but they also didn't know what version they were going to get of me. And the version they got was the one that truly didn't give a shit.
I had nothing to lose at that point. I'm either going to be a backup for the rest of my career, or I'm going to revive this thing.
So it was like, this is the spark plug I needed. It was like that game one when I'm the starter, let's set the tone, like a third down run or something that we needed on the line.
Like, let's set the tone for the rest of the year of like what type of locker room we're going to have. Swagger back.
Baker grabbing his nuts again. Yeah.
Do you look back at any of those? You're like, I probably should have done that. Yeah, my grandma still thinks I had an itch.
I mean, you made – like that's what is the best about college football. I remember when people were freaking out about it because there's such a weird thing when it comes to college sports where there were amateurs, you were amateurs then not getting paid.
People think like, oh, you got to be real sportsman. It's like, no, dude.
They're football they don't like each other well yeah college sports are different now but like i still look back like when the clips of that and you hear like greg mcelroy like frat boy alabama quarterback on the broadcast yeah oh nfl gms aren't gonna like that yeah it's like come on man i don't think nfl gms give a shit about that i think they probably would like that because it shows that you're passionate. You've got a little edge and fuck you to you.
Yeah, it depends on how they evaluate. I'd rather have my guy be like that than just no emotion.
Yeah. No, to try and please everybody, do the political stance and the interviews and all that, it's just kind of fake.
Maybe bring back the nut grab. One time this year against the Saints.
Tomorrow might rip my head off. Yeah, that is true.
Yeah, it's a bold strategy. Yeah, it's not Kansas.
The Saints aren't Kansas. That is true.
You did do it against Kansas. Of all the teams, you're like, we know we're going to put up 50.
That's fine. Yeah, I did pick my battle there.
Yeah, yeah. Is it weird that you sec now it's a little weird it's got like it's gonna take some getting used to watching like oklahoma versus florida oklahoma versus lsu yeah like seeing like i get the sec questions all the time about like oh you guys have to play everybody all the time now it's like okay but like sec ball is good but really the consistent ones georgia and.
LSU has its great years, and then it has its not-so-great years. Then you have the other teams in the SEC.
It's still competitive ball at that time. For Oklahoma and Texas, it's about the physicality aspect.
That's always been the discussion about SEC. Get bigger on the lines.
That's the difference. I think it'll help recruiting-wise,, too.
You're going to have to do way more interlocker room bets against your teammates, though, because I feel like there's more SEC players. We don't gamble.
Well, bets as in, like, oh, yeah. You have to wear, like, a T-shirt.
Yeah, a T-shirt. You've got to wear a T-shirt.
To a press conference. Fun bets.
For the first, like, five seconds of the press conference, you're like, okay, laugh at me, all right, good. And then you just carry on then you just carry on about yeah exactly that's probably another drug test you're gonna get they're just gonna be like how can we get them another one how many times have you been piss tested like randomly um when we were in 2020 oddly enough when we were really really playing well with the browns i got tested probably 11 times that year.
It's random. First of all, look at me.
Yeah, right. I'm not a physical

person. Oddly enough, when we were really, really playing well with the Browns, I got tested probably 11 times that year.
It's random. First of all, look at me.
Yeah, right. I'm not a physical specimen.
Right. What are we doing here? Yeah.
It's random. Were you on like a first-name basis with the guy that comes in? Yeah.
That's awkward. That is awkward.
Because they got to look. They got to.
Do they stand behind you? They're very familiar. No.
They look at your. Well, some of them do.
Some of them don't. Some of them look at your cock.
Some of them directly stare. They have to watch...
The others will make sure that you don't have, like, a Blue Mountain State attachment. Yeah, yeah, right.
Right. Who's the guy? Ontario Smith had that.
Ontario Smith. He had a fake dick.
The whizinator. Yeah, fake dick that he put in.
And then they caught him with it. He was going through airport security.
And they're like... TSA down they're like what is this fake penis he's having fun yeah do you wait do you ever do you ever fuck with him like like if there was a guy who gave me a drug test and was staring at my cock no chance i would just be like hey buddy you're just gonna stand stand there that now do something about this you say that now but like the quicker you can be in and out of that place true the better true it's also very funny that a guy probably went to college for uh probably six to seven years no to get a degree to get like you know into the biomedical sphere yeah and now your day-to-day job is just looking at dudes pissing yeah stare at baker's cock yeah is that it well listen but the guys here all have my cock on film multiple times so uh they have blackmail on me congratulations yeah well then whenever we do golf videos and they they try to get me pissing and i'll just turn around and be like now you can't use this so now they have it all yeah we always say that with big cat it's definitely not like is that going like their safe code yeah i mean it's it's usually like like 30 feet away, so you probably can't see anything.
Technology nowadays, though. It's what I use if I ever want to sue Barstool and be like, this is my employer.
Flashing his dick at me as I'm trying to do my job. What happens if you don't have to take a piss? Oh, there's like a window that you have to get it done in.
And it can't be too diluted, right? Yeah. Yeah.
So you can't just say like, I don't have any pee. I just peed a second ago.
No, they'll wait. Damn.
The whole time they're staring at your cock? No. Like you'll leave.
That'd be funny if they stand there for three hours. The best is when they just feel awkward and they like turn the faucet on.
Yeah. Ooh, soothing sounds.
Yeah. You to piss so hard that you just shit yourself? Do they leave at that point? Do they watch you get cleaned up? I do have an old teammate that we had a drug tester that really thought his job was the most important thing in the world.
And this one teammate, on purpose, would only go do his drug test when he had to shut.

That's awesome.

I'm trying to think.

That is so great.

Oh man.

It was the first initial.

Okay.

I can't do it.

It was a good move though.

Yeah.

He's turned his life around.

Hey,

you saw a UFO.

Yeah.

Like for real, for real. What? Tell us.
Okay. So, driving home from dinner.
Where? In Austin. Okay.
And it's like when we're driving home, we're about to cross the dam between Lake Travis and Lake Austin. And we're looking, like, basically looking out.
And, like and like it's really dark out there and literally like we got the screen on the uh car is real bright yeah and so emily's in the passenger seat she's looking at her phone this like like circle shape object like bright as hell literally just goes from right here and goes straight down she was looking at her phone you know how it's like at night if you're looking at that and your eyes don't adjust to light it was so bright that she looked up and saw it too and it just like disappeared like completely disappeared holy shit and so i put that out on twitter people thought i was hammered no i believe no i was just driving home right and not under the influence either yeah um and you're oklahomaoma guy not an oklahoma state guy that's good it's a big difference that's a good one thousand times my country that's that's that was nice um but there was other people that reached out afterwards and said they saw the same thing whoa and it wasn't like we were facing towards a tesla factory they weren't doing any weird shit we were facing out like out to the. Damn.
So when you got home, were you like, I would have just been buzzing. I would have just been talking about the UFO nonstop for the next week.
Like you saw aliens. People thought I was crazy at that point.
Yeah. It was like COVID and they thought I don't know what was going on.
Yeah, I mean if you say you saw a UFO, people are just going to be like, that's crazy. The vaccine hit him different.
Yeah, right. he's never been the same yeah that's i mean that's pretty cool i want to see a ufo i really want to see one yeah i've been i've been telling myself every night i look up at the sky and i try to find one i've never seen him but maybe it's because i'm looking for one just has to happen to you i got a weird question for you about your time in tampa okay um your offense Dave Canales, did you ever read his book? I did not.
Did you know that he wrote a book? I did, yeah. That never came up at any point? Came up initially.
He owns it. Yeah.
He owns it, and, like, I respect him for it. Like, I didn't know anything prior to meeting him.
I didn't know anything about him yeah but like the fact that he owns it he's up front about it um no i never read though yeah do you think he could have just done it in therapy and not written the book yeah we were joking like if i were him i would never just i would never want to be a head coach because then everyone would be like wait what's that book? Yeah. But I think the approach that him and his wife have about it.
If they're open about it, then yeah. Teaching lessons on it.
It's a part of their story. Yeah.
I don't know. How do you think he's going to be as a head coach? Good.
He's a very relatable, smart guy. He took our receivers coach from Tampa with him to be the OC, Brad Idzik, really, really good football mind.
And I just think like those two guys together, like around Bryce is going to be good for him. But Dave's got like the definition of an optimist bully.
Like it could be the worst day ever. Everything could be going wrong.
And he's sitting there, he's like, guys, I guys i've got the next play and like he's got a big old smile on his face and you're like this guy's full of shit yeah but no that's literally who he is day in and day out and like it's honestly refreshing especially in that industry it's like coaches are always negative like picking apart everything but he's he's complete opposite yeah he seems like a good dude i mean it's it's cool anytime like you start getting the wave of younger generation hires it's cool because it does feel like that's happening right now yeah it's but it's also the old school generations so entertaining i know yeah you need we need to figure out who the next like grumpy like yeah we need some more fat coaches that's something you haven't had a fat coach in a long time. And Gino back.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. Right.
Like, we got Andy Reid, Mike McCarthy, but like, we need some fat guys. We can do way better than that, yeah.
It's more powerful. Get some guys to put on some weight.
Yeah. I'm on a strict diet.
Yeah. Let's get some fat coaches going.
Yeah. Why not? If the coaches are like, you know, too young, too cool, too much of players' coaches, do you ever wish, like just wish Bruce Arians would walk through that door and just chew me out.
Just call me a dumb motherfucker. A good ass-chewing is good for everybody every once in a while.
I always say that. Everybody needs one.
You might not like it, but you need it. You need it.
Just a reset. When was the last time you had your ass chewed? Like really, really chewed? Yeah.
Really chewed. Like really in depth.
Really chewed. Like went in.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You thought about it for days.

Uh-huh.

Todd Haley.

Oh, yeah.

That's a classic.

Todd Haley.

Todd Haley.

Yeah.

Todd Haley had some really good ones my rookie year.

And yeah, he tore me apart.

Yeah.

Todd Haley, he's a motherfucker. But like in a football guy way yeah but he did it to everybody yeah it wasn't like he would pick it personal unless you just like didn't give a shit that was the only time he would like single you out but yeah he would let you know you're pretty damn stupid yeah he's a he's a football guy through and through that's for sure todd haley that's.
That's a good answer. That's probably the last.
Yeah, that was the last really good one. Yeah.
Greg Williams? Greg let the offense, like, when they got rid of Hugh Jackson and Todd, Greg kind of let the offense do whatever. And Greg's sick in the head.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
He loved the fact that I was psychotic. Loved it.
He was like shit just keep doing it i've heard that in practices he he sometimes uh to the detriment of the team if he's coaching defense he'll just send crazy ass blitzes when the offense is trying to like work on something yeah those are the worst kind of coaches yeah the ones that like script read and take all that stuff and try and win in practice yeah that's first of all it's not getting your defense better because you don't know what the offense is going to call in a game like but yeah he likes to bring a lot of pressure i would definitely do that yeah just as someone who the minute i realized like in sixth grade that they had half of the answers in the back of the book in math it's like that's when i stopped learning math but then but then in the test when you don't have the answers, what do you do? I just be really bad at math. But it's kind of different in football because you want that confidence.
So in practice, if you give your guys the answers, they feel like they're superhuman. Yeah.
I can see how that can translate. Yeah, yeah.
A little confidence. Did that work for the Browns in Cleveland? Yeah.
Might not. You know what? It kind of did.
We turned it around, wound up 7-8-1. Yeah.
Yeah. They won one game in two years prior.
You know what? Sure, it worked. Yeah, that worked.
Do you ever – your current coach, Todd Bowles, he's not a yeller. No.
Do you ever want to, like, shake him and be like, dude, just yell at me? No, because he's, like – he's got some sly shit talking. Oh, I like that.
Under his breath, behind the scenes, yeah.

Because, like, they'll show Todd Bowles on the sideline

and he just won't be talking.

Yeah.

And I know that it's –

He's so even keel.

Yeah.

He's like – I mean, he is one of the smartest defensive minds

I've ever been around.

It's amazing, like, going up against them in practice.

But, like, then his nature, though, is just the whole time.

Yeah.

And it never changes besides when, like, he's giving the defensive guys a hard time or somebody else in team meetings. It's funny.
Do you think it would fuck the team up if he just did a Bob Knight type of tirade at one point and be like, what's wrong? A good Bobby Knight tirade? Yeah, if he throws a chair and he's like, listen, guys, I've been holding this in for 50 years. A lot of built up.
Yeah. You guys are the ones that finally made me snap that one i've never yelled in my life that might make me feel guilty yeah i know i think it would fuck you up mentally yeah yeah shit we pushed him to this point um for i forgot to say congratulations on being a dad thank you um do you feel like you were stronger i did have some dad's drink yeah yeah you like have you can do that if you're like because i have three kids and

like um do you feel like you're stronger i did have some dad strength yeah yeah you like have you can do that if you're like because i have three kids and like i i can like put myself in a place where i think about my kids in danger and i like get that adrenaline boost yeah i mean i'm always one of those guys that like and i know my friends are gonna listen to this like i always have the conversation about like a pack of coyotes coming at us we always have the argument about what kind of animal we could take yeah Yeah, coyotes I'd fuck up. Like right now? Yeah.
Come on. No problem.
They're easy. We saw a coyote like two days ago.
Give me 12 of them. Yeah.
It was a bitch. Well, you'd fuck up one and they'd all run.
Yeah. They'd be scared shitless.
Yeah, I mean you scare the rest of the pack. Yeah.
Single the big one out. Yeah, we saw a coyote.
I was ready to take it. We're playing frisbee golf.
I called it back over to us. Man, this thing you can do.
Yeah. It started to walk away.
I howled at her. Yeah.
Went on a treat. It stopped.
It looked at me, and I was like, come on, bring it. Yeah.
And I just walked away. What's your move if you're doing that? A coyote? Yeah.
I kick everything in the nuts. I'll tell you what I do.
Here's what you do. You wrap your shirt around your arm.
Then you hold your arm and make them bite your arm. I think you took that from a direct like canine police training video i've watched a lot of videos of that detroit's urban survival guy yeah so i'm pretty good at that yeah then hold it up and then whack it in the nuts oh you just you grab it by the throat and just snap its windpipe right in the trachea done yeah done pita's also gonna be after us no coyotes aren't protected by pita no chance they.
There's definitely some animal, like pigeons aren't protected by PETA. Raccoons, I don't think.
What's the point of mosquitoes, either? Yeah, mosquitoes, definitely not protected by spiders. Living in Florida, they're starting to really piss me off.
Ticks. Ticks are the worst thing in the world.
They literally exist just to kill people. They've ruined the term Lyme for me.
Lyme disease. Just like Corona corona did with coronavirus it's true a corona and a lime used to be the most refreshing thing in the world now it's a virus and a parasite yeah kill you and make you tired it stinks it's a shame yeah real shame real shame all right so has your life changed like having a kid you feel like maybe this is going to be maybe this will be best season yet because you're playing for something bigger i do and like like last year i feel like there was definitely extra motivation um but just i don't know it puts everything in perspective too so it's like how do you balance yeah knowing that there's other things outside of football but also how am i going to support this family for the rest of their lives like also it's a it's's a mindfuck because everyone tells you what to expect.
And then when it happens, you're like, well, that changed everything. Like timing wise, she was born early April.
Like couldn't have been a better time. Yeah.
I don't know how people do it in season. It's like you want to be there.
You want to spend your time. But also you got to pay the bills.
Yeah. All my babies were born in the offseason yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't what's the season for you uh the season for us is late august till end of the nba finals that's like the very busy season so it's so that's like so this is the office that's like till mid-june yeah it's 10 10 10 months yeah we're in the offseason right we're in the offseason We're in the office.
We're in show week. We're in OTAs.
This is OTAs right now. It's a long season.
Voluntary? You guys showed up for this? Yeah, we did. This is, yeah, phase me.
It's us. Yeah, we're good to go.
We're doing it. We're doing it.
There really is no off-season. Did you plan that out? Like, we're going to have our baby in the off-season? No, we didn't plan it.
We tried for like a year and a half, and she actually we think a tahoe baby oh chill week we came back to the scene of the crime wow you're more fertile out here oh elevation elevation yeah the sperm swim faster in the cold water put a little michael phelps on that might have something to do with it yeah yeah but now you got to think about like your daughter someday listening to this she'll know she was in tahoe yeah she's gonna be the chillest baby ever yeah i'm definitely tahoe yeah yeah because i have that happen creeping my head every now and then well pretty much every day but i just block it out like they'll watch everything and it's gonna suck it is scary yeah it's scary i'm not gonna be able to tell them to like i'm not gonna be able to say like hey don't do this it's like what about this why you did this. Yeah, scary.
Yeah. It's scary.
I'm not going to be able to tell him to like, I'm not going to be able to say like, Hey, don't do this. It's like, what about this? Why you did this? Yeah.
Right. You did this on camera.
You think about that in a game when you're like, play it, you're getting crushed by the Ravens in Cleveland. One day, my future unborn kids are going to watch this game film.
Yeah. Dad, dad stunk.
Dad got his ass beat. Yeah.
He's a tough motherfucker. I have a, do you, are you aware of Steven Shea? I'm not.
Okay. Bucs super fan.
He actually – there was like some graphic that was like the most famous fans for every team. Dick Vitale won for the Bucs, and then Stephen Shea photoshopped himself over Dick Vitale, which was pretty rude of him, especially because Dick Vitale I think is battling cancer again.
But Stephen Sheaay he's a crazy bucks fan okay watch this film he's very well known in the bucks community i asked him for some questions he watches film he does he doesn't know what he's watching so he watches that's what i love about the super fans he works he works for barstool and when he started working for us he was doing like ad operations so he was very much on the business side but he would still break down bucks film for himself yeah for nobody for no one he had the software he would like highlight guys and then somebody saw like one time he posted a clip and we're like why are you doing this steven and he just always has and he only posts good film like if you guys get killed he'll just be like, watch this guard get off.

Wait, Stephen, the Buc bucks lost like 30 33 to 2 and it's like what the fuck yeah so bless you steve he's he's the best he actually did say uh feel free to show him this pick of us from the camp with the jets last year so there's the pick oh he's got a lot of energy yes yeah he's got a lot of energy yeah Yeah. He's done Make-A-Wish with the Bucs.
He's not sick or anything. Who threw him the – was it Ryan Griffin threw him a pass? I'll find the video for you and show it to you.
So anyway, Stephen Shea, diehard Bucs fan. I asked him for some questions.
He said, the first one was the Bucs actively sought out your opinion on their open offensive coordinator position this offseason,

even though you were a free agent.

What did that mean to you,

and how much did that influence your decision to stay in Tampa?

Pretty good question.

That's a great question.

Kind of a loaded one, too. Yeah.

God, Steven coming with the hard ones.

Yeah, like it was fun during the process,

but also like I'm giving them input on like what I think we need similar, like a similar system to what Dave had, um, and like to benefit my attributes. And we go through this process and I feel like it was always a circle.
Like we'd go through that. I'd give them my input.
Then also I'd take a step back and be like, wait, I don't even have a deal yet. What am I doing? Yeah.
Right. Like let's, let's do this this but i think part of it was them trying to get input get the right guy in there that making it more enticing no matter what the deal was that was offered um but it like it did mean a lot during that process because that was the first time i had been asked about yeah anything yeah and it wasn't like they're still going to make their decision however they want to they're probably just letting me feel good about it but that counts it does yeah like in in knowing that i had worked with liam before i think that was a big part of it yeah yeah i mean that that it's it's cool when a team does that because like why wouldn't you your quarterback is your most important position why wouldn't you want to at least hear even if you don't use it, just hear what they have to say.
Yeah, but just the questions about what type of system, what type of guy I thought we needed, leadership-wise, system-wise, for our skill players, for our O-line, because we were so bad at running the ball last year. And so how is he going to improve all that? And that input, I think they obviously did their own homework but found out that he was the right fit yeah so during that process were you talking to other teams yourself no like wound up signing right before free agency started um but like you know like all the rumors that go around like agents talk everybody talks like you see some things like um Like, I thought Atlanta was going to eventually offer a free agency game,

but then they signed Kirk before that.

And I thought Minnesota could be a chance.

Like, you just never know.

Yeah.

You never know.

That would have been funny if you gave the Bucs the shittiest offense

coordinator that you could find.

You're like, yeah, I really like this guy.

And then went to Atlanta.

That would have been an awesome move.

That would have been smart. That would have been a good one.
Yeah Yeah. Alright, here's the other question.
This one is weird. Steve, all he cares about is football.
So, he only gets his news from Adam Schefter. Like, when Ukraine and Russia were going to war, Stephen didn't.
Threes or sixes?

These are eights.

Lucy Breakers.

These are fours.

Want one?

Shout out Lucy Breakers.

Yeah, so Ukraine and Russia happened.

Like he didn't find out for three weeks because Adam Schefter didn't tweet it.

Like that's the type of guy he is.

Like he doesn't know world news unless Schefter says it.

Okay.

Because that's how locked in he is on just football.

Okay.

So he said, I heard a rumor. So Schefter's his favorite guy in the world.
He said, I heard a rumor that you and Adam Schefter are it. Okay.
Because that's how locked in he is on just football. Okay.
So he said, I heard a rumor.

So Schefter's his favorite guy in the world.

He said, I heard a rumor that you and Adam Schefter are very tight.

It's rare in this day and age for a newsbreaker and a player he reports on to be good friends.

How did this beautiful friendship blossom?

And what are your favorite qualities about Schefter?

Did he just do an ad lib, like throw in the adjectives in there?

This is a real question.

Beautiful friendship blossom?

And also, what are your favorite qualities about Adam Schefter? I mean, he's a weirdo. I'll say Steven's a gem.
Yeah, he is quite something. He's quite something.
No, Adam and I actually are close. Okay.
That's accurate. So he got the rumor right.
Yeah, he got the rumor right. Favorite qualities? Favorite qualities.
I think Adam's, he's just like, as much as they do the breaking news stuff, like if you have a conversation with Adam, he's one of the media members you can actually trust that if it's off the record, it's not going anywhere. Yeah.
Like he actually will keep it close to the vest. Yeah.
Like I think a lot of those guys that are like high up there, you got like Rappaport or like those guys i think those are the qualities that like because adam was doing it before anybody yeah and he's just he's done it for a long time yeah yeah i mean we love chef dude we have him on uh once a year at the combine he's a good dude he gives a great christmas gifts too yeah are you on the list he sent us baby gifts too christmas gifts everything you get the blanket this year you get the blanket oh yeah oh yeah i was a little confused by the blanket. I was too.
Cause it had a giant S on there. And then I thought, did Adam Schefter send me a blanket with his initial on it? Yeah.
Like he sent that to everybody, but no, yours probably had an M right? It did. Yeah.
Nice guy. Baby name.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. But it was, yeah, the whole thing.
He's, he's the best. He sent us cookies the year before.
And he's got his daughter doing interviews like on the field after games like when we with the rams we're playing the broncos

on christmas day she was down there doing a interview for nickelodeon yeah yeah i mean that

that's also nepotism like come on what are we doing dude i think it was like noah eagle on the

call yeah right and then yeah it was playing quarterback yeah it was great what about

physically what's your favorite physical attribute about adam shefter? Your best friend. How, like, just proportionally sized to fit in my pocket he is.
You can just keep him right in there. He is.
If you stand next to him, you're a 6'3 quarterback all of a sudden. I feel enormous.
Yeah. I feel like Josh Allen.
So we actually, we're on your side about the whole, like, you're actually not as short as people say. But what they should do is they should measure up to the eyes for quarterbacks.
Because anything above your eyes is wasted space going into the draft. Like, I don't give a shit if my quarterback's got a big forehead.
Okay, so Peyton Manning. Yeah.
How tall is he? Big forehead. That's true.
How tall is he? Not that tall. No.
Four? No, he's like, he's like 5'11". Well, by the eyes.
Yeah, right. Yeah, if we're going by the eyes, Peyton Manning probably 5'11".
Yeah. Yeah.
Tom Brady, five, probably six feet. Yeah.
Six feet flat. I don't know what his forehead looks like right now.
Yeah, it changes every other week. Yeah.
That was mean. Should have said that.
Did you get Tom Brady's locker? I think so. Oh.
Yeah, it is. It is.
Did you leave anything behind? Also, it's a locker room. You got to replace guys.
Yeah. They can't put glass over it.
Don't touch this. No.
Did you leave anything behind, or was it just clean? No, there was no avocados left. Yeah.
Was there any weird pressure, like, stepping into Tom Brady Brady's, like this used to be his team? A little bit, but also like the team that they brought in around him, like he had a huge say on the free agents and like a ton of veterans that Superbowl run, like that, those end years, um, a little bit, but also like, I'm not Tom. I don't play like Tom.
I just can't be him. That's what I always said, just be the best version of myself and let that ride.

Yeah, that is cool, though, that you got a locker room that had guys

that he hand-selected to bring in there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, good situation.

Yeah.

All right, well, this has been awesome.

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It's been awesome having you back on, Baker.

Like I said, I think it's been five years.

We've had you on, I think this is the third time.

You are, I love that you, I feel like you're a type of guy that you have a circle and then

there's people who talk shit about Baker and you're like, fuck you i'm you're out was there ever a moment that we were out no okay good all right no i thought there was just a moment where i was just like i'm not doing anything extra because yeah there was a moment where we were like are we out i don't think we were because i don't think we ever said anything remotely negative about you we've always been like baker may fans. But the problem we run into sometimes is the Barstool Sports main account.
Yes. They will fire off.
Not our fault. The dankest memes left and right after a game.
And then sometimes we've got players that we're friends with that are like, hey, what the fuck? And we're like, sorry, we don't control that account. Dion actually texted me the other day.
He was like, what's this story you guys are writing? I was like, dude, I haven't blogged in 10 years.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think you got a bunch of computer nerds sitting behind there

writing articles for clickbait stuff.

Yeah, we got a lot of that.

But my approach on it was just not to do any huge interviews.

Just let this whole thing pass over.

Let people know that I'm stronger in the end for it.

Still the same person. Smart approach.
Yeah. All right, good.
good i feel good remember when you beat philly in the playoffs this year it's pretty sick that was awesome pretty sick oh hey what happened with your oklahoma statue they kind of fucked that up huh no i mean there are really no good statues okay good story on that. Okay.
It's better than if you can, I don't know if they'll have a picture of it online, but they have all the All-Americans plaques outside. If you look up Mark Andrews plaque, it's the most fucked up thing you've ever seen in your life.
Really? It's so good. See, the problem is, I think what they had to do is they had to break the mold of statues

and have it be a red headband.

Because if you look at it from afar, it looks like you just have the shiniest, biggest forehead

ever.

That's the problem.

Because they have your headband on there.

Yeah.

That's, I think, what I was thinking.

It kind of looks like you look like a player from the 1940s.

Yeah.

It's weird having a statue of yourself where you're alive.

It's enormous, too.

You kind of look like T-1000 from Terminator.

That's cool.

That's pretty sick.

Yeah, all right.

All right, I'm coming around on the statue.

I was a little pissed they didn't make Kyler's miniature, but.

Yeah, this is, I don't know.

That would have been great if it was Kyler's miniature.

Yeah, real strong chin in that one.

Yeah.

Ears are flaring out a little bit.

He is T-1000.

Yeah.

That's kind of cool now. All right, I'm back on the statue.
All right, well, Baker, it's been fucking awesome, dude. We love having you back on the show.
It's good to be back. Yeah, let's not wait another five years.
I'm sure, you know what? Next time, we'll bring Steven with us, and he can just. Is he going to talk the whole time, though? Yes, unless we tell him to shut up.
He's coachable,able though. If you tell him to shut up, he'll shut up Perceptive? Yeah, yeah.
I do have one more question for you. Since we were talking about babies earlier we have a theory on this show that when a player like a wide receiver or tight end has a kid, especially if it's their first baby, they're way more likely to score a touchdown that week because everyone in the locker room is happy for them everyone's saying send best wishes like send best wishes to him they show up for game day different mood congrats on the baby does that does that calculus ever enter your brain for like receivers yeah yeah you gotta get him the ball because of the baby no okay it should bad teammate maybe it's good that he said that because then it's not going to change the odds but.
We know the truth. But now it's actually in his brain.
That's another piss test for you. All right.
Thanks, Baker. Appreciate you, guys.
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Okay, let's wrap up the show.

I have two Monday readings for you.

One's a tweet.

One's a Reddit post that I came across. Someone tagged me in it saying Monday reading, which I agreed with.
The first is a tweet that I want you guys to just give your reaction for. This is from, so Nate was in the World Series of Poker, cashed.
Congrats to Nate, our guy Nate, 717. I funded him.
He cashed, and we're proud of him. It was a hell of a of a run but anyway my algorithm has just been all poker because i was so into his run and just like looking at looking for everything this guy sean perry i guess he's a poker pro or something uh sean perry wins he said did you guys know that dylan gang runs a very high stakes illegal poker game where he's raking over 50 K a day and there's an illegal prostitution ring happening at the game.
The players are paying girls to fuck in the other rooms. And this is Jason Mercer's partner.
How alarming. Oh my God.
That sounds that sounds terrible. It sounds alarming.
That sounds we should invest the worst time ever. worst time ever.
I simply can't believe that's true.

Crazy.

We should go check it out.

Yeah.

To make sure that it's not true.

I mean, guys are paying to fuck in the side room.

In Las Vegas?

I don't know where it is.

He runs an illegal stakes poker game where he's raking over 50k a day and there's an illegal prostitution ring happening at the game.

The players are paying girls to fuck in the other rooms. Whoa.
Yeah. I believe that's true we should go check it out scary scary hold on where is it can you tell me the address that it is so i can make sure that i never we gotta find it we gotta find it i want to make sure i never i never accidentally go there grit week we'll stop it okay so i think we have a spot for grit week yep i think Do some investigative journalism.
All right, here's the Monday reading. This one is my boyfriend, 26 female, my boyfriend, 28.
He's obsessed with a lantern he found at a flea market, and it's getting weird. How do I approach this? Hello.
So my boyfriend and I recently went to a flea market, and found this old style lantern that he absolutely fell in love with. He bought it on the spot and I thought it was a cute little vintage decoration for our apartment.
But now things have taken a strange turn. Ever since he got the lantern, he's become super attached to it.
He keeps it by his bedside and even gets up in the middle of the night to walk around the apartment with it, pretending to be an old timey watchman. He'll say things like, all is well, or the night is dark and full of terrors.
And he really gets into character. At first, I thought it was kind of funny and endearing, as he always had an eccentric style of humor.
But now it's starting to annoy me. He does this almost every night, and and it's disrupting our sleep i've tried talking to him about it but he just tells me that he takes his watchman duties very seriously and that it's important for our safety the issue is i genuinely cannot tell if he's joking has anyone else experienced something like this how do i get him to tone it down without hurting his feelings or making him feel like he can't enjoy his quirky interests that's a great question to ask have any of you guys experienced this with a boyfriend before guys can't have hobbies sounds like he's gaslighting her yeah that's all i got that's i love this guy though yeah he's a cool guy listen if you find something cool at a flea market or you're you know out maybe on a saturday afternoon you ask him to stop into some little quaint antique shop that he doesn't really want to go into, and then he finds something awesome that consumes his life from there, you should encourage those types of behaviors, those hobbies.
He's using his imagination. Also, playing in the dark is as old school as it gets.
Yeah. Probably get some excellent shadows with the lantern.
The dark, what does he say? The dark is night and full of terrors? Mm-hmm. All is well.
Yeah, all is well. The night is dark and full of terrors.
Yeah. Sounds like he's doing a good job.
It sounds like he's keeping ghosts away from you, which you should be happy about. I saw it.
I was just like, dudes rock. This is just, we've gotten to a point where it's like, listen, what would you rather him do? Like, cheat on you or like, you know,, have a hobby that completely destroys your relationship with him? Or he could just do his duty as the watchman and check out what's going on at night.
At least you know where he is all night long. Right.
He's walking around with a lantern in his head. And if there's...
Hey, I bet you if you heard a clank in the middle of the night, you're like, you go check it. You're not the one who's going to go check it.
He's going to go check it. Yeah, he's the guy that's got guy that's got the lantern now he's fully equipped yeah i don't mind this at all yeah so i i thought it was a fun little story uh okay anything hank are we worried about the tornado kind of or i i'm trying to remember your like flow chart that you had as to what weather is real oh yeah do you said do you say tornadoes is real it was just rain is just football anything that's gonna you know a tornado could affect an over yeah it could yeah rain and snow never not so much never um weather's not real no uh okay let's do uh numbers this tornado is like a natural disaster though yeah no tornado really weather tornadoes you don't fuck with tornado you don't think tornado is weather like yeah like an earthquake isn't weather yeah correct correct tornadoes not weather volcano tsunami tornado i think would be a tornado hurricane would be weather.
You're not getting it, big guy. It's a natural disaster.
Oh. It's not weather.
It's not weather, but it's definitely weather. Is volcanoes weather? No.
Tsunami? Nope. Okay.
Really cold front. Yes.
Okay. Okay.
Thunderstorm. Yes.
What was the thing called last summer? The heat dome? Polar vortex Yes Don't know what that is It's like a tsunami in a lake Aurora Borealis The northern lights Not weather Solar flare flare. Nope.

Okay.

Whirlpool.

Oh, good one.

Bermuda Triangle.

No.

That's bigger than us.

Microburst.

I don't know what that is.

Is that like a mini tornado?

I think a microburst is like just a big thunderstorm that pops up. What's a mini what's that called dirt devil dirt devil tasmanian devil yes taz is real taz is taz is weather agreed with that all right let's do numbers oh by the way shane uh went on a date with his charger shirt that's pretty cool is that that was his first date he's ever been on yeah that's awesome congr awesome.
Congratulations. And it went well.
So. Is there going to be a second date? What? Is there going to be a second date? We'll see.
Okay, nice. That's better than a no.
We've got to get you your Chargers gear. Let's do it.
Yeah. Numbers.
20. 73.
8. 99.
Max. Number.
20. 73.

99.

Max, number?

20.

I already said it.

56.

21.

That's brutal because that means that you really wanted 20.

I gave Shane my headphones.

I can't hear it.

31. 31.
31. Love you guys.
31 31

Love you guys

Pull me out of this Stalking away

While I'm the one

I'm gonna say I'm sane anyway

Days are my days

I'm fine

Shining away

I'm coming for a lover

I'm coming for a lover

Take me

Take me

Take me. I'll be coming to your level.
Take on me. Take me.
I'll be the. After all, too.
Needless to say. I want to send hands.
But I'm still a little late. Learn and learn that life is okay.
Say after me. It's no better to be safe than sorry.
It's the better to be safe Bye. I'll be gone.
Get out of your dreams. Things that you say, you can get a piece of life on me.
Just the way my love feels. All things I've got to remember, I'm shying away.
I'll be coming for you anyway. I'll be coming for you anyway.
I'll be coming for you anyway. Take on me, take me up

I'll be gone

In a deep