Howie Long, College Football Is Back, Trey Lance Traded + Mt Rushmore Of Fictional Animals

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Speaker 12 And then I can't blame all on the son.

Speaker 12 Oh, no, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.

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Speaker 13 It's part of my take.

Speaker 15 Wasn't a part of my take.

Speaker 17 Today is Monday, August 28th.

Speaker 18 Hank,

Speaker 18 say it.

Speaker 19 Say it. Summer's over.

Speaker 20 Nope, football's back.

Speaker 21 Real football.

Speaker 23 We watch real football.

Speaker 24 And guess what?

Speaker 2 There's no better way to kill your football buzz than having Jason Garrett call the game.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that's true. He doesn't have that same, he doesn't have the energy that you need.
You need somebody that you need Michael Irvin calling the first game of every season. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Not Jason Garrett, who would put himself to sleep talking.

Speaker 2 It really felt like week zero in Dublin.

Speaker 28 It was like all jacked up, ready to go.

Speaker 25 College football's back.

Speaker 2 I know it was week zero.

Speaker 17 I know there's only like seven games.

Speaker 17 They all mean something to me. And then Jason Garrett was on there, and I immediately fell in a nap in the second quarter.

Speaker 11 I'd rather hear Al Gore commentate a football game than Jason Garrett is.

Speaker 30 But it's back.

Speaker 11 It's tough. It is back.

Speaker 5 Stan Hartman looks great.

Speaker 11 Did you see how green the grass was in Ireland? It looks good. That's all I wanted to see.
Check that off the list. It was not much of a game.

Speaker 31 It was, yeah, it was watching Notre Dame,

Speaker 33 Hawaii being pesky,

Speaker 17 covering the spread, and then in fitting fashion,

Speaker 17 USC and the returning Heisman Caleb Williams, who will probably be the number one pick in the draft, and no one in America could watch it because it was Pac-12 Network.

Speaker 17 I was watching it on a stream on my phone that was giving me all the viruses.

Speaker 36 That could not have been the better way to tip off the last Pac-12 season opener to be like, hey, this is why we're dying?

Speaker 24 Yeah, because we can't watch fucking Caleb Williams play football.

Speaker 11 Well, you remember when Oklahoma played against the Army a few years ago in that awesome game? You couldn't find it. You had to go deep into the dark website.

Speaker 16 Some guy streamed it. The football side.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it was a guy streaming it, and then the chat that was popping off to say, I love those chats.

Speaker 29 Yes. But yeah, football's back.

Speaker 39 It's a football back.

Speaker 11 It's good to have games that mean something, besides, obviously, the Commanders-Ravens game, which was the most important preseason game of all time. I'm looking forward to this weekend, though.

Speaker 30 Yeah, we won.

Speaker 11 Can I run through some of the games that we have? You tell me how excited you are on the ball scale for the following games coming up. Virginia at Tennessee.

Speaker 40 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 22 That's a fucking whomping.

Speaker 11 Yeah, maybe like two balls. That's a two balls.
Two balls.

Speaker 11 Ohio State at Indiana.

Speaker 17 That's a two and a half balls.

Speaker 4 That's a whomping.

Speaker 11 That's going to be a whomping. We've got West Virginia at Penn State.

Speaker 17 Yeah, that's a four and a half balls.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that's going to be a good one. Now the five balls.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 11 LSU Florida State. That's a five balls.

Speaker 41 Five balls.

Speaker 39 Six balls even.

Speaker 1 What about Utah, Florida?

Speaker 39 Utah, Florida.

Speaker 29 That's a five balls.

Speaker 43 All the other five balls. Graham Mercks.

Speaker 19 Umass Auburn.

Speaker 44 UMass won outright.

Speaker 38 Sure.

Speaker 34 It looked fucking good.

Speaker 38 You might do it again.

Speaker 11 You know what I'm really looking forward to? Friday night, Saturday morning, whenever they put out the graphic of how to watch every game, what channel it's going to be on.

Speaker 11 It's like it's the college football equivalent of when golf posts where the hole is going to be. That's trick, right?

Speaker 46 Yeah, trigger, yeah.

Speaker 11 He does a great job with that. I'm just excited for meaningful football.

Speaker 23 Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 3 And college football, I like how they set it up, that college football gets...

Speaker 2 I wish week zero, like everyone should play week zero.

Speaker 2 They should just move the season forward or back, I guess it would be, a whole week where it should just be week zero should be all the games because it's nice to have college football get the spotlight for a couple weekends.

Speaker 16 Won't that be week one?

Speaker 11 No, then you'd have week negative one.

Speaker 26 No, no, it'd be week zero, but everyone plays, and then week one.

Speaker 49 What don't you understand?

Speaker 31 Why is only seven games played on week zero?

Speaker 2 Why can't everyone play on week zero?

Speaker 11 But I think what Hank's wondering is, like, what do you do with the week zero games then? You move those a week earlier, too.

Speaker 35 No, you could just have it, everyone play on week zero.

Speaker 11 But then you move all the other games.

Speaker 51 Two games, week negative one.

Speaker 52 Yeah. Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 9 What if you just do all the cupcakes on week zero, so every team's still playing and you still get a lot of games?

Speaker 45 I don't care.

Speaker 31 I just want all the games right now.

Speaker 51 That's really what that's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 53 That's what I want.

Speaker 26 We also have the Battle of Miami.

Speaker 4 Blaine Gabbard's brother, who plays for Miami of Ohio, said, We're the real Miami.

Speaker 55 They're playing Miami.

Speaker 44 I like that.

Speaker 26 Talk your bad shit. Talk your shit.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I like it too.

Speaker 11 They intentionally did that. They were like, it'd be fun if Miami played against Miami, right?

Speaker 56 Miami versus the Giants.

Speaker 11 Get together with the Giants in the offseason. Have a barbecue.
Yeah.

Speaker 45 First time you'll hear this.

Speaker 9 I think Miami's going to win.

Speaker 54 Oh, God.

Speaker 11 I like Miami, Jake.

Speaker 11 I'm taking Miami. R.I.P.

Speaker 55 Bob Parker, because I really want to do a bump, bump, bot-doom.

Speaker 11 My 100% lock.

Speaker 11 I will cut off a testicle if Miami doesn't win that game. There you go.

Speaker 20 There you go.

Speaker 55 By the way, R.I.P. Bob Barker, the GOAT.

Speaker 2 I'm sad.

Speaker 2 I thought he was just never going to die because it felt like he trended like three times a year, and I always was ready for him to die. And I was like, oh, wait, he survived.

Speaker 17 Then he actually did die. And he is, in my mind, the GOAT Game Show host.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 27 I know Trebek.

Speaker 44 Trebeck was great.

Speaker 11 It was the GOAT Game Show. Right.
And he was the host for so long.

Speaker 27 He was the perfect host for it.

Speaker 17 Just like the perfect amount of kind of horny,

Speaker 35 you know, made sure that everyone got their pets spayed and neutered, would get a little pissed off when people were dumb.

Speaker 59 He just was the best. He was the best.

Speaker 24 He was all class.

Speaker 26 You felt like he was built in like a Hollywood, like 1950s Hollywood lab.

Speaker 6 Just everything about him.

Speaker 37 He was perfect.

Speaker 44 I love Bob Barbara.

Speaker 11 Did you know that he was born on an Indian reservation?

Speaker 44 He was a member of the Sioux tribe. Yes.

Speaker 11 I didn't know that until after he passed away. Yes.
And this was a death that most people were probably prepared for because the second that it happened. Well, he got the vaccine.

Speaker 42 Yeah, that's probably why.

Speaker 11 So did the head of Wagner, who died mysteriously in Russia in an airplane. He was vaxed.
He was vaxxed to look into it.

Speaker 19 I've seen that movie.

Speaker 27 Batman.

Speaker 15 How did Bob Barker die?

Speaker 19 The Bane one.

Speaker 43 What? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, that is the first scene.

Speaker 61 How did Bob Barker die, did they say?

Speaker 11 I think, yeah, just old. Okay.
Just of being Bob Barker. Okay.

Speaker 11 I I think he was like 90.

Speaker 52 He was 99 and a half.

Speaker 11 99 and a half. That's a good one.

Speaker 46 Yeah, you hear this one?

Speaker 31 Did you see this one? Did you hear this one?

Speaker 20 Bob Barker lived as close to 100 without going over.

Speaker 42 That's a good idea. I like that one a lot.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was that.

Speaker 31 It's great because there was one guy who was very smart and actually tweeted that.

Speaker 17 And then I just saw that tweet 7,000 times by other people.

Speaker 11 That would be so deflating. Like, when you're 99 and a half, all you got to do is you just got to live to be 100.

Speaker 22 Yeah, he lives. That's an awesome life.

Speaker 11 I would tell people, don't publicize my death until it's. I want people to think I died on my 100th birthday.
Yeah. But yeah, R.I.P.
Bob Barker, one of the GOATs.

Speaker 31 Yeah, he really was one of the GOATs.

Speaker 17 The other big news from this weekend, besides college football being back and Bob Barker passing away, was Trey Lance getting traded.

Speaker 11 He's a cowboy.

Speaker 23 Trey Lance, I don't know.

Speaker 33 I think

Speaker 31 it's weird because I think John Lynch is such a good GM.

Speaker 20 That's why he doesn't get criticized because find another team that trades three first-round picks and misses that badly on a quarterback and still is potentially a Super Bowl team.

Speaker 20 Like he's built such a great team that he could do that, but that has to be one of the worst busts/slash trades in NFL history.

Speaker 11 I absolutely loved RG3 weighing in, being like, and now it's official. Trey Lance, by giving up three first-round picks to trade up and take this quarterback,

Speaker 11 it's the worst draft bust of all time. It's so funny hearing that from RG3

Speaker 11 because the trade is almost exactly the same as what the Redskins gave up with the Rams to move up and take RG3. Obviously, like injuries is a little bit different.

Speaker 11 Although, I guess Trey Lance has been injured too. But yeah, you have to have a strong take about John Lynch and Cal Shanahan.
I think they should be fired, big cat.

Speaker 42 I think they should be fine.

Speaker 11 I think they should be fired. And then I think that they should be picked up by the Washington Commanders.
That's what I think.

Speaker 31 I guess it's a combo of John Lynch being so good at other...

Speaker 2 parts of his job, drafting other players, and maybe a little bit of Zach Wilson going before him.

Speaker 11 Yeah, takes a little bit of the sting off.

Speaker 2 But it is such a bad trade.

Speaker 55 And then the guys that the Dolphins used for those picks,

Speaker 2 Jalen Waddell is who they drafted.

Speaker 26 They used one of them to trade for Tyree Kill and used one of them to trade for Bradley Chubb. Pretty good.
Yeah, it's a good haul for that.

Speaker 11 Haul for Trey Lance. Got a good haul for that.

Speaker 11 But yeah, if you look at how they managed to carry on with Brock Purdy, they also drafted Brock Purdy. Now, he was Mr.

Speaker 11 Irrelevant, so he was like every team, including the Niners, passed on Brock Purdy a lot.

Speaker 6 They should have drafted Brock Purdy number three.

Speaker 11 They should have.

Speaker 11 It's It's actually, in a weird way, it's a credit to Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch overall that they were able to miss on this, and they can get a quarterback that's not as highly touted who fits in their system.

Speaker 11 Yeah. So

Speaker 11 I'm very much looking forward to, though, the first terrible interception Dak Prescott throws.

Speaker 11 I will be clamoring. I will be standing on the table for Trey Lance.

Speaker 2 Which will be exactly two weeks from right now as Reciter.

Speaker 11 I can't wait. The first Dak interception of the season is going to hit so damn good.

Speaker 17 Just show Trey Lance on the sideline and be like, well, they did bring in Trey Lance.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah. The camera's going to be right on him after that first interception.

Speaker 26 One more thing about, I forgot, college football, the new rule about first downs sucks.

Speaker 17 The fact that they keep the running clock sucks.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 3 It sucks. It's stupid.
It sucks.

Speaker 2 Small sample size, very small sample size, but

Speaker 17 the average amount of plays per game last year was 68.7. Obviously, that's a very large sample size.
Three hours and 27 minutes.

Speaker 17 Yesterday, they played, it was 63 plays a a game, so about five plays less, and they shaved three minutes off the game.

Speaker 26 So they just added more commercials.

Speaker 2 They fucking, it sucks. They're ruining college football.

Speaker 11 Well, also, it was a Navy game.

Speaker 11 They run the ball quite a bit.

Speaker 23 Yeah, but they didn't. I mean, they didn't have the ball that much.

Speaker 13 They fucking suck.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it was bad. It was an ugly game.
It was still that rule. It was still football.

Speaker 11 Yeah, and what I like about the college football rules being different from the NFL is you can watch it with casuals.

Speaker 11 and then point out to them, actually, the clock stops on a first down until they get off the game.

Speaker 31 I hope they just change it back.

Speaker 11 Did they change it for the end of a game?

Speaker 2 No, they changed it because games were going too long.

Speaker 34 Oh, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 42 It does stop.

Speaker 11 Yeah, at the end of the game, which is a rule.

Speaker 26 The NFL should adopt to make games more exciting at the end.

Speaker 2 But yeah, they made it so that the games wouldn't last as long.

Speaker 53 They shaved three minutes.

Speaker 2 Again, small sample size, but they just jammed more commercials in there.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 11 Also, I think it was on Friday the news broke that Steven Strassberg retired. Oh.
You might be forgiven for not knowing that he wasn't retired. I just wanted to bring up some stats about his contract.

Speaker 11 These are fun facts about his most recent contract. This is post-World Series.

Speaker 31 Wait, he retired, so they probably should have protected him more injury-wise.

Speaker 11 So that we can go back. Now we can officially litigate the Strasbourg shutdown, which killed like nine months of content on ESPN.
Should they shut him down? I say yes.

Speaker 11 I think it was the right decision to shut him down. I agree.
They won a World Series. But here's some fun facts about the contract that he got post-World Series, right?

Speaker 11 So post-World Series, he was paid $460,000 per pitch.

Speaker 63 Whoa.

Speaker 11 He was paid $2.6 million per out. Whoa.
$7.8 million per inning pitched. And he was paid $30.6 million per start.
Whoa.

Speaker 11 Probably the worst contract in baseball history.

Speaker 53 Oh, man. That is.

Speaker 11 Shout out Scott Boris. Yeah.

Speaker 57 Shout out to Strasburg for getting that money.

Speaker 11 Yeah, no fault of his own. He can do whatever he wants, but

Speaker 11 it gets staggering to think of $460,000 per pitch.

Speaker 59 They should really

Speaker 17 factor in those type of contracts when when electing Hall of Famers.

Speaker 64 Like, he's a Hall of Famer in my mind.

Speaker 27 Hall of Fame bad winner.

Speaker 34 He won a World Series.

Speaker 17 He was like, he did have moments of just pure brilliance, and then he cashed in to an astronomical level.

Speaker 48 Why shouldn't he be in the Hall of Fame?

Speaker 33 He played it well. Yeah.

Speaker 11 It's the American dream. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Chase Daniels should be in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Why not?

Speaker 66 The guy did it all.

Speaker 26 Making money mostly is what matters.

Speaker 26 Yeah, the only one

Speaker 17 who's done better is Victor Hovland, who made $21.6 million in the last seven days.

Speaker 11 All while playing for Manchester City, too.

Speaker 41 Yes. Pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 He had a nice goal today.

Speaker 11 So $18 million.

Speaker 11 It was a hell of a win.

Speaker 3 3.6 last Sunday.

Speaker 11 It looked like he was about to choke it away on what was like the 16th hole. It got back to three strokes.
They put him away. Shout out Max.
Came and tied for seventh. Yep.
With like everybody else.

Speaker 11 I think everybody tied for seven.

Speaker 42 He maxed seventh. Doesn't matter.

Speaker 11 Doesn't matter. Great job, Max.
Top 10. But yeah, Victor Hovland.

Speaker 11 If we're just basing golf off the last two weekends, Victor Hovland is Tiger Woods 2001.

Speaker 42 I don't know why.

Speaker 2 He said, yeah, Ryder Cup's coming.

Speaker 26 I don't know why, though.

Speaker 17 He was like, yeah, I'm going to go enjoy it. I'm going to go back home, hang with my friends and stuff.

Speaker 42 It's like, dude, if you're playing that well, go find a game to play in.

Speaker 48 Yeah. I just start taking people's money.

Speaker 49 Find a tournament. There's got to be a tournament.

Speaker 48 Go in a member guest.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Play wherever you can.
Is he on the road to Dubai?

Speaker 49 Probably.

Speaker 42 I think all roads lead to Dubai.

Speaker 44 They do.

Speaker 39 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Rory taught us that.

Speaker 26 All right, what else?

Speaker 31 We had preseason week three.

Speaker 17 I don't know. I'm just ready for the season.

Speaker 11 Yeah, who cares?

Speaker 26 I really like.

Speaker 11 Well, week three is now the new week four or the old week four.

Speaker 44 Yeah, although

Speaker 17 I was watching the Bears game, and they pulled Justin Fields in the red zone. It just made no sense.
But yeah, there were some starters playing sparingly, but I'm just ready for the season.

Speaker 11 Yeah, what do we think about Rodgers?

Speaker 11 How he looks.

Speaker 13 He's going to be incredible.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it means you catch the Jets game.

Speaker 42 It's a great game. Yeah.

Speaker 38 That's it? That's all you got?

Speaker 52 You watched the whole game.

Speaker 3 No, I watched the first two drives, and then it was college football.

Speaker 69 That's all you needed?

Speaker 11 Well, you just want to watch, make sure he doesn't get hurt. And then Salo was saying that the reason why he wanted to play was he wanted him to have some experience in Met Life.

Speaker 11 Oh, like get used to the stadium. On the new turf.
On the new turf.

Speaker 17 On the new non-injury turf.

Speaker 11 Yeah, experience the home logo. Not ripping up grass and tossing it in the air.
Yeah, the home logo. That's a good one.

Speaker 53 We also won USA One Little League World Series.

Speaker 6 That rocked.

Speaker 11 Yeah, fuck yeah.

Speaker 3 Fuck yeah. Let's do a a camera.
Cursow.

Speaker 57 Eat our dick.

Speaker 34 Well, no, because you're 12.

Speaker 70 Cursow.

Speaker 34 Good game.

Speaker 23 Yeah. Not really.
No.

Speaker 17 It was all-time announcer Jinx.

Speaker 31 Who was doing it? Steve Levy?

Speaker 4 Carl Ravitch. Carl Ravich, who was like, Cursow hasn't given up a home run.

Speaker 34 Oh, Little League World Series.

Speaker 69 Next pitch, walk-off home run.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 65 Rocked.

Speaker 11 The Little League World Series is good to watch the funny clips of when or when a player steps up to bat and it says a fun fact about them underneath. Yeah.

Speaker 11 There was one that I saw last week and it said, this guy, his favorite sport is baseball. Oh.
I thought that was really interesting.

Speaker 1 I saw one that was the kid whose favorite emoji, the eyebrow raise.

Speaker 46 Oh.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Not the double eyes?

Speaker 3 No, he's just doing some suspect things.

Speaker 11 There was one that said has a crush on his teacher, Mrs. Smith.
Sup, Mrs. Smith.
That was a real one.

Speaker 42 Yeah, that was a real one.

Speaker 39 That was a very real one.

Speaker 11 It's real every year that I see it.

Speaker 36 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 37 What else in the sports?

Speaker 3 I mean, this is like our last. I feel like this is the last weekend of summer.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Hank, would you like to say anything about...

Speaker 2 You're noticeably very sunburned.

Speaker 19 Yeah, you know, I was trying to get in the last few days of summer, but it's over. I had my last.

Speaker 48 Oh, you're admitting it.

Speaker 6 You're admitting defeat.

Speaker 11 So you're done playing golf for this entire week. We've won.

Speaker 73 We've won the war.

Speaker 56 I've played my last summer round.

Speaker 19 The temperature dropped.

Speaker 6 It felt so nice.

Speaker 19 I've played my last weekend rounds of golf for at least till October.

Speaker 11 What does that mean? But you work during the week, don't you? You're all business now.

Speaker 19 That's what I'm saying. Definitely no week golf.

Speaker 5 Weekend golf. Weekend golf.

Speaker 19 I'm taking off till give it September. Sweet, you know.

Speaker 38 No more this week?

Speaker 11 No more golf.

Speaker 38 Well, that's work.

Speaker 73 Oh, okay.

Speaker 74 All right. Yeah.

Speaker 20 Okay.

Speaker 2 But you are playing this week.

Speaker 6 For work, yeah. And what's October?

Speaker 20 Is that the pro-amp?

Speaker 19 Yeah, that.

Speaker 19 By that point, hopefully we're in a good enough spot where I can

Speaker 19 get a little bit of time on a Saturday.

Speaker 22 So go play out.

Speaker 55 So you're going to pedal to the medal for the next four-ish weeks.

Speaker 11 No, for the next two days. Yeah.

Speaker 22 All fall. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Okay.

Speaker 17 Well, I mean, it is, this does feel like this was the last weekend where I was like, oh, I don't have anything like pressing that I have to be, you know, I had all the games on, but it wasn't, it didn't feel like it's going to feel next weekend.

Speaker 11 It was pre-week and after.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Right.

Speaker 17 So it's, it's, listen, even for the NBC people, they had Joe Montana. They interviewed him.
They said five-time Super Bowl winner.

Speaker 17 So Steve Young somewhere just punching air.

Speaker 76 You're like, what the fuck is this about?

Speaker 42 God damn it.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I don't know anything else.

Speaker 62 I mean, cut day, cutting guys.

Speaker 19 I have one for who's back, but Okay, all right, all right, all right.

Speaker 28 So

Speaker 1 let's save for who's back.

Speaker 42 We'll go to who's back.

Speaker 11 Kirk Cousins looks great. Yeah, he does.

Speaker 44 Have you seen the mustache?

Speaker 11 He's got the mustache. It's part Johnny Cakes, part the dude from, what is it, Office Space? I was like, you know what I'd do? Two chicks at once.

Speaker 69 Yeah, it sucks so much that we can't hate him anymore.

Speaker 61 He's just a nice guy.

Speaker 11 I don't know if that mustache plays with Kirk, though.

Speaker 11 That's not a nice guy mustache. Well,

Speaker 11 I'm either going to kill you or blow you, mustache.

Speaker 31 It's a week three. It's a preseason week three mustache.

Speaker 2 Like, he's not going to go into the season.

Speaker 11 It's for fun. Yeah,

Speaker 2 that was a fun dress-up thing.

Speaker 11 It was probably like, if you're watching, if that was on Hard Knocks, it was like the boys. He lost a bet in the quarterback room.

Speaker 11 He probably got like too high of a score on the Immaculate Grid that he does every day after practice.

Speaker 39 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Like, you got to do the Fu Manchu, Kurt. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So that, that, he's definitely shaving that, right?

Speaker 11 It would be shocking if he came out there wearing that.

Speaker 69 I would actually think differently about the Vikings as an organization if he if he played with that all year.

Speaker 11 Better or worse?

Speaker 75 I think better.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I think better. I think they'd have an edge to them.

Speaker 11 They're 40 to 1. Okay.
They're 40 to 1.

Speaker 21 I'm in on them.

Speaker 26 All right, let's do.

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Speaker 19 He's messy.

Speaker 73 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 19 Beat the Red Bulls, scored another, or no, yeah, an unbelievable goal, probably the craziest pass I've ever seen in the, in the sport of football.

Speaker 42 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 11 Was it better than his pass in the World Cup final?

Speaker 19 I think it was. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I mean, that was a great one. You remember that one, Hank?

Speaker 19 I actually, that World Cup final was awesome.

Speaker 42 It was the best game I saw.

Speaker 19 It was one of the most enjoyable sporting events I've watched in the last year, I think.

Speaker 54 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 19 But he's back, had the craziest pass I've ever seen, got it back, scored a goal.

Speaker 49 A little give-and-go is the technical term.

Speaker 19 I might be a converted soccer guy because of Messi. I am the target audience.
Every time the clips come up, I'm like, how is he this good? More like, how is the MLS this bad? Yeah.

Speaker 19 But I love that they're just trotting. Like, I love how they just, you can do that.

Speaker 26 You know who no one's talking about?

Speaker 17 Ronaldo, who's playing in Saudi Arabia to no one.

Speaker 11 Nobody cares.

Speaker 2 Just cash and checks, and that's it.

Speaker 11 No one cares. Not Messi.
He's here for the love of the game.

Speaker 17 Messi is dominating and loves the game.

Speaker 11 And the pink jerseys are awesome when you're winning. Yes.
It was very sad when Miami was just getting the shit kicked out of them. This is not Miami of Ohio.
This is inter-Miami.

Speaker 11 But they were getting the shit kicked out of them for a long time in the pink jerseys. What is that?

Speaker 22 And it's sad.

Speaker 39 It means inside.

Speaker 11 Inside. It's one of those stupid MLS things where.

Speaker 42 Football club.

Speaker 11 Yeah, where they try to copy. Sporting.
Yeah, sporting KC. Yeah.

Speaker 11 DC United.

Speaker 39 You know, it's just one team.

Speaker 11 Shut the fuck up, Hank.

Speaker 79 No, it's just stupid.

Speaker 11 Good one, Hank. It's dumb.
They just, they, oh, Rayal Salt Lake is my favorite one.

Speaker 54 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 73 What the fuck?

Speaker 11 Come on. They're just trying to sound cosmopolitan.
But yeah, Miami, when they're winning, those pink trees are just sick.

Speaker 17 How sick would it be if the MLS just named every single team after a breed of dog?

Speaker 11 That'd be great. That would be awesome.

Speaker 52 Shout out to our water dogs, by the way.

Speaker 11 Incredible comeback. Three seed.
Three seed? Three seed.

Speaker 42 I like that.

Speaker 6 No one expected anything from us.

Speaker 53 No one's talking about the one thing.

Speaker 11 Not even us. It's just crickets.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 69 Okay. That's your who's back? Messi? Yeah.

Speaker 73 And walk-offs.

Speaker 52 And walk-offs? Why walk-offs?

Speaker 73 For the literally World Series.

Speaker 55 Yeah, yeah. That was a sick home run.

Speaker 19 Peak of that kid's life. Almost definitely.

Speaker 5 Well, he'll say when he has kids.

Speaker 73 No, actually, I completely agree with you.

Speaker 78 There's no way.

Speaker 19 This is the best moment of my life after the walk-off. But until then,

Speaker 19 I don't know what you could do.

Speaker 38 That was the first time. No, there's nothing.

Speaker 11 There's nothing you can do for the first time.

Speaker 19 I'm sure he's dude.

Speaker 39 You think he's seen boots?

Speaker 79 You kidding me?

Speaker 81 I don't know.

Speaker 2 That is.

Speaker 2 He will never.

Speaker 33 He is peaked.

Speaker 73 He's peaked.

Speaker 11 What? What, Hank? No, I just.

Speaker 19 They're 12-year-olds, so I'm not going to go.

Speaker 23 But 12-year-olds can see Booze.

Speaker 38 Something to remind.

Speaker 44 Well, I'm sure.

Speaker 19 The high school girls, they're in that kid's grade.

Speaker 22 Like anyone,

Speaker 19 any girl that's within a 10-year radius of that kid is like, oh my God.

Speaker 11 The high school senior is like that 12-year-old that just hits off home runs. Oh, my God.
Yeah.

Speaker 17 And he's just like, I want want to hang with my boys.

Speaker 57 I don't even know what this means yet.

Speaker 20 It's the last year of innocence.

Speaker 13 12 years old.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 74 Okay.

Speaker 11 PFT. My Who's Back of the Week is Donald Trump.
Yes. As a golfer.
Specifically as a golfer. He's 6'3, 215, built out of basically iron.

Speaker 25 Pre-reported.

Speaker 11 Well, we don't. No, I believe it.
I actually did. I looked it up.
I looked up other athletes that are 6'3 and 215.

Speaker 11 So Trump is the same size as Lamar Jackson, Derek Carr, Jamal Murray, Kenny Pickett, Kevin White, your guy,

Speaker 45 Lou Dort, your other guy,

Speaker 38 and John Wall.

Speaker 11 These are all the same body type as Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 I just like being able to pre-report.

Speaker 60 I would like to pre-report my weight at all times now.

Speaker 11 I'm pre-reporting that I'm also 6'3 ⁇ .

Speaker 22 Yeah, and I'm also 6'3, 215.

Speaker 11 As a golfer, Trump had a better weekend than Victor Hovland did. He did.
So I'm going to read this. This is from, is it truth? This is a truth.
So you can't lie on it.

Speaker 82 Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 16 It's true.

Speaker 23 It's a pact.

Speaker 11 I am pleased to report, for those that care, that I just won the senior club championship, must be over 50 years old, at Bedminster, Trump National Golf Club, shooting a round of 67. Shot a 67.

Speaker 11 Now, some people will think that sounds low, but there is no hanky-lanky. No hanky-lanky, guys.
I know we were about to accuse him of hanky-lanky, but there was none.

Speaker 57 That would be Hank if he lost a little weight.

Speaker 65 Yeah, he'd be hanky-lanky.

Speaker 11 Yeah, as soon as you get into all business mode, hanky-lanky. We need Hank.

Speaker 19 Yeah, we need you on the basketball court, Hanky-lanky lanky out there stretch three there's no hanky there's a lot of food out here i'm getting fat that's a problem i walked on the golf course today you burned

Speaker 11 yeah really you didn't take a cart

Speaker 11 burned something off yeah that's tough so is six pack coming soon yeah in the winner oh okay cool many people watch plus i'm surrounded by secret service agents not much you can do even if you wanted to and i don't for some reason i am just a good golfer slash athlete i have won many club championships and it is always a great honor.

Speaker 11 I love it. So shout out to 67.

Speaker 6 Did you see he followed up too?

Speaker 31 Because people were like, this is fake. He followed up with another true social was like, here's the

Speaker 55 head groundskeeper at this club.

Speaker 68 Call him if you have any questions.

Speaker 2 He just put the guy's phone number on the internet.

Speaker 42 Really? Yeah. You want to call him?

Speaker 60 Yeah, we can.

Speaker 17 I got to try to find it.

Speaker 11 I think that it was a...

Speaker 11 I think he's lying about the 67. I actually do.
I think it's more like a 65.

Speaker 13 Trump.

Speaker 11 But he's being very humble.

Speaker 19 How mad do you think the guy that came? Do you think the people that play in that tournament just know?

Speaker 11 Yeah, if you enter a golf tournament against.

Speaker 19 That's like a probably a really, really nice club course. Yeah, if you

Speaker 19 pay in there, probably pay a lot of money.

Speaker 11 If you're playing against Trump or Kim Jong-un, you're going to get your ass kicked.

Speaker 11 They should do the match. Donald Trump versus Kim Jong-un.

Speaker 45 What did he have, like 11 hole in ones?

Speaker 42 Yeah, 18.

Speaker 11 He would. 18 hole.
He shot an 18? No,

Speaker 11 I think it was like 12 holes in one.

Speaker 42 Let's Let's not go. It was sick, yeah.

Speaker 11 Jake, you'll probably put that on your scorecard.

Speaker 38 He pulled a Jake, Kim John Jake.

Speaker 22 Listen, no hanky-lanky with my stuff, though. Yeah, 11 holes in one.

Speaker 45 Yeah, Jake's 38.

Speaker 53 38 under?

Speaker 11 Yeah. That's pretty good.
I mean, tell me that you wouldn't tune in to watch that match.

Speaker 42 Oh, that would be good. Okay, here he is.
You want to call it?

Speaker 61 Yeah, let's call it. All right, it's here.

Speaker 34 Ready?

Speaker 32 973-699-6156.

Speaker 11 Mickey. 6156.
Mickey Gallagher.

Speaker 17 That's a great name.

Speaker 11 Mickey Gallagher. Okay.

Speaker 55 He's the head golfer. Sorry, Mr.

Speaker 63 Carl.

Speaker 83 Please leave your name, number, and a brief message, and I promise you I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Speaker 56 Thank you. Have a great day.

Speaker 56 The mailbox is full. I know.

Speaker 63 Too many people.

Speaker 22 He's going to be so pissed.

Speaker 54 So mad.

Speaker 11 Like, I remember when Billy put my phone number out there and how mad I was for like three days.

Speaker 39 Yeah.

Speaker 11 This is at least twice as bad.

Speaker 38 Way worse.

Speaker 11 When Donald Trump tweets out your phone number. Oh, man.

Speaker 38 You're fucked.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 shocker, Rick Riley, says that it wasn't actually a 60.

Speaker 46 Oh, don't be a hater, Rick.

Speaker 11 He says it was more like an 86. Great journalism, Rick.
Way to get to the bottom of this one. Come on, Rick.
He said the caddies threw his ball 80 yards down the fairways and took it out of bunkers.

Speaker 11 Partners swatted all his putts away once on the green. Members are pissed.

Speaker 11 It's on you if you're mad at Donald Trump for beating you in golf.

Speaker 11 He's the best golfer in the United States.

Speaker 17 That rules if you have your caddies throwing the ball down the fairway for you.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Like, I'm cool with that.

Speaker 22 That's fucking awesome.

Speaker 6 Okay, my who's back is Herm Edwards being a fraud

Speaker 2 because Arizona State has a bull ban.

Speaker 26 Herm Edwards was at Arizona State.

Speaker 11 Arizona State self-imposed a bull ban.

Speaker 15 Self-imposed a bull ban.

Speaker 11 What's different between that and what they've been doing unintentionally every offseason since 15 years?

Speaker 36 That's a good point.

Speaker 31 But yeah, he was at Arizona State, got fired.

Speaker 6 Is he back on ESPN?

Speaker 31 He's probably doing some probably back on ESPN, probably talking about character and the young men.

Speaker 26 And he is back on ESPN.

Speaker 45 He joined last season.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, so he's on ESPN giving speeches about

Speaker 17 upstanding character and doing the right thing.

Speaker 3 And he just left this mess in his past.

Speaker 57 So he's a total fraud.

Speaker 11 I mean, that's what Herm Edwards is best at, though, just talking about young men and how important it is to develop young men.

Speaker 68 Still the best is when he got the jersey, and he couldn't believe how small it was.

Speaker 42 He was like, what the fuck is this?

Speaker 36 Yeah, it turns out it didn't work out, and he's left a nice little fire behind for them to deal with.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it is a brilliant strategy by Arizona State being like, hey, I know there's a lot of expectations on us this year. We will not be playing in a bowl game.
Don't buy those tickets yet.

Speaker 32 The 20 seniors were very upset.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 11 They're like, fuck, we really thought this was the year.

Speaker 69 Arizona State's been decent at times.

Speaker 11 They've had a couple flashes.

Speaker 2 They had that big win against Oregon, Justin Herbert.

Speaker 23 Remember that one? Brock Oswald.

Speaker 11 Notre Dame.

Speaker 31 Notre Dame. Oh, that was the one.

Speaker 56 Burned with burnt couches.

Speaker 24 Yeah. Went to the weirdest bar ever.

Speaker 54 We went to a bar in Tempe for the Notre Dame, Arizona State game, and it was like a legit club that just like for the whole game was just music blasting with the biggest game they'd played in like a decade.

Speaker 17 And then every time they scored a touchdown, it would just be CO2 canon.

Speaker 2 CO2 can everything.

Speaker 31 It was so Arizona State.

Speaker 2 That's perfect.

Speaker 73 It was awesome.

Speaker 17 I can't really make fun of Arizona State because their college experience is better than pretty much everyone's college experience besides maybe Arizona.

Speaker 11 I wish that I had gone to Arizona State.

Speaker 19 I stayed out with some kids that were there, and we went out. They were burning couches.

Speaker 11 Do you think Bronck unintentionally went to Arizona?

Speaker 19 I was like, I was like, I was like, I had a form that had a pool. I woke up, walked outside the balcony.
I was like, this is the greatest college of all time. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I feel like there's a good chance that Rob Gronkowski meant to go to Arizona State. He might have.
And he accidentally went to Arizona. He might have.
He's like, oh, shit.

Speaker 11 I have to buy a book for one of my classes. Yeah.

Speaker 69 I mean, both schools just fake life.

Speaker 30 Incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Incredible place to go to college.

Speaker 57 Okay, Jake.

Speaker 9 My who's back is Bees.

Speaker 58 Oh, no.

Speaker 9 Orioles Rockies had a B delay today.

Speaker 22 I love a good B delay.

Speaker 11 It's the best. There's one every year.
Dude,

Speaker 11 this crushed the over on when the B delay usually is. Because I feel like it's usually early June we get a B delay.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I'm pretty sure the Orioles Batista, didn't he get hurt?

Speaker 17 Did he tear his UCLA or something?

Speaker 66 I said UCLA again.

Speaker 6 I did that two times on Friday.

Speaker 11 He tours UCLA?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I keep saying UCLA instead of UCLA.

Speaker 2 I just start the letters and I can't stop them.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's just the train just goes off to track. Sports brain.

Speaker 57 UCLA.

Speaker 31 He tours UCLA.

Speaker 9 UCL injury. I'm not seeing

Speaker 16 the season.

Speaker 84 That's very bad.

Speaker 30 I feel bad for Orioles fans and myself.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that sucks. But yeah, B-delet.

Speaker 24 That rules.

Speaker 75 Yeah, man.

Speaker 66 Can't believe he's going to be about playoff baseball in like a month.

Speaker 72 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 11 Your Cubs are looking pretty good. Dude.
The Cubs are beyond Frisky. I need them to get in.

Speaker 3 Well, they've been playing some bad teams,

Speaker 33 but they did their work. They did their work.

Speaker 45 You play who you play. Yep.

Speaker 9 Yeah, five weeks left in dingers only, and

Speaker 9 PFT is most likely.

Speaker 61 What's the bottom?

Speaker 31 Just give us the bottom three.

Speaker 11 Don't say most three, Jake.

Speaker 49 Give them the bottom three.

Speaker 11 I'm like the athletics. I've got that E eliminated from contention next to me.

Speaker 9 Billy 96, Hank 95, PFT 58.

Speaker 42 Oh, I'm four.

Speaker 54 I'm four.

Speaker 22 You're at 106.

Speaker 1 Damn, I've been on a hot streak ever since I got that fucking P-file off.

Speaker 9 Max's guy, Ty France, got hit five times this week, so he's now winning the league by 42 points. Damn it.

Speaker 19 Dingers only. First roll.

Speaker 80 Fuck Max.

Speaker 69 I miss Max.

Speaker 30 I miss that big oaf.

Speaker 57 Do you think he's listening?

Speaker 22 No. Yeah.

Speaker 39 Yeah. You think so? You think so?

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Say something nice about Max if he's listening.

Speaker 3 I miss him.

Speaker 31 That actually is very nice.

Speaker 17 I do miss him. I miss his presence.

Speaker 11 He grows a great beard. He does.
That he desperately needs to have at all times. Yes.

Speaker 4 He's holding on for dear life.

Speaker 19 He wears a great high bun because he has long hair that he never wears down. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 His hair is actually the best on the podcast.

Speaker 69 His hair is the best on the podcast.

Speaker 9 He's a great carpool partner. We carpool to this office.

Speaker 44 Is he? Yeah.

Speaker 22 Actually, no, I've carpooled with Max before. We've had good talks.

Speaker 11 What does he play? What kind of music does he play?

Speaker 65 Uber carpool.

Speaker 11 Oh, you guys get in the same Uber on the wear.

Speaker 17 Actually, I'm going to take it back because I carpooled with him like in maybe December and he talked me into a future on Villanova that they didn't even make the tournament.

Speaker 36 So I'm taking that back.

Speaker 3 Carpooling with Max literally costs me money.

Speaker 61 It's like, oh, dude, once we get this guy back and this guy back, oh, it's going to be incredible.

Speaker 17 So, but yeah, I miss Max. All right.

Speaker 25 Should we get to our interview?

Speaker 42 Let's do it.

Speaker 48 Howie Long, incredible interview.

Speaker 11 Oh, I have a question for Hank. Explain it.
Hank explains it all. What happened to Drake's album?

Speaker 73 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 11 For all the dogs, right?

Speaker 49 Also, Hank, you know you're doing a PowerPoint soon?

Speaker 42 When is that? Thursday.

Speaker 9 Thursday. Me, Max, and Hank each have a portion.
About what?

Speaker 9 I have to explain the new NFL rules.

Speaker 17 We assigned it to you.

Speaker 9 Hank has to do football math, and I think Max has to do

Speaker 73 the quizzes.

Speaker 9 I guess Max won't be here, so if one of you guys want to substitute Orcan, double-clicking.

Speaker 41 What's Max's?

Speaker 9 Same face

Speaker 48 different place.

Speaker 2 Memes, you got to do that now.

Speaker 71 Same face, different place.

Speaker 17 Alright, so memes will do that, and then I'm going to

Speaker 22 write a quiz for you for a while. Now I'm explaining new rules.

Speaker 2 Okay, yes. So be ready for you don't have to do anything.

Speaker 17 You just got to bring your brain.

Speaker 84 But more importantly, tell me about for all the dogs.

Speaker 19 He announced the album, put out the artwork, said it was coming soon. Yeah.

Speaker 19 Didn't say when, and then he put out like a, there was a new, he has an OVO sound radio, and they put out a new episode on Friday night, so everyone was reporting that that's when it was dropping.

Speaker 19 Stop banging the table.

Speaker 66 I'm not banging the table.

Speaker 19 Just talking with my hands.

Speaker 19 But he's still on tour, so at one of his concerts, he was like, I said it's coming out, it's coming out soon, but I'm still doing these shows.

Speaker 19 Basically, once he's done with his tour, it's going to come out.

Speaker 42 Wait, when's his tour over?

Speaker 11 I don't know. I was told the album was coming out last Friday.

Speaker 19 That's what I thought, too.

Speaker 57 Since when did they start doing tours that just never end?

Speaker 49 Is this Tom Segura?

Speaker 11 Did he do this? Well, no, it's just nice. You don't actually have to be on tour anymore.
You can just fly into a town.

Speaker 71 Taylor Swift's got...

Speaker 46 Didn't she extend her tour to 2024?

Speaker 11 By like three years.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 11 Because she's a terrorist.

Speaker 64 That's nuts.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 79 Fuck.

Speaker 2 All right, so Drake, when is it coming?

Speaker 19 When the tour ends. I don't know when that is.

Speaker 11 Drop the album, coward. Yeah.

Speaker 41 Come on, do it.

Speaker 19 Well, it said it's a summer album. Summer's almost over.
Summer is over.

Speaker 27 Summer's over, Hank.

Speaker 22 Admit it.

Speaker 11 Summer's over. If I'm just basing it off the cover art, I think it's going to be a banger.

Speaker 19 Yeah, I hope it's a rap album.

Speaker 43 How mad do you get

Speaker 17 when summer ends, knowing how happy I am?

Speaker 19 I get very sad, but I said this the other day.

Speaker 19 The difference between summer ending when you are a child versus adults, like when you're a child and summer's over, it is legitimately

Speaker 19 depressing.

Speaker 49 Yes, the back to school commercials, instant triggering thoughts.

Speaker 19 And just knowing you have nine months of hell before you can have summer again, at least in the fall, it's like, I'd rather be in summer, but the fall is fun, too.

Speaker 6 Maybe the most depressing

Speaker 42 of every summer

Speaker 2 is when your mom would take you to Old Navy.

Speaker 52 She's like, we got to get a couple of new fits.

Speaker 17 Let me get a long sleeve with a line across it, and then another long sleeve with a line across it.

Speaker 36 I'm ready to go.

Speaker 11 And then if you're a parent, there's no bigger difference at all because you're so excited about back to school. Parents fucking love back to school.

Speaker 11 Yeah, they couldn't wait to get rid of your stinking ass. Yes, they were so happy.

Speaker 11 You left their house and they're like, Thank God that piece of shit's no longer here.

Speaker 42 Get ready.

Speaker 33 Get ready to read, buddy.

Speaker 11 They were so happy to not have to deal with your bullshit. Yes.

Speaker 19 Yeah,

Speaker 19 having to read an entire book the last three days before school starts.

Speaker 75 Oh, yeah. Oh, shit.

Speaker 49 I forgot about the book.

Speaker 38 Some of you.

Speaker 22 Oh, man.

Speaker 9 Did that. Shout out to Spark Notes.
Dude,

Speaker 42 Jake.

Speaker 34 Wow, Jake.

Speaker 11 So you're admitting to

Speaker 46 not cheating.

Speaker 9 It's not cheating. It's using a research.

Speaker 11 Did you read the book or just Spark notes?

Speaker 30 Oh, Jake probably did both.

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 22 Depends. You cheated.

Speaker 65 No, it's not cheating.

Speaker 17 Now that I'm

Speaker 3 living it all over with my kids, I just

Speaker 52 like school sucks.

Speaker 34 It fucking sucks.

Speaker 11 School sucks. You have to get up so early to go to school.

Speaker 48 And it's just, all you got to do is sit there and just fucking learn shit and they call on you and you have to do homework.

Speaker 87 God did.

Speaker 22 Well, they called on you. You didn't do the homework.

Speaker 19 Yeah, no, I was an active, I was active in class. I just, you know, I just like to mess around with my friends.

Speaker 11 Active in what way?

Speaker 19 Like, I was always good. Like, some people were shy or didn't want to talk.
Like, I was always down to do the reading. I would just throw my hands up for answers.

Speaker 19 Like, if they were, you know, what do you think about this? And I would just throw something out there just to participate, even if it was wrong.

Speaker 78 I would pop up.

Speaker 19 Homework, not good. Tests, not good.

Speaker 78 Oh, tests. Behavior not good.

Speaker 19 Test anxiety.

Speaker 6 Dude, doing like projects, science pro.

Speaker 69 Oh, man.

Speaker 42 But I was active.

Speaker 11 You remember that bullshit that they made you learn?

Speaker 65 Math?

Speaker 42 Math's useless. Dude, math.

Speaker 19 Science is useless.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Trigonometry.

Speaker 17 Oh, dude, I was so bad at math, I never even, I've never been in the same room as calculus.

Speaker 33 No.

Speaker 22 Never came close.

Speaker 11 I took algebra two twice.

Speaker 11 I got a worse grade the second time that I took it than the first time.

Speaker 6 I just kept on bumping myself down to lower math.

Speaker 19 I took algebra in college. That's when I knew it wasn't for me.
I took one day of calculus, walked out. Oh, and then they're like, you're going to be in algebra.

Speaker 19 And I was like, I've taken algebra three times.

Speaker 87 You made it farther than me.

Speaker 2 I literally have never been in the same room as calculus.

Speaker 87 We've never met. I never want to meet you.

Speaker 11 Why would you ever need calculus?

Speaker 73 It's for anything.

Speaker 11 No, the best part was they would give you the graphing calculator, the TI-82. Oh, yeah.
And then you just spend your entire time playing drug wars on it.

Speaker 55 Yeah, and the what's the asteroid game?

Speaker 28 That one rocked, too.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Yeah, that calculator was a fucking tank.

Speaker 11 It was a tank.

Speaker 22 It was expensive, too.

Speaker 9 A couple hundred bucks.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 31 Good, good.

Speaker 40 Just talking Drake.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, I mean, there's probably probably like a 16-year-old AWO right now who's listening to his part being like, fuck.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Fuck my life. It's not just you.
School sucks. Charlie Williams.

Speaker 38 School sucks. And also, you know what?

Speaker 42 Charlie could go.

Speaker 69 Well, school probably doesn't suck for him because he probably just smart.

Speaker 42 He just goes to golf school.

Speaker 11 Well, he's probably super smart, though.

Speaker 3 The smartest kid ever.

Speaker 31 He probably teaches the calculus class.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Like, teacher, let me handle this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, this is

Speaker 2 good.

Speaker 48 We're keeping the young AWOs humble.

Speaker 49 There's a lot of talk about us getting old.

Speaker 2 Guess what?

Speaker 50 I'd rather be me than you right now, bitches.

Speaker 19 I didn't really do it, again, about my education, but I feel like going back to college is the best.

Speaker 55 What do you mean?

Speaker 2 Being the old, not being the old person in college.

Speaker 3 That guy was weird.

Speaker 19 No, but like the random old lady.

Speaker 19 Going back to college in your four years of college.

Speaker 42 Yes, yes, 100%. Syllabus week.

Speaker 2 Oh, that was the welcome week where you just drink for an entire week, get fucked up.

Speaker 11 The only bad part about going back to college is when you, maybe you schedule yourself for an early-ish morning class on a Friday. Never.
And the first week you're like, well, this was a mistake.

Speaker 11 I need to change up my entire degree platform that I have right now so I don't have to, so I can still get drunk on a Thursday night.

Speaker 6 My first semester, I had Friday classes, not a single semester after did I take a single Friday class.

Speaker 25 I would literally, like, Tuesdays and Thursdays, I would go to, like, I'd work like a legit like eight to seven job.

Speaker 69 I'd just go to all my classes and then just be done.

Speaker 11 There was one year that I tried to set it up where I had every single class, and I mean literally every class, only Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so I would have a four-day weekend, and I tried to do it my very first Tuesday in school. I had to sprint around campus.
Yeah. And it was physically impossible for me to make all those classes.

Speaker 11 So at the end of the day, I probably had like 25,000 steps just getting around campus. And I just couldn't do it.
I was like, fuck, I give up. I'll do a Monday, Wednesday classes.

Speaker 17 See, the problem is that you should have just not gone to the class.

Speaker 61 That's what I started doing.

Speaker 49 I did all the two, I loaded up Tuesday and Thursday and then just stopped going to half of them.

Speaker 39 Yeah. And read the book.

Speaker 11 For that one weekend, though, having a four-day weekend was pretty awesome.

Speaker 20 That's a little tip for all the college students going back to college right now.

Speaker 31 Your professors are lazy pieces of shit that have tenure. So either go to the class or read the book.

Speaker 22 Don't do both. That's it.

Speaker 2 Like all the answers will be either if you go to the class and listen and take notes, you're good. And if you don't, just read every book they assign, and then you're good.

Speaker 11 You can probably take a shitload of Zoom classes, too. Oh, yeah.
And then just like turn your computer on and go away.

Speaker 30 That's true.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you definitely could do that.

Speaker 75 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 81 Howie Long.

Speaker 6 Incredible interview with Howie Long.

Speaker 28 Been a long time.

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Speaker 51 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.

Speaker 6 It is someone we've wanted to have on for a very long time.

Speaker 76 We're completing the Long Family Trilogy.

Speaker 90 It is Howie Long, Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champ,

Speaker 88 father of three great, great men, and two of them who have become our very good friends in Chris and Kyle.

Speaker 88 Let's start with this.

Speaker 6 I mean, thank you for coming on.

Speaker 27 We really like, I remember when we first started hanging out with Kyle and Chris, it was probably like a decade ago.

Speaker 40 We're like, hey, when are we going to get Howie on? When are we going to get Howie on?

Speaker 60 And now you're here, and we couldn't be more excited.

Speaker 83 I think they were frightened for me.

Speaker 83 Kyle was, Kyle just, they both love you guys. And I, to be honest, I'm not a podcast watcher.

Speaker 83 Diane does play their podcast as she's walking around the house doing whatever she does around the house. And,

Speaker 83 you know, periodically, I just go, oh, my God, did they say that? Oh, you can't do that. You know, I'm more buttoned up.
I think, you know, my generation being, I'm now 63. So

Speaker 83 I'm a little bit different, but they were excited that I was coming on and they love you guys. And,

Speaker 83 you know, they both had different approaches. Chris was, I know, Chris threatened you guys.
And Kyle said, have fun. And that's the difference between Chris and Kyle.
Chris and Kyle are two different.

Speaker 83 two totally different guys. Same house, same love, same

Speaker 83 rules,

Speaker 83 just came out different.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you probably don't know this, and I think a lot of our listeners might not even know this, but I think you actually have been on this show before. I think when we interviewed

Speaker 11 when we interviewed Chris, there was one point where you like walked in the room and we screamed a question at you. And I think you might have said something and then walked out.

Speaker 83 You're doing a drive-by. You're counting a drive-by.

Speaker 83 Chris has done a lot of stuff over the years, as you can imagine. So, you know,

Speaker 83 I know

Speaker 83 they talk about your show a lot. Yeah, cool.
Yeah. And I, I listened to a little bit earlier today.

Speaker 83 Uh, you were talking, I think it was yesterday or the day before with Daryl Johnson.

Speaker 73 Oh, okay, good.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that one's, I was, I was gonna say,

Speaker 3 it's very hit or miss when you listen to an episode where it's like you could get a really good interview and then you could get us talking about something completely different that uh you might have been like, what the hell are these guys talking about?

Speaker 83 Yeah, and and listen, I've been I've been at it for 43 years now, including, you know, the Raiders and this is the 30th year ox. So anything you want to talk about, we can talk about.

Speaker 83 We can talk about Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas. We can talk about the boys.
We could talk about

Speaker 83 Villa Nova, which, you know, is a good plug for them.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I got an easy one to start out with. Who do you love more, Chris or Kyle?

Speaker 83 I told them at the wedding because Howie just got married up here in Montana and I said, look,

Speaker 83 you know, I pulled both of them aside. I said, Look, Howie's getting married, and this is all about Howie.
And I was speaking at the wedding, and I said, Look, I'm gonna, I'm gonna really talk.

Speaker 83 I know you guys keep score, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna really talk Howie up. And I started out with, you know, a lot of people ask why I waited to name our third child, Howie.

Speaker 83 And I said, Well, you know, it's easy because he's our favorite. You know, he's the best athlete in the family.
He's uh, he's really just our favorite.

Speaker 83 And I want to just get that that out now after all these years.

Speaker 83 You know, they took it pretty well.

Speaker 58 They were good about it.

Speaker 11 I love that. I love that

Speaker 11 you looked at Chris when he was born. You're like, nope, not yet.

Speaker 42 Not a Howie. Not yet.

Speaker 52 Look at Kyle.

Speaker 34 You know,

Speaker 83 the funny thing about Chris, when Chris was born, this is something people don't know. I had 11 fingers when I was born.

Speaker 83 I had an extra pinky finger on my right hand. And

Speaker 83 so here we are at the hospital in Santa Monica and

Speaker 83 Diane had just delivered Chris and the doctors, you could see they were kind of, you know, they take the baby and they take Chris over and wipe him down. And

Speaker 83 they're, they're, I can see there's something going on. And, you know, your biggest concern always as a parent is health.
And, you know,

Speaker 83 that's number one, you know, gender, whatever it is, it is, as long as it's a healthy baby, we're, we're blessed um and chris had chris had the 11th finger uh

Speaker 83 and they tie it off there's no cartilage and you know it ends up kind of dying off and they they cut it off but uh we have that in common wow you're gonna be such a good tight end yeah you gotta leave that yeah you gotta leave that finger i i did want to start with uh villanova and we could go through your whole career because it's an incredible career but Villanova, obviously not known for football.

Speaker 60 What was the decision with Villanova?

Speaker 52 And you also boxed at Villanova.

Speaker 3 You are like, probably like the toughest guy in the world.

Speaker 71 But what from Charlestown, why'd you go?

Speaker 12 Why'd you end up going to Villanova?

Speaker 83 It's a complicated story.

Speaker 83 I left my

Speaker 83 dad left when I was probably about nine, eight or nine.

Speaker 83 He grew up in an, and these are, this is a story that, you know, I think a lot of people don't know, but my dad grew up in an orphanage from birth to 18 years old.

Speaker 83 He was six, seven, 255, and, you know, never played sports.

Speaker 83 And obviously, when you're growing up in a, in an orphanage, and at 18, they give you the option of going into the military or staying until what was then the legal age, 21.

Speaker 83 He goes out and

Speaker 83 joins the army and they put him in the Alaskan Ski Patrol, throw some head 220s on him and shove him down the freaking mountain. I mean, that was his military experience.

Speaker 83 He's in the Alaskan Ski Patrol.

Speaker 83 Gets married to my mom. And, you know, we, my sister and I, and we were also separated when I was probably nine.
I grew up in a few different households.

Speaker 83 I had the good fortune of having really, really great extended family. It was a classic, you know, Boston Irish Catholic.

Speaker 83 Charlestown kind of neighborhood family. And it started with my grandmother, who

Speaker 83 was a widow. And, you know, she worked at Hood's Milk.
And my uncles worked at either the projects or Hood's Milk.

Speaker 83 And, you know, at some point, I, each uncle had a specific hand in kind of helping to raise me, but specifically my uncle Mike, Annie, and my grandmother, and particularly my grandmother.

Speaker 83 And desegregation hit Boston school system. And I hadn't played sports until then.

Speaker 83 This was ninth grade.

Speaker 83 We played in the street. You know, it was a dead-end street, Albion Place, and at the bottom of the street was the L-Train.

Speaker 83 And, you know, you went out, you played, you played, you did everything-hockey, basketball, football, anything. It was on Rutherford Avenue on a patch of grass and by Hood's Milk.

Speaker 83 And so we never played organized sports. But when that whole desegregation thing hit and the busing riots and all that, my grandmother asked my uncle Billy and Aunt Ada to take me in.

Speaker 83 He was the first relative. He was then working, I think, at the D Street Project in South Boston.

Speaker 83 He took me in for three years.

Speaker 83 And a high school coach walking down the hallway named Dick Corbin, who ended up coaching at Harvard with Joe Restick Sr.,

Speaker 83 ended up kind of changing my life when he said, hey, who are you? And do you want to go out for the football team? And I was 14 years old and I had started school early.

Speaker 83 Why, I don't know, but I ended up as a 17-year-old freshman at Villanova.

Speaker 83 But long story short,

Speaker 83 I had two scholarship offers. I had Boston College and I had Villanova.

Speaker 83 And for a couple of reasons, a challenging neighborhood.

Speaker 83 I wasn't a particularly tough young kid. I didn't really figure it out until I was about 16, 17.

Speaker 83 And

Speaker 83 she had made the decision in great part because she wanted me to get out of the neighborhood and go down to Villanova. And I was recruited by a guy named Bob Capone, who's a coach there.
And

Speaker 83 I went there with the clothes on my back.

Speaker 83 It was a challenge academically. It was a challenge socially.
It was a challenge, certainly, financially. I never left.
I was there Thanksgiving, Christmas,

Speaker 83 you know, spring break. I didn't know what spring break was.
I mean, you have no money.

Speaker 83 Where are you going to go on spring break?

Speaker 83 I went to summer school there every summer. So I lived in the dorm and

Speaker 83 I still see the visual of the dorm with you know, Sidney Marie, who's a runner from Africa and, you know, another runner from Ireland. And there were like five lights on the dorm at Christmas.

Speaker 83 And, you know, I was one of those rooms. And Villanova was the best experience.
I met my wife there. She was a classics major.
I wasn't,

Speaker 83 Greek and Latin. So, yeah, and I was in survival mode.
And

Speaker 83 ironically enough, I played with a guy named Joe Rustick,

Speaker 83 who ended up going to Notre Dame and captaining Notre Dame.

Speaker 83 You see his name in Rudy in the movie Rudy when he's checking the list. His dad was Joe Rustick Sr., who coached at Harvard for 20 some odd years.

Speaker 83 Again, you come to a lot of forks in the road in your life. And

Speaker 83 the interesting thing was

Speaker 83 a player either got hurt or pulled out of the blueberry game, which they don't play anymore down in Alabama on Christmas Day.

Speaker 83 And Joe Rustick was on the selection committee.

Speaker 83 And Joe, you know,

Speaker 83 put my name forward. And, you know, ironically enough, I was on the North team and my coach was a guy named Jimmy Johnson from Oklahoma State.
And I end up winning the MVP.

Speaker 83 You know, kind of like, kind of like Kyle's story, only Kyle's was more well known.

Speaker 83 coming out of high school

Speaker 83 and college.

Speaker 83 So, you know, I went to the MVP and the next thing I know, I'm, you know, they have pro days at big schools, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, they have pro day, and, you know, all the scouts come and I ran

Speaker 83 35 times. I ran in the snow.
I ran in the rain. I ran on the front lawn of my dorm and sneakers where, you know, a scout was just coming by and checking a box.
No one really.

Speaker 83 you know, in my mind, had me pegged as, and I certainly didn't think I was going to be drafted in the second round.

Speaker 83 So, you know, a guy named Earl Leggett comes up, defensive line coach, same coach that brought up Michael Strahan and

Speaker 83 great coach. I think he's, you know, as good a defensive line coach as I've, you know, could ever imagine in the NFL.
He built you from the ground up.

Speaker 83 And the prototype was a guy from a small school, didn't have, you know, kind of a formulated plan, build it from the ground up, get in your stance, take the first step.

Speaker 83 You know, this is how you get off the ball.

Speaker 83 The whole thing.

Speaker 83 And they draft me in the second round. And I tell the boys and they laugh.
My contract was 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 88, and an option year. Ron Wolf,

Speaker 83 who went on to

Speaker 83 Green Bay Packer fame and is in the Hall of Fame, GM,

Speaker 83 great talent evaluator.

Speaker 83 He was part of the group that drafted me in the second round. So I was, you know, I bought a used Coupe de deville.

Speaker 83 I looked Oakland up on the map. I bought a used coupe deville in Tucson, Arizona

Speaker 83 from the only agent that would even speak to me. And he was a used car salesman.
I think his name was Bernie Perlin.

Speaker 83 And drove out to Oakland and never looked back and lived with a guy by the name of Cedric Hardman my rookie year, played for the Niners, was a...

Speaker 83 a great player with the Niners and ironically enough was Joe Green's roommate in college at North Texas State and we played them that year. And Joe came over to dinner in our little house in Alameda.

Speaker 83 And it was, you know, you're living the life, man. My check was $1,007 after taxes.
So then my sons get drafted and they can buy me.

Speaker 88 Yeah, that's an incredible, I mean, that whole story is incredible.

Speaker 2 Do you think about the moment when this guy, your high school coach, just sees you walking down the hallway?

Speaker 2 It's like, you know, maybe someone else would have seen your, your, you know, your size and been like, hey, let's get this kid in football.

Speaker 88 but like these sliding door moments it feels like you had so many to get to that point and have a hall of fame career

Speaker 83 i say there's no way you know it's whether it's earl leggett it's it's you know the blue gray game it's dick corbin who is my high school coach bob capone at villanova um

Speaker 83 i think of sister mary margaret cribben who was you know someone who is you know being an athlete you know i i think it at places you know it's human nature for a professor at a Villanova or University of Virginia or wherever to kind of look at an athlete in a different light.

Speaker 83 And certainly, hey, listen, when you go in that class your freshman year and it's a philosophy class, and the question is, if a cow eats the daisy, does the daisy then become the cow or does the cow become the daisy?

Speaker 83 I turned to the guy next to me and said, I'm flunking this person class.

Speaker 83 I have no shop.

Speaker 83 So it was a challenge, you know, and there were a lot of forks in the road. And

Speaker 83 I've always had somebody at each fork that, you know, and it's like Fox, you know, I retire.

Speaker 83 We want to raise the boys in Virginia. We looked around the country, looked everywhere, from Oregon to Cape Cod.

Speaker 83 And, you know, Diane found this 65-acre parcel with an old 1846 Georgian five minutes from the University of Virginia. You know, at that time, there's no internet.

Speaker 83 There's There's no, you know, cell phones are like, you know, a briefcase.

Speaker 83 You know, you're really kind of left to your own kind of research.

Speaker 83 And, you know, you're Chamber of Commerce, you're looking at weather, you're looking at crime, you're looking at change of season, you're looking at proximity to airport, you're looking at university town, maybe.

Speaker 83 And it came down to Chapel Hill and Charlottesville, and she found an old Georgian house, and we restored it. And

Speaker 83 yet again, another fork fork in the road. And,

Speaker 83 you know, I'd like to say it was a brilliant decision, but we just got lucky. And the boys loved Virginia.
And we had a great time there. And then I retire.

Speaker 83 And I, you know, LA at that time, there were floods, there were fires, there was the riots.

Speaker 83 the whole thing. And it was like, you know, God is sending, you know,

Speaker 83 a message, get out of LA. Yeah.
Because Because it was all happening. It would all kind of happen at the same time.

Speaker 83 And we decided we're going to raise the boys somewhere else and we decided to pick up and move to Virginia.

Speaker 83 You know, I'm exaggerating, but we moved to Virginia on a Friday. I got a job at Fox on Monday.

Speaker 58 That's crazy. So

Speaker 83 now I'm, I'm,

Speaker 83 one, we're raising boys on an opposite coast from where I'm working. I'm flying out on Friday and I'm driving up to Dallas and it's two hours plus up to Dulles up there.

Speaker 83 And you take a flight, and you pray the flight's good. And

Speaker 83 you go out and do the show. And,

Speaker 83 you know, you think to yourself, well, there was a show that was going to be on TNT, and it was more money.

Speaker 83 And here we had this Fox thing, which was a blank sheet of paper, literally a blank sheet of paper. You know, it was Fox Sport at that point.

Speaker 83 And David Hill, and Ed Goren, and Scotty Atkerson, and that whole kind of group at the beginning, and Terry, and

Speaker 83 Jimmy, and JB,

Speaker 83 who was great. And, you know, then later on, you know, we added Kurt, we added Michael Strahan, who couldn't have computer generated a better guy to be on the show.

Speaker 83 You don't think when you're doing that,

Speaker 83 this is year 30.

Speaker 83 You know, when I started there, Chris was, I think, nine. Kyle was five.
Howie was four. So my kids grew up with, Terry's kind of the,

Speaker 83 he's the Shreveport, Louisiana version of Uncle Buck, the movie Uncle Buck.

Speaker 83 You know, where

Speaker 83 all the stuff that, you know,

Speaker 83 you can't, you don't want him to do, he does with your kids. Yeah.
You know, and he was, he was great. I mean, they love Terry and Terry loves kids.
And

Speaker 83 it's been a great run, but did I expect 30 years of doing it? And I coached high school football for eight years back there.

Speaker 83 I coached Little League Baseball. I I kept the book.
In Little League, somebody's crying in between innings every inning. And, you know, you're part, you're part bookkeeper.
You're part, you know,

Speaker 83 I don't know what, psychologist. You know, it's, it's a challenge, but to be a part of,

Speaker 83 you know, coaching them for eight years, all the boys in Little League and high school football was important to me. And Fox was a network that would allow me to do that.
And I made that a priority.

Speaker 83 And they certainly respected that and were very supportive. And then, ironically enough, you fast forward here, the nine-year-old is playing in an NFC championship game, or Kyle's playing.

Speaker 83 You know, I go to that game, St. Louis is playing, you know,

Speaker 83 St. Louis is playing the Bears, and Kyle decides he's going to, you know, get in a barroom brawl.
And, you know, it was kind of a, kind of an awkward, awkward moment.

Speaker 83 But

Speaker 83 there have been some great moments where I remember when Philly was in the NFC championship game in Philly.

Speaker 83 And, you know, you got to remember Terry's like an uncle to the boys. So I'm sitting at the desk and our grandson, Whalen, who's now seven, was,

Speaker 83 you know, I don't know exactly how old he was then, maybe three or two and a half or three.

Speaker 83 And he comes by the set and I put him up on my lap and we're facing facing the crowd. And behind me is the stage where Terry's presenting the trophy for the NFC championship game.

Speaker 83 And he's interviewing Chris and he has a dog mask on.

Speaker 16 I mean, you know, and I've got,

Speaker 83 I've got Whalen in my lap and we're looking at the monitor and seeing this. And it was such a surreal moment.
You know, I just, I, I. really have to try to,

Speaker 83 you know, whether it's Kyle's, Kyle with the Pro Bowls and Chris with the two Super Bowls and you know we cover a lot of those games we did the Super Bowl we're down 28 to three I say we you know you know the the Patriots are down to 28 to three I mean Chris had a decision to make when he left St.

Speaker 83 Louis

Speaker 83 and

Speaker 83 my thought process was okay

Speaker 83 so why are you playing and you know you have money why are you playing and he said to win if you want to win a championship i said well the guy in new england has gone on x number of times they've been in a championship x number of times there have been this many super bowls they've won x number of super bowls he really liked atlanta he liked the coach who's now the defensive coordinator in dallas and he he really liked his his conversations with them but i you know i said new england new england he finally decides to go to new england and uh

Speaker 83 And here we are covering the game, and it's the first half, and then it's the third quarter, quarter and i'm standing next to terry on the sideline and they're down 28 to three and i'm the worst freaking dad in the world because i have pushed my son to new england and the team he liked is up 28 to three and this is going to be a blowout wow and terry said to me terry said to me and like you know it's like call it what you want you know i mean he's a savant he just said don't worry little buddy calls me little buddy why i don't know little buddy they're gonna tom gonna throw it all around the yard.

Speaker 83 It's gonna be the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.

Speaker 18 There it is.

Speaker 11 He's a genius. Terry Bradshaw, certified genius.
Yes.

Speaker 42 For supporting Halley Long.

Speaker 11 You said your dad was in the Alaskan Ski Patrol. That's pretty tough.
Don't discount yourself, though, because you flew out of Dulles Airport every single week for I don't know how many years.

Speaker 33 That's that's harder.

Speaker 11 That's harder than being on top of a mountain in Alaska. That's, in my opinion, the worst airport.

Speaker 83 I knew every tree between Charlottesville and Dulles Airport. Not Dulles, it's just Dulles became Culpeper.

Speaker 83 I don't know if you know the area.

Speaker 42 I'm from Herndon.

Speaker 83 It was nothing between Culpepper. Yeah, there was nothing between Culpeper and Dulles Airport.
Now it's just merged on down.

Speaker 83 So, yeah,

Speaker 83 it was a challenge to do that travel. I think year,

Speaker 83 I want to say 17 or 16, we bought a parcel out in Arizona and North Scottsdale.

Speaker 83 we built a house out there so my my travel now is is much easier i do one hour flight home i could be home at seven o'clock on a sunday night yeah so i want to go back to the raiders when you first you get drafted by the raiders and uh you meet al davis for the first time what was that like

Speaker 83 you know i i really wasn't uh

Speaker 83 really a historian of the game as a kid at villanova i mean i i didn't really think about the nfl diane and i both we laugh about about this, but

Speaker 83 it wasn't

Speaker 83 in my wheelhouse. I didn't think about it.
I said, you know,

Speaker 83 maybe I'll get with a team. I remember, and, you know, I've laughed about this when I went and worked out for the Eagles.
Dick Vermill was there.

Speaker 83 And Dick was, Dick's the sweetheart of a guy, if you know Dick. He's a really nice, nice man.

Speaker 83 And Dick thought he was helping me when he said, look, before a team cuts you, make sure they try you at offensive guard.

Speaker 83 And he actually said that. And, you know, in his mind, I think

Speaker 83 he was trying to help me. And the older I've gotten, the more I come to appreciate that.
And I sat next to him at the Hall of Fame this year and had a great conversation with him, just a good man.

Speaker 83 But I get to Oakland.

Speaker 83 You got to remember, Villanova has a priest on every floor. You know, and at that time, the dorms were split up.
You know,

Speaker 83 women didn't go in the dorm, you know, on after a certain time of day, or, you know, whatever the rules were. There's no alcohol, it's a dry campus.

Speaker 83 You walk in that locker room, and guys are smoking Salem lights and playing cards. And, you know, it's

Speaker 83 the Oakland Raiders.

Speaker 83 And the characters were larger than life. And, you know, the first day you're going against Art Schell and Gene Upshaw and pit drills.

Speaker 83 And, you know, just a couple of months ago, I'm playing Delaware, you know, in front of 3,000 people.

Speaker 83 So

Speaker 83 it was a bit of a shock.

Speaker 83 And thankfully, I survived my rookie year and got through it.

Speaker 77 Yeah, so that Raiders team, first of all, you got the best compliment of anyone, I think, ever because Hunter S. Thompson, I think, did a whole piece on that Raiders team that won the Super Bowl.

Speaker 76 He called you the manliest man ever,

Speaker 60 which I don't think you can get a better compliment than that from Hunter S.

Speaker 77 Thompson. The manliest man ever, which you are.

Speaker 77 I can attest to that.

Speaker 76 Did you spend some time with him?

Speaker 88 Was he like when

Speaker 88 he was doing that piece with the Raiders?

Speaker 2 Because I'm sure that, like, just seeing that Raiders team, all the characters and everyone involved, it was such an iconic team.

Speaker 83 It was an iconic team and it had great characters.

Speaker 83 You know, the Lake Cliff Branch, you know, all those people that, you know, you talk about as Ted Hendricks.

Speaker 83 Ted, Ted would would first, Ted was the smartest player I ever played. You know, Ted could come in on a Monday morning after a long Sunday night and

Speaker 83 we'd pop up the video of the upcoming opponent he called plays,

Speaker 83 Lyle Alzado,

Speaker 83 you know, Matt Millen, who is one of the great characters. And, you know, if you, if you can, you could pull up, pull up Matt Millen, Howie Long, Pat Sullivan.

Speaker 83 It's an image. And when you see it on your screen, you're going to go, oh my God.

Speaker 83 So what had happened there was we were playing New England in the playoffs out of the Coliseum.

Speaker 83 And, you know, we kind of, we kind of crapped the bed at the end, had a fumble or, you know, whatever, there was a special teams player, whatever it was. I mean, we all could have played better.

Speaker 83 And we lose. But there was an article in the Boston Globe earlier in the week about how the Patriots never looked at local talent.

Speaker 83 And, you know, he took great offense to it and i didn't know who he was i mean at that age i didn't know who was in somebody's front office i didn't know who was on our front office other than ron wolf i didn't know what ron wolf did i didn't know he was the gm because you didn't have titles with the raiders

Speaker 83 so

Speaker 83 this guy's walking up and down the sideline yelling at me throughout the whole game i'm saying why is there a drunk guy on their sideline and you know i i didn't know what the deal was so now we're walking off and matt and i would always walk off together

Speaker 83 And this guy, I could see the guy, you know, my head's on a swivel everywhere I go. So, you know, if I'm at a restaurant, I'm eyeing up, who's the biggest threat?

Speaker 83 You know, when I'm walking off the field, my peripheral vision is keen, and I see this guy coming towards me. Now, now

Speaker 83 he's saying, Howie, howie, and it seems like he wants to make friends, and I'm just ignoring him.

Speaker 83 And he said, you know, hey, howie, you know, and I said,

Speaker 83 I just gave him a hand or whatever and started walking. And he said, you don't know who I am.

Speaker 83 And I said, no, I don't know who you are. And I think I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like, I own the team.
And I, and then it dawned on me. And I said something like, you know,

Speaker 83 unless your dad died last night, you don't own shit.

Speaker 83 And he extended his hand towards me. And Matt saw this.

Speaker 83 And Matt club, well, allegedly.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I think

Speaker 18 the picture.

Speaker 11 It's right after he allegedly hit him.

Speaker 12 Yeah, allegedly punched the GM of the Patriots in the face.

Speaker 83 No, he didn't. He hit him with his helmet.
Oh, he hit him. He hit him with his helmet.

Speaker 42 The Miles Barrett.

Speaker 44 Yeah, allegedly. Assault.

Speaker 42 Allegedly.

Speaker 18 That's incredible.

Speaker 83 And, you know,

Speaker 83 I've seen

Speaker 83 you know, him now later, you know, in years, because he owned all the satellite trucks that

Speaker 83 broadcast the games. That's his business.
And, you know, they sold the Patriots. And,

Speaker 83 you know, he's a nice guy, seems like a nice guy. And it was just, you know, heat of the moment.
Those things happen, but they generally don't happen with a civilian.

Speaker 83 You know, I mean, it's one thing you get in a fight at work. Fights at work were

Speaker 83 you gotten flights at work, you know, and that's kind of the way it was.

Speaker 83 And there was, you had the beat writer, you had your three major networks, and there's no, you know, there's no no sports radio. There's no, you know, internet.

Speaker 83 There's no 5,000 shows talking about a jake laser's not in your closet or under your bed. Yep.

Speaker 83 You know, there's nobody. So things don't leave the building.
Fights on planes, flights in the locker room, flights on the field. Those things didn't happen.
And plus our

Speaker 83 facility was

Speaker 83 It was, we were an island onto ourselves. You know, the building was nobody's in the building.
There's nobody in the building.

Speaker 83 I compare it to New England. I remember one time I went up and I was doing a story on one of the Patriots, I think maybe it's Junior Seal,

Speaker 83 I think.

Speaker 83 And,

Speaker 83 you know, Burge, who's

Speaker 83 a gentleman who works for the Patriots and he's kind of Bill's right-hand guy, said, you know, Bill wanted to invite you out to practice. So I go out and practice and it's the indoor bubble.

Speaker 83 And

Speaker 83 name another practice where there's not one

Speaker 83 person,

Speaker 83 not one person,

Speaker 83 not friend of, not sponsor, not there's not one person in the building other than me standing on the sideline.

Speaker 83 And that reminded me of our building. Our building was like that.
Al was like that. Al was larger than life.

Speaker 83 And he had a,

Speaker 83 he wore a cologne that, and the defensive line always was way down, you know, on a secondary abbreviated field during individual period where we, you know, we did warm-ups and did individual drills.

Speaker 83 And he'd walk out of the building and you could smell that perfume. And I'm telling you, every coach was parkered up immediately because he was at every practice.
Yeah.

Speaker 83 And he was

Speaker 83 a brilliant football mind,

Speaker 83 good boss. I remember one time he walked up to me.
I'm sitting on my helmet at practice and he said,

Speaker 83 all long, you think you're fucking tough.

Speaker 83 And I'm saying to myself,

Speaker 83 does he think he can kick my ass?

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 79 Yeah.

Speaker 11 How long is it? Ball's here.

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Speaker 88 that's the that's that's the 8081 team okay all right so so that was the 80-81 team, but the the Raiders from Al Davis down, it felt like the team played with such swagger and kind of this uncontrolled chaos.

Speaker 2 And could you feel that when you're standing on the side like these guys are crazy, but they're on my side, so I'm happy they're so crazy.

Speaker 83 Well, Lyle Alzedo, um,

Speaker 83 you know,

Speaker 83 and it's a it's a really kind of a funny story, but Lyle and I, Lyle came there in 1982, okay,

Speaker 83 strike shortened year.

Speaker 83 We're practicing in Oakland, but we're playing in LA.

Speaker 83 So every game's a rogue game.

Speaker 83 So Lyle and I are living in a single hotel room with two queen beds at the Oakland Airport Hill.

Speaker 83 Now I'm living with Lyle Alzedo in a room. Think about that.
I'm 22 years old, 21, 22 years old.

Speaker 83 He was,

Speaker 83 I called him three Mile Mile Isle,

Speaker 83 bless his heart, because it was, you never knew when, you know, it was going to explode. You know,

Speaker 83 he was

Speaker 83 benevolent, kind, tyrannical. He was,

Speaker 83 he was a card-carrying batman.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 83 And, you know, we were close,

Speaker 83 as close as a 34-year-old and a 22-year-old could be.

Speaker 83 And we would take

Speaker 83 a cab when, you know, we'd stay at the hotel down in LA.

Speaker 83 We'd take a cab, first cab drive,

Speaker 83 right after the team meeting in the morning. Everyone else went up to the room.
They left for the stadium at maybe,

Speaker 83 you know, 10, 30, 11 o'clock. We left at 9.05.
We wanted to be there early. Lyle would get dressed.
He'd lie down on the floor.

Speaker 83 fully dressed, not pads, you know, shirt, pants, cleats, taped up, the whole thing, would fall asleep. And I would pour over, you know, out of East Near Eye Right, they run this 17 times.

Speaker 83 You know, that was my way of doing things.

Speaker 83 So we get in this cab and you say the cab driver, we go to the stadium.

Speaker 83 So we're going, we're going, we don't know where we are because it's our first week in LA. You know, he takes us to Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 83 Now, the meter, Lyle had a, you know, it's like a mood meter. You know, it's like the RPMs in your car when they're on red, and he was just furious.

Speaker 83 So this repeat itself, you know, we finally get to the Coliseum, we take cab every week. That's what we do.
We did that in 83 when we went to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 83 So we're down in Tampa Bay, and this is before the Super Bowl became, you know, the crazy kind of,

Speaker 83 you know, roadblocks, you know, concrete barriers. I mean, 9-11 changed everything.
And I remember we did that Super Bowl down in New Orleans, which was

Speaker 83 really kind of an eerie experience. But so here we are in this cab going to the stadium to go to the Super Bowl.
Try to imagine that

Speaker 18 today.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 83 So we're in the cab going to the stadium down in Tampa Bay, the old stadium,

Speaker 83 and

Speaker 83 we get caught in traffic like a mile and a half from the stadium, jam-packed traffic. Kyle wants the cab driver to go up on a curb and drive down the curb.
The cab driver, bless his heart.

Speaker 83 I don't know how long he'd been here and he was

Speaker 83 the communication was a challenge and Lyle was MF this and that. And we get out of the car and Lyle Alzado and I with our bag

Speaker 83 walking through the parking lot of the stadium Super Bowl 18 to get to the stadium from the cab.

Speaker 39 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 11 Now you got police escorts. You got the whole nine.

Speaker 16 That's insane.

Speaker 11 Can you talk a little bit about your acting career? I've always been a fan of Firestorm, thought that was a criminally underrated movie. Yes.
The VHS copy is in Canton.

Speaker 11 I remember when we took the tour, they've got a copy of the movie right there.

Speaker 42 Fantastic movie.

Speaker 11 But what I didn't realize about your career is that you were supposed to be in that thing you do.

Speaker 58 You actually, you're in the director's cut. But they cut your scene.

Speaker 83 I'm in the director's cut.

Speaker 83 I think it was a Disney film.

Speaker 83 I believe it was a Disney film. So I think

Speaker 83 it inferred that

Speaker 83 and Tom Hanks and I were,

Speaker 83 you know,

Speaker 75 lovers. Yeah, yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 83 Although there was nothing.

Speaker 83 tangible to point to that other than you know you kind of put two and two together and watching it so tom called up he's a raider fan and you know, he wanted to see if I'd come down and do this.

Speaker 83 And I did. They fit me for a tuxedo, and I'm driving this car, and I'm at this historic hotel in downtown LA that was closed.

Speaker 83 And we shoot this scene late at night, and I'm waiting for him. And one of the band members who's a problem needs to get back to wherever.
And

Speaker 83 so, you know, I'm excited. I'm in the film, and the film comes out, and I'm not in.

Speaker 83 My assumption was, and I can't, you know,

Speaker 83 because it's in the director's cut. If you watch the director's cut, it's in the director's cut and you can YouTube and watch it.
It's an awkward little scene.

Speaker 83 But yeah, I did that. And then

Speaker 83 I got a call about Broken Arrow

Speaker 83 and

Speaker 83 John Wu was directing Broken Arrow, and I was supposed to be there for three weeks.

Speaker 83 I ended up staying for three months and john wu kept coming in my trailer and saying you john wayne i make you bigger you know and just kept coming in and you know adding

Speaker 83 so i'm i'm basically driving around in a hummer with john travolta for you know for two two and a half months uh and and fox had signed me to a uh a two-picture deal with

Speaker 83 they had the right if someone else made an offer to do something outside of that contract to preempt me within five days disney made an offer to do a film and uh they came up with firestorm not only did they preempt me but they had me do the film during football season in canada

Speaker 83 so i'm getting done with our show landing in Canada, going through customs, the whole thing, getting to the hotel, getting up at six o'clock in the morning, Monday through Friday.

Speaker 83 I'm up in the woods in Whistler shooting this film. Go back down.
I've got a production meeting Saturday morning. I've got to be back down there on Friday night.
And it happened for three months.

Speaker 83 And I'm getting calls from home

Speaker 83 from Diane where the boys have set up ramps and they're jumping their bikes in the pool. And, you know, Howie's getting pulled out of carpool.

Speaker 83 So that film for me, whether, you know, listen, I'm not saying, you know, that was a direction I would go in or, you know, I was any good or, but the option of it to me

Speaker 83 wasn't viable, you know, because here I am, I'm on the road for three months. I'm working seven days a week

Speaker 83 for three months. And the boys are home and dies there.
And she's, you know, she had a thriving law practice in LA. She went to see law school at USC and she had given all that up to raise the boys.

Speaker 83 And here I am on the road road and she's by herself. And, you know, she's got these kids.

Speaker 83 And I made a decision at that point that, you know, it was going to be about them as much as it possibly could be. And I don't regret a bit of it.
You know, I don't think you ever regret that.

Speaker 83 And I think I saw this somewhere. I don't know where I saw in the video.
Somebody said,

Speaker 83 the greatest accomplishment or the biggest compliment you can get is that your kids as adults want to spend time with you.

Speaker 83 And, you know, I'm very lucky that

Speaker 83 we have, I have Diane, Diane's a saint, so she has a great relationship. But, you know, the dad thing, being a pro football player and two sons playing pro football, there's a lot of,

Speaker 83 there's that father-son angst. You know, they're always being compared and, you know,

Speaker 83 whether I want to be reminded, they want to be reminded of it. You know, they, they're reminded all the time who their dad is.

Speaker 83 And I tried to be in the shadows as much as I possibly could be and try to enjoy the ride. And I think we did as good a job as we could.

Speaker 28 I want to go back to, I mean, you have done an unbelievable job.

Speaker 77 Your sons are great, and

Speaker 77 we love them.

Speaker 76 So I'd say you might be dad of the year, dad of the millennium, including manliest man on planet Earth.

Speaker 58 I wanted to go back.

Speaker 37 I wanted to go back to a quick story about the lockout year.

Speaker 88 A little birdie told me that you're a good basketball player and you used to play and pick up games with the Lakers, who were pretty good at the time, if I remember.

Speaker 83 Is that true? No, no, no, no, no. I'll tell you what it is.
One, I did play.

Speaker 83 You know, at that time, there were no OTAs. We really didn't have much of a weight room.
You know,

Speaker 83 nutrition was a non-factor. Physical therapy, feet tissue, none of that.
There was none of that.

Speaker 83 Basketball, like at Villanova, was my way of staying in shape and playing. And I played Manhattan Beach a lot.

Speaker 83 I played with the guys from Villanova, Eddie Pickney at one point. We had a court up here in Montana at our first house, a blacktop court.
And I remember it was

Speaker 83 Steve Kerr,

Speaker 83 Larry Kostoviak, Frank Burkowski.

Speaker 83 the brothers,

Speaker 83 the Barry brothers were up there. We would have pickup games up there.

Speaker 83 Occasionally, you'd see a, you know, I don't remember playing against, you know, anybody that was of any consequence in the NBA, but in LA,

Speaker 83 but up in Montana, every year

Speaker 83 there was a party up here on the 4th of July for all those guys. And the basketball group all got together and we'd play pickup games over at my house on the lake.

Speaker 31 So, what's your game like?

Speaker 27 Is it a football player playing basketball or do you have a real basketball game?

Speaker 2 Because you know what it looks like when a football player plays basketball.

Speaker 83 Yeah, you know, I would say no left because my shoulder is, I had it replaced a few years ago. I mean, that didn't go up above my, you know, it was like, it stops.

Speaker 83 So left hand wasn't great.

Speaker 83 You know, enjoyed running. I could run.

Speaker 83 And that was the thing that, you know, and I always told the boys, I said, if you get an opportunity to run, show somebody you can run.

Speaker 83 Even when you're big like kyle run and kyle's like like the tiger at the zoo you know the tiger's laying there on the ground and it's cool and it's boy it's big and and then all of a sudden it gets up and takes off and runs 10 yards and jumps over a 10-foot wall yeah um

Speaker 83 you know you got to show people that you can do that and all you wanted to do is compete whether that's playing defense or you know you know what your role is uh

Speaker 83 I enjoy, I love playing basketball. I couldn't imagine being paid to play basketball.
Yeah, that would be so much fun.

Speaker 83 And now I can't, you know, I mean, with all the surgeries, I can't play basketball anymore.

Speaker 11 What about your audition for Fox NFL Sunday? Yeah, for that show, because we love the show, right?

Speaker 11 It seems like you guys get along really well watching the relationships between you guys develop over the years.

Speaker 11 It's been a big part of a lot of people's football watching experience, but I'm curious, what was it like when they're starting the show and you're auditioning for it?

Speaker 83 It was, I had gone, well,

Speaker 83 you have to kind of let's set the tables.

Speaker 83 And not knowing this at the time,

Speaker 83 David Hill came over from Australia and England and, you know, Sky TV. And, you know, he'd done everything there was to do in Europe.
And Rupert

Speaker 83 tagged him to, you know, create this Fox sports out of nothing and hire everyone.

Speaker 83 And the pregame shows at that point were half hour.

Speaker 83 And the thought of doing a one one-hour long pre-game show, people were saying, You're crazy. What could you do in an hour? And an hour, as you know, flies by.

Speaker 83 It just with commercials and everything else just flies by. And no one told me what they wanted at the time.

Speaker 83 They were just running people in and you know, doing it. And I thought they wanted like Bob Caspas.

Speaker 83 And I did

Speaker 83 every conceivable

Speaker 83 research

Speaker 83 pinpoints on games, watched a million games. You know, it was a hypothetical week.
And I spoke to the commitment. I literally spoke to the commissioner.
I spoke to multiple coaches.

Speaker 83 I spoke to, you know, and I had a stack of papers this big.

Speaker 83 And what he'd seen was

Speaker 83 he'd seen me doing an interview like this.

Speaker 83 And where he saw that, you know, local news or whatever, or I did HBO inside the NFL and I had my segment where you literally ran the prompter with a scroll. You wrote it on a scroll.

Speaker 83 Honest to God, you wrote it on a scroll and

Speaker 83 you had your hand down here hitting the button to start the prompter. And that was kind of my first experience with doing something from a national standpoint.

Speaker 83 So I go in there and I'm buttoned up, I'm stiff, I'm, you know, I'm doing the kind of prototypical.

Speaker 83 David Hill wanted a show that probably like your show, where, you know, it's two guys sitting around, having a conversation in a family room. And

Speaker 83 until it gets to that point where you actually feel that way,

Speaker 83 you're not capturing the essence of what he wanted. And

Speaker 83 it, you know, Terry was very helpful with that. You know, day one wasn't good.
Day two was better. And they wanted a player, defensive player.
They want an offensive player, quarterback.

Speaker 83 They wanted a head coach. And that was what they

Speaker 83 cast.

Speaker 83 So it wasn't a great, it wasn't a great audition from what I gather.

Speaker 83 And David Hill reminds me of that all the time. But I said, well, you know,

Speaker 83 30 years later, you did something right.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 How long into the show until Terry said something just outrageous that really like popped that balloon that really made everybody seem like I have to imagine that he's the one that kind of made everybody comfortable and went off script or went off on a weird tangent, maybe mispronounced the word cat.

Speaker 85 I don't know.

Speaker 83 No, well, let me say this. And, you know,

Speaker 83 and you're a classic example of this.

Speaker 83 He's got that jet clamp. He's got that jet clamp that I'm going out to the cement pond to do my gazintas

Speaker 83 down pat.

Speaker 83 He's rode that thing all the way to a bank account that, you know, trust me, he's one of the smartest people I know. Truly, he really, really is.
He's brilliant.

Speaker 83 When you turn on the light, regardless of what's happened during the week, you know, the issues that he's had over the last two years.

Speaker 83 And, you know, the last two years, you know, him dealing with the medical issues that he's had, you know, people didn't realize how challenging and difficult it was and what a challenge it was for him to, you know, to be on air and be, you know, sharp and coherent, and you know, and all that.

Speaker 83 Um, he's a brilliant guy, but trust me, we're not a rehearsal show. Uh, we do our show live, we don't rehearse.
Uh, and the reactions when he says things

Speaker 83 are so genuine because it's like, oh my god, did he just say that?

Speaker 83 You know, he's kind of

Speaker 83 the white Charles Barkley.

Speaker 46 Yeah, it makes it worth.

Speaker 83 Yeah, it really does. I've always said that.
I think Terry,

Speaker 83 you know, God bless him. You know, it's 30 years.
We've been together 30 years. And, you know, early on, there were, you know,

Speaker 83 we could, look, we couldn't be any more different. You know, I'm from Boston.
He's from Freeport. He's Baptist.

Speaker 83 I grew up Catholic, Villanova, Louisiana Tech quarterback, defensive lineman, Steeler, Raider. You know, he's,

Speaker 83 we couldn't be any more different but he's like the older brother i could have never imagined having yeah uh he it's a great relationship yeah um we want to talk a little ball about this year i'm sure you've done some some prep uh

Speaker 31 what is a little bit yeah what's a team that you're you've you've got circled that you're like okay this is a team that could surprise some some people that that maybe people aren't you know looking at not a chiefs or you know an eagles but a team that you're like i like what they're building and i could see something.

Speaker 76 This might be the year they take the next step.

Speaker 83 Um, I think there's about, and it's interesting because I looked at it from that perspective last night. You know, I was sitting here late last night, and I said, you know,

Speaker 83 look, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Baltimore, Dallas, Chargers, Jets are, are they,

Speaker 83 are they,

Speaker 83 are they real? Is it, you know, a mirage?

Speaker 83 I don't know, but it's going to be fun to watch.

Speaker 83 I would say teams like, and I'm not sure if the Seahawks are a surprise team, but

Speaker 83 I kind of love what they've done there, what the GM and the head coach have done there. Again,

Speaker 83 they had a little bit of a gap there where they got off track and maybe they didn't hit on the draft picks that they usually hit on, particularly with mid-round picks. And

Speaker 83 you certainly want to hit on a quarterback.

Speaker 83 And I think the quarterback for them at this point, point and i think he's a you know he's he's he really had a great year last year he's a bridge to you know whoever that is down the road whether it's through the draft or a free agent whatever it is uh but they're a team that i like jaguars i think are are going to be a team that

Speaker 83 you know i remember the that that game down there in the in the uh playoffs and we were at a dinner that you know jimmy was talking about maybe retiring so we didn't get to see a lot of it and i went back and looked at it again.

Speaker 83 And I like what they're doing down there. I like Doug.

Speaker 83 I think Doug brings a calm, particularly to the quarterback room. And I think that's if you've got a quarterback, you have to have somebody, somebody.

Speaker 83 And you know, whether it's in Detroit with their offensive coordinator, and I like what Detroit does. And, you know, the head coach is

Speaker 83 he's great.

Speaker 83 He's just, he's great TV. He's great.
He's a great listen.

Speaker 83 I can relate to him. I think Russell,

Speaker 83 Russell is,

Speaker 83 you know, I coached against Russell in high school. So, you know, I've seen him for a long time.
He's been the same.

Speaker 83 The guy you see over the last 10 years is the same guy he was in college, same guy he was in high school. You know, he was one of those guys that was 20 when he was 12.
You know, just mature.

Speaker 83 I remember he was throwing a football because Kyle and him played baseball against each other. They both got drafted in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 83 And I was in a parking lot in Richmond, and we were throwing, I was throwing a football with him.

Speaker 83 And he's a 13, 14-year-old kid. And I called the University of Virginia and I said, there's a 13, 14-year-old kid down here in Richmond that throws the ball better than anybody you have on the team.

Speaker 42 Jesus.

Speaker 58 Now.

Speaker 83 Yeah.

Speaker 83 I said,

Speaker 83 you need to, you know, offer this kid.

Speaker 83 That was before

Speaker 83 you never went off prototype.

Speaker 73 Decide. So

Speaker 83 whether it's Bill Parcels or

Speaker 83 you fill in the blank, any great team at that point, any great GM or head coach. I want 6'4.
I want 225. I want big arm.
I want some athleticism, but I want a pocket quarterback.

Speaker 83 And

Speaker 83 Russell is a guy that I think needed Sean Payton to to come in.

Speaker 83 I think you always have to have a friend. I don't know if you do, you know, I had a friend, Bill Paquell was a good teammate of mine,

Speaker 83 Queens, New York guy. And, you know, Diane certainly would be someone who would say to me, you know what? You're acting like a horse ass.
You know, come on, dial it back.

Speaker 83 Let's get back on. who you are and what you're about.
And let's get the train back on tracks.

Speaker 83 I thought Russell got big,

Speaker 83 not because Russell was out of shape.

Speaker 83 Russell maybe just lifted too much. He was, he, you know, Russell's not out of shape.
He's never going to be out of shape. To say that Russell fell off a cliff in one year, he had some injuries.

Speaker 83 You know, let's factor that in. The offensive line was bad.
The running back went down. You know, there were

Speaker 83 built-in excuses, but

Speaker 83 you have to be able to read the room, particularly as that guy. That guy has to be

Speaker 83 kind of the barometer for the team. He sets the pace.
He sets the agenda. And I think Sean is the guy that'll come in and he's not afraid to tell you, you know,

Speaker 83 the office thing, that's not, no, we're not doing that.

Speaker 83 The coach that you have, you know, in the office looking at filmmaking suggestions, no, we're not doing that. We're going to get back to the basics.
We're going to get back to run the football.

Speaker 83 We're going to make the offensive line better.

Speaker 83 We're going to get back to doing the things and and tailor the offense

Speaker 83 to a version of what sean's run down in new orleans and adapt it to russell

Speaker 83 that defense what did they give up 16 points a game yeah they were awesome yeah

Speaker 83 yeah you give up 16 points a game in the nfl you should be winning some football games now they lost some close games deng could be you know i think russell's going to be better i i love sean payton sean payton

Speaker 83 you know look sean Payton can talk the bark off a tree.

Speaker 83 You know,

Speaker 83 he loves football and loves talking every single play. And, you know, sitting in the green room with him was,

Speaker 83 you know,

Speaker 83 I've had a great luxury of being next to Jimmy Johnson for all these years. And it's like, you know,

Speaker 83 the Einstein of football and how to build a football team and how to manage people. And the whole thing, he's sitting, you know, two seats down from me for almost 30 years.

Speaker 83 He he took the three i think three years off to coach miami

Speaker 11 sean was a different perspective and a different way to look at it which i i think was really good for me at least i i enjoyed hearing that and i think he's going to be great for russell and yeah and you've got a new colleague uh friend of ours julian edelman joining fox yeah uh i hope you're ready because he's probably listening to this right now actually uh you have to be ready to just beat all the patriots homerisms out of him because he's going to be he's going to be like a PR person for the New England Patriots on set.

Speaker 11 You have to be ready to be like, Julian, you're not calling it straight.

Speaker 11 You got Bill in your ear.

Speaker 83 Bill,

Speaker 83 the art of being a producer on a show is, and Bill has mastered it. You know, it's a one-word kind of pop in your ear, which is great.
You know, I don't need somebody, you know, nobody does.

Speaker 83 Nobody needs someone barking in their ear.

Speaker 83 Bill does a great job of it. Julian,

Speaker 83 listen, when you've won as much as he's won and you've won as many Super Bowls as he's won,

Speaker 83 God bless him. Knock yourself out.
You want to puff your chest out?

Speaker 83 You certainly can do that. I mean, Terry's won four.
He went to four, won four, was two-time MVP.

Speaker 83 Those Steelers, I think, won four in six years.

Speaker 83 So I'm used to it. I'm used to, you know, everyone on that set has a reason to peacock up.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 83 You know,

Speaker 83 and I think he'll fit right in.

Speaker 83 He seems like a really, really good guy.

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Speaker 83 120 options.

Speaker 15 I don't know them.

Speaker 28 We're drivers. I don't.

Speaker 42 Rory McAwish driver.

Speaker 28 I'm a potato gunner.

Speaker 42 I'm 340.

Speaker 67 I need 340 to look at.

Speaker 42 I'm a howitzer. Yes, yes.

Speaker 60 So the other little birdie note I got: you are a big boater.

Speaker 25 You boat a lot.

Speaker 90 You're out in Montana.

Speaker 37 You also rescue a lot of people with your boat.

Speaker 15 How many people have you rescued in your life

Speaker 51 with your boat?

Speaker 88 This is, I can't imagine being in distress, whether you run out of gas or whatever, and having Howie Long come and rescue you.

Speaker 2 That's got to be the coolest feeling in the world.

Speaker 83 You know, I don't know if when you're in peril in the water and you're, you know, whether it's your

Speaker 83 sailboat or whatever is capsized and

Speaker 83 you're scrambling to kind of, you know, one stay on the boat and hope the boat doesn't sink or

Speaker 83 people are broke down and you've got to pull them in. It's, you know, it's

Speaker 83 Montana.

Speaker 83 It's a

Speaker 83 28-mile long lake and it's 15 miles wide at the widest widest point. And like in Chicago, you know, that lake can, you know, it can act like an ocean real quick.
And,

Speaker 83 you know, we've, we've certainly built some people out. But you know what? I would hope that if my wife was out there in a boat and I was on the road, that somebody would do the same thing.

Speaker 83 I mean, you know, it's just, it's like, you know, we used to do that.

Speaker 83 I remember when you used to drive down the road and somebody was on the side of the road, you know,

Speaker 83 you say to yourself, you know, should I pick this person up? You know, nowadays

Speaker 83 you're inclined not to do it because you don't feel safe. Because I don't know whether it's the news or the volume of news where you're just afraid to do things like that.

Speaker 83 But somebody's out in the water that's yelling for help.

Speaker 83 Yeah, I'll hop in my boat in a heartbeat.

Speaker 38 So, how many, what's the number?

Speaker 27 What's the number of rescues you've done?

Speaker 83 I'd say over

Speaker 83 the years,

Speaker 83 what do you think, Duh? How many times have we rescued people

Speaker 83 over 15?

Speaker 34 Wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 44 You're a superhero. You're a real-life superhero.

Speaker 83 No, please. There's a lot of people in this lake who have done the same thing.

Speaker 83 We sold our old boat. Our original boat was 22-foot cobalt.
And we now have a 28-foot because with the grandkids and everything, we wanted to be

Speaker 83 safer. And if we got caught up in Big Fork with a storm, the ride back can be pretty rough.

Speaker 83 But our neighbor, who's a doctor, and he was just a sweetheart of a guy in our first house here. And

Speaker 83 he was out there by himself in our 22-foot cobalt. And he was at the deepest point of the lake, which is 390.

Speaker 83 And it's right off the highway. A highway meaning two-lane road that bumps up to the mountains.
So the mountains are on one side of the highway and the lake's on the other.

Speaker 83 So I could throw a baseball from the road into the mountain or into the lake. So he's probably a mile and a half, two miles into the lake.

Speaker 83 He's fishing. He's kind of trolling and his rod falls over.
He goes over to grab it. He's 64 years old at the time, maybe.

Speaker 83 He falls out of the boat. Now the boat kind of goes away from him and he's in the middle of the boat with jeans on,

Speaker 83 t-shirt. He's got the rod in his hand.
He crews up the rod, obviously. At some point, he took his jeans off because it's extra weight.

Speaker 83 He's got to make it to that highway where the rocks are, and you got to climb up on the highway.

Speaker 83 So now, the question for you, as a good Samaritan driving down the road, are you stopping for the 63-year-old guy in your dad's white BVD with blood running down his leg because he's climbed up the rocks and he's near dead.

Speaker 18 Jesus.

Speaker 83 That's the question. Yeah.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 83 I don't know who stopped for him. Somebody did stop for him.
I don't know if I would have stopped if I didn't know him.

Speaker 73 It's like Walter Ways.

Speaker 8 The first episode of Breaking Bad.

Speaker 11 I have one last question, and you have to answer it honestly. You and your prime,

Speaker 11 Chris and his prime, Kyle and his prime

Speaker 11 wrestling match, who wins?

Speaker 13 Oh, good question.

Speaker 83 Kyle is,

Speaker 83 you know chris and i would chris is hard to kill he's one of those guys you just

Speaker 83 seriously you you just have to kill him i mean that's the way to stop him kyle is frightening

Speaker 83 um

Speaker 83 when he puts hands on you it's a different kind it's like some people are i'm heavy-handed he's heavy-handed on a bigger scale. He's like, you know,

Speaker 83 you know,

Speaker 83 the Schwarzenegger movies, movies, you know, where he's kind of

Speaker 83 a robot

Speaker 83 with that

Speaker 91 Terminator.

Speaker 83 I'm T1. He's like T4.

Speaker 83 You know, he's the bigger, you know,

Speaker 83 it's listen, big truck. Terry's offensive line averaged 255.

Speaker 83 Think about that. Yeah.
Biggest offensive line in the league averaged 320.

Speaker 83 I was at the Hall of Fame game and Kyle was playing the game. And I I typically don't get down on the field when the boys are playing.
I just try to avoid that. And I said to myself, you know what?

Speaker 83 I'm in the Hall of Fame. I'm going to go down and watch my son warm up.
So I'm watching him down there and I'm in the end zone. The offensive line is down in the corner as they always are.

Speaker 83 And

Speaker 83 he starts from the 20-yard line. He's walking toward me.
And as he's walking toward me, you don't grasp, it's like NASCAR.

Speaker 83 I don't get NASCAR watching TV,

Speaker 83 right? Car is going around in a circle.

Speaker 83 You go to NASCAR and you get up on the fence and a car goes by at 200 miles an hour. You get it then.
Oh, I go, oh, I get it. As he's walking towards me, what's running through my head is,

Speaker 83 how the frick would I deal with that?

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 83 And, you know, it's, we all, all you could do is play in your era. And all you could do is be as good as you can be in your era.
And, you know,

Speaker 83 very proud of the fact that, you know,

Speaker 83 I was an all-decade player in the 80s and Reggie White was the other defensive man. And, you know, very proud of that.

Speaker 83 You fast forward now, the biggest offensive line is 320

Speaker 83 across the board. Different game.
So it's anyone who says it's not,

Speaker 83 it's Clinice Wood and Grant Torino saying, get off my lawns.

Speaker 83 You know, it's, it's, trust me, I have no problem saying that. It's bigger, it's stronger, it's faster.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 83 And, you know, that's the way it is.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 11 So you think Kyle, you're taking Kyle in a wrestler.

Speaker 42 I would take Kyle.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 83 I think Chris would take Kyle in a wrestler. Can you kidding me?

Speaker 83 I, I, you, your hope is that you can land some kind of, you know, you see a boxing match where, you know, it appeared to be a glazing shot at the head. You know, so how did that knock him out?

Speaker 83 You know, you. you pray you get something like that because otherwise and listen you're you're in Chicago.
I mean,

Speaker 83 you know, I don't know if you've heard some of the stories about practice there, but he's had, I've gotten some calls. I've gotten some calls at the end of the day where, you know,

Speaker 83 you beat three people up, you know, in one practice and they asked him to leave and they suspended him for a preseason game. I mean,

Speaker 83 he's hard. He's the nicest guy in the world.
He really is. He's a sweetheart.
He was our sweetest kid.

Speaker 83 When the switch goes off,

Speaker 83 it's hard to bring back.

Speaker 90 That's why we have him on our side.

Speaker 30 That's why

Speaker 88 we stay friends with him.

Speaker 28 He's a good guy.

Speaker 83 He's a good guy to have on your side. So

Speaker 83 Chris is

Speaker 83 tough with a capital T and hard to kill.

Speaker 83 You've got to kill him.

Speaker 73 He's training.

Speaker 83 He trains every day.

Speaker 83 with that mindset.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 64 It's crazy.

Speaker 83 Still, I mean, he's down in the gym here when he's up in Montana and I watch him. I go, what's he training for? You know, the same thing that all of us are training for.

Speaker 83 When you walk out your door, is there a guy in the bushes that's been waiting to kick you your ass if you're limping a little bit? You know, you got to be ready.

Speaker 73 You got to be ready to be hard to kill.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 34 I love it.

Speaker 2 Well, Howie, thank you so much. This really has been a pleasure.
We'd love to have you back on anytime.

Speaker 37 Good luck. Year 30.

Speaker 88 Incredible achievement, especially when you think about media business.

Speaker 6 Guys come and go.

Speaker 88 And year 30, it's really, I would say being year 30 in the media business, it's probably harder than playing over a decade in the NFL just because of how the change happens.

Speaker 26 So both accomplishments are incredible.

Speaker 76 And thanks so much for your time.

Speaker 83 Well, I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 83 A lot of people listen to your show.

Speaker 83 and love what you guys do. And certainly my family does too.
And so I've heard a lot about you guys, don't know a lot about it, but

Speaker 83 between Kyle and Chris and everybody else, they've kind of let me know how great you guys are. Appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 73 Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 90 Thanks so much.

Speaker 16 Howie long was giving up for Chicago.

Speaker 94 Sebastian Maniscalco's new stand-up special, It Ain't Right, is coming to Hulu on November 21st.

Speaker 18 30 years ago, Jeff Bezos, complete nerd.

Speaker 82 Bezos now ripped to shreds on his super yacht, and the boxes keep coming.

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Speaker 17 Rankings right now.

Speaker 9 Big Cat and PFT 30. Jake and Billy 28.
Hank and Max 27 with nine total points left on the board this week.

Speaker 39 Wow. Okay.

Speaker 82 Nine total points.

Speaker 76 So this is it.

Speaker 2 This is the finale of Mount Rushmore season.

Speaker 5 This week.

Speaker 17 Will be the last three, and then someone will be in a 24-hour stream with their partner for all of us to watch.

Speaker 11 Narrate. So, what happens if there's a tie? Yeah, we should probably figure that out.
Tie for last place. Are we going 12 and 12?

Speaker 15 Oh, man.

Speaker 61 No, we got to figure out some kind of competition for last place tie, right?

Speaker 17 I mean, is it just a mono E Mano Mount Rushmore on the Tuesday after Labor Day?

Speaker 11 That's scary.

Speaker 69 I think it has to be a Mount Rushmore, right?

Speaker 17 We have to decide it with Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 36 Maybe if

Speaker 86 it's a two-team tie,

Speaker 11 oh, what if we did one Mount Flushmore?

Speaker 11 Because it's not Mount Rushmore season anymore.

Speaker 42 Hmm.

Speaker 21 Two-point tie for last.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I mean, Tuesday, Wednesday, technically, it's NFL season.

Speaker 2 Maybe it's

Speaker 26 maybe it's two

Speaker 17 Mount Rushmore head-to-head,

Speaker 17 and then

Speaker 15 the

Speaker 17 two guys who won and memes get to vote on air who won and lost to Mount Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 19 No, absolutely not. Down.

Speaker 22 No. Okay.

Speaker 52 All right, so then we put it up to the... Yeah.

Speaker 11 Okay. I think we stick with the formula.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 42 Wow.

Speaker 13 That was shut down fast.

Speaker 85 What?

Speaker 11 Well, there's a lot of room for Hanky-Lanky if we get other votes.

Speaker 42 That's true.

Speaker 52 That's true. Okay.

Speaker 4 So if there's a tie, it's a Mount Rushmore to win it all on Tuesday after Labor Day.

Speaker 75 That's fair.

Speaker 2 Types of water. Between the two teams.

Speaker 11 Types of water. We've never done that before.

Speaker 2 Between the two teams.

Speaker 17 And then the winners are allowed to denigrate during the Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 44 Right?

Speaker 74 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 49 This has been a good Mount Rushmore season.

Speaker 76 Yeah. I mean, great moments.

Speaker 19 It is what it is. I'm not, I'm, I'm focused on the future.
I'm ready to go as hard as I can this week.

Speaker 19 Last Sunday, doing three on Sunday was.

Speaker 86 Yeah, you kept on saying that.

Speaker 25 Tanks was like, you guys screwed me.

Speaker 27 You guys screwed me. Well, I screwed myself.

Speaker 73 Oh, you were hung over that. That's right.

Speaker 19 Because my brain was not firing on any level. And you can get away with that in one game.
It's kind of like, you know, you think you're a reliever. You just, oh, I'm a little hungover.

Speaker 19 I might have to pitch an inning. And then they're like, no, buddy, you're on the bump starting.

Speaker 26 Tripleheader, yeah.

Speaker 17 So when you were gone for vacation, Max cooked.

Speaker 4 Max is gone for vacation.

Speaker 19 Are you cooking?

Speaker 19 I am buzzing.

Speaker 11 I haven't had a sip of alcohol this day.

Speaker 19 Have you?

Speaker 28 That's a lie. Have you?

Speaker 19 I haven't. Ask Jake.
We did sober golf all weekend.

Speaker 22 Well, I always do sober golf. Yeah.

Speaker 17 Wait, but you didn't drink Friday or Saturday night?

Speaker 42 Friday, but

Speaker 79 that's a weekday.

Speaker 19 Friday's a weekday.

Speaker 22 No, Friday midnight.

Speaker 31 Friday night is a weekend.

Speaker 19 Friday day is a weekday.

Speaker 46 Friday day. What are the weekend days?

Speaker 73 Are you drinking during the day?

Speaker 5 What are the weekend days?

Speaker 48 Friday night. When's the weekend?

Speaker 22 Friday night is a weekend night.

Speaker 50 Friday night is 100% a weekend head.

Speaker 39 I think also Friday after five is the weekend.

Speaker 11 If you're saying that you drank on Friday night, did you stop drinking at midnight?

Speaker 52 Definitely not.

Speaker 22 Possibly. I was early night.

Speaker 2 Also, Friday after five is literally the weekend.

Speaker 86 That's when the weekend starts.

Speaker 19 No, the weekend's at midnight on Friday. No, it's not.

Speaker 44 Friday's a weekday.

Speaker 42 All right, so then you've got to start working until midnight.

Speaker 19 I've told you, it's all September.

Speaker 31 Friday at five.

Speaker 35 It's like the best time of the week.

Speaker 42 That's the afternoon.

Speaker 86 Friday at five is when the weekend starts.

Speaker 64 This is insane.

Speaker 19 The week is Monday to Friday. So the week would end when Fridays.

Speaker 20 No, the week ends when you leave work on Friday.

Speaker 11 Friday night is a weekend night.

Speaker 42 Yes.

Speaker 6 100%.

Speaker 44 This is insane.

Speaker 59 You're just doing.

Speaker 11 We're doing the bodybuilder for him right now.

Speaker 11 How many days in a week?

Speaker 19 Five or seven. No, I'm saying how many days in a weekday?

Speaker 42 There's five how many weeks.

Speaker 19 How could there be five weekdays, three weekends, and seven days?

Speaker 42 What?

Speaker 9 Because Sunday night is not a weekend night. Sunday night's a school night.

Speaker 69 It's a school night. He's right.

Speaker 73 No, Friday night.

Speaker 5 Sunday night is a weekend night.

Speaker 42 No, it's not.

Speaker 73 You're a moron.

Speaker 54 You want to put up a poll? No,

Speaker 73 I know my

Speaker 22 weekend. I know my name is.

Speaker 38 Friday night is a money.

Speaker 79 We're not going off.

Speaker 19 I'm going off technicality.

Speaker 15 But

Speaker 11 Sunday night is not a weekend night. Sunday night's a school night.

Speaker 50 Correct. Friday night is a weekend night.

Speaker 78 Not my. Oh, okay.

Speaker 73 All right.

Speaker 54 Okay.

Speaker 52 So

Speaker 93 we're up to

Speaker 3 on the second place, and then more.

Speaker 2 So 30, 28, 27.

Speaker 26 Who's in last?

Speaker 9 Hank and Max currently.

Speaker 74 Okay.

Speaker 44 We got a lot of cooking we got to do.

Speaker 42 Hank and Max.

Speaker 19 I sent Max

Speaker 19 a lot of notes. I was trying to listen in.
I was really active. Max today has texted me, cook, and texted me a name for someone thing that's not an animal.

Speaker 43 Okay.

Speaker 11 Was Billy involved in this, Jake?

Speaker 54 Yeah.

Speaker 54 Was the Billy's strategy?

Speaker 19 Was memes involved? That's all I need to know. No.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 22 Good.

Speaker 31 Do the Billy strategy.

Speaker 66 You said Billy has a strategy.

Speaker 19 That was the other thing.

Speaker 19 I was playing hurt, and Jake was playing with a buff because there was no Billy and he had memes.

Speaker 9 I'm also worried I misunderstood this assignment, but we'll see.

Speaker 11 Okay. Well, Jake, if you're looking for a fictional animal, you could take the eagle that you got today.

Speaker 84 Allegedly. Hank was right there.

Speaker 19 I was.

Speaker 78 It was impressive.

Speaker 2 All right, so what's the order?

Speaker 9 Hank and Max, Big Cat and PF.

Speaker 22 Same order every week. I still don't remember it.

Speaker 50 You don't fucking know what a weekend night is.

Speaker 11 It's not the same order every time.

Speaker 22 Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 65 Okay.

Speaker 87 Shut up.

Speaker 67 You're making me mad.

Speaker 19 You say I don't work on the weekends. What day is that?

Speaker 95 Friday night.

Speaker 50 Friday night, you don't work.

Speaker 2 Friday, you are such a liar.

Speaker 11 So, if this is all stemming from the fact that you got hammered on Friday night, you're trying to backtrack me.

Speaker 73 I didn't do it all weekend.

Speaker 34 I didn't. Okay.

Speaker 91 All right.

Speaker 27 What's your order?

Speaker 45 Hank and Max. Yep.

Speaker 9 Big Common PFT. Okay.

Speaker 72 Us. All right.

Speaker 19 Don't bang on the table. Don't bang on the table yet.

Speaker 43 That was my.

Speaker 19 Come on, Hank.

Speaker 53 Come on, Hank.

Speaker 19 We're going to go 1-1.

Speaker 19 Probably the biggest animal franchise of all time. The ringleader of it all, Bugs Bunny.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Good pick. Bugs Bunny.

Speaker 19 Great. That's all, folks.

Speaker 70 Yeah, that wasn't our 1-1.

Speaker 19 Don't care. Didn't ask.

Speaker 17 Okay. I'm just telling you.

Speaker 3 It was a good pick.

Speaker 11 It was a good pick. Should we go R1-1? Yeah, let's go 1-1.

Speaker 53 Yeah, Brian from Family Guy.

Speaker 11 Great dog. Great dog.

Speaker 22 Very famous. All-time dog.

Speaker 9 He's on the list.

Speaker 42 All-time dog.

Speaker 2 Tell me what Bugs Bunny, what's your favorite Bugs Bunny moment?

Speaker 19 Probably when

Speaker 19 they beat the Monstars.

Speaker 74 Oh, okay.

Speaker 84 Sure.

Speaker 16 Would you guys like Brian Franklin?

Speaker 73 watch from Family Guy.

Speaker 78 I raise up Lola.

Speaker 19 Really, really taught me a lot in my youth.

Speaker 9 Would you guys like Brian from Family Guy or Brian?

Speaker 11 Brian from Family Guy.

Speaker 21 Brian from Family Guy.

Speaker 19 When he would stump Elmer Fudd over and over again?

Speaker 42 There's the answer.

Speaker 2 That's the correct answer.

Speaker 6 You should have gone with that one.

Speaker 11 The goat is duck season, rabbit season. That's the best.
Yeah.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 75 Okay.

Speaker 74 All right. Good pick.

Speaker 31 Do you want to say anything about ours?

Speaker 16 You don't want to say anything about ours? I like yours.

Speaker 22 Thanks, Jake. He's a talking dog.

Speaker 65 Very cool.

Speaker 9 We would have taken him if you guys didn't.

Speaker 20 Love that, Jake. Love that from you.
Thanks.

Speaker 9 Speaking of dogs, we're going to go with Scooby-Doo.

Speaker 65 Okay.

Speaker 11 Solves mysteries.

Speaker 9 It solves mysteries. And he's an all-time good vibes guy.

Speaker 11 Great Dane, yeah.

Speaker 19 And better, you know, it's actual, it's kind of a dog. He can speak, but kind of not speak Brian's.
It's really not believable.

Speaker 22 He's a fucking dog, dude.

Speaker 45 Scooby doesn't really talk. He just is like, woo.

Speaker 22 No, he's going, Scooby-Doo-doo.

Speaker 42 Right, but that's how dogs are.

Speaker 19 It's like you can kind of speak to them, but you can't.

Speaker 48 You don't like Brian for Family Guys?

Speaker 95 Wait, so bunnies talk?

Speaker 56 All right.

Speaker 56 Oh, no.

Speaker 11 Do you know any dog that kind of talks?

Speaker 44 Every dog. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you know any bunnies that kind of talk?

Speaker 19 Yeah. I watched a video today.

Speaker 19 Girls shaking her head, and the bunny responded.

Speaker 16 That's not taught. She talks.

Speaker 19 Sign language. That's not talking.
I respect all languages.

Speaker 9 All right. Next, we're going to go with Patrick Starr.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 He's Starfish, I guess.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 65 Patrick's awesome.

Speaker 42 Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 42 What is the matter?

Speaker 8 SpongeBob Starfish.

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 68 What's Spongebob?

Speaker 11 He's just a Sponge.

Speaker 11 But I don't think he's. He's not an animal.
I don't think he's an animal.

Speaker 65 Okay.

Speaker 11 You want to take our second? Yeah.

Speaker 42 Okay.

Speaker 67 I mean,

Speaker 11 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Speaker 31 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Speaker 69 Beasts. I love them.

Speaker 22 Do you have to pick one? Favorite. What's the rule?

Speaker 11 We've got to pick one. Do we?

Speaker 42 Why?

Speaker 19 I mean, is it fictional animals or fictional animals?

Speaker 16 You take the Lunatoons.

Speaker 73 I mean, they're fictional. You take the Lunato.

Speaker 38 There's all of them. No, but I mean,

Speaker 11 they are all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're the same.
They're brothers.

Speaker 19 Oh, I thought you value them all the same?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 11 I respect all of them.

Speaker 65 Equally.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Fictional.

Speaker 2 PFT said I vote fictional animals.

Speaker 11 Those are fictional animals.

Speaker 66 What are you technicalities?

Speaker 2 Do you not want us to take all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Speaker 19 No, it's not fair, but sure.

Speaker 42 Okay, fine. Let's do fair.

Speaker 20 We'll do fairness.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 11 Should we take one of them? Yeah. We can take your guy.
Michelangelo. Michelangelo, the party.

Speaker 22 Party dude.

Speaker 11 Yep. Yeah.
Pizza. Palvonga.

Speaker 2 Pizza all the time. Yeah.

Speaker 19 Is that okay with you? That is. That's the best turtle.

Speaker 11 Say Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, parentheses, Michelangelo.

Speaker 28 I'm a Raphael guy myself.

Speaker 9 Michelangelo, if you understand, is TMNT. The number of people.

Speaker 11 TMNT, parentheses, Michelangelo.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Okay.

Speaker 45 Hank? Hank and Max.

Speaker 49 I think Hank's regretting his first pick.

Speaker 19 I'm regretting a lot of things that would be in this room.

Speaker 19 Snoopy.

Speaker 69 Snoopy.

Speaker 22 Classic, classic, classic. Which iconic

Speaker 11 peanuts cartoon.

Speaker 19 Probably Thanksgiving.

Speaker 39 No, Charlie Brown Christmas.

Speaker 11 Yeah. When Lucy

Speaker 11 pulls it for Charlie Brown.

Speaker 73 Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

Speaker 12 No, yeah, that's not.

Speaker 11 Snoopy doesn't go to school.

Speaker 12 Snoopy just sleeps on the fucking shed, dude.

Speaker 39 Yeah.

Speaker 11 With Woodstock, the bird.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Snoopy's a good pick, though.

Speaker 66 Snoopy's a good pick.

Speaker 11 He's a good dancer. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Good vibes guy. Yeah.

Speaker 82 Oh, man.

Speaker 31 I mean, you've gone Bugs Bunny and Snoopy.

Speaker 19 We're just going on.

Speaker 79 You've locked up the 60-year-old vote.

Speaker 19 Yeah, no,

Speaker 19 I think I don't.

Speaker 11 Your dad's going to listen to this and be like, get him, Hank.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 73 Yeah. That's my boy.

Speaker 37 We're going to go Mr. Ed next.

Speaker 19 No, but sticking with the theme, we're going to go with Winnie the Pooh.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 44 Good, good pick.

Speaker 6 Winnie the Pooh is a classic.

Speaker 41 I like his ride at Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 88 Eeyore is kind of.

Speaker 26 I like Eeyore, but yeah.

Speaker 41 Big Bummer would.

Speaker 73 What's that?

Speaker 22 It's more yourself. Eeyore.

Speaker 11 And Wayne the Pooh just doesn't wear pants.

Speaker 22 Respect that.

Speaker 34 Oh, PFT, we have our fucking board open.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I think we go five.

Speaker 78 Yeah, I think we go five.

Speaker 42 How your board opened up.

Speaker 20 We thought Brian from Family Guy would get picked right away.

Speaker 71 Yeah, let's go five.

Speaker 28 Airbud.

Speaker 45 Real. Got him on the list.

Speaker 9 It's a real dog. They used them in the movies.

Speaker 11 It's a fictional animal, though, Jake.

Speaker 79 No, you've been playing basketball?

Speaker 73 Yes.

Speaker 9 I looked it up on the Wikipedia.

Speaker 56 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it was on our list.

Speaker 11 JK, no, this is why this is bullshit. Airbud is the character that the dog plays.

Speaker 9 Then dog's name is Buddy.

Speaker 40 Did it happen? Did the story happen?

Speaker 11 The story? Yeah, was that a real thing that happened where dog was like, there's no rule, this dog can't play basketball.

Speaker 73 Basketball?

Speaker 11 No, it's a fictional animal. Airbud is a fictional asset.

Speaker 9 I would have taken my first two.

Speaker 11 No, Airbud is a fictional character.

Speaker 73 The real dog.

Speaker 11 The dog is an incredible ass.

Speaker 50 You don't think Airbud's a fictional animal?

Speaker 11 I feel like I'm insane.

Speaker 19 Based on a true story.

Speaker 73 Hank doesn't believe this.

Speaker 73 Based on a true story.

Speaker 11 Hank doesn't believe this.

Speaker 19 That was an obvious pick.

Speaker 11 No, Hank's.

Speaker 95 You didn't think of it.

Speaker 64 I had it on the list.

Speaker 40 So

Speaker 48 then you're fine with it.

Speaker 38 I'm only mad at Jake here.

Speaker 56 Hank is just playing on the list.

Speaker 27 And I also researched it.

Speaker 45 It would have been taken in a film.

Speaker 44 You did not research.

Speaker 6 You did not research.

Speaker 11 You need to figure out what fictional means, and you should have taken him first because that is airbud is the definition of a fictional animal.

Speaker 23 The name of a movie.

Speaker 73 The dog.

Speaker 9 Dog named Buddy.

Speaker 29 Yes, the dog.

Speaker 1 All right, I'll trade you. We'll take back Air Buddy.

Speaker 2 You give us all the Teenage Venus journals.

Speaker 11 I think that's bullshit.

Speaker 38 They're not counting Airbud.

Speaker 27 I don't know if we can get a third-party person.

Speaker 53 You understand what fictional means. This is insane.

Speaker 11 It's insane that you

Speaker 48 can play basketball in a real life.

Speaker 44 It's a real dog in the video.

Speaker 50 So that means that any actual

Speaker 18 dog, like animal, doesn't count?

Speaker 19 I haven't heard any of the other ones on the list.

Speaker 50 Okay, we have other ones, though.

Speaker 11 Airbud is entirely fictional. It's a movie about a dog that plays on a high school basketball team that didn't happen.

Speaker 27 Don't forget about football, PFT.

Speaker 56 And he plays football

Speaker 42 in hockey? Yeah.

Speaker 9 He did the Laker game halftime show in 1991.

Speaker 11 I know that the dog is real.

Speaker 27 So it's based on the true story.

Speaker 11 Airbud is a fictional character that the dog plays in a movie.

Speaker 56 Yeah, but the dog is in Oppenheimer

Speaker 56 I don't know.

Speaker 73 Do you know how acting works, Jake?

Speaker 19 All right, so is Oppenheimer a fictional scientist?

Speaker 73 No.

Speaker 50 But Celian Murphy is just playing airbud didn't actually play in a fucking high school fast.

Speaker 27 So in the later days.

Speaker 46 That's fine.

Speaker 11 Well, no, Airbud is a character. It's completely different.

Speaker 6 You guys don't want us to take it.

Speaker 1 We can't take it. But, like, this is...

Speaker 32 I mean, personally, you had him on your list and you didn't pick him.

Speaker 19 I feel bad for Jake. You had him on the top too.

Speaker 1 Well, Jake just goes to fucking BuzzFeed for all these anyway.

Speaker 9 Airbud was the first one I thought of.

Speaker 56 Why didn't you pick him?

Speaker 71 You thought we were going to say, oh, fictional, not fictional.

Speaker 44 You thought we were going to say that?

Speaker 42 I probably would have.

Speaker 73 No, you.

Speaker 40 All right. So, wait, what's the what's I stand?

Speaker 11 I stand by Airbus. I think Airbus.

Speaker 84 That's a rock.

Speaker 19 I stand by Jake's research, but like I said,

Speaker 86 but even with his research,

Speaker 11 he did the halftime of a Lakers game.

Speaker 23 Do you understand that he's a character in the character?

Speaker 1 He's a character in a fucking movie that plays a basketball, like he plays in a high school basketball game, does he not?

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 11 And he plays on the high school football team, Airbud Defenseless Retriever.

Speaker 46 It's a whole series.

Speaker 27 It's a great series. It's a great series.

Speaker 1 So that is fiction.

Speaker 32 Yeah. You understand that part.

Speaker 38 Like, it's a fictional thing.

Speaker 42 He's a starzo.

Speaker 40 It's fiction, but he's still and so that would make him a fictional character.

Speaker 81 I mean, it's a real dog.

Speaker 91 Like, it's buddy.

Speaker 11 But it's fine.

Speaker 35 Memes, can we get a vote?

Speaker 30 I'm so confused by this entire conversation.

Speaker 11 Is Airbud a fictional character?

Speaker 86 Look, we got memes, Evan, and Shane here.

Speaker 6 I trust

Speaker 15 they can vote.

Speaker 30 Airbud's a fictional character.

Speaker 42 Thank you.

Speaker 11 Thank you.

Speaker 13 Unless there's a dog that was playing varsity ball.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 11 But he did do the halftime show at the Lakers.

Speaker 19 Yeah, no, Jake just doesn't understand what fiction means.

Speaker 11 I was so mad at Hank just for

Speaker 11 a while.

Speaker 9 It's a real thing.

Speaker 44 and that might be

Speaker 19 if you had picked it none of us would have said this yeah you realize i was literally debating him or winning the poop and then i was like i'll stay with the classics

Speaker 37 we would never have said a word

Speaker 50 you thought you you thought like you had your big trump card i was pumped

Speaker 36 i yeah

Speaker 19 all right i lost the vote i tried okay next pick

Speaker 64 he was he was just like going through all this research for this big moment moment to try to get us with Airbus.

Speaker 22 But what you guys are just taking them.

Speaker 38 But then I would have broken my own rule.

Speaker 33 But

Speaker 1 none of us, we would have said, you know what, if you had taken Airbud, we would have said, good pick, we had him.

Speaker 11 What you're not getting, you're a big cat picking up.

Speaker 19 We're all fictional characters in a fictional drama.

Speaker 11 What you're not getting is that the dog is a real dog.

Speaker 22 He existed.

Speaker 36 Yeah. Is he dead?

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 41 No.

Speaker 57 Was he in every movie? He was 1998. Fuck.

Speaker 31 Was he in every single movie?

Speaker 11 I think so.

Speaker 19 What? I mean,

Speaker 19 it fell off a little bit. The football one slapped, and then I think volleyballs one started to get a little unrealistic.

Speaker 44 Wait, didn't he play hockey?

Speaker 9 They also did MXP. They did.

Speaker 78 Oh, yes.

Speaker 27 That was terrible, too. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Chimpanzee who did snowboarding.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah. Most extreme primate.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 11 They should do one where Airbud joins the military.

Speaker 48 No, he wasn't in every single one.

Speaker 2 They had a bunch of direct-to-video ones that he did not star in.

Speaker 11 Airbud Airbud joins the military and comes back home

Speaker 11 and then his dog greets him at the door.

Speaker 37 There's Airbud World Pup, Airbud 7th Inning Fetch, Airbud Spikes Back.

Speaker 22 That's volleyball.

Speaker 31 Snow Buddies, Space Buddies, Santa Buddies, Spooky Buddies, Treasure Buddies.

Speaker 19 Sounds like he retired.

Speaker 11 Just cashed in, yeah.

Speaker 8 Airbud.

Speaker 31 Yeah, he was on America's funniest home videos.

Speaker 11 Were all the buddies? Were those his offspring?

Speaker 19 Yeah, I believe that was a storyline. I think in like the fourth or fifth one, he had offspring.

Speaker 11 Oh, but in

Speaker 22 the volleyball.

Speaker 11 But Hank, in real life, were they his offspring?

Speaker 19 Well, it's all it's a documentary.

Speaker 11 So I was going to say

Speaker 11 that would be proof that he's playing a character.

Speaker 19 Yeah, I was just, I was, I thought you guys were going to take Jake for his word, but

Speaker 19 Jake just doesn't understand fiction.

Speaker 78 No, he doesn't.

Speaker 39 It's okay, Jake.

Speaker 11 You don't understand fiction. That's all right.

Speaker 63 Whatever.

Speaker 73 Anyway,

Speaker 48 He actually was only in Airbud.

Speaker 18 Right.

Speaker 32 So he wasn't even in the second one.

Speaker 26 He wasn't even in.

Speaker 19 So you're taking Airbud parentheses defenseless retriever.

Speaker 42 No, no.

Speaker 13 So in Spikes Back and Golden Receiver.

Speaker 69 No, that's just.

Speaker 11 It's proofload. It's like James.

Speaker 39 Golden Receiver. That's what it was.

Speaker 11 It's like James Bond. Multiple dogs can play it.
Yeah.

Speaker 36 Okay.

Speaker 54 Yeah.

Speaker 56 All right.

Speaker 45 We're going to go. Soundtrack.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 9 We're going to go with Pikachu.

Speaker 91 Okay.

Speaker 9 Mouse-like creature.

Speaker 18 Okay.

Speaker 11 I'm going to allow Pikachu.

Speaker 65 It's an animal. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Actually, that's good value for this round.

Speaker 41 Yeah. Yeah.
Good job, Jake.

Speaker 9 Thanks. And we're going to end with the classic Mickey Mouse.

Speaker 72 Okay.

Speaker 9 That's a Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse in the last round is

Speaker 9 no matter what you say about him.

Speaker 45 It's like when they took LeBron.

Speaker 11 Are you familiar with?

Speaker 9 I hate on it, but.

Speaker 11 Jake, are you familiar with the origin of Mickey Mouse?

Speaker 9 I'm not, no.

Speaker 11 Pretty racist.

Speaker 11 Oh.

Speaker 65 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 actually very racist. Look up the cartoon Steamboat Willie.

Speaker 11 You just took a racist mouse.

Speaker 22 Wow.

Speaker 19 You guys took Kanye 1-1.

Speaker 78 Yeah, that was a great pick.

Speaker 11 It was an awesome pick.

Speaker 34 Those albums were incredible.

Speaker 11 Yeah, listen, Walt Disney was also a virulent anti-Semite chick.

Speaker 31 Yeah, we also, I mean, people pointed out after the fact that what was the one we tried to take that was, oh, Toy Story, that we couldn't take Toy Story as a trilogy, and you had Star Wars that has like 17 movies.

Speaker 52 Well, we discussed that.

Speaker 28 Right, I know, but that people pointed out

Speaker 28 that was bullshit.

Speaker 5 I didn't, but people did. Okay.

Speaker 34 People did. Yeah.

Speaker 36 Okay, PFT.

Speaker 54 Wow, we got our board open.

Speaker 11 We do.

Speaker 44 I like

Speaker 11 7, 8, 9, 10.

Speaker 11 And then on the secondary list.

Speaker 42 We have a secondary.

Speaker 11 I like number 8 on the secondary list, but.

Speaker 40 Oh, yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 33 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 42 Lola Bunny. Yep.

Speaker 53 The first one. Non-nerfed version.

Speaker 11 Non-nerfed when she still had that ass. Yeah.

Speaker 9 So Lola Bunny, parentheses, first version.

Speaker 11 First version. Yeah, the hot version.

Speaker 22 No, parentheses, hot version.

Speaker 42 The hot version.

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah. The one that gave everybody boners.

Speaker 19 Yes. No.
No, no parentheses.

Speaker 42 No, yes, because there's

Speaker 73 Lola Bunny.

Speaker 44 They took away your tit today.

Speaker 5 Airbud. You can't have Airbud.
Then, if you're going to parenthesize that, you have to parenthesize the Airbus.

Speaker 28 No, it's two distinctions.

Speaker 27 There's multiple Airbus. There's multiple Lola Buddy.

Speaker 11 It's two distinct Lola Bunny.

Speaker 71 Our pick should be Lola Bunny, hot one.

Speaker 44 No.

Speaker 27 Airbuds.

Speaker 1 You can have the Airbud, Bud, parentheses, fictional character.

Speaker 35 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, parentheses, Michael Idrill.

Speaker 48 Brian from Family Guy, parentheses, great pick.

Speaker 54 Tell you what, Hank.

Speaker 11 I'll take Lola Bunny, parentheses, the hot one, if you take Lola Bunny, parentheses, the ugly one.

Speaker 60 All right, fine, Lola Bunny. I mean, people know we're talking about the hot one.

Speaker 1 Could we do parentheses first version?

Speaker 11 Lola Bunny parentheses 1990, what was that, 97? Yeah. 96.

Speaker 19 There's a lot of Teenage Mutant turtles, too. Do you want the live action Teenage Mutant?

Speaker 41 I want all of them.

Speaker 63 We got all of them.

Speaker 19 All right, so we get Michelangelo live-action version. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 9 So first version?

Speaker 22 No. Of Lil Lil Bunny.

Speaker 56 No, we won't.

Speaker 22 We won't.

Speaker 63 Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 38 We'll just take Lil Lil Bunny.

Speaker 38 They'll know what we meant.

Speaker 34 Hank.

Speaker 55 This is great because this is what, like, the reason why these arguments over the board is...

Speaker 17 No one wants to be in this box.

Speaker 19 I think we're going to be in the box. I think

Speaker 43 last week fucked us.

Speaker 19 I think this was a bad draft.

Speaker 67 Oh, you mean us?

Speaker 24 We fucked you because we made you drink?

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 50 You had a partner.

Speaker 11 Listen, you didn't drink at all this weekend.

Speaker 19 You want to know what Max sent me? No, what is it? Jessica Rabbit. That's not our pick.

Speaker 43 Who is that?

Speaker 19 It's not a real terror.

Speaker 19 It's not a fictional animal.

Speaker 53 That's not an animal. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, I guess humans are animals.

Speaker 11 Was she part animal? I guess she was me. No.
I think she was part animal.

Speaker 72 I don't think so.

Speaker 11 Her last name was Rabbit. That's very confusing.

Speaker 69 She married a rabbit.

Speaker 85 Oh, got it.

Speaker 11 Took the last name.

Speaker 17 Not a very boss woman.

Speaker 82 No.

Speaker 19 So we're just going to hope and pray that the classics take us to victory here.

Speaker 54 Wait.

Speaker 74 Garfield?

Speaker 54 No. Oh.

Speaker 35 You might take Garfield now?

Speaker 71 He didn't think about it. What was on your list? You didn't even have garfield on your list no

Speaker 42 i had i i had no help do you want us to help you

Speaker 40 no we'll give you a pick

Speaker 54 no okay

Speaker 70 um

Speaker 22 kermit the frog okay okay you did just classics yeah yeah okay

Speaker 19 okay i i hate it i think you guys that was a good draft by you guys you never know though So I guess the drinking thing was turns out science proven wrong on that.

Speaker 22 You should drink.

Speaker 11 You should drink on Friday?

Speaker 22 Oh, no.

Speaker 19 Like, I thought that was going to help me make better picks. It didn't.

Speaker 69 Max let you down.

Speaker 31 What was Billy's strategy?

Speaker 9 So, Billy said, if it's a children's cartoon, take it off low-key. They're kind of lame.
We got to choose badass ones.

Speaker 26 Like, that was his strategy?

Speaker 9 He said, because I sent him the list that I had, and he said, the dog from I Am Legend, the dog from Sandlot, and Cocaine Bear.

Speaker 54 Cocaine Bear,

Speaker 11 actually, not fictional.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 63 Oh, it was Real Bear.

Speaker 22 I wasn't considering taking it, but he didn't want to go badass.

Speaker 11 We also had Hercules on our list. I said

Speaker 9 the majority of fictional animals are kid-friendly.

Speaker 19 I free Willie.

Speaker 63 Bluey.

Speaker 41 Bluey. Blue's Clues.

Speaker 22 Yep.

Speaker 81 Is Elmo an animal?

Speaker 56 No, he's like a monster.

Speaker 21 He's a monster.

Speaker 22 A big bird.

Speaker 61 Jaws. Barney.

Speaker 31 Barney was good.

Speaker 61 That's a good pick. Scary.

Speaker 53 King Kong.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we had King Kong, Godzilla, Jaws.

Speaker 61 Taz.

Speaker 17 Taz is a great one.

Speaker 9 I don't even know what kind of one. Tasmanian Devil.

Speaker 41 Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 11 You remember Joe Camel? The cartoon camel that sold cigarettes to kids? Very cool.

Speaker 22 That guy, Rock. Clifford.

Speaker 4 Clifford, the big red dog. Tom and Jerry.

Speaker 75 Riley Coyote.

Speaker 11 Ragle, the dragon from Game of Thrones.

Speaker 19 Thought about that.

Speaker 44 Yeah, why didn't you go with it?

Speaker 19 I'm rattled. I mean, I stuck with the classics.

Speaker 19 I just need, I don't even know. That's an L.

Speaker 11 Rocky the raccoon from Avengers. I thought about Pikachu.
We haven't seen the Avengers, so that'd be Pandor Pander Pick.

Speaker 25 Yeah, Flipper.

Speaker 72 Donkey from Shrek.

Speaker 56 Donkey from Shrek.

Speaker 14 Ray Peems.

Speaker 17 Nemo.

Speaker 53 Pemes is really good.

Speaker 73 Yeah, that's why we banned him.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 26 The Rat Remy, right, from Rat.

Speaker 17 Yeah, that one's a good one.

Speaker 53 All the 101 Dalmatians.

Speaker 11 Hank, if you had taken Free Willie,

Speaker 38 I would have gotten so mad at you.

Speaker 11 You fucking hate Orcas.

Speaker 24 Scrooge McDuck,

Speaker 30 he rocks.

Speaker 19 Yeah, I I mean, the Lita could have learned a thing or two. Just fucking jump over and free yourself.

Speaker 79 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Speaker 19 Pretty sure the end of one of those movies, he literally just jumps over a seawall, and that's it.

Speaker 11 He could have done that the whole time.

Speaker 54 I thought

Speaker 61 I had to text

Speaker 26 our resident nerds, Clem and Robbie Fox, asking if Baby Yoda was an animal.

Speaker 18 And they said, as much as we're animals, so didn't think we could pick it.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I'm glad nobody picked a human and tried to. Billy definitely would have picked a human and been like, well, technically, we're the most dangerous animal.

Speaker 13 Max did.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Just around.

Speaker 19 I mean, Brian from Family Guy is a human, but whatever.

Speaker 73 No.

Speaker 22 What do you mean?

Speaker 78 He's a dog.

Speaker 19 In the context of the show, he's just

Speaker 73 a talking dog.

Speaker 16 He's a dog. That's the whole thing about his dad.

Speaker 45 He's a talking rabbit.

Speaker 11 We picked a talking dog.

Speaker 19 But the talking rabbit isn't living with humans. It's living with its own kind.

Speaker 28 It literally walks around with Elmer Fudd the whole time.

Speaker 22 Oh, it's own kind?

Speaker 48 Tasmanian devil's own kind?

Speaker 19 No, but like other animals.

Speaker 11 Elmer Fudd?

Speaker 26 So is it? Is the the enemy.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 11 You're pro-segregation.

Speaker 19 No, I just don't like the. I think they should just have a family.

Speaker 28 I simply is a good pick, but

Speaker 19 it's written as a person. He talks like a person.
He does person things.

Speaker 86 Kermit the frog literally lives with other humans. What are you talking about?

Speaker 74 Lives with Miss Piggy.

Speaker 66 Yeah, but he lives with other people.

Speaker 69 He does not live with Miss Piggy.

Speaker 11 Miss Piggy is simping hard, and he does not want any piece of that.

Speaker 1 Does he live with, like, doesn't he talk to humans?

Speaker 38 Dude, he lives in the fucking.

Speaker 67 He lives in Manhattan.

Speaker 54 No, no.

Speaker 19 It starts with him, like, they have to rescue him out of the pond.

Speaker 11 He lives on Sesame Street, which is, do they have streets in a pond?

Speaker 86 Yeah, and he talks to humans. Sesame Street humans are on that show.
They talk to all the animals.

Speaker 53 No different than Brian.

Speaker 30 Very different. That's all right.

Speaker 19 It's a good pick. It was a good pick.
I'm not. It's all good.

Speaker 42 No, you're mad that you didn't take it.

Speaker 6 You're mad you didn't take it.

Speaker 19 It's a good pick. It was a good pick.
You guys had a good draft.

Speaker 65 Thank you.

Speaker 11 So do you.

Speaker 83 Thanks.

Speaker 87 For any of the 80-year-olds.

Speaker 19 Yeah, my grandfather will love it.

Speaker 17 Joe Biden's going to love your draft.

Speaker 41 AWA. Wake up for it.

Speaker 29 What's up, Joe? Let me get that dog you got.

Speaker 30 No, Joe's definitely, he's been asleep for a while. He's been asleep before Howie Long even came on.

Speaker 11 He probably wakes up at 2 a.m., though.

Speaker 11 He eats dinner at 10.

Speaker 36 Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah, imagine he just wakes up

Speaker 69 at like 4:30 to take a piss, and he's just sitting at YouTube being like, memes, where the fuck is the show?

Speaker 22 Where's the show?

Speaker 26 Where's the show?

Speaker 44 Okay, good episode.

Speaker 2 We have Kentucky Sports Radio on Tuesday. We are hosting.
We do it once a year.

Speaker 11 Very exciting.

Speaker 32 10 to 12 Eastern Time.

Speaker 1 We say this every year. Please follow it.

Speaker 3 We love the AWLs, but we want to talk to the Kentucky Sports Radio listeners.

Speaker 2 That gives us the best sound bites. We're going to play the best of on Wednesday's show with a guest as well.

Speaker 17 But yeah, please let us talk to the Kentucky Sports Radio listeners.

Speaker 11 We're only going to be taking calls from Kentucky Area Codes. R.I.P.

Speaker 8 Harvey.

Speaker 52 We're definitely going to have to do a Harvey Memorial.

Speaker 70 All right.

Speaker 17 Let's do numbers.

Speaker 22 Three.

Speaker 11 99.

Speaker 42 Everybody guessed 38.

Speaker 85 10 for Shane. Memes, have you ever gotten this? I have not won.

Speaker 61 I'm going to go with 69.

Speaker 67 Six.

Speaker 9 Hanks. Number.

Speaker 19 Six God, Drake.

Speaker 66 Did you guess six?

Speaker 9 That was where he won it.

Speaker 47 Ended the streak.

Speaker 22 Oh, yeah, six. Cool.
Half.

Speaker 11 I don't remember that. Basically never happened because that was the old machine.

Speaker 19 Black that. Last one to win there.

Speaker 68 Not true. Jake was.

Speaker 44 Yep.

Speaker 11 Congrats, Jake.

Speaker 55 Yes, Jake was.

Speaker 19 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 63 wrong.

Speaker 13 Do we have the clip of the last lottery ball ever drawn that won?

Speaker 52 It was Jake.

Speaker 14 Officially?

Speaker 22 Well, you got it. Yeah.

Speaker 19 Wait, is it on the records, Jake?

Speaker 8 No? Yes.

Speaker 34 Yes. Yes, it is.

Speaker 41 Thank you, Jake.

Speaker 9 So you kept all of those going for those records, but they only extended it like eight times because you got it. No, no.
Then I eventually got it. Does it not count?

Speaker 11 It was official.

Speaker 42 Does it count?

Speaker 59 Does your banner flip it down?

Speaker 65 I have it written down, but

Speaker 41 you got it too that day.

Speaker 66 Good job, Hank. You got it too.

Speaker 9 I also think we may have not reset the machines. When I got it, it might have been like 90%.

Speaker 82 No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't official.
It was official.

Speaker 6 Okay, see everyone Wednesday.

Speaker 11 Love you guys.

Speaker 11 Animal Fact is Airbud is

Speaker 11 an actor.

Speaker 11 Be like,

Speaker 11 I'm sitting here, but be somewhere in a way.

Speaker 11 Seven moments okay, say after me.

Speaker 11 I like somebody to be safe and sorry.

Speaker 11 You are the best I've got to do in the middle. Shine light.

Speaker 11 Lot of trouble with my night.

Speaker 11 on me.

Speaker 11 Take

Speaker 11 on.

Speaker 11 Take on me.

Speaker 11 Take on me.