Keegan Bradley, Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth, Mt Rushmore Of Heavy Machinery + Fyre Fest

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And then we have Pat Fryermuth, tight end from the Pittsburgh Steelers. We're also going to do Mount Rushmore of Heavy Machinery.
Basically, if you ever wanted a Mount Rushmore of dudes sitting around being like, yeah, that's pretty sick, this Mount Rushmore is for you. Billy was very excited about it.
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Now in the street there is violence And then a lot of work to be done No place to hang out or wash in And then I can't blame all on the sun Oh no, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh, we're gonna rock down to It's part of My Take, presented by Barstool Sports. Welcome to Part of My Take.
Today is Friday, June 30th. And boys, we had a perfect game.
Yeah. Domingo Herman, perfect game.ake's favorite player on the yankees false what i did you said you said it was your favorite player nope oh where is he ranked in your favorite players probably towards rock bottom if not rock bottom oh why perfect game he has some off the field incidents oh that's why i thought i'm confused he was your favorite player.
My bad. I picked up a fun stat from Frankie Borelli earlier today.
Every perfect game that the Yankees have thrown has been thrown by a guy whose name starts with D. Ooh.
David Wells. David Wells.
And Domingo Roman. And there's a couple others, too.
Perfect game is like the one thing that is pretty cool because it's, what was that, the 24th? 27, I believe. 27th.
in like what 10 years something like yeah over what uh baseball's around for like 7,000 years and there's only been 27 that's pretty damn cool yeah good job herman Domingo herman Jake's favorite player that was the big play Jake's second favorite player sorry you're right it's your second well yeah uh there was another close that you like too right he's a bigger Robles Chapman. Yeah.
Yeah. He's off the player.
Sorry, you're right. It's your second favorite player.
Well, yeah. There was another closer that you like, too, right?

He's a bigger Robles Chapman fan.

Yeah, yeah.

He's off the team.

But yeah, that was the big story in sports.

All right, no-hitters are fun.

No.

Perfect game.

Perfect game is fun.

Which one did Dallas Braden throw?

He threw a no-hitter.

Okay.

Yeah.

If German threw a no-hitler, that would have been...

No, Dallas Braden.

First for everything.

That would have been, yeah.

Dallas Braden, perfect game.

No, it was a no-hitter.

Oh, okay.

Okay, so boys, we're finishing our week. We've been in Pinehurst all week.
We're pretty gassed. A lot of golf.
A lot of golf. A lot of time out in the sun.
Exhausting. A lot of walking.
A lot of time with the boys. I mean, it combines Hank's two favorite things, which is working super hard and also golfing all the time.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm exhausted.
Honestly, this week took a lot out of me. Man.
But wait but wait now we have next week and i'm gonna have to golf more wait yeah and also aren't you staying an extra day to golf yeah that was just the flight they booked me on oh okay tomorrow afternoon yeah so i gotta find some something to do to fill my time with tomorrow morning big news though yeah jake got an eagle yeah and eagle. Yeah.
And it was on camera and everything, right? It wasn't on camera. I witnessed it.
Thank you, Hank. I witnessed it.
And so did memes. I also got a hole-in-one not on camera.
People are saying I didn't, but if you read my scorecard, I got a hole-in-one, so kind of crazy. It's really not something to brag about that much.
Everyone gets a hole-in-one. No.
Once Jake got one, it's like, oh, well. It would be lame to post a video of my hole- one yeah i agree we're being honest agreed this is that this area is is very cool though it's just feels like we're in north carolina golf land yeah north carolina i actually think north carolina is one of the most underrated states it might be in my top three states overall it is a pretty underrated it's got every very cool places it's got everything our states mount rushmore states yeah We didn't even go to cookout.
Yeah, we didn't go to cookout. What is that? You've been to cookout before.
Caleb hasn't taken you? You like milkshakes? It's a place where you go in North Carolina and you literally can order everything. Oh, yes, yes.
I went to cookout once and I think I got a quesadilla. I got chicken parm.
I got a milkshake. I got sticks A side of pasta A steak Like you can get The menu is just Oh I thought it was just Barbecue No it's everything Chicken parm I had a fast food place I might have made up The chicken parm But either way Jake don't ruin the story No I'm just saying I got everything But the point is I got a car I got a motorcycle You can get all this stuff And it's always like $5.99 Yeah Yeah.
Yeah, the whole bill was like, all right, that'll be $10, sir. Yeah.
Cookout. North Carolina's got great barbecue.
The pork shoulder down here is awesome. Great beaches.
Great golf. Great basketball.
UNC. Great basketball.
The most- The perfect color of blue. Asheville, awesome city in the mountains.
The Outer Banks. Yeah.
The show and the place. Yeah.
North Carolina's got it going on. Yeah.
Carolina Blue, always here. Yep.
But yeah, Pinehurst was a lot of fun. Chuck Amato.
Yeah. There's a lot.
His glasses. Mike Glennon, quarterback universe.
Jacoby Brissett. Phillip Rivers.
Dude. Russell Wilson.
Half of them. Caleb Presley.
Yeah. The good half.
Yeah. Drake May.
Sam Howell. Sam How yeah mitch damn mr bisky yeah the um coach who coached the mannings uh cutcliffe yeah uh the greatest basketball coach in the history of college basketball dean smith and roy williams second greatest yep yeah so it's got everything tim duncan chris paul chris paul Yeah, Chris Paul.
I've got one other. The Wright Brothers.
Julius Hodges. Yeah.
The Wright Brothers. Yeah, the Wright Brothers.
That was Ohio. No, no.
Now you're getting into the license plate battle. There's a big license plate battle between Ohio and North Carolina.
One says the birthplace of aviation. The other says first in flight.
They both claim the Wright Brothers. For the record, I'm on the side of North Carolina.
They did the flight at Kitty Hawk. This is like Abraham Lincoln being claimed to like seven different states.
It's exactly like that. The flight happened in North Carolina.
It did. Oh, then that's exactly where it is.
That's bullshit. Ohio's got to get to the back of the line.
It's basically like, oh, their parents had sex in Ohio. They try to count that as a dub.
No, that's no. It's where you did the flight.
Yep. Yeah, it's been a great week.
A lot of golf, a lot of walking. Not a lot going on in the sports world.
We do have Colts players getting suspended for the gambling issues. So who was his – Isaiah Rogers, I believe.
Rogers, yep. Cornerback for the Colts.
This is such a Colts story too because he's actually like an important part of their defense for next year and to have this happen it's like the Colts just they just exude bad luck ever since Andrew Luck there are a lot of people that that have been suspended for gambling who have like gambled at the team facility on other sports and you can kind of be like oh that that happens you can actually put in a bet but with this dude he was actually betting on Colts game so he was betting the over under on rushing yards. We need to know if it was over under.
He was betting $1,000. Yeah, we do need to know if it was over under.
I can't make a full line in the sand. This was very, very wrong until I know.
If he bet the under, then he did win the bet. Oh, he did? He did say that.
Okay, good. So I don't know if it was over under.
I think think they've got to remove – like, coaches can't say bet on yourself. Oh, good point.
Like, they've got to remove that from the lingo because that's what he's doing. It's very confusing if your coach is like, we want to bet on ourselves in this locker room.
Yeah. I would definitely be like, okay, coach, over one interception for me today.
Are players that are holding out saying I'm going to bet on myself, sort of thing yeah that's just management's winning big time on this one yeah that's a great point hank thank you your your brain's still firing i still got it you still got it they should actually hang a banner in cold stadium next to the the uh afc finalist one that just says our cornerback hit a bet yeah over under rushing yards for a running back unless it's it's an under. Unless it's an under, yeah.
Then he's an asshole. Imagine betting against your teammate to have a good game.
Yeah. I wonder if he – was he on the field for that play against the Texans? At the very end of the season? I don't know, Davis Mills.
That swung everything towards the Bears in the NFL draft? Yeah, Davis Mills. If their cornerback was on the field for that play, I mean, guy you got to build a statue in his honor yeah we do yeah maybe he was maybe he's taking the can't lose parlay that week yeah not not called that anymore uh can't must win no it's just called bet on yourself a bet i like and you decide whether you like it or not the last game he played him was december 26th we recorded stats so okay all right so that probably he probably wasn't on there uh we did have the nhl draft conor bedard is officially a blackhawk yeah big huge blackhawks also like went uh great move obviously drafting conor bedard no brainer and then signed cory perry who i absolutely fucking hate and was like a rival for many years so i don't know what they're doing and you you got Jake Bailey and Jake Bailey from the Islanders.
I was reading the NFL draft or the NHL draft grades this morning, and it was like Chicago Blackhawks, a plus for drafting Conor Bedard. So good job.
You got great value. A plus.
The Flyers got a guy named Bonk, and I'm very excited for the memes that are going to come out of that. That's going to be fantastic for me.
I'm sure I That won't get run into the ground. That's huge.
Let's actually do a quick draft grade just based on names. Let's see.
Oliver Bonk is good. Oliver Bonk is good.
Dalibor Dvorski is pretty good. Yep.
Oh, wait. There's a Daniil Butt drafted by the Coyotes.
Oh, I like that. It's D-A-N-I-L-B-U-T.
Denial Butt? Denial Butt. I like that.
That's a great name. Front door only.
There's some great names in this. Yeah.
Otto Stenberg? Okay. Otto Stenberg's a fucking great name.
Otto Stenberg sounds like a guy from 1960 that was still playing in 1986 without a helmet. Yeah, just scars all over his face.
there's some oliver who the caps get i want to grade the cap strap uh the caps i'm looking i'm looking at the big line leonard at eight there we go ryan leonard leonard it sounds like a good strong strapping young man yeah but that's a boring name you have to strapping adam fantilli is pretty good too there's some good names here. The Avalanche with the last 31st pick took Mikhail Golyev.
I like that guy. Sounds like a guy that's marching on Moscow right now.
Oh, what about this? The Sharks took Quentin Musty. Oh, yeah, I like that.
This might be an all-time names draft. I just like Daniil Butt.
What a great name. Matthew Wood also was drafted.
So, yeah, that's our NHL draft summary. I say everybody got an A+.
Yeah, everyone got an A+. There was one guy who tweeted me saying, please talk about the lacrosse world championships.
So that was the recap. Shout out to our co-worker, Jake.
No, we were just going to do that as the whole lacrosse world championship. Yeah, I don't really care about the lacrosse world championship.

That was it.

That was our whole recap.

That sounds like us just inviting the world to play us in lacrosse and beat them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that was our recap.

There was our good friend, JJ Watt, just got hired by CBS Sports.

He's going to be actually awesome.

He's going to be good.

Now, Jake, is he going to be in studio? Is he doing the pregame show? You actually just broke this news to me, so I'm not sure. Oh, you didn't know.
Jake, didn't you offer to call games with him? You were too busy trying to give out fucking, you know, grab ass for coworkers that just let up like 10 goals a game. NFL studio analyst.
So he'll be in studio, but I'm happy to simulate that too. Okay.
At the desk. Could you simulate that? Could you be James Brown? Yeah.
Could we get you dressed up like James Brown? Yeah. Okay.
Give us an intro. Hello, everybody.
Welcome to the CD. That's the direction I thought you were going in.
Little brunette bitch sucking fucking personal trainer. James Brown, sweet.
Damplips.com is what it was. Yeah,amplips.com, Jake.
Just say Damplips.com and then I'll be JJ. What is it called? Sexy little brunette bitch sucking and fucking her personal trainer's big cock.
All right, so Jake, go for it. That was the tweet that James Brown had.
He tweeted out because he went to like some porn site that had the tweet button. The share.
They've always got the share on Facebook and the share on Twitter, and it's just to trap people. No one has ever hit that button.
There's no reason why that button should be there. It's like, do you want to post this on Facebook, Twitter, or email it to your boss? I would imagine at damplips.com HQ, they were just sitting there like, someone just hit the button.
What the fuck? Sound the alarm. They probably had a champagne bottle ready to go.
That might be worse than the Ray Allen tweet. Yeah, I mean, well, it's a link, so it's not his words, but it was something he was maybe watching.
JJ's going to be in studio. He's also going to be very biased in favor of his brothers.
Something to keep an eye on. True, true.
Got to watch that. Yeah, I think that's about it.

Otani also had two home runs, and he had 10 strikeouts the other night.

So I think we can say Otani's the best baseball player to ever live.

Someone had an analogy.

It was basically, so yeah, he went three for three, two home runs, 10 strikeouts.

They're like, this is if Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdowns, 350 yards,

and two sacks, and like four pressures off the edge. Our good friend Samcker said this is otani is like if peyton manning was also ed reed yeah it's crazy it is nuts it's absolutely insane uh how good he is and credit to us we called it for having it want to be one of our mlb storylines speaking of mlb so next week is july 4th we have a new show on monday that's going to be we're testing everyone we're seeing how everyone the the takeies are coming up they'll be july 14th we're going to see if everyone can earn their a straight awl we're going to have new material for the first 20-25 minutes and then we have a mount rushmore and then we have our baseball draft which we are very excited for people to listen to but we also think it might be the worst podcast we'll ever put out.
I think it's without a doubt the worst thing that we've ever done. It's just guys saying names, and then most of the names have already been said before.
And Billy taking 25 minutes. Billy's a Patrick Cantlay of MLB fantasy drafts, for sure.
And it was taped on. It was recorded.
It was taped on Hank's birthday, so we were drinking it as well. So it was a good time.
Hank, why did you say it that way? Like, it was recorded. That makes me feel like it wasn't.
Like, you guys forgot to record. Why would you say it was recorded? No, like, it was a recording that we did.
It was a recording. Yeah, I mean, every show that we do is a recording.
Right. Some of them are good shows.
Some of them are recording. Okay, it was a show.
It's a show. Correct.
It's new content. Yeah, here's the thing, we'll only do it once a year.
Well, actually, no, we decided we're going to do the same format for other sports too. But there's just too many names in baseball.
Only four times a year will we do something like that. Yeah.
Also, shout out Bo Naylor. Our guy, catcher on the Guardians, hit his first dinger, and then his brother was at the top of the dugout

waiting to congratulate him when he got there.

That's wild.

It was awesome.

And he had a sick putout at second base, too.

Bo Naylor is the future of catchers.

Yes.

All right, so we have that Monday and then Friday.

So no show Wednesday.

I think it's Wednesday, July 4th.

I'm going to say yes, but I don't know.

Let's just say yes.

That's Tuesday.

No show Wednesday. Embrace debate.
Best day of the week to have July 4th on. Tuesday's up there.
I would say Thursday because then there's no way anyone's going to make you work Friday. So you get like a four day weekend.
Yeah. Tuesday's pretty good.
The worst is when it's on a Saturday. Right.
We can agree. Yeah.
Saturday. Thursday or Friday.
I would say the top picks. I like Tuesday because picks I like Tuesday because you can go for a long weekend

come back but then you do probably have to go to work

the next day

so no show Wednesday and then Friday we have our new

Dungeons and Dragons with

the Wonton Don sat in with us

so about two and a half hours

that was awesome

that one will be great

so yeah that's our schedule next week

we have a packed show still to go here

so let's do it

Let's do – we're going to do Mount Rushmore. Then we'll have Keegan Bradley, then Pat Fryermuth.
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Okay. What do you think it is, Billy? What do you think it is? Go, and then I'll tell you.
All right, we're going to go with a tank. Yep.
Tank. Tank.
Tanks are awesome. Tanks won one.
Tanks pretty much have won every single war. They don't get talked about enough.
They couldn't beat that guy in the street That's true Oh and No no He did No no That was a massive That was a massive dub for tanks That was Pictures right before Disaster Yeah Yeah Tank didn't watch the rest of that You think the guy Just stopped the tank They were like My bad Freedom of speech is better It's an iconic picture It is It is Something good It is good. It is.
It is. But yeah, tank.

I wish I could fucking operate a tank.

We also get Frank the tank with that pick.

Yes.

Which I do.

I am able to operate not successfully all the time.

Mostly that time he went to, was it the devil's playoff game?

He just, I was like, Frank, we really need your stream.

He's like, well, I'm going to go to the game.

Okay.

Good talk.

All right. Billy.
Nuclear powered go to the game. Okay.
Good talk. All right.

Billy.

Nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

Okay.

Okay.

I, you know, I had a one, one if we were going to just do civilian heavy machinery, but I also prepared some heavy military.

I got a dumb question.

I guess we'll find out with Oppenheimer.

I thought they just loaded those things up in planes.

Oh, so a nuclear powered aircraft is different from a bomb.

It's kind of like a.

So the engine of the carrier is run by nuclear power they can just go forever because they got a nuclear reactor on board so it's not like it's a there's a weapon it's specific to the United States China doesn't have a ship is powered by nuclear so they don't have to put gas into it there's no like gas station for an carrier It's got a nuclear turbine on board That runs all the electricity It's why we're the GOAT Are we? At military For now Because we have the carriers No, they don't have nuclear powered aircraft carriers That's why The nuclear powered aircraft carriers are going woke And China's going to going to eat our lunch. China.
Okay. Hank and Max.
Max memes. We're going to go with a car crusher.
Okay. I like it.
Those things are awesome. Yes.
Put them in the little cubes. That is cool to watch.
Yeah. And the windows explode.
Yeah. It's super cool.
Very cool. And those, I'm assuming, all the videos, the slow-mo like impact videos Like it's actually the same thing very cool.
You guys ever go to the monster trucks and they jump over those crushed cars Yeah, very sick. Yeah, and then we will go simple We should go to my useful.
We should build our skyscrapers cranes. Yeah, cranes are good pick Sometimes I get freaked out when I at cranes.
Giant cranes are like you just see them in the city and sometimes you just don't think about them. Then you look at them.
You're like, that thing is 300 feet in the air. I got a serious question.
How do they build the giant cranes? Does there have to be a bigger crane? Other cranes. But who built that crane? No.
Where did the first crane come from? There's a small, usually truck-mounted crane that builds the first crane come from it's well there's like a small there's a small usually truck mounted crane yeah that builds the first part of the second crane but how do you get how do you get the bigger crane how do you make it bigger without a bigger crane well they just move it up till i don't think you know i don't think you know i don't think you know no because then you somebody out there listening please tell us how they build the giant cranes without an even bigger is there just there just a mammoth crane that they built a long time ago that builds all the other cranes? Oh, God. No, they put a smaller crane on top of the building.
They build a small crane on top of the building to build the bigger crane. Got it.
That kind of makes sense. That makes sense.
How do they get the crane up to the top of the building? They build it. On the top of the building? Oh.
I think you're also making this up no they use it it's a smaller crane but they are but but they have to build the building with the crane well usually it starts with a smaller crane and then on top of the building okay we're trapped i don't think there's an answer all right go ahead you guys are up next um we're gonna go with a classic i my personal favorite of heavy machinery a bulldozer good Yeah, good pick. Bulldozer.
Solid pick. If you guys didn't go that way, I think that was going to be 1-1.
Yeah. Yeah.
We actually thought about doing Bulldozer. First overall, good pick.
I think we go 2-4 as a nice combo. Yeah.
All right. Number two, cement mixer.
Cement mixers. Cement mixers are sweet.
They're always t always tumbling around kids love them probably the most painful truck to get hit by yeah yeah you get run over by cement also we learned that from adam divine yeah yeah it's like a you always refer to a fullback as being a cement mixer yes yes okay so and then our next one which is kind of a nice little go together, the steamroller. Steamroller, fucking sick when you see it on the highway.
I mean, they rebuilt I-95, right, Max? Yeah, that was insane. That was basically a championship for Philly.
We all thought that was going to take months. Yeah, and they had all the mascots going over it.
I also don't really, whatever, this is different. If they ever had a...
How does that work? How do they do that they do that in five they built wait because it all counted is overtime it feels like overtime it feels like

we could do a lot of things if we just get overtime i guess yeah yeah i also like when kid rock buys

i don't know like a shitload of bud light and then runs it over with a steamroller

yeah that rocks that should be one of the floats of philly everyone's championship

instead of like double-decker buses steamrollers yeah yeah the way you said that sounded mean

Thank you. That should be one of the floats of Philly Everyone's championship instead of like Double-decker buses steamrollers Yeah The way you said that sounded mean I mean if they ever win a championship Yeah yeah okay you guys Are up We're gonna go with an Excavator oh nice Nice the dinosaur Nice yeah Excavator yes Big too yeah those are cool they they look like a like a dinosaur now would that be also it's like a backhoe slash digger as well like you could call all that essentially i think an excavator is a backhoe yeah yeah well the backhoe on an excavator is the backhoe yeah yeah right so it's digging so you could be like that's just a big digger yeah yeah but what is the backhoe On an excavator is the backhoe Yeah yeah right So you could be like that's just a big digger Yeah But the backhoe is what part It's the backhoe It's the hoe Yeah Okay We're gonna go All my landscaping AWLs know about this one The tree wood ch chipper.
Nice. We had that.
Fargo. Yeah, I just have a giant truck full of trees.
You just pull up and just throw them in there. It looks so cool.
So satisfying to watch. Like this huge tree just in seconds just get.
I got a dumb question. You're like, do you think this thing is big enough? I'm like, let's just throw it in.
DNA. DNA evidence.
How come all this shit that we're talking about for the most part is yellow? Why did we decide to make heavy machinery yellow? Cat. There's Komatsu that's orange.
John Deere's usually green. Cat's usually yellow.
The yellow ones are the best. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
Good one. I mean, this is in the same family as the backhoe excavator, but the everyday common man, more convenient get around on the construction site is the front loader.
You talking like a forklift? It's got the little... That's a...
You're talking about the forklift? That's a bulldozer. You're talking about like the Segway bulldozer.
I'm talking about a front loader. The one man bulldozer.
Oh, you're talking about a backhoe in reverse. Yeah, where it's pushing stuff.
Front loader. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. It's got a little bed in the front.
They're small. You can wheel them around pretty easily.
Picking stuff up. Yeah.
Pick stuff up. Put stuff down.
Dump it into a... Super convenient.
Okay. Billyy this might be the worst no this is dope yeah that's you just don't that's exactly my point that's exactly my point because because no i just like it's funny because we're just saying shit like yeah cool okay i'm gonna go you know what that going to go with 18-wheeler tractor trailer.
Okay. That's a big piece of machinery.
Yeah. Like a Mack truck.
You think you'd drive one? That's a car. That is a big piece of machinery.
No, that's a big piece of machinery. 18-wheeler? You need a special license to drive it.
Would you count like a school bus? No. You need a special license to drive an RV.
No, like a true 18-wheeler with like... Is an RV a heavy machine? Like a Mack truck.
It's the ones you see on a road trip. Yeah.
Ice road truck. It's heavy machinery.
On the road with the cars. Yeah, but like when you see a really shiny, nice one pulling some serious weight, like you're like...
And they turn into a fucking machine and help you save the world. Yeah.
Optimus Prime. Or when the back of it opens up and then the really fast red car falls out because he fell asleep.
And then he finds himself in a random town in Arizona. Cars.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
PFT, we got our last pick. I like number six.
Yeah. Yeah.
Jackhammer. Jackhammer rocks.
What are you going to say? That's not? That's not heavy machinery. There's definitely jackhammers that are heavy machinery.
That is just a tool. They're also the most annoying ones in the world.
That's what I was going to say. I think you actually have disliked jackhammers more than you've enjoyed them in your lifetime.
I've never used a jackhammer? Have you ever been around a jackhammer? Yeah, I've done both.

And honestly, using a jackhammer, I get it.

I don't get mad at jackhammer noise anymore

because somebody out there is having a great time.

Niche.

After you get done jackhammering all day,

your arms just don't stop moving.

Yeah.

One of the first stories I remember from this podcast

is the Gardner Minshew hammer story. Yeah, that was was a regular i know but yeah it popped in my head yeah not a jackhammer jackhammer jack hammers are a tool if we were doing best tools i'd be there with you but when you're doing best tools you'd be one one billy so thank you i gotcha that means i'm useful uh all right what do we miss i we had submarine on there maybe too soon bad week for subs yeah nuclear subs although this is running a long time after I was trying to think of what's the fucking machine and I watch these videos and they're very therapeutic I guess it might just be a compactor that has the metal grates spinning into each other and you like throw like a big oil drum in it and it just crushes it it could just be called a compactor but those rule no it's like shreds the metal i know what you're talking about oh we also had hydraulic press oh that that would have been better than jackhammer yeah that was like about how viral those are what would the car crushing kind of uh what about profitable oil rig yeah oil rig drill we had that too those are kind of boring mentions we had

tractor just a tractor like i don't know i just you just see oil rigs you never really see them like doing anything yeah harvesters are pretty cool yeah green combine yeah yeah uh nail guns that might be a tool though yeah that's a tool that's a tool. That's a tool.
Yeah, you can hold it. Shut up.
Shut up. Okay.
Forklift. Forklift was on there, too.
Yeah. Forklift's good.
I don't know if this was our best Mount Rushmore. I think it was sick.
I think it was their best Mount Rushmore. Yeah, it was their best.
Yeah. I'm just saying, like, usually there's debate.
Instead, we're just like, yeah, that is sick. Yeah.
Cool. No, I will.
Backhoe. Yeah.
Jack hammer. Oh, yeah.
Cranes are awesome. Yeah.
I don't think there was a really bad pick in there, was it? Jack hammer. They picked a car, but.
The 18 wheeler? Actually, a car is heavy machinery. I think, like, depends.
I guess it's amazing. I don't know how to drive stick shift.
But, like, if you knew how to drive stick shift stick shift, the normal person, I think, in a state of emergency, could figure out how to drive a truck. No, I don't think so.
An 18-wheeler? In a state of emergency? If you know. Like under panic? No, but no.
Like you've never done it before. But dude, stopping in those things, figuring out the distance you need to stop without the fucking.

But think about it compared to everything else.

It's not like hopping into a U-Haul.

It's different.

But I'm saying like think about hopping into like anything else.

No, but I think you could figure it out.

Like any other thing that we said.

Operating a jackhammer is pretty easy.

But like a bulldozer, like a bulldozer is right in front of you.

For some reason, you need to operate it to like save the world. Do you think you could do it? A bulldozer is closer to attract like a bulldozer closer to a couple buttons.
Is press the yellow button to stop to go neutral. Green button to go.
Red button to stop. Joystick.
Yeah, exactly. Control with mad cats.
Okay. That was our Mount Rushmore.
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I have to know, was there a part of you ever, because we said it on Monday's

show, the last, I don't know, six holes weren't great, but that was how dominant you were for the previous 64, 65 holes. What goes through your head, though, when it's starting to slip at the end? Were you like, this could be a problem? Or did you know played so well so far i've made such a big lead i'm good i definitely did not know that we were going to be all good but i walked to the uh i was walking up to the 17th t and which is like one of the toughest shots in the course and i get to the t and some guy yells out uh keegan's gonna choke everybody get go.
Starts going like this. And after the round, I mean, I heard him, everyone started booing him.
And after the round, my caddy Scotty said, did you hear that? I was like, yeah, I heard that. And I, and like every, it was, it got a little tense, but I, uh, you know, I, I was, I didn't miss a shot for literally three and a half days.
And then things got a little bit squirrely there. But listen, that's why you get big leads, right? And I still felt okay, but definitely I was feeling it there on 17T.
Yeah, it's a credit to you. It's actually kind of a flex that you were like, hey, I'll give you guys back a couple strokes and I'll still win by three.
That's how good I've been. Yeah, it was, it was surreal because I decided I wasn't going to look at leaderboards, especially if I got off to a good start.
Cause I had Chez in my group who was the only one that was really that close to me. So I figured if I went out and played well, no one could really catch me.
Only the only one that could catch me was, was Chez if he played well. So I didn't look at any boards until I was on 16 and I saw Patrick may Bogan 16 and I had a four shot lead.

And I thought, if I just don't hit any of these in the water, I don't see how I can lose. And sure enough.
What's it like those first three days when you're just absolutely locked in? Does the hole look bigger? We always hear about baseball players be like, yeah, the ball looks like it's the size of a beach ball. Does the ball look bigger to you? Does the hole look bigger? Yeah, I mean I've never had that happen in all my

years. about baseball players be like yeah the ball looks like it's the size of a beach ball does the ball look bigger to you does the hole look bigger yeah i mean i i i've never had that happen in my all my years of playing on the torts it's the best i've ever played and i it's very rare you match up ball striking with putting and i was doing that and it just it's so it feels so easy to play really well it feels hard to when you play bad if that makes sense yeah like it it's just it's just automatic it's like oh it's 135 this is a perfect wedge boom you just hit it when you're playing bad it's like oh well the wind's off the left and there's a bunker over there but when you're playing like that it's just so easy and that's why it's so frustrating when you're when you're when it's not going well because it's like this i could do this why can't i can't I do this every time? But, um, it was just one of those weeks.
It just was, everything was going my way. It was perfect.
I had a putt on the first day and my first nine on 17 that from like 70 feet, it smashed into the pin and went in. And I think it might've gone in the water, a putt.
And it's just like one of those things that like, wow, that was pretty special. And maybe this is the things are going my way.
Yeah. And the travelers is a, we call it's just like one of those things that like wow that was pretty special and maybe this is things are going my way yeah and the travelers is a we call it the fifth major i think we've got like six tournaments that we call the fifth major but the purse is like the fifth major it's what 3.6 million congratulations yeah has that thank you has that hit your bank account yet so i woke up this morning and i went on to my because i've been checking because this is a pretty sizable check here.
And I hadn't seen it. And I was thinking, well, maybe cause the check's so big, they got to go through a different process.
So maybe that's why it's not as it got there. And then it came in and I said, I took a screenshot and sent it to my wife and we were like, you know, going crazy.
It's, it's really, it's really shocking to get a check like that because my whole career, if you 3.6 million in a year that was a a major year that's like a top 10 type year and you know we we now are playing for so much money it's like it's crazy it just happened overnight yeah so do you know do you have like a a big thing that you're going to spend it on any big purchases i i get that question all the time and i haven't thought of anything i like i want to go to my big thing i want to do is i want to go to watch the patriots but brady the brady game so i'm i'm willing to to really go like live it up that week and do that but i haven't had much many things that i can you know it's i'm still it still feels like this didn't happen. Like it feels like another person did this.
Like when I think about what happened, I see it from like the third person. Like, I don't feel like I've experienced it.
It's the weirdest thing I could ever explain, but, um, it still seems fake, honestly. I mean, that's, that's a very cool feeling.
The, uh, you, you mentioned your career. So you've had a fascinating career because you came out when you started.
You won a couple tournaments. Then you had a period of time where you hadn't won in a long time.
Now it seems like you're playing some of your best golf in your career right now. What was it in that middle ground where, like, was it mental? Was it just, like, you couldn't find your swing? Because that's the fascinating part about golf is, you know, even like a guy like Rory, you know, won four majors, but he hasn't won one in nine years.
And that's how frustrating golf is. So what was it that that happened in that middle time that you were able to come through? Because I love those stories of golfers being able to refine it or get back to what they were.
Yeah, I mean, I the big thing for me was that they banned the belly putter. I used a putter that I stuck in my belly and it was one of the best things upon my game.
I was, I was efficient with it and they banned it. And I thought this is probably, this is a mistake of my part, but I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal.
And what I didn't realize till after was I lost thousands of hours of practice

and I gave it up to the other guy. So not only did it, was it gone, but I gave it up to Justin Thomas or that, you know, the best players in the world.
I lost feels of like when I'm really nervous and I need to make this six footer, I feel this with the putter. I do that.
Or I know my tendency is to push it a little on this style putt.

And I lost all that, thousands of hours.

And to give that up to the best players in the world is not good and I struggled for figuring it out for years I mean it was years and years of of grinding and watching majors and watching Ryder Cups and you know it wasn't till, 18, 19 before I figured out, like, you know, how to do it. And now I feel like I've gotten back to – it could be just gaining the hours back.
And I've gotten back to where my putting is where it was back then. And I think that's one of the big reasons why it's much better.
It kind of sucks that they Keegan-proofed you. Like, they basically saw you're too good we're gonna change the rules so you don't you don't dominate anymore did you think about just getting really fat and then just having a big belly so a normal putter just becomes a belly putter i should have i was so pissed at these guys for doing this like i was i i couldn't believe it like i i used to always have this thought when i was a kid that when I finally was old enough and good enough to plan the PGA Tour, it'd be gone.
It was just what I always thought. And then I'm living this moment of where they're taking away one of my greatest things about my golf.
And it was surreal because I couldn't do anything about it. Right.
Like there's no, we don't have a union or I don't have anybody to help me do this. Cause there was a very small percentage of the tour.
And at the time, you know, the best players in the world who didn't use the belly putter was like, oh, you got to ban it. And I'm thinking, well, of course they don't give a shit if they ban it.
Like they don't use it. Like why are we listening to them? So it was, it was i was angry man i i the the head of the usga i remember he did a uh interview uh interview when they were banning it and he used a quote from me that i did not say and he said that oh these guys will all be fine and and it was like wait a second dude like this is my life this is my career yeah like imagine imagine you took away for a basketball player like a steph career you can't shoot threes anymore yeah you know like like you got like it's it's that's an extreme example but it affected me in a major way and you know i i would think a lot of times of like how much money this cost me or how many rider cups maybe this cost me or majors or whatever and it was a tough time but i i now when i look back it's great because i shoved it you know i'd screw them and now i feel better than ever were there other uh guys who were belly putter guys that you like talk to because that that would be the most hilarious union of all time the belly putters of america like trying to fight back belly putter survivors yeah was there anyone though that you were like commiserating with oh yeah we were we were really upset like we uh webb simpson was used it um ernie ells uh there were a few others and and we we thought about bringing lawsuits or whatever but these these organizations are so powerful like the head of the usg at the time owned the biggest law firm in the world.
And it's like, how are we going to fight? You know, it was, it was, it was such a weird time, but it was also like, in my mind, I'm thinking like, oh, this isn't going to be that big of a deal. Like I'll just grab a putter and it's not going to change anything.
And I'm so good and it's not going to matter. You know, I had that sort of thought and that was a mistake probably.
But I, again, I think it all worked out. It makes it that much better now.
Yeah. So you talked about how after you won, you got texts from Aaron Rodgers, Michael Jordan.
What did MJ tell you? I know you're tight with MJ. You've played ball with him.
I assume he's one of your friends, a good friend of yours. What was his initial reaction when you won? He's just, he was so pumped.
I always he texts me a lot and then like he'll like if I have a good round on Saturday he'll text me like great plan get it tomorrow and then if I have a shitty round on Sunday I always think like he must think I'm such a soft like because he doesn't get like he's he's never lost anything in his life yeah so it's fun it's fun to to get that text after a win, you know, a pretty good win. And, you know, he's just the greatest guy.
Like I can't describe to you – I tell people this all the time. You'd want to be friends with Michael Jordan if he wasn't what he did in basketball.
He treats my friends the same way he treats me he'll play

golf with anybody he's just I see him interact with the with the public like I'm I have one billionth of the fame he does and sometimes I can struggle with you know if I I just I'm uncomfortable sometimes if I feel like people are recognizing me I don't know it's not in my nature he's so good to everybody

I went to

I went to a

restaurant recognizing me i don't know it's not in my nature he's so good to everybody i i i went to i went to a restaurant dinner with him one time and i was walking we were walking down the street and i was walking behind him with my wife and we were it was just the greatest thing because people are walking by and they they look at him like i think that's michael jordan and then you can really you can see that they realize it is and we could just see him he's just so welcoming to them. He's so like, hey, he's giving them high fives.
He's just the coolest guy. And I'm so lucky to be friendly with him.
And it's surreal sometimes to just hang with him and talk to him about sports or life or whatever. Yeah, and you went to his bachelor party, which looked like there was a couple clips that came out that looked like the funnest time ever.
You guys were actually playing pick-up hoops. I mean, he obviously dominates pick-up hoops, but has he ever beaten you in the golf game? Like, is he – I'm sure you guys played a lot of rounds together.
Has he ever done it? He's beat me, but I got to – not that many times. Okay.
I got to give him – I give him 10 shots, but he's a very good player. The dude plays – I'd say he plays 36 holes 300 days a year.
I've never met anybody that loves golf more than him. And like after these days, I play with him.
This is what type of human he is. We play in Florida.
It's 110 degrees. I'm drinking Gatorades, like eating properly.
And after the day is over, I'm exhausted, dead. Like I couldn't't imagine doing this again and he'll do this for weeks on end like he's just his everything about him is wired different yeah like i'm the next day i'm like getting up meanwhile he's 60 years old like he's it's just a it's something different about him i don't know what it is but he's a he's not the same human being i am yeah i think a lot of people athletes, but just people in general, their goal is to make enough money to retire so that they can just play golf all the time.
Golfers, when they retire, do you guys play more golf or what do you do? I don't think so. I will say I love – one of my favorite things to do is go play golf with my buddies.
like that's still like that's still if i if i'm home and it's an off week and i got a game with four of my buddies three of my buddies the night before i'm excited right i still have that excitement of like getting to the course you know making fun of everybody everyone's talking shit to each other have a little breakfast it's just like i still really enjoy doing that um but casual golf with people I don't know and you know that's I'm not interested in that at all yeah all right so I have to ask a question now um father to father so I have three kids I you have how many kids two three two two uh I saw the clip of your son uh saying good good good good, you know, tournament to Chez Revy after the tournament. And that was mental warfare by you.
I don't know if you put him up to it, but I saw it and I was like, if I was in Chez's shoes, I'd be like, what the hell? This kid, like, God damn it. Did you put him up to that? Because that actually is like a secret weapon.
Anytime you beat anyone, just have your kids be like, hey, good job. Because you can't get mad at a kid yeah yeah yeah i did i told him i had this whole plan before before the round to go get in his head yeah no i mean chet well chet we we actually played in the final group together at travelers 2019 he had a six shot lead on me and i got it to within one on the 16th hole and the crowd was so brutal brutal to him.
Like, because it's my home event. Like, I, they were bad to him.
They were cheering when he missed. And Chez is probably the nicest person I've ever met.
And he beat me that day. So, like, it's so weird that years later we're in the same position.
But I did see that video and I loved it. Chez is, like, a class guy like a class guy, so he comes over.
He's like – I'm so amazed how nice people are sometimes. Yeah.
But he's the best, and I'm proud of my boy for doing that, though. Yeah, because if I had lost and I was in his shoes, I would just be like, shut up, kid.
Like, not now. What are you doing back here, bro? Get out of my face.
Stop patronizing me. Like, I don't need this.
Do you think that's good for golf, though? Because I love the Ryder Cup when you have a gallery that's actively rooting for one side, rooting against another side. There's a hero.
There's a villain. In most tournaments, you don't get that side of golf.
And it's a little bit different from most other sports. I personally like watching that on TV when they've got people clapping and cheering when a shot goes in the water.
To me, that makes it more fun. Have you guys ever been to a Ryder cup? No, no.
I'd like to tell you guys. It's unbelievable.
It's I agree. I love it.
I think it's golf is needs to go more in that direction. I think it's, I think it's great.
I like even the, even the, the competition between live guys and tour guys. I think it's great.
It's awesome. And that's, what's so fun about the Ryder cup is you really get to let loose.
Like in golf for me, I'm always trying to keep my emotions down good or bad. Even like, even if I make a long pot, like you can't get too excited because it can affect you.
But at the Ryder Cup, you can explode at every hole. Every hole is the last hole of the tournament.
And that's what makes that tournament so special. And it gets nasty.
There's relationships. Once you play in a Ryder Cup, relationships change with Americans and Europeans.
On Sunday night, everyone gets together and has drinks and it's fun and it's blah blah blah whatever but relationships change because of this tournament because it's really passionate and it gets that it gets intense yeah and you you actually said after you won travelers like that was one of your first thoughts because you were now uh in position to be on the Ryder Cup this year I mean did you ever think that was there a moment in time when you're like I'll never be back in the Ryder Cup because you played on two teams this has got to be a pretty big thrill to be like hey this might I might be back with the boys yeah I there was a time in my career I thought I was going to play in every Ryder Cup I was going to play in five six my whole career and then there was a time there where I thought I'm never going to get another chance at this and And I had I played in two. I lost to one was a heartbreaker that I that I think about regularly.
It still sticks with me how brutal Medina was. But there was a time there where it wasn't that I wasn't making the teams like I wasn't in the car.
Like I wasn't even close. Like it wasn't like, oh, he could be a pick or whatever.
So there there were times where and it was really sad like it watching those that watching Ryder Cups when you played in one that those are the toughest to not be there especially when they win it's like oh fuck I wish I could enjoy that and you know but I I'm so proud to be even in this conversation because everybody that was on my teams that I played on, they're all gone. They're old.
They're on the senior tour or they're not on the tour anymore. So like there's a whole generation of guys that I played with that are not even really on the tour anymore.
So for me to go into to be on that team would be really something and something that I would just I would just love to do that because I think if I could if I could get on a team and win a Ryder Cup that'd be something that I would love to be able to have on my resume and be able to think back all right so this is like the win one for Keegan let's get it going yeah let's get the stories going yeah you have to win one you can't you can't be like you can't have two losses and and we got to win one for Keegan. Let's get it going.
Let's get the stories going. You have to win one.
You can't be like you can't have two losses and we got to win one for Keegan. So this year, it's in Italy, right? Do you have any ties to Italy whatsoever? Can we try to form a narrative like we got to send them back? Have you ever been to Italy? I don't think Keegan Bradley is a very Italian name.
I went there on my honeymoon with my wife. Okay.
So you've got a good history of scoring well in Italy. Yeah.
It's like the QB prospect who went to a camp when he was like 16, and then the coach is now a head coach. It's like, well, they got ties.
They met each other once for like two days. Perfect.
Perfect. Send him back.
Send him back to the honeymoon. So me and Big Cat right now are playing in our own Ryder Cup, W-R-I-T-E-R, that we're filming this week.
We're going to be putting it out later on this summer. We both kind of have a similar deficiency.
Actually, we have lots of deficiencies in our game. But one that we're trying to work on is curing our slices off the tee.
So also we're very dumb, and we don't know what we're doing. So in five words or less can you fix our slice hold on one second i want to know is that big cat is that your real golf swing that you post with your legs locked like that uh it is not it is the one i do to make my friends laugh when i get drunk on the course the craziest thing is i usually hit it straight when i do that obviously you sacrifice a lot of power without using any of your lower body whatsoever, but I can hit that straight.
Can you? Yeah. And it's pretty funny.
It's like, goes like 150, but it's, it gets a laugh at everyone. It's so preposterous.
I, I, cause I, I see, I know that you athletic, you play basketball and stuff. I'm like, that can't be his real strength.
That is like, that is so horrible. But I, but what I always tell amateurs is like the biggest misconception is to swing easy and try to like, like if you're like, when I'm at my most nervous, sometimes I swing as hard as I can because it's like, it's, if you're going and easing into it, especially if you ease into it, you're going to slice, you're going to hit it to the right.
So if I was you guys, just hit it as hard as you can. Okay.
That's a bad idea. That's bad.
You just gave me a bad tip. I like this advice.
He's basically being like, stop being pussies. Yeah, just rip it.
Yeah, perfect. Okay.
All right. Bombs only today.
Yeah, this is not going to go well for me. God damn it.
I don't know about this. Swing it easy.
310. 310 on the fly.
That's what I'm aiming for today. Yeah.
That yeah that's right perfect do you ever go driver off the deck that's my other move i love going driver off the deck on par fives where i just like i'll just if i have any type of lie i'll even do driver out of a sand trap if it's like a long enough par five have you ever thought about doing that i am not a driver off the deck guy i see people do that and i think holy shit i don't know how like like I've seen Ricky Fowler hit driver off the deck and these guys, they hit it. It's nice high in the air.
Like I think I could, like I could miss the ball. I don't know how people do that.
Yeah. Special talent, I guess.
It is. I guess, I guess I'm the man.
If you just don't give a fuck. Yeah.
You stop thinking about what all the bad things that could happen. Think about how sweet it would be if you just hit a little piss missile down the fairway.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's right. All right.
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So your mentor is Phil, or one of your mentors is Phil Mickelson. You're best friends with Michael Jordan.
How much money have you gambled on a golf course before? Because that's two guys that, like, do you have, like, a separate fund where you're like, honey, I have to, like, I'm going to play with Phil and MJ. Like, I got to bring a lot of cash.
Yeah, those are definitely days you got to bring a lot of cash. those are definitely days you gotta bring a lot of cash yeah i i mean the thing about the thing about those guys is they'll play you for whatever you want so if you want to play for a lot they'll play for that if you want to play like they'll play like mj will play my buddies for for ten dollars right like my regular my friends have regular lives and jobs.
And he's just as into that. Cause like money isn't, he's, he's got so much of it.
It's like, he wants to beat you and embarrass you and talk shit to you and like humiliate you. So, I mean, it's, it's not so much about them.
I know you, I know what you want right now. You want me to tell you, oh, I played him for, you know, whatever.
But I, I, I think that for those guys, especially, they just want to beat you. No, it's a good answer.
Yeah. These guys are so competitive.
Yeah. Like I, I, in Brady too, when we played that game, it's like, dude, you gotta chill a little bit.
Like, I don't want to blow my knee up. God forbid you blow your knee up.
Right. Like this is your, you're my hero.
Like these guys are, they're just built a little different but they just want to beat you they don't care what the what the price is i like that answer because it's actually like perfect for a guy like phil or mj where it's like it does the the actual money amount doesn't matter it's the fact that they have to just pay you anything is what they want yeah like 50 bucks if you have to hand over 50 bucks they're just as happy he loves yeah they love they just love it it's like it's it's the best yeah so when when you beat mj does he get mad at you is he like fuck i can't believe i lost this professional golfer yeah yeah yeah and i and then i get that over him you know it's but then when i god forbid when i lose to him though, like this is, this is bad. Yeah.

But he's, uh, listen, beating these guys is the best feeling because they hate to lose so much.

But the MJ's, the thing about MJ is, is he's just, he's a really good golfer.

Yeah.

Like, like people, people don't realize like, this is a guy, he didn't start playing golf

until he was in his thirties, I think.

And he's just like, he's just, it's just a great player.

And he loves the sport. And he's told me before he wishes he picked it up sooner.
And he loves the Ryder Cup. This guy loves that.
It goes to everyone. He's been to everyone.
First time I saw him was at the 99 Ryder Cup in Boston, but he goes to everyone home and away. So he's just, he loves the sport.
And it's great for the sport too, because at Medina, my first first rider cup is in chicago yeah and uh i had never met him before and i was nervous wasn't the word i'd use scared like scared like someone chasing you with a knife scared not like oh this is going to be fun i'm nervous it's going to work out like i gotta get out of here like i can't do this and the night before the first uh round we're sitting all in as a team and the night before the first round it gets pretty quiet like the joking around is not the ping pong stops every no there's it's not the fun is gone and the davis love was the captain and he said i got a you know a special guest to come in and talk to you and mj walks in and gives us this speech. And I'm sitting there with my wife looking up at MJ, like this is way over my head.
This is, this has now gotten really serious. And he's talking about representing America, playing the dream team and all this.
And it's like one of those moments where you don't know how you got in this spot. Like this is your hero talking to you and giving you a speech.

And, uh, that was one of those moments of my life and career. That's like,

seems fake again. And it's surreal.
That's awesome. That sounds like something you would,

you would actually dream about to put yourself in like a positive mental state. Like just picture

Michael Jordan comes in and gets you amped up for this round of golf. And then it happens in real

life. That has to be just the best moment ever.
Yeah, I mean, my life seems fake sometimes, honestly. It really does.
I've had some time now because I'm in Detroit playing, so I'm away from my family. I'm in my room by myself.
So I've had some time now to sort of think about what's happened. And it seems like it's so strange when your dreams come true.
Like it's like the weirdest thing. It's like, you know, you dream as a kid to do this.
And it's like, Jesus, we did it. It's like it's bizarre.
It's a bizarre feeling to – it's so hard in this sport especially because if you win the Super Bowl or you win the Stanley Cup, you're done playing for the year. So you have a long time to enjoy it.
For us, I'm playing again tomorrow. I could bogey the first hole and be pissed.
Back to it, yeah. It's like I don't get the – so you've got to take those moments.
I was sitting around just thinking, this is real. You're doing it, man.
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And now for something completely different. Okay, we now welcome on very special guest tight end for the pittsburgh steelers he pat fryer muth we should actually start there how sick is it when the crowd says muth it's pretty cool yeah it gives me chills it's pretty cool like run out of the stadium before games it's pretty sick yeah it's like you're perfectly Steelers tight ends.
I still say Heath. I hope that's okay.
No, it's totally fine. I feel like a lot of people still say Heath.
Yeah. Which is fine.
What percentage of the fans do you think just are so drunk and confused? You get a first down over the middle. All the time.
Over a couple of hits. I mean, my buddy Zach Gentry, whenever he scores, I mean, whenever he catches the ball, they yell Muth.
Muth. You get credit for all of them.
He'll run off the field and roll his eyes at me. I don't know what to tell you.
What do you want me to do? You should get fancy points when that happens. Yes.
If enough of the crowd says that it's Muth, it's Muth. Yes.
I did a bad job of insuring you because you're also a block of the year award winner. Do you know what that is? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so Stephen Che, yeah. Yeah, Che, yeah.
He hit me up. He did? Yeah.
How'd that go? It was cool. I mean, I've never really heard of the award before, but it was awesome to win it.
It's completely made up. Yeah.
Pretty sure I made a video of it, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, no, you won for actually your first game in the NFL.
Oh, yeah. It was a block against the Bills so do you like do you have the trophy anywhere

i don't have a trophy i'm still waiting for it okay okay so it was like a social media award maybe no i i think there's actually a brick that just that you're supposed to get i never got that brick yeah well how many other awards do you have you probably have a shitload of awards a couple yeah a couple yeah from nothing from nfl yeah but college oh block of the year well other than block of year.

Yeah, I mean, that's an NFL award.

It's pretty big.

That's pretty big.

You can just go to Home Depot and buy a brick, too. I could.
Yeah, I should. All right, so your entry into the NFL, we're going to talk a little college, too, but you obviously get in a locker room with a legend, Big Ben.
Yeah. What was the first interactions with big ben like knowing like he's been here forever yeah and he's like 38 39 like was he still one of the guys was he still uh like young i mean he still could play right now let's admit that right yeah he definitely could he definitely could yeah um but yeah no it was it was my first interaction with him was he called me, like,

the day after I got drafted, and it was, like, 2 in the afternoon.

And I was still in bed because I was pretty hungover from getting drafted,

like, celebrating stuff.

And I'm like, hello?

Because I saw the 412 area code, and he was like, are you still sleeping?

And I'm like, no, like, who is this?

He's like, oh, this is Ben.

I was like, oh, shit.

What's up, dude?

But, no, he was great, man. And, you know.
My locker's right next to him, which was pretty cool.

And he was a good dude just to be around.

He's definitely one of the guys.

And it was just kind of cool learning from him and kind of seeing what –

I mean, I got to learn from my locker's right next to a Hall of Famer.

It was pretty cool.

Was your locker right next to his locker,

or did he have like two or three lockers with all his –

the medical devices have to take up space.

Nah, he had my locker's right next to his, and then he had like an extra locker. So he had a whole corner.
Did you ever see him like banged up, like hurt after a game? Yeah, there was one game where he had like a massive bruise like all like down his thigh. It was – Warrior.
Yeah. It's pretty impressive like how he continued to play, like just banged up that old – So So many injuries.
So he retires. He definitely came to training camp at least once or twice, just out of force of habit, right? Yeah, I think he came to one of the practices.
It was cool just kind of seeing him. It was weird, to be honest, because the year after him, everyone's kind of like, oh, who's the quarterback going to be? It was weird having him back, Like, come on.
Come throw. Yeah.
So you guys get Kenny Pickett, friend of the show. Yeah.
Be honest. The first time you shook Kenny's hand, did you size it up? It's a little small.
Did you look at it? Nah. A little small.
We like Kenny. We've been saying for years.
We love Kenny. Yeah.
His hands are the perfect size. I think his hands are perfect.
Yeah. I think his hands are perfect.
They're nice hands. Did you notice, though? Were you, like, going in the handshake?

No, I did not notice.

What about, like, and again, we all love Kenny.

So this is, like, a room where we're, like, you know, we love Kenny. We love Kenny.

We love Kenny.

We love Kenny.

We love you, Kenny.

We love Kenny.

Kind of a pussy move with the gloves, right?

Nah, nah.

I love the gloves.

Two gloves, Kenny.

He embraces it.

He embraces it. But there's definitely a moment where you had to get used to it being like, this is a little weird.
Well, it is weird. It is weird because I sometimes try to throw the ball back with my receiving gloves on.
He wears receiver's gloves. And it's kind of weird.
Like, dude, how the hell do you throw? The stick. Yeah, it is kind of weird, but it works for him.
Yeah. And he's got swag.
Now, you did play with probably the swaggiest quarterback of all time in Trace McSorley at Penn State. Yeah.
Was he – I would imagine in the huddle he – because, like, especially towards the end of his career, it felt like he would just be able to get plays out of – you know, draw it up. Like, let's just run around and I'll fucking make something happen.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I was there his like he had his own wrinkles to the offense and it was cool just kind of he'd be out there and just be like hey do that all right and like him scrambling around like you had no idea what he was gonna do so like you just kind of just kind of went deep and yeah watch him chuck it yeah how cool is it at pin state games where they do the white out i have to imagine like walking out of that tunnel.
You guys have to go. It's unreal.

It's like walking out of that tunnel.

You can hear the warm-ups are packed.

Nothing cooler than warming up in front of the whole stadium packed.

107,000 warming up with 50 minutes to go before the game.

And when you go in the locker room, you can hear the stands jumping.

Some people, not me, some people are saying Penn State

hasn't done well with the whiteouts, and that's why they scheduled Minnesota this year, so they can catch an easy dub. Some people are saying that.
Some people. I think more of it's the Big Ten noon kickoff or whatever they do now, so they schedule the big-time games for that.
No disrespect to Minnesota at all. Right, right.
Love Minnesota. No, all disrespect to Minnesota.
Fuck Minnesota. I lost to Minnesota when I was on the fourth-ranked team in the country.
Did you guys remember that game? Yeah. Was that the – that wasn't the overtime game, was it? No.
Rashard Bateman won for like 200 yards. That's right.
Yeah. You weren't in the overtime game.
That was a couple years ago. Illinois? Yeah, that was a year before.
Yeah, that was – yeah. You were in that game? No.
Okay. It was not an overtime game.
Yeah. Nah, I was not in that game.
That was brutal. Oh, my God.
Talking about some bad football. Yeah, that was really bad football loved it so uh james franklin yep he is um we've talked about his motivation at times what's the weirdest motivation thing he did for the team i think he did juice boxes once yeah to stay juiced up yeah i don't hear about that was there anything weird that he did where he's like what what are we doing here i don't know nothing weird he weird.
I don't know. He just, I don't know.
Nothing weird that I can think of. He just had some, like, interesting, like, talks about just, I don't know.
Just, I don't know. He's a weird dude.
Yeah. But I love him.
I love him. Yeah, no.
He's a perfect example of a guy who's great at college. Oh, absolutely.
Like, if he was in the NFL, I don't think it would work. Oh, yeah.
But when it comes to, like, 18- or 22-year-old kids, he's the perfect coach. He's a person, because he, like, the one thing I hated was, like if he was in the nfl i don't think it would work yeah but when it comes to like 18 to 22 year old kids he's the perfect coach he's the perfect because he like the one thing i hated was like he checks everyone's classes oh so like even if you were the starter or like a walk-on guy like he's checking your class regardless so like it was that was to me that was the annoying part because it was like we're playing ohio state like i don't need to go to class let's let's get it going and then I know your class checked on the Thursday if you were a young guy you could maybe be suspended for that game sit up front in classes was he did he tell you guys to do that yeah he was he was pretty hard on that yeah so that's good that's I mean culture it's great it's great it's big build a culture but like sitting in the front of a lecture hall class when you have to play Ohio State it's kind.
You think Ohio State is going to class that week? No chance. I doubt it.
I doubt it. They're not even enrolled.
No chance. No chance.
So what about Coach Tomlin? We love Coach Tomlin. We think he's a one-of-a-kind guy.
Great head coach. Great head coach.
He's proved that time and time again. Does he speak to you guys in riddles the way he speaks to the press? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, he does. It's funny.
Like, being there, he's had the same message consistently. But, like, in OTA, like, we just finished up OTAs.
And it's like he wants you to run through a brick wall in OTAs. Like, he makes you, like, in team meetings, it's like, damn.
Like, okay, let's go freaking win a Stribble in OTAs. It's pretty cool.
We want volunteers, not hostages. Exactly.
Are you a volunteer? I'm a volunteer. Yeah.
I love Pittsburgh. He doesn't get enough credit for being such a good coach.
No, I know. And especially when the Ben Le'Veon and Antonio Brown stuff happened, I think all of us were like, ooh, is he losing the locker room? And actually, in retrospect, it's like, no, he actually did an insane job of managing all that.
What is what is it day to day that makes him special where it's like the Steelers are just consistent every single year I think like the biggest thing that I enjoy is like there's no gray area at all like he'll be in team meetings and be like hey listen if you don't win this matchup like we're gonna lose the game yeah like he like and as a professional athlete like you love that like okay this is what I need to the game. And, like, I think that's why everything's been so successful because everyone takes it so personal.
Like, that matchup, like, going into a game, which he's a hell of a love. I love him.
Is the standard the standard? Yeah. Which is weird.
Actually, now that you say it, that was a Coach Franklin quote, too. The standard is the standard.
But we never really knew what the standard was. It's the standard.
It's the standard. You know the standard? It's the standard.
I've got to go to school. You missed that.
I don't know. It confuses me sometimes.
I know what it means, but I'm confused. It sounds like you don't know what it means.
Yeah, because it's the standard. The standard is the standard.
What's the standard? It's the standard. This is easy stuff.
It couldn't be more. Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, right. The standard is the standard.
What would you say the standard is? The Pittsburgh way, I guess. No, it's the standard.
Oh, the standard. Let's try this again.
That was bad. That was bad.
That was bad. That was bad.
That was bad. This is like Baby Gronk.
All right, you're going to say the standard after you ask this question. Dude, that was.
We should talk about that because you were, for a time, you were Baby Gronk. People called you Baby Gronk growing up.
Yeah.

And now you're back in the news.

No.

I guess you've been doing pretty quickly.

Listen, no.

That is ridiculous.

Yeah.

Do you think Baby Gronk could play in the NFL one day?

Sound off in the comments right now.

Wait.

When you say ridiculous, you mean like how good he is, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

And how he rizzes up Livvy Dunn.

Yeah, that's pretty impressive.

Wait.

You think he rizzed up Livvy Dunn? No. Livvy rizzed him up.
Oh. Is that what they're saying? Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, and how he rizzes up Livvy Dunn. Yeah, that was pretty impressive.
Wait, you think he rizzed up Livvy Dunn? Livvy rizzed him up. Oh, is that what they're saying? Yeah.
That's what the comments are saying. Because Baby Gronk went in for the side hug on Livvy.
Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunn. Yeah.
That way. Is there a Baby Fryermuth? Have you seen Baby Diggs? No.
He's electric. I'll show you some highlights later.
Do you think this is a good trend in the NFL to have eight-year-olds running around pretending to be superstars? Yeah, it's a little weird. Yeah, it's a little weird.
But wouldn't that be the sign that you've made it if there's a baby Fryermuth? I guess. Yeah.
Actually, Jerry should be baby fry remuth. Jerry could be baby fry remuth.
Jerry's a beast. Let's talk about Jersey Jerry real quick because obviously you know him.
You're friends with him. He's a diehard Pittsburgh Steeler fan.
I think I actually remember the first time that I knew that you guys had been in touch. We went to Bears Steelers Monday Night Football, and he was like, hey, I want to just stop by real quick because Pat said he would sign my jersey.
And it was like 30 minutes before kickoff. And I was like, I don't think so, dude.
I think he's probably getting ready for the game. What's the vibe in the Steelers locker room with Jersey Cherry? We all love him.
Yeah, he's the best. He's hilarious.
All his videos are hilarious. I remember that he was texting.
I came back from warm-ups, and I checked my phone quick to put on a song before I went out. And I had a text from him, like, hey, man, can you come out and sign my jersey? Yeah, he has.
Jerry, I'm going to run out of the tunnel. That's exactly what I told him.
I was like, I'm pretty sure he's getting ready for the game, Jerry. but yeah, he's funny.
But he's a good dude, man. He also just – he has – it's you, Deontay Johnson.
Obviously, he loves Kenny, but he'll just be like, Pat Frymer is going to go off today. And I was like, why? Like, what are you – he's like, I don't know.
I just have a feeling. He's like, that's just it.
That's it. He's just got a feeling.
I think it's just whoever he likes, he talks to. Glad that, yeah.
Yeah. He just rides with you every single weekend.
I mean, I love the video of him at dinner telling Kenny that I was always open. That was sick.
Yes, yes. That was awesome.
Yeah, he's like, Pat is always open. Just hit him.
Do you also notice when TJ Watt, when it's bully season, when he gets the haircut? Yeah. After the bye week? Yeah.
Yeah. He's, yeah.
Did you see TJ fall in his pool? Yeah. Okay, because that was bad.
That made me a little nervous. Yeah, Jerry was very, that's on Jerry, actually.
You should blame Jerry. Because anything bad that happens to TJ in the offseason, Jerry should be accountable for.
Yeah, I agree. Jerry could be like his assistant.
He shouldn't be cleaning his own pool. No.
Jerry should be cleaning the pool. Yeah.
Like, what the hell are we doing here? I be a barstool new like hire for jerry i mean he that would he actually has said that he would drop everything to be a water boy for the steelers but he also said that he needs to get paid 60 000 a year i don't think that's what you pay water boys i don't know if we're paying him that he would do anything though like you need a designated driver call him he might be a couple hours away, but he'll show up. He will show up.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Ride or die. Ride or die.
Yeah. I read back in your high school career that you won 78 basketball games in a row.
Oh, yeah. You did some digging, man.
That's crazy. That's insane.
Yeah, our team was filthy. So wait, how many years did that span? Five years.
Five? You went to high school for five years?

I actually did.

But I went to...

Wait, okay.

Now the standard standard makes sense.

So I went to public school for two years, and then I repeated my sophomore year.

So I did two sophomores.

Okay, that's awesome.

What was the reasoning for that?

Because I played quarterback my sophomore year.

My true sophomore year.

I was god-awful.

Wing T offense, Big Ten offense. Okay.
Awful. And then i was just like i gotta you gotta do it again so you go to you repeat sophomore year of high school how easy was it taking the same classes again it was pretty easy yeah my senior year was a joke like it was all electives yeah but like the school was a good school but like it was all it was a joke wait many years? So you played, which one is it? The public school or the private school that went on the 78 game winning streak? The private.
So it was like two years before I got there. And then it was my 30s.
You never lost the basketball game? So I lost, it was a league game. So I never lost a league game.
So it was 78 in a row. Sounds like you lost the playoffs.
Well, no, we won the title. Okay, all right.

So who beat you?

What was the league?

So, like, actually, Bruce Brown, Vermont Academy, they beat us.

We played Cheshire Academy, they beat us.

Like, Brewster, like, those schools.

Yeah.

There's a kid on Vermont Academy, actually, who dunked on me.

I forget his name.

Oh, is there a video of that?

No, I don't think so.

I hope not.

That would be a shame someone found that.

78 games are so many. Like, how at that point do you still have focus to go out there and win it's like what else can you do like we would be up by 40 and our coach would be like we gotta pick it up like dude we're up by 40 some of these kids like are shouldn't be on the court right now it's like how we talk about lebron could be uh an nfl tight end if you focus on that could you be in the nba.
No. I was good.
I was a shooting guard, but I was not NBA good. You were a shooting guard? Yeah.
How tall were you? That was my height right now. Our team was good.
Jesus. We had three or four guys go to Division I schools.
Damn. Yeah.
Do you actually think that LeBron could be a tight end? Yeah. How long would it take LeBron right now to be in the NFL? How is it? 38? 38.
38 years old? I don't know if he could play right now, but I think in his prime, he could have played. He probably could have picked up a training camp and went out there and scored a touchdown or two.
Yeah. His high school clips are pretty impressive.
They are. They are.
So Darnell Washington's in your locker room right now. When you first met that guy, are you like, Jesus? He's huge.
He's a grown man, man. He's a big dude.
Yeah. He's he's a good man he's a good dude um do you want to i asked kenny for some questions do you want to do some kenny questions these are kenny questions um what are you hiding under your beard nothing nothing so me so a beard is like the guy's makeup yes you know i'm saying yeah so we had a discussion about that last week in the locker room and they were told me to shave and i was like no i'd look pretty ugly yeah like especially with my hair like i have to have a beard yeah or a soul patch you ever had a soul patch like just just a dot right underneath oh no i can pull up a picture of a random guy in a soul patch and show it to you so it sounds like you are hiding something yeah i would be i would consider myself ugly if I didn't have a beard.
I'm also doing the same. So we should shave.
No, absolutely not. So a random example of soul patch.
I just Googled male soul patch. Oh, it's that guy.
So Max right there. That's Max with a soul patch.
What do you think about that? It looks pretty ugly. The beard looks good.
The beard looks good. Not good.
The beard looks good the way it is um all right remember these are kenny questions so not my questions um he just wrote rumors of new girlfriends certified lover boy again a kenny question not a me question yes new girlfriend yeah okay so certified lover boy certified lover okay nice congrats on being a lover boy. And then the last one was, why are your legs so disproportionately big? They are big legs.
They're huge legs, dude. Yeah, I wish they were proportionate to my whole rest of my body.
Well, no, because then you probably wouldn't be in the NFL. Yeah.
I don't know. I do have big legs.
I wish I had bigger calves. How much do you squat? I haven't – my max squat in college was like 605, something like that.
Oh, Jesus Christ. That's way better than Kittle.
How pumped were you after that? I was pretty pumped. So how it is is you go up to, I think you max out at like 425, but you get as many reps as you can.
So I think I got like 8 or 12, something like that. Jesus Christ.
Yeah, it sucked. Was the whole team around you like hyping you up? Yeah.
I'm sure you've seen hype up videos in the weight room. It was pretty cool.
Yeah. I love those.
Hell yeah. You said that you were listening to like your pregame warmup song.
Yeah. When Jerry was texting you.
Yeah. You were getting the dings from Jerry's text.
What songs you listen to before a game? So right before I go out, I listen to In the Air tonight. Phil Collins.
That's good. Yep.
Oh, I love it. It gets me going every time.
Yep. It doesn't matter if the game's at one o'clock.
My game, always put it on. Yep.
You ever listen to just, here we go, Steelers. Here we go.
I do it. It gets me on every time.
It doesn't matter if the game's at 1 o'clock. My game, always put it on.
You ever listen to just, here we go, Steelers. Here we go.
Steelers, Pittsburgh's on to the Super Bowl. Here we go.
The Steelers, the Mount. I don't, but that's pretty impressive.
What about Renegade? Renegade feels like a cheap move. It does.
Actually, that Monday Night Football game, Renegade played. I think the Bears fumbled right after.
Yeah. It does feel like cheating.
Do you guys get as pumped up as the crowd gets? Yeah. I remember my first Renegade.
I was like, I grabbed a towel and started doing it myself. It was sick.
It was sick. It was sick.
It's cool, man. It's cool.
Have you ever been witness to a double renegade? No.

Like once every five years, they'll play it twice in the same game.

That's an extra cheat.

I feel like that's like an AFC North bloodbath.

Yeah.

Ravens primetime, something like that.

Yeah.

Is it true that you guys and the Ravens don't like each other?

Very true, yeah.

Throughout the record books?

What do you mean?

Like when you guys play each other, it doesn't matter what the record is. Just throw it out.

Doesn't matter.

No love lost. No love lost.
Who's the hardest guy to block? Max Crosby. Yeah? Dude.
I'm sure you can find Cliff, but he fucked me up. Really? Oh, it was so bad.
Sent me flying. I looked back.
Kenny, he'll contest the story. I looked at him.
I'm like, dude, what do you want me to do? He's like, I don't know. Go low, I guess.
Max C Broglie. He's a football player.
That was a, so another Kenny question, like Kenny, the end of the year, it did feel like you guys were in the same game every single week where it was like not being able to move the ball, not being able to move the ball. Then the minute you needed like fourth quarter, that drive, Kenny was that dude.
It was there something like that you could see in the huddle where it's just like, I feel feel the trust here like he he's got us yeah he's so he's clutch like you never never wavered in like any type of situation that game any game that we played is really like he's he's even killed throughout the whole game and too many situations he just won't win yeah and he he has that winning gene like even in OTAs like he's like like no we're not just it's not OTAs like we're competing to win. So you love to play for him.
He's a good dude. Yeah.
And he has that winning gene. Like, even in OTAs, like, he's like, no, we're not just – it's not OTAs.
Like, we're competing to win. So you love to play for him.
He's a good dude. Yeah.
Yeah. So what's the record going to be this year? You have to guarantee this.
Guarantee it. 16-0.
16-0. All right.
So 17 games? Oh, 17. 16-1.
16-1. 16-1.
Okay. I didn't even go back to school.
It was last week because you pull all your starters because you have the number one seed locked up. Exactly.
Yeah. And in fairness to you, they teach you that it's 17 games scheduled in your third sophomore year.
So you didn't get that far. Yeah, so I wasn't there yet.
I wasn't there yet. Yeah.
Yeah. How big is Darnell Washington? Huge.
Like, he's bigger than most of our tackles. It's crazy.
Like, he's crazy. And, like, yeah.
It's going to be fun playing with him, I'm sure. I'm pumped just because, you know, he blocked me.
He was pretty good. So maybe he'll free me up a little bit.
Yeah. I'm excited.
I think the most impressive part of your resume is that you went on Big Ben's podcast. Yeah.
What was that booking process like? He, like, texted me and was like, hey, man, can you go on my podcast? And I was like, yeah, like, when is like when is it blah blah it was actually i it was a week after the season ended so i went home and i had to fly back for it um it was cool being with coach man it was just kind of texting me and was like i want to be on my podcast i heard that somebody else asks the questions and then big ben dubs in his voice afterwards like megan markle is that true or was he in the room with you yeah He's in the room with us. All right, Jersey Jerry question here.
Are you guys going to run any different plays this year? I think he might be a little frustrated with the offense. I think the offense is looking good right now.
I think the offense is looking great right now. But maybe a few different plays? Yeah, we'll see.
I think the offense is looking great. That wasn't a yes just for everyone listening to you? Yes, it's going to be a new play.
Okay, there we go. Brand new plays.
Yes. I mean, there's a couple, yeah.
Okay, all right. Do you ever tell Najee, hey, maybe don't try to hurdle everybody because you're just going to get hit in the nuts all the time? Yeah.
No, he's got to stay. I always tell him, I don't know how you jump.
I don't know how guys jump in the air. I need my feet on the ground the whole time.
Yeah. Like, there's a lot of bad things that could happen when you're up there.
all right how big is darnell washington you're really obsessed with how big he is he's like i mean you gotta come to a game come to training camp he's uh i just want to stand next to him yeah like aaron judge and jose altuve just yeah he's he's all of success he's a big dude damn yeah he's a big dude um all right last question rowback question promo code take 20 off your first purchase rhoback.com qzips polos hoodies joggers shorts everything rowback.com all right so penn state wrestler roman bravo went on one of our podcasts uh spinning backfist shout out robbie and big ev uh and he told the story that he was living in the same building as you one night after the bars drunk eating Pringles in the elevator and you were in the elevator and you just took his Pringles and walked away would you like to refute that story or confirm that's exactly what happened so we definitely went out a lot me and him like but I don't remember ever taking stealing his pringles i'm not a big pringles guy either so it doesn't sound like me yeah but i mean that's what he wants to tell me okay it could have happened no it didn't happen definitely didn't he took your pringles what would you do if another man took your pringles i don't know i'd be pissed but i wouldn't fight any of the pen state wrestlers if that's what you're asking. Because they're some freaks.
Yeah, they are. Like Bo Nickel, I'm good.
Yeah. He's insane.
He's just sick. Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, no.
That story didn't happen. Okay.
All right. Good.
Didn't happen. No.
So he also said he pinned Micah Parsons. Did that happen? I have no idea.
Okay. That's pretty hard to do.
It feels like Micah Parsons is a guy that would be tough to pit.

Yeah.

Micah, yeah.

I'm pretty sure he wrestled.

I'm pretty sure he's a state championship wrestler in high school too.

Wouldn't surprise me.

Did you ever have to block him?

Micah?

Yeah.

I tried.

I couldn't.

He's filthy.

Yeah.

Like, he would just show, like, he's a typical, like, he shows up practice,

and it's literally like, I don't feel like practicing today,

but he'll go in for a play, and it's like, you don't need to practice. Yeah, right, right.
Just blows everything up. Literally.
But, yeah, he's a beast. Yeah.
So we are here at Titan University. We should probably ask a question about what you're hoping to learn at Titan University.
Is there one area that you're trying to get better at? Yeah, like my release game. I think Kelsey and Kittle have really good releases, so I'm trying to image them to see what they have up their up their sleeve.
I heard Jordan Reed is teaching the release class. Is he? Yeah.
Best release in the game. Best release in the game.
Yeah. That'll be pretty interesting.
Okay. All right.
Well, Pat, this has been awesome, man. Appreciate you coming on.
Appreciate it. Best of luck this year.
Appreciate it. I'm sure we'll be riding with you, as Jersey Jerry tells us every week.
This is the week. Yeah.
First touchdown, Pat. Yeah, maybe every week will be the week.
You're always open. Always open.
Always open, Kenny. Always open.
All right, thanks, man. Appreciate it, guys.
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And it was like a buddy cop film with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock, kind of a tight ass, little bit of a what? She was a Jake.
She was. She was a little Jake.
And then we had Melissa McCarthy playing the role of Billy, who just starts like busting people's faces and going crazy. I love this movie.
Great, great movie. I will watch any buddy cop movie, actually.
Buddy cop might be my favorite genre. It goes back to watching the old Lethal Weapons.
It's just a can't miss formula. Right, right.
Hey, did you like all the Boston scenes? Yeah, it was nice. Nice Boston setting.
Bill Burr cameo was great. Not a lot of other good cameos that I thought in my head.
There was one real piece of shit in this movie. I forget the guy's name.
Yeah. When he got busted, I was like, good.
Get him off the screen. I was like, ha ha ha.
You sick fuck. Also, Peter Chernin.
Yes. I was like, this movie is great.
Who produced it? Duh. And we have a wild fact from Jake that he was so excited.
He told me twice before we started taping once You said it twice The second time was where I was like dude stop Yeah so yesterday was the 10 year anniversary That this movie released in theaters Wow That isth, 2013. I love this movie so much.
So max.com has all the movies, shows, everything. That was fun doing movie reviews.
I feel like we learned some things. I was doing some research on it.
I'm wondering because it made a lot of money. It was a very well-received movie.
The director said there was going to be a sequel, but Bullock shut it down. You might need to start a change.org sandra don't do that baby lighten up we need this she you know she needs melissa mccarthy in her life yeah i mean they're great together this art perfect art imitates life it's actually it's kind of like the david spade chris farley dynamic on screen yeah yeah so make us give us the heat too we're gonna talk to we're gonna talk to old peter let him know let's do it big p all right let's finish up a lot better than jared from subway i'll say that yeah yeah i enjoyed i enjoyed watching the palate cleanser yes it was yeah if you're gonna if you're gonna you know spend spends the holiday weekend watching a movie i would i would suggest uh the heat yes yeah if you're like sitting at home on a home on a weekday afternoon, maybe.
Yeah, we did basically every genre of movie. Yeah, it was great.
Okay, let's wrap up with Fyre Fest. Hank.
Yeah, I mean, you guys all heard Wednesday. I kind of alluded to it, but the Taco Bell, Mount Rushmore came out knew it was bad in real time I told my dad beforehand I was like dad like we did the the Mount Rushmore of Taco Bell menu items and I don't think it went well and he still called me reached out to be like I know you told me it was bad but that was horrible it was and I don't think he's ever reached out to be like you know I've had some bad takes on the show said some stupid things he's never reached out to be like that was bad like you embarrassed me it wasn't just your dad that heard it right well then i was like hopefully yeah because i know my grandfather i know he listens sometimes like hopefully you know he doesn't catch that one he's like this is every episode he listens to every episode it was very funny he hasn't even said anything we were walking out of the hotel yesterday and hank was just on the phone he's like yeah i'm sorry again i'm sorry again i was like who the hell was that he's like it was my dad talking about the taco bell draft yeah who did your dad say had the best draft uh he said the breakfast crunch drop was bullshit he did say that he's like that shouldn't that that shouldn't be ruled separately in the crunch but what you kind of didn't answer the question i asked you i don't even remember what he said I think you said that we had the best round.
So you guys must have gotten 70% of the vote. Nobody got 70%.
I think you guys had 64% of the vote. You said to me and Billy, just to let you guys know, Big Cat and I are going to get about 70% of the vote today.
Well, we should have. Well, you didn't.
Well, you guys used an AI robot. Billy was like, this proves that Taco Bell's not good.
No, it proves that you guys completely pandered and pandering works.

You went and looked top Taco Bell items.

That's all you listed.

We're not familiar.

We're lots of research.

I'll put my hand up.

Where we went wrong, we should have taken Baja Blast.

And that's something I've had.

Baja Blast, whoever took that was going to win.

It's like drafting Bedard.

Yeah, but it does not mean Billy's conclusion of this is that taco bell's not good that's the opposite people love taco bell that was a great mount rushmore i think i'm easily you know i'm a humble guy but i pretty pretty far and away the best mount rushmore drafter on this show over the years and to have probably the lowest percentage of a vote on a topic that is so near, dear to my heart. Yeah, you stink.
Yeah, that was bad, Hank. You stink bad.
I overthought it. You should suspend yourself.
Yeah. Yeah, you should.
Let masks go rogue. It was bigger than me.
I was trying to do it for the whole fam, and I let everyone down. You let everyone down.
And I will hear about it forever. It's not something I won't.
Every time I'm at family events, Thanksgiving, Christmas, I'll be like, what happened? Yeah, it'd be like if we did an elevator draft and PFT didn't win. Otis, number one.
By far. By far.
Tyson, Krupp, get the fuck out of here. I'll take the stairs instead of taking a TK.
Okay, PFT, what's your fire fest? My fire fest of the week is so you know a lot of our fire fest recently have involved moving to one extent or the other it has been a pretty big part of our lives for the last couple months it never ends yeah i've been i've been ordering a lot of stuff to my house including a lot of these novelty signs that are just so true that i'm going to stack the entire wall behind me with but i i ordered a bunch of stuff, including some big things. So I've got a house.
I need stuff to put in it. I bought a fiddle fig tree, which is like an indoor tree that you can have in your house.
Real or fake? It's real. It's alive, but it lives indoors.
And I bought one of those. That's a lot of responsibility.
And I shipped it by mistake to my old apartment.

Oh no.

And I just found out today that it showed up at my apartment in New York and I don't know what to do.

I guess it just lives in,

in my apartment lobby and it's going to die there.

Like there's a living thing that's about to die.

How big is it?

Uh,

my guess would be six feet tall.

Oh my God.

Six and a half feet tall.

I don't know what to do.

I get, I could ask Billy to go over to my apartment That would work Rescue the tree Save a life And then ship it to me in Chicago Tell him to do it July 3rd Or like cut it up And send it in like a box Yeah Yeah what's in the box Yeah tell him to do it Right before July 4th Yeah I mean Billy's in New York right now right Yeah I could ask him to go Ship me my tree. Yeah, you should.
Why wouldn't you? Well, there's some other stuff that got shipped there, too, by mistake. Oh, fuck.
A couple dogs, a small kitten in a box. I did that.
That's a joke. It's actually, it's the tree and then some other things that won't die.
I did that when I moved last time, and I shipped eight novelty, like, foam, oversized cowboy hats to my old place. That's funny.
My old landlord was like, what is this? What's going on? I might also order drugs to my apartment and then have Billy ship those to me too so he would get caught for it just to try to get Billy hemmed up. That's good.
Frame him for something. It's been a long time since we framed somebody.
Yeah, he won't hear this. But I hope.
I think Billy's probably. He's probably my best bet, right?

Like, I don't know.

I don't know what else to do.

And I could ask my neighbors to do it.

But I feel like that's like a bridge too far.

And I respect you not asking me to do it.

No, of course not.

That would be crazy.

It sounds like the start of like a movie.

Yeah.

Like I had to go get my tree.

Yeah.

Tree rescue.

Yeah.

Get Billy to rescue.

Cross country tree. I'm going to ask Billy to rescue my tree for me have him do it um all right my fire fest i actually had a really great week it was a great week the only thing that went somewhat wrong was i went uh so we've been here in pinehurst with a bunch of barstool employees uh we were doing like a a pizza night at rig's house and jerry and i jersey j Jerry and I went to get ice cream and we had a nice little ice cream date, sat on a bench and almost broke the bench, broke one of the slats of the bench.
That's a really humbling thing to sit down. Was it before you started eating the ice cream or after? No, it was in the middle.
Yeah. It got too heavy.
I got a large ice cream and then I broke a bench. It was like you were at the tipping point and then by the fourth lick it's like this is too much i can't take yeah so that was bad but um yeah it was a great week great job hank i know that you are slowly making uh my job to just be golf and so far i guess it's been okay yeah i mean i was you know i i know this is is future Big Cat and Dave.
This is something Dave was part of, too, that both of you have always kind of been like this where months in advance, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then leading up, you were both kind of like, wait.
We have to go for how long? For four days, and we're kind of up my ass about it. But I think it went really well.
Everyone had a good time. We could have done it in two days, but yeah.
Great competition, great time. There was a full day that was just practice.
Yeah time we could have done it in two days but yeah it was great competition great time there was a full day that was just practice yeah we could have done it was a travel day everyone had to get in if people missed their flights or whatever that's fine it wasn't it was it was a great time people will love the videos videos wasn't the most efficient that's golf baby that's you got it you know you don't want to rush it yeah you don't you want to make sure you stay an extra day just to golf a little more, too. Yeah.
I got you. I got you.
Are you staying, Jake, to golf? I am. Jesus Christ.
Okay. This is becoming a golf podcast.
It is. He's making the whole company a golf company.
What happened yesterday out on the range, Billy has been like the most anti-golf person in the world, saying every podcast becomes a golf podcast. Golf sucks.
It's for losers billy stepped up and took a couple rips with the driver and the first three went like directly to the right i think he hit a couple they went far that's all he cared about and then and then the last one that he hit he absolutely piped it and he started jumping up and down in the air like a like a safety that just made a big sack and he was so amped up i think think Billy is now a golfer. I think Billy's been converted.

Yeah.

20,

20,

23,

20,

24 grit week from abandoned dunes in Oregon or St.

Andrews.

That is definitely what's going to happen.

Hank is going to make us just do golf for everything.

It's fine.

It's fine.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I'm fine with it.

I can't resist it.

Like there's nothing I can do. You made an entire golf tournament so you'm fine with it.
I can't resist it. Like, there's nothing I can do.

You made an entire golf tournament so you could play in it.

Fact.

No comment.

No comment.

A four-day golf event today could compete in.

It's grand.

Okay.

I'm exhausted.

Jake.

Yeah, my Fyre Fest was documented in real time. Speaking speaking of golf american airlines lost my clubs for 24 hours oh and it was scary scary very scary so talk about a roller coaster of a month in terms of golf for me first hole in one first eagle but i lost my clubs what i thought was maybe forever what was the scariest part of that losing the club that i hit a hole

in one with oh i want to frame that just wonder if it's okay is it hard to rent lefty clubs uh they had one set okay yeah because i feel like that's that's one of those lefties don't really have the best life in general no well they're they're witches yeah they can rent you a broomstick yeah it's fine that specific thing would suck because i would imagine there's not a lot of lefty rental clubs.

Yeah, but we're okay now.

But it was very scary.

It's kind of weird that there's righties and lefties, isn't it? It's like a whoa. Yeah.
Like, why don't I just make everyone righties? Or just ambidextrous. Yeah.
Yeah, why aren't we just all ambidextrous? I am. Well, they used to righties what they do if you're left-handed they just start back in the day right-handed yeah that's true in tyson's at school yeah you guys get that rest i'm like this and we get the smudge yeah what does it say about about ben simmons that he tries so hard to be left-handed yeah it's true he's trying to be different you're different.
You're trying to be different. You can't fit out, fit in.
Bro, just be a dude.

Yeah.

All right.

Great week.

Again, MLB draft coming Monday.

Dungeons & Dragons Friday.

No show Wednesday.

Then we're back to our regular schedule.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, July 14th

will be the takeies.

Look, here's the number right now.

Four.

I haven't touched it yet.

Numbers? 69. Four.
18 haven't touched it yet. Numbers.

69.

Four.

18.

You're going to guess four again.

All right.

I'll guess 17.

20 for Max Shane.

11 for Shane.

Memes one.

Have you ever gotten it?

Okay.

Shane, have you got it?

Oh, shit.

That's tough, guys.

84.

I feel like that one hit recently, huh?

84.

Let's see.

Love you guys.

New leader.

Ten times.

Whoa.

84 been hot.

May 9th.

All right.

See everyone on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

Love you guys.

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