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Speaker 1 On today's pardon my take,

Speaker 1 NBA playing action. We're actually starting the show with a minute left in overtime.
of the dumbest game possible. The Lakers versus Timberwolves.
We're going to talk about the Heat Hawks.

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Pardon my take.

Speaker 1 Welcome to Part of My Take. Today is Wednesday, April 12th, and we've got NBA playoffs, kind of NBA play-in game.
We're watching OT right now. There's 35 seconds left.

Speaker 1 Live it up, PFT.

Speaker 1 We have NBA playoffs playing.

Speaker 7 No, so it's they were very specific about this in the early game. It's not a playoff game.
It's technically a non-regular season game. So these stats don't count towards the playoffs.

Speaker 7 They don't count towards the regular season. It's its own thing.
It's no man's land. The Timberwolves are right now down by three points with 35 seconds left in overtime.

Speaker 7 This game sucked. This game, the fourth quarter was so bad.

Speaker 7 I think everybody out there with a pulse that's ever seen basketball or heard of the state of Minnesota before knew that the Timberwolves were going to give this up.

Speaker 7 The Lakers were going to come back. The NBA, David Stern, was going to figure out a way for LeBron James to advance to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Well, and it's not even the Lakers playing well. The T-Wolves just, they were so hot from three for the first half.
They were lights out. They were playing a great game.

Speaker 1 Everyone was like, Rudy Gobert, who?

Speaker 1 Now we can play five out. We've got all this flexibility.
Carl Anthony Towns is playing great, even though they just kept on giving him fouls.

Speaker 1 And every time he had to sit, the Lakers would crawl back. And then we got to the fourth quarter, and they scored a combined 31 points in the fourth quarter.
The Timberwolves scored 12 points.

Speaker 1 The Timberwolves didn't score. They scored their last field goal with six minutes left in the game.

Speaker 1 The next time they scored was Anthony Davis. This is how dumb the game was.

Speaker 1 The Lakers go up by three with

Speaker 1 a second and a half left. Memes tweets it from the Pardon My take account, game winner.
Anthony Davis fouls Mike Conley shooting a three from basically behind the basket.

Speaker 1 The Timberlolls hadn't scored in fucking six minutes. Danny fouls Mike Conley shooting a three up three with one second left.

Speaker 7 They get three foul shots. The first barely made it.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's nervous.

Speaker 7 The second and the third were both extremely shaky from Conley. Even though Conley played awesome tonight, this was a great game for Mike Conley.
That was awesome. Former teammate of Mark Titus.

Speaker 7 He hasn't mentioned that. Yeah, also, I took a piss next to Ed Sheeran one time.
But yeah, Mike Conley played basketball with Mark Titus. Great game.
Legacy game.

Speaker 7 Under the bright lights of the play-in tournament for Mike Conley. And they scored.
The Timberwolves scored with 0.1 seconds left on the clock.

Speaker 8 And then they didn't score until overtime with like a put-back layup. We almost just got double overtime there for a second.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're a little ahead of me. Shit.
I hope we don't get good double overtime.

Speaker 7 Don't stream snipe, Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah, damn, you stream sniped me, Hank.

Speaker 1 And now it's probably going to happen when we get the live reaction. Well, I don't know what's happening.
I'm watching on my computer, so I'm a cord cutter like all the new kids.

Speaker 1 But yeah, this game, this game, oh man, oh shit. You're right.
We almost did. They bricked a number with another three.
This game was so bad, though.

Speaker 1 This game was revenge for everyone who said, why would you watch March Madness?

Speaker 1 It's just a bunch of dudes missing shots and throwing the ball out of bounds because there was that sequence where the Timber Worlds just missed every shot.

Speaker 1 And then, like, LeBron threw one out of bounds. There was the loose ball foul.
Like, everyone just sucked. And

Speaker 1 here's my thing with the play-in tournament. I like it in theory because more basketball, more fun.

Speaker 1 These teams suck. These teams aren't going to, like, I need a play-in tournament team to win a title for me to start respecting the play-in tournament.

Speaker 1 because the NBA playoffs like historically are the you know the top seeds are usually the teams that you see at the end of the end of the whole thing you know what I mean like you we're just deciding who's going to go get maybe the Lakers will ESPN will tell us tomorrow the Lakers watch out for them they're going to take down the Grizzlies maybe the Hawks are going to go after Hank Celtics I don't think so like the heat were so bad tonight we'll get to them in a second but like at the end of the day these teams are just not none of these teams are going to win a title Well,

Speaker 1 the eight teams in the play-in tournament are not going to win a title.

Speaker 7 So people forget the reason that the play-in tournament was basically started, much like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire got admitted to the Tri-Wizard tournament as a fourth wizard.

Speaker 7 They wanted to get Zion Williamson into the playoffs

Speaker 7 his rookie year. So they were like, okay, tell you what,

Speaker 7 let's have the Pelicans. We'll do like a special thing where the Pelicans can technically play some playoff games and get ratings on it.
Also, the NBA just wants another event to slap a sponsor on.

Speaker 7 So they're like, okay, it's the play-in tournament presented by ATT. That's another $5 million.

Speaker 1 Well, it also was built in as, you know, credit to the NBA for actually trying to get tanking to stop, which they've made measures to, you know, like flattening the top three picks in the lottery and everything.

Speaker 1 So the play-in is part of that, where you can still be in the playoffs and you shouldn't tank if you're one of these bad teams that's under 500 that could be in the 10th seed.

Speaker 1 But the Mavericks pissed all over that this year. So, like, the Mavericks, like,

Speaker 1 after watching this game, the NBA should stop their investigation against the Mavericks because the Mavericks were like, hey, we'd rather a draft pick than play in this play-in tournament.

Speaker 1 And I agree with their decision. Yes, 100%.

Speaker 7 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 7 You think the Thunder are going to get lucky, win two games, and then get to the NBA finals?

Speaker 1 The Thunder are the only team you could say, well, they're getting reps. Young team, Shay, like, they're getting reps.

Speaker 1 Next year, Chet, they're getting reps. You can always flip it where it's like, well, that team needs some reps.
That's big-time

Speaker 1 playoff pressure for them. A lot of guys who haven't been there.

Speaker 7 Well, the Pelicans are doing the exact same. The Pelicans are just like, Zion is not going to play because of reasons.

Speaker 1 And just trust us on that one. Did you see he released a statement today? He said he feels good, but he's not going to play until he feels like Zion again.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so you remember when he was coming back from, I don't know, this is like four injuries ago, where they had him practicing on like a special trampoline, like a small floor, a soft floor.

Speaker 7 Zion's just never going to be healthy. And he said that he's sick of this shit and he would like to play, and he is healthy, but he's not himself right now.

Speaker 7 So that's just basically Zion being like, yeah, you know, I'd really like to, but they pay me anyways. So why would I exercise if they're going to give me money?

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 3 So it looks like this game is over.

Speaker 1 Hank, do you want to tell us this game's over?

Speaker 1 Is it officially over? You're faster than us.

Speaker 8 No, it's not over yet.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, let's just say the Lakers, the Lakers have advanced to play against the Grizzlies.

Speaker 1 Maybe they can beat the Grizzlies. Oh, they just showed Rob Lowe slash Rob Palinka watching his team the play-in game.
Four number one picks in this play-in game. That's how you know it was official.

Speaker 1 I have a fun fact. Yeah.

Speaker 7 So this is now the first time that all four teams from California have made the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that's off of my other fun fact that I was throwing. Did I throw it out to you guys yesterday? I can't remember.
It's so late that I've lost my mind. I'm not in, this is football shape.

Speaker 1 We're not in football shape. This is also the first time since the Mavericks became a franchise in 1981, I want to say, that no teams from Texas made the playoffs.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Wow.
So it's like a reverse of all those companies that moved to Texas, like Twitter, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 Reverse Joe Rogan.

Speaker 7 We're going back. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
All right. So the Lakers have advanced.
The T-Wolves,

Speaker 1 let's do some positive spin zones for the T-Wolves. Okay, one, I think they're better without Rudy Gobert.
Yeah,

Speaker 7 like legitimately,

Speaker 7 you can make the case on defense that they need somebody like that to protect the rim, but on offense, they are. Like, I don't think it's even a debate right now.

Speaker 7 They work better, with the exception of the last six minutes of the game. They work better on offense without them.

Speaker 1 Two,

Speaker 1 you get a home game now.

Speaker 1 Wolves are undefeated in home playing games. That will be electric.
Three, I don't think

Speaker 1 Anthony Edwards can play worse than he played tonight. He was so, so bad.
0 for 9 from 3, 3 for 17 shooting. Look lost out there.

Speaker 7 Respect to him for, he kept shooting, at least. He's like, one's got to go in at some point.

Speaker 1 He's the ultimate confidence.

Speaker 7 And then it just never went.

Speaker 7 I tweeted this out, but you remember how when you were in, like when you were playing basketball, when you were in elementary and middle school, and the coach showed you a hoop, a basketball hoop, and then put two balls inside of it.

Speaker 7 It's like, look how big this rim is. Like, you should be able to make these shots easily.
That's what they needed to do for Anthony Edwards tonight because he was so bad, so bad, and he kept shooting.

Speaker 1 So there's your spin zone.

Speaker 1 And you have Luca Garza on the bench who's ready to go.

Speaker 1 He was not dressed tonight, but Dennis Schroeder did the three-point celebration right in Luca Garza's face. I feel like that was a little too much because, like, what can Luca do? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's not out there.

Speaker 7 Hopefully we can get some protesters gluing their hands to the floor in Minnesota. That would be nice.

Speaker 1 Run that back.

Speaker 1 So Friday night, we'll find out who the Timberwolves play after tomorrow's games.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about the other game,

Speaker 1 the death of Heat Culture, Jake. It's over.
And I'm not trying to just be a prisoner of the moment, but they got absolutely bullied. 63 to 39 on the rebounds.
Absolutely bullied.

Speaker 1 And in a reverse, like how we just said, Anthony Edwards couldn't play worse. I don't think Kyle Lowry could play better.
They got the best Kyle Lowry game and they still lost.

Speaker 1 I was like, I thought the Heat were going to win. I still believe in Heat culture.
I think it might be dead. They got absolutely bullied.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Clint Capella had more offensive rebounds than the Heat did as a team.

Speaker 1 Clint Capella was awesome tonight. Clint Capella had an all-time stat line.
He was two for three from the floor. 0 for 4 from free throws and 21 rebounds.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 I bet on him him to get a double-double tonight. Would have been nice to spread some of those stats around a little bit.
But yeah, he was a beast, and it got off to a weird start because

Speaker 7 the article came out quoting people from the Hawks front office that they were open to shopping everyone, including... Trey Young before the game started.

Speaker 7 And so this was like Trey Young's revenge game on

Speaker 7 his own franchise, essentially, being like, fuck you, I'm going to show you what I can still do.

Speaker 7 Yeah,

Speaker 7 it was a great game. Quinn Snyder did a great job.
Quinn Snyder, I I think we can say like

Speaker 7 if you need one guy to win you one NBA game with like an average roster, Quinn Snyder is probably the best guy out there to do it.

Speaker 1 He's a very good coach. The Hawks are the play-in champions.
They are 3-0 all-time in play-in games, so they deserve that crown.

Speaker 1 A couple other things. I was thinking about it.
So 63 to 39 on rebounds. I think that's the third largest

Speaker 1 24 point margin you can have so i was thinking i wrote it them all out this is this sounds very stupid it's one in the morning i think 43 19 is a bigger margin oh yeah yeah no i and i think 94 69 is also a bigger margin and then 63 39.

Speaker 7 i've talked about this before with like 14 point games in football yeah there are some scores that are way more than 14 points i would say like 10 to 24

Speaker 7 um pretty big 14 point margin but not as big no the yeah

Speaker 7 Not as big as 9 to 23.

Speaker 1 9 to 23. 21.17.

Speaker 7 31.17 is another big one. Yeah.
Anytime you can jump double digits,

Speaker 7 that's more than 14 points.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, so that's my quick, quick power rankings of 24-point differences. So it's 43, 19, 94, 69, 63, 39.
Again, this is... one in the morning thought.
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 I literally wrote them all out. I wish you could see my computer right now because I was writing them all out and 33.9 was like, well, that's early in the game.

Speaker 1 They'll catch up. You know, it feels large, but you're like, that can't be the end of the game.
Yeah. No, all numbers are.
94.69 is 25. 93.69, whatever fucking Jake.
Oh, wow, Jake.

Speaker 7 Jake, with a fact. Jake's spicy tonight because his heat stuck.

Speaker 1 93.69. Yeah, Jake, what do you want to say? Your heat culture, Jimmy Butler had like a tweet that like a fit or a post-game comment that sounded like a fan tweeted it with like three followers.

Speaker 1 He said, come Friday, we have to play the legit exact opposite of how we played tonight.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean, pretty good summation.

Speaker 9 Offensive rebounding by Atlanta was insane.

Speaker 9 Oregon said.

Speaker 1 I have a question for you, Jake. Basketball, if you're, let's pretend you're the basketball gym.
Let's pretend you're Pat Riley. Do you think having a roster with the only power forward?

Speaker 1 Bam is a power forward playing center. So when you put him at center, your other two power forwards are Kevin Love, who we love,

Speaker 1 and Eudonis Haslam, who's 55 years old. Do you think that might be a roster construction issue?

Speaker 9 I've always believed in Pat Riley. He always seems to be making the right moves.
So it seems like this is going to be a hardcore reset after this year. Obviously, Mr.
305 is departing.

Speaker 9 So I think there's a lot of pressure on him to reshuffle some things over the summer.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I mean, in Pat Riley's defense, like, Yodanis Haslam got old fast.

Speaker 1 You know, like, no one thought you saw that one coming. You thought you could rely on him.
He got him a rock and gave you some rebound.

Speaker 1 He might come back next year.

Speaker 7 I'm not going to believe that he's retired until he actually retires.

Speaker 1 But it was one of those things I was looking at the box score and I was like, huh, like, I love Haslam. Great.

Speaker 1 Like, who wouldn't want to have his career where you can just basically hang out on a team for the twilight of years and just be a guy and like hang out?

Speaker 8 He hasn't played in like five years.

Speaker 1 I know. I know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 It's been a long twilight. So did Mac McClung, dude.

Speaker 8 It was the last game of the year.

Speaker 1 But in reality, you probably want your power forwards to not be Adonis Haslam and Kevin Love in a play-in game.

Speaker 1 Or have Bam be your power forward and have a center. That could also work.

Speaker 8 Sounds like you're saying, or any game.

Speaker 1 Or any game.

Speaker 1 Or any game or any game uh i guess cody zeller's also on the roster which is always fun name to say um shout out charles barkley for telling people just don't watch the first round of the eastern playoff games that was awesome i'm sure i'm sure his bosses were very happy to watch that on the they were it's yeah well they were happy his bosses yeah

Speaker 1 in what way because he does the west

Speaker 7 oh i i thought that tnt was going to be i thought don't they always do the the West?

Speaker 1 Do they do both? I'm thinking about it. They do the Western Conference finals.

Speaker 8 I don't know how the first

Speaker 8 round is. No, the first round, I think they kind of switch.

Speaker 7 Those are going to be on TNT. It's going to be Charles Barkley doing the halftime show.
And he's like, just do yourselves a favor, don't watch the first round of the playoffs. I love it.

Speaker 1 That's why people love Charles Barkley. He's being honest.

Speaker 1 That's kind of my point of playing.

Speaker 9 I think it's a lot of fun that can get away with that type of comment and not get in trouble for it, I feel like.

Speaker 1 But it was back to the play-in game talk. Like, these teams aren't going to go anywhere.
I know that people are going to try to tell us the Lakers are going to go somewhere.

Speaker 1 They're not going to go anywhere. And you can quote this and tweet it, whatever.
The Hawks aren't going to go anywhere. The Heat, the Bulls, the Raptors aren't going to go anywhere.

Speaker 7 It's just a fact. I just think there's no chance that the Hawks can do what they did tonight against the Celtics on the glass.
It's just not going to happen.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 10 And they don't play defense.

Speaker 1 The good news is, if the Heat do do make it to the playoffs.

Speaker 8 And the Celtics do.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Celtics do play good defense. If the Heat do make it to the playoffs, they're going up against a team that can't rebound at all in the Milwaukee Bucks.

Speaker 1 Wait, shit. I forgot they have Giannis.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't want to watch that.

Speaker 1 I don't want to watch that. Hank, your

Speaker 1 scared meter for the Hawks, is it it can't be zero?

Speaker 1 I mean, if it can't be zero then it's one okay that's fair well it can't be zero just because like we'll give them one game just because it's the NBA you never know what's gonna happen maybe they win a home game Southwick's in five if it goes six something went seriously wrong it can't be zero just because I've learned when Max's sixers were the eighth seed and took down the bulls when Derrick Rose got hurt you could always have an injury so it can't be zero Yeah, but that's really the only thing.

Speaker 8 Well, we already have we already have the hand injury.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 7 Hank, would you say if you stay fully healthy, it's going to be whomping?

Speaker 8 I think even if Jalen or Jason doesn't play, it's going to be a whomping.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 it's going to be 4-1, and Trey Young has one insane game. Yeah.

Speaker 7 He's going to talk so much shit.

Speaker 1 That feels like.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 8 it could be 4-0.

Speaker 8 They could just lock him down.

Speaker 1 Yeah. This is, I mean,

Speaker 1 we'll see what... I mean, the heat, maybe the Bulls will play the the heat, Jake.
That would be fun. See who can go get massacred by the Bucks.

Speaker 9 I think we're all in agreement now. Just give me the Celtics, the Bucs, and give us all the popcorn.

Speaker 1 Or some of the Celtics and the Sixers.

Speaker 1 Oh, damn. That was way worse than my 94, 93.

Speaker 9 Celtics and the Sixers, and we can watch whatever happens on the show.

Speaker 1 Whatever happens.

Speaker 7 How much popcorn are you talking about here, Jake?

Speaker 1 Kettle corn. I'm going to hold you to this.
A lot. Kettle corn.

Speaker 1 Kettle corn.

Speaker 1 That's dangerous for your teeth. A ton of kettle corn.
That's also not the city.

Speaker 7 You don't eat kettle corn when you're watching sports, Jake.

Speaker 9 I don't remember the last time I watched, I ate any popcorn watching sports, but yes, it's not like sold.

Speaker 1 You eat kettle corn when there's like a little dish of kettle corn just like in the kitchen. You're like, oh, I'll just grab a little handful.

Speaker 1 No knock on kettle corn, but you can't sit down and eat a whole bag of kettle corn.

Speaker 8 I've done it. Yeah, you can

Speaker 8 at like King Richard's Fair. You're just going to like, you know,

Speaker 8 an old Renaissance fair. Just crush some kettle corn.

Speaker 1 But that's a little more salt.

Speaker 7 That's like holiday food. You have it around the holiday.

Speaker 11 What do you mean?

Speaker 8 Renaissance was the original sport.

Speaker 7 You don't eat kettle corn when you're watching sports.

Speaker 1 It's on TV.

Speaker 12 How about that?

Speaker 9 I'm going to change that if the Celtics play the Sixers.

Speaker 1 The Celtics Play the Sixers, you need to eat an entire bag of kettle corn for every game. Yep.
You said give me all the

Speaker 1 popcorn, Jake. Give me all the kettle corn.

Speaker 1 one full bag of kettle corn can't be a small bag has to be like a real bag of kettle corn every single day

Speaker 1 okay now i'm rooting for celtic sixers just watch jake eat kettle corn i don't even want to watch the games i just want to watch jake eat his kettle corn and get sick of kettle corn um and we do get lakers grizzlies which will be fun i'm excited for that and you know what

Speaker 1 I'll listen to enough people tomorrow on TV and I'll probably be like, watch out for the Lakers.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 they just trot everyone out to be like, the Lakers could do something. And then I'll just be like, fuck it.

Speaker 3 Maybe the Lakers could do something.

Speaker 8 They might beat the Grizzlies. I could see them winning that series.

Speaker 7 The Lakers, I think the Lakers are sneaky good.

Speaker 8 The NBA is kind of rigged. I can take this back if the Celtics won the championship, but like that game was, there's some NBA games when you're like, you just know.
what's going to happen.

Speaker 8 It didn't matter what happened the whole game. You just knew the Lakers were going to win.

Speaker 7 The Lakers are good. They beat a Timberwolves team that some people were saying could win the NBA title this year no you never said that

Speaker 7 you never said that I said could no no no they beat a team I want to defend you some

Speaker 1 some media members that don't know ball were saying that the Minnesota Timberwolves could win potentially two series yeah I well yeah because you never said they could win the title you said you bet on them to win the title because they could win two series and then you could hedge out yeah no they they definitely didn't even bet on a team that you thought could no no no they they definitely can't win the title but I did bet on them to win the title, and I still think that was a good bet.

Speaker 1 Value play. Yeah, Grizzlies, Lakers.
But Hank, you're right. Like,

Speaker 1 put your tinfoil hat on. What does the NBA want more than anything in the second round?

Speaker 1 Sixers, Celtics, so Jake can eat all his kettle corn, and Lakers, Warriors, so we can have Steph versus LeBron one last time before LeBron retires.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, what they really would like would be another Celtics-Lakers finals.

Speaker 1 Talk about Ray. There you go, Hank.

Speaker 8 Sick.

Speaker 1 I mean, if you lost to LeBron, Hank, you would actually, you would.

Speaker 8 I would, yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't want to say what,

Speaker 3 but you'd have to.

Speaker 8 You'd have to kill yourself. Retire? Yeah, no, I'd retire.

Speaker 8 I'd retire.

Speaker 8 There's nothing you could do. I'd retire.

Speaker 1 I'd retire. You'd retire from life.

Speaker 1 All right. Let's kick it to ourselves.
Back in studio. We have an awesome interview with Adam Richman in studio as well.
Really fun guy. You probably remember him from Man vs.

Speaker 1 Food. Basically did the job we all wanted to do.
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Speaker 5 I don't like that.

Speaker 8 Taylor Swift and her boyfriend broke up.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's tough. Although...

Speaker 8 Swifties all over the world. They're breaking up with their boyfriends now in solidarity.

Speaker 7 Isn't this a good thing, though? Because it means that we're going to get some bangers out of Taylor Swift. There's nothing like a good Taylor Swift breakup album.

Speaker 1 I had a little debate with our colleague Kelly Keeges, who is, I think, noted. Noted Swifty, yeah.
Noted Swifty.

Speaker 1 Very funny. Love having, love working with her.

Speaker 1 Taylor's the problem. I mean, didn't she have that as a lyric, too? Yeah, it's me.

Speaker 14 Hi.

Speaker 15 It's me. I'm the problem.

Speaker 1 She is the problem. She is emotionally not vulnerable enough.
So every time she breaks up and everyone's like, oh my God, it's so sad. No, no, no.
Taylor's the problem.

Speaker 7 Of course. Of course she is.
Yeah, she did admit it. But this is a good thing.
I'm telling you, if you're a fan of music, having a Taylor Swift break, you know what?

Speaker 7 It's about to be another Sad Girl Autumn. That's fine.

Speaker 7 It's going to be great.

Speaker 1 I like Taylor Swift.

Speaker 7 The leaves are going to turn.

Speaker 8 What's that mean for the summer?

Speaker 7 I mean single girl Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 You know what we should do for the summer?

Speaker 7 What we should do is

Speaker 7 we should try to get Billy with Taylor Swift and just have Billy break her heart so we can get more bangers.

Speaker 12 On the Drive of the 405, we spent like two hours talking about ways we'd be terrible boyfriends to Taylor Swift to make her have the best album.

Speaker 7 Yeah, just like completely emotionally neglect her and just drive her insane.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think she does that to her boyfriends. No, no, but we'd play it back.
No, you'd fall in love and then she'd break your heart. No, no, like she'd spin it.

Speaker 12 Leave her at the date and don't pay the bill.

Speaker 7 Start dating her mom.

Speaker 1 You're just being a scumbag. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no,

Speaker 5 somebody should be.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you should be a a scumbag to Taylor.

Speaker 7 I'm going to call her right now. She's going to date Pete Davidson.
It's going to happen.

Speaker 1 That's kind of tacky for her. Nah, I think she's from a British actor.

Speaker 7 Single Girl Summer. He's the perfect rebound.

Speaker 1 Maybe hook up, not date.

Speaker 3 She'll be photographed by Pete Davidson.

Speaker 1 She's not going to date. She's not going to date.

Speaker 7 You know what we should do? This will be our viral clip for this show.

Speaker 1 All right. Who you got?

Speaker 7 Taylor Swift or Beyonce? It's Taylor Swift easy.

Speaker 3 Nah. So easily.

Speaker 3 So easily.

Speaker 8 That Coachella performance, Taylor can never.

Speaker 7 You can't, no one can name a single Beyoncé song.

Speaker 8 Lemonade. Single Ladies.

Speaker 8 Who runs the World?

Speaker 7 I'm just trying to get people mad at this.

Speaker 1 Girls.

Speaker 7 No one knows a single Beyonce song, right?

Speaker 5 No idea. No idea.
Isn't she like old?

Speaker 7 Yeah, she's super old. Taylor Swift, much better vocalist.

Speaker 1 Wait, is Single Ladies Rihanna or Beyonce?

Speaker 7 It's Beyonce. Yeah.

Speaker 1 To the left, to the left.

Speaker 1 All the singers.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh, Uh-oh, oh.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh, oh.

Speaker 1 If I was a boy.

Speaker 1 All these single ladies? No, wait, no. Is that it? Yeah, all the single ladies.
All these single ladies.

Speaker 1 Under my

Speaker 8 single ladies.

Speaker 1 Under my

Speaker 1 umbrella. Ella.
That's Rihanna.

Speaker 1 Don't. Rihanna Trump's all.

Speaker 7 I'm aware, Hank. We're trying to go fucking viral here.

Speaker 15 I will say it's a legacy tour right now for Taylor Swift. She's in the middle of her tour right now.
She's in Tampa this weekend, New York, I think end of May. So

Speaker 16 maybe the fans this weekend who are going will just get like an extra.

Speaker 1 Here's my point.

Speaker 1 I like Taylor Swift. I don't want the Swifties to come after me.
I know they're very passionate. I just like she clearly is

Speaker 1 breaking up with these guys and then having everyone be like, oh, poor Taylor. She is not letting herself become emotionally vulnerable and finding love.
Love should trump all.

Speaker 1 And it's fine. If she wants her career over love, that's great.
But don't cry me a river when you're like, you know, 70 years old by yourself, Taylor.

Speaker 7 Not that she will be.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, I'm very scared of the Swifties.

Speaker 3 Very scared.

Speaker 1 If you can tell, I'm couching all my language.

Speaker 7 I don't know who out there would disagree with you about that because

Speaker 7 she's very clearly, yeah, it's tough, probably tough to date Taylor Swift. Yeah, she's just too tall.

Speaker 12 Lana Del Rey is the true goat, though.

Speaker 7 That was unnecessary, big cat.

Speaker 1 Lana Del Ray?

Speaker 12 No, I love Lana Del Rey. She's like, she just got engaged.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 12 Yeah, she had a breakup. Damn.
She just dropped a new album that was Killer after the breakup. Mm-hmm.
There's a tunnel under Oceans Boulevard.

Speaker 7 You know what?

Speaker 7 In the spirit of solidarity amongst dudes, I'm sick of dudes having their hearts broken by Taylor Swift.

Speaker 7 So I'm saying as guys, we should all band together and say we should go on strike from dating Taylor Swift.

Speaker 8 And the Swifties are so strong, like it's kind of a joke, but there's definitely...

Speaker 8 She has such a big fan base, even if it's 1% of 1% of the diehards that are like Taylor Swift broke up with her boyfriend. I'm breaking up with mine.

Speaker 8 Like that 100% has happened all over the the world.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 7 So likewise, all dudes, if you're a real dude, you're not dating Taylor Swift this summer.

Speaker 1 I stay in with, what's his name?

Speaker 1 Joe Alwin. Joe Alwin.

Speaker 1 He's going to release the best movie of all time. Yeah.
There you go. Go, Joe Alwin, go.
I just found out who you were like two days ago, but I've been a big fan for life.

Speaker 8 I don't even know his name. I just wrote Taylor Swift and her boyfriend broke up.

Speaker 7 It's just sad that that walk down Cornelius Street will never happen again.

Speaker 1 No. No.

Speaker 1 All right, your cool cool throne?

Speaker 8 My cool throne is John Rahm's dad.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Hank, you're stealing all of mine.

Speaker 3 That was going to be my cool throne.

Speaker 1 Sorry.

Speaker 1 You killed him. Can I take it? You killed him.
Yo, I got another one. I have another one.
I have another one.

Speaker 7 My cool throne is John Rahm's dad. Turns out still very much alive.
So shout out John Rahm's dad.

Speaker 1 I think he normally right after the massacre.

Speaker 7 He did. So I got confused because Jim Nance was talking about how it was Seve Biasteros' birthday.
Sevi, obviously, major champion, Spanish golf icon. And

Speaker 7 I was probably looking between screens at the time, and my brain morphed that all into one story. So John Rahm's dad is still very much alive.
Early frontrunner for still a live person of the year.

Speaker 1 You florioed him.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so

Speaker 7 I mean, yeah, Florio's with Terry, Terry Bradshaw.

Speaker 7 He killed Terry Bradshaw. At some point, when Terry Bradshaw dies, Florio will have been the first to report it.

Speaker 8 That's true.

Speaker 7 Hopefully, Mr. Rahm has a long life ahead of him, can see his son win several more green jackets.

Speaker 7 But still, we can allow us to be the first to report that John Rahm's dad is not dead.

Speaker 1 No, allow us to be the first to congratulate John Rom's dad on not being dead.

Speaker 7 Yeah, congrats.

Speaker 1 Yes, that's a huge thing. You did it.
A lot of people die all the time. You didn't.
Yep. So think about that.

Speaker 3 Survivor.

Speaker 7 Yeah, absolutely. Tough as nails.

Speaker 1 Of fake deaths as reported by this podcast.

Speaker 3 He survived that shit. Yep.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 My other cool thing was baseball. Yeah.
The pitch clock has been great. I've been a pretty known baseball hater probably since the existence of this podcast.

Speaker 8 I played it a lot growing up, got super bored watching it as I got older, but I'm getting into it. I like the speed of the games.
It makes it a lot more watchable.

Speaker 8 I've watched more baseball this spring than probably the entire last two years combined.

Speaker 7 They also changed another rule that goes along with the pitch clock rule, which is they're extending beer sales into the eighth inning now, which is huge because the game moves so much faster.

Speaker 7 People were getting cut off earlier.

Speaker 7 Now, you could also make the argument argument that, well, the eighth and ninth innings go by faster, so they should cut off the beer sales earlier because the same thing, not us, we would not make that argument.

Speaker 7 But I think the Brewers were the first team to extend beer sales

Speaker 1 into the eighth inning.

Speaker 7 Yeah, into the eighth inning. So have you ever seen that list when they do

Speaker 7 like the 20 drunkest cities and towns in America? And I think like 14 or 15 of them are in Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, they do like a heat map of like the drunkest people in America, and it's just, like bright, bright red in all of Wisconsin. Yeah.

Speaker 12 People from Wisconsin aren't allowed to compete in like a bunch of Mexican drink, like beer chugging competitions. When you go down there, it's just like there's signs.
No one from Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 I think that's a joke, but yeah.

Speaker 13 No,

Speaker 12 I saw a picture of the sign.

Speaker 1 But right, but it's like a resort joke? Yeah. No, it's real.
No,

Speaker 7 they have like licensing, and it's a rule. It's a regulated body.

Speaker 1 I don't know if Wisconsin still has this law, but for the longest time, the law was if you're with your parent,

Speaker 1 you can drink in the bar. Yeah, I think it was over 18, you could drink at the bar with your parent.
Under 18, you could be in the bar with your parents.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so in Texas, I was a bartender down there for a little bit.

Speaker 7 You might have seen me in the Roadhouse commercial, but the law was that you can serve a drink to a kid as long as their parent orders it.

Speaker 7 So you can serve it to the parent, and then the parent can then handle it to the child, and then they can drink it.

Speaker 1 How it should be done. Yep.
How it should be done.

Speaker 1 What was, wait, what were you talking about? Oh, the baseball. Baseball is, it is awesome.
It goes by so much faster.

Speaker 1 The game has, it's, what, spent, what does it feel like, 20 years that we've been talking about how to fix baseball?

Speaker 1 And the answer has been steroids, but now they figured it out that you don't have adjust two steroids.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you can just make the bases slightly larger and just go faster.

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 1 But going.

Speaker 8 Double Rays, greatest team in MLB history. The what raise? Double Rays.

Speaker 8 I respect history.

Speaker 1 Who picked them?

Speaker 15 That was my cool throne. So they're 10-0 right now.

Speaker 15 Two teams have gone 13-0.

Speaker 1 That's the record they're going to be. They're for.
They're my World Series team. Yeah.
I put a future on them. Let's go.

Speaker 15 Let's go race. We probably just jinxed them.
They're probably going to lose tonight. They're playing the Red Sox.
Maybe Hank did that on purpose.

Speaker 1 I also put a future on the Cubs at 100-1, but whatever.

Speaker 1 I think they're going to.

Speaker 1 No, no. All right.
Never mind. That was a.

Speaker 1 I've talked myself into the Cubs being scrappy enough to make the playoffs.

Speaker 7 They're going to be sneaky, not bad.

Speaker 1 But I've now upgraded them to sneaky might make the playoffs. I like that.

Speaker 1 We've gone up the ladder.

Speaker 7 I also, I like tuning in and catching a stray Blue Jays game every now and again just because of all the sons they have on that team yeah and they've got i don't know if if biggio is is starting for the blue jays or not cavin but i saw him uh the other day there was a highlight of him leaning into pitches so they show you know how they do the overlay of like bochette and dante bichette and like all the sons the guerrero comparison where they show the swings back to back they showed cavin biggio leaning into a pitch just like his dad used to do he's going to be the next great player to get hit by pitches because his dad was fucking elite at it i love it what were you going going to say, Billy?

Speaker 12 I was just going to say go into the game now kind of since it's shorter. I used to like how a baseball game used to be a whole day activity.

Speaker 1 Oh, see, I like that it's like a two and a half hour game is perfect.

Speaker 5 It was just like a good excuse to get away.

Speaker 1 You just got to drink more beforehand. Yeah.
That's all.

Speaker 7 You got to get drunker.

Speaker 1 Spend more time at the bar before the game.

Speaker 7 Also, the Cubs have the beer bats this year, which is sick. If you put beer in a bat, I'm going to drink it.

Speaker 1 Also, I was going to use this as one of my cool thrones, but the Orioles, they are Team of Destiny vibes because they have the Dongbong. So, I don't know if you guys have seen this.

Speaker 1 After they hit a home run, they come back in the dugout and they have a beer bong filled with water, and you hit the dongbong.

Speaker 1 That's incredible. I'm also

Speaker 8 that's like the turnover chain was great, and then everyone's going to try and copy it. It's not going to be as great, but the dong bong is not.

Speaker 1 The dong bong is fantastic. I don't want to pick on anyone in this room, but if I were going to, I'd say Philadelphia is a joke of a city for not being able to come up with the dongbong first.

Speaker 1 They win the World Series with the Dongbong last year.

Speaker 8 Oh, I thought you were going to say because they did a ring ceremony for coming in second place last year.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that.

Speaker 8 They did a ring ceremony.

Speaker 7 Yeah, they gave everybody rings.

Speaker 1 And on the ring, Big Kat, you know how

Speaker 7 when you win the World Series? I mean, Hank, you can probably relate to this. Big Kat, you can relate to this because we've all won World Series recently.

Speaker 7 On the World Series ring, they typically have the scores of the games of the World Series. In this instance, they have the scores of all the games in the NLCS.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's it.

Speaker 3 So, not the no-hitters.

Speaker 16 There's no way this is a new thing. There's definitely teams that have done this.

Speaker 1 Like, I legit got sent.

Speaker 8 I thought it was, I thought it was like, oh, this is a funny fake thing.

Speaker 1 Ha ha ha.

Speaker 8 Yeah, you know, you said it. I didn't even give it any mindset.

Speaker 7 You want a pin it, not a ring.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You should.
I get it. I get it.

Speaker 7 There should be a pin it ceremony.

Speaker 16 There's no, I need to do some research because I haven't done anything.

Speaker 1 I don't need some research. Do some research.

Speaker 16 I know for certain that this is just a normal thing that all of a sudden this year people are trying to make a big deal.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't know.

Speaker 8 We would have talked about it if any other team did a second place race.

Speaker 1 Max. All right.
I have a couple questions for you, Max. True or false, you guys win the World Series with the Dongbong.

Speaker 1 True or false? You probably win the World Series with the Dongbong.

Speaker 8 They had the Red Sox

Speaker 1 rally saw. True.

Speaker 1 True or false, the Dongbong should have been something that happened in Philadelphia first.

Speaker 1 Yeah, probably.

Speaker 1 True or false, you got no hit in the World Series. False.
Okay,

Speaker 1 true or false.

Speaker 8 No, true or false, you stole the Red Sox rally song for your team and proven

Speaker 8 an original one.

Speaker 7 It wasn't a no-hitter, it was a zero-hitter. We've established that.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the dong-bong rules. You guys should all check it out.

Speaker 1 The Orioles are a very fun, young team that has like it's always awesome whenever a franchise that hasn't been good for a very long time has like all their good prospects seem to come up at the same time.

Speaker 1 That's the Orioles right now. Adley Rushman's awesome.

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Speaker 7 My hot seat is bars.

Speaker 7 Putting bars on the hot seat because

Speaker 7 YouTube just announced how much it was going to cost to do the Sunday ticket next year. So it's moving forward.

Speaker 7 If you have YouTube TV, it's going to be $349 for a season, $389 for a season if you bundle it with Red Zone. So...

Speaker 1 Billy, that's a steal.

Speaker 7 It's actually not that much different than the direct TV prices from the years before. But where it's going to get crazy for bars is, I don't know if you guys know many bar owners or bar managers.

Speaker 7 Yeah, no, it sucks for them. They're going to have to figure out how to get YouTube on all their TVs at once, and they are going to be completely lost week one of next year.
What's that, Hank?

Speaker 8 Well, no,

Speaker 8 that brings up a good point. Do they have to have eight accounts? Is there going to be like, because couldn't you then hypothetically do that in your own house?

Speaker 7 With multiple TVs?

Speaker 1 Bars have to pay a different, like when bars buy direct TV, they have to pay a different price than everyone else.

Speaker 7 Because they're broadcasting for multiple people at once. Yeah.

Speaker 7 So if you're an industrious young person out there and you're thinking of maybe how you can make money next year, just show up like two hours early to a bar on Sundays and be like, I'll be your YouTube TV consultant and I'll figure out how to get all these games and all these TVs because bar owners week one, it's going to be a shit show.

Speaker 1 What was the price?

Speaker 7 It's $3.49 per season, $249 if you purchase before June 6th, and then $389,

Speaker 7 $2.89 early if you bundle it with Red Zone.

Speaker 1 My math isn't exactly right because obviously there's some weird, like, you know, the Germany game, and then there'll be, like, the Saturday games, but it comes out to about like $1.30 a game, which is the greatest deal of all time.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 12 But I thought I dropped the 80 for the YouTube TV, but I had all the games, I feel like.

Speaker 7 Or I'm totally wrong on that. You might have just been doing streams.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Bleep that out. People get mad if you give up their shady streaming service.

Speaker 8 You had the local. You have whatever's like on CVS or Fox, which is one game.

Speaker 1 There really is nothing like

Speaker 1 the war to X out all the pop-up ads when you get one of those streams. Oh, yeah.
Just got to go so fast. Yeah.
You're like, ah, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Speaker 7 And then you got the chat on the side. Yeah.
The old school Justin TV guys know about the chat on the side.

Speaker 7 We were watching a San Diego Padres game in Lake Charles, and it was using one of those streaming things. It had just a giant black stripe across the center.

Speaker 7 You couldn't even see the batter or the pitcher or the catcher. You were just going off where the camera was falling.

Speaker 7 Watching a walk-off home run with a giant black stripe across the center of the screen was electric. It was so fun.
The other big big problem with this is going to be that

Speaker 7 I think recurring guest Warren Sharp pointed this out. YouTube, their streaming service, is about 54 seconds behind.
It's got a lag behind reality.

Speaker 7 So people are going to be watching on all different, yeah,

Speaker 7 shit's going to get spoiled.

Speaker 7 We got to figure this out.

Speaker 15 We thought that with Amazon Prime Thursday nights, that wasn't really the case. So maybe they'll fix it.

Speaker 1 But there was no other way, like, people couldn't.

Speaker 3 But you can still watch it.

Speaker 1 watch it locally.

Speaker 15 Yeah, but sometimes streams were still ahead.

Speaker 1 But if everyone is on the same stream, it doesn't matter. What he's saying is, like,

Speaker 1 you can watch your local team on regular TV and YouTube TV is behind.

Speaker 7 Yeah. And so it's going to be a problem.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 It's going to be the most chaotic. That's how I used it.

Speaker 1 When we first moved to New York, I used to watch Bears games on my Xbox, and it was like, I'd be like a series, like a full set of downs behind.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so it's going to be crazy.

Speaker 7 The week one, if I'm so dumb, though, that if I see this, I'm going to watch the local game and i'm gonna think i have an edge in live betting no be like well it hasn't gone out on youtube yet yeah yeah fuck okay

Speaker 1 all right uh all right my hot seat is uh uga 11. so i don't know if you guys saw uga 10 uh also known as k

Speaker 1 uh q q q u e uh has retired so uga 10 is the greatest UGA of all time. Uga 10 won back-to-back national titles.
Uga 10 went 84 and 15 as the mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs.

Speaker 7 It also evaded Bevo the Longhorn.

Speaker 1 It also evaded Bevo the Longhorn. The only other Ugga that could be potentially in the GOAT debate is Ugga 3, who went 71-32 and also won a national title.
But I think it's Uga 10 in a route.

Speaker 1 Now Uga 11, like, how do you follow UGA 10?

Speaker 7 They have to clone UGA 10.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Uga 10 was the GOAT UGA mascot.
He saw the greatest years of Georgia football. I also just started going down a little rabbit hole of the Ugas.

Speaker 1 Ugga, let's see, eight. That was a sad one.
He went four and two and then

Speaker 1 got cancer and his epitaph on the, they all have like

Speaker 1 their gravestones, I think, in the stadium. His was just, he never had a chance, which is pretty sad.
It's pretty sad.

Speaker 1 Ugga four,

Speaker 1 not in the goat debate, but still a very good Ugga. He was the dog of the decade.
That's pretty fucking cool. Yeah.
Because he went from 81 to 90.

Speaker 1 What was the other one that was great?

Speaker 1 I believe it was,

Speaker 1 oh,

Speaker 1 Ugga 5 was the one who bit the Auburn player.

Speaker 1 So there's some notable Uggas out there. And there was also...
Oh, Ugga 1 was just damn good dog. Yeah, hell yeah.
Like that was great. And then Ugga 2 is not bad for a dog.

Speaker 7 Oh,

Speaker 7 that's so mean to Ugga 2.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 You can't follow up with damn good good dog. You can't have...

Speaker 7 He was okay.

Speaker 1 I just got really sad when I read Uga 8. He never had a chance.
That's brutal.

Speaker 7 It's true, though. What is he?

Speaker 1 4-2, though? 4-2.

Speaker 7 That's a pretty good record.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 4-2.

Speaker 7 So he died mid-season.

Speaker 1 I think he came in mid-season and died after the season. But,

Speaker 1 yeah, the UGA 11 has its... I don't know how you follow that.

Speaker 7 I'm saying you have to clone it. You can't just pass the torch immediately.

Speaker 5 You have to get a hair.

Speaker 7 You have to get some DNA. clone UGA 10, and then run that back.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 the worst UGA one went

Speaker 1 almost 50%, a little over 50%. So 53 and 48.
You could say he was the worst UGA overall record-wise. He was.
So that's tough. Numbers never lie.
Damn good dog, though, in his epitaph. All right, my

Speaker 1 cool throne

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 white NBA players. So I don't know if you guys saw this.
Delhi. A comedian by the name of Carl Tart

Speaker 1 joined a random league for fantasy basketball.

Speaker 1 Carl Tart is an African-American. He joined a random league for fantasy basketball and drafted only white guys and won the league.
Wow. So, yeah, pretty impressive.

Speaker 7 Well, they can shoot like Joelle Embiid.

Speaker 1 He had

Speaker 1 Luca, Tyler Harrow, Hero, Corey Kispert, Porzingis, Vucevich, Bogdanovich, Sabonis, Valentunis. I mean, he just all white Austin Reeves.

Speaker 1 He didn't have Caruso.

Speaker 7 Caruso needs to be on there. I was waiting for a Caruso.

Speaker 1 TJ McConnell, Laurie Marketing on his bench, Dante DiVincenzo on his bench. Kispert? He had Kisbert on his starting lineup.

Speaker 7 Yeah, dude, Kisbert's shooting the lights out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so shout out Carl Tart. I mean, what a.
He won the league.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Congratulations.

Speaker 14 Bunch of white dudes.

Speaker 1 That's why.

Speaker 7 I never would have thought that would work in basketball. I did that one year in fantasy football where I had like Danny Woodhead and all those guys, you know, all the white guys.

Speaker 7 Tough to win fantasy football with all white guys, but still, I would imagine that it would be much, much harder to win fantasy basketball.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 7 Now I need to try to do fantasy hockey league where he has all black guys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 PK Suban is retired. Yep.
Yeah, he sure is.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay, all right. So he's going to try that.
Also, COVID is over. So cool throwing it out.
We did it, guys. We did it.

Speaker 1 They released a statement being like,

Speaker 1 it's over.

Speaker 1 Sweet. The White House released a statement being like, the national emergency is officially over.
Hell yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 1 There has to be at least one fucking loser in like probably New York City who just now is going to leave their house. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joe.
We appreciate it.

Speaker 7 There's one Montessori school, I think it's in New York, where they still have the kids that are masked up like 24-7, or at least while they're at school.

Speaker 7 And at lunchtime, they're not allowed to talk to each other. Whoa.
They're not allowed to sing happy birthday

Speaker 7 in class.

Speaker 1 Yikes.

Speaker 5 So we did it. We did it.
COVID's over. Yep.

Speaker 1 COVID is over. You're welcome, America.

Speaker 1 Finally wrestled that bitch to the ground. I can't believe it's long, weirdest, longest three years in terms of like, I don't remember.
Someone was talking about the bubble championship at the NBA.

Speaker 1 It's like, that was so, that feels like 100 years ago. That never happened.
Yeah, right. The bubble championship.

Speaker 7 I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 8 Well, this is also prime, like, all the, you know, memories you get from three years ago and people doing throwbacks.

Speaker 3 This was like peak.

Speaker 1 Oh, this, these like like last month was what when it was the first the first month of covet when it was kind of fun yeah it was like snow day yeah tiger king 2 all the all the celebrities singing imagine yeah

Speaker 7 actually that's when covid really was over yeah that was that covet never had a chance once wonder woman started to sing john lennon the first yeah like second week of covet was actually kind of fun because it was like this is cool we don't have to go i had a great time until summer then it then it was got annoying yeah

Speaker 7 the best part about covid was i i got to watch game of thrones all the way through for the very first time. It was worth it.
COVID was worth it because that's a great series.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I won three national titles. Worth it.

Speaker 1 All right, Billy.

Speaker 7 The dozen started in COVID.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I came back. Oh, yeah.
All right.

Speaker 7 Oh, fucking COVID.

Speaker 1 God damn it. Okay, pros and cons.
Wait, does that have three national titles, PFT, got to watch Game of Thrones?

Speaker 7 Does that mean that Billy's off the show now? Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 Your watch has ended. You were, yeah.
Thank you, Billy.

Speaker 3 You got us through three tough years of American history.

Speaker 7 We did it.

Speaker 12 My hot hot seat's the Dalai Lama.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 He was being a creep.

Speaker 1 He was.

Speaker 12 He asked a little kid to suck his tongue. I did the research.
It wasn't mistranslation. Nothing got lost in translation.
It was just as creepy as it sounds.

Speaker 1 Just suck my tongue. And also,

Speaker 1 if, like, he's Dalai Lama, how old is Dalai Lama?

Speaker 12 I think he's 87.

Speaker 1 Okay, so, like, old people, when they get to that age, they forget when they're in public or when they have cameras on them. He's definitely asking dudes to suck his tongue in private.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah, that's not the first time that it's ever happened.

Speaker 1 He's been asking people to suck his tongue for years. Yeah.
I just,

Speaker 1 if the Dalai Lama asked me to suck his tongue, I probably would do it just because, like, what if you get,

Speaker 1 what if you get Nirvana?

Speaker 8 What is the Dalai Lama?

Speaker 7 So the Dalai Lama is

Speaker 1 like...

Speaker 1 For anyone wondering out there.

Speaker 3 You know, a guy.

Speaker 7 He's the religious leader of Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism.

Speaker 1 I thought Buddhists can't speak. No, those are the monks.
Those are the monks don't speak.

Speaker 7 The monks are sometimes Buddhist, yes. But

Speaker 7 Hank, this is crazy. When the Dalai Lama dies, they believe in reincarnation, so they have to go select a new Dalai Lama.
It's kind of like Ugga, actually. They have to go select

Speaker 7 a new Dalai Lama, and the way they do it is

Speaker 7 they get like a bunch of nominees, and then

Speaker 7 the other Lamas.

Speaker 7 the other heads of this religion, and then they put these old artifacts that used to belong to the Dalai Lama in front of the kids, and then the kid has to be like, oh, I recognize this thing, and they're like, oh, it's the reincarnation of the previous.

Speaker 7 That's probably exactly what they do with Aga, actually. They take the old chew toys.

Speaker 3 So they put the Dalai Lama's tongue on the table?

Speaker 1 So I would be like, oh, I recognize this.

Speaker 8 I should get Pitbull in the mix.

Speaker 1 Try to do that.

Speaker 7 I think that if you're this kid, you know, much like if the tree at the masters had fallen on you, you have the best lawsuit of all time on your hands.

Speaker 7 If I'm this kid, I just demand to become the next Dalai Lama. Yes.
Like he selected me. That tongue selected me.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying, though. If the Dalai Lama asked me, I mean, it was, it's a kid, so it's fucked up.

Speaker 1 But if he asked me a grown adult, I probably would suck his tongue just to see if I got something out of it. Yeah.
What if I just had eternal peace? Maybe one tongue.

Speaker 7 Maybe we should just look into the whole

Speaker 7 selecting old people to be leaders of religion for life and make them never have sex because it turns them into creeps. Maybe that could cross a couple different religious platforms.

Speaker 1 Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 1 Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Are you saying that someone who has like complete and total power

Speaker 1 and basically never gets second guess might be taking advantage of their power?

Speaker 7 I would never say that.

Speaker 12 Okay, all right. Never said that.
He also had to notes app his apology.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was sad because that was like, dude,

Speaker 1 I thought you'd think that the Dalai Lama's got something better than the notes app. Yeah.
But yeah, total creep move, weirdo, and he definitely does it in private.

Speaker 1 You don't, you don't all, you don't wake up at 86 in however many months he is and be like, today's the day, I'm going to see if someone wants to suck my tongue.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, if you're going to become the Dalai Lama, you would hope that if you have it, you don't, you just get chosen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, but even as he never had a choice.

Speaker 7 If you're chosen as a Dalai Lama and you've achieved eternal life, you've achieved nirvana, you should have a piece of technology that's one step up from like a relief pitcher that gets busted for domestic violence.

Speaker 7 Like the notes app should not be your go-to at that point.

Speaker 8 When was the first llama?

Speaker 3 That's buddha

Speaker 1 buddha was the first llama uh now billy i have a question for you when you saw dalai llama asking for his tongue to get sucked how quickly in a matter of seconds or minutes if you want to go minutes i checked the flight logs no were you like

Speaker 1 no were you like joe biden sniffs hair oh it was very quick it was it was about 10 seconds it was about 10 seconds yeah i i listen i know your playbook i got you

Speaker 12 My Cool Thrones Gamers.

Speaker 12 Turns out a bunch of gamers hacked the Pentagon and got special files. That feels bad.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That feels not bad.

Speaker 7 Like, as a joke?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was. That sounds like hackers.

Speaker 7 They got into an argument.

Speaker 12 Well, it was first they found out that

Speaker 7 you either die a gamer or you live long enough to become a hacker. I would imagine most hackers are gamers.

Speaker 5 Oh, for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 12 Basically, in a gaming Discord, two gamers got into an argument about political issues. So one of them just hacked the Pentagon and got files that supported his side of the argument.

Speaker 1 That's awesome.

Speaker 12 And leaked a ton of documents that now have been spread across the world.

Speaker 7 Respect.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and he won the argument. Those are our documents.
And I bet you he changed that guy's mind.

Speaker 14 He probably did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Definitely. That's how all internet arguments end.
Yeah. You always change the other person's mind when you fight with them online.

Speaker 7 Yeah,

Speaker 3 if you produce enough facts,

Speaker 7 eventually the person that you're fighting with, they come over to your side.

Speaker 1 Today's the day I'm going to go online and change everyone's mind.

Speaker 1 Says everyone who talks about politics on Twitter.

Speaker 7 I dare somebody to debate me today on whether or not John Rahm's dad is dead because I will win that fucking argument.

Speaker 1 The 600th tweet about this subject will finally sway that.

Speaker 1 All right, Jake.

Speaker 15 My hot seat is parade celebrations. Senator Richard Blumenthal fractured his femur at the UConn parade.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 15 After a fellow parade goer tripped and fell on him. He got up and finished the parade, but I got surgery.

Speaker 3 How heavy was that person?

Speaker 7 That's a femur.

Speaker 7 That's a tough bone to break.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's as unless he was. Is he weak? Does he got weak femurs?

Speaker 1 You got a femur problem?

Speaker 7 That was the Democratic update from Jake. Live of the year.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 14 My cool throne is me.

Speaker 15 I'm putting myself on the cool throne because Elon just tweeted final date for removing legacy blue checks is 420.

Speaker 1 That's so funny.

Speaker 1 Do you get it? Yeah. So are you going to redouble your blue check? Okay.

Speaker 15 But, like, you guys might have to

Speaker 1 do it. Okay.
All right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Probably not.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But if you wake up at 420 or 421,

Speaker 1 you already sold out, Billy. You'll sell out again.
Once you sell out, you sold it. Wait, did Billy pay for a check? Billy just got one.
They forced you to get a check.

Speaker 1 Oh, Billy, you paid for a check? I can explain. Jesus.

Speaker 7 Hey, this motherfucker paid for a check.

Speaker 3 I did an experiment.

Speaker 4 I did an experiment.

Speaker 13 I got a grow.

Speaker 1 It's a bit.

Speaker 12 No, no, it was an experiment.

Speaker 5 I wanted to see if the

Speaker 12 engagements did go down. So I did this experiment where I grew a Sasquatch in a bucket of water.
It was like one, you know, those figurines.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it sounds very scientific.

Speaker 12 So, like, I did day over day and looked at the engagement for each post. Similar posts is just a picture of a thing growing in a bucket.

Speaker 12 And every time it grew, like, people would be like, oh, look, progress. And it was doing consistently through a couple days.
And then one day, the engagement was terrible on it.

Speaker 1 And then the surgery was just a little bit more.

Speaker 7 You think that's because eventually people were like, okay, we get it. Billy's got a figurine in a bucket.

Speaker 12 But I kept growing.

Speaker 1 So, and then you bought Twitter Blue?

Speaker 12 And then I was like, and then I bought Twitter Blue, and the engagement went back up to the numbers I was doing before.

Speaker 12 So I was like, I have to do it.

Speaker 1 I'm not saying I won't buy Twitter Blue. I'm saying I'm going to wait to see if he takes it away.
I think

Speaker 1 I don't want to risk it. No, that's my point.
It's like, I'm going to just keep playing this game of chicken. If he takes it away, and it's like, I need this for my job, I will buy it.

Speaker 1 But I'm not going to. I'll play the chicken with him.

Speaker 7 That's fair. I might just wait to see what the prevailing sentiment online is.
And if enough people are making fun of people that buy Twitter Blue, then I won't buy it.

Speaker 12 But it does hurt your engagement currently. Like, even though you still have it, the fact that you're not paying, it hurts your engagement.
You guys don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 1 But, like, Hank did a call you a sellout, PFT.

Speaker 7 Oh, I know, but somebody forced Hank also had a blue check mark at one point.

Speaker 8 Yeah, and I forgot. You got it taken away instantly.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I did that like three times. You sold out.
And then the last time they did it.

Speaker 8 You wanted the verified mentions tab. The last time they did it, your Twitter bio was unverified mentions.

Speaker 1 And then we got an email asking us

Speaker 8 if people wanted wanted to get verified, and you said yes.

Speaker 7 I couldn't get rid of it, Hank. I tried so very hard.

Speaker 8 They mean nothing, though.

Speaker 8 Instagram was hard.

Speaker 8 It took me a long time to get verified. I tried to go through the proper channels.

Speaker 1 Why did you want to get verified on Instagram versus Twitter, Hank? Chicks.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, god damn it. He just had been working on this story for two years and he just went and said it.

Speaker 8 But now anyone can buy it, so it's worthless. Yeah, it used to be worth something.

Speaker 14 For chicks. But it's not even about that.
Right. I tweeted something yesterday about the channel.

Speaker 8 Now they're gonna think I bought it, which is actually worse.

Speaker 15 I tweeted something about the hockey game, and I can go past the character limit.

Speaker 1 Like, that part

Speaker 1 of 10-minute videos. No, that part sucks.

Speaker 1 Dude,

Speaker 1 people,

Speaker 1 I like Twitter threads.

Speaker 1 There's like an allusion to it. Like, what is he gonna say next? Yeah, but if you're like 20 or 30 over, it's nice.

Speaker 7 Very important threat alert.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I want to know what, like, oh, I'm waiting on bated breath.
Is he going to really say that he emotionally cheated on his girlfriend and owes her money? Like, what's going to happen next?

Speaker 7 Yeah, you remember the siren that goes off at the start of a very important thread? And then at the end, you can just... My favorite is when you skip the entire thread and just go to the end.

Speaker 7 And at the end, the guy's like, so therefore, I did not come on my cat.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Never was near my cat.

Speaker 12 I also can post full-length 1080p, like, graphic animal videos.

Speaker 1 Okay. That's probably worth it.
That's the best. That's sick.
That actually is sick.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good hot seat, cool thrown, everyone.

Speaker 7 420. That's so funny.

Speaker 1 That is so funny.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to our interview. We have a great interview.
Adam Richman, you might remember a man versus food. Guy is electric, has a wealth of knowledge about everything.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Adam Richman.
You may remember him from Man vs. Food.
He is now on the History Channel, and he has a bunch of new shows. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Watch the Food That Built America.

Speaker 1 You have watched the toy. Is it Toys That Built America?

Speaker 3 I did Toys That Built America, two seasons of that. Sunday nights, 9-8 Central is Food That Built America.

Speaker 3 Mondays at 10 with Peyton Manning. It's called The Greatest of All Time.
And Rebels That Built America is coming up.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. Because

Speaker 1 I was reading all the things you're doing right now. I was like, these all sound like shows I want to watch.
Thank you, man.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they definitely don't suck.

Speaker 3 Like, I, like most people, I'm like, I dig history, but when it's these really cheesy AV squad reenactments where everything feels like the Hall of Presidents at Disney World or whatever, no one learns anything and everyone just kind of tunes that garbage out.

Speaker 3 And to actually like have be part of a show where like that's kind of gritty and real. And like you see dr.

Speaker 3 Kellogg giving his brother orders through the bathroom door while he's dropping a deuce I was like hell yes this is real this is the real shit and like that's really what happened so so what's your for from all your history channel stuff that you've been doing working on what's your favorite story or episode that you've done thus far that's a great question you know this season is actually really dope because and fitting that i'm here with my fellow stoolies that um

Speaker 3 we go into sporting goods a little bit and people are like well why is it in food that built america people don't realize Wilson, Rawlings, they all started because of the surplus leather that they had at slaughterhouses.

Speaker 3 In fact, the milk bone started because of surplus milk at a slaughterhouse.

Speaker 3 The same inventor that would go on to invent margarine and unleaded gasoline, got a bunch of milk, dehydrated it, saw that his dogs were kind of into it, made a biscuit, they couldn't give a shit.

Speaker 3 He molded it into the shape of a bone, and they almost took his fingers off. And that was the milk bone.
But I think that the thing with

Speaker 3 like the sporting goods episode, like I didn't realize that fans used to think that players were kind of like pussies if they just wore gloves and they didn't catch the ball barehanded.

Speaker 3 So guys were buying work gloves, putting cotton wadding in them and painting them flesh tone with fingernails on it so it looked like they were catching it.

Speaker 3 And I was like, you know, Scrooge edition, hockey was traditionally played without helmets. Doesn't make it a good idea.

Speaker 3 But I also love, and we were talking about your incredibly delicious coffee. Not paid to say it yet.
Thank you yet. No,

Speaker 3 get you paid. I'm breaking stones.

Speaker 3 But the the thing is we were talking about the name and that's the thing i love this season we talk about chick-fil-a and popeyes and i never really knew the story i never knew that chick-fil-a started as a menu item at waffle house oh i never knew that popeye actually the uh big owl who created it he actually got sued by you know the whole mel blank thing and he said no no no no no it's about popeye doyle the gene hackman character in french connection

Speaker 3 what he's like yeah that's it same with curtis candies babe Ruth tried to sue him for the candy bar. He's like, no, no, no.
Baby Ruth is about Grover Cleveland's baby daughter Ruth.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, that's

Speaker 1 genius.

Speaker 3 And I didn't even know this. One of the cats by, and this is from this season,

Speaker 3 the peanut butter episode is really, really, really good. And not just for like single guys who have a dog.
I'm saying that the peanut butter episode is actually really kind of enlightening.

Speaker 3 And that one of the dudes who built Peter Pan was screwed over by the government and by his partner, and he pivoted and created Skippy. And to this day, he has never paid the J.M.

Speaker 3 Barry estate one freaking penny for the name Peter Pan. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. Yeah, good for that guy, right?

Speaker 7 Isn't there a crazy story behind how corn flakes were invented, too?

Speaker 3 100%. And it involves the Kellogg's, one guy dropping a dookie while his brother's talking, but it's the truth.
Dr.

Speaker 3 Kellogg had the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, and it wasn't like sanitarium, meaning like...

Speaker 3 People losing their sanitary, but it was, no, it was meant to be like a place to go for wellness. And he also had like his fixations against red meat, masturbation, the whole thing.

Speaker 3 In fact, there's a movie called The Road to Wellville where Anthony Hopkins plays that kind of character. But anyway, and he would make them do marches.
Anyway, the short version is this.

Speaker 3 His younger brother, the younger Kellogg, was the real innovator. And they would make this kind of mush, this sort of grain mush, like this paste.
Well, some of it had been left on a roller overnight.

Speaker 3 And he cranked it in the morning when it was dry and it made these flakes. And people loved it more.
So he said, screw it, happy accident. Let's keep making it.
And people were loving it.

Speaker 3 Well, there was one executive named CW Post whose company sent him there to like chill out and not be an angst-ridden fuck. And can I say that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can say whatever you want.

Speaker 3 Sorry, and I apologize to A and E now. We're gonna have to do.
And no, and so CW Post stole the formula and he created Post'em. And there was this big race.

Speaker 3 And actually between the two Kelloggs, that's how he created corn flakes. The K was actually from his signature.

Speaker 3 Coca-Cola, that's the accountant's signature and it's it's kind of wild when you see these like little tiny things that like i never knew like i never knew before doing this show that hydrox not only came out before the oreo but the name comes because they wanted to try to evoke purity because they had been fired from the bisco and these guys like screw you guys and they wanted to evoke purity so they took water hydrogen and oxygen became hydrox and like this season is like like i think that's awesome yeah i mean i've just always don't know them as shitty oreos right yeah right They were the first ones.

Speaker 7 It's like the NIT versus the NCO.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. But this is like all these things that happen out of accident.

Speaker 3 They were the Kwame Brown of Oreos.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 Kwame's going to come after you. Is he? Yeah, he goes after you.

Speaker 7 He's back that life.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You don't want to fuck with Kwame Brown.
Yeah, no, that actually be a piece that I'd like to see. No, I would like to formally

Speaker 1 cross the apology.

Speaker 3 How about the rapper Kwame with the poking?

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no. Listen, we got, listen, we'll hop in with you.
No, I'm on Kwame. No, no, Kwame Brown is Hydrox.

Speaker 1 I'll be in there with you. We'll go back to back.

Speaker 1 Can I go Brady Quinn?

Speaker 1 Can I go Colt McCoy?

Speaker 7 Yeah, with Cornflakes, I've always wondered about those because when they came out, people are like, God damn, these things are delicious. But cornflakes objectively suck, don't they?

Speaker 3 They have about four seconds where they're, it's kind of like Big League Chew, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And even that's like the sickest story. It's actually fitting to talk about it.
That was in, I had done a show for a history channel called Adam Eats the 80s.

Speaker 3 But even Big League Chew, that was a relief pitcher for the Portland Mavericks owned by Bing Russell, whose 16 year old son kurt russell played for the team there's that that movie battered bastards of baseball is about it but this dude saw a bat boy chewing some like shredded black stuff and he knew his mom he's like todd i'm gonna break your arm what are you doing your mom would kick your ass if she knew you were chewing tobacco he's like no no no no no it's licorice i i shredded licorice and that's where they had the idea about they said why did you do that he said i want to feel like i'm in the big leagues and then so this one guy rob nelson turns to or bob nelson whichever you call him, they call him Nelly, turns to Jim Bouton.

Speaker 3 May rest in peace and former Yankee pitcher, says, what about shredded chewing gum? What would you call it? He goes, I don't know, big league chew.

Speaker 3 And they made the first batch in the kitchen of a lady named Candy Field. She's still alive.
She still lives in Portland.

Speaker 3 And her son is Todd Field, who just directed Tar, the one from Cape Blanchett, directed in the bedroom. It's the crazy, all these stories about food is nuts.

Speaker 1 So that's amazing.

Speaker 7 But when Cornflakes came out, was it a revelation? Were people like, oh my God, was food so bad in America at that time that this was like a holy shit moment?

Speaker 3 Like flakes, 100%. Well, because remember, back in the day, most breakfasts were usually leftovers.
The idea of a breakfast industry was really not heard of. And like food safety.

Speaker 3 The crazy thing is that it wasn't until the 80s, which we really hit in this season with like Reagan said you could advertise directly to children.

Speaker 3 And you had like this arms race between General Mills and Kellogg's. So suddenly General Mills does Cheerios.
Kellogg's has this crappy cereal called OKs, where the pieces are O's and K's.

Speaker 3 So the guy says, screw this. William Lamoff says, no more K's.
Let's just do the O's and let's make them fruit flavored. He chooses the toucan.

Speaker 3 Ironically enough, a toucan has no sense of smell, but because of the colored loops, and what's crazy is fruit loops

Speaker 3 don't have an individual taste. Your mind makes you think that the orange tastes like orange.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yellow tastes like lemon or banana.

Speaker 1 No, that's not true.

Speaker 3 They're all bullshit. They all taste.

Speaker 1 Now, next next year you're going to tell us that green MMs don't make you horny.

Speaker 3 I mean, they make me horny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they do.

Speaker 1 Not anymore. They're not scientific facts.
Why? They nerfed her.

Speaker 7 Yeah, they took away her high heels and her butt.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but like, that's only if you're like rubbing one out to the actual animated.

Speaker 1 But if you're out there,

Speaker 1 do not know.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I've been seeing some like newscasters get pretty salty.

Speaker 3 We want our go-go boots on our shit.

Speaker 7 Give me my fucking hot MM back and then give me the Lola bunny with the ass.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 3 how do you have all these facts in your head now because this this you know everything it's very thoughtful of you to say that man i guess you know i really love like the culinary anthropology of it and the thing is you know i'm a third generation american my grandparents came here with neither pot to piss in nor window to throw it out of and you read about like wrote like like the woman who ran totinos right she and her husband had like so many jobs.

Speaker 3 She busted her ass. She actually, this is a true story.

Speaker 3 She wanted a loan for a pizzeria. No one in America knew what a pizza was.
She had to make a pizza, bring it to the guy at the bank for him to try the pizza to get the loan.

Speaker 1 That must have blown his mind.

Speaker 3 Right? Exactly. Now, like, you know, like in that movie yesterday, like imagine being the first fucking person to hear someone play Let It Be, like the first person to try pizza.

Speaker 3 So he naturally writes her a loan, but people forget.

Speaker 3 She was so poor during the Depression, she used to hide and go back in her schoolyard after everyone left to find orange peels to eat the little bit of pulp off of. That's how hungry she was.

Speaker 3 And she went on to become the very first executive in the entire history of, I believe it was

Speaker 3 either Pillsbury or General Mills at that point and made millions of dollars on this. In fact, everything, even the Gino's pizza roll became like under the Totinos brand.

Speaker 3 And it's just this, like, I guess I really love like the individual stories. Like,

Speaker 3 I didn't know that famous Amos discovered Simon and Garfunkel or that he was an agent with William Morris. I didn't either.

Speaker 3 That he got his first, the first three people that cut him a check to open the first famous Amos store at that sketchy end, the sketchy end of sunset, like the eastern end of sunset, where shit gets a little real.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's like it was Helen Reddy, Marvin Gaye, and everyone's favorite Nixologist, Bill Cosby.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 7 That is wild.

Speaker 1 Isn't that nuts? Yeah.

Speaker 7 I mean, you've already blown my mind like seven times

Speaker 7 with the facts that you've just dropped.

Speaker 7 So I'm looking forward to watching that. What would you say would be the one food if you were to zoom in on one that really represents America?

Speaker 1 What a great question.

Speaker 3 Great question.

Speaker 1 Great question. Huh.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 The

Speaker 3 microwavable dinner.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 TV dinner. Because

Speaker 3 the 80s was such a shift. Remember, we had Reaganomics, so it was a switch to supply-side economics.
Tons of money floods the market. First decade that that has two parents working.

Speaker 3 So you have latchkey kids able to let themselves in.

Speaker 3 You have an F.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, big shoulder pads.

Speaker 1 Big shoulder pads.

Speaker 1 Right. Hair, crazy hair.

Speaker 3 Crazy hair, right? So then the other thing is you have advertisers advertising directly to children. You now have a kind of modality that the kids can cook with.

Speaker 3 Like parents didn't want kids working with flame and knives and stuff, but a microwave, you put the damn thing in, you press a couple buttons.

Speaker 3 So a latchkey kid suddenly had agency and could say, I want to eat this. I want to eat that.
So the microwave technology changed it.

Speaker 3 And I feel that, like, the microwave dinner, as it has changed, like as certain flavors, like back in the day, as like a little fat fuck in Brooklyn, my mom would buy Stouffer's Lean Cuisine because she was working a bunch of jobs and it was just easy and she knew calorically I wasn't really pummeling my body with garbage.

Speaker 3 But now you find like all tortellini and artichoke bottoms and you know curries and all kinds of things.

Speaker 1 It's incredible.

Speaker 3 But it's a direct correlation to where American tastes are at the time. Like Swanson only created the turkey dinner because there was a surplus of turkeys.

Speaker 3 He had too many turkeys and didn't know what to do with it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, isn't it true? Like there's, I listened to an interview. I think it was our guy Eddie who did it with Dog Walk.
He interviewed a guy who had,

Speaker 1 was a butcher and he said that like ham used to be the meat and then turkey just completely took over for ham sometime in the last like 20 years.

Speaker 3 Well, you know how it is. It's like the funniest thing is we did an episode early in March called Flight of the Buffalo Wing, right? And everyone always assumes it's the anchor bar in Buffalo.

Speaker 3 We come to find there was a black man named John Young who lived on Jefferson, which was essentially the black main street in Buffalo.

Speaker 3 He was doing a version of what people in DC know as the mumbo sauce wing. So if you're going to compare like the hot wing is hot sour butter, whereas hot sour sweet is the mumbo sauce wing.

Speaker 3 And then when racial violence gripped Buffalo, he and his family went to Tulsa and then Chicago and and then the Bellissimos got the credit. But what's even crazier is that wings were considered shit.

Speaker 3 Wings were the thing you used for a soup, the things you used for a sauce.

Speaker 3 No one wanted it. And then this simple thing made it this incredible bar snack, and it never was a big thing.

Speaker 3 Like you were talking about that ham turkey substitution, as we learn more, things, you know,

Speaker 3 you know. When I grew up, people were eating veal, no one cared.

Speaker 3 Then suddenly this cruelty thing and our knowledge of veal changed, and then we wanted a different protein and i think um i don't know i i think what's also crazy is to see how we've been manipulated yeah there's uh an episode about booze and we talk about the moscow mule and um what's crazy is this guy's like how in the fuck do i sell a russian spirit to america in the middle of the cold war and so he goes to a bar in hollywood the owner of the bar is making his own ginger beer and he's also just started hanging out dating sleeping with this actress who's just inherited a copper mine and a copper fortune.

Speaker 3 So he says, Listen, let's make the drink with your ginger beer, your copper mugs, my vodka, and a lime, and then we're going to make this thing.

Speaker 3 And he was one of the first people to have one of those instomatic Polaroids.

Speaker 3 So he would go to all the bars in Hollywood, going, I'll give you a picture that you could take home to your wife if you try serving my drink. It's wild.

Speaker 7 Yeah, things change based on how they're being marketed. If you have a good marketing firm behind it, like you'll buy, you'll buy anything.

Speaker 1 A hundred

Speaker 7 sense why you're doing it. It's crazy.
Like I read that lobsters used to be peasant food. 100%.
When the lobster was served to prisoners. 100%.
Why did that change? I forget the story.

Speaker 3 Well, the funny thing was, there's even a law on the books in Maine that you can't feed lobster to prisoners more than three times a week. So they're essentially cockroaches.
They are.

Speaker 3 They have the exact same neurological system as a cockroach. And they used to just wash up in mounds.
And that's exactly why they were considered poor people food.

Speaker 3 Like, I'm from Brooklyn, and you drive over the Bell Parkway, and you would see people fishing off the Bell Parkway, and people would go, Oh, how ghetto, how gross, how whatever.

Speaker 3 It's like, they're not paying for dinner tonight. How ghetto is that?

Speaker 3 But the thing was, because it was so plentiful and because it was understood to sort of be a bug of the ocean, no one cared about it.

Speaker 3 Once it became less available, and once other chefs started going, oh, this is a really delicate, flavorful.

Speaker 7 They gentrified bugs.

Speaker 3 Yeah. They gentrified bugs.

Speaker 1 You're not wrong.

Speaker 3 And that's, that's kind of the crazy thing. And now it's a felony to rob someone's lobster pot.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And there's a rule.

Speaker 3 You have to make the door of a lobster pot biodegradable. So if a lobster goes into an abandoned pot, it's not like a death sentence.
They can still get out. But it's, it's this deeply beloved thing.

Speaker 3 But it's a really cool thing that you know that. And it's, it's even wild when you begin to realize how, like, like, for example, Pepsi folded.

Speaker 3 before World War II because Coke got the contract for sugar. And it was only after the war that someone revitalized the PepsiCo brand.
Herman Lay said that potato chips were an essential thing.

Speaker 3 And he got the contract. And a bunch of chip manufacturers went down.
Hector Boyardi, spelled B-O-I-A-R-D-I, who then, of course, changed it to Boyardi. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He used his canning stuff to make rations for the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II.
So you begin to see like how the little historical things changed.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's fascinating. So in terms of your career, how man versus food, I know you know that's a thing of your past, but we all loved it.
Thank you, man. Like loved the show.
Thank you, bro.

Speaker 1 I actually got upset with you when

Speaker 1 you lost all that weight. I just wanted to get that out in the open.
I did write a blog being like, fuck Adam Richman, why'd he lose all this weight?

Speaker 1 Like you were supposed to be the guy that we all looked up to because you had the dream job. So bygones be bygones on that.
But yeah, I wasn't upset.

Speaker 3 Was it that? Because I was still eating.

Speaker 3 I just wasn't eating like that while I was losing weight yeah you I just remember you took a cover photo well no I took a center fold but that wasn't why so they have a thing in Manchester at Old Trafford where Manchester United plays every two years called soccer aid and it's celebrities and former pros from England versus celebrities and former pros from the rest of the world playing soccer on the pitch like on television and I played a whole bunch in my youth and so I dieted for two years with the sole goal of playing for soccer aid so that was my goal it wasn't about you know like fat shaming it wasn't about no i know it wasn't i was a stupid blog i was just like you have the dream job go back and eat because i i used to watch your show and be like that looks like an awesome place well that was the thing that looks like an awesome place well that was the thing even while filming man vs food and man versus food nation when i had that kind of discipline it made me aware a of how many calories those things were but like my cheat meals were like built into my schedule yeah so i just i'd work out i'd do a shake and then like go to a place and have like because because I knew basically I would take a bite in like three different focal lengths.

Speaker 3 They would do a two shot of me and the chef, one where they would follow the burrito up from the plate, one where it's a wide shot of me biting the burrito, and one of me doing it and then like jizzing and like, oh, it's so good afterwards.

Speaker 3 So I knew that I had at least four bites. So generally speaking, if you're keeping a low diet, four or five bites of like a mega like King Kong burrito, you're good.

Speaker 1 So, so, so, how did you, how did you get into that? It,

Speaker 1 Was that your idea? I auditioned. Okay.
Oh, you auditioned?

Speaker 3 I never had done a food challenge before my final screen test.

Speaker 3 I went to Yale for my drama degree and I got signed by agents. Yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 I mean, have you not heard the dorky ass facts of his praying out here?

Speaker 1 Totally, totally. And I lost my glasses.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, I say that lovingly because we couldn't sniff an Ivy League school. No one in this room.

Speaker 1 I'm the first member of my family. Oh, yeah.
Billy went to Williams. He counts that as an Ivy League school.

Speaker 3 I'm the the first, but like I say, I'm lucky to have done it. But I got signed by agents out of the school.

Speaker 3 And I read this book called The Renaissance Soul, Life Designed for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One.

Speaker 3 And it was really like, I liked it because it wasn't like esoteric, hippie-dippy bullshit. It was much more like real exercises that made you answer.

Speaker 3 There was no like, I'm not sure you had to have a definitive answer about things. And I'm not kidding you.
I did this reverse flowchart exercise and it came to television travel food host.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 I'm not kidding because I had it.

Speaker 7 That job didn't even really exist when you took that test.

Speaker 3 Well, yes, and no, right? Because I think Guy was doing Triple D. You had Paula Dean's sons were doing a show called Road Tested at that point.
I think

Speaker 3 Bourdain maybe was doing it. Yeah, and like, you know, Bourdain and Andrew Zimmer and obviously, I mean, granted, you know, Tony, it was about his voice, not really where he went.

Speaker 3 Andrew was eating, you know, sauteed panda taint, and it was its own thing. And he's just so erudite and it comes from this food background.

Speaker 3 I wasn't shit, you know, I was this actor, and I had played God of Joan of Arcadia, and I had been on, you know, guiding light and things like this.

Speaker 3 But I've been working in a kitchen since I was 13 years old. And so I got the audition and they said, bring in something to eat, describe the flavor.

Speaker 3 There was a big board, like it was a handwritten, like read, like one of those restaurant intros I used to do. And then it was a casting director named Barbara Barna.
So

Speaker 3 I came in and I bought I brought a mole burrito because I figured mole is kind of interesting to talk about. And I have a photographic memory.
So I read the read and she said, feel free to go back.

Speaker 3 And I was like, no, give me two more seconds. No, I got it.
And then I just did it straight down the barrel. And she's like.

Speaker 3 You know, naturally, you have to play possum a little bit. Oh, do you need a safety? Sure, let me get a safety.

Speaker 3 I'm here for the Cats' Deli, right on the corner of Ludlow and Houston Street in New York City.

Speaker 3 Now, even though it was originally across the street, it now is in its new location where it's been for hundreds of years. Even the sign in the window comes from the advent of neon.

Speaker 3 When Herman Katz actually asked the neon person, what do you want in the sign? And he said, Katz's, that's all. That's exactly what it says.
But today, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 That was awesome. Right?

Speaker 3 So then I came in and the final screen test, after, you know, they had to check my references, make sure I wasn't BSing.

Speaker 3 They had to see all these things and taste my food and this, that, and the other. And this is God's honest truth.
Last screen test, Katz's deli. I couldn't afford a Katza Katza sandwich.

Speaker 3 My boys and I used to split them.

Speaker 3 And I went in the day before and I interviewed everybody I could. Mario Batali was there.
Dean Winters, who played Ryan O'Reilly on Oz, was there.

Speaker 3 So I took that as a good omen because I really was a big fan of his. But I interviewed everyone.
I bought a t-shirt and I took it home. I cut the collar out of it.

Speaker 3 And I was, I'm telling you, I was so broke. And I washed it with $5 worth of washing and drying to make it look old.
And I wore a black hoodie.

Speaker 3 and they told me they wanted an intro so i kind of did what i was just doing there you know no less than four u.s presidents have actually eaten here reagan roosevelt you know carter clinton in fact two russian prime ministers and john glenn asked for the pastrami right here on the launch pad now the funny thing was the show is supposed to be called pig out and i said fuck that yeah and so it was valentine's day 2000 2008 i'll never forget it and i said um blah blah blah blah blah but i'm here not for nostalgia.

Speaker 3 I'm not here to give you a history lesson, I'm here to take on the double Ruben challenge, a massive double Reuben, a pastram

Speaker 3 French fries. And you know, I'm gonna fuck it with my face and the whole thing, whatever.

Speaker 3 I do this thing, and then I go, That's right, it's a new Valentine's Day massacre here on the lower east side of Manhattan, and this one is man versus food.

Speaker 3 And if you think that I'm reading this off a cue card, I'm just a big fan, or I'm a big fan of cats's, and I unzip my hoodie and I open it up, I go, This is my actual t-shirt, Big fan.

Speaker 3 And I walk, oh, and then I go, oh, and then I said, excuse me, I flipped it. And then I said,

Speaker 3 I go, this Valentine's Day mascara is man versus food. And food, it ain't your day.
I turned on my heel and I walked in.

Speaker 3 And Dan Abler, who went on to become my showrunner, looks up from the monitor with this look like Miyagi at the end of karate.

Speaker 1 He's like, you did it. You nailed it.

Speaker 3 And I got same shit, different toilet. I was like, you need a safety? He's like, nah, an art.
God bless him. Our camera guy, you know, who reminded me of every tailor every Jew has ever had anywhere.

Speaker 3 You know, oh, that's good you know we

Speaker 3 no one did it in one paper that's wonderful that's wonderful I was like yeah whatever and ironically enough I was working in sports TV at the time I was working at MSG television and that was supposed to be my first day and I called my director shout out Kyle Carney who was doing hockey night and

Speaker 3 I'm like, Kyle, I just face fucked this gigantic Reuben and fries and I feel like I'm going to, he said, I've never heard gluttony used as an excuse to get out of job.

Speaker 3 He's like, you can go home, start tomorrow. And it's crazy because they used to give me shit when I told them, I said, I'm going to have a show.

Speaker 3 And, you know, they used to, oh, where's our TV star PA? Where's our logger? Because that's what I started doing was logging games.

Speaker 3 Anything at the garden. So Liberty, Nick's,

Speaker 3 Rangers. I did some Devil's games and stuff like that because Stan Fischler, the Maven was there.

Speaker 3 And then literally I showed them the sizzle and come to find that New York episode when I finally went back to Katz's, my PA was the wife of the director who used to break my balls.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's perfect. Perfect.
They should have known.

Speaker 7 I mean, anybody can spend five minutes with you and be like, this guy should be a television food.

Speaker 1 What a nice thing to say, man. Yeah.
I mean, it means a lot.

Speaker 7 You obviously care about it a lot. And also the fact that I'm a big fan of y'all.
You're exceptionally gifted. You've got to be on the Mount Rushmore of Eaters.

Speaker 7 It's like you and Joey Chestnut are definitely up there.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Billy Football.

Speaker 7 Billy Football and Michael Douglas.

Speaker 1 He'd be on in the mountain rush.

Speaker 3 Well, Joey, Joey does this thing. If you watch the San Jose episode of Man vs.

Speaker 3 Foo, so when I met him, like, fuck bowing, I walked into the room and I lay prostrate at his feet, like child's pose, like arms at my side at his feet. And he's like, dude, like, I've watched.

Speaker 3 He's like, you know what it's about. It's like that focus where it's not about the food.

Speaker 3 And I mentioned, and if you watch, I stole something from him that like some story producer gave the most, they called it the get down in my belly shake down shimmy and I was like bitch I'll fight you in the street

Speaker 3 But I watched Jody

Speaker 3 I think I just unplugged myself, but Joey Joey throws himself

Speaker 3 He throws his body downward like his rib cage toward his pelvis really hard But he's literally just shaking the food down But the other thing is he takes one more bite than any human does like so I can sit there and take like four good bites of a burrito, but he's got that like fifth bite like I think he's got that extra jaw now.

Speaker 1 Jaw strength. Yeah.
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 It's nuts. And the bites come from his back of his head, like from his spine.
It's just, it's like full Pac-Man hinging. And I don't know how he does it.
And did you not see?

Speaker 3 Was it last year some guy tried to like stunt on him or to protest? And Joey ox-collared the shit. Joey wanted to be a cop.

Speaker 1 Yep. Yeah.
And took him down. Took him.

Speaker 7 I mean, Kobayashi could never.

Speaker 1 Kobayashi could never. He's like 90 pounds.

Speaker 3 That whole thing he did with the whole like hanging on the fence and stuff. I mean, if anyone knows Joey, you know what a warm, like a true, warm, humble, self-effacing guy he is.
And

Speaker 1 no, he's the best. And he's also, I was actually lucky enough to compete in it one year.
A word? Yeah, the PETA threw fake blood on me. I was on the end of the stage.

Speaker 1 But Joey, I like, I actually do, and people think I'm joking when I put him like with like MJ, Ali, Tiger. But who was the better?

Speaker 1 We were on the bust, all the competitors, and he was just like holding court. Like the reverence that everyone has for him.
Who's better? Was insane.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Who is, I mean, to me, like everything, there is like that alpha and omega.
Like, I was lucky enough to have Bourdain as a mentor and to have Andrew Zimmerman as a mentor.

Speaker 3 And like, I still my voice. It was funny.

Speaker 3 I walked in the building. Um, you know, I play guitar and I was listening.
There's a solo I'm desperately trying to learn from a pretenders song called Boots of Chinese Plastic.

Speaker 3 And Bourdain used to love Super Tramp, used to love the Pretenders. And I was like listening to him.

Speaker 3 And it's so interesting when you see like how whether it's like YouTube people or social people where you see like little bits of him.

Speaker 3 But yeah, like there are those people like the Sean Whites of the world, like the MJs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they command a room and they command, yeah, just by their presence. Yeah, he is, he is the GOAT.
So doing man versus food, what was your favorite? What's the one you look back and you're like...

Speaker 3 I'm killing it today, bro.

Speaker 3 You know, of all the challenges, the only one that I would legit like go back and eat as a meal in alaska and i'll never forget my mother's like i really don't like the name of this challenge it was called the kodiak arrest but what was so dope was right it's not exactly a galvanizing name like oh boy am i excited to just send my asshole and my a ornament at the same time but what's so cool was um

Speaker 3 Before the chef got really, really drunk. And if you listen to this, brother, you know, you were in the bag.

Speaker 3 I go, where do you get the crab? He goes like this and opens the block, the front blinds of the window. He goes, that boat.
I said, where do you get the salmon for the salmon cakes? He walks over.

Speaker 3 He asks these people in a booth, excuse me, can I just show Adam something? And they're like, if we get a picture, whatever. So then he lifts the thing.
He goes, that boat.

Speaker 3 I said, what about the berry cobbler? He said, two stoplights down, half a mile down the road. There's a berry farm.
And that was the thing. It was like, it wasn't a lot of one, whatever it was.

Speaker 3 It was a bunch of crab legs. It was housemade reindeer sausage, which I'd never had before, which is freaking delicious.
They have a housemade mustard that's top four mustards lifetime.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 3 The berry cobbler, which is, again, like having something sweet at the end of all that savory was really bomb.

Speaker 3 The salmon cakes, they were good. They were just little crunchy, oily whatevers.
But having a little bit of something different to keep your taste buds interested, that was really cool.

Speaker 3 And the quality is ferocious. Like, I'll put it this way.
Of all the places where I did a challenge, the only, I haven't been back to that many.

Speaker 3 I've been back to Wan in a Million in Austin, where I did the breakfast taco challenge.

Speaker 3 Just because Juan Mesa is just the best, his family is the best. The food's amazing.
It's totally affordable, totally non-pretentious. They always have a seat.

Speaker 3 He treats every like, it's not because I'm the meat puppet on TV. Juan Mesa would meet a cab driver from Midtown and embrace him like a long-lost brother.
It's that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 Everybody in the line, he'll come up to you, he'll slap your hand.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you know, he got you with the best handshake in Texas. It got voted best handshake.

Speaker 7 He did. They actually did like a poll.

Speaker 3 There's a plaque by the door. Best restaurant.

Speaker 1 I mean, I believe it.

Speaker 7 I've shook the man's hand five times.

Speaker 3 And every time I've seen it, heel-to-heel shit. Like, guys, like, buddy Rich, bang!

Speaker 3 Like, it's, but yeah, there and at Humpy's Alaskan Ale House when I filmed Fandimonium at Arctic Man, aka Burning Man's cold-ass cousin.

Speaker 3 Whole lot less like fatty Instagram girls and fishnet, just lots of snowmobiles. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And they have a halibut taco there that is one of the most extraordinary like i've sent multiple chefs there and they can't figure it out it's like just done on a plank very fresh fish no very little sauces and stuff amazing yeah the acme oyster house in in uh new orley great place great place to go that that was tough to watch though very watching a person eat how many oysters was it 150 oysters

Speaker 1 100

Speaker 1 your favorite

Speaker 3 it was it was 15 dozen is that 180 or 150 180

Speaker 7 guy.

Speaker 1 You're the Yale guy. Come on, Adam.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but I did drama. Down the street, they were discovering a cure for cancer.

Speaker 1 I was rolling around being an amoeba. I think that's 15 dozen.

Speaker 3 15 dozen, is it 180?

Speaker 1 180.

Speaker 3 Thank you. Yeah,

Speaker 3 my math score wasn't as good as my verbal. But,

Speaker 3 yeah, no, well, first of all, Lucien, who runs that place, love him.

Speaker 3 And, like, you know, to be a dirty old man with a successful business in the French quarter, I mean, I mean, like, his sense of humor was.

Speaker 3 He was a very cool guy, but like the hustler cubs across the street. So he's like, you You 180 here, how many are you gonna eat across the street?

Speaker 3 And I was like, As long as they don't taste like the ones you

Speaker 1 know,

Speaker 3 but he literally would do foul stuff. Like, he like popped an oyster on camera, and then like he knew how to cut it.
He's like, You got to open it up.

Speaker 1 I was like, Man, come on, we're 8:30 on a Wednesday.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly. He's like sliding his finger in the oyster, he's like looking at it, man.
Damn, I should call her.

Speaker 3 But you know what? The thing was, this is the truth, and this is this.

Speaker 3 I'm so glad I get to share this on PMC, man because i i i i really i i i i i know that like people have their association with barstool and stuff but you guys always make me laugh and always make me smile i think in the past couple years smiles and laughter has been in pretty short supply so i'm very grateful for y'all so i beg your pardon but the uh for my little brief dick flute solo but i

Speaker 3 know one thing that i remember was um so i was up to 11 dozen And they used to have like a little compound bucket in case I had a reversal of fortune.

Speaker 3 But Dan Adler, now bear in mind, this guy's like a dear friend, clearly a genius, went on to do to create doomsday preppers, 90-day fiancé, love after lockup.

Speaker 3 That's Dan Adler, the guy I auditioned for for Man vs. Food.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 Danny had been off the road. He came back.
So this was like, I'm pulling, I said, Danny, you know, you're leaving on a W. I refuse to have you come in.

Speaker 3 So the bucket was like, I don't know, kind of like where you are right now. Like, I don't know what would you say, about seven feet, eight feet, ten, you know, whatever.

Speaker 3 I didn't want to say out loud, hey, Danny, move the bucket over, especially because it was like a a bachelor party next to me.

Speaker 3 If you watch, this one guy screams and I pretend to fucking stab him with my fork.

Speaker 3 So they were there, and then I saw it, and I got the 11. They bring the 12th dozen thing over, and I went,

Speaker 3 Come so far, I can't stop now. And because of the similarity to the song lyric, I turned to these guys and we went to change this line in love.

Speaker 3 And slowly, all of Acme starts going, I want to know what love is,

Speaker 1 I want you to show me.

Speaker 3 And like, I'm so hyped.

Speaker 1 I'm sitting there pounding oysters. I want to feel a love is.

Speaker 3 I'm just pounding it. Meanwhile, Dan's losing his mind that we can't clear the song.
Everyone stop singing. I'm like, fuck it.
Keep singing. And I'm standing up.

Speaker 3 So if you watch the episode after the 11th, we switched to time lapse and we cut in because I was getting so.

Speaker 3 So we get close to the, I didn't even realize. I'm dusting him.
So now I have maybe a dozen and a half. Everyone calms down and I'm like, and like Dan stops everybody.

Speaker 3 Everyone booz him like he's the guy who took the beach ball away before the concert.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, boo.

Speaker 3 So I sit there, and there was one drunk guy by the door, like right by the street door, and he just stands up.

Speaker 1 I want to know what love is.

Speaker 3 And everyone starts again, and I get those last six. So then after that, I knew I had it.
And like, it was just that was horrible. And I will say this.

Speaker 3 I was dating a girl from Alabama. She broke my heart in about a million pieces.
One of my first times, like, actually going out, my PA Patrick is the best wingman in history.

Speaker 3 We went out to the casino there.

Speaker 3 I met this girl, and we're talking, and all of a sudden, some cockplot some bitch, I still don't know who he is, walks past me and goes, careful, girl, he just had 180 oysters.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 That's a great line, though. Or a comedian.

Speaker 1 You're just really horny. But

Speaker 3 that's, I think, what he meant. I don't think he meant like, he's going to Jackson Pollock out his asshole later on.

Speaker 1 And to be fair, 50-50. Yeah.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 I mean, in defense of that guy, that's a line you can't pass on.

Speaker 3 Right? Exactly.

Speaker 3 And the show hadn't aired yet. The show, no one knew what it was.
So these guys were like, wow, I didn't know I was getting a floor show.

Speaker 3 They had just started airing the commercial, and I'm doubled over after that challenge in my hotel room. I'm sitting on the porcelain throne, and I hear those cheerleaders going, man versus food.

Speaker 3 I was like, shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's so great. So was that...

Speaker 3 Aaron Andrews' sister is in that commercial. Oh, and the floor showed her.

Speaker 1 The redhead.

Speaker 3 That's her

Speaker 1 sister. So was that the worst one, or was there one that you think about all the time?

Speaker 3 Every spicy one sucked.

Speaker 1 And And the one,

Speaker 3 I lost one spicy one in the entire time I did MVF, and it was the Munchies Fire in Your Hole, very subtly named Munchies 420 Cafe. And they were lovely people.

Speaker 3 And I think, because I said something on hot ones, but the truth of the matter is we did hear on his mic, he said, let's just add the whole bottle.

Speaker 1 Let's just blow them out.

Speaker 3 And the thing is, ghost chili extract is toxic. They literally weaponize it in police grenades in India.

Speaker 3 And the thing is, there's a difference between something that's hot and something that's dangerous.

Speaker 3 the best, the best spicy challenge, best, best, best. I mean, best in terms of like it was a true challenge and it was still good.

Speaker 3 It was called the ironically enough special number two at um Orochan Ramen in Los Angeles. If you like spicy ramen, it's delicious.
Like the guy's noodles are great.

Speaker 3 He's a queas MMA fighter, so he was like real funny. We were like talking about like locks and arm bars and tracks in the kitchen and shit.
And he's actually a predator.

Speaker 3 He actually brought the noodles over.

Speaker 3 he snuck them in his clothing from um japan when he brought them over and he really cares but it was so spicy it was good so you wanted to keep eating it but so spicy my tears burned my piss burned my snot burned but it was still like a true challenge versus something that's just going to be doused like this one chip thing where it's just so much extract there's no flavor.

Speaker 3 There's one here in New York City,

Speaker 3 Brick Lane, the foul curry challenge. And that one's really funny because I thought I beasted it.
There's a bar called, I think it's called the Golden Blue, I think, like down in the village.

Speaker 3 My boys and I went to go play pool afterwards. I put the quarters in, like, and I went down to push the quarters into the thing.
I went down and I couldn't get back up.

Speaker 3 So all they saw me was like, sink below the pool table. We're like, fucked you go, man.

Speaker 7 We dealt with a spice challenge on this podcast one time. Actually, Billy did it.
It was at the Buffalo Wing Factory in Northern Virginia. And similar to your point, well, no, not he didn't win.

Speaker 1 No, no, he won't get one.

Speaker 7 Food dominated.

Speaker 1 Food dominates him. He loses.
We basically recreated your show, but food always wins.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but this one, I'm

Speaker 3 the After Effect, or you Yarl Federal?

Speaker 7 We think that they did what the guys did to you because once the cameras came out, we think that they said to themselves, all right, let's fuck with this guy.

Speaker 1 And then Billy ate, you ate, what, three wings?

Speaker 13 No, and I literally ate half a wing, and then as you said, it hit me, and I was like, hiccups.

Speaker 3 You start hiccupping.

Speaker 3 No, he's like, this is weapons grade in my face and I burnt for 24 hours all over my face I got a little bit on my like wrist and it just burned for hours if you people forget so capsicums and oil and that's why the best thing well once in your mouth is chew some bread and spit it out but it's so intense if you watch so one of the spiciest things and this was all about macho pride Why I won in San Antonio I did this burger challenge called the four horsemen and it had like actual full ghost chilies on it not an extract, three whole peppers on it, not to mention habanero sauce and all this other shit.

Speaker 3 I was punching the table like so hard, like I was losing my mind. I finished it.
They gave me a popsicle, and I ran it over my forehead, kind of like schmaltzy TV stuff, but also it was cool.

Speaker 3 If you watch later on in the episode, I have a streak across my forehead that's the exact width of the popsicle. And it's because the oil is so caustic.

Speaker 3 The one that almost like really like turned me into Phantom of the Opera in Santa Clara, where I got in trouble for elbowing somebody. Like the cops came and stuff like this.

Speaker 3 I was like, don't fucking touch me when I'm eating. Like I'm eating and I'm eating hot stuff.
Please don't shake me. Don't elbow me.
Right. What's wrong with you? And so

Speaker 3 after you ate this challenge, this stuff, you had to leave the sauce on your face and hands for five minutes. And I'll never forget this.
So I had done this like a schmuck.

Speaker 3 Like what I'm doing, what I'm doing, listener, is Adam is grabbing his fingers as though he's uh i don't know doing something on only fans and like that little teardrop fingertip together thing and then pulling the sauce off what i did inadvertently was rub the sauce into my cuticles and i was couldn't bend my fingers my hands swelled so bad i was trying to sign autographs and stuff afterwards and thank god our makeup artist is very devout and her church group had come and there was a dermatologist i was like as a jew i want to say thank you to your church group and he had to go up to the, like, there was a Publix or something or a Kroger.

Speaker 3 And he got cortisone, like prescription strength, cortisone, and aloe to put on my face.

Speaker 3 But if you watch, yeah, oh, if you watch, I look.

Speaker 1 That's torturous. What tomato?

Speaker 1 Like, when you do those challenges, I would imagine, how quickly would you do them back to back to back?

Speaker 3 Because like

Speaker 1 you do something like that, and it's like, I don't want to eat forever.

Speaker 3 The first 10 episodes, everyone's like, I could do what you do. The thing is, could you do it those first 10? Like, so remember, I'm tomato ketchup.
No one knows who I am, cares who I am.

Speaker 3 No one expected the show. When I got picked up, they had a show with Dahani Jones, who played for the Jets and the Bengals, called Dahani Tackles the Globe.

Speaker 3 They had one called Bridget's Sexiest of Eaches with Bridget Marquardt, one of Hef's three girls with Holly and Kendra. It was Bridget was the sort of the older of the three of them, a lovely person.

Speaker 3 And obviously, they had Andrew Zimmerman and they had Tony.

Speaker 3 whose player to be named later, you know, I like him along in the draft like no one knew who I was. And suddenly it popped off.

Speaker 3 But in the beginning, it was travel, shoot, shoot, challenge, travel, or shoot, challenge, shoot the very next day. So there was no downtime.

Speaker 3 Eventually, once the show had a little bit of accolades and the tail could wag the dog a little bit, I could say, I need a recovery day.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 Or I need a prep day. But back in, I'll never, oh my God.
I'll never forget the first real challenge I ever had to do on camera. The pilot was in Memphis and we did a thing called the Kookie Canuck.

Speaker 3 It was called at the time the Bigfoot Lodge, but it was a burger roughly the size of a bar stool cushion, and it wasn't fitting. And

Speaker 3 it wasn't badly made. A really wonderful cook there and everything.

Speaker 3 You know, he is Canadian. I'm supposed to go to Kookie Canuck now, but it's just so much of it, and I didn't know how to do challenges yet.
And so I had to do this.

Speaker 3 I finished the challenge and the very next day I had to show up to Gus's fried chicken and try to like go, yeah, I'm so excited to fried chicken chicken and pie.

Speaker 3 And then it's like, excuse me a second, let me go into the bathroom for the fourth time in an hour and have a brown baby and I'll be right back.

Speaker 3 And that was the thing. Well, luckily, like the walking and the coffee, like I came in ready to fight Klitschko.
I came out ready to fight Pacquiao.

Speaker 3 Like I was like, I looked so much better on camera by the time I did the intro read because I had ground beef up to my nipples when I started, when I finished.

Speaker 1 I was like vegan.

Speaker 3 I was like ready to go.

Speaker 7 It really is fascinating because it was one of my favorite shows when it came out.

Speaker 7 I was talking to memes about this yesterday and we used to both plan where we would go eat in cities based off places that you had gone so it was a fantastic show if you haven't watched it go watch old episodes of it thank you you're also doing stuff you got is it your own youtube channel that you're on because i saw one video where you you're you claim to have come up with the best hangover cure of all time oh and i'm very interested to know about this because i've been i've been as a scientist trying to figure that out for the better part of 15 years and i keep getting close but i'm not there yeah that that video I think you're referring to on hot ones, Sean, who I love, he's a good buddy of mine.

Speaker 3 And I, so I recently joined the First We Feast Complex fam. I have a podcast with them called The Meals That Made Me.

Speaker 3 But on the first hot ones I did, Sean said, what's your hangover sandwich?

Speaker 3 And it was based on, so basically, you know you're going to need starch, you know you're going to need fat, and you know you're going to need a little bit of salt, just generally speaking.

Speaker 3 It's why like back in the day, bacon, egg, and cheese, french fries, a fountain coke, and I was usually right as rain, coupled Tylenol, and I was usually pretty good.

Speaker 3 But no, my hangover sandwich was you do eggs and sun-dried tomatoes, mozzarelle, and I put in a Sam Adams cream stout. I don't know why that was the one that always worked.

Speaker 3 And once the alcohol kind of cooks off, It has this kind of, I don't know, malted thing that really goes down well. And then I put it on like a bagel or a roll.

Speaker 3 but there was just something about it where it didn't go too rich or too sweet or too whatever um I'll tell you this though I do have and I guess I may as well tell because people who gatekeep are kind of you know dick blisters anyway spicy challenge hack okay and this is the truth oh

Speaker 1 it's it's

Speaker 3 if you want to my my my my sound my one of my cameraman tom dodson pissed me off to no end he was always funnier than me funnier than everybody on the crew crew.

Speaker 1 And he used to refer to getting hickory hole or ring sting.

Speaker 3 You know, he would burn out the leather Cheerio. I could do this all day.

Speaker 3 And so the way to avoid hickory hole,

Speaker 3 before you do anything spicy, eat a banana and eat a small thing of white rice. And then I would do something like,

Speaker 3 you know, pink bismuth, which is Peptobismol, but something to coat. But I would do the banana is the crucial thing.
I learned it at Flying Pie in Boise, Idaho.

Speaker 3 They have have the triple habanero explosion. And the guy's like a lovely human being, super duper yogi, whatever, lovely human being.
And his staff really cares.

Speaker 3 I said, how do you eat this, though, and not have to retire your asshole to science? And they said, the banana, apparently, something about the banana and the potassium encapsulates the capsicum.

Speaker 3 So you have a good exit strategy. And that's the thing.
Your body's going to produce acid to break down whatever you eat.

Speaker 3 But if what you eat comes down caustic, you have acid and acid you have oil and oil and it's too much and the thing is dairy is good here but dairy is the absolute worst in your stomach huh so that's why i found if i did a banana before i did hot ones before i did hot ones i did a banana i did a small thing and i did a shot of the pepto and then i came in and i just did it your mouth is gonna hurt and if you're nervous about that you can bring some ambisol but whatever but like yeah that's the thing is just how is it going to feel in your stomach yeah yeah that's

Speaker 3 dairy. Dairy is good if you swish and rinse it out, but the best thing you can do, hot dog bun.
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 Maybe it's because it's so spongy and starchy, but an old hot dog bun, like not an old one, like I'm not saying like if I would ask for the grazed papaya like,

Speaker 3 but I'm saying you do that, you do it, and you spit it out. It's actually like a sponge and it takes all the capsicum at you.

Speaker 3 Wow, right, because otherwise you're gonna be you'll be giving birth to red crayons all day.

Speaker 7 Did you have to like roll with your own, did you have like a kit that you brought with you on the road like i need that i can't do quilted northern

Speaker 3 i got i gotta go like five ply i love that okay so no i should have but one so i'm sure you guys know on sets right you say i'm going 10-1 if you have to pee and 10-2 if you're dropping you know taking the browns to the super bowl

Speaker 3 and uh so that's the way you politely just say you know oh where is where is so-and-so he's 10-1 you know and that's what you say so i had been taking these these fat blockers, kind of like the prescription strength of Ally.

Speaker 3 We were filming in Hawaii at Giovanni Shrimp Truck, but we had filmed the day before at this place called Moose McGillicuddies.

Speaker 3 And this woman was doing this challenge, had like 12 cheeses and 900 eggs and every sausage and probably a stick of butter.

Speaker 3 I had a few bites of it. And like, if you've ever taken a fat blocker, you know.

Speaker 3 You know when something's going on.

Speaker 7 You remember the Olestra chips? The Oline chips back in the... People forget about those, the wild chips.
They They were marketing.

Speaker 3 That you had to bring an extra pair of underwear. It was zero fat and there was a label on the back that said.

Speaker 1 They cause analytics.

Speaker 7 Yeah, we'll cause analytics. And people still bought them because they're like, I can't believe this is zero fat.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And it's like, it's zero fat, but it goes right through you.
So the thing was, yes,

Speaker 3 it was a one and done. And I usually was pretty good about it.
And, you know, you're... sauteing shrimp and oil and butter and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 And I just remember saying to Danny, like, I got to go check on the 10-200. Is the 10-22 in there?

Speaker 1 Like, fuck 10-2.

Speaker 3 I was like, is the 10-2000? I got to go check on the 10-2000. And I went back and forth.
And I just remember I kept going. And I said, no, we have.
And I remember my sound guy knew what I was doing.

Speaker 3 And he kind of covered for me. He's like, no, we have this piece of editing equipment.

Speaker 1 And Adam's kind of responsible for it because he's an executive producer.

Speaker 3 By the way, Eric Beanie, I love you with all of it. He's a two-time Emmy winner for HBO 24-7, Road to the Winter Classic.
Oh, yeah. He's a big hockey guy.

Speaker 3 Like, literally, Sid the Kidd took off this jersey and gave it to Eric.

Speaker 3 He's like that kind of quality human being um but straight up like eric was like no adam has to do this and i remember i said to the trailer owner i'm like

Speaker 1 i um

Speaker 3 used up your tp

Speaker 1 no man that's what it's there for yeah i said just thank you for having enough yeah

Speaker 3 but you know nothing nothing and everybody always wanted to talk to me about my puke my ass my this my that the other and i always felt rough and like one of the things that was really nice is what you said and i know it probably sounds like some sappy bullshit but you have to remember prior to the pandemic I say this as a restaurant kid, you know, my pop had me working in places when I was 12.

Speaker 3 Is prior to the pandemic, that was the worst time for independent restaurants. 2008 was when we came out, and with the recession and everything, it was the hardest time for mom and pop restaurants.

Speaker 3 And every place on Man vs. Food did 80 to 300% more business.
Oh, that's awesome. And it was because people like you believed in me and believed what we did.

Speaker 3 And so, literally, like, I got a text from Mike Emerson from Pappy's Barbecue in St. Louis.

Speaker 3 He's like, my brother, I just wanted to tell you, I could draw a direct line from the day you walked in my front door to me being able to live in Hawaii.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's very cool.

Speaker 3 And a nicer guy, there is none. And if you've ever been to St.
Louis, Pappy's Barbecue, get there early, order everything.

Speaker 3 Because they sell out. They sell out.

Speaker 1 Those are the best type of places.

Speaker 3 Dude, the president of Real Madrid had to make a call to get his kids some barbecue. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 That's incredible. So, I mean, this has been awesome, man.
We really appreciate you coming. So is your coffee, bro? Yes.
Where do you roast it?

Speaker 1 It's roasted actually in New Jersey.

Speaker 3 So, are you a big coffee guy? I am a big coffee guy. We were talking about this, and you told me to save it for this show.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, I want to hear this because that's what I was going to ask.

Speaker 3 Because your coffee is genuinely good. Like, again, I already gave my one Dick Flute solo.
Encores cost money.

Speaker 1 You know, you have to go.

Speaker 3 I did think about, like, probably some chubby chasers may want to do something.

Speaker 3 Like, if I got like a sponsorship from, like, Hexclad or Calphalon, if I did, like, an OnlyPens, just my, you know, because I know I look a little bit like Fred Savage on a bender.

Speaker 3 Like people look at me and go, Fred Savage looks terrible, but Jay Leno looks great.

Speaker 3 I figured like me, like just naked with like a saucepan or something like that. Some chubby chaser is going to be like, score.

Speaker 3 But no, so basically one of the best things is, you know, not to be like all like. John Cougar Mellon Camp, ain't that America? But I do love this country very much.
My dad was a vet.

Speaker 3 My grandpa, my uncle, I used to be chairman of the board of the Armed Forces Foundation. I work with,

Speaker 3 what do you call it? Clear Path for Veterans out of Syracuse. So getting to really see the country is the best.
So I was like, what are my passions? So I deliberately, in every city, I went to

Speaker 3 a coffee roaster, a comic book shop, a bookstore, a record store, and some kind of like streetwear, a local men's store.

Speaker 3 And even if I didn't buy anything, I met people cool, like that were cool that would like tell me about, oh, there's a dope show. So like, what connection do I have to St.
Louis?

Speaker 3 And suddenly I'm at this really cool like indie rock thing. Next thing, I'm at this house party.
Next thing, I'm at a magazine launch. And then I have this teacher.

Speaker 3 And like, so coffee has been really big. And there's a chef in Hawaii named Alan Wong.

Speaker 3 And he has a coffee list. I'd never seen that.
I'd only seen a wine list. He's like, why not? I know the aftertaste of everything you've eaten.
I could pair the perfect coffee to finish it.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 3 And like, I didn't get a boner, but I definitely like, I didn't go full six to midnight, but I felt a heartbeat in it, you know?

Speaker 3 And so I bought a bunch of airtight containers and I would cut the bag and I have them. And if you look in my kitchen, I have a bunch of them in these airtight containers and I am going to pick up.

Speaker 3 So you have dark, medium, and light.

Speaker 1 Which is your favorite? I like the medium, the big cat plant, but I also like the light.

Speaker 3 What made you roast coffee?

Speaker 1 So I've always loved coffee. I have two soon to be three kids.
And so coffee became like

Speaker 1 not only just what I enjoyed, but also like I needed it like constantly. Coffee.
So yeah, it was, uh, and I was like, why not?

Speaker 1 And, and my dog, Stella, she's uh 11, about to be 12, you know, not going to last forever. Dogs don't live forever.
So, I figured there's a cool way to start something. Such a long time

Speaker 3 to be gone, such a short time to be there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 1 I don't know that, I don't know that lyric. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's impossible to play guitar with it. Yeah, I have no idea what you're talking about.
I don't know Stella Blue Coffee, but uh, yeah, you're so ungrateful and alive.

Speaker 3 Uh, I think that, no, but I think it's really good. I'm going to give you a good marinary because I really love the taste of this.

Speaker 3 If you took your dark roast and you did equal amounts, cold, if you took London Broil, one of the cheapest cuts of meat, it's very, it's healthy food. It's very lean, but not very marbled.

Speaker 3 And I used to do this like on the come up and my friends couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 Equal parts, black coffee, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, red wine, three smashed garlic cloves, salt and pepper, put it in a Ziploc. And you could even, you put a straw, like a ghetto cryovac.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like you zip it except for a straw. Don't suck up the liquid because it's disgusting.
But you do this and you zip it, leave it there for a few hours, and then you can just sear it.

Speaker 3 But the acids, they denature the meat and they tenderize it so much. And the coffee, when you cook with coffee, it has that rich kind of chicory

Speaker 3 without being chicory, but that campfire kind of note. And the soy keeps a little salt without getting too intense.
It's worth a try. That's good.
I'm going to try that. Because then you could do it.

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Speaker 1 We do have a cheesesteak. Pardon my cheese steak.
We're not going to make you eat it. Oh,

Speaker 1 you can make it have a bite. You're allowed to take a bite.
You're allowed to take a bite. We got two of them.
So we have our own cheese steak. We wanted you to.

Speaker 3 How did you, how did you?

Speaker 1 That's awesome. So yeah, we have ghost kitchens around the country.

Speaker 1 We actually have a food truck across the street, so it's a little cold, but we would like you to try it and just tell us who it is. I would be honest.
And if you don't like it, we're going to cut it.

Speaker 1 And we also want you to watch Billy try to eat one as fast as he can. Yeah.
You can just tell him, you can critique his own.

Speaker 1 Holy moly. Kitty, what do I have?

Speaker 3 Do I have Whiz, Wiz, Wit?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think you should have the regular. Yeah.
Yes, Wiz. Oh, hell yeah.
So Billy's going to also eat one as fast as possible.

Speaker 3 Oh, and you're not cutting him. You just go

Speaker 1 hold on. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Okay. Do you have any advice for Billy as he tries to eat this as fast as possible? Because he needs all the advice that you can give him.

Speaker 3 Do you have a beverage? Do you have hot sauce?

Speaker 12 I don't have a beverage.

Speaker 1 And he doesn't want hot sauce. And I don't want hot sauce.

Speaker 3 What condiments do you like? Because the thing is,

Speaker 3 sometimes the addition of a different flavor or a different consistency. Like when I did a cheesesteak challenge, I was like...
hitting life for a bit and then just like adding in ketchup or whatever.

Speaker 1 You had to change it up. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 These don't look too bad.

Speaker 3 And the other thing is it's the first 22 minutes that you have before your stomach starts sending alerts.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's interesting.

Speaker 12 I have a couple questions about the big Texan.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, please, please.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I did the first. That was the first episode that aired.

Speaker 7 Wait, wait, Billy, let me ask your first question for you that you're definitely not going to ask.

Speaker 7 Is it a good strategy to drink three beers right before you try to eat this big steak?

Speaker 1 No, it is a terrible strategy.

Speaker 1 How did you do it? Not drinking three beers.

Speaker 3 No, honestly, So

Speaker 3 I would do, and it's funny you mentioned the big Texas.

Speaker 1 This is very perfect. This is a true Ain't That America moment.

Speaker 3 So I had done other challenges before, and I lost in Memphis. We did Columbus, Austin, Amarillo, Chicago.

Speaker 3 I won in Columbus with the Dagwood, lost terribly in Austin to the Don Juan. And then Amarillo was, and I'm telling you, my exec producer called me.
He never called me.

Speaker 3 He's like, we really need a W today. Really?

Speaker 3 Because, you know, that's legitimizing thing so someone i had read some stuff that leg leg workouts and back workouts yeah really help they really help like like gun your metabolism so what i first did was and this is the truth i would take every book i put my shoes the gideon bible that they were phone books back in the day in my suitcase and i would do shoulder loaded squats and bent over rows in my room and then and this is the truth my little weird hotel in amarillo i ran the parking lot and i started doing those line touches like like like basketball teachers, the line drills.

Speaker 1 Yeah, suicides.

Speaker 3 Suicides, yeah. So someone thought there was like a meth addict in the parking lot and the cops came and they said, there's some guy running around and he's touching the ground.

Speaker 3 And I'm like, no, I have to eat a 72-ounce steak later. The other thing that Danny, one of the two brothers, taught me, again,

Speaker 3 using condiments to fight what's known as flavor fatigue, but also

Speaker 3 Some alcohol is not bad. He goes, take a sip of red wine before a beef challenge.
It will make your mouth almost crave the red meat and it will make more saliva. Helps you.
And it's the truth.

Speaker 3 That does help.

Speaker 1 Billy, can you, what's your fastest you ever had a pardon my cheesesteak?

Speaker 4 I think I did it in a minute 32.

Speaker 1 All right, so we're trying to break that. We're trying to break it.
Yes. All right, I'll pull up the timer.
You ready to go?

Speaker 1 Let Adam take a bite first and let us know. Got it.

Speaker 3 Can I cut it to the middle?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can do whatever you want. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I want to try the middle, but all the good stuff is. Oh, it looks delicious, though.

Speaker 1 Water. Yeah, there's water.
Yeah, we got some water.

Speaker 1 Very good. Really, really good.

Speaker 7 Okay, we'll take that. Put that on quote card.
Yep.

Speaker 3 Adam Brisbane said, best cheesesteak he's ever had.

Speaker 1 You can't talk right now. That's what he said.
That's what he said. That's what he said.

Speaker 3 No, seriously, you know what I like? That the onions are not like cooked beyond all recognition. They have a little bit of crunch still.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Yep. Some are carved.
That's what I tell.

Speaker 3 Some are caramelized, some are crunchy.

Speaker 3 I like that some of the meat has that char in the crunch and some has a little bit more of a tear. Yep.
Personally, I go for them cut in half because I'm a savage, but really, really good. Okay.

Speaker 3 Good bread.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I like that

Speaker 3 the heat of the meat, like they must put the whiz on right at the end. Yeah.
So the whiz stays nice and

Speaker 3 pretty impressive. You guys did a great job.

Speaker 1 All right, thank you.

Speaker 1 All right, Billy, you ready? I'm going to start the clock.

Speaker 3 I need a napkin. I feel

Speaker 3 like I have a napkin. A very Bukkaki kind of thing.

Speaker 3 Remember, just it's those three or four bites swallow, and if you need to, if you're feeling full, this is what I, I'm not kidding.

Speaker 3 Joey just throws his body down, and it does legitimately force the food down.

Speaker 12 I was, so when you're talking about before you knew how to do a food challenge, what were some of those things and learn

Speaker 1 stalling? Like, like, what is it? What did you learn?

Speaker 1 Don't answer.

Speaker 1 I really don't know how to do a food challenge. I just don't eat it.
I just eat it. We're aware.

Speaker 3 No, it's fair. I learned some shit.

Speaker 3 Like, so, okay, Joey taught me I would drink a gallon of water in five minutes, either the morning of the challenge or the night before, because then through breathing, pissing, respiration, perspiration, the water is gone, but your stomach is stretched out.

Speaker 3 So that was a really big one. But a gallon of water in five minutes, I mean, be careful.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's easy. No, drown yourself.
No, Joe.

Speaker 3 And the other thing that my doctor was really concerned about was how I recovered from challenges. That's why everyone's like, you must get so much ass.

Speaker 1 You're going around.

Speaker 3 I see girls kissing you during the challenges. Number one, you never feel less sexy than when you're doing a food challenge.
Number two, that my crew were the ones gallivanting and kicking it.

Speaker 3 I was on a treadmill doing the baton death march because my doctor had given me these cleanses and he said, I need you moving right away.

Speaker 3 So I would go to the hotel gym, my head on the freaking console, walking at like 1.5 miles. And they're like, yo, man, the waitress is so cute.
They're like, where are we? Adam, where'd Adam go?

Speaker 3 I'm like, you can go.

Speaker 1 How long would you walk for?

Speaker 3 I would have to do bare minimum, three to four miles after each thing.

Speaker 3 My doctor was like, because I need you to, A, get it out of your system safely, but I also need to get your heart rate up because he didn't want any kind of atherosclerosis.

Speaker 3 And the truth is, let's face it, right?

Speaker 1 And people, like, I just wanted to do well and do right by my mom, like, whatever.

Speaker 3 And people would say, you're the top of my office death pool. How the fuck aren't you dead yet?

Speaker 1 I can't wait. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, can I have the show when you die of a heart attack? It's like, dude, I don't know you. Like, go, like, go eat hot death.

Speaker 1 Go like down in the traffic.

Speaker 3 And so, that was the thing. I never wanted to give people the satisfaction.
So, leg workouts, back workouts, stretching your stomach with that.

Speaker 3 And the other thing is, if you know you have a challenge of a certain type,

Speaker 3 don't eat that thing. So, like, I love nachos.
And that's why they waited till the very last man versus food challenge to give me a nachos challenge because they knew I was going to lay waste to it.

Speaker 3 And they knew that I wouldn't do nachos for like a month.

Speaker 1 All right. All right, ready, Billy? You got it, Billy.
Ready? Here we go. I believe in you, Billy.
You got this, bro. Three.
You got this. Two.

Speaker 7 One. All right.
How's that thing?

Speaker 1 It's going. Oh, that was a big bite.

Speaker 3 Get that side bit. He's getting it.
Get that side bit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, here he goes. Also, we should have mentioned that Billy has a deviated septum, so when he does this, he can't actually breathe.
Same, get that side bit because

Speaker 3 it's got liquid.

Speaker 1 Listen to him trying to breathe right now.

Speaker 1 He's not breathing.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Are we going to have a reversal? Nope. Nope.
Nicky time. Oh, you're going to brood.
Yeah, you can't. I know when you can't breathe.

Speaker 7 Billy's Billy's also real hopped up on Benadryl right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and also just really wants to impress you. So this is a big moment.

Speaker 3 Go easy on the water. Go easy on the water.
Because that's the other thing. People forget.
The water hits the bread and it expands in your stomach.

Speaker 7 Oh, it's tough, Billy.

Speaker 1 All right, Billy. He's crushing it.
He's crushing it. He's doing a good job.
Almost crushing it. He's down.
There's a half.

Speaker 1 There's a half. There's a half.
How much time are we in time? 49 seconds. So I don't think we're breaking records today, but that doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 This is a hard thing to get down, though. Yeah.
It is. If the bread is doughy, it's good, good, but it's doughy.

Speaker 1 Go, Billy, go. Go.

Speaker 7 Billy probably didn't even work out this car.

Speaker 1 Go, Billy, go.

Speaker 5 Billy, you probably should have.

Speaker 1 Oh, Bill, you could get it. 110.

Speaker 3 What a savage.

Speaker 1 By the way. Don't eat the bottle cap, Billy.

Speaker 1 It's literally in his hand right next to the bottle. Wow, that is

Speaker 1 the Helsinki technique.

Speaker 3 Dude, I got to tell you this. Anyone who's willing to actually do it will always have my respect.
Yeah, oh yeah. Because you get a bunch of like, you know, the Monday morning quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 The man in the arena.

Speaker 3 Yes, the man in the arena. Like

Speaker 3 Teddy Roosevelt said.

Speaker 1 Yes, yeah, Billy. Billy, shake it down.
Do that. That's it.
That's it. That's it.
All right, Billy, beat two minutes. You're at 140.

Speaker 3 House it. House it.
Push, push, push.

Speaker 1 Yeah, come on, Billy. Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 Yes. Open mouth.
Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 Yes, sir. I love how a bunch of guys can be in a room.
Go, let's see that open mouth. Get it.

Speaker 1 Let's see that open mouth, Billy.

Speaker 7 Oh, my God. Good job, Billy.
I'm proud of you.

Speaker 1 I'm very proud of you.

Speaker 3 I love that there was a Twitter account called Dirty Man vs. Food Quotes because they showed us how many things we say in this thing that are disgusting.

Speaker 1 You could really describe food in all the ways that you describe food. Bravo.
Yeah. Oh, oh, he's struggling.

Speaker 7 No, he's got it. He's got it.

Speaker 1 This is the flu game right here. Yeah.
Like home stretch.

Speaker 7 Is there any adrenaline that kicks in? We're doing a challenge.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. Oh, my God.
It's funny. I'm great, great question.
So I boxed for a hot minute and like, I hate losing. I'm deeply competitive.
Absolutely. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 By the way, good job, Billy.

Speaker 1 2017

Speaker 3 still not easy seated seated low because that's the other thing Yeah, you have to be like seated like at a normal chair when you sit low and your knees are above It's kind of like the swatty body.

Speaker 1 It's like not a good thing.

Speaker 12 I did it standed at the kitchen when I got 132.

Speaker 3 I will say that yes

Speaker 3 I did one that was awesome. I did a wing challenge in Boulder once and they put me at one of those like high top tables.
Yeah. And your legs are kind of holding you up on those chairs and it didn't.

Speaker 7 Was that the 50 wing challenge?

Speaker 1 I think Billy did that

Speaker 1 at West End Tavern. Yep.

Speaker 1 What a great place. You guys are like a child.
Great challenge. I enjoyed that challenge.

Speaker 3 Shout out to Aaron Peacock, one of the loveliest managers. She was so nice to us.

Speaker 3 Really great there. But yeah,

Speaker 3 there's some chicken of the egg. I did a big challenge at LBI in Jersey.
And that one, you know what I did? And that's what I wish I had done for all my big quantity wing challenges.

Speaker 3 I stripped all the meat off the bone first. Yeah.
And then I was just taking like skull bandit pinches of meat and just dunking it in blue cheese, just like a total fatasse and just like, oh,

Speaker 3 like just, you know, Joey Fat One, you know,

Speaker 1 crushing it. Good job.

Speaker 12 I'm surprised you believed in condiments when doing the food challenge. I hear a lot of people don't do condiments because it overloads.

Speaker 3 Without question. I guess for me, so this is a funny thing.
And I saw a meme, someone giving me shit was like, starts timed eating challenge, spend seven minutes talking about flavor.

Speaker 3 But the thing was Pat Young, who was the president of the network, actually mandated that he said, I do not want to see you dunking buns and water.

Speaker 3 I don't want to see you eating like a competitive eater. He said, if it's a big sandwich, I want you to eat it like it's a big sandwich.

Speaker 3 It's a big bowl of pasta, eat it like you would eat a bowl of pasta. It's just a really big one.
He said, because if we make it look delicious, the people that love pasta would go, oh man,

Speaker 3 I would run a train on a big thing of ravioli. You know what I'm saying? And that was the thing.

Speaker 1 And the funniest thing was my buddy Jason.

Speaker 3 I I love my friend Jason Bear from college. I love him dearly.

Speaker 1 He called me with like a death threat in the middle of the night.

Speaker 3 He's like, Okay, here's the deal, asshole.

Speaker 3 You either have to tell me how to make pulled pork or tell me where I can get pulled pork in Brooklyn at 11 o'clock because I have a pregnant woman that just watched your show and she demands pulled pork.

Speaker 1 And if you don't, our friendship is over.

Speaker 3 But that's the thing. So, yeah, like I would love if you watch the Hartford, Connecticut challenge, it was me and this guy, the great Moomsie, and he was a real competitive eater.

Speaker 3 And he was dunking the crust in water, and he was doing this. I will say this, though.

Speaker 3 He is the only time I've given myself license to actually like pull the trigger because it's so bad for your throat, for your teeth, whatever. But, like, only there's only that one time in St.

Speaker 3 Louis where it happened kind of on camera. And the one thing they didn't have, and it's funny because the owner of the restaurant won't let me live it down.

Speaker 3 Great place. I highly recommend if anyone here is a fan of the BLT sandwich, maybe the best BLT in Christendom at Crown Candy Kitchen in St.
Louis.

Speaker 3 Andy Karanzev's family's been running it since the turn of the century, last century. And the seats, like the booths, are hollow.
So it's a lot of dairy.

Speaker 3 And right before I didn't really feel good, I shifted and I popped off a fart and it echoed like in Timpani. And his wife was sitting behind me.

Speaker 1 And she's like, oh, like that.

Speaker 3 I think that definitely threw me off my game because it was like,

Speaker 3 like it kind of hit like a low bass note.

Speaker 3 Like I was like, like at an EDM festival wait for the drop and it was just like

Speaker 3 and then she oh and then like I just started like like everything malfunctioned from then on and I was like I need the bucket and it was just pure milkshake

Speaker 3 and I remember a cousin of mine and again this guy is like buff secret service agent never did a food challenge in his life I'm like my man's right here and was just saying you should have done all vanilla.

Speaker 3 You should never have done eggnog. It's like, what do you know of?

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 That's two gallons of milk. Yeah.
That's two gallons of milk. No one needs bones that strong.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Me and Jim Harbaugh.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Jack Wilshear. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, Adam, this has been awesome, man.
Everyone. Go check him out on the History Channel.

Speaker 1 We will.

Speaker 7 I'm going to watch that show.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's been very, very fun. We really appreciate you stopping.
Goodbye, man. Man, yeah.

Speaker 3 Hopefully, you guys dig Rebels. They show the old seasons too, so you get to enjoy me at all the various weights I've been during the pandemic when I got over 300.

Speaker 3 And now, but yeah, man, it's I'll tell you this man You're not

Speaker 3 I've been pushed to do a sauce a restaurant or something since man vs.

Speaker 3 Food and I haven't and it was doing this show that kind of got me off my ass to do it because you see How many chips were stacked against all these people and how they actually went out and just did the damn thing and it's so impressive.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so impressive like You know, Truitt Kathy got those chicken breasts by accident because they didn't fit the trays on a Delta in-air flight meal.

Speaker 3 And he took it and created this multi-billion dollar business. Like, what inspiration? Like, right here, Stella Blue Coffee.
Yeah, like you went and did the damn thing.

Speaker 3 You're not some like hipster in the village bitching about the coffee. You went out and made some great stuff.
And I applaud anybody like you. Lots of talkers, very few doers.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, here for the fucking doers.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely. Well, thanks so much, man.
Really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 I got you. Love to come back.
I'd love to cook for you guys.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 3 Seriously, y'all have a. I had a big green egg sent to me by my boy Dave Rose, and it cracked cracked in transit.
You guys have a, well, it's a red egg in the hallway.

Speaker 3 Can I come back and cook for you? Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
I'd be honored if you guys are down. Yes.
No challenge is necessary. Anytime.

Speaker 3 I mean it in earnest. I would love to.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Love it.
Thanks, man. Thanks, man.
Thank you guys.

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Speaker 11 okay let's wrap up uh max what did you just send us astros uh that would be the 2021 ring ceremony for the

Speaker 16 alcs champion houston astros hmm

Speaker 1 did so just cut this part this part out of the podcast

Speaker 1 podcast i can't it's a paywall so this could be yeah i couldn't get to it either yeah no i clicked on it it's a paywall i'm trying yeah just

Speaker 1 took me to the home page if you can verify this is a lie i it took me back to the homepage. I can't read it.
I tried to click on it, too.

Speaker 7 For instant access, subscribe now. 25 cents spring sale.
Are you getting a cut of this, Max?

Speaker 8 All it says is Astros collect more baseball diamonds during ring ceremony. Didn't they just win a championship?

Speaker 16 This was 2021 when they lost.

Speaker 8 How do you know that?

Speaker 16 Because when I first opened it, it worked, but now it's not.

Speaker 1 No, it's not working. I can't.

Speaker 16 I'll find another. I'll find another sales.
Find another one, I think.

Speaker 1 Find another team.

Speaker 1 Because the Astros, also, we don't respect the Astros as an organization. They cheated.
Find a real team the this is bullshit and also they already won a super a World Series

Speaker 16 makes it even worse for them they beat you so them having a ceremony after they had already won a World Series recently makes it even more so that it's a normality no no yes yeah no it means that you got no hit in the World Series by a team that had a second place ceremony for themselves it's everyone it's just the most recent It's just the most recent pennant winner.

Speaker 8 I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 That's facts. Find another one.
Yeah. I will.
I will. I I will find another one.

Speaker 16 Deal.

Speaker 1 Done. Easy.
Guys on chicks.

Speaker 8 Hey, guys, I've been dating my boyfriend for over a year, but I hate when we watch sports with his friends. Whenever someone on one of their teams does bad, someone yells, what a waste of cum.

Speaker 8 At first, I didn't think much of it, but they will say it in large crowds, and it's embarrassing. Is this normal guy behavior?

Speaker 1 Usually a load your mom should have swallowed.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you should have been dribbling down the side of your mom's leg. Yeah.
That sort of thing. Now, I guarantee this is what happened.

Speaker 7 One time one of their friends friends made that joke just amongst the fellas, and it got a good laugh. And then they're just trying to recreate that magic every single time.

Speaker 7 And when they're in a bar with new people around, it's like a brand new audience for a stand-up comedian.

Speaker 7 So they're trying to, you just have to get them going back to the same bar over and over again, and eventually they'll stop saying it.

Speaker 1 Also, if he's the one and you get married, you have a family, all that stuff, like you won't have to deal with it.

Speaker 1 Eventually, he'll like go once a month to go hang out with his friends, and they'll make the calm jokes. And it's not going to be every day at your house.

Speaker 1 do that.

Speaker 1 This one's great.

Speaker 1 Help, all caps.

Speaker 8 I think my boyfriend is using ChatGBT to write my sweet messages and good morning texts.

Speaker 8 At first, I thought he was so thoughtful and taking time to write me short poems and messages, but then I learned about ChatGBT.

Speaker 8 Worst of all, he wrote my grandma a poem and she is in awe of his writing. How do I address this with him? Is this a red flag?

Speaker 7 Just guys being dudes, we do have a resident plagiarist here that might be be able to weigh in on this.

Speaker 1 Billy? Billy? You're talking about me?

Speaker 7 Yeah, you've used ChatGPT to write all sorts of things.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 12 I've used it when I said I'm using ChatGPT. Okay.

Speaker 7 Do you think that this is, is this person lying?

Speaker 12 I think this guy's a goddamn genius. Okay.
And I wish I used it myself.

Speaker 7 Do you remember when Russell Wilson used Google pretty much the same thing to write a love note to Siara?

Speaker 7 That was very, very funny. He just Googled the description of a beautiful woman.
It's like how to describe a beautiful woman.

Speaker 7 And then he wrote a poem to Siara using the first Google results that came up from that. And then I think she posted it online, and then the entire internet called him out on it.
That was very funny.

Speaker 7 Russell Wilson is pretty much a robot.

Speaker 1 Breaking Moose.

Speaker 3 I'd like to issue an apology to Max.

Speaker 1 This Rays ring is so sad. He sent us the Rays in 2020 American League Championship, which was a bubble year.
And

Speaker 1 Kevin Kiermeyer's quote is so sad. He said,

Speaker 1 these are American League Champion rings. And he said, the rings are beautiful.
There's no other way to put it. All of us were blown away by them.

Speaker 1 They're about as sexy as a ring could get without being a World Series champion.

Speaker 1 That's tough. Max?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I was just going to go down until you guys mentioned it because every single team has this ring ceremony.

Speaker 1 Well, I issued my apology. Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 I accept your apology. Anyone else in this room?

Speaker 7 I don't want to apologize.

Speaker 7 I wasn't really that critical.

Speaker 8 I didn't say no one else has done it. I just said it's the first I've seen.

Speaker 1 I don't apologize.

Speaker 16 I'm going to go back and check the tapes here because I'm so sorry that you were like, oh, I know for certain that we would be roasting these teams if this happened every year.

Speaker 7 I don't want to apologize because it was funny.

Speaker 8 If I saw it, would you matter? If I saw it, I would do it.

Speaker 7 But I do want to apologize

Speaker 7 for getting the facts.

Speaker 3 Askew, a tad askew.

Speaker 7 You know what? The facts were correct.

Speaker 8 The fact remains that it's soft to do a ring ceremony for a second place finish.

Speaker 7 I was misinformed.

Speaker 8 So I was not wrong about anything.

Speaker 1 And I apologize for nothing. The Red Sox lost a World Series?

Speaker 8 Good question. No.
Fuck.

Speaker 8 Not since I've been alive. Not since I've been alive.

Speaker 12 Fuck. By the way, that girl can put those messages into ChatGBT and ask ChatGBT if ChatGBT wrote it, and it'll be able to tell you.

Speaker 8 All right, don't be a narc, ChatGBT.

Speaker 1 I know you're listening.

Speaker 7 It's chat GPT, right?

Speaker 13 GBT.

Speaker 7 Yeah, are you saying GBT?

Speaker 1 Chi GT.

Speaker 1 GBT.

Speaker 7 Are you saying P or B? I'm just saying it fast. Are you saying P or B? P.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right.

Speaker 12 Like, context could tell you that.

Speaker 12 How? Because it's a P.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 7 Okay. All right, whatever.
What if it was a B, though? There's, I bet you there's

Speaker 1 chat BB chat GB.

Speaker 12 It just sounds the same when you're saying it fast.

Speaker 14 Chat GPT.

Speaker 1 Chat GBT?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I said B. P.
I said B.

Speaker 12 Cell phone, cell phone.

Speaker 1 Chat GBT? Chat GBT.

Speaker 3 GPT. GPT.

Speaker 7 Billy's inventing a new letter.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 Use promo code take at chat 3GB.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 GPT. There it is.
Chat GBT.

Speaker 1 You're good. You're good.
All right, next one.

Speaker 8 All right, we got two good ones to end it. Hey, PFT, Dad, Cat, and Honk.
My husband always feeds our garbage disposal.

Speaker 8 He'll sometimes make a point to throw extra food down there and say things like, eat up, big guy, before he turns it on. Is this normal?

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is funny.

Speaker 7 I don't know if it's normal, but I'm going to start doing this.

Speaker 1 I have the garbage disposal with the top, you know, not it's not a switch. Yeah.
And I like it because it just feels like I'm doing like manual labor. I'm like, ah, there you go.

Speaker 1 See you, bitch.

Speaker 12 You know that pit in Star Wars that would eat things in the desert?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 12 When we saw that movie, my dad was like, look, we have one at home. And it was the garbage disposal.

Speaker 7 I like that. Man, that was like a good job.

Speaker 1 That was a good cat joke. I was scared of the sinks.

Speaker 8 I think it's a bubble fetch.

Speaker 7 I was looking at houses the other week, and there's this one house that had the switch for the garbage disposal. Like the one that you turn on to, you flip it, and the thing starts rotating.

Speaker 7 It was like right at belly level next to the sink where you would definitely accidentally turn it on. Yeah.

Speaker 7 And that's my worst nightmare. I think that's like the scariest thing ever is to get your hand stuck in a moving garbage disposal.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's scary to just even put your hand in a garbage disposal when it's not moving. It's not being like, what happens if it just starts moving?

Speaker 7 Yeah, you have to set up like cone traffic cones around the switch to make sure nobody accidentally hits it while your hand's in there.

Speaker 7 That's a funny move.

Speaker 1 All right, last one. Okay.

Speaker 8 Hey, guys, I recently got engaged to my long-term boyfriend. He is great, but there's something he does that has always struck me as odd.

Speaker 8 And I'd like your thoughts on whether I should generally be concerned.

Speaker 8 Generally speaking, he's a serious rule follower, and this applies to having a child out of wedlock. Because of this, he always uses condoms during sex.

Speaker 8 He's very strict about this, and I haven't really had a big issue with it. The oddity comes after we have sex.

Speaker 8 He is so neurotic about the possibility we'll get pregnant that when we're done, he always takes the used condom and fills it with water from the faucet to see if there are leaks.

Speaker 8 Do you think this is potential serial killer behavior or just a harmless quirk of an otherwise great guy in love of my life?

Speaker 7 Sounds like a crime scene investigator.

Speaker 1 Didn't Drake used to, wasn't there a story? He put hot sauce. Yeah, hot sauce in the condom.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you always hear about like when they do the

Speaker 7 like NBA rookie symposium. Yeah.
They teach players like, you throw away your own condoms and make sure that they're not accessible for anybody else.

Speaker 12 Right.

Speaker 7 No, condoms work.

Speaker 8 But filling it up after.

Speaker 1 Wait, are they married, you say? They just got engaged. They're not engaged.
Yeah, you got to.

Speaker 1 this psycho because it once you're engaged then it's like if you have a baby that's you're good it's good you're happy that you're having a child right it switches it's not like oh shit what are we gonna do it's like no you're you're good you're having a family yeah

Speaker 1 tell them to relax also

Speaker 1 as a woman as a woman you should be on the pill don't we all agree with that you really can't trust guys with birth control

Speaker 7 oh yeah that's this guy should be doing everything that he can to stop using condoms yeah Instead, he's like really, he's becoming more into condoms. Yeah.
That's a red flag. He's got a condom fetish.

Speaker 1 Remember, I was talking about it earlier today when Jameis tried to say the best

Speaker 1 condom and he like or combo tandem and he said condom, like the best condom in the NFL.

Speaker 7 Yeah, a sex problem. Yeah, sex problem.

Speaker 7 Sex. Also, very weird part about this is he's putting the used condom on your faucet that you probably use to wash your hands.

Speaker 3 That's your pissing sex.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's...

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What are you doing? That's where you piss. Don't put your jizz there.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you can't cross streams like that.

Speaker 8 And how do you dispose of the con

Speaker 8 just throwing away water balloons?

Speaker 1 He eats them. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That'd be great.

Speaker 7 You throw them across the room. That'd be a fun prank.
Oh, shit.

Speaker 12 This is why the pull-up method is just

Speaker 5 so much more effective.

Speaker 7 It's the best. Yeah, it works 100%.

Speaker 1 You know where the Stevens going. Yeah, never have a problem pulling out.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you know exactly.

Speaker 7 Every last drop of cum is accounted for when you pull out.

Speaker 1 Yes, that's true.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 7 Hank, lottery ball you ever gotten it nope hank somebody ran the numbers on on how likely it would be for you to pass me for the tattoo bet uh it's like 25 chance that i'm going to uh

Speaker 1 what no well i ran the same numbers 0% chance because hank's never got it well he's never gotten it yeah yeah he's never gonna get it yeah the bottom line is I'm 25 times more likely to win this bet than you are

Speaker 8 I 100% don't give a fuck so

Speaker 1 take that take those for stats well That's some math right there.

Speaker 1 0% a world-renowned educated Microsoft. I like that.

Speaker 1 All right, you haven't gotten this, though. No.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Numbers? 69.

Speaker 8 17.

Speaker 15 18. Keep in mind, 77 has hit back-to-back shows.

Speaker 7 Just throwing it out there. I'm going to go 49 for Sevi Biasteros.

Speaker 1 Not John Romson.

Speaker 7 Why is that when he died? Still alive.

Speaker 1 What did Hank guess last time?

Speaker 8 What does 49 have to do with?

Speaker 7 His birthday was 4-slash-9.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what what was Hank's guess last time?

Speaker 7 Hank, you don't know shit about 75.

Speaker 1 96.

Speaker 1 What do you guess

Speaker 1 last show? 96, I want to say.

Speaker 3 Checking.

Speaker 3 What did you guess, Hank? Just say it.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah, he guessed 96. When he false started, but what do you guess?

Speaker 1 98. 98 after? Yeah.
So what do I go with? 96 or 98? Which one should I go with?

Speaker 7 I mean, take his number. Go 96.
96?

Speaker 1 That's the one he wanted? Yeah. Max, you should go 98.

Speaker 1 Sure. All right.
I'll take 98. Max is going 98.
I'll go 96.

Speaker 8 18, 18.

Speaker 1 80. 80.

Speaker 1 Damn. Max, how mad would you have been if you had gotten 20 there?

Speaker 1 I mean, I already got it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's true. We all have already gotten it.

Speaker 1 Except for memes. I think.
80, 50. Memes, yeah.

Speaker 1 I saw another person tweeting me the other day saying they got it for the first time.

Speaker 7 That's wild.

Speaker 8 Yeah, some fucking PGA golfer that's never won an event tweeted at me today. Maybe focus on your game, dude.

Speaker 13 Who was it?

Speaker 1 This doesn't count.

Speaker 13 Who was it?

Speaker 8 Steve Wheatcroft.

Speaker 1 That's a made-up name. 35.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Wheaty PGA. PGA tour player living the dream day by day.

Speaker 12 Mike Tolbert.

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