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Speaker 1 Today is Wednesday, December 7th. And just when you think Tom Brady is dead, he's back.

Speaker 5 He was dead, dead last night, too.

Speaker 1 He was so dead.

Speaker 5 The Bucs were in my doghouse.

Speaker 5 I was going to give up watching Bucs football for the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 Well, every game's the same. They're so bad.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if this is just because I feel like I actually had the Saints last night. Thankfully, I've come around.

Speaker 1 Jake reminded us Tom Brady at night past his bedtime is what, 2-12 now against the spread.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 The Bucs just look slow. Like all their offense moves slowly.
All their offense is just short passes like for four-yard gains where the guy is moving slowly and then gets absolutely brutally tackled.

Speaker 1 And it's just boring to watch. And then they came back and won.
And it was Tom Brady, like, oh, he did it again. Tom Brady will never die.

Speaker 5 It was Tom Brady did it again. It was also that the Saints absolutely blew it.
They blew it in so many different ways that they invented new ways to blow it.

Speaker 5 I've never seen a running back do what Mark Ingram did on that. Was it a catch out of the backfield or a handoff?

Speaker 5 When he ran around the right side and he stepped out of bounds a full yard short of the first down marker, when he very easily could have just stepped across that first down marker.

Speaker 5 That probably would have put the game away, or they would have at least been able to bleed out a lot more clock at that point.

Speaker 5 And then on the third down, right after that, they called a pass, which went incomplete, stopped the clock again. Tom Brady gets the ball back.

Speaker 5 And when Tom Brady got the ball back, when they were down 13 points, I think everybody in America did the math. Yeah.
After he completed that first pass across the middle and said,

Speaker 5 wait a second. It feels like it's 30 points, but this is a 13-point deficit.
Tom Brady is going to win this game.

Speaker 1 And even when he got the ball back again

Speaker 1 down seven or down six, like, you knew he was going to win the game, but even still, the Bucs make it so painful. Like, it's hard to watch.

Speaker 1 Like, it's not like, oh, some incredible play happens and they win the game. It's like, oh, they get a few yards here, a few yards, you know,

Speaker 1 on the sideline to the tight end. Oh, touchdown to Chris Godwin.
Oh, it's coming back. Like, it just, everything is painful and hard to watch with the Bucks.

Speaker 5 I do want to give credit to Brady on that one long pass in the fourth quarter that he threw to Mike Evans. It drew the pass interference.
That was a good pass.

Speaker 1 He's still.

Speaker 5 That should have been like a 50-yard touchdown catch or whatever.

Speaker 5 It was a good play by the defensive back to interfere with it because he was beat, and there was nothing else that he could do at that point. But that was a good pass.

Speaker 5 Besides that one little instance, I was just, it was the most boring brand of Tom Brady that I think I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 And his arm is still there. It's just that he doesn't trust his offensive line.
And it's so apparent that he doesn't trust. Like, I think that's the difference.

Speaker 1 Tom Brady, if it were no hits on the quarterback, he would still be maybe the best quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 But because he doesn't want to get hit, why would you if you're 45 years old and it's like, I don't want to fucking get smoked by these guys anymore, he he like will bail out of plays early or he won't stand in it as long.

Speaker 1 Like his arm is still there. His offensive line just sucks and you know it sucks.
So he's dumping down constantly because he's like, I don't trust these guys.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and so as much as we've talked about Tom Brady sucking in primetime, people forget Andy Dalton, nice guy. Like you like to always remind people.
Very nice, very, very nice guy.

Speaker 5 I think he's lost his last nine primetime games.

Speaker 1 I don't even put that game on him. Like that pass to Jarvis Landry, who he should have caught that.
That should have been a touchdown.

Speaker 5 There were two drops that I think should have been touchdowns. And then Mark Ingram just not going for the first down for no reason whatsoever.
That was tough to watch. I do have a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 5 Maybe it's not a conspiracy theory, but a theory as to why we're not getting our Jameis.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 5 I think the Saints know that they fucked up his injury when it happened.

Speaker 5 When they put him back in. And I think that they're trying to make sure that they're doing the right thing for his health on the back end of it.

Speaker 5 And they're like, we don't want to put you in harm's way anymore because we absolutely fucked you over when you had a pretty serious injury.

Speaker 1 Pain.

Speaker 5 Pain everywhere. Pain on my back.
Pain on my legs. Pain everywhere.

Speaker 5 I think that they really fucked that up when they put him back into that game. And that's why I think that we're not getting James.

Speaker 1 I like that theory.

Speaker 5 They're afraid to play him right now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like that theory. And it's, yeah, I mean, it just sucks to watch Andy Dalton, Tom Brady, even Joe and Troy, I feel like we're a little punch-drunk.

Speaker 1 They're like, this is kind of, this isn't that fun.

Speaker 5 It was the least fun time that you could possibly have while watching Tom Brady, who they usually just give a deep suck to whenever he's on TV. Yes.

Speaker 5 It was a painful game to watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 The only good part about that game, I would say, was we got treated to a brand new graphic on TV. Sniffing Around.
Instead of In the Hunt, now we're calling all those teams sniffing around. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Which that's

Speaker 5 listen, I love In the Hunt. I've always loved In the Hunt.
In the Hunt's the best. But Sniffin' Around is pretty damn good.

Speaker 1 Well, it wasn't a good guy. I think I'm a sniffing around guy.
I think we did a little bit of a rant a few weeks ago. No, it was Troy Aikman.
Troy Aikman during the Steelers-Colts game was like,

Speaker 1 we've been doing this for this long. Why is it still in the hunt?

Speaker 1 it changed yes and like can we come up with something different and he's like sniffing around they fucking nailed it yeah like sniffing around anytime you try to mess with a classic like the new coke you're usually gonna screw it up this i think is better and it might just be because it's new but i saw it and every time i see sniffing around i just smile i i see obviously they can't put swear the perfect like phrase for in the hunt would just be shitty teams but maybe yeah like that would be great to just have on the graph because that's really what they are it's just you're a shitty team but maybe or just who knows you you never know yeah you never know what your power rankings are for yeah that's pretty much it though that's like all the teams that are in the hunt in december let's be honest they're shitty teams but maybe there should be an extra category of like you never know like what you're not mathematically eliminated yet dude you know who that put a fright through my uh a chilled through my spines when i was looking at this upcoming week The Las Vegas Raiders are 5-7.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I didn't realize that.
They've won three in a row. I didn't realize that.
And they played the Rams on Thursday night. They are my pinky team.

Speaker 1 I would say there's a 0% chance they're winning the Super Bowl, but there's not a 0% chance they're not going to make the playoffs anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's now a grouping of teams.

Speaker 1 It's the Lions, the Browns, the Steelers, and the Raiders, who if you're a fan of any of those teams, you can essentially tell yourself, if we win out, we'll be in the playoff.

Speaker 1 And that's kind of a fun thing to do because you're all five and seven, so you could finish 10 and seven. You figure you'd make it.
You could make it, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 And on the NFC side of things, it's basically going to be a battle.

Speaker 5 There really shouldn't be that many teams sniffing around in the NFC because it's really just the Giants, the Commanders, and the Seahawks. I think two out of those two.

Speaker 1 Oh, the Lions.

Speaker 5 The Lions, if they have to win out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they've got to win out. They got to win out.

Speaker 5 Put them in the category of not out of it yet. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 they are in the win-out.

Speaker 5 And then

Speaker 5 the Packers are in win-out mode, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know what?

Speaker 5 The Packers got to run the table.

Speaker 1 What will end up happening is the Lions will probably win out until they play the Packers week 18. And the Packers will fuck the Lions.
Yep. Because that will just be how it always works.

Speaker 1 That's probably it. Hank, what did you think about watching your guy, Tom Brady?

Speaker 1 Thought he looked good. Won the game.
Championship. Winners win.
Winners win. Straight up.
They don't cover, which was unfortunate, but they win.

Speaker 5 Do you think that he'd be happier if he was back home?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think he wants to be able to

Speaker 1 play this week. I think he wants to be back in New England.

Speaker 5 No, I was going to say San Fran, too, because he met with Aaron Judge before the game. Yeah.
And he said that he was recruiting him, that he gave him his best offer.

Speaker 5 I think that means that he was recruiting him to San Fran, be a giant.

Speaker 6 Oh, the Yankees spring training facilities in Tampa.

Speaker 1 No, he was definitely recruiting for the Giants. It would be such a tough team.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The town you grew up in, the sport you don't play in, like, that's still your favorite team.

Speaker 1 Like, he grew up a Giants fan. He's still a Giants fan.
That's fine. So he's pitching Aaron Judge to the Giants.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 Which is where Tom Brady's going to play next season.

Speaker 1 That would actually be electric. I was saying I don't think it's going to happen.
This is like Francisco. Him with him with Shanahan.
The Francisco Giants and the New York Giants.

Speaker 1 Him with Shanahan with the game. Which one? I was saying that

Speaker 1 how big of a power move would it be if they had lost last night if Tom Brady was like, Bucs, just cut me. That would happen.
And then just go sign with the 49ers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's like, Bucs, I got you a Super Bowl. Well, I mean, Hank, I was thinking to win a Super Bowl this year.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, would you you say that the 49ers might be in a better spot this year?

Speaker 1 I guess.

Speaker 5 The Patriots are still sniffing around.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they are. But how, like, that would be the ultimate.
He's the only guy who could ever pull it off. Just being like, cut me.

Speaker 1 You're off. Our offensive line sucks.
I gave you guys a Super Bowl. Like, we sold out tickets.
Just cut me. Let me go play for San Francisco and I'll win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 He could just say, like, I have been cut.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And then everybody else is under a spell in Tampa. They'd be like, what a powerful move that would be.
I guess we cut him. I guess we cut him.

Speaker 1 If I was actually thinking about this: if Tom Brady goes to the 49ers next year, is he now a ring chaser?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, he's not because he won six rings in his original team. It's different.
Wasn't it kind of funny to be like, oh, the back portion of his

Speaker 1 career is a ring chaser.

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 5 people joined him in Tampa to chase rings.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So, like, I don't, I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 1 But if he went to the 49ers, would he then be a ring chaser?

Speaker 5 For that one instance, I would say.

Speaker 5 I wouldn't call him going to Tampa a ring chasing move.

Speaker 1 It's just a hilarious concept.

Speaker 5 Like he's net zero rings when he's been on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 1 It's just a funny concept because Tom Brady's like the creator of rings. He's not a ring chaser.
He creates them.

Speaker 1 So it's like to have the idea that he would be a ring chaser at the end would be very funny.

Speaker 5 I do like the idea of...

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, again, what we're doing right now is just imagining more people in Kyle Shanahan's system playing quarterback. Yeah.
It's not going to be Baker, that's what I've heard. Nope.

Speaker 5 Now, I've heard we're recording this before Baker's gone through waivers. But the first news that I saw today regarding that was Kyle Shanahan leaking word out that he was not interested in Baker.
Oh.

Speaker 5 And then word came out later that Sean McVay was interested in Baker. I think that McVay just wants Baker to keep him away from Kyle.
Yes. And Kyle's acting like, oh, I don't want this guy.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 5 we're not even planning on picking him up off waivers.

Speaker 1 Baker would be fun in Kyle Shanahan's offense.

Speaker 5 He would be very fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 no, that was Manzel. I was going to say.

Speaker 1 Oh, Johnny Mann. Kyle Shanahan was with the Browns.
Yes.

Speaker 5 Well, it was. But it was Johnny Manzel.
It was was Johnny Manzel and RG3

Speaker 5 in Cleveland. And RG3 said, I directly quote this, that would make too much sense

Speaker 5 for RG3 to play out for the 49ers this season. Wow.

Speaker 1 Too much sense.

Speaker 1 All right. Other NFL news.
The Titans, GM, got fired. John Robinson, middle of the season, first-place team.
Pretty rare. Everyone is assuming it was because of A.J.

Speaker 1 Brown, which I know that's probably not the case, but it is. It didn't help.
I mean, A.J. Brown just completely obliterating them.
And John Robinson was like, yeah, we don't need A.J. Brown.

Speaker 1 We'll just

Speaker 1 trade him and we'll draft a wide receiver. This will be fine.
And then they get exposed and he gets fired two days later. I'm going to say, yeah, you know what? That is exactly why he got fired.

Speaker 5 I'm sure it's definitely part of the equation. Like, the beatdown that he put on the Titans was significant enough where they probably got into at least an argument about it later.

Speaker 1 They're like, this one used to happen.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it was a point of discussion. You cannot ignore the fact that it was A.J.
Brown that did that. But do the Titans really need a GM?

Speaker 5 Because I think Mike Vrabel just sees big people and he's like, just sign me the biggest player at each position that you can find.

Speaker 1 Just give me the guy who wants to be in a fist fight.

Speaker 5 Yeah, just the largest. I want to have the heaviest team in the NFL.

Speaker 5 Actually, that'd be a cool metric to track.

Speaker 1 Who's got the heaviest team?

Speaker 5 Who do you think has the heaviest team in the NFL?

Speaker 1 That used to be a thing I would look at preseason for offensive lines because obviously that would, if you just have like a bigger offensive line, it usually translated into having better run game and everything.

Speaker 1 Just leaning on people.

Speaker 5 I might try to work on a metric around that.

Speaker 1 Heaviest, heaviest. You got it, Billy? Someone definitely tracks it.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Heaviest.

Speaker 7 This is in the past 50 seasons.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 7 And it's been the Ravens in the past 50 seasons.

Speaker 1 Oh, that makes sense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The Ravens are

Speaker 5 every single year. Because they don't have wide receivers at all.
In 2004.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Des Bryant was their wide receiver one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fucking tackle.

Speaker 7 Okay, these guys are doing it by BMI.

Speaker 5 And Patrick Ricard is a running back, and he weighs 310 pounds.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 1 Yeah, keep looking at that.

Speaker 5 Billy, that sounds like something, maybe a project for you, Billy. Yeah, I'm on there.
You want a special project, Billy?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'll take the Ross. I would like to see that.
Yeah, Billy.

Speaker 7 Actually, I might be able to do this by the end of the show.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's see.

Speaker 5 We need to have a discussion about over-promising and

Speaker 5 relevant.

Speaker 1 Do not leave reverse. Do not.
Do not. Do not.
Like, copy-paste. No, you got it.
You got it. Yeah, definitely.
Sounds easy. All right,

Speaker 1 let's talk some college football while you do this, Billy.

Speaker 5 Two minutes later. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Terms apply.

Speaker 1 Did you see my tweet about Syracuse last week? Yeah, I got a lot of. Yeah, I got a lot of responses.
Jim Bayheim

Speaker 6 in 10 years, they've had good tournament runs, but they haven't been good in a decade.

Speaker 1 And no one wants to say anything about it. No one likes...
That's kind of crazy. It was one of those random tweets that I sent out because I was just watching Syracuse get obliterated.

Speaker 1 And then all the Syracuse people were like, finally, someone who's not

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 someone outside of Syracuse is saying this.

Speaker 1 It's weird. Jim Jim Boeheim is

Speaker 6 destroyed the program. Except for the tournament, but that's good enough for some people.

Speaker 1 You're just going to take out another legendary coach.

Speaker 5 Is that your thing?

Speaker 1 No, no.

Speaker 1 I actually said a nice thing about Coach K in the tweet, Hank. I said as annoying and narcissistic as Coach K's one-year

Speaker 1 retirement tour is, at least he didn't burn the whole program down like Jim Boeheim.

Speaker 5 Some people that, you know, they get older, they just don't know when to let go of the wheel. Yeah.
And let somebody else

Speaker 1 take it over. Or hit the break Yeah.

Speaker 9 Since the Final Four.

Speaker 6 The post-Coach K era.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 6 That's going to be the first time seeing them in person since,

Speaker 5 you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's only like six games in, but yeah.

Speaker 5 Is he still running the zone? Jim Bayheim? Because he stopped. Well, he stopped a little bit last year.
That's why I'm asking about this now.

Speaker 1 But mostly.

Speaker 5 But last year, you remember, like, they actually steered away from it quite a bit. That pissed me off.

Speaker 1 If you're Jim Bayheim, Notre Dame on the road. They're 1-0 in their last 10 years.

Speaker 6 If you're Jim Bahim all the time, he's played a night against Oakland, so we'll see see how that changes.

Speaker 5 You have to go to your death running that 2-3 zone, 3-2 zone, whatever you want to call it, the hybrid.

Speaker 1 All right, college football. We have our final four.

Speaker 1 I think they got it right.

Speaker 1 Would you agree, PFT? I still, I would have loved for USC to be able to win that game Friday night. I do think the Caleb Williams getting hurt changed the whole course of that game.

Speaker 1 Utah was great in the second half, but I think they got it right.

Speaker 1 Ohio State sneaks in. Bama should not have been in.
People were

Speaker 1 Nick Saban. We talked a little bit about this with Pitt Biz and Whitney.
Nick Saban getting in front of the media and doing his tour where he was like, you know,

Speaker 1 our team, like, ask everyone who they'd want to at least play. It's us.
Like, who would Vegas have favored? The guy who never will talk about Vegas, who will never, like, you know, rat poison.

Speaker 1 He talks about rat poison constantly. He's up there saying, like, his team is the most dangerous team.
It was pathetic. Yeah, it was pathetic.

Speaker 5 They got the top four right. I don't think anybody was really surprised by it.
I want to know who asked Nick Saba to do that. It wasn't his idea.
No.

Speaker 1 That's not a Nick Saban idea.

Speaker 5 They just basically said, hey, Nick, do you mind putting in an extra three hours of work and just sucking up to the powers that be just in case? And yeah, it was beneath him. It was beneath Nick Saba.

Speaker 5 It was gross.

Speaker 5 To beg.

Speaker 5 I don't like that. I didn't like that image.
I didn't like watching him on TV. I do think that it's like the most obvious Final Four of all time.
Yeah. I think they got it perfectly right.

Speaker 1 And it's always

Speaker 1 the precedent has been set. They'll never take a two-loss team over a one-loss team.
And TCU being in is going to be fun, different. Purple.
We haven't had purple since Washington.

Speaker 1 Pac-12's out for another, I think, sixth year in a row, seventh year in a row.

Speaker 5 The Hypnotoad is back. I like that.
Hypnotoad's fun. The TCU football account always has the best, weirdest videos that they put out.
I don't know what kind of drugs they're taking, but I want some.

Speaker 5 They're incredible.

Speaker 5 At least we'll have like one game of that to look forward to.

Speaker 1 Yeah, by the way, we're saving one question with the quarterback for Friday because I think it will be actually Max Duggins. So be ready for that.

Speaker 1 So that's why in person, because he got nominated for the Heisman, which we could talk about that as well. Hendon Hooker did get screwed.

Speaker 5 He got fucked. He got totally screwed.
He got fucked.

Speaker 5 They did Tennessee fans dirty on that one because if you've watched any Tennessee football and watch any Georgia football this year,

Speaker 5 one of those guys is very clearly a better quarterback than the other. Obviously, Stetson Bennett is

Speaker 5 very good at what they ask him to do. And he's

Speaker 5 listening when he first started playing quarterback at Georgia, I think everybody was like, okay, the second they get somebody else on campus, they'll replace this guy.

Speaker 5 Stetson Bennett has turned into a really good quarterback.

Speaker 1 Yes, he's 25. He's 25.
You know, he's the same age as Lamar Jackson. Is he?

Speaker 5 Hidden Hooker is probably older than Lamar Jackson. How crazy is he? Because he's like a six-year

Speaker 1 senior. Is Hinden?

Speaker 5 Yeah, because he was at Virginia Tech for a while coming out of Greensboro, North Carolina, Stamy's BBQ. And now he's.
Yeah, he's, I think, 25 would be my guess.

Speaker 1 He's 24. Hidden Hooker's 24.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so we got some some old heads, but it's fucked up what they did to Hinden. I think they are punishing him for tearing his ACL.
Yes.

Speaker 5 And obviously, you know, the loss against South Carolina, that's

Speaker 5 it wasn't, it wasn't good, but you can't blame Hinden for having his defense get, what, 60,

Speaker 5 60 points hung on him or whatever it was. Yes.
So, yeah, he got fucked over on that one. But, yeah, the committee got it right with the top four.

Speaker 5 There's also been a lot of discourse regarding crying as a quarterback.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Because

Speaker 5 Duggan cried, and and then Caleb Williams cried, and then Caleb Williams, many people were saying he was taking a shot at Max Duggan with a tweet that he put out there about Max crying.

Speaker 5 And then he tried to backtrack it and say, no, no, I'm just saying that you guys aren't keeping that same energy when he cries as when I cry.

Speaker 1 Well, I think that that probably is true. It also probably has to do with the fact that, and Caleb Williams did this before every game.
He would paint on his nails, fuck whatever team he's playing.

Speaker 1 It went viral before his game against Utah. It said, fuck Utah.

Speaker 1 There might be more reasons why the energy wasn't kept the same, but when fuck Utah is on your fingers and you cry, people are going to relish it. Yes, exactly.
They are. They just are.

Speaker 1 That's how it's going to work. So, but yeah, the finalists are what?

Speaker 1 It was Stroud,

Speaker 1 Max Duggan, Caleb Williams, who's going to win it, and Stetson. And Stetson, yeah, I just looked it up.
He is the same age.

Speaker 1 Lamar Jackson is going into his fifth year in the NFL, and Stetson Bennett is still in college.

Speaker 5 There should be one non-quarterback nominee every year. I agree.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 5 That might be an old man take on my part, but I'm

Speaker 5 listening. I know it's going to go to the quarterback that performs the best on the best team.
That's generally where it's going to end up. Blake Corum should have been on there.
Blake Corum,

Speaker 5 he would have been a good addition. B.
John Robinson would have been an addition to it.

Speaker 1 Yep. I mean, I agree.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 it does basically end up just being every single year just the quarterbacks. I mean, it's besides Caleb Williams who's going to win it, it's the quarterbacks of the Final Four.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 How stupid is that?

Speaker 5 Yeah, and I guess we can take this time to preview. We've got the Lowman Trophy in the nation's top fullback.
Many people would say that's a more prestigious award than the Heisman Trophy.

Speaker 5 Nominees are, the ballots are out right now for the nominees. I sent them out this week.

Speaker 5 The panel is esteemed as ever. We have Lorenzo Neal, John Kuhn, Mike Allstott, Tom Furt, I mean, Hank Lockwood.

Speaker 5 We have Andy Staples on there, Anthony Sherman from the Chiefs, and Aaron Ripkowski, former Green Bay Packers, fullback. We got a lot of guys that are voting.
Oh, Alec Ingold from the Dolphins.

Speaker 5 So we're collecting the votes this week, and we've got a special announcement we'll be making later about when we're going to be doing the actual ceremony.

Speaker 5 But we do like to acknowledge the fullbacks of America

Speaker 5 on this podcast. So I'm very excited to talk about that.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely. Other,

Speaker 1 the transfer portal makes no sense to me anymore. Everyone's in the transfer portal.

Speaker 5 JT Daniels is going to play for like seven years.

Speaker 1 It's every single player. Yeah.
Every single player I feel like has been in the transfer portal. I can't keep up with it.
Obviously, I saw my guy Graham Mertz in the transfer portal.

Speaker 1 Then it was like a list of all these other guys. It's like, wait, is this even important? I don't know.
I don't know if this is bad, good. What's going on? Honestly,

Speaker 5 if I was an

Speaker 5 above-average, talented college football player, I would do exactly what some of these guys are doing and just like travel the country for real.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, and you get, if you're, if you can be good with multiple teams, you get like multiple, like, hey, that's where I can go back and see people.

Speaker 5 Yeah, exactly. I would play in every single Power Five conference if I could.

Speaker 1 And it's also like when you play, like Caleb, our colleague, is the perfect example. He played Division I football as Mitch's backup.

Speaker 1 He has so many connections in the sports world just from playing there because of all his coaches who then go other places.

Speaker 1 Like, I would just go to five different schools and just get connected everywhere. Yeah, move around.

Speaker 5 Move around. See the country a little bit.
Yeah. You're essentially getting paid to live in awesome college towns.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 If you're not going to go to the NFL and make a shitload of money immediately, if you're not going to be like a super high draft pick, then yeah, move around.

Speaker 1 Have a good time.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Slovis is back in it.
Slovis is back in it.

Speaker 1 He's moving around. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Who else did I see? I just like the term transfer portal.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's such a cool sounding thing to do. Like, I want to enter a portal

Speaker 1 in my life. I'm in the portal.
Did Anthony Richardson enter or no?

Speaker 1 He's in the draft. Yeah.
Oh, he's in the draft.

Speaker 5 The ultimate portal.

Speaker 1 The job portal.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.
So he's.

Speaker 5 He's a stud.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, no, no.
That'll be good. You know what? Once he learns how to read a pass option, he's good.

Speaker 5 I predict that somebody's going to ask him to work out as a tight end. And he's going to be like, no, he's a quarterback.

Speaker 5 And then everyone's going to be like, wait, are you really a quarterback, though?

Speaker 1 Are you sure? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, he might be good. He's raw.
He's raw. He's got talent.
He's got a lot of talent. He's got a rocket arm.
And rocket legs. Rocket legs.
Yeah, did you see Kayshawn Bhute is staying, which is crazy.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Yeah, for his senior year.

Speaker 5 I thought he was going to come out last year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it actually makes sense for him because the year didn't go great. And he's like, yeah, I'm staying.

Speaker 1 That's such a great feeling to have a guy who's like... a really, really good player staying for an extra year in college sports.
Like, holy shit, we get an extra year with this guy.

Speaker 1 I hope that actually ends up being part of the NIL.

Speaker 1 It's like guys who, you know, maybe their draft stock, maybe they, when they came as a freshman, they were supposed to be a first-round pick, had a couple bad years or tough years, end up being like three or four fourth-round pick.

Speaker 1 They're like, fuck it, I'll stay. I'll make money, and then hopefully my draft stock will go back up.

Speaker 5 That's cool because it is like, I've always seen it both ways. Where if you're the player yourself, you want to make money and you want to be sure that like you're not risking injury for nothing.

Speaker 5 So, yeah, by all means, go to the NFL. But it's also just cool to have guys that stick around on your campus and become like a face of your entire university that are there for like four years.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 5 It builds up like it builds. People care more about the team if they recognize the guys.

Speaker 1 It was also really funny because everyone expected him to leave.

Speaker 1 So he posted his whole message and it like was saying like there's unfinished business. And the first like five replies was like,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 you're going to be a Raider, bro. Like, good luck.
Like, all these, because they didn't expect him to stay. So they all were like, all right, man, like, thanks for all you've done.

Speaker 1 Like, good luck in the draft. It's like, with the booty flapping back, I like that.
Yeah, read that.

Speaker 1 Breaking moves.

Speaker 1 Breaking moves.

Speaker 1 The Rams have claimed quarterback Baker Mason. Oh, there it is.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it makes sense because what are we going to do? I'm telling you, like, Sean McVay, the photographic memory that he's cursed with, if you saw, do you see that last play on Sunday?

Speaker 5 The interception that Wolford threw down the middle of the field? The fact that he has to remember that for the rest of his life,

Speaker 5 he experienced that on Sunday. He was like, fuck that.
I'm not going out like this. Because that was maybe the worst pass that I've ever seen attempted at the NFL level.

Speaker 5 He put his entire body into it, tried to throw it 45 yards downfield, threw it about 20 yards downfield to a linebacker that didn't have anybody within 15 yards of him.

Speaker 5 So McVay's like, okay, I need something. Jimmy Baker.

Speaker 6 You were saying you might play Thursday.

Speaker 1 I would be awesome. They shouldn't even let him look at a playbook.
How fun would that game be? I mean, like, Thursday sucks. Raiders versus Rams sucks.
What if McVay was like, we signed Baker?

Speaker 1 We're not going to give him the playbook. Let's see how it goes.
Yeah. Fuck it.
Let's have fun.

Speaker 5 Let's do it. And I also think that

Speaker 5 Stafford might be done. He might be done done for his career.

Speaker 5 I think that, like, whatever injury he's suffered, the way that they've been handling it.

Speaker 1 The final court is bad.

Speaker 5 The way that they've been handling it has been really like hush-hush and not giving any details. That leads me to believe that he's not in great shape right now.

Speaker 1 And guess what? Like, obviously, I hope he keeps playing, but if he has to retire because of a spinal cord injury, I think he's definitely going to be a Hall of Famer. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because people will be like, wow, he gave everything. Yeah.
His numbers are, I mean, he's still got to probably play a few more years to be a Hall of Famer, but. Well, with Baker,

Speaker 5 I actually, I'm not done believing in Baker Mayfield yet. This might be weird.

Speaker 1 He sucked.

Speaker 5 He sucked at the Panthers, but...

Speaker 1 I'll do one worse. I like Baker.
I'll do one worse. I'm not done believing in Sam Darnold yet.
All right. I mean, it's stupid.
I know. I know.
That is worse. I know.
That's way worse.

Speaker 1 That's way worse. No, but with Baker.

Speaker 5 I like this for Baker.

Speaker 5 This went about as good as he could have hoped for.

Speaker 5 He went from getting benched behind Sam Darnold and PJ Walker to now getting picked up by Sean McVay and the Rams and having Cooper Cup on his team for next year if he sticks around.

Speaker 5 It might be dumb. It might be naive of me.

Speaker 1 No, I'm with you, dude.

Speaker 5 I'm buying Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 1 I can't give up on this guys. I'm buying this.
I mean, Mitch. First overall pick.
We were talking about Mitch being on the 49ers.

Speaker 5 Could you imagine that? Oh, it'd be awesome.

Speaker 1 It'd be sick. Soupy.
Yeah, soupy. Soupy season.
Oh, last thing about college football.

Speaker 5 I literally just said I want Robert Griffin the third on the San Francisco 49ers. We have problems giving up on people that we get attached to.

Speaker 1 Last thing on

Speaker 1 college football, that Satterfield thing. So he's a coach of Louisville.
He got hired at Cincinnati. They play in a bowl game together, and the bowl game is at Fenway Park where the

Speaker 1 dimensions of the stadium only allow one sideline. So, yeah,

Speaker 1 I don't think he'll be, he probably won't coach either team, but it's a very funny. That is not attending.
Yeah, he won't attend.

Speaker 1 But the fact that he went from one team to another, they're playing in a bowl game, and there's only one sideline is very funny.

Speaker 5 That is very funny. Yeah.
He's the guy that loves the airport in Louisville. That's going to be bittersweet when he flies flies out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he said the best thing about Louisville is 15 minutes away from the airport.

Speaker 5 One last time. One last time hitting the road here.

Speaker 1 That's one of those.

Speaker 1 I don't know if...

Speaker 1 Listen, I took Cincinnati's coach, so I'm trying to be nice, but you can always kind of judge

Speaker 1 a higher when Scott Souterfield goes to Cincinnati, and a lot of Louisville fans were like, thank God. Yeah, they're like, well, see you, dude.

Speaker 5 They're pumped because they want to get Bobby Petrino back. Yeah, which would be sick.
That would be how amazing would that be? He rides in his motorcycle with a bitch on the back.

Speaker 5 Oh, it'd be awesome.

Speaker 1 It would be fucking sick.

Speaker 1 All right, let's do a hot seat cool throw and then we'll get to biz and wit. And reminder: we'll do one question with a quarterback on Friday's show.

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Speaker 1 Hank, I don't like that hat.

Speaker 1 The boys? Yeah, it's Packers Colors. You know that is.
It's a nice hat. Is it not? It is Packers' Colors.

Speaker 1 I just like the hat. Okay.
Shout out to the boys.

Speaker 1 My hot seat is Ronaldo.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
What a joke. He got benched.

Speaker 1 Also, we forgot to talk about USA on Sunday's show, but they lost. They did.

Speaker 1 Wait, we did, didn't we? No, not really.

Speaker 1 Sunday's show, I'm just going to apologize to everyone.

Speaker 1 I literally puked right after. I've never felt more sick while podcasting.
Also, Billy, I did say AFC West, so I apologize to you. That was a poor performance from me.

Speaker 5 Hey, listen, I had performance from the U.S.

Speaker 1 soccer, too. I had all though.

Speaker 5 I had Panama brain. So we were all.

Speaker 1 I was just so off the whole show. And

Speaker 1 I puked my head. It was a normal brain.
It was bad. So I would have bet my life that we had talked about on Sunday.
That's how off I was.

Speaker 5 So, yeah. U.S.
lost, Netherlands. Netherlands is just a much, much better team.
We would possess the ball for like 75% of the game. They would get it, go on a breakaway, and immediately get a chance.

Speaker 5 I did, at points, feel like I was a hockey fan, just yelling, shoot it. Yeah.
Just shoot it. Just shoot the ball.

Speaker 1 Very frustrating. And like play defense.

Speaker 5 We don't have any strikers on the team.

Speaker 1 This team's wide open.

Speaker 5 We need Pepe. Pepe, El Tren.
The train should have been on the team. That's what I have to say.

Speaker 1 But yeah, then Ronaldo, my goat, got benched. People don't like Ronaldo.

Speaker 5 I don't understand. He's a bitch.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's

Speaker 1 just bigger and taller and stronger than everyone. He just stands right next to the goal and just goes like this.

Speaker 1 He's sweeping his leg. And then he demands to take every penalty.
And they score six goals today? And he didn't play? He played the last 20 minutes?

Speaker 5 Gotan. Yeah, no, but they're better without Ronaldo, is the fact.

Speaker 5 They have not played this well.

Speaker 1 He'll probably leave.

Speaker 1 He'll probably leave the squad.

Speaker 1 He'll leave before the World Cup's over.

Speaker 5 He's going to do an interview with Piers Morgan. Yeah.
And then he's going to transfer to Saudi Arabia. Yeah.
And then they'll put Saudi Arabia back in and they'll win on PKs.

Speaker 1 Also, when Ronaldo,

Speaker 1 I hope they win the whole damn thing.

Speaker 5 When he steps up to take like a second, it won't be because of Ronaldo.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's going to get the game-winning goal. When he takes it

Speaker 5 offside, a lot of times he'll just stand there and he'll lift his shorts

Speaker 5 and he'll just stand there waiting for people to

Speaker 5 take pictures of him because he's like, this is going to look so sweet on Instagram later.

Speaker 1 Watch Messi highlights one time and tell me that's not just the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. Yeah, I think both can be true.
Okay. Just Ronaldo.

Speaker 1 You just decided this one time you're not going to take a side on a goat debate? No, I just, Ronaldo's the goat. Messi's great.
No, he's not. No, he's not.

Speaker 5 No, no, no. Either one of those guys are the goat.

Speaker 1 Marinona.

Speaker 1 My cool throwing, I have a couple. First one's Brian Cashman.
Sure, Jake is thrilled. He's back.
Yankees GG. Oh, good.
Signed it for four years. Nice.
So that's good.

Speaker 1 Probably helped with the Aaron Boone negotiations. That was probably really tough negotiations to get Brian Cashman to re-sign.
Yeah. They're like, like, hey, you want to keep your job? Yes.
Where?

Speaker 1 How? How much? Okay, cool.

Speaker 5 What other offers do you think Brian Cashman had?

Speaker 5 Was he going to

Speaker 5 go be a window washer somewhere in Clyde Buildings full-time?

Speaker 1 He would have been like, yes, network as an analyst, probably. Yeah.
True.

Speaker 5 Yeah, just being like, here's how I would have fucked up this negotiation.

Speaker 1 Then my other cool thrones, Ruffarati, Providence. Fucking Providence, kid.
Yep. Bobby Lang versus Pac-Man.
Pac-Man Jones, Grace O'Malley, the girl,

Speaker 1 Susie from David Dobert's vlogs. I don't know if anyone here watches that.
Is she fighting Grace? She's fighting not Grace, but someone else. I don't want to know who Grace is fighting.

Speaker 1 Because Grace is going to fucking put her in a coffin.

Speaker 1 I don't want to catch any feelings. No feelings to be caught.
Right. I'm saying, don't even tell me your name.
I won't. Because Grace is going to put her in a coffin.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But Rock and Rowdy, the last one in Providence was, it just feels right in Providence. A lot of mass holes, a lot of people.
Last one in Providence. Very, very rowdy.

Speaker 1 I sang the Canadian national anthem and got booed so hard I started laughing. And just people started chucking beers at me.
It was one of the funniest moments ever.

Speaker 1 It was extremely, extremely rowdy at the fucking dunk.

Speaker 1 I was just getting booed and I couldn't stop laughing. Yeah, it was hilarious.
It was a very, very, very funny, rough rowdy. This one should be bigger and better because it's at the dunk this time.

Speaker 1 Should I do it again? Should I do it in French? Yeah, I think the girl Susie's fighting is a Canadian

Speaker 1 super, yeah. All right, so maybe I'll do it again and just get booed again and just start laughing.
Yeah. Fuck.
Friday night. All right.
PFT, who's your, what's your hot seat cool torn?

Speaker 1 Well, hang on real quick, big cat. Oh,

Speaker 1 per Adam Schafter.

Speaker 5 Doctors concluded today that 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo does not need foot surgery.

Speaker 5 It is not a Liz Frank. Well, no, this is breaking news right now.

Speaker 5 They were examining him to see if he had Liz Frank or not. I'm not going to go.
He could have a chance to return in seven to eight weeks, making him a potential playoff contributor.

Speaker 1 It's a breaking meh. Yeah, I saw it this morning that he possibly didn't have Liz Frank.

Speaker 1 Like, okay, cool. So you're going to just throw Jimmy G in, like in the NFC championship game? Yeah, they might.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because that's like the seven to eight weeks.
Now you're basically saying that Brock Purdy has won a playoff game and then you're going to put Jimmy G in?

Speaker 5 Or Josh Johnson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 5 My hot seat is the Washington Nationals 2018 lineup. Because congratulations, Max.
Max signed Trey Turner.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 5 Former Nat, maybe the best. I'd say he's a six-tool player.
He's like invented a new tool. That's how good he is at everything.
As Hank would say, running for power. He's also good at that.

Speaker 5 And sliding. That's his extra tool.
So Trey Turner is now on the Phillies. That means I did look back and I looked it up.

Speaker 5 The 2018 Nationals had Max Scherzer, Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, Anthony Rendone, Juan Soto, Adam Eaton, Ryan Zimmerman, Howie Kendrick on their team. It's fun, right? It's fun to see.

Speaker 1 I did the same thing as you just a year earlier. Now,

Speaker 5 we did get a World Series out of it, which is all that you can hope for. But at the same time, you look at that and you're like,

Speaker 5 that was a dynasty. We had a dynasty on our team, but at least we got one World Series.
My other hot seat is the Hall of Fame, the Baseball Hall of Fame, because Barry Bonds is not getting in again.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but shout out to Crime Dog.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Fred McGriff's getting in. That's pretty cool to see.
Love the Crime Dog. Great name.

Speaker 1 Great, great nickname.

Speaker 5 But the Hall of Fame, I don't know. Every year that they don't let Barry Bonds in, it just makes me hate them more.
It's so stupid. The best player in the history of the game.

Speaker 5 If he's not in your Hall of Fame, you know what? I vote Barry Bonds as the first member of the part of my take Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 Okay. When are we opening it?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 5 Okay. A couple years.
All right. We have to do construction on it.
Get some plans.

Speaker 1 But yeah. He'll be the first.

Speaker 5 You get a pizza party. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Barry. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Pizza party for Barry Bonds. Congrats.

Speaker 1 Hey, come on the show. Yep.
Yep. Open invite.
Done. Very cool.

Speaker 5 My cool throne is

Speaker 5 Qatar and the Emir because Donnie, Donnie has our first video coming out at the end of the day today, as you're listening on Wednesday.

Speaker 5 So we're breaking it down into two separate videos of the trip over to Qatar. This one is about how Donnie got off on the wrong foot with the Amir.
I had to come over there and save his ass. And so.

Speaker 1 Which one has the crimes in it?

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 5 they both probably have crimes, but the second video has a crime that probably would have gotten me executed in Qatar.

Speaker 1 I broke a pretty big law.

Speaker 1 I broke a pretty big law. We held hands.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 No,

Speaker 5 we did some things that I said I wouldn't do when I went over there. And then Donnie just so happened to...
be the one person that can talk me into doing these things. And so

Speaker 5 luckily, we escaped Qatari airspace. It was an Argo situation where we were flying out.
And once I left the airspace, I was like, okay, thank God I'm leaving Qatar with my life.

Speaker 5 But you'll have to tune in and find out on Donnie's YouTube page. So be on the lookout for that.
Love it.

Speaker 1 All right. My hot seat is the office.
I don't know if you guys saw this trending all day, but Mindy Kaling, I guess, was interviewed.

Speaker 1 And she was like, yeah, the office would have been like, if they had the office today, it would have been canceled because it's so edgy. And I don't really know what.

Speaker 1 Like, if The Office Today was made today and it was canceled, like, then comedy just truly is dead.

Speaker 5 Well, I think what she was getting at was.

Speaker 1 She's right, though.

Speaker 5 No, no, no, no, no, no, because the thing that the office did really well.

Speaker 1 No, Hank, they're dumb characters.

Speaker 5 Yes, if the character, like, if Michael Scott is doing something stupid, it's not like you're saying Michael Scott's a genius for being like homophobic and racist and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 It's like always Sonny. Yeah.
Always Sonny is like the worst people you could ever imagine. But because you know they're playing, you know that they're bad.

Speaker 1 I understand the concept of I don't think you do. Yeah, you don't.
No, I do. No, I think you think Michael Scott's a real person.
No, I don't think you understand.

Speaker 1 You think the actual filming is real. You root for Michael Scott.
Yeah, you do. You think that they're actually filming a documentary.
It's not, it has nothing to do with the show itself.

Speaker 1 It is with how people like react to things.

Speaker 1 But funny is fun. All right.
So

Speaker 1 if that's the case, then comedy is officially dead. Because they...
The office is a good thing. I mean, Dave Chappelle gets canceled every day.

Speaker 5 And he's the most successful stand-up comedian in the world.

Speaker 1 But also, how would they say that? He says funny shit, and then everyone's like, this is outrageous. But then how would you say...

Speaker 5 So he's not canceled. He's wildly successful.

Speaker 1 But then how would they be... But he's on a network TV show.

Speaker 5 We don't need a network TV show. But also

Speaker 1 on a network TV show. Peacock.
Did they just fucking put it on Patreon? No, but Peacock literally invented Peacock because of the office.

Speaker 1 Like that was the streaming service, the NBC streaming service, like the main driver was the office. I am understanding of how funny the office is and how popular.

Speaker 1 I think you think it's a documentary. No, I just.
I think you actually think it's a documentary. Those are real people.

Speaker 1 I think people would get offended.

Speaker 1 Despite the fact that it's comedy and it's a joke, people would get offended. They would have a lot of backlash towards NBC and they would take it down.

Speaker 5 Here's what would happen. You'd have a lot of people online that don't actually watch the show.
Right. See a clip of it.

Speaker 1 That's how it works.

Speaker 5 And complain to NBC, and then everybody out there that watched it, which would be tens of millions of people, would be like, fuck you.

Speaker 5 We're keeping it on. And I think it would stay on.
Like, it's, it, the, they canceled us. us.
The characters on the show.

Speaker 1 That was funny. Shout out Ziggs.

Speaker 5 It was very funny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you remember who I was talking about? What the fuck? Am I like.

Speaker 1 What's going on? What? You guys are tripping me out. Why? I don't know.
You just. PFT was the only one who replied when I said I saw Ziggs.
Shout out Ziggs. Shout out Ziggs.
You don't remember Ziggs?

Speaker 1 What the fuck? Yes, I remember Ziggs. I don't remember Ziggs, bro.

Speaker 1 What if Ziggs? He was our old, was he a producer? He was. Yeah, he was producer.

Speaker 1 He's driving by me today when I was walking out of my apartment, and he's just like, Barcelona Van Talk. I thought it was just like a fan.
And I look and he's like, Ziggs. I was like, whoa.
Ziggs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude.

Speaker 5 Ziggs will always be famous for the fact that

Speaker 5 we tried to do a segment with Dan Patrick where we lit him on fire in the back of the van. And we said this segment's going to be called Infuego.
And Ziggs was like...

Speaker 5 Fellas,

Speaker 5 checked with the insurance, and you're not going to be able to light Dan Patrick on fire.

Speaker 1 Original Minty. And he also, remember we went and he was like, he like cornered Matthew Berry to ask him fantasy football questions.
Yeah. And it was like, Ziggs, I don't think, understands.

Speaker 1 But that dude was ride or die, figured it out right away. Like, these guys are different.
I like them. Yeah.
Shout out Ziggs.

Speaker 5 You know what? The Office would definitely be able to exist on TV now,

Speaker 5 but they might have to run

Speaker 5 a disclaimer on it.

Speaker 5 Attention, anyone at home that thinks that this is a real show, it's actually not.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for any Henry Lockwoods out there who think this is actually a documentary, like you're not watching cops. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The last episode, they did the whole thing on stage. I'm sorry that this is like, we're breaking news to you that it's not a real show.
Like, it's not an actual documentary.

Speaker 5 Kaylee Anthony just got a TV show. I think the office would be okay.

Speaker 1 Casey?

Speaker 5 Anthony? Casey. Well, it's about I choose to remember the victim in the situation.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 5 Not Casey.

Speaker 5 Bleep out her name, please.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. My cool throne is the Niners because

Speaker 1 the other thing that was trending today, I got my hot seat cool throne just from the trends, was Big Cock Brock.

Speaker 1 So I don't know. I don't know if this was a nickname he had before or like it just happened to start training today.

Speaker 1 But the best thing that can happen to a team is they're backup coming in and having a huge cock and getting a nickname and then going to win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't even know if it's,

Speaker 5 it doesn't matter if it's true or not.

Speaker 1 It rhymes. Big Cock Brock.
I think

Speaker 1 Kittle might have had something to do with it because he tweeted BCB.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 that might have been why it started. But either way, I feel like the Niners are now in good spot.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 Kittle replied to one of his Instagrams, BCB. So that's where it started.

Speaker 5 There's precedent for an NFC team being taken over by a quarterback with a tremendous hog to go on a playoff run.

Speaker 1 It's written in the stars. He's got the nickname.
So shout out to the Niners who probably win the Super Bowl just on that.

Speaker 5 You also look up a metric right now. Like, the quarterbacks are the biggest dicks.
I feel like they're probably the best backup.

Speaker 7 That's going to be harder data to pull.

Speaker 1 What do you got for us on?

Speaker 7 I only was able to do the whole AFC. The Ravens are leading at 247 pounds.

Speaker 7 Everyone's, all the teams are usually around 242 pounds in that area.

Speaker 1 What's the lightest team?

Speaker 7 The lightest team in the AFC is 240 pounds, and it's the Bills.

Speaker 1 Huh. Oh.
Which is weird. They're going to get fatter as

Speaker 5 the weather gets colder.

Speaker 7 It's really hard to pull all of that data from football reference in the showtime, but that's what I was able to do.

Speaker 1 I also feel like offensive line is really all we need. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's like the full roster doesn't really.

Speaker 1 Like, it depends on if you have backup offensive lineman or you have backup, you know what I mean?

Speaker 7 Yeah, or the box.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just give us the box.
Give us the weight of every box.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You got to pull that data real hard

Speaker 5 regarding the box.

Speaker 7 But here's my real hot seat. Bloggers, anyone who writes for a living,

Speaker 7 this new thing.

Speaker 1 This, by the way, is Billy came over to to my desk and was like, bro, my mind just got blown. And I was like, what? He's like, I'm saving it for hot sea cool.

Speaker 1 So he was like, he was kind of hyper-vent. It was almost the same as when...

Speaker 1 Is Hank doing a be real? Hank's taking picture of himself. I was going to say, he was acting almost the same way when Hank found out the office wasn't real.
Shut up.

Speaker 7 No, there's this new program called ChatGPT,

Speaker 1 which is an open-appropriate

Speaker 7 open AI app that recently just got released to the public. And this thing can basically write blogs.

Speaker 1 You can input.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. So you found someone to just do your job for you.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Okay. But like this thing's going to replace everything.
So basically, I wrote a blog on it. Should be out, depending if the editors get it out.

Speaker 1 Who wrote the blog? Yeah. Who wrote the blog, really?

Speaker 1 I wrote...

Speaker 7 a thousand words of my own words, but there's a good 2,000 words of blogs I was just able to generate through typing in a couple keywords into the chat GBT.

Speaker 7 So the first one it wrote wrote is, I said, write a blog describing ChatGBT. And it wrote 500 words on what ChatGBT is.
And all of these questions I put in there.

Speaker 7 Like, I put in a hypothetical situation about an orangutan escaping from the zoo and being chased by the police in Daytona Beach. And I said, I told to write a 500-word blog out of...

Speaker 7 three sentences of prompts and it wrote a 500 blog word blog like all on itself about the whole thing even included some humor in it it was pretty weird this is how terminator starts so yeah there what how are they stealing our data or something i'm sure there's tons of it only has access to internet from twenty uh from 2021 uh before but it has doesn't have can't do anything like current so when i said uh write up so there was a video kanye west yeah good guy yeah i think he's a good guy yeah so i there was a video of brock queen elizabeth she's one of my favorite so old she's awesome yeah i'm gonna go hang out with her next time but the only reason it can't do pre-2021 is because they won't let it.

Speaker 1 So, like, for example,

Speaker 7 there was a video that came out about Brock Bowers.

Speaker 7 He was talking about how this SEC championship game celebration was better than the national championship because he got drug tested right after the game and he couldn't celebrate with his friends.

Speaker 7 So, I input a little information on Brock Bowers and that situation, and they put together a thousand-word blog on the whole thing.

Speaker 1 Like, basically,

Speaker 5 it's wild. That is okay.
So, they won't let it write in 2022 because it'll probably get canceled.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Under today's standards.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's just insane that this thing. I'm definitely going to be using this because

Speaker 5 I did use it.

Speaker 5 It didn't work out perfectly, but I asked Stad Hole Sports to use it for a recap for the Texans Browns game because we didn't watch it. It was like barely even on Red Zone channel.

Speaker 5 And so we just had to pick up highlights here or there. And this is...
This thing is pretty fucking good. So this is the recap.
It wrote a Deshaun Watson and reporter dialogue after the game.

Speaker 5 Deshaun Watson, I plan on taking full responsibility for my actions and facing the consequences. I will also be seeking counseling and working on personal growth.

Speaker 5 I know that words are not enough and actions speak louder. I'm committed to doing the hard work to make things right.
Reporter. Deshaun, what do you think this win means for the team moving forward?

Speaker 5 Deshaun. I think this win is a testament to the hard work and determination of the team.
We never gave up, even when things weren't looking great.

Speaker 5 I believe that if we continue to work hard and support each other, we can have a successful season. All right, I have to go now.
I have a massage appointment. Thank you for having me and go, Browns.

Speaker 1 And that was

Speaker 5 the computer wrote that.

Speaker 1 No, no way. I swear to God.

Speaker 7 It made a massage joke?

Speaker 5 Yes, it made a massage joke at the end of it.

Speaker 1 If you're in high school,

Speaker 1 you're Dansby Swanson. Even better, more important.
Who? Max just sent me this article. Breaking Moose.

Speaker 5 It's from Newsweek.

Speaker 1 Comedy Central, which I think you guys would agree is comedy, right? They should know the difference between comedy and what's not comedy, cancel culture, etc.

Speaker 1 They recently stopped putting the Diversity Day episode of The Office in their rotation. So one episode.
Interesting.

Speaker 1 Did they cancel all of it?

Speaker 1 But it's comedy. One episode.

Speaker 1 Yeah, one episode. That's probably the most.
That's the only episode I could see and be like, oh, that might be a little too interesting. And also Scott Stotts, just because Scott's Tots sucks.

Speaker 5 I just hate that episode. Everybody hates that song.

Speaker 1 But it's like it's comedy.

Speaker 1 It's comedy. Hey, Mr.

Speaker 1 Scott, what you going gonna do what you gonna do make your dreams come true it's comedy yeah yeah it's comedy so why would they take it comedy central is come on you don't think comedy central's woke well that everyone is now that's the entire point of everyone's entire now pardon my take baby what's your favorite racial slur hank say something hank go on

Speaker 1 comedy's edgy bleep that out max bleep out what he just said

Speaker 1 that was too far that is that was too far i haven't heard that word since bleep that out that's usually found in books from like the 1800s yeah that was that's that's an that's like a 95 year old tom tom sawyer's favorite word yeah bleep that

Speaker 1 that's a slur yeah

Speaker 1 what's that magicians

Speaker 1 uh it sounds very bad but it's for magicians last thing on chat gpt this thing could absolutely write homework assignments if you're in high school or college well it's

Speaker 5 and blogs and it could it could probably figure out which teams were the heaviest hypothetically well i'm pulling the data now yeah you're pulling it pretty hard it's Ravens I just can't believe that it made a joke that's weird I'm fucked yeah

Speaker 7 but it's scary because you could run a whole blog just using this AI machine to generate clicks and articles all day yeah I mean

Speaker 7 instead of everyone who works in a blog here if you like got these open AI guys to just make it look for top stories and then just pull them and generate blogs,

Speaker 7 it would.

Speaker 5 There are enough words that we've spoken into microphones as a podcast that I'm pretty sure you could just run it through like a recording device, put like a robot AI behind it, and they could write an entire episode apart in my take and play it using our voices.

Speaker 1 Deep fake. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 7 Jeez.

Speaker 1 All right, your cool throne?

Speaker 5 Coach O.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, UNLV.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Coach O, UNLV. Is that true?

Speaker 1 He's a finalist. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And my other cool throne?

Speaker 7 Goblin mode.

Speaker 11 Oxford Word of the Year.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Hell yes.

Speaker 7 Goblin Mode. Let's go Goblin Mode.

Speaker 5 I'm always

Speaker 1 next year.

Speaker 5 I live goblin mode every day.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's my constant.
All right. Wrap us up on the hot seat cool throne.
Jake.

Speaker 6 Yeah. My hot seat is fake videos.

Speaker 6 This could have been talked about on Monday, but Steph Curry had a viral fake video of making five consecutive full court shots, and there was a lot of debate to not get duped.

Speaker 1 I feel like you got duped.

Speaker 6 I didn't get duped. Ravel.

Speaker 1 I was watching the video. You guys are fucking crazy.
I I was watching the video in the studio with you guys, and I said, no way this is real.

Speaker 1 No, you went, no way, this is real. Oh, my God.

Speaker 9 Five in a row.

Speaker 6 If it was like two or three, I would have bought it.

Speaker 1 But five in a row is insane. Yeah, that was.
It's the same guy, Ari. He does.
He did all Tom Brady's videos. He's probably the greatest video editor of all time.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He did Stephen Chase's video last night. That was terrible.

Speaker 5 I just looked up. Coach O's not a finalist.
No. At UNLV.
That's fake news.

Speaker 1 What? Unnecessary Roughness tweeted it.

Speaker 5 No, Coach O and Chris Peterson are not candidates. I saw those names.
I was like, that's...

Speaker 1 That's our own. That's our own.

Speaker 5 Got duped. Unnecessary roughness got duped.
Damn.

Speaker 1 That sucks.

Speaker 1 No, no.

Speaker 1 Think I would

Speaker 1 have their own fucking sources. I'm going to say Brandon Walker got duped.
Coach O among the finalists. The

Speaker 1 Unnecessary Roughness tweeted out. What do you want me to say? You got duped.
I don't think so. They're hiring Barry Odom from Arkansas.

Speaker 1 What was your cool throne?

Speaker 6 My cool throne's free tickets. So Syracuse might be bad, but their rival Georgetown's giving away free tickets to the game against Siena if you're a D.C.
resident on

Speaker 5 December. Georgetown's really

Speaker 1 fine

Speaker 6 to American and Mount St. Mary's.

Speaker 5 Great teams. Great organizations.

Speaker 6 Excuse me. Loyal of Mary Mountain, not Mount St.
Mary's.

Speaker 5 Yeah, even better.

Speaker 5 It's tough. It's tough.
Georgetown, you need to get another.

Speaker 5 Is there another John Thompson out there?

Speaker 1 They just need to give out three starter jackets to everyone.

Speaker 5 Yeah, starter jackets. Georgetown starters.

Speaker 5 Whoever becomes the head coach should be the next John Thompson. Like how there's Uggas.

Speaker 5 No matter who you are, you're now John Thompson the fifth, and you're the head coach of Georgetown.

Speaker 6 Free tickets to a D1 men's basketball game when you're in a big market like D.C. and you're Georgetown.
That's

Speaker 5 great.

Speaker 5 The problem with Georgetown is it's a, I don't know, I don't know the exact enrollment figures, but there's not a lot of people that go there. So people only really care about it when they're good.

Speaker 5 Yeah. It's not a big, like, it's not a huge alumni base, and all their famous alumni are busy committing war crimes.
So

Speaker 5 it's tough to get people to buy tickets.

Speaker 6 But hey, they made the tournament last year, two years ago, right? They did.

Speaker 1 That's all that matters. Yeah.
Yeah. According to Syracuse fans, listen, I'm on your side.
I'm fighting. Yeah.
Syracuse should be a good program every year.

Speaker 1 And it is funny because when I did do that tweet to go full circle, someone was like, I just imagine Jim Boeheim sitting in a 16-year-old's living room room at this point.

Speaker 1 It's like, yeah, that's not going to work. He probably falls asleep.

Speaker 6 Well, his sons are AWLs, so we'll.

Speaker 1 Shout out his sons. I love his sons.
Jim Bayheim's a Hall of Fame coach. Yeah.
At some point, I would hope that Buddy and Jimmy, Jimmy, will tell me when I've passed it by.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Yeah, they're like, hey, you're not cutting it anymore.
It's time to hang it up.

Speaker 1 Hall of Fame coach.

Speaker 1 One of the best coaches of all time. I still love Hope.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 They beat Notre Dame on the road.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Let's get to Biz and Wit.

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Speaker 1 All right, we now welcome on our very good friends. It is Ryan Whitney, Paul Bissinette, also RAs in the building.

Speaker 1 We ran out of mics, but maybe we'll get him saying something here and there.

Speaker 5 We got Spit and Chicklets Boys here. Yeah, we're going to do our NHL preview.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So really

Speaker 1 45 games into the season. Well, I did one about 18 games.
Oh, yeah. We got a troll.
Well, we figured

Speaker 1 you guys being in the studio, we might as well have you on because it's always fun. We don't even have to talk hockey.
We could talk soccer that's going on right now. We're watching spinning.

Speaker 9 Well, let's talk about the big bet that Witt just described. The guy bet $90,000.

Speaker 1 I think he bet $90,000 for Morocco to get to the quarterfinals, and it's to win a million. And he was offered about $215,000 before this round of 16-game, and he didn't take it.

Speaker 1 So now this is a Chelsea player, Hakeem Zayak. Oh! Oh, right down the middle.
I love when they shoot it down the middle. This is a great radio.

Speaker 1 Such an in your mind. Shoot it right down the middle and just know the goal.
He's going to jump left to right. It's pretty impressive.

Speaker 5 I'm rooting for Span to go home because I'm just bored with them. I'm bored with their weird style of play where they just pass.

Speaker 5 I think they had a thousand completed passes today, and I don't think they're going to have a single single shot on target.

Speaker 1 I don't like that they're wearing blue. They shouldn't be wearing blue.
That is awkward. It's so stupid.

Speaker 9 Would you guys not agree?

Speaker 9 And somebody posted a video a couple days ago where how sometimes they've done penalty kicks where you start about twice the length that they are right now from the goal, where you have to run towards that's the old MLS.

Speaker 1 That's what we were talking about before. I think MLS used to do it.
Yeah, that's how they should do the penalty kicks. So it's like a breakaway instead of running into and kicking it.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah. And it looks a lot sillier, too.
So you can have a lot of things.

Speaker 1 I always thought that

Speaker 1 soccer, kind of like how hockey does it, how they change it with overtime. When you get to overtime of the World Cup, oh, wow, Spain sucks.

Speaker 1 When you get to overtime of the World Cup, you should just play every five minutes you take,

Speaker 1 the teams have to take a player off the field. So you end up, you could end up one-on-one with a goalie on a whole pitch.
How sick would that be?

Speaker 9 I think if you get yellow cards, it should be you're in the penalty box for five minutes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, then you can go back to the ball. Think about it like watching six-on-six on this big of a field.
Did you see that? Like, did you just keep getting it?

Speaker 9 It'd be like watching rugby sevens compared to normal rugby.

Speaker 1 It's a lot more entertaining. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 5 I think, or you could just make the goal bigger in overtime.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You bring in a second goal.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what we'll do. We'll make it even bigger.
Did you see the full

Speaker 1 length of the end? Yeah, no, yeah.

Speaker 5 The first person to get the ball over the end of the field. And also, you're allowed to pick it up and then throw it forward.

Speaker 5 And then you can catch it and run with it, and you're allowed to tackle the other.

Speaker 1 And then add downs. Yeah, they're downs.

Speaker 5 That's how they should do overtime.

Speaker 1 What were you going to say, Witt? I want to talk to you about Georgia. What a team.
Your team. What did I say about this team? I called exactly what was going to happen.
You did. Rushed.

Speaker 1 He has called it. I've called the entire season, and they're going to crush Ohio State, and then they're going to crush Michigan, too, or TCCU.

Speaker 1 Are you going to go, if it's Michigan, Georgia, will you be going to the national title with

Speaker 1 Dave? I actually don't. I would love to.

Speaker 1 When would that be? It's January 9th. Oh, yeah, I'm in.
I'm in.

Speaker 1 It's in L.A.

Speaker 1 I know. That part sucks.
That's tough. It's a long flight, so you might not be in.

Speaker 1 You know what? If I get the look, I'm probably going to be going, but it's just ⁇ it's amazing to see this team. I had a question for you two.

Speaker 1 Stetson Bennett won't ever. He doesn't.
No, the the fact that he's a Heisman finalist is crazy.

Speaker 1 Will he even get drafted? He's better than Bill Harris. I don't think so.
I don't think he'll get drafted.

Speaker 5 He's got a great career in front of him just selling whatever he wants in the state of Georgia, being like the pitch man for life. But I don't think that there's...

Speaker 5 I don't understand why he was put in as a finalist over Hinden Hooker.

Speaker 1 It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 Spade has missed every single free kick so far.

Speaker 1 But we moved on to real football football. Stetson Bennett argument, he's a good quarterback.
Like, he's good.

Speaker 1 But if you put, you could pick 20 20 quarterbacks in college football right now and put them on Georgia and they would be underfeed. I don't necessarily agree with that.

Speaker 1 And what's funny is: oh, really? I was the exact opposite last year. I was like, why is this guy playing? When they lost to Bama in the SEC title game, I was like, I don't understand.

Speaker 1 Because who was the guy's name? He ended up leaving. He was supposed to be like the big-time five-star recruit.
What was his name? He left Georgia last night. Oh, J.T.
Daniels? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, why don't they put this guy in? But if they understood that Bennett was somehow better for that team than J.T. Daniels, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, obviously there's some guys you bring in, but to to say 20 guys, I don't think so.

Speaker 5 Bennett is like the, he's the perfect game manager for that situation. And Georgia is such a good man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 Where you don't need you.

Speaker 9 Like Trent Bilford.

Speaker 1 Buffer. Exactly.
You don't necessarily.

Speaker 1 But you would take more.

Speaker 5 You don't need somebody that's going to light it up. And Morocco goes down the middle and Morocco advances.
And he hits the wall.

Speaker 1 That guy wins a half a million dollars. Or no, a million dollars.

Speaker 1 What a bet that is. What a bet, too, to especially make that bet and know that you don't even have to win at all.
I know, just get two.

Speaker 1 football. Well, you got to get out of your group.
And their group was tough.

Speaker 1 I'm so into the World Cup. I know we're going back and forth between football this, football that, each type of football.
I love the World Cup.

Speaker 1 I'm so sad that in a couple days, there's like two days between the semis because every day, just four games. I don't care if you hate soccer.
It's still interesting to watch.

Speaker 5 I just wish soccer is the absolute best. It's my favorite tournament, and I just stop whatever I'm doing every four years.

Speaker 1 I'm coming to the U.S.

Speaker 5 I just wish it was the summer.

Speaker 1 Summer is the World Cup time. They're talking about it.
It's so much fun when it's in the summer.

Speaker 1 This time of year, it's like there's so much shit going on.

Speaker 5 They're talking about moving it to every two years. I think that'd be a big

Speaker 5 because, like, as much as I love it and they know that it'll make money, having it every four years makes it special.

Speaker 5 I like the act of waiting for it.

Speaker 1 It would be fun, though, every two years to get ourselves pumped up being like, this is the year for U.S.

Speaker 1 We were just talking about this on Chiclets last night. It's like people, I respect U.S.
soccer fans. I was rooting for them, but they're so far.
They have no chance. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Give me one superstar playing in the Premier League or in Spain or France. Like, give me one guy.

Speaker 1 It's my biggest. I root for the U.S.
It does seem like they're better than they've ever been, but

Speaker 1 they still don't win. Like, when do the results actually matter? Like, they finish exactly where they are in the world.
And then when everyone's like, oh, yeah, we got a lot of young guys.

Speaker 1 You don't think Brazil's got a lot of young guys? Yeah, but our young guys probably got a lot of people.

Speaker 5 Our good young guys are better than our youngest good guys have ever been in the past.

Speaker 1 But Brazil's young guys are still going to be better than ourselves. Show me one guy that dominates the U.S.

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, Pulisic has been doing it.

Speaker 1 I'm a Chelsea fan. He doesn't have a drink.

Speaker 9 That the guy hurt his dick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he hurt his dick. Gosh.

Speaker 5 If he had a healthy dick, I think he finishes that one.

Speaker 1 If that dick's healthy, he's crushing away.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but no, I think, like, it's realistic to say that the U.S. will never be dominant ever in soccer because other countries, there's so many of them that just focus on soccer.

Speaker 9 Is he circumcised or does he have a covered wagon? You should ask him that.

Speaker 1 Basically, like sweater and stuff.

Speaker 1 If it was covered, maybe it wouldn't have got hurt in the midst of the game and maybe you wouldn't have had to leave.

Speaker 5 You guys have like a big group chat? Aren't you supposed to be a bad guy?

Speaker 1 It's a covered wagon. It's a covered wagon.

Speaker 1 It's all French Canadians and then a bunch of NHL and soccer players. Aren't you supposed to be circumcised?

Speaker 9 What do you mean, I'm supposed to be?

Speaker 1 Because you lost a bet?

Speaker 9 I talked to my doctor and he said it wasn't a good idea, but every other bet that I've made on the podcast, I'd follow through with.

Speaker 1 No, there was another one, I believe. We got Grinelli in here that you didn't follow through with.

Speaker 9 Well, then bring them in here.

Speaker 5 I do have a, I got a bone to pick with hockey. What's with the digital advertisement boards on the side of the ring?

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's a poverty movie. It doesn't bother with, so don't worry about it.
It's so distracting.

Speaker 9 It's so distracting.

Speaker 5 It is distracting.

Speaker 9 They said Hazy did have the argument the amount in revenue it brings in is probably the reason that they're not going to be paying escrow moving forward.

Speaker 9 That along with the jersey ads.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't mind the jersey ads. The digital boards, when they like get in the way, because the technology I don't think is perfect yet.
So sometimes it covers up the puck and the players.

Speaker 5 And that's me. I'm like, ah.
I think

Speaker 5 that's it.

Speaker 1 I think you're proving you don't watch much hockey because

Speaker 1 if you watch like two games, you get used to it, and now nobody even notices. What about the glowing piece? The guy who watches it.

Speaker 9 That's probably why it still distracted me.

Speaker 9 I only checked the box.

Speaker 1 Yeah, also, do they have it in your... I mean, you guys are playing Hinkle Fieldhouse, right? Shut the fuck up.

Speaker 9 Mullet Arena. What?

Speaker 1 The most electricized player in the national hockey. We got Cameron and New York.

Speaker 9 Come sign with us. How many people are there?

Speaker 1 Is it like a scene like in Coosiers? So they're like, it's the same ice.

Speaker 9 Sigma Phi?

Speaker 9 Is that like a name of a.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 What is going on? I mean, how that thing is small.

Speaker 9 It's 5,500 people, and they have a student section, and it's going to work for now.

Speaker 1 At least sold out.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. Did you sell out? Most games.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Especially when we have an original six-cup. 5,500.
When they get the leafs there, they're just packed. It's all blue.

Speaker 5 You can make the case, though, there's not a bad seat in the arena.

Speaker 1 But there actually might be. Well, there is because they're cement benches with no back.

Speaker 5 Okay, so there are maybe one or two bad ones. No.

Speaker 5 It's intimate.

Speaker 9 They pay my salary, so I'm going to shut the fuck up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You said it. It's a great place.
Great atmosphere. Are the Coyotes doing well?

Speaker 9 They're playing. No, listen, they're not doing great in the standings, but they come and play every night.

Speaker 9 Everybody wrote them off as basically being the worst team in the league, but they're competing. And they were close to 500 at one point, but a lot of one-goal games.

Speaker 1 He's the second last team.

Speaker 9 If you bet them plus one and a half, you've been making a shit ton of money.

Speaker 5 You guys are tanking for Bedard, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but they won't give Arizona the first pitch because they don't planks for Bedard is the hashtag.

Speaker 5 Is he actually worth the hype?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think he's looking at a game.

Speaker 9 So he's over two points a game right now in the Western Hockey League, and he's being touted as basically another McDavid.

Speaker 1 The argument is so another best athlete, most dominant player in all of sports? Yeah, so he was a double.

Speaker 9 He was a double underage in the Western Hockey League.

Speaker 5 They're both named Connor.

Speaker 9 He's a traveling road.

Speaker 1 A traveling road. Wait, what's a double underage?

Speaker 9 So I think when you're a first couple round draft picked or the first two picks of a team, you come in as a 16-year-old.

Speaker 9 And if you get special exemption status, and I want to say throughout the whole history of the CHL, maybe 10 to 15 players had.

Speaker 1 I think he was the first in the WHL.

Speaker 9 Maybe one of the first in the WHL, maybe the first. I don't know the exact stat, but right now he's over two points a game in the Western League.

Speaker 9 He hasn't gone a game without getting a point since the season started. He's a traveling roadshow.
I have a buddy who lives in Victoria, and they average probably around 2,000 fans per game.

Speaker 9 He came to town. It was completely sold out.

Speaker 9 This how kid who actually plays

Speaker 9 on the team had a hat-trick in the first. He had a hat-trick in the second period.

Speaker 9 so he's everything is advertised but the one argument is and and rick talkett brought it up and he was talking with gress he said it's difficult maybe being a little bit undersized to be that guy who comes in and changes the the face of a franchise what size is he he's

Speaker 9 i think he's five five seven five eight he's like he's like messy but people yeah he i i he looks like he plays like he's the messy of hockey he's the messy of hockey is the way he's being touted as right now and i think with the way that the game's changes the game is changing where it's all speed and skill.

Speaker 9 I think that he can come in and be that guy. I mean, you look at more small guys coming in and dominating.
Braden Point's a great example. I mean, you know, as far as his play, would you agree?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think that this kid is looking like he's probably going to be a better player, which is saying a lot. Braden Point's unreal, but everyone talks about his shot.

Speaker 1 His release is supposed to be just out of this world. So, yeah, another Connor that's going to change the game.
You're right.

Speaker 5 Better than McDavid, though.

Speaker 1 This guy. I know.
I think Listen is the same size as Kane.

Speaker 5 I think he's going to be better than McDavid.

Speaker 1 He He looks shorter than Kane in the videos I've seen, but who knows? I have no idea.

Speaker 5 I've never seen him play at all, but based on what you're saying, I'm going to say I'm a Connor Bedard guy. Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 Over McDavid? What is McDavid like?

Speaker 5 I checked the standings this morning because a new wit was coming in. These guys are true.

Speaker 1 He's their whole team.

Speaker 9 And he's their whole team. I'm convinced.

Speaker 1 The Oilers are 500 and Connor McDavid

Speaker 5 in any sport in America, according to Ryan Whitney. With no rings.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you guys, what'd you have? Mahomes as your answer? Are they in the playoffs right now?

Speaker 1 Everybody makes some playoffs in the NASA. The Oilers are in the playoffs right now.
Barely.

Speaker 9 I think they might be on the outside looking in

Speaker 1 as a wild card. No.
As a wild card. No, they're in.
They're in right now.

Speaker 9 Well, they're in the fucking Pacific. Big deal.

Speaker 1 How are the friggin' coyotes doing in the Pacific?

Speaker 1 We're tanking.

Speaker 1 What's the term? Hang on. We're shooting blanks for the Berdard.

Speaker 5 Banks for Berdard. So

Speaker 5 in terms of,

Speaker 5 are there any tough guys, like any up-and-coming tough guys? Because I feel like the goons that we've had in the league have been around for a while.

Speaker 5 I've gotten very familiar with them, but I want to know a young guy that I need to to be rooted.

Speaker 9 So, there's this Jack Eye guy with the Montreal Canadians who everybody was raving about at the start of the season, and they call him

Speaker 9 his last name. If you Google it right now, they started calling him Wi-Fi.
That's his nickname now because it looks like a Wi-Fi password. So, that was a funny thing.
That's a great name.

Speaker 1 That was his name.

Speaker 1 You can't even spell it. Just write Wi-Fi Canadian.

Speaker 9 Look at his last name and tell me how you would pronounce it.

Speaker 1 All right, Wi-Fi Canadian. Oh, wait, no, we need Jake to do it.
Jake to do it. Jake, you find it.
I want to hear Jake's. Don't look up the actual pronunciation.
Oh, my God. That's crazy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Arber is his first name. Arbor.

Speaker 6 This is probably wrong, but I would guess Hikaj.

Speaker 1 Well, it's close. Jackai.
Jackai? Jackai?

Speaker 1 Jackai? Yeah, so his name's Arbor Jackai, and then the boys call him Wi-Fi, which is

Speaker 1 an awesome nickname, but he's come in as a young... This kid was working at Costco last year.
It's a crazy story. He's playing junior and like all of a sudden got invited to Canadians camp.

Speaker 1 He made the team. Young defenseman, tough as shit.
So he gave Zach Cassian a beating earlier this year, who's one of the tougher players in the league. And he's kind of taken on this.

Speaker 1 I would say he's like a fan favorite in Montreal, who's exceeded expectations. But I'm trying to think, when you ask tough guys in the league, that's how much the game's changed.

Speaker 1 If you can come into the league and play and also fight, it's like there's no one like that anymore.

Speaker 9 You become a unicorn.

Speaker 1 And he's got a dirty sky.

Speaker 9 I mean, when Tom Wilson signed his contract, everyone was saying, bad contract, bad contract. Like to find guys like him nowadays.

Speaker 1 Nobody can do that.

Speaker 9 Where back in in the day, it was a dime a dozen, right? So the game has definitely changed, but I feel like it's making a little bit of an inkling back as far as the physicality and more scrapping.

Speaker 9 Because there was about five years ago, the media was getting

Speaker 1 too whiny.

Speaker 1 Every time there was a hockey hit, they were like, oh, NHL player safety. Like, throw this guy out of the leaf.
But this is how all sports go. I mean, it's like the NFL right now.

Speaker 1 The NFL running the ball has become like a lot more successful. Like the

Speaker 1 average is up, passing passing averages down because teams are like, okay, if you're going to play too high safety and like keep everything in front of you and there's no one in the box where it's going to run the ball,

Speaker 1 if teams are going to have a bunch of small guys that can get beat up, like why not have some guys who can punch them?

Speaker 9 Also, I'm sure if you talk to NFL defensive players, it's actually had to change the way they play with the hitting rules, right? Yeah.

Speaker 9 So it's made things a little bit more difficult where I also think that that definitely had its impact on the game of hockey where, you know, going back to the the Scott Stephen days,

Speaker 9 if you were forward and you came through the middle of the ice, a defensive was going to come from the other side, the weak side, and try to take your fucking head off.

Speaker 9 Where nowadays, if you do that, chances are if you make contact, you might be sitting for a few games. So to see those open ice hits are extremely rare in today's NHL games.

Speaker 5 I think it's good that they cracked down a little bit on player safety, but then it went so far where people started taking like screenshots and slow-mo.

Speaker 1 Look at this.

Speaker 5 He's targeting his knee.

Speaker 1 The slow-mo screenshot might be the worst thing that's happened in all of sports. And you talk about football and hockey in particular.
You can zoom these things in and go so slow.

Speaker 1 And then you actually see it in real time. Like even on the ice level or field level, you're like, what the fights? It's not even the same hit.

Speaker 1 So I love how they got rid of, and I don't like it how it cost guys jobs, but I love how they got rid of. the fights that were planned out.
The opening face-offs.

Speaker 9 Two meatheads.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, no, like... Glad you had your guy.
And I'm calling the meatheads, which is incorrect. Great guys.
Some of the best people you play with, but guys squaring off for no reason.

Speaker 1 That was like causing bad, you know, injuries, and you look at after CTE, all this stuff.

Speaker 1 But now it's like turned into the exact opposite, where if you get a fight, you're like, holy shit, you don't even see him anymore.

Speaker 1 So I do think that if you can get more physicality in the game, it gives teams an advantage. So you are seeing teams try to get a little back towards that way, having mean guys on the ice.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 why were you in Detroit? What were you doing in Detroit? Big deal brew tour.

Speaker 9 We're doing a little big deal brew tour. Yeah.
It's fun.

Speaker 9 We go to those cities around the NHL where we have our hardcore fan bases, and it's a good time. We went to this place called the Tin Roof.

Speaker 9 They had live music, and then you could walk over to their beautiful new rink, the Little Caesars.

Speaker 9 They built an incredible stadium there. I mean,

Speaker 9 the Joe was the Joe, and it was a good time, but I mean, it was

Speaker 9 tough going in there. They didn't really have a great press box.
That's where I spent most of my time. And they would have awful towels in there.

Speaker 9 It was like trying to dry off with a garbage bag, for fuck's sake. So they did a complete revamp of the arena and everything that it has to offer.

Speaker 5 What arena had the best towels?

Speaker 9 Went, do you want to chime in here?

Speaker 1 I don't even know. That's such a random question.
What was your bad ones? Yeah, the best amenities. Yeah,

Speaker 1 what was the arena you were most excited to play for just because you knew that the locker room and everything was so set up nicely? I loved Minnesota's. I love the Xcel Energy Center.

Speaker 1 Remember, that locker room was huge. The visiting room was great.

Speaker 9 Great arena. I'm not just saying this because Big Cat's here, but United Center? United Center had the best buffet.

Speaker 1 Really? Oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 The minute

Speaker 9 warm-up was over, I'd be right over and get in the buffet. I'd have my gets on still and all the media area.

Speaker 1 Sometimes you do like a full rankings of the entire NHL.

Speaker 1 What's the worst?

Speaker 5 What's the spread like at the Coyotes place?

Speaker 1 It's just like delicious. It's a college spread, a blow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, wolf.

Speaker 1 What's the worst place? What's the worst place?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. It's not.
You should have seen Mellon Arena, where I played for the Penguins. It was one of the worst.
I mean, obviously, that's not there.

Speaker 1 Wait, was that the igloo? All the battery.

Speaker 1 That was the igloo? No, the visiting room there was like a straight-up public rink in downtown Boston.

Speaker 9 My first year in the NHL, I played out of the Iglo.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Van Dam movie was. The Islanders' old arena was horrible.

Speaker 1 All those older.

Speaker 9 No, but it was great because they had the best ice cream.

Speaker 1 Do you know what's a brutal visit? Did they really? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 9 There's actually a story of it.

Speaker 1 You say Chicago and Dallas had the best ice girls.

Speaker 5 No, you just said Long Island.

Speaker 1 No, Long Island had good ones too.

Speaker 9 Remember that story when the Penguins are in there? This is way before my time.

Speaker 9 I think it was a starting goalie, but he wasn't playing that night. And the backup goalie that night would stay where you came out, so you would not be on the bench.

Speaker 9 And he snuck off because that's where the ice girls would come out of. And he went back in the back and got a BJ from one of the ice girls in the midst of the game.

Speaker 9 I almost want to say the other guy got pulled and they were like, where is he?

Speaker 1 Where is he?

Speaker 9 And he was in the back.

Speaker 5 It's like that Mickey Mana letter that he wrote where he was like, oh, he's going to blow job underneath the bleachers.

Speaker 1 Well, there you go.

Speaker 9 Favorite memory. Well, Dallas stars, they not only had the Ice Girls, which I would get a calendar signed by them every single year, but they would have the ones that would dance up on the podium.

Speaker 9 So they had the double dip. So they'd put them on the jumbotron.
They'd do the little dance routine and then you'd smell them coming by the bench, probably to distract us.

Speaker 1 And they smelled it.

Speaker 9 It was like the perfume coming out of their tits, just like in Austin Powers. They just like hypnotize you.

Speaker 1 That's why they got so many home wins.

Speaker 9 I'd be there drooling with a fucking heart. I'd be trying to skate around out there with a hard on with no blood in my legs because it was all my cock

Speaker 9 and my Forzey.

Speaker 1 I don't even know what to say after that.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, Billy, do you have a question for Winner Biz?

Speaker 9 So

Speaker 9 they used to have great ice girls at the Chicago games, but I want to say they stopped that because remember when they used to get the rockets to shoot between periods, too?

Speaker 1 Yep. And then they

Speaker 1 technically have changed the whole thing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They know.

Speaker 1 They noticed their team's tanks now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, it's true.
It's good. You can see the, yeah, you're absolutely right.
Bring back misogyny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Misogyny.

Speaker 1 Is that what it's that's the word I was looking at? It's Shawn Watson that you try to do there. Oh, misogyny.

Speaker 1 He knows all the best talents.

Speaker 9 What's the word I was looking for?

Speaker 1 Misogyny.

Speaker 1 You almost said it. You kind of added like A-M-E.
You said it.

Speaker 4 I'm French Canadian, for fuck's sake.

Speaker 9 You guys always give it to me about my grammar. What's the other word I say?

Speaker 1 Organization?

Speaker 9 Organization.

Speaker 9 What's wrong with that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, your Canadian soccer team sucked. Did they even score a goal? He didn't even know they were in the World Cup.

Speaker 9 But Henri was dapping us up when we lost three in a row. Who cares? That's cool.
He was in the hallway.

Speaker 1 Henri? Yeah, Thierry Henri. Henri.
Henri.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 Thierry speak for the first time.

Speaker 1 Where did you see him?

Speaker 9 Oh, there was a clip on mine. He was like dabbing us up after the loss and consoling the whole country.
So I thought that was a classy move.

Speaker 9 And I was a big fan of him because I'm French, so I root for France as well. And they got a wagon in this World Cup, don't they?

Speaker 1 They do.

Speaker 5 Mbappe is like, he's a player that you see, I don't care what sport you watch, but you see him on the field and you're like, that guy is different from everybody else on the field.

Speaker 9 Not like Connor McDavid is different from everybody else, but very different.

Speaker 5 If you put Mbappe on the Oilers right now, I think that they're in first place.

Speaker 1 He's that guy. No, the Halan guy from Norway, he might be even better.
He's not even in the World Cup. That guy is a freak.

Speaker 9 How come you guys didn't ask Wyd about his trip to Jamaica?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I saw the dolphin video. Unbelievable.
That was incredible.

Speaker 1 You were right. What did they pick you up?

Speaker 1 The dolphin came flying from behind and stuck a nose in each one of my arches in my feet. And next thing you know, the guy just said, keep your legs straight.
And I did.

Speaker 1 And just all of a sudden, I'm just flying high. And I wish I tried to balance it out.
But in the end, I just kind of fell forward. It was unreal.

Speaker 1 Were you not afraid that dolphins are going to like, I always always think with somebody? So I was, but they're so nice and smart, and like, they're better than humans. I love dolphins.

Speaker 1 Like, all those, like, pet the dolphins, or like, this, like, you know, the monkeys or any of that stuff. I don't do that shit.

Speaker 1 I always think in the back of my head, like, at one point, at some point, this animal is going to be like, this fucking sucks. Fuck all of them.
But it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 A monkey will rip your face off. A dolphin can't really fall off.
Oh, I think dolphins get pissed too. Like, they don't know what they do.
I'm so sick of fucking lifting up this fat fucking guy.

Speaker 1 Billy, what are you doing? I've never seen the sun before. What are they going to do? What's a dolphin going to do?

Speaker 7 Dolphins sometimes like assault people.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 They sexually assault people.

Speaker 1 100%. I've seen the video.

Speaker 1 I said that one of you trying to plow your way. No, it's my son's birthday.
So luckily, we didn't get fucked by a dolphin.

Speaker 9 At least she got the angry inch from somebody.

Speaker 1 Can I bring up a little topic?

Speaker 1 I've long been an NBA hater.

Speaker 1 Trey Young. Yep.
Biz, did you see the story about this guy, the star on the Atlanta Hawks?

Speaker 9 Okay, so I saw.

Speaker 1 This fucking asshole. This guy

Speaker 1 didn't go to the team's game. He didn't go to his team's game.
Like, there is not an NHL player in existence who just wouldn't show up for a game.

Speaker 1 It's so disrespectful and such a typical NBA move that people could say, oh, he hates the coach. The coaches treat him unfair.

Speaker 1 To not show up to your team's game is the biggest slap in the face to every team player.

Speaker 9 What was the reason? Was he getting rest?

Speaker 1 I don't even know.

Speaker 9 Well, let's ask the sports guys with the number one sports podcast in the world.

Speaker 5 I think he's got a shoulder, if I remember correctly.

Speaker 1 Okay, so you're injured, but you just don't go to the the game. Upper body injury is how I would explain it.

Speaker 1 What a great guy to compare yourself to. Kyrie Irving.
Kyrie?

Speaker 5 How would you guys have handled that in a locker room if somebody on your team had posted links to an anti-Semitic video?

Speaker 1 Is that what Kyrie did?

Speaker 9 This is going to be the first time I've ever done this in my career.

Speaker 1 Next question.

Speaker 1 Well, Biz would have been like, let me read some interesting stuff. Yeah, let me see some more of that.

Speaker 1 No, the,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 I feel like NBA, like, actually, it happens in the NFL. NFL is a little different because guys, once they're injured, they're pretty much out of it.

Speaker 1 But yeah, NBA guys will not sit on the sideline sometimes when they're hurt. Not travel with the team.
But this was a home game. And yeah, not going on the sideline.

Speaker 9 Maybe he was in the back with an ice girl.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, maybe.
Was he in the arena? No, he didn't even go to the game. And that is a little crazy.
It's just such a dirtbag move to not even go and support your teammates. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 And it's like normal in that association. It drives me crazy.
I did sit second row. Portner was giving me shit.
I wasn't. Yeah, I mean, he was front row.
Yeah, I mean, I don't care. He said he was.

Speaker 1 My mother-in-law gave me these unbelievable tickets. He brought us.
He wasn't even, his mom was trying to talk to him. He's texting away like a prick.
But I sat. Oh, you mean Dave's mom?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was amazed. Amazed sitting up.

Speaker 9 He was working customer service for his watch company.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 9 Maybe he was busy. Trying to pay for those front row seats.

Speaker 1 Wait, hold on. Go ahead, Biz.
I want you to say that again because it got. Or sorry, Wit.
Like that was. No, no, sitting up close.

Speaker 1 It's pretty sick. Okay, so the NBA is the one sport.

Speaker 1 Like, if you sit front row of NBA, you realize more than any other sport, you're like, holy fuck, how big these guys are, how strong they are, how fast they are, how much they, like,

Speaker 1 I got to sit front row for a Sixers game a couple years ago. Watching Embiid close up, he's just a giant of a man.
I saw Luca. Yeah.
And I think he had 48. It's maybe crazy.

Speaker 1 It's nuts. And they're being that tall and seeing how like smooth and athletic they move around.
It was pretty impressive. Now, granted, there were a lot of flops and fucking

Speaker 1 like diving, but still, it was nuts to see a couple dunks Tatum had that you're just like, what the fuck? Like the guy's seven. So you're now an NBA fan.
If I could sit second or first row.

Speaker 9 What do courtside seats at an NBA game cost like a good team, like Boston Self Death? Probably a few.

Speaker 1 Big dough, I think. Yeah, probably, I would say like a few thousand up to like, well, if you're like center court,

Speaker 1 like 10, 15 grand, you think

Speaker 1 those season game? If it was like the Celtics or the Knicks or the Lakers, maybe not that much. Playoffs.
Playoffs are going for that, though. Yeah, playoffs for sure.

Speaker 5 I saw the Thunder last year. We're going for like $150 court side.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's more mice. Let's see.
Why don't you find that? Yeah, it's pretty cheap.

Speaker 1 That's going to a coyote. On GameTime app.
Find us the

Speaker 1 court side for the Knicks Game Time app.

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Speaker 1 Billy, did you have a question for these guys?

Speaker 9 Oh, I got a question for you. How are you taking all the Liver King stuff?

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's sad.

Speaker 1 Oh, did you believe him? No. No, I never believed him.
Yeah, I don't think who did believe? A little bit. We all wanted to.

Speaker 7 It was funny to think. This guy was living like a caveman, like avoiding Wi-Fi when he slept.

Speaker 7 But yeah, he was definitely juicing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, you think so? Yeah.
No shit.

Speaker 1 I don't affect you at all.

Speaker 9 Do you think it has affected his brand financially at all since this has happened?

Speaker 1 It's probably helped him. Probably helped him.

Speaker 7 He's definitely gotten more, you know, like Rogans talking about him, and that's like that whole conglomerate of people who sell supplements and stuff.

Speaker 7 So, but, you know, I don't think like anyone really, like, do you know what his brand was?

Speaker 9 No, I knew he was selling like liver pills and shit. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Liver is still healthy.

Speaker 1 Have you juiced? Juiced? Yeah. No.

Speaker 9 You never stuck a needle in your ass? Did you?

Speaker 1 I've never taken his eyes.

Speaker 1 I probably had to talk to you about lying.

Speaker 1 I got the back pipple. I was like, no, kisses a liar.
You were definitely juiced. The way you asked me.
Do I look like I would have juiced?

Speaker 1 When he just asked, have you ever juiced? You go, juiced? No, and then he goes, did you?

Speaker 1 No, bro. I just asked you.

Speaker 5 The funny dude, the stupidest part about what Billy's doing right now is that he's admitted on the show that he's done it before. No, I haven't.
And now he's like, no, I haven't.

Speaker 1 Oh, really?

Speaker 5 When have I ever... You've talked about doing

Speaker 1 Winstraw. No, you did like creatine for sure.

Speaker 7 Well, there's like peptides. There's like BBC.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he did inject peptides into my body.

Speaker 9 I talked about a time I was accidentally illegally doping during an NHL NHL season, or at least in training camp in the summertime, when I was taking this stuff called Jacked through.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Everyone did jack through.

Speaker 9 I've gotten so many messages about these old school people saying that that was the OG

Speaker 5 pre-workout.

Speaker 9 Nothing ever compared to it. And I'll never forget Jan's saw it in my stall and he goes, you're not taking this, are you? And I was like, oh, yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 9 You get the little tingles before you go out and you're feeling all good. And he goes, I'm pretty sure this is on the bands list.
And sure enough, it was.

Speaker 1 Dude, you never, you never, like, how close were you?

Speaker 9 But everybody that year got tested in training camp, and for whatever reason, I think I flew under the radar, but maybe I didn't have enough of it in my system.

Speaker 1 No, they're like, this guy's going to the minor.

Speaker 1 So the stuff in there that was illegal, it was. Stop making him good.
It was like a fake.

Speaker 5 It was like a fake geranium extract that they had. It wasn't like...
No, no, no. It wasn't a steroid.

Speaker 1 It was DMAA. That's what I'm saying.
That's the geranium extra. It's a dimethyl, like, yeah.

Speaker 1 But I know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 That was the germanium extract that turned into the DMA16, and that flagged you positive for methamphetamines.

Speaker 1 It was synthetic meth.

Speaker 1 The Kingle stuff is legal.

Speaker 9 It's a whole professor, honestly.

Speaker 3 The Kingle stuff you can still do.

Speaker 7 That's totally legal.

Speaker 1 That makes you feel like. Oh, yeah, it doesn't sound like a guy who's done steroids.

Speaker 7 Beta-alanine is like, it's in all the pre-workouts.

Speaker 1 Hey, wasn't the other one Ultimate Orange? Wasn't that a good idea?

Speaker 5 There was an Ultimate Orange one, Inno Explode.

Speaker 5 That was the JV version of it. But Jack 3D, if anybody out there, because I know some people hoarded it when they took it off the market because it killed a few guys or whatever.

Speaker 1 Or whatever. Yeah, they hoarded it.

Speaker 5 There were like five deaths in the span of six.

Speaker 1 Well, it was a

Speaker 1 poor loco of pre-workout.

Speaker 5 Send me some Jack 3D, please. I'm begging you.

Speaker 1 I know we're talking about uppers, but do you ever think about the other side of it where I wish they still had Quailudes around? Oh, how fun would a Kwaaluds? I think about that all the time.

Speaker 1 Ever since I saw that video,

Speaker 1 they weren't even around.

Speaker 1 Kwaluds already had. All right, grab the mic.
You jump in here.

Speaker 1 I know. What were Kwalu's like? What were they like?

Speaker 15 Fucking zonked. You get wicked.
I can hear him. You get wicked zonked.
I mean, they like.

Speaker 1 It's not cool to do this stuff, but just one time to try a Qualo. Well, it's also, it's just a, it's, it's like a prescription drug that just doesn't get made anymore.
So it's like, what?

Speaker 1 It had to be bad. Curiosity is like, huh, what's going on? PFT was probably like 30 years ago.

Speaker 15 One of my buddies had him. I don't know.
He had a stash save or whatever. I took one, and yeah, it just fucking completely zonked you.

Speaker 1 What's the movie? It's a horse track blazer. Yeah.
Yeah, it just

Speaker 1 Wolf Wall Street. Wolf Wall Street.
That's just like, oh my God, these guys are like, when he's like, I'm not dying, sober.

Speaker 9 R.A. was actually a guinea pig for a company.

Speaker 1 Which one?

Speaker 1 A bunch of different ones. You want to talk about it, R.A.?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Wait, what were you a guinea pig for?

Speaker 9 A pharmaceutical company.

Speaker 1 Pfizer?

Speaker 5 We all wear.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there you go, Billy.

Speaker 1 It's Billy.

Speaker 1 Let's go, baby. Nice one, Billy.

Speaker 1 All right, so wait.

Speaker 1 Back to all the way back to football. Did you think that Alabama got screwed with? No.

Speaker 1 No, I actually love how they got. I watched that game against Kansas State.
For them to get in, it's the right thing. I think if they've got blown out,

Speaker 1 100% put Bam in. But the argument of people saying Bam is going to give Georgia or Michigan a better game.
It's like, that's not. It's up Brandon's thing.
That's not what it's about.

Speaker 1 It's about how the season went. And yeah, TCU might get blown out.
I hope they don't. I hope it's a good game, but you can't let Alabama in when TCU has one loss.
And it was the way it it went down.

Speaker 1 It was kind of pathetic watching Saban do that. Yeah, like I was actually felt bad for him.
I bet you.

Speaker 1 Dude, the dude pretends that Vegas doesn't exist, and he's out there being like, who would they have favored in a game? It's like, really? I think

Speaker 1 I think even he was sick to his stomach doing it, but you're doing it for your players. But it was like, I was like, this is like

Speaker 1 sad watching Nisa out there begging people to put him in. It also does the exact opposite, where it's like, if you have to beg that way, it's like, well, clearly you're not.

Speaker 1 You know, you're not that good. Yeah, right.
He should have almost went in reverse cycle. He has been like,

Speaker 1 we have no business. Yeah, our resume speaks for itself.
And they're like, whoa, what's he saying? This is Nick Sabin.

Speaker 5 Either that or just be like, they don't want us in there anyway. So, like, you know, it's just no point in me begging because they know that we're just coming in there and spoil it for everybody else.

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 1 I'm not trying to sound like the Georgia homer, but I said back before the Tennessee game, they are the new Bama where they'll crush both teams in this playoff, and it kind of makes it a little unenjoyable.

Speaker 1 They're so good. They're like an NFL team.
They're just crushing everyone. They have all these five-star recruits at every single position and I love it being a Dogs fan.

Speaker 5 Yeah. That's a good time for it.
I have a hockey question. What's up? So you guys were talking a couple weeks ago about what's going to happen with Kane.
Yes. Maybe to Boston?

Speaker 1 I can't stop thinking about where he's going. I bring it up every show.
Because the Rangers are now out because the Rangers suck. The Rangers stink.
They're not out.

Speaker 1 They're not out, but it's like he controls where he wants to go. And so they just beat the Rangers.
And the Blackhawks are terrible. So it's kind of like, why would I want to go there?

Speaker 1 I don't necessarily think they're contenders. He may think the same, but he's going to decide where he wants to go, really.
And what do you think?

Speaker 1 I said Boston just because I'd love to see it happen, and Boston's in their true final run this season. Yeah, it's like the last.
Hey, here's a wild card for you.

Speaker 9 The Kraken.

Speaker 1 No? I don't know. It's not a bad call.
Well, he's only got...

Speaker 9 This is the last year of his deal, correct? Yes. So it's, you know, you're there for four or five months, whatever it's going to be now.
And I think that they have the salary cap space.

Speaker 9 That's what's so hard in the NHL is a hard cap.

Speaker 9 So all these good teams who are now making playoff runs, like if you look at Boston, they would have to trade away two significant pieces that they have in their lineup.

Speaker 9 Therefore, why would you want to mess up the chemistry of the team that's got you to this point already? They only have three losses on the whole year.

Speaker 9 So if you look at teams that do have available cap space, it's not many who are in a playoff position. I think the Kraken could be one that could pull it off.
That's a complete wild.

Speaker 1 You know who was a good

Speaker 1 possible scenario that Frankie Borrelli and the Islanders. And if you remember back,

Speaker 1 I don't know, maybe it was 2009, 10.

Speaker 1 I don't remember the season, but Ilya Kovalchuk, he was going to be a UFA in Atlanta, and it was very obvious they were going to trade him because he wasn't going to resign there.

Speaker 1 And everyone's like, where's he going? Where's he going? And boom, Lou Lamarillo with the Devils swooped in. Nobody even mentioned the Devils as an option.
We'll now lose in Long Island.

Speaker 1 They have a team. They have a goalie that's literally good enough to win him a cup.
You never know. Patrick Kane goes over there, plays with Barzao.

Speaker 1 We'll see what happens, but it's going to be crazy when it does go down. It's nuts to think about, as a Blackhawks fan, I'm sure, it's just such an end of an era.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 He's the greatest Blackhawk of all time, correct?

Speaker 9 I think he's the best American-born player.

Speaker 1 Yeah, too.

Speaker 1 Hands down. And it's also like, I mean, it's already been kind of over for the last few years, but yeah, when he goes and Taze goes, I don't know what that will happen.
That's it.

Speaker 9 That's officially. And it's shooting blanks for Bedard, baby.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 And they're probably going to get them because it's all wrong.

Speaker 1 Well, they've been stuck in that spot for the last five years where it's like, you don't want to give up when you still have these guys.

Speaker 1 But if they were smart, they should have moved on a few years ago and started. Like, you can't do a half rebuild.

Speaker 1 No, they've been trying to do the half rebuild for so many years now where it's like, oh, we could just, you know, if we fix this, do this, like, we still have the core of this.

Speaker 1 It's like, no, that's not how it works.

Speaker 9 Yeah, but if you look back to the history of hockey, a lot of guys, especially with the way that he was in Chicago and his legacy, they like playing for one organization.

Speaker 9 You look at the guys like Patrice Bergeron, like Crosby, Malkin, Latang.

Speaker 1 But what I've said is I'll root for him wherever he goes because I want him, like, he's so much fun to root for in a playoff atmosphere.

Speaker 1 He's such a fucking clutch big game player that it's going to be great to watch him play playoff hockey. Yeah.
Like, just as a fan perspective.

Speaker 9 If you had to guess another team that we haven't mentioned, where would you say he ends up? We've mentioned Boston.

Speaker 1 These guys have him got one game of hot.

Speaker 5 I'm just going to say the name of February.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 The Avs.

Speaker 1 Ah, you know, it would be fun for Kane. Well, hey, what do you think about that?

Speaker 9 Here's what's not crazy about that. Yeah.
So Gabriel Landiskog and now Nathan McKinnon are injured.

Speaker 1 I don't know how long they're going to be. That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 9 It seems like that's long-term shut up.

Speaker 5 McKinnon's out. Get Kane in there.

Speaker 9 What happens with the cap situation is they're allowed to put these guys on long-term IR, therefore bring in a big salary. So not out of question.

Speaker 9 And you could also do a three-team trade where you can split the salary in half because one team can retain salary and then that next second team before he ends up at the location, then cut the salary in half again.

Speaker 1 So, that's

Speaker 9 I don't think that's the craziest theory either.

Speaker 1 I'll give you one. So, you're a hockey guy.
I'll give you one.

Speaker 1 I'm a puck boy. I'll give you one because he's matured.
He's a father now. He might even be a father of two, father of one.

Speaker 1 What about Vegas?

Speaker 1 They are, they are also. I don't know every team's cap situation.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That'd be fun. That would be really fun.
That would be awesome.

Speaker 1 That's actually not that crazy, I don't think. The Lightning?

Speaker 9 This is a hockey pod.

Speaker 1 This is a hockey pod.

Speaker 1 We might as well just name all 32 teams.

Speaker 1 31 because he's on staying with Chicago. The Coyotes? Panthers have no cap space.
When's the trade deadline?

Speaker 1 Being a March. I love how hockey does the no trades during Christmas thing.
That's so funny. They do a three-day, I think.
I thought it was longer than that. Is it? I remember Brian's like a bigger

Speaker 1 two or three-day freeze. Yeah, where no one can get moved.

Speaker 5 Let them be with their family. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Some things are bigger than that.

Speaker 1 It's very nice. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Who's the second guy, if it's not Kane? Who's like the next big name that could be on the movie?

Speaker 1 In free agency right now?

Speaker 9 I would say for defensemen right now, the biggest name is Jacob Chikrin, and he plays for the Coyotes. And the reason I say him is because he's got a pretty...

Speaker 9 Pretty good cap hit, just over $4 million.

Speaker 9 And I think it's inevitable that he's going to move. And like we mentioned about the hard cap and teams finding it hard to squeeze guys in with what they're making, he's a valuable asset.

Speaker 9 And he also has another two years left on his deal at a good

Speaker 9 cap hit. So I would say that he's going to be a big-name defenseman that moves close to the deadline.

Speaker 9 Other than that,

Speaker 9 I can't really think of any other big names. R.A., can you hop in here? Do you know what?

Speaker 15 Potential trade or free agent?

Speaker 1 I got a lot of things.

Speaker 9 Big-name NHL free agents who are going to move near the deadline.

Speaker 1 Or trade, like a trade.

Speaker 15 Patrick Kane. No, I'm kidding.
He's not coming to Boston. I'll say that.
I know that's why I don't think he's coming.

Speaker 1 Because you'd have to trade too many guys.

Speaker 15 I just think where that originated, I don't know if it's true.

Speaker 1 It originated with me. It originated with me.
It would be tough if you're the best team in the league to try to add. Because then you mess up maybe some nucleus stuff.

Speaker 1 Patrick Kane's not messing up anything. No, no, I'm just saying if you leave, if you have to trade a guy.

Speaker 9 He's got a cab driver's face. Ah, come on.

Speaker 1 He was young. He was like 19, bro.
That's a little boy. He was 19.

Speaker 9 Okay, well then fucking edit it out.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. No.
Oh,

Speaker 1 wait, oh, I didn't know you guys talked about incidents in cabs now. I thought that was off limits for spitting chiclets.
Oh, that's not. Oh,

Speaker 1 no, we never

Speaker 1 helped. We didn't not talk about that with audience.

Speaker 1 We talked about it. No, no, no.
No, no, no. The story was.

Speaker 1 The story was breaking. Portnoy wanted us to break the news.

Speaker 1 Oh, you want me to go? No, dude, are you going to listen or no?

Speaker 1 You want me to blog about it? We're going to talk about cab stories now. No,

Speaker 1 we talked about it. He wanted us to be breaking the news and talking about it the minute it happened.
We let things happen. Other insiders break the news.
We chat about it on Chickle. Oh, on Twitch.

Speaker 1 So shut up. You're on the bottom.
Patrick Kane fucking punches one cab driver. You're going to bring it up 15 years later?

Speaker 1 That was biz.

Speaker 5 I mean, everybody's been in a cab with a guy that you've wanted to punch.

Speaker 9 I regret bringing it up. I do regret bringing it up.

Speaker 1 Listen, he's a matured guy. Oh, I know.
He's completely changed. He's completely changed.
He's different.

Speaker 9 I know that. I know that.

Speaker 1 He also chirped me in the preseason, or not the preseason first game when they played against colorados but let's not get into it oh yeah he called biz a clown oh that's good you probably called and he didn't even use it by name i have patrick can't back you didn't use it by name he's like that other clown you have up there the reason it hurts so much is because he was right yeah and that's why i brought up

Speaker 1 you had to look at you looked in the mirror and you're like shit i am a clown no damn what do you got oh ra's trying to french kiss me john klingberg that's a name that'll move oh okay all right got it throw it out there

Speaker 1 we go all right and i'm dumb

Speaker 1 I have one last question. Go ahead, Billy.
You have a last question?

Speaker 7 Yeah, Saturday. I never got that question off.
During warm-ups in NHL games, why do only two guys not wear their helmets?

Speaker 1 So it's probably one of the cooler things that you used to get to do in the NHL.

Speaker 1 You were able to come up and realize you're in the NHL, and if you had good hair, which wasn't me, but you could go out, your flows flying in the wind, and you just feel like an NHL are getting to experience no-bucket warm-ups.

Speaker 1 What's happened is when I was on Edmonton, Edmonton, Taylor Hall was skating around with no helmet. And unfortunately, this guy, Corey Potter, a friend of mine, he kind of tripped on a puck.

Speaker 1 I don't remember exactly what happened and stepped directly on Taylor Hall's forehead. I have the picture before surgery.
You could see his skull. It was horrific.

Speaker 1 And I think he had about 50 to 60 stitches. Since then, the Edmonton Oilers made it mandatory where you have to wear a helmet.
Other teams have done the same.

Speaker 1 Some teams still allow it, but the league came out about...

Speaker 1 last week or two weeks ago and said moving forward it's completely banned the only people who can do it were people grandfathered in who were in the league before today. So, it's a really cool thing.

Speaker 1 I did it once in a while. I actually remember Max Talbot and myself,

Speaker 1 probably five months into our rookie season, we were playing pretty good, and we're like, all right, let's do it. And so, we're flying around first time, and it feels amazing.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Like, you're skating around, no helmet. And Michelle Terrion, our coach,

Speaker 1 he knocks on the bench on the window at Mellon Arena because you used to skate across the ice to leave the ice. And

Speaker 1 he's like, Put your fucking helmets on you too.

Speaker 1 too so in the middle of warm-up put it on because we weren't old enough or you know veteran enough to do it but now it's gone but it was just a cool experience for guys that could get to try it once i think

Speaker 1 so now there's going to be a new craig mctavish but the warm-up version yeah he was the last guy yeah the last guy

Speaker 5 last yeah have you guys ever talked to like a i'm sure that you have a player that played you know his entire career without wearing a helmet did he have the same sentiment where it was like it felt amazing out there being able to skate around well craig mctavish warn he was the last player to not wear a helmet play in the NHL.

Speaker 1 And he'd be in doing face-offs. They said he'd be head-button guys with helmets on.
They were like, what the fuck? This guy doesn't even feel it.

Speaker 9 R.A., you could probably back me up on this.

Speaker 9 Was it Brad Marsh who we had come on the podcast and say that he at one point played without a helmet and he ended up putting one on and he felt that he was getting dinged and nicked up way more than he was when he wasn't wearing a helmet.

Speaker 9 So after one game of putting one on, he took it back off and then he went right back to normal where he actually felt that he wasn't as susceptible to getting dinged up with sticks or whatever it was, catching his head when he didn't have a head on.

Speaker 1 That makes no sense.

Speaker 5 No,

Speaker 1 it actually does.

Speaker 9 I'd say maybe more guys notice you out there and I don't know.

Speaker 1 Some people think

Speaker 1 there's more respect for each other when you don't have a helmet on. There might be less injuries.
I know it sounds insane.

Speaker 1 I've heard people say that in football, too, where it's insane to think that they wouldn't have a helmet on. It'd never happen, but you'd tackle different and it would probably be like somewhat safer.

Speaker 1 I know that sounds insane. Billy kind of agrees with me.
I can tell

Speaker 1 you

Speaker 7 in boxing, headgear, you get hit differently. Like the gloves don't bounce off your head as much when you have headgear on for boxing.

Speaker 1 So there's maybe that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 15 Wait, I would say maybe like the cage in college. Like guys have more balls from the cage.
If it wasn't, they wouldn't be as fucking, you know, dickheads out there.

Speaker 5 At first, when I heard that, I was like, that sounds insane. But I actually think that

Speaker 5 if you're an opponent and you're playing against a guy that's not wearing a helmet, you are probably going to be more careful with your stick.

Speaker 1 That's the thing. It's like you don't want to kill a guy out there.

Speaker 5 So that actually, it does make sense to me in a weird way, but I have to imagine that playing hockey without a helmet on was just terrifying.

Speaker 1 Just warm-ups was sick. Oh, yeah.
I'm sure

Speaker 1 the cold air through your hair. Or if you're a golden girl.

Speaker 1 I saw a picture of myself. Like, you know, they got the Getty images people.
I saw a picture of myself in warm-ups with no helmet. And with like my ears and my terrible hair.

Speaker 1 I was like, that doesn't look as cool as I thought it would. But you felt cool.
Yeah, it felt cool. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Last question.

Speaker 1 We've told you this with. I think Biz knows.
I think RA, you might know. Hank has still not gotten the number.
He's not here right now.

Speaker 1 So I'm just going to, my last question is, what number do you guys want to pick? We'll just do, we'll do one without him in the room. I always go to the office.
This is official.

Speaker 1 And when does he owe you five grand? After January 1st. Oh, he's done.
Yeah, yeah, he's done. I'll take 19.

Speaker 1 And we also did on Black Friday, we did a deal where we picked one listener that they get to guess now every time. And if they get it before Hank, he gets five grand.

Speaker 1 Let's do it this, though, because I need to have action. If anyone hits their number right now, 100 from each guy.
69. Okay, yeah, 100 from each guy.
All right, you in? Done. Yeah, I don't know.
Done.

Speaker 1 So we're picking a number. Billy, you in? Hank gets pulled out.
Done. I'm in.
I'm in. 100 from each guy.
Any number.

Speaker 9 Number one to 100 that's not in there? No.

Speaker 1 No, they're all in there. All in there.
So I'm not, everyone doing it in this room is

Speaker 1 100 a guy if you get it. So one, two, three, four, five.
This is a $900 hit.

Speaker 1 $900. 19.

Speaker 9 I'm going to go with my old pal Sidney Crosby, 87. Now, how long does that thing move around in there before it sucks one up?

Speaker 1 What does that matter? I mean, it's about 7 to 7. 87 is at the top, right? You just wanted to say sucks one up.
Yeah. What are you talking about, man? Well, because 87 is a bizarre.

Speaker 7 Biz, the one on the top's not going to go.

Speaker 9 I'm going to change my number. All right.

Speaker 1 I got 12, my old hawk 12. 12.
All right. 19 for Whitney.

Speaker 1 12 for Biz. 24.
24 for R.A. 18.
And Sebastian. 18.
76. 76.

Speaker 1 20.

Speaker 5 We're all real tightly grouped here.

Speaker 7 Three for memes.

Speaker 1 3 for memes. 69 for Billy.
Oh, you guys have your...

Speaker 9 Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 1 Sebastian, where's where's Sebastian? He can't, if you're not in the room, you're not in the middle. No, actually, no,

Speaker 1 he only can do it when Hank's in here. Anyway.
So his will count for the other. You have to be in the room, right?

Speaker 5 91.

Speaker 1 I'll do 17. All right, let's start.

Speaker 1 off.

Speaker 1 Come on, I'll buy dinner tonight. 17 is the number Hank always picks.

Speaker 1 So, this would be the best moment ever if I got 17. Oh, 87 almost went up there a bit.
Oh, no, you took 12. 19.

Speaker 6 Oh, that's 61.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 oh,

Speaker 1 we got a jam.

Speaker 5 We got a jam.

Speaker 1 I've never seen a three-ball jam. That's crazy.
Oh, shit. Three-ball jam is crazy.

Speaker 9 You think it's suck a golf ball through a garden hose, can it?

Speaker 1 Three-ball jam.

Speaker 1 Come on, 19. 69.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, right there. 19 just got, what is that? 81.
Oh,

Speaker 1 what a hundred. Marion Hosa.
Marion Hosa. Shit.
Legend. All right.
Yeah. Thank you, boys.
Everyone, this is Spittin Chiclets. Love you guys.
Goats. Love you.
Love you guys.

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Speaker 6 That's a winning play.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up with some FAQs.

Speaker 1 Henry.

Speaker 1 It's FAQs, Hank.

Speaker 5 Not the other word that you were thinking of that you can't say on TV anymore in 2022.

Speaker 1 I think that we should do, maybe in the new year, maybe a full FAQs segment about Chicago because there's a lot of Chicago questions.

Speaker 5 You know why they call it the Windy City?

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 5 It's not because of the wind. Really? It's because people are very blustery there originally.
That's why they call it. Yeah, people just talk a lot and they

Speaker 5 just, there's a bunch of windbags. That's why they called it the Windy City to begin with.

Speaker 1 Fun fact. Yeah, we will.
That's a good call.

Speaker 1 Hit us with the FAQs, Hank. Do you guys feel as awkward as I do when you're saying goodbye to a guest and it just goes back and forth too much and lasts too long?

Speaker 1 I've heard it cut off here and there, and it's probably unavoidable, but does it make it feel good when one just hits right?

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's kind of like a clean dap when you're exiting exiting like a Zoom call with somebody, and you're like, all right, thanks for coming on. We'll see you later.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And then they're like, all right, bye. And then that's why I love Jerry, Jerry O'Connell.

Speaker 1 Oh, he hangs up on us.

Speaker 5 He closes it out, so there's no awkwardness.

Speaker 1 We didn't even say thanks. He just hung up on us.
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 5 I actually prefer that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, it is

Speaker 1 a weird part of the job, it's just being like, all right, so

Speaker 1 thanks, cool, keep in touch.

Speaker 5 All right, cool. And then sometimes you're on the line a little bit too long, and you hear Dak Prescott say, say, he asked me about a porn star.
I don't like those.

Speaker 1 That didn't go well.

Speaker 1 Hey, Big Cat, PFT, Cake, Honk, and Soft Hands, Billy.

Speaker 1 I have a situation about Christmas presents. When you turn over the age of 20, should you still reciprocate gifts to family members and friends that are also that age?

Speaker 1 Spoiling younger family members and seeing their reactions to big gifts is the best. But when it comes to older family members, it always seems forced to do.

Speaker 1 Should I make the call to my family never saying no gifts? Thanks.

Speaker 5 I think what you can do is you can reach like an understanding with everybody ahead of time and like say with the money that we would be spending on gifts for each other, let's just go out.

Speaker 5 Let's just like put it, put it in a pile. We'll go out.
We'll spend it at a bar one night.

Speaker 1 Or it's like at some point you just like get them one nice thing. Like, ah, here's a nice bottle of whiskey.
You know what I mean? Like, it's almost like it's not really some elaborate gift.

Speaker 1 It's just like, I am acknowledging the season type of thing. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Or one thing I like to, if you have something that you've bought for yourself that year, then just get that for somebody to be like, I got it for you because I use this thing every day. I love it.

Speaker 5 And you might like it too. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Hey, fellas. Hey, hey.
Hypothetically, aliens come down to Earth to learn more about human culture.

Speaker 1 They listen to the 50-plus PMT episodes that come out during football season, but never watch one second of an actual football game. What would their perception of football look like?

Speaker 1 Do you think they would be able to understand how the game is really played, or would it be some warped part of my take version through the lens of your weird brains?

Speaker 5 That's actually a good channel.

Speaker 1 Hank could get a slaughter ball one day. I appreciate you guys.
No, you won't.

Speaker 5 That's a good question, though. They'd probably think that Josh Allen was like William Wallace.
He's 10 feet tall. Yeah.
And lightning bolts come out of his arse.

Speaker 1 They also would like, I would love to see them draw like Big Ben and Phil Rivers. Yeah.
That would be very funny. Just like they probably, yeah, just

Speaker 1 like a bunch of idiots walk like playing quarterback and coach.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Big Ben walking around with like a thermometer in his mouth and one of those fever things on his head, probably in a wheelchair.

Speaker 1 I like this idea. Yeah, that is.
We got Billy.

Speaker 7 Kyler Murray.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's like, like two feet tall. Playing video games.
He's got a Game Boy Switch in his helmet.

Speaker 5 He's playing video games and crying.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
Next. Last one.

Speaker 1 Deshaun Watson is a pervert. Yeah.

Speaker 5 He's just always coming. Yeah.

Speaker 1 His dicks.

Speaker 5 Everywhere. His dicks just leak.
He leaves a snail trail on the field when he's that's why people can't catch up to him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Brock Purdy. Big Brock.
Looks like he's kind of like Brock.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he's like a looks like he's got a baseball bat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, last one. Hey, PMT, I work a public accounting job and I'm 23 and work around 45 to 50 hours a week.
Busy season, January to March, we work 70 hour plus a week.

Speaker 1 week what are the hours you would say you work in a given week compared to your busy time of the year oh I know I'm young

Speaker 1 but I do value time as COVID wiped away half of my junior year and most of my senior year of college and now I'm in the workplace for the next 50 plus years

Speaker 1 that's all right so this is a tricky question because I there's parts of our job that I fully understand are like for everyone else, it's their entertainment.

Speaker 1 But like watching sports at night, it's not like I'm sitting on my couch. I would be doing it anyway, but it is part of our job.
Yeah, does that count? You'd be punching in.

Speaker 5 Yeah, like NFL Sunday,

Speaker 5 we watch all the games, but I'd probably be doing that even if I wasn't so you'd be drinking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you would be. And like, yeah, like on a Tuesday night, I would be, yeah, like I wouldn't have to tweet while I'm watching a college basketball game.

Speaker 1 So if we do like actual, like, anytime my brain is on

Speaker 1 in the fall,

Speaker 1 fuck, there's i mean i'm just the max amount of hours you know what i'm just gonna count like in the office

Speaker 1 let's just count in because like monday night football watching that okay i don't know if i can but then like on saturdays when i do the college football show like traveling yeah traveling that counts

Speaker 5 saturday is is i'm gonna give it an estimate my day off i'm gonna give it tweeting work it can be um all right no

Speaker 5 i'm gonna guess yeah why are you asking that billy i'm just i'm just saying it is

Speaker 1 It is a 24-7.

Speaker 1 Do you have an angle?

Speaker 7 Like, just staying on top of everything is 24-7.

Speaker 1 If you tweet from the...

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I would say 70 hours a week.

Speaker 1 Tweeting from your personal account is not work. 70 hours a week.

Speaker 5 I would classify it as work.

Speaker 6 I do research for some of my tweets.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, Jake, your tweet, yes. You.
You do. My tweets, no.
Billy's asking for

Speaker 5 some weird reason.

Speaker 1 I'd say 70 hours a week. That doesn't really count like sitting at home watching games.
70 hours a week in the fall. But then it becomes a lot less.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you guys have thought about it, but like I love football. But the idea that we could come in at

Speaker 1 7 o'clock on a Sunday and be done in two hours is pretty nice when you think about how we can do that the rest of the year. Dream come true.
I mean, my body's breaking down this football season.

Speaker 1 It just takes a toll on me. People who say mean things stay online and tighten up a storm.

Speaker 5 Yeah, my hair is falling out. Probably from all the hours I've worked.
What was the stress?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. It's because of what we do for the people.

Speaker 5 That's why.

Speaker 5 We're a lot like Jesus. Yeah, absolutely.
To

Speaker 5 double the Jesus.

Speaker 1 What did this person say to me yesterday? It really, really hurt my feelings nicely. It was really

Speaker 1 kind of made me feel like shit.

Speaker 1 He said, every few months I look at the podcast on YouTube and your hair slash skin slash face are somehow looking worse each time. That was nice.
That made me feel good.

Speaker 1 I know how bad I look in football season. I need to get out of football season, maybe lose a few pounds.
I did lose seven pounds in the last 48 hours.

Speaker 1 If anyone wants to give me credit for that, you got tapeworm?

Speaker 1 I just, I didn't eat. I haven't eaten anything.
You guys should have known I was sick when, remember when we ordered dinner on Sunday and I didn't get any? That actually was a dead giveaway.

Speaker 1 That was the most.

Speaker 1 I should have known that. I was thinking, like, what's going on? Two things.
One is I didn't put any. I thought you were like, I didn't have any Lucy's in.

Speaker 1 I didn't have any Lucy's in, and I didn't eat dinner. It's like, all right, something's wrong with him.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I actually was actively thinking, like, what is going on? And I had a a good gambling day, so it wasn't even that. I just started feeling like shit.
It was very sick.

Speaker 5 You know what, though? That just means that you've got a head start on Super Bowl abs. Yeah, that's Super Bowl abs.

Speaker 1 We're getting into it.

Speaker 1 I had one more FAQ.

Speaker 1 Okay, what is this? Sup PMT boys, first-time caller, long-time listener. Question for Hank.

Speaker 1 Have you ever thought of maybe trying to get the lottery ball number correctly? I'll hang up and listen. Yeah, right now.
Five.

Speaker 1 I didn't say numbers yet. That's a false start.
That's a false start. You're a bad person.
That's a person, too. Oh, okay.

Speaker 6 Hey, big fan here. Just wondering if Hank has ever gotten the lottery ball.
I'm sure a lot goes on behind the scenes, and he would for sure have gotten it once, right?

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Who's that from, Jake?

Speaker 5 Memes actually just sent this one to me. Hey, Dad Cat, not a drug guy, PFT, and backdrop.

Speaker 5 I always guess along with you guys for the lottery ball machine, and have to say, I don't think Hank has ever guessed it right.

Speaker 5 If Hank hasn't guessed the lottery ball, how long do you guys think it will take for him to get it right? If he hasn't already, I don't think he's going to get it. But I call Lottery Ball 68.

Speaker 5 This person called Lottery Ball 68.

Speaker 7 Can we do that same game we did with Biz and Wit, like every time we do it?

Speaker 1 No, and we're already doing it with Hank.

Speaker 5 I've got $5,000 on the table for him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we will after January 1st. We can start doing that.

Speaker 5 Billy, if you want to make an arrangement with somebody else in this room, that's fine.

Speaker 1 No, what we'll start doing, which will actually be very fun, is what we should start doing is...

Speaker 1 Hank, are you okay?

Speaker 1 Is there an issue here? What we should start doing is we should do every episode five bucks in a pot. And then it gets growing.
So then it keeps growing.

Speaker 1 And then, yeah, like it's awesome if someone gets it after a long time.

Speaker 5 What's the matter, Hank?

Speaker 5 Nothing.

Speaker 5 Your noises that you're making right now tell me that you're consternated over something.

Speaker 1 All right, numbers: five.

Speaker 5 Six, nine, seventeen.

Speaker 6 18, and Sebastian has 76.

Speaker 1 He's been 34.

Speaker 1 Nate, Natolius, Nick is tweeting.

Speaker 1 What is Sebastian's number?

Speaker 6 76.

Speaker 1 34.

Speaker 5 I took 17.

Speaker 1 Oh, you took 17. All right.
We got five. 20.
20.

Speaker 1 34? 34.

Speaker 1 Come on.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 man.

Speaker 1 14?

Speaker 1 Is it 14? Oh, it ended in a 4. 14.

Speaker 1 I played Roulette last night on stream. Same.

Speaker 1 That's 17.

Speaker 1 Put 100 bucks down every time,

Speaker 1 lost 2,500

Speaker 5 love you guys.

Speaker 3 Camels used to roam north of the city.

Speaker 3 To find you shy away,

Speaker 3 oh, I've been coming for your love up, okay.

Speaker 3 Oh, I'm coming for your love of King.

Speaker 3 Be like the same,

Speaker 3 I've lost in hands.

Speaker 3 But we still

Speaker 3 wait.

Speaker 3 Carl and the life is okay.

Speaker 3 Say I'll see you.

Speaker 3 Let's go better to be saved than sorry.

Speaker 3 Say I'll see you.

Speaker 3 Oh, I'm coming for your love okay.

Speaker 3 one.